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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1915)
Breaking the New*. When, according to Answers, Pat Hogan burst into the house crying, “Mrs. Flannigan, yure mon, Mike, has Just fell oft the scaffolding and killed himself, bedad!” Mrs. Flannigan col lapsed into a chair. “Aisy, aisy!” Pat continued. “"Tis only his leg thot’s broke. It’s rejoiced ye’ll be to hear it, when ye thought he was killed fur-r-st!” Prohibition Order. “No wet goods at all to be ob tained in this town, sir.” “Then could I get something extra dry?” Quiet Attention. "The oyster question calls loudly tor attention." “Nonsense! Oysters are proverb ially dumb.” When all others fail to please Try Denison’s Coffee. There isn’t much difference between a pretty girl and a homely one if they both have a million dollars. Half a part in a million of iron in wa ter is detected by taste, and four or five parts make water unpalatable. j.— Don’t Poison Baby. FORTY YEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have PAREGORIC or laudanum to make it sleep. These drugs will produce sleep, and a FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAKING. Many are the children who have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric, lauda num and morphine, each of which is a narcotic product of opium. Druggists are prohibited from selling either of the narcotics named to children at all, or to anybody without labelling them “poison.” The definition of “narcotic is• “A medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep, but which in poison ous doses produces stupor, coma, convulsions and death." The taste and smell of medicines containing opium are disguised, and sold under the names of “ Drops,” “ Cordials,” “ Soothing Syrups," etc. You should not permit any medicine to be given to your children without you or your physician know of what it is composed. CASTORIA DOES NOT CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher. , Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of' *• WHAT HE MIGHT HAVE DONE Inquiry That Would at Least Have Shown That Husband Was Not Altogether Indifferent. Mrs. Enderly, wife of Judge Ender ly, of a small Missouri town, com plained one day that she had acci dentally swallowed a button, which she was holding in her mouth prepar atory to attaching to some garment. As the lady was rather given to making great ado over trivial mishaps, and as the Judge was much preoccu pied, he did not pay much heed. Soon after, however, finding her in tears, he made kindly inquiry as to their ^ cause. “It’s your heartless in-indifference to, anything that h-happens to me," sobbed the aggrieved little woman. “I didn’t suppose you’d w-worry much became 1 swallowed a button, but 1 d-did think you might have taken enough interest in it to inquire w-what kind of b-button it was."—Youth's Companion. DO NOT HESITATE To Use Cuticura on Skin-Tortured Babies. Trial Free. .’ A hot bath with Cuticura Soap and gentle application of Cuticura Oint ment at once relieve, permit rest and sleep and point to speedy healment of eczemas, rashes, itchings and irri tations of infants and children even In severe cases. Sample each free by mail with Eoolc. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Conclusive. The young man had come for the all-important task of “seeing father" and he was equal to the occasion. Mr. Gotrox—My daughters, young man, are both worth their weight in gold. Suitor—Then the fact that I am ask ing for the smaller one proves, at any rate, that I am not mercenary. The Village Jokesmith. “I kent step these days.” “Haow be thet, Cy?” “I sleep nights.”—Record. Naturally. “What were you doing so long at the photographer’s?” “Merely awaiting developments.” Appropriate Affliction. “How did the doctors diagnose the irouble of that grass widow?” “They said she had the hay fever.” People usually have to draw on their imaginations in .order to make them selves believe a 'lot of things they ihear. Los Angeles has .a city mother— Mrs. Aletha Gilbert. g Vienna rl Sausage anr/Sliced^ried Beef Both contain leu heat producing properties than heavy yneata. I Try then for trimmer hmchmu . and picnic tidbits. Libby, McNeill a Libby N , Chicago \ In»i*t on Lobby's at your ptW» a _— ALASKA RAILWAY BOOM — Information soDcorciug construction employment, business op portunities, great coal Helds, homesteads, Kroad Pass, big game bunting, property values furnished fork&C. Alaaka Land * Dafalspnaat