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seats free on tliniiicli train Tickt soli
and baKKitco checked to imy point in tlio United
States or Canada
For information tiniotalitiS maps and tick
ets call on or wrJtn It E Foe Aent McCook
Nebraska or L W Wakfloy General Piihseti
er Anout Onialia Nebraska
PAILR0AD NEWS ITEMS
Mrs E O Scott visited friends in Re
publican Sunday and Monday
Conductor M S Parkes visited the
homofolkH ntRed Cloud Saturday
Engine 22 was sent down to the St
Francis line Wednesday for passenger
work
Conductor E MCox is oiF on account
of sickness in bis family and Cassellhas
his car
Conductor Burns was off a trip Sat
urday and Sunday wiih hay fever and
Bagloy had his run
Roy Burkett hns irone from Culbert
son to take the position of helper in the
Holbrook depot
Engineer H A Frey has been trans
ferred to the westend and is making his
headquarters in Denver now
Trainmaster and Mrs W M Wei
denhamer are very happy over the ar
rival of that daughter Monday morn
ing
Seven now men were added to the re
pair track force Monday and the entire
repair force was put on ten hour work
schedule
J AW Eastman who has been em
ployed at McGehee Arkansas has re
turned to the states and is located at
Osawatomie Kansas
Dispatcher T B Campbell enjoyed
an over night visit from his brother
Joseph of Yuma Colo Monday night
Joe being homeward bound from a
visit east
The engine on the local extra Engin
eer Hardy turned partly over on the
Oxford Y yesterday and the wrecker in
charge of Conductor Carmoney was sent
down to pick her up
General Supt of Motive Power Roope
is on the division experimenting with a
new stack for lignite coal fitted on the
2015 The roar of her exhaust is said
to be something fierce and she doesnt
keep the sparks all in either
W M Aikman is clerking for Round
house Foreman Wiehe while Walter
Stilwell is away on a vacation of a few
weeks Walter will leave Sunday
Aikman comes from Hastings and is an
old Burlington employe having been lo
cated here in the early days
Engine JUS received light repairs this
week
Tho storehouse force was increased
by two this week
Tomorrow will be pay day Special
at 420 in the afternoon
Joe Warner went down to Alma
Thursday morning to tho log rolling
Theo Diebold returned to work
Monday after a vacation of two weeks
in Colorado
There are eight overhauled engines in
tho white lend at this point now They
are all of the smaller classes
Engine 2814 which has been given
light repairs in the roundhouse driving
boxes etc went into commission last
night
T Roope supt of motive power is
up from Lincoln testing tho new style
of spark arreiter and consumer En
gine 2015 is equipped for the test
Engine 132 which has been iven gen
eral repairs was sent back to tho Ster
ling division last niyht Another en
gine from the Sterling division will be
sent here for that division
General Storekeeper Fryer and his
assistant Mr Clark of Omaha were at
these headquarters Wednesday night
on business of that department They
recognized tho neea of the local house
by increasing tho force two men
MINOR ITEMS OF NEWS
Barney Hofer has received 20000 new
coloied post cards of McCook
Dr Hare examines eyes free and guar
ntees satisfaction in fitting glasses
No office is complete without a Red
Dwarf Ink Pencil Hofer sells them
Our Colorado peas corn etc are as
near perfection as it is possible to ap
proach in canned goods Huber
We still have a few hammocks
Wont one of them add to your comfort
this summer You can buy one from a
dollar up
L W McConnell Druggist
GILBERT ELDREDGE
the clever impersonator a genius in
character costuming at McCook Chau
tauqua August 22 30
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Lovell Nies Forward
M KIMMELL
Deau Sir Wont you through the column of your very excellent
paper say to our customers that we are now in the wholesale house and
buying for them what we know to be the prettiest line of goods we ever
saw
We must tell you of the hats Last season we all thought the Mer
ry Widow hat an awful thing but this season the hats are larger
higher in crown and wider brims Some of these hats look like great
bowls turned upside down Others turn up on the right side or left side
in a just pick your choice style Others are narrow brims back and
front and very narrow brims on the side But there are lots of medium
sized and small hats too and one does not have to buy all big shapes
And they trim them so becomingly Never in our lives have we seen
hats so beautiful as these now in the great display rooms of Kansas
Citys big wholesalers Frankel Frank Co and Quentin Knight Mil
linery Co of St Joseph Mo We are buying some of these beautiful
patterns to take home and also getting many new and valuable style
pointers which will be noticed in the hats we will make this season
Canard a shade of green seems to have the call Taupe is one of
the popular colors and Saffire is good too All colors are mixed the
art is in combining colors that harmonize Some of the prettiest things
shown in wings are two toned and by this we mean the tip of the wing
may be a bright color and the other parts shade from light to dark
We expected to find goods higher than ever but such is not the case
While it is true that merchandise is little if any cheaper than a year
ago it is also true that the quality is better By this we mean that a
plume we could buy at three dollars last year was not as thick and of as
choice stock as the same makers plumes are at three dollars this year
We expect to be home soon and about the first of September will
welcome our customers to the best and most stylish showing we have yet
made Very truly
LOVELL NIES
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FOIBLES OFMUSICIANS
Eccentric Moods and Manners of
the Great Composers
THE MADNESS OF GENIUS
Beethovens Strange Abstraction and
Queer Habits Tho Odd Contract
That Mozart Insisted on Signipg
