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THURSDAY MARCH 30 1911
BURLINGTON TIME TABLE
Main Line East Depart Central Time
No G 1110 P M
16 430 A M
2 520 A M
12 700 A M
14 920 P M
ilaia Line West Depart Mountain Time
No 1 1235 P M
3 H42 P M
5 arr 830 p m
13 945 A M
15 1230 A M
Imperial Line Jlouutahi Time
No 176 arrives 345 P M
No 175 departs 645 A M
No 17o departs Wed 630 A M
Sleeping dining and reclining chair
cars seats free on through trains
Tickets sold and baggage checked to
ury point in the United States or
Canada
For information time -tables maps
and tickets call on or write D F
Hostetter Agent McCook Nebraska
or L W Wakeley General Passen
ger Agent Omaha Nebraska
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
Mr and Mrs Ray E Benjamin are
from Fairbury on a visit of a week
or so s
Agent and Mrs Harris of Danbury
are parents of a baby boy born on
March 17th
Over one hundred cars of stock were
shipped Sunday from the branch lines
through Red Cloud
Changes in the passenger train ser
vice this week have caused a mild
sensation in railroad circles
Conductors Frank Kendlen J H
Burns and T E McCarl of the pas
senger department were dropped
from the service this week
The Tribune hears it stated that
Conductor A L Knowland is working
in the train service of a road run
ning out of Salt Lake City
Herman Hegenberger Frank Rank
and A H Bagley are the new regular
passenger conductors advanced by tha
recent decapitation in the passenger
train service
Agent and Mrs George Scott and
baby were down from Brush Colo
rado last Friday night to attend the
Eastern Star meeting and visit with
friends between trains
The body of Engineer W F Zum
walt who was killed in January near
Spokane Wash was recovered on
March 19th from the river and in
terment was made in the Fairmont
Neb cemetery on March 22nd
Two of the new O l class engines
are now in service on the Alliance
line Nos 5038 and 5039 They are
expected to pull better than 2-000-ton
trains over the Alliance Edgemont
grad
The Burlington has extended mil
ling in transit privileges at Cambridg
at the request of Cambridge Milling
company to take additional territory
on originating grain and to permit
the shipment of flour to McCook and
beyond without extra charge
The Burlington SViicE iiad planne
to complete an extension from Ther
mopolis Wyo to Powder river in
the same state this year has conclud
ed not to carry out the project The
completion of this line would repre
sent the investment of more than
11000000
The extra stock train Wednesday
morning did a distribution stunt by
which several head of cattle were de
posited along the right of way be
tween Wilsonville and Beaver City
which is not down on the regular
schedule A door of one of the stock
cars came open in some manner and
nine head of stock escaped One calf
was found at Wilsonville and a heifer
was corraled at the stock yards in
Beaver City One dead animal was
located on the right of way between
the two towns and the other six head
were missing at last reports Beaver
City Tribune
The Curious Opossum
The American opossum is one of the
most curious animals living in the
United States It4 is the only one that
carries its young in a pouch like the
kangaroo It is the only animal that
can feign death perfectly It is re
markable for hanging by its tail like
a monkey It has hands resembling
those of a human being Its snout is
like a hogs while its mouth is liberal
ly furnished with teeth Its eyes are
like a rats and it hisses like a snake
New York Herald
The Beautiful Bridge
Popular love of art may be carried
too far The author of Charles Bour
bon Constable of France tells lis that
on the occasion of the sack of Rome
the citizens refused to secure their
safety by taking the advice of their
captain Reuzp da Ceri and cutting
the bridges Ponte Quattro Capi and
Ponte Sisto The people declined on
the ground that they were too beau
tiful
Appropriate
Youngpop is going to have his baby
christened Bill
How strange
Ob I dont know The youngster
came on the first of the month
Puck
Life
Iiife is not made up of great sacri
fices or duties but of little things of
which smiles and kindness and small
obligations given habitually are what
win and preserve the heart
t - Married
J T Freeburg of Denver and IIi j
