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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-09-30
SERVANTS.
How They Can BE Taught Habits of
NeatneSs.

In most of the new houses il Is notice
| able that the servants rooms are much
/ more attractive and better arranged
than the rooms or servants quarters in
old houses. Once a corner of the I'M
finished attic was thought sufficiently
appropriate for the servant, and there
was no inducement for eve a tidy
maid to take pride in her domain and
have pleasure in making it neat and
pleasant. Now, the rooms are well
painted, prettily papered, furnished
with a closet, and made rs homelike as
possible. If the servants are disorderly
the h~ousekeeper Is apt to protest that
she is not responsible for the results in
the servants own apartments. for she
has furnished pretty rooms and can not
be expected to detect their pOssessOrs
in untidiness. Although the result may
be the necessity of expensive o
ton upon each change of occupant. the
mistress has no thought of educating
the new servants to greater neatness.
A writer in Good HOuSekeeDing has
made some excellent suggestions upon
the subject. She says: Don't for
get each day to allow a servant some
little time to make and keep order
in her room. Insist from the
first on the extreme care of the bed.
Never allow soiled clothing to be hung
up in a bedroom til Il convenient me
comes for washing ii. Tell the girl to
keep her door open when she is out Of
the room. These rules are excellent.
and if the mistress is able to control
her servant. as she should, her direc-
tons will be educative and OF great
value upon the character of the ser
want. Many mistresses will be often
discouraged. A LAZY who received a
bright Canaiian-French girl. who was
accustomed to feld-work instead of
house-work, was surprised to find the
girls bed had not been used, after 4
week had passed. Upon questioning
she found that the girl had slept upon
the floor each night, because she had
never slept upon a bed. The educa-
ting of such servants to habits of per-
sonal neatness is most difficult Some
English housekeepers advertise for
servants with mo bangs" and many
American housekeepers are obliged to
make rules upon dress, some having
dresses and aprons made for their ser
wants. The insisting upon cleanliness
and order of the servants apartments
is one of the most delicate tasks of the
mistress, but its necessity is imperative
for the comfort of the household. If
the girl is bright she unconsciously be-
comes more and more refined by simple
association with d cultivated family,
and when she begins to initiate the
young ladies OF the family a natural
course of education will progress rapid
ly.-B0St0n Journal.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-09-30
1t Is Girl Nature.

Now the propensity for wading which
is deeply implanted in the female bosom
is inexplicable. Unless a girl has the
influenza or a bun;on she can not resist
the temptation to paddle about in the
salt water and get her clothing uncom-
fortably wet. This is a subject full of
interest to me from the casting aside of
the shoes and stockigns to their resump-
ton. 1t is a fact pretty generally
known in male circles thatladies prefer
sitting on the ground when pulling On
and off their stockings to occupying a
chair or bench. But having my doubts
as to the infexibility of this rule 1 had
determined to convince myself by ex-
pertinent. After the setting of my
traps-to wit: the benches 1 had not
long to wait. A bevy of young ladies,
trooping down the beach. chatting and
laughing merrily. They evidently Won
dered who had been kind enough to
place the benches there for their ac-
commodation, took possession of them
at once gleefully, confessed that they
were just too delightful for anything,
and seemed perfectly and unrestrain-
eddy happy. 1 was ~rejoiced at having
disproved a moldy theory, but alas, my
satisfaction was short-lived. When my
guests made up their minds that it was
time to wade they sprang from the
benches, sat on the beach, and tugged
away at shoes and stockings in the old
fashion. The following day, resolving
to give my experiment every chance, L
had my hireling bathman strew a guam
tity of broken bottles. empty oyster
cans, and rubbish of various kinds
along the beach and sat under my UNI
brella and watched. The girls came
down about the same hour, seemed a
little dismayed at first, but rallying set
to work industriously, and soon had a
clear space upon which they squatted,
not taking the least notice of the
benches this time. Then [ put up my
umbrella and moved sadly way. Eve
must have sat her fair form down in
the garden mold of Eden adjusting her
first garment from the historic fig-tree.
and left the habit as an inheritance 20
her daughters for all ~time.-Samta
Barbara (Cat.) Letter.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-09-30
Thunder-SturmS.

