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McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-01
How to Propose.
OIL City Derrick.

vi tjlty Derrlck
A bright-eyed girl, who is skillful
angler for hearts, thinks q young man,
to be successful, should propose after a
very short acquaintance-take the girl
by storm as it were, while she is pleased
with new beau, and before she has
time to tire of him; then follow the
proposal up by vigorous courtship,
lots of flowers, drives, theatres, ETC.,
and, if she consents, insist upon short
engagement by all means.
Another Well-knOwn blonde beauty,
.yho has created sad havoc and has had
much experience in this line, says the
only successful way to propose is when
least expected. Allow no time for con-
sideration, and then insist that the &C
ceptance be "now or never" She
feels sure that this is the only way she
will be captured; but she thinks few
men are bold enough to try that game
A handsome young widow, well
known in society circles, who is not so
rich as she was, says the only success
full way to win her is to offer q fine
horse and carriage, with plenty of
money to keep it up.
A dark-eyed girl, with a tangle of
soft brown hair shading her brow,
says:
''If fellow is desperately in love
with girl, and Is persistent in his eff
forts to win her, he is sure to gain his
point. Widowers understand this
point, and know exactly how to make
love and propose, and you will observe
they are always successful" She
knows one case where widower went
in and hung up his hat, announced his
intention of remaining until she ac-
cepted, and she had to marry him to
get rid of him. Awidower beau makes
her nervous about the result.
One sweet, dreamy-eyed girl, who
is just on the threshold of society, says
love-making must be so sweet that she
would wish her lover to be a long time
making the approaches, and she would
not shorten the delights of an engage
ment; if they tire of each other it
will be better before than after mar
riage. She is not particular as to his
style, but he must be tall and hand
some, and sing and dance well, and
above all, he must know how to make
love. This girls name must be kept
secret.
One society belle who has spent sew
eral seasons in the ''feld" says she
will give man all the time he wants
TO "begin the siege,'' but when he
does begin he must go straight through
without showing the "white feather"
Sac detests ''skirmishing;" it only gets
one wrought up to the ''fray;" nothing
is accomplished, and it requires all
ones nervous force to endure "cam-
paign" of this nature, to say nothing
of the modification of several defeats
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-01
Sad Episode in Human Life.
Eugene Field in Chicago News.

Eugene Field in Chicago News.
The president of the New York press
club has been searching high and low
for one j. M. Macdonald, who was sup
posed to be somewhere in the far west
engaged in the newspaper business.
The search will be vain; they will
never find Macdonald, unless his dead
body, which lies up on a hillside near
Leadville, will satisfy them. This man
Macdonald was strange, inexplicable
character. He never talked about his
life, his career, his antccedents. 1t was
known he had been rich at one time,
had travelled all over the world, had
lost his fortune in South American
speculation and had been forced to take
to literature for a livelihood. He
struck Denver sick, ragged and penni-
less, and he lay in hospital for some
months Then for a year he found en-
ployment on the local press, but his
financial and physical troubles seemed
to have affected his mind; he was
very irritable, distrustful and moody.
About this time he fell in love
with Denver lady, but was rejected.
In something like despair, he went up
into the mountains, and there, at Lead
vile, not much more than year ago,
this unhappy, unfortunate and weary
man died. The newspaper boys got
together, made up sum of money and
had the body of the miserable wanderer
respectfully buried. In his last illness
he had refused all proffers of pecuniary
aid. He was too proud to accept char
J. IL 4 L. orV
pawned everything-even his under
clothing-to secure the necessarles of
life. On the heels of this sad episode
in human life comes the announcement
of the death of wealthy relative in Eng
land and fortune looking for one John
M. Macdonald. But what cares poor
Macdonald for their glittering gold
now? 1t was peace and rest he wanted,
and he has found them in a narrow
grave upon Colorado mountain side.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-01
Pacific Railroads.

The house committee on Pacific rail-
roads has concluded consideration of
the proposed amendments to the Thur
man sinking fund act. They extend
the provision of the act to the Kansas
Pacific, Sioux City and Pacific and
Central Branch of the Union Pacific
railroads. The secretary of the treas
ury is authorized to invest the sinking
funds of each of the subsidized COM
panies in first mortgage bonds of said
companies or in any bonds or securi-
ties of the United States, In his dis
cretien, or he may, with the consent of
the companies, apply the same to the
extinguishment of the interest on SUBJ
sidy bonds, the government to refund
the same on demand if at any time it
becomes necessary in order to meet
any debts or obligations of said cor
porations prior on lien to said interest.
The third amendment requires each
road to pay So per cent. of their net
earnings into the sinking fund, instead
of % per cent, as now required. The
percentage was first fixed by the COM
mittee at 81 per cent, but was recon-
sidered with the above result. The
fourth amendment relates to monies
due by the government to the roads for
transportion, but retained and applied
to the payment of interest of the sink
ing fund, which retention and applica-
ton the courts have practically decid-
ed was illegal. The gross amount
thus retained, with interest, is about
100000. Instead of repaying
this money to the, companies, the
amendment provides it shall remain
in the sinking fund and be eventually
applied to the extinguishment of debts
prior on lein to those due the govern
ment, thereby increasing the ability OF
the companies to pay the debts due the
government, which are the second
lsin upon portion of this money, esti-
mated at about s5, 100000, which has
gone to the extinguishment of the in
terest, and which, under these amend
ments, will be transferred to the sink
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-01
A POLK COUNTY HERMIT.
A Case of Mysterious Disappearance at
Osceola Explained.

