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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20
Used Visiting Cards First.

The Chinese are said to be the orig-
majors of visiting cards. So long ago as
the period of the Tang dynasty (619-907)
whiting cards were known to have been
in use in China. From ancient times to
the present day the Chinese have OBJ
served the strictest ceremony with re-
gard to the paying of visits. The cards
which they use for this purpose are large
and of a bright red color.-Chicago Rec
kd.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20
A spy,s O CALL.
BE Was Rescued From Impending Death
by q Clever Newspaper Ruse.

he Was Rescued From Impending Death
by n Clever Newspaper Ruse.
On the battlefield of Antietam Mr.. Nc
Clure met General William j. Palmer,
then a captain, and strongly urged him
not to continue his movements as a spy
after Lee had crossed into Virginia, but
the gallant young soldier gave no prom
Use as to what he would be likely to do,
and the very first night after Lee crossed
the Potomac he was again in Lees camp
and brought back important information
to General Mcclellan.
Again he returned and entered the
Confederate lines, and when he did not
report after a week it was assumed that
he had been captured and would proba-
bly, be executed as a spy. He had been
captured. was tried and condemned as a
spy and sentenced to be executed, but he
was saved by a clever newspaper device
determined upon after a conference in
this city between President j. Edgar
Thomson of the Pennsylvania railroad,
Colonel Scott and Mr.. Mcclure. Thorn
son took special interest in Palmer, as he
had been his secretary, and was much at
tached to him.
1t was decided that Washington dis
patches should be prepared for all of the
Philadelphia morning papers announc-
ing the arrival at the capital of Captain
William J. Palmer, stating in what par
ticular lines of the enemy he had oper-
ated, and adding that he had brought
much important information hat could
not be given to the public at the time.
These dispatches appeared next morning
in all the Philadelphia papers, promi-
nently displayed, and of curse reached
the southern lines within As hours.
The result was that Captain Palmer's
identity was never established in Rich
mond, and his execution was thus sus-
pended. In a little while, when some
prisoners had been exchanged, there was a
vacancy made in the list of the exchanged
men by death. Palmer's friends had
him take the place and name of the dead
soldier, and he thus escaped and returned
to the Observation-Disclosures Times.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20
A Watch on the Wall.

For many years a silver watch might
be seen fastened to the wall of one of
the fronts of the inner quadrangle of
Somerset House. Londoners used to
point it out as having saved the life of
its owner when he fell from a scaffold,
and he placed it there as a testimony
New York Advertiser.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20
The Word Mother.

Here are 10 varieties of the word
mother, all bearing a distinct resem-
blance: Anglo-Saxon, modor; Persian,
madr: Sanscrit, matr; Greek, meter;
Italian, madre; French, mere; Swedish,
moder; Danish. the same; Dutch. moe
der: German, mutter; Russian. mater;
Celtic. mathair; Hebrew, EN-; Arabic,
.!-l Chicago Tribune.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20
Modern Hero.

mime. NJ. a very talented pianiste,
when sitting next to Colonel Ramollot at
the dinner table, asked him in a winning
tone of voice:
"Are you fond of music, ~colonel?'
Madame, replied the warrior. rolling
q savage pair of eyes, II am not afraid of
itf'-Paris Rappel.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20
A Suggestion.

The Wooer tall and leaneMissB Bow
ser-Dorothy, I would fain speak what
is in my heart, but II fear TOTO let
myself out.
Dorothy (calmlyeDon't do thatl You
are too long now. 1t would be better to
take in a tuck or two.-Pittsburg Bull
letin.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20
Described.

