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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1911)
* '___ HAS NO SUBSTITUTE Absolutely Pure The only baking powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar NO ALUM.K0 LIME PHOSPHATE Inman Items. Master Ira Watson came up from Lincoln last Wednesday to spend liis vacation here. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Conard drove over from Page hist Sat urday to visit at the home of George Stanley’s over Sunday. Mr. Clifford Van Valkenhurg and Wind Davis came up from Plctz, Colorado hist Friday to visit with friends and relatives. Pearl Lucile, the infant daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Moss baugh, died at their home last Friday at the age of 7 months. The remains was buried in the Inman cemetery last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs Frank Swain and family drove over from Page last Saturday returning Sunday. Mrs. Levi Gammet is having her house painted this week. Quarterly meeting was held in the M. E. Church last Sunday morning where 14 new members were taken in. * The childrens day program was given last Sunday evenihg at 11le M. E. Church and was well BLACK DIAMOND No. 21726 Black Diamond is a French Draft Stallion, 4 years old, and will stand this season at my place Ray postoffice, Holt county, Ne braska. TERMS—$ro to insuae live colt. Money due at the disposa of the mare or mares or moving same from the neighborhood. Care will be taken to prevent ac cidents, hut we will not ne re sponsible should any occur. W. R. JOHNSON, Manager. f'ERSONAL: It is earnestly requested that every reader of this news paper see the Bliss agent at once and get a box of the reliable Bliss Native Herbs, the best Spring med icine, the good herb blood purifier for the entire family* | Personal experi ence has proved that it will regulate the liver, give new life to the system and strengthen the kid neys* It will make rich, red blood* 200 tablets $1*00 and—the dollar back promptly if not ben efited quickly and surely* Apply at once to Albert’s Harness & Shoe Store. 37-« _ rendered. Miss Francis Coffin of Burwell is visiting at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Harlon. Miss Minnie B. Miller was down from O'Neill last Sunday visiting with Mr. and Mrs. George Keyes. (First publication June 8) Ordinance N° 41 “A" An ordinance known as the annual appropriation ordinance and approp riating t lie necessary funds to defray Lite expenses of the city of O’Neill, Nebraska for the ticial jear beginning May 2,1911, and ending on the 7th day of May, 1912. Be it ordained by the mayor and city council of lire city of O’Neill Ne braska that there shall beapportion ed out of the funds of said city of O’Neill for the following purposes and the following amounts. Salaries of city officers. 81800 Fuel. 1500 Railroad sinking fund. 2500 Repairs on water works. 2500 Streets and side walks. 2000 Interest on sewer bonds and repairs on sewer. 2000 $12300 The entire revenue for the previous fiscal year was as follows: Received from the county treasurer. $2844.06 Saloon occupation tax. 1500.00 Water rental. 1607.35 Police Judge. 38.00 City Scales.. 150.10 Miscellaneous licenses. 936 60 Total. 7076.11 This ordinance shall take effect and be in force after its passage approval and publication as required by law. Attest. O. F. Biglin, Mayor. Ft. J. Hammond, Clerk. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE Fidelity Bank of O’Neil], Charter No. 895 Incorporated in the state of Nebraska, at the close of business June 1. 1911. RESOURCES Loans and discounts .$58277 31 Overdrafts, secured and un secured . 567 10 Bonds, securities, judgments claims, etc. 707 71 Banking house, furn. and fix. 7456 28 Current expenses and taxes paid. 552 74 Cash items ..«... Due from national, state and private banks and bankers .$13372 53 Checks and items of exchange. 93 57 Currency. 2053 00 Gold coin. 835 00 Silver, nickels and cents. 156 95 Total cash on hand. 16511 05 Total.$ 84072 19 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in .1.$25000 00 Surplus fund . 1000 00 Undivided profits. 1072 67 Individual deposits subject to check.31641 64 Demand certificates of deposit.1212 15 Time certificates of deposit.22574 22 Due to national, state and private banks and bankers.1571 51 56999 52 Total... .