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O’NEILL, NEBRASKA
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Meat Market
We have a full line of
Fresh and Cured Meats, Pure Horn*
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John Miskimins
Naylor Block Phone 150
Dr. E. T. Wilson
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
SPECIALTIES:
Eye, :: Ear, :: Nose :: and :: Throat
Spectacles correctly fitted and Supplied
Office and Residence—Rooms No. 1.
and 3, Naylor Block
O’NEILL, NEB.
FRED L. BARCLAY
STUART, NEB.
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Makes Long or Short Time Loans on
Improved Farms and Ranches.
If you are in need of a loan drop
him a line and he will call and see you.
DR. J. P. GILLIGAN
Physician and Surgeon
Special attention give to
DISEASES OF THE EYE AND
CORRECT FITTING OF
GLASSES
DR. P. J. FLYNN
Physician and Surgeon
Night Calls will be Promptly Attended
Office: First door to right over Pix
ley’s drug store. Residence phone 96.
DR.. JAMES H. HALE
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN
Naylor Building :-: O’Neill, Neb.
Office Hours: 9-12 A. M., 2-5 P. M.
Phone 262.
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To our Patrons and Prospective
Patrons:
THE SGHLITZ HOTEL
is not closed, nor will it be for
some time to come.
The same Splendid Service, at
Popular Rates, will be maintained
in the future as in the past.
P. H. PHILBIN, President.
314-322 South 16th St.
OAHA. NEBR
W. K. HODGKIN
<£ Lawyers
Office1 Nebraska State Bank Bldg.
Reference: O’Neill National Bank.
O’Neill, :: :: :: Neb.
Title Abstractors
Office in First National Bank Bldg
WELSH GRAIN CO.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
Solicits your consignments of Hay.
Prompt returns our Motto.
Brandeis Big. - - Omaha, Neb.
“MONEY"
The mint makes it and under the terms
of the CONTINENTAL MORTGAGE
COMPANY you can secure it at 6 per
c'-'l for any legal purpose on ap
pi red real estate. Terms easy, tell
us your wants and we will co-operate
with you.
PETTY & COMPANY
513 Denham Building Denver. Colo.
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YOU go just where
you drive —
straight, sure, in all
weathers—when
you equip with
United States
“Chain Tread” Tires
—the famous, popular
priced, long-mileage,
anti-skid tires.
Ask us the price of the size
you use—and let us show
you why "Chain Treads”
are real economy tires.
WARNER & SON
O’Neill, Nebraska
The Episcopal Church.
Sunday, July 11. Sunday school at
10 a. m. Holy Eucharist and sermon
at 11 a. m. Sermon by Father Wells.
The public are invited to attend the
services of the Episcopal church.
Claude R. Parkerson, Pastor.
Weekly Weather Forecast.
For the week beginning Wednesday,
July 7, 1915. Moderate warm weather
ivill prevail during the next three to
four days with widely scattered
ihunder showers. The latter half of
the week will be fair and cooler.
Keep the Cultivator Going.
Shall the cultivator be kept going
in a clean field of corn when the
surface of the ground is already a
much of dry loose soil? The College
if Agriculture says that one must
•emember that cultivation through its
lutting of corn may do harm as well
is good. As long as there are
numerous weeds to be destroyed,
cultivation is very much in order, but
there is growing evidence that mere
moving about of loose soil in a clean
ield is labor more or less misspent.
How Often Shall Corn be Cultivated?
At the Illinois Agricultural Ex
periment Station, in a test lasting five
pears, corn cultivated to an average
lepth, three to five times as the vary
ng seasons required, yielded 68.5
lushels per acre, while that cultivated
line to fifteen times yielded but 68.6
lushels per acre. The number of re
tired cultivations varies considerably
vith the season. In years when the
soil is packed by heavy and frequent
•ains and weed growth is cor
respondingly troublesome, cultivations
must necessarily be more frequent
;han if the opposite conditions exist.
:t is also probably true that cold, wet,
leavy soils need more frequent culti
vations than do the opposite kinds,
m actual practice, however, it seldom
lays to cultivate less than three times
ir more than five times.—Junior corn
lulletin, Nebraska College of Agri
:ulture.
When Not to Use Virus.
Never use virus in vaccinating an
inthrifty herd of hogs. If cholera
It’s Two Years Old.
But Mr. Mills Says It’s Just as Good
Today as When It was First
Made.
Over two years ago Mr. Mills
;estified to complete relief from
cidney ills.
He now says that there has not
seen the slightest return of the
rouble.
