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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 6, 1925)
SICK 3 YEARS i WITHOUT RELIEF Finally Found Health by Tak ing Lydia E. Pinkham*s Vegetable Compound Columbia, S. C.—"Year medicine hat : done me so much good that I feel like 1 { owe my life to it. For three years I was mick and was treated by ; physicians, but they didn’t seem to help me any. Then I took Lydia EL Pinkham'a Vegetable Com pound and got strong enough to do my housework, where before I was hardly able to be up. I hare also taken the Vega Tame compound during the Change of Life and it has left me in good health. 1 recommend it as the best medicine for women in the Change of Life and yon can use these facts as a testimonial.*'— Mrs. S. A. Holley, R. F. D. No. 4, Columbia, South Carolina. Why suffer for years with backache, nervousness, painful times and other ail ments common to women from early life to middle age, when Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound will bring relief? Take it when annoying symp toms first appear and avoid years of suffering. In a recent country wide canvass of purchasers of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege table Compound over 200,000 replies were received, and 98 out of every 100 "reported they were benefited by its use. Looks Like Joke on Bernard Shaw ' Iteniard Shaw is among the celebri 1 lies of today wlm are “hopeless” j Torn the autograph hunter's point of j "view, who know Hint it Is useless to ; tiling out their little hooks and ask for •Ills signature. Here, however, is the I ftory of how Lady Nwnthllng's ehil J dreu scored oil’ him when they were’ young. . j Keen autograph hunters, the young Montagus realized that to write to (1 . 1;- N. in the ordinary way was hope I ’ess. So they composed a letter, In j " hlrli they stated that they wished to ' ♦■till their new guinea pig “Hemard Shaw,” hut they did not tike to do so' wit limit his permission, for fear he might object, ity the next post came n postcard hearing the words: “I object most strongly," and the signa ture of ticorgc I’.ernard Shaw. 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No mug, no slimy soap, no germs, no waste, no Irri tation even when shaved twice daily. | One soap for all uses—shaving, bath ing and shampooing.—Advertisement. * -— ? Mad at Somebody “So Madam ltuff sings with feel ing 1" “Oh, yes! Hard feelings, 1 should say.” The famous Drury I.ane theater in Istndon was originally a cockpit, and was converted into a theater In tho time of James I. Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION 16 Bell-ans Hot water Sure Relief 1 ELL-ANS I 25*AND 75i PACKAGES EVERYWHERE | 15/>e ITtOJV HOUSE NOVELIZED BY EDWIN C. HILL FROM WILLIAM FOX’S GREAT PICTURE ROMANCE OF THE EAST AND THE WEST BY CHARLES KENYON AND JOHN RUSSELL The next morning at break fast, they roiled into North Platte, the strangest, .at fascinating town that Miriam had ever seen. In leas tiian two weeks, as if raised by the magic power of Solomon’s drjinnus, a city of more than 3,000 had sprung from the prairie sod, to play its brief and violent part i. the swift-chang ing drama of the building race across the eontin *nt. It was a city ol canvas t.nts and flimsy, wooden houses, with a fringe of ;hacks and sod dugouts. One long street divided it, every oth er house a saloou. Surging in the main ;lreet, was a motley crowd,— railroad workmen, Mex icans, Indians, black-coated gam blers, swearing mule-whackers, soldiers, merchants miners pion eers, mixed with the shiftv scum af all creation. There were many woman in the throng, some young and pretty, some faded and liardfaced, all drifting with the railroad as it spurned a dy ing town and leaped ahead to raise a living one. llviry few weeks, a* .lie road raced for awaid, the town was packed up P«n a Ireight train and moved bodiy westward to the new head quarters Tin* Irani that tore this tan last it; jumble of rowdies and adventurers, the toj's of th.*ir trades their eat sb cj and drinkables, ami the very roofs over their heads, had a nanu of its own, u name it had earned in a dozen uproarious j u noys. “Tfell on Wheels.” Marsh delayed only re ' Union P. eific headquarters, one of (he more pretentious shacks, and to meet his engineering ami construction staff. Leaving Je.