Nebraska Newspapers

    THE FRONTIER
I), n. CRONIN, Publisher.
W. C, TEMPLETON,
Editor and Easiness Manager.
Entered at the postoffice at O’Neill,
Nebraska, as second-class matter.
The Good Old Days.
If yon sit down with a group of
men past fifty, it won’t be long until
you hear something about “the good
old days,” But nothing is said about
the hotel room with bowl and pitcher
and slop jar, a dirty piece of soap, a
hairbrush on a chain, a roller towel,
and a sink that stinks.
When you hear some of these old
moss-backs talking about “the good
old days” just remind them of the
time when someone had to keep the
old fly-brush going during meal time
and the white-winged brigade follwed
the horses on the streets with shovels
and push carts. When every home
had a fence around it and the husband
came home at night with his breath
reeking with stale beer, limburger
cheese and onions. *When you read
your book at night beside an ill
smelling coal-oil lamp and had to
take off the chimney and trim the
wick at intervals. When you heated
a kettle of hot water on Saturday
night and took your bath on a rubber
mat on the kitchen floor. When the
picturos on the parlor walls were
•rude crayon portraits of stern men
with long beards and shriveled wo
men In lace caps.
"Good old days” Indeed! When
you never saw an orange except al
Christmas time and never tastod ice
cream except on the Fourth of July,
•r at some grand social affair. When
the county fair was the one big thing)
of the year and the little children
played with empty spools and corn
cobs.
Why, we live more in one glad week
today than we did then in a whole
year. We have oranges for breakfast
almost the entire year round. We
have hot running water upRtairs and
down, and we bathe in clean porce
lain tuba and tiled showers. We
throw away beautiful calendars with
colored pictures that people would
have been proud to hang in the par
lors in “those good old days.” We
drive twenty miles of an evening ovei |
paved roads, in soft cushioned cars
to see a moving picture that takes us
around the world and come back to a
home that is warmed by furnace heat
We step to a little instrument upon
a stand in the hall and talk to our
distant friends instantly. We tune in
•n the radio and listen to a band play
ing hundreds of miles away. We go
out on the front step an pick up the
Ci'cning paper and read a full account
of an earthquake disaster in Japan
that happened that Barae day. We
read of a big ship In mid-ocean that
Is in distress and learn that other
vessels are steaming to her aid. We
press a button and the house !s flooded
with light, we turn a little dial on the
wall and know that though the ther
mometer falls below aero, the home
will have a temperature of seventy
when we awake in the morning. Wo
drop our soiled linen Into a clothes
ehute in the wall and it goes to the
laundry in the cellar, where an elec
tric washing machine awaits it. Frigid
air in the ice chest keeps the food
fresh and the housewife touches a
match to the burner under tho oven
on the kitchen range, adjusts a heat
rogulator, puts in the meat for sup
. per, and goes away to spend the af
ternoon while the eveneing meal is
cooking, Our window^ are screened
against flies and bugs in the summer
and weather stripped against snow
and wind in the wnter. We go far
ther, stay longer and get back quick
er than we ever did before.
Don’t let the old fellows deceive
you, my son, about “the good old
days.”
This picture may be slightly over
drawn, but a possibility with all of
u« in these dayB of swift living. Who
would be willing to go back to the
se-callod “good old days.” Not I.
Ain't it The Truth?
There are showier towns than our
little town, there are towns that are
Mgger than this. And the people who
live In the quieter towns don’t miss
what excitement we have. There are
things you see in the wealthier towns
that you don’t see in a town that’s
small; and yet up and down, there
id no town like our little town after
4R.
In the glittering streets of the glu
tting town, with its palace and pave
wfeat and thrall, in the midst of the
throng you will frequently long for
jdmr own little town after all. If you
lire and you work in your own little
tflfwn, in spite of the fact that it’s
af&all, you’ll find in the end that our
X little own is the best little town
r all.
MObraska lloasts 4,000 Lady Farmer*.
Nebraska boasts 4,000 lady farmers
according to data analyzed by the
Blue Valley Creamery Institute. Of
this number over 2500 operate farms,
2,000 their own, 6 as managers and
not quite 500 as tenants, the data
disclosed.
