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Special Prices on Drills
That we are going to give you should help you to own
your own drill and sow your wheat at the right time Under
stand that everything we sell is fully guaranteed by the man
ufacturers and we stand right back of the goods
We are also offering SPECIAL LOW PRICES on
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discs and plows and you should get the benefit
Then Dont Forget the Cow
Big Profits No Risks
25 to 150 per cent profit Some are making 300 per
cent Pretty good investment isnt it The Money Bags
of Wall Street grab chances at 6 per cent why dont you
take advantage of a better one
Buy a Sharpies Dairy
Tubular Cream Separator
Invest in a Sharpless Dairy
Tubular Cream Separator It
gets a quarter more to twice as
much cream as pans or cans
Every year it pays 25 to 150 per
cent clear profit on its cost
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Only Tubulars have waist low can simple bowl sus
pended from frictionless ball bearing wholly enclosid self
oiling gears A Tubular did 24 ears work without repairs
Let us show you one like it
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Time Card
McCook Neb
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MAIN LINE EAST DEPART
No CentralTimo 1045 P M
16 500 am
530 a M
12arrG15pm 715 am
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10 600 r m
MAIN LINE WEST DEPAET
No 1 Mountain Time 115 P M
3 1142 p M
5arr850pm 930 A M
13 905 A M
15 1230 AM
9 arr 910 am 820 am
IMPERIAL LINE
No 176 arrives Mountain Time 420 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 timetables maps and tick
ets call on or write D F Hostettor Agent
McCook Nebraska or L W Wakeley General
Passenger Agent Omaha Nebraska
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
Joe Mokko has returned from his va
cation out west
Charles Ricketts has resigned from
the company service
Joe Moss and family are spending the
week visiting in Ohiowa
John Seth is suffering with an attack
of rheumatism and confined to his bed
at the Ploussard boarding house
Mrs Roy Hiler spent closing days of
last week in Holdrege guest of Mr and
Mrs Ed Jeffries Roy spent Tuesday
there
The Greeks who have been laying
steel on the Cheyenne branch were last
week divided up between David City
and Kansas City
Walter Eby living three miles south
east of town went down to McCook
last Saturday to see if he could get a
position with the Burlington people
Imperial Republican
Engineer Fred W Bosworth who
has been enjoying a vacation of a few
days in the city guest of his daughter
Mrs R J Gunn returned to Denver
Wednesday Mrs Bosworth accompany
ing him
Small Wreck
No 178 the east bound freight was
wrecked just west of Stamford Ht G
oclock last Thursday evening The
trouble was caused by the breaking of
a journal of a car of wheat The track
was torn up for about 30 rods The
bridge aud section men were taken to
the scene by the passenger train last
night The damage was repaired early
this morning and traffic has been re
sumed Beaver City Tribune
The boilermakers now afford a wash
trough all to themselves in the rouud
house
Albert Armstrong apprentice at the
air bench has been visiting in Denver
this week
Tom Salsgiver went down to Wymore
Saturday returning on Monday accom
panied by the wife and family
J N Ogelvie traveling expert for the
Detroit Lubricating and Injector Co
was at headquarters Tuesday of this
week
L D Dulaney and George Eckhardt
have gone up to Denver to work and
Arthur Nelson and William Sanders
have been transferred from the shop
there to this point
The Moles held their monthly din
ner at the residence of Gus Budig last
Saturday evening enjoying a spread of
generous excellence music and a social
occasion of fine proportions
An engine consigned to the Oak Hill
Coal Co up the Motfat line was
damaged in transit this week and
went into the round house here for re
pairs this week Her pilot was
smashed and other slight damage
caused
C H Stennett departed Wednesday
evening for Lincoln to tell the chief
what he knows about Colorado after
which he will go to Kearney for a short
visit with his parents This is his an
nual lay off of 18 days part of which
will be devoted to bis new residence
j property on west 3rd street
A Very
Smart
Showin
of Ear Fall
Street Hats
and Nobby
Tailored Models
is now on display
at
Miss Andersons
217 Main
Avenue
TIME OFJHE NATION
How It Is Kept at the Naval Ob
servatory In Washington
THE SIGNAL FOR HIGH NOON
I Is Flashed Out Over Nearly a Mil
lion Miles cf Telegraph Wires Every
Day In the Year The Finely Ad
justed Instruments That Are Used
A few uiiiiutcs before VI oclock noon
pviTy iiy in the year a yuuiix man
wjiIIcx into i ciMtniu room of the main
building at tin naval observatory
which is mt hi ii Ji bill in the north
wistern part of the District of Colum
bia He glaiici at tin various clocks
in tin room and thiii goes over to
table which is covered with electric
apparatus
He watches the clocks to his left
closely and waits for the hands to
reach 11 As the second hand ap
proaches the 11 on the dial he pre
pare to shift a switch The clock is
so tlnely adjusted that when the sec
ond hand point- to til It exactly marks
the betxinuin of a new minute
