STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
OK THE
McCook Co operative
Building Savings Assn
of McCook Noliraskn on tho StOth tiny
of June 1008
AHHBTB
First MortRiiKO LonuB S 7
Stock lonnH W0 00
BealosUito
Cash WJ
Dolinquont interest 08
KxtKjnuos nnd taxes paid - y
Delinquent assessments
Total 132829 51
LIAIIIL1TIEH
Capital etock paid up 127019 68
Hosorvofund j
Undivided prollta 38J JW
Other liabilities 221 05
Total 132829 51
Receipts nud oziwnditurea for tho yenr endiuR
JunoJiO 1008
BECEIFTH y
Ualanco on hand July 1 1907 jlij
Dnos 2CCS SO
Interest premiums and flues H JiT
Loans repaid Px XA
Real EaUito Sales IbO 00
Total G21 2ti
EXPENDITURES
Loans 00
Expenses ib i
Stock redoomod 692 4
Rills payable 3W0 O
Cash on band
Total 00424 20
State of Nebraska Red Willow County sa
I F A Fennell hocrotary of tho above named
associationdo solemnly swear that tho forego
inRStatomont of tho condition of said Associa
tion true and correct to tho betof my kuowl
odKo and bollef F A Fennell Secretary
Subscribed and sworn to before mo tins lith
day of July 1903 Stella Fuller
seal Notary Public
Approved T A Wilcox
WHMills
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Directors
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THEGENT LE ALLIGATOR
Getting Him Out Into tho Open For
the Camera Man
I have Been a barefoot boy when tho
alligator refused to respond to uis call
wade In the mud to his waist explore
with his toes till he felt the wiggle of
the gato beneath them then worry
him to the surface grab him by the
nose before he could open his jaws and
tow the creature ashore to be photo
graphed When an alligator that we
were hunting crawled Into his cave I
held a noosed rope over his inoutn
while the boy poked a stick througn
the mud until it hit the creature In hb
hiding placo and soon I had hlit
snared ready to be dragged out on the
prairie and tied to be kept till the
camera man was ready for him then
we turned the reptile loose on a bit of
prairie and the boy and I armed with
sticks headed him off when he tried to
escape while the camera man with his
head in the hood of his instrument fol
lowed the creature about seeking for
evidence in the case of reason versus
Instinct When the camera man was
through with him the alligator was set
free a final shot being taken at him as
he walked off Our hunter boys could
never be made to comprehend our rea
sons for restoring to the creatures their
freedom They understood the photo
graphing but when this was done why
not collect a dollar for the reptiles
hide Their manner implied that to
this question no sane answer was pos
sible A V Dirnock in Harpers Mag
azine
ECONOMY IN ITALY
The Roman Season the Only Time
When Real Luxury Is the Rule
During the greater part of the year
we have only the servants that are
necessary my husbands valet one but
Jer the porter who stands at the en
trance to the palace and a general
utility country boy who in the after
noon puts on a livery and acts as foot
man The women servants are a cook
a scullery maid a laundress and two
maids besides my own personal one
This list is not as extravagant as the
same would be in America
Wages are nothing by comparison
One can get a good ladys maid for S10
a month a competent butler for 10
a cook for 10 a chambermaid for G
Their fare would seem coarse to the
spoiled servant of America consisting
as it does chiefly of bread soup mac
aroni and fruit with tea and coffee of
an inferior grade and fresh meat once
a week We spend nothing that we
can possibly help until the Roman sea
son Then we have enough surplus to
get an additional number of maids and
a long row of footmen these for tho
most part young women and men from
the village of our own estate and
both in our country villa and in our
Roman palace we open all the rooms
that for eight months have been closed
and for four months live in luxury
An Expatriate in Everybodys Maga
zine
The Angler Fish
A singular superstition about the
angler fish is entertained in some parts
of Sweden Bohuslan according to
Malm and Smitt It is so feared by
many that the tackle is cut as soon as
the monster reaches the surface and
its captor hurries home in order to get
there if possible before the misfor
tune portended by the monster over
takes him The extreme of misfor
tunedeathis believed by some to be
indicated Nilsson tells that the Swed
ish fishermen on the banks believe
that on board the vessel on which an
angler is taken some one is doomed to
die soon They therefore never or
