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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-01-26
The Annual County Institutes.

In accordance with the unanimous wish OF
the county superntendents of Nebraska in
state convention assembled, Hon. A. K.
Goudy, state superintendent of public instruct
ion, has completed schedule showing the
date of opening of the annual institute of each
county in the state for the summer of 1904. BY
the same vote the county superintendent
pledged themselves to the adoption of the
provisions of the schedule unless they found
it impossible to do SO. According to the
schedule counties are divided into groups as
follows. and each county will begin its insti.
tute on the same date:
June I8-Cass, Chase, Dundy, Franklin, Fur
mas, Gage, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Jeffer-
son, Nemaha, Nuckolls, Otoe, Pawnee, Red
Willow, Richardson, Thayer, Webster.
July o-Adams, Burt, Butler, Clay, Dakota,
Fillmore, Frontier, Gosper, Johnson, kearney,
Lancaster, Perkins, Phelps, Polk, Saline
Sarpy, Thurston, Washington.
July 23-Banner, Boone, Buffalo, Cheyenne,
Colfax, Dawson, Deuel., Douglas, Garfield
Hall, Keith, Kimball, Lincoln, ,Merrrck, Nance
Platte, SCOTS Bluff, Valley.
August 6-Blaine, Box Butte, Custer Grant.
Greeley, Hamilton, Hooker, Howard, Logan,
Loup, Mcpherson, Seward, Sherman, Thomas,
Wheeler, York.
August 2o-Antelope, Boyd, Brown, Cedar,
Cherry, Cunning, Dawes, Dixon, Dodge, Holt,
Keya Paha Knox, Madison, Pierce, Rock,
Saunders, Sheridan, Sioux, Stanton, Wayne.
In speaking of this new plan Superintend-
ent Goudy says: 81 am sure there will be
few, if any, instances in which the adoption
of the dates named will be found impracticable
so confidently expect their general adoption.
The county institute gives me the best oppor-
tunity to meet school officers teachers and
patrons, and in my contact with these, lies my
highest opportunity for usefulness as public
school official.
Formerly with no system Of dates, much Of
my time in the institute season was wasted in
reaching, consecutively, institutes in counties
widely separated. The adoption by the
county superintendents Of the dates indicated
will enable me to visit and take part in a
much larger number Of institutes.
you will observe that the schedule pro-
vides for periods Of two weeks, not overlap
ing, and this obviates a difficulty heretofore
experienced in securing instructors and will
permit the instruction to be given by small
er number and enable more sections Of the
state to secure the services of our best institute
workers.
To the superintendents Mr. Goudy says:
4 trust that you will find it beneficial to
your county to arrange for your institute il
accordance with this schedule and thus aid
this department in expending its time and
energies to the best advantage"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-01-26
Mrs. ]. F. Kenyon is quite i'll.

,
Conductor Hazelbaker is on the relief with
very sore hand.
P. L. Newcomb departed on Tuesday for
his home in Fostoria, Ohio.
One Of Foremen Ritchie's children is i'll
with an attack Of typhoid fever.
Mesdames z. L. Kay and Frank Kendlen
went down to Hastings, Saturday, on brief
jaunt.
Mrs. Amanda Evans, wife of the agent at
Raymond, Nebraska, is in the city, visiting ].
E. Robinson.
Attorney Morlan went down to Arapahoe,
Saturday morning, on railroad tricycle.. He
returned on the train.
J.W. Trammell and family of the Oxford
eating house have gone down to Shreveport
Louisiana, TO spend few weeks.
E. O. Brandt and W. C. Wood were Com
mercial guests, Saturday. Brandt is quite a
regular visitor at western division, lately.
Man wants but little here below, and it's
mighty little he gets if he does his advertising
on board fences and barn doors.-Walt Ma
son.
Rankin Bros. delivered S2S car loads Of ice
to the railroad company this year. w. L.
Frame checked the ice for the company.--Cam-
bridge kaleidoscope.
Renewed conferences between the genera
passenger agents of the trans-continental rail
ways promise to remove the necessity for a
trans-continental rate war that seemed almost
inevitable last week. The railway officials
recognize the disastrous consequences of such
wars as well as any one else and are only toe
happy to avoid them where they are carrying
legitimate traffic. Particularly at time like
the present, when no road has a surplus of
patronage, a trans-continental rate war would
I work deplorable results upon the business Of
the roads.
| Roadmaster Haley was in town this week
and informed US the velocipede car which he
recently invented and had on exhibition at the
Worlds fair in charge of w. S. Perry, o I
DuilCO--.. &c SOt tAOHCy u lIlIOW d. SAON
birds,'' remarked stranger on the d e p O
platform yesterday, that had about three hng-
ers in his tank. And some of the bystanders
suggested that he put the twenty dollar gold
piece he was displaying on the rail and see
the train run over it. He did The sinner
stuck to the wheels Of the engine on a thro'
freight and was gone. Up to the present time
an army of boys have failed to locate it.-Hol-
brook News.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-01-26