$ 84072 19 State of Nebraska, County of Holt, ss. I, Jas. F. O’Donnell, cashier of the above named bank, do hereby swear that the above statement is a correct and true copy of the report made to the state banking board. Jas. F. O’Donnell, Cashier. Attest— O. F. Biglin, Geo. H. Haase, Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of June, 1911. (Seal) M. H. McCarthy, Notary Public. Commission expires Dec 5, 1912. t VICTOR Talking Machine We handle the Celebrated Victor Talking machine, the best machine made. Come in and hear it and let it convince you that there is no other as good. We have them from #10 up. B. GRAVES: JEWELER. I - _ J • ••'•••••••••••••••••••••a' I « \/i • i ! RENEGADE! • • • Why a Southern Officer of • • the Union Army Was • • • • So Considered • • _ • 5 By F. A. Mitchel ? Copyright by American Press Aaso- 2< „ elation, 1911. • • • When It became necessary In 1861 for the officers of the United States regular army balling from southern states to choose between the Union and the Confederate causes those who Were fully in sympathy with the seces sion movement went gayly over with out qualms of conscience or regret. But those who believed the movement was wrong. Ill advised and doomed to failure stood between two fires. If they remained where they conceived their duty held them they would be condemned as renegades, as traitors, by those they loved and who loved them at home. In 1861 1 served in Virginia with my battalion of the —th U. 8. cavalry. One of our officers was Lieutenant Ilarold Claybourne, a premature grad uate from West Point, nineteen years old. I say premature, because his class had been graduated far ahead of Its time in order to furnish officers, so greatly needed. Claybourne had been appointed to the academy from Vir ginia and was now serving In his native state against his own people. Unfortunately for these southern officers who fought on the northern side, there was always an element of distrust concerning them. This prob ably arose from the fact that many southern cl\ II officers held positions under the United States government , till long after hostilities commenced, all the- while aiding and abetting the Confederate cause. Young Cluybourne, suffering at being obliged to fight his own people, was unhappy and morose. We, his brother officers, knowing him to he a mau of tender conscience and that his heart was really with his own flesh and blood, sympathized with him. but our intimate knowledge of him prevented any suspicion of his fidelity to the cause with which he had cast his lot. These were the days when the Army of the Potomac on the one band and the Army of Northern Virginia on the other were facing each other day after day and month after mouth, the Con federates waiting for General McClel lan to move upon them. The division to which our battalion was attached remained encamped in the same corn field for months. One night Lieuten ant Waters, the adjutant, made a spe cial detail, placing Lieutenant Clay bourne in command of twelve men for reconnolterlng purposes. On going to his tent to notify him of the order It was found vacant. There was nothing to do but detail another officer. The udjutant did not report the matter to the major com manding. nor did he speak of it to any oue else. Waters was curious to know the cause of Cluybourne's absence. But, being a man prone to proceed de liberately. he kept tiis own counsel, not even speaking to the absentee when he next saw him of not finding him In bis tent when wanted. Waters after tills kept some watch over Claybourne and found that on certain occasions when the command was asleep t’layhourne mounted bis horse and rode .-way. Where he went Waters did not know. But, remem bering that Claybourne was a Virgin ian. the adjutant became suspicious that he wus communicating in some way with the Confederates. We were all very young In those days and not always inclined to take the right way of doing things. Wa ters. Instead of questioning Claybourne or reporting his singular conduct at headquarters, chose to speak of it one day at the mess table. "I don't blame any southerner,” he said, “for siding with his native state or section, but l^o blame him after he has once chosen his side for riding out nights carrying Information to bis friends.” »> uni inuueeu aiers to tune sucn a course I ciiu't conceive. I saw at once that Clay bourne would take It as an Insult which any southerner would consider could not be washed out ex cept in blood. I shall never forget his expression. There was nothing of an tagonism In It; the principal feature was pain It seemed to me that Waters' shaft struck home. I was sure flay bourne would not do any thing that lie conceived to be dishonor able, but I feared that he was engaged in something that would tend to Injure the Union cause. "There are only two of you fellows here, besides Waters and myself,” said Clay-bourne, "which is lucky. You must know that no man can charge me with what Waters has charged me without having to fight. We can’t fight openly, but there’s a way we can fight without being generally known. We can ride out beyond our vedettes, have It out and, returning, re port that we've hud a brush with the enemy’s pickets.” Lieutenant Thorpe and T were the two officers present besides the prlnd- • pals, and we both endeavored to smooth the matter over. Waters said that If Cluybourne would explain his absences he would apologize. Clay bourne declined to explain and said ' that such a charge to an officer of the army did not admit of an apology. Thorpe and I labored all that day to settle the matter amicably, but Clay bourne would not explain, and with * 1 ■“ ■ .. i out an explanation Water* wottia not withdraw his Insinuation. Tbero