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MAIN TASTi KAHT DEPABT
No 0 Central Timo 1027 r M
2 500 A m
12 715 a M
14 942 P m
10 40 pm
MAIN LINE WEST DEPAIIT
No 1 MountninTImo 950 A M
3 1142 pm
Arrives HM p m
13 1025 am
15 1217 A m
IMIEBIAL LINE
No 170 arrives Mountain Timo 505 p m
No 175dopartB 710 A M
Slooplnp dinini nnil reclining chair cars
soata froo on through trains Tickets sold
and bfiKfrnqo chocked to any point in tlio United
States or Canada
For information timo tables maps and tick
ets cnll on or writo It E Foo Acent McCook
Nobrnsku or L V Wakoloy Qenoral LaBSou
Ker Agent Omaha Nobraska
Governor Sheldon at opera
house McCook next Tuesday
evening on the issues of this
national and state campaign
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
C W Shirley is ofT duty this week
on account of n soro face
Engino 1182 is receiving tender nnd
other repairs this week
AsstSuptcf Motive Power Acker
man was at headquarters yesterday
Dnrve Burnett wont on the goat in
the local yardas firemnn last Sunday
morning
Asst General Storekeeper Fay of
Chicago spent yesterday at this point
in tho interest of the department
N V Frankliu was visited by his two
brothers this week ouo of them from
Eustis and the other fiom Cambridge
J Gary Dole after his visit hero
goes to Bloomiugtou Illinois to take
charge of the big Chicago Alton shops
at that point
Engineer M II Griggs and family de
part today for Oberlin Kansas He is
now running on the Republican City
Oberlin branch now
Night Ticket Agent McDonald wiat
down to Hastings Wednesday morning
on No 2 and was married in that cit
Thursday afternoon
Supt E E Younsr went down to
Lincoln Tuesday to join the Governor
Hughes special over part of tho McCook
division Wednesday
No 552 an El the famous dinky has
arrived and is being overhauled previous
to going into service in the McCook
roundhouse and machine shop
Conductor and Mrs II II Miller ar
rived home Sunday night from their
visit in Somerfet county Penna his
former home and whero his parents
still live
The Elder Robert Fulton
Robert Fulton was born at Little
Britain Lancaster county Ta Nov
14 17G3 Ilis biographers have called
hini a self made man and have
made but brief reference to his par
entage It is noteworthy that his fa
ther the senior Robert Fulton in a
failure to leave financial patrimony to
his children has not been accorded the
mention of other achievements not
slight in those primitive days His an
cestors crossed from Scotland to Ire
land prior to the time of Cromwell
From Kilkenny Ireland the Fulton
family came to America before the
year 1735 The senior Robert Fulton
was among the prominent men of
Lancaster his name having been on
record upon all the town organizations
which existed at that period He was
a founder of the Presbyterian church
the secretary of the Union Fire com
pany and a charter member of the
Juliana library of Lancaster the third
library established in the American
colonies Cury
7 i he Fourmilion
In the Sahara said au explorer
there is a little insect that throws
sand and its volleys slay They call it
the fourmilion The fourmilion digs
itself a funnel shaped hole of the cir
cumference of a silver dollar It lies
bidden and watchful in the bottom of
this hole and -when a spider or ant or
beetle comes cautiously prospecting
down the steep and slippery sides the
inhospitable fourmilion launches upon
its guest volley after volley of sand a
hail of stinging sand so abundant so
suffocating so blinding that the visitor
loses his head He rolls unconscious
for the nonce to the bottom of the
hole and the fourmilion calmly dis
members him before he has time to
come to himself again and puts him
in the larder for the next meal
Blooms but to Die
The taliput palm Corypha umbracu
lifera of Ceylon whose leaves are put
to such numerous uses by the Cinga
lese bears fruit but once during its
iifc This elegant tree measures about
ten feet round the trunk and attains a
height of about ISO feet The flowers
the appearance of which presages
death to the tree are inclosed in a tall
spathe wbich bursts with a loud re
port disclosing a huge plume of beau
tiful blossom The inflorescence is suc
ceeded by equally conspicuous bunches
of fruit When these have ripened the
tree -withers rapidly and In the course
of a fortnight may be seen prostrate
and decaying on the spot it adorned
Things to Remember
He -who -would pass his declining
yearn with honor and comfort should
when young remember that he may
one day become old and remember
when he Is old that he has been once
young Addison
TRIPS FDRUHKRS
Some Points of Peri That Are
Dreaded by Seamen
MERCILESS KENTISH KNOCK
This Real Davy Jones Locker Is a
Vast Cemetery For All Ships That
Are Gripped by Its Relentless Sands
Sable Islands Fingers of Death
The exact location of Davy Jones
locker is not shown on any ocean chart
extant principally because it is a state
and not a place but if any one ocean
death trap deserves the title It Is the
Thames estuary The British naval
