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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1901)
I .— 1— *nr MVfcn of TJT% The mb he we live, more brief »PP*tf Our life's succeeding stages; A day to childhood seems a gear, And years like passing age*. the gladsome current of our youth, Kre passion yet disorders. Steals lingering like a river smooth /tong Its grassy borders. But as the careworn cheek grows Wan, And sorrow's shafts fly thicker. Ye stars, that measure life to man. Why seem your courses quicker? When Joys have lost their bloom an* breath, And life Itself Is vapid, Why, as we near the Kails of Death, Feel we Its tide more rapid? ?J may be strange—yet who would change time’s course to slower speeding, .,*en one by one our friends have gone And left our bosoms bleeding? Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fleetness; And those of youth, a seeming length, Fronortloned to their sweetness. —Thomas Campbell. Daisy's Blue Beads. BY MRS, MOSES P. HANDY. (Copyright, 1801: by Dally Story Pub, Co.) "Mother/* said Dals7 Mason, Impa tiently, "why on earth don’t Jo Davis ask Emily to marry him and be done with it? He has been coming here to see her every Sunday night since i can remember, and nothing comes of it" "Oh, well,” replied Mrs. Mason, soothingly, "there’s no hurry. They are young, and have plenty of time. 1 am sure I’m not anxious to have Emily married. I don’t know what we should do without her.” “Nor I,” admitted Daisy. "But I am tired having people ask me when he and Emily are going to be married. It would be a relief to my feelings to be able to tell them that they were en gaged." y “I don’t aee what people have to do with It It la none of their business who comes courting Emily." •V'No, It Isn’t, and that is lust what makes me mad. They talk as If Jo was just flirting.” “Now, Daisy, you know that is rldlc ulous. Everybody in town knows that Jo fairly worships the ground Emily treads on. Why, he never looks at any other^ girl.” ' "Then, why don’t he speak out? Mother, do you think thay can be en gaged?” •Mrs. Mason shook her head. "No, Indeed, Emily would have told me, cer tain. sure.” . '“Yes, I suppose she would. But he ought to ask her. I wonder Emily stands it. I wouldn’t, I know. Fath er ought to ask him bis intentions. I've a great mind to do It myself." ./ "The idea. As if father would do such a thing. Why, it would scare Jo to death, and Emily would die of mor tification.” "And then we should have two fun erals Instead of a wedding. 1 don't care, somebody ought to do something. It makes Emily ridiculous, and I’m going to tell her so.” "No, Daisy, don’t do any such thing,” said her mother. “All people aren’t alike, and you would only hurt your sister’s feelings. You know Jo la dead In love with her, and he will tail her so when he gets ready.” "Well, I wish he’d hurry up. I don’t think much of a man who wants to 'marry a girl and hasn’t spunk enough to say so. I think I see any man treat me like that” And Miss Daisy gave a toss to her pretty head which boded ill to the man who should try it ’ in a small country town where everybody knows every one else, most tpen and all women take a lively inter est in the affairs of their neighbors. In JHayvllle Jo Davis’ courtship of Emily Mason was one of the stock subjects -of gossip. The two had been keeping company for five years, more or less, and Hayvllle was agreed that they * ought either to double or quit. There was no apparent reason why they should not be married. Jo had a good Yarn left him by his father, and his old ‘mother would be all the better of a *'0h, Daisy, really!" daughter-in-law like Emily. Jo’s pa rents had married late In life, and Jo etas an only child. It was fragments Of this gossip which, reaching Daisy Mason’s ears, had wrought her up on the subject Daisy was Emily’s young er sister, the prettiest girl In all Hay Tllle. with a dozen or so of beaux, whom she led a dance. There Is many a true word spoken jfh jest Daisy felt that decidedly some thing ought to be done. She had al ready tried to help matters by effacing herself upon various occasions, enter taining her own visitors on the porch when Jo came, so that the presence of Others might not prevent him from pro posing to Emily. To her disgust these Inmall maneuvers had been fruitless; <^0w she felt that more vigorous meas ■ 'arm were necessary. •% There was a third sister In the Ma pen family, a little girl twelve years younger than the brother who earn* next to Daisy. Rosy Mason was a gen | eral pet, not only in her own family, I but With most of the neighbors. Natu rally a clever child, constant associa tion with her elders had made her wise beyond tier years, and lie; bright sayings were told and (fueled all over town. Jo Davis was especially fond ol her, and paid her almost as much at tention as he did to Emily. It was to this little sister that Dairy turned fo help in the present emergency. “Rosie," she asked, "car: you lrec-p a secret?” “ ’Course I can,” answered Kn 'e. 11 dignantly. “Don’t you ka.'