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OLUME XIV.
SUBSCRIPTION, SI.SO PER ANNUM.
CLYDE KING AND D. H. CRONIN. EDITORS AND MANAGERS
O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, AUGUST 3, 1893.
NUMBER* 4.
ii Mrnmm
j0Cal News of O’Neill aa Caught
by the "Kids.”
her INTERESTINtf^tfiil&S
of General Internet Published While
News Is Still News.
I>erry was oyer from Butte Wed
V' _—
] Bailey was up from Ewing last
sday. __
end the dance at the . rink next
icsday. __
rtiii ball at the opera house next
icsday evening.
. Hugh Gallagher, of Darlington,
, is in the city._
jmer Adams came over from
cer Monday evening.
M. Uttley and wife returned from
t to Omaha last Thursday.
ad our article on cheese .manufac -
published in another column.
it Bartley was down from Atkinson
icsday flirting without!* school
s. __
irslial Hall was quite sick the latter
of last week, but is now on duty
again. _
lie O'Connor and Dug Jones re
al last Friday from a business trip
our City.
v. N. S. Lowrie will speak at the
tliuusc on the subject of prohibition
ly evening.
. and Mrs'. Corbett went up to
HBon Sunday evening, returning
day morning.
s. Quigley _ and daughter Effle, of
s City, have been visiting friends in
till the past week.
and Mrs. J. J. McCafferty went
d to Sioux City Tuesday morning
! absent a few days.
rs. Lou Shellenger went up to Hot
urs last Friday where she will visit
i month or six weeks.
ill Adams went down to Oklahoma
week on a pleasure trip. He re
ed Weduesday evening.
lf-sealing fruit jars and jelly glasses
for sale, at hard times prices.
! O’Neill Grocery Co.
'V. Thomas, formerly of O’Neill,
lately been appointed receiver for
American Savings Baqk, of Omaha.
xs. Ray returned to O’Neill Monday
r 1 fear’s visit in Canada and Mich
1 She also visited the fair on the
trn trip.
te Hew it returned Tuesday evening
a his trip to the fair and is again
idling electricity from the wires at
F. E. depot. »
iss Mamie McManus returned from j
nont last Saturday evening, where
had been attending the Normal the
I six weeks.
Its- 0. L. Darr and Miss Mazie re
jed Sunday (horning from the Hot
■n£9, where they had.been visiting
ll'ves for a month.
■wince SeTah Sundayed in O’Neill.
Pats in most of his time now at Nor
'. making arrangements to open his
diary publishing house.
0 ^-“Sust 15 I will commence buy
frain of all kinds, for which I will
we highest market price.
S. M. Wagers.
aye on hand a large stock of shot
,0 t*le latest improved patera,
will be sold cheap. Call at once
_Nebl Brennan.
i Short and Miles Gibbons, local
... .?!•''111 run a 50-yard spurt for a
-Oat the fair grounds next
It promises to be
unlay afternoon,
race
It Keeler an(j family have moved
fr a .— *““**»/ nave muvcu
idp in°I^.^tkinson anc* hereafter will
a bfii-h ^ei"' ^alt intends to ope®
iieht» Sll0p as 800n a8 be gets
“Wtened around.
Sister Mathews ruled that the
kioson °“™a1’ which i* Printed in
' Amen. entered »t the postoffice
ilepartmWaS ”0t “ new8PaPer, but
ent 8at down upon him.
s°fannW-ealJneSS’ tbat tired feeling
driven'16 and nerT0U8 prostration
a'vay by Hood’s sarsaparilla,
hShef16 ‘he -ruing sun. „
eneflt of this great medicine
To
c il » trial.
53-53
wi'i give a grand ball
lUe ODPro 1
enine a, °U8e on next Wednesday
P'nse wnn ’ 93’ Neither pains nor
eet,.„. . e 8Pared in making this
terento,., ,n ma“lng this
1 tail to .» 6 8ea80n« and you should
attend.
Mike Welch went up to Hot Springs
Wednesday evening on business, He
will be absent for a week.
O. M. Collins has rented a dewelllng
on kid hill and will move bis family
down from Atkinson this week.
Pat McCoy, living in the western
outskirts of the city, lost his barn last
night by fire, the origination of which is
unknown. _
Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Wagers started
Monday for the Black Hills on a pleas
ure trip. They will be gone a couple of
weeks. _'_ .
