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Sleep is Cheap I t Fine New 350 t I 198 I Wilsons Furniture Store x II One Block West of First National Bank 6 OOOOOO0OlOOOOOOOs A 1000 LOAN LOSS OF SOIL BV EROSION One of the Larprcst Leaks For Money on the American Farm The moving of soil by water is not confined to large streams as many farmers know to their sorrow Every tiny rill trickling down the slope car ries off some of the finest and richest soil on the farm After a heavy rain the spring is soily and the puddles in the hollows are muddy with it The deep furrows left up and down the slope by the cultivator teeth become miniature water courses and the tric kling water exacts a tribute of rich soil before it joins the large rill by the road The soil of the cornfield that was left bare all winter has lost some of Its best loam by planting time Gullies appear on the farm here and there widening and deepening after every rain The soil on the knolls and hillsides becomes thin and yellow for the rich black surface part of it has hurried off to help build up some excel lent farming land about ten miles downstream After a heavy rain the farmer can see the best part of his soil creeping running racing away from him A thousand murky rills slowly meander across his plowed ground and gather forces in the hollows A hundred tur bid rivulets pour down the hollows and join the water in the gulch A dozen muddy brooklets rush down the gulch swell the brook into a creek and race downstream bearing away tons of the rich silt and loam that make plants grow When the rain is over and the soaked soil has dried out enough to till there are gravelly places that the farmer finds it hard to make pro ductive and rocks are exposed that lave never been above the surface be fore Unchecked erosion has ruined many farms and seriously hurt many others Thousands of acres of valuable farm ing land particularly the red clay soils of the south and the loose shaly soils of the north are gouged and gullied every year until they become practical ly valueless for cropping I have seen many hundreds of acres ruined by washing in the Carolinas Tennessee and Georgia On most farms however the loss is less conspicuous and more insidious Every farm that has an ir regularity of surface however slight pays tribute to the force that does more leveling In an hour than all the patent leveling machines have ever done or ever will do A very important problem for the farm owner to consider is how to check erosion cheaply and effectively The with the McCook Co operative Building Savings Association u Ld11 UC JJcilU Uil 111 r gJO monthly paments of Ayers Pills S12J If you are paying more you pay too much We can mature your loan on smaller monthly payments and less money in the aggregate than any comepting associa tion Call on the secretary who will explain our system Office in First National Bank McCook Building Savings Association M COOK TRIBU Only One Dollar the Year in I The great rule of health Keep the bowels regular And the great medicine Ayers Pills J C Aver Co Lowell Mass Want your moustache or beard BUCKINGHAMS DYE aoeauiiiui Drown or i icn DiacK r use Finr cis of DEuaoisis on e p run po Nashua v h plan that wiTTbe mosF successful de pends upon the locality the lay of the land the kind of soil the crop and many other local matters In extreme cases it has been found necessary to retain wooded areas running across the slopes that are subject to washing and otherwise disposed so as to prevent the gathering of water The water course should be looked to carefully A little work directing streamlets into legiti mate channels is time well spent There are various methods of holding the soil with plants A cover crop of rye clo ver vetch etc sown in the orchard or cornfield in late summer may do much to prevent surface washing dur ing the winter Steep banks may be held with quack grass slopes may be put into meadows Cultivating across the slopes instead of up and down will save many tiny leaks that amount to a serious loss in some cases Many other methods of checking erosion will sug gest themselves to the man who has this problem to solve and the methods born of personal need and local expe rience are apt to be most efficient The loss by erosion is I believe one of the largest leaks on American farms today It is bound to increase as our wooded area decreases This loss can not be entirely prevented as long as the rain fal s upon land that is not per fectly level But a large part of it can be prevented How to do this is worth considering by every man ho the problem on his hands Country iie In America COMFORT FOR THE EYES Kryptoks are a source of comfort and preservation for the eyesight as this lens is so constructed