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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-01
FOREIGN.
FRANCE.

Gen. Camperon, minister of war, it
is said will devote all his energy to reform
the system of modifying the army. The
prospect of war with Germany will be up
permost In his mind.
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The Selfish Girl.

know two little sisters whose names
are Ida and Jennie. Ida is seven years
old, and is very kind, good girl. Jen-
ME is five years old. She is cross and
selfish, and always doing something to
tease some one. Everybody loves Ida,
and all of her playmates like to have
her 90 to see them.
But when Jennie visits any of her
playmates she is always getting into
trouble, and they are glad when she
goes home.
Whenever presents are sent to these
little girls, Jennie is afraid that her sis
ter will get something better than she
receives. A visitor once gave her a
silver dime and Ida nickle five-cent
piece.
AS soon as Jennie saw that her sis
ter's piece of money was larger than
hers, she was sulky and began to pout.
So her sister exchanged with her, and
they went to the store to spend their
money. Then she was cross again be-
cause the storekeeper gave her sister
more for the small piece of money than
he gave her for the larger piece.
One day these little girls father
brought them two fne-looking peaches.
One of them was rather smaller than
the other, and had little speck on it.
s'Perhaps | ought to give Ida her
choice, said the father, s.since she is
older than her sister,"
mo, | want my choice" cried Jen-
ME. Il want the larger one" And
she eagerly snatched it from her faith
er's hand. He then gave the other one
to Ida
When they sat down to eat their
peaches, Ida found hers sweet and juicy;
but Jennie's was so sour and bitter that
she had to throw il away.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-09
The Ubiquitous Yankee.

A few months ago an Englishman
ambled into a jewelers. store in LAM
pasas, Tex. when the following con-
versation ensued: Gave you got hany
good hold Hinglish time-pieces in the
nature of clocks?" asked the English
man. "We have nothing but Ameri-
can-made clocks" replied the jeweler;
''they are by far the best and of superb
or workmanship. 'Ho, no, you are
mistaken. If cawn't get me an Hin,
glish clock must send hover to Hin
gland and ave me own family piece sent
hover by steamer, you know" The
jeweler said very well, and the Englishs
man went home and wrote for this
marvellous family time-piece. In due
course of time it arrived; and as the
Englishman was conveying it up FROM
the express office he dropped into the
jewelers. to exhibit it. Jaw, now" he
said, with his face wreathed in smiles,
''look hat this for minute. 'Ere's a
time-piece which has been in our fami-
ly for many years, and has Railways
kept perfect time. Look hand see hif
you don't consider it superior to Ameri-
can clocks" The jeweler examined
the exterior of the clock, and then
opened it. Brushing the dust from
dimly- printed label in tho back, he re-
vealed to the astonished Briton the fol-
lowing label: Seth Thomas, Bridge.
port, Conn.,, u. S. A., 1859. '.AW,"
said the Englishman, with gloomy
brow. "'ow the blawsted Yankee does
spread himself. "-leFqs 6Vtings.
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Fashion Items

Newmarket jackets, both long and
short, are again in high vogue.
The blouse bodice ranks next to the
Camargo bodice in popularity.
Hoop earrings, set with diamonds
and other jewels, are very fashionably
worn.
Cloth toques and velvet jockey caps
will be worn with costumes of cloth and
of velvet.
A favorite brocaded velvet, used Just
now both for wraps and costumes,
shows a light ground of almond OF pale
doe color, with large brocaded figures
in dark plum, ruby and golden brown.
The satin or velvet made up with this
material sometimes matches the color
of the ground, and is sometimes the
shade Of the velvet. On some of the
new patterned brocades the design is
immensely large, but the best-dressed
people draw the line at the medium size.
d Society young ladies, with plenty Of
time on their hands, are Just now busy
ing themselves by painting small bright
flowers of every description in tiny
clusters upon yards and yards of white
duQ pdio-tlHtSu odtlu llDpOu. 1H6SO
ribbons they will use later to decorate
their dancing toilets of cloudy India
silk gauze and tulle. A dress of this
kind, lately completed in this city, had
over two hundred yards Of painted rib
lon as its trimming, to say nothing of
the enormous sash draped at one side,
and painted in large blush roses and
foliage. The narrow ribbon was paint
ed in moss buds set into wood moses.
Velvet will be the rage for this and
the coming season. The handsomest of
the imported costumes in velvet for
autumn wear are totally untrimmed
save in the matter of buttons, which, to
make up for this simplicity of style, are
often very beautiful and very expensive.
Silver is the favorite metal for these
buttons the designs copied frequently
from buttons worn in the time of George
/. and those worn at the court of Louis
XVI. Some Of these are very chaste,
but are nevertheless said to be excellent
limitations of the genuine article. Many
of these buttons are studded with half
precious stones, and appear to great adj
vantage upon the fronts and large
pocket flaps of the Old Guard waist
coats now so fashionablY worn.-N 7.
POST
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What is AnattO /?

