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Pv h R rl I iN r y Time Card McCook Neb MAIN LINK isaht dbpaiit No 0 Control Thnu 9fflpil 1 513 a m 12 715 a m 14 1000 i m It 7J0 i m MAIN MN1 WKST DKPAUT No 1 Mountain Timo 800 A M - 1158 p ji 5 Arrives 8 p m 11 954 A M 15 1228 A M iMiEurAi iini No 17f nrrivoB Mountain Tium 505 p m No 175dumrtH 015 a m Slwiriritr diuiiiK and rocllninK chnir cars seats froo on tlirouidi trains Tickets sold and Ikikkiikq checked to any point in the- Uuitod Status ir Canada For information timo tablos maps and tick otn call on or writo Geow Scott AKOiit Mc Cook NobraHka or L W Wakeloy Oonoral InhsonKor Afjont Oinahu Nebraska RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS Engine 13U is in tho round house for some repairs Sam Picksird was up from Havoloclc part of tho week Conductor G E Donton retired from tho servico first of tho week Engine Gil will bo out of tho shop in a few days after an overhauling Frank OConnell was slightly injured Thursday and is off duty for awhile R II Turner is down at Osawatomie Kansas and may decide to join tho colo ny Mr and Mrs Roy Zint visited in Hoi drego part of tho week togethor with the children Mr and Mrs A II Warren of Repub lican wero guests of Mr and Mrs E O Scott over Sunday R B Davy resigned from tho com panys service here and departed for Lincoln Monday night Dudo Dulaney aftor being off a week or so with a mashed hand re turned to work this week Conductor Martin was taken sick at Akron closeof last week and Conductor Bentley brought the car in Tho 15G2 and 1380 are just out of the shop No 281 from Lincoln and tho 1340 are in for an overhauling Conductors M B Harbaugh and A C Paulson have recently been assigned to the Oxford Rod Cloud run John Dunbar has been promoted to night caller for tho enginemen and Earl Notley is assisting Foreman Young in tho office Agent and Mrs T G Kees of Imper ial arrived hero on 5 Monday evening on their way back home from a visit of a few weeks in the east Recently there has been some talk about an increase in the number of -through trains on the Burlington it be ing said that the business has grown to be so heavy that it will not be long be fore an additional train between tho Missouri river and Denver each way will be needed On tho Burlington all through trains have been running with from ten to fifteen coaches and every night for eight days barring one No3 the even ing westbound tram has been run in two sections Every day of last week barring one No 2 from the west has been run in two sections On one or two days during the same period No 1 has been run in two sections and No 43 to the northwest has been made into two trains Seeing the Sights Even in these days of liberal educa tion the young women sometimes show how confused are the ideas shut up in their heads Illustrative of this is the native blunder which Edmondo de Amicis recounts in his story of a voy age from Genoa to Buenos Ay res The captain of the steamer which numbered the charming young blun derer among its passengers met her one morning andsaid Signorina we cross the tropic of cancer today Oh indeed she cried with enthu siasm Then we shall see something at last To make childrens shoes last longer try this method Melt together tallow and common resin in the proportion of two parts of the former to one of the latter and apply the preparation hot to the soles of the boots and shoos to be treated This will save parents many dollars THE OMAHA DAILY NEWS Makes An Exceptional Offer of 25 Cents for Three Months to Trial Subscribers The News is the only paper published in Omaha that is not controlled by par ty politics All the news is published in a condensed and readable form in an independent and fearless manner If you would know the facts about all state and national questions just as they are you will enjoy reading The News Daily market reports farm news house hold hints sporting gossip and every thing that goes to make a complete met ropolitan paper are regular features Every reading person in Nebraska now has an opportunity to see just how good The News is by sending 25c to The Oma ha Daily News Omaha Neb for a three months trial subscription The paper will be stopped promptly at the end of the three months unless you de cide to renew Send today as this offer will not apear again 5EGGS CHERRY COUH 7tlO Tiirc RPHNCH t - AN UNOPENED PADLOCK Viennas Strango Relic That Defied tho Worlds