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The Frontier. PUBLISHXI) XVEItY THURSDAY BY MB YBONTIKB PRINTING COMPANY O. CRONIN, Editor. ROMAINK 8AUNDER8, Associate. , . ,;'„4 !\~,m it. > . i Official paper of 1 O’NEIL!. AND HOLT COUNTY, J A measure is ap ia congress pro posing to establish a mint at Omaha. The concensus of opinion is that Mr. Bryan's Commoner is a dis appointment You can't measure a man’s piety by the bowing of his head when the minister pray a 11 What Holt oounty pope expect to use for thunder next time is yet a mooted question. A.T The men who would like to serve their country in a county office are beginning to set stakes. * V Alvorq, who stole the First Na tional Bank of New York blind for a series of years, is paying the fiddler to the tone of thirteen yean in Sing Sing. ^ Missouri and Arkansas have adopted resolutions of sympathy for the Filipinos. Missouri and Arkansas out a very narrow swath in American politics. ■— ..» ><•»»--■..... ' >; •;. George D. Perkins, the capable and level headed proprietor of the Sionz Oity Journal, is out for the republican nomination for gover nor of Iowa. George D. is hard to beat. > ' - . ..«»*»< Mr. Bryan says, “Silver dollars aocepted at par,” in soliciting yonr money in exchange for his paper. Would he have said it, oould he have said it, if the silver dollar was not backed by the gold ? The wise populist dropped the imperialism scarecrow as soon as the votes were east and is now too busy getting rioh with the rest of ' the country to spend any time maligning the government. There is one man in America that doesn’t bow to the will of the rail roads. .-."Iq response to an emphatio request from Andrew Carnegie freight rates from Pittsburg to New . York and Chicago were lowered. * On the theory that appearance is an index of character, the young nan yon see poised against a build ing exerting only enough energy to sprinkle the sidewalk with juices of mouth, and tobacco is not the one £on would pick for a responsible position. * ■ «,*{; »■ - * & ■ ■ . jrr—"n: ■TrT~-'' i Russia demands $200,000,000 of China for damages done to the Man churian railway; By the time China gets all her claims settled aooruing from her refusal to aooept European civilization she will find that the "powers'* have the empire boots and breeches._____ Some of the 10 to 1 papers are quoting the words of a celebrated publicist, "It is nobler to get right than to remain wrong." Although the right of 10 tol, has been doubly disproves, it appean that those'who quote these noble words prefer to remain wrong. ' .• , It is said the friends of the late P. D. Armour are diasappointed that the will shows his estate worth only $15,000,000. If the weary bones and lifeless day of this humble pil grim were laid to rest he thinks the survivingrelatives would be satisfied to find an estate probated at that amount.'■*’ ; M v: fcfl/ ■i. The - veterans composing the Grand Army are passing away at the rate of over thirty three a day and today there are 276,000 of the Orand Army , where ten years ago 400,489 answered the roll call. A few more years will remove all but the memory of those that waged the saighty war to preserve the nation - The states of Arkansas and Mis souri are in the territory that is looking for some substantial aid from the government in river improve ments. By an act of the legisla ture these two states are opposed to the government in its efforts to put down rebellion in its colonies and therefore put themselves in a way to merit very little aid from the governmeht. Besides an appropri ation is asked to aid the St. Louis fair. The impatient people that .are tirading the legislature because it has not come to a focus on the sen atorial matter will do well to pos sess their souls in patience. The selection of two United States sena tors is an important matter that should not be rushed through hur riedly. The history of the present session indicates that who were to go td the senate was not cut and dried before the legislature came to gether. Iuter Ocean: The young man’s chance in this country today is bet ter than ever before in the history of the world. There are, in fact, more good opportunities now than there are young men tit to seize them, though tit young men are by no meanse scarce. There is abso lutely uo excuse for the pessimists who declare that the young man is, by the new commercial conditions, denied a place in the world’s work, and absolutely no excuse for the young man who fears to enter upon the struggle. --: ' Boston Journal: An English trade review pays an eloquent tribute to one of the salient, features of McKinley tariff when it warns the Weloh tin plate manufacturers that they “may shortly find American manufactures competing in this trade as in others in Great Britain, and it was only a few short years ago the Journal’s free trade contemporaries were vociferously assuring their readers that tin plate never oould be produced in Amerioa—that Amerioan tin plate mills were all “myths.” -- Followed by the proper mark of punctuation, an exchange exclaims: “The principal one of the hazers— really the torturers—at West Point, the one who appointed the fighters, is also president of the West Point Young Men’s Christian association!” If anything ever ocourred in the life of the One from whose name this great society of men pretends to derive its calling that corresponded with the barbaric work at West Point it is not recorded in Holy writ. Tragic mockery. Hastings Tribane; William Jen nings Bryan, the so-called hater of trusts and monoplies, has practically