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DR R J GUNN DENTIST Ofllco Rooms 3 and 5 Walsh Blk McCook H P SUTTON Mccook Barber Shop Rear of ist National IJwk Newly Furnished and First Class In Every Particular Earl Murray JEWELER MUSICAL GOODS NEBRASKA JOHN E KELLEY ATTOENEY AT LAW and BONDED ABSTRACTED McCook Nebraska C3Agent of Lincoln Land Co and of McCook Water Works Ofllco in Postotlico building YOU WOULD DO WELL TO SEE J M Rupp FOR ALL KINDS OF Rpj Jq P O Box 131 McCook Nebraska McCook Laundry G C HECKMAN Prop Dry and Steam Cleaning and Pressing GATEWOOD VAHUh DENTISTS Office over JIcAdams Store Phone 190 WOSffR tAAfPA Earn More Business and Short- band Courses Uucht by Mast Experienced Teachers in the west Positions for Graduates Work for Board Help for deserving students Address Mosher Lampman College Information In 1760 rrnnm St OiUBt Kill 4 tar m tLtf geseseeseeee The Security Abstract and Realty Company FOR I0ANS AND INSURANCE Farms Wild Lands and City Property at owners prices Properties of non residents looked after Write for infor mation WC M0YERMgr Tli r rv t - i t it You Ought to Go Somewhere LL i -U w w w 0 5S399339Si9S3993a 1999i93fe Cheap One Way Colonists Dgpc Daily during September and ftlw October to the Pacific coast and far west points at about half rates 1U tllf Cttt The low rate James town Esposition tick ets can be used for your autumn trip to New York Boston and other eastern cities These are the last cheap rates of the season Late Autumn Trips West excursion tickets to Colorado the Rock ies and Big Horn mountains will remain on sale during September the low rate round trip tickets to Pacific coast will not be on sale after September 15th Homeseekers Excursions See the west with its 1907 crops West ern farm lands including irrigated lands are constantly advancing in value bet ter locate now Big Horn Basin and Billings District Werun personally conduct- ed cheap rate homeseekers excursions to help you locate on irrigat ed lands at the lowest prices they will double in value in five years Join me on these excursions No charge for services Write D Clem Deaver Agent Burlington Landseekers BureauOmaba GEORGE S SCOTT Ticket Agent McCook Neb L W WAKELEY G P A Omaha Heb LUG 0NAM1P The Fare That Uncle Sam Serves to His Bluejackets COSTS THIRTY CENTS A DAY The Food Is Good Plenty and Varied and Better Than Many Civilians Get The Officers Meals and tho Different Messes Tho Paymasters Work How many housewives would like to have to cater for a family for 30 Jceuts a head a day Thats exactly the sum It costs Uncle Sam and he has something like 30000 bluejackets to feed at his man-of-war table I Even on ordinary days a sailor sits down to a fare no civilian need sniff at says the Home Magazine Eggs boiled potatoes bread aud butter and coffee form his breakfast one morn ing Perhaps the next he has sau sages and corn bread Roast veal with gravy boiled pota toes succotash bread and butter gin gerbread and coffee Is an ordinary din ner menu while fried pork chops bread and butter apple sauce and tea Is the bill of fare submitted by the steward to the paymaster for the same days evening meal That the fare agrees with him Is at tested by his hospital record Seldom more than five to ten men are sick at a time from the ships crew of 800 Not all the seamen are brought tip near the sea Many of them are in land boys who run away from homo for the life on the brine The books of the Virginia for Instance bear this out with a record that of the 850 sail ors GOO have enlisted from states as far inland as Idaho and Wisconsin Every minute of the day aboard ship Is lived according to rule At 530 oclock in the morning the sailor is aroused by the call of three bells Thirty minutes Is allowed him for lashing his hammock etc After that he Is allowed to take It down only by special permission There Is no sneak ing it off for seductive little naps in the day His breakfast is served at G30 oclock five bells Twelve seamen mess at one table one of their own number receiving an extra stipend of 5 monthly from Uncle Sam for wait ing on his comrades This assignment is now generally made in rotation Jack tars have been known to come to blows in their zeal to secure it Then again when sta tioned in -warmer climes it was not easy to find men willing to officiate Uncle Sam sets seven tables in ac cordance with his rules of class dis tinction -which are as fixed and un swerving as the laws of the Medes and Persians There is first admirals mess at which the head officer is served in solitary state second cap tains mess at which the presiding officer enjoys the same lonely distinc tion third wardroom officers or jol lification mess so