Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1928)
Out Our Way___By Williams tFY l/Hft-KA — AMD . Alts. 3at‘ SOUTH VSMtLt "t'R£ 1^5*1/ F»R& a CtOR iNSOtOE \ HAS GREATER ITEAtRlN'm VOUM&ER SHOPS WHEN he G\TS RECUPERATIVE UjENERATON That SiXTR Efl so • VOOTH POWER. TpEY THE'-/ SHOO\-0 GET vS FASTER — SO MUCH CRAWL INTO TvV AT LEAST EIGHT FASTER - AT NIGHT. SHOP WRECK'S HOURS REST—0UT SoT in TH’ O AW Time an' EiGHT HOURS 1THEV DOnTSAV hes s event/ while (later Prance WHERE, so A GuW EliXTV !S ioox GOMPlETlW IthES MtGHf AS OkilS SixT/. /I RE JOvjEnaTEO. A^aiecE GET I" AM .<sSi3F * -__ vJ,P?.W'l.LiAM3 me U.fAT *rr.'TpAE Nl&HT ^'PP» Ql«2t, I, m KHVM. we Laguna Nights. Che sea leaps purple under the moon. The salty wind blows cool clouds across Ter wistful face; the salty wind blows On pctaled waves as they curl and toss! \nd the heaven is purple, thickly strewn With the stars set round in twining rings Blotted from earth by a rippling sail A singing mariner gaily flings. rhe night moves onward—Oh, halt it. Moon! Cast down an anchor and bid it stay Or ere we know it, our craft will b?ach On a sudden blazing isle of Day! Fiances Wierman in the Stratford Magazine. Colored Fences. From a Trade Bulletin. I want a fence,” the house wife said, "Around my house and lot, So let me see the different shades In fabrics that you’ve got.” "But, Madam, what do you prefer. This mesh or that one there?” Said she. "I don’t know ’bout the mesh, Just match my auburn hair!” When the prying historians of the rear 2928 write their chronicles of the then dim and far distant 1928, they will doubtless refer to this as the “colorful age.” Present histori ans have given us the “stone age,” the “iron age,” the “electrical age,” etc., so we may expect the histori ans of tomorrow to give their gen eration the “color age.” Never before has color been so riotous or used with such abandon as now. What with purple soup ket tles, gilt office buildings, green bath tubs, cerise lips, lavender pajamas and kaleidoscopic feminine costumes, we may with reason expect the moon to become scarlet and the bock yard fence to take an auburn tint. Indeed, the latter eventually is far more serious that facetious, for according to a recent circular issued by the Copperweld Stell company some of the chain link and woven wire fences we see protecting lawns frrwn t.h mi ah Hp.cs rhiliirpn and pedestrians from too thoughtful dogs, might well be a delightful sea green or a rich reddish brown. And here is how to color the fence. One of the newest types of wires to be adapted to fence Is known as "copperweld" wire, and is a strong steel core around which has been molten welded a heavy layer of pure, non-rusting copper. Now cop per, when exposed to the elements, will develop after a time what is •ommonly called "verdigris”—a lit— Me green scale that is a sort of first cousin to an insulating jacket. But with fence made of this type of wire, why wait until Mother Nature takes her action? The same sort of sea green tint, only better and more permanent, can be developed by merely brushing over the copper jacketed wire a solution of salt water. This solution should be about a half pound of salt to two gallons at water. Or—one pound of sal ammoniac in about flve gallons or water (allowed to stand 24 hours) will do much the same sort of thing. Of course it may be that the por tlers in the sun room are of a brownish hue and you will want the bark yard fence to match them In such an event merely rub the cop perweld wire fence with a large piece of cotton waste that has been saturated In boiled linseed oil. The application of this oil will gradu ally turn the copper surface a rtrh dark brown and the tint can be Public Opinion In Orient Maurice Pernot In Revue drs Deux Monde* A public opinion Is developing In Ure orient—and a public opinion common to all oriental people* The oriental press hs* shown a marked development within the last few year* a factor to which we have contributed by establishing in the orient for our own purpose* news papers which have aroured ardent native opposition The (ftect of our reform* has been tn some cases to awaker In other* to make more Intense and general a double Interest In dome* Mr and intemattonal politics . , ■vent* In Moscow rattle nearbt Spark of