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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1921)
ttliULU DU FKOM I HOUSE TO HOUSE * . s im Farmer Wants to Go From Ho’ise io House and l Tell Everybody About Tanlac. **Tf I were not so busy with my Va work I would go from house to J.se and tell the people about Tan J" said A. J. Livingston, a well J-wn farmer, living near Ashland y. Ten n. “I hud stomach and kidney trouble and suffered torment with my bock and side. The doctors could do noth ing for me, so 1 wrote to a friend of mine In Nashville about Tanlac. and he advised ine to try it, saying be bad heard so many fnvoraltle reports about It unu sent me a uotile. "After taking the first buttle 1 felt §o much be! i cr that I ordeled unetber bottle myself and the result Is 1 um a well man. 1 told a friend of mine |bout It and ordered a bottle for him yud he had good results. 1 can eat Snythlng 1 want and It don’t hurt me, |nd can sleep like a log. To tell you Ifie truth, I Just simply te>M like a new tir.n and have more strength and en ergy than l have hud in years. It Is Imply the grandest medicine In the Writ). I would like to see nil of my >lcmls and get those who are suffer Ik to try It. and I hope yon will reach jient through this testimonial, which 1 have gladly given.” Tanlac, the celebrated medicine, Which accomplished such remarkable Jesuits In tilts man’s case. Is a won irful Ionic, appetizer and Invlgorant, ) builds up the syStem, creates a yaltby appetite, promotes digestion assimilation of the food nod Jakes yon feel strong, sturdy and •Jell ns nature IntendMl Fold by leading druggists everyt Where.—Advertisement. I Might Be Erfcsecn’s Ship. A traveler in Norway has been lock ing at the two undent ships tu one of which Lief Ericsson may have reached the western world live cen turies before Columbus. The uucient pagan custom that buried the craft of the sea hero pre served the galleys away In the soil of Norway, thanks to a covering of pot ter's clay, aud a Twentlelh-ceuturj farmer discovered the second one. Ths savants looked it over, and dated it from the Ninth century, contemporary with Uit. adventurous Ericsson, possi bly his own ship. About seventy feet long, the vessel i ) shaped not unlike a double pointed ywboat. Out and low, with forked up fchts for 15 puirs of o-.u-a, and the fcuvcntionul drngou carved on how and stern. Under the floor are the compnrt meats where the voyagers doubtless Stored tlielr provisions. Incessant. “Madge has a pretty month.” "A were incident," “Wrong 1 Incidents ire frequently closed." easts”'gat'- j 1 n_ jss_iv.-.„'!us 11‘ Do you know why it's toasted? To seal in the delicious Burley flavor MAN’S BEST AGE A man is as old an his organs; he can be as vigorous and healthy at 70 as at 35 if he aids his organs in performing their functions. Keep Dur vital organs healthy with GOLD MEDAL #SS2I% The world’s standard remedy Air kidney, liver, bladder and unc acid troubles sines I 1696; corrects disorders; stimulates vital organs. All druggists, three sizes. Look for the a>a< Geld KoW oa every has | tod accent no imiuuoa Comfort Your Ski? j W ith Cuiicura Soap land Fragrant Talcum |^«S^Se^Oiato?S-g^a£56c,jr»ictta^c^ SIOUX CITY PTg7CO, No728-192L THE ENCHANTED BARN copyright ms. by J. 3. Upptneult Co. “Well, I don’t want a lot of talk at home about this. Do you understand? I want you to wait a bit aud go slow. If things seem to he all right a little later on you can ask Carol to come and see you, perhaps; but you'll have to look out. She hasn't fine elotbes to go visiting in, 1 imag ine, and they’re pretty proud. I guess they ve lost their money. Their father died a couple of years ago, and they’ve been up against it. They do seem like awiuliy nice people, I'll admit; and, it it’s all right later on, you can get to be friends, but you'll have to go slow. Mother wouldn’t understand it, and she mustn’t be annoyed, you know'. I’ll take you out to see them sometime when they get settled if it seems all right, but meantime can you keep your tongue still?” Elizabeth’s lace fell, but she gove-her word immediately. She *nd her brother were chums; it was easy to see that. “But can’t l have her out for a week-end, Sid? Can’t I tell mother anything about her? I could lead her some dresses, you know.” ion go Slow, uiu, ann icuvt; the matter to ine. I’ll tell moth air about them pretty soon, when f've had a chance to see a little .nore of them, a.ud am sure moth er wouldn't mind. Meantime, don’t you fret. I’ll take you out when I go on busness, and you shall see her pretty soon again.” Elizabeth had to be content with that. She perceived that for some reason her brother did not care to have tho matter talked over in the family. She knew