The Frontier.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
American cattle breeders import
most of their prize stock from Eng
land and sometimes enormous prices
are paid. Lest week quite a number
of bulls and cows were purchased for
Americans and the prices paid range
from $2,100 to $6,250 per head.
do you suppose dip
into that bulk coffee
before you buy it?
comes in sealed, air- j
tig'11 packages; no
, Y^WgH chance for handling,
or dirt or things to
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TUfi Man who Is Raising a Big Crop
—realizes that the harvest tinja — ahead.
Ideal fanning comprehends not only the growing of the tallest grain—the most tons
to-the-acre of hay| the best farming—the farming that pays—mu-l contemplate
something more than this; for there is a harvest time, and just in proportion as a
crop is saved, successfully, speedily and economically, in just that proportion may be
measured the season's profit or loss.
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Harvesting Machines are the profit-bringing kind) they are the kind that keen down
expenses; there are other kinds that don't, and are in fact a constant expense because
they are so constantly out of fix. Let's admit, that we are all trying to make money;
let's admit also—because experience has proven it true—that there’s nothing Cheaper
than the best. In harvesting machinery here it is,
The McCormick Right-hand Open Elevator Binder.
The McCormick New 4 Steel Mower.
The McCormick Folding Daisy Reaper.
The McCormick Vertical Corn Binder.
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they are the only Lind to own.
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