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House and Store Wiring a specialty Complete line
of Fixtures Shades and Supplies of all kinds
21014 Main Ave Office phone black 433 Res red 341
Alaska Refrigerators
are sold in flcCook by
H P Waite and Co
STANSBERRY LUflBER CO
Everything in Lumber
At Live and Let Live Prices
Phone 5o
Senator of U S A
Robert L Taylor of Tennessee
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Senator Taylor is without question
ithe most popular Chautauqua lecturer
In America and he is coming to our
platform for the forthcoming assem
bly
THE OLD SHAN ELOQUENT
OF THE SOUTHLAND
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Mrs Sarah Wathena Brown
Harpiste of national reputation
iljifes the most expensive instrumeni
irer built in each performance Mrs
JBrown with her five musical boys
ftfl appear at
Chautauqua
COAL
We now handle the best
grades of Colo and Penna
coals in connection with
our grain business
Give us a trial order
Phone 262
Real Easterday
Great quantities of advertising are
every day being received by Supt
Chas W Taylor local secretay of the
coming Chautauqua If you want to
help him take a supply of catalogs
or folders and distribute them among
your friends
McCOOK NEB
May Fly Over Nebraska
An aeroplane trip across Nebraska
is being discussed by those in charge
of the Mid West aviation meet with
a strong probability of Glen H Cur
tiss flying from Omaha to Hastings
and return by way of Lincoln
This proposition has come to the
Aero club of Nebraska through the
Hastings Republican and with favor
j able weather there is little doubt
but what the trip will be made
Such a trip will be one of the fea
tures of the aviation meet to be held
under the auspices of the Aero
club of Nebraska in Omaha July
9 to 14
Already a number of automobile
drivers are arranging to race with
the aeroplanes and one Omaha deal
er has challenged Curtiss for a race
With these plans put into execu
tion Nebraskans will see a novel per
formance not only one or more aero
planes flying over the corn fields
where only a few years ago the
prairie schooner was the means of
travel but a score or more of auto
mobiles will drive beneath the aero
planes at record making spepd
The starting place for the aero
planes has not been selected as yet
the matter being left in the hands of
the managers of Mr Curtiss
Scared into Sound Health
Mr l 1 Kelley Springfield 111
writes A year ago I began to be
troubled with my kidneys and blad
der which grew worse and worse un
til I became alarmed at my condition
I suffered also with dull heavy head
aches and the action of my bladder
was annoying and painful I read of
Foley Kidney Pills and after taking
them a few weeks the headaches left
me the action of my bladder became
normal and I was free of all dis
tress A McMillen
New Workman Officers
P M W M S Jennings
M W Henry Moers
Foreman Julius Kunert
Overseer W C Allison
Recorder C B Gray
Financier C J Ryan
Treasurer Maurice Griffeu
Guide Lee Wootton
Inside Wach David Rhoad
Outside Watch John Walker
Trustee John Randall
Medical Examiner Dr C
Falmestock
FREMIER MUSICAL ORGANIZATION
Brought from Hungary 1893
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Schlldkrets Royal Hungarians
They will delight music lovers at
CHAUTAUaUA
TEMPERANCE COLUMN
Conducted b the McCook W C T U
The Criminal Liquor Traffic
The present paramount need of the
temperance reform in the United
States is an amendment to the Inter
state Commerce Law that will permit
prohibition and local option states to
exercise their police power to the ex
tent of carrying into effect the prohib
itory laws placed upon their statute
hooks either by their legislatures or
the popular vote of the people This
cannot now be done Under the pres
ent construction of the Interstate
Commerce Law there can be no inter
ference with interstate shipments of
liquor into dry territory until it
has been delivered into the hands of
the consignee
As I write there lies before me a
letter sent out by a whisky firm in
Covington Ky soliciting orders in
which they expressly state We
ship to every town m America
whether wet or dry except Indian
reservations under the rights of the
Interstate Commerce Law
There are now nine prohibition
states in the union There are 200
cities of 10000 and more population
and 539 of 5000 and more population
hat have abolished saloons 1729
counties out of a total of 28S5 have
outlawed the traffic Above 41500-
000 of our peoole are now living in
prohibition territory yet in an
vast area not one foot of it is free
from tho possible invasion of liquor
drinking and drunkenness because
federal law will not permit the exer
cise of state authority upon the inter
state shipment of an article which the
state itself has prohibited until it is
in the hands of tthe individual who
in most instances seeks to violate
otate law
When Georgia for example adopt
ed nullification in the COs the feder
al government with an armed force
inarched against Georgia and prompt
ly brought her into subjection to its
superior will That same federal gov
ernment is now nullifying the pro
hibitory laws not only of Georgia but
of every state in the union where
such laws exist by permitting and
protecting the shipment of liquor to
their debauched population in spite i
of state enactment and local majority j
protest I
Our attention has been recently i
rccted to instances where federal of-
ficers have confiscated the product of
illicit stills and in order to collect
