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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

saw me alone" she Mrs. Maybrick.
said, was the chief justice. When
the assizes came here last Feb
ruary Lord Russell came to the
prison and asked to see me. When
he was starting to go he said: Mrs.
Maybrick, 1 am doing all in my power
for your release. Whatever happens,
remember this-that If there is one
man in England who believes in your
innocence, l am that man 1t vas on
ly by accident that 1 heard Of Lord
Russell's death. for l have not seer a
newspaper for a decade. but l could
not help but feel that in his death 1
had lost my best friend"
For the last few days Mrs. Maybrick
has been in a hospital ward, owing to
q slight illness, but she says her health
is generally good. The recent United
States memorial is still in the hands
of the home secretary, Sir Matthew
White Ridley, and Mrs. Maybrick's
friends are hopeful that when the an
swer ~ it Will be a pardon.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

pays a high tribute to Jim Watts. In
her diary of June 10 she says:
They are bombarding us heavier to-
day than heretofore. Early this morn
ing | stood behind a closed window
peeping through the shutter Stats.
Four bullets pierced the shutters, but
did not strike me. | rushed to the
commanding officer and told him that
the bullets must have ONE from a
Cfinaman concealed in a tree fanking
the window. Calling four Cossacks, we
went to the tree, and sure enough
shook out a Chinaman, whose first
inquiry was whether he had killed the
My would-be assassin was Immediately
tried and shot. = Il = All else may
be dead, but heroism still lives. Jim
Watts rides to Taku to bring us re-
endorsements. He heads for Taku, but
may ride into the very jaws of death.
1t is a most perilous undertaking, but
brave Jim Watts gladly, CALAMITY risks
his life. l myself heard him offer it.
Some one must go to Taku,' said the
commanding officer. 1T may mean the
lives of women and children-it may
mean death to the rider. Who will
go?' L know the roads, every inch of
of them; let me co. said a voice. Then
Jim Watts stepped forward. I shall
go; it is right. l am the older brother
We saw him mount his horse, we
lao vi tho f1,,Ic ~ tho hoofc L1af
family and die. Hope took no new
lease of life from this. Before re-en-
forcements could reach us it would be
too late, granting that brave Jim Watts
V e reacher Taku. And what more
unlikely than that?"
June 23.-Through the glasses l saw
the troops coming nearer and nearer.
Are they re-enforcements for the Box
ers or us? Closer they come, and yet
we cannot distinguish them. Eyes
strain through glasses nor catch a
clew to their identity. Another half
hour. SUDDENLY something fiutters to
the wind. The stars and stripes. thank
OOu. lIidLk IOu. lucy are coming
to us and we shall not die. How good
heaven is, how sweet is lifeI The stars
and stripes, and we wept and HOPED
the first time since that day long ago
when we came to Gordon hall. God
bless Jim Watts! Other flags are now
visible-it is 1920 in the morning.
8 = 4 The troops reached us before
2 o'clock. The rest of the day has
been very quiet. The Chinese are evil
IDENTIFY puzzled what move to make
next. How strange not to hear the
shelling! There are other discordant
sounds, though-the moo of the hungry
COWS, the bray of the donkeys and from
the other starved animals comes a cry
Tor something to eat. Poor creatures;
yet 1t is impossible to spare food for
Them
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

of the breast to the finger tips. FASH
ions do not change. Winter garments
and bedding are wadded with cotton.
Once a year they must be ripped apart
and washed, padding and all.
How needful is economy may be
judged from a few figures. Unskilled
laborers are paid upon an average &c
a day. Masons, carpenters and stone
cutters, here as elsewhere the aristo-
cracy of labor, get from 25c to soc a
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

ance of the proposed commission to
settle the franchise questions, ETC., to-
gether with an expression of opinion
from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman,
the liberal leader in the house of COM
mons, and the liberals generally that
the British cabinet proposed the ap-
pointment of the commission with the
view of giving Mr.. Chamberlain a
chance to climb down" and that the
cabinet was determined to have no
war.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

