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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1907)
I i ■iiiiiiiHH mini i i i ■ ii ii mi i mm i hiiiimi i—m iw i mi inini ini mum—mini—■ iim i—mil— s The early buyer gets the choice of the Christmas selections. The “Racket” has a store full of fine things from which to select Christmas gifts and you can get appropriate presents for all at very moderate cost. All of the latest things in toys and trinkets to make the children happy; picture books and story books; liundmls of dolls in all s zes; a very extensive line of plain and fancy dishes, china and Japanes ware, glassware, man- | icure and toilet sets; purses and jewelry novelties; a handsome line of pictures and wall decorations. In fact a complete and well assorted line of holiday goods. Everybody welcome at our store. BIG SPECIAL | -Day Sale! MEN’S, BOYS & CHILDREN’S CLOTHING You will not have such an opportunity this | winter to buy clothing; as offered you now. 1 , I £=======3 | Boys & Youths Suits and Overcoats goat ‘ ACTUAL COST j HONESTY AS A POLICY. Reflections of a Jailer Whose Wife Took a Prisoner’s Cake. Rather an original story conies from the criminal prison at Warsaw. A bookkeeper named Schneider was awaiting his trial, being charged with fraud. As his health was bad, his family sent hina many little delicacies unknown in the prison fare, delicacies which, no doubt, the head warder shared with him. One day, among other things, u huge j iced cake appeared. The warder’s children were fond of cake, and so was J his wife. They therefore determined , to keep half of it for themselves. Their surprise was great when upon apply-! ing a knife to the dainty it stuck Just1 below the icing and refused to go any j farther. “It must be baked to a cinder,” said Mrs. Warder. But her good man, sus- j pectlng that something worse than. careless baking was responsible for' the cake’s hardness, cut round the sides and was rewarded by finding a revolver and seven cartridges buried in th<j paste. ! When brought up before the authori ties Schneider confessed that he had intended to shoot his guardians apd escape from prison before his trial. “After all,” said the warder pensively when he told his story, “honesty is not always the best policy. If my wife had not cut into that cake I should have been a dead man by now, for 1 sleep hard.”—Pall Mall Gazette. CRUELTY IN PERSIA. Queer Things About the People of That Queer Country. According to the authors of “Queer Things About Persia,” cruelty Is com mon there. The executioner cuts throats in a public square, and the spectacle excites little Interest. Crim inals are sometimes crucified and sometimes walled up alive. Women for certain offenses are cast headlong from a tower. The Persian Is a gen tleman of surpassing courtesy and politeness, but say these writers: “The same man who drops rose petals under your feet In order to make them avoid the hardness of the road will not hesi tate to make you suffer the most cruel tortures. He delights In the murmur of the rivulet In the moonshine, but the sound of blood flowing from an open wound has also for him its fas cination. The singing of the nightin gale fills him with rapture in the night, but he quivers with pleasure at the cry of pain from a victim.” Also they affirm that lying Is an Institution and no one condemns it. “The Persian does not consider a He a sin. He thinks that we have a bad opinion of lying because we do not know how to lie, and if he shows an unbounded confidence in everything the Europeans say it Is chiefly because he thinks we are totally devoid of the gift.” Generosity will win favor with any one, especially when It is accompanied by humility.—Goethe. An Unusual Task. "Hello, Jack, old boy, writing home for money?” “No.” “What are you taking so much trou ble over, then? You’ve been fussing and fuming over It for the last two hours,” “I’m trying to write home without asking for money.” Then He Was Mad. “Why don’t you give the devil his due?” he snapped. “I can’t, dear,” replied his wife. “You’re In such fine health now he may have to wait awhile.”—Atlanta Constitution. Remarkable. “She’s the most remarkable elderly woman I ever saw.” “Doesn’t show her age?” “Not that Doesn’t seem to regret It”—LoulsviUe Courier-Journal. One wise counsel Is better than the strength of many.—Euripides. GET YOUR XMAS. PRESENTS E^RGYI On my complete line of Jewelry, Cut Class and Silverware 333 Per Cent Discount On some goods a larger Disconnt. 8hears, Razors and Kniues / will sell BELOW COSTS! Railroad Fare to O’Neill Paid.—Will pay car faae for customers from other towns who buy $10 wort li at my store; shorter distances fare paid with smaller purchases. All (foods at a discount. Jeweler & Optician Wm. M- LOCKARD O’Nsill, Nebraska Township clerks will find Township Order books at this office THE RACKET STORE F. BOWEN, Proprietor ? Girlhood and Scott’s Emulsion are ^ X linked together. q «& The girl who takes Scott’s Ernul- 9 9 sion has plenty of rich, red blood; she is ^ y plump, active and energetic. X The reason is that at a period when a girl’s X A digestion is weak, Scott’s Emulsion X 9 provides her with powerful nourishment in 9 easily digested form. 9 X If is a food that builds and keeps up » « T ^ girl’s strength. X ALL DRUGGISTS; 50c. AND $1.00. f ^dm666666A666A664AM«4i HOBSON FEARS_YELLOW PERIL Say* China Will Soon Be Divided Among Powers of Far East. Marshalltown, la., Nov. 6.—“The Japanese are a real peril, the division of the Chinese empire is imminent, the sending of the big naval fleet to the Pacific and Secretary Taft’s visit to the far east are in the interest of ►he trade of the United States,” said Congressman Richmond Peurson Hob son, late of the United States navy, in an interview. Congressman Hob son was in the city for a short time while on his way to Hampton to lec ture. “The Japanese peril is no joke," said Congressman Hobson, “and the division of China is no further dis tant than a few months. In fact, the details of the division of the empire’* territory have so far progressed that the territory which shall go to each of the countries interested—Japan, r- ——■ Russia and France—has been deter mined." Japan, he said, will get the Pacific coast provinces, including all of the large seaports. “And," he said, "when Japan gets possession it will close these ports to the trade of the. world, and especially to the trade of the United States.” He said Japan feared the commercial supremacy of the Americans, and the added grip on the Pacific trade that the opening of the Panama waterway would give them. To prevent this closing of the China ports to American trade, he de clared, was the purpose of the fleet, which is soon to leave the Atlantic for the east. For this same purpose, and for the double purpose of investiga tion, he said, Secretary Taft had been hurried' to the Orient. About the only thing a man can do without trying is to fail.—Chicago Rec ord-Herald. Ripans Tubules : for sour stomach. ■ A Special Sale FROM DEG. 6 TO 14 Boy’s wool suits, all sizes, $2.75 Boy’s underwear, size 28 to 32, \ heavy fleece lined, for 28c. Boy’s heavy water-proof duck coat, at 96c. Men's duck coats, heavy and high collar, $1.75 Children’s Bicycle hose, fleece lined regular 26c, on sale at 16c, j Ladies’ shoes, latest styles and all sizes, $1.65 per pair. Needle pins, large size 3c per paper, small size two for 5c. Buttons, black and white, 3 doz. 5c. 15 per cent discount on ladies' furs, § Men’s $1.25 caps at $1 | Men’s $1 caps at 75c | Men’s 75c caps at 50c | IT IS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE TO CALL'* SEE US. Next door west of A DHOI IC LJ Golden furniture store VWI I .—■ ■■■■ ■■■1