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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1907)
The Frontier Fabli.b«d by D. H. CRON IK, ROMAINE SADNOEKS. Assistant Mltor and Manager. |1 50 the Year 75 Gents Six Monthi Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county. ADVERTISING RATBH: Display advertlsments oil pages 4, 5 and 8 re cnarged for on a basis of 50 cents an Inch QUO column width) per month; on page 1 the charge Is II an inch per month. Local ad vertisements. 5 cents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. The printed pictures of Mr. Ilarrl tnan are no benefit to Ills reputation. It is believed that the crop of can didates for county offices has not been injured by the frost. The chlld| labor law is all right, but what’s to be done with the grown up fellows who won’t work? What does a thrifty citizen see about a worthless rounder to form a boon companionship with him? - A thousand new laws have been en acted in various states as a result of the uprising to “control the railroads.” The “black hand” society thriving in the soil of anarchy should be given some attention by the federal author ities. The looks of the town may be great ly helped by each citizen taking a personal pride in cleaning up their premises. ‘ A New Yorker has gone the Chicago “third term” promoter one better and proposes a life term for President Roosevelt. After all, there is something to be thankful for in a belated spring. The season for spring poetry will be that much shorter. The reports of damage to crops by frost, like a bit of neighborhood gossip, expand as they travel and have to be well seasoned with salt. With the forests disappearing three times as fast as the new growth devel ops the finish is not far di ;tant unless the operation is reversed. The future “oldest inhabitant” can recount that on May 3, 1907, there was two inches of snow on the level and a temperature three degrees be low freezing. Let it borne in mind that it was a republican senator, backed by republi cans at home, who secured the enact ment of a law whereby O’Neill gets a normal school. Are the police department investi gations going on in various cities an other evidence of general reform, or only a spasmotio outburst calculated to raise a little dust? It is getting close to the season when solutions of the vexing domestic and political problems will be offered amid the brlllant settings of the commencement platform by the sweet girl graduates. If the report on the treasurer’s office is going to “elect the whole fusion ticket” this fall, the fusion bosses at least made a political mis take in raising such a roar when the investigation bugun. A Birmingham, Ala., banker was sentenced to serve six years in the penitentiary for the embezzlement of 8100,000. If a "nigger” is caught stealing a chicken he is burned at the stake. The constitution says some thing about all men being “free and equal.” The Omaha jury that turned in a verdict for the plaintiff in the damage suit against the News extends an urgent invitation to other notables with “injured” reputations to demand redress. The verdict in this and the Pat Crowe case indicates that the way before an Omaha jury is easy. Madison county, especially the vicin ity of Norfolk, is becoming a fruitful locality for sensational crimes. The shooting affair at Norfolk last week adds another disgraceful and deplor able crime to the list. It also illus trates the fact that the pursuit ol such pleasure as found in bad whisky and bad woman may lead a man tc shoot his best friend. And, saddest of all, is the scar left in the families of such husbands and fathers. _ PLEDGES TO REDEEM. The state railway commission will do the people of Nebraska a great service if it succeeds in adjusting rates on coal so as to afford some re lief from the excessively high prices of that household necessity. For years the railroads have been hauling Wy oming coal through the state to Omaha for half or two-thirds the rate to interior points. As an instance of the injustice of the rates on coal from Wyoming, ttie Northwestern charges from $.0 to $0 to haul a ton of coal from Wyoming mines to points along their Elkhorn valley line, while a ton of coal is brought clear from Chicago to O’Neill for $3 25. Again, the Union Pacific hauls a ton of coal from the Wyoming mines to Omaha for $2.50, while its rate to North Platte, 300 miles nearer the mines, is $3.50. Governor Sheldon called special at tention to these injustices in his cam paign speeches. The party pledged itself to correct these evils through the operations of the railway com mission. The legislature did a good job of redeeming pledges. Now let the commission do its part. Commenting on the sad accident and tragic death of the O’Donnell boy, the Omaha News says: “Accid ents of this kind are not rare. They occur with lamentable frequency wherever there are firearms and per sons to handle them. All of them are not accompanied by fatal results. All of them have not mangled and crippled their victim. Sometimes the shot does not hit a vital spot. This is not the fault of the person who happens to be handling the gun. The lesson that the O’Neill accident teaches is the same, but the recurring frequency of these accidents