The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965, January 06, 1916, Image 5
' ' . I Women of Sedentary Habits. Women who get but little exercise are likely to be troubled with constipa tion and indigestion and will find Chamberlaid’s Tablets highly bene ■<r ficial. Not so good as a three or four mile walk every day, but very much better than to allow the bowels to re main in a constipated condition. They are easly and pleasant to take and most agreeable in effect. Obtainable every where. 30-4 Cause of Small Litters. V The College of Agriculture again ! sounds the warning that the brood sow should not be allowed to fatten with the other hogs and thus reduce the siz. of her litter. It says that the grain ration should be light and sup plemented with good alfalfa hay. If the sows are young, they will need little tankage in addition to the grain and hay, unless skim milk is used. Cause and Prevention of Carbon. Carbon is formed in the cylinders of automobiles due to the residue which is left from burning gas and lubricat ) ing oil. The hard deposit is formed from lubricating oil. The College of Agriculture says not to keep too much oil in the crank case and to use heavier oil in old motors. It says that carbon should either be removed by scraping or by burning with an oxygen flame. ) = t How Much to Feed a Dairy Cow. Dairy cows in milk should have all the hay and silage they desire. In addition to this, a cow that gives milk containing more than 4 per cent of butter fat should be given one pound . of grain for every 3 to 3.5 pounds of milk produced. A cow giving milk containing less than four per cent butter fat should be given a pound of grain for every 3.5 to 4 pounds of milk produced. Hog Vaccination Successful. During the last three years 375 jng pigs have been vaccinated by ^ simultaneous treatment for hog ra by the Department of Animal pdry at the College of Agricult In two occasions cholera had al kppeared among the pigs before i vaccinated. Of the 375 but j lost, and in no case did any [ifter the treatment that had - shown a temperature of 'ication of Profit. usually taken as production means a yield i not man rather than yield per acre. As the yield per acre is increased beyond a certain normal, the cost per bushel, on the average, will be increased, though in individual cases or during short periods of time the reverse may be true. Librarian’s Report, December, 1915. No. of books in Library.1,881 No. of books added. 12 No. of borrowed books returned 111 No. of readers. 848 No. of readers added. 15 Juvenile circulation. 213 Adult circulation . 380 Total for month. 593 Receipts .$1.61 Expense .25 Cash on hand .$4.46 Mayme Coffey, Librarian. Inman Items. John Auspach is erecting a fine new house on his lots in the south part of town. Miss Lorena Keeper returned to Norfolk Sunday where she will attend school. Miss Hazel Bitner came up from Lincoln last Sunday to spend a month with home folks. Miss Lula Wilcox returned to Meadow Grove last Monday to re sume her school work. Clark Claridge went to Ewing Mon day. Mrs. Levi Garnet fell and broke her hip last Tuesday evening as result of stepping on a little piece of ice near her home. Miss Barbara Souvignier went to Battle Creek Sunday to resume her school work. Miss Hazel Edwards came up from Oakdale to resume school teaching in South Valley school Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stevens came over from Page Saturday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Conard and family. Mrs. Martha McCutcheon has been quite ill the past few days. Charles Claridge has been quite ill the past week. Mrs. R. E. Candee and son, Elwin, went to her home at Plainview Friday after a two weeks’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Candee of this place. Revival services commenced in the M. E. church last Monday. A good attendance is desired. Gleanings. During the past week ye scribe has had a tussle with a bad cold, but is nearly well at this writing. An epidemic of colds, grippe, and f-he measles have been going around ^this community during the last two Brentson and family moved Lohn Berger place last week, , will live the next three Now that congress is in session again, it will be interesting to watch their deliberations, to see what they will do to raise enough money to make up the deficits in the different govern mental departments, provide funds for current expenses for the coming year, and also to provide funds for the next two years to carry out President Wil son’s “Preparedness” program, in case it meets with the approval of congress. I am, myself, and I believe all working people should be opposed to this “preparedness” program now being agitated all over the country. Now it is only necessary to learn what body of men are urging that policy on the country, and you will know who will profit by it, and also that the masses will pay for such a policy in increased taxes. The body of men responsible for the originating of, and presenting the “preparedness” to congress, are known by the name of the “Navy League,” and the personnal of the organization which is composed of nineteen mem bers, is as follows, viz: J. P. Morgan, T. W. Lamont, W. H. Porter, H. P. Davision, Charles Steel, P. D. Cravath, E. H. Garry, H. P. Whitney, S. H. P. Pell, Cor’. Vanderbilt, O. L. Mills, F. R. Condert, F. L. Hine, E. C. Con verse, D. G. Read, Percy Rockfeller, F. A. Vanderlip, L. L. Clark, and Col. Robert M. Thomson, all of whom have been furnishing the Allies with war material of one kind or another, there fore it is plain to be seen why they want congress to adopt their policy of preparedness. It is profits, profits, and more profits, and if this policy gets through congress they will be sure to do something to involve this country in a bloody war with some other country, to still further enhance their profits. They have got Wilson already and it remains to be seen how many congressmen they have got. It is less than one year until the presidential and congressional election comes, and then I hope every American patriot will use his ballot to give a knockout blow to corporate greed. Eternal vigilence is the price of liberty, and if you would maintain your rights, you must watch the enemy and smite them whenever you can. Queer Quirks of News. Ravenna, Neb.