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fW RAVI TVSTp The Great Western VMm IIIIIBI II I I J TTn Mawcriiirmifairii iimnfnn 1 aldms closest because it follows most closely every law of nature assisted by artificial forces in the most of fective way It is Ball bearing which means easy run nine has low down Iarge Supply Tank The Crank is lust tho riclit height to make hV9r nivflH rrtTyiiJ J MI ttrate came on you tho machine turn easy Gears run in oil prac tically sclf oilinc and lias wide base to catch all the waste Made as accurately as a watcb - increases your yield of cream andbuttcrSlS per cow each year Ask your dealer about The Great Western and dont let him work any sub Its your money you are Eoinz to spend you should insist on having the best The Great Western is the worlds best Write just these words in n letter Send me Thrift Talks by a farmer and your book NaJIOO which tells all about the breeds dairying tho car Q of milk etc They are free Write now SMITH MFG CO 158 Harrison St Chleaflo IK FOH SALE IN McCOOK HY H PWaite Co BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER CURES catarrh of the stomach The best of every thing in his line at the most reasonable prices motto your hopes keep it is Harshs He wants trade and by merit to D MARSH The Butcher Phone 12 A Whisper from Nature A bird carolling forth tbogladsomo neBB of freedom on tho morning air and a softening look in the sky seemed to summon us forth for a ramble towards whore beckoning trees nodded a wel come and wo were up and ou Through field and pasture land wo wandered filled with n spirit of thankfulness for tbo joyousnoss of living whore Gods fresh air was plentiful and free Somehow tbo chill of a lato frost had been dissipated in tbo warmth of the balmy spring air and all nature smiled a welcome to tho wearied ushut in Winding in and out along the bank of tho river we at last espied a lone toiler shaping a bower on an island retreat Shouting a peaceful salutation wo were answered with welcoming response and clambered through a network of bushes to a bungalow of uniquo construction Hero wo wero entertained to a tale of fairy landscapes restful retreats and pleasant paths through a wilderness of green leafed woods and trailing vines Arm in arm we wandered with our cuide to find that ho was seeking to bring to realization an ideal spot for recreation and repose Springs of pure fresh water bathing pools for the little tots secluded and private toilet for the gentler sex fustic seats bungalows and tables for pic nic parties all enter into the scheme of this kindly old gentlo man who desires to add to tho happi ness of tho people of this community by providing a place of sequestration away from the confines of business and homo cares yot near enough to bo read ily accessible In the northern part of the city there is also a speedway for those who love to test tho mettle of their steeds and a basket ball ground for the young ladies While this is free it must bo distinct ly understood that none of Comrade Corwins schemes include a place for tho dissolute or dissipated but the pur ity of youth the innocency of childhood and the graciousness of declining years will find a welcome which bears no sect or creed but extends fellowship to all When Nature beckons why resist Just let thy brow by winds bo kissed And turn thy thoughts from moneyed schemes To lao thy soul in pleasant dreams While Nature smiles a welcome The Lilt of a Tramp ADVERTISED LIST The following letters cards and pack ages remain uncalled for at tho McCook postoffice May 8 1908 LKTTERS Ash Mr Chns S Combs R J Hall Mr L R Peel Mr W Peterson Mr E D Sellers A J CARDS Copeland Genovieo Cons Mr Wm Campbell Mrs Kate Gordon H C 2 Hall Miss Grace Hammon Mrs Maud Johnson Mr Elmer Mills Mr Lester Scott Miss Ethel Ward Miss Mayo When calling for these please say they were advertised S B McLkan Postmaster Have you ever tried an eraso ink eraser See one at The Tribune of fice I For Any Substance Injurious to Health I Found in I Baking Powder ettn a en T t S oeiji cjy i est The Only High Grade Baking Powder Sold at a Moderate Price ies m ST arst HATIOHAL e Fcjd Laws All Grocers Are Authorized to Guarantee This s DIRECTORS JAS S DOYLE V FRAHKLIH A C EBERT i m py SSZSb WWWV 1fc V FRANKLIN PRESIDENT A C EBERT CASHIER JAS S DOYLE Vice President THR CITIZENS BANK OF McCOOK NEB Paid Up Capital 50000 Surplus 15000 ibWQV 9SSyr FENNEY WALKER GENERAL CONTRACTING PAINTERS AND DECORATORS Not How Cheap but How Good with Us Office and Shop west of First National Bant Steel Ceilings Sold Put Up and Decorated fa - Why MASTODONS Their Bones Are Found Near Salt or Sulphur Springs Wherever jou find salt or sulphur springs says a gentleman connected with the United States