The Frontier.
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THB FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY
KINO A CRONIN. Editor*.
Thia stalely bird of ours, that has
done valuable service in many former
f,-, campaigns, bobs up again and crows
lustily for republicanism from New
' York to Colorado, but he crows in a
whisper as yet when Nebraska’s name is
mentioned. He la Informed that the
situation Is doubtful on governor, and
that in all probability it will take an
offlolal eount to settle the question.
World-Herald bulletins are conced
ing the election of Majors and a major
ity of the legislature on joint ballot,
while the Bee claims the election of
Holcomb.
While Holt Is still populist, It is by
greatly reduced majorities, and the pops
ean get no glory out of the result.
Crawford only carried the county by
188 as against 800 of two years ago,
which is certainly a repudiation of old
Honest John. Returns are not in yet
from Boyd, Garfield and Wheeler, and
Sample has a show of being elected
state senator.
. Trommerahausser is defeated by about
40, while Griffith is defeated by about
if'/- 100. Atklneon, as predicted by us some
time ago, cut Griffith. They only gave
him 86 votes as against 187 for
Trommerahausser.
Thii is Blsworth Hack’s cock, proud
thing, and he crows because he has a
right to. Blsworth is the first republi
can supervisor elected from O'Neill (cr
years, and he is entitled to a rooster.
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Nit York gives Morton about 185,
000 majority. .It was a very chilly day
for the democrats in the Empire state.
f. Tan burning of his residence has re
called the fact of the existence of one J.
f‘-, 8. Coxy, at one time a widely advertised
'}" ’ man.
Sown of the men who have been in
the habit of blackguarding the U. 8.
senate, do not seem free from the am
bition of becoming senators.
Ellsworth Hack will look after the
Interests of the citizens of O'Neill as
supervisor from this city during the next
year, and he will make a good and efflci
£k, ent officer. -
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The city of O'Neill gave S. C. Sample
•>, a majority of seventy. This was forty
^ votes ahead of his ticket, and was a
•plendid endorsement from the citizens
* of his former home.
J. W. Wkrtz, the talented editor of
the Btnart Ledger, was elected super
visor in Stuart township by a majority
of seventy-four, defeating Jillson, the
^ present member, nearly two to one. It
came nearly being unanimous. Brother
Wertz, it is not often that a member of
the profession secures an office, so allow
us to congratulate you upon the vote
received._ _
Perry Bklhokt, who, when a mem
ber of the house, made the serious mis
takrof attempting to monkey with the
j??-: Blaine buzz saw, is ambitious of wear
ing a Senatorial toga, believing that the
wealth of himself and family gives him
special qualifications therefor. It is not
to be denied that Perry would be a de
cided improvement upon at least one of
the senators from New Nork>-but he has
little show of succeeding him. His' suo
>cessor will be a republican.
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LIGHTHOUSES.
tfarTlli ot Contrivance and Science—
The Song of the Siren.
Did yon over see a lighthouse of
the modern kind? Here In Its narrow
tower Is a strong electric light; round
the light all night long, revolves the
cylinder of prisms artfully arranged.
Flash of ten seconds; rest of ten sec
onds; flash again; rest of live seconds;
third flash; darkness for the rest of
the minute. And so on all night long.
Out at sea the offleor on watch counts
tho flashes and knows the lighthouse
<tnd where he is. Or there is a fog
horn; in a chamber beside the light
house are the tanks or cisterns filled
with compressed air; nothing short of
compressed air will sound this terri
ble alarm; compressed air worked with
a steam engine.
Then there is the voice of the siren.
You have heard the modern form of
the once enchanting and alluring
voice of the siren; it is now the voice
it torture and agony; the maiden.
Hie water rymph, the ear piercer, is
now provided with a throat which
contains one oylinder within another.
Both cylinders are provided with
long, narrow apertures; the inner one
Is set to revolve at a thousand turns
a minute. Then the oompressed air
is turned on; and the song of the siren
begins It is the shriek of the im
prisoned air forcing its way oat
through these apertures; it passes at
the velocity of 3,000 feet a minute.
“Bewarel" cries the modern siren.
“Come not nearer; give me a wider
berth) Stand offt Here is danger;
here are rocks; here larks death upon
sharp and relentless rocks, hungering
for sailors!” Safety before poetry.
Let us not regret that we no longer
wreck the ship and drown the crew
for the sake of a sweet false face and
v sweet false song.
AVAUNT FOUL BUTTER.
* W»B to Hollo tho Bonkoot SmoU Like
• rninot Plow#*..
Boarding houae inmates, whoae
nostrils ara offended by the eeent oI
rancid butter, can thank their stars
that they will not have to suffer
nuoh longer. One of themselves—J.
V. Bannister, of New York, whose
tense of smell was long slnoe blunted
by boarding house butter, has disoov
ered a cheap way to give foul smell
ing butter, butterlne or oleomar
garine the seent of the most fragrant
Sower. This discovery will at the
tame time be a priceless boon to
boarding house keepers, who are pes
tered half to death by the plaints of
their prisoners
So, if Mr. Bannister euoeeeds in
bringing his discovery into general [
use in boarding houses the inmates
thereof are likely to hall him as a
Newton, a Davy and a Franklin rolled
into one. His plan is to treat rancid
butter with essential oils By this j
means, he says, he can give the most
offensive butter any scent that may
be desired.
Violet, lily of the valley, rose,
verbena, heliotrope, magnolia and
jessamine are among the sweet per
fumes butter buyers may chose from.
Still, he confesses that experience
has taught him that there is a brand
af so-called oreamery butter used in
theatrloal boarding houses in summer
time the rankaets of which musk
slone can ovurootae.
