CASH ! CASH ! CASH !
WE WISH TO SAY TO
That as we have no high-salaried book keepers to pay ,
n © bad debts to loose , and no large debts to carry at
a heavy expense of interest , etc. , and that by
cutting down our expenses we are ena
bled to sell our goods at prices
AVERAGING LOWER
Than any other Firm ever offered- Goods at in
Red Willow County !
A PARTIAL PRICE LIST.
/ ' "Prairie Kose" [ New Process ] Flour. Warranted.
- . Per hundred weight § 2.25
, -Arbuckles Coffee , Gibs , for 1.00
. . Light "C" Sugar , 131bs. for 1.00
/ LAWNS' ! LAWNS ! Lawns ! Per yard 7c.
TEA ! TEA ! Tea ! From 25c.to75c.
REMEMBER !
We will pay the HIGHEST market price for PEODUCE in
exchange for goods AT CASH PEICES.
All Everybody Gome and See Us ,
WILCOX BROS.
B. & M. PHARMACY
HAVE IN STOCK A LINE OF
FINE TOILET AETICLE
Combs , Brushes , Perfumery , Extracts , Etc.
WINES AND LIQUORS
Will be sold only in cases of sickness , and then only
on Physician's Prescription.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded , Day or Nighi.
Doctor's Choice , America's Finest Five Cent Cigar.
McCOOK , - - NEBRASKA ,
Stipoiior to nny ou tlic innilcct , Jjclng Heavier , StiongcrBuIK ,
autt tlicrcforc a more Durable Mill. It Is the only
absolutely safe Mill built ; and out of
Thousands Erected During 12
Tears past , not one has ever blown away and left the ToTrcr
standing. A record no other Mill can show. "We oiler
to put up any of our PUMPING MILLS t
ON THIRTY DAYS TRIAL ,
And If they don't give satisfaction , will rcpiCTC Mill at our
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own expense. Also Manufacturers of the Celebrated
Challenge Feed Mills , Corn Shelters , Iron Pumps
with brass cylinders , Iron Pipe , Tanks.
For estimates , catalogues and prices , apply to
g , 0. B. NETTLETON , MeCook , tfeb. ,
Agent for Southwestern Nebraska and Northwestern Kansas
D. KENDALL'S
BILLIARD HALL & FAVORITE RE !
THE PLACE
Ice Cold Lemonade Beer Nuts
, Ginger , Pop , ,
. CHOICE CIGARS , CANDY , ETC ,
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BILLIARD and POOL TABLE. CALL and ENJOY TOURSELTES
EFFECTS OF THE IMAGINATION.
Some of the Principles Involved In
"Faltli Cures. " .
[ St. Louis Globe-Democrat ]
Any one can test for himself the effect
of concentrating the attention upon i
limb or organ. If one will think stead
fastly for from three to five minutes of
his great toe , or ono of the fingers , ho
will find that sensations not before per
ceived will make themselves felt in tlio
part to which attention has been di
'
rected. If an attempt is 'made to couni
the acts of breathing , the number 01
respirations in the minute will be fount
to be either increased or diminished
from the number natural to the person.
In every class of medical students
there are to bo found individuals who
suiter from disease of the heart when
when the lecturer is portraying the
symptoms of affections of that organ ,
but whose cardiac affections pass oil : u
soon as another range of disease is
taken up for description.
The inlluenco of the emotions upon
iiho circulation of the blood and the se
cretions of the diS'crcnt organs are wel
known. The blush of shame , the pal
lor of fear , the cold sweat of horror ,
fainting from fright or on hearing good
or bad news , the dryness of the mouth
from anxiety or trepidation , the palpita
tions of the lover , the tears of grief ,
the "watering of the mouth" at the
thought of food in the sufferer from
hunger ; all those demonstrate the enor
mous inihionco the feelings exert over
the function' ) of different parts oven
during health. That the same emotion.6
would have as great an effect when the
body is weakened by disease is as cer
tain as any fact in human nature. That
they have a great effect is proven by the
experience of mankind.
] o one can , with absolute accuracy ,
foretell "tho curative power of nature'
in every case of disease. Instances arc
numberless of the doctor having "given
up" his patient , who straightway began
to improve. More than ono cemetery
certificate has boon written by the at
tending physician , in this city , for pa
tients who recovered. Those events add
still more to the proof of the fallibility
of human judgment. The ability to pre
dict the outcome of any given case rests ,
of course , on the experience- acumen
of the practitioner. Such errors as those
just alluded to are no basis for reflection
on the uncertainty of science , but arc
evidences of unexpected strength of the
patient's constitution or of want of
knowledge or experience on the part of
the attendant. If a tcaspoonful of
sugared water or a dose of some secret
nobtrum has been administered at the
critical moment , of course this gets the
credit of curing the patient. If de
spairing friends offer up their passionate
prayers , instead of trusting further to
the powerless agencies of the apothe
cary , then faith has succeeded when
everything else has failed.
