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R 1 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 1HRVH B AJ AW JJ The Butcher Phone 12 WsssGrjSsg J U DULL MUUUUft AGENT FOR THE CELEBRATED Fairbury Hanchett Windmill This is a warranted and guaran teed windmill nothing better in the market Write or call on Mr Rnll hnfnro lmvinpr PHONE BLACK 307 WQSSS9 Mike Walsh DEAIEE IN POULTRY and EGGS Old Rubber Copper and Brass Highest Market Price Paid in Cash New location just across street in P Walsh building ricCook - Nebraska t F B BURGESS Plumber and Steam Filter Iron Lead and Sewer Pipe Brass Goods Pumps an Boiler Trimmings Estimates Furnished Free Base ment of the Postoffice Building McCOOK NEBRASKA MDtKLANS vjm 2 - - x e mm r S7r I u 83 A few doses of this remedy will in variably cure an ordinary attack of diarrhoea It can always be depended npon 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 Buyitnow Price 25c Large Sizb 50o A TERRIBLE BIG TROUT Ho Was Cunning and a Hard Case Too Was This Fish We were camping In northern Wis consin and one evening after our sup per of black bass and bacon we lay j under the pine trees smoking and tell ing Hsh stories In which It was always the bigger bass that got away The guide listened with the gravity of a man who knew all about Hsh stories uuri finally he knocked the ashes from his pipe and vtold us a story Once long ago he said there was a terrible big trout up In Smiths pool Every fellow who fished in the pool had hooked him one time or an other but he always got away bit off the snood or something I tried to catch him myself a dozen times One day I was sitting by the pool when splash a young robin fluttered out of the nest on a limb above the pool into the water below In a minute there was a rush a gleam of yellow and the old trout had thrown himself clear out of the water and had swallowed the young robin whole What did I do Well I climbed that tree In short order got another one of those young robins baited my hook with it and threw it in just as lightly as I could In a minute there was another rush another gleam of yellow and again the old trout jump ed clear out of the water as he swal lowed the robin and In a minute more I had him hooked It was lucky I wasnt fishing with any of this newfangled rigging these boys use and that I wasnt bothered with a reel to look after or I would have lost him sure As It was it took me a devil of a time to get him out Good to eat Great Scott We didnt try to eat him He was so full of hooks we sold him for old iron you know That ended our fish stories for that night J J A in Chicago Tribune PRIMITIVE ANCHORS Stones and Wooden Tubes Filled With Lead First Used There appear to be two ideas which have led up to the invention of the modern anchor first that of attach ing the vessel by means of a rope or chain to a weight sufficiently heavy to keep the vessel from moving when the weight has sunk to the bottom of the sea and second that of using a hook instead of or in addition to the weight so as to catch in the bottom The English word anchor is practical ly the same as the Latin ancora and the Greek angkura meaning that which has an angle from the root ank bent The earliest anchors made on the hook principle probably only had one fluke instead of two In the Sussex Archaeil Coll there is an illustration of what has been surmised to be an anchor made out of the natural forked branch of a tree It was found with an ancient British canoe at Burpham Sussex There is in the British muse um an interesting leaden anchor with two flukes bearing a Greek inscrip tion Its date is about 50 B C and it was found off the coast of Cyrene The Invention of the anchor with two flukes is attributed by Pausanius to Midas by Pliny to Eupalamas and by Strabo to Anacharsis Diodorus Siculus states that the first anchors were wooden tubes filled with lead while another classical writer says that before the introduction of metal anchors lumps of stone with a hole through the middle for the attach ment of the cable were used The form of the anchors used by the Greeks and Romans is well known from representations on Trajans col umn and in the catacombs at Rome as an early Christian symbol This form does not seem to have changed materially for quite a thousand years as is shown by the Bayeux tapestry The Girls Were Still One Ahead A young and bashful professor was frequently embarrassed by jokes his girl pupils would play on him These jokes were so frequent that he decided to punish the next perpetrators and the result of this decision was that two girls were detained an hour after school and made to work some difficult prob lems as punishment It was the custom to answer the roll call with quotations so the following morning when Miss As name was called she rose and looking straight in the professors eye repeated With all thy faults I love thee still while Miss Bs