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1 n Br - - rap p i j 1 invested i a package of H i teaches you many truths m That soda crackers are the best of all food made from flour Si A That UneocSa Iscult are by far the best of all soda crackers XjtK W That Uneeda Biscuit are always fresh always crisp always ffljj I NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY I Dr Pierces Favorite Prescription Is a powerful invigorating tonic impart ing health and strength in particular to the organs distinctly feminine The local womanly health is so intimately related to the general health that when -diseases of the delicate womanly organs are cured the whole body gains in health and strength For weak and sickly v mien who are worn out run down or debilitated especially for women who work in store oiliec or schoolroom who sit at the typewriter or sewing machine or bear heavy household burdens and for nursing mothers Dr Pierces Favorite Prescription has proven a priceless benefit because of its health restoring and strength giving powers As a soothing and strengthening nerv ine Favorite Prescription is un equalcd and is invaluable in allaying and subduing nervous excitability irritabil ity nervous exhaustion nervous prostra tion neuralgia hysteria spasms chorea or St Vitus s dance and other distressing nervous symptoms commonly attendant upon functional and organic disease of the womanly organs It induces refresh ing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and despondency Cures obstinate cases Favorite Pre scription is a positive cure for the most complicated and obstinate cases of fe male weakness painful periods irregu larities prolapsus or falling of the pelvic organs weak back bearing down sensa tions chronic congestion inflammation sand ulceration Dr Pierces medicines are made from harmless but efficient medical roots found growing in our American forests The Indians knew of the marvelous cura tive value of some of these roots and im parted that knowledge to some of the friendlier whites and gradually some of the more progressive pnysicians came to test and use them and ever since they have grown in favor by reason of their superior curative virtues and their safe and harmless qualities Your druggists sell the Favorite Pre scription and also that famous altera tive blood purifier and stomach tonic the Golden Medical Discovery Write to Dr Pierce about your case He is an experienced physician and will treat your case as confidential and without charge for correspondence Address him at the Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute Buffalo If Y of which he is chief con sulting physician JOHN E KELLEY ATTORNEY AT LAW and BONDED ABSTRACTEB McCook Nebraska SAKsnt of Lincoln Land Co and of McCook Water Works Oflico in Postollice building FRED R BRUNS Barber Shop Bath Booms Rear Citizens bank C H Boyle - cjkt - C E Eldeed Co Atty BOYLE ELDRED Attorneys at Law Long Distance Phono 44 Rooms 1 and 7 second floor iUCLOOK fleD Postoffice Building DR H M IRELAND Osteopathic Physician Kelley Office Bldg Phone No 13 McCOOK NEB Consultation free Write JAKE BETZ McCook Neb for terms on Auctioneering He will do your work right DR R J 6UNN DENTIST Mo n2 1 Office Booms 3 and 5 Walsh Blk McCook HOLLISTERS Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Bubj Medicine for Busy People Brings Golden Health and Benewed Vigor A specific for Constipation Indigestion Live and Kidney Troubles Pimples Eczema Impure Blood Bad Breath Siuggish Bowels Headache and Backache Its Rocky Mountain Tea in tab let form 35 cents a box Genuine made by HoLLisTER Dnuo Company Madison Wis VQLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE THE GULF OF MEXICO Americas Mediterranean and Its Iromlse For the Future The gulf of Mexico is a sea 1000 miles long from the straits of Florida to the harbor of Tainpico and S00 miles wide from the mouth of the Mississippi river to the mouth of the Coatzacoalcos This Mediterranean of the west is surrounded by countries of extraordi nary richness in the fertility of their soil the geniality of their climates the vastness and value of their for ests and the variety and extent of their mineral endowments All these countries capable of sus taining hundreds of millions of people are inhabited by nations and races whp live under republican forms of government kand cherish and maintain free institutions The northern coast line of this important sea is in the great republic of the United States of North America The southern half is in the next greatest American-republic that of Mexico while on the east are the important islands of the West Indies with Cuba at their head The region around this most important sea is destined to be far richer more pow erful and more distinguished in the history and affairs of our globe than were ever those that bordered the ancient Mediterranean of the eastern hemisphere not even excepting Egypt Grece and Rome New Orleans Pica yune St Albnn and His Teacher By some strange irony St Alban the martyred but possibly mythical Roman soldier whose festival falls on June 22 has quite overshadowed his probably historic instructor St Amphibalus whose anniversary comes on the following day About Am phibalus we know that he was a na tive of Caerleon