Sunday night, A. Andrus,a farmer living 37z
miles from Danbury, died Of quick consump
ton. The deceased was but IS years of age,
and contracted the disease, last spring, while
planting corn. He leaves wife and four
small children, The funeral took place on
Tuesday. The bereaved wife and little ones
have the sympathy of that entire community
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-01-26
THE HID-wINTER EXPOSITION.

The low rates to California now offered by
opportunity Of visiting that land Of sunshine,
fruit and flowers. On account of the Md
Winter Exposition California's World Fair
agents are now selling round trip tickts to
San Francisco. Los Angeles, San Bernardino,
San Diego, etc, for $685. Tickets are good
to return until April goth, 1894, and are very
liberal as regards stop overs and transit lines.
Wide choice of routes going and returning.
This is the year of years to visit California,
and the Burlington is the route of routes to
get there. Ask your nearest ticket agent for
full information, or write to ]. Francis, Gen
eral Passenger and Ticket Agent, Omaha.
Nebraska State Poultry Show and Conven-
ton, Kearney, Nebraska, January 1920. Tick
cts on sale January Il to TO- good returning
until January 25th.
For the above occasions delegates paying
full fare going will be returned at one-third
fare on presentation to the B. & NJ. agent, at
point of meeting, certificate signed by proper
officer Of the meeting.
SPECIAL TICKET RATES.
We will until further notice sell tickets to
Spokane, Wash, Portland, Oregon, and inter
mediate points. Ist class continuous passage
$1,000. and class continuous passage $500.
Effective Oct 10th, round trip tickets will be
sold TO San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cotton,
San Bernardino and San Diego, California at
very low rates. For full particulars regarding
rates, etc, call on or address
c. E. MAGNER, Agent
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11
WISE WORDS.

Backsliding often begins by looking
back.
1t is the Joy of truth to be looked in
the face.
A fool sometimes builds his house
of books.
A genius is never taken to be one
by his looks.
True religion always puts sunshine
in the heart.
1t isn't the biggest horn that makes
the best music.
In the arithmetic of heaven nothing
counts but love.
Praise and doubt cannot both live
in the same heart.
Growth in knowledge is the only
cure for selfconceit.
TIL re is as much kill in selfish
heart as there is in a musket.
Be grateful for your blessings and
it Will make your trials look small.
There can be no permanent or abid-
ing good in unconsecrated wealth.
Benevolence without love has no
more heart in it than grindstone.
A flower will have something sweet
to say to you, no matter where you put
it.
Perseverance can accomplish won
ders, but it cannot make a bad egg
hatch.
Build n fence anywhere, and the first
boy who comes along will want to
climb it.
1t takes more than philosophy to
make man smile when he has the
toothache.
One reason why some men swear, is
because it does not take any courage
or manliness to do it,
Many man will open the front
door for discomfort who tries his best
to keep burglars out of his house. -
Rams Horn.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11
PeriIs of Deep Sea Fish.

