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it follows most closely
every law of nature
assisted by artificial
forces in the most of
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It is Ball bearing
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nine has low down
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Gears run In oil prac
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has wide baso to catch
all the waste
Made as accurately
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yield of cream
andbuttcr15 per
cow each year
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store McCook Nebraska
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ATTORNEY AT LAW and
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Each will receho the same thorough
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by tho satisfaction you will derhein
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OUR FLAG
On historys crimson
pages hlh up on the
roll of fame
The story of Old Glory
burns In deathless
words of llatne
It Is the old red white
and blue proud em
blem of the free
It is the flag that floats
above our land of lib
erty
Benjamln Sutton
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The Star Spangled Banner is gen
erally taken for granted One seldom
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hears its why and where
fore called in question
With its every display in
city and hamlet on tur
ret and hall comes a lit
tle discussion as to its
history and development
It transpires that the
American flag is like the
human species a thing
of evolMtion This is so
indeed with the insignia
of most countries not
ably of England whose
flag began with old King
Egberts dragon upon
which was incorporated
the three Norman lions
of William the Conqueror
When Edward III as
pired to the crown of
France he added the
James I dis
pensed with both and
adopted St Georges
cross and finally in 1S01
the Lion and the Uni
corn began their long
fight for the crown
which has since contin
ued on canvas in every
latitude of the world
The colonies of course
lived under the British flag In 1GS0
the flag of New Englaud was white
charged with St Georges cross in red
surmounted with the crown In the
center was inscribed Jacobus Rex
While Manhattan was in possession of
the Dutch the ships waved a flag on
which was a beaver the then insignia
of the New Netherlands 1707 the
colonies adopted the Union Jack of
Great Britain This was formed by a
combination of St Andrews and St
Georges crosses and of course was
typical of the fact that the two coun
tries had become one when Queen
Elizabeth died and the Scottish king
succeeded to the English throne
At the time of our revolt from Brit
ish authority the Union Jack was in
general use usually bearing some
patriotic motto of which Liberty and
Union was the favorite Directly aft
er the battle of Lexington a new flag
was improvised with the motto of the
state of Connecticut viz Qui trans
tulit sustinet This soon gave way
to regimental colors each being dis
tinctive in shade At Bunker Hill a
blue flag was chosen to designate New
England troops the first sign we see
of union in the colonial army This
flag had St Georges cross in one
corner It was growing beautifully
less within our limits and soon after
wards disappeared when Gen Put
nam displayed a red banner on Pros
pect hill with the motto An Appeal
to Heaven The colony of Massa
chusetts sent out cruisers in the
spring supplying each with a white
flag on which was painted a green
pine tree When armed vessels were
commissioned in Washington they
were furnished with flags of similar
kind
To Col William Moultrie of South
Carolina is due the honor of raising
the first republican flag It had a
white crescent on a blue ground This
was unfurled on the east bastion of
the fortress in Charleston harbor June
28 1776 while on the opposite side
waved the flag called the Great
Union which had first been raised by
Washington at Cambridge
June 14 1777 the Continental con
gress realizing the inappropriateness
of longer using British colors resolved
that the flag of the 13 United States
be 13 stripes alternate red and white
that the union be 13 stars white in a
blue field representing a new con
stellation
The first national flag after this pat
tern was made by a Mrs Ross a lady
of Philadelphia She had some dis
tinguished men to assist her among
whom were Benjamin Franklin and
Gen Joseph Reed We are not in
formed whether these men appointed
by congress for the purpose used the
thimble needle and thread that the
lady herself employed From her gen
eral character it is probable that Mrs
Ross declined to let them boss the
job and proceeded in her own way
The 13 stars of the flag of 1777
were arranged in a circle although
there was no officially prescribed
form In 1734 after the admission
of Vermont and Kentucky into the
union it was resolved by congress
that from and after May 1 1795 the
flag of the United States be 15 stripes
alternate red and white that the union
be 15 stars white in a blue field
No provision was made by this act
for future alterations nor were any
changes made till 1S18 although a
number of new states were admitted
meanwhile into the union On April
4 of that year a bill embodying the
suggestions of Capt Samuel G Reid
who recommended the reduction of
the stripes to the original 13 and the
adoption of stars equal to the number
of the states formed into one large
star and a new star to be added on
the Fourth of July next succeeding the
