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Apples
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We have a Car Load
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of hand picked Winter
Apples on Northwest
ern Track in O’Neill.
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Prices Right.
HUNT & MARTIN
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Why Boys Leave The Farm.
Some light as to the reason why the
boy leaves the farm may be found in
the fact that the farm does not offer
for him a fair opportunity. A survey
shows that 79 per cent of the boys on
small farms leave home, while only 16
per cent of those on large farms leave.
As a matter of fact, the 16 per cent
is believed by many to be no larger a
number that the percentage of boys
that drift from the village to the city
for similar reasons—apparently lack
of opportunity.—College of Agricul
ture.
Ergot Is Prevalent.
Wild rye and western wheat grass
this year show a large percentage of
ergot which appears as dark purple
spikes. The action of ergot on live
stock is to contract the blood vessels
so that those farthest from the heart
are first affected. If the feeding is
long continued, the feet get tender at
the coronet and in some cases slough
off. Cold weather aggravates this con
^ dition. As soon as the first symptoms
are noticed, change to feed free from
ergot.—Department of Animal Path
ology, College of Agriculture.
NOT ONLY IN O’NEILL.
Similar Cases Occur Daily In This
Vicinity.
Not only here in O’Neill but in our
neighboring towns, the same good
story is heard. An encouraging in
stance from Neligh is given here, and
will be read by us with great interest.
Mrs. Stephen Hall, Neligh, Neb.,
says: “I was suddenly taken with a
sharp pain in my back, which was so
severe that I could hardly move and
perspiration ran down my face. Hav
ing heard Doan’s Kidney Pills highly
spoken of, I got a box. Before I had
finished it, the pain left me and I was
a great deal better in every way. My
kidneys were strengthened and my
entire system toned up. I have never
had a serious attack of kidney com
plaint since.”
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mrs. Hall had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
Exodus After The War.
Norfolk Daily News: According to 1
agents of the trans-atlantic passenger
lines, who ought to know what they
are talking about, we’re not likely to
be deluged with immigrants as soon as
peace is declared. In fact, for two
years or so after the war there will be
a pronounced migratory movement in
the other direction.
Great numbers of immigrant Am
ericans, they point out, will want to
return to the old country temporarily
at least, to see what has become of
their relatives and help them if they
are in distress. Germans and Austri
ans, who have been prevented from re
turning by the enemy’s possession of
the sea, will flock to their fatherland
by scores of thousands. Representa
tives of the allied nations who have
been deterred by fear of submarines
will be eager to go back. If Poland is
made free the Poles will be attracted
by love of their native land to return
and help restore their nationality.
Curiosity to see the battlegrounds and
revisit old scenes will be a powerful
magnet. Every bit of the war zone
will have new historic interest.
And particularly in every belliger
ent country there will probably be a
demand for all the available labor, and
even more. Workmen driven to
America in former years by lack of
remunerative employment at home will
be needed in their native lands to help
rebuild the ruined cities, to bring ths
land again under intensive cultivation,
to reconstruct the railroads and facto
ries and revive lapsing industries. So
great may be the need of men, with so
much work to do and so many able
bodied workers killed or crippled, that
the belligerent governments may for
bid emigration for a period of years.
The passenger agents therefore be
lieve that, far from a sudden increase
of immigration, the first year of peace
may lesson our population to the ex
tent of half a million, and it may be
three years or more before the tide
turns.
The real danger, they say, is such
drainage of alien born labor from this
country as will be seriously felt by
railroads and manufacturing indus
tries that need large numbers of un
skilled men.
If this forecast is accurate, it means
an era of increased prosperity for
American labor, with American capital
in a less enviable position.
A Chica go woman with a gun put
17 Chicago policeman to flight. If
Moyor Thompson is after fearless de
fenders he should have her appointed
as a Captain on the force and have
her take charge of some of the terri
,ory where they violate the Sunday law
Bi^ Reduction in
Coat Prices
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I As I am overstocked with Ladies’ Misses and
\ Children’s Coats I have pecided to reduce the stock
at once and in order to do so I have made the prices
on them so attractive that to see them is to buy.
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Money and room are my greatest needs at the
j present time and the way to get both is to put such
I an attractive price on these coats that they will go I
| quick. It you wish to buy a coat call and see the !
] quality of the beautiful line that we are offering,
tailored in the latest slyle, at prices lower than ever
before made in this section.
Coats at $3.98; $4.98; $6.50;
$8.50; $12.50; $15; $16.50;
$18.50 and $24.50.
L
I These Coats are worth and should sell at from
| 25 to 50 per cent advance on above prices but in
; order to turn them into cash will give purchasers
j the benefit.
A Dollar Saved is a Dollar Earned. Buy Now.
Anton Toy, O’Neill.
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The Cardinal's :
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Enemy
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I A Bit of History That Is ;;
Also a Romance.
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. By F. A. MITCHEL V,
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If one were 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 nnd the most Intriguing wo
men who ever lived.
