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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-17
Hints on" Making Up."

The butterflies of fashion are far
behind actors in the methods of "mak-
ing up" and in the artistic use of
paint, rouge and powder. Occasionally
we meet beautiful woman, gorgeously
dressed, sitting in her carriage with
cross-eyed pug dog by her side, and a
cast-steel cOachman on the box seat.
What strikes us more particularly is
the lady's face. 1t is ghastly white,
deathly in its palor. On each check
she wears brilliant red blOtch, and
under each eye is q black line. Her eye
lashes are black as Egypt, while her
hair is of shimmering gold. Such a
woman is 'smade up.'' She has taken
the utmost pains to make herself look
pretty, but the result is, she is simply
hideous, and excites the laughter of the
clever people who understand the mys-
teries of stage "make-up." The
trouble with our society beauty is that
she does not realize that a face made up
for the stage is q very different thing
from one made UP for daylight. An
actress makes her face very white to
neutralize the effect of the yellow gas
light. She draws black line under
each eye, because the footlights shining
up from below destroy the shadow of
her lower lashes and make the eye look
Hat. So she makes an artificial shadow
with cosmetic, India ink or burnt cork.
The ladies in front of the footlights
study all this through their opera
glasses; and, not understanding the diff
ference between gaslight and sunlight,
they appear on the street the next morn
ing horribly made up. Ladies who are
determined to paint, and powder, and
draw black links under their eyes
should bear in mind the fact that the
light of the sun is hundred times
whittier and brighter than that of the
footlights, and, moreover, it does not
shine up from below
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-17
Career of a Grandson of one OF
Napoleon's Great Marshals.

There is at present sOJOurnlng in
San Francisco an artisan, not blessed
with much of this worlds pelf, but
who claims an interest in the estate of
Count Napoleon Ney, Prince de Ia
Moskowas and son of Marshal Ney,
who died in Paris on October 13, 1882.
His name is Emil Hugo Ney, and he was
born in Koeningsburg, Prussia, about
thirty-six years ago. His father a
younger son of the marshal, was Fred
erick William Alexander Ney, who died
when Emil was but 2 years of age.
His father having married against the
old Marshals will, an estrangement
ensued and there was but little inter-
course between the two families. Young
Ney, firing of study and restraint, ran
away from home when very young,
and served two years as cabin boy.
He then devoted three years to learning
the trade of ship carpenter. He Wis
tied every land and cline and after
wards settled in south America, wan
dering from state to state. For four
years he worked with Harry Meiggs,
who made him foreman of large
force of men, when constructing his
railroad in Peru. In 1875 he came to
Sanfrancisco, and has since remained
on the coast, engaged in various oc-
equations and callings. On hearing
of the death of his uncle, he engaged
an attorney to ascertain whether. or
not he was entitled to share of his es-
tate, and finally ascertained, through
Minister Morton and Baron de Vatry,
one of the Courts nearest relatives,
that the entire estate had been be-
queathed to his widow, and that the
sons of an elder brother would be en-
titled to a preference. In spite of this
discouraging reply, young Ney is still
sanguine, and intends leaving for Paris
shortly to look after his interests, be-
lieving that his relatives are still antag-
ownistic to him and his interest, and
of course are throwing every obstacle
in his way.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-17
The Industrial Census of India.

British journals bring interesting de-
tails of the industrial census of India
in 1881. The total population of the
country is 253, 1891, 1921, and of this enor-
nous number only 1854 persons are
British-born subjects, and 56,646 are
soldiers and 12,088 females. Prac-
tically less than 1900 male civilians,
welding an army of $1,000 men, con-
troll the vast empire. The whole num-
Der of Europeans returned is only 49,
512. The occupations of 102, 629 600
persons are defined, and of these H.
10000 are engaged in agriculture or
the care of animals. In industrial
occupations II ,041 900 persons are en-
gagged, 1859 600 males and 8, 1872, 600
females. The workers in cotton and
flax numbers 5,4S5,452; in clothing,
2,815, 2S0; in vegetable food, 9,165, s29;
in stone, clay and earthepware, $780,
974; in houses and buildings, S6,453:
in guns and resins, 1872, 1926; in bam-
boo, cane, rush, straw and leaves, $780,
1875 in gold, silver and precious stones,
Az, 1866, and in iron and steel only 49,
Sol. Engaged in the work of govern
ment, national, local and municipal,
are 1,843, 900 persons, of whom 315, 900
are classed as belonging to the army.
The professional classes embrace 1,45I,-
600 persons.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-17
Manual Training in the Public
Schools,

