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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1896)
A SUMMER OUTINO. Bi* Pleasures and Benefits to Be De* rived in the Mountains of Colorado. The days are here, when one begins to make plans lor his summer outing, awl studies railway maps and questions ^Mends to learn ot the best spots, and %Ai<re the most varied amusements ■ fflmy be had for the least outlay. To Jjfmnsas people the Rocky mountains are the most convenient and afford op . portunity for the enjoyment of tastes of all shades. Twenty-four hours places the most eastern dweller of the state right in the heart of the great divide and he has enjoyed such scenes en route, as wealthy tourists go across the ocean to find. The Denver & Rio Grande road, the Great Scenic Route of the world, takes you at Pueblo or Den ver, and whirls you through canons where there must have been an en chantment and where giant arms have dashed the boulders into their present resting places. The ride through the Royal Gorge displays the great in genuity of its engineers, and the ob —“Mnate determination of Its builders. 4me rails are placed in almost inacccsl flble places, along the edge ot the stream or torrent, which with wonderful Bkill has been forced out of the way to make room for the rockToad bed and the iron rails. At certain points the torrent maintains its supremacy, but the diffi culty is met and surmounted, a set of hangers being made into the cliffs overhead, to support the bridge work and track. The stream is still jubilant of its power over man, and laughs, booms and dashes by as the train ^passes, not caring for the queer sbad |Kws that fall into it, if it can only supreme at this critical point. The Hmon is one of the grandest in the ^^pki, barely wide enough, in certain to admit of the stream and the Ifadks, the granite walls of giant moun tains towering above and over all, and giving a still more impressive object lesson of the great force of Nature which has caused it all. The climb is a long one, ana niter leaving sanaa you think it is over and that as you enter upon a slight down grade, or a smiling valley, that you are now going to slide down into the great San Luis ' Valley. Never were you more mis taken; and if you look you will see two puffing little giants pulling the train for several hours yet. At length, how ever, when you have begun to wish for breakfast, the summit is reached, and there is a rapid stride down the west ern slope, and into the beautiful val ley. For more than fifty miles the track is as straight as an arrow, and the train speeds along bringing you into Alamosa for breakfast, right under the shadow of Blanco, the highest moun tain in this country. All around are smiling fields as far as the eye can reach, until vision is interrupted by the mountains which encircle the val ley. Some one has said the West Moun tain and the Sangre de Cristo range . on the east are a ring and that Blanco V is the setting. These mountains afford ) every variety of amusement and enter 1 tainment. There is fine trout fishing; in season there are plenty of ducks and Sand Hill Cranes, Brants, Geese and Curlew. These are in the valley. If bU game Is desired you must go back itto the mountains, where Elk, Bear, lAuntain Sheep and I,ions, Glouse, etc., a^, still to be found. Outfit at one of the pleasant little hamlets and spend a month in these mountains and in this - valley, if you want an outing. If you wish to meet the gay social parties, thitemake the mountains their home in sumMer, go to Colorado Springs, Man itou,V some other of the delightful re vsortsram the line of the Denver & Rio ') Grande road. We know of no greater advantage to heath, than may be gained by a sojourn away from the cares of business and \ daily duties of the routine of living. } Here there is no routine but a con tinued change, of pleasure resulting I more profitable to a tired body or over taxed mind than any other opportunity Bfwiihin reach. The Denver & Rio Grande' ■/Company looks after the comfort of its B patrons with scrupulous care, and pro ■vides the best facilities for observation land enjoyment of the ride. If you have ■never yet visited these precincts, de le ide now to do so this year, and get the Brest and health you have been looking f for. _F. P. BAKER. | At a village wedding in Worcester shire recently the clergyman asked the I bridegroom the usual question whether he Vvi s willing to take the woman to ^efhis wedded wife, and, the rustic, scrunching his head for a moment or two replied. “Ay. I'm wulling, but I’d rather hae her sister.”