Public Library Official Gearing up
card)HWhat chump let yon have a book
ON that card? It expired a month ago.
Nearsighted Party-He was a sour
looking, light complexioned young squirt
with curly hair and-why, it wal you'-
Chicago Tribune.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20

Mrs. Millicent Garret Fawcett lately
addressed an audience of women at
Bloomsbury, England, on the extension
of the parliamentary franchise to wom-
en-. The meeting closed with the carry
ing of a unanimous resolution in favor
of woman suffrage, proposed by Mrs.
Fawcett and seconded by Mrs. Ormiston
Chant.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20

Texans use rattlesnake skins for belts
and for charms to prevent rheumatism.
The negroes have become experts in kill
ing the snakes by crushing the heads
only, SO that the skins shall not be in
iured.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20

Mirages may occur in any place where
the denser stratum of air is shifted above
the lighter stratum, thus causing a re.
Election of the rays of light.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20

Bells, says a writer, toll for the max
ing or breaking of engagements in some
German towns.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20

Every well developed adult of the hu-
man species has lung surface equal to
1.400 square feet. The hearts power is
sufficient to lift itself 1900 feet each
hour.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20

The acts of this life are the destiny Of
the next.-Eastern Proverb.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-04-20

The advocates Of cremation assert that
burial grounds will be regarded as rel. IS
of An uncivilized age by the year 1894.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20

every part Of the country. The maxi
ing of roads is stopped, factories are
closed and houses and ships are no
longer being built Factory hands,
road makers, carpenters, bricklayers
and laborers are idle; paralysis is
rapidly embracing every pursuit in the
country.
THE cause of all this stoppage of
circulation is to be found in the steady
outflow of gold to pay foreign laborers
for the cloth, the shoes, the iron and
the other things that could be produced
by American labor, but which cannot
be so produced under our present
revenue system.
IF we could stop the import of the
foreign articles the gold would cease
to flow out to pay for them, and money
would then again become more abupd-
ant; labor would then again be in de-
mand; shoes, clothing and other COM
modities would then again be ip de-
mand, and tmen would then cease to
starve in the streets of our towns and
cities, everywhere crying: Give me
work! Only give me work! Make your
own terms-my wife and children have
nothing to eat"
From which graphic account of life
In New York under the low tariff OF
1916 it appears that Walkers bill
worked just like Wilson's.-N. Y. Re-
cnrder
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20
THE REPUBLICAN TIDAL WAVE.
Popular Wrath Recoiling Upon the Blum
derlng Democracy.


dering Democracy.
The significance of the republican
victories in the municipal elections in
Ohio and Illinois lies in the fact that
they are in TIE same line as the results
In the other elections, municipal and
state, which have taken place in the
past few months. In almost all of
them the republicans made immense
and unexpected gains They did this
in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio. Iowa and the other states
which voted for state officers last No
vember. In the special elections for
members OF congress in New York and
Pennsylvania the same thing was seen.
and the canvasses for city and county
officers in New York and other states q
few weeks ago told the same story.
Republican localities have rolled up
largely increased maiorities, and many
old democratic strongholds which the
republicans did not imagine they could
carry have been captured.
1t will be noticed that the change in
political sentiment which the results of
these elections indicate is general and
lasting. In the east, the central tier of
states and in the west 1t is seen. 1t is
found under all sorts of industrial and
social conditions, and in agricultural
as well as manufacturing and mining
localities. The evidence that the
change is not due to a sudden and
transient impulse is proved by the fact
that it was more marked in the recent
elections than it was in those which took
place last November. The republican
wave is growing higher instead of
lower. The victory in one district in
New York city and the reduction OF
the democratic majority in the other
district in the special election for con-
gressmen two months ago showed a
more radical transformation than was
revealed in the election for state officers
three months before, while Crows ma
jority in Pennsylvania for congress a
few weeks ago was far larger than the
almost unexampled lead gained for
state officers in the same state last No
vember.
1T is revolt" said Louis XVI. to
the messenger who had brought him
the news of the fall of the Bastile.
No, sire" said the messenger, sit is q
revolution" Here, too, is a revolution.
Americas bourbon bastile fell when the
democratic plurality of $1,000 in 1891
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20
here. / had relied upon him to look


