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t lis k P m fc tj w el r i nm CITY LODGE DIRECTORY A K A A M McCook Lodgo N M5 A F A M meets ovory first unci third Tuowluy of tho month nt 800 p in In Masonic hall ClIAULUH L FAHNE8TOCn M LON CoNR Sec K H M Occcnoioo Council No 10 R S M meets on the InBt Siitunluy of ouch mouth at 800 p in n MhbouIc hnll Ralph A IlAOBEita T I M 8TLVK8TKR COUDEAb See B A M Klug CyrnB Chnpter No 35 R A M moots overy first and third Thursday of each month a t 8 -00 p m in Masonic hull Johtik A Wilcox II P Clinton B Sawyeu Sec KNIOnTSTKMrLAK 8U Jolm Conimnndery No 1C K T moots on the second Thurbduy of onch moutli ut 800 p m In Masonic hull EiiniwoN Hanson L C SamoklS Gabvut Kec kahtkun htau Eureka Chapter No 80 O E S meets the socond and fourth Fridnjs of oach month at 800 pm in Maionic hall MBS SAKAII E Kay W M F M Kimuell Sec MODEItN WOODMEN Noblo Camp No CCS M W A meots every second anil fourtli Thursday or oach mouth at 830 p in in Ganschows hall Pay assossmouts at White Houso Cirocory J M SMini Clork S E Howell V C BOYAL NEIUUUOBS Noblo Cnmp No 662 R N A meets ovory second and fourth Thursduy of each month at 230 p in in Ganschows hall Mrs Mart Walker Oracle Meb Augusta Anton Roc w o w Moots second and fourth Thursdays at 8 oclock in Diamonds hall Ciias F Mabkwad C C W C Moyeb Clerk WORKMEN McCook Lodgo No 61 AOUW meots ovory Monday at 800 p m in Diamonds hall C H Gray Rec Wm Wootox M W I M Smith Financier DEGREE OF IIOKOB McCook LodRO No 3 D of H meets evory becoud and forth Fridays of oach mouth at 800 pm in Ganschows hull Mrs Laura OsBunN C o H Mrs MatieG Welles Rec LOCOMOXIVE ENGINEERS McCook Division No 023 11 of L E meets overy second and fourtli Saturday of oach month at 230 in Morris hall Walter Stokes C E W D Burnett F A E LOCOMOTIVE FIREMEN AND ENGINEMEN McCook Lodpo No 509 B of L F E moots overy Saturday at 7 30 p m in Gans chows hall I D Pennington M C H Husted Sec railway conductors Harvey Division No 95 O R C moots the second and fourth Wednosday nights of each month at t00 p m in Morris hall at 301 Main Avenue A G King C Con M O McCluee Sec RAILWAY TRAINMEN C W Bronson Lodge No 4S7 B of R T moots first and third Sundays at 230 p m and 6econd and fourth Fridajs at 730 p m each month in Morris hall Neal Heeler M R J Moore Sec bailway carmen Young America Lodge No 45G B R C of A meets on the first and third Thursdays of each month in Diamonds hall at 7 30 p m Joun Hunt C C N V Franklin Rec Sec machinists Red Willow Lodge No 5S7 I A of M meets every second and fourth Tuesday of the month at 800 p m in Gauschow hall Feed Landberg Pre3 M L Search Fin Sec Floyd Berry Sec BOILERMAKERS McCook Lodge No 407 B of B M I S B of A meets first and third Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows halh KNIGnTS OF PYTniAS McCook Lodge No 42 K of P meets every Wednesday at 800 p m in Masonic hall M Lawritson C C J N Gaabde K R S ODD FELLOWS McCook Lodge No 137 1 0 0 F meets every Monday at 800 p m in Ganschows hall W H Ackeeman N G W A Middleton Sec EAGLES McCook Aerie No 1514 F O E meets the second and fourth Fridays of oach month at 600 pm in Diamonds hall Social meetings on the first and third Fridays R S Light W Pros G C Heckman W Sec KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS McCook Council No 1126 K of C meets the first and third Tuesdays of each month atS00 p m in Diamonds hall G R Gale F Sec Frank Real G K DAUGHTEES OF ISABELLA Court Granada No 77 meets on the first and and third Tuesdays of each month atS p m in the Morris hall ANNA Hannan G R JosErniNE Mullen F S LADY MACCABEES Valley Queen Hive No 2 L O T M meets every first and third Thursday evenings of eacli month in Morris hall Mrs W B Mills Commandoi Harriet E Willetts R K g a b J K Barnes Post No 207 G A R meets on the first Saturday of each month at 230 p m Ganschows hall J M Henderson Cmndr J H Yaegee Adjt BELIEF CORrS McCook Corps No 93 W R C meets every second and fourth Saturday of each month at 2 30 p hi in Ganschow hall Adella McClain Pres Scsie Yanderhoof Sec L OF G A E McCook Circle No 33 L of G A R meets on the first and third Fridays of each month at 230 p m in Diamonds hall Jessie Waite Pres Mattie Kniitle Sec p e o Chapter X P E O meets the second and fourth Saturdays of each montn at 230 p in at the homes of the various members Mrs G H Thomas Pres Mes C H Meeker Cor Sec Slate Will Test Your Herd The agricultural college of the Ne braska University has recently secured some assistance from the