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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1901)
-——.s-— ---G/Xt' BROTHERHOOD That plenty but reproaches me Which leaves my brother bare. Not wholly glad my heart can be While his is bowed with care. If I go free, and sound and stout, While his poor fetters clank, Unsated still, I'll still cry out, And plead with Whom I thank. Almighty: Thou who Father be Of him, of me. of all. Draw us together, him and me, That whichsoever fall. The other’s hand may fail him not— The other’s strength decline No task of succor that his lot May claim from son of Thine. I would he fed, I would be clad, T would be housed and dry. But if so be my heart be sad— What benefit have I? Best he whose shoulders best endure The load that brings relief. And best shall be his joy secure Who shares that joy with grief. -E. S. Martin. A Boomerang. BY MARY’ MARSHALL PARKS. (Copyright. 1901. Daily Story Pub. Co.) When Jared Peters went west to help the country grow up, Rose Hawthorne thought her heart was broken. This was a logical sequence of the firm con viction that she could not live without Jared, which had led her to engage herself to him. In accordance with this fixed idea, she, for a day or two, re fused food, and mournfully contem plated the prospect of an early demise. But an immature mind cannot long dominate a young and healthy phy sique. On the third day she made sev eral surreptitious visits to the pantry; on the fourth day she dined openly and heartily; and the day after she was startled by the discovery that she had not thought of Jared for several hours. The Sunday following Jared’s de parture, she permitted Harold Winter set, the son of a wealthy manufacturer from a neighboring city, to accompany , her home from church and linger for an hour at the gate; and she was again startled by the discovery that she en joyed his society quite as much as Jared’s. Then she went upstairs and sat down in the moonlit window to consider, j She had all the rules of love at her fingers’ ends. She knew that “Absence makes the heart grow fonder,” that true love never forgets or wavers for the fraction of a second. She was therefore forced to the conclusion that sne did not love Jared; that she never had loved him; and the manufacturer’s son was allowed to call regularly. Jared’s letters were intensely inter esting. The little western town which he had taken under his wing was on a “boom.” He had already doubled his small capital and was proceeding to double it again. Rose had all the rules of arithmetic also at her fingers’ ends. She knew something of geometrical progression; and having become, in view of her large experience, skeptical in regard to the tender passion, she planned her future operations on a strictly commercial basis. After care ful consideration, she decided that a budding Western capitalist in the hand was worth more than a wealthy manufacturer’s son in the bush; so she did not break her engagement; and she did not mention Harold in her nu merous and entirely satisfactory let ters to Jared. Although his love was false, Jared had one devoted admirer. From the day it was declared that the red-faced mite of humanity called Jared was the image of his grandfather, the old man had found his chief occupation in trac ing his own characteristics in the growing boy. "He’s a Peters, every inch of him,” On the Third Day. gran'ther would shout v*hen Jared’s boyish achievements creditable or otherwise, came to his notice. Gran’ther Peters had always liked Rose; and of all the grils in the coun try round, he would have chosen her for Jared. When, therefore, at tho age of sixteen, Jared first walked home from church with her, gran’ther re tired to the grape arbor and chuckled till he was black in the face. He did all he could to foster the budding ••cmance; and when the engagement was formally announced, his rapture nearly caused a fit of apoplexy. When a tattling neighbor brought the news of Rose’s double-dealing, the old man flatly refused to believe it; but when with his own eyes, he saw Rose and Harold strolling by, arm in arm, in the dusk, he took to his bed. After two or three days of misery, mental and physical, he arose and spent an en tire afternoon in inditing a letter which struck consternation to Jared’s soul. It was vague in manner and matter, but he gathered from it some inkling of the truth; and immediately wrote—not to Rose, but to one of her girl friends. By return mail he re ceived a spicy and perhaps not unex “I Shall Stand by Jared.” aggeratod account of Rose's "carry ings on.” Now Jared, absorbed in speculation as he was, had kept a little corner of his heart for Rose; and thought himself a miracle of constancy because ue had not allowed another to share it. There are pretty girls