Lincoln journal.
From WA. Doggett, who came in
from the Platte country yesterday, we
learn the particulars of a curious sensa-
ton which has been the absorbing topic
of conversation among the citizens of
Osceola and vicinity for few days
past.
About a year ago, in June, a Swede
named Frank Johnson, living seven
miles west of Osceola, disappeared
rather suddenly. His wife said he had
left and gone back to Sweden, but it
was curious fact that nobody could
be found who had seen him start. 1t
was matter that no one was particu-
larly interested in, however, and after
little while it passed out of peoples
memory.
One day about three weeks ago a
slepdaughter of Johnson's, who has
been working out, made visit home.
While there her mother left the house
carrying something, and in such way
as to excite the girls curiosity. She
followed her and was much astonished
to see her mother 90 to a cave some
distance from the house, of the exist
ence of which the girl had never known.
Her establishment was increased by
seeing at the entrance an uncouth
shaggy face, which despite the long
beard and unkempt and uncut hair,
she recognized as that of her father. He
seemed very angry that he had been
girl if she told what she had seen.
The girl kept her secret until last
Wednesday, when she went to the Lu-
theran minister, who lived in the neigh
borhood, and told him the whole affair
He Immediately secured the company
of neighbor named Peter Holt, and
going to the cave succeeded, with some
difficulty, In inducing the hermit to
leave his cell.
The man presented wild and repul-
sive appearance. Shut up in the cave
for a year, he had grown white and
thin, while his eyes had acquired an
unnatural lustre. His beard, always
long, came down to his waist, and his
unkempt hair hung in tangled mass
about his ears.
He has shown no inclination to 90
back to his retreat, and various specu-
lations are INDUCED in as to the cause
of his strange freak. Many of the
neighbors believe that there is some
one among his countrymen who know
of some CRIME he committed in Sweden,
and that he was afraid he would be
called to account for it. His wife's
story is that he went into the cave at
the time of the tornado which swept
over that country last summer, and that
she had never been able to get him to
come out since.
Whatever may be the explanation of
the mans curious freak, he is evidently
not entirely sound mentally. Whether
this state of mind has been brought
about by the fear of discovery which
has haunted him during the time of his
concealment, or whether it was disor-
dered mind that induced him to indulge
in the curious freak, is as yet impossi-
BILE to determine.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-01
Prescriptions in English.
Pittsburg Dispatch,

Ptttsburg Dispatch,
The cabalistic character of physi-
clans prescriptions has for ages i'm
pressed the uneducated with awe and
aroused the satire of the critical.
Charles Reade hit at the practice of
surrounding medical directions with
the mystery of unclassical Latin terms
by making his satirical doctor in every
Hard Cash. write prescription in
very medical Latin, which directed a
young lady patient to ego to a ball
and dance with thirteen puppies" The
impression seems to be growing that
scientific skill receives no important
aid by an assumption of classical learn
ing. The Ohio legislature Is consider
ing bill for the regulation of pharma-
cy, in which there is a provision that
all prescriptions shall be written in
English, with Arabic figures. Although
this provision would abridge the priv
lege of Disgusting old topers' Sunday
drinks by prescriptions for esp. fer
menti ii o." we can see no reason
why this would not be good measure.
The physicians would know just as
much in English as in Latin, and there
is 3 strong probability that the drug
glsts and patients would know great
deal more.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-01
Grain Expectation.

