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the money you blow in
foolishly if invested in a
bank account would soon
put you on easy street
You owe yourself the
protection a Savings Ac
count will afford you
If you are spending all
you earn it is unfair to
yourself and those who
may bo dependent on you
You have noticed the
manner in which small
amounts expended count
up in a month a part of
such expenditures saved
will allow you to have an
account at this bank
Start with a dollar
have money in the bank
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By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
Samuel T Avery who has been act
ing chancellor since the resignation of
Dr Andrews has been chosen by the
board of university regents as chan
cellor
Petitions have been circulated
among McCook voters this week re
questing the placing on the ballot at
the November election of Jacob Fawcett
and Edward Duffy two well known
lawyers as candidates for supreme
judges Signatures were freely and
numerously given
Keabnet is lining up with Holdrege
and other Nebraska towns in taking
action through its commercial club
against the advertising fakirs who are
constantly annoying and robbing the
towns of the state in some form or by
some scheme or other Like Holdrege
their effort is to give some protection
to the home Drinting offices as well as
they do to the other businesses of the
city
The Tribune hopes that the gradu
ating class of 1910 will accord the local
printing offices the courtesy and justice
of at least a look in on the commence
ment invitations We can think of no
adequate excuse or reason for sending
out of this city for such job printing
As business men the local printing
offices by taxes paid help to maintain
the public school Common fairness
leaving gratitude out of the account
would accord them first place in this
consideration
FOR SALE FOR RENT ETC
For Sale My residence and house
hold goods cheap Good lawn and
shade trees Call at 209 E 3rd st
28 3 R O Light
For Sale Nhw refrigerator never
used cheap Call at 209 E 3rd st
28 3 K O Light
For Sale Blue squaw corn for seed
Mrs S E Christian phone ash 3GS2
For Sale Strong plants that will
grow See or phone R McDonald at
Worlan farm phone cedar 1551 21 2
For Sale House und two lots 900
Easy terms Earl Barger
For Sale A 9-horse-power gasoline
engine Alcuook Uement Stone Co
phone red 196
For Sale Several fresh milch cows
Inquire of Mrs Anna Coyle McCook
Nebraska or phone black 306
Wanted Situation by experienced
lady cook in restaurant or small hotel
Write box No 5 Iodianola Nebraska
Wanted Boarders by day or week
Railroad men preferred 701 B st E
For Rent Furnished rooms with
bath and light 309 2nd st W Phone
red 255-28-2
For Rent Furnished rooms
J I Lee phone 43
Mrs
Fob Rent A 5 room cottage Mrs
J I Lee phone 43
For Rent Good house 9023rd st E
Phone cedar 983 Mrs W Hickling
Cures Cslds Prevents Pneumonia
HOVEMENfS OF THE PEOPLE
t r J T- - M rntarni4n
wain tpwn Monday
Mrs Wm Jkkfeuiks returned Turs
day night from visiting in Palisade
Mrs N B Bush of Oberlin -Kansas
is here viBiting her parents arid sister
Mit s Lathrop is here from Iowa tho
guest of her sister MrsCR Livingston
Mihs Ada Hammond of Hastings is
visiting McCook friends and relatives
this week
Ralph Bosworth is down from Den
ver to participate in the commencement
week affairs
Mrs S P DwvEnnnd son are down
from Denver for commencement and to
visit relatives
H W Kryes and S R Smith of In
dianola had business in the couuty
capital Monday
Dr J A Gunn of Benson a suburb
of Omaha vieited his children here a
couple of days midweek
Mrs H M Finity went to Logan
Kansas Thursday morning on a visit
to her mother and brother
Miss Nellie Andrews is over from
Lebanon for the commencement exer
cises guest of the Schmidt sisters
Mrs E J Kates came up from Lin
coln Suturday night on a visit to her
parents Mr and Mrs T B Campbell
Ben B Smiley one of the substant
ial farmers from the Beaver had busi
ness in the county capital Wednesday
Miss Josephine Phelan returned
from Denver first of the week and re
sumed her desk in the
office Monday
Mr and Mrs Emerson Hanson and
Martha Suess departed Wednesday
evening on No 10 for Illinois to be ab
sent two weeks on a visit
Mrs A E Bailey and two daughter
of Palisade were guests of her motbet