joined the band himself as it were, for he has placed the circulation of his paper “The Commoner” in the oontrol of the biggest news trust in the country, The Westren News com pany. It’s all right for Mr. Bryan to get on top of n political stump and shout: “Down with the trusts,” until he is blaok in the face but when he does this he should be more disorete than to praotically be come one of them at the very first op portunity that presents itself. --: Independent: When the divine injunction, “Thou shalt not steal,” is read to a plutocratic, trust mag nate congregation it is necessary for the miuister to stop long enough to explain that this commandment simply means that you must not hold up a man at the point of a gun and pick his pockets or that a poor cuss should not take a ham from his neighbor’s smoke house in the night to feed a starving family and to further explain that an organized raid for the filching of millions of dollars from the pockets of all the people is Christlike and strictly ac cording to the gospel of Hanna. On the same line of argument the esteemed Independent should have added that the law spoken from Siopi did not refer to populist editors who pad county bills, double charge on county printing, overlap contracts, connive with county treasurers to blot out judgments to head off an appeal to higher courts and purloin public funds in the name of reform. Governor Nash of Ohio has the essential sand for a man in author lty and proposes to use it. A large body of citizens said to be reputable is bringing strong pressure to bear upon the governor to sanction a meeting of professional pugilists at Cincinuatti. But the governor is in executive authority and sees that such a meeting would be clearly criminal and proposes to stand by bis duty in administering the law, and positively declares that he will not allow the state to be disgraced by a prize fight under whatever guise it appears. A significant cartoon appeared in Sunday’s Inter Ocean. It tells the situation better thau words. On barren hills, rocks and crags, is a child; across bis cap is the proper noun “Cuba;” beneath one arm a roll with the word, “Independence.” Uncle Sam, with a rifle in one hand, holds the child by the other. The child is crying. From among the rocks around rises the beads of the English lion, the Russian bear, Spanish wolfe and German eagle. In the mouth of Uncle Sam are put these words: “I guess you had better stay with me.” ’Tis signifi cant. J udge Samuel Maxwell died sud denly at bis home at Fremont this week. The career of Judge Max well has been long and useful and ia his death Nebraska loses a man wno bad for nearly fifty years been one of the leading characters of the commonwealth. In 1850 he came to Nebraska, then a territory, and began the public career which in later years marked him as one of the eminent jurists of the west by being elected a delegate to the con vention that framed a state consti tution in 1804." His splendid abilities have been felt in the state legislature, the supreme court, where for eighteen years he served as a member of Nebraska’s highest tribunal, and in the halls of the na tional congress. Minden Gazette: The people should remember that when the “anty” im perialists howl about the great stand ing army of the United States, their is not a soldier in the army of the United States toduy, except the man who is there by reason of his own personal choice. The fact that a law is passed establishing the limit of the standing or regular army at a figure above what it has been since the civil war, does’nt indicate that men are going to be drafted to reach the required number. There is no government in existance which doesn’t maintain an army of traiued soldiers, and there is not another as great as the United States that has so small a regular army, even with the increase. Not another nation maintains such great commerical relations with the bal ance of the world with few soldiers as Uncle Sam. Why all this howl against an army of trained soldiers in keeping with the position and dignity of the government. Let ns have the navy; let us be “Johnny on the spot” all the time. “God has come to me just this blessed minute. He shouted ‘Vic tory’ and commanded me to go to Chicago.” So said the excited lady from Kansas, as she routed from his conch the manager, of the joint smashing aggregation as they were stopping at Des Moines the other night. Sane people will thiuk this message is from the devil. The methods of Mrs. Nation will never enlist the efforts of more than a few hysterical people. The strongest friends of temperance are only dis gusted with such work and any body inclined to be friendly to the temperance movement would be driven to drink. The woman has an idea that she is being lead by the divine hand, but if the Lord wanted to close the doors of America’s saloons no more effectual way ol keeping them open could be em ployed than by turning a temper ance crank loose with a hatchet. It disgusts temperance people, makes drinkers mad and workH far greater injury to the cause advo oated than to the saloon. (Contributed ) Grams, as commonly served, after ten or twenty minntes cooking, with the addition of large quantities of sugar, are very unwholesome, giving ripe to fermentation in the stomach, leading to dilation of that organ and the train of evils which follow. The starch of the grain, not being suffic iently cooked, ferments easily, and the sugar assists the injurious work. If grains are to be served for breakfast they should be cooked the day before. I know of no grains on