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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
Military Berlin.
sl.stvood.s Magazine.

Oro certa;nlv sees more soldiers in the
streets of Berlin than in those OF Lon
don and Paris; but one does not sec
many of them, and they form aitogeln-
er but small minority OF the people
one meets when walking about Berlin.
And that is easy to explain, soldiers 90
not play at soldering here, as french
schoolboys have done latterly. fignt-
ing is considered by the Germans pusi-
ness. or q trade, or an art-as you may
like to call (which is to be learned
yery seriously, and which keeps the
Young men, who are notens volens de-
voted to it, during almost the whole DAY
in their quarters or on the parade
ground. As to the officers, they are
nearly as much taken up by their work
as the most Woodworking official, mer-
camille clerk or artisan. The lieutenant
of the guards, who has nothing 10 90
but to show his fine uniform on the
streets, exists only in the Imagination OF
people who have never seen him. That
aristocratic young gentleman generally
bepins his work at 6 o'clock In the
morning in summer, at 8 in the winter,
and is tired out when, at Dor 3 o'clock
in the evening, he has at last got
through it. 1t is not he, certainly, VINO
crowds the streets of Berlin. He has
other things to do than to walk about,
even when he happens to be on leave.
There is, however, something military
to be seen in the streets OF Berlin at
nearly every hour of the day, which
may have struck the Partisan newspa-
per writer, though it does not belong
exclusively to Berlin, but to all the lar
ger German towns where soldiers are
garrisoned. Every now and then, es-
pecially about noon, you will meet
small detachments of soldiers-four,
six, perhaps ten or twenty men-march-
ing from the guard house to relieve the
sentries on duty at the palaces of MEM
bers of the imperial family, the resi-
dences of commanding offices and GER
tain public buildings, such as the minis
try of war, the staff office, the arsenal,
etc. These soldiers, preceded by SER
geant, walk in the middle of the street
with long, regular, quiet steps, almost
leisurely. Suddenly a sharp word OF
command is heard. An officer or an
imperial carriage is in sight. The men
all at once seem to have been struck by
a galvanic battery, and from that in
slant to move under some strange and
irresistible influence. With kind of
spasmodic jerk they straighten them
selves up to their full height, their
shoulders are thrown back, their eyes
are fixed on one and the same point
the passing officer; the rifle is held in
powerful grasp by the firm hand, and
the feet, violently thrown forward as by
machinery, produce, as they tread the
hard pavement, at short, regular inter-
walls, loud and yet muffled sound, IA
miliar to the native of Berlin, and
which causes him to look round toward
those from whom it proceeds.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
SEPTEMBER CONTESTS.

Outcome of the Election Held IN Vermont on
the ed,
One hundred and five towns in Vermont
give Pingree, (repJ 22,626, Redington, (dem.)
1910, scattering 291. Same towns in 1880 gave
Farnham 1854, Phelps las, scattering 4s1.
So far as returns have been received in the
First congressional district, Stewart, (rep.)
receives 1858, Simmons, (dem.) At, Kidder.
(greenback) aOl, scattering LAT. In the Second
district Grout, (rep.) receives 7,S47, Goddard,
(dem.) 3,1S6, Soule, (greenbacD So, scatter
ing4.
Burlington gives Pingree 913, and Redington
1.03. Redington's majority Ill. This is the
first time the city has ever given majority
for the democratic state ticket. Hubbard
democraD is elected representative by ma
jority of 1914.
Returns from Ia towns give Pingree (repub-
lican) for governor 25663, Redington demo
craft L, 970 Soule [greenbacker) 354, Stone Gn-
dependent) and scattering 165, giving Fingee
a majority over all Of 12.37S. The same towns
Phelps (democrat) 1850, giving Farnam ma
jority Of 14,5T. This shows falling on in
the republican vote from 1880 OF 5000, and in
For congress in the first district Stewart
republican, has 1889, Simmons (democraD
5000, Kidder (greenbacker) and scattering lib;
stewarts majority 4SsS In the oo secGnd a,s
$500, Cummings (greenbacker) and scattering
113. Grants majority 6.764.
The towns not heard from gave in 1880 Tor
Farnham 37,4O5, for Phelps 1860; making
Farnham's majority 14,755. At this rate the
republican majority for governor will be about
10000.
The legislature stands 90 republicans, Il
democrats, greenbacker and l independent
Twenty of the largest towns, including Bur
lington, Rutland and St. Adams give Pingree,
(repJ for governor s, 7S3, Redington 5.454, Soule
l16. Pingree's majority 4.l63: The same towns
hams majority 5,491, showing falling of OF
1888 in the republican vote and in the demo-
cratic vote of AZ.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
Pripate He,,,.y's Remains.

