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sSMKfleM ft SfBbtb Vf iggllgn 1 1 air Its easy MoBej Thousands of boys all over this country who never had much money to call their own are happy now at the merry jingle of cash in their pockets made by selling THE SA TURDA Y EVENING TOST Friday afternoons and Saturdays They have no better chances they are no brighter than you Its just this instead of dreaming about the good times to come they got right down to business and hustled for what they wanted You can do the same Dont lose any time about it Write a letter to day asking us to send you our hand some booklet about boys who make money also the complete outfit for starting in business With this will come ten free copies of The Post which you can sell at 5c each After this you buy as many copies as you need at whole sale prices As an inducement to do good work we give among other prizes watches sweaters etc to boys who sell a certain number of copies And in addition 250 in Extra Cash Prizes EACH MONTH THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 425 Arch Street Philadelphia Pa puDlic Deneni5 10 u ucurtu v - - In the Bznn Pitman System of Phonography Reporting Style Advertised Letters Th following wrv adviTn ed l McCo ik pi a oilier Jan lOtb OG Arnold Mrs K1 Ainnwp Mr Ailrlin Hellor Mr Cnioliui Hacrinir M r IVte Mr C O Roar Mr K O Monm Mr Albert Hull dm Clark -Mr Cummins Mr Jn Chiipok Jiiiiip i 1 Ciirinoii CIiuh W Cormvoll K S Coleman Guy Colloy Mr T Click Mit s Hnlcu Clino L E Conilo Giro ClorNu Mr Don Diuizirn Kinido Di lj Mr Pat CD Ivlnioiids MrLtvi insMr Fr il Fitzgorulil Joliu Fibk Murj H Frii Mr Michael FlocKnr J E For particulars write f iiinhc i ry Mrs 3 Liuiery John Liiiix Elmer J Lanrtnn Mr C K lpfi Mifw Lohrinc EIJ 2 Lanp H 1 LiipliHiii Mr Warren MaiffiniK Mi Mirtlo Murray Mis Lillian McBritlu G E Mnor Mr John 31 McCook Mr Joi sio MrlliiKh JaniHS 3 Millir Mrs Emma SlarMlon J Miles Ljdia Maipworlh A II Mr CT Ohani Stephen 2 Iictcllo Rhielo Mrs A Palmer Mr Edpar Iliillips H 15 Puph Mr liny lopI Ro sEarlA I Gnndwii M Wm 2 It a K rl A Green Mr Jiunes Head Mr Geo I Goorgu Mr M P Gillam N A Graham Ray I Grafton Mr Arthur I Ililitt Mr Gmrgo Hammond Mr I L j I la I to- Mr C C Iliirrisou Walt I Holawav Stulla 2 Ita Rich Mr Murray blioa Mr It W Siiipp r Mr C E S vart Mr Amy Sunder Hiiiry N Shell Mr Earl E Snyder Mrs Homer Stanloy Mr Cljdo Holnwaj Miss MariouSmith R D j Hiiciuan Miss Marion Scott R S j Hull Dr E A Simmons Mrs Edith i Hiber Mr Ray Saunders Miss Rachael Hull Mr J C Stewart Miss Maud HeiubauKh J Pass Stoudt S R Jenkins Walter W 3 Smith Miss Ueccn Johnson Mr Win 2 Stitzer Mr J B funkari Henry Tonson Miss Neljie Kisslor George Tully Mr Luko Kimbell II L Vance Miss D C Kinkaid Mr Nolsou Vore Mrs Kins Mr Hen Kesteii Mr Charles Kipp Mr Lomie Lumns Mr Ed Wheoler T H 2 Walosworth Mr L Math W R Young Mirs Mary Young Miss Eva When calling for these letters please suv they were advertised F M KimmelIi Postmaster Parties wishing to have The Tribune print their sale bills on have the copy prepared by bringing the description of the a rlicles they hiv to offer for sale to this office There will be no charge for preparing the copy and tho bills will b promptly and accurately printed at a moderate cost jtftimagaac uj1 in Trrnrrr i n n mi n u ii leggBBBas biwbi 1 1 1 1 II 4 i 1 Y o 4 THE GREAT SUBJECTS FOR EVERY FARMER AND GARDENER THE WEEKLY INTER OCEAN is the only weekly paper that has a special department for this subject The first of a series of articles on SOILS AND SOIL CULTURE is now appearing in the WEEKLY INTER OCEAN and will continue for several months They are prepared by Mr Wallace E Sherlock an acknowledged authority on subjects pertaining to the preservation and restoration of soils This department is in addition to the complete FARM GARDEN LIVE STOCK VETERINARY HOME and other depart ments making the WEEKLY INTER OCEAN the leading farm home and news paper in the United States i Subscription Price I 100 per year Subscribe at once and do not miss a article on Soils and Soil Culture x In Combination with the McCOOK TRIBUNE Only 105 single TAYNEBl MOOOOOOOOCOOK BBBBlaBiiEiiaaBtBBlIHBBaB Phonography is so simple as to be readily and the I learned by any one of ordinary capacity 3 jj Fable John Bright horthand Schoo McCook Neb LINCOLNS DISPOSITION Urdlnurll heerful It Held u Strain of Decit Melancholy Hopeful siul cheerful as he ordinarily seemed there was in Mr Lincolns dis position a strain of deep melancholy This was not peculiar to him alone for the pioneers as a race were soiuDcr rather than gay Their lives had been passed for generations under the most trying physical conditions near malaria infested streams and where they breath ed the poison of decaying vegetation Insufficient shelter storms the cold of winter savage enemies and the cruel labor that killed off all but the hardiest of them had at the same time killed tlie happy-go-lucky gayety of an easier form of life They were thoughtful wild merriment