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The Frontier.' PUBLISHKD EVERY THURSDAY BY j THE FRONTIER PRINTING COMPANY i D. H. CRONIN, Editor. I ROMAINE SAUNDERS, Associate. OFFICIAL PAPER OF » O’NEILL AND HOLT COUNTY, Republican.State Convention. Tho republican state convention is hereby called to meet at Lincoln on May 2, at 2 p. m. for the purpose of selecting four delegates and four alternate delegates to the republi can national convention, which con venes in Philadelphia on June 19, 1900; also to place in nomination candidates for the following offices: Eight presidential electors. Governor. Lieutenant governor. Secretary of state. Treasurer. Auditor of public accounts. ! Attorney-general. Commissioner lands and buildings. Superintendent public instruction. The basis of representation is one delegate at large and one delegate for each 100 votes and major frac tion thereof cast for Hon. M. B. Beese at the election held in 1899. The apportionment is: Adams. 18 Antelope. 10 Banner. 2 Blaine. 2 Boone. 13 Box Butte. 5 Boyd. 6 Brown. 4 Buffalo. 17 Bart. 16 Butler. 14 Gass. 24 | Cedar. 11 Chase. 4 | Cherry. 7 Cheyenne. 6 Clay. 17 | Colfax. 8 | Cuming. 10 Cutter. 18 Pakota. 7 Dawes. 6 | Dawson. 18 Duel . 4 Dixon. 11 Podge. 20 Douglas. 96 Dundy. 4 Fillmore., a .. 17 1 Franklin. 9 Frontier. 10 Furnas. 14 Gage. 34 Garfield. 3 Gosper. 6 Grant. 2 Greeley. 4 Hall. 19 Hamilton. 14 Harlan. Hayes.. Hitchcock... Holt. Hooker. Howard. 0 4 6 11 1 8 Jofferaon. 16 Johnson . Kearney . Keith. Keya Paha.... Kimball. Knox. Lancaster. Lincoln. Logan. Loup. McPherson ... Madison. Merrick. Nance. Nebama. Nucko Otoe. Pawnee . Perkins . Phelps. Pierce Platte. Polk. Red Willow... Richardson ... Rock. Saline. I Sarpy. Saunders. | Seotta Bluff... Seward. Sheridan. | Sherman. | Sioux. | Stanton. | Thaver .....T. Thomas. Thurston. Valley. Washington... Wayne. Webster. | Wheeler. York. 1,088 Total, Orlando Teft, Chairman. -- The new editor of the Chambers Bngle is making some effective im provements in that paper. —..— Bixby says that teaching a calf to drink is like trying to incolcate political sense among a colony of pops. -- Beady prints have been shoved up a peg, but The Frontier is still $1.50 in advance. Now is the time to subscribe. >. To see all the prejudice and en mity of the newspaper men bud forth in a single week, just give a preacher the editorial chair. “The sting of ingratitude” has been partly banished by the election of B. L. Metcalfe, editor of the World-Herald, as a delegate-at large to the democratic national con vention. But it did not come from the pop portion of the trinity. Presidents Kroger and Styne of the Transvaal and Orange Free State ask onr government to intervene in the British-Boer war to the end that peace may be established. The Washington government is willing, bat the British lion growls his dis approval. ■ ■ -■ M#M Among other amnsing things is the spectacle of Christian mission aries patting themselves behind big war gans in Shan Tong. Father Panl, the great missionary, as he was led to Kero’s chopping block should have had a double-barreled shot gun and waded in to those Roman soldiers. * It is mnch easier to denounce a man’s actions than it is to improve on them. “Let ns see if the populist con vention doesn’t denounce this out rage from a set of republican devils on the board,” and Mr. Eves spat the froth from his congested tongue. But the convention calmly and silently adjourned. --• The three-ring polical hippodrome at Lincoln in convention assembled reaffirmed their allegiance to William Jennings Bryan and fusion on the I9th inst., D. Clem Deaver and a hundred strong to the contrary not withstanding. It was expected that the fusionists of Nebraska would ratify Mr. Bryan’s candidacy. If the gentleman is as popular in the Kansas City and Sioux Falls con ventions their is but one barrier to him plucking the long coveted laurels of presidency—the mighty tide of votes that will re-elect Mr. McKinley. Republicans of the Sixth district meet at Kearney the 20th of April to nominate a candidate for congress and select two delegates to the national convention at Philadelphia. As to congressman it seems to be quite thoroughly understood that Judge Kinkaid, who made such a splendid showing last year in the race, will again be nominated. As a mere suggestion—conventions hate advice, you know—The Fron tier directs the attention of the delegates to Mr. E. Davenport of Valentine as a mighty good man to go to Philadelphia. -►<•*-< That the great strides of Amer ican