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(MCO aY THE FRONTIER printing CO.
8UBSORIPTION, SI.80 PER ANNUM.
,UME XII.
O’NEILL. HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY 11. 1892.
ALL KINDS OF JOB WORK PROMPTLY KXEOUTBD,
.NUMBER 31.
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irst National Bank.
O’NEILL - NEBRA8KA.
.up Capital, $60,000. Surplus, $2o,ooo.
Authorised Capital, $100,000.
j IlKKMINGlIAM, Pukb.
IaM.AUIIKH. Cab Him.
J. P. MANN, Vick Pres.
FRED 11. SWINGLEY, Abst. Cashieh.
Loaned on Personal .Security on the Moat Favorable
r.Tma. Issue Time Certificates Bearing Interest.
I Buy and Sell Foreign «fc Domestic Exchange.:
DIRECTORS:
k v|. » M. Cavaeauoii. T. F. Briiminoiiam. J. P. Mann>
11 \V. Moiotomkrt. Ed. F. Gallagher. Thau. J. Berminoham.
ilOLT COUNTY BANK;,
i o'neill, Nebraska.
VI!) ADAMS, President. . D. L. DARR, Cashier.
Wm. Adams, Asst. Cashier.
i GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED..
. fur lb* I'unard. Nor h German Lloyd. American and Red Star lines of
(vrlran Slcniuslilp*. liny and sell drafts drawn on principal citieaof
K'lrop* and America. Accounts of ‘Arms and individuals solicited.
Made and Remitted on the Day of Payment.
OHN J. McCAFFERTY.
-=DEALER IN=
lARDWARE/
Tinware, Farm Implements,
\MTUKH, WOODENWARE, WAGONS, CoRN-ShELLERS.
Coffins and Undertaking Supplies.
O’NEILL. HOLT CO., NEK.
MOSES CAMPBELL’S
wing ^Iachines and Organs.
I keep constantly on hand the WHITE sewing machines,
'i'll, oak or mahogany. The new Rotary Shuttle is the
t,wt running, most noiseless and fastest sewer of any ma
"" Mver made. I have the KSFEY Organ always in stock.
• i'leieiatM know this to be one of the best Organs made
",v niatmfacturers. If you want a Sewing Machine or an
'» don’t 1ft some traveling sharper take you in. He will
'lie to charge you two prices l'or inferior goods. No mat
| " Imt guarantees he will give you they are not as good as
^ ! ut get from a permanent dealer in your own locality. I
f t take orders for Pianos and give the very lowest prices
i most liberal terms.
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U Stoves il Raaps
' 'r,.v largest stock of
Hardware, Tinware,
Cloinaor & Graniteware,
I Nehrnska, ami make a specialty o
Huperior
Harbed Wir'o.
IN IMPLEMENTS I CARRY TIIE BEST MADE
KADLEy & CO. AND PERU CITY PLOWS,
Harrows, Challenge Planters, Flying Dutchman,
^ I.K Y*H.OWS.*PIiRU * CITY*CULTIVATORS
t-LlSTEUS AND DRILLS.®
Iy„ vall an,J me before you make your purchases as I can
J,,u money.
NEIL BRENNAN. O’Neill Neb.
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Deyarman Brothers,
PRORRTKTORS OP TUB
Checker LiveryiFeed&Sale Stable
O’NEILL NEB
Finest turnouts In thoJolty. Good, care
ful drivers when wanted. Also run tho .
O’Neill Omnibus Line
Commercial Trade a Specialty
llavo chargee of i’McCalferty’s Hearse. All
orders will receive careful and prompt attend
on
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Title Abstracters/Conveyancers,
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FARM LANDS •
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FOB SALE OB EXCHANGE.
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Reasonable Terms.
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| DENTISTRY
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y Office and salary on Fourth street M
?1 east of Holt County Bank.
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Fresh, Dried and Salt Meats,
Sugar-cured Ham, Breakfast liaoon,
Sides, Spioe roll bacon, al t kinds of sausages,'.2
O’NEILL, NEBi
hotel Evans.
FORMERLY EUROPEAN.
Enlarged,
Refurnish ed
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REFITTED.
Only First Class Hotel in City.
W. T. EVANS. Puor.
EMIL SNIGGS,
Gensral Blacksmith,
O’NEILL, NEB- '; ■-1
Wagon and Carriage Repair
ing Done to Perfection.%
Plow Work and Horse Shoe
ing a Specialty.
