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 oven 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
wo prove it
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First
National
Bank of Mccook
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Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
It may be recorded that at least one
poel got his The Deadwood poet
choked to death the other day on a
beef steak
A VALENTINE
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Somewhere a heart shall be my home
Love is it thine
Then here I stay no more to roam
Thy Valentine
TOWNSEND ALLEN
The Tender Passion
Hate hath but one antidote and that
is love One touch of love will heal
all wounds that hate inflicts
Love is true ingenuous and blind
Nor will it be wed to envy or deceit
or crouch with fear in gloomy nooks
of ill foreboding for love is gentle
eyed and credulous as a suckling babe
fears naught nor falters at anothers
fortune
Loves voice is soft and sweet as is
the song of turtledoves its touch me
dicinal as brew of healing herbs
Wearing Work
Hows your husband doing snid
the pale woman
Bout the same answered the tbin
woman
Hasnt he got any regular work
yet
Yes He said he felt the need ol
some steady occupation So he thought
hed make it his business to wind tho
clock
Did he stick to it
For awhile but now hes kicking
for an eight day clock Kansas City
Independent
The Bishops Rebuke
A conceited young cleric once said
to an A nerican prelate Do you not
think that I may well feel flattered
that so great a crowd came to hear
pie preach
No was the answer for twice as
piany would come to see you hanged
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Ambiguous
Dobber I dont know whether that
critic meant to praise or blame my
rork Cutter What did he say Dob
berWell I had a picture of The
Dead Sea and he said It was full of
UfeCleveland Leader
The hand can never execute any
thing higher than the character ca
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centeharyof the Birth o
THE Lincoln is bringing
a new and larger view of the
man The world Is coming
more and more to see the soul side of
him to lose sight of petty and nones
sential circumstances belonging to his
personality and environments and to
measure his real stature
The more I have studied Lincoln the
more I have been struck by the mira
cle of him Thqt this child of the wil
derness this offspring of poor whites
without education except such as he
could give to himself without a single
advantage in blood training wealth
or environment should grow into a
man whose speeches were marvels of
logical reasoning and Intellectual pow
er whose acumen as a statesman and
diplomat exceeded that of men long
trained whose literary style was clas
sic whose life was essentially without
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a stain whose soul was that of n
prophet and whose mercy patience
and gentleness recall the divine man
of Galilee strike me as a marvel like
that of Shakespeare or Joan of Arc a
thing that cannot be explained and
that transcends mere human experi
ence Nor is this the end of the won
der As striking as the man himself is
the universal appeal he makes to men
The avidity with which everybody
reads each crap about the martyr
president is almost as much of a mira
cle as his character The interest in
him -was great during his life and has
increased every hour since his death
At first it was because he was presi
dent but now it is because he was
Lincoln
It is this Insight into his essential
and spiritual nature which is the be
ginning of the true understanding of
Abraham Lincoln It has taken a long
time to reach it yet it has always re
quired a century or two for the world
to come to an appreciation of its great
est souls That this measuring of the
spirit of Lincoln has even started in
time for the centenary of his birth
shows that mankind move faster than
ever before When the world does see
the real soul of this man with all its
whiteness and love I believe that Lin
coln will do more for men by his ex
ample and by the intangible influence
he exerts on the souls of others than
he did even as president He was not
a teacher and yet his life is a teacher
Nobility ought to be contagious and
Lincoln had enough of it to inoculate
the whole race
Materialism never explained any
man The smallest human being that
ever lived infinitely transcended it
Then how littl can it explain Lin
coln We must get at such a man
from the Godward side of him before
we can understand him at all Seen
from that angle he becomes intelligi
ble The keyword of the riddle in his
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easels soul It is so in every case but
In him the fact Is more apparent HI
mighty spirit explains him Tha
makes the miracle plain And it is just
Buch a revelation of spirituality o
the real variety and not the seeming
that this country and this age need
We are not yet through with Lincoln
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He still has something to teach us -all