Mrs William Long close of last ano
early part of present week
Sohell Kimmell arrived home last
Friday evening from Effiugham Illi
nois where he has been attending
school during the past year
Earl Barqer went down to Holdrege
Wednesday to meet Hart Schaffner
Marxs traveling representative ano
make needed purchases in that line
W R Hale late of Okerson Hale
has retired from the firm and left the
city last Friday night on a visit to St
Joe relatives He expects to locate in
St Louis
Congressman G W Norris arrived
on No 1 last Saturday from Wash
ington to visit briefly with the family
while the senate is having its inning
over the tariff
Mr and Mrs Frank Dobson and
Mrs E O Scott went down to Hold
rege Sunday on a short visit going on
to Lincoln Tuesday morning for a
short sojourn also with relatives
Frank Real returned Saturday
from his visit over in Iowa and from at
tendance upon the Knights of Colum
bus stats convention in Omaha last
week He returned via Kansas City
Program lor Memorial Day
Monday morning May 31st the deco
rating committee of the post Comrades
George Dillon Joseph Sullivan and
Francis Swartz together with a com
mittee of four each from the Ladies of
the G A R and WRC will assemble
at the Morris hall at 930 oclock to
proceed to the cemeteries of the city to
decorate the graves of the departed
soldiers etc
All persons are earnestly requested to
bring their flowers for decoration of the
graves to Morris hall not later than 9
oclock in the morning
At 130 the old soldiers sailors
marines solaiers of the Spanish-American
war ladies of the W R C and G
A R and ex confederate soldiers will
meet at Morris hall to march in a body
to the Baptist church where the exer
cises of the day will be given commenc
ing at 200 oclock
Song America Audience
Invocation Rev Edker Burton
Reading of Orders Adjutant Steinmetz
Report from Decorating Committees
Music High School Boys Glee Club
Reading of Lincolns Gettysburg Ad
dress Mrs W S Morlan
Address of the Day Rev E R Earle
Music High School Girls Glee Club
Address to Unknown Dead
Mrs Matie Welles
Benediction Rev G B Hawkes
Comrades John Underhill and
William Burns of the general arrange
ments committee earnestly desire the
co operation of all in the proper observ
ance of the day
By Order of Committee
The ritualistic service of the G A R
will be held at the monument in River
view cemetery at 1030 in the morning
The Ladies of the G A R and W R
C will also hold their ritualistic services
in the cemetery in the morning
The procession will form on Main
avenue in front of Morris hall at ten
oclock and march to the cemetery es
corted by the First Separate company
of Nebraska national guards and drum
corps
All business places are requested to
be decorated and closed from 10 a m
to 4 pm
Mens Balbrlggan Union Suits 75c
and also at 125 and 21 50 The Thomp
son D G Co The utmost value
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ANCIENT BELL
They Were Often Quadrangular and
Made of Thin Iron Plates
There are several old bells In Scot
land Ireland and Wales The oldest are
often quadrangular being made of
thin Iron plates which have been ham
mered and riveted together At the
monastery of St Galllu Switzerland
the four sided bell aTtbe Irish mission
ary St Gall who lived In the seventh
century Is still preserved hut more
ancient still Is the bell of St Patrick
In Belfast which Is ornamented with
gold and gems and silver filigree work
The curfew bell Is that about which
most has been written and said It
has been thought that It was only used
in England but It was quite common
on the continent In the middle ages
The ringing of bells by rope Is still
very popular In England especially In
the country where almost every mn
let however small has Its church with
its peal of bells which are often re
markably well rung The first real
peal of bells In England was sent by
Pope Callxfus III to Kings college
Cambridge and was for 300 years the
largest peal In England About the
beginning of the year 1500 sets of eight
bells were hung in a few of the large
churches
In the middle of the seventeenth cen
tury a man named White wrote a fa
mous work on bells In which he Intro
duced the system of numbering them
1 2 3 4 etc on slips of paper in dif-
ferent orders according to thechanges
Intended to be rung It is calculated
