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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1914)
| COUNTESS GREY ENTERTAINS WOUNDED AT HER COUNTRY ESTATE { ' ——————I mu JfJU——WIM Wl < WIIIT'in THE CC {Copyright, 1914. by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) John lived on a farm, and, like all boys who live in the country, be could milk the cows and drive the oxen and feed the pigs, and do all the things that have to be done on a farm. John’s cousin. Charles, lived in the city. John visited him once, and the memory of that visit was not pleas ant. First, his clothes were not like those worn by the city boys, and Charles said they were ''countrified;" then John did not know the games the boys in the city played, and, altogether, the memory of the visit brought bitter thoughts. It was two years since that visit, and now Charles was coming to the farm to spend the summer. John drove to the station to meet him, but both boys had changed so much they did not recognize each other until the train pulled away from the station. John stood by the car riage and Charles came up to him. “Isn’t this John ” he asked, putting out his hand. As they drove home John told Charles all the points of interest and showed him the big pond where they skated in the winter and gathered lilies in the summer. “You must have great fun here in the winter,” said Charles. "We do,” replied John; “you know there isn’t much to be done on a farm in the winter, and we have candy pulls at the different farm houses and we skate by moonlight and build a fire on the bank of the pond and heat coffee. Oh, it isn’t so bad living in the country," he said, with a laugh. The next morning, when Charles went out to the barn John was milk ing. "Why didn’t you call me?” asked Charles. “You are not used to getting up so early.” replied John, "and then there is nothing you can do.” “I could help you with the work,” said Charles. “Not in those clothes,” replied John, looking at Charles’ well pressed clothes. "I have an old suit with me,” said Charles; "1 will put it on If you will let me help you with the milking; it looks easy." "Ail right,” said John, "go and change your clothes.” John smiled to himself. “He thinks It easy," he said. “Well, I’ll let him try, if the cow does not kick." Charles came back dressed in an old pair of trousers and a shirt turned away at the neck and the sleeves' rolled up. John gave Charles his seat on the stool, and Charles took the pail be tween his knees as John had held it. “You must have finished milking this cow,” he said, after trying a minute. “No, I didn’t." said John. “Look," he 6aid as he took the pall, and, sure 91 USi MS. enough, the milk fell In streams into it. "Let me try again,” said Charles. But, try as he would, be could not get the milk. "It looks easy enough,” he said, "but I do not know how; will you teach me?” John said ho would, and by break fast time Charles could manage to get a little milk Into the pall, but he felt that he had much to learn. "Never mind,” said his aunt, when they all laughed at him; "you will learn after a while, and be as good a farmer as the rest." After a few days on the farm Charles began to think he was the one to be taught the things that were worth PARIS SEES WAR SPECTACLE PASS Trainloads of Wounded Bring Evidence of Terrible Suffer ing Home to City. Gripping Is the pen picture of a train load of wounded coming Into a Paris railroad station, as described by Regis j Glgnoux In the Figaro, One can almost Imagine oneself standing on the plat form watching the wounded soldiers hanging from the car windows, the bustle of nurses and stretcher bearers, and the quiet nuns hurrying from car to car with refreshments. A train load of wounded Is going away, he writes; another backs down. Soldiers are brushing off the platform, nuroes hasten to their stations beside their canvas shelters, tho nuns are busy cutting bread, filling watering j pots, preparing soup and chocolate on j their movable furnaces. The surgeons advance, casting one last look on tho reports and orders In their hands; stretcher bears follow them. At the same time some 50 military nurses inarch forward from the other side of the station with provisions, each car rying a measure full of water besides. The train comes to u stop. A thou sand soldiers appear at the doors of tho compartments, but do not come out, do not speak; they only look. Some have foreheads bandaged Others have their arms In slings; still more have their necks bandaged, Ono does not aee those who are wounded In tho legs, for the doors are not yet opened. One sees nothing but faces; faces black or red