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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1906)
H Ill ft m i iii m ii t 4sk V FRANKLIN President A C EBERT CASHIER W B WOLFE Vice President CITIZE FRANKLIN Phone 95 Main Avenue NS OF MeCOOK NEB Paid Up Capital 50000 Surplus 4000 DIRECTORS W B WOLFE BANK Cures a Cold In One Day f Grip in Twa MM 1QSJM Stokes9 Grocery faWas da PHONE 30 CITIZENS BANK BLOCK MCOOK NEB The Wm ILwlllOL SEED C0RN 0UR specialty Seed Grain Grass Seeds Garden Seeds and Poultry Supplies Writo for Price List beed Co Tecumseh Nebraska FREE TO STOCKMEN Beautiful six leaf calendar will be sent by ns absolutely feee to eveht stcok men who may ship his cattle hogs or sheep to market and who will writo us answering tho following questions 1 How many head of stock have you 2 What kind of stock have you not including horses 3 When do you expect to market your stock 4 To what market will you likely ship 5 In what paper did you see this advertisemet This calender will bo ready for distribntion in January It is an exceptionally beautiful artistic and costlo production printed in several colors rcpresnting fox huntingscenes It was mado especially for us cannot bo obtained eleswhere and is worthy a place in tho finest nome Write tts today giving this information and insure getting this calender Address CLAY ROAINSON CO Live Stock Commission Merhants Stock Yaras Sta Kansas City Cans also have our own offices at Chicago South Omaha St Joseph Denver Sioux City So St Paul East Buffalo B jf B X A C EBERT iitti rfVi infra irfflh rffa rli ffa rffti afh flff rTiti dh ilmlf SWWAPWWWW9W avvvv 9 Its a Pleasure to be customer of the New Brick Meat Market They keep a full asssorment of all kinds of meats They treat you so well and so fairly deal with you so squarely that you want to come back Just try it once Paul P Anton sws mw A 1000 LOAN with the Building McCook Co operative Savings Association can be paid off monthly payments 111 tl of P 1 La 50 If you are paying more you pay too much We can mature your loan on smaller monthly payments and less money in the aggregate than any comepting associa tion Call on the secretary who will explain our system Office in First National Bank McCook Building Savings Association Alwuys Remember the Fill Nome Lfi 9 Hrmo Quinine EARLY DIAMOND BUYING South Africna First Find Were Pnl4 For In Cows South Africas first diamonds were paid for in cows The story is told by Joseph B Robinson one of the wealthy pioneers of that country In 1S79 he gave eight oxen and a wagon loaded with sugar and robacco to a native Iv exchange for a twenty three carat gem The news spread like wildfire through the countryside that a whito man was giving away wagons ano oxen ror Dits of stone he says I set all the natives who came to work to seek for diamonds on one side of the Vaal river and I brought up my owd fifty men to hunt for diamonds among the bushes and scrub on the other side of the stream I had bought the land on both sides of the river so that I was working on my own property Next morning at sunrise when I was having my coffee I was startled by a loud hullabaloolng and looking out I saw the whole gang of my men Tushlng toward me in a state of wild excitement One of them had found a diamond of good size They all had come to see what I would do with it What will you give me for It said the finder I will give you ten cows I replied and sent the man into the herd to take his pick He marked ten of the best cows as his own The men had never dreamed of making such a bargain Ten cows for a bit of stone Off they went again and found dia monds every day They became rich and I accumulated a good store of precious stones After we had accumulated a large quantity we decided we would better send them to London We made a belt full of small pockets In each of which we placed a diamond When the belt was filled my partner girded it about his body and started for Cape Town He never took off the belt until he reached London And it was in this way the first consignment of African diamonds reached London APACHE SHREWDNESS The Imlinns Dalt Was Good hut the White Man Didnt Bite With the Apaches a really brava man does not stand as high In public estimation as does a clever thief His chief excellence from an Apache stand point lies in his ability to outwit the white man says Mr Cremony the au thor of Life Among the Apaches I was sitting says Mr Cremony in front of my tent writing a letter when n young Apache came up and asked what I was doing I replied I was talk ing to my friend In Washington How can you talk to your friend so faraway When an Apache wishes to talk of speed to a distant friend I answered