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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1901)
the oT.n Hvnisa. A path that leads from the kitchen door, Through a little garden plot, „ Down past the cherry and apple tree* That grow In the pasture lot, Thence on through a beechsn avenue Till you hear the waters trill Upon the pebbles and over the stone* By the bid spring under the hill! ; The old spring under the hill Is cool, With blotches and rifts of sun; Its sir Is as grateful and fresh and sweet As the air of a summer dawn. Th6 song of a bird In the trees above. Below the song of & rill Are the only sounds that are heard around The old spring under the hill. How oft we have trudged In other days. When boys and girls at our play. To the shade and stillness of that old spring. Remote from the garish day! How oft by Its sparkling waters clear, We have knelt and quaffed our fill! And never a draught was so sweet os that From the old spring under the hill. The years are many, the years are long Between us and that fair time; We hear no more the tinkling song. Nor the water's silver chime; But oft In the mirror of Memory We can see the Image still Of the winding pathway, the shadows deep. And the old spring under the hill. —Denver News. An Anti-Microbe Crusade. BY KATHERINE LOUISE SMITH. (Copyright, 1901: by Dally Story Pub. Co.) It was appendicitis season. We were simple folks and not fashionable, and so did not fall into the hands of the surgeon, but Marla said this was due to her extreme caution in selecting food for our table. “Appendicitis,” said Marla with a sort of differential look, “has been here all the time only, like the bacilli and microbes, we did not knew it Now we do, or are liable to hare it." It was the time of fruits. God’s own gift to nature, but we ate no grapes, strawberries or currants for fear of their being dead shots for appendicitis. It was this time of fruit that I called Marla’s attention to the fact that peo ple who ate all these things seemed to he as well as those who did not. “rfaria,” I said with a rebellious air, "don't you know the doctors are on the look out for a vermiform appendix ir respective of what anyone has eaten or proposes to eat?” :■ To which Maria replied that “it was well to be on the safe side.” meaning, of course, the opposite to the appsndi eitls side, and cut all fruit from our table. I am particularly fond of to matoes and we had been eating them freely when Maria came across an ar ticle in the Lancet or some other med ical Journal, saying they produced can cer. Instantly we tabooed tomatoes. Of course, we had known all along that cucumbers and watermelons gave one cholera morbus, so these were entered on the death list early In our house keeping venture. All this rather lim ited our diet, but my wife was Inge nious and concocted a great many dishes that we felt sure were all right, and we always boiled the drinking water. We had perk and beano occa sionally like my New England ances tors, and once in a while Maria al lowed a pie to decorate our table. How ever, one day I ran across an article stating half the woes of the world were due to Indigestion, and New England Stomachs, caused by . New England pork and beans, h’ad caused more crime in the world than we were aware of. "Marla,” I remarked as we partook of our dinner, “we must Instantly stop pork and beans. Think of the New England stomach as a factor In crime," and I called her attention to the fact that Lombroso had entirely overlooked this In writing his “Female Offender.” "Still," said my wife, who was al ways hopeful, “we have our bread, Thaddeus; our good, sweet, wholesome bread, and I am sure we boll all the water we use.” We rested calmly on the assumption tthat all was well and we were devour ing no microbean morsels when to la’s horror she one day discovered that white bread had a tendency, to I t " \ “We most Instantly atop pork and beans.” produce diabetes an<J that beef and 'apeworm went together. The utter lespair that followed these discoveries produced a complete reaction, and we decided to eat everything, microbes ; . —.d all. Still we boiled the water and 'uinned as deadly any that hud not one through the dlstilled-anti-bacllU , process. In fact, Marla had ascribed my immunity from typhoid'* fever, dip theria and pneumonia, let alone pre mature baldness and other misfortunes to this saving pipcess, and we had often smiled as we realised that we had got the better of defunct frogs and microbes with long names and short '/ ‘"*4. knowing they could not harm a ”y whose aqueous beverage had boiled, distilled, filtered and kept -*■ etically sealed until used. ‘aria talked much of this. I heard tell her friends In bursts of sudden «Whence. Just how many twists she gave So the top of the