Meyerbeer Inspired by Thunder
When listening to the wonderful
strains of Beethovens immortal sym
phonies and sonatas It Is difficult to
imagine that they could come from the
pen of such an eccentric man Though
musicians are as a rule men with
many peculiarities Beethoven was
probably the most extraordinary of
them all
He wrote his music In all sorts of
places when dining walking or con
versing with a friend Often in the
midst of a crowded street he would
stop and write furiously for a few
minutes on the back of a letter or an
envelope oblivious to the hustling
crowd about hitu Some of his great
est themes were composed when he
was walking along in the pouring rain
for in thtt worst weather he was a
familiar figure in the streets of Vien
na and though often the object of
much ridicule and many gibes he was
profoundly inattentive to his surround
ings as his mind was wholly occupied
with his music His friends were not
unaccustomed to have him break off
in the midst of a conversation and be
gin to write rapidly some motif which
had presented itself to him
This great composer would play for
hours at a stretch and in order to cool
his hands which often became fever
ish he would seize a water jug and
walk about the room pouring the wa
ter Orst on ono hand and then on the
other utterly ignoring the fact that
there was no receptacle to catch it
This was the cause of many of his
hasty retreats from his lodgings for
the slightest complaint would cause
him to give notice to quit so puerile
was he at times As a result he some
times was paying for no fewer than
three different lodgings at the same
time which after engaging for a
month he had abruptly left in a day
Though Haydn ranks next to Bee
thoven ou the list of eccentric musi
cians still their peculiarities were very
unlike Beethoven lived in the midst
of disorder and confusion while Haydn
averred that he could not compose a
line unless everything in his study
was in its exact place Even every
ornament must be where it belonged
He always rose early to write for he
found his greatest inspiration when
the birds were singing in the dewy
morning hours His most extraordi
nary characteristic however was to
don his full court dress with bob wig
hat and ruffles and put on his finger a
certain ring before he wrote a line for
he declared that he had not a musical
idea unless so attired
Mozart cannot be called eccentric in
the same sense as the two mentioned
for they were very retiring in fact
recluses while he was to a great ex
tent a man of the world To him
however must be credited one of the
strangest documents that perhaps have
ever been written
He became engaged to a young wo
man and at the request of his future
mother-in-law he drew up in the pres
ence of an attorney a contract which
bound him to marry one of the wo
mans daughters within three years
the said daughter always having the
liberty to refuse the composer if she
wished to many another But in case
Mozart was unable to carry out his in
tention through lack of the necessary
funds or through the womans refusal
he pledged himself to support her in
the condition of a stranger no matter
where or how she lived all her life
This support was to be a fixed sum
paid quarterly or half yearly
Wagner too was not exempt from
peculiar fancies His mind seemed to
run to the grewsome and during his
lifetime he had his grave constructed
It was in the garden back of his home
and he would often go and look at it
that he might not forget its existence
But the worst of it was that he con
stantly insisted that his friends should
remember it too and when he was en
tertaining them at dinner he would
suddenly break off the conversation
and begin declaiming on eternity and
the grave
My friends he would say in the
midst of life we are in death Death is
a lot that we all must face even so
great a man as myself I too must
die I should like very much to show
you my grave if you will allow me
And starting from the dinner table
he would lead the way followed by
his guests to the corner of the garden
where his grave was and there he
would give his companions further dis
sertations on eternity
Meyerbeer gathered his thoughts
amid the rumble of thunder the flash
of lightning and downpour of rain In
order more fully to expose himself to
the stimulating effects of the elements
he had constructed for himself at the
top of hs house a room whose sides
were entirely of glass and here he
would hasten at the approach of a
storm and amid its fury would have a
rush of musical thoughts
There is a story about him to the
effect that once when entertaining
friends at dinner he heard a distant
rumble of thunder just as the soup
course was served and to the astonish
ment of his guests he hastened from
the room to his musical chamber and
left them to take care of themselves
for the rest of the evening
The Italian composer Donizetti court
ed inspiration by a means which prov
ed so Injurious that It caused the pre
mature decay of his faculties He was
accustomed to shut himself in a room
with a quantity of music paper pens
and Ink and three or four pots of
strong coffee He would then begin to
write and drink and when this supply
of coffee was exhausted he would
order more and continue to drink It as
long as he wrote
He asserted that the coffee was nec
essary for his inspiration The result
of this pernicious habit was a yellow
parchment like complexion with llp
almost jet black and a nervous system
which soon caused his breakdown and
death
Kossinl was perhaps the laziest of alt
musicians whose names are famous
He would rarely rise until midday and
often when ho woke and the weather
was dull or the muse did not inspire
him to write lie would turn over again
and after directions to his servant to
be called the following day would sleep
blissfully for another twenty four
hours
He did most of his writing In bed
and before retiring for the night he