geological sur vey you may expect to find the bones of mastodons and other huge creatures that have now become extinct Many persons suppose that the presence of these bones in great numbers indicates that the animals had a sort of common cemetery like the llamas of Chile which when thejr felt death coming on always made for the nearest stream or pond and if they could get there died in the water That however is likely onlj a su perstition The mastodon bones in a salt or sulphur marsh indicates that the animals went there to drink the water and occasionally one got mired and was suffocated The great num bers of the bones do not prove that a whole herd of mastodons was drowned at once but that one being mired ev ery year or so during several centuries would in time cause a great accumula tion of bones Missouri has a bone marsh at Sulphur Springs there Is a great mine of them at the Salt Springs in Kentucky and at several places In Ohio and Indiana where there are saline springs A great spring in Flor ida one of the four or five huge out lets which are grouped under the name of Silver Spring is called the bone yard because the bottom and sides are masses of mastodon bones St Louis Globe Democrat A WAR OF MAPS Bolivia Wiped Out England and the British Isles Bolivia is the only country that ever Wiped England off the map said Frank Roberson It came about this way The British ambassador several years ago gave a dinner for the official and social circle people of Bolivia When they arrived at the embassy they found that he was not married to the woman seated at the head of the table and they left In the name of his government he demanded an apol ogy whereupon the government gave him twenty four hours to get out of the country Inasmuch as little Bolivia is way otf the ocean and practically lost in the eternal mountains Great Britain could not by guns get the retraction that she wanted but her mapmak ers got revenge by issuing maps whol ly eliminating Bolivia Finally this information reached Bo livia whereupon with a stroke of the pen new maps were ordered for the Bo livian government and the Bolivian schools They showeu more ocean than any other maps ever printed The British isles had been sunk into the sea And so far as the people and school children of Bolivia are concern ed there is no Great Britain Indian apolis News Why He Let Em Grow Yes Ive given up shaving he told bis friends I never could shave my self and the last tune I was operated on I was in such a blue funk that I shudder to think of it The barber had a musical ear and he lathered me to the tune of The Blind Boy which was being ground out by a barrel organ close by Slow certainly but nothing to complain about By the time the scraping process had commenced the tune had changed to the liveliest of jigs and the musical shaver seemed to be enjoying himself hugely as he did his best to keep time I was afraid to take a breath for fear it would be ray last Then the organ stopped but only for a second and when I heard the strains of Stop Your Tickling Jock I vowed that rather than run the risk of being finished off in a barbers chair by a musical maniac I would let em grow for the future and chance the crop Modern Society His Parting Shot The late Catholic bishop Eaphoe Ire land used often to tell this story with much enjoyment I was suddenly call ed he said from my home to see an unfortunate sailor who had been cast ashore from a wreck and was lying speechless on the ground but not quite dead The lifes In him still your reverence he stirred a little so I stooped down and said to him ily poor man youre nearly gone but just try to say one little word or make one little sign to show that you are dying in the true faith So he opened one of his eyes just a wee bit and he said Bloody end to tho pope and so died Every Bird a Weathercock Wheres tho wind scoffed the sail or Why look at the birds Theyll tell you Dont you know that every birds a weathercock Stop moisteuin your finger and holdin it up he went on in a tone of disgust The practice aint hardly cleanly Look at the birds is all you got 1o do for every bird sets with its head always straight at the wind Every live bird in a tree Is as reliable a weathercock as them dead birds on the spires New York Tress A Bit Different Towne Theres one thing about my wife she makes up her mind if she cant afford a thing that she doesnt need it Browne Something like my wife only she buys it first and makes up her mind afterward Philadelphia Fress Possibly Possibly the fact that the optimist sees the doughnut and the pessimist the hole is due to the further fact that the optimist has mostly doughnuts and the pessimist mostly hole Puck Ambition is like love Impatient both of delays and rivals Denham