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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1925)
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JmEV/T SMEsr^, Trou say he Vno-mo- *TMEYI [Vy^S OVERCOME sAV hE VYAS \ >%Y the p STABBED'* (6U.ZZAR0 J Tfc'SiZZAfcDj ^ Sr----' ( A V I rn &ors \L C'juST PAtNTECV - 7 0’4 T^\AT / ti5AN<5 OuD/ ^ STCX^igL srANuey © 192* BY MCA SEKV1CC. ntt' . f!'« « * ‘ 1 hit IT WAS FIRST REPORTED STATION AQENT CAD K.ETYESJ HAD BEEN FOUND STABBED WITH A DA£<*ER“ » | D ,j| | \ THE DAQ^ER. TUfcNED ©UT TO BE A HALF ' “ I1 ^SMOKED CHfeisWS CK?AB THAT PROVED TOO MUCH FOR? DAO — V THE DOLLAR KEEPS A-COMING By Lewis L. Clarke, President American Exchange National Bank, quoted in “Pacific Banker.” A dollar, unlike a man, can, if it chooses, remain indefinitely idle, but its natural habits are against its doing so. When business is slack and dollars in consequence lose their jobs, they look around to see whether or not they can find employ ment in the same community in which they have been working. If that is not possible, then they go afield to look for satisfactory occupation. When there are a lot of idle dollars, such as is the ease at present, they are forced into a position where they bid against each other for work. It is natural that when industry and agriculture do not offer employment, the dollar should look for a prime security as a pos sible avenue of employment. The dollar very properly has two things in mind, to-wit, per cent, per diem earning capacity and the privilege of terminating its contract of employment at any minute. In other words, it seeks to keep itself privileged to advance or retreat via the liquidity of the security whose temporary employment it has entered. Men often speak of the shift in labor, meaning transmigra tion from one job to another. Physical labor is never so shifty as is the little dollar, which, generally speaking, has no sentiment in regard to any job that it holds. It is quite ready to transfer its allegiance at any moment and without notice. Wherever there is any indication of higher wages or earning power, there the dollar will troop ostentatiously &'';<! proffer its services. At present the dollar is not the least bit proud of its earning capacity, but just as soon as business begins to pick up and a de mand for the dollar becomes acute, instead of offering its service at a reduced per diem wage, as at present, it will strut before vou and figuratively say “WHAT AM I BID?” TODAY BY ARTHUR BRISBANE Wall Street buys and sells 2,000,000 shares a day now, and nobody no tices it. We quickly get used to prosperity. Brokers would consider a “million share day” an insult. But sail money with which lambs gamble went to five and a half per cent, yesterday. A few days ago it was two and a half. Wall Street does notice that it’s rather sad to pay for gambling money as high an interest rate as merchants and manufacturers have to pay for legitimate business loans. The real stock gambling will begin after the new year, ’i hen look out for skyrocketing, to bo followed by some falls that will make the specu lators know Just how Humpty Dumpty fell. Senator Underwood, and others whose pure, innocent souls are above mere profit, might like to know' something about the value of power shares and what It would mean to the General Electric company if kind Mr. Underwood should make the Gene.-al Electric the private owner of Uncle Sam’s plant at Vuscle Shoals. Take one little light, and power in vestment made by the far-seeing B. F. His wife asked him to invest for her $10,»00. He paid $9,300 for $10. 000 par value of power bonds. Thoy carried the right of exchange for common sVick at par. (He exchanged the $10,000 bonds for 100 shares of common stock. The company issued ten shares of stock for one. The $10,000 investment could be sold yes terday for $69,500. You'll admit that properties going up like that are really too good for Uncle Sam to keep.) On New Year's eve the old liberty Bell In Independence Hall, Phila delphia, will ring 148 times, once for each year in the life of this nation. And the radio will carry the sound of the bell all over the land, and across the water. That would interest ln fngratltude. From the Chicago News. The old lady was taking her morning walk, strolling leisurely across tha fields in which some cows were grac ing. She was not a bit frightened of cows; in fact, she thought them the aweetest creatures tn the world. But on this particular morning there : ap pened to be a bull feeding there as well, and he did not like the old lady's red bonnet. Suddenly she became aware that the bull,'with lowered head, was charging straight at her. Sho Just managed to reach the gate in time. Then she turn ed round with Indignation on every line of her face and exclaimed: "You ungrateful creature! Hero I’ve been a vegetarian aJl njr life and this le what I get for it.” tensely two men that signed the Declaration, Jefferson and Franklin, l both Interested in science. Both had genius, but neither could have imagined the radio, except as a ran dom guess. Even genius cannot think very far ahead of its own period. Scientists by modern methods, prove that the earth’s solid crust is at least sixteen hundred million years old. That adds considerably to the old idea of a world created 6.000 years ago. Feeble human imagination cannot grasp such a period as 1,600,000,000 years. Only 12.000 years ago, we were in the Stone age. But the earth’s great age encourages us to believe that this planet and human beings on it will exist for several hundred millions of years more, at least, as science pre dicts. A great deal can be done in that time. Even 1,000,000 years should show considerable improvement, when you consider what men have accom plished in 12,000 years. It appears that four gentlemen have been representing the Philip pine government in the United States, with an expense account. It also appears that, by a gentleman's agreement, each one of them charges exactly $900 every month for cloth ing. This teaches not only that Fili pinos are hard on their clothes, but also, that they have not mixed with American politicians for nothing, and are now about ready to govern them selves. Trinity University in North Caro lina has changed Its name to Duke University, thereby acquiring many millions, generously given by James B. Duke. The university gets $6,000. 