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The Successful
Farmer
of today who does not possess
a bank account is an excep
tion
To no one is a checking ac
count more of a luxury It
solves the problem of always
having his money at hand of
making exact change and re
ceiving a receipt in return for
the money paid
Some men even to this day
persist in carrying a roll of
currency on their persons
they are the ones we usually
read of in the papers as hav
ing been held up and rob
bed
A bank account is the best
burglary insurance you can
have
This bank wants your busi
ness we will appreciate it
we prove it
The
First
National
Bank of Mccook
By F M KIMMELL
Larrest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
Waukkta will vote on a water works
bonds proposition February 16th
Nervy Waunetn
How much is it worth to the Ne
braska Democracy to have it made easy
for thpm to let eo of thnt supreme
judgeship fiasco Two blunders do not
make ona right
Hon G Norms is fulfilling his
pledgi s made in the campaign last fall
and fusion papers will no longer have
the norse to assert that the judge is
a Joe Cannon adherer Stockville
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Thk inter state commerce commission
has decided that ministers of the gospel
may bo given reduced rates or even
passes by the railroad companies Yellow-legged
chickens are still on the free
list too So the cloth ought to be
happy it not in the Rockefeller diss of
financiers
Farm Loans
Go to Johnson Rozell
Typewriter ribbons for sale at The
Tribune office
John Cashen Auctioneer
Indianola Nebr Dates booked at Mc
Cook National bank
The Tribune has for sale a nice dis
play of local view post cards in colors
and in black and white Also a well
selected line of greeting and other post
cards
Pouring Prosperity
Through a Puncture
pa o po
Ever see a drunken man trying to
fill a bottle with the bottom broken
out Its a great waste and It looks
mighty silly
But its no more foolish and no more
wasteful than for a sober man to ex
pect his town to fill up with people
and bubble over with prosperity when
he is continually pouring his dollars
Into the wide wqrlqutside THEOUGH
THE MAIL ORDER HOLE Iff the bot
tom of his home town
MORAL Tatronlze home Industries
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UltlNGING HOME THE POSSCil ItOASTINO
on Tin spit
and taters besides a menu of heavy
dimensions as the guest of the Augus
ta Bar association
Mr Taft at the barbecue distinguish
ed himself by eating but at the ban
quet he was noticeably sparing of the
food He remarked with some feeling
that sleep was really what nature
craved nis confession that he would
like to take a nap did not prevent his
making a speech however on the
lawjers life and the life of the judge
He expressed his regret on leaving it J
Catching possums is a sport of which
the negroes of the south are fond and
in which they are expert and in antici
pation of the Taft possum dinner there
were busy times among the colored
people of the section Judge Frank j
Park of Worth county Ga contrib
uted thirty possums to the dinner and
also sent three cooks to assist hi the
proper preparation of the meal
Skinning mid dressing tho possum Is
a process thnt requires cleverness for
Its proper execution The colored folks
often roast the little beast over a spit
out of doors which is helieved to give
the meat a specially appetizing flavor
A cartoon In the New York World
on he day of Senator Benjamin R
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POSSUM a dish as could
be set before anybody even a
king by some connoisseurs In
such matters Therefore It was as
high a compliment as could be paid
President Elect William H Taft by
his Georgia neighbors when they got
up a possum dinner in his honor at
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JUDGE TAFT AND THE ATLANTA
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the Auditorium iu Atlanta Not that
the menu was to be confined to pos
sums But that swqet and juicy an
imal was decided upou as the central
attraction of the feast barring of
course the honored guest himself
Since Judge Taft took up his winter
residence in Georgia he has been feast
ed a good deal If he desires to keep
dow h bis flesh by his conscientious ex
ercise on the golf links he certainly is
subjected to a good many temptations
to increase it and thereby offset the
effects of his golf playing by the many
invitations extended to him to sit
down to appetizing meate
It was only a short time ago that he
did full justice to the barbecue of
Charles S Bolder given on the latters
extensive cotton plantation about ten
miles from Augusta and a few days
later he faced a spread of possum
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Tillmans repiy to President Roose
velts charges against him represented
Mr Roosevelt nud the South Carolina
statesman iu -a duel to the death thfr
president with his big stick1 and
Tillman with his celebrated pitch
fork Mr Tillman has not wielded
his unique weapon quite so much oC
late as In former days partly on ac
count of the condition of his health
He was much run down last spring
