I 7 J fr THE COUNTRY BANKER His Influence on National Finance Dup ing Crop Harvesting Enter the hiikiII town for almost any purpose to sell hooks to seek a loca tion to look up land titles to write life insurance to et a news story to col lect a debt and early in your visit you will go to the ornate imposing build ing on the corner of the two busiest Streets You will pass a lattice crown ed counter and be admitted to a room large enough only to hold a desk and two chairs There you will come face to face wilh the towns financier the Pierpont Morgan of the community the banker Not an enterprise not a con siderable business undertaking is started without consultation with him The man who sells a farm and vLsiios to put his money where it will earn in terest goes to the banker The widow witli a few thousand dollars of life in surance more money than she ever saw together in all her life before asks the banker how to invest it It would be better if more of this class would take the bankers advice when it is given Then there is the merchant who owes for a large portion of his goods He comes nervously asking if the bank Avill see him through the dull season The banker gives assent to one explains to another refuses a third and comes at last to iyud unconscious ly the business record of every man he meets on the street The country banker exerts his great est influence on national finance dur ing the crop harvesting season Wheth er it be in the gathering of fruit in California of cotton in the south or of wheat in the plains region the banker comes in direct touch with the worker Take the wheat harvest as covering the widest area and creating the most intense demand during its existence Iu a single state 20C00 harvesters are needed besides those already at work on the farms Through the labor bu reaus and railway departments whole train loads of -workers are secured from states at a distance These helpers arc mostly itinerants and they have no lo cal standing A grain raiser went among his laborers one Saturday night and asking their names proceeded to make out checks for the weeks work What shall we do with them ask ed one Cash them at the bank of course Who will identify us The employer saw the point tore up the checks and secured currency with which to pay the men That made a demand on the bank Scores of other farmers Avero doing the same thing Hundreds of other communities did it The result is that the country bankers draw millions of dollars from the re serve centers every harvest and to some degree change national financial currents thereby C M Harger in At lantic Monthly Helping the Postoffice It is surprising said a postoffice employee how many people there are -who think they know better than the postal authorities the most direct way for a letter to reach its destination It is quite common for ns to handle mail that has instructions in regard to speedy delivery written in one corner of the envelope Not only are we di rected to send domestic mail by a cer tain railroad or steamboat line but the route by which the writers wish for eign bound letters to travel is also desig nated These instructions frequently denote a lamentable ignorance of trans portation facilities on the part of the writers If they were obeyed the de livery of the letters would be delayed rather than expedited Fortunately such directions are disregarded by the postal authorities unless they happen to coincide Avith the go ernments ar rangements for handling mail sc no body is incoin enienced except the clerks Avho read the unnecessary ad vice Xew York Sun Mother At a mothers meeting a young wom an recounted with some pride a num ber of proverbs about mothers Its easier for a poor mother to keep seven children than for seven children to keep a mother That sad and striking proverb she said is from the Swiss A mothers love is new every day He who AA ill not mind his mother Avill some day have to mind the jailer Better lose a rich father than a poor mother A fathers love is only knee deep but a mothers reaches to the heart Those proverbs are all German The Ilindoos say poetically Mother mine ever mine whether I be rich or poor The Venetians say Mother lie who has one calls her He who has none misses her The Bohemians say A mothers