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TEMPERANCE COLUMN
Conducted by the McCook W C T U
Temperance Sayings
Temperance Is the universal medi
cine of life Sir W Temple
Temperance is the parent of all
noble qualities South
Where temperance fails education
fails Horace Mann J
Do lions and cart horses need ale
o make them strong Sidney Smith
Temperance is the preservation of
divine order in the body Theodore
Parker j
Temperance gives you command of
your head secures your health and
keeps you in condition for business
Jeremy Collier
Jtlake it right to sell whiskey and
you can not prove it wrong to kill
Every whiskey barrel contains a
long and deep river of death
A scientific test was recently made
with a number of alcoholic families1
Only 17 of the children proved nor-
mal as against 855 of the children
of families who did not use alcoholic
drinks Epileptics the feeble mind
ed the blind and the deformed were
found to be frequent results of alco j
holic marriages Fully 40 of the
paupers in almshouses come there
through drunkenness
Talk of improving the liquor traffic
You might as well try to paint the
devil white
Free Methodist Camp Meeting
The Free Methodists will hold a
ten days camp meeting commenc
ing Thursday June 9 in C Haux
wells grove on Red Willow creek
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body invited
NORTH OF McCOOK
Several from this vicinity attend
ed memorial services at McCook
Monday
Mr and Mrs A Strawder are en
tertaining a niece from Longmont
Colorado
Mr and Mrs Jake Zimmer enter
tained with strawberries and ice
cream the following guests Mrs
August Droll and family and N E
Hall and family
Rudolph Rheinheimer attended an
ice cream social near Perry one
evening last week
William Hunters father who lives
near Culbertson is visiting him
George Scott of this vicinity will
plant about one hundred acres of
broom corn
GRANT
Mrs August Wesch Sr and moth
er and daughter Miss Etta departed
on No 10 Tuesday night for Hast-
ings to visit relatives
Mrs Jacob Wesch has been stay
ing with her sister Mrs P H Blunck
for the past two weeks
Ray and John Adams went to Mc
Cook on business Tuesday
Joshua Rowland road overseer
and the Bennett boys have put a
runway in August Weschs pasture
John H Wesch was kicked by a
horse Tuesday morning which laid
him up for a few days
We understand that Frank L Tur
ner and John H Wesch are going to
Lincoln next week to buy a steam
thresher
We understand Jacob Wesch
Sons will have a sale after harvest
Mr Wesch says he is going to retire
from farming and let some one else
do the work
Miss Minnie Blunck is staying with
her aunt Mrs Jacob Wesch
Jacob Wesch and family went to
the Fairview cemetery to decorate
the graves Decoration Day
BOX ELDER
There was a large audifjce Sun
day evening to hear the memorial
sermon
Mrs Martha Johnson visited Mrs
J C Ball from Saturday till Monday
and attended the Memorial and Dec
oration Day services in McCook Sun
day and Monday
There was quite a number out
Monday to observe Decoration Day
There are two soldiers and one
sailor buried in this cemetery The
soldiers are Tobias Brown and Jesse
Ingles the sailor Enoch Moore who
was commander of the vessel that
captured Jeff Davis
Jennings Hughes Co
Plumbing Heating
and Gas Fitting
Estimates furnished free Phone K
Successors to Basement P O
Burgess Son building
JOHN E KELLEY
ATTORNEY AT LAW and
BONDED ABSTRACTED
McCook Nebraska
53kAgent of Lincoln Land Co and of McCoor
Wate rWorks Office in Postoffice building
CW DEWEY Auctioneer
McCook Nebraska
Will cry sales anywhere any time
at reasonable prices Dates made at
First Natl Bank or phone Red 381
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SMITH DAMRON POT-
TER CRAFTSMAN
The Man Who Makes Vessels of Clay
All over the country ladies clubs
and other organizations have mani
fested a revival of Interest in the cer
amic arts To satisfy the demand for
a practical demonstration of this sub
ject the Western Red path Chautauqua
management has secured probably the
only man in the country who is able
to carry this highly instructive and en
tertaining subject to the assembly plat
form
Smith Damron was for several years
an actual potter working at his trade
six days in the week at Macomb Ill
inois which Is the recognized head
quarters for clay pottery in the United
States While serving as general sec
retary of the Y M C A in which po
sition he remained for fourten consec
utive years Mr Damron yielded to
the request of a pastor to give a dem
onstration of his art to a large audi
ence The lecture was well received
and requests came from other pulpits
The Potter carries with him an old
fashioned kick wheel and upon it he
demonstrates before tike eyes of his