Optimism Essential to Overcome Remorse of Shortcomings BY BRUCE CATTON “Although I have perhaps achieved more than the average person at my age, still what I have achieved is so very far from what I wanted to achieve that life is not worth living.” After writing a note containing these words, Henry Druck liev, middle aged New York real estate broker, killed himself by sending a revolver bullet into his head. It is tragic to reach middle age and find that one’s dearest ambitions can never be realized; tragic enough to make many people besides this real estate broker think of suicide. Yet it is the inevitable lot of all of us. Our reach, invariably, ex ceeds our grasp. We can never quite do the things we want to do. This inevitable disparity between the desires of the spirit and the capabilities of the flesh is at once a curse and a bless ing; a curse because it brings suffering and tragedy, and a blessing because it is the mainspring of all human progress. Never a young man began life without high hopes. A boy in his ’teens looks ahead to certain triumphs, lie will be a better man than his father; the stumbling blocks that trip others will not trip him. He feels his own expanding powers and is sure that they will carry him through to any goal he seeks. In the fullness of time the boy becomes a man and finds it isn't so easy as he imagined. Life is more complicated than he thought. One by one he sees his towering air castles dis solve in the hard light of every day experience, and at last, no matter how successful he has become, he has to admit that he has not gone as far as he once expected to. This is always a painful awakening, made endurable only by the fact that it comes very gradually. Yet most of us sur vive it. The men who commit suicide are the exception. We learn to discount the notes drawn by our high expectations. But always, fortunately, we remember what we dreamed. Always we have in the back of our minds a picture of what life might be like if we had not failed." We are persuaded, thereby, that the world is potentially a better place than we have made it, and that we ourselves are, at bottom, better men than we seem. We must be; cannot we dream gorgeous dreams? So, in the midst of our disillusion, there remains a spark of deathless optimism that persists quite irrationally. It makes us receptive; and now and then, when some man greater than the rest of us comes along, shows us a great ideal and de mands that we follow it and stop Worshiping Baal, we obey. And when it is over, although we have not followed as far as we intended we find that we have, after all, made progress. controlled simply by ceasing the ap plication and washing off the excess oil when the desired tone has been reached. -- — As Told in Examinations. From Living Age. Jnglish school children, like mose in America, do not always write perfect examination papers. Recently the university correspon dent offered prizes for the most amusing mistakes made Dy Englisn pupils, and from those published we have selected the following: The sun never sat on the British empire, because the British empire is in the east and the sun sets in the west Shakespeare lived at Wind sor with his merry wives. The king wore a scarlet robe trimmed with vermin. The masculine of "vixen” Is “vicar.” In the Eighteenth century traveling was very romant'c; most of the highroads were only bridal paths. Average means something that hens lay their eggs on. A fissure is a man who sells fish. The mechanical advantage of x long pump handle Is that you have someone to help you :gypt and distant Persia or India to the same degree, ... I saw Persian newspapers filled with de tails. more or less accurate, of the revolt of the Druses and Bedouins, and I found the people of Angora ho well Informed concerning (he movement* developing in India, At* ihanistan and Persia, that one might have supposed them involved in them Any news or comment whleh might cestroy tne prestige or com promise the good name of the state* and people of western Eu rope immediately spreads from one end of Asia to the other Dentals and corrections are of little use: by pump. Artificial perspiration is what you make a person alive with when they are only just dead. A line in geometry is wha' you draw and don’t see. Transparent