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The Frontier Published by D. H. CEONINt KOMAINE SAONDKKS. Assistant Editor and Manager. 91 fto the Year 7ft Gents Six Months Official paper of o celli and Holt county. ADVERTISING HATES; L>i»p*ay ad vert laments on pages 4, 6 and f re charged for oil a basis of 60 cents an Inco one column width) per mouth; on page 1 the obarge is 91 an inch per month. Local ad vertisements, 6 cents per line each Insertion, Address the office or the publisher. If your New Year’s resolutions last a week its probably longer than you intended. Tile Fremont Tribune pulled oil a New Year’s stunt in Lite shape of a thirty-two pager. -4 »- -- The year 1908 promises to be a his tory making year. You should read The Frontier and keep posted. Georgia became a prohibition state at midnight Tuesday. The forces which broaght about the enactment of the law expect soon to advance, on Milwaukee. A district judge at Omaha holds that Nebraska’s blue law is constitu tional. It may reasonably be expect ed that some dozens legislators will go to the next session determined tore peal or amend the law. There was no more truth in what the Independent said about Bob Ohittick a year ago than what it said about Judge Barnes, but it hasn’t taken it back. It hasn’t been fright ened into it by a libel suit. The last Nebraska legislature at tained some notice as an economical body in the matter of appropriations. Down in Missouri they have just dis covered a deficit of 81,260,000 because of the extraviganee of their last legis lature. It seems that the state oil inspector once in awhile rejects a consignment. From the way the kerosene refuses tc make a light along about the first shipment of the winter some people have come to think that a state oil inspector is more of an ornament thar a servant. Business conditions are promising for the year 1908, though presidential years are considered necessarily “oil1 a little in this respect. The resurap tion of business after a partial shut down occasioned by shortage of cast in the banks indicates a good yeai ahead. Is it not high honor to once or twlci serve your oountrymen in the exalted office of president? That’s enougl without pensioning them after re tirement. If the pay while in offlc* is inadequate, raise the salary, bul any efforts to increase an alreadj burdened pension roll should be d!s couraged. Bassett Leader: A Minnesota pure food inspector recently tied up a ship ment of groceries from a Chicago mail order concern and out of eighty-twc samples taken from one shipment onlj two complied with the law, the other) 1 being short in weight and in many in stances adulterated. Coffee marked fifteen pounds weighed only thirteer I ponnds, eight ounces, and the sam( thing occurred down through the lisl of spices, rice, etc. The coffee wa! j adulterated with roasted beans, th< spices were adulterated, and black j berry cordial contained forbiddei drugs. The mail order pleaded guilt; ! and was fined 150 and costs. The list of speakers for the dem ocratio dollar dinner at Lincoln, Jan uary 15, given in honor of William J Bryan, includes such notables as Gov j ernor Charles N. Haskell of Oklahoma Jerry B. Sullivan of Des Moinn Henry Warrum of Indianapolis, Gov ernor N. B. Broward of Florida, foi mer Senator Thomas M. Patterson c ft Colorada, M. F. Harrington of O’Neil Neb., and William J. Bryan. Cot slderable interest attaches to th speech of Mr. Bryan, as outlining hi views of the coming campaign and h idea of what should be some of th planks of the democratic natiom plrtform. Our friend Mike will pri bably elucidate the railroad owne ship question, tell them how to g< cars if they want to ship hay and po sibly venture some tips on coppt mine investments. what will McGinnis do? The Independent takes it back. In a double-column editorial, adorned with a “slug” head, it admits that the slanderous article printed about J. B. Barnes of Norfolk, one of the judges of the supreme court, was a fake story manufactured for political purposes. The article got the Inde pendent publisher into hot water lie wasn’t looking for. Character assas sin and slander has been the chief characteristic of the populist organ at O’Neill since it was founded and it had been carried on with impunity so long that the directors of the editorial policy regarded themselves as immune. A slanderous attack on one of the supreme court judges brought the Independent publisher face to face with a criminal libel suit, something that hadn't been anticipated because the slanderous course of the news paper had continued unnoolesled since the day ttie paper was started. Regarding the article published last summer the Independent now says in retraction, among other things: We are now satisfied that the state ment concerning