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SOME PARADOXES EXPLAINED
How tho Wheels of an Express Train
Going Forward at Sixty Miles an
Hour Travel Backward at tho Raia
of Ten Miles an Hour
In Paradoxes of Science and Nature
the author Mr Hampson explains the
why and wherefore of many things
which appear to contradict scientific
principle or settled belief
For example when a train Is going
at a rate of sixty miles an hour what
part of It is moring backward This
is no trick no sell The whole train
Is not going backward and you are not
the Innocent goat to be sacrificed upon
its rails The train is going forward
at the rate of sixty miles an hour and
yet a portion of that same train Is go
ing In a contrary direction at a pretty
fair rate of speed It is not going
atirely eren it Is actually and literal
ly in a hurry in that direction Yon
may prore this for yourself with a bi
cjclo Push Its front wheel up against
a house wall Make a chalk mark on
the lowest part of the wheel and on
the ground Immediately beneath It
Back the machine a little from the
wall and when the wheel has moved
an inch the marked spot will not ap
pear to have moved at all As the ma
chine is slowly backed farther the first
risible morement of the bottom of
the wheel Is upward from the ground
while it is Impossible to see that the
marked spot has backed from the wall
to the smallest extent This means
that all wheels trareling at any speed
hare a part the part in immediate
contact with the ground which has no
morement at all
But the wheel of a railroad car hag
a flange a portion which juts down
below the wheels point of contact on
the rail That point of contact then
becomes a center the whole wheel
passes forward abore it while the
flange beneath it passes under it go
ing backward That is the part of the
wheel that trarels in the contrary di
rection And by a simple mathemati
cal formula its rate of speed is cal
culable at about one sixth of the speed
of the axle of the wheel which repre
sents the forward rate of trarel So
that on every express train going six
ty miles on hour toward New York
theres a portion that Is trareling to
ward Boston Its humble ten
The paradox that sail and Ice boats
may fly faster than the wind which
propels them is obrious and common
place to the point of boredom But
consider the Intelligence of the arer
age billiard ball Place three balls In
a row along the cushion touching each
other Place another ball alongside
the cushion say eight Inches from this
row Hit this lightly and smoothly
so that it strikes the row It will
come to rest at once on striking the
nearest ball The nearest ball and the
next one to it will also remain station
ary But the third ball will start off
from the bunch at precisely the speed
of the ball you hare struck and it
will quietly more off to the exact dis
tance from the row that you had
placed the ball which you struck The
balls will then be in a position exactly
the rererse of the one at which you
started The ball you struck with
your cue will be the third ball in the
row and the last ball in the original
row will be at rest just eight inches
away from them If you had placed
two balls eight inches from your row
of three and hit them with your cue
so that they struck the row of three
then just two balls would leare the
row of three and retire to the eight
inch position occupied by your two
cue balls Plainly the billiard ball is
smart enough to come in out of the
rain It can count and add and sub
tract It probably has Its opinion of
the people who bat it about the cush
ions with not nearly so true an in
stinct for angles and relocltles as it
has itself
Hereafter when coal is high we may
heat our houses with Ice for ice gires
out heat not much It would take a
large chunk to heat the public library
but it might be done Erery thing in
nature has some heat erery known
object eren Ice Ice is cold to us only
because it has much less heat than
our bodies It hasnt much heat to
be sure but still a little You may
lower its melting point by mixing in
some salt A mixture of water and
salt requires 32 degrees of frost to
freeze it Therefore the mixture of
Ice and salt can be melted by the heat
of anything that has a higher temper
ature than that Such a thing Is pure
ice which has been exposed for some
time to the air It remains at freezing
or melting point 32 degrees F or
zero on the centigrade scale At this
temperature then it has heat enough