During the thunder storm last Thurs
day night, lightning struck M. M.
Sullivan’s windmill. No damage was
done. _
Th.e Kids didn’t know Ham was
loaded.—Sun.
The Sun is mistaken. The Kids did
know'-that Ham was loaded and it
didn’t require the services of a physiolo
gist for us to understand, the nature of
the “load” either.
P. J. McManus left Sunday morning
for Chicago, to purchase his fall and
winter stock and also to see the fair.
He will be absent about a month. H1b
mother, who has been in Chicago the
the past two months visiting her sen
James, will accompany him on his re
turn. _
John Newman left Wednesday morn
ing for Waterville, Wash., where he
intends to make his future home. Dur
ing his residence here the past year Mr.
Newman has been in the employ of
Judge Kmkaid, and has made numerous
friends who wish him success in his
new home. __
It is said that there is a tribe in Africa
where speakers in public debate are
required to stand on one leg, and are
not allowed to speak longer than they
can stand in that position. With all
our boasted civilization, we discover
every now and then points in which
savages surpass us.
By an oversight the visit of J. W.
Dobbs, station agent at O’Neill, to our
town was not mentioned. We met Mr.
Dobbs when in O’Neill Saturday and he
is very enthusiastic over Boyd county.
He has compiled a lot of valuable statis
tics in regard to our county and sent the
same to prominent railroad officials. He
says we must have a railroad.
We again desire to ask the "shortage
committee” why it is that the expert’s
report on Sheriff McEvony is not filed?
Mr. Stitt informed Tub Frontibk as
much as two weeks ago that it was
ready. As we have said before, the
people are paying for this monkey busi
ness and have a right to know what is
going on. This thing of witholding re
ports for effect may prove a boomerang.
The case before District Judge Kin
kaid, wherein the board of supervisors
seek by mandamus to compel Treasurer
Scott to pay certain warrants, was called
up Monday. B. It. Dickson, attorney
for Scott, demurred to the proceedings
upon the ground that the county had
not the right in law to institute the pro
ceedings, but his honor, after taking the
question under advisement for a day,
over-ruled the demur and gave the de
fendant until today to answer.
The ladies of the Episcopal church
will give a lawn social next Friday
eyening (tomorrow night) at Dr. Morris’
residence. Refreshments will be served.
The ladies have kindly granted the hoys
privilege^ to erect a bowery for danc
ing. The lawns of Messrs. Morris and
Klnch, combined with the beautiful
grove, makes an ideal spot for a party of
this character and The Frontier ad
monishes all those who desire to spend
a pleasant evening to attend.
John Berry, the efficient assistant in
the county treasurer’s office at O’Neill,
was parading around with our Atkinson
belles last Saturday evening. We do
’ not wish to intimidate John, but advise
him not to call more than seven times a
week. The boys up this way are for
bearing kids, but they will kick worse
than a bobtail mule in fly time when an
impending mountain of grief threatens
to obstruct their path that leads to
Elysian fields and Sylvan shades.—
Graphic. _
After considering bills that have ac
crued against the county since last Jan
uary, the board, in auditing the claims
makes John Crawford’s name first on
the list in numerical position on the
warrant hooks. John’s bill was for
only $112.40, and as the service he ren
dered was purely humanitarian—“view
ing bridges’’—it was eminently apropos
for the board to signalize his optical
sacrifices by placing his name, a la Ben
Abou, where it “leads all the rest.”
We are glad to see such unselfish de
votion to the public weal, officially and
formally recognized, notwithstanding
he is an old veteran on the county pen
sion rolls, as John is always “strictly in
it" for reform in public expenditures.—
Graphic.
Tlit Institute,
The Holt County Teachers’ Institute
convened in this city Tuesday morning
with an attendance of 110. The in
structors in charge are Prof. Hunt, Prof
Miller, ’of Fremont, and Prof Jackson
of Ewing. Superintendent Dudley is
of the opinion that the total attendance
will be about 140. Following is a list of
those in attendance:
Mamie Mnrley, Ella Marloy and Toss Mar
ley, Inman; Edith Walbrount, Pago; Katie
Sullivan, .Julia E. Sullivan, O’Neill; Judith
llinkard, Lizzie Blnkard, Dorsey; Mrs.
Jeanette Taylor, O’Neill; Grace Deeman.
