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i J M J Middleton Ruby PLUMBING and STEAM PITTING All work guaranteed Phono 182 McCook Nebraska Hiss Ha M Briggs fwill teach class on piano Grad uate of Bothnny conservatory of Lindsborg Kans Studio at homo of A G Bump Phone Black 252 Scholars call or phono for further information A G BUMP Real Estate and Insurance Room Two over McConnells drug store McCook Nebraska JOHN E KELLEY ATTOBNEY AT LAW and BONDED ABSTBACTEB McCook Nebraska SAfientof Lincoln Land Conndof McCook Water Works Oflice in Postoilice building C H Boyle C E Eldeed BOYLE ELDRED Attorneys at I aw Long Distance Ilone 44 Rooms 1 and 7 second Uoor PoEtoflico Building McCook Neb DR H J GUNN DENTIST phone 112 Oflice Rooms 3 and 5 Walsh Blk McCook GATEW00D VAHUfc DENTISTS Office over HcAdams Store Phone 190 H P SUTTOH JEWELER MUSICAL GOODS McCOOR - NEBRASKA J H Woddell Auctioneer McCook Nebraska Will cry your street sales for you any Saturday Were Just As Thankful For a small package as a large one Each will receive the same thorough and careful attention If wo get the former it may in time grow to the later by the satisfaction you will derive in wearing our laundered work Family washing 5c per pound McCook Steam Laundry W C BLAIR Prop Successor to G C Heckman PHONE 35 West Dennison St FRIEND TO FRIEND The personal recommendations of peo ple who have been cured of coughs and colds by Chamberlains Cough Remedy have done more than all else to make it staple article of trade and commerce ovel large part of the civilized world THINK OF IT Sanitary Couch for 475 DRESSERS COMMODES SPRINGS MATTRESSES and other furniture at equally LOW PRICES FINCH West Dennison Street LOW PRICE LEADER CITY LODGE DIRECTORY A F A M McCook Lodso No 135 A F fc A M raoets ovory llrst and third TunMlay of the month at 800 p in iu Masonic hall Chaules L Fahnustock V M Lon Cone Sue u a m Occonoxeo Council No 10 It fc S M moots on the lust Saturday of each mouth ut 800 p m ii Alusonic hall Ralph A IIaoueuo T I M SrLVKSTER COUDEAL SOC It A M Kinjf Cyrus Chapter No 35 R A M meets every Llrst and third Thursday of each month at 800 p m in Matouic hall ClahknceB Gbay H P Clinton B Sawyeh Sec knights templab St John Commaudory No 16 K T meets on the second Thursduy of each month at 800 p in in Masonic hall Emerson Hanson E C Sylvester Cordeal Rec eastern star Eureka Chapter No 86 O E S meots the second and fourth Fridays of eacu month 800 p m m Masonic hall Mrs Sarah E Kay W M Sylvester Cordeal Sec at modern woodmen Noble Camp No 66U M W A moots ovory secoud and fourth Thursday of each mouth at 830 p m in Ganschows hall Pay assessments at White Houso Grocery J M Smith Clerk S E Howell V C royal neighbors Noble Camp No 862 R N A meets every second and fourtli Thursday of each month at 230 p in in Ganschows hall Mrs Mary Walker Oraclo Mrs Acousta Anton Rec W O IV Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 8 oclock in Diamonds hall Chas F Markwad C C W C Moyer Clork WORKMEN McCook Lodso No 61 AOUW moots every Mouday at 800 p m in Diamonds hall C B Gray Rec Fred Schlagel M W DEGREE OF nONOR McCook LodcoNo 3 D of H meots every socond and forth Fridays of each month at 800 p in in Ganschows hall Mrs Laura Osburn C of H Mrs MatieG Welles Rec LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS McCook Division No 623 B of L E meets every second and fourth Saturday of each month at 230 in Morris hall Walter Stokes C E W D Burnett F A E locomotive firemen McCook Lodge No 599 B of L meets overy Saturday at 7 30 p m F E in chow s hall I D Pennington M Geo A Campbell Sec EAILWAY CONDUCTORS Harvey Division No 95 O R C meots the second and fourth Sunduys of each month at 300 p in in Diamonds hall Joe Hegenberger C Con M O McClure Sec railway trainmen C W Bronson Lodge No 4S7B of R T meots first and third Sundays at 230 p in and Eecond and fourth Fridays at 730 p in each month iu Morris hall Neal Beeler M R J Moore Sec RAILWAY CARMEN Young America Lodge No 456 B R C of A meets on the lirst and third Thursdays of each mouth in Diamonds hall at730 p m Con Kreiger C C N H Snyder Rec Sec MACHINISTS Red Willow Lodge No 5S7 I A of M meots every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at S00 p in in Ganschow hall D O Hewitt Pres W H Anderson Rec Sec BOILERMAKERS McCook Lodge No 407 B of B M I S B of A meets first and third Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows hall KNIGHTS OF PYTniAS McCook Lodge No 42 K of P meets every Wednesday at 800 p m in Masonic hall M Lawritson C C J N Gaarde K R S ODD FELLOWS McCook Lodge No 137 1 0 0 F meets every Monday acS00 p m in Ganschows hall W H Ackerman N G W A MlDDLETON Soc EAGLES