The Frontier.
PUBLISHED KVKHY THURSDAY BY
THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY.
W. I>. if ATnaws. Editor. ,
Nebraska was a quarter of a century
old last Tuesday.
Custer county, the liojne of Kern, bos
seven republican papers.
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The Nellgh Advocate in its new dress
presents a dudisb appearance.
Speaker Crisp is said to be a really
sick man. But Mills don’t care,
Why do we not bear from one Keru,
M. C.T Is be a representative, anyway?
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Dave Mercer would make a rattling
good congressman for tbe Omaba dis
Thb republicans are a unit for the
nomination Of D. B. Hill by tbe demo
crats. _^_
Thirty thousand bushels of corn for
starving Russia speaks well for Ne
braska.
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John M. Thurston, in a card to the
Bee, says be does not want to be a can
didate or a delegate this year. No?
Henry Wattrrbon “esteems Harri
son a strong man with tbe people.”
Pretty good democratic endorsement..
The people’s party national convcn.
lion meets in Omaba on the 4th of July.
What’s tbe matter with Van Wyck for
president?
Q The name of Whitelaw Reid is men
tioned in connection with the republican
nomination for tho vice presidency.
Why not?
What is the use of talking of Rich
ards for governor? We do not believe
be would accent tbo nomination if of
fered, and besides it will not be offered
this year.
Mr. Wanamakbr has proven the best
> postmaster general the country ever had
|f and has placed the service in the best
conditions. It is business with htai more
v than politics.
Considering the number of candi
dates in the field, and the spirited con -
test that seems Inevitable when the coiu
p mittee meets, it is safe to say this new
' district,will be ably represented in con -
gress. _
The Frontier agrees with the Sun,
, its respected democratic contemporary,
that the board of supervisors is com
posed of too many members. It is an
unweildy and expensive body. Let ua
' have reform in this direction.
Subscribe for and read newspapers of
all shades of politics and you will be bet
ter able to form correct opinions. The
alliance papers, however, do not advise
' this. Their cry is to “take only inde
pendent papers.” This is “independ
ence,” indeed.
Ir a democratic house, with a majority
of two-thirds, can run two months at an
. expense of over 9700,000, without doing
rj; anything, or even getting as far as the
adoption of rules, how much can it ex
pend and how little can it accomplish in
the course of two years?
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There is a rumor afloat to the effect
that an English syndicate has purchased
P the wind-mill plants of the country, and
;/■ proposes to establish a trust. But the
American workingman knows that En
glish syndicates already control tbe
wind-mill plants of this country—the
free trade newspapers.
The pope at Rome has issued an edict
5 dispensing with abstinence from meat
during the Lenten season, excepting the
usual observance of Fridays. This was
' ' done because of the low vitality existing
:throughout the world from grip, especi
. .ally the aged being unable to withstand
* abstinence from nourishing animal food.
J. Hclkk FOSTER puts in hsr time on
the stump for reform, while her young
son punishes budge snd plays poker at
Cedar Rai ids. Ia. This might be, and
. Helen not to blame, but the boy says he
has not seen his mother but a few times
in nine years. We have no patience
with a woman who runs around the
country on public business and neglects
home duties.
Bays the American Economist: "The
McKinley bill cut off the Canada barley.
'We ought to have 8,000,000 bushels of it
here now, but I don't suppose thare is a
bushel.* 8uch is the wail of a Buffalo
malster. He was careful not to mention
that 8,000,000 bushels of domestic barley
&& was on hand to take the place vacated
^ by the Canadian grain. But then he was
not pleading the barley growers’ cause.”
I* has been found that It is too late now to
establish the chicory Industry here to any
grbat extent this season. Interested parties
however, will experiment quite extensively
this year, and the matter will be looked up
In Europe, and if all is found satisfactory,
action will be taken next season in time.—
Albion News.
The O’Neill chicory factory will be in
active operation and will experiment on
a reasonably large scale this season, and
we do not think it will be necessary for
our Albion friends to go to Europe for
information. Watch Congressman
Bryan, however. It appears to be bis
hobby to get after any industry that is
destined to be a benefit to the state.