Locksmiths In 1810 u blacksmith went to Vienna and locked an Iron band around a tree with a padlock What he did with the key no one knows to this day There is a mirthful legend to the effect that he carelessly threw It Into tho air and that It never came down again At any rate the key could not be found and the Austrian government offered a prize of 500 ducats to any one who could make a key that would turn the bolt In the lock without breaking it Many have tried to win the prize but nobody has won It Eventually it became the practice among the con testants to drive a nail in the tree and the heads of some of the nails bear the initials of those who drove them The practice of driving nails into the tree sealed Its fate The lower part of the tree in a few years assumed the appearance of a solid mass of iron One spring the leaves failed to come out and later a summer storm blew tho top away The historic stump was cut off and placed on a pedestal on one of the prominent street corners in Vienna At the same time the iron band was cut in two and put around the stump to hold it in its niene leaving the pad lock in its original position And there the old stump stands to this day an object both of the curiosity of tour ists and the veneration of the resi dents of Vienna Incidentally a street Stock im Eisen Stick in Iron has been named after the stump Scrap Book ANTIQUITY OF GEOMETRY The Science May Have Existed In India For Long Ages Did we learn our rule of three and our Euclid from India V Researches have brought to light astronomical ta bles in India which must have been constructed by the principles of geom etry Some are of the opinion that they have been framed from observations made not less than 3000 years before tho Cliristian era and if this opinion be well founded the science of geom etry must have been cultivated in In dia to a considerable extent long be fore the period assigned to its origin in tho west so that many of the elemen tary propositions may have been brought from India to Greece The Indians have a treatise called the Surya Sidhanta which professes to be a revelation from heaven communi cated to Meya a man of great sanctity about 4000000 years ago This book contains a rational system of trigonom etry which differs entirely from the first known in Greece and Arabia In fact it is founded on a geometrical theorem which was not known to the geometricians of Europe before tho time of Victa about 200 years ago And it employs methods of demonstra tion unknown to the Greeks -who used others The former have been attrib uted to the Arabs but it is possiWe they have received this improvement in trigonometry as well as the numer ical characters from India Chicago Tribune Irish Stones An Irishman -while taking a barge up the Shannon was asked what goods he had on board and answered Timber and fruit What kind of timber and what sort of fruit Well an if ye must know the tim ber is just birch brooms and the fruit well its pretaties An Irishman averred that the habit of Irish landlords of living outside of Ireland was the great grievance Ire land had to complain of Oh yes answered an Englishman thats the old stalking horse I dont believe in your absentees Not belave in em Come to Dublin with me and Ill show ye em by the hundred Why the country just swarms with em Ravenous Rats It is estimated that the rat does 50000000 worth of damage a year in England In a slaughterhouse near Paris rats in a single night picked to the bone the carcasses of thirty five horses There is very little that they will not eat eggs young birds and animals are among the dainties which they snap up in the ordinary course of business But when pressed by hunger they will eat anything through which they can drive their terrible teeth Rat will eat rat The idea that a trapped rat will bite off an impris oned leg and so escape is now said to be wrong it is the other rats which do the biting They eat the captive 3ooks Bound In Lead A bookbinder was putting a binding of lead on a book Why lead a visitor asked This the binder answered is a naval code book for use on a battleship All such volumes are bound in lead But why So that in the event of the ships destruction the books will sink with it for they contain secrets of immense value and every precaution must be taken to keep those secrets dark A Substitute Youre rather a young man to be left in charge of a drug store said the fussy old gentleman Have you j