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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 11, 1908)
The Frontier Published by D. H. CRONIN. ROMAINE SADNUBKS. Asslstuut Editor and Manager. II ID the Year 75 Dents Six Months Official paper of O'Neill and Holt county. AUVBKT1HINO KATES: Ulan,ay advertlamente on page* 4, 5 and 8 re charged for on a basis of 50 cent* an lnoh one column width) per month; on page I tho oharge Is II an lnoh per month. Local ad rertlsements. 5 cents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the publisher. It Is always safe to watch the fellow In private deals who Is the most vo oivorous denouncing graft With a demand from all sections for farm hands, there remains no excuse for an “unemployed class.” The reduction of the state debt over a quarter million the last year indi dates careful financing by our state Officers. _ Congress made appropriations for the next fiscpl year aggregating $1, 023,000,000, and yet some people say It was a do nothing session. There will be a little county politics this fall, as well as state and national. There will be a county attorney to elect, besides a legislative ticket. Now Is a good time for democrats to put Into practice some of their preach ing and give the public the details as to where that $15,000 from Wall street Went. __ _ Mr. Bryan said In his O’Neill speech that “democratic spots always look good’’ to him. That *15,000 contri bution from Wall street not ex cepted? Mr. Taft will retire from the pres ident’s cabinet July 1, presuming, no doubt, that he is to be nominated for president at tlje Chicago convention thl* month. ■ President Boosevelt’s experience harpooning the American octupus will stand him In good stead when he goes hunting the untamed lion In the Jpngles of Africa. Mayor “Jim” has already stated that he spent It all In Berge’s cam paign. That is about as much as will ever be known about Wall street’s contribution to the democratic cam paign fund In Nebraska. June 1 was “employment day,” when a concerted action was made in *. industrial centers to start the unem ployed to work. It proved a very successful experiment. The way to ffcsume commercial operations Is to resume. V» .Four and five dollars a day is said to lie awaiting men and teams in the Kanaas wheat belt. And they want 2b,000 of them during harvest. By that time Nebraska hay meadows will be ready for them, and then they can go into the corn fields. Since It has leaked out that a Wall street banker contributed *15,0bb in an effort to elect a democratic govern or in Nebraska and send Bryan to the senate, the democratic newspapers will have to revise their claims that the trusts and capitalists are “all against” the peerless. Railroad employees announce that tney will be In politics in Nebraska this fall in behalf of their companies. Whether they Intend to nominate candidates or merely give their sup port to the candidates which appear the most friendly Is not stated. There is no indication as yet that any can didates will spring up In behalf of the railroad cause. The state liquor dealers’ association tdok action at their meeting last week which purports to divorce them from politics. This declaration does correspond with their works, as even now thpy have taken up the fight against county option whloh they fear is coming in Nebraska. They have started a press bureau and are suffic iently Interested to spend hundreds of dollars securing the publication of matter in opposition to county option. A page of this matter has been given Publicity in a democratic paper in this county. While the liquor dealer! claim they wiH take no further hand in politics, friends of county optioc believe there is work going on now with the view of securing a legislatun favorable to the brewery interests. Taft On Grant. Exceptions have been taken to Sec retary Taft's reference to an early weakness of General Grant in his memorial day address. In explana tion of his allusion to the civil war hero, Mr. Taft says: “In my memorial day address I at tributed his resignation from the army in 1854 to his weakness for strong drink, because from Mr. Gar land’s ‘Life of Grant’and t lie evidence lie cites, and from other histories, I supposed it was undoubtedly true. "I referred to the matter because it seemed to me that It was one of the great victories of his life that lie sub sequently overcome this weakness. The wonder of his life was that with all the discouragements that he en countered before the civil war, in cluding this, he became the nation’s chief Instrument In suppressing the rebellion.” In other words, Mr. Taft believes In the old truth that he whoconquors his own weaknesses is greater than he who taketh a city. General Grant did both There are no strictures due Mr. Taft’s emphasis of it. A Choice of Men, Referring to Mr. Bryan’s oft repeat ed claim that President Roosevelt