or yellow, and hands that seem enormous. One realizes that these men need no words nor gestures to snake themselves understood. They Just look. They are wntdhing a young aux iliary surgeon with flushed face and feverish eyes, with drooping shoulders, who hurries up to tho staff surgeons w-lth a list and information. The staff surgeons at once give their Instructions to the stretcher bearers. Twenty dress ings to bo made, 12 men to be left at Paris. Work for Nurses and Nuns. Then they re-enter tho ambulance station on tho platform installed by the society for helping tho wounded. The bears, accompanied by the auxiliary surgeon, go to the head of the train. And in the cars tho soldiers under stand that they aro going to pursue their trip because they aro not serious ly wounded. They throw open the floors. Some Jump heavily on the plat form, others remain seated on the steps. And the women nurses and the nuns hurry to them, washing faces and hands, distributing sandwiches, filling rater bottles. Boys run about, carri ng newspapers and postal cards. The bearers go to a car with an open door. In It sits a territorial hospital corps man, smoking his pipe. They question him. He cdlls out to a wound ed man; "Hey, old man. your dress ing." Twelve stretchers In four groups ol three are fastened, one In each corner of the van, and from the platform one can count the soldiers lying there by tho number of heavy shoes with glis tening hobnails which stick out. The man whose wound Is to be dressed hob bles to the booth, steadying himself on the shoulder of a hearer. He does not look around; he Is resigned to It nil. On the other hand one of tho men to be taken off and whose w'ound conse quently Is more serious, tiles to lift himself up from the stretcher to look about him. The surgeon major ver ifies his identity, talks to him and the man shows his legs bandaged up. "Gently there, gently," ho has energy ■enough to call to the bearers who lift him out. And he looks at the auto mobile ambulance standing ready. Hts stretcher Is slipped in and we see him no longer, but one hears the voice of the nurse—'Just a moment, my dear, and you will find yourself In white sheds once more, on a real bed, far from the noise. There now, you will get well soon.” ( A#k« Sandwiches for Foes. Tn file carriages and vans the nuns are hastening, carrying big watering cans, filled with chocolate, and baskets. Near tho locomotive a railroad employe stands guard over a van. Wounded Oermans look out of the open door. There Is a little fellow, tanned a deep i ■brown, on his knees with hands crossed over his stomach. On one finger is a wedding ring. He smells the foot water In the big watering pots beside him, but asks for none. He ■ways slightly. Another, both arms In a. scarf, leans back, looking far away. Others are grouped about In the ■hadow, As soon as a young girl nurse climbs into the van and offers bread and soup tho man who was on his knees does the service without a word, without stopping his swaying. The van keeps Its silence and Immobility. There are officers In some of the car riages, but one must come close to see that they are officers. They converse with one another, a paper on their knees. One recognizes them rather fers them something to drink or from their gesture of acceptance, than by ! their galons. They do not leave the i carriage, simply huddling closer so that j a comrade can stretch out comfortably. Now we get to the last carriage, while ! tho men whose wounds have been 1 dressed return to their cars and tho men for the Haris hospitals are car ried off In tho ambulances. Here Is a car full of cavalrymen and through the flimsy partitions bread and cups of chocolate are being passed from one to another. A big French dragoon corporal hangs far out of a window, bellowing for sandwiches, while he Is already munching one. "But you have been served," remon strates a nun. “But I want them for these boys.” he says, pointing into tho next compartment, where five TJlhans are laughing until they almost loosen up their dressings. A whistle blows; the train Is going to start. Up the platform runs a soldier, looking for his compartment. He can not see very well, for his head Is cov ered with bandages. One catches a glimpse of a big white ball, with a hole in the center through which Is stuck a lighted cignret. He finds his compart ment and jumps in. The door slams <nd the train rolls slowly out. When Sanity Returns. From the Brooklyn Eagle. Connecticut is joined to Its high tariff Idols. Although many of Its factories are working overtime their owners refuse to VlitvO that they have not been ruined by Ytamnable