which the golden legend expresses by dubbing him a princes son of Wales in grete araye He was buried at Redbourne but translated to St Albaus abbey where his cup was preserved which they of the common sort call St Affa belle Bolle In former times children were frequently christened with his name and Affabell Partridge was gold smith to Queen Elizabeth Westmin ster Gazette Dunkirks Fete of Lanterns One of the quaintest of the numer ous yearly fetes still in honor at Dun kirk is the fete of lanterns instituted many hundreds of years ago in honor of St Martin bishop of Tours who died in 396 and who was one of the prelates by whose efforts the early in habitants of these parts were convert ed to Christianity As soon as dusk sets in the celebration commences and all the urchins of the town congregate in the main thoroughfares Each one bears a paper lantern some of which are of considerable proportions being shaped in the form of a ship or a flower With lanterns in hand and blowing lustily on horns and trum pets the crowd of youngsters parades the streets London News Faith Cure Elephants The temple elephant in southern In dia is the object of great respect for physical contact with him is supposed to do more good to the human body than the best medicine Adult men and women warily feel his legs with their finger tips and press tl m rev ently to their eyes and ailing children are for a small consideration carried on his back the distance of a few strides that they may be cured Madras Mail He Understood Walk right in dear Your sup pers ready your slippers are right where you can find them easily and your pipe and tobacco are on the writ ing desk handy for you All right Molly groaned the tired suspicious husband You can get that new dress tomorrow A Little Bitter I noticed Miss Giglets at the service today and it struck me as very strange that she never once said Amen No Shes such a man hater that she wont mention the men in any way Cleveland Plain Dealer A FAMOUS DANCER Sir Christopher Hntton Won Royal Honors by His Grace In Queen Bess time Sir Christopher Ilatton won his way to the lord chan cellorship by his ability or agility in terpslchorean lines He first attracted the notice of Queen Elizabeth by his graceful dancing in a mask at court lie henceforth became a reigning fa vorite and his promotion was rapid He was successively made a gentle man of the queens privy chamber captain of the board of gentlemen pen sioners the bodyguard vice chamber lain and a member of the privy coun cil This delight of the queen to honor him caused much envy Complaints were uttered that under the existing government nothing could be obtained by any others than dancers and car pet knights such as the Earl of Lin coln and Master Ilatton On the death of Lord Chancellor Bromley the queen offered Ilatton the great seal Even while chancellor Sir Christopher exhibited his skill in dancing Attend ing the marriage of his nephew and heir with a judges daughter he was decked according to the custom of the age in his official robes and when the music struck up he doffed them threw them down on the floor and saying Lie there Mr Chancellor danced the measures of the nuptial festivity St James Gazette A Tongue Twister Try it yourself very slowly and care fully until you can say it easily then pass it along to your friends Here it is She stood at the gate welcoming him in Ten to one a person trying to pro nounce the sentence for the first time will fumble it laughably Tongue twisting sentences however are good elocutionary exercises They give you control of your vocal organs so that you can enunciate properly just as finger exercises on the piano or organ give control of the fingers What an immense amount of mechanical prac tice does it require to establish any thing like a close sympathy between the brain and the physical organs Elasticity of Sniders Webs Did you ever watch a spiders web on a windy day If so you will notice how wonderfully it accommodates itself to the swaying of the twigs to which it is attached It is in fact elas tic of the very finest quality Were it not for its elasticity the poor spider would not long survive The first breeze would rend the silken meshes of the web to atoms and the owners stock of new materal would very soon be exhausted in repairs and renewals Besides its elasticity the spiders web is very sticky a property which ac counts for the ease wherewith it holds insects when once caught Very Polite The politest man has been discovered He was hurrying along the street the other night when another man also in violent haste rushed out of a doorway and the two collided with great force The second man looked mad while the polite man taking off his hat said My dear sir I dont know which of us Is to blame for this violent encoun ter but I am in too great a hurry to Investigate If I ran into you I beg your pardon if you ran into me dont mention it And he tore away with redoubled speed Chicago Journal Nerve The great requisite for playing cards or the horses remarked Mr Everwise Is nerve Yes answered young Miss Torklns it must take a great deal of nerve tc enable a man to come home so often and tell his folks that still further economy will be necessary Wash ington Post Accounted For Its strange said the