'
In case'a rheumatic patient falls into
the hands of a "magnetic healer , " or
ono who cures by ' 'the laying on of
hands" ( which generally involves a vig
orous nibbing ) , he is very sure to bo
benefited if not entirely relieved. To
be sure , the same amount of force ap
plied by a person having no sort of rep
utation as a "healer" would do as well ,
but the fears of the patient are fre
quently sufficient to prevent the proper
amount of passive exercise if they are
not counterbalanced by a good amount
of faith in the supposed powers of the
manipulator. The efficacy of most lini
ments , embrocations , "wizard oils" and
the like , depend upon the amount of
force expended in the application to the
skin , not by anything taken up by the
surface the latter Icing practically im
penetrable so long as it remains un
broken.
The Unknown Constituency.
[ Argonaut -Bubbles. ' ' ]
There are two or three weekly papers
in Now York devoted to the diffusion of
literary dishwater , whose circulation
reaches a half million. Two or three
weeklies of the same sort , published iu
London , circulate their one million
copies. Who the deuce are the readers
who guzzle down these brimming flood ; ;
of wash and scum from the culinary de
partment of letters ? In the absence of
any accurate knowledge of the facts , it
used to be thought a sufficient answer to
say : The Sewing-girls and other young
women of about their mental equip
ment ; the unknown constituency will be
found less in the lower middle than in
the upper lower classes.
This answer served till it occurred to
one of those nosing Englishmen who
Avant to know , you know , that he would
run the subject to earth. He did so ,
and found that the papers in question
were nearly unknown to the whole lower
class , and" that their euormoas con
stituency lay in the middle class most
of it , of'course , in the lower half of that
class , but an astonishingly large pro
portion above the median Hue.
Ulaclsincry for China ,
[ Chicago Herald. ]
The secretary of the Chinese embassy
says there are many articles made by
machinery in America that would find a
good market in China. He mentions
petroleum , cotton goods , carpenters' and
other tools , sewing and tin machines and
silver-plated ware. Chopsticks ( Chinese
knife and fork ) arc consumed by mill
ions , yet each is made by hand. Some
machine similar to that which makes
matches could bo easily invented , and
would reap a fortune for its inventor.
In such industries as those of the potter ,
the carver , metal-worker , glass-maker ,
forge and foundry man , and cobbler ,
the methods of to-day are those of
twenty centuries ago. The introduction
of machinery would revolutionize all
this and increase the productiveness of
Chinese labor five-fold.
ITIistakcs.
[ Chicago Journal. ]
It is some slight comfort to know that
other nations besides ourselves some-
imes blunder iu the contraction of
war vessels. The Ajax and Agamem-
lon of the British navy , which took
learly eight years to construct , and cost
about $5,500,000 , are pronounced to be
'allures. Per contra , a private firm on
: ho Thames built an ironclad of G,00 ! )
ons for a foreign government in two
j-cars , which not alone embodied all the
alcst improvements , but cost only a
juarler of the amount which has been
squandered on the Ajax and Agora-
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' Queer Countenance * .
[ J. M. Oxloy In The Current ]
Wo have it on the authority of Dr.
Karl Muller that in his boyhood ha 7-
Jm : vTa man who , Janus-like , had two
totally different faces , ono aide laughing
ind the other crying. " .Naturally , " ho
says , "I dreaded" this strange , double-
face , with its ono side smooth , plump
and comely , like a girl's cheek ; while the
! other was all scarred by the small-pox.
, This side of the face denoted churlishness -
ness , and , while the other bore a smile ,
1 this hoded mischief. "
The M m' ' ' authority is also responsible >
for the following story : "I was once
sitting in a cool underground saloon at
i Lcipsic , while without people were ready
' to die from the heat , when a now ftucst
enfeivd and took a seat opposite to me.
The su cat rolled in great drops down
his race , and ho was kept busy with his
haihlkeivhici , until at last ho found re-
i lief in the exclamation : 'Fearfully hot ! '
! I w.uchcd him attentively as ho called
; for r. cool drink , for 1 expected every
1 moment he would fall from his chair in
a lit o I apoplexy.
