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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1924)
For Catarrhal Conditions of the Head, Nose, Throat, Stomach, Bowels and other Organs. Over Fifty Years in tha Service of the People Ask your nearest dealer Tablets or Liquid Accuracy of Mind Mamma—You shouldn’t be so vnln Kniliy. You are always looking int< the mirror. Emily (aged four)—I’m not vain mamma. I don't think that I urn hall as good looking us I reully am.—Lon don Answers. A Monopolized Motor Hobbs—How do you like your chauf feur? Dobbs—I don’t know anything about him personally, but my wife and daughter tell me he drives my car very well.—Boston Transcript. Going Some! The balance wheel of a watch re volves 18,000 times nn hour, which means that It travels about 2,500 miles a yenr If constantly In use. And Proud of It Foreman (to man seeking work)— Are you n mechanic? Applicant—No, sorr, Olm a McCar thy.—Boston Transcript. Terrible “Were you ever In a railroad acci dent?" "Yes, I kissed the wrong one when we went through a tunnel.” Shake Into Your Shoes And sprinkle in the foot-bath Allen’s Foot-Ease, the sntiseptic, healing powder for Tired, Swollen, Smarting, Sweating feet. It takes the friction from the shoe, prevents blisters and sore spots and takes the sting out of corns and bunions. Always use Allen’s Foot Ease to break in new shoes and enjoy the bliss of feet without an ache. Those who use Allen’s Foot-Ease have solved their foot troubles. Sold everywhere. Trial package and a Foot-Ease Walking Doll sent Free. Address Allen’s Foot-Ease, Le Roy, N. Y, Juat So "What Is the most Important thing In poker—the ace?” "The jack.” Had Some Experience "Is his wife an experienced cook?” “Well, they say she used to roust her first husband.’’ Not So Loud "Jack's got a new siren for his oar." “Really. What became of the blonde one?"—London Mail. The Awful Truth “Wlmt 1 want to know Is, am I a buss or a baritone?” Coach—No, you are not. There Is nothing n man with the toothache cares so little for us sym pathy. Failure seldom comes to a man who, from the first, never feels wob bly about bis success. In the Bible there Is sure to be a grand verse that just suits your case. Hunt for It. Seed sown in the ground sometimes fnlls, hut seed sown In the heart al ways grows. A nonpartisan doesn't get ns much fun out of imlltics ns a leal and loyal party man. Work has Its greatest justification In “might as well do that as any thing." Worry about your friends and they will love you for It, though they, themselves, ure not worrying. We all have a right to spread propaganda, but we oughtn’t to pre tend it’s something else. Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION ftxSgggg) beuxahs ILjSSTS Hot water mSP_S9^ Sure Relief DELL-ANS 254 AND 754 PACKAGES EVERYWHERE Bhe Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath .i. Through one doorway she saw a grave Chinaman standing on a stage-like platform. He wore a long coat, beautifully flowered, and a hat with a turned up brim. Balanced on his nose were enor mous tortoise-shell spectacles. A ragged gray moustache drooped from the corners of his mouth 'j»d a ragged wisp of whisker png from his chin. She was in irmed by Ah Cum that the hinaman was one of the literati ^jd that he was expounding the deathless philosophy of Confu cius, which, summed up, signi fied that the end of all philoso phy is Nothing. Through yet another doorway Bhe observed an ancient silk brocade loom. Ah Cum halted the caravan and indicated that they might step within and watch. On a stool eight feet high sat a small boy in a faded blue cotton, his face like that of young Buddha. He held in hia hands many threads. From time to time the man below would shout, and the boy would let the threads go with the snap of a harpist, only to recover them in stantly. There was a strip of old rose brocade in the making that set an ache in the girl’s Heart tor tne want ot it. The girl wondered what effect the information would have up on Ah Cum if she told him that until a month ago she had never seen a city, she had never seen a telephone, a railway train, an automoble, a lift, a paved street. She was almost tempted to tell him, if only to see the cracks of surprise and incredulity break the immobility of his yellow sountenance. But no; she must step warily. Curiosity held her by one baud, urging her to recklessness, and caution held her by the other. Iler safety lay in pretense—that what she saw was as a tale twice told. A phase of mental activity that men called courage: to summon at will this energy which barred the ingress of the long cold fing ers of fear, which cleared the throat of stuffiness and kept the glance level and ever forward. She