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A F A M
McCook Lodge No Ji A P A M moeta
nvury lirit and third TtiftHliiy of tlio month at
800 ii ni in Masonic hull
CHAKWH L Fahskstock W M
Lov CoNK Sec
UnilKKMAKEKH
McCook Lodgo No 407 K of 11 M I S H of
A inooth irt and third Fridays of each inontli
in Odd Kolluwb linll
DEOUKEOF HONOIt
McCook Lod bo 5Jo a D of II meets every
fonoiid and fortli Kridays of onch mouth at800
p in in Ganschows liall
Mifs Lauua OiiiuuN C of H
Mkh MatikG Wellish Kpc
EAGLES
McCook Aorio N 1514 F O K meets tlio
second and fourth WodnosdHjs of each month
at 800 pm in GiiuscIiowh hull Social meet
ings on the flrot and third Wednenlnjs
W H Cummins W Pres
II P Peteuson W Sec
RAHTBKN STAB
Eureka linptnr No fcC O E S moots tlio
Hccmid and fourth Fridays of oach month at
800 p in in Masonic hail
Mils Sarah E Kay W M
SYIVESTEU CoUDKAI SlC
G A It
J K Barnes Post No 207 G A R meets on
the iirst Saturday of each month at 230 p m
Gauscliows hall
J M Henderson Cmndr
J II iakgeu Adjt
KNIOIITS OK COLUMBUS
McCook Council No 1126 K of C meets the
lirstnncl third Tuesdays of oach month at800
p in in Diamonds liall
Fkank Real G K
G R Gale F Sec
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
McCook Lodgo No 42 K of P meets every
VcdnoMluy at 800 p in in Masonic hall
M Lawuitson C C
J N Gaahde K R S
KNIGnTS TEMPLAK
St John Coimnandury No 16 K T meets on
tho ecoiid Thursday of each month at 800 p
mt in Masonic hall
Emerson Hanson E C
Sylvester Cobdeal Rec
LADY MACCABEES
Valley Queen Jlivo No 2 L O T M meets
every first and third Thursday ovjuiugs of each
mouth m hall
Ms- Mills Commander
Harriet E Willetts R K
locomotive engineers
McCook Division No 621 H of L E meets
ovory first and third Saturday of each monthut
800 in Horrys hall
WC Scheie CE
W D Burnett F A E
LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN
McCook Lodge No 599 R of L F E
meets every Saturday at 730 p in in Gans
chows hall
I D Pennington M
Geo A Campbell Sec
machinists
Red Willow Lodge No 587 I A of M meets
every second and fourth Tuesday of the month
at 800 p m in Gansehow hall
D O Hewitt Pros
W H Anderson Rec Sec
MODERN WOODMEN
Noble Camp No 663 M W A meets every
second and fourth Thursday of each month at
830 p m in Ganschows hall
JonN Hunt V C
Barney Hofer Clerk
odd fellows
McCook Lodge No 137 1 0 0 F meots every
Monday ufc800p m in Gansehow s liall
E H Doan N G
Scott Doan Sec
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Chapter X P E O meets the second 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 moots the
second and fourth Sundays of each month at
300 p m in Diamonds ball
Joe Hegenbergeb C Con
M O McClure Sec
RAILWAY TRAINMEN
C W Bronson Lodge No 4S7 B of R T
meets evory Friday at 800 p m in Berrys
hall
F J Huston Sec
H W Conover M
WORKMEN
McCook Lodge No 61 AOUW meets evory
Monday at 800 p m in Diamonds hall
Web Stephens M W
C B Gray Rec
r a m
King Cyrus Chapter No 35 R A M meets
every first and third Thursday of each month at
800 p min Masonic ball
Clarence B Gray H P
Clinton B Sawyer Sec
royal neighbors
Noble Camp No 862 R N A meets every
second and fourth Thursday of each month at
230 p m In Ganschows liall
Mrs Mary Walker Oracle
Mrs Augusta Anton Rec
B S M
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the last Saturday of each month at 800 p m
n Masonic hall
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C A TEARSOX
Roosevelt in hi-
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The Office Has Been a Stepping
Stone to Higher Honors The
Case of Wiiliam Loeb Jr
T
HE position of secretary to the
president has come to be re
garded as a stepping stone to
higher honors or more lucra
tive posts George B Cortelyou step
ped from this position to that of first
secretary of the new department of
commerce and labor later becoming
postmaster general and then being pro
moted still further to the highly Im
portant post of secretary of the treas
ury one of the most hononibie In the
gift of the chief magistrate Mr Cor
telyou is now in the list of presiden
tial possibilities
Dan Lamont as everybody used to
call him stepped from the position of
private secretary to that of secretary
of war in the cabinet of President
Cleveland Retiring from political life
he became a street railway magnate
and when bo dtol wua worth millions
William Loeb Jr has been President