Spencer; Itosa Brown, Chambers; Minnie
Cavanaugh, William Baxter. O’Neill; Etta
McAllister, Agee; Earnest Beam, Leonln;
Idell Taylor, Jule Jtafford, Ida Smith, It. E.
Slay maker, Atkinson; Edith Rink, Stunrt;
Mrs. Jennie Young. O’Neill; Ella Wolfe,
Wipfrod Cobb, Star; John Graham. Emmot;
C. J. Coffey, O'Oelll; Katie Hahn, Mamie
| Hahn, Mattie Copp, Llxzle Clssne, Jennie
Cissne, Agnes Fullerton, Muude Walker, Ona
Nlnox, Atkinson; Jessie Whitney, Stuart;
Edith Meyers, Ina Oroutt, Atkinson; Chas.
Meals, Oran Bowen, O’Neill; MuryVeale,
Kay; George • Baker, Atkinson; Maggie
Dwyer, Anna Murphv, Maud Glllesple.Lottle
Bell, O'Neill; Hattie La Itue, Little; May
Trussell, Little; Mary Holland, Mary Dally,
Maggie Coffey, O'Neill; Charles Just, Scott
| vllle; Mnry Hurley, Katie Hurley. Croce Mc
Coy, Will Lowrle, O’Neill; Nellie Lell, Little;
Etta Saunders. O'Neill; Mattie Stanton.
Mlnneola; Mamie McManus, O'Neill; Nettle
Johnson, Swan; Rose Smith, Anna Morrow,
Atkinson; Alloe McShane, Hammond; A. W.
Roberts, Inman; Mary Higgins, Amelia,
, Mary Clark, O'Neill; Loula Parker. Dorsey;
Lizzie Hart Inman; Minnie Newman, Cora
Newman, Dorsey; Dorn Jones, O'Neill; Ella
Lambert, Little; Gertie Fort; Mrs. Nettie
Braztll, Dorsey; Linda Ord, Page; Mamie
Joyce. O'Neill; AUle Warring, Edaie Weath
erfngton, Middle Brunch; Grace Conger,
W. It. Parker. Nettio Earl, May Flnckey,
Chambers; Louise French, Jennie Moffat,
Sena W. Peck, W. W. Pock. Inez; Tlllle
Mullen, Page; Mrs. Mary Ward, Inman.
Maggie McLaughlin, O'Neill; Lcla Prothero,
Chambers: Bridget O’Donnell. Mamie O’Con
nor. Mary Horrlskey. O’Neill;Nellie Hopkins,
Agee; Bertha Jenne, Stafford; Nellie Thomp
son, Page; Addle Burleson, Anna Sluymaker.
Ella A. Cosens. E. B. Ackey, Atkinson ;Llzzlc
Smith, Ewing: Minnie Chase. Olenrwator;
Hattie Iloweli. Sizer; Cora Gunter, Nellie
Hohmann, Ewing; Blanche Strong, Hollinun;
Ella Bauman, Anna Bauman, Atkinson;
Mnry McGinnis, Kittle McBride, O'Neill;
Mary DoVlnney, Dorsey.
Our citizens should not forget the elo
cutionary entertainment to be given at
the opera-house in this city next Thurs
day evening by Lu B. Cake and Ella
June Meade, for the benefit of A. O. U.
.
William and Edward Stiles are broth
ers and wealthy real estate men of
Wichita. They are twins and in addi
tion are so much alike that peoplo who
have known them intimately for years
constantly mistake one for the other.
In the town lived two school teachers,
who were sisters and twins. The four
met, fell in love and were married by
the same preacher at the same time.
The gentlemen were dressed alike and
so were the ladies. The preacher got a
little mixed and had to refer to his
notes hut the high contracting parties
are satisfied. The father of the young
men presented them with colts that
were twins. Twins have come into
gravely asserted that each set of twins
cannot be determined from the other.
They have all four been in one house
and the yisiting mother has been unable
to tell her own little ones. These eight
twins are coming to see the fair. At
the hotel are two negro boys, twins,
who are to be assigned especially to
wait on them. Complications are
looked for.—Ex.
Richard Moon, a young farmer living
in the south valley, a son-in-law of
William Bell, made a desperate attempt
to take his own life last Sunday night.