he sends him a picture of a bird if he talks of something sweet he sends a picture of a flower Instead of pictures the white man has these little signs which all understand The Indian took up the letter and scrutinized it -carefully I do not believe you he said You try to make a fool of me These little signs are all alike I will give you proof I will write on this little piece of paper that the sutler is to give you some tobacco Go take it to the store and see if I do not speak the truth The Indian snatched the paper and was off A few minutes later I saw him slowly coming toward me a piece of tobacco in his hand and a look of be wilderment on his face Suddenly his expression changed to satisfaction and he hurried forward Did you get the tobacco I asked Yes but I do not believe you You and he had an understanding before so that you might deceive me Now If you will write some more of those little signs on paper telling the sutler to give me much more tobacco and if he does then I will believe you But the Indians ruse failed I did not rise to the occasion Walnuts and Butternuts The city boy on a visit to the country Is often puzzled in trying to distinguish black walnuts and butternuts In the green state The leaves are almost alike being compound and having a variable number of leaflets arranged on a long stem The butternut stem has from nine to seventeen leaflets and the black walnut from fifteen to twenty three The teeth on the latter are larger and sharper than those on the butternut and lack the fuzzy stem but the real distinguishing feature Is the odor Hav ing once smelled the crushed leaves of a butternut and a black walnut a per son can never fail to know them there after St Nicholas His Own Self There is a time in every mans edu cation when he arrives at the convic tion that envy Is ignorance that Imi tation Is suicide that he must tak himself for better for worse as his portion that though the wide uni verse Is full of good no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toll bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till Emerson Absolutely Necessary Nan I dont see why Miss Mugley should want to marry him with all her money Dick I guess she had to I dont believe hed have taken her with out It Philadelphia Press The Best Way Barber Shall I take a little of tho ends of your hair off sir Customer Yes I think you had better take it off at the ends unless you can get it out of the middle New Yorker The very curse of an evil deed Is that It must always continue to engender evil Horr a Serman Bnby i Swathed Of all Housewives in Europe proba bly the German Is the hardest worked and of all European mothers the Ger man practices most completely the art of swathing and padding her baby and of putting it on the shelf The German baby Is swaddled In a long narrow pil low which Is made to meet completely round him being tucked up over his feet and turned undsr his solemn chin Three bands of gay blue ribbons are then passed rouiid the whole bundle and tied In large florid bows about where his chest his waist and his an feles may be supposed to be Lead Pipe to Keep Razor Sharp Lead pipe will keep your razor sharp confided the garrulous barber Get a short piece of the smallest softest lead pipe your plumber has in stock and keep it handy when you are stropping the razor The scheme is to rub the strop with the pipe It works best with a plain leather strop Apply the pipe just as you would strop the razor to the un finished side of the leather Strop your razor on that side wind up with a few passes on the finished side of the strop and you will have a first class edge on the tool I never took the trouble to get a scientific explanation of the vir tues of lead pipe as an aid to whetting but it is all to the good in that respect Philadelphia Record J7ow It Affects Them An Alpine guide who has had many years experience in mountaineering thus describes the behavior of differ ent nationalities when they get to the top of a peak A German he Bays as soon as he ar rives at the top wants to know the ex act height of the mountain he Is on and of every peak around him A Frenchman goes Into raptures over the wildness of the scenery and the beauties of nature and sometimes ac companies his remarks by an attempt to embrace his guide The Englishman when he has done his peak plunges his Ice ax into tho snow looks around him and then says I say open the baskets and lets have something to eat Length of the Law The phrase the length of the law owes its origin to the enormous length of some of the parchment rolls upon which the ancient statutes of Great Britain were inscribed The present day official title of the