Iloosevclts secretary since Mr Cortel
you In 1003 surrendered the post to
accept a higher one He was secretary
to Mr Roosevelt when the latter was
In the executive chair at Albany just
as Colonel Lamont was secretary to
Mr Cleveland when our only
was governor of the Empire
State When Mr Roosevelt became
vice president Mr Loeb continued as
his private secretary and on his acces
sion to tlio presidency became assist
ant secretary to the president serving
under Mr Cortelyou at first and thus
demonstrating his ability to fill a high
er position when the hitters promotion
left a vacancy
Mr Loebs tact has sometimes been
questioned But a man cannot always
please everybody in a post so trying
as that of secretary to the nations
presiding officer The fact that for
five years he has stood off those who
like to take the presidents valuable
time unnecessarily and has made few
enemies proves him a man of diplo
macy To help Mr Roosevelt in the
preparation of his 30000 word mes
sages not to mention the voluminous
state papers and correspondence of
every description Incident to the daily
routine at the White Ilouse or the in
terviews and statements given out to
the numerous press correspondents at
the capital requires no small amount
of executive ability There has been
talk recently to the effect that Mr
Loeb would leave Mr Roosevelts serv
ice before long in order to take up
duties as head of a Washington trac
tion corporation There has also been
gossip about the probability of his
being promoted to the cabinet the next
time a vacancy occurs
Mr Loeb draws the comparatively
modest sum of o000 a year as secre
tary to the president It lias been said
that he might now be receiving 23000
a year instead of 5000 if lie were do
ing the same work for a corporation
People Mentioned
In the Disptelhes
- i
so called
THE
newspap er
magnate Cyr
il Arthur Pearson
who has been nego
tiating for control of
the London Times
was once described
by Joseph Chamber
lain as the great
est hustler I ever
knew outside of
America He re
sembles President
strenuousness aud
marvelous capacity for work To most
men the editing and publishing of one
newspaper or magazine would yeein
a task of sufficient magnitude but Mi-
Pearson is never satisfied unless he
has a big string of publications to look
after When it was rumored one tine
that he was about to start a newbja
per in Xew York Mr Pearson was
asked his ideas about American news
papers and replied
I am not competent to criticise them
but front my standpoint I think they
invade the privacy of the home too
much aad the rights of private citi
zens I admire the enterprise of the
American publisher but I do not
admire the contents of his news
paper It has seemed to me that too
much prominence is given in your pa
pers to trivial matters
As to becoming an American jouru
ist himself Mr Pearson added
Heaven forbid I dont want lo be
in American journalism I prefer to
live a little while Im alive and nol
work twenty live hours a day trying t
cater to any public however many
millions there may be in it Journal
Ism is too strenuous in America for an
editor who wants to edit and enjoy
life at the same time
Mr Pearson is a son of a clergyman
and only forty two years old a gradu
ate of Winchester college and the re
puted owner of a score of daily week
ly and monthly publications including
the London Standard for which he is
said to have paid 3500000
Irving B Dudley who figured promi
nently in the doings at Rio de Janeiro
on the arrival of Admiral Evans fleet
at that port was appointed ambassador
to Brazil to succeed Lloyd Griscom
that he is doing fo Jr Roosevelt anrt
the nation for he lb a sort of deputy
president Mr Roosevelt himself Is
a tremendous worker But he could
hardly accomplish what lie does were
he not seconded in his efforts by a man
who is able to be his second self who
Is able lilce himself to lead a strenu
ous life to stand ns a buffer between
the chief executive and a thousand
and one persons and things pressing
upon him and in danger of leaving him
no time or energy for his most impor
tant duties
Secretary Loeb Is at his work so
early and so late that he does not have
much time for exercise yet he keepi
up to the mark physically and at forty
one is a good specimen of robust man
hood Ills favorite method of getting
air and exercise Is horseback riding
in which he indulges as often as he