in Kansas; and there was one in particular, with wondrous dimples, that he had noticed, just barely noticed, you know—so he made the customary remarks about fe male perfidy. He wrote Rose a biting letter—and tore it up; for a subtler revenge had occurred to him. He di vined that Rose preferred him to Harold—if he succeeded in making money; and he plotted accordingly. From this date his correspondence took on a dismal hue. The boom was declining; and there were vague hints of pitfalls that ensare the unwary and the inexperienced. Close on the heels of these dire forebodings, followed a rumor that Jared had come home un expectedly, looking very seedy; and it was surmised, “dead broke.” Friends and neighbors. Rose and Harold among them, promptly gath ered on the broad piazza to greet the home comer, and learn the truth of the matter. One glance at the young man’s doleful face was enough. Dis aster was written on it. At first he seemed disinclined to talk; but numerous well put queries finally loosened his unwilling tongue. Among the friends Jared made in the west was one who had been born un der an unlucky star. He was intelli gent and shrewd; but everything he touched turned to ashes. Where others reaped golden harvests, he reaped mis fortune, and his affairs became serious ly involved. He was too young to know that while there is life there is hope; and one night, Jared, who room ed with him, came home to find his friend stretched on the floor with a bullet through his head, and the empty revolver in his own stiffening right hand. With the callousness of youth, Jared adapted this young fellow’s story to his own uses. Up to the culminating tragedy, he told it as his own, and told it well. He was a clever actor, ami fully realized the dramatic possibili ties of the situation. The stage setting was perfect. A rising thunder storm had dyed the summer twilight an inky black; and continual flashes of lightning illum inated Jared’s handsome, melancholy face and sombre eyes. He sat oppo site his false sweetheart and Harold; and behind him, the old man, whlto faced but firm-lipped. glared over his boy’s head like a wounded lion. As Jared’s sad, mellow voice died aw»y with a little break—he felt a pang of genuine emotion as he remem bered poor Wiley’s face with the bul let hole in the forehead—Rose's heart melted. All that was sweet and wom anly and good in her untutored soul rose to the surface. She crossed the piazza, and laying her hand on Jared’s shoulder, resolutely faced her froWn ing parents and the chagrined Harold. “I shall stand by Jared,” she said, in ringing tones. Jared started to his feet in dismay. This climax was precisely the opposite of the one he had courted and ex pected. The face of the dimpled Kan sas girl flitted across his memory, and then disappeared forever. The boom erang he had launched buried itself in his own heart. The two young things who had been playing with the eternal verities of love and death, looked into each other’s eyes, and, by the white light of the approaching storm, saw there that which made them afraid and ashamed of what they had been doing—saw the dawn of an everlasting affection—the affection that mocks disaster, and calmly ignores doubters and detractors, as the placid moon ignores the yellow dog that bays It. Gran’ther’s face was convulsed with delight. Tears of joy meandered un heeded down his wrinkled cheeks, as, glaring at the dsicomfited Harold, he raised his staff and brought it down with a force that split it in twain. "She’s a Peters, every inch of her,” he roared. "Leastways, she soon will be.” Rose was somewhat shocked when she learned that Jared's woes were all assumed; and that he had prudently escaped from the collapsing boom with the neat little nest egg of one hundred thousand dollars; but she became reconciled to the situation in time. ’‘STRICTLY FRESH EGGS.” Yon Cannot Make liens Lay When They Don’t Want To. With all that men of science have done to procure for our tables luxuries without regard to season, so that al most we say "there is no season,” no one of them has yet succeeded in wheedling a hen into laying her best and biggest eggs at any other season of the year than that at which the primal hen so distinguished herself. There have been many experiments of all kinds tried with regard to hatching chickens and they have all been more or less successful, till the term “spring chicken” has become a misnomer. Or rather there are others beside spring chickens. We have winter chickens, thanks to incubators and brooders and all sorts of appliances, and fall chick ens and summer chickens, and chick ens in between seasons, which is one of the compensations scattered all through life if we look for them. But the hen plods on in that tiresome un changing way and looks