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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1923)
FARMER GAINED ! FIFTEEN POUNDS A Feels Like Brand New Man Since * Taking Tanlac, States ' Neb. Citizen^ | “Tanlac measured up to my expec tations, my troubles have vanished, and I feel fit all over,” declared Henry J. Schiekau, truck farmer, Station B, Route 1, Omaha, Neb. “For over a year I suffered terribly with stomach trouble and run-down condition. I was in misery with indi gestion and heartburn after eating; my head ached fit to burst, and there was a sharp, constant pain in my back. I was nervous, couldn’t sleep, and kept losing weight. “But th® Tanlac treatment smoothed out everything and I gained fifteen pounds. My truck business gets me up bright and early, but I cover my route regularly and never tire out. 1 am certainly grateful to Tanlac, and always telling about it.” Tanlac is for sale by all good drug gists. Accept no substitute. Over 37 million bottles sold. / Tanlac Vegetable Pills are nature’s own remedy for constipation. Sold •verywhere.—Advertisement. Much Soil Unsurveyed. Slightly more than one-third of th« United States Iras, been surveyed by the bureau oi soils of the»United States Department of Agriculture. A little more than half of this area has been covered by detailed surveys showing the extent and distribution of the various soils by types; the res) has been covered by reconnaissancs maps showing the soils in largei groups. There are in some of th« western states large areas^bf moun tainous lands and deserts, where thers Is no immediate prospect of irrigation, or of grazing, and for wliich there will Mkcly be no need of soil surveys. A man seldom marries unless he’i In love or In debt. 2 MORE WOMEN JOIN THE ARMY Of Those Who Have Been Restored to Healdi by Lydia E. Pickham’s Vegetable Compound **t —--— Milwaukee, Yisconsin.—“ I had a bad pain in my left Bide and I could not lift llllllllliliiiiiiim»iilanythingheavywith I out naving a DacK ache. I tried differ ent things. Then 1 saw Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound adver tised in the news papers and began taking it as the di rections said. I feel ;| very good now and K; can do all nay work. u recommend the Vegetable Compound to all my friends, and you can use my testimonial letter. ” —Mrs. Hattie Warzon, 870 Garden St., Milwaukee, Wia. Gained in Every Way Buffalo, N. Y.'—“I had some femaU troubles that justftrun my health down eo that I lost my appetite and felt mis erable all the time. I could not lif? anything heavy, and a little extra work some days would put me ia bed. A friend had told ma to try Lydia E Flnkbam’s Vegetable Compound and 1 gained in every way, could eat bettei and felt stronger. I had found nothing before this that did me so much good.f —Mrs. J. Grace, 291 Woitz Avenue. Buffalo, N. Y. 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Co., makers of Dr. Scholl’s Fool Comfort Appliances, Arch Supports, etc. Put one on—the pain it gone! Protecting TGrain? ^Shipments (National Crop Improvement Service.) IN THE olden days before the grain exchanges undertook to protect both buyer and seller in the handling of cash grain on track, there was constant warfare between the railroads, which attempted at that time to favor cer tain large shippers, as against the smaller shippers. There was also a great amount of thieving done, and under the primitive methods of inspec tion almost daily there were serious charges of shortage of grain received. Now the excellent spirit of co-opera tion on the part of railroad officials and grain inspectors is evident, and they seem to vie with each other to sea which can render the most service U the trade at ail times. In addition to the watchmen's sere ice which is maintained in the railroad yards, after the state samplers have taken their samples of grain the board of trade inspector makes note of all cars so opened and re-seals them with another seal, so that both parties to the trade may know that the car has not been tampered with after breaking the first seal. —..T....~j Iceland Lacks Ice. Bulletin of National Geographic Society. Carrying Ice to Iceland will appear to most persons about as reasonable as carrying wheat to the Dakotas, cotton to Texas, or beans to Boston But according to recent press dispatches the Icelanders have made an appeal to Norway, the nearest European country, to ship them ice in order that they may save their herring harvest froip spoiling because of the mildness of the present winter. The land which has come down In history as Iteland might with more accuracy have been given a diametrically opposite title, and called “The Land of Fire.” The surface of no other country, perhaps, is so deeply marked by the withering blasts -that well up from time to time; and in no country of equal area are to be found so many volcanic peaks and vents. Nearly 6,080 square miles of the 40,000 of the country’s area are covered by lava flow* Iceland is approximately the size of Ohio and about 8,000 square miles larger than Ireland. It is only a short distance off the Europeward coast of Green land, and its northernmost cape Just touches the Arctic circle. From there the Midnight Sun can be seen. In spite of its position so near the North Pole, Iceland, thanks to the Gulf Stream, has