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Just ask your wife which of these
two cream separator bowls shod
rather wash Shell toll you quick
the one on the loft It looks light
and simple and thats exactly what
it is It is used exclusively in
Sharpies Dairy
Tubular
Cream Separators
All other roparatora have heavy
hard to wash complicated bucket
bjwls The one on the right is just
a sample Think of washing it
twice a day Imagine the chance
rust and hard knocks have at such a
complicated affair
Milk skimmed with a Sharpies
Dairy Tubular Cream Separator is
skimniod right its the cleanest
skimming quickest skimming light
est running longest lived cream sep
arator built Bring your wife to see
it inside and outsido and learn how it may
doublo your butter money The helpful dairy
book Business Dairying yours for the asking
Time Card
McCook Neb
MAIN IiINE EaST DErAET
No 6 Central Time 1027 p si
2 500 A m
1 lilt A- M
Ottu r Ua
1G 4 00 A M
MAIN LINE WEST DErAET
No 1 Mountain Time 950 a m
3 1142 pm
5 Arrives 83ri p M
13 1025 AM
15 1217 am
IMPERIAL IINE
No 176 arrives Mountain Time 5 05 P M
No 175 departs 710 A M
Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars
seats free on through trains Tickets sold
and baggage checked to any point in the United
States or Canada
For information time tables maps and tick
ets call on or write D F Hostetter Agent
McCook Nebraska or L W Wakeley General
Paspnear Agent Omahn NohrnskH
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
General Supt Byram was over the
division on No 14 Tuesday
Fritz Ebert is back in the blacksmith
shop after a vacation of a few months
General Supt Byram was in the city
Tuesday between trains No 14 and No
1G
Gus Budig of the air and electrical
department was in Omaha close of last
for a day or two
Wire Chief C P Heber has com
menced the construction of a cozy bung
alow on North Main avenue
William Hunter has resigned his posi
tion in the blacksmithshop and with
his family has gonn to Canada
Eogineer Charles Starr departed
Monday for Lockridge Iowa on a
Tisit expecting to be absent about
three weeks
Fireman Charles Stone of the Hold
rege switch engine was severely injured
last week by being struck on shoulder
and back by a coal chute which fell
from its fastenings
An Italian laborer was brought over
from McDonald Kansas Saturday and
placed in the Southwestern Nebraska
hospital for surgical attendance He
sustained a fractured leg a few days
since and was sent here on account of
the superior accommodations of the
hospital for such cases The hospital
conveyance was at the depot to receive
the injured man from No 13 and at
tracted quite unusual attention from
the populace which thronged the depot
platform
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White House Grocery
STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM
FRESH VEGETABLES
Phone 30
Tooth Talk Truthfully Told
Scores of people innumerable neglect what are confessed to
be a vital necessity to health happiness and long life viz
their teeth Poor teeth as well as a lack of teeth cannot masti
cate food properly hence poor health which frequently results
from this cause Your immediate action makes provisions for
both teeth and health
One assurance that my operations cause continuous satisfac
tion patients enjoy to recall and tell their neighbors about the
easy time in the dentist chair at my office It will please me to
meet you at once
DR HERBERT J PRATT DENTIST
Office over McConnelPs Drug Store 212 Alain Ave
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Burlington Relief Work
The twentieth annual report of the
relief department of the Burlinston
shows that since its establishment the
company has paid out of its own cof
fers S1248S37 in aid of its maintenance
In addition to this contribution the
company has always given the depart
ment the frio uso of stationery the
free time of many of its employes
including the legal and medical de
partments which if charged for would
greatly swell the total contribution
The average membership of the de
partment during the year was 29 918
the original membership having been
5027 At the close of the year the de
partment had a large cash balance
and paid out more than a half milliou
of dollars during the year for benefits
More than 500000 of tho departments
money is invested in Burlington bonds
which pay three and one half per cent
interest
More Telephone Lines
Burlington lineman are putting up
a copper telephone circuit between Wy
more and Red Cloud for the use of
dispatchers
A freight car in the ditch at Strat
ton Sunday morning delayed No 2
over three hours
Conductor Neal Beeler has bought
the J D Young residence on north
1st street east and is now occupying the
property
Agent Tom Morton of Otis departed
Wednesday for Atlanta Ga a delegate
to the grand lodge of the O of R T
which convenes there next week Ex
tra Agent McClintock has the station
in charge
Conductor Worth Humphrey left on
Wednesday for Columbus Ohio where
he represents the local lodge of the B
of R T at the session of the grand
lodge to be held there next week He
will visit briefly in Iowa en route
Conductor C M Kent and family
will leave tomorrow for Truro Nova
Scotia for a months visit with the