Cheese has for a long time been col
ored with anatto, and of late years it
has come in use, not only in creameries,
but in home diaries, to give color to
butter. The increasing use Of the sub
stance, especially in winter, naturally
leads many to ask: What is anatto,
and is it harmlessp" The name, which
came with the substance from south
America, has a great variety of spell
ings besides that given above, which
is the simplest and the one we first
learned; it is given in different books
as annatto, annata, annotta, arnotto,
arnota, and so on. The substance is
the product of a small South American
tree, Bixa orellana, belonging to a
small family to which it gives its name
(Bixine@), of which we have no repre-
sentatives. Systematically, the family
is placed near that of the yiolets. The
tree rarely exceeds twelve feet in
height, has handsome head, and each
branch is terminated by cluster of
lowers Of the color of peach-blossoms.
The pods are at first of q fine rose
color, becoming brown as they ripen;
they are covered with bristles, and CON
tain numerous seeds, the importantpro-
duct. Each seed is surrounded by a
dark red pulp, to remove which they
are placed in water and allowed
to ferment, with frequent stirring.
When the seeds are free from
pulp, they are strained out, and
the pulp allowed to settle. It is after
wards placed in kettles. evaporated to
a thick paste, which is the anatto of
commerce. 1t is made into rolls, weigh
ing two to four pounds. which are COW
cred with Gamma leaves and packed in
wicker baskets, or more generally of
late, in boxes. Anatto, when fresh, has
much the consistency of putty. a dark,
brownish-red color, and with a some
what disagreeable odor. It has long
been used in dyeing, though on silks the
color is not very fast. To color COM
mon cotton stuffs of a dull orange, it is
often used in domestic dyeing, with
potash as mordant SO far as we are
aware, the various butter colorings in
the market are chiefly, if not entire
~, solutions of anatto, made by the aid
OF some form of potash or soda 1t
seems better suited than anything else
to give pale winter butter the color of
that made when the cows have good
pasturage. It is entirely harmless, we
think. 1t has long been added to
chocolate in South America, for both
color and flavor, and is used by Indian
tribes in that country to paint their
bodies. One writer says that it is about
the only clothing the natives have to
protect them from mosquitoes and other
Insects. american AgricNgtWrsst.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-09
Keeping to One Thing.

We earnestly entreat every young
man, after he has chosen his vocation,
to stick to it. Don't leave it because
hard blows are to be struck or disagree
able work performed.
Those who have worked their way up
to wealth and usefulness do not be-
long to the shiftless and unstable class,
but may be reckoned among such as
pulled off their coats, rolled up their
sleeves, conquered their prejudices
against labor, and manfully bore the
heat and burden of the day.
Whether upon the old farm, where
our fathers toiled diligently, striving to
bring the soil to productiveness; in the
machine-shop or factory, or the
thousand other business places that in
vite honest toil..and Skillet the motto
ever be: Perseverance and industry.
Stick to one thing, boys, and you viii
have success. Golden Days.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-09
Artificial Infants.