democratic free trade.” Their Atttude, indeed, reminds one of the small boy who sat on the floor and howled dis mally for “the dipper." The dipper was given to him, In the Interests of peace, but he continued to bawl: “I want the dipper!" The fact that he had the dip per was pointed out to him, and when lie could no longer deny the evidence of his hands, he exploded: "I know I’ve got the dipper, but I don't feel as though I had the dipper!” §The feeling of Connecticut for pros perity, with large orders coming in and payrolls Increasing, can only be left to time. When that feeling arrives the solid delegation to congress chosen yesterday will be broken and Senator Brandegee may not he his own successor. Miss Margaret B. Owen holds the tltl -«x world's champion tvnlst. At Howick Castle, Northumberland, the beautiful estate of the Countess Grey, there are many wounded Belgian and British soldiers recuperrting from their wounds. The photo shows Joseph Jacobs, a sergeant in the Tirlemont regiment and a student at the University of Louvain, snowing his wounds and narrating his experi ences to two of the workers at Howick Castle. Sergeant Jacobs is only eighteen years old, but was in every en gagement with the Belgians from Liege to Malines, where he was severely injured. CAMELS CARRYING FIRE WON TAMERLANE A BATTLE From the Strand Magazine. A dispatch from England reports that, "among the bodies of Indian troops that have reached the conti net is a camel corps.” The camel has for centuries figured in the warfare of the east, but he seems a little out of place in modern Europe. History con tains no more interesting example of the use of camels than that devised by the conqueror, Tamerlane. This vrarrior, born in the summer of 1336, son of a humble Asiatic chieftain, rose by sharpness of wit and strength of arm to be master of 27 kingdor 3 extending from what is now the region of Moscow clear through India. Tam - ' erlane was a terrible figure, and k I mighty warrior. In those days men1 fought with brute force, rather than . with engines of war. The sword was the chief weapon of offense. After a mighty struggle Tamerlane made himself potentate over the imme liato nations of Asia, and gave to the ity of Samarcand a brilliant place in Pistory. One by one the Asiatic sul tans came under his sway. India was the rich prize, and against it Tamerlane letermined to move. This was In 1398. With his host he crossed the ■ Indus, marched to Delhi, and stood in arms tefore the gates, The Indian sultan, at the head of 50, 100 soldiers and a herd o" elephants, vhose tusks bore poisoned swords, •ushed upon the invaders. Tamerlane vas sore pressed and the battle might tave gone against him had he not fall m hack on his camels. Hastily gath ering a troop of the beasts, he had them oaded with hay. Then, setting the lay on fire. Tamerlane’s soldiers stam leded the camels toward the ranks of :he Indians. The elephants, at sight of :he blazing hay, wheeled round and 'led in terror, scattering the Indian sul an’s army and Insuring the success of famerlane. Permanent Registration. from Des Moines Register and Leader. While discussion turns on simplifying ■lection laws. It Is Interesting to note that ■Jew York is considering the advisability >f making the registration of voters per nanent. In Iowa new registration is required ivery four years. As in New York, of ourse, the voter is unable to answer off land many of the questions us to dates, ength of residence here and there, and ither formal things and sometimes has ;o guess at what to say. If he doesn't make identically the same answer each Four years ho Is subject to prosecution for perjury. To simplify the matter It is proposed in New York to require one registration, in cluding a brief description of the voter ami thereafter if he moves from his pre cinct he will be supplied with a card which entitles him to registration in his new voting place. This simplification of a burdensome task on the voters, if feasible in New Y'ork, certainly would he in Iowa. RED CROSS HEAD GOES TO BELGIUM WHEN TO USE HOT WATER. (Copyright, J914, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) For severe headaches, insomnia and nervousness of any sort, apply a hot water bag to the base of the brain, at the nape of the neck, and to the feet. Remember, in filling the bag, to leave room for air Inside the bag, so that it will be soft and pliable, fitting snugly around the aching parts. If the head ache is in the front of the head, fore head and temples, wring out flannel cloths in very hot water, to which you can add a little vinegar, if you like. For toothache, earache, neuralgia