it
Our Fire Proof
Vaults
are at your disposal Why
not have a Safe Deposit
Box in which to keep
your will insurance poli
cies deeds abstracts
notes leaese and otter
valnable ppers In this
manner you safe guard
yourself against any pos
sible loss by fire
If you are not familiar
with the plan we will be
glad to have you call at
the bank inspect the
boxes and allow us to ex
plain fully this secure
way of taking care of
your private papers and
other valuables
First
National
Bank
McCook Nebr
fry F M KIA1A1ELL
largest Circulation n hed Willow Cc
Eiitcn nt at jmstollicc McCo lc Nebraska as
seroud cla matter lubhiei weokly
fcwa d has just competed the ex
pen Jtiu e ct G0OO in nrving
It is Senator Hitchcock If Vic
Rosewater can stand it why the rest
of us will have to
Whats the matter with Governor
Wilson of New Jersey as a widea
wake progressive
Henry Cabot Lodge read his title
clear to a reelection as senator from
Massachusetts this week by a major
ity of six
STEVE WILSONS SUDDEN DEATH
Though He Had Been Sick for Sev
eral Weeks Death Was Un
expected
Steve Wilson the well known livery
man died at his barn the Commercial
barn at an early hour Wednesday
morning He had not been well for
several weeks but was about Tuesday
evening attending to business as us
ual He went to bed at a late hour
and although his brother Charlie no
ticed at one time that he was breath
ing rather heavily he was not con
sidered to he in a condition requiring
special attention Some time later
howwever the brother noticed his
breathing was very feeble and as he
got to him Steve breathed his last
life passing out without a struggle
Steve Wilson was born in Vincen
nes Indiana November 4th 1855
Death came to him in McCook Ne
braska January 18th 1911 He came
to Nebraska in 1890 After a few
years in the livery business in Lin
coln he came to McCook where he
has been successful and has acquired
considerable property He was a con
servative business man a large
hearted fellow nobodys enemy but
his own Many friends will sincerely
mourn his death
The remains were accompanied
hack to Vincennes Indiana this
morning by his brother Charles
His parents have both passed on
and out of seven brothers and sis
ters two sisters and two brothers re
main
Eighth Grade Graduation
Parents of the eighth grade A
class and patrons of the schools are
cordially invited to attend the 8th
grade graduation exercises in the
high school auditorium January 27th
at nine oclock
Instrumental Solo Hunting Song
Elsie Moore
Song Welcome Junior Glee Club
Address The Value of Culture
Hev Reed Taft Bayne
Vocal Solo Say Not Farewell
Florence Rosebush
Presentation of Diplomas C W
Barnes
Song Morning Invitation High
School Girls Glee Club
Get ahead of the rush and paper
your rooms now We have the ipa
pers and the designs and colorings
are particularly beautiful
L W McCONNELL Druggist
BEGGS BLOOD PURIFIER
CURES disease with Pure Blood
THE STATE YOU LIVE IN
Nebraska is less than a half cen
tury old and but one third of her till
able land is indor cultivation yet in
190D this state produced 200000000
bushels of corn 50000000 bushels of
wheat 71000000 bushels of oats 5
000000 tons of alfalfa 7000000 bush
els of potatoes 6000000 tons of tame
and wild hay 105000 tons of sugar
beets and a proportionate amount of
other crops For 1909 her agricultur
al products totaled over 200000000
poultry butter and eggs exceeded G0
000000 her live stock added 120
000000 while her manufactured pro
lucts amounted to over 200000000
more It is estimated that in 1910
Nebraskas contribution to the worlds
wealth reached at least 050000000
What the record for 1911 shall be
lepcnds upon the intelligence the
energy the thrift and fidelity of her
citizens
A search of the record will divulge
the creditable fact that notwithstand
ing adverse conditions Southwestern
Nebraska is contributing a goodly
-hare in agricultural products and in
live stock poultry eggs and butter
to these great totals notwithstanding
his section of the state does not av
erage farmer to more than every
aalf section
Red Willow county can support
from two to four times its present
farmer population and the question
naturally arises why does not the
INSURANCE MAPS
Handy Guides For Underwriters In
Fixing Premium Rates
Many persons must have noticed
when making application for fire in
surance that it is the practice of the
underwriter to examine certain maps
before he will fix the rate of premium
or accept t risk on the property of
fered His lithographic surveys mark