In IiIb autobiography. Just published.
General Boiler says; "There were votes
enough thrown for me several times
over to have prevented Mr. Cleveland's
election, but in many of the polling
places they were counted, not for me,
but for Cleveland, and so the electoral
ticket for the state of New York was
counted for liim by a few hundred votes
only.”
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Tub Fremont Flail demands a return
in Dodge county to a modified commis
sioner system. The Flail says: “Some
thing must be dote to save our county
from the auctioneer’s block, and there is
no movement that will go so far toward
doing it as in doing away with the
odious and expensive supervisor sys
tem.” And in many of the county pa
pers we find the same kind of ta’lc,
which shows that the supervisor system
as it now exists is not popular.
The Omaha Bee editorially favors the
"creation of a fund to be used in paying
for the treatment of dipsomania in eases
where the victims of the disease are in
reduced circumstances,” and pronounces
the plan “practical and worthy of consid
eration." No nobler charity is possible
than one which will help men stricken
down with the alcoholic habit to their
feet and self-respecting manhood. Tem
perance work of this character will pro
duce immediate and lastingly beneficial
results.
W. D. Mathswh, after vailed experiences
for several years In all of wliloh lie lias been
successful, again comes to the front, as u
publisher wtt.li The Fhontiku at, O’Neill,Neb,
Several years ago “Doc" published The
Fhontiku and sold It, when ttio name was
changed, Then ho started another paper tn
O Neill and sold that. There was twoor three
more collapses In newspapers In O’Neill, and
now as the outcome of all the adventures Is
ttio old original Fhontiku as bright us a new
dollur, with the old original W. D. Mathews
at the holm. Success to film.—Warren (111)
Sentinel.
Thanks. But you arc a little off in
newspaper histoiy in O'Neill. The
Feontiek was established in 1880 by its
present editor, the name was never
changed nor an issue missed, and it was
sold but once before—to James H. Higgs
by ourself in 1885
Rkiiit is right; persecution is always
wrong. It certainly looks like perse
cution for the county board to demand
of the county treasurer that be produce
the county funds to’ the full board for
the purpose of counting it, when it is
considered that a committee of the
board cheeked over the books and
counted the cash only a few days ago,
that the committee reported everything
covrect to the full board, said report was
unanimously adopted and the new bond
approved. This examination was
strictly made and nearly SCO,000 in cash,
tbo entire balance as down on the books,
caiefully counted by the baard's com
mittee, and this ought to satisfy every
tax-payer in tbo county.
The tirade in the form of a slump
speech embodied in tbo platform of the
heterogeneous St. Louis convention is
very fierce, but it is completely thrown
in the shade by fome of the anarchist
talk which used to be heard in Chicago.
Their platform writes the American peo
ple down as whipped curs, afraid to hold
or express an opinion aud under bond
age to tyrannical powers. The use of
credit was referred to as a lowering
abuse, as though it was not open to
every man to go without it if, be pre
ferred. The whole spirit of the platform
was that of arraying the people in classes
against each other, and representing the
individual as under oppression. There
never was an age of the world when the
unaided individual, using his own bright
mind and industry, could win so high
returns for his labor as now, or had
broader opportunities open to hitn.
If the republicans would win this fall
they must insist that the railroad ele
ment that has so often dominated and
dictated in nominations be relegated to
the rear. Public sentiment is nearly al
ways right, and th'e man who proclaims
that the people have no cause of com
plaint against the encroachments and
demands of railroad manipulators is
either himself a corporation tool or is in
capable of clear vision. We believe the
bone and sinew, the voting strength, if
you please, of the republican party,
favors such legislation as will pit the
railway corporations on a business level
with other enterprises that do not have
millions at command, and that the dis
position is to make these corporation
heelers and solicitors take a back seat
Now is the time for country republicans
to assert themselves for the right. They
have the strength, surely, aud by giving
close attention to the primaries they
will accomplish much more than to seek
a new party. The republican party is
all right. It is some of the so called
leaders that need "trimming.” Pioceed
to trim.
