Creating
a Reserve
is not dillicult onco you
start to save money sys
tematically But if you
ever oxpoct to be inde
pendent financially thru
your own efforts you must
MAKE A START
Money Baved and put
away Bafoly will protect
you from misfortune and
prepare you to take ad
vantage of opportunities
that will surely come to
you
Funding the capital of
your working years
Insures Your Future
But choose the right
place to put your capital
or the hard earned sav
ings of a life time may be
swept away in a day
THE
FIRST NATIONAL
BANK
of McCook is the safe
place
By F M KIMA1ELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
And the blood of the martyrs was
the seed of the church
Alas even the Fourth of July has
given place to pleasure and pelf And
patriotic sentiment is a negligible quant
ity
With the first issue in August the
Cambridge Clarion enters the twice-a-week
ranks of Nebraska newspapers
Ambitious Cambridge
The Pullman car company has
abandoned the selling of liquors in the
state of Illinois on account of local op
tion laws being effective in so many
states
The Red Cloud Chief after being
Republican for nearly forty years will
now become a Democratic newspaper
Mr Da Wolfe is the new editor and pro
prietor
Nebraska was recognized in the Nat
ional Educational association election of
officers this week by the selection of
State Supt McBrien as one of the vice
presidents
For commissioner of public lands and
buildings J M Shively the present
deputy is receiving numerous pledges
of support from all over the state He
is well qualified for the position and
disposed to a square deal in fact as well
as in sentiment
The law enforcement people of Hast
ings have raised a fuud of a thousand
dollars with which to carry on their
campaign for temperance social purity
and law enforcement Shall McCook
follow the example with a similar action
It seems to be necessary if we are to
have some needed and desirable reforms
Where there is a will there is a way to
enforce laws and ordinances
Governor Sheldon has agreed to
serve as one of the vice presidents of
the International Congress on tuber
culosis that is to be held in Washington
under the auspices of the National As
sociation for the study and prevention
of tuberculosis from September 21 to
October 12 The arrangements for Ne
braskas participation in the Congress
and in the exhibition to be held in con
nection with it are in the hands of a
committee of which Dr A S VonMans
felde of Ashland is chairman Dr Chas
O Giesse of Holdrege is treasurer and
Rev Stephen P Morris of Omaha sec
retary Othpr members of the commit
tee are Dr H Jensen of Weeping
Water Dr W F Milroy of Omaha Dr
EJ C Sward of Oakland Dr S T
Towne of Omaha Mrs Draper Smith
of Omaha and Dr Henry B Ward of
Lincoln
Time She Began
It was on a Sixth avenue surface
car A woman sat with her little
daughter who to all appearances was
seven or eight years old The conduct
or came for the fares and the woman
gave him a five cent piece
Is the littJe girl with you madam
tasked the conductor
Yes assented the woman
Her fare please said the man
But I never have paid for her be
gan the woman
And does that prove that youre
never going to asked the conductor
taking the fare reluctantly tendered
INew York Press
Life In Christianla
Many of the residences of Christianla
stand villa like In the midst of pretty
gardens which in summer are full of
bloom and give the streets a peculiar
charm and sense of openness Within
the people live simple wholesome lives
kindly and hospitable with that truest
hospitality which Invites the guest to
share in good cheer without ostentation
or display Dinner is at 3 or 4 oclock
served by trim fresh looking maids
nnd supper at 8 where except on form
al occasions the guest Is free to forage
around the table for himself Host
and hostess drink the health of each
guest with the word skaal replied to
by the eyes over the glass after drink
ing Adjourning to the drawing room
the guests thank both master and mis
tress of the house and on the next
meeting never fail to say Thanks for
the last time One is everywhere
struck by the frank and unaffected sim
plicity of the life and the straightfor
ward kindliness of the people H H
D Peirce in Atlantic
Dread of Marble Portraits
One peculiarity of human nature
that I am reminded of daily said a
sculptor is the disinclination of the
average man to look upon himself re
produced hi marble The sight strikes
him with positive dread It makes
him feel as if he were looking on his
own lifeless body For that reason it
is difficult to persuade mauy persons
worth modeling to sit for a sculptor
Frequently I am asked why most of
my work is modeled after dead and
gone subjects The answer is that liv
ing people refuse to give me a commis
sion The art of the sculptor differs
there from that of the painter Every
body likes to be painted The sight of
ones face ones figure ones clothes In
a picture evokes nothing but pleasura
ble emotions if well done but to see
oneself carved out of marble produces
such an overpowering sense of death
that many sensitive persons put off im
mortalization at the hands of a sculp
tor until they are really dead New
York Press
His Brothers