hand is soft even when it strikes The Lithuanians say Mother means martyr Novclty In Cement Wall There is a Avail of cement in Los An geles which shores up one side of a building lot that has an artistic value never intended by the builder He had moved his bags of cement on to the ground to be ready for work and was then called away on some other job for a day or two In the mean time one of the very infrequent rains came on and each sack turned into stone under the action of the water and the fabric of the sacks themselves AVas absorbed into the cement so that It was impossible to remove it Conse quently each sack was wrought into the wall as if it had been a boAvlder on the line of an old stone wall They were then chinked and bound together with worked cement and after a time the weather disposed of the gunny sacking but left the blocks marked with the impress of the weave The result is a highly ornamental cement wall resembling at a little distance a Avail of some Avoven material Jt - tjffrj imsie 3asrai ELLEN BEACH YAW The California Lark and Her Un- usually Romantic Career Ellen Beach YnAv whe Is r member of the Metropolitan Opera company this season is sometimes called the California Lark She has a very high voice and one of extraordinary range Her home is in California Avhere she has spent most of her life though she Avas born near Buffalo and it Avas In Buffalo that she made her debut That was about nine years ago but for some six years of the time Miss YaAV Avas absent from this coun try while studying under foreign mas ters and making a name for herself In France and Italy and other coun tries of Europe as an operatic singer In Italy she appeared under the name of Mile Elvauna an adaptation of El- j - H WWII m ELIHX BHACn TAW Ien and YaAV more acceptable to the musical tongue of Italy than her real name In private life she is Mrs Vere Goldtlnvaite a name perhaps even more musical than Mile Elvanna Her marriage took place about a year ago and Avas the culmination of quite a ro mance There is a story that her hus band heard her sing first Avhen she was a young girl and a visitor to a AA estern mining camp no had gone from a Boston home to the Avest and became a cow puncher He formed a slight acquaintance Avith her then and Avas much impressed in fact so much that he joined Buffalo Bills band in order to get a chance to go to Eu rope Avhere she Avas studying music There he met her again but she Avas devoted to her art ahd asked him to wait Returning to Massachusetts he settled doAvn to the study of law en tered the bar built up a practice and also became kuoAvn as a Avriter on mu sic and art At last his suit for the hand of the beautiful singer was suc cessful Miss YaAV was chosen to sing The Star Spangled Banner at the McKin ley memorial exercises in Paris in 1902 and a great demonstration fol lowed her song GEORGE L LILLEY Author of the Resolution to Investigate a Submarine Boat Company George Leavens Lilley congressman at large from Connecticut suddenly be came a figure of national interest Avhen he introduced his much discussed reso lution for congressional investigation of the Electric Boat Company of New Jersey and its relations with certain members of the house naval affairs committee He was quoted as saying that some men on the committee both Republicans and Democrats had been fixed by the boat building company through contributions to campaign funds Congressman Lilley vigorously denied that he had made such charges when protest was entered by the chair men of the respective committees Messrs Sherman of New York and Griggs of Georgia Nevertheless he stuck to his resolution for an investi gation by congress in spite of pressure to withdraw it lie claimed that the resolution reported by the naval affairs committi e for the purchase of eight is 111 lISl GEORGE IiEAVEXS MUTEY jew submarine boats for the navy Air tually delivered the contract into the hands of the Electric Boat company find made other charges alleging the use by the boat company of improper Inethods to influence legislation Mr Lilley is serving his third term in congress He was born in Oxford Mass in 1S39 and educated in the com mon schools of Oxford at the Worces ter Mass High school and the Worces ter Polytechnic institute