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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1906)
The Frontier Published by D. H. CROWN. KOMAINE SAUNDERS. Assistant Editor and Manager. 1150 the year. 75 Cents Six Months Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county. ADVERTISING KATES: Display nilvcrtlsmoutH on pages 4, 5 and 8 ire cnai ged for on a Oasis of 50 cents an Inch one column width) per month; on page 1 the oharge Is tl an Inch per month, local ad vertisements, n cents per line each Insertion. Add rose the office or the publisher. In the death of Marshall Field the commercial world loses a great man. The dipsomaniac and cigarette laws are about as much of a dead letter as the Slocum law. -« • » If Omaha losses 170 saloons the Winnebago bootleggers will probably move down the river. Lawson had the chance of his life to make good and failed. There is all the difference in the world in a mag azine story and going into court to tell it under oath. Our esteemed contemporary has not yet produced the “records” to support its sensational claims just after election. Some explanation is due why these "records” have not once been referred to. The World-Herald says there is a suspicion that the railroads aie get ting ready to fight Senator Burkett’s bill to divide Nebraska into two judicial districts* It is natural to lay the blame for any opposition to pro posed legislation at the door of the railroads. Mr. Rockefeller gave upwards of 912,000,000 to educational, religious and other philanthropic work last year. Honestly now, you fellows who rave against John D., how much have you contributed for like purposes? John D. turned about 9 per cent of his fortune into philanthropic work last year. GdVernor Mickey expresses the opin ion that the railroad agitation in Nebraska will continue until legisla tion is ohtalned. That is the one and oaly object of the agitation. Those who aspire to a seat in the next legislature will have to explain pretty definitely where they stand on the pass and rate regulation questions. A Nebraska preacher, raving against the saloon, frantically declares that “it is an outlaw and has no right whatever to exist.” The reverned gentleman is muchly mistaken. The saloon is not an outlaw, but a creation of the law. Before the law of states and nation, the despenser of booze has rights and priviledges as well as 9,ny other man. Whatever may in truth be spoken against the saloon, it is not an outlaw so long as laws for the protection and maintenance of the saloon are in existence. Kansas republicans have gone to more radical extremes than populists of that state did some years ago. They have laid down as a party law that all men who are connected with corporations shall be excluded from Kansas politics. Such doctrine is not only mischievous and un-American but decidedly foolish and impossible Of being carried out. Every man has the right to interest himself in politi cal affairs. Republican leaders ol Kansas may be able to prevent men connected with corporations from get ting office but they can not keep these men out of politics. If American trade in the South American republics is not what it j should be, Americans have no one tc blame but themselves. The people ol those countries can not be blamed foi j refusing to buy goods of a people whc talk about killing them off. It’s onlj a few years since the English anc I American press advocated the’subju gallon of the Latin races. While I this sentiment is disappearing, at the same time it takes generations tc I live down such things. The Germar policy has been one of friendliness ir ) South America and her commercia interests have reaped the benefit. Several weeks have elapsed since the VVhittemore trial ani none of the evidence promised by the Independent lias yet appeared. It doubtless changed its mind when it saw The Frontier’s authentic account of the trial and the evidence presented on both sides. Taxpayers of Laka, Conley and Chambers townships will vote on a proposition February 27 to bond them selves for the benefit of the proposed Midland Central railroad. Sentiment seems to be somewhat divided in those townships as to the advisability of such a move. The Frontier is opposed to voting bonds on general principles but as this is a matter that concerns only the taxpayers of those townships it is not for us to discuss the merits of the proposition, which is left to the vtisdom of those interested. The iinanclal report or tne union Pacific railroad shows a phenomenal increase In earnings the past year. Since the re-organization of the Union Pacific company in 1898 the earnings have increased year by year until it is now one of the best paying railroad properties in the United States. The net earnings of the road last year were close to twenty-eight millions as compared to twenty-five millions in 1904. Other railroads of the