and took a trip to Europe in the sum
mer whih recuperated him some
what Nevertheless his physician ad
vised him on his return to his sena
torial duties that he must avoid all
excitement In consequence of this
little was heard from him this session
up to the time of the Roosevelt secret
service episode and the developments
which brought Mr Tillmans name to
the front and connected him with
charges of improper use of his position
in the senate to further private ends
Mr Tillmans reply to the accusations
emanating from the White House
showed that though his health may
be somewhat impaired he is still able
to wield his celebrated pitchfork with
vigor
Senator Tillman like many of his
fellow lawmakers has a large fund of
anecdotes at his disposal Oiie of
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them Avhich Harpers Weekly relates
pertains to a section of the senators
state remarkable for the great longev
ity of its residents and containing an
odd character long known as Old Jim
Tolliver No one knew Jims exact
age but he was popularly supposed
to be somewhere round ninety said
Mr Tillman
Old Jim enjoyed no greater pleas
ure than to jest about the senility of
spry as a youngster of forty live One
i morning Old Jim Tolliver met a friend
named Taylor And how is my
erable friend asked Tolliver
Venerable nothing exclaimed Tay
lor I am not near as old as you are
Jim and you know it
1 Im not so sure about that said
Old Jim Tell me Taylor what is
the first thing you can recollect
The first thing I recollect replied
Taylor and that must have been
eighty years ago was hearing people
sayThere goes Old Jim Tolliver
Charles Nagel the Missouri Repub
lican leader who is talked of in con
nection with the next cabinet is
commerce and labor Ho is a lawyer
and was born in Texas in 1S49 He is
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THE DARDANELLES
Changes In the Name of the Famous
Two Mile Strait
The Dardanelles which is so fa
miliar today meant to our grandfa
thers not the Hellespont but merely I
two ancient and strong castles of
Turkey one of which is in Roumania
and the other in NatoIIa The fa
mous strait was known In early Vic
torian geography by the name of
Gallipoli But the brave dominating
castles swept away both Hellespont
and Gallipoli and gave their own name
to the two mile passage Those ven
erable castles built In 1GT9 to secure
the Turkish fleet from the Insults of
the Venetians were known according
to an early geographer as the Old
Dardanelles to distinguish them from
two others at the entrance of the
strait one of which stands in like
manner in Asia and the other In Eu
r6pe and called the New Dardanelles
fn spite of the four castles how
ever the passage was forced by a
British fleet In 1807 In later years
fortifications of a formidable nature
have been constructed between the
two sets of castles and these are now
properly the Dardanelles The ulti
mate responsibility for naming the
famous strait rests with Dardanus
the gentleman who crossed on his In
flated skin from Saraothrace to Asia
arid founded the town which after
ward became the city of Troy Lon
don Chronicle
THE ARABS HORSE
How He Is Treated and Why He Ex
cels at Long Journeys
It is most interesting to note the
way the Arab treats his faithful
friend the horse So inured indeed is
the Arab pony by long usage and de
scent to the manner of life in the
desert that even my own pony posi
tively Improved on the treatment and
I never saw him so lit as when he
came back from the trip
If the Arab and his horse are by
legend closely allied they are in point
of fact even more intimately connect
ed His mount is his first thought
and at all times by far the most Inter
esting topic of conversation
He is ungroomed undipped unhal
tered for the Arab prefers to shackle
him by means of two ropes a short
cord connecting the fore and hind fet
locks and a long line tethering him
above the hind fetlock to a peg in the
ground Thus he can move about or
roll at leisure and should there be any
rough herbage at hand can forage for
it
Perhaps one of the principal reasons
why the Arab so excels at long jour
neys is that he never worries himself
nor does he ever distress his mount
unless there Is real cause to do so He
simply continues a steady walk all
day and hardly ever gallops in the
wild way in which one so often sees
him depicted by artists London Field
Bills Specialty
They found the old man sitting on
the fence smoking his corncob
Howdy pap Whats your son Jim
doing these days
Jim Oh hes running a telegraph
key at the depot Jims an operator
And hows Zeke
Zeke Waal Zeke is captain of a
lake steamer Hes a navigator
And Pete Is he still living
Oh yes Petes workiusr on an air-
his neighbors for he himself was as j ship Hes what they call an aviator
Well what has become of Bill Is
he doing anything
The old man blew a quid of tobacco
at a wide yed grasshopper
Yep stranger TJUs hanging around
the house 1 day grumbling and com
plaining and saying the countrys go
ing to smash Bills just an aggra
vator just a plain aggravator
Judge
The Tall Chimney
It might puzzle the ordinary mortal
to state in legal form just how much