Federal gov ernment and id now in position to afford help in the great campaign now on against tuberculosis in animal kind The National Bureau of Animal Indust ry has stationed two veterinarians with the Department of Animal Pathology at Lincoln to co operate with the agri cultural college therefore nny dairyman or farmer wishing to have his -dairy or breeding stock tested should send his name and address to the Department of Animal Pathology Nebraska Agricul tural Experiment Station Lincoln Nebraska and state how many head he wants tested Typewriter ribbons for sale at The Tribune office g jau i aw1S8i L eniNA fleet w Wi i lnE visit of the American battle 9 ship lleo to Chinese waters JB may be si id to be paid at pre cisely the right psychological moment It is at the time that China is looking to the United States for guidance In respect to the great prob lems of evolution along political and social lines with which she is confront ed It is at just the moment that her attention is centered on the constitu tional changes proposed by her leaders and China like the rest of the world naturally looks to America when seek ing an example of the highest develop ment of constitutional government and its application to the needs of a great nation The boycott of American goods failed to disturb materially the good relations between China and the Unit ed States and since that episode many things have happened to strengthen the feelings of friendship between the American and Chinese nations Among other things is the feeling that has grown up in China that America is in some way or other to become a buffer between the empire ruled by Kuang Hsu and that ruled by Emperor Alut suhito of the realm of flowers The Chinese whether rightly or wrongly believe that America is in a position to protect them against Japanese aggres sions and to prevent Japan from ex tending her sphere of influence to the point of making China a mere Jap anese province The mikados subjects have a systematic propaganda under way for the purpose of spreading Japa nese ideas and influence among the Chinese They have gone so far as to establish newspapers in the interior of China with such objects in view and the Chinese journalist now visiting this country Li Sum Ling has declared that steps would be taken to check such a propaganda and that it had caused much offense among his countrymen All this tends to further American influence in China rather than Japa nese At the same time the Chinese progressive leaders who now control the government at Pekiu and have re cently drawn up a constitution have gone to Japan for a great many of their ideas and the constitution pro mulgated is modeled more on that of Japan than on that of the United States or those of the constitutional monarchies of Europe The form of political principles under which it is proposed to lead China from her past status as a despotic govern ment to that of an empire adminis tered through the aid of a parliament was promulgated in Pekin on Aug 27 and it is quite a different document from what would be expected under similar circumstances in a European or Amerit an country Under it China will still have an absolute monarch but he will be aided by duly elected representatives of the people in admin istering the empire The form of gov ernment will more nearly resemble that of Japan or that of Russia since the institution of the douma than that of England Germany Italy or the Unit ed States The phraseology of the document is oriental and in places even poetic many figures and similes being used to convey to the untutored minds of the common people the meaning and intentions of the reformers For in stance in speaking of the preparation to be made for the opening of a parlia ment it says It is like building a house Workmen and material must be gathered The house may then be planned and worked out The work must be watched day and night with- - W Jf f TT - JUM4K JK X W THE UOWAGEG EMTEESS TSI AH out intermission from the beginning to the end and so it may reach comple tion Or it is like making a journey Clothing food boats and carts must be cot ready and the traveler must i press on uay alter aay wituout stop ping for rest and so he will reach his destination The framers of the constitution are apprehensive and beg as the condi tion of the country is perilous and the hearts of the people are uneasy trou ble within and calamity from without danger threatening and no parliament at hand to investigate matters that ur gent measures