any diploma Why er no sir re plied the drug clerk but we have a preparation of our own thats just as good Philadelphia Press Consolation Steward how long will it be before we get into the harbor About an hour and a half maam Oh dear I shall die -before then Very Ilkery maam But youll be nil right again when youve been on thore ten minutes Marina Jgurnal m ODD SUPERSTITION British Fishermen Balk at the Nan -of Graham One of the mot curious of British fishermens superstitions the one which perhaps to this day has the strongest hold ujion them is that connected with the name of Graham No fisherman will go to sea if he has heard this name mentioned nor will he do any manner of work upon that day lie will refuse to sail in a boat with any one hearing the name and a house painter from Newcastle called Gra ham who had been sent to do some work in one of the large liousesfouud his life made so unbearable by the vil lagers that he Incontinently returned to the town leaving his work uncom pleted The women who bait the lines In the winter will unbalt every hook and rebait the whole length the labor of hours if they hear it mentioned A local tradesman bearing this unfortu nate patronymic is never referred to save as Pull another an innkeeper is known as Lucky Bits No ration al explanation is to be found On one of the most intelligent fishermen being questioned ou the subject he laughed the idea to scorn Why his daughter was married to a Graham But he added a strange thing happened two years ago when he Avas off at the her ring fishing and had not been home for some Aveeks Having received a letter at Shields to say that his son-in-law Avas ill he hailed a passing boat which had come from the north ask ing if they had heard how Jack Gra ham Avas And Avad ye belcevt ne soonor had aa syed the Avords thau theor Aves a crash and the mast went ower the side None of the creAV spoke to him for the rest of the day Noav York Post HABITS OF SPIDERS Do These Insects Sleep Is Not an Essy Question to Answer The question Do spiders sleep at night is not easy to answer I have made a careful observation of the sleep of ants and that could readily be done by watching colonies in their artificial formicaries It is almost impossible to deal with spiders in the same Avay I Avould answer however in general terms that spiders sleep as all animals do and doubtless parts of the night are spent in slumber Many species however prey on the night flying in sects and so must be aAAake in order to catch their prey If you will Avatch the porch or outbuildings of your home on a summer evening you will be likely to see an orb weaving spider drop slowly down on a single thread in the gathering dusk of the evening From this beginning a round web will soon be spun and either hanging at the center thereof or in a little nest above and at one side is the architect Avith forefeet clasping what Ave call the trap line and waiting for some night flying insect to strike the snare In this position spiders will sometimes wait for hours and it is just possible that they may then take a little nap They might easily do that and yet not lose their game for the agitation of the web would rouse the sleeper and then it would run down the trap line and se cure its prey Some species of spiders do the chief part of their hunting at night and there are some who chiefly hunt during the day but asji rule these industrious animals work both day and night St Nicholas Suffered For His Chickens In London as far back as 1791 a city ordinance was passed to suppress the early morning cries of the street huck sters This law was so severe that a person arrested twice for the same of fense could be imprisoned for ten years There is one record of a man lingering in prison for ten years When his time was up he was asked what his crime was For selling chickens that squawk ed was the reply In the confusion of the trial the fact was not brought out that the chickens and not the man Avere responsible for the din that aroused the wrath of the disturbed citizens Wanted Money Too Ned walking Avith his father saAV him give a beggar 5 cents anl inquired into the matter What did you give that man 5 cents for papa asked Ned So that he might eat bread my boy said the father That evening at tho supper table it Avas observed that Ned declined to eat any bread in any shape Arent you eating bread nowadays my boy his mother asked No mamma Why not So papall give me 