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i L lr The Great Western ia lIcirM s JKuAi Jh h SHI It ESiNRfiBSral v1 3KklllI sbims closest because it follows most closely every law of nature assisted by artificial forces in tho most ef fective way It is Ball bearing which means easy run ninehas low down Larrfe SuodIv Tank The Crank is just tbo right height to mako tho macuino U turn itqcv Gears run in oil prac tically self oiling and bas wide base to catch all tho waste Made as accurately as watcb - increases your yield of cream and butter SIS per cow each year Ask vour dealer about The Great Western and dont let him work anv sub stituto came on you Its your money you ara Being to spend you should insist on having the best The Great Western is the worlds best t Write just these words in a letter Send mt Thrift Talks by a farmer and your boak NoJIOJ which tells all about the breeds dairying tho cara of milk etc They are free Write now SHTH MFG CO 168 Harrison St Chicago 10 for salt in Mccook hy P Waite Co Midclleton Ruby PLUMBING and STEAM FITTING All work guaranteed Phono 182 McCook Nebraska BEGGS5 BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach The best of every thing in his line at the most reasonable prices is flarshs motto He wants your trade and hopes by merit to keep it BBBBBEBaBaBBHBBBiBB9H The Butcher Phone 12 Su PPl les Hiss 11a M Briggs f i will toach class on piano Grad uate of Uothany conservatory of Lindsborg Kans Studio at homo of A G Bump Phono Black 252 Scholars call or phono for further information A G BUMP Real Estate and Insurance Room Two over McConnells drug storo McCook Nebraska JOHN E KELLEY ATTORNEY AT LAW and BONDED ABSTRACTEE McCook Nebraska CSAgent of Lincoln Land Co and of McCook Water Works Oflico in Iostofllco buildiug C II Uotle MCCOOK for your a 4B C E EliDEED BOYLE ELDRED Attorneys at I aw Lour Distanco Ilono 44 Rooms 1 and 7 eocoud floor Postollico Building McCook Neb DENTIST Posb m Oflico Rooms 3 and 5 Walsh Blk McCook GATEW00D VAHUfc DENTISTS Office over PIcAdams Store Phone 190 H SUTTON JEWELER MUSICAL GOODS NEBRASKA Mike Walsh DEALER IN POULTRY EGGS Old Rubber Copper and Brass Highest Market Price Paid in Cash New location just across lnCttr ft street in P Walsh building L ltVUUIV j Were Just As Thankful For a small package as a largo one Each will receio tho same thorough and careful attention If we get the former it may in time grow to the later by the satisfaction ou will derheiu wearing our laundered work Family washing 3c per xiound McCook Steam Laundry W C BLAIR Prop Successor to G C Heckman PHONE 35 West Dennison St Any time you find yourself in need of just drop in and see if we do not have exactly what you want whether it be a box of paper clips or the latest improved filing system Offic The TRIBUNE Office fiLV sp u V FRANKLIN PRESIDENT A C EBERT CASHIER JAS S DOYLE Vice President THE CITIZENS DIRECTORS JAS S DOYLE jHKurMf BANK OF MeCOOK NEB a Paid Up Capital 50000 Surplus 15000 V FRAHKLIN H A C EBERT sfaawwfiNSuwV IN FIERCE BATTLE ENGINEERS FIGHT EACH OTHER WITH LOCOMOTIVES End of Struggle Between Hot-Tempered Irishmen Comes with De struction of Two of Com panys Freight Cars A select few of the citizens that happened at the tlmo to he lounging or engaged in business about the de pot In Wreston in the middle of the afternoon were treated to tho unusual spectacle of two enraged locomotive engineers flgting each other with their respective engines Freight trains Nos 28 and 11 were at the depot at the same time and both out on sidings to permit the ternoon train No 5 going south to pass Engineer Dempsey of No 2S with his big engine SOS and Engineer hane of No 11 with his big engine 1112 happened in the course of their switching to be on the sidetrack far thest west at the same time Dempsey with one box car and one flat car be hind him and Culhane with three coal cars The first outsiders knew of the diffi culty was when they heard Dempsey shout to Culhane Get off that track you Irishman What are you doing there Irishman yourself Culhane imme diately yelled back in reply Get your old kettle out of the way or Ill smash it for you Smash nothin Dempsey shouted and in a moment more both engines were started slowly forward and be gan to approach each other the en gineers leaning out of the windows and yelling defiance at each other while the firemen evidently knowing something of the tempers of their respective superiors jumped to the ground and ran to one side Almost immediately afterward