STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
OF TUB
McCook Co operative
Building Savings Assn
of McCook Nebraska on tlio ISOtli ilny
of Juno 1008
AHHnTH
First MortKiiKO Loans
Stock loans
Ronl est a to
Cash
Delinquent interest
KxpoiiKGBunil tuxes paid
Uoliuiiuout aHsesainoiitB
Hosurvo fund
Undivided profits
Other liabilities
Total
121855 00
0310 00
vm
3te9 18
IGC8
K 05
woo
Total iKKi9 51
MAIUMTIUS
Capital stock paid up 127010 C8
is riarshs
fie wants
trade and
by merit to
1674 80
H6KJ US
221 05
152820 51
Hocoipts and cxpcudituruH for thu year ending
Juno 1008
nncciPTS
Iialauce on hand July 1 1007 J78 SO
Dues 20078 50
Interest premiums and lines 11 22 J 02
Loans repaid 27MK 01
Real Estate Salos 180 00
Total 00121 20
EXPENDITURES
Loans 50000 00
Exiwusos 852 14
Stock redeemed 7002 71
Hills payable 3800 00
Cash on hand 3389 18
Total 00424 20
Statu of Nebraska Red Willow County ss
I F A Ioniicll j ecrotary of tho abovo named
associationdo solemnly swear that tho forego
ing statement of thocouriition of said Associa
tion is true nnd correct to the host of my knowl
edge and belief F A Lkxnkll Secretary
Subscribed and sworn to boforo mo this 17th
day of July 10O3 Stella Fui teu
Tsual Notary Public
Approved J A Wilcox
XV 11 Mills
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THE FOREHEAD
What Its Sizo and Shape Are Said to
Indicate
A high forebead to be very good
should bo well developed about tbe
eyebrows
Breadtb of forebead Is always favor
able It Is distinctly connected witb
breadtb of cbaracter
A foreltead tbat curves back reveals
a poetic temperament a fondness for
tbe arts and u talent for eitber music
or painting
Of course a broad forebead may be
part of a weak face and a weak cbin
and moutb will naturally give a truer
impression of cbaracter tlran even a
combination of a narrow forebead
witb an otbenvise strong face
If tbere is quite a perceptible bulge
of tbe eyebrows combined witb a bigb
forebead tbe sign is of a calm cool
deliberate tbinker
If witb tbese eyebrows is combined
a forebead tbat slopes gradually back
a sensitive poetic temperament is dis
closed If again tbey are combined
witb a sbort narrow forebead tbe
subject will be successful in business
ana in everything connected witb
worldly matters but he will be in
capable of appreciating to any extent
or of creating anything connected with
tbe arts New York American
SAW IT IN A DREAM
A Lost Check and the Peculiar Way It
Was Found
A wealthy New York lawyer sat up
late one night writing letters he had
not been able to finish during the day
It was past midnight when be went out
to mail them and when be returned
and was undressing he paused in dis
may missing a check for a large sum
received during the day and taken
home with him In vain was the house
ransacked at that late hour Lie went
to bed convinced that the lost check
must be in the house An hour later
he fell into uneasy slumber and beheld
as witb his eyes of the flesh the pink
check curled about an area railing four
or five doors from bis own bouse
So real was the dream that the trou
bled man woke up dressed and slip
plus down tbe stairs into the street
walked along the sidewalk to a snot
still seen vividly in his mind and there
sure enough standing edge upward and
partly curled about the iron was the
missing check I think he reported
to the Fsychieal Research society my
subconsciousness must have noticed it
fall from my pocket as I walked to the
mail box and my subliminal self point
ed it out to me in sleep William G
Pitz Gerald in New York Tribune
The Dogs of Constantinople
There are at least 233000 dogs in
Constantinople which has a population
of 1130000 They are the vilest of
cowards and are the scavengers of the
city It is said that scores of people
are bitten daily by the dogs of Con
stantinople but that a case of hydro
phobia was never known there Three
centuries ago Nassuf Pasha grand
vizier to Achmet III transported all
the dogs to Asia and would have bad
them destroyed there but the sultan
on consulting the mufti was told that
every dog had a soul and consequently
forbade such wholesale destruction
After the slaughter of the janizaries
Mahmoud intended to get rid of them
for he caused an immense number of
sausages to be made and having
poisoned them gave the dogs a feast
Many thousands were thus killed in
one day but the people murmured so
much that ho was afraid to begin a
second days work He therefore order
ed them to be expelled to Asia but the
order was very indifferently executed
and in a short time the dogs were as
numerous as during the time of the
janizaries
The Dog Morland Painted
Of the many stories of the seemingly
unconscious heroism of Newfoundland
dogs none is more interesting than the
one concerning the noble dog which
Morland afterward painted
When William Phillips bathing at
Portsmouth ventured beyond his deptii
and was drowning two boatmen in
stead of setting out to his rescue hag
gled about a reward from the bystand
ers who were urging them to go to
Phillips rescue In the midst of tbe
controversy a Newfoundland dog
leaped into the water and brought the
exhausted bather to shore Mr Phil
lips bought the dog from its owner a
butcher and yearly gave a festival in
honor of his rescuer
It was for Mr Phillips that Morland
painted the dogs picture and Barco
lozzi engraved it
A Dream Warning
A strange story comes from Calabria
