- '? On a bone-laden vessel. ^__' - Iwmm of Scorpion* and Peatlferon* Bor* Make Mfe a Mleery. r' When the 700-ton Austrian bark “ ;k Vila was picked up at sea by the Norwegian fruit stoamer Breidablik I#' and brought to New York acouple of months ago much curiosity was ex pressed as to what could have caused rr her orew to desert her. With tho ex ception of being partially dismasted, she was in porfect condition, says the New York Tribune, and the loss of her masts might have occurred aftor her' crew left hor. She had sailed from Egypt with a cargo chiefly made up of old bones, and no word was heard of her until she was 'A picked up off Hatteras, by the Breidablik. All the bark’s papers ond every scrap of food had been taken from her, and the fate of hor crew is a mystery. The experience of the three-masted schooner Wallace J. Boyd, which recently arrived at Philadelphia from Montevideo with a similar cargo of old bones, may afford an explanation of the mystery surrounding the ivf Vila. The crew of the Boyd say that nothing could ever induce them to ship again on a bone-laden vessel. Within a few days after leav ing port the vessel became infested with scorpions and pestiferous bugs, which came out of the cargo and penetrated every nook and corner of c the craft The men were driven from their bunks in the forecastle, and every effort to rid the schooner of the plague was unavailing. Five or six times a day all hands were compelled to strip, bathe and change their clothing, but the small insects hung on in spite of all this. On a day which was damp and warm the torment was aggravated by the ap pearance of large, green bugs, which swarmed over everything and con tinued their ravages until port was reached. It is believed that the creatures were in the bones when they were gathered on the Argentine plains, and the excessive heat of the hold during the voyage through the tropics caused them to breed in enor mous numDeys and forced them on deok. It is possible that the erew I*]-! of the Vila was driven from her by a similar cause and met a worse fate. Catnip Made Her Crasy, A young married man with a young baby at home recently bought a box of catnip. He put it in hla overeoat pocket and stopped in at a well-known Chloago resort to get some thing stronger than catnip tea for him self. In ashort time he noticed - that the bigpet oat of the establish ment was manifesting remarkably anxious symptoms. All at once he thought of the catnip. Here was a cat brought up V,; In a city, and which had never before sniffed the fragrant herb which is so much a medicine for fe lines in distresa So he opened the package, gave a few leaves to the cat, and the orowd was soon enjoying an unusual performance. The cat was in raptures, and rolled about in ffe, suoh a crazy fashion that the bar , keeper was suspicious. He declared that "them fellows had given the cat poison.” Thereupon he gave the cat a dish of milk as an antedote, and oouldn’t get it through his dull head that an herb called catnip was a spe cific medlolne for cats of all climes. A. lumu'i Idea or Work. Farmer Hardfist—What under the sun Is the reason that boys are suoh no acoount critters nowadays? Here is our son, - Jasper, pretty nigh crazy to leave the old farm and git a job in town. Mra Hardfist, meekly—Perhaps he thinks the work won’t be quite so hard. Farmer Hardfist—Work? Why, shuoks, Polly, he don’t skurcely know what work ia He haln’t done a thing since supper but milk the cows, feed the horses, slop the hogs, split and carry in the wood and kindlln’s, shell a little corn, ketch the colt, and turn the grindstone for me about half an iV hour. He’s had all the rest of the time to himself, exoept the few min utes it took him to mend the bridle I broke this mornln’. What in the name o’ Tunkett makes all the boys i so crazy to leave the old farm?—Life. JmMu Uuloal Instruments. The Javanese musical instruments are made mostly of bamboo. They also played upon a pipe or whistle, which was about three feet long and six inches across. This sounded like i3|;; the hollow roar of a lion. Another |‘f!% wa* * bundle of tubes of different s lengths, which covered the small boy who carried it like a big saddle. A g log hewn out with two strings stretched across it served as a drum. ^ zither of sixteen strings and a mandolin of two completed their out door band, while inside one could hear other music made by gongs of wonderfully pure and beautiful tone. J. w- Hr.ak.rs. Maine used to boast its hard names of rivers, lakes and towns, but . Alaska's simplest names are longer and harder than most of those for which Maine is famous. A few of the longest and hardest Alaskan names of villages are these: Ahgome khelanaghamute, Ahgulakpagha mute, Chokfoktoleghamute, Kahlu khtughamute, Kennachanaghamute, Kyktoltowtin, Quiechogamute, Tee uahotozna, and Akgulurigiglak. He Had Had It. The Doctor—Do you ever have a sinking feeling? The Patient—No. The Doctor—Have you ever had it? The Patient—N—no—yes, once. The Doqtor—Ah! You’ve had it once. We’ll get at your trouble im mediately . How, then, tell me when it was