After consulting with Coroner Lovey, of
New York, and the military authorities at
Governors Island, Coroner Robinson has de-
cided not to take any further steps at present
in the direction of exhuming the body of Pri.
vate Charles B. Henry, member of the Gree
ly arctic expedition, shot for stealing pro-
visions. The coroner has written a letter to
Miss Dora Buck, of Lincoln, Nebraska, sister
of Private Henry, informing her that he will
not move further in the matter until the con-
sent of the war department had been obtained
for the examination of her brothers body,
and that she herself must make the applica-
ton, accompanied by proofs of her relation
proofs, the coroner says, he will present to
Colonel Berry at Governors Island if Miss
Buck still desires an investigation and sends
them to him.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
The Docile American Horse.
London Telegraph.

1t has long been accepted as theory
by our transatlantic kinsmen that vice
in animals is almost always the result of
unkindness and maltreatment received
by them from their human companions,
and that the paucity of vicious horses
in the United States is to be explained
by the gentleness, and, so to speak, the
familiarity with which the noble animal
is treated in every part of the union.
There can be no doubt that in no coun-
try is the intelligence of qnadrupeds
more developed and cultivated than in
the United States, where it is well I'M
derstood that by kindness alone can
their characteristics, faults, dispositions
and qualities be fully drawn forth.
Nothing is more common, for instance,
than to see an American horse har-
messed to buggy and standing alone
in New YOrk-his master having en-
tered a shop-by the curbstone's edge,
in the midst of the crush and turmoil of
Broadway, one of the most crowded
and noisy thoroughfares upon the face
of the earth. Before descending from
his buggy the master says word or
two to his horse and leaves him stand
ing in the street without restraint. The
sagacious animal, whose eyes are not
shielded by blinkers, and who is not
tormented by Procustean bearing-rein
understands perfectly that he is expect
ed to wait until his master has trans
acted his business, and wait, accord
ingly he does, sometimes for hours at
time, and without regard to the sum-
mer's heat or winters cold. Again, in
the widest parts of the western and
southern states there is not a farmer
who thinks anything of driving his
horses by night over a wooden bridge
full of holes, caused by many planks
having dropped into the stream be-
meath. The careful beast, who may or
may not have crossed the bridge on
many previous occasions, feels his way
in the darkness, and his head having
been surrendered to him by the driver,
steps as carefully and with as much pre-
cision as dancing master Whenever.
indeed, horse is found to be possessed
of a violent, or, to use an old York
shire word, a ''mischancy'' temper in
the United States, the odds are in favor
OF his being imported from abroad.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
Thee Died of Laughter.
Troy Times.


Chalcas, the sooth-sayer, died of
laughter at the thought of his having
outlived the time predicted for his
death. A fellow in rags had told him
that he would never drink the wine of
the grapes growing in his VINEYARD:
and added: eff these words do NOT
come true, you may claim me for vour
slave" When the wine was made
Chalcas held feast, and sent for the
fellow to see how his predictions had
failed. When he appeared the sooth-
sayer laughed so immoderately at the
would-be prohet that it killed him
Crassus died from laughter on SEEING
an ass eat thistles. Marquette. the
giant, in the Inorganic, Maggiore, died
of laughter on seeing monkey PULLING
on his boots. Zeuxis, the Grecia5
painter, died at sight of a hag he had
just depicted. A peculiar death was
that of Placut, who dropped dead in
the act of paying bill. There are
many men to-day, however, who would
probably die of surprise, if they found
themselves doing the same thing.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
Taking q Bee Line.
From Our Little Ones.