to melt a portion of its own substance
that has been made more easily melta
ble by addition of salt It proceeds to
melt a part of itself deroting a part
of its heat energy to this work that
is to say that haTlng used up some
of its heat It has less heat left And
that Is further to say that all the while
the ice was melting it was growing
colder
We come now to the ice furnace
J jkcrbole to say that the water wbicfc
the firemen turned upon u Ore rather
added to the intensity of the confla
gratlon The heat of the flames Instant-
ly disintegrated the water and con-
Every Known Object Even Ice rtln nt0 TItsf titent pses
burned them Let only some
ContainS Some Heat five gcnJus set himself to work and
apply this principle to the kitchen
range and he shall have fame and for
tune and Ave a cheap and handy sub
stitute for anthracite at 7 u ton
The soundest of eyes has its blind
Bpot Anybody can And his own after
a short search On a plain piece of
paper place the capital letters R and
L some Ave Inches apart like this
It L
Now close your left eye holding It
tight with your hand if necessary
Then hold the paper off say eighteen
Inches from the open right eye Look
only at the letter It But out of the
corner of your eye as we say you
will catch a glimpse of the letter L
Now slowly move the paper closer to
the eye keeping that eye peeled on
the It all the while When the paper
is about six Inches from the eye tho
L will disappear You have ceased
to see it out of the corner that is you
have apparently ceased to see it Mora
the paper closer yet to your eye and
the L will reappear It has simply
passed the blind spot In your organ of
risiou
We hear a great deal about the
heartstrings those famous heartstrings
which the theater press agent prom
ises us shall be played upon by his
drama You sit in your seat before
the play turning the leaves of your
programme and you hit upon the an
nouncement of the next attraction It
Is sure to say that this powerful at
traction -will reach the heartstrings
Now most of us have held those heart
strings to be but a figure of speech
Poor lay fools that we are we know
not that they hare a place in physiolo
gy and a rery large place in ereryday
life The heart without heartstrings
doesnt work thats all
We all know that between the auricle
and ventricle are ralres But those
wonderful automatic ralres are not
stout enough in their own tissue to
hold back the pressure that the heart
Imparts to the flow of blood at each
of its beats And nature with her
wonderful provision for ererythlng has
fitted to those ralres complete sets
of tiny guy wires which stiffen them
to their work Of course they are not
of wire they are tendons but they do
rery well considering the double duty
they perform Go to the Bowdoln
square and learn for yourself the ex
tras they are called upon to perform
Truly harmonious nature has her ca
pricious moments and dearly lores a
feat a paradox a bit of sport Bos
ton Transcript
The Nonchalant Canton Merchant
Frequently on entering a Canton
shop you will find its owner with a
book In one hand and pipe or fan in
the other and wholly absorbed In his
studies You will be doomed to dis
appointment if you expect the smoker
to start up at once all smiles and
blandness rubbing his hands together
as he makes a shrewd guess as to what
he Is likely to take out of you and re
ceiving you with obsequiousness or
with rudeness accordingly Quite the
rererse Your presence Is apparently
unnoticed unless you happen to lift
anything Then you hear that the fan
has been arrested and feel that a keen
eye is bent on your morements all
the while But it is not until you in
quire for some article that the gentle
man now certain that you mean to
trade will rise without bustle from
his seat show you his goods or state
the price he means to sell at with a
polite yet careless air which plainly
says If it suits you we will make an
exchange Through China With a
Camera
The Minutest of Shells
Among the minute existences upon
the face of the globe that hare been
elerated by means of the microscope
into an honored position of independ
ence are the foraminefera mostly ma
rine atoms inhabiting many
uerea ceus At one time they were
considered mollusca at another they
were ranked among the infusoria and
erentually they were settled com
fortably in the subkingdom protozoa
The calcareous shells hare in the past
formed rast deposits of chalk They