C*.. U*., Seward, AlaaL.' SIOUX CITY PTG. CO., NO. 38-1915. KNEW WHERE IT BELONGED Information Not Just What Botanist Was Looking For, But the Boy Meant Well. The famous botanist was pacing slowly along the country road, his eyes, as usual, roaming from side to side for now plants to study. Suddenly an eager look spread across his features, and he leaned over the low fence inclosing a cot tage garden. He had found a plant he did not know. What could it be! If only he had a specimen of it to study! At that moment a shock-headed lad strolled along the road and stopped to gaze open-mouthed at him. “I say!” called the botanist urgent ly. "See that plant there—that pale pink one in the corner? Do you know it?” “Uh-hu!” said the country boy briefly. "What’s its name? Do you know what family it belongs to?” The lad Jerked a grubby thumb over his shoulder toward the little cottage as he spoke more briefly still. "Higginses!” — Utica Herald-Dis patch. Fulfilling Conditions. Miser Thorpe’s brother died and left the miser a legacy on condition that he put up a huudred-dollar tombstone over him suitably inscribed. The miser ordered the hundred dollar tombstone—there was no get ting round that—but he was deter mined to save on the inscription. The stonecutter proposed— "Here lies the corp Of Joseph Thorpe." But this the miser refused as too long, tie cut it down till it read— "Thorpe's Corpse.” —Chicago News. Martha's Choice. Martin—Tom’s playing a lot of golf these days—alone. 1 wonder why? Martha—Molly turned him down. Martin—Why, she told me he was single from choice. Martha—Yes, but it's her choice.— J udge. IT SLUGS HARD. Coffee a Sure and Powerful Bruiser. "Let your coffee slave be denied his cup at its appointed time! Headache— sick stomach—fatigue. I know it all in myself, and have seen it in others. Strange that thinking, reasoning be ings will persist in its use,” says a To peka man. He says further that he did not be gin drinking coffee until he was twen ty years old. and that slowly It began to poison him, and affect his hearing through his nervous system. "Finally, 1 quit coffee and the condi tions slowly disappeared, but one cold morning the smell of my wife’s coffee was too much for me and I took a cup. Soon I was drinking my regular allowance, tearing down brain and nerves by the daily dose of the nefa rious beverage. “Later, I found my breath coming hard, had frequent fits of nausea, and then I was taken down with bilious fever. “Common sense came to me, and I quit coffee for good and went back to Postum. I at once began to gain and have had no returns of my bilious symptoms, headache, dizziness or ver tf.go. "I now have health, bright thoughts, and added weight, where be fore there was Invalidism and the blues. "My brother quit coffee because of its effect on his health and now uses Postum. He could not stand the nerv ous strain while using coffee, but keeps well oa Postum." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Postum coines In two forms: Postum Cersa!—the original form— must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pack ages. Instant Postum—-a soluble powder— dissolves quickly lrf a cup of hot wa ter, and with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 30c and 50c tins. Both kinds are equally delicious and :ost about the same per cup. “There’S a Reason” for Postum. — —sold by Grocers. I From the New York Sun. There are 28,000 persons In the zone men, women and children—and their law Is the word of one man—Goethals. He Is an autocrat, but a benevolent one, and he rules according to a plan which Is not far from socialism. He has his critics. Among those benefited by the system of govern ment which he has Installed there are not a few who openly denounce him and his methods. They send blotters broadcast over the country on which are printed some fact or other which tends to prove that Major General Goethals Is too much of an autocrat. On one of the blotters being sent out Is printed the following: Question—Why Is the United States gov ernment spending several million dollars buying up lands In the canal zone, for which It has absolutely no need: paying $200 a day for a Joint land commission to adjust values on these landB; paying Judge Feuille *7,200 a year (besides free Quarters and other gratuities) to represent tne government before this commission? Asswer—Because George W. Goethals wants an absolute, unrestricted authority on the canal zone, which he could not get as police commissioner of New York city. Hence the extinguishing of private titles for lands not needed, at a cost of millions to the United States. It Is signed "Ora Miller (of Indiana), Ancon, Canal Zone.