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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1914)
I GREAT DISPERSION SALE Of Carter Brothers’ Famous Herd, Consisting of I 900 Head High-Grade Herefords To Be Held at the Carter Ranch, 25 miles south of 1 Wood Lake, Nebraska 1 April 24, 1914 Commencing at 10:30 a. m. Sharp. Free Lunch at Noon. The Offerings are as Follows: * 281 High-grade breeding cows and heifers, from 3 to 7 years old; ■ El 250 high-grade Herefords and 31 Black Polled Angus. These cows ■ ■ will average better than 1100 pounds straight through and are un gj doubtedly the best herd of breeding cows in the middle west. 105 extra good boned spayed heifers, 3 years old, all big boned, fine ra quality. These are practically all good true type Herefords. 84 extra quality 3-year-old steers. These are as fine a bunch of gjj big type Hereford steers as can be found anywhere in this country. 100 two-year-old steers, same quality and kind as the 3-year-olds, g 100 2-year-old heifers. These are the same breeding as the above | described steers, in fine shape and are without doubt the toppiest 3 bunch of young heifers in the west 200 yearling steers and heifers, big growthy, thrifty kind, all true §jj type Herefords, almost pure breds, all dehorned. Twice vaccinated. 12 Registered Hereford Bulls, these are from such pure-bred Here ■ ford breeding heads as the A. E. Cook herd at Odebolt, Iowa. 50 Percheron Horses and Mares; 12 heavy draft teams; 12 match Sn ed teams, geldings and mares. Big type Percherons; will weigh from flj 2600 to 3000 pounds. 10 Good Percheron Brood Mares; these are all with foal to registered ■ Percheron stallion recently owned on this ranch. B 14 Head of Colts; two and three years old, all sired by registered Percheron stallion. I will also sell all the ranch equipment, farm machinery, harness, H saddles and hay tools all in good condition and can be bought at your TERMS—Will be announced on day of sale. All credit purchasers 1 M. F. NORTON, Owner. I I Cols. Tim Priest, H. F. Slaughter and Dick Hunt, Auctioneers Ernest Jackson of Jackson Brothers, Bankers, Clerk. THE American Adding Machine The latest Adder Costs but $35 See our exhibit—ask for 10 day’ trial Here |s a new price on a compet ent Adder. On a machine that is rapid, full-size and infallible. The very latest, machine, built by men who know, in one of the laigest metal-working shops It is an individual Adder, tube placed on one’s desk, dole lo one’s books and papeis. To take the place of the cential machine re quiring skillful operators It is also intended for oftlces and stores where costly machines are a luxur/. The price is due lo utter sim plicity and lo our enormous output. Seven kejs do all Hie work. Sach copied number isshown up for checking before the ad dition is made. Tiie machine will add, sub tract and multiply. With very little practice anyone can compute a hundred tig tires a minute And the ma chine never makes mistakes. Countless offices, large and small, are getting from these machines the highest class of service. Now we make tills offer so that offices everywhere may learn what this machine means lo them. Ten Days’ Test We will gladly place in any office one American Adder for a ten days’ test. There will be no obligations, and charges will be prepaid Compare it with anv non-lister— even the costliest Let anyone use it- See is anv machine can serve better than this. .lust'send tills coupon and we’ll send Jie machine. J. H. HIBER, O'NeiU, Nebraska: Please send us an American Adding Machine for ton days' tree trial. Same __ Street Addrese... City .. State ... Manufactured and Guaranteed by AMERICAN CAN COMPANY. CHICAGO Sold in O’Neill by J. W. HIBER. I Go To PleJt’s PaMrvt SKop For prices on Paints, Oils, Lead and Interior Flat paint. Know where you are at, get estimates covering cost of Material and Painting complete. Everything as reasonable as good Material and I Workmanship will permit. Special attention to Interior decoration and Farmer's orders for Material. :: :: :: :: OR.. G. E. MICKLE OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Naylor Building O’Neill, Neb. Office Hours: 9-12 A. M., 2-5 P. M. Phone 262. —See— Dewey Losfoer —for— EXCELSIOR MOTER CYCLE Write me at O’Neill, R. F. I). No. 1 PAID ADVERTISING. Block Salt at Gallagher’s. 40 cents a block. “My-kind” flour; high quality; reasonably priced. 35-tf Onion Seed—$1.00 a pound. Phone 227—C. E. Burch. 43-tf. “My-kind flour; high quality; reasonably priced. 35-tf Dr. Corbett, dentist, in O’Neill everd day. Lady assistant. 35-tf For Sale—My Modern Residence. Terms to suit purchaser.—Cam Tinsley. 44-tf Wanted—-Girl at the O’Neill Sani tary Laundary. Good wages to the right party. 43-tf. Own your own home. Monthly op tional payment plan. Call on John L. Quig, O’Neill. 2Stf. Fine Candies and Hot Chocolate.