the discharge of lire arms was not correct, we are further satislied from a painstaking and thor ough investigation of the matter that no improper relations were being sus tained between Judge Barnes and his stenographer. We are thoroughly satisfied that the rumors and gossip which caused his wife’s jealousy had no foundation in fact, and that an in justice was done to both the sten ographer and Judge Barries in that respect. An open confession is admitted to be good for the soul. The Independ ent might further relieve itself by public apology to a few of the citizens of Holt county it lias slandered. The Independendent says that in view of the retraction Judge Barnes has agreed to drop the matter and the cases against Miles will be dismissed. The charges and retraction were traced by one and the same hand. It is generally understood in this com munity that a former populist spell binder, now masquerading as a demo crat,is the real editor of the Independ ent and this is thought to have some thing to do with securing a settlement, out of court, thus avoiding unpleasant publicity by having the authorship established in court, especially in view of the fact that Lite chief figure in the prosecution is a member of the court to which the “dark horse” may have occasion to appeal a case now and then. We suppose Judge Barnes’ agree ment not to prosecute applies to the case started in Madison county, as it is not clear how he can take the in itiative in dismissing the case started by 9tephen McGinnis here. Steve, you know, became very indignant about 10 o’clock one night and had Miles arrested for slandering aud libeling Judge Barnes. His case is now pending in the district court of Holt county and if tho interest man ifest by the complaining witness one night last summer has not died out he will probably give us the next chapter. What will McGinnis do? The Lincoln Observer is devoting what space it can’t sell to the brewery and harvester trusts to an assault on the president. It prints a lot of stuff from a corporate tool atChicago about "Theodore Roosevelt— Destroper.” In i view of the fact that the country has i enjoyed the most phenominal pros i perlty in its history during President • Roosevelt’s administration it's a query i where the title "destroyer” is appllc ’ able, unless it is that some "buneco” games have not been allowed to nourish, spoilers of the public domain ‘ have been run down and outlawed trusts brought to time. The Lincoln Star notes a prosperity , item at the beginning of the New ,» Year. It says: “Isn’t that cheering - news from Havelock, to the effect that - the shops are to re-open this week, f with *100,000 worth of machinery , added to the equipment and with 685 - men employed in the various depart e mentsV Does that sound like ‘hard s times'!” ” s A negro of Brownville fame has j brought suit against the government | for pay from the time the regiment was disbanded by order of the presi . dent until the date of his enlistment t expires. * r Norfolk passed the week without a shooting scrape. What Have We Done Today? We shill do so much in the year to come. But bat have wedene toda"? Wr»b; II give our gold in a princely sum, iiut hat did we give today? We shi II lift the heart and dry the tear. We (hell p'ant a hope in the place of fear. We shall speak the Words of lnve and cheer. Hut what did wc speak today? Wc slo II be so kind in the after-a-while. But what have we been to(la>? We Sh i,I bring to each lonely life a smile. Hut what have we brought today? We shall give to truth a grander birth, And to steadfast faith a deeper woith; We shall feed the hungry souls of earth. But whom have we fed today? We shall reap such Joys in the by and by. But what have we sown today? We shall build us mansions In the sky. ltul what Iiave wc built today; Tls sweet In the Idle, dreams to bask. But here and now do we do our task? Ves. this is the thing our soul must ask; • What have we done today?” — Met all s. Democrats Began It. Leslie’s Weekly: The democratic papers which have been raising a jiamor about the contributions which they say were made to the republican campaign fund in 1904 are unwise. They are unwise because they are apt to provoke inquiries as to democratic practices in that connection. The inquirer " ill not proceed far in his in vestigation before he will discover ihat die democrats and not the re publii ms were the original sinners in Jiis field. “We Fremonters in this town iiave not $1 where the Fillmore e s and the Buclianiers Iiave $10 each, tod we Iiave Pennsylvania and New Jersey both on our shoulders.” These Acre Horace Greeley’s words in the tampaign of 1856, in a letter to James 5. Pike, the Washington correspond *nt of the New York Tribune. Current, report had it that the South put *150,000 