country have also prospered. It is not prob able that the magnates will lose any sleep over the anti-railroad sentiment while their dividends keep increasing. J. J. Hill, the magnate of the Great Northern, throws out this warning note: “The nation at large is pros perous. We are cutting a wide swath, there is no doubt of that. If we get down, however, to a closer examina tion we will readily see that the nation is living profligately. We are selling out our national resourses, ex ploiting them as fast as we can with out building up industries and trade relations to take their place when exhausted. It is only a question of time till our timber is exhausted. Our public domain is all gone and the nation can no longer boast that it has homes for all. Where are the immigrants rushing to our shores to end up? Not on the land. We have no more td offer them. They must crowd into the cities. When this nation has 150,000,000 people they will have to do something else than ex ploit natural resourses to earn a liv ing. We will eventually have to meet the commercial competition England is meeting today and has to face such problems as it Is now facing, with 1,500,000 crying for bread, with no bread to feed them save as charity doles it out to them.” Lawton’s Backdown. Kansas City Journal: When Dis trict Attorney Jerome told Thomas W. Lawson to his face at a banquet in Kansas City last summer that he was a four-flusher and a grand-stand er, many good people were inclined to differ with him and to sympathize with Lawson. Now,whatever opinions may be entertained as to the blunt spoken New Yorker’s good taste and manners in choosing such a time and place for his pronouncement, most people will agree that Mr. Jerome’s foresight is as good as many person’s hindsight. Pretermitting the failure of Mr. Lawson’s many sensational promises and prophecies, and coming down to plain facts, he has convicted himself out of his own mouth in the first test that has been offered him to “make good,” by verifying his many state ments against the “stystem,” and particularly against H. H. Rogers, whom he calls the arch conspirator of the "system.” When Attoiney Gen eral Hadley wired to Lawson, asking him to come to New York and tell what he knew about the Standard Oil company, Mr. Lawson’s reply was virtually a confession that he knew nothing at all. He could not even say of his own knowledge that the com pany was a monopoly, although he has t^een attacking it as such for many months in the newspapers and maglzlpes and on the stump. When .planed down to the facts, Lawson ad mitted that he could not “fairly come within the wise restrictions” of Mr. Handley’s telegram. This was the opportunity of Law son’s life to get even with his enemies and to make himself solid with the American public. That he dodged and squirmed, and finally backed sauarely down, is proof enough of Jerome’s sagacity in judging men. The Last of the Old Guard. Fremont Tribune: The disappear ance of Silas A. Holcomb from public office reminds us that there used to be a populist party in Nebraske. Mr. Holcomb was for six years justice of the supreme court. When he assum ed the duties of that place he felt himself unprepared for performance of the dut ics as they should be per formed. lie doveted himself diligant ly and laboriously to better qualifying himself. He made a creditable judge, dispensing the law and justice with even hand. Back of that he was four years gover nor. As such he made some grievous mistakes in approving theBartley bond and bonds state depositories, thus con tributing to the loss of $000,000 by the Bartley shortage. Before he was gov ernor he was district judge in the Kearnay-Broken Bow district. He was an early product of populism. At that time, however, he was chosen by the reason of his being more con servative than his republican oppon ent. The money and corporation in terests joined with the populists in his support. He never was ultra nor radical in his political views. Belief in his being safe and sane is what gave him a longer lease of oftlicial power than any other populist. Catering to the Wild-Eyed. Holt County Independent: For thirty years the republican party has stood for nothing but graft and plun der and Barnes and Sedgwick were living up to the party motto when they helped the Bartley gang swindle the state out of 1600,000. Lindsay Opinion: It is just such utterances as the above that killed the populist party and disgusted people with “reformers” and “reform papers” generally. The hysterical habit of claiming that any political party is wholly bad or that all the good men on earth belong to some other party, went out of style some ten years ago. To our personal know ledge there are still about twenty wild-eyed anarchists up in Holt county who don’t know that the style has changed, and the Independent evidently .caters to them exclusively. Ten years ago