The Frontier
Published by D. H. CRONIN.
KOMAINE SAUNDERS. Assistant Hdltor
and Manager.
II 50 the Year 75 Ceuta Six Months
Official paper of O’Neill and Holt county.
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The esteemed Atkinson Graphic
must have had an eye single to the
glory of republicans when it made up
its democratic slate of county officers,
It is rumored that Chairman Hick
man of the county board is casting
longing eyes at the office of county
clerk and may enter the list of arpir
ants for that position.
Tha government is having a hard
time to find men for jurors in the
Oklahoma land fraud cases. Most ol
them around Muskogee were in on the
deals in one way and another.
The republican party is the only
party that has showed itself capable
of handling the tariff question during
the past forty years, and it will prob
ably solve the present problems to the
best interests of all.
The Evening News admits that a
"limited amount” of bootlegging is
going on at Lincoln. Well, Lincoln
shouldn’t expect those democratic
officials down there to all get onto the
water wagon at once.
Nat Bradstreet, for many years a
resident of Paddock township, this
county, has announced his candidacy
for the democratic nomination foi
sheriff of Boyd county. He Is at pres
ent the deputy sheriff of that county.
The indications are that there will
be no attempt made to try the con
stitutionality of the recently enacted
non-partisan judiciary law. The
members of the supreme court whose
terms expire this year have petitions
out as non-partisan candidates.
It is to be hoped the Nebraska leg
islature will get through sometime
passing laws affecting the form of the
ballot. Voters no sooner becomi
adapted to the form than along comes
the legislature and passes some lavs
that requires a new form of ballot
It’s about time to let up.
In many counties of the state can
didates for county offices are springiny
up like mushrooms after an Aprl
deluge, but so far would-be officials it
this county are hiding thelraspiration!
under a bushel or are too modest t(
announce themselves. As the primar]
election is about a month earlier that
last year, candidates will soon have t(
come into the open. ,
Ex-Governor Crounse passed awa]
at his home in Omaha last Thursday
Governor Crounse held many position!
of trust in his adopted state, and nc
man retired from the governor’s chaii
more generally beloved and respectec
by the citizens of the state than he
He was a favorite in this city as s
campaign speaker and appeared befor<
an O’Neill audience only last fall
The news of his death brought gen
uine expressions of regret from man:
of our citizens.
Sioux City has started spring “housi
cleaning” and the disturbed element
of social iniquity are bubbling ant
gurgling into a putrid stream tha
threatens to ebb out onto the Missour
and flow over into Nebraska. Thi
people of South Sioux City and Dako
ta county are up in arms and propos
to make it so uncomfortable for th
Iowa scarlets and profligates that the
can not abide there. South Siou
City in particular objects tothereturi
of the old Covington days.
Captain Hains is to serve a term c
not less than eight nor more thai
sixteen years in Sing Sing prison fo
the murder of William Annls. Ii
passing sentense the court tookoc
casion to severely condemn the “ur
written law,” saying: “The view tha
a man can take the law into his owi
hands to right any real or fancie
grievance is abhorant to all thinkin
1 people.” The action of the court an
jury in this case has been commend
able throughout and will Inspire cor
fldence in the integrity of judlcia
tribunals.
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Tariff Legislation and Business.
Washington, D. C.—In spite of I He
fact of a new tariff law is under con
sideration and will not go to the
President for several weeks, and al
though such a situation is generally
accompanied by anxiety in industrial
circles, yet the cheering news comes
from all parts of the country that
there is a most substantial increase
in all lines of activity.
In the first place government re
ceipts from customs duties continue
satisfactory and the large imports of
manufacturers’ material show that
there is no waiting for the new tariff,
as would be the case if duties were
to he very materially lowered. This
shows, too, that the people are pur
chasing on a large and substantial
scale, and that stocks of all kinds
are low. The railroad business is
on tire increase, which Is also reflect
ed by the upward trend of the stock
market. There has been an advance
in the price of steel products, and in
many cases an increase in wages.
Building operations have been at
high water mark all the spring, and
will no doubt continue during the
summer. Bank clearings are near
ing the high ligures of the period
preceding the panic and collections
are reported as good. The crop out
look is excellent, and there is every
prospect of a splendid business revival
following the enactment of the tariff.
All this Is due to the confidence
which the people have in the Repub
lican legislation and tiie administra
tion of President Taft. Every cor
poration, every manufacturer, every
merchant, feels that his business will
not be unjustly interfered with if he
obeys the law, and that no laws will
be asked for or enacted that will
cripple honest business. While the
tariff bill reported by Senator Aldrich
is assailed in certain quarters, it is
believed it will receive almost the
entire Republican vote, and while
some changes will be made in con
ference, yet the bill will go to the
President a thoroughly protective
measure and receive his signature.
The tariff will have been revised on
the lines laid down in the last Repub
lican platform. Some duties will be
lowered, some increased, and many
i left as they are, but all with a view
> to give the American producer the
the protection needed to equal the
difference between the home and
foreign cost of production with a
reasonable profit.