quotation was The hours I spend with thee dear heart are as a string of pearls to me Ladies Home Journal Respect at Last Briefleigh is I think one of the greatest lawyers in this state Why I heard you say once that you didnt consider him any good Oh that was years ago He used to give me pointers on legal matters without charging me anything because we happened to have offices adjoining each other Recently he has been charging me a stiff price every time I have gone to him for advice Chi cago Record nerald Long Winded It takes you a pretty long while to Bhave yourself doesnt it Not so very long I can shave my self quicker than my old barber could I dont believe it Its a fact You see he stammers terribly Philadelphia Press Studying how to help and benefit oth ers will build up your own fortune Baltimore American It Is what you are not looking for that gives the spice of variety to life Detroit News First Filipino T Legislature HE first political campaign in the Philippines has passed and the time is approaching when the first national assem bly will be opened Secretary William II Taft who is so popular among the Filipinos Is planning to visit the ori ent with the view to taking part in the inauguration of tills experiment in the training of these new wards of the United States for self government The elections for the national assem bly passed off quietly but the vote was small It was about 00000 out of a total Christian population of nearly 7000000 The Moros who arc Mo hammedans and more or less barbaric in their customs and mode of life were not given the privilege of voting The proportion of those who were entitled to vote who registered and cast their ballots for members of the national assembly was small Various reasons are assigned as the cause of this The mass of the people it is said take lit tle interest in politics and are chiefl interested in the daily problem of get ting enough to eat Many conserva tives and representative merchants did not vote being satisfied with the pres ent condition of affairs A large pro portion of those who did vote belonged to the barely qualified class The Na cionalistas the part demanding imme diate independence cast the most votes Next in number were the Pro gressistas who in their platform said We will willingly wait until Uncle Sam is ready to grant independence Among those elected to the assem bly was Dr Domiuador Gomez the rabid agitator and alleged chief of ladrones Secretary Taft before his departure from Washington said that he was by no means downcast over the result of the elections for the first Filipino as sembly and that while the radical ele ment seemed to have the advantage feWs rt yi tJri ix2Y rT7 pl WATEB CAItRIER IN THE PHILIPPINES many of the Nacionalista delegates were to his knowledge men of good judgment American control has accomplished in the Philippines one thing that it also accomplished in Cuba that is better sanitation As a result of this the records of the Manila board of health show that for the preceding six months not a single contagious disease has been conspicuously in evidence This is the first time in the history of the American occupation or for that mat ter in the history of the islands that such a statement could be made There were fewer deaths in the city of Manila during June than ever be fore under American control Forty five of the 100 young Filipino students sent to the United States by ineir native government tour years ago to be educated in American col leges have returned to the Philippine Islands with diplomas in their pockets prepared to aid their countrymen in solving the problem of self govern ment The others have decided to re main for the present at least on the continent of America Every one of them carried off some kind ofhonor or prize in the colleges in which they studied The only trouble with them was that they studied too hard and could with difficulty be restrained from overwork Every one seemed to be thinking of the day when he would be assisting in the conduct of the Filipino government The anxiety of the new Filipino for education is one of the things chiefly to be noted about him In a large number of municipalities the inhabitants have contributed freely of their money and labor to the erec tion of public schools The municipali ties are clamoring for authority to use their funds for school purposes There are at presont about S00 American teachers on the payroll in the public schools and about 500 Filipinos of con siderable intelligence and education All these are paid by the Philippine government In addition there are per haps 4000 native Filipino teachers in provincial schools paid from provincial treasuries who have but little educa tion and speak very poor English The Filipino is becoming somewhat accustomed now to the use of tools The American or European style of dress is coming more into vogue and toilet articles like