—Arrived on the Isth mus October 26, 1905.” Goethals Has Absolute Power. These attacks do not seem to worry the general much. On April 1, 1914, he put Into effect the system of permanent gov ernment for the canal. By authority of congress, the president of the United States Is the supreme head. He has dele gated his power to Gen. George Washing ton Goethals, and the general has appoint ed certain assistants to help him out. It appears that these asslstan ts' and the In habitants sometimes entertain different opinions, and since the general Is behind the assistants, the Inhabitants with a grievance aim their criticism at him. There is no such thing as civil govern ment in the canal zone. It Is military In every sense of the word. Since the canal zone Is exclusively the property of the United States, no one can own property there. The residents live In houses owned by the government and built by the gov ernment according to the government's Idea of what Is best for people who wish to live in houses In the zone. The would be renter ha* no choice. If he dislikes the kind of houses built by the govern ment, he must go without. Paternalism Highly Developed. When canal zone residents go to the store to make a purcnase they take a book of coupons purchased from the gov ernment, and buy what the government thinks Is good for them. They may want something else, but that makes no differ ence to the government. In addition to telling them what kind of clothing they have to wear/ the government also tells them that they can not smoke certain kinds of tobacco which have not met with the approval of the government chemist, and the same Is true of chewing gum. The canal zone government operates the Panama railroad, Panama Steamship com pany, dock terminals at Cristobal and Bal boa, and all lighterage and stevedoring work at terminals; constructs and rents dwellings to employes of the canal zone; buys and sells meats, vegetables, gro ceries, coal, firewood, water, soda water, ship chandlery, ropes, cordage, oil, fish, etc.; operates a farm and a dairy, eleo trlo light plant and water works, hotels and boarding houses, laundry, schools and the post of flee; publishes a dally newspa per; runs hospitals In the zone and In Panama, and runs a cold storage plant and an Ice factory. This vast machine runs smoothly and efficiently. Hours are short and pay Is good. It may be that there Is so much leisure that the Inhabitants have to resort to criticism In order to kill time. They declare that this stern military govern ment Is creating a bad Impression among the countries down there with whom the people of the United States wish to be on friendly terms. They say also that young men are getting better pay than the old employes, and that the military families hold aloof from the civilian population and make things generally unpleasant. Such Is the nature of the criticisms. Gen eral Goethals has long since explained that he could not have finished his work nearly so well had he depended on civilian engineers, for, after making a reputation, they went home to better salaries than the government could pay. In the extrem ity he had to fall back on army officers, whom he could hold. Hence the military tone of the government, and, as some would have it, hence the canal. I CARA’S CLgUP CASTLE. (Copyright, 1915, b^r th© McClure News* "Cara, dear, 1 wish you would de liver this gown for me this afternoon, sighed Mrs. Benson one sunny October day, as the girl came In fr0JTV and dropped her books on the sew ing table. "I have promised It to Mrs. Brown before dinner time.” Cara Jerked up the package crossly and set out on her way across the field. As she went she grumbled to herself about her fate. "Other girls have so much better things than I do, she muttered. It Is easily to be seen that Cara was a selfish girl. Her mother worked hard to keep the grirl nicely dressed and at a good school, where she was learning to be a teacher, but the child did not appreciate this. It was dusk when Cara rang the bell at Mrs. Brown’s and was shown Into a beautiful parlor. On the polished floor were priceless rugs, handsome portraits looked down from the walls and richly carved mahogany furniture was scattered about the room, which bore every evidence of comfort and luxury. The October air came softly In through the