after this"
Holmes glanced at me, and raised
his ewes sardonically "With two such
men as yourself and Lestrade upon the
ground, there will not be much for a
third party to find out" he said.
Gregson rubbed his hands in a self
satisfied way. II think we have done
all that can be DONE" he answered.;
'It's queer case, though, and l knew
your taste for such things"
"You did not come here in cab?"
asked Sherlock Holmes.
mo, SIR"
Nor Lestrade?"
"No, SIR
"Then let us go and look at the
room" With which inconsequent re-
mark he strobe on into the house, fol-
lowed by Gregson, whose features ex-
pressed his establishment.
A short passage. bare planked and
dusty, led to the kitchen and offices.
Two doors opened out of it to the left
and to the right. One of these had OBJ
viously been closed for many weeks.
The other belonged to the dining-room,
which was the apartment in which the
mysterious affair had occurred. Holmes
walked in, and ] followed him with
that subdued feeling at my heart which
the presence of death inspires.
1t was large, square room, looking
all the larger for the absence of all
furniture. A vulgar, flaring paper
adorned the walls, but it was blotched
in places with Ipildew, and here and
there great strips had become detached
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20
CURRENT COMMENTS.

sEThe great need of the democratic
party at present is somebody to tell it
how it can indorse Cleveland without
denouncing itself-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
EA wise forethought will lead a
great many democratic statesmen now
filling engagements in Washington to
learn some useful trade before next
falL-Chicago Tribune.
eBThe democrats cut appropriations
at one session Of congress and pass de-
ficiency bills at the next session. This
is economy as practiced by the party
of free trade and misunderstanding
Leader.
tB-The reductions" in living ex-
penses which the democrats say they
will bring by their tariff bill will be
illusory, but the increase in expenses
which that bills duty on sugar will
bring to every family will be a very
disagreeable reality.-St Louis Globe
Democrat
K-Tne best friends of the demo-
cratic party cannot fail 20 see that it
has done absolutely nothing to relieve
the situation. Never was there SO COM
plete and ignominious failure and SO
universal disappointment on the part
of the people who were seeking relief.
N. o. Picayune Dem).
E-Genuine democracy throws men
out of work and cuts down wages. He
who, calling himself a democrat, tries
to get men work at good wages is de-
nounced at once as traitor and q
''protectionist in disguise" The Amer
lean people have had enough Of genu-
inc democracy. They have suffered
under it now for about a year and they
are not going to vote for genuine de-
mocracy again or for democratic PRO
tectionists in disguise" They will vote
for undisguised protection republicans
aud recommit to their charge the desti-
MES Of the country.-Chicago Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20
a PARTY OF DESTRUCTION.
The Rulnous Effects of Democratic Su-
premaCY.

The Rulnous Effects of Democratic Su-
premacy.
1t has always been one of the inscrut-
able mysteries of Divine Providence
why the democratic party has been
permitted to exist 1t never does any
thing-it is the party of negation. 1t
has originated none of the great legis-
lative measures which have shaped
communities and carved out common
weaiths of this vast country. From
the homestead bill to the civil rights
bill, the democratic party has never
created anything. 1t could not last
year agree upon the silver bill 1t can
not even now agree upon tariff bill.
1t cannot create-it can only destroy.
But perhaps Divine Providence permits
it to exist that it may, like swarns of
noxious insects, destroy other organ
isms even more noxious- So the demo-
cratic party has Numbered into de-
stroying trades unionism and PARTIAL
shutting off foreign immigration. Its
methods have been severe-like decap-
itstion for laryngeal cancer-for it has
nearly ruined the country as well as
trades unions. But the poverty and
restitution which have come in the
train of triumphant democracy" have
scared off foreign immigrants and
broken up the trades unions For this,
at least, let us be thankful to the demo-
cratic party.-San Francisco ArRonaut
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20
LESSON FROM THE PAST.
Misery and Want Resulting from the Low
Tariff Policy.

