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line of clothes for we know they will always give you the full est satisfaction Ail Wool Clothes 10to25 Clothcraft manufacturers are the only ones in the country that dare guarantee clothes at these prices Why not profit by it C L DeGroff Co McCook Hughes Crescent Cottage Paints are sold in McCook by H P WAITE and CO SXSXS s 1 Summer loal Try our Pea Tor summer Coil use Its All Coal We carry a regu lar stock of coal and can meet all your needs Phone 1G9 Updike Grain Co i Middleton Ruby PLUMBING and STEAM FITTING All work guaranteed 2hone 182 McCook Nebraska JL G BUMP Real Estate and Insurance Room Two over McConnelPs drug store McCook Nebraska Walter Hosier WHITNEY HOSIER Draymen Prompt Services Courteous Treatment Eeasonable Prices GIVE US A TRIAL Office First Boor South of DeGroffs Phones 13and Black 244 THE FIRST CLOCKS Ono at Padua That Was a Wontier of Mechanism It was we are told in 1309 that the first clock known to the world was placed in the tower of San Eustorgio in Milan The greatest astonishment and ad miration were manifested bj crowds who flocked to see the timepiece In 1344 a clock was installed in the pal ace of the nobles at Padua This was a wonder of mechanism indeed for besides indicating the hours it showed the course of the sun the revolutions of the planets the various phases of the moon the months and the fetes of the year The period of the evolution from the clock to the watch was seventy one years not so very long all things con sideredand the record of the Grst watch is 13S0 A half century later an alarm clock made its appearance This we are told was looked upon by the people of that age as un in strument prodigieux The fortunate possessor of this clock was Andrea Alciato a councilor of Milan The chroniclers have placed on record that this clock sounded a bell at a stated hour and at the same time a little wax candle was lighted automatically How this was done we are not told but it must not be over looked that until about seventy years ago we bad no means of obtaining a light other than the tinder box so that the Milanese must have been cen turies ahead of us in this respect Not much progress was made with the watch until 1740 when the sec ond hand was added London Globe TEMPTED HE ATE A Story of Heinrich Heine and a Toothsome Lyons Sausage Returning from a journey to the south of France Heinrich Heine met a friend a German violinist in Lyons who gave him a large sausage that had been made in Lyons with the request to deliver it to a mutual ac quaintance a homeopathic physician in Paris Heine promised to attend to the commission and intrusted the delicacy to the care of his wife who was traveling with him But as the postchaise was very slow and he soon became very hungry on the ad vice of his wife both tasted of the sausage which dwindled with every mile Arriving at Earis Heine did not dare to send the remainder to the physician and yet he wished to keep his promise So he cut off the thin nest possible slice with his razor wrapped it in a sheet of vellum paper and inclosed it in an envelope with the following note Dear Doctor From your scientific inves tigations we learn that the millionth part of a certain substance brings about the greatest results 1 beg therefore your kind acceptance of the accompanying mil lionth part of a Lyons sausage which our friend gave me to deliver to you It homeopathy is a truth then this little piece will have the same effect on you as the whole sausage Your HEINRICH HEINE TJghettis With Physicians and Cli ents The Curious Pair Mrs Rubba 1 wonder why that wo man keeps watching me so Mr Rub ba Perhaps shes trying to find out why you are staring at her Philadel phia Press GREAT LOVE STORIES Quarrel of the Royal Lovers B of HISTORY By Albert Pay son Terhune Theodora and Justinian Copyright by tbe Author The Roman capital of Constantino ple in 525 A D was aghast at tho news that the consul Justinian nephew and heir to the Emperor Jus tin I was to marry Theodora tho farce comedy actress whose clever per formances at the Circus had for years set the city in a roar of laugh ter For an emperors heir to make an actress his wife was not only scan dalous but illegal as well People be gan to inquire into Theodoras past life Many of the facts they dug up were of too unsavory a nature to bear repetition But they learned also that she was one of the three daughters of a brutal fellow who had been keeper of the wild bears in the menagerie under the Circus building When Theodora was only seven her father had died The child was an impish gay little creature with a genius for mimicry So she had been put on the stage She could not sing or dance but she was a born comedian She grew to womanhood