Supt Seaver, of the Boston public
schools, says: Education through
apprenticeship to trades has disap-
peared, and the time has been filled up
| with larger amounts of scheol-book in
struction, and the consequence is that,
through luck Of opportunity, the native
aptitude of many boys for handicraft is
quite ignored. There doubtless is in
our city boys an ample fund of latent
mechanical ingenuity, which only
awaits proper treatment to bring it
out and lead its possessors to the right
occupations for using it.
My hope is that public free school
on the plan of the school of mechanic
arts may be established in Boston. The
place for it in our system is side by side
with the high school. This can be
done as soon as the taxpayers and
their representative at City Hall
see the wisdom of it. Let it not be
supposed that the manual training pro-
posed as a part of general education
consists in learning this trade or that
trade, nor yet in learning the fragmen-
tary beginnings of dozen trades; but
rather than it consists in developing
manual skill and mastering the funda-
mental process applicable in many
trades. For example, one who can use
well the common woodwork tools
hammer, saw, plane, auger, chisel and
try-square-is ready to enter several diff
ferent trades with Immediate advantage
to himself, although he may not yet
have learned the special details of any
one of them.
Now, I am sanguine enough to be-
lieve that the introduction of the manu-
al training element into school work
would promote still more salutary re-
form which seeks to abolish mere nom
inal teaching and replace it by real
teaching, that is, a teaching that trains
mental power rather than loads the
memory that fills the mind with the
solid merchandise of knowledge and
not with its empty packing cases. The
one branch of our present school in
struction, most largely to be improved
by joining it with manual training, is
drawing. Not many years ago draw
lug was made obligatory by statute.
The reason was that drawing was i'm
portant as a branch of industrial edu-
cation, and industrial education was
much needed by the people-especially
by the people of cities. Well, drawing
has been introduced at great trouble
and expense, and in spite of no little
passive opposition. Bthis expenditure
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-17

of money and effort justifedp Yes, I
hink so. And the result satisfactory
No, not yet. And whyP Because in
dustrial education, through drawing
alone, is work only half done. The
other half, modelling, carving, any
thing having in it the constructive ele-
ment, has hitherto been wanting. De-
lineation and construction are TIVE parts
of one whole; neither has full educa-
tional value without the other. As work
in the chemical laboratory is needed
really to possess ones self of the chem
ical knowledg, which is only symbol
lied in tie formulas of the book, SO
work at modelling and contraction is
needed to give precision and endurance
to that knowledg" of forms which draw
ings merely symbolic.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-17

s.My son." asked a school teacher,
swhat do you know regarding people
who seside in glass housesP' 81 don't
know nothin'," was the response,
s'about the proverb, but 1 know that
people who live in glass houses orient
to lay abed in the mornin, unless they
pull down the blinds "-Ex.
In railway carriage: "Guibollard
asks, very politely, ''Madame, does
smoking trouble you?'' "Oh yes,
monsieur; not ordinarily, but to-day
ssAh! madame replies Guibollard, in
a very symphetic tone, show much you
are about to suffer!'' Paris Wit.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-17
He gave me a curious searcbino look