gins for taking out the seed. Instead,
the Chinese use the little hand-glls
very like those still to be found in the
homespun regions of the Appalachian
chain. The gin is nothing more than
a couple of small wooden rollers, made
fast in uprights affixed to a bench.
They are turned by a wooden crank,
revolve one against the other, and free
the cotton of seed by drawing the lint
The lint is fed to them by hand, and it
takes a long and steady days work to
gin five pounds Of lint-which
twenty pounds of cotton in the seed.
The cotton is carded simultane-
ously with the ginning. A second
man stands at the end Of the bench
beating the clean cotton with the tee
kung, or earth bow. into big flaky
bats" These bats the women spin
in various ways. Sometimes they use
the old-fashioned spinning wheel
Much oftener it is something approx
mating the ancient distaff. The spin
ner twirls it steadily, walking around
and around as she twirls, thus wind
ing the frightening thread into very
long hanks. If it is spun and run in
to breaches or quilts, they are often
reeled with a hand-reel. Chinese in
dustry indeed is as inveterate as Chi
nese economy. Women usually work
at such Keeling while they stand and
gossip in the alley ways between their
houses. If there is no reel handy they
will be stitching upon a shoe sole, al
WAYS a salable article. Bare feet are
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

trained nurse in New York, and when
the Spanish var broke III she went
to Santiago as one of Clara Barton's
cO-workers. Later she was sent to
Porto Rico, where she established a
private hospital for soldiers. For her
heroic services in Cuba and Porto Rico
Miss Chanler was voted a gold medal
by congress and a vote of thanks by
the New York state legislature. Miss
Chanler went to the Philippines no
long Ago.. She is now on the United
States hospital ship Relief, which is
cruising with the American warship off
Taku, within easy reach of the allied
forces now in Pekin city. Her zeal
Jus sympathy for the soldiers has made
her deeply beloved by our boys in blue.
Miss Chanler enjoys a private income
of $50, 900 a year and is said to devote
all of this sum to philanthropic work.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31
To RecouD Fortune.

When Miss Dorothy S~tudebaker,
granddaughter of the South Bend Qnd.)
wagon manufacturer, married Scott
McKeown, several years ago, he was
worth a million dollars, which he had
inherited from his father, a Pennsyl-
vania oil magnate. Now, through the
husbands prodigality. his patrimony
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31
WdS q Great SCULPTOR.

Carl Rohl-Smith, the sculptor of
Washington, died at Copenhagen last
week of Bright's disease.
Mr.. Rohl-S1ith was born in DIN
mark and came to America in the
early sos. A notable piece of art
executed under the direction of the
sculptor stands in a city park at Des
Moines, Ia.
To Carl RohI-Smith had also been
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31
Madame Richter. Maverheer,s daneh

Madame Richter, Meyerbeer's daugh-
ter. has presented to the museum her
fathers piano, a well-preserved Erard
and another donor has added an eight
zenith century lyre-shaped piano Of
great beauty. This royal collection
also includes the Oldest upright oblique
piano in existence. II was made in
Paris by the inventor, Henri Pate, in
1896.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

less imam making
possible a trip
from Paris via
Berlin, Moscow and
st. Petersburg TO
New York city by
rail. To do this
Boring strait will
be bridged, which
at its narrowest
point is about
twenty miles wide.
The preliminary
iruorf,~a+;0- Gov
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31
THE STONE

day. According to the average Of
prices OF articles of consumption in
China 25c a day is equivalent to $3.50
per day here. Work begins at sun
rise and keeps up until dark. Not
withstanding all which strikes are Viz
tually unknown, and the Chinese la
borer is the happiest and most con-
tented in the world.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

Over in Linn county, Missouri, a man
wished to marry a widow who had
lever children. With a view Of avoid
ing all future trouble, he obtained the
consent of all the children and of the
intended brides father before getting
a license.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

A rich Chinaman wears silk, a poor
one cotton. Since the proportion OF
rich to poor is about one in a thou
sand, it follows that the growth and
manufacture of cotton are vital nee
cessities. 1t is thought cotton culture
was begun in the thirteenth century,
the plant coming in from India, where
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

