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MAIN LINS EABT DEPAET
No 0 Central Timo
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1027 r m
500 a M
715 A u
9M r m
400 p M
MAIN LINE WEST DEPAET
Mountain Time 950 A M
11 p ir
Arrives
830 p M
1025 A M
1217 A u
IMIEUIAL LINE
No 170 nrrlvos Mountain Timo iT p m
No 175iloimrt 710 a m
Stepping dining and rocllnlnjr chair cars
sonta frco on through trains Tickets sold
and baRgnqo checked to any point in tlio United
Statos or Canadu
For information timo tables maps and tick
ets call on or write K ETToe Agent McCook
Nebraska or L W Wakeley General Iubsoii
Ker Agent Oinnhu Nebraska
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
Engine 1239 is just off the drop pit
after repairs
II C Jeffries is a now machinists
helper in the service here
Engine 1963 received net set of firo
brick in our firebox this week
Engino 10G0 will be ready for the
breaking in process about Sunday
The 2703 had her cylinders bored this
week and was given now packing
C E Emerson was at Wray Colorado
on business of his department Wednes
day
Engineer and Mrs I L Rodstrom
are occupying their very cosy now mod
ern homo
The 19SJ was taken out of the white
lead this week being the last road en
gine put into service at this point
Engine 1124 went out of the backshop
today after light repairs She will go
into service Sunday on the Hastings
Red Cloud run
Brnkeman S W McCreary departed
Tuesday morning on 2 for Galesburg
Illinois on a visit to the family and a
vacation of a week or two
The company is installing a force
pump to give direct pressure to its fire
system Pump will force water from
the company tanks into the pipes
Switchman W M Ovorleese of the
Holdroge yard had a narrow escape
Saturday last a projecting platform at
the Barber elevator being the cause
Some bad bruises fortunately con
stitute his total injuries
October 19th the railroads of Arkan
sas commenced the collection of a three
cent passenger rate in that state on
authority of the federal court after
a showing that the two cent rate in
effect for past three years was not pro
fitable
Trainmaster W M Woidenhamer
went down to Lincoln last Friday
night to assist in arranging details for
the new fall and winter time card
which we hear it intimated will be
somewhat faster than the present
schedule
Engineer and Mrs Ernest McConnell
and daughter arrived in the city last
Saturday morning on No 2 from Den
ver and spent the time up to Wednes
day of this week as guests of his sister
Mrs Albert McMillen Ernest was an
old time engineer on the Burlington
but is now and has been for years a
resident of Eastern Canada and an em
ploye of one of the great roads of the
Dominion
Dangerous
Giles Hows your son gettin on up
in Lunnon Garge Very well He
tells me hes got a job partly behind
the counter and partly out o doors
Giles And what appens when the
door slams London Telegraph
Makes Cowards of Us All
There Is nothing from which even
the bravest man shrinks so pitifully
as the lancet of the surgeon even
when It is wielded by the most skillful
of his craft London Sketch
He Knew
Teacher Now Johnny what w13
Washingtons farewell address John
ny Heaven New York Sun
Conscience and wealth are not al
ways neighbors Messenger
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Ask your dealer for a
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the longest vearing blank
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trade mark
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Buy a 5A Square for ths Street
We Sell Them
McCOOK HARDWARE CO
THE FIGHT FOR FAME
Mans Heroic Effort to Clutch the
Priceless Jewel
Ells way was In a bloody lane where
clanking caissons splashed along his
goal the line where blazing guns laugh
ed out their song of death On on on
he went Ills ears were filled with
sounds of quick commands bugle
blasts discordant drums No flutter
ing fear was in his heart no thought
of home no specter of the dread de
spair that waited at the hearth if he
never came again To him there was
no terror In the sabers flashing blade
no warning In the bullets deadly hiss
Youth trod all reason underfoot am
bition saw all glory overhead On on
he went to woo and win his bride the
priceless jewel fame
Another In a garret sighed for fame
Crusts were his portion and his rai
ment only rags Ilerinit Hke he tolled
alone nor cold nor hunger ever daunt
ed him lie marshaled all his hosts
and visions came and went On on
he tolled In the snowflakes that drift
ed in and touched his hands he read a
message from the world without ail
white all cheerless Still as a chrysa
lis his fancy wove and spun and made
Its garments wondrous then burst in
splendor on a waiting world
Uoth fought the fight each in his
way one for a heroic shape of bronze
one for a speechless marble face each
for the epitaph that all the ages In the
dust of time might know he did and
died Wade Mountfortt in Era Mag
azine
YOUR UMBRELLA
A Simple and Effective Mcthcd of
Marking It
Name plates on the handle seldom
assist in the recover- of even bor
rowed to say nothing of lost umbrel
las But there is a way by which you
may so mark your umbrellas that the
finders and borrowers thereof will be
reminded of your name and address
every time they stealthily sally forth
with your umbrella over their heads
Make a paste of cornstarch with wa
ter brush over the inner surface of
the umbrella where you wish to have
your initials or your name in full
either with or without your street ad
dress When this paste is dry paint
your name on the cornstarch using
pure white lead Let the paint dry
thoroughly rub a stiffish brush over
the whitened surface until the corn
starch is removed
You will thereupon find the white