At the usual monthly petty sessions
court held in a certain provincial town
some weeks ago the following incident
occurred
One of tho local police constables had
summoned a neighboring farmer on a
charge of having a number of asses
wandering at will ou the public road
The defendant failed to appear but
his brother was present in the person
of the clerk of petty sessions who on
hearing the sentence of the presiding
magistrate Fined 2s 2d and costs
rose to the occasion by replying
Theyre my brothers your worship
Ill pay the fine
He was shocked when his becoming
exhibition of fraternal love for the
asses was rewarded with an outburst
of laughter London Graphic
Where the Shoe Pinched
It was easy for Mr Randall to bear
with his wifes remarkable decision of
character at all times but her obsti
nacy he found most difficult to endure
I cant quite comprehend her he
confided to his brother after one try
ing experience Many years as we
have been married she still surprises
me Why all in the same day some
times in the same hour she will settle
a disturbance in the kitchen put the
children just where they belong adjust
some matter in the church and then
when her judgment ought to be at Its
best display the most astounding ob
stinacy in attempting to regulate my
goings out or comings in Its its in
comprehensible
Moslem PrayerRugs
Prayer rugs were evidently invented
for the purpose of providing the wor
shipers with one absolutely clean place
on which to offer prayers It is not
lawful for a Moslem to pray on any
place not perfectly clean and unless
each one has his own special rug he
is not certain that the spot has not
been polluted It does not matter to
these followers of Mohammed how
unclean a rug that is on the floor may
be because over it they place the
prayer rug when their devotions begin
An Eye Experiment
The two eyes really see two objects
If the two forefingers be held one at
the distance of one foot the other two
feet in front of the eyes and the for
mer be looked at two phantoms of the
latter will be observed one on each
side If the latter figure be regarded
two phantoms of the nearest finger
will be observed mounting guard one
on either side
Answered
Two ministerial candidates named
Adam and Low preached in a Scottish
church Mr Low preached in the
morning and took for his text Adam
where art thou
He made a most excellent discourse
and the congregation was much edi
fied In the evening Mr Adam preach
ed and took for his text Lo here I
am
His Economy
Father Its only fair to tell you that
Im pleased with your economy this
term Your requests for money were
too frequent last term Son Yes fa
ther I thought so too so this term
Ive had everything on tick London
Tit Bits
Lucky
Smith Just missed running down an
old lady with my auto Jones Bah
Jove youre a lucky dog Smith
Sure I just had it painted last week
Chicago News
Little Food
Student Something is preying on my
mind Professor W It must be very
hungry Yale Record
JwGiwtuwtrrMll0mimi trriMVnTU
j a
rest In India
The Campaign of Major Gen
eral Sir James Willcocks
AgainstthcZakhaKhels Evi
dences of Native Discontent
dispatches from India re
garding the operations of the
expedition under command of
Major General Sir James Will
cocks have called the attention of
Americans to the fact that the British
government Is face to face with a
most serious situation in one of the
most extensive portions of the empire
under its sway The expedition under
command of General Willcocks was or
ganized for the punishment of the re
bellious Zakha Khels and Mohmauds
on the southern frontier of Afghanis
tan He took with him 7000 men and
has since been re enforced with troops
from Calcutta and Luckuow and the
British war office is also preparing to
send out additional re enforcements
from Aldershot Within the past few
months there have been so many man
ifestations of unrest among the native
Inhabitants of the Indian empire that
this latest outbreak has given the home
authorities much concern lest it should
spread to other tribes Much secrecy
attended the setting out of General
Willcocks expedition owing to the fact
that he wished to put down the Zakha
Khels before their rebellious spirit had
a chance to spread among the neighbor
ing peoples It now appears that the
home government in England is dis
trustful of the ameer of Afghanistan
himself who since the signing of the
Anglo Russian treaty has been inclined
to ignore representations made to him
as to the affairs of his realm
The scene of the operations under
General Willcocks is the Bazar valley
some fifteen miles long by nine broad
the center of which is Chinar the lar
gest village in the region An officer
employed in a former campaign against
the Zakha Khels said When you em
bark upon an Indian frontier cam
paign you are going into a gunpowder
store with a lighted match Such ac
tion involves great possibilities but
with good fortune and a good political
organization this affair should not
spread beyond the Zakha Khels espe
cially as this tribe is extremely un
popular with all its neighbors
Sir James has been associated with
India since his early boyhood as his
father had a command there and his
family lived at Delhi He is fifty one