the huge machines came together with a crash that could be heard a quarter of a mile away but without injury to either and no sooner had they touched noses than both engineers turned on full steam and began a pushing match extraordinary The gigantic drive wheels of both engines slipped on the track and flew around at a fur ious rate while the black smoke and the steam from the exhaust rolled up like clouds At first there was no motion either way but soon Culhanes No 112 be gan to give way and fighting every inch was slowly but surely driven back down the side track and across the switch and there Dempsey left her and started up the sidetrack again The moment he started away Cul hane shut off the steam and jumping to the ground uncoupled the cars and mounting the- engine again threw the lever forward and dashed reck lessly up the sidetrack toward the other engine Dempsey had not been watching him but some of the by standers had and shouted ta Demp sey to look out Dempsey took one glance at the approaching engine and then put on all steam and sent S98 up the sidetrack with all speed Culhane pursued him and in a short time the pace became terrific and pursuer and pursued vanished ia a great cloud of dust out into the leveli prairie line in the direction of dale With Dempsey only a short distance ahead they went past the ele vator at Croton two miles up the track at a speed which the men there said must have exceeded a hundred hiles an hour but just beyond that point on a sharp curve both of Demp seys cars left the track and tumbled down a steep bank without however causing the engine to leave the rails and this occurrence seemed to bring Culhane to his senses for he shut off steam and then reversed the engine and went back to Wreston followed at a respectable distance by 89S The two ditched cars were com plete wrecks but the company will retain both men in their service changing Culhane however to a local run away out on the western division They dont care to have any more trials of either strength or speed for the entertainment of favored specta tors Wreston letter in Baltimore Sun New Way to Stop Trains In Austria and Germany an automo bile system of stopping fast railway trains without the co operation of the engine driver or the brakeman has re cently been tried with satisfactory re sults The apparatus consists of two parts one carried by the locomotive close to the rails and acting directly upon the brakes of the train and the other attached to the track and con nected with all signal points at curves gates etc If it becomes necessary suddenly to stop an approaching train the turning of a lever throws up a con nection from the track to the appara tus under the locomotive which gov erns the brakes At the same time an antomatic signal whistle warns the engineer of what has been done The brakes can be released in a similar manner Between Vienna and Krems the device has worked successfully with trains running 62 miles an hour Left Boy Unharmed Joseph Bradley aged six years wan dered upon the Pennsylvania railroad tracks south of Pottsville Pa and was run down by an engine but miraculously escaped hurt by lying down upon his stomach between the rails The engine driver saw the boys predicament too late to stop Horror stricken he and his fireman went back after the engine had passed over young Bradleys body They found him in tears but unscratched -V It s - LAW AND LITERATURE Writers Who Might Have Won Reputa tion at the Bar The old connection between law and literature was strengthened by the late Sir Lewis Morris who practiced as a conveyancer in Lincolns Inn while he was establishing his reputation as a poet There have been several poets who have abandoned the steep places of the bar tor the slopes of Iarnassus but the late Sir Lewis Morris is the only poet of repute who has found the tasks of conveyancer not incompatible with the cultivation of the muse It D Blackmore the author of Lomu Doone practiced as a conveyancer for several years Sir Walter Scott speak ing of himself and law said There was no great love between us and It please 1 heaven to decrease it on fur ther acquaintance Most of the poets who hae sprung from the legal profes sion appear to have eiitertainecWhc same unlavoraMe view Cowper tTIio was a fellow pupil of Lord Thurlow in an attorneys oflice was called to the bar at the Middle Temple but lie quick ly yielded himself to the charms of literature Denhaiu was a member of Lincolns Inn and Thomas Gray the author of the