Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1923)
' \ Kr.' * ** » .. ’ . . . tfc ' , . _ CAN’T CUT OUT ACTS AT NIGHT World Brothers is different than most circuses in many ways. One is that the night show is given exactly as in the afternoon. It is impossible to give this show any other way. In a regular circus performance where no acts are used except those given by human performers, the night show is usually cut on account of heavy pro perties. With an animal circus, the big steel arena is the heaviest and largest of all properties carried. This must remain until the night show is over, so no acts are cut out, for there would be no advantage in doing so. You see it all day or night. They have the Joy Family of 20 Clowns headed by Kenneth Waite the million dollar clown, known as the Charlie Chaplin of circusdom, O’Neill, June 2. W. C. T. U. NOTES. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union meets June 5th at 2:30 with Mrs. Nona Pine. A large attendance is desired. Miss Meta M. Martin has recently been appointed superintendent of L. T. L. for the State of Nebraska, Mrs. Nina Taylor having resigned on ac count of illness. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the County Board of Equalization of Holt County will meet June 12, 1923, in O’Neill, and will be in session not less than three days ncr more than twenty days. It will be necessary for any one having complaint on their assessment to appear at that time. E. F. PORTER, 52-2 County Clerk. PUBLIC SALE. Fifty head of cattle—some good steers, about 20 cows, balance yearl ing heifers. About 40 pigs, big and little. Also the west half of my farm. Come out and look this land over be fore the sale; it is as nice a piece of land as you have ever seen. I want to sell all this stuff to the highest bid der, so come June 12th at two o’clock. 52-1 CON KEYS. INUTILE. Boarders wanted at Mrs. Uecker’s, one block west of Burlington depot. Board and room per week, $6.75. Meals 35c. Feed stable in connection. 52-4 MRS. J. M. UECKER. REGISTERED STALLION. I have purchased a Registered Per cheron Stallion and will make the stand at my place five miles west and five miles north of O’Neill. 51-2lp GEORGE PONGRATZ. TAKEN UP. At my place, two miles north of O’Neill, one black mare, with maine roached. 50-tf . R. J. PITCHFORD. DANGERS OF A COLD. O’Neill People Will Do Well To Heed Them. Many bad cases of kidney trouble re sult from a cold or chill. Congested kidneys fall behind in filtering the poi son-laden blood and backache, head ache, dizziness and disordered kidney action follow. Don’t neglect a cold. Use Doan’s "'Kidney Pills at the first sign of kidney trouble. Follow this O’Neill resident’s example: C. P. Maben, says: “Catching cold has sometimes put my kidneys in a weakened condition and the secretions passed frequently and were highly col ored. It was through the advice of a neighbor that I first tried Doan’s Kid ney Pills which I got at Reardon’s Drug Store. Three boxes corrected this trouble and I have not been bothered since. I can certaihly recom mend Doan’s from the lasting cure they made for me ad I believe them to be the best kidney remedy one can use for kidney trouble.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. Maben had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. I I LIQUID ANTISEPTIC * ► i t{4 Very efficacious tor sore throats and head colds—leaves such a cool, clean feeling. Use it to pre vent the Flu! Throats sprayed with Klenzo resist all disease germs. Take home a bottle today. Chas. E. Stout "The Rexall” Store Something to Think About By F. A. WALKER KNOW YOUR, TALENT /T' HE first requisite in the life of the youthful, is to know his or tier natural talent so that it may be intelligently developed and turned to profitable account. Find the hole in which your peg tits without wabbling and keep it there. Do not move from pillar to post in quest of another, and you will enjoy more of what makes life vuluable, glad as the years swing by that you have held firmly to your original intention. Most of the failures in this work a-day world are due to inefficiency, caused generally by shifting from one station to another and the woeful lack of fixed effort in the pursuit of a definite course. ~"You can never find the port you hope to reach if you persist in sail ing your ship without compass and rudder. The tides and the winds will toss your precious craft into the open jaws of destruction or hurl It high and dry on the scowling rocks from which there is no likelihood of es cape. If you have a talent for painting, see that you produce pictures of beautiful themes and attractive col ors; if your hand is deft in the use of tools, clasp the saw and the ham mer and resolve that no one shall excel you. You cannot overcome difficulties nor rise above the common level by lounginfe around in Idleness, bemoan ing your lot and envying the pros perous men and women climbing to wards the hill-tops. Whether you have one talent or five talents, there is but one medium through which you