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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
The Lie in Parliament.

LONDON, Aug. 17.-When the house
OF commons began its regular work Sir
Richard Webster, Conservative member
for the Isle of Wight division of Hamp-
shire and formerly attorney general.
moved that a certified copy of the trial
and conviction of Michael DAILY. the
dynaniter, who was recently elected
to parliament, representing Limerick,
although convicted in 1884 of having
been engaged in dynamite conspiracies,
be furnished to the house and that the
governor of Portland prison present a
certificate that DAILY was still a pris-
cner in that prison.
John Redmond, member for Water
ford City, Parnellite, said that he
recognized in that motion the first step
in proceedings aiming at overriding
the unanimous action of the electors
of Limerick and he protested against
1t and insisted Upon a division.
The motion was carried-314 to u
and the DAILY matter was made the
order of the day for Monday.
Mr.. Redmond moved an amendment
to the address inviting the government
to declare hat there would be no delay
in the Irish policy. Five-sixths of the
electors of Ireland had declared in
favor of home rule, and he protested
that the verdict of the election vas not
against home rule. He warned the gov
eminent that Ireland could not be sat
isfactorily governed from Westminster
and that the only remedy for her ills
was the national self government. Re-
garding land legislation, he admitted
that the only remedy was compul sorry
purchase BY the tenants.
Grad Balfour, chief secretary for
Ireland. declared that Ireland was
prosperous and crops good, and there
was no need for hasty action on the
land question.
Timothy Harrington declared that
the LIBERAL party had fed from ho ne
rule, whereupon DIR. CHARLES X. d..
Tanner shouted III "a lie Loud and
indignant cries of Order" were heard
from both sides of the hou e.
DIR. Tanner declining to withdraw
the expression the speaker named him
and the Right Hon. Joseph Chamber
lain, secretary of state for the colon
les, moved that DIR. Tanner be sus-
pended. A division was called for,
but DR.. Tanner failed to find a teller
iHb Tx spCdhCI oCCldiCu IhO hIoLlCh
carried.
DIR. Tanner shouted that he woull
Withdraw II he were directed to do so
from the chair. Upon retiring he
made a courteous bow and exclaimed:
Il have greater pleasure in leaving
than l ever had in entering this dirty
house" Then pointing to the treasury
bench he shouted: Judas" This
wa repeated four times. Arrived at
the door he tried to turn back, but was
prevented. his last words being: None
of your nonsense on me-"
Tanners suspension lasts for n
week.
A census of the parliament just as
sembled shows that only 100 out of $50
are new men. Of the occupations $50
are lawyers, "a miners, IS mechanics,
10 professors in universities, 81 jour
n~alists, y skilled laborers, 10 brewers,
distillers and wine merchants, 46 army
and navy officers in active service, l46
gentry, peers sons and peers brothers.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
Tariff Revision.

The leopard does not change it's spots
and the Evening Post is the same Bit
ter enemy of a protective tariff that it
ever was. 1t said, June 81:
"If there is any possibility that the
republicans are going to let the country
stagger along under the tariff of in
fanny after they come into power, the
sooner it is known the better. And il
the tariff is really to be changed, the
country ought to know in what respects
just as soon as possible. Is the duty to
be restored upon imports of wool, for
example? Such questions as these will
agitate the minds of business men of
all parties if the republicans announce
positively that they are going to
tinker the tariff"
The Evening Post may feel assured
that the republican party, as soon as it
has the power to do SO, in both house
and senate will obey the popular man
date, given in thunder tones at the
election of 1894, to protect American
industry. 1t has upheld that policy in
times of disaster; it will not abandon
it now, when it is about to enter again,
and with renewed vigor, into power.
But protectionists will not crafty
enemy by trittering away time on the
details of tariff revision. 1t would
please -f~ree-traders to attempt to create
discord, no doubt, but they must supply
their own ammunition. All revenue
reformers" and the like are united in
their purpose to overthrow protection
as the national policy. The Evening
Post, for instance, predicted that the
condition of the duty on wool would
undermine the entire protective system.
But wooden manufacturers continue to
be stronger protectionists than ever.
They know that the protective policy
benefits the whole country and, as pa
triotic citizens, they uphold it. Pro-
tectiye tariff revision will not agitate
"the minds OF business men of all par
ties" 1t is only when fools and free
traders tinker that the whole country
justly feels alarmed.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Aug. ia special
from Gainesville, Texas says that Gov
ernor Waite and General Weaver are
in attendance on a Populist meeting in
that city. In discussing the silver
question, it was suggested to Governor
Waite that a great majority Of the
business men of Texas were ''sound
money" men, and he then grew en-
phatic.
"Of course they are" he said. "All
the bankers are goldbugs, and they
control the business men. The bank
ers of Denver are such rabid sound
money men that they robbed the
people of millions of dollars. Sound
money men! Bosh! They are rob-
bers; thieves. That's what they are.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
DID Sine Get tine Balloong

