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McCook Neb
MAIN LIMB HAHT DEFAT
No o Central Time 4027 P m
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600 a M
715 a u
942 F K
400 A M
MAIN LINE WEST DEPAST
No 1 Mountain TImo 950 a m
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Arrives
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1217 A K
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No 170 arrives Mountain Timo 505 v m
No 175doparU 710 A M
Sleoplriff dining and reclining chair cars
soata froo on through trainR Tickots sold
and irnggngo chocked to any point in tlio United
Statos or Canada
For information Hmo tables mnps and tick
et call on or write D F Hon tot tor Agont
McCook Nebraska or L W Wnkoloy General
Paesuneer Agout Omaha Nobraska
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
Engino 10G5 b recoiving repairs over
drop pit No 2
Engino 318 has boon run into tho
bauk shop for a general overhauling
Engino No 2829 is over drop pit No 1
for usual repairs and some netw flues
L V McMullen has quit the air
department and gone to EdgemontSD
Mr and Mrs Ira Converse are spend
ing tho iiolidajs with his folks at Hond
ley
Earl Spencer is in charge of tho boil
ormakers during J O McArthurs ab
sence
O W Bronson lodge 487 will instnl
oilicers Sunday afternoon and have an
initiation
The freight house will bo closed
Christmas dny only perishable freight
being delivered
Brakeman C E Materson of Curtis
has been promoted to conductor and
will run out of Curtis
The electric company is planting its
poles from the plant to the city through
the companys yard this week
J D Young will leave today or t
morrow for Chicago and points east to
bo absent some time looking over the
situation
Mrs Alfred Harris and little son El
more departed Tuesday night on li for
Trenton Mo to visit her parents Mr
and Mrs C F Elliott
Engineer and Mrs Will Dungan and
two children went down to Hastings on
2 yesterday morning to visit over
Christmas with relatives
Mr and Mrs J G Schobel and Mar
jorie went down to Minden this morn-
ing to spend the day with her parents
Postmaster and Mrs L M Copeland
Engine No 350 recently out of the
backshop after an overhauling had a
try out in the yard Monday and re
ceived her final adjustments before go
ing into service
WM Gardner and family are awa on
vacation during the holidays and Nr V
Franklin is clerk in Emersons office
meanwhile I N Biggs has Franklins
place in the air gang
Gary Dole the new machineshop fore
man came down from Denver Monday
evening on 16 and assumed his new po
sition and duties Tuesday morning
His mother arrived on 14 same evening
and they have gone to housekeeping in
the south Woods cottage 2nd street
east
The bunk house near the master me
chanics office building caught fire
shortly after supper Tuesday evening
and tho interior of the car was prettj
badly charred up while the contents of
tho car were practically destroyed by
fire and water Tho car has been oc
cupied by the buildings and bridges
gang now employed on the depot im
provements and their personal effects
went up in the general destruction of
the interior of the car The company
fire department handled the fire effect
ively and promptly
True Spirit of Christmas
Tho boys at headquarters have been
exhibiting some of tho true spirit of
Christmas toward a fellow employ o in
ill health and the following cheerful
note accompanied the gift
McCook Neb Dec 19th 1908
Mr C E Sanberg
Akron Colorado
My Dear Mr Sandberg
Centuries ago Three Wise Men
saw a new star in the firmament afar in
the Eastern sky
With that as a guide they traveled to
Bethlehem of Judaja where they found
a newly born babe in a manger
There they presented their gifts and
adoration for the New Light of the
World
Thus was born the first Christina
and ever since the beautiful custom of
gift offerings to loved ones has been
practiced in all Christian countries
With the spirit of Christmas per
meatingtheir hearts your many friends
and co workers ask you to kindly accept
the inclosure as a Christmas gift with
the added hope that health strength
and prosperity may yet be yours
Let not sorrow crowd thee brother
There is Light along the way
Night is but a shadowed fancy
Rays of sunshine ope the day
Cheer thy heart with hopeful thinking
Health and strength will yet be thine
Let thy lungs be ever drinking
Freshening air from natures shrine
