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The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26
peepeo out from under the wardrobe.

peeped out from under the wardrobe.
"Squea-ea-eak! and | don't like
Bertha either!' she said.
"Tick-tock. tick-tock!" said the old
clock, "a1d why don't you like Ber-
tina, Mistress Blue Mouse?"
"She frightens me-" answered the
little blue mouse, "and she pets the
norrid old cat. No, | could ne Per
like child that keeps such bad COM
pany. Depend upon it, no child that
keeps company with a cat ever came
to any good end-squea-ea-ea-eak!'
Now, while the old clock and the
junping-jack and the little
blue mouse talked together,
Bertha lay fast asleep in her
little crib, and the old clock and
the jumping-jac4l and the little blue
mouse were still talking and Bertha
was still fast asleep when there came
the sound OF sleigh-bells and then
the noise of some slipping down the
chimney.
But instead of Santa Claus there
came out OF the chimney and stood
on the hearth a very fat and very
slcepy-looking boy. He wore fur
clothes and fur cap, and the first
thing he did was to yawn.
you're not Santa Claus, are your"
asked the jumping-iack.
"Of course he isn't!'' said the old
clock. 81 know Santa Claus for I've
seen him twenty timesp'
''No, Pm Santa Claus boy" said
the boy; and then he yawned again,
for he was very sleepy.
"What on earth are you doing
here at this time of night?" asked
the jumping-jack.
"Why, father was so busy" said
the boy, "that he sent me down here
with this box of candy and this box
of paints. One of them is for-let
me see-he said to give the candy to
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26
Garfield's Respecs for Hancock.

General Garfield came into nv studio
upon my invitation one morning,
wearing soft hat and smoking an
enormous cigar. He tossed the hat on
a chair, and placing the cigar on the
mantel said he was ready to begin
operations. He was very easy sub
ject to photograph. He spent some
minutes in examining the pictures on
the walls, until finally he came to a
portrait of General Hancock. that I
had just finished. I should have said
before that Garfield had not vet been
elected president; in fact. at the time
| mention, the nomination had not
been made more than one week. He
liked the picture of Hancock, and
turning to me in familiar wav, said
that he should be pleased to have one
for his own study table for he adj
mired the man in many WAYS. I
placed one of Hancock-s pictures in
the package Of photographs that l sent
to Mentor, and during the campaign
the two pictures stood side by side on
the mantelpiece in Garfeld's home.
Such was the tribute that a manly m;A.
paid to his opponent.-A. Bogardus, IN
Ladies Home Journal
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orally known. think not. The elec.
trio piano plays just as we'll as can
possibly be done with hands and fin
gers, and all the expires sion and all
the accuracy are there. But never
theless it is not the skilled pianist
with intelligent fingers and sympa-
thetic face who is producing the mu-
sic, and one listens to it with a dis
tinct feeling that something is lack
ing. One wants to see the person
who is making the music. The in
vention, | suppose will be used large
ly in concerts, where several pianos are
needed and good time must be kept,
and it may do much good in teach
ing. But nothing mechanical can
ever take the place of the trained pi-
ano musician.-Pianist in ST. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26

the iumping-jack, and-To, that
WASH t it! I am to paint Bertha-no,
Pm sure l don't remember what he
did tell me to do, but here is the
candy and here are the paints'
You see that he had forgotten all
about what he came for. Wasn't
that just like a boy?
just then a wicked thought came
to the iumping-jack. He winked his
one eve at the little blue mouse, as
much as to say, "You help me out in
this story and I'll make it all right
with you" Then the jumping-jack
said to the boy, 81 know all about
this, and l tell you what to do. The
box OF candy is for me, and you are
to paint Bertha. You'll find her in
the crib over there. Put some red
stripes and yellow buttons on her,
and don't forget to give her new
purple left eye"
Chats right!' squeaked the little
blue mouse.
The old clock was SO surprised that
it could only say "tick-tock, tick
tock," over and over again, and
these "tick-tocks" were so sad that
tears of sorrow filed the eyes of the
needles in the work-basket on the ta-
be-
The boy was foolish enough to be-
lieve the wicked jumping-jack So he
handed over the box of candy, and
then-oh horriblel-he went to the
crib and painted red stripes and yell
low buttons all over poor little
Bertha, and, having done that, he
painted one of her beautiful blueeye
(the left one) AN awful purplel Then
he tied a string to her, and climbed
up The ehimney again.
The iu1n1tng-iaelf thought It was a
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26
Difficulty Easily Surmounted.