time and how much money he would
require to take down a tall brick chim
ney The contracting engineer would
make it take itself down After doing
a smM suin of arithmetic on his cuff
urged for the post of secretary of
he would direct certain portions of the
base removed In the spaces thus left
he would fit a lot of very stout tim
bers then remove the bricks which re
mained between them Then he would
set fire to the timbers and watching
from a safe distance with a camera
would take a snapshot of it as it fell
Scribners
Grouchy
There is a movement on foot said
Mr Snoope to prevent the marriage
of weakmiuded persons What do you
think of it
I think its rot answered Mr
Grouch Why who else ever wants
to get married Cleveland Leader
An Easy Stunt
I see a premiere danseuse is adver
tised to dance with five snakes twined
about her
Should think she would If a snake
got on me Ill bet Id dance Phila
delphia Ledger
The Want of It
The love of money quoted the
morallzer is the root of all evil
That being the case rejoined the
demoralizer the want of money must
be the full grown tree Exchange
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i creet to mention that important deal
a tne bt louis tugn 0f ours ro vour wife Wicks Oh its
school and -the St Louis Law school all rjgnt i didnt tell her it was a se
and attended lectures at the cret Boston Transcript
sity of Berlin He was admitted to
Possibly the chap who growls about
lonis council aim iuu lemiure ut
g rav ainner woud
have
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REPUTATION
IS a legitimate asset in every up-to-date busi
ness mans capital and success But reputa
tion and success are only achieved by square
dealing and having and selling goods absolutely
right It is not enough to sell right you must
first buy right and be able to meet every demand
of the trade Through his cash system this is
accomplished by
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MARSH
THE BLUE MOSQUE
Ever Color Calls It Calls In tha
Mosque of Ibrahim Aga
As every one who visits Rome goeH
to St Peters so every one who visits
Cairo goes to the mosque of Moham
med All in the citadel a gorgeous build
ing in a magnificent situation the In
terior of which always makes me think
of court functions and of the pomp of
life rather than of prayer and self de
nial More attractive to me is the
blue mosque to which I returned
again and again enticed almost as by
the fascination of the living blue of a
summer sky
This mosque which is the mosque ol
Ibrahim Aga but which is familiarly
known to Its lovers as the blue
mosque lies to the left of a ram
shackle street and from the outside
does not look specially inviting Even
when I passed through its door and
stood in the court beyond at first I felt
not its charm All looked old and
rough unkempt and In confusion The
red and white stripes of the walls and
the arches of the arcade the mean lit
tle place for ablution a pipe and a row
of brass taps led the mind from a
Neapolitan ice to a second rate school
and for a moment I thought of abrupt
ly retiring and seeking more splendid
precincts And then I looked across
the court to the arcade that lay be
yond and I saw the exquisite love
color of the marvelous tiles that give
this mosque its name
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Conductedsby the McCook W C T U t
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Governor Sheldon Out Foit State
wide Prohibition
The following taken from the message
of Governor Sheldon to the Legislature
of Nebraska last Thursday should cause
a thrill of thankfulness in the hearts
of all who love the home
In my opinion the time has come for
advanced legislation to better regulato
and control the liquor trafiic At the
present time there is no political party
which publicly will stand pat on the
Slocumb law The demands of the
hour call for legislation to control and
regulate this trafiic in accordance with
the present conditions and needs of the
state This question should not be
permitted to drag along until legislation
is enacted that will satisfy only the ex
tremists In that event the legislation
will probably be that which a minority
rather than a majority approve Ex
perience in the enforcement of the li
quor laws demonstrate that it is difficult
to enforce these laws in any community
where public sentiment is against such
action
While I have been governor i great
many applications have come to me
from convicts in the pnnitentinry for ex-
ecutive clemency in some form or other
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s r peu and ugly but between them
hl ie with an ineffable luster a wall of
prrple and blue of purple and blue so
strong and yet so delicate that it held
the eyes and drew the body forward
If ever color calls it calls in the blue
mosque of Ibrahim Aga And when I
had crossed the court when I stood
beside the pulpit with its delicious
wooden folding doors and studied the
tiles of which this wonderful wall is
composed I found them as lovely near
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What is your idea of a heroine
John asked the wife of his bosom