—London Tele graph. _ . Public Lands In Oklahoma. • A careful investigation of the public records discloses the fact that there are yet' several millions of acres of public ; l&uVs in Oklahoma yet subject to home I stow entry and t/ ttlement. tt has generally been understood that nil the lands in Oklahoma fit for agri cultural purposes are already occupied, but such is not the fact. Owing to the method adopted for the opening of these lands to settlement, in many cases as high as five or six persons would settlo on a single track on the day of the race, end rather than stand the expense of a contest, or run the risk of other trou - Me, would, unknown to each other, abandon the land. Again, the main ' race for lands at those openings was for v tracts near the cities or proposed town sites and along the lines of railroads, and thus many hundreds of almost cq telly as good farms as are in Okla i bo^a were pasesd over in the mad rush for homes. It is true that a iarge portion of the yet unclaimed public lands are more fit for stock-raising than for agricultural ''purposes; yet there are still hundreds of good homes awaiting the taking in that country and undoubtedly a large num ber of eastern people will take advan tage of the same the coming season. llounelioltl Marketing. in the matter of purchasing food, the housekeeper must use good judgment, point,' to market and not trusting the selection of her ineuis and vepetables to an ignorant order boy. A little ex perience will enable one to learn to know the best cuts of meats, and if the riiarketiuan sees that his customec knows what she wants, and that she will \not tie satisfied ‘with inferior rneu v he will serve her with the best, it ivTrenerally economical to buy the higln st grades of groceries and meats, is tl-.o best govs further and is more readily susceptib'.e to changes ami va riations. BIG DAY FOR BEETS. NEBRASKA’S PROMISING INDUS TRY ENDORSED. Th. State Convention Starts With Mach Promise and a Fine Array of Delegates —Addresses by Congressman Melkle jobn. Governor Holcomb. I’rof. Nichol son and Other Prominent Gentlemen. The State Sngar Beet Convention. The sugar beet convention at Fre mont drew a large attendance from all sections of Nebraska. Secretary Na son, in calling the meeting to order, made a brief address on the consump tion of sugar and the interest taken in its manufacture from sugar beets. Congressman Meikcljohn was then introduced and spoke in part as fol lows: Mr. President and. Gentlemen of the Convention: Yon have been convened under a call to consider a special sub ject of agriculture—the encouragement of the cultivation and production of the sugar beet I feel jnstiiied, however, when we contemplate the diversified products of our soil, in diverting for a time to.invite your attention to the oc cupation of agriculture generally. The tillage of the soil increases in importance with the advancement of civilization, the augmentation of popu lation and the consequent sharp com petition in other arts and avocations. The condition existing at the birth of ,our nation caused our forefathers to turn their attention to agriculture and it was guarded by earnest and zealous supporters. We see today in the west a people cultivating and producing this same product, which was cultivated and pro duced by the Egyptians centuries be fore the Christian era These observa tions lead toward a confirmation of that old maxim, “There is no new thing under the sun.’’ Egypt was the gran- j ary of the world when Joseph opened it to Israel. She lighted the torch of civilization in the remote centuries of j the past aud blazed the way for the j westward, march of empire. There is a growing tendency in this generation among our young men to forsake the field and gravitate to the cities to engage in commercial or other industrial pursuits. If this inclination is based upon a sentiment that this avocation of life does not carry with it the dignity of other professions, and that there are not the advantages for him on the farm as in other avenues of life, he should reflect on this expres sion by Cicero: “Of all pursuits from which profit comes, nothing is superior to agriculture, nothing more enjoyable, nothing more worthy of a freeman.” The farmer today is confronted with a depression of prices for farm pro ducts, which discourages and dis heartens, but he should remember that he is not aloue in his suffering from ex isting conditions. Bis distress is that of others in the many avocations of life, for whatever the occupation in an agricultural region none can prosper, when farming ebbs and declines Ag riculture lies at the very foundation of our national wealth aud prosperity ond is the main pillar of our nation's glory and strength. THU BEST CHOPS. . The consideration of the subject of diversification of farm products legds ns to the inquiry of what crops can be introduced and successfully cultivated. There are many elements upon which the answer to this important query must be predicated. The crop must be one to which soil, geographical loca tion, and climate conditions are spe cially adapted. The diversification should be along lines where cost of transportation will be eliminated and the demand for the product will closely approach the supply to insure a just remuneration for capital and labor employed. The profits from the new industry should be as great or exceed I those reaped from the crop which it j supplants. I Germany and France found those ele ments combined in the cultivation and production of the sugar beet, and for more than a century has protected, nurtured and encouraged it until it has reached the importance of any other industry in the continent. When the great Napoleon was enforcing his con tinental policy of blockades, decrees and embargoes and putting forth his energy to produce sufficient sugar for liis empire his enemy, England, was seeking through every uvenue to bribe his chemists, disparage his undertak ing and bring ridicule on his efforts and endeavors. Caricatures were exhibited in Paris in which he was represented as squeezing a beet into his coffee and his son, the young king of Rome, as sucking a beet, and the nurse address ing him is made to say. “Suck, dear, suck; your father says it's sugar.” Vie often hear it said, until with many it has perhaps become a convic- | tion. that the cause of agriculture has not had the fostering care and atlen- j tion of our government, but has been sacrificed in the interest of other in- j dustries. This unfortunate assumption often hissed from the .