He gave me a curious searching look.
"And yet you never saw me before
this evening"" he SAID slowly, keeping
his eyes upon me.
"NOr you me-" returned. "But
that has nothing to do with the CASE
ga great deal, should say" was
the answer, accompanied by a provok-
ing smile.
What did he meanP 1 opened my
lips once or twice to ask him to be more
definite, but shut them again in the
fear that for some inexplicable reason
or other my companion would keep up
his mysterious manner
At length the dawn redeemed the
east. The rain had ceased. the skies
had cleared, and as turned and open
ed my window, noticed that the air
had the pleasant GOODNESS of an early
autumn morning. l threw back my
veil, the better to inhale the fresh air.
"GOod heavens!'' was the early
morning greeting of my strange COM
panion, as he quickly started up and
then seized hold of both hands
''Don't you know me, JessieP" he ex-
claimed.
The daylight fell full upon his face,
showed it very tanned. This l
noticed; but this was all. Indignantly
1 drew my hands away.
elbow dare you?'' I began; then
overcome with establishment and mOrti-
fication at the sudden change of be-
havior. l covered my face.
"Jessie, am Neville Tracy-Edward
Neville Tracy"
My heart stood still for minute |
scarce knew if the sensation l expe-
rienced was due to doubt ortsurprise.
Then / scanned my companion narrow
ly. Recollections came slowly back.
With me recognition was not at all
as it is usually depicted in novels.
Where was the boyish face that had
been before me in my reverie only last
night? He had left me slight fair
young fellow; now sunburnt Dreaded
man claimed his name.
How long it was before could quite
convince myself l was not dreaming,
nor he deceiving me could not say.
There was so much to explain, so
much to relate-the wherefore of our
parting has so little to do with this
story that l pass it over-that we forget
the singular trick of fate that has
brought US together again. 1t seemed
the most natural occurrence in the
world that we should be going home to-
gether. And when the riddle was I'M
raveled, it was very simple one. He
had thought he was going to have a
very nice little adventure when the
waiter bounced down on him in mis-
take, and manlike, was nothing 10th to
follow it up, not recognizing his former
love until 1 threw back my veil.
Well, eight years had altered me
somewhat, also. The reason of the
non-appearanee of the right Cor
wrongly escort, learnt soon after in a
double letter of apology from aunt's
sister-in-law and himself. He had
missed the train, and arrived in Chi
cago several hours later.
/ have travelled often enough with
my red necktie since then, but he posi-
lively declares that was the pleasantest
journey he ever took with me, because
it ended so happily. And all's well
that ends well.-[San Francisco Re-
port.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-17
HUMOROUS.

The man who sleeps on an old
fashioned feather bed generally feel,
down in the mouth in the morning
| T Burlington Free Press.
In order that your husband may no,
forget to bring in coal, place the hoo
near the door where he can fall over
it.-[Chicago Tribune.
"My Willie strike your Johnnie!'
yelled Mrs Smithers to Mrs Jepso over
the back fence; ''you are mistaken
my gentle lamb would not strike q
ch.-[Oil City Derrick.
The young woman who was courted
by an old millionaire, but loved an.
other fellow, said the old mans en-
tire fortune, as far as she was concerned
was not worth assent Merchant
Traveller
"Oh! he's a green hand" remarked
book agent, contemptuously. "He
thinks he can sell books, and he has
not yet learned the first principles OF
the business. Only yesterday he was
picked up all in q heap at the bottom
of a stairway. Now an experienced
book-agent always lands on his feet.''
The various phrases of the tender
passion have thus been exemplified: A
ship is foolishly in love when she is
attached to buoy; she is prudently
in love when she leaves the buoy for
the pier; she places her affection be-
meath her when she is ancoring after
heavy swell, and she is desperately
in love when she is tender to manor
war. 1.-THE Judge.
"Jakey," cried Mrs. Rosenberg, as
she discovered twenty-five letters iu
her sons bureau drawer, "here vas all
desc letters l gif you since last spring,
to put the mail-box derein." Wy for
hat you forgot dem? $50 hellup me
L don't forget en-" replied Jakey,
81 been vaitin for dot two-cent bos-
tage. y [Arkansaw Traveller.
A rural young lady visited the Phil
adelphia Geological Gsrden, and when
she returned home she told her mother
that one of the monkeys spoke to her.
A girl who can't distinguish a dude
from monkey should be given q few
lessons in natural history. The mon,
key is the most inteiligent-lookipg, but
dosen't wear such ridiculous clothes.
i Philadelphia Record.
A remarkable climate: A northern
tourist, engaged in looking up the title
to some Texas lands, was sitting in his
room at the hotel. A colored waiter
came in with some clean towels.
"What kind of weather is there out
side?" inquired the man. Is it raining?
"Yas, sah," answered the waiter.
''De fac is, mos all de weather we has
in Texas is on de outside. We doan
git much wedder on de inside, that is
no hebby wedder." = Texas Siftings.
She laid her head upon his shoulder
as he held her close to his bosom. Her
eyes beamed love, etc, into his. Do
you love me, Alphonso? eyes, sweet
est. "Then why delay naming the dayp"
81 will not delay, love. twill be some
pretty day in the next springtime when
the flowers are budding forth in
beauty and delightful fragrance.
"Oh shaw! Why, Will Jones said he'd
marry me next week. But if you can
beat that time, dearest, 1 am yours,
for [ love you so much" Alphonso
took his hat and retired from the
race N. Y. Graphic.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-17
THE WORLD Is GROWING BET.
TER.
TER.