Patronize home industry by smoking
Commercial Club 10 cent cigar and
the Smoke 5 cent cigar
Mme Gesffrlns Husband
Mmo Geoffrin like moat Frenchwo
men had tho gift of making phrases
When Rulhlere had rend In Jier salon
a work upon Itussla which sho feared
might involve him in difficulties she
offered htu a sum of money to burn
It The author waxed wroth at the in
sinuation implied and broke out into
an eloquent assertion of his courage
and Independence She listened pa
tiently and then In a quiet tone of
voice said How much more do you
want M ItulhJerc She married at
the nge of fourteen M Geoffrin a
wealthy glass manufacturer and Heu
tenunt colonel of the national guard
His duty ns husband seems to have
been to provide the funds for her so
cial campaigns and to watch over the
details of the menage It is related of
him that some person gave him a his
tory to read and when lie -asked for
the successive volumes regularly
palmed off upon him the first as if It
were new At last he was heard to
say tJnt he thought the author re
peated himself a little Abook print
ed In double columns he read straight
across the page remarking that It
seemed to be very good but was rath
er abstract One day a visitor in
quired after the silent white haired
old gentleman who was in the habit
of sitting at the head of the table
Oh he was my husband rep0
Mme Geoffrin before he died
Argonaut
Birds That Make Incubators
In the Incubator the pale yellow
chicks their soft down not yet quite
dry in places fell in their attempts to
rise and walk like men dead drunk
Theres another said the chicken
farmer as an excited little head came
out of an egg Wonderful things
these incubators Would you believe
that theres a bird that makes them
Yes sir a bird the megapode
makes its own incubator every time it
has a nest of eggs It Isnt bothered
like other birds with the long and
monotonous work of sitting
The megapode hails from Australia
the Barrier reef country Its incuba
tor is a simple affair merely a great
mound of leaves In these leaves it
buries its eggs knowing that in that
hot moist climate the leaves will fer
ment and in their fermentation give
off just enough heat to hatch the
chicks
Who can deny intelligence to this
bird which makes its own incubatoi
to hatch out its own eggs New Or
leans Times Democrat
Belling the Cat
Who will bell the cat is a curi
ous old proverb famous in parable and
in history The mice says the para
ble held a consultation how to secure
themselves from the cat and they re
solved to hang a bell about the cats
ueck to give warning when she ap
proached but after they had resolved
on doing it they were as far off as
ever for who would do it
Both parable and proverb have im
mortalized themselves in history
When the Scottish nobles met at Stir
ling in a body they proposed to take
Spence the obnoxious favorite of
James II and hang him and so get
rid of him
Ah said Lord Grey thats very
well said but wholl bell the cat
That will I said the black Earl
Angus He undertook the task accom
plished it and was called Archibald
Bell the Cat until his dying day
Glasgow Times
A Queer Census
When I was last in India said the
globe trotter they were taking the
census The returns were most re
markable In the Allahabad census
thirty five citizens described them
selves as men who rob with threats
of violence There were 22G flatter
ers for gain There were twenty five
hereditary thieves There were twenty-nine
howlers at funerals There
were 145 ear cleaners There were
seventy six makers of crowns for
idols There were fourteen heredi
tary painters of horses with spots
There were nine professional false
witnesses
It seems remarkable doesnt it
Maybe though if we too told the
strict truth to the census taker our
own census would seem quite as quaint
as that of India
Mathematics
Now boys said a schoolmaster
a cabman who drove at the rate of
six miles an hour left London being
followed three minutes later by anoth
er driver proceeding at the rate of
seven miles an hour Where would
they meet
At the nearest public house an
swered a promising scholar London
Tit Bits
Overtime
Look here said the office boy I
think the boss ought to gimme a bit
extra this week but I guess he wont
What for asked the bookkeeper
For overtime I wuz dreamin about
me work all las night London
Truth v
All Depends
Tourist It look like pretty good
soil around here What crops do the