admission of each new state was ap
proved by President Monroe and the
flag thus established was afterward
hoisted on the hall of representatives
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RAILROAD INTO LIBYAN DESERT
New Line That Adds Fertile Province
to Land of Egypt
The new railway which is to bring
the ancient Osages of Klmrga into
close relation with Egypt has been
opened to the public The line which
Is some 200 kilometers in length and
has been constructed under the aus
pices of the corporation of Western
Egypt starts from Khargo Junction
which is some five miles from Naga
Flamadi the celebrated sugar center
and proceeds through the most bar
ren country On the way one passes
countless Roman ruins and the scen
ery right along is of the most bold
fascinating and varying type For
most of the journey the line follows
the old caravan route A great deal
of difficulty was encountered during
the construction owing to the pres
ence of limestone and rocks In sever
al places the embankment had to be
built up to the level of the rocks This
was due to the fact that if the line
had pierced the rocks it would have
been rendered impassable at certain
periods of the year on account of the
sand which drifts with the wind and
covers up all apertures on the face of
the desert The work will result in
tho addition of a new province that
of Western Egypt to Egypt
The new province is a most fertile
one and rich in mineral and stone de
posits and although far removed from
the usual irrigation area it is pro
vided with an inexhaustible supply of
pure water Very shortly the corpora
tion will start the construction of a
railroad to the neighboring Oasis of
Dakhla were equally valuable prod
ucts have been found and where
the agricultural piospects are equally
encouraging
The Oasis of Kharga was in ancient
times called the Oasis of Kenemet
and is beat known as the Great Oasis
It boasts a ruined Egyptian temple
consecrated to the god Amen Ra
which was founded by Darius I
Hystaspes in the fifth century B C
Political offenders were banished to
the oases during the Roman occu
pation and there are numerous ruins
of Roman buildings There are also
the remains of a Roman fort
It is almost impossible to tell to
what extent the two oases will be able
to be developed It is estimated that
the Oasis of Kharga has 46000 fed
dans a feddan equals 5082 square
yards and the Oasis of Dakhia 27
000 feddans of land available for cul
tivation
RAILROAD USE OF STEEL
Lines Take About a Third of Manu
factured Product
Years ago say up to the past ten
years it was the common estimate
that the railroads consumed in one
way or another about half the iron
and steel output of the country What
has been their proportion in the past
two years the greatest in the iron
trades history with a pig iron pro
duction respectively of 25307191 and
25781301 tons asks the Iron Trade
Review
The totals show that of 19400000
gross tons of rolled iron and steel the
railroads take about 7500000 tons or
a trifle under 39 per cent that of
some 7300000 gross tons of iron and
steel castings they take a trifle under
20 per cent and that of the grand
total of all rolled and cast iron and
steel 20700000 gross tons they take
8900000 tons or exactly one third
There is no question that 10 or 15
years ago the proportion was more
than one half Probably it was much
more than half possibly reaching two
thirds Indeed we are advised that
just recently an official of a prominent
steel company made the statement
to a representative gathering of iron
and steel manufacturers that the rail
roads of the country consume about GO
per cent of the iron and steel
products That statement was abso
solutely incorrect but it shows how
the old impression has survived
through changes in the channels of
consumption of which iron and steel
manufacturers ought to have kept
closer track The change Is due large
ly to the growth of general demand
for the lighter products Altogether
it would appear that the importance
of railroad buying as foreshadowing
the future of the iron and steel trade
is being overestimated in current
thought
Bound to Have Greater Speed
Leading railroads of the country in
the last ten years have spent more
than S00000000 in their determined
fight against time It is figured that
the gain in all amounts to something
like 13 or 14 hours on schedules
Almost as startling is the assault
made upon Father Time by great
steamship lines No sooner does a
Deutschland eclipse the ocean record
than rival owners set out to build a
Lusitania and a Mauretania when
they have captured the blue ribbon of
the seas eager competitors plan even
a mightier vessel with which to wrest
from them the prize Millions are
lightly regarded in the scales as
against a few minutes clipped from
the record
Railroad Bridge to Match House
Before giving his consent to the
Great Western railroad to build a rail
road bridge across a part of his prop
erty a landowner stipulated that it
should be constructed of stone which
should match that of which his house
was built and should consist of three
elliptical arches The bridge which
has been successfully completed de
spite the difficulty of construction Is
the only one of its kind in England
perhaps in the world Railway Maga
line
k GREATGOLD SCARE
When the Yellow Metal Wac
First Found In Australia
AFRAID OF THE CONVICTS
The English Government Tried to and
Did For a Time Suppress the News
Because It Feared a General Upris
ing la the Colony of Criminals
Gold in Australia was discovered
one might almost be pardoned for say
ing first discovered many times Itut