After the exposure of a treasonable
plot the cardinal banished her to Ix>r
rulne, where she Infatuated the king,
Louis XIII., mixing him up in another
conspiracy. The cnrdlnal’s policy for
bade hint to imprison a woman, so aft
er banishment from France had failed
he sent Mme. Chevreuse to a country
esfate she owned. There, having no
better subject for her fascination, she
bewitched an octogenarian official.
This amusement falling to satisfy
her, she turned her attention to an
other intrigue with a view to over
throwing the queen's nnd 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 Forte, her
secretary. He was the keeper of her
cipher code, translated her letters into
It, forwarded them to their destination
and received the replies, handling tjiem
In the same way.
But the cardinal -was watching nnd
suspected the frequent goings and com
ings of the man. One of the queen's
supposed adherents was won over and
told La Forte that he was going to
Tours, where Mme. de Chevreuse was
held In restriction, nnd asked If he had
any message for her. If so he would
carry it. La Forte replied that he had
a letter nnd would bftng It to him.
While doing so he was arrested with
the queen’s letter on his person nnd
lodged In the Bastille. The letter was
not Important, but the queen nnd her
friend bad been forbidden to corre
spond. The cnrdlnal 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, nnd 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 Forte
declared that he had carried no letters
for the queen except to Mine, de Che
vreuse. Fearing that La Porte’s state
ment and hers would not agree, Anne
desired to post him on what she had
declared nnd ask him to make tho
same statement. This she hoped would
satisfy Richelieu and prevent his in
vestigating further.
But how reach La Porte in his cell,at
the Bastille? So carefully watched was
he that a warden quitted him only for
a few hours during the day nnd 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 nnd occupied a cell directly over
that of La Porte, though between the
chevalier’s and La Forte'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 Hantfort 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
flacre, she was driven to the Bastille,
Where 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
sne -was and handed him the queen’s
letter with her majesty’s request thnt
he find means to convey it to La Porte.
De Jars was no coward, as he 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
ben..sell tils own he might contrive to
got the letter through the floor. But to
puss It through other floors was lmpos
ethic. 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 Tenaee and a
man named Itevellton, who had been a
servant of n nobleman who bad lost
Ills head for a conspiracy against the
cardinal. The chevalier planned to
pass the queen's letter through these
two cells to that of I41 Porte.
De Jars enlisted in his service a
young fellow named Bots d’Arcy, the
valet of a prisoner who was confined
with his master. D'Arcy while in at
tendance on his master at the hour of
exercise fouud a broken stone with n
sharp point, which by eluding the ob
servation of the sentinel he managed
to slip In his pocket and at the same
time asked the aid of the Bordeaux
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 an Implement.
The men succeeded hi boring a hole
through the floor to the cell next below
and passed the letter through to Baron
de Tenaee and Itevellton. These rnude
another hole In tlio floor of their own
cell and hnd not La Porte been so
closely watched would have had no dif
ficulty In pussiug the missive on to
him. They learned that the warden
usually left La Porte for 11 few min
utes in the morning. Waiting till they
heard him go out, they passed down
the letter.
The goal was won. Ln Porte made
his confession tully with that of Anne
of Austria, and the cardinal for once
was outwitted. Being convinced that
he had got the truth and the whole
truth, he advised the king to pardon
his wife, whom IUchelleu believed to
have been led into mischief by Mme. de
Chevreuse. The pardon was granted
011 condition that the queen would hold
no further correspondence with the
mischief maker.
jiune, wuose conscience was very
elastic, regarded tills promise solely
as pertaining to letters. Through Mile,
de Ilautfort 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 be bound in red and
she must look out for herself. Through
some misunderstanding Mine, do Che*
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, und thither she di
rected her course. Ordering her car
riage, she gavo out that she Intended
to visit friends ln the neighborhood.
She set out near evening and as soon
ns it was dark ordered her coachman
to stop and stepped out disguised ns a
man in a long cloak and riding boots.
A horse was waiting for her, and
mounting, followed by two servants
also mounted, she rode southward.
In her excitement she had left ln the
carriage the official’s directions as to
the route and was obliged to proceed
without them. Riding all night, she
arrived at a town near which a noble
mnn, 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 ns a stranger who had kill
ed a man In a duel and was flying
from the authorities, begging him t«
send a carriage and a valet
Ln Rochefoucauld sent the carriage
and the valet, and the duchess set out
for another of his houses occupied by
a gentleman ln bis service named Mal
bnsty, where she arrived before day
light the next morning. Mme. Mai
bnsty recognized the valet ns a servant
of La Rochefoucauld, and the man
told her that the gentleman he was
conducting was an intimate friend of
his master and relnted the story about
the duel. M. Malbasty asked the
duchess how lie 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
eVin ct1-» nnM onn/1 for t hnm
Malbasty consented, the carriage was
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 were
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 hei
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 at
soon as he learned that his 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 ufter so many romantic
adventures. The king, like all othei
men, was captivated with her, and the
queen showed her every attention.
