davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03

When Mr.. Gresham had it given out
that he had promptly called the Spanish
government down and demanded a
prompt apology for the insult to the
American flag and assurances that the
American merchant marine, what is
left of it, should in the future be suit
ably respected, the Kansas City Journal
regarded it all as a piece of fake hero
les. The curse of the ~administra-
ton had not been such as to warrant
the belief that the apparent adoption
of a policy of positive Americanism
meant anything more serious than a
peal Of stage thunder for the ediica-
ton Of a crowd in the gallery. And up
to the present moment nothing more
has been heard of the affair.
Then there is the affair of Nicaragua,
that Of Venezuela, and a still fresher
incident in Madagascar croWding upon
the state department with never a sign
Of attention other than the sailing
away from Venezuelan waters Of the
ships Of our navy at the very time when
SiiSS olOulu DS OlllhS tp SIOil
cry for possible action.
1t will be remembered that follow
ing h announcement of the embargo
placed upon u foreign trade by the
concerted action Of the various Euro
pean countries, Mr.. Gresham permitted
a bombastic declaration as to retalia-
ton to leak out from the state depart
ment. But nobody has since heard a
word about it from any official source.
We are compelled to take just what
any other power, first, second, or third
class, sees fit to give us. MIR. Gresham
has been praised without stint by the
newspaper press all over the land for
the boldness of his stand in the Alli-
anca affair, and so sure was everybody
that the administration had adopted a
the patriotic sentiments universal
throughout the land, that when Great
Britain's ultimatum to Nicaragua be-
came known an immediate show of the
talons of the proud bird of freedom
was bespoken. But there are unmistaIi.
oOlS luUlCdLlOuS tudt lue duLllulSIFdLlOu
has come to the conclusion that the
first step taken in a new policy of
A~mericanism was too harsh and the
gait must be modified.
The evident wobbling is an assur-
n C hat the weakness that has marked
the whole course of Mr.. Cleveland's
foreign policy is i~nseparable from his
administration of public affairs. No
amount of tin pan display can rein
state the state department in the on
fidence of the people.
Oh, for one month of an Adams, a
Webster, a Clay, an Evarts, a Blaine,
a Foster, or any one of a long line of
true Americans in the chair of secretary
of state, with a president who has
one spark of patriotic fire in his moral
makeup to back up the messages that
would surely keep the cables warm I'M
til American rights should be recog-
nized in every foreign capital con-
cerned in the present difficulties.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
On the Road.

The highwayman had called the good
gentleman from his steed and at the
point of his a%rquebus was compelling
him to render unto seller the things
that were not seizer's. The good gentle
man protested, for he was rich in plum
der, and was 10th to give up to the
robber. But the robber was greatly
pleased with the situation and calmly
proceeded to fill his pockets from the
pockets of his victim.
my friend" pleaded the good gentle
man, it is not meet that you should thus
take my money, my watch and my jew
els"
81 should say it wasn't" replied the
robber, his Y sparkling with greed
and glee. 81 should say it wasn't meet;
its pie"
Having secured all the good gentle
man possessed, he added his richly
caparisoned steed to his other accu-
mutations and rode away laughing
merrily.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
A Housewifely Esquimo Girl.

Here is a little Esquimo girl who lives
at Point Barrows, Alaska, n of the
northmost towns in the world. Besides
being taught how to read and write,
mathematics, geography, singing, etc.,
the children of Point Barrows are in
structed in the art of cooking. There is
little cooking dom in Alaska, where
fuel for fire is scarce, and where the at
mosphere is so clear, crisp and pure,
that meats and fish are preserved and
prepared for food. The missionaries are
teaching the children of frigid Alaska
the art of cooking and housekeeping,
and are providing them with better
homes and more comforts than they
have hitherto known. Alaska, as all
our children know, was purchased by
the United States from Russia shortly
after the civil war. 1t is an immense
country separated from Siberia, the
land into which the great white czar
sends prisoners who plot against his
life or the government, by Behring
strait. Alaska is almost a barren
country, the cold preventing vegetation
in any profusion. The people are alb
jectly poor, but they have few wants,
and the struggle for money has not yet
found place among the natives. Uncle
Sam, in order to improve the condition
of his Esquimo wards, is stocking the
country with reindeer, which serve as
beasts of burden and supplies them
with milk. The few natives of Alaska
that have been brought to the United
States soon tired of u civilization and
grew homesick, consequently We're
taken back to their homes.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
All, That Accounts for 1t