The supporters of Cleveland managed
to make something of a division ot pub
lic aitentiou at the time fenator Hill
was showing his mastery in the state
convention in New York and his party
leadership. The most important thing
brought out by the struggle of the two
factions is that the feeling between the
two has proceeded to such lengths that
neither one can carry New York. This
is practically conceded in the announce
ment from Columbus in Cleveland’s in
terest. It was asserted in that declara
tion that Cleveland did not need Now
York, but could carry the country with
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'Hit that slate. This conclusion is of the
utmost importance in one way, in that
it concedes that the Empire state is no
longer democratic on the supreme issues
of 1802. Examined from the other side
the testimony of the Cleveland managers
is not of so much account. Their claim
is based on his ability to carry such
states as Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota,
etc., not one of them, but the whole
bunch. That same claim was made with
the same confident certainty by Vilas,
Urine, Dickinson and other leaders in
in 1888. The result gave those prophets
the name of ‘ rainbow chasers.”
The Beatrice Express makes no apol
ogy for the publication of the following
private letter, because it believes such
use of it will encourage others who need
help to follow in the footsteps of its
writer, and that for this reason Mr.
Mason himself will be pleased to have it
done:
Fuemont, No))., Feb. IB, 1802,
Dear Mr. Jordon: I deeply apprecluto the
ninny generous and encouraging words you
have spoken about mo In the Express.
I am thoroughly cured of the appetite
wlilcli so nearly accomplished my destruc
tion, and my future endeavor will bo to prove
mys' lf worthy of the woids of kindness and
confidence with which you and oilier friends
have made pleasant my roturn to newspaper
work. Sincerely and gratefully yours,
Wai.t Mason.
In another article the Express suvs:
‘ The Keelcy institute in this city has a
rapidly growing patronage, and numbers
nmoug its inmates several who had de
scended from good and honored citizen
ship almost to the dregs of humanity.
The community will wish them success
in the effort they are making at reform.
The redemption of one such man is
worth more than the institution has cost
from its inception. Before another win
ter the Express predicts that the associa
tion will find it necessary to erect a sep
arate building for their own use.”
Tiie Frontier is of the opinion that
all three of the Keelcy institutes in Ne
braska—at Blair, Beatrice and O'Neill—
will grow in success and in doing good,
and makc3 the same prediction for the
O'Neill institute that the Express does
for the one at Beatrice.
DE. LESLIE E. KEELEY.
How He is Considered by the Medical Fra
ternity.
The general phblic is interested in
knowing how Dr. Keeley and his reme
dies are considered by the medical fra
ternity. in a recent article in the Amer
ican Lancet the doctor is quite severely
criticised, and we deem it but justice to
reproduce the article entire and leave
the render to form his own conclusions
as to who is right—the medics or Dr.
Keeley. Here is the article:
“A party of Detroit capitalists have
bought the right to use the Keeley cure
for inebriety in Michigan. To these or
their representatives only will Dr.
Keeley sell his medicine throughout this
great state. Thirty thousand dollars is
the amount supposed to haye been paid
for this monopoly. The company is
sa’d to have purchased n large property
in the village of Northville, and arranged
for the duplication of the state'of things
now existing at Dwight, 111. It is sur
mised by the papers that over one hun
dred thousand dollars will be expended
in the preparation of this plant for the
cure of drunkards. From the character
of the gentlemen composing tnis com
pany it is certain that they are convinced
that they have struck a method of malt
ing money better than United States
bonds. Should Keeley sell bis cure to
each state on the same terms as he is
said to have done to Michigan, he will
have secured in this manner alone about
one and one-half millions of dollars,
This is a nice little nest egg for a poor
physiciau. Besides this ho has all the
countries of South America, of Canada,
of Europe, Asia and Africa, Australia
and the islands of the sea with which to
increase his nest-egg.