From certain meteorological sta
tistics recently published in Germany
we learn that thunder-storms in that
country have, during the last thirty
years, been steadily increasing, both in
frequency and severity. The number
of deaths per annum from lightning
has increased in a far greater ratio
than that of the increase of population.
In the present state of our knowledge
of the whole subject of atmospheric
electricity, the cause of the phenomena
of thunder-storms is confessedly OBJ
scure. 1t is, however, very possible
that some light would be thrown upon
the question by u comparative study of
the frequence and severity of storms
during a heightened perios and over a
a wide geographical area. The German
savants incline to the opinion that the
increase is to be attributed to the NOR
mously increased production of smoke
and steam which has taken place dur
ing the last three decades. But al
though we may admit this to be to some
extent a probable UerG causa, yet when
we consider the very local character of
thunder-sorms. we should naturally
expect to find that it would follow that
the neighborhoods of large cities, and
especially of manufacturing districts,
would suffer the most severely. But
the statistics referred to show distinct
ly that the very reverse is the case.
The number of storms attended by
fatal results from lightning is far larger
in the agricultural districts than in the
towns. Upon the other hand, we ought
to take into consideration the protective
action of lightning conductors, with
which the prominent buildings in the
towns of Germany are well provided.
Scientific american.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-09-30
q From the Sun.

Signs Of Rain. from the Sun.-Sun
rising dim or waterish; rising rcd with
blackish beams mixed along with it's
rays; rising in a musty or muddy color;
rising red and turning blackish; setting
under a thick cloud; setting with a red
sky in the east. Sudden rains never
last long; but when the air grows thick
by degrees, and the sun, moon and stars
shine DINNER and DINNER, then it is
likely to rain six hours usually.
Signs Of Wind, from the Sun.-Sun
rising pale and setting red, w th an iris:
rising large in surface; rising with a
red sky in the north; setting of a blood
color; setting pale, with one or more
dark circles, or accompanied with red
streaks, seeming coacave or hollow:
seeming divided, great storms; parneIia
or mock suns eve appear but they
are followed by tempest.
Signs Of Far Weather, from the Sun.
Sun rising clear. having set clear the
night before; rising while the clouds
about him are driving to the west; ris-
ing with an iris about him, and that iris
wearing away equally on all sides, then
expect fair and settled weather; RISING
clear and not hot; setting in red clouds.
according to the old Observations:
The evening red and moring gray,
Is the sure sign of a fair day.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-09-30
Wait for Recess.

Congress really accomplished very
little that is of benefit to the country.
The principal reason for this is that
there are so many men in Congress
who do not go there with the intention
of doing any work. They are very
much like a little girl who was ques-
toned by a lady friend OF the family as
to how she liked school.
Emma. what do you do in school?
Do you learn to write??'
Emma shakes her head.
'Do you rcad?'
Another shake.
'Do You c.phcr:9"
I'm. ma'am.'
"What do you do?'
''Wait for recess
Congress is full of men who do moth
ing but wait for recess.-TeraS Sytings.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-09-30

easy chair or moving leisurely about
his room he reclines upon a couch. He
eats often, but very sparingly, and par
takes of the plainest food, indigestion
being one of his principal bodily ills.
Of his valet, a middle-aged colored
man who by reason of prior service
with eminent people at Washington
and other places is more than ordinari-
ly intelligent and entertaining). the poet
is very fond, chatting with him now
and again with a more than usual de-
gree of interest and animation. Until
quite recently he devoted a good share
of his time to a perusal of the standard
poets and the leading magazines, those
of the latter, to whose pages he was
once a valued contributor, being still
sent him regularly and unsolicited by
the publishers thereof, in kindly re-
membrance of past services. For
some years he has not read the daily
papers, and evinces little or no interest
in current events.
at pains me-" he said, ito meet
with the details of so much crime and
SO many casualties"
Indeed, he reads comparatively little
of any kind now-occasionly a page or
two maybe, of of his favorite prose
authors. That mainly consists of Haw-
thorne, Dickens and Thackeray, judic-
iously selecting therefrom matter of
cheerful one and subject. When I'M
disturbed he is much given to musing.
but at times will converse willingly and
fluently, displaying thereby a power of
memory that, in view of his feeble con
dition is quite unlooked-for, recently
surprising his son not a little by re-
peatIng verbatim one of Charles
Lambs longest essays. His thoughts
often rever to his irrcparable loss of
wife and children, speaking of each
tenderly and regretfully and manifest
ING a keen interest in the proper care
of their graves-ever dwelling on the
domestic affections which have broken
his heart and enyeloped his once bril-
liant intellect in a brooding and incur
able melancholy.-BroOklyn Magazine.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-09-30
Not Her First Appearance,

