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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1919)
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The cultured young lady from Bos ton who was visiting in Richmond had mentioned so often that she spoke half u dozen languages that the com imny was getting decidedly bored, as r-s»—’^no one present was able to prove her powers as a linguist. Finally, she turned to a tail, lank gentleman and asked: “And how many languages do you speak, Mr. Blank?" “Three, ma’am,” drawled the South erner: “poor English, fair Virginian, and perfect nigger.” Joke of the Evening. The most embarrassing moment of my life occurred at the alumnae ban quet when I graduated from college. We were served with some bouillon In teacups, and I, supposing it was tea, added some sugar and cream. Needless to say, I was the joke of the evening.—Exchange. Its Sort. “Maude has a clever way of refus ing her admirers.” “Yes. regular slight of hand.” TDfWp Rests, Refreshes, Soothes, Heals—Keep your Eyes Strong and Healthy. If they Tire, Smart, Itch, or » Biiru, if Sore, Irritated, * V, • Inflamed or Granulated, use Murine often. Safe for Infant or Aduit. At all Druggists. Write for Free Eye Book. | Ten Comandments of Business, j i........... - .-. -. -.... - - - - - A Wise Employer, in tho Rotarian. First—Don't lie. It wastes my time and yours. I nm sure to catch you in the end, and that will be the wrong end. • Second—Watch your work, not the clock. A long day’s work makes a long day short, and a short day’s work makes my face long. Third—Give me more than l expect, and 1 will give you more than you expect. I can afford to increase your pay if you increase my profits. • Fourth—You owe so much to yourself you cannot afford to owe anybody else. Keep out of debt. Fifth—Dishonesty is never an accident. Good men, like good women, never see temptation when they meet it. Sixth—Mind your own business, and in time you’ll have a business of your own to mind. Seventh—Don’t do anything here which hurts your self respect. An employe who is willing to steal for me is willing to steal from me. Eighth—It is none of my business what you do at night. But if dissipation affects what you do the next day, and you do half as much as I demand, you ’ll last half as long as you hoped. Ninth—Don’t tell me what I’ll like to hear, but what I ought to hear. I don’t want a valet for my pride, but one for my purse. Tenth—Don’t kick if I kick. If you’re worth while Correcting, you’re worth while keeping. I don’t waste time cutting specks out of rotten apples. | Our Greatest Victory in Europe, j i Prom the Dearborn Independent. Robert E. Lee was described by General Lord Wolseley as a greater general than Ulysses S. Grant, but the British strategist nevertheless acclaimed Grant as the greatest of victors. Europe in the '60s had many admirers of the brilliance and dash of the confederate leaders, Lee, Jackson ami Stuart, But admiration lacked words at the magnanimity of the peace terms which the federal government conceded. The unity in which the American republic rejoices today was wrought out more by the generosity and patience and the efforts toward better understand ing made by all parties, than by the victorious battles. To this day there may be some lingering scars on the path of Sherman's stern conquest—but there are none from the conference at Appomattox court house. These recollections return when we see the last American army of occupa tion retiring from the shores of the Rhine. They leave behind them castles of old story, and the battle sites of 20 centuries. They have occupied some of the idyllic estates of the Krupp family, and the castles of Prince Henry of AVied. for a short time the ruler of Albania. Their khaki uniforms have stood serried along historic shores, where Gaul and German fought, where Spaniard and Swede invaded, where mauy conquerers from Caesar Germanicus to Napoleon the Great have marched. But all of these have left memories of bitterness. They came as foes, they remained as foes, and were driven forth like hated enemies. The Americans came not of their own will, but because of the sinful blunder of the Berlin junkers. The Americans were men of peace, hurried from farms and shops to the front line. Yet these men of peace marched peacefully at last to thq possession of the heaviest fortresses of the most armored of natims. The great halls of feudal