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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03
LIFE.

Life is net what we try to make,
No, not by any means;
1t Ia the reverse quite frequent,
Despite our higher aims and schemes.
We labor, execute and plan
For the good of those around us,
Until the brain Is In whirl,
Battling with life 3 stern realities.
All this we could do, and deem 1t pleasure,
Provided our efforts were crowned with
success;
That our loved ones could only appreciate
our endeavors;
But, alasl we are doomed to failure and
neglect.
Then Is 1t 3 wonder that we fail In well.
doing,
Or Is 1t wonder we cry out in our grief
That life is q burden to all who EMBARK
We are weary of living, and long to de-
part.
God grant we shall strive to do every duty,
Regardless of trials that lie in our path,
And live as we should In every particular,
Though discouraged and deserted by those
we loved best.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03
THO.DOllar Kisses.
New York Journal.

New YORK journal.
An unfortunate young man in Ken
lucky has been fined the ridiculous
small sum of two dollars for kissing a
girl. Any maiden who holds her kisses
so cheaply deserves to be forever de-
barred from labial bliss. The young
man might have escaped on plea of
insanity, or settled the matter by pro-
posing to the indignant maiden. But
perhaps that was the trouble. Had he
sued for her hand in the first place she
might not have subsequently, sued him
for his money. The susceptible youth
of Gotham should take warning from
this case and first make sure of their
girl before OSCILLATION. From this dis
lance it looks like desperate leap-year
dodge on the part of the Blue Grass
maiden.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03
Mr.. COnkling's Shirt Front.

n. Y. Letter In Baltimore American.
Conkling is as unique as ever in per-
sonal appearance, partly by reason of
good looks, which he isn't to be blamed
for, but in a considerable degree be-
cause he dresses in a picturesque disre-
gard of the current fashions. l went
into court the other hot day to get a
view of him. He came in like planter
of the old time from a cotton-ield,
wearing broad Panama straw hat and
a suit Of something thin and yellow
ish, similar to nankeen. There was
breezy non-conventionality in the tot
let, and to most observers it might
have passed for the careless attire of a
man who cared nothing for style and
everything for comfort. But there was
complete refutation of that idea in his
shirt-front, which reached from Shout
der to shoulder and chin to paunch,
covering the ex-senator's ample ex-
panse OF chest with a stiff, glistening
shield and nearly all exposed, because
he wore no waistcoat. No man intent
solely on the palliation of torrid tor
ture would put on shirt starched like
that. When the court was opened and
Conkling arose to address the surro-
gate, think I had never seen so much
dignity embodied in a single human
being. He was Hyperion and Adonis
in one. That lasted about four seconds.
Then all his impressiveness of port
collapsed in a disaster so complete, so
irretrievable that the proud man was
for once humbled.
How did it happenP Well, he had
undue confidence in that shirt bosom
and leaned forward on it. Briefly it
supported him in his grandeur and then
it broke in the middle, letting him half
double up on himself and leaving him
to regain unaided such composure and
complacency as he might from his
downfall. On what insecure props
does greatness sometimes depend.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03

Harper's MAGAZINE.


