n ii 1 i T MINOR ITEMS OF NEWS Eviuvitrtm in riruas McOonoell ljrwnid 1 1 onunroiftl hotel Mcrnuuf llfl BiiUrtJu cures coughs Use McMillon a Cough Cure 25c Picture fruming The Ideal Store Hig Clearing Saleof Hboeunt Vierseus Mary IJarrisonnurse Phone black 286 Mrs J Jncason nurj Phono red 251 Big Sale now in progress at The Hub Store - - McMillcns Cold Cure will break up jour cold Wall paper Y -always at McOon nells Druggist McMjlIenfl Sure Com Cure will re move your corns Shoes are almost one half t less during Viersona Big Clearing Sale Horse buyers are increasingly nuraer ous in this section of Nebraska Of course you know Huber keeps the Wedding Breakfast Coffee 20 overcoats at 15 at Rozell Bai lerd during One Fourth Off Sale We have fresh lettuce and celery every Wednesday and Saturday HUBER All S100 flannel shirts now 75c at Rozell Burgers One Sale St Valentine purties are budding briskly as the jolly old saints day draws nearer Ten per cent below the low blue mark is the present deep cut at the Big Hub Store Sale All wiuter caps gloves and mittens reduced one fourth it Rozell Bargers Get yours McMillona Cream Lotion will cure ohapped hands and make thejskin soft and smooth Still slaughtering prices regardless at The Hub Store Only cutting values deeper and deeper A 25 per cent discount on all winter underwear at Rozell BargersPlenty cold weather coming Youll escape blood disorder if you take McConnell8 Sarsaparilla It eli minates all impurities All heavy pants in this One Fourth Off Sale at Rozell Bargers S4 pant- I at 3 5 at S3 75 and so on IT you want the new styles in box pappr or tablets with envelopes to Tnatnh Ill H 1 - now open j An Amateur Conjurer During a little pedestrian trip a gen tleman came unexpectedly upon a country race course and on one por j tlon of the ground found a thimblcrlg establishment In full work standing the remonstrance of his com panion the gentleman who was a bit of a madcap Insisted ou watching the gume Now would the gent like to wager a crown he could find the pea re marked the expert Yes was the reply The money was on both sides depos ited and the pedestrian lifting up the thimble pointed out the required pea and took the stakes A second bet double or quits end ed to the surprise of the expert In the same result Then a third wager a pound or nothing steadied the nerves of the loser and the trick was aceoniplished twlth great caution The gentleman lifted up the thimble and showed the4 pea at the same time pocketing the stakes Bhelp me etc I didnt put it theie exclaimed the bewildered art ist No but I always carry my own pea rejoined the mnn who had come out right as he went on his way with the spoils of war London Tit Bits In Modern Egypt Douglas Slodens book on Egypt fourth Off contains some curious anecdotes For instance My doctor was called to see an Egyptian who was in a very low state What Is the matter he asked I think it is only depression 1 have been a fool and lost a law case 1 would not backsheesh the other mans lawyer and he backsheeshed mine Later on when -another Egyptian told my friend that he had won a law case my friend said I suppose you back sheeshed the other mans lawyer The Egyptian gave a beautiful smile and said How did you know And again 1 was at Luxor when they were recruiting for the armj If a young man was found to be phys- ically fit his relations were plunged in r2 t Atu goes of win y had been ing the dear man Boston Transcript Not Surprised Mrs Gramercy She must have been surprised when her husband gave her - - WU nnfc ho nn 6UCUUU Kuanc inUu on tneir investing - - -- t g my dear but suspl investdr in this association where your monthly savings no matter how small -will earn -you a good rate of interest you may try to do many a days Soo the secretary ahout the new series worty but you can do only one days I work at a time SV 1 hi in iim I awnnaagjemwww I EFFORT BY PROXY nvoluntary Attempts to Help Athletes at Exciting Moments In pictures of athletic competitions chiefly hurdle races and high jumps an occasional spectator is seen in a queer posture If it is a picture of au athlete leap ing ten chances to one the spectator has Involuntarily raised his right leg twisting his body in automatic expres sion of a desire to help the jumper With hurdle race photographs this of ten may be noticed too and in the case of sprinters not a few men stand with faces twisted up and holding the breath in correct imitation of the ath lete actually competing So too with football views In one of a big game there was a photograph of a man on the side line watching a tackle who was crouching down in al most exact imitation of a waiting de fense man who was shown at the mo ment making ready for his leap at the runner Men who follow