The Frontier.
Published by D. K. CHOHIK
IiOMAlNK SAUK DC KM. Assistant Editor
and Manager.
SI M the Year. TS Cent* 81* Months
official paper of O’Neill and Holt county.
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With an annual liquor bill of over
91.500.000. 000, it would appear on the
surface that l lie eighty odd years of
temperance efTort in the United
States lias not been a howling suc
cess. ^
Floods have reached the Mississippi
since the fall of the Missouri and four
lives are reported lost in around Saint
Louis, witli destruction of property
amounting an etimated value of 95,
150.000.
After many months of bitter labor
war, it Is a matter of considerable
satisfaction to know that the Union
Pacific machinists’ strike is at an end,
and the plucky strikers again at work
with a ‘ per cent increase in wages.
The Frontier knows of no more sure
or speedy method of democratic suicide
than giving ex-President Cleveland
the lead on their national ticket.
Whatever lie could stand before the
American people upon and tusk for
votes is unimaginable.
At this late date W. F. Porter is
called upon by the supreme court to
deliver back to the state that brands
and marks money. Better late than
never, of course, but will Mr. Porter
figure In interest—simple and com
pound—to date?
A clergyman up in Gregory county,
South Dakota, by the name of Stevens
should lose no time in starting a
collection agency. Out-lawed and
dust-burled accounts would come to
him for collection thick and fast. He
has just collected a bill amounting to
#30 of forty years standing against the
United States government, for money
advanced for clothing during the civil
war.
So far as we have observed, Ira
Lamb of Atkinson is the first to be
publicly announced as candidate for
county office this fall. Mr. Lamb
solicits the republican nomination
for superintendent of public instruc
tion. At this early date The Frontier
has no preferred candidates, but
should Mr. Lamb receive the nomina
tion and carry the election lie lias
every qualification to make a good
superintendent.
Lancaster county republicans tiave
it cut and dried that Judge Barnes of
Norfolk will be the republican nom
inee for judge of the supreme court.
While it is a matter of no little sur
prise that Lancaster county republi.
cans should lead out for a north Ne
braska man, it is entirely satisfactory
to this section of the state. Judge
Barnes is a member of the supreme
court commission at present. He
would make a strong and winning
candidate.
When the strike was ordered at
Chicago’s Grand Beach hoted every
man, woman and child employee
walked out. Whereupon the fashion
able and high bred dames who were
guests at the hotel became indignant
and laid aside their costly robes for
garments suitable to the chamber
maid, cooks, waiters, and dish
washers and plunged in. Be it said
to these fashion god’s credit that they
did tlie work so well the landlord
wanted to hire them.
The result of the hot county seat
contest in Boyd county makes Spencer
look like a ten cent piece for the time
being. Butte simple had a walk-away
w ith a majority of eighty-seven over
all. The vote i«: Butte, 1,078; Spencer,
490; Anoka, 74; Lynch, 124; Bristow,
303. The tight was between Butte
and Spencer, and the victory very
decided. Spencer need not feel dis
courage at these adverse circum
stances; it is a hustling town in a
good country, and will get there just
the same.
FAITH IN HIS COUNTRY
President Roosevelt said many good
things during his western trip, but he
seems to have reserved the best for
Springfield, III. The whole speech is
notable. Tlie President expresses
great faith in his country and yet is
not blind to some serious problems
and possible perils confronting our
great republic. He reviews republics
of former times in these words:
Hlthereto republics have failed and
republics of antiquity went down.
Tlie republics of the middle ages went
down, although tried on a much
smaller scale than ours, and though,
in consequence, the experiment would
have seemed less hazardous. Fund
amentally the cause of tlie failure of
these republics was to be found in the
fact that ultimately each tended to
become, not a government of tlie
whole people, doing justice to each
member of the people, but a govern
ment of a class. Sometimes they, in
tlie control of tlie government, slipped
Into tlie hands of an oligarchy; some
times it slipped into the hands of a
mob; in either case the result was tlie
same; it was as fatal to tlie abiding
welfare of the republic if it was turn
ed into a government in which the
few oppressed the many, or if it was
turned into a government in which
tlie many.plundered tlie few. Either
form of perversion of the true govern
ment principles spelled death and
ruin to the community. It was no
use to havo escaped one ruin if ruin
came at the other end of the pole.
