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Five Imported From Ghent
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Duty
MOVE ON THERE
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new police
call New York city
now has five dog
policemen on duly
and If these canine
sleuths prove valu
able other Ameri
can cities may
adopt the innova
tion The dogs are
imported like the
Idea They were
brought over from
the famed old city of Ghent in Bel
gium where eight years ago the first
dog policeman in history became a
full fledged member of the force Now
Ghent has a regular dog squad while
Paris has a hundred dogs on her po
lice force and other European cities
use trained canines as thief catchers
Some mouths ago the New York po
lice department determined to investi
gate the European dog police system
with a view to adopting it in case it
should prove feasible Many horrible
crimes had been committed by mis
creants in lonely spots the criminals
escaping It was believed that dogs
might render valuable aid in catching
these villains Accordingly Police Lieu
tenant Wakefield who was an expert
on dogs was sent over to Belgium
Wakefield thoroughly studied the dog
division yf the Ghent police force
learning just how to educate the ca
nines Tor their duties In public Ufo
The American police officer ho vera I
times donned the uniform and helmet
of the Ghent patrolman and walked a
beat the regular patrolman being ii
civilian clothing and serving as as
sistant iu showing off the fine points
of the dog
The chief thing that Lieutenant
Wakefield learned In dog education for
police duty was that the animal must
be taught to know and respect the po
lice uniform rather than the man In
side It
Wakefield bought five Belgian sheep
dogs six months old and brought them i
across thi sea One died the day after
arrival si to keep the force up to the
desired number an American canine
was added The quintet of young
dogs was taken to an old residence In
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NOG OKE OF NEW rORKS OIjICE dogs
a park in the upper part of the city
and matriculated at once in Amer
icas first and only police dog college
For four months Lieutenant Wakefield
as principal of the school with two pa
trolmen as professors taught the dogs
how to learn to do police duty The
first rule was that only uniformed
members of the force were allowed to
handle the dogs and only a uniformed
policeman was to feed them Another
A Strange Sport i hat Is Becoming
Popular In This Country
Boomerang thi owing as one of the
diversions of country life is coming
into favor in the United States as well
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as England and Australia Evidence
of this is found In the fact that dealers
In sporting goods now carry stocks of
boomerangs as well as of tennis rackets
and golf sticks The boomerang was
originally the weapon of wild tribes of
Australia but the occasion Is rare now
York City
They Obey the Uniform
Not the individual and to
Them Plain Clothes Cover
Undesirable Citizens
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policeman in civilian dress was as
signed to snatch away the dish of food
just as each dog began to eat with a
relish and to do other tantalizing
tilings In this way the dogs were
taught to look upon men In police uni
forms as their friends and to regard
all others with downright distrust
Every day at stated intervals the
dogs were taken out in the park for
exercise and training Each dog was
muzzled so that he could not bite but
he was left free to do all the barking
he liked While Lieutenant Wakefield
would hold a dog in leash one of the
patrolmen In an old suit of citizens
clothes would impersonate the bad
man to be captured He would slink
around among the trees When Lieu
tenant Wakefield released the dog with
the order Attack there was imme
diate trouble for the man in plain
clothes The dog assailed him fiercely
either tripping him up by twisting be
tween his legs or bowling him over by
jumping against his back with the fif
ty pounds avoirdupois of Mr Dog The
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dog3 -were taught to continue the at
tack If the captive attempted to arise
but If he lay still they were merely to
sit and guard him until the arrival of
a man in uniform Each dog learneJ
that he was to cease attack instantly
when the officer cried Down Thus
In case the dog should attack an inno
cent bystander just because said by
stander was not in police uniform the
policeman could protect the citizen or
in the case of a guilty person ho could
preserve the prisoner to be dealt with
by the courts
It is fully proved that the dogs re
spect the uniform and not the man by
the fact that Patrolman Beekman who
fed the animals twice a day during
their colege course was the same man
who in civilian clothes acted as the
supposed crook The dogs leaped at
him viciously when ordered to attack
but when Beekman was in uniform
thej appeared to both venerate and
fear him
Lieutenant Wakefield found much
difficulty in procuring suitable police
dogs in Europe That fact should en
courage our ambitious American dogs
Since one of the five police dogs iu
New York is an American and has
proved that he can absorb police educa
tion like a Belgian there is excellent
prospect that many of our own deserv
ing dogs now running around out of
jobs owing to the financial stringency
or other causes may be elected to the
police force All they have to do Is to
make good