and light touches of rheumatism, the hot water bag is invaluable. Under stand, it will not cure. The cause of pain eventually must be found and re moved, but there is no reason why the sui'erer, especially she who wakes up in gony in the middle of the night, should not be given relief when so sim ple a thing as hot water will effect it. The bag should be filled with water as hot as it can be obtained, and then covered with soft cloths so as not to burn the skin. Sometimes, in case of THE VALUE OF HONEY. (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) Honey ought to have a bigger place on our menu. That seems to be a safe statement. It is an acknowledged fact that the 85 pounds of sugar, which is the average that each inhabitant of these United States eats annually, is too much sugar for health. Honey could well be substituted for a part of this. It is easily digested, wholesome, and does not overtax the kidneys, as cane sugar does. The craving for sweets is normal to mankind. The child that desires candy would be satisfied, usually, with sweet of some other sort, and honey is one of the most wholesome forms of sweet for children: so it might well be made a part of their menu at least three times a week. Here are some recipes in which honey may appeal to older palates: Honey Drop Cakes. Beat two eggs, whites and yolks to gether and add three tablespoonfuls of melted butter and a third of a cupful of honey. Mix all together and then add a cupful and a third of flour with a teaspoonful and a third of baking powder, sifted together. Drop less than a teaspoonful at a time on buttered baking sheets. Spread with the bowl of a spoon and put a pecan nut meat on each. Bake. Horvey Gingerbread. Beat two scant cupfuls of strained honey with half a cupful of butter. Add a tablespoonful each of ginger and powdered sugar and half a teaspoon - ful of cinnamon. Then add four eggs, whites and yolks beaten separately, a little salt and three even cupfuls of flour sifted twice with a teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat well and pour into a shallow buttered pan. Honey Candy. Mix a pound of honey, a pound of sugar, a teacupful of rich cream, two dessert spoonsful of cold water. Let tlte mixture stand for an hour and then cook slowly, stirring gently, until it is stiff enough to pull Pour it into buttered tins to cool and when it is cool, pull it and cut it into squares. Honey Drink. This is a beverage much liked in country regions in England. To make it. put a pound of honey in a double boiler over the lire and let remain there, with the heat not very high, un til it Is quite thin. If the heat is very high. the honey loses some of its char acteristic taste and changes color. Then, when it is thin, add half an ounce of essence of cloves and a tum I bierful of brandy. Rapidly Revivinq Business. The week just ended brought to business throughout tho United States n great stimulus by reason of the re-employment of many thousands of persons in the mills, shops and factories who had been idle for months past. This was true of New England, of New York anti New Jersey, of eastern Pennsyl vania. and also of the great coal, Iron and steel districts of Ohio and Pennsylvania which are drained by the Ohio river and Its tributaries. Not only have the orders from foreign countries brought direct activity to many of the Industrial establishments of the country, but the exports of our agricul tural districts have brought to the farm ers large sums in casn for their products and placed them In excellent financial con ditions. and thus given them an enormous purchasing power n the aggregate, and their buying is now expanding the trade of the merchants and adding to the orders ' nervous shock and bad circulation the patient’s skin may be burnt before she has any sensation. In case of a severe bruise, apply hot water immediately. A nail on finger or toe may be saved by prompt applica tion of this very simple remedy. The bandage must be changed directly it cools; and the treatment kept up for 20 minutes. You will be amazed to see how the black and blue mark from congested blood will diAppear under hot water applications. The man or woman who spends long weary days on foot, often wastes on a chiropodist money which could be spent to better advantage. The chi ropodist at best gives but temporary relief, while proper bathing the feet will effect a cure. Bathe tired feet i nightly with water as hot as you can j bear, adding a teaspoon of sea salt to the basin of water. This sea salt can j be bought in boxes or bags of any druggist. In case of acute indigestion, hot wa ter, as hot as