ed oil in diagrams of red and yellow
and other colors are always in evi
dence sometimes bound securely in
dozens of large volumes on other oc
casions laid conveniently in piles of
loose sheets for handy reference
Few persons realize however that
these maps contain all the information
which the underwriter desires to know
about the building he is asked to in
sure and that in most instances more
matters are explained to him by a
single glance than the applicant could
make eveu though he be the owner of
the property
As a matter of fact the details set
forth are most explicit The map
maker has managed by colors charac
ters and signs to give a full description
of the construction equipment and oc
cupation of the buildiug everything
which over fifty years of this sort of
surveying has proved to be of any pos
sible interest to the Insurance man It
is so complete for Instance that an
agent in New York city can readily
form a good idea of the character of a
risk situated in some town in Missouri
or California or vice versa agents in
towns in these western states can like
wise tell the character of a risk In
New York city Cassiers Magazine
HIS QUIGK LUNCH
A Cleveland Mans Experience In a
Toronto Restaurant
The Canadian brother certainly dif
fers from us in several strongly mark
ed respects A Cleveland man went
into the leading restaurant of Toronto
and said to the waiter in his custom
ary quick lunch voice
Crackers n milk cup coffee apple
pie
The waiter bent a little lower
Beg pabdon sir
The Cleveland man said it again
and being slightly irritated said it
faster
The waiter shook his head
Im afraid we avent it sir he
deprecated as Uasblmura Togo might
say
Havent you an3 crackers
No sir Then with a sudden in
spiration We ave biscuits sir
All right bring me biscuits And
you can give me some milk cant
you milk in a bowl
Ill inquire sir Then another in
spiration We can give you coffee
sir
Good How about the apple pie
No sir Weve never ad it to my
knowledge sir I think theres no
call for it Another inspiration We
ave apple tart sir
Fine Bring me biscuits n milk
coffee apple tart and be as quick as
possible please
But it was exactly thirty seven min
utes later when the Cleveland man
brushed away theerumbs and reached
for his hat Cleveland Plain Dealer
His Strong Point
This is a -pretty bad report card
said the father of the young hopeful
as he looked over the teachers figures
You seem to be poor In pretty much
everything
Thats cause teacher only puts
down th studies I aint good In I
ought to have excellenf in one thing
And that hopefully In
quired the father u
Figbtin I can lick any boy In th1
class Cleveland Plain Dealer
m nuM VKSrfSeaMmMiim ir
country fill up more rapidly One
of the reasons is failure to advertise
the same reason that has been so
effective all over Nebraska in colon
izing other states Indeed thousands
have gone from and through our state
drawn to less favored states when
desirable land at cheaper price can
be bought here in Nebrask where we
have better market facilities better
school facilities and better social
surroundings
With a soil peculiarly adapted to
withstand drought or excess of mois
ture to a degree unequaied in any sim
ilar area in the United States and
with a soil of unexcelled recuperative
ability in America Nebraska is es
pecially favored and it should be plac
ed before the home seeking world in
cs true fair light by systematic and
persistent publicity a publicity deal
ing in the facts and the truth of
things It ought to be easier to sell a
Nebraska farm than to sell land in
emote Texas Utah Colorado or
Canada and when the people are
made acquainted with the situation
vhen as in the case of Southwestern
Nebraska the semi arid rubbish is
brushed away by the facts and fig
jres of a slow but solidly developing
ection of state and country then
vill the tide of immigraticn set in
i a and Nebraska will come into
the possession of her own at least
her share
Stand up for Nebraska
mm OF FALCONRY
The Kirghiz Hunt Wolves and Foxes
With Great Golden Eagles
All wanderers are lovers of the
chase but for sheer love of sport and
daring exploits the Kirghiz take the
palm Central Asia is the home of
falconry which was not introduced
into Europe until the crusaders
brought back falcons with them from
their eastern wanderings But imagine
the ambition of the men who fly their
birds at wolves and foxes instead of
at quails and partridges Not content
with hunting game birds with smalt
falcons the Kirghiz capture and train
the great golden eagles with which
