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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
A Life Work.

Mr.. Sutherland got hold of a prodig-
ious Clarendon and Burnet and made il
the richest and most extensive pictorial
history in existence or ever likely to be
in existence. He found nearly 19,OOC
prints and drawings for it and no less
than 731 portraits Of Charles I, 519 Of
Charles II, 352 of Cromwell, 273 of james
II and 420 Of William III. If, remarks
Mr.. Percy Fitzgerald, we only think
how few are the portraits of Charles I,
and these mostly copies after Vandyke,
we shall have an idea of the labor and
exploration necessary to gather up the
731. Think also of the pains and cost in
cleaning, laying down." ''insetting, >
and 'inlaying' these portraits, the bind.
ing, arranging, etc., and we shall not be
surprised to learn hat this folly occu-
pied the fanatical Sutherland such a
lengthy portion Of his life.
When finished, it filled 81 huge vol.
umes and had cost e12, 900! We may
conceive all the visitings of print shops,
the turning over boxes of prints, the
groveling among winds and lanes, the
correspondence and the endless paying
of money! To give a finish to his labors
a catalogue was prepared of all the en-
cravings. This filled two great quartos.
At Sutherland's death the work was car
ried on by his widow, who is reported to
have given as much as ESQ for a single
plate!-Temple Bar.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
SHE TURNED THE ,ABLEs.


How q Little He Fly Knowledge Saved a
Young Lady Much Discomfort.
A young lady through her knowlea~e
OF housewifery rather turned the ia 8
upon a would be jester one day and let
that individual, who was Of the male
persuasion, into a little secret Of co,i-
siderable Importance to those who have
occasion to WORK il Tie kitchen as ANA
tours.
The two were members OF a party w.
iting an Adirondack camp in the Sara
nae lake region. Every one was wei
acquainted, and the days passed l~ner-lly
away until a heavy rainstorm drove
the ladies and the less enthusiastic fish
ermen indoors and compelled them to
seek other forms of amusement. The
rain continued to fall almost without
intermission for several days, and az a
means to relieve the monotony tie gen
tleman already referred to proposed that
the various members of the party try
their hand at cooking the next meal.
Permission was obtained from the host
the members of the party 'aughingly
agreed to the proposition, and the guide,
whose duty it was to act as cook, was for
the time sent about other business. The
gentleman acted as chef, ard with q
knowledge obtained from serving on the
house committee of a prominent New
York club proceeded to assign variout
work to his aids and appointed the young
lady first vegetable cook for the express
purpose of making her peel onions. the
odor of which she loathed.
When the party adjourned to the kitch.
en- to begin preparations, a large supply OF
strong odored red onions was brought to
the lady, and she was requested to remove
the outer cuticle. The acting chef and the
others who had been let into the secret
made merry over the supp sed discount
ture of the first vegetablec cook, butthc lat
ter smiled sweetly and uttered no protest.
Bring nj a deep pan" she said to he,
helper, and when this was produced sh
filed it to the brim with water. Then
she tucked up her sleeves to the elbow
showing just the prettiest pair of arms
in the world. and removing her rings set
to work re,N g the onions under water
with a deftisa that showed how famil-
lar she was with the work and depriv-
ing it of all it's offensiveness.
1t was Il revelation to the man, who
had looked either for a vigorous protest.
or had expected to see the eyes of the
vegetable cook water from the effects OF
the onion juice. The amateur dinner
was in every way a success, but none OF
the cooks achieved a greater triumph
than the. one whose practical experience
showed to the others the omrlon sense
method of peeling onions.-New York
Herald.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
The Pale White Light of Death,

Those who have admired the phos-
phorescent glow of certain species of
crustace will be interested to learn that
q startling discovery respecting it has
been made. Formerly it was supposed
that such creatures emitted the light of
their own accord, and that they used it
in a variety Of ways. It is now known
that the light is a disease as deadly to
the infected individuals as cobra poison
ing is to the human species. M. Girard
has traced phosphorescent light in tati-
trus and other crustaceans to. exceed
ingly minute bacteria in the muscles.
On inoculating healthy specimens with
glowing bacteria, the same luminous ap
pearance was transmitted. He also notes
that the disease runs a regular course,
and that those infected die within four
days, the phosphorescence lasting but a
short while after death.-St. Louis Re-
public,
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
frances Great Canal system,