McCook Aerie No 1514 F O E meets the second and fourth Fridays of each month at 800 pm in Diamonds hall Social meetings on the first and third Fridays R S Light W Pres G C Heckman W Sec KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS McCook Council No 1126 K of C meets the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 800 p m in Diamonds hall G R Gale F Soc Frank Real G K DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA Court Granada No 77 meets on tho first and and third Tuesdays of each month at S p m in tho Morris hall Anna Hannan G R Josephine Mullen F S LADY MACCABEES Valley Queen Hive No 2 L O T M meets every first and third Thursday evenings of each month in Ganschow hall Mrs W B Mills Commander Harriet E Willetxs R K g A R J K Barnes Post No 207 G A R meets on the first Saturday of each month at 2 30 p in Ganschows hall J M Henderson Cmndr J H Yarger Adjt L OF G A r McCook Circle No 33 L of G A R meets on the first and third Fridays of each month at 230 p m in Diamonds hall Adeline Dole Pres Matie Welles Sec p e o Chapter X P E O meets the second and fourth Saturdays of each monta at 230 p m at the homes of the various members Mrs G H Thomas Pres Mrs C H Meeker Cor Sec Where the Value Is Only two worthful items enter into the value of advertising namely quant ity and quality that is how many and how good The McCook Tribune is in a field by itself locally on these two points We challenge and invite in spection and comparison We can give you from two to three times the value for your money that any other Red Willow county publication can offer you A Guaranteed Cure For Piles Itching Blind Bleeding or Protrud ing Piles Druggists refund money if Pazo Ointment fails to cure any case no matter of how long standing in 6 toli days First application gives ease and rest 50c If your druggist hasnt it send 50c in stamps and it will be for warded postpaid by Paris Medicine Co St Louis Mo A Handy Receipt Book Bound duplicate receipt books three receipts to the page for sale at The Tribune office JfiWf mhj1111 ftgjjjp y jwyw AMERICAN CONSULS Their Duties Are Misunderstood by Many of Our Citizens In almost every city and town iu Europe or all over the world for that matter If the city Is of any size there Is an American consul or consul gen eral And while the oilicc of these functionaries is commercial in reality looking after the Imports and the ex ports between our country and others still they take a friendly interest in American citizens traveling and are al ways ready to go out of their way even to be obliging in personal things 1 explain this somewhat in detail says an experienced traveler in the Deline ator as so many people especially women seem to have a notion that a consul is created for their especial ben efit And one of the most serious trou bles these men have is with those who if their money runs short expect the consul to furnish them with some and often get insulting and threatening if It is not done The same may bo said in regard to our ambassador for while their positions are political and diplomatic their offices are always open and any information is always cheerfully given in case an American is in difficulty There are always certain public re ception days at the bomes of our con suls and our ambassadors to which it is not difficult to obtained invitations In fact it is often announced in the daily papers that Americans In general are welcome say on days like Thanks giving Fourth of July and so on In this way it is possible for one to see something of the lives of ones com patriots away from home A CUSTOM HOUSE TALE The American Who Landed In Ger many With a Box of Candy Germany is jealous of the foreign candy maker and exacts a rigorous toll upon anything in the shape of confec tionery that comes across its borders Ignorant of this one of Uncle Sams sons disembarked from a liner at a Ger man port carrying in his hand a Ave pound box of candy bearing a New York trademark At sight of the box the Teutonic customs officials exhibited marked activity and prepared to seize upon It Not for mine said the American I wont give up a sou Id rather eat the stuff here and now lie opened the box and commenced to dispose of its contents without delay Everybody in sight was offered a handful Nobody declined except the customs officer who said blandly that lie had not a sweet tooth The traveler himself ate many pieces It was not long before the last bit had been eaten As soon as the box was empty lhe official seized the traveler by the arm The gentleman he announced will accompany me to lhe bureau where well moke out his bill for duty Come It is at the other end of the dock Never said the American