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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-03-17
AND THE BEEF WAS LOST.
Unfortunate Combination of Thirst and
lev Sidewalk.

Icy Sidewalk.
There is one resident Of the reSpec-
table South Side who now rests in an
easy chair at home with a cracked ell
bow swathed in lint. Tuesday even.
ing his beer thirst sent him out to a
near by groggery with a pitcher and a
nickel. When he left the saloon with
his trimming pitcher there was a
smile on his face that would have
gTaced a gargoyle. The resident was
about half way home when his feet
went out from under him. He turned
two or three somersaults in the air,
and then made an inglorious attempt
to cave in the sidewalk. In the opera
ton he shattered the pitcher, and
broke his elbow. When a barber shop
porter and some kind old gentleman
fora doctor the resident turned feebly
on his couch, looked pitifully at his
half %hysterical wife, and said: What
did you do with the beer?"
Wife gave him a look, the tears
came to her eyes, and she said:
Dear, you are hurt. Your arm is
broken. You fell"
Did I spill the beer"
mo, you broke the pitcher, and it
just ran out"
Didn't they save a bit of it,"
Not a drop"
That's what a mar gets for living
in a town where they never clean the
ice off the sidewalks. I've got my
opinion of the old place, anyway"
And he turned over with a groan.-
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Beggar and Business Man.
John La Fargo. the painter, talked
in New York at the Arts club of the
wit of beggars.
"Beggars need to be witty" he said.
''They live by their wits, you know.
1t isn't strange that they should be
quicker than the solid and respect
able business man N repartee.
ga solid and respectable business
man was hurryi7 along Broadway
the other night wy q a beggar accost-
ed him.
"The night was cold and very raw.
A strong wet wind was blowing from
the sea. Now a few snowfiakes fell.
Now there fell a few heavy and cold
drops of rain.
"The beggar was shiyering. He had
on no overcoat and no gloves. His
hands and wrists stuck out Of his
tight, short coat sleeves, red and stiff
and cold looking. His cheeks were hol-
low.
"'Can you give me a little help, sir"
he said.
"The business man took a dime
from his pocket.
"Look here he said. If I give you
this dime you won't get drunk on it,
will you?'
"'Oh, no, sir said the beggar, I
shall go at once and dine at the st.
Regis.'"--San Antonio Express.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-03-17
Southwark Eel Market.

London possesses a curiosity in the
Southwark Eel Market, which is said
to have been held regularly for over
300 years. 1t is little known except
in the neighborhood where it is held.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-03-17

SENATE-Thaga bills were passed
in the senate on the 10th: S. F. 1S4.
by Gilligan- Which provides that
when a school board at it's annual
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-03-17

HOUSE-In the house on the 18th,
H. R. %, by Parker of Otoe. prohibit
ing a saloon within 400 feet of a pub
lie school, was recommended for pas
sage. Lee of Douglas objected to the
bill because it did not include all
schools, saying the state was as vital
ly interested in the morals OF private
school children as those of public
schools. Governor Mickey submitted
a bill to the house to transfer $500
from the clothing to the repair fund
at the Geneva girls school. The bill
points out that repairs are greatly
needed and while there is S 1,775.6S in
the clothing fund, the repair fund is
exhausted. The governor says the
Board of Public Lands and Buildings
agrees with him in this matter. The
house passed S. F. 60, by Jones of
Otoe to provide for annual correction
by county boards of evident and gross
errors in the valuation of real prop
erty. The present law makes this once
in four years. H. r. 154. by Ernest of
Johnson, limiting the number of sa-
looms in towns of 1000 or less to
three, and more than 1000 to four,
was indefinitely postponed on recon-
mendation of the committee. H. R. 8,
by Warner of Lancaster, occupied
much time. 1t provided originally an
appropriation of $1,000 for a subex-
detrimental station at North Platte and
tho purcbaca Of land for the UniVpr-
sity. AS the bill did not state what
portion of this sum might go to each
purpose the bill was amended. appro-
priating $4,000 for the purchase of
land adjacent to the University
campus, $4,000 for the substation.
$3.50 OO Tor library purposes and $500
for poultry culture, cutting the total
to $S2.500. In this condition the meas
ure was recommended for passage
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-03-17

