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Ending March 22nd
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number of 23c 30c 3oc and 50c
goods will be sold at the low
figure of only 10c
The Ideal Bargain Depot
Opposite Postofiice McCook
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Thoughtful Economy
is economy that takes a
peep into the future
A prudent householder
doesnt rush out and buy
an kind of old flour
Not he He comes
around to our place be
fore
THE FLOUR BOX IS EMPTY
and gives us an order for
that Ai flour of ours
Do likewise and link
economy with thought
fulness
THE McCOOK MILLING
COMPANY
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With
Baking Pwcf et
The United States Agricultural Department
has issued and circulates free a valuable report
giving- the results of elaborate experiments made
by and rider ihQ direction of the Department
which snow tin great saving from baking at home
as compared with cost of buying at ihz bakers
AU bread cake biscuit crullers etc are very much
freshercleanerPcheaper and more wholesome when
made at home with Royal Baking Powder
RCVAL BAKHKJ POWDER CO NEW YORK
Bound duplicate receipt books three
receipts to the page for sale at The
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PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES
The following books were donated to
the public library by Mrand MrsTylor
Life of Georpo Washington threo volumes
WASHINGTON IEVING
Sketch Book
TIio Alliambra
Ilistury of the Conquest of Granada
Legends of the Conquest of Spain
Tales of a Traveller
Knickerbockers History of New York
Salmagundi
Life and Voyage of Christopher Columbus
Astoria
A Tour of the Prairies
Abbotsford
Newstead Abbey
Voyages and Discoveries of the Companion of
Columbus
Mahomet and His Successors
Life of Oliver Goldsmith
Bonnevilles Adventures in the Far East
The Crayon Papors
The Moorish Chronicles
Bracobridgo Hall
Miscellanies from the Knickerbocker
Magazines
BOUVEB LYTTON
Tho Last Days of Pompeii
Harold
Tho Caxtons
Kenelm Chillingly
Devereux
The Disowned
The Coming Race
My Novel
Zicci
Pilgrims of the Rhino
Tho Parisians
What Will He Do With It
Night and Morning
Godolphin
Eugene Aram
Leila
Calderon the Courtier
Ernest Maltraven
Alice or the Mysteries
Pansanias The Spartan
Lucretia or The Children of Night
A Strange Story
The Haunted and the Haunters
Tho Last of the Barons
Rienzi
Pelham
Paul Clifford
Zanoni
Falkland
Tho Duchess DeLaVallioro
The Lady of Lyons or Love and Pride
Richelieu or Tho Conspiracy
Not So Bad As Wo Seem or Many Sides to a
Character
Library hours mornings from 1030
to 1200 afternoon from 130 to 6 00
evenings from 700 to 900 Sunday af
ternoon from 200 to 500
Ida McCarl Librarian
Nothing like Knowing whats goingon
We keep you posted locally but Tho
Weekly Inter Ocean gives the news of
all the world By our special arrange
ment you can secure both papers for
one full year for the very low rate of
3103
Is made as carefully and conscientiously
as If the success of the manufacturer
depended on the satisfaction it gives the
wearer and it does
Alore Sunflower Shoes for men are being
sold every month simply because they fit
the foot fancy and purse of the buyer to
perfection
Made in all good leathers for dress
8eml dress and work-a-day wear A shoe
for every man at just the price ne wants
to pay
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THE BEE HIVE
McCook Nebraska
ADVERTISING A BOOK
How the Anthor of Valerie Cap
tared lnrJtslnnN Lour Ago
We had some notes n little while
ago on the methods which some au
thors have udoptod for the advertise
ment of their books A correspondent
sends us an example of this sort of
thing which Is the better worth quot
ing because we have never seen It
quoted In tills connection before It Is
taken from a life of Mine de Krudner
whose novel Valerie appeared short
ly after Mine de Staels Delphiue
You know quite well the author
wrote to a friend that neither talent
nor genius nor the excellence of ones
intentions Is sufficient to Insure a
success Everything demands some
charlatanism And the biographer
proceeds to tell us how she translated
her doctrine Into action
During several days he writes she
made the round of the fashionable
shops incognito asking sometimes for
shawls sometimes for hats feathers
wreaths or ribbons all a la Valerie
When they saw this beautiful and ele
gant stranger step out of her carriage
with an air of assurance and ask for
fancy articles which she invented on
the spur of the moment the shopkeep
ers were seized with a polite desire
to satisfy her by any means in their
power Moreover the lady would soon
pretend to recognize the article she had
asked for And if the unfortunate
shopgirls tafcen aback by such un