pur loined his policies, the New York Times, an Independent democratic paper, offers some interesting com ment. This Is probably the first time In political history, says the Times, that a chieftain of the opposition has sought to establish his title to eligibil ity by planting himself firmly upon the principles of the party In power. In fairness, of course, it must be admit ted that this singular situation is somewhat modified by Mr. Bryan’s prior use of the principles In question. That claim is so well established in fact, so well buttressed by historical circumstance, and so generally ad mitted that if Mr. Bryan bad had the forethought to copyright his policies he could establish his claim to them as Intellectual property in any federal court where infringement suits are prosecuted. Indeed, a moralist so austere as Mr. Roosevelt ought to ad mit that the policies called his are not of his originating, and their trans fer to their lawful owner would be effected, not by capture but by vol untary reconveyance on expiration of the terminable Interest. If Mr. Taft has in his make-up a shred of respect for property rights he will, of course, take himself out of the way in order that Mr Bryan may come into his own, and, as Mr. Ourtis said of Presi dent Hayes, "pass unchallenged to his seat.” This Ingenious and subtle plea of Mr. Bryan quite eliminates from the campaign the issue of principle. The fight now becomes altogether a matter of men, reversing the old axiom. And theie’s the rub. If the voters all thought alike we should probably have Mr. Bryan unanimously, but they won’t think alike. Inevitably, the platforms being Identical, there will be a measuring and comparison of men. If the comparison were be tween Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan, we should be alarmed for the Ne braskan. The American people ad mire ability, and follow after it. Mr. Roosevelt is so immeasurably the superior of Mr. Bryan in that respect that he'would enter the race already so far In the lead of his adversary that the gap betwec n them would never be closed. Mr. Bryan’s personal dis advantage in comparison with Mr. Taft is not less evident-. This is a moral people. The people believe William H. Taft to be an absolutely sincere man, and a very large part of the people distrust the sincerity of Mr. Bryan. He is too facile. He has too many principles. He lays aside the old and takes up the new with a readiness as to beget and continually confirm the belief that expediency, not conviction, is the motive of his action. The people, moreover, know Mr. Taft to be an efficient man. The efficiency of Mr. Bryan is altogether untested. In the two great endeavors of his life he has disastrously failed, and appears to have succeeded in nothing save in accumulating a for tune while pursuing his profession of professional candidate. Put against his barren record the achievements of Mr. Taft in the Philippines, in Cuba, i in Panama, and in hi i daily tasks of administration. The comparison You need not hesitate about using this new Hair Vigorfrom any fear of its chang ing the color of your hair. The new Ayer’s Hair Vigor prevents premature grayness, but does not change the color of the hair even to the slightest degree. -Had* t>7 the J. O. *7«r Co., Lewoll, Mui — makes Mr. Bryan look small indeed, and on election day we are entirely confident that Mr. Bryan will disap pear from view. Again, the republican candidate will have laboring in his interest that effective and coherent organization, the republican party, while Mr. Bryan must look for support to a once great, but now demoralized force. The democracy has come to such a pitiful state, indeed, that it appears in all its membership no man with spunk enough to bell the Bryan cat. Mr. Bryan goes on droning out his wearisome platitudes in the intervals between campaigns, and now when he makep his impudent demand for the nomination no democrat shows cour age enough to stand up and dispute it. When he talks they all run, they cower, they hide, and he prepares to take by default an honor that, in the hands of a worthy candidate, might ripen into a trust, but in his own will shrivel to nothingness. David R. Forgan, president of the National City bank of Chioago, has a poor opinion of W. J. Bryan’s knowl edge of banking. In a public address he said: “I heard Mr. Bryan speak for an hour the other night on bank ing problems. He was effective as. an orator and forceful, but I could tind nothing in his talk that indicated that he had the slight est conception of what a bank deposit is. And yet Mr. Bryan is going around the country giving advice on how to stop or prevent a panic.” _ Review of Reviews: The nation’s prosperity really rests on farm pro ducts. So long as these reach up to the value of former years—approx imately $7,500,000,000 in 1907—this must continue to be so. There has probably never been a time in this generation when such solendid gener al crop prospects existed at the begin ning of May and which continued up the middle of the month. The empty cars of today will all be enlisted to move the wheat, corn, oats and cotton now seeded. Allison’s victory in Iowa is addition al evidence that a man in whom the people have confidence cannot be superanuated despite his years. Sen ator Allison is eighty years of age, has served long in the senate, and the indorsement of his candidacy for another term, in the face of strong opposition, is a handsome tribute from republicans of his state. