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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1911)
. ThatTired Feeling |L jp M’that is caused by impure, impoverished L jB blood or low. run-down condition of the wSfi . system, is burdensome and discouraging. |f Do not put up with it, but take Hood's Earsaparills, which removes it as nothing else does. "I had that tired feeling, bad no ap petite and no ambition to do anything. A friend advised me to take Hood’s Sarsa parilla. I did so, and soon that tired feeling was gone, I had a good appetite and felt well. I believe Hood’s saved me from a long illness.” Mrs. B. Johnson, Westfield, N. J. Get Hood's Sarsaparilla today. In liquid form or In tablets called Sarsatabs. Make the Liver Do its Duty Nine times in ten when the liver is right the stomach and bowels are right. CARTER’S LITTLE LIVER PILLS gentlybutfirmly com^ pel a lazy liver to^ do its duty. Cures Con stipation, In digestion, Headache,4 end Distress After Eating. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE Genuine must bear Signature Thompson’s Eyo Wator The man who has been married fifty years Is willing to let his wife do the boasting about It. ASK FOR ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE the Antiseptic powder to shake Into your shoes. Re lieves Corns, Bunlops, Ingrowing Nalls, Swollen and Sweating feet. Blisters and Callons spots. Sold everywhere, 26e. Don't accept any tubal itute. Sam Sle FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.X _ Wanted an Officer. The sheriff was snoozing away in his seat In the coach, when he heard ■ some one call out: “Is there an officer In the coach from New Castle?” “Yes,” replied the sheriff very em phatically. “Loan me your corkscrew, please, sir,” calmly continued the drummer. f' Who She Was. “Well,” laughed Squiggles, “some tnen never know when they are snubbed! That lady you just spoke to was about as distant as they make 'em in her greeting.” , "Well, why shouldn’t she be?” re i torted Jabbers. “She’s a distant rela jr tive of mine.” “By marriage?” “No—by divorce. She got rid of me *t Sioux Falls back in 1898.”—Har per’s Weekly. NATURAL EVIDENCE. Adelaide—Why, Cornelia, your hair k la all mussed up. \ • Cornelia—Yes, dear; you—you see, « George stole up and snatched a dozen 'kisses before I could scream. Adelaide—But why don’t you step In front of the mirror and rearrange your hair? Cornelia—Gracious! Why, I wouldn’t do it for the world. Why, none of the girls would believe he kissed me. One Cook May make a cake “fit for i the Queen,” while another only succeeds in making a “pretty good cake” from the I same materials. It’s a matter of skill I People appreciate, who have once tasted. Post Toasties A delicious food made of \ White Com—flaked and toasted to a delicate, crisp brown—to the “Queen’s taste.” Post Toasties are served direct from the package with cream or milk, and sugar if desired— A breakfast favorite! ^ “The Memory Lingers” Postu m Cereal Company, Ltd. W Battle Creek, Mich. ) ^^ I Anthem. Blends sacrificial red, white, honor's hue, Today, the stripes and bars. And somber Is the field of loyal blue, Purpled with battle scars, And darkened draped in amber memories true Of deeds no shadow mars; Through all, undimmed, effulgence ever new, Shine glorious destined stars'. Her flag great freedom bears in noblest Of mingled joy and grief. While loveliest blooms the Ivy, oltve, palm, Fresh gathered May day sheaf. With blessings deep she strews and chants her psalm Of gratitude’s belief O'er myriad graves mid tenderest green’s embalm To virtues this, the chief! The muffled drums, low plaint of cy presses, And nation's proud acclaim. Tell, in celestial blending syntheses, The history of fame; The theme of love's sublimest harmonies, Undying, yet the same, Heirs to that than which none greater is Of patriotic flame! —Selected. : In Two Chapters i; 1 A Decoration By———-- ' > ; Day Story. NANDA L. CROCKER J > In the next room lay the roses and lilies with the sweet-scented heliotrope he loved so well; then there were the daisies, the pansies and sweet alyssunt, as finishing flowers. Over there on the wall, where the' streaming sunset light burnished the hilt, hung his sword, with which he cut his way through in that deadly charge at the awful battle of Shiloh. Yes, there It was, where Abner was wounded, and he. so handsome and strong when he marched blithely away to the sound of the merry martial music, came home a cripple. But she would always remember how proudly he looked up to the stars and stripes and touched the shining shoul der straps when, with sorrowful ex clamation, she took hold of his empty sleeve. And somehow she caught