And then adds;
This, government will succeed be
cause It will, and mi st be, and It shall
be, und must be kept, and will be kept
true to the principles for which the
men of Lincoln’s generation fought.
This is not, and never shall be, a gov
ernment of a plutocracy. This is not,
and never shall be, a government of a
mob. it is a government of liberty
by, under and through tiie law; a gov
ernment in which no man is to be
permitted either to domineer over tiie
less well off or to plunder tiie better
off. it is a government in which man
Is to be guaranteed his rights, and, in
return, in which it is to be seen that
lie does not wrong ills fellows. Tiie
supreme safety of our country is to be
found in tiie fearless and honest ad
ministration of the law of tiie land.
And it makes not the slighest differ
ence whether the offense against tiie
law takes tiie form of cunning and
greed on tiie one hand or of physical
violence on the other, in either case
tiie lawbreaker must be held account
able and the lawbreaking stopped.
The President then brings his stir
ring speech to a climate witli the
declaration that “we can never make
this government a good government*
save on tiie basis of a fine type of
Individual citizenship.” All that the
American republic lias ever accomp
lished for the rights and liberties of
mankind has been accomplished on
this same basis- it lias been the good
citizens who have made good law
makers. The principle of self govern
ment hinted at by tiie president is
the principle upon which rests the
past and upon which must rest the
future history of the country. And it
is forever and eternally true that
“this government will succeed” what
ever tiie problems and perils it may
face if self government self control,
justice instead of oppression, gener
osity Instead of greed, peaceableness
Instead of plundering—controls the
individual.
Murk wants It distinctly understood
that he is not now, never has been nor
never will be anything but a senatorial
candidate from Ohio.
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES.
Dewitt has reached a stage in
growth and prosperity that it needs
another bank. The Home State bank
opened Monday.
Robbers entered a hardware store
at Johnston Thursday night, securing
$80 and some merchandise and mak
ing their escape.
G. Tenhulsen was arrested, pleaded
guilty and lined twenty-tive dollars for
illegal voting at the late republican
primary at Firth.
The body of an unknown man was
found near the Union Paeiiie tracks
near Kearney. On the same day the
dead body of an unknown man was
also found near the track of the same
road near Amers.
Frank Vrovas and John Mekrs were
instantly killed and W. Steel fatally
injuried in a railroad accident at
Genoa Sunday morning. They were
on a hand car when it was struck by a
stock extra on the Cedar ltapids
Spalding branch of the Union Pacific.
The playing of base ball on Sunday
in the state of Nebraska is ajmisdemea
nor punishable by fine and imprison
ment. So holds the supreme court in
a case brought before it from Nebras
ka City, where Sunday ball playing
became offensive to the law and order
league and arrests of players followed.
Last Saturday 15,000 circular letters,
asking for financial help for the Omaha
unions now on strike or locked
out were mailed to every union in
tlie United States. All unions are
asked to assess a per capita tax of 5
cents a week for the strikers. The let
ters state in full the details of the
Omaha situation, declaring that the
[ business men are making an organiz
ed effort .against the unions. Atten
tions Is called to the fact that the
Omaha unions have been contributing
for nearly a year to the support of the
(Tnion Pacific strikers, so that they
are somewhat weakened financially.
Arrangements were also made to send
committee to all of the principal cities
of the east and west to make a per
sonal appeal for financial aid.
Hy a decision of the supreme court
at its last sitting, former Secretary of
State William F. Porter will have to
return to the state some $900 and over
collected by him as secretary of the
committee of brands and marks creat
ed by act of the legislature in 1899.
His bondsmen are released from obli
gation and S E. Starrett is allowed to
retain #595.05 paid to him as record
ing clerk.