For my own part 1 think this cente
nary Is one of the most fortunate things
that ever happened
And what a centenary It is cele
bratlons in every city town and ham
let even extending to foreign lands
4BKAHAM TilNCOLN
The portrait of Lincoln shown abo is
from Ida M Tarbells Eaily Life of
Lincoln and depicts the first nmityr
president as he was at the beginning of
his lirst term It was used by Leoiiid
W Volk sculptor in studies of Lincoln
masses of literature such as have ap
peared concerning no other American
prizes given by newspapers for tho
best essays on Lincoln by school
children elaborate ceremonies at the
birthplace and the tomb at the na
tions capital at the metropolis in well
nigh every church school theater lec
ture hall and home in the land nun
dreds of books and magazines and
thousands of papers full of him And
all because this man had so much love
for others that he gave his life to
make them free
J A EDGERTON
STIMSON AMD NICOLL
Attorneys Who Figure on Opposite
Sides In the Pulitzer Case
The extraordinary character of the
suit in the federal courts against the
company which publishes the New
York World and the constitutional
character of the questions that lnvo
arisen in connection with the case give
exceptional interest to the learned
counselors of the law who figure in
the suit The government attorney in
charge of the prosecution in New
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York Henry L Stimson is United
States district attorney for the south
ern district of New York He is con
fronted by an array of distinguished
legal talent headed by De Lancey
oll former district attorney of New
York county The latter was born at
Bayside on Long Island now part of
New York city in ISoi and Is a grad
uate of St Pauls school Concord
N II and of Princeton university
also of the Columbia Law school He
married Miss Maud Churchill Mr
Nicholl was a member of the conven
tion of 1S94 which framed a new con
stitution for the state
Mr Stimson was born in New York
thirty nine years ago and graduated
from Phillips academy at Andover
S H In 1SS3 and from Yale univer
sity in 1SSS He studied for the bar at
the Harvard Law school
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TRUSTEES SALE
We are closing out the entire
J H Grannis stock regardless of
cost and regardless of what may
be said to the contrary
Everything goes at a price that
may not be offered you again soon
We have put in a few patterns
of wash goods to liven up the stock
and you may have the benefit of
the low price on them
Remember our time is limited
and we are more than anxious to
close this stock out and thus save
further expense
C E BISHOP Manager
J E KELLEY Trustee
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ADVERTISED LIST
The following letters cards and pack
ages remain uncalled for at the McCook
postoffice February 12 1909
LETTERS
Bowers Mrs Ariics Burkct Mr Homer K
Goddard Mr Clint McDonald J S
McKee Q M OaLcs Mrs Apina
Rooney Mr Janics Rislit E C
Steele Mr Vurny Tackit Fred D
Thompson Miss Ea
CARDS
Bowers Mrs Amies Dojle Miss Ia
Tolines Mr Jessie Richards Miss Grace
Richardson Miss Ia Smith Miss Arilla
When calling for these please say
they were advertised
S B McLean Postmaster
For breaklast we have buckwheat Ral
ston and Advo pancake flours and maple
syrup and mapleine to go with them
HUBER
Public Sale
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Having decided to move to Iowa I
will sell at public sale where I now live
one mile west and three miles north of
McCook on what is known as the Omer
Hale place
Wednesday February 24 1909
commencing at 1230 oclock sharp the
following described property to wit
1 2 Head of Horses one brown horse
9 yrs old wt 1400 one bay horse 6
yrs old wt 1300 one black horse S
yrs old wt 1200 one bay horse 5 yrs
old wt 1200 one bay horse 12 yrs old
wt 1230 one pair driving horses ages
8 and 10 wt ISOO one gray work and
brood mare wt 1000 one roan mare
wt 14o0 one bav mare 7 vrs old wt
1200 one black mare 2 vears old one
bay horse 1 yr old
9 Head of Cattle 5 good heavv milch
cows all to be fresh soon 1 calves
Farm Implements Etc one good
carriage one 2 seated surrey one top
buggy one box wagon one wagon and
rack one hay rack one Western Belle
riding lister one 3 section harrow one
3 row A harrow one Bradley disc one
2 row disc cultivator nearly new one
McCormick mower one Piano header
and boxes one galvanized water tank
one wheelbarrowfour rolls slat cribbing
about 75 bu of corn some feed seven
dozen chickens
Household Goods one cook stove
one kitchen cabinet beds table and
many other articles too numerous to
mention
FREE LUNCH AT NOON
Terms Sums of 1000 and under
cash on sums over 1000 a credit of
eight months will be given purchaser
to give bankable paper drawing ten per
cent interest from date Five per cent
discount for cash on sums over 1000
No live stock or property to be removed
until settled for
JOHNNIE WODDELL
JHWoddell Auct V Franklin Clk
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