—Michael Kneiss has just turned 100 years of age. He says he has never spent a dollar for medical attention in his life. He is keen and alert mentally, and has all his teeth except two. Sullivan, Ind.—Frank Bennet, dig ging below the old Terre Haute and Vincennes trail, found a number of copper coins and white metal plates over 500 years old. The coins are da ted 1410. One is marked “Six peney, Henry VIII.” One of the plates is en graved “On this 7th day of February, 1498, of Our Lord, I. E., domand all nu land: John Cabot.” Another plate reads: “Sebastian Cabot, May 5, 1496. Henry VII.” Los Angles, Cal.—A prosperous looking man walked into the barber shop kept by Jack O’Reilly. After he had been shaved, he took out a wad'Of bills, peeled off a $50 note and said “Here’s a bit of a tip. Things have been coming my way lately.” The barber did not refuse, but he is still weak. Carlook, 111.—The champion office holder is dead at his home here. Joseph Zook was justice of the peace for twenty-seven years, postmaster 30 years, town clerk 36 years and tax collector 40 years. He was 78 years old at his death. Oklahoma City, Okla.—Bootleggers here have a regular code for ordering their goods by longdistance telephone One recently got the wrong man on the wire. The bootlegger said: “I have plenty of big pipe, but am entire ly out of little pipe, and you may send along some soup.” “Big pipe” means quart bottles of whiskey, “little pipe” means pints and “soup” means beer. Comas, Mont.—A woman here re cently had the distinction of bearing three names in one day. In the morn ing Mrs. Sadie M. Vaught obtained a divorce and her maiden name of Sadie M. Swisher was restored. In the even ing she married Charles Sharp and be same Mrs. Sadie Sharpe. Monroe, Wis.—Willard T. Saucer man, known as the “marrying magis trate refused to marry a woman who cannot bake bread. He asked the bride if she can bake and do house work, and the groom if he has eaten and is satisfied with the woman’s cook If the answers are unsatisfact refuses to marry them. ws Summary. James Markham, who ia, 111., celebrated their t their home Wednes • t of eight living t of eleven grand resent besides fifty d Mrs. Markham where they now forty years and her new born baby were found dead in their home in Joliet, 111., Thursday. The authorities gave starvation as the cause. Four other small children are in a serious condition. It is said two may die. Hafner disappeared more than a year ago. With an epidemic of la grippe sweeping Chicago, among other North ern cities, the Health Department has issued a warning bulletin against kiss ing. Nearly a fifth of the residents of Chicago are suffering with la grippe, more than 80,000 school children alone being repo: ted sick. Eugene Sandow renowned athlete, reputed to be the strongest man in the world, has been executed in London Tower after facing a military court on the charge of being a German spy Sandow formerly conducted a great physical culture establishment in I, .n don. When rumors that he was a sympathizer with the Germans began to spread he suddenly dropped from sight. An accounting by the Connetieut Trust and Safe Deposit Company, as trustee under the will of Phineas T Barnum, the showman, has been filed in the New York Surrogate’s Court. The accounting shows that the show man’s widow now is Barones Nancy Barnum D’Alexandrey Oregiani, living in Paris. She is 70 years old. Barnum was 81 years old at the time of his death. Deploring the increasing number of divorce suits, Judge Pendleton of the Superior court, Atlanta, Ga., Thursday declared from the bench that all di vorce laws should be repealed for a period of ten years. By that time, the judge stated, husbands and wives would find that it was not such a hard matter to live together. There were matter to live togeather. There were that county this year. Santa Claus visits Holland and Bel gium about three weeks before he goes to the United States, for the children of these two countries honor their patron saint and receive his annual gifts on St. Nicholas’ Day, December 6. St. Nicholas lived in Holland, and was bishop of Amsterdam, where his memory is honored by a fine statue. His traditional liberality to his parish rs led to the custom of hanging up the children’s stockings on his feast day, so that he might drop a gift therein. In Holland, Santa Claus is not only the patron saint of children, but also the patron of scholars, prospective brides, sailors and parish clerks. He is also the patron saint of Russia. Elihu Root, in a letter to the Minne sota Republican State Central Com mittee recently, said: “I am not a candidate for the presidency. If my name is put on the ballot I shall be compelled to insist upon its being withdrawn.’’ It was said at the com mittee rooms that the name of Theo dore Roosevelt probably will not go on the ballot. The Emporer Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary has taken the step necessary to prevent a break in diplo matic relations between his contry and the United States,” says a message re ceived from Vienna by a neutral diplo mat, who has been afforded exceptional opportunities for communications with both the German and Austrian capitals. The aged emporer has counseled Baron Burian, his foreign minister, to grant the demands of the United States,” the message continues. “He wishes the world to understand that Austria is not at odds with America over the principle of humanity involved in the destruction of the Ancona, but that the issue is one of facts and that the facts presented by the United States be ac cepted by him.” Columbus, Neb., Jan. 4.