are often today congregated as realms
of sand These animals are not al
ways minute but generally they are
subjects imperatively demanding the
lens An ounce of sand has been
known to contain G000 of their shells
and in the West Indies the figure once
ran into millions Your object under
the naked eye seems to be merely a
pinch of brown sand under the mi
croscope you hare a great rariety of
the loreliest lihiputian shells repre
senting erery rariety of form known
to the conchologlst
Pampered Dogs
London reterinaries tell surprising
stories about dogs There was a poo
dle for which a prime leg of lamb was
roasted erery day and there were
other pets which when tiken into the
custody of the reterinary were ris
ited erery day by their owners in car
riages whose footmen would get down
from the box and hand in partridge
breasts and other dainties on silrer
dishes for the sick dog
Old Noble Queen Victorias farorite
collie was often taken in as a patient
A i by one reterinary and found to be
large mass of pure ice Is contained in j fering from orerfeeding It would
a galranlzed receptacle baring a flue frequently eat a whole roast pheasant
leading from the top About this re- J and the wonder is that it lired so long
ceptacle Is placed Ice mixed with salt I A reterinary once got a telegram
The salted ice melts In melting it from Oxford to go down instantly and
t
draws from the pure Ice Its heat Our treat a pet dog that had fallen down-
patent flue conducts this heat to all
parts of the house And there is a
great saring In coal
Water may be made serriceable as
e fuel It Is no mere reportorial
stairs and broken its leg But the
veterinary had to wire that the last
train was gone whereupon another
message came Take special And
le did at a cost of 1G0
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ITALIAN BALL GAME
A Statuesque Beauty In Pallone Seef
In No Other Game
Pallone is the king of ball games re
retiring not merely great strength and
alertness In the player but offering
also such a succession of noble plastic
poses as may be seen In no other
jftiis Goethe who saw his first match
with delight at Verona in September
1780 wrote that sucli attitudes were
worthy of being put into marble
Our more enlightened archaeology
would probably declare for the nobler
bronze if the pundits could be persuad
ed to follow Goethe and occasionally
exchange the library for the pallone
court
Be that as it may the gist of the
game Is almost as readily grasped as
its statuesque beauty Pallone is
merely the perfected and titanic form
of the jeu de paume that is played
from end to end of Europe You see
It in its incipiency when two urchins
with tambourines beat a rubber ball to
and fro In the open or against a side
wall In Spain the thing is done with
a wicker racket In a court and is
called pclota But pallone the ancient
game which is the parent of tennis
rackets and half a dozen other wall
gRmes Is as far superior to Its ru
dimentary forms as baseball is to
rounders
One look at the big ball the pallone
Itself would convince you that here
Is n sport for men if not for giants
Tho pallone looks like a huge baseball
but has twice tho diameter and
weighs two thirds of a pound I have
seen Its like in Columbia county N
Y where years ago the old Dutch
game of wicket was played Imagine
a twelre pound shell or an enlarged
croquet ball soaring from end to end
of a 300 foot court or ricoehetting
treacherously off the side wall as the
agile player gires this or that turn of
the bristling wooden cestus This bat
Is as noteworthy as the ball A wood
en cylinder about eight Inches long
and six in diameter with an outer ar
ray of inserted wooden spikes and an
interior cross grip shaped to the play
ers hand such is the arm piece or
pracciale It Is so heary weighing at
least four pounds that one may rath
er say it sways the bearer than he it
Once it swings at the hurtling ball
the whole body must follow the ges
ture hence the remarkable plastic
quality of all the attitudes of play
And the contestants are dressed In a
fashion to glre ralue to these momen
tary poses A trim jacket the right
sleere short tight knickerbockers
stockings and canras slippers all spot
less white make up a costume that
admits a touch of color only in the
gold fringed sash gift of an admirer
generally which marks the player as
belonging to the reds and blues Re
turning to the pracciale it is not a
comfortable thing to wear At erery