SENATE-The following bills were
passed in the senate on the Sth: Sen
ate file 226, a bill limiting the number
of proxies of building and loan stock
to the actual number OF shares held
by the member who wished to vote
them. Senate file No. 1876, creating a
state railway commission. Senate file
No. 157, a drainage bill. House roll
No. 172, transferring 100000 from the
Norfolk to the Hastings asylum. Sen
ate file No. 33, by Senator Griffin, a
bill to provide for a prosecuting at
torney system in the state. was Killed
in the committee of the whole OF the
senate by a decisive majority. Sen
ate file no. 100, a companion bill. was
also slaughtered. The state prison
committee reported that the peniter-
tiary was in excellent condition. the
damage lone by the fire having been
repaired and the administration of
Warden A. d. Beemer was most eX-
cellent. The warden was compliment
ed on his manner of conducting the
institution. Senate file No. II, by Sen
ator Gibson. was Indefinitely post
poned on the report of the standing
committee. 1t provided for the care
of dependent children.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-03-17

HOUSE-In the house on the Sth
the following bills were read for the
third time and passed. House roll No.
1873, by Douglas, eliminating the cOun-
ty clerk and county assessors as
members of the county board of equali-
cation. House roll No. PA, by Ander-
son, to protect labels and trademarks
of union labor organizations. House
roll No. 229, by Parker, to prohibit
the granting by county boards OF
licenses to sell liquors within 400 feet
of country school houses. The railroad
committee reported to the general
file, with a favorable recommended
ton, house roll No. 282, by Hill. re
curing the running of at least n
train daily OF every line of railroad
and fixing a minimum speed OF twenty
miles an hour for passenger trains,
ten miles for freight trains and twelve
miles for mixed trains. At 2 o'clock
Dodge moved that the house go into
committee of the whole to consider
house roll No. 297 and other bills on
the general file. House roll No. 297
provides for the submission of a con-
stitutional amendment for the creation
of an electric railway commission of
three members. which commission
shall have the power to establish,
modify and enforce reasonable freight
rates and prevent determinations ald
abuses. Mr.. Dodge spoke forcibly in
support of his motion, calling attention
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-09
Topics Of the Times

Building a big navy does seem like
throwing money into the water.
Mr.. Dobson's seems to have been q
"bob-tail flush" term readily to be
understood by "standpatters."
President Roosevelt's great danger
is in choice of advisers. The advice
that induced him to name Dobson for
a prominent position in place of Frank
Mahin is the advice of an enemy, not a
friend to his future.
Calling an American Indian an Am
Grind is scarcely the way to get him in
to Sunday school and civilize him. On
the contrary it would be an unciviliz-
ing influence.
The suggestion is made by The
Boston Herald that the most suitable
memorial Of Senator Hoar in Boston
would be his letter to Mr.. Lowering,
with a portrait head, engraved on a
bronze tablet framed in the wall of
one Of the halls of the state house. 1t
says: "The letter to Mr.. Lowering is
one Of the most brilliant and powerful
expressions that ever came from the
departed sena tors mind and heart, es-
pecally valuable for its clear reye-
latioll of the high motive of his course
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-09

trunks of samples over the line OF
the defendant railroad, and they were
unreasonably delayed. Plaintiff brought
suit for damages, claiming that as a
result of the delay, he had been de-
prived of profits from orders, which,
tested by past experience, he would
have secured during the period he was
without his trunks. Held, that such
damages were too remote and specu-
lative, and recovery could not be had
for same. Seaboard Air line Railway
VS. Harris, 40 S. p. 703 (Ga.).
BROKER CONTRACTS.
Defendant made a contract with
plaintiff whereby the latter was en-
ployed to effect a sale of the formers
land within given period for cash
so as to yield the defendant $4,000,
and the plaintiff was to receive as her
compensation all that she could OBJ
tain for the land above that sum.
agreed to buy the land for $4,000, and
she made an arrangements with him,
Plaintiff procured purchaser, who
whereby the sum of $4,000 cash was
to be paid to defendant, and plaintiff
would receive the purchasers notes
secured by mortgage on the land for
the remainder of the purchase price.
The sale was prevented by defend
ants refusal to convey Held. that
defendant is liable to the plaintiff for
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-09