famous Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard studied for the bar but neither of these got beyond the apprenticeship stage Barry Corn wall was a solicitor Law Journal A HOMESICK PIONEER Poetic Plaint of One of the Early Set tlers In Missouri In wonder the people of today read of the persistent cheerfulness with which the pioneers went about the business of settling the great west Nevertheless it somehow gratifies the weakness of human nature to know that there was now and then a wearer of the deerskin leggings and coonskin cap who grumbled One early sattler who went from a snug New England village to the fever haunted prairies along the Missouri was moved to put his complaints into rhymes one of which has survived and is now carefully preserved by the descendants of the early settler who live surrounded by the peaceful pros perity and comfort of a Missouri farm right in the heart of the anathematized prairie Oh lonesome windy grassy place Where buffalo and snake prevail The first with dreadful looking face The last with dreadful sounding tail Id rather live on camel hump And be a Yankee Doodle beggar Than where I never see a stump And shake to death with fevcrn ager Judging from tho last line one might conclude that an acute attack of ager had suddenly prevented him from con tinuing Pio In England Pie came to the fore in England many centuries ago It originated in the form of mince pie and was used in the celebration of Christmas In its primitive stage it was baked in a deep sided dish lined and covered with rolled out dough The filling was of forcemeats richly sweetened and spiced This spicing and flavoring stood for the presents which the wise men bore to the Christ in the manger For years and years this custom of having the Christmas mince pie pre-A-ailed but finally it was denounced far and wide by the Puritans as a form of idolatry and the government after par liament had suppressed the celebration of the birth of Christ took steps to stop the baking and eating of the mince pie Eventually saner reasoning led to tho taking off of the ban and the pie eat ing custom was renewed London Standard Firm Resolution Dave Saddler was a brave Confed erate soldier who was in the hospital at Richmond and who in spite of his sufferings always took a cheerful view of the situation One day when lie was recovering a visiting minister ap proached his cot and tendered him a pair of homemade socks Accept these said lie I only wish the dear woman who knit thein could present them to you in person Thank you very imei iv David gravely But I have de i led tht I never shall wear another pair of socks while I live The preacher protested ht to no purpose and Hnalh o sought ot the boys sister to toll her how foolishly the invalid had behaved Why cvclaiirod she both his feet have been hot oTI Tha Cccnt cf Fvers As a ru the scent of tlowcrs dns not exit i i them rs ii a store or gland but rather as i li ith an ex halation While the t wcr lives it breathes vit its sweetn - hut wkoi it dies the fragrance usial feae to exKt The method of st aKng fr 1 tle lower its fragrance while it is still liv ing is no new thi a I it is not known when it was di vvored rhat buttor fat oil vomM aysorlj the dor given oT by living lowers placed near rlem and wmiid themselves become fragrant How to Make Homo Happy Mary angrily I think vou are the biggest fool in town John John mild ly Well Mary mother used to tell me that when I was a little boy but I never thought she was right about it until I married you Liverpool Mer cury A Thackeray Retort Eeing asked once whether he had read any of the books of a popular novelist Thackeray rejoined Well no Tou see I am like a pastry cook I bake tarts and I sell em but I eat bread and butter The lfest remedy for wrongs done ns Is to forget them Syrus uanMnteitfta PLAY WILD PRANKS LOCOMOTIVES THAT SEEM FOND OF JOKES Truthful Engineer Tells of Wid Ex periences That Disgusted Him with That Especial Kind of Humor in Engines Bill said the engineer was tell ing me about an engine out in the western part of the state the other day that did a queer thing They were standing all quiec enough at a station The engineer was out on the board and the fireman was down on the ground doing some thing All at once just how or why I dont know and Bill couldnt figure it out himself the engine broke away from the ienrim inil sfrirfoi ntf nil alone down the road The first thing she did was to knock the engineer down and cut both legs off She kept on down the line eight