farmers grow in this section Na
tive That all depends stranger
Tourist Depends on what Native
On what sort of seed they puts in
Just So
I wish you would use your influ
ence to to attend our poker
party this evening
Jinx Why hes the poorest poker
player you ever saw
I know It Houston Post
Command large fields but cultivate
amall ones Virgil
She
JH ear of
the JtEohoes
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In the Grotto of Modern Miracles
N
OWHI3RE in New York city at
midnight on New Years eve Is
here a busier throng of hurry-
Ing humanity than at the junc
tion of Park row and the Bowery In
termingled with the throng are pierry
panhandlers as happy as the richest
for New Years eve Is their harvest
time
Few of the panhandlers who fre
quent the downtown districts are
plying their vocation as old Trinity
tolls out the midnight hour- in the
chimes The belated ones are hurry
ing to a dive at Chatham square there
to meet brother mendicants and joy
fully celebrate with the money beg
ged from New Year shoppers
nore one may witness nightly trans
formations more wonderful than in
the famous Court of Miracles in old
Paris which Victor nugo describes in
Notre Dame The blind see tho
dumb talk the hunchback loses all
traces pf his deformity the deaf hear
missing limbs are grown In a twin
kling and the lame discard their
crutches and dance iu glee
Of all the nights In the year the
gladdest in this dive In the Bowery I i
New Years eve Not until long nftc j
the late dawn does the drunken rev-
the shoulders to tho middle of the
back
Bill awakes with a yawn and slowly
ndjustB Ids stock in trade to Us proper
resting pftice between his shoulders
while giving his order to the waiter
As the waiter sets out the drinks the
hoboes pass around the bill The blind
examine it closely the lame dance
with it In their hands and the armless
feel of the paper with the air of one
who Is used to it The bill is passed
around the merry crowd and greeted
with enthusiasm until taken by Green
Goods Ike
Its a fake he cries a bad Imitation-
And the drinks are on Pedes
trian Patrick and Silent James for it
Is a counterfeit New York World
How Time Travels -
When- St Pauls strikes noon on
Jan 1 1909 the new year will come
into being somewhere In the Pacific
ocean on a Hue following longitude
180 oast which Is exactly opposite
Greeuwlch meridian on the other side
of the globe Geographers draw the
line to avoid passing through any of
the Pacific islands for If it diO the
times and days of the inhabitants
would be hopelessly muddled Vanua
one of the Fiji Islands for Instance
would be otherwise divided by the
line whore the days and years begin
and end so thnt while it would be
Jan 1 on the western side It would
be Dec 1 a few paces away on the
east of the line One could thus walk
Into yesterday and a moment later re
turn tomorrow
How the new year travels is curi
ously illustrated by Its passage ic xs
Great Britain It reaches Greenwich
as the time center at midnight exact
ly twelve hours after it started
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GBEAT GKAF HE CRIES
elry cease and then only when the
merrymakers have spent all of their
ill gotten gains and are unconscious
to their surroundings
The grotto of modern miracles is in
the rear of a saloon a room 40 by 23
feet Around are scattered tables and
chairs of the cheapest kind Thick
fumes of smoke from bad pipe tobac
co the cheapest cigars made and nau
seating cigarettes permeate the at
mosphere
The stranger can hardly breathe
Through the sickening atmosphere can
be detected the odor of vile beer and
still worse whisky that here is sold
for 5 cents a goblet
From behind the partition a bar
tender with half a nose and but a
small portion of his right ear -to tell
the tale of his battles dispenses liq
uor through an opening to a lirrying
waiter
At the tables sit the motley group
of hoboes panhandlers and jailbirds
Fortunate beggars who have had a
prosperous day are spelling money
freely small change for the most part
Whisky and beer flow a they have
never flowed before in the 3ear
Nearly all the mendicants have ar
rived The last two known as Pedes
trian Patrick and Silent James are
greeted with an uproar
Hanging from the neck ol Silent
James is the sign that reads
O O
DEAF AND DUMB
C O
The sign he casts aside and with a J
yell he dances and laughs and calls
upon all present to drink at his ex