that it is achromatic and the changing from the long to the short focus lens is accom plished without annoyance Most of the objectionable features in the old bi focals are entirely eliminated You who are burdened with two pairs of glasses can now lay one of them aside and breathe a sigh of relief The Kryptok Invisible Bifocal Lenses have come to stay and will entirely fill the place of two pairs of glasses They are superior to any other bifocal lenses now on the mar ket both as to workmanship and fin ish To the casual observer they do not differ from ordinary spectacles yet they answer the purpose of two for distance and reading If you are interested send you name and address to the Columbian Bifocal Co Temple Court Denver Colo and they will send you a booklet giving full partic ulars SEEING A JOKE Sometimes One Mar Be Discovered Where It Does Kot Exist A joke depends almost entirely on Its environment for appreciation Lots of our jokes -would fall mighty flat I guess In Zululand or Siberia just the same as the funny stories of those countries would be a dead weight over here Every country has Its own par ticular brand of humor and to appre ciate It to the full you must have been born in that country or lived there for many years The Laplanders appear to us to be a pretty solemn race but I dare say they have their little jokes about the quality of the oil they some times have to drink and other subjects interesting to their mode of living In every country too there is a cer tain percentage of the people who couldnt see a joke however broad it might be There are humorously dull people in Ireland as well as humorous ly bright people In Scotland Why some time ago I received a letter from an Irishman saying that he had read all my books from cover to cover and he considered they were the most se rious things ever published lie thought most of the stories would go fine if they were dramatized and put on the stage In the form of tragedies As to the British sense of humor be ing less keen than the American theres nothing in it English men and women are just as quick to see a joke as we are sometimes a good deal quickei and I know I never want more appreciative audiences than those I got in London Why theyd start laughing before I began and when Id come on to the platform and look at them in a solemn kind of way some of them would double up with merriment Sometimes however anticipation is a bit awkward as for Instance when a humorous lecturer being unable to appear his place was taken by a min ister who wished to discourse on the evils of intemperance The audience it appears was not informed of the change there might have been a riot and when the good man came on the platform and stated that his subject for the evening would be the curse of rum those present went into convul sions of merriment The more grave and solemn the lecturer became the more the people rolled on their seats In ecstasies of mirth until at last the as tonished divine closed his book with a bang and retired Now I dare say in that case the real lecturer would hard ly have created so much amusement as did his substitute which proves that a humorist with a reputation has some thing of a pull over the unknown man though the latter may really be fun nier Mark Twain Origin of the Fair- Cinderella It has been said Not one girl in a thousand knows the origin of the friend of her childhood Cinderella Her real name was Rhodope and she was a beautiful Egyptian maiden who lived G70 years before the common era and during the reign of one of the twelve kings of Egypt One day Rhodope ventured to bathe in a clear stream near her home leaving her shoes which were very small lying on a bank An eagle passing above caught sight of the little sandals and mistak ing them for a toothsome tidbit pounc ed down and carried off one in his beak The bird unwittingly played the part of fairy godmother for flying over Memphis where the king was dis pensing justice it let the shoe fall di rectly at the kings feet Its size beau ty and daintiness immediately attract ed the royal eye and the king deter mined to know the wearer of so cun ning a shoe Messengers were sent through all the kingdom in search of the foot that it would fit Rhodope was finally discovered the shoe placed on her foot and she was carried in tri umph to Memphis where she became the queen of King Fsammeticus Heres a Spelling Lesson Students in a London school were re cently asked to write this A glut tonous sibyl with her glutinous hand complacently seized a sieve a phthi sical Ichneumon a noticeably supercil ious irascible and cynical sergeant an embarrassed and harassed chrysalis a shrieking sheik a complaisant prose lyte and an anonymous chrysolite These all suddenly