Harper's Magazine.
The giant spirit who raised the Ger
man people from their long abasement,
and gave them their place among the
nations, in due time, BY his choice of a
wife, established for himself happy
home, in which his domestic nature has
received manifold and fruitful devel-
opment, and that he is, after al, not
by any means the man of blood and
iron which many people suppose him
to be. His wife is nine years younger
than her husband, and was married to
him in 1847. Her maiden name was
Johanna Won Puttkamer, and she was
the daughter of quiet, godly Pome-
eranian home, the atmosphere of which
was pervaded by the spirit of the Mo-
ravian fraternity. That ''the mad
squire [Junker] of Kneiphof, as Bis
marck was then called in the gossip of
the nejghborhood, the future "Iron
Chancellor" should have been attract
ed by, and at the same time should
have awakened warm and lively in
terest in, lady whose first impression
OF men and things were received amid
such surroundings, need not, after all,
create any surprise. Even in those
days the period of unrest, storm, and
stress had been succeeded by one of
calm, and his wildness and love of mis-
chief had given place to self-examina-
ton and a longing after higher things
The princess was strictly and piously
brought up; but is of cheerful and
lively disposition, endowed with
a considerable amount of mother
wit, keenly sensitive, and posses
sed of excellent taste. Very musi-
cal, and an excellent performer on the
piano, she is at the same time careful
and thrifty housewife, and, like the no.
BILE ladies of former times, possesses
some knowledge of the healing art.
During all these years she has shared
intelligently her husbands hopes and
cares, sometimes even the political
ones, as witness the letters published
by Hesekiel, written to her when Off
cial duties or holiday travels CHANGED
to separate them for while. In these
he addresses her as "My darling" (mein
Herz), 'sMy best beloved;" he sends
her jasmine from Peterhof; he prom
Uses her Edelweiss from Gastein. From
the royal castle at Ofen he bids her
"good-night from far away" and adds,
"Where can I have heard the song
which has been running through my
head all day:
tOver the blue mountains, over the white
sea foam,
Come thou: beloved one, come to thy lovely
homer
[ wonder who can have sung that to me
some time or other in 'auld lang
syne?'" Elsewhere he recalls on the
sixteenth anniversary of his marriage
how it ''had brought sunshine into his
bachelor lfe." Over and over again he
gives expression to feeling of home
sickness, of longing for her and the
children. And In letter written from
Smaland he wishes that he had a little
castle peopled with those he loved on
one of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
lakes of that Swedish province. Many
other parts of this correspondence show
how dear his wife is to him, and how
often he thinks of her. On the other
hand, we can infer from several of the
letters that the good lady has become
deeply imbued with her husbands en-
ergetic modes of feeling and of thought.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03

In China young women are married
at auction. In this country they are
disposed of at private sale.-[Texas
Siftings.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03

The Lay of the Tramp is in the hay
now Waterloo Observer. So is the
Lay of the Hen.-[St. Louis South and
West.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03

ization, the telegraph and railroad,
were too much for them. They were
captured, the children returned to the
school and the disconsolate parents to
their lonely homo.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03

are compelled by the men to do the
drudgery as is generally believed. He
says they do this severe work volun.
tarily and with pleasure. They are
strong and able to do it with no great
fatigue. What may be defined as q
family esprit du corps is very strong
among the Indians, and woman who
could not do her share of the work
would regard herself as unfortunate.
The Sioux are DESTROYS of emulating
the whites in advancement of wealth,
and are becoming enthusiasts in the
matter of educating their children.
They appreciate, with far more keen
ness than one not well acquainted with
Them would imagine, the love and filial
respect of their children, and the fear
that their offspring may become too
proud and ''stuck up'' to love them is
the only obstacle to complete en-
bracing of every facility il this direc-
ton. This feeling is, however, con-
fined to comparatively small number.
escape of five children from the Genoa
school. An old man named Leggings
or, in Sioux, Eck-sa-ta-wat-h a-
whose children they were, became
lonely and fearful that his little ones
would never again be reconciled to
their home and parentage. His wife
shared in these emotions. They hum
gered every day for sight of the loved
faces that had gone from their little
cabin, and when they could bear it no
longer they took their ponies and went
to Genoa to see them. Once in their
arms they could not give them up, and
the reunited family fled toward the
agency. But the implements of civil
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03
SPRING CREEK CATTLE co,

McCook, Neb. range; Red Willow creek.
in southwest Garner of Frontier county. Also
e. P. brand on right hip and side and swal-
low-fork in right ear. Horses branded E. P.
on right hip. A few branded GA" on right
hip.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-04-25

Fashion kills more women than toll
and sorrow. Obedience to fashion is
greater transgression of the laws of
women's nature, greater injury to
her physical and mental constitution
than poverty and neglect. The slave
woman at her tasks will live and grow
old and see two or three generations
of her mistresses fade and piss away;
the washerwoman, with scarce ray
of hope to cheer her in her toll, will
live to see her fashionable sisters die
all around her; the kitchen maid is
hearty and strong when her lady has
to be nursed like sick baby. 1t is a
sad truth that fashion pampered wom-
en- are almost worthle for all the
ends of human life they have but lit
tie force of character they have still
less power of mental will, and quite as
little physical energy; they live for no
great purpose in life they accomplish
no worthy ends. They are only doll
forms in the hands Of milliners and
servants, to be dressed and fed to or
der. If they rear children, servants
and nurses do all save give them birth
and when reared what are they? What
do they ever amount to but weak
scions of the old stock? Who ever
heard of fashionable woman's child
exhibiting any virtue or power OF
mind for which it became eminent?
Read the biographies of our great and
GOOD men and women. Not one of
them had fashionable mother. They
nearly all sprang from a strong mind
ed woman, who had about as little to
do with fashion as with the changing
clOuas
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-04-25
Volume XL.---No. 46.

