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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1900)
Saplio Annin. Miss Olga Nethersole opened ncr American season at Wallack's theater, New York Monday night, introducing that well known lady with a noisome past and doubtful present—“Sapho.” Q. Harrisoh Hunter has replaced Ham ilton Revelle as leading man. After two weeks in the metropolis Miss Neth ersole will start on a tour which will take her through to the Pacific coast. American Girl's London Sucre*!. Americans in London are pleased with the conspicuous success of Miss Eleanor Calhoun as Salome in Stephen Phillips’ “Herod.” Miss Calhoun is a California girl. She was once a mem ber of Coquelin’s company, and was said by the actor to be one of the few Americans able to speak French without an accent. Chaperone for “C«-Eili." University chaperons are the latest Viennese novelty. In consequence of the riotous and insulting behavior of , the male students when the women tried to avail themselves of the newly granted permission to attend lectures, many others of women students have registered for the university lectures in order to accompany and protect thoir daughters. HER HEAHT WAS TOUCHED, A South Daka'k Mother an<l Her Little Girl KxpreHt Tlielr Gratitude lu an Open Letter. / FOLSOM, Custer Co., South Dakota. Dec. 15— (Special.)—Mrs. H. D. Hyde has given for publication a letter ex pressing her unbounded gratitude to Dodd's Kidney Pills for the double cure of herself and little daughter. Mrs. Hyde has been troubled ’with pains in her heart for over three years and for a long time her little girl suf fered from weak kidneys. The grateful lady does not seem able to find words strong enough to express her gratitude. She has written the following: I cannot say too much in praise of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. They are the greatest kidney and heart medicine I ever used. I had been troubled for over three years with a severe pain in my heart, which entirely disappeared after I had taken a few doses of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. I also gave them to my little girl, whose kidneys had been weak, and she commenced to improve from the very first dose. Dodd’s Kid ney Pills - are certainly a wonderful medicine. I would be pleased to have this, my statement, published, as I feel It my duty to let others know just what the Pills will do for them. MRS. H. D. HYDE. Dodd’s Kidney Pills always cure. 50c a box. All dealers. The man who has but little and wants less is richer than the man who has much and wants more. Sweat and fruit acids will not dis color goods dyed with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. A man rarely marries the first girl with whom he thinks he is in love. • Dropsy treated free by Dr. H. H. Green's Sors, of Atlanta, Ga. The greatest drop y specialists in the world. Read their adver tisement in another column of this paper. It is perfectly safe for the man who is blind to believe all he sees. There Is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of cofTee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a newpreparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-fourth as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cents and 25 cents per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. A woman’s heart is like nothing so much as a Moorish maze. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Tor children teething, sottcns the gums, reduces In flammation, allays pain,cures wind colic. 23c a bottl» The modesty of true worth is only equalled by the worth of true modesty. State op Ohio, citv op Toledo, » _ Lucas County, ( *• Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney &Co., doing business in the City of Toledo. 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Fidelity to old truths demands hos pitality to new ones. $148 will buy new Cpright piano on easy payments. Write for catalogues. Schmoller & Mueller, 1313 Farnam street, Omaha. There's always room at the top— but few men care to dwell in an attic. Beautiful hair te always pleasing, and Parker’s Hair Balsam excels In producing It. iliJiDicKcouNS, the best cure for corns. I5cts. Modern murmurers are bitten with the fiery serpents of their own tongues. You Can Get Allen'S Foot-Ease Tree. Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., for a FREE sample of Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. Makes new or tight shoes easy. A cer tain cun for Chilblains and Frost-bites. At all druggists and shoe stores; 25c. No man knows what it is to be a woman. People who did not know the Bert rams wondered liow it were possible for so manv children to livo in so small a house. When Dr. Bertram built the house it was considered of very good size, but that was many years ago. and since then five bright, happy children had come to crowd the little brown house. On one side of them lived a little boy who was an only child and the idol of his father and mother. He had the enviable reputation of having everything he wanted. When some of the little Bert rams wished they were as fortunate as Lawrence Cole, their sister Helen, who was 14. would say: 1 “Oh, it wouldn't be nice to have all the things we want—there wouldn’t be anything to wish for, and wishing is such fun!” Of their neighbor on the other side the children stood in great awe. He was a bachelor named Samuel Jorden, who lived all alone, and who detested children: and how in the world he happened to build a house right next to the little brown house full of them is not known. But, in spite of all the wealth on either side of them, the Bertrams were the happiest, most contented of fami lies. There was always such fun there, with never a dull day, so that every child in the neighborhood loved to go there, but after dinner at night was the jolliest time, when Dr. Bert ram was at home. They would all gather around the open fire In the li brary and everyone had to tell what he and she had been doing all day. Then they would have a little music from Helen and her mother, and the girl would transfer them all to an ideal world with the music from her violin. Then came the procession to | bed, where Marjorie would be carried, half asleep. The queer thing about the Bertram family was that everyone was utterly different in look and char acter, so that one never knew just which one they loved best. It was only the third day before Christmas, when Dorothy, who was just “half past six,” went up stairs to find her mother. She had a wistful look on her little face that one could never resist. “Mother, dear, have I got something for everybody now?” “Yes, Dorothy, I think you have, and you have helped me very much, besides,” anstvered her mother. “Well, then, would you please give me just fifteen cents more and let me go out all alone and spend it?” “Why, yes, my child, you may have that. I suppose it is some great mys tery, isn’t it, and I mustn’t ask?” said Mrs. Bertram. “No, please don’t ask—ever!” said the child earnestly. “Ever!” thought her mother, as the child went out, “what can she be going to do with it? It was almost dark when Dorothy opened the door of a florist’s little shop, two blocks down the street. Nev er was a child who loved flowers more than this little maid, and she would talk to them as she would to her dolls. She was a frequent visitor at this shop, and when the other children hurried oft to a candy store with an occasional five cents, she usually spent “I WANT ALL, YOU CAN GIVE ME.” hers for a few pretty flowers. So as she stood there hesitatingly, the man smiled and asked her what she wished. “I want all you can give me of some kind that smells sweet, for fifteen cents. I suppose the flowers are all very dear, aren’t they?” she added du biously, but the man had disappeared insidb the glass closet, and when he brought out a lovely bunch of Doro thy's favorite cinnamon pinks, she fairly danced. He was very generous with his little customer and gave her eight blossoms, sweet and fresh. It was quite dark when Dorothy ar rived home, but she went straight on past her door, and, wonder of won ders! she turned in at the gate of Mr. Jordon’s house! “Please might I see Mr. Jorden for a minute?” she asked the astonished maid who opened the door just wide enough to look out. "Well, I never! you don’t know how He hates children, I guess," she said, opening the door wider. A big lump, which she tried to swal low, came up in Dorothy's throat. “Yes, I do, but may I Just see him a minute? I won’t bother him." “Well, I don’t know what he’ll say. I’m sure,” said the girl, as she led the way through the beautiful hall to a door at which she knocked. "Here, sir, is one of them children that lives next door. She’s got some message, I guess.” And in one second Dorothy found the door shut behind her, and there, in the chair before the fire, sat Mr. Jorden. t “Well, what is it you want, little girl?” said he as he turned toward her. “Be quick, for I am very busy." “Oh. are you busy?” asked Dorothy, surprised, because he was not doing anything but looking at the fire. “I— I only wanted to give you these, sir, and I’ll go right aw-ay. The man stared hard at the white paper parcel she held out to him. “Flowers?” said’he. “Yes.” “For what, may I ask?’’ • “Just for Christmas, because you live all alone. Good-bye,” and she was gone. The pretty flowers had begun to fade by the warm fire before Mr. Jorden came out of the brown study into which he had fallen. “God bless her brave little heart,” said he, as he held Dorothy’s flowers. * * • • • The first joy of the Christmas tree was over, the presents were all dis tributed, and every one of the little Bertrams were sitting around admir “FLOWERS?” IIE SAID, ing the candles and the clever trim ming of the tree. “There goes the door bell again," said someone. "Do you think Santa Claus has come back?” asked Marjorie. It was a great disappointment to her when she saw her mother shaking hands with Mr. Jorden. He looked rather sad, though he smiled at them all. There was a bright carnation in his buttonhole, the sight