story heard the slang of California or of Maine. Court yards which have dripped with baronial" blood were cleared for boxing matches of "our boys.” And what, on the whole, has been the result? Very much what the result of Appomattox w'as to the leaders of the south. The Americans needed not to teach the plain people of Germany any new lessons of the vanity of war or the feebleness of mere might. But they have so carried themselves that the very girls of the occupied cities are preferring the Invaders to many of their own returned troops. America lias been fortunate beyond words in this war. Her soldiers have Btood upon the enemy’s soil, but under the auspices of peace. They have celebrated our own Thanksgiving day and our own Fourth of July in the year of the world's deliverance. They have been able to show, when they mounted guard In Germany, that the American soldier is not a mere tool of war, but a citizen of the United States. To the German people, if not to the unteachable militarists, the lesson of this victory should be greater than thq lesson of Chateau-Thierry. I__ __ _ - i 4 AT 7 P. M. ♦ 4 - ♦ 4 Victor Murdock, In Association 4 4 Men. + 4 What Is the hour of fate In a 4 4 young man’s life? I should say 4 4 7 p. m. + 4 That hour Is the springboard from 4 4 which most men leap to success or 4 4 fall off to failure. ♦ ■4- I am also convinced that 7 p. m. + 4 Is the fork In the roads, one of 4 4 which leads to character and the 4 4 other to the lack of It. ♦ 4 There are 23 hours In a day, but 4 4 there is no hour so potent as this 4 4 7 p. m. ♦ 4 Why? This Is the answer: a 4 4 man’s waking hours are divided 4 4 between industry and leisure. To a 4 4 majority of mankind, 7 in the eve- 4 4 ning marks the end of work and 4 ttlia beginlng of leisure. It is the 4 hour when a man makes a choice ♦ 4 of the kind of leisure he is to have. 4 4 If he turns to the leisure that 4 4 moans improvement to his mind, his 4 4 body and his soul, he wins: if he 4 4 turns to the pleasure feeding fri- 4 4 volities, he loses. It is a cold 4 4 blooded proposition, but it is true. 4 4 Genius is 99 per cent hard work and 4 4 tho best of leisure is a shift from ♦ 4 one kind of work to another kftid of 4 4 work. Ninety-nine out of every 100 4 4 men who win in this world use the 4 4 time, when they are not at work, in 4 4 activities which look like work to 4 4 the loafer. ♦ 4 + + + + + + + -»- + + » + + + -» + + + | Youth. Who passes by this way? I see the grasses Still quiver and the laurel branches sway. Swift and sure footed, whosoever passes. For where the wild rose spreads her tangled masses, Not one pink petal falls! Who passed this way? Our secret p.’th, that leads down to the river— Down through the fields, down from the sun-swept hills— Sacred and sealed to our two hearts for ever! At whose fleet footsteps do its grasses quiver? Whose light touch In Its laurel branches thrills? Trespass who dares amongst our blossom ing closes. Winding our ways, shade hidden to the shore? What cruel chance to alien eyes exposes Our dear, adventurous road beneath the roses? Oh, child, all ages passed this way before. —Caroline Duer In Harpers Magazine. What Germany Wants From America. Harry A. Franck, In Harper's Magazine. At Pfaffenliofen, still posing as a "food controller,’’ I dropped In on a general merchant. Tho ruse served as an opening to extended conversation here even better than it had in the smaller town behind. The Kaufmann was almost too eager to Impress me, and through me America, with tho necessity of replenishing his shrunken stock, llo reasserted that fats, soap, rice, soup materials, milk, cocoa, and sugar were most lacking and In the order named. Then there was tobacco, more scarce than any of these, except pertiaps fats. If only America would send them tobacco! In other lines? Well, ell sorts of clothing materials were lacking, of course; they had been hoping ever since the armistice that America would send them cotton. People wero wearing all manner of Ersaltz cloth. He took from his show window what looked like a very coarse cotton shirt, but which had a brittle fele, and spread it out before me. It was made of nettles. Sometimes the lengthwise threads were cotton and the cross threads nettle, which made a bit more durable stuff, but he could not say much even for- that. As to the nettle shirt before me, he sold It for 14 marks because lie refused to accept profit on such