O’Neill sufferers will take a deal of
:omfort in Mr. Mills statement.
Read what he says:
R. H. Mills, O’Neill, says: “The
lurting in my back was so severe that
[ couldn’t walk erect. It was es
jecially severe across my kidneys and
nornings when I arose, the musles in
ny back seemed to be tightened. It.
;ook a couple of hours before I be
:ame limbered up. One box of Doan’s
Kidney Pills, which I got at Pixley &
Hanley’s Drug Store, cured me.”
OVER TWO YEARS LATER Mr.
Mills said: “The cure Doan’s Kidney
Pills made for me has remained
permanent.”
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr. Mills has twice recommended.
Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo,
ST. Y.
breaks out in such a heard, the De
partment of Animal Pathologo at the
University Farm recommends the use
of serum alone. Two or three weeks
later when the hogs have improved in
condition, give the stimultaneous
treatment. If the unthrifty condition
is due to worms, give some well
known worm remedy.
Where there is no cholera in the
vicinity, it is not advisable to vacci
nate on account of the possibility of
starting a center of infection. The
exception to this is the breeder of
pure-bred hogs. Where virus is used
in such cases the owner should use
every precaution against infecting the
premises.
Farmer’s Worst Enemy.
Weeds are the worst enemy of the
farmer who is farming under limited
rainfall, according to a recent bulletin
of the Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion of Nebraska. It says:
“All of our work has pointed to the
fact that from the standpoint of stor
ing moisture, the killing of weeds is
even more important that cultivating
the soil. Cultivation, however, is the
means of killing the weeds and serves
to keep the surface soil in condition so
that it will catch the water that falls,
and not blow.
“In 1907 a small tract of land was
kept thoroughly cultivated until the
middle of June; then one-half of it
was allowed to become weedy, while
the other half was kept cultivated.
During the latter part of September,
moisture determinations were made to
a depth of three feet on each portion
of the tract. It was found that three
and one-half inches of water had been
used from the upper three feet of soil
by allowing the weeds to grow. The
portion which was kept cultivated had
at the end of the season practically
all the water it could carry, while the
portion where the weeds had grown
was dry as it would have been had it
produced a crop of grain.”
Similar results were obtained from
experiments in 1908, 1911, 1912 and
1913.
Carrots.
While poets have oft deigned to
sing of the pumpkin’s golden glory,
the humble carrot still remains un
known to song or story. So thus we
strike the sounding lyre to praise the
yellow carrot, considered not as food
for man, but food for cow or parrot.
In vegetable soup we must admit we
like its flavor; it seems to lend dis
tinction, and impart a certain savor,,
With Hubard squash and parsnip
On the table at Thanksgiving
It adds a zest; I often think
That the high cost of living
Might be reduced if we could cultivate
More of a taste for carrots
And we would not permit
Such food to go to waste
Though I’ll agree they do not make
the daintest reflection, yet every
beauty doctor knows they are good for
the complexion. Each raising dawn
a food cult sees, some transient—
down to popcorn cults and fasting.
The baked potato has its friends; the
cabbage and the yam; the squash, the
turnip and the beet, but with faint
praise we damn the humble carrot;
this one vegetable man despises, al
though the cow when carrot-fed, for
milk out-put wins prizes. Johnson a
Boswell had and Lesbia her faithful
Horace, and so, Q. Carroty I im
mortalize thy wondrous glories.
A Modern Fable.
The beasts and birds once held a
great assembly and passed many laws
governing the conduct of the barn
yard. After much wise legislation had
been passed, the goat, who, up to this
time, had remained silent, proposed a
law making it compulsory for geese
and other fowl to clip their wings. At
this such an outcry arose from the
feathered denizens of the barnyard
that the goat, much abashed, sought
to amend the measure by providing
that all dogs and foxes be muzzled.
Hereupon the dogs and foxes decried
him, accusing him of being a false
friend and a traitor. “Well,” he re
plied, “I proposed the law only to
oblige you, as I thought you were my
friends. I was too dense to see your
purpose, but I understand it now.
Hereafter I will introduce measures
for nobody.”
MORAL: Many a man, though the
best of intentions, is often made a
goat.
The Children’s Public Playground.
Will be opened Monday, July 5th at
the Chautauqua Grounds.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday of
each week have been set aside for the
boys; Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day are the days for the girls.
The small boys who can not come
alone may accompany their sisters.
In another week the work will be
better organized and we intend to take
care of all the children, boys and
girls, every day from 1:30 to 5 p. m.