they all would guy him about bis interest in a girl who wanted to rent his barn, and ajhe herself felt that Shirley was too line to be talked about in that way. The family wouldn’t understand un less they saw her. “I know what yon mean, Sid,” she said after a thoughtful pause. “You want the folks to see them before they judge whut they are, don’t you'/” “That's just exactly the point,” said Sidney with a gleam of satisfaction in his eyes. “That is just what makes you such a good pal, kid—you always un derstand.” The smile dawned again in Elizabeth's eyes, and she patted her brother’s sleeve. “Good old Sid!” sho mur mured tenderly. “You’re all right. And 1 just know you’re going to take me out to that barn soon. Axen’t you going to fix it up for them a little? They can't live there that way. It would be a dandy place to live if the windows were bigger and there were doois like a house, and a piazza, and some fireplaces. A great tug stone fireplace in the middle there opposite that door! Wouldn't that be sweet? And they’ll have electric lights and some bath rooms, of course.” Iler brother tipped back Lis head and laughed. “I’m afraid you wouldn’t make much of a hand to live in a barn, kid,” he said. “You’re too much of au aristocrat. How much do you want for your money? My dear- they don’t expect tiled hath rooms and electric lights and in laid floors when they rent a barn for the summer?” “But aren't you going to do anything, Sid?” “Well, T can't do much, for Miss Hollister would suspect right away. She’s very business like, and she has suspicions al ready because I said I was going to put in partitions. She isn't an object of charity, yon know. I imagine they all are pretty proud.” Elizabeth sat thoughtful and still. It was the first time in her life she had contemplated what it would be to be very poor. Ib'r brother watched her with interest. He had a feeling that it. was going to be very good for Elizabeth to know these Hollis teid. Suddenly he brought, the ear to a stop before the office of a big lumber yard they were pass ing. “‘I’m going in here, kid, for just a minute, to see if I can get a to put in those partitions. Elizabeth sat meditatively studying the office window, through whose large dusty panes could be seen tall strips of mold ing, unpainted window frames, and a fluted column or two, evi i dently ready to fill an order. The | sign over the door set forth that 10 window sashes, doors and blinds were to be bad. Suddenly Eliza beth sat up straight and read the sign again, strained her eyes to see through the window, aud then opened the car door and sprang out. In a moment more she stood beside her brother, pointing mutely to a large win dow frame that stood against the wall. “What is it, kid?” he asked kindly. “Sid, why can’t you put on great big windows like that? They would never notice the win dows, you know. It would be so nice to have plenty of light and air. ’ ’ “That's so,” he murmured. “I might change the windows some without their being noticed.” Then to the man at Ihe desk: “What’s the,price of that win dow? Got. any more?” “ Yes,” said the man, looking up interestedly; “got half a doz en, made especially for a party, and then he wasu’t pleased. Claimed he ordered sash win dows ’stead of casement. If you can use these six, well make you n special price.” “Oh, take them; Sid! They’re perfectly lovely,” said Elizabeth eagerly. “They’re easement win dows with diamond panes. They will just be so quaint and artistic in that stone!” “ V* ell, I don’t know how they will fit,” said the young man doubtfully, “I don’t want to make it scent as if I was trying to put on too much style.” “No, Sid, it. won’t seem that way, really. I tell you they’ll never notice the windows are big ger, and casement windows aro not like a regular house, you know. See, they’ll open wide like doors. I think it would be just grand!” “All right, kid, we'll see! We’ll take the man out with us; and if he says it can be done I’ll take them.” . l. . 1 wtJH uvurjoyeu. “That's just, what it needed 1” she declared. “They couldn’t live in ihe dark on rainy days. You must put two in the front one each side tlie door, and one on each end. The back windows wHl do well enough.” “Well, come on, kid. Mr. Jones is going out with me at oneo. Do you want to go with us, or shall I call a taxi and send you home?” asked her brother. “I'm going with you, of course,” said Elizabeth eagerly, hurrying out to the ear as if slie thought, the tiling would be done all wrong without her. So Elizabeth sat in Hie back seat alone, while her brother and the contractor discoursed on the price of lumber and the relative values of wood and stone for building purposes, and the big car went back over the way it had been before