/ PUBLISHED BY THE FRONTIER PRINTING CO. VOLUME XVIII. O’NEILL, HOLT COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FEBUARY 3. 1898. NUMBER 31. SUBSCRIPTION. • l.ao PER ANNUM. D. H. CRONIN. EDI NEWS SANS WHISKERS Items of Interest Told As They Are Told to Us. WHEN AND HOW IT HAPPENED too* Happening! Portrayed Per General Education and Amasemont. For choice candies go to Cress'. Sl-tf Fine tin and granite ware at Mre. Cress’. ______ 81-tf E. Opp was down from Stuart last Friday. __ C. W. Moss was up from Amelia Friday. _ H. A. Allen was down from Atkinson Tuesday. _ Will Watson was up from Inman Monday. _ Fred Felts was up from Ewing Monday. Ernest Spinier was up from Ewing Monday. _ The best five-cent tablets in town at Mrs. Oreas*. __ 8X-tf F. A. Huston, of Ewing, was in the city Monday. F. M. Housch, of Neligh, was in the city Tuesday. J. F. Brady was down from Atkinson last Saturday. Bail ties and wire always on hand at Meil Brennan’s. 16-tf Rev. M. F. Cassidy was in Omaha the first of the week. R. O. Adams, of Trenton, Neb., was in O’Neill Saturday. E E. Wright, of Deadwood, was at the Evans Tuesday. Geo. Brooks, of Bazille Mills, was in O’Neill last Friday: For first-class horseshoeing on short notice, call on Emil Sniggs. - 26tf Tou can buy bread cheaper than you can make it, at Hatfield’s. 31-8 t A. E. Pike, of Sioux City, was regis tered at the Evans Tuesday. E. E. Post, of Scotia, Neb., was regis tered at the Evans Saturday. FOR SALE—A good second hand corn planter. Call on Robert Marsh. Mrs. Tim Dwyer is dangerously ill and fears are entertained for her recovery. Prof. 8chubert informs, us that the conservatory now has 73 pupils enrolled, Mrs. John Beck returned to her home at Green River, Wis., last Saturday morning. _• Come and try the bread baked in the new oven. Oh I gosh, but it is good. At Hatfield’s. 31-3 J. Tucker, of St. Joe, Mo., son of J. Wesley Tucker, of Valentine, was in O’Neill Tuesday. We understand that a change will be made in one our leading business firms the-eoming week. Miss Ethel Morse, of Atkinson, was in O’Neill Monday transacting business and visiting friends. Jake Hersbiser was up from Norfolk the first of the week looking after his business interests here. Mrs. J. E. Allison, of Atkinson, visited friends in O’Neill on Thursday and Friday of last week. For teeth or photos, go to Dr. Cor bett's parlors, 33rd to 80th of each month. Photographs 81 per dozen. me Academy Dramatic company are at work on a new play which they expect to put on the boards March 17. Don’t forget that Hatfield keeps the largest stock of candies, nuts, fruits, tobaccoes and cigars in the city. 31-3 Mrs. Laura Cress returned last Thurs day night from Council Bluffs, where she has been visiting friends for a week. WANTED—A girl for general house work. Permanent place and good wages for good girl. Inquire of Mrs. Dr. Gilligan. 30-tf Tom Smith, who established the first paper in Holt county, the Holt Record, in September, 1879, is now running a Job office in Lincoln. Mrs. K. J. Mack returned Sunday evening from Omaha where she went the first of the week to attend the funeral of her sister. The ice harvest is over. The dealers in that popular summer article have their houses full and utre not now how soon spring time arrives. A list of the speakers for the Farmers’ Institute has not been received by the local management and tor that reason the program will not be published until next week. Don’t forget when in the city that yon can get warm or cold meals at all hours, day or night, two doors south of the Post Office. Hatfield’s Restaurant. Don’t annoy others by your coughing, and risk your life by neglecting a cold. One Minute Cough Cure cures coughs, colds, croup, grippe and lung troubles. —Hershiser & Gilligan. Children end adults tortured by burns, scalds, injuries, eczema or skin diseases may secure instant relief by using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It is the great pile remedy.