000 at once, for buildings, and ul timately will have as endowment the income from $25,000,000 more. “What's in a name.” Is answered by Mr. Duke effectively. That uni versity by any other name, would not have got $31,000,000. Who can estimate ti e future value of sucli gifts to education? Wbat a blessing Kindness Rewarded. From Answers, London. One day a small boy was vainly try ing to reach the front-door bell of a certain house. He mnde several deter mined efforts, and after a quarter of an hour of unsuccessful attempts he was nearly in tears. At that moment a kind-hearted old gentleman came by. Taking pity on the lad. he was moved to kindness, and, going up to him said: "Let me ring it for you. Tommy." Whereupon ho pulled the bell violent ly, so that it awoke the echoes inside the house. "And now. what do we do?” asked the kind one, with a smile at the hoy. “Run like the dickens,” answered the lad as U suited the action to the word. that men how gl^re vast fortunes to help others, instead of spending tlie money as of old In an effort to buy special uivZne favors for their own unimportant souls. J. P. Van Zandt, of the army air service, having travelled 6,000 miles on various European air lines, re ports that flying Is past the experi mental stage and under conserva tive conditions, as safe as travel on the land. Since the war commercial planet have travelled more than 26,000,004 miles. On a purely business and non-experimental basis, within 26 years any long distance journey by train will be confined to old fashion ed, conservative people. In 50 years, for long distances, trains will be used as little ns stage coaches are used now. For some It Is haro to Imaglna that. Hut many find It hard to imagine anything The Penalty of Genius. From the New York Sun. Physiologists who teach that gen ius Is the result of chemical abnor malities of the endocrine glands of the human body are consoling to those Individuals who have passed through life without achieving great ness. In accordance with the most modern teaching, genius has its pen alties. So oppressive are they that the average man if he knew the price he would have to pay for emin ence In this life would select the comfort and security of the humbler path. In a comparison between the life of Napoleon and that of the average citizen an author, who rests his con clusions on a study of the endocrine glands says the great French general had a pulse so sluggish it rarely moved more rapidly than 50 beats to a minute, while the only reaction to this slowness of circulation was sup plied by occasional epileptic fits to which he was subject. Abdominal pain made it impossible for him to sleep more than a few hours. Such a picture Would reconcile al most anybody to obscurity. Other famous men seem to have suffered almost nearly as much, if the con clusions of the new school of physiologists are to be trusted. Ab normality of his glands filled the later days of Charles Darwin with suffering. He slept little, suffered almost continuously from fatigue and the more active misery of heard trouble, which superinduced chronic Insomnia. In war, statesmanship and letters the great have been compelled to pay for their renown. Other famous men have suffered just as much as the two most eminent examples of what the scientists of this particular school say the glands may cause. The sufferings of Dostoievsky were familiar to the world long befori gland therapy occupied the attention of physicians to the degree It does today. Lord Byron, whose extrava gancies of conduct seem more and more incomprehensible to a soberer generation; Julius Caesar. Moham med and Flaubert are other great geniuses whom the gland therapy does not hesitate to call epileptics. Their renown brought on conse quences which few men would have been willing to undergo in life even If there was the certainty of their fame to follow. COMPENSATION Mabel J. Bourquln. "What, after all your labors, was the prize?” With bleeding hands, and wound ed bosom bare, 1x»ve answered, “This, the crown of thorns I wear;” But, oh, the rapture In his shining eyes! Safe! From the Chicago News. A young clerk reported to his chief that he had lost the key of the safe, and, consequently, could not get at im portant books and documents. "Hut I gave you a duplicate key," said the chief. “You haven’t lost that as well, I suppose?” "No sir. I know where that is.” "Well, then, you can open the safe.” "Hlease, sir, 1 thought I might lose the duplicate key, so I put It In the safe!” Two thermometers weighing a lit tle over three ounces when placed on a metal tape line Used in precise survey ing, may shorten the tape enough to affect the result* What is aTeaspoonful? —it depends on the Baking Powder you use. You must use a neaping gpoonfulof many brands because they don’t contain aa much leavening strength aa 1C All}MET THE WORLD'S GREATEST BAKING POWDER Level spoonfuls are all that are necessary when you use C ALUM ET —It makes more bakings which means a real saving on bake day. 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A Last Accessory “We give a bicycle with each car 'e sell,” remarked the auto salea ian. “How’s that?” asked the prospect ive purchaser. “So you can park yonr car In the iiburbs and ride Into the office."— jife. Let’s Make It Easy Teacher—The trouble Is you boy» don’t know simple arithmetic. Now* If I were to give you six rabbits, then six more, and then multiply by sfct, how many would you have? Answer quickly. Willie—Let’s use pigs. They dent multiply so fast.—Berkshire World _I SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST I Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians 24 years for Colds Pain Toothache Neuritis Headache Neuralgia Lumbago Rheumatism Accept cnly “Bayer” package which contains proven directions. Handy ‘Tayer” boxes of 12 tablets—Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. U <_j trade mark •* Barer Ha—tmztm * UtmomccUcaOdcstae ef Bt-MsUcad* I