called for the good times enjoyed by the tableful of com missioned officers below rank of cap tain fourth junior officers mess con sisting of midshipmen the young graduates of Annapolis who having been educated at Uncle Sams expense are now getting their first maritime experience fifth the chief petty officers mess for those in rank below the midshipmen sixth the warrant officers mess who by pull special ability or act of prowess have raised themselves from the enlisted ranks seventh and last but not least the general or mess table where the lusty appetites of the rank and file are as suaged Uncle Sams officers want the fat of the land and supply it from their own purses By special clubbing ar rangements among themselves an offi cers mess is provided at a cost to each officer of 30 a month Even a colored chef is retained His souffles and his salads are true works of art The key of the wine chest he guards with jealous care But all this is a matter of reckoning be tween him and the officers Uncle Sam enters not at all Uncle Sams head housekeeper the paymaster indeed has quite enough on his mind trying to keep nearly a thou sand lusty men satisfied with their grub and at the same time keep his bills down to the satisfaction of the navy department auditor at Washing ton It is no light undertaking The paymaster in truth must be a man of rare parts and is rightly es teemed one of the ablest and most hon ored officers in the service Take the qualities needed to make a successful hotel man add to them those to make the popular leader throw In intense pride and loyalty to the service sea soned with untiring zeal for the inter ests of his men and you get the kind of mixture Uncle Sam has to find be fore he appoints his paymaster 1 When he is loading up for an eight weeks cruise no wonder his brow is knotted Making out the next meals order while in port is one thing sim ply a confab with his steward as to whether it shall be 500 pounds of fish or 250 pounds of pork and a barrel and a half of beans By the ships regulations every man Is allowed a daily stipend of one and three quarter pounds of fresh meat For the long voyage however Its a different matter The stipend must be reduced and more salt meat consumed The ships cold storage capacity Is 10000 pounds Here is where the paymasters real opportunity of generalship enters Everything his men will need for the next sixty days must be planned to meet that capacity And meantime there Is Ice to be manufactured with MHWHi W out Infringement of Uncle Sams pro hibition against any form of ammonia plant aboard There are some 10000 gallons of distilled water to be pur chased It is cheaper to buy tlds In port than to have it distilled aboard and some 0000 pounds of meat to be Inspected No hotel kitchen could be more up to date In Its equipment Electricity plays no slight role There is electricity to heat the irons in the up to date laun dry for the officers clothes Electricity turns the grinders for tho Hamburg steak Electricity mixes the dough in the ships bakery where 1000 loaves are baked daily Electricity too heats the coffee in the great brass caldrons in construction exactly like the French drip coffee pot on your own table madam only each of them holds 150 gallons Nor Is any hygienic device over looked The paymaster is responsible for the health of his men The very cups In their water tank must be germ proof After drinking each man Is required to rinse his cup in a special tank filled with antiseptic solution When under the weather he Is per mitted to use only such medicines as are supplied by the ships doctor Even the contents of the canteen his own private supply shop where he buys his luxuries are carefully In spected by the paymaster with a keen view to excluding liquors or any other article deemed injurious to the health of his men The seaman must be a jack of all trades Very early In his career he learns how to sew on his own buttons in some cases even makes his own clothes For the clum sier fingered there is the ships tailor Uncle Sams price for the material and fashioning of the regulation navy blue sailor suit Is 7 Once the uni form is provided every man Is held strictly accountable for the condition of his wardrobe The more enter prising of the boys have their own sewing machines and very deftly do they learn to ply them Cleanliness is another maritime vir tue early Instilled Friday morning is general wash day occasion for swabbing down decks and scrubbing of clothes and ships canvas It might seem to be a case of water water everywhere but as a matter of fact fresh water for cleaning purposes is the scarcest article aboard At sea a bucket a day is each mans allowance doled out to