The Frontier
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ROMAINE SAUNDKKS. Assistant Editor
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REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES
JUDGES SUl’REME COURT
John B. liarnes.Norfolk
Jacob L. Fawcett.Omaha
Samuel II. Sedgwick.York
UNIVERSITY REGENTS.
CharlesS. Allen (long term)..Lincoln
W. G. Whitmore (long term)... Valley
Frank L. Haller (short term) Omaha
COUNTY TICKET
Treasurer—J C. Harnlsh.O’Neill
Clerk — W. P. Simar.Atkinson
Sheriff—H. D. Grady.O’Neill
Judge — C. J. Malone.Inman
Supt.—Florence E. /Ink.Stuart
Coroner—Dr. E. T. Wilson — O’Neill
Surveyor—M. F. Norton.Bliss
8UPRKVI8GR8
2ddist—J. M. Hunter..Middle Branch
4thdist—Th D. Severs.Ewing
(ithdist—F. Dobrovoloney.Tonawanda
Another million dollar rain arrived
In time to make the ears of corn round
and plump.
This is a republican year. But there
are a few democrats who need a good
tannin’ and they’re going to get it.
Our friend Hickman was not in It
very strong at the home of the demo
cratic tosses. The machine has a way
of getting objectionable candidates
out of the way.
The local bunch of fuslonlsts were
pretty solidly against the Atkinson
man for clerk. The O’Neill democrats
have a notable propensity for wanting
It all and they would have had It this
time If there was one among them
competent for county superintendent.
They are making a pretty spectacle
of It at Pittsburg. The striking steel
workers and state troops have already
shed enough blood to write It down a
civil war. People In farming com
munities have their troubles over the
hired help problem, but they do not
go to war about It.
Mayor Dahlman of Omaha is Betting
his stakes to run for governor next
year as a whiskey democrat. He Is
doing a little advance work In the
way of Chautauqua debating of the
prohibition question, being avowedly
and Insistently opposed to furthei
restrictions of the liquor trade. He
Is not without a substantial following
and his nomination next year would
be no surprise. One thing about the
Omaha mayor that is admirable is hie
absolute candor. People are not left
In the dark as to "where he is at.”
The primary method of nominating
candidates has never been very warm
ly commended since It was first tried
in this state. This year open condem
nation of the system has developed.
In this oounty about one-sixth of the
voters showed an Interest in the nom
inations by attending the primaries.
The election will cost the oounty
about 11,400. The objection to the
primary system Is the cost. It is
argued that the little Interest In the
nominations is not worth the price.
However, this is not the fault of the
system but of the voters. It has some
commendable features. There were
eight republican candidates this year
for the three supreme Judge nomin
ations. The primary was a good way
to settle It.
Frank Harrison, having driven sa
loons out of Lincoln, is turning his
attention now to hunting up a “lead
er” for Nebraska republicans. Har
rison has to be doing something sen
sational or lie’s not happy. Nebraska
republicans are getting along pretty
well and there is no indications that
the party is going over to “the inter
ests that have combined to choke the
life out of the country,” whatever
friend Harrison means by that. Ne
braska republicans gave the state a
reduction in railroad and express
rates, gives protection against food
adulteration, compelled monopoly
tax shirkers to come in with taxes
and their last state convention ap
proved the stand taken by the pres
ident that tariff revision meant a
reduction. There are a lot of fellows
posing as republicans who ought to
join the democratic ranks and be
done with it.__
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Ready (or Another Campaign.
Holt county republicans have the
singular good fortune to have a ticket
made up for the fall election that has
no weak spots. All of the candidates
are popular with the voters. With
the exception of Henry Grady, the
nominee for sheriff, the ticket is made
up of those now serving as county
officials and their renomination is the
result of the request of the party that
they again become candidates. Their
services to the county have been in
everyway satisfactory to the people,
who want a continuance of the pres
ent business-like and economical ad
ministration.
Mr. Grady Is a new man on the tick
et and new in politics in the sense of
running for office. He Is a young man
of good ability and exempliary char
acter, a credit to any party and has
many friends in all parties who will
support him. He was born and reared
in Holt county and his interests are
here. It will be a surprising thing
when a republican can run for office
in this county and not encounter the
bitter infective and slander of the op
position, but nobody has ever heard
anything against Henry Grady and it
will be difficult for the fusion organ
to trump up stories to his discredit.
