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Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants
and Cscren. , It contains neither Opium , Morphine nor
other larcotie substance. It is a harmless substitnto
for Paregoric , Drops , Soothing Syrups , and Castor OIL
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty Scars' use b r
Millions of Motlicrs. Castoria destroys Worms and allays
feverisliness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd ,
cures Diarnco2a and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves
t ect'iing troubles , cures constiFatic n and flatulency.
Castorilt assimilates the food , regulates the stomach
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toria i. ; the Chiirlrca's Panacea-the Mother's Priers ! .
Castori a , .
"Castcria is an cxct Ccnt t. : far children -
dren : Iothe z have repeat , , . . . .l r.c : of its
good r4'eet upon their ch ld ? . n. . '
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Lowell , Mass.
i II Castorlais the bc..t ielti i ; f.tr einil ! nm or
which I tun acquainted. 1 hula : ; t .t' ' . : y i ; t.ot
far distant when mothers will cottsi..erth ' real
interest of their children , and use Castoria instead -
stead of the variousquack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones , by forCiugopium ,
morphine , soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their throats , thereby scndiug
them to premature graves. "
Da. J. F KiiCIICLOE ,
Conway , Ark.
Castoria ,
"Castcria is o well adapted to children that
I recommend it assuperiortoanypreseription
known to me. "
U. A. Ancw n , M. D. ,
111 So. Ozforll St. , Brooklyn , N. Y.
"Our physicians in the childron's depart-
mcnt have spoken highly of their experi
ence in their outside practice with Cnstoh ,
and although we only have among oar
medical supplies what is known as regular
products , yet we are free to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won r. , to lees with
favor upon it. "
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Boston , Mdse.
At t tar C. Srsrru , Fe ; . ,
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A FAT MAN'S DEED.
story of a Tragio Scene on a lruoklyn Trot.
Icy Car WIdch Might Bo True.
t A very stoat old Brooklyn gentleman
squeezed himself past two women on a
Putnam avenue car and wedged in be
tween ouc of them and a man at the
other end of the seat. The iiL was such
a tight one that the women held their
breaths and assumed a pancake appear-
anco. At the corner where the car turns
into Putnam avenue the fat man turscd
I like a big turret and put up a chub ! + y
finger. The car stopped.
"Putnam avenue ; Grand avenut and
Fulton street ! " shouted the conductor.
The fat Inan settled back and resuxu
i ed reading a newspaper , which hi 1iud
{ dropped in his lap.
"Want to get out hero ? " asked the
conductor , with his hand on the bell-
rope.
rope.The
The fat man shook his heat. There
i was an angry twang of the & rd , acid
the trolley began to whiz.
At Nostrand avenue the chubby finger -
ger went up again. The car stopped.
I Nobody moved. Then the man who rings
1 up the fares got angry.
"See Here , " he exclaimed after he
had climbed along the step on the side
of the car until he was opposite the
fat man , "what do you meats by telling
I me to stop for when you don't want to
{ get off ? "
"Why , " responded the mountain of
flesh as coolly as such a Isiass of adipose
could be cool , "the car jolts so that I
couldn't read this paragraph , which is
slightly blurred. I merely wanted to
have the car stand still until I had finished -
ished it. That's all. Now , if you can
go along slowly without jolting , I will
be able to get along very nicely , but if
I come across another bad line or two
P11 put my hand hack of my head , a cl
you stop. It's too much trouble for mete
to turn around. "
The conductor's eyes twittered in the
orbitfi. He placed his hand to his head
and uttered shriek after shriek. Reason
was shattered. Ho had become cross
I eyed and insane.-Now York Mail and
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ANCIENT LIGHTHOUSES.
Beacon Lfghts to Guide Mariners Coeval
i With the EarIiest Commerce.
Beacon lights to guide the wave
tossed mariner to a safe harbor must
have been aimost coeval with the earliest -
est commerce. There is positive record
that lighthouses were built in aucicnt
times , though few evidences now re
main to us frcni old writers or in crum
bled ruins. This is not strange , for light
towers , nevt.r the most stable architec
tural form , v ore exposed to the storms
of sea and v : ar.
