"For travellers, mariners,
etc., Promethean fire and phos
phorus ; G. Watts respectfully
acquaints the public that he
has prepared a large quantity
of machines of a portable and
durable kind, with Promethean
fire, paper and match enclosed,
most admirably calculated to
prevent those disagreeable sen
sations which most frequently
arise in the dreary hour of mid
night from sudden alarms,
thieves, fire or sickness.”
This Advertisement
is 125 Years Old
In the Morning
Post, published in
London, in 1788, ap
peared this, the first
match advertisement
ever published.
In the 125 years
that have slipped by
since this advertise
ment was printed,
extraordinary
changes have taken
place in the manu
facture of matches.
The last word in
matches is the Safe
Home brand. These
matches conform
with the new Federal
law, designed to pro
tect match factory
employees, and re
move a poison from
the reach of children in
American homes.
Safe Home Matches
don’t spark or sputter.
Old-fashioned matches
did both.
Safe Home Matches
burn evenly. Old-fash
ioned matches burnt fit
fully—or not at all.
“The world do move.”
5c. All grocers.
Ask for them by name.
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480 FINE FARM FOR SALE. 480
I have three quarters of Good land to sell, 14
miles northeast of O’Neill, Neb. 160 acres under
% plow; 60 acres meadow; 4 acres hog lot; balance in
pasture. 60 rods from good school; Sy2 miles of
I Opportunity, Store, cream station and postoffice. In
| a good neighborhood. Good road to county seat.
| The place has good improvements and will be sold |
| right. If you are looking for anything like this, call |
on I
E. D. Henry, Execvitor,
O’Neill. _____ Nebrask^l
FOB SALE OB RENT
My barn located on west Douglas
| street. A splendid proposition for a
hustler. Can give immediate pos
| session. Have also for sale eight
I head of horses, 10 sets of buggy har
ness, 6 buggies, 2 carriages and 8
| robes. \
Must be sold at once. If you
want a good bargain call and see me.
P. D. PULLEN.
El_____
PAID ADVERTISING.
Dr.* Corbett, dentist, in O’Neill
every day. Lady assistant. 35-tf
For Rent—Two furnished rooms.
—Mrs. Frank Campbell. 5-4
Wanted—A girl.—O’Neill Sanatary
Laundry, Phone No. 209. 4-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.
For Sale—Cattle of all kinds; will
sell either for cash or on time.—
Cowperthwaite & Son. 4G-tf
Special deals and prices on buggies,
wagons, feed grinders, gas engines,
manure spreaders, at Brennan’s. 24-tf.
$15.00 Reward—For the return to
this office of a Roy Gold Hunting case
watch, with a 17 Jewel Webb C. Ball
nickle movement. 7-2
Money To Loan—I have some
private money to loan on choice Holt
county real estate, at a very reason
able rate of interest.—J. H. Meredith,
O’Neill. 52-tf
Lost—An English setter named
Queen; small dog white and tan.
Please return to Farmers Co-Opera
tive Cream Station and get reward.
We are paying 24 cents for butter
fat.—Thomas Grady, Manager. 7-2
What makes the value of a photo
graph? We all agree that it depends
on the age of same. The late photo
graphs could be duplicated but the
old ones are the only exact record to
be had of departed child-hood, dead
relatives or scattered families and
friends. To have such a record you
should have your photo made at once
as time waits for no one. The O’Neill
Photo Co. is at your service. 7-2
Headache and Nervousness Cured.
“Chamberlain’s Tablets are entitled
to all the praise I can give them.”
writes Mrs. Richard Olp, Spencerport,
N. Y. They have cured me of head
ache and nervousness and restored me
to my normal health.” For sale by
all dealers. 3-4
Electric Sparks.
Perhaps Mr. Croker is coming over
to get a new line on Tammany meth
ods, and thus be prepared to give
Ireland further “blessings” when
home rule arrives.
Stealing a girl’s clothes when she’s
in swimming isn’t much of a crime
nowdays. There isn’t much to steal.
A German Student’s dual ended
fatally; but it won’t end student’s
duelling.
William Waldorf Astor is under
stood to be willing to sell his London
Papers, the Pall Mall Gazette and the
Observer, because the newsboys can’t.
The Kaiser now has an opportunity
to show Cousin George how to deal
with the militants. Two women in
vaded a German newspaper office
and pumulled the editor for five min
utes because his paper had described
the woman who had attended an anti
militarist meeting as “hysterical,
characterless feemale.”