.w mrt’.e Bays I never tell anything ) ought i f to 7” "Yes, but this i3 different. 1 war I you to ask Jo Davis if he and Dint > are going to be married.” The little sister was shocked. "Oh Daisy, I couldn’t. Mother would le an gry, and Emily wouldn’t like it a li.t "Listen, Rosy. They won't mind a all if you do it the right way and dan' let anybody know I put you up to >' I’ll give you my blue beads it you vt ! . "Your blue beads? Oh. Daisy, rrr ly?” exclaimed Rosie, but still s' looked doubtful. “Yes, my blue beads, for your v. "I am indeed, if she'll have me.” own. . Now, listen. You know Jo want to marry Emily, everybody knows it. and we are all willing that he should but he is so bashful that he don’t dai\ | ask her. Now, if you help him out lit will be fonder of you than ever." "I think she would say yes if he ask ed her, don’t you, Daisy?” "Of course I do; but she can’t if he don’t, and she would be pleased, too, so you see nobody would mind, don’t you?” “Are you sure, Daisy?” "Yes, dear, quite sure. And then think what fun it would be to have a wedding in the family. I would be bridesmaid and you and Jo’s little cousin Nellie would be ilower girls. Yo. would have a beautiful new white dress, and a big hat all Powers anti chiffon; oh, it would be grand. You know I wouldn’t ask you to do any thing wrong. Then you shall have tin beads, as soon as you ask him, and it mother and Emily are angry 1 will take all the blame. But they won't be Everybody will bo glad.” During the next day or two Kosie’s wise little head did a great deal . oi thinking. The more she pondered the more it seemed to her that Daisy was right. Jo must love Emily or he wou d not come to see her so often. He never went to see any other girl. People certainly expected them to get mar rled. Had not old Mrs. Brown, wlu was always trying to find out every thing, endeavored to pump her, Rosy, again and again, and called her a sly little puss, because she told her noth ing. Then she did so want the beads Not even Carrie Wells’, that all the girls at school made so much fuss over were as pretty as they. So she ques tioned Daisy once more, and Daisy re iterated her assurances, saying: "The next time Jo and Emily are by themselves, and Jo calls you his little sweetheart, all you have to do is to tell him that you had rather be his lit tle sister, and ask him if he isn’t going to marry Emily; he will be yout brother if he does, you know. How can he mind that?” And Kosle agree< that he couldn’t. Fortune favored her. Tho next Sun day was a bright September day, anc* Joe and Emily had the parlor to them selves. Daisy had discreetly gone foi a walk, and the rest of the family wer sitting out on the porch. Kosle wen to the door of the parlor and peepeo in. They sat, Emily and Jo, one 01 one side of the table, one on the other as they had so often, talking quletl as usual. “Come here, Rosie," called Jo. Rosie went in and took ner stand be side his knee. He drew her to him and stroked her curls. “You’re my lit tle sweetheart, aren’t you?” he asked Rosie shook her curly head. “I’d rather be your little sister. I'd like that. Yon are going to marry Emily aren’t you?” Emily turned crimson, but Jo laugh ed, delighted. “I am, Indeed, if she’ll have me.” “Oh, she will, won’t you Emily?’ and the little matchmaker tied. Having taken the plunge, with Rosie’s aid, Jo’s bashfulness vanished and when Mr. and Mrs. Mason came iD a little later they found Emily and hei accepted lover waiting to receive theii consent and blessing. Rosie wore the blue beads to school on Monday. There was but one draw back to her happiness; everyone made so much of her, and her honest little soul shrank from accepting the credit which belonged rightly to another. “Please let ae tell them the truth about it,” she begged »f Daisy, bul Daisy said “No.” Life is made up not of one great sac rifice but of many little kindnesses. RE8T0RED tO LlPE. Experimen a In Managing a Hrart That Had Ceased I’ulsatlng. I Dr. Maag of Nasted, Denmark, re ! cently made an experiment in revivi fying a man apparently dead, which has convinced him that it i3 possible, in favorable circumstances to restore the dead to life by massaging the heart, says the St. Louis Star. The doctor was attending a charity patient, a laborer, who apparently died under an operation from the effects of chloro form. Artificial respiration and other methods of the usual “revive” treat ments were tried, but all to no avail. The other attending surgeons gave up the case, and said when they did so that the man had been dead fifteen minutes. Dr. Maag, however, declar ed that he would save the man. He cut open the dead man’s side and be gan to manipulate the heart. He timed the squeezing of the organ by the beat ing of his own pulse so ns to get a natural rhythmic action, and soon be gan to feel the heart respond to the 1 treatment. The other doctors began I working at the artificial respiration | again, and in thirty-five