pause the players rap it sharply
against the wall to drire the bandaged
wrist home and they often breathe on
the hot and half exposed knuckles in
a rain attempt to cool them Frank J
Mather in Century
The Triumph of Titus
The total number of those who per
ished In the siege and capture of Jeru
salem Is estimated by Josephus at
1100000 persons 97000 were taken
captire by the Romans Of these 700
of the finest and strongest were select
ed to grace the triumphal procession
of Titus The old and the weak who
could not be used the Romans had
butchered in cold blood Those orer
serenteen years of age were part of
them sent into the Egyptian mines
part of them forced to appear in bat
tle with wild beasts and be torn to
pieces by them or to fight as gladiators
with one another to delight the eyes
of the heathen populace In Caesarea
Philippi alone at the celebration of
the birthday of Domitian more than
2500 Jews shed their blood in the
arena The males under serenteen
years of age and the women were
sold directly into slarery Titus with
all his prisoners and all his booty
marched to Rome where he had a bril
liant triumph in the year 71 A D
The sacred ressels of the temple were
carried before the imperator and
Simon and John for the first time
shoulder to shoulder were obliged to
march before the chariot of the rictor
with the 700 chosen captires Simon
being the real leader was first scourged
ana then throttled at the stake in ac
cordance with Roman custom John
finished his career in prison
A Magnolia Elysium
When good Charlestonians die their
bodies it is said go to Magnolia ceme
tery and their souls to the Magnolia
gardens Indeed it were quite ex
cusable in a wandering spirit if
chancing on these gardens when th
azaleas were in their radiant perfec
tion he should mistake the place for
Eljsium especially if looking for such
a gardenlike Elysium as Ilerricks
Although widely known and risited
yearly by hundreds Magnolia is not
a public garden but a noble old estate
on the Ashley river belonging now
as it has belonged for 200 years to the
Drayton family of South Carolina
Very much as the folk of Tokyo go
out to worship the beauty of the cher
ry blossoms so in March and April
Charleston people and any strangers
fortunate enough to be within their
gates make a pilgrimage to Magnolia
During the season the little steamer
plies between Charleston and Mag
nolia making the trip twice daily
Francis Duncan in Century
Horse Sense
Mr Jogtrot I dont want this horse
He hasnt any sense at all Every time
he sees an automobile he wants to
climb a tree Dealer Well thats
good horse sense It seems to me Chi
cago News
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
To James D Wright non resident defend
ant You aro hereby notified that on tho 22nd
dnyof August 1107 Alice Wright tiled her pe
tition against you in the district court of Red
Willow county Nebraska the object and prayer
of which aro to obtain n divorce from you on
the grounds that you have willfully abandoned
the plaintiff without good cause for the term of
three years Inst past and for the custody of loin
Wright a child born tho issue of said marriage
You nro required to answer tho suid petition on
or boforo Monday tho 29th day of September
1907 S-23-Uh Alice Wright Plaintiff
My Starr iz Roedor her attorneys
To George Lithe non resident defendant
You arts heroby notified that on tho 12th day of
August 1107 Annie Lillie tiled a petition against
you in tho district court of Itcdwillow county
Nebraska theobjcct and prayer of which are
to obtain a divorce from you on the ground
that you hnvo been guilty of extreme cruelty
toward this plaintiff and that you have willfully
abandoned tho plaintiff without good cause
for the term of two years hist oast You aro re
quired to answer said otitiou on or before
Monday tho 23rd day of September 1907
8 lfMts Annie Lillie Plaintiff
By Starr Rceder her attorneys
NOTICE OF HEARING
On petition for distribution of residue of es
tate State of Nebraska Red Willow countyss
To all persons interested in the estate of James
Cain deceased
Notice is hereby given thnt Mary Cain ad
ministratrix of said estate has filed her jieti
tiou in the county court of said county the ob
ject and prayer of which aro thnt n ilecreo of
distribution may be made of the residue of said
estate now in her possession to tho parties en
titled by law to receive tho same
You aro heroby notified that said petition will