but it has been said that although a pioneer might laugh he could not easily be made to smile Lincolns mind was unusually sound and sane and normal He had a cheer ful wholesome sunny nature yet he had inherited the strongest traits of the pioneers and there was in him more over much of the poet with a poets capacity for joy and pain It Is not strange that as he developed into man hood especially when his deeper nature began to feel the stirrings of ambition and of love that these seasons of de pression and gloom came upon him with overwhelming force Helen Nico Iay In St Nicholas THE BARK OF TREES Xatnrea Provlolon For the Relief of tlie Growing Ilnnt The practical cultivator understands that nature makes provision for getting rid of the bark of trees as the trunk in creases in size On tlie growth of the past season may be seen small olive spots These are formations of cork From year to year in subsequent de velopment these little patches spread really eating their way through the bark This is the provision which na ture makes for finally rifting the bark in each species of plant These cork cells havo their own special lines of de velopment and this is the reason why each kind of tree has its own particular bark The characteristics are so prom inent that clever observers can select different kinds of trees by their bark even at midnight As it is the evident intention of nature to get rid of old bark it is a great help to tlie tree to as sist nature in this respect and any wash or treatment which aids the plant in getting rid of it is a prac tical advantage Soapy water wash or lye water is useful and even scraping has been found of great advantage In a rough sort of way lime wash is frequently used the only objection be ing the white and glaring color It is however the cheapest and the best of all bark treatment THE USEFUL YAWN Tills Iinnf Ventilntinpr Process Serves a Double Purpose The act of yawning is distinctly bene ficial in two ways In tlie first place it serves the purpose of lung ventila tion The lungs are not filled or ex hausted by ordinary respiration There is a certain quantity of air which phys iologists call residual air left in the recesses of the lungs after tlie ordinary respiration This in time becomes viti ated and affects the blood and through it the nervous centers The result is a yawn which is really a stretching of the respiratory chamber to its fullest capacity and the filling of it with freshly inspired air which drives the vitiated air out Yawning is also beneficial in so far as it opens stretches and ventilates the vocal na sal and auditory chambers in immedi ate connection with the mouth Tho cracking sound often heard when yawning is due to the stretching and opening of the eustachian tubes which form a communication between the middle ear and the back of the throat The deafness which often accompanies a cold is due to the congestion of these tubes London Hospital Ileroines Old and Sew Most modern heroines are married women whereas the nice ones in Shakespeare and in novels before 1S90 were almost always unwedded maids You like Beatrice and Portia andj above all things Rosalind You do not lose your heart to Lady Macbeth though a fine figure of a woman and you do not desire to compete Avith Othello in the affections of Desdemona This may be a too nice morality but to Victorian taste even widows in novels at least come under the ban of the elder Mr Weller Nobody but Colonel Esmond ever cared for Lady Castle wood and Dobbin is alone in his pas sion for Amelia Andrew Lang in Lon don Post Postponed A bashful young couple who were ev idently very much in love entered a crowded street car in Boston the other day Do you suppose we can squeeze in here he asked looking doubtfully at her blushing face Dont you think dear we had bet ter wait until we get home was the ow embarrassed reply Life Tle Clock The clock has a strange way of tell ing different tales with the same face If It is telling one man to hurry up it tells the next man who looks that there is plenty of time Atchison Globe Realism Why is the cow purple in the picture 1 Because the girls parasol Is red The cow in fact is purple with rage This is precisely what is meant by realism In art Puck The secret of success lies In the man and not In the stuU ho works on Tor rey The Word Exnire Expire in its literal sense is breath ing out Inspiration and expiration to gether constitute respiration Izaak Walton observed that if the inspiring or expiring organ of any animal be stopt it suddenly dies The Romans spoke of breathing out the breath of life instead of dying by way of euphemism just as they said Vixit he has lived instead of he is dead In all languages the reluctance frankly to say dead or die appears hence such words and phrases as pass away decease demise the de parted defunct the late no more if anything should happen to me Perpetuating the Species There is a stringent law in Japan that when one camphor laurel is cut down another must be planted in its