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under the management of the Northern California Association
The reliability of a 300000 machine at 175000 Would you
be interested in hearing more about this car if so call at
Phone 31
IMPESIAL LINE
No 176 arrives Mountain Time 4 20 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 Wakeloy General
Passenger Agent Omaha Nebraska
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
Oscar Yarger was home to see part of
the race
Front end repairs were given the 31S
this week
Engine 1G62 is read to go into the
yard service after repairs
Steam chest and driving brasses on
1091 were repaired this week
The Burlington bridge gang is now
looking after bridges in the Curtis
neighborhood
Fireman Olson of the Sterling divi
sion has resigned and gone to work for
the Brush sugar factory
Joe Walsh and Philip Manley came
up from Edison Saturday to work on
the viaduct at this place
Conductor and Mrs W A Cassell
arrived home Sunday night from their
western trip of several weeks
This is a time of unusual demand for
vacations among enginemen Fourteen
engineers and twelve firemen are off on
vacation
Fireman Frank Humphreys who has
been farming down on the Kansas
farm for the past few weeks returned
home and to work Sunday night
A Chicago dispatch announces that
the Burlington may quit the entire state
of Montana and turn over to the Great
Northern all its properties in that state
Dr Herbert J Pratt
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Engine 1240 is receiving some new
flues this week
Mrs C M Kent and Mrs E O Scott
are Hastings visitors today
Fireman Red O n of Curtis has
been trans rr d to Sterl Mg
The tank and steam chests on the 143
received attention this week
Engineer Clyde Wickwire is off duty on
account of a pair of bad order dims
Fireman Jack Molaski has been trans
ferred from Sterling to run out of Cur
tis
Engineers Punnton and Niewig left
last night for Seattle and the exposi
tion on a visit
The Burlington has on its own motion
increased the pay of its day laborers to
15 cents an Hour
John Archibald has been visiting old
time friends in our city arriving here
close of last week
Conductor J C Davis and Brakeman
Phillips retired from the service of the
company this week
Engineer Wm Woods returned last
night from Montana He did not enter
any government land
The 2702 bad her ponies off the turn
table this morning but was easily lined
up again without damage
Engine 2858 of the monkey motion
type is on pit one for usual repairs and
the 1950 is over number two having her
wheels dropped and brasses overhauled
Engineer Charles Sti arrived home
close of last week from spending a few
weeks in Iowa His arm and hand are
gradually getting in form and he expects
soon to resume his engine
The announcement is made at Lie
coin that the Burlington proposes to
largely increase the Burlington shops at
Havelock and that approximately
S100000 will be expended making the
largest shops on the entire system
Agent Z T Kemper of Alma has re-
signed He commenced working for
the company in Kemper Illinois in
1871 and has since been in the comp
anys employ steadily serving as agent
at Corona now called Wiggins and for
the past 21 years at Alma He has filed
for the nomination of county clerk on
the Republican ticket in Harlan county
Everyone would be benefited by tak
ing Foleys Orino Laxative for stomach
and liver trouble and habitual constipa
tion It sweetens the stomach and
breath gently stimulates the liver and
regulates the bowels and is much sup
erior to pills and ordinary laxatives
Why not try Foleys Orino Laative
today A McMillen druggist
Fresh fruit always In season at Rubers
SHAKESPEARES POISONS
They Are Taken Too Seriously by
Some Modern Chemists
It Is one of the penalties of Shake
speares position as a great poet that
his words are taken seriously
A learned doctor In a foreign scien
tific review has been molding an inqui
sition into the poisons mentioned by
him He points out that the juice of
cursed hebenon which Claudius is
said to have poured into the ear of
Hamlets father is incapable of pierc
ing the tympanum of the ear and
therefore could not have penetrated
the body and poisoned the blood as
the ghost alleges Again the narcotic
which Friar Laurence administers to
Juliet was probably either Datura
stramonium or mandragora root The
first is used by the convicts in New
Caledonia when they wish to rob their
companions but its effects do not last
forty two hours nor anything like that
time A scientist who experimented on
himself with mandragora found that
intense sickness is caused on waking
and this did not happen to Juliet As
for the poison which was given to Ro
meo it was probably aconite or one of
those mixed poisons composed of vege
table alkaloids and ptomaine since it
was so remarkably rapid in its effects
But that is the fault or too serious
people They will take everything se
riously Shakespeare probably knew
nothing at all of poisons or of nar
cotics He was a poet and not a chem
ist and micht therefore be allowed the
usual poetic license London Globe
Cracked Furniture
Ugly marks caused by splits or
cracked places in furniture are easily
filled in with beeswax and the mark
is never detected In fact this is how
furniture dealers cover such blemishes
First slightly soften the beeswax until
It is like putty then press firmly into
the cracks and smooth evenly with
a thin knife Sandpaper over the
surrounding wood and work the dust
Into the beeswax This gives a wood
finish or color and when the furniture
Is varnished you will look in vain for
the blemishes It is better than putty
since putty soon dries crumbles and
falls out while beeswax will remain
forever just where it is placed
OPIE READ
OPIE READ 4
No other American author
has so reached the hearts of
people OpieRead lectures and
tells stories as well as he writes
AT CHAUTAUQUA
What the Professor Wanted
The professor steps into the barber
cbalr and assumes an attitude of pre
meditation