The manly American letter form the
anca outrage was written on his own
state department following the Alli-
responsibility, it is said, by Edwin F.
Uhl, a Michigan man, who was in tenn
porary charge of the department dur
ing the indisposition of Secretary
Gresham and the absence of President
Cleveland. If this be so, a motion to
make the secretary pro tenn permanent
wchld receive a heavy popular VOTE
Cincinnati Times-Star.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
German Clock School.

The clock school at Furawangen, in
the Black Forest, Germany, established
by the duke of Baden in 1877, furnishes
three years instruction in preparatory
clock making and supplementary
courses. 1t comprises theory and prac-
tice, the higher mechanics and cleo
tricity. The means of instruction in
clude a large collection of all kinds of
tools, instruments, drawings, models,
ETC., and carefully constructed and
equipped school premises. Factories,
electric plants, etc., are often visited
under the direction of the teachers or
of the mechanics employed in the
places visited. The library contains
books relating to clock and watch max
ing and electricity. Reading rooms,
drawing rooms, laboratories, etc., are
open to the pupils daily.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
Dairy Farmers and the Public.

An article on physical development
recently published in Harper's Weekly
refers incidentally to the fact that an
imals in confinement very frequently
die of consumption, and suggests that
this is due more to the lack of physical
exercise than to any other cause. Not
ing this suggestion, a correspondent
writes to call attention to the manner
in which COWS are cared for during the
winter in our best dairies. He says
that while boarding on a large dairy
farm near Minneapolis he observed, to
his surprise, that the cows were kept
in their stalls from the beginning to
months in that latitude-without be-
ing allowed any opportunity whatever
for exercise, and that since coming east
he learns that the same plan has been
adopted in the best dairies of New
York. The proprietors Of the diaries,
he says, justify their action by alleging
that the COWS look healthy, and they
fall back in the last resort on the as
sertion that, be it hygienic or unhy-
gienic, it sis business" to care for the
COWS in this way.
If it be true, as would thus appear,
that so harmful a custom as this is be-
coming widely prevalent, the subject
is certainly worthy the attention of the
department of agriculture. 1t can hard
ly be questioned that a cow sanctioned
for months at a time in such a manner
that she is harly able to take a single
step will be less robust and healthy,
and more susceptible to disease, other
things being equal, than one that is
allowed a reasonable amount of out
door exercise. And the h~ealthfulnesS
Of dairy COWS is a matter of such vital
Importance to the entire public that
the matter of caring for them might
very properly be made the subject of
official inquiry and legislative r~estric-
tior. Particularly is this true in states
where, as in New York, tuberculous
COWS are killed by order of the state
veterinarian, and the owners reim-
bursed from the state treasury. Under
ouch conditions it is plainly no more
than just that wne of COWS should
be required to care for them in a way
that will tend to ward Off tuberculous
rather than to invite the disease-Har-
per's Weekly.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
On Bad Handwriting.

One of the most important things for
boys or girls to learn to do is to write
plainly, so that those who have to read
what they write are left in no doubt as
to their meaning. Several amusing
stories of the embarrassment which has
followed not learning to write legibly
are told. One of these is of a MaSSa-
chusetts clergyman who nearly got him.
self into a peck of trouble because of
t : bad quality of his handwriting. It
was more than a century g that this
clergyman had occasion to address a
letter to the general court of Massa-
chusetts upon some subject of great in
terest at that time. When the letter
was received the court ordered the clerk
to read it, and was filled with wrath
at what appeared to be these words in
opening:
II address you not as magistrates.
but as Indian DEVILS"
"Whatr' they cried. "Read that
over again. How does he address us?"
mot as magistrates, but as Indian
DEVILS" repeated the clerk. That's
what he says"
The letter was passed around, and the
judges We're by no means pleased to see
that the clerk had apparently made no
mistake. Very angry at what they be-
1ieved to be an insult, the judges passed
a vote of censure upon the clergyman,
and wrote to him demanding an
apology. He came before them in per-
son when it turned out that where the
judges had read Indian devils he had
written individuals-which, of curse,
made an apology unnecessary; but the
reverend gentleman was admonished
to improve his handwriting if he wished
to keep out Of trouble.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
Hypnotized a BOY

