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McCook Neb
MAIN LINE EAST DEPAIIT
Central TImo 11 p m
745 v m
500 a t
i VMA M
12 7W A M
942 pm
10 5 i m
MAIN LINE WEST DEPAET
No 1 MonutnlnTJmo 1220 p m
11 4Z P M
5nrr8Mpm
13 905 a M
is nan a m
9 flI5 A M
7 1 930 A M
IMIBBIAti LINE
No 176 arrives Mountain Time 345 p m
No 175dojurtH 015 A M
Bleeping dining and reclining chair cars
eoats free on through trainR Tickots Bold
and baKKntfo chocked to any point in the United
States or Canada
For information time tables maps and tick
ets call on or write D F Ilostotter Agent
McCook Nebraska or L W Wakeley Goneral
Puesonirer Afjout Omaha Nobraska
Will Adnms loft lust evening on No
10 for Alliance and other point in that
part of the state
Dave Knowles wire chief at Sterling
Colo was in town Tuesday evening
for advancement
Ed Caffrey was up from Stamford
end of week on matters of business
and to revive acquaintanceships of old
en times on McCook division
Supt and Mrs E S Roller MaBter
Mechanic H E Culbertson Chief Dis
patcher W P Pate and Chief Clerk M
Lawritson heard the Trenton debate
Friday evening last
Fireman J F Downs is on tho sick
list
Fireman C M Hare is laying oh and
visiting in Hastings
E W Loc nird and A T Carter are
now firemen this week
Now pony wheels were placed under
tho front end of No 1959 Wednesday
Engineer Don Snoko Fireman T F
Humphries and A D Troyer are laying
off
Drop pit 1 holds tho 702 this week
for cylinder brasses and rod repairs
ITer wheels will bo dropped and tho
mill will bo painted
Engineer E L Trnubert returned last
week from a delightful vieit in Florida
Ho brought a pretty little souvenir back
with him an 18 inch alligator
Fred Dulanoy who served his ap
prenticeship hero but has been working
for somo time for the Rock Island over
Iowa has returned to tho boilormakers
hero
Engineer F G Westland has been
transferred to McCook and will run op
posite Engineer J E Sanborn on 7 and
8 between Oxford and Wray lay over
at McCook
A meeting was hold last evening in
tho master mechanics oflico to start ar
rangements for the railroad employes
picnic this summer ACWioho was
made permanent chairman and tho
whole matter placed in his hands Tho
invitation will be general Another
meeting will bo held soon
Coprrlcht 1909 by C E Zimmerman Co No 11
The Concensus
of Opinion
IS that whether it is a stout strong serviceable
work shoe or something of natty style our store
is the place to get it Every shoe we sell receives
the same amount of care and regard in fitting
Thats another reason why its safe to trade with
us
The Mode Shoe Store
SHOE REPAIRING A SPECIALTY
Fisher Perkins
20i Main avenue
The Only Coffee
This coffee is rich and delicious has
an extra fine flavor If you want the
best coffee you ever drank come to our
store and ask for
Paxtons
Gas Roasted
Sold only in 2 pound cans
THE BEE HIVE
D B DOYLE Prop
BELLEVUE COLLEGE
HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS
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lege Normal School Academy Business Course and Con
servatory of Music Painting and Dramatic Art located in
Omahas beautiful suburb is the most delightfully situated
institution in the West Able faculty Successful Intercol
legiate athletics debating and oratory Fine College spirit
The advantages of the city combined with the health and
freedom of the country
Classical Scientific Philosophical Courses
Graduates of the Academy and Normal School receive
State Certificates Academy and Normal admit students who
have completed the Eighth Grade work Summer Session of
eight weeks beginning June 13th Expenses moderate
Send for catalog and bulletins
S W STOOKEY LLD President
THE CiH OF PARIS
Hailing One Is the Same as a
Declaration of War
THEY ARE INSOLENT ROGUES
Sneers and Caustic Advice Are Show
ered Upon Those Who Engage Them
On Wet or Festal Day3 the Cabbies
Spurn Those Who Want to Ride
Among Anglo Saxons there is a gen
eral and instinctive desire to do busi
ness on the hasis of an entente cor
diale In Paris the hailing of a eab
inan is looked on hy both parties to
the transaction as an implied declara
tion of war The cabman takes your
