1 V f By F M KIMMELL Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co Subscription 1 a Year in Advance Official Paper of Redwillow County It has been truthfully said tbnt if mon were more honest and just there would bo less exercise for generosity or benevolence Men need n fair honest opportunity rather than benevolence New Money Order Forms Postmaster Kimmell is in receipt of advice from the postofllce department that a new form of mouey order will be introducodNovember 15 Offices having old forms on hand will bo required to uso their old forms before starting on new ones On this account the new orders will not come into general uso until about tho first of January The f distinctive features of the new form are a marginal coupon showing the amount of tho order in multiples of S5 to 100 and tho name and addiess of remitter will appear on face of order as woll as on ad vice Tho nize of the order is also changed being wider and somewhat shorter than the old one The color of the paper used will be blue tho same as at present The marginal check is in tended to safeguard the public against raised money orders The name of tho remitter being shown on the order it will meet with favor from business men as many people in sending a money order simply enclose it in an envelope without further information than con tained on the order itself PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES Tho following articles may be found in the November North American Re view Sir Henry Irving by L P Austin This article was completed by Mr Aus tin but a few days before his sudden death and was written in the expecta tion that it would be published as orig inally intended on the occasion of the late Sir Henry Irvings projected visit to the United States in 1906 Black Mastin a side light on sla very by Calvin Dill Wilson Japans Commercial Aspirations by Frederick Courtland Penfield The Pacific Ocean its shores its islands and the vast region beyond will become tho chief theatre of events in the worlds great hereafter William H Seward in the United States senate 1858 The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr is one of our new books it is a dra matic love story which shows Abraham Lincoln as the true friend of the South Tho Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck author of Wisdom and Destiny The Treasure of the Hum ble -etc This book deals with the life of the bee treated in Maeterlincks own peculiar vein It is by no means tech nical passages of the highest lyrical beauty abound while reflections anal ogies and poetical digressions are not wanting It will appeal to every bee keeper and bee lover no less than to all who value Maeterlincks worts Jimmy Brown Trying to Find Europe by W L Alden is one of our new juvenile books Inthis new Jimmy Brown book Jimmy is sent to live with his married sister where he is soon up to all sorts of amusing pranks Finally in company with Mike an Irish boy he sets out to find his parents He has no better address than Grand Hotel Europe Various surpassing adven tures lead to the reunion of Brown fam ily in Paris Library hours Mornings from 1030 to 12 oclock afternoons from 130 to 6 oclock evenings from 7 to 9 oclock Sunday afternoon 2 to 5 oclock Ida McCarl Librarian Many children inherit constitutions weak and feeble others due to child hood troubles Hollisters Rocky Moun tain Tea will positively cure children and make them strong 35 cents Tea or Tablets L W McConnell Now is the time to get two papers for almcstthe price of one The Tribune and Weekly Inter Ocean 105 Ayers What are your friends saying about you That your gray I hair makes you look old I And yet you are not forty x osipone mis looking oia Hair ViSor Use Ayers Hair Vigor and restore to your gray hair all the deep dark rich color of early life Then be satisfied Ayer1 Hair Vigor restored tlie natural color to ray gray lmir and I am greatly pleased It is all you claim for It ilnsE J Vandecae Mecbanlcsvlllo N V 5100 bottle All drucems for Dark J C AYEKCO IjivchII Mass Haiii CITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS Catholic Order of services Mass 8 a m Mass and sermon 1000 n m Evening service at 8 oclock Sunday school 230 p m Every Sunday J J Loughran Pastor Episcopal Services in St Albans church as follows Every Sunday in the inonth Sunday school at 10 oclock am Morning prayer at 11 a m and evening prayer and sermon at 8 The third Sun day in the monthtHoly Communion at 730 a m All are welcome E R Earle Rector Methodist Sunday school at 10 am Sermons 11 and 8 Class at 12 Mass meeting at 3 Epworth League at 630 Praise and prayer service at 730 Mrs Beck and daughter will sing at each service Mrs Beck will proach in the morniqg Everybody invited M B Carman Pastor Congregational Sunday school at 10 Preaching at 11 am and 7 30 p m C E at 