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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1919)
. * .. .. — Temperature anc Metals. Im ii demonstration at the hondon Ito.v.'.l institution of the effects of sud den changes of temperature on •vari ed- materials. Prof. H. Lees showed that iron and murble could be removed from low tempera I ere to (SO degrees. Pahronheit. and changed hack from boat to cold without cracking. Quartz was shattered, though silica glass tens 'unaffected. hove knows nothing about philos ophy and cares less. Were Built te Endure. The Egyptian engineer who built the famous water works at Aden eon S'rticted the mns'inry so well that the services of a plumber never bat e been required. The a* water works were built .’1.000 years before the Christian era and are the most eelebrated and antique in the world. indefinite. "What about that vacuum invention of your friend’s?" "Oh, there’s nothing in it.” . uiimi—riausnu—■i—iw -ti—iw iw The Effects of Opiates. v ^TTMIAT INFANTS are peculiarly susceptible to opium and its various s<kv | preparations, sdi of wliich are narcotic, is well known. Even in the I emalteet doses, if continued, these opiates cause changes in the func tions and growth of tho cells which are likely to become permanent, causing imbecility, mental perversion, a craving for alcohol or narcotics in later life. Nervous diseases, such as intractable nervous dyspepsia and lack of staying powers are a result of dosing with opiates or narcotics to keep children quiet in their infancy. The rule among physicians is that children should never receive opiates in the smallest doses for more than a day at a time, and only then if unavoidable. The administration of Anodynes, Drops, Cordials, Soothing Syrups and other narcotics to children by any but a physician cannot be too strongly decried, and the druggist should not be a party to it. Children who are ill need the attention of a physician, and it is nothing less than a crime to dose them willfully with narcotics. Castoria contains no narcotics if it bears t signature of Chas. H. Fletcher. , Genuine Castoria always bears the signature “Life-Plant.” There is a creeping inoss found in' Jamaica called the “life-plant.” It Is believed to lie Indestructible, by any means except immersion in boiling wa ter or the application of a red-hot iron. It may ho cut up and divided in any manner, and the smallest shreds will throw out roots, grow and bud. Knnui is merely old-fasliioned lazi ness putting on lugs. Senatorial Courtesy. "WltiU'is senatorial courtesy f "Senatorial courtesy," replied Sena tor Sorghum, “consists largely in re maining silent so ostentatiously that anybody can guess what unpleasant things you must lie thinking about.’' His Preference. “My husband reads me like an open book.” “I wonder If ho wouldn’t rather shut you up." — THE MOST DANGEROUS OF ALL DISEASES No organs of tlie human body are so important to health and long life as the kidney s. When they slow up and com mence to lag in their duties, look out! Danger is in eight. Find out what the trouble is—with out delry. Whenever you feel nervous, weak, dizzy, suffer from sleeplessness, or have pains in the back, wake up at once. Your kidneys need help. These are rigns to warn you that your kidneys are not performing their functions properly. They are only half doing their work and are allowing impurities to accumulate and he converted into uric acid and other poisons, which are causing you distress and will de stroy you unless they are drives from I your system. , I FOOLISH IDEAS SOME HAVE Old Fellow Righteously Indignant at • Fastidiousnes of the Guests t of His Hotel. ('apt. I.indsey Polk, director of a number of hotels, said recently in New York: '‘European hotels, even the best of them, are inferior to ours. While 1 nils in Paris I saw an advertisement of a fashionable new hotel, and the boast the management made was that it was as good as the best American hotels, f was pleased with this trib ute.” Captain Polk smiled. “Well,” he resumed, “our ideals are high. No more hotelkeepers like the old fellow who complained about his rummer visitors: “ ‘You wouldn’t believe the non sense that is in them. They is al ways wantin’ a clane tablecloth an’ chine sheets to their bods. An’ table napkins, no less! I’ll tell you what, there’s sure people In tl#s world that think they ran go Into a hotel an’ make a convainance of it.’ ” Hard to Digest. Hinks-—The under crust to that chicken pie you brought me was abominably tough. Waiter—There wasn’t any under crust to that pie, sir; It was served on a paper plate and you’ve eaten it. Get some GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules at once. They are an olj, tried preparation used all over the world for centuries. They eontain only old-fashioned, soothing oils combined with strength-giving and system-cleans ing herbs, well known and used by phy sicians in their daily practice. GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules are im ported direct from the laboratories ia Holland. They are convenient to take, and will either give prompt relief or your money will be refunded. Ask for them at any drug store, but be sure to get the original imported GOLD MEDAL brand. Accept no substitutes. In sealed packages. Three sizes. Satisfied. The gray-haired stranger bent over the desk. “Are you the society editor?” he asked. “I am.” “Are you the person who wrote up tiie account of last night's big recep tion?” “Yes; anything wrong'with it?" “That’s what I want to find out. Look here. 1 notice in speaking of my daughter you use the sentence: ‘She swept about the room with an inherited grace that arrested every one’s attention.’ Now, what was your purpose in writing that?” “Why, it struck me ns a first-class opportunity for a neat compliment to her esteemed parents; that’s all.” “You are sure that you didn’t mean to Insinuate that her father laid the foundation of his fortune by selling brooms!” • “Certainly not.” “Becnuse I did, you know.” “I didn’t knpw it.’ "Then that’s all right. Good day."— Dal Ins News. Truth Hard to Down. Truth is tough; it will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all dny like a football, and It will be round and full at .eve-, nlng. Truth and a woman's age are not on speaking terms. , 11 1 ..—-* Coffee Costs Too Much Usually in Money— Frequently in Health Instant Posl l is a delicious drink, of coffee-like flavor, made instantly in the cup. Economical—Healthful No Raise in Price 50-cup tins 30c 100-cup tins 50c tWa by POSTUM CEREAL COMPANY Battle Creek, Mich. Sold by Grocer* and General Stores ♦444444444444444444 '4 4 4 THE ONE WHO FOLLOWS. 4 4 - # 4 4- One day an old umbrella mender 4 4 brought his skeleton frames amt 4 4 tinkering tools Into the alley buck 4 4* of my office- As he sat on a box 4 4 in the sun mending the broken and 4 4 torn umbrellas. 1 noticed that he 4 4- seemed to lake unusual pains, test- 4 4 ing the cloth, carefully measuring 4 4 and strongly sewing the covers 4 ♦ “You seem extra careful,” I re- 4 4 marked. 4 4 “Yes,” he ,«aid, without looking 4 4 up. “I try to dn good work.” 4 4 Your customers would not know 4 4 the difference until you were gone,” 4 4 1 suggested. 4 4 “No, t suppose not.” 4 4 "Do you expect to come back?” 4 4 “No.” 4 4 “Then why ore you so particular?" 4 4 “So it will he easier for the next 4 4 fellow who comes along,” he an- 4 4 swered simply “If l put on shoddy 4 4 cloth or do bad work they will find 4 4 it out in a few weeks, and the next 4 4 mender will get the cold shoulder 4 4 or the bull dog.” 4 4 ♦ 4444444444444444444 -^ Life Reduced to Food. Arthur Bullard, In Harper’s. By New Year’s day, 191K, the comfort* able classes of Moscow had lost all their Illusions about the revolution. They were bored by our insistent interest in it, and preferred to discuss ways and means of gutting more than their share of the meager food supply. Every one had some mysterious “method”—just as most In habitants of the Riviera have a secret “system”.for beating the bank at Montr Carlo. There were two Russian families in whose houses I knew I could always get u good dinner. The “system” of the Evalcn kos was beautifully simple. They had a good looking servant girl. She was: jgtlc^ methodical and hud worked out a schedule1 for having different soldiers call on her every night in the week. Instead of choco late creams, she exacted tribute from them in fat fowls, suckling pigs and jars of butter. The Evalenkos lived royally. The other family—with marvelous bu?:i ness acumen—had succeeded in trading fcome useless thing like a munition plant nr a gold mine for a eigaret factory. And you could buy anything with eigarets. They were tlu* most lavish entertainers in Moscow. * They were not embarrassed if even four or five guests turned up unex pectedly at meal hours. Their tabic groaned under the weight of “improcura bles”—sugar, eggs, cheese. But their pride was white bread, really white. Tt was this very luxury which brought my dinners with them to an end. On j evening when there wore only a few Intimate friends left the hostess explained how they got it. They bribed the chief surgeon of a war hospital with eigarets! There was a still small hoard of while flour in the hospital, reserved for the sol diers who had had so much of their stom achs shot away that they could not digest black bread. Although every one present at the dinner would have Insisted upon being classed as gentlefolk, no one pro tested at the infamy. But I could not cat any more of that white bread, i never went back. Indifference. Over my garden An airplane flew; But nothing there Either cared or knew. Cabbage butterflies Chased each other; A young wren cried $ Seeking his mother. \ > Gay zinnias With heavy head Flaunted yellows, And m&uves, and reds, A hummingbird, On the late fakspur, Never knew what Went over her. Crickets chirped. And a blinking toad Watched for flies On the gravel road. They don’t care How smart men are— ^ To go through heaven In a flying car! To a yellow bee On a marigold The adventure Seems a trifle old. —Louise Driscoll, in the New York Times Eye of Money Genius. ""Paul Hutchinson, in