Little Paul went out into the woods
one day, bird-nesting; he didn't mean
to rob the nests; he only wanted to
know where they were. He liked to
find a prettily woven one with little blue
eggs in it, and watch till the tiny birds
burst the shell. They were such odd
looking little things, with their big
mouths always open for worms. 1t
was pleasant to see them from day to
day, till their pin-feathers grew, and
they became stout and strong and be-
gan to sing few notes.
But he did not find one very quickly.
He bgan to feel hungry and want his
dinner. He could 60 home now and
visit the woods some other morning.
Then he looked about him. Which
path led to the farm? He sat down
and thought about it. The more he
thought the more he was puzzled. How
should he ever get home again? Should
he have to stay all night in the woods
with no candle but the stars? without
any bed but the messy cushions? with
out any covering but the green
branches?
He called aloud, hoping somebody
might be telling trees there. Only the
echoes answered him, and the little
brook seemed to laugh out at him.
He remembered that once old brindle
had strayed away into the wood-lot.
His father was gone in search of her for
hours. He wished he might hear the
tingle of her bell now, and see her
white horns pushing the bushes aside.
A little bird flew down and took a
drink from the brook. She knew her
way through the thick woods, but what
was little boy to do.
He felt as if he should starve if he
didn't find his way soon. He wished
he had brought one of his mothers
doughnuts with him. While he was
wondering what to do he heard famil-
lar sound close by. 1t was little low
song he had often heard at home. 1t
seemed to come from bunch of flow
ers growing among the MOSES. Were
flowers ever known to sing?
Paul remembered that nobody in that
region kept bees but his father. The
bee knew the way home. When he
had filled his honey bags and flew up
out of the flowers, almost brushing
Paul's cheek, it seemed as if he said,
'It's time to be going to the hive; fol-
low me child"
He watched the bee mount up into
the air a little way. He then made a
Decline for home and Paul followed.
The bee was just flying into the hive,
all yellow with pollen, when Paul's
mother cried out, "Where have you
been, dear? was afraid you had run
away to the village to see the circus
come in
81 was lost in the wood lot" said
Paul: 81 met one of our bees down
there making honey. When he got
ready to come home he showed me the
way"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
Cases of Yell0tc Eeper.

The health commissioners of New York re-
ceived information that two seamen were
lying i'll, apparently suffering from yellow
fever. They were Martin Denes and John
Tederman, who arrived in the schooner 81. A.
Baker," from Georgetown, s. c., last week.
They were removed to the hospital, where the
doctors are also of the opinion that the cases
were yellow fever. One of the men died and
the police requested the health authorities to
place the house from which the seamen were
removed under quarantine. The health in
spector is familiar with the malady and made
that the men were not suffering from real
yellow fever, but asthenia, following a per-
ncious intermittent fever. Another seaman
i'll was removed to the Marine hospital on
Staten Island.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
A HoWLING HURRICANE.
A Great Deal of Property Destroyed AND
Some Loss of Life Incurred.

Some Loss of Life Incurred.
Evansville, Ind, and surrounding country
was visited by a destructive hurricane on Fri
day last. A damage of not less than quarter
of million of dollars in Evansville and vicin-
ity was inflicted. Homes were blown down,
roofs carried away, stores badly damaged
thousands of shade trees were torn up by the
roots and other injury done. The steamer
Belmont, which leaves Evansville every morn
ing, was wrecked by the storm about two
miles from Henderson, blowing her barge and
cars to the bank, taking her chimneys Off and
sinking her almost instantly. Fourteen lives
turning her completely over. She was going
to Henderson with q cargo containing the
passengers of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad. The boat was separated from the
barge. All on the latter were saved, and ali on
the boat, except four or five, lost. Among the
lost are Captain John Smith, E. c. Roach and
son, a prominent merchant of Evansville, Miss
Laura Lyon and sister, sallie Bryant, teach:
ers there and mother, also Mrs. Woodward, of
Henderson, and lady and babe with
satchel, with card in it marked Miss Hattie
Murray, Brookfeld, Ala. The bodies of the
three latter were found.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11

