The Frontier. Published by D. H. CROHIN St M the Year. T5 Cents Six Months official paper of O'Neill and Holt county. ADVERTISING KATES: Display advertlsments on pages 4, f> and 8 are Charged for on a basis of 50 cents an Inch (onecolumn width) per month: on page 1 the charge Is II an Inch per mouth. Local ad vertisements, 5 cents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. To Oar Readers and Patrons: Mt. Romaine Saunders is again connected with The Frontier as asso ciate editor and manager and any favors shown Mr. Saunders by our readers or patrons will be approciatcd by tiic undersigned, and any business intrusted to biscare will be promptly attended to. Respectfully, D. II. Cronin. It might be all right to ask, who will be the populist candidate for president in 1904? Six power companies along the Niagara river arc taking power from the streamaggregatlng 1,000,000-horse, and still there are a few horse power left. With a well-wet earth to start with, the season promises to be a productive one1 in this section. The corn has been delayed considerable by the cold, damp weather, but a few bright days will start it up. President Roosevelt gives it out cold that he wants it again. Already several leading republican states have come out for are-nomination of Mr. Roosevelt. He is by all odds the winning man in republican ranks. Nothing has been observed lately of William Randolph Hearst’s demo cratic boomlet for the presidency. Republicans are not concerned deeply over the democratic choice, as who ever it may be can not hope to win over Teddy. •‘The devil,” said the good minister to Ibis attentive congregation, “is a pretty bad fellow any way you take him. Take off the ‘d’ and you have evil; take off V and you have vll; take off *v’ and you have il; take off ‘P and you have T’ At Salt Lake City President Roose velt lunched and rested at Senator Ream's residence. Had Mr. Roosevelt called upon Mr. Kearns twenty-five years ago he might have dined on the hardened flesh of Holt county deer and reclined against the walls of a sod shanty. With a complacent smile upon his beardless face, Rockefeller says the forming of the Standard Oil trust was a great blessing to the common peo ple. This may be clear to the great oil magnate, but the people who have fopnd the price of oil taking period ical jumps the past ten years can’t just see how they have been benefited. Next to the disastrous floods and tempestous hurricanes comes the labor strikes. For many months Omaha has been losing ground until the city reminds one of the democratic days of the 90’s. Chicago, with a half-dozen unions now up in arms, is mustering a force of some 60,000 strikers to make their demands more emphatic or further tie up business to the tune of a million dollars a day loss to the city’s business interests. The Chicago Examiner demands in lS-point letters that the United States should protest against the conduct of Russia toward her Jewish subjects. Some newspapers are ever on the alert for material for sensational stories, and the Examiner is one of the chief est. Every American citizen—every citizen of every country in whose breast is still the feelings of human kindness—deplore the deeds of cruelty .in the old but barbarous eastern world—but the state department of our country has noauthority to dictate to Russia or any other country con cerning their subjects, and it might prove a wiser course to go a little easy even in so urgent a matter as tills. - — -—-i Want to Go It Alone. With the return of prosperity and the explosion of the silver delusion, the only thing that held democrats and populist together was the appetite for a division of the spoils. When the state house and the majority of the county court house where reoccu pied by republicans the cohesive power of fusion gradually diminished and the leaders of the dislodged par ties charged each other with the res ponsibility for defeat. And now the allied force of reform find themselves at the parting of the ways. Ex-Governor I’oynter, who may be considered one of the populist wheelhorses, has served formal notes upon the Nebraska democracy that the people’s independent party will Henceforth travel in the middle of the road without entangling alliances. Governor I’oynter admits ruefully that the Impending reorganization of the democratic party will compel populists to adandori the eolation which has proved such a disappoint ment. “Tiie time is now ripe,” says Mr. Poynter, “to line up the populist ’orces on the principles of the Omaha platform for the fray of 1SH)4. What 3ver disintegration lias happened to our ranks has been caused by out union with the democratic party, In dependent action will In a large meas ure recover these scattered forces.” What Governor Poynter says con cerning the disastrous offects of fusion on the populists is a rellex of what democratic leaders have been saying to their followers concerning its effect upon the fortunes of the Nebraska democracy. The truth is that the disintegration of the reform forces is largely due to the failure of the fusio nists to perform as they promised when they were in power, as well as to the popular conviction that the republican party under Theodor Roos velt will grapple with the monoplies ind trusts more effectively than would the democracy whether reorganized or disorganized.