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f i J CRYSTAL GAZING If You Want to Try It This Will Toll You How to Proceed Having satisfied myself that some people really would tee hallucinatory pictures In a glass hall or In water I examined the ethnological side of the question I found by studying works of travel and anthropology that many savage and barbarous races gaze Into water polished basalt rock crystals and so on for the purpose of seeing distant events foreseeing the future detecting criminals and so forth It does not seem to me credible that so many and so widely separated peoples should agree witli ancient Greeks and the races of western Europe iu staring away if they did not see hallucinatory pictures So I believe that some peo ple do see them Nor is this fact now denied by professors of psychology I have never been able to foresee from character complexion habit of mind and other indications what per sons would prove capable of descrying even fancy pictures iu a glass ball The best gazers of my acquaintance those who hit on pictures coincidental with actual events unknown to them or with the secret thoughts of a com panion are both of them not unfamil iar with other curious experiences But I have tried with the glass ball two or three other friends who have seen what are vulgarly called ghosts in haunted houses and in the glass ball they can see nothing while people who never saw ghosts do see coinci dental pictures in a glass ball If any readers care to make experi ments they can begin by purchasing a bail or of course a glass jug of wa ter will do or even a teaspoouful of ink in some cases but both are incon venient and may spill llaving got the ball it is best to go aione into a room sit down with the back to the light place the ball at a just focus in the lap on a dark dress or a dark piece of cloth try to exclude reflections think of anything you please and stare for five minutes say at the ball That Is all If after two or three trials you see nothing in the way of pictures In the ball you will probably never suc ceed Andrew Lang Circumstantial Evidence During a discussion in regard to cir cumstantial evidence a lawjer told of a remarkable case which he said ap pears In the Virginia reports It was this A man was discovered drawing a knife from the prostrate form of an other man near a roadside The wit nesses rushed upon him and took the weapon from him It was still drip ping with the warm blood of the vic tim lie was accused of the murder but asserted his innocence He claim ed that he had happened along the road but a few moments before and saw his alleged victim struggling with another man Before he could come up the unknown had driven his knife home and had fled into some brush close by Seeing the knife still in the breast of the fallen man he stooped over and drew it forth just as his ac cusers came on the scene That was his story The knife being identified as the property of the accused no cre dence whatever was placed in his tale He was tried convicted and hanged A year later the man who had really committed the crime while on his deathbed confessed that he was the murderer and told how he had stolen the knife from the innocent man who had been sent to the gallows A A Perfect Marriage Most people know and admire the work of the versatile William Blake poet and artist but few people know the story of his perfect marriage for a perfect marriage it was indeed In 17S0 Blake fell in love with a pretty girl called Clara Woods but she did not care for hiin and the blow was a severe one to the impressionable young man He left London and took up his abode at Richmond where he lodged with a nursery gardener named Bouch er Mr Boucher had a beautiful daugh ter Catherine and she became the confidant of the poets love affair and hor generous sympathy so cheered Blakes mental sufferings that he grad ually fell in love with the gentle girl His affection was warmly returned and Catherine Boucher married Wil liam Blake on Aug IS 17S2 It was an ideal union The youug husband took a delight in teaching his wife who was all eagerness to learn and the modest gardeners daughter be came eventually a cultured woman who was an ardent hero worshiper of her clever husband and who cheered his life more than any one else could Mrs Blake learned to color her hus bands drawings and was extraordi narily adept in the work i Discovery of Osteopathy The man who discovered osteopathy was a great sufferer from headache said a man who claims to know He tried every remedy on earth almost but could get no permanent relief One day he had a terrible headache and went out into his front yard to lie un der the shade of a big tree and rest his throbbing head on the cooling grass Suspended from a limb of the tree was a rope swing used by the children The man lay under this swing for awhile and finally put the rope under his head to act as a support In a few moments he was surprised and pleased to find that his headache was much j better la half an hour the pam had gone He began an Investigation Ho discovered that the rope swing pressed on the nerve in the back of the head This pressure stopped the headache With more study he decided that many pains could be relieved if nerves could be given the proper treatment a mas sage He started an osteopathic school and has made a grand success Nashville Tennesseean PRETTY BILLIE BURKE She Has Captivated Theater Goers on Both Sides of the Ocsnn Miss HIHie Burke who is winning praise as leading woman with John Drew in ily Wife has captured au diences on both sides of the ocean by her beauty and cleverness rather than by any extraordinary qualities In her acting She Is what the British call fetching