A handsome young woman with q
beautiful little girl of 4 years sat in a
crowded Market street car yesterday.
you've got on mammals dress.
haven't you, Aunt Alice%' remarked the
child.
Aunt Alice flushed and called atten-
ton to a balloon man on the corner.
Yes, the last time wore that
dress down town h bought me a bal
loon. VIII you buy me one, Aunt
Alice?"
Eyes, if you'll be good"
ooh, I'll be good. Do you like man.
mas hat? 1t makes you look awfully
pretty, Aunt Alice"
There, be a good girl. See h a wom-
an out there with a little girl"
There was a period of silence and
Aunt Alice breathed a sigh Of relief.
Then the child inquired:
did mamma say you could wear her
pin, Aunt Alice? She wouldn't let me
wear it, cause she was afraid I would
lose it,"
Eyes, of course. Do be quiet, Nellie"
"Will you buy me a balloon, then?"
Yes"
And I can carry it?"
yes"
All right; then take mammals para
sol. 1 don't want to carry it any longer,
cause 1 couldn't carry it and a balloon,
too. Haven't you got any best dress Of
your own, Aunt Alice?"
Aunt Alice yanked the little girl out
of the a by the arm, and the chances
are that she got no balloon.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
Only One Dog.

Coming from the west last fall, as the
long vestibule train swung on to a high
bridge. it was brought to a sudden stop.
Rushing out, it vas found that a poor
woman and three children with a
NANCY dog by her side, and pushing a
hand cart, had tried to cross, and been
caught by the train. The cart was
knocked into fragments; the children,
by the merest accident, were rescued by
the passengers on one side Of the train,
while the woman was found hanging to
the timbers on the other side, and con-
vulsively clasping the miserable cur to
her breast. When asked why she neg
lected her children thus for the dog,
she answered between her sobs, why
boo hoo-I-I-only owned the one
dog, and I-boo h~oo-couldn't afford to
lose it!'-Rev. w. N. Page, Leaven-
worth, Kan.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
Go Nicely with Roast Captfves.

War is a frightful thing under all
circumstances, and some of the most
dreadful wars have been waged on the
most flimsy and foolish pretext. even if
they had a pretext at all, but probably
no stranger reason for war or peace was
ever recorded than has beer noted bv
a French governor of the South Pacific
colony of New Caledonia.
This governor, who Was also an adj
miral of the navy, assumed his author
ity while the natives of New Caledonia
were still cannibals. There had been
rumors Of an Instruction and the ad-
miral called before him a native chief
who was faithful to the French cause
and questioned him as to their truth.
"You may be sure" said the native,
that there will be no wal at present
because the yams are not yet ripe"
1.-THE yams, you say?"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
Misleading Theories.

