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The Frontier. Published by D. H. CROHIN. 11.80 the War. 75 Cents Six Months ADVERTISING RATES: Display advertlsments on pages 4, 5 and 8 are charged for on a basis of 50 cents an Inch tone column width) per month; on page 1 the charge is 81 an Inob per month. Local ad vertisements, Scents per line eaoh Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. VWVyyWVWWVWWWVWVWWWWVVWW A smooth talker may have a thorny tongue. _ Being good to everybody but your self is a rare type of virtue. With a million dollar postal deficit 1 cent postage seems to us a false bit of economy. ^ The freezing of two booze-soaked Omaha wretches is another victory for the Nationists. If the republican papers would let Mr. Bryan alone his name would be forgotten. ^ _ Pittsburg, Pa., people sure enough have reason to think misfortunes come not as single spies, etc. Carrie Nation is the most con specious national figure in the domain of women today, just the same. It is about time that the vapid and tatelcss mode of speech, “go away back and sit down,” went away back and sat down. There must have been a flaw in the » dismemberment of the celestial em pire since she proposes radical changes In the Manchurian treaty. King Edward is probably endeavor ing to mark history's page in South Africa with the same pencil the more illustrious Edward used in France six centuries before him. “Historian” Maclay has been dis missed from service as an expert in the Brooklyn navy yard for slandering Admiral Schley in a chapter on the battle of Santiago in his book on naval history. The war cloud seems to have rolled from European skies to South America for the time being. Chile and the Argentine republic have a dispute which they think they must settle by the sword. Notwithstanding the newspapers have discovered that nearly every member of the president’s cabinet “would resign” the old cabinet still stands with the two exceptions of postmaster-general and secretary of treasury, the farmer portfolia having been given to Hon. Henry C. Payne and the latter to Gov. Leslie M. Shaw of Iowa. After a day’s wrangling, the great est, wisest and most imposing body of democratic editors that ever assembled in Nebraska adjourned at Columbus without presenting anything to the world, anything to history, but the echos of hurrahs for themselves and the odors of home brewed liquids floating out over the frozen !x>som of the Platte. The War Department has found it necessary to call oft General Miles. The blunt old general has a disagree able (to the “retined”army men) habit of saying what he thinks, especially when he has a situation sized up pretty well, lie cares very little for the modern policy methods, and anon burst out with expressions of senti ment that most public men would sup press even though they felt them,until locating the direction of the winds. S. H. Sedgwick, judge-elect of the suprem ecourt, has resigned as a mem ber of the court commission and takes his seat on the supreme bench January 9. The vacancy will be supplied by appointment of the supreme court commission. Judge J. B. Barns of Norfolk is the mast promi nent candidate for the appointment and would make a substantial link to the state’s highest judicial body. Frank Martin of Falls City, A. W. Lane of Lincoln and S. W. Christy of Edgar are also mentioned in connec tion with the appointment, which will be made at the January sitting of the court. CREDIT SUSPENDED. If there is any unpleasant editorial duty it is calling the delinquent sub scriber’s attention to his delinquency. The Frontier does not make a practice of publicly doing this, nor would it do so now were it not for a recent ruling of the postal department which is to the affect that a subscription to any publication, entered as second class matterj MUST BE DISCONTIN UED, when the time for which it is PAID IN ADVANCE has expired. This is the most radical ruling news paper publishers have to meet and our readers can readily see it deprives us of the priviledge of extending them credit. Newspapers come under the head of second class mail matter and of course will be seriously affected by this ruling. The only thing publishers can do is to cut from their subscription lists all who are not paid up. We cannot afford to send papers on credit if by doing so we are deprived of the pound postal rate at which newspapers have always been transmitted through the mails. Now, if our subscribers who know they are delinquent and who get their mail at the O’Neill office or whose business calls them into O’Neill, will come in and liquidate the account it will make it possible for us to comply with the rulings of the department, otherwise their names may have to be soon cut off the list. Subscribers liv ing at a distance will serve the same end and ensure their receiving regular issue of The Frontier by promptly responding if they receive a statement of their account. WILL