The Frontier.
Published by D. H. CRONIN
KOMAINK SAUNDERS, AssUtant Editor
and Manager.
ft SO tho Year. 74 Cents Six Months
Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county.
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The pop bosses are making their
,annual Importation of voters.
A World-Herald contributor thinks
Omaha should muzzle the saloons and
let the dogs go.
With cyclones at one end of the
state, race wars at the other and un
certainties between, Illinois is in a
dangerous place.
I We don’t sec why the public con
siders a man’s word good for nothing
When lie says be doesn’t want a nom
ination for otlice.
The arrival of a million foreigners
pf not the choicest type in the United
States last year is arousing an anti
immigration sentiment^.
Commercial authorities say there is
less than the customary midsummer
dullness in business, collections being
fnore prompt than usual.
•» The esteemed Independent says “no
one doubts that K S. Gllmour Isa
dishonest ofllclal.” Perhaps the Inde
pendent Is a little prejudiced.
'The action of the school board of
Topeka, Kan., In denying the right of
• teachers to court and wed Is calculated
to make the schools go begging for
teachers. No fair lady teacher can be
f-jund in Kansas who will sign away
her matrimonial rights in order to
make a contract with a school board,
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Fremont has the only Nebraska
merchant who has the business grit to
enliven the midsummer dullness with
a four-page advertisment in a news
paper.
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Kansas is having its share of
troubles. What were not drowned in
the Hoods or become swamped in the
wheat fields are a prey to the hot
winds.
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A Missouri editor has been lined
$500 and costs for contempt of court
and has to go to jail until the same is
paid. If he is like some of the rest
us, he will have to stay there a long
time.
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Leading Nebraska pops declare that
the Denver meeting Is not to mater
ialize a new party—simply divorce
proceedings against democracy. There
is no indications that the dem
ocrats care to fight the case.
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Uncle Sam got a pretty good farm
when, in 1803—a hundred years ago,
he made the Louisana purchase,
stretching from the British possessions
to the gulf, from the Missippi to the
Rockies. And he has put up some
pretty good barns and windmills, and
made other permanent improvements.
Local pride and patriotism is always
commendable, but envy and narrow
minded bigotry is the ruination of
any town. The town that is always
backbiting its neighbors would grow
in grace and commercial importance
a great deal faster if the petty en
mities were consigned to the tomb
and the energies of its people devoted
| to ligltimate enterprise.
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There is need of laborers to go forth
into the vineyard in the great pro
ducing sections of the United States.
People who are getting only a paper
sack living in the congested centers
would greatly improve their moral
and material condition by spreading
out into the needy fields. Forty dol
lars a month and a comfortable home
on a Nebraska farm, with three or
four rations a day tit for a king, and a
Jug in the field, beats a paper sack
life on the streets.
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JyIA. IT’S none of your crowded city streets, AiJsi
y)fy y Where the rusli and bustle are, yfVj
• (•*+) • I And the wave of constant movement bears _ • (**♦),•
IaIA. 1 Through the dust andjsmoke afar. A4aj
fSqy! I It saunters in with a peaceful air lyty'
»(♦•*)« And it slowly passes through— flMv/i
|a4a. This cheerful, hurryless thoroughfare LAjkA
yty* With its seeming “Howdy-do.” y^
AiA ———— It stops where the roses blandly nod Jrjjj
Through the quaint old garden gate, yiy
I [4«]« Then goes with a placid, patient plod jl:[*j4)1
•ATA -X Where the sidewalks hold it straight, AlAii
VVy halts again at the public square ''‘rfx'
E&H | For an unbegrudging rest kItctI
ATa. r And a friendly chat with the corners there, AiA
1 { For each cross street is a guest. y^s|
•vJa* Then lazily to the blacksmith shop, "la4a1
fc»«a Where it has to pause once more,
m To see how tlie blazing cinders flash ifcjAi
IiiA From the forge just by the door. |vEffl
From there to the bridge across the brook, tewaj
• u.d • To hear what the ripples say; |fcM§
IkiAl Then on the shaded walnut nook gvT/i
py t'p Where the sages sit all day.
Main street goes on with a calm content tbpM
fe&gi To the sumit of the hill,
fyyYl ! Then yields to the soothing blandishment |WJY®
T r**) * I Of the countryside, all still. IvEfl
A,V>s ! It rambles out where the meadows spread
yt Y And the soft, green grasses creep, |yt/?f
f ry)| And there, on a blossom-spangled bed, *a/XAll
_ Main street has gone to sleep. yyy
BRYAN AND IIIS SMILE
Chicago Inter Ocean: William Jen
nings Bryan has departed for his Ne
braska farm and ids $3,000 heifer, but,
like tile girl in the ballad, “the mem
ory of Ids smile lingers still.” Mr.
Bryan smiled when he readied Evans
ton, despite the chilly reception, but
“in such a sort as if he mocked him
self.” He was smiling all the way to
Chicago, and lie smiled as the faithful
democrats greeted him at the railway
station and “bow’d knee unto the
king of smiles.” Probably the fact
that the crowd failed to cheer 1dm as
it did six years ago was responsible for
his failure to sndle all the time
throughout the parade, but he follow
ed the poet’s advice and doubtless
said to himself, “When time shall
serve there shall be smiles.” lie wore
the smile throughout the picnic cele
bration, except when he referred to a
gentleman from Princeton, N. J., and
even then he smiled provided the
crowd applauded. As Mr. Bryan dined
lie showed that his is not a smile that
comes olf at the table, and he wore it
from the time he left the picnic
grounds until he boarded the train,
and the last tiling the committe saw
as the tiain pulled out was Mr.
Bryan's smile, shining as under a
calcium in the green light of the
signal lantern.