The traveller in a European railway
carriage makes it the object of his life
to secure an entire compartment to him.
self. if possible. 1t is strange that rail-
way travel SHOULD develop this form OF
selfiShness in men who are ordinarily
generous and courteous. Why, for ex-
ample, should an English curate, who
never INDUCES in tobacco, and who
lives life of the most unselfish devo-
ton, undertake, when travelling, to mo-
nopolize a whole compartment by lean
ing out of the window and smoking vio-
lently at every station? Such, how
ever, is the painful conduct of men 9TH
erwise entirely unimpeachable, and it
could be wished that some profound
moralist would discover why it is that
railway travel is so remarkably de.
moralizing-
No method of feloniously keeping trays
elers out of railway carriage is now in
use which can be called thoroughly
trustworthy. The combined tobacco
and window plan just mentionedis, per-
haps, as good as any other, but it often
fails. The invention of an enterprising
Frenchman announced in q recent
French newspaper seems, however, to
meet long-felt want, and it might be
introduced into American sleeping-cars
and steamboat state-roo ms with excel
lent results.
The invention in question is that OF
an artificial infant-bebe de U0yGge, as
it is called. These artificial infants can
not be distinguished by any ordinary
traveller from genuine infants, and they
possess the vast advantage of being
made to cry at any desired moment
without the help of pins or collie.
The artificial infants are divided into
three classes, differing in quality and
in price. Those of the first class are
provided with voice of the most pierre
ing quality, which gradually rises in
pitch and increases in volume to
point absolutely insupportable. One OF
these infants is warranted to empty
compartment containing eight travellers
at the very first station at which the
train stops after the infants voice has
been turned on. The second class con-
sists of infants with an intermittent cry
of peculiarly pathetic character. This
VI Will OlJcn lth0 CnCCb upOu q hClf-
Gus traveller more quickly than will the
prolonged cry of higher-priced infants,
and as these second-class infants are
sold at moderate prices, they are sure
to become very popular The third
class is small compressible pocket in-
fant-a most ingenious piece of mech
anism. 1t can be carried in an ordi-
nary coat pocket, but when it is taken
out and prepared for action it makes a
noise so incessant that no grown person
can possibly sleep within hearing of it.
This style of infant is peculiarly adapt
ed for sleeping-cars, or for Kidding per-
sons who are staying at hotel of
undesirable neighbors. 1t can be car
ried into places from which living in
fants are strictly debarred, and hence
may be useful in circumstances in
which no other variety of artificial in
FAINT could be used.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-11-09
A Bafled BRIDEGROOM.


Aunt Targood's gander had been the
terror Of many well-meaning people,
and of some evil-doers, for many wears.
| have seen tramps and pack-peddlers
enter the gate, and start on toward the
door, when there would sound that
ringing warning like war-b blast:
"Honk, honkp' and in few minutes
these unwelcome people would be gone.
Farmhouse boarders from the city
would sometimes enter the yard, think
ing to draw water by the old we'll,
sweep; in few minutes it was customs
airy to hear shrieks, and to see women
and children flying over the walls, fol-
lowed by air-rending ''honksr' and
jubilant cackles from the victorious
gander and his admi1ing family.
Aunt Targood sometimes took sum-
mer boarders. Among those that I re-
member was Rev. Mr.. Bonney, a fer
vent-souled Methodist preacher He
put the gander to fight with the cart
whip, on the second day after his ar
rival, and seemingly to aunt's great
grief; but he never was troubled by the
feathered tyrant again.
Young couples sometimes came to
Father Bonney to be married; and, one
summer afternoon, there rode up to the
gate q very young couple, whom we
afterward learned had ''run away;n or,
rather, had attempted to get married
without their parents approval. The
young bridegroom hitched the horse,
and helped from the carriage the gayly
dressed miss he expected to make his
wife. They started up the walk upon
the run, as though they expected to be
followed, and haste was necessary to
prevent the failure of their plans.
"Honk!n
They stopped. 1t was q voice of
authority. he
"Just look at him!'' said the bride.
ooh! oh!'
The bridegroom cried ..Shoo!'' but
he might as well have said sShoon to a
steam-engine. On came the gander,
with his head and neck upon the ground.
He seized the lad by the calf of his
leg, and made an immediate applica-
ton of his wings. The latter seemed
to think he had been attacked by drag
ons. AS soon as he could shake him
off he ran. So did the bride, but in an
other direction; and while the two
were thus perplexed and discounted,
the BRIDES father appeared in a car
riage, and gave her a most forcible in
vitation to ride home with him. She
accepted it without discussion. What
became of the bridegroom, or how the
matter ended we never knew -Heze-
ki0h BastteraOOrth. IN st. Nicholas.
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What viii You Bel