The president sent to the senate
report from the secretary of state in
reply to the resolution of the senate,
requesting Information as to the aver
age production, consumption, exporta-
ton and importation of wheat, rye,
corn and cotton in foreign countries,
their probable requirements for such
products from the United States, be-
fore the crops of the coming crop year
are ready, and other information bear
ing on the question of demand for grain
and cotton products of the United
States. TIE secretary says: s'The
calculations and estimates submitted
prove, as far as statistics can prove
under the circumstances, that the stock
of whea1 on hand in Europe at the
close OF 1888 did not materially
differ from the stock on hand
at the close of the previous
year; that the wants of Europe
are as imperative and as great as they
were in 1888, and the demands upon
the United States should naturally be
as great as they were in 1888. How
long Europe may or can draw upon
her reserve stocks or what are the exact
considerations which control the sew
eral countries, especially the United
Kingdom, which may be said to regu-
late the wheat markets of the world,
time alone can develop" He also
says that the most liberal allowances
for the wheat output is necessary fog
the worlds consumption and shows
that the United States could he drawn
upon the present year for III, 0OO, 600
bushels in round numbers, against
1913 100000 bushels from all other
wheat growing countries. 1t thus ap-
pears that the United States, instead
of being controlled by should be able
to control the foreign MAJ kets.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-01

Professor Ball, the astronomer royal
for Ireland, in an address on comets,
considered that the meteoroids seen as
shooting stars in 1866 were actually the
remains of the tails of comets.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-01

The Engineer says it is probable that
the government of Victoria will repeat
the offer of high premium for COM
bined reaper and threshing machine
suited to Australian requirements.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-01

The electric lights at Los Angeles,
Cal, can be seen at the Island of San
Clemento, eighty miles away.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-01


how they were to solve this problem.
The little maiden blushed and hung
down her head, but finally accepted
TENS proposition that they should be
married and live in Washington
together, in order that they need never
again entertain a fear of separation.
Mrs. Tremaine was not willing that
her only daughter should be given
away without a splendid wedding.
Grandpa Tremaine had come home
from Paris to be present at the cele-
bration of the nuptials, and everything
was progressing, famously when Tom
drew Bella aside one day and asked
her if she had yet the fellow to the en-
broidered glove she had lost on the
evening of her seventeenth birthday
She told him she always preserved it
as 8 memento of her grandfather
love; if he would like to see it she
would bring it to him, and she ran off
to get it.
Bella soon returned, bearing an
ebony glove box in her hand, in which,
in folds of blue satin, lay the fellow to
the little glove that had so long been
Toms loved companion. On pretense
of examining it more closely he lifted
it from its resting place and stealthily
put his own in the place of it with the
diamond ring inserted in one of its
fingers.
alt is just lovely" said Bella, as she
took it in her hands, sand it is -
Oh, Tom, there is something in the
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-01-15
ONLY A DKUNKARD's WIFE.

In hospital ward n woman lay,
Painfully gasping her life away;
so bruised and beaten you scarce could trace
Womanhood's semblance in form or face;
Yet the hair that over the pillow rolled,
In te ngled mass. was like threads OF gold;
And never sculptor In any land
Moulded daintier foot or hand
Said one who ministered to her need:
''None but q coward could do this deed;
And what bitter fate must have neryed his
arm
That helpless creature lik this could HARM"
Then the dim eyes, hazy with deaths eclipse,
Slowly unlocked, and he swollen lips
Mnrmured family: "He loves me we'll
My husband-'twas drink-be sure you tell
When he comes to himself-that forgive;
Poor feilow-for him-I would like to live."
A shudder. moan as the words were said,
And the drunkard's wife on the couch lay
dead.
Oh, fathers, who hold your daughters dear.
Somebody's daughter is lying here.
Oh, brothers of sisters! come and see
WHAT the fate of your precious ones may be,
oh. man! however ou love your home,
Be it palace or cottage. meath Heavens blue
dome,
This demon of drink can enter in
For law strikes hands and bargains with sin.
You have legalized crime, you have the gold;
Now hand them over. the sons you sold
Keep pushing them forward. Drink, boys,
Your fathers are paid for your souls, they
think;
And in the great mart where Mammon
strives.
Cheapest of all things are human lives
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TEDIOUS TAKERS. many tedious

TEDIOUS TALKERs.-HOw many tedious
takers one is forced to tolerate in the high
ways and byways of society! They com.
mence sentence and pause, make a great
account of prolonged ''and. use a word
and then change it for another, and COLI
sumo so much precious time that, the lis
tener becoming inpatient. what thel say is
deemed small compensation for the time
occupied Surrounded by bright spirits.
all of whom rave something to say we'll
worth the hearing, it is insufferably annoy
ing to be liged to sit outwardly calm and
respectful and listen to long-drawn senten-
ces, the pith Of whose meaning could have
been expressed in few well-chosen words.
1t may be said in extenuation that all have
not the power to stalk right on" But the
habit of talking we'll may be acquired. In
the fist place, one must be sure he has
something to say before monopOlizing the
time which might otherwise be profitably
and pleasantly employed; and then, in a
few simple, well adapted words, bear part
in the general conversation. The wiser
and more educated the society in which one
finds himself, the less the necessity of rob-
bing the dictionary for its polysyllables.
The best one has to say is best said in the
simplest manner, for all love most that
s'taIk'' which seems the natural overflow of
the mind. Also discard all desire to shiue,
and listen with respectful attention when
others speak.
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NO. THANK YOU, TOM.

