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Deck Hardings Marriage
Yesterday afternoon at 430 occurred
ibo wedding of Mihs Lattie S Trotter
nd Mr Prank D Hnrding at the homo
P hn hridqH parents nt Ainsworth
Only the relatives and h few immediate
friends of the young couple witniSBid
the ceremony which was performed by
the Rev J E Weigle of the Ainsworllr
Methodist church
immediately following the ceremony
the wedding supper was served by the
Misses Ruth Easter and Clara Trotter
nd MessrsRob Rhea and Willis Trot ter
ThH bride is the nldost daughter of Mr
and Mrs W T Trotter and for a num
ber of yearH 1ms been acting as the post
mistress at Ainsworth She is a talent
ed young lady of fine womanly qualities
and she enjoys the love and respect of a
great host of friends For the last year
ihe groom has been in Colorado where
Siahas an interest in a large fruit farm
A reception was given in honor of the
bride and groom today at the homo of
tt grooms parents Mr and Mrs Jos
6ph Harding at Ainsworth Among
thf guests from a distance who attended
4he wedding were Mr and Mrs Ben
Mikesell of Fairfield Miss Dot Keistor
of Washington and George Johnson of
Washington 111 The Journal knows
Mrs Harding well for she has served as
Onr very efficient correspondent from
Ainsworth for several years We ex
tend our heartiest congratulations to
lier and Mr Harding May they be
happy always Washington la Even
ing Journal Jan 15 1908
Chautauqua Benefits a Town
The Chautiiuqua although held in
many other countries is strictly an
American institution
The movement was started many I
7ears ago by Bishop Vincent at Ghaut
s qua Lake New York and has spread
smtil every state in the union has at
Jt ast one of these assemblies Iowa
lends the list with almost one hundred-
The character of the Chautauqua of
t xlay issuch that there are attractions
Jhat will interest any one who will at
tend
In the present day so many people
live on the plain of ordinary amuse
anents which though not immoral are
aot in any way uplifting or beneficial
Whitever may be said of the entertain
ments of the Chautauqua it cannot be
said they are not the best the country
affords and without a doubt raise the
level for entertainments in any commun
ity
We wonder if a Chautauqua could be
successful in our town
There are always a few who are afraid
to take part in any new movement and
the voices of these few may perhaps be
beard opposing the Chautauqua
Every new movement has a trial
period The Chautauqua has passed
through that and is known to give de
finite results
Why not our town take this oppor
tunity and give the people a summer
entertainment that will be benefit mor
ally and educationally
McCook Markets
Merchants and dealers in McCook at
noon today Friday are paying the fol
lowing prices
Corn S 55
Wheat 85
Oats 35
Jtfcjr VhJ
JOtirJoVa - 0
Hogs 3 60
Butter good 20
Eggs 20
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THE COLD KEY
A Popular and an Ancient Remedy For
Nosebleed
In case of hemorrhage especially In
that of bleeding from the nose our
forefathers applied to the forehead and
to the nose ointments and even the
patients own blood They practiced
ligation of the limbs a means devised
by Apollonius In the reign of Nero
Ugatlng the great toe of the side corre
sponding to the bleeding nostril and
they resorted to derivation by blood
letting They plugged the ears with
tow a procedure recommended by Ga
len But above all they sought to
produce fainting Locally the haemns
tatic most employed was spiders web
with which they filled the nasal fossa
Of all these empirical procedures the
TYiaf Ttrtlntitricwl nn rl 4 1m Ann ctlll
most employed In popular medicine Is
the application of cold The most avail
able source of cold because it is every
where procurable is water Conse
quently It has oftenest been employed
In epistaxis the ancient physicians ad
vised bathing the face with very cold
water and causing it to be held In the
mouth They also soaked the hands
and feet in cold water
On the theory that cold things re
strain hemorrhage many persons re
placed water by solid cold objects and
hung about the neck of the patients
attacked with epistaxis coral jasper
yellow amber marble or articles of
Iron Physicians pointed out indeed
certain regions with which it was pref
erable to make the contact They real
ized that it was the coldness of the
object not its nature that did the
work No special property must be at
tributed to the Iron said Guyon Dolols
for chains of gold silver or lead would