An extraordinary danger to which
the deep sea fish are liable IS pointed
out in very vivid manner, according
to Knowledge, in a new book by DR..
Hickson. At the great depths at which
these animals live the pressure is enor
mous-about two and half tons
on the square inch at depth of $500
fathoms. 1t sometimes happens that
in the excitement of chasing q pros
pective meal the unwary fish rises too
high above his usual sphere of life,
when the gases in the swimming
bladder expand, and he is driven by
his increasing buoyancy rapidly to the
surface. If he has not gone too far
when consciousness of his danger
grows greater than his oagerness for
prey, the muscles of the body may
be able to counteract this, but above
this limit he will continue to float up.
wards, the swimming bladder getting
more and more inflated as tho un.
fortunate creature rises. Death by
internal rupture results during this
upward fall, and thus it happens that
deep sea fish are at times found dead
and floating on the ocean surface, hay
ing tumbled up from the abyss.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11
How Indians Raise Hair.

Just when the mutilation of the
dead by tearing the skin from the
head began will never be known, for
the origin is lost in the mist of ages.
tho record extending back beyond
even the mythical period of mans ex-
istence. In the Book Of Maccabees it
is recorded that at the termination of
one of tho lattles of which that
bloody history is SO full, the victori-
ous soldiers tore the skin from the
heads of their vanquished foes. This
would be evidence that the custom of
scalp taking was one of the indul-
gences even of those people of whom
we have record in the Bible.
Be that as it may, it is an estab-
lished fact that the custom is uni
versal one, SO far as savage man is
concerned. Whether ethnologists can
builda theory of a common origin of
man from this or not, or whether this
can be taken as an evidence that the
Indians are the descendants of the
lost Israelite tribes because of their
habit of securing momentoes Of hair
from their fallen enemies, is some
thing time alone can develop. Be
that as it may, it is fact that oil In
dian tribes, to certain extent, scalp
their enemies who have fallen in bat
tie. Some writer's on the subject of
Indian habits and customs deny this,
but | believe that no tribe is abso-
lutely free from the taint of having
taken the scalp. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11
How Marbles Arc Made.

Most of the stone marbles used by
boys are made in Germany. The re-
fuse only of the marble and agate
quarries is employed and this is
treated in such way that there is
practically no waste. Men and boys
are employed to break the refuse
stone into small cubes, and with their
hammers they acquire marvellous
dexterity. The little cubes are then
thrown into mill consisting of n
grooved bed-stone and revolving
runner. Water is fed to the mill and
the runner is rapidly revolved, while
the friction does the rest. In half an
hour the mill is stopped and busheI
or SO of perfectly rounded marbles
taken out. The whole process costs
the merest trifie. - Philadelphis
Record
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11

grade. From the central apron of
these tables Mr.. Elliott gathered care.
lessly n handful of great,
hne-looking ones that we thought
should surely have gone into an "elec'
trio light" bag.
III give you dollar for every
kernel you find in these" he said,
presenting them to lis. We eagerly
cracked them, found them perfectly
empty. and regarded Mr.. Elliot as
sort ofmagician, who could see through
a shell, if not milestone.
SIT is the simplest thing in the
world" he said, laughing at our be-
wilderment, "though it always puzzles
strangers. And he showed us how a
strong current of air blew the empty
shells at once into the central division.
The third grade of peanuts, or what
remains after the second picking, is
then turned into n machine which
crushes the shells and separates them
from the kernels These are sold to
manufacturers of candy while the
shells are ground up and used for
horse bedding. So no part of this
little fruit, vegetable or nut, which
ever it may turn out to be, is finally
wasted, but all serves some useful pur-
pose.
The peanut is little patriot. be-
cause it helped the poor soldiers when
the war was over it has stood by the
poor farmers during many desperate
season, and now furnishes employment
for thousands of laborers, not only in
Norfolk, but in many factories at
other towns in its section of country.
1t creates steadily increasing in
dustry, and there begins to be n de-
mand for our peanuts in foreign
countries, as they are far less oleagin-
GUS and more agreeable to the taste
than those grown in Africa, so there
is a fair prospect for n profitable ex-
port trade in the future. New Orleans
Picayune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11
His Experience Account.

"When l lose anything" says a
well-known Maine business man, 81
charge it to the account of experience.
You may think it strange, but l be-
lieve the good-sized sum l have al
ready entered undvr that head is the
most profitable money ever spent.
Adversely is the great teacher II we
but heed her lessons. l lost SoOO
once in transaction that gave me
information and proper respect for
matters had deemed of little account,
from which [ afterward made $4,000.
| would not sell my experience
account, at my age, Tor five times
what it has cost me, for | shan't live
long enough to get sharpened up
again. Lewiston Journal
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11
Why Manila Paper is Tough.

