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Phoenix.
Hurrah for Taft, Kinkaid and Otto
Nilson.
Corn husking will soon be a thing of
Hie past, around here.
Pearl Parshall stayed with Miss
Gatewood over Sunday.
Ernest Price began a term of school
at Anncarr last Monday.
Mr. White and little son of Atkin
son were in the neighborhood Sunday.
Q. N. Hendricks of Celia was in
this neighborhood the forepart of the
week.
Ruth and Ralph Coburn stayed
w it h their grandma two or three days
last week.
A sister of Mrs. Obermires from Le
Mars, Iowa, is visiting at Mr. Ober
inire's now.
Mrs Lamphier aud Leonora re
turned from a. pleasant visit at Harry
Cady’s near Bassett.
Bert and Ray Parshall, Jess Ander
son and Bub Keeler are husking corn
in Boyd county at present.
A meeting will be held Saturday
evening Nov. 14, at the Greeley school
house, for the purpoSe of organizing
a literary.
Ernest Price, Henry Kartells, Bert
Anderson, Mrs. Keeler and Mabel, Mrs.
F. Coburn and Ralph spent Sunday
at Friend Keelers.
Howard Wagner who has been at
Waterloo, Iowa, for over a year re
turned to Phoenix last week and is
staying with his brother Ralph at
present.
We are sorry to learn of Mr. Me
Kitlmie’s accident which may cost
him the loss of one eye, but are glad
it is no worse, and not as was thought
at first.
Olive Gaylord who came here from
California, about a year ago, returned
home last week. Mrs. Ray Coburn
accompanied her to Fremont, return
ing the same evening.
The box social given by Anna Torske
at the Greeley school house, Oct. 30th,
was well attended, and a success finan
cially as well as socially. The pro
ceeds amounted to $30, and will be
used for library books.
Mr. and Mrs. Parshall and Floyd
went to Butte, Friday, returning the
next day. While there they consulted
Dr Darrow in regard to Floyd’s sick
ness and be thinks he may be able to
help him. We hope so anyway.
Mrs. Lufborough and the boys'
moved to Atkinson Saturday, where
the children will attend school this
winter. Mr. Luroorough will stay
here this winter and then he ex
pects to move to town. Their many
friends here regret to see them leave
the neighborhood.
Dorsey Doings
Mr. and Mrs. Nick White were in
Lynch Monday.
Hal Rosencrans visited at Binkerd’s
Sunday evening.
Dorsey school began Monday Nov.
9. Mr. Strieker is teaching.
There is to be a dance at Dorsey
Noy. 13. Everybody dance.
Miss Stella Elliott visited with her
sister, Mrs. Wilson, Saturday.
Every one is picking corn now, the
tomato canning season is over.
Mr. Hurley Binkerd was a caller at
the Osborne home last Sunday.
Frank Hayes went to Verdigris
Saturday returning Monday morning.
John While of Fremont is here for
a visit with bis brother Nick White.
Chas Marston was in Osmond last
week. He came home Monday morn
ing.
The choir met at Mrs. F. B. Pine’s
Monday to praotice for the Sunday
after Thanksgiving.
Bert Thomas and his road gang are
at work again this week. Don’t work
them too hard Bert.
Ike Alder is in Lynch this week
under the doctor’s care. Last report
was that he is improving.
j'j. u. uccire/ says me iue was strung
enough to hold him up last Monday
morning. How about that?
Miss Kennedy, the teacher in the
Binkerd district, went home last Fri
day and returned Sunday evening.
The saw-men have returned to Nick
White’s and soon the whistle of the
engine will be heard down in the
woods.
Preparations are being made to
move the church from its present
site to a more suitable location, west
of Dorsey.
Sunday evening was so line that
a large crowd turned out and attended
church. Still we could have a better
attendance.
Elmer Hudson is still picking corn.
We heard him ordering two dozen
pair of husking mitts from Lynch
the other day.
The phone line was busy for a while
Sunday afternoon reporting the pro
gress of a lire that started south of
here. It did not do much damage.
The Widow’s Might.
She—So your friend Singleton has
voluntarily joined the ranks of the
benedicts, has he! He—Not exactly;
he jwas drafted A widow married
him.—Chicago News.
In the face of a man you may me
the secret of his life.—Hearth and
Home.
GROWTH OF CARICATURE.
John Law's Wild Schemes Gave It a
Tremendous Impetus.
Caricature is nowadays one of the
principal methods of criticism. No
movement can overreach the mark
without eliciting dozens of works of
art from caricaturists all over this and
all other countries.