Hand Made Shoes Made to anx Order
Wo stop Interfering and sucoesssnlly treat
quarter Craeks and Contracting Foot, and
'■lire Corns, where our directions are strictly
followed. ' i
Carry a Line of Carriage, Wagron and Pin*
stock. Work done on short notice. XI-03
AH'.'JFICIAL COLD.
DUoorer.r <i.* .1 1 j;. (!i.h Cienlli* Who la
»tis»V l,i l'uvoplr.
A savant has boon discovered who
has succeeded in producing by -the
most simple moans tbo results so eag
erly sought for by the toilers In science
ever since the days ol King Solomon,
who is thought by adopts to have been
himself ono of tho most expert. This
wondrous adept, who sees nothing ex
traordinary in the wonderful work he
has accomplished, is a man 70 years
of ago doomed to solitude and pov
erty, as all such great men are, cynic
ally remarks a London correspondent
in tho l’all Mali (Juzotle.
lie lives in a quarlior perdu beyond
Groncllo, and tho lnlorviowor was as
tounded at tho extraordinary proofs of
tho man’s gontus os he unfolded one
by ono tho specimens of tho progress
and gradual perfection of the work to
which he had devoted the better part
of his long life, with 110 more satisfac
tory result than tho miserable dwell
ing in whioli ho was barely shattered
from the elements—a wretched garret,
through the roof of which the rain
was at the very moment of the inter
view filtering in streams upon the
floor. The adept displayed before the
visitor several specimens of gold in its
various stages. A lump of gold, for
instance, takon from a mine in
Mexico, and by its side another piece,
produced by the mixture of different
metals, according to proportion, and
not to be distinguished from the
original substance as taken from the
mine.
Even with tna magnifying glass no
difference could be detected. His ex*
planation of the method by which he
had arrived at the fabrication of the
metal was clear and simple. He had
always been impressed with the idea
that gold was created by the combina
tion of other metals, and that it was
simply the highest perfection of breed
ing, upon the same principle that is
visible in the gradual development of
objects belonging to the animal and
vegetable kingdoms. The determina
tion to ascertain the fact upon the
very spot of its production induced
him to start forth, amid unheard of
hardships and opposition, to begin his
work in Mexico, just live-and-forty
years ago.
“The identity of the two specimens
now before you," said the adept, "is
absolutely undeniable; they are the
same in every respect. • I defy the
minutest examination of the most
skeptical among the savants; the col
or, the weight, the proportions of the
component elements are identical. And
yet here I have been waiting a whole
lifetime for some one to bring me
help and encouragement to multiply
my experiments, in order to convince
the world that the precious metal to
which mankind has ever attached
such undue value is of itself valueless.
The mockery and laughter with which
I was greeted on my return to Europe
nearly half a century ago filled me
with despair, and I gave up at once all
the hope which had sustained me
through the long years of hardship
and privation I had endured—the
| hope of enriching my country by
means of my discovery, and rendering
it independent whether of war or fam
ine or commerce, or, indeed, of any
calamity but death.”
"And-how have you lived all these
years?" inquired the interviewer,
shivering as he gazed at the comfort
less aspect of the place in which this
imaginative benefactor of the human
race was lodged. And then the adept
was fain to confess that while his
moral was sustained by tliq dream of
the future wealth of the world, in
which he could not hope to sl\are, his
physique was dependent on his labors
as a cheap photographer, at which
profession he earns just enough to
keep the few sparks of life still re
maining in his poor, worn-out body
from being extinguished altogether.
BIRD-SLAUGHTER.
It Is Garrisd On in Florida In m Wanton
and Cruel Way.
The rush of tourists to Florida in*
croases every winter, and so much
shooting every man nearly takes his
gun is rapidly diminishing the game
all through the country.
The time was, and oaly a few years
ago, when every bay and lagoon was
teeming with birds, but when the
fashion demanded that every woman’s
bonnet should be decorated with some
kind of a bird or its feathers, men
were sent to Florida to procure them,
and one expedition returned, it is said,
with 100,006 bird-sitins, shot during
the winter. Such destruction is now
felt, and although the authorities have
now prohibited the slaughter, it is like
locking the stable after the horse is
stolen.