may be taken to over come half heartedness and procrastina tion that there may be peace above and completion below No idea of a republic even at a re wnta date is hinted at for it is provid ed that the Ta Chlng emperor will rule supreme over the Ta Chiug em pire for 1000 generations in succession and be honored forever However by 1917 when the new constitution will be in full operation officers and peo ple who keep within the law will have freedom of speech of the press and of assembly they shall not be liable to arrest or to suffer punishments ex cept as prescribed by law they shall not be disturbed without cause in their possession of property or interfered with in their dwellings During the nine jear Interval local self government will be established provincial assemblies will be chosen and established census reports made and tax rates fixed and various mat ters pertaining to local provincial oi Imperial administration will be attend ed to and when the parliamentary system is in full operation a prembi will be appointed by the sovereign A striking clause in the document pro mulgated in August is the following We look to our empress dowagei and emperor to see that they take thf measure of heaven and earth as thcii measure and the heart of the people as their heart The officials and peo ple within the wide seas are reverentlj grateful It will be observed that the empress dowager is referred to first She oi course Is the real ruler of the realm and it is because she has been fore sighted enough to see the wisdom of making concessions to the demands ol the reformers that the changes out lined are to be introduced The dow ager empress is a strange character and much discussion has prevailed as mbms mmmMmvmm 7 A - 7yAAZ fd v rjrjzszj7rrVfrs sjlj i mm iiiiiiiiiiiiwiiiiii miibhmiimiiiii mm iimmnif mmm mum i THE AMERICAN CONSULATE AT HONGKONG to how much credit should be given her for the progress China has made ir the direction of better government un der her sway but there is abundant testimony that in many respects she has been a friend of reform The American consulate at Hong kong the scene of ceremonies in con nection with the visit of the fleet to Chinese waters is an unimposing house in the lower part of the city The consul general usually makes his home in a district upon the hillsides overlooking the commercial district With the departure of the fleet frorr China and its beginning of the home ward voyage new honors fall to Cap tain William P Potter who has com manded the battleship Vermont durinc the cruise from the start at Hamptor Roads in December last He will as surae command of the second division of the fleet and will then rank as a rear admiral His portrait appears ai the top of the column that at the lefi being of Admiral Sperry The Chinese have taken many pre cautious against any unpleasant inci dent marring the visit of the Ameri can fleet to their waters and have been studious to extend every courtesy tc their visitors The government sen Admiral Sah of the Chinese navy and Mr Sun the provincial treasurer tc Arnoy to act as a reception committee at that port to which they proceeded on the crniser Fei eng There are of course factions and revolutionaries opposed to the present governmental authorities in the cm- pire and the Arnoy officials were in- structed by the Pekin government tc take the created care to prevent any disturbers from coming in contact with the Americans These and othei incidents indicate a great desire on the part of the imperial government thai the friendly relations between the twe nations shall not in any way be broken Mrs Charles E Hughes Mrs Hughes wife of Governoi Charles E Hughes of tho state of New te not quite big enough to be s yet she cannot be called pe ie is well proportioned moves with gentleness and dignity her fea tures almost classical in repose A kindly light beams from great brown eyes which gleam from a face suggest ing ivory and she grows vivacious and enthusiastic when a favorite topic be comes a subject of conversation A mass of brown hair is in perfect har mony with her face and figure She is a woman whose culture en ables her to be of much aid to her dis tinguished husband SERVICE IN THE CABINET The Custom of Our Presidents In the Republics Early Days If President John Adams had been a man of dlffereut temperament the cus tom might have been established lu the early years of the government of the United States of retaining the cab inet of one administration for service with