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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1918)
Health Was Shattered South Boston Woman Tells How She Suffered Before Doan’s Cured Her. “I was in awful shape from kidney disease,” says Mrs. W. F. Sterritt, 767 Dorchester Ave., South Boston, Mass. “My health was shattered and I would often fall in a heap. Had someone stabbed me in the back with a knife, the pains could not have been worse. “I lost thirty pounds, was terribly nervous and could not do my housework. Fainting spells came on and my feet and limbs swelled so badly I couldn’t wear my shoes. Puffy sacs came u-uler my eyes, my skin looked shiny fltiy, Sterritt an<i the impression of a finger left a dent that remained for some time. “My kidneys were in awful shape and it seemed that I had to pass the secretions every hour. The passages were scant and- terribly distressing. I was feverish at night and perspired profusely. “I was discouraged until told about Doan's Kidney Pills. They brought improvement from the first and about a dozen boxes cured me. My cure has lasted.” Get Doan’s at Any Store, Ms a Ban DOAN’S ■VJ’JLV FQ3TER-MILBURN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y. SOMETHI G HE WON’T FORGET Soldier’s Foolishness in Using His Mask Bag for Mail Pouch Nearly Cost Him His Life. Don’t carry anything in your gab musk bag that doesn’t belong there. That isn't a general order, but the fruit of at least one man’s experience. He had gone over the top on a pa trol. Somebody smelled gas; on went the masks. He bit into it, clamped his nose on tight, and started to breathe. That is, lie tried to. For several ago pizing minutes lie struggled to get wind through it, and then lie found it was p false alarm. Thanking liis stars that it hadn’t fteen a real attack to he endured with a safety appliance that was as dan gerous as the German pizen itself, he went to his lieutenant at the first op portunity and told him that the thing didn’t work. The lieutenant looked at it. “What’s this?" he asked. From the slot at the base of the Respirator lie drew a postcard that had Stuck there. / “Now try it,” ho said. ’ ' It worked. That man isn’t using his hiask lmg as a jnail poucli any more.— Stars and Stripes. State of Ohio. City of Toledo, Lucas County—ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that ho la senior partner of the Arm of F. J. Cheney ft Co., doing business In the City of To ledo, County and State aforesaid, and that gild firm will pay the sum of ONE HUN RED DOLLARS for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this th day of December, A. D. 1888. (Seal) A. W. Gleason, Notary Public. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE Is tak en Internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Druggists. 75c. Testimonials free. F. J, Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. The American Sailor's Dollar. Here Is a story of American good will and its sequel, told to me by Mr. George llobey. An American sailor had paid for a gallery seat at his Liv w^erpool concert last Sunday. The sail or said to the program seller: “I want to buy one of those programs and help the French Red Cross. But I've only got one dollar note—the last of ’em. Could you change it?” The girl gave liim two half crowns for it and he in sisted on giving one for the cause. Itobey told the story on tlie Liverpool Exchange next morning, and sold the Sailor’s dollar bill for £31. He is going to sell it again Sunday.—London Eve ning News. Perverse Arts. Cupt. Archie Freeman, the Los An geles sportsman who is now teaching machine gunnery to American aviators In France, said one day to u machine gun class: “lion’t he discouraged, boys, if your bursts are all misses, at first. The machine guti is a perverse tiling, and to learn it is like learning to automo bile and to golf. “It took me several years to mas ter these arts, and .while learning to automobile I lilt everything," whereas, while learning to golf, 1 hit nothing!" We’ve seen many a bati'e in which if.l the honor went to the loser. A friend In need seldom hesitates to tell you so. L ’ll"111 . ——•—t—“ U « Post , Toasties I (Made of Corn) | Taste twice as * good now cause | £ know they Help Save the Wheal - THE poor condition of seed corn in the northern Corn Belt will no doubt result