— McMillin & Markey’s Bakery and Candy Kitchen. 22-tf. Star Brand Shoes are better, no substitute for leather ever used. For sale by Fred Alberts. 51-tf. Wanted—One or Two Men Roomers. Sober ones only need apply.—Mrs. E. D. Henry, south of Creamery. 43 For Sale—Six room house and four lots, in the southwestern part of the city.—Miss Alice Coykendall. 44-tf Bound to Rise Flour 10 sacks for $11.00; North Star 10 sacks for $10.50, for cash, at Gaughengaugh’s. 42-tf. Special deals and prices on buggie3, wagons, feed grinders, gas engines, manure spreaders, at Brennan’s. 24-tf. For Sale—Eggs from Pure White and Buff Orphingtons. 75 cents per setting of 15.—R. N. Brittell, O’Neill. Seed Oats For Sale—I have some good Sweedish Select and Big Four seed oats for sale.—G. D. Janzing, O’Neill. 43-2. For Sale—Eggs from Pure White and Buff Orpington’s. 75 cents per setting of 15.—R. N. Brittell, O’Neill. 41-4. For Sale: Pure Buff Rock eggs for hatching; $1.00 for a setting of 15 eggs or $6.00 per 100.—J. E. Hard ing, R. F. D. No. 1, O’Neill. 40-5 For Sale at a Bargain—If sold with in the next thirty days, a good six room house and three 45-foot corner lots, well located. Enquire of C. F. McKenna. 44-2 Strayed—From the Sulivan farm, north of O’Neill, on or about April 8, a team of bay mares with their colts. Please notify Jack Sullivan’s saloon, O’Neill. 44-tf. “My-kind” flour at J. P. Gallagher’s, D. D. Harrington Co.’s, J. C. Horris key’s, P. J. McManus’, R. R. Mor rison’s, Thomas Quinn’s and J. J. Walsh’s. A flour of quality. 38-tf. Home Grown Seed Corn for Sale— Iowa Silver Mine and Mortgage Lifter. Tested 95 per cent. Sample at First National Bank. Leave orders at bank or write M. W Spry, Meek, Neb. 44-4 Carey-Ized Block salt, 2 blocks for 75 cents; 100 pound sack 65 cents; 70 pound sack 45 cents; 50 pound sack 36 cents; All other salt accordingly. Bound to Rise flour 10 sacks for $11.00; North Star 10 sacks for $10.50, for cash at Gaughenbaugh’s. 44-tf For Sale—To close up an estate we offer for sale 160 acres of good hay land, 3 miles from Emmet, being the southwest quarter of section 3, town ship 28, range 13, at $25.00 per acre, cash. For further information enquire of George Gaughenbaugh, O’Neill, or John Gaughenbaugh, Emmet, Ne braska. 42-tf. _ A Bachelor’s Dilemma. A local bachelor has a problem on his mind. He has been reading about one woman who wants a divorce be cause her husband did not kiss her often enough; another wants a divorce because her husband kissed her too often and a third wants a divorce be cause she caught her husband kiss ing another woman. What the bachelor wants to know is: “How are you going to please ’em?” Time to Sow Alfalfa. This month or next is the time for the spring seeding of alfalfa, either in the eastern or western part of the state, says the Nebraska College of Agriculture. The advantage of plant ing now is that the plants may be given an early start on account of the spring rains. However, care must be taken to see that the alfalfa does not have to contend with a large crop of weeds, or it will be choked. The safest way to prevent a growth of weeds is to clean the ground by previous cultivation. If the field that will be used for alfalfa was plowed in the fall, it should be disked as soon as it can be worked and kept disked and harrowed until seeding. This will not only destroy the weeds but con serve the moisture. Additional in formation concerning alfalfa may be had from bulletins No. 120 and 132 from the bulletin department of the University farm, Lincoln. Choleraic Pigs Pigs from immune sows are not always immune to cholera. Some litters may be farrowed in infected pens and go past weaning time with out becoming infected, while others get cholera within two or three weeks after farrowing. The safe method, says the Animal Pathologist at the University Farm, is to give these pigs serum alone at about three weeks, which will usually carry them well past weaning time when they can be given the simultaneous treatment. There are some herds where the pigs seem to be very suceptible to cholera. In these it will be necessary to give serum alone more than once in order to carry them several weeks past weaning. Pigs given the simultaneous method soon after weaning some times lose this protection within a few months. To acquire a long time immunity, pigs should weigh at least 50 or 60 pounds at the time of receiv ing simultaneous treatment. At this weight the immunity usually lasts the ordinary life time of the hog, although in some instances hogs that have been proved positively immune at 125 pounds have later developed cholera. Nature is not constant. .. . i.i ri it » >»4K^$H^s$>v^*>vJ><fX5><4X^K5> v8xt> I iB/>e Kimberleyl I Gem | | It Was Taken From the | Owner, and He Was Obliged to Steal It ^ | By ARTHUR STANTON | «S ■>$><£<§«§*$><§*!'4 There was but one way out of the situation— 1 must become a thief, a thief of my own property. I’ossesslou Is nine points of the law. and posses sion was with my opponent. He held the gem. and I could tight for it in the courts. 