630 p m leader Miss Lily Campbell Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 8 pm Rev H C Halber Bleben of Palisade will preach in ex change with tho pastor Note change in hour of evening services Special music All are cordially invited Geo B Hawkes Pastor Advertised Letters The following letters were advertised by McCook postofiice October 18th 05 Anderson Mr John Bondeu M D B Brooks Mr J Li Brown Mr Samuol Becker Mr Cims Blondiu Geo B Bryan C O CofTman Mr Frank Chadwoll Connolly C F Daniels Mr G S Freoval Win 2 GrpenoMrClarenco F Gibean Mr Joseph nines Eugeno Hulbort W II Hoagland Mr Iliran Johnson Mrs Anna Kelch Mr Peter Knobbs Mrs W E Lee Miss Hattio Mathews Miss Polly Mills E Z ONeal Mr Dick Pinnico C B Petra Miss Bessio Phillips Mrs Mamie Russell Mr J Show J G 2 Sheets Mr A Shipp Mr Edward Snyder F L Tarble Capt A Bates Mr J J Boughtoti S A Churchill L P Cahill Mr M Cook F C Campbell John Dorsan W J Foster Edward Graves Miss Ida Huseman Mr Henry 2 Hall Mr C A Hermann John Jr 2 Ingles Mr Caleb James Miss Kattio B King Mr John Lee Mrs Lou McCray Mr A L Meyer Mr J H Martin Miss Lucy ODoll Sidney F Persinger Petkovic Josip Regan Pat Shauccr Mr John Smith Mr Frank Snyder Mrs Ethel Smith Miss Agnes Smith R H Thayor Lewis Thompson Miss JennieThornquist Mr Carl Thompson Genovive Warner Mr A J Wheeler Mr EE When calling for these letters please say they were advertised F M Kimmell Postmaster Like Finding Money Lon Cone Bro the popular drug gist are making an offer that is just like finding mouey for they are selling a regular 50 cent bottle of Dr Howards celebrated specific for the cure of con stipation and dyspepsia at half price In addition to this large discount they agree to return the money to any pur chaser whom the specific does not cure It is quite unusual to be able to buy fifty cent pieces for a quarter but that is what this offer really means for it is only recently through the soliciation of Druggist Lon Cone Bro that this medicine could be bought for less than fifty cents they urged the proprietors to allow them to sell it at this reduced price for a little while agreeing to sell a certain amount The result has justifi ed their good judgment for the sale has been something remarkable Anyone who suffers with headache dyspepsia dizziness sour stomach specks before the eyes or any other liver trouble should take advantage of this opportunity for Dr Howards specific will cure all these troubles But if by any chance it should not Lon Cone Bro will return your money To Telephone Subscribers Owing to the fact that the construc tion of the new exchange is now in prog ress subscribers will be bothered more or less with their instruments not work ing as good as they might until this work is completed but I assure you our best efforts will be used to keep out all trouble as near as possible C I Hall Manager It May Seem Early but Coleman is already receiving ship ments of holiday goods He is yearly enlarging and improving this department of his business and this season will of course excel any previous one hence he is beginning early to lay in his attrac tions for the big holiday trade he has a right to anticipate The Last English Decapitation The last occasion of decapitation fo high treason In England was I fancy that of Thistlewood and his four com panions for the Cato street conspiracy I take the following from Thornburys Old Stories Eetold Exactly a quarter of an hour after the last man was hung the order was given to cut the bodies down The heads were than haggled off with bru tal clumsiness with a surcreons knife J The mob expressed loudly their horror and disgust more especially when the turnkey who exhibited the heads drop ped that of Brunt Hello butter fin gers r shouted a rough voice from the rolling crowd below The day had gone by for such useless brutality- This horrible scene was enacted on May 1 1820 Notes and Queries WILD MEN OF AUSTRALIA An Aboriginal Dwelling and a Sweet but Uninviting Dish An explorer In the wilds of northern Australia writes While at work one day Mr Hingston found an aboriginal dwelling -which revealed evidences of architectural design seldom displayed Ivy Australian aborigines It was evi dently a main camping depot oval in shape about sixteen feet long and four teen feet high It was built of layers of straw Intermixed with a good stiff clay Small openings as windows were numerous all round the slues The door was the only drawback This was a mere burrow hole about one foot from the ground and one was com pelled to crawl in on all fours to enter this primitive type of mansion When we cleared the river we anchored at Maria island Seeing some of the blacks on the beach we went to Inter view them They were apparently frightened however and abandoned the canoes on which they were at work and cleared into the bush