Misery and Want Resulting from the Low
Tariff Policy.
There has been much disputation as
to whether the low tariff of 1916, upon
which Wilson's bill is avowedly mod
eled, brought good or bad times to this
country. The following is descrip-
ton of how New York city throve
under the 1916 tariff, taken from Horace
Greeley's great Tribune of 1854:
'Who is hungry? Go and see. You
that are full fed and know not what it
is to he hungry-perhaps never saw q
hungry mango and see. Go and see
thousands, men and women. boys and
girls, old and young, black and white,
of all nations, crowding and jostling
each other, almost fighting for first
chance, acting more like hungry
wolves than human beings in a land of
plenty.
at is only by the continuous efforts
of two policemen that the crowd can
be kept in order or made to wait till
the food is ready for distribution. Such
scene may be seen every day between
eleven and two o'clock around the cor
ner of Orange and Chatham streets,
where charity gives a dinner to the
poor, and soup and bread to others to
carry to their miserable families.
ION Saturday we spent an hour there
at the hour of high tide. We have new
er seen anything like it before. Up
ward of 1000 people were fed with a
plate of soup, a piece of bread and a
piece of meat on the premises, and in
all more than 1000. On the same day
1,13O portions of soup were dealt out
from Stewards soup kitchen, in the
rear of the great store, corner of Reade
street and Broadway.
AT the rooms on Duane street, for
the relief of the poor, on the same day
they gave food to 2, 256. In the Sixth
ward alone over 5000 persons were fed
by charity on Saturday, January Is.
And this is only one day in one ward.
Meanwhile scenes of like nature are
being enacted all over the city.
"A procession of several thousand
persons kept marching about the streets
yesterday, with flags and banners
which bore such inscriptions as Hunger
is Sharp Thorn The Last Recourse,
Live and Let Live We Want Work,
etc.
Such are the scenes that are being
enacted daily before our eyes, while
the cry of hard times reaches us from
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20
a s,a*kAss..
(MsIASTly!IW1ll 3
UE,E||.f SWRLEE
By A. CONAN DOYLE.
CHAPTER n-CoNTINUED.

CHAPTER u-COTTINUED-
Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his
pipe. mo doubt you think that you
are complimenting me in comparing
me to Dupin,' he observed. Now, in
my opinion, Dupin was very inferior
fellow. That trick of his of breaking
in on his friends thoughts with an
apropos remark after quarter of an
hours silence is really very snowy and
superficial He had some analytical
genius, no doubt; but he was by no
means such a phenomenon as Poe ap-
peared to imagine"
"Have you read Gaboriau's works?"
/ asked docs Lecoq come up to your
idea of detective?"
Sherlock Holmes shifted sardonically.
"Lecoq was miserable bungler," he
said, in an angry voice; "he had only
one thing to recommend him, and that
was his energy. That book made me
positively ILL., The question was how
to identify an unknown prisoner. |
could have done it in twenty-four
hours. Lecoq took six months or so.
1t might be made a textbook for de-
tectives to teach them what to avoid. p"
felt rather indignant at having two
characters whom | had admired treat
ed in this cavalier style. ! walked over
to the window, and stood looking out
into the busy street. This fellow
may be very clever" | said to myself,
but he is certainly very conceited."
There are no crimes and no Grim
inals in these days" he said, qucrul-
-ouslv. What is the use of having
brains in our profession? know well
that have it in me to make my name
famous. No man lives or has ever
lived who has brought the same
amount of study and of natural talent
to the detection of crime which have
done. And what is the result? There
is no crime to detect, or, at most. some
bungling villainy with a motive so
transparent that even a Scotland Yard
official can see through it.
was still annoyed at his bumptious
style of conversation. | thought it
best tc change the topic.
Il wonder what that fellow IS look
ing for?" | sked. pointing to a stall
wart, plainly-dr' ssed individual who
was walking slowly down the other
side of the street, cooking anxiously at
the numbers. He had a large blue en-
velcpe in his hand, and was evidently
the bearer of a message.
"You mean the retired sergeant of
marines" said Sherlock Holmes.
"Brag and bounce thought to my
self HE knows that cannot verify
his guess"
The thought had hardly passed
through my mind when the man
whom we were watching caught sight
of the number on our door, and ran
rapidly across the roadway. We
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20

stances attendant on the death Of Van
Jansen, in Utrecht, in the year 1884.
Do YOU remember the case, Gregs-cn?"
NO, sir"
Read it up-you really should.
There is nothing new under the sun.
It has all been done before"
AS he spoke, his nimble fingers were
flying here, there and everywhere,
feeling. pressing, unbuttoning, exam
ming, while his eyes wore the same
PARKWAY expression which have al
ready remarked upon. So swiftly was
the examination made that one would
hardly have guessed the minuteness
with which it was conducted. Finally,
he shifted the dead mans lips, and then
glanced at the soles of his patent
leather boots
HE has not been moved at alp" he
asked.
No more than was necessary for the
purpose of our examination"
'You can take him to the mortuary
now" he said. There is nothing more
to be learned"
rTo BE CONTINUED
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20