vjfciivt5ftHMBSss3te Lived on the Spineless Cactus i S cactus good to eat Yea verllv says Dr Leon M Lnudouu of Los Angeles who has lived well tor uvo weeics at a stretch on cactus exclusively Dr Landone sub sisted upon the spineless cactus devel oped by Luther liurbank the Califor nia fruit and vegetable wizard For ten years Mr Burbank patiently ex perimented with the pesky cactus of our great deserts which Is covered with perilous stickers like quills upon the fretful porcupine so that man or beast avoids it instinctively Burbank believed that by patient cultivation he could eliminate the spines lie has done so producing a very gentle and harmless breed of cactus that can be caressed with the nuked fingers with out injury Dr Landone being a scientific in vestigator proposed to ascertain If the spineless cactus would sustain human life and he proved that it would At first he lost a little weight but later he regained the loss and at the end of tho fortnights novel diet he was very hue and fit During those two weeks he did much mental and manual la bor without feeling any more fatigue than he feels when doing similar work under a general diet The spineless cactus is no better food than the spined cactus It is merely safer and more comfortable eating The only reason why cattle on the great plains where cacti grow have not eaten them to their fill these many years is the reason eliminated by Bur bank the spine Indians and some white men have eaten cactus and found it palatable and nutritious Now that the Burbank brand of stlckerless cactus bids fair to become general in time if properly cultivated it is be lieved that the problem of cattle graz ing on the semiarid desert areas of our great west and southwest will bo solv ed by the simple matter of letting the cows and steers eat cactus when tho grass runs out or when they prefer cactus to grass Ou tho far western deserts the cac tus grows to a bulk of GOO pounds in Pit LANDONE AND A SPINELESS CACTUS three years Every pound is said to make excellent food for man or beast The lonesome mining prospector or desert rat otherwise the mau who lives in the desert because he likes it will find a new food right at hand There are various species of cacti The plants grow in any climate this side of the frigid zone Millions of acres of land which unirrigated will produce nothing else may be cultivat ed to cactus thus adding billions of dollars to the national wealth if the food claims of the spineless cactus as reported are substantiated in actual test While it is not at all likely that tho average man will care to confine his diet to the cactus plant Dr Landones successful experiment is valuable as showing that in case of emergency one need not starve so long as cacti abound The prospector lost on the desert whose food supply runs out may preserve life until succor comes or until he reaches friends and food by plucking and preparing cactus for his palate The prickly pear which the plant bears heretofore so near and yet so far because of the stickers seems destined to render desert life much lesJ perilous than heretofore It is asserted by some srudonN of the matter that Mr Burbanks spine less cactus triniph will provp in th end to 1 if of m ini ll benefr to the semiarid regions tln i will any other jf hi- marvtoc5 in tle vegetable ni i fruit r V Crant ing such inprtnic - t o poriuicnt of n Ian ono -v i fc ed upon as a wins copTibution to scientific a art in i o s a imw freak uu ertIcn for jarp e of uotn i Jy Dcpi tlN fact n ever a wag asst rts fbf th T - Vs shown that he posrK a d ai of backbone lv living for two v eok on spineless cactus Mr liurbank has got the cactus plant to a stage where he can dive into it headlong taking the givit leaves and rubbing his face and hands against them without any injury to himself whatever On the section of his farm devoted to the cactus he Is able to show the visitor the plant in its various stages of evolution from its original prickly condition to that in which It appears as a plant capable of harming no one Step by step the plant loses its thorns like a conscious intelligent being gradually dropping off crudi ties and superfluities to emerge into g state approaching as near as possible to perfection rvSMar FRIENDLY ANIMALS The rtimacy Between Them and Man In Yellowstone Park One of the most pleasant features of the drive through the Yellowstone Na tional park Is tho apparent Intimacy be tween man and the animal and bird life in the park Thanks to the wise and stringent regulations no shooting is allowed Avithin its boundaries The result says an English tourist is positively charming Hundreds of little chipmunks with their gaudy striped backs scamper impudently about or peer at the passing coach from the roadside