can achieve, and that is by hard, continuous work, holding steadfastly to your course and refusing to yield to discourage ment. There is in every person’s life the crucial moment of choosing a per manent vocation, and when that is overcome, there remains nothing else to do but to drive straight ahead, de termined to win an honorable desti nation. To the men and women who are predisposed to loafing, given to stop ping by the wayside to gather wild flowers when they should be tramp ing resolutely upon the highway, this scarcely forms an agreeable subject for meditation. But these, as you may have already guessed, are they who have hidden their talent In a napkin and been crowded from the ranks of the suc cessful, because of their own fickle ness. (©, 1923, by McClurt Newspaper Syndicate.) -,j-— «Mj -y 'K'MmdIllllllllllllltllllilHItllllMMWMMNMttNIMnRttllllHIimillllfl'IMIIIIimtIIIIIHIItUlllllIU'. v-* j MESSENGERS | | By DOUGLAS MALLOCH j i 1 .W, .llllliilimlimiHllilllllllllllllllllllllinilllllllllllllllmilUltlllllllllllllimiimillllilllillllllll .vr, VS* '«• I know each thought of mine. Is like a bird with living wings And pinions all a-shine. I toss a thought upon the air, As pigeon owners do— No matter when, no matter where, It hurries home to you! O live each day with open heart So, when my thought shall come Across the miles we are apart, It shall not find you dumb. O live each day with open door, Your heart’s door open wide— Some thought of mine is speeding o’er The valleys that divide. It bears a message all aglow, The message old and young. The message men and maidens know In every land and tongue; It sweeps across the azure skies, It darts across the dome, And home to your heart it flies, Because your heart is Home. And may my bird, so fond, so fleet, Upon its happy quos:. As it flies east another meet, A pigeon flying west; And, as they hail upon the Blue, Oh, may that pigeon be A thought of yours, a thought as true, A thought that flies to me! (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) -o ONCE ISENOOCH THE DOLL’S PLAYROOM THE playroom toys could hardly wait for the magic hour to strike, for a strange-looklng doll had come to the playroom and none of them could find out the name of the newcomer. Teddy Bear spoke first, for the boys agreed that it might be a relative of his, as the stranger doll wore a fur costume which looked a lot like Teddy Bear’s coat. Teddy did not know quite how to address the stranger, for he was not at all sure whether it was a boy or girl doll. “We did not hear our little mistress call you by name,” said Ted dy Bear, “but we all welcome you to our playroom." “I heard her say she thought she would name me Charles,” replied the stranger, “but I should not like that for It Is not at all like the name the Eskimo gives to his children." The dolls tod toys all gathered l ' ■ —■ - -r ■ ■ - — m -1 The Toy* Could Hardly Wait. around and exclaimed: “Eskimo! Are you an Eskimo doll?” “Yes,” replied the stranger, “and I’d much rather be called North Wind or Polar Bear than Charles.” “Charles was the name of the nice sailor-boy doll,” said Teddy Bear quickly, for he was afraid Eskimo doll might choose Polar Bear for his name and so become a rival. “Poor Sailor Charles fell out of the window and broke his head and we miss him very much. Charles Is a nice name and I am sure you will like it.” “If I have to take his name I am glad I have on a thick fur hood,” said Eskimo doll. “When I fall out of the window It may save my head.” “©h, you may not fall,” explained Teddy Bear. “Our little mistress takes pretty good care of us. Some one opened the window and did not notice poor Charles sitting behind the cur tain, so he tumbled out and spoiled his head.” Llsette, the French doll, Interrujited him to ask, “I should like to know what you eat in a land where you have to wear such thick clothes as you liuve on.” Eskimo doll looked at Teddy Bear, but he decided that, while Teddy's family did not get as far north as where he came from, he would not mention bear meat. “We live mostly on seal meat,” said Eskimo doll, “and the blubber is the nicest thing you ever tasted." “Better than candy?” asked Llsette. But Eskimo doll did not know, so he told them how they caught the seal, thinking that would be better than an swering their questions. “When we go seal hunting," he said, “we look for bubbles under the Ice, which show us that a seal has come up to breathe. Then a hole is made lb the Ice, and when the seal comes along we spear it. On the end of the spear is a rope, and with this we pull the seal out of the water. We cut the skin Into strips for reins, and It is also used for making out clothes; but everybody in the hunting party gets a piece of the blubber, which he likes very much.” “I reckon It won’t be very hard to cook for you, honey,” said Dinah doll, hurrying back to her kitchen. “Your story was very Interesting,” said Llsette. “I hope you will tell us more about your country some other night." Teddy Bear, however, was more In terested In his name than In his story. "I think Charles Eskimo is the best name for you In this part of the coun try,” he said. “I do not mind if I do not have to tumble out of the window,” replied Eskimo doll, “although Polar Bear sounds bigger and” — Teddy Bear rather impolitely broke In right then by introducing him to the dolls and toys as “Charles Eski mo,” and though he is very happy in his new home, Eskimo doll always keeps away from an open window, for he remembers the fate of Sailor Boy Charles, whose name he bears. (© by McClura Newapapar Syndicate.) , --- ' n Too late I stayed—forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours.—William Rob ert Spencer. HOW LONG TO STAY An INVITATION to have luncheon ■ with a friend or to attend a formal luncheon IS not an Invitation to spend the entire afternoon. At least, In smart society nowadays, It Is not considered necessary to remain more than a quar ter of an hour after the meal has been concluded, nor Is it courteous to re main more than three-quarters of an hour unless the hostess has especially requested her guests to do so. It may be that the hostess has some other so cial engagement for the afternoon. She may have calls to make or a tea to at tend. If she is a busy woman, with professional or household duties to at tend to, she certainly will not want you to linger. In fact, sometimes busy folk invite their acquaintances to luncheon because, since they must take time to lunch anyway, they lose no time that way. So usually, unless the hostess expects you to leave shortly after luncheon, she Indicates this In her Invitation. If she is giving a for mal luncheon she Indicates that there will be music or cards or something of that sort after luncheon. Otherwise It is best to linger not over three-quarters of an hour. But except among persons with veTy crowded engagement books a dinner Invitation means the entire evening. That Is, In fashionable society dinner guests usually remain until nearly eleven o’clock or later. It certainly Is not very flattering to any one to hurry away from a dinner engagement to the theater or a dance when the meal has just been concluded. If a dance occurs the same evening It Is possible to “drop in" following the dinner but it would be far better to be late to the dance than to be too abrupt in leaving the dinner party. Now, for folks who are not in so called fashionable society a lot de pends on the habits and mode of liv ing of the persons entertained and the persons who entertain. In certain suburban sections where It Is taken for granted that most of the men have to catch early trains in the morning it Is customary and In good form to leave after a dinner party fairly early. Ten o’clock Is late enough. One should always try to learn the cus tom In this matter as It Is extremely Inconsiderate to remain after the usual bedtime of the persons who are enter taining you. Casual evening callers ought to be especially careful to leave In good time. (®. 1(13. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate ) -o Copper Ore In Finland. Extensive deposits of copper ore of high quality have been discovered In northern Finland close to the surface of the ground. TF THEBE were more love In the •*“ world there would be less danger of war of every kind. International difficulties could be avoided if all men loved God and fol lowed His teaching. Industrial strife also would answer its death knell if every employer and employee followed the golden rule. The principal of the school, Peter Mannicke, declares: “Love of neighbor spreads it,s influ ence over national boundaries. “Love of God towers above all dif ferences between peoples.” If one believes these assertions-—ns we hope every one will—Is he not bound to admit that the churches are devoting too much time to current worldly problems and too little to teaching men to love. Let all who love God and His churches, remember that “the work of the minister is to declare the gospel of the Grace of God, that men may b# saved and built up in holy charac ter.” Shakespeare, in asking the question, “What’s in a name?” did millions a fa vor because he taught that it's not who a man is, but what he does which counts. (© by the Wheeler Syndicate, Ino.) _A YOUR< How^«^IIdYour,| 14 A Kin Characteristics and Tendencies<•»the Capabilities or Weak r«esses That Make for Success or Failure as Shown la Your Palaa MONEY IN THE HAND ■^TEXT to love and marriage, noth ing Interests the human race, taken as a whole, so much as the sub ject of the acquisition of wealth. One of the most common questions asked of a palmist Is this: ‘‘Does my hand show whether I shall become rich or not?” Of course, it must be understood that palmistry does not claim to be an exact science, foretelling the future and reading the past and present with absolute accuracy. We may examine the hands of men and women who have Inherited or acquired wealth, and find therein, In all or nearly all of them, certain signs. But that does not mean infallibly that the same signs In other hands show the acquisi tion