Messrs. Harnish, Slmar and Malone
and Miss Zink are well known
throughout the county for efficient
work In their respective offices and
will be re-elected by Increased major
ities.
J. M. Hunter, one of the old settlers
in the northeast part of tire county
and a substantial and highly esteemed
citizen of wide acquaintence, is a
candidate for supervisor in the Se
cond district, Th D. Severs, nomin
ated by both republicans and demo
coats, Is a candidate in the Fourth
district, and F. Dobrovolney, one ol
the progressive citizens of Swan pre
cinct, goes before the voters as a can
dldate for supervisor in the Sixth
district.
uepuuiiuauH ntanu on uieir record o
the past four years in this county, anc
are ready to meet tbe issue. It hai
been a dean administration of all th<
otllces and a square deal for th<
people.
A Good Layout.
One of The Frontier’s Iowa readeri
who visits this county occasional!]
thinks that we ought to devote more
space to telling of crop and weathei
conditions and the development of tin
country.
Doc Mathews acquired a reputatlor
as a boomer In the plODeer days thal
noone since has undertaken to dupll
oate. Yet Doc’s vivid and alluring
pictures of "God’s country” would b<
much more applicable to the country
now than they were in those uncertair
times.
Holt county is certainly on the map,
There is perhaps no country but what
has Its drawbacks, but as few of them
will be found here as any place. The
land boomer will paint pictures that
a newspaper man dare not venture.
It is the province of the newspaper
to give a conservative estimate ol
actual conditions. The season just
closing is one of the best In the his
tory of the county. There has been
rain every time it was needed. A
heavy small grain crop was harvested
and If frost comes no earlier than
common the corn crop will be the
biggest in the country’s history. Cat
tle are fat and plump. There is an
ocean of hay and pasture. High prices
are the rule and agriculturalists and
stockgrowers are becoming wealthy.
Even in the incidentals like eggs,
butter and cream there are large
profits. Any butter maker could get
25 cents a pound for all they could
produce all summer; eggs have sold
from 18 cents to a quarter, and cream
brings from 20 oents to 23 cents.
Considering the price of lands, there
is probably no greater profits to be
made in agriculture anywhere than in
this seotion of Nebraska. We are
producing as much per acre this year
as they are in tire older settled
counties east of us and getting prac
tically the same price for it. They
are farming $100-an-acre land and we
830 to 840 land. Land values, while
still low, are advancing. The country
offers a cheap place to the home build
er and a safe investment to the capi
talist. With an ever increasing de
mand for land throughout the country,
soil that will produce a crop or grow
If you wish a hig!.- less airy
dressing, we arc su c ./ r' ;tj
Hair Vigor, new imr .o' c or-^
muia, will greedy .!e; e ou.jt
It keeps the ha'/ i .ft jr.JJ
smooth, makes it look lie., and!
luxuriant, prev* ms splitting ut
the tads. And it he:;’", die.
| scalp free from dandroif.
■ Dvts nnt change t’c color ' f 1 ■ l v.r.
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Formula w. a ... h ol if
* m a. b~uw 11 • ■ yarn
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At the s -ms tine the new Ayer's i i;
Vigor i - strong hair tonic, promot1
the gro'J i of the hair, keeping all tin
tisoue .. :lte hair and scalp in a health'
condition. The hair stops falling, dan
'r-. r disappears. A splendid dressing.
-he J. U. Ayer Co.. Lowoll. L-a»e.—
grass for a steer that can be had at a
range of prices of from #7 to $40 per
acre will not go lower.
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Cannonism Still an Issue.
Speaker Cannon has encountered
some pretty severe opposition during
his political career, but for half a
century he has kept up a victorious
fight, rewarding his friends and pun
ishing his enimies The last speaker
ship fight increased the bitterness.
Cannon took occasion to punish those
who opposed him by not reappointing
them when it came to naming the
house committees. Among these was
Congressman Fowler of New Jersey,
formerly chairman of the banking
and finance committee. Fowler re
sents his removal from the committee
and fires some pretty hot shot at
“Uncle Joe” in a letter addressed to
the speaker. He says:
“Do you suppose that I was not
aware of your ignorance, prejudice,
inordinate conceit, favoritism, putrid
preferences and aU like characters
possessing absolute powers, the malice
which is the mainspring of your every
action under such circumstances?”
