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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1909)
rtS i - HI iLJJfcriTBrTffr ngpdiMgtTM n PUBLIC LIBRARY MTES Four ruw trtya for the curd catalog iJavu iiucn added to mk room for the Incrcainc mimbor of hooks Tio card tsilHlog iy now in up to ditto shape and all books in In library with the ex oojitiun of tiio government tepotts may bo fouiid ou the carusiudexed alphabet Srallv HH to both titles and authors Tim trays ure hi tho main room easy of scudSH to all putrund and they mil do arttll to consult it ofion when looking Jor Miecial hojrfh ur tubj ct Tha fob lowing h a list of iimw books iatrous will iind it co aw in em to preserve this list for future rcfrreuoe leidro Mary Austin Uiu Ltworaaitura Robert liriut 3bw Alya vty feiewcirt E U tiitu Uonsuuce lresoott S Weir Mitchell 2u Old Meliuru Mary Dillou ibu Uhuriy Ribbtud rf R Uruckuit 51 10 Or Fihi Emerson liougb iioypeu oS tuo IooiullLv Mabtil Wright S2 WtilttaKerV Piace Joseph Luicuhi 3ua P nut uf llon ir Joseph Uourad Tho UiiJuclty Kaiiitly DLtt Pasture Jorry Junior lean Web3ter Biography of a Silver t x Tbompson Seton Snmdeesi Son 11 irry Jame fcjiuuii Felice John L Long The Militarte Uitiy Kayuioud Andrews MiB3 Euporinc i ana Mr Wjcherly L Allen Hirk t Sebastian Frank Danby tTbe Fair MwMosippinn Charles Egbert Uraddouk SThe Hermit and the Wild Woman Edith Wharton The Bronze Bull Louis J Vance aVKLhilda of Orrs Island SHUNGOPAVI iwBS SIDNGOPAVI AND COMPANY 9 Se weird the mysterious the wonderful Tse Great Indians Are Coming 1 - CHAUTAUQUA HOOKING ALLIGATORS A Florida Sport With an Element of Uncertainty In It Hunting alligators at night with n bullspye lantern and shotgun is tamo sport compared with what Is called a gator limit in Honda said an old Floridian who is visiting New York I mean the feat of capturing an alli gator alive and then towing the fellow to high ground through mud and water from what Js called in Florida a ga tor hole The gator fishermen first liud tho hole which I indicated by an opening in the surrounding grass In the midst of a dense growth of vegetation where the ground i worn smooth by the al ligator in hi jiulls in and out Some times thcM gator holes are In the na ture of a cave in the hank of a stream and may he fifteen or twenty feet deep and If mi it is nor an easy matter to get the animal out The fisher N supplied with a long pole with a -metal hook on th end He takes a strong rope and throws it about the entrance of the hole- Then the fisher rams with the hooked pole down the den and waits and listens If he finds a gator in the hole ho teases the beast by poking him until tiie gator in a rage finally grabs the hooked pole and Is pulled from the den It is with uncertainty that he is dragged forth for It is not known JSnCalverts Valley - I whether the catch is large or small Margaret Montague me tlsuer does not know whether to jfateB A tf lauier UiUwm Pinkb ui get into shape to run or to tight Out the gator comes bellowing and roar ing mad Wm r Ttfinnllo - - rage l v Vt V imVV u I ailU flnaly twists himself up in the Helen M WinBlow rPe or noose that has been previously 3BKnff of Arcadia Francis Lynde prepared With the assistance of the A Certain Ktcb Wan Win Allen Wuite Interplay Beatrice Uarraden Ad the Wake of the Green Banner E P Melour 3a Idyll of Alt Fools Day Jew p time D Bacon n the Road to Arden Margaret Morse Xincaids Battery George W Cable j3wo Gentleman of Virginia Geo E Egylesuin Catharines Child De La Pasture Tbe Sword of Dundee Theodora Peck The Coming Harvest Rene Bazin J Josnah MyraKelley 3omanc3 of a Plain Man Ellen Glasgow 3he Bride of the Mistletoe James Lane Alien SJambolling With Galatea Curtis Dunham With the Night Mail Kipling Many Kingdoms Elizabeth Jordan Antonio Ernest Oldmeadow pen House Juliet W Tompkins Mirage E TThurston heartbreak Hill H K Viele TjteWeil in the Desert Adeline Knapp Forr Jacinta Harold Bindloss The Royal End Henry Harland Tie Butlers Story Arthur Train The Straw Rina Ramsay Dragons Blood Henry M Rideout Stories of Jewish Home Life S H Mosenthal BUight of Purchase Harold Bindloss A Woman for Mayor Helen Winslow Fbwer of the Dusk Myrtle Reed Old Lady No 31 Louise Forslund Oh ChriBtina JJBell The Inner Shrine Anonymous Jason J M Forman Synchs Daughter L Merick iXuch Ado About Peter Jean Webster Librarian Cut To One Dollar The Lincoln Daily State Journal sants a few thousand new trial sub scribers and has cut its price from aaw to Jan 1 1910 to only SI or daily aad Sunday both 8125 This is a specially low price for such a news paper and will result in a big business 35ie Journal stops when the time is oat so that people need not be afraid fib take one of these special offers Its aot a trick to get you started The Journal has greatly enlarged and im groved each year and has been having wonderful growth in its readers 3eing the paper of our state capital iSis especially the paper for Nebras Sans to read and it has an especially cSean lot of readers because the paper 3self is clean having cut out all liquor md objectionable medical advertising She Journal is thoroughly independent