as she looked up from the novel she
was reading
A heroine my dear answered
John i a woman who could talk
back but doesnt Chicago News
Siams Weights and Measures
In Siam the liquid measure used Is
derived from a cocoanut shell which la
capable of holding S30 tamarind seeds
and twenty of these units equal the
capacity of a wooden bucket In dry
measure S30 tamarind seeds make one
kanahn and twenty five kanahn
make one sat or bamboo basket
eighty sat make one kwlen or
cart This is an example of the prim
itive origin of most units of weight
and measures
The First Slow One
He uttered a joyous cry
And I am really and truly the first
man you ever kissed
Yes Clarence the beautiful girl rer
Joined her red lip curling slightly
The others all took tke Initiative
New Xork Press
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many v bo came before me did net ap
pear to be criminals In most instances
when I asked them the question how
they happened to get into the peniten
tiary the reply was that their downfall
was caused through tho use of intoxicat
ing liquors or through associations form
ed in the enviror ment of the saloons
The saloon as it now exists is
as they are lovely far off From a i fenrible It breaks our laws corrupts
tance thev resemble a nature effect our politics degrades our men and fills
are almost like a bit of southern sea our prisons and asylums
or of sky a fragment of gleaming ahe question must be met in a
Mediterranean seen through the pillars tical way After carefu consideration
of a loggia or of Sicilian blue watching
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Tto 1 1 have come to the conclusion that the
over Etna in the long summer days
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When one is close to them they
a miracle of art The background of a statewide prohibition act making pro-
them is a milky white upon which is vision so that any municipality may
an elaborate pattern of purple and surh an act by a three fifth
blue generally conventional and rep 1 vote and in such instances to have
resentative of no known object but J uor dispensed as may be provided by
occasionally showing tall trees some 1 RW Th g wjn fc tho burden
what resembling cypresses But it is
I those who desire to make a profit out
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impossible in words adequately to de-
scribe the effect of these tiles and of j of the 6aoon business rather than upon
the tiles that line to the very roof the j tne people of the state who desire the
tomb house on the right of the court j saloon abolished I therefore recom
They are like a cry of ecstasy going mpnd that you pass such an act and
up in this otherwise not very that vou also submit to the people of
ful mosque They make it unforgetta 1 thig stato a conslitutonai amendment
ble draw back to it
they you again
ombod j such provfeiong
and yet again On the darkest day of
In tne earI part of dmrnistra
winter they set something of summer
there In the saddest moment they ton I waa requested by numerous peti
proclaim the fact that there is joy in tions to enforce the anti treat law To
the world that there was joy in the uch I replied that I stood ready to do
hearts of creative artists years upou -dl in my powpr to enforce that law but
years ago If you are ever in Cairo that nothing could be done unless those
and sink into depression to the
go who had knowIed of its voIaton
blue mosque and see if it does not
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would themselves take the initiative in
have upon you an uplifting moral ef 1
cpcuring the evidence preentng it to
feet And then if you like go on
from it to the Gamia el Movayad the prosecuting attorney and standing
sometimes called El Ahmnr the red behind the complaints
where you will find greater glories This particular section of the Slo
though no greater fascination for the cumb Jaw has boronip obsolete and fa a
tiles hold their own among all the dead letter If it could be enforced it
wonuers 01 ijairo liooerc iiicnens in
Century
would bp one of tho bet possible mea
sures to prevent intemperance that
could be proposed
Therefore I recommend that you
amend this particular section known as
etion 31 of the compiled statutes so
that the authorities who grant the
nloon license will he compelled to re
voke a license whenever any person
drinks liquor in a saloon that he has not
himself paid for
ADVERTISED LIST
The following letters cards and pack
ages remain uncalled for at the McCook
postoffice January 29 19Q9
letters
Bouiclen Mrs Jafis Felzien ilrs Anna
Lattis Mrs Jennie Myers Mrs Chas
Price Mr W Harry Wjmniay Miss Mamie
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Brown Mrs Anna L Crabtree Miss Harriett
Larson Mr Harry
Osborn Miss Lena
Peterson Miss Dora
Riggins Lenora
Sellars Mr Frank
Travis T C
Wilson Mr John
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Miller Mr J
Osbon Mae
Eider Mr Ed 2
Simons O F
Turley Mrs Edna
Westkamp Mrs John
West Mrs Nancy
When calling for these please sav
they were advertised
S B McLean Postmaster
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