Joseph Orr, a 12-year-old boy of
Brooklyn, who was discovered wander
ing in the streets after being away from
three days, has been almost constantly
delirous since he was found. The doc
tor who is attending him says that
there is evidence that the boy was hyp-
Noticed. The lad was delirous when
found, and became unconscious soon
after being taken home. He said: 81
met a man who put a red handkerchief
over my face, and then I didn't know
anything more until I woke up in Green
wood cemetery. It was awfully cold
there, and I got up and walked a long,
long way" The boy, in his delirium.
gives utterances and expressions of
fear and pleading.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
COntradictS Itself,

That rabid goldite sheet, the New
York Evening Post, says that if silver
were remonetized wages in this country
would fall so per cent Immediately, but
if the Post really believed what it said
it would be the most ardent advocate
of free coinage in the world, because
another it is American labor.-Denver
Republican.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
GRAND OLD PARTY.
ENGLAND GETS THE LIONS
SHARE OF PROFIT.
And Other Foreign Countries Reap a
Rich Reward from Democratic Tariff
Legislation-That Weakly, Webbing
Foreign Policy.

1t is no wonder that most Democratic
organs are ~discreetly silent about the
workings of the tariff which Grover
Cleveland and the Fifty-third congress
OF malodorous memory imposed upon
the country in defiance of the practical
ly unanimous protests Of the American
people. The confident predictions OF
the Democratic press and of Democrat
1c congressman that this measure would
produce abundant revenue and i'm
mensely increase the sale Of American
products abroad have been falsified in
every particular.
So far the new tariff has accom-
plished three important results. 1t
has produced a deficiency of about a
hundred millions a year in the income
OF the United States government. 1t
has cut down our exports from $685.
277,S44 for the six months ending
March 1, 1894, to SAT-, 052, 40 for the
six months ending March i, 1895-an
average reduction in our export trade
OF about eight millions a month, or
nlnety-six millions a year. And it has
increased the imports of foreign prod
ucts which take the place of American
goods by about $50 ,00O, 900 in the same
time. Thus it cuts both ways, like
sales of goods for which foreigners
must pay us and increasing our pur-
chases of imported products for which
we must pay foreign producers, to the
detriment of our own manufacturers
and farmers.
England naturally gets the lions
share of profit under this characters
tic Democratic measure, says the New
York Advertiser. During January and
February, 1894, we imported wooden
goods from British ports to the value
of $~1,425,210, and raw wool to the
amount of 3%,117,000 pounds. This year
we have imported British woolens to
the value of Sc, LOG, 455, and British wool
to the amount of 16.08S, 400 pounds in
these two months! .Impor, of linen
goods from Great Britain have more
than doubled, cottons have increased
60 per cent, and the volume of British
tin plate imported has grown from 3D.
7O9 tons to Al ,S27 tons. The increase in
other lines of British goods has been
proportiOnately heavy. These figures
are not given out from Washington.
They are taken from the official British
trade reports, and they show why Brit
ish factory whistles were blown and
British factory bells rung in jubilant
celebration when the Wilson-Gorman
tariff passed the congress of the United
States.
But although England gains most
from the legislation which the Demo-
cratic party has accommodatingly en-
acted for her special benefit, other for
eign countries will also reap a rich re-
ward at the expense OF American work
men. From Canada, Italy, France,
Germany, the Netherlands, Switzer-
land and many other countries an in
creasing flood of imports is setting in
toward the United States. And every
additional pound or yard of goods COM
peting with American products which
enters our ports under the lower rates
of duty means so much less work and
wages for American citizens.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
Bad on the Lawyer.