stuff. But what good was such a shirt to the peasants? They wear it a few days, wash it once and-kaput, fln is lied, it crumples together like burned ' paper. Many children can no longer go to school; their clothes have been patched | out of existence. During the war there , were few marriages in the rural districts, | because the boys being away to war, a I fair division of the Inheritances could not be made even when the girls found 1 matches. Now many of them want to marry, but most of them find it Impossi ble because they cannot get any bed linen or many of the other things that are necessary to establish a household. Writing “Flanders Fields.” From the London Spectator. “In Flanders Fields," to quote the words of Major General Morrison, who commanded the brigade to which Lieuten ant Colonel McCrae was attached at the time, “was literally born of lire and blood during the hottest phase of the sec ond battle of Ypres. •-» "My headquarters were iu a trench on the top of the bank of the Ypres canal) and John had his dressing station In a hole dug in the foot of the bank. During periods of the battle men who were shot actually rolled down the bank into bis dressing station. Along from us a few hundred yards was the headquarters of n regiment and many limes during the 14 days of the battle, lie and I watched then: burying their dead whenever there was a lull. Thus the crosses, row on row, grew into a good sized cemetery. "Just as be describes, we often heard the larks singing high in the air, be tween the crash of the shell and the re port of the guns In the battery just beside us. I have a letter from him in which h< mentions having written the poem to pass away the time between the arrival ol batches of wounded, and partly as an ex periment with several varieties of poetic meter.” Shall the Unfit Marry? From the Kansas City Star. Four feeble minded children from one family are in four state institutions in Kansas, Warding Codding of the Kansas state penitentiary told In Kansas City the other day. They are a dead weight tc themselves and to society. There has been In Kansas City a feeble minded woman who used to appear rogu larly at the general hospital, where hot babies were born. Under the provisions made by the state there was nothing tr be done. She would be cared for and son! out again only to return the next year, although her feebleminded children were certain to be a burden to society and some of them probably to be criminals. There are several thousands feeble mind ed persons In these two states. Only o comparatively lew are under restraint. Most of them grow to maturity and band down their affliction to their children. To permit this sort of thing to continue if neither humanitarlanism nor good sense Famous Speeches. The Cincinnati Enquirer compiles this list oT famous after dinner speeches: “We Ilave'With Us This Evening.” “I Deem It a Great Honor." “As I Gaze Into These Intelligent Faces.” “That Beminds Me ol the Story of the--.” "Make Mine a Creme de Menthe!" “That Wuz the Tuffestdan) Steak I Ever Eet!" "Gee, I’m Full!” "Give Me the Check, Walter!” I ■f 4 ♦ AN OPPORTUNITY. 4 4 4 4 From Collier’s Weekly. 4 4 The commander of a sunken and 4 4 doomed submarine kept n diary of 4 4 his last hours. Bong afterward the 4 4 boat was salvaged and the record 4 4 found. In one sense It is tragic 4 4 enough, but In another It Is full of 4 4 hope, for it contains facts that help 4 4 to show how similar disasters may 4 4 be avoided. Every thorough etory 4 4 of a catastrophe has a similar ef- 4 4 feet. Our literature Is beginning to 4 4 take a turn In tills direction. Old 4 4 fashioned accounts of our success- 4 4 ful men described only their sue- 4 4 cesses; now we read of both the 4 4 ups and the downs. Readers feel 4 4 that they are getting the reefs In 4 4 the ocean charted, and learning 4 4 where they can safely steer. We 4 4 learn as much from a shipwreck as 4 4 from a prosperous voyage. Some day 4 4 a really energetic editor will compel 4 4 hundreds of unsuccessful business 4 4 men to supply accurate and thor- ,4 4 ough accounts of their lives, and 4 4 from this material, as well as the 4 4 old fashioned kind, he will bo able 4 4 to publish more useful articles on 4 4 business success than the majority 4 4 of those we read. 4 ♦ ♦ ♦44+4441444+44+4+4* West Point Deaths Led. From the Philadelphia Public ledger. Analysis of the "final'' casualty report received from the