him by the master at arms On that stipend he must keep his clothes himself and the contents of his locker Immaculate or stand in danger of a reprimand or the curtailment of his privilege of going ashore And so his life goes at every point hedged about with red tape and rou tine but within those limits as care free and happy go lucky as the danc ing waves about him Should there be war tomorrow all the better That means action As to any national issues why bother his head about them The Jack tar is hired to do Uncle Sams bidding In return Uncle Sam does his thinking for him Friendly Monkeys I have read somewhere a statement that the anthropoid apes prefer our company to that of their fellow mon keys of lower degree and I saw it proved once in Calcutta says a writer in Ornithological and Other Oddities The late W Rutledge for many years the leading animal dealer there and a mine of natural history information had a young one in his yard and at my request opened Its cage one day to let It choose Its society when quite disregarding the other monkeys it im mediately came over to him and climbed into his lap A fair sized female we had at the Calcutta zoo also was a most affec tionate creature When I paid a visit to her she would always put her arm affectionately around my neck and while being caressed and played with would drop any food offered by other visitors But I think it was on my very first introduction to the orang that the hid den humanity of the creature most im pressed me This was many years ago when Abraham Bartlett was at the London zoo He gave me a private interview with a little orang which had just arrived The first thing the little Imp did was to climb on my knee take off my hat and put it on his own head after which it proceeded gravely to pinch one of the superintendents eye lids In short it examined us with a scientific curiosity which in a lower animal was decidedly Impressive This little man of the woods could not have chosen a more striking way of claim ing kinship so often denied The Cussedness of a Sail Sometimes a sail is onlv playful and willful at the worst and after a slight show of resistance will succumb to your arts but at times they get ma- lignant and cruel They will fight you j fiercely hitting back viciously spite- fully battling for every inch taking most treacherous advantage of an j relapse or alertness or looseness ol clutch W7hen a canvas has got that devil in it look out for yourself That is when it fights to kill That is when It hurls men off yard and boom to their death At times you can only conquer after a steady and well gen eraled fight At other times a bit of trickery will succeed I have cursed a sail and turned away pretendingly beaten when thrown for a moment off guard by my apparent carelessness it has opened its defense A tiger spring a turn of rope and the vic tory Is won But I tell you it makes a man of you a fight to the finish with a sail Every nerve tingling every vein flushed with blood you take the last turn and with a Hang you youre fast now go aft and report all snug T F Day in Outing Magazine R t mj v4i piu9HS9ffi9FiEeisSHS9E9MKLv I W W JWffclfjjlj Nil 11 I Fighting Bob I And His Fleet EAR ADMIRAL K01UEY D EVANS who will command the great fleet of battleships on the forthcoming trip to the Pacific Is the naval hero now fore most In the public eye Fighting Bob Is an international character Having spent forty six years in the navy Including his course at Annapo lis he has voyaged In practically every sea and Is known in all harbors and on all shores Several years ago some body figured up that Admiral Evans had spent actually at sea more than twenty one years He Is one of those officers who have not intrigued hinted or whimpered for a soft place on shore The sea and the deck of a bat tleship suit tills sailor very well In 1S97 Evans then a captain was on duty at the Brooklyn navy yard Somebody ran across him one day looking lonesome When are you going to make your next cruise V asked the friend I dont know replied Evans but I dont intend to be hung up in any navy yard very long Some day were going to fight Spain The fellows who are at sea will have the first chance and those who have been In the habit of going to sea early and often will be the men who will get the best com mands A year later Captain Evans com manded the battleship Iowa at the sea fight of Santiago Captain Eulate of the Spanish battleship Vizcaya his vessel wrecked by the guns of the Iowa and other American ships was brought aboard and surrendered to Evans The American officer merely touched the proffered sword df his de feated foe and permitted Captain Eu late to keep it This brought rousing cheers from