THE O’NEILL FRONTIER D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. tfu. . .. .. —- ■ - — - VNEILL, NEBRASKA Fortunate Is the fanner who lias plenty of onions. He can get a dollar a bushel for them, with a prospect of higher prices before long. The onion crop In Europe was a failure last year, and a great many are being sent over the water at the present time. Twenty thousand bushels were sent In one con signment from Sunderland, Mass., a, few days ago. It is estimated that there are now 90,000 huahels In the Connecticut vulley which can be bought by people who have "got the price.” They are said to be mostly owned by four men in the vicinity of Springfield. There is a very good profit in raising onions at a dollar u bushel—a good deal more than In producing tobacco at the present time. Indeed, it may be doubted whether there Is any other crop which pays so handsomely as the odlferous vegetab’e whir'i Is now com manding such a high price in this part of the country. The town of Warsaw’ may be called the milk producers' Eden, although the milk consumers' Eden it certainly is not. There is probably nowhere such a “milk town” us this. Restaurants are little frequented. On the other hand the public frequents the little dairies in great numbers in order to chat with friends or to read the newspapers, to the accompaniment of a Muck or w hite coffee or a glass of j cold or warm milk. To close a bar gain or to talk business, the milk saloon Is resorted to; chess and bil liards are likewise to be played fti these recognized places of public re- : sort. Rut in spite of the enormous con sumption of milk, the supply Is of tlie most wretched; in fact It is indes cribably bad. At one of the recent lectures by Pro fessor George Klrehwey. dean of Co lumbia Law college. New York, the students were uneasy. There was some- i thing wrong in the air. Books were dropped, chairs were pushed along the floor. There were various interruptions. The nerves of till were on edge. The members of the class kept their eyes on the clock and awaited the conclu sion of the hour of the lecture. The clock beat Professor Klrehwey by per haps a minute, but at the expiration of the schedule time the students started to their feet and prepared to leave. "Walt a minute," objected Professor Klrehwey, "don't go just yet. 1 have a few more pearls to cast." If - a— - It has been seriously asserted by many people that we are naturally lighter after a meal, and they have even gone the length of explaining this by the umount of gas that Is developed from the food. Average observations, however, show that we lose three pounds six ounces between night and morning; that we gain one pound twelve ounces by breakfast; that we I again lose about fourteen ounces be fore lunch; that lunch puts on an av erage of one pound; that we again lose during the afternoon an average of ten ounces, but that an ordlnury dinner to healthy persons adds two pounds two ounces to their weight. According to statements made by ex perts at the Midland institute of Min ing Engineers, our coal measures are at last beginning to show signs of com ing exhaustion. There would be. In deed, some scarcity were not deep min ing much more largely resorted to. Forty years ago there were only twelve pits exceeding 1,600 feet in depth, now the number is nine times as great, while in twenty instances the depth ex ceeds 2,000 feet. This tapping of the lower beds makes good t lie loss con sequent on the exhaustion and disuse of the shallower seams, and so, tempor arily, keeps down the price of coal to Its former level. Graham county Jail at Clifton. A. T.. Is the strongest Jail In the world. It j comprises four large apartments hewn ! , from the solid quartz rock of a hillside. The entrance Is through a box-Uke ves tibule built of heavy masonry, and equipped with three sets of steel gates. Home of the. most desperate criminals on the southwest border have been con fined in the Clifton Jail, and so solid and heavy are the barriers that no one detained there has ever escaped. For the first time since 1762 the an nual meeting of the Society of Friends, the Quakers, will be held, this year, outside of London. . The “allurements of London" have, It appears, proved too much for the degenerate delegates of the present day. "Why,” said a Quaker of high standing, "Friends, members of old Quaker families, have been known to drive up to the meet ing house In motor cars!” During 1904, exclusive of warships, 712 vessels of 1,205,162 Ions gross (viz., 613 steumers of 1,171,375 tons and 99 sail ing vessels of 33.787 tons) have been launched in the United