The Frontier
Published by D. H. CRONIN.
ROMAINE SAUNDERS. Assistant Editor
and Manager.
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Official paper of O'Neill and Molt county.
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The boycott has had little if any
desired effect on the price of meat. \
Prices were lowered a t rille for a few j
days and shipments dropped off, so
that prices naturally seek the former
level again. Many beef dealers also '
are turning their products toward
European ports. If the boycott Is
maintained any considerable length
of time the live stock industry will be
the tirst to suffer and will be felt
most In the western states.
Notwithstanding the word of the
packing house magnates to the con
trary, It is pretty generally believed
that the price of meat is dictated by
them. Not only do they fix the price
at which the retailer must sell the
meat but also compel the retailers In
the cities where the packing compan-1
ies maintain packing houses to buy
what meat is sold over the block of
them. If a retailer undertakes to do
his own butchering the packing house
magnates will put in a meat market
along side of him and put him out of
uusiness by selling below cost. Of
course, in the country and smaller
towns they can’t do this, but in the
larger centers of population the con
sumer is at the mercy of the meat
packers.
Kearney Hub: A. W. Ladd, editor
of the Albion News, has been one of
the most “orthodox” of the republi
can progressives in the state. He has
always been outspoken for good men
and right measures, and he has not
hesitated to criticise when matters
within the party were not being run
as he thought they should be. Hence
his estimate of the Lincoln “insurg
ent” contingent is of Interest. He
says: “There is danger that they will
take such radical action as to do more
harm than good. In the attitude of
progressive republicans they should
be satlstied to progress and to carry
with them those republicans who are
reading and thinking and who desire
to throw their influence ipto the pro
gressive movement. They should
bear in mind that this is a movement
to strengthen the republican party
and not for encouraging enemies to
knife it.” All of which is well said
and good enough for every republican
j to keep in mind.
Lincoln News: Former Inspector
Allen writes the papers toj correct the
impression that he had taken tips
from the Standard Oil company in the
shape of 15 a month for copies of the
records. Mr. Allen says that while
he was Inspector he considered it be
neath the dignity of the state to
place In the hands of the Standard
OH Company, or any other company,
detailed data and information petaln
talning to its competitors which
would enable it to better meet and
stifle competition. Inspector Mullen,
who belongs to a political party that
makes a specialty of feeling wicked
toward the trusts, openly reports that
lie has been furnishing the Standard
Oil company, for a fee of $5 paid
to the state, information com
piled from the records in his office
showing what companies sent oil into
the state, the amount shipped by
each company and the towns where it
was inspected. Only a n:w years ago,
it will be recalled, a great deal of in
dignation was voiced because of tiie
discovery that certain railroad clerks
were furnishing this information to
the Standard, by means of which it
was enabled to concentrate its powers
and crush nut competition. Now it
seems the state lias been doing the
spy big. 11 ought I o ire slopped.
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An Ord editor handed the following
to a business man of his lownina
recent, issue of his publication, and
we are sorry to say there are some of
the same kind of business men in
O’Neill; “During Die twelve years
that the Journal ediior has lived at
Ord he has never purchased goods to
the value of a nickie from a catalogue
iiouse, nor has his wife ever been a
member of a Larkin soap club. The
Journal has preached patronizing of
home industries and its people have
acted upon its preachmenis It was
something of a shock to go into the
business place of a man in town a few
days ago and see him using stationery
that was printed two thousaud miles
from here. It is not a common
practice, thank fortune, among our
tradespeople to send away for their
printing and we have no complaints
to make on general principles. But
using stationery that is printed in
Boston, New York, Chicago or
Omaha is not making for a better or
bigger Ord any more than it helps the
community for people to purchase
their groceries, hardware and harness
from Sears, Roebuck or Montgomery
Ward & Co.”