place The tree is hardy and long lived attaining to an enormous size It is covered with a small leaf of a vivid green color Tho seed or berries grow in clusters resembling the black cur rant in size and appearance And the wood is employed for every purpose from cabinetmaking to shipbuilding lie Guessed Tllsht Ah me exclaimed Mrs Nagget my shopping was most unsatisfactory today Huh grunted Xagget trying to get something for nothing I suppose Yes dear I was after a birthday gift for you Philadelphia Press The Other Side Do you think a little learning is a dangerous thing Possibly But it isnt half so dan gerous as the same amount of igno rance Detroit Free Press AS A Ilic Time When AVoim n lirnt Ap peared on the UiiKlish Stuc In the methods of producing plays Pepys period of playgoing was coeval with many most important Innovations which seriously affected the presenta tion of Shakespeare on the stage The chief wis the substitution of women for boys in female roles During the first few months of Pepys theatrical experience boys were still taking the tvoiejs parts That the practice sur vived in the first days of Charles IIs reign we know from the well worn an ecdote that when the king sent behind the scenes to inquire why the play of Hamlet which he had come to see watchful wary capable indeed of was so late lu commencing he was au- swered that the queen was not yet shaved But in the opening mouth of 1GG1 within five months of his first visit to a theater the reign of the boys ended On Jan 3 of that year Fepys writes that he first saAV women come upon the stage Next night he makes entry of a boys performance of a wo mans part and that is the final record of boys masquerading as women in the English theater I believe the prac tice now survives nowhere except in Japan This mode of representation has always been a great puzzle to stu dents of Elizabethan drama It is difficult to imagine what boys in Shakespeares day if they were any thing like boys of our own day made of such parts as Lady Macbeth or Cleopatra Before however Fepys saw Shakespeares work on the stage the usurpation of the boys was over It was after the Restoration loo that scenery rich costume and scenic ma chinery became to Pepys delight reg ular features of the theater When the diarist saAV Hamlet done with scenes for the first time he was most favorably impressed Musical accom paniment was known to prerestora tion days but the orchestra was now for the first time placed on the floor of the house in front of the stage instead of in a side gallery The musical ac companiment of plays deve1 very rapidly and the methods of opia were applied to many of Shakespeares pieces notably to The Tempest and Macbeth From Fepys and Shake speare by Sidney Lee in Fortnightly Review POINTED PARAGRAPHS How soon we learn that the average mans bark is about aF there is to him When people say anything good about you ever notice what a few are pres ent We all of us claim to be natural but we all of us know that the only time when we are not putting on is when we are asleep Somehow the hundred dollars some other man has always looks larger and as if it should go f urtlier than the hun dred dollars 3 ou have There are not many sights more de pressing than to meet a farmers wag on on a country road going out from town with a coffin in it When a man says he got up nine times with the baby six nights in suc cession it means that one night he woke up and heard his wife gtjt up Atchison Globe Hawaiian ITiiclclelierry On the island of Hawaii are great thickets of the ohelo or Hawaiian huc kleberry Yaccinium reticulatum which the natives consider sacred to Tele tho goddess who is supposed to preside over the famous crater of Kilauea and which together with white pigs and chickens are thrown by them into the boiling red lake during an eruption to appease the wrath of the aggressive dame and thus cause the rivers of lava to cease flowing on their destructive course These berries grow in clusters on low bushes right on the very brink of the brimstone beds and are so nu merous that a bushel may be easily gathered in half an hour In appear ance they somewhat resemble a cran berry and tho flavor is pleasantly sug gestive of grapes r TWi CurnTii riwTliiiiii i lift TKE TOY INVENTOR Ills HurdcKt Tusk In to CntcU tho Fancy of the Public Tha small Inventor is an Important factur In the mechanical toy business and he earns all of the living he gets In thinking up devices He Is most con cerned with the small mechanical toys and in addition to the prime requisite of putting forth something novel he must get something which costs as lit tle as possible and which catches the fancy of the multitude This last point is one which is most difficult to cover No student of the subject has ever yet been able to discover or deduce the cycle In which the public taste moves and It is still hit or miss as to whether a figure which walks on Its hands ai airship with wings or an acrobat who works by gravity will be the best sell er