and shade trees, green shutters and
dark red roofs, Cox's property. called
Rich Hill, made an agreeable 'ntrast
to the somber short pines which, at no
great distance, seemed to cover the
plain almost as thickly as wheat straws
in the grain field.
Taking Jones aside, Cox rela ed that
on the previous night the assassin of
President Lincoln had come to his
house in company with another per-
son, guided by negro, and had asked
for assistance to cross the Potomac
River; "and," said Cox to Jones, ''you
will have to get him across" Cx
indicated where the fugitives were con-
cealed, perhaps one mile distant, a few
rods west Of the present railroad track.
and just south Of Cox's station. Jones
was to give signal by wbistling in
certain way as heapproached the place,
else he might be fired upon and killed.
Nobody, it is believed, ever saw Booth
and Herold after this time in Mary
land, besides Cox s ovverseer, Franklin
Rohy, and Jones. Cox's family pro.
test that the fugitives never entered
the house at all; his adopted son. still
living, saws Booth did not come in the
house. Herold, who was with Booth,
related to his counsel, as the latter
thinks, that after they left Mudd's
house they never were in any house
Whatever in MARYLAND. The negro
who was employed to guide Booth
from DR.. Mudd's to Cox's testified that
he saw them enter the house but as
the Government did not use him on
the trial. it is probable that he related
his belief rather than what he saw.
But there is no doubt of the fact
that when DR.. Mudd found Booth on
his hands on Saturday, with broken
ankle, and the soldiers already pour
ing into Bryantown, he and Booth and
and Herold became equally frightened
and in the early evening the two lat
ter started by road to the east for
Cox'~ House, turning Bryantown and
leaving it to the north, and arriving
about or before midnight at Cox's.
There the negro was sent back. Her.
old advanced to the porch and COM
municated with Cox, and Booth sat
on his horse off toward the onter gate.
The two men cursed Cox after they
backed out to where the negro was,
he remaining at the outer gate-and
said that Cox was no gentleman and
no host. These words were probably
intended to mislead the negro when
they sent him back to DR.. Mudd's.
This negro was arrested, as was col
ored woman in Cox's family. and,with
the same remarkable fidelity | have
mentioned, the woman confronted the
negro man and swore that what he
sad was cntrne
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-04-25
V A r EFT ES.

Said the druggist: l didn't see
why Mr.. Byrnesmonkey kicked be-
cause by mistake gave him strych-
nine instead of calomel. Strychnine
costs twice as much as calomel.
Faith is sometimes personilied as a
drenched female clinging to a sea-
washed rock; but better personifica-
ton would be baldbeaded man buy
ing bottle of patent hair restorer.
Postmaster-general Gresham recent
ly entered on the same train with d
base ball club, and was met on the
platform as he ali GIFTED by local
sport with: "Short-stop or catch
er ?"
Five. big snakes were found in
block of ice taken from river in the
north. Ugh! take away that ice cre cam.
Now, how can any girl say she is
fond of it?
Different ways of looking at it: He
Sometimes envy dog. Never has
to dress or undress.' She-sMercy me
The idea of one having always to wear
the same dress.
A Toledo doctor takes strong
grounds on the transmission Of disease
by kissing, forbidding callers to kiss
any of his children. Wait until your
daughters grow up, doctor, and then
see how your cautions will operate.
The editor of a northwestern paper
feels grieved because on receiving an
invitation to an agricultural fair, the
paragraph as to entries for hurdle
race for mules was marked in with
blue pencil.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-04-25
ACME HALL,
The Falac e Clothing Estab.
lishment Of Baltimore,

Opens its doors o the public on April 9Th,
and extends to al lovers of Fine Clothing
a special invitation to look over its Goods.
Our object is to supply gentlemen with
such Spring and summer Clothing they
have hitherto been unable to procure ex-
cept from Merchants Tailors, atcxorbitant
prices We nbviate all delays and chances
of misfts that So frequently follow ordered
goods, and we guarantee our Garments
fully equal, and even superior, to NEST
measured work, 1t considerably low or
figures.
The most fastidious cannot fail to be
pleased with the Mems and Boys Gar
ments shown at
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-04-25
/, ,oftry.
THE MEN FOR THE TIMES.