Besides passing a resolution to the
effect that the medical profession
hereabouts shall suspend ministers
from the free list for attendance on
themselves and families, the doctors
of the Elkhorn Valley Medical associa
tion told stories at their meeting at
Norfolk last week. One of them was
as follows and it will particularly in
terest the farmers. It is this way:
A new kind of skin graft it was, a
sort of a non-medical story with a
medical title. A well dressed man in
a stylish rig drove along the road by
the front gate of a wealthy and
avaricious farmer down the Elkhorn,
stopped, got out of his rig and began
to seek for something along the road.
Presently he tied his horse to the
post and announced that lie had just
dropped the diamond from his ring
and that it had cost him #500. He
wanted the children to help him seek
for it, and offered $10 to the lucky
one. All went out and searched foi
several hours. Then they had dinnei
and the stranger gave the children
fifty cents each and they went back
and looked again. The day wore on
and the stranger left with a promise
of a large reward for the return of his
diamond. Several days afterwards a
ragged peddler came afoot to the fame
house and, after trying to sell his
wares, showed the bright stone he
had picked up in the road. The
farmer offered a small sum for it, but
the crafty peddler said it might be a
diamond and he was going to keep it,
The farmer finally gave #175 to gel
the stone. When lie took it next day
to a jewelry store he learned that il
was worth ten cents. *>,
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W. J. Taylor of Custer county has
announced his candidacy for the dem
ocratic nomination for congress from
this district.
By the time congress gets through
with all of the ’‘investigations” there
will be little chance for legislation
during the present session.
The 9tate railway commissioners
should take a trip over the Burlington
from Sioux City to O’Neill and go
straight to Lincoln and get busy.
Lincoln Star: Nobody knows where
Moses was when the light went out,
but with Glavis at the switch we’re
likely to find out where Moses Is when
the light comes on.
The Alaskan territorial delegate
wants congress to withdraw from
entry 15,000 acres of the best coal
lands in Alaska. If Uncle Sam is
going ^to concerve this would be a
good way to do it.
It is rumored that State Oil In
spector Mullen has a congressional
bee buzzing in his “bonnet” and that
he Is seriously considering the advisa
bility of being a candidate for the
democratic nomination from the big
Sixth.
Lincoln newspapers are still having
the nightmare for fear some' sprightly
town around close to the center of the
state will some day walk off with the
capitol. The southwest Platte coun
try is the only part of the state inter
ested in such a movement. None of
the aspirants for the capital are any
better located than Lincoln for three
fourths of,the state.
The Omaha World-Herald takes up
and defends the evil doctrine of no
United States senate, to which the
grand stand politicians and reformers
for revenue refer as the “house of
lords.” The honorable publisher of
the World-Herald would have no
objection, however, to being made a
member of this same "house of lords”
by the people of Nebraska.
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The name of Congressman Klnkaid
was biought into the Balllnger-Glavis
Alaska land investigation last week.
Mr. Glavis, who was investigating the
Alaska coal land claims on behalf of
the government, testified that Con
gressman Kinkaid owned an Alaska
coal claim of 1160 acres and that Mr.
Ballinger had acted as his attorney in
the transaction. No wonder Moses
voted "present” on the appointment
of an investigation committee, he
evidently did not desire an investi
gation.
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SPARED BY THE ENEMY.
A Dramatic Incident In the Career of
General de Gallifet.
It was on that fatal day. Sept. 1.
1S70. that General de Gallifet distin
guished himself by commanding the
cavalry charges intended to clear the
elevation at Illy, with the view of
opening a passage toward Floing,
where it was hoped the army might re
treat. The first charge overthrew the
Eighty-third regiment of the Prussians
and penetrated among the German
troops, but the latter formed again
rapidly after the retirement of the
French cavalry.
General Ducrot then asked if they
could renew the charge with what re
mained of the light cavalry and hus
sars, and then Gallifet answered in
the words that have become historic.