You have no right to charge me duty 1 didnt bring it in Ill see my consul right away and hell send a big fleet and bombard this blooming town Softly said the officer Youll pay duty all right There are fifteen wit nesses to prove that that candy of yours was consumed on German soil The duty was paid and the consul has not as yet been consulted Phila delphia Ledger Ancient Enamels It is certain that glazes having the composition of good enamels were manufactured at a very early date Excellent glazes are still preserved and some of the bricks which have been found among the ruins of Babylon have been ascribed to the seventh or eighth century B C The glaze on the Babylonian bricks was found upon ex amination to have a base of soda glass or silicate of sodium Glazes of a simi lar character were also manufactured by the Egyptians as early as the sixth dynasty There can be little doubt that the Greeks and Etruscans were also acquainted with the art of enameling New York American The Living Present He that hath so many causes of joy and so great is very much in love with sorrow and peevishness who loses all these pleasures and chooses to sit down upon his little handful of thorns Enjoy the blessings of this day if God sends them and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly for this day only is ours We are dead to yesterday and we are not yet born to the morrow But if we look abroad and bring into one days thoughts the evil of many certain and uncertain what will be and what will never be our load will be as intolerable as it is unreasonable Jeremy Taylor Fountain Pens It is a popular fallacy that fountain pens are quite a modern invention As a matter of fact an old work of ref erence published in 1793 contains an il lustration of a fountain pen the ap pearance of which is very much like those sold at the present time Its construction however was somewhat elaborate and clumsy the pen consist ing of various pieces of metal which had to be screwed and unscrewed be fore the pen could be used A Pessimist Agent How long do you intend to re main in Washington Reformer Un til congress passes a couple of neces sary laws that Agent Gee You dont want to rent a house Youd bet ter buy one Washington Herald An Undercut Ruby Charlie took me in to dinner the other night He and Fred tossed up and Charlie Beryl Lost as usu al Will he never learn better than to gamble Kansas City Newsbook IOT KmmiiiMn WiWI IUtWWmiiWWI iiHi iu BURIED ALIVE The Mode of Death Selected by a Chi nese Murderer Rough justice as it Is administered In most parts of China is sometimes tempered by Individual tastes as an Incident printed In one of the China port journals attest A man In Suchicn condemned to die preferred to be buried alive and his wishes were car ried out to the letter During the famine two brothers who Hyed in Suchien fought desper ately to stave off starvation from their families and bad blood arose between them At last the elder brother sold his fathers coffin for food When he refused to divide the proceeds with his younger brother the latter chopped off his head with a cleaver Because It was too expensive to carry the murderer several scores of miles to the nearest yamen of justice tho local elders including the father of the murderer whose coffin had been sold sat in justice upon the culprit and condemned him to death lie asked that he be buried alive Instead of re ceiving the horrible torture of the thirty slices The father interceded with the other elders to get them to grant his sons request A grave was dug and the victim with his arms and feet securely bound was trundled in a wheelbarrow to the edge of the pit by his wife There upon the murderers own request his bonds were loosed and he walked to the grave lowered himself Into it and was ready The victims wife put a felt hat over his mouth as his request and then she helped the elders to fill in the grave with six feet of earth The TORTURED TO DEATH Horrible Fate of a Number of Regicides The lot of the regicide when caught is not usually a very enviable one To be hanged is the least he can expect Perpetual solitary imprisonment is a far more dreadful fate It drove Bres ci the assassin of King Humbert of Italy to suicide and it transformed Lucchini who murdered the empress of Austria into a hopeless imbecile Among the plotters implicated In the murder of the late shah of Persia one was tortured to death in prison while another was incased in wet plaster of paris which on setting slowly crushed the life out of him Three of the as sassins of a previous shah were boiled alive in huge copper caldrons So late as the year 1831 the two Mavromichaelis who slew Count Capo dIstra the