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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11
The Boy and the Man.

Coleridge Patteson-a scholar at
Eton, one of England's famous historic
schools-was high spirited lad, and a
great favorite in the cricket eleven of
the school, for he was an uncommOnly
good player. At the club suppers
"Coley," as the boys called him,
was disturbed by the questionable
jests and stories of some of the mem
bers and at length declared publicly
that he should protest against anything
like indecency in the conversation or
in the songs that were sung. Notwith
standing this, at the next meeting one
of the boys begun to sing salacious
ditty, and Cooley" rose Indignantly to
his feet.
eff this sort of thing goes on 1 shall
leave the room," he said.
The singer continued, and Cooley"
marched out. The next day he wrote to
the captain Of the eleven, and assured
him that unless he received an apology
he should quit the club. He was too
important man to lose, and the apol-
ogy was sent. The trial of feeling to
the young fellow who made it could
have been no greater than the trial of
demanding it and risking a refusal; for,
like all enthusiastic cricket-players,
Coley" was passionately fond of the
game. But he loved character better
than cricket, and the outcome was a
victory of principle. Here was the kind
of boy of which martyrs are made.
The spirit that embolGened him to re-
sent vileness sent him afterward to
present Christianity to pagan peo-
pie. A group of islands north of New
Guinea in the South Pacific became the
brave mans field of labor, and there he
fell a victim to heather cruelty. But
death has not erased from the memory
of earth his example Of manly courage
and loyal discipleship. The story of
the boy of Eton and Martyr Bishop of
Melanesia" is told here-and will be
told for many year to come-to kindle
fearless virtue in other minds, and i'm
pre.s a noble lesson Of Christ-like sac
rifice.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11
NOTES OF THE DAY.

Matches have not yet displaced the
Spain and Italy.
David Coulter, Kansas prisoner
charged with murder, has invented a
corn-husking machine.
William B. Phelps, of New Madrid.
Mo-, is credited with total of 1850
squirrels in three days hunting on
Little river.
All the doors in John Kipp's house
at Cedar Bayou, Harris county, Texas,
were opened and a lid of the kitchen
range was blown off by bolt of light
ming.
There are now 140 cooking rooms
connected with the London schools, for
instructing pupils, and 10000 girls are
receiving instruction in culinary and
other domestic affairs.
There is no printing press large
enough to print the official ballot. This
leaves the newspapers out of the job,
since the law declares that two in every
county shall print the ballot life size"
The longest commercial distance at
which the long-distance telephone is
now operated is from Boston to st.
Louis, distance of 1,400 miles, This
line is more than twice as long as any
European telephone line
The net earnings of 1873 railroads I'D
to Sept 1 show a gain of 81, 500, 900 over
the net earnings for the first eight
months of 1895. These figures do not
include the heavy cotton movement
which has taken place since September,
The new educational paper that is to
be published updSr the auspices of the
Educational club, is to be called The
Teacher, and it is expected that the
first number will appear about the 18th
of next month. 1t is to contain articles
by experts on the methods of teaching
language, geography, arithmetic, ETC.;
contributions to the theory of educa-
ton, and special articles upon the his
tory of education in Philadelphia.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11
Keeping with the Gnng.

Just keeping with the gang and its
results is well exemplified in the fol-
lowing story from the Western Re-
corder:
''The first glass of beer l ever drank
was like taking a dose of medicine,
said young man who bore the nose
and flesh-marks of a regular old topper.
But it is no dose now," continued he,
with a chuckle.
May l ask" said l, "since beer was
so distasteful to you at first, why did
you persist in cultivating a taste for
it?"
''Oh, just to keep with the gang"
was the laconic reply.
Just to keep with the gang" that
was all. And yet, says w. NJ. Gill
man, in Western Recorder, what ter
rible penalty!-a physical wreck,
moral leper, manhood sapped, fond
hopes blasted, mothers heart bleed
ing, friends disappointed, despair and
death, eternal death, approaching. But
that is just the way most drunkards
are made. Eliminate the saloons OF
their social features, and you have
crippled them of boys. Few men, 1
fancy, ever took their first drink Of
and sympathizing companions, there is
little fascination in the cup for the be.
ginner.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11
Keep Thyself Pure.