a relatively mild winter cli mate. Reykjavik, the capital, is in the same latitude as Nome, Alaska, but has a January temperature milder than that of Munich, Germany, or Milan, Italy. Icelandic summers, however, are cool, due to the large fields of Ice that float down from the north. Grain cannot be grown satisfactorily, and all breadstuffs must be imported. Hay, potatoes, and turnips are the only agri cultural products of any importance. Cattle, horses and sheep are raised in considerable numbers, and large quantities of fish—chiefly cod and herring —are taken from the neighboring waters. Though Iceland has an extensive area, for all practical purposes it might Just as well be only a seventh its actual size. Although Europeans emi grated to Iceland about 700 years before old world colonies were established In the now tam^d North America, only the valleys and lowlands near the coast of the island have ever been developed. This is not because of a lack of energy on the part of the hardy Scandinavians who settled the island, but because the interior, comprising about six-sdVenths of the total area, is a waste of lava, boulders, and gravel, devoid of vegetation. The island is approximately 200 miles wide and 300 miles long, but hard ly a habitation can be found more than 40 miles from salt water. There are no railroads and few carriage roads. The inhabitants depend almost entirely on water transportation along the coast and in the many fiords. Iceland-can be considered! the half-way-station between Europe and America. Nearly 700 years before Columbus sailed to the West Indies through the warm south Atlantic in his relatively large, decked ships, daring Scandi navian sea rovers in their open boats passed from Norway to Iceland and -from there to the coasts of Maine and Rhode Island. Icelanders have shown themselves to be in advance of many parts of the world in their social and political ideas. Women had full political privi leges in Iceland earlier probably than in any other civilized country. At the present time part of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, is elected by pro portional representation. Votes for women is not the only mark which feminism has placed on the life of Iceland. The custom of women retaining their own names when they marry is more general in Iceland, perhaps, than in any other modern country. The political status of Iceland is in some ways peculiar. In effect it might be said to be an autonomous state in partnership with Denmark. It has no army or navy and is under no obligation to contribute either men or money to the Danish military forces. Denmark recognizes the country’s permanent neutrality. Furthermore tiie present arrangement is only tempor ary, and after December 31, 1940, either of the associated countries may de mand a revision of the “Act of Union” which now unites them. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ♦ 4 4 ♦ 4 4 4 4 ♦ 4 A NIGHT HOUR. 4 4 - 4 4 From the San Francisco Call. 4 4 This comes from a book of 4 4 New Mexico poems by Alice Cor- 4 4 bin—part of a poem called "In 4 4 the Desert.” She says: 4 4 ♦ 4 Once every twenty-four hours 4 - ► Earth has a moment of indecision 4 *► Shall I go on?— 4 <► Shall I keep turning?— 4 Is it worth while? 4 + <■ Everything holds Its breath. 4 •< >• The trees huddle anxiously 4 «>• On the edge of the arroyo, 4 «► And then with a tremendous 4 ■> ► heave, 4 ->■ Earth shoves the hours on to- 4 ->• ward dawn. 4 4- 4 4- Everyone knows that moment 4 4- in the night—birds, beasts and 4 4- men. It Is for the universe what 4 4- his "second wind” is to the run- 4 4- ner. At that moment the chick- 4 4- ens mutter to themselves in their 4 4- coops and the dog on the rug by 4 4- the bed stirs and growls and 4 4- reaches up his muzzle to lick our 4 4- hand. The half hour that comes 4 4- Just before this grand climacteric 4 4- of the day is the most limping of 4 4- all time. Soldiers on watch and 4 4- those who tend the sick are well 4 4- aware of this apprehensive mo-' 4 4- ment. 4 4- It is not so much that life is 4 4- tired or that life is afraid; it is 4 4- Just that life pauses for a mo- 4 4- ment to consider the alternatives 4 4- of going ahead or of standing 4 4- still for awhile. At this Instant 4 4- a man's poker luck changes and 4 4 good fellows used to decide 4 4- whether to go home now,-or to 4 4 make a night of It and 'ricSt go 4 4- home until morning. And at this 4 4 moment In the night wakeful 4 -4 children think up those startling 4 4- puzzlers they propose to their 4 4- elders in the daytime. 