home folks C M is a delegate to the
meeting of the grand lodge of Order of
Railway Conductors which convenes in
Boston riext week and will join the
family in Canada at the close of the
session They are accompanied bv a
cousin of Mrs Kent from Aspen Colo j
Women In Austria
Tho Austrian law puts little trust In
women us they are not eieu eligiblo
as witnesses to a will being excluded
In company with Imbeciles the blind
deaf and dumb and criminals
Spanish Peppers
It is a good plan to have n can of
Bpnnish peppers alwuys in the house
They can be easily and attractively
used in an emergency Sandwiches
ipay be made of them or they may
be used to garnish leftover meats etc
Cut the meat into cubes cover with
bits of pepper and breadcrumbs and
brown
Antt duHing Sermon
At i church near Ledbury England
an annual sermon is still prcucheJ
against the vice of dueling This Is
done in accordance with the will and
tesiameut of a damsel whose rival
I lovers died fighting for her hand
Home Lovers First Choice
Swiss maidens have wide and deep
courtship license but iu many of the
cantons they are allowed but a narrow
choice of bridegrooms It being a rig
orously enforced if unwritten law that
they must marry a youth of their own
neighborhood In many villages every
marriageable youth belongs to a soci
ety whose sole object is to prevent
any and every youth from outside from
coming a courting the maidens of the
societys village
Strong Tea
The Abyssinians make a tea from
the leaves of a certain plant whkh
has such stimulating qualities that to
chew a single leaf will produce all the
effects of a strong cup of tea
The Butterfly
The butterfly like the bat invariably
goes to sleep head downward its eyes
looking straight down the stem of the
grass on which it rests It folds its
wings to the utmost and thus wraps
Its body from the cold
Too High to Run
It is impossible to run at an altitude
of 17000 feet above the sea
Lambeth Palace
Lambeth palace London has been
the home of tho primates of Canter
bury for over siven centuries This
palace can show specimens of almost
every style of architecture which has
prevailed since 1190
The Mustache In Ssrvia
To Servians greatest form of in
dignity is to have the mustache shaved
off
Mexican Funerals
The Mexicans nave a queer way of
burying the dead The corpse is
tightly wrapped in century plant mat
ting and placed in a coffin hired for
about a shilling One or two natives
as the case may be place the coylin
on their heads and go at a trot to the
grave where the body is interred and
tho coffin is then returned
Living In Tombs
Thousands of Egyptians live in old
tombs eating sleeping wooing loving
laughing dancing singing doing all
their deeds of daily life and house
hold work among the mummies and
sarcophagi
Mars Byproducts
There is enough hydrogen gas in a
man says the Medical Index Lancet
to carry him up to the clouds He con
tains enougli fat to make seventy live
caudles and a large cake of soap and
enough phosphorus to make 80G4
boxes of matches His remaining con
stituents will yield if utilized six
cruets of salt a bowl of sugar and
ten gallons of water
A Curious Fish
A curious fish found off the Mauri
tius and Japan is the mailed tish about
six inches in length which lures its
prey within reach of its jaws by means
of a luminous disk on each side of the
lower jnw
Tortoise Shell
What is called tortoise shell is not
the bony covering or shield of the tur
tle Lilt only the scales which cover it
These are thirteen in number eight
of them flat and Ave a little curved
A large turtle affords about eight
pounds of them the plates varying
from a quarter of an inch to an inch
in thickness
Air In Caves
Certain caves have been reported as
maintaining a uniform temperature
summer and winter of 54 degrees F
They may be said to breathe tv ke a
year inhalina durins the winter and
exhaling during the summer
District of Columbia
The District of Columbia compri
an area uf id21o square miles V
government consists of two civiil
commissioners appointed by the pi
dent ari confirmed by I he senate a
one army engineer oliicer detailed
the secretary of war the three
stitufins the board of commission
for throe years
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In Place of riavers
Flowers are never used for decora
Ing in Tuscany but at Christinas a
Easter all the walls of tho cathedmls
are decked with wonderful damask of
almost priceless value
The Word Kid
Kid is merely a jocose substitution
for lamb used for a young child
and is very old Charles Reade and
Dickens used kid In this sense and
Virgils phrase Its capellae has been
freely translated Go It my kiddies
tihwij Mm nun n ruihitiiri ws r m
SPOITIJMILS
Plans of London Shops and Banks
For Foiling Thieves
A CODE OF SECRET SIGNALS
The Moment a Suspect Is Discovered
In an Establishment the Warning Is
Quickly Given to the Employees Who
Are Instantly on the Alert
Do you know If Brown has returned
that parcel of stones yet
The scene may be t lie shop of a fash
ionable west end jeweler Costly
gems glint in velvet lined cases One
frock coated shopman turns casually
to another with tho perfectly natural
question quoted above
To those customers who may be in
the establishment the remark means