Satan tempts the young man with
this plausible yet meretricious argu-
ment: 'The desires of the flesh are
natural and God-given. 1t cannot be
wrong to crafty an instinct or appe-
tite implanted by the Creator" Having
lodged this thought in the untutored
mind, the devil infiames the imagina-
ton with false pictures of pleasures
and CLOSES sin over with the glitter
ing expectations, until a pure youth,
from a pure home, is willins to ven
ture on unknown and forbidden paths,
anu then all too late, says Rev. D. NJ.
Pratt, awakes to the awful fact that
the slime Of the pit has entered his
soul; that he is no longer innocent, and
can never escape from the conscious
ness of the fact that he is a moral blot
on the pure life about him. is a con-
taminating influence in the refined
home of his childhood, is moral leper
everywhere, and holds under cover a
secret which he dare not expose.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11
When Willie Went Walnutting.

Wisconsin's wild winds were whistl-
ing when Willie Wade~went walnut
ting. Warmly wrapped was Willie,
with woollen wrapper, wadded waist
coat with warm wristlets.
Winnie Wade wondered why Willie
wouldn't wait warmer weather, when
Winnie would walnut with Willie.
Willie wandered where Walter West
was wheeling wood, with wonderful
wheelbarrow, wishing Walter would
walnut.
Without wasting words, Walter
whistled, ''Whew! walnuts will wait;
while wood won't"
Where walnuts were, woodmen
were working with wabbly-wheeled
wagon, with worn, weary, wretched
work-horse, which was wasted with
weakness, which was well worn-out
with work.
Wood N n w he e er waggishly
wrenched Willie's water-pail, where
upon water wet Wiilie's winkers; Will
lie woefully.
Woodman was worried. why weep,
Willie? Weak women weep with wee
woes. Whistle, Williev'
When winkers were wiped Wood
man Wheeler went with Willie where
walnuts were. Willie's wooden water
pail was well-filled, while wee wrens
warbled, wood-pigeons whizzed
Willie warily watched while Wood
man waged war with wasps-which
wasn't wise. Wasps were waxing
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11

warmer, whereupon Willie, with water
pail, went where Widow Walman.
Winnie's washer-woman, was, who
well-washed woollens with warm water,
with washing machine, wringing with
wringer.
Willie went within wash-room, where
Widow Walman welcomed Willie with
warm wheat waffles. with wholesome
whortle-berries washed we'll with
water
When wellwarmed Willie wander
ed where water was, willows waved,
where, when weather was warmer,
white waxen water-lilies were wit
messed.
Willie waded where webfooted
waterfowl wouldn't wait Willie's well
come
Winnie was watching, Won
dering where Willie was, whereupon
Willie, with wellfilled water-pail, was
witnessed.
Winnie warmly welcomed Willie.
When woods whiten with winter,
when windows wear wonderful white
frost works, Winnie, with Willie. will
welcome walnuts, will want warm wal
nut-cake w. w. w.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11

tensifying for forty or nifty years, is
entirely obliterated? These artists, or
these friends of art on earth worked in
coarse material and with imperfect
brain and with frail hand. Now they
have carried their art into larger liber-
ties and into wider circumference.
They are at their old business yet. bls
without the fatigues, without the lin
itations, without the hindrances of the
terrestrial studio. Raphael could i'm
prove upon his masterpiece of Mich
ael the Archangel," now that he has
seen him, and could improve upon his
masterpiece of the Holy Trinity" now
that he has visited them. Michael
Angelo could better present the Last
Judgment" after he had seen its flash
and heard the rum bling battering-rams
Of it's thunder. Exquisite colors here,
graceful lines here, powerful chiaros-
euro here, but I am persuaded that the
grander studies and the brighter gal
leries are higher up, by the winding
marble stairs of the sepulchre, and
that Turner and Holman Hunt, and
Rembrandt, and Titan, and fasl Ver-
onese, If they exercised saving faith in
the Christ whom they portrayed upon
the canvas, are painting yet, but their
strength of faculty multiplied ten thou
sandfold. Their hand has forgotten it's
cunning, but the spirit has faculties
as far superior to four fingers and
thumb as the supernatural is superior
to the human The reason that God
took away their eye and their hand and
their brain was that he might give
them something more timber, more
wieldly, more skilfhl, more multipliant.
Do not, therefore, be melancholy
among the tapestries, and the bric-a-
brac, and the embroideries, and the
water-colors, and the works of art
which your departed friends used to
admire. Do not say Il am so sorry
they had to leave all these things"
Rather say, 81 am glad they have gone
up to higher artistic opportunity and
Our friends who found
so much joy in the fine arts on earth
are now luXuriating in Louvres and
celestial.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11
Seeing the Point.
giDner.