possessed it, astonishing fact! She had summoned this energy so continuously during the past four weeks that now' it ’'vas abiding; she knew that it vould always be with her, on uard. And immeasurable wras he calm evolved from this raowledge. The light touch of Ah Cum’s hand upon her arm broke the thread of retrospective thought; and her gray eyes began to register again the things she saw’. “Jade,” said Ah Cum. She turned away from the doorway of the silk loom to ob serve. Pole coolies came jogg ling along with bobbing blocks of jade—white jade, splashed and veined with translucent emerald green. “On the way to the cutters,” 6aid Ah Cum. “But we must b< getting along if we are to lunch in the tower of the water-clock.” .As if an order had come to her somewhere out of space, the girl glanced sideways at the other young fool. So far she had not heard the sound of his voice. The tail-ender of this little caravan, he had been rather out of it. But he had shown no desire for infor mation, no curiosity. Whenever they stepped from the chairs, he stepped down. If they entered a shop, he paused by the door way, as if waiting for the journey to be resumed. xoung, not muen outer man she was: she was twenty and he was possibly twenty-four. She liktd his face; it had on it the suggestion of gentleness, of fine i ness. She was lamentably with out comparisons; such few young men as she had seen—white men —had been on the beaeh, pitiful and terrible objects. The word handsome was a little beyond grasp. She could not apply it in this instance be cause she was not sure the appli cation would be correct. Per haps what urged her interest in the young man’s direction was the dead whiteness of his face, the puffed eyelids and the blood shot whites. She knew the sig nificance the corpuscle was be ing burnt out by the fires of al cohol. Was he, too, on the way to the beach? What a pity! Ail alone, and none to warn him of the abject wretchedness at the end of Drink. Only the night before, in the dining room of the Hong-Kong Hotel, she had watched him empty glass after glass of whis key, and shudder and shudder. He did not like it. Why, then, did he touch it? As he climbed heavily into his chair, she was able to note the little beads of sweat under the cracked nether lip. He was in misery; he was paying for last nights debauch. His clothes were smartly pressed, his linen white, his jaws cleanly shaven; but the day would come when he would grow indifferent to bodily clean liness. What a pity! For all her ignorance of ma terial things—the human inven tions which served the physical comforts of man— how much she knew about man himself! She had seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which per mit man to walk on two feet in stead of four—broken, without resilience. And now she was witnessing or observing the com plicated machinery of civiliza tion through which they had come, at length to land in the beach of her island. She knew now the supreme human energy which sent men to hell or carried them to their earthly heights. Selfishness. Supposing she saw the young man at dinner that night, empty ing his bottle? She could not go to him, sit down and draw the sordid pictures she had seen so often. In her case the barrier was not selfishness but the per ception that her interest would be misinterpreted, naturally. What right had a young woman to possess the scarring and inti mate knowledge of that dreg of human society, the beachcomber? CHAPTER II Ah Cum lived at No. 6 Chiu Ping le, Chiu Yam Street. He was a Canton guide, highly edu cated, having been graduated from Yale University. If he took a fancy to you, he invited you to the house for tea, bitter and yellow and served in little cups without handles. If you knew anything about Canton ware, jou were, as like as not, sorely tempted to stuff a teacup into your pocket. He was tall, slender, and suave. He spoke English with astonishing facility and with a purity which often embarrassed his tourists. He made his head quarters at the Victoria in the Sha-mien, and generally met the IIong-Kong packet in the morn ing. You left IIong-Kong at night, by way of the Pearl River, and arrived in Canton the next morning. Ah Cum presented his black-bordered card to such individuals as seemed likely to require his services. This morning his entourage (as he jestingly called it) con sisted of the girl, two spinsters (Prudence and Angelina Jed son), prim and doubtful of the world, and the young man who appeared to be considerably the worse for the alcohol he had consumed. in the beginning Ah Cura would run liis glance speculative ly over the assortment and select that individual who promised to be the most companionable. He was a