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B 8 OP BEEKMAN WIN THUOP B SUmscgaSajuamumw iujtTiBajuswm Timothy L Woodruff former lieuten ant srovernor of New York who was recenty chosen chairman of the Re publican state committee in place of ox Governor Odell has a camp In the Adirondacks to which he is very much devoted Mr Woodruff though now of middle age is quite well preserved and youthful looking a fact due largely to his athletic habits and fondness for life in his mountain re treat no is a great entertainer and of ten takes large par ties of his friends to the Adirondack camp On one occa sion there were in the WmHM company two Albany - - -- legislators who were timothy x wood poker fiends Poker buff is eschewed at the Woodruff camp but the pleadings of the two legislators were of such a character that Mr Woodruff finally yielded to them and allowed them to start a game but did not play himself until he had been urged so vigorously that he thought it would be boorish to refuse The sequel came the next morning One of the party was asked how long they played and how they came out We played until 1 oclock and Wood ruff got all the money was the reply It was the only way I could get them to bed was Mr Woodruffs ex planation Charles E Courtney who is to re main at Cornell as permanent coach of the university crews has coached the Ithaca oarsmen to victory so many times that it takes an expert in ath letic statistics to tell when the college Las won on the water without Court neys help He is generally acknowl edged to be one of tho greatest oarsmen mm Mfrit c4 Trigytf MS of his time He is worshiped by Cor nell boys today though his path at Cornell at first was anything but rosy Courtney was born on Nov 13 1S49 at Union Springs N Y a little town near the north end of father was a farmer Charles was the youngest of seven children and was but six years old when his father died He seemed In love with the water from infancy up When he was sir years old he learned to swim at seven he had learned to tow and at twelve he built himself a boat At fourteen Captain John Carr taught him how to sail and Courtney refers to him as being responsible for the great Interest he has always taken Jn aquatic sports When Courtney was a young man he read In a magazine of MacGregors Rob Roy canoe and -with a boy friend he set towork to build one like it There was no money and no lumber but they built the boat evenings In a cellar He won many iraccs with that boat and this was tho beginning of his career as a racer Secretary William H Taft who now combines the duties of head of the war department with those of provisional governor ofCuba Is not the only mem Iber of hls family who has won dis tinction IIIrffAlur Alfnivao m 0 e 0 Men In the Limelight 0 e EBKMAN WIN- THROP govern or or i o r t o Rico was wanted very much by Sec retary Taft as hla successor In the tem porary rulership of Cuba President Roosevelt however concluded that ho could not be spared from Porto Rico He Is one of the few Americans who like Taft Magoon lde and Wright have had special training In the administration of Insular affairs and have developed abil ity in tliis field Judge Taft knew his abilities through association with him in the Philippines He Is descended from Robert Wiuthrop first governor Of Massachusetts and was born In New York thirty two years ago lie graduated from Harvard in 1S97 and from the Harvard Law school in 1900 In November 1900 he was appointed private secretary to Judge Taft then governor of the Philippines in which capacity he served until July 1901 when he was made assistant executive secretary of the Philippine Islands He held that ollice until August 1903 and in course of his Incumbency was act ing executive secretary of the Philip pines from October 190U to April 1903 and from November 1903 to May 190 1 when he was made judge of the court of lirst instance A few weeks later President Roosevelt appointed him governor of Porto Rico and he was inaugurated on July 4 His wife was Miss Milsa Riggs Wood of New York Governor Winthrops administration of the affairs of Porto Rico in the past two years has resulted in marked de velopment of the resources of the is- ifflflC 04AHKfliViV 8m ZK Cayuga lake VSXPMX jmWsA Ji WX4 tGZW i niAJlLESE COURT NEY His - secretary of war In Grants cabinet and also attorney general and he served as minister of the United States at the courts of Vienna and St Peters burg All the family seem to k vVj tyL sis 4 X have had a genius for the law Three sons of Grants war secretary and at torney general have attained distinction at the bar Charles P William H and Henry W The first named who was born in 1843 former ly practiced law In Cincinnati and was a member of con gress from Ohio He is now editor and proprietor of the xiexbt w taft Cincinnati Times Star Secretary Taft who used to bo best known as Judge Taft has been judge of the superior court of Ohio and of the United