Lawyer Ito timid young woman).-
''Have you ever appeared as witness
in a suit before?:"
Young woman (blushing)--"Y-yes,
sir, of course"
Lawyer-''Please state to the jury
what suit it was"
Young woman with more coniidence)
at was q nuns yelling. shirred down
the front and trimmed with i lovely
blue, with hat to match
Judge Trapping viclently).-"Order
in the courti'-AcW Iorh San.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-09-30
It Could Have Been Done For Less.

A well-known lawyer once came into
a room where Judge Lake and several
others were seated. He was not in a
good temper and they asked him what
the matter was.
.'Well. 1 defended a fellow for MUIR
der. He was convicted. / took him
to the Supreme Court, back again to
the Supreme Court, and the Supreme
Court confirmed the Judgment and
gave him ten years. l charged him
So. 900. Lake, do you think that was
too muchpn
well" said Judge Lake, 81 think
he might have been convicted for less.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-09-30
Carl Pretzer's Philosophy.

Firtue vas always ready to go TO a
party. You always saw her NIT her
Sunday close on.
Tide dond got eny time to wait on der
female vimmens.
Every TELLER dot dishblays some
abundance of cheeks vas hate a berson-
al blem;sh.-Cdrt Prctse{s Weebly.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1886-09-30
A Serious Mistake.

Minister Ito tailor)-"You have cut
the vest wrong, Nh, Misit. [ wanted
it to button close about the neck. This
is the style that any gentleman wears.
MI. Misfit-.Yes; it's my mistake.
You wanted a minister's vest, and I've
gone and cut gentlemans's vest. But
I guess I can fix it."-Neso York San.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09
THE DIFFERENCE.

Tariff discussion has sprung up early in
the session Of Congress, and in an unex-
pected quarter. Revenue bills ordinarily
originate in the House, but this discussion
has started in the Senate. Van Wyck of
Nebraska has introduced a proposition to
take the duty off of sugar, molasses and
lumber Senator Dawes has proposed the
appointment of commission to consider the
whole subject of tariff legislation. while Sen
ator Morrill, has submitted a resolution de-
claring it to be the sense of the Senate that
there is not sufficient time at this session for
tariff legislation. These different resolu-
lions can hardly fail to preeipitate general
debate, which, if not continued too long,
may serve a useful purpose in disclosing
Just how the parties stand on the subject and
setting forth clearly to the people the differ
ences in their theories There is general
consensus of opinion that the tariff must be
reduced. Both parties have declared in IA
Vor OF that. But the plan on which the re-
ductlon shall be made marks the difference
between the two parties. Secretary Man
ming undoubtedly voices the sentiment of the
great majority of the Democratic party when
he advocates the raising of the great
bulk OF our revenue by taxes on articles not
produced in this country. That plan ignores
the protective principle and contemplates
tariff for revenue only. The Republicans on
the other hand would keep the protective
principle steadily to the front. Therefore
they advocate the taxation of such imports
as compete with the products of our own
country. They believe it is essential to the
welfare Of the laboring man Of the United
States that the product Of his labor sheuld be
protected from the competition of the product
of the cheaper labor of foreign lands. They
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09

would reduce the present surplus by taking
off the tax from sugar. one of the necessa-
ries of life, which is produced in very small
quantity in this country, and which there
fore gives employment to but few persons
The Democrats, if Mr.. Morrison's bill is a
fair reflection of their opinion, would leave
the tax on sugar but would take it from fish,
lumber, potatoes, hay, wool and granite.
Their plan involves the giving to the Cana
dian fishermen and the Canadian farmers the
same advantages in our markets which our
own citizens enjoy. The Republicans would
reduce the!surplus without disturbing, except
In very slight degree, the protection at pre-
sent accorded our farmers and manufactnr-
ers. The Democrats would ignore the pro-
tective system in framing scheme for re-
ducing the revenue.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09