Flora Schaefer daughter of Mr and
Mrs Henry Schaefer who live just
west of town went to McCook Mon-
day morning in M M Brees auto
and were quietly married there by j
County Judge Moore The3 loft on
Tuesday morning for Denver where
they will make their future home Mr
Freeburg is in the eniplo of
Burlington railway at that place Mr
Freeburg is a graduate cf the
bertson high school Culbertson Ban
ner
Application fpr License
McCook Nebraska March 30 1911
Notice is hereby given that I have j
filed Jn the office of the City Clerk 1W
ing that a license to sell malt spirit- i
uous and vinous liquors in the build- j
ing situated on lot 15 block 27 117
Main Avenue in the First ward of
the City of McCook Nebraska be
granted me for the coming municipal
year beginning May 1 1911
3-30-St DAN P CLOUSE
BLUFFS AND PLAYS DEAD
But Theres a Fatal Flaw In the Hog
Nosed Snakes Acting
When you find a hog nosed snake
flattened out upon the soil in his anx
iety to absorb all the sunshine that he
can he immediately adopts a policy of
bluff He first inflates his body by
a deep draft of air Then he flattens
his head and expands his neck to three
times its proper width Next he strikes
angrily toward the intruder and hisses
with malignant fury The average
pedestrian naturally retreats with a
feeling of gratitude for the dauber sig
nals so unmistakably imprinted by a
kindly Providence upon the deadly
members of the reptile race
A good field naturalist will quietly
advance his bare hand to the reptiles
head because he knows that this snake
can neither be induced to give a poi
sonous bite nor a bite of any kind See
ing that the observer cannot be in
timidated the snake then opens his
jaws and acts os if he had been in
jured Convulsive spasms ripple down
his spine He writhes and twists as
if transplanted by the agonies of death
and turning over on his back the last
onvulsion dies away along the tail
Now nothing in nature looks more
dead than a snake lying with the ivory
white of his belly plates turned upward
to the sky and the hog nosed snake will
simulate death so patiently that you
may carry liim by the tail or hang his
body on a fence and he will swing in
the wind and give no sign of life for
an hour or more
But this clever acting has one fatal
flaw If you place him on the ground
with the belly downward he will twist
over on his back again He has such
a fixed idea that belly plates skyward
is the correct pose for a serpents
corpse that although supposed to be
lifeless he will turn over on his back
a dozen times if you as perseveringly
persist in laying him on his crawling
surface His zeal for the perfection
of mimicry blinds him to the obvious
truth that dead snakes stay where
they are put Century Path
TWO DUELS
The Second One Was to Avenge the
Victim of the First
A certain English gentleman who
was a regular frequenter of the green
room of Drury Lane theater in the
days of Lord Byrons committee and
who always stood quietly on the
hearth rug there with his back to the
Are was in his usual place one night
when a narrative was related by an
other gentleman newly returned from
the continent of a barrier duel that
had taken place in Paris
A young Englishman a mere boy
had been despoiled in a gaming house
in the Palais Royal had barged a
certain gaming count with cheating
him had gone out with the count had
wasted his fire and had been slain by
the count under the frightful circum
stances of the counts walking up to
him laying his hand on his heart say
ing You are a brave fellow have
you a mother and on- his replying
in the affirmative remarking coolly I
am sorry for her and blowing his
victims brains out
The gentleman on the hearth rug
paused in taking a pinch of snuff to
hear this story and observed with
great placidity I am afraid I must
kill that rascal
A few nights elapsed during which
the greenroom hearth rug was without
him and then he reappeared precisely
as before and only incidentally men
tioned in the course of the evening
Gentlemen I killed that rascal
He had gone over to Paris on pur
pose had tracked the count to the
same gaming house had thrown a
glass of wine in his face in the pres
ence of all the company assembled
there had told him that he had come
to avenge his young compatriot and