States circuit court and his abilities as a Jurist are such that it is conceded he can have a place In the United States supreme court if he wants it Henry W Taft is a leading member of the New York bar and has been a Republican nominee for justice of the state supreme court He is at present active in the interest of the nonpartisan judiciary ticket which has been placed in the field by the members of the bar of New York Like the other brothers Henry W is a native of Ohio and a graduate of Yale The late May or Strong of New York appointed him a school commissioner but his activity in politics has generally been confined to matters connected with his profes sion In the balloon race from Paris for the international aeronautic cup there were two so galled American entries Lieu tenant Frank P Lahm who won tho land and the abilities of its people He t cup with his balloon United States is the one hundred and twenty fifth is an American and the famous aero- governor of Porto Rico The nrst was naut wno uas uuue so muui w iumuie Juan Ponce de Leon the conqueror an interest in navigation of the air M who assumed office March 2 1310 Alberto Santos Dumont was entered as an American His balloon the Two Americas met with an accident and was thus prevented from making a good showing in the race M Santos-Dumont had to land on the coast of Norman dy instead of at tempting the cross ing of the English channel Lieutenant Lahm and M Santos Dumont represented the Aero Club of America But the lat MS k mm -- w wmSL M SANTOS DUMONT ter is a Brazilian and the fact that he was classed in the race as an Ameri can shows the tendency to broaden the term beyond its customary meaning Ordinarily the term American is equivalent to citizen of the United States but of recent times Canadians Mexicans and even citizens of South American countries have been putting in claims that they too are Americans M Santos Dumont has been a good deal in the United States and may be supposed to have imbibed the pan American spirit He has also lived so much in Paris and is so much identi fied with Prance that many people have taken him for a Frenchman In 1902 M Santos Dumont made this statement In ten years I firmly ex pect that there will be a line of airships crossing the Atlantic ocean at such a rate of speed and with such a degree of comfort that the present day ocean liners magnificent as they are will seem fitted only for freight carriers or for people in search of health which comes from making a journey on the sea That was four years ago There are now but six years more for the fulfill ment of the aeronauts prediction The story of how Mrs Langtry lost the favor of King Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales by playfully dropping a chunk of Ice down his back at a dinner party has often been told But few have heard how Sir Thomas Lipton who is now in this country try ing to arrange for another international yacht race won his majestys gratitude by a somewhat similar performance It seems that for some time past King Edward has suffered from frequent out STB THOMAS LIP TON breaks of nose bleed ing and on occasions too when the conse quences were pecul iarly embarrassing and awkward More than once he has been obliged to beat a hasty and any thing but dignified retreat from a house party dinner table with a handkerchief clapped to his olfac tory organ His phy sicians who might easily have checked a more distressing malady were una ble to stop it One day the king was dining with Sir Thomas Lipton and the royal nose began to spout as though It had been tapped by a prizefighters fist If your majesty will permit me I think I can stop It said the baronet Go ahead and try said the king and if you succeed it will prove that you are cleverer than my doctors It was then that Sir Thomas dropped a bunch of keys down the royal back and the nose bleeding soon ceased The king expressed his gratitude The credit belongs to my mother Bald Sir Thomas She stopped my nose bleeding that way many a time iffijftasassgi sjaeswnygBatawatfaBiMjT rntrww - Ants as Gnests of Plant The ants which are really protective to plants ro not those which obtain their food indirectly for the most part through tbo aphides from the vegeta ble kingdom but -those which are real ly carnivorous These are numerous in temperate climates and their useful ness to agriculture and sylviculture is incontestable Thus the field ant Is a great Insect destroyer A nest of this species Is capable of destroying as many as twenty eight caterpillars and grasshoppers a minute or 1G00 an hour and such a colony Is at work day and night during the pleasant season In the arid plains of America the beneficent work of ants is revealed in the isles of verdure around their hills There are plants hospitable to ants which furnish them shelter and often food within the cavities of which the instincts of the ants prompt them to take their abode This is the case with