ERRONEOUS BELIEFS
SOME ODD NOTIONS THAT
FIXED IN MANY MINDS
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Everyday Occurrence Cashierx
MiMtakcN Iu BankH Tlie Finding of
Scad Bodien Sunday ContractM
It is an American predilection to ba
lieve the outre and freakish stories that
are based solely on hearsay testimony
and to reject often the commonplace
matter of fact A list of the cheerful
lies that are commonly believed would
fill a volume Only a few of them are
given below
How often have you been inflicted
with the story of the man who was
overpaid when cashing a check at the
bank and the cashier telling him that
no mistakes would be corrected after
the customer left the window Ac
cording to the story the cashier laid
down the mandate before the cashier
knew the mistake was in his favor It
makes an excellent yarn but diligent
search discloses that it never had any
foundation in fact Banks have no
such rule If a customer Is underpaid
or overpaid the mistake will appear
when the balance is struck at the end
of the days business and the error
will be cheerfully rectified But the
majority of the public believe the ficti
tious story of how the fellow got the
best of the bank simply because it Is
a good story and they like to believe it
Probably the most common error on
the part of the public is the belief that
when a dead body is found no one has
a right to touch or move the remains
until the coroner comes There never
was any such law is not now and
probably never will be The citizen
who is of an inquiring turn of mind
has a perfect right to examine the dead
bodies he runs across In the course of
his travels to move the remains and
even search the pockets of the de
ceased provided of course that his
motives are honest That is all that Is
necessary
There is also a prevalent belief that
a note signed or contract entered into
on Sunday is void and that either party
can plead the fact of the sacred day to
get out of a bad bargain This Is not
true If a man enters into a contract
or signs a note on Sunday he is legally
bound and can have no defense that he
would not have if the transaction had
occurred In the middle of the week
i naa my Dack against my own
house when I struck tills man says
the defendant In police court He be
lieves that his proximity to his castle
gives him more rights than he would
have if he were in the street This be
lief has been the cause of much can
tankerous litigation and It has ever
resulted In the ruling that a man has
a right to defend himself in a reason
able manner if he is attacked what
ever may be his geographical position
and the incidental contiguity of his
home cuts no Ice in the case
The public has great confidence in
the magic number three and without
any reasonable basis for the belief It
Is commonly believed that if a drown
ing person sinks for the third time he
is gone for rood and all The facts
contradict this Many persons die in
the first sinking and if one has the
strength and vitality to rise to the sur
face of the water twice it furnishes an
excellent presumption that he will be
able to do so again In an eddy or
rapidly moving waters people have
sunk from sight a half dozen times
and lived to tell the experience to their
grandchildren
Then there is the third congestive
chill commonly believed to be fatal
Most people who die from this cause
succumb to the first or second attack
If a man succeeds In weathering two
of them the odds are in favor of his
coming out victor In the third Almost
every community possesses a citizen
who boasts the fact that he has a sil
ver plate in his skull Surgeons say that
very few attempts were ever made at
such an operation and all of them
were failures There does not exist a
man who has a silver plate in his
skull although many men honestly be
lieve that they are carrying this species
of paraphernalia in their craniums
The bone of the skull cannot live and
be healthy In the presence of a foreign
body It is said by surgeons to be a
physical impossibility but this serves
in no way to overcome the common
and erroneous belief
The medical fraternity has another
false belief to combat in cases of shin
gles This disease consists of a skin
eruption always following affected
nerves and commonly appearing on
the body It is a very common belief
that if the shingles completely sur
round the body and strike a meeting
point the patient will die instantly
The belief Is untrue Kansas City
Journal
Considerate
After the tea things had been cleared
away the young wife came over and
sat on hubbys knee put her plump
arms about his neck vand kissed him
half a dozen times
Well what Is It now he queried
A new dress dear she answered
But dont you know that times are
awfully hard just at present he que
ried
Of course I do she replied Thats
why I want to give the poor dress
maker something to do Detroit Trib
une
Xo Repentance
She married in baste and repented
at leisure didnt she
She hasnt repented any that I know
of
But she Is divorced
1 Yes But she gets 200 a month all-
jmony Houston Post
I He that will keep a monkey should
for the glasses be breaks Selden
Notice Your Walter
Did you wait on me asked the
man at the corner table
No sir said the tall waiter
Then who did grumbled the cor
ner man
I dont know sir was the reply
Youd better ask the head waiter
The corner man did ask but the chief
of the staff was no wiser than bis as
