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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1912)
ROYAL BAKING POWDER AbsoIutelyPure [From a series of elaborate chemical tests.] Comparative digestibility of food made with different baking powders. An equal quantity of bread (biscuit) was made — with each of two kinds of baking powder—cream of tartar and alum—and submitted separately to rthe action of the digestive fluid, each for the same length of time. The percentage of the food digested is shown as follows: Broad made with Royal Cream of Tartar Powder: Bread made with alum powder t Royal Baking Powder raised food is shown to be of greatly superior digestibility and healthfulness. a_s__ m ■■■ ... PAID ADVERTISMENTS. FAR^LO A’i?S. SeeR. II. Parker Fresh Bread at the O’Neill I^akery. For.Rent-*A six room house. See R. H. Parker. 28-2 Try, our pickels, they are fine — san tary Meat Market. 10-tf Subscribe for .The ITrontier. only 1.50 per year. ■' Dr. Corbett will spend all his time in O’Neill this winter. 26-tf Now is a good time to subscribe for The Frontier, $1.50 per year. Just received a barrel of sweet and dill pickels.—Sanitary Meat Market. 16-tf For Sale—Barred Plymouth Rock Cockerels— MM A. L. Souser, route 1, O’Neill. 22-tf For Rent—House, of six rooms, in good repair and in good location.— W. K. Hodgkin. * 25-4. f. • . . Fine Candle's and Hot Chocolate.— '.McMillan & Markley’s. Bakery and Candy Kitchen. 22-tf. Try Frank and Vince Suchy’s tailor shop for French Dry Cleaning. Their . work can’t be beat. 1-tf. For Sale—House and two lots, with barn,,coal house and a cement cave.— Address box 554, O’Neill. ' 22-7-pd For Sale—Full blooded Poland China boar, eighteen months old.—O. B. Hatch, Leonie, Nebr. ‘ For Sale—House and lot one block east of the school house. Terms reasonable.—D. W. Cameron. 9-tf When you have a bilious attack give Chamberlain’s Tablets a trial. They are excellent. For sale by all dealers. Wanted—A mankind girl forlaundry work. Good wages to the right parties.—O’Neill Sanitary Laundry. 28 Wanted—To buy sucking calves, from two days to two weeks old Address, John Barnes, Emmett Neb. At the lowest interest rates, I have plenty of Eastern money to loan on Farms and Ranches—R. H. Parker, O’Neill, Nebr. 46-tf. ■ If you are troubled wtyh cronic con stipation, the mild and gentle effect of Chamberlain’s Tablets makes them especially suited to /bur cause. For sale by all dealers. every day. Post-mortem examinations often show that tuberculosis had been arrested by strengthening the lungs before the germs gained"'mastery. You can strengthen your resistance - power by taking Scott’s Emulsion. It con tains available energy in con centrated form, which quickly nourishes all the organs of the body. It repair* waste — makee rich, active blood and euppliee energy to the starving cell*. It’* timely as* enable* the body to resist tub*rculo*il. For stubborn colds and bronchitis nothing compares with Scott’s Emulsion. Refute substitutes — insist on SCOTT’S. " Scott & Bowne, Bloomf.eld, N. J. 12-67 For Sale—Four Hempshire boar pigs of servicable age. These hogs are pure bred registered stock. Pedigree furnished with each individual — J. E Harding, O’Neill. 28-2 We do French Dry Cleaning in our shop of all ladies and gentlemen’s garments. Nothing but first class work turned out. At Frank and Vince Suchy's tailor shop. 1-tf In tiie Isle of Man the wedding ring was formerly employed as an in strument of torture. It is so in this country today in many cases, but not so if you buy your ring of Bill—Graves Jewelry Store. 25-4 After January 1st I will be prepared to handle classes in shorthand and typewriting. Night session only, from ":30 to 9:30, p. m., at Mrs. Cress, two doors east of J. P. Gallagher’s store.—E. Marie Alderson, Instructor. You will find the druggists every where speaking well of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. They know from long experience in the sale of it that in cases of cough and colds it can always be depended upon, and that it pleasant and safe to take. For sale by all dealers A Des Moines man had an attack of muscular rheumatism in his shoulder. A friend advised him to go to Hoi Springs. That meant an expense $150. or more. He sought for a quicker and cheaper way to cure it and found it in Chamberlain’s Liniment. Three days after the first application of this lini ment he was well. For sale by all dealers. We wish to call your attention to the fact that most infectious diseases such as whooping cough, diptberia and scarlet fever are contracted when the child thas a cold. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy will quickly cure a cold and greately lessen the danger of contracting these diseases. This remedy is famous for its cures of colds. It contains no opium or other narcotic and may be gived to a child with im plicit confidence. For sale by all dealers. Familiar Quotations. One of the most familiar quota tions from the Bible which are not to be found there upon research-Is "the lion lying down with the lnmb.’ The spirit of the reference is correct enough, but turn up the passage in Isaiah and you will find: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. and the calf and the young lion and the failing together." The popu lar mind hns condensed the zoological miscellany, and to the incorrect ver slon alliteration has no doubt con tributed.—Exchange. Denmark's Outdoor Theater, Denmark has probably the finest nat ural outdoor theater in the world. It is situated in the royal deer park about six miles out of the capital. There the avenues of mighty trees serve as wings and background to u stage fronted by a beech encircled slope that forms a perfect auditorium. Eight thousand people can be accommodated at every performance. For Sale. I hold for quick sale, the choice SW quarter, section 17, township 31, range 14, near Atkinson, Holt county, Nebraska. Is partly under cultivation. Every foot of this quarter section can be plowed. For a bargain price address GEO. W. MILLS, Postoflice box 888, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Adv. 27-2 »»»»»»¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥ |MISS RANDALL’S: j CUSTOMER l t _ 5 t { K Case of Mistaken * J Identity { J _ * * By CLARISSA MACKIE Hester Randall surveyed the result of her morning’s work with keen satis faction. A snowy cloth was laid on her kitchen table, and piled thereon were louves of crusty bread, sheets of feath erweight biscuits and glistening rusks. There were tempting loaves of pound cake and several layer cakes as well as a platter heaped with sugared dough nuts and another of cookies. Friday was always Hester's busiest day. She arose at 4 o’clock and baked all day to fill her orders for the dain ties which were in great demand among her neighbors. On Friday even ing. although she was tired and foot sore. she would deliver the bread and cake. She would have to make several trips with the heavily laden basket be fore her weary body could seek repose. Now she sat down and drank a cup of hot tea and ate a trifle of supper be fore she started out on her rounds. She was a plump, rosy little mite of a woman with bright brown eyes and brown hair that obstinately refused to turn gray, although Hester had passed her thirty-first year. Now she slipped into a thin white dress, for it was a hot evening, and, arranging her first basket load, went out into the gather ing twilight. At Mrs. Amos Blake’s she left part of her fragrant burden and paused for a little chat • “You know the Paige place has been rented for the summer, don't you, Hes ter?” asked Mrs. Blake after awhile. “No. I’m glad to hear it. though. It means auother customer,” laughed Hester. "1 spoke a good word for you. It’s a lone man who has something to do with making a map of the county hereabouts and he was planning to get all of his meals at the hotel, but when I told him about how you baked for some of us lazy housekeepers he said he’d much rather have home cooking and hb guessed he’d fuss over his own break fast and supper. You know men like to fuss over cooking things. Now. Amos here is tickled to death whenever I let him get breakfast on Sunday morning. This isn’t telling you about Mr. Chan dler, though.v I told him I’d speak to you aud tell you to leave him some bread and cake, and he said he might not be home when you came, so he ask ed me to give you this dollar and tell you to leave a dollar’s worth on his back porch every week. Have you got anything to spare?” "Maybe I can make out some for him by giving up my own baking.” replied Hester as she placed the money in the little bag dangling from her waist. “If I don’t hurry It will be pitch dark be fore I get through. Good night” “Good night. Heater. Tbnt cream cake looks so good I’m going to have a slice right away.” It was dark indeed when Hester Ran dall stopped with her third load of good ies at the gate of the Paige house. It was a small gabled