It is evident that the insurgents
who fared similar to Fowler will con
tinue their opposition to Cannon. The
next congress may see many changes
in the house that will have a bearing
on Cannon’s standing. The victory
of Cannon in being re-elected speaker
of the present congress doesn’t appear
, to have Increased his popularity and
Cannonism will no doubt be an issue
again in the next congressional cam
paign.
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Publio officials who recognize duty
and perform it have their troubles
also. Clifford Plnchot has for several
years been a target for the plunderers
of the public domain. Dr. Wiley of
Washington, the government food ex
pert, has encountered the fieice oppo
sition of the powerful manufacturing
combines in his warfare against adul
terated foods and these interests are
now conspiring for his removal. Both
l’mchot and Wiley have the courage
of their convictions and have stood
firmly for the peoples’ rights as against
tile greed of monopoly. It is such
men as these that the country needs
in the high places.
Kola Items.
A. J. Mohr, Mrs. Monroe and Mrs.
K. Kline visited at Kola Sunday.
Olin Baker and family of O’Neill
visited with J. Pfund and family last
week.
Jason Barnum is back on his home
stead making hay and otherwise im
proving his home.
During a severe thunder storm last
Saturday evening lightning killed one
of P. J. Kennedy’s big mules.
F. II. Bruner and P. J. Kennedy
took the stage for O’Neill this week
to be witness for C. E Dillon as he
makes final proof on his land.
Miss Grace Pfund went to O’Neill
last Tuesday to take teachers’ ex
amination and while there took in
the old settlers’ picnic north of
O'Neili. _____
Disney Items.
The prevailing winds last Saturday
was something fierce.
Everybody arouad here is going to
the old settlers picnic in Spindler’s
grove.
Marion Whaley, so it is said is
going to move his swing down to
Lincoln to rake in the nickels and
dimes down there.
The game that was played last
Saturday between the Mineolas and
Corn Huskers was rather exciting.
If you want to know the score, ask
Clarence Simonson.
Berger and Hatch brothers have
just finished haying. They averaged
about five stacks a day while they
were at work. They will finish stack
ing small grain the 23rd of August.
The Irish Peelers and the Mineolas
will cross bats on Frosts diamond.
Those two ball teams are good players
and we bespeak a good time for every
one who is fortunate enough to be
there and see the game.
I will proceed to correct an error
that crept into last weeks items. I
made the announcement that Mineola
and Dorsey would cross bats on the
latters grounds, it should have read
the Knoxville boys on the Dorsey
grounds. Ironsides.
R. R. Dickson went to Omaha Sun
day.
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F. E. CLARK, MANAGER R. W. MCGINNIS, PROP.
McGinnis Creamery Go.
For the convenience of all Cream Patrons we have opened a
Cream Station in the building known as the Yantzi Butter and Egg
Store. Mr. Yantzi will be in charge and will weigh and lest your
cream and pay you the cash for it; also pay cash for Poultry. You
will get as much for your cream at the Station as we pay at the
Creamery.
Will keep a supply of fresh butter milk on hand all the time so
anyone wanting butter milk can get $ame at 5 cents per gallon, 01
all you can drink for 5 cents.
Now that we have a station down town and will pay you the
same price there as at the Creamery, we want every cream patron
to give us a trial, for we are doing this for your own good.
Thanking you very truly,
McGinnis Creamery Co.
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BILL! TBE BORE,
He Was Very Different From the
Poet and the Halfback.
By TEMPLE BAILEY.
[Copyrighted, 1909, by Associated Literary
Press.]
There was no denying that Billy was
not deeply Intellectual. He was tall
and blond, with broad shoulders and
a smile that wTas like sunshine on a
gloomy day. But among the girls of
the college these qualities counted for
little, for they worshiped at the shrine
of the poet and of the halfback. The
poet had long hair, and so had the half
back. but otherwise they had nothing
in common except that they both loved
Dulcie Drayton.
Billy loved Dulcie too. But he hadn't
half a chance, for the poet wrote sou
nets to Duleie's eyebrows, and tile half
back let her shine in his reflected foot
ball glory.
Now and then she consented to make
Billy happy. "Yes, X will walk with
you." she told him graciously one Oc
tober day. "only we mustn’t go very
far. for 1 have an engagement with the
halfback."
"All right” said Billy and promptly
forgot his watch.