We see two boys standing side by
side. Both are intelligent-lookin and
kind-looking; but one becomes an idle,
shiftless fellow, and the other an influ-
entail and useful man. Perhaps when
they were boys no one could have seen
much difference between them; when
shey were men the contrast was
marked. One became disSolute, step
by step; the other became virtuous, step
by step; as one went up the other went
down.
1t is question of great moment
What will you be? One determines he
will do right and improve his powers
and opportunities to the utmost. He is
industrious, learns his business. be-
comes partner, or proprietor. and is
known as man of influence and pow
er. Another does not determine to be
bad, but is lazy, and neglects to inn
prove his opportunities. He shirks
work; he "fools around;' next he is
seen with tobacco, and probably beer
and whisky follow; his appearance
shows he is unhealthy; he does not do
his work well, he loses his position, and
becomes Incorporate and probably
criminal.
There are many to-day who are
standing at the parting-place. You can
take one path and you will go down as
sure as the sun rises. If you prefer
hanging around saloon to reading
good books at home, then you are on
the road to ruin. If you do not obey
your parents, if you run away from
school, if you lie, if you swear, you will
surely go down in life.
If boy steadily improves his time,
tries to learn his business, obeys his
father and mother, is truthful and in
dustrious, is respectful and pleasing
towards others, he viii succeed. No
one can stop his doing well IN life. He
specimen of man, and every good per-
son will help him.-Scholar' Compan-
ION
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HUMOROUS.