several ferns among them the Polypodium nectariferum the sterile fronds of which bear nectaries on their lower face and are moreover of a shape favorable to sheltering the In sect in of a Trained XnrHC I used to wonder why it was that I noticed so many young women lugging suit cases all over town said the man on the street corner At first I thought perhaps they were independent young persons who were on their way to the Grand Central station or to the ferry boats to take trains but then I no ticed them in parts of the town where they couldnt possibly be making for a railroad station since they were go ing in the wrong directions Now I have learned who these women are Most of them are trained nurses When they leave the hospitals or their homes to attend a case they pack their uni forms and other necessaries in these suit cases which they carry with them So when you see a young wom an carrying a suit case and bound In a direction away from a boat or railroad station its very likely shes a trained nurse and is either starting out to at tend a case or is returning from one New York Press Colors of tlic Bluebird Of the male bluebird Thoreau said He carries the sky on his back To this John Burroughs added and the earth on his breast The birds back wings and tail chin and throat are a vivid blue while his breast and flanks are a chestnut brown and his abdomen a dirty white The female is very much duller in coloring often having a red dish tone that extends from the middle of the back over the shoulder The Seminole Indians say that the male bluebird once flew so high that his back rubbed against the sky which imparted to him its own azure tint Returning to earth his wife so admired his new coat that she determined to have a like one for herself and the next morning flew away to get it but the day proving somewhat cloudy the col or given to her dress was not so br liant as was that received by her mate Tlie World as It Is A world without mistakes and with out suffering would be a world without real men and women without litera ture without music without painting or sculpture and without love and even without history for history Is a record of struggles toward better and higher things Without obstacles to overcome and errors to correct men and women would lapse to a level with beasts in mentality Intellectual and spiritual development would cease and souls not refined by the fire of ordeals would die of something akin to fatty degeneration The races would perish of ennui or Inanity After all its a pretty fair sort of world as it stands Louisville Courier Journal The Alentlnn Islands Until the time of Peter the Great the Aleutian islands were unknown The famous Russian monarch consumed with curiosity as to the distance be tween Asia and America started in 1723 the first of the expeditions that at last revealed those haunts of the bear the beaver the ermine and the seal But CAptain Cook told more about the islands than did all the Rus sian explorers before him The Prlee If one sets ones heart on the ex ceptional the far off on riches on fame on power the chances are he will be disappointed He will waste his time seeking a short cut to these things There is no short cut For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work patience love self sacrifice no prom ise to pay but the gold of real service His Name An unpopular man who was refused membership in a certain aristocratic club had the audacity to write to the club secretary demanding the name of the man who blackballed him The sec retary could not resist the chance of sending the following reply Sir I have received your letter demanding the name of the man who blackballed you His name is Legion All Aronnd the Clock Grandpa says his stay in the moun tains last summer did him no good His room was right off the piazza and people made love under his window until all hours But couldnt he sleep after the lov ers went to bed No as soon as the lovers went to bed the children got up Harpers Weekly Trvaa Ever Thus I suppose you have found said the plain citizen that every man has his price Yes replied the lobbyist except the man who Is worth buying Phila delphia Press INDIAN0LA The fair is over so is the dust Miss Grace Smith of McCook visited friends last week and at tended the fair A large delegation from Dan bury took in the fair here last week The stock display at the fair was very fine this year The show of vegetables was very good but limited A few accidents occurred during the week Paul McCool while standing near one of the athletic games was accidentally hit and was rendered unconscious A lady was thrown from a wagon and fatally injured Aleck Brown of Missouri Ridge was at the fair with his fine dis play of peaches He has a large bearing orchard of the same that he may well be proud of Mrs Maud Calhoun is visiting with her father this week F Smith of Omaha the artistic painter took his departure from here Friday night