small thin and pale Scarcely the sort of girl to at tract the attention of the emperors nephew Rome since the days of Nero had grown so great in size and wealth that it had at last split in two because of its own unwieldy bulk and was divid ed into the eastern and western em pires The western empire with tho city of Rome as its capital was soon overrun by barbarian tribes But the The Actress Who Became Empress eastern empire flourished for many centuries Justin I a Dacian peasant had fought his way up from the ranks to the com mand of the army Then he had made himself emperor and had proclaimed Justinian his heir Justinian was a wise man but lacking in firmness The sort of a man that a clever woman could manage to suit herself Theo dora won his love and pointed out to him a plan by which they two might become emperor and empress His uncles wife the Empress Euphemia sternly forbade the match But this did not long stand in Theodoras way For Euphemia died rather suddenly Justin was old and as much under Justinians influence as the latter was under Theodoras The rest was plain sailing Justin was persuaded to set aside the law forbidding a prince to marry an ac tress Theodora and Justinian thus were married in 525 when the girl was only 17 Two years later Justin died Theodora made her husband the new emperor crown her as em press Then she proceeded to do the lions share of the ruling interfering and having her way in nearly all state affairs The civilized world was thus for a time swayed by an actress whims Nor was she as bad an em press as her early life would have seemed to forecast She aided her hus band to frame the celebrated Justin ian Code of laws and in many ways helped make his reign great She attracted some notoriety by de claring herself the champion of wives whose husbands sought to divorce them and she started besides a sort of royal marriage bureau Match making was her fad And certainly no one could have set a brighter example from her own success along that line Justinians love for her did not cool as the years went by And she probably made him a fairly good wife Once when revolutionists seized Constantinople and clamored at the palace gates Justinian was wild with fear and decided to creep to the sea shore unobserved and save his life by flight Then it was that Theodora threw away the diplomatic tactics by which she had won and managed her husband For once in her life she let him feel the lash of her scorn and couched her speech in the language of the stage instead of that of the stately court She bade him fly if he chose but told him that death was nobler for a monarch than exile and vowed that she would not stir from her throne preferring as she said to make empire her winding sheet Justinian stung into courage stuck to his post and thereby saved his crown Once only he is said to have taunted her in anger with her humble parentage She is reported to have answered that her J father was quite as well born as her J husbands grandfather who had been a rude peasant Indeed few dared to remind Theo- J dora of her past She had a way of putting to death persons who brought up the subject For 23 years this strange pair of lovers governed most of the civilized world Then at the age of 40 Theodora died The gen erally accepted stoTy of her fate is that she fell victim to cancer But j some authorities hint that she tried to manage her elderly husband once too often and without her earlier tact and that he in a fit of rage had her beheaded Austria to Build Airships The first Austrian airship construc tion company has just been formed with a capital of 300000 kronen and It is understood that the war office is immediately placing an order for a dirigible The constitution of the com pany is largely due to the fact that the efforts of the government to ob- tain a dirigible from Germany during the recent crisis failed I ON THE OLD MGUl REMINISCENCES OF EARLY DAYS OF RAILROADING Combination of Baggage and Passen ger Coach Then Considered the Acme of Luxury An Honor to Know the Engineer Way back in the fifties when tho country still had wood to burn it straight w a y burned it as mer cilessly and igno rantly heedless of our approaching lumber hunger as most of us now are of the lumber starvation we are preparing for our children Those were the days when in the more primitive re gions the fireman was liable to alight with an ax from the expiring locomotive chop half a cord of fat pine saplings from the neighboring woods and complete the run en that Prior to the fifties the running time between Chambersburg and Harris burg a distance of 52 miles was four hours as the Cumberland valley time table for 1832 shows 13 miles an hour The ancient and honorable Mo gul was the wonder of the mid