the patient can sip it, taken very slowly, will bring relief. of the merchants to the manufacturers. Financial stringency In the United States is rapidly coming to a close in every section, save probably the south, and by the 1st of December the federal reserve banks will be lri full operation and the supplies of currency available then will insure financial ease for all future time. This system ends all danger of tight money in the United States, and sound business enterprises can go on with con fidence that they will not be held up here after through lack of necessary funds. For the first time in the history of the United States since the civil war the ma chinery for furnishing the currency of the country is under federal government di rection and control, and when it fails to act as the people desire they have it in their power to remove the obstructions, to eliminate the clogs and arrange it to produce the required results. The era of prosperity, delayed three or four months by the outbreak of war in Europe, is now being ushered in for the benefit of the people of the United States. Call the Firemen. From the National Monthly. An old worthy, who was in the habit of calling each evening at the village inn for a "drop o’ the best," found the landlord one night polishing the taps. : After a few remarks about the weather he received his nightly dram. After he had gone the landlord dis covered, to his horror, that ho had served Donald with a half-gill out : of the bottle of sulphuric acid which he had been using for cleaning the taps. Every moment he expected to hear of old Donald's death, and his re- ; lief was great when the old worthy ar rived the next evening. “Donald, what did you think of that j I whisky you got last night?” “It was a fine dram, a warming ! dram, but it had wan fault. Every time I coughed it set fire to my whis kers.” AIDS SOLDIERS OF BRITAIN AT FRONT si? Ernest P. Bicknell. Ernest P. Bicknell, director or th9 American Red Cross, is going to Belgium to assist in the distribution of the relief sent there by America. This relief already totals in value many hundreds of thousands of doi Lady Winston ChurchilL Lady Winston Churchill, the wife of the first lord of the British ad miralty, is herself actively engaged in aiding the British soldiers at the front. //yyys j/y oz.0 <-JiJ I Scr/r n/yr/y /*7£ ' r-^Ti J knowing, rather than his cousin, altogether the latter lived in the coun try, and he found himself wishing that he knew as much as John. Charles remembered, too, how he had treated John when he visited him, and he was ashamed of it now. One night when John and Charles were walking down the road to the next farm Charles said, “John, I did not treat you right when you came to the city two years ago; I was a foolish boy, and I am ashamed of it. Will you overlook it and begin over?’’ John said he would, and it did not matter anyway, now. "I would give a good deal to be able to do the things that you can,’’ said Charles. “You will before the summer is over,” said John. “You are not afraid to work, and that is all there is to it.” When it was time for Charles to go home he and John parted with regret, Find Charles promised to return for Thanksgiving. John drove home feeling that he should miss his cousin very much, and he is all right, he said, "if he is i city boy; he knows how to work on 1 farm now.” “ THE CHARITY OF TWO LITTLE GIRLS. ^v.vpyi i£lit, uji?, uy cue mlvclu; ucne paper Syndicate.) "Mother,” said Margaret, rushing in to the house one day after school, “I want some of my old clothes to take to school. Minnie Law’s father is sick, and they are poor, so the teacher asked Mary Field and I to bring some old clothes, as we had more to wear than the other girls. Mary is coining here on her way to school with her bundle, and we are going to meet the teacher and go to Minnie’s house.” “I will give you a bundle of clothes,” said her mother, "but have you thought that when Minnie comes to school dressed in your clothes or Mary’s that the other children will recognize them, and it will bo embarrassing for Min nie?” "Minnie never had anything to wear like the other girls,” said Margaret. “She has worn one dress for two win ters every day. so I am sure she will be glad to have my old ones. Do j hurry, mother, and get them ready.” j “Sit down and eat your dinner.” said I her mother. ”1 want to talk to you. i I want you to put yourself in Minnie’s I place. Suppose you were very poor j and the teacher came here with a1 bundle of Mary Law’s clothes and asked you to put them on and go to school, would you want to go? Now' think!” 