sadder but not scber Emmett McCool Frank Shaw and Harry Derrick took advantage of the cheap rates and went to Denver last Friday night and re turned Tuesday morning William Taylor is slightly un der the weather this week and unable to work He is wrestling with a severe cold Mrs Finney went down to brook Sunday and visited her daughter Mrs Ginther Kenneth Smith is among the ailing this week having contract ed a heavy cold Eugene Wilcox and wife arrived in our city Tuesday morning and will make this their home Miss Clara Haigans of Cam bridge was a visitor in the Crab tree home last week She return ed home Saturday morning Flossie Andrews spent Sunday in McCook with her sister Father Mullaly of Chicago is giving a course of lectures at the Catholic church this week Mrs Mikeldowney died Mon day morning after a lingering ill ness at the home of W S Cole man two miles east of town The Christian Endeavorers per petrated a surprise on Rev Haw kins and wife last Monday even ing A royal good time was had and the entire party went home feeling that the evening had been well spent Velton White Luther Lee and Fred Lines went to Arapahoe Tuesday to see the canine races Born to Mr and Mrs Dyer Dragoo Wednesday October 17 a daughter J F Kean of London England delivered a lecture Tuesday even ing at the Methodist church His t theme was On the Slums of London Mr and Mrs Tim Haley went to Denver Friday night to be gone a few days H STA - invested in a package of a Biscuit teaches you many truths That soda crackers are the best of all food made from flour That Uneeda Biscuit are by far the best of all soda crackers That Uneeda Biscuit are always fresh always crisp always nutritious NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY ill Ul 5 Hi WM Wa v UA I Ktaaai K U Kt1 Ifet Phone 31 ajfarvia jj2ur -- u rf v fiiw iv 1 - i 1 ft fffl WJsil BOX ELDER Everyone is rejoicing over the rain Dont forget the Sunday School convention next Tuesday Every body come A number from this vicinity at tended Vanie Modrells sale last Friday There will be a basket supper Hallow een October 31st at the Box Elder schoolhouse The pro ceeds will be for a library Every woman and girl is invited to come and bring a basket and the men and boys come prepared to buy them McCook Tribune 100 per year NOTICE OF SALE UNDER ADJUSTERS LIEN Notice is hereby Riven that by virtue of aa ad juster s lieu for tho pasturing aDd keeping of one bay mare about ten years old weight about 1000 pounds one brown mare with blaze face about ten year3 old weight abont 1000 pouDds from tho 11th day of November 1903 until this date under an implied contract with one John Hawkins owner of said stock on which there is now due tho sum of 11400 An affidavit setting forth the description of said stock and tho amount duo for tho feeding and keopingof said stock having been filed in tho omen Vf th county clerk of this county being th county where said stock was kopt and fed on the 17th day of October 1906 I will sell tho property abovo described at public auction in front of the Citizens Bank in Bed Willow coun ty Nebraska on tho 24th day of November 190t5 at 2 oclock p m said sale to be for cash in hand Dated this ISth day of October 1906 his 10 lMt Chables T X Habeis Witness to mark mark H H Beeey - l a k a k I v i m tr ii M WL Us 5 7fiva inisl The new Vol is not only the best machine in point of mechanism and operation but the greatest care and attention has been devoted to the per fection and finish of every detail so that it is a handsome ornament to any room Only the finest quarter sawed curley white oak is used and the stand is made of the smoothest grey iron hand somely japanned trimmed with polished brass thus making a most attractive and elegant appearance All the wood work is hand finished Its perfect adjustment and roller bearings make it easy running and a wonderful sewer Its beauty makes it attractive to the eye and completes the last detail making the Volo a machine far better than any machine ever before made Our demon stration and your own examination will put one in your home Price 540 Every Volo fully guaranteed McCook Hardware Co W B Mills R B Simmons Successor to W T Coleman M m RED WILLOW Mr Cribben is visiting at Mr Smiths The old gentleman is always welcome at Red Willow It takes all kinds of people to fill up Some of the workmen want to work on Sundays but those building will not allow it The coyotes like chickens and decrease the number very notice ably and are so sly that one can not use a gun on them ream Vermifuge THE GUARANTEED WORM REMEDY THE CHILDRENS FAVORITE TONIC BEWARE OF IMITATIONS THE GENUINE PREPARED ONLY BY Ballard Snow Liniment Co ST LOUIS MO I A McMILLEN - HOLUSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets j A Busy Medicina for Busj jople Brings Goldea Health and Bra ewed Vigor and Swtav r PnsUEatIoni faalMtidu live GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE 1 V 4 o I 4 H t