master of the rolls is a reminder of this ancient cus tom Some faint idea of the bulk of the English records may be obtained from the fact that a single statute the land tax commissioners act passed In the first year of the reign of George rv measures when unrolled upward of GOO feet An Ibsen Theory In one of the published letters of Ibsen he says that while he was writ ing one of his plays he had on his desk an empty ale glass with a scorpion in it Now and then the animal would grow sick and the author would throw a piece of soft fruit to IT whereupon the scorpion would fall upon the food furiously empty its poison Into It and then get well again Is It not a good deal like this with us poets Ibsen continues Natures laws apply In the domain of the spirit also A Lone Sentence of Six Letters Here is a sentence of thirty two words which some ingenious person has constructed of the six letters found in the word maiden Ida a maiden a mean man named Ned Dean and Me dia a mad dame made me mend a die and dime and mind a mine In a dim den in Maine Mixed Casey Tis hard luck about Kearney 01 hear he had to have his leg cut off bechune the ankle an the knee Cas Bldy Ay the docthers decided that to Bave the whole leg theyd have to cut off part of it Philadelphia Press So Mncli For Mamma Papa I hear you were a bad girl to day and had to be whipped Small Daughter Mamma Is awful strict If Id a known she used to be a school teacher Id a told you not to marry her Occult Powers Miss WItherspoon Do you believe Mr JImsby that there Is In us a sixth sense as yet undeveloped perhaps nev er to be developed JImsby Yes maam horse sense REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THK Citizens Bank of McCook of McCook Nobraskn Chaeteu No 27G Incorporated in tbo state of Nebraska at the close of business February 17 1906 nnsouKcns Loans and discounts S2 I3 J9 93 Overdrafts secured and unsecured 349 58 Banking house furniture andfixtures 16000 00 Current expenses and taxes paid 443 10 Duo from nationalttato and private banks and bankers S7997 25 Checks and items of exelinin isr7 M Cash Bills 8470 00 Specie 3357 13 101391 CI Total 361624 22 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in 50000 00 Surplusfund syjo 00 - Uk iJlUO Individual deposits subjectto check 137959 60 Demand certificates of de posit 45350 29 Time certificates of deposit 61393 00 Cashiers checksoutstanding 1K574 77 Due to stato and private banks and bankers 38750 11 302027 77 Total 361624 22 State of Nebraska County of Red Willows I A C Ebert cashier of the above named bank do solemnly swear that the above state ment is correct and a truo copy of tho report I A C Ebert Cashier Attest V Franklin Director James Doyle Director Subscribed and sworn to before mo this 17th day of February 1906 11 II Beimiy Seal Notary Public My commission expires October 8 1907 To Cure a Cold In One Day Take laxative bromo qitinijje tablets All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure E W Groves signature is on each box 25c Cash Received on Account Charge Paid Out and other cash register printed supplies at TheTkibuxe office Keep the little ones healthy and happy Their tender sensitive bodies require gentle healing remedies Hollisters Eocky Mountain Tea will keep them strong and well 35 cents tea or tablets L W JMcConnell Parties wishing to have The Tribune print their sale bills can have the copy prepared by bringing the description of the articles they have to offer for sale to this office There will be no ch preparing the copy and thebills will be promptly and accurately printed at a moderate cost Are You Tired Nervous and Sleepless Nervousness and sleeplessness are us ually due to the fact that the nerves are not fed on properly nourishing blood they are starved nerves Dr Pierces Golden Medical Discovery makes pure rich blood and thereby the nerves are properly nourished and all the organs of the body are run as smoothly as machin ery which runs in oil In this way you feel clean strong and strenuous you are toned up and invigorated and you arc good for a whole lot of physical or mental work Best of all the strength and in crease in vitality and health are lasting The trouble with most tonics and med icines which have a large booming sale for a short time is that thev are largely composed of alcohol holdingthe drugs in solution This alcohol shrinks up the red blood corpuscles and in tbo im greatly injures the system One may feel exhilarated and better for the time being yet in the end weakened and with vitality decreased Dr Pierces Golden Medical Discovery contains no alcohol Every Dottle of it bears upon its wrapper Tlie Badge of Honesty in a full list