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: A lib eral slice of Parker’s campaign cash was sent to Bryan’s managers in Ne braska in 1804, and yet the Parker vote in the state was 60,000 less than Bryan’s, a slump of over one-half. Wasn’t it a shame to take the money? Some representative of “predatory wealth” got in his work on Maryland democrats. Their convention failed to instruct for Bryan. The threatened break in the Chicago convention has burst like a bubble and one more democratic hope has gone glimmering. ■ ■ + • Governor Sheldon’s name is still in the list of vice-presidential possibil ities. It looks like the insurgents won the day in South Dakota. Now for the Fourth! OTHER COUNTY TOWNS CHAMBERS H. W. and F. D. Smith and L. B. Harris made a fool trip to Chain Lake Tuesday. Rev. and Mrs Galloway, parents of Mrs. Ahrendts, and her cousin, Mrs. Williams, from Indiana, are visiting at the Ahrend I s’ home. George Davis’ mother returned to her home in LeMars, Iowa. She had been visiting at the Davis home sev eral months. Mrs. G. A. Davis and son accompanied her mother to Le Mars for a two weeks visit with her sister.—Bugle. EWING. The steel which is to adorn the ex terior of Fraternal hall has been painted and is now ready to be put on A business transaction took place this week whereby Art Snyder be comes owner of the Jay Booth farm on South Fork and Jay becomes owter of Art’s residence property here in town. A. B. Donaldson has received a patent on a sickle sharpner. The machine if very simple but effective, and qhances are that Mr. Donaldson will reap a rich harvest from his efforts. Arthur Spiltler has been employed as assistant in the pioneer bank. Mr. and Mrs. John Bauer and Mr. and Mrs. John Funk left Sunday morning for a visit in Germany.—The Advooate. STUART. Last Friday our boys played their first game this season with the Bas sett nine. Score 2 to 1 in favor of our boys. Dr. Gibson of Chicago was in Stuart last week looking for a suitable loca tion. He found the territory near here pretty well covered. Friday, May 29, the Alumni of the Stuart high school held their annual banquet in honor of the new graduates at the home of M. W. Miller. The parlor was decorated in colors of cream and green. A program was rendered and games played till the hour of 10:30 arrived, when all were summoned to the dining room to partake of a very delicious and dainty repast. The tables were decorated in cream and green, while the fa vers were decorated with four-leafed clover to wish the new Alumni much good luck and prosperity. The guests departed about 11:20 to escort Miss Eaton, our assistant principal, to the train. All voted having had a very delightful time. ATKINSON. A. W. Morrell of Oakland, Nebraska, who recently purchased a farm north of Atkinson, has sown thirty acres of alfalfa this spring and is well satisfied with crop conditions. Mrs. Frank Kaplan and nephew, Frank Navratil, left Sunday morning for Geneva, Iowa, to be present at the graduation of her niece. Mrs. Kaplan will visit friends and relatives at Omaha before rr turning, while the latter will go to Chicago and New York for a few month’s visit. Bonds were defeated by a large ma jority at the special school election iast Saturday, the principal opposition being against the proposition of build ing any more additions to the present school building. If we are to invest $10,000 let it be at least a beginning of a modern up-to-date structure and not an addition to the present school building. It is an admitted fact that we need more school room and it is up to the board to make some provision for the large and increasing attend ance but it cannot be done by bonding the district for the purpose of erect ing any additions to the present build ing. The Graphic. Badly Sprained Ankle Cured. Three years ago my daughter sprain ed her ankle and had been suffering terribly for two days and nights—had not slept a minute. Mr. Sailings, of Butler Tenn., told us of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm. We went to the store that night and got a bottle of it and bathed her ankle two or three times and she went to sleep and had a good night's rest. The next morning she was much better and in a short time could walk around and had no more trouble with her ankle.