or ten miles running wild At a crossroad she smashed into a train and that laid her out I call that a pretty sad kind of a joke but it shows what engines will do sometimes Some engines are just about like folks in that respect They are always looking out for a chance to fool somebody and play some kind of prank on em The funniest engine I ever saw was one that I had myself out on the Western coast It was the first one I ever took afW 1 got my commission as engineer That engine fairly laid awake nights hatching up ways to make it interesting for us boys If we were stopping to get a drink and I was down oiling irp she seemed to know that then was her chance Shed just stai t right out and buckle in like mad to get away from us You couldnt trust her to stand a minute She was just like some horses she wouldnt stand a minute without hitching when she took a no tion not to One time we came dreadfully near having an awtul time with that en gine The K M run right along by the side of our track for seven or eight miles in one place AVe used to like to come out on that stretch to gether Once in awhile we would let our selves out a little there though it wasnt strictly according to orders and try the temper of our engines The folks back in the coaches seemed to like it It was one dark night with a storm over the prairie The rails were slip p v and we hadnt been making our ti e very well We left Waupack 40 ml utes late Well just as we got fairly outside Waupack where the K M bends in toward our line I felt the old thing give a mighty leap ahead But as soon as I saw the headlight of the night express on the K M I knew we were in for a race Our engine was settling down for business I shut off the steam I tried to keep the air on so that she wouldnt get away from me but she buckled in all the harder I began to get a little scared myself ror ine nrst nine or two it was about an even thing with us We kept right along side by side I could see that the men over on the K M were doing their level best to keep up with us The fire fairly flew out of their smokestack And all the time were were not using a pound of steam Still our drivers were just purring round and round I could see the heads leaning out of the windows of their train and 1 had no doubt it was the same way with our folks they all wanted to win We just rocked from side to side The old engine was going to show us what she could do She had the bit in her teeth And we began to gain She had it in her to win if you only let her out Ill say that for her She was the fastest engine I ever had anything to do with You always had to hold her back Just as we were pulling into San Tone the thing that made my hair white happened We were then two or three train lengths ahead of the K M For quite awhile I had teen so busy trying to keep the upper hand of the engine that I hadnt had time to watch the blocks All at once I looked up acd there right opposite us was a signal set against us That meant that wel got to stop and wait for orders I shoved the air down harder than ever but the old thing never cared On she pounced like a mad animal I let sand on the rails and that made no difference It looked as if we were bound for destruction It went on that way for five min utes and I expected every minute something would happen Then all at once she began to sag back We could see the lights of San Tone a little way ahead and I knew we were just at the crossing of the K M It would have cost me my job if we had run over that without stopping But she pulled up just at the cross ing as calm as if she never had been on a tear in all her life I could hard ly stand up when I got down from my engine that night I was so weak It took every particle of the sand out of me I told em down at the office that if they didnt give me another engine I would quit the road And I would I was too old a man to have such jobs as that put up on me But you cant tell what any of em will do Its interesting but deliver me from engines that think they are jokers New York Sun 1 NEILL BROS Contractors and Builders Estimates Furnished Free Phones Shop Hlnck 321 Hcidonco Ulnck 312 TICY k Gold Updike Grain Co ssm CO AL Phone 169 S S GARVEY Mgr YOU WOULD DO WELL TO SEE J M Rupp FOR ALL KINDS OF Rpjftfc fj q P O Box 131 IVlcCook Nobraska A Edgar Hawkins Phono Red 11 Ribbon n n Evans Phono Red 21M HAWKINS EVANS Contractors and Builders Plans drawn and estimates furn ished on application McCook Nobraska EPOSUORN J W 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