In a very poor stand of com In many fields. In some cases entire fields will have to be replanted. Many farmers cannot replant because of the scarcity of seed, and substitute crops must be planted or the land will remain idle. In this emergency the growing of millet, sorghum, or even Sudan grass, Is worthy of consideration. Perhaps the best of these substitute* for the northern Com Belt Is sorghum. The Early Amber variety Is good for either syrup or forage purposes. Other good varieties are the Orange, Red Top, nnd Gooseneck. For growing as forage, sorghum can be sown as late as August 1, and will make more or less of an enormous growth, depending upon the soil and season. 1 When grown for hay It may be sown broadcast or with a grain drill, using from 50 to 70 pounds of seed to the acre. Or It can be sown In rows like com. using ;.-jm five to ten pounds of seed per acre, cultivated and cut for silage with a corn binder. I When used ns silage It should be cut when the seed begins to har den. For silage It is nearly equal to corn and under good grow ing conditions will pro iduce more tons to the acre. 1 When sowed for hay it should be cut with a grain binder and shock ed. Later it can be hauled to the barn or feed lot and put in the mow or stacked, to be fed whole or run through a cutting box. As It is hard to cure, it may be best to leave it outside In shocks or a small stack, ns the weather does not dam Foxtail Millet—Can Bo Sown After Wheat and Oats Are Harvested-—Makes Coed Catch Cran. age it ; There are two types of millet—the broom corn type, which has spreading heads, and the foxtail type, which has one spike head. I Millet can be sown as late as July as a catch crop. It can be sown after jWheat and oats are harvested._Use about three pecks of seed to the acre and cut for hay when the head? begin to show. j Sudan grass Is ns yet new to the Corn Belt. It belongs to the sorghum family. It may be sown broadcast, or drilled, and It makes no difference in the | yield of hay whether 10 pounds or 30 pounds of seed are sown to the acre, as it is a great stooler. ! Sudan grass can be sown as late as July 15 or 20, and the early seeding 'sometimes makes two cuttings. It should be cut as soon as the bloom begins ;to drop and handled the same as sorghum. If the weather is hot and dry It can be cured into hay and stored. In securing Sudan grass seed care must be taken to make sure you do not get Johnson grass seed Instead. Johnson grass la a great pest and Its seed so closely resembles the seed of Sudan grass that the average person cannot tell the difference. ^ ^ ARMY KITCHENS ARE CARED FOR CAREFULLY British Officers Look Closely After the Welfare of the Men In Their Commands. Behind the British Bines In France, (by mail)—The importance of the kitchen department of the army can not be overrated, for If men are to work hard and efficiently they must be decently fed. For fids reason the "king's regulations" provide that it is the first duty of every commanding officer to see that the soldier's meals are "properly and sufficiently provid ed.' It Is further ordered that an of ficer must insoect the kitchens and cookhouses every day, while the same officer must visit the barrack rooms and mess tents during the breakfast, dinner and super hours to find out if there is any cause for complaint. The kitchen establishment of a Brit ish army camp varies widely under different circumstances. At garrison centers in France, the cookhouse is a large building shared by several units, and is under the charge of a sergeant chef who has -ben through a special course in military cooking. It is his duty to superintend personally all cooking done in the regimental cook house. Each unit, in its turn, has a chief cook who is responsible for all the meals of his unit. In the field, however, the cook Vouse is a thing of mushroom growth. When a unit is on the march the simplest method of constructing a tem porary kitchen is to place a number of kettles on the ground in two paral lel rows, block the leeward end of the passage thus formed with another ket tle and light a fire in this improvised trench. As soon as the fife has been started, one or two rows of kettles can be placed on top of those already In position. If the stay at a particular spot is likely to be for any appreciable length of time, a good field kitchen is im provised by digging a narrow trench for the fires, and placing the camp ket tles above this. Sometimes a chimney is built of sods. For a stay . f three or four days, reg ular "field ovens" are constructed. An arch of sheet iron is erected and on top of this a layer of clay is piled. With this oven it is possible to give the men roast meat for dinner as often as tlie Joints are forthcoming from the supply column. Enough bread to feed a whole battery can be baked in one of these ovens. DEATH TAKESMAKER OF CONFEDERATE FLAG Wilson, N. C,,' (by mall).