One Braccala a resident of Pizzo had
a dream in which he saw his son
twenty years of age being attacked by
two men who were stabbing him witb
knives Braccala awoke and arousing
his wife told her what he had seen
She tried to calm him but while they
were still discussing the matter a
noise was heard in front of the house
and hastening down lime Braccala
opened the door just in time to catch
her son in her arms as he fell swoon
ing to the ground He had been at
tacked and stabbed and died shortly
afterward
Too Easy For Him
Sir I want work
Heres a penny Buy yourself
newspaper
But I know nothin about runnin
n
a
newspaper protested Tired Tiffins
who really wanted alms Louisville
Courier Journal
To thine own self be true and it
must follow as the night the day thou
canst not then be false to any man
Shakespeare
THE BLARNEY STONE
An OW Legend Tells How It
Found Its Way to Ireland
THE MAGIC OF KISSING IT
Origin of tho Quaint Belief That It Im
parts to the Lip3 That Touch It the
Power to Utter Honeyed Coaxing and
Delusive Speeches
The blarney stone takes its name
from the village of Blarney in County
Cork Ireland near which stand the
ruins of the famous Blarney castle
dating back to the fifteenth century
and the groves of Blarney which en
joy an equally wide reputation A riv
ulet flowing through them bears tbe
same name The name Blarney is
from the Irish blairne a little field
the Gaelic form being blair or blar
a plain The village is four miles north
west of Cork and has a few hundred
inhabitants In the groves of Blarney
stands the ruined castle in one tower
of which is the world famous stone
the kissing of which is reputed to
endow one with the gift of coaxing
wheedling and flattering
The true stone is declared to be one
In the castle wall a few feet below
the summit of the tower To reach
and osculate it it is necessary for one
to be held over the parapet by the
heels But so many persons traveling
in the Emerald Isle desire to report
that they have kissed the real blarney
stone that one in the top of the wall
is held to be sufficiently near the real
thing for the fiction to be maintained
tbat it is the true stone with all the
powers of the original And even to
aged and infirm persons one near the
castle entrance ws declared to be the
original On the true stone near the
top of the tower a half effaced in
scription reads Cormack McCarthy
Fortis Me Fieri Facit A D 144G
Of the blarney stone Father Prout
the Irish poet deckiced that it was the
palladium of liberty for Erin lie de
scribes tbe stone and relates a number
of legends regarding it one that it
was brought to the island by the
Phoenicians who are reputed to have
colonized the region and that it had
long been in the custody of the Cartha
ginians who from it gained the rep
utation for insincerity which is trans
mitted in the phrase Punic faith
and that before that It belonged to the
Syrians who were credited with
speaking with double tongues after
kissing it According to the story
some Carthaginian adventurers be
came enamored of the stone and ap
propriated it They set sail for Minor
ca but being overtaken by a storm
were driven into the harbor of Cork
and left the stone in that vicinity un
til it was made use of in the construc
tion of the donjon tower of Blarney
castle
As to the origin of the belief in re
gard to the qualities secured by kiss
ing the stone Crofton Croker says
that in 1G02 when the Spaniards were
urging the Irish chieftains to harass
the English the owner of the castle
Cormack MeDermod McCarthy who
then occupied it concluded an armis
tice with the lord president on condi
tion of surrendering it to an English
day to day with specious statements
fair promises and false pretexts until
the lord president became the laugh
ingstock of the ministers of Queen
Elizabeth and the honeyed and delu
sive speeches of the lord of the castle
became known as mere blarney
The word found its way into litera
ture in the last century In the Jour
nal of Caroline Fox which appeared
in 1S33 there is this use of the word
Mine de Stael was regretting to Lord
Castlereagh that there was no word in
the English language which answered
to their sentiment No he said
there is no English word but the
Irish have one that corresponds exact
lyblarney Samuel Lover wrote
The blarneys so great a deceiver in
one of his Irish novels President
James Buchanan wrote The general
has yet to learn that ray fathers coun
trymen I have ever felt proud of my
descent from an Irishman though
they themselves do blarney others are
yet hard to be blarneyed themselves
Washington Irving in The Traveler
wrote So he blarneyed the landlord
James Russell Lowell in The Fable
For Critics sajs
The cast clothes of Europe your states
manship tries
And mumbles again the old blarneys and
lies
The name of the old time castle and
town has added a noun a verb an
adjective and a participle to the lan
guage The most comprehensive defi
nition of the noun blarney is ex
ceedingly complimentary language
flattery smooth wheedling talk pleas
ing cajolery As to the origin of tbe
word one lexicographer quotes Groro
as crediting the derivation of it from
the phrase licking the blarney
stone applied to incredible stories
told of climbing to a stone very diffi
cult of access in a castle of that name
In the county of Cork Ireland Bur
he added that Dr Jamieson derives It