in a critical eXigency of the nations
life and of his own public life. Such
an example of fidelity to moral and
patriotic conviction deserves a niche in
the nations pantheon of heroic deeds,
to live forever in the sight and knowl-
edge of the youth of the land who
nobly aspire to public service. No
stature of marble or bronze can be
wrought that will so plainly show him
as he was in the exemplary quality of
his public character"
If Osler could have got to DR.. Guth-
rie, the discoverer of chloroforn, the
probability is that the anaesthetic
would never have been discovered.
A Des Moines newspaper story tells
of a German starving to death be-
cause he was unable to make his wants
known in our language. 1t seems that
he might have asked for sour circuit,
weinerwurst and beer in his own
tongue with fair chance of being un-
derstood in Des Moines.
A Chicago wrecking company pur-
chased the assets of the st. Louis
worlds fair for $45O,O00.
Saturday was day when Missouri
had to send her regrets. 1t is pity
so great a state neglects the social
functions. 1t is outre.-Burlington
Hawkeye.
Worse than that. It's withoutre.
London has a health crank who de-
clares that the way to be healthy and
to live two hundred years is to stop
drinking water or any fluid and stop
eating salt in any form. If to this reg
linen be added the habit of living and
working naked and sleeping thus on
the bare ground, perhaps an age Of
three hundred may be reached. But he
does not explain what earthly reason
one living as he indicates would have
for living thirty days.
II think 1t shame that Washing
ton hotel-keepers should charge so
much on Inauguration day." said the
man with the sandy beard.
eyes," chuckled the platform buff
foon, .it is sort of capital offence"
Chicago News.
The Columbus hospital, which has
just been dedicated in Chicago. is the
forty-sixt institution Of it's kind
which has been founded by Mother
Superior Francis Xavier Cabrini, head
of the order Of the Missionary Sis
tiers of the Sacred Heart.
Professor Henry Miers, in lecturing
to London audience recently. said
that there was no knowledge of the
depth to which the South African dia-
mond mines could be worked. The
deeper they go the richer they become.
Work can be carried on now to q depth
of $500 feet. 1t is thought that 1t
might be continued to depth of 5000
or even 10000 feet, if the engineering
difficulties could be overcome.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-09
}Important Decisions

LOTTERY - WHAT CONSTITUTES.
Respondent operated what was
known as a "suit club" The plan OF
the club was as follows: Thirty men
paid 81 each to respondent, who was
a tailor, and received cards bearing
numbers from to 80. Once a week
slips of paper bearing numbers cor
responding to those on the cards of
the members were placed in a box,
and some disinterested person drew
therefrom one slip. The member who
held the lucky number was then en-
titled to a suit of clothes made by
respondent worth $50. This member
then dropped out of the club, and his
place was supplied by some one else
If a member paid 81 a week for 80
weeks he was entitled to a suit Whe-
Their he drew the lucky number or
not. Held, that this scheme consti-
tuted lottery and respondents con-
yiction was sustained. State VS.. De-
Florin, 40 S. E., 500 (Georgia).
CARRIERS-DELAY OF BAGGAGE.
Plaintiff, travelling salesman, whose
compensation was based on commits
sions on such orders secured by him
as his employer approved, shipped his
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-09