The halfback was raging when they
finally reached Duleie’s home. “We
have missed the game,” he said. “Of
course if 1 had been playtug I couldn’t
have waited; but, as It is. 1 have hung
around”—
"Billy forgot his watch,” Dulcie apol
ogized. “and we didn't realize how late
It was.”
“1 should think he would bore you to
death," the halfback said when Billy
had left them. “How can you stand
that fellow?”
"lie’s not bad," Dulcie defended. “Of
course he hasn’t such an awful lot of
brains, and he hasn’t done such won
derful things as you have, but he’s got
an awfully good disposition.”
And the halfback, remembering his
own grumbling and growling, said
“Oh. well,” uncomfortably and won
dered if Dulcie was hitting at him.
A few days later the poet took
Dulcie to task about Billy. “You
danced with him four times last
night." he said, “and 1 wanted you to
sit out those last two In the conserva
tory with me. I had a new poem to
read to you. It was about young Oc
tober’s golden eyes, and It Is dedicated
to you.”
"Bead it to me now,” said Dulcie.
“I’d love to hear it.”
“The atmosphere isn’t right,” the
poet fretted, “not here on the campus,
but last night there was a little moon,
and there were red roses on the lat
tice.”
“Billy is an awfully good dancer,”
Dulcie reflected, which, as the poet
generally got tangled up even in a
twostep, was not tactful.
For several days after that, how
ever, the rivalry between the poet and
the halfback was so Intense that Billy
was left completely in the back
ground.
The poet sat up half the night writ
ing verses, and the theme was “love,
love, love.” and he claimed every
spure moment of Dulcio's time to read
them to her.
“He writes about my hair,” she told
Billy, “and calls it ‘soft spun silk
shimmering in the sunshine.’ ”
“I don’t see the use of stringing out
a lot of shimmering sunshine sen
tences when your hair is too beautiful
to be described,” said Billy bluntly.
Dulcie smiled up at him. “After
all. I like the way you put it. Billy,”
she said, "and I’m glad you like the
color of my hair.”
“I love it.” Billy stated, “and 1 love
you. Dulcie.”
"Oh. oh. you mustn't!” Dulcie pro
tested.
"Well, not now, if you don’t want me
to. but I shall tell you again, Dulcie,”
Billy answered.
"And he will.” Dulcie told her most
intimate friend that night. “He will
"sk me over and over again."
“Well, of course you couldn't marry
ntm,” said the intimate friend calmly,
"not such a bore.”
"I am not sure that Billy deserves
that nickname,” said Dulcie. “He
doesn't talk moonshine like the poet
or brag of himself like the halfback,
but he does say some nice, sensible,
good hearted things, and he has a
lovely smile.”
The intimate friend sat up and look
ed at her. “Well, of all things,” she
said; "I believe you are half In love
with him. How you can think of him
when you have the choice of two such
men as the poet and the halfbuck is
more than I cau understand.”
“But are they really in love with
me?” Dulcie demanded.
“They have asked you to marry
them, haven’t they?” Marion asked.
“Yes. But somehow it seems to me
that they are always thinking of them
selves. But Billy thinks of me.”
“Oh,” Marion said softly, “I know'
what you mean. If you married the
poet or the halfback you would have
to worship at their shrines, while Billy
would worship at yours.”
“Yes,” said Dulcie. "that’s it, aud n
man who loves you that way can’t
exactly bore you, can he?”
, “No, he can’t,” said Marlon, “but of
course you can never tell how long
ft will last.”
“Sometimes I have thought I should
like to put them to a test, as ladies did
with the knights of old,” Dulcie medi
tated.
“But what test,” Marion demanded,
“could you have In modern days?”
“In the old times it was a test of
strength and skill,” Dulcie stated, “but
today there is one god, Marlon—money.
You know I have a lot In my own
right And the boys know It nil
them, the poet and the halfback and
Billy. Perhaps that is what makes me
the most popular girl in school—my
money, not just me myself."
“You are a darling,” Marion encour
aged her, “but you know how men
are.”
“Yes, I do,” Dulcie agreed. And they
then and there constructed a plot.
The next night the poet, lingering In
the shadow of the elms, was met by
Marion. When they had talked for a
moment she said, “Isn’t it sad about
Dulcie Drayton.”
“Sad?” the poet echoed.
“Oh, didn’t she tell you?” Marlon
hesitated. “Then I ought not to.”
But tlie poet urged her.
“Well, she has lost all of her money.”
