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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1910)
The Frontier Published by D. H. CRON IP. ROM AIN E 8A UN DERM. Assistant ndltor and Manager. 1160 the Year 75 Dents Six Month* Official puporof O’Neill ami llolt county. ADVERTISING KATKs l)if»p.ay advertlsmeutN on pages t. h and 8 re charged for on a basis of 60 cents an Inch one column width) per month; on page 1 the oharge is il an Inch per month. Local ad vertisements, 6 cents per line each Insertion. Address the office or the pu bllshei. Nobody has started a movement yet for Pinchot for president in 1912. The annual distribution of govern ment seed packages has begun, but that is not necessarily a sign of spring this year. ..-W ... The flying machines might be turn ed to commercial advantage by going after the men "higher up” in the sugar frauds. The esteemed Independent says the court declared the bank guaranty law "unvolid.” Something like that hap pened to most of the late democratic laws. -- “How to keep the railroads open in winter,” Is a subject Mr. Harrington might properly present for discussion before the Government Ownership Club. With a complaint in the hands of the governor demanding Ills removal from otllce, the mayor of Norfolk may now be placed in Jim Dahlman’s class. The state lumbermen’s convention was allowed to adjourn without being confronted by a “trust buster” in the shape of a lawsuit to dissolve the organization. — Tile erstwhile followers of the lion. Art Mullen around O’Neill have at least learned something by that gentleman’s magnificent fizzle in getting them a normal school. The coal barons are probably re sponsible for the reports of coal famines to frighten people Into buying large supplies. Coal Is more plentiful this winter than ever before in O’ Neill. _ ^ The American people will have something to kick about. Along in the nineties the cry went up from ocean to ocean for higher prices. Now a loud protest is heard from all quart ers against the increased cost of living. The Indictment of the secretary of the sugar trust indicates that the good work is still going on. It also throws an interesting side light on the address to the public by the di rectors of the company wherein they voted themselves all honest men. We suppose solutions of all present and future political problems will be supplied in abundance at the meeting of the “progressives” at Lincoln today. To make the list of distin guished vistors complete they should have invited the Hon. Champ Clark. An exchange wonders what a fellow Is to do now to quench his thirst on a railroad train. Drinking cups have been removed from the cars, drinking from a bottle is prohibited by law and the supreme court holds that drinks cannot be served in buffet cars while passing through Nebraska. The Ainsworth Democrat thinks the state normal at Cbadron will be a fine thing for Wyoming and South Dakota teachers. The Democrat is a little “sore" over the outcome of the normal contest. The Star-Journal submits gracefully to the judgment of the board. Senator Brown has a bill before congress to transfer the old Ft. Nio brara military post near Valentine to the state to be converted into a state farm. Conversion of the abandoned symbols of war into agricultural stations is a good idea. There is a greater demand for food than for soldiers. ■ ^ ^ Senator Burkett evidently doe's not like the outlook in this state for his continuation at Washington. There is hostility, chiefly down about Lin coln, which the senator ascribes to the disappointed office seekers. The senator, however, has some friends that are to be reckoned with and the contest for the Burkett seat in the senate is by no means settled yet. WHY? Because Calumet Baking Powder is more certain in its results—the baking is always lighter, more delicious and more evenly raised. You never have a spoiled batch of baking by its use. It requires less — hence goes further. CALUMET BAKING POWDER I IS the “full value" baking powder—the highest quality baking powder at a medium price. And we guarantee that it will give you more real satisfaction than any baking pow der you have ever used—ask your grocer. Free—large handsome recipe Dook, illustrated in colors. Send 4c and slip found in pound can. Calumet Received Highest Award—World’s Pt.ro fs* 1 Exposition The Fremont Tribune notes that vital statistics show the slork was a busy bird in Nebraska last year, it having delivered the goods 23,651 times. In 236 Instances there were two at once and three times triplets were negotiated. The Roosevelt policies seem not to be forgotten out here, though he is far, far from home. The new board of supervisors adopt ed the republican method of giving the widest possible circulation to the publication of the proceedings. All the papers In the county are author ized to publish the proceedings this year, which was the system of the board until the board became dem ocratic and the proceedings were given to one paper President Taft could have expedited matters for himself by removing Ballinger at the same time Plnchot went out, and then re-instate the deserving one. Some pretty strong things have been said about Ballinger and the nubile is alwavs readv to ac cept an evil report. Tile president of course lias private reports that the public is not aw&re of and will no doubt in time justify his course. Mr. Bryan was probably encouraged lo announce his 1912 candidacy thus early by the late unpleasantness at Washington. Democrats generally