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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1916)
TED 30,000 MEN For Harvest Work Western Canada Immense crops; wages $3.00 per day and board. Cheap railway rates from boundary points. Employment bureaus at Winnipeg, Regina, North Portal, .Saskatoon, Fort Frances, Kingsgate, B. C., Coutts and Calgary, Alberta. No Conscription — absolutely No Military Interference For all particulars apply to 1. M. MacLACIILAN. Drawer 197. Watertown. S. D.t W. V. BENNETT. Room 4. Bee Bldd.. Omaha, Neb., and R. A. GARRETT, 311 Jackson St., St. Paul, Minn. Canadian Government Agents HEAD HUNTERS GETTING BUSY Natives of Solomon Island Take Ad vantage of War to Gather Trophies. At first sight there does not seem to be a very close connection between the war in Europe and head hunting in the Solomon islands. Nevertheless, the one arises from the other. Previous to the outbreak of the war, according to a Vancouver World’s Sydney (N. S. W.) correspondent, Brit ish, and occasionally German war ships patrollyed the islands and en deavored to keep down cannibalism among the natives, who are largely of Papuan or Malaysian stock. How ever, the requirements for the trans port of troops led to the recall of the British warships—and the happy head hunter hac been free to follow his own devious courses. In one raid made by a mountain tribe upon a small village near the coast no less than 2G heads were se cured. No punishment followed be cause the whites were unable to or ganize in time. As a consequence the raids are growing more dangerous and, although as yet no Europeans have been attacked, planters have con stantly to keep on their guard. Russia’s Natural Roads. Russia is almost a readless land. It Is inconceivable to the foreign visitor who has never left the beaten track of the railways in Russia how a great em pire can have subsisted so long and so successfully without even a pretense at roads. The secret lies in the fact that for live or six months in the year na ture herself provides roads over the greater part of Russia—admirable, smooth, glassy roadways over hard worn snow. The traffic is further cheapened over these roads by the substitution of a sledge-runner for the wheel and axle. This brings the cost of land carriage as near the cheapness of water-borne freight ns possible and it is the princi pal reason why Russia in the twentieth century is still a roadless laud. Danger From Mosquitoes. The most dangerous of the biting in sects is said by most entomologists to be tlie mosquito, and the species which is the chief carrier of malaria is found very widely distributed throughout the world. As a rule individuals do not wander far on their own account, but they can be blown considerable dis tances by a wind, and they have a habit of traveling about in trains and ships. The female hibernates through out the winter, and, it is reported, has been found under the frozen snows of Siberia, mingled with the moss and snow. I ““ Three Words To Your Grocer— “Mew Post Teasiies?? will bring a package of breakfast flakes with a delicious new corn flavour — flakes that don’t mush down when milk or cream is added, nor are they “chaffy” in the package like the ordinary kind. These New Post Toasties are manufactured by a new process using quick, intense heat which raises tiny bubbles over each flake, the distinguishing character istic. And the new process also brings out a new corn flavour, never tasted in corn flakes of the past. Try a handful dry—they’re good this way and the test will reveal their superior flavour. But they’re usually served with milk or cream. New Post Toasties — for tomorrow’s breakfast. Sold by Grocers everywhere. Homogenized Ice Cream. We are indebted to the board of health of the City of New York for the information that homogenized ice cream may lawfully be sold in that city, and for the further information that homogenized ice cream may be made of powdered skim milk and water. Among those things in the names of which crimes are committed ice cream ranks right along with lib erty and futurist art.—St. Louis Re public. RED, ROUGH, SORE HANDS May Be Soothed and Healed by Uae of Cuticura. Trial Free. Nothing so soothing and healing for red, rough and irritated hands as Cuti cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. Soak hands on retiring in hot Cuticura soapsuds. Dry, and rently anoint hands with Cuticura Oil nt. A one-night treatment works ,ders. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. “Magnet Bill.” He doesn’t look like a very important part of a big automobile organization, this stooped, grizzzled man, but the president of a great motor car com pany says that “Magnet Biil” saves his salary a dozen times over every day he works. Rain or shine, summer or winter, “Magnet Bill” may be seen walking slowly about the automobile plant, his eyes on the ground. “Mag net Bill" gets his nickname from the fact that his tools consist solely of one tin bucket and a big steel magnet, strapped to the end of a shovel han dle. It is his duty to suve automobile tires by removing from the roadway every nail and bit of metnl that might cause a puncture. Thousands of curs are run over the roadway to the test ng place and it is figured that with | ut the precaution taken by “Magnet Bill” the cost for cut and punctured tires would be $20,000 every year— Popular Science Monthly and World’s Advance. Fliers. “Do you ever take n flyer In the market?” “No,” replied the munitions specu lator. “Nothing doing with airships, I’m for submarines.” Some of the finest tapestry ever woven in Japan is to be seen in the peace palace of The Hague. Engineers have found that the use of zinc in boilers prevents foam and the deposit of scale. The bore can head off all effort to forget that he is a bore. --I The Federal Rural Credits Act. From tho St. Lo«is Republic. iii© ifuerai rur«u aw is vnw Ihe outstanding achievements of the pres ent congress. Why are average Interest rates paid by American farmers on mortgage loans one third higher In the state where they are .owest than the average rates paid by the German farmer, and In some states more than twice as high? Because farm loans ;n this country are made direct from the ndlvtdual lender to the Individual farmer, run for only five years and are subject to heavy fees for appraisals, Inspections, etc., on account of the short time, odd amounts and lack of system. The new act provides for the formation of 12 land banks. The capital will be sub scribed by the national government, If not taken otherwise. (This merely Insures the starting of the banks; a like provision was Inserted Into tho federal reserve act). Farmers desiring farm loans will form farm loan associations, which will borrow for their members, from the farm loan bank, the amount of their loans. The farm loan association must consist of at least 10 members, who must be borrow ers. The association will elect officers, pass on the security of the land offered make appraisals and Inspections. Each borrower will subscribe for stock In the farm loan bank to the amount of 5 per cent of his loan. This will not be paid In cash, but will be added to the amount of his loan, and when the loan Is paid off, the stock will be repurchased from him. The money the farmer borrows will at first be supplied from the capital stock of the farm loan banks. The least amount to one borrower will be $100, the greatest $10,000. As soon as the farm loan bank makes loans enough, It will Issue farm loan bonds, secured by Its own resources, by the mortgages It holds, and by a fur ther liability on the part of the borrowers. These bonds will bring in the capital nec essary to make further loans. The loans will run from five to 40 years, and will be tnet by payments at stated Intervals which will Include the interest, the expense of wouuuakiauuu turn a pei ui iuw principal. It Is probable that the total payment will not exceed the Interest pay ment now required In most parts of the country. The farmer who borrows today borrows for five years, and his whole loan comes duo at once. The farmer under the new law will borrow for 40 years—If he so de sires—and his loan will come due In many many small Installments. The farm loan bonds will be free of all taxes, just as United States bonds are now. The farm er-borrower will be, himself, an owner of bank stock and a member of a farm loan association, which he will help conduct; he will thus be receiving a practical finan cial training of great value, and will be carrying his share of responsibility—ex pressed In a direct liability—for farm loans made by his association In his neighborhood. And the Investor desiring to Invest In farm loans will no longer buy Individual mortgages In odd sums, taking, himself, the chance of the security proving Insufficient. He will buy bonds secured by the capital stock of the land banks, the farms mortgaged and a definite stockholders' liability beside. These bonds will be free of all taxes, which will make them desirable Investments, and they can be bought In round sums—say $100 each. How many farmers In the tfnlted States have worked too hard, seen their wives breaking under the strain of long hours and few conveniences, kept the boys out of college and Impoverished their land, In order to meet a five-year mortgage draw ing high Interest? How would those farm ers have regarded a proposition to reducs the Interest from one-third to one-half, lengthen the period from five years to 40, with the privilege of paying out In less time, and pay the principal by small In stallments instead of at the end of the term? The rural credits act makes this change. There Is nothing exclusive In the new system. The states will still be free to de velop state rural credit systems, aB Mis souri Is now doing, and the two will no more conflict than our national banks and state banks conflict In Missouri today. I SYMPTOMS OF INFANTILE PARALYSIS. | T Symptoms. 