The announcement that Villa has
promoted Fierro, who murdered Ben
ton, to a Brigadier-generaiship is
quickly followed by the statement
that Villa will seeek to have Huerta
and some of his followers tried for
murder. If all of Mexico’s murderers
are to pay the penalty, Carranza may
find difficulty in forming a Govern
ment.
Carranza may ignore Villa all he
wants to, but it’ll hardly be safe to
turn his back on him.
As things go nowdays, it doesn’t
seem any more binding to contract an
alliance than it is to get married.
Now that the Mexican peon had
acquired the priceless blessing of
liberty, what’s he gonna do with it?
It would do just as well for the Japs
headed Michiganward to check their
impetuousity beefore they reach the
Canadian Border.
If the vacancy in the Supreme
Bench is not soon filled, it’ll be up to
one of those new-fangled commissions
to make the appointment.
If a friend pulls his watch on your
funny story, cut it short.
It is not necessarily a small matter
when a woman puts her best foot for
ward.
By covering up their tracks some
men get credit for walking in the
straight and narrow path.
Some are born rich, others acquire
riches, and some get into politics and
trust riches upon themselves.
Mexico has agreed to participate in
the San Francisco-Panarpa ex-position
and the suggestion is made that Gen.
Huerta would make an interesting
exhibit.
One Eastern cartoonist depicts
President Wilson as Don Quixote, and
Secretary Biyan as Sanch Panza.
The windmills are left out, but it is
assumed that they are the two houses
of congress.
Huerta’s envoys who went to Niag
ara seeking peace are afraid to re
turn home with it. They are going to
England, where usually there is not
only peace but quiet.
While the man is borrowing all the
time from his friends is a nuisance,
the banker who lends too generously
to himself is a regular peril.
Added to its other troubles, New
York state is suffering a grasshopper
invasion. No wonder nobody wants
to be its Governor.
Wfiile offering his sword to his
country, Gen. Huerta discretely re
franes from offering his bank account.
Thus far the common people have
not been called upon to endure the
exactions of a sauerkraut trust.
Poor old Huerta is one more man
who feels that the people do not know
what is good for them.
Theories cause us no more worry
than do facts.
Some men carry their courage
around in a pocket flask.
An egotist imagines that the world
J. M. TEEGARDEN
of Cass County
HK1H! IIIjIC A N C AN Dll) ATK
FOU
State Treasurer
311 Years In Nebraska
thinks as much of him as he thinks of
himself.
The good die young, but occasionally
an old hen shows up on the bill of
fare as a spring chicken.
Caution: Besides walking on the
shady side of the steet, citizens should
refrain from haggling with the dealer
over the price of furs.
Flirtation is a coeducational in
stitution, says Old Man Doodle, but
no body ever got a diploma.
By appointing John Lind to succeed
George Fred Williams, the President
might restore the balance of lo
quility.
Members of the American army and
navy who have been perspiring in
Tampico and Vera Cruz are not likely
to demand the annexation of Mexico
if they have to police it.
Nearly every man thinks he could
manage a railroad, and judging by the
New Haven revelations, almost any
man could have managed that road
better than is was managed.
What has become of the old fash
ioned city fisherman who on every
possible occasion had a group photo
graph taken of himself and a borrowed
string of fish?
i Several reputations are in course
of being wrecked in that New Haven
scandal, along with the fortunes of
various innocent by standing in
vestors.
Kansas farmers are giving fetes in
order to keep the boy in the country.
Improving the old fashioned cookery
would also help.
Tangoing on the heavy sand of the
beach is no slight punishment for
itself.
Secretary Bryan is reported to have
abandoned hope for the ratification
of the Nicaraguan treaty. While he
was about it, he might as well have
abandoned the Colombian treaty and
made it twins, saving himself a sec
ond ordeal.
The man whose aspiration is strong
enough doesn’t mind a little perspi
ration in order to reach his goal.
—
Well, if it will be nearly a year be
fore we will have to go to worrying
about another income tax again.
It is all right for the weather man
to give us some warm weather but
he needn’t over do it.
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Our guess is that Huerta will not
fraternize with Diaz when he gets on
the other side.
Nebraska Notes.
Ethel Haight, the 17-year-old daugh
ter of C. E. Haight, of Verdel, will
probably die as the result of being
poisoned from drinking ice water.