department has a chart upon which
It marks the position of wrecks with
n black dot On this chart the Thames
mouth tract is a solid black spot So
numerous have been the wrecks that
the dots run together The point
where the black dots actually pile one
on top of another Is the Kentish Knock
and this is the place among all of thd
oceans danger spots that deserves the
title of Davy Jones locker
At the Kentish Knock it Is not keel
shattering rocks of piercing points of
coral that wreck the ocean travelers
It is sand treacherous clinging sand
that grasps ths doomed ship with a
grip of steel and holds it firmly while
the angry sea beats It to fragments
Many a vessel posted at Lloyds as
missing would be duly accounted for
if the Kuock sand would give up its
booty There is no hope for ship oi
man when Father Neptune asks toil at
the Kentish Knock for the nearest
land is twenty miles away and the
nearest lifeboat at Margate thirty
miles away
The sauds of the ocean are far more
da ugerous than the rocks The sand
banks extend over more space there
fore offer more points of contact than
the rocks which usually rise in one
slender pinnacle The waters flow over
them in smooth waves and there are
no warning breakers
Next to the Thames mouth tract in
point of danger is the Hugh the salt
water river on which Calcutta stands
The most trying part of a large vessels
voyage from New York to Calcutta is
the last few miles of this calm river
In this strange river in windless weath
er and flat calm water vessels have
been lost dashed to pieces on the ever
shifting sand banks by the force of
the tides The sands grasp the keel 6f
the marked vessel and she stops but
the tide moves on with relentless force
and the helpless ship is carried over
on her beam ends She careens over
and founders with all on board Ono
of the worst shoals in the Hugh bears
the name James and Mary It was
the name of a great Indian merchant
shipwrecked on the sunken sand banks
Another danger point dreaded by the
master mariner has neither sand nor
rocks but a great submarine waterfall
In the English channel there is a point
just beyond the Shambles banks where
there is a sudden drop in the sea bot
tom The channel tides sweep over
the banks and down this sudden drop
creating rapids equal in fury to those
of Niagara The American ship Georgian
foundered in Portland race the name
by which this danger point is known
and all hands went down with her
Ships bound to New York from Eu
rope pass quite near a deadly hidden
shoal which runs out from Sable is
land lying off Sable cape in Nova
Scotia The shoal runs out for miles in
fi ve directions like the fingers of a
great hand reaching out for what it
can destroy When the gales blow
heavy seas boom upon the shoals with
sufficient force to shatter the stanckest
vessel afloat and when the wind ceases
the beaches are strewn with wreckage
and the bodies of those who have per
ished The distance from the shore is
too great and the surf too heavy for
the life savers to reach a struggling
vessel and few lives are saved at this
point Ten vessels have been wrecked
in this trap in a single day
The rocky danger points in the ocean
have nearly all been tagged and light
houses have been erected on the most
dangerous all except one There is no
lighthouse on the Virgin rock and
there never will be Out in the mid-Atlantic
a giant pinnacle rears its head
up from the ocean floor and endeavors
vainly to reach the surface of the sea
It is too short by about eighteen feet
There it stands with its sharp point
hidden by the ocean waves waiting to
pierce the bottom of some unsuspecting
vessel and send it down to join the pile
of ships ribs and dead mens bones
that litter the floor around its base
The waves seem to be in league with
the rock for if a vessel of light draft
tries to pass over its head the waves
shoot It down into a trough at the bot
tom of which the point of the rock is
waiting to rip out her keel
These danger spots however are but
annexes to the real Davy Jones locker
the Kentish Knock that cemetery of
ships and men where dripping ghosts
of master mariners and their men flit
over the ruins of their vessels B R
Wiuslow In Los Angeles Times
Bridge Builders
We read of the heroes of the battle
field the ocean and various other call
ings but there is another class of men
whose work Is also heroic but who
are seldom heard of men who face
death high in the air They are what
the engineer calls riggers and are
the creators of the worlds big bridges
and the huge skyscrapers of American
cities Without their bravery and skill
the towering structures which span
the worlds great rivers and gorges
could not be put -together Wide World
Magazine -
Twvina Emancipation
An hononry degree was once con
ferred on Mark Twain by a humble In
stitution in a Missouri town that had
known him when he was playing Tom
Sawyer there In real life
It happened that the degree confer
ring cermonies took place one lazy day
in June when newspapers generally