the governments share of revenue j
have openly sold the liquor on the
streets of prohibition towns and cit-
ies in defiance of state law -It is I
ot an uncommon thing in a prohibi
tion state like Kansas for example
after a boot legger has been caught
and jailed by state authorities for
the federal officers to go to the jails
and collect from these criminals the
23 internal revenue tax
It is a monstrous travesty upon j
civil government that federal author- j
ity persists in refusing to permit the
states to exercise their police power
against a traffic admittedly criminal j
and unless Congress can be aroused j
to the point of amending the Inter-
state Commerce Law touching the
shipment of liquors it will not be J
strange if a reaction comes in many
communities that have already
ished the traffic
The time has came when Congress
should not only amend the Interstate
Commerce Law but when the federal
government should cease to issue in- j
ternal revenue tax receipts to persons
who cannot show state authority for 1
the sale of liquors By issuing such
receipts to applicants in prohibition
territory the federal government i
simply encourages law violators It
is the duty of every citizen in every
state where there is any prohibition
territory to know what the attitude
of his senator and congressman is on
this increasingly important question
For more than a dozen years the tem
perance people have been appealing
for relief About twenty States have
already through their legislatures
memorized Congress for the enact
ment of legislation that will give re
lief The time has fully come when
every law abiding citizen should carry
his appeal to the ballot box
P A BAKER
General Superintendent Anti Saloon
League of nierica
The Conservation of Natures Re
sources
applies as well to our physical state
as to material things C J Budlong
Washington R I realized his con
dition and took warning before it was
too late He says I suffered se
verely from kidney trouble the dis
ease being hereditary in our family
I have taken four bottles of Foleys
Kidney Remedy and now consider
myself thoroughly cured This shoul
be a warning to all not to neglect
taking Foleys Kidney Remedy until
it is too late A McMillen
Therefore Forget Them
The troubles of to morrow disqualify
is for the duties of to day
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Geo L McNutt the Dinner Pail Man
Coming to Chautauqua
Assembly
The men who come to the Chautau
qua platform are not accidents They
have done something worth while and
occupy places in the public eye be
cause of their accomplishments
There is no more striking illustra
tion of this truth than in the case of
George L McNutt The DIuner Pail
Man
McNutt is as common as an old shoe
if we may he allowed to borrow that
much used and very expressive vulgar
saying He does not wear the severe
black coat that marks the clergy al
though he has spent fifteen years in
some of the most prominent pulpits o
the land He is apt to remark on oc
casion that he feels more at home in
a juniper and dirty overalls than in
a frock coat
Mr McNutt resigned the pastorate
of a wealthy church to enter a fac
tory as a common laborer He stayed
with the job until he had come to be
on familiar terms with his fellow la
borers He learned to look at life
from their viewpoint and to sympa
thize with their circumscribed pros
pects for the future He worked
among different classes of laborers in
the east and in the west until he had
a message for the public He called
his first lecture The Man With the
Dinner Pail It was such a pro
nounced success that he soon came tc
be known from ocean to ocean as the
Dinner Pail Man
He has many lectures of many dif
ferent names but they are all along
the same lire and in the same vein
He lectured both afternoon and even
ing for a whole week before a labor
conference in New York city and the
second week afcr he returned and
did the same thing again and in
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the twenty addresses he did not once
repeat anything that had been said
before
As a matter of fact Rev McXutt is
an ardent believer in the influence oi
women in the home on the platform
and at the ballot box He does not
call it Womans Rights but insists
that it is humanitys rights and wo
mans duty
Xo man on the platform has had
more press comments and all of them
are favorable
INDIANS AT THE CHAUTAUQUA
Going to be Indians at the Chautau
qua Whoopee Real ones Sounds
good hey boys
How would you like to be an Indian
for a week How would you like to
join a bapd of savages all of them
about your age and your color and
spend every forenoon and every after
noon for a week with them Bet
youd like it
At the Chautauqua in your town
there will be conducted a regular
Seton Indian school during the whole
week There will he a sweet voiced
young lady teacher who knows and
loves children in charge She will
tell Indian stories and teach new In
dian games It will be her purpose to
inculcate lessons on honesty c age
and industry while affording amuse
ment for the little folks
There will be two bands of Indians
none younger than six years and none
older than fourteen Before the Chau
tauqua opens substantial Indian suits
will be on sale at the local clothing
stores at 1100 each the lowest cost
price They will be serviceable long
after the assembly is over Or the
suits may be made from yellow or tan
goods The boys will wear long trous
ers with red or yellow fringe down
the side seams A long coat loose and