piano teacher that you cant learn to run the scales correctly That is probably one of the traits I inherited from father replied the young lady pupil He made his mon ey in the grocery business you know New Orleans Times Democrat HIRAM KING OF TYRE The Phoenician Monarch and Hi Ef fort to Imitate the Deity nirani the Phoenician monarch strove to imitate God by erecting four mighty pillars upon which he caused seven heavens apartments to be built The first was constructed of glass H00 by 500 yards storing therein mock im ages of the sun moon aud stars The second compartment of Iron 1000 by 1000 yards was the receptacle of pre cious stones causing ai terrific noise resembling thunder when they crashed against each other aud the casement of the inelosure The third chamber was of lead 1500 by 1500 yards The fourth was of tin 2000 by 2000 yards The fifth was of copper 200 by 2500 yards The sixth was of silver 3000 by i000 yards The seventh was of gold JlnOO by o500 yards containing precious stones pearls and a magnifi cent throne A channel of water sep arated the apartments Hiram imitating the royal splendor of the court of King Solomon sur rounded himself by the grandest con ceivable display of magnificence In the seventh apartment was stationed a golden bed the corners of which were set in pearls without value in all the world sparkling forth beautiful flashes resembling lightning which spread wonder and terror among his subjects The piophct Ezeklel was ordered to appear before Hiram who at a loss as to how to reach the seven heavens wherein the monarch presii d was transported into his castle by the locks of his hair Upon perceiving the di vine messenger Hiram trembled Who art thou thundered the indignant har binger of future events Why dost thou boast Art thou not born of wo mans womb I am replied Hiram but I live forever Like Gdti dwelling oyer wa ters dwell I Like him reigolog over seven heavens I rule in seven apart ments As God is surrounded by light ning and thunder so am I God has stars in heaven so ha vo I Many sov ereigns have succumbed to mortality and I still exist Twouty ono kings of the house of Isimel and David twenty prophets and ten high priests have de parted this earth but I outlive them all Why dost thou boast again de manded Ezekiel Because thou didst supply the cedars for Solomons teiuidul This puts me in minfl of a subject who pre pared a splendid garment for his sov ereign and as often as the servant gazed at the glorious piece of work ho boastingly remarked This is my manufacture until the king observ ing his vmity tore it off in disgust Seh will he thy lot The temple which thou lielpest to build will be destroyed What will then become of thy pride Where They Have Time to Re Polite Copenhagen Denmark is a city of canals and cleanliness a land of pure delight free from beggars organ grinders and stray dogs The inhab itants thereof are born courteous and seem never to have recovered from the habit When a passenger boards a car in Copenhagen he exchanges greetings with the conductor A gentleman on leaving the car usually lifts his hat in acknowledgment of a salute from that official When a fare is paid the con ductor drops it into his cash box thanks the passenger and gives him a little paper receipt He offers change with a preliminary Be so good and the passenger ac cepts with thanks If in addition transfers are required complimentary exchanges go on indefinitely Yet there is always time enough in Copen hagen Caroline Domett in Four Track News Scotland and Whlhlcy One of the grossest misconceptions from which Scotland suffers says a writer is that her national drink is and always has been whisky But this is just as untrue neither more nor less as that the national garb of Scotland is the kilt Whisky like the kilt is a purely Celtic or highland product and up to the middle of the eighteenth cen tury it was just as unfamiliar in the lowlands as the clan tartans It was only after the 45 that the highlanders began to settle in the lowlands and bring their whisky with them but be fore that the national drink of the lowlanders had been ale and Souter Johnny got roarin fou not on whisky but on strong beer The Fates Fable teaches that the fates were three goddesses holding one a spindle another a distaff and the third a pair of shears They spun the thread of human life then cut it off and mens destiny was either happy or unhappy according to the texture of the wool employed by these inexorable deities Might it not be said that here below we play more or less the part of the fates It is we who in some degree mold our own destinies Pittsburg Press Another Shock Yes said the waiter this cafe Is thoroughly up to date We cook by electricity Is that so said the guest pointing to a platter Then will you please give that beefsteak another shock Detroit Free Press ShaT inpjs By the great omelet clucked the old hen as she cuddled down upon the thirteen eggs this nest is made of excelsior No doubt about it this is going to be a shaving set Watsons Magazine Tis not necessity but opinion that makes men miserable and when we come to be fancy sick theres no cure DIZZINESS Various Causes That Ilrintc About nn Attaclc or Vertigo Dizziness or vertigo scientific writ ers sometimes try to distinguish