open win dows, which looked out on spacious grounds and beds of flowers. Cara took a seat In a' big chair before a crackling tire with a sigh of content. ’’How beautiful the clouds look,” murmured the girl fretfully. "And how dull Is my life. What chance have I to do any great deed or make any famous name. Up there the clouds look so delightfully far away from trouble—like great castles of fairyland, hurrying toward the sun.” Cara was surprised to feel her chair floating. Very softly It rose In the air and drifted out of the window, up, up till she saw she was approach ing a great cloud, snowy white, which was rolled up into the appearance of a castle. On the walls appeared fairies of every color, all radiant In the evening flush which seemed to sweep the heavens. As the chair touched the shores of the pink mist, a fairy sprang down from the wall to greet the girl. ,, , “So you are Cara?” said the fairy kindly. "Welcome to Cloudland castle. We saw you were unhappy and thought we would bring you here for a few hours.” Then, taking Cara’s hand, she led the girl over the mag nificent palace. Its furniture was of gold, mirrors formed the sides of the rooms and fountains of Jewels sang In Its snowy courts. In one room the girl was surprised to see hundreds of fairies sitting before a large loom, which Is a machine on which cloth Is woven. The sprites were very busy, singing aa they worked In the differ ent colors, some using black, others white, many gray, violet, gold and crimson. "This Is the room In which the threads of life of you mortals are woven,” explained the fairy. "Here in this castle In the clouds we live and watch the people of earth. Their lives are the web which we weave. You see the dark threads for those who are selfish and cruel, the bright colors of the gentle and kind." Cara looked to where the fairy pointed and saw above a small frame the name of "Cara.” Eagerly she examined to see what threads the fairies were weaving into her life, and sadly she recogniz<#l black and gray as the most conspicuous colors. She hung her head In shame. The fairy led the girl to the edge of the cloud castle and told her to look down upon earth. Strange to say, she could see right down through the roofs of houses. Around the table In some rich homes were gathered groups of quarreling, unhappy peo ple, while In some poor cottages were the smiling faces of contented parents and children. At her own home she saw her mother patiently mending a dress which the girl had torn the day before and selfishly left for her mother to fix. Cara’s eyes filled with tears. I "I have learned the leason,” she said In a voice trembling with pain. ‘‘I have been sighing for wealth to do great things and leaving undone the simple duties at home, which are ths really great things of life. How un kind I must seem to mother, who is so good to me?” ■'Cara,” called a voice at her elbow. Cara opened her eyee, not In her castle In the clouds, but In the parlor in which she had taken a nap. "Here is the money for your mother,” said ths lady. “And If you care to teach my little boy an hour on three after noons pf a week, I will pay for your mush? lessons this year.” Wltlj\a Joyful heart the girl Accept ed and! fan home a different child from th#vne which had left It an hour before. Working hard to make her mother happy, she soon bepame one of the happiest ,/irls herself. | THE CARPET BAGGER. !* From th« Indianapolis News. Discussions of “carpet bag government” and “carpet bagger" are rife, which would be mere. iQ lb© point, one newspaper re areas there are very young persons who have not the remotest Idea now a carpet bag 22f llles may one be found. They came even before the linen duuter and have passed with the generation that found both use ful. We have the successor of the carpet bag In leather and eatchele of all grades and colors, and, for the most part, they follow the shape of the ancient carpet bag. It is simply that we have increased in wealth and are able to have such hand bags of better material than the carpet ing and glazed black cloth out of which the earlier article was made. But the lin en duster has gone because of the Im provement in railroad cars and road bed. The days of the flimsy car (now generally called a coach), with Its rattling windows and no means of ventilation, have gone, and with their departure has gone the "duster." . . „ Not long before the civil war Edwin M. Stanton saw Abraham Lincoln enter a ho tel In Cincinnati on a hot day. clad In a