first president of Greece were immured within close brick walls built around them up to their chins and supplied with salted food but no drink until they died Damiens who attempted the life of King Louis XV of France was first barbarously tor tured and then torn to pieces by wild horses This punishment was carried out in one of the principal squares of Paris March 2S 1737 Itavaillac who assassinated Henry IV of France suf fered a similar fate The murderer of Selim III of Turkey was publicly impaled lingering five and a half days in dreadful torment Those who did to death his immediate successor Mustapha IV were tortured and starved on alternate days and de prived of sleep by night until death came to their relief Chicago News An Ancient Suez Canal It is certain that in ancient times a canal connecting the Mediterranean and Red seas did exist Herodotus as cribes its projection to Pharaoh Necho GOO B C The honor of its completion is given by some to Darius by others to the Ptolemies How long this canal continued to be used we do not know but becoming finally choked up by sand it was restored by Trajan early in the second century A D Becoming again useless from the same cause it was reopened by the Caliph Omar but was finally closed by the unconquer able sands about A D 7G7 in which state it has since remained This an cient canal from Suez to Bubastis on the east branch of the Nile was 02 miles long from 10S to 1G0 feet wide and 15 feet deep His Prayer OConnell had got a man off at one time for highway robbery and at an other for burglary but on a third oc casion for stealing a coasting brig the task of hoodwinking the jury seemed too great for even his powers of cajol ery However he made out that the crime was committed on the high seas and obtained an acquittal The prison er lifted up his hands and eyes to heav en and exclaimed May the Lord long spare you Mr OConnell to me Argonaut Not Attractive Was it a case of love at first sight asked the sentimental girl It couldnt have been answered Miss Cayenne When they first met he was wearing football clothes and she had on her motor car costume Washington Star The Sign of Wedlock She What is the proper formula for a wedding announcement He I know what is ought to be She What He Be it known by these presents Bal timore American Dont imagine you are a good con versationalist just because you talk a good deal Atchison Globe INDIAN0LA W R Starr of McCook transacted businoas in town Friday George Newland of Lebanon was in town Friday Alma Noo of Danbury visited in town Saturday and Sunday Robert Leo and wifo woro McCook visitors Sunday Jim McCallum of Okeono Oklahoma arrived here Sunday morning for a visit with folks Mr and Mrs W II Smith returned home Sunday morning from Oklahoma where they have beon visiting tho past few weeks The Ladies Aid society of tho M E church had a cement walk put in at the church Miss George visited at her homo in Cambridge Saturday and Sunday Miss Schoonover visited at her homo in Oxford Saturday and Sunday A D Burress and wife attended the quarterly meeting in Bartley Sunday S R Smith was in McCook tho first of the week on business A nice rain fell here tho first of the week and broke or badly bont tho hearts of the dry weather prognosticators Mr Hyatt of Holdrege was in town on business Tuesday C S Quick shipped two car loads of bogs and one of cattle to St Joe Tues day evening Fred Chessmoro is having a dwelling house built south of the depot News reached here Wednesday morn ing of the death of Jamos McClung at the home of his son Frank of Montana C L Walker stopped hero Wednes day morning on his was to Bartlny where he will do some papering Tho council at a meeting Tuesday evening granted saloon licenses to the following persons Clark McClung and Charles H Hyatt and a license was also granted to John McClung to oper ate a pool and billiard hall The old hill north of town commonly known as Zion or Gospel hill which was for several years supposed to be good for use as post holes and the growth of weeds has at last become the property of men with sufficient enterprise aod brains enough to fores2o its advantages as a suitable site and the improvements they are making aro in deed pleasing to behold and the time is not far distant when it will bo the most beautiful residence portion of our city John Maisel and Will Fritz attended the dance in Maywood last Saturday night Charles Dayton of Fairmont is visit ing George Maisel DANBURY Born to Albert Mustgrave and wifo a baby girl May 5th Fred Newman departed last Friday evening for his home in DesMoines la S W Stilgebouer is attending to the Marion bank while his son is attending the bankers association