were suffering from a total collapse of
everything in the way of news
One New York news editor raked
the land with a figurative fine tooth
comb and got a dry haul for his pains
Then recalling that Maik Twain was
getting his honorary degree that very
day It occurred to him that a message
direct from the famous author might
relievo the situation in the news Aft
er much scratching of the editorial
Idea factory he evolved this query
which was transmitted to Mark Twain
by wire
How does It feel to be a doctor of lava
Please wire answer at our expense
After a wait of several hours this
characteristic response came hot over
the wire from Missouri
It feels like emancipation from ignorance
and vice MARK TWAIN
Riding a Camel In the Desert
Dr Nachtigal the celebrated African
explorer was the guest of a rich Ham
burg merchant The merchants son a
young man of a somewhat sentimental
temperament saidt among other things
that his dearest wish was to ride across
the desert on the back of a camel He
thought such a ride must be very poet
ical Indeed
My dear youug friend replied the
explorer I can tdll you how you can
get a partial idea of what riding a
camel on the deserts of Africa is like
Take an office stool screw it up as
high as possible and put it in a wagon
without any springs- Then scat your
self on the stool and have R driven
over rocky and uneven ground during
the hottest weather of July or August
and after you have not had anything
to eat or drink for twenty four hours
and then you will get a faint idea of
how delightfully poetic it is to ride ou
a camel in the wilds of Africa -
He Gave Her a Present
When I was a young man Lady Jer
sey was one of the leaders of fashion
and her house was the resort of poli
ticians and others With her lived her
daughter Lady Clementine Yilliers a
handsome and clever girl Tho custom
had been established that all friends
should give the latter a present on her
birthday and these presents were set
out in an antechamber Among these
friends was Lord Brougham then an
old man no called on a birthday but
had forgotten what the occasion was
and had brought no present Seeing a
mass of presents laid out he seized one
of them and took it in as his present
rightly counting that the young lady
would not remember that it was one
that already had been given to her
And very proud he was of his pres
ence of mind But then he was an
ex lord chancellor London Truth
Many Languages of Mexico
During the fiesta of Christmas or the
wcekof All Souls and All Saints when
the Indians swarm down from the
mountains with their holiday wares
for sale visitors in the City of Mexico
may notice the strange language that
the venders use in addressing each
other Even when they turn to serve
the purchaser their Spanish is neither
Castilian nor Mexican but is frequent
ly broken by peculiar syllables and
accents This is merely an illustra
tion of the fact that the Indian lan
guages of old Mexico have not been
entirely submerged by the conquering
Spanish and in some of the most re
mote districts of the republic various
and distinct languages handed down
from the pre Columbian era are still
spoken in their pristine purity by many
tribe members Mexican Herald
Easy House Moving
House moving is an easy task among
the Lakas a tribe living near the La
goue river in the French Kongo Af
rica This tribe which is one of the
most superb examples of the savage
black race lives in conical shaped huts
constructed of plaits of tough straw
When a change in location is desired
both the women and the men put their
shoulders to the task ami carry the
roofs of their homes to the new site
sometimes many miles distant The
circular walls of the huts are rebuilt
Who Whips
The clergymans little son was tell
ing the small sou of a parishioner of
the dreadful fights which he and his
sister indulged in
You dont mean to say that minis
ters children fight replied the horri
fied little layman
Oh yes
Who whips
Mamma Exchange
A Sure Test
The schoolmaster put to his class tho
question Two jars of gas one con
taining nitrogen and one carbon di
oxide are given How may the gases
be discriminated
One eager little pupil said Get a
man and let him take a deep breath
of both When he gets the carbon di
oxide hell die Thats the way to
tell
His Status
Is that ex New Yorker who likes
London so well a naturalized English
man
No answered Miss Cayenne
merely a denatured American
His Only Chance
Mother crossly Tommy havent 1
told you you must not talk when I am
talking Tommy But mamma you
wont let me stay up after you go to
bed Sketch
BENEFITS IN DISEASE
Typhoid if You Pull Through
Gives You a New Stomach
GOOD EVEN IN RHEUMATISM
That Painful Affliction Keep3 Other
Miseries Out cf the System and Is a
Promoter of Long Life Blessings cf
Colds and Smallpox
To be struck down by disease seem
a most undesirable thing yet there ar
many living today in the fullest en
joyment of very excellent health who
but for an attack of some disease
would have lived a life of almost per
petual misery