—Mrs. Re becca Winborne, 87 years old, who died recently, is said to have been the woman who made the first Confederate flag. The banner, designed by Captain Orren Randolph Smith, of Henderson, N. C., was made by Mrs. Winborne when she was Miss Rebecca Murphy, at Wilson, in February, 1861. A sister refused to aid in making the flag, it is said, because she was engaged to a northern army officer. A few weeks after the flag was completed it was adopted by tiie confederate congress at Montgomery. Ala., as the standard of the confederacy. The first banner con tained only seven stars, representing the number of states that had seceded, j hut tills number was soon increased < to 11 by the withdrawal of other states I from the union. By an act cf the cun- ! federate congress it was named "The ! Stars and Bars." At a reunion of confederate veterans ; at Norfolk, Va„ in 1910, Captain Smith explained the meaning of the various colors in the flag, as follows: "The idea of my flag I took from the Trinity. The three bars were for church, state and press, all bound to gether by a field of blue (the heavene over all), bearing a star for each state in the confederation. The seven white stars, all the same sire, were placed In a circle, showing that each state had equal rights and privileges, Irre spective of size or population. INJURED SOLDIERS TO BE GIVEN REAL TRAINING The following is authorized by the Federal board of Vocational Educa tion: There appears to exist in the minds of many persons a misconception of what vocational re-education is, as ap plied to disabled soldiers and sailors. The Federal Board for Vocational Edu cation, which is charged with the duty of re-educating the Injured men, Is constantly receiving communications from persons who have tills, that, or the other supposed art or craft which they offer as being just the thing to teach the wounded soldiers. These suggestions run all tho way from mak ing artcraft out of sealing wax, making paper flowers and gilding pine cones to constructing alleged orna ments out of putty. The federal board does not intend to teach useless things. The educa tion to be given, in the main, wall be in highly specialized occupations which i are good paying, recognized, and manly 1 callings that have a definite, useful place in the business world. There seems to be a misunderstand ing concerning what occupational the rapeutics and vocational education are, or the part that they play. The for mer is given to divert the patient’s mind, to exercise some particular set of muscles or a limb, or perhaps mere ly to relieve the tedium of convales cence. These activities have little, if any, practical value beyond the im mediate purpose they serve, nor are they Intended to have any other value. But even now in occupational therapy the idea is to give that sort of training which will be preliminary to the real vocational education which is lo begin soon as *he nat’erf Is able to go further along, if, for instance, the pa-' tlent was formerly a sheet metal worker, nnd is now debarred from the use of physical strength, he is started*, perhaps, as a designer or architectural expert' in cornices, sheet metal and ar citectural work. His practical know ledge is thus built upon and focused in a specialty suited to his capabilities. The patient is furnished with a set of Instruments, a bed drawing board, nnd textbooks. Then he is given able in struction. The weeks in bed or in the wheel chair are utilized practically. When he is able to go into the work shops, the convalescent is well along as a technician, and ready for further in tensive training. So it is with other lines. The busi ness of edpcatlon is, first of all, com mon sense and practical. The idea Is to turn out thoroughly trained men for men’s Jobs at men's pay, despite any physical handicap which may have rendered the men useless in their for mer callings. epidemic of'(Torse thieves. Amsterdam.