Peter Clauson, of near Madison, sus
tained a fracture of the jaw when
kicked in the face by a horse.
Samuel R. Murphy, of Tecuipseh,
who had filed for the office of sheriff
of Johnson county, has deserted the
political game and will return to his
old occupation, that of balooning.
Hastings business men have voted
for the holding of a fall festival, Oc
tober 5 to 12.
Seth Myers, living near Avoca,
threshed 807 bushels of oats from a
12-acre field. •
Rev. S. W. Wittenracker of Horton,
Kan., has been elected pastor of the
Nebraska City Baptist church.
THE CURIOUS AXOLOTL
It’s a Regular Jekyll and Hyde Sort of
Reptile.
Tersons of only ordinary powers of
observation know that tadpoles become
frogs. This process of transformation
Is one of the most Interesting of the
tuuny curious things that go on about
us every day. The case of the tadpole
nnd frog is mentioned that the reader
may more easily understand a reptile
that Is found In southern California
nnd Mexico.
There are several varieties of aala
mandrlne reptiles in North America, all
of them perfectly harmless. One In
particular lives In the desert regions of
the southwest. The Mexicans call it
the axolotl. It is perhaps the most
curious of all reptiles. It Is a light
gray or pure white translucent reptile
nbout seven Inches In length. It lives
In lakes nnd ponds, breathes through
gills just back of the front legs, has a
long tnll nnd caudnl tins above nnd
below that extend Its entire length nnd
four stout legs, with which It creeps
about the bottom of the pond.
In the region where these reptiles
live long continued droughts are com
mon. Then the ponds and lakes dry
up. As the water falls evaporation be
gins. Instinct warns the axolotl thnt
there will shortly bo no water, and be
mnkes preparation for n terrestrial
life. Tho gills disappear, and be comes
to the surface for nir jnst ns a tadpole
does when he Is about to become a
frog. Aa the water grows shallower
the axolotl loses n portion of Ills tnll.
sheds Ills caudal fins, chnnges from
white to brown with gray spots nnd
when tho water Is quite gone takes to
the sand hills and becomes a spotted
salamander.
The most remarkable thing about It
all Is that when the water supply Is
not exhausted be lives his entire life
ns nn axolotl ^nd never tries to become
a spotted salamander. By experimen
tation nn axolotl has been made to un
dergo almost complete transformation
and then has been turned back into nn
axolotl again.—Youth’s Companion.
MYSTERY OF THE SALMON.
Their Annuel Med Ruehee end Death
After Spawning.
The world’s greatest salmon runs are
to be found along the shores of the
north Pacific ocean. In the states of
Washington, Oregon and California,
the province of British Columbia and
Alaska, on the American side, and Si
beria and Japan, on the Asiatic side.
So far, however, but few salmon have
been canned on the Asiatic side.
To one who has never witnessed
these annual runs It Is almost an im
possibility to convey nn adequate Im
pression of the countless numbers of
fish that swim In from the sea In the
late spring and summer, all Imbued
with the same desire—to gnln suitable
grounds tn the upper reaches of the
rivers, some of which are from 1,500 to
2,500 miles In length, where they may
perpetuate the species.
No obstacle appears too great to be
surmounted In this feverish rush.
Jumping falls, shooting rapids, dodg
ing nets, bears, birds, mink, otter and
other enemies, fighting with other
males, whom the near approach of the
breeding season renders especially sav
age—all these are taken as a matter of
course.
And yet one sometimes wonders If
the heroic struggle Is worthily repaid,
for the moment of victory Is also that
of death, as. sad to relate, these
valiant voyagers can breed but once
and then must die, their wasted bodies,
which have received no nourishment
since leaving salt water, becoming the
prey of any prowling bear or carrion
bird which may chance upon them.
Why these fish should all die after
spawning still remains one of the great
unsolved mysteries of the scientific
world.—Wide World Magazine.
Pocket Hunters.
There Is no more Interesting charac
ter In California than that class of
prospector known as the "pocket hunt
er." In certain sections of the moun
tains the rich gold deposits are con
tained In smull scattered pockets near
the surface. The pocket miners often
discover many rich deposits by tracing
the particles of gold In the soil to
their sources. As soon as a pocket Is
gouged out and colors of gold ure no
longer shown the place Is abandoned.
In one pocket In Trinity county as
much as $45,000 was yielded In a few
feet—Argonaut
How He Uses His Hands.