“As often as you wish, general, as
long as a man remains!” The second
charge was not so successful as the
first. Only a few men, with their gen
oral at their head, succeeded in pene
trating the first ranks of the enemy.
It Is known that the king of Prussia,
who was watching the battle from the
top of the hill of Marfee. exclaimed
with admiration, "Oh, les braves gens!"
Just at this moment an astonishing
event occurred in the midst of the bat
tle. As Gallifet was returning with
a few survivors, their horses for the
most part wounded or foundered, he
passed before the Nassau regiment.
The Prussian officers ordered their
men to cease fire and even struck up
some of their guns. The French sa
luted and shouted, “Vive l’empereur!”
and the German officers acknowledged
the salute, some of them applauding.—
Westminster Gazette.
SCIENTIFIC FEEDING.
Health as a Primary Factor In Intelli•
gent Living.
Health and success are so largely
•dependent upon balance, upon sym
metry of development, physical and
mental harmony, that we should do
everything possible to secure that
physical poise w'hieh also means men
tal and moral poise. A large part of
our ills come from one sided develop
ment, caused by overstimulating some
tissue cells and starving others—over
feeding and underfeeding. Scientific
feeding, therefore, is of vast impor
tance.
Overeating and improper eating are
among the curses of the world. Think
of the people who put all sorts of in
compatibles into their stomachs at the
same time and then use nil sorts of
nostrums to get rid of their bad ef
fects.
One of the most pathetic sights in
the world is that of a human being
struggling hard to carry out his am
bition, yet handicapping himself by
his ignorance of physical laws.
What a pathetic figure Carlyle cut
In the world—a one sided giant who
might have been a symmetrical power,
possessor of a colossal brain largely
controlled by a dyspeptic stomach! He
was cross and crabbed and did just
the things that he did not want to do,
things that he knew it would be bet
ter not to do, but he was the victim
of starved nerves, of exhausted brain
cells largely for want of common sense
feeling.—Orison Swett Marden in Suc
cess Magazine.
A "Mite."
The difficulties experienced by our
forefathers in trying to reckon money
in very small proportions appear in
the various values given to a "mite”
in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen
tury books of commercial arithmetic.
The original “mite” seems to have
been a third of a Flemish penny, but
the use of the word for the widow’s
coin of the New Testament made its
regular • English meaning half a far
thing, and some old people may re
member applying the name to the
short lived nineteenth century coins
of that value. In those old arithmetic
books “mite” stands for various val
ues not represented by actual coins,
but obviously used in reckoning. A
work of 1700 makes it one-twelfth of
a penny, two sixteenth century books
one-sixth of a farthing, and in 1074
Jeake's arithmetic made it as little
as one sixty-fourth of a penny.—Lon
don Chronicle.
Heroic Treatment.
In Guiana if a child is slow in its
movements the parents apply an ant
to the child instead of a whip to make
it move faster. This little ant bites
more cruelly than a mosquito, and its
bite is apt to be troublesome after
ward. As you can imagine, this treat
ment does not make the child kind to
others, and the children of Guiana are
said to be particularly cruel to ani
mals. The little boys in Guiana do not
reckon their age by years, but by their
ability to endure pain. Until he gets
to the point where he can let the Hucu
ant bite him without wincing he Is
considered merely a baby.
Sympathy.
He—It was a frightful moment when
I received your letter telling me of
the insuperable obstacle to our mar
riage. I would have shot myself, but
I had no money to buy a revolver.
She—Dearest, if only you had let me
know.—Simplicissimus.
A Mean Friend.
"All the dust flies up my nose."
"Wei!, Cholly, maybe the city will
pay you to parade the streets. Per
haps, Instead of sweeping, it would be
better to clean them by a vacuum proc
ess.”—Kansas City Journal.
All the Difference.
"My wife is very bad,” said a man
at '.he Bloomsbury county court.
"You mean she is very ill. I hope
she Is not bad,” replied the magistrate
sympathetically.—London Telegraph.
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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.
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