Thu Giecls attributed the first lighthouses -
houses to Uercuies , and he vras consid
I Bred the protector o vo3 agcr . It is
claimed by some that Houser refers to
lighthouscc in the nincttenth book of
the "Iliad. "
Virgil mentions : light on a h mplo
to Apollo which , VSib'lO : far out at sea ,
warned and guided mariners. The Colossus -
lossus at Rhodes , erected about 300 B.
C. , is sait. to have shown a signal light
/ from its uplifted hand.
I The oldest towcr $ known were built
by the Libyans in lower Egypt. They
were temples also , and the lightkeeper
{ priests taught pilotage , hydrography
and navigation. 7.ho famous tower on
the isle of Pharos , at Alexandria , built
about 285 B. C. , is the first lighthouse
of undoubted record. This tower , constructed -
structed by Sotratus , the architcct , was
square in plan , of great height and built
in offsets. An open brazier at the top
of the tower contained the fuel for the
light. At Dover and Boulogne , on either -
ther side of the English channel , were
ancient lighthouses built by the Bomasis.
But the lighthouse at Corunna , Spain ,
built in the reign of Trajan and reeoti-
structed in 1034 , is believed to be the
oldest existing lighthouse.-E. P.
Adams in Cassier's Magazine.
The Drug Store Telephone.
"Accommodation bureaus are all right
when they arc conducted as such , "said
a west side druggist , "but the sign over
my door was intended to inform the
public that drugs were dispensed within
and not information doled out or telephone -
phone messages delivered blocks away.
I make no kick when stamps are asked
for and the city directory consulted by
people , but when they ring up the telephone -
phone and call me from my work to answer -
swer it anti then want a message delivered
ered to a friend living a long distance
from the store only a certificate of membership -
bership in the Antiswearing club which
I have pasted on the transmitter keeps
me from uttering fancy language. This
morning I was at the breakfast table and
was called to the phone. I found it was
a lady who patronized me about once a
month. She didn't talk plainly and
kept me guessing for 15 minutes what
she was driving at. I discovered that.
she wanted me to tell her next door
neighbor that she wouldn't be home to
dinner and ask her to open a window of
the house and 'for mercy sake feed the
poor little cat. ' The telephone has been
removed. " Buffalo Entluirer.
Angelo's Verdict.
Once a painter notorious for plagiarisms -
risms executed a historical picture in
which every figure of importance was
copied from some other artist , so that
very little remained to himself. It was
shown to Michael Angelo by a friend ,
who begged he opsion of it. 'Ece-
lently done , 'said Angelo , "aids at the
day of jnilgnsent , when all bodies will
resume their own limbs again , I do not
know what will become of that historical -
al painting , for there will be nothing
left of it.-San Francisco Argonaut.
Tim Origin of Dyspepsia. t
Doctor-It's merely a case of dyspef.-
sfa , ma'am.
Wife-And what does that come {
from ?
Doctor-It comes from the Greek ,
ma'am.
Wife-Ah , I thought he'd been get-
tiug.at something. He was all right as
long as he stuck to beer.-Wilkesbarre
> elvsdealer.
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ODDITIES OF SCOTCHMEN.
Some Dclightfnl I'ccullurtics : Pointed Out
b } ' un ET. ( tllrnt.uihority.
Some tleiigiitful otluities of Scotch
character are given in Wilmot Hnrri-
son's nee ; hook , says The Scottish
American.
I Professor Adani Ferguson , the author
of "Raman Eistory , " at whose house
Burns and Scott met for the first and
only time , eschewed wiun and animal
I food , "but huge masses of milk and
t vegetables disappeared before him. In
addition , his temperature was regulated -
ed by Fahrenheit , and often , when sitting -
ting quite comfortably , he would start
up and put 1115 wife and daughters in
commotion because his eye had fallen
on the instrument and ho was a degree
toohot , or too cold. " Yet at the ago of
72 he started for Italy with but a single
companion to prepare for a now edition
of his "Roman History , " nor did ho die
till ho 1tad attained the ago of 92.