“hustings” for sinister purposes, has had a pernicious effect upon public minds. The most eminent men in public station since the foundation of our government have zealously guarded and protected agri culture. This is very clearly manifest ed in the debate on the first tariff bill before congress, in which agricultural products were given special rates of duty to encourage and foster them, and guarding the market from encroach ment by other nations whose capital and labor were employed in the same avocation. Our present status in regard to sugar is such that of an annual consumption of four billions of pounds we produce but one-eighth, and are dependent upon foreign countries for the balance: For this supply of foreign sugar we send abroad annually one hundred millionf of dollars in gold, or its equivalent. , This is an unnecessary drain upon the | wealth of our nation. j That the soil and climatic conditions are favorable to the cultivation and production of the sugar beet, has been conclusively proven by scientific and practical research and investigation. | The development of the industry in re- i cent years in Nebraska, Utah and Cali fornia is a guarantee of its success in this country. Every pound of domes tifi'sugar manufactured represents in vestment of capital, employment of labor, an equalization of the production and consumption of other 'ana pro ducts and an increment to individual and national wealth. . .. The beet sugar especially adapted to the soil and climate of Nebraska, the continuous warm, dry weather produc ing its saccharino strength, may yet be overtaken by the rains from heaven, to cause it to take on new growth, de creasing its purity or strength for sugar, and such a season we have just experienced here and in continental Europe. Is it good reason for our farmers of sugar beets to become dis heartened? We ought to be made of sterner stuff, especially in view of the fact that by later planting, much of such loss can be avoided and more es pecially in view of the repeated loss of other crops on which so many of our farmers almost wholly rely. Agriculture will always maintain that rank in the future that it has in the past Mankind is sustained, shel tered and nourished from the bountiful lap of nature, through the grace and favor of her Divine , Master. The ground) the air, the' sea, are her store house. Tho barbarian, in his dark ness and ignorance, is fed by the same hand as he who is born in a land of civilization and enlightenment The earth is the commissary of God for His children. She gives food to the hungry, raiment to the naked and pro tection to the unsheltered. Agricul ture is but her helpmate. It is the cre ator of commerce and manufactures, the forerunner of social development add progress and the bulwark . of our national strength aud glcry. Humanity draws upon her for sus tenance, commerce turns to her for aid and support and manufacture invites her products to the door of a great in dustrial system, where sinew and brawn' of toiling masses are exchanged for the bread of life. Governor Holcomb was introduced and delivered an interesting address, lie said lie come to the meeting to learn' more than instruct The real farmer is Nebraska’s wealth. lie thought su gar production offered a fruitful source of profit and it should be maintained until wc have many factories He dis cussed tile plan of small factories mak ing low grade sugar and having a large refinery to handle their products. This is an industry that gives employment to men and women, and there is no danger of not finding a market for the Prof. H. H. Nicholson of the state university pave a very intcrestinp talk upou the scientific, treatment, agricul turally considered, of sugar beeta One hundred and fifty years apo, when su gar was first discovered in beets, there was only 1 per cent of sugar, Where it is possible now for beets to contain as high as CO percent of sugar. The preat est problem is seed. We are dependent upon seed brought from the old coun try. This seed is bred up from a low to a very hiph grade. We must learn to produce seed; but it takes several years to put a good grade upon the market Seed that does well in the valleys will not do well in other placca By science we must produce something of uniform results. The factories must find a means of saving that which they now cannot use. When this is done many dollars will be saved. The pro fessor thoroughly discussed the small factory question and at the conclusion he was compelled to answer questions for half an hour. Hon. L A. Fort read a carefully pre pared paper on co-operative factories. He went back into hisiory and recited instances of successes from mutual co operation. At the present time we only have corporations, of which many disapprove. As law is a rule of action, he would create a law making a paid department in connection with the state university to