1 must get possession of it and let him tight for it by law. No; 1 could not do that either, for if i stole It the law would convict me of being a thief and restore the diamond to Its supposed owner. If Uenton hadn't peached 1 could huve got away with my property without nny trouble. This 1s how it happened. Thrown on iny beam ends, .vet young and vigor ous. I resolved to strike out for some new country where there were chances for a fellow to get a clutch on the rounds of the ladder. Kate de cid d where I should go. Loitering on the dock in New York, where a steamer was loading for South Africa, I went aboard, saw the purser and told him I would like to work my way across the big pond. I knew how to figure, and he needed a clerk, so he gave me a Job. my pay being my grub and my passage \\ Hi, In time I found myself tn Smith Africa and. being strapped, was obliged to go to work in the diamond mines to keep myself from starving. We were ali searched on leaving work each day to make sure that we had no stones in our possession. It was hard work and poor pay. especially for me. who had been brought up in refinement Hut I bad to stnnd it One Sunday I took a long walk into the country. It was a hot day. and to get out of the suu I weut to some low hills where there was shade and sat down on the bank of a stream. Stones and dirt were being constantly wash ed down. and. my eyes becoming fixed on a brown pebble. I picked it up and looked at It. It was about the size and shape of a large almond. It look ed to me like a diamond in the rough, and if it hadn’t been so large 1 might have suspected that It wns a diamond. I hadn’t been working In the mines long enough to become expert in such matters, so 1 put it In my pocket and took it home. Intending to get Jim Centon, a fellow workman with whom 1 bad fallen In and who seemed dis posed to be chummy with me, to pass upon It. I'll never forge* the look on Jim’s face when he turned It from the stone to me. "Flow In the world did you ever get out with it?" he asked. "Get out with it! What do you men n?" "Out of tli(> mines?" ”1 didn't bring It out of the mines. I found It miles from the mines. What Is It?" "It's a diamond." It was now my turn to look peculiar. I had a fortune In my possession, but I saw at once that I would he suspect ed of stealing It while at work and not only lose It. but serve a term in prison. "For heaven’s sake. Jim." I said, "don’t say anything about it! I took n long walk today and found It by a stream It must have been washed out by the water. It looked some thing like the stones we are digging out of the ground, hut It wns so large that I didn't think it could be a dia mond.’' .mil ii7iti ;i r.iNi nun luiiMiriiiir mm, believing that I stole the stone, con sidered It his duty to Inform his em ployers, though he might have been moved by the hope of reward or the sp'endld position the act would give him with the management. Anyway, lie went that very evening to the su perintendent's house and told him the story Not having got any promise from him to keep tils mouth shut. I took pains to bury my treasure where no one would lind It. Karly the next morning 1 was called to Hartwell's otlice He told me he mid understood that I had a valuable none in my possession and demand id it. I acknowledged I had a stone, but had found It outside the mines. He gave me my choice of giving it up or standing trial I knew what standing trial meant. I had a valuable dia mond In my possession which there was every reason to suppose came from the company's mines and 1 would be convicted. I agreed to give up the gem on a promise of not be fog prosecuted. I was only discharged. Having told where the stone was to be found. I went to Jim. and from the way I talked to him he was con vinced that I had really found the llumond and knew he had deprived me >f it. He was very much cut up and volunteered to do what he could to mend matters by telling Hartwell that he had done me an injustice. “Don’t make a fool of yourself a sec ond time." I retorted; “if you really wish to undo what you have done do it In another way.” “How?” “Well, the diamond is mine and I’m going to have it. You’ve got Hart well's confidence. I.earn from him where be keeps it and advise me.” "You’re crazy. Do you suppose you can ever get possession of a dia mond in the bands of the diamond company?” "You do what 1 say.” Jim was so upset at having acted with such haste that he finally con sented to do as I asked. That's the trouble with these frightfully con scientious people. They swing as far In one direction as the other. After all. it Isn't the conscience that’s bad. It’s the Judgment, or, more likely, the impulse. Jim, who was in high fa vor with the company on account of having peached on me, was given £500 for telling on me. He offered me all the money paid him for my for giveness. I needed money to carry out my plan to get my diamond, so I ac cepted it ns a loan, promising to re turn it if t succeeded in getting my property. By this time Jim, who wus thoroughly repentant, agreed to help me all he could. One day he came to me and said that dlnmonds were sent periodically to England. They were taken to the const, where they were shipped by steamer. 