we strained every nerve each to Kill the
other, we dealt each other desperate
blows at random, and then, when ex-
haustion forbade another movement,
mechanically we desisted, and as me-
chemically rose and drew few labored,
gasping breaths, and rushed to the con-
test again.
Whether or not my opponent was
armed, / knew not; at any rate he made
no attempt to draw any weapon. As
for me, carried my useless pistol, but
even had it been loaded, question if
would have used it after the first five
minutes; the contest was SO terribly
close and equal that thought of any
extraneous aid did not occur to me.
Our action was wonderfully concert.
ed; as though governed by double
mechanism we struggled, fell, rose and
resumed the fight, and that after each
had grown so weak that child could
have vanquished either.
And through all my terrible craving
for his life there crept, by-and-by, a
slow consciousness of respect for him.
He was tough as leather, and he fought
well, taking his punishment with an
endurance that hitherto had deemed
exclusively British.
When l look back on the incident
now have no knowledge of time, NO
knowledge of anything but pain, and eff
fort and binding blows. cannot tell
how long the struggle lasted, or how it
terminated; only know that at last the
end came somehow, and that, after a
period of oblivion, returned to con-
seriousness and found myself alone.
How 1 reached home cannot tell.
walked the distance, doubtless, as SOM
nambulists do, for next day when a
neighbor came to look me up, was
tossing on my bed in raging fever, and
the money which had SO nearly been the
price of a life, was buttoned in my
pocket.
Of course the Great Britain sailed
without me, and of course the friends
awaiting me at home grew sick of the
silence, which no explanation came to
break, for what message could anyone
send who expected hourly to see me
die?
But the turn in my long illness came
at last, and then turned slowly and re-
luctantly towards improvement. Ihad
fought hard battle for life beneath the
shadow of the eucalyptus; that which
disease waged against my youth later,
was as deadly and more prolonged.
But youth triumphed at last, and l rose
a shadow of my former self, likely to be
debarred from existence on the old,
glad, free terms for many a year.
1t was years before the last momento
of my encounter with that desperate
ruffian had passed out of my system,
but now, after half lifetime, can
look back from my fair, happy, English
home on that incident of my career as
contentedly as on any other of my colo
NAL experiences.
AS to my enemy, his body had been
found in the creek while lay at the
point of death, but whether fallen there
by accident or flung in through despair
never learned.
Gurney's affairs frightened after l
left him, and the last time l looked on
his honest face, as he sat beside my
Janie's sister, with my youngest boy on
his knee, 1 decided conclusively that
life was not so nearly over for him by a
long way as he had ina ined when good
luck and he had stood on opposite
SidaS
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
Purity of the White House.
'Gathn In New York Tribune.

The White House has been q pure
homestead. The first president who
went there took the ablest woman who
probably ever was mistress of that build
ing into it, Abigail Adams-the mother
of another president. Then came Jeffer-
sons matronly daughter, and Madison
beaming wife, with Monroe's demure
family, and the second Adams with his
Maryland-bred wife, whose father had
been foreign consul when they were
married. Andrew Jackson, freshly a
widower, sat there with the family OF
his nephew and adopted son. Van Bu-
rem, wifeless, there brought up his boys
with such confidence and gentleness
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
Ruling Out Injected Cattle.

President Landregan, of the Illinois State
Board of Agriculture, authorizes the follow.
ing: In consideration of the alleged exist.
ence of pleuro-pneumonia in numerous herds
Of Jersey cattle throughout the west, and the
uncertain extent of the disease, the Illinois
State Board of Agriculture deem it duty to
breeders of other cattle, as well as to the
breeders Of Jerseys, to exclude all animals of
the last named breed from the state fair of
1884, and to rigidly enforce the law empower
ing the board to rule out all cattle that have
in thirty days prior to the exhibition.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
Report of Indian. Outbreaks Not Credited.