4 4 4 4444444444444444444 COSTS TO HOLD WHEAT. From the Kansas City Star. Warning to farmers that it is qost ing them approximately 25 cents a bushel to hold their wheat when they figure the interest on their money, was sounded by J. R. Burrow, president of the Central National bank, of To peka, and owner of a string of banks In northwestern Kansas. Burrow is considered one of the authorities of the mid-west on agricultural finan cing. While not strictly advising the farmers to sell their wheat for what ever they could get. Burrow told the annual session of the state board of agriculture that if the farmers con '•'.nued to try to hold their old crop and the new crop continued to de velop favorably, he would expect to eee the price drop to $1.25 a bushel. "The farmers who did not sell when they could get $2.00 a bushel acted very unwisely,” Burrow said. “And I want to tell you,” he contin ued, “in my estimation the persons who put out the propaganda for farm ers to hold their wheat until they could get $3.0Q a bushel for it, com mitted one of the gravest crimes ever committed against the farmers.” WOMEN IN ASSAM “POP THE QUESTION” From the New York Sun. As usual 1921 will be leap year year among the Garo women in Assam, according to a report recent ly made by a missionary. “Among those who have not been Christianized marriage here is by consent, the bride taking the initi ative,” says the report. “She goes to fetch the bridegroom, and it is etiquete for him to hide and resist until victoriously carried off. Occa sionally a man may get his wife by capture, but usually it is the woman who kidnaps him, that is, her male friends do it for her. One may still see such press gangs bringing home their spoil. "In the early days the missionaries were inclined to rush to the res cue, thinking that violence was being committed, such is the noise made by the struggling youth. The reluct ance and resistance, though, are sel dom as real as they sound. If the youth dislikes the match, there is rarely any redress. Women of means are allowed to choose a temporary husband, and when tired of him pay him off and take another. TRUE •'AFTER ALL? From the Youth’s Companion. For 200 years Defoe’s story of thA plague in London has been .regarded as a wonderfully clever and realistic piece of fiction, although the over shadowing genius he showed in Rob inson Crusoe has perhaps dwarfed the interest of critics in his lesser, but still great work. Now comes Dr. Watson Nicholson with a book in which he embodies the results of much careful search in the Brit ish museum and other places and proves, as he believes, that the "Journal of the Plague Year” is not fiction, but fact. The book should help to rewaken interest in a work that every young person who wants to learn to write well should read. Although British labor gained a great advance in wages and decrease in hours during 1920, a labor correspondent of tiie Liverpool Post says, "It is probably a modest estimate to say that the whole of these increases have been swept away by unemployment and underemploy ment." Five hundred and fifty-three thousand, seven hundred workers ob tained an aggregate reduction of 2,071, 200 hours a week. There were 28.&6X.D00 days lost through industrial disputes in 1920. Alas! “Mary, Mary, slightly airy, • How do the fashions go?" "Piled up hair and shoulders bare And vertebrae all in a row." —'Puppet. THREE TEACHERS LEARN SOMETHING Many people want to know what la the beat tonic to use when there la need for richer, redder blood and more of it. It ia assumed that the need is for more iron in the blood. But which ia the best way to get it, there is the question. Three University of Callforia teach ers have undertaken to answer the ques tion. They worked with dogs. A dog would be bled until one-quarter of his blood had been lost. The next day the process was repeated. They took away about one-half h(s calculated blood sup ply. Immediately after a certain quan tity of blood, say a pint, has been drawn from the vessels^ the tissues supply enough water to make up the loss in quantity, but they are not able to sup ply the quality on such short notice. Therefore, one-half of a dog's blood having been drawn off, what ia left in the vessels shortly becomes 100 per cent, in quantlty’and 50 per cent, in quality. The first question was. will the tis sues bring the quality of the blood to normal? The answer is yes, provided the dog Is well fed enough. The blood of dogs fed on an average amount of table scraps was normal In eight weeks. If a dog was fed table scraps, but was not given enough to eat, his blood did not return to normal. Assuming then that eight weeks was a standard, various foods and medicine were used and the time required for a return to normal was compared with the standard. A diet of raw or cooked meat was found to be the best Iron tonic for a dog. When fed such a diet dogs were back to normal In four weeks. Liver came right along in the same class with meat (muscle). I am informed by Mrs. Robschert that green vegetables were not so effective as meat Whl^logs are accustomed to eating a mixed diet there Is no doubt that their teeth, stomach and Intestines are ,built on meat eating lines. Had they been working with grass eating animals, perhaps spinach and other green vegetables might have led meat They found that Blaud's pills were with out effect Their experiments Indicate that money spent on forms of Inorgan ic Iron is money wasted. Certainly these experiments prove that where anemia is due to hemorrhage, the only Iron tonic needed Is good food in proper quantity, good meat heading the list. Beef toa and beef extracts were found to be as useless as Blaud’s pills, tincture or Iron and bitter wine of iron. It has been claimed that in secondary anemias not due to hemorrhage but due to intestinal conditions, inorganic iron helps, but not by supplying iron to the blood. The experiments did not cover that question. Surprise For Wifey. From Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. An English commercial traveler was married and, deciding