minutes the 1 dead man was breathing again and his heart was beating. His side was sewn up and he put to bed, where he ceased to breathe, and all attempts at artificial respiration were powerless to start the lungs working once more. The heart, however, kept on beating for eight hours, when it stopped, and the man was finally “allowed” to be dead, even by Dr. Maag. In all this re viving process the patient did not re gain consciousness, but the doctor be lieves that he nevertheless began to live again after the heart had been started working by massage. Some people will say that the action of the heart was simply a case of muscular reflex, responding to irritation and not real life. Dr. Maag, however, be lieves, that the reason the man died a second time was that his treatment was largely impromptu, and that the proper conditions and instruments for a thorough and scientific test were not at hand. WHITTLING FOR FUN, 8*ld to lie ■ IUulihrul Relaxation tor a Tlrfd Alin,I. People who flock southward during the winter as a relief from the cares at home take on some new and strange occupations. At present the passion is for whittling, says the Washington Post. In fact, it is the amusement of the hour of the banker, the merchant and the tired-out millionaire. But it is not the same aimless chipping away of a stick that delights the schoolboy; very pretty things are made by these grave designers, paper cutters being one of the most general. After a num ber of men congregated at some resort have been attacked by the craze, it is amusing to see them starting out to find the wood. They go forth clad Ir. knickerbockers and armed with great jack-knives, as serious as though :n search of the buck of the season. More prized than any other are the woods of the laurel and rhododendron. Both are exquisitely white and receive as high and fine a polish, as satin. Straight pieces of considerable length are chos en to be cut and it is desirable that they should terminate in a fork. The forked part is left undisturbed in its natural state for the handle, while the other end is whittled down into the blade of the cutter. Various are th9 ways of achieving this apparently simple end and every man finds con tentment in the conviction that his own knife and tools are the best. The final polishing is universally done with sandpaper and a broken bit of glass. Knitting needles are also popular among the things that are being whit tled. They are finished at the top with a round ball, which .has carved upon it the initials of the one who is to be their possessor. The greatest achievement in whittling, however, is an endless chain that was recently done by quite an old gentleman who had gone to the south to rest. Wita in each link rested a little revolving ball. It was truly a chef d’oeuvre. Scientifically it is claimed that there is something about the mechanical calm of whittling which is most restful to an overtaxed mind. [ Maine’s Modern Ship*. Maine shipbuilders are developing the schooner rig to such an extent that they are putting together a vessel of that type with no less than seven masts. Big six-masted ships, rigged in schooner fashion, have proved to be remarkably economical and successful in carrying huge cargoes of coal and other heavy stufT, and now a step on ward to seven masts is on foot, says the New York Tribune. The new giant of its class will have a keel length of 335 feet, a breadth of 54, a depth of hold of 32, and a tonnage of about 4,000. This is a rarely interesting movement in the construction of sail ing vessels. How much further is to go? Will the seven-master, if satisfac* tory, be followed by an eight-master, and possibly a ten-masted schooner, in e score of years or less? It may even be that the middle of the century will welcome a sailing leviathan with a> dozen masts of the schooner rig. Yan kee inventiveness and energy take long looks ahead. School ICecelvaA ®10,OOD Le;»cjr. Westbrook seminary, a Universalist school at Portland, Me., has received a legacy of $10,000 from the estate of Miss Eunice A. Niles of North Jay. The legacy is divided into two funds of $3,000 each; the income of one is to be used by the trustees as they think best, and the income of the other to be used in aiding worthy and needy stu dents. The latter fund is to be know'n as the Eunice A. Niles fund. IMPORTANCE OP EXERCISE. Inactivity a Patent Cnme of Atrophy and Degeneration. Regular exercise Is essential to the preservation of health; inactivity is a potent cause of atrophy and degenera tion. The vigor and equality of the circulation, the functions of the skin and the aeration of the blood are all promoted by muscular activity, which thus keeps up a proper balance and relation between tlva important organs of the body. In youth the vigor of thq system is often so great that, if one organ be sluggish, another part will make amends for the deficiency by acting vicariously, and without any consequent damage to itself. In old age the task cannot thus be shifted