commeroe in foreign markets is being felt by Europeans-to the ex tent of alarming them is shown bythis from the French publication, Paris Grande Revue: “The danger is already at our threshold and is mak ing itself felt. Brutal figures prove this fact most conclusively. A revo lution which will change the Com mercial balance of power is taking place before our eyes. Until recent years the Americans have been the best customers of. European in dustries; they are now our competi tors, and in very many branches have beaten us in the world’s markets.” The bosses ruled with a high hand the late convention of confusionists at Lincoln. It is such absolute bossism as held sway at this gather ing that is disgusting many of the populists and because the party that once boasted of purity of character and purpose is given over boots and britches into the hands of the ring sters and bosses the cause of fusion is dangerously near its end. And such a career ought speedily to close. Hardly an institution in the state, that should have been in the hands of intelligent men, is without scandle because the high and worthy pop officials seemed to think that the well fare of party heelers was paramount to the needs of the in stitution. As some one has remarked, it is a poor rule that won’t work both ways. The democrats started out in 1S96 governed by the rule that prices were too low by reason of tbe gold stand ard that tbe “crime of 1873” had fastended upon the country aud that thn free coinage of silver was the only tonic for business depression and financial distress then prevail ing. This was their one thought— their passion. The great cry was that prices were too low. In 1900 the rule is made to work the other way and democratic ascendency is ] demanded on the basic principal ofj prices too high. While nothing as' yet has been set forth as a democratic document upon which the party is to make another campaign, it is un derstood from what comes from the fountainhead that the subject of trusts will be one of the main planks in the Kansas City platform. The objection to trusts is that they ad vance prices to an uncalled for fig ure. So that, as before pointed out, the democrats are virtually swallow ing their own bitter denounciations uttered in 1896. Ia the old days, the days of the free trade cry, the democracy were then for cheap stuff also. The Frontier doesn’t endorse everything that every republican does any more than it endorses but little that’s democratic, but we like to see at least a shadow of consis tency. Nobody will deny that the trusts need to be choked off. Prices are being shoved skyward in many instances when there is no occasion for it, and if the turbulent enemy will be calm long enough for a shade of reason to be thrown on the subject means may be devised to abolish the evil. The democratic idea to open United States markets to the world’s products would in deed put a quietus on trusts and high prices, and at the same time it would clog the machinery, of our whole commercial system, and par alyze business just as it did during the years from Cleveland to Mc Kinley. Hence between the two evils, trusts are preferable. Until such time as the trusts can be com pressed without the blighting in fluence of cheaply produced commod ities of foreign countries being brought to bear upon the situation The Frontier looks for no perman ent or safe deliverance from ab normally high and low prices. Tragedy of the Easter Bonnet. (Denver Republican.) The approach of Easter Sunday has started a wholesale slaughter of birds throughout the country. New York milliners alone demand 20,000 songsters, with which to trim the hats of customers according to the dictates of Easter fashion. This amount is a mere bagatelle, when it is considered that a similar demand has gone up from every village and cross roads in the United States. The worst feature of this annual slaughter of birds for Easter millin ery trade is that songsters and in sect-destroying birds are no excep tion to the general rule. All are included, and, in fact, meadowlarks, bluebirds and robins are especially desired, as they make “such pretty trimming.” There is not a state in the Union that can spare these birds, yet the slaughter goes on, year after year, in spite of the protests of the few and the formation of Audo bon societies and Bird Defenders’ clubs. Many kinds of birds are almost extinct in Colorado at this day, and if the annual Easter slaughter of the innocents is continued unchecked, fashion will soon have to seek new victims, for