The cost of the raw material in the
manufactured article was a theme of
discussion in the presidential campaign
of 1892 among the advocates of the So
called reform tariff. Facts, ascertained
by investigation, show that such cost
is very small in proportion to the other
expenses. For illustration, the price of
an deliberately made article of house
hold furniture may be 500 to $3.50, yet
the raw material used in the same may
cost s12 or SIS. This is equally true
of a piano costing from $500 to $500;
the raw material may cost $25 or $50.
In these cases the cost of the material
is estimated as it reaches the hands of
the workmen and not as iron ore in
the mine or wood in the forests. It's
great expense is in the wages of the
Workmen who procure it.
Mr.. Cleveland himself laid great
stress upon the free admission of iron
ore and coal and was especially earnest
for wool to be admitted free of duty.
Take an illustrations: A gentleman's
suit of fine broadcloth weighs, with the
trimmings, &C., from 61A to ~ pounds;
the cloth itself does not weigh more
than perhaps 6 or 6k pounds. Sup
pose an American manufacturer buys
the best quality of merino wool to use
in making his cloth, and in order to
cover the Wastage he buys 10 pounds
OF the wool. The Mckinley bill i'm
posed a duty of II cents a pound on
that class of wool. From this it fol-
lows that each gentleman's broadclOth
suit costs $1.10 more money because of
the duty. Now intervenes n type
of craftsmanship, which, in order that,
perhaps, a half million of gentlemen
may each obtain a suit of ~broadcloth
$1.10 cheaper, all wool is admitted free
of duty. In consequence the sheep rails
ing industry of the United States, which
is estimated in value to be nearly $780,
000, 900, is deprecated about one-half.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
MUST BRAVE THE kURDS.
Difficulties in the Way of Recovering
Bicyclist Lenz's Body.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE state
department has received a dispatch
from Minister Terrill in Turkey stat
ing hal for the past three months he
has been urging the Turkish authori-
ties to permit an investigation of the
circumstances of the death of LEM,
the ~bicyclist, killed by the Kurds. Mr..
Terrill says that in order to comply
with the request of Mr.. Sachtleben,
sent by Outing to investigate the case,
that he be given authority to search
the residences of the Kurds for relics
of the bicyclist and proofs of his death,
an army would be necessary. These
Kurds live in the hills and mountains
and would not permit u stranger and
a foreigner to enter their houses, even
though armed with authority of the
Turkish government. Mr.. Terrill
says he expects to secure a guard of
Turkish troops, which will accompany
Sachtleben into the country of the
Kurds for the purpose of recovering
the remains of LEM.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
PAID IN SILVER.
Secretary Morton Has h Silver EN-
ployes Given White Metal.

Secretary Morton Has the Silver En-
ployes Given White Metal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.-Secretary
Morton, of the department of ag-
riculture heard arguments by many
of his subordinates in favor
of silver and yesterday, being
the semi-monthly pay day, he ordered
the paymaster of the department to
pay out $1,000 in silver coin, this
money weighing sixty pounds. 1t was
given to all . the sllverites in
various positions in the depart
ment. Unless he receives a petition to
the contrary it is expected that silver
will be paid out again and again on
pay day to the men who are known to
favor it as currency.
There vas a good deal of kicking
among the employees and a good many
of them have indicated to the paymas-
ter that they want paper money on
their next paw dav.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
A Practical Opinion.

Colonel William 3. Thompson re-
Gently gave his opinion of the German
tariff in clear, terse terms. Il think"
said he, cit was a barefaced sacrifice Of
the general interests for the personal;
of business at large, for political re-
wards and preferments. And [ am
from West Virginia, and. like Mr.. VIII
son Of that state, was in the c~onfeder-
ate army Colonel Thompson, VINO
speaks thus, is president of the M
tional Lead company, which has thirty
two large productive concerns through
out the country, with plants worth, in
the aggregate, $24, coo, 1000, and stocks OF
raw material and finished stuff worth
81. ,O00. His company disburses mil
lioIls of dollars annually for labor
AMI by tn production of lead and lin
seed oil adds greatly to the public
wealth. The opinions of such a man
should have due weight with free
traders who are sincerely in quest Of
light on the tariff question.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
EENZINE TANK EXPLODED.
Fierce Fire at Findley, Ohio, Caused by
Blazing Oil.

TOLEDO, Ohio, Aug. 17-An explo-
sion resulting in a fire entirely con-
sumed the plant of the Peerless foun-
dry, at Findlay, with $50, 900 loss, half
insured. A benzine tank exploded,
cause unknown, and in an instant the
building was in seething flames.
Two men, William Adams and William
Bemis, were probably fatally burned.
Ten oil stills caught next, and Il
after the other exploded, sending
flaming oil over the surrounding build
ings and ground. Next two tanks of
crude, containing $4,000 gallons took
fire, sending up red columns of flame
200 feet into the air. A mammoth
tank of 0 LOCO barrels wa fred into
with a cannon, letting the oil run out.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
The Refractory Tie.