—Hershiser & Gilli gan. _ Scott Hough returned from Sioux City Tuesday evening. He is recovering nicely from the operation which was performed upon him a couple of weeks I ago, and expects to be out and around in about ten days. Died, Wednesday, January 27, 1898, Mary Elnora, daughter of i. W. and Nina Hinton, aged nine months and six days. "Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” Burwell Mascott: Sam H. Eves, late editor Of the Atkinson Plain Dealer, was m town the fore part of the week and made this office a visit. On account of failing health he has leased his paper and is now acting as advance agent for Dr. Wilson, the optician. P. Sullivan, of Denton, Lancaster county, is in the city visiting friends. The writer and Mr. Sullivan were schoolmates in Houghton county, Mich igan, and had not met'for over twenty years until Monday, when old times and incidents were reviewed. Frank Mann returned Thursday night from Colorado, where he has been the past year and a half. During bis absence he saw a good deal of the west, and he says he is now satisfied to remain in Nebraska. He went over to Spencer Saturday morning where has a position in the store of Joe Mann & Co. Rev. S. F. Sharpless will preach in the Presbyterian church next Sabbath morning and evening. In the morning at 10:30 and in the evening at 7:30. Sub jects of discourse: Morning service, “What is man?" Evening service, "Our duty to be happy." Everybody cordi ally invited to attend these services. Norfolk News: A. B. Charde, form erly a prominent democratic politician of Wayne county, has gone insane and was brought to the asylum at this place by Wayne officers this week. He has been in St. Bernard hospitll at Council Bluffs for some time past, but they were unable to do anything for him. A Michigan paper tells a story of a little girl named Hattie, whose mother was putting her to sleep one night. She showed no signs of being sleepy, how ever, and at last her mother said, “Hattie, dear, I am anxious that you get quiet and go to sleep, because I want to go down stairs and join in the evening prayers." "Who’s doin’ to pway?” asked Hattie. “Why, Uncle William, of course, • dear.” “Uncle William pway!” said the baby, with wide-eyed astonishment, and springing up in bed in the vigor of her emprise, “W’y, I fawt he was a demokwat!” It is not often that a physician recom mends h patent medicine; when he does, you may know that it is a good one. Dr. J. P. Cleleland, Glasgow, Va., writes: “I have used Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in my practice and it has proven to be an excellent remedy, where a thorough course of medicine had failed with me. I recommend it to my patients every time for colic and diarrhoea.” Many outer progressive physicians recommend and use this remedy, because it always cures and cures quickly. Get a bottle and you will have an excellent doctor in the house for all bowel complaints, both for children and adults. For sale by P. C. Corrigan, druggist. Sioux City Times, Jan. 81: Donald McLean, the untiring promoter of an independent line of railway from the Missouri river to the Pacific coast, over a survey which be has all but completed, expects to return to Sioux City within thirty days and resume the preliminary work. All the letters he has written from New York within the last three weeks have been hopeful, and in a com munication to bis chief engineer, L. F. 'Wakefield, he asserted that his negotia tion's with a bond firm were satisfactory and that the Pacific Short Line would be completed as sure as fate. He re viewed bis well-known belief regarding the advantages of s line nearly 300 miles shorter than any now constructed, and intimated that his views were shared by capitalists who stand in a position to command the funds necessary for con struction. “The end of the J. Kennedy Tod cases,” said Mr. McLean, “will see the beginning, in a very short time, of work on the Pacific Short Line." OUK UR1TSB8ITT. Lincoln, Nkb., Jan. 2ft, 1808.—Special Correspondence: Walk two blocks east and two blocks north from the Burling ton depot and you reach the plant of the state university. The fine substantial brick buildings and the 13 acres of ground on which they stand are Worth 8500,000. ^ Two hundred thousand dollars art spent annually in maintaining this insti tution which has ou its'pay roll 150 people, 180 of whom are professors and teachers. If you think of the state university from the standpoint merely of what the plant is worth and what it' costs annually to maintain it, merely as a business proposition, you realize that tbo half million investment, the annual expenditure of 8200,000 and the employ-, ment of 150 people makes