The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-03-16
A Glimpse Into The Past.

Tells Of one Templar cutting sticks
And travelling to Nebraska;
And how he cut strange didoes there,
Then came back with a jovial air,
Rotund and cider-casky.
And how he goes around and blows,
And talks of shooting buffaloes
And such wild Injun capers;
And talks of p~arsnips eight feet long
And other stories just as strong
Just like the Maysville papers"
And now, after a lapse of more than
twenty two years, a son of that young
man goes back to Kentucky and the let
tiers he writes are as astonishing to the
young natives of Red Willow, as were
those of his father, to an older genera
ton, in those other days. He tells of
'.going over the same road, crossing the
same stream, by h same old hollow
tree" where the mother went over thirty
years ago: of Crawling through a knot
hole and standing in atree, with another
young man, and room for six more and
the same size for fifty feet up" of"being
in one spot and seeing fourteen different
kinds of trees" wonderful to those who
only know cottonwood and box alder!)
He sends a letter, written on coarse yell
low paper, to his Great-grand-father a
hundred years ago, wherein the recipi-
ent, as agent, is directed to "disstress
those tenants who fail to come up to
their contract in delivering tobacco, by
not renting the land to them again.
One of the places where this Nebraska
boy visits has associations of more than
local interest, Washington, Mason county,
Kentucky.
In an old family burial ground, lie the
remains of the father and mother of
Chief Justice Marshall.
The house is still pointed ut to
strangers where the great K~entuckian,
Albert Sidney Johnson was born-him,
of whom it was said, Three Common
wealths claim him."
Here Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
spent one summer, visiting acquaint-
ances and it was during this visit she got
her inception of n Toms Cabin. The
gentleman is still living, who's as a young
law student, at the request of her host,
escorted Mrs. Stowe to the slave auction
which she so wildly depictsi in the book.
Another gentleman, being in New York
at one time went to see the dramatized
play of Uncle Toms Cabin and was
surprised and pleased to see as part of
the scenic performance, a reproduction
of the old court house and yard, as well
as the adjoining orner store, with the
old sign of Taylor & Green over the
door," An article containing these facts
appeared in the Maysville Bulletin about
year ago, and excited notice and com-
ment, and the Chicago Tribune, Wash
ington Post and Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette. had photographs made of the
places mentioned in that article, which
were published in the respective papers
of that date. The old market house,
was long years ago, taken away, the
county seat removed and the court house
converted into .'The Washington Female
College," which for twenty years was a
hourishing institution, and where many
young ladies from many different states
were educated. 1t was a boast n time
that there were students from Maine,
Louisiana and California. This, too,
become a thing of the past. It was there
we were school mates and knew of a TO
mi of him who is now Chief Justice
of California-of him, too, who died as
Bishop Of the Diocese Of Louisiana. On
the street corner, General Grant stopped
and smoked cigars with some of the
townsmen, when he was returning from
a visit to his old uncle, who lived near
the neighboring town Of Mayslick, and
who was too much of a political oppon-
emit to vote for his distinguished nephew
for president!
''Past, o, past! Once bright and glowing,
Glowing once, but dimmed at LAST
For many a long day has "Ichabod''
been written over Washington-dear old
birth-place-worn out now, bearing her
burden of one hundred years.
The partnership between Cole & Bar
ney has been dissolved.
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The Micawberites are numerous. Turn
mp something yourself.
The farming Of the future will partake
more of the intensive. It win be well.
The nursery fend will take the hold
on the earth dropped by the coal dealer.
An electric motor run from storage
batteries furnishes the power for running
the Boston shoe stores Ferris wheel.
Prairie fires have put in an appearance
already, and we will soon have the old
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