usual demands looked puzzled Mme
de Krudner would smile graciously
and pity them for their ignorance of
the new novel thus turning them all
into eager readers of Valerie Then
laden with purchases she would drive
off to another shop pretending to
search for that which existed only in
her imagination Thanks to these ma
neuvers she succeeded in exciting
such ardent competition in honor of
her heroine that for a week at least
the shops sold everything a la Va
lerie Her own friends the innocent
accomplices in her stratagem also visit
ed shops on her recommendation thus
carrying the fame of her book through
the Faubourg Saint Germain and the
Chaussee dAntin London Academy
HUNTING VIOLINS
Tarlslo Wits Found Dead Surrounded
by Valuable Instruments
Violin makers now and again come
upon pieces of wood of phenomenal
resonance and beauty and when they
do we may be sure they give special
care to the making and finishing of the
instrument formed of the wood Strad
ivarius at any rate did In 171G he
had a piece of luck in this particular
and his luck went into an instrument
with which he fell so much in love that
he absolutely refused to sell it or allow
it to be played upon by any hands but
his owTn He kept it locked up and
when he died at the advanced age of
ninety three he bequeathed it to his
sons By and by an enthusiastic col
lector named Salabue got on the scent
of this instrument and about the year
17G0 he acquired it at what figure is
not known from one of the great
mans sons
Salabue cherished it until his death
about 1S27 and then a strange charac
ter appears on the scene as purchaser
This was an eccentric old fellow named
Luigi Tarisio who abandoning his
trade as carpenter had started collect
ing old violins and was now searching
in every nook and corner of Italy for
the treasures of Cremona He could
neither read nor write this enthusias
tic collector but he could tell a valua
ble fiddle the moment he saw it and
he estimated the worth of the Salabue
Strad so well that after he had ac
quired it he kept it to himself with all
the loving care that its maker had al
ready shown for it Tarisio lived en
tirely alone in a wretched garret in
Milan and one day in the year 1S34 his
neighbors found him lying dead among
a confused heap of Cremonas The old
man had amassed a collection of some
230 instruments the result of a thirty
years hunt and although he had
started life a penniless carpenter he
died worth about 12000 Cornhill
Arctic Mosquitoes
The presence of mosquitoes in myr
iads within the bare uninhabited arc
tic circle is surely in some degree a
mystery The mosquito is a blood
sucker but in these unvisited plains
he is for the most part and of strict
necessity a vegetarian A few birds
excepted and the birds are furnished
with impervious feathers there is no
local life whatever The Lapp in sum
mer drives his reindeer to the sea and
no native crosses the fjeld if he can
help it Yet in this region seemingly
the most unsuitable for its effective
working the mosquito flourishes a
primeval and enduring curse inexpli
cably developed to its utmost Lon
don Chronicle
Land of Surprises
New Zealand is not exactly contigu
ous to or a part of Australia as many
seem to imagine there being a slight
difference of some 1700 miles between
them Things go by contraries in the
land of the kangaroo The farther
north you travel the hotter it is 123
degrees in the shade in Queensland
Lignum vitae which sinks in other wa
ters floats in Australian waters The
Christmas dinner is eaten in Melbourne
and Sydney when it is over 100 degrees
In the shade
What Yon Do
Where you are is of no moment but
only what you are doing there It is
not the place that ennobles you but
you the place and this Is only by doing
that which is noble Home Notes
The MoHt Popular Tree
Ryer Ever study forestry De Voe
De Voe Yes Im working on my fami
ly tree now Brooklyn Life
Niagara Falls
Now In Danger
Treaty WitK Grea Britain May Bo
Necessary to Save the
Grand Old Cat-
eject
T
J
HE widespread agitation in be
half of preserving the scenic
beauty of Niagara falls has
culminated in a movement for
the negotiation of a treaty between tho
United States and Great Britain con
cerning it At first petitions were ad
dressed to the New York legislature
and tho government of the Canadian
province of Ontario but these bodies
have been very liberal hi granting fran
chises for development of the water
power of Niagara for industrial pur
poses Study of the question showed
that the matter was one coming under
tho jurisdiction of the sovereign au
thorities on each side of the interna
tional boundary line In order to pre
vent the great corporations which have
been formed for the purpose of har
nessing the cataract and generating