Interior navigation has long held a
prominent place in the traffic of France,
and it is not surprising to learn that the
length of navigable waterways in that
country is 5000 miles, of which $50 miles
are returned as tidal, 2,1G0 miles naviga-
BILE without works, $3.50 miles canalized
rivers and 5000 miles canals. The state
looks out for all but Z per cent of this
network, which is therefore practically
free from tolls. This system of inland
navigation has cost about $500, 600, 900
for construction and purchase and $685.
DOC 1000 for concessions. The annual cost
of maintenance is about So, 600, 900, OF
1925 a mile, which covers all expendi-
lures whatsoever. The number of YES
sells employed on the waterways is be-
tween $4,000 and 10000. About 26 per
cent have capacity of 800 tons OF more,
while more than half have capacity ex-
ceeding 100 tons.
Moreover, about 1900 foreign boats
use the French canals each year. The
motive power is now almost entirely
furnished by draft animals, although a
few steam tugs are used on the Seine,
the Disc and some other rivers, and
steam cargo boats are occasionally met.
Cable towing and tow locomotives are
also used in a few places. The average
cost of moving a ton of freight one mile
is stated to be .O64 cents on the rivers
and Is per cent less on the canals.-Paris
Letter.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
Violating ParIOr Car RuIes.

81 have violated the rules laid dow
by Mr.. George M. Pullman every time
have ridden on a railroad train in the
past two years." said Mrs. Robert Yer
non of New York as she and her hus
band were preparing to leave the parlors
of the Lindell for a walk the other day.
"You know, I'd never think of travelling
without my little dog Nellie-named
after me, you know-she's such an afTec.
tionate little thing and worries so much
when I leave her behind me. Now, when
Bob goes on the road l frequently take
trips with him, and of course Nellie
comes too. The first trip we took her
with us we had to leave her in the bag
gage car, and in the morning the poor
thing was nearly dead with fright. Then
/ made up my mind I'd have her with
me or quit travelling.
"In Philadelphia l noticed women car,
rying dark green cloth bags on the street
and found that they were called 'cabas,
and they carried most everything in
them. Well, 1 made one for Nellie, and
she travels across the country now in
caba. Pullman conductors think it's q
package Of clothing or anything else
they like, for Nellie never moves. She Il is
perfectly content to know that | an
close by her and would rather keer
quiet than ride in the baggage cal. Oh,
don't tell me that dogs don't know any
thing. You do, don't you. NellY-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
Amelie Rives' Newsboy.

"There is a young man in Mobile"
said Colonel Robert McEachin of Win
chester, Va, 'who has cause to remem-
Der Amelie Rives twice a year. When
the now distinguished lady was a little
girl and lived in that city, she became
fondly attached to a newsboy who cried
out his papers every morning in the
neighborhood in which she lived. She
met him one day and a friendship sprang
up between them that has lasted to the
present time. After the boys stock of
papers were sold in the morning he would
call for the pretty little blue eyed miss,
and they would take long strolls down
Prosecute road, p%lucking the orange bios
SONS and the magnolia blooms. They
soon got to be familiar figures on Gov
eminent street, as they would walk
along that busy thoroughfare with the
young girls head garlanded with wreaths
of beautiful flowers and the little boys
arms filled with vines and e~vergreens.
Then Miss Rives moved far away into Vir-
ginia, but she never forgot her newsboy
friend, for it was her custom almost
daily to write him. The boy met with a
misfortune some years ago which Grip
pied him for life. He is poor, but hi
purse is twice a year ~replenished by a
p~ostofice order from Mrs. Chanler. One
Of these arrives in Mobile on his birth
day, which is in June, and the other on
Christmas day."-St. Louis Republic.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
THE I'M SOUL.
Victor Hugo's Memorable Empromptu Re-
ply to the Atheists.