The supreme court of Massachusetts, have
decided that person belonging to a Law
and Order League is incompetent to sit as
juror in a case where the complainant is an
agent of that League. The effect of this de-
cision will be especially felt in the trial of
liquor cases. The trend of circumstances
seems to be to keep decent men off juries.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09

A Washington despatch to the Kenuebec
Journal credits the Hon. William H. Clifford
with the distinguished honor of securing the
appointmentlof Col. C. B. Morton to an office
the duties of which he knows nothing about
and is utterly incompetent to discharge
However, he could as consistently recon-
mend Col. Morton to succeed Capt. Patten,
rs himself to succeed Congressman Reed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09

According to the Belfast City Press the
Hon. William NJ. Rust has vowed never
again to vote the Democratic ticket As Mr..
Rust was candidate for the Belfast collec-
torship and didn't get there his resolution
will be very likely attributed to disappoint-
ment. Nevertheless it is good one, and he
ought to stick to it for the rest of his life.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09

The Socialists Leebknecht and DIR. Avel-
ing have gone home disappointed at the re-
suit of their mission. Although they came
with reputation for intelligence and fair
ness, and with the confidence born of popu-
larity at home, they were unable to make
the prosperous workingman of America be-
lieye that he could better himself by adopt
ing ideas at variance with all American ira
ditions. Thrift and economy by individual
effort is the rule here. An American wishes
to become a ward of society on the State,
only as the last refuge
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09
CURRENT COM NJ EMIT.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.
Lowell Courier.

A GOOD EXAMPLE.
Lowell Courier.
The Wisconsin Central railway has taken
to paying sleeping car porters fair wages,
and prohibiting them from accepting fees.
The reform is noble one.
AN ANTIQUATED FORM.
Hartford Courant.
President Cleveland's message shows that
he thinks more of grammar than of history.
He carefully speaks of the United States as
''they."
CONCERNING WHISKEY.
Albany Journal
The Boston Traveller says that rye whis-
key was recently struggled into Maine in a
coffin. There is great deal of it carried
out of the world in the same way.
TALK THAT MEANS SOMETHING.
Providence Journal
General Won Moltke is not given to idle
talk, and declaration from him to the effect
that the German army must be put upon a
war footing at once TO prevent invasion is
worth hundred polite utterances OF dplo.
mats as revelation of the true state OF
European feeling.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09

Senator Riddleberger is on the rampage
because he failed to control the appointment
of one Of the pages, and is breathing out
threatenings and slaughter. 1t is a some
what melancholy reflection that the next
Senate will be largely at his mercy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09

The people of st. John are actively at
work to improve their harbor, and commit
tees have been appointed and evidence taken
on all points relating to the natural advan-
tages of st. John. All the information col
lected and improvements made will be used
as arguments to induce the government to do
Its part towards securing for st. John the
great Canadian Pacific traffic. But Port
land is anearer and better outlet for the Can
adian Pacific; the people of st. John are
striving against time and Fundy tide.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09