—The German newspap ers are much agitated over an epi demic of horse stealing in Berlin, in a single week recently horses valued at $25,000 were stolen in Berlin, most of them while standing in the streets in daylight. The animals are sold in the provinces, where they fetch fancy prices, or are used for clandestine butchering In Berlin. A pair of fine race horses recently disappeared dur ing a race meeting at the Grunewald Course LIFT OFF CORNS! I . With fingers! Corns and cal luses lift off. No pain! "Slagle! Just drop n little Freezone on that touchy corn, Instantly It stops aching, then you lift the corn off with the Angers. Truly! No humbug! f}^ 0 _uirtnwn i . “UNCLE SAM” IDEAL FIGURE Old Gentleman Happy Blending of the Cardinal Virtues Typical of the j| American. My father used to tell me that hit* great-uncle. Major Samuel Wilson, was quartermaster in Washington's army, nud that when the supplies came in marked ‘IT. S.‘ the boys In the army used to say, ‘More food for Uncle Sam!’ When the war was over the army took tills saying to every part of tire land, and ‘Uncle Sam’ soon dis placed ‘Brother Jonathan’ ns the fa vorite nickname for our country. "In picture and phrase, ‘Unde Suin’ is still, for good or ill, our national figure. He lncnrnntes tlie Amerle.au diameter. What can you see in him? “To me it means a happy blending if four cardinal virtues which are l.vplcal of the American—shrewdness iml energy, kindness and hnjjior. If Uncle Sam were only shrewd and ener getic, be might lie a very stingy oljl specimen, not at nil to lie admired. Sometimes our good friends across the water have only seen this side of him. if Uncle Sum were only kind and humorous, lie might lie a shiftless good-for-nothing. But, fortunately for 11s all, energy and shrewdness give him power without waste, while kindness find humor make him human and friendly.’’— H. N. Muecracken in St. Nicholas. Get New Kidneys! The kidneys are the most overworked jrgans of the human body, and when they fall in their work of altering out find throwing off the poisons developed in the system, things begin to happen. One of the first warnings is pain or stiff ness in the lower part of the back; highly colored urine; loss of appetite; indiges tion; irritation, or even stone in the bjjid ter. These symptoms indicate a eondil .on that may lead to that dreaded und fatal malady, Bright's disease, for which there is said to be no cure. Do not delay a minute. At the first in lication of trouble in the kidney, liver, bladder or urinary oigans start takjng Hold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules, ana save yourself before it is too late. Instant treatment is necessary in kidney and blad der troubles. A delay is often fatal. Yon can almost certainly find immediate relief in Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules, for more than 200 years this famous prep lration lias been an unfailing remedy for ill kidney, bladder and urinary troubles. It is the pure, original Haarlem Oil your STcat-grandmother used. About two cap sules each day will keep you toned up and feeling fine. Get it at any drug store, tnd if it does not give you almost immediate relief, your money will be refunded. Be sure you get the GOLD MEDAL brt.nd. None other genuine. In boxes, three sizes.—Adv. A Correction. “When a Boche finds himself In n fight place lie warbles out ‘Kamerad, I’ve got a wife and tl. -ee children.’ l’hen one of our boys sings out: You’re a damned litir. 1 u’ve got a widow and three orphan; ”—I' oni a Soldier’s Letter to the Knobnosier Gem. Hoses for the dead are all right if you’ve given praises to the living. Germany makes a bread without lour. ETHMADOR I EUTS-RELIEVE* LY FEVER ASTHMA la Treatment NOW 1 Dru*«Ut« Oinnam o. , --—s Calf Enemies WHITE SCOURS BLACKLEG Your Veterinarian can stamp them out with Cutter’s Anti-Calf Scour Serum and Cutter's Germ Free Blackleg Filtrate and Aggressin, or Cutter’s Blackleg Fills. Ask him about them. If he hasn’t our literature, write to us for information on these products. The Cutter Laboratory Berkeley, Cal., or Chicago, Hi. ^ TAt Laboratory That Knows Hcw,m ^ ^ One!reatanent ^ with Cuticura Clears Dandruff At) dramiata; Suao 25, Ointment 26 A 60. Talcum 26, _i____±_!