Francis Nautet, the Belgian, who
undertook to travel from Brussels to
Paris in a conveyance drawn by q
couple of handsome dogs, was pass
ing through Louvroll, a smaI .oun-
try town in the department du Nord,
when the mayor, on the strength of
the Grammont law against cru
city to animals, forbade him to pro-
ceed. Mr.. Nautet thereupon had re-
course to a capital expedient for
overcoming the mayors scruples.
He packed his dogs into the cart and
dragged the conveyance through the
town himself, When he had got
clear OF the boundary of the town
ship, the Belgian exchanged places
with the dogs, and completed his
trip to Paris without any further
hindrance.-F'renGn Exchange.
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26

s1'm waiting for Santa Claus" an
swered the jumping-jack.
Waiting for Santa Claus!" laughed
the old clock; "why, you don't sup
pose Santa Claus is going to bring
you anything, do your"
II need it bad enough" said the
jumping.jack; II fell into the wash
basin three weeks ago, and by the
time l was pulled out and dried l
lost all the beautiful red stripes and
yellow buttons off my coat; and this
left eye of mine faded from a lovely
purple into dirty lavender have
been the sickest jumping-jack in town
ever since.
''Oh, pshawl" said the old clock;
''handsome is that handsome does;
tick tockr'
But l shall be all right in the
morning." said the jumping Jack,
"for my little mistress Bertha put me
here by the fire tonight, anG whisper
ed up the chimney, please, Santa
Claus. bring a new eye and new suit
OF clothes for jumping-jack, and
please. Santa Claus, bring me nice
big box of candy"
$50 you like Bertha, do oyou?' ask
ed the clock.
mo, not very much," said the
jumping jack; "she dropped me in the
wash-basin, you know, and then. too,
she makes me jump when don't
want to. Last week she pulled me
so hard that the string broke.
"Sque-ea-ea-eakp' said another
small voice, and the little blue mouse.
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26
MY RIVAL

Somehow .,lst then the drowsy smile Ger
came
The restless dimple midway of her chin;
And sleeps moist finger quenched the hazel
fame
Her curling lashes jealousy hedge in.
How sweet her slumber is, my thoughts di.
vine;
I'm sure yellow loye.lock strays athwart
The coyerlet, as il it sought to shine
Close TO the happy beating OF her heart.
She dreams!-buu not ofme To we'll know
Whose image sways her sordid little soul;
stalwart gentleman, this favored beau,
Not young, and rather stout upon the
whole.
His head hath white of many winters frost
His beard is hoar, his brow is marked OF
time;
But in good stead OF graces he has los+,
The beauty of his treasure is sublime.
In fact had some worthy gifts of him
Myself, in days not passed beyond MY
mind;
'Iis true his kindness now looks somewhat
dim,
AS bygone favors often do, find
Yet on this Christmas eve they give me pause,
And lend me grace his triumph to survive.
Reign over her in peace, friend Santa Claus,
She'll fout your Claims next year when she
is five!
Eva Wilder McGlasson
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26
MEXICAN PEDDLER.
summer.

If the order of historic discovery be
pursued the Mexicans of the Cortes con-
quest should next he grouped. The in
dustrious farmers of Nicaragua are pure
Indians-many of them Aztecs. The
skilled mechanics of Guatemala. the in
telligent and Independent bulk of It's
population, are descendants of great
nation, which raised 200, 900 warriors to
oppose the conquest of their land by
one Of Co-tes lieutenants. Of the five
Central American republics Nicaragua
and Guatemala may particularly be
caffed Indian nations, and their prosper
ity is, therefore, an index of native
capabilities.
Un the upper Urinoco river, in CoIum-
bia, are a few bands OF an Indian nation,
which at the time of the Spanish con-
quest numbered 1000, 900 people, and
held large domain north os the empire
of the lucas The ancient language is
still spoken by them.
As you enter Ecuador and the ancient
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26

generations who have only scattered
relics. dug from the soil, from which to
construct picture OF the past.
The tradition is that the Caribs, who
were such terror to the milder tribes
of the West Indies, had their origin in
our own Rocky mountains. Perchance
those Florida warriors who played such
havoc with the schemes of Ponce de
Leon and De Soto were of the same
blood. The few descendants of the
Florida and the southern Indians of the
United States constitute the civilized
nations of the Iudian territory. The
once numerous Caribs. who, in the fif-
teenth century, were virtually confined
to the Lesser or Southern Antilles. have
dwindled to a few hundred sayages near
the OrinocO river. By going to the up
per waters of the Pomeroon some enter
prising agent of the exposition might
capture just such Carib as slew the
Columbian Spaniard.
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26