and has such a charming unaffected almost childlike manner on the stage that her auditors often forget to inquire of themselves whether they like her acting or not She is some times spoken of as an English actress but she was born in Washington and is a daughter of William E Burke of the former vaudeville team of Burke and Andrews Her first name is Ethel- - V MISS IULIiIE BURKE berta but having acquired the pet name of Billie it has stuck to her It was about five years ago that Miss Burke set London swelldom and the music hall habitues talking about her hit in My Little Canoe a song intro duced in The School Girl by its com poser Leslie Stuart also the composer of Florodora The refrain of the song runs Mamie Ivo a little canoe Room for me my Mamie and you Ill paddle alons and rock you In my cradle Mamie youve nothing to do When Ive told my worries to you Then Mamie we might canoodle we two In my little canoe Miss Burke soon had all London humming the tune of the song She graduated from the music hall to the operatic stage and in 1905 made a suc cess in a musical lyric called The Blue Moon Speaking of why she is called Billie the actress once said I happened to come of a literary family My grandmother was one of the first women to write on the ques tion of slavery That is why I pre sume they took It into their heads to call me Ethelberta As soon as I grew old enough to think of it I wished to chop it down to Ethel Unfortunately however my best chum was named Ethel and the Billie came about as a survival of the fittest and there you are IN AID OF MINERS Representative John G McHenry and His Proposed Law Representative John G McHenry of Pennsylvania who has introduced In congress a bill establishing a bureau of mines and minitfg is serving his first term in the house He is a Democrat and was born in Benton township Co lumbia county Pa in 18GS He was educated in the rural public schools and at Orangeville academy and Is a banker manufacturer and farmer He is president of the Columbia County National bank and state superintend ent of the grange national banks throughout Pennsylvania Congress man McHenrys bill has received much 6j V VWVyv j si 0l - VViWrth 1ft j -V 1 LMW V m Vfe JWW faOC W jXOVKb uVu REPRESENTATIVE JOHN G SlHENRV attention because of the large number of fatalities and disastrous explosions in coal mines in the past few months It is in line with the recommendations of President Roosevelts annual mes sage on this subject and is entitled a bill for the purpose of supplying re lief and alleviating suffering incident to accidents in coal mines It gives the proposed bureau of mines and min ing power to investigate as to the causes and effects of all accidents In coal mines and to afford such relief as the exigencies demand and provides for the establishment of a fund to be used for the benefit of victims of dis asters or their families this fund to be raised by a tax of 1 cent per ton on all coal mined in this country Reports as to coal mine accidents for 1907 indicate a 23 per cent increase In such accidents over 3000 without In cluding the four big disasters in Penn sylvania In December in which nearly 700 lives were lost PSYCHASTHENIC A Physician Says This Is One of tho Causes of Panics rJhe panics that start iu Wall strtet often begin iu the morbid financial fears of overstrained brains psychas thenla Psycliasthenla makes panics writes Dr Clarence Hughes in the Alienist and Neurologist We once knew a mind overburden ed brain overstrained man suddenly conclude he was coining to want and would not be able to pay his taxes when his income was -10000 annual ly He milked his own cow he har nessed his own horse and cared for it sold the others dismissed all his servants and his wifes and had in somnia but finally recovered complete ly Others witli less Income or more fall through brain overtax into the same morbid way of feeling and think ing One kind of insanoid is a man who under mental stress of any kind acts as though he were insane but has not the disease of real insanity to ex cuse his actions He hovers on the verge but does not pass over into real mental aberra tion as lie appears to be going lie does and says such odd unreasonable and annoying tilings that his friends often wish he would pass into genuine insanity so that he might be properly and lawfully restrained or that he might happily extinguish himself by suicide Sometimes he does commit suicide or become really insane and we then know where to place him A LITTLE BIT BEHIND The Old Man Was Not Very Well Posted on the News In the midst of the heated dissension on points connected with certain his torical sensations which their teacher had sought to impress on them the two grandchildren appealed to their grand father who sat musing and pulling his pipe in the corner for support Grandpa cried the eager brother who was it killed Caesar Cassius or Brutus I say Cassius Waal replied the grandfather sud denly becoming grave and taking his pipe from his mouth it war one or tother Let me see Yes I guess twar th man you said And sis says it was Marie Antoi nette who got put to death in France again cried the youth triumphantly glancing toward his sister but I say it was Mary queen of Scots Now you may be right there too ventured the involuntary vindicator after fidgeting in his chair Come t think of it twar Mary queen of Scots that war electrocuted in France At this the young girls eyes flashed Grandpa declared she stepping be fore him and eying him sternly you dont seem to know anything about it The old mans head went up as if shocked Th truth is children he then admitted as he passed his free hand over his head helplessly your grandfather aint read th newspapers