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    The citizens Bans of McCook
INCORPORATED UNDER STATU LAWS.
Paid Up Capital, - $50,000.
Surplus,. 10,000.
DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS.
Collections Made on ail Accessible Points. Drafts Drawn on all
Principal Cities of Europe. Taxes Paid
for Non-ltesidents.
Tickets for Sale to aijci froiji Europe*
OFFICERS.
V. FRANKLIN, President. A. C. EBERT, Cashier.
Correspondents:—The First National Bank, Lincoln, Nebraska. The
Chemical National Bank, New York City.
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FIRST WatIopJal
. BANK .
Authorized Capital $800,000
Capital and Surplus 60,000
OFFICERS -A-ISHO DIRECTORS.
GEORGE HOCKNELl, B. M. FREES, W. F. LAWSON,
President. Vice President, Cashier.
A. CAMPBELL, FRANK HARRIS.
Chase Co, Land and Live Stock Go.
■onei branded on loft hip or left ihou!de&
P. O.address, Imperial,
_ CbHse County, and Boat*
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nison and Dodge streets, McCook.
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Contractors
-AND
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OF ALL KINDS,
INCLUDING
t
Bridge Building.
tyFirst-class Work Guaranteed.
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-AND
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Lynches, orders f. r 1'anc.uets. etc. 1 •<..
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are reasonable.
CIGARS, T03ACC0, FRUIT,
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tire the leading and most successful specialists and
will give you help.
^Young and mid
tSfajSSllBsiaW die aged men.
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Many years of
varied and success
ful experience
in the use of cura
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we alone own and
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orders of men who
&have weak, unde
veloped or dis
eased organs, or
gwho are suffering
fifrom errors of
■youth and excess
lor who are nervous
fand Impotent,
gthc scorn of their
Sfellows and the
contempt of their
friends and com
panions, ieaa9 us
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treatment. FREE consultation at the office or
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of cases. Send for Symptom Blank No. 1 for Men:
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Address or call on
DR. HATHAWAY & CO.,
i«. E. Comer Sixth and Felix St«., Rooms 1 and
(Ux> Stairs.J ST. JOSEPH. MO.
J. S. McBrayer. Milton Osborn.
McBRAYER 6 OSBORN,
PROPRIETORS OF
mcgook Transfer
LINE.
Bus Baggage and Express.
ONLY FURNITURE VAN IN THE CITY.
Leave orders for Bus Calls :it the Com
mercial Hotel or our office opposite depot.
J. S. McBrayer also has a first-class
house-moving outfit.
CHARLES H. HOYLE,
ATTORNEY -AT- LAW
McCOOIC, NEBRASKA.
J. E. KELLEY,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
AGT.NT LINCOLN LAND CO.
MeCOUK, - - NEBRASKA.
| Office In Bear of First National Bank.
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS.
A POEM TO LEARN AND AMUS
ING STORIES TO READ.
The Song: of the Locusts—The Hattie of
the Frogs and How It Was Fought—
“French as She Is Spoke’* by Be
ginners.
The Song of the Locusts.
Children listen to the son?,
Seemln? faint yet clear and strong
Hear the song the locusts sing;
Hear the story that they bring
From the far Egyptian Nile
Close your eyes and hear the while:
••Pha-a-a-ro, Pha-a-a-ro, Pha-ra-oh,
Let the Hebrew children go!”
Now it seems the burdened cry.
Prayer and moan and anguished sigh,
Of the Israelitish band,
Toiln r in that heathen land
Now it seems the pleading's vain
For their sons—doomed to be slain:
‘•Pha-a-a-ro, Pha-a-a-ro. Pha-ra-oh,
Let the Hebrew children go!”
Now we hear the tramp and shout
As Mo-cs leads his people out:
Hear the sei. divided, roar
Till all God's hosts are safe on shore:
Hear the son? of prayer and praise
Which Israel s grateful leaders raise.
* $ * * * * *
Listen: “Pha-a-a-ro. Pha-ra-oh,
Had to let the Hebrews go ”
—Linda W. Loy.
Interesting Frogs.
Boys are personally interested in
frogs—boys and snakes and natural
ists.
Boys usually make their observa
tions by means of a triple hook and a
piece of red flannel, but a boy in Con
necticut. known to the writer, took
twenty-eight one day with his bare
hands.
Connecticut is a fine state for frogs.
There at old Windham was fought
the famous “Battle of the Frogs.”