that to ring all the changes upon twenty-four
bells at two strokes a second
would take 117 billion years
One of the most famous bells In the
world is the Grst great bell of Moscow
which now stands In the middle of a
square In that city and Is used as a
chapel This bell was cast in 1733 but
was in the earth for over a hundred
years beinir raised in 183G by the Em
peror Nicholas It Is nearly twenty
feet high has a circumference of sixty
feet Is two feet thick and weighs al
most 200 tons The second Moscow
bell which is the largest bell in the
world that is actually in use weighs
12S tons There are several bells ex
tant which weigh ten tons and over of
which Big Ben the largest bell in Eng
land weighing between thirteen and
fourteen tons Is one Big Ben Is un
fortuuately cracked London Globe
HISTORY ON A TUSK
Picture Made by a Cave Man Millions
of Years Ago
Long ago so long that even a scien
tist would hardly dare venture a guess
as to the date a man clad with only
a wild beasts skin about his loins was
sitting at the mouth of a cave in one
of the rocky highlands In what Is now
southern France He was scratching
with a sharp flint on the fragments
of an ivory tusk perhaps picturing for
some youthful admirers adventures
through which he had passed or ani
mals he had slain That ivory chip
was stored away as a treasure to be
lost and forgotten after the cave mans
death One day a man named Lartet
digging in the cavern floor found it
On it was scratched a very fair rep
resentation of the hairy elephant
probably at once the oldest picture
and the oldest human record in ex
istence
We know the cave man was a faith
ful workman for the melting Ice fields
of Siberia have yielded a perfect speci
men of this extinct mammal and the
paleolithic picture Is a true copy Not
only has this ancient sculptor given us
a sample of the earliest art but he has
left us more valuable than all a his
torical record of his time for this
rude picture is simply a page from the
cave mans history which translated
into twentieth century English says
Men thinking men were contempo
raneous with the hairy elephant
No record that any of humankind
have ever left is half so ancient as
this The oldest Egyptian papyrus is
a thing of yesterday compared to this
paleolithic sculpture While the cave
man was living in Europe the valley
of the Nile was yet only a wild waste
Egypt was not yet Egypt and civiliza
tion as we know it had scarcely made
a beginning Lippiucotts
Shy on the Son
But I do not know the candidate
said an old Yorkshire farmer who waa
appealed to for his vote
But you know his father
Yes I know him and hes a grand
man
Then you will surely vote for his
son wont you
But the old farmer was still doubt
ful
Im no so sure about that he re
plied its no every coo that has a
cauff like hersel Liverpool Mercury
Queer but Expressive
A Danish girl who has recently come
to this country to take a course in
trained nursing was complaining to a
friend the other morning of having
overslept herself And no reason why
such a thing should befall me for I
had what do you call it in English
I know a sleep watch all set Wash
ington Star
A Quiet Spot In the Suburbs
Gayboy has given up liorses and
drink and all his bad habits and has
settled down in a quiet little place In
the suburbs
Where
The cemetery Illustrated Bits
Kind Hearted
And did you enjoy your Afrlcan
trip major How did you like the
savages
Oh they were extremely kind heart
ed They wanted to keep me there for
fllnnor London Opinion
THE -CHAMELEON
This Curious Animnl Is Like Two Half
Creaturos Joined
The chameleon is not allied closely
to any other animal It stands as a
genus by Itself The nervous centers
iu one lateral half operate independ
ently of ilinse in the other This
seems outnijeoiis ntl it is but it is
1 true The chameleon has two hit era I
centers of perception of sensation and
of motion The iv exists ailso a third
center that common one In which
abide the power of concentration b
means of wljich thetwo sides of the
creature miy Ik forced to work in
harmony with each oilier But this
center of concentration does not al
ways dominate the situation Not
withstanding the strictly symmetrical
Structure of the animals two halves
the eyes move quite Independently
and they convey distinct and separate
impressions to their respective centers