the patriotic fire, and was prouder of her one-armed soldier husband than she had ever been of the able-bodied Ab ner. He had lived to celebrate several Decoration days, and how much he xiade of them. Since he had gone to rest in an honored grave she had always tried to do the same for his sake. Today she had a double incentive for being pa triotic. Mrs. Neville counted her life as in two chapters, and felt that the whole story pulsed to the sound of life and drum. We have touched on the first chap ter, which reached its blaze of triumph April 7, 1862. But after the setting light had beau tified the sword of slxty-two. It fell in golden halo on a boyish, yet manly, face beyond. And the blending folds of the Ameri can and Cuban colors Just above the picture marked the second chapter which today was in the hands of time tnd circumstances, and was coming out in story form as fast as they could "set it up." She was thinking of this so deeply that she had entirely forgotten the girl at her side. The silver hair and care-lined brew of the one, and the sweet, dimpled face of the other told that a life-time lay between them, notwithstanding tbeir nearness to each other . They could hear the training on the green, altheugh neither cared to hear Just then. Their eyes met. "Tomor row is his birthday, too, and he has never been away from home on his birthday before.” "But we can think of him, Letty, and of course, he will remember us, of all lays, tomorrow.” "War is something dreadful, Isn’t It, grandma?" the girl whispered across ;he grand-maternal knee, in a fright ened way. "Dreadful things come eut of war, •tnd grand things, too, Letty. It brings out the bravery and nobility of man kind, and unfolds the love of country, but the greatest heartbreaks of earth are the heartbreaks of strike. Have you oeen to the office this evening, child?” “Yes, but there was nothing.” "Well, we will hear tomorrow, may be. You must be ready early, Letty, to carry the flowers. I cannot do it this year, of all years. I am net brave enough; the martial music will hurt ne so, child; It always does on Decora tion day. But I am loyal to the dear old lag, and true to your grandfather’s memory, and to your brother’s loyalty. I would not have you think I am dis loyal, Letty.” "I understand, grandma.” And the girl went softly out on the porch to cry by herself, with no one to see but the sleepy wrens clinging to the old trumpet creeper along the eaves. ”1 don’t see,” she began, "I don’t see what Ted wanted to go away from grandma for. She has kept us and loved us ever since mamma died years igo. And what If he should not get well? There’ll be Just us two in Vine ••ottage, O, dear!” But inside the door sat grandma, knowing why. Of course, Letty was a child; she didn't know. Over 3d years igo Abner had marched away in the prime of his life and manhood’s ltrerxgth, and she was left with the chil dren at the knee, to be loyal "by the stuff,” and she knew why; and she knew how, too. The clear, martial music sounded on the church square, and the people were gathering fro mevery direction. A per fect sea of flags surging in from a giv en point announced the coming of the schools, and the different "orders.” The -lovely wreath had been made, watered with her tears and sanctified by a prayer for her grandson In south ern camp. And Letty had gone with it. trying hard all the while to be pa triotic enough to keep back her teurs. Grandma Neville stood looking proud- ! ly, yet wistfully, the way she went. And the boy? Yes. Theodore had ! marched away down the square street to the same national air that Abner, his grandfather, did. Would "history repeat itself?” Would Ted come home with honors, even though It cost a sac rifice? A great fear choked her. She put out her thin hands deprecatingly to some unseen presence, and went out into the i sweet May weather. She went and I stood where she might see the crowds 1 go by. A white dove from the cote • came and perched on her shoulder, while a songster In the old trumpet vine 1 taroled forth a melody triumphant ! and pure as “heaven. "That means peace and victory!” she ; exclaimed, with joyful reverence; "the 1 good Lord will keep Theodore.’ ’ There they come, the battle-scarred j veterans. There were not so many of j the Shields post as on last Decoration I day and their steps weren't quite so j steady as a year ago, but they had not ; Torgotten to keep step, had they? Next came the provisional guards, Ted's schoolfellows; and Ted was tl today. Abner was 31 when he "cut his way through” and won hi* honors and his sword. But the rest were getting Into line now. The stars and stripes floated tri umphantly ahead and the same merry martial music rang clear on the notes of "Yankee Doodle” as they came. There were the merry lassies In white, carrying armfuls of flowers and keep ing time with springing steps to fife and rum. In between the guards and their sweethearts came the juvenile band: boys in knee pants with curls of childhood still on their brows. They were preparing for harder marches than this one, maybe; and their music seemed the sweetest of all, while the folds of the old flag floated over them. She turned and went in the hsuse, trying to hum “My Country ’Tls of Thee," but gave it up at the end of the second bat. Abner would have sung it vigorously, but some way she wasn't quite like Abner—the mother-heart was in the way. The sunshine flooded the dining room. It must be nearly noon now, and Letty would be tired and hungry. There are many hard battles fought and won without bayonet or bloodshed, and "though women must weep" they come oft victorious in scores of hard fought battles when the world notes nothing. And the carol of the songster and tho caress of the dove’s white wing were a talisman. Letty, coming in a half hour later, dusty and weary, was cheered to so* Grandma Neville smiling. “Oh, you’ve had news from Ted; good pew??” Tl’he question same in glad anticlpa^ tlon. “No, child, I've had no news; but I had an omen, and it means g*od tid ings.” Letty listened to the lnoident of of the birds and the song with ques tioning heart. Did such things mean anything, and did grandma know? She hoped there was no mistake in any of it. "You put the flowers on yo«r grand father’s grave and watered them well, Letty?” "Yes; and Mrs. Jensen said that In ratio as the flewers were fragrant the memories were sweet and patriotism true. I wonder how Mrs. Jensen knows, grandma? She ha* no soldier dead.” Grandma answered evasively, and Letty whs left in doubt still. “Letty,” said grandma, presently, "I shall lay the table for four today. Ab ner's plate opposite mine, as in years agone, and Ted’s and yours on either hand, as hitherto. It will be one of the i memories Mrs. Jensen spoke of.” At evening Vine cottage at the end of the white street received a letter from Tampa. “Going on to Cuba to in terview the Spaniards,’ ’he wrote. "Farther and farther away,” grand ma said, and her lips quivered a little as she laid down her glasses. But she went over to the table, and, gathering up the flowers left over .made a pretty, fragrant wreath and pinned it to the American and Cuban colors, just above the bright, boyish face on the wall. "It is because I am proud of him,” she said. A month and two days went by, circling over the white street in Somer set with all the conflicting news of the Spanish-Amerlcan war. Then came the battle of San Juan. The wires flashed the news into Som erset the morning after the fight. Theodore’s regiment was in that en gagement. Grandma Neville went out on the long, low porch and sat where the trumpet vine shadowed her silvered head from the July heat, but she did not cry, as Letty did. Serenely quiet she sat looking down the white street, down which Theodore had marched in April. “That song In the vines meant a pro- j motion for the boy, and maybe this battle is the time for winning it; who knows?” And the dear old lady bridled her silvered head proudly. Later came advices through the press; the newsboys cried it all down the white street that Theodore Neville had been promoted to the rank of a lieutenant for his daring and bravery; “and he didn't get a scratch,” shouted the newsboys, triumphantly. And Letty went out among the doves and wondered which one made itself so famous on Decoration day. Meaning of Decoration Day. Of all your yearly feasts, Decoration day is perhaps the most distinctly na tional. The adorning of the soldiers' graves is but the outward manifesta tion of a feeling which la all the strong er In that our national history is so brief a one. The men wha fell at Chlckamauga or Bull Run need not share their honors with the well nigh mythical heroes of a thousand years ago. They, themselves, have written, the sages of our own race, in their life blood, and they will be passed on to generations yet unborn. Monuments have been raised in their honor, but the story of their deeds, as told from son to sire, will outlast the crumbling stones. Little did these heroes dream of all this, as they marched out to do and die. They had no vision of honors to be heaped upon them by a grateful people. With the simplicity Inherited from their pioneer fathers, they marched out to meet the foe, all un conscious of the heroism which Is the dearest heritage of their descendant*. So Reassuring. 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