such an utterance would have made a fair proportion of the people excited; now it simply makes about ninety-nine per cent of them tired. ' CAMELS OUTDONE. . Creature* That Oo For Extended Pe riod* Without Drinking;. Other creatures than the camel are able to get along for extended periods without drinking. Sheep in the south western deserts go for forty to sixty days in winter without drink, grazing on the green, succulent vegetation of that season. Peccaries in the desert of Sonora live In little dry hills where there Is no natural water for long peri ods. They cannot possibly find water— In fact, for months at a time. The only moisture they can obtain comes from roots and the fruits of cacti, but the most extraordinary case is that of the pocket mouse, one of the common ro dents of the desert. This little creature, by the way, has a genuine fur lined “pocket” on the outside of Its cheek. When it is hungry it takes food from this pocket with its paw, just as a man would pull a ham sandwich from his pocket One of these mice has been kept for three years with no other food than the mixed bird seed of commerce. During this period it had not a taste of either water or green food. Other ex perimenters have found, in fact, that these mice in captivity refuse such treats, not seeming to know that water is good to drink. The bird seed put be fore this mouse contained not more than 10 per cent of moisture, which is less than is necessary for digestion. Stuff so dry as this cannot even be swallowed until it is moistened by saliva. Yet this remarkable mouse gave nothing but his time to .the inter ests of science. He suffered nothing in' health or spirits during his captivity.— Brooklyn Eagle. Homeseeker’g Excursion to the North west, West and Southwest. Via the North-Western Line. Ex cursion tickets at greatly reduced rates are on sale to the territory indi cated above. Standard and Tourist Sleeping Cars, Free Reclining Chairs and “The Best of Everything.” For dates of sale and full particulars apply to agents Chicago & North-Western R’y. THE Strawberry & Raspberry Plants The largest and most complete stock of all kinds of fruit trees that we have ever h»d to offer; Crimson Rambler roses and oranmental flowering shrubs of all hardiest kinds; elins, ash, box elder, maple and basswood, 8 to 12 feet tall. Small forest tree seedlings of all kinds for planting groves. We have two varities of raspberries —one red and one black—that are very hardy and prolific and are annual bearers. They have bourne a good crop of berries every year for the last 15 years. Order 100 or 200 of these plants and you will have plants that will bear fruit. 85 per 100 delivered at your town. Order at once and pay when you get stock at depot. Call at Nursery and select your trees or send in your order by mail and have it booked for next April delivery. Ad dress, E. D. HAMMOND, Norfolk, Nebraska. A COSTA RICAN VOLCANO. Pen Picture of Pom and Its I)anj?er« on* SarronndingH. On the island of Costa Rico is the re markable volcano of I’oas. The crater has an altitude of about 8,500 feet. The traveler who makes the ascent on reaching the lip of the crater finds him self at the brink of a vast perpendicu lar sided pit, at the bottom of which lies a motionless pool of yellowish wa ter. The sense of deadly stillness and desolation is undisturbed by any Indi cation of life. The almost vertical walls are devoid of even a vestige of plant creation; not a bird wings Its way through the air, the surface of the pool Is without a ripple, and even the hu man voice sounds strange and incon gruous. Suddenly the- silence is bro ken by a great and startling under ground rumbling, and a huge column of a dark colored liquid Is thrown to a vast height from a spot near the center of the .lake. The column ordinarily rises to a height varying from 250 to 500 feet. Almost instantly a vast cloud of vapor Is evolved which surrounds the column and rises to an immense height. A thousand feet below the lip is the lake or pool, along the shores of which it is necessary to move about with care because of numerous concealed holes filled with a slimy substance, consist ing mainly of sulphate of lime with a large excess of sulphuric acid. This hardens In a few moments when ex posed to the air, and consequently the pits are covered with slight shells that render It almost impossible to dis tinguish between them and solid ground. If a foot goes through this thin crust It will be found that in a few days the shoe will be destroyed, as the seams cannot resist the acid action. The lake at closer view is discovered to be covered with clouds of vapor and It is impossible to see for any distance. Among other gases, sulphur dioxide is present in considerable quantities, and at times the smell becomes almost un bearable. At close range the water is grayish In color, and it Is so acid that It almost burns the tongue when tasted. Any dark cloth moistened with the liquid in stantly becomes red and is ultimately destroyed. The temperature at the shore, while varying considerably, ranges around 115 degrees F. During one of the greatest eruptions known a tremendous column of dark liquid rose to an estimated height of 2,000 feet and was about 300 feet In diameter. The waves produced on the lake by such an outburst are formidable, and long after the eruption has ceased the whole cra ter is filled with the roar of the troubled waters.