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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1907)
II 1 OUR PRE Why We Can Sit A Boston schoolboy gave the follow ing definition of the spine The spine fcj a long bone reaching from the skull to the heels It has a hinge in the middle so that you can sit down oth erwise you would have to sit stand ing THE BIRDS AND BEES jT think the bees the blessed bees Are better wiser far than we The very Hd birds in the trees Are wiser far it seems to me For love and light and sun and air Are theirs and not a bit of care Vhat bird makes claim to all Gods trees Vhat bee makes claim to all Gods flow ers iBehold their perfect harmonies Their common board the common liours jSay why should man be less than these JThe happy birds the hoarding bees Joaquin Jliller Presence of Mind One of Mrs Hamilton Fishs rules Kvhen her husband was secretary of folate in Grants cabinet was to return every call she received Her husband fcvas continually holding public recep tions and many women would come who had no desire that Mrs Fish Should call upon them One such woman attended a Fish re ception left her card and a little later fsvas duly honored by a call from Sirs iFish It was a beautiful mild afternoon The Fish equipage all a glitter in the svintry sunshine dashed down the nar row street and halted before the wo mans little house with a musical jin gle of silver chains The footman leap ed from the box and opened the car riage door and Mrs Fish descended The woman of the house was kneel ing on the sidewalk beside a bucket of jfiot water with a scrubbing brush in ne hand and a cake of soap in the Other She was scrubbing the front steps Bending graciously over her Mrs Fish asked politely Is Mrs Henry toobiusou at home And Mrs Henry Robinson replied No mum she aint and went on scrubbing Lippincotts jHer Position An applicant for teacher in a coun try school was asked What is your jposition with regard to the whipping iof children My usual position is on a chair jjvith the child held firmly across my Iknees face downward was the reply A Noisy Eater J Ex Senator William E Chandler has Jan admirer iu New Hampshire who pas ideas on how tne government should be conducted and writes Mr Chandler about them at great length After Chandler was defeated for the Senate and before he was appointed president of the Spanish claims coni fenission the friend wrote condoling with the senator He said it was a shame that the na tion and New Hampshire shouldvbe de prived of the services of so able a man as Mr Chandler and closed with this prophecy Nevertheless I do not think republics are ungrateful I am con jfldent that your great merits will again tbe recognized and that at no late date Uve shall hear of you feeding again at fehe public crib kAII the Same to rtim One of a party of gentlemen left his corner seat in an already crowded rail way car to go in search of something to eat leaving a rjasto reserve ljis SISENTS GROVER CLEVELAND The twenty second president of the United States also called the twenty fourth president because of his second election after an interim of one presi dential term was born In 1S37 at Caldwell N J lie removed to Buffalo N T In his youth and became a lawyer lie was elected sheriff mayor nnd governor and In 1S84 was nominated for president by the Democratic party defeating James G Blaine Four years later he was renominated but was fieaten by Benjamin Harrison whom he In turn defeated In 1S92 Since his retirement he has lived at Princeton N J - The crap o Book place On returning ne rouna rmu iu spite of the rug and the protests of his fellow passengevs the seat had been usurped by a woman clad in handsome clothes With flashing eyes she turned upon him Do you know sir that I am one of the directors wives Madam he replied were you the directors only wife 1 should still pro test Ladies Home Journal What She Was Like Do tell me what Mrs Tewler is like she asked of her husband Well shes a woman of sixty who looks fifty thinks she is forty dresses like thirty and acts like twenty A Nice Distinction I fear said a country curate to his flock when I explained to you in my last charity sermon that philanthropy was the love of our species you must have understood me to say specie which may account for the smallness of the collection You will prove I hope by your present contribution that you are no longer laboring under the same mistake Unique Poet Holes The foreman and his crew of bridge men were striving hard to make an t impression on the select board provid ed by Mrs Rooney at her Arkansas eating establishment The old man sure made a funny deal down at Piney yesterday ob jserved the foreman with a wink at the jman to his right I Whatd he do asked the new man at the other end of the table Well a year or so ago there used tc i be a