its successor whero that succes sor succeeded to the political ideas of Its predecessor President Adams sought at first to retain through his administration the members of the cabinet of President Washington In deed at that early period the status of a cabinet officer was not exactly that of the present time and in the course of President Adams rows with the members of his official household he resorted to the strange step of re moving his secretary of state Timo thy Pickering and James McHenry his secretary of war President Jefferson of course took a new cabinet President Madison con tinued in his administration a number of the cabinet officers of President Jefferson and President Monroe held some of his predecessors John Quincy Adams also continued to meet about his council board some of the advisers of James Monroe but Andrew Jackson began his administration with an en tirely new set of official counselors He maintained also another set of ad visers unofficial who became known as the kitchen cabinet For some time the gentlemen who had acted respectively as secretary of the treasury secretary of war secre tary of the navy postmaster general and attorney general In the cabinet of President Jackson retained their seats under President Van Buren but changes only awaited the passage of time President William Henry Harrisons cabinet was brand new and John Ty ler sought to keep it together after Harrisons death but in less than six months all had resigned except Dan iel Webster the secretary of stato Presidents Polk Taylor Fillmore Pierce Buchanan and Lincoln each formed a new cabinet President Johnsons difficulties with certain members of the cabinet that existed at the death of President Lin coln are well known Since that pe riod when for the second time In Amer ican history the question of a cabinet officers right to retain a seat which the president wishes to have vacated came up for angry controversy cabi nets by mutua1 but tacit understand ing end with the administrations Boston Globe COMEDY IN CRIME Tho London Urchin With the Bun Down His Back It has been a matter so customary to look upon crime as tragedy and crimi nals as tragedians that to aver that comedy is more frequently to be found in crime than tragedy seems at first view paradoxical Yet such is the case A little London urchin ran into a bakers shop and placing a halfpenny on the counter asked nervously and timorously Mister ave you a alf penny buster bun Yes my little man Here is one quite hot Thanks mister Would you mind a shovin it down my back Down your back my little man Why down your back Cos sir Im only a little un and if those chaps outside know Ive a buster theyll take it and I am so un gry I am Dear me how wrong of them Come round here my little chap There there it is down your back The boy ran off In an Instant an other entered a bigger boy I say mister as a little boy just been in ere Yes And did e buy a alfpefiny buster Yes And did e arsk you to shove it down is back as us big fellows would take it Yes Yah Wheres your watch and chain Es got em Es just round j the corner Out rushed the baker In a trice the big boy collared the till and bolted The shopman never saw the comic side of it all London Strand Maga zine A Drink of Water A glass of cold water slowly sipped will produce a greater acceleration of the pulse for a time than will a glass of wine or spirits taken at a draft In this connection it may not be out of place to mention that sipping cold wa ter will often allay the craving for al cohol in those who have been in the habit of taking too much of it and may be endeavoring to reform the effort being probably due to the stimu lant action of the sipping An Impertinent Question A young man hurriedly entered a restaurant and rat down at the tabic nearest the kitchen With shuffling feet the waitress advanced nave you frog legs the young man anxiously inquired Xo indeed Rheumatism makes me walk like this the waitress indignant ly replied Judges Library Evasive The Professor And how did Phocion shamefully evade his duty The Fresh man who doesnt know I have been taught sir never to speak ill of the dead Cleveland Plain Dealer Goodness Nose When the clerk informed the cus tomer that the handkerchiefs were 7o0 each the latter remarked No sirree Thats too much mones to blow in Judges Library BRASS HORNS The Way the Thin Searrless Tubes Are Bent Without Injury Saxhorns so called after a famous Belgian family named Sax who In vented aud Introduced these Instru ments