The sale at auction of the three
million dollar Omaha railroad bridge
over the Missouri river at Sioux City
w&s knocked out Saturday by a tem
porary injunction issued by Judge
Monger of the federal court of Omaha
on the Dakota county officials. The
hearing is set for July 6, at Omaha.
The South Sioux City school district
claims the bridge company owes it
$3,111 school taxes and ordered the
birdge sold. The bridge company
raises the question of jurisdiction.
Ainsworth Star-Journal: George A.
Farman is the luckiest man in seven
teen states. Some time since, the
National Tribune offered a prize of
$10,000 to the person given the closest
guess as to the revenue receipts of the
government for a certain day. George
was the fortunate man, guessing with
in four of the correct amount and has
been notified by the manager of the
Tribune of bis winning the prize. Mr.
Farman has been busy of late receiv
ing the congratulations of his many
friends over his good fortune.
While boring a well on the farm of
Mr. Hrandhoeffer, near Waco, York
county, oil was struck at a depth of
100 feet in such quantities that was
impossible to use the water from the
well. The well filled up to a depth
of forty-live feet and theoder of petro
leum is very storng. Along the three
streams of water traversing York
county are places where coal oil ooze
out of the banks and covers the surface
of the water for a number of yards.
Many believe that coal oil could be
found in quantities in York county
and hope that some expert may in
vestigate.
An Omaha special Of June 6 says:
“The report of the anthracite coal
strike commission received judicial
recognition today in an injunction
issued by the distret court against
the waiters union of Omaha The in
junction was made to replace that issu
ed a month ago by the same court.
Tire former order became inoperative
owing to a technicality in service on
the waiters. It Is identical with the
former order exept that it does not
permit of picketing within 300 feet of
the business places which it is sought
to protect. In announcing the opinion 1
of the court Judge Dickinson said: :
‘Upon tlie petition duly verified we !
must take the matters of fact alleged I
as true, and .accepting these facts we ■
have, after considering the authorities j
cited, concluded unanimously that ]
the temporary restraning order should .
be granted, but the chief authority Dy '
winch we are moved to grant the
temporary order regarding the con
gregating of persons at or around the
places of business of the plaintiffs for 1
the purpose of interfering with pa
trons of tiie houses is the report of the '
anthracite coal strike commission,
which was the unanimous report of a ,
number of persons from different
walks of life, including members of
labor organizations.’ ”
For Sale Cheap.
SE, 17, 32, 16, and W. 4 NW, 31, 30,
16., Holt county Neb. Too far away, (
will sacrifice. Terms easy. Open to
all agents. Miss Leona L. Lingle, 1
owner, 1531 Cambria St., Los Angeles, 1
California. 44-tf
What Uncle Reuben Saya.
Most all of us believe in a hereafter
but at de same time most all of us am
willin’ to beat de odder man in a hoss
trade and taie a few chances.—Do
tioit Free Press.
Inventor Lose* Hie Mind.
M. Goubet, Inventor of the sub
marine boat the patents of which
were purchased by an English com
pany, has been removed to an utylum.
Anyone who desires to have paper
pering, painting, calcemining and
frescoelng done, it will be to their ad
vantage to see me. I have had over
forty years experience and will guar
antee work to be tirst-class. Leave
orders for work at Corrigan’s drug
store or address me at Agee, Neb.
35-2 N. S. Thompson.
I have a few very tine buggies tlia
I will sell cheap for cash or any kind
of old time. They must go some way to
make room for a carload of new goods
just coming. Call first and get your
choice. Remember the above goods
must go before July 4.—Neil Bren
nan. _ 48tf
FOR SALE—A few full blooded
Hereford bulls.
I tf. Cowperthwaite & Son.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
A man without hands can never feel
well.
Never kick a live electric wire when
It’s down.
Honesty isn’t the kind of policy
found in policy shops.
It’s a put-up job on a man when his
wife orders a new stove.
Some brokers make it a point to sot
that their patrons go broke.