water tank there but they took down the tub and brought it up here tc Cabin Creek The well went dry and thoy covered it over It was four or five feet around ninety feet deep and Jplumb in the right of way Didnt know what to do with it until along I comes an old lollypop yesterday and gives the old man 5 for it Five dollars for what asked the tnew man Well continued the foreman ig noring the interruption that old lolly pup borrow bu two jacks from the traek men and jacked her up out of there and carried her home on wheels Whatd he do with it persisted the new man Say that old lollypop mustve been a Yank Nobody else could have fig ured it out The ground on his place is hard and he needed some more fence so he calclated twould be easier and cheaper to saw that old well up into postholes than twould be to dig em Thereafter the new man bit more on his food and less on the conversation Everybodys Seven Hens Cannot Lay One Egg Daniel Webster when he was secre tary of state was one day reading at a cabinet meeting a draft of a message he had written for the president to transmit to congress He was con stantly interrupted by one of the mem bers with suggestions until losing pa tience he turned to him and said Sir you might as well expect seven hens to lay one egg as seven men to construct one message Ho Tipped Them All A New Yorker was shown to a room in a hotel in Brussels where he found twenty candles stuck in a chandelier As it was dark the attendant lighted them all but the guest put them out immediately In his bill next day however he found them charged Twenty candles 10 francs He went back to the room and took themall but wrapped them in a bit MyilWW WWWWWflWMMI hiwfjuih orpapcr suppetr raem tutu uis overcoat pocket When he was ubout to leave the house he found the servants drawn up In two lines In the hall in the Euro pean style all smiling and ready for the expected tip Then he drew out his package and distributed the can dles one to each as he passed out Allow me monsieur said he with a bow permit me madam They are very superior candles I assure you I paid 10 cents apiece for them Ladies Home Journal Outwitting Her Lawyer Still there are occasions when lawyer isnt the chief beneiiciary of a suit said Mrs Stonewall Jackson I know of one instance A friend of mine in Virginia sued a railroad com pany for damages and secured a J diet for 10C00 which was paid and the whole amount is now in bank sub ject to her order Her counsel didnt get a penny of it How was that She found the only way of outwit ting him she married the lawyer Bible Authority For It Mr Ituudlcit at one time a mer chant in the town of Newcastle Me instructed his clerks to strictly follow the precepts of the Bible in all of their dealings One day a lady came in to buy a piece of dress goods and one of the clerks spent a great deal of t ing her various cloths whi werent good enough Tin show- ie said Tic said he had a better piece in the rear of the store He showed her this piece which she had already seen but told her it was much Oner and worth 50 cents a yard more She said that she could readily see that it was better and made her purchase Mr Rundlett who had seen the transaction censured the clerk who replied that he could refer to the Bible to justify his action Why how is that j Well she was a stranger and I took her in The Same Effect There had been a brilliant company at the home of a society leader in Des Moines la a woman whose husband bJKas known better for his wealth than for his mental attainments Well Francis she said after the last visitor was gone it was a com plete success wasnt it Sure observed Francis Did you notice Professor Billing ton The man with the bandage around his neck Yes What an astonishing vocabu lary he has From the way he held his head I thought it was a carbuncle Lippin cotts Long Name Short Lived In Boston there used to be a stam mering college kept by Professor Graves says Governor Guild Next door to this college was a flower store Professor Graves method was to ask each pupil what phrase he would like to learn to say perfectly Then the professor would drill the pupil on that one phrase or sentence and when the stammerer repeated it smoothly a cure was pronounced One day a friend of mine who was afflicted with the stut tering habit decided to patronize the professor Before he went into the studio however he stopped to look in the flower store at some chrysanthe mums Now my dear fellow said Pro fessor Graves is there anything par ticular that you would like to learn to say perfectly y yes th there is I like be able s say before the darn th thing f fades Unkind Miss Folia La Follette daughter of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin was passing a collection plate one day when she was waved away by a man distinguished for his wealth and par simony Nothing