it a business item of some consequence in the busi ness affairs of the state. But when you consider its effect upon this Nebraska community you compre hend at once that it ts over and'above all others the most important institution in the state. Every year life and that which makes it worth the living is more and more a matter of mind and less and less a matter of physical environment. Centuries ago a few understood that mind makes the man, but now- the masses have come to comprehend this great truth, and the ‘masses consenting and uniting, we are each year making the road to education broader and smoother. Each taxpayer, be he learned or unlearned, rich or poor, understands the value of higher education, and as he drops his proportion of tax into the school fund he says to himself. “God speed the public school and the univer sity. * As Nebraskans we are proud of our common schools and our university, for in whatever we have disagreed, in these we have been united; in whatever we have failed, in these we have succeeded, and it warms our hearts toward the state and toward each other to know that wherever the name Nebraska is spoken among intelligent people, these are the measures by which they compute our mental and moral status as a com munity. By these they know and wa know that whatever unsettled problems confront us, whatever political confu sion vexes us, the mind force that is at work in these mind making industries will solve all our problems and make us one of the most happy and prosperous communities in the world. In Missouri, with her two and a half millions of people, there are 800 students in her state university, while Nebraska, with only one million of people, has today in her state university over 1000 young men and women who are pursu ing higher education with that eager ness and quickness of mind peculiar to those who have been born and reared in this quickening and healthful climate, in the high altitude of this prairie state. I love to dream, and whether it is practical or not it is alwavs sweet to me, that in the coming years, from the gen erations of people who come into life within these healthful and quickening environments will spring the brightest minded men and women in the world. I met a Clay Center boy the other day who told me that he was only one of the many who are washing dishes, wait ing on table, carrying newspapers, doing anything there is to do, to make their expenses through the university. It is this eagerness of the young mind in Nebraska which makes us promise so much for the future manhood and womanhood of this state. In a contest between several western universities last year a Nebraska boy carried off the hundred dollar gold medal. This was young Baker who was raised on a farm out in Frontier county, near Curtis. I am told that for five yeari mis young man pursued bis uni versity course on an allowance of only $100 a year for bis expenses. During vacations he went home and worked on the farm as eagerly as he worked in school. A banker in Curtis said to me, “Young Baker, when he is at home, works harder than any man in Frontier county." The people there who know him will bear witness that I am not exaggerating. Now the difference in the. energy, earnestness and aptness of this farmer boy from Curtis and the young man over in Missouri is understood when you remember that the altitude at Curtis is 3,000 feet higher than it is over in Missouri. I asked the Clay Center boy if the dish washing, the waiting on tables, and the newspaper carrying did not hinder those who were compelled to resort to these means for expense money, and you ought to see how that young man’s face brightened as he answered proudly, "1 am carrying nineteen hours and I am bolding my place in every study." And then 1 learned on further en quiry that it is such as this young man from Clay Center and the other from Curtis who seem to grow stronger by ‘"T*'1 "'1 ..... tie extra energies which they exert and who carry off the honors of the school. If you were in Lincoln you could see these 1900 students, every morning at 7:30, hurrying toward the university. It would interest you to look into their earnest faces and it would please you to know that the girls are keeping right up with the procession, for the bigotry, the stupidity, and the selfish brutality which once