This branch of criticism and attack
dates far back, but the greatest im
pulse it ever felt came from the age
of" tremendous speculation, when, in
1719 and 1730, John Law was manipu
lating things financial in France. Nev
er before had the financial world been
so carried off Its feet as It was at that
time. Members of the nobility were
waiting for a chance to purchase
shares In Law’s schemes. Duchesses
and ladles of high renown tried their
most persuasive charms on Law in the
attempt to get hold of shares. Meu
hired out their backs for writing desks,
so great was the press of business in
making contracts, and one hunchback
is reputed to have made 100,000 francs
In this way In a few weeks. The
French went veritably mad over the
schemes to become wealthy. Natural
ly the papers of the time, especially
those of Holland, caricatured the state
of affairs. There were pictures of all
sorts caricaturing Law, the nobility,
the schemes and everything connected
with them.
It was this tremendous amount of
pictorial work that first directed the
energies of William Hogarth in Lon
don Id this direction. Caricaturing
began to be used more and more in the
political field, and soon afterward it
caused the shelving of Robert Walpole
from the English ministry. Ever since
then has caricaturing been one of the
bitterest and most effectual methods of
checking public men and their
schemes.
Another Knock.
“Hotel clerks are cold hearted,” sigh
ed the shabby tragedian, who was trav
eling with a toothbrush and a com
pass.
“Speaking from experience, pal?”
asked his barnstorming chum.
“Sure! I approached the clerk of the
Red Dog inn and told him actors de
served special terms.”
"Ah. Indeed! And what did he say ?”
“He said yes, they deserved six
month terms In the county work
house.”—Chicago News.
No Fiction.
It was a clerk In a Detroit bookstore
of whom a prim matron demanded a
book for her son. “No Action, please,"
she explained, “but absolute, literal
truth, without unnecessary verbiage or
absurdly fanciful pictures.”
“Well, madam"— The bookseller
paused, his eye running over his
shelves; then, with a Aash of Inspira
tion, he took down a volume. “I
should think this might meet your re
quirements,” he said, and he banded
her a popular geometry.
TALES OF_THE DERBY
Some of the Winners That Were
Not Liked as Youngsters.
BOUGHT FOR A MERE TRIFLE.
Little
Blue Ribbon In 1840, Coet Hie Own
er Only $325—The Successes of Vol
| tigeur and Thormanby.
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Stories of Derby winners having
been sold as youngsters for exceed
ingly small sums are fairly numerous,
and without going too far back Into
the recesses of the past nt least two
Instances can he cited of animals des
tined ultimately to win the "blue rib
bon of the turf’ which ns yearlings
no one thought good enough to buy.
Voltlgeur was oue of these, and the
other was Thormanby, s
Voltlgeur was bred by Robert Ste
phenson in 1847 and as a yearliug was
sent up to be sold nt the Doncaster
sales, a reserve price of $1,750 being
placed on him. Not a man was found
to bid that much for him; consequently
he was withdrawn.
In all probability he would have re
mained unsold had not Williamson, a
relative by marriage of Lord Zetland,
seen him and, baring taken a fancy to
him, finally persuaded his lordship to
buy him.
His Judgment was triumphantly vin
dicated, for not only did Voltigeur win
the Derby and St. Leger, but he suc
ceeded in establishing a line of thor
oughbreds which is at present domi
nant on the English turf and likely to
remain so for some time to come.
Thormanby, too, was sent up to be
disposed at the Doncaster and, like
Voltigeur, did not reach a nominal re
serve. Desirous of getting rid of him,
however, Plummer, his breeder, re
quested his famous trainer, Matt Daw
son, to come and have a thorough look
at him.
This Dawson did and, perceiving nt
a glance good points about him, which
no one else apparently had noticed,
bought him for Merry, his patron.
Strange enough, Dawson gave the
same figure for Thormanby as that
paid for Voltigeur.
As a two-year-old Thormanby ran
fourteen times and out of this number
scored nine wins, and in the Derby of
the following year he beat a field of
thirty. It was said that the race net
ted Merry the nice sum of $200,000.
The cheapest horse that ever won
the Derby was Little Wonder, which
was successful in 1840, for be cost his
owner, Robertson, the meager sum of
only $325.
Spaniel, too, winner of the race in
1831, was picked up for a very small
sum. Lord Egerton, his breeder, letting
him go for $750.
Pyrrlms J., which won in 1846, was
purchased by John Day, the noted
trainer, ns a yearling at Doncnster,
Gully, the pugilist taking a half in
terest in him.
As a two-year-old the horse never
ran, and seemingly his abilities were
then of an unknown quantity, for at
the end of the season Day agreed to
sell his half share in him to Gully for
$500. Day’s chagrin at his subsequent
victory in the Derby was very great.