seem ed nothing for it but to accept Clay bourue’s suggestion. I agreed to act for Claybourne, and Thorpe acted for Waters. We all rode out beyoud the picket Hue and, choosing an open space in a wood where we thought we were not likely to be Interrupted, were about to dismount for tbe purpose of settling tbe dispute when we were fired upon by concealed Confederates. We ail rode away In a burry, headiug for our lines. Seeing Claybourne swaying in his saddle, I rode beside him and prevented him falling from his borse. lie told me he bad been shot in tbe side. Claybourne was obliged to accept satisfaction from the Confederate sol dier who had shot him, for he was badly wounded and had to go to the hospital. He was not discharged for several weeks. In fact, he was not discharged at all, for while he was under treatment an order came for our battalion to move forward aud take up a position several miles lu ad vance of the one we had occupied. Claybourne deserted the hospital for active service. We found no enemy between us and our new encampment except small bands, which at once re treated before us. Our battalion encamped near the manor house of a large plantation, the occupants of which were Confederates and very bitter against us as Invaders of the south, as they called us. Clay bourne and I were in the same com pany, and I noticed on the murch that he was suffering great mental distress. I forebore to ask him the cause, for I knew I would receive no satisfac tion. The day after we were settled In our new encampment Claybourne asked me to ride with him that we might form some plan to remove the obloquy under which he rested on account of his mysterious rides and the innuendo of the adjutant We emerged from our camp and rode on for a time In si lence. Presently from the gate of the plantation house which we were ap proaching emerged a young girl. When we met her she fixed her eyes upon Claybourne with an unmistakable ex pression of contempt I looked from her to him. For some time he did not speak, and when he did he burst out vehemently. “There Is youi explanation,” he said. “You, who were born and have lived north, have no conception of what we southern army officers who have stuck by the flag have suffered and must continue to suffer. The girl we have Just passed and I were brought up to gether as children. We were sweet hearts In childhood and are today lov ers In youth, for, despite her treat ment of me. she loves me today, as I love her. When I went to West Point we were betrothed. When the war came on she wrote me, begging me to resign and come to fight for our homes and our firesides. I thought and I thought day after day. week after week, month after month. I could see no sense, no Justification, In breaking up the Union. Yet to turn against my own people was horrible; to give up the girl I loved was heartbreaking. I knew what I was bound In con science and In honor to do, but It seemed that I could not do It At last I decided. And, once I decided, my decision was Irrevocable. You will have no Benedict Arnold among us southern men on either side.” I leaned over toward him and threw my arms about him. Then we rode on for some time in silence, which I broke. “Waters will apologize to you,” I said. “It is not m-cessary that you should explain your mysterious rides even to me. I can readily understand that they were on errands of love.” “You are right” he replied. “1 have visited my former fiancee in the hope that I might win her from the position ■he has taken. I have failed.” “But how," I asked presently, "were you able to visit this place when it was In Confederate bands?” “Many of the officers were former playmates of mine, and I had no diffi culty In getting permission to visit one who was known to have been my sweetheart I know every one about here. That was the weakness of my position. I repeatedly and secretly visited the enemy.” 1 couiu reaouy unaerstana an urnt my young friend bad suffered and how to gain a kind word from the girl be loved had laid himself liable to a charge of treachery. Even In confid ing the matter to me he had parted with his secret As soon as we returned to camp I sought Waters and told him that the explanation he bad called for had been made to me and that 1 was perfectly satisfied with It Waters accepted it as If It bad been made to him person ally and offered to go to Claybourne and apologize, but I assured him that It was not necessary. All the case re quired was that the matter be drop ped. Shortly after this I was transferred to another branch of the service and did not meet Claybourne again till we met several years after the war was over. I found him very much chang ed. The position he had taken in re spect to the advlsabUlty of the seces sion movement had been vindicated, and a terrible four years had become a thing of the past. The first ques tion I asked him was If he was mar ried. He told me that he was and when 1 looked at him Inquiringly added: "No. After the war she relented, but too late for me. Recently I have married