CREATE A MARKET. “Within two years there will be completed and in operation in Sioux City the largest and most complete packing plant on the Missouri river lager than that of Armour & Co. at South Omaha and larger than the Armour Packing company’s immense institution in Kansas City.” This in formation is ventured by the Sioux City Journal upon the authority of a banker whose name is not divulged. The fruition of such hopes means much to growers of live stock and buyers of live stock in north Nebraska. Stock men have long recognized that all Sioux City needs is an adequate packing plant to make it as good a stock market as Omaha or Kansas City. The larger percent of the stock of t his territory now goes to Sioux City even with a less favorable market because the shipping distance is about half what it is to Omaha. A good market created by a packing institution will give the Iowa city still greater lever age upon the stock business of north Nebraska. The extention of the Short Line into Boyd county and Gregory county, South Dokota, would also be no small item to a Sioux City market, as that would tap one of the richest agricultural and stock couutries adjacent to the Missouri. BUSY MARKETS. This paragraph from Dun’s Re view briefly states the statis of busi ness and commercial affairs: “In many industries it is not a question of finding buyers, but securing the privilege of postponing deliveries be yond the date originally specified. An event of much promise in the in dustrial world was the organization of a committee composed of representa tive employers, labor leaders and other well known men, which will endeavor to adjust wage and other issues so as toadvoid the losses aiuildistress caused by strikes. Any scheme that brings capital and labor ‘into closer contact cannot fail to benefit both. The pro posed textile school to develop higher efficiency of skilled labor is another encouraging sign. Bank exchanges at New York exceeded those of the same week last year by 2.3 per cent, and 1899 by 1.3 per cent., while at the other leading cities there was prac itcally no change. Railway earnings thus far available for December show gains of 0.2 per cent, over last year and 20.1 per cent, over 1899.” The Frontier trusts its subscribers, delinquent and paid-in-advance, had a merry yesterday and don’t need their headsbaudaged today. Happy New Year comes next, and the surest means of spending it happily is to be able to reflect back over the last twelve months and say, “I have fought a good fight”; happy in the consciousness of fluty to God, man and brute well done. You may sit amid humble inviron ments but if your conscience bears witness to a year well spent you will have a happier New Year than Pat Crowe. •4 — Gordon Journal: The Standard Oil company has paid another quarterly (liviuetKl, making a total of 48 per cent In dividends during 1901. Looks like they could cut off a few cents dividend and furnish a grade of oil fit to kindle fires with at any rate. It is pronlulgative of unchristian thought, to say the least, to find the kerosene can frozen up on a cold morn ing when you want a fire quick, and you know the octopus that sold it to you is rolled between blankets in a warm room fed from steam pipes. --4-4-4 The aricultural department is worth the price of maintaining the state university. It is refreshing to note that, our educational institutions are now turning out something besides Ph It’s, LL P’s, DP's and PC’s. In stead of only an army of high collared “scholars”, too proud and too lazy to work. The schools arc now giving us young men and women with prac tical knowledge of important prob lems of life and the plain sense to apply it to useful labor. THE MIGHTY MISSISSIPPI. (!. C. E., in Tlirice-a-Week World: How Many know that there is no river system on earth which even dis tantly campares with that of the Mississippi and its tributaries? 'I'lic census tells us that these rivers, ail flowing through one channel into the Gulf of Mexico, aggregate more than 100,000 miles in length. The Amazon, the Nile, the Ganges and all the rest of the great river systems on earth put together scarcely approach this magnificent showing. Think of it! A steamboat leaving Pittsburg can visit twenty-three States without passing through any irtifleial channel. She can go up the Allegheny and Monongahela, t he Big Sandy, the Kentucky, the Wabash, the Tennessee, and the Cumberland clear into Alabama-before reaching the mout h of the Ohio. Below Cairo she can traverse not only tlie Mississppi but the St. Fran cois, the Arkansas, the White, the lied, the Yazoo, tlie Tallahateliee, the Yalobusha, the Ouachita, the great bayous, and all the tributaries of these streams. Above Cairo lie the UpperMississppi, the Illinois, the Missouri, the Yellow stone, the Platte, the Big Horn and i score of tributaries to all these. The suppositious steamboat can land at 1,050 towns and cities on her way. These rivers