The San Luis Valley Land
ICO ncres four miles from a good town
with a three wire fonce nround it and
twenty acres fqncod hog tight Has
more than enough water for all purposes
from the best ditch in tho valley and
added to this aro three artesian wells
Tho place has n throe room frame house
and bunk houso blacksmith shop
stablo hay barn stock shod machine
shed hen house and other sheds and
outbuildings This is tho best bargain
in tho San Luis Valley that wo have
seen as other land separated from this
by only the fence is soiling at from ten
to fif teon dollars moro por acre
If intorestod write us Wo have
other land there at low prices Price of
tho abovo land 25 per ncre
Wo also have some lino land that can
be either homesteaded or taken up un
der the Desert Act Write us
E W Harris
Colorado Springs Colo
12 Midland Block
Midclleton Ruby
PLUMBING and
STEAM FITTING
All work guaranteed
Phone 182 McCook Nebraska
BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER
CURES catarrh of the stomach
The best of every
thing in his line at
the most reasonable
prices is flarshs
motto He wants
your trade and
hopes by merit to
keep it
The Butcher
Phone 12
Hiss Ha M Briggs
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will teach class on piano Grad
uate of Bethany conservatory
of Lindsborg Kans Studio at
home of A G Bump Phono
Black 252 Scholars call or
phono for further information
A G BUMP
Real Estate
and Insurance
Room Two over McConnelPs drug
store McCook Nebraska
JOHN E KELLEY
ATTORNEY AT LAW and
BONDED ABSTRACTEB
McCook Nebraska
KAgent of Lincoln Land Co and of McCook
Wator works
Otlico
Ofllco in Postoffice building
CHHoyle CEEldeed
BOYLE ELDRED
Attorneys at I aw
Long Distance P one 44
Rooms 1 anrt 7 second floor xTrinnW Neb
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Rooms 3 and 5 Walsh Blk McCook
GATEWOOD VAHUfc
DENTISTS
Office over McAdams Store Phone 190
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MUSICAL GOODS
NEBRASKA
Mike Walsh
DEALER IN
POULTRY EGGS
Old Rubber Copper and Brass
Highest Market Price Paid in Cask
Now location just across TrCcnXc
street in P Walsh building L HVUUIV
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 ponud
McCook Steam Laundry
W C BLAIR Prop
Successor to G C Heckman
PHONE 35 West Dennison St
Any time you find yourself in need of
Supplies for j
your Office
just drop in and see if we do not have
exactly what you want whether it
be a box of paper clips or the latest
improved filing system
The TRIBUNE Office
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JAS S DOYLE Vice President
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JOHN AND HIS IDOLS
Chinaman Is Utterly Devoid
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Reverence In His Religion
How the Chinaman regards his idol
is told by the Rev John MacGowan
The Chinese is a person utterly de
void of reverence sentiment or devo
tion in his religion With him it ia a
matter either of fear or of business
but mainly the latter A house is
plagued with sickness which is put
down not to bad sanitation or other
natural causes but to the presence of
evil spirits This leads to a visit to the
nearest temple to get the idol to drive
them away A new business is going
to be commenced but before doing so
it is deemed essential to get the sup
port of the idols If one idol says it
will not succeed another is appealed to
for its opinion and if it is favorable it
Is at once accepted as the correct one
Should the venture turn out a fail
Tire no reproach of any kind is uttered
against the god whose prediction has
been falsified The man takes the
blame upon himself His character has
not been pure he says or he was born
under an evil star or he was naturally
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Thats the official slogan of a certain town In
sas which through boosting itself and boosting its boost-
ers has doubled its population since the 1900 census tt
BOOST THE BOOSTER
The Arkansas town had been quarreling among itself
for years and standing
still It had boosters
but it had others who
refused to boost the
boosters refused to
stand by them and yell
Good boy keep it up
BOOST THE BOOS
TER
Finally the town got
together with itself or
ganized a Boost the
Booster Club and be
gan to boom Now its
principal thoroughfare
which was a streak of
mud is a stretch of as
phalt and it has new
buildings to match Now
everybody boosts the
booster and booms the
boom
BOOST THE BOOS
TER
This town might
take a hint from that
one We have our town
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boosters every town has some But sometimes they
get discouraged because of opposition right here in our
midst
BOOST THE BOOSTER
Cut out the criticism
Quit the queering
Boom the Boom
Then watch the old town perk up and plunge for
ward You can see it move
WHEN YOU BOOST THE BOOSTER YOU BOOM
THE BOOM
FOUND ITS SOUL
Story of a Violin That
Was
Wrecked In a Fire
After the Lucky Baldwin theater and
hotel fire in San Francisco years ago