A few days since, at Buena Vista, the
boys round the grocery store tackled
the labor problem. One of the horny
handed sons Of toll happened to be
present. One of the lights ventured the
remark that he did not do manual la
Dor, but worked with his head.
"Yes," said the son of toll, 80 does
the red headed peckerwood, and he's a
mighty big bore at that"
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
SIT HeZ Done En-"

What hez this Democratic free
trade congress done?" asked the rural
stump speaker in strident tones of in
dignation. AS he paused for a reply
a man with a big double bass voice
answered: ct hez done the American
people. " Star.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
Free Trade and Farmers.

In free-trade England the number
of sheep declined by 1920, 900 last year
and the number of cattle by $50, 500
head. This shows hat the loss of farm
stock under free trade is not rlerely
temporary, but continuous.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
Look Out for No. |"
Your First Duty is to Yourself Your Bodily Con-
diton Calls for the Help to be Found in a Good
Spring Medicine
The best Preparation for this Purpose is
Hoods SarsapariHa

Spring is the season for cleansing and
renewing the blood. During the winter
it has crept sluggishly through the
veins, gathering impurities from indoor
air, from fatty substances in the food,
and from many other sources.
The great blood purifying medicine
especially prepared to do this work is
Hoods Sarsaparilla. 1t will give to the
blood purity, richness and vitality and
these will bring health and vigor, strong
nerves, a good appetite, refreshing sleep,
and powers of endurance.
Cleanse your blood by taking Hoods
Sarsaparilla, q renovating preparation
especially prepared to make pure blood,
then you may enjoy the season of flow
ers and birds and outdoor pleasures,
for you will be healthy. strong md well.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
Settlements Unsatisfactory.

The fact that Populism won't marry
the new silver party indicates that
the latter must be a trife shy in the
matter of dowry.-Detroit Tribune.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03

Drought and Democracy coming
at the same time is sn unparalleled
calamity" writes a farmer from Far
ragut, Iowa.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03

o TO SLEEP. GO
to sleep,
The little lamb
hugs his mother
sheep.
The little waves
nestle on the
deep,
The little winds
to their flower
beds creep.
Go to sleep, my
baby dear,
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03

But don't go to sleep till morning!
Rock-a-bye, rock-a-bye,
The baby stars shine in the sky.
Each baby bird has shut his eye,
Each baby bat is on the fly.
Rock-a-bye, my baby, dear,
But don't go to sleep till morning!
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
The Monetary Conference.

Speculation as to whether President
Cleveland will send delegates to the
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
CURRENT SKETCHES FOR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.

A Lullaby for a Contrary Baby-where
Boys and Girls Cannot Stay Out
Late at Night Bad Handwrit-
ing.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1895-05-03

81 cannot speak too highly OF Hoods
Sarsaparilla, as it has worked wonders IN
my case. I am "a years OF age and nave
been afflicted with salt rheum on my HANDS
for a great many years. l tried many
things to cure them, but failed. My hands
would crack open and bleed profusely, ana
the pain was terrible to bear. Since taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla the flesh has healed ana
the skin is as smooth as any farmers. L
recommend Hoods Sarsaparilla as a reliable
medicine and always speak in its favor
LLOYD B. CHASE, Swansea, Mass.
Hoods S~arsaparilla
Is the Only
True Blood Purifier
Prominently in the public eye to-day.
Be sure to get Hoods and only Hoods.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-09-14
VERY TRUE.

The following from the Baton
Rouge Advocate is SO uncontrovert
IDLY true that we reproduce it. An
old broken down politician or some
one with an ak to grind generally
rushes into print under a non de
plume, because his name signed to
an article would divest it of all force
and interest:
The season has now arrived when
the old broken down political hacks
are filing the newspapers great and
small with their illusions over some
such signature as Democrat, Tax
payer. Voter, Progress, Justice, and
so on I'd .uEu1INm a9 uauSeNw.
Whch a mans office hunting pro-
elivities become so we'll known tina,
the people discredit everything lie
says, and his signature to news
paper article no longer interests the
public sufficiently to induce them to
cad it, it is then that he seeks
refuge eeflDd all sorts of catchy IT,
ties to force himself upon the pub
lie attention. In purely literary
contributions the non de plume finds
its justification on the score OF
,nodesty, but its employment in po-
litical controversies in this age OF
the world and in free America is an
atrocious anachronism that should
rot be countenanced by progressive
xrwsrrcers. II is nothing short Of
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-09-14
For Sale.