measure and you lake his number if
you arc wise At once he will give
you a reason to remark that he has a
rooted and premeditated objection to
drive you where you wish to go Per
haps he prefers the opera quarter be
cause it is central or should the weath
er bo fine his heart is probably set
upon driving in the Bois while you
may have business at the bourse He
explains his views on the subject self
ishly and rudely
A foreigner alighted recently from
the Calais train at the Northern rail
way station in Paris and ordered a
typical Parisian cabman bloated pale
and absinth soaked to drive him to
the Iiue Blomet which is a street in
tho relatively distant Vaugirard quar
ter Peut on habiter la Iiue Blomet V
Is it possible to inhabit the Iiue
Blomet exclaimed tho ragged ruf
fian in an epigrammatic note f dis
dain which would have done h cr to
Beau Bruminel
But it is when the Paris cabman has
once started on his course a war
path iu the strict sense of the term
that he proves to what a limitless ox
tent he is the enemy of mankind Ilis
hatred of the bourgeois the man in
the street in spite of and indeed be
cause of his being a potential client
is expressed at every yard He con
stantly tries to run him down which
makes strangers to Paris accuse the
Paris cabman of driving badly while
in point of fact he is not driving at
all but playing with miraculous skill
a game of his own which suggests can
non billiards in the hands of a worlds
champion
But it is not with the public alone
that he is at war On all other cab
men whose path he crosses on omni
bus drivers motorcar men bicyclists
private coachmen costermongers with
barrows and sotto voce the police he
heaps deadly insults the least outra
geous of which are Ours Bear
and Fourneau Oven the latter
containing a subtle double meaning
intelligible only to those who have
Paris argot or slang at their linger
ends and too long to explain
The cabmans wild career through
the streets the constant wavering and
slashing of his pitiless whip his mad
cap hurtlements ami collisions the
frenzied gesticulations which he ex
changes with his fare the panic
stricken flight of the agonized women
whose lives he has endangered the
ugly rushes which the public occasion
ally makes at him with a view to
lynching him the sprawlings and fall
ings of his maddened 113sterical starv
ing horse contribute as much as any
thing to the spasmodic intensity the
electric blue fire diablerie which are
characteristic of the general move
ment of Taris
All that can be said in mitigation of
the Paris cabmans method is that
he has them in the blood Every
Parisian and the cabman is no excep
tion has the soul of a dictator and
the spirit of an artist To exercise au
tocratic power and failing this to en
joy the maximum of personal freedom
from all restraint moral or social is
tho goal at which he is ever aiming
openly or secretly
Watch a Taris cabman for iustance
on a wet day or on some festival oc
casion such as the New Year when
thjre is a big demand for his services
With what haughty disdain does he
drive along the streets deaf to every
appeal refusing every fare rejoicing
in the discomfort and inconvenience
he is causing triumphant in the
thought that at last he has the bour
geois at his feet that the clientele
which he detests and which detests
him is now a humiliated bemuddled
or bedraggled mob of supplicants
waiting on his will whom he can en
rage to boiling point with his sneers
and his silence or lash with his sar
casms as cruelly as he beats his horse
Cheerfully does he sacrifice half a
days earnings to the enjoyment of
this exquisite revenge for at least he
can say to his hungry wife and chil
dren when he gets home Jai vecu
They may not have dined but he has
lived
It is because the Parisian recognizes
in himself a certain community of
sentiment with the cabman in this at
titude toward life that he tolerates
him though he does not forgive him
Harpers Weekly
Her Only Course
Lady Anne Lindsay the author of
the old poem Auld Iiobin Gray was
not only a delightful conversationalist
but she was a great story teller
This gift made her not only a wel
come guest abroad but a valuable