philosopher. Usually hi' charges bored him with their in terrogative chatter, for he knew that his information more often than not went into one ear and out of the other. To-day he se lected the girl, and gave her the lead-chair. He motioned the young man to the rear chair, be cause at that hour the youth ap peared to be a quantity close to zero. Being a Chinaman in blood and instinct, he despised all spin sters; they were parasites. A woman was born to have child ren, particularly male children. Half a day had turned the cor ner of the hours; and Ah Cum admitted that this girl puzzled him. He dug about in his mind for a term to fit her, and he came upon the word new. She was new, unlike an other woman he had met in all his wide travel He could not tell whether she was English or American. From long experiences with both races he had acquired definitions, but none snugly applied to this girl. Her roving eagerness was at all times shaded wTith shyness, re serve, repression. Her voice was soft and singularly musical; but from time to time she uttered old-fashioned words which forc ed him to grope mentally. She I had neither the semiboisterous 1 ness of the average American girl nor the chilling insolence of the English. Ah, these English! They tra vel all over, up and down the world, not to acquire information but rather to leave the impress of their superiority as a race. It was most amusing. They would suffer amazing hardships to hunt the snow-leopard; but in the Temple of Five Hundred Gods they would not take the trouble to ask the name of one! out this girl, she was alone. That added to his puzzle. At this moment she was staring a head; and again came the oppor tunity to study her. Fine but strong lines marked the profile: that would speak for courage and resolution. She was as fair as the lily of the lotus. That suggested delicacy; and yet her young body was strong and vital. Whence had she came: whither was she bound? A temporary congestion in the street held up the caravan for a spell: and Ah Cum looked back ward to note if any of the party, had become separated. It was then that the young man entered his thought with some perma nency : because there was no ap parent reason for his joining the tour, since from the beginning he had shown no interest in any thing. He never asked questions; lie never addressed his compan ions; and frequently he took off his cap and wiped his forehead. For the first time it occurred to Ah Cum that the young man might not be quite conscious of his surroundings, that he might be moving in that comatose state which is the aftermath of a long debauch. For all that, Ah Cum was forced to admit that his charge did not look dissipated. Ah Cum was more or less famil iar with alcoholic types. In the genuinely dissipated face there was always a suggestion of sly ness in ambush, peeping out of the wrinkles around the eyes and lips. Upon this young fellow’s face there were no wrinkles, only shadows, in the hollows of the cheeks and under the eyes. He was more like a man who had left his bed in the middle of con valescence. All Cum’s glance returned to the girl. Of course, it really signified nothing in this careless part of the world that she was travelling alone. What gave the puzzling twist to an ordinary situation was her manner: she was guileless. She reminded him of his linnet, when he gave the bird the freedom of the house: it became filled with a wild gaiety which bordered on madness. All that was needed to complete the simile was that the girl should burst into s • g. But, alas! Ah Cum shrugged philosophically. His commis sions this day would not fill his metal p.pe with one wad of to bacco. The spinsters had pur chased one grass-linen table cloth ; the girl and the young man had purchased n .thing. That she had not bought one piece of linen subtly established in Ah Cum’s mind the fact that she had no home, that the in stinct was not there, »r she would have made some purchase against the future. lietwcen Ms lectures—anil pri marily he was an itinera, t lec turer—he manoeuvred in vain to acquire some facts regarding the girl, who she whs, whence she had come; but always she countered with: “What is that!” Guileless she migl t be; simple, never. It was noon when the cara van reached the tower of the water-clock. Here they would bo having lunch. Ah Cum said that it wras customary to give the chair boys small money for rice. The four tourists contribu ted varied sums: the spinners ten cents each, the girl a shilling, the young man a Mexican dollar. The lunches were individual af fairs: sandwiches, bottled olives and jam commandeered from the Victoria. “You arc alonet” said one of j the spinsters—Prudence Jedsan. “Yes,v answered the girl. “Aren't you afraid?” “Of what?”