Hair cut sir
Please The barber cuts his hair
Like a shampoo
Um please He gets the shampoo
Shave you sir
Um yes One shave
Massage lie nods assent and
consequently Is massaged The barber
removes the towel the professor arises
and mechanically takes the proffered
check
Whats this
Your check sir
My check
Certainly sir hair cut shampoo
shave and massage
The professor rubs his hand over
face and head
Did I get all that
Surely sir
Its queer very queer most ex
traordinarily queer A most wonder
ful example of philosophical phenom
ena
Whats queer asks the barber in
dismay
Why the working of the human
mind What I came In for was to get
my razor honed Puck
What Constitutes Baseball
The essential apparatus of baseball
is simple and inexpensive All that is
required Is a field a stick the ball it
self and police protection for the um
pire One advantage of the game as
played professionally is that those sit
ting in the grand stand can play the
game a great deal better than the
eighteen men on the diamond It is
also true that any one of the specta
tors even though perched on a tele
phone pole across the street or looking
through a knothole In the fence be
yond right field can judge of the pitch
ers skill or the runners Ileetness
much more intelligently than the ar
biter who stands behind the battery
The great merit of the game is that
the people can participate in it It is
not like bridge whist Its science is
not synonymous with silence The
thing to do is to take off your coat
and root as long and as loudly as you
can even If you dont know what is
happening Philadelphia Ledger
Taking It Out In Trade
The proprietor of a certain Turkish
bath establishment seeing a strong
looking young man working in a
butchers shop and being impressed by
his magnificent muscles told him to
resign and take a rubbers position
with him j
Ill give you more than you are get- J
ting now he said
The young butcher resigning in good
faith turned up the next morning at
the bath house j
Well said the proprietor to him
Ill put you on at once What did
you get at the butchers
Six dollars and my weeks meat
returned the young man
What did that amount to
About 3
Well said the proprietor I of
fered you more to come here didnt I
Ill give you 6 in money and 4 worth
of baths weekly That is a dollar more
than you got at your old place
Dutch Engagements
A custom among the Dutch Is the
exchanging of engagement rings which
are narrow bands of plain gold with
the initials of the betrothed and the
day of the betrothal engraved on the
inside They are worn on the left
hand before and on the right after
marriage Dutch engagements extend
over a period of from two to five years j
During this time the young woman
gives up all amusements in which her
fiance does not participate If he is
not of the dancing sort she refrains
from that recreation however much
she may desire to engage in it She
never goes in company anywhere if he
is not present and when they go to
gether to a ball no gentleman will ever
ask her to dance without formally
gaining his permission London
Scraps
The Sure Thing
A theatrical manager once offered
a famous actress 1000 a week to
make a tour of the world She insist
ed on 1500 But the manager said
1000 was all he could give and he
reminded her of the fabulous jewels
that South American millionaires
Little Barbaras Complaint
Four-year-old Barbara went to church
with her two sisters and came home
crying
What is the matter dear inquired
her mother
He preached a whole s sermon
about M Mary and Martha sobbed
Barbara and never said a w word
about me Lippincotts
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Go home said the manager think
the matter over and let me know your
decision in the morning
In the morning the actress sent the
manager this message
Give me my terms and you can have
the jewels
Work Fascinating
There is an indescribable fascination
about work The laziest man in town
will stand watching with evident en- j
joyment the labors of a street gang
laying pavement Fort Worth Record
Suits the Case
That prisoner over yonder warden
has rather a mischievous look
Do you think so
Yes quite a roguish expression
Baltimore American
To me the meanest flower that blows
can give thoughts that do often lie too
deep for tears Wordsworth
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MARKED COPY on a newspaper
wrapper is sure to make the receiver
open and read
Last year a southern man bought
fifty copies of his local paper contain-
Russian grand dukes and Indian iug a suggestion for a factory location
jahs are wont to lavish on the ladies marked them and mailed them to fifty
Individuals or concerns that might he
Interested
Result Twelve immediate inquiries
three propositions for the factory site
one thriving factory located which to
day pays wages to 175 persons living
in that town
Watch this paper for such opportu
llltles to BOOM TOUR TOWN
They Needed Prayers
A member of parliament tells a good
story of an out of the way country
clergyman who did not keep up to
date In what was going on in the
world One Sunday he asked his sex
ton Is the prayer for parliament to
be used today Is parliament still sit
ting
The sextons reply came promptly
Well sir I dont know but anyhow
better pray for them for theyre a
precious bad lot London Standard
Truthful
He Give me a kiss She decidedly
I wont He You shouldnt say I
wont to me you should say I pre
fer not She But that wouldnt be
true
The greatest firmness Is the greatest
mercy Longfellow
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McCook Markets
Merchants and dealers in McCook
today Thursday are paying the follow
ing prices
Corn 70
Wheat 1 00
Oats 40
Rye CO
Barley 45
Hogs 7 25
Butter good 16 to IS
Eggs 15
FOR SALE FOR RENT ETC
For Rknt A five room cottage close
in Mrs J I Lee phone 43
For Rent Good honse G02 3rd st E
Phone cedar 9S3 Mrs W Uickling
House f or rent Xew 5 room cottage
with bnth Inquire of O N Rector
phone red 319
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