that, afternoon. They stopped on the way out and picked up one of Mr. Jones’ carpenters, who was ,iust leaving., a job with his kit of tools and who climbed stolidly into the back seat and sat as far away from the little blue velvet miss as possible, all the while taking furtive notes to tell his little little girl about her when he went home. Elizabeth climbed - out aud went about the burn with them, listening to all they had to say. The two men took out pencils and foot rules, and went around measuring and figuring. Eliza beth watched them with bright, attentive eyes, putting a whis pered suggestion now ami then to her brother. “They can’t go up and down a ladder all the time,” she whis pered. “There ought to be some rougli stairs with a railing, at least as good as our back stairs at home.” “How about it!” said Graham aloud to the contractor. “Can y ou put in some steps, just rough ones, to the left? I’m going to have a party out here tamping for a while this summer, and I want it to be safe. Need a rail ing, you know, so nobody will get a full.” The map measured the space up with ins eye. “Just want plain steps framed up with a hand rail?” he said, squinting up again. “Gues we’d better start ’em up this way to the ba'-k wall and then t urn back from a landing. That’ll suit the overhead space best. Just pine, you want ’em, I s’pose?” Elizabeth stood Lke a big blue bird alighted on the door rill, watching and listening. She was a regular woman, end saw big possibilities in the building. Kite would have enjoyed ordering parquetry flooring and carved newel posts and making a regular palace. The sun was setting behind the purply hill and sending a glint from the weather-vane on the lit tle white church spire when they started back to the city. Eliza beth looked wistfully toward it, and wondered about the rapt ex pression on Shirley's face when she spoke of “working” in the church. How could one get any pleasure out of that T she meant to find out. At present her life was rather monotonous, and she longed to have some new inter est?.. That night after she had gone to her luxurious little couch she lay in her downy nest, and tried to think how it would be to live in that that big barn and go to sleep up in the loft, lying on that hay. Then suddenly the mys tery of life was upon her with its big problems. Why, for in stance, was she born into the Graham family with money and culture and all Ihe good times, and that sweet, bright Carol girl horn into the Hollister family, where they had a hard time to live at ail 1 CHAPTER IX Quite early the next morning Sidney Graham was in his office at the telephone. He conferred with the carpenter, agreeing to meet him out at the barn and make final arrangements about the windows in a very short time. Then he called up the trolley company and the electric com pany and made arrangements with them to have a wire run from the road to his barn, with a very satisfactory agreement whereby he could pay them a certain sum for the use of as much light as he ^needed. This done, he called ujMan electrician, and arranged that, he should send some men out that morning to foire the barn. He hurried through bis morn ing mail, giving his stenographer a free hand with answering some of the letters, and then speeded out to Glenside. Three men were already there, twff 0'f them stone-masons, work ing away under the direction of the contractor. They had al ready begun working at the mas sive stone around the windows, striking musical blovys from a light scaffolding that made the old barn look as if it had sudden ly waked up and gone to house cleaning. Sidney Graham pur veyed it with satisfaction as he stopped his car by the roadside and got out. He did delight to huve things done on time. He decided that if this contractor did well on t he job he would see that he got bigger things to do. He liked it that hi3 work had been uegnui a uiure. The next ear brought a quar tet of carpenters* and before joung Graham went back to the city a motor-truck had arrived loaded with lumber and window iruines. It was all very fascinat ing to him, this new toy barn that had suddenly come into his pos session. and he could hardly tear himself away from it and go back to business. One would not have supposed, perhaps, that it was so very necessary for him to do so, either, seeing that he vas already so well off that lie really could have gotten along quite comfort ably the rest of his life without any more money; but he was a conscientious young man, who be lieved that no living being had a right to exist iu idleness, and who had gone into business from a desire to do his best and keep up the honorable name of his father’s firm. So after he had given careful directions for the electric