The squirrel did not bolt for the nearest tree but nodded a wel come All bird life treated us like wise Even the lordly eagle hovered near and the wild turkey stalked un concernedly through the rank grass We perceived a doe and a fawn graz ing by the road Not until we were within a few feet did they seek the shelter of the woods yet not to fly They simply moved aside Here at least mankind was regarded as a friend one who could be trusted The only animal who ran away was a brown bear He turned tail at the sight of a coaching party Yet it was quite a common thing for bears to approach close to the hotels at evening to feed on tho refuse thrown out It was an after dinner relaxation for the guests to watch them feeding They munched and disputed the choicest morsels for the most part indifferent to the com pany Only when we became inquis itive and approached too near did they retire and these animals were perfect ly free and unfettered in their move ments It may read like a fairy tale but it is solid fact THE EAST INDIA COMPANY What Great Britain Owes to Holland and Pepper It is curious to remember that when Englands commercial greatness was a making her most serious rival was Holland But the enterprising Dutch men ruined their chances by their greediness There was a popular little couplet which ran In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much The whole course of English pre dominance abroad might have been changed if the Dutch had not asked too much In the closing years of the sixteenth century they had a trade monopoly with the East Indies and they put up the price of pepper to such a point that the English consumer struck A meeting of London merchants made one December afternoon a deci si i the importance of which to Eng la 1 cannot be exaggerated It was n lng less than the resolution to fo a a London East India company The petition of these merchants to good Queen Cess was granted in a royal charter of incorporation The company founded at first to es tablish direct trade communication with the east and lower the price of pepper soon took to itself larger pur poses Fleets of merchant ships came and went between England and India and from the quarrel about pepper the corporation of merchants was des tined through Clive and its nabobs to give England a vast empire Pear sons Weekly The Reason It was Washingtons birthday and the minister was making a patriotic speech to the children of the secondarj grade Now children he said when 1 arose this morning the flags were wav ing and the houses were draped with bunting What was that done for Washingtons birthday answered a youngster Yes said the minister hut last month I too had a birthday but no flags were flying that day and you did not even know I had a birthday Why was thatV Because said an urchin Washing ton never told a lie Philadelphia Ledger Mussels of Philippine During August and September as many as 1000 to 1300 sacks each con taining neariy 200 pounds of mussels are dispatched every from Philippine alone Holland Belgium and France are the best customers of the Philippine mussel farmers but quite a number of the cherished shell fish find their way across the channel from the Dutch beds to the Britishers dinner table In Philippine mussels form one may say the staple food of the population They are consumed in every possible manner stewed fried in soups in gra vies and with particular relish alive A Piteairn Knowles iu Wide World Magazine A Retreating Chin Nothing fj i more than n retreating chin Unfortunately compar atively Utile ti v Coiv for it It n be remedial r a extei t in childhood bj nibbirg from te throat up and out nig tut head well up during tho iro p s Sometime too the trouble ry - mired t t the javs c e 01 acconnt of the 1 m tiou of the tcflh and a gool doitN may often I hp Uaudagc on round the clbi nt nigit y iilaced that the lower jw is tircod fovanl will sometimes ivzjedy ti il fwt slightly especially when begun on ijuite oung children Exchange Useless Money Languid Lanuigaii After all is aid pal money aint everyting Dry Dee gan I knows it frum experience I wunst found a five dollar bill near de center nv a prohibition state ruck More men are drowned in the bowl than In the sea Irish Proverb TnT ijiiijpiwijHC NEILL BROS Contractors and Builders Estimates Furnished Free Phones Slioj Hlnck 321 Hosldenco HInck U12 v Updike Grain Co COAL Phone 169 S S GARVEY Mgr YOU WOULD DO WELL TO SEE J M Rupp FOR ALL KINDS OF Rpfcfr Q P O Box 131 McCook Nobraska A Edpar Hawkins Phono Red 103 H H Evans Phono Red 21W HAWKINS EVANS Contractors and Builders Plans drawn and estimates furn ished on application McCook Nebraska E P OSBOKN CO n J W WENTZ OSBORN WENTZ Draymen Prompt 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