Victor Hugo's Memorable Empromptu Re.
ply to the Atheists.
At a dinner given to Victor Hugo in
Paris some years ago he delivered an
impromptu address, in which he gave
expression to his faith in the infinite and
in the souls Immortality. His friend,
Houssaye, who was present, says:
"Hugo at that time was a man Of steel,
with no sign of old age about him. bet
with all the agility, the suppleness, the
ease and grace of his best years He
was ~contradicting the atheists, and his
friend says 'his face was bright with
the heavenly halo, and his eyes shone
like burning Goals"
"There are no occult forces" he said;
''there are only luminous forces. Occult
force is chaos; the luminous force is
God. Man is an infinite little COPY of
God. This is glory enough for man.
am a man, an invisible atom, q drop il,
the ocean, a grain of sand on the shore.
Little as I am, l feel the God in me, be.
cause I can also bring forth out Of my
chaos. I make books, which are crea-
lions. I feel in myself that future life. I
am like a forest which has been more
than once cut down; the new shoots are
stronger and livelier than ever.
81 am rising, I know, toward the sky.
The sunshine is on my head. The earth
gives me its generous sap but heaven
lights me with the reflection of unknown
worlds. You sly the soul is nothing but
the result of bodily powers. Why, then.
is my soul more luminous when my bod
lily powers begin to fail? Winter is on
my head, and eternal spring is in my
heart. There I breathe at this hour the
fragrance of the lilacs, the violets and
the roses as at 90 years ago. The nearer
I approach the end the palmer l hear
around me the immortal symphonies of
the worlds which invite me.
at is marvellous, yet simple. 1t is a
fairy tale, and it is historic. For half a
century 1 have been>writing my thoughts
in prose and verse, history, philosophy,
drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode
and song. have tried all, but I feel !
have not said a thousardth part of what
is in me. When I 60 down to the grave,
I can say. like many others, I have fin
ished my days work, but 1 cannot say
I have finished my life. My days will
begin again the next morning. The
tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thor.
oughfare. 1t closes IN the twilight to
open on the dawn."-L'Univers.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
Public Dinners a Bore.

Public dinners are becoming more
and more of q nuisance to professional
men, said a distinguished lawyer of this
town somewhat peevishly the other
night. Now, why should an extremely
busy man like myself be asked to devote
several hours of valuable time to the
preparation of an address on some i'm
portant topic for free delivery before an
association in which I have no particular
interest: Of course I have the privilege
Of declining, but when two or three
warm personal friends urge me to COM
ply on the ground of sociability, I have
to accept or else appear surly. In con-
sequence l give up time which 1 can
hardly spare from my clients, am kept
up late at night and go down to business
in the morning with a headache or an at
tack of ndigestion."-New York Times.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
Mrs. Mossman Was Fortified.

In June, 1884, Mrs. Abigail Mossman
was inferred at the Hazelwood cemetery
in Poweshiek county, la. Not long since
relatives determined to remove the re
mains to another cemetery. The work
men engaged to perform the job found
the coffin filed to OVERLOOKING with red
colored mineral water. This was drained
off, whereupon it was found that the
corpse, with the exception of the fingers
and toes, was perfectly petrifed. The
hair was perfectly natural, as was also 3
bouquet of roses that lay on her breast.
After a thorough examination by rela-
tives and friends the coffin was again
closed and covered Inst. Louis Re
public.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
Peculiarities About Tramps,

"Afactabouty your professional vagrant
or tramp is that they never want to go
back to the place from where they were
sent" says a ~penitentiary superintendent.
"For instance, if one is sent in from along
the Susquehanna road, on his discharge
he usually requests to be sent north, east
or south, or any direction that will take
MIN away from that in which he was ap-
pretended.
"Onlythe other day a tramp sent from
Otsego begged to be sent to Hudson. He
begged SO hard that I gave him a ticket to
Hudson. The next day he was back again.
They pulled me as soon as I stepped from
the train he said. County officers, you
see, are always on the lookout for tramps
because of the mileage received for bring
ing them here. Work? No, they wouldn't
show any inclination or desire for work if
they had to lay in the ~penitentiary for
months. But we compel them to earn
their keep, very much to their disgust.
Usually I set them to work cane seating
chairs."-Albany journal.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
What to Do.

When a young woman asks you to
60 with her to choose a pocketbook and
tells the clerk she wants one $50 long,
measuring a space Of six or eight
inches with the first finger of each hand,
it is just as well not to express your
surprise that it isn't to be a dainty, sill
yer mounted affair that accords with
her costuming, and when she chooses an
enormous seal leather affair with lots of
compartments for bills and checks and
numerous other such articles it is safe
to decide that Charley" still lives in
her memory as she in his, and when she
talks about the marking and takes the
pencil in a determined way and an
swers the salesmen's remark about the
letters with a savage ''Tll write them"
why, it's time to turn your back and be
aWfully interested in something else.-
Rlffalo News.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
shot While Going For a Doctor.