from the French balwerne a lie
frUolous talk and defines it gross
flattery unmeaning or vexatious dis
course Low But the word seems
to have outgrown this restricted mean
ing since the latter part of the eight
eenth century Every Irishman soutu
of the Liffey is popularly supposed to
have kissed the blarney stone and if
moreover he has had a dip in tbe
Shannon be is reputed to have the req
uisite amount of impudence or what
the natives call civil courage New
York Tribune
SARTORIAL DILEMMAS
Wsighty Problems That Are Puzzling
Our English Cousins
A problem is put forward by a writer
in a contemporary which gives food
for thought It is this Suppose by
some combination of circumstances you
were faced by the alternative of wear
ing a frock coat with brown boots
Which would be the better way out of
it to wear a bowler or a tall hat As
the writer justly remarks If you wear
a bowler then the thing you have to
explain away Is the coat If you wear
a tall hat you have only the boots to
account for We sbould advise those
of our readers who find one morning
tbat all the wearing apparel in the
house had been stolen during the night
with the exception of a frock coat
waistcoat trousers shirt collar vest
tie a pair of brown boots and two hats
one tall the other round to cut the
Gordlan knot by staying in bed An
other of lifes dilemmas which may
face the traveler down the worlds
dusty highway has to do with collars
Suppose on arriving at a house for a
week end and starting to dress for
dinner you find that your evening col
lars have got wetted by your sponge
or otherwise defaced Should you wear
a clean double collar or a dirty ortho
dox evening collar In the former case
you will he natty but a thing of
loathing to all properly constituted
men In the latter you will give the
impression that you cannot afford the
services of a laundry London Globe
NAPOLEONS HABITS
The Great Warrior Was Fond of Per
fume and Clean Linen
It is pleasant to learn if one has Na
poleon I on the hero iist that he had
very dainty habits in personal mat
ters that he was fastidiously clean in
his person according to an article in a
French contemporary and poured eau
de cologne into the water he washed
in then sponged his head with per
fume and finally poured the remainder
of the contents of the flask over his
neck and shoulders He was also ex
travagantly fond of clean linen and
during bis campaigns had relays of it
sent to different places In those days
it did not cost a farm to have starched
things laundered for in account with
a famous laundress in Paris the em
perors linen for one wash amounted to
3SG pieces and cost only a trifle over
20
This strikes an American as very
reasonable but his majesty never wore
any article but once and as he always
undressed himself without aid from
his valet his garments were literally
cast to the four corners of the room
NTiIeons bill for eau de cologne
hn -ever exceeded the washerwomans
by n large majority It is a relief to
leara that the Little Corporal was so
much a dude Some of his predecessors
in the Tuileries were not blessed with
such excellent habits if history is to be
relied upon
To Make Waxed Paper
This is used for keeping substances
which contain either a volatile aromatic
ingredient or grease which would pen
etrate through ordinary paper On a
flat sheet of copper over a gentle fire
place a sheet of paper as a base and
then lay a second sheet on the top of
the first Coat this second sheet witb
yellow or white wax and distribute the
latter uniformly over the entire sheet
rvn r I v fV A I
giumuu uul iiu iui 111111 ull iidui i moans of a spon0
erting a lit
tle pressure till the paper is every
where transparent and consequently
permeated by the wax If the fire is
too feeble tho process will be retard
ed Too powerful a flame is still more
harmful as the paper is liable to be
come browu or black Stearin may be
used instead of wax Der Industriose
Geschaftsmann
Sure to Ba There
An old Scotch farmer was lying on
what he thought was his deathbed He
began to give orders to his wife about
his funeral and the people to be invit
ed His wife knowing that he was not
dying paid but little attention to hN
requests and this so enraged the farm
er that be rose on his elbow and cried
out
What need I speak Therell be
naethinu dune richt unless Im then
myscl
LTis wife patting him on tbe shoul
der replied Toots man Pauldy
Keep yer min easy Yell be the prin
cipal man there Glasgow Times
Where They Gas Away
Of the late Langdon Smith the bril
liant journalist and author of New
York a Deliver reporter narrated anec
dotes tbe other day
I remember he said my first visit
to Washington Smith bis and hand
some and vivacious showed me about
From an eminence a great pale dome
rose up against the blue sky the dome
of the capitol
What is that said I
That said Smith Ob thats the
national gas works
In One Lesson
He Your sister said she couldnt
dance
She Well can she
Yes I made her We hadnt been
on the floor a minute when I stepped
on her foot You just ought to have
seen her Youkers Statesman
Misnamed
Towue Why do you call young
Fetherbrane ChoIIy His first name
is Noah
Browne Yes but thats so inappro
priate Noah had sense enough to get
in out of the rain Philadelphia Press
LTe who will not reason is a bigot
lip who rirot i a fool he wko dare
not is a slave Byron
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