excluded women because they were women have never obtained a foot-hold in this state. lion can see Chancellor MacLaan and the proffessors hurrying home to a late supper at 7 o’clock in the evening, for tjtey not only commenced early, but they work late. The chancellor tells me that eighty of the high schools In the state graduate students into the freshman year of the university, which shows how this mother of all the schools reaches out her friendly arms in all directions to gather the children in. There’s a de partment of mechanical arts where a boy can learn a trade which will make him a 94 or a 9S a day. instead of a dol lar a day hand. There’s a sugar school where young men are learning the beet sugar indus try. There’s a dairy-school where they are teaching the science of butter and cheese making. There are over 100 farmer boys in these departments. Everyone who applies can get the printed bullitins which are Issued from the various departments. A letter from England, this week congratulates the Nebraska university on its scientific investigations, declaring that our Ne braska professors are becoming known in Europe and are accredited as leaders of thought and scientific research. If we disagree in politics, if we have failed in some things, let us congratu late each other that we are united as to the university, and that in its achieve ments we have succeeded. In the mean time, if you doubt my high altitude theory, keep an eye on the young men from the western counties. J. W. Johnson. The advanced chorus class of the ^O’Neill conservatory of music for ladies arid gentleman will meet Friday even ing, February 4, at 8 o’clock p, m. over Campbell’s store, corner Third and Douglas streets. C. J. Schubert, Director. CABD OF THANKS. We tbank our neighbors very much for their kindness to us at the time of the death and funeral of our little babe. J. W. Hinton. Nina Hinton. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that order Number 27, of School District Number 7, dated January 7, 1808, for 840.00, has been lost or stolen. Said order Is pay able to Tillie Mullen or order and has not been endorsed and all persons are hereby warned not to purchase same as it will not be honored for dupli cate will be issued. 81-tf Tillie Mullen. Following is the list of jurors selected for the March term of district court, and the townships they were selected from: W. B. Hovey, Stuart; Tim Harrington, Grattan; Ed Graham, sr., Shields; J. H. Addison, Wil'lowdale; Tom Jennings, Sheridan; Philip Kramer, Stuart; C. W. Morgan, Scott; R. K. Stevens, Iowa; H. W. Rouse, Wyoming; B. Jones, Fair view; Byron Parker, Grattan; Henry Harris. Steel Creek; Otto Nilson, Sara toga; John Inglis, Sand Creek; Andrew Robertson, Cleveland; John Andrews, Sheridan; Pat Cuddy, jr., Deloit; Fred Cronk, Verdigris; John Tulk, Green Valley; Ed Workman, Lake; William Riley, Inman; E. S. Einch, Second ward, O’Neill; William Gilmore, Ewing; M. Beebe, Chambers. Jury meets March 7. Patrick Barrett, ar., who was buried from the Catholic church on Wednesday, January 26, was in his 60th year, since May. He was born in the county Meath, Ireland, but left his childhood’s home, for Canada, at ten years of age. He lived at Kingston. Canada, till ’61 and then went to Fenville, Mich., where he lived 7 years, and then moved to Peoria, III. He was one of the early settlers and pioneers of Holt county, having located here and entered a homestead, where he died, three and one-half miles north of O’Neill, 22 years ago. He was married to Mary McConville, who was born in England, and who died here 9 years ago, in Kingston, Canada, nearly fifty years ago. He is survived by six sons and one daughter, Richard, Arthur, Patrick, Lawerance, Thomas and John, and Alice (Mrs. John Minton) who were all present at his death bed except John, who is in Minnesota. He is also mourned by 36 grandchildren, nearly all of whom attended the funeral. He was one of our most respected citizens. May his spirit rest in the enjoyment of perpetual glory and peaceful repose. SCHOOL NOTES. Mlaa Mullen lost her pocket book the night of the social. Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff and Mr. Gil lespie were visitors Monday. Miss Burke is teaching in the second primary during the absence of Miss Quilty. John Stewart entered the ninth grade last Friday, and his sister, Leonora, the sixth grade. The class in English literature has begun the study of Burkes' "Concilia.'' tion with the Colonies.” > Miss Morrow was unexpectedly called home Friday evening and was not pres ent at the book social. Mr. Long visited “teacheh’ meeting” Tuesday evening. He was soliciting orders for Warner’s Bncydopedia of Literature. The following pupila of the fifth | grade were promoted to the sixth: Lind Trueblood, Constance Harrington, Grace Ryan, Mary Mullen, Anna Dwyer, Roy Little, Gertie and Jessie Woodruff, Ruth Brans and Lillie Golden. One of the members of the beginners class in geometry was studying her lesson at home one evening, and re marked to an older sister; *‘A right angle is an angle that turns toward the right, and a left angle is an angle that turns towfird the left." Following is a list of the books donated to the school library at the book social last Saturday evening, and a list of thedoners: Arabian Nights, Fred Millard: Ben Hur, Walter Laviollette; Sunny France, Rev. Crews; Lucille, Robert Hunt; Bricks Without Straw, Nina Ryan; Home in the West, Norah Kelly; Ander son's Fairy Tales, Frank Hunt; Night Scenes of City Life, Dr. Trueblood; Select Readings and Recitations,-; Schiller’s Poems, CoilaUttley; Cowper, Frank Smith; Sad Fortunes. Mr. and Mrs. Selah; Felix Holt, M!bs Lowric; The Princess, -; Horne on the Psalms, Thomas Golden; Artistic Guide to Chicago, Martina Golden; Emnett Bonlore, Thomas Golden; Milton, John Morrow; A Sentimental Journey, Will Morrow; Tne Vicar of Wakefield, George Henry; The Deerslayer, Michael Horriskey; Goethe’s poems, Rose Her sbiser; Stories for Village Lads, Maud Plunder; Summer Memories, Maud Plunder; The Alhambra, Mrs. Clark; The Great War Syndicate, Mamie Mo Man us; Slain by the Doones and Open ing a Chestnut Burr, Mr. Frank Camp bell; Playmate’s Picture Book, Lottie Grady; Histoiy of the World, Vincent Golden; Famous Frontiersmen, Ida Mohr; Love, the Supreme Gift, Loyd Gillespie; Micah Clarke, H. M. Davis; Life of Columbus, Willie Hammond; Willie and Lucy, Leo Kline; Last Days of Pompeii, Lyons Mullen; History of the United States, Harry Bane; Jack in the Forecastle, Tommy Campbell; Arnold’s Poetic Works, Owen Meredith; Jolly Good Times, Willie McNichols; Life of Gen. Sheridan, Fannie Milliard; Poems of Gothe, Frank Biglin; She’s All the World to Me, Dan Harrington; Lorna Doone, Burl Martin; The Marvel of Nations, Paul Butler; The People’s Encyclopedia, I. N. Martin; Life of Ben Harrison, Mrs. Cress; Complete Letter Writer, Mabel Snyder; Mother’s Darl ings, Lorella Sullivan; The Cosmopoli tan, August, 1897, Tommy Barrett; Lucille, Mr. Collins; The Swiss Family Robinson, Ralph Evans; Henry Ward Beecher, E. H. Benedict; Pictorial Library, Mrs. A. U Morris; The Swiss Family Robinson and In One Syllable, Eva Tierney; All Aboard For Lakes and Mountains, Mrs. Evans; Saddle and Sabre, Kathleen Stannard; Humphrey Clinker, Martha Hanley. CASH DONATIONS. Louise Pfund, 95 cents; Bessie De Yarman, 95 cents; Myrtle DeYarman, 95 cents; Tommy Jenness, 10 cents; M. F. Harrington, II; Johnnie Connell, 10 cents; Mrs. Jenness, 10 cents. THAT BOOK. Editor Frontier: “From the Bell Room to Hell," ia the attractive title of a sensational book going the rounds, and within its folds are fiendish thoughts, born in lust and inscribed in ignorance. We are surprised and astonished that any well meaning man would accept the statements made therein by this so-called dancing master as facts, applicable to honorable persons of both sexes who trip the light fantastic, and we are indeed extremely sorry that any church organization would lend its assistance to promulgate such damnable rubbish. Several of the statements made there in are a direct insult to every lady and gentleman who, in their young and happy days, participated in round dancing. ^ There may be a shadow of truth in the statement made by this narrow minded author, that the ball room is frequented by the libertine and scound rels generally, but 1s is also a fact that ; . \ . . they are few compered to the large number of our beet people whoae honor* ■ ' able and virtuous lire* are positive ‘ proofa against the filthy chargee : preferred. The author also claim* to be a meek and humble follower of the Lord, bar ing been converted and eleanaed of hii past