1 at once made inquiries ubout the route with a view to finding some weak point on which I might operate und learned, among other things, that the gems were shipped Just in time to catch the until steamer for Europe. If through any delay they did not reach the coast before the ves sel sailed they were locked up in the postotlice till the departure of the next ship. 1 :iske<l Jim 10 niiu out iur me « ucu tny stone would be shipped, und be tried to do so, but only learned (bat It was still at Kimberley. I at once sturted over the route looking for some point where 1 might He In wait und catch the convoy napping. 1 came to a stream where the curriers must be ferried over. It occurred to me that something might be done here, but after rucking my brain 1 could hit upon no plan that seemed feasible. 1 went on, but as 1 proceeded 1 formed a scheme a part of which pertained to this ferry. Reaching the coast. I at once went to the postofflce to look over the ground there. I hud nearly all of Jim Bouton's £500 In my pocket and wus well dress ed. I represented myself as a post office official, whose duties were to travel ubout and make reports on dif ferent postoffices. But 1 made no pre tense at supervising the postmaster ut this point, insteud, 1 Invited him to dinner and treated him sumptuously. This gave me access to his office. 1 learned where diamonds were locked when delayed In transportation. One evening after the clerks had gone, home 1 sat with the postmaster in his office. Suddenly 1 fell over In a pretended faint and on reviving begged him to go for a doctor. He did so. and while he was gone with some wax 1 had provided for the purpose I took an impression of the lock on the safe wheie dlnmonds waiting transporta tion were kept. When he returned with the doctor X was so far recovered that 1 did not need the latter's serv ices. The next day I returned to Kimberley and charged Benton to keep u sharp lookout for the shipment of my dla mond. It may be wondered that, since I wus intending to steal my own prop erty, 1 was punctilious as to tuklug this particular stone. It was. firstly, because I should have had to take a good many other stones to make i)P Its value, and, secondly, Jim Benton’s conscience was so stiff that If he had believed that 1 Intended to take uny but the stone I had found he might Dave swung the other way and peach ed on me again. Jim did good work for me In looking out for the shipment of my stone. He was so thoroughly trusted by all those In authority that he could ask ques tions about it without exciting suspi cion. One day he came to me nnd said that a shipment of diamonds wus to be made the uext morning, and my stone was among the number. It was con sidered so vuluable that u double con voy would be sent out Within an hour I started for the coust. Coming to the stream the purty would be obliged to cross, I unchained the boat, pulled myself over und on reaching the opposite shore sent the boat udrlft. As I saw It disappear on the current I felt sure the diamond convoy would be delayed. Then I went on to the coast. 1 had the happiness to see the de layed diamond cnrrlers coming in when the mall steamer was well out at sea. They took the gems to the postmaster, who, I felt sure, would lock them In his safe, und 1 hud a key In my pocket that had been made from the Impression 1 had taken. The party went buck to Kimberley, and soon after their departure 1 reappeared at the postoffice, where 1 was heurtily greeted by the postmaster, whom 1 told that 1 had Inspected the postofflce It Kimberley and would await the next steamer for home. The rest of my work was dead easy. 1 complained of not feeling well und was invited to lodge with the post muster, whose rooms were In the same building with his office. In the mid dle of the night 1 went down in my stocking feet to the safe, opened It. felt among the stones till I recognized my diamond, relocked the safe uud went back to bed. There was no hurry for my depar ture. for the diamonds would not be taken out of the safe till put on the steamer. 1 sailed on the same ship with them and. on reaching Europe, went to Amsterdam, where 1 had my stone cut and sold It for a fortune. 