They met when they were girl and boy,
Going to schn,l one day;
Ana won't YOU take nay peg-top. dear?"
Was ali that he coula say.
She bit her little pinafore.
Close TO his sidg she cane.
She whispered. No! no, tnank sou, Tom
But took 1t all the same.
rhey met one day. the sel'-same way,
When ten swift years mad flown;
He said, "Tve nothing but my heart,
Bnt that is yours alone.
And won you take my heart?' he said,
Anu ca,ied '-er by her nave,
She blushed and said, mo! no, thank you
Tom,"
But took it all the same.
And twenty. thirty. forty years,
Have brought them care and joy,
She has the little peg-top still
He gave her when COY.
81 had no wealth, sweet wife," says he,
1--WE never brought you fame;''
She whispers, mo! no, thank you, Tom,
You have loved me all the same'
PhiLudei11hiu Call
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aAas.
O E It r. Y
THE DYING YEAR.

OF the diving year, Prentice thus beautifully
wrote:-
"Gone! Gone forever! Like rushing wave
Another year has burst upon the shore
OF earthly being-and it's last low tones,
Wandering In brok en- accents on the air,
Are dying to an echo.
Yet why muse
Jrnon the past with sorrow? Though the year
Has gone to blend with the mysterious tide
or old Eternity, and borne along
Upon its heaving breast a Thousand wrecks
OF glory and of beauty, yet why mourn
That such is destiny? Another year
Succeedeth to the past. In their ort hit rouho
The seasons come and go: the same blue arcn
That hath hung o'er us will hang o'er US yet'
The same pure stars that we have loved TO
watch
Will blossom still at twilight's gentle hour.
Like lilies on the tomb of day. and still
Man will remain TO dream as he hath drea ped.
And mark the earth with passion. Love will
spring ~
From the lone tomb of old affections. Hope
And Joy and great Ambition will rise up
AS they have risep and their deeds will be
Brighter than those engraven on the scroll
OF past centuries. Even now the sea
OF coming years. beneath whose mighty waves
Lies great events are neaving into birth,
Is tossing to and fro, as if the winds
OF heaven were prisoned in its soundless
depths
And struggling to be free.
Weep not that time
Is pressing on, il Will ere Long reveal
A brighter era to the nations
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The Truth About 1t.
o'DoNNELL' S STATEMENT OF THE KILLING
OF CAREY.

DUBLIN. January The United IRE
land publishes an account of the murder of
James Carey, which was written by a gen
tleman who recesved it from Patrick O'Don-
nell under promise that it was not to be
told as long as a chance remained to save
Old nnells life. The account shows that
O'Oonnell deliberately killed Carey There
was NOT strue gle. Carey made no attack
upon O'DOnnell. Had Judge Drnman per-
mtted him to speak, O'Donnell would have
told the whole truth. O'DDnnell was not
acquainted with Carey on the voyage from
England to the Cape of Gnod Hope. He
was not member of any society He re-
cognized Carey by wood-cut which he saw
at Cape Town, and resolved to kill him.
He intended to go with him to a farm at
Port Elizabeth. which Carey had told him
that he was going to take, and thus show
that there was no spot VIII re Carey could
be safe Finding himself, however, alone
with Carey, be could not resist the desire
to xii him Carey perceived his danger,
and said: "Do you know me?" O'Donnell
replied: "You are Carey, the informer; to
hell with you" The bullet sped with the
words aud the deed was done. Carey
O'D ,nnell fired two more shots, and Carey
rolled to the deck. Nobody saw the en-
counter except o. Donnell's companion, who
threw her arms around him and filled the
ship with her cries. He had told her that
morning that he meant to kill Carey, and
would hang for it. When Mrs. Carey
reached the scene O'Donnell said to her:
81 had to do it.
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He WAS CALLED.-"Your crop seems to
be considerably in the grass, ~ said Macon
Telegraph reporter to negro who sat on a
fence.
eyes. sab. Gen. Green done got it,"
"Did you over-plaut yonrself?''
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+ sWife tuck sick. She does the plowin'
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'What do you do?'
What does do? breaches, OATS
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Hark from out the silent dell
A dirge's notes are heard to swell;
A year is dying in the night.
Oh, Is 1t not fearful sight!
The Seasons, gathering round, let fall
A tear upon his sable pail,
And Nature. pausing. heaves q sigh;
But Time alone says LET him die.p
Then fills his hour-glass up anew,
And New J ear quickly springs in view.
jocund youth who is to bear
The Old Years load of toll and care.
Welcome him. all! for each his share
The New Year brings of toll and care:
Pleasures and joys they may be few,
But, still, he brings share for you.
ID L.. BLAKEMoRE.
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