central records office !:i France *linws*that the European war wan the most sanguinary In history. Battle deaths among American cr,listed men averaged 8 per RtlOO, among emer gency officers 11 per 1,000 and among regu lar army officers 11. Of every 1,000 officers landed In France, 330 were killed or wounded. Battle deaths were 37 per 1,000 for graduates of West Point against 18 for nongraduates. The Boarders. “What ho.” exclaim the boarders, “bring forth the measly lot of profiteers and hoarders and let them all be shot.” The boarders' grub is scanty, it’s slim and punk Indeed, in hostelry or shanty, wherever they may feed. Their eyes become a river when they look round and see a sickly slice of liver, a string bean and a pea. The boarders’ cheeks are sallow, their eyes are full of woe, their waistlines show no tallow, they totter as they go. Their lean ribs clank together and ever, us they reel, they wonder, wonder whether, they'll ever have a meal. "Bring forth," ex claim the boarders, bent up with stom ach ache, “the profiteers and hoarders, and burn them at the stake." The landlord says he's giving the utmost for the cash; and boarders still are liv ing on air and onion hash. In vain the boarders forage for fodder they can eat; and there are tons in storage of eggs and pies and meat. The nations l>ins are busting with everything wo need; and it most disgusting that men for grub must plead, and pay unholy prices for everything they get; oh, let us in three trices, make some blamed lunimix sweat. "Produce," exclaim ilie boarders, bowed down by pain and toll, “the profiteers and hoarders, nnd let them boll in oil.” High Cost. It's hard to salt a nickel, to save a picayune; 1 have to buy a pickle, nnd then again a prune; the figures such things coat me upset my apple cart; they stagger and exhaust me, and make me sick at heart. All men are profit eering, It surely seems to me, when shopward I go steering, to buy a pound of tea; to buy a pair of trousers, a bird cage or a hat; and money mad carousers are doubtless getting fat. We men who work for wages are shy of all recourse; we fly In futile rages, and clamor tiil we're hoarse; but atllll the profiteering goes forward with a will, and daily we are nearing the poor house on the hill. But let's be calm and steady, and can our wild remarks; our Uncle's getting ready to swat the robber sharks. Our Uncle's slow as blazes, but take this to your heart: All kinds of smoke he raises, when once he makes a start. And we who toil and suffer may yet survive to see the profit eering duffer suspended from a tree. Or, if that fate's not hls’n, as being too severe, no doubt lie’ll gc> to prison, and stay, year after year. The profiteers and hoarders and other soulless men will be the nation’s boarders in some foul scented pen. Our Uncle Bam moves slowly, but be has giant thews; his wrath is hot and holy, and spikes are lu his shoes. War Bride Geography. From the World Outlook. How inclusive the social service of the Y. \V. C. A. has become is shown by the fact that at Brest it even teaches geogra phy in a baracks where 1,000 French war brides of American soldiers may be cared for while they wait to sail. One of these little war brides, who had known her hus band only 10 days, and was worried that she might not recognize him whan they met again (it would he very, very embar rassing, she said) demonstrated the need for such a class when she said she was going to live in Kent, Just outside of New' York. "In what state?" asked the Y W. C. A. girl. "But 1 do not know what is a state.' protested the little war bride. The Y. \Y. O. A. girl explained, and named the states over in their order until she came to Washington, almost the last on the list. "That's it!'* exclaimed the little war bride. "I remember, now—Kent, Wash., Just outside of New Yrork." Where Yanks Landed. From the Now York World. France has a talent for doing the right thing at the right time and in the right place, as was shown on Saturday when a distinguished company of Frenchmen, headed by President Poincare and with many high American officials, gathered at the mouth of the Gironde, 60 miles be low’ Bordeaux, to lay the corner stone of ? monument which wid mark the place from which Lafayette in 1777 saw.J for America, and where also the first Arut. cans landed In Fram e in May, 1917, The monument, like the Lafayetto-Marne day, will hereafter be doubly renowned by two events having a significance which binds closer together the two greatest republic*! of the world. Her Sea Terms Mixed. Miss Chatterbox—I must tell you the sa<l story of my sister some daw Pool girl, she’s a widow, and .she’s looking for a captain to steer her through the stormy seas of life. Naval Friend—She doesn’t require a - np tain; it’s a second mate she wants. As It Looked. One winter’s day a bowlegged soldier was warming himself before a fire in ;> farmhouse. The young lad in the home surveyed him a few minutes uud tlu-n volunteered: "Say, mister, you better stand la;k;. you’re v.