The American market, the best in
the world, is to be protected and its
advantages preserved for the Ameri
can producer. This belief gives con
' fldence to all classes, and that is why
a speedy return to Prosperity is as
sured. This prosperity will continue
if the republican party is continued
1 in power, and that it will be is not
doubted.
President Taft continues to endear
himself to all classes of people. His
, appearance and speech at a recent
i dinner tendered him by the business
men of Washington brought him
nearer to the people of the District of
Columbia than has been the case with
, any previous President. His trips to
, Petersburg, Va., and to Charlotte,
N. C., will increase his popularity in
. the South, and so far there is nothing
but praise from every part of the
Bnnnt.rv
It is doubtful if there will be much
business done in the House till the
I tariff bill is passed by the Senate, and
little new legislation is looked for at
| the extra session. Next winter, how
ever in response to the President’s
reccommendations, much may be at
tempted and some new and far reach
ing laws affecting interstate com
merce and labor enacted If this is
satisfactorily accomplished and the
expected prosperity comes, the next
House elected next year will have a
largely increased Republican major
f ity, insuring Mr. Taft a friendly Con
i gress throughout his term,
r While the Democrats are, as usual,
) making wild predictions that they
- will elect a majority in the next
- House and the next President, still
b they do not believe it, and thousands,
i particularly throughout the South,
1 are about ready to join the party of
5 progress and attainment. Today the
1 Democratic party is divided into so
. many factions that as a party it could
. hardly formulate a platform. True
1 some great public questions or policy
might arise upon whjch it could
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The National prestige of Uneeda Biscuit is
baked in. The moment you take a biscuit
from the package, as soon as you taste it, the II II
reason becomes apparent why so many hun
dred millions of packages of Uneeda Biscuit
have been bought by the American people.
| NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
unite, but nome is in sight. If Mr.
Bryan should :again be nominated, as
he will, no do ubt, try to be, he will
lose more than one Southern State,
and every Western State which he
carried last year. So the young men
as they become first voters join the
Republican party and the free traders
are becoming protectionists.
This condition gives confidence in
business circles and is the basis and
foundation for every optimistic view
looking to the future glory and great
ness, wealth and power of our
country.
Taken Literally.
Waiting some bushes removed from
his garden, a gentlemau Instructed his
gandener to pull them up by the roots.
Some time afterward he went into the
gaixien and found the gardener dig
gin? trenches round the bushes.
‘"Why, George,” he said, "you must
not dig round those small bushes in
that way. I am sure you are strong
enough to pull them up by the roots.”
“Oh, yes, sir,” replied the gardener;
“I’m strong enough, but I must dig a
little before I can get hold of the roots.
If ywu’d told me to pull them up by
the branches I could, of course, easily
hawe removed them without digging.”
—London Strand Magazine.
Bliss.
“Lysander” (sweetly), “doiyou know
What day this Is?”
“Sure! Our anniversary, Margaret,
dear” (pretending to have remembered
It all the time).
“No such thing” (frigidly). “It’s the
day you promised to nail the leg on
that old kitchen table.”
Lysander paled, tried to square him
self on the anniversary blunder, failed
utterly, and the fireworks were on.—
Judge's Library.
The'Talented Millar Family.
“What is the Miller family doing
now?”
“The wife is writing poems that no
body will read, the daughter is paint
ing pictures that nobody will buy, the>
*on Is composing plays that nobody
will put on the stage, andtthe husband.
Is writing checks that uobody will
cash.”—Meggendorfer Blatter.
A Treat.
Sufferer (to lady In front)—Madam.
If you were to remove your hat 1' could
see the play. Lady iu Front (with,
manifestation of surprise)—Yrts, but
you could not then see my new hat.—
London Telegraph.
Vulgarity Is amusing only to the
vulgar, and they are not wortlh.amus
ing.—Chicago Record-Herald. |
HOTEL CELLS.
The Difference Between Therm and
Those of the Jails.
The chief difference between the av
erage hotel cell and the average pris
on cell, viewed from the standpoint of
social psychology, is that one is locked
on the Inside to keep outsiders out,
while the other is locked on the out
side to keep insiders in. The occupant
of the hotel cell Is afraid that some
thing will be done to him or that some
thing will be taken from him by some
one who ought to be in a prison cell.
That is the theory of it.
“Lock your door and leave your val
uables at the otflce,” cautions the oblig
ing innkeeper. "If you had valuables
you wouldn’t be here,” observes the
witty prison keeper. That is to say,
the question of valuables seems to en
ter largely into the matter.
It would be great to have a civiliza
tion which considered valuable only
those things which could not be stolen,
such as mental and moral equipment,
akill and good fellowship. Then we
could be a little more sociable. We
could talk to each other without but
toning our coats or feeling for our dia
mond studs every few minutes. Then
the man who willingly secluded him
self in a stuffy hotel cell could be
locked in and made to stay there on
the ground that something terrible wa l
the matter with him.—Success Maga
zine.
THEATRICAL COSTUMES.
The Man Who Supplies Them Must Bo
Artistic and Well Read.
An extensive library Is an absolute
necessity to tbe theatrical costumer.