give its entire atten tion to the production of beets and fac tories. Mr. Fort would have a factory established on the co-operative plan to refine low grade sugar, taking it from proposed low grade factories, this co operative factory to be under the laws of Nebraska and state officers to inspect and approve or disapprove its con tracts. Daniel Farrell, Jr., read a well pre pared paper upon the subject, “The Beet Sugar Industry as a Factor in Manufacturing." In his paper Mr. Farrell noted thirty products that can be made by the factories, after the beet crop had been worked up Nebraska had good soil and sunshine and with these should forge to the front and compete with eastern sisters. The following officers were elected-. President, K. M. Allen, Ames; secre tary, W. N. Nason, Omaha; assistant secretary, C. McLernou, Sidney; treas urer, W. D. Whitmore, Valley; vice presidents, C. A. Atkinson, Lincoln, D. Farrell, Jr., Omaha, Bert Mapes, Nor folic, W. B. Norcross, Beatrice, J. B. Cessna, Hastings, W. 11. Reynolds, Chadron. LECAL BRIEFS. A £hilade!phia woman who put her money in Atchison before the slump in prices sues the president of the com pany for deceiving her In his roseate reports of the condition of the road. A* St. Louis decision runs to the ef fect that a woman has an insurable in terest in the life of her fiance, even when the man is already married, but designing getting a divorce to marry the new sweetheart. The Massachusetts Supreme court has decided unconstitutional a law Com pelling the railroads to sell at ruling rates mileage tickets good op any rail road. Michigan has, however, recent ly passed a similar law. After a fatal runaway accident In Polk county, Iowa, the coroner was persuad ed by several of the leading citizens that there was no necessity for an in quest as to the cause of death. They wished, as taxpayers, to avoid expense to the county, but the coroner has now begun suit to recover his fees. A fire broke out in a butter factory near Madison, Wis. After all the water on hand was used 2,300 gallons of milk were used in its stead and the fire was put out. Now the Insurance company is not quite certain whether it should pay for the milk as well as for the slight damage done to the building. The wife of a Paris manufacturer ran up a bill of 11,000 francs with a mil liner. This the court, without disput ing the Items, has ordered cut down, on the ground that the woman's hus band is not bound to pay bills which are out of proportion to his means and position, and that the dressmaker should have considered this point or re ferred to the husband before the bill grew so big. IIow a little eirl likes to say to a boy, “Ob, you're going to catch it 1” Whit Started the Fight. A Philadelphia man was arrested on - a warrant, uhat-ged with assault and battery on his wife, and was taken to the central station for a hearing'. Ilia wife, on her oath, said he beat her so badly that she was detained in bed two days. When Magistrate South asked him why he had beaten his wife, the prisoner said, “Well, judge, you see. 1, opened the door and threw my hat in side to see if it would be welcomed, and when she threw it out l was so mad that I went inside and licked her." Very Awkward Indited. This Is precisely the kind o'f mistaken man Makes If ha “turns out” on the wrong side of tho roud when a vehicle comes to ward him. No less absurd Is the error of thro individual who takes drastic medicines to relieve his lit er. That organ Is on tho right side, and the road t o Its relief Is Hostetler's Stomach Bitters, a medicine also adapted to the relief of dyspersia. constipation, kidney and rheumatic ailment* and malaria. Floral Tracery on Metal. By chance it has been discovered that even the most delicate tracery of the petals of flowers can be reproduced in Utetal. During the trial of a new fuse the other day a small leaf fell between a dynamite cartridge and an iron block on which the cartridge was fired. As a result, a perfect imprint of the leaf was left on the iron. How’s This I We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s “atarrh Cure. P. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known P. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be lieve him perfectly honorable In all business transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. WADDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,' Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. Ohio. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken Internal ly, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testi monials sent free. Price, 75c per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall’s Family Pills. 