hardly ever take the angler on board
but prefer to cut the line and thus lose
the hook with the fish
An anemomotrical faculty is attrib
uted to the angler in Massachusetts
According to Storer among the fisher
men in some parts of the bay there
is a common saying When you take a
goosefish look out fnr an easterly
storm
A Human Foot Varmer
It is interesting to learn that Julius
Caesar found our Celtic ancestors just
suCocating themselves with smoke
Giraldus the early Welsh historian
describes a family as sitting round
their smoky central fire by day and
lying round it by night But they
could have had little comfort from it
for the same historian tells us that one
of their princes eked out his fire with
a human foot warmer This officers
duty was to keep his masters feet
warm by cherishing them in his bosom
during meals For tbis purpose he
squatted under the table and no doubt
it did him proud so to nurse the roy
al moccasins T Ps London Weekly
Why He Was Angry
You made a mistake in your paper
said an indignant man entering the ed
itorial sanctum of a daily journal 1
was one of the competitors at an ath
letic entertainment last night and you
referred to me as the well known
lightweight champion
Well are you not inquired the
sporting editor
Xo Im nothing of the kind was
the argry response and its confound
edly Uwkward because Im a coai
deale Philadelphia Ledger
Thcught He Was Going to Shave
The new rubber in the Turkish bath
had formerly been a barber
Thus it was when his first patron
came in that the new rubber looked
him over and said pityingly Wash
yourself sometimes dont you V Louis
ville Courier Journal
Spare minutes are the gold dust of
time the portions of life most fruitful
in good or eYil the gaps through which
temptations f ter Mrs Thrall
Lived on
the Spineless
Cactus
S cactus good to eat Yea verily
says Dr Leon M Landone of
Los Angeles who has lived well
for two weeks at a stretch on
cactus exclusively Dr Landone sub
sisted upon the spineless cactus devel
oped by Luther Burbank 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 He has
done so producing a very gentle and
harmless breed of cactus that can ba
caressed with the naked 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
the fortnights novel diet he was very
fine and fit During those two week
he did much mental and manual la
bor without feeling any more fatigtiG
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
Tho 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 stickerless
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 be solv
ed by the simple matter of letting the
cows and steers eat cactus when the
grass runs out or when they prefer
cactus to grass
On the far western deserts the cac
tus grows to a bulk of COO pounds in
IB IiAXDOXE 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 man 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 Avhich unirrigated will
produce nothing else may bo 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 the
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
less perilous than heretofore
It is asserted by some students of
the matter that Mr Burbanks spine
less cactus triumph will prove in the
end to be of greater material benefit
to tho semiarid regions than will any
other of his marvelous productions in
the vegetable and fruit world Grant
ing such importance as this the ex
periment of Dr Landone may be look
ed upon as a serious contribution to
scientific knowledge and in nowise as
a mere freak undertaken for purposes
of notoriety Despite this fact how
ever a wag asserts that the doctor has
shown that he possesses a good deai
of backbone by living for two weeks
on spineless cactus
Mr Burbank has got the cactus plant
to a stage where he can dive into it
headlong taking the great 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 a
state approaching as near as possible
to perfection
LITERARY BULLS
For Instance tho Groan That Gurglos
From the Slain
Macaulay once reviewed a poem In
which a clmax of absurdity was reach
ed with this line
And hcarst each groan that gurgles from
the slain
The poetic license which lets a gram
gurgle from a slain man is capable of
letting him walk into town from the
field of battle collect the amount of
his life Insurance policy and hand It
to his widow It brings to mind the
heroic warrior of whom It is said that
thrice he slew the slain and the Irish
member of parliament who convulsed
the house of commons by exclaiming