at Hastings T E McDonald is attending the bankers association at Hastings George Gill Sadye Greenway Wane Hethcote and Kate Greenway attended the show at McCook last Thursday The Congregationahsts have hired a minister who is expected to arrive this week Mayo Green who has been visiting at Friend Neb for the last week arrived home Tuesday Mrs W A DeMay and son Hal were Cedar Bluffs visitors Sunday Mrs Rena Dewoy and children are here visiting at the Dolph home Mrs Carrie Shepherd is visiting with her mother Mrs Sarah Boyer PLEASANT RIDGE This section was quite well represent ed at the Campbell Bros show in Mc Cook end of last week Mrs Oliver Mahon went to McCook Friday last to have some dental work done Mrs Jacob Betz enjoyed a visit from an uncle from Beatrice latter part of last week T F West has been hauling out furn iture with which to furnish his new home One of Tom Cains horses was bitten by a rattlesnake last Friday He i T- West and Peter Smifch delivered Thought Was Smart The Man With the Gun boastfully fat cattle on the McCook market last and cynically I have been engaged to at least a dozen girls Miss Sweet Girl looking annoyed And always been unlucky in love eh He Oh I dont know Ive never married any of them What Philadelphia Inquirer week We are more than thankful for the rain as moisture was the one thing most needed A weekly newspaper that publishes twenty one columns of good reliable news each week is rare in these days of cheap weeklies intended only to sell some article that the publisher is inter ested in Credit is due The Weekly Inter Ocean for keeping its columns filled with fresh and up-to-date news Give it a trial by subscribing through The McCook Tribune For Sale Show cases tables counter scales and other usefnl articles about a store Call and see them at the Bee Hive The prices will be right to you New Carnegie Library po3t cards at Tribune office S T n TEMPERANCE COLUMN Conducted by the McCook W C T NV AVNrfVWWWV n Li FATHERS AND MOTHERS ATTENTION Do you know thnt many of tho boys iu this town somo as young an six and seven years of age aro seon ovory day smoking cigarettes and pipes Boys iiftean yenrs of age that wo know of can go into cigar stores in McCook and buy tobacco without any troublo what ever and thoy aupply tho smaller ones Whon tho law prohibits such a thing why do not tho fathers and mothers seo thnt tho law is enforced If thoy would make an investigation among tho boys thoy could got all tho information thoy wnntod and by tnking it to tho propor officials the law would bo on forced Lot us all work together to savo tho boys now from this deadly habit Dont put it oil look into it at once Cigarettes theyre deadly Its not tho tobacco its the acrolein produced by tho burning paper that does tho harm And let me tell you acrolein is ono of tho most terrible drugs in its effect on tho human Bystom Tho burning of or dinary cigarette paper always producos acroloin That is what makes tho smoke irritating I really believo it ofton makes boys insane Wo some times develop acrolein in tho laboratory in our experiments with glycerine One whiff of it from tho oven drovo ono of my assistants out of the building tho other day I can hardly exaggerate the dangerous naturo of acrolein and yot that is what a man or boy is dealing with ovory time ho uses an ordinary cigarotto Thomas A Edison Mike Walsh DEALER IN POULTRY fc EGGS Old Rubber Copper and Brass Highest Market Price Paid in Cash New location just acro3s VnCnrAr street in PWalsh building l llAUUlV ENGRAVER and ELECTROTYPER PHONE 1114 1420 24 LAWRENCE DLNVEB COLO A wtsBSy dBTiiTfTsffiffiffiv3affP Plan Now To the Pacific Coast Very low round trip rates com mencing June 1st for attractive coast tours only 86000 slightly higher via Shasta route and Puget sound To Chicago and East Republican convention excursion tickets at low rates in June also summer excursion rates in con nection with convention and sum mer tourist rates to eastern re sorts To Colorado and the Rocky Mountains Daily excursion rates commencing June 1st to Colorado Utah Wyoming the Black Hills Yel lowstone Park great Democratic convention at Denver in July Homeseekers Rates First and third Tuesdays to the west including the famous Big Horn Basin and Yellowstone Val ley where large tracts of rich ir rigated lands are being opened for settlement by the government and by private companies Write D Clem Deaver Burlington Land seekers Information Bureau Omaha excellent business open ings in new growing towns Write a brief description of your proposed trip and let us advise you how to make it the best way at the least cost R E FOE Ticket Agent McCook Neb L W WAKELEY G P A Omaha Neb -