1 concluded to forgive Benton. In consideration of his valuable assist ance, for peaching on me and offered to give him a part of the proceeds. But he would take nothing and, for aught 1 know,-Is still handling a pick la the Kimberley mines. THE FRUGAL PAST A Pair of Trousers Went a Long Way In the Good Old Days. WAIL OF A MAN IN A GROUCH. Hi* Wife’* Reckl*** Gift to a Tramp of One of Hi* Battered Castoff Gar m*nt* Moved Him to a Touohing Dis course on tha Vico of Extravaganco. “A poor man came to the door thl* afternoon and asked If 1 had any old clothes I could spare.” said Mrs. James worthy. "I gave him those gray trou sers of yours, as they were too badly worn out for you to use them again. They were ull faded and full of holes ’’ "The next time you undertake to dis tribute my raiment among the prole tarlat. Mrs. Jumesworthy." returned her grouchy husband, "you might at least consult me. You are assuming altogether too much when you take It for granted thut I am doue with a pair of trousers. As things are golug now in the business world I Hud it ex pedient to wear such garments so long as there Is any way to fasten my sus penders to them. "Times are growing worse and worse, and the tinaudal stringency Is breaking all records, and the man who strives to support bis family ha* troubles enough without coming home to tlnd that the wife of his bosom has given his purple and tine linen to some body’s wandering boy. “I had expected to get two seasons' wear out of those trousers, and 1 bad a sentimental fondness for them, as I wore those trousers on that red letter day when, three years ago. I stood In the White Elouse and proudly shook hands with the illustrious president of this great and glorious republic. I hoped to hand them down to my chil dren’s children, so thut when I am cold Id my grave they might contem plate those historic trousers with streaming eyes and recall the glorious occasion 1 have referred to. Now 1 no longer have n souvenir of my meeting with the president, and posterity is robbed of u great privilege by reusou of your heedless course. I d never think of giving away anything of yours without your ap proval, Mfs. Jamesworthy. Time and ugaln 1 have been tempted to call in some poor but respectable widow with a large family to support and give her your fulse hair, which has become an eyesore to me. as 1 find It lying around wherever I go. but I felt it would be doing you an Injustice and refrained. Yet when nu unknown hobo comes to our door asking for refreshments you hand him my cherished trousers, which are more to me than pride of ancestry or pomp of power. “Your action is a fair sample of the extravagance which keeps men for ever walking In the shadow of the poorhouse. 1 have no doubt tbut my sainted mother would roll over In her grave if she could know of such doings. Under her wise and skillful manage ment my father had a chance to ac cumulate a few piasters for his old age. He wore his trousers until they were full of holes; then my mother took them and half soled them and mnde them as good as new, and he wore them for another term of years until it was Impossible to tell what their original color might have been. “When they were too far gone for further use mother made them over so the older son could wear them, and when he bad used them five or six years there still was enough sound ma terial In them to make a pair for the youngest son.. 1 was tbut youngest son. and all through my boyhood and even In early manhood 1 was wearing expurgated editions of my father’s trousers. “You may make as many race* as you please. Mrs. Jamesworthy, and point the Anger of scorn until the cows come home, but that doesn't change the fact that It was economy of this sort that kept our parents In Ignorance of such things ns the bankruptcy court and tbo associated charities. When I had worn those historic trousers for a few summers and winters, until they would answer the purpose no longer, my mother cut them up Into strips and made rag carpets or them, and those rag carpets were more sensible and more serviceable than the tailor made affairs you have strewn over these Aoors. “After this, please, you will call me Into executive session before giving away any of my nabiUments. Mrs. Jamesworthy.”—Walt Mason In Chi cago News. Concrete Belle. The peculiar vibratory or nonvibra tory properties of concrete are strik ingly shown in bells made of this ma terial. A bell cast In concrete will ring almost like a metal bell, but a slight touch of the hand serves imme diately to stop vibration and tbe re sulting sound. This is due to the lack of homogeneity from tbe standpoint of sound transmission. — London Stand ard. On the Go. “My husband is not borne two nlgbta a month.” “Yon should get the minister to see him." “He is the minister—always being called away to see people."—Kansas City Jorurnal. When you don’t need any help it is wonderful bow many people are eager to come to your assistance.—Philadel phia Record.