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l a If w 1 Aj PAGE 8 I 8 SUMsi fell w nn McMillen prescription druggist- Canned fruits of all kindsin the Flag brand at DeGroff Co3 The Tribunes job department can as usual handle your job printing promptly and satisfactorily Prices reasonable and right You will make a safe and wise choice if it be the Flag brand De Groff Co carr3 them in vegetables and fruits of every sort The cry is already heard of many dead trees being found as the spring begins to open Possibly due in some measure to the extremely dry winter For special on simon pure lard see j Magner The Flag brand is the emblem of quality DeGroff Co Vegetation is already indicating the advent of spring Huber handles the Carhartt glove and caps also and a full line of other makes Sam Diamond announces his grand opening this week with his pleasant smile and a souvenir with each purch ase His store ought to be crowded We wish him success j At Diamonds Shoe Store 1 desire to announce to the people of McCook and vicinity our Grand Opening Saturday Marcli 1 X andfl 8 At 1 13 West B Street I would like to see my former friends andfpatronsfas well as those whom I havent had the pleasure of meeting We will have a pleasant smile for everybody and ajuseful souvenir with each purchase Our motto will be Cour teous Treatment to All and Best Shoes at Lowest Prices and we have a reputation for that Remember the date MARCH 17 AND 18 AND THE PLACE Diamonds Shoe Store 113 WEST B STREET Yours truly Sam Diamond Proprietor THE McCOOK TRIBUNE CURIOUS DOMESTIC PETS Musical Insects and Waltzing Mice Popular In Japan Among the many curious domestic pets of the Japanese are their musical insects and waltzing mice Flung up in the verandas of Japa nese bouses may be seen small exqui sitely cut bamboo cages from which in the hush of dawn and at the close of summer days proceed quaint little whistlings tinklings and trills Usual ly it is at evening that the Japanese sit at their ease to listen to the music of their imprisoned insects One called the suzu mushi gives out it is said a kind of trill so delicate and clear as to sound like an etherealized birds song One species of Japanese mouse may be said to waltz through the greater part of the waking hours of its life never tiring though its feet wear out In the process This peculiar little rodent is black and white and has pink eyes Its chief peculiarity is that at a time when baby mice of other species are just beginning to move about this terpsichorean mouse is al ready able to waltz Put together these Japanese danc ing mice will waltz in couples and at times more than two will join in a mad whirl So rapid is the movement of the dancers that it is difficult to distinguish their heads from their tails The Japanese says that waltzing seems to be as essential to the happi ness of this mouse as midair somer saults are to the rumbling pigeon An upright peg forms a convenient pivot round which the mouse can whirl but it is said that without any such guide they would not in several minutes cover an area larger than a dinner plate and they easily spin under a tumbler New York Tlerald AN UNFOUGHT DUEL Tho Way tho Father of His Country Avenged a Blow It is narrated that on one occasion In his early manhood Washington came very near the settlement of a dispute so common in those days by fighting a duel But as he was the ono who should have issued the dial lenge he had the still greater courage to apologize siud admit that he was in the wrong It was in the town of Alexandria where the young Virginia colonel was quartered with his troops that an elec tion dispute occurred and in the heat of the party excitement Washington told a Mr Payne that he lied That gentleman at once replied with a blow that knocked the young colonel down Word having readied the barracks that their beloved commander had been killed his soldiers rushed to the city to avenge him He met them however quieted them and they re turned to their quarters Mr Payne on receiving a note from Washington the next morning asking him to call at his lodgings supposed it was of course to give the colonel opportunity to demand satisfaction for the blow he bad received the day before Imagine his surprise when Instead of finding pistols or swords ready for a duel Washington greeted him with outstretched hand saying I believe I was wrong yesterday You have already had some satisfaction and if you deem that sufficient here is my hand Let us be friends H A Ogden in St Nicholas Buy flower field and garden seeds from H P Waite Co Their seeds are reliable 9 tf 4tev6k4 TEMPLE THEATRE - ONE NIGHT WEDNESDAY 9 IARCH THE CLOWNS FACE Pathetic Incident From Which tho Use of Black Lines Sprang Every once in awhile says a prom inent comedian I am asked by some newspaper or magazine to tell of the actual feelings of a man who is called on to appear before the public as a continuous funmaker Usually I re ply by calling attention to the fact that one of the greatest tragedies of the theater is connected with the down In tho time of Louis XIV there was a famous clown known as Fat William Gros Guillaume who held his audiences In the Rue Favari by his wonderful eccentricities of gesture voice and mimicry One night so the legend runs his wife was dying and he was still obliged to go on and en tertain the clanking clashing ribald Parisian mob that stood in the pit It was in the days before there were seats in the orchestra Like all imitators of the Italian commedia his face was whitened with flour Under the burden of his great domestic sorrow he was stupid and slow in his performance and in order to stir him up his companion on the stage hit him with a resounding whack with a heavy cane The com bination of his