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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1918)
Spring Colds Are the Worst They lead to catarrh .and pneumonia. They weaken the entire system and leave it unable to resist the sudden changes. They interfere,with your digestion and lessen ydUr ac tivity. Neglected they soon become that dread disease known as sys temic catarrh. Don’t neglect them, i It’s costly as well as dangerous. PERUNA Will Safeguard You Have a box of Peruna Tab lets with you for the sudden cold or exposure. Tone your sys tem up with a regular course of the liquid Peruna, fortify it against colds, get your digestion up to nor mal, take care of yourself, and avoid danger. If you are suffering now begin the treatment at once. Give Nature the help she needs to throw off the catarrhal inflammation, and again become well. Peruna has been helping people for 44 years. Thousands of homes rely on it for coughs, colds and indi gestion. It’s a good tonic for the weak, as well. The Peruna Company Columbus. Ohio One Great Truth. "I suppose you claim that you wil.' leave oflice poorer than you entered It?” “I’m not making tiny statement about ^ that. But I can truthfully say that the campaign depleted my bank roll considerably.”—Kansas City Journal. (------1 ' CORNS LIFT OUT! COSTS FEW CENTS ~.. J Drops of magic! Doesn’t hurt one bit! Drop a littie Freezone on a touchy corn, instantly that corn stops hurt ing, then you lift it off with the fingers. No pain! Try it! I Why wait? Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of Freezone for a few cents, sufficient to rid your feet of every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and calluses, without soreness or irritation, j Freezone is the much talked of discovery of the Cincinnati genius. Proving~Their Patriotism. “Of course we have a family skele ton.” , “Well, let’s trot it out. It will be a credit to us now. Shows we are not overeating.”—Kansas City Journal Building-up for the Spring Attack at the Front is a good deal like putting the body in condition for an invasion o? the germs of grip, pneumonia or “Spring fever” here at home. At this time of the year most people suffer from a condition often called Spring K,ever. They feel tired, worn out, before the day is half thru. They may have frequent headaches anil sometimes “pimply” or pale skin and white lips. The reason for this is that during the wintertime, shut up with in doors, eating too much meat and too little green vegetables, one heaps' fuel into the system which is not burned up and the clinkers remain to poison the system—a clogaing up of the circu lation—with inactive liver and kidneys. Time to put your house in order. * For an invigorating tonic which will clarify the blood, put new life in the body, sparkle to the eyes, and a wholesome skin, nothing does so well ns a glyceric herb extract made frcm Golden Seal root, Blood and Stone root, Oregon grape root and Wild Cherry hark. This can be bad in con- ; venicnt, ready-to-use tablet form at all drug stores, sixty cents, and has been sold for tho past fifty years os Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. By reason of the nerves feeding on the ( blood, when the blood is pure the! nerves feel the effect, and neuralgia or t[pother nerve pains disappear because such pain Is the cry of the starved nerves for food. When suffering from backache, frequent or scanty urine, rheumatic pains hero or there, or that constant tired feeling, the simple way to overcome these disorders is merely to obtain Dr. Pierre’s Anurle front your druggist. In tablets, sixty cents. C @ 0 G H 0 N © anpr.yr others nrd hurts you. Retier- thr-it ■rntation und tickllntr.and (ret nd ofeoajhs, and hoarseness by taking at ouco CLEVER EXCUSES ARE PUT OP BY SLACKERS While Others Who Want to Se^’ve Are Equally Ingenious About Getting In. Kansas City. Mo. (by mall)—The very serious business of selecting from the manhood of Kansas City and vicin ity the representatives in the national army was attended by much humor and pathos. Tire draft appeal board from its opening session was besieged by throngs wiio sought to serve their coun try in any but a military way and ex hausted their ingenuity in thinking up reasons why they should not be draft ed. And in contrast, there were those who yearned for army life and some times were hard put to it to prove they would be useful to their country in soldier uniform. There was the man who declared, in answer to a question as to why he thought l’.o should he exempted, that no other man in the world except han sel? could live with his wife. To this a member of the draft board replied: "If t should tell her on what grounds you are asking exemption, I’ll bet you couldn’t either.” There was the representative of a county organization who asked