had done it by putting the count out
of this world and coming back to the
hearth nig as If nothing had happened
Conquering a Critic
William Simpson a British artist
who accompanied the army during the
Crimean war said that Lord Cardigan
the commander examined his early
sketches of Balaklava with a vacant
stare curtly remarldng It is all
wrong Still Simpson persevered and
was rewarded in the end with the
expression of Lord Cardigans highest
admiration
The real truth was Simpson adds
in his simple way that in the last
sketch I had taken greater care than
in the first two to make his lordship
conspicuous in the front of the bri
gade
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THE SCRAPPY OSTRICH
Hs Is Full of Treachery and Dearly
Loves to Fight
Those who manage ostrich farms de
clare that inuh diplomacy is required
in the handling of the ostrich which
in more respects than one is a decidedly
queer bird
The ostri ii requires aside from
other necessary qualifications a mas
ters hand a strkt hand tempered by
justice and mercy Not that the ostrich
Is at all appreciative of kindness In
deed he never becomes thoroughly
domesticated say those who know
him in captivity
On the contrary the ostrich is
haughtily- and stolidly irresponsive to
kindness and so treacherous is he
when full grown that even his daily
attendants never approach him unless
equipped with the necessary appli
ances to bring him to terms when in
an ugly or dangerous mood
The ostrichs chief object in life
seems to be to fight on every possible
occasion Indeed a fight to him is
the very spice of things
The male ostrich is not without com
mendable qualities however For in
stance ho mates but once and forever
Should he as often happens in the
course of a domestic complication kick
his mate to death he remains true and
constant to her memory never seeking
a successor In the ordinary phases of
domesticity he is attentive and help
ful He digs the whole in the ground
that is to serve as a nest and during
the process of incubation which con
tinues for forty days he relieves the
mother bird of her duties from early
evening till late the next morning
A curious habit of the male -ostrich
is his constitutional At sunrise and
just before twilight the male birds line
up in single file and race around the
inclosure at whirlwind speed until
thoroughly limbered up Then sud
denly arranging themselves in sets
they execute a grotesque minuet with
ludicrous gravity Harpers Weekly
PORSONS FOIBLE
The Drink He Got From Mrs Hopp
nerc Private Bottle
In Samuel Rogers and His Circle
is this anecdote about Richard Porson
the famous classical scholar and pro
fessor of Greek
When Hoppner the painter was re
siding in a cottage a few miles from
London Porson one afternoon sud
denly arrived there Hoppner said
that he could not offer him dinner as
Mrs H had gone to town and had
carried with her the key of the closet
which contained the wine Porson
declared however that he would be
content with a mutton chop and beer
from the next alehouse and accord
ingly stayed to dine
During the evening Porson said I
am quite certain that Mrs Hoppner
keeps some nice bottle for her private
drinking in her own bedroom so pray
try if you can lay your hands on it
His host assured him that Mrs H had
no such secret stores but Porson in
sisting that a search should be made a
bottle was at last discovered in the
ladys apartment to the surprise of
Hoppner and the joy of Porson who
soon finished its contents pronouncing
it to be the best gin he had tasted for
a long time
Next day Hoppner somewhat out of
temper informed his wife that Porson
had drunk every drop of her concealed
dram Drunk every drop of it cried
she Heaven above it was spirits of
wine for the lamp
The Way He Took It
Kindly Landlady to the new board
er How did you find your bed Mr
InlateV Mr Inlate taken aback Oh
dash it maam I was not as bad as
that London Tit Bits
Nothing Lost
I hear she doesnt like me with a
mustache
Going to shave it off I spose
Oh no She never liked me Kan
sas City Journal
TOOK HIS FATHERS PLACE
The Night Edwin Booth First Ap
peared as Richard III
Between the ages of fifteen and
eighteen Edwin Booth was almost con
stantly the intimate companion of his
father Junius Brutus Booth the elder