No man can be expected to foot
his wife’s bills without kicking.
It is easier to make a dollar than
K is to avoid arrest for counterfeit
ing.
Wive* fear burglars will break in
and husbands fear the baby will break
out.
The more checks a man receives In
his business career the sooner he gets
there.
Some lawyers prolong the outcome
of a case in order to increase their
Income.
Hops are said to be a sedative, yet
most frogs are troubled with chronic
insomnia.
A bachelor who has been rejected
by seven girls says that feminine beau
ty is on the decline.
It sometimes happens that a man
agrees with you because your argu
ments lvake him tired.
Severe Attack Of Grip
Cured by One Bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy.
“When I had an attack of the grip
last winter (the second one) I actually
cured myself with one bottle of Cham
berlain’s Cough Remedy,” says Frank
W. Perry, Editor of the Enterprise,
Shortsville, N. Y. “This is the hon
est truth. I at times kept from cough
ing myself to pieces by ^taking a tea
spoonful of this remedy, and when the
coughing spell would come on at night
I would take a dose and it seemed
that in the briefest interval the cough
would pass off and I would go to sleep
perfectly free from cough and its ac
companying pains. To say that the
remedy acted as a most agreeable sur
prise is putting it very mildly. I had!
no idea that it would or could knock
out the grip, simply because I had
never tried it for such a purpose, but
it did, and it seemed with the second'
attack of coughing the remedy caused
it to not onla be of less duration, but ‘
the pains were far less severe, and I
had not used the contents of one bot- j
tie before Mr. Grip had bid me adieu.”’ i
For sale by P. C. Corrigan.
Names Brought Recollections.
Two congressmen elect from IlUnons i
—Charles E. Fuller of Belvidere and: 1
H. M. Snapp of Aurora—were being: ;
introduced around the capitol In Wash
lngton a few days ago. Someone bap- j
pened to refer to them as “Messrs.
Fuller and Snapp” and a Southern
Democrat remarked reflectively: “Ful- I
ler and Snapp? Reminds me of a law
Arm In one of Dickens' novels." Per- :
haps the Southerner was thinking of '
Aulrk, Gammon & Snap in Warren’s
“Ten Thousand a Year.”
Danger of Colds and GriD.
The greatest danger from colds andl!
grip is their resulting in pneumonia..
If reasonable care is used, however,, j
and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy j
taken, all danger will avoidted- j
Among the tens of thousands who* ‘
have used this remedy for these dis
eases we have yet to learn of a single j
case having resulted in pneumonia,. I
which shows conclusively that it is a ;
certain preventive of that dangerous
disease. It will cure a cold or an at-*
tack of the grip in less time than any'
other treatment. It is pleasant andl
safe to toke. For sale by P. C Corri
gan. _
Great Northern Railway
W. & S. F. RY.
Through daily service to Minneapo- j
lis and St. Paul with direct conne*- j
tions for all points in Minnesota,, j
North Dakota and west to Pacific:!
Coast. Through sleeping car service., j
Apply to any agent for rates, fold*is.j
and descriptive matter.
Feed Rogers,
Genl. Pass. Agt
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Mountain Threatens Dicactor.
Great Altels. a mountain near tie* j
Gemml, in the Bernese Oberland, is. 1
threatening to split asunder and over
whelm the neighboring valley. Lm
September, 1895. a great fall of Sue
from the Altels covered hundreds of.
acre* of meadow land in the neighbor
hood of Spitalmatten.
■— ..
Disease takes no summer
vacation.
If you need flesh artf j
strength use
Scott’s Emulsion
} i
summer as in winter.
Send for free sample. 1 * i
1 SCOTT & BOWSE, Chemist*
j e°9-4*S Pearl Street, New Verk. I
50c. and $1.00; all druggists. (
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Fishing.
Loafing with a hook and line
Where the waters swirl about.
Whipping up the stream—It's fins
When the speckled trout are out.