cottage smothered In honeysuckle vines and for several seasons had been rented furnished to city people. It looked dark and desert ed now as Hester opened the gate and made her way around the sandy path to the back porch. As she stood there, hesitating, the moon pushed a silver rim above the shoulder of High bill, so she waited until it rose In all its splen dor and cast a pale glow over the Paige bouse and garden. It fell full on an open window where a white curtain languidly flapped. As Hester opened her basket and laid a clean napkin on the porch a harsh voice from the open window startled her. ••Whnt are yon doing out there?” It snarled, and Hester was quick to reply. “I’m leaving your bread and cake.” she snld with offended dignity In her tones. “Well, hurry up and get out of here. I want to be alcne!" rasped the voice. It was a very Indignant Hester who dumped several loaves of bread, a sheet of biscuit and some doughnuts and a layer cake on the back porch and hurried, ott of the yard with burning cheeks. “What a crabbed, cranky old man he must be!” thought Hester as she went home and prepared for bed. “If It wasn’t for the money I’d not bake another crumb for him. The idea!" Unfortunately Hester could not give way to her injured feelings, for she needed every penny she could earn to pay off the Indebtedness on the little bouse which was her inheritance from hardworking parents. So the follow ing Friday evening found her once more standing at Mr. Chandler’s back door with her basket of goodies. It was not yet dark, and she could see a large china dish on the floor, beside which lay something white and ob long. She picked it up and in the wan ing light read her own name in bold, black characters. She tore it open and there “dropped out another crisp dollar bill and a scrap of paper, on which was written: “Everything was bully. Don’t forget me this week. I like pie." Involuntarily Hester smiled and tucked the note away in her bag with the money. Then she knelt down and lifted from her basket a flaky cherry pie, some bread and rolla and cake S which she piled In the dish Mr. Chan dler had thoughtfully provided, and over the whole she threw a napkin. She was going down the steps when once more from the same open win dow sounded the harsh voice she hud heard before. “For heaven's sake, clear out of . here! VVhnt are you hanging around for? You've got all m.v money and ’— Hester Randall did not wait to hear any more. With burning checks sbe hurried through the gate atxJ away from the detestable stranger. Not If the little home she was working so hard to retain should be sold over her head would she ever sell another par ticle of her products to the boorish mapmaker who lived In the I’alge house. "I.et him eat baker’s trash,” was Hester's ultimatum. A few days later she was talking to Mrs. Blake. “That Mr. Chandler Is an old man. Isn't he?" asked Hester. “Oh. no; not so very old—leastways he don’t appear so to me. Hester. His hair is gray as can be. but he Is pleasant and boyish acting seems as he was as young as my Jimmy. H sets a lot of store by your cooking. You’ve never met him yet, have you?” “Not exactly,” admitted Hester. “I've heard his voice, though, and I don't see how anybody can think that’s pleas ant.” “Now. Isn’t, that the funniest thing? Everybody thinks his voice Is the nicest thing there Is about him.” “1 don't.” said Hester, with decision. When the following Friday came Hester passed tbe cottage of Mr. Chandler with a scornful lift'' of her head. Not for the testy mapmaker were the toothsome dainties sbe had toiled over all day long. What If he did like pie? She wouldn’t make pies for any man who spoke to her lu such a manner. As she prepared for bed that bight Hester's auger abated a little as sbe thought of the breadless. cakeless, pie less state of Mr. Chandler. Somehow she could not reconcile Mrs. Blake’s description ur him or the boyishly en thusiast it- ante he had written with tbe surly voice which had twice accosted her from Ills window Saturday was Hester's lazy day. She rested from her hard work of the day before aud usually occupied herself with some light needlework or she read a little. On this particular Saturday she was sitting ou the front porch, her never Idle Ungers engaged with a bit of fancy work, when the gate opened and a brisk step sounded on tbe path. An instant later a tall form loomed at the foot of the steps. The stranger was a handsome man— the handsomest sbe had ever seen, Hes