—E. M. Brum mit, Hampton, Tenn. 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by Gilligan & Stout. Advertised Letters. The following letters remain uncall ed for In the O’Neill postottice for the week ending June 6, 1908: John O'Neill, Edison Riemensch neider, Henry Miller, W. W. Morrow, Ray Northrop, Mrs. John O’Neill, 2. Postal cards: Miss Alice O’Neill, Ed. A. Pegan, J. J. O’Niell, T. H. Bailey, Mrs. J. S. Gallagher. In calling for the above please say “advertised.” If not called for in fifteen days will be sent to dead letter office. R J. Marsh, Postmaster. OBEYED ORDERS. The Lady Just What to Do When a Fire Started. Mrs. Wilcox had boundless faith in the wisdom and general effectiveness of her husband's advice, and conse quently he had primed her with in structions for any emergency that might arise when he was absent. Among other things, he had repeatedly warned her in case of fire to spread a rug on the blaze and then telephone for the engines. So deeply was this advice Impressed on her subconsciousness that her ac tions the day of the fire in her home were purely automatic. She had bought a uew hat, and, the room being rather poorly lighted, she used the gas jet over her bureau as an aid to studying the new millinery achievement. Suddenly as she was lift ing the lace creation off her head it slipped and fell directly upon the blaz ing gas jet. The expected happened. The hat was soon burning fiercely, still on the top of the gas pipe. Mrs. Wilcox, mindful of Jack’s ad vice, grabbed a valuable Persian rug on the floor and, spreading it carefully over the lighted gas Jet and flaming hat, rushed out to the telephone. At the doorway she collided with her maid, Estelle, who, hearing the rapid movements in the room, was coming to learn the cause. Running over to the bureau, the girl turned out the gas and, throwing the rug on the floor, stamped out the flames, which had burned a hole through the valuable tapestry. “Why, Mrs. Wilcox,” she cried, “why didn’t you turn out the gas?" “Turn out the gas?” answered her mistress. “Well, aren’t you bright! 1 never thought of that. Jack has aP ways told me to put a rug on a fire.”— Youth’s Companion. THE CRITIC’S SHRUG. A Story of an Old Persian Poet and an Aspiring Shah. "To be fair,” said a noted dramatic critic, “is sometimes hard and cruel, and sometimes it is rash. You know there are reprisals. The unswerving fair critic often takes up his pen with the shrug of Omar, the old Persian poet “You have heard of Omar’s shrug? No? Well, it was eloquent. The shah once had sent for the old poet. “ ‘Omar,’ he said, ‘I have written some verses. Listen, and I will read them to you.’ “And he read the verses agd in the ensuing silence looked at Omar anx iously. ‘Well?’ he said. “ ‘Heaven born,’ said Omar gently, ‘each to his own calling. Scepter in hand, you are most wise, just and powerful, but pen in hand’— Omar shook his head and chuckled. ‘Heaven bom,’ said he, ‘such verses would dis grace a nine-year-old schoolboy.’ “His eyes flashing with wrath, the shah shouted to his guards: “ ‘To the stables with this old fool, and let him be soundly flogged!’ “Yet the shah, for all, respected Omar’s judgment, and when, a week later, another idea for a poem- came to his mind and was feverishly executed he sent for the fearless and fair critic again. “ ‘Another poem, Omar, a better one. I’m sure you’ll think it is a bet ter one,’ he said wistfully. And he be gan to read the second poem to the old man. "But in the middle of the reading Omar turned and started for the door. “ ‘Where are you going?’ said the shah in amazement. “Omar looked back and shrugged his shoulders. “ ‘To the stables,’ he answered, ‘for another flogging.’ ” — Denver Repub lican. Smalt Tacks. How Is this for a stunt? The center of the tack industry used to be Brorns grove, a town in Worcestershire, Eng land, where all work was done by hand. It was a common feat for ex perts to forge 1,000 to 1,200 tacks so small as to fill the barrel of an ordi nary goose quill, their weight being only about twenty grains.—New York Press. A Glittering Bargain. “Yes,” said the prospective investor to the Blllvllle real estate man. "your terms at $2 an acre are very reasona ble. Is there any gold in the land?” The agent looked around as if to as sure himself that no one was listening; then he leaned over and whispered: “It’s mostly gold!”—Atlanta Constitu tion. For Sale—160 acres in section 32 township 26 range 12, near Chambers, Holt county, Nebr. Title perfect. Address, Frank Van Antwerpt, Spar land, 111. 