A rich young American girl has gone
to China to assist In caring for the
soldiers Of Uncle Sam and the other
countries who are battling with the
Chinese hordes. She is Miss Margaret
Livingston Chanler, sister of William
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

prison in England
the other day.
Mrs. Maybrick is
indignant at the at
tacks made by the
Liverpool Post on
the late chief JUS
tice of England,
Lord Russell of
Killowen, former
counsel for the
prisoner. THE on
~ person up to the
present who ever
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31
Mrs. MaYbrick Is HopefuL

For the first time since her life SEN
tence was imposed eleven years ago
Mrs. Florence Maybrick had a private
interview with her counsel, DR.. Clark
Bell of New York, at the Aylesbury
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

The wives of the policemen of PhiIa-
delphia devised a plan for keeping
their husbands cool during the hot
weather the other day. 1t. at least,
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

u" lions Wn1cn make
Policemen Keepthe bronze statue
COOL. of William Penn
sit in its shirt sleeves. Philadel-
phia policemen are all strictly
observing the rule, and yet they are
keeping reasonably cool. The wife of
each of them has taken an old vest
and entirely cut away the back and
sides, leaving only a single thickness
of blue cloth in front without lining.
This remnant has been sewed into the
its lining, so that while the appear
ance remains the substance is almost
lacking.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

Astor Chanler, con
gresham, explorer
and soldier, and a
lineal descendant
of the original
John Jacob Astor.
Three e a ago
Miss Chanler re-
~linquished t h e
pleasures of society
to become a mem
Der of the Red
Cross society. She
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31
Grecf Railroad Plan.

A great scheme is o being serl-
ously discussed by a company of Fran
co-American capitalists. 1t is nothing
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

illustrates how the
ingenuity of a
W o m a n m a Y
make light of Of
fetal rules, even
though they be
those of a munich
pal police depart
ment.
One of the strict
est regulations of
t h e Philadel-
phia department
is that all officers
on duty must wear
coat and vest, and
must have the top
button of the coat
buttoned. No in
fractions of this
rules are allowed
even under condi-
flows r-liaI ooLa
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

given the honor and distinction of
erecting the granite and bronze statue
of General William Tecumseh Sher-
man, now in course of construction
at the south front Of the treasury.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

THE WEAVER.
it has been known for 1000 years. In
spite Of her ~unequaled agriculture,
China does not raise cotton for export
nor, in fact, enough for her own
needs. In the growth and manufact-
ure of it, as in everything else, the aim
is not, as in these United States, to
save hand labor, but to use as much Of
it as possible. There are no power
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31

has disappeared. His wife will attempt
to recoup her fortunes by going on the
stage.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31
To Make Garden of the Soudon

Capitalists of London, according to
reports which emanate from importers
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1900-08-31
Current Topics
WflbeImina 10 Wed.
Will Be Her Third Wdr.

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Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22
DINING IN A CLOCK.
Sixteen London People Enjoy 4
Unique Experience
Took a Meal Inside the Works of
What h Considered the Bis&sst
Ttm9piece Ever CONTRACTED
In the Old World.

One Of the most gigantic clocks
erected il recent years has just been
swung all the London terminus of the
Great Eastern railway. This stupen-
dous piefe of mechanism. operated by
electricity, may almost claim to rank
as the Worlds eighth wonder. A day
or two ako party to mark the finish
ing touches which had been lent TO the
great tirhepiece, took dinner in the in
side of the works, and as they were
stylish london folk, several of them
being lallies, fashionably a,tired, it is
obvious That ii was necessary TO do
much squeezing in order TO seat the
party. wait at the table, and so forth.
The clpck is second in size 10 Big Ben
and is regarded by visitors to London
almost DIS one at the sights of the me-
,ropolis just now. on account of its nov
city.
Clock makers say that it is London's
biggest block and that it should not be
comparah with Big Ben. which is SIM
ply mdchine. Of course they know all
abou, lch things. The clock is a Won
der, anyway, and has now become one
of the Institutions of the biggest city
in the World.
1t is h massive affair, composed OF
solid iron and steel, weighing two tons
and me4suring 81 feet in diameter.
The hhilding of the clock occupied a
period W 70 months and its makers say
that it will last centuries.
The big clock, like everything big and
active, has brain, which is nothing
less thai an ordinary pilot clock set up
on med, shelf in the telegraph depart
ment, Which is the most important part
of the establishment, as il regulates
everything going on with business,
not TO Hay mathematical, nicely. By
means pf telegraph wires the big clock
is CORRECTED with 30 other clocks in the
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22