4 -4 The disease may begin suddenly with convulsions or unconscious- 4 4 ness. „ 4 Or as a severe cold in the head with a running nose. Or as a sore 7 4 Or it may first appear in the form of an attack of stomach and I 4 bowel trouble. 4 4 Ninety per cent of the cases in the New York city epidemic are 4 4 children under the school age. but adults are not immune. 4 The patient complains of weakness. A slow paralysis follows, affect- T 4 ing at first the arms and legs and possibly one side. I 4 After two weeks, the paralyzed parts begin to waste away, while the 1 4 stiffness gradually diminishes. 4 a. Treatment. 4 4 The instant a child is suspected of having the disease, a doctor should 4 4 be called. 4 4 The patient should be completely isolated. T 4 The limbs and parts of the body affected should be given absolute 4 ^ rest. t 4 After the paralysis leaves the limbs, the most important curative 4 4 measure is massage and training of muscles affected. 7 4 The contagious period lasts 28 days, during which the strictest cau- 7 4 tion must be observed against spreading the disease. 7 4 Only one person, in addition to a physician, should take care of the 4 4 child. 7 . .. ■ , ■ r n Parnell: By His Brother. Book Review By Katharine It has been the strange fate of the most 'astidiouslv reticent of men to be written ibout after death with an abandonment >f all reticence, a strange atonement it night well be for a proud spirit, a purga •ory which began while Mr. Parnell was >et on earth. Doubtless Mr. John Par leli's book about his brother is inspired, f on® can use the word in this connex ion, by brotherly piety. It is an amiable 5cok, so amiable that only the most norose of reviewers will set out to '‘slate t. It is not at all in the class of Mrs. Parnell’s deplorable book about her great tusband, and the equally irresponsible /olume compiled by Mr. Parnell’s sister, vlrs. Dickinson, which have been as younds in the hearts of those who loved ind revered and have never ceased to la nent the Irish chief. The scandalmonger ,eed not turn to this simple volume; there ire here no new materials for the man with the muck-rake. Mr. John Parnell sad the ambition to play Boswell to his •amous brother. He succeeds In being a lursery Boswell, but never loses the sense of a large amiable child, open-mouthx<l yith admiration, following about a smali sr, dominant, great-man-in-the-maktng ;hlld. „ . The Parnells were a strange family. They must have been a bewilderment to :he Wicklow nobility and squirearchy to which they belonged. The two of whom I had personal knowledge, the Irish chief and his sister Anna, had both the quality of a rare and delicate distinction. It was one of Mr. Parnell's many fascinations tor the Irish, verv sensitive to such thingB. His beautiful voi^e. his deliberate and re fined enunciation his looks, which, in the latter davs especially, could only have be longed to a man of destiny—oh! he was one of those raie creatures whose mem ory has power \o make the world drab and undistinguished. He came of a good linu honorable stock. His American moth er brought him fresh blood of a fighting =eaman's strain. He inherited politics, statesmanship, fhom the Parnells. We used to say, with what justification I know not, that he had Stuart blood. It gave point to our passionate loyalties in which we talked about him with the Jacobite phrase*. He had the Stuart fas cination, and ho had the fire and the force w hich no Stuari ever possessed. One has only to remember his face in those last months when he was stretched upon the rack and yet sweetly comforted by loyal ties which now, at last, had nothing to gain—the burning eyes, the rapier-like glance, which softened for his friends, the sharpened beautiful face, the whole im Army Critics Should Retract. From the Springfield Republican. The haste with which some newspapers have declared unfavorable health condi tions to exist among the troops along the Mexican border called from the states needed the corrective which Is coming In ample measure. In view of such ciitl ;!sms the national civic federation recently