5 cents Cleve land Plain Dealer Might Start a Forest A lady told a party of friends that she had quarreled Avith her husband and had planted a tree in memory of their first falling out What a splendid idea whispered another lady in her husbands car if we had adopted that plan Ave might have had by now a fine avenue of trees in our garden Blind to Them S Never be critical upon the ladies was the maxim of an old Irish peer Temarkable for his homage to the sex fThe only way that a true gentleman ever will attempt to look at the faults of a pretty woman is to shut his eyes According to Rules Sentry You cant leave Soldier But I havo the captains oral permis sion Sentry importantly Gets see It II Motto per Ridere Mark Twain soye that England is the home of wit and America ia the home of humor FOR SALE FOR RENT ETC KoicSale A four ton Fairbanks scale in good condition tf Uarnett Lumuek Co Foit hAJK Two i room dwellings and oni vacant lot Phono black 2G3 8 10 tf O C IIA1UHS9 Fou Sale Cheat A good sheot iron Inquire of Mrs II M Tyler Fou Kent Furnished front bed room Inquire one block north Baptist church Room to rent two blocks eaHt of Bee Hive Furnace heat Teacher Wanted District No 11 will pay 510 to 15 per month Address William Hiersokorn director Lebanon Nob 9 13 tf CROPS IN THE SOUTHWEST Old Settler Tells ot Conditions in Red Willow County William Woygint of McCook who has been in the Republican valley since 1872 passed through Lincoln tho other day on his way to visit a son in the nor thern part of the stato Ho told his friends here that a misapprehension ex ists as tho condition of tho farmers inthe western end of tho state Peoplo say say that the crops are bad with us in Red Willow county ho remarked That is becau3o tney dont understand tho real condition of our people Wheat is a good crop and is bringing more money to the farmers than last year Corn that was planted at a favorable timo and was kept clean is making half a crop We had a largo yield last year and havo enough in the country now to feed the cattle we haAe on hand But there is no money in feeding fifty cent corn so tho greatest difference it will make will bo to stop the shipping in of feeders Our farmers are going ahead with tho work Avith plenty of vim More wheat will bo planted this fall than ever before in tho history of the Republican valley We have learned to quit sowing broad cast We now drill in tho wheat from four to six inches deep and that is enough to protect it from the wind dur ing the winter Some of our winter wheat is already up Alfalfa is of course a great crop with us When 1 left home they were cutting the third crop Wo have learned out our way to chop alfalfa fine mix it with bran in proportions of two to one and press it into cakes of about fifty pounds weight in an ordinary hay press This makes splendid feed for horses cows pigs and chickens They all like it and thrive on it No it cant be said that we have had a crop failure in Red Willow county this year A part of one crop failed People are happy and prosperous and bottom land is from 75 to 100 an acre and upland from S40 to S50 an acre We have a fine climate a fine soil and the best people on top of the earth All this makes a great country Mr Weygint was one ofj four army comrades who came to Nebraska in the early 70s and are still holding the fort The other three are Judge Hill George Hunter and Lewis Korn Lincoln Jour nal NERVOUS COLLAPSE McCook Women Break Down Because TheyHave KidneyTfoubiesand X Don1 Know H - - Women of every age and condition break down and are brought to the verge of utter collapse because they have kid ney troubles and dont know it The disease saps vitality shatters nerves makes work or rest or sleep impossible If you are tired out irritable and de pressed suffer from dizzy sick headache pain in the back and sides irregular flow of the urine etc dont neglect it for delay is often fatal Begin using Doans Kidney Pills and see how quick ly you will feel better work better rest better and sleep better Doans Kidney Pills have cured many McCook women Heres McCook proof of it Mrs G C Heckman living in the northwestern part of McCook Neb says At the time I began using Doans Kidney Pills I suffered very severely from kidney trouble If I made a sud den move sharp shooting twinges would pass throuh my loins and kidneys If I attempted to bend over I would be seiz ed with a dizzy spell and floating spots would appear