proves that the lesson goes unheaded. The sighs, re grets and tears are soon forgotten. Time mellows the pain and the grief. For a few weeks or a few days there is a memory of a grave and funeral liowers. Then comes a tomorrow and there is another accident, another torn body, another bed of anguisli and other bleeding hearts follow a loved one to the cemetery because someone has been careless.” What man of forty who lias made a success of life can not look back and recall many companions of his youth whose bones now repose in some silent cemetery as the result of a dis ipated life, no monuments rearing their granite piles in memory of their worthy deeds nor friends to cherish as one they loved, save, perchance, a bereft father or mother whose brows were furrowed find lives made sad by the wreck of a life to which they gave birth? He can also count some still living who are vagabonds on the face of the earth or are serving prison terms, and he feels a sense of gratitude for the hand that led him in the right way back in early life. It is now announced that the Los Angeles Limited is to be reinstated on the Union Pacitic. This is the grand train of palace cars that was discontinued immediately after the enactment of the 2-cent law. The reinstatement of this train, the equip ment of others witli new steel coaches and the general tendency to better the passenger services shows that the railroads are great blotters. The days of a fusion majority of COO in Holt county have passed into his tory. It lias got down where there is but a small margin that may Hop either way. The republican party has an excellent show, in view of the good record of our present officials, to retain all the offices now held and get the other two this fall. The Bee advises Mr. Bryan to re serve the seat in his bandwagon re centy vacated by Oolouel Watterson. The Kentucky editor, it observes, lias a habit of standing around and mak ing faces at the driver while the par ade is forming, but he usually man ages to scramble into his seat before the moving signal is given. Mayor Dahlman of Omaha gives it out that there will not be a govern ment ownership plank in the next national democratic platform. Pos sibly the Omaha mayor underesti mates the importance of the Holt county “Raise Hell Club” in its bear ing on national politics._ rIhe Ainsworth Star-Journal has placed the name of Secretary Taft at the head of its columns for the presi dency. 11 doesn’t guarantee to deliver the vote of Brown county for the republican electors in the event of his nomination. The defense in tiie Moyer-Haywood case expects to prove that neither of the men were in the state when the governor of Idaho was slain. The prosecution expect to prove that they planned the assassination and hired the assassin. As to net results accomplished for all classes of the country by the prin cipals to the Debbs-Roosevelt discus sion, we think the preponderence of public opinion will concede that the president is so far in the lead that Mr. Debbs will never catcli up. ATKINSON The O’Neill boys want a game oi ball with Atkinson which we will be pleased to give them as soon as a few preliminaries are arranged perfecting our organization. Ethel Conklin came up from O’Neill Saturday and visited with Atkinson friends over Sunday. J. N. Trommeshausser, of Ewing, was attending to the business at the Atkinson National Bank during the absence of the cashier, Pat O’Donnell who was at O'Neill attending the funeral of his brother Joe. Pat O’Donnell drove to O’Neill, last Sunday night, after receiving word that his brother Joe was accidently shot while out limiting. Mrs. Sarah Carmen departed for Van Wort, Ohio, Monday, to visit with her mother during the summer Tlie happiest man in town Tues day was Paul1 Segar who became the parent of a boy whose weight he claims to be twelve pounds.—Graphic. EWING Miss Rose Mathews went to O’Neili last Saturday to visit with relatives. Jud Robinson of Deloit now rides in a twenty-two horse power Rambler, while his horses are resting at home. —Advocate. Queer Little Blunders. From an account of the Doncaster (England) Art club’s annual exhibition In the Doncaster Gazette: “Miss - also goes In for portraiture. In hitting off her father’s head her Intentions are good, but the execution lacks very much In artistic finish.” In the London Mali’s description of a parade in honor of the king of the Hel lenes the reporter said: “The soldiers, clad only In their scarlet tunics, pre sented an unpleasant contrast with the warmly clad members of the police force.” From the windows of a British tailor: “We have cleared a Scotch merchant’s remains of high class overcoatings at a big reduction.” Not n Born Forger. The Indorsement of checks Is a very simple thing, but, as the following story will show, it, too, has Its difficulties: A woman went Into a bank where she had several times presented checks drawn to Mrs. Lucy B. Smith. This time the check was made to the order of Mrs. M. J. Smith—M. J. were her husband’s initials. She explained this to the paying teller and asked what she should do. “Oh, that Is all right,” he said. “Just Indorse It as It Is written there.” She took the check and, after mnch hesitation, said, “I don't think I can make an M