have endeavored to encourage a “progressive” uprising In liopi of gaining politically thereby, but in coming campaigns, as in those of the past, the republican party, the party with a history of great achievements, will present a solid and united front. Mr. Bryan has thrice tried to break the republican strength and a fourth trial can not but end even more dis asterously to him than the three I Beatrice Express: We have heard lately of people who have suilered nervous break-down from over-work, and others whose nerves have been wrecked from lack of work. Nature favors a sensible middle course. The one who is straining every nerve to accomplish more than discretion sug gests is liable to go to pieces. On the other hand, the idler, weakened by habits of ease and depressed by reali zation of uselessness, Is apt to lapse into a state of nervous collapse. Activity, tempered with good sense and without bordering on frenzy, is the healthy state. One extreme Is about as injurious as the other, and both should be discreetly avoided if one would save his nerves and prolong life. - Champ Clark, the democratic minor ity leader in congress, gives it as his opion that “the present high prices for farm products have come to stay; the rural population is playing out; the present census, if it classes the unincorporated villages as towns, will show sixty per cent of the population as living in towns. At the present rate, in twenty years the United States will cease to be an exporting nation for agricultural products ex cept as to cotton. One of the princi pal causes of the high prices of farm products is the world movement of the people toward the cities and towns. While a few people in towns and cities have gardens and raise chickens and occasionally pigs, practically the entire town and city population are non-producers of anything to eat, but are consumefs only. For the first time, last year Argentine beat us ex porting eorn, and Argentine and Brazil are fighting to take the frozen meat trade from us.” Tile Nebraska Antisaloon League, through its oilicial head, M. S. Poul son of Lincoln, lias replied to charges that the league was backed by Rocke feller money by saying that when Mr. Rockefeller's agent offered to subscribe a substantial sum to the Antisaloon League if they would stop their fight against Cannon and others opposing temperance legislation at Washing ton, the agent was told that Rocke feller did not have money enougli to buy the league off. John D. should have negotiated with Elmer E. Thomas. -- That the Interstate Commerce Commission lias the light under the Hepburn law of regulating the dis tribution of empty cars to different coal mines lias been affirmed by the United States supreme court. The court also declared that the commision was within its powers and functions when it disregarded the injunction of a federal circuit court restraining it from carrying out its order to the railroads concerned. The offending railroads in these cases were the Hocking Valley, the Illinois Central | iuiu iiiv »uu aibuui Representative Hitchcock of Ne braska is the latest contributor to the Ballinger fuss at Washington. Mr. Hitchcock filed charges with the house committee on expenditures in the interior department, alleging im proper use of public funds to pay pri vate traveling expenses of a nephew of the secretary. Mr. Ballinger comes back with a stinging reply in winch he brands the charges as absolutely false. It is now incumbent on Mr. Hitchcock to present his proof, which is not always as easy to do as to make assertions, or admit their error. The following collection of geograph ical peculiarities obout the United States auu places therein embodies certain uuique points well worth re membering. A novel way to demonstrate the size of the state of Texas is to spread out a map of the union aud stretch a string across Texas the longest way. Then, placing one end of the measure at Chi cago, one will iiud that the other end will extend Into either the Atlantic ocean or the gulf of Mexico. The two lurgest counties iu the United States are Custer county, Mont., and San Bernardino county. Cal. Each of these is a little more than 20,000 square miles in extent, and the states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware aud New Jersey could be put inside the boundaries of either of them. The smallest county in the union is Bristol county, R. I., which has only twenty-five square miles. About fifty miles from Durango. Colo., there is a point where four states meet. Here by stepping a few feet in. either direction one enu walk in four different commonwealths in as many seconds. These commonwealths are the states of Colorado and Utah and the territories of New Mexico and Ari zona. A nearly parallel case is at Harpers Perry, where the train stops a few minutes to allow the passengers to alight and enjoy a view which per mits them to look into three states, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. The highest and lowest elevations in this country are in California, within 100 miles of each other. The loftiest is Mount Whitney. 14,499 feet high, and the lowest is Death valley, about 450 feet below the level of the sea. Two Oceans pass. In Yellowstone park, is so named because, whenever there is a shower in the vicinity aud a certain small creek overflows, its waters spread out over the edge of the continental divide and pass into tribu taries of rivers which flow to the At lantic and to the Pacific.