Jar to be sure it i was sealed. I beard her dilte on bow well I had been In consequ ace, and 1 listened while she told how she stood the Jar on its head to see if anything ran out Marla got me and the bottle and the hermetically sealed uira stand ing on the head process sr mixed in her auditor’s mind that I determined to have my revenge. I was passing a newsstai d one day and purchased a scientific magazine. The first thing that met my gaze was an article Upon the ill repute in which boiled water should be held' When 1 saw that Dr. Koppe a learned and re spected member of medical societies without number, was the writer and that the excerpt was from the Deutshe Medlcinashe Wochscrlft 1 knew it was all right. The length amd unintel ligibility of the name gave me utter confidence. I waited until we were at the dinner table and the maid had just filled our glasses with our boiled-dis tilled-flltered - hermetically-sealed-un til-used water, when I opened my at tack. “Marla," I said with feigned solici tude, "you are not looking well; what is the matter?’’ "Oh, nothing,” replied my wife smil ingly, "I have had, in fact, a delightful afternoon. We went to the park, walked around, drank some of that pure spring water and came home.” "My dear girl,” I cried holding up my I r i iL , , i I • • • purchased a scientific magauine. bands In affected horror. “It is won derful you are alive. Do you* know so little that you drink spring water? It Is too pure. It does not ceaKain salts and hence the microbes Km cannot live.*' “Pshaw,” exclaimed Msiefci with a sort of don’t-trlfle-with-me *fr, "Thad deus you are crazy. You ka*w we boil all our table water just ts get rid of these microbes, and after it is boiled we out-” “Maria,” I cried, as I gave my glass a push away from my plate, “spare mo the details. I know it all and we have been all wrong. Here I am coming down with catarrh of the stomach all on account of that distilled water." "I don’t see what you mean,” averred Maria a little crossly, “i try so hard to keep you well. 1 boll the water and filter it and then it ia put-” “My dear wife,” 1 announced sol emnly, “this is no time for. trifling. Ring the bel' and order water fresh from the faucet put on the table. Wo are drinking in distilled water a .proto plasmic poison. I don’t exactly know what that means, but the words are so Indigestible I am sure it is right. Iso lated, living organic elements, cells and all unicellular organisms,’* I went on rapidly bracing my feet against the table to give momentum, “are rapidly destroyed in distilled water. They are therefore dead in the water, and in this way we lose the salts and soluble cell constituents we need in our constitu tion.” I managed to get this last off glibly, and with a nonchalant air, for 1 was quite proud of the long words and hoped Maria would think it original, I paused to get breath, and while l did so saw Maria pour the contents of I her glass back into the pitcher. “Thaddeus,” said Marla at length, bracing up against the loss*of one of her pet theories, “do 1 understand we will be too fresh if we drink distilled ! water? That while we render harm less the sort of frog broth we are in | vlting all sorts of polysyllabic perils?” “I do,” I said, “and 1 am going to write to the Qerman savant and thank him.* “Well,” sighed Marla, “it is distract ing to keep up with the different tueo ries. We won’t boil our water any more, but certainly you will keep on drinking a great deal every day. You know the doctors say there is no doubt but that none of us drink enough wa ter. We ought to drink three or four quarts a day It is so cleansing and ben eficial generally.” "Oh, certainly," I replied with a chuckle, “I am willing to keep on mak ing an impromptu tank of myself, but mark my words, Maria, in a few months reaction will set in here also, and we shall read of water on the brain or aqueous humor of the heart caused by too much water dunking.” And .this last looked se probable Marta did not answer. ratal “Key of Dw«" The fatal instrument known as the “Key of Death,” may be-sstn in the arsenal at Venice, among ether de structive weapons. It se^es to be merely a large key, but it jh really a death-dealing instrument, tn was in vented by Tlbaldo, who was disap pointed in love, and was intended for the destruction of his rival. This key is so constructed that the handle can be tnrned around, revealing a small spring. If this spring is pressed, a very fine but poisonous needle'la driven from the other end of the key with considerable force, and aher it his pierced the flesh the wound closes im mediately, leaving an almost imper ceptible mark,' and death soon follows. —New York Weekly. ENGLAND'S PEASANTRY. Their Present Condition Contrasted with That of a Century Ago. The agricultural