ity, the second was convicted and the
last has not had trial yet but things
look rather bad for him. Then there
is Warren, that is suspected. Well,
Roosevelt will have the people back OF
him and senatorial dignity will get
some hard raps during the controv-
ersy. The real issues between presi-
dent and senate cannot be side-trick-
ed by an impeachment proceeding or
the difference between the words
treaty and agreement" John Hay
says Roosevelt is right, and John Hay
knows. The senate had better get to
work.
MATCHES.
A match is a small thing-merely a
stick and sputter. 1t might be sup
posed that human ingenuity doesn't
find much room to work on a match.
This is great mistake, however. No
where is there SO much enterprise and
ingenuity displayed as in the making
of matches. New designs are con-
stantly being offered to the public.
A late design is an edible match.
Babies can suck these matches all day
and will gain weight upon them. They
are boon to the anxious mother and
the investigating child. The heads are
made largely of condensed milk.
A very popular match for lazy
housewives is the range light. This is
a slender pine spar tipped with match
composition. With 1t the housewife is
enabled to light the gas without get
ting out Of her chair. The husband
then uses the remainder Of the spar
for kindling. Efforts are being made
enabling the wife to light the gas stove
while in the parlor.
On the Pacific coast they use ap
excessively sensible match. 1t comes
in punches, bunch being merely a
small piece of wood split into two doz-
en- slender sticks, still Joined at one
end. A man.can carry hundred
matches in his vest pocket. One can
walk for miles in San Francisco with
out being held up and ilnportuned for
light.
The match that will not go out in
windy weather is familiar. It is as
memorable as a burglar alarm. 1t Is
easy to strike and impossible to choke
off. Likewise the safety match is at
home in every cline. It is a sort of
poke for the match pig and is a bless
ing to the cigar seller. The feelings
of the cuss who fills his pockets with
these matches and then wears out one
after another on brick wall, are
pleasant and comforting to describe.
The very latest match is the noise
less, smell-less match. This match is
a giant stride toward perfection. 1t
has hitherto been impossible to make
a noiseless match that would not
smell, Or a smell-less match that did
not go off like Fourth Of July cele-
bration. Some genius who is undoubt-
edly underpaid by the match trust, has
hit upon the scheme of tipping par
lor match with tiny bit of sulphur
composition. The sulphur goes Off
easily and silently. Before is gets a
chance to asphyxiate the family, 1t is
exhausted and the head proper is ig-
nited This match will be great snap
for lodge men, young fathers ana bur-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-09
4 SAFEGUARD EoR BOYS.

Observers and students Of youthful
criminals and the conditions that Gre
ate them, estimate that 80 per cent Of
youthful criminals are made so by
vicious associations. Hereditary ten
denotes may have much to do with
criminal impulses, but there are those
who deny heredity in crime as siren
uously as others assert it's truth. No
one, however, denies the general hui
man tendency toward careless, If not
vicious, habits and the child mind is
peculiarly susceptible to evil inf1u-
ences. 1t is serious task to bring
q boy UP right in town." Why?
The reason particularly prominent is
that 1t is hard to find proper employ
ment for the boy about the average
city home and parents grow careless.
It is but a step from the back yard
to the alley and the alley opens on
everywhere. A boy can go across a
city In ten minutes, outstripping troll
ley cars or fast horses. He is the in
carnation of rapid transit and if he is
. strong, active, ambitious boy he
goes. And he gravitates naturally to
the free and unconventional society Of
sBally." 'eBuck'' and '.Puddinhead," all
famous In base ball, fierce in battle and
unrestrained by parental admonition or
fear Of the law. The boy wants some
thing TO do and he gets it. Left to
himself he follows the plane OF the
least resistance and too often gets the
wrong thing.
The Juvenile court is barrier be-
tween the reckless lad and actual
touch with me hardened criminal. It
flls wise purpose, but it is dam
built too far down stream. The secret
Of keeping boy straight is to keep
him busy and to make him responsible.
The juvenile court. good in its place,
is intended to help the bad boy to-
ward decency and manliness. But why
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-09
Iowa Newspapers
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LAWsON's BRICKS.
TNiotnn Ea gle.