member of the home circle for it is
related in A Group of Scottish Wo
men that at a dinner party which
she was giving to some friends an old
manservant caused some amusement
by saying in a perfectly audible un
dertone
My lady you must tell another
story The second course wont he
ready for five minutes
THE WRECK MASTER
He Does Somo Tall Hustling When
tho Line Is Blocked
When a wreck blocks the line the
wreck master Is the biggest man on
the railroad Even the president if
by unhappy chance lie happens to be
there steps aside and keeps silent aft
er the wreck train halts with a jerk
of grinding brakes and hissing air be
fore the indescribable confusion of
shattered wood and twisted steel
which clutter the tracks The wreck
masters feet are on the ground before
the shrieking wheels have ceased turn
ing There follow at his heels a half
score of men all experts but of less
degree than their leader
He shouts an order that seems as
unintelligible as a drillmasters com
mand then another and another
There is instant action At one end
of the train a locomotive begins to
creep cautiously away with the coach
es that have stayed on the rails An
express car up toward the forward end
of the passengt r train is tilted trem
blingly on its trucks It is loaded with
bales of silk perhaps or with other
costly merchandise The wreckers do
not stop to inquire To them it is
simply an obstruction that has to be
removed immediately There is a
heaving chorus and it plunges down
the embankment A hundred yards
away a loaded freight car in the op
posite train is hanging over the edge
Fifty crowbars give it a lip that sends
it down to the foot of the hill As it
lauds there is a crash of discordant
tortured strings an inharmonious out
burst as though half a hundred cats
had landed simultaneously on half
a hundred keyboards Pianos re
marks one of the panting workmen to
another standing at his shoulder They
do not pause even to grin An instant
later they are heaving away at some
thing else Thaddeus S Dayton in
Harpers Weekly
CHINAS GREAT WALL
It Would Be a Mighty Task to Dupli
cate It Today
What man has done we are told
man can do But to erect today a
great fortification comparable to the
Great wall of China would be a heavy
tax on both the resources and the res
olution of Europe A score or two of
warships are all very well but the
cost of labor and the will involved iu
building fleets can hardly be compared
to those devoted to the building of
that great barrier about two centuries
before the coming of Christ when
Rome was struggling with nannibal
Two thousand five hundred and fifty
miles including spurs arms and loops
is the length ascribed to it by Dr V
E Geil the only white man we be
lieve who has traveled the whole
length of it It has been said that the
Great wall is the only object of mans
handiwork which could be discerned
from the moon and one calculation has
it that if the material of the wall were
disposed about the globe at the equa
toV there would be a wall girdle eight
feet high and three feet thick around
the earth
One can believe that to this day the
name of the Emperor Chin is cursed
all along the wall by the posterity of
the wretches who were forced to the
gigantic task of building it In the
days of its greatest importance when
it was still holding back the Tartar
hordes it is believed to have had on
its line 25000 towers each capable of
holding 100 men and 15000 watch
towers Even today there remains 20-
000 towers and 10000 watchtowers
with some 2000 miles of wall that
could with moderate repairing be
made into 1 formidable military work
London News
Giants and Dwarfs
In the seventeenth century all the
abnormally large and small folks of
Austria were assembled in Vienna in
response to a whim of the empress
As circumstances required that all
should be housed in one building there
was a fear that the imposing propor
tions of the giants would terrify the
dwarfs But the dwarfs teased and
tormented the giants so that these
overgrown mortals complained with
tears in their eyes and as a conse
quence sentinels had to be placed to
protect the giants from their pygmy
persecutors for the smallest men had