that you had that sinking feeling. The Patient-*-When I fell over r. '1 board from a boat h ■ , -.v> THE CIGARETTE VICE. Why It It Mach Mart Dangerous Than the Use of Tobacco, The use of cigarettes is not merely tho use of tobacco, it is a vice by itsolf. In reformatories whore tho cure of the opium, alcohol, and cigarette habits is a businoss, ciga rette patients are not restricted from smoking pipes or cigars which are rogardod as com paratively harmless. The ciga rette works a special evil of its own which tobacco in other forms does not effect. This evil result may be duo to drugs, or to paper wrappers, or to the fact that the smoke of cigarottes is almost always inhaled into the lungs, while cigar smoko is not. As to that, let the oxperts decide; about the fact of the effect there is no doubt, and no dearth of evidence. No other form of tobacco eats into the will as ciga rettes do, says Harper’s Weekly. The adult man can carry off a good deal of poison of one kind or another without disaster, and his duties being fixed and his will formed, he is usually able to make his minor vices subservient to his more im portant obligations. And so it happens that it is a matter of con stant observation in clubs, and when ever there are intelligent men who allow themselves all the creature in dulgences that they dare, that these experienced persons are constantly I “swearing off” cigarettes for longer ' or shorter periods, and smoking cigars instead. The cigarette fetter begins to gall, and they fling it off. But young boys do not do that They have not discretion enough, for one thing, and, for another, cigars cost too much for them, and cannot be smoked surreptitiously in a spare moment It is the in fernal cheapness of the cigarette and its adaptability for concealment that tempt this school-boy’s callow in telligence. HU First Letter. The couple had never been sepa rated In all the years of their married life until “pa,” at the age of 70, con cluded to visit some relatives in Boston. When he was preparing to start on his memorable trip, says the Chris tian Union, his wife, who was to re main at home, said: “Pa, you never writ me a letter in your life, an’ I do hope when you git safely there you’ll write me a line and let me know how you bore the journey. I’ll buy a sheet of paper and put in a wafer, so you won’t have no trouble about that.” Pa was absent a week, and, faith ful to his promise, he sent a letter. It read thus: “Respected Lady: I got here safe, and I am very well, and I hope you are the same. I shall be glad to get homo, for the pride of the airth that I sco hero is enough to ruin the na tion. The women folks are too lazy to set up in their carriages. They loll back and look as if they was goin’ to sleep, and I don’t B’pose one of ’em could milk a cow or feed a pig. Nephew Abijah has a proper dairy of horses, an’ I have rid all over Bos ton. There wa’n’t no need o’ puttin’ them boughten buttons on my coat, for nobody noticed ’em. I am. Youb Respected Husband.” Interchangeable Heela for Shoes. An English firm has recently been granted letters patent for an inven tion whereby the heels of boots and shoes can be easily detached or re versed. The invention consists of steel, or any similar material, shaped as a lift with flange and groove, by the first of which it is fixed in any part of the height of the heel at the option of the maker, while the up per portion of the heel is so con structed as to slide into position so that it is indistinguishable from an ordinary heel; but to secure absolute seourity a fine screw is inserted from the inside. The a'dvantages claimed for it are that when the top piece becomes slightly worn down the wearer can reverse it to the other boot, and after these have been well worn they can be replaced by a new set at a very small cost. —Shoe and Leather Facta KheummtUm vs. Goat. Mra H——: “Now, doctor.” said an oldolady somewhat emphatically, “1 want; you to tell me if you can cure my rheumatism.” Dr. W-, judging from the tone that evasion was out of the question, thus replied: • ‘Madam, how do you know whether you have rheumatism or gout?” “Well, doctor, what is the differ ence between themP” Dr. W-, with a comical twinkle and a solemn countenance—Madam, rheumatism is the result of original Bin; gout is actual transgression.” History does not relate what as sistance the old lady gave the doc tor in coming to a definite diagnosis. —Boston Gazette. London Stmu. Bond street was named after Thomas Bond. Paternoster-row is said to be so-named from the turners of rosaries, or Pater Nosters, who formerly dwelt there. It has also been noted as the locality of station ers. printers, and booksellers. Cheapside, a celebrated street and crowded thoroughfare in London, is named from the Saxon word Chepe, or market. Addison in referring to it says, “The inhabitants of St. ! James’, notwithstanding they live under the same laws and speak the same language, are a distinct people from those of Cheapside. ” Altar tha Row. “I suppose now that you will be going home to your mother in the i morning P” “I just won’t I have