On the Apalachicola river wild tur
keys and ducks are shot wantonly
from the decks of the steamboats, and
alligators all along the banks come in
for a fusilade from the rifles of the
passengers. On my recent trip on
this river I saw numbers of turkeys
shot as they were running along the
banks, that were of course wasted, as
the boat could not stop to pick them
up; and every flock of ducks that rose
was fired into; killing or maiming
more or less of them. Not only on
the ground of wanton cruelty should
the owners of these boats prohibit the
use of fire-arms, but it is a great an
noy anoe to many passengers to have
rifles and shotguns banging away
around them, to say nothing of the
danger to Hfo from the oareless use of
guns by more boya as some of them
wore. It is a theme the Forest and
Stream might properly bring to the
uotloe of tho proper authorities (the
owners of the steamers) in tho oauio,
and enter a protest against suoh wan
ton destruction of such rare game as
tho turkey, as well as every other
bird ooming in for slaughter, as ie
now tho oase on tho river boats on the
Southern rlvera —Forest and Stream,
WATfclKINU A HORSE,
n« Cm I.ly ■ ;> Titus IVIhnnt Fool
'"l> I ' Vi l)p ilk.
A horso can livo twonty-flve days
without solid foo 1, raoroly drinking
water, seventeen days without either
eating or drinking and only live dayB
when outing solid food without drink
ing. An Idea prevails among liorso
mon that a hor o should never bo wa
tered oftonor 1 linn three times a day or
in twenty-four hours. This is not only
a mlstaaen idea but a brutal praotiee.
A horse's stomach is extremely sensi
tive and will nullor under the least in
terference, causing a fevorish condi
tion.
Feeding ahorse principally on grain
and driving it for hours without water
Is liko giving a hum salt mackerel for
dinner and not ullowing him to drink
until supper time—very unsatisfactory
for the man. t
Xr you know anything about tho care |
of horses and have any sympathy for
them water them as often as they want
to drink—once an hour, if possible.
By doing this you will not only be
merciful to your animals but you will
bo a bene'aetor to yourself, as they
will do more work; they will be
healtklor; they will look better and
will be less liablo to coughs and colds
and will live longer,
A horse is a groat deal like a man.
Let him get overworked, overstarved
or abused, and particularly for the
want of suHieleat drii,|: in warm
weather, and the consequences will
always be Injurious. Sensible hostlers
in largo oities are awakening to the
advantage of frequent watering.
Street-oar horses are watered every
hour, and sometimes oflener, while
they are at work. It is plenty of
water that supplies evaporation or
perspiration and keeps down the tem
perature.
Twenty years ago a person having
a fever of any kind of pneumonia was
allowed but little water to drink, and
then it had to bo tepid. To-day
practitioners prescribe all the iced
water tho patient can possibly drink,
and in addition cold bandages are ap
plied to roduco and control the tem
perature of the blood. What Is ap
plicable to man will never hurt a
horse. Use common sense and human
feeling.
Don't think it is a horse and capable
of enduring any and all thinga A
driver who sits in his wagon and
lashes his worn-out, half-ourried, half
fed and half-watered team should never
complain of any abuse he may recoive
from his master or omployer, for he is
lower in character, harder in sym
pathy and less noble than the brutes
he is driving, and deserves, in the
name of all that is human, the sathe
punishment as a criminal.
GIRAFFES BECOMING EXTINCT.
Nearly All tha South African Autalopei
Alao Reoomliif Kara.
An article by Mr. Bryden says that
the days of the giraffe are numbered.
A few years ago a herd of seventy or
eighty of them was often met in va
rious parts of Africa. Mr. Bryden
says that nineteen giraffes are now a
large herd. They have been hunted
so mercilessly, both by natives and
foreign sportsmen, that they are rap
idly becoming extinct
The intelligent African King Khama
has, however, taken the giraffe under
his protection and hopes to save it
from extermination. He has forbidden
the hunting of the giraffe in his large
domain, and in this way he hopes they
will multiply in his country. It is an
Interesting fact that Russia has pre
served the European bison from ex
tinction by setting apart a forest of
Lithuania for them and permitting no
one to molest them.
Recent explorers in southwest Afri
ca say that the fauna has changed
greatly during the last forty years.
Dr. Henry Slichtcr. in a paper he road
before the British association a few
weeks ago, says that antelopes, lions,
buffaloes, rhinoceri. giraffes and oth
er large animals where met with in
abundance when the country was first
explored are no longer to be found in
any part of the southwest; Africa on
account of their ceaseless slaughter by
European hunters, as well as by the
natives since the latter havo- possessed
breech-loading guns. The most im
portant among these animals, the ele
phant, has wholly disappeared from
this part of Africa except in the neigh
borhood of Lake Ngarni.