A boy returned from school one day
with the report that his scholarship
had fallen below the usual average.
Son. said his father, you've fallen
behind this month, haven't you?"
"Yes, sir"
"How did that happen?"
Don't know, sir"
The father knew, if the son did not.
He had observed a number of dime
novels scattered about the house; but
had not thought it worth while to say
anything until a fitting opportunity
should offer itself. A basket of apples
stood upon the floor, and he said:
Empty out those apples, and take
the basket and bring it to me half full
of chips"
Suspecting nothing, the boy obeyed.
"And now," he continued, put those
apples back into the basket"
When half the apples were replaced,
the boy said:
Father, they roll off. 1 can't put
any more in
"Put them in, 1 tell you"
"But, father, | can't put them in."
"Put them in? No, of course you
can't put them in. You said you didn't
know why you fell behind at school,
and 1 will tell you why. Your mind is
like that basket 1t will not hold more
than so much. And here you've been
the past month filling it up with cheap
dirt-dime novels"
The boy turned on his heel, whistled,
and said: 'Whew! 1 see the point"
Not a dime novel has been seen in
the house from that day to this.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11

The notorious Lon Hawk, of Ander-
son, Ind, who escaped from the ONO
penitentiary, has been located. Hawk
is well known over the entire central
states as one of the smoothest men who
ever operated in Indiana, Ohio and
Illinois. He was sentenced in Ohio,
but escaped from the penitentiary. he
always had the South African fever
and lost no time in putting the ocean
between him and Ohio officers.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11
rortune seekinc Emicrants.

Many n poor family that seeks the western
w!lds In the hope OF winning fortune, =
preserved from that insidious foe or tie
emigrant and frontiersman-chills ana fe-
VERIFY Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. SO ef :.
fectually does that Incompatible medicinal
defense forify the system against the COM
bined influence of a malariOus atmosphere
and miasma- tainted water, that protected
by 1t the pioneer. the miner and the tourist
provided with 1t, may safely encounter tie
danger.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11
Palmists say that long fingers are

Palmists say that long fingers are a
sign of refinement. A short, stubby
hand argues a lack of sensibility; a
thin thumb, rather small, denotes
weakness. Strength of character is
shown by the thumb eXerting itself
over the other fingers. If the thumb
curves backward the owner is obsti-
nate.-Ladies' Home Journal
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11
Valuable Discovery for La-Grippe. Etc.

Mrs. C. A. Adams, 9th and Martha
SITS, Omaha, Neb., writes: 81 had Ia
grippe and then malaria, indigestion,
severe headache and blind and dizzy
spells Your DR.. Kay's Renovator has
cured me-" Sold by druggists at 25 cts
and S1.00. A valuable pamphlet with
many receipts for the asking. Your
orders will be promptly filled for goods
on receipt of price. Send at once, you
will never regret it. Address DIR. Il.
j. Kay Medical Co, (Western office)
Omaha. Neb
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11

know that my life was saved by Piso's
Cure for Consumption.-John A. Miller,
AT Sable, Mich, Apri 81, 1895.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11

The season is rapidly approaching when
PEOPLE lie about doing better next year.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11

The word has learned more from its
Toor than it has from it's kings
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11
'CHILDREN'S CORNER.
GOOD READING FOR BOYS AND
GIRLS.
Jolly Jack o OLantern-The BOY and the
Man When Willie Went Walnuttsng
Keeping with the Gang-Good Ad-
vice for Little Readers.

:. :: J !. j. i; !. ! ! ! !. :: :: ::
@SM /N NE wild autumn
g e. & IM a night, when the
Sscd66pd1dn In world was
SFif:%asya 1s yaal Ess iOlFi n asleep,
NStSlSyllQlAliaDy EDG1H And the sun was
(I XaN "a in bed, tucked
GM(&N-| up tight,
MV The Moon made a
10 /8A9 party and asked
@A@V all to come
Who would shed
on the scene
any light.
The affair was quite brilliant,
Quite sparkling, scintillant
And the guests all with radiance
shone;
All were heard to declare that this bril-
liant affair
Was the finest that ever was known.
The stars were all there, and a big
comet, too,
And a great crowd of meteors bright;
And swarms upon swarms of gay,
dancing fireflies
To the lustrous scene added their
mite
To the beaming and cleaning
Of golden light streaming
From above, in the star-bedecked
skies,
Was the pale, modest glow of the glow
worm below
And the glim of the dancing fireflies.
a jolly Jack Lantern appeared on the
scene
And his face wore a broad, happy
smile;
He gazed at the moon and he blinked
at the stars,
And then talked with the firefies
awhile;
And as morning was breaking
And guests were leave-taking,
While the dawn was yet fresh, new
and crisp,
Jolly Jack ran away-so the gossips all
With wandering Will-o-the-Wisp.
ARTHUR J. BURDICK.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund the money if it fails to cure 25c
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-11

Match boxes are now filed by machinery.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-08
SPEAKS RIGHT OUT.
Ex-Secretary Whitney In an
Interview Says
That Mckinley Will Have 100000
Majority in New York.
: People Of Empire State Are Antasonistic to
Silver Heresy.'

