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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1907)
w 1 n i J i i The best of every thing in his line at the most reasonable prices is Harshs motto He wants your trade and hopes by merit to keep it a sl ji JL X JL JL 8 tLf JL JL The Butcher Phone 12 u 9 if J - v S Wi fes5 W i Aarwvfl j u DttLL muuuun AGENT FOR THE CELEBRATED Fairbury Hanehett Windmill This is a warranted and guaran teed windmill nothing better in the market Write or call on Mr Pill l infnrn hnvinrr PHONE BLACK 307 Mike Walsh DEAIEE IN POULTRY and EGGS Old Rubber Copper and Brass Highest Market Price Paid in Casn Xew location just across street in P Walsh building flcCook fc fas Nebraska F D BURGESS iumoer an earn Fi Iron Lead and Sewer Pipe Brass Goods Pumps an Boiler Trimmings Estimates Furnished Free Base ment of the Postoffice Building McCOOK NEBRASKA iis4 q m f n a e a - ySC CSSl zr A few doEes of this remedy will in variably cure an ordinary attack of diarrhoea It can always be depended upon even in the more severe attacks of cramp colic and cholera morbus It is equally successful for summer diarrhoea and cholera infantum in children and is the means of saving the lives of many children each year When reduced with water and sweetened it is pleasant to take Every man of a family should keep this remedy in his home Buy it now Price 25c Large Size 50o A SCRAP OF PAPER It Was the Means of Bringing a Mur derer to Justice Scraps of paper have on several oc casions been thy moans of throwing a light on some of the greatest criminal mysteries of modern times Had it not been for the minutest scrap of tissue paper it is quite possibly that the notorious Fran Muller would have remained a free man to the end of his days After foully murdering a Mr Briggs in a railway carriage on the North London line Muller made off with his victims hat When caught several months later a top hat declared to be Mr Briggs was found in his posses sion Its shape however had been considerably altered and Muller in sisted that the hat had been bought by himself Was it Mr Briggs hat If It is Mr Briggs hat said the hatter wlio supplied him you may find a piece of tissue paper in the lin ing Mr Briggs hat was too large for him so I put the paper in to make it fit AVhen the lining was turned down a scrap of paper which had adhered to the leather was discovered Muller had a bigger head than Mr Briggs aud had therefore resolved to take the pa per out He left that little bit how ever sufficient to establish the identity of the hat beyond all question as that Mr Briggs was wearing when he was murdered This is only one instance among many where bits of paper have solved great mysteries London Answers ART OF THE ETRUSCANS Mysterious People Who Left Traces of a Remarkable Civilizstion Why did the Etruscans devote theh whole lives to the incessant making of pottery until it accumulated in such quantities that they were compelled to bur it in order to keep room for themselves in their streets and houses i Then again there is the mystery of the Etruscan inscriptions These in scriptions are fairly numerous but hitherto they have proved to be utter ly undecipherable The Etruscan is the only dead language that has defied investigation Considered as a lan guage nothing could seem more im probable than the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians but Egyptologists can read them with such ease Unit almost any given series of hieroglyphics can be read in three or four ways by an equal number of rival Egyptologists Any language more utterly impossible at first glance than the Assyrian arrow headed language could not well be imagined but there are many learned men who can read write and speak ar rowhead with facility And yet no man can make the least sense of the writ ings left by the Etruscans although they are written in Roman characters All that we know of the Etruscans seems unreasonable and preposterous Naturally this makes them fascinating to every one who delights in mystery and the solution of puzzles Putnams Magazine The Paper Told the Tale A certain Greek adventurer some years ago undertook to palm off upon the public some false copies of the gospel manuscripts Many learned men were deceived but not Dr Coxe libra rian of the Bodleian library at Oxford IIow he detected the fraud Avas related In his own Avords in the Spectator I never really opened the book but I held it in my hand and took one pae of it between my finger and thumb while I listened to the rascals account of how he found this most interesting antiquity At the end of three or foir minutes I handed it back to him with the snort comment Nmeteeiun cen tury paper my dear sir and he took it away in a hurry aud did not come again Yes I was pleased but I have handled several ancient manuscripts in my time and I know the feel of old paper Effect of Whistle on Rattlesnakes Should you ever encounter a rattle snake and he shows fight just begin to whistle softly and the reptile will un coil and lay with his eyes closed and body quivering said a Tennesseean On more than one occasion I have run across rattlesnakes and have taken the fight out of them by whistling The snake seems to become absolutely