the reason that there will be no more pretty birds to kill. Before this comes to pass, however, it is to be hoped that the women of the oountry will realize the enormity of the crime they are perhaps un consciously abetting. Were there no market demands for bright-plum aged birds, there would be no slaughter. The milliners and hunt ers are, in consequence, not most to blame. The fashionable women. who pay large sums for the feather trimmings on their hats, hold out a perpetual inducement for the break ing of game laws and the laws of humanity. Every dollar that Vanity Fair pays for the bodies of birds is an added inducement to those irlio are actually engaged in the reckless, indiscriminate and illegal slaughter of man's friends. Until the women of the country refuse to buy bird millinery there will be no decrease of this wholesale tragedy of the fields and woods, and until the Easter bonnet is without its feathered corpse it will never symbolize the spirit of the day on which it is worn. Start the Year Right. By this we mean that if you are not already a subscriber to the The Ne braska State Journal you should become one at once. The Journal is Nebraska’s old reliable. Being published at the state capital it prints more news of in terest to Nebraskans than any other paper in the state. Many of its patrons have been subscribers for over a quarter of a century. The Journal has built up a tremendous business by its push and energy and the paper stands at the head of the column. Its daily and Sunday issues not only contain all the current news of the world, but are filled with speoial features. The Semi-Weekly Jonrnal, which by many is called “the farmers’daily,” gives 104 papers a year for f 1.00 and is one of the greatest bargains ever offered readers. The year 1900 will be a record-breaker with The Journal, as 1899 has been. Join the aimy of readers for the coming pres idential campaign. HAVE 1..Z z‘Ji erstition I*l«nders Fifteen Thuuand Mile* Apart Believe In Evil Spirit*. Philosophic people who belong to thf folk lore society are fond of tracing legends and myths and customs all over the world. Cinderella, the deal girl, is found in one knows not how many peoples, speaking innumerable tongues and believing an equal num ber of religions. How did Cinderella become ubiquitous? The transactions of the Folk Lore society will perhaps offer a theory. Now, there has been unraveled a curious superstition com mon to Shetlanders and Singhalese How islanders so wide apart—some 15, 000 miles—managed to adopt each oth er’s views one does not know. But here is the fact. The rice cultivators ol Ceylon and the fishermen of Shetland resemble each other in one or two rather remarkable points. Ttyey re frain from speaking of the implements of their calling by their names; they call them something else, by names knowr. only to themselves. The rea son is that if the evil spirit w£jq to think that they were speaking u? spades and rakes or of nets and hooks he would be tempted to damage them or even to appropriate them. The train of thought is the same with both races. “There is an evil spirit always on the lookout for opportunities of do ing mischief. He even hears what we say. If we let him understand that we are talking about our implements and tools we shall direct his attention to them and shall suggest to him a way of doing an injury. Therefore we'will agree to call a boat or a spade by some fancy name known only to ourselves." Another custom of the Shetlander, not possible to the rice grower, is that if in fishing his net catches something at the bottom and a stone is brought up it is not to be thrown back again foi fear of offending the evil spirit, who most certainly put it into the net. It is to be kept in the boat until the net again catches. Then it is to be dropped in the water with the words: “Take your own and give me mine,” where upon the net is at once released. Now, if the Singhalese were to turn fisher, would he, following the same line of thought, adopt a similar custom?