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Complete Assortment of
Spring Goods
Ever shown in McCook we
now have in stock and in
vite your early inspection
Our Summer Wash Goods
are duplicates of those shown on State street Chicago
and present the most beautiful and stylish combinations
of colors and shades ever before produced
AH the New Silks
in plaids checks and Roman stripes as well as a full
assortment of plain colors in all the popular shades you
will find at our silk counter at the same low pricts as
heretofore sold by us SILKS HAVE ADVANCED
GREATLY but by visiting the eastern markets early
we succeeded in securing our present stock at former
prices
CHAMPAGNE LEATHER BROWN COPEN
HAGEN BLUE and GRAY are the prominent shades
with navy and black and white checks and plaids follow
ing closely in favor These we are showing in all the
weaves of WOOL and COTTON SUITINGS
We are again to enter a big White season and
our stock of white dress goods embroideries etc was
never more complete
Our fun stock of
Dress Skirts and Waists
is now in and our beautiful assortment of SUITS and
SPRING JACKETS will be here within the coming
week We will furnish you the best garments from our
Suit and Skirt Department
ever shown before in Red Willow county Call and look
over the new advance spring goods We will take pleas
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Tub two cent railrond faro bill has
been passed by both houses of tho legis
lature signed by Speaker Nettleton and
Lieutenant Governor Hopewell and is
now in the hands of Governor Sheldon
who is expected to sign the measure af
ter ho has had time to give it the care
ful perusal it demands The house
passed the measure by a vote of 91 to 0
and the senate by a vote of 26 to 4
RED WILLOW
Mrs Owens Longnecker visited
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Mr Calvins on Monday
Mrs Sheridan and Mrs Charley
Allen called to see Nellie Longnecker on
Monday
Laura Ruggles is at Mrs McNeils
thid week
Mr and Mrs Byfield were to see Mrs
John Longnecker on Sunday
Walter Stjrk the Watkins man was
in the neighborhood this week
Mrs L J Burtless visited friends at
Red Willow a day or two this week
Arthur Iioagland and family started
to drive through to their new home on
Tuesday morning
Gabrilla Longnecker returned home
with Mrs Burtless to stay several days
There was a quiet wedding at John
Longnecker on Feb 24 when Owens
Longnecker was united in marriage to
Nellie A Shields of Springfield 111
Dr Finch performing the ceremony
Only the immediate friends present
Mr and Mrs Jacob Randel had a
silver wedding on Saturday A number
were present and there were many
presents and such a dinner as Mrs
Randl can give
BARTLEY
Mr McKnight is moving his restaur
ant and grocery into the Rouse building
and will be much better located than
formerly
Mr Stark and family and Mr Wilson
and family are moving into their new
homes in the south part of town
Harry Brown and his children are on
the sick list
We had an all around mix up here
last week with George Chandler Jack
DeArmond Will Staats and Lente Bush
A trial was held Mouday before his
honor Squire Matthews No attorney
appeared for the state S R Smith
from Indianola appeared for the defence
The result was that Lente Bush was
bound over to court next term
Miss Gertrude Clement is very seri
ously sick with what the doctor diagnos
ed appendicitis
Perry Ginther has moved to town and
takes possession of the Bartley mill
Everyone wishes him success in the
business
Mr and Mrs Harry Athey have
moved into Mr Theobalds house
A F McCord is over near Cambridge
moving a building for Mrs Joakun
formerly Mrs Yontz
Henry Burton of Wauneta visited in
Bartley and took back a span of bron
choes Floyd Hodgkin went with him
for a visit
The doctors are very busy now
Several parties sick with grippe
Rev Heggeman is holding a revival
meeting at the Dry Creek ME church
Mr and Mrs Fred Hunt Work will
move into their property in Bartley
first of next week
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Mr Guy Ritchie and Miss
Daisy Bush at the home of the brides
parents Mr and Mrs William Bush Jr
next week
Mr and Mrs Floyd Ford will return
to McCook next week We regret their
going They have been conducting the
Bartley hotel for the past year and have
given satisfaction to the traveling public
and home boarders We are informed
they would remain here if the hotel
could be rented for a fair living price
We hope Dr Hathorn will soon put up
a new hotel and accommodate the public
Mrs CE Matthews and Mrs Will
Finch are each on the sick list
The Nebraska Telephone Co have
this week put on cross arms and two
extra wires from McCook to Bartley
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Effects of DcafiicsN
An ear specialist insists that deafness
affects all the senses He says the rea
son for this is that the ear is only one
servant of the sensory service of the
human system Loss of hearing is
really a partial paralysis of the brain
but owing to the sympathetic connsc
tion of the various sensory nerve cen