Care was taken not to interfere with their pos sessions and pipes and tobacco were left where the natives could find them Rambling about we came upon an open space of considerable extent marked out in large squares with stone on which were planted three to five feet high five or six hollow posts which were stuffed full of human bones All the posts were painted red We doubt less had stumbled upon a sacred spot There were some nice skulls but not a thing was interfered with A few miles up the river we struck a big camp of natives but they cleared into the bush as soon as they caught sight of us We waited some time at the camp and the blacks returned sat isfied that we did not intend mischief The usual presents of tobacco and pipes were given and they were received with the greatest satisfaction Indeed we became perfect friends for the time being To seal the friendship or per chance It may have been the native fashion of looking toward you a great buck came to me with a wooden ves sel shaped like a canoe in his hand and full of honey I noticed on the top a ball of grass The chap held the honey to me but I shook ray head so he took the ball of grass whisked it about in the sirup and popped It into his mouth After sucking it dry he put it back into the honey and when nicely soaked of fered it to me a gafn He evidently wished me to follow his example but I passed There was a fine iguana on the fire just nicely cooked This I did try and it was really good just like chicken POINTED PARAGRAPHS It Isnt a bit cooler to be on the shady side of life Every man likes to learn but no man likes to be taught To be a man is to be the worryj of some woman to be a woman is -to-be the worry of some man Before doing anything as a result of enthusiasm or excitement see if your enthusiasm or excitement will not wear off Every man flatters himself that he will finally whip his enemy and that ho will give him a good one when ho gets at him It is said charity begins at home As a matter of fact there is a good deal of complaint because charity does not begin at home When a man gels married he is apt to think everybody should give him a present but how he hates to give wed ding presents when his friends get married Atchison Globe Strength of Mussels You must some time try to open the shell of a fresh water mussel or a sea clam You will find one the size of your hand has great strength al though both his muscles may not be larger than those of one of your fin gers I have often seen a boy pick up a mussel and insert his fingers before the shell was quite closed thinking he would open it again Few boys can succeed They usually have hard pull ing to get their fingers free A big mussel can bite hard Were it not that the edge of the shell in big speci mens is smooth and thick a boy might get his fingers cut to the bone St Nicholas A Wasp and a Fly An observer tells this I was once an interested spectator of a short struggle between a wasp and one of those large flies like a bee with a big flat head The pair were on the ground and I watched while the wasp after probably stinging the fly delib erately severed the head from the body and then finding it still too heavy a burden cut off the tail end of the fly and flew off with the trunk without waiting to perform its toilet The whole operation took about five min utes and from the masterly manner the wasp set to work he was evidently a practiced hand Molieres Births nml Deaths There are two tablets in Paris in forming the sightseer that he is passing the house where Moliere was born One is in the Rue du Pont Neuf the other at the corner of the Rue Sauvai where it meets the Rue St Honoro One inscription says that Moliere was born in 1G20 and the other in 1G22 Some time ago there were two houses in which Moliere was said to have died A Trick of Luck Luck never manages things just right said the Irritable man who dis likes music It might just as well have been the other way round but it wasnt What is the trouble now My daughter who plays the piano ias a sore throat and the one who Blngs has a sore finger LI TIME MYSTERIES SOME RIDDLES IN LIFE THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN SOLVED Lands and Peoples That Are Suppos ed to Have Disappeared The Leg end of the Lost Atlantis The An cient Pygmies of Tennessee The public appetite craves nothing so much as a riddle a secret to guess but nowadays every mans life is so bare so exploited and we live so much out of doors from the cradle to the grave that very few facts or fancies can be kept hidden There were how ever certain njysteries which during the last century the American public pondered and worried over which are yet unsolved and except by a few old people are almost forgotten One of these perhaps the oldest is the question whether beneath the At lantic not far from the