electricity from drawing off all the wa
ter of the Niagara river at this point it
was seen that the government of the
United States and the government of
Great Britain acting with the advice
and consent of the Dominion govern
ment would have to take action A
few days ago delegations from the
American Civic association and from
the New York Merchants association
called on President Roosevelt and pre
sented a petition praying for the nego
tiation of a treaty for the preservation
of Niagara from destruction by elec
trical power generation companies The
president said he would do all in his
power to preserve the grandeur of the
falls and directed Secretary Boot of
the state department to take up the
matter with the British and Canadian
authorities
When the task of harnessing Niagara
and furnishing electricity generated by
its power was first essayed the cry was
raised that this would result in destroy
ing the natural beauties which for so
many years have drawn tourists thith
er from all over the world But the
cry was quieted then by the state
ments of experts that it would be
many many years before enough pow
er houses could be installed and
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CANADIAN LABORER GOING TO WORK IN
FRONT OF HORSESHOE FAI1I1
tricity generated to affect visibly the
amount of water going over the falls
Several hundred thousand horsepower
of electricity could be developed it
was said before there would be the
remotest danger of detracting from the
grandeur of the cataract by a diminu
tion of the water supply But the elec
trical development on the Niagara fron
tier has progressed so amazingly that
in a short time if all existing fran
chises are employed the fails will be
supplying for industrial use nearly a
million horsepower of electricity and
such an increase in power development
would soon mean a perceptible de
crease in the majesty of the cataract
The Niagara Falls Power company
was the first to develop electricity from
the water power of the falls on a large
scale At first this power was deliv
ered only in the city of Niagara Falls
Then it was carried to Buffalo twenty
two miles away The Pan American
exposition of 1001 advertised the ad
vantages of Buffalo and Niagara Falls
for manufacturing on account of their
possession of Niagara power and in
tlutwo years following that exposition
about 100 new industries located on th
Niagara river between the famous cat
aract and the western limits of Buffalo
New companies were organized for de
veloping power and new power plants
were erected on the brink of the fall
or just below them Those who desire
to preserve the natural beauties of the
region urge that no more water should
be drawn from the river for power
purposes and that no more franchises
for that object should be grante 1 This
might mean arresting the marvelous
industrial development that has taken
place in that vicinity in the past few
years but it is held that if uecessary
such a sacrifice should be made rather
than imperil the preservation of one of
natures great wonders
One of the most interesting of the
engineering feats in connection with
power development at Niagara was the
construction of the plant of the On
tario Power company which lias a
power house on the Canadian side of
the river just below the Horseshoe
fall The engineers and workmen em
ployed upon this undertaking had
many adventures in the course of the
construction work A short time ago
a party of engineers visited the plant
and were served with dinner cooked
entirely by electricity generated from
the falls It Is this concern which ex
pects to deliver electric power from
the falls in Rochester and Syracuse
the latter city being 160 miles from the
source of the supply
TWO ALPHABET LETTERS
J and W Comparatively Recent
Addition to the Llat
It Is a fact not so well known but
Unit it may be said to be curious that
the letters J and w are modern addi
tions to our alphabet The letter J
only came Into general use during the
time of the commonwealth say be
tween 1G49 and 1G3S From 1K50 to
104G its use Is exceedingly rare and I
have never yet seen a book printed
prior to 1G32 In which It appeared
In the century immediately preceding
the seventeenth it became the fashion
to tail the last i when Roman numerals
were used as In this example viij for
8 or xij in place of 12 This fashion
still lingers but only in physicians
prescriptions I believe Where tho
French use J it has the power of s as
we use It In the word vision What
nation was the first to use It as a new
letter is an Interesting but perhaps un
answerable query
In a like manner the printers and
language makers of the latter part of
the sixteenth century began to recog
nize the fact that there was a sound in