untouched by all the means that man has invented for hatching her eggs for her, though no one knows just what she thinks. Probably her line of thought takes the stand that you may lead a hen to any kind of artificially warmed and lighter nest, but you cannot make her lay; and cold storage has done much to make us indifferent to the stubborn at titude of the hen. The farmer who doesn't know that he may by the care he takes of his hens influence the man ner and kind of eggs they lay for him does not deserve to succeed. Hens like clean, sunny houses, and they like good wholesome food, and in variety. They want a certain amount of corn and meal and they dearly love a flavor of meat in their food. Also they like something in the nature of oyster shells that the shells of the eggs may be up to standard quality. Housekeepers who receive day after' day from their grocer eggs of not only a uniform size and of even tinting— either all white or with a tinge of brown—take it as a matter of course, and think perhaps that it is just so in every case. But there are sorters whose business it Is to put into cases eggs that "match” in color and size. And they do say that in Boston the brownish eggs have the first call, while in New York the demand is for purest white. It is this demand for uniform ity in size and color that induces a poultry farmer to have his hens all of one breed.—Epicure. Cottage Heirlooms In England. It is still quite a common experience to find fine and even valuable speci mens of old English furniture, chiefly made of oak, in the cottages of the village folk. These pieces of furniture have been handed down from genera tion to generation of rural folk such as carters, keepers, woodmen and shepherds. How did the family orig inally come by them? The explana tion is this in many cases: Genera tions ago, when the furniture, which is once again prized greatly, began to go out of fashion and to be superseded by stuff which we view with contempt nowadays, it was sold and farmers bought much of it. But by and by, the farmer being prosperous, and desiring to be in the fashion, too, like his land lord, bought in its place more modern chairs and tables, etc. Then the vil lage folk bought for a song the de spised oak chairs, coffers, etc., and now, once again, the old furniture has come into favor and is finding its way back from the cottage to the hall.— London Express. Queen of Holland’s Crown. The crown which adorns the brow of Uueen Wilhelmina is said to have cost £1,500. in 1829 it was stolen by bur glars, and for nearly two years re mained in their possession, says Home Notes. Some of the stones were event ually discovered in America, and the remainder were recovered from Bel gium. • ENGLISH CLERGYMEN POOR. Btfnt'flceu Said to Ho Worth Lesfl Than a Year. The lot of the clergy In the Church of England today is said to be so wretched that even younger sons have given up the career which for so many years was looked upon as their chief resource. It n;av easily be understood that this calling has ceased to appeal to them when the fact is known that out of about 14.000 benefices in the church, more than 7.000 are worth lass than $750 a year nnd that nearly all of them are decreasing in value. About 1.500 benefices are worth only $500 a year and less than $250 annually is the return from 300 livings which have been recently described as more nearly "starvings” to the unfortunates who are assigned to them. In the diocese of Peterborough there are sixty-one livings that are worth no more than $225 a year, and this is not yet the worst as there are in Newcastle bene fices that are valued at only $125 a year. The wives of clergymen in these parishes are of course unable to employ servants and all the drudgery of housework falls on their shoulders. The luxury of meat is denied to them except on alternate days and their children—of whom the number is nearly always in inverse ratio to the amount of the living—are prepared by education in the elementary schools, or by the teaching their parents can give them at odd times for their descent to a lower social sphere. These clergy men, as a rule come from good country families. Their wives are from the same class and are in few cases fitted by their training for a life of drudgery and hard work. The actual return for these livings is frequently much less than the figures quoted here since their value is dependent on the price of corn and this" has declined until it many cases what used to be a living worth $500 is now in reality not: worth more than two-thirds of that sum.