drain an area of 1,683, 303 square miles, occupied by a popula tion of 24,208,332 in 1801). Tite commerce of this great river system was carried on in 1889 by 7,453 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 3,393,370 and a value of $15,535,005. And so rich is that commerce that its annual gross earnings exceed the total value of t he craft engaged in it by nearly a million dollars. It carries nearly eleven million passengers and nearly thirty-three million tons of freight per year. And this is only one of the great river systems of our country—one of many " that include such mighty systems as that of Yukon, that of the Columbia, that of the Colorado, and that of the Alabama at Tombigbee. It is worth while to remember also that the resources of this marvelous country are far less than half develop ed. A CHRISTMAS LEGEND. Lippincott’s: Ever since that first Christinas eve the cock lias crowed all night long on the anniversary to keep away evil spirits, for the cock is a holy bird and a known one. There is a pleasant tale of him and St. Stephen, the first martyr, whose day is Decem ber 2<>, close by his dear lord’s. St. Stephen was King Herod’s steward, it seems, who served him in the kitchen and at table. One night as he was bringing in the boar’s head for his master’s dinner lie saw the star shining over Bethlehem. 1 mmediate ly he set down the huge platter and exclaimed: “No longer, Herod, will I be they servant, for a greater king than thou is born.” “What aileth thee?" cried the king wrathfully. “Do you lack meat or drink that you would desert myserviee for another?” “Nay,” answered Stephen. “I lack neither meat nor drink. But the child that is born this night is greater than all of us; and him only, will 1 serve.” "That is as true,” quoth Herod, smiting the table with his list, “as that t iris roast cock on the platter shall crow before 11s.” Hardly were the words out of his mouth when the cock streched his neck and crowed lustl.v. "Christus natusest.” At this proof that Step hen’s words were true Herod was so angry that he made liis soldiers take Stephen outside the walls of Jerusalem and stone him to death. And this is the reason why unto this day St. Stephen is the pat ron of stone cutters. ----* CAPITAL AND LABOR UNITY Omaha Bee: Senator Hanna ap pears to be sanguine of good results from the recent conference of rep resentatives of capital and labor, lie considers it the greatest step ever taken for the speedy settlement of disputes arising between labor and capital and while he does not expect there will be no strikes he thinks they will be minimized. ■ The plan of the committee of thirty six appointed by the conference and which will be known as the industrial department of the National Civic Federation, is to do what may seem best to promote industrial peace, to aid in establishing rightful relations between empoyers and workers, to endeavor to obviate and prevent st rikes and lockouts and to aid in re newing industrial relations where a rupture lias occurred. The depart ment, when requested, Will act as a qTum to adjust and decide upon ques tions at issue between workers and their employers, if it shall regard the issue as of sufficient importance, but the department assumes no power of arbitration unless such power be con ferred by both parties to a dispute. It seems to be the consensus of opin ion among those who participated in the conference that a step has been taken in the interest of industrial peace that will prove very effective, particularly in the case of disputes in volving large bodies of men and great interests, such as we have had this year. So far as we have observed there has been but one objection to the plan of Hie conference, this being made by Chicago workingmen on the grounds that it is the first step in the direction of compulsory arbitration. Of course the movement is an experi ment, but it promises well find should therefore be encouraged. NEBRASKA AT THE HEAD. Scientific American: The Agricul ture Department at Washington has just issued its estimate of the year’s corn crop, showing a total yield for the States of 1,250,597,000 bushels. ()f this the statement shows that Nebraska, notwithstanding the dry weather which prevailed during July, will furnish 103,367,000 bushels, or more than one-tenth of the entire crop. This is interesting as showing the wonderful recuperative properties of the Nebraska soil. There is pro bably no other state in Hie union which would, underthe circumstances, make such a magnificent showing. Nebraska is a grand State and rapidly increasing in wealth and population. PREFERRED THE DUSKY ONES. Would Rather Teach Filipinos Than Husband's Children. Mrs. Fannie Wadsworth of Milwood, Neb., seems to have little or sentiment in her make-up. At least she does not appear to be endowed with an over weaning love for the children of her husband. The telegraphic corespond ence in the insular division of the war department discloses that a "Miss” Wadsworth of the aforemen tioned town in Nebraska some time ago applied for an appointment as teacher in the public schools of the Philippines and received the desired commission, which carries with it a good salary.