he said gruffly I have nothing Take something then this collec tion is for the poor you know Mineral Lands In the eastern United States the mineral fuels have already passed into the hands of large private owners and those of the west are rapidly follow ing It is obvious that these fuels should be conserved and not wasted and it would be well to protect the peo ple against unjust and extortionate prices so far as that can still be done What has been iccHshod in the groat nil fields of the Indian Territory by the acni of the administration of fers a striking pt pie of lhs thI re sults of such a vnry In iv judg ment the gvenmeit xhould have the right to keep th fv if the coal oil and gas b it vn po ro rio i and to lease the ivjit s develop iliw under proper ivg tu n or -e if tlv congress vvill nl ailoist ths ineh jI the coal depc is tl Id be M rn Ii limitation1 to jrorve then as pub lic utilities thc rjt t ire be ing separated fr un the title to thy sot The regulations should permit coal lands to be worked in suOcient quan tity by the several c rporatiens The present limitations have been absurd excessive and serve no useful purpose and often render it necessary that there should be either fraud or else abandonment of the work of getting out the coal First be temperate Second stay out of doors as much as you can If the American business man young or old will only do these two things and take reasonable physical exercise says Trainer Murphy in the Saturday Even ing Post he will soon get fit and will stay fit to the end sent and at ure at Glace Breton N K of Ireland imsaratH OVERSEA WIRELESS - JgXZ74X W1CBWV x - JU HL A i msMMmmmm MAIiCOKI S TATION AT GLACE BAT AND WIRELESS ISECEIVE1C ly followed by others which form themselves into the characters of the Morse code The operator who re ceives the messages sent from the sta tion at Clifden wears headgear like that of a telephone operator It is cal culated that only the ninetieth part of a second elapses from the time when the sending operator touches the key to the time when the record is made in the station at Clifden The question is often asked What gives the message direction The wizard of the wireless science has no answer for this We send it into space he says and it must find its way to a point in Ire land Mountains in the path of the current or the curvature of the earth does not affect the transmission of the message If it were otherwise the in ventor would have great difficulties to surmount in the establishment of the overland wireless service he expects soon to institute between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of America for high EGULAK wireless telegraphic son ice across the Atlantic is now an established fact Hun dreds of messages are now being sent across the ocean every day and the tMO hemispheres have by this great scientific achievement been brought in much closer contact Com munication being so much easier and less expensive distance is annihilated The stations from which messages are which they are received Bay on the coast of Cape and Clifden on the coast The station at South Well- fleet Cape Cod Mass is to be re fitted and equipped with the improved apparatus lor receiving and sending messages which has proved so suc cessful at the Nova Scotia station The coast of Crpe Breton at Glace Bay is not distinguished by any marked ele vation The site of the station is a slight promontory not more than sev enty feet above the sea level There are twenty four pine masts ISO feet high arranged in a circle of 3000 feet in diameter The masts are wired and connected with the four towers form ing the center of the circle The tow ers are wooden 21i feet high and sur mounted by masts fifty feet in height The main purpose of the towers is to support a great number of wires suspended in the air and about fifty of these pass up from the operating rnnm In tlu station tn crns wirps of wires is meant to obtain a more powerful accumulation of electric en ergy for upon this depends tlie dis tance to which the message may be sent The eleitric current i generated by alternators and tlie tension is in creased by use of transformers The discharge of tlie accumulated current produces In tlie ether the electric waves which make the recording im pressions on the instruments at the receiving stations Owing to the high potential of the current there is a Hash of light when the operator presses the key to send a message across the ocean and with it a sharp musical report is heard quick- mountains intervene Between the i point of departure of a message at Glace Bay and the point of its tion at Clifden the curvature of the earth represents a mass of land and water more than a hundred miles high The prevalence of high winds makes no difference in the operation of the wireless transatlantic service either a matter