helpless when he hears a soft whistle and will make no attempt to spring upon you This whistle ap pears to soothe his anger and robs him of fighting power I saved my life on one occasion in this manner Try it and youll find that I tell the truth Nashville Tennesseean What Indeed A duchess requiring a ladys maid had an interview with one to whom after having examined her appearance she said Of course you Avill be able to dress my hair for me Oh yes replied the girl it never takes me more than half an hour to dres a ladys hair IIalf an hour my child exclaimed the duchess in accents of terror And what on earth then should I be able to do with myself all the remainder of the morning Dundee Advertiser His Diagnosis A Loudon curate the other day ceived an astonishing answer to ro an Inquiry after a parishioners health Well sir said the parishioner MRS WILLIAM H TAFT War Secretary3 Wife Thinks Womar the Complement of Man The wife of the secretary of war is the youngest looking and with the exception of Mrs Garfield the young est woman in the cabinet circle Mrs Taft was Miss Helen llcrron of Gin cinnati Her father John W llcrron is a prominent lawyer and was the law partner of President Hayes The first visit of the future cabinet officers wife to the White House was during the Hayes occupancy One thing which stands out vividly In my recollection of that visit said Mrs Taft recently was the nightly supper which used to be spread in the -- Zf Al P ui t K iSr rTi X v - Z 1V i Hi i - IM - kv W v 4 j s jys xv - s M J fy 9 j 2 i 3 r MltS WHiLIAM H TAFT big corridor now no more which was part of the executive offices on the sec ond floor of the mansion I have nev er enjoyed anything so much as those feasts and the friendly way in which the president would press the young people not to be coy with the good things Mrs Taft is extremely fond of music and is highly educated in that direc tion For seven years she was presi dent of the Cincinnati Symphony as sociation During the Washington sea sons she finds little time for music but at her summer home she declares that she simply revels in it The war secretarys wife says she is old fashioned enough to believe that woman is the complement of man and that what is most feminine about her is most attractive to man and therefore of the greatest utility to the world VIOLINIST MACMILLEN Press Agent Lost Him In Alps but Found Him Later Recently a false report to the effect that Francis Kea MacMillen the young American violinist had been lost in the Alps while attempting to ascend Mont Blanc caused some anxiety to the friends of the young man in this country and Europe who were not on confidential terms with his press agent Happily it turned out that Mr MacMil len was safe and sound and his press agent was greatly relieved The violinist is now about twenty two years old He was onty sixteen when he won the annual competition on the violin at the Royal conserva tory of Belgium He was the first American to win that honor MacMillen has made several tours of the United States giving recitals few - r I - - FKAXCIS BEA aiACJIILIEX He is a native of Marietta where his father S II MacMillen was engaged in newspaper work The violinist gave a brilliant recital in Queens hall Lou don just before starting with a party to enjoy mountain climbing in the Al pine region A Schoolmasters Rejoinder A keen retort- is nrprlitwl tn thn Into sometimes I feels anyhow sometimes Dr Hate Brown master of I feels nohow and there be times when i101Vn I feels as stiff as a himmidge His Point of View Landlord Sir the other tenants will not stay in the flat if you insist on playing the cornet Mr Toots Im glad of that They were very annoy ing Cleveland Plain Dealer His brother-in-law Dr Porter the master of Peterhouse another famous English school wrote to him inquiring his precise meaning In a certificate that a boys character was generally good When I say generally he replied I mean not particularly THE WIND OF DEATH Life Lines In Triestes Street For L o When the Bora Blows That which was once Iliyria is i v Dalmatia or rather that pa Iliyria which reaches the Adriatic in Dalmatia the half forgotten country as the Ausfrians called it when it fell into their hands not so many years ag It is one of the few bits of Europe that remain in a measure unhackney ed and It is still out of the beaten paths of the tourist who himself is al most as much of a curiosity to the people as they are to him There are seasons according to an article in Appletons Magazine when the bon blows that wind of death as the natives call it which comes out of the i blue with more than a suddenness of a tornado and shakes the earth and all that is on the earth stinging blinding i choking In the square of Trieste life lines are prominent features which the citizens must grasp when the bora clutches them and they grope their j way through the whirling dust and the promiscuous missiles Hying in the darkened air But the bora goes as quickly as it comes and when it is j gone the people simply excavate them- i selves out of the drift and think no J more about the winged demon which has left no trail whatever in the re stored serenity of the scoured sky HIS SYMPATHY It Would Have Been Worth