ters of the brain the others indirectly
concerned have to combat for their
very life the demoralizing influence of
the affected center
Consideration of n Motorist
We hold no brief for the motorists
says the Bystander but honor where
honor is due On a country road the
other day we saw a motorist delib
enately avoid running over an animal
on the highway To be exact It wa s
a circus elephant St James Gazette
In the capital of Honduras all the
houses in the poorer quarter are made
of mahogany which costs less than
pine there
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How They Are Gutliereil
Merry millions of little buglets sup
port the vast cochineal Industries
Where the tiny cochineal Insect comes
from Is something of a mystery but
he does come wherever the nopal pluut
grows and for a long time was thought
to be a seed or a floweret of the plant
The living female Insect Is twice as
large as the male weighs one tenth of
a grain and loses much weight in dry
ing so that 70000 are needed to make
one pound During the rainy season
many millions of the creatures are
drowned or washed off the plants so
that when the long dry summer comes
there are but a few survivors on each
plant But these multiply so rapidly
that before long the plants are cover
ed The last act of the females life is
to deposit a large number of esrgs on
which her dead body rests protecting
them from the burning rays of the sun
until the little ones emerge In about
six weeks after the beginning of the
dry season comes the flr3t harvest
The plantation laborers make the
round of the nopalry and with a brush
go over the entire plant sweeping the
creatures into a bag They then are
killed by immersion in hot water by
exposure to steam or by drying la hot
ovens The hot water or steam makes
them a dark reddish brown or black
cochineal The hot ovens make them
a red gray hue or silver cochineal The
females outnumber the males by at
least 200 to 1 a fortunate fact for the
planter since the males are of no use
to him whatever
THE CABS OF NEW YORK
They Are Aoi an Integral Part of the
Life of the City
The cab is no Integral part of New
York life Venice without the gondola
were as unthinkable as a woman with
out hair No little of Londons com
pelling charm is in its swift rolling
hansoms These things we know But
one cant think of New York in terms
of cabs Once upon a time I was in
exile Only In memory did the great
city rise before me and what I saw
was this Iluge canyons of stone and
steel filled with noise and darkness
through which great yellow worms
crawled one after the other in mid
air That is the picture of New York
that haunts the exile even as the out
lawed Venetian is obsessed by slim
black gondolas cutting across lanes of
moonlight Your true New Yorker is
a steam projected electrically carted
person Only in exceptional moments
of gloom or gayety does he ride in a
carriage and pair He Is carriage
ridden to a funeral He cabs It in
winey moments when the fear of God
Is not in him There are only 2000
licensed cabs and hacks on the island
of Manhattan Others there are of
course plying piratically in the dark
quarters but even with these thrown
in the reckoning is small No the New
Yorker is not a cabby person Vance
Thompson in Outing Magazine
A Collesre In Bokhara
There lay behind the great arch and
the domes and the minarets a retired
precinct of ancient trees and shaded
walks a grove in the midst of a city
colonnaded in quadrangle by the point
ed arches of the students cells Under
the trees was a sort of summer house
or pavilion Two or three young men
were walking in an avenue against the
farther colonnade and on the stone
steps of a wide shaded pool sat several
mollahs on their praying rugs We
visited a number of the students In
their cells monastic little brick walled
rooms where they live the year around
there are no vacations in Mussulman
colleges and for years on end It is
not unusual for a student after passing
the primary school to spend as much
as fifteen or twenty years at his higher
studies though usually in such a long
course he will go through several dif
ferent colleges in the order of advance
ment Quiet men these students mild
eyed patient often middle aged Min
neapolis Bellman
Girl Slaves In Cliina
A native writer in a Chinese publica
tion remarks When a girl is sold in
China she becomes the slave of her
owner and a part of his property She
no longer retains her freeborn rights
but surrenders them all to the will of
those who own her She receives no
compensation for her labor but is
obliged to accept such raiment and
food as her owners may be pleased to
give her In cases of tyranny or gross
cruelty she cannot appeal for redress
She may be resold given away or
cast off in the streets at the arbitrary
will of her master All freedom is de
nied her and she remains a tool and
chattel in tbe hands of her owner un
til she is sold again or until death re
leases her from her unwilling fate
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Marceline Silks
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