terminus and the variation of few sec
onds between either of them is thus
promptly corrected.
l, iSclean ng day inside the big time
piece livery So ~enkA and the operation
has I'd be performed hv = clockmaker of
experience.
The mechanism of the clock, says the
Cincinnati Commercial, is simply mar
velou{ and has engaged the best talent
in London in the matchmaking line in
its construction for 12 months, as hare
befort stated. In many respects il is
the most wonderful clock in the world,
bu, il would take an expert in clocks TO
expoInd those details.
The timepiece is swung upon heavy
girdefs, which have been built into the
roof bf the depot to accommodate it,.
The eavy bars and rings upon which it
hangs are study in themselves and it
is doubtful If anything like them were
ever sastbefore.
Owing TO the trouble Which has re-
suited in other clocks from the reflec-
ton Thrown by the hands when the
electric lights are lit. and the conse-
quent mistakes that people have made
in time, there is no glass used in front of
the opal dials. The hands, however, are
so massive that no hurricane will ever
blow them of, although the mechanism
of the works is as ''elicate as that of a
5O0-ppund thermometer and the en-
tire massive arrangement can be swung
by the slightest touch of its exterior.
The clock was brought into the ter
minis on two of the heaviest railway
trucks and placed exactly beneath the
place from which it was to be sus-
pended.
Then ensued the most careful string
ing of it into iron ropes that was ever
given to huge mechanical apparatus
before, and after some ten hours of tug
england hauling and putting and blow
ing the titan was in its place ticking
away serenely in view of the vast null
titudes who throng the terminus night
and daY,
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Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22
IrniYe1aAl Rule.

"Be quiet" said Uncle Allen Sparks.
who was patiently endeavoring to re-
move a wouGtick from the hide of his
dog. Don't you know, sou migrate
full beast. that nothing worth having in
this world can be got without digging
for t?'-Chicago Tribune.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22
ALL ABOUT SNAKES.
Scientists Studying to Make Them
Harmless and Useful.
A Plea for Harmless Reptiles-Treat-
Aont for Bites of Poisonous
Species Includes Yatci-
nation.

Two Baltimore scientists, DR.. How
ard A. Kelly and DR.. j. r. Brown, are
making study of the usefulness of
snakes and how to: cure poisonous
snake bites. DR.. Kelly has tins to say
in behalf OF serpents:
"A number of snakes are reported
to be poisonous. but are, on the cor
trary, perfectly harmless, and. indeed,
are useful by destroying vast numbers
OF mice.
1T is folly to destroy harmless
snakes for rhis reason. as well as be-
cause of their very efficient aid in the
destruction of the poisonous varieties,
between which and certain varieties
of the harmless snakes there is an
unceasing war.
Strange to say, the poisonous ones
get the worst of it, and are killed by
construction or hugging. The black
and king snakes are most active in
this regard. The work of saving birds
is all right, but ! am making plea
for the saving of snakes"
OF the treatment of snake bites DR..
Brown said in lecture before the
Johns Hopkins university medical
school:
Before the growth of our views re-
earoing serum therapy and its APP
plicat ton to an ever-increasing list
OF diseases and conditions the best
treatment for one who had been Bit
VOW l,,- g., INDIGENOUS spoGa u,oS hindu
the limb. if the bite was so situated,
and it is so in most cases. Then fo.-
lowed incision. scarifcation or eau
terization of the affected area ard
hypodermic injections of drugs which
tend tc oxidize the venom.
after the wound had been thorough
ly sucked or cupped, it was kept COW
cred with congresses 81 the same sub
stance. Alcohol. Strychnine and am
monia. the most powerful stimulants,
were given by the mouth to counter
act the constitutional effects. Some
cures were made in this way.
But it is only within tie past few
years that an approach to real cure
has been reached. With the develop
ment CT the subject of serum therapy,
and encouraged by the successful re-
suits obtained in diphtheria and lock-
jaw. by means of serum, investi
gators in France and Great Britain
have turned their attention to the
study of the cure of poison wounds
formed by different varieties of
snakes.
''All recent observers are agreed
that an animal or person can be vac
cinated against what would otherwise
prove a fatal dose of snake poison by
the subcutaneous Introduction of
small nontoxic doses of poison. Both
snake blood and SNAKE bile are very
important remedies used by native
Hindoo snake charmers and doctors,
and toe many well-authenticated sto-
,ries exist showing immunity and cure
to make it at all doubtful that these
persons have methods which are of
value
''Colneth, an investigator at the Pas
teur institute in Paris, reports expert
ments which go to prove the good eff
feet Of the anti-toxin for snake poi
son. Rabbits were inoculated with the
anti-toXin. and later given fatal dose
OF snake poison without effect, while
others died in 16 and II minutes from
the effects Of the poison alone. N. Y.
journal.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22
Broken Recor,