Dairying, poultry and hog raising
are some of the branches of agricul
ture in which the women farmers of
tlie state specialize, the analysis re
vealed The land under cultivation
by the feminine agriculturists is ciose
to 675,000 acres, of which 360,000
acres are improved. Th* value of
these farms is 60 million dollars,
figures further revealed that wo-.
r cultivate 1.9 per cent of all the
IP
arms In the state and 1.6 per cent
f the total acreage, the value hr>!-'
.6 per cent of the whole. The aver
ge value of the land and building:
n farms operated by women wa
wnd to be in excess of $26,000.
Commenting on the large percent
ge of women who go in for dairying
nd poultry raising, the Institute seer
v peculiar adaptation of these occu
mtions to the feminine nature. From
arly times, it says, the average fa r,
.voman has had to care for the milk
and act as dairymaid, too. And milk
ng cows and selling butterfat with
ta requirements of olose attention to
details seems to be a type of work
that woman naturally take to. The
same appears to hold true for poul
try raising. For pin money for the
thousand and one items needed in the
home, the sale of eggs and poultry
and cream has ever been known as
a sure means. Many a woman in need
of more money has almost instiictive
ly turned to milking cows and keep
ing bens.
January 28, 1025.
Dr. L. A. Carter,
Medical Adviser,
City Board of Health,
O’Neill, Nebraska.
I
Dear Doctor:
I have been thinking over your re
cent inquiries in regard to my inter
pretation of the State Quarantine Reg
ulations. There has always been con
siderable confusion In regard to health
regulations here. To the average citi
zen, our handling of health matters
must be amusing. We arc very arbi
trary.
I realize that you have been rather
unsupported in the past but I feel that
now your support may be belter. The
inrlety expressed by the Chairman of
tiie Board of Health at two recent
f meetings of the City Council would
ndicate that wo are going to expect
nwclf more law enforcement. It is
rue this anxiety about the apparent
llsrespoct of law-abiding citizens for
he enforcement of a certain Federal
iw, but if we are anxious about the
nforcement of Federal law, how
inch more keen should we bo for
egulations regarding our health?
There has been diptheria in our
.idst for several months. Word
omes to me that this is a "peculiai
ore throat going around.” Not so pe
uliar to a Doctor when he sees it
allowed by paralysis. I also hear
iiat some of these cases do not prove
0 be diptheria when cultures are sent
1 the State laboratory at Lincoln
re we to deny what we see with ou;
ves, because the laboratory man ii
nuoln does not find the diptheirr
orm? I havo taken care of at lean:
' :e case here, who was satisfied he
ad diptheria without sending cultur
i, and he demanded, at once a large
*e of antitoxin. Are we to quibble
x>ut what the report is from Lincolr
t the risk of spreading the disease
? losing the patient’s life?
Now, in regard to quarantine of
ptherla contacts and patients, the
iw is very/distinct. It reads: "Until
vo cultures from the*nose and two
om the throat, twenty-four hours
part and at least eight hours after
ha use of an antiseptic, prove nega
Ive”. Where do we get this right that
Hows us to give a dose of antitoxin
ad turn the rest of the household
ee? It is a good sample of our
ieal4h regulations.
i very near caused the death of a
>ung woman here by a small dose
{ antitoxin, which was given because
lie had been unnecessarily exposed to
ptherla. A mail carrier was allowed
o leave his home where his wife and
aild had diptheria. He was allowed
. go to the post office and carry mail.
0 contracted the disease, of course,
nd exposed the entire office force,
to had not even been vaccinated.
\\pa if he had the law would not ul
w him to leave his house.
Do we think we are fooling the peo
le we are dealing with, when we
realt these regulations? We know
ve are not.
Now, further, what is the use of
ailing a pox-disease, chicken pox.
/hen we know smallpox is all about
is. What is the use of calling scarlet
. ver, scarlatina, when we know it is
jrohably the former. Still another
uestkm tlio City Marshall Is a very
;ood officer, I will .admit. None bet
er, but ho is not able to diagnose
.isoase. I think he will tell you so.
.'he Doctor in charge should know
, vhat his patient is suffering with.
1 realize, as I said before, that you
tare not been consulted as you should
n your office as the City Health Ad
isor, but I feel now there is going
o be more strict and more common
onse enforcement of health regula
tions.