The tough paper which comes from
China and Japan is made from manillu
fiber The new and fresh fiber is not
used, it being too expensive, but nfte :
1T has served its purpose as rope OF
'cordage and has become old it is care
fully picked to pieces into q string,
pulp and manufactured into paper.
The paper is singularly strong; whe,'
rolled up into q string or cord it IL
"a very good substitute for cotton op
flax twine. Its strength is solely due
to that of the MANILA, which is one o.
the strongest fibers known to the man
ufacturer, Chicago Herald.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11

If a perfectly practicable method OF
automatically closing the doors be.
tween watertight compartments on
war vessels has been discovered many
ofthe terrorsof ffightingn great armored
battle-ship will disappear A dispatch
from England says that two workman
at the Deyonport dockyard have de.
vised contriyance which works satis.
fnctorilv and insures the simultaneous
closing of all compartments when the
water rises to a height of six inches.
With such machinery the danger from
ramming will be reduced to mini
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11

One of the extraordinary things in
this world is the prosaic end of most
OF the great explorers and advcnturers.
After escaping death in hundred
forms Spoke, Burton and Baker died
at home, one the victim of hunting
accident and the other quietly in bed.
Now Commander Cameron, who had
crossed Africa several times, is killed
by fall from his horse in the hunt
ing field.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11

France does not seem to be in much
danger of becoming overstocked with
population. For the past three years
there have been more deaths than
births in that country. There were
10000 more last year. There have
been a great many more marriages,
however, in the last year or two than
for seventeen years.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11

Balfour is so little given to exngger.
alton that what he says about the
strong probability of European war
in the near future will make strong
impression on Englishmen, declares
the San Francisco Chronicle. He evil
IDENTIFY believes that the cause of war
will be found in rival claims for terri
tory in Asia, and that France will he
found leagued against England. His
words reveal that one more acute oh
server has taken up the theory that an
aggressive movement will soon be
made by France, backed, of course,
by Russia,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11

The great popularity of Washington
as a winter residence is Indicated by
the fact that as the years roll on the
fashion of wealthy people owning a
house at the national capital increases.
Many wealthy men, who have been in
public life for time, elect TO spend
their days after retirement In the DO.
litieal atmosphere of Washington.
Others are attracted by the liveliness
OF the season to make it their home
for few months. As a consequence,
a society is growing MP which wear af-
ter year becomes more attractive. and
will finally result in making Washing
ton the great social as well as politi-
cal centre of the Nation.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11

The statistician is a very trying per-
son, but he is often interesting as
well. For instance he has discovered
that only fifty-tive per cent of blondes
marry, while seventy-nIne per cent.
of their brunette sisters engage in
mntrimony. Some one tries to explain
this by asserting that fair-haired peo-
pie are more susceptible to the unsan.
itNry conditions of large towns, and so
succumb to deaths darts before they
are smitten by those of Cupid.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11

Exhaustive experiments in the cult
vation of tea are soon to be made in
Russia. The car is personally inter
ested in the plan, and experts are nr-
ranging for the cultivation of the
plant in the western limits of the Cau-
casus, where the temperature is much
the same as that in which the plant
grows III China.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11

A San Quentin, Cal. convict refused
to accept pardon because he believed
that he could do the other convicts
good by remaining among them. The
ways of Providence it has been stat.
ed before-are inscrutable, muses. the
San Francisco Examiner. No sooner
had the convict reached his peculiar
and self-sacrifcing determination than
he died.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11