pense Above his head he waves a
five dollar bill
Great graf he cries I touch
er bloke fer de long green dead easy
Pedestrian Patrick discards a pair
of well worn crutches and stands up
straight on what before appeared to bo
helpless limbs I told his nobs dat
wed pray fer im he yells
At this point Blind Phil throws down
his sign and peers intently at the five
dollar bill to make sure it is genuine
I didnt make that much all day
he says ruefully
Asleep near by with his head bowed
on the table is Bill the humpback
No one ever had a more pronounced
deformity of the spine
Bill cries Blind Phil BUI look
at de long green Pedestrian and Si
lent copped Bill And then as Bill
does not awake from the slumber of
five cent whisky the blind beggar
hits the bump and lo it gees with the 1
motion of his hand sliding down from i
enteen minutes later it gets to Glas
gow and another six minutes pass be
fore the new year has captured Pen
zance These are the true times for
these places though Greenwich time
is the one accepted But Ireland is
proud in possession of her own chro
nology and it will be 1225 at night
in London before 1909 reaches Dub
lin Loudon Chronicle
New Year Superstitions
It is considered a sure sign of death
to see ones own shadow in the moon
light on New Years eve
You court misfortune by leaving the
house on New Year before some one
has entered it You must hope for the
luck moreover of having the first to
enter a dark haired man
Seeking to know what good or evi
the New Year would bring superstitious
people ii the long ago girt themselves
with svws and sat on the roof of
their Iioisse on New Years eve They
iK o kelf ar the crossroads on a cow
hide for the snne purpose The first
thing b jimit might think would
be pUouia
It is bid Iutk to carry anything out
of the kose on the New Year before
somethng has been brought in
But the best luck of all which even
those most scornful of portents may
not despise is to begin the New Yeaf
owing no man a cent Philadelphia
Press
A NEW LEAF
He came to my desk with a quivering
HP
The lesson was done
Dear teacher I
want a new
leaf he said
I have spoiled
this one
In place of the
leaf so stained
and blotted
I gave him a new
one all unspot
ted
And into his sad
eyes smiled
Do bel ter now
my child
I went to the
throne with a
qulverinpsoul
The old year was
done
Dear Father hast
thou a new leaf
for me
I have spoiled
this one
Ee took the old
leaf stained
and blotted
4
DO BETTEB NOW
t
And gave me a
new one all unspotted
And into my sad heart smiled
Do better now my child
Forward
For Practical Gifts
try BeGroff Cos
IHDIAN0LA
Mary Christmas
Reuben Pinch of Cambridge was in
the city Monday t
M F Akers and family drove over to J
Ludell Kansae SaturdajMo speed
Christmas vacation
Eoy Minnick of Cambridge spent
Sunday in Indianola
Joe Reiter has been troubled with the
rsore throat for the past few days
Miss Fagan who teaches on Missouri
Ridge left for her home in Fremont
Saturday where 3he will spend the
Christmas vacation
Miss Jessie Hethcote returned home
from California Sunday night wbeie
she has been for the past few months
Hayes Moyer and family of Missouri
Ridge were city visitors Saturday
Mr Wright and son Ployd of Goltry
Oklahoma are visiting at the home of
her brother C B Hoag this week
Si
Only A Few Days More
before Xmas Come Now
V
Wetjcan help you get a useful gift
Furs Table Linen Ladies Belts
Hand Bags Combs Collars Hosiory
f Umbrellas Dress Goods Drawn
WorkQDoilies all are appropriate
Jim Springer of Danbury is now hold
ing down the job of lineman of tho
Havana Telephone Co in the absence
of Mr Akere
Mr and Mrs Ira D Pennington of
McCook were Indianola visitors Sunday
James Boldman returned home from
Broomfleld Nebr Wednesday morn
ing where he has been for the pist two
weeks
Church Announcement
The Christmas services of the German
EvangelicalLuthernn congregrtion will
be held in thej following order 7S0 p
m Thursdaj childrens service at par
sonage 607JJ5th street East 1000
a m Friday sermon in frame building
of East Ward school 230 p m Satur
day sermon in frame Ibuilding of the
East Ward 6chool 1000 a in Sun
day after Christmas sermon iu frame
building of Eat Ward school
Everything in drugs McConnell
e House Grocery
A full line of dainty tea
biscuits and wafers im
ported from London Eng
land Just the thing for
reception parties and
dinners
Fone 30
117 B street W