— New York Sun. A Spelling Parrot. Polly's cage, when at the seaside, hung upon a piazza where the little children were in the habit of study ing aloud. The bird, apparently listen ing, would make an effort to repeat what she could catch. Then suddenly she would burst out with, “I'll spell f-l-y r-a-t” (a strong emphasis on the r), continuing with a low chuckle of satisfaction, and ending in a hearty and long-continued laugh at her suc cess, the little ones joining in the chor us. She was very fond of the children. In the early morning, when her cage was opened to give her liberty, she would walk about for a time, climb the Btalrs to the children's room, and crawl into their beds before time for rising. Cof fee was almost absolutely necessary to her existence. She would call early and steadily for it in the morning, adjusting her tones to the length of time spent in waiting—ordering begging, beseeching, as the case might be, holding her cup meanwhile, to hasten matters. A very retiring, modest servant maid had been long in our em ploy. She had a follower named Thom as, who nightly paid his visit. It chanced one morning that Polly's cof fee had been long delayed. A gentle man of the house coming to breakfast met the girl and made an inquiry re garding the meal. She turned to reply, facing the questioner, when Polly see ing her opportunity for revenge, took it, and, in a man’s voice, called out: “Mary, how’s Thomas?” The woman retreated in confusion, while Polly laughed an ugly, low laugh; but the coffee was forthcoming.—Our Animal Friends. Wonders of the Wire. It is not widely known that at the present time, between all important telephone centers of the United States, while the trunk wires are being used for transmitting speech, there are be ing sent over them simultaneously telegraphic messages without produc ing any interruption of the spoken w’ords. Were it not for immediate laws of nature, which cannot be varied by man or corporation, one might be listening, and take off the telegraphic message thus traversing these very conductors. What a tantalizing pros pect for the wiretappers! Although these telegraphic impulses actually traverse the coil of wire in the tele phone held to the ear and actually speed along the identical copper con ductor at that time conveying the voice currents, you hear neither dot nor dash of the telegraphic message. Environments of Some Literary Folk. Literary people are evidently not in need of holidays. So long as they have pens, ink and paper and access to a li brary, they can write their books any where, and many choose to write them in the quiet seclusion of a country house. Rider Haggard enjoys the seclu sion of a Norfolk farm, George Mere dith leads a reclusive life among the Surrey hills, G. A. Henty writes all his boys’ books on board his eighty-ton yacht, and Dr. Gordon Stables has for his study a gypsy caravan, in which ho wanders at will for a half of every year. Street Car Ticket* a* Currency. Portugal is suffering from a pleth ora of money just now. Not gold, of course, nor silver, but copper. So vast is the supply of this inferior metal that ordinary people are exceedingly chary of changing such few gold coins as they may come into their posses sion. The copper coinage is big and cumbersome, and it is also deprecia ted, so that, in order to avoid being burden with it, it has become the cus tom. in larger cities at all events, to use street car tickets as currency. MEMBER OF rHnM SANDWICH CONGRESS ISLANDS Cured of Catarrh of the Stomach by Pe-ru-na. - t 3 CONGRESSMAN R. W. WILCOX, t 5 Delegate to Congress from Hawaii. E Tt T1TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT?TTTrrT*TTTTTTTtA Hon. Robert W. Wilcox, Dolegnte to Congress from Hawaii and the Sand wich Islands, in a recent letter from Washington, D. C., writes: “/ have used Peruna for dyspepsia and I cheerfully give you this testi monial. Am satisfied If It Is used properly It will he of great benefit to our people. / can conscientiously rec ommend It to anyone who Is suffering with stomach or catarrhal troubles.” —R. W. Wilcox. All over this country are hundreds of people who are suffering from catarrh of the stomach who are wasting preci ous time, and enduring needless suffer ing. The remedies they try only tem porarily palliate the distress, but never effect a cure. Remedies for dyspepsia have multiplied so rapidly that they are becoming as numerous as the leaves of the forest, and yet dyspepsia con tinues to flourish in spite of them all. This is due to the fact that the cause of dyspepsia is not. recognized as catarrh. If there is a remedy in the whole range of medicinal preparations that is in every particular adapted to dyspep sia, that remedy Is Peruna. This rem edy is well nigh Invincible in these cases. Dr. Hartman. President of The Hart man Sanitarium. Columbus, O., says: "In my large practice and correspon dence I have yet to learn of a single case of atonic dyspepsia which has not either been greatly benefited or cured by Peruna." No