“A physician who lately visited
Dwight told the writer that over eight
hundred were undergoing treatment by
Dr. Keeley. Each one of these paid
twenty-five dollars per week, and the
treatment averaged four weeks. Hence,
every four weeks Dr. Keeley must re
ceive at least eighty thousand dollars, or
about one million dollars per year. In
so far as we have any knowledge of
medical men's income, Dr. Keeley leads
all who have ever lived. If the cure be
genuine, there is every reason to believe
that this income will continue his to
long as he is able or cares to work.
Then to his successor it will be assured.
“Estimating roughly, Dr. Keeley has
about one forty-eighth of all the rnomy
collected by the sixty-thousand physi
cians of the United States, and if his
medical discovery is genuine, there is no
reason why he should not continue to
retain this enormous iucome. It will
thus appear that the drunkards alone
will pay one forty.eighth of ali the
money received by physicians in the
United States. It may seem a little
strange that one disease should pay
such a large proportion of money to one
physician. But it serves to illustrate the
beauties of secret cures for diseases.
In so far as the financial receipts of
physicians arc concerned, wc have no
doubt that they are vastly diminished by
their refusal to hold as sec ret any discov
ery. Here we have a fair illustration of.
the money value to its discoverer of a
cure that affords relief to mauy indi
viduals.'' By the laity, physicians are
often termed 'fools’ because they do not
retain as secret, or patent, tbeir benefi
cent discoveries. The fact that the in
Blind of the profession in nil ages has j
forbidden this thing, conclusively proves
that the profession of medicine is not a
business.
“Suppose Sir Joseph Lister had kept
to himself his antiseptic surgery. Sup
pose that he had established a hospital,
and kept his methods perfectly secret.
The records from his cases would have
shown that his mortality from the same
operation was far less than the old
methods, that classes of cases could be
sufely operated upon in his hospital by
him that elsewhere nearly always failed
and died. It would have required no
very long time for the people to have
learned these facts, and when afflicted
with diseases calling for grave surgical
operations to have sought relief at the
hands of Sir Joseph Lister and in his
hospital. It is clear that with the pop
ular conviction th^t he only of all the
physicians on earth could safely do such
operations, he would have a complete
monopoly, With this he could have
asked any price for his operations that
he chose Such a monopoly would have
made him rich beyond the v. ildest
dreams of a Croesus. When he chose he
could have sold territorial rights jnst as
Keeley is doing. Thu value of such ex
clusive rights would have been fabulous.
Ho to him would have come during his
entire‘life an income surpassing even
that of Keeley. As his discovery ws0
one of an cpoch-makiug nature, there
could have been no diminution in its
importance and money value. From a
business standpoint, Lister was a fool
that he did not retain for himself the
money value of his discovery.
“Medicine and surgery are full of
similar epoch-making discoveries that
would have enriched their discoverers
equally with that of Lister. Yet how
different from Keeley have the authors
of these discoveries behaved. They
have published the fullest details res
pecting their methods; they have taken
as pupils those who desired to learn
these new discoveries; they have in all
respects so instructed their rivals that
they could use the discoveries equally
ns well as the originators themselves
All this has teen done freely and with
out price. There has been no sugges
tion of state rights, no suggestion of
selling out for thirty thousand dollars
the right to use any one of these dis
coveries in Michigan, or any other state
or country. All the great discoverers of
medicine have been quite content that
the fact, of their discovery should be
acknowledged by those who used . it.
They have always rejoiced if by their
genius or labor the lot of humanity was
rendered happier, more free from. in
firmities, and the power of their pio
fession in combatting disease largely
augmented. As a whole, individual
members of the proression, that have
thus profited by the unselfish labors of
their predecessors during thousands of
years, have rejoiced to follow in this il
lustrious line of humanitarians, and to
give the profession freely and fully auy
thing they may have discovered that
is capable of rendering doctors more
efficient in their combats with disease,
bo it has come to pass that among true
physicians there never has been, and is
not now, any secret respecting the
means or methods of doing their work.