* Subsequently a dispatch was received by the head of the insu lar division signed “George Wads worth,” which said “Mrs.” Wads worth could not go because she had young children to look after. The lady was asked telegraphically about this new development by a war de partment official, and wired back that “the children were her husband’s by a former wife,” and she wished her appointment to stand. Then she got on the cars, crossed the line into Kan sas and wired the war department for transportation, received it and sailed away to Manila, leaving “George” with the kids to hold. Some Iniquities of Printers, Printers are responsible for many charming mistakes, and some of them admit the fact. Witness the volume of sermons recently published which contained the startling admission: “Printers have persecuted me without a cause ” Of course, it should have been “princes”; but no doubt the compositor was satisfied. Parsons are the especial butts for the jokes of the merry typesetter. A Methodist minister is reported to have said: "Methodism is elastic, expensive and progressive.” Was it sheer wicked ness that made the printer substitute “e” for “a,” altering “expansive” to the more shocking term? The Bishop of St. Asaph, addressing his old par ishioners some time ago at Carmarth en, referred to his “younger and rash er days.” He was naturally reported as having spoken of his “younger and masher days.” No wonder John Mc Neill said that when he took up the daily paper and read his reported ut terances he always sighed, “Verily, we die daily!”—Chambers’ Journal. rijrrons as Spies. The Austrian government has de termined to treat carrier pigeons be longing to another power as spies. It is alleged that pigeons can he so marked by the senders as to convey a message without carrying any note under the wings in the usual way. German military authorities have been practicing with pigeons in a way com plained of by the Austrian authorities by letting them loose from Austrian territory and marking them with se cret signs known only to the German military authorities. II. Washington Entertained President. It is now remembered that in De cember, 1S9S, the President of the United States and the governor 01 Alabama were entertained socially at Tuskegee, Ala., by Mr. and Mrs. Book er T. Washington. The New Orleans Picayune said at the time: “No white hosts or hostesses could have been more courteous in attending to and more thoughtful In forestalling every want of their guests than were these refined and educated Africans. An Early Chemical Factory. The first chemical factory opened in this country was in Salem, Mass., In 1811. At first great objection was made to the establishment of the fac tory, the persons living near claim ing that the fumes of the chemicals poisoned the air and made life intol erable. Caravan Robbing in Tripoli. Caravan robbing in Tripoli seems as profitable as holding up pay trains. One captured by Arabs at a place called Damerghon consisted of 13,000 camels, laden with corn, ivory, ostrich feathers and skins, all valued at ?82o, 000. In the fight 210 men were killed. | A’JTUMN IN MARYLAND. Writer TeltB of I,ate Autumn Sconefl In that State. There is an incomparable beauty in these autumn days, a mellowness and ripeness like a reflection from the heavily laden orchards, which can be seen at no other time of the year. The nip and eagerness in the morning air sends the blood coursing through the veins as though under the stimulous of old wine. There is life and buoy ancy in every breath. The sun shines warmly through an atmosphere of tinted crystal, and with deft touches brings into life the slumbering beau ties of the autumn woods. Banners of gold and crimson and maroon hang gracefully on the swaying branches bright and splendid against the green background. Slowly, as if to mark the passing of the enchanting mo ments, nuts drop one by one from the trees and the echo of their striking re sounds through the quiet woodlands. The stream is just a little clearer and its music on its pebbly bed a little sweeter in these autumn days. The ripening season comes slowly on. Jack Frost is just severe enough to help old Sol in spreading his incom parable decorations, and not keen enough to wither the foliage and leave the trees bare and dreary—the melan choly autumn scene of the more north ern poet. The days of this splendid period in Baltimore and the surround ing country run into weeks and the weeks into months. It begins while September tarries still, and the magic of the season has not been dispelled until late November days. There are no clearer skies than those of Mary land, no brighter sun, no foliage which responds more generously to nature’s autumn brush.