about the middle of the last cen tury are the mainstay of all modern brass bands They are manufactured in many different sizes from high so prano to the huge contrabass or bom bardon aud the most Important of the lot is the euphonium which supplanted the now obsolete serpents and ophl cleides The tallest saxhorn ever made stands eight feet high and contains more than forty feet of tubing The advantage of seamless or solid drawn tubes for such instruments as trombones and horns is considerable since no matter how good the join may be sooner or later the nctlou of the breath will wear away the solder To bend these thin brass tubes with out splitting or denting the metal was at one time very difficult but thanks to a most ingenious artifice the opera tion Is now both safe and simple The tube is first washed out with a chem ical substance such as is used by plumbers to prevent solder from ad hering where it Is not wauted and it is then completely filled with molten lead poured in from a ladle Thus sup ported from within the brass Is easily and safely bent to the required shape the lead being nfterward removed by heat Pearsons A CURIOUS WORD Twists That May Be Given to Ba In the Chinese Language In the Chinese language the same word may be given several different meanings by the modulation of the voice The same thing may happen to the English Yes which may be pro- i nounced so as to mean I assent to that or I am doubtful or Indeed An eminent authority on philology gives an amusing illustration of these modulations in the Annamitic lan guage a monosyllabic tongue spoken by the people of Tonquin and Cochin China In this language the syllable ba pronounced with a grave accent means a lady an ancestor Pronounced with the sharp accent it means the favorite of a prince Pronounced with the semi grave accent it means what has been thrown away Pronounced with the grave circumflex it means what has been left of a fruit after the juice has been squeezed out Pronounced with no accent it means three Pronounced with the ascending or interrogation ac cent it means a box on the ears Thus the word ba in the order giv en above is said to mean if properly pronounced Three ladies gave a box on the ear to the favorite of the prince Chicago Record Herald Two Previous A Richmond woman has in her em ploy a little darky Miff Cole One day Miff became confidential and told his mistress he was goin to the cimitery next Sunday But Miff thats a long walk You know it is more than five miles Oh missus I aint goin to walk Is goin to ride How is that Miff Is goin in a kerridge t my uncles funeral All day Saturday Miff could talk of nothing but the approaching affair Sunday his mistress excused him and she expected that on Monday she would be regaled with a full account of the funeral But Miff turned up with a most melancholy face In an swer to her inquiry he said I didnt go missus He aint dead yit New York Herald Decay of Building Stones The causes of decay in building stones are various and depend ou the physical structure of the stone its composition and the nature of the sur rounding atmosphere The most de structive agent to which the stone is exposed is rain or a moist atmosphere and also in a minor degree wind frost and smoke The air of large towns is usually charged with various deleteri ous acids These acids are dissolved by the rain which penetrates the stone in a greater or leas degree according to its physical structure and combines with the constituents of the stone causing it to decay so that any con trivance that will check the admis sion of water will be most likely to succeed in arresting decay Building World Cab Hire The price that one pays for a taxi today is just a little different from what was paid for say the hire of a sedan chair in days of old In the do mestic accounts of Mistress Nell Gwyn we read For chairing you to Mrs Knights and to Mrs CasselPs and to Mrs Churchills and to Mrs Knights 1 shillings For chairing you yesterday and waiting eleven hours 11 shillings 0 pence Paid ICth Oct 1G73 London Chronicle A Golfers Tools One of the most striking features of modern golf is the variety of clubs used to persuade the ball iuto the hole At a matter of curiosity I kept count or the different putters used by my partners aud opponents in the course of a fortnight play The total Dum ber of species observed Is over twenty London Post Diplomacy Do you expect people ta believe ev erything you tell them asked the constituent Certainly answered Senator Sor ghum so