serve the same purpose In popular
medicine however Iron has remained
the material most employed in nasal
hemorrhages and the application of
tile key to the back is largely resorted
to in the household Dr Helot pos
sesses an enormous key which he uses
only as a paperweight One day a pa-
tient pointing to this massive key ex
claimed It is to stop hemorrhages
It was a key of the eighteenth century I
We may laugh says M Helot at
the charm attributed to the key iir
epistaxis but we must admit that cold
lii n forfnln nrMnn In nrtcna if liomnr
rhage It contracts the capillary ves
sels When it Is applied at a distance
from the site of hemorrhage its effi
ciency may be a matter for discussion
but its effect is certain when it is
applied to the actual seat of the bleed
ing and rhinologists know the value
of causing the patient to swallow ice
Possibly the cold key has no other
hemastatic power than what is con
nected with the sensation of cold
which It produces A cold compress
would probably act with more certain
ty but it would be difficult to dethrone
the key which one always has in ones
pocket There is certainly some wis
dom in the resources of our ancestors
and of the common people even as the
alchemists of old were no fools as is
shown by our modern chemistry
New York Medical Journal
Dodging a Problem
Little Gracie was very much inter
ested in her arithmetic and some of
the examples which she brought home
to work out during the evening hours
were puzzling to her parents who
many years ago had forgotten even the
rudimentary rules The other evening
the little girl had one about carpeting
a room and this she handed out to her
father as the family sat about the ta
ble after supper
Papa said Gracie if you had a
room thirty seven and a half feet long
and forty two and three quarter feet
wide how many yards of carpet three
quarters of a yard wide would it take
to carpet this room
Papa thought a minute and then
said I think I should leave it to the
man in the carpet store He is paid to
figure those things out
But papa said Gracie Ive got
to do this example Suppose you were
the man in the carpet store How
would you get the number of yards
Well said papa I guess I would
have to throw up my job
How would you do it mamma
said the little girl turning to her
mother
Well Gracie said mamma I dont
think I would carpet the room at all I
believe I would buy a rug It is
easier to take care of and a great deal
more sanitary
And Gracie had to struggle through
the example all by her lonesome Bos
ton Traveler
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To Move the Road
There appear to have been in the
Old Dominion during early colonial
days a great number of dogs of a mon
grel breed the chief use of which was
to destroy the smaller kind of animals
running wild in the woods and fields
How valuable they were considered to
be by their owners is shown in a case
which occurred in Northampton coun
ty about 1G91 and is recorded by P A
Bruce- in The Social Life of Virginia
In the Seventeenth Century
A complaint was Iqdged in the coun
ty court against Mike Dixon on the
I ground that he permitted his dogs to
rush out and bark at persons passing
t along the highway which was situated
Immediately in front of his door
Instead of proposing to kill or re
strain the dogs Dixon simply petition
ed the court to have the public road
removed some distance back from his
dwelling house because it was nec
essary he declared to keep dogs
l for he preservation of creatures from
vermin
The creatures he referred to were
poultry and young pigs and the
minwere wolves foxes minks pole
cats and the like
It Is not stated whether or not his pe
tition f was granted
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DANCIIJOITIS
Wondrous Mirage That Came
With the Break of Day
i u uixiL uuu ki tiv v m i
ing cooked a hasty supper and dead
tired with our hard days march had
at once rolled ourselves in our blankets
I awoke some time later feeling stiff
and uncomfortable I rolled over and
took a minute to think out the cause of
this ending by lifting my head and
looking about me The air was per
fectly clear and though no moon was
shining the night was quite light from
the myriad of stars that seemed on
the point of bursting out of the sky
with the energy of their twinkling
My eyes dropped to the deserts level
and I looked across its flat stretch of
sand thinly planted with stunt- 1 cac
tus to the jagged range of lnv moun
tains that reached along the eastern
horizon