the Iowas crew Captain Evans said that the cheering touched him deeply for It showed him that the men appreciated his feelings On this occasion Evans handed his vanquished foe a drink of whisky BEAK ADMTRAIj ROBLEY D EVAXS which Captain Eulate found quite wel come after his desperate fight His head was covered with blood from three wounds After the drink went to the right place Captain Evans found I in his pocket a ten cent cigar of West j Indian make He gave this to Eulate who accepted it with thanks but pulled from his pocket a splendid Porto Rican cigar and handed it to Evans with a polite bow I left 15000 of those on the Viz caya he said sadly Just then the Vizcaya blew up Im sorry I didnt know it sooner replied Evans or we might have saved some of em The admiral dislikes to be called Fighting Bob but there is no help for it Just before he started for the Spanish war he entered a shop in New York to make a purchase The Ger man proprietor observed that he wore a navy uniform but had no notion of his rank or identity I haf a son in der nafy said the genial shopkeeper Indeed replied Evans and what ship Is he on He Iss on der Iovay proudly said the father mit Bob Fighting Admiral Evans once had on his ship a young Japanese a very bright chap as steward Some years later Evans paid an official visit to the captain of a Japanese war vessel on board the latters ship All Japs look alike to some persons and it is probably so with Fighting Bob Evans had no recollection of having seen him be fore But when the Japanese com mander approached very close and asked in a familiar tone What will the captain have to drink the Ameri 1 can officer recognized in his host his former steward Tho steward of course had been a naval man at the time but was merely studying Ameri can naval conditions at first hand After Evans was shot in four places at Fort Fisher toward the close of the civil war the surgeons wanted to am putate both of his legs Evans who was eighteen years old drew from beneath his pillow a big navy revolver Glaring at the one doctor present he said There are six loads in this If any body else enters the door with any thing that looks like a case of instru ments Ill begin shooting and you may rest assured that Ill kill six surgeons before they cut my legs off Thus the future admiral saved his legs along with a slight llrap which adds to his glory I Dickens In Evening Dress When Charles Dickens was to muko hls first appearance In Boston before an American audience as a reader an Immense crowd awaited him The en thusiasm of tho people for the most popular novelist then living had risen to fecr heat One of the most ardent of his admirers afterward told this little Incident of the evening With a few gentlemen who wished to welcome and show him attention I was in the little room at the back of the platform when Dickens entered It He was a rather stout man with a somewhat red face and I saw to my surprise that he was dressed in an ex aggerated servility to the extreme fash ion More than this ho wore a bou tonniere in each buttonhole and two watches the chains of which were strung aggressively across his chest There was a gaudy bad taste In his appearance which his friends regret ted knowing how distasteful It would be to most of his admirers who appre ciated his genius and enjoyed his writ ings No one of course could broach the subject to him and ho appeared that night and every other night of his engagement in the same attire The universal comment was Why this is a petit limit re How can a man with such tastes be the creator of Tiny Tim and Sam Weller The Peasant and His Son One day a peasant carried a basket of potatoes to the field and dug holes in the soil and planted them His young son watched operations for si lime and then inquired Daddy why do you put those ta ters in the ground By so doing eacli one will bring me back ten my son replied tho fa ther The boy went away and when his father came up to dinner he found him digging in the jard and asked Sonny what are you seeking Why daddy I hae planted the clock two umbrellas the teapot your Sunday hat mas boots and a table cloth and each one will bring me back ten You young idiot come here and be skelped shouted the father and he tanned the boy up and down cross- ways and sideways until he was tired Daddy planted taters to get back ten mused the boy as he sat down under the cow shed to think But I planted clocks and hats and boots to get a licking It must he the differ ence in the soil Pearsons Weekly No Chance to Dance Clara Coming home from the dance the other night I met Charlie Spooner In a crowded car and he didnt offer to give me a seat Maud Perhaps ho ki ow you had been sitting