srad has been making a determined Sght to have our representatives at Washington do something to lower the cost of living If you want to read not only all of iKe news of the world but a practical Helpful newspaper working in the in terests of he masses of Nebraskans i7 The Lincoln Journal until Jan 1 2HD at this cut price After the gator is dragged to the surface he in his turns and rolls others in the party the gators legs and mouth are tied and the gator is a prisoner The gator is for the most part caught in marshes where the ground is soft and slushy and too wet for either horse or wagon to enter The fishers are compelled to carry their catch to higher ground there to be loaded into the waiting wagon and the hunt Is ended New York Sun UNCONSCIOUS WORRY Born of the Habit of Taking Things Too Seriously A great many people worry uncon sciously says O S Marden In Success Magazine They dont understand why they are so tired in the morning why their sleep was so disturbed and trou bled This mental disturbance is often caused by the habit of taking things too seriously carrying too great a weight of responsibility Everywhere we see people who take life too seri ously Most of us are like the motor man who not only starts and stops the car and tries to keep from running over people but also feels tremendous anxiety and responsibility about the motive power One of the most helpful lessons life can Impart is that which shows us how to do our work as well as it can be done and then let principle take care of the result How often have we been amazed to And things come out much better than we anticipated to find that the great unseen power that governs our lives through a wilderness of trial and tribulation into the open has guided our life ship through the fogs of difficulties and of sorrow through storms of hardships and losses safely into port The pilot does not lose heart when he cannot see his way He turns to that mysterious compass which sees as plainly In the fog and guides as faithfully in the tempests as when the sea is like glass We are in touch with a power greater than any compass greater than any pilot a power that can extricate us from the most des perate situation Family Floriculture George Blank the stage manager is a lover of nature and a hater of over coats and umbrellas Recently during a violent rainstorm he called on his mother entering her presence wring ing wet George said she firmly you ought not to expose yourself in such weather You will get pneumonia But mother exclaimed George with a theatrical wave of his hand why should I fear the rain Does it not nurture the grass Is it not life to the flowers It -is a long time said the good woman closing a window since you were a flower Success Magazine Origin of the Word Academy Academus was a wealthy Greek of Athens who lived several hundred years before the birth of Christ Among his possessions was a beautiful grove where young men used to con gregate and listen to the teachings of wise men such as Plato and Socrates This developed Into the school of mod ern times and these modern schools take their name academy from the old Greek Academus The real mean bg of the word academy Is a school lor boys Sterilized Have you Inquired the city vis itor a moss covered bucket about the place No sir answered the farmer All our utensils are sterilized and strictly sanitary Kansas City Jour oal No Danger The Lady Id buy you a nice pearl handled knife for your birthday but Im superstitious Im afraid it would cut our friendship The Man Cheer np No knife a woman buys could ver cut anything Cleveland Leader gfms3saasg5gT g NEW SPANISH MINISTER The Marquis de Vilialobar a Diplomat of Ability and Repute The Marquis de Vilialobar who re cently succeeded Senor Don Ramon Pinn as minister of Spain to the Unit ed States stands very high in Europe as a diplomat and it was he who brought about the recent meeting be tween King Edward VII of England and King Alfonso of Spain lie is a little under forty and has been a crip ple from birth but is of distinguished appearance He Is a bachelor and comes of an old and renowned house lie is not unknown in Washington for he spent a year there as attache at the ministry in JS87 and another year as second secretary in 1SU5 For the last IM A vevvii Sv w w THE MARQUIS DC VTTiTiAIiOBAR ten years he has been first secretary at the embassy in London He is chamberlain to King Alfonso whose close personal friend he is aud is a grandson of the Duke de Kivas one of Spains most famous poets He may have specially important duties should the present revolutionary elements in his country get the upper hand MOVING TALL TREES Wonders Accomplished by Electrical Engine For This Purpose JThe moving of well grown trees used to be considered so difficult that it was rarely attempted but now by the aid of electrical hoisting and mov ing endues it can be done quite suc cessfully Owing to the scarcity of trees and the great care that is be ina taken to protect our forests from the woodmans ax and every other form of desecration many towns that otherwise would have been glad to have obtained young trees for the pur