As I looked a light seemed to be
growing there but so slowly that I had
to compare that part of the horion
with other places to assure myrelf that
it was there Little by little it grew
and diffused itself upward and out
ward The silhouette of the moun
tains became more distinct The stars
with his back against that of one of
the guides broke the deathlike silence
with a long drawn muflled whine
One of the horses drew a deep sigh
got to his feet shook himself and be
gan to munch at a little pile of hay
left over from his evenings meal This
little stir of life had to do duty for the
universal hum and whir and move
ment that mark the break of dawn in
habitable parts of the world Over all
this flat waste no sound or sign of
mation greeted the coming of another
day The expanse lay stark and still
while the life awakening light spread
out over the sky
As I watched the pale blue tinted
glow evenly spread over the eastern
sky gradually deepened at the bottom
and took on a reddish flush Suddenly
long white beams shot upward their
tips almost directly above radiating
like the ribs of an open fan These
silvery rays shimmered a few moments
and then died down as all at once a
scintillating point of dazzling light
flashed out at their base Distant hill
and nearby cactus leaped out of their
semiobscurity and stood up boldi and
clear as in the garish light of noonday
The point grew until it was the half
of a blazing disk which suddenly melt
ed and ran along the horizon where it
lay a glowing lake of gold
Then a curious thing happened to
the low range of mountains that lay
beneath and extended beyond the lake
of gold They proceeded to conduct
themselves In a manner wholly un
heard of in such staid and dignified
features of the topography Mountains
have long done yeoman service in po
etry song and elsewhere in litera
ture as type of all that is firm seated
lasting and unyielding These particu
lar mountains however set out to
make a new reputation for their kind
First those in the shallower waters of
this lake of light detached themselves
from their firm set bases and slowly
floated upward while their compan
ions on the dry land at the edge tot
tered and reeled in an intoxication of
amazement at their wonderful per
formance The mountains then sank
slowly down again upon their bases
then they jumped up and down quick
ly several times just to make sure that
they had mastered this accomplish
ment new to the mountain family
After taking thought for a moment
our gymnastic mountains proceeded to
turn handsprings alighting sometimes
ontheir heads and standing there in a
most marvelous manner considering
how top heavy they must have been
with their prodigiously big feet thus
up in the air Their neighbors seemed
to regard this exhibition with a spurt
of envy which sometimes broke into
emulation but this emulation proceed
ed no farther than the evolutions of a
quadrille advancing and receding
bowing and scraping right hand to
your partner and all hands round
Tiring at last of this form of amuse
ment our surprising mountains now
engaged in another one not less aston
ishing They became workers of mag
ic painters scene shifters and I was
treated to a most wonderful display of
modern cities and mediaeval castles
floating battleships and cathedrals of
massive and intricate architecture
scenes of peaceful rural life with sleep
ing lakelets and feeding herds Indian
tepee villages and streets of Chicago
skyscrapers It was truly an exhibi
tion of most bewildering magnificence
and variety and I know I must have
watched it with mouth agape
But something meanwhile was hap
pening to our lake of fire It was dry
ing up and all at once condensed into
a huge blazing ball hanging clear of
the horizon Our mountains whose
antics were thus so near to being re
vealed in the broad light of day swift
ly sought their accustomed places and
after a finaj tremble or two reassumed
the severe demeanor the unmoving at
titude and stony stare that their kind
always present to the world except at
daybreak -on the desert Harvey H
Kessler in Los Angeles Times- -
A Mdnory of a Lost Delight
A fireplace any one may have and
to me the wonder Is that our civilisa
tion has abolished the very soul from
our northern homes Fire is no longer
the joy of the household but the
slave imprisoned In the cellar Ah
but It was delicious when the old
I fashioned family sat together In the
QMWRIQP rM TUP nPQPRT Sreat kitchen around the huge
OUIvniOC Ull inc UCOCni pace All the evening we told stories
I ate doughnuts drank elder a the