SOSko4
It was in Pittsburg some seven years
ago that my wife woke me up one night
and said that vi little boy was very
sick and would / go for a doctor. said
OF curse | would, and slipping into my
clothes l grabbed my hat and started
out. When l reached the first eorner, /
passed a stranger who was running the
other way. | cut ~diagonally across the
street and ran toward the center Of
town. Pretty soon I heard footstens
some distance back, and then several
shots We're fired. felt as though some
one had thrown a stone and struck me
on the leg, but couldn't run any more
worth a cent. | stumbled down and
then drawing myself up put my hand
where l felt the pain and found that nly
leg was moist with blood. | easily real
lied that | was shot. The possessor of
the revolver drew up before me painting
for breath and exclaimed, "You will rob
people, will you?' 1t was a policeman.
l began to upbraid him most thoroughly.
Explanations nor execrations did not
help the matter any, and I was taken in
q patrol to the station. l repeated my
story and insisted that a doctor should
be sent to my house. The desk sergeant
finally did as | wished, and our family
doctor called at the house, and later
came by the station. 1t did not take me
long to convince the station officers that
I was not the party, and was set at lib
erty and removed to my home. When l
was able to get around again, l sued the
city for $1,000, and 1 got it.-Interview
in st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
Worries of Letter Writing.

Of course you never had important
letters ready to mail and went down
town without them? Or did you take
the letters and carry them around
all day and bear them safely home
with you at night? Did you ever post a
letter that you would have given almost
anything to recall after it had passed out
Of your reach? You never delayed to
seal your letter until you were outside
the house and then found that the en-
velope wouldn't stick or needed a stamp
beyond anything, when there was none
to be had?-Boston Commonwealth.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
The Glass Industry,

The progress Of the glass industry in
America has been far from constant. It
has suffered severe and violent fuctua-
tons, amounting almost to humiliation.
Several times it has needed to be born
again. But the SUN total Of these sue
cesses and vicissitudes has been the es-
Enlistment of an industry which, while
it is the Oldest, is also at the present
time one of the most promising and
most highly developed of all our indus
tries .-Professor 9. II. Henderson in
Popular Science Monthly.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
Two Metropolitan Children.

1t was on Third avenue the other day
that the face Of a boy not o than g
years old, with q cigarette thrust be-
tween the little lips, attracted the atten.
ton of a woman who was passing. The
child's puny, sickly appearance, for he
looked as if nothing more than ciga-
rettes was needed to break his slender
hold on life, made the woman stop In
the hope that here was an opportunity
for a word in season.
Don't you know" she began, 'that
you'll never grow up to be a big, strong
man if you smoke those bad cigarettes!
You'll die, and you don't want to dc
that, I know"
"Naw. I won't die nuther," said the
young smoker without taking out his
weed.
What would your mother say if she
saw you?' was the next query.
ooh, she lets me-"
A chubby little chap of 4, round
checked, O mere baby, stood at the
elder ones side during the talk. The
woman turned to him. Z
"YOur little brother doesn't smoke
cigarettes. You are setting him a bad
example" ,4+
The younger boy smiled. but said
nothing.
NAV, he don't smoke cigarettes,
spoke up the other one; .he smokes q
pipe"
And the woman fled, abashed before
those two terrible infants.-New YorE
Times.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
The Effect of Early Training.

Recently a young woman came to this
city from a town about two hours ride
from New York to study. In the exam
nation that she was required to pass,
she was told to name some of the prin-
cipal English authors. She did so, omit
ting Shakespeare for the reason, as she
stated to a friend, 'that she might Of
fend the teachers by putting in the name
of a man who had written plays for the
aters."-New York Sun.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
A London Idea.

In certain London restaurants each
customer is allowed to make his or her
tea. The waitress lights the gas burner,
which is affixed to each table, and sets
thereon a silver kettle. Then she pre-
sents to the teamaker a silver caddy
divided into compartments and offering
a choice of Souchong, Ceylon or green
tea. Any one who is compelled to drink
the lukewarm stuff called tea at res
taurants will appreciate the new idea.-
London Letter.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17

De Smiths Ponsonby a bigamist?
Travis-A bigamist! Well, I guess
notl What made you think so?
De Smith-Oh, | don't know. !
thought 1 heard his wife telling some
body that DR.. Swindle'em's weed tonic
had made another woman of her.
Texas Siftings.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
A Persistent DOg

Mother-Horrors! Where did you get
that dog?
Young Hopeful-He followedm home.
"Hum! Why did you coa him."
81 didn't coax him. I threw things at
him, but he would come anyhow"
"That's strange. What did you thrown
GA lot of hard, ugly old bones the
butcher gave mcleod News.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1893-03-17
A Kind Mistress.

1t was raining in torrents.
"Julie!" said madam to her maid, "be
quick and run across to the milliners and
tell her not to forget my hat"
"Caa take Azor cut with me, mad
ann"
care you mad, Julie? Can't you see
for yourself that the weather is not fit to
turn a dog out of doors?"-Evenement.
Der fortschritt. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1891-1915, 1893-02-23
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