of all its several ingredients For the druggist to oner you something he claims is just as good is to insult your intelligence Every ingredient entering into tho World famed Golden ArnHr nl nicm nM has the unanimous approval and endorse ment of the leading medical authorities of all the several schools of practice No other medicine sold throiich druggists for like purposes has any such endorsement The Golden Medical Discovery not only produces all the good effects to bo obtained from the use of Golden Seal root in all stomach liver and bowel troubles as in dyspepsia biliousness con stipation ulceration of stomach and Rowels and kindred ailments but tho Golden Seal root used in its compound ing is greatly enhanced in its curative ac tion by other ingredients such as Stone root Black Cherrybark Bloodroot Man drake root and chemically pure triple refined glycerine The Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free in paper covers on receipt of 21 one cent stamps to pay the cost of mail ing only For 31 stamps the cloth bound volume will be sent Address Dr E V Pierce Buffalo N Y Dr Pierces Pleasant Pellets euro con stipation biliousness and headache aBmrtr3wamirammMaBcn3xamammaammtmmaammmiamMMmmaMat In this guise he can be deposited as an ornament either on the sumptuous best bed or on the kitchen dresser or on the drawing room table IIoav fond the Germans are of this presentment of baby may be guessed from the fact that It figures largely In their picture books among their dolls and even In the bakers shops at Easter time made of dough and covered with sugar to be devoured by greedy live babies Strand Magazine Looks After the Cents A simple illustration will show the care that is taken of cents by one of the big banks of Chicago Stamped postal cards are not used and not one of the thousands of routine letters that are written every day is stamped or sealed until the whole routine mail of the day is assembled In the afternoon Then all the cards and letters to one correspondent are put in a single en velope and except for letters from the officers and the like the bank comes as near as possible to get its entire mail carried at 2 cents an ounce or a cent for every postal card instead of often paying 2 cents for a quarter of an ounce as It would have to do if every communication were sealed and stamp ed separately This little matter of getting full value out of a two cent stamp makes a sang of from 25 to 30 a day Worlds Work They Give SATISFACTION B M HIGH PATENT UP-TO-DATE HIGH PATENT BUFFALO HIGH PATENT Famous Kearney Mills This famous flour is sold by PAUL P ANTON to an increasing number of satisfied patrons Try a sack Youll be satisfied Dr E O Vahue I PHONE 190 T Office over Bee Hive DENTIST I MSMifeJAiMii kJJLWttujoqpj - fly Mmmf nmra m Tribune Clubbing List For convenience of readors of TnE Teibcne wo have made arrangements with tho following newspapers and ponodicals whereby we can supply them in combination with TnE Teibcne at tho following very low prices with publication price tbibune Detroit 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constipation stomach and troublesrlieumatismnenralgia sciatica Br kiid sdisease kidney dizziness nervousness feS obety interrupted nutrition - slow growth in children and all wastingdiseasl esin adults deformities club feet curvature of the spine of the brain paralysK epilepsj heart dropsj swelling of the limbs stricture oixn ores pain in tho bones granular enlargements and all long standing diseases properly treated BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES imJOSi blotcJe eruptions liver spots fall ing of tlie hair bad complexion eczema throat ulcers bone pains bladder troublesweak back burning unne passing urine too often Tho effects of constitutional sickness or tho taking of too much injurious medicine receivos searrb 1 iiiF rrnn rnnnf a i -- H jiiumpt renei anu a cure lor life Diseases of women irregular menstruation falling of the womb bearing down nalnV fSl maie uisniarpmonfo nr or irvrr jub or narrenness consult Dr 1 i Caldwell and she will show them the causeof their trouble and the way to become cured CANCER GOITER FISTULA PILES and enlarged glands treated with th oi eons injection method absolutely without nain and without the loss of a drop of bloodKne of her own discoveries and is roallytl e most scientific and certainly sure method of thta ad vancedage Dr Caldwell has practiced her profession in some o tho largest hosDitalS throughout tho country Sho has latalv nSiiJLi cass fcasft saaaSHr vice one dollar to thoso interested DR ORA CALDWELL CO Omaha Nebraska chlcasjo IHInoiS Address all letter to 105 Bee Building Omaha 4 m M