Strange and Fantastic Scenes on the
Arid Wastes of the Colorado An
Aerial Exhibition of Most Bewilder
ing Magnificence and Variety
Our little party of four two old hunt
ers and prospectors and two tender
feet was far out on the Colorado des
ert near the Mexican boundary line
ITTk lnl nnlinil rn Infn Intr flic nvnn
time paring apples and hanging the
long festoons of quarters from the
beams But the dear little mother
she it was who told the best stories
while she was knitting mufflers and
socks or mending our well worn cloth
ing There were no parlors at all in
those days gnd as for thrummed pi
anos we had not yet heard of them
At 0 oclock honest and drowsy we
knelt and thanked God for life and
love and home Our bunks and bed3
and trundle beds were nil In close
proximity and from every one of
them we could see the flames still
jumping up the chimney while the big
firelog was slowly eaten through
There was not one millionaire in all
the world and Indeed we were not
worried over the affair E P Powell
in Outing Magazine
Ho Told the Reason
The aeronaut to get along must
keep his wits about him said an ar
my official Under the most adverse
circumstances he must not lose his
head Always he must be alert and
ready like like well like a scientist
I used to know
This scientist gave a scientific lec
ture in a church one night and at the
lectures end he said beaming on his
audience condescendingly
Now if there is any scientific
question that any of my friends would
like to ask I beg them not to hesitate
I shall be only too happy to answer
on that side of the sky began to lose J auy inquiry In my power
their brilliancy A hound sleeping Au old lady in spectacles that gave
her a severe stern look rose and said
Why do wet tea leaves kill
roaches
The scientist didnt know they did
let alone the cause of the phenomenon
But never at a loss he replied
Because madam when a roach
comes across a wet tea leaf he says
Hello heres a blanket and wraps
himself up In it catches cold and
dies Los Angeles Times
He Met Shorty
Nicknames are sometimes deceptive
things and they are oftentimes ex
tremely funny I was in a small town
not many miles south of Boston and
asking for a certain piece of
Shorty could give it to me and he j
seemed to be the only man who could I
Not knowing just who Shorty was
I made further inquiries and was told
that he could be found in the store
just across the square
Just ask for Shorty I was told
Any one will show him to you
I Avent over to the store as directed
and looked vainly about for some one
who might answer the name Only
one man was present and he was al
most a seven footer After looking
about a moment I started to leave
Lookin for some one stranger he
observed
Yes Im looking for Shorty I
told him
A broad grin overspread his face
Guess youve got him he mur
mured Im your man Boston
Traveler
A Mean Trick
In his home city they tell a sad story
of a mean trick on a pawnbroker He
was enjoying a beauty sleep when a
furious knocking at the street door
brought him to the window with a
jerk
Whats the matter he shouted
Come down demanded the knock
er
But
Come down
The man of many nephews hastened
downstairs and peeped around the
door Now sir the pawnbroker de
manded
I wansh know the time said the
reveler
Do you mean to say you knocked
me up for that How dare you
The midnight visitor looked injured
Well youve got my watch he said
Bluebeard
Bluebeard originated in France and
was called the Koinance of the Cheva
lier Kaoul the historic figure being a
certain Giles de Laval lord of Itaiz
He was marshal of France In 1429 and
though a brave and fearless soldier
was addicted to vice and violence and
from this fact was charged with the
wholesale murder of young women
whose blood he used for the purpose of
diabolical inconta lions From these
circumstances the web of the story is
spun
A Fugitive Bit
Lend me a peneil said the press
humorist
Thought of somelhing funny
No but Ive thought of something
that will pass muster as a joke
Louisville Courier Journal
Setting Him Right
He Tell me confidentially how
much did the bonnet cost you
She George there Is but one way in
which you can obtain the right to in
spect my millinery bills
He popped
Between Friends
Nan Did you notice how dreadfully
that piano needed tuning Fan Why
no dear I thought it harmonized per
fectly with your voice Chicago Trib
une
There Is no tyrant like custom and
no freedom where Its edicts are not
resisted Bovee
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