81 The question is; Can girl who
doesn't use powder make her hair bangP
l5e--. Pa - said little boy, ga horse is
worth good deal more, isn't it, after
it's broker" Yes, my son. Why do
you ask such a question:" because I
broke the new rocking horse you gave
me this morning. ~ 7. Journal.
e Mr.. Jipso INDUCES largely in
hyperbole, y remarked the high-school
girl to her mother. ''Yes,'' answered
the old lady; Mrs. Jones told me he'd
taken to drinking; Tn so sorry for his
wife, poor thing. - oil city Derrick.
The Boston girl goes into a music
store and asks for .ssaccharine speci-
mems Of the genus viola order yiolaca@,
perennial herbaceoqs plants, acaulescent
or cauleseent, peduncles angular, soil
tary.' And the clerk wants to know if
Fritz Emmett wrote it, and she faints.
Chicago Times. q aatg ttaue
Two Partisan Esaus were taking
supper at farm house near Orleans.
All at once one of them made wry
face, called the housewife and showed
her a very fine blonde hair in the hare
ragout. The good woman smiled and
said: eyes, there is one, after all; ex-
cuse me, gentlemen, thought l had
taken them all out!''
"A writer in a Northern newspaper
says that he can throw piece of Arkan-
saw corn bread through brick wall
ten feet thick. This story is greatly ex-
aggerated, as nine feet and half is the
thickest wall through which piece of
bread can be thrown. Such reckless
writers tend to bring State into con-
tempt. -Arlta1asaa I'raueIler.
Nothing could go beyond an adver-
tisement we met with lately of a Yam
kee auctioneer. 1t offered for sale
"sweet and pensive retirement y on the
banks Of the Hudson, and after describ-
ing the /" streams of sparkling bright
ness" and the g fruits of the tropics in
golden beauty" mentions that the
stables are worthy of the steeds of MINI
rod or the studs of Achilles, and it's
heronry was built expressly for the birds
of Paradise, while somber in the dis
lance, like the cave of a hermit, glimpses
are caught of the dog house. - Chicago
Ipib2t71e.
2 AN evasive answer: "Pat," said his
reverence, II shall be very busy this
afternoon, and if any one calls | do not
wish to be disturbed. 'All right, sor;.
will I tell them yours not in?'f "No,
Pat; that would be a lie can
phwat'll I say, yer reverence?" "Oh,
Just put them off with an evasive an
swer.n At supper time Pat was asked
if any one had called. "Faix, there
did," '.And what did you tell himPn
said the priest, "Shure, an | give him
an evasi7e answer elbow was thatP,
queried his reverence. . .He axed me
was yer honor in, an SEE to him, SEE /:
WAS yer gran mother hoot-oWl?' y
NJ T.. Graphic.
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check-book with him, knowing that
Lord Algernon never rendered service
without some equivalent. He raised
faint protest, but ultimately yielded
with good grace. The picture was in
trinsically almost valueless; but he did
not object to pay for the luxury of re-
venge, and he perceived that Lord AL
gernon needed some incentive He
therefore wrote check, and arranged
to send for the picture Lord Algernon
volunteering to look in in the course of
day or two, and let him know the re-
suit of his mission.
His Lordship was better than his
word, for the very next afternoon he
strolled into Sans shop and accosted
him in his sanctum.
81 lost no time, you see. 1t was an
exceedingly unpleasant business" he
said, mysteriously. MY brother was
a good deal cut up for the youngster' j
sake; but the marriage is of. Reavely,
/ hear, is awfully Indignant with old
Annerly. The fact is, I think Annerly
behaved mighty deceitfully, and SO do
other people, as he win find out /
shouldn't wonder if the Annerlys were
cold-shouldered next season.
"Oh! It is known alreadyg' saio
Sam, highly delighted.
Well, it is known in quiet was
I've mentioned it to several mutual
friends, with my brothers consent. In
fact, in self-defense, we are bound to
to publish the reason for Reavely back
ing out"
Naturally. Then, Isuppose it is no.
longer a secret, said Sam, exultantly
ssAbout the engagement being broker
off? Not the least. As regards the
other thing, we don't want it to getint5I
the papers for our own sakes. But tke
Annerlys will soon find people know
about it. =
Sam felt strongly tempted when Lord
Algernon had departed to write a letter
of mock coincidence to Miss AnnerIv,
but he had sufficient sense of decency to
refrain. His satisfaction was complete
when he heard the Annerlys had cd
denly left town, and he considered he
had effectually revenged himself. It
never crossed his mind that Lord Alger-
non had played him false, and coase-
quently the announcement which APP
peared in the papers shortly afterward
of the marriage of Lord Reavely and
Miss Amy Annerly came upon hirb like
thunder-clap. The ceremony had
taken place down in the country, and
among the guests present at the we'd
ding Lord Algernon Todd's name was
conspicuous. Before he could realize
the meaning of his lordship's conduct,
he received the following note from Mr..
Montagu, which clearly explained the
situations
DEAR SAM: If you know where to lay your
| hand on any of Lord Algy Todd's paper, buy it
! Immediately, either on your own account or
on mine. hear on the best authority that
| Mr.. Annerly, whose daughter was married the
other day. is going to pay his debts. Between
| Won and me, | fancy Lord Algy must have got
hold of that scandal about Mrs A. and done a
| good stroke of business.
Evar thina ssT Mu
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If you should come all suddenly
And let the soft, sweet glory of your eyes
Light up the darkness Of this somber room.
And chase away the drearness of this day of
gloom,
And grace itwith the dawning of glad sur
prise, #4
How quickly would the shadows Zee,
And looking out amazed, I'd say:
20 beautiful, bright, happy day,
How could / think you-dark and cold,
when IN your heart such joy, you hold,
. fair, sweet day?'
Now while I'm sitting here alone,
And bending, wearied, DER my work,
~ from yon curtain gloomy told,
That seems the spirit Of the cloud to hold,
While darkest shadows in 1t lurk
Should suddenly, from niche unknown,
The starsweet splendor of your presence
shine,
''Why did think you dark, fair room,
When every niche is all a-shine
With light and bloomY
If DER this heavy. dingy tome
Your gentle hand should wander swift,
How quicklywould each leaf be edged with
gold,
And every shining page would hold
A message sweeter than fairy gift,
And down through long dead years would
come
The far faint echo Of the sages vow,
In music SWeeter than the world hath known,
And looking mp surprised I'd say:
/ wonder why this gloomy day
So fair hath grown"
IF while the wind is making moan
Through leafless branches of the trees,
And am trying, all in vain,
10 shut away the sob of pain,
Your voice came floating on the breeze,
How would its long-remembered tone,
In music sweet fall on my ear,
And / no more the moan would hear,
But your voice my heart would fill
With its music and its thrill,
And its echo clear
--M1lB Terrence, IN DemoreSt'S Monthly.
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Youths Department.
TIE LITTLE FOXES.

find inside my vineyard wall
Are foxes very sly and small
y tU0nt"-the SaucieSt of all.
Right here beneath this tender plant
Is snugly tucked away II can't
Concealed from view, but lurking there,
Is bold and wicked I don't care"
And here a tiny fox doth lie.
Whose name is known as . BIZ and by"
Oh, children, down in this sly spot
Notwithstanding Il forgot"
But Just within the vineyard gate
A troop of sturdy soldiers wait.
The first, so active. strong aud spry,
You know his name full we'll" III try."
We find the next brave noble man,
With sword of silver steel-''I can
/" I'm sorry stands with modest grace;
- 'u 40 u nolO" is next in place.
4 l .g.d foi slr waiting stands,
WITH willing heart and ready hands.
This little army, true and grand,
Come, children, join and take your stand.
The foxes now exterminate
And closely shut the vineyard gate.
-lVel SDrillg.