As it touches the 0 the switches
are thrown on That starts a signal
that goes out instantaneously over
H miles of telegraph lines In
Washington New York Buffalo Cleve
land Newport Baltimore Newport
News Norfolk Savannah New Or
leans Key West J a I vest on Chicago
and elsewhere the time balls go up on
their poles People know that it is
five minutes to noon Washington time
The clock which keeps the time in
the observatory ticks on With each
tick there is a contact of electric
points A circuit is closed and an in
strument on the table similar in ap
pearance to a telegraph sounder ticks
away loudly
It iroes on to the twenty ninth ser
ond then skips one tick theni resumes
its steady sounding until the last live
seconds then there is another gap
These uaps are for the purpose of
giving listeners at the other ends of
the jreat system of wires a chance to
know what part of the minute the
clock is on So it goes up to the last
minute
At the twenty ninth second there is
again the skipping of one second
Finally the clock gets around to the
iftieth second Then the circuit re
mains open for ten seconds There is 1
silence ail along the telegraph wires
At the other end where there are
time halls or merely train operators
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almost mere inesecona nana manes
on toward 50 and finally reaches
the mark Then there is another click
in about a second the sounder is down
and that tells hundreds of thousands
of people that it is noon in Washing
ton
It is a wonderful operation this get
ting the time and highly technical
Finely adjusted clocks chronographs
and other instruments of great value
are used and the taking and recording
of the time have reached a point where
the human equation is practically elim
inated
The results obtained are of great
value particularly to mariners The
time is not only flashed to hundreds
of points in the United States but it
is sent far out to sea by wireless A
cable carries the flash to Havana an
other to Panama and Callao Peru
The observatory here does not send
the time much farther west than the
Rockies but they have an observatory
at the Mare Island navy yard and
from there the time is sent up aud
down the Pacific coast just as it is
from here to the eastern part of the
United States In the cities where thu
central time is used the flash marks
11 oclock An hour later local opera
tors drop the time balls
The mean time is determined by as
tronomical observations When cer
tain stars passthe seventy fifth merid
ian called the meridian of Washins
ton it is a certain time The operator
watches for the stars through a tele
scope the field of which is covered
with fine wires
As the stars reach a certain point in
transit the operator presses a key in
his hand A contact is made and re
corded on a chronograph The chrono
graph consists of a cylinder covered
with paper A fountain pen rests on
the paper It is held by an arm at
tached to the mechanism The cylin
der revolves once a minute and the
pen moves along the surface of the
paper making a spiral line
A sidereal clock of the Gnest make is
running in a vault underneath the ob
servatory With each tick of the
clock there is a contact of two points
These two points are attached to wires
that lead to an electro magnet at
tached to the arm that holds the pen
of the chronograph The clock is so
adjusted that each minute the pen
jumps to one side Consequently there
is a break in the line
There are other breaks too when
the observer watches the stars
cross the lines in the field of the
telescope The mean time thus re
corded for each star after being cor
rected for errors is the clock time of
the stars transit Whatever difference
there is between the clock time and
the sidereal time marked by the trans
it of the stars is the error of the
clock From these astronomical ob
servations the sidereal time is ob
tained The error amounts to but
little rarely being more than from
five one hundredths to ten
of a second
The time of sending a flash over the
wires Is practically nothing A flash
has reached Greenwich England in
three tenths of a second Washington
Cor Chicago Inter Ocean
MAKING WIRE
The Method of Rolling and Drawing
the Iron Bars
Bars of metal four Inches square are
neated and passed white hot and plas
tic through rapidly revolving rolls re
ducing tliein to wire rods which vary
from one quarter or an inch to an inch
or more in diameter depending upon
Ihe Mulshed size ot wire wanted
These rods which aie formed Into
roils as they pass llmuipti the rolls
nre dipped in acid baths to remove
iooe scute and provide a lubricant for
drawing lnawing cmiiMms ot pulling
rods while cold through holes ot grad
ually increasing diaineiei drilled in
steel plates 1 Miring this lyocess the
panicles of metai become elongated
and strained making the wire Harder
aud more brittle To restore It to a
proper temper it is necessary to heat
or anneal it
When a tine diameter Is required
there uui t he repeated annealings and
drawings This may be done- until the
bar which oriirinaily was tour inc lies
square and four feet long becomes re
duced to a diameter ot a single thou
sandth ot an inch and cMended KiUUO
miles u length Hefoie o tine a size
is leached the wire will cut into the
steel cit the die plate so the usual die