down all thc evening Life Neighbor No one ever hears you and your husband exchanging words Do you get along so excellently together Wife Not nt all but we discovered that the maid listened at the door Now we quarrel only on Sunday after noons between 3 and G when she is out of the house Fliegende Blatter Sweets and the Disposition Nothing could he said in greater praise of a people than that they like sweets It shows a wholesome vigor ous healthful condition an appetite not jaded from excessive indulgence The child whose appetite has not be come polluted or calloused by false relishes smarting sauces and burning drinks loves sweets so does the girl of bright eyes and untainted youth as Is evidenced by her fondness for ice creams and desserts The young ath lete among men loves sweets nearly as well as does the child But the bar room lounger the cigarette fiend the dope fiend and the depraved of all other classes do not like sweets Long ago their minds and appetites lost the desire for everything pleasing to the natural palate What to Eat OMHE1 in a Stock Certificate of the McCook Building Loan Association CITY LODGE DIRECTORY A V A A M McCook Lh1ki No 135 A F fc A M meet every llrnt and third Tiwxday of tho mouth nt bVD p m in Masonic hull ClIAULKH L Fahnhhtock XV M Lov Cone Sec EASTERN HTAK Kurakn Chapter No 86 O K S moots tho second ami fourth Fridays of each month at K00 in in Masonic hall Mrs Sarah E Kay V M Sylvester Couheai Sue i a ic 1 K Rurnos Tost So an G A R moots on tho 11 rat Saturday of each month iif0 i in I Umiscliowti hull 1 M UKNE EOSON Cmiidr J II 1ABGER Adjt KNIOIlTrt OF COLUS1IIUH McCook Council No 1120 K of C moots tho ilrt ami third Tuoiohiys of ouch month utS0U p m in Gauschowb hall C J Ryan 1 K r Q Lechleiter F See KNKHITH OK PYTHIAS McCook Lodko No 12 K of I moots ovory Wednotday at8ill i in in Masonic hall J F Cokdeai V C C V Rauniis K it S KNIOIITH TEMITAR St John Couiuiamlfry No 1 K T moots on thuhecoml Thursday of oach mouth at 800 p in in Masonic hall Kmhuson Hanhon KC Sylvester Cokdeal Kcc LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS McCook Division No Til H of L TJ moots ivory first and third Saturday of oach month at oOUiiiRorrrsliull WCSciienckCK D ISuunktt F A E LOCOMOTIVE KIKEMHX MrCook IodKo No rJ R or L F it E iiiuutauYory Saturday at 8110 p in in ehowtihall V S Rixler Sec W K PKNNINUTON M MODERN WOODMEN NohloCnmpNo fiiKl M W A moots ovory socoiid and fourth ThurMlny of ouch mouth at 8i0 p in in jniibcIiowH hall John Hunt V f Raknet I Iokek Clork ODD KELLOWS McCook Iodo No ir7 1O O F moots ovcry Monday at 80 p in in Jaucliow s hall K H Do an N G Scott Doan Sec P E O Chaptor X P E O moots tho socond and fourth Saturdays of oach month at 230 p in at tho homos of tho various iiiomher Mrs C W Ruitt Pros Mrs J G Sciiooel Cor Sec railway conductors Harvoy Division No 93 O K C moots tho second and fourth Sundays of oach month at 300 p m in Diamonds hall Joe If egeniiercee C Con M O McCluee Sec RAILWAY TRAINMEN C W Hronson Lodgo No -IS R of R T moots every Friday at 800 p m in RerryM hall H W Conover M F J IIcston Sec R A M KiuB Cyras Chapter No 35 If A M meet every first und third Thursday of oach month at 800 p m in Matonic hall Clarence R Grat II P Clinton H Sawyer Sec royal neigiiiiors Noblo Camp No 8G2 R N A moots overy second and fourth Thursday of each month nt 230 p m in Ganschows hall Mrs Mary Walker Oracle Mrs Augusta Anton Roc e h si Council NolCRiSMmoets on tho last Saturday of each mouth at 800 p m in Masonic hull Ralph A IIagbekg T I M Syvlester Cordeal Sec WORKSIEN McCook Lodge No 61 AOTJW meets every Monday at 800 p in in Diamonds hall Web Stephens M w C R Gray Rec w o w Meets alternate Thursdnys at H oclock in Diamonds hall Chab F Maekwad W C Moyer Clerk The McCook Tribune for 100 per Year SSSSSfjSSS FEXTOEY WALKER General Contracting Painters and Decorators Not How Cheap but How Good with Us Office and Shop west of Fitst National Bank I Leave Orders with C R Woodworth Company 5SeXS IlEOREE OK HONOR McCook LralcoNo 3 D of II moots evory rocoiul and forth Friday of oach mouth ntSDO p m in GiiiidcIiowh hull Mrs Laura Ohiiukn C of II Mri MatieG Welle Roc kaolkh McCook Aorlo No 15M F O K mr ots tho ftcomi aud fourth WodiioMlnys of each mouth at 300 p in in GiiiichowM hull Social moot iiiks on tho llrtt and third WoduutuIuYS W II Cummins V Pros If P Peterson W Sc ys I u WjM m I j g E TWAMrl 5l I E - - m e r I zrf r t s SS3 No better or safer investment is open to you An investment of ioo per month for 120 months will earn 8o nearly g percent compounded annually Dont delay but see the secretary today Subscriptions r e ceived at any time for the new stock just opened S 3- V