sentimental troubles and the plsical pain caused Gros Guillaume to weep As the tears streamed down over his whitened face the aspect was so comical that the au dience cheered and laughed itself into hysterics And ever since then every clown has black lines on his whitened face Many are the black lines on the face of the actor that the audience knows not of Chicago Tribune Dickens as a Reporter Dickens once described the condi tions under which lie pursued the call ing of a reporter conditions lie said of which his successors could have no adequate idea On one occasion lie transcribed his shorthand notes of im portant election speeches he said on the palm of his hand by the light of a dark lantern in a postchaise and four galloping through a wild country at the dead of night at the then surpris ing rate of fifteen miles an hour He once in the castle yard at Exeter took an election speech of Lord Russell in the midst of a lively fight West minster Gazette Pure Reading Matter One of the funniest requests I ever got the advertising manager told us was from a local dry goods merchant He said I want this advertisement put in a part of the paper where wom en will be sure to read it Great Scott man I said Dont you know that when we have some pure reading matter that we want women to he sure to see we put it next to a dry goods advertisement Cleveland Plain Dealer An Ox Hide Thomas said the professor to a pupil in the junior class in chemistry mention an oxide Leather replied Thomas What is leather an oxide of asked the professor An oxide of beef answered the bright youngster Chicago News Called Her Bluff You are the first man I ever permit ted to kiss me And you are the first girl I evei kissed Will you marry me I wouldnt marry a Har I would Houston Post cCOOK 9 911 GaskellMacVittyCarpenter Co Inc offer The Dramatic Sensation of the Season George Middletons Dramitization of E P Roes Famous Novel Founded Upon the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 Three Million People Have Read the Book Produced under same management that produced The Rosary and The House of a Thousand Candles The Play is More Interesting Than the Book Singularly fitted to appeal to ail classesThe Cosmopolital Magazine Pr ces 1 75c 50c9 35c 25c CURTAIN PROMPTLY AT 830 hatching the Speakers Eye The practice of catching the speak ers eye dates back to the session of 1640 when a heated dispute arose be tween members of the house several of whom claimed precedence of speech It was then decided that whoever first caught the speakers eye should have the right to address the house This rule worked smoothly until 1GS3 when Sir John Trevor was elected to the chair The new speaker was afflicted with an abominable squint consequent ly two members would often catch his eye simultaneously and dedine to give way to one another To obviate this a further rule was framed to the effect that the speaker should call by name upon the member privileged to address the house So every holder of the of fice has to possess a good memory for names as well as keen eyesight Lon don Chronicle The Cruel Wolf Spider One of the most unnatural things In nature if the expression is allowable is the manner in which the young of the common wolf spider treat their mother After the little creature has laid her eggs she envelops them in a silken covering so as to make a ball about the size of a pea and this she carries about with her wherever she goes and will defend it with her life When the young are hatched they climb on her back giving her a mon strous appearance and ride about un til nearly half grown and as soon as they discover their strength they fali to and devour their mother The Main Store On the Main Street If it is the freshest and best in gro ceries fruits vegetables etc you seek look no further than Hubers THURSDAY MARCH 16 1911 WE SHALL BE GLAD TO ADVISE YOU as to the character of any proprie tary medicine you may wish to know about And our advice will not be influenced by a question of profit THE MEDICINE WE RECOMMEND you can rely on as being the best for you regardless of how much or little profit it yields us nrJ L iff v V IOJV Zf l N JjB OOPtlVT A McMILLEN Druggist Everything in drugs McConnell Self raising pancake flour at Mag ners Try a Tribune want ad and watch results A new line of up to date box paper at McMillens drug store Lily Patent Flour when once use none other will satisfy you Buy flower field and garden seeds from H P Waite Co Their seeds are reliable 9 tf Improve your home by papering We have some handsome 1911 papers at all prices Buy flower field and garden seeds from H P Waite Co Their seeds are reliable 9 tf If you feel you want to be shown In the matter of quality go to the McCook Flour and Feed Store A big assortment of new wall paper now in stock at reasonable prices A McMILLEN Druggist Get our prices on mixed paint be fore doing your painting A McMILLEN Druggist Rose Comb Rhode Isalnd Red eggs for sale from pure bred stock GOc for 15 Phone cedar 3422 Mrs Min nie Shaw H P Waite Co handle the Molin line of beet tools Those who will need machines for beet culture the coming season should see these drills and cultivators before buying 9 4t A specialty of typewriter supplies at The Tribune Shop Papers of all weights sizes and qualities Ribbons for every machine carbon papers manuscript covers etc All kept in stock I have several hundred bushels of Early June White oats test 34 for sale Also a John Deere beet drill cultivator and puller in good condi tion S R SMITH 9 2ts Indianola Neb The Model Shoe Store pring 1911 Styles I New Tan Pumps Black Suede 2 Strap Pumps Patent Colt Pumps New threebutton Cloth Top Oxford ALL NEW UPT0DATE STYLES E D Perkins Co HORRIS BUILDING PHONE 18 Tjeaa aaog Sfr s I