years old and is an officer experienced
in the peculiarities of warfare with the
wild tribes of the Indian frontier hav
ing served under Lord Roberts in the
Afghanistan campaign of 1S78 S0 He
I hyp II
I vgt II
II F4
GENERAL WXLIiCOCKS AND NATIVE MULE
BATTERY
proved himself a valuable assistant to
Lord Kitchener in the latters scheme
of reorganization of the army in India
It was last December that the vet
erans who fought for the suppression
of the Indian mutiny of fifty years ago
gathered for a banquet in celebration
of the jubilee at Albert hall London
and a poem for the occasion by Rud
yard Kipling was recited some lines of
which read
Today across our fathers graves
The astonished years reveal
The remnant of that desperate host
Which cleaned our cast with steel
Calcutta dispatches say that the gov
ernment authorities now fear they are
confronted by a deep laid and wide
spread scnemc of native revolt perhaps
more formidable and on a larger scale
than the mutiny of half a century ago
The trouble on the Afghan frontier is
but a part of the difficulties the impe
rial goiijl has to iice A much
more extensive movement than that is
revealed in the arrest and confession
of a nathe who recently throw a bomb
in MozuITerpur capital of the province
of the faiic name in Ltccai killing
two Europe ins examination of the
prisoner ivsultel in tlk of thirty
person the discovery of incriminating
documents aid of a supply if bombs
The documents saLo I C J tiie
fact that it vs rv -ct n to kill
Lord KiTehp er comniaulor in chief of
the British forces in Inula and other
high oilR ia and to laugter Euro
peans by tlu wholesale Soim of those
arrested state that the plot wai part
of a revolutionary campaign extending
throughout tiie whale of India
Ten years airo it was the Russian
bear that menaced British rule in In
dia Now the danger is from a nitive
uprising which has receiel encourage
ment from the success of Japan in
whipping Russia showing that yellow
and brown men can sometimes beat
white men Little did the British dip
lomats who negotiated the Anglo-Japanese
alliance imagine that the rise of
Japan as a world power might thus
confront them with the danger of loss
of their empire in India Instead of con
firming them in its possession by put
ting an end to Russian aggression
frWreiJifJJa
iuMK ntriMifctir 1
Odd Use For Bread
Perhaps the most novel use to which
bread is put may be seen In one of our
great watch factories where more than
forty loaves of fresh bread are required
each day An official of the watch fac
tory is quoted as saying
There Is no secret regarding the use
of bread in this factory and I am will
ing to tell all I can coucernlr From
the earliest times In the jry of
watchmaking it has been the custom of
watchmakers to reduce fresh bread to
the form of dough This is done by
steaming and kneading They then use
this dough for removing oil and chips
that naturally adhere in course of
manufacture to pieces as small as a
part of a watch There are many
parts of a watch by the way that are
so small as to be barely visible to the
naked eye The oil Is absorbed by this
dough and the chips stick to It and
there is no other known substance
which can be used as a wiper without
leaving some of its particles attached
to the thing wiped This accounts for
the continued use of bread dougli in
the watchmaking industry American
Food Journal
A Quaint Compliment
On Mark Twains seventy second
birthday a Hartford clergjman said of
him
No wonder he finds happiness in old
age All the aged would be happy if
they were as sympathetic and as kind
as he He is continually going out of
his way to please others and the result
is that he is continually pleasing him
self Listen for instance to the quaint
compliment lie paid me the last time
he came to hear me preach He waited
for me at the church door at the serv
ices end and shaking me by the hand
said gravely
I mean no offense but I feel oblig
ed to tell you that the preaching this
morning has been of a kind that I can
spare I go to church sir to pursue
my own train of thought but today I
couldnt do it You interfered with
me You forced me to attend to you
and lost me a full half hour I beg
that this may not occur cgain
Philosophy of Descartes
Turning the mental vision inward as
Bacon turned it outward Descartes
watched the operations of the soul as
an object in a microscope Resolved
to believe nothing but upon evidence
so convincing that he could not by
any effort refuse his ascent he found
as he inspected his beliefs that he
could plausibly doubt everything but
his own existence Here at last was
the everlasting rock and this was re
vealed in his own consciousness hence
his famous Cogito ergo sum I think
therefore I am Consciousness said
he is the basis of certitude Interro
gate it and its clear replies will be
science for all clear ideas are true
Down in the depths of the mind is the
idea of the infinite perfection the
mark of the workman impressed upon
his work Therefore God exists New
York American
Science and Sound Fact
The workings of the human mind
when asleep are full of wonder re
marked a scientist who was paying a
visit to an acquaintance Have you
ever started up from a sound dream