letters of your name standiug forth
Immaculately against the- black back
ground of your umbrella cover The
cornstarch paste is applied to keep the
oils of the paint from penetrating the
umbrella cover and showing on the
outer side As it is no unsightly
grease spots come through Your name
is fixed and if painted near the tip it
will be unobtrusive to you though a
constant reminder to the borrower or
finder Scientific American
An Error In Geography
On one occasion the British lost a
point in their war with Russia by rea
son of an error in their geography
This was when Commodore Elliot had
succeeded in blockading the Russian
fleet in the gulf of Saghalin on the
east coast of Siberia The Russians
were in a and the British
ships waited contentedly for such time
as the enemy should venture to put to
sea But they waited in vain and at
last an investigation was made It
was found that the Russian fleet had
vanished While the British commo
dore waited at the south end of the
gulf the Russian ships slipped away
through the shallows at the north end
into the sea of Okhotsk Until this
discovery was made the British gov
ernment had believed Saghalin to be
a peninsula Now too late they
learned that it was an island with a
very narrow channel at the north end
of the gulf running into the sea of
Okhotsk New York Tribune
Hay on Church Floor
A curious custom is annually observ
ed at Old Nestoa church on St Swith
ins day The church is dedicated to
St Swithin and on festival day the
church is strewn with hay Many
years ago some donor left a field to
provide money for bread which is dis
tributed four times a year The tenant
of the field Las to supply the hay to
strew the church The custom is sup
posed to have orginated from the fact
that on festival Sunday the parishion
ers wear new boots and the idea of the
donor was to have the hay laid down
to stop the squeaking incidental to new
footwear Loudon Standard
Ancient
You never give credit for the jokes
you print
Well responded the editor of the
Punkville ralladimn I dont know
whom to give credit to Noah failed
to carry those records into the ark
Louisville Courier Journal
He Apologized
Henry aged three was left alone
with his three-months-old brother His
mother hearing the baby cry return
ed to find out what had happened
Oh said Henry I choked him a lit
tle but I asked him to scuse me
Delineator
Wholesale Wealth
He is not rich as wealth is meas
ured today
Measured eh murmured an elder
ly philosopher I guess thats a mod
ern term They used to count the
money in the old days Philadelphia
Bulletin
The Bachelors Button
What Is a bachelors button
One that aint there Cleveland
Leader
EDISON AND AIRSHIPS
The Wizard of Electricity Has Ideas
on the Conquest of the Air
Thomas A Edison who thinks that
within five years people will be cross
ing the ocean In airships at the rate of
200 miles an hour Is not given to mak
ing prophecies based only on the work
ings of his imagination He has ac
complished so many wonders that the
public has become accustomed not to
get surprised at anything he says or
undertakes Mr Edison has not been
generally associated with the science
of the navigation of the air But he
is at home In many fields besides that
of electricity Not long ago he deter
mined to gire up close application to
laboratory work to steer clear of com
mercialism and devote himself to pure
science to researches like those of
Lord Kelvin Ilelmholz and Faraday
Ho has about S2r000000 now and
thinks that will be about as much as
he can use so he is going to give him
self liberty to work play or stud as
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THOMAS A EDISON AND TnE HELICOPTER
he feels inclined He will devote much
time to chemistry which it is said he
loves even better than electricity and
just at present he is giviug much study
to the subject of air navigation How
ever he does not place much confi
dence in dirigible balloons or in aero
planes of the type used by the Wrights
The kind of machine which he thinks
will eventually conquer the air is one
based on the principle of the helicopter
Invented by Wilbur R Kimball
Mr Edison says that the weak point
of the Wright aeroplane is the fact
that the operation of the machine lies
wholly in the mind of the inventor and
every move must be in perfect har
mony with the working of the planes
a mistake meaning destruction to it
and perhaps to its operator The in
ventor of the helicopter claims that it
will retain its equilibrium automatic
ally Mr Edison predicts that with
such a machine the Atlantic can be
crossed iu eighteen hours and the
globe encircled in a week
FOR POLITICAL EQUALITY
Mrs Clarence H Mackay Who Now
Champions Woman Suffrage
Mrs Clarence H Mackay who has
recently come out as a champion of
woman suffrage is not at all the type
of woman who is chiefly associated
in the popular mind with this cause
Instead of being of masculine appear
ance with angular features harsh
voice and generally strong minded
aspect she is fascinating and versed
in all the social graces and possessed
of many charms of person She is one
of societys queens has millions of dol
lars at her disposal presides over a
country estate at Roslyn on Long Is
land which is celebrated for its beau
ty is a fond wife and happy mother
Woman suffrage advocates have of
ten been ridiculed and th y have been
painted sometimes as lacking in the
domestic virtues aud in personal at
tractiveness However it may have
S9 4p til I
ilKS CLARENCE H MACKAY AND HER
DAUGHTER
1 been in the past the advocates of polit
ical equality today number in their
ranks many women of beauty and
fashion Mrs Mackay is perhaps the
most prominent of these She occu
pies a position in this country some
what like that of the Countess of War