long as I am careful not to tell them everything I believe Wash ington Star DANBURY Wm Akora of Watsonvillo Call ar rived last weok for a short visit with hi9 daughter Mrs S G Bastinn Mr Holt of Lebanon was a buainosa visitor Monday Guy Smith had tho misfortuno to loso n 9tack of eano hay by fire last Tues day Thoy aro putting in threo now steel bridges in this part of tho county tho past week Cards nro out announcing tho mar riage of Samuel A Minnienr to Miss Edith Mc Williams of Indianola Thurs day Nov 20 Bob MuWilliams of Indianolii has been working for W A Miuniuar the past week Miss Ethel Russell is tho new hollo girl Tho Ladies Aid socioty will havo n dinner in tho town hall Thanksgiving day Tho entertainment at tho hall Friday night wns well attended Tho program was a success and woll rendered throughout M Doud and family who havo been visiting with friends at Geneva for tho past two weeks roturned homo Friday Gotchril Springor aro hauling clovor seed in this community the past week Rea Oman and family visited at tho AI M Young home Saturday night Clarence Young who has been stick ing typo in tho Nowa ofiico for tho pa8t two weeks started to school Monday Air Colson of Ale Cook was a business visitor Alonday Sheriff Peterson of McCook was in town on business Alonday Airs Lucy Nowraan of Bussoy Iowa who has been visiting with her son yo editor returned to her home Alonday night Airs Alason of Sterling III who has been visiting with her brother Robert Greene for tho past month returned home Friday Geo Thomas wos a Lebanon visitor Saturday Alay Alinniear was a Marion social vis itor Saturday afternoon Elva Dresher of Cedar Bluffs visited in town Friday S A Austin of Wilsonvillo was in town on business tho latter part of last week Dr Campbell of Lebanon made a professional business call Alonday Typewriter ribbons papers etc for sale at The Tribune ofiico NOTICE TO CREDITORS Tho State of Nebraska Red Willow county s In the County Court In the Matter of the Estate of Is abelle Saund ers Deceased To the Creditors of said H tate ou aro heereby notified that 1 will sit in the County Court Room in McCook in s aid County on the th day or May 1OTJ at 100O oclock A M tojecehe and examine all claim against said Estate with a view to their adjustment and allowance The time limited for the pres entation of claims against said Estate is Six Months from the 28th day of Noteinbur A 1 VMS and the time limited for pawneiit of debts i One Year from said 2ith day of November 1008 Witne my hand and the seal of said County Court this 21th day of November 1XH IsKU J C Moork County Judge Boylo vfc Eldred attorneys NOTICE OK HEARING OV WILL The Stateof Nebraska Red Willow To all jh Tsous interested in the estate of Joseph Dudek deceased Whereas- Frank Iudek and Joseph Dudek hnve filed in my ofiice an instru ment purporting to bo tho last will and testa ment of Joseph Dudek late of Red Willow county Nebraska deceased and the said Frank Dudek and Joseph Dudek hate Hied their peti tion therein prahu to have tin same admitted to probate and for the issuing of letters testa mentary which will relates to both real and personal estate I hao therefore appointed the fifth day of December lMb at nine oclock in the forenoon at the county court room in said county as the time and place for hearing said will at which time and place ou and all concerned may ap pear and contest the allowing of the ion are further notified that on Monday thu thirtieth day of Noember 100 said propon ents will take the deisitions of H J Mc Cracken Abraham Houarth Jr and Frank liurnett sundrj witnesses to be iisi d as evi dence on said hearing at the otlico of A J Mitchell in the city of Littleton county of Arapahoe and state of Colorado between the hours of nine a m and six p hi of said day and the taking of said deposition will be ad journed from day to day between the same hours until they arc completed It is further ordered that said petitioners give notice to all interested in said estate of the jiendency of said petition and the time and place set for the hearing of the same Iiv caus ing a copy of this order to be jHiblished in the McCook Tribune a newspaper printed and pub lished in said county of Red illow for three weeks successively previous to the day iet for the hearing In witne s whereof T have hereunto et my hand and otlicial seal this litli day of Novem ber 1M J C Moore seal County Judge Morlan Ritchie Wolff Attorneys for 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