-. son there, he had an engine coupled to his car and went, for ward toward (he end of track, half a dozen miles to the we it There Miriam had her f.rsf. phmjise of the driving labor < f traek laying. First to catch h *. Jttcnr.on were the soldieis, half • company of regular infantry men, guarding the workmen Their .Springfield* were stacke 1 in little pyramids a ong the graded way ahead of the one lin ing rails. Sentinels constantly patrolled the right of way, a < rt. for tlie first warning of ra'den In the distance she saw nounle 1 tarn. Her father told her they were friendly Pawnees, scouts for the army, bitter foes of the hostile Sioux and Cheyennes, and used by the government to protect the railroad forces. “There’s a big btm'eh of them,” kc said, “all under Major North of the army. They are far ahead, or on the flanks, as the road advances, but you don’t see them ordinarly as they range a long way off, scouting for hostiles. You’ll see their smoke signals some day when they have news to report.” For half mile alon* the grade gangs were working at high speed. Miriam’s first, impres sion was one of disorder and mad confusion, men running up and down the line, lifting bur dens and dropping them, and stung to greater exeration by the rasping <• rs of the brass lung ed gaug bosses- Then she caught the rhythm of the swift, smooth system of track laying. It thrilled her like the heating of drums. She saw the trackmen two by two, carrying ties, ami dropping them quiekly but ac curately-spaced upon the smooth bare grade. A light ear drawn by a single, galloping home clattered down the track bringing two rails. Before it could stop, two men seized the end of a rail, heaved it up ami t'.-ited forward, the rest of the gang taking hold in pairs- until the rail was clear of the ear- The bearers went forward ut a run, anti at the bellow of the gang boss, dropped the rail upon the ties. On the other side of the car, with the second rail, the satm* game was played. Miriam timed the job ami found it took less than 30 seconds to swing a heavy rail from the ear and run it forward to its exact place upon the cross-ties. Thirty sec , onds to a rail, four rails to a min ute. Breathless work, hut the rnon wore driven by demon i fir red by tile s| irit of the race. 'J he moment the ear was empty, it was tipped over the side of the track to clear the way for the next load, then it was tipped hack and sent flying to the rear. At the heels of the first gang trod the gaugers, the spikers and tlie bolt ers. Sparks flew as they locked rails to ties. First tne gaugers made the true adjust ment, then the spikers and bolt ers went at it with swinging sledges in a grand anvil chorus that sent eelio< clanging over the prairie. They worked in tripple time, three strokes to a spike, 4C0 rail; to a mile. Miriam did a little mental arith metic mid the sum startled her Those sledges were to be swung forty million times before East and West were linked they re working well,” Marsh told her. “They have eavight the spiiit. They know it's a race. If we can keep their, well fed and if the Indians hold off, we'll burn up the prairie. I, have told Dodge that 1 will give him three or f< ur miles a day maybe live, when the best weath er comes.” A isitor.s came to the ear that evening alter supper, among them General Jack Casement, the principal contractor, a little man all fire and steel, not much to look at, but a terror along the line. His blue eyes were as keen as the point of a Howie knife and his voice snapped like a whip Miriam liked the red-boarded g ne.-al and could understand how he had won liis war record and the fear of the bullies. Hut her eyes went mostly to a tall young man who * stood straight as an Indian at her lather s side. She thought him very handsome and gallant. He reminded her of one of the dash ing 1* renehmen ot old romantic days, wnh his glossy black hair which fell to his shoulders, his mustache and imperial, ils black as his hair, and his brilliant eagle eyes. Her father iutro dt e.‘d ii is romant i • figure ‘‘Mi-iam,” he said? “tins is lull ( > ly ot North Platte, one of 1,10 scouts in the West. Air. Cody is going to hunt buf falo for the road. We have made a contract that he has en gaged to feed our men.” Cody always quick to admire a pretty woman, bowed with giace!ill ease. Miriam was charmed with his manner. She sensed that she attracted him and it, pleased her. Jcsson saw it and could not prevent annov imee lowing in his face. But Miriam was used to her fiance’ irritability over the attentions paid to her by other men, and lightly ignored it. Cody kept her entralHl for half an hour tell ng her tales of the West- of Indians, of buffalo hunting and th-‘ pony expre s. lie had once covered more than-three hundred miles ni twenty-four hours as a pony express rider through the Indian country, wearing out. twenty horses, utterly without rest He thought it was the re eord. He explained how he hunted buffalo, telling her of tlie movements of the great herds ' hat shook the plains with their luiuberng gallop. It s tear of losing the buf lalo that has set the Indians against us more than anything else, he said. “They cun see that the railroad will open the the country to white men, and that towns and settlements will follow. To the Indians the buf *a!o is 1 ite itself, Miss Marsh. I have fought Indians ever since I 'ias a boy. I have red enemies am. red triends, so I can under stand their side and sort of sympathize with