asked permission from the war depart ment to send an expert from civil life to Texas to examine critically conditions af fecting the sanitation and health of the troops. The war department promptly pave Ur. Thomas Darlington full permis sion to go anywhere and examine any thing he desired. Ills first report tells of i a "very satisfactory" Interview with Gen eral Pershing, who Is lending all possible assistance to Dr. Darlington's Inquiry After giving details of his examination of kitchens, food, disposal of garbage and waste drainage, visits to hospitals, diag nosis laboratories, and so on. Dr. Darling ton concludes: "No contagious diseases: conditions ex cellent. Well worth coming. Reassure relatives and friends of soldiers, general medical and sanitation conditions reaeaur- i lng thus far. If seems best this may be used as basis for statem*nt to press Im- . mediately." It certainly . Is most desirable that full publicity should be given to the verdict! which Dr. Darlington has pronounced. Virginia Is the leading state In the production of soapstone, Vermont rank ing second. Tynan In London Observer. presslon of a fine spirit Just ready to es cape Its fretted and worn vessel—to mar vel at the other picture his brother pre sents. "Charley”—there Is a lack of the sense of fitness which so calls Mr. Parnell all through the volume—Is presented to us amazingly In his brother’s memories of him as a great dancer, a society man, given to flirtation and falling In love. He was not able even to persuade the Ameri can young lady who Jilted him that he was anything else but a simple Wicklow squire. She may have been a person of very dull perceptions; we may go further, and say she must have been. Mr. John Parnell seems to think that if his broth er had married Miss Woods the future might have been averted. One doubts It. Jt was probably very fortunate for Miss Woods that she found an undistinguished mate. In later life Mr. Parnell always gave one the Impression of being an ab solutely lonely soul. Let It be remem bered to Katharine Parnell for rlghteous nesa that she brought It some human warmth and comfort. For the rest—Sun day newspapers and the libraries hardly penetrate the shadowy kingdom. A very strange family. One of Its oddi ties—of Mr. John Parnell's as of Mrs. Dickinson’s—Is a conviction, very amiable In his case, that chit-chat about the fam ily must necessarily be of Interest. That Idiosyncrasy In Itself Is Interesting, be cause it reveals the strong family affec tion which was a trait In the Irish chief’s character as In that of the lesser members of the family. It is an attitude of mind which recalls that of the Leinster family In the days of Lord Edward Fitzgerald towards each other. Widely different as the personalities were, there was some thing in the relations between Mr. Par nell and his sister Anna which recalled those of Lord Edward Fitzgerald and his sister Lady Lucy. Anna Parnell was her brother’s twin soul. I do not claim for her that she was his equal In political sapience or the gift of leadership; but in courage, in devotion, In fire, In the clear flame of patriotism she was as he was. They quarrelled over the Ladles’ Land League, and it broke Anna Parnell’s heart, driving her Into the desert of loneliness In which shp war tn r»pr1sh alnnr* Now an<l again In the undistinguished flow of chit-chat comes an Illuminating anecdote. Not always new. There Is the Parnell of the nursery, who, playing at soldiers with his guileless sisters and brothers, glued his soldiers to the floor so that by no possible chance could their ad versaries overthrow them. Mr. John Par nell lays stress on his brother's dominance and love of power. One likes the story of how the Parnell boys made a pond and constructed a flat-bottomed boat. When It came to the trial trip Mr. Parnell Insisted on sending some of the work boys on the trial trip, with the result that the craft turned over and the unfortunate substi tutes were burled in the mud. John Parnell does not boileve that hit brother derived his nationalism from tht Fenian movement, telling how they—tht children—resented the rag-tag and bobtail with which the American Mrs. Parnell filled the big town house In Upper Templt street, to which the magic word "Fenian” was an open sesame for every wastrel and Imposter. But no one ever supposed thal Fenlanlsra was his genesis. John Parnell has not a word about the grim story told to the young Parnells by Gaffney, the old gate keeper at Avondale, of the '98 rebel who was flogged through the town ol Rathdrum and back again by orders of I certain Captain Yeo, till he fell, his bow els protruding, crying out, “Captain Yeo. Captain Yeo! The