The Pr0hlbltloniSts won very remarka-
BILE victory in the elections in Massachusetts
on Tuesday. Only four out of seventeen
cities voted for license. A complete revolu-
ton has taken place in some of them. Thus
Springfield, which always heretofore has vot-
ed in favor of license voted this year for COM
plete prohibition. Fall River, where the Ii
cense sentiment would be supposed to be
strong falls into the prohibition line. So
does Waltham, which last year gave a large
majority for license. Chelsea, Lawrence,
Holyoke and Taunton were the only towns
voting for license, while anti-license ma
jorities were given in Waltham, Maiden,
Someryille, Newton, Gloucester, Cambridge,
Brockton, Fall River, Fitchburg, Haverhill
Springfield, New Bedford and Northampton.
The temperance men and women made I'M
usually strenuous exertions in all
the towns, but they could not have
been so successful had there not been
remarkable change in public sentiment
during the past year. This change has been
DUE partly, to a growing conviction that
prohibition is the proper remedy for the
evils of the rumshop and partly to disgust at
the recklessness of the municipal authorities
in granting licences, for bad as the system is
there is no doubt that it has been made
worse by committing its execution to men
who were more anxious to get for their towns
a big revenue out of it than to check rum SELL
ing. 1t will not be many years, at this rate
of progress, before Massachusetts will have
aprohlbitory law on its statute book.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09

The court at Columbus has dismissed the
government telephone suit without preju-
dice The President should follow suit and
dismiss Attorney General Garland without
prejudice, but for the good of the country.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09

The conference of the Liberal Unionists
at which Lord Harrington spoke and letter
was read from John Bright shows that the
seceders are not likely to return to the Liber-
al ranks until Mr.. Gladstone abandons or
radically modifes his Irish policy. John
Bright in his letter sharply condemned Mr..
Gladstone, more in sorrow than in anger,
and expressed the opinion that he had gone
so far that it would be impossible to
retrace his steps. Lord Harrington contend
ed that the Liberals who followed him and
Mr. Chamberlain were as true Liberals as
those who went with Mr.. Gladstone.
He thought that if speeches like
Dillon's were not checked the result would
be subversive of every principle of liberty in
Ireland, and that Gladstone neglect to repud-
late sympathy with them would, if persist
ed in, seriously endanger the good name of
the Liberal party. Assuming to speak for
the present ministry he said it would never
advocate policy toward Ireland anything
like Gladstone's, and he seemed to be of the
opinion that that was sufficient reason why
the Liberal Unionists should continue to give
it their hearty support. The rent war in
Ireland was, in his opinion, not spontaneous,
but worked up for political effect. Harting-
ton is evidently as much of Tory in Irish
matters as Lord Salisbury, and very much
more than Lord Churchill, who, whatever
his faults, has perception enough to see that
there has got to come an end to governing
Ireland by force, while her just grievances
are left unredressed and unheeded.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING. DEC. o.

Senator Frye is reported as saying that he
will not oppose Morton's confirmation on
partisan grounds, but will carefully scruti-
nize his qualifications. He should buy mic
roseope
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-12-09

Not long ago the information was sent
abroad from Presque Isle that the town had
refused to close contract with the ST. John
school for the tuition of certain number of
tbwn scholars yearly, because the school did
not command the confidence of the people of
Presque Isle The circulation of this report
has caused great dissatisfaction in Presque
Isle, and the leading citizens of the place, as
well as the trustees of the school, have made
formal protest, in which they express their
hearty approval of the conduct of the school.
"he town voted against sending its scholars
to the school for the simple reason that the
tuition charges were thought to be more than
could be afforded. The school has many
friends in that region outside of the Episco-
pal church, by which it is supported.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-04
In the Police Court.

John Edmundson and Rose Thorn were
each fined So for being drunk yesterday.
James Cober, charged with drunken
ness and obtaining meals and refusing to
pay for them, left $40 for his appearance
when wanted.
The case against Jack Davis and Bob
Condie, for fighting and disturbing the
peace last week, went by the board, in
the absence of any evidence against Da-
Wis. Condie forfeited the $40 left as n
guarantee for his appearance.
George w. Johnson, charged with
stealing horse, saddle and bride from
David Henderson, an employe at S. =.
Teasdel's, was bound over in 81 900
bonds to appear before the Grand Jury.
In the absence OF sureties, he was taken
to the county Jail.
Watson Smith, arrested for drunken
ness, left $40 for his temperance.
Frank Raymond, whose case OF forgery
was referred to the Grand Jury, was yes
terday taken to the county jail upon his
failure to raise the necessary bonds.