—Omaha Bee. This strange tale comes from Bell vllle, 111.: “Many wives of well-to-do citizens of this place are working in favor of the movement to abolish the high school at this place. The reason which they advance for wanting the educational facilities curtailed is that they want less education and more servant girls. These wives of prosper ous men argue that so long as the girls are sufficiently educated to enter stores and offices there will be a scarci ty of household help and that if the girls were not so well educated they would not only be willing to work as servants but would be content with their lot ” (>o6d for the high schools. If they are inspiring the'American maidens with high aspirations a great work is being done. Palsied be the hands that would .strike down the high schools. During ten days in the closing up of the month of May seven states in the middle west—Illinois, Missoure, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oaklahoma were visited by wind storms or tornadoes witli the follow ing result: Persons killed, 58; injured, 233; property destroyed, $2,560,000. Tills is the most disastrous record in the history of western civilization within a period of similar length. The state of Kansas was by far the worst sufferer. Nebraka was hit in live different sections. O’Neill Mention. Atkinson Graphic: Married—At the Cottage hotel, Wednesday at 11 p. m., James L. Fluekey and Margaret Gahagan, both of O’Neill. Mr. Fluekey is the representative of the Nebraska and Iowa Creamery com pany. ***V. G. Kline, of O’Neill, has purchased the Neeley restaurant and taken possession of same and rearrang ed the rooms for the accommodation of all in meals, lunch, etc. Mi. Kline is an old hand at the business and we predict success for him. Ewing Advocate: Attorney J. New ton Tromtnershausser came dowi from O’Neill Monday and spent the evening with relatives, preparatory te leaving for Indian Territory Tuesday morning where he has business inter ests which will occupy his time foi several weeks. Cultivators! Cultivators! Now is your chance if you want t< buy a good one cheap and the beaut: is I will sell cheaper for cash that time, but 1 will give any reasonabli time,—Neil Brennan. 48tf ■ 50 Years of Floods Tlie St. Louis Globe-Democrat compiles the following, showing the number of lives lost during the last fifty years by sudden floods: Sheffield, England, 1864. 250 Leeds, England, 1866. 20 Northampton, Mass., 1874. *44 Eureka, Nevada, 1874. 30 Pittsburg, Pa., 1874. 220 Toulouse, France, 1875. 1000 Szegedin, Hungary, 1879. 77 Murcia, Spain, 1879. 1000 Galveston, Tex., 1886. 38 Johnstown, Pa., 1889. 2142 Galveston, Tex., 1900 . 5000 Topeka, Kansas City and other cities in flooded district 231 Total.10,152 - Thousand Dollar Bills. New York Press: The recent find ing of a $1,000 bill has brought out the inquiry, howmany such bills are there in existence? As a number of corres pondents have asked us this question, the answer may be of general interest to our readers. According to the tables prepared by the United States treasury, there were outstanding on January 31,1903, United States notes of the value of $1,000 each to the amount of $26,036,000. Of the treasury notes of 1890, $561,000 was outstand ing in $1,000 bills; $25,000 was out standing in national bank notes in such bills; $46,735,500 in gold certifi cates, making the grand total $73,515, 500, which would seem to prove that there were outstanding, according to the treasury estimates on January 31 last, 73,5254 $1,000 bills. The greatest amount of our paper money is in $10 bills, which foot up to $440,556,992. Then come $5 bills, amounting to $349,994,204, with $20 bills third, foot ing up $336,531,566. These three classes make up practically two-thirds of the paper money now outstanding. The fourth class is $10,000 bills, the sixth $1, the seventh $1,000, the eighth $50, the ninth $2, and the tenth $5,000. The great bulk of the ones and twos, and even the fives, are silver certifi cates. More than half of the tens are United States notes, while the nation al bank notes and gold certificates make up the bulk of the twenties. Beyond the $1,000 limit there is prac tically nothing but gold certificates, the only other paper money, according to the treasury table being three United States notes, two for $6,000 each, and one for $10,000. m BRIEF DISPATCHES. If you "soger" you’ll never make the "tin.” Brass Is needed in the manufacture of gold. It is only the loser who la permitted to laugh. Three of a kind are not always a kind three. It Is easy for a man to be straight when he’s flush. Many a girl thinks a four-flush Is worth drawing to. It takes a toper to get the juice out of the corn market. A corner in corn is usually to be found in a tight shoe. Humor is a butterfly which disap pears when you pin it (town. The WTlter who explains too much Insults the intelligence of his readers. To appreciate a joke what is needed is not a diagram, but a little gray mat ter. Many a man who takes a "horn” finds himself coming out at the small end. A girl has lost some of her winning ways when she loses her straight flush. The financial sharp says that many a man who is short on the market is long on coin. When a woman Is convinced that her speech is silvery she usually talks at a sixteen-to-one rate. Snow takes the shine out of a shoe and ice sometimes takes it out of the man who wea rs the shoe; Many a man who blows his own horn does so because finances hare forced him to compromise on beer. --—-— A Question for Teaoher*. Who will tell me what is the plural ef OT Is It ■'•§■* or “oeB"T Tomato** Is the plural of tomato; stllletos Is said to be the plural of stilletto. Her# are some examples of Inconsistency* Potato, potatoes; negro, negroes; buffalo, buffaloes; befo, heroes; dado, dados; toe, toes; canto, cantos; alto, altos; volcano, volcanoes; no, noes; pro, pros; tyro, tyros; wo, woes; oc tavo, octavos; palmetto, palmettoes; grotto, grottoes; duello, duellos; car go, cargoes; libretto, librettos, etc. You may have observed that our high and mighty dictionaries studiously avoid giving the plurals to these words, and to others ending In o. The right of an educated author to spell as he pleases should never be ques tioned. A foolish consistency Is the hobgoblin of petty minds.—New York Press. Inventor Dies in Poverty. ' Karl Klesewetter, the Inventor ot the Swedish safety match, died some time ago In Romania, aged more than 90 years, in great poverty. He with drew from the Jonkoping factories forty yeais ago with a great deal of money, but lost It all in railroad spec ulations. Enormous Prices for English Cattle. 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