can Thoi gh he calls himself only a
park rider lie can do a few tricks
in that line as well as the president
When he was making preparations for
his first trip with Mr Roosevelt on a
hunting expedition he heard the guides
plaining to give him for a mount a
horse that in trotting would have shak
en one of the pyramids from its foun
dations But Loeb never gave the nag
a chance to trot lie loped all the way
to the presidents camp and all the
way back again and the guides had to
ILIilAM LOEB JR
lope too This programme was re
peated day after day until the guides
were so sore they could hardly walk
One of them went to the secretary and
said
We picked you for a tenderfoot but
you aint none Were the tenderfeet
and if youll just ride this other boss
and let him trot well be much obliged
Loeb sticks closer to his chief than
a brother Vacations for him are few
and far between When he married
the charming Miss Katherine Dorr of
Albany the president could spare him
less than a week for his wedding trip
After he brought his bride to Wash
ington he tried on three successive
evenings to take her to the theater to
see a play they both desired especially
to witness Each time an emergency
called him back to the White House
before he reached the theater door
Yet when asked awhile ago how he
liked his office the secretary promptly
replied
Best of anything I ever did
Wouldnt trade it for any job under
the government
whjn the latter was made our first am
bassador to Japan Mr Dudley is
popular with Latin Americans and is
making a most creditable record at the
capital of the largest of the South
American republics When the officers
of the American fleet were received by
the Brazilian president Dr Penna
thoy drove after the functions at the
Brazilian White House to the home of
Mr Dudley where a superb banquet
was given The house and grounds
were illuminated
by Venetian lan
terns and colored
electric lights
Within the salons
were ablaze with
graceful illumina
tions and gorgeous
with the coloring
of quantities of
flowers The tables
were laid in two of
the salons and
were united by an
arch of flowers
Ambassador Dud-
IRVIXO B DUDLEY
ley m fln adaress
said It is for me a great and deep sat
isfaction to call your attention to the
warm welcome of the Brazilian govern
ment and the good people of this city
have prepared for the fleet I am con
fident that our people at home are
keenly appreciative of the courtesy and
honors being extended to you at this
Vme by a friend of long standing
rhe friend who has stood the test the
United States of Brazil
Turning to his Brazilian guests Am
bassador Dudley said
Permit me gentlemen to thank you
sincerely for the welcome you have ex
tended our fleot aud at the same time
I have the honor and the pleasure of
proposing the health of his excellency
your illustrious president Dr Penna
and that your great and noble nation
continue long in the path of peace and
prosperity
The Finishing Touch
While the organ grinder ate the thick
ly buttered slice of bread on the back
porch the summer resident who had
provided the repast amused herself by
trying to turn the crank of the organ
steadily
It must be quite difficult to turn the
crank in such excellent time as you
do she said at last
No hard if you no hava da monk
replied the organ grinder with a mel
ancholy smile Turna da crank keepa
da time and watcha da monk dat taka
da arteest Youths Companion
mmwrwiw wwwpfwwMiwwm mmjj wlj
AN ODD CANDLESTICK
With a Curious Reach of the
Long
Arm of Coincidence
Historical students when called upon
to criticise relations of events especial
ly thosi that seem in themselves un
likely that are recorded to have hap
pened In the lives of persons whose
careers are separated by a long period
of time when the said events have a
very striking similarity between them
are wont to regard the first narrative
as the prototype and the latter as a
case of transference Sometimes this
may be the correct view to take but
It is commonly a dangerous proceeding
to insist upon An example has oc
curred to me which illustrates this
At East Butterwick a village on the
banks of the Trent there lived In the
middle of the nineteenth century a
shopkeeper named Marshall lie was
a general dealer supplying nearly all
the wants of his neighbors Above
this mans shop and adjoining out
houses was a long chamber open to the
roof in which he kept such stores as