they hunt such game as gazelles foxes
and even wolves
A well mounted Kirghiz falconer
carrying on his wrist one of thep
magnificent birds is a fine sight Th
weight of the eagle Is such that tht
owner requires a support for his wrist
and the hunters are usually to lie seen
with a little wooden bracket that sup
ports the arm against the hip Tin
sagles are hooded as all falcon arc
but can be used only in winter when
they are hungry and keen In summer
they are fed on marmots and live a
restful life sitting in the sun in front
of the tent doors
When gazelles or wolves are the ob
jects of the chase the eagles are aided
by long sleek greyhounds of a small
breed the dogs running in and pulling
down the quarry when the eagles have
sufficiently bewildered it Wide World
Magazine
NATURES PAINT BRUSH
Colors Shades and Tints That Cannot
Be Reproduced by Man
Nature paints in the most striking
colors and shades and tints with a
delicacy never achieved by the brush
in the hands of the artist The highest
ambition of the manufacturer of paints
is to produce colors which look like
natures The yhave never succeeded
Grass has a green of its own So has
the leaf and so has the distant ocean
None of these has ever been repro
duced and put in cans with a price
label on them
Winter apples now repose on the
shelves of the paint chemists Honor
awaits the man who can combine col
ors to produce the tints of red of the
Baldwin and Northern Spy They come
pretty near it that is all The same
is true of the colors with which Oc
tober first touches the maple leaf
If all the paint grinding works in the
world were multiplied ten thousand
times they couldnt turn out pigment
enough In a year to do what nature
does in a change from season to sea
son
Natures brush is busy everywhere
all the time In the life of a leaf It
applies the brush day by day follow
ing with its tints from budding time
until it flutters from the branch It
touches the valleys and the hills ths
growing grains the flowering plants
Never is it idle New York World
A Willing Witness
Did his actions havean air of veri
similitude the lawyer asked the wit
ness
What was that sir
I say did his conduct wear an air
of verisimilitude
Oh replied the witness Sure
He was vcrsimilitudin all round the
place Saturday Evening Post
Tender Hearted Youths
Sympathetic Old Lady Youre kind
hearted boys to help that poor fellow
up Heres a quarter for some candy
Enthusiastic Small Boy helping
fat man worse for liquor Thanks
missus but jest hang around a minute
i and watch th fun when he falls agin
yortc Times
PLAY WIT
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Men Who Are Reckless In Han
dling High Explosives
STORIES BY HUDSON MAXIM
The Accident by Which the Inventors
Left Hand Was Blown Off John Ben
ders Contempt For Dynamite Mix
ing Fire and Nitroglycerin
It is practically impossible writes
Hudson Maxim in Adventure to
make the ordinary laboring man ap
preciate the necessity of care in the
safe handling of explosives and the
life of tiie careful man is always en
dangered by the actions of the care
less one
After I had sold the works at Max
im and had invented motorite I needed
a place in which to make the material
and hired a branch of the works there
for that purpose It was winter My
wife had accompanied me as a pre
cautionary measure She was sitting
iu the laboratory to keep warm near
a big barrel stove charged with bitu
minous coal
On entering the laboratory for
something my wife asked me what
was in those two tin pails sitting near
tiie stove She said that she had a
suspicion it might be nitrogylycerin
and she informed me that one of my
men had just been in stirring the fire
and that the sparks flew out in all di
rections some of them lighting in the
buckets to be quenched on top of the
oily liquid
Horrors I said It is nitroglyc
erin
I called the man who had placed it
there and told him to take it away As
it was necessary to keep the material
from freezing he took it into the boil
er house near by A little later on go
ing into the boiler house I saw one of
the men stirring the fire while the oth
er was standing with his coattails out
stretched in either hand forming a
shield to keep the sparks from flying
into the nitroglycerin
In the manufacture of high explo
sives and in experimenting with them
a little absentmindedness a very
slight lack of exact caution a seem
ingly insignificant inadvertence for a
tnoiunt may cost one a limb or his
life The accident that cost me my
left hand is a case in point