Give~aS the nerve Of STEEL
And he arm of fearless might,
And the strength of will that is ready still,
To battle for the right.
Give Us the eve 10 weep
Tn, honest tear of feeling,
That shuts not down for the world dread frow
The genuine heart revealing.
GivtsHs q mind to feel
The sutferiGgS of another,
Ard f0al less power in the diving hour
To help a suffering brother.
GiveGs the clear cool brain
That = never asleep or dosing;
But sprinEing ever. with bold endeavor,
Wakes the world from its pressing.
All, give Us the nerve of steel,
And ne hand of fearless might,
And the heart that can love and feel,
AndIhe head that is always right
For 40 foeman is now sbroad,
Aud the earth is flltd with crimes
Let II he eur PRAYER 10 God,
On. give Us the men for the times.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-04-25
WOOD w AR ID & l. q II III Il u =.
921 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. & 912D STREET,
Washington, ID. 9.
Spring Goods Lower Than Ever

Our Assortment of Staple Dry Goods Larger than
before prices lower than Our Business mot
still it, The Best Goods Possible for the
Price.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-04-25
The Cost of Obedience to F:.shion

(To BE CONTINUED. J
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-04-25
l,Isturieal sketrh,
HOW WILKES BOOTH
CROSSED THE
POT O NJ \ G.

BY GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-27

The alleged outbreak of cholera at lou
lon is giving good scare to our cities on
the Eastern seaboard. 1t looks as if there
was no immediate cause for alarm. 1t is
not clear that it is the ASiatic cholera, and
it is reasonably clear that the epidemic is
due to local causes. The filthy condition OF
TOulon and the lack Of drainage is of itself
an explanation for the plague. However,
our authorities cannot be too careful in
watching the progress Of the disease at lou
Ion, and in taking precautionary measures
TO prevent its reaching our shores,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-27
The Scholarly Statesman.
v v HorLi


1t is to be said in behalf of the York Tri
bune that when it starts in on a partisan
career it goes the entire hog, so to speak.
When 1t is an organ it is an organ and its
music is genuine. Here we find it yeSter,
day whitening with scorn and satire the Hon.
Theodore Lyman of Massachusetts,, because
he has had the effrontery to allude to John
Logan as an ilhterate man.
The Tribune reminds Mr. Lyman, with a
contempt that is really grand, that Mr.. LO-
gan speaks French and Spanish-English
being imphed-and is withal Shakespear-
ian scholar and an enthusiast 1t assures
him that Mr.. Logan has been known to cor
rect Harvard graduate in Latin prouun-
citation. The only doubt it casts upon him
as a scholar and inguist is in this equivo-
cal line. Perhaps his English may some
times betrsy traces Of the pioneer habits Of
third of century ago in Southern ILL;
nOis. Just so.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-27
s NJ o x z
TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF
OHIO COUNTY,

THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF THE SEW.
l. eral districts OF Ohio county, are requested to
assemble at the places hereinafter mentioned, on
SATURDAY, JUNE %, 1884, between the hours Of
and O'Clock p. and elect three delegates TO the
County Convention, TO be held at the Hall OF the
House Of Delegates, In the city OF Wheeling, on
Monday, June 80, 1884, at 10 O'Clock a. M, for the
purpose OF eecting delegates to the State and Con-
gressiOn2l conventions. The following places and
judges have been selected tor the purpose OF holding
said election: ..
Washington District-vigilant Hose House
Michael Edwards and T. Garden. Fulton School
House - Michael Stein, Charles Hoffman.
Madison District-Market Housed. Schambra
and Grafton Beall.
Clay Dislrict-Court HOuse-Mi chael Riley and
a. W. Kelly
Union Distri"t-Atlantic Engine House-Johp
Downs and Conrad Yahn.
Center District-HOse House-w. Myles an"
Louis Delbrugge.
Webster Distrist-United Engine House-Cha,
Rice and W. Schaetfer.
Richie District-HOse HOuse-W. Lehman anc
Ieander Mix.
Triadelphia District-Lawson HOTEL. s Bedn
lion and louis Wheeler Toll Gate No. 2-J. Pfarr
and NJ I. Carr RObinson's House NoS-J. Oldham
and J. Robinson.
Liberty District-Center School HouSe-John Far
ris and T. T. Yeates
Richland District Richland School House,
Ridgley andJ l.. Sawtell. Glen'S Run-T. Gordon
Jr., and Robert Welshans.
The judges are requested to make return, prop
erly certified of the books papers and ballots used
at said election precincts, to the number OF votes
COST for each particular candidate for delegate, to-
gether with the names of the delegates elected to thu
Convention, which meets on Monday, the S0th o..
JOHN - NAYLOR Chairman,
Democratic Executive Com. o. G.
CBAs BINGELL, Secretary. je23
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-27
SarrRi CnncArfs