less sleep with every sense on the
alert and with your whole being thrill
ed with a vivid yet indefinable feeling
that something was wrong and instant
action required
Often replied his hostess and in
nearly every case I have found that 1
was awakened by the fumbling of my
husbands key at the front door
Impertinent
Speaking of a man noted for his im
pertinence an acquaintance said
Blanks impudence was second only
to that of a waiter I heard about the
other day
Look here waiter said a guest
this fish is not cooked properly
I know it sir said the waiter
but you told me it was for your wife
Well what of that asked the sur
prised guest
Why said the waiter I knew
that if the lady was your wife she
couldnt he very particular
Realism In Art
Two artists were boasting how they
could paint Do j ou know said one
I painted a sixpence on the ground
one day and a beggar nearly broke his
fingers trying to pick it up Thats
nothing to what I did said the other
I painted a leg of mutton on a stone
and it was so realistic that a dog ate
half the stone before he found out his
mistake
His Narrow Escape
I tell you the closing of the Steenth
National was a mighty close call for
me
now was that
Why a friend had advised me to
put my money in it and
And you took his advice
No but I would if Id had any mon
ey Philadelphia Ledger
Net the Kind He Wanted
Little Willie ran away to hunt red
skins
Yes
But he didnt find any until his fa
ther had finished with him Harpers
jWeekly
Ungallant
My face is my fortune sir she
said
Well he replied poverty is no dis
grace but its awfully inconvenient at
times
The Wicked Husband
Why does a man lie to his wife
asks a woman writer Dear me does
he Duluth Herald
A moral sensible well bred man will
not insult me No other can Cowper
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MLwMimTrS
A New Buggy
for the Fourth
is what you should have That is why we are offering 500
off until after that time
The Velie and John Deere
Buggies
stand the test better than any other
S
ARPLE
Tubular Cream Separator
saves the cream and gives you the
profit from the cows
Why not buy now and have the
pleasure of the buggy and the profit
from the cows
FOR SALE FOR RENT ETC
Fok Sale Two threshing machine
belts cheap Mrs J A Snyder 910
McFarland street 7 3 3
For Sale A McCormick binder
only cut about 200 acres and is in good
condition Address George Troendley
McCook Neb route 2
For Sale Header and two boxes
Inquire of Barger at the clothing store
The household goods of the late Mrs
Fannie Green are offered for private
sale Inquire at residence of A Mc
Millec next door
House for Kent Five rooms Call
phone red 278
School District No 5S will pay 40 to
SIS for a competent teacher Address
G R Spurgia McCook Neb route 2
6 26 3
An Indian Passion Play
A remarkable Easter celebration is
the Fassion plays of the Indians of
the Schelt tribe on the banks of the
Fraser river Skwa Vancouver Its
motive is that of a sincere desire to in
struct the Indians in the grand lessons
of the death of Jesus Father Chi
rouse a French missionary adopted
the plan as the best to reach minds
that could not comprehend the full sig
nificance of the spoken word
Its first representation in 1S99 re
sulted in hundreds of conversions It
has been continued since with the re
sult that Indians of other tribes come
from a great distance to see the spec
tacle and in many cases go away be
lievers
Father Chirouse insists on the most
reverent presentation Three hundred
Indians take part in the twelve tab
leaus First comes the garden of
semane next is the betrayal and then
in order follow Christ before Pilate
the mocking of Christ by the Itoinau
soldiers the famous Ecce Homo and
all the other incidents until finally the
climax is reached in the crucifixion
Brooklyn Eagle
Easter Weather Lore
According to an old English proverb
a wet Easter is not favorable to the
consequent crop of hay
A good deal of rain on Easter day
Gives a crop of good grass but little good
hay
If the sun shines on Easter morning
it will according to the same author
ity shine again on Whit Sunday A
Sussex piece of weather lore goes fur
ther declaring tnat it tne sun smnes
on Easter day it will shine a little ev
ery day all the year round while there
Is a corresponding notion that if it
rains then it will rain a little If only
a few drops every day during the en
suing year New York Herald
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McCook Hardware Co
W B MILLS
Phone 31 b Simmons
McCook Markets
Merchants and dealers in McCook at
noon today Friday are paying the fol
lowing prices
Corn 5 GG
Wheat 80
Oats 4
Rye Go
Barley 55
Hogs 5 25
Butter good 18
Eggs 12
Fly Nets at 130
per pair
COME QUICK
All Goods at Lowest Possible
Market Prices
Whole Wheat Rye and Graham
Flour Special prices on lots of
ten sacks or more
SEMOLIA A fine breakfast food un-
excelled in 2 lb packages
All kinds of Mill Feed
Corn Barley Chop Bran Shorts etc
Orders Promptly Delivered
McCook Milling
Company
E H DOAN Proprietor
Phone 29 McCOOK
THINK OF IT
Sanitary Couch 475
DRESSERS COMMODES
SPRINGS MATTRESSES
and other furniture at equally
LOW PRICES
FINCHS
West
Dennison
Street
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