tried that and it doesn’t seem to do any good. I am going to bring mother here this time.” DOQ8 ON THE RACE TRACK. A Canadian Lad Made SIO.OOO Out of Exhibition* by ill* Trotting getter. Horae racing liaa long been an es tablished and popular pastime, and now dog racing is coming to attract some attention. A lad named Willie Ketchum of Ontario, is said by the Utica Press to have been the pioneer in this line of sport. In 1887 he showed his trotting dog broke to harness. It was an Irish sotter, who never left a trot and made half-mile heats against ponios, llo was able to outspeed almost every pony that was entored against him. His challenge was large and was against any pony twelvo hands or under, or to give any horso twenty seconds, the horse to go a mile and the dog half a mile, the horse to draw a quarter of his own weight The lad has made #10,0:i0 with his dog in this way. Another boy named Charley Kinsler, whose home is in Ohio, trained a bull dog to make splendid time on the course, lie was not(a success however, because on the occasion of his first raco on the fair ground the word go had just been given when he espied an unfriendly dog some distance away, and he bolted the track and over hauled the object of his chase, and could not be persuaded to return till ho had whipped him on the spot Young Kinsler gave up teaching bulldogs, and his next venture was with a cross between a Newfound land and bloodhound which devel oped very good speed. Young Kins ler, however, had the best success with setters, and those that he broke to harness were able to go at quite a fast clip. He made a tour of the country fairs, and was everywhere a popular attractioa The business netted him handsome profits, and he is training other dogs to draw in harness, single, in pairs and a four in-hand. Of course dog trotting can bo at best but a novelty and a side attraction. The two lads who have gone into it have done immensely well with the enterprise, but it is a field that can be very easily crowded, and too much competition will ex tinguish the business. Sneezing Make* People Angry* Why is it that it makes nearly everyone angry to sneeze? One will generally hear an exclamation of impatience after a sneeze. Dele gate heard a gentleman let off sev eral oi these staccato explosions the other day and between every snort he gave vent to lively expressions of sulphuric adjectives. Asked why he did it he said he always had to sneeze when he didn’t want to. It interrupted his business and jarred him from center to circumference, and he didn't like it. It was a use less and harrowing expenditure of time. Women do not like to sneeze. They may give vent to ever so small a “cat sneeze,” but it causes them to make such unbecoming faces, dis turbs their complaisance, disar ranges their hair, their bonnets, and sets them all on edge, and they haven’t any use for it anyway. And yet scientists say the sneeze is bene ficial; that it is a healthful provision of nature; shakes up the constitution and prevents clogging and sluggish ness of the circulation. This may be true, but mankind would much prefer some other method of regu lating constitutional matters. Passed on the P’Int. In the course of a trial before a justice of the peace in Texas, coun sel for the aefendant requested the court to rule on a certain point; whereupon, counsel for plaintiff, whose name was Charles Leggett, insisted that the court had already passed on the point. After consid erable argument and due delibera tion on the part of the court, the justice, who was Irish, said: “Chaar ley, this court has niver passed on that p’int ” “Well," said Leggett, “will your honor pass on it nowP” “I do pass on it now,’1 responded the court, with infinite dignity. “Well, how does your honor pas9 on it?” in quired the perplexed counsel. The court straightened himself up, cleared his throat, and relieved him self by delivering the following in his most impressive manner: “Cbaar. ley, ye must abide by the law, what iver it is. ”—Argonaut Chance for Another Rath* Another strip of Indian lands, the northern part of the Colville reserva tion, will probably be thrown open to settlement next fall. Government surveyors completed their survey of the strip about a'wee k ago. The res ervation is bounded on the north by the British Columbia boundary line, on the west by the Okanonga river, and on the south and east by the Columbia river. * The portion to be thrown open for settlement extends the whole width of the reservation, and from the British Columbia boun dary to about thirty-six miles south. It has an approximate area of 2,500 square miles. There are a few In dians on the strip, who will receive each 160 acres before the land is thrown open to the whites. ri he Skoptzi. The St Petersburg correspondent of the Standard tells this story: A banker and his niece, who are mem bers of a religious sect called the Skoptzi, or self-mutilators, were sen tenced to fifteen and ten years’ im prisonment respectively. The banker tattooed a cross on his niece's breast, 1 and mutilated himself.. Mutilation is a penal offense in Russia