—Baltimore News. APPARATUS TO BRAKE SHIPS. A Montrealer’s Invention to Check Ves sels Going: at Full Speed. A contrivance for stopping ocean vessels while going at normal speed, has been on view in the Board of Trade during this week. It is an in vention of Mr. Louis Lacoste, chief justice of the court of appeals, who has patented it. The apparatus, of which Mr. Lacoste exhibited models in a tank, consists of one or more pairs of doors, attached to each side of a ship, which can be opened by steam, electricity or compressed air. The doors are fitted with hinges and iron bars, and offer a strong resistance to the water, and stopping the vessel within a fa>v hundred feet and without any sudden shock. By opening only one door the ship can be brought around much quicker, than can be done by her rudder only. The inven tion, which has been submitted to the British admiralty, has been viewed by a large number of the shipping and commercial men of Montreal, who were most favorably impressed by it. Mr. Geo. W. Noll, chief engineer of her majesty’s ship Tribune, has written to Mr. Louis Lacoste in regard to the device that, after seeing the models, he believes it to bo-practicable on the lines shown, and to be a great factor of safety. Mr. John H. Glass, engineer of the Allan liner Tunisian, goes further even than Mr. Noll, pro nouncing the brake absolutely efficient and calculated to stop a seagoing steamer going at full speed within her own length. Less technical opinion has been also favorably impressed with Mr. Lacoste’s device.—Montreal (Que.) Gazette. French Mining: in England. A French syndicate has been form ed for the purpose of mining iron and coal in the vicinity of Dover, England. Extensive mining rights have been acquired in the Alkham Valley, in the south of Kent, and not far distant from Dover. The boring is to be un dertaken by French laborers under the supervision of skilled engineers from the Pas de Calais. A new dia mond drill is being erected for the work. Kent is very rich in iron ore, and at one time was the principal iron producing district in England. At various parts of the country may be seen closed iron mines. The reason for their abandonment was the scarc ity of coal, but at Dover and at other places rich seams of coal have been discovered beneath the iron ore strata, so that there is every possibility of the iron mining industry in this part of England being revived. Walking; ftlatph on Shipboard, A feature of the voyage of the steamer Coptic, from China to Sat) Francisco, was a five-day walking match. Sixteen of the passengers en tered the competition. The deck was measured and from 6 o’clock in the morning until 6 o’clock in the evening the contestants walked encouraged by the plaudits of more sedentary pas sengers, who drew up their deck chairs close to the space allotted to the walkers and watched the match. Lieutenant Heinrich of the German army was the winner, walking 123 miles. A. J. Flaherty of the Pekin consular cadets was second with a score of 116 miles. §tlll Advancing;. The fashion of wearing fobs or hand pome black watered ribbons, with an engraved jewel or signet ring attached, has heretofore been exclusively a masculine one. This summer we see young girls and young women wearing the same dignified ornaments. On lit tle girls the use of fob chains looks rather odd, because you never see a boy wearing one; fobs and fob-chain jewels are a prerogative of adults. Seal rings are not worn by children for various reasons, but any young woman may wear one with perfect propriety, provided she does not usurp the right j of bearing arms.—Philadelphia r -"d | f AMD EPIOYCLOPEDgA A STATISTICAL * If GLUME OF . . nillicmdrer of the United States; Pard zulnrs About Three Thousand Americans Magnates. Organized LGbor; Strength of the Labor Unions. The Trusts. United States Census. New Census ofEuropeanCountries. A The Nicaragua Cana! ufl and the Hay-Paunce- V /ote Treaties With I Great Britain. The Re- ■ iations of Cuba With P the United States. The Conference of Ameri can Republics at the City of Mexico. The Anarchist Statistics of This Country and Europe. Progress of Aeria! Navigation in 1901. The New York Municipal Election of 1901. Agriculture. Manufactures, /"lortaiity. ^ FACTS ABOUT POLITICS. THE BOOK fflAfiSoSS: IN EVERY OFFICE AND : IN EVERY HOME OF EVERY AMERICAN. Price STANDARD OK nto AMERICAN ANNUAL. Gib. AT ALL NEWSDEALERS. THE WORLD Pulitzer Blcg., Hew York There have been placed upon IN' several cheap reprints of an obsolete . of ” Webster’s Dictionary.” They mv offered under various names at a low i By dry goods dealers, grocers, agon is, <■;, in a few instances as a premium tor, na tions to papers. Announcements of 1 hose coinyarat :v iy Worthless reprints are very misleading; for instance, Mtcy arc advertised tbe t ho <=!i#»-.?:t:it i?vi equivalent of a big! •* -priced book. 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