ter admitted to herself ns she took in with a swift glance the broad shoul ders, tbe sun tanned countenance light ed by deep blue eyes and the crop of gray hulr which made him appear young or old, as opinions might differ. .He smiled and lifted a gray cap from his bead. “Miss Randall?” he inquired in the very nicest voice Hester bad ever beard. l C3, ic|incu licoici uvuuci •‘My name's Chandler. I'm wonder ing if you realize. Miss Randall, that I’m simply starving for lack of your sustaining goodies?" “I'm sorry," ful.ered Hester, blush ing. “Why did you forget me? But, there; I needn't ask that. Of course I’m your latest customer, and I suppose you didn't have anything to spare for me, eh?" “That wasn't the reason,” returned Hester, with sudden spirit. "I had plenty of time to buke for you. Mr. Chandler, but 1 don't cure to keep a customer who—who talks to me In such a manner." “How—how—1 don't believe I under stand,” stammered Mr. Chandler in undoubted bewilderment. Hester explained, painfully embar rassed at the amusement mingled with the concern on bis face. “It's that rascal. Peter,” groaned Mr. Chandler. “You see. Miss Randall, Peter is a parrot that belonged to an aged cousin of mine, for whom I was named. When Cousin Philip died he left me the daudiest collection of In dian relics, with the strict condition that t must personally care for Peter until he sees fit to shuffle off. Now. my cousin Philip wns something of a hermit, and I see by Peter’s vocabulary that Ills master detested visitors. Now, permit me to bring you the ill man nered Peter In order to verify my state ments." Hester assured him that she was al ready satisfied, and after she had en joyed a good laugh at her own ex pense she tilled the 'basket of the hungry Chandler and sent him away rejoicing, but that was not until an hour hnd pnssed, during which time they became acquainted. Hester continued to leave her cook ery on Chandler’s porch, and once when she failed to bring it he went to her to find out what was the matter He found that something had gone wrong with her oven and insisted on fixing It for her. They both knelt dowr. to see into the grate, and their beads touched. Before either of them knew what had happened Chandler had kiss ed her. Hester arose, apparently very much disgruntled, but when Chandler put his arm about her and kissed her again she didn't look as chagrined as might have been expected. It was a year afterward that Mrs Amos Blake picked the grains of rice out of her best hat and tucked it away In Its handtiox. "I feel that I ought to have all the credit for Hester’s marrying Mr. Chandler because 1 got him as a customer for her. but they sa.v the road to a man's heart Is by way of tils stomach, and 1 suppose Hester’s cooking counts a good deal tool” ^¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥V¥¥ IA DOUBLE I i confession! * ¥ * - -K * I * The Singular Case of a Pair * of Lovers By JOHN R. OGELVIE One of tbe questions as to what Is and what is not allowable In the legal profession that laymen ure not apt to understand is whether It Is honorable for u lawyer to defend a client who has confessed himself guilty of the crime with which he Is charged. One of the reusons why this is not only al lowable for an attorney, but is his duty. Is that tbe confession may be false. Many persons have labored un der a hallucination that they have committed a crime of which they are entirely innocent. I bad a very singular case of this kind when I was practicing, before 1 went on the bench. A young man was accused of forging bis uncle's will. He was heir-at-law to the property in volved by reason of relationship to tbe testator. But several years before the will was drawn one was executed leav ing tbe property to a woman who was his housekeeper, it was this house keeper, Anna Blake, who accused the beneficiary under the second wilt with having forged his uncle's name to it. Arnold Jefferson, my client, when 1 came to confer with bim about bis case, nsked me whether 1 would de fend a person who confessed himself guilty. 