World Outlook. As far as I know, there is only one man in all the United States who deals in quill toothpicks. He is a Russian Jew, citizen of the city of New York. Somewhere in Bohemia he had a factory that took tho pride of the geese of the then Austro Hungarian empire and magically trans formed it into an implement familiar to many Americans. Then came the war. Thq man in Fourteenth street knew that it wouldn’t be long before the transporting of toothpicks from Bohemia to Broadway would become an extinct occupation. So he sent this S. O. S. to the consular serv ice of the United States; “Where can 1 get more goose quill toothpicks?" Not long after that the toothpick king traveled to the east, only to find that his reply had come frqm a Methodist mission ary, the Rev. George S. Miner. Mr. Miner has business ability par excellence, fot he -has equipped and carried on 117 day schools in his province without a cent of appropriation from the missionary board of his church. “Pa” Miner’s schools am for poor boys, but ho Is not in the busi ness of making beggars of his students; no boy enlists his help who does not show ambition to help Himself. The toothpick man saw all this, saw also the unlimited supplies of goose quills to be found in China, and straightway turned over the production end of his business to this mis sionary end his schoolboys. In the city of Foochow, Mr. Miner had built up a large higher primary school, w'hich is the term used in China for a school doing the last four years of what Americans call grammar school work. The first floor of the dormitory, by ripping out a few partition* and installing a bit of picket fence, was turned into a toothpick factory. I w&s in that factory the other day. Plenty of room, plenty of light, plenty of air—and plenty of quills. Thirty boys eat at long benches, in each right hand a razor keen knife and a short piece of wire. With a quick twist the left hand would hold the quill in proper position; on© cut, another, a thrust of the wire tc clear the interior, and the toothpick was done. The boy I watched had cut 7,20< the previous day. The factory bad turned out 110,000. Generous. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Mrs. Callahan's husband had been quite ill and the doctor had been trying to makt her realize the gravity of the situation. “Mrs Callahan,” said he, very seriously, ’•you must be at your husband’s side con stantly, as you will need to hand him something every little while.* ’ Whereupon Mrs. Callahan waxed indig nant. “Niver, dochter! Far be it fnm m« to hi; a man whin he’s down!” •CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP” IS CHILD'S LAXATIVE 'Vook at tongue! Remove poisons from stomach, liver and bowels. Accept "California" Syrup of Figs only—look for the name California on the package, then you are sure your child is having the best and moat harm less laxative or physic for the Utile stomach, liver and bowels. Children love its delicious fruity taste. Full directions for child's dose on each bot tle. Give it without fear. Mother! You must sny ‘‘California." I — Adv. BROUGHT HIM BACK TO EARTH _ Liberal Suggestion Made by Old Souse Was Not Exactly the Answer Orator Desired. The lljcrart society was meeting In (hid Fellows’ hall. llev. .Tosluli Dob son presided. Hon. .Tames Bolivar McHenry, the noted orator from the adjoining county, was speaking on "The Feme Table," and the audience was rapt in respectful attention. “And that was what they conceded,” he concluded. "I ask you, fellow citi zens. what does this nation need? What is her necessity, ns she leaves ! the far western shore and steps proud- j ly across the Pacific, and in 'lie eye 1 of Hie world lays the hand of demoo j racy upon the blow of the Orient? ; What, 1 repeat, does she need?' , ' "Itubhcr bootsh,” hiccoughed the J town souse. Lift off Corns! - t Doesn’t hurt a bit and Freezon# j costs only a few cents. With your fingers! You can lift oft any hard corn, soft corn, or com be tween the toes, and the hard skin cal luses from bottom of feet. A tiny bottle of “Freezone" costs little at any drug store; apply a few drops upon the corn or callus. In stantly it stops hurting, then shortly you lift that bothersome corn or callus right off, root and all, without one bit of pain or soreness. Truly! No hum bug !—Adv. Not That Creed. “I>o you believe in telepathy?” ‘‘No; 1 don't take to these new- , fangled schools. Give me it good old ! allopath every time." ! t After all, the easiest way to do a ■ tiling is to do it; right. ! ; j I 5c a package before the war 5c a package during the war 5c a package NOW | THE FLAUOR LASTS SO DOES THE PRICE! .. 1 i ___17 FARRIS'C011C If r f GAe EASY war TO TREAT HORSE COLIC No Drenching — A Child Can Give It# • DOStt 00<s ttUAHANTCSO Old Kentucky Mfg. Co., Inc., Paducah, Ky. FUR COATS, ROBES, ETC. Made to your order without extra charge, With yoor first order we give you a (6.00 pair of gauntlet gloves. Send ws your hides, we guarantee all work. TWIN CITY FUR COAT AND ROBE CO. 1629 S. E. 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