The Arawaks. who disputed the main
land with the Caribs. inhabit strip of
Guiana back from the sea coast. They
are now tribe; they were then nation.
Fragments of the tribes, whom Cabral
and VespncIus saw. are now in the in
terror of Brazil, living in their fortified
villages along the upper Amazon, or
gathering rubber and drugs for the
English agents, who for years have had
an established trade with them. They
are most expert boatmen. The warriors
use gigantic bows and arrows, and their
war trumpets are enough to blow down
their houses. The more degraded tribes
place large pieces of woodin their ears
and under lips, and roam along the river
banks, eating snakes, lizards, and mon
keys; but it would be too much to ask
for living specimens of these monsters.
The broadchested Fuegians, with their
weak and emaciated lower limbs and
their wonderful powers of mimicry, who
have been trying to get warm since
Magellan's time, as they tried before
they should succeed the Amazonian In
dians, and be covered with a guanaco
skin large enough and warm enough for
the Chicago public and the Chicago
summer.
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26
SAW HIS OWN SHADOW.
And What IL More He Took Her Photo
graph-A Queer misunderstanding.

| You may smile when | tell you go,
! says New York letter. but there is
man living in a fashionable apartment
up town who has actually gazed upon his
widow. | don't mean some one else's
widow whom people call his. but actually
| his own widow. This favored mortal has
not only seen his widow. but has pho
tographed her. Nay. still more aston
ishing. on the back of the photograph
you may read four obituary notices cut
from New York papers and pasted
there by the man himeelf. Mr.. Carl
H.. prominent art dealer and impor-
ter Of paintings, finds it necessary TO
make several trips west every year to
visit his rich customers in Chicago,
Cincinnati and st. Louis. While on
| such a journey last spring Il train which
| Mr.. H. had come very near taking,
playfully skipped the track and rolled
down hundred foot embankment.
the young wife. was terribly shocked
| to read her husbands name in the list.
! She telegraphed to the company to
cause the body to be embalmed and
| shipped to her. she being physic-
ally unable to Withstand the fatigue of
the journey.
Now Mrs. Ii. is a charming blonde,
with hair of rich gold and skin like
mother of pearl. To be sure she would
look lovely in widows weeds, and
forthwith betook herself to Nine. Ms
and ordered a complete mourning cos
tune to be ready in two days. Scarcely
han bn xIfo paunhnI 70
house when telegram arrived from
her lord and master, detained at Chi
cago. announcing that he would start
on the limited that morning.
Great heavens! Carl had not been
smashed up at all. 1t was some wrong
man that had been embalmed and she
now had the corpse on her hands, to
say nothing of the widows outfit.
Fortunately just as the railroad people
were about to ship the smashed up Carl
to her, his own people appeared and
proved property, But the widows
outfit? 1t had cost 5000. She hadn't
the money.
What was to be done? at any rate
Carl must not know of it; SO, posting
down to Nine. Ms she gave strict or
uoIS 10 SeHu no Dill 10 InC mousse, anu
promised to call with the cash in the
course of few weeks. This was en-
tirely satisfactory. but Nine. M. forgot
to warn her bookkeeper, and that ma
chine-like person not only sent state
ment on the 1st of the month. but as
was her custom, directed it to Mr.. Carl
II.
''In heavens name, Blanche, what
does this nlean?" he asked.
why, dearie, you know when they
telegraphed that you had been smashed
up, and the newspapers all said that
you were dead. / went and-and-"
Where is it?" stammered the SUR
prised Carl
Hidden away in one of my trunks.
dearie."
Did Carl fly into passion and accuse
the poor girl of being a cold-hearted
and calculating woman? Not he. He
merely said. Get it out, darling, and
put it on. want to try new lens,
and you'll make delightful subject in
a widows rig"
"Bless your heart, dear, may you
live thousand years."
Kiss-kiss-kiss-buss- s-smack-smack.
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26
Russia's Grain-Exportfng Port.