one suffering with catarrh of the stomach or dyspepsia, however slight, can be well or happy. It is the cause of so many distressing symptoms that it is a most dreaded disease. Peruna acts immediately on the seat of the trouble, the inflamed mucous mem branes lining the stomach and a last ing cure is effected. If you do not derive prompt and sat isfactory results from the use of Pe runa, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case end he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus, O. A laugh to bp joyous must flow from the joyous heart. It. like truth, only asks a hearing. Wizard Oil cures pain. Poverty is no disgrace to a man, hut it is confoundedly Inconvenient. Mrs. Wlnelow * soothing syrup. For children teett'nir, soften, the Ricns, reduces tp* flammatlon, allay* pain,cures wind colic. 25c a bottle. There are 28.894 juvenile temperance societies in the British islands. DON'T SPOIL YOU It CLOTHES. Use Bed Cross Hall Blue and keep them white us snow. AH grocers. 5c. a package. Only 4Q British novelists are ablo to live on the profits of their books. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH, the only 10 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. GREATLY REDUCED RATES via WABASH R. R. $13.00—Buffalo and return—$13.00. $31.00—New York and return—$31.00 The Wabash from Chicago will sell tickets at the above rates dally. Aside from these rates, the Wabash run through trains over its own rails from Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago and offer many special rates during the summer months, allowing stopovers at Niagara Fulls and Buffalo. Ask your nearest Ticket Agent or ad dress Harry E. Moores, General Agent, Pass. Dept., Omaha, Neb., or C. S. Crane, G. P. & T. A., St. Louis, Mo. We should all like to see the under taker prosper if we could designate the source of his income. FRAGRANT ftOTOPONT a perfect liquid dentifrice for the Teeth Mouth New Size S0Z0D0NT LIQUID, 25c MP. S0Z0D0NT TOOTH POWDER, 25c V il6 Large LIQUID and POWDER, 75c (b V At all Stores, or by Mail for the price. HALLdtRUCKEL, New York. the man wbo wears Sawyer’** Slick era. They’re made of specially woven goods, <1 outvie throughout, double arid triple stitched, warrauted water proof. Sawyer’s Slickers sre soft and smooth. Will not crack, pool oil or become sticky. Catalogue free. . M. Sawyer & Son, Solo Mfrs. East Cambridge, Mass. — Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-eent starch con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. When you face a difficulty never l»t it stare you out of countenance. 20,000HHAN§f required to harvest tlio grain crop of West ern Canada. The most abund ant yield on the Con tinent. Reports are that the average yield of No. 1 Hard wheat in Western Canada will he over thirty bushels to the aero. Prices for farm help will lie excollont. Splendid Rationing Lands adjoining the Wheat Belt. Excursions will be run from all points in the United States to tho Free Grant Lands. Secure a home at once, and if you wish to purchase at prevailing prices, and secure the advantage of the low rutes, apply for literature, rates, etc., to F. Peui.ey, Superintendent Immigration,Ottawa, Can ada, or to W. V. Bennett, Canadian Gov ernment Agent, HOI New York Life Bldg., Omaha, Neb. When visiting Buffalo, do not fail to see the Canadian Exhibit at the Pan-American. EDUCATIONAL. THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, NOTRE DAME, INDIANA, Classics, Letters, Economics and History, Journalism, Art, Science, Pharmacy, Law, Civil, ITechanlcal and Electrical Engineering, Architecture. Thorough Preparatory and Commercial Courses. Ecclesiastical students at special rates. Rooms Free. Junior or Senior Year, Collegiate Courses. Rooms to Rent, moderate churges. St. Edward's Hall, for boy's under 13. The S8;h Year will open September IOth, 1901, Catalogues Free. Address REV. A. MORRISSEY, C. S. C.. President, ST. MARY’S ACADEMY Notre Dame, Indiana. Conducted by the Bisters of the Holy Cross. Chartered 1855. Thorough. English and Classical education. Reg ular Collegiate Degrees. In Preparatory Department students carefully prepared for Collegiate course. Physical and Chemical Laboratories well equipped. Conservatory of Music and School of Art. Gymnasium under direction of graduate of Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. Catalogue free. The 47tli year will open Sept. 5, 1901. Address DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY, St. Mary’s Academy. Notre Dame, Indiana. You get chromo starches under all brands and names, but they are all the same poor stuff and have to depend upon something to sell them. Use Defiance Starch, No premiums, but 16 ounces of the best starch for 10c, Don't forget it—a better qual, ity and one,third more of it.