! Philadelphia Aug. The Evening
Telegram publishes an interview with
cx- Secretary Whitney obtained by a
correspondent and wired from New
York. In the interview Mr.. Whitney
expresses the belief that Mckinley will
carry New York state by 100000 ma
iority. The interview follows:
is it true, Mr.. Whitney. that you
class New York state as doubtful"
True. sir? There is not a word Of
truth in it. 1t is not only false, but
absolutely false"
Was there a statement circulated
with the object OF placing you in a
compromising position and for a mcr-
ccnarY purpose"
These people have no object and no
power to effect any compromise in my
opinion. Unfortunately. perhaps, | am
regarded as a leader Of the sound
money movement in the Democratic
party. and Il good many people.
whether wisely or not, attach impor-
lance to my utt"ranCe. When it is
alleged that ] yield New York to the
silver people they regard the situation
of sound money as perilous. knowing
this to be the effect Of what such q
statement from me on the subject
would he bear the elements which has
been raiding stocks for a long time and
which wants some new argument to
further depress. has most unwarrant-
ably seized upon my name. and ras-
cally attributed this declaration to me.
1t is false. wholly false"
Then you do not give up the State?''
hat
York on the issue which means rcpu-
diation? Never. There is nothing. alb
aolutcly nothing. to justify honest men
for yielding an inch of their ground
ON the contrary. you may express it as
my firm conviction that Mr.. Mckinley
viii carry this state by fully 200 00C
majority. In that majority you will
find men of all classes who put patri-
otism over partisanship in an issue of
this kind. | have no hesitation in ex-
pressing this belief. 1t comes from
what ! have seem what | have heard.
what | have investigated and what /
know People who understand me
would not for an instant accept as true
any such statement as that attributed
To me, today; there are thousands who
do not know me. who would readily &C
cert any such report. and that is all
the bears want. To start a break it is
only necessary to cause a fright"
You have never given up New
York"
Never When the Chicago conven-
ton turned deaf ears to the Empire
state delegation. New York was lost to
the nominee it selected. From that day
the native honesty of our people has
been steadily asserting itself in antag-
unism to the vicious silver heresy You
may say for me that if | have any ut
terance to make on the status of the
present nation contest it will not he by
a vague report coming from a manocu-
vering clique Of brokers trying to ruin
credits, and the public may as well
take this as a hint toward the truth
now"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-08
TERRIBLE WRECK.
At Least Seven Dead By Catastrophe
in Iowa Town.
First Reported That twenty Met Death-Rail.
road Officials Reiicent

Dcs Moines. Iowa, Aug. a Chica-
"a. Rock Island x Pacific railway
freight train was wrecked at o'clock
last night. at Lighton, 30 miles SOUTH
last Of this city. Reports received
aero carly this morning. say 20 lives
were lost, but the railway officials de-
cline 10 give out information.
IT is known, however, that the fol
lowing are among the dead: Ed.
'ieary. Robert Gcary. William shea.
boy known as "Onc Armed Lilly" and
an unknown man.
The FIVE men were employees of the
Liverpool n Dcs Moincs Packing Co.
of this city. Lighton is Il village in
Mallaska county and has Il population
Of ii5
Thomas Leyden, cX-mcmbcr Of Dcs
Moinos fire department and William
smith, son Of Alderman Simon Smith.
ot this city, were also Killed. it is now
believed that only seven were killed
Fourteen cars were dcrailcd and the
engine wrecked
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-08
BATH REPUBLICANS
Have Large Attendance at Fri
day Nights Caucus.
John 0. Patten and William T. DON
nell Nominated for Legislature.
Democratic Candidates are. One Tor Silver
and One for Gold.