Marion said. “I am her roommate, and
I saw the letter. But please don't
speak of it.”
“Of course not,” said the poet.
But that night he wrote many verses,
and in all of them was a note of re
nunciation. and the next day he gave
them to Dulcie. “They are very sad.”
he explaiued, “but I have come to be
lieve that a genius should not marry.
Only in the sadness of solitude can
talent be developed. I must give you
up, my Dulcie." “
“1 am not your Dulcie.” the girt
started, with a little flame in her
cheeks.
.ISA .. „1. I. t_
Sue did not reproach him. \\ hat
was the use of reproaching such a fee
ble thing as the poet? But when Mar
ion had told the halfback the same
tale and he had without compunction
broken an engagement with Dulcie.
giving as an excuse "I am going to cut
out dances for awhile—and girls." she
allowed herself the luxury of a retort.
“Then you won't miss me when 1 go
away." she said pointedly.
“Go away?” he questioned.
"Yes. You see. I am eighteen tomor
row, and my money will be my own
to use as I please, and I have so many
/Ians”—
"But.” the halfback gasped. "I
thought you had lost your money!"
He stopped, red to the ears.
“So did the poet,” said Dulcie. “Mar
ion told both of you some kind of
tale, and both of you believed it.”
“That wasn’t the reason.” the half
back excused.
Dulcie stopped him sternly. "Yes.
it was. That was why you gave up
girls—that was why you gave up me!"
And she left him abruptly.
"1 am half afraid to have you tell
Billy." she told Marion that night. "If
he should fail me”—
But Billy when he heard the news
came straight to her.
“Marion has told me,” he said sim
ply. “I haven’t much, Dulcie, but I
love you. and I want yoti to marry me
at once if you will."
Dulcie laid her hand on his arm.
“Billy,” she said, “I am uot poor. I
put you and the poet and the half
back to a test, and only you stood it.
You are the knight of the true heart,
and I love you.”
After Billy had kissed her rapturous
ly he asked, “Are you sure I won’t
bore you. Dulcie?"
“If you knew how I hated the poet's
poems and the halfback’s boasting you
wouldn’t ask such a silly question.
Billy,” she replied.
Hospital "Boarders."
“There is a class which gives every
hospital iu the city a whole lot of
trouble, especially in the winter time,”
said a member of the faculty of the
Pennsylvania hospital. “It is made up *
of what we call ‘steady boarders.’
meaning men who have no homes, who
are too lazy to work and who feign
illness in order to secure a comfortable
bed and good food for a week or so
at a time. However, we have devised
a scheme which is quite effective in
driving them away. When one of these
boarders arrives on the scene we can
usually spot him. We know the ear
marks of the species. He is taken into
the receiving ward, solemnly un
dressed and laid upon the operating
table, where a fake examination takes
place. The trouble is finally located in
the spine, and an immediate operation
is advlssd. The patient writhes, pro
testing that he feels much better, but is
-t permitted to leave. Meanwhile a
piece of ice has been sharpened to a
point and suddenly, without warning,
the ice is drawn down the boarder’s
back. With a yell he is off the table,
out of the room and out of the build
ing. We throw his clothes out after
him, and he never comes back.”—Phil
adelphia ltecord.
For Boots or Bedding?
His car had broken down. It was
10 o'clock at night. The rain was be
ginning to drizzle. Dash it, bust it
and likewise blow it!
There was an inn near by. It was
only just an inn, but it was an inn.
The landlord growled when he asked
for a room, but at last conceded It.
They put his motor in the garage
among the ifinngel wurzels.
He didn’t have any supper. He just
looked at it. Then he went up to bed.
A minute later he was leaning over
the balustrade.
“Landlord!” he yelled. “Landlord!
Do you think I’m going to clean mv
ewn boots?”
“Mot’s up?” called back mine surly
host.
"M’hat’s up? M’hy, what’s that boot
polishing pad on my bed for’”
"Pollshln’ pad!” roared back the
landlord. “That’s not a pollshln’ pad.
young feller. That’s the pillow!”—
London Scraps.
Reason Enough.
Teacher-Tommy, you should comb
your hair nefore you come to school.
Tommy—Ain’t got no comb. Teacher
Then borrow your father’s. Tommy
ather ain't got no comb neither.
Teacher-Absurd! Doesn’t he comb
his hair? Tommy-He ain't got no
hair!—Lipplncott’s.