Bahamas there is a sunken continent known to the Greeks as the lost Atlantis It was still talked of familiarly in the first half of the last century Seafaring men declared that when the water was calm and clear they had caught glimpses of ancient cities beneath with their glittering roofs and spires and that in certain conditions of the atmos phere the tolling of the bells could be distinctly heard Treatises were writ ten by learned professors to prove the probability of the legend and other treatises as learned and vehement to flout and jeer at it as an idle fable Certain flotsam and jetsam which was washed ashore after heavy storms on the coasts of Georgia and Florida logs of strange woods unknown to this generation coins bits of carved marble and beaten brass was ascribed to the long dead workmen of Atlantis The lost colony is now known only as the subject of an ancient fable but years ago it was by most educated people believed to be an actual fact Another much discussed mystery then was what had become of the col ony of civilized people who at the time of the settlement of the country lived on the western coast of Greenland That country is as you will see by a glance at the map shaped something like the half of an egg cut lengthwise the flat side upon the earth the point to the south The rounded center is a heap of impenetrable ice mountains As the centuries go by enormous bodies of ice slip from it into the sea and breaking off drift slowly down along our coasts These are the ice bergs of the Atlantic ocean Now along the narrow slip of habitable land which edges Greenland on this side tradition says once dwelt a civilized people who both in knowledge and the habits of life were far in advance of the Laplanders They were well known to the early Danish navigators who made frequent mention of them in their logs and re ports The question yet unanswered is Where are they now Tradition among the Laplanders reports that the whole colony two centuries ago emigrated in a body to the eastern coast of Green land attempting to cross the hitherto Impenetrable masses of ice in the cen ter No tidings ever have come back from them Some of the scientific men who accompanied the Hayes expedi tion made this question a matter of special study They reported that a doubt could hardly exist that these people did once inhabit that part of the coast and that they now had utterly vanished If they had been swept away by a pestilence their household belongings at least would be left to tell of them but not a shard of pottery not a single grave remains to show that they ever lived It was supposed by the Danish missionaries that they bad perished in the ranges of ice mountains but among the Laplanders there were traditions that they had safely reached the western coast and settled there now forming a civilized community wholly isolated from the rest of the world One of Nansens voyages was in fact directed to that coast in the hope of finding this col ony He was not able to reach the northern part of the coast and the mystery is therefore yet unsolved Another problem which perplexed the last generation was the long extinct pygmy race which centuries ago un doubtedly inhabited the Tennessee mountains Legends among the In dians told of such a tribe of dwarfs who were supposed to be of more in telligence than the red men But these legends were very hazy A burying ground however actually was discov ered in the early part of the last cen tury in which all of the skeletons were of pygmy proportions Some of them were carried away to college museums But as far as I know no scientific in quiry has ever been directed to this question Another curious matter which caused much speculation in the early part of the last century was the fate of the colony of French emigres who fled to this country in the eighteenth century ke IHatTi V uCpin N g irilo3 a visitor to the Black uiMiiu more forcibly than the per fect security of a country where every man Is a warrior and goes about his dally business with his revolver in his belt The traveler is sacred to tho Montenegrins whose manners prove the truth of the saying that they are the aristocracy of tho Servian race Dressed In their picturesque national garb of blue knickerbockers white gai ters and crimson jackets with pork pie caps of scarlet and black on their heads the mountaineers look the beau Ideal of a nation of fighters such as the old Greeks must have been In the days when they all carried arms Their whole history during the five centuries of Montenegrin Independence has been one long series of frontier feuds and even now guerrilla warfare on the Al banian border is not extinct But to the stranger within their gates what ever be his nationality the mountain eers are friendly and hospitable -Westminster Review The Stars and Stripes A German