very careful this week Im a leetle mite behind Bohemian Magazine An Unwelcome Gratuity An American merchant bitterly op posed to the custom of tipping public servants for each inconsequential serv ice was astonished to find the practice in Europe more general than in Ameri ca While in London he had occasion to employ a cab and upon being driven to the desired destination drew forth a handful of change counted out the exact fare and tendered it to the driver Beg pardon sir exclaimed the cab by in a tone of injury Ow long ave ye been saving up for this oliday Suppressing his annoyance at the drivers effrontery the tourist sought a restaurant and upon receiving the din ner check again tendered the exact amount of his bill The waiter bowed assisted his guest into his coat then selecting a bright new sixpence of fered it to his patron with Beastly weather sir Eres coach fare Lippiucotts Magazine The Rat The rats sins aio maiufoM The damage which he does in a yeir to crops cargoa stores granaries poul try and game dairies raid outhouses foundations walls and dr ug can not be calculated exactly Kit it nius be enormous lie is ubiqiijus lie swarms in fields Iuios tvcts farm yards cellars sewers and shijo lie is clover in gtting ot m difficul ties extcrje irgfr aLe to exist on almost any kind of food and horribly prjliiic Lolui Spectator Tho Hctori CircoJ Sec here red the aivi t who h ul come to coinpliin alout the materiK he had bought I cant imagine any thing worse than your paints Thats strange replied the dear Dont you ever r e your imagination on your painting Et hiiife Kopclcco We wish madam to enlist your aid in influencing your husband for the public good He holds the key to a very interesting situation and I dont see how I can be of any as sistance to you John never could find a keyhole Houston Post Frenzied Arithmetic Teacher Now Tommy if your fa ther had twenty dozen eggs in his store and found that eighteen of them were bad how much would ho lose Tommy Nothin You dont know pa Pathfinder The Mean Part Phil O Sopher Dont worry old man Chickens always come home to roost you know Discouraged Friend Yes after they have laid their eggs in some other fellows barn Judge CITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEnENTS Christian Bible school at 10 a m Y P S C E at 7 p in Preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m by J Stuart Miller of Edison Nob All are welcomo to these services Eiibcopal Preaching services at St Albans church at 11 a m and 7130 p m Sunday school at 10 a m All are wolcome to those services E R Earle Rector Catholic Order of services Mass 8 a m Mass and sormon 1000 a m Evening sorvice at 8 oclock Suudaj school 230 p m Wm Every Sunday J Kikwin O M 1 Bait st Sunday school at 10 a in Preaching servico at 11 00 a m Even ing service at 800 B Y P U at 7 p in A most cordial invitation is extended to all to worship with us E Burton Pastor Christian Sciknce Services Sun day at 11 a in and Wednesday at 8 p m Subject Everlasting Punish ment Meetings held in the Diamond block Room open Wednesdnyn and Saturdays from 2 to 4 p m Science literature on sale Congregational Sunday school at 10 a m Preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m by pastor Junior C E at p in Senior C E at 7 p m Prayer meeting every Wednesday al 8 The public is cordially invited to these ser vices Special music Sunday evening by enior and othors under auspices of mens club G B Hawkes Pastor Methodist Sunday school at 10 a m Sermons by pastor at 11 and 8 Junior League at 4 Epworth Leaguo at 7 Prayer meeting Wednesday night at S pm You are welcomed and made glad at this church Sunday school every Sunday in South McCook at 3 M B Carman Pastor To Insure Prosperity Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture says that the unbounded prosperity of the agriculturist is not due to chance but is the result of intelli gent scientific business methods A reader of The Weekly Inter Ocean has placed before him each week the prac tical and approved methods to which Secretary Wilson refers It is a good investment Only S125 for The Weekly Inter Ocean and this paper one year Clean Up Citizens All property owners renters and les sors are hereby notified to comply with the requirmenta of the city ordinance respecting the cleaning up of their pro perties and the alleys adjacent thereto Let us have a prompt and thorough compliance with the law in this regard for appearance sake and in the inter est of the health of the community G W Godfrey Street Commissioner Have You Houses To Rent Then you shoulc rent reeoipt books 1 just what you want compnet and com plete Godfroy Co are operating a feed mill See thorn for feed of all kinds at right prices ohdir of hearing illow vs To all inlorestcd in tho t s taw in iMitwilu hauiuliTb deceased On reading tho petition of Wilder E prajiiig that the administration of said es tate he granted to him a administrator Jt U hereby ordered that ou and all per oiis inter ested in Miiil matter may and do appear at the county court to he held in and for Miiil county on the llitli day of May A 1WW at lea o ciock a in to snow cause if any there he why the prayer of the petitioner should not lie granted and tliat noticed the iiendencvif said pennon anil null tne aeariui tliereol lie lmumi to all persons interested in said matter liv pub lishing a cony of this- order in the McCook Tri bune a weekly ncuspaper printed in said coun ty for three successive weeks prior to baid day of hearing W itness my hand and seal of said court this Srtli day of April A 1 IWJS - J C Mooiti County Judge PUBLICATION NOTICE To Anna Reeves defendant You are hereby 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