into the canvass in Penn sylvania that year in aid of Buchan m, Pennsylvania being a "pivotal” state at that time, and Pennsylvania vas carried for him. Wall street iontributed several hundreds of thousands of dollars to the demo iratio fund, to be used chiefly in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. August Belmont, a prominent Wall itrcet banker in those days, the Amer can agent of the Rothschilds, and 'ather of the present well known New STork Belmonts (August, O. P. H. and Perry), is said to have contributed 1100,000 to help Buchanan. If the ate John W Forney, the chairman of the demucrotic state committee of Pennsylvania in 1850, who disbursed the Buchanan campaign funds which bad been sent to that state, had been tree to tell the secrets of his prison bouse (he told some of them a few years later after he became a republi can, but not all), he could have un folded a tale which would silence the assailants of Chairman Cortelyou, of the republican iutioaal committee of 19M. The use of money in presidential campaigns on a large scale began in i860, and the democrats began it. The next time when money was used in big sums in a presidential canvass was just twenty years later, in 1876, and the democrats—1Tilden and his sup porters—were the culprits again. Anybody who remembers the cam paign of 1876 will recollect the expos ures of democratic expenditures of money for political purposes. In self defense the republicans followed the bad example set for them by the dem ocrats, and the ‘‘blocks of five” and other discredliable practices by the republicans in 1880 in the doubtful states, and the other revelations of the same sort in some subsequent canvasses, matched the democratic contemporaneous doings in those campaigns. Mr. Barmina,, for the democrats, disbursed as much money, in proportion <o the wealth of the countrv iu his day of activity, as Mr. ilanna and Mr. CJortelyou did for the republicans. Wo are not justifying the use of money in large amounts by either party in campaigns, although some money necessarily has to be put up to pay the rent of campaign headquart ers, pay the expenses of printing and distributing campaign literature, and in putting spellbinders on the road. Aside from the money needed to pay the ligitimate expenses of campaigns, its use should be condemned. The national law prohibiting contributions by corporations in elections, and in the stale laws which have recently been passed on the subject, will elim inate much of this evil in 1908 and subsequent campaigns. The Pure Food Law. Secretary Wilson says, “One of the objects of the law is to inform the consumer of the presence of certain harmful drugs in medicines.” The law requires that the amount of chlo roform, opium, morphine, and other habit forming drugs be stated on the label of each bottle. The manufact urers of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy have always claimed that their rem edy did not contain any of these drugs and the truth of this claim is now fully proven, as no mention of them is made on the label. This remedy is not only one of the safest, but one ol the best in use for coughs and colds. Us value has been proven beyond question during the many years it has been in general use. For sale by Gil ligan & Stout. Notice—All accounts not settled by January 15,1908, for blacksmithing at Emmet, Nebr . will be given to a law yer for collection.—G. E. Bowen, O’Neill, Nebr. 27-2p \ Millie's j I Strategy. I By W. Crawford Sherlock. | H Copyright, 1907, by P. C. Eastmeut. •‘.Millie, I have requested Mr. Mitchell not to come here any more.” Mrs. Thompson purred rather than spoke the words, but her keen black eyes were fixed Intently upon her niece as if expecting the news would provoke a storm. She was not mistaken. “What do you mean, Aunt Iletty?” demanded Millie, her blue eyes flash ing and her voice quivering with anger. “Why should you tell Jack not to call upon me ugain? I am not a child and can see no reason why you should object to his visits if I don’t.” “You forget yourself, Millie,” return ed Mrs. Thompson in the same soft purring tone. "I am your aunt, your father’s sister, and he requested in his will that you should make your home with me until you are either married or have reached the age of twenty-five. That makes me your guardian, moral ly if not legally, and I deem it my duty to break up your intimacy with Mr. Mitchell.” “Why did you not object to Jack when I first met him? Why did you permit him to call here time and again after we met? Why did you wait un til we are engaged to be married be fore you offered any objections to his visiting me?” itiiuit; uau auscu uuu mtcu luia. Thompson. Her voice was calm, but incisive, and each question was em phasized by a sharp rap on the ebony table beside