he had not room for in his somewhat
small shop Among other things this
room contained a mangle which was
at the service of such of the women of
the town as made him a small pay
ment
One winter evening several women
were engaged in mangling when one
of them knocked down their solitary
candlestick and being probably of
earthenware It was broken Work
for the night was nearly over It did
not seem worth while to fetch another
so one of the women took the still
burning candle happily it was not a
very short one and stuck it into some
black dusty looking stuff which she
had noticed in a barrel standing near
Soon however one of these good
dames had occasion to descend into
the shop and encountering Marshall
there naturally began to apologize for
the candlestick having suffered
We may conceive what was the shop
keepers horror when he heard what
was the substitute that had been found
for he knew at once that the caudle
was standing in a cask of gunpowder
He rushed upstairs and was just in
j time He made a cup with his two
j hands as he said so that no sparks
I could get to the powder and drew
the candle calmly out without uttering
a sound His words afterward when
all danger was over were I have been
told of a kind not uncommonly heard
on board of keels and coal barges on
our rivers but such as are discouraged
elsewhere
In the year 1SG1 The Depositions
From the Castle of York In the Seven
teenth Century was published by the
Surtees society In a note in ftils work
by its editor Canon Raiue the follow
ing passage occurs Tb2 parallelism
between the two narratives as to the
way the candle was removed from dan
ger is very striking
Newcastle had a very narrow escape
about 1GS4 An apprentice going up
with a candle into a loft which con
tained many barrels of gunpowder and
much combustible material thought
lessly stuck the candle into a barrel of
which the head had been knocked off
to serve for a candlestick He saw the
danger and fled A laborer ran into
the loft and joining both his hands to
gether drew the candle softly up be
tween his middlemost fingers so that
if any snuff had dropped it must have
fallen into the hollow of the mans
hand London Notes and Queries
The Charm cf the Orient
Rich and poor wear the plaited frock
coat of somber hues the absence of a
collar producing a slovenly appear
ance while the snow turban of the
Arab and the red fez of the Turk are
replaced by the black lambskin kolah
and the brown felt skullcap of the
peasant You ask why the carpenter
should draw his plane toward him
why the horse is backed into his stall
or the boat dragged sternforemost on
the beach You notice the footnote
at the top of the page and that your
morning egg is invariably served with
its small end uppermost But not cer
tainly in such trivial matters dees the
charm of the east reside We are near
er an explanation when we acknowl
edge the release from care and artifi
cial conventions which accompanies a
relapse to the conditions of a freer and
more primitive life To enjoy an ease
even luxury of life we could not af
ford at home to have a servant for ev
ery task to ride in Bombay or Teheran
when we would walk if in Piccadilly
to be free from the burdens of a civi
lization which has created civic re
sponsibilities and duties to one fel
low iuen to have no Yoin Mc s
Christian association to support lire-
mans ball to patronize to h able
play thy ro of self iuuucice to
hearts content an- he in tti a lille
kin in these thiurs iy
lies the secret of thir ci Atnie
Giriccns r n ciizzr
Many f fhinp bHee Iirt
when all other vv f fi tl tcrtli
is at hw g p
brinT i crMi i - 1 -
who- t0 r tin- tl i 1 i
pay fa uW p ice ft r L
root A rent to ivi a
a commodity must fx i fie
mountains of Kirin or unei to
have come from thee It t lo bi
furcated so 3 to to jmblc iucli as
possible the humrn fai n Vo
transparent Cry and flinty Cf corrse
the larger the iret the belie- anl -5 it
is sold by weight ii Is not very rncom
mon for a good rnecimen to biing as
much as 100 an ounce The value for
such a root is in its shape its texture
the manner in which it has been cured
and the region whence it came But it
must be borne in mind that out of a
great quantity of roots only a very few
of the kind described can be obtained
so that the average price of ginseng Is
even greatly less than 100 per pound
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