‘‘Lastly, we desire to remark, it is uni
versally conceded that the onward prog
ress and most rapid development of the
human race depend upon the most com
plete and speedy dissemination of all
knowledge. Of all classes of meu,
none can be found that has more steadi
ly practiced according to this law than
have physicians. It is surprising that
in this nineteeuth century there can be
found intelligent persons, newspapers,
that claim to lead in the van of progress
and liberty and humanity, who stigma
tize this characteristic of the medical
profession ns reproach worthy of a sneer.
It simply proves that they have not
known physicians as they are, have not
understood that as the students and
teachers of science as applied to the
prevention and relief of human suffer
ing they are compelled by the very na
ture of their calling (if they be honest
men) to#pcak all the truth and the truth
always, without fear or favor. The do
ing of either more or less than this
stamps the individual so doing as an
apostate from the faith delivered to us
by the fathers, and inherent in the very
nature of our calling, and as an enemy
to the dissemination of scientific knowl
edge when found useful for the benefit
of suffering humanity.”
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Heal Estate and Insurance.
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II. BENEDICT,
LAWYER,
Ofllce in the Judge Roberts building, north
of Harnett & Freos’ lumber yard,
0 NEILL,
NEB
E.
W. ADAMS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Will practice in all the courts. Special at
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is also
COUNTY ATTORNEY.
J. W. Thomas, G. W. Wattles,
President. Vloe-Presiden
John McTIugh, Cashier.
* THE *
tate Bank
OF O’NEILL.
Authorized Capital, $100,000.
Paid up Capitai^ $30,000
20 a general mm business,
THE MUTUAL LIFE
Insurance Company of New York
RICHARD A. McCURDY, PRESIDENT.
Statement foithe year ending Deoember 31,1801
■Assets, - - - 9159,1507,138 08
Beservs on Policies (American
Teble 4%) - - - -
Liabilities other than Beierre,
Sarplus, .....
Beceipts from all sources,
Payments to Policy-Holders, .
Bleka aasamed ana renewed,
194,430 policies, ...
Ebks in force, 226,607 pollelei,
amounting to
8146,908,8(3 00
603,849 63
13,030,967 IS
87,634,784 63
18,765,711 86
007,171,801 00
696,763,461 03
Norn.—The above statement shorn a large increase
over the business of 1890 in amount at risk, new business
assumed, payments to policy-holders, receipts, assets and
surplus; and includes as risks assumed only the number
and amount of policies actually issued and paid for in
the accounts of the year.
THE ASSETS ARE IRVESTED AS FOLLOWS i
Beal Estate and Bond A Hortgago
_ Loans, ..... 831,345,540 43
United Matei Bonis and other * ’
Securities, .... 67,661,465 78
Loans on Collateral Securities, 10,228,908 90
Cash In Banka and Trust Ccmpa
nlei at interest, - - - 6,030,163 03
Interest accrued, Premium! De
ferred, etc., .... 6,206,085 49
>169,607,138 03
I have carefully examined the foregoing statement
and find the same to be correct.
A. N. Waterhouse, Auditor,
From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned
as usual.
BBOBI OF TIB EXiUSUQ COKtltTH.
OSes of Us Hstoal lift Inmnnos Company of low York
January 25, 1393.
it 1 meeting of tho Board of Trustees of thiaOompany, held on the
S3d day of Doeember, ultimo, tho undersigned wen appointed a tom
mittoo to eitaiio tho asnnal ststoment for tho year onding December
31,1891, and to verify the samo by comparison with the assets 01 tho
(lompauy.
Toe Committee have carsfhlly performed the duty assigned to them,
and hereby oertify that the statement is in ad particulars ocrrect, sad
that the assets spooled therein are in poeaenicn of the Company.
Vouched ban boon kept, and ths bnaiaess in general is trcnsacud.
H. C. von Post, Robert 8ewell,
Ceoroe Buss, J. h. Herrick/
duucN T. Davies, D. & Robinson,
Jas. 0. Holden.
ROBERT A. Q6ANNIS9, Vice-President.
Walter R. Gillette, . General Manager.
Frederic Cromwell, ... Treasurer.
Emory McCuntuck, ... Actuary.
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