her. “I am not compelled to answer such questions, Millie Gray, especially when asked so disrespectfully,” purred Mrs. Thompson, “but I will do so. I thought Mr. Mitchell was a very es timable young man when you first met him. This impression remained with me until lately, when I have had reason to believe him otherwise.” “What is your reason?” demanded the girl sharply. “If any one has ma ligned Jack, I have the right to know, so I may give him the opportunity to defend himself. What have you heard about him. I wish to know.” "I decline to tell you,” replied Mrs. Thompson. Her voice was still soft and low, but her thin fingers twitched nervously as if she was imbued with a strong desire to scratch the girl so boldly confronting her. “Mr. Mitchell shall not come here again. That is all I have to say. Of course, as you are of age, I cannot prevent you from meeting him clandestinely, but so far as my own home is concerned I shall endeavor to do my duty.” The suggestiveness of her aunt's words puzzled Millie, but their purport became clearer to her as she reflected.: “I think I understand it all now, Aunt Hetty,” she said slowly and scornfully. “You have deliberately planned this thing, knowing that my father, who hated the very mention of runaway marriages, provided that 1 must be married at your home If I am married before I am twenty-five. If l am married anywhere else, one-half of my fortune will go to you. My fa ther made this strange provision, be lieving it would prevent me from elop ing with any one before I had reached years of discretion. You introduced me to Jack Mitchell and encouraged him to come to see me. Now when we are almost ready to be married you trump up some objection to him in the hope that I will run away and get mar ried, thus allowing you to become pos sessed of half my fortune. Aunt Het ty, I have never loved you, but I did not think you were capable of such a scheme.” “Believe what you please,” retorted Mrs. Thompson, purring no longer, but speaking harshly and discordantly. “Mr. Mitchell shall not come here again. You may do as you please.” “I am going to marry Jack Mitchell,” replied Millie quietly, “and 1 shall be married in your home. That is all I have to say.” And, turning, the girl walked to her own room, leaving her aunt to reflect over the last words. Bolting her door to guard against any Intrusion, Millie reflected over the situation. She was now twenty, and by waiting five years until she came into possession of her fortune it would be possible to prevent Mrs. Thompson from obtaining any of the property, but the girl’s mind revolted at the idea of waiting so long. She had known Jack Mitchell for two years and been engaged to him six months. Five years seemed a lifetime, and she dis missed all thought of such a plan. Aunt Hetty should not profit by her marriage to Jack—upon that at least Millie was resolved—but how could she possibly be married in her aunt’s home? Aunt Hetty, having been dis covered In her scheme to secure a part of the fortune, would spare no effort to prevent her niece’s marriage in her home, and Aunt Hetty, small of stat ure and not overly strong, usually ac complished what she started out to do. “What a jolly row there would be if Jack and the minister would come here and try to go ahead with the cere mony,” laughed Millie as the ludicrous side of such a possibility appealed to her sense of humor. “I can imagine Aunt Hetty taking Jack by the coat collar and putting him out, despite his six feet of length and 200 pounds weight. Aunt Hetty would do it some how, so I must be married here with out her knowledge, but how Is that to be done?” There seemed no way to solve the problem, and Millie" arose to take a walk, thinking the fresh air might bring some relief to her troubled mind. As she stood before the mirror arrang ing her hat she noticed the reflection ui uien moving about the adjoining house, and she turned to investigate. Mon were taking up the carpet and j moving the furniture out of the room opposite hers, while others were on the floor below, similarly engaged. Could it be possible that the Jacksons were going to move? If they were the 1 adjoining house would probably be for s rent, and— Millie raised her window 1 quickly and reached out her hand. It 1 almost touched the window of the ad- t Joining house. The houses were join- ( ed together in front, but in the rear > a small space less than three feet wide separated them to admit light , and air. A solution of the problem flashed across the girl’s mind as she lowered and fastened the window. It might be possible to frustrate Aunt | Hetty and not wait five years either. During the next week Millie spent j much of the time at home. Aunt Ilet- ^ ty, always on the alert, viewed this . unusual proceeding with