the toothbrush are growing in favor especially among those natives who desire to be eleeant and up to date The m Jjf fkj fc KMtamat THEY GAVE THE BALLS And the People Danced to Pay tho Debts of Louis XIV In 1712 Louis XIV favored the opera then established In the first salle of the Palais Royal there have been two with a special mansion for the better accommodation of Its ad ministration vchives and rehearsals This hotel is situated In the Rne Nieaise The building was generally designated under the name of Maga sia whence the term Filles du Maga sin not du magasin which was applied not only to the female choristers and supers but to the female dancers them selves It so happened that the king forgot to pay his architects and work men In order to satisfy tlieni the Chevalier do Bouillon conceived the mea oi giving nails m the opera house for which idea lie received an annual pension of 0000 francs He was paid but the kings debtors were not for although the letters patent were granted somewhere about the beginning of 1713 not a single ball had been given when the most mag nificent of the Bourbon sovereigns de scended to his grave One day shortly after his death dArgenson the then lieutenant of police was talking to Louis nephew Philippe dOrleans the regent Mon signore he said there are people who go about yelling that his majesty of blessed memory was a bankrupt and a thief Ill have them arrested and have them flung into some deep under ground dungeon You dont know what you are talking about was tho answer Those people must be paid and then theyll cease to bellow But how monsiguore Lets give the balls that were projected by Bouil lon So said so done and the people danced to pay Louis XIV s debts as according to Shadwell people drank to fill Charles IIs coffers The kings most faithful subjects we In s service are not dull We drink to show our loyalty And make his coffers full Loudon Saturday Review A SERIOUS LAUGH Penalty of Mirth at an Ancient Church Celebration There was a church celebration of a rather exciting nature many years ago in Lynn Mass The occurrences mark ing the dedication of the Old Tunnel Meeting house in 1GS2 are recorded by an eyewitness and quoted in Ldiah Oldpaths Lin After the form al ceremony of dedication a feast was held Ye dinner was in ye greate barne of Mr Hood While we were at table a rooster flew to ye beam over our heads Mr Richardson ye Newbury minis ter in a very loud voise and stately mien proclaimed that tho ye house was a noble temple it yet was but a fit cas ket for yc godly jewel of Lin Where upon a most lusty crow was set up by ye old cock on ye beam and he flapped his wings sending ye dust down on to ye table Ye companie hurled apples at ye mis behaving fowie but not being of good aim did not hit and with a whirring noise it flew to ye ground as if in dis gust Mr Gerrish was in a merrie m oJ Not having his thots about him he en deavored ye dangerous performance of gaping and laughing at ye same time In doing so he set his jaws open in such a wise that It was beyond his power to bring them back again His agonie was very greate and his joyfu laugh was soon turned to grievous groaning We did our utmost to stay the an guish of Mr Gerrish but could make out but little till Mr Rogers who knoweth something of anatomie dil bid ye sufferer to sit down on ye floor and taking his head between his legs turning ye face upward as much as possible gave a powerful blow an i sudden press which brought ye jiws again into working order But Mr Gerrish did not gape nor laugh much more neither did he talk much that matter for A Felicitous Aside A senator describing a campaign wherein he had outgeneraled a rival said When it became plain that victory Avas mine when my opponents face began to grow darker and more for bidding I smiled to myself I could have muttered to myself some such felicitous aside as that which came from the small boy who was being spanked In the course of his spank ing the boys mother paused to say in sincere tones Tommy this hurts me far more than it does you And thereupon in his odd face downward position the boy winked and muttered to himself I was afraid that hard board I put in the seat of my trousers might in jure her delicate hand Got It Overboard Once while in a foreign port Admiral Dewey ordered the heaviest hoisting tackle in the ship to be got out of the hold without delay Nobody knew what it was for as there was nothing just at that time either heavy or light to be taken on board or sent ashore After two hours hard work the tackle was in place and Dewey then ordered that a large chew of tobacco which had been thrown under one of the guns be hoisted overboard and dumped into the sea Helpless First Deaf Mute If you objected to his kissing you why didnt you call for help Second Deaf Mute 1 couldnt He was holding both my hands 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