audience the evolution of a handful
of moist clay into a finished jug or
vase
His lecture The Potter and the
Clay is deeply interesting and carries
with it a healthful moral lesson
THE CHAUTAUQUA AS IT ISNT
Alton Packard Interviews the Repre
sentative Citizens
THE KNOCKER ALWAYS WITH US
Note Alton Packard the famous car
toonist and humorist has visited nearly
all the important Chautauqua assem
blies of America from Chautauqua N
Y to Pacific Grove Calif so that
what he has to say of the Chautauqua
movement is of some value And while
this article and the accompanying car
toons by Packard are in characteristic
humorous vein thov contain also much
food for serious consideration and re
flection
There are some who regard the
Chautauqua as one of our annual mid
summer disturbances or distempers
coming during dog days and to be
endured along with flies mosquitoes
the ice man peek-a-boo shirt waists
the water wagon hay fever and colic
They begin taking sulphur and sarsa
parilla as soon as the first Chautau
qua announcement appears and they
keep their kicking apparatus greased
and ready for anyone that may men
tion Chautauqua
They dont believe in camping out
anyway as it is conducive to coughs
and rheumatiz They dont believe
in intellectual stimulus it is too ener
vating They dont like music it is
degenerating Art and culture they
say are demoralizing and laughter is
only an aggraavted form of hiccups
Such people die young even though
it be at the age of Noah Like Peter
Pan they never grow up Theirs is a
gift not of eternal youth but of eter
nal infancy In the procession of the
ages they are keeping step with Bus-
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tqr Brown and imbibing their intellec
tual pabulum from a nursing bottle
filled with the sour milk of human
discontent Not for such is the bene
ficent influenc of the Chautauqua nor
any other thing invented since the
stone age by progressive mankind Let
us not lament over them but con
sider instead the Chautauqua as we
know it
Theodore Roosevelt says that Chau
tauqua is one of the most thoroly
f American of all present day American
institutions and I hasten to comply
lest I be accounted an unmitigated
falsifier or words to that effect Some
years ago when I was traveling in
Europe trying to spend as conspicu
ously as possive seme of the five
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dred dollar bills that I had accumu
lated on one of my annual farewell
lecture tours I was one day trying to
explain to a friend of mine who lives
in Berlin just what an American
Chautauqua Assembly really is I
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plained that a large and enthusiastic
agjrregation of people meet two or
thrRc times a day in a large audi
tonum or tent around which are nu
merous smaller tents or camps etc
Asn yah said he Shust like der
circus iss noot Itt
I said No itt noot iss nott yett
butt soon
Den iss itt der camp meedings
said he
No iss itt not iss said I I tried
to make him understand that Chau
taumia is a literary artistic and mu
sical affair
Ach yah said he Shust like our
Cherman beer gardens
My German friend was not so much
farther out of the way than the Iowa
farnier who was hitching his team to
a telegraph pole as I was passing on
my way to the Chautauqua grounds
I overheard his reply to an old crony
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WHAS THIS - CHATTEKQvaY
who was sticking circus bills on a
fence and who asked him what this
ere Chatterquay was all about Oh
said he its sort of a camp meetin
only not so pious He was wrong
especially in the latter part of his re
mark Chautauqua is quite as pious
as the old time camp meeting and I
believe its piety is of a far more
wholesome kind a piety that aims to
wards a physical intellectual and
spiritual progress rather than an emo
tional
The civilization of man probably be
gan with the discovery of fire and the
application of artificial heat to human
life The next step was the gathering
together of primitive men and women
into social groups or settlements to
enjoy the advantages of the camp fire
Intellectually the Chautauqua institu
tion is quite in harmony with the
movements of nature and of
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tion It furnishes the intellectual fire
about which congenial spirits may
warm and feed their hungry minds
and souls and enjoy the social as well
as the intellectual uplift and better
ment
Primitive man was content to go
about with a club defending himself
and his family providing for them
educating and disciplining them all
with the same club by the same
method With a slowly advancing civ
ilization came specialization so that