the biggest brains and the longest
tongues
Corrupted His Style
The late Richard Watson Gilder
said a New York poet always op
posed the reading of light literature
A poet he said could not read such
literature without corrupting his liter
ary style
He once told me that the poet in
this respect was like Browns parrot
Brown bought a parrot for i1
from a pet sto k dealer and a v l
two later returned to the she aid i
sisted that the bird 1 e aleu bad
Whats the matter with i
dealer asked
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ed st stiru
Z p rl C irrs
Wt i il II
so sup i sif V - v
Storniit i nrvr -
He j ri Xy It
the psychic r tit k
regulated gliust w I-
self without blls or ti
tables Washington Star
Putting Him Wire
Id like to make yii my wife
said the practical young man Iu
thev tell me you cant keep house
Dont you believe all they tell you
rejoined the girl iu the case You g
the house and put it in my name anc
Ill prove to you that I can keep it
Exchange
CLDeGROFFCO
Spring time clothes buying time
Have you yet bought your Spring Suit
If you have bought a dress or costume from the bolt have
you inspected our line of new bright fresh Trimmings
Stylecraft Suits
for Women and Misses
We want to again call your attention to Statecraft
Suits
Not a Fault not a Wrinkle not a Chance to Criti
cize or Improve
The smartest most superb styles to be seen this
season are included in our assortment
Better grades have guaranteed silk and taffeta linings
Price for every purse 2000 2250 2500
Dress Trimmings
We have assembled here an extraordinary showing of
all kinds of Dress Trimmings in a splendid variety of
colors
A spring or summer costume is not complete without
some beautiful trimming You cannot help but make a
selection from our showing
Trimming braids per yard 5c and up
Gilt combinations per yard 50c to 300
Net with gilt extra fine per yard 500
Ribbons
A new stock of Summer Wasii Ribbons in an excel
lent variety of colors Suitable for belts childrens hair
ribbons and the narrow sizes are just right for beading
Sizes 5 7 and 9 per yard 3c
Sizes 12 1 6 and 22 per yard 6c
Sizes 40 60 and 80 per yard Ioc
Size 100 per yard 15c
This is just about half usualcost
Ask to see our line of Womens Neckwear
C L DeGroff Co
1 Phone 22
County Teachers Will Meet
The Red Willow County Teachers
Asocintion will meet inthe Firpt Con
gregational church of Danbury on Sat
urday March 5 when the following pro
gram will be offered
FORENOON SESSION 9 OCLOCK
Music The Lebanon Quartet
Moral Training in the Public
Schools Mrs E B Young
Discussion Miss Addie Huff
Solo Mrs Porry M Spease
Plays and Games at School
Supt J F Holiday
Discussion J Miss nallio Green
I Miss Alma Xoe
r0f Mr nenry Austin
I IlahMcCarty
What a Teacher Should Know of
School Law Prin W A Cockle
General Discussion
Business Meeting
AFTERNOON SESSION 130 OCLOCK
Trio
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i Mrs P M Spease
- Mrs C A Messner
Mrs T E McDonald
Prices
REAL
McCook Neb j
Obstacles in Heading and How to
Overcome Them
Miss Myrtle Kedferrt
Discussion Mrs S A Minniear
Reading Mrs T E McDonald
Solo Mr Henry Austin
Historyjin the Upper Grades
PrinJPerry M Spease
Discussion Mr F P Anderson
Music The Lebanon Quartet
Question Uox
Pupils Spelling Contest will also lc Jeld at
this time and plnce
Alljteacliers are expected to be present
Visitors are cordially invited
Would Have Cost Him his Life
Oscar HnwmiiD Lebanon Kentucky
writes I have used Foleys Kidner
Remedy and take great pleasure in stat
ing that it cured me permanently of kid
ney diseaseJwbieh certainly would have
cost me my life A McMillen
Our Longmont Colorado canned veg
etables are now in This years crop of
peas beansand tomatoes at Hubcrs
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Temple Theatre
Monday March 7th
2 CULLIGAN HOCKWALDS
NegroMinstrels
NASHVILLE STUDENTS
Band and Orchestra
Street Parade at Noon
The Original the Only the Best Always
gives satisfaction The King of Them All
The show that has gained the reputation of
being the strongest singing and dancing how
in America
25c 35c 50c
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