plates must be discarded and the draw
ing continued through holes drilled in
diamonds the diameter ot these dia
mond dies decreasing by fractional
parts ot a thousandth of an inch This
wire affotds a striking illustration r
a mateiiai made more valuable by the
application ot labor
From the time tue bar of metal en
ters tne furnace nothing is added to it
All the work Is done with one article
which is passed through rolls aud
drawn through die plates until it is
finished Chicago Tribune
MODERN MARTYRS
Those Who Entertain but Who Suffer
While Doing It
In a periodical the other day sas
the amateur philosopher ot the Prov
idence J ribuue 1 ran across a pic
ture of what had evidently been a mu
sical entertainment or music ale 1 took
it to hae been a muicale for choice
The tiddlers had gone and so had
the soloist or soloists aud guests
There remained in the foreground the
deserted room and a waste of empty
chairs along with the open grand pi
ano
The hosts head was resting on his
arms on a table The hostess had re
moved hei shoes and was on the vere
of eoap e In the background a but
ler was looking on cotniniseratiiigly
Miw theies a good deal of that
sort of thing tirst and last the country
over It was true to life but 1 never
could understand it that is nobody
has ever explained to me why people
who dont enjoy entertaining or being
entertained persist in making martyrs
of themselves why anybody does
something for pleasure that invariably
gives pain
- A per on who puts himself out and
wears himself out in the line ot duty
is comprehensible but why you should
sacrifice yourself when youre pretend
ing to be looking for fun is beyond
me
The woman who said that her idea
of a perfect life from the social point
of view would be to be asked every
where and to no nowhere doubtless
expressed the sentiments of thousands
but why go anywhere if you feel that
way
Corroded by Water
In a German village an underground
lead water pipe was found greatly cor
roded and perforated Investigation
showed that the soil in which the pipe
had lain was permeated by very im
pure water and consequently coutained
large quantites or ammonia ammoni
um nitrate and other compounds which
had attacked the lead pipe forming
lead carbonate nitrate nitrite and
chloride All of these lead salts ex
cept the carbonate are more or less
soluble in water The carbonate is in
soluble in pure water but is soluble
in water containing carbon dioxide
Iron pipes coated with asphalt should
be employed for underground conduits
if lead pipes are used thejgsbould be
imbedded iu asphalt Scientific Amer
ican
Learn to Laugh
Learn to laugh A good laugh is
bPtter than medicine Learn to tell a
story A well told story is as wel
come as a sunbeam in a sickroom
Learn to keep your own troubles to
yourself The world is too busy to
care for your ills and sorrows Learn
to do something for others Even if
you are a bedridden invalid there is
always something that you can do to
make others happier and that is the
surest way to attain happiness for
yourself Exchange
His News
The only news 1 have to teil you
wrote the Billville citizen is that the
river has riz an drowned all yer cat
tle an yer uncle has broke jail like
wise the widder woman you wuz
ter marry has runned off with a
book agent Outside of these here
things we air all doin well Atlanta
Constitution
Slightly Different
Ten years ago that fellow borrowed
the passage money to come to this j
country 1
And now hes worth millions eh i
No He sepms sort of thriftless
Owes for his passage money yet
Louisville Courier Journal
In that worthiest of all struggles
the struggle for self mastery and good
nesswe are far less patient with our
selves than God Is with us J G Hol
land
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ZION LACE INDUSTRIES ZION CITY ILLINOIS
VION LACES and many interesting features
in their manufacture are on exhibition in ose
of our show windows This display is educa
tional and every person should see it
From 3400 to 4500 bobbins are required m
thread one lace machine besides the beam arM
warp making a total when the machine ir
threaded of 13000 threads in actual work
When a machine is fully threaded there are
6700 miles of cotton on it enough to reach from
here to England and nearly back again
See the illustrations of the various machines
in operation where they take in the thread and
turn out the dainty attractive laces also skeins
of yarns yarn spools- -pieces of lace just as the
come from the machines Especially interesting
is the process of clipping scalloping and sepa
rating The exhibit is so unique and the values
so unusual that a visit will be of materbS
interest to you
SEE OUR WINDOW
C L DeGroff Co
m maculate Conception Academy
Hastings Nebraska
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Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies and
Children Conducted by Sisters of St Dcminic
Healthful location extensive and beautiful grounds Nesi
buildings with modern improvements Conservatory cf Muss
and Art Studio Thorough Academic Normal Commercial anS
Preparatory Departments
For year book containing full information address
MOTHER SUPERIOR
Immaculate Conception Academy Hastings Neb
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