like that” Hair. Animal hair differs In construction from that grown on a human head. In human hair the upper skin is smooth and thin. The circular section Is com paratively broad, forming the main part of the hair shaft. It Is striped In appearance and carries the color mat ter. The tubular part Is thin, extend ing to about one-fifth and certainly not more than to one-quarter of the entire width of the hair. Animal hair also ci nsists of three parts, but these are differently constructed, the tube often filling the entire hair. Heart Beat Yes. 100,000 times each day. Does it send out good blood or bad blood ? You know, for | good blood is good health; bad blood, bad health. And you know precisely what to take for bad blood — Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Doctors have endorsed it for 60 years. :■ One frequent on use of had blood is a sluggish 9 liver. Tina pr< duces constipation. Poisonous M substances tire then absorbed into the blood, B instead of being removed from the body daily I as nature intended. Keep the bowels open I n.ih Ayer’s Pills, liver pills. All vegetable. H *5 Ti'ijtdo by . A. ' ., Lowell, Alas*. 5 A"J\ Also inaiiui'.., .rera ot . ^4 S MUR V1CCR. f~— | The Exposition At Jamestown. | TO educate along the lines of na tional history is the great object of the Jamestown ex position. From April 20, wlieu President Iioose velt will press the button, start the machinery and make a speech, to Dec. 1, when the gates will close, the people who visit the show will be kept busy replen ishing their stores of historical knowl edge, and they will be surprised to find what a multitude of important things have happened in the vicin ity of Jamestown island since the little fleet of three ships under Cap tain Newport landed some passengers on its shores 300 years ago on May 13 next. It was on April 26, 1007, that the Englishmen sailed between the capes which they called Henry and Charles and up the river which they named the James, after the reigning monarch. So April 20 was chosen for the opening day of the exposition. May 13 being designated as the day for the beginning of the great naval display. Jamestown island, where the Eng lish settlers built James fort and James City, afterward called James town, has been deserted for more than twb centuries, so it was not a good place to hold an exposition. About all that is there now is the tower of the ruined church which the colonists built In 1020. Jamestown Island is about thirty-five miles up the James river and is easily reached by boat from the exposition grounds, which overlook the waters of Hampton Roads about five miles from Norfolk. The architecture of the buildings is colonial, to conform to the his COUPEE’S STATUE OP CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. toricnl keynote of the exposition. Out into Chesapeake bay from the exposi tion grounds the United States gov ernment has built long piers, inclosing what is to be known as Smith harbor in honor of the gallant Captain John Smith, to whose indefatigable efforts in behalf of the Jamestown colony its preservation was chiefly due. One goes ashore from Smith harbor at Discovery landing and finds himself standing in Raleigh square. Even the exposition playground, which at Chicago was called the Midway Plaisance, at Buf falo the Midway, at St. Louis the Pike and at Portland the Trail, is called here the Warpath in sacred memory of the red men who took to the war path in war paint, to the great alarm of the colonists. It was on one of these historic occa sions that Captain Smith had a narrow escape from death, and the Indian princess, Pocahontas, who, according to the story, saved his life at the risk of her own, has been commemorated by a beautiful statue, the work of the sculptor William Ordway Partridge Smith, too, is to be preserved in bronze Ilis statue is now being cast at the foundry and will be unveiled on James town island in the autumn. The im pressive figure, eight feet In height will be placed on a stone pedestal elev eu feet in height, so thnt it may be seen from the decks of all steamers passing up and down the river. It is the work of William Couper, one of the best known of American sculptors ant a Virginian by birth. He is fifty-three years of age anti studied ns a young man with Thomas Ball, whose daugh ter he married. For twenty-two years his studio was In Italy, but he nov maintains one in New York. Coupei has very effectively portrayed the re doubtable Smith as a courtier, lefi hand resting on the hilt of his swore and In his right hand holding a book for he was ready with sword ant pen. Captain Smith was one of the mos picturesque figures in the history of tin colonies. Whatever exaggerations then may have been in his descriptions o: his travels, he at any rate reuderet the most valuable service to the strug gllng colony nt Jamestown. I___ fv CtnR) 11 i a r uisMMut 8 Storiettes | Noted I THE Rev. C. F. Aked, who has come from Liv erpool to take charge of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church, New York, protests against its being called “Rocke feller’s church.” He says: “Mr. Rocke feller is not official ly connected with nnv. c. i'. aked. the Fifth Avenue church. It isn’t fair to the church to have