The commissioner of Indian affairs does not
credit the report of the threatened Indian
outbreak in northwestern Montana. He be-
lieves that the stories are circulated by stock
men who wish to have the Indians removed.
An officer Of the Indian bureau, referring to
the matter, said the stockmen had no just
cause for complaint, even if it were true that
the Indians had killed few cattle, because
stockmen had no legal right to use it for their
own benefit, and fence it in, as they were now
doing.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11

Savings banks we're established in
France as early as 1884, but it was not
until 1S45 that they had very strong
hold on public confidence. In 1881 the
depositors numbered 1921 ZOO.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11

Out in California when a man has
kicked his wife out of bed three times
he is entitled to divorce.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11

had meant to make for my darling; and
then remember no more, I had either
tainted or been suffocated into insensi-
bility.
How long remained thus I cannot
tell. When / recovered consciousness
the murderous pressure had fallen off,
but my assailant still lay beneath me,
breathing heavily.
simultaneously we seemed to recov-
er consciousness, and in unison we rose
to our feet. Twas trembling in every
limb; my aching eyeballs seemed start
ing from my head; my parched throat
refused to utter sound, and my as
sailant seemed in no better case.
For an instant we stood apart, glar-
ing at each other through the darkness;
then, as though at given signal, we
closed with each other again, instinct
lively, neither knowing why. believe
he had no more thought then of taking
the money than had of defending it.
There seemed nothing awake in us but
mere animal fury; brute force opposed
brute force, demanding victory at any
cost:
Again we wrestled and strove, white
face close to white face in the gloom,
and again the contest was so equal that
no spectator would have known on
which side to promise victory. For
many minutes we wrestled silently and
then we fell again, and this time was
undermost. And then ensued strug-
gle such as had no idea men were ca
pable of. We rolled over each other,
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-11
MY FOREIGN ANTAGONIST.

Have cheered me my whole journey throug
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-30

lea went into operation in this city yes
terday, in connection with the East
Cleveland street railroad company, who
have just completed a mile of road. The
experiment was SO successful that the
company expect to change their entire
system, comprising over twenty miles,
into an electric road. The system used
was combination of the Brush and
Knight and Bently systems, and the cir
cult was carried on underground con-
ductors laid in conduits like those of the
cable roads. The cars were started,
stopped and reversed with the greatest
ease. Any number of cars up to fifteen
can be run at one time on single circuit
and from one machine, which is result
not obtained by any of the European sys-
TENS now in operation.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-30
Dissolution Notice,

The copartnership heretofore existing be
tween j: II. Ribbard and o. w. Bromwell,
known as the "Palatka Transfer Company"
cas- this day been dissolved by. mutual consent;
O. w. Bromwell retiring. All debts of the
firm will be liquidated by J. II. Hibbard, and
all monies due the firm should be paid to him.
This, 10Th of July, 1884, j. r. HIBBARD.
O. w BROMWEII,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-07-30
Reecher's Oninion of Rlaipe.

PEEKsKILL, n. Y, July July "a
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, who is spend
ing his vacation here, was asked to-day
for his views on certain phases of the po-
Iitical situation. He was of opinion that
the independent movement was a more
important one thanit scomparative quiet
ness would indicate.
What are the main objections to
Blaine?" was asked.
"They refer both to his political meth
DDS and personal record. A paragrapher
has called him a politician for revenue
only. We might with more justice say,
statesman for revenue, tempered by
occasional alterations of honesty. A
specific allegation remains unanswered,
that Blaine used his office for personal
/ gain. Throwing aside this revolving
/ case, we still see the eN-speaker the
champion of corrupt and dishonest poll
/ ticians, and selecting his admirers and
I counsellors from among those unprinci-
pied gangs. Well may we say to the
republican party: oh, Ichaboid, thy
glory has departed 1t is a truism
to say that public men should be above
suspicion. Who will say this for Blaine
and how many thousands will bear wit
ness to it as regards Mr.. Cleveland"