I will try to co-operate with you in
?very way.
Sincerely,
W. F. FINLEY, M. D.
WFF:fR
BONUS REGULATIONS FOR
DEPENDENTS OF DECEASED
WORLD WAR VETERANS
New bonus regulations have been
gotten out by the Veterans’ Bureau ac
cording to word received to-day from
/ashington. These regulations are
o help the dependenf parents, widows
\nd children of deceased World War
veterans in filing their applications
for the bonus.
The first and most important thing
according to the regulations, is to
send in a certified copy of the veter
an’s death record unless the veteran
a^ed in the service. The affidavits to
accompany the death record vary ac
cording to whether the claimant is the
wife, mother, or child.
The mother and father of a deeeas
ed veteran must send in a sworn
statement of dependency accompanied
by the affidavits of two disinterested
persons who personally knew the
claimant at the time of the veteran’s
death and who swear to the truth of
the claimant’s statement. Evidence of
whole or entire dependency is not re
quired. The establishment of the fact
that a mother or father of a deceased
veteran did not have sufficient means,
from all sources, for a reasonable live
lihood without help from the veteran
at the time of his death and that the
veteran did contribute to the support
of his parents, will be considered suf
ficient dependency to entitle the moth
er or father to the bonus.
The term "mother" and "father" in
cludes stepmothers, stepfathers, moth
ers and fathers through adoption, and
persons who, for a period of not less
than one year, have stood in the place
of a mother or father to the veteran at
any time prior to the beginning of his
service. The claim of a stepmother
or stepfather should also be supported
by evidence of marriage to the natural
parent of the veteran.
The claim of a mother or father
through adoption should be supported
by a certified copy of the court record
of such adoption. The claim by a
person who claims to have stood in
the place of a mother or father should
be supported by an affidavit giving the
details of the relationship. It must
also be accompanied by affidavits giv
ing the details of the relationship. It
must also be accompanied by affidav
its of two competent witnesses to
whom claimant was personally konwn
at the time of veteran’s death. These
affidavits must swear to the truth of'
the claimant’s statement.
It is taken for granted that the wid
*w or widower of a deceased veteran
/as dependent and they are entitled
o the bonus If still unmarried. How
ever, proof of the marriage to the vet
)ran must be sent in as well as proof
hat they were living together as man
ind wife at the time of the death of
he veteran. If they were not living
ogether then proof of dependency
oust be sent in.
All marriages shall be proved as
alid according to the law of the place
-vhere the marraige was performed,
.'he fact of living together as man and
vife can be established by a state
aent to that effect showing the places
nd approximate time of such resi
lence. A statement from two compe
ent persons swearing to the truth of
he claimant’s statement is also re
.uiyed.
The child of a deceased parent does
lot have to submit proof of depend
ncy when applying for the bonus, but
.nisi submit proof of ago by one of
ae following methods:
a—Certified copy of public record
>f birth.
b—Certified copy of church record
f baptism.
e—When unable to obtain either of
hese, the affidavit of the physician
nesent at the birth, or the ^affidavit
f the legal guardian or of Javo disin '
erested parties stating the reasons
be records cannot be obtained and
giving the age of the child as near
is possible.
The term "child” includes:
a—:A legitimate child.
I. A child legally adopted,
c—A stepchild, if a member of the
/eteran’s' household at the time of
the death of the veteran.
d—-An illegitimate child, but as to
‘he father only, if acknowledged in
■writing signed by him or if decreed by
the court as to the putative father
>r ordered by law to contribute to the
:hild's support.
Purebred Pig Rivals Mythical Goose.
The goose that is alleged to have
laid a golden egg every day has a
close rival in pesent-day purebred
livestock, judging from a report from
a pig-club boy in South Carolina.
“Five years ago last March,” he
states in a letter to the United States
Department of Agriculture, “I joined
a pig club That our county agent or
ganized in this county. I had a pure
bred pig eight weeks old. Since that
timo she has farrowed about 100 pigs.
She paid for my clothes three years
in high school and gave me spending
^noney also. I am now in my second
year in college and she is still doing
the same.”