Some curious facts about Mr. Town
*end, the art editor of London Punch,
are narrated. He Is a curious Instance
of ambidexterity. His drawings are
done with the left hand, but his letters
are written with the right hand. He
Is left handed as a billiard player, but
right handed as a card dealer. And
when be plays cricket he Is a left
banded bowler but a right handed
batsman.—London Answers.
Way to Marital Happiness.
“Marry a bright woman for success
and a pretty one for happiness.” ad
vises a student of the problem. Also
one who can cook for the benefit of the
digestion might be advisable, but the
pesky laws limit you to one.—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Between Girls.
Marie—How are you going to reform
him? Kate—By marrying him. Marie
—Goodness! Does he require such he
role treatment as that?—Boston Tran
script
There is no tonic like that which
comes from doing things worth while
-Orison Swett Marden.
raws win
PRODUCE OPERA
Ihelr Rendition of “The Bo
Mid Girt” a Treat
10 SINGERS, 5 MUSICIANS.
Leading Opera Artiste Inoluded In
Organization, Thereby Afford*
ing a Special Treat.
There nre few names more familiar
In the Lyceum nnd Cbuutnuqua than
tlie n.^ni' of HInshaw. The liinahaws
have perhaps sent out a greater num
ber of successful companies In Chau
tauqua nnd Lyceum than any other
combination not directly engaged in
the Lyceum nnd Chautauqua business
ns managers. The Htnshaws nre pro
ducers, and the quality of their produc
tions is so well known that to expand
upon the value of any organization sent
out under their direction would be su
perfluous.
rue Hlnshaw Sinning Hand la com
posed of ten singers, accompanied by
the Illlder Orchestra of five musi
cians, who are prepared to present to
the public a program of unusual merit
Mr. Hlnshaw has chosen the opera of
“The Bohemian Girl,” by Bulfe, and
every one that knows of thlB opera or
has heard It will appreciate the fact
that It Is music that will give as great
a pleasure ns any opera written. In
fact, few .operas are as tuneful, classic
nnd pleasing In every way as “The Bo
hemian Girl." “The Bohemian Girl”
will draw a larger house In large cities
like Chicago and New York than the
Wagner operas, because the people love
It They love the scenes filled with
comedy and pathos; they love the won
derful and beautiful music set to these
words. Every member of this company
Is an urtlst, an unusual thing consider
ing the fact that ten singers are offered
Mr. J. A. Hlnshaw was secretary nnd
treasurer of the Metropolitan English
Grand Opera Company, which produced
opera In Chicago for two seasons, and
the fact that “The Bohemian Girl” not
only pleased the audience at the per
formances, but demonstrated Its worth
from a financial standpoint Inasmuch
as It was reproduced several times and
never failed to bring less than from
$500 to $1,500 more than any other
opera, demonstrates its popularity.
In the organisation are artists who
have appeared with leading opera com
panies, thereby affording the Chautau
qua a special treat
"THE COMMUNITY LECTURER."
Milton Bryant Williams, “The Com
munity Lecturer,” a Canadian by birth,
In his boyhood knew the hardships of
pioneer life on the farm. The oldest of
three brothers, he laid his hand to as
sist his father In clearing the home
stead. Although his school advantages
were much curtailed by the demands
of labor, at seventeen he was able to
enter the teaching profession, meeting
the rigid requirements of the Ontario
board of education without having
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MILTON BRYANT WILLIAM8.
spent a day In high school, and at tin
end of three years of teaching he went
to college for throe months and passed
the examination for senior matricula
tion in Toronto university. >
Coming to Chicago in the World’s
fair year, he worked his way through
Northwestern university and the Uni
versity of Chicago. The circumstances
of his early life wrought to develop a
strength of mental analysis and grasp
and a sturdiness of purpose which have
attracted attention wherever he has
lived and worked. With a good plat
form presence, vital personal magnet
ism and a strong and musical voice,
these characteristics leave little to be
desired In effectiveness on the lecture
platform.
Wit* Mabel,
Mother—Mabel, why do you take two
pieces of cake? Mabel—’Cauat, ma,
you told me not to ask twice for it—
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Prophetic.
Hypo—Out of a job again?
Typo—Yep; by a mere error of the
types too. I Intended to set it up
“Gottfried,” but In the proof it showed
up aa “Gotflred.” and the result justk
fledUhe spelling — Pittsburgh Press.
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