—Chicago News. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. What is a sign, of age in others is, of course, a sign of sense in you. Some people think they have done their duty if they express a willingness to do it. Some people in time grow almost fa mous for hearing of things that never happened. The average man will stand without hitching a great deal better than if he is tied to a pole. There is one thing sure—in a home where there is always enough cooked for company they always have it. How severe a young man is with the love affairs of a widower, and how se vere an elderly man is with the love affairs of a young fellow! The jealousy of the children when mother cuts the pie isn’t anything com pared with'that they feel in Inter years when father divides it — Atchison Globe. One Wir to Get a Persian Carpet. A woman who accompanied her hus band up the Khyber pass in Afghan istan tells how she saw a fine Persian carpet and coveted it. An assistant to their host went out and returning said: “My head man says the owner of the carpet Is a wicked old man, who will not sell his carpet at any price, but he has gone for the night to sleep in a lit tle village close by, which is beyond British boundary. He wants to know if he shall make a hole in the wall of the mud hut and steal it while the old Binner sleeps. Shall he walk in at once and kill him and take it? He will do whichever memsahib likes.” Mem sohlb, however, discovered that she could live without the carpet after all. Robin Redbreast. The country people of England, as well as of several other countries, have an Idea that the red of the robin’s breast was caused by a drop of blood which fell upon it at the crucifixion. According to the story, the robin, com miserating the condition of Christ, tried to pluck the crown of thorns from his brow, and, in doing so, got its breast wet with the blood flowing from the wounds. The color became permanent, being transmitted from generation to generation, and thus, according to the legend, the robin Is a perpetual re minder of the sufferings of Christ. Snobbishness In Dors. A dog fancier once took exception to Professor Huxley’s assertion that “one of the most curious peculiarities of the dog mind was its Inherent snobbish ness, shown by the regard paid to ex ternal respectability. The dog who barks furiously at -a beggar will let a. well dressed man pass him without op position.” He said that. In fact, only dogs of well dressed persons act so. Dogs Accustomed to men In rags bark, not at beggars, but at persons clothed In sleek broadcloth. KindneiM. You may pulverize ice, but it is ice still, but let a sunbeam fall on it and It Is soon dissolved. Abuse, however severe and humiliating, never softens men, but kindness will melt the most obdurate. •3 c$ & C . a s o £ o <D rt Q 2 £ CG ~ c 2 6 1 ^ © 2 H O 0) Q 5 a 5 2 J 2?,ftSS ◄ S-g** - 2 2 g .. ,c <l> a; £ O MfiS «S S3 g, 3 s o o< S 93 Jj <U 2 a> a M « o On ~ W a 2 l?£gl .Q > cd ^ £ ° ^ JZ ^ +-> S S "3 43 - «3 H « H° !sJ <!> 2 ^ 4J J3 l •§ J j§ M c3 O ■4J rQ >• § 2.21 g;|aS -"5 = > S3 43 O 3 a> « m § g M ^ .2 £ a> U M ^ o s a» J3 i +j 14 c/i |j Monarch Malleable Ranges require no more fuel, no more time and no more labor to do the work after ten or fifteen years’ use than they they do at first. The satisfection they give is not alone for the first year of their use but continues the same year after year. Those con templating buying a cook stove or range should see the Monarch be fore thy buy. \ • 'I We still have the biggest stock at the lowest prices of \ hardware, tinware, farm implements, wagons, buggies, ! | I lamps, fancy dishes, silverware, paints and oils. i I N IL BRENNAN | •*■ SMITH’S -> j TEMPLE OF Pianos and Organs Stringed Instruments, Sheet Music, Music Boo l and Husical Merchandise £ I Pianos and Organs sold on easy payments. Personal attention given J to tuning and care of instruments put out. Special attention given J to supplying country localities with piano and organ teachers. Get B \ my prices and terms. p ] G. W. SMITH | 9 LOCKARD BUILDING O’NEILL. NEB. E ffwi ’Minisun m\\z I Fidelity Bank! I Farm Loans .. Insurance < I I WE PAY 5 PER CENT ON TIME DEPOSITS 1 S Put vour savings where they will work for you day S and night, holidays and Sundays. j| 1 E. E. HALSTEAD, President DAVID B. 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