athletics know how Involuntary this is One athletic train er has appeared in hundreds of pic tures as watching some one of his charges high jumping with his leg swung out just as if he were making the leap himself There is a sort of relief for the feeling of trying to help the jumper in swinging the leg up and almost any person is likely to tlJ himself doing it instinctively It may be noticed at prizefights that some men go through the entire battle punch for punch crossing and counter ing an imaginary opponent as they watch the struggle before them Men drive and ride horses In races from the stand making the effort in the stretch along with the jockey of their fancy This is one of the well known features among the race crowd where there are many grand stand riders In wres tling matches almost any one will try purely by instinct to help the athlete who is down and who is bridging des perately to avoid the fall And yet there is rarely enough grief Professional mourners were I pathic suggestion in the air surcharged hired to squat outside the police -with desire to bring about a result dif tion where the recruiting took place ferent from what naturally might be yelling and weeping If on the other j expected at the moment when the hand he was rejected as undersized greatest wish for something else is or a weakling or tainted with a loath- j born that is to say the high jumper some disease his relations and friends doesnt necessarily clear the bar nor flew to him rejoicing and kissed him j the sprinter squeeze out the inch or and hung on his neck so that he needs nor the jockey whip his mount in for the head that means victory Washington Post Forty consumed by the licensed victualer I Eugene Sues Vanity and still he was sober at least so he Notwithstanding the extraordinarv Take aarantage of the Big told the city coroner Goes- is a com- Hterai y success which he enjoyed Shoe Sale at Viersen Sons their big ad for the figures George E Clark an oldtime and quit wealthy citizen of Arapahoe committed suicide last Saturday morning It you want a good pickle in sweet sour r mixed we have them a quart jar full for 25 cents HUBER To take good pictures use an East man kodak L W McDonnell Druggist We have a full line of California Canned Goods in both the Advo and J M brands Nothing superior HUBER Toilet soaps for the hair Shampoos and Shampoo bags L W McConmell Druggist We are now agents for the Famous Car kartt Overalls and Jackets atso for their Gloves and Caps HUBER Theres skin comfort in eery box of By Lo talcum powder Ii W McComnsli Druggist We have the finest line of Olives and eiive Oil in KcCook The full Reid Hur iock line HUBER Get paiut that will wear until you ar tired of it Thats what the Sherwin Williams paints will do Satisfaction guaranteed L W McConnbll Druggist One Minnte and Motor Washing Ma chines make washing a pleasure you purely are not economizing wisely if you are doing without one of these splendid -machines at McCook Hardware Cos A monthly investment of 1000 for 120 monthg pays the holder of McCook Building Association stock 200000 smaller amounts proportionately See the secretary -and place your order for the new stock now open gef I mon term in this connection but it when his works were the vogue En I lacks the full appropriateness to the gene Sue posed much more as a man ESXLUUUUU oi us duulusu equivuieui in Ausmuu man a mail 01 leuers Alter the story of another big drink told by his dinner at the Cafe de Paris he Dean Ramsay It was at a party near would gravely stand on the steps Arbroath held to celebrate the recon- smoking his cigar and listening to the dilation of two farmers who had long conversation with an air of superiority been enemies When the party at last broke up at a morning hour the goes Indeed London Expert Figuring A well known actor tells a story of j heads a in a little New En A Sensible Person An old Scottish lady during her last illness was assiduously attended by a physician to whom she invariably gave a guinea when he came to see her He told the friends with whom she lived that her death would bly be very sudden and one day wlen without attempting to take part in it His mind was supposed to be far j nurious lady of the house who had not away devising schemes for the social been able to sleep a wink for anxiety and moral improvement of his fellow called over the stairs to the servant i creatures These philanthropic mus How many bottles of whisky have Ings did not prevent him from paying they used Betty a great deal of attention too Imuch T dinna ken mem was the answer perhaps to his personal appearance but theyve druncken six gang o for even in those days of beaus bucks ter J and dandies of Counts dOrsay and To the poorvgirl who had to