the men who were the best hunters
went out from the camp to hunt
Those who were ablest at defense re
mained behind to defend the camp
The most agile climbed trees for fruit
while the best swimmers went fishing
and among the ladies well I suppose
that the most capable of them did the
work and took care of the babies
while those with the longest hair the
straightest noses and the longest
strings of beads talked about the
neighbors made faces at each other
and played the primitive form of
bridge whist
Now in our modern day we have
Chautauqua in which specialization
has reached a high state of develop
ment and we gather together to hear
fib
WELL MY WORP I C H A V TA VQ U A
J WOATDER HOW THEY EAT IT
those who can talk best do the talk
ing to hear those who can best sing
the songs that touch the heart or
arouse it to noble and heroic impulse
to feel and appreciate beauty with the
artist and poet to catch the fleeting
glimpse of truth with the philosopher
to bask in the shimmering sunlight of
laughter with the man of mirth or to
lift our souls in exaltation with the
prophet of God For these things we
have Chautauqua
So let the kicker who claims that
the Chautauqua Assembly is only a
sort of educational literary and po
litical graft pot conducted for specu
lative purposes by a local gang of
social high steppers and would be in
tellectual strutters betake himself to
the scrap heap and gently unjoint and
lay himself upon it he is an out
worn motor and he carries his head
light on the wrong end like the light
ning bug
In ten years of labor among the
Chautauqua Assemblies I have known
of nobody getting rich among manag
ers or workers excepting in Intelli
gence In experience and in fellowship
fiOfiS UMlVERSTiMAfAY PAS
but that is enough Is it not enough
that the community where a Chau
tauqua is held becomes better keener
in its appreciation of the good and
beautiful larger in its Intellectual and
moral life and broader in its outlook
upon the world
The Chautauqua brightens the wits
of the whole town The Chautauqua
and the lecture course like the Gold
Dust Twins do the work Yes and
Theodore Roosevelt was right as he
often is Chautauqua is thoroly
American My German friend could
not comprehend it nor could a French
man much less an Englishman But
the Yankee can and it has some to us
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to stay and to do us good Welcome
Chautauqua you are our own and we
are yours
MISS ELDER IN MR OPP
Miss Donna Bell Elder has made for
herself an enviable reputation as a
teacher of expression Many of lier
pupils are occupying prominent places
in the public eye as professional en
tertainers
As an interpretive reader Miss Elder
takes first rank She is able to show
hundreds of exceptionally strong tes
timonials from the ablest crites of
the country Her press notice have
been many and favorable
In securing this refined and cul
tured artist for the Chautauqua pro
gram the management feels that it has
been exceeding fortunate Miss Elder
will probably render a monologue
abridgment of the fascinating and pop
ular problem story Mr Opp during
our assembly but she has a large and
widely selected program upon which
she may depend when the occasion
seems to demand
FROM PULPIT TO FACTORY
George L McNutt the Full Dinner
Pail Man who will speak at our Chau
tauqua this season has a heart brim
full of sympathy for the laborers all
over the land Ilis experience in don
ning their garments and working with
them in the shops has given him the
inside view so necessary to intelligent
treatment of the subject
MoNutt deplores the unequal divi
sion of profits and points out reme
dies He is as a voice crying in the
wilderness for the man who works
with his hands He has something to
say for this man He says it in an ex
ceedingly interesting way There is a
heart interest in his lectures that
gives them a value with the people
They are so thoroughly up-to-date that
you can see the new on them His
is not an old prosy rant on bad con
ditions but a modern treatment of so
cial progress that deserves to be
heard
The singing of Burton Thatcher pro
duces sensations of genuine delight
His rich baritone fills the tent Hs
selections are the very best The
people prolong bis programs as much
as they can He is generous too He
will please our Chautauqua goer3
greatly
Chautauqua One of the Most
Thoroly American of All Present Day
American Institutions Theodore
Roosevelt
A Feast of Reason snd a Flew of
Soul the Chautauqua
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HE WON THE CROWN
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The Ancient Story of the Bloody Hand
of Ulster
The emblem of the Ulster steamship