spoken English which was without a
representative in the shape of an al
phabetical sign or character as in the
first sound in the word wet
Prior to that time It had always been
spelled as vet the v having the long1
sound of u or of two us together In
order to convey an idea of the new
sound they began to spell such words
as wet weather web etc with
two us and as the u of that date
was a typical v the three words above
looked like this Vvet weather
web
After awhile the typefounders recog
nized the fact that the double u had
come to stay so they joined the two
us together and made the character
now so well known as w I have one
book in which three forms of the w
are given The first is an old double
v vv the next is one in which the
last stroke of the first v crosses the
first stroke of the second and the
third is the common w we use today
New York News
GREAT VOYAGERS
As a General Ilnlc Tliey Crime From
the Smaller CountricH
Portugal is a small country with a
land area one third less than the state
of New York but it has turned out in
its time celebrated navigators Cabral
and Da Souza among them
It is a somewhat peculiar circum
stance in the history of ocean naviga
tion that the chief navigators of Eu
rope have usually been natives of
minor kingdoms and without the ad
vantages which would naturally accrue
to a representative of one of the larger
governments
Christopher Columbus as every
schoolboy knows was a native of
Genoa at the time when the Italian
peninsula was subdivided among nu
merous petty governments John
Cabot was a Venetian Avho sailed in
the service of England as Columbus
had sailed in the service of Spain
Amerigo Vespucci was a Florentine
who sailed originally in the service of
Spain and afterward transferred him
self to the Portuguese service and
then went back to the Spanish service
for a second time
Vitus Bering after whom Bering
strait was called was a Dane by
birth who served under the naval
flag of Russia Magellan after whom
Magellan strait was named was a na
tive of Alemtejo in Portugal and was
the first to complete the circumnaviga
tion of tle globe in 1322
Verazzani was a Florentine whose
voyages of discovery were undertaken
under the protection of the flag of
France Ilendrik Hudson was an
Englishman and it seems surprising to
many persons in this day familiar with
the pre eminence of England as a mari
time nation that he should have been
in the service of the government of
Holland when he discovered Manhat
tan Island
Bottle
Ancient bottles of glass stone and
metal have been found in many parts
of Europe Asia and Africa Perfume
bottles of glass have been discovered
in great numbers in the tombs of
wealthy ladies of Egypt Many bot
tles tumblers and other drinking ves
sels have been dug from the ruins of
Pompeii The most common bottle of
I the ancients however was of leather
the skin of a calf goat or ox beincc
taken off the carcass with as few cuts
as possible and made into a receptacle
for holding water or wine The largest
glass bottle ever blown was made at
Ieith in Scotland in Its ca
pacity was two hogsheads
Bail Ilaliit
So you lost your position we ask
of our young friend who has demand
ed our sympathy
Yes the firm told me I would have
to quit
What reason was given
I smoked cigarettes
Why that seems hardly a sufficient
reason for such drastic action
Yes but I was smoking the boss
cigarettes and he caught me at it
Judge
Matrimonial
Three Germans were sitting at lunch
eon recently and were overheard dis
cussing the second marriage of a mu
tual friend when one of them remark
ed Ill tell you what A man what
marries de second time dont deserve
to have lost his first vife Life
The highways of literature are
spread ovor says Holmes with the
shells of dead novels each of which has
been swallowed at a mouthful by the
public and Is done with
Every
Two Minutes
Physicians tell us that all
the blood in a healthy
human body passes through
the heart once in every two
minutes If this action be
comes irregular the whole
body suffers Poor health
follows poor blood Scotts
Emulsion makes the blood
pure One reason why
SCOTTS
EMULSION
is such a great aid is because
it passes so quickly into
the blood It is partly di
gested before it enters the
stomach a double advan
tage in this Less work
for the stomach quicker
and more direct benefits
To get the greatest amount
of good with the least pos
sible effort is the desire of
everyone in poor health
Scotts Kmulsion dots just
that A change for the
better takes place even be
fore you expect it
nBEaracE
We v ill send you a
sample tree
Be sure titac this
picture in the form of
a lalet b on the wrap
per of e cry bottle of
hmulsion you buy
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