1 said that 1 would, where upon be told me that In order to pre vent his uncle's property from going out of tbe family and secure It for himself be had forged his uncle’s name to the second will. 1 was somewhat staggered at this, for If I proved him Innocent I would divert the property from the channel In which tbe testator Intended It to go and de prive the real owner of It that It might go to a criminal. I piled the young man with questions as to bow he had come to perpetrate such a crime, and he told me that be was in love with a girl whom he would like to marry and did not consider himself able to do so with out this property. Besides, he believed that bis uncle was Intending to leave It, to him at the time of bis death. If I declined to take the case and be could get no other lawyer to do so the judge would assign him counsel. There fore I proceeded with It though reluc tantly. for It Is not pleasant for a con scientious lawyer to defend a man who has admitted his guilt. 1 would content myself with trying to get in.v client off with as light a sentence as possible. There was a chance for the young man in this—experts In chlrography would be called who would compare the signature to tbe will with Jeffer son's handwriting. These experts are apt to differ In such matters. The plaintiff called the most prominent one of the lot. who declared that my client must have written the signature to the will. I employed another expert, who testified that be could not have written It But unfortunately of the five ex perts called four testified that there were certain strokes In the signature that were to he fonnd In Jefferson’s writing. There were two signatures of wit nesses to the will Jefferson was charg ed with forging. One of these persons. Edward Bronson, was dead; tbe other. Silas Qrmsby, was not to be found. They were supposed to be myths, and the plaintiff’s attorneys, though they had no proof that the defendant had written their names, threw out a broad bint that be had done so. The case looked so desperate that 1 advised my client to produce his con fession and throw himself on the mercy of tbe court By this means be might secure a light sentence, whereas if he persisted in denying his gnllt in the face of such conclusive evidence he would very likely get a heavy one. He said that he would think the mat ter over. This was after court ad journed on Saturday, and I feared 1 could not keep the trial in progress more than a day or two longer. And as the case stood Jefferson was sure to be convicted. Sunday evening I re ceived a call from a young Indy, Miss Dora Wentworth, who turned all my expectations awry. She told me that it was she, and not Arnold Jefferson, who had committed the forgery. I felt it Incumbent upon me to sub ject her to a searching examination to get at tbe truth. She said that she was the person whom Jefferson was engaged to marry. He had been all a lover should be until about the time his uncle had died and no will was found leaving the property to ..him Then she told him that a will would be found If she had to write one her self. This, she added, she had done. X asked Miss Wentworth If she would sign a written confession to this effect, and she said she would. So I asked her to write It Before she could agnln see Jefferson I went to the jail and, showing him her confession, asked him why lie had made a false one himself. He seemed a good deal agitated at seeing the matter laid down In black and white. Then he burst out passionately; *'I didn't believe when she threaten ed to do this thing that she would be so desperate. Nevertheless when the second will was found I feared she had written and signed It Preferring to suffer myself rather than that she should suffer for her crime, I have stood In the breach. And I propose before the court and the world to continue-to stand In the breach. 1 • - ; " • IP still claim what 1 hate claimed—that I concocted the will, signed my uncle’* name to it and put in the names ot witnesses who had no existence.” Here was a mixed up affair, and no mistake. A pair of lovers were each claimiug to be guilty, and solely guilty, of a crime. Which was the in nocent. which the guilty one? 1 had nothing by which to decide. I thought of the experts. Should 1 submit this new feature of the case to them? What would it avail? A preponder ance of their evidence bad proved Jef ferson guilty. They could not be ex pected to go back on their former evi dence by declaring that Miss Went worth committed the forgery. I could get othai experts who had not yet been brought into the case, but if they declared that Miss Wentworth i bud done the writing It would only prove expert testimony to be worth less. Here 1 paused in my cogitations, for I wns struck with an idea. 1 might produce Miss Wentworth’s confession In court It would probably be regard ed a ruse to save her lover. But sup pose I could get experts