MARY G. TIMLIN, Supervisor.
Work!
Did y’ ever go ter bed at night,
clean tuckered out, 'n dead, without
AUTO LIVERY
GO DAY OR
NIGHT j*
NEW : CAR.
PHONE-219.
Charles A. Calkins
another ounce o’ strength, ’n jist
FALL inter bed, n’ throb n’ ache in
every limb, n’ sigh ez you turn o’er—
then you git up iiv th’ mornin’
’N you
Work
Some
More.
Did y’ ever wish you was at rest
beneath th’ wilier tree, n’ never had
ter work no more, through all
eternitee; n’ tell yerself ye’re jist all
in n’ that ye’re plum done for—then
you git qp in th’ mornin’
’N you
Work
Some
More.
A Chance For the Kids.
Young people grow tired of the
small town because they lack amuse
ment. Progressive towns which de
sire to hold their young people are
adopting means to interest, entertain
and keep them contented. One method
is the playground. Every town, big
and small, should have one. It should
be a public park, where everyone
could go at any time. The city should
pay for its upkeep and it should be
well kept. A portion of the park
should be set aside for the little ones,
with swings in it, slides and whirligigs.
The older young men and women
should have tennis courts, baseball
grounds, croquet courts, etc., and the
grounds should be plentifully supplied
with benched and tables for picnic
parties. Such a playground is es
pecially necessary in factory towns.
Employers like to locate where their
employees will be contented, and the
workers will have some place to spend
their spare time, their Sundays and
holidays. Tennis tournaments could
be held at specified times during the
summer, to which a small fee could be
charged to be applied to the upkeep of
the courts. The baseball grounds
be used as a league field, thus en
couraging friendly rivelry between
the home team and those of nearby
towns. Factory owners and merchants
should be asked to contribute to the
upkeep of such a playground on the
principle that “all work and no play
makes Jack a dull boy.” They will
receive the interest on their invest
ment in increased efficiency among
their employees and a greater ease in
securing and holding good workers.
Inman Items.
Mrs. Hall of South Fork, who has
been very ill at the home of her son,
Claude, went home Thursday, but had
a relapse and came back Monday for
further treatment.
Clarence Judd, who underwent a
serious operation at Tilden for ap
pendicitis is reported as getting along
nicely.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Candee and son,
El.win, went to Plainview Friday to
visit relatives and spend the Fourth.
They returned Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Conard and
daughter of Neligh, visited relatives
in Inman Sunday.
Miss Cora Davis and brother, Lark,
went to Percision, Iowa, last Monday
for a visit with their sister, Mrs.
Myron Lewis and family.
Mrs. Geo. Stuart and daughter of
Ewing came up Monday for a visit
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gil
bert Noring and family.
Mrs. Wilson Bitner and daughter,
Blanche, went to Tilden Tuesday to
consult Dr. Campbell.
Oscar Aitken of Tecumseh was here
visiting friends this week. He re
turned Tuesday.
Mrs. Ethel Loucks of Norfolk is
here visiting her mother, Mrs. A.
Tompkins, who is very ill.
A. Tompkins purchased a Maxwell
car this week. It is sure a fine one.
Sand has been hauled for a sidewalk
east of L. D. S. church, also for the
two adjoining crossings.
Miss Margaret Vaughn of Alliance
is visiting her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. W. Wilcox, this week.
TAKEN UP—A BLACK AND WHITE
yearling bull. Owner can have
same by proving property and paying
expenses.—Thomas Liddy. 4-1
Nebraska Notes.
Eddie Rickenbacher’s prize money
$6,500, has been attached at Omaha bj
Mrs. Vera Payne. Mrs. Payne, ir
1912, was struck by Rickenbacher’s
car and was seriously injured.
Wayne will celebrate the complteior
of the new administration building o!
the normal school Friday.
William Winthlich, 70 years old, *
pioneer resident of Omaha, died froir
asphyxiation. A brother was founc
unconscious.
George Boettgar’s farm home neai
Ord was struck by lighning anc
burned to the ground. The loss is
$2,500.
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If one ware asked what period In his
tory furnished the most themes for sto
ries he might be right in replying that
containing the administration of the
government of Louis XIII. of France
by Cardinal Richelieu. Louis' queen,
Anne of Austria, was a bitter opponent
of the cardinal, and what Richelieu
was to the king the Duchess of Che
vreuse was to the queen. The duchess
was one of the most beautiful, the most
attractive and the most intriguing wo
men who ever lived.