It was during the French and In
dian war in 1758. Windham was then
the most important frontier town of
Eastern Connecticut. Colonel Dyer,
a prominent citizen, was raising an
army to oppose the Indians at Crown
Point. The town was alive with ex
citement. One very dark night the
people were awakened by strange
sounds, and at once thought the In
dians were upon them. Seizing guns,
swords and axes, the men rushed out
to meet the enemy. But no enemy
was to be seen. Still they felt a
force of Francli and Indians must be
at hand, for hoarse voices could be
heard calling for Windham's promin
ent military leaders.
“Colonel Dyer and Elderkin, too!”
“Colonel Dyer and Elderkin, too!”
The town was up all night. When
day broke the mystery was accident
ally solved. A mile away from the
village lay a big mai-shy pond inhab
ited by myriads of frogs. A drought
had nearly dried up the water, reduc
ing it to a tiny streamlet, and for this
scanty supply the poor thirsty crea
tures had fought each other, until
thousands lay dead on either side of
the rill.
This battle made Windham famous.
For years the inhabitants felt badly
teased and insulted by its mention.
Now, however, the story is no longer
a joke but a prized tradition.
Snakes are as fond of frogs as the
traditional Frenchman who esteemed
them a delicacy. A frog has often
been found swallowed whole and
alive in a slaughtered snake. One
snake known to a friend of the chron
icler fared badly enough by his greed
for his favorite dainty. He had swal
lowed one frog and then had started
to crawl through a crevice in a stone
walk Before he had dragged through
bis entire length he espied another
plump little fellow and took him in,
whereupon lie found himself securely
fastened down under the stones, una
ble to move either way-, and was dis
patched by the spectator.
Naturalists consider the frog a very
interesting fellow and other observ
ant people have learned curious facts
concerning these amphibious crea
tor es.
A gentleman living in the southern
part of France had a very large frog
pond on his grounds and was fond of
study-ing the habits of its inhabitants.
One day he saw a great change in the
appearance of a certain frog of which
he had made a pet. It looked as if it
had in some way acquired a pair of
the puffed breeches which gentlemen
used to wear in the courts of James
the First of England and Louis the
Thirteenth of France. This change
made him curious to know what it
meant and all the more so when he
found that almost every day more
and more of the frogs were wearing
tlie same queer looking tilings.
By watching carefully the gentle
man soou found the cause of the
strange, new article of frog dress.
The mother frog, it seems, considers
that her duty is discharged when she
has laid her eggs. These all adhere
together, forming a long chain of
many links. As soon as she has. de
posited these on the bank of the- pond
she hops away, seeming to forget all
about them, and they would, never
hatch out if the father frog did. not.
come to the rescue. With no: little
difficulty he winds these chains of
neglected eggs around his own thighs
—thus producing the appearance of
the puffed breeches.
He then proceeds to hidie himself
among the marshy grasses around the
pond until the eggs are ready to hatch
out Then he goes into- the water.
In a little while the shells burst, let
ting out the young tadpoles, which
immediately swim awav without so
much as a “thank you."
Another very motherly father of
the frog family is found in South
America, in Chili. He is provided
with a large sac, or pouch, which ex
tends over the whole surface of his
belly, from the mouth downwards.
There is no external opening into this
sac, and when Mr. Darwin first saw a
male frog apparently swallowing the
eggs he thought he was the worst
kind of a fellow to be eating his own
children!
But this thought was a great in
justice. On opening the frog’s mouth
Mr Darwin discovered that on each
side of the tonguo was an aperture
down which the eggs rolled into the
sac, which soon became distended
with them.
As the eggs hatch out in this sac,
the young frogs find their way up
into their careful father’s mouth, and
thence out and away into the pond
which is to them the wide world.—
Denver Republican.
Getting liea'lv to Fly.
When a cocoon makes its way out of
its house, where it snugly lived all
winter, it is no longer a cocoon, but a
butterfly; yet its wings are crumpled
and limp as the petals of a rosebud,
and for all the good it gets from them
it might as well still be a worm.
The first thing the new-born crea
ture does is to get those wings into
flying shape.
The process begins by a little heav
ing motion of the muscles at the
joints of the wings, just as though it
were shrugging its shoulders at the
world into which it has stepped. This
shrug is repeateif again and again,
sometimes the exercise seems to quite
exhaust it, and then it rests quietly,
hanging motionless to the twig, or
whatever it has fastened its tiny claws
upon, for several minutes, when the
shrugging process is renewed.
Little by little the wings lose their
crumpled appearance, strength is in
fused into the veins which mark them
as do the veins in a lcaf.gradually the
gauzy things unfold and expand un
til they lift, light and airy and strong.
Sometimes a whole day is spent thus
before the first attempt is made at
flying1. " hat a lesson is there for us,
creatures of haste and impatience.—
Inter-Ocean.