there were nine feet of water in the
basement where the instruments of
the orchestra were stored When a lit
tle of it had been pumped out August
Hinrichs leader of the orchestra hired
a man to swim in and get out his fa
mous Amati violin
It was wrecked water soaked warp
ed twisted and broken up into sixty
eight pieces The hot water had soak
ed out all the old glue and every piece
had fallen away from its neighbor be
sides a good many patches of wood put
in when repairs had been done To all
appearance the thing was smashed be
yond recall
Nevertheless Ilerman Muller a local
violin repairer who knew and lovet
the old fiddle took it in hand Twictf
he carefully joined the time darkened
pieces of wood Twice he decided tha
the Amati would not do
So once more he soaked the sixty
eight bits of wood apart Then he
carefully modeled out of clay an arch
such as he remembered that of the old
Amati to have had and for nine weeks
kept the bits of wood bound to it until
they had gained the proper shape
Once more he put the bits of wood
together Then for five weeks more he
patiently varnished and polished the
more than 200 year old fiddle until it
shone Then LTinrichs once more drew
his bow across the vibrating strings
and the violin spoke It sank wept
bubbled with life and joy
The Amati had found its soul San
Francisco Examiner
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anything that he undertook
Men never dream of thinking about
their idols as we do about God No
affection is shown for them It is most
amusing to watch the faces of the Chi
nese when you ask them if the idols
love them The eyes gleam the face
broadens into a wide grin and soon
hearty laughter is heard at this most
facetious and side splitting joke
Chicago News
A Remarkable Church
At Stivichall near Coventry Eng
land 1here is a unique place of wor
ship In 1S10 John Green a stonema
son of a strongly religious turn of
mind laid the first stone of the edifice
and seven years later he completed the
building In all that time he had as
sistance from no one doing all the
work with his own hands until tho
church was ready for its interior fit
tings Wooden and even brick build
ings erected by one or two men are
not uncommon but this is the only
structure in England and probably in
the world of which every stone was
laid by one man The building accom
modates quite a large congregation
and the church derives a considerable
revenue from the contributions of
sightseers who are drawn to the place
through curiosity
The Equinox Storm Fable
The United States weather bureau
has denied that the coining of tho equi
nox brings with it a storm The be
lief it says that the old fashioned peo
ple put in this theory is all misplaced
Any big storm that happens to occur
within a week or two of the time that
the sun is crossing the line say the
weather men is dignified by the name
of equinoctial storm when as a
matter of fact there is generally some
atmospheric disturbance every week or
two and those that occur about the
time of the equinox are just taking
their turn and are not the result of the
crossing or tne sun
A Fine Pair
What do you think of the two can
didates asked one elector of another
during a recent contest
What do I think of them was the
reply Well when 1 look at them
Im thankful only one of them can get
in London Telegraph
Through Her Head
Bugby gets out of all patience with
his wife He says she cant get a thing
through her head
Thats funny He told me every
ithing he said to her went in one ear
and out of the other
Hot Water
Hyker Troubled with indigestion
eh You should drink a cup of hot wa
ter every morning Pyker I do but
tbey call it coffee at my boarding
house London Express
THE COUNTRY BANKER
His Influence on National Finance Dur
ing Crop Harvesting
Enter the small town for almost any
purpose to sell books to seek a loca
tion to look up land titles to write life
Insurance to get a news story to col
lect a debt and early in your visit you
will go to the ornate Imposing build
ing on the corner of the two busiest
streets You will pass a lattice crown
ed counter and be admitted to a room
large enough only to hold a desk and
two chairs There you will come face
to face with the towns linancler the
rierpout Morgan of the community the
banker Not an enterprise not a
siderable busiuess undertaking
is
started without consultation with him
The man who sells a farm and wishes
to put his money where It will earn In
terest goes to the banker The widow
with a few thousand dollars of life in
surancemore money than she ever
saw together in all her life before
asks the banker how to invest it It
would be better if more of this class
would take the bankers advice when
it is given Then there is the merchant
who owes for a large portion of his
goods He comes nervously asking If
the bank will see him through the dull
season The banker gives assent to
one explains to another refuses a third
and comes at last to wad unconscious
ly the business record of every man he