pose have been obliged to forego this luxury But not so Ampere N J which furnishes a striking illustration of what may be accomplished in tree moving by the aid of the electrical en gine designed especially for this branch of work Trees that by many ENGINE MOVING A TREE were considered a part of the soil it self have been removed from remote and out of the way corners of the town and made to beautify the public park tho grounds of the public li brary and the inclosure of the large plant of a company which manufac tures electrical engines The town has been made to assume an altogether different appearance by the adoption of this method of moving trees Strange Cause For Divorce A husband brought suit for divorce against his wife in a Silesian court on the ground that she had become intol erably thin In his petition he stated that when he married her she was naturally pleasing as to her figure nor as the years went on did this figure change materially This year she de cided that she must accommodate her self to the dress in fashion She wish ed to excite the admiration or the envy of her sisters She was indefatigable in her efforts to lose in weight In the morning she rode for three hours on horseback She played tennis for two hours She walked for an hour and several times in the day A rigid diet helped She lost thirty one pounds in three months Her height was five feet ten and she weighed only 133 pounds The dress In fashion fitted her and great was her joy But it failed to please her legal lord hence the strange suit to separate her from his bed and board AN OLD TIME HANGING The Dark Day When Old Jennie Was Executed In Maryland As dark as the day wln n old Jen nie was hung Is one of the many quaint sayings that for general Ions has been used on the lower eastern shore of Maryland hut I mm the iiemunts thai have been given by Miose who lived In old Jennies day iher never has been a day since thai time as dark as the day on which she was executed for wholesale murder in the neighbor hood in which she lived The old murderess vi publicly hanged in 1K1 in the old jail yard at Princess Anne and all those who re membered that particular day have passed Into the preal heyord long niro The murderess was a while woman tall and angular aud it was said that she resembled what was popularly supposed to he a witch far inure than she did the up to date woman of that day In fact local history records that she practiced witchcraft No fine ever knew where she came from she hav ing dropped down very mysteriously into the neighborhood where she killed a family of four Old Jennie was not hanged on a scaf fold In those days murderers were executed with as little trouble and ex pense as possible The wizen faced terror of all Somerset was placed in a cart drawn by two oxen and placed directly under a stout limb of an old oak tree which stood In the jail yard The rope was fixed In rude fashion around her neck amid the hurrahs of the crowd and the curses of the doomed woman and when all was In readiness a bunch of fodder was placed ten paces from the oxens heads and they were given the word to start Obeying the command they made a bee line for the fodder and left old Jennie dangling at the end of the rope That day it has been told thousands of times was the darkest ever known in this section Chickens remained on their roosts throughout the entire day while candles by the score burned in the houses rhat the servants tnicbt see to do their work The local scientists of that day were at a loss to account for the strange phenomenon and the graphic descriptions which they gave of it and which were recorded years ago make Interesting reading The darkies and superstitious whites of those days naturally thought that the end of time had come A great many negroes declare today that the ghost of old Jennie may be seen stalk ing around on the edge of the woods near where she committed her crimes any time on a dark cloudy night and they are very careful not to encounter her Oriole Md Cor Chicago Inter Ocean WINGS THAT WERE FINS Evidence That Penguins Pinions Were Once Used For Swimming Ornithological puzzles are the pen guins with their curiously shaped wings and odd unbirdlike upright car riage The peculiarities of their wings suggest that the penguins are descend ants of birds which used thpir wings rather than legs in the pursuit of prey under water and as the struggle in tensified between the competing indi viduals the most expert at this sort of swimming would get the most food and oust less successful rivals The winners gained advantage over their neighbors in proportion as their wings improved as swimming organs and in versely and of necessity became less suited to perform the work of flight In all other birds the feathers though shed annually are more or less grad ually displaced But in the penguins the new feathers all start into being at the same time and thrust out the old feathers upon their tips so that these come away in great flakes Whereas in all birds save penguins the new feathers as they thrust their way through the skin end in pencil like points formed by investing sheaths in the