Sea Encroaches on Town
A disappearing town Is worrying
♦he authorities in Scotland. Ac an
inquiry at Edinburgh into the pro
posed extension ef the boundaries of
Bnckliaven, a Fifeshire const *ewu. it
who atated that in 1000 tne town area
was enlarged to 657 aenw. Stow
tnen, bewe-er, 85 acres bad dump
peared hr the eueroachtnen* ef the
sen and another 119 acres went now
below high-water level.
History in Horns
The horns of the first cows used by
Dr. Edward Jenner, the discoverer of
vaccination, have come to light. The
shield on which they are mounted
bears the Inscription: "The horns of
the cow from which the matter was
first taken for vaccination. Stepn.
Jenner.” Stephen Jenner was the
grandnephew of Dr. Edward Jenner.—
London Times.
Full Meal in Mushroom
A giant mushroom was tound near
Boston, and to remove It from the
toot of an old oak tree It was neces
sary to nsed a pickle nnd a hig carv
ing knife. The mushroom weighed 48
pottods and measured 3? by 41 incites.
It looked like a mass of coral or sea
shells. _— 1
— . .
Applying Drastic
Methods
By EDGAR T. MONFORT
•§>— , . .. .
(Copyright.)
SHE had such a gay little way with
her, always a smile or a laugh, a
bit of sunshine or a Joke. So happy,
untouched by life’s troubles, Philip
Wninright thought ns he watched her
flitting around his room.
“You’ll soon be up,” she smiled as
she stopped In her work of arranging
the things on his dresser. “I heard
Doctor Mnxton say he might let you
sit up a few minutes tomorrow If you
have a good night and don’t run a tem
perature this afternoon.”
“That will be great. Miss Taylor.
PH be glad to get my clothes on again,
but even that has Its drawbacks.”
Elizabeth Taylor laughed. “Draw
backs! You’re a funny patient. Most
of them have fits of Joy at the very
Idea of getting dressed again, and
you’ve had such an extra long siege,
too.”
“I know, but we can’t always judge
from appearances. There are worse
things than being sick In a hospital
with a dear little nurse to take care
of you.”
Miss Taylor looked at him In
amazement. “Yon mean you’d rather
be sick than well?” sh'e asked, her
^es wide with astonishment.
“No-o—not exactly that That would
be rather an exaggerated statement of
my state of mind; but I’m bordering
on that, and If you look nt me once
more with that absurd little eap on
your head and your big blue eyes
drilling through me, why I’ll never
leave the place as long as I live. But
I do wish you’d wait until I get fixed
up before you look at me so hard.
Really, I’m not half bad when Pm
dressed and shaved."
“You’re getting flirty now." Her
voice was reproachful and she turned
back to her work.
“No, really I’m not. Please tnrn
around again. Hang it, a fellow’^ at
such a disadvantage when he’s tied
by the leg in bed."
Miss Taylor obeyed.
“Yet not a minute ago yon weren't
sure you wanted to get well so fast.”
“Thnt’s true, too. I’m not. Oh, If
you only understood." There was real
distress in his. tones, and Elizabeth
stopped her teasing.
"Well, I’m sorry. I wish I could do
something to help you.”
“No one can, I’m afraid.”
A silence fell between them.
“Want to tell me?" she invited at
last.
“Shame to bore gou with my wor
ries, but it would do me good to talk
it over. It’s a situation that’s come
up at the office. Whei^ I got my pro
motion there were seven other men
who had their eyes on my Jdfc. Nat
urally they are disappointed and dis
gruntled, and now they are under me
they are trying to make it Just as un
pleusant as possible."
“Sillies,” said the gir). “They must
have known that all of them couldn’t
have had it, anyway."
“Yes, but each one thinks he was
the man fer the job, and that gives me
seven enemies, although in truth I 1
should have only one at most."
“How do they worry you?"
“Oh, they almost mutiny at times, j
and are surly and unwilling to carry
out my orders."
“I’m going to the mountains for a
slit weeks rest after I leave here, and
then if they try any foolishness I’ve a
mind to test your prescription. I’ve
always been opposed to such methods,
but sometimes It seems the only way.”
Walnwright, on the theory that ab
sence makes the heart grow fonder,
had secretly hoped that he would be
welcomed back after his long Illness,
mid that the old jealousies and an
tagonisms would be forgotten. But
he was wrong, they were more hostile
than ever, and Foster, who had substi
tuted for him whHe he was away, was
the most disgruntled of all.