periodical has the follow ing story as to the origin of the stars and stripes The Idea originated with a Dane named Marker He was born on the island of St Croix of the Danish West Indies where his father and grandfather had lived In 1795 he left his native island and proceeded to Phil adelphia He was among the first to join a company of volunteers for American liberty and independence For valor shown at Oriskany he was elected captain and to show his grati tude he designed a flag in whose upper corner he applieu the thirteen star emblematic of the thirteen original states of tho Union This was the first occasion upon which the star span gled banner was unfurled The origi nal flag of Captain Marker is supposed to be in existence In some national col lection of relics of the war of the Revo lution lints In Parliament During the reign of King John 1109 the king agreed to settle the difficulty with Philip II of France respecting the Dutchy of Normandy by single com bat John earl of Ulster was the English champion and as soon as he appeared on the field of combat his adversary put spurs to his horse and fled leaving the earl master of the field King John asked the earl what his reward should be Titles and land I want not he replied but in remem brance of this day I beg the boon for myself and my successors to remain covered in the presence of your majes ty and all other sovereigns of this realm This request was granted and never revoked and it is said to account for the custom in parliament of mem bers wearing their hats London Stand ard Webster ns a Farmer Webster was a scientific farmer He believed thoroughly in the value of blooded stock At Marshfield he had a herd of sixty or eighty head of cattle composed entirely of thoroughbred an imalsof Alderneys Ayrshires and Devons He had several yoke of Dev on oxen which were his particular pride Besides there were blooded sheep and swine All In all Webster was considered by his neighbors the best farmer of the country He was moreover a friend generous and con siderate There used to be a saying down Plymouth way that a stranger could always tell when Webster was at home by the cheerful looks of the peo ple for ten miles around Oliver Bron son Capen In Country Life In America Roman Lamps Roman lamps were of many sizes but most of them very closely resem bled what is at present denominated a sauce or gravy boat At one end there was a ring through which the finger was passed when the light was carried The body of the vessel was filled with oil and at the other end there was a small tube through which a rag wick was passed When this was lighted the smoke and odor of the rancid fat em ployed were extremely offensive Many Roman poets mention Ihe abominable effluvium sent out by the lamps at the feasts A South African Name The hardy Boer voortrekkers had a fine sense of poetry in naming places in South Africa In the Transvaal there is a place which rejoices in the name of AVaachteenbeitjebeidcbasch fontein It is a name says a Cape Town exchange which speaks of lei sure whose gentle invitation to the thirsty traveler to rest a little by the brook beneath the cool shade of the tree calls up at once the thought of a green oasis in a dry and barren land Mme de Maintenon Once when Mme de Maintenon who had risen from the gutter to grandeur was looking pensively In tha golden pool at Versailles her companion not ing the fish in the crystal water ob served How languid the carp are Yes replied the famous beauty with fl Klffh rllPV iiru libo mo thor mice 3 4 r Sn 4 U nAM4 l 4 o - u ur uuu Luuii iciujju in uie iiuimuin jmit Hheir mncl or Alabama Liae those irencninen who found safety in Delaware they were for the most part of noble blood Marquises and counts earned their liv ing in Wilmington as dancing masters and even chefs and their descendants live there still But the poor gentlefolk who went penniless to Alabama to escape the guillotine penetrated the wilderness and made up a colony of vine growers farmers etc They worked helplessly awhile starved and then melted away mysteriously Whether they returned to ungrateful France or died in their exile nobody knows It was a ro mantic tragical question which much Interested the last generation and is now forgotten But It U still un answered New York Herald Mans Helpmeet She was not made out of his head to top him not out of his feet to be tram pled upon by him but out of his side to be equal with him under his arm to be protected and near his heart to be loved Matthew Henry Kot Traveling Incognito Miss Smley is going to travel un- der an assumed name You surprise me Yes she Is going to be married next week and start on her honeymoon To be sure that you are right Is proper certainly but also be sure when you are right to go ahead Kan sas City Star a of oxe mm sow UxIqj are told which