when it Is used with the intention of
hurting anybody or anything In the
hands of an expert the boomerang Is
capable of furnishing considerable en
tertainment No ordinary mechanic
can construct it and the trick of mak
ing it return to the thrower is by no
means easy to learn Not only must
the instrument he held at just the prop
er angle when thrown but there must
be a peculiar twist and the direction of
the wind must be studied In making
the boomerang certain lateral twists
are given the wood and it is pitted
with notches running laterally along
the surface In throwing it one must
stand with the wind blowing toward
ones left front Experts can throw the
boomerang as far as 270 yards and
make it leturn and fiutter down about
the head like a butterfly
Navsl Nomenclature
The animal world has been exten
sively drawn upon to furnish names
for various things on shipboard Such
for example are Flemish horse a
short footrope under the yardarms
lizard a short rope with a ring in
the end for use in tripping one of
the lighter yards hounds a part of
the mast bull rope a rope used in
hauling small spars into the rigging
cathead a protuberance from the
bow to which the anchor is hauled up
cat the tackle used to haul the an
chor to the cathead fish another
tackle used in securing the anchor the
leech is the side of a square sail
dolphin striker a short spar perpen
dicular to and under the bowsprit
dogs ear a piece of sail projecting
when sails are furled snake to join
two ropes by zigzagging a smaller rope
between them a jackass is a big
stuffed ball used to plug up holes to
keep the water out
A MILITARY SURPRISE
Provident Grant and the Drummor
Boy of Shiloh
Colonel John L Gum the drummer
boy of Shiloh never attended West
Point In the early part of Grants
first term Clem obtained an audience
with the president Mr President
he opened the Interview I wish to
ask you for an order to admit me to
West Point Why do you not lake
the examinations questioned Grant
I did but I failed to pass That
was unfortunate How did it happeuV
Why you see I was iu the war while
those other boys of my age were in
school
Clem was barely eighteen then and
boyish looking even for his years lie
had made his owu way to the presi
dent and had no political sponsors to
back him What exclaimed the
president You were in the war
Yes I was in the war four years
And Clem related his experiences
Grant wrote something which he
handed to the young applicant saying
Take this to the secretary of war I
guess it will fix you all right
Clem went back to the secretary of
war who had before received him
coldly and delivered his note The
secretary read it and asked Do you
know what this is No replied
Clem I suppose it is an order to ad
mit me to West Point Well it isift
Its an order to commission you second
lieutenant in the regular army Chi
cago News
THE FACE IN ILLNESS
To the Trained Eye It Quickly Shows
a Patients Condition
The face is a good index to the state
of ones physical being and from it
symptoms of disease can lie detected
almost before the patient is aware that
anything serious is the matter with
him For instance incomplete closure
of the eyelids rendering the whites o
the eyes visible during sleep is a
symptom in all acute and chronic dis
eases of a severe type It is also to be
observed when rest is unsound from
pain wherever seated
Twitching of the eyelids associated
with the oscillation of the eyelids or
squinting heralds the visit of convul
sions
Widening of the orifices of the nose
with movements of the nostrils to and
fro points to embarrassed breathing
from disease of the lungs or their
plural investment
Contraction of the brows indicates
pain in the head sharpness of the nos
trils pain in the chest and a drawn
upper lip pain in the abdomen
To make a general rule it may be
stated that the upper third of the face
Is altered in expression in affections of
the brain and the middle third in the
diseases of the organs contained in the
abdominal cavity
Cotton Spinning Feats
Sea island cotton is the best kind
said a southerner It Is finer and
silkier than any other cotton in the
world A pound of it can be spun into
4770 miles of thread For an experi
ment ouce in the English town of
Manchester a skilled spinner spun a
pound of fea island cotton into a sin
gle thread 1000 miles long Then for
another experiment he took another
pound of cotton and spun it into as
many hanks as he could get He got
10000 hanks iu all and the yarn in
each measured 8 10 yards Thus out
of a pound of cotton 4770 miles of
yarn was produced This yarn though
was too fine to be of any practical
utility Those tAvo experiments made
a superb experiment for the cotton of
the south Louisville Courier Journal
Constantinople Shoemakers
In Constantinople the shoemakers are
all poets While a customer is having
a heel repaired or ashoe relaced the
attendant recites extemporized o
memorised verses to him As the Ian
guage - Arabic or Turkish the listener
rarely knows whether he is hearing a
good or htl verse On the Muski the
Broudv ay of old Cairo one can buy
tlii red Ualhor sharp toed slippers
urivr iiy worn in a land where there
is rrel any riin for about 00 cents
They are not worth more being very
flimsy artivles in construction They
are not repivjuntative of the expert
English or American handmade shoe
which is a thing of beauty of comfort
and of enduring utility Argonaut
Never Took the Hint
Jackson Well what did your wife
say to you when you got home so late
last night You know you were afraid