The world is growing better!
Thought takes wider sweep,
The hand of sturdy labor
With friendly hand we greet;
We will not drink the bitter
When so little makes it sweet.
The world is growing richer,
In wealth brought from the earth
But, better far, with treasures found
In mines of sterling worth,
For noble deeds are honored more
Than simple claims Of birth.
The world is growing better!
With fewer musty creeds,
With more of human strivings
To answer human needs,
With precious harvests garnered
As the growth Of precious seeds.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-17

Kid bonnets have high crowns, are
made of pale, yellow kid, the brim
trimmed with three rows of small, round
buttons in limitation OF stained iTory.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-11-27
~ a Female syrian Masher.

/ took a seat next to some high-toned
natives, who were munching cucumbers
"a favorite dish. A yelled native wo-
man sat opposite. After time she ev-
idently became convinced that l, like
Rrutus, was an honorable man, and re-
moved her veil. = Doubtless this was a
special token of Syrian favor, Il thought,
but the revelation of brunette loveliness
was not sufficient to m ke me grateful
for the indulgence. A few minutes
later discovered that it was not in Or
der to hanor me that this freedom had
been adopted, but to facilitate the op-
Grafton of smoking. Deity rolling up
some tobacco in piece OF paper. this
Arab Venus commenced to puff naively
away at her Oriental cigarette, without
so much as asking if the smoke was Of
fensive to me. Presently she found the
Occidental way of sitting uncomforta-
BILE. So she pulled off her garters,
tucked one of her stockingless feet un-
der her and planted the other over
against the cushion squarely in front of
me. Thus she sat in thoughtful COM
placency, cycling me now and then with
curious patronizing glance that some
what made me shiver 1t was not the
foot of a Hebe. Neither was it the kind
of which poets dream. and over which
they are wont to gushfnlly gush. lam
convinced on that point, for had six
or eight hours in which to study that
foot, and formulate my conclusions re-
garding it. Taking it all in all, it was
a foot, every inch Of iti but am quite
content to never see its like again. Lest
the subject become effect, 1t Is better
to drop it.-Damascus Cor. Cleveland
Herald
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-11-27
Meat Versus Bread.

"A Paris correspondent of the Kansas
City Journal recently had long talk
with lie Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps in
regard TO the cereals for food. NJ. de
Lesseps worked thousands of Italians,
Turks and Frenchmen on the Suez
Canal.
l'.Do You really think the cereals are
stronger than meat?p was asked.
certainly" he replied. "One
pound of dry wheat or flour is worth as
much as three pounds of wet beef.
Seald the pound of flour and see You
have gallon of mush. You could not
eat it in three days. If You feed the
cereals to cattle as they do in England,
it takes eight pounds of grain to make
one of meat. So, why feed the grain
to animal tramps? Why not eat it our
selves and do away with surplus pop
ulation of so, ,O00,O 900 cattle, hogs and
sheep-animal tramps? England is
supporting, perhaps, 82,0O0,OOO cattle,
sheep and hogs, and 10000, 900 people;
or rather, she supports her cattle and
buys bread from America to feed her
people. France supports about AZ, ,OOO,-
600 people, and about 20, ,000, 900 cattle,
hogs and sheep. One acre of cereals
it would take two acres to support one
steer. The advantage of cereals over
meat is asifive to one. So YOU see the
steer is an Unnecessary tramp. The
Englishman insists ON roast beef, every
pound Of which costs eight pounds of
cereals The Frenchman eats the cere-
ais himself. He buys millions of gal
Ions of cotton-seed oil in America at 8
70 ha -, L =
salad, in his soup, and in his bread and
pie-crust. The Frenchman refines
millions of gallons of American cotton
seed oil, sends it back to America and
sells it for 81 or 30 gallon. Cotton
seed OIL IS superseding peanut oil and
olive oil Is almost a thing of the past.
For years the peanut crop of Tennessee
and North Carolina has been sent to
Marseilles and made into olive oil.
Cotton-seed oil has been found by the
French to be better and cheaper than
peanut oil To-day all Spain, Southern
France, Italy, Turkey and Austria are
living ON American eotton-seed OIL
All an Italian gentleman or iaborer
wants Is oil, macaroni, bread, sugar,
wine or coffee, Cotton-seed oil takes
the place of meat, 1t is strange. that
your Southern States have been for
years throwing away millions of bar
rels of beautiful cotton-seed oil and
buying unhealthful pork and lard in its
place. Corn meal cooked like maca-
roni with oil and cheese, is delicious
food"
The Count Is right, but he forgets
that in France, where nothing is wasted,
10000 steers will 60 as far as 50,-
)OO,O 600 steers in England. or $4,000. 900
IN prohigate America. There is never
a mouthful of meat or grease thrown
away in France. France can support a
of 100, 600, 600 better than
England can support a population of
q. GOO. 900.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-11-27
English BeaOIeS.