from one organ to another. The work allotted to each sufficiently taxes strength, and vicarious action cannot be performed without mischief. Hence the Importance of maintaining as far as possible the equable action of all the bodily organs, so that the share of the vital processes assigned to each shall be properly accomplished. Foi this reason exercise is an important part of the conduct of life in old age; but discretion is absolutely necessary. An old man should discover by expe rience how much exercise he can taka without exhausting his powers, and should be careful not to exceed the limit. Old persons are apt to forget that their staying-powers are much less than they once were, and that, while a walk of two or three miles may prove easy and pleasurable, the addition of the return journey of sim ilar length will seriously overtax the strength. Some Reasons Why You Should Insist on Having EUREKA HARNESS OIL U nequaled by any other. Renders hard leather soff Especially prepared. Keeps out water. A heavy bodied oil. Harness An excellent preservative. Reduces cost of your harness. Never burns the leather; its Efficiency is increased. Secures best service. Stitches kept from breaking. Oil |s sold in all Localities Manufactured by Standard Oil Company. fi with your name and address printed cn them ONLY 50C /VWWN The cheapest way to buy for those wanting small quantities CEtye Frontier. anasag specialties: eve. ear, Nose and Throat Spectacles correctly fitted and Supplied. O'NEILL, NEB. A. MERRIL Wholesale and Retail FLOUR & FEED 1 Full stock of grood goods at prices that please. All kinds ot 2 grain taken in exchange and [S bought for cash. O’NEILL, NEB* Walmer’s old stand. FRED ANDERSON. - Proprietor Headquarters for tarmers of Boyd and Holt counties st pping in O’Neill Good beds, good meals and right rates. DETECTIVES WANTED— ~~ j Address P. O. box 250. Lincoln. Neb. men wanted to act in the secret ser Bright, honest and reliable young I vice. P H. BENEDICT. LAWYER, Office la the Judge Roberts building, north of O. O. Snyder's lumber yard, O NEILL.___NKB. R. DICKSON ATTORNEY AT LAW reference First National Bank Q‘NEILL. NEB JJARNET STEWART, PRACTICAL AUCTIONEER. Satisfaction guaranteed. Address, Page, Neb DR P. J. FLYNN PHYCIAN AND SURGEON Office over Corrigan’s, first door to right Night calls promptly attended. £)R. G. M. BERRY, DENTIST AND ORAL SURGEON Graduate of Northwestern University, Chicago, and also of American College of Dental Surgeory. All the latest and Improved branches of Dentistry carefully performed. M. P. KINKAID LAWYER. Offloe over Elkhorn Valley Bank. O'NEILL. NEB, 3. 3. KING ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND NOTARY -PUBLIC - Office opposite U. 8. land office O'NEILL, NEB. £^R. J. P. GILL1GAN, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office in Holt County Bank building Orders left at our drug store or at my residence first street north . and half block east of stand pipe will receive prompt response, as I have telephone connections. O’NEILL,_ NEB. J. H. PEELER ■»«•',«!.!!■ Hardware TINWARE-AND CUTLERY. Carries a full line of Stoves and Ranges Farm and Garden T ools FOR SALE OR LEASE SEj^ Sec 9, 29, 9 in Holt county. Inquire of MARTIN BROS. & CO SOUTH OMAHA, NEB. Mar 28—6mo i A. B. NEWELL || j REAL ESTATE j I O’NEILL, NEBRASKA | Selling and leasing farms and ranches Taxes paid and lands inspected for non residents. Parties desiring to buy or rent land owned by non-residents give me a call, will look up tbe owners and procure the land for you. C. L. BRIGHT [ REAL ESTATE AND IN -i SURANCE. Choice ranches, farms and town lots for sale cheap and on easy terms All kinds of land busi ness promptly attended to. It-presents some of the best Insurance companies doing bus luess In Nebraska. E Notary Work Properly Executed O'Neill Abstracting Go Compiles Abstracts of Title ONLY COMPLETE SET OF AB STRA CT BOOKS IN HOLT COUNTY O’NEILL, NEB. UNION MEAT MARKET C^°iee lice of F[®e^ | a rad gait 02eat^ | epoultpy aod Game I FRED C. GATZ, PROP We fix t Watches Clocks and Jewelry REPAIRED & GUARANTEED W. M. LOCKARD With GILLIGAN & STOUT Meat, dxamg, Eis£, Bowls, lard, !1g. p. Midgs and Ears longBt % frodngg lakgn in IxcBacgg ajUkjflft. HOTEL —1—£ VANS Enlarged Refurnished Refitted Only First-class Hotel In the City W. T. EVANS, Prop 8 H 0 X WEST EAST in 0 c H S Purohaa* Tickets and Conaign youi Freight via the F. E.& M.V.and S.C.& P RAILROADS. TRAINS DEPART: GOINO BAST. Passenger east. No. 4. 9:57 a. m Freight east. No. 24, 12:01 p. m Freight east, No. 28, 2:35 p. M. OOINO WIST Passenger west No. 3, 10:00 p. »i Freight west, No. 27, . 9:15 p. m Freight, No, 23 Local 2:85 p. M. The KIkhorn Line is now running Kecllnlng Chair Cars daily, between Omaha and Dead wood, jree to holders of first-class transpor tat ion. Ferany information call on E. R ADAMS, Agt. O’NEILL. NEB. REAL ESTATE. CATTLE AND SHEEP RANCHES GRAIN AND HAY FARMS For Sale and Lease <§)<§) PRICES LOW AND TERMS EASY . M. LYONS EMMET, NEB.