Lord deliver ms front Captain Yeo." That. I have always un derstood, made Charles Stewart Parnell an Irish rebel. The book has a deal of pudding to a verj few plums. It contains little or no revel ation of the man for whom the Irish peo-, pie—yes, and the Irish priests—are crying today, “Oh, for one hour of Parnell now!" The cry Is his Justification, his panegyric and his revenge. An Unproductive Vleltor. “Say, young foller," said Broncho Bob, "have you got a gun on you?" “No, sir," replied the man with the brand-new cowboy uniform. “I was told that it wns better to be unarmed, so as to avoid any impression that 1 wns seeking a quarrel." "Well, that's a big disappointment. I needed a brand-new gun an' thought you’d be brlngin' along at least, a pair of ’em. Don’t you let anything like Ibis occur again.” The Situation. “Flubdub murried u society butter* fly.” "I suppose he Is wining and dining all the time now.” “Whining and dining. He docsn* like going out.” Itc Sort. “Hid you see where in the storm the other night the jnll was struck?” “Well, what better place for a light ning bolt?” 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 produco sleep, aud a FEW DROPS TOO MAliY 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, conmlsions and death." The taste and smell of medicineB 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 Well Up. Gen. Leonard Wood said In Wash ington, apropos of a military question: “These men, In their desire to seem thoroughly well up In the latest mili tary science, remind me of the green horn servant. “This servant, though really a green horn, took n Job under the pretense of being very highly trained. Her mis tress said to her the first day : “ ‘I suppose, Jane, you cun till the lamps?’ “ ‘Oh, yes, ma’am! Yes, Indeed, ma’am!’ Jane answered. ‘And which would ye ruther I tilled ’em with— gas or electricity?’ ” Co-Operative Creameries Show Tremendous Increase in Butter Production. The Dairy Commissioner, at first an nual convention of Saskatchewan Dairymen's association, reviewed pro gress of 1915 which shows n great in crease in the butter production of the co-operative creameries amounting to , 1,500,000 lbs. He also said the Im provement in quality is shown by the preference nccorded Saskatchewan butter in outside markets. Shipments nut of the province for the year to taled 52 carloads. | According to bulletin just Issued by the Manitoba department of agricul ture, the dairy industry had a very successful year in 1915. There was an increase of over 1,000,000 lbs. of cream ery butter produced, ns ugainst the previous year, about 260,000 lbs. In crease in dairy butter and over 25,000 bs. increase in the cheese output. The increase of the total value of milk and milk products was over $427,000. The production of dairy butter for Mani toba during the year was 4,150,444 lbs. and it brought an average price of 23c per lb.; of creamery butter 5,839,607 Vbs. were produced which commanded C9c per lb. on the average; cheese pro duction was 726,725 lbs. which sold at on average price of 15c—the total value of these three products Is given os $2,760,698, in addition to which the nllk produced Is valued at $925,659 ind the cream at $158,827, the average price of the milk being reckoned at 2.1c per lb. and of sweet cream at 32c per lb. butter-fat. In connection with the dairy Industry It is interesting to note that almost the most important fodder crop now Is corn, of which the 1915 production amounted to 190,132 tons. The biggest cultivated fodder crop Is timothy which for last season produced 193,357 tons and the next most popular crop was brome grass with 45,815 tons; of alfalfa and clover there were produced some 38,000 tons. The number of cattle in the province is given as 631,005, which Is an In crease of 130,000 over the previous year. The fact that the Red Deer, Alberta, cheese factory is handling four times ns much milk this season as last win ter shows the growing Improvement in the dairy Industry. On Feb. 14, It was announced the factory had just shipped two tons of cheese for Calgary market. Cardston, Albertn, creamery In 1915 paid its patrons a rate of 27%c per lb. for butter fat and had a profit re maining over all expenses of $5,584. The creamery during season distrib uted among farmers $61,117 and manu factured 256,000 lbs. butter and 13,000 lbs. cheese. Average price realized for butter was 2814 cents. The development of the dairy Indus try of Northern Alberta is well indi cated by the growth of a prominent dairy business here, which In 1915 pro duced 2,525,000 lbs. butter, an Increase of 400,000 lbs. over the previous year. 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