suspicion and remained indoors herself to guard t against any possible invasion by Jack , Mitchell. Instructions were issued to the servant to admit no one, and Mrs. ( Thompson felt confident of being able ( to frustrate any attempt on Millie’s ( part to marry according to the pro vision of her father's will. ( Millie smiled complacently, but said nothing, as she noted her aunt's ac tions. Things were progressing fine ly, and at last the plan was ready for ( execution. Locking and bolting her door, she , spent two hours in putting on her pret- , tiest gown. When this task was com- ( pleted to her satisfaction she raised the curtain and opened the window. A moment later Jack Mitchell's hand some face peered out of the window of the adjoining house. “All ready, Millie?’’ he asked, re- j straining a strong desire to spring across the intervening space and take . her in his arms. “Here's the Itev. Mr. J Walker, an old friend of mine, and two ( witnesses, Bert Latimer and Frank ( Long. We are all ready if you are.” 1 Millie nodded, and the minister di- , rected them to join hands across the . space of separation. The marriage r service was read in slow, measured j tones, and they were pronounced man j and wife. Jack would have come over , to join his wife, but she prevented him. “Xo, no, Jack; this is Aunt Hetty’s \ house, and she has forbidden you to come here. Just wait for me at the door.” Mrs. Thompson, listening, as was her wont, at the keyhole, had heard the 1 sound of voices and felt that some thing was wrong. Vigorously and viciously she had pounded on the door - of Millie’s room, demanding admit- * tanee during the ceremony, but the i Iter. Mr. AValker, previously apprised ' of the situation, had not heeded the ' interruption. As Millie unfastened the 1 door Mrs. Thompson’s angry face con- i fronted her. 1 “Who is in your room, Millie?” de- i manded the aunt, glancing around in i quest of the intruder. She found no 1 one in the room, but caught sight of i Jack’s face across the way. The bride- f groom had waited to see what devel- < oped when the door was unfastened. < "AA’hat is that man doing in the Jack- < son house?” continued Mrs. Thompson < angrily. “I shall request Mrs. Jack son to forbid him coming there.” i Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Thompson : were excellent neighbois, and the 1 threat seemed sufficient to prevent any ; further visitations of Jack Mitchell to 1 the adjoining house. i “Mrs. Jackson has moved, Aunt Het- i ty,” said Millie calmly. “But you have < been so busy watching me that you ] failed to notice it. I. or, rather, we. : have taken the house.” “AA’e! AA’hat do you mean?” inquired i Mjs. Thompson excitedly. “I have nothing to do with that house.” i “I mean Jack and myself, aunt. AA’e have just been married. I stood in my room and Jack stood in the room of the house next door. 1 was married in your home and have complied with the condition of my father's will. Good by, Aunt Hetty. Come over and see us. AA’e will be at home on Tuesdays of next month.” But Mrs. Thompson was too much discomfited by the defeat of her well laid plan to make a reply. Flats Harm Book Trade. “Flats and apartments damage my i business dreadfully,” said a publisher. “The minute a family gives up its house and takes to a flat that same minute it stops buying books. In the first place, flat dwellers are cramped for room. Having little enough space i for their furniture, let alone for books, . they naturally buy no books. In the second place, flat dwellers are nomads; they move often, and your nomad hes itates to buy a book because he knows i it will be a nuisance to pack at the i next moving. I “We are all taking to flats and apart- < ments, housekeeping in them is so ! much easier and pleasanter. We are i all freeing ourselves of needless things in order to have more space in our cramped quarters. Books we free our selves of first, taking in their place a subscription to a public library. : “Indeed, thanks to the flat, private ■ libraries in the future will be as rare , as private theaters or private chap- , lains.”—New York Press. Then She Left Him. “Ah,” said the young husband, “it is hard to part!” I “Are you going to leave me?” shriek ed the young wife. I “No, indeed!” replied he. “I was re ferring to this biscuit.”—Houston Tost, i Retribution. Mrs. Peckhem—Henry, do you be lieve that people are. punished right here on earth for their sins? Peckhem | —I certainly do—that is, if marriages , fcre really made in heaven.—Chicago l News. I LYDiA DARRACH. .oxley House, Philadelphia, Where She Played Eavesdropper. One of the favorite stories connected rith the Revolution is the tale of ,ydia Darrach’s patriotism, which tory, like others of similar import, has een discredited by the discriminating listorian. Notwithstanding the cold ouche thrown upon the tradition it re nains popular with all who know it. 