them. But they are up against something too strong tor their medicine °'ily rt lew are intelligent enough to see that resistance is hopeless. So [ suppose they will keep fighting until they’re wiped out or all corralled into reservations.” “It does seem a tragedy,” said Miriam. “It’s progress,” said the scout. General Jack was describing to Marsh his troubles with the rowdies aud bad men who fol lowed the road like birds of prey. 1 “They’re the off-scouring of creation,” snapped the peppery little man. “.'iut I’ll tame ’em! We’ve got a nice little grave yard going already in North Platte. Last week Dodge sent me orders to fumigate the town Ilc’d heard stories, plenty of ’em—killings, men robbed right; and left. One night my boys rounded up the blacklegs and thinned ’em out considerable. Hill Hiekoek got a little revolver practice.” Miriam had learned already that the raw West was very different from the settled and civilized East, but she wondered why the railroad endured the wanton towns that mushroomed and decayed along its path. She was to grasp the truth that fierce toil provokes fierce reac tions. Men who worked as hard as the railroad builders demand ed hard play. They craved the excitement which boiled in these mad towns—the whiskey, danc ing, gambling; the caresses of womanhood’s outcasts. Their appetites could not be satisfied with thin gruel. They could not have been driven to such super human labor by day—they would have turned their back* upon the road—if denied equal ly violent amusement by night. Wise heads, such as Casement’s, knew this, b*t endeavored to curb the killer’s discourage the bandits and generally to hold in leash the worst elements of the headquarters towns. \\ eek after week tlie great road lunged forward, a shining rapier thrusting at a sullen frontier, Miriam’s interest in her new life heightened steadily, as she caught its glowing spirit, bdie joyed in the great game, fired by the amlition that lashed the builders, the ambition to override or break through every' obstacle of nature and savaee man; to win tlie splendid race In her father’s private ear, in in.1c!y to be preferred to the rough shack which called itself the (braid I nion hotel, she had little contact with the life of the town, but out along the r. ad they knew b'*r. She accompan ied Marsh in bis frequent inspec tion journeys to the end of track and got to know the faces and names of the brawny giants who were tamping roadbed or swing ing sledge. Irish, Italians, Ger mans and Scandinavians, she thought of them all as friends, ami lor all she had a bright smile or a pleasant word. 1 lie musKeteers invariably re ceived her in state when the superintendent’s special ap peared at the cik! of the track Good men they were, Sergeant Slattery had been made boss of Mi ve’o’s w' i e Corpo al Cany laid down the law to as hard a crew us ever slammed home a spike. Old Shultz, like a faithful dog at heel, was a kind of assist ant boss to Casey, and spent most of his time keeping Pat out of fights provoked by a wagging tongue and a gunpowder temper Slattery and Casey could scarce ly pass the time of day without quarreling, for Pat took delight in irritating the big sergeant. For an Irishman, Slattery had a very slow sense of humor, taking life seriously, even sternly. Yet at bottom he ai Casey were de voted to each other. Four years of eomradeshi in the army had cemented their friendship. They quarreled, even to blows, but each would hav given life for the other. -wimun witnessed a typical Slatterv-Cascy engagement, over nothing, as usual, except Pat’s hectoring tongue. The Sergeant had been bragging a little about his marksmanship in the army. Pat listened with an eye cocked impudently, then: “Be me sow!, will ye listen to him, when 'tis well known in Oireland that there niver was a Slattery born who could hit a landlord at tin paces!’' Shultz and Dinny pried them apart. Miriam learned not to take these Celtic explosions ser iously- Usually, when she was a guest of the track-layers, Pat en tertained her with a chorus of the road, the song he had intro duced to speed up his gang. Its rhythm went with the thud-thud thud of the tamping irons pa k ing earth between the ties, and w th t e sw ng and clang of the si dg s dr ving home the spikes. Casey always started the song with the grand air of an orches tra conductor, p c\ing up his in struments one by one and swing ing them into resounding har mony: “Drill, my paddies, drill! Drill, ye tarriers, drill! Oli, it’s work all day, No sugar in yer tay— When ye work tor the U. Pay Ra-ailway!” So Casey sang it, with the gang coming in strong on the. last two lines, and with the other gangs taking it up along the track and shouting it to the skies. It became the anthem of the road, the Marseillaise of their terrific toil. Of hostile Indians Mir'am had as yet seen none, but the reports were coming back constant