He and bis wife had been having trou
ble, the cause of which seemed to be
unreasonable jealousy upon her pan.
In the evening he told her that if she
did not change her tactics and treat him
better he would kill himself. She re
plied that she could not do otherwise
than she had been doing, whereupon
the husband left the house. Shortly
after he was found a distance away ly
ing limp upon the ground. Some of
the neighbors were hastily summoned
and he was carried to the house. He
admitted having swallowed a large
dose of paris green with suicidal intent.
Large quantities of milk, grease and
limewater were administered and Dr.
Hunt was summoned. He] disgorged
enough of'the poison it is said to have
killed fifty men. At the present wiit
ing the patient is in a fair way for re
covery, though it will be some time
before the effects of the deadly dose are
entirely removed.
Latkb: Mr. Moon came to town
Tuesday evening for his mail. Yester
day he was taken with inflammation of
the stomach and the doctor had to be
called. His condition is rather a serious
one it is said.—Stuart Ledger.
each of these two households
Letter List.
Following Is the list of letters remaining lit
the postoffloe at O’Neill, Neb., unclaimed, for
the week ending August 2, 1803:
J. B. Dennis, Miss Eva Deheyder, Miss
Helen Dethesson, S. Gilson, Mrs. Gust Goeker
J. H, Jones (foreign), C. H. Smith, Emery
Waldron (2).
In calling for the above please say “adver
tised." If not called for In two weeks they
will be sent to the dead letter offloe.
J. H. EioosP. M.
Why Not Manufacture Ohooiol
Thg idea of manufacturing cheese in
Holt county is suggested to us by L. D.
Richards, of Fremont, through corres
pondence with O. C. Hazelet, or this
place. This is a subject that we are not
overly familiar with, but judging from
the correspondence, we are in the
“cheese belt” as it were, and the ques
tion is worthy of serious consideration.
To give our readers a clearer idea of the
climatic necessities we publish below
Mr. Richards' letter to Mr. Hazelet,
also letters to,Mr. Richards from John
Luchsinger & Co., cheese manufacturers
of Monroe, Wis.:
Fremont, Neb.. July 28, 1898.
Q. C. Hazelet, Esq., O’Neill, Neb.
Dear Sir—I have been hnving corres
pondence with cheese makers in a lead
ing cheese-making district of Wisconsin
with reference to the adaptability of the
country immediately surrounding Fre
mont for cheese making, including the
so-called foreign cheese. The condi
tions prescribed in the letters I have
received, as to Boil, clear, cold running
water, cool nights, etc., strike me as
applying with special force to the coun
ties of North-central Nebraska, and
knowing your interest in everything
pertaining to the welfare and develop
ment of your section ot country, it
occurs to mo to submit herewith copies
of some of the letters I have received on
the subject of cheese making. I res
pectfully submit it to you for whetever
you may deem it worth.
Yours truly,
L. D. Richards.
Monroe, Wis., July 17, 1893.
L. D. Richards, Esq., Fremont, Neb.
Dear Sir—Your favor of June 27
came duly to hand. To make a good
cheese country and describo the thing in
a nut shell, would say, cold running
water, brooks and springs, light soil, a
loam put not too dark, cool nights dur
ing summer, shade for the cows during
the heat of the hot summer days, and
access to cold water any time. These are
aboutthe main points to start with. I
have not the time to come out now and
look it up for you; cannot do it before
next March or April when the snow is
off the ground. Yours truly,
Ferdinand Grvnert & Co.
Monroe, Wis„ June 30. 1808.
L. D. Ricitards, Esq.. Fremont, Neb.
Dear Sir—It is true that this is a great
i( not the greatest dairy country in the
northwest. 230 factories averaging 100
cows each, make an immense quantity
of cheese, mostly of the foreign makes,
Swiss, Birck, Limburger, etc. It is,
however, only since twenty years that
we have become a dairy section. Form*
erly it was wheat, then corn and oats
without rest, until the land seemed ex
hausted for everything except weeds.
In addition it was rough and hilly, and
the soil was washed out on the hillsides
in immense gullies. The first cheese
factory had slow progress, but when we
found out where we had failed we ap
plied the remedy both as to feed and
manufacture and the mode of disposing.
We can now safely say we are on a firm
basis. We have expert cheese makers
and dealers, and a fine, hilly, tame pss
ture land with plenty of springs and
brooks of cool water. We have no
special breed of cows, but have a select
ed lot from all breeds.