'he house where the famous eaves ropping on the part of the Quakeress ook place is not so well known. Those who have heard or read the tory of Mrs. Darrach hardly need to ie informed that she and her husband Ived in what was called the Loxley louse, once at the southeast corner of .ittle Dock and Second streets. Little )ock was the thoroughfare which runs u a southwestern direction from Dock treet to Second street. The ground ipon which the Loxley house stood vas acquired by Benjamin Loxley, a veil to do carpenter, who owned prac ically a whole square in this vicinity, rom George Clymer in April, 1759, and he queer little house was erected im nediately. It was a speculation, for here is nothing to show that the own r ever lived there. The house gained its fame from its leculiar facade, which was unlike any hing in the city, and from the anec lote which connects Mrs. Darrach vith the place. The great preacher Vliitefield is said to have addressed he multitudes from the balcony on ither his sixth or seventh visit to this ountry—17G3 or 17G9. The Revolution had long since been ver and most of the patriots in their jraves before the tale of Mrs. Dar nell's bold adventure, which is believ-_ d to have saved Washington and his rray from capture by the British, be ame known. In the first number of he first volume of the American Quar erly Review, issued in March, 1827, he tale was told for the first time, "here it is credited to “Garden's Anec lotes of the American Revolution.” "he author of the story in the Amer can Quarterly Review, however, must inve had access to Major Garden’s nanuscript, for, the story was not mblished in his book until the second eries was issued in the latter part of he year 1828.—Philadelphia Ledger. STORIES OF TENNYSON. Showing Some of the Odd Ways of the Famous Poet. In the memoirs of the late William Ulingham, the English poet, appear ome interesting reminiscences of Ten iyson. Allingham’s first sight of him vas at Twickenham, where Tennyson vas then living. lie says: “Soon came n a tall, broad shouldered, swarthy nan, slightly stooping, with loose dark lair and beard. He wore spectacles ind was obviously very nearsighted. Iollow cheeks and the dark pallor of lis skin gave him an unhealthy appear mce. He was a strange and almost pectral figure. The great man peered ■lose at me and then shook hands cor lially, yet with a profound quietude if manner. He was then about forty ine, but looked much older.” In 18SG Alliugham visited Tennyson it the latter’s home, Farringford, In freshwater, Isle of Wight. One moru ng they were talking on the downs to gether, and Allingham said that he felt lappy. Tennyson said gloomily, “I’m lot at all happy—very unhappy.” The eason, as Tennyson afterward explain 'd, for liis particular unhappiness was lis uncertainty regarding the condition ind destiny of man. Alliugham was -ery anxious to photograph him on his visit, but Tennyson positively re 'used. “You make bags under my iyes,” he said. At another time during this visit, as Ulingham writes, they talked of Ireams. “Tennyson said: ‘In my boy lood I had intuitions of immortality— nexpressible! I have never been able o express them. I shall try some day.' said that 1, too, had felt something if that kind, whereat Tennyson, being n one of his less amiable moods, growled: ‘I don’t believe you have, toil say it out of rivalry.’ ” Allingham describes Tennyson's fond less for strange antics, such as jump ng round and round like a pigeon, and idds, “He is the only person I ever saw vho can do the most ludicrous things vithout any loss of dignity.” Feet of the Ancient Greeks. A walk through the British museum ind a close examination of the pedal ‘Xtremities of ancient art there show hey are ail had about the feet. “The Disk Thrower,” a celebrated specimen, las particularly bad examples of in cipient bunion joints. If the foot of he Farnese Apollo, used as a model n most art schools, represents the foot if the average Greek corns and billi ons must have been common in that ilassical couutry.—British Shoemaker. The Earnest Word. “You never can tell,” observed Uncle Ulen Sparks, “what lasting results uay be accomplished by an earnest vord spoken at the right time. Many i man has had the shape of his nose ■hanged for life by calling another nan a liar.”—Chicago Tribune. Clever Retort. “Yes, I am going to marry Mr. Bul ion.” “\t by, lie Is old enough to be your atker!” “1 know he is, but unfortunately he loesn't seem to care for mother.”— .ouisville Courier-Journal. Black Eyes. Miffkins—It is said that aggressive, mpulsive people usually have black ■yes. Biffkins—That’s right. If they laven’t got them at first they get them a ter.—Exchange.