After the exposure of a treasonable
plot the cardinal banished her to Lor
raine, where she infatuated the king,
Louis XIII., mixing him up in another
conspiracy. The cardinal's policy for
bade him to imprison a woman, so aft
er banishment from France had failed
he sent Mme. Chevreuse to a country
estate she owned. There, having no
better subject for her fascination, she
bewitched nn oetogenarlau official.
This amusement falling to satisfy
her, she turned her attention to an
other intrigue with a view to over
throwing the queen's and her own de
tested enemy, Richelieu.
At this time the queen was secretly
corresponding with those opposing the
cardinal, among them Mme. de Che
vreuse. The person who conducted this
correspondence was one La Porte, her
ncviciui.r. 11c nua me ui uu
cipher code, translated her letters Into
It, forwarded them to their destination
and received the replies, handling them
in the same way.
But the cardinal was watching and
suspected the frequent goings and com
ings of the man. One of the queen’s
supposed adherents was won over and
told La Porte that he was going to
Tours, where Mme. de Chevreuse was
held in restriction, and asked if he had
any message for her. If so he would
carry it. La Porte replied that he had
a letter and would bring It to him.
While doing so he was arrested with
the queen’s letter on his person and
lodged In the Bastille. The letter was
not important, but the queen nnd her
friend had been forbidden to corre
spond. The cardinal at once ordered
the seizure of the private papers of both
the queen and the duchess.
When the queen was accused of trea
son she falsely made an oath that she
had not corresponded with any foreign
power. Richelieu knew better, and on
promise of the king’s pardon the queen
confessed that she had written her
relatives In Madrid and In Brussels,
but not on matters of state. La Porte
declared that he had carried no letters
for the queen except to Mme. do Che
vreuse. Fearing that La Porte’s state
ment and hers would not agree, Anne
desired to post him on what she had
declared and ask him to make the
same statement. This she hoped would
satisfy Richelieu and prevent his in
vestigating further.
15ut now reacu ou i one in ins veu in
the Bastille? So carefully -watched was
he that a warden quitted him only for
a few hours during the day and slept
in his cell at night. One of the queen’s
maids of honor and devoted to her.
Mile, de Hautfort, not only suggested a
plan of conveying a letter to La Porte,
but volunteered to carry it herself.
The Chevalier de Jars, who had been
Involved in a former conspiracy against
the cardinal, was confined in the Bas
tille and occupied a cell directly over
that of Lrfi Porte, though between the
chevalier’s and La Porte’s cell were
two others. It was hoped by the
queen’s adherents that De Jars might
find some way of conveying a letter
from the queen to La Porte. De Jars
had suffered a paralytic stroke and was
allowed the privileges of an invalid, be
ing permitted to receive friends and
converse with them in the courtyard of
the prison.
Mile, de Hautfort early one morn
ing issued from the palace of the
Louvre before the inmates were
awake, being dressed in the costume of
a maidservant. Mademoiselle’s hair,
which was luxuriant and beautiful,
was concealed under a large coif, and
she was robed in a loose gown which
concealed her superb figure. Calling a
fiacre, she was driven to the Bastille,
Jrhere she asked to see the Chevalier
de Jars, saying that she was a lady’s
maid of a niece of the chevalier and
bore a message for him.
The hour was before the prisoners’
time of rising, and the queen’s maid of
honor was obliged to wait in the guard-’
room among a lot of soldiers of low
degree. After some time the chevalier
arrived and asked what was wanted.
Mademoiselle drew him into the court
and, raising her coif, showed him who
she was and' handed him the queen’s
letter with her majesty’s request that
he find means to convey it to La Porte.
De Jars was no coward, as be had
demonstrated in the schemes in which
he had embarked to overthrow the car
dinal. Nevertheless he hesitated to
become mixed up in a scheme which if
discovered would cost him his head.
But when mademoiselle reminded him
of the terrible risk she was herself
running he consented.
The queen's messenger returned to
the palace without having been discov
ered. De Jars, who was full of re
source, worked out the problem of get
ting the queen’s letter to La Porte.
Had the latter occupied a cell directly
•
Lit'iu tub (its own be might contrive te
get the letter through the floor. But to
pass it through other floors was impos
sible. The next cell below the cheva
lier's was occupied by some men who
had been implicated in an insurrection
in Bordeaux. The next cell below
theirs held the Baron de Tenace and a
man named Reveilton, who had been a
servant of a nobleman who had lost
his bead for a conspiracy against the
cardinal. The chevalier planned to
pass tile queen’s letter through these
two cells to that of La Torte.