shed scold Fairleigh My wifes a
jewel She didnt scold a bit Iu fact
she didnt even ask me where I had
been or what had delayed me but late
as it was she sat down at the piano
and began to play and sing I tell you
shes one in ten thousand Jackson
What did she sing Fairleigh Tell
Me the Old Old Story
No Vulgarity
You inherited quite a nice little
fortune said the lawyer
Yes repiied the fortunate youth
I suppose you will pay a lot of your
debts now
I had thought of it but I concluded
to make no change in my manner of
living I dont want to be accused of
vulgar display
Secret of Failure
The secret of most mens failure is
mental dissipation wandering ener
gies squandering energies upon a dis
tracting variety of objects instead of
condensing them into one London
Chat
The average man fools his wife but
oncewhen he marries her St Louis
Globe Democrat
A Guaranteed Cure For Plies
Itching Blind Bleeding or Protrud
ing Piles Druggists refund money if
Pazo Ointment fails to cure any caso
no matter of how long standing in 6 tol J
days First application gives ease and
rest 50c If your druggist hasnt it
send 50o in stamps and it will bo for
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ORDER OF HEARING
In tlio district court of Red Willow county
Nobrnfckn In tho matter of the estate of Ella
A Ruck deceased
On rwidiiifi and filiriK the petition of John F
Helm prnyiiiK that administration ofsaid es
tate may bo granted to him as administrator
Ordered that March 14th 1S08 at nine oclock
a m ho assigned for hcnrinn said petition
when all persons interested in said matter may
appear at a county court to bo held iu and for
said county and show causo why tho prajerof
petitioner should not bo granted and tliat notice
of the pendency of said petition and the hi aring
thereof be given toall persons interested in said
matter bypublishing a copy of this order in the
McCook Tribune a weekly newspaper printed
in said county for threo successive weeks prior
to said day of hearinf
Dated February 21th 1S08 2 2Mts
J C Mooni County Judge
Boyle AEldrcd attorneys
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NOTICE
State of Nobrnska Red Willow county ss
To all persons interested in tho estate ol
Harriot Humphrey late of said county deceas
ed You aro horoby notified that on tho twontj
iiftli day of February 1808 Worth Humnliroy
Hied his petition in tho county court of said
county for his appointment as administrator pt
tho estate of Harriet Humphrey Into or said
county deceased nnd that the snmij will bo
heard at tho county court room in the city of
McCook of said county on the 10th day or
March ltOS at tho hour of ten oclock am
It is further ordered that notice pf stud hear
ing bo given all persons interested in said es
tate by publication or this notice or three
il frvlr Trihiinn n nmvs
paper printed and published and of gonoral cir
culation in said county 2 2iWts
Dated this 2ith day of February lJOS
hkaiJ J C Mookk County Judge
Notice is hereby gien that tho partnership
heretofore existing betweon Hans P Petersen
nnd Adolph N Lineburg under tho iirm name
of Petersen Lineburg has been this day dis
solved by mutual consent All debts duo tho
linn nro payable to Adolph N Lineburg who
will pay all lirm obligations
McCook Nebraska February 21 1008
Hans P
Adoli u N Lineuuuo
NOTICE OF TAX SALE REDEMPTION
To Myrtio Miller You are hereby notified
that on thoTith day of June lUXi I purchaMidat
private tax sale lots ono and two 1 and 2
block one Park division to Indinnoln Nebras
ka that said lots were ns essed in the name
of Myrtio Miller that said lots were assessed
and sold for tho taxes of tho years 1902 1JO and
1101 thai I havo paid the subsequent taxes
thereon of 1905 and IOti that tho time of re
demption from said tax sale will expire on the
0th day of June lJOS S R Smith
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NOTICE OF REFEREES SALE
of order Pr solo to n llrccted
By virtue nn
lied Willow
of
court
h tho clerk of the district
Phillippi narvcy Il Iippi Daisj IPP
Freidn PluUippi mmnuj Xrim
on tho eleventh dny of December lwi lor ino
mrtUon aid sale of tho following described
rau esi to to wit Tho south half of tho north
township two north rnngo twonty niiio west or
meridian m said Red Willow
the sixth principal
conn yi will olVer forsalo to the h ghest bidder
Tor cash on tho 16th day of MnrelulWWattho
front door or tho court house in McCook in said
county nt two oclock in the uftornoon tho
above described reul estate
Dated this 13th day of frobrunrylOOS
J S LeIIkw Reforco
REFEREES SALE
Ry virtue or nn order or salo to mo directed
by tho clerk or tho district court or Red lllow
county in tho stato or Nebraska on a judgment
rendered in said court in favor of Minnie Ma
tilda Miller plnintiiT against Albertina Roger
Hoy Rogers John S Miller treula Phillippi
Albert Phillippi Daisy IhUIipm and Edwin
Phillippi defendants on tho eloeiith day of
December 1J07 Tor the partition nnd snlo of tho
following described real estate to wit Tho
east half or tho west hair or section two the
northwest quarter or section one all in town
ship two north range twenty nmo and lots one
and two Iu block ten in tho fourth addition to
McCook all in Red Willow county Nebraska
1 will offer for salo to the highest bidder for
cash on tho Hith day of March 1MXS nt the front
door of tho court house in said county nttwo
oclock in the afternoon tho above described
real estate
Dated this Kith day ot February
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