the news of the earliest discoveries was
jealously kept from spreading The se
cret of this reticence lay in the pres
ence of the army of convicts Avhich
then composed the balance of the pop
ulation Had a gold panic broken out
it was feared that a general uprising
of the prisoners would take place
Nevertheless the first gold found in
Australia was by convicts in 1S14
near Bathtirst New South Wales The
discoverers gathered together a quan
tity quite sufficient to lead them to be
lieve that they had found a gold mine
but Avhen they reported what they con
sidered their good fortune to the keep
er he instead of undertaking to rec
ommend them for pardon or easing
their hard labors in any way threat
ened to give them all a sound flogging
if they ventured again to say a word
about the matter or to spend any more
time picking up gold The next find
was made on the Fish river in lh2li
not far from the spot where the con
victs had come across it nine years be
fore This news being reported to the
authorities was also ordered sup
pressed Within the course of the next
two years finds were so frequent that
the London government began to take
great interest in the affair Hut the I
fact that another region of the yellow
metal might be at the disposal of such
as might seek was kept rigidly secret
until In 1S23 a dramatic incident pre
cluded all possibility of further se
crecy
A convict was discovered with a nug
get of gold in his possession When
asked how lie had come by the metal
he said that lie had picked it up in the
bush He was cautioned and told that
the authorities had no doubt that he
had stolen the gold but the prisoner
stoutly held to his original tale At
length he was taken out and severely
flogged in public as a thief There is
now no doubt that the man told the
truth After this although the public
v every now and then keyed up to
gi it expectations by some reported
fin no further veins were discovered
until 1839 when a Russian nobleman
found a rich deposit in the Clue moun
tains The British government again
became fearful of the consequence of
such news upon a colony of convicts
and ordered the matter suppressed
Yet sufficient people had heard of it to
keep the story alive and give credence
to such rumors as arose from time to
time So matters drifted on Time
and time again bushmen shepherds
convicts and surveyors picked up small
nuggets and brought them to the cen
ters of population but at that day peo
ple were nothing like so keen on gold
minimr as they subsequently became
and the subject of gold in Australia
was not pursued as one would expect
it to be
The discovery of gold in California
changed all that Those rich fields
panning out their golden store and fill
ing the coffers of lucky individuals
and governments at a rate never
dreamed of awakened a thirst for
prospecting all the world over In
evpry part of the earth men went out
with pick and pan hoping to come
across the precious metal
When the news of Californias for
tune reached Australia many took
slip to Americas shores and among
tl ese was Hammond Ilargreai es an
Englishman native of Goport who
had emigrated to New South Wales in
132 In Australia he engaged in
fiirming without much profit and was
among the first to rush for California
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first thing that struck him was the
similarity of the geological formation
in California and IJathurst Australia
and there and then he made up hK
mind to inquire into the subje t should
he ever return to Australia lie work
ed for something like a couple of years
in California and then set sail for New
South Wales Returning he of course
carried in his mind the thought that
perhaps there might be gold in Bath
urst and when he lauded he set to
work to make a thorough search
Before thK however he had made
the acquaintance of William and James
Toms and 1 II O Lister who were
anxious to prospect for gold Ilar
greaves taught them how to use pick
and pan the dish and the cradle in
fact gave them a practical if rough
educatiou into the mysteries of gold
and gold bearing rocks and gravel
These men struck out and in April
1S31 the three pupils returned to their
old master and lo in their pockesw
they carried gold to the amount of
four ounces Harcreaves knowing the
ropes took this gold and full direc
tions to the proper quarter The news
went forth the rush began rich finds
were made and Ilargreaves was hail
ed as the discoverer of gold in Aus
tralia In reality he had won the title
for it was his knowledge that first ed
ucated the Tomses and Lister and it
was his knowledge again that sent
them in the right direction
Duty is -what goes most against the
grain because in doing that we do
only what we are strictly obliged to
and are seldom much praised for It
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Government Land
Level shallow to Rood water 1 pnyj expen
ses while hero 50 to locate no locate no
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pay j oars
located U rito
i ey corners on Homesteads
Ed Hanshnw Lnird Colo
Hoiiso niul lot in Rood condition on block 4
lot 4North McCookfor sale on terms Price
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Goods Pumps an Boiler Trimmings
Estimates Furnished Free Base
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Old Hickory 2 ply Rubber Roof
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Headed Nails 225
American Rubber Roofing 1 ply
per square complete including
Lap cement Tin Caps and
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