Kingdom. The warships launched at both government and private yards amount of 37. of 127, 175 tons displacement. The total output of the United Kingdom for the year has, therefore, been 749 vessels of 1, 332,337 tons. The important part which rivets play in the construction of modern steel steamships Is well illustrated by the fact that in the new Cunard liner Oar onla, the largest ship ever constructed In Great Britain, no fewer than 1.R90.000 rivets were used, the total weight rep resented being about 600 tons. The greater part of the riveting work was done by hydraulic power. At a dinner given by an English no bleman an old gentleman rose to pro pose a toast, and, though his opening sentence was enthusiastically ap plauded, it was evidently not quite what he had Intended it should be. “I feel," said he, "that for a very plain country squire like myself to address this learned company Is Indeed to cast pearls before swine." The merchants of the United States, despite the preference shown to this' country In the form of lower duties, are more than able to hold their own with British merchants In the Cana dian trade. They furnish Canada with about 60 per cent, of all the foreign goods she buys, while we only sell heri about 25 per cent. The thickness of armor on modern warships Is truly astonishing. The sldet .rmor of a first class battleship usually1 varies from sixteen and one-half Inches1 thick at the top of the belt to nine and one-half Inches at the bottom. The pin turrets are often protected by armor from fifteen Inches to seventeen inches thick. Londoners are demanding seats for tramway conductors and drivers. Two hundred doctors have certified as to the evils of constant standing and that •eats would not prevent these men from doing their work properly Is Indi cated - In Australian are allowed NEBRASKA FARMERS VISITED BY SPECIAL Seed Corn Train of the Omaha Road Through Northern Part of the State. MANY HEAR LECTURES Country Covered by the Lecturer* Re garded as the Most Fertile on the Western Hemisphere—Suc cessful Trip of Train. Omaha, March 1 -The run of the seed [corn special over the Chicago, St. Paul, ! Minneapolis and Omaha road through 'Northeastern Nebraska Increased In at tendance and enthusiasm at all point? (scheduled for lectures over the very suc cessful meetings of the previous day. The country covered by this lecture jcourse represents one of the best corn ’producing districts of country in the en itire corn belt of the United States. The lands are rich beyond comparison; th< heavy, black loam that characterizes Or soil throughout northeastern Nebraska of Itself the best guarantee of a highly producing agricultural district. The gent ly undulating surface adds beauty and grandeur to its otherwise naturally at tractive features and worth as a rich and profitable country for live stock and gen eral agricultural Industries. One of the striking and very impressive features noticeable throughout this trip 'was the superior character of farm im provements and the excellence in quality of its live stock. Not this alone, hut th€ intelligence of its citizenship, which serves to explain the rapid progress and permanency that Is being made in bring ing this section of the state so prominent ly before the world as a crop producing 'district far above the average. This section of Nebraska is known far and wide as the land that has never suf fered from a crop failure, even In the dark days following the terrible drouth of 1804, when tin* evidences of blight spread over such a large area of tin* Missouri valley estate, northeastern Nebraska had corn tc spare for the less fortunate districts. All along the route traversed by the seed corn train evidences of immense crop? were present, as wore noted by the great Hold of corn stalks, tens of thousands ol acres of which were standing as they were left by the buskers when the crops wore gathered last fall. Corncribs at the shipping points, bulging with their weight 'of grain, and the great ricks of cobs where the shellers had been at work all gave evi denco of the uncontrovcrtablc story ol great yields of this cereal. On the main line of the Omaha road jfrom Emerson down through Thurston, Burt and Washington counties the crowds in attendance increased, showing great in terest in the subject of corn improvement; so absorbed and intent on learning all there is to be known, many farmers in sisted on going with the train to the next lecture point. In order to get additional in formation that could not be given by each of the speakers owing to the briet time allotted to the lectures in telling their story of how ‘ to make two ears of corn grow where one grew before.” Some exceptionally largo crowds were in attendance, especially at Pender, Lyons, Oakland, Craig, Bloomfield and Tekamah, where in each instance the attendance of farmers oxceede.d 300. At Oakland thery were 584 present and at Tekamah 4iH>. FIRE IN CHURCH. Panic. Was Narrowly Averted by Cooi headed Priest. Norfolk, Neb., Feb. 28.