a girl from my native state. She was a Confederate sympathizer, but she understood my position and commend ed me for being true to my convic tions.” Many years after I happened to meet the girl who had turned away a lover. She had never married. LISZT ASAN IDOL The Great Musician Was Petted by English Royalty. A SOUVENIR OF THE MASTER. The Singular Memento That Wat Sa credly and Secretly Treasured by a Cold, Rigid and Rather Disagreeable Old Englishwoman. "When I was a very small boy In deed,” writes Ford M. Hueffer In Har per’s, "when I wore green velveteen clothes, red stockings and long golden curls, thus displaying to an unsympa thetic world the fact of my pre-Hu phaelite origin, I was taken one day to a very large ball. In front of us was a wooden platrorm draped all In red. Upon the platform was a grand piano. “In front of me the first row of the stalls had been taken away, and In place of them there had been put three glided armchairs, before which was a table covered with a profusion of flowers that drooped and trailed to the ground. Suddenly there was applause —a considerable amount of applause. A lady and gentleman were coming from under the dark entry that led to the artists’ room. They were the Prince and Princess of Wales. There was no doubt about that even for a small boy like myself. "And then there was more applause. What applause! It volleyed, It rolled round the hall. All were on their feet. People climbed on to their chairs, they waved hands, they waved pro grams, they waved hats, they shouted, for in the dark entrance there had ap poured, white and shining, a head with brown and sphlnxllke features and white and long hair and the eter nal wonderful smile. “They advanced, these three, amid those tremendous shouts and enthusi asm—the two royal personages lead ing the master, one holding each hand. They approached the gilded armchairs Immediately In front of me. and the prince and princess Indicated to the master that he was to sit between them at the table covered with flowers. "He made little pantomimes of mod esty. he drew his hands through their grasp, he walked quickly away from the armchairs, and because I was just behind them he suddenly removed me from my seat and left me standing un der all the eyes, solitary In the aisle of the center of the hall, while he sat down. S do not think I was frightened by the eyes, but I know I was terribly frightened by that great brown, aqui line face, with the piercing glance and the mirthless, distant, inscrutable smile. "And immediately just beside me there began what appeared to be a gentle and courtly wrestling match. A gentleman of the royal suit approach ed the master. He refused to move. The prince approached the master. He sat indomitably still. Then the prin cess came and, taking him by the band, drew him almost by force out of my stall, for it was my stall, after all. “And when he was once upon bis feet, as If to clinch the matter, she sud denly sat down in It herself, and with a sudden touch of good feeling she took me by the hand—the small soli tary boy with the golden curls and the red stockings—and sat me upon her lap. 1, alas, have no trace of the date on which I sat in a queen’s lap. for It was all so very long ago; the king is dead, the master Is long since dead, the hall Itself Is pulled down and has utterly disappeared. "I had a distant relative—oddly enough an English one. not a Ger man—who married an official of the court of Weimar and became a lady in waiting on the grand duebess. As far as I know, there was nothing singu larly sentimental about this lady. When I knew her she was cold, rigid and rather disagreeable. She had al ways about her a peculiar and disa greeable odor, and when she died a few years ago it was discovered that she wore round her neck a sachet, and in this sachet was a half smoked cigar. “This was a relic of Franz I.lszt. He had begun to smoke It many years be fore at a dinner which she had given, and, he having put It down unfinished, she bad at once seized upon it and had worn It upon her person ever since This sounds Inexplicable and incredl ble, but there it is.” Settling a Bill. When Andrew Jackson lived at Salisbury, N. 0., he once attended court at Rockford, then the county seat of Surry, and left without paying his bill, which was duly charged up against him on the hotel register, which seems to hnve been the hotel ledger at that time, and so stood for mauy years. When the news of the victory of the 8th of January, 1815. was received in this then remote sec tion the old landlord turned back the leaves of the register, took his pen and wrote under the account* against Andrew Jackson. "Settled in full by the battle of New Orleans.” She Meant Well. The late Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the rigid apostle of temperance, while on a week end visit made the acquaint ance of a sharp young lady of seven, to whom, on leaving, he said: “Now, my dear, we have been talking some time. 1 am sure you have no idea who 1 am.” "Oh. yes, I have,” the little missy replied. "You are the celebrated drunkard.”