Russia is the leading grain-exporting
country of theworld-the United States,
India, and Roumania following in the
order named. Odessa is the leading
grain-exnprting port of the Russian
empire, and may be considered as the
principal business city. The export
trade has for many years been almost
exclusively in~ths hands of foreigners.
and Odessa might equally well be called
a French, German Italian. p even "a "a
Hebrew city, as far as tho 1anglase
SPOKEN or the eharae aereristics of the In.
habitaits ere cossideyed.
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26

America east of the Andes, and are
found, also, as the bold Patagonians OF
the south. Their language is spoken
to Cape Horn. and east 10 Buenos Ayres.
BY all means let the Columbian expOsi-
ton contain n complete picture of this
most hardy. proud, virtuous, and brave
race of Indians
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26
THE EVIL JUMPING-JACK.
BY EUGENE FIELD.

Christmas Eve the old clock stood in
the corner and sang "tick-tock, tick
tock," until everything else in the
room had gone to sleep-everything
except the jumping-iack.
"Tick-tock," said the old clock,
and then it looked at the jumping
lack and asked, "Why haven't you
zone to sleep, too?"
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26

empire OF tho fncas you strike the hardy
tribe of Quitus. which give their name to
the capita, OF the republic. Their fore
fathers are said to have been the fore
most painters aud architects of the en-
pire, and even now they are the bridge
builders of Ecuador; they compose, in
fact. her farmers miners manufacturers.
and industrial classes.
The Ouichua-. of Peru and Bolivia
have aquiline noses and fine mouths and
teeth, are low of stature, but broad and
brawny. Their appearance stamps them
ns of the royal race and worthy of as
sociating with the best OF modern times.,l
The agriculturists inhabiting the dis,
tricts around Lake Titicaca are descend
ants Of that ancient people whose mas
sive ruins have been studied in the
Museum of Antiquities. They were con-
Guered by the lucas. who absorbed many
of their agricultural and astronomical
iueas.
The Araucaniaus have their homes in
Chilli aud Patagonia. 1t was a confeder-
acy of the Araucanian tribe of Chilli
which checked the Spanish advance
southwark. The natives have broad aud
heavy features, but bright and piercing
eyes. They have republican form of
government, and are intensely national.
As has been remarked-''the copstitu-
tou OF Chill is far less democratic than
that of Araucania.' the native state
lying between the Biobio and Valdiya
rivers. The long lances. the sings.
bows. pixies. clubs, and bolas (stoue balls
fastened to thong) represent the
weapons employed by the brave Arau-
canians to successfully resist the Spanish
armies for more than q century. They
are splendid horsemen, their chief wealth
being their cattle, and their domestic
life is of high order The center OF
the national and tribal life is in this
compact Chilian state; but members OF
the race range the pampas OF South
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26
The Electric Piano.

Ihave been asked dozens of times
if the new invention that plays the
piano by an electric attacltnent will
not decrease the number of-tnfents OF
piano playing when it tcomesto be gen
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26

President Roberts. of the PennsyI-
Tania Railroad, started life as track
hand thirty years ago. The combined
salaries he receives now amounts to
e100. 900.
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26
GOnsidor.

In recent article in tho Chicago
News, some interesting facts are stated
in reference TO the inhabitants of our
neighboring South American republics.
1t gays:
Ir there could have been some George
Catlin in Columbus time. what a world
of trouble it would have saved future
The McCook tribune., 1890-12-26
ABORIGINAL LIFE.
INTERESTING NATIVE AMERICAN
RACES IN SOUTH AMERICA.

Suggestions that the Managers of tho
Coming Columbian Exposition Should
Gonsidor.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-10-11