y of raids made against the grading gangs work'ng far a’ end and against the brave little squads of engineers who we thrusting in to the western wilderness, run ning their lines and searching for tlie straightest and easiest way. I khe had seen men brought in from the front, badly wounded. One of them had been scalped, but had survived the frightful in jury, and was to live the ordinary course of a man’s life. When ha was able to be about, he wanted to show Miriam his own scalp which he had recov -ed when the Sioux warrior dropped it from his belt, lie kept the shriveled thing in water, in a gas jar to k ep it moist, and, the poor fellow was a long time realizing that he couldn’t get it to stay in place upon his head and grow again. Miriam shud dered every time she saw this man. Surveyors and even graders had suffered, but so far there had been no Indian attack against the track-laying gangs. But they were forging into peril ous country. Red Cloud’s Sioux and Porcupine’s Chey cnnes were painted red, sworn to stop the hated Iron Horse and drive the white men from their lands. Marsh foresaw troubU in the future. He kept in close touch with Port Kearney at his back and, by courier, with Fort Russell in the Black Hills. Major North reported that his Pawnees were uneasy, and that their keen eyes had read smoke signals far to the Most which made them think that big war parties were concentrating. The military guard was increased- Every railroad workman toiled with a rifle at his feet. Most of them carried army revolvers in their belts, and Bowie knives as well. The air vibrated with excite ment. Tto be continued} Thunderstorms Total 1,800 A Mi lute Daily London.—There are, on the av erage, 1,800 thunderstorms in pro gress in the world at any moment, giving 360,000 lightning flashes an hour, or 100 a second. These are the surprising fig ures contained In a report issued by the air ministry meteorological office. The earth experiences 16,000,000 thunderstorms annually, or 44,000 daily, it ha3 been computed. Arctic regions are peculiarly free from thunderstorms, while Java Is prob ably the most thundery region lM the world. Dog Plays With Ghosts. From the New York Herald Tribune. This Is not a story for persons who Laugh at ghosts. Neither is it a story for those who scoff at the un dying loyalty of a dog after Its mas ter’s death. Falrmount cemetery, In Newark, Is the largest burial ground in that city and John W. Good is its caretaker. Good has been employed in toe ceme tery for years and has no fear of a gleaming tombstone In tho frosty light of a cold moon. Within the last month, however. Good and other persons whose homes overlook the broad expanse of mausoleums and burial stones have come to the point where they arc not so sure about this ghost business. And all because ol a little, scrubby, yellow dog who plays with invisible masters at dusk and dawn. A month ago a woman was burled In the afternoon. At dusk the Hound of Fail-mount trotted into the ceme tery, looked around, found her grave and calmly went to sleep on It. The dog's choice of graves on which to nap is not what disturbs the neigh bors, however. It is his frolics with invisible playmates that has them curious and alarmed. When the animal trots In at dusk he rushes up to an unseen some thing, wags his tail, leaps up and rests his paws on something and then he dashes away to grab a stick or a pebble and lays it at the feet of that same something. Often he trots along by the side of the some thing, leaping up to lick an unseen hand. At dark he and his friend cease to gambol and .the dog goes to sleep on a grave. When the first flush of dawn lights the east he is up again to romp with the unseen. They play for half an hour. Suddenly ♦he animal departs. Dr. Joseph Craiger, 489 Orange ave nue South, Newark, has seen the dog’s antics, and yesterday he con firmed the weird story of the Hound of Falrmount and his unknown, un seen companion. A eool and daring robbery took place at Chapin, a staid little hamlet in New York. While Charles Burd was visit ing in Pennsylvania, an unknown mat stood for more than two days at Burd’s gasoline station and sold gasoline and edibles, cutting prices In order to at tract purchasers. He olfcred for sale the »“w gasoline station at a low price, hut did not secure a purchaser. TODAY BY ARTHUR BRISBANE Some Americans go to Europe with money and enterprise on the right basis. Mr. Dillon, of Dillon, Read Co., now In London, is planning a $150, 000,000 subway system. In which Brit ish capital will participate “to a small extent.” The Shuberts of New York have six theaters In London, and will get more. That’s the right way for Amer ican business men to help Europe—• by going over with their money and showing how the thing should be done. Mr. Dillon plans to construct sub ways for trucks, to relieve traffic congestion on the surface. The same enterprise