men when they should come he rushed back to his oiiiee once more. The next two days were filled with delightful novelties. lie spent much time flying from of fice to barn and back to the office again, and before evening of the second day he had decided that a telephone in the barn was an absolute necessity, at least while the work was going on. So he called up the telephone company, and arranged that connection should be put iu at once. That evening he wrote a short note to Miss Shirley Hollister, telling her that the partitions were under way and w ould soon be complet ed, and that iu a few days he would send her the key so that she might begin to transport her belongings to the new home. The next morning, when Gra ham wont out to the stone barn, he found that the front windows were ip, and gave a very m*mmm ■■ n j j ■ j ■ [ appearance to the edifice, both | outside and in. As Elizabeth had - j surmised, the big latticed win dows opening inward like case men* doors seemed quite in keep ing with the rongu stone struc ture. Graham began to wonder why all barns did not affect this style of window, they were so en tirely attractive, He was thor oughly convinced that the new tenants would not be likely to re member or notice the difference in the windows; he was sure he shouldn’t have unless his atten tion had been called to them in some way. Of course the sills and sashes were rather new-look ing, but he gave orders that they should at ouee be painted an nn obst.rastive dark green which would well accord with the mossy roof, and he trusted his particu lar young tenant would not think that he had done anything point ed in changing the windows. If she did, lie would have to think up some excuse. But, as he stood at the top of the grassy slope and looked about, he noticed the great pile of stones under each window, from the masonry that had been torn away to make room for the larger sashes, and an idea came to him. “Mr. Jones!” he called to the contractor, who had just come over on the ear to see how the work was progressing. Wouldn’t there be stores enough all together from all the windows to build some kind of a rude chimney and fireplace!” he asked. Mr. Jones thought there would. There were stones enough down in the meadow to piece out with iu ease they needed more, any way. Where would Mr. Graham want the fireplace! Directly op posite the front doors? He had thought of suggesting that him self, hut didn’t know as Mr. Graham wanted to go to any more expense. “By all means make that fire place !”' said the young owner delightedly. “This is going to be a jolly place when it gets done, isn’t it! I declare I don’t know but i d like to come out here und live.” “It would make a fine old house, sir,” said the contractor respectfully, looking up almost reverently at the barn. “I’d like' to sec it with verandvs, and more winders, and a few such. You don't see many of these here old stone buildings around now. They knew how to build ’em sub stantial in those old times, so they did.” xx Jii i i ca. ib vv uuiu’Uitiisfj a fine site for a house, wouldn't it?” said the young man, looking about thoughtfully. ‘‘Well, now, we’ll have to think about that sometime, perhaps. However, 1 think it looks very nice for the present;” and he walked about, looking at the improvements with great satisfaction. At each end of the barn a good room, long and narrow, had been partitioned off, each of which by use of a curtain would make two very large rooms, and yet the main section of the floor looked as large as ever. A simple stair way of plain boards hfld been constructed a little to one side of the middle toward the back, go ing up to the loft, which had been made safe for the children by a plain rude railing consisting cf a few uprights with strips across. The darkening slats at the small, windows in the loft had been torn away and shutters substi tuted that would open wide and let in air and light. Rough spots in the floor bad been mended, and around the great place both up stairs and down, and even down in the basement under neath, electric wires ran with simple lights and switches con veniently arranged, so that if it became desirable the whole place could be made a blaze of light. The young man did not like t» think of this family of unprotect ed women and children coining out into the country without all the arrangements possible to make them fed safe. For this reason also be had established the tele phone. He hail talked it over with the agent, paying a certain sum for its installation, and had a telephone put in that they could , pay for whenever they desired to , use it. This would make the ; young householder feel more comfortable about leaving her mother out in the country all day. i and also