“All right, Foster, he said, “I guess
I’B take hold now.”
Foster rose from Wainwrlght’s desk.
“I guess you’ll have a hot-—"
Wainwrlght’s fist landed square ©n
the big man’s chin, causing him to sit
down cuddenly in the middle of the
floor, a ridiculous locking object with
a bloody Up.
"Anybody els* want some of the
same medicine?” Wain right invited,
but Fester’s friends made n* effort to
cent* te his rescue. They burned buck
to their desks and want »n aa If noth
ing had happened.
That was the end ef the mutiny.
Watarlght wee treated wtth respect
and hfc» word was law in his depart
ment. and when he Jeyfally told Mias
Taylor about It that evening She was
radiant with Joy.
'You’re an awfully atever little gtad.*’
he told her warmly, “hut new I’m up
against another preUam."
“What ht it?” she asked. "Maybe 1
can help solve It, tee."
“i want te knew whether you’d rath
er be kidnaped, or dragged te my wig
wam by the hair, er exactly what Is
your preferred method?”
A fltilck flush spread ever her face,
bat she was soon herself again, and a
Hash of mischief came Into her eyes
us she answered:
“You might try a little gentle coax
ing first, followed by just a dash of
cave-man stuff."
He followed her advice to the letter,
and won.
Familiar Type of Car
“Selling a fnmlly heirloom?"
“Heirloom nothing 1 This car's only
been driven 5,000 miles.”
"How fur has It been towed?"
All Art Combination of
Hands, Brain, and Heart
In one of Ruskin’s essays he talki
about art, and points out the differ
ence between manufacture, craft and
art. How would you define them!
What does “manufacture” mean? You
know from your music lessens as well
as from your Latin lessons, that
“manus” means liund, and “facto”
means do, or make. Therefore, manu
facture Is to make with the hands,
says a writer in the London Times.
Nowadays, however, machines have
been invented to help the hands, and
thus more can be made In a given
time. The fine work of the brain Is
not required but is left to others who
show the workers what to d<r.
Craft, he tells us. Is anything that
Is done with the hands and'the brain;
so more mental control is required,
and skill results. Thus each worker
depends upon his own brain and In
vents his own methods of producing
results, and executes his own Ideas.
Art, he asserts. Is that which Is
produced by the - hands, brain and
heart. Thus, painting, sculpture and
music, are on a higher plane because
they require the co-operation of the
head and heart (soul or spirit, some
may prefer to call it). Nothing can
be called real art which is produced
only by the hand and head; although
It may be very clever, precise or skill
ful. It lacks the inner appeal—the
appeal of the heart.
_ j
Many Ingenious Ways
of Ascertaining Time,
In the Sixteenth century, in polished
Parisian society, there came into
vogue the etiquette ef the watch. One
of the rules was that it should not be
consulted la the salon, such an act
beiag takes as an indication that the
owner was tired of his company.
An ingenious watchmaker therefore
brought out a watch with raised fig
ures and a fairly solid hand. When
the owner wished to know the time
he slipped a surreptitious finger into
his pocket, passed it along the pointer
and read the hour as the blind man
reads Braille.
The watch with the luminous dial,
from which the time may be told in
the dark, had a number of strange
prototypes. One of the most curious
was the timekeeper invented by a
celebrated member of the French
academy, if. de Villayer. He ^ad
constructed a dock which, face up
wards, was attached to the head of
his bed. In the place of the figures
marking the hours, there were small
cups vfhieh sunk into the dial, and
were filled with 12 kinds ef spices.
In the night M. de Villayer would
moisten a finger, pass It along the
pointer, dip it Into the cup to which
Vi pointed and taste the spice. The
cinnamon might stand for three
o’elock, nutmeg for four o’clock and
so on.—Kansas City Times.
NEBRASKA.
Nebraska is a state of youth, when
land and climate and appearances are
young and where newness and color
and action prevail. It is noticeably
different in this respect than its
neighbors to the east, especially those
a little further east than Iowa, Illinois
for example where homesteads were
* aken nearly a hundred years ago and
where the years in passing have left
marks that cannot be seen as yet by
the casual traveler through Nebraska.