long linen duster, on the back of which Stanton described a larget wet splotch that "looked like a map of Africa, and In his hand a carpet bag. He did not add that every other traveler of those days was similarly fitted out Auto Light* and Breeding. From the Fort Wayne News. The News remarked the other evening that those automobile owners who rush about the streets with glaring headlights are usually men from the lower walks of life and a correspondent challenges this statement as a reflection on the poor. The best answer to this challenge Is the very well known fact that the poor are not the owners of automobiles with glaring headlights. There are men In tne lower walks of life here In Fort Wayne who have a great deal of money and there are those In the higher walks who have prac tically non*. Money happily Is not the standard by which true worth Is gauged. Coal OH Johnny scattering hts wealth with a lavish hand among the parasites of Pittsburgh was distinctively from the low er walks while Dr. Johnson laboriously penning the Immortal story of “Rasselas,” In order to gain money to bury his mother, was unquestionably of the higher walks. Money, and even what Is mistakenly des ignated social position, have nothing to do with a man's walk In life. That la a thing apart—an attribute of character. You can’t make a silk purse of a sow's ear and by the same token you can’t make a gentleman of a coarse and selfish creature who thinks only of his own pleas ure and who Is boorishly Inconsiderate of others. For he, like the beast of the field, follows the lower walks of life and not all the trappings of wealth can lift him from them. « v True Weather Sign*. In the Woman’s Home Companion, Rollln Lyndo Hartt writes a highly en tertaining and exceedingly practical ar ticle entitled "Let’s Talk About the Weather.” He tells how to guard against lightning, how to tell when It Is going to rain and so on. On the sub ject of predicting rain he writes in part as follows: "There are plenty of soundly scien tific weather signs that are right before our eyes and vouched for by the best meteorologists. For Instance, the ‘ring around the moon,’ which Is pro duced by a thin, filmy cloud made up of minute particles of tee—a state of things not built to last. Either some un looked-for commotion will put a stop to it in a different manner, or it will pour ‘cats and dogs’ within three days at most. In 88 cases out of 100, tho Th# Wharves of 8lumber. Upon the wharves of Slumber I watched the Ships of Dreams Come sailing in through mist and moon. With glowworm lights and gleams. Their holds were stuffed with plunder Of every land and time. With Ophlr gold and gods of Greece, And scraps of ancient rime. Pastils of Cretan henbane. And bales of Yemen silk, With cassia buds and sandalwood. And Oman pearls like milk. And slaves, both men and women. Most fair to look upon. Whose chanting made the breeze to blow That sw'ept the Dream Ships on. I had the pick and taking Of every cargo there The spice and gold, the gems and slaves, And myrrh and pearls and vair. But while I stood debating What thing to take and choose, A voice cried, “f.o! the good ship Dawn Draws In across the dews." And all the Dream Ships vanished , And left me wide-awake To think of many, many things It had been mine to take. ^-Madison Cawetn, in "The Poet and Hsu ^ure and the Morning Road." DID NOT PLEASE THE JUDGE | Expression Used by Girl on Trial for Vagrancy May Have Had Some Influence on His Honor. "Sure, Mike!” Clara Johnson, on trial for vagrancy in police court, eaid to Judge Allee when he asked her if she had not been arrested on the same charges a short time ago. "M/ name isn’t Mike,” objected the court. "However, you are charged with being a rag.” "1 didn’t do it,” the prisoner replied, smirking arrogantly. “You’re not right in the head.” com mented tho court. “I’m all rlvht,” she said. “What do you do?” “Work at John S. ith’s.” “What do you do there?” “Everything.” “Everything?” “Sure, Mike!” “Ten days,” Blghed the magistrate. The spectators laughed, and Clara, turning to them, shouted angrily: “I wish you'se had to go to that dirty pl.ce!”