More Only He Lacked Presence of Mind In the criminal court in Baltimore a darky Aas on trial for stealing a watch which he had pawned ne was identified by the owner as the person who grabbed the watch out of his pock et yet the darky claimed to be inno cent When asked how he came in possession of the watch he said I was standing on the corner when a man comes up to me and says lie is hard up and hasnt a cent to buy food with and he wants to sell me this watch for Z I knew I could get 4 on it in pawn and I felt sorry for him and bought the watch for 3 and pawn ed it for 4 Thats how I got the watch The prosecutor then asked if he had bought the watch for 3 knowing he could pawn it for 4 simply to help the man along because he felt sorry for him why he did not advise him to pawn it himself and then he would have had 4 instead of 3 Well you see said the prisoner I didnt have the presence of mind to do dat Judges Library The Old Suez Canal Few people are aware that there had been a canal across the isthmus of Suez before De Lesseps ever conceived the idea of his monumental enterprise A canal across the isthmus was actual ly constructed GOO years before the Christian era and served as a water way for small vessels until about 1000 years ago when it was allowed to fall into disuse Napoleon revived the idea and instructed one of the great engi neers of his day to investigate the mat ter but though a favorable report was presented to him in which M Lepere recommended the restoration of the canal the Avork itself was never touch ed When M de Lesseps undertook the task of cutting the canal he thought at first to follow the idea of Napoleon and restore the ancient waterway but this plan was abandoned and the pres ent plan determined upon The Other Vay Around The loyalty of the Scottish highland er to his kilt is a picturesque thing He will never admit that it makes him cold and highlanders who were suffer ing from cold in the ordinary dress of civilization have been known to substi tute the kilt for it in order to get warm though this would be much like removing ones coat and waistcoat and rolling up ones shirt sleeves for the same purpose It is said that a stranger seeing a soldier in full highbinder uniform shiv ering in a cold wind asked him Sandy are you cold with the kilt Na na mon the soldier answered indignantly but Im nigh kilt with the cauld Labor of Ants It would perhaps be pushing meta phors to an unwarranted extreme to speak of dignity of labor in connec tion with the occupations of ants But if by the phrase we mean that labor is the honorable lot of all citizens and that all labors of whatever sort are upon the same level of respectability then we might venture to apply the saying even to the labors of an ant hill For therein all are workers from the newly fledged callow to the vet eran of a second summer Harpers Magazine Nothing A cockney tourist who had invaded Ireland was trying his hand at chaffing a native Pat said he what is the meaning of the word nothing Sure I cant explain it but yeIl find it in the place where your brains ought to be Narrow Escape John You very nearly got engaged while you were on your tour in the mountains I hear Michael Precious near But fortunately just at the last moment I fell down a precipice Pearsons Weekly At the Club Mrs Bloodgood I thought her quo tation was apropos didnt you Mrs Newritch Dear me I always sup posed his name was Edgar Allan Ex change A judicious silence is always better than truth spoken without charity De Sales Dr Cream PRICES Baking nvntiQ SPONTrl i I nf fo j j 1 WIT IWWFOTf1 in a Stock Certificate of the McCook 1 Building h Loan Association L v THR CITIZENS Powder The finest in the world When ordering ask for Dr Prices by name else the grocer may forget the kind you are accustomed to jxsxs rKasxx xsx sXsXsXa Firs l I iii i a I Bail of IcCool i xlicits the patronage ol those who work on a salary as well as the account of the merchant and fanner If you have not already opened an account do so today no mat ter how small it will be cheerfully accepted Capital and Surplus 7500000 Safety deposit boxes for rent These are always inside our fire and burglar nroof vault 100 ner vear 01 1 j m Bid Jt vet cctir To Ijott that photos sent through the mails insecurely wrapped are very likely to get damaged No one likes to receive a soiled photo If they are worth sending at all they are worth the taking of sufficient care to insure a safe delivery at their destination Tfi Security JvUitfifiG will give you that assurance and the cost is but a trifle We have them in sizes from 5x7 to 11x14 They are made of heavy tough material and are especi ally designed for safe and secure photo mailing tmitttvtimmTH t v t t i TrrrmTT 1fT 1 1 intern DIRECTORS JAS S DOYLE BS3VsCVSTslNXSI3SSSV2SS0SsavrEJ3SSSisES JUSfaAKJCK 83 No better or safer investment is open to you An investment of 100 per month for 120 months will earn So nearly 9 percent compounded annually Dont delay but see the secretary today Subscriptions r e ceived at any time for the new stock just opened -V S V FRANKLIN PRESIDENT A U tbtKI UASHIER JAS S DOYLE Vice President BANK OF McCOOK NEB Paid Up Capital 50000 Surplus S 1 2000 FRANKLIN A C EBERT 4 J r 4