would place music paper and a pencil
near his bedPide so that he would not
have to move in order to have the
means at hand for writing drwn the
musical thoughts which came
It is told of him that after writing
part of a beautiful duet for an opera
the sheet on which he was writing fell
to the floor and caught by a puff of
wind was scon beyond his reach He
was too lazy to get up and get it and
thereby disturb the nicely arranged
bedclothes so he et to work and
wrote another melody as Iu could not
remember how Hit first oie went
Thus in the opera U Turco in Italia
there are two duets for one situatim
and singers can choose the one whK s
pleases them best
Liszt was probably the vainest of
great composers and also one of the
most capricious It was only when in
the mood that he would play and if
pressed to do so against his will he
would often become almost insulting
It is told of uim that after being en
tertained at dinner he was asked by
his hostess to perform on the piano
and on refusing and again being
asked he stalked to the piano and
after dashing off a short but brilliant
composition he hurried from the room
saying as he went There madam I
have paid for my dinner
On a similar occasion after a dinner
party he was pressed by his host to
play Not being in the mood however
he refused but no doubt tliinking that
genius needed urging his host insisted
The musician then walked to the piano
and turning his back to the keyboard
favored the company with one of thv
popular airs Maty Hamilton Talbott
in New York Tribune
If the Earth Should Stop
The stopping of a projectile always
results in the generation of heat The
velocity and weight of a projectile be
ing known the amount of heat devel
oped by its stoppage can becalculated
In the case of large bodies moving
rapidly the result of the calculation is
something astounding For example I
the earth weighs G000000000000 tons
and travels in its orbits at the rate of
over eighteen miles a second Should
it strike a target strong enough to stop
its motion the heat developed by the
shock would be sufficient not merely to
fuse the earth but also to reduce a
large portion of it to vapor It has
been calculated that the amount of
heat generated by a collision so colos
sal would equal that obtained from
the burning of fourteen globes of coal
each equal to the earth in size And
should the earth after its stoppage fall
into the sun as it certainly would do
the amount of heat developed by its
impact on the sun would be equal to
that generated by the combustion of
5000 earths of solid carbon
The Greatest Man
Who is the greatest man who has
ever lived The question went round
a dinner table and controversy raged
from the fish onward There were
two who plumped for Julius Caesar
two more for Napoleon one thinking
of statues said Shakespeare and some
body else who did not get a hearing at
all murmured Buddha at intervals
while most of the people present who
did not know Greek said Aeschylus
But Aristotle won easily It was not
a particularly scholarly assemblage
and one wondered rather how many of
Aristotles enthusiastic devotees could
have quoted accurately from him had
ever read him indeed sin e they left
college And all the wh probably
the greatest man of all ages is pegging
away among us unnoticed unrecogniz
ed while we snapshot and interview
all the little men or go back to some
one who has been dead long enough for
us to find out that we may safely
praise him London Chronicle
The Mighty Amazon
The estimated length of the Amazon
from its source in the Andes to where
it debouches in a mouth forty miles
wide into the Atlantic is 4C00 miles
The story is told of a wrecked vessel
which was drifting with her crew on
board suffering intense torment for
lack of fresh water which entered the
mouth of the Amazon and the suffer
ers could have had frugh water sim
ply by putting a bucket over the side
but did not know where they were un
til they got in sight of the land This
mighty river up whiph the tide goes
400 miles is known in the upper part
of its course near the Andes as the
Maranon then in the middle course
from Tabatinga to the mouth of its
chief affluent the Rio Negro as the
Solimoes while for the rest of its
course Its name is Amazonas or Ama
zon A thousand miles from the sea
it is four miles in width Vast and of
ten impassable forests line most of its
banks
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HASTINGS COLLEGE HASTINGS NEBRASKA
Founded in 1882
Location
Hastings is the fourth city of Nebraska having a population of over
12000 and is supplied with handsome public buildings elegant resi
dences metropolitan stores and beautiful churches It is also an import
ant reilroad center being located on the C B Q St J G I C and
N V and M P railways There are also three branch lines of the
Burlingtou route so that access is easy from any quarter
Faculty
It consists of twelve cultured men and women representing night
different universities and colleges Post graduate work at Harvard Chi
cago Princeton Yale Berlin and Heidelberg gives their teaching and
scholarship unusual breadth and thoroughness
Departments
I
II
III
IV
The College offering two courses for degrees with many electives
The Academy offering high school training under college pro
fessors
The Normal School issuing teachers certificates under state
authority
The Conservatory of Alusic with courses in voice pianc pipe or
gan violin and musical theory
Equipment
There are four buildings Ringland Hall a mens dormitory and
refectory McCormick Hall the principal recitation building Alexander
Hall a womens dormitory Carnegie building the library and scientific
work are unsurpassed and all buildings have steam heat and electric Hsht
Next year begins Sept 8 1908 Handsome catalogue and illustrat
ed souvenir free upon application to
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