26e. KIcctrletty on the Farm. Electricity is likely to be an impor tant factor in the agriculture of the fu ture, according to the Italian professor j A. Aoll, who has collected evidence showing that both terrestrial and at mospheric electricity are favorable to the germination of seeds and tlie growth if plants. ■ The Modern Way Commends itBelf to the well-informed, to do pleasantly and effectually what was formerly done In the crudest man ner and disagreeable as well. To cleanse the system and break up colds, head aches, and fevers without unpleasant I after effects, use the delightful liquid laxative remedy. Syrup of Figs. Manu factured by California Fig Syrup Com pany. A Prbfeulonal Exchange. Life: A doctor who occasionally walked in crooked paths and never went to cnurch was called to sec a pious and orthodox old clergyman who had been taken suddenly ilL '‘Am I going' .to die, doctor?” asked the parson. “Well, 1 guess not this time,” said the doctor. “We'll make a bargain— you keep me out of hell and I’ll keep you out of heaven!” Hurrah for Pennsylvania, The farmers of Pennsylvania are to bo congratulated. M. M. Luther, East Troy, Pa., grew over 207 bushels Sal zer's Silver Mine Oats on one measured acre Think of It! Now there are thirty thousand farmers going to try and beat Mr. Luther and win |200 In gold! and they’ll do it. Will you be one of them? Then there is Silver King Barley, cropped on poor soil 116 bus. per acre in 1896. Isn’t that wonderful—and corn 230 bus. and potatoes and grasses and clovers, fodder plants, etc., etc. Freight is cheap on seeds to all points east, west, north or south. If you will cut this out and scud it with 10c postage to the John A. Sal zer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wls., you will receive tlielr mammoth catalogue and ten packages grainB and grasses, in cluding above oats, free, __ w.n. Any girl old enough to take a valentine serious.y, is too old to get one. Notice. Drs. B. B. Green & Sons of Atlanta, Ga., are the greatest dropsy specialists in the world. Cure more patients than the entire army of physicians scattered over this beautiful laud of oura A val uable discovery outside any medical book or published opinion. Removes all dropsical symptoms rapidly. Ten days' treatment mailed to every suffer er. See advertisement in other column. A GREAT CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY. Mr Editor:—I read b» w Mr. Jones made money. I have n better job taking rrd vs h r the new Fireproof Deposit Case for storing deeds, mortgages, notes, policies, receipts, m» nev and valuables from fire. Every family or farmer buys. I sell for World Mfg. Co. (F vfl) Columb; s. O , cleared $i7 first week. tT.9second, first mouth #’47. -later made 923* lust week selling National Dish Washer for same firm Light, easy work hon* st firm, anvone can make money by writing them. J C. BARRET. George Elliot is said to have written “Middiemarch” in four months. Coe's Coagh Bottom Is the oldest and best. It will break up a Cold qulolo erthaa anything else. It is always reliable. Try It* Chicago sells $16,000,000 worth of hides every year. Piso's Cure for Consumi tion has teen a God-send to me.—-Wm. B. McClellan. Chea ter, Florida, Sept. IT, 1895. There are about 14,00.) miles of street railroads in the United States. HTothers who have used Parker's Ginger Tonio f<*ryearsInsistiha i bi n tl smorj than <»ilnrmrdl dlues; every fo/in of distress and weakness > kid to it Weekly wages lor skilied labor in Eng land vary from $6 to $11. IVKadercorns la a slwple km°4j, bat It tsk •' out this corns, ami wh.it cons^.a'lonit is! Makes wa)k<uga i»easu e. 15c. at wruggists. It the Baby is Cutting* Teetn. Be rare and use that old and well-tried remedy, Ksa Wise low's Sooth inu 8mr for Children Teething* Motley took six years to write “The Rise of the Dutch Republic.” , -TlTl—AU Fit. stopped free by Dr. Kline'* ft real /Serve Restorer* Mo Fits utter the first nay‘s ums Marvelous cures. Treatise am I *2 trial hotilefiwrtJ WWA b»Bd to i>r. KllUC-J81 jui-hat..* Every man needs a wife to apologize for him. A Coron HiiofLU Not bb Neglectsn. “Brown’s Bronchial Troches’’ are a simpe remedy and give immediate relief. Avoid imitations. The wor’d’s wheat crop of 1804 was 3.471. 742,139 bushels. Billiard table, second-hand, for sale cheap. Apply to or address, H. C. Akjv, £11 S. I’.tb Bt., Omaha, Nei A New Poitofflce. The United States government has established a branch office in the great seed establishment of the John A. Sal* zcr Seed Ca, La Crosse, Wis. So large and extended is the trade of the Kalzer Seed Ca, that the government for their own convenience to promptly expedite mail mattfr, located an office in their mammoth buildings. The editor is told that Salzer’s great plant, seed and grain catalogue is mailed free to any one upon receipt of 5 cents post* age by addressing them at La Crosse, Wis. ' Nearly $100,000 worth of whetstones ore produced every year in this country. dufd/lMl There are children without food. They cry for it, and are not an swered. The pity of it! But often nature cries out in other ways that <her children need nourish ment. Is your child thin; actually poor in flesh? Does it get no benefit from its food? Then give something which produces flesh and mak^s rich blood. Scots 6fmitetoTu of Cod-liver Oil, with Hypophosphites does more than this, It changes the unhealthy action to one of health, thus removing the-cause. It acts on the nervous system, which controls all the processes of the body, toning it up into sound and vigorous ac tivity. It is food .for growing bone and brain. It makes the thin plump; the pale, ruddy; the weak, strong; it feeds and cures. JUST AS GOOD IS NOT SCOTT'S EMULSION. THE KING CURE OVER ALfc FOR Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, w I 8T. JACOBS; OIL DROP iiEATiD rnui Positively Cored with Vegetable fejjftaiM Have eeied tlmuaands of eve, Core cun ho nounced houeleae br beat phjalulane. 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