Teddington, the winner of 1851, was
bred by a blacksmith, who sold him
as a foal, together with his dam, to
Sir Joseph Hawley for $1,250 and a
further $5,000 if he won the Derby.
Sir Joseph and his confederate. Mas
sey Stanhope, to whom the horse real
ly belonged, profited largely over the
success, and the jockey, Marson, who
rode the horse, received $10,000 as a
token of victory, which in those days
was unprecedented.
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Sir James Miller to the front, was an
exceptionally fortunate purchase by
John Porter, the trainer. He bought
the colt out of the Hampton Court lot
of yearlings In 1888 for the very rea
sonable price of $2,720, Sir Robert Dar
dlne taking a half Interest In him.
As a two-year-old he was seen only
once In public, and he won his race
with the greatest ease. The year fol
lowing he won the Esher stakes in a
canter, after which he was sold to
Sir James Miller for $30,000 and a con
tingency of half the stakes If he won
the Derby. It was indeed a profitable
deal for Porter and Sir Robert.
Another Instance of Porter’s shrewd
ness as a horse dealer was his pur
chase of the great horse Isonomy for
the bagatelle figure, comparatively
speaking, of $1,800. The real owner
was Fred Gretton.
Isonomy gave no real promise of his
worth ns a two-year-old, his only vic
tory being a nursery stake in the lat
ter part of the season. As a three
year-old he was not seen in public un
til the Cambridgeshire, which he won
easily by two lengths and incidentally
earned no less than $200,000 in bets
for his owner.
Had he been in the classic races he
would in all probability have cleaned
the board.
As a four-year-old he won the gold
cup at Ascot and the Goodwood and
Brighton cups and crowned these feats
by literally running away with the
Great Ebor handicap, carrying the
crushing weight of 136 pounds.
The following year Isonomy proved
himself a better horse than ever, not
only winning the Ascot gold cup again,
but also the Manchester cup with the
almost Impossible burden, one would
think, of 138 pounds.
It has been calculated that altogeth
er Isonomy won for his owner up
ward of $500,000 in stakes and bets,
which for an $1,800 investment was a
colossal profit.—Brooklyn Eagle.
If you will not take pains, pains will
take you.—Wlmtely.
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of life and enjoyment of life to
thousands: men, women and
children.
When appetite fails, it restores
it. When food is a burden, it
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When you lose flesh, it brings
the plumpness of health.
When work is hard and duty
is heavy, it makes life bright.
It is the thin edge of the wedge;
the thick end is food. But
what is the use of food when
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Scott’s Etnulsion of Cod Liver
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She Has Cured Thousands
GIVEN DP TO DIE
DR. CALDWELL
OF CHICAGO
Practicing Aleopathy, Homeopathy,
Electricity and General Medicine
Will, by request, visit professionally
O’Neill, nonday, Nov. 23
AT HOTEL EVANS
Returning .every three weeks. Consult her
while the opportunity Is at baud.
uk. liALuntLL mints per practice 10 tne
special treatment of the diseases of the Eve.
Ear. Nose. Throat. Lungs. Female Diseases,
Diseases of Children, and all 4 hronlc. Ner
vous and Surgical Diseases of a curable
nature. Early Ci.ntumptlon. Bronchitis,
Bronchial Catarrh, Cliiorilc v.atari'll, Head
ache, Constipation, Stomach and Bowel
Troubles, Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Sciatica,
Bright’s Disease. Kidney Diseases, Diseases
of the Liver and Bladder. Dizziness. Nervous
ness, Indigestion, Obesity. Interuppted Nut
trltion, Slow Growth In Children, and all
wasting Diseases In adults. Deformities, Club
feet, Curvature of the Spine, Diseases of the
Brain, Paralysis, Ep'lepsy. Heart Disease,
Dropsy, Swelling of the Limbs. Stricture,
Open Sores, Pain in the Bones, Granular
Enlargements and all loug standing diseases
properly treated.
Blood and Skin Disease
Pimple#, Blotches. Eruptions, Liver Spots
Falling of the Hair, Bad Complexion. Eczema
Throat Ulcers. Bone Fains, Bladder Troubles,
Weak Back, Burning Urine, Passing Urine
to*> often. The effect of constitutional sick
ness or the taking of to much injurious
medicine receives searching treatment,
prompt relief and a cure for life.
Diseases of Women, Irregular Menstruation
Falling of the Woipb, Bearing Down Pains,
Female Displacements. Lack of Sexual Tone,
Leucorrhea. Sterility or ttarreness, consult
Dr. Caldwell and she will show the cause of
their trouble and the way to become cured.