■‘French as She Is Spoke."
In one of his entertainments Mr.
George Grossmith extracts consider
able fun from “French as she is
spoke” by the schoolboy. In a clever
skit on the French play that forms
part of the inevitable prize day pro
gram; all the dialogue is of the
conventional “First French Course”
order, viz., “Have you seen the garden
of my wife’s uncle?” “No; but I have
found the pencil of my father’s sister.”
I was reminded of this the other
day when calling on a friend whose
three small nieees had just arrived
from South America. The children’s
native tongue was Spanish, but evi
dently a “First English Course” had
been used to prepare them for their
visit to this country, and their quaint
high-flown phrases were a constant
source of mirth to the household.
They invariably prefaced each sen
tence with “It is that.”
“Juanita, why haven't you brushed
your hair?” said my friend to the
dark-eyed eldest girl, of about six.
“It is that I failed to discover my
brush,” was the stately reply. At
that moment the baby upstairs set up
a piercing yell, whereupon the second
child, with hand upraised, remarked,
with infinite solemnity, “Hark! the
infant wails.”
Easier Thun Arithmetic,
It is easier to remember tilings us
ually if you know what they mean.
A little boy could never remember
even about how long a cubit is until
his father told him the word was cu
bitus in Latin which means an elbow,
and that the measure called cubit
was tiie distance from a man's elbow
to the end of his middle finger:
“And how much is a fathom,” asked
tiie little boy.
“Oil, fathom comes from the two
words, ‘fat’ which means in the Aryan
language to extend, and ‘hom’ a man.
A fathom is the length of a man ex
tended; that is, when the arms are
stretehed out on each side from the
shoulders, from tip to tip of his Un
gers.
“The foot is an English word, and
means just the length of the foot of a
full grown man.”
Ke Was Very Cautious.
The teacher had notified Iliraan
Plunkett he would be expected to re
main after school was dismissed as a
punishment for misconduct. Hiram
was one of the big boys, and there
was a perceptible tremor in his voice
as he came awkwardly up to her desk
and said in a low tone:
“Miss .Tones, I wish you'd keep
Mamie McGinnis in, too. She done
just, as much whisperin’ as I dick I
saw her do it.”
“Why do you wish to have Mamia
McGinnis kept in?” asked the teacher.
“I don't want her to git jealous
agm,” said Hiram, scratching the
floor with the toe of his shoe. “Th’
other time you kept me in after
school she wouldn’t speak to me-fur a
week.”
Cherries in England.
English boys should be as grateful
he>Sir Walter Raleigh as are English
men.. The first cherry tree grown in
England was planted by Sir Walter
Raleigh,, at his residence,. Affane,.
nearly opposite Tourin castle, once
the property of the Roches, on the
river Blackwater. So while the Eng*
lishraan who owes his pipe and his
cigars to him who> introduced tobacco
into- England, the boys, to. whom cher
ries are a never-ending source of de
light, should see to it that the knight
of old has a warm place in their mem
ories.—Harper's Young People.
Not exactly!
“Let me tell you, Mrs. Thomas,”
said a hap-py Long Island parent t;» a
rustic neighbor, “my son Ernest has
got a first prize.” “Oh! I quite un
derstand your feeling, inarm.” said
Mrs. Thomas. “I felt just the same
when our young pig carried off a
me.lul at the agricultural show.”
Didn’t Know.
“Xow, Johnny,” said the teacher,
“you may tell us this: Suppose your
mother had told you to come home at
5 o'clock, and you did not go; what
would you be doing?” “I don't know
whether it would ba swimmin' or
playin' baseball.”
•• Castoria Is so well adapted to children that
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me.” II. A. Archer, M. IX,
111 So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
**Tho use of ‘Castoria is so universal and
its merits so well known that it seems a work
of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach.”
Carlos SIartyn, P. P.,
New' York City.
Castor la cures Colic, Const! pat Ion,
Sour Stomach, Diarrhcna, Eructation,
Kills Worms, gives sloop, and promotes di
gestion,
Without injurious medication.
“For several years I havo recommended1
your ‘ Costoria, ’ and shall always continue to
do so as it has invariably produced beneficial
results."
Edwin F. Pardee, M. D.,
125th Street and 7th Ave., New York City.
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LEADING
EERCHAUT TAILOR
OF McCCOK,
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md TRIMMINGS. Ifyouwan-ta good fit
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musician and Suroeon,
MoCOOK, NEBRASKA.
S3T“Office—Front rooms over Lovranan &
Son's store. Residence—40G McFarland St.,
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musician and Suroeon,
McCOOK, NEBRASKA.
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