before my eyes I was restless at night and could not lie on my right side on account of a throbbing ache directlv over the right kidney I would rise in the morning feeling tired and unrefreshed The secretions from my kidneys were highly colored con tained sediment were much too frequent in action and plainly showed that my kidneys were not performing their func tions properly I felt very poorly when Doans Kidney Pills were brought to my attention and procured a box at Mc Connells drug store They helped me at once and 1 continued using them un til thoroughly cured of this dreadful di sease For sale by all dealers Prico 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York sole agents for the United States Remember the namb Doans and take no other Thh Tribukb is now prepared to do your job printing of all kindc promptly K7 PRESCRIPTION fiUf overcoat da jltonmsOtoim7 amstz jirrvvn7 Buy at v il sZ7r 7Iy J8m WALK IN MmimCw Doctor m win Hi mi X ShifWlF L JmitlillVaJHIMHir ymmmmmrs MR SWELL DUELER- PR HOR 5E JEN5E HAS PRESCRIBED FOR Yol ONE NEW OVERCOAT AND ONE NEW SUIT To be put on morning and evening he has told you to buy at the right place that is just the same as saying to buy your clothes from vs our store has become the right place because in our store we treat people right we remember you are healthy and have many clothes to buy in years to come therefore we sell you clothes so good that you challenge anyone to show you that you have not gotten good value for yourmoney when you bu clothes FROM JS ONE NEW OVERCOAT WILL COST YOU JO TO 2000 AND IT WILL BE A GOOD OVERCOAT ONE GOOD NEW SUIT WILL COST YOU J5 WE SELL YOU A 1500 SUIT OF CLOTHES FoR 1500 WE MAKE A PROFIT C L DeGROFF CO MILLINERY X7E have the newest styles also the new colors in millinery and will take pleasure in showing you our stock Come and see what we have before you buy that new hat Everything is uptodate Lovell Nies The McCook Tribune One Dollar Per Real Estate Transfers The following real estate filings have been made in the county clerks office since our last report United States to John Rowland pat to s h sw qr 20 e hf nw ir 35 1 30 Carl M Kent and wife to John AV Bnrt les wd to lot 11 12 s hf 10 blk S Mc Cook GS9 50 Pearl P Ely and lmtb to Arinaml J ilon Kcau d to n hf lots 9 and all 10 blk 13 2nd McCook 2000 00 Patrick McDonnell and wife to Frank IJ IIardety wd to lots 11 and 12 blk 27 Indianola 0M 00 Clara McKay and hu b to Suie J He t wd to lot 0 blk 7 Jth McCook 2000 00 Lincoln Laud Co to Clarence C Harlcss wd to lot 3 blk 14th McCook 175 00 James M Brown and wife to Grace B Hodgkin wd to lots 21 22 23 21 blk 51 Bartley 400 00 Jennie Boyle and hub to Charles T Harris wd to lot 2blk 2 West McCook 700 00 United States to William Carper pat to nw qr 17-1-29 John HofI and wife to II Hoffman wd to pt nw qr nwqr 32-3-29 00 00 William P Elmer and wife to John Har rison wd to pt 8 9 10 11 12 blk 32 In dianola 31000 Sarah F Hamilton single to Frank Pnrvis wd to lots 5 G blk 33 Bartlej 125 00 Homer Earl and wife to McD Towner wd to so qr se qr 9 sw qr few qr 10 w hf nw qr 15-2-27 5000 00 Lincoln Land Co to R M Osborn wd to pt sw qr ne qr 30-3-29 100 00 Emma Larjon and bob io Charles T s Harris wd to lot 17 blk 1 riouth Mc Cook 450 jr United State- to Geor Coojmt pat to sw qr to qr 30 w hf ne qr - qr w qr 31-2-30 United State- to Iaac W Dir- pat to Sheridan Clyde and wife to Olive J Wat on wd to lot 3 blk II McCook 2 Of A L Cochran treab to Philip Voiles td to lot 12 blk l Bartley John D Farlin and wife to Frank Brom ley wd to so qr 9-1-30 1 V Carl O Edling and wife to Frank Brom ley wd to n hf se qr 8-1-30 100 James F Whiteforjd and wife to Frank Bromley wd to e hf ne qr and s hf se qrS 6000 William L Zint and wife to C CFahren bruch and Samuel D McClain and wife to Carl Fahrenbruch wd to pt 13 II 15 blk 21 McCook 1950 f Wm Madden to Rose Ellen Madden qcd toneqr 13-4-23 I W United States to Joshua C Devendorf pat to nw qr 23-3-29 Lincoln Land Co to William P Elmer wd to lots 3 4 5 blk 32 Indianola 123 00 Lincoln Land Co to Kilzer Park Associ ation Lebanon wd to sw qr se qr 17-1-28 7W00 Duaue A McCarty and wife to Allen E Pennington wd to lot 7 blk 16 Leban on 754 CO John H Short single to Albert Shera wd to e hf se qr e hf w hf fee qr 13-4-29 801 03 George B Morgan and toOcarL Van Vleet wd to ptnw qr nw qr 20-1-27 155 CO Minnie A Ercrist and husb to Carrie F Dsnton wd to ptblk 14 West McCook I1M 00 i i