Hue is a huge red hand from the
wrist of which Is flowing drops of
blood An oiilclnl of one of the ves
sels of the line gave this explanation
of the queer device
It was in the early days of Ireland
when James I was king and when
Ireland was divided into four prov
inces that the king of Ulster died
He hud two sons who were devoted
to each other and who at the time of
t heir fathers death were on the isle of
Aaron Scotland In those days the
eldest son did not always succeed the
father on the throne
They were brave lads these two
sons of the old king and upon learn
ing of the dcatli of their father each
planned to race across the channel and
be the first to place his hand upon the
soil of Antrim and thus become king
of all the north
With eight men each they started
off from Mullcantry On Hearing the
shores of the Isles the youngest prince
whose name was Neill seeing that his
brother was In a fair way to become
king drew his sword placed his left
hand on the side of the boat and cut it
off at the wrist
Quickly seizing the dripping hand
he threw it on shore and thus won the
crown Since that time It is told the
bloody hand of Ulster lias led to vic
tory ou many a hard fought field as
emblem on the shields of the young
king and his followers Ulsters name
whether in trade or war or sport or
on a steamship line is known by this
sign Philadelphia North American
PROVED HIS WORDS
Still the Philosopher Didnt Like It
When Death Called
A certain philosopher was In tho
habit of saying whenever he heard
that an old friend had passed away
Ah well death comes to us all It Is
no new thimj It Is what we must ex
pect Pass me the butter my dear
Yes death comes to all and my
friends time had come
Now Death overheard these philo
sophical remarks at different times
and one day ho showed himself to the
philosopher
I am Death said lie simply
Go away said the man in a panic
T am not ready for you
Yes but it Is one of your favorite
truisms that Death comes to all and 1
am but proving j our words
Go away You are dreadful
No more dreadful than I always
am But why have you changed so
You have never feared the death that
has come to your friends 1 never
heard you sigh when I carried off your
old companions You have always
said It is the way of all flesh Shall
I make an exception in favor of your
flesh
Yes for I am not ready
But I am Your time has come Do
not repine Your friends will go on
buttering their toast They will take
it as philosophically as you have taken
every other death
And the philosopher and Death de
parted on a long journey together
Charles Battell Loomis
About Sneezing
Hospital nurses when assisting at a
delicate operation have their own way
of suppressing a cough or a sneeze
The operators attention must not be
distracted for a moment Coughs and
sneezes too spread germs on surfaces
carefully rendered antiseptic So ev
ery nurse soon learns to press her fin
ger hard on the upper lip immediately
below the nose when she feels a cough
or a sneeze coming on A pressure in
the neighborhood of the ear too or a
hard pressure on the roof of the mouth
will nip a cough in the bud And the
will has great power to control a cough
or a sneeze
There was a French surgeon who
used to say whenever he entered the
wards of the hospital The first pa
tient who coughs gets no food today
This method was usually successful
Chicago News
What Came Up
A young man wishing to have a bit
of fun at a farmers expense passed a
few remarks about his cattle and his
garden and then said he had set some
lettuce and cabbage which had not
grown up
Then the farmer said
Oh thats nothing 1 set some car
rot seeds and what do you think came
up
Dont know replied the young
man
Farmer Why old Browns donkey
and ate the lot Newark Star
The Turnip
The turnip is supposed to be a native
of Asia and Europe It lias been culti
vated for centuries The wild East
Indian turnip is said to be remotely
kin to the edible turnip It is the size
of a walnut and first tasted is sweet
ish but in a moment the tasters
tongue feels as though it were pricked
by a hundred hot needles and he feels
like expectorating for hours after It
is the country boys favorite medium
for a joke on the visiting town boy
Work and Worry
So you think worry kills more peo
ple than work
Im sure of It replied the sarcastic
scientist
Why
Because so many people find it
easier than work and devote their time J
to it Washington Star
For who knows most him los3 of
time most grieves Dante t
TRIED AND PROVEN
There Is a Heap of Solace In Being
Able to Depend upon a Well Earncd
Reputation
For months McCook readers have
seen the constant expression of
praise for Doans Kidney Pills and
read about the good work they have
Jone in this locality Not another