On the day preceding that accident
I had had a gold cap put on a tooth
In consequence the tooth ached
throughout the night and kept me
awake a greater part of the time In
the morning I rose early and went
down to my factory at Maxim X J
In o der to test the dryness of some
fulminate compound I took a little
piece of it about the size of an Eng
lish penny broke off a small particle
placed it on a stand outside the labo
ratory and lighting a match touched
it off
Owing to ray loss of sleep the night
before my mind was not so alert as
usual and I forgot to lay aside the
remaining piece of fulminate com
pound but instead held it in my left
hand A spark from the ignited piece
of fulminate compound entered my
left hand between my fingers igniting
the piece there with the result that
my hand was blown off to the wrist
Once when entering my storage
magazine at Maxim in which were
several carloads of dynamite along
with 37000 pounds of nitrogelatin I
saw John Bender one of my employ
ees calmly but emphatically opening
a case of dynamite with a hammer
and a chisel I promptly discharged
him
Not long afterward the innkeeper
at Farmingdale called on me to buy
some dynamite and said he had engag
ed Bender to blow the stumps out of
his meadow lot I told him Bender
was courting death for himself and
everybody around when handling dy
namite but Boniface still wanted
Bender to do the work
Well said I the dynamite you
want is lfi cents a pound but if John
Bender does not succeed in blowing
himself up and killing himself with
the dynamite you can have it for noth
ing On the other hand If he does
blow himself up you must pay for the
dynamite
A few days later there was some
hitch in Benders exceptional luck A
particularly refractory old stump had
resisted a couple of Benders dynamic
attacks The failure to dislodge the
stump Bander took as a personal af
front because It reflected upon his skill
as a stump blaster
Next time said he something Is
going to happen He placed about
twenty pounds of dynamite under the
deep rooted veteran touched It off and
several things happened in very quick
succession The huge stump let go its
hold on earth and proceeded to hunt
Bender
It was a level race but the stump
won Striking Bender on the north
quarter it stove in four ribs dislocat
ed several joints and damaged him in
several other respects and particulars
Boniface came to settle for the dyna
mite
Sixteen cents a pound I said
Bender hasnt a chance In a hundred
Wait till the doctors are through with
him
What do you say to a compro
mise suggested Boniface of 8 cents a
pound For really I do not believe
that Bender Is more than half dead
And the account was settled on that
basis
Kind words are the brightest of j
home flowers They make a paradise
of the humblest home
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McCook Hardware Companys
BIG CASH SALE
This week only is attracting many careful buyers
2TWO MORE DAYS2
In which no take advantage of the many low prices quoted
Some few lines are exhausted but generally speaking
We Can Fill Your Orders Satisfactorily at the Reduced Prices
Everybody appreciates that our offer of
10 per cent Discount
On All Staple HardwarefMeans
A BIG REDUCTION
And that it will pay ou to carefully look around and see
what you need and get it during this sale
People Are Taking Great Interest in the Faultless Malleable
Range
That we are going to sell to the highest bidder and many
sealed bids have already been put in
A Look at this Beautiful Range Will Make You Want It
You need not be tfnid to bid Every dollar less than 6500
is that much les than it is worth but that dont matter it
will go to the highest bidder for cash
2TWO MORE DAYS--2
THE GOLD WAS THERE
But Mark Twain Missed It by Just
One Pail cf Water
With Steve Giliis a printer of whom
he was fond Mark Twain went up
into Calaveras county to a cabin on
Jackass hill where Steves brother
Jim a lovable picturesque character
the Truthful James of Bret Harte
owned mining claims Hark det ided
to spend his vacation in pocket min
ing and soon added that science tQ Ins
store of knowledge It was a halcyon
happy three months that he lingered
there One day with Jim Giliis he
was following the specks of gold that
led to a pocket somewhere up the hill
when a chill dreary rain set in Jim
was washing and Clemens was carry
ing water The color became better
and better as they ascended and Gil
iis possessed with the mining passion
would have gone on regardless of the
rain Clemens however protested and