to testify that her handwriting had In It the charac teristics of the forged signature. I could at least save my client The same evening I acted on this thought and. though I had difficulty In finding even one expert who had not been called in the case, he had as good re pute for skill in his profession as any of the others. To my surprise, he told me there wan no donbt that Miss Wentworth wns the guilty party. That settled my course for the fu ture. The next day when the court opened 1 produced the second confes sion and the affidavit of the expert In - cblrography that in his opinion the confessors had forged the signature to the will In question. There wns a great deal of confusion In what followed in court. The legal aspect of the case had entirely chang ed. Two different persona bad con fessed to have written a signature that could only have been written by one. After consultation with their client the plaintiff’s lawyer* took the ground that the second will was Invalid because there was a confession on the part of the beneficiary under It that .he had forged It. Therefore, the property go ing to Anna Blake under the former will, she had no Interest in further criminal prosecution. They asked for an adjournment of the court and pro posed to me that if my client would sign a'way all claim to his uncle’s prop erty they would drop the prosecution against him and so far as they were concerned would not prosecute Mias Wentworth. 1 declined the proposition on the ground that it was impossible to prove either of the lovers guilty. But they, feeling confident that the chancery court would give their client the prop erty under the earlier will, dropped the matter, and Jefferson went forth a free man. My own solution of the problem in volved In the two confessions was tbut Jefferson, being disappointed In Inheriting the property, signified that the marriage could 'not take place. This threw In the way of Mias Went worth a temptation that she could not resist She concocted a later will, but her lover in order to save ber from the consequences of ber crime when crimi nal proceedings were commenced con fessed himself guilty. Nevertheless 1 was not certain as to this or anything concerning the parties or the affair In which they were concerned. That ei ther one or the other or both were guilty I did not donbt but this opinion was rather based on the evidence than on the bearing or appearance of either of them. I could not throw off an im pression that Jefferson was a fine fel low and Miss Wentworth was a lovely girl. And bad not each attempted to relieve the other of the burden by a confession ? The matter of the inheritance waa still In the chancery court when one day I received a letter from a mao In Australia. I bad that day received an Invitation to the wedding of Arnold Jefferson and Dora Wentworth. I put the letter In my pocket and said noth ing about It till I attended the wed ding, which took place In a little church with no attendants except my self. Indeed, it had not been expected that even 1 would accept When tbe clergyman who performed the cere mony came to the words “With all tny worldly goods I thee endow” and the groom had repeated them I called a halt aDd produced the letter I had re ceived from Australia. It read aa fol lows: Have seen In an American newspaper reference to the case against Arnold Jef ferson. 1 was an Intimate friend of the late William Jefferson and was one of the witnesses to a will he made a few weeks before his death. I return to America soon on business and will call upon you not long after you receive this. SILAS ORMSBY. Never shall I forget the look that passed between the bride and groom. Each had believed tbe other guilty of the forgery, but each had forgiven the other on account of the sacrifice in volved In the act. A few rapidly spo ken words passed between them, there was a quick embrace, and the cere mony proceeded. But they were both too much affected to make the re sponses intelligently. Tbe seme day I stopped all pro ceedings Id tbe chancery court aa to tbe Jefferson will pending tbe arrival of tbe Australian. In due time tbe confessed forger Inherited the prop erty. enjoying It with his confessed forger wife. If before handling this case 1 bad qualms of conscience In defending a criminal who I hud every reason to be lieve to be guilty I certainly never had afterward Our system of Jurispru dence Is based on hundreds of years' experience and should be followed un flinchingly. 4