Another "character" is Dr. Alexander -
der Adam , rector of the high school and
I cuthor of a work on Roman antiquities
and a man of extraordinary industry.
When at college , he lived on oatmeal
and small beans , with an occasional
penny loaf , in a lodging which cost him
fourpence a week. In later life he devoted -
voted himself absolutely to the work of
teaching. In addition to his classes in
the high school lie appears to have had
for his private pupils some of the most
eminent Scotchmen of his day.
Rev. Sir Henry Wellwood Moncreiff ,
a member of a Scottish family distinguished -
guished during several generations in
connection both with church and state ,
appears to have givell wonderful Sunday -
day suppers. "This most admirable and
somewhat old fashioned gentleman was
one of tlsxe who always ( lined between
sermons , probably without touching
wine. He then walked back from his
small house in the cast end of Queen
street to his church , with his bands , his
little cocked hat , his tall cane and his
cardinal air ; preached , if it was his
turn , a sensible , practical scrmonwahkcd
home in the same style , took tea about
5 , spent some hours in his study , at 9
had family prayers , at which he was
delighted to sco the friends of his sons ,
after which the whole party sat down
to roasted hares , goblets of wino and his
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powerful talk. "
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NOT A TRUE MURPHY.
le had the } ante and the Physlque , but
Lacked tic Brogue.
A Boston scion of the great Celtic
family of Murphy , while traveling in :
Ireland recently , came across a little
village where the maul who did not bear
his patronymic was regarded as a curi-
osity. While wandering about this interesting -
teresting ; hamlet he chanced to come
upon a little tavern , and being athirst
entered the taproom for beer. Be it here !
known that the traveler was cousideraI I
I bly above the average in stature , and
I this was noticed by two old habitues
sitting by the fire. One of these presently -
ently remarked to his companion ,
"Mike , that gintlcman is taller than
Jerry Murphy , Oi think. " "Ah , now , "
replied the ether through the 2 inch
stem of a T. D. , "he's not"-with a
rising reflection on the end of the sen-
tence. "Yis , lie is , " retorted the first , t
with conviction. "Can't Oi see Jerry's
marls : there on the dune ? " I
The traveler's attention was then
called to a doorpost whereon was marked - '
ed the stature of four men , all over G
feet 4 inches in height. The tallest was
Jerry Murphy , and his mark was G feet
5. incises. Accepting this challenge ,
the traveler stepped up to the doorpost
and had his height marked , and , lot it
was a full half inch above that of Jerry.
When he had written his name over
his mark , for he noticed that the others
were so designated , and that they were
all Murphys , some one present called
out , "He's a Murphy too ! " But one of
the old fellows by the fire would not
have it so and replied : "Indado lie's I
not. He hasn't got the brogue l"-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Enamelling Cast Iron. i
It is noted as a somewhat singular
fact that there are not more than two
processes for enameling cast iron , notwithstanding -
withstanding the amount of ingenious
effort put forth in this direction. One
of these is the hot process , iii which the
iron , heated to a vivid red , is powdered
with a flux powder , borosilicato of lead
distributed with a sieve , then ht + atcd ,
and when the flux fuses it is powdered
afresh with glass more soluble , forming
the glaze of the enamel , but this operation - i
tion is attended with danger and is not
adapted to large articles or for clecora- !
Lion. The second process , which meets I
the objections named , consists in dressing - i
ing or coating the article first with magnetic
netic oxide , then dipping it in borosili
cates of lead , colored by metallic oxides ,
to which is added a little pipe clay , in
order to give rather more body. The
article thus covered cold , by dipping or
with brushes , is put into the furnace ,
the enamel adhering and vitrifying at
the usual furnace temperature used by
enamelers , and by putting a coating of
colored enamel with a brash on a first
coat simply plain it is possible to make 1
any decorations desired , which may be
burnt in at one operation for outdoor i
vases , etc.-New York Sun. i
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Meat Water. 3
Every good cook is careful to dispose ,
at once of the water in which meat has '
been } cashed. Only a very few hours 1
are necessary to change it into a foul
smelling liquid if the temperature is
suitable. This change is due to a little
plant called Bacterium termo. A drop
of this putrid material under the microscope -
scope reveals many thousands of them ,
acting under a peculiar vibratile motion.