of importance when it is con- j sidered how a windstorm interferes with the ordinary telegraphic service on land The Glace Bay Marconi j tion is the property of the Canadian Marcom company and is estimated to have cost 100000 exclusive of the ex- pense of experiments incidental to the efforts to make practical use of the in vention At the Asylum Why does that man over there lie flat on his back staring upward That man Oh he imagines he is enjoying an automobile ride on a coun try Toad Detroit Free Press Those Railway Croakers Yes thats the great railway man Why does he look so gloomy Hes trying to make himself think that hard times are coming Cleve land Plain Dealer Tisi jaaiSssa OKDKR OK IIKARINO Stnto of Nebrnskn Red Willow county ks In the county court To nil persons iiitorosted in llui estato of Lewis hdKur Cnmi clcuiiaou on nro JitTuly not Hied that on the 4tli lav of Ucciiiilier 1UI7 leauuetto R Cauu widow of said Lewis Kdcnr Ciiiiii deceased filed her etitiou in the county court of snid county for the appointment of I Sylvester Cordeal as administrator of the estate I of Lewis Kdtftir Cauu late of stud county dc- i ceased and that the same will be heard iu the county court room in the city of Alctook in said count on the 2ird day of December 1U7 J at the hour of one o clock p in It is further ordered that notice of said heariiiK be kimmi to all persons interested in said estate by the pub- i lication of this notice for three successhe weeks iu the McCook Tribune n newspaper published printed and circulated in said county Dated this fourth day of December lit siai J C Mooiti CountyJudKe NOT7CK Defendants the unkurmn heirs devisee- and legatee of Hannah Seliult r deceased will take notice that on the 18th day of Decern er lirt7 Wilson ilocr plaintill tiled his petition in tl e district court of Red Willow county Nebrnskn against ou the object and prijer or wind are to obtain a decree of this court in faor of I plaintill and against said defendants quit ting I ins line in una to me souin nan 01 nenortn I east quarter and the north half of the south i east quarter of section fifteen township two north of range twenty nine west of the sixth 1 principal meridian in said count tuning the claims and demand- of ilefendaud at d each of them that the cloud east upon plaimif s title by the claims of defendants and each of them be remoied and each of them be decreed to 1 hae no title in or to said hind but that the same be decreed to be in the plaiutil discharg ed of till the claims or demands iu law or iu i equity of defendants or any of them for costs i and for general relief and that on the ISih day of December 11M7 said court ordered that -it-ice be made upon juii bj publication au are 1 required to answer said petition on or before i the twcnty seenth da of January 1JOS I Dated December lit 1107 j Wilson- Iiovik Plaintiff By W S Morlnu hi attorney NOTICE TO CREDITORsT The Stale of Nebraska Red Willow county ss In the county court In the matter of the es tate of Sarah 7 Cooley deceased To tlie creditors of said estate You are here- by notified that I will sit at the county court 1 room in McCook in said count on the 211th da of June 71418 nt one oclock p m to examine all claims against said estate with n iew to their adjustment and allowance The timo I limited for the presentation of claims against said estate is six months from the 14th day of Jiecemoer a ij tjoi ami tlie time limited lor i ii n I payment or debts is one jenr from sniii Ilth da tween the towers This multiplication of rwemhor ik7 gmlM1 gLta M VU1T iTT y Witness my hand and the seal of said county court tlu lltli day or December 1HI7 7 Mooui County Judge Boyle ct Eldrcd Attorneys 12-20-1 ts - ifVirfrr TC The best of every thing in his line at the most reasonable prices is Harsh s motto your He wants trade and hopes by merit to keep it The Butcher Phone 12 FENNEY WALKER GENERAL CONTRACTING PAINTERS AN D DECORATORS Not How Cuenu but How Good with Us Office and Shop west of First National Bank Steel Ceilings Sold Put Up and Decorated V FRANKLIN President A C EBERT Cashier JAS S DOYLE Vine President -- - w wV CI 1 T7C iZLvi THR BANK OF MeCOOK NEB h u m m ip Paid Up Capital 50000 Surplus Si 2000 f n n b a b DIRECTORS z V FRARKUfi JAS S DOYLE A 0 EBERT i 1 Make your friend a present of some Monogram C s w JVi V ix cSg m i H in a Stock Certificate of the McCook Building Loan Association tationery We have an excellent line of samples from which you can choose embossed in one or two colors or in bronze or gold any letters or combination of letters Call and see samples of the monograms and stock The TRIBUNE Office A iA M JUJ fl Ik ill 1M M i i No better or safer investment is open to you An investment of ioo per month for 120 months will earn So 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 I 1 v i