1 Margaret thought a minute and then i she said. “Of course, I would not wear Mary’s old clothes, but what an idea; ! I shall never be so poor as that.” “You do" not know-,” said her mother, . "one can never tell what may tiappen, and while I do not expect you will ever be in want, still I want you to answer me how would you like to go to school dressed in Mary’s old clothes?” “Well, that is Just the wa^r Minnie will feel, I am sure,” said her mother. . "and you and Mary can take the , clothes to her mother to make over j for the other children, but you must find some other way to help Minnie.” Just then Mary Field came to the ' door with her bundle, and Margaret told her of the talk she had with her mother. "You wouldn’t want to wear my old clothes to school, would you?" asked Margaret, using her mother’s argument. "No!" answered Mary, "I wouldn’t I had not thought of it in that wav. and I do not believe the teacher did and now I have thought about it i think we better let the teacher take the things to Mrs. Law. It might make Minnie feel bad if she thought we - knew how- poor they are.” "That is so,” said Margaret: “the teacher can say she got them from a friend of hers, whoso little girl had outgrown them, which will be per fectly true.” “But how can Minnie come to school?” said Mary. "We have not helped her, and I do not see how we can. I wish my cousin Betty lived here, she has such pretty clothes and so many, too. lots more than we have; Comfort With Economy. Confronted by the ever present and Increasingly difficult problem of the Insufficient 100-eent dollar, the house wife must look for its solution to the great principles of domestic economy, writes a prize winner in the New York Press. To cut down expenses without cutting down the comforts of home, to encompass the need, to save without losing, is worthy of intense study. Cer tain simple rules underlie all success ful attempts at domestic economy: 1. Have an allowance and keep within it. 2. Eliminate the unnecessary. 3. Substitute the inexpensive^ 4. Utilize by the by-product. 5. Buy carefully. A true economist is not only a good saver, but a good buyer. Here again certain simple rules blaze the way 1. By careful investigation deter mine the best place for general trading. 2. Do your own marketing. 3. Watch the scales. 4. Consider quality—the cheapest In price is not always the cheapest in value. 6. Buy staples, as flour, potatoes etc., by the barrel. 6. Do not buy In quantity when a forced using must follow the purchase. 7. Buy the smallest possible amount of perishable goods. 8. Take advantage of food sales when quality Is guaranteed. 9. Buy country produce directly from the farmer. Company buying has .ometimes I have one or her dresses Tiade over, because no one around iere has ever seen them.” "Why couldn’t we write to her,” said Margaret, "and she can send any ;hing. We can pay the express. I lave 50 cents that I was saving to go o the park Saturday.” "I have almost a dollar,” said Mary. ---- I How much do you suppose it will ost?” Margaret’s mother told them it would tepend on the size of the bundle, and be little girls decided to write to dary’s cousin. In a few div’s the answer came, to :xpect a box to follow soon, and one norning Mary came running to Mar raret’s house with the news that the >ox had arrived. "And. Margaret, there is a winter mit. all good, and a linen suit, all tood. and a, muslin dress and waists ind two skirts and two pairs of shoes." said Mary, without stopping to catch ter breath. "I have not got so many 'lothes as that.” “Neither have I,” said Margaret. ‘Bet us get them and take them to dinrie.” Then both little girls stopped and ooked at each other. "We can't do •hat.” said Margaret. “Minnie will eel every time she wears the clothes hst wo know they are some one's old ■lothes.” So they decided that the teacher should do the giving just as she had lone with tho other clothes and that hey should not? appear in it at all. Both little girls paid their part of lie expressage, which took all the nonoy they had saved, but they gave t cheerfully, and when they saw Min lie at school1 the next week, well Iressed anil happy, they were glad I -hey did not let her know that they vere the donors. t3 advantages. 10. Pay cash. This I* the keynote of he .arch. Without this the structure ias no stability, the individual no teo lomie independence. The Belgian Order of Agriculture lias oeen conferred upon Mrs. Bello Van Porn, president of the International Congress of farm Women. A A A A » .! . . . . . . ...» A ► the trade mark of war. ♦ ► From Life. ♦ y Permit me to make myself ♦ y known. 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