falling nearly to the knees is the
proper style for 1910 Of course there
must be gay colored fringe around
the neck etc to give the proper sav
age effect and there must be a head
piece decorated with feathers The
costume for the girls will be much the
same except that the skirt shall be
provided with squaw like fringe The
foot wear is optional but it is safe
to guess that the boys will not care
for any i
Sarah Wathena Brown the cele
brated harpist who will entertain at
our Chautauqua this season carries
with her the most expensive
ment In the business
BOKHARA THE NOBLE
A City That Docs Not Livo Up to Its
High Sounding Title
The same manners and customs pre
vail in the Bokhara of today that were
fii miliar to our night prowling friend
or liiigdiul A blindfolded horse still
plods round and round licneutu a beam
grinding ilie corn between an upper
iinil i nether millstone The cotton Is
still carded by the primitive agency ot
a double bow the smaller one nlllxcil
to the ceiling and the larger one at
tached to It by a cord and struck by a
mallet so as to cause a sharp rebound
The or censor of tht
morals still rides slowly through tlw
town compelling the children to at
tend the schools and their parents the
mosques inspecting the weights and
measures and keeping a watch oxer
the behavior of the community as a
whole When a tradesman Is round
frullty of cheating he Is stripped hare
in the street forced to his knees and
flogged with a stirrup leather by one
of the censors attendants
The world moves slowly in Bokhara
The JMUS still close with the set
ting sun After dark no one is allow
ed abroml the only sound at night be
ing the melancholy beating of the
watehmans drum as he patrols the
streets with a lantern in his quest un
like IMogenes of a dishonest man
With lis filth fanaticism vice cru
el and corruption Bokhara the Xo
liie as its penple insist tin calling it
coiiifs nr iUM in ln inu a hell on earth
than any piare I know and that is the
best that I nui say about il K Alex
ander Powell In Kver bodys
PEARL DIVERS OF JAFA
Women and YoungGirls Who Are Ex
pert Swimmers
The pearl divers of Japan are the
women A Ion the coast of the bay
ot Ago and the bay of Gokasho tin
thirteen and fourteen year old girls
after they have finished their primary
M hool work go to sea and learn to
dive They are in the water and learn
to swim almost from babyhood and
they spend most of their time in the
water except in the coldest season
from the end of December to the be
ginning of February
Even during the most inclement of
seasons they sometimes dive for pearls
They wear a special dress white un
derwear and the hair twisted up into
a hard knot The eyes are protected
by glasses to prevent the entrance of
water Tubs are suspended from the
waist
A boat in command of a man is as
signed to every five to ten women
divers to carry them to and from the
fishing grounds When the divers ar
rie on the grounds they leap into the
water at once and begin to gather oys
ters at the bottom The oysters are
dropped into the tubs suspended from
their waists
When these vessels are filled the div
ers are raised to the surface and jump
into the boats They dive to a depth
of from five to thirty fathoms without
any special apparatus and retain their
breath while remaining under water
from one to three minutes Their ages
vary from thirteen to forty years and
between twenty live and thirty five
they are at their prime Xew York
Sun
Mark Twain In Parliament
After a visit to I Jtigland once Mark
Twain said on his return to Xew York
Among other honors heaped upon me
by Englishmen was that of being pho
tographed in parliament I am not a
member of parliament Hut neither
am I a member of congress Has any
fellow American suggested that I
should be photographed In congress
Xo I blush to say that they have not
And yet here is an honor that might
without risk be bestowed on any great
man Aud yet it was not bestowed
upon Washington Jefferson or Lin
coln When I saw that photograph
with the mother of parliaments in the
background and realized my advanc
ing years I said to myself nere are
two noble monuments of antiquity
two shining examples of the survival
of the fittest
Liberia
Liberia shares with Haiti the dis
tinction of being the only place in the
world where the negro rules not only
himself but also such white men as
dwell there Liberias history has
been one long record of intertribal and
civil wars although its record in this
respect it is only fair to say is le-
sanguinary than that of naiti In
fact so careful is the Liberian of his
skin when fighting is in progress that
it has become a standing joke that a
Liberian battlefield is the safest place
on earth and that to become a soldier
in Liberia is to embrace the least dan
gerous profession known to mankind
Pearsons Weekly
The Prettiest Feet
A Swiss professor named Redorta
states that not one woman in a score
has a perfect foot owing to the wear
ing of high heeled boots and pointed
toe shoes Russian German Ameri
can Austrian and Dutch women he
says have broad feet while those of
Englishwomen are too narrow to fulfill
clasuical and healthy conditions The
women of the Latin races excluding
Frenchwomen have the best formed
and therefore the prettiest feet the
professor says
Classified
The suggestion has been made that
goats meat prices should be taken
away from the provisions list and quot
ed in the butter market Xew York
Tribune
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