Working up the sparkling shallow*
Where the sun the water hallowfr
Laughlng when the fish begin ,
Rolling, tumbling, falling In;
Loafing with a hook and line— r
Ain't It fine!
Leaving all our care behind, y
Leaving all the dally toll—
Going out to feel the wind
And to hear the shallows boil.
Going where the sun Is gleaming,
Nature with her Joys Is teeming—
Whipping up and down the streaa
In a piscatorial dream;
Loafing with a hook and line—
Ain’t It fine!
Loafing with a hook and line
Where the waters whirl about.
Whipping up the stream—It’s fine
When the speckled trout are out.
Recking naught of business trouble
While the happy waters bubble.
When the speckled trout begin
Rolling, tumbling, falling In;
Loafing with a hook and line—
Ain't It fine!
—Baltimore New*.
Sometimes I Imagine that heaven
must be a place of surprises. We will
go there, if we are fortunate enough
to go at all, with mary preconceived
notions concerning what we shall see
and experience, and just as likely as
not the decided majority of them will
be shattered. Browne of our set cer
tainly must be here, we will say, for
he was such a good and proper man in
life; then we will look about us, and
will be greatly astonished to find no
Browne. Muggins of no set in particu
lar cannot be here, we again will re
mark to ourselves, for he was so
coarse and crude, or even worse; then
we will see the obnoxious Muggins sit
ting pretty well forward in a rather
nice pew, and again we will be aston
ished. Occasionally I even fear that
the society in heaven may be some
what mixed and common, but of course
I trust and believe that this is a quite
unnecessary fear on my part.
However, these reflections are quite
apart fmm the story, and it really is
time that it were begun.
At the time of which I write the
"enterprising City of Sodtown,” as the
advertisements of enthusiastic real es
tate promoters termed it, was wild and
Western and of the frontier.
On the whole, we Juveniles partook
largely of the character of our sur
roundings; we were as uncultured as
we were good-hearted, and as rough
as we were care-free. This statement
applies to all of us, but if you had set
carefully to work to select the wildest
young cub—human, you understand—
among us all, you certainly would
j have selected little Jack without a
moment's hesitation.
Probably little Jack had another
name. Arguing from the analogies of
tne case, I consider it likely that he
had, but, if so, nobody in Sodtown had
i heard it or knew what it was. His
! mother had died long before the child
| could remember, and his father was
i known merely as big Jack, a gentle
! man who followed the more or less
■ lucrative profession of cowboy. So
! little Jack grew without any hamper
| ing circumstances worthy of men
tion.
What would you expect of a child of
such lineage and environments? But
! what you would expect really toes not
; matter greatly. As a matter of fact,
! the experiment of raising figs from
j thistles never has been much of a
I success, and, equally as a matter of
I fact, little Jack early developed a
moral toughness that was phenomenal,
even in Sodtown. At 11 or 12 years of
; age he fought, swore, lied and—stole,
; I was going to say, but the fact had
not been absolutely proved, and per
j haps it is mere justice to give him the
[ benefit of any possible doubt
■ Withal, little Jack was a small ath
lete, and so we boys treated him with
the respect that is due to physical
f
‘‘Youse fellers start’ ready to pull me
out," he said.
S
■ strength and prow***. V> knew that
I he would fight tbr »gh his opponent
were twice his size, and so we did not
cross his path except we very strong
; ly felt that the god of battles and
(justice was on our side.
The snow lay deep on the ground
, till late in the spring of 1881, as resi
j- dents of Dakota at that time will re
ji membex Then the sun’s rays, which
!: so long had seemed to lack vigor, of
a suddira became potent, and the snow
moved off in raging floods of water,
ij The “J un” river, ordinarily little more
than a creek, became a resistless tor
I rent, sa some places three or four
j miles wide, and the cabin homes of
* the se ttiers scattered along the valley
g*nen|ly w^re'swept away. To walk
atocg its DanKs men was to look upo»v
a gray desolation of waters, only broSQ,
en here or there by floating cabins or
barns or the white glitter of great
cakes of lee.