would be welcomed In American cities, especially in New York, where the stagnation point In congestion has almost been reached. A devout reader, disturbed by the fact that passages from the Bible ap pear to suggest that the earth Is flat and square, will find In Isaiah, most magnificant o f all the old bibli cal writers, a text that will satisfy him. "It Is He that sitteth upon the cir cle of the earth, and Inhabitants there of are as grasshoppers; that stretch eth out the Heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.” You will notice that Isaiah speaks of the "the circle of the earth,” which would indicate a round earth. Chap ter and verse are not given. Every body should read all of Isaiah, and Job, also, at least ohee n year. The government offers soma worthless ships, rusting away at an chor, costing large sums for watch men. Henry Ford offers -1,706,000 for them. He would scrap them and use the metal, and his offer Is higher than any other. Lut some conscientious official of fers the suggestion that it may not be legal lo sell ships if they are to be junked. Too bad that man with a con science was not around when tha navy’s oil lands were so neatly dis posed of. It’s extraordinary how ac tive the official conscience becomes when an honest man offers to pay the government an honest price, and how soundly that conscience sleeps when government property u. being stol; n. A young man named Scott In Illi nois is waiting to he h inged. His mother says she will kill herself at the exact hour of her son's hanging. Scott's father says, ”my son’s soul died last week, just before he was to have been hanged.” That statement Is new in America, 1 ut old in literature. In his hell, Dante shows sp rits in torment whose bod es were still alive, walking the Streets of Florence when he left the surfaoo. It is explained by Dante that many souls go to hell before their body dies that their punishment may begin sooner. The material facts concerning £ioti. sentenced to death for murder, are th-se: under our prohibition sys tem Scott got drunk and killed a man. If he is hanged the bootlegger tiiat sold him the whiskey should be hanged beside him. Mr. Aldrich, prosperous lawyer, is sued for divorce. His wife charges cruelty. He replies, “my only cruel ty was almost stoning her to death with jewelry." he spent $173,000 on Jewelry, gave the lady a $35,000 sable coat, a chinchilla coat costing $3,000 and securities worth $100,000. The Indy replies that not sables, not Jewels, not securities, not even the fur of the chinchilla, most interesting little aimal can give real happiness. She's right. Hut in this world we ; measure everything with money. The lady’s lawyer. George Gordon Hattie, demands for her alimony of $75,000 a year. The court can give her that; It cannot give her love and affection. Abd-el-Krim, stout warrior that he is, suggests peace with certain terms. The terms will become more liberal as time passes. No semi-bar barous state can long resist persis tent bombing from the air. The French, with no risk to their fliers, are able to bomb 15 or 20 Riff villages and camps every day. These Moors are a brave people, but they can not stand that very long. Honest Mon Too Lenient. From E. W. Howe's Monthly. T'm glad I have always admired | Iowa. There have been only two bank robberies m that state in two years, and in both cases the robbers; were captured. Iowa men, tired of tHe numerous bank robberies, or ganoi-d a vigilance committee of 4,000. As a result robbers now avoid Iowa. In addition, the laws concerning I bank robbers have been stiffened, and are promptly executed. In some other states ban krobbery is as common as violations of the prohibitory law. The robbers get off easily by dividing their loot with lawyers. One noted bank robber in Missouri has been convicted seven or eight times, but his lawyers have always .managed to keep him at liberty. Finally he drifted over into Iowa. He was badly wounded and captured in his first job, and will soon be in the penitentary for a long term . . . The Iowa plan shows the way to get rd of many other ou'rages. The way Is to resent them. The cowardly, In different manner with which the peo ple of the United States' submit to outrages is more disgraceful than the outrages themselves. Honest men ara too lenient with dishonest men. The Only Drawback. From the American Legion Weekly. I think that I should like to be a sailor; They say a sailor's life is full of sport; • He visits many, many foreign countries And has a different girl in every port. They're all so far apiai l that there's no danger Of being caught with Jane or Mar jorie ; I think that I should like to be a sailor— If a sailor didn't have to go to sea. The woman who doesn't begin to use rouge until she is 40 years old, is making up for lost time—Boise Capi tal News. Railroad cars with concrete floors Arc now being made In Germany.