disappeared down her receptive esophagus She simply said Pugh Not saccharin She then transferred a billion of bilious mosquitoes an unsalable bouquet of fuchsias lilies dahlias hyacinths and phlox a liquefied bdellium an indeli ble defamatory inflammatory synchro nism and a debatable syllogism to the same capacious receptacle Peaceably surrendering her daguerreotype to the ecstatic aeronaut she descended with her parachute a synonym for ba roucheand grievously terrified the xpiiT squalid yeomanry already tor ruLd by the heat 101 Fahrenheit A Boole For the Married When the civil ceremony of marriage is performed In France the official who conducts it passes to the newly wed ded pair a little book which is the wed ding gift of the French government This book contains an official record of the wedding and a number of blank spaces for future births marriages and deaths in the family The most impor tant feature of the small volume how ever is contained In about six pages tliat are devoted to the special instruc tions which the Academy of Medicine has prepared on the care of young chil dren These Instructions number thirty-five In all and they refer to the feeding and clothing of Infants and to the further protection of the helpless child This curious little wedding gift was Inspired by the deep thought which the government has given to the sub ject of the reduction of infant mortali ty a problem of the utmost Importance in view of the backward movement in population in France Boston Globe LEWIS EMERY JR Foe of Standard Oil Who la Up For Governor In Iennaylvanln Ex State Senator Lewis Emery Jr of Pennsylvania nominee of the Lin coln Republicans of the Keystone State for governor was the star witness at the session the Interstate commerce commission held In Cleveland to ex amine Into the operations of the Stand ard Oil trust It was at this hearing that he made the startling declaration The Standard has never Invented any thing It has always stolen what somebody else created Mr Emery Is president of the only existing rival to the Standard which has a pipe line from the oil regions to the seaboard He declared that this company the LEWIS EMERY JR United States Pipe Line company would be driven out of existence but for its pipe line and that the Stand ard has complete control of the rail roads He is considered the most suc cessful antagonist of the oil trust re maining in the fray Mr Emery was born in Chautauqua county N Y in 1S34 but spent his early youth in Michigan He served an apprenticeship in a woolen mill at nineteen became a country school teacher and two years later Joined his father in the manufacture of flour In 1S04 he removed from Michigan to southern Illinois and later found his way to the oil fields of Pennsylvania Years of struggle and vicissitude fol lowed this venture and it was not un til the opening of the great Bradford oil field that he emerged from difficul ties a man of independent fortune He was first chosen to the Pennsylvania legislature In 1878 and has served in both house and senate always being noted for his independence COLONEL GEORGE F HUFF Pennsylvania Conffressnmn Mine Owner nncl Capitalist Colonel George Franklin Huff of Greensburg Pa whose testimony as to relations between coal companies and railroads is wanted by the inter state commerce commission is one of the largest individual owners of coal lands in Pennsylvania and president of the Keystone Coal and Coke com pany This company is among the cor porations which aresupposed to have en joyed special favors from the railroads and his explanation of how such alleg ed special privileges were obtained is desired A subpoena server In the em ploy of the interstate commerce com mission sought him at Greensburg and reported that Colonel Iluff had evaded service by taking refuge in a cellar and had afterward flagged the Penn sylvania Limited and gone to Washing ton Mr Huff however denied that he had tried to evade the summons of COI1ONEI1 GEORGE F HUFF the commission said he had been all day at his office and on leaving had gone to the basement by the elevator as usual in order to take his carriage which was kept in a rear building He said he would appear before the com mission as soon as congress adjourns Colonel Huff once sought the seat in the senate of the late M S Quay He was one of the old guard of 30G who under the leadership of Roscoe Conkling voted for General U S Grant for a third term as president at the Republican convention of 1SS0 He was born at Norristown in 1S42 enter ed the Pennsylvania state senate in 1SS4 and in 1S90 went to congress where he has been since with the ex ception of one term He served In the Union army during the civil war A Lesson In Japanese Courtesy I remember