From Spain the duchess went to Eng
land. whose queen, Henrietta Maria,
was a sister of the king of France and
a bitter enemy of the cardinal who
dominated her brother. There she re
ceived no leu a welcome than In Spain,
Curious Cannon.
Not only uniforms, but even cannon
have been made of paper in the past
This experiment was once tried by
Krupp’s, field pieces of small caliber
being composed of a metal core sur
rounded by a compressed paper pulp.
The Idea at the back of this was that
guns made of paper would, of course,
be far lighter and easier to carry about
than guns made of metal.
All kinds of substances have been
tried for the manufacture of cannon.
Weapons of wood and stone were once
quite common. The Swedes In former
time used leather cannon, while in In
dia cannon of almost pure gold have
been discovered. When Cortes left
Mexico the Mexicans attempted to
copy his guns In china.
Perhaps the most extraordinary guns
ever manufactured were the six em
ployed for the firing of salutes at a
winter fete In Petrograd In the year
1740. These had an effective range of
about sixty yards, successfully with
stood the test of firing without burst
ing and were made of—ice 1—London
Answers.
How to Taka a Sun Bath.
To get the maximum benefit from
sun baths a regular formal routine
should be followed.
The first exposure to the sun’s ray*
should not be longer than 10 minutes.
The head should be shaded, while a*
much of the rest of the body ns possi
ble should he bared to the henllng rays
The best time is ubout two hours aftei
a meal. On the next day aud on suc
ceeding days longer exposures are al
lowed. Increasing as tanning take*
place. With little care all acute burn
lng or blistering of the skin Is avoided.
After the skin has been fully tanned
two or more baths a day may be taken
While sufferers from chronic tubercu
lar disease anil anaemia make up tb<
bulk of the patients at the numeroui ■
established sun cure sanatoria on tb«
continent, the treatment will be found
to have a noticeably bracing and in
vigoratlng effect on those generally rot
down and debilitated.—London Mail.
t-orn as Food.
Corn is really n food for the gods. Ii
nutritive value it is but little behlnt I
whole wheat flour, containing withii
0 per cent ns much carbohydrates and
within a per cent as much protein
Much of the food value of wheat k
sacrificed In preparation of flour, to th«
end that our dainty appetites may in
piqued by the snowy whiteness of thi
bread. Thus bulk for bulk good corn
bread is quite as nutritive as is tb»
whenten loaf. Many ways of cooking
corn ure known, but the simplest an
the better. A sturdy race of pioneer*
throve on mush and milk an*} corr
pone and hoe cake. Civilization and
luxury have led the children of thes*
pioneers to look with disdain on con
and to prefer to secure its great healti
giving properties through other medi
urns. We have been taking our con
by way of pork and beef.—Omaha Bee
Hatful of Pearls.
The wit of Jenny Lind was as charm
lng in its way as her voice.
On the occasion of her second re
hearsnl at the Paris Opera House La- s
blache, the famous singer, was en
tranced with her voice. Hurrying up
to her, he said enthusiastically:
“Give me your hand: mademoiselle!
Every note In your voice Is a pearl!"
“Give me your hat,” replied Jenny
Lind, with a playful smile. }
Lablachc handed the hat to her. Put
ting It to her mouth, she gave one oi
her matchless trills and birdliks
snatches of song.
“Here," she said, smiling nt the de
lighted Lnblacbe as she returned hit
property. “Is a hatful of pearls foi
you, monsieur.”
The Retort Legal.
The judge did not seem to appreciate
the remnrks of the lawyer for the de
fense. Several years before they had
had a tight over the question of reli- ■
gion. At Inst the judge interrupted
the lawyer and said. “Do you not know
that everything you are saying is go
ing In one ear and out the other?”
The lawyer turned to him and re
plied. “Your honor, what Is to pre
vent?”—Argonaut.
Tit For T«t.
Porter—Miss, .vo' train Is— Precist
Passenger—My man. why do you saj
“yonr train’’ when you know it be
longs to the railway company? Porte!
—Puitno. miss. Why do you say "m3
man" when you know I belong to m3
old woman?—Exchange.
The Pessimist Saye:
I don’t see why folks should hav«
any difficulty In believing in love ai
first sight. To me that sort of lov<
seems more natural and better fortlflet
than the variety that is supposed fc
follow extended acquaintance. — Rlclt
mon Tlmes-Dlspatch.
Feminine Courage.
“Don’t you think women are nat
urally more courageous than men?*
challenged the champion of her sex.
“Of course," said the horrid cynic j
“No man would ever dare to get off ,
car the way the average woman does.' j
—Kansas City Star. ji
Keeps Putting ’Em Up.
“I won’t bet with you,’’ said thi
baker. “You haven’t the dough."
“Ob. I guess I can put up tin
stakes!” replied the botcher.—Bostoi
Transcript
A Mean Hint.
Miss Oldgirl—I have been studying
with Professor Plump, and he gavi
me a few wrinkles. Miss Pert—Di
you think you need any more, dear?*
Exchange.
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