He settled in Waterbury Conn in 1SS1 and has since resided there He is a bank di rector and has served on the Repub lican state committee and in the state legislature ETIQUETTE IN KASSALA A Chat Between a Male Heathen and Two Native Ladies Some of the traditional observances In the polite society of other lands af ford In addition to amusement con siderable opposition to the free inter course to which modern conditions have accustomed us Mrs Speedy one of the first English ladies to visit Kassala giA cs a good instance of this In her Wanderings In the Sudan when relating how she and her hus band receiAed their first callers Their patroness Avas an Italian lady Avho had long been a resident of the city In the morning a rap came to the door writes Mrs Speedy and on opening it I saw madame with tAVO Arab Avonien standing outside She in quired cautiously if Charlie Avere with in and on my saying that he Avas she made a sign to the two ladies who drew the thickly concealing shaAvl still more closely over their hidden faces and moved off to one side in the pas sage turning their backs to the door way She then explained to me that they wore ol very nigii rami and oi a very strict sect and must on no account be seen by a strange man especially not by one Avho AAas of another nation and an infidel They Ave re however very anxrous to see me and had come to do me that honor and if Charlie Avould not object to go below or into some other room for a few minutes they Avould make their visit very short I represented the state of the case and he at once consented to absent himself his only regret being that he should not haA e a chance to converse witli these ladies as there Avere many things Avhich he wished especially to knoAV and Avhieh he Avas not likely to have any opportunity so good as the present for ascertaining In turn I represented this side of the question to madame and after much hesitation and Avhispered eonAorsation in the pas sage a compromise Avas effected It Avas arranged that completely veiled the ladies should enter the room not venturing to turn their heads in the direction of the masculine hea then and that he should before they entered turn his back to the direction by Avliich they Avould come in This Avas all strictly carried out and thus back to back and a considerable distance apart an edifying conversation Avent on for half an hour questions being put in bland inquiring tones and dulcet replies given Avhich appeared to be quite satisfactory to both parties The Longest Straight To the Buenos Aires and Pacific raihAay belongs the peculiar distinction of having on its system the longest straight stretch of raihvay in the AA orld The length of this is 20 miles and it is situated on the main line between 158 and 3G3 miles from Buenos Aires The straight Avas for merly broken by reverse curves form ing a detour around Lake Soria The longer portion Avas then 17o miles long and AA as even then the Avorlds record The hike haA ing however practically dried up the company suppressed the cur es and the cutoff Avas opened to service on Oct 13 1907 It seems that Avhen the line was set out in the seA enties at which time the country was in the hands of the Indians after Juniu Avhich Avas a military out post and the last point of contact with the Buenos Aires civilization a course of aboutwest northAvest was set and the line run straight across the flat pampas until it met another line about sixty miles long Avhicli was pushed out east Avard from the Avesteru terminus Villa Mercedes There Avere no obstacles of importance to avoid and hence the phenomenal bee line Engineer Cains Vife I never discuss marriage said the late General Fitz IIugh Lee Avithout thinking of an old colored preacher in my state avIio was addressing his dark skinned congregation when a white man rose up in the back of the build ing Mr c Preacher rviA t the Bibe oi r ertios Eve as beiiic on iv earth an inarri - n count po c i de inspired fittiif to mcr DepaH F07 u white man Sir to yon said the pi on Mr Preacher yon are r ilklngaboit Cain and you cvy he got r rod in tlie land of Xni1 ho v Clerics c - lortii rV kou i a ji n an 1 at time toil Whom then did iin marr - The eoio e 1 -1 a si wkL uufeigred coat t pt he v h a Oat hvl