That fathers eccentricities were such
as to tax even the devotion of such
a son but Edwins affectionate care
never failed He used to beguile the
tragedians time following his arduous
performances by playing the violin or
singing negro ballads accompanying
himself on the banjo Many times he
attended his father on long walks be
tween midnight and morning In ISol
on a certain night the father was
booked to appear as Richard III at
the National theater New York An
hour before the time for the curtain
to rise he chose to lock himself in a
closet at his hotel and refused every
persuasion his son could offer to keep
his engagement
In despair Edwin rushed to the the
ater to explain his fathers absence
The house was already filled The
manager was distracted and in his
excited questioning of the boy acci
dentally learned that the tragedian
had flippantly told Edwin to go and
act Richard himself Well take him
at his word said the manager And
the frightened boy was hastened to
the stage and helped into his fathers
Gtoster costume several sizes too big
for him Members ef the company
gave helpful encouragement
The play opened without an explana
tion to the itliewe When Edwin
made his ontraneo for oiiiJrstlil
oquy tiie substitution --
recognized hut xo was the liov
for Edwin had several t red
in lesser parts noably r I
In the same pbv in i
made his very first aiiir e The
audience was kindly frt a
time then ittvsed and in v enthu
siastic for Edwi j BMith altli uiih only
eighteen years of age played Hi hard
worthily revealing many flashes of
that brilliant genius that afterward
made him a star of much greater emi
nence than his father had ever achiev
ed On the strength of this success
Edwin Booth was soon engaged by
the manager of a Baltimore stock com
pany to play any part assigned to him
at the enticing salary of G per week
Small as that pay was Edwin Booth
later on in the far west experienced
deprivation that would have been im
measurably relieved by an even small
er income Kansas City Star
Mark Twains Sealskin Coat
At the time of our first meeting
which must have been well toward the
winter Clemens was wearing a seal
skin coat with the fur out in the
satisfaction of a caprice or the love
of strong- effect which he was apt to
indulge through life With his crest
of dense red hair and the wide sweep
of his flaming mustache Clemens was
not discordantly clothed in that seal
skin coat which afterward in spite of
his own warmth in it sent the cold
chills through me when I once accom
panied it down Broadway and shared
the immense publicity It won him
W D Howells in My Mark Twain
Serious Acting
Author I see you gave Blinks an
important part in this play I thought
you were not good friends
Manager Thats all right He gets
mobbed in the last act by a bunch of
supers
But thats all stage play
Not this time I have selected these
supers from among his creditors
Life
That
The Trouble
chap really has
a lot o
brains
I know it replied Farmer Corn
tossel But the trouble is that he
keeps usln em to think np new ways
to act foolish Washington Star
Pot Valiant
Mrs Lushman Arent you ashamed
to come home in this condition Lush
man Shamed Womn r aint even
fraid Boston Transcript
MOVEMENTS OF THE PEOPLE
Mrs Charles Meyers of Alliance
is visiting McCook relatives
Miss Florence Jacobs is visiting her
sister in Culbertson this week
loe Dieringer Jr of Harvard was
in the city end of week on business
A Galusha arrived home Tuesday
night from a week spent in Lincoln
on business
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win u rsien tne sale expert was m
the city close of last week meet
ing oldtime friends
J C Moore county judge was in
Lincoln closing days of last week
observing- legislation and- legislators
Clarence Rozell arrived last Friday
night from Chicago to remain at
home some time on business matters
C W Meeker postmaster at Imper
ial was in town Friday last looking
after matters political and otherwise
Bert Sutton arrived in the city
close of last week and was a guest ol
his cousin H P Sutton the jeweler
Miss Edith Waite came home last
Saturday on No 1 from Doane col
lege at Crete on a visit to the homo
folks
Miss May Haddell who has been a
guest of Miss Gertrude Milligan de
parted on last Thursday evening for