The success of the sacred concert in Fair
mount Park last Sunday has attracted the
attention Of the advocates of similar enter
isinments in Central Park. New York. aud
is likely to inpre to the realization Of their
programme sooner or later. The mainte-
nance of the elevated character of the masic
performed on these occasions is all that is
needed TO make such concerts benefit to
tie people Of every large city.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-27

THERE WILL BE NOTHING AN
BIGU0US ABOUT THE DEFEAT OF
Mr.. BLAINE. HE WHO RUNS MAY
CLEARLY READ THE VERDICT IN
ADVANCE. A CANDIDATE UN-
WORTHY OF CONFIDENCE, AND A
PARTY TOO CARELESS OF ITS OWN
HONOR To BE LONGER TRUSTED
WITH THE NATEONS."-N. Y. TINES
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-27
oalgarnsa Parar1a. Adeplea Jine II, 1888

Resolved, That we are opposed to all pro-
hibtory tariffs intended to create or foster
monopolies or exclusive privileges. We
favor the raising of sufficient revenues fol-
the necessary support of the government
and the gradual discharge Of all its obhga
lions. For this purpose we are in favor o.
a tariff so adjusted as to give protection to
our home labor and our home industries
placing the burdens as far as possible on
the luxuries and eNempting the necessarie$
of life. The details Of this adjustment We
submit to the Judgment Of Democratic
Congress.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-27
riyiuio Plat@m, adopted Nay "A, 1884.

Sixth. That We favor the unconditional
and immediate abolition Of the interna
revenue system-a nursery of spies and in
formers, a menace to the freedom. of elec
tons, and intolerable burden on taxpayers
a source of the greatest corruption in its
practical operation and special burden on
this State and her interests. ...
SEVENTH, That we favor tariff for reve
nue. limited to the necessities of the govern,
ment economically administered and so ad,
justed in its application as to prevent IN
equal burdens, encourage productive inter,
erts at home and afford Just cOmpensa,
ton to labor but not to create or foster
mOnopOlies.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-27

MAST has not forgotten bis skill as car
tOOniSt. This weeks cartoon represents the
''Plumed Knight behind the scenes trying
TO put on a clean shirt preparatory TO being
introduced to the public by WHIrELAw
REID. The awkwardness OF the situation
is extremely ludierous, as he has run his
legs through the sleeves, and is trying to
bring the broad end of the garment up over
his hnsnm
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-27
what Is the Matter With sherman

Senator Sherman has Just made yigor,
Gus and telling speech against another pen,
sion grab pending in the Senate This is
not loyalty to the party that is running Lo
gan, the greatest pensiou-grabber of them
all, for the second place in the government
Has John been struck With paroxism Of
political virtue, or has disappointment over
the late Chicago convention made him care
less of his party allegiance2
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-27
Nrnau Ps,,tnr,s. .Idop..a Isi. 10. 1881.

We hold that the tariff should be so ad-
il sted as to yield ample revenue for the re-
uirements Of honest and economical gov
.lnment; that the burden ofduties should
be laid chiefly upon the luxuries of life, and
lightly as possible upon the articles Of
eceSsity, and thai in such adjustment the
il terests Of American labor, and not Of
II onopoly, should alone be regarded.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-27

The Cincinnati Times-Star having had
its faith in man shaken, shouts aloud Are
al men EarsY No, not all men. The
Wheeling correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette does not constitute the
entire human race.