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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
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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.
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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
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it will regulate the
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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.
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! RENEGADE!
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• Why a Southern Officer of •
• the Union Army Was •
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• So Considered •
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5 By F. A. Mitchel
? Copyright by American Press Aaso- 2<
„ elation, 1911. •
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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
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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.