wicked and namelese crimes and 6 endeavoring to atone in a measure fojr the destruction of hundreds of innocent lives. - Well, we are satisfied thar he was sadly in need of purification, but have our doubts that he will be benefited thereby. * His very soul must be thoroughly and completely saturated with the slime and ofal of a thousand putrid bodies, which ' his crazed and diseased imagination hah painted upon that part of his anatom# where a sound and healthy brain should be. Characters such as he can but fan to distinguish between an honorable a and virtuous young lady or gentlema* and the degenerate associates of his f’; erstwhile youth. The innocence and purity of the happy and sinleas maided , is but to his corrupt and narrow soul the living evidence of her corruption. T6 him there is no innocence, no honor, no love but that born of lust, nurtured by the libertine, a curse to mankind, and positive destruction for the noblest of. :* God’s handiwork—woman. Own who Dahcbd. . i on oKKAmi. The leteat addition to official literature la a letter received the other day by Oommiaaloner of the General Land Office Herman. The writer ia a reeldentof Johnson City, Tenn., who waa formerly a homeateader in Kansas. He had heed notified hr the department to show cavae within thirty days why hia entry to the Kanaaa land ahould not be ' for feited. The letter, which la liable to become hiatoric, ia aa followa: “Answering your favor of the 8rd inat., referring to my entry 17,005, ' under the homeatead law, will aay that } ; ; I have no cauae to ahow within the pre« ia nor montha even) why my claim ehonWf not be forfeited to aaid piece of land in that arid region, where raina are V scarce aa the proverbial hen’a teeth, and aa far between aa angela’ vialta; where water ia not more precious than dla-' monda; where the lean and hungry coyote barka to the majaatlc alienee oj the lonely and unpeopled prairlea; where the feative jack ranit wanders unmoleat ed, lordly 'monarch of all he snrveya,’ and mourns for hia lost companions, the Indian, buffalo, and 'settler' who are nek “I voluntarily surrender all my right, title and interest m aaid land forever and irrevocably to the eminent domain of our own‘Unde Sam/ Bleat be hia 3I magnanimous, great heart for that bene ficent homeatead law that plants the settler on hia lonely claim, forty miles from nowhere, and out of God’s knowl edge, to delve a fortune from the bosom, of mother earth to the tune of blizzards, cyclones, grasshoppera and chinch bugs,' and after a few short and fitful years, > full of sorrow and hard work, to aeek hia laat and only rest in the bosom of mother earth, hia only companion in hia iasolation. “1 congratulate his excellency the president, on thia magnificent addition to the public domain. I thought it waa forfeited yeara ago." Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy ia the beat cough syrup we have ever used our selves or in our families. W. H. King. Isaac P. King, and many others In thia vicinity, have also pronounced it the best. All we want ia for people to try it and they will be convinced. Upon honor, there ia no better that we have ever tried, and we have naed many ^ kinds.—R. A. Blass A Sox, general merchants. Big Tunnel, Va. Sold by P. C. Corrigan, druggist scribed thirty days (nor thirty waeks^ To Our Ouatomara. HOTICX. United States Land Offlee, O’Neill, Neb., Jan. SI, 1898. To whom it may concern: Notice ia hereby given that in accordance with commissioner's letter “O" of January 88, 1808, this offlee will, on and after this date (January 81, 1808) allow homestead entries to go of record on any and all odd numbered sections that have not been selected by the State of Nebraska as school idemnity lands, in that por tion of the Fort Randall abandoned military reservation lying within the state of Nebraska. , R. H. JENNBSS, S. J. WXBKB8, Receiver. Register. HOTICX 07 DISSOLUTION. The partnership heretofore existing between Grant Hatfield and C. E. Hall, under the firm name of Hatffeld & Hall, is this day desolved by mutual consept, G. E. Hall retiring and Grant Hatfield continuing the business. All parties owing the firm will make settlement with Hr. Hatfield and all claims owing by the firm will be settled by him. Dated at O’Neill. Neb., Jan. 10, 1888. Grant Hattold. 0. E. Hall. -,/i M 'v*; ■■ •* 88-4