There is nothing like a little nerve
combined with pleasing address and as
surance to make a winning move in the
world. During a recent pleasant after
noon a handsome-looking, well-dressed
man started for a stroll up Chestnut
street. When opposite the entrance to
the Continental hotel the stroller met a
party of friends and one of them play
fully caught n end of his faultlessIy
adjusted necktie and pulled the knot
loose.
Then came a tug-of-War, for no one
in the party could make the knot again.
After a great many attempts the stroll
er brushed his friends aside and stepped
up to a pleasant-looking girl who was
looking into a jewelers. window. A few
words were spoken, and, with a bright
smile, the young woman deity retied
the knot, remarking, with another
smile: 'Oh, yeu are entirely welcome.
I've got big ufUtl1ers of my own. They
are just as clumsy as you are."-Phila-
delphia Record.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
PLAYED to Catch Up.

My first charge was at Princeton,
Wis. After a few months had passed
one of the wheel horses" came to me
one day and said, Brother Perry, our
singing is not good, and 1t is your fault;
you ought to tell the choir when you
read the hymn whether it is long meter
or short meter or common meter"
I said, 81 do not see what difference
that would make"
WELL" he replied, "the choir sing too
fast" I said I did not think so.
Why" said he, don't you see the
organist plays all right, but the sing
ers sing so fast the organist has to play
awhile after they get through every
verse to catch up?"-W. j. Perry, Flo,
Wis.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
JIM CORBETT is MARRIED.
He Is Welded to Jessie Taylor at
Asbury Park.

AsBURY PARK, n. j., Aug. 17.-There
was a quiet civil marriage here yester-
day, of which the principals were
Champion James j. Corbett and Jessie
Taylor of Omaha, better known as
Vera Stanwood, the name under which
she figured as correspondent in the re-
cent suit for the divorce which was
granted to Mrs. Ollie Lake Corbett.
So quietly had Corbett's intentions
been kept that not ever his manager
and travelling companion, William A.
Brady, knew that he intended matri-
mony so soon, nor were any of his
other friends in sporting circles ap'
prised of the event.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23


1892 showed that the administration of
our government was about to change
from a protective tariff policy,
which kept out of this country
much that we could manufacture
here, to a reform tariff, or free
trade policy, which would give
foreign mechanics a better chance to
sell their goods in this country, the
following was the very natural result:
No matter what policy we believed
in, dear reader, you and | and every
body else expected that when the demo-
cratic administration should come into
power the tariff would be greatly lower
ed and prices would come down-at
least the prices of manufactured goods.
Many people didn't look or care be-
yOnd that.
So we stopped short in buying any
thing except for immediate use. Be-
fore that people would buy for future
use, sometimes in quantities at whole
sale. Merchants often closed out all
their winter goods in February to peo-
pie who bought for following years.
But all this stopped short off. Mer-
chants were overstocked with all kinds
of merchandise, and as they, like the
consumers, expected lower prices in the
near future, they stopped buying Of the
manufacturers. Thus the manufacture
ers found no market for great quanti-
ties of goods already made up, and their
employees had to be laid off. These
latter, who work for regular wages,
seldom lay up money, and when their
wages stopped they also stopped-buy-
ing the farmers and stock-raiser's
produce.
Then the people all wei the land who
had money withdrew it from invest
ments as fast as possible, because they
were afraid of all kinds. And that
money is idle today. Manufacturers
cannot do business on borrowed capital,
because they cannot borrow.
We, as a nation, are all dependent
upon each other, and if any great num-
Der of u people are out of employ
ment all the people will suffer. What
IL PCOplC van l " lIioIO luiC hiOiiSy ,
but more work and more buyers for
what we have to sell.
Our country is being flooded with the
merchandise of Europe, and it will be
sold at some price or other, and we can
not have real general prosperity until
we have barred out those goods long
enough to consume all the foreigners
can rush in here before we raise the
tariff. The little improvement that
seems to be noticed now in general
business is only the slight revival from
total depression, and is caused by those
buyers or consumers who have held off
from purchasing so long that they have
entirely exhausted their supplies and
must buy a little.
We want to erect a tariff wall that
will effectually keep out of our land all
goods that We can reasonably make at
home. This will keep our own me-
chanics busy and enable them to buy
the farmers produce, instead of COM
polling the farmer to send it to Europe
for market.-Peabody, Kansas, Ga
Zette.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES,

A storm passed over Chickamauga
National park, tearing up hundreds of
trees.
The stock of the S. P. Morse Dry
Goods company of Omaha is in the
sheriff's hands.
Lake Haynes slew his son near Clay
City, ILL.,, to prevent him from testify
ing against him.
The agricultural department, in a
bulletin, states that the total exports
of 1894 were $3.50, $40, 900 against s47,-
600, 600 for 1893
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23

A humorous philosopher nce COM
pared human life to a table pierced with
holes, each of which has a pin made ex-
actly to fit it; but the pins are stuck in
hastily and without selection, and there
are many awkward misfits. "How
often do we see," said the orator with
pretended sorrow, chow often, L say,
do we see the round man stuck into the
three-cornered hole!"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
General Imboden Dead.