of perception As of the eyes so of
the other members each reports to
and Is controlled by Its own center
The result is that when the faculty
of concentration becomes disturbed
everything is juiiillled Let thechame
leon be much agitated and its move
ments grow erratic They are those
of two creatures fastened together or
rather of two half creatures joined
Each half exhibits Its intention of go
Ing its separate way The result is a
pitiable confusion of movement There
Is no concordance of action A curi
ous example of the chameleons help
Iessness when unduly excited is found
In the fact that it cannot swim The
shock of being plunged into water up
sets the poise of its faculty for concen
tration Forthwith each side strikes
out wildly for itsi If to Its own undo
ing The chameleon Is the ony four
legged vertebrate that cannot swim
When the creature h calm every im
pulse to motion is referred to the com
mon center of concentration and the
entire organism acts In fitting accord
with the commands issued by that fac
ulty Thus while totally different Im
pressions from the two eyes are trans
mitted from their centers to the com
mon one that concentrating power de
cides as to which scene Is the more
important and then directs the eye
otherwise engaged also to regard it
The same principle applies in the con
trol of all the members so long as the
animal remains unexcited Any ob
server may easily verify the existence
of this dual nature In a superficial way
by some experiments with a sleeping
chameleon A touch on one side of
the animal will wake that side up
while the other side sleeps calmly on
FLINT AND TINDER
Making Fire In the Days Before We
Had Matches
A friend of mine of just my age used
to laugh about his own boyhood and
tell the story of his mother shaking
him in bed and bidding him put on his
boots when he dressed and his over
coat and wade through the snow to
the next neighbors to get a pan of hot
coals with which to make the fire I
suppose Joes mother had lost her
flint We kept our Hint and what was
called the steel in a round tin box
such as would hold a quart of straw
berries now and it was on the man
telpiece in the kitchen It was half
full of tinder Half the boys and girls
of today do not know what tinder is
or was
Now whoever was in the kitchen in
the morning and found that the last
hot coal of the wood fire had gone out
took down the tinder box and struck
the steel with the Uint smartly and of
ten until a red hot spark fell on the
tinder then very carefully she blew
with her breath on any flakes of the
tinder which had lighted until she had
quite a little cove of lighted tinder
Then she took what we called a brim
stone match and put that very care
fully in the little hot hole If all
things worked well the brimstone
lighted and the wood of the match
lighted and she lighted the candle
which made a part of the tinder box
Oh dear There were thousands of
tinder boxes in little Boston the day I
was born and a few years ago I tried
to buy one as a curiosity and 1 could
not find one in any of the junkshops
In those days old women would stop
at the door and ask you to buy some
bundles of matches They had made
thse themselves of pine wood foul
Inches long which they had dipped in
hot brimstone at both ends And those
were the only matches that anybody
ever heard of Womans Home Com
panion
Always Dreaded the 14th
Most dismal of all men off the stage
was Griuialdi the clown and hi
father fathered him He had that
curiou dread of a certain date which
assails so many The elder Grimaldi
hated the 14th of the month and when
It was passed he regarded himself as
safe until the next He was horn
christened and married on the 14th
of the mouth and being discontented
with all three events we will hope his
death on March 14 17SS satisfied him
London Tatler
Cutting Humor
With cap and bells jangling he burst
Into the kings presence
Have you heard my last joke your
majesty he cried
I have was the reply as the royal
ax descended on the neek of the court
jester Life
Realism
The Author Well how did yon like
my play The Critic Oh it was very
nice The Author Didnt you think
the church scene realistic The Critic
Intensely so Why a great many of
us actually went to sleep while it was
on Cleveland Lender
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