bo heard by tho county judge at tho county
court room in tho city ol McCook in snid coun
ty on the thirty first day of August 1107 at ten
oclock a m
It is ordered that a copy of this notice be pub
lished onco each week for three successive
weeks in Tho McCook Tribune a newspaper
printed and published in said county
Dated this sixteenth day of August 1907
seal J C MooitE County Judge
No 8S23
NOTICE OF AUTHORIZATION
Treasury Department
Offico of Comptroller of tho Currency
Washington D C August 5th 1107
WrrEKEAS By satisfactory evidence presented
to the undersigned it hns been made to appear
that THE McCOOK NATIONAL HANK1 in
the City of McCook in the County of Red Wil
low and State of Nebraska has complied with
all the provisions of tho Statutes of tho United
States required to bo complied with before an
association shall bo authorized to commence
the business of iianking
Now Therefore I Thomas P Kane Deputy
and Acting Comptroller of tho Currency do
hereby certify that THE McCOOK NATIONAL
HANK iii tho City of McCook in the County
of Red Willow and State of Nebraska is auth
orized to commence tho business of Hanking as
provided in Section Fifty one hundred and sixty
nine of the Revised Statutes of tho United
States
In Testimony Wiiekkof witness my hand
and seal of this office this Fifth day of August
1907 T P KANE
j official I Deputy and Acting Comp-
t seal f troller of the Currency
First August 9 1907 Last October 11 1907
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A F A It
McCook Lodge No 135 A F A M moots
every first and third Tuesday of tho month at
800 p in in Masonic hall
Charles L Fahnestock W M
Lon Cone Sec
DEOUEKOF HONOR
McCook Lodgo No 3 D of H moots evory
socoud and forth Fridays of oach mouth at 800
p in in Gnnschows hall
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McCook Aerio No 1511 F OE meets tho
second and fourth Wednesdays of each month
ut 800 pm in Gnnschows hall Social meet
ings on tho first and third Wednesdays
W II Cummins W Pres
II P Peterson W Sec
BASTE UN HTAR
Eureka Chapter No SO O E S moots tho
secoud and fourth Fridays of oach month at
800 p m in Masonic hall
Mrs Sarah E Kat W M
Sylvester Cordeal Sec
KNIGHTS OF COLUMIiUS
McCook Conncil No 112G K of C moots tho
first nnd third Tuesdays of each month at 800
p in in Ganschows hall
C J Ryan G K
F G Lechleiteb F Sec
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
McCook Lodgo No 42 K of P moots every
Wednesday at 830 p in in Masonic hall
J F Cordeal C C
C W Barnes K R S
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
St John Commandory No 16 K T meets on
tho second Thursday of oach month at 800 p
in in Masonic hall
Emerson Hanson E C
Sylvester Cordeal Roc
locomotive engineers
McCook Division No G23 U of L E moots
overy first nnd third Saturday of oach month at
8 00 in Berrys hall
W C Schenck C E
W D Hcenett F A E
LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN
McCook Lodge No 599 B of L
meets every Saturday at 8 00 p in
F L
in
chows hull
W R Penninoton M
W S Bixlee Sec
MODERN WOODMEN
Noblo Camp No GG3 M W A meots every
second and fourth Thursday of each month at
830 p m in Ganschows hall
John Hunt V C
Barney Hofer Clerk
ODD FELLOWS
McCook Lodgo No 137 1 0 0 F meets every
Monday at 800 p m in Ganschows hall
E H Doan N G
Scott Doan Sec
p e o
Chapter X P E O meets the socond and
fourth Saturdays of each month at 230 p m
at the homes of the various members
Mrs C W Britt Pres
Mrs J G Schobel Cor Sec
RAILWAY CONDUCTORS
Harvey Division No 95 O R C meets tho
second and fourth Sundays of each month at
300 pm in Berrys hall
Joe Hegenbergee C Con
M O McCluee Sec
RAILWAY TRAINMEN
C W Bronson Lodge No 487 B of R T
meets every Friday at 800 p m in Berrys
hall
H W Conover M
F J Hcston Sec
R A M
King Cyrus Chapter No 35 R A M meets
every first and third Thursday of each month at
800 p m in Masonic hall
Clarence B Gray H P
Clinton B Sawyer Sec
EOYAL NEIGHBORS
Noble Camp No 862 R N A meets every
second and fourth Thursday of each month at
230 p in in Ganschows hall
Mrs Mary Walker Oracle
Mrs Augusta Anton Rec
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Council Nol6RSMmeetson
the last Saturday of each month at 800 p m
in Masonic hall
Ralph A Hagberg T I M
Syvlester Cordeal Sec
WORKMEN
McCook Lodge No 61 AOUW meets every
Monday at 800 p m in Berrys hall
Web Stephens M W
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