Any other section of the country with
like conditions of soil, grass, water and
people, can make a good cheese section.
The best results can be obtained on
tame grass pastures that afford feed
until snow flies. In our case the cheese
business has advanced the value of
farms more than 50 per cent.
Yours truly.
John Luchbinger.
In connection with this we see by the
Rushville Standard that the people of
county are becoming interested in the
industry. Speaking of a trip made to
Casper by J. H. Jones, of that place,
the Standard says he "came in contact
with a man who owns and operates a
cheese factory at Manville, Wyo. The
gentleman is -desirous of establishing
other factories in the west, and he is
expected here next week to ascertain
what he can do in that line, and'he will
begin business here provided he can
secure a building on favorable terms
and the milk from 250 cows. At Man
ville he is consuming the product of 100
cows and turns out 120 pounds of cheese
each day. This, he says, finds ready
sale at the factory at 15 cents per pound.
He charges cow-owners three cents per
pound for manufacturing, leaving them
12 cents per pound for the product. He
gave figures to prove that one cow in
this busines would earn about $25 per
Adolph Bogshardt has rented the New
Odgen hotel and will run a hotel and
tailor shop in connection. Mra. Boss
hardt will feed the hungry and Mr.
Bo8ahardt will clothe the ragged in first
cl ass shape. Give them a call. Stf.
Notice to Builders.
Bids will be received until Aug. 18,
1893. to build a township hall, Paddock
township. For particulars address J. T.
Prouty, township clerk, Paddock, Neb.
8-3 __
Notice.
To the Voters and Tax Payers of
Holt County, Neiiraska:
I hereby announce myself a candidate
for the office of county treasurer of
Holt county, Nebraska, and earnestly
request the support of all voters inter
ested in the welfare of our county.
D. P. O'Sullivan,
8-tf O’Neill, Neb.
FOR RENT—The Tavern. Has been
repapered and refurnished throughout,
and is one of the best equipped hotels
in the city, 1-tf John O’Neill.
Burtwood 92388, a Good Son of a Gnat Bln.
O'Neill has a reputation all over the
country at the home of some of the beet
bred trotting stock in the land and we
are getting better ones all the time,
there being here now sons and daugh
ters of some of the greatest sires living.
Five years ago no one could have been
made believe that there ever would be
owned and kept in this city a
stallion by a sire that stands at
81000, yet wo have one, and
in this week’s Fhontikk give a cut
of him and his breeding in full. B. A.
DeYarman, of the firm of DeYarman
Bros., proprietors of the Idle Wild
stock farm, of this place, last woek re
turned from Lake Genova. Wisv with
his valuable purchase.
Burtwood BBSS la a bay stallion foaled In
IH8D, has ono white hind ankle, stands 15)4
hands high and weighs 1000 pounds. Burt
wood was sired by tho groat sire Nutwood 000
record 3:18, sire ot Manager, 0-year old, roo
ord 2:00%; Lockhart, 2:10; jEgpn, 2:18; Nut
hurst. 2:14)4, Woodnut. 2:18)4; Woodline, *{: 10;
llelmont lloy, 2:15; Ulehwood, 2:15; and loi
others with records hotter than 2:00. The
dam of Uurtwood is Nunette (the dam of
Five Points,2:30.) by Btrathmore (408), slro of
Slruthso, 2:11); Ilosebcrry, 2:1514; Santa Glaus,
2:17)4; Snowdon. 2:10)4; Skylight, 2:10: and
40 more sons and daughters with records bet
ter than 2:30, and the sire of 12 sons that
havo sired 32 In tho 2:30 list. Among them In
Sidney, 2:111)4. tho sire of Faust, a yearling,
record 2:22)4; Frou Frou. yearling, record
2:25)4; Bold Leaf, record 2:11; Adorns, 2:11)4;
and 10 others In tho 3:30 list, which Is more
than any other 11-year old slro ever had to
Ids credit at that ago. Strathmore Is also
tho slro of the dnms of 34 that havo rooordM
from 2:13A4 to 2:30. The second dam of Burt
wood 1h Fawn, by Joe Patterson, thorough
bred. Third dam by Mumbrlno Ohlof 11, the
slro ot Lady Thorn, 2:18, and the grandstru of
02 In the 30 list.
To say that Nutwood 000, the sire of
Burtwood, ia one of the greatest repre
sentatives of tho Hambletonlan family,
is saying none to much. His colts are
record breakers, they trot fast and train
on. His sons Biro extreme speed with
great regularity. Woodline, a son of
Nutwood, is the only stallion that ever
had a representative in the 3:80 list at
4 years of age. A daughter ot Nut
wood ii the dam of Arlon that holds the
8-year old record of the world, 3:104.