Then when tlie invention has been achieved the inventor has still the problem of finding the maker who will buy it and pay a fair price The in ventor and maker are in much the same position as the writer and pub lisher both go through the same men tal turmoil as to the timeliness of the output and both take the same risks The inventor who has been in the business long learns at last the best places at which to offer his wares and has more or less of an idea of what they ought to bring him and once he has acquired this knowledge his entire energy is devoted to keeping up with the demand for newness Something absolutely different from anything else previously offered is In general better than an improvement of an old idea and that is why in mechanical toys the same device is seldom seen two seasons in succession Philadelphia Record A MUSICAL LEGEND Tlie Chinese Story of the Eiht Prim itive Hidden Soundn The Chinese have some extraordinary superstitions relating to music Ac cording to their queer notions the Cre ator of the universe hid eight sounds in the earth for the express purpose of compelling man to find them out On the same principle it is presumed Ju piter according to Virgil hides fire in flint and honey in trees in order to whet tlie ardor of mans industry to persevere in his efforts to rediscover tlie hidden treasures According to the Celestial idea tlie eight primitive sounds are hidden in stones silks woods of various kinds the bamboo plant pumpkins in the skins of animals in certain earths and in the air itself Any one who has ever had the pleasure of seeing and lis tening to a Chinese orchestra will re member that their musical instruments wore made of all these materials ex cept the last and that the combined ef forts of the other seven seemed better calculated to drive the ethereal sound away than to coax it from the air which is really the object of all Chi nese musical efforts When the bands play tlie naive credulity of tlie people both old and young hears in tlie thuds of the gongs and the whistling of the pipes the tones of the eternal sounds of nature that were originally deposit ed in the various animate and inani mate objects by the all wise Father Exchange What Haniir Meant Though the Scottish guard of France had long lost its natural character it jealously retained until the crash of 17S9 all its curious old privileges which though they led to constant wrangles with other regiments had been duly allowed by Louis XIV He was actually obliged to intervene at his own wedding to compose a dispute as to the precedence of the Scots guards and the Cent gentilshommes Proud as a Scotchman was an old proverb in France and their successors in the bodyguard did their best to jus tify it But the most curious survival long after a word of Scotch had been heard in the corps was the practice of answering hamir a corruption for am here when the roll was called which Avas religiously maintained at all events down to the revolution Macmillans Magazine Distances In Venezuela In traveling in Venezuela it is not enough to ask how far distant a place is but also how far up or down in other words what its altitude is and no less important what hills and valleys have to be crossed Thus it is not only necessary to know that Caracas is six miles distant in a straight line from La Guayra its seaport but that It lies at an elevation of nearly half a mile above sea level and that to reach it one has to cross a mountain wall rising far above tho clouds This to the experienc ed traveler means that he must pre pare for an entirely different climate George M L Brown in St Nicholas A Touchinsr Lament Addressing a political gathering tlie other day a speaker gave his hearers a touch of the pathetic I miss lie said brushing away a not unmanly tear I miss many of the old faces I used to shake hands with London Globe Unfamiliar With the Beast Yes remarked the professor I rather pride myself on the discovery of another hypothesis Indeed replied Mrs Cumrox a lit tle doubtfully I had an idea they were quite extinct Washington Star Very Different Trials Tess Arent you going to choir re hearsal tonigut Jess No Tess Youd better Were going to give that new hymn a trial Jess Cant I am going to give a new him a trial my self Harrah or huzzah is the oldest and most common exclamation In all lan guages 1 YOU WOULD DO WELL TO SEE J M Rupp FOR ALL KINDS OF grjck VVOfk P O Box 131 McCook Nebraska II P SUTTON MCCOOK v JEWELLER MUSICAL GOODS NEBRASKA DR A P WELLES Physician and Surgeon Ottlce Kesitlenc 524 Main Aveuuu Ollico and Residence phouo 53 ChIIs nnawerod uiht or dny McCOOK NEBRASKA r Herbert J Pratt Registkukd Graduatk Dentist Office over McCorineUs DniR Store McCOOK NEB Telephones Office 10O rt Mdenco 131 Former location Atlanta Georgia A Vfe tfe sssvtQsib 1 I J C BALL McCook AGENT FOR THE CELEBRATED Fairbury Hanchett Windmill This is a warranted and guaran teed windmill iiottiinir better in tho market 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