or possession of wealth. A deep line across the second pha lanx of the thumb means money ac quired by marriage. A star on the same part of the thumb, In a woman’s baud, means the same thing. (• by tbs WbssUr gyodicats, 1m.) IThe Judge and His Task By MYRA CURTIS LANE (©, 1923. Western Newspaper Union.) “It’s a great honor your being ap pointed a judge," said Henry Wlddl mer’s wife as they sat the first evening In their new home at Tryon. “And I think I'm going to like this town, Henry.” She snuggled up to him. “If ouly—” He patted her shoulder. He knew what was In her mind, the one thing they never spoke about, though they were always thinking of it. If only they had a child to carry on the family honor 1 It was years since that hope had been abandoned. "Didn’t you tell me you once lived In Tryon?" asked the Judge’s wife. “Yes, years ago I spent six months here with a lumber company, when I was a young man,” answered the judge. “It was up In the mountains." And his mind went back to those bitter-sweet days that he had long since dismissed from It. He had been In love with a mountain girl, Margaret Earaes, and for weeks he had hesitated between making her his wife and— riding away. Honor and decency had demanded the former course. But then—how could he have brought Margaret Into the refined circle of his home? It would have ruined his future. And so —well, he had ridden away. He did not like to think of that episode, which he "had shut down In the casket of the pnst. Nevertheless, when he sat In court he would look at the faces of the moun taineers whenever any were brought In as prisoners or witnesses, and won der whether he had ever met any of them In the past, and whether they would remember him. — He had made discreet Inquiries about Margaret. He had learned that she had died about three years after he left her. Nothing more was known of her story, or else—but he did not think of this until long after—they had been unwilling to tell him. He satisfied himself that she was dead. And he was not thinking of Margaret that day when the prisoner Eames was brought Into court on the charge of unlawful wounding. He and another man had been rivals for a mountain girl. They had drawn knives and Eames had got In the first blow. The other man had lain at death's door for a long time, but was now recov ering. Still, £he Judge wondered whether the man were a kinsman of Margaret’s. In some way, probably, he decided. All these mountaineers were connected with one another. . He tried not to think of Margaret as he listened to the evidence. The jury retired, brought in the obvious verdict.' Itefore passing sentence the judge asked Eames what he had to say. To everyone’s surprise Eames burst Into impassioned invective. “What have I to say?” he cried. “Why, it’s fine for you grand folks to sit in Judgment on the likes of usl What I done I done honest and open. I didn’t crawl Into the girl’s house like a friend and wrong her. I fought Jim Sykes for her, man to man. That’s what I got to say. “Send me to the pen. Send me up for life, but I tell you my quarrel’s with Jim Sykes, and my love’s fo» Molly Hreen, and her love’s for me. And she’ll wait for me, however long you send me up for. We ain’t like you fine people, who love and ride away. Whv i we love, it lasts. That’s all.” And with his last words he flung back his head and confronted the judge unflinchingly. If there were those in court who saw the resemblance between the two It probably did not occur to them to make deductions from it; and If any of the old mountain people noticed It they said nothing. "Hiames, wno were your people r asked the judge. “My mother was a good woman—• God rest her! My father was a rogue who deceived her. That’s all I got to say. One of these fine, eddlcated, soft spoken rogues—Oh, It’s easy enough for them to take advantage of a girl who trusts them." •The judge passed a sentence of six months’ Imprisonment. Many thought that was severe under the circum stances. But the bitterness lay in this—that In no why could he make atonement either to the dead girl or to the boy. Take him out of his environment, edu cate him—and thus wrong the girl he loved and had fought for? No, it was Impossible. And never could he grip this son that he had longed for by the hand, and transmit to him the honor of the old family of which he was the last to rise to power. Whether or not the boy had known who he was, he had kept to his own counsel. Nobody would betray him. There was hardly a greater height of Irony possible. For, day by day, he would sit In judgment under the grim, silent scrutiny of the mountaineers. x "Underwriting." In finance, underwriting Is a method of floating the bonds and securities of corporations by means of fiscal agents or syndicates. A railroad wishes to Issue, say, fifty millions of bonds. A banking house or syndicate agrees to take the entire Issue at a fixed price, perhaps 2 per cent under par, if it Is paid a commission of 5 per cent. The underwriters then must sell the bonds to the Investing public