Strathmore, the sire of the dam of
Burtwood, is one of the best producing
sons of the great Hambletonlan 10,
founder of the Hambletonlan family of
trotters.
Burtwood was purchased from John
E. Burtou a prominent breeder of
horses at Lake Geneva, Wls. Mr. Bur
ton was out of town and the deal being
closed with his agent brought the fol
lowing letter, which we copy.
Milwaukee, Wig., July SI. 1893.
Mr. B. A. DeYahman,‘•.O’Neill, Neb.
My Boar Sir—You have, as I think, very
Wlsoly goon fit to purchase our registered
Nutwood colt, Burtwood, for 12000, and while
we hare uo further Interest In the horse, it la
a pleasure for me to always have everyone
abundantly satlsfled with whatever property
we may sell them, and now that a word from
me may not"bo considered os spoken In a sel
fish sense in the hope of selling the horse, I
wish to say to you what I could not. with as
good propriety have said to you before you
purchased him, and that Is this:
Say what you will In regaid to blooded
horses, tho Nutwood family today out-ranks
all other families In the world, and Nutwood
is today tho living sire ef 109 sons and daugh
ters In the 2:30 class on their Individual per
formances. 1 believe you have one of the
very finest specimens of tho Nutwood family
in existence, and Governor J. M. Turner, of
Mlghlgan, wrote me Just before you pur
chased the horso, that If I would ship him to
Lansing and give him one year’s time to
dispose of the horse, he would undertake to
get mo $8000 for him In good, unincumbered
real estate, as he had Just sold his only Nut
wood oolt for that price and found them to
be the most salable of any blooded horses he
had aver handled, there being absolute con
fidence In the blood. I therefore believe
your horse Is as well worth $6000 us any of
these fine horses are worth the prices tney
are sold for, and If you are wise you will
nover part with him for less than this sum.
In April last, the Horseman, the best
known paper of Its kind in America, said,
voluntarily, in Its editorials regarding my
horse, and after presenting his portrait In a
double page engraving, as follows: “The
illustration doesn't flatter this scion of Nut
wood and Nannette by Strathmore. He Is
Justus substantial and high styled as the
picture represents him. A good Judge of
equine physiognomy can see intelligence In
countenance and his general oontour sug
?ests power and suppleness. Nutwood is the
oremost of living stallions, and a cross of
his blood, especially when It Is fresh and
strong as In Burtwood, with the Strathmore
family, Is beyond price. As a stock horse no
young stallion Is better qualified to perpet
uate nls name than Is Burtwood. Nature
has endowed him with all the characteristics
of a perfect horse."
Clark's Horse Review, the second best
known paper of Its kind In this country, alto
said, under date of April 25,1893, regarding
our horse as follows:
"it only needs a cursory glance through
the list of living sires to show that Nutwood
Is the champion of them all. Horses em
bracing this golden strain in their pedigrees
are quoted at a premium in the open market,
even when they are not fashionably bred in
other lines, but when a horse is inbred to the
blood that produced Nutwood, then compe
tition waxes high and men tight desperately
for the prize. Such will be the scone when
Burtwood, at beautiful Lake Geneva, is
offered for sale ut the Burton stock farm and
is led into the ring by Auctioneer Bean to
usk for bids. Fortunate Indeed will be the
man that secures this horse and keen will be
the regrets of the unsuccessful bidders.”
I have mailed you this day two marked
copies of the lieview containing the notice,
of which this is the substance. I sent you by
American Express last Tuesday the electro
type of Burtwood. which was made from an
actual photograph of the horse.
If 1 can servo you at any time always feel
at liberty to command me, and wishing you
great success in the development of this
splendid horse, I remain, respectfully yours,
John E. Burton,
As will be seen by Mr. Barton’s letter,
end more particularly by the
horse’s pedigree, Burtwood is a
treasure and an animal that
would be a credit to any breeding
(arm in the country. While speaking
of these horses of pure speed-producing
blood, we cannot refrain from again
lamenting the sad fact that we have no
suitable track for their development.