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What we truly and earnestly aspire
to be that in some sense we are. The
mere aspiration , by changing the frame
of the mind i'or ' the moment , realizes it-
self.-Mrs. Jameson.
The manuscripts of Fenelon show no
changes. It is said there are not lii erasures -
sures in a hundred bases '
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J. S. MCBItAYER
PROPRIETOR OF TILE
McCook Transfer Line.
BUS , BAGGAGE AND EXPRESS.
' 'Only furniture van in the
city. Also have a first Class house
moving outfit. Leave orders for
bus calls at Commercial hotel or
at office opposite the depot.
II. M. OSBORI\ ,
PROPRIETOR of THE
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anything anil everything iii the
line of draying business. I will
move P iauos Or househrid goods
promptly and safely. ' Xuur [ ) at 1
ronage is solicited. Baru OIIIositt'
the Central hotel.
has9 La , Lar and lve stack not
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Frenehouut crePlu , in
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erg ev"4rr. ai + T sides of smut' . or any-
when' on tli animal.
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Repairing Prollllt ! Y
Attended to.
East Dennison St. McCaoh , Pleb.
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McCOOK , NEIPASKA.
r Orrtcn-Front rooms over Lowman
ion's store. RESIDENCE-103 McFarland St. .
two blocks north of McEntee hotel. Prompt
attention to all calls.
J. E. KELLEY ,
ATTORNEY - ATLAW ,
AGENT LINCOLN LAND CA.
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ATTORNEYATLAW
McCOOh , NEBCASKA.
iUSTIN J. IITTENIIOUSE.
ATTORNEY- LAW ,
JicCOOK , NEItR,1.31 : . + .
'r 'Ot1ica over the Famous Clothing Store
IRS. E. E. UT'F'ER ,
-MUS1OAL 1 STItUCTOii.-
Plano , Organ , Guitar and BanJc't.
VOICE TRAINING A SPECIALTY.
STUDIO ROOM C. OYEIt GM SCI10WS.
McCook. - - - Nehraska.
J. B. BALLARD.
DENTIST. 0
All dental work done at our office is ar-
anteed to be first-class. We do all king of
Crown , Bridge and Plate Work. fl. Smith
Bellamy , asistant ; .
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and Is too hest Couch and. Croup Cure.
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L DOUCxLA3 +
Over One Million People wear the
w. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes
All ourshoes are equally satisfactory
They give the best value for the mone .
They equal custom shoes in style and fit.
Their wearing qualities arcunsurpassed.
The prices are uniform---stamped on sole.
From $ t to $3 saved over other makes.
If yourdealercannot supply you wean. Sold by
DEALER whose name trill shortly appear -
pear here. Agents wanted.
Apply at once.
- - ' ' , . . ; ' gave her Cas orh.
: .a : : LLiinhe crilrJ foxCatoria. .
. . . t.--t , Mi : : , Lho clung to Ca' tori3.
, : : . , t t Cidr : < n , she gave them Cw toria.
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IffEROHANT TAILOR
OF McCOOK ,
ilas just received a new stock of CLOTHS
and TI.INMINGS If you want a good fit-
tin ; suit made at the very lowest prices for
good work , call on him. Shop first door west
of Iarnett's Lumber Office , on Dennison
street.
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J1c000Ii.NECEASKA.
lv'f-Orrice IIouns-9 to li a. m. , 3 to 5 and
J to b p. m. Rooms over First National bank
Night calls aniWPrerl at office.
ELMER EOwELI. ,
NOTAILY 1'UItLIC ,
1 alEstate Q1 Collections ,
AYO INSUIANCE.
1SatcCOOK , - NEBRASKA.
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