Kearney Hub: Republican news
papers are discussing somebody’s sug
gestion that republican state conven
tion» in Nebraska are becoming un
wi “.lay because of the large number of
delegates. On the other hand it may
be observed, and has been observed a
number of times of late years, that
they have been too large and “un
wieldy” to be controlled in the in
terest of certain schemes and schemers,
and after all has been said, the fact
still remains that a large convention
is not a very bad thing except for
those who find them too large to man
ipulate. The rest of us can get along
very well as it is.
The harrowing tale comes from
Russia that near the village of Scha
lajifka, in the district of Don, thirty
three female iield laborers were burned
to death in a barn where they had
locked themselves to escape molesta
tion by male laborers, who, in revenge,
fired the barn and watched the holo
caust .without heeding the shrieks of
the victims. The American race war
has not quite reached this stage yet,
but if things continue it soon will.
The Graphic suggests that the com
mercial clubs of Atkinson, Stuart and
O’Neill fuse upon a state fair exhibit
platform and take an exhibit down to
Lincoln that will get the-blue ribbons.
This year is an opportunity of a life
time. Upon the whole, there was
never a better show for a bumper
wop, and Holt county owes it to her
self to show the public what she can
do. Moreover, The Frontier would
like to see the county fair revived.
Isn’t it about time to shake off the
lethergy and let the people know we
are alive?
NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES.
A three-story flouring mill is being
erected at Loup City.
Stanton carried off the champion
ship at the firemen’s meet at Norfolk
last week.
Saunders county will hold a special
election to vote on a bond proposition
for a new court-house.
ltingling Brothers’ circus, with a
string of eighty-two cars, has recently
visited a mumber of Nebraska towns.
It cost Joseph H. Blair of Omaha
$8250 to be a candidate for judge of
the district court of Douglas county.
He has filed a sworn statement of ex
penses with the secretary of state.
The state board of public lands and (
buildings will meet Friday afternoon
to receive from the secretary of state
the legislative supplies, of which the
board became custodian July 9, by
statutory enactment of the legisla
ture. In the future the board will
make the necessary purchase of sup
plies for a legislative session, not to
exceed $1,000 for any one session.
Fremont Tribune: A million and a
half sheep will be fed in transit at
Fremont and Valley this fall, so
Union Pacific Agent H. P. Tracy of
this city estimates, from western
ranches enroute to the South Omaha
market. The Union Pacific is in close
touch with sheep raisers of the north
west and can accurately calculate the
size of the year?s business. If the
figures go as high as they are expected
to, it will mean an increase of half a
million animals to be fed at the two
points over any other year in their
history.
Sure Thing.
A cablegram that travels around
the earth Is liable to have Its dates
mixed.—Baltimore Herald.
Teaches Japanese.
Japanese is the latest language to
be added to the list taught at the Uni
versity of Chicago.
COUNTY CONVENTION
The republicans of Holtcounty are hereby
called to meet in convention at the court
house In O'Neill on August 17, 1903, at lei
o'clock a. in., for the following purpose:
1 To select a chairman for the Holt county
central committee.
2 To select a secretary for the Holt oounty
central committee.
il To select a county central committee.
4 To select fourteen delegates to attend
the state convention.
5 To select fourteen delegates to attend
the judicial convention.
fi To nominate candidates for the follow
ing offices: Oounty clerk, county superin
tendent, clerk of district court, treasurer,
oounty judge, county surveyor, assesor,
coroner,
7 To transact such other business as may
properly come before It.
The basis of representation for the several
townships shall he one delegate for every ten
votes or major fraotlon thereof oast for Hon.
John II. Mickey at the general election held
Novembers, 1902. which will be:
Atkinson.15 Pleasant view. 2
Chambers. 6 Rock Falls. 4
Cleveland. 2 Sand Creek. 2
Conley. 3 Saratoga. 2
Delolt. 4 Scott. 4
DuBtiu.3 Shamrock. 1
Emmet. 3 Sheridan. 3
Ewing. 9 Shields. 3
Fairview . 1 Steel Creek. 4
Francis. 2 Stuart.15
Grattan. 5 Swan. 1
Green Valle.2 Verdigris. 5
Inman. 7 WlUowdaie. 2
Iowa.2 Wyoming.. 2
Lake.2 O’Neill, 1st w. 3
McClure. 2 O’Neill, 2d w. 2
Paddock. 6 O'Neill. 3d w. 5
Total.133
It is recommended that no proxies be al
lowed, but that the delegates present be
authorized to cast a full vote of the town
ship represented by them. It Is further
recommended that all township primaries he
held on August 15.
R. R. DICKSON, Chairman.
J. C. HARNISH. Secretary.
NEVER in the history of the
trade in this locality have we
been more successful c.r better
satisfied with the immense trade we are
receiving in all lines.
A Comparison
of .Goods and Prices
ALWAYS DOES THE
.. WORK ..
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FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS & BUGGIES
S In the Machinery line we have the King of all
in larest, up-to-date McCormick Harvesters and
Mowers, and it is needless to assure you that they
also DO THE WORK.
We have also a full and complete line of Mc
Cormick Hay Rakes and Jenkins Sweeps, Stackers,
etc.; they will DO THE WORK.
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In Farm Wagons and Buggies we will from
now till after the 4th of July make j
SPECIAL PRICES
and give you goods that are without a peer in the
market. Young man, let us sell you one—they
WILL DO THE WORK.
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FURNITURE" In the Furniture line we are wearing a broad smile of the kind that don’t
—" —— - wear off, and all we ask of our patrons is an opportunity to make a compar
ison. We assure you this will DO THE WORK. ^
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We Have a Complete Line of Undertaking Goods, and Have had Twenty Years Experience
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O. F. BIGLIN rn rn m m O’Neill, Nebraska