Cancers, Goiter, Fistula, Piles
and enlarged glands treated with the sub
cutaneous Injection method. absolutely
without pain and without the loss of a drop
of blood. Is one of her discoveries, and is
really the most scientific and certainly sure
cure method of this advanced age. Dr
Caldwell has practiced her profession in
some of the largest hospitals throughout the
country. She has no superior in the treat
ing and diagnosis of diseases, deformities,
etc. She has lately opened an oflh a in
Omaha, Nebraska, where she will spend a
portion of each week treating her many
patients. No incurable cases accepted for
treatment. Consultation, examination and
at’vice, one dollar to those interested.
DR. ORA CALDWELL & CO.
Omaha, Neb. Chicago, 111.
Address all mall to 1)4 Bee Bldg., Omaha
What is more appropriate for a Christ
mas present than an article made from
the best material obtainable, and that
will lessen the work and save money on
the fuel bills. The Great Majestic Is the
undisputed King of all cooking stoves.
You can get them only at BRENNAN’S
: ~ ~~~ i ~ ' " ~—•
Received Hifheit Award
• Warid’a Pare Feed Expoiitira
Chicago, 1907.
Tha Garrote.
The garrotc Is u thing that no man
of nervous temperament should look
at. Once seen it never cun be forgot
ten. Just to think of it months after
ward brings up h choking sensation
which nmkes one long to tear away
his collar and breathe the free air as
deeply as he can. It rests upon a
raised platform, an ordinary straight
backed chair, with thin iron clasps on
the elbows and legs of the chair. These
are for the arms and ankles of the
condemned criminal. At the top of
the back of the chair Is a band of
Iron, one end of which swings out so
as to admit of a neck being inserted.
This band snaps around In place, and
all Is ready. A twirl of a crank In
back and as the band crushes the neck
back a pin pierces the medulla ob
longata.—New York Sun.
A. E. Twitcheil will open up a res
taurant in the old Gatz meat market
and expects to have it In operation by
next Monday.
Estray—Taken up at my place four
miles north of O’Neill on or about
Oct 1, 1908, two brown calves, age
about four months. One white face
and the other with a white star on
forehead. Owner can have same by
paying expenses.
New Bakery
Opens Monday
November 9th.
with a full line of home made bread,
pies, cakes and all bakery products
Orders for special bakings especially
solicited and should be placed a day
in advance. Bakery £ block east
Fidelity Bank, in Horiskey building
^CORA POTTER. Ng
♦^•The Cash-4*
Meat market
FULL LINE OF
Cured and Fresh Meats
FRESH FISH E VER Y FRIDA Y
W. F. Giklisji, :: Proprietoi
FRED L. BARCLAY
8TUART, NEB.
Makes Long or Short Time Loans on Improvei
Farms and Ranches
If you are in need of a loan drop hin
a line and he will call and see you.
WINTER
Journeys
Winter Tourist
Rates
Daily low excursion rates after
November 20th to Southern and
Cuban resorts. Daily now in
effect to Southern California.
Lower yet, liomeseekers’ excur
sion rates, first and third Tues
days, to the South and Southwest.
Corn Show, Omaha
December ft to 19. Visit this in
teresting exposition of- the best
corn products ana their use. At
tractive program with moving
pictures, electrical illumination,
sensational prizes for the best
exhibits. Consult the agent or
local papers.
Secure an Irrigated
Farm
We conduct you on the first and
third Tuesdays of each month to
the BIG HORN BASIN AND
YELLOWSTONE VALLEY, as
slsting you in taking up govern
ment Irrigated lands with a never
failing water supply under govern
ment irrigation plants. Only one
tenth payment down. No charge
for services.
Write D. Clem Deaver, General
Agent, Land Seekers’Information
Bureau. Omaha, or
J. F. Jordan, Ticket Agent, O’Neill
L. W. Wakeley, G.P.A, Omaha, Neb
J. H. Davison
Successor to A. E. McKeen
Anew and enlarged
stock of all kinds of
HarnessjSoods
I have bought the harness business
of A. E. McKeen in O’Neill and will
add a large quantity of goods to the
stock, making a complete and up to
date stock in every particular. Repair
work promptly done. Come and see
me. 17-tf J. H. Davison.
R. R. DICKSON
dn Lawysp
reference: FIUNT NATIONAL rank, «' Ml VI
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Title Abstractors
Office in First National Bank Bldg
, DR. P. J. FLYNN
Physician and Surgeon
Night Calls will be Promptly Attended
Office: First door to right over Plxley a
Hanley’s drug store. Resident* phone M