—London Graphic. Not by years, but by disposition, la wisdom acquired.—Plautus. ■ i—i.ir.S./A — ‘ FIRST AID IN FAINTING. ' Lcwer the Head te Let the Blood Back to the Brain. Fainting is a loss of consciousness due to the diminution of blood supply to the brain. It occurs most frequent ly in weak, sensitive women, but may occur also to men as well. It usually occurs in crowds or in crowded halls, theaters and churches, where the at mosphere is close*qp<l*thar air-foul. Fainting usually lasts only a few minutes, and the person recovers im mediately when taken out into the fresh air, but there are cases in which it lasts much longer, sometimes for an hour or more. The flrst aid treatment of fainting is usually very simple. Take the person out into the fresh air and lay him flat on the back, with the head lower than the feet. This can be done by grasping the feet and holding the body so that the head hangs down, or take an ordinary straight back chair, turn it over so that the back forms an angle with the floor and place the person on the back of the chair with the head hanging down. This position with the bead hanging down favors the flow of the blood back to the brain. All tight clothing about the neck and waist should be loosened. Smelling salts or aromatic spirits of ammonia applied to the nostrils and cold water sprinkled on the face, chest and hands help to restore consciousness.—Nation al Magazine. THE $ILVER D0LLAR Many Changes In Its Design Since It Was First Issued. The silver dollar has undergone a great many changes since it was put In circulation In 1794. On the face of the flrst dollar there was stamped the head of a young woman turned to the right and with hair flowing, as if she was in a gale of wind. But In 1790 congress came to her relief and ordered her hair to be tied up with a bit of ribbon. The fifteen stars which ap peared on the flrst dollar were after this reduced to the original thirteen in recognition of the number of states. In 1836 the design whs again chang ed, and the dollar bore the figure of a woman dressed in a flowing garment The designer forgot however, to put in the thirteen rtars, and the coin was soon called in, die new design having the woman surrounded by stars. Her air was defiant and stiff looking, and In 1838 dollars were Issued which were more artistic in treatment The flrst dollars bearing the motto, "In God We Trust," were coined in April. 1864, and In 1873 the era of the trade dollar be gan, lasting Just five years. The Liberty dollar made its appear ance in 1878. Miss Anna W. Williams, a public school teacher of Philadel phia, sat for the portrait—St. Louis Globe-Democrat 8ure of a Raiao. - An enterprising woman who rents several apartments In a new building and sublets them furnished, room by room, has profited at the rate of sev eral hundred dollars a year by wom an’s propensity for telling everything she knows. To each applicant for a room she named an exorbitant price to start with. UKow, understand, this Is a conces sion to you alone and must be regard ed as strictly confidential. If you tell a soul in the house that I have made a reduction in your favor I shall have to charge the original price." Within two weeks rents had gone np. "Mrs. Smith tells me,” said the astute landlady to each gossiping ten ant, “that you told her you pay only $6 for your room Instead of $7." And ns no one was 1b e position to plead not guilty the additional rental was exacted.—New York Times. The Retort Courteous. James Russell Lowell was once a guest at a banquet In London where he was expected to reply to a toast. The speaker who preceded Mr. Lowell said many contemptuous things about the people of the United States, avow ing and repeating again and again that they were all braggarts. As Ameri can minister at the conrt of St. James Lowell conld hardly overlook this speech, so as ho rose he said smilingly: “I heartily agree with the gentleman who has just spoken. Americans do brag a great deal, and I don’t know where they got the hab it, do you?” Big Mouthfuls, “Yes,” whispered the man who knows everybody, "the big chap over there at the third table Is a great gormand. He’s a mountain In the financial world, you know." “H’m!” commented the quiet observ er. "Instead of a mountain he looks to me like a great gorge.”—Chicago News. Boiling Alivo. The last Instance of boiling to death took place In Persia In 1890. .The of fender was guilty of stealing state revenues and was put Into a large cal dron of cold water, which was slowly heated to the boiling point His bones were distributed as a warning among the provincial tax collectors. Incorrigible. "Nobody wants to play bridge with Mrs. Bean. She talks all the time." “I suppose she’s quiet when she’s dummy?” “Quiet! She talks twice as much.”— Cleveland Plain Dealer. 8ilenoe Is 8af«ty. After forty years o’ married life I’ve made np me mind It don’t matter how often a man an’ his wife disagrees us lung as he don’t let her know It— Harper’s Basar.