penguins these sheaths are open at the tips and attached by their rims to the roots of the old feathers and hence these are held to their succes sors until they have attained a suffi cient length to insure protection against cold The curious device for retaining the warmth afforded by the old feathers until the new generation can fill their places is apparently due to the fact that penguins are natives of the ant arctic regions although some now in habit tropical seas Chicago Tribune Short and to the Point A coal merchant who was a man of few words once wrote to an agent the following brief letter Dear Jones In due time the agents reply came as follows Dear Mr The coal dealers Iptter translated said See my coal on which Is the semicolon expressed verbally The agent informed the dealer that the coal was shipped by saying sim ply Col on Scrap Book Unless They Are Heiresses Its hard to lose a beautiful daugh ter said the wedding guest sympa thetically Its a blame sight harder to lose the homely ones replied the old man who had several yet to go Boston Tran script Not Consistent What was I saying when I dodged that automobile You were saying that life Is not worth living But if you think so why did you dodge Louisville Courier Journal Man is made of dust but he Is usual ly out for more Exchange ctcji iilllli iiiWIMCiiii P iilW ltHS If you are all run down Foleys Kid ney Remedy will help you It strength ens the kidneys so they will eliminate the impurities from the blood that de presses the nerves and causes exhaus tion backache rheumatism and urinary irregularities which hap the vitality Do not delay Take Foleys Kidney Remedy at once A McMillen We have fresh lettuce and celery every Wednesday and Saturday HUBER Alexanders Jubilee Company tMJViVXW Dr Pierces Favorite Prescription Is the best of oil medicines for the cure of diseases disorders and weaknesses peculiar to women It is the only preparation of its kind devised by a regularly gradu ated physician an experienced and skilled specialist in the diseases of women It is a safe medicine in any condition of tne system THE ONE REMEDY ivhich contains no alcohol and no injurious habit forming drugs and which creates no craving for such stimulants THE ONE REMEDY so good that its makers are not afraid to print its every ingredient on each outside bottlo wrapper and attest to tho truthfulness of tho same under oath ALEXANDERS JUBILEE CO 12 The best onthe platform last summer Better This Coming to the Di arr SSS2SJ so- CHAUTAUQUA hea Quickly Cured Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy Can always be depended upon Dnring the summer months children are subject to bowel disorders and should receive the most careful attention As soon as any unnatural looseness of the bowels is noticed Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy should be iven Costs but 25 cents a bottle and it is economy to always keep a bottle handy You do not know when it may ba needed but when you do want it yo want it badly Qet a bottle today Something Nice AT THIS OFFICE In the line of Cards Letter Heads Envelopes Bill heads Statements Folders Hand bills Show Bills Posters Sale Bills Pamphlets Blank Books Let us print them for you Jl 9r It is sold by medicine dealers everywhere and any dealer who hasn t it can get it Dont take a substitute of unknown composition for this medicine OF known composition No counterfeit is as good as the genuine and the druggist who says something else is just as good as Dr Pierces is cither mistaken or is trying to deceive you for his own selfish benefit Such a man is not to be trusted He is trifling with your most priceless possession your health may be your life itself See that you get what you ask for - - - JBjrvaXElfianaBMJBwr Let us estimate your next bill- None too large or too sman to fill Complete Stock Grades High Prompt Deliveries Prices Low Everything Right Bullard Lumber Co Al O McClure Manager Phone Number One Get our prices consider quality and we will get your business i A G BUMP Real Estate and Insurance Room Two over McConnells drug store McCook Nebraska rtrriyftTFPwv i i iMnntwrv wfp J S McBRAYER Real Estate Farm Loans and Insurance Office over Marshs Meat Market riWti L ftt l iiiwu t ur i1 ik t 5 NEVER FAILS The automobilo livery in South western Nebraska that always gets there and back Trips day or niRht anywhere Prices reas onable D Q DIVINE Phone 166 Can be found at 104 McCook Neb GIVE ME A TRIAL -- I E F OSBORN Drayman Prompt Service Courteous Treatment Reasonable Prices Office First Door South of DeGrofPs Phone 13 Mike Walsh DEALER IN POULTRY EGGS Old Rubber Copper and Brass Highest Market Price Paid in Cash New location jttst across TlnCnrAr street in P Walsh building L llAUUK F D BU11GESS Plumber and Steam Fitter Iron Lead and Sewer Pipe Brass Goods Pumps an Boiler Trimmings Estimates Furnished Free Base ment of the Postoffice Building McCOOK NEBRASKA FOLEYSRONETTAE stoos te couh axd Heals lua 1 Lumber and Coal Thats All But we can meet your every need in these lines from our large and complete stocks in all grades Barnett Lumber Co Phone 5 Ul I 1 w r 3 4 - i KJ V is rL V M rf t