of which made Dorothy want to get behind someone. “How happy you look,” said the vis itor, sitting down. “I could see you through my side windows—I have of ten looked in upon you, and tonight I took the liberty of joining you for half an hour. Shall I intrude?” “Not at all,” said Dr. Bertram. “You are very welcome.” Mr. Jorden drew Dorothy toward him and kissed her. "Do you know,” he said, turning to look at them all, “that a man may grow to be fifty years old and learn for the first time what he should always have known. It is this little girl who has taught me how sweet and com forting a child may be, and I used to think they were put into the world only to annoy people.” This was Mr. Jorden's conversion, and though all the children grew to love him, it was Dorothy who became his daily companion and friend. Christmas Waifs. In England the “waits” are musi cians who play throughout the towns and cities at night, for two or three w’eeks preceding Christmas. They call on the inhabitants for donations. At one time it was the custom to let out this privilege to one man, who was privileged to hire as many waits as hs chose and to take a goodly per centage of the profits, none others but his players being allowed to engage in this occupation. She K.nebe>. “What are pauses?” the teacher asked the first class in grammar. “Things that grows on cats and dogs,” answered the smallest girl. Do not d$ro to live without some clear intention toward which your liv ing shall be bent. Mean to be some thing with all youx might.—Phillips Brooks. Cast Care 1o the Wind~r. HDlly berries red and bright, Wealth of candles fllrk'rlng light, Christinas In the air! Childish faces all aglow, « Outside sleigh bells in the snow— Banished Is dull care. Older wiselieads for tbs time Join In sport and song and rhyme— Happy Chrlsmastide! Mem'ry brings back golden youth, * Eyes then seeing only youth, Ever at its 3ide. Joy tonight Is crowned the queen Of the festive Christmas scene. May her rule be long! None can claim a rebel heart With her followers forms a part— Theirs a gladsome song! A 7ht of Deception. She stood beneath no chandelier Entwined with mistletoe; I glanced the hall-length far and near, 1 looked both high and low; No license for a kiss was hung, 'Twus near a failure flat, When lo. I spied a sprig among The feathers on her hat. Roy Farrell Greene. wiwmt*?' r' Old Santy is no phantom prim— The cheer he brings cures many Ills; Thro’ dreamland's door we follow him, And lose the thought of New Year1* bills. Old English Customs. It was customary In former days, In Cornwall, England, for the people to meet on Christmas eve at the bottom of the deepest mines and have a mid night mass. In some parts of Derbyshire the vil lage choir assemble In the church on Christmas eve and there wait until midnight, when they proceed from house to house, invariably accompa nied by a keg of ale, singing “Chris tians, Awake!” During the week they again visit the principal houses in the place, and having played and sang for the evening, and partaken of the Christmas cheer, are presented with a sum of money. In Chester and its neighborhood numerous singers parade the streets, and are hospitably entertained with meat and drink at the various houses where they call. The “ashton fagot” is burned in Devonshire. It is composed entirely of ash timber, the separate branches best nil with a3h bands and made as large as can be admitted to the floor of the fireplace. When the fagot blazes a quart of cider is called for and served upon the bursting of every hoop or band around the fagot. The timber being green and elastic, each band bursts with a loud report. In one or two localities it is still customary for the farmer, with his family and friends, after partaking together of hot cakes and cider (the cakes being dipped into the liquor pre vious to being eaten) to proceed to the orchard, one or the party bearing hot cake and cider as an offering to the principal apple tree. The cake Is for mally deposited on the fork of the tree and the cider thrown upon the cake and tree. A superstitious notion prevails in the western parts of Devonshire that at 12 o'clock at night on Christmas eve the oxen in their stalls are always found on their knees as in an attitude of devotion. • One John Martvn, by will, on Nov. 28, 1729, gave to the church wardens and overseers of the poor of the par ish, St. Mary Major, Exeter, £20, to be put out at interest, and the profits thereof to be laid out every Christmas eve in twenty pieces of beef, to be distributed to twenty of the poorest people in the parish, said charity to be continued forever. *S~anta Will ~ytay, / . 'fliere arc a lot of peoplo Who love to wag their Jaws And tell the children plainly There is no Santa Cians. No Santa Claus—what nonsense Down childish throats to ram. You might as well inform them There is no Uncle Sam! R. K. Munklttrlck. MRS. BREWER RECOMMENDS PERUNA FOR GRIP AND FEMALE CATARRH. ■ The Homeeot Mrs. liuic M. Brewer nt Venterly. R. I. 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