- -Fire broke out in tiie Sacred Heart church during service and the 800 people comprising the congre gation were thrown into a frenzy, which, hut for the presence of mind of Rev Father Thomas Walsh, must have result ed seriously. While Father Walsh was in the midst oi his sermon a puff of smoke came through the tloor and was almost instantly fol lowed by huge flames in the center of th« church. The congregation arose as one person and made for tin* doors. Not a cry was heard, hut the throng of people, a ma jority being women and children, was ter ribly frightened. Several women fainted and children fell under foot. Father Walsh held out his hands im ploringly “Be calm," he commanded. “Go our. hut go out slowly. There’s no danger if order is preserved." His advlc* was heeded and none was seriously hurt. The lire started troir. the furnace in the basement and burst forth without a mo ment's warning. The Interior fixtures and a portion of the church were badly dam aged, but. the loeal tire department by prompt work saved the building. The sinoke was so dense that the llremen could not enter, but. were forced to fight the flames through the windows. llundreos quickly gathered at the scene of the fire, many being anxious for their children or other relatives, hut fortunately there were no casualties. LARGE BRIDGE GONE. Ice Gorges Play Havoc on the Platto River in Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 2S.—Ice began mov ing in the Platte river and with the water high, the result, it is feared, will bo serious. At Fremont a gorge fifteen feet high piled against the big wagon bridge connecting Dodge and Saunders counties, and 200 feet Was carried away. Back wa i'T has cut off the suburb of Englewood from Fremont and that place Is an island. The Northwestern railroad bridge west of Fremont is still Intact, out in danger. At Schuyler four spans of the Burling ton railroad bridge over the Platte wa* torn out and the Burlington bridge at Co lumbus Is in a shaky condition. Trouble is feared on the Platte as far east us Ash land, where the ice began to breuk up last evening. High water and ice gorges art causing trouble on other Nebraska steams At Crete the wagon bridge across the Blui river was carried away completely anc another gorge is forming lower down th« stream. The Manhattan branch of the Un ion Pacific is still tied up because of the loss of its bridge over Bear creek, neai Beatrice, and the Burlington and Rod Island have a force of 100 men with dyna mite to prote< t their bridges across tht same stream. Alarming reports reached the Burlingtor headquarters late last night about the con dition of the Platt* river at Ashland. Ai ice gorge formed just above the bridge covering twelve or thirteen spans. The ie< is very heavy and the river was roportec high and threatening to overflow back oi the gorge. Later in the night the ice be gan piling up and at 11 o'clock it had ex tended the length of a dozen spans. Th< vater was rising rapidly. Killed by a Train. Nebraska City. Neb., Feb. 28.---M. A McCartney of this city was struck by z train at Syracuse and instantly killed. H< tried to cross the truck ahead of the fasi moving train. His father and mother art both very ill ajid it Is feared his deati will kill Lieru. IMMnnW«MMMWinMIMMW« * NEBRASKA SOLQNS | Proc**dings of the Week io Brief in i Both Houses of the Legislature. Jf J* I »■■■■■.■■■ sas can legislate the Standard Oil en tlrely out of Kansas, Minnesota can; legislate the Northern Securities out of Minnesota, and any other trust can, by; proper steps, be driven out of any state vith whose laws it does not comply. > WANTED-A PREACHER _ Peoria Church Wants One of 35, a. Mixer, Evangelist, Crank, Lodge Man, Etc. Peoria. 111., March 1—.The trustees of I the Christian church, a large and in i fluentiul congregation, have decided ! the prstor they will call to fill the ! vacancy in their pulpit must have the following seven qualifications: Not I over 3’i years old: must be married; an | evangelist: a lodge man; a mixer; a. crank, and willing to assume the bur dens of his flock. The man whom this paragon Is to succeed, if the trustees find him, is Rev. G. B. Van Arsen, a who recently re signed after a fir t years pastorate.