meets on the street
Tha country banker exerts his great
est influence on national finance dur
ing the crop harvesting season Wheth
er it he in the gathering of fruit in
California of cotton in the south or of
wheat in the plains region the banker
comes in direct touch with the worker
Take tho wheat harvest as covering
the widest area and creating the most
intense demand during its existence
In a single state 20000 harvesters are
needed besides those already at work
on the farms Through the labor bu
reaus and railway departments whole
train loads of workers are secured from
states at a distance These helpers are
mostly itinerants and they have no lo
cal standing A grain raiser went
among his laborers one Saturday night
and asking their names proceeded to
make out checks for the weeks work
What shall we do with them ask
ed one
Cash them at the bank of course
Who will identify us
The employer saw the point tore up
the checks and secured currency with
which to pay the men That made a
demand on the bank Scores of other
farmers were doing the same thing
Hundreds of other communities did it
The result is that the country bankers
draw millions of dollars from the re
serve centers every harvest and to
smjo degree change national financial
crrvents thereby C 31 Harger in At
lantic Monthly
Helping the Postoffice
It is surprising said a postoOice
employee how many people there are
who think they know better than tho
postal authorities the most direct way
for a letter to reach its destination It
is quite common for us to handle mail
that has instructions in regard to
speedy delivery written in one corner
of the envelope Not only are we di
rected to send domestic mail by a cer
tain railroad or steamboat line but the
route by which the writers wish for
eign bound letters to travel is also desig
nated These instructions frequently
denote a lamentable ignorance of trans
portation facilities on the part of the
writers If they were obeyed the de
livery of the letters would be delayed
rather than expedited Fortunately
such directions are disregarded by the
postal authorities unless they happen
to coincide with the governments ar
rangements for handling mail sc no
body is inconvenienced except the
clerks who read the unnecessary ad
vice New York Sun
Mother
At a mothers meeting a young wom
an recounted with some pride a num
ber of proverbs about mothers
Its easier for a poor mother to
keep seven children than for seven
children to keep a mother That sad
and striking proverb she said is
from tho Swiss
A mothers love is new every day
He who will not mind his mother will
some day have to mind the jailer
Better lose a rich father than a poor
mother A fathers love is only knee
deep but a mothers reaches to the
heart Those proverbs are all German
The nindoos say poetically Mother
mine ever mine whether I be rich or
poor
The Venetians say Mother He
who has one calls her He who has
none misses her
The Bohemians say A mothers
hand is soft even when it strikes
The Lithuanians say Mother means
martyr
Novelty In Cement Wall
There is a wall of cement in Los An
geles which shores up one side of a
building lot that has an artistic value
never intended by the builder He
had moved his bags of cement on to
the ground to be ready for work and
was then called away on some other
job for a day or two In the mean
time oue of the very infrequent rains
came on and each sack turned Into
stone under the action of the water
and the fabric of the sacks themselves
was absorbed into the cement so that
it was Impossible to remove it Conse
quently each sack was wrought Into
the wall as if it had been a bowlder on
the line of an old stone wall They
were then chinked and bound together
with worked cement and after a time
the weather disposed of the gnnny
sacking but left the blocks marked
with the impress of the weave The
result is a highly ornamental cement
wall resembling at a little distance a
wall of some woven material
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NEILL BROS
Contractors and Builders
Estimate
Furnished Free
Pliones Shop Black 321 Residence Mack 312
nix Updike Grain Co
GOAL
Phone 169 S S GARVEY Mgr
YOU WOULD DO WELL TO SEE
J M Rupp
FOR ALL KINDS OF Rpjnf VIOfR
P O Box 131 McCook Nebraska
A Edgar Hawkins
Phone Red 193
H H Evans
Phone Red 21
HAWKINS EVANS
Contractors and Builders
Plans drawn and estimates furn
ished on application
McCook Nebraska
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Prompt Service
Courteous Treatment
Reasonable Prices
GIVE US
A TRIAL
Office First Door
South of DeGroffs
Phone 13
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Plumber and
Steam Fitter
Iron Lead and Sewer Pipe Brass
Goods Pumps an Boiler Trimmings
Estimates Furnished Free Base
ment of the Postoffice Building
McCOQK NEBRASKA
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American Rubber Roofing 1 plj
per square complete including
Lap cement Tin Caps and
Nails 195
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