— Pittsburg Dispatch. SABLE ISLAND PONIES. Their Hum Are In Some instance* Three TeM< Lons'. The story of animal life on Sable island is strange. Roaming the sandy wastes are herds of wild ponies guard ed by patriarchal stal.ions, says Ains lee’s’ Magazine. These ponies resemble the horses on the sculptures of Nine veh, and approach the beholder seem ingly out of the framework of antiqui ty. They are stocky and remarkable for their long manes, which in in stances 1 ave been known to grow to the length of three yards. These po nies are the remnant of a stock thought to have been left by some Portuguese fishermen—“PortingaMs” the old rec ords quaintly call them—who touched at the ishreds on their fishing expedi tion at e-^n an earlier date than the Marquis ue la Roche. At one time there’ were from 400 to 600 wild ponies on the island, but their number has been de creased by exportation, the severity of the winters and, some people think, by the importation of improved, do mesticated stallions, which have made the stock less hardy and consequently more susceptible to death from expos ure. There are now between eighty and 100 wild ponies and about thirty for domestic use. Mounted on ponies, the life savers gallop over the dunes and among the hillocks on their long patrols, and the lifeboats are drawn t.o the scenes of shipwreck by teams of five ponies, three at the shaft, and two leaders. Some of the ponies are sent to Halifax every year or two, and are sold at auction at an average price of from $15 to $18. London** F'ranga Fountain, A fountain of mercury is the most Interesting sight in a big exhibition now being held in London, and it at* tracts large crowds every day. Mer cury, or quicksilver, is nearly fourteen times heavier than water, and it must seem strange to see flat irons and large chunks of rock floating around upon ita surface in the lower basin. The mer cury falls in a constant shower of sil ver spray from a basin seven teot above the one in which these heavy objects are floating, and it is raised back up into this’upper basin by an “endless chain,” upon which are fastened twen ty-eight tiny buckets, which dip into the mercury and carry it up, one after the other. The entire fountain Is paine ed black, and when it is lit up at nigh* the silver rain sparkling in the electric light against a black background is very pretty. Two and a half tons of mercury, costing $2,970, is the amount used in this remarkable fountain.— Pittsburg Dispatch, Whin Peopla Drink Ether. A curious vice has taken root in Eastern Prussia,where the people have taken to drinking ether. It is sold In the saloons like any other liquor, four or five grammes to the glass. In the town of Memel alone, it is stated, the amount thus sold last year was about 8,580 quarts, and in reality twice this amount was consumed, the rest being brought in by smugglers. The efTect la said to be four times more powerful than an equal amount of alcohol, but Its continued use produces intolerable suffering and incurable lesions of liver, kidneys and heart. The Sauna** in Xtmr. The success of the Germans in the war of 1870 has been attributed by ex oerts to the conveniently carried pre pared food supplied by the sausage makers of Berlin. THE REASON WHY k I sell the J. I. Case and Morrison farm imple ments and the world-famed Plano harvesting machinery is because of their popularity. EVERY FARMER KNOWS That there goods are the best on the market. I have riding and walking plows, cultivators and listers, disc harrows, corn planters, end-gate seeders, and the tamous Daim hay goods, and in fact anything you may need in the line of farm implements. When a man wants the best buggy made he goes to.... EMIL SNIGGS and gets one'tS^those fine Staver baggies. This is also true of wagons. the Milburn, Rush ford and Bet— tendorff, any size you want'ivfll90 desire to call attention to the Kaw feed grinders and th«T"<ritfr>galud>l® Freeman windmills, Cypress tanks, etc. When in need oF?©Xltijy*8 in my line give me a call. I will save you money. Yours for business, EMIL SNIGGS. The Old Reliable Dealer^for HARDWARE £22, FARM MACHINERY In the Retail Battle for Life we always lead, be cause we sell Good Goods at prices that defy compe tition. The Majestic Range leads them all and is a household necessity. The Anti-Rust Tinware is another standby, and one the people all admire. For Barb Wire we take a back seat for no one, because we always did and always will handle the best goods and at prices none can excel. When you are ready to start your Fall plowing come and get one of the John Deere new improved riding plows and the. rest will be easy. Genuine Moline and Birdsell wagons, the best on the market. NEIL BRENNAN. 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Chickens standard bred. Call and see them or write for prices Time given on sales over $15.00 for next thirty days, with security. H. M. UTTLEY, O’Neill, Neb. 1J you want a pretty job of printing have Tht Frontier do it Jor you. Stationery, books, legal blanks, posters, cards and invitations.