wrapped in buffalo robes, speeding
away behind two powerful horses.
Mr.. Lincoln was talkative, and Will
soon found that Lizzie was Lizzie
Burton still.
"a smart girl" said Lincoln "she's
got grit, tell you. She's our school
ma'am, and my two youngsters think
the world of her"
1t was quite dark when they reached
the schoolhouse.
'I'll have to let you out here" said
Lincoln. 'Tm sorry, for It's storm
ing pretty bad, but you see there's
nobody ut home to do the chores,
and
Will interrupted him by declaring
that he thought nothing of the walk,
and was very grateful for the favor re'
ceived.
"Thar's their light straight ahead,
stranger, and if you keep your eye on
that you can't miss it.
With an interchange of good
nights, the two men went their sep
arate ways. Will plodded on through
the deepening snow for perhaps half
the distance, when he stumbled
against something nearly buried in n
drift. He stopped to see what it was.
A womau-and perhaps frozen to
death A sudden fear chilled his
heart. He felt for his matches and
lit one. He caught only n glimpse of
the white face before the blaze was
gone, but that was enough.
ooh, God, he cried, "help me, and
grant that she is not dead !"
He raised the senseless girl in his
strong arms, his valise lying unheeded
where it fell, and pressed on. Could
he reach that light in time? Every
thought was a prayer for help in this
his time of great need. He struggled
on, now and again stumbling to his
knees, for Lizzie was dead weight on
his arms.
Had it been any one else," he said
afterward, 81 think my strength must
have failed. F"
Mrs. Barton, now thoroughly alarmed
about her daughter, had started out
with lantern to look for her she met
Will II few rods from the door, and to.
gether they bore the unconscious Liz
zie into the warm room. How they
worked to save her precious life And
when their efforts were at last success
full, and she opened her eyes to Sc,
Will bending over her-Ah, it's of nc
use for me to try to describe tina
scenei
The next morning, when all hat
been told, and the mystery of the lost
letters wondered over, Mr.. Bartor
hobbled to his desk, and unlocking {
drawer took therefrom small pack
age. Giving it to Lizzie, he said;
"There, child, | wont have that or
my mind any longer. l suppose you'll
always hate your old father, but
thought was doing it for your good. j
"Why, father My letters-and-
and-Will's! Oh, how could? How
could you?"
"Hush, Lizzie" said Will. "1t'l
all right now, and we won't hold any
hard feelings. Will you give her tc
me now, sir?"
"Well, broke in Mrs. Barton, &C
think she belongs to you if she does tc
anybody, for you have saved her life
twice, first from fire and now from
freezing.
Mr.. Barton could not speak. He
held out his hand, which Will grasped
heartily, while Lizzie threw her arms
around his necf New York Journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11
JUST IN TIME

ELL, mother, said
Mr. Barton, as he
walked excitedly
into the pleasant
sitting room where
his wife sat placid
ly knitting, GIVE
got IT chance to sell
the place fog cash,
and at pretty fair
figures, too, itseems
to me. -
cob, fatherl but
you won't do it?"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

In England one man in 5000 at
tends college; in Scotland one in 600;
in Germany one in 2l3 in the United
States one in 1000.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-11

That day, when the Eastern IL
steamed into the little town of
ton, it left one passenger on the p
form of the small depot, a good-lo
ing, broadshouldered young fell
whose name was William Chester.
had been amazed at not hearing fl
Lizzie ut first, and had written az
and again, thinking there must
some mistake. Finally he hear,
rumor of her intended marriage.
had been deeply hurt, but resol
that no one should know it. Yet
could not tear her image from
heart.
When he started on his present
he said sternly to himself that
should make no effort to sec her.
he watched for Melton, and when
town was reached, could not resist
impulse to leave the train.
81 may as well find out the tr
now am here" he said ''and, af
all, it is only neighborly to look I'll
up, even if Lizzie is married"
He went over to the large st
which contained the postoffice, h
ing to find some means of conveya
to Mr., Burton's farm, A man We
ing shaggy fur overcoat, overhe
his request, and Immediately said ::
Barton, did you say? Why,
ms neighbor, and am going he
right away. Ny name is Lincoln.
can set you down within a mile of
place, II you can walk that far"
Young Chester thanked the frien
neiohbor heartilx, ord +ho ,,,o~o 80
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1894-09-22

LIE consul de bradford, Ang1eterre,
Went d'envoyer des details interessants
sur la fabrication de Il sole artificielle.
Une cofnpagnie Went de e former
pour ce,te fabrication. L'inventeur
du proced6 est un Suisse.
On peut voir au bureau Dc Ia compa-
gnie un vase duquel decoule un liqui-
de qui Sc transfcrme en- TN I'll de sole
qai g tisse ct se teint, se lave ct 50
repasse sans perdre ii ses qualities ni
|spn lustro.