The villages, the small towns, the
hriving little cities, those in the Mis
sissippi valey states are like, yet un
like those in Nebraska. There one
sees old ’ mills with the crumbling
water wheels, old houses which lack
saint and which generations have seen
unchanged from one decade to the
next. The old log fences, the quaint
old time towns with shady lanes and
leepy, funning little stores, all these
hings are not fofind in Nebraska, the
tate of youth and of color and of
modernity.
There are attractions of course in
’he old settlements, touches of history !
and reminders of other days that one
enjoys but after all it leaves the feel
ing of creeping years, of advancing
age, of inevitable death. We like Ne
braska best and all the great stretch
of country to the west of it, which is
too new to be old and to young to be
drab. Life and youth and love are the
three greatest gifts to mankind. No
where can one enjoy them more than
here.
LEGISLATORS ARE YOUTHFUL.
Old men for counsel, young men for
war, the old saying goes. But nowa -
days the young men not only fight
their country’s battles but bid fair to
displace their elders in the field of
civic affairs.
The present Nebraska legislature
has a larger proportion of youth in it
than any one which has gone before.
No fewer than twelve house members
are under thirty years of age. Two of
the senators likewise still linger in
their 20’s.
Douglas county contributes a very
large proportion of the legislative
“kids.” Among its house delegation
of thirteen, there are seven men who
have not yet attained their 30th birth
days.
Representative H. P. Caldwell of
Omaha is the youngest man in the
wholef legislature. He was born in
August, 1901, and is therefore twenty
three years of age. Representative
Robert E. Hines, another Omaha man,
is his closest competitor, having been
born in July of the same year.
Here are the other Douglas
county men who belong to the extreme
junior division in the house:
R. F. Wood, twenty-five years old;
Walter R. Johnson, twenty-seven; Fay
H. Pollock, twenty-eight, and V. Tesar,
twenty-eight; Walter Korisko, twenty
nine.
Sarpy county’s lady legislator, Mrs.
St,
— - .— „ J
Mable A. Gillespie, is also catalogued
with those who have not yet reached
the age of thirty.
Henry F. Schepman of Johnson
county, the tall representative from
Lancaster, was twenty-four years old
on November 4, last, the day he was
elected to help make laws. Berne R.
Coulter of Morrill is twenty-nine.
The two state senators who still
have some distance to go before they
get to tthe thirtieth milestone ef life
are Emil F. Luckey of Platt county,
aged twenty-seven and L. H. Laugh
lin of Gage, twenty-eight.
A number of the young members
have already come to the front and
others give promise of making their
mark during the session. Senator
Laughlin is chairman of the senate
committee on constitutional amend
ment and federal relations, while Sen
ator Luckey heads the drainage com
mittee.
Representative Wood is chairman
f the house committee on medical soc
ieties, while Mr. Munn heads insur
ance and Mr. Coulter is head of the
labor committee.
The
BULL’S EYE
Editor and QeneraiManaqer
WILL ROGERS 7
f Will Rogers. Ziegfeld
Follies and screen star,
and leading American
humorist, announces a
series of‘Bull’ Durham
advertisements. They
are worth watching for.
If you want
the real truth about why I
- signed up to write a lot of
Eieces for these people, it’s
ecause I love animals.
Have you ever studied that
picture of the ‘Bull’ care
fully? . . . have you ever
seen such a kind-looking
animal? I thought this:—
certainly no one who cares
as much about dumb crea
tures as they do would put
out anything but the best
smoking tobacco possible—
so I said all right, I’ll write
your stuff. Honestly, the
money part of it didn’t have
much to do with it. That
is, not very much.
Seriously, though, out
where I come from, unless
a male member of the
population has got that
‘Bull’ Durham tag hanging
from the shirt pocket, he’s
liable to be arrested for in
decent exposure. And, you
believe me, you can’t sell
those western hard-boiled
eggs much and keep on sell
ing them unless it’s got class.
P. S. I’m going to write some more pieces
that wili appear in this paper. Keep look
ing for them.
MORE OF EVERYTHING
for a lot less money.
That’s the net of this
‘Buil’ Durham propo
sition. More flavor—
more enjoyment—and
a lot more money left in
the bankroll at the end
of a week’s smoking.
TWO BAGS for 15 cents
100 cigarettes for 15 cents
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‘Bull
Durham
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