THE .LONG" PLANTATION
on Bayou Vermilion, abont 6 miles
in rear of Lafayette, La, now I'M
der lease to Ad. Won kalckstein,
until December 81, 1895. Con-
tains about 1000 acres superior
arabic land, fine residence and new
barn, also gin house with machin-
cry, cabins. outhouses, ETC.. and
some fine wood land; we'll adapted
to the culture of sugar, cotton or
rice; possession January 1st, 1896.
For further particulars apply to
Judge c. DeBaillon, Lafayette, La,
or to Messrs. w. I. Hodgscn & Son,
New Orleans, La.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-09-14

At a recent rural prayer meeting
the minister said. ':Will brother
Smith lead in prayer? Seven men
arose and began praying at once
This embarrassed the preacher, and
he said hurriedly: 81 meant
Brother John Smith ~ At this an
nouncement one sat down and five
more got up and began praying.
The preacher saw his mistake, said
nothing and let the eleven pray it
out among themselves.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-09-14
From the Sugar Game State to
the Golden Gate.

\ ride Of Three Thousand Five
Hundred Miles (5,5oo) made in
five days in Il Pullman Tourist
Sleeper through the great States of
Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico,
Arizona and California, to Portland,
Oregon, with only one change Of
cars. This is what the Traveller,
Sight-seer or HomeSeeker can do.
Sights Of mountain grandeur, supc-
rior in vastness to any in the known
world, open upon the vision,
changing with Kaleidoscope rapidi-
ty from the last beautiful bit of
scenery to new ones even more SO.
The Southern Pacific Railroad is
the artery over which the finest trains
tun over the best track of steel rails
in the South, reaching from Gulf to
Ocean. Her equipment is modern,
her road-bed magnihcently ballas-
red, and her motive power is I'M
equalled south of the Ohio river.
Ali these qualifications are facts.
Her employees Away courteous. A
trip from "The Land of Sugar Cane,
Rice Fields and cotton to the Pa
cif7c Coast is an education in itself
never to be regretted. Write for
any information to the nearest rep
resentative of this great system of
railroads and steamship lines, and
receive in return your question
answered, reliable and to the point.
Any Of our readers contemplating a
trip will do we'll to inquire of the
nearest Southern Pacific Systems
agents before buying elsewhere.
S. +. 3. Morse, G. p. & Il. a.,
New Orleans, La.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-09-14
BACK TO THE FARMS.

Springfield Republican.
A movement of population from
the cities back into the country is
noted in Minnesota. The Mime
apolis Tribune regards this recess
sion in urban growth as an en-
couraging sign, and SO it probably
is. We shall be much surprised if
our own Massachusetts census does
not exhibit a similar population
movement in progress here. All
over the country the drift tc the
cities has been too general and ex-
tensive for a decade and half past
to meet the demands of a natural
and healthful adjustment between
populations engaged in agriculture
and populations engaged in manu-
featuring, transportation, and pro-
fessional and personal services.
The latter avenues of employment
have been terribly overcrowded and
tie coming on of hard times has
compelled something of halt in
this remarkable march of the popu-
lation to the cities.
Fifty years ago economists estl-
mated that about one-half of the
working population of country
which was Insufficient in all lines
of industry would be needed on the
farms to establis healthy indus
trial equilibrium. Since then there
has been such improvement in ma
chinery for farm work and it's appll
cation in America to such adv an
tage on broad areas Of rich virgin
soil as to materially modify this es-
innate for the United States in par
ticular. That is to say, the same
number Of men engaged on the soil
can to-day produce a much larger
quantity of food and raw material
for manufacturing than they conld
80 years ago. But since America
is producing a vastly larger guam
t1ty of food and raw material than
it uses-is doing agricultural work
for considerable body of manu-
featuring located outside the coun-
try-we should say that, notwith
standing the improvements in farm
machinery, an estimate of 50 per
cent for the population which SIN uld
be at work on the ia ms in the
United States under natural and
beautiful industrial conditions was
none too high. And yet the census
of 1890 shows, in a bulletin lately
published, that hardly 40 per cent.
of the working population was at
that time engaged on the farms.