De Jars enlisted In his service a
young fellow named Bois d’Arcy, the
valet of a prisoner who was confined
with his master. D’Arcy while in at
tendance on Ills master at the hour of f
exercise found a broken stone with a |
sharp point, which by eluding the ob- j
servution of the sentinel he managed
to slip in his pocket and at the same g
time asked the aid of the Bordeaux f
prisoners. Any prisoner was ready to
do anything for another unfortunate,
and they at once granted the request.
Then they were given the broken stone
for hi, implement
The men succeeded in boring a hole
through the floor to the cell next below
and passed the letter through to Baron f
de Tenace and Reveilton. These made
another hole in tho floor of their own
cell and had not La Porte been so j
closely watched would have had no dlf- f
Acuity in passing the missive on to
him. They learned that the warden
usually left La Porte for a few min
utes iu the morning. Waiting till they
heard him go out, they passed down -
the letter.
The goal was won. La Porte made
Ills confession tally with that of Anne
of Austria, and the cardinal for once
was outwitted. Being convinced that
he hud got the truth and the whole !
truth, he advised the king to pardon
his wife, whom Richelieu believed to
have been led into mischief by Mme. de
Che v re use. The pardon was granted
on condition that the queen would hold
uo further correspondence with the
mischief maker.
Anne, whose conscience was very
elastic, regarded this promise solely 1
as pertaining to letters. Through Mile,
de Hautfort she had contrived to In
form the duchess that If their machi
nations against the cardinal were go
ing well she would receive a prayer
book bound In green. If there was
danger It would he bound In red and
she must look out for herself. Through
some misunderstanding Mme. de Che- 1
vreuse one day received a prayer book
bound in red. She decided upon flight
An official whom she had enthralled
provided her with directions for pro
ceeding to Spain, and thither she di
rected her course. Ordering her car
riage, she gave out that she intended
to visit friends in the neighborhood.
She set out near evening and as soon
as it was dark ordered her coachman
to stop and stepped out disguised as a
man in a long cloak and riding boot*.
A horse was waiting for her, and
mounting, followed by two servants
also mounted, she rode southward.
In her excitement she had left in the
carriage the official’s directions as to
the route and was obliged to priced
without them. Riding all night, she
arrived at a town near which a noble
man, La Rochefoucauld, was at the
time stopping. He had carried mes
sages between her and the queen, and
she knew she could trust him; but,
not willing to compromise him, she
wrote him as a stranger who had kill
ed a man In a duel and was flying
from the authorities, begging him to
send a carriage and a valet
La Rochefoucauld sent the carriage
and the valet, and tbe duchess set out
for another of his houses occupied by
a gentleman In his service named Mai
basty, where she arrived before day
light tbe next morning. Mma Mal
basty recognized the valet as a servant
of La Rochefoucauld, and the um
told her that the gentleman he was
conducting was an intimate friend of
his master and related the story about
the duel. M. Malbftsty asked the
duchess how he could serve her. She
replied that she would tell him tomor
row and asked him to go with her,
since the two men she had brought
from town might be recognized, and
she wished to leave them behind until
she should send for them.
sent back, and, mounting a horse which
was provided for her, the duchess pro
ceeded on the journey, accompanied by
her host and the valet She had band
aged her head to conceal a wound that
she said she had received In the duel.
The hairbreadth escapes from recog
nition that were made by the fair fugi
tive were many. She was constantly
meeting persons who knew her and
was obliged to resort to various devices
to avoid acknowledging her Identity.
One man she met said that If she wers
dressed as a woman he would certainly
mistake her for the Duchess de Che
vreuse. She replied that she was a rela
tive of the duchess.
Despite the fact that as soon as he!
flight was discovered the cardinal sent
after her In great haste, she reached
Spain, where she was safe.
Philip IV.. brother of Anne of Aus
tria, was then king of Spain, and as
soon as he learned that hts sister's ad
herent was within his dominions he or
dered that she be received with great
distinction and sent several royal car
riages, each drawn by six horses and
occupied by his representatives, to
fetch her to the capital. On her ar
rival the people turned out en masse to
see the distinguished stranger who had
come to them after so many romantic
adventures. The king, like all otbei
men. was captivated with her, and the
queen showed her every attention.
From Spain the duchess went to Eng
land, whose queen, Henriette Marla,
was a sister of the king of France and
a bitter enemy of the cardinal who
dominated her brother. There she re
ceived no less a welcome than In Spain,