gang others men could not help thinking to the well for the oualifvinc fluid Eugene Sue overdressed these were Chronicle Umbrella Etiquette In Turkey In China ladies are attended by serv ants who hold umbrellas over their The Chinese and Japanese j troduce both the umbrella and parasol land town where he has often spent into their decorative work and athletic his summers I was walking down sports In western Turkey it is neccs the main street one day said he J sary to close an umbrella on meeting when I saw old Silas grinning from ear to ear I hardly thought that he was that glad to see me So after speaking to him I said Why the smile thatwont come off Silas What has people of high rank and a European traveler who was passing one of the palaces of the sultan was nearly run through by the guard before he com prehended that he must put down the happened to make you so happy this open umbrella he carried Every one morning Ive been a gittin married this mornin was the unexpected re ply Married You 1 exclaimed Why Silas what on earth have you done that for You know you cant even support yourself as it is Waal said Silas you see Its this way I ken purty near support myself an I kind of figured out that she could fin ish up the job Argonaut passing the actual residence of the sultan lowers his umbrella as a salu tation to the brother of the sun and the moon An Old Idea Macaulay was not the first man to frame the famous image of the man of a new civilization standing amid the ruins of that which we know to day Long before he wrote of his traveler from New Zealand meditat ing upon London bridge Mrs Barbauld had used the same image with the dif ference that she applied it to Black friars bridge An earlier reviewer had used it in an article published in 17G7 we are told by an English commenta tor and Horace Walpole says -in one she seemed to have become j of his letters At last some curious scious the doctor was hastily sent for traveler from Lima will visit England U JWJ J1UU wioiu uere on his arrival he found that his pa- I and give a description of the ruins of v n of v ciaiiuici t tlcnt baa ceased to exist and taking St Pauls anmenc uoia 0f uer rjgUt ilima which was Jj W McCohnbli Druggist j closed but not rigid he calmly ex- V I tracted from it the customary fee re- Standard Machines sold bewmg are marking as he dia so to tIlp attendant and guaranteed by McCook Hardwaro frienis Sensible to the last Co These sewing machines have few equals and the price is 40 Sold o Eyes Only For Her monthly installments if desired I Martha You dont mean to say you MgCook Hardware Co have accepted that Mr Spooner Why he is so awKwaru vou Know i saw The McCook Building Association uiR1 homing au umbrella over you the opens a new series of stock and you other day and all the water it caught should call on the secretary and sub- he allowed to drain right on to you There JSancy - w nat ueuer prooi coum i e rSi fnr 5 or 10 shares at once for have that he is in love with me He investment better your j is no safer or Ttt f v in hadnt the least idea that it was ran montniy savings iuirougno j not understand the proposition Past experience of owners of matured stock intho McCook Building Associa tion showsa net earning of S per cent The Perfect Woman There is a quaint old tavern sign in Kent The Perfect Woman a wo mans head without a mouth This signboard was once quite common and as late as ISIS a silent woman stood in St Giles in what is now New Ox ford street bearing beneath the picture of a headless female the fojldwing stanza A silent woman how can it be Patient traveler do not scoff Drawn from the very life is she And mute because her heafl is off London Chronicle Like a Mule A man wif a bad disposition said Uncle Eben Is a heap like a mule Yous always bavin yoh doubts about whether his usefulness on some occa sions pays fob his troubleseineness on others Washington Star Ogilby translator of Homer and Vir gil was unacquainted with Greek un til b was past fifty years of age Origin of Old Glory In the reminiscences of Lord Ronald Gower Is found a story of the origin of the stars and stripes The star spangled banner of tho Amerlcau republic had its origin from an old brass on the floor of an ancient church in Northamptonshire The brass covers the tomb of one Robert Wash ington and Is dated 1022 On It ap pears the Washington coat of arms consisting of three stars with bars or stripes beneath them On the first day of the new year 1770 the thirteen united colonies raised a standard at Washingtons headquarters This introduced the stripes of the present but retained the crosses of St George and St Andrew on a blue ground in tho corner In 1777 tho crosses were replaced by stars as the Declaration of Independence