nothing hut to the man who Is ad
dressed it spells volumes Brown Is
a secret code word and It means that
the elegantly clad woman to whom
tho speaker Is displaying a tray of
sparkling stones is suspected by him
of being a thief and that her every
action must he watched
Quite recently In connection with a
terrible outrage in the west end of
London in which an unfortunate mon
ey changer was done to death in hi
office by a desperate robber the fact
was disclosed that in the case of a
sudden attack it had been arranged
that one of the assistants should em
ploy the distress signal of hurling a
brass paperweight through the win
dow of the office
Although most people are quite un
aware of the fact practically every
banker money changer and jeweler
In the fashionable quarter of the me
tropolis has some prearranged code by
which one employee may warn his
fellows that a dubious character has
entered the establishment
In one well known bank this is the
system adopted Should a cashiers
suspicions be aroused by the actions
or speech of a man upon the other
side of the counter he will step across
In a perfectly innocent way to a cer
tain desk which stands quite apart
from the others The custodian at the
doorway sees the action knows its
significance and is instantly on the
alert
In the case of another bank the
cashier whose suspicions are aroused
need not even move away from his
desk to warn the watcher The
scheme employed is this Along the
guarding rail of the couuter are a se
ries of plates bearing the word
Prayer or Receiver according to
the duties of the cashier in each par
ticular section
These by design are all placed
slightly askew Should one of the of
ficials behind the desks suspect the
good faith of an individual to whom
he is attending all he has to do in or
der to place the patrol In uniform
upon the qui vive is to reach up a
leisurely hand aud turn one of these
plates so that it is in a perfectly
straight line with the rail from which
it projects
The ingenuity of this idea lies in the
fact that while the action is perfectly
natural it is so unmistakable that oven
when the bank is full of people it can
not fail to be observed by the man
who is upon the lookout
Quite the most elaborate system of
which details are obtainable is that in
stalled by a firm of electrical engineers
for one prominent west end jeweler
The manager who is on duty sits at a
glass screened desk in the roar of the
shop in such a position that while
scarcely being seen himself and cer
tainly without making any movement
he has an absolutely unimpeded view
of every counter and show case
Near him on a small board shielded
from view is a row of tiny rod electric
light bulbs One corresponds to the
position of each of the suave assist
ants who attends to the wants of the
jewel buying public Sunk in the floor
near the foot of each assistant is a
button and his duty is done when
should he think a customer he is serv
ing may not be on the square he
places his foot on this convenient but
ton The little plow lamp lights up at
the other end of the wire and the
managers attention is promptly fo
cused in the direction irdi
Should his keen scrutiny reveal an
actual theft from the articles displayed
on the counter or from some unpro
tected tray he himself presses a but
ton as the thief turns to leave the
shop This serves to warn a smart at
tendant who is on duty at the portals
and the wrongdoer finds his or nei
pathway barred without a word hav
ing been uttered or Sgu of warning
given London Answers
Tho Oldest Universities
The earliest date which any univer
sity puts forth is that which Cam
bridge nrakes that it was founded
about G3 Its continuous history
dates however from 1100 Paris was
founded in 702 and renovated in 1200
Oxford dates back to an academy men
tioned as ancient in S02 the schools
were founded by King Alfred about
E70 and King Henry III granted tho
charter in 124S Bologna dates from
111G Salamanca was founded in 1230
Argonaut
Too Much Hustle
Muggins So Bjones is dead eh
Say he was a hustler he never let
the grass grow under his feet Bug
gins No perhaps if he had it wouldnt
be growing over his head now Phil
adelphia Record
A given force applied for a given
time upon a given point Is bound to
win Napoleon
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Summer Dress Goods
Our lines are complete We
can please you in quality style
and price 5c to 50c per yard
Summer Underwear
Of which we have a large and
complete stock
MSSS Also Suits Skirts
Low Shoes and Hosiery
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Items You Should Buy Now
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Ten Thousand New Vrws
Handson e new post card views of Mc
00k in colors have just arrived from
fermany These show views of Mc
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usinoss residential and church For
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Commercial Club 10 cent cigar and
the Sn oke 5 cent cigar
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McCook Markets
Merchants and dealers in McCteer
today Friday are paying the folios
ing prices
Corn 3 j
Wheat 7
Oats
Rye I Tl
Barley
Hogs s
Butter good
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