only when it is prompted by religious motives. II« Hal l*eea Doing It. “You must make allowance for George,” said Mrs. Gargoyle, plead ing with her husband to overlook his son’s extravagance. “I do,” replied Mr. Gargoyle, “and I think an allowance of $1,000 a year is amply sufficient”—Detroit Free Press. FOR CLOTHES. THE PROCTER ft GAMBLE 00., OUTd. July 14. A Household Treasure. D. W. Fuller, of Canajobarie, N. Y., says that be always keeps Dr. King’s New Discovery in the bouse and his family bas always found the very best, results follow its use; that he would not be without it, if procurable. Q. A. Dykeman druggisi, Catskill, N. Y., says that Dr. King’s New Discovery Is un doubtedly the best remedy; that he has used it in his family for eight years, and it has never failed to do all that is claimed for it. Why not try a remedy so long tried and tested. Trial bottles free at P. C. Corrigan’s drug store. Regular size 50 cents and $1. 37-4 Specimen Cases. 8. H. 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There are nintey-one different patterns and two alphabets, one a large forget-me-not pattern. With this outfit the publishers send the Home, a 16-page paper cont^n ing stories, fashions, fancy work, etc., and only ask for 10 cents to cover post age on patterns and paper. Our il lustrated premium list of 200 premiums sent free to any address. Take advant age of this offer now. IN THE NECK. A Negro Boy Who Wu the Bott of His Companions. Eight little colored boys got on a Buffalo street car at the corner of Vermont street one evening recently. They had been out to St Mary’s to re hearse something or other (they were choir boys) and they were then on their way to St Paul’s. The women in the car talked to them, and asked them all sorts of questions. They all talked willingly except one little fellow, who was black as coal, and who seemed to be the butt of the other seven. “So you all sing?” asked one of the women. “Yep,” answered three of the boys at the same time “Then you are regular little black birds?” “Oh, no, ma'am. Blackbirds don’t do nothing but chirp. I’m a canary.” “An’ I’m a mockin’-bird,” said an other, and each boy told what kind of a bird he was until the eighth one, the butt before mentioned, was the only one who had said nothing. “And what kind of a bird are you, my little fellow?” asked the woman. “Deed, ma’am,” he answered, “I specs I mus’ be a chicken, I get it in the neck so offun.” Awarded Highest Honors atWorld Fair. •Da* MOST PERFECT MADE. It pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. I ret torn Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. We, the undersigned subscribers, hereby associate and incorporate ourselves under the following articles of Incorporation: ARTICLE i. The name of this corporation shall be the Niobrara Kiver Irrigation and Power Com pany. ARTIOLE II. The principal place of doing business shall be at the city of O’Neill, county of Holt and state of Nebraska. ARTICLE III. The general nature of the business of this corporation shall bo to promote irrigation and to develop and utilize water power In tho state of Nebraska; to locate. Construct, develop and improve canals, ditches and water courses, and to operate the same; to construct water courses, dams, flumes, races, water-gates and such other Improvements as may bo necessary from time to time to carry out the general purposes of the corporation; to acquire water rights, powers and privileges as well as such mill sites and other power sites as may be found beneficial and advis able; to utilize and apply such waterpower and water for Irrigation purposes; to pur chase. construct, own and operate such ma chinery, plants and appliances as may be deemed beneficial and profitable for the pur pose of furnishing, applying and utilizing such water; to sell, convey or lease water rights for Irrigation purposes, and to sell, convey and lease such power In different localiti* to consumers thereof for mechani cal and other purposes; to acquire, purchase, hold, encumber and convey such real estate and Interest therein, and other property as may be found necessary in and about said business, as well as such real estate and other property as may be deemed beneficial and profitable to acquire, purchase, hold, en cumber and convey from time to time; to ao quire such rights of way and other rights as It may be found necessary or advisable to acquire from time to time by statutory pro ceedings. ARTICLE IV. The authorized capital stock of this cor poration shall be two million five hundred thousand (2,500,000) dollars In shares of one hundred (100) dollars eaoh. Ten thousand dollars of which shall be paid in before thd commencement of business. The remainder of the stock shall be issued as ordered by the board of directors. No stock shall be issued until the same be paid for In full. article v. This corporation shall commence April Z 1894, and shall continue ninetv-nine years unless sooner dissolved by voluntaryllqulda tion or by due proceedings at law. ARTICLE VI. The highest amount of Indebtedness to which this corporation may at any