declared that each pall of water waj
his last Finally he said in his delib
erate drawling fashion
Jim I wont carry any more water
This work is too disagreeable Lets
go to the house and wait till It clears
up
Giliis had just taken out a pan of
earth
Bring one more pail Sam he plead
ed
I wont do it Jim Not a drop
Not if I knew there war a million
dollars in that pan
They left the pan standing there and
went over to An el camp vhih was
nearer than their nm ei Tie
rain kept on rud they at mrrd ti
grocery nd luyro i lag il tell
ing stories to p w te tiure
MeanwhM -in h Ml wsk1
away the top of tu pan of e rSh loft
standing on the slone of Jachas hill
and exposed a Inn -fill of nuggets
pure gold Two strangers had come
along and obervlv it hid fit I mi
to wait until v claira
notice posted by Jim OiiliJ should ex
pire They did not uii l the rain not
with that gold in sigit and the min
ute the thirty days were up they fol
lowed the lead a few pans farther and
took out 20000 In all It was a good
pocket Mark Twain missed it by one
pail of water Chicago Tost
Poising on Nothing
Away up In the air far beyond the
mountain tops the great condors will
hang poised as motionless as if perch
ed on solid rock True their wings
are outstretched but even through
glasses not the slightest motion is per
ceptible They remain in this position
for many minutes sometimes for an
hour making a careful scrutiny of ev
erything below them in their search
for prey Then with a slight tilting
of the wings they flap slowly away
or having found what they were seek
ing dart like a bullet toward it The
eagle hawk and other species have
this same faculty of poising apparent
ly on nothing
Banked Rails
In rounding a curve the tendency
of the weight of a train is invariably
to shift to the outside wheels To
counteract this tendency the outer rail
of a curve Is raised on a higher level
than the Inside the elevation being
In an exact proportion to the sharp
ness of the curve as determined by the
principles of engineering If both
rails of a curved track were of exactly
the same elevation a train would not
dare round it at high speed
Comic Opera Milkmaids
I thought I would introduce a real
cow into my comic opera
How did it work
Didnt work at all The milk
maids frightened the cow Washing
ton Herald
Advertised List
The following letters cards and
packages remain uncalled for at the
postoffice
Letters
Letters
Rollins Mr Mat Long Mrs Sadie
Howard Edward Ef Kern Mr Henrj
Hoelzer Henry Walker K Jacob
Sanders Mrs Anna Saeger Mrs Et
ta G East Jeff Harmon Mrs Jennie
Caldwell Mrs June Mills Miss Inez
Sanders Misses Hazel and Alice
Cards
Marshall P Shaw Belle Mrs
Whpn calling for these please say
they were advertised
LON CONE Postmaster
BOX ELDEP
Mrs Margaret Harrison visited Sun
day and Monday with her daughters
Mrs Geo Younger and Mrs W B
Sexson
Miss Mabel Sexson is working in
McCook
Daisy Younger spent Sunday with
Pearl Campbell
Mrs F C Tyler and Violet spent
Sunday with Mrs T M Campbell
F G Lytle returned home Satur
day from his business and pleasure
trip in the eastern part of the state
The Ladies Aid society will meet
with Mrs T S Draper Thursday
January 26
The Mite society will meet at A
Morosics on Friday evening of this
week
R F D No 3
Charles Nothnagel and wife were
Sunday visitors at the G Clamp home
Hubert Plussard was a pleasure cal
ler in this vicinity a few days ago
August Bahr and family from over
east were at G Clamps Sunday
Albert Clamp and Albert Kemp are
preparing for sure enough winter judg
ing from the sizes of their wood piles
Florence Jacobs is at John
Randels this week
A number from here took in the
show in McCook Saturday
H Clamp left Tuesday for Colorado
Don Thompson hauled hay from the
bottom Monday
R F D No 4
Mrs Mathews is visiting with her
daughter Mrs E J Baker
Clint Hamilton hauled grain Tues
day
Tressie Cozad went to Cam
bridge Monday
H J Cozad had business in the
city Tuesday
G Wallen and Ed Jacques both re
membered the carrier this week
A McDonald is still working on
Miss Evans new house when- it is
warm enough
Ed Jacques hauled out some grain
from town last week to his ranch
Death From Diphtheria
The little six-year-old son of Mr
and Mrs Geo A Oxley living five
miles northwest of town died this
morning from the effects of that
flreadfur disease diphtheria The lit
tle one had been sick but a day or
two The bereaved parents hare the
sympathy of all in their sad af
fliction Cambridge Clarion
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