wick in England so far as the suffrage
movement is concerned Her first en
try into politics was in connection with
the election to the school board of
Roslyn when she won a place in the
board in a contest that attracted much
attention at the time A photographer
recently got a good snapshot of Mrs
Mackay and her little daughter while
she was driving with her husband
A SCIENTIFIC RUBE
Knew More Than th Expert Wb n It
Came to Loca Conditions
We were sitting around the stove
In the bar of the little hotel iu a
Maine town writes an electrical sales
man in the Electrical Review when
the electric lights flickered and went
out
From the darkness came a solemu
voice that said
Electric lights all out bgosh aud
yet It aint blowln hard either Some
thing happened to the dynamo may
be
I had been selling electrical sup
plies to the little lighting companies
for several months but I had never
heard this particular idea expressed
before -
I laughed long and loud and was
all the more amused when no one
joined me
After they had lighted a big kero
sene lamp I proceeded to explain to
the crowd that incandescent lamps
cant be blown out by the wind When
I had finished the old Rube who had
commented on the light said
Look here young man if you
knew a little somethin about local con
ditions and about your own business
youd know that the wires in this
township are hung up slack on the
poles In some places and that they
get to slatting in a good stiff breeze
When they do theres a short circuit
that puts the line out of business
BALLOONING
It Is a Safe and Simple Sport but Not
a Cheap One
The only peril in a balloon ascension
in such good weather as careful aero
nauts choose for a voyage is in alight
ing and in a well ordered expedition
where all the passengers keep cool and
cling to the car there is no danger at
all
Even if the wind is blowing hard
the strong elastic woven willow bas
ket lakes up the danger part of the
shock One of these baskets ought to
yield up its passengers unhurt from a
landing in a wind blowing fifty miles
an hour
Ballooning under moderately favor
able circumstances is a safe and sim
ple sport It is not comparatively
speaking a cheap amusement An as
cent including the cost of gas expense
of a pilot and transportation of passen
gers and balloon home costs in this
country from 33 to 73 a passenger
It is less in France From Paris you
can make an ascension for about a
hundred francs
The fare home is a very variable ex
pense Nothing is more uncertain than
the spot where you will laud Of
course it Is easy to descend whenever
you like You may limit your flight to
a couple of hours Albert White Vorse
in Success Magazine
A Sea Story
Of all my sea experiences said
the captain this was the strangest
The ladies at the handsome captains
table said nush to one another and
turned to the ruddy mariner with lis
tening smiles
We were carrying he said a lot
of troop horses A dreadful storm
overtook us and for two days we wal
lowed in the trough of a heavy sea
Finally it was decided that to lighten
the ship the horses must go overboard
They went overboard in the morn
ing As soon as they saw that they
were abandoned they turned and be
gan to swim bravely after us Brave
ly desperately they swam They fol
lowed us for miles and miles I can
still see them a long line their necks
arched pushing heroically through the
heavy sea
They sank poor brutes one by
one
The captain smiled sadly
And I still seem to have he said
all those deaths on my conscience
New Orleans Times Democrat
The Allegheny Mountains
Not more than five of our presidents
down to Lincolns time ever crossed
the Allegheny mountains and four of
those were western men who had to
cross the mountains to reach Washing
tonPresidents Jackson Polk Gen
eral W II Harrison and Taylor Pres
ident Monroe crossed the mountains on
his icturn trip from west to east in
1817 Van Bur n came west in 1S42
two years after the expiration of his
presidential term and saw the moun
tains then for the frrt time It was
on this trip that he trot upet and
dimmed in the md near Plainfield
Hendricks county ExHiansio
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call it Alniacks The present Al
macks club is a more fashionable or
ganization which chose to adopt the
old name
Literal Thirst For Work
The lawyer who made a bluff at a
big practice turned hastily to part
from his companions
I am sorry but I must go he said
hurriedly I have a case at home
which I must absorb to the last de
tail
I guess said one of the party its
a case of beer Baltimore American
Nowhere with more quiet or with
core freedom does a man retire than
Into his own soul Marcus Aurellus
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We respectfully i9Vite you to do so
We 90W fyve full Ii9e Ladies cots 5
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I Fine Business
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Close in Farm
Good Residences
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McCook Roller Mills 90 barrels good running order good patronage
excellent location
Eighty acres fine farming land J3o acres in alfalfa Splendid build-
ings new modern house seven rooms and bath completed three rooms
unfinished hot and cold water furnace heat two miles from this city
My residence corner of D and oth street E 100 feet front and house
and lot corner A and 4tn street E about CO feet front both 140 feet deep
I wish to sell any or all of this property at once on account of sick-
ness in my family
E H Doan Prop J
No 310 5th Street E McCook Nebraska
White House Grocery
Fone 30
CABBAGE IN
QUANTITIES
This will doubtless
be your last oppor
tunity to secure cab
bage in quantities
this fall -- --
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