the dis trict board that his entire county be dealt with leniently since it was an agricultural county and there was the woman of 47 years who asked exemp tion for her 30-year-old husband be cause she loved him so much. There was a coffee salesman t<ho pointed out that several hotels would suffer if he were called to the colors. Likewise there was a petition signed bx 40 members of a Sunday school eon <1 mted in a rural church live miles from e Itown asking for exemption for the q jnool’s superintendent and asserting tl is school could not bo maintained 1 ithout his leadership. Work for the government did not ex empt from military service. A post t faster in vain filed an affidavit that a iural mail carrier was necessary to the |iroper distribution of the mail on his poute and a district draft hoard refused io make any concessions tor an assist nnt secretary of a state board of agri culture seeking exemption on indus trial grounds, although many influential public men were interested in his case. The physical director of a high school who had charge of the senooi military ('rill was not exempted. On the other hand a deputy United iStates collector of internal revenue was placed in division 1, class 3, as a neces sary government employe. He was en gaged in technical work in the adminis tration of tho income tax law. One Buchanan county man assigned five reasons to the appeal board why he should bo exempted. He said lie was under weight, had a crippled foot and defective eyesight. These reasons were rejected. Then ho claimed he was the solo support of his father and, that be ing disallowed, made the claim he was a farmer working on land his father rents. Ho was certified for trie national army. Although the small salaries given country school teachers in this as In other states are notorious, many school boards in (he Kansas City district filed affidavits that the teachers were neces sary in educational work. In one case “an act of God” was re sponsible for an exemption claim. The overflowing- of the Platte river in Buch anan county devastated (lie farm of the grandfather of a man already serving at Camp Funston. The grandparents were left destitute and 40 of their neighbors petitioned the district draft board to return the grandson from training camp. Some actual fraud and deceit was found among those seeking to avoid military service. One man, asking ex emption on the ground that he was the sole support of his wife, challenged the draft board to find that either he or his wife had funds or property. They ac cepted and discovered he had a bank account of about $3,500 that had been hidden in a safety deposit box and that his wife owned property. Another man became ill when noti fied to report for service and his mother asked that he be examined and ex empted because mentally unbalanced. The doctors made a written report, finding that the man’s mental condition was brought on by his own volition. Some queer exhibits reached the draft boards to back up claims for depen dency. One man produced a jeweler’s diamond guarantee issued last April to prove a dependency claim in the ease of marriage since May IS. Ho passed a dependency claim although married last September. He had been engaged in the spring, he explained, and to prove it pinned the engagement ring guaran tee to his questionnaire. Love letters were offered to show intention to mar ry before the draft law menaced and a Wichita paper with news of an an nouncement party and pictures of the bride and bridegroom-to-be was sent to n draft board. To prove that one bride groom was no “marriage slacker,” a Jewish couple sent In a marriage con tract made out last winter. REAL ACTION SEEN IN IBM RAIDING Personal Combat Counts Most and That’s Where Fritz Falls Short. London, (by mail).—The following is a graphic description of the work American soldiers have tu learn in France; it is told by a British Tommy who is here in hospital: “I got this packet in a raid on the Gerries’ line. It was a good little show —took you_ back to the finish of th'e Cframe. We used to have a raid every other night then. I like a raid better than a push, though of course a push in more useful. Vv’liat I mean la this, you get good and close to the Gerries In a raid—right in amongst them—and you sometimes can get to grips with them. In a push they're too keen on getting away to let you right in amongst them. You get bile of their line, though In a push and I suppose that’s the game right enough. "Our officer was a first class ch.'ii In a raid. lie was a great big man not fat. but hellish powerful. I bet he weighed if. atone if he weighed a pound, and it was all big bone and herd muscle. It gave you a tickle '■ the throat to go after him. He used ■ go Into the raid with a revolver at: ' two knucklo-dasters. If be got close enough to use his fists. God help Ihe Gerry that lie hit. IF1 used to grim* es bo hit. you know, ‘Atich! biff." nr. over they would go. It was -- bit < nd right v-nlching hfm. 