49-5 B 444444444444 Emulsion on thin, o 4 D*y, active, happy. s LI, Hypophosphites a , blood and bone, t is easily digested , AND $1.00, 444444444 How Both Sides of the Line Are Watched and Guarded. UNCLE SAM’S BRAVE RIDERS. .The Work That I* Performed by Theto Well Mounted, Well Armed and Cour> ageous Patrols—The Mexican Ruralea and Their Methods. If business or recreation should take you down to that long line which forms the boundary between the United States and Mexico, you may by chance meet a well mounted rider, armed with rifle and pistols, pacing observantly along some bypath or canyon. He is one of the United States boundary riders ap pointed by the treasury department to patrol the border on the lookout for smugglers, cattle runners and other persons whose presence on the Amer ican side is generally undesirable. For this position the man selected must possess courage, judgment and no little physical endurance, for his duties may call him forth at all hours and seasons, and he may be iesponsi ble for a stretch of border land many miles in length. For example, between San Diego, on the Pacific coast of California, and Yuma, in Arizona, there is but one boundary rider to patrol a line of over 150 miles, and this is in part over a sparsely settled mountainous region and partly through the waste of the Colorado desert. As opposite him, on the other side of the line, the Mexican government main tains from fifteen to twenty rurales for the same work, it is a good illus tration of the trust reposed in a single American citizen by his government. It is probable there is no other man in the United States whom it would be harder to find at a given moment than the Soundary rider of the San Diego-Yuma district. He may be down on the Colorado desert, watching near some water % holes for a venturesome band of cattle runners, or in some canyon of the moun tains on fhe lookout for a wagon load of prohibited immigrant Chinamen; but, wherever he is, one may be fairly sure it is not where the transgressor of the customs laws expect him to be. That he must possess both judgment and courage the following incident, which took place during the career of the former boundary rider in this dis trict, will aptly illustrate: For some time a band of cattle run ners had been working successfully back and forth over the line in spite of the boundary rider’s vigilance. They seemed to be able to divine his move ments, so that while he was watching ft trail through the mountains they were rushing a bunch of cattle over the desert. But at last he managed to surprise the band and, rifle in hand, drove two of them into Campo. Then, however, arose the question as to the method of taking them down to the coast. He hired a double seated vehicle, the only one in the place. But at once another question pre sented itself. How was he to seat his prisoner's, for either they must be placed together on the front or the back seat or separated, both seemingly a hazardous choice? He finally decided to separate them, and so, with one on the front seat with him and the other behind, he started for the coast. The two cattle runners managed to communicate with each other by signs and at a rough part of the road made the boundary rider, In turn, their prisoner. Needless to say, they then made the best of their opportunity to escape oyer the border, but as they fell Into the hands of the unsympathetic rurales they would have been better off If they had submitted to the law of their own country. This brings one of the somewhat dif ferent methods pursued by the Mexi can government In guarding their side of the border. Prom a cursory Inspec tion of the line one might suppose that the Mexican side Is not guarded at all. You may cross the line ten times at , different places and never set eyes on a rurale, but It is well known that you have done so nevertheless, and on the eleventh excursion you are likely to find yourself surrounded by a pictur esque group, who will carry you off to Jail if your explanation is not satis factory. As a rule, the rurales patrol back „ and forth in detachments at a distance of from ten to fifteen miles from the actual border. Many a headlong dash for the American side has been made by perfectly law abiding citizens, with the rurales at their heels, because they have been heedless in obtaining a per mission to cross the border. True, an American citizen may cress the border at will,’ as far as he himself is concerned, but as he Is almost cer tain to carry some article liable to duty It Is upon that charge that he may oe arrested.—Michael White In Youth's Companion. Rural Claims, Through the Influence of the dal:y press cities and their needs have come to absorb such an amount of daily attention that, the Importance of the country and its Inhabitants to the wel fare of the nation is largely overlook ed; hence the call to do everything that can be done to enlarge, to refine, to purify and to strengthen the life of our country people. And one means to this end which has not hitherto been used as much as it might have been is the cultivation in the school and in the home of the habit of read ing good books.—Bishop of Hereford In Nineteenth Century.