many years ago u dinner at the palace a great olllclal dinner where among the guests were many of the old leadera of rebellions old up holders of the shogunate The last shoguu himself Prince Tokugawa proud silent grim sat opposite to me and I wondered if any human emotion could show Itself on that Impassive face At Unit moment the emperor raised his glass and bowed in kindly smiling fashion to his ancient oppo nent The face changed was suffused ior one illuminating moment wnn a glow of responsive fire It seemed as if the emperor was once more thank ing the shoguu for his splendid pa triotic act when after years of strug gle he voluntarily laid his power and his prerogatives at the emperors feet for the good of the country and as If Prince Tokugawa looking back and looking forward for Japan said to himself once more It was well done Mary C Fraser In Worlds Work FIfirurcH Thnt Stngprer It used to be that astronomy with its stupendous magnitudes Incredible ve locities and inconceivable distances seemed to make the greatest demand on mans belief says the Loudon Tele graph Today it is physics We read for instance that Hertzs oscillations give rise to 500000000 oscillations per second Where Is the man who can conceive of anything happening In the five-hundred-millionth part of a sec ond But this Is quite a long period compared to some of those now accept ed as inevitable optics According to Maxwells great theory a light wave Is a series of alternating electric cur rents flowing In air or interplanetary space and changing their direction 1000000000000000 times per second And this is supposed to be true of ev ery form of light coming from the sun the electric lamp or a lucifer match Who can think of anything happening in the part of a second LnndRccrH Valet Sir Edwin Landseer the famous ani mal painter had an old servant his butler valet and faithful slave named William who was particularly assiduous In guarding the outer portal No one could by any possibility gain direct access to Sir Edwin Tho an swer would invariably be Sir Hed win is not at ome The prince con sort himself once received this answer when he called amplified on that oc casion by the assurance that he had gone to a wedding an entire fiction on Williams part as the prince found out for on walking boldly in and round the garden he noticed Sir Edwin look ing out of his studio window This was the faithful attendant who one day when a Hon had died at the zoo and his corpse came up In a four wheeled cab to be painted from star tled his master with the question Please Sir Iledwin did you border a lion Thatched Roofs In England The thatched roof which makes the English cottage picturesque is doom ed said an architect For some years it has been going gradually Soon It will be altogether a thing of the past Fire Insurance Is the cause of the thatched roofs disappearance No company will Insure a cottage or its contents if the roof is thatched They who want Insurance must sub stitute for the roof of thatch a tiled one As long as the English cottager remains very poor so that his house and furniture are not worth insuring he keeps a thatched roof over his head As soon as he begins to prosper and lays In household goods of value he takes out a fire policy and away then goes his thatched roof Louisville Courier Journal His Style of Hitting And now Mrs Sullivan said the counsel will you be kind enough to tell the jury whether your husband was in the habit of striking you with impunity With what sor queried Mrs Sul livan With impunity repeated the coun sel Well he was sor now and thin but he struck me oftener wid his fisht sor His Remark I wont do any more work for that man Hopkins Why Well he passed some remark I did not like Did he What was it He said Brown you wont be want ed after this week Constant Advice A woman should always depend on her husband for advice said the de voted wife Yes answered the visitor but it does grow monotonous not to get any advice except to economize Wash ington Star Lost Yonth A man looks back with regret but without bitterness to his lost youth a woman however vehemently she may protest to the contrary seldom if ever attains to this same calm serenity Gentlemans Magazine FlctltiouN Angel Child Aunt Daisy what i3 meant by a fictitious character Aunt Daisy That means one that Is made up dear Angel Child Oh yes Then youre a fictitious character arent you auntie Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty for not having much to care for and with obscurity for being unenvied Plu tarch YOU WOULD DO WELL TO SEE J M Rupp FOR ALL KINDS OF Rrj 0 P O Box 131 McCook Nebraska H P SUTTON mccook I MUSICAL GOODS NEBRASKA DR A P WELLES Physician 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