—The con dition of Edgar Howard, who was in jured Saturday evening when struck by an automobile on the streets of Co lumbus, was much improved today and attending physicians say that he will soon recover. No internal injuries have developed. PROFIT BY THIS. Don’t Waste Another Day. When you are worried by backache; By lameness and urinary disorders. Don’t experiment with an untried medicine. Do as O’Neill people are doing. Use Doan’s Kidney Pills. Read this Orchard resident’s ex perience: L. M. Hagerman, Orchard, Neb., says: “I was troubled by pain in the small of my back. It was mostly in the morning and it was almost im possible for me to straighten, at these times. I heard Doan’s Kidney Pills so highly spoken of that I decided to give them a trial. My experience with this medicine couldnt’ have been more satisfactory.” Price 50c, at .all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Hagerman had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. >'>:> ■&♦♦»♦♦♦»♦»»♦♦♦♦♦»»»»♦»» The Cardinal’s! | Enemy ► < > ► _■ < • . ,* ; A Bit of History That Is J; Also a Romance. <* . <. * _ «> . i. ; By F. A. M1TCHEL {| • * I f one were asked what period in his tory furnished the most themes for sto ries he might he 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, nnd what Richelieu was to tho king tho Duchess of Che vreuse was to the queen. Tho duchess wns 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 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 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 tho queen wns secretly corresponding with those opposing the cardinnl. among them Mine, de Che vreuse. The person who conducted tills correspondence was one La Porte, 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 them In the same way. But the cardinal was watching and •uspected the frequent goings nnd 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 Mine, de Chevreuse was held in restriction, and nsked 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 und lodged In the Bastille. The letter wns not important, but the queen nnd her friend had been forbidden to corre spond. The cardinnl at once ordered the seizure of the private papers of both the queen nnd 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 lu Madrid and in Brussels, but not on matters of state. La Porte declared that lie had carried no letters for the queen except to Mine, de Cbe 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. But how reach La Porte in bis cell at 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 Hnutfort. 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 La Torte. 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 wny of conveying a letter from the queen to La Porte. De Jars had suffered a paralytic stroke and wras allowed the privileges of an invalid, be ing permitted to receive friends and converse with them in the courtyard of the prison. Mile, de Hnutfort 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, A-here 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. » ut* uum »ua uauic iuc inwuuciB 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 that 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 j beneath tils own he might contrive ta 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 iu 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 head for a conspiracy against the cardinal. The chevalier planned to pass the queen’s letter through these two cells to that of ha Porte. De Jars enlisted in his service a young fellow named Bois d’Arcy, the vulet of a prisoner who was confined with his master. D’Arcy while in at tendance on his master at the hour of exercise found a broken stone with a 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, uud they at once granted the request. Then they were given the broken stone for at. Implement. The men succeeded in boring a hole through the floor to the cell next below and passed the letter through to Baron de Tenace and Itevellton. These mad.j another hole in tho floor of their own cell and had not La Porte been so closely wutched would have had no dif ficulty in passing the missive on to him. They learned that the warden usually left La Porte for a few min utes in the morning. Waiting till they heard him go out, they passed down the letter. The goal was won. La Porte made his confession tally with that of Anne of Austria, and the cardinal for once was outwitted. Being convinced that he hnd 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 Chevrcuse. The pardon was granted on condition that the queen would hold no further correspondence with the mischief maker. Anne, whose conscience was very elastic, regarded this promise solely 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 be bound in red and she must look out for herself. Through some misunderstanding Mme. de 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, 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 ns it was dark ordered her coachman to stop and stepped out disguised as a man in a long cloak and riding boots. A horse was waiting for her, and mounting, followed by two servants aiqu luuuuit'u, out? iuuo ouuiuwaiu. In her excitement she bad left In 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 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 bad 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 the duchess set out for another of his houses occupied by a gentleman in his service named Mal basty, where she arrived before day light the next morning. Mme. Mal basty recognized the valet as a servant of La Rochefoucauld, and the man told her that the gentleman he was conducting was an intimate fritnd of his master and related the story about the duel. M. Malbasty 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. 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 wer« 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 as 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 after so many romantic adventures. The king, like all othei men, was captivated with her, and tht queen showed her every attention. From Spain the duchess went to Eng land, whose queen, Henriette Marin, 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 then In Spate 'ijf . ..