eren an Ntcr Yon hnv dat fool question I ai vi fan he went to de land o Nod urt rs de good book tells us vV gits so larv m lil o a on in in so shifIcss dat iie n rii o one o deni G i n hlfi r mITic crif - dint con Li in do hov word it- of ic Avestcrn still r tainr taf of the inanificpiici whlc h mail her in t10 miildlo airos tho r of Mecca In the twelfth conturv th holy city to which Avhen the fuJ t - Mecca was clo el pilriniasos wore matle containetl a many as TUO temples fifty of Avhich Avere adorned Avith marble pillars In those old days the city was the haunt Of philosophers physicians and astron omers A mere formal pretense of study is now all that is practiced They have Euclid in folio volumes a traveler Avrites but neither copied nor read The teacher sits crossleg ged on the ground and repeats in a drawling tone between singing and crying Avords which are echoed by the scholars sitting around him Fez how ever is honest enough In one respect she does not believe in outward show In the interior of the houses are apart ments decorated with paintings and arabesques while the outside Trails are often built of mud County Commissioners Proceeainps McCook Nob April 21 IJOS Tlie luuird of ciiiiiitj cohhim mohits met pur stiant tondjoiinmiciit pre ent I S Lofton S Priincr ami C U Urny iiiiiiiisioiur aiul Cliurlf Skalla clerk Tlie miiuilcs of previous mooting were read and on motion approed On motion K1 Cou o was appointed overseer of district No 7 Willou Uroe iu place of Arthur Handel resigned On motion C R Waterman was appointed as oer eer dibtrict No 20 Lebanon The appointment of Norman J Campbell as deputy county assessor made by County Asses sor I A Kndsley was on motion appproed Tuo petitions of residents of La t Valley pre cinct asking for the appointment of Cecil Matthews and of V J lermond respecthcly as justice of the peace for said precinct were placed before the board and on motion both were appointed as justice of the peace for Hast Valley precinct to till vacancy Hie appointment of H K Asten as deputy clerk of the di trict court by C A Iodfors was on motion approed Tlie rolhiwiug oilieial bonds were oxauiined and on motion npprotcd Cecil Mat thews justice of the- peace 1ast Valley H L Asten deinity clerk of the di trict court On motion JL 1 Arbogast U J5 Campbell and C L Fahnetock were reappointed as county physicians for the ensuing year at a salary of -SO 00 7100 and respectiely The annual report of tlie Soldiers Relief corn mi ion was examined and approed and order ed placed on iile A number of errors on the HH7 real estate tax li t caused by placing a lot of real estate in the wrong tchool district and the taxes on which lime already been paid were called to the boards attention and the board on motion ordered the county treasurer to correct -aid error by transferring the taxes so paid from the binds of the districts to which they were erroneously credited to tlie fund of the which they rightfully belong The change- mi ordered are as follows From li3t 7 on land in JH 2S to Di t iV I0 2i From Jist 5 on land in to Dist 2 I 10 From li t 01 on sw ir of to Dist 21 ns From Ji t2n land to Di tKl b IM I rom Hi t 62 on land iu to JiBt SI 1 1 From Hist 1 on land in 1 15-3-28 to Dist 2 7 10 From Dist 1 on land in to Dist 72 2 - From Dist 1 on no ir to Dist IW Z V From Dist on land in 227 to Dist 70 11 hH From Dist i on land in to Dist 10 10 M From Dist 10 on laud in to Dist 2 2 7 From Dist10 on land in to Dist 15 1 70 From Dist 20 on land in 17 20 21 2 and 21 3 27 to Dist 15 27 M From Dist 20 on land iu 17 to Dist27 8 71 From Dist 20 on land in 23 24-3-27 to Dist 70 13 19 It appearing to the board that J V Slutts a as assessed for interest on school land In lOT on his personal property schedule being his in terest in the sw jr of 10-1-20 and that said land was also a-se-ed for said year the board on motion cancels said assessment on said per sonal schedule by reason of it being a double assessment and orders the county treasurer to strike said assessment from the 1007 personal tax list the amount being 1293 Claim of G A Crancer A Co asking for a re fund of S2S74 on taxes claimed by them to be paid tw ice was rejected On motion the county treasurer was instruct ed to refund to the following named