well, sir, it's a remarkable thing
about my wife. When we were mar
ried, IS years ago, she weighed only
81 pounds
And now she tips the beam At
about 1870, eh?"
NO; she's as thin a. Chicago
Times-Herald.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22
A Labor-savins-Deviee.

Mrs. Tanque Don't you get awfully
tired waiting for your husband to come
home evenings?
Mrs. Lushe-Oh, 1 never sit up for
him. have phnonograph in the hall
which starts talking as soon as he opens
the door, Y. Journal
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22

.Ashm = How do you pronounce
U-i-t-l-a-n-d-e-r?
Tellum-The some as yoa do. ]
spell tn. Y. Journal.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22
A. OLD Adaxe verineA.

What is one animals meat may be
truly another's poison. Mr.. ]. E. Hart
ing lately reported to the London Lin
neap society several cases in which
parrots had been poisoned by eating
parfley; and he recalled that, on the
other hand, the berries Of the yew and
pri9et. held to be poisonous to man,
are greedily eaten by blackbirds,
thrtshes and other birds. Cases are
on record, however, of the poisoning of
pheasants by yew leaves. The immu-
nifty Of goats from yew poisoning is
remarkable, in view Of the fact that
deer and cattle have died after eating
the leaves, although suggested ex-
plahation is that the dried leaves eaten
by cattle differ from the green leaves
eaten by goats.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22

"They say ae is very careful, con-
scientious husband"
He is. Whenever he is going to be
home to dinner he always lets his
wife know beforehand Puck.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22

Professor Of Anatomy-This subject.
in addition to having his jugular vein
severed. was shot twice through the
heart, in consequence Of which he died.
Now, what would Xou do in a case like
this?
student-rd die too--Chicago Chron-
ielo
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22
A nice Di.ttuction.

Mrs. Washout-So de Johnsons claim
TO come OBJ better stock dan de Jack
sons?
Mrs. Wringer-Yais; ole man John
son was hung for murder. while ole
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22
HARD to kan.

"It is some consolation to know"
gasped the dying man with his last
breath, that it took three doctors to
kill me."-N. i. Journal. !.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22
A Touching Death.

First Boer-Poor Schmidt! he met
his death during that last engagement.
Second Boer-How did it happen?
FRS, Boer-He had his whiskers shot
away and died of a broken heart.-Town
Topics.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22

"What! 80 years of age, and in love ~
Eyes; you know he is old enough not
to know better."-Puck.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22

Bramble-How did Henpeck come to
lose his voice?
Thorne-I suppose he never got
chance to use it. and it just faded away.
IN. Y. Journal
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22
Human Mature.

Some folks take things as they come.
But It's fact. YOU know.
That pickDockets and shoplifters
Take things as they go.
-ChicaRo DailS News.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22
His Own Fault.

Houlihan-Clancy is forever tackling
bigger mon thar himself and get
ting licked! :.
Cahill-Yis! Clancy il his own worst
inimy!-Puck.
Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-22

jail occupants don't care. they say.
II meas.es come about;
They're p ny :r.cs!ia2 sure that they
Aren't likely % break out.
-EIiiott'S MAGAZINE.