sistant
What kind of looking man was he
be asked
How should I know stormed the
hungry diner I didnt come here to
make a study of waiters faces i
came to get something to eat and if
somebody doesnt hurry up
The head waiter stepped aside too
soon to hear the rest of the complaint
He Is like ninety nine out of a hun
dred men that dine out he remarked
None of them knows his waiter
There would be much less confusion
if people would be a little more ob
serving Any man can take a peep at
his waiter without loss of dignity
nowever few do and as a conse
quence they hall every man that passes
with the query Are you the fellow
that waited on me New York Post
Chanipnernc
There are two peculiarities about
champagne drinking which are capable
of explanation The one Is the rapidity
with which the wine exhilarates not
withstanding the small proportion of
alcohol It contains This is due to the
carbonic acid gas evolved which is in
haled while drinking for it is the prop
erty of this gas to expedite the action
of anything with which it Is associated
It is estimated that one glass of cham
pagne Is equal in effect to two glasses
of still wine of the same strength and
is more rapid in action The other pe
culiarity Is the sort of lethargy or
deadness which follows after excessive
champagne drinking This is analogous
to the stupor produced by carbonic acid
gas but it Is assisted and intensified
by the excess of sugar deranging the
stomach The undigested sugar turns
into acid and thus it is that too much
champagne is apt to produce dyspep
sia
Hot Just What She Meant
The former head of a large private
school in Cleveland was a gentleman
of dignified bearing refined and correct
always in manner and speech By
birth and early rearing he was a Ver
monter and doubtless of straight Puri
tan extraction One day in his boy
hood his mother called him in from the
yard where he was playing with some
other boys to say to him in a tone sug
gestive of mingled sadness and sever
ity
Noble my son I never thought to
hear you use a swear word
Why mother said the boy I
didnt use any swear word I only said
the devii Nobody thinks thats swear
ing
I dont care cried the mother
quickly Its making light of sacred
things Cleveland Leader
Why the Horse Acted So
I wonder whats the matter with
that horse said a man to his wife
while he was in the act of unhitching
the animal The horse was rearing and
plunging and displaying signs of terror
whenever his master came near him
A passerby came to his aid and while
quieting the animal explained to the
owner I noticed said he that you
just came out of the zoo over there A
slight scent of the wild animals has
clung to your clothing and although
your horse has probably never seen
anything wilder than a cow his in
stinct tells him that where that scent
is there is danger It will wear off
soon and you will have no more trou
ble Philadelphia Record
Crescent Shaped Rolls
The little horseshoe shaped rolls to
be seen In every bakers shop in the
world have an interesting history In
1GS7 Vienna was besieged by the
Turks They were about to enter the
town by an underground passage that
they had dug when the bakers who
work all night In order to deliver hot
bread in tne morning gave the alarm
The authorities were so grateful they
allowed them to manufacture a break
fast roll In the shape of the crescent
moon which is a device of the Turkish
banner
A Mathematical Incongruity
How is this from an expert ac
countant
10 10 0
100100 0
By axiom 1 things equal to the same
thing are equal to each other hence
1010 equals 100100
Divide each side of the equation by
1010 and the result is 1 equals clO
Figures will lie even womens New
York Press
seems hopeless
can do for you
beat your wife
Safe
But said the lawyer your case
I dont see what I
You admit that you
Yes replied the defendant but
my wifes testimony will discount that
Shed never admit that she was beat
en
No VIeTrs
Mrs Gushington I suppose now
that you have been abroad you have
your own views of foreign life Mrs
Newrich No we aint got no views
We didnt take no camera Its so com
mon
His Nap
How late do you usually sleep on
Sunday morning
Well it all depends
Depends on what
The length of the sermon
Times Driver
Blnks Time runs on eh Now what
makes time run on Bunks The spur
of the moment I suppose
A Greater Scoundrel
A famous master of Trinity college
Cambridge had been a friend in earlier
days of one Jemmy Gordon a solicitor
But Jemmy went to the bad was
struck off the rolls and lived from
what he could get from old acquaint
ances One day he met the master and
asked for a shilling
Gordon thundered the master Vif
you could show mea greater scoundrel
than yourself I would give you half a
crown And he stalked stiffly away
to his rooms In half an hours time
the butler announced that Mr Pom
pous the esquire beadle wished to see
the master Now the master had a
special detestation of the beadle who
when admitted and curtly asked what
he wanted replied
Mr Gordon informed me that you
desired to see me
Said the master Gordon has made
an ass of you
In ten minutes more the butler came
again grinning and said
Mr Jemmy Gordon has called and
says you owe him half a crown sir
Newcastle Chronicle
A Lout Custom
Among the lost customs of merry
England is that of the milkmaids pro
cession It was a May day observ
ance The manner of their going was
as follows They borrowed a greaf