BRISTOL, Tenn, Aug. 17.-General
John d. Imboden died at Damascus,
Va, yesterday, aged rs years. He was
a brigadier general in the Confederate
army and took a prominent part in
many Of the important engagements
of the war. He commanded the re-
treat of the C~onfederates at Gettys-
burg.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
A Puzzle for the Young.

"There's one thing I don't under
stand" said little Harry. That's why
good-tasting things like pie make me
sick and bad-tasting things like medi-
cine make me well. 1t ought to be the
other way"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
A Phenomenon.

Mother" said a little Scotch lassie,
"dae We ken what a phenomenon is?"
Yes, dear, 1 can tell We that. Dae We
see thon coo in the field? Weel that's
no a phenomenon. Dae We see thon
tree?"
AYE, mother, I see the tree"
"Weel that's no a phenomenon; but
when we see thon coo climbing up thon
tree with it's tail foremost that'll be a
phenomenon."-Rev. E. NJ. McFadden,
Philadelphia.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23

Freddie-I told Mr.. Loveman thai you
said you were going to kiss him the next
time he came to the house.
Maud-You horrid boy! What did he
say?
Freddie-Said he wouldn't believe 1t
till he had it from you own lips-Brook-
lyn Life.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
Married at Eighty-SIy.

TORONTO, Aug. 17.-Sir William How
land, ex-lieutenant governor Of Onta-
rio, was quietly married yesterday
afternoon to Mrs. Bethune, widow of
the late Mr.. Bethune. The bride
groom. who is eighty-six years of age,
is well known throughout the United
States and Canada. The bride is 60
years old.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
Western Exhibits for Chicago.

CHICAGO, Aug. l7.-At a meeting of
the Western society it was decided to
establish permanent headquarters in
this city with exhibits from the diff
ferent states, showing their products
and the advantages of the West and
Northwest.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
0 LIKE BUSINESS.
Contract for the A~mphitheater Let and
a Thousand Seats Ordered.

Contract for the A~mphitheater Let and
a Thousand Seats Ordered.
DALLAS. Texas, Aug. 1.-THE con-
tract for the erection of the Florida
Athletic clubs amphitheater has been
let, a large part of the lumber has ar
rived, and a force of men are clearing
the grounds. Details of the original
plan will be adhered to, and the build
ing will seat over 80. 900 people.
Yesterday the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad gave its check for
5000 for 1,OOd reserved seats to the
contest, to be sold along the line.
a letter has been received here, say
ing Fitzsimmons will probably train
al Terrell, a small town thirty miles
east Of Dallas.
Corbett's quarters at Galveston are
being fixed up for his reception.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
To Educate Farmer BOYS.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Aug. 17.-Presi-
dent Stickney eff the Chicago Great
Western road proposes to open a num-
Der of preparatory agricultural acad-
emies in which the farmers boys may
secure short courses of instruction in
the common branches along lines
which will inspire them with ambition
to enter the agricultural college.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
A Leading Young Man Shot.

VALPARAISO, Ind, Aug. Twill
Tratedas, 60 years old, and Lon Pow
ers, 81, became involved in a dispute at
8 o'clock this morning and Powers
killed Tratedas by shooting him.
Tratedas was a leading young a
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
They Changed the Subject.

A young Methodist preacher on his
first circuit was trying TO make friends
with a pretty little four-year-old girl.
Her mother, sitting near, said, kiss
him, dear"
The little mischief coy1y glanced at
her mother from the corner of her eve
and said very demurely, NO, mamma;
you kiss him"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-08-23
Foot or Head.
ewsboy-Pa sir?

Newsboy-Paper, sir?
solemn-Looking Citizen My dear
can't read.
Newsboy-Yes, sir. Want a shine?
Dem feet's with spendin' a nickel Oh
if the head amt.