'Jf course, no one German had a chance n.tiinsi hill', but the wonder was how ha escaped being copped out. ihcy used to go for him so much in bunches. "Well, this was the officer that took us out on the raid that night. It was lc u bit of the line \\ o took in the au.i push we dhl, and the CUrnwns hadn’t been able to put up much wire. What there was had been flattened out by the T. M. B.’s. Trench Mortar Work. ‘‘It was a good little T. M. battery w© had in that bit of the line. The officer in charge of them was a Yorksbireman —one of those keen ehups that are al ways on the job. He didn't belong to our regiment, but he'd have been a credit to us if he had. He lammed It into the Gerries the whole day, and of course it meant that they hit buck. They strafed us with five-nines; and that was a bit deadly; still, I suppose you’ve got to take that as it comes. Anyhow, this T. M. battery ott’icer was a pretty fair dodger. 1-Ie would give the German j trendies two bombs and tile wire one. | They thought he was after their blood. ■ 1 expect, and all the time it was tiio I wire he was at. He blew two or three I clean paths through the wire. He was ! a workman, a Journeyman at his job, j that T. M. battery officer. The Raid. j "We knew that the Gerries would he out mending their line that night, put ! ting up wire and that. So our officers j arranged that the raid was to come off i as soon as it was dark. It was very well clone. The T. M. battery officer ! kept banging away until the dark was just coming on, then started to cut ! down the firing a bit and let them have bursts at odd times. Half an hour, a burst. 10 minutes, another, 10 minutes, another, with odd bombs in between. The Gerries must have been wondering their beaus off. It must have been just after 7 o’clock when we crept out, while the mortars blew over a few bombs, natural like. "We were out for the usual thing, sheer devilment in the German line; damage dugouts, take prisoners and generally kick Up Hell. Our ldg officer led the way, as usual. I had a couple of bombs, though I’m a bayonet man, but a bomb’s a handy thing to have about you. We nipped into the German lines and found a pretty good windup among them. There was a bit of Kamerading’ and a bit of fight, too. It was a strong point in the German line, with two or three machine gun emplacements. One of the machine guns started to play on us and I let drive with tho bomb into the post. Then we rushed it and landed into a bunch with a bit of"Ilght in them. There was a tidy mixup then, and I engaged a fel low with the bayonet. He fired at me and got me in the side just as I made a point at him. Whether it was being hit. or if I slipped I don’t know, but I got him in the shoulder when I meant to get his chest. He did tho ‘Kamo rad' act, and I took him prisoner. He talked good English, too. “Linht Duty" for Wounded. “The sergeant saw I was hit, and told mo to take four Gerries back with my prisoner. I could hardly breathe with the packet I had, so I made the Ger mans pull me out of the trench and lead the way to our lines. Behind us our chaps were playing the devil with the German trench and machine gun posts, stink-bombs in the dug outs, good charges under the machine gun emplacements, general bedevilment— I that is what these tip and run raids are i for. i “The prisoner I took spoke good Eng l lish. Ke’d been a butter merchant in i Hamburg—never been in England * though he could speak tho language | so well. He was a sort of corporal or something, and he thought I’d bear a grudge for my packet, but I gave him a gasper to smoke when we went down to the dressing station, to show him it was all right. That loosened hie tongue and he talked a lot. “He had the hump about Germany. Ho said that they seemed to have a lot of victories, but none that led to any thing, and ho said the news from his homo was very bad. Ilfs father’s business bad all gone, and food was awful scarce with the folks at home. Lots of his relations were sick and couldn’t get better, and it seemed to be prettv general in Germany all over. He said that the Gerries in the firing lino were fed up with tho letters they got from home, always grousing about no food and about being sick. “Too Many Victories.” "He couldn’t understand how it was if they were winning such a lot of victories that there was no peace, i told him they’d had no victories worth talking about, and asked him about Vimy and Messines. He said it was just because we had such a lot of guns that no troops on earth could stand the fire. Then I spoke about Cambrai with no artillery fire, and he seemed to think that they’d won all the ground back. I told him what a little bit it was they’d taken back, and that it didn't make much difference, as wo were still holding Mr. Blooming Hin denburg’s line—only I spoke respectful like about Hindenburg. I didn't like to hurt a chap that was down and a prisoner. It wouldn’t be good man ners—we leave that sort of thing to the Gerries. “He praised up Hindenburg, hut still I could see that he was not too suro everything was all right; he-seemed to think that the Germans were being diddled by their superiors. Ho was a decent enough chap, that Gerry, and had the makings of a good soldier. He said a queer thing, too, something about 1 me making our wounds a 'bond of sympathy.’ He couldn’t get over mo being decent to him though he’d shot mo in the side. “1 cannot understand you, English man,’ ho says, ‘you are generous too much.’ "I says to him, ‘That’s all right, cor poral. If you hadn’t shot me, you’d have been dead. I was going straight for your chest.’ ’’ Shelling of Rheims Cathedral. From the Wide World. A great wave of sunlight lit up a somber picture of carnage and suffering j at tho western end near tho main en trance. Here on piles of straw lay the ; wounded Germans in all stages of suffer I ing Their round, shaven heads, thin j cheeks and bluish gray uniforms con trasted strangely with the somber black I of the silent priests attending them, while ■ In the background tho red trousers of the French soldiers were Just visible on the I steps outside. Most of the wounded had i dragged their straw behind the great goth i Ic pillars, as if seeking shelter from their ! own shells. The priest conducted us to ' one of tho aisles beneath the window i where the shell had entered that morning. \ great poo! of blood lay there, staining i the column JlK.t ns the blood of Thomas : a Becket must have stained the altar of | Canterbury seven centuries before. ; “That monsieur, Is the blood of the ! French gendarme who was killed at 11 tills morning; but he did not go alone.” a tin priest pointed to two more recumbent 'Cures clad in the bluish gray of the iser’s legions. There they lay stiff and d as the effigies around them. All 'hree had perished by the same shell. Horrors. From the Florida T1me*-Ur.lon. “Well, darling, here is some consola tion.” said tho impecunious lover to the pretty little heiress, "here Is one ship that n never be torpedoed.” What ship is that. Harold?" asked the • :ng thing, shifting her chewing gum. ■■Coust-ship.” lie. replied, and Just then her father came In and gave him a blow i ing up. ! A seven-pound electro magnet thnt j will lift 15 times its own weight has I been invented for many uses about ma ; chirm shops. Lemons Whiten and j Beautify the Skin! j Make Cheap Lotion j Tlie juice of two fresh lemons strain ed into a bottle containing three ounces j )f orchard white makes u whole quar ter pint of the most remarkable lemon thin benutifier at about the cost one uust pay for a small jar of the ordl- 1 aary cold creams. Care should be tak-s sn to strain the lemon juice through a 1 Sue cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, , thou this lotion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that loin- ! on juice is used to bieuch and remove . guoh blemishes ns freckles, sallowness I and tan and is tlie ideal skin softener, j pmoothenor and benutifier. Just try it! Make up a quarter pint i af this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and massage il daily into tlie face, j neck, arms and hands. It should natur ally help to whiten, soften, freshen and bring out the hidden roses and beauty I of any skin. It is wonderful for rough, j red hands. Your druggist will sell three ounces I of orchard white at little cost, and any | Croecr will supply the lemons. Adv, His Righteous Wrath. “1 received a compliment yesterday In which 1 did not thank the giver,” grumbled old Festns I’ester. “A total j stranger wrote me a letter and ad- ! dressed me as ‘the IIoi).’ I do not know why lie should have applied that ; epithet to me, unless It was because he j did not know me. I feel safe in saying that even my enemies would not charge me with having many of the characteristics of an Hon. I am not a fawning, smirking blatherskite, too lazy to work, nor am I a Mar and dead beat. It may he that 1 have one at tribute of an Hon.—very likely T am n bore, but beyond that 1 am not guilty.”—Kansas City Star. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottlo of CASTOIilA, that famous old remedy j for infants and children, and see that it In Use for Over 30 fears. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria | Ideals That Uplift. We cannot revere anything lofty without ourselves becoming exalted; i we cannot revere anything holy with- j out ourselves becoming purer. 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