quantity of silver plate not sham
plate real gold plate dishes butter
boats cream jugs tankards etc They
built up the plate round an obelisk
crowning the whole with a tea urn
They arranged the most showy flowers
of the season between and about the
silver
This obelisk was carried by two
chairmen in gold laced hats and fol
lowed by a troop of handsome milk
maids dressed In pink and blue gowns
drawn through the pocket holes
whatever that means with high heeled
shoes mob caps lappets of lace on
their shoulders nosegays in their bos
oms una nax womngton nats cov
ered with ribbons A fiddler went
first in a sky blue coat and hat adorned
with ribbons The procession stopped
before the doors of the customers and
the milkmaids danced London Queen
The Mace
The mace was originally a potent
weapon of offense originating doubt
less in that earliest and most common
weapon the wooden club It was an
essential part of a knights accouter-
ment being useful at close quarters
For ready convenience it was hung at
his saddlebow Says an ancient poem
And with his heavy mase of stele
Then he gave the kying his dele
The besague and baston were varied
forms of the mace The mace used on
horseback was a small weapon usual
ly of steel That used on foot was
much longer and commonly of wood
with head armed with iron rings and
spikes It was carried by the escort
of magistrates and others as a ready
protection against violence As socie
ty quieted down and its original use
fell Into abeyance the thing assumed
the ornamental appearance it now has
it now being carried in a mere honor
ary form Notes and Queries
Sonic Words
Spider is a less attractive word
than spinner but it is really the
same Spither the earlier form of
the word stood for spinther mean
ing spinner the disappearance of the
n before the th being compensated
for by the lengthening of the vowel
just as tooth really represents
tonth There was once in use another
word for the creature that was ugly
enough In meaning attercop which
appears in Wycllfs Bible It signi
fies poison bunch and is still used in
the north of England and in Antrim
Ireland as an uncomplimentary term
for a shrewish person From atter
cop or from a similar use of cop or
cob a bunch to mean a spider
comes cobweb
A Green Old Asre
A green old age Is a phrase often
grossly abused It Is a literal transla
tion of Virgils description of Charon
the ferryman of the nether regions
The poet speaks of him as Jam senior
sed cruda deo viridisque senectus
somewhat aged but his godships old
age was still fresh and green This
we might say of a hale sexagenarian
but to talk as we do of the green old
age of a nonagenarian however bale
Is sheer nonsense
The Art of Doing Xothingr
There Is a sideof life for which no
preparation at all is made No life is
or can be one of unremitting work
Sooner or later every one has a day off
and in nine cases out of ten has never
been taught how to use it In the
schools of our Utopia there will be
professors of the great art of doing
nothing of sitting on a gate Lon
don Saturday Review
A Pleasant Fefc
I just peeped into the parlor as I
passed said Mr Phamley and I saw
quite a freak of natur
Why Bertha is there with her young
man
Yes I saw two heads on one pair
of shoulders
Clever Repartee
An officer of the United States army
tells of a young woman in a crowded
street car who when a young man
stood up to give her a seat exclaimed
Youre a jewel On the contrary
the young man replied I am a Jewel
er I set the jewel
The Marriage Kee
A marriage fee says the cynical
bachelor demonstrates that even the
clergyman may profit by the mistakes
of others Philadelphia Itesord
Sometimes we may learn more from
B mans errors than from his virtues
Longfellow
McMillen Druggist has a largo as
sortment of souvenir postal cards
Grinders
of Teeth
arent needed when
you eat California
Wheatose for all
thats4 coarse and
hard is removed
no hulls no fibre
no waste in Cal
ifornia Wheatose
Flaked wheat food for breakfast
All good grocers
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Employment Wanted Sowing or any
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TheStato of Nebraskn Rod Willow county
To all Dorsons interested in the estate of A
Campbell deceased Whereas Mary Campboll
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ment purporting to bo the last will and
mentbf A Campbell Into of said county de
ceased and soid Mary Campbell has filed her
petition herein praying to hare the same ad
mitted to probate and for the issuing of lotters
testamentary which will rolato to both real and
Sorsonal estate I have thorefore appointed
aturdny the 23rd day of Septembor 1905 at 10
oclock in tlio forenoon at tho county court
room in said countv as tho time and place for
the hearing of said will at which timo and
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ordered that said petitionor give notice to nil
jwrsons interested in said estate of the pendency
of this petition and tho time and placo sot for
the hqaring of tho same by causing a copy of
this order to bo published in Tho McCook Tri
buue a newspaper printed and published in
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In witness whereof I havo hereunto set my
I hand and oilicial seal this 6th day of September
j 1905 Feank Moore
seal County Judge
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