These people were first of all vic
tims of indigestion in its worst form
and only those who have experienced
it know what true indigestion is
Struck down by typhoid fever they
fame through the trying ordeal cured
of indigestion for one outstanding ec
centricity of typhoid is that if you
pass through an attack safely it give-
you a new stomach In fact after an
attack of typhoid the victim is usually
left aa ith a stomach like an infant
That is tle grand chance offered to
one who has suffered it may be for
long years from acute Indigestion If
only he takes care after an attack of
typhoid ho need never know Indigei
tion again
Be it remembered that any ono trou
bled with severe indigestion is n t ad
vised to go hunting around for typhoi I
fever That might prove to bo a div
trous course to follow
A chronic cold is just one of tiv
things which none of us want ye
even a chronic cold has its good points
more especially if you happen to be up
In years a bit not too old of course
Feople who are up In years and wh
suffer from chronic bronchitis seem
to get remarkably well It keeps the
blood in good circulation for of
course the victims have to cough anC
that gives the heart a jerk and Feuds
the blood coursing nicely through the
veins and arteries
If the cold be not too acute old peo
ple derive considerable benefit An
acute attack on the other hand may
cut off an old person in a day or two
It is the chronic type only which yields
benefit
Smallpox is a dreaded scourge so
much si tint if it be reported tint a
case exists in a neighborhood a thrill
passes through the whole community
Yet those who suffer from smallpox
and recover usually live to a green out
age It seems to renew life in semv
mysterious way by thoroughly purify
ing the blood
If however you desire to attain to
a ripe old age you cannot got on at all
without rheumatism Consider the
hosts of old folks you encounter hob
bling about grumbling all the day
about their bones and joints In all
probability these old people wonid
have been in their graves years be
fore but for this very rheumatism
The reason is that if rheumatism is
in the system it keeps other ills out
It makes a grand fighting force and
keeps most other enemies of the hu
man frame at bay especially those of
the germ type
Very naturally if you have such a
grand friend at hand you have to pay
something for aid rendered but the
pain of rheumatism if shockingly se
vere at times is not deadly and that
is why one gets so little sympathy
when suffering from rheumatism
But the plain fact is that a slight
malady always benefits you even il
indirectly As an example of that
say a very bad spell of weather come
along cold and wet and you contract
a sugM chill
What do you propose to do Why
to take the greatest care of yourself
and make as certain as possible that
your cold gets no chance of develop
ing into anything worse Now did
that very slight coid not make its ap
pearance and cause you to be ex
tremely careful of what you did there
is no saying whrt might happen to
you any day during a spell of evil coid
wea1ir You might have exposed
yorrclf so much that a severe chill
wcul 1 have sekred you followed by
inlki nnation of lungs
Accordingly a slight cold may easily
save you from many worse ills
In tic vay minor afilictions act a
warnhrTs that wore thing are eo
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cite itcrlect thce warning0
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Washington Ftu
The Lirhtwcifht Chsmpion
SImpkins You say that little una
was formerly the lightweight cham
pion TimkiusYes Simkins How
did he lose the title Timklns Oh he
didnt lose it He merely sold his gro
cery and retired Chicago News
To feign a virtue Is to have Its oppo
site vice Hawthorne
eW7Ve like Uniop ouitsl
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I9 upioi suits tlere is lots of wer yd
because tlere is 09 09c tfyicless tfye nke
tipe wist snjdJI kid give trin look to te
e9tire figure
Tle better you look tfe better you feel ad
tlpe nore your frie9ds tk of you
TIe U9dervedir ve sell will 9ot slri9k but
we lve slru9k tle prices rict 19 tle be
ji99i9c of tle sediS09
Tints wfyy we sell so njucl U9derwer
Try di Ae9tor or Duofold Xtys seso9
iever ve we sIow9 s good suit for
10 0 We lkve tle better 09es too
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C L DeGROFF CO
For Sale Cheap
Fine Business
Close in Farm
Good Residences
McCook Roller Mills 90 barrels good running order good patronuge
excellent location
Eighty acres fine farming land i55 acres in alfalfa Splendid build
ings new modern house seven rooms and bath completed three rooms
unfinished hot and cold water furnace heat two miles from this city
My residence corner of D and 5th street E ICO feet front and house
and lot corner A and 4tn street E about CO feet front both 140 feet deep
I wish to sell any or all of this property at once on account of sick
ness in my family
I EL Ho Doan Pro
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