century that reduced the run to the cannon ball speed of two and one half hours Seth Wilmarth of Boston designed it in 1851 People then heard with awe that together engine and tender weighed 25000 pounds The immense driving wheels were actually four and one half feet high they would fit un der a small mans armpit It had half a dozen wheels in all the drivers being located between front and back pairs of pony wheels which would make dainty ornaments for one of the giants of to day The tank had a ca pacity of 600 gallons enough to sup ply the needs of a suburbanites dwelling now But the outward and visible sign of that little choo choos might was the vast funnel shaped smokestack Ev erybody who saw that inverted pyra mid of Cheops meandering down the line belching smoke like a stogie knew the great Mogul was thunder ing along at the rate of 20 miles an hour and hastened to drive the hogs from their snooze between the old-fashioned slab track rails that served to let the nation wage the mightiest war of modern history and were not eliminated until 1868 from American railroad construction by the advent of the T rail The Mogul burned wood and it was equipped with a couple of cylinders eight and one half by fourteen inches with all the trimmings such as brass bell pilot headlight whistle every thing except those extremely useful appurtenances brakes They used the reverse bar for holding her down in those Arcadian days George Wentz was the Moguls en gineer and that in the times when being an engineer wqs next only to being a modern king or a South American dictator Mayors of towns respectfully swapped high hat salutes with such an engineer When in 1855 the combination bag gage and passenger coach was built and put on the roads the acme of lux ury was thought to be attained It was 47 feet long over all it seated 40 passengers the seats ultimate and royal splendor were covered with red plush That little old Mogul of the great designer Wilmarth ran daily between Chambersburg and Harrisburg from 1851 to 18S0 it ran occasionally un til 1890 And it would probably run yet the dead and cold Mogul would still warm up with its old time ener gy if haughty George Wentz in his pyramid stovepipe were to arise from the dead and heave a few chunks of pine in near the neck of the stove pipe Cheap Fares in Belgium Passenger tariffs on Belgian rail roads are very low and the passenger service is generally very good It is not as rapid as the French service but it is cheaper These rates show the influence of the politicians For instance tickets are on sale which for a small price give the right to ride anywhere as often as you like for five days on any of the state lines A third class ticket of that sort good anywhere any time for five days costs only 11 francs five centimes which is just a fraction under 220 in Ameri can money Eighty eight per cent of all the pas senger tickets issued are sold at one sort or another of reduced rates Among other curious instances show ing the fine hand of the small politi cian we find that tickets are sold to electors to go to their voting places at less than half price Moodys Maga zine New Chinese Railroad The agreement for the American loan of 50000000 for the construc tion of the Chin-Chow-fu Tsitsihar Aigun railroad has been imperially ratified The new railroad will be a serious rival of the South Manchurian now being run under Japanese man agement between Darien and Harbin The new line will run parallel to it but about 100 miles further west cut ting the Russian line at Tsitsihar and extending on to Aigun on the Amur river 200 miles north of Harbin GREAT LOVE STORIES of HISTORY By Albert Pay son Terhune BSSHHaBKagHBMBa Nero and Poppaea Copyright by tho Author A long train of donkeys were driven daily to the mansion of Romes most beautiful woman Poppaea Sablna There they were milked The milk was poured into a huge marble tub In this tub Poppaea took her morning bath on the plea that washing in donkeys milk added to her beauty However true or false this theory may have been it certainly had the effect of advertising Poppaea It even brought her to the notice of the em peror Nero and led to a love affair which was to cost thousands of inno cent lives Octavius Julius Caesars nephew had turned Rome from a republic to an empire with himself as emperor His successors kept the title without inheriting any of its originators genius At last a weak foolish man named Claudius came to the imperial throne In 49 B C he married his niece Agrippina a wicked clever wo man who induced him to disinherit his own son and to proclaim her young son Nero as his heir Having accom plished this Agrippina poisoned Claudius and set Nero on the throne The young emperor was at first a gen tle and wise