at a price higher than 98 In order to make a profit In addition to their commission. ((g), 1933. Western Newapaper Untua.) Old Hanley made no friends. His absorbing passion was bis only grand child. But his was an unreasoning, Jealous affection, which brought to the girl no happiness. Being a modern young woman, Diana grieved not, but doing her duty fairly by the old man, still fought determinedly for her right ful freedom. So peace did not always % reign beneath the roof of the great house that was her grandfather's. The Issue now at hand was Diana's announcement of her engagement. And the suitor In question was not ap proved, because no suitor could be ap proved, In her grandfather’s selfish plan, which was that the young wom an’s devotion be given to himself wholly—during the remainder of his solitary years. This, he insisted, was but part of the debt she owea. How Diana had managed to meet her lover, old Hanley, Inwardly fuming, could not know. Diana had met Barry Oale while on a visit to a school chum. Barry was a decent . young chap, honestly In love, and hon estly striving to make a place for himself In the world of business. Be cause his years were young he had not advanced far—there must needs be some patient waiting upon the part of the engaged couple. “Unless you give up this young man during the year to come, every cent of my money shall go to another young woman." His tongue was sar castic. “But Jared’—this was Diana's af fectionately disrespectful title for her grandfather—“Jared where will you find the young woman to take my place? As I understand your will, the heir is to have this property only on condition of living on In the old house and 'supporting It In the style to which it has been accustomed,’ Of course you will leave money enough for that—but what young woman may carry on the home of our fathers?” Old Hanley’s eyes glittered; mean ingly he pressed a button on his desk. Immediately the door opened and a young woman entered the office room. She was a quiet appearing young woman, unlike Diana’s vibrant per sonality. “Miss Rhoda Brent,” the old man introduced, “my granddaughter, Miss Diana Curwood.” Silently the girls regarded each other. To Diana, standing there in her crimson sweater, it seemed that one of the old-time pictures from the hall had given up Its subject. Surely Miss Rhoda, with her shy sweet smile, her quaint pretty manner, was not a spirit of present times. “Miss Brent,” Jared Hanley ex plained, “la my new secretary. Mul lins, my lawyer, recommended her. She has been recently left alone In her country home and Mullins was a friend of her father.” When Miss Brent was dismissed the old man turned to his granddaughter— “That," he said quietly, “Is the young woman to whom my property and for tune will be bequeathed If you prefer to forfeit It Miss Brent will read to me as I desire, or perform those small social services which my granddaugh ter should, but does not find pleasure In rendering. If she proves faithful in undivided attention she, and not you, will reap the reward." That Rhoda Brent proved faithful in her tasks was not to be disputed. Neither did Diana relent in her de votion to her earnest young lover. Barry was sad at the sacrifice which his beloved must make for his sake, and Diana, good naturedly indifferent, was kindly companionable with her acrid grandfather. Rhoda walked often with the disapproved girl through the gardens. il AO DU vuuuut uu§| i/tuun uuvv said, “to have a trusted woman con fidante In my home. You cannojt know how comforting, Rhoda.” And the secretary, freed from duty in the late hours of the evening, would sit In her bedroom sewing things fine and filmy for Diana's trousseau. So the year passed. And Barry Gale came to his desired goal. He might dare to marry Diana now. It was Rhoda who suggested a way out. Her little vacant home in the country town would be of easy access to the city, she offered; with a very few new furnishings It might be made Inviting. The old man, when he heard the surprising arrangement, sat for a time staring at the happy young faces be fore him. Diana’s threatened usurper and Diana herself, had turned the ta bles of his spite Into loving friendli ness. He made one last effort at ven geance. “So," he said, “you two will change places. Diana of Hanley estate, In the Brent’s humble cottage. Rhoda Brent, mistress and owner, here.” But Rhoda’s soft voice was raised to dispute him. “That could never be,” she said. “Diana’s happy pres- ' ence alone has made my staying here possible. I could not remain If she goes.” To the old man alone, she added, “And her presence here alone can make your happiness. Give your i granddaughter welcome, and her ' young husband, who shall be a strength to you. And If you still wish j me to stay on then, as your secre- , tary—” Which was at last the ar- j rungement. And because Jared had learned that love Is stronger than , power, they all lived happily together ' ever after—that Is, until Rhoda found 1 her own greater lover—-which Is an- I other story. _'