to kill two birds with one stone, took his wife over the districts he "worked** for her honey moon trip. On the way he couldn't help boasting to her of how well known he was on the road. "Why,” he ended up one brilliant oration on bis popularity, “at the Bean and Barnacle, at Little Mitch, they not only always reserve a place for me, but, knowing how I like honey, they invar iably put a plate of it on my table, even when it is not on the bill of fare." Arrived at the Bean and Barnacle, the traveler discovered to his chagrin that for some inexplicable reason his honey had been forgotten. "]Walter," he said crossly, “where la my honey?" ■ She left last week, sir,” said the waiter. Wasting Power. From the Buffalo News. The Inefficiency of the electrical power development at Niagara Falls Is gener ally admitted by engineers. The Niag. ara potential is 30 horse-power for a cubic foot of water, and the present de velopments at the falls run from about 11 to 21 horse-power. On a head of 200 feet, now utilized, the best that can bo expected from the 20,000 cubic feet di version sanctioned by the treaty with Great Britain for the Amerlo&n side Is 400,000 hosse-power. On a head of 300 feet, which Is avail able, this volume of water is capable of generating 600,000 horse-power. So there Is a loss of 290,000 horse-power un der the best of existing conditions—a waste of one-third of the potential of the water. This Is equivalent to about'60. OOp tons of anthracite or about 1,300,000 tons of bituminous coal yearly. It Is wasting power enough for the building of , a city. It Is the'maddest Industrial extravagance to perpetuate a system such as this. One-third of the work of railroads !s hauling coal from mine to market. In the markets about one-fourth of this coal'ls used to generate electricity. Man ifestly It la absurd that Buffalo, with the greatest water power resource in the world at Its door, has largely to depend on coal-made power to operate its mills and factories. Just think ol the folly of hauling coal, b» thousands of tons a day, from Pennsylvania to Buffalo for this purpose when hundreds of thous ands of .horse-power are going to waste within 20 miles of the city. Ideals. Agnes E. Castle, In London Express. There are two ways of looking at every thing. Even the horror of war became sanctified and ennobled by the heroism and self-sacrifice of our men. A Red Cross hospital ward was, as I have known It, one of the serenest, al most one of the happiest places on earth. There was such sweet patience, nay, such a genuine cheerfulness on the part of the wounded, and such devotion and love on the part of the nurses? It would be a tragic and piteous thing if a world at peace were to do away with beauty which a world In conflict yet retained. What Is wrong with us now Is that we have lost our grip of the real meaning of lire. A certain gross materialism seems to have laid hold of the minds of many. Now materialism is at once the ugliest and the saddest form of ethics that it is possible to Imagine. It is the mark of the beast; it is the breath of the “spirit that ever denies.” -- * * Traveling conditions within Ger many are more nearly normal than In most other parts of Europe. Trains are frequent and generally on time when not compelled to wait for con nections with trains from other coun tries. No Chance. From the Milwaukee Journal. "There,” exclaimed 6-year-oid Bernice, throwing. down a book. “I just ain’t going to school another day." "Why,’' asked her mother, "what’s the matter?” “It’s no use wasting time.,” replied the little miss. “I can’t never learn to spell. The teacher Just keeps changing the words every day.” Ninety-three couples took out Tri day" licenses in Los Angeles last week for Christmas weddings. American "Angel of Mercy." J Mme. Tsipouras, wife of a colonel la i the Greek army, formerly Miss Mary i White and a near relative of Chief Jus tice White of the Supreme court, Is , known as %the' "angel of mercy," or “Mme. Merciful,” among the stricken Sreek refugees In Athens. Wherever in Greece there has been want and ! suffering Mme. Tsipouras has been l found working for Its relief. She per (sonally visits camps In the distribu tion of relief supplies in orderoto cut the entanglements of government red tape.—The Argonaut. The Cutioura Toilet Trio. 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Senator Lenroot said in a tariff argu ment In Milwaukee: “The frank and open way the gov ernments of the world ure running one another’s foreign trade by means of tariff barriers reminds me of old Doc Bolus. “ ‘Doc,’ said Farmer Cornelius Husk, Tm plum 'sorry to drag ye so far out into the kentry on sich a cold, wet might.’ “ ‘Oh, that’s all right, Corn,’ said old Doc Bolus. ‘Your neighbor, Deacon Wesley Luther, is ailin’ too, so I kin kill two birds with one stone.’ ” When a man Is working *for himself he doesn’t have to employ a time keeper. ► -— i ■■ i His Oversight “Funny thing,” lately admitted Major Ira K, Widenfuller, chief in* spector of speedometers, who was la* terviewed at the Wurst hotel In Cop* scotch, “but for quite a while I paid no particular attention to what tha newspapers were saying about the Kg Klux Ivlan. I noticed the headlines, of course, but supposed the Initials, *K. K. 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