__ PLEATING BUTTONS Done promptly. Free price list. SIOUX CITY PTG. CO., NO. 36-1918. Interrupted Lesson. An ancient French schoolhouse, de serted In the (light of the villagers, was taken over by the Americans as part of the headquarters of a field ambulance. The Interrupted lesson could he read upon the bulletin hoard by the Yankee wounded, carried through, and a Daudet among them could have woven u masterpiece from II. The moral that the teacher was Inculcating when he held his “deruiere class” was this: ' "The free inau obeys Ids conscience and the laws of his country." And the phrase set before the pu pils for their composition exercise that day—the date was written on the hoard. 20 Mai, i01S— was: “Un Jour de grand vent." They might have written It: “The day of the big wind.”—Stars and Stripes. Rough on Pa. Father—What does the teacher say about your poor arithmetic work? Willie—She says she’d rather you ' wouldn’t help me with it.—Boston Evening Transcript. A bird that caii’t sing and will sing Is a logical potpie candidate. Try Freezoue! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle fcr a few cents, sufficient to rid your feet of every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, und calluses, without one particle of pain, soreness or Irritation. Freezone is the discovery of a noted Cincinnati genius. —Adv. Where He Is Expert. ' “So you’ve joined the army, Mose?” “Yes, sail.” “What branch of the service are you In?” “Well, snh, All's In de infantry, but '• when we gits t’ France Ah’s done ask ed de captln to put me on dot night I rnid wo’k. Gittin’ into de odder fel- , low’s back yard durln’ de night hours : is a job Ah considers liiahse’f particu- i larly experienced at.”—Detroit Free Press. . j \ n- , r. . . Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, that famous old remedy for infants and children, nnd see that It In Use for Over 30Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria Natural. Kidder—The crown prince certainly ; has n great little head for heating It back toward Berlin. Klddee—Whatju mean, head? Kidder—Receding chin and retreat ing forehead. RED CROSS BALL BLUE Insures snowy white beautiful clothes on washday. Buy Red Cross Blue, not just cheap liquid blue which makes your clothes greenish yellow. Red Cross Ball Blue large packages cost only 5 cents. All good grocers sell it.—Adv. Many an honest mnn might be oth erwise If an opportunity worth while knocked at his door. .* .ik. 'M .jbJtst Proof that Some Women dd Avoid Operations Mrs. Etta Dorion, of Ogderoburg, Wis., says: **I suffered from female troubles which caused piercing pains like a knife through my back and side. I finally lost all my strength so I had to go to bed. The doctor advised an operation but I would not listen to it I thought of what I had read about Lydia E. Finkham’s Vegetable Compound and tried it. The first bottle brought great relief and six bottles have entirely cured me. All women who have female trouble of any kind should try Lydia E. Finkham’s Vegetable Compound.” How Mrs. Boyd Avoided an Operation. : Canton, Ohio.—‘T suffered from a female trouble which caused me much suffering, and two doctors decided that I would have to go through an operation before 1 could 1 get well. i | > “Mymother, who had been helped by Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound, advised me to try it be fore submitting to an operation. It relieved me from my troubles so I can do jpy house work without any difficulty. I advise any woman who is afflicted with female troubles to give Lydia E. Finkham’s Vege j table Compound a trial and it will do as much i for them.’— Mrs. Manns Boyd, 1421 6th 6t., ( s/t IT. E., Canton, Ohio. j / I Every Sick Woman ShottldMlVy/f H jj ' LYDIA E. PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE, COMPOUND Before Submitting To An Operation) You Are Dying By Acid When you have Heartburn, Gas, Bloat, and that Full ~ _ after eating. TAKE ONE FATONI ■MacFOR YOUR STOMACH S SAKE) Get rid of the Overload and Excess Acid and you will fairly fee! the GAS driven out of your body—THE BLOAT GOES WITH IT. IT GIVES YOU REAL STOMACH COMFORT* Get EATONIC from your Drugget with the DOUBLE GUARANTEE S.ml for tt. tWg" Book, Addi_ guuiic