laborers of today are certainly better clad, more luxu riously fed, have far more leisure, are better educated, and are rapidly be coming better housed than their fore fathers a century ago. And if these are the main constitutents of happiness, then they are happier, comments a cor respondent in Nineteenth Century. On the other hanc'., their grandfathers and great-grandfathers were much more gay and light-hearted than the mod ern; they enjoyed their lives much more than their descendants do; they had incomparably more laughter, more amusement, more real delight in the labor of their hands; there was more love among them and less hate. The agricultural laborer had a bad drunk en time between 20 or 30 years . ago, and he has been growing out of thai. A village sot is now a very rare bird, as rare as he was 100 years ago. Th:n the laborer could not afford a drunken debauch—he had not the wherewithal. His master, the farmer, did drink, and sometimes deeply in the days when he was prospering. And for a few year.* after the rise of the laborer’s wage's;, some 25 years ago, the laborer was th ? publican’s friend. But hard drinking has been steadily declining, and the habitual drunkard Is looked upon as a coarse brute to be avoided. As to other vices, things are pretty much as they were; I am afraid rather worse than better. Perhaps the saddest charac teristic of the men of the present, as compared with the men of the past, is that the men of the past were cer tainly more self-dependent—I do not mean independent, in the sense in which that word is used now—more re sourceful, more kindly, courteous, aad contented with their lot than their de scendants are. Tie Easy To Feel Good. Countless thousands have found a blessing to the body in Dr. King’s New Life Pills, wbiih positively cure Con. stipation. Sick lleadacb. Dizziness, Jaundice, Malaria, Fever and Agne and all Liver ar.d Stomach troubles Purely vegetable; never gripe or weaken. Only 25c at P C Corrigan drug store, Bit Game la tbo Sudan. The Sudanese government, having received numerous applications from notable sportsmen to hunt and shoot big game in the Sudan, has decided to afford sportsmen the desired facili ties under certain reatrictions, sayb a Cairo correspondent of a London news paper. License to kill big game will be granted at the following rates: 'Twenty-five pounds will entitle a sportsman to kill four buffaloes, two elephants, one giraffe, six hippopota mi, two rhinoceroses, antelopes, ga zelles and warthogs; in addition to which, for some animals killed a fee is charged—for a buffalo £6, an ele phant £8, a giraffe £6, a hippopota mus £1 and a rhinoceros £5. A £5 license entitles a sportsman to shoot antelopes, gazelles and warthogs. In addition to the fees mentioned the duty on ivory has to be paid. These regulations have been instituted by the military authorities for the pur pose of preserving big game, which is plentiful in the Sudan, from wanton destruction. Some of the rare species of antelope will also be protected in .an edict shortly to be issued by the Sudanese government. Job Couldn’t Have Stood Jt. If he’d had Itching Piles. They’re terrible annoying; hut Ducklen’a Arnica Salve will cure the woist case of Piles on earth. It has cured thousands. For Injuries, Pains or Bodily Eruptions it’s the beat ealve in the world. Price 25c a box Cure guaranteed. Sold by P. C. Corrigan. To PATENT Good may be secured by our aid. Address, THE PATENT RECORD, Baltimore. Mt Subscriptions to The Patent Record ti.00 per annua FRED ANDERSON. Proprietor Headquarters for farmers of Boyd and Holt counties stopping in O’Neill Good i eds, good meals and right rates. TOelsh Settlement In Russia. A Welshman earned John Hughes has established a colony of his coun trymen in southern Russia, where they have begun the manufacture of iron and steel on a large scale. The town has been named Hughesoffka, after its founder, and eighteen ironworks are in operation. 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All the latest and Improved branches of Dentistry carefully perl iproved i formed. M. P. KINKAID LAWYER. Offioe over Elkhorn Valley Bank. O’NEILL. NEB. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND NOTARY - PUBLIC - Office opposite U. S. land office O’NEILL, NEB JJR. J. P. GILLIGAN, 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 P«ils.r-JP Hardware TINWARE AND CUTLERY. Carries a full line of Stoves and Ranges Farm and Garden Tools FOR SALE OR LEASE SEj£ Sec 9, 29, 9 in Holt county. Inquire of MARTIN BROS. & CO SOUTH OMAHA, MSB. Mar 28—6mo | A. B. NEWELL I | REAL ESTATE j O'NEILL, NEBRASKA j 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 cive me a call, will look up the owners and procure the land for you. 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