—Boston G lobe. THE SILK SPECIAL past Train That Carries the Raw Ma terial Across the Continent. Wliou a fast mail steamer from Yoko hama. Shanghai or Canton, the great silk ports of the orient, docks at \ un couver, Tacoma. Seattle or San Fran cisco a special train stands ready on the pier awaiting her arrival. It is no( the private conveyance of some trans portation king or multimillionaire ot of any of the passengers who throng the decks, nor does it tarry for the sacks of letters from the far east, its coaches do not shine with the reful gence of varnish and plate glass. Their paint is dull, and they are windowless, like express cars. The side doors to ward the ship are open. This special Is the emperor of trains. It is reserved for the costliest of all freight—raw silk. When it starts eastward its lad ing will be worth a fortune—a million and a half, perhaps two millions, ot dollars. A giant locomotive, built for speed, with driving wheels greater in diam eter than the height of a tall man. backs down and is coupled on to the cars, now sealed and locked and ready. With clanging bell and hissing steam the train glides out and. with a burst of speed that seems almost exultant, takes tiie main line rails for the long journey. The silk must be landed in New York in Uve days, liven the United States mails will not travel faster across the continent. Day and night the silk train rushes eastward over mountains and plains, across des erts and through great cities. It nevet stops except to change engines. Then it halts only for a moment. Another giant locomotive, oiled and groomed and fit, is always waiting to take up the race. The silk train is run as a special. 11 a limited loses time and irets in the way the limited has to fret on a sid ing while the silk train roars by in a whirlwind of dust. The silk special runs on no schedule except that of the greatest speed consistent with safety. The chief dispatcher of each division listens watchfully to the news of its progress coming in over the wires from one signal tower and station after another. While the silk train is yet a thousand miles away it is being pre pared for. The capabilities of engi neers and engines are thoughtfully dis cussed by division dispatchers and trainmasters, and the men and ma chines with the highest capacity foi speed are picked. Tracks are cleared and a thousand details arranged so that there shall be no delay in hurl ing this huge projectile across the con tinent.—Harper’s Weekly. Tantalizing Ownership. In a French village a citizen had upon his land a part of an old building containing two very beautiful win dows. He was in debt and embar rassed and eagerly closed with the of fer of a rich archaeologist, who bought them. Thereupon the government in spector, hearing of the bargain, ar rived just in time to stop the masons from dislodging the windows. "You cannot,” he said to the villager, "sell antiquities, my man.” "But, excellen cy, 1 have used the money and paid my creditors.” The villager was in despair, but the official was untouch ed. "That’s all right,” he said. “The money is safe. The windows are uc longer yours. But the buyer can’t move a stone of them. He can, how ever, come with a camp stool and sit down and look at his property as much as he likes.” Sham Wisdom. The Sophists were a body of teach ers iu ancient Athens during the fourth and fifth centuries B. C., who gave instruction In any or all the higher branches of learning. Although they were not a philosophic sect and held no doctrines in common, the Sophists were nevertheless skeptics and maintained a belief of uncer tainty of all particular knowledge and, in fact, in the impossibility of all truth. Their two leading representa tives were Protagoras and Gorgius. The Sophists were charged with bringing reasoning into contempt L.v casting uncertainty over the must obvious truths and in consequence were ridiculed and denounced by Aris tophanes, Socrates and Plato. Aris totle defined a Sophist as "a man who makes money by sham wisdom.” A Remarkable Banquet Party. One of the most notorious Hungarian duelists fought his thirty-fifth duel in 1SS6 and celebrated the event by a ban quet. to which only those who could prove that they had participated in at least six duels were invited. There was a room full of such warriors, some with faces seamed with scars, others minus an ear, an eye or with two or three fingers missing. The most mark ed of all was a Frenchman who had lost his nose in nu encounter with Count Audrassy, the statesman. There was only one relaxation of the rule, and that was made in favor of a lady who had killed her man. Protecting Himself. “Prisoner at the bar,” said the port ly, pompous and florid magistrate, ac cording to the London News, “you are charged with stealing a pig, a very serious offense in this district. There has been a great deal of pig stealing, and I shall make an example of you or none of us will be safe.” Midnight Messages. The hour grew late. “Do you believe in mental telepa thy?” asked the first clubman. “1 do.” answered the second club man. “I know what my wife is think ing right now.”—Washington Herald. Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.—Voltaire | ITOTICEI | Leave us your orders for Deer Cr. Lump and Nut, Buckhorn Nut, Crate and Chestnut Hard Coal. Cars will be here this week. Re member the coal is better and so is the price, when delivered from car. AO.O.SNYDERA PHONE 32 L___ I Off to Summer Climes No need to bear the discomforts of a northern winter. 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