her home
George Henderson formerly of our
city son of J M Henderson was
down from Haigler Nebraska Friday
on business
Mrs M C Scott who has bean
spending the winter with a daughter
in Boulder Montana arrived home
last Friday
R J Branscom departed end of
week for Alberta Utah where he
expects to remain for a while at least
and possibly made his future home
Mrs P E Reeder departed last Sat
urday evening on No 14 for her home
In Kansas City Mo after a short visit
here with her mother Mrs Amanda
Berry
F S Wilcox has written his broth
er Justin of our city that he has sold
his residence in Denver and will in a
few days return to McCook to live
Heres welcome to them
Miss Mattie Daugherty entered up
on her dtuies as teacher in the third
grade west Monday morning She
had just finished a term in a country
school in this county in this vicinity
Saying the Right Thing
I dont seem to be able to say the
right thing to women a bashful
young man confided to us the other
day and thats why I dont shine in
society Ill tell you an instance of it
Not long ago I met a woman I hadnt
seen for years and I could see that
she was trying to keep young so I
thought Id say a graceful thing to her
You carry your age remarkably
well says I
Well the moment I said it I could
see that I was in wrong She was
looking chilly and getting red so I
said
Dont mind my little jokes I nev
er mean what I say As a matter of
fact you dont carry your age a bit
well
And then she killed me with a
haughty look and sailed away without
saying goodby Say how should I
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Dufferins Warning Dream
There are many stories on record of
the warning dream The late Lord
Dufferin when in Paris dreamed that
he was in a hearse being conveyed to a
cemetery A few days later as he was
about to enter a hotel lift he was
startled to observe that the attendant
was the living reproduction of the
driver of the hearse in his dream He
stepped back and the lift went up
without him Before it had reached
the top of the building some breakage
took place in the mechanism and the
lift crashed down to the bottom every
one in it being killed
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E ARE showing mighty
good values in Ladies
Waists Skirts Suits and Coats
Come Look If you prefer to make
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Mr and Mrs D B Boyle came
down from their Colorado farm near
Vernon last Friday and are visiting
relatives and friends and transacting
some business affairs this week to d
part for the west again tomorrow
Mr and Mrs Cornelius Ryan of Mo
Cook visited relatives here the first
of the week Mr and Mrs John
Colling returned to McCook Tuesday
after visiting the latters sister Mrs
Albert Diederich Grafton Brevities
Postmaster Lon Cone and brother
and druggist Woodworth of McCook
were over on the lakes near Champion
last week hunting ducks They re
port plenty of game and that the
shooting is good Imperial Republi
can
FOR SALE FOR RENT ETC
FOR RENT Dwelling house Phone
cedar 983 or 25 tf
LOST Old fashioned collar pin b
tween Gil 1st street East and High
school Mrs A C Wiehie
FOR SALE Nearly new Schiller
piano at a bargain if taken soon W
A Middelton Phone red 275
FOR SALE S C Rhode Island
Red eggs 350 per 100 Mrs G C
Smith R 1 McCook Phone Ash
Creek line
FOR RENT Good seven room
house barn and plenty of room In
quire phone 200 Bryce Jones
FOR RENT Nice outside rooms en
suite or single in Electric Theatre
building and over hardware store
McCOOK HARDWARE CO-
FOR RENT Two furnished rooms
with heat and light Phone red 281
Call at 319 1st st west
FOR RENT Four room cottage on
6th street good lawn and fruit trees
Inquire of J S Miller phone black
376
Services Avill be held at the regu
lar hours on Sunday at the ME
church Rev Alfred Sturgeon will
preach both morning and evening Be
sure and hear him
A R Scott together with a doz
en or more others went down to Hast
ings Sunday to join the Elks order
Dr J O Bruce osteopath has re
turned to the city and is again ready
for business Office over Electric
theatre
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 beslj
for you regardless of now mucli or
little profit it yields us
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