-a* ping." rami Forlnfantg and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always / . Bears the /Xw' w ft Jv In ha* < Use \j For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA iHIIIHHIHHiHHHiBBEBBHEHHiHHIBIHIHHHBIBBHiilHB Kept Up Too Much of a Racket. | Mrs.—You iukI 1 uro one. Mr.—Still, I never feel alone when I’m with yon. Cutlcura for Pimply Face*. To remove pimples rind blackheads . smear them with Cutlcura Ointment, i Wash off In five minutes with Cutl- \ eura Soap and hot water. Once clear i keep your skin clear by using them for j dally toilet purposes. Don’t fall to In clude Cutlcura Talcum.—Adv. More Than He Could Stand. A naval aviation cadet at Miami. Kin., was assigned to n seaplane with orders to stay In the air for an hour. After a flight of 80 minutes, the cadet landed and taxied onto the beach. The division commander, with fire in his eye, descended upon the tuck less student. "What's the matter with you?” he demanded. “I told you to stay out an hour. You’ve only been gene half Hint time.” •‘Really, sir,” replied the student, "the air is awful rough, f never saw anything like It! Why, I. looked up the road toward Miami, und II was full of blackbirds walking Into town!” Needed Polishing. She had been married just five years and was rather discontented be cause her husband was riot so atten tive as he bad been in the early days of their marriage. To her mother and j high school brother sin- was telling her troubles. “He neglects me all the time,” she complained. ‘‘I’m just an old shoe—that’s all.” The mother sympathized with her, j but the brother openly voiced liisj opinion in: “Well, don't you know, sis. : that it great many old shoes are often J made more valuable to their owners by a little polishing?” He looked meaningly at her frowsy appearance, j “They are prouder of them, too, then.” I —Indianapolis Star. Sometimes n man misleads people by being honest with them. WIDE DIFFERENCE IN LIVES Something of a Moral in the Career* of John Burroughs and the Late Jay Gould. More than seventy years ago two hoys attended the village school of Boxbury, among the Catskills, togeth er. They sat In adjoining Heats. One wrote a composition for the other, unit charged him 70 cents for the perform ance. The man who collected the cash for Ills writing was Jay Gould, who died at the age of fifty-six and left an estate valued at $70,000,000. The man who pnld cash for the composition was John Burroughs, the famous naturalist and writer, who recently celebrated his eighty-second anniver sary at his beautiful viuc-chid eottugo' on the Hudson. Burroughs hasn’t been bending nil Ills efforts In getting money, although he bus acquired a competence of (his world’s goods. He suys he has ittken real Joy out of life. Nature appeals to him In a marvelous way, and he has passed his feelings on to the world In tils many hooks. “I’m just as spry as I ever was and haven’t an ache or pain." he says. “It Is nil because I live the simple life.” S;hcol "Beery” Class. Schoolmasters have good opportun ities for collating curious groups of names. In one ... which a master' called his "beery' ' ss, were hoys of the name of Negu .Maltster, Burton,’ Whit heard and Stout. At the same time there was n boy In another class named Ginn and the school cleaner was Mrs. Wines. As the school opens onto "Brewery Bond” the name "Beery" was not In appropriate.—London Chronicle. When a man begins to learn that he's Ignorant he’s on the way to wis dom. • .By stopping to think a woman occa* slonally gives her tongue a rest._ Give THe Folks THe Original Postbm Cereal for their table drink. That will dispose of those coffee troubles which frequently show in headache, irritability, indigestion and sleep lessness. “There's a Season’3 I At Grocers, Two sizes, usually sold at 15c and 25c } » -—— — -. . , ~ ^ ■ ■■,