KSBPINQ THB DBVIk AT BAY.
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Sow tha Oklint Olroanvant tkt lunj
at Mankind at a FonanL
A Chlntit funeral it a constant suc
cession of efforts to cheat the devil,
who is supposed to be lying in wait
to capture the soul of the departed.
So long as the body remains in the
house the soul is safe, for the devil
cannot come in; the risk begins when
the funeral procession starts. When
ready to march great quantities of
dreoraokers and pyroteohnics that
tmit much smoke are set off in front
it the door, and under cover of the
imoke the pallbearers start at
* lively trot, run to the nearest
corner, turn it as quickly as they
can and stop short This is done for
the purpose of throwing the devil off
the tack, since it is well known that
he cannot easily turn a corner, and,
to aid in the deception, whenever a
corner is turned more fireworks are
burned. By dint of turning quickly
ind trotting as fast as they can the
bearers finally arrive at the cemetery,
but do hot enter the gates, but go
through a hole in the surrounding in
closure, for they know that the
baffled devil will be waiting fqr them
st the entranoe. In the cemetery the
iouI is comparatively safe, though'to
make the matter perfectly secure the
discharge of firecrackers is kept up
intll all the rites are ended.
let! Oanteduu.
A French physician mentions a
curious case of left-handedness. One
child in a certain family was left
handed, and a second appeared at
the age of one year also to be left
handed. It was then learned that
the mother always carried her child
on her left arm. She was advised to
carry her child on her right. The ita
tant, having its right arm free, began
to grasp objects with it, and soon be
mme right-handed.
Charon's Error.
Satan ordered the windows op ened
st once. "Christopher," he exclaimed,
“what an awful odor!" Lucifer nod
ded. "Your majesty," he explained,
“Charon must have got mixed with
his passenger list and sent that india
rubber man up here by mistake.” It
leemed a very plausible theory.
Tha Scapegoat.
"Everything that is done in this
louse is always blamed onto me,”
sniffled the small boy, "an* I'm jist
gittin' tired of it. I'll run away,
that's, what I’ll da Doggone H I
mean to be the Li Bung Chang of this'
family any longer."
“One of the greatest amusements
for the children of Japan Is catching
the ‘dragon fly,” said Dr. W. F. Taylor
of lioston who has spent several years
in Japan. "Japan is a land of chil
dren, and thousands of them literally
put in several weeks every autumn in
capturing dragon flies, and tying kites
to them for the fun of seeing them
fly. boon after the turn of the sun in
the afternoon hundreds and thou
sands of huge dragon flies busy them
selves flying here and there over the
rice fields and gardens, catching in
sects and gnata
"The Japanese boys carefnlly sat
urate the end of a bamboo with tar,
and start out for the fun. They first
hold the bamboo up to attract the un
suspecting dragons to take a rest. In
a moment the boy gives the
bamboo a twist and puts the tar
end into so many motions that it is al
most impossible for the creature to
avoid it. The boys are so expert at
the business that I have seen them
ohase a fly that had got much ahead
of them and succeed in stieking the
dragon fly to the reed. When once
on the tar end of the pole there is a
miserable future for the captive.
They are tied together and carried
around in the chase. Then a string is
tied to each one, and a small place of
paper serving as a kite, which the
poor flies are required to sail. They
i fly away, but, of course, soon get Into
a tree or bush, and die of starvation.’'
King Humbert of Italy was walk
ing in one of the back streets of Rome
recently. It was Sunday, and his
majesty wished to see for himself how
his subjects in the poor quarters of
the Eternal City kept the Lord's day.
| As he neared a corner a drunken fel
low came rolling along up street, de
scribing all kinds of geometrical fig
ures in his progress. On one of his
tangents he almost struck the king.
Turning around to see who was in
his way the workman recognized his
majesty. He fell upon his knees be
fore him, trembling with fear, but so
intoxicated that he could hardly
speak straight.
King Humbert tried to quiet him,
but the man murmured prayer after
prayer for forgiveness. Humbert,
who himself never touches intoxicat
ing drinks exoept when necessary at
public dinners, thinking he had a
chance to make a convert to temper
ance, upbraided the man severely.
As the poor fellow seemed penitent,
the king asked him what he could do
for him.
At first no reply eame, but the king
| insisted upon on answer. Thus en
couraged the fellow blubbered out:
“Will your majesty then accord to
me the permission to—drink gratis
pro Deo in all the liquor shops of
Rome?”
The king of course declined to
grant the sincere request, and left the
man on his knees in the street.
“Everything else,” cried the drunk
ard, as the king started away, “is
Immaterial to me.”
O’NEILL BUSINESS DIRECTORY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
, Reference First National Bank
O'NEILL, NEB.
J C. SMOOT,
FASHIONABLE BARBER.
DEALER IN OIOAR8, ETO.
JQU. J. P. GHVLIGAX,
PHYSIC AX AXD SURGEON.
Day and night calls promptly attended to.
Office over Blglln's furniture store.
O’NEILL, NEB.
Jj^H. BENEDICT,
LAWYER,
Offloe in the Judge Roberts building, north
of O. O. Snyder’s lumber yard,
O NEILL, NEB,
^ R. BUTLER,
ATTORNEY AT-LAW.
Agent for Union Trust Go’s land in Holt
County.
Will practice in all the courts. Special at
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J^R. B. T. TRUEBDOOD
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Diseases of the Eye and Ear and fitting
glasses a specialty. Offloe hours 9 to 12 a. m.
and 2 to 5 p. m.
Office first door west of Heinerlkson’s
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