MO HAITI COLUMN.
The Independent lait week liberally
donated over a column of space to sug
gest a requiem to be sung at tbe grave
of "No Man" when hls'spirlt shall have;
loosed its earthly cable and soared away
to select its wings and join the maze of
kindred Immortalities that are said to
flutter eternally In the glorious radiance
of perpetual light and happiness. The
title that Introduces his ancient dog
gerel, which is published without due
credit to anyone, is "Tbe Butterfly
Dude." Now this shameful libel com
pels us to make a statement that is
astounding In Its Import, but which
might never have been made but for the
publication of this poem of antiquity :
"No Man” Is a womant
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A few of the boys Monday evening
procured a tallyho and burned the high
five club In effigy, as It were. Every
kind of horrible noise that could be
invented and carried on wheels lent its
mite to the discord aod night was made
more than hideous for a short time.
Without discussing the rights or wrongs
of the case we may be allowed to say
that as a burlesque It was pretty good
and attracted more attention than a
circus would have done.
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There has been loafing around O'Neill
for the past week a kid of some twenty
summers who seems to be a little off, as
the saying goes; not mentally deranged,
but blessed with an over amount of
confidence in human nature. A few of
the cold, cruel-hearted boys about town
cornered him Tuesday evening and pro
ceeded to have some fun. They invited
him into a back room where darkness
reigned and an air of secrecy permeated
the atmosphere. The lights were turned
up and there seated in solemn medita
tion were twelve tried and true mem
bers of the vigilance committee. The
meeting was called from rest to labor by
tbe swarthy captlan and his voles
rattled like a skeleton inhabited by
spooks as he stated that tbe object ot
the meeting was to hang a man who had .
imbibed too freely of old rye. The ten
deifoot trembled like an aspen leaf as he
was sworn to secrecy and his knees
knocked together in discord when n
gatling gun was laid upon the table.
But the exact whereabouts of the victim
was not known, so by a unanimous vote
it fell to the lot of'She stranger to chase
him to his lair and report in fifteen min
utes. He accepted the dangerous mis
sion and his teeth rattled audibly as he
glided through the door, but he never
came back. It was a mean trlok but tbe
boys seemed to enjoy it.
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The Wandering Jew accuses No Man
of plagiarism, and has the unkind audee
ity to assert that this column is made >
up from that excellent New Ybrk Jour
nal, Town Topics. We do not intend .
to deny this assertion, but feel highly .
flattered by the criticism. If any one
has just cause for soreness at the re
mark, it is certainly Town Topic*. We
might remark here, however, by way of
parenthesis, braces, dashes or something
of that sort, that if the Jew would de
vote more attention to his scissors and
paste and less to his pen, , his readers
would greatly appreciate the improve
ment it would certainly make in Us
paper. ■*
A learned doctor of medicine recently
in conversation with No Man told us a
funny and pointed story. We were '
talking of the administration’s attitude
toward pensioners, when he said the
situation of those suspended, partic
ularly the G. A. R. independents, re
minded him: Away back in Maine >
there lived an old farmer, and like other
old farmers, he had horses and cows and
oxen and steers and calves and other
domestic animals that are always to be *
found on every well regulated farm, but
that is neither here nor there. One
evening the old gentleman commanded
his son to hie himself to the barn yard
to turn a certain calf in with a certain
cow, which said cow was the calf’e law
ful mother, that the aforementioned calf
might suck and consume enough of the
fluid lacteal to quench its thirst and sat
isfy its cravings, but when the youth
let down the bars the calf espied a poor .
old steer cavorting around in a 10-acre
pasture, and thinking it had discovered L
its mother, madly gave chase. The boy
tried in yain to capture it and after >
repeated attempts exclaimed: “Go it,
you blanked fooll you’ll find the differ- i
ence when you get to sucking.” And so it
is with our G. A. R. independent friends
who helped elect Cleveland by voting *’
for Weaver. Now that they have got
to sucking they realize the difference.
MONDAY, AUGUST 7.
Our last offer of Cut
Prices on summmer Dress
Goods, Ginghams and
Calicos; and also our line
Of ladies' linen Collars
And Cuffs.
J. P. MANN.