—serenely. “The men.” “They know.” “They know what?" “When and when not tc speak. You have only to looi resolute and proceed upon youi way.” Ah Cura lent an ear covertly. “How old are you?” demand ed Miss Prudence. The spinsters offered a good example of how singular each human being is, despite the fact that in sisters the basic corpus cle is the same. Prudence was the substance and Angelina the shadow; for Angelina never of fered opinions, she only agreed with those advanced by Pru dence. I am twenty,” said the girl. Prudence shook her head. “Youmust have travelled a good deal to know so much about men.” The girl smiled and began to munch a sandwich. Secretly she was gratified to be assigned to the role of an old traveler. Still, it was true about men. Seldom they molest a woman who appeared to know where she was going and who kept her glance resolutely to the fore. Said Prudence, with com mendable human kindness: “My sister and I are going on to Shanghai and Peking. If you are going that way, why not join us.” The girl's blood ran warmly for a minute. “That ia very kind of you, hut I am on my way to America. Up to dinner yes terday I did not expect to come to Canton. I was the last on board. Wasn’t the river beauti ful under the moonlight?” “We did not leave our cabins. Did you bring any luggage?” “All I own. In this part of the world it is wise never to be seperated from your luggage.” The girl fished into the bottle for an olive. How clever she was, to fool everybody so easily ! Not yet had any one suspected the truth: that she was, in a certain worldly sense, only four weeks old, tliat her every act had been written down on paper before hand, and that her success lay in rigidly observing the rules which she herself had drafted tc govern her conduct. She finished the olive and look ed up. Directly in range stood the strange young man, although he was at the far side of the loft. He was leaning against a win dow frame, his hat in his hand. She noted the dank hair on his forehead, the sweat of revolting nature. What a pity! But why! (To be Continued.) " ^ ' Was This Vandalism? From the Los Angeles Times. Probably bored by the hour-and a-half sermon which a Calvinist , minister was preaching from the pul pit. a little boy In the old cathedra' of Gouda, Holland, got busy with hi* pocket knife scratching the white wash from the wall. He dug through several layers on a small surface and finally came upon sotfte colored mat ter. • A custodian of the peace, wbc generally walks about In the larger Dutch churches during service caught him at the act of “vandal ism.” He rebuked him, hut, as the ser vice wras over and the people were going home, some stood about and examined the “excavation.” There was some more scratching of white wash and the following day experts got busy. They hared a sixty-foot high painting on the wall represent ing St. Christopher carrying the child Jesus. It Is thought the paint ing is a genuine Van Eyck, as the two ;great Flemish painters by that name are known to have lived ir, Gouda, where they adorned the price less stained-glass windows. The paintings were covered up during the days of Iconoclasts. ■ i Safety First From the Chattanooga News It was In one of those country townt which have a general store which sells everything from faeepowder to dyna mite. No bo very long ago a farmer and his wife drove up to the store. Calling to the proprietor, he said “Joe bring me the box I bought a few days ago." The package was put In the car at the feet of the mnn and Ills wife, but the latter eyed the box suspiciously. She had heard her bust.and say to one of the men on the farm. "I'll bring I -<<• some dynamite." and she knew that thev intended to blow up an old dam In the river that crossed the farmland. “What’s In that box. Herbert?” she Inquired. “It is dynamite?” “Well, what If it Is?” evasively re sponded her husband. “It won’t do any damage unless It explodes.” "Herbert,” screamed his wife, “if you think I’m going to ride one mile and a half In a car with dynamite under my feet, you’re making a mistake. Put the stuff In the ha<k of the car at once! Different Again From the Santa Barbara News Real Katate Agent—”1 can bet you have this apartment for a reduced rate, because the woman next door Is taking singing and piano lessons and practice* four hours a day.” Applicant—“Oh. that won’t make the slightest difference. The apartment ts for my cousin, and he Is very deaf.” Agent—“In ^that case. I will have t< charge full price.” _ _ Use Your Hoad From the I.os Angeles T1 r*s Some fellows seem to throw 'heir hats Into the political ring Just be cause their heads aren’t level enough to keep them on. OLD RULE BARS ACTION ON PLAN TO AID FARMERS | — Senate Adjourns Without Vote on Proposal of Senator Norbeck l __ BY JOHN A KENNEDY, Tribune Special Correspondent. Washington, June. 8.