persons the amount illegally assessed to them and paid by them under protest as follows J F Hough being assessed on the se cir of for 110 00 assessed valuation iu 1907 when it should hae been 3G000 the amount to be refunded being100 M E Waterworth being assessed on lot 2 block 14 first addition to McCook for 21700 when it should hae been i700 the amount to be refunded being 107h A A Ault being assessed on the nw qr of 18-4-27 on a school district levy in district 39 when land is in unorganized territory and not sub ject to any school levy the amount to be re- iiiuueu oeingi i L C Longneckcr being assessed on poll tax for 1907 when he a pensioner and exempt from poll tax amount refunded 2rO Sam Spencer being assessed for poll tax when oer age and exempt from poll tax amount re funded being 200 On motion the county treasurer was ordered to refund to l G Ethcrtun the amount oT 317 being the amount of per onal tax for 1901 and paid twice according to receipts presented The following claims were audited and allow ed and the clerk was instructed to draw war rants on the road funds of the respective com missioner districts Ira J Ritchie road work di trict 2 7 TA Milus Cope same 3 75 Reece Arnold same 2 27 Harry tturtoi same 0 00 G W AVy rick same 2 0 Ca per Vontz same 3 00 H M Wyrick same 3 00 Jane- Hoagland same 3 00 Geo W Wheeler same 28 21 Emil Smith same 4 50 Augu t Kleesic and I M Reeson same lS 00 Guy Ritchie 10 50 Chas G Kerst same 7 50 F A Traphagau road work district 3 G 00 Kennedy same 0 00 H A Lepper same GOO Philipp T Moore same 6 00 M P Moore 0 00 J L Traphagau same G 00 W H McKinney road work district 1 G 01 Adolph Weskamp same GOO A L Weaver same G 00 F A Schamel same IS 00 On motion board adjourned to meet Maj 20th 190S Attest F S Lofton Chairman Cir Anr Eb Skaiia Clerk The Expansive Power of Life Dr Frank L Loveland pastor of the First Methodist church of Omaha de livered the sermon to the members of Mount Calvary commandery No 1 Knights Templar of Omaha Sunday morning The Expansive Power of Life1 was his theme Following is one paragraph from the sermon Is there one new thought The thought of this hour will be the expansire power of life that it is not possible for the grave to hold life So instead of the resurrection itself let us think of the lesson to be drawn from it There are two kinds of resurrection artificial and natural Lazarus rose be cause he Avas called by Christ That was artificial resurrection But Jesus had his death sleep out and rose be cause of the life that Avas in Ilim This is a case of natural resurrection COURT HOUSE NEWS Douglas G Wentz 22 and Sylvia Vanderhoof 21 both of McCook William T OConnell 24 and Car oline L Terwilliger 22 both of Hast ings Say you eaw it in The Tribune Oltnrlt OF HKMtlNC In the comity court of Red Willow- futility Nebraska State of Nebraska county of Red 1 1 low s To Frank C Hamilton Fml L Hamilton liuton II Hamilton and Miie K Sauuder and to all per ons interested in the of IAWn M Jlamtlton decca ed On readmit the peti tion of W HhiuiIIoii prajing that the administration of said e tate be granti lo him as administrator It is hereby onlen d that you and all per ons interested in -aid matter m and do app ar at the county court lo be held in and for -aid countvouthe 21th da tf April I liiOS at ten oclock a in to -how cause iT any th re be why the prayer of tho petitioner should not be granted ami that notice of the pendency of said petition and that the hearing thereof be gnentoall per ons in terested in -aid matter by publishing a copv if this order in the McCook Tribune i weL K newspaper printed in county for three succcssie we ks prior to -aid day of hearing Witness nij hand anil -en I of said court this Ithday of pril A 1 Ikix I IO31 rKAiJ 1 C Mooui County ludge APPLICVTIOX FOR LICKNSI Indianola Nebraska jril 17 HAS Notice is hereby given that C If JlcClung bus Hied in the city clerks ollice his bond and petition for a license to sell intoxicating malt spirituous mixed and fermented liquor- in the building on lot 22 block 3D in the second ward of the city of Indianola Red Wil low county Nebra ka from May 1st 110S to April 30th 1909- I Mi C11 M Applicant APPLICVIION FOR LICLNSL Indianola Nebra ka April 17 1908 Notice hereby given that