time sub ject itself shall not exceed two-thirds of its capital stock. ARTICLE VII. The business of the corporation shall be managed by a board of directors, to consist of not less than seven nor more than elven stock holders to be elected by the stock holders prior to the commencement of busi ness, and at each regular meeting thereafter. Each stock holder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock he represents. Vacancies shall be filled in the board of directors by the board of directors. ARTICLE VIII. The directors shall choose from their num bers a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. ARTICLE IX. The anuual meeting; of the stockholders shall be held In the city of O’Neill, Nebraska, on the first Monday of April of each year. article x. The board of directors shall have general charge and control of the property and busi ness of the corporation and may adopt such by-laws not inconsistent with these articles, as they may deem proper. ARTICLE XI. The corporation shall have a seal, which shall have engraved thereon the words, -The Niobrara Kiver Irrigation and Power Com pany. Corporate Heal.” ARTICLE XII. The capital stock of this corporation may be increased from time to time upon the vote of two-thirds of the stock holders, vot ing by shares. ARTICLE XIII. These articles of incorporation may be altered or amended at any annual meeting by a vote of two-thirds of the stockholders voting by shares of stock, but notice ol' the proposed amendment must be given all of the stock holders by mailing same to oach of them at their last post office address as shown by the books of the corporation, at least ten days before the meeting, which notice must specify the article to amended and contain the language of the article If amended as proposed. In witness wnercof we have oaused our names to be hereto affixed on this Kith day of February, 1894 In presence or; A. U. Morris. A. J. Hammond. J. L. McDonald. II. A. Allen. R.;R. Dickson. J. P. Mann. O. F, Biolin T. V. Golden. G. 0. Hazei.kt. Neil Brennan. J. A. Tkstman. Our Clubbing List. The Frontier and the Semi-weekly State Journal, $1.75 per year. The Frontier and the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean, $1.50 per year. We will give the readers of The Frontier the benefit of our reduction on aDy paper, magazine or periodical for which they may wish to subscribe. By subscribing through this office you can save from 10 cents to $1. This is the average reduction allowed us as dealers. tf NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land office at O’Neill, Neb., Maroh 3, 1894. Notice Is hereby given that the following named settler bis filed notice of his in tention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made be fore the Register and Receiver at O’Neill. Nebraska, on April 14,1894. viz: MOSES GAUGHENBAUGH, Senior, H.E. No. 13947, for the E V, NE section 9. town ship 28, range 13 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and culti vation of, said land, viz; T. 11. Marlng, J. B. Maring, Emety Herrick, all of Emmet. Neb., and S. H. Elwood, of U Neill, Nebraska. W. D. Mathews, ■i5’8 Register. LEGAL NOTICE. Ralph A. Bradshaw, Elizabeth M. Brad' shaw and James II. Clark defendents, wll take notice that on the 28th day of February • 894, the First National Bunk, of Ruvena Ohio, plaintiff herein, filed a petition in tin district court of Holt county, Nebraska against said defendants, the object nnc prayer of which uro to foreclose a certait monage executed by defendants Kaipb A Bradshaw and Elizabeth M. Brahshaw t< James It. Clark upon tile southeast quartei of.section five In township thirty In rangi nine west in Holt county, Nebraska, tosecurt the payment of onepioinmlssorv note datec April J. 1887, for the sum of t«99.uo and inter eat- at the rate of seven per cent per aimun payable semi-annually and ten per cen after maturity: that there is now due upoi said note and mortage according to tbi terms thereof the sum or*l, 178.51 and Interes at the rate of ten per cent per annum fron l ebruary 20. 1891 and plaintiff prays tbai said premises may be decreed to be sold t( satisfy the amount due thereon. You are required to answer said petitior on or before the nth day of April. 1894. Dated February 27, 1894. National Bank of Ravenna Ouio, Plaintiff. 34-4 GOOD TEAMS, NEW Ri Prices Reasonable. Baat of McCufferto's. O’NEILL, H{ DeYarmanfiro __ CHECKER WWWJTWf Livery, Feed and Sale Stable. Finest turnouts in the city. Good, careful drivers when wanted. Also run the O’Neill Omnibus line. Commercial trade a specialty. Have charge of McCaffert’s hearse. FRED C. GATZ I Fresh, Dried and Salt Meat! Sugar-cured Ham, Breakfasl Bacon, Spice Roll Bacon, al| Kinds of Sausages. . O’CONNOR &GALLAGHE DEALERS IN Of all kinds. A specialty made of FINE CI6AR! If you want a drink of good liquor do not tall to call on us. WEST east! Purchase Tickets and Consign Freight via the F.E.&M.V.andS.Cil RAILROADS. TRAINS DEPART, GOING EAST. Passenger east, ■ ’ Freight east, going WEST. 9:35 A. l 10:45 A. 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