1t is a very pretty sight to see pack
of beagles working in cover. How they
try every tuft of grass or rushesi Soon
you notice that they are working moro
eagerly, and soon begin to lash their
tails, and suddenly out bursts ''bunny"
from his seat, sure to be saluted by
hasty shot from some one, not the least
to Its detriment, but very narrow es-
cape for the leading dogs Away 90
the pack, making the woods ring with
their tongues. Excited individuals run
after them, often with their guns on
full cock and their fingers on the trig-
ger. What their ideas may be in this
performance is difficult to say, but I
suppose it is the effect of that tempo
rary insanity that seizes many people
at the sight of rabbit As a rabbit
invariably runs ring and returns to
its starting place, there is not the least
use except for the sake of exercise, in
trying to follow it; and the first one
put up is safe TO run his ring, as the
good shots will not fire at him, that the
youngsters may have chance, and the
Indifferent shots are sure TO miss the
first through excitement. You hear
plenty of shots while the dogs are run
ming. as other rabbits, frightened by
their noise and passage, bolt from their
seats and scuttle about everywhere.
Besides these, few old cock pheas-
ants, who have strayed from the pre-
serves, are sure to be found and shot.
You shortly hear a shot from the cover
the rabbit was found in, followed by
'Who-whoop!' showing that the hunted
one has been killed.-LORd0n Society.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-11-27
Statistics of Calamity.

Twins do not happen more than 800
times year in a population of SOC, 900,
and seldom hit the same family twice.
Triplets are rare enough to be curiOsi-
ties. 1t is estimated that not one wo-
man in 10000 has given birth to three
children at a time, and, although there
Is ON record In the old medical works
the case of German peasant who had
twelve children at four births-threc
each time-and Michigan women is
credited with having produced dozen
children in five births inside of seven
years-quadruplet once. triplets once,
twins twice, and a lone youngster on
the last occasinn-suc instances of fe-
cundity are rarer than new planets, and
the lady entitled to the cake for having
four children at whack is not found
more than once among 275,0O0 married
women.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-11-27
The Branding Iron as the Basis of
Fortunes.

At first these gangs only stole Mex
lean stock, which they left at Clover
dale until they had chance to drive
them to the San Carlos Indian Agency,
which was their chief market. Some
times they stole thoroughbred Ameri-
can stock. when they had to go TO work
to remove the brands. The plan was
simple enough. A piece of blanket was
taken and wrung out after being dip
ped in water. A common frying pan
was then heated nearly red hot The
wet blanket was applied over the brand
and the red hot pan pressed hard
against it. The steam generated scald-
ed the hair clean off and the job was
done. In a few months the hair be-
gan to grow again and a new brand
was put on. Then again the fellows
had kind of branding iron with which
they could change a number of brands.
| once heard a Texan boast of a man
in Preside county, Texas, who started
in five years ago with only two old
cows and branding iron, and who is
now worth 100000. | told him that I
knew half a dozen men in New Mexico
who started in with only the branding
iron, and are to day worth $500, 600.
The branding iron has laid the founda-
ton of many respectable fortunes, both
here and in Texas.-Ee,o Me9ieaR Coz,
st. Lo'.ss G!sss:lsg9sras ~