the • maiket which should be served with less than an hour’s cooking. You may read on the package, “Can be cooked in five minutes,” but they are little or no better than raw when served thus. The ordinary grain preparations may be cooked in the inner cup of a double boiler, in a kettle on the back of the stove, where they will not burn, or in a pudding pan in the oven; in the two latter cases they will need to be replenished with water and stirred occasionally. If they are cooked in granite vessels they may be set away in a cool place in the vessel in which they are cooked. If iron- or tinware, is used they should be emptied into an earthen veshel. They may be heated for breakfast by setting the vessel containing the preparation in a kettle or pan of hot water. Oatmeal should be cooked three and a half hours; wheatling, Rals ton breakfast food, etc., one to two hours; rolled wheat requires three hours’ cooking; cracked wheat, from three to four hours; graham mush, one hour; cornmeal mush, seven hours if cooked in a double boiler, if in an irou kettle next to the fire, three to four hours. Breakfast porridges should always be eaten with some substance that requires mastication, such as graham, whole wheat or oatmeal crackers, or “zwieback.” The last mentioned may be made by putting slices of light bread—white or graham—into a moderately hot oven and keeping there until a delicate brown clear through. They will be crisp and palitable if made from good bread. Poor bread makes poor “zwieback.” -- Sioux City Times: Mr. Bryan also thinks he knows what Prince Edwsrd ought to do. Prince Edward isn’t likely to try the prescription, however, having no inclination to take chances of winding up his ca reer as the oditor of a weekly journal. HOLD ON LIFE. A Man Walk* Twenty Miles with HI* Brain Protracting. It would hardly be possible to find a case of remarkable vitality parallel to that recorded in a letter from a sol* dler In the Transvaal which is engag ing the attention of the medical Jour nals. TLa letter is from an officer of unimpeachable veracity. He says: “Yesterday we had another wonderful proof of the remarkable endurance and vitality of savage races. It is not very nice family reading, but I must tell it to you, as it seems to be such a really marvelous instance of endurance. Yes terday morning a Kaffir was admitted into our lines with his head lacerated most terribly. He actually walked into camp with a hole right through his head and his brain protruding through the wound and dried on to his forehead by the sun. He was a fearful sight. We handed him over to the doctor,to whom he afterward stated that he had walked all the way from a Boer laager about twenty miles away. He had had a quarrel with his master, who as a pun ishment had broken his thumb with a sjambok and afterward placed a re volver to the back of his head and fired a bullet through it. The native was left in a donga for dead, but after lying senseless for three days, exposed to the sun and flies by day and the cold by night, he actually walked the whole distance without food until he reached our camp. Our doctor takes it as an affront to medical knowledge that the man should be alive and has sent him to the hospital at Standerton for ex amination by the medical staff there.** —New York Press. Coal In Chinn. Professor Drake estimates that within the 150 square miles arouad Tse-chau there are about three thou sand milion metric tons of coal, and it must be remembered that this area is only a little of the ragged edge of the great coal fields of Shan-si. Most of Shan-si has bteen found underlaid by large coal beds. Richthofen esti mates that the anthracite coal alone of Shan-si amounts to 630,000 mil lion tons, and that the coal area is greater than that of Pennsylvania. ARE YOU LOOKING FOR BARGAINS We have them. Not low priced goods but good goods at a low price. Real bargains. We will save you money on any of the goods that we have. Mens and boys clothing, overcoats, cap^s, jackets, shoes for men, boys, women and girls. Shoes that are re»l bargains. A few fine silk waists and dressing saques. Outing flannel night robes for women and children. Turkey red table cloths, also blue and tan color. Dress patterns, very cheap. Socks, coarse or fine and all size?. O'NEILL GASH STORK THE PEOPLE’S NATIONAL FAMILY NEWSPAPER NEW YORK TRI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Published Monday, Wednesday and Friday, is in reality a fine, fresh, everv other-day daily, giving the latest news on days of issue, and covering news of the other three. It contains all import* ant foreign cable news which appears ir the Daily Tribune of same date; also domestic and foreign correspondence, shot stories, half tone illustrations, hum orous items, industrial information, fashion notes, agricultural matters and comprehensive, reliable financial and market reports. Regular subscription price $1 50 With The Frontier, both papers, $2.25. NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Published on Thursday and known for nearly sixty years in every part of the United States as a national family newspaper of the highest class for farm ers anil villagers. It contains all the most important general news of the' Daily Tribune up to the hour of going: to press, an agricultural department of the highest order, has enteriaining read ing for every member of the family. Market reports wkioli are accepted as. authority by farmers and country mer chants, and is clean, up to date, inter esting and instructive. 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