rendered the retention of the English element unnecessary and inconvenient in thus adopting the arms of his ancestors as his own distinctive badge Washington no doubt intended the flag merely as a private signal for his own personal fol lowing but it was at once adopted as a national emblem Probably there is not another case in the worlds history in which the private arms of an ob scure family have attained such world wide eminence and repute The Bank Could Stand It A western lawyer tells of a remark able instance of the convincing powei of feminine logic as evidenced by an occurrence which he once witnessed while standing on the edge of a crowd that was besieging the doors of a bank supposed to be on the point of sus pending payment A conversation between a rosy cheek ed Irishwoman and her husband whe were near the lawyer at once attract ed his attention Mary said the man we musl push up so ye can dhraw your money at dnct But I dont want to draw it out Roger replied Mary placidly Dont ye know Marj persisted th husband that theyll lose your mon ey for ye If ye dont hurry t dhraw it out An shure Roger retorted Mary aint they better able to lose It that we are Roger was stunned by this unan swerable logic and after a few more words the two withdrew Fortunate ly the bank survived its difficulties and no depositor lost a cent Harpers A Purse For the Bride Some brides may be inclined to re gret that the old marriage custom ol the dow purse has fallen into disuse It was the custom of the bridegrooir to fill a purse with a goodly sum ol money and present it to the bride or the wedding day as the price of thf purchase of her person It sounds lik slavery like the buying of goods and chattels yet the bride had a nice lit tie sum of money for her own use Some of the oldest inhabitants oi Cumberland may remember a similai custom in that county The bride groom provided himself with a num ber of gold and silver pieces and ai the words with all my worldly goods I thee endow he handed the clergy man his fee and poured the othei coins into a handkerchief held out fov that purpose by the bride In othej places again the bride had the right to ask her husband for a gift of monej or property on the day after the wed ding and he was bound in honor tc grant the request London Answers Sixty Kinds of Bananas To most persons in the temperati zones a banana is a banana But th truth is that there are over sixtj known varieties of the fruit with ai great or greater variation in charactei as in the different kinds of apples Hawaii is said to have something ovei forty distinct varieties of the fruit most of which have been introduced by the whites Some of these are ol extremely delicate and delicious flavor while other kinds are used if at all only when cooked in various ways There is scarcely a city house lot ol country kuleana or homestead whicl does not have a clump or two of ba nanas which grow with practically nc care new plants or suckers shootinj up to replace the ones which hav fruited and been removed Los An geles Times The Eees Market Basket Every bee carries his market baske around his hind legs Any one exam ining the body of the bee through i microscope will observe that on tin hind legs of the creature there is i fringe of stiff hairs on the surface thf hairs approaching each other at th tips so as to form a sort of cage Thh is the bees basket and into it aftel a successful journey he will cran enough pollen to last him for two 01 three days Sleight of Hand Hyker I attended a successfu sleight of hand performance last night Pyie So Hyker Yes I lent a con juror a counterfeit dollar and Jie gavi me back a good one Exchange Trying to Explain Howell What did you mean by say ing that I would never set the world on fire Powell I meant that yoc were too much of a gentleman to dt it Exchange First Forgive When ye stand praying forgive h ye have aught against any that youl Father also which is In heaven maj forgive you your trespasses St Marl- In friendship we see only those fault which may be prejudicial to om friends In love we see no faults bu those by which we suffer ourselves D la Bruyere vi - Hyyyy WVyiEytriyvH rif i i i JTr iv r f - it 3 BIG RED TAG SALE I Friday January 15th to Saturday January 30th A The Ideal Cash Store - i - UNLIKE ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER IS THE WEEKLY KANSAS CITY STAR THE WEEKLY STAR in addition to printing the entire news of the week in concise form has Absolutely Accurate Market Quotations So valuable are these that such are copyrighted by THE STAR and appear only in this news paper THE WEEKLY STAR has also the famous Chaperon Feature which furnishes free advise and help on many perplexing 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