Nebraska Newspapers

    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?
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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
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| 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.
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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. Dr.
Adler has been identified with move
ments for tenement house betterment,
manual training, kindergartens for
poor children and other reforms.
A hundred envelopes with your
name and address printed on them for
50c at The Frontier.
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