The man must have noticed that I was
observing him , for ho turned toward
mo suddenly , saying : 'I am a curious
sort of pel-son , am I not ? ' 'Why ? ' I
ased. ! 'i'ocause I perspire only on my
right side , ' he responded. And so it
was. Jlis right cheek and the right half
of his forehead were as hot as tire , while-
the left side of his face bore not a trace
of perspiration. 1 had never seen the
like and in my astonishment was about > .
to enter into conversation with him re- J5
garding physiological phenomenon ,
when lii.s neighbor on the left broke in
with the remark : 'Then wo arc
opposite * and counterparts of each other ,
for 1 perspire only on the left side. '
This , too , was the fact. So the pair V
took seats opposite each other , and
shook hands like two men who had just
found each his other half. "
XZoiv a i'civslou I * Paid.
[ Chicago Korald. ]
The pension must first be found to bo
all right by the appropriate evidence ,
\\hich is compared \\itii the muster rolls
and the records in the war department.
It goes through a number of hands , and ,
if found all right a requisition is made
upon the treasury for it. This rcquisi- '
tion for its payment must go through
thirteen bureaus before it can bo paid.
In the first place there must bo a fund . ;
appropriated by congress for the pay-
meat of the class to which it belongs , | !
and the appropriation must bo available
before the requisition will bo made.
Then it must bo drawn up and signed by
the commissioner of pensions. From
him it goes to the secretary of the in
terior , who signs it and sends it to the {
comptroller of the treasury. The second -
end comptroller si ns it and sends to the
third auditor , who looks it over and
passes it on to the warrant division.
From here it goes to the register of the
treasury , who in turn examines it and
hands it over to the divison of accounts.
If it passes hero all right it is then fj
presented to the United States treasurer
lor his signature. Having been signed t \
it goes back to the division of accounts *
to be registered , then to the register of ' { ]
the treasury for his signature , and tlien
to the divibon of accounts for mailing to \
the depository of the pension agent who
is to pay the claim , and another
note innnL be sent informing the agent - ) !
that money is j > lac d to his credit here A
for its payment. This L the modus
operand ! for every pension claim that i.s
granted , whether it be for $100 a week ,
r in the case of the wives of dead
president. , , or § 1 a month for the end of
a finqcr.
[ Aluiicurc D. G'omvay's Lcttur. ]
In the course of a conversation- i
theology with Arabi , when in Ceylon , I i
Ji-ked him why he and his frie'nds : o
constantly spoke of Christ as to appear
jiisiC'id ot" .Mohammed , and why the
prophet was assigned no function in the
approaching consummation. " .Moham
med cannot appear , " he Said , "because
he is dead. " in answer to my further
inquiry he said : "Christ is not dead. It
was a mere effigy of him that the Jews
crucified. There- are two men .who never
died Eiias and Jesus. " He did not say
that Ehas.is. . to be "he that should
come" in form of a Mahdi , being rather
reticent on that point , but he was clear
in his belief that Christ still lives and
that he will "appear" to judge the world
and reign over it. So much , indeed , was
warranted by the Koran and other mus-
selman books , but I did not before real
ize that it had been formed into so con
sistent an eschatology.
Afterwards I took some pains to converse -
verso on pueh subjects with other Mo
hammedans , andfoundlhatthc.se ideas
of Christ were held by most of them
with a fervor of faith rarely known
among those .generally called" Christ
ians. The Mohammedan also believes ,
with uncompromising fidelity , that Y
Jesus was miraculously conceived by
the Virgin Mary : that He alone of all
the human vncc performed miracles , and
when Ho shall again be heralded and _ ,
[ gain appear , will convert European
I'hri-tians from their one terror their '
belief in the Trinity and gather them i
R'iili Jews and Moslems into one divine
kingdom , of which He shall be king.
Amateur Cyclones.
[ Ciucago Times. ]
Professor Doglas , of the Michigan
? tate university , it is said , produces
imateur cyclones at will. He does it
loxvn like a bng .ir.doneath , and is ren-
k-red vi > ibl < - by the useof arsenioas
icid cos , which gives it a green color. ' :
fiie formation i a miniature cvclone as
) ei foct as zun started in the clouds. It
s ftmi'.okshaped an l whirls around rap-
dly. Pacing tLe plate over a table the
yclQne snatches up copper cents , pens '
nth balls , and other objects and scatters
hem on ull .sides.
The IZezisonVJjy. .
[ Burlington Hawkeve. ]
Tin s..oona in Philad'elphia wera
Io = cd la > t Minday. We always said th *
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'hiladelpn-a saloons would have to
Io = " ' -me Sunday ; don't carry half
l's Weekly : By the use of a new
istrument , jnst invented , one can hear
iie fall of the year.
' } . ; tf. . , n TimiH : Riches will fly away
ulcsa frugality clips its wing.