Some of us boys were so walking
one afternoon when a shanty floated
past us. Tossed here and there by
the flood, ground among Ice-floes and
beaten by trees set afloat by the wat
ers, It was a question of but short*
time until it must go to .pieces.
“Fellers," suddenly shouted one of
the boys, “ain’t dat a kid cryln’?”
We listened a moment. Then over
that waste of waters floated a little
walling voice that came from the
floating cabin. We looked into one
another’s eyes, while the tiny voice
still wailed, and I hope that God will
preserve me from ever again hearing
a sound so pitiful. What should he
done? What could be done? I think
the answer of my despairing heart to
the latter question was the answer of\
every boy there—nothing.
Of every boy save one. While we
still stood In awful silence—a silence
on which that thin cry yet heat—little
Jack spoke.
“Youse fellers,” he said, “stan’ ready
to pull me in w’en me an* de kid gitsl
back.” V,
And. before we fully realised what
he was about to do, his coat and shoes
were off, and he was battling with the
cold, cruel waters.
We watched the little black head as
“to do—kid—safer -A
It made its devious way onward, here 7
dodging a cake of ice, there skirting
a floating tree, until at last—Hurrah!
He had gained the shanty!
A moment he disappeared from view;
then he appeared at a window with a
wee brown bundle in his arms. "De ole
folks is both drowned,” we heard him
shout, as we ran along the shore by
the side of the whirling cabin. Then
he again was hi (he water, and we
hardly breathed as he battled shore*
ward. It was a life or death struggle
for every foot of advancement, but his
life had given him hardihood, if noth
ing else, and slowly—oh, so slowly—
he made hAs way with the burden,
whence came no vj now. As h<ujp
neared the shore «re Joined handsT"
making a life-line to draw him from
the water.
Thank Ood, he is almost to us now!
He is safe at—No! Yes! A great cake
of ice, striking an obstruction, whirled
as it were on a pivot and almost
caught him, but we snatched him
away, and now at last he was safe.
Not quite, oh, little Jack; not quite
safe, unless, indeed, there be perfect .
safety on a bosom of infinite love and
comprehension after the heroic heart
has ceased to beat and the eyes are
closed in the long sleep.
The great cake of ice, whirling by
him, had touched little Jack, and its
touch was death. Even as we lifted
him from the water, some of its cold
ness had entered the brave little heart,
and on his head was a great, Jagged,
cruel wound, whence the stream of
life flowed unceasingly.
We held him, and knew not what to
do. One of us sobbed brokenly, but
the rest were very silent Then Jack
opened his eyes and feebly whispered:
“Is da—kid—safeT"
Yes, t>h, yes. little Jack; we told you
that you had saved the babe, and our
whisper was almost as low as yours
as we assured you that this was so.
The little black head sank down.
Then, very slowly, the eyes again
opened, and in a faint whisper was
heard;
“I’m—damn—glad.”
Then, while the flood flowed on, the
neglected, soul of little Jack went out
on a deeper and darker flood which
no more shall beat earthward for
him.
And this is why I say that I some
times think heaves must be a place of •
surprises. But greatest of all its sur- |
prises to me, if ever I should reach the
beautiful city of love, would be to And
no little Jack there, a pupil in such a
wonderful school as his life never
knew.—Alfred J. Waterhouse in New
York Times.
An Apt Pupil.
“The great trouble with you," said
Mrs. Jaggsby to her husband the nest
morning, "is your inability to s^y
'no.' Learn to say It at the pro tar
time and you will have fewer heMk
aches.” I
“I can see where you are right, my
dear,” replied he of the throbbing
temples.
"By the way," continued Mrs. J.,
"I want to do a little shopping to
day. Can you let me have |10?”
“No," answered the wily Jaggsby
without a moment’s hesitation.
Judgment Suspended.
Mrs. Homer—“What did your hus
band say about your new tailor-made
gown?"
Mrs. Nestdoor—"Not a word. He
hasn’t seen the biU yet."