lN1ntOn EaSle.I
Mr.. Eckles, president of the National
Commercial bank of Chicago, couldn't
keep his ''snout' out of the "frenzied
finance" fight and Lawson give it a
rap that set Eckles to squealing. Eek
les said naughty things about Lawson
and Lawson came back at him by stat
ing that he (Eckles) took peep at
the envelopes containing the bids for
the Cleveland loan and give a tip to
Morgan. EclSles puts up a big howl
and says he never. Somebody ought
to give Mr.. Eckles tip and tell him
the best way to keep out of trouble is
to yet other peoples business alone
especially where it is family row.
He might have expected to get tit for
tat from Lawson. Lawson is throwing
bricks and he don't care who they hit.
THE SENATE'S DIGNITY.
Hogan Observer.
The senate appears to be standing
on it's dignity. Let's see, Dietrich.
Burton and Mitchell have ben indict-
ed The first escaped by technical
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-09

wait until the boy is bad? If we need
one adjunct to our present school sys-
tenn more than another it is
that Of public Industrial schools,
plots of ground to be titled,
workshops with tools to work with
and material to work upon. Not
places to teach and learn trades, but
places where the child and material
he must work in may meet and get
acquainted, where true eye and
deXtrous hand may be acquired, where
little practical problems of construc-
ton may be met and conquered, and
a knowledge of how things are made,
how things grow and how to make
them or keep them growing, is to be
gained. Attendance should be compul-
sorry at these schools and each depart
ment should be given competent in
structor not merely man with know
ledge and training in his speciality, but
a teacher and companion and helper.
One half the time of each school day
might properly be allotted to the in
dustrial departments. The child will
use hands, eyes and ears in after life
with his mental training. Such
schools would offer the youth an out
let for the physical energies that he
must expend and to which we are
pandering with an athletic system that
is only alphabetically defended.
We are outgrowing our contempt for
the mechanical trades. The rush to-
ward the learned professions" is
slackening. The object lesson of a
young lawyer starving after four
years preparation, young doctor
hanging on to practice that pays lit
tie more than the wages of an ordin-
airy clerk, while the young fellow In
grimy overalls and jumper gets down
from his engine to walk in for his
monthly check Of from $125 to 5000
is having it's effect. And there
are more good engineers than good
doctors and lawyers. The reason Is
that they took to their work as a. duck
takes to water, naturally from associa-
ton and desire. Why not discern and
cultivate in the schools the tendencies
toward a natural life work?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-09
. CHANGE FOR COTTON sPiNNERs.

Some figures just supplied to dis
tinguished member of congress by the
department of commerce and labor
thru it's bureau of statistics, suggest
the possibility which await the cotton
manufacturers of the United States
when they may find time etc enter SER
iously upon the task of turning into
the manufactured state the cotton pro-
duced in this country and now supplied
in the natural state to the manufac-
turers of other countries.
The figures in question show merely
the expectation of cotton manufactures
from Japan to China during a term OF
years, but as Japan draws largely from
the United States the raw cotton with
which it produces the manufactures in
question the suggestion which they Of
fer is naturally an interesting one to
us. These figures of exports of cotton
manufactures from Japan to China
show that the total value of cotton
yarns exported from Japan to China in
1893 was $29.5SO and in 1903 $14,112,-
5O7; ane of other cotton manufactures
in 1893 s221,7S3, and in 1908, $2,O13.547,
making the total of cotton yarns and
finished cotton manufactures sent from
Japan to China in 1893 $251,363, and
in 1908 s16.12e,O54.
Meantime the quantity of raw cotton
exported from the United States to ia
pan has grown from 793,242 pounds in
1898 to 161,601,219 pounds in 1900, the
value Of the same being in 1893 1854
and in 1900 $12,712,619. The quantity
and value in 1903 were somewhat re-
duced by reason of the very high price
of American cottons and the fact that
Japan in years of high prices in Am
erica turns for a part of her cotton
supply to India, where she finds a
shorter staple and therefore lower
prices. The general fact, however, thai
Japan increased her purchase of our
raw cotton from sixty-e eight thousand
dollars in, 1898 to seven and one-half
millions in 1903, and In the same per-
iod increased her sales of manufacture
ed cotton to China from s251,00o in
1893 to to s1e,ooo,ooo in 1903, suggests
the possibilities which await the cotton
manufacturers of the United States
when they may choose to turn the
cotton produced in this country into
the finished state before permitting it
to pass to the cotton consumers of the
world.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-09
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