Mcraun A Cox ti linn composed of 1 P Mclaim and llarrv 1 Cox have filed in the cit clerk ollice tlieir bond and petition for a license to -ell malt spirituous and vinous liquor- 111 the butldingoii lot 3 block 3 iu the Fir t ward of the i ilv of indianola from Ma 1 t IKls to April 3llth I-17-it- Mt FwN A Cos Applicant- APPLICVTION FOR LICENSE Indianola Nebra ka pril 17 1MS Notice i heieby given that Charh If Hyatt ha liled in thecity clerk- ollice of the city of Indianola his pel it ion and bond for a license to -ell malt spirituous and liquor- in a building on lot 21 block ward of the city of Indianola Red illou county Nebras ka from May l t I9es to pril l IKti I I7it Ciivimi s II U vi 1 pplicant BEGGS5 BLOOD PL CURES catarrh oi tha stomach IP am11 1 i rmt rfEAL nCMAN J iM I m NOT1CK OF vilARDI VS SALIL In the Di lnct Court of d Willow ChuIv Stale of Si bra ka In the m iIIit of tii npifi cuiioii of MuiKuret S Ijimiioii KiiHrdiaii of liictil U illiain Cluytou li luihi Ma iiuloii MartliR Kllen Clinton Iliiiiu Orplm liiytoi Miikkic Mauil Clavtou Sariili Mnrindit ImjIoh LavNrence I raiikllnl lajiIil on K Clayton niiimr heir- of William H lntun decea d for lirrii r ti -ell reul I tHtl Notice is hereby Kiveii fbnt i i piir iinnr 1 ait tinier nf the llouoritih H i Urr jmlrfu ol the ili tnet con t tif K tt Willow rountv made mi the 2Mb du tf Miirrh Mu for the renle tnt lierelnnfter l rribed there will be Mild at public vein to tle hil est bidder for cmIi at tbf ea t fnnit tlottr tif the court htnisf in the city of M Cik Red Willow county tu the 2nd day tr May I OH at tie hour of one oclock p m the f loixuitc tln ribitl real e tate tt the tltnrr interest ol Murgnrt t S Lati frmri Margaret S Clayfoii widow of William If ltt ttwif Tim iiarlr of the siiitli east quarter of n t1 tmtiishi timt 1 1 1 range twentyst wn V 1 111 Red Willow county Nebraska Said wilt remain tqiei one hour Wilted 0th day tr April 1M MRtIErS IMMoN Guardian of Jacob William Claytot It liiuia Mny Clayton Martha Eltu Clayton Kmma Orpha Clayton Mairgit JUtnt Clay ton Sarah Marnnla Clayton Lawrence Franklin Clayttm Jutlson It Clayton minor heirs of William II In ton drcea id LtyioV Kldred Attorney- I ORDRR OF HEIRINU State of Nebra ka Red Willow county sS U tt comity court held at the county court room in ami for said coiini April IHm Pre ent J C Munrt etninf judge In the matter tif the e tate tif IVt r Wf ci defeased lit reailiug and tiling the twtitionof fohu We fh prayiog that tin- instrument tiled on the Sb day of prtl 1H mid purporting lie the la t will liitl testament of tftt dert a- 1 may be proved approved probated allowed aiKi recorded as the last will and of tin st id Peter Wcsch dtt t i ed and that tin execution of said in trim cut mav lie t ei l and the adnuiii lrntitxi of -aid e tnl - v b granted tt Nihil We ch a- executor 1 Ted that 11rd Itxix tit ten iM hick a 11 i a signed for hearing -aid petition when il per sons iiitcre ted in said matter may apt nr at h enmity court tt be held in ami fr said r omM and show eau e why the prayer of p jtinner should not l granted nil 1 taut tmtft of tbe peiiilfin of said petition and the lienru hi r be given to all per-on- iulrestett in salt matter liy iiubli Iiug a eojy f 11 the Met 00k Tribiiiteii w I j pi r I rni eil in saul county for threi veeks prior to -aid day of hearing 10-31- si t J MiMiit Iotiiity iltlgi 111 I Orders tsikcn Tor WINDOW AND POOR SOKEKXS Sells the Best LUMBER AND COAL Satisfaction Guaranteed W C BULLAE M O McOLURE Mgr mm - a igQ aalg O f to Phone No I GREAT CONSOLIDATES ii iMwWWfciHMi wwnyiai imhimii iiiiii 1 i i r ss TDPflTifttJ FCR THE AMUSEMENT OF THE AMERICAN PECSLE UNQUESTIONABLY The Foremost Show of the World t THE GRANDEST AREftifC FEATURE EVER INTRODUCED IN AMERICA -- CIRC US rings MUSEUM I 2 QUIUM 0 TWICE AS BG AS Jj BEFORE TBRflUBHGaJ j stagesJ Sf90fl000 MENAGERIE Lji J tar r K 5 1 5 s 1 f III J Imf 11 J Vii Jra YOU CAN NEVER AFFORD TO MISS THE Airfi i3 kllfl VJ z majestic - - IT H IT lT B U i ifl f 2PST pnTTTAT S itasa VWtf 5 BiEa 3 2 iffiSaaawfis XSEUR K THE FORENOON VELL WORTH A JOURNEY C 100 ALE TO INSPECTf 5WO SHOWS DA5E Y AT 1 AND 7 P yjl An Hour given to Winss the Anim3lan1 - s the Corni iiixremenr of the Circus uy t - - Will Exhibit at McCook LVV