At the head of every theatrical cos
tuming establishment there is a man
of education, experience and genuine
artistic ability whose business it is to
know what is needed and how to get
it. If “The Prince of India,” “Ben
Hur” or “The Darling of the Gods”
Is to be produced he must map out the
lines on which the costuming is to be
done, and those lines must be absolute
ly accurate. There is a wide differ
ence between the French costumes of
Napoleon’s time and those worn by
Jeanne d'Are and her friends. The
chief designer must know it and act
on his knowledge. At the time Cus
ter fought his last tight the United
States army—cnvalry and infantry—
was outfitted in a peculiar manner
that has long since passed away. If
the play deals with American army
life of that period the costumes must
show it, for it would never do to have
the critics “roast” the piece because
the producers were ignorant of the
thing produced. The man at the head
of the costuming department must ci
ther be conversant with all countries
and all periods of history or he must
know how to become so with decided
alacrity; hence the costumer’s library.
In a Sunday school class recently
the teacher sought to impress upon the
small boys the virtue of kindly ana
helpful deeds.
“Now,” snld she, “let every boy here
try to do some kindness during the
week and next Sunday report what he
did.”
Next Sunday arrived, and the teach
er proceeded to listen to stories of good
deeds done. Finally she reached the
smallest boy in the class. His age is
nine.
“Well, Willie,” she said, “have you
done any kindness for any one, any
thing really helpful, during the week?”
“Yes’m.”
“What was it?”
“I let another kid copy me ’rithmetic
lesson off me book in school.”
A Billion,
Great Britain clings to its own nu
merical system and regards a billion
as a million times a million. But
America differs, a billion in the United
States being only a thousand millions.
This is perhaps the only instance in
which a thing is bigger in the old
country- than in the new. One has to
go only a little way from England—
to Calais—to find the billion lessened,
for France dignifies a thousand mil
lions with the name of billion. They
are wasting a word in France in this
connection, however, inasmuch as
there is already a word, milliard, to
designate this number.—Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Caterpillars.
The green and yellow tints so fre
quently to be found In caterpillars are
stated to be due to coloring matter de
rived from their food and passed
through the blood of the spinners. By
Impregnating leaves with artificial col
ors the experimenters caused some
species of caterpillars to produce silk
of bright orange yellow and line rose
hues. By the aid of the spectroscope
the presence and nature of colored pig
ments in the blood of the little crea
tures were established.—London Tat
ler.
A Postscript.
Willie, aged five, had delivered a
message from his mother to a lady,
but did not seem in a hurry to go.
Being asked if there was anything else
his mother had bidden him say, he
replied, “No, ma’am; only she said I
wasn’t to ask you for any cake, but if
you gave me any I was to take it and
thank you." He got the cake.
Information.
“Where do all you Americans live?"
inquired the European.
“About 4,000,000 of us live in New
York," answered the caustic American,
“and the rest of us live in caves.”—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Always there is a black spot in our
sunshine. It is the shadow of our
V —Ca r 1 vl A
A BOWLDER BRIDGE.
Probably Placed In Position by an An
cient Cloudburst.
One of the most remarkable freaks
of wind and erosion known in the
west is to be found in one of the small
er side canyons of the Grand Canyon
of the Colorado river in Arizona.
In a narrow gorge, carved through
centuries of flow of water and wind jr
driven sand down the little valley,
there lies a huge bowlder as big as the
average house moving van seen on a
city street. It is held up solely by
friction on the sides of the gorge and
is entirely free from any solid connec
tion with the sides of the sandstone
walls.
From the sandy bed of the littlo
gorge to the rock is fully seventy-five
feet. The Indians who once roamed
over the Grand canyon country have,
of course, legends to account for tint
location of the big round rock, but as
a matter of fact it is believed to have
rolled off the slope of a rocky and pre
cipitous mountain about five miles
distant from the canyon and to have
been picked up in the path of some
cloudburst years ago and rolled to its
present resting place.
The stone hangs only by a small
projection on each side, but it is so
solid that it forms a convenient foot
bridge across the gorge over which the
pedestrian may take his way.—Kansas
City Journal.
WATERPROOF FABRICS.
There Are Several Methods by Which
They Are Treated.
Fabrics are waterproofed by impreg
nating them with metallic salts, by
coating them with oil, grease and wax,
by coating them with India rubber or
by treating them with ammoniacal so
lutions of copper. The first process is
applied to sailcloth. The canvas is
Impregnated with alum or calcium
acetate and then immersed in a fixing
bath containing soap, which forms in
soluble lime or alumina soap in the
cloth.
The second process is used for ruin,
coats, imitation leather, etc. The fab
ric passes between hot rollers and
then over a cylinder of wax, etc.
In the third process a solution of
India rubber in carbon disulphide,
chloroform or other solvent is applied.
This process is used for mackintoshes
and bathing caps and is applied to
thread.
In the fourth process, employed in
the manufacture of bookbindings and
Willesden canvas, cotton cloth is run
through a solution of oxide of copper
in ammonia, which dissolves the super
ficial layer and on evaporation leaves
it in the form of a uniform coating of
cellulose. The process is completed by
passing the cloth between rollers.
I here are still other processes, but
these are the most important.—Scien