—St. Joseph Press. When all others fail to please Try Denison's Coffee. Quite the Contrary. “Does your wife husband your re sources?” "Not while she’s trying to husband our daughters.” The production of gold in Australia has declined steadily since 1893, the output last year being 156,160 ounces less than the year before. The man who does his fighting over the long-distance telephone evidently believes that discretion is the better part of valor. Genius may be a little backward about coming forward, but talent al ways shows up on pay day. OHIMYBACK A stubborn backache is cause to st» pect kidney trouble. When the kid neys are inflamed and swollen, stoop ing brings a sharp twinge in the small of the back, that almost takes the breath away. Soon there may be other symptoms; scanty, painful or too fre quent urination, headaches, dizziness, or rheumatic pains. Don’t wait for these troubles to become serious—use Doan’s Kidney Pills at once. You’ll find no better-recommended remedy. A South Dakota Cate Mrs. Henry Ho fert. Salem, S. D.. g"!?“'® says: "For years. **' I was tortured by backache and the trouble made ms so weak, I could hardly turn In bed. Often, pains shot up Into my head and I also noticed the kidney secre tions were unnat ural. Nothing re lieved me until I used Doan's Kid ney Pills. They . _ fixed me up all right and I seldom have any trouble now.” Get Dean’s at Aar Stars, 80a a Bos DOAN 'S ’’pMJLJLm' I FOSTER-M1LBURN CO„ BUFFALO. H. Y. Your Liver Is Clogged Up That’s Why You’rs Tired-Out of Ssrte —Hava No Appetite. CARTER’S LITTLE, LIVER PILLS will put you right J in a few days.^ They do, their dutyy CureCon-r etipation, • . _ Biliousness, Indigestion and Sick Headache SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICK, Genuine must bear Signature 5 nbTn&n, Ovoid Op&uriumA For years we have been stating in the newspapers of the? country that a great many women have escaped serious op erations by taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound, and it is true. We are permitted to publish in this announcement extracts from the letters of five women. All have been recently received unsolicited. Could any evidence be more convincing? IIIododon, Me.—“I had pains in both sides and such a soreness • I could scarcely straighten up at times. My back ached and I was so nervous I could not sleep, and I thought I never would be any better until I submitted to an operation, but I commenced taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and soon felt like a new woman.”—Mrs. Hayward Sowers, Hodgdon, Me. 2Siielbyville, Ky.—“I suffered from a severe female trouble. • My right side hurt me badly—it was finally decided that I must be operated upon. When my husband learned this he got a bottle of Lydia E. Pmkham’s Vegetable Compound for me, and after taking it a few days I got better and continued to improve until I. am now welL”—Mi's. Mollis Smith, R.F.D., Shelbyville, Ky. 3 Hanover, Pa.—“ The doctor advised a severe operation, but mr • husband got me Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and I experienced great relief in a short time. Now I feel like a new person and can do a hard day’s work and not mind it.”—Mrs. Ada Wilt, 303 Walnut St., Hanover, Pa. 4 Decatur. III.—“I was sick in bed and three of the best physf • cians said I would have to be taken to the hospital for an oper ation as I had something growing in my 1 Ft side. I refused to sub mit to the operation and took Lydia E. kham’s Vegetable Com pound—and it worked a miracle in my c. , and I tell other women, what it has done for me.”—Mrs. Laura A. Griswold, 2437 William Street, Decatur, Hi S Cleveland, Ohio.—“I was very irregular and for several yean* • my side pained me so that I expected to have to undergo an op eration. Doctors said they knew of nothing that would help me. I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound and I became regular and free from pain. I am thankful for such a good medi cine and will always give it the highest praise.”— Mrs. C. H. Griffith, 1668 Constant St., Cleveland, O. M^BteWrite to LYDIA E.PINKH AM MEDICINE CO. Ww* (CONFIDENTIAL) LYNN, MASS., for advice. Your letter will be opened, read and answered *>y a woman and held in strict confidence. The German patent office rejects about two-thirds of the 45,000 patent applications It receives annually. Kansas will have two women In the race for United States senator ship in 1918 Clubs are trumps in the policeman’s game. There is some discussion as to tb» proper way to serve grapefruit. Bpb Wiley, says it should he served with an anesthetic. Sometimes half the truth is wont than none. Cirencester, the name of a town is England, is pronounced Sisslter. 10c Worth of <| D Will Clear $1.00 Worth of Land I Get rid of big crops c is the time I while prod 1 *n8 Du Poi \ IraV Write foT 1 St BB ^ DU PO R| 'Ham WILMINGTON