Mr. Rockefeller’s name associ ated with it all the time. It Is a pow erful church without Mr. Rockefeller.” He added that it is not a millionaires’ church and that he wanted shopgirls and workingmen just as much as rich er people In his congregation. Mr. Aked is forty-two years old, a native of Nottingham and was auction eer, clerk and sheriff’s deputy before entering the Baptist ministry. Until his health broke down he was a devo tee of outdoor sports—golf, cycling and hunting. He was threatened with tu berculosis and spent eighteen months MRS. JOSEPH E. FORAKER. Clever Wife of Senator From Ohio and Her Aspirations. Mrs.' Joseph Benson Foraker, whose husband is contesting the political field In Ohio with Secretary William H. Taft, has a contest of her own on her hands. While Semtor Foraker is ap pealing to the Republicans of the Buck eye State to indorse his presidential aspirations his wife is seeking the in dorsement of her claims to the head ship of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was Miss Julia Bundy and grad uated from the old Ohio Wesleyan col lege at Delaware, O., in 18G8. It was there that she met Captain Foraker, who had gone into the war at sixteen and come out at nineteen and who took a course at Delaware, finishing his studies at Cornell university. She married the senator in 1870. Sirs. Foraker keeps among her souve nirs a pair of slippers, once white, now ill me .aips. lie comes iu 1111s euuuiij in the hope that the climate will agree with him better than that of Liverpool, where for sixteen years he was in charge of Pembroke chapel. He is known as the “Fighting Parson” be cause of his fearlessness of speech. During the war against the Boers he freely criticised the British policy. At a time when his countrymen had met with crushing defeat in the Transvaal he announced a lecture on the iniquity of the British rule for the following Sunday. Two hundred policemen came to his Liverpool chapel to preserve or der. So great was the excitement that Mr. Aked and his wife were forced to leave the building by a side door. A mob of 1,000 persons followed their carriage, tried to wreck Mr. Aked’s dwelling and shattered the windows. Dr. Felix Adler, who has been ap pointed Roosevelt professor at the University of Berlin for the years 1908-09 in succession to Professor Bur gess, is professor of social and politi cal ethics at Columbia university. He is more widely known, however, as founder of the Society For Ethical Culture, which lias for its motto “Di versity In Creed; Unanimity In Deed.” He was bom in Aizey, Germany, in 1851. His father, who was at one time rabbi of Temple Emmanuel, New York, brought him to this country when he was live years old. The boy wns edu cated to be a rabbi, but found when he came to manhood that he could not MBS. JOSEPH BENSON FORAKEIi. yellow with age. When Benjamin Har rison was inaugurated in Washington Mrs. Harrison naturally had an ex tremely busy day. When evening * came she was greatly fatigued, and her feet, cased in new shoes all day, were aching. Her Inauguration ball slippers were of pearl embroidered white satin. She managed to get them on, but when she arrived in the ball room she was In agony. She took off her slippers, and the consequence was that when it came time to lead the grand march she could not get them on again. Mrs. Foraker was near by and offered her own slippers. They “felt like heaven,” said Mrs. Harrison. Thereupon Mrs. Foraker said, “You wear them through the evening, and I will keep on my street boots.” It saved the grand inarch. Mrs. Harrison pre sented her own slippers to her friend. When a Trout Is Hungry. A curious incident, showing that trout will not bo easily frightened from a hook when they are hungry, is told by a Maine sportsman. He felt a good bite, but before he could haul In the fish it broke loose and got away. He readjusted his bait and made another cast. In a minute the hook was again taken, and he pulled In a two pound trout. It was hooked In the side of the mouth, while upon the other side a piece more than an inch long had been torn from the jaw, and the wound was still bleeding. This showed conclusive ly it was the same fish that had just taken the hook and had got away. The singular part was that a fish so badly wounded should bite a second time. Seed Potatoes. I have for sale 400 bushel of seed potatoes, Early Rose and Burbank Seedling, at forty cents per bushel. Call at my place ten miles east of O’Neill. 44tf R. H. Murray. Wedding announcements and invi tations furnished in the latest styles at this office. accept in its en tirety the Jewish system of doc trines. lie gradu ated from Colum bia in 1870, being a classmate of Seth Low, afterward president of Co ; , . , , DR. FELIX ADLER. lumbia and also mayor of New York. He studied at Berlin and Heidelberg universities and from the latter obtained the degree of rh. D. He was for several years pro fessor of Hebrew and oriental lan guages at Cornell and in 1876 founded the Society For Ethical Culture, which now has branches in most of the large cities of the world. Its aim is not to antagonize regularly established churches, but to carry on work for hu manity along nonsectarian lines. 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