ruler meekly obeying his ambitious mothers commands But flatterers at court finally prompted him to defy her and to run the empire to suit himself and them Still Agrip pinas influence was more or less pow erful over the youth until he met Poppaea A Jealous Husband Poppaea Sabina was wealthy and of patrician fam ily As a girl she had married a no bleman who had divorced her Then she had married a daring young sol dier and profligate named Otho one of Neros boon companions Otho loved her jealeusly So when Nero falling in love with the beautiful woman sug gested that Otho give her up the hus band flatly refused In this refusal he was backed by Poppaea herself Not that she cared for Otho but she read Neros nature and knew that op position would fan his fancy for her into worship She was justified in this belief for Nero before long found means of separating her from the heartbroken Otho Poppaea had made up her mind to be empress Agrippina hated her Nero also had a wife Octavia But these obstacles did not check Pop paea One by one she cleared them away She persuaded Nero that his mother was conspiring against him and worked him to such a frenzy of rage and fear that he had Agrippina murdered Next Poppaea induced him to divorce Octavia and to consent to her death Nothing now stood in the fair adventuress way and she and Nero were formally married Pop paeas ambitien was gratified She was empress of Rome Moreover Nero loved her so madly that her light est wish was his law She could frighten or cajole him into doing any thing she desired At her order one after another of his saner advisers were put to death And now began a period of reckless dissipation on the part of Nero and Poppaea that nearly wrecked the em pire Poppaea brought out all that was worst and maddest in Nero and spurred him on to terrible deeds Among these which she is credited by many authorities with suggesting to her husband was the burning of Rome in 64 A D While the city burned the emperor composed - and sang an ode in honor of the conflagra tion The plain people had been patient under their rulers tyranny But the burning of their city drove them to fury Nero was frightened Advised by Poppaea and his flatterers he de clared the Christians had set fire to Rome and put hundreds of them to death in barbarous manner by way of pretended punishment for the crime This for the moment pacified the peo ple But soon fresh iniquities on the part of the imperial couple angered them again At last in a fit of jealous rage Nero one day struck Poppaea She died from the effects of the blow Nero mourned her loudly and long and wrote poems to her memory But his time of retri Otho Takes Wfn utln Vengeance Awas hand And the man he had most wronged was to punish him Otho had joined with an old general named Galba in stirring up the Roman armies against Nero He marched to Rome at the head of his legions to avenge himself on the tyrant who had robbed him of his wife In spite of his haste Otho turned aside long enough in the march to visit the grave of Poppaea There weeping he piled her last resting place with fresh flowers and passed on to his work of ven geance But Nero did not await his enemies coming Deserted by flatterers and guards alike he killed himself to avoid the fate he knew he must otherwise expect at Othos hands Y M C A in Germany and America There are 1990 Young Mens Chris tian associations in Germany only 1939 in America yet where the Ger man associations heve but 117000 members the American have 446000 And German association property holdings have a value of 2400000 contrasted with a value of 40000 000 in America This contractor got results He knew how to feed his men Some years ago a contractor build ing a railroad in a warm climate was troubled a great deal by sickness among the laborers He turned his attention at once to their food and found that they were getting full rations of meat and were drinking water from a stream near by He issued orders to cut down the amount of meat and to increase greatly the quantity of Quaker Oats fed to the men He also boiled Quaker Oats and mixed the tiiin oatmeal water with their drinking water Almost instantly all signs of stomach disorders passed and his men showed a decided improvement in strength and spirits This contractor had experience that taught him the great value of good oatmeal 53 Lumber and Coal Thats AH But we can moot your ovory need in those linos from our large and comploto stocks in all grades Barnett Lumber Co Phone 5 dzM Mike Walsh DEALER IN POULTRY fc EGGS Old Rubber Copper and Brass Highest Market Price Paid in Cash New location jest across lnCfrAr 1 street in P Walsh building l 11AUUK S B IT J arfTCJjHj HHB Trade 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