and hung down, exposing the yellow
plaster beneath. Opposite the door
was snowy fireplace, surmounted by
a mantle-piece of imitation white mar
bic. On one corner of this was stuck
the stump Of red wax candle. The
solitary window was SO dirty that the
light was hazy and uncertain, giving 2,
dull gray tinge to everything, which
was intensified by Che thick layer of
dust which coated the whole apart
ment.
All these details I observed after
ward. At present my attention was
centcred upon the single grim, motion
less figure which lay stretched upon
the boards with vacant, sightless eyes
staring up at the discolored ceiling.
1t was that of a man about forty-three
or forty-four years of age. middle
sized, broad-shouldered, with crisp,
curling black hair and short, stub
bly, beard. lie was dressed in heavy
broadcloth froclx coat and waistcoat,
with light colored trousers and inn
maculatc collar and cuffs. a top hat,
well brushed and trim, was placed
upon the floor beside him. His hands
were clinched and his arms thrown
abroad, while his lower limbs were in
terlocked as though his death-struggle
had been a grievous one. On his rigid
face there stood an expression of hor-
ror and, as it seemed to me, of hatred,
such as have never seen upon human
features. This malignant and terrible
contortion, combined with the low
forehead, blunt nose and prognathous
jaw, gave the dead man singularly
simious and apelike appearance, which
was increased by his writhing, unnat-
ural posture. | have seen death in
many forms, but never has it appeared
to me in a more fearsome aspect than
in that dark, grimy apartment, which
looked out upon one of the main arte-
ries of suburban London.
Lestrade, lean and ferret-like as
ever. was standing by the doorway,
and greeted my companion and myself
This case will make a stir, sir" he
remarked. 1T beats anything | have
seen, and am no chicken"
There is no clew," said Gregson.
None at ALL" chimed in Lestrade.
Sherlock Holmes approached the
body, and, kneeling down, examined
it intently. "You are sure that there
is no wound?" he asked, pointing to
numerous gouts and splashes of blood
which lay all round.
.Positiver' cried cotE detectives.
Then, of course, this blood belongs
to second individual-presumably
the murderer, if murder has been COM
mitted 1t reminds me of the circum-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20
CHAPTER Ill
TEE LAURIsroN GARDENS MYSTERY

TEE LAURIsToN GARDENS MYSTERY,
/ confess that l was considerably
startled by this fresh proof of the
practical nature of my companions
theories. My respect for his powers of
analysis increased wondrously. There
still remained some lurking suspicion
IL my mind, however, that the whole
thing was a prearranged episode, in
tended to dazzle me, though what
earthly object he could have in taking
ME in was past my comprehension.
When looked at him he had finished
reading the note and his eyes had as
sumed the vacant, lack-luster express
sion which showed mental abstraction.
How in the world did you deduce
tnat?" asked.
"Deduce what?" said he, petulantly.
"Why, that he was a retired ser
geant of marines"
81 have no time for trifes," he re-
piled, 'rusquely. Then, with smile:
Excuse my rudeness. You broke the
thread of my thoughts; but perhaps it
is as well. So you actually were not
able to see that that man was a ser
EednI OF HldIlnSS-
mo. indeed"
at was easier to know it than to ex-
plain why l know it. If you We're
asked to prove that two and two made
four, you might find some difficulty,
ind yet you are quite sure of the fact.
Even across the street | could see a
great blue anchor tattooed on the back
of the fellows hand. That smacked of
the sea. He had military carriage,
however, and regulation side-whiskers.
There we have the marine. He was a
man with some amount of self-impor-
lance and certain air of command.
You must have observed the way in
which he held his1head and swung his
cane. a steady, respectable, middle
aged man, too, on the face of him-all
facts which led me to believe that he
had been a sergeant"
Wonderfully / calculated.
Commonplace" said Holmes,
Though thought from his expression
that he WIS pleased at my evident sur
prise and admiration. Il said just