are finer ihau that of the encounter In earlier years with the old Bermidotte himself Bhe king had referred to the Norwe gian as uiy jales at which Ole Bull drawing himself up Inquired When has a Norwegian shown himself dis loyal to tho king Then without waiting for au answer he announced that he must at once take leave Upoi this the king turned to him with aa Imperious I command you to stay But tho violinist shrugged his shoul ders and replied Then I will see sire whether a Norwegian rcmaius free in the palace of the king of Sweden At this as Ole Bull would tell when re counting the scene there came into tha face of the monarch the most winning smile he had ever seen on a human countenance and putting out his hand Impulsively Bernadottc exclaimed Nay I beg you to remain A prince should hear the opinions of all his peo ple And the talk which then resulted was the basis of deep confidence on both sides Century IlcInecUcii the German Prodi pry Christian Henry Helnecken the most wonderful of all the worlds precocious prodigies was born at Lubeck Ger many in the year 1721 When but nine and a half months of age this human wonder could pronounce every word contained In the Gorman language and before he had rounded out his first year of earthly existence he knew all the leading events of the worlds history At the age of fourteen months he could give chapter and verse of any quoted passage of the Scriptures and knew the history of every book in both the Old and New Testaments At the ago of two and a half years he could an swer every question In the geographies and histories then In use and could con verse with visitors In either German French Dutch Latin or Greek His fourth year was devoted to the study of religion and ancient history He had finished the studies mentioned and had started on a course in oriental religion when he suddenly died before complet ing his fourth year Three Boys and a Clock Three boys in a house were told to go and take the exact time by a clock In the town The first lad went look ed at the clock came back and said It is 12 oclock In after life he became a prosaic bookseller The second boy was more exact Ho said on returning that it was three minutes past 12 He became a doctor The third lad looked at the clock found out how long It had taken him to walk back to the house returned to the clock then added the time of his walk to the time of the clock and re ported the result thus It is at this moment 12 hours 10 minutes and lS seconds That boy came to distinction as Helmholtz the scientist A Divided Chnreh There is a very striking instance of religious toleration in neidelberg an ancient city of Germany One of the most Important buildings of that town is the Church of the Holy Ghost Through the middle of this building a partition wall has been run so that services according to the Roman Cath olic and the Protestant ritual may be held at the same time In the year 1719 an attempt was made by Charles Philip the Elector to deprive the Prot estants of their half of the church but the townspeople made so strong a re sistance that he was obliged to desist and even to remove the electoral court from Heidelberg to Mannheim Lon don Mail ilumhlc Pie There is a queer twist of language In the phrase to eat humble pie The word humble is a corrupted form of the original numble which Is an In edible part of the carcass of a deer and would make very poor pie The words humble pie have the same original meaning as to eat crow a phrase common in political life There Is an enforced humility In this process and the change from numble to humble introduced a thought which harmo nized with the Idea sought to be ex pressed The last form of the phrase has entirely supplanted the original Ills Expenses One of the candidates at an election in Derbyshire England was a new comer not remarkable for his generos ity He found himself defeated at the polls and bade adieu to the electors with the words At any rate ladies and gentlemen my wlfo and I have spent a very happy fortnight In the peak Yes came a sudden retort from the crowd and thats all you have spent The Modest Girl Ah my love sighed the ardent lover if you only knew how beautiful you are You mustnt speak of it protested the modest girl I dont want to know Why not Because she said it would make me too conceited Philadelphia Press A Better Motto My motto said the new lodger Is Pay as you go The landlady shook her head It wouldnt do in my business she said A man might remain a- month and then forget his motto when heLwent My motto Is Pay Saturday night or rrn Better Than Signs Friend Are you superstitious Do you believe in signs Successful Mer chantNo Newspaper advertisements sire better and cheaper A Cold Wave Yes and after she refused me Bho waved her hand In farewelL Sort of a cold wave wasnt it J s i 4F u f i K t