that he would die as a soldier first and
a man afterward
But strange to saj Macaulay himself
has made a similar blunder In his
Battle of Lake Ragillus the follow
ing lines occur
The shouting of the slayere
And screeching of the slain
Did these writers make these slips
In the heat of battle or were they
testing the intellectual acutencss of
their readers There is a story of a
German schoolmaster who used to call
out his class in history and begin to
tell them of the Thirty Years war Yes
children he would say this Is a sub
ject in which I am especially Interest
ed as my grandfather often told me
about it lie was a well to do innkeep
er and one day as lie was standing in
his doorway a mounted soldier came
galloping up at a furious rate Whats
the matter asked my grandfather
Matter epough answered the dragoon
Dont you know that the Thirty Years
war lias begun today At this point
the ancient pedagogue would pause and
survey his class Then a smile would
overspread his rubicund countenance if
a hand was raised and a boyish treble
asked how the dragoon knew the war
would last thirty years Perhaps our
poets too would play the schoolmas
ter and smile if we should ask thorn
how it is possible for the slain to groan
or screech George Seibel in Pittsburg
Gazette Times
THE STUPID SWAN
Graceful and Beautiful the Bird Is a
Nincompoop
To the mind of the average farmer
nothing which walks on two legs is
quite so stupid as a hen He is mis
taken though for there still remains
that beautiful graceful nincompoop
the common swan The swan is so
stupid that it will stand in the shallow
part of a pond and allow the water to
freeze round its legs till the ice is so
thick that it cannot lift its feet and it
1- fast Not infrequently owners
of these handsome but witless birds
a compelled to chop away sufficient
ic to make it possible for them to
withdraw their imprisoned foot
The stupidity of the swan in this
respect Is emphasized by the intelli
gence exhibited by ornamental ducks
when the weather turns cold As
night comes on and the water begins
to freeze the ducks begin swimming
in a wide well defined circle Round
and round they go during the entire
night keeping all the water within
that circle free from ice so that a hen
the day dawns they can float about
and doze in the sun Ducks are al
ways most active during tho night and
choose the day for sleeping
But to return to the swan If you
find one of these birds some distance
from the water and startle it the swan
will rush a few feet toward the pond
and then drop down on the ground and
try to go through the motions of swim
ming apparently unable in its fright
to realize that it has not yet reached
the water
Neither is the common swan a good
fighter The black swan although
one half its size is invariably the vic
tor in the combats which are some
times engaged in and generally kills
its antagonist The black swan usually
provokes the fight too for it is rather
a quarrelsome bird Washington Star
Do Fish Feel Pain
How sensitive to pain are fish A
correspondent writes I have a small
pond which is stocked with trout 1
keep an accurate account of those I
catch and note when I lose any One
morning a big rainbow trout broke the
worm hook with which I had hooked
him That evening I hooked and land
ed a good trout also with worm tackle
which proved to be my friend of the
morning as right down in his stomach
was the broken gut and hook and bo
side this in his lip was a March brown
fly hook which according to my fish
ing book must have been there many
weeks A fish with a fiy hook in his
mouth a worm hook in his stomach
and ready to gulp down bait must bo
quite impervious to what we mortals
call pain
Dont Bear Malice
A man who harbors maiace is liable
to commit murder A man who hates
another a long time is sure to get into
a fight with him sooner or later and
when the fight finally comes there Is
likely to be mischief done Men wait
for years tor the first blow and the
first blow is liable to be with a deadly
instrument Dont waste your energy
In hating people Such a course would
make you wretched and finally get yon
into trouble Atchison Globe
Water
Schoolmaster at end of object les
son Now can any of you tell me
what is water Small and Grubby
Urchin Please teacher waters what
turns black when you puts your ands
in it Dundee Advertiser
The attire of some men would seem
to indicate that their tailors cant tell
th dlorpnco letpni jt ajd a con
vulsion New York Times
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