Anderson, one of tho early explorers
of this region, said that 1,-JOO pounds
of ivory could bo bought at Lake
Ngami for a musket. According to
Livingstone, in three years not less
than nine hundrod elephants were
killed near the little Zonga river
alone. How much their number has
diminished is shown by the very small
ivory export from Walilsh bay, which
amounts to about fifteen hundred
pounds per annum, while in 187' it
was as high ap 37,000 pounds. The
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various kinds ot animats would dou Ot
iose inoreaso again if soma proteotive
measu.es ware taken in thoir behalf,
but there are not many Kahamas
among the important men of Africa
who have sufficient foresight to en
deavor in the interests of their own
people to provent the extermination
of these valuable animals.
Caught a Ply.
Of the father of the Resent king of
Bavaria it is related that one day,
when two of his cabinet ministers
called upon him with the draft of a
new law for which they required his
approval and signature, they found
him seated in his arm-chair, with an
open book on his knees After read
ing the statute to his majesty the min
isters stood for a long time silently
waiting for an answer. At length,
when their patience was nearly ex
hausted, tho king suddenly closed hU
book with a bang, and exolalmed.
with a look of unutterable triumph:
"I have got him! I have, got hloiF'
Be had.caught and orushed a fly,—
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DARK DAYS,
Knmiroiu Timna lu ilia World's History .
When tli4 Muu Wiia Darkantd.
The earliest mention of the phe
nomena referred to In the headline o(
this “note'’ nppoars to be that which
occurred in the year 44, 14. C,, about
the time of the death of Julius Caesar,
where wo read In Plutarch and Dio
Cassius that the sun' was paler than
usual for a whole year. The great
darknesl which lasted two whole days
all over Europe appears to have pre
ceded the groat, earthquake of Al
comedia, which occurred August 22,
A. 1). 368. Two years later.ln all the
eastern provinces of the Homan em
pire there was a ;'dark day,” which
was so dark as to * make stars visible
at noonday. From further descrip
tions ono might considor this the re
sult of a total eclipse, but astrono
mers say that neither the eclipse of
March 4, 360, nor that of August 28,
of the same year. Was visible in the
countries mentioned. During Alrle's
siege of Rome 402 and 410,
A. D., there wore several
days "as dark as the nights
whioh preceded and followed them.”
In 636. 667 and 626 we And mention
of long periods of diminished sun
light According to Hchnurrer, ‘the
sun darkened in an alarming manner
on August 19, 733, without there be
ing the least possibility of an eolipae
being the cause.” The Portuguese
historians record several months of
diminished sunlight in the year 934,
say# the St Louis Republlo, which
terminated by an apparent opening in
the sky "from which loud sounds
issued, the noise founding not unlike
two giants quarrelling.” In 1091, on
September 29 (not 21. as given in
some' translations of Humboldt's
• Cosmos”), the sun turned suddenly
black and remained so for three hours.
For days after the blackness hod dis
appeared the sun gave out a peculiar
greenish light which occasioned great
alarm. Schnurrer next mentions a
dark day in June, 1191, but astrono
mers attribute it to the total eclipse
which was visible in the greater part
of Europe in June 21 of the year men
tioned. Several dark days are record
ed as having occurred in February,
1106, the darkest being the 4th, 5th
ana 12th. On the 6th a bright star
was seen shining ‘only a foot and a
half from the blackened remains of
the sun.”
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■vu mo last aay oi reoruary,
1206,” says Cortevza, a Spanish
writer, “the sun appeared to suddenly
go out, causing a darkness all over
the country for about sis hours.” The
superstitious writers of the time at*
tributed the great darkness of 1241 to
God's displeasure over the results of
the battle of Leignlt* the sun being
so obscured as to make it necessary to
keep lamps burning until after the
ninth hour. Prof. Schiaparelli, who
has been years collecting data concern*
ing that uncanny event, is noif in
clined to refer the cause to the total
eclipse of October 6, 1241. Kepler <
toils ua, his authority being Gemma, *
that there was a sun-darken^ig in
1547 which lasted for three days,
April 22—26. which finally ended by
the sun ‘appearing to be suffused with
blood to that degree that stars were
visible at noonday.” America has ex
perienced several dark days during
her 6hort historical life, the most
memorable being that of -May 19,
1780, when the darkness was so great
that all the people of New England,
with the exception of a sturdy few,
were terrified almost to the verge of
distraction.
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