in sense between these two words but practically in popular usage they mean the same thing is a disturbance of relation to the outside world a loss cf the sense of equilibrium The sen sation persists even when the eyes are closed There Is more or less inability to walk straight or even to stand still and often there Is nausea followed by vomiting Vertigo is due to a disturbance either actual or reflex of the nervous center of equilibrium in the back part of the brain or In the semicircu lar canals In the ear in which the ter minations of the nerves coining from the center of equilibrium are distrib uted For the most part vertigo is a reflex trouble due to some Impression which gets shunted off its own route as it were through nerve fibers con necting with the equlibrium center and acts upon the semicircular canals of the ear Thus it is that dizziness is a comparatively trivial affection as a rule disagreeable enough but brief and of no great significance except as a symptom of trouble elsewhere in the body Persistently recurring transient diz ziness Is often due to eye strain that Is to say to errors in the formation of the eye not corrected by proper glasses Wearers of spectacles can frequently tell when a change in the eyes has oc curred necessitating a corresponding change in the glasses by the coming back of these attacks of giddiness es pecially when the gaze is suddenly moved from a near object to a remote one or the reverse Vertigo Is a common symptom of dis orders of digestion seated either in the stomach or the intestine The treat ment for this form Is of course to treat the indigestion or constipation Another more serious variety of diz ziness depends upon disease of the heart or of the blood vessels especially those of the brain Any disease of the ear is apt to be associated with more or less vertigo The same is true of tumor or other disease of the brain especially of the cerebellum that part of the brain in which the center of equilibrium is situ ated The dizziness of seasickness as well as that of swinging or of rapidly turn ing about is thought to be caused by an irritation of thjierves in the semi circular canals b5 the striking against them of the fluid in these canals Youths Companion SOME FIRST OCCASIONS The first canal was made in Eng land when nenry I joined the Trent to the Witham in 1134 Quill pens came Into use in 553 the first steel ones in 1820 when the first gross of them sold for 30 The first pocket handkerchiefs util ized in the manner they are today were manufactured at Paisley in 1743 From the press of the celebrated Wynken de Worde the first book con taining musical characters was Issued in 1495 The first coins were struck in brass about 11S4 B C and In gold and silver by Pheldon tyrant of Argos about SG2 B C About 70 A D the first glass bottle was made by the Romans although the manufacture was not taken up iu England until 155S Movable scenery was first used in theaters in 150S It was invented by Baldassare Ieruzzi and displayed In Rome before Leo X Plinys Natural History may be re garded as the first encyclopedia since it contained 30000 facts compiled from 2000 books by 100 authors Declined Her Own Medicine There is always more or less talk current about abolishing position and dispersing pelf The trouble is to know jut where to begin the destruc tive reconstruction and to find reform ers who are willing themselves to be reformed An English great lady was once entertaining the labor member of parliament Henry Broadhurst the Duke of Arcyll and others at her coun try seat She was a strong Liberal and one evening inveighed against the house of lords It would be swept away If it did not reform she said with fervor Yes agreed Broadhurst and how will you like that Mrs P Lady P if you please sir Instant ly corrected Broadhursts hostess drawing ha 5elf up haughtily A Itiver of Denth Before the English occupation of In dia it was estimated that the Ganges carried to the sea every year 1000000 dead bodies It was then considered by the Hindoos that the happiest death was one found in its waves and all pious Hindoos who could do so were carried to its banks and placed in Its waters to die The decaying carcasses along its banks were probably respon sible in no small degree for the pesti lences which formerly desolated the peninsula Hard Work Mrs A Im surprised that your husband earns so little If he works as hard as you say What does he do Mrs B The last thing he did was to calculate how many times a clock ticked in the course of 1000 years London Tit Bits The Hero It must be nice to be a hero re marked the quiet man It is for a minute replied Senator Badger After that the hero won ders at the worlds bad memory Milwaukee Sentinel YOU WOULD DO WELL TO SEE J M Rupp FOR ALL KINDS OF Rrjn Qpfc P O Box lU McCook Nobraska McCook Tribune 1 the Year J U UttLL miruuun AGENT FOR THE CELEBRATED Fairbury Hanchett Windmill This is a warranted and guaran teed windmill nothing bottor in the market Writo or call on Mr Ball before buying PHONE BLACK 307 3 iWSWA Mike Walsh DEAIERLN POULTRY and EGGS Old Rubber Copper and Brass Highest Market Price Paid in Cash Now location just across struot in P Walsh ImilriiiiK flcCook - Nebraska 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