Bath, Aug. 1.-(Spcc;aD. We shall
hay" to adjourn to the .Alamcda "
These were the words uttered by Geo.
ii. Clark Of the Republican city com
Che Republican Caucus arrived. The
trouble was that City hail wouldn t
hold the crowd that was assembled
ana the use of the Alameda was abo-
lutoly necessary.
III Of this excitement WAS due to the
fact that Il certain element, said to be
headed by the y. i. AS. was 10 strive
TO defeat the denomination of John O.
Patton as u candidate for representa-
tive to the Legislature.
When the crowd Was seated in the
Alameda there were over 500 in the
!ig hall. Judge Sanford l.. FuSg hay -
ing been chosen chairman ana G. W.
LinGley secretary. the meeting WAS
opened. Hon. Wm. Rogers moved
hat a committee Of three be chosen to
receive, sort and count the votes. Or.
edward +. Eriry moved that it bc
amended by having the committee
chosen from the floor.
Chairman Fogg asked those in favor
to say aye" and those opposed to say
may but the answers were so con-
tusng that he called for Il show of
hands and declared the amendment
carried.
John J.. WcIch and Harry f. Stctson
We're chosen on the committee without
my difficulty but when ~. i}rry ana
Hon. William Rogers were named at
he same time then came cries IF
Brry. }riry, give us Hriry" \ vote
was taken to see if MI Rogers was the
chosen one. by a show of hands and
VAS announced in Rogers favor. but
was doubted and Rogers Withdrew in
favor of Briry. Then it was moved
hat another be added to the committee
and that that one be Mr.. Rogers This
vas done
Then came the ballotinG. the crowd
passing by the boxes ana dropping in
heir votes. After the votes were
| aounted the result was announced.
Whole number cast. 526: William Z.
Donncll had 522. John O. Patton, 30
md James c. Ledyard, 1913. The first
TWO were declared nominated as rep
resentativcs To the Legislature.
There were then calls for Patton.
iut Mr.. Patten didn't respond To the
rics and the meeting adjourned. Pat
TONS opponents now declare that they
will beat him at the polls.
The Democrats. this evening. assem-
nlcd at the common council room.
city hall. and nominated Joseph Tor
rcy. a silver man, and Charles Farm
lam. Il gold man, as their representa-
lives to the Legislature.
The remainder of the evening was
occupied by speeches by Harold NJ
icwall and several others
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-08
AT SQUIRREL ISLAND.
annual Meeting Of Ladies improvement So
ciciy and Other Interesting Notes.


Squirrel Island, Aug. 7.-fSpeciaD.-
Mr. Stanley ratten arrived, Wpdues
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IS visiting Miss Alden at Pine Croft
Mir. Watson iIaIlett Caldwell of Eliz
both N is .t,,.ine, at Son \-iev,
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IL tii' 'i!'',
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W. i'pp'i' J. " iii'ul''"9' i''''9 '"'
lShl'iS fec'i" now -'', pc' 'lilE JON
hlt'' whose score u 90
Al ti'' annual 'i'eS''lS Vi ~ '|,'''9
uiip'oN' 'i'i'iit Asst ''i'''' '',V i','""
ing plheerS were cl''S''h' MIS- d.
ara ffeSi"'.i,t' Ms ~ ,d''
'9' '>e ~ -
second vice president MIS- ffai'E
Aoa'lS, TREASURER :" >, 7ctn "a, .''
In " - "' . 49,,
Z. w. Mutrll' MIS-. LeWiS nus, \" ;
-. u. May WIS, II. "Vi ~ =, - =
y. Parsons Inc recurring poaIo WI
take charge OF TIE exercises / cue u'H
inc pan game fctc ul9' ploiiii9es
20 ne me pest Nnt.
MI. warren " heeiocN mas re'ui iio'
lor the tabtcauA' fllody cNCilii'e'
Colonel ana MIS-. henson ol l'orciies-
ter, are guests at the 0herWood'
MIS-. robinson "i ''oi w., '''' % a.
'thef guest d' ."'' ''l'''i , o''..'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-08-08

The Bangor News hears that the rca-
son why w. Is. Gray resigned as a
member of the committee on resolu-
tions at the recent Democratic conVen-
ton IN FoXcroft was because he could
not sign the resolutions indorsing the
Chicago nominees, as he did not be
lieNe III free silver and would make no
promises to support any free silver
candidate. 1T this Mr.. Doble of Milo.
suggested that they drop the name Of
Mr. Gray as candidate for clerk of
courts. which was done by Gray re
signing. They substituted the name of
man who is as much opposed to free
coinage as any one could be when they
named Eugene ). Genthner. and it is
said Mr. Genthner would never have
allowed the use of his name had he
been present.