remedy ever produced such convin
cing proof of merit
Samuel Garrett Main st Mindon
Neb says My wife suffered from
kidney trouble for a number of years
despite all her efforts for reller
Dull pains in the small of her back
would at times seize her and make
it almost impossible for her to move
When she stooped she would become
very dizzy and spots would appear be
fore her eyes She was restless at
night and during tho day would feel
tired and worn out Last fall Doans
Kidney Pills wore brought to my at
tention and I procured a box for my
wife advising her to use them She
did so and was restored to health
and strength
Plenty more proof like this from
McCook people Call at McConneHs
irug store and ask what customers
report
For sale by all dealers Price 50c
Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y
sole agents for the United States
Remember the name Doans and
take no other
What Everybody Ought to Know
That Foley Kidney Pills contain
just the ingredients necessary to
tone strengthen and regulate the
action of the kidneys and bladder
A McMillen
Nugget of Truth
A person who is very set In his way
has to stumble over himself to get
anywhere Puck
LEGAL NOTICE
Thcbtnteof Nvlinisku Keel Willmv County ss
To the lieirt at law nrxt of kin and toall per
sons in the estate of Juliet I II nine deceit eii
You are liereb uolihVd that Itohert W Iluinu
has filed liN jxiti ion in the County Court of
said county for tho itppoiiitinuiit of hiniMilf us
udiniiuNtrator of tln estate of iin t If Hume
late of i atU county deccabvil and that the miiiio
ill be hennl at the county court room nt filc
Cook in snid county on the ltli daj of Juno
lJltat the hour of one oclock p in
Witness my liaud aiul the i enl of Miid County
Court thib SIrd day of May lJIU
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County JudKu
SKAI IIWKKYI h
Attorney
rirst puMished May 2U 10 itb
NOTICE TO LAND OWNEKS
Koad No Vr
To Lizzie D Lojd Jennie 1 15 Harris and to
all whom it may concern
The commissioners appointed to locate a road
commencing at a point lJ7i ft south of nw
corner of Section Tonushit J Kam i in
Grant precinct Ked Willow utility Nebraska
runuinu thence south detf Z mi west GUI ft
thence TAAck 1 mi u st 177 ft thence
south IMJdeK rJ mi west VUI ft thence soth 1
den IXJ mi east f ft thence south 7H det 11
mi west Sil ft intersecting road No2DI Term
iiiatiiinat a point which is I chains and 21 link
south and S chains east of the center of section
M M has reported in fawir of the location
thereof and all objection thereto orclaims for
damages must be hied in the Count j Clerks of
iice on or before noon of the Ihth day of Julj
Will or said road will be established without
reference thereto
Ciiah Skaiia County Clerk
First publication May IiMt
NOTICE TO LAND OWNEKS
Koad No ICj
To James N Krown Jacob Handel Kate
DeMay E C Kjers A J Hump Geo 1 Look
and Heujainin Mejers and toall whom it may
concern
The commissioner appointed to locate a road
commencing at a point 111 1 ft south of ne cor
ner of section 20 township 2 rantce tJ in Vnllej
Grange precinct Ked Willow Count Nebras
ka ruuniriK thence south 7s dejr IJ mi west
41070 ft thence north V de it mi west Ml 70
ft thence north lO dej 41 mi west 2B70 ft
thence north 10 det mi west tV ft thence
north 4 de 21 mi east 12770 ft thence north
lOdetf mi west 1IC17U ft thence north II
dejj 30 mi west Ti70 ft thence north i dec
30 mi wet Hfl70 ft thence north ir dec t mi
west7ts70ft thence north 12 dec f mi west
7770 ft thence north 12 dec mi west lil70
ft thence north 12 dec 3 lini we t V ft thence
north 2 10 mi west iKVhl ft thenre north
2h dec 40 mi west 177n ft thence north dec
01 mi west I0 ft thence north 1 dec 20 mi
east Ws ft thence north tl dec 01 mi west
27S70 ft thence north 11 dec 1 mi west 191 M
ft thence north 120 dec U mi west 07 70 ft
terminating at the center of Section h Town
ship 2 Kance2D in Valley Grance Irecinct has
reported in fa or of the Location thereof and
Jill objections thereto or claims for damage-
must be liled in the Count Clerk oilice on or
before noon of the lth day of July 1910 or
said road will be established without reference
thereto
Cn s Skail County Clerk
First publication Ma 19-It-
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SURGEON
Office 212 Main Ave Phone 195
Res 1012 Main Ave Phone Red 334
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DENTIST Phone 112
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MARTIN HANSON D V- S
VETERINARY SURGEON
Indianola Nebr Phone 105
JAMES HART M R C V S
VETERINARIAN
Office
Phone 34
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Commercial Barn
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