On last Monday night, October 6,
at S:l5 o'clock, the alarm bells were
rung which brought the firemen to the
engine houses and the citizens to the
streets. Fire had taken in the kitch-
en-, In the rear of, and attached to the
fine dwelling of DR.. Bourgeois, on the
corner of Jackson and Mary streets,
and was well under way when discov-
cred.
The engines and trucks were
promptly taken to the scene. On arri-
val the kitchen was completely envel-
oped in flames, but they were soon
conquered and quenched. In the
meantime the furniture was being re-
moved by the citizens to a place of
safety. The fire, however, had work
ed its way through the dining room,
up into the attic between the ceiling
and the roof, whilst the Bucket Bri-
gade had. with their buckets, kept it
in subjugation in the interior of the
dwelling. Suddenly it burst through
the roof in towering flames, which
were quenched as soon as the hose
was turned upon them, but, not until
the ceiling was torn away could the
fire be effectually controlled. At mid
night the iremen were discharged and
returned their apparatus to its respec-
tive homes. The fremen, and, n
gines worked manfully, and smoothly,
and were aided by the citizens both
white and colored, in their efforts to
v the dwelling.
The kitchen was entirely consumed,
but only the roof of the dwelling was
injured by fire the lower rooms and
ceiling, of course, were flooded.
The property was insured for
100000 which will probably, replace
everything in its previous condition.
The furniture was removed without
much damage.
The doctor had, only q couple of
years ago, had his dwelling thorough
~ overhauled and repaired, and has
the sympathies of his friends and
neighbors, in his misfortune.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-10-11

The black columns of smoke rising
spirally, in all directions indicate that
sugar making for 1890 has commenced
For two or three months the whistle
will mark the hours, whilst by day
and by night the work will go on.
And a grand work it is, to see the
acres of sugar cane, cut down, loaded
into carts, hauled to the manufactures,
sent to the huge rollers on the endless
carriers, crushed and sent into the
kettles and pans to be converted into
white sugar, and transported to the
consumers in other aud distant coun-
tries.
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Perfect Days.
(For the Sentinel.)

lax
A peerless Autumn day, with gentle breeze
{ whose light touch from glory tinted trees
Tho ieaves cone floating down. Now on The
wing
The summer birds their farewell anthems
sing.
Dissolving brilliants shines the morning dow
No deck OF cloud to mar the ether's blue.
All nature strives the fairest views to give
Surely on such a day 1t is q Joy to live!
When evening comes to close the perfect day
And clouds OF beauty lush the western way,
The glorious harvest moon assumes her
throne,
And nils the night with radiance all her own.
Into q Swallowed life come few such days
But coming once the rapture with US stays
strengthen weary hands or tired brain
lift from failing heart dali labor's strain.
After q misty morn may come bright noon,
After a discOrd, liquid notes in tune,
After the whirI OF passion, sweetest calm,
After the sorest trial, Gilead's balm.
After the years Of darkness, days like this
~Eiiledsand o~'eraowing with the wine of bliss,
start out as mileStOneS on a rugged path.
As harbingers Of good, hopes Aftermath.
EssIE.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-10-11

A number OF citizens of Thibodaux,
yesterday presented Capt. Max Blan-
chard, of the steamer E. w. Cole, with
a splendid flag as a token of the appre-
citation of the esteem and friendship
they entertain for him, and his devo-
ton to the interests of the people OF
Bayou Lafourche. The genial com
mander was 80 elated that he blew his
whistles SO long and loud that he
awoke the whole town out of its fore
noon nap.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-10-11
Personal.

Mrs. Julia Lashbrooke and Miss
George Gresham of New Orleans ar
rived in Thibodaux last evening,
where they will remain some days az
guests of Mrs. S. T. Grisamore, on st.
Louis street.
Mrs. E. A. Thompson who has been
passing some weeks with relatives and
friends in the fertile valley of the Wa
bash river, in Indiana, has returned,
we'll pleased with her visit, and much
improved thereby.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-10-11

On Wednesday afternoon MIR. I. I.
Retoul of New Orleans, was mar
ried at the residence of Mrs. Harvey,
on Mary street, in Thibodanx, by the
Rev. A. S. Clark, to Miss Susie r. Har-
vey.
The groom was q resident of this
town some years ago, when he ac-
quired the friendship and esteem OF
all who formed his acquaintance.
The fair bride has resided here
from childhood, and, bears with
her to her new home, the hest wishes
and warm congratulations of her
friends and associates.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-10-11

The projected extension of the branch
railroad to the Lafourche refinery has
been brought to a halt for the present,
owing to some troubles about the right
of way. 1t will be constructed in the
coming spring, and extended as far as
Labadieville, if not farther.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-10-11

Albert Toups died on Tuesday
night and was buried in st. Joseph's
cemetery on Wednesday.
Deceased was a native of this vicini-
ty and a resident of T%hibodaux for
several years.
He leaves a widow and child.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-10-11

The rainfall in September a 3.17
inches, against 4.40 inches 1889; 1.18
in 1888; 5.13 inches 1887; 3.S6 in
1886 and 1923 in 1885. The average
in the last five years has been $50
inches.