prevent her pride from being hurt. The telephone was ; there, bln: ',<ied not use it unless necessity arose. He felt he could \ explain that to her. If she didn’t like it, of course she could have at taken away. (To Be Continued Null VVeei.) If b*d been In the Juns’e it> etead of being In vaujgfevlUe, her baby | would be alive. Borne Va-ikionable moth ers can ayinpa.UUz« with SuzeUe and them. LAND IM DEMAND Why Western Canada Can Taka Her Pick of Settlers. ! Opportunities and Condition* Thers Appeal to the Most Desirable—Pos sibilities of Country Proved. Wlille Canada wonts settlers, and Is pursuing every legitimate means to secure them, it Is realized, as pointed out by Hou. J. A. Colder, minister of Immigration nnd colonization, that se lection is necessary, and in order to keep andeslrables out of the country legislation Is passed that will doubt less have this effect. As pointed out by the mintstfr, the class of settler* which Canada stands most ready to welcome are those who desire: Opportunity to acquire good farm lninl, either free or at a cost within their means. Opportunity to live In a country uu der healthful conditions and liberal laws and among un Intelligent and friendly people. Opportunity to live in a country where children receive free public edu cation und where all children are en abled to stan in the battle of life with, as nearly as possible, equal ndvun tages. Opportunity to live In a country where Industry applied to the land will produce something more than fha bare necessities of life, and will afford within reasonable time comfort and Independence. Opportunity to live In a country where ambition Is not handicapped by any creed, birth, or class, but where every citizen has the rigiit to asplrs to the highest position in his or bet chosen walk in life. ! These are the conditions which will appeal to the most desirable people for this or any country, condition* which, to a certain degree, make an automatic selection of the fittest. Canada -possesses farm lands W large areas which may be had free or at a cost within the reach of the set tler of limited means. Vast areas nr® available for settlement within reason able distances of railways. Land val ues hate tn the last qnnrler of a cen tury received a tremendous impetus, so that any good farm land which can still be secured in Its ••aw state at reasonable, prices Is an attraction. Such lands today are probably mors attractive to the settler t.,an were the free homesteads of the pioneer era. The country has been tried out; It* possibilities have been proved; the trails have been blazed; the founda tions have been laid. Railroads, tele phones nnd public roads have been provided; market tpwns dot the prai ries and other agricultural districts; schools, rhryches. and all the mark* of modern conditions of life abound. Records which have been taken over a period of years establish the fact that Western Canada's grain produc tion is greater per acre than that of probably any other new country. It 1* worrhj of uote that the production of grain tier acre in many of the older countries has Increased with the In tensified farming methods which the very high cost of land made necessary. This condition docs not yet obtain t> any extent In Canada, and yet the yield compares favorably with some such countries in which the cost of land Is very much greater than it 1* In the farming districts of the Do minion. In most cases present owners of Canadian farm land who are not cultivating It themselves are willing to sell at moderate prices and oa terms arranged for the convenience of the purchaser, provided that the pur chaser Is prepared to go Into actual operation and bring the land unde* cultivation nnd cause it to producer Tb.Ht Is the kind of settler which Catt aria wants and to whom It extend* open arms.—Advertisement. Still Missing. The Police Sergeant—I think w® have found your missing wife. .Mr. Henry Peek—So? What doe* she say? The Sergennt—Nothing. >Ir. Peck—Says nothing? That> not my wife. ASPIRIN Name “Payer” on Genuine Warning! Unless you see the ntuna “Bayer1''on package or on tablets yeti are not gel ting genulno Aspirin pro* scribed by physicians for twenty-on® > cars and proved safe by millions. Take Aspirin only as told In the Bayer package for Colds, Headache, Neural* gfa. Uheumatism. Earache. Toothache^ Lumbago and for Fain. Handy tin boxes of twelve Bayer Tablets of As* plrlD cost few cents. Druggists als® sell larger packages. Aspirin 1* th® trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Mouoacetlcacldester «f Salicycacld, «, t Losing His Patients. “Your patients seem to manage t% keep pretty welL” “Yes," answered the doctor fn dl*>. gust. “They make me sick l1'—Awed* can Legion Weekly. » » • - I