—(Special) — Congress adjourned Saturday without a vote on Senator Norbeck’s motion, which was pending In the Senate, to take up hls plan for agricultural relief and offered as an amendment or rider to other legislation. It pro posed a redistribution of the $60,000, 000 which the government grain cor poration took away from the farmer* as profit on wheat handled during th* war;. The plan provided that this money be used to pay a 35 cent per bushel bonus on exportable surplus of wheat and a 16 cent bonus on corn. Senator Norbeck argues that this would In crease the present price of domeetla crops In proportion to the bonus paid. After failure of the Clirlstopherson stabilization plan and defeat of the McNary- Haugen bill, republican lead ers began to realize the unfairness to the farmers, as well as the political danger, and most all of them were committed to support Senator Nor beck’s amendment. He also had the support of several farmer-labor een ators and some of the democrats from tho wheat growing states of the northwest. The old rule of unlimited debate In the Senate prevented action. Democratic senators were deaf to re peated appeals to cease talking and let Senator Norbeck get a vote on his amendment. The fatal hour of 7 o’clock, set for adjournment, was reached without action but under the rules, Senator Norbeck's motion Is the first item on the Senate calendar for December 4, when congress re convenes. Senator Norbeck admits that he Is greatly disappointed but blames some of the democratic sena tors for the failure to bring the mo tion to a vote. Possibly the most important meas ure, from the farmers’ standpoint, adopted during the recent session, was Senator Norbeck's resolution which provides for the Senate agri cultural committee to Investigate losses to farmers caused by govern jnent interference and regulation of wheat priced during the war. Senator Norbeck has roughly estimated that this loss to farmers was $7,000,000,000 *nd that they have a special claim in government relief at this time. It has been announced that Senator Norbeck will be chairman of the Sen ate subcommittee which will hold Bearings during the summer. Facts will be laid before congress at the December session. Senator Nor beck says he will renew his fight and ask that the government either grant damages to farmers or that some measure that will provide permanent agricultural relief be passed. It is generally conceded that losses to wheat farmers during the World war were something enormous on account of the government's policy toward the handling of wheat. General Coxey Has Remedy For ‘Wet’ and ‘Dry’ Problem Universal Service. Cleveland, Ohio, June 8.—Gen. Ja cob S. Coxey, who led an army to Washington 30 years ago. only to be arrested himself for walking on a tuft of grass on the capitol lawn, Sunday said he will propose to the republican national convention a dem ocratic method of disposing of the “wet” and “dry" issue. Coxey will urge the convention to adopt a platform declaring in favor of the national Initiative and refer endum. About 26 states have already adopted this law—which gives the people the right to pass a good law which has been rejected by an un responsive legislature or to reject a bad law which has been passed by an ur worthy legislature. Four Injured When Auto Crashes Into Street Car Cedar Rapids, la., June 8.—(Speci al)—Four persons were Injured, two probably fatally, here Sunday night when the automobile In which they were riding colided head on with a Btreet car on the third avenue bridge. James Smith, driver of the automo bile, suffered a compound fracture of one leg and was injured internally. His 9 year old stepson, Ernest, may have a fractured skull and will prob ably lose the sight of one eye. Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Smith's sister, Mrs. H. W. Kyle, were also hurt. The accident happened when an other automobile passed the Smith car Just as the street car approached. The number of married men in Amer ica exceeds that of married women, many immigrants having ieft their wives in foreign countries. CONVICTED OF VIOLATING FEDERAL AUTO LAW Deadwood, S. D., June 6.—A fed eral district court jury here con victed Karl E. Winter of Casper, Wyo., on a charge of violating the national motor vehicle theft act. He was Immediately placed on trial again with Julius Linde and Grant Brown, of Rapid City, S- D., on a charge of conspiracy to violate the same act. $3,000 TO COMMODATE CATS A woman In St. Louis spent $5,000 to build an addition on to her home to ao j commodate her cats^ __ I