means some thing you can see through—fof instance, a keyhole. Gravity tells us why an ap ple doesn’t go to heaven. Ambiguity means telling the truth when you don’t want to. The chief duties of a mem ber of parliament are to go to sleep which another man ;s speaking, and force his party into power Algebraical symbols are used when you don’t know what you are talking about. • • - — Signals. From the Atlanta Constitution. There was a lull in the business of the barber shop. “Nice to have a minute's rest," said one ot the assistants, as he watched the departure of the only customer. ’’Yes,” agreed the other. By the way. Bill, you gave that old gent a rather nasty cut." Bill nodded. "I know." he said. "You see I'm courting his housemaid, and lhatl to let her know I can meet her on Tuesday night " the time they arrive opinion is al ready formed an opinion passion- j ate, blind and unanimous. Hv our own lault. or whrthrr we ! are lesponsible or not the distinc tion la to small Importance- the en tire orient considers western Eu rope today as a decadent, divided and distuibed society, a* inrapauie o| restoring It* own balances as cl pursuing beyond Its own borders the work or ire'ion and prug rets from winch it once derived so much glory and profit. This opinion and the sentiments which It arouses, seem to me the bests of a new fault and a new peopiea. I His Qualification for Service in the Tanks After n si* weeks’ Intensive cam paign, Richard Barthelmess and his fellow-players In “The Patent Leath er Kld“ company were honorubly dis charged from tlie United States army at t’amp Lewis, Washington. While at Camp Lewis some of the finest battle scenes were screened More than Jt.OUO United States regu lars and 600 civilians participated In the war spectacle, which is featured hy the 60 huge United States tanks During the shooting an extra came up to Richard and announced he'd like to enlist In the tanks “Why so keen about tbe tanks?' asked Dick. “Oh," replied the applicant mod estly, ’Tin u pretty good swimmer.’’— FUm Fun. Records Pulse Beats A visible record of the action of the pulse for any desired period Is olr tained without discomfort to tbe sub ject or tedium to tbe observer with an electrical Instrument developed In Germany. Levers uttuehed to the pa Rent's wrist move with the pulse beats, causing an electric circuit to be opened and closed.—Popular Me chanics Magazine. Predatory Bird Shot A great Americau osprey, babltunt of the sea and sometimes colled tbe "ocean fish hawk,” was brought down near Lancaster, Ohio, recently. The big bird, the only one ever seen in Ohio and one of tbe very few in the United States, was shot by William Miviug. who 60w it in the uct of car rying away a lamb. The bird meas ured 6 feet between wing tips. Man charges his failures to luck •nd credits Ids success to himself. e* v/ LDREN THRIVE on the Great American | Syrup | Dcfiner “Can you give me a definition of nothing?” "Yes, an air balloon without Its cover.”—Lust ige Koloer Zeltung, Cologne. Commercial Ditcovery It has been discovered that the hot mineral waters of Hath, England, will permanently tint glass, oud It seems iMissIble thut the well-known health resort may become a famous glass staining center. The chronic bore would make a splendid population for some desert island Colored Sugar Latest Cleopatra's pearl liquor Is modern ized In the drinking of "Jewels" with the after-dinner coffee In Euro fie. The “Jewels" are tiny erystuls of sugar 1 colored like amethysts, topaz, sap phires and other gems. The sugar Is Mild to he healthful and palatable as well as attractive. Fair Enough "Ton are having the duke’s title searched?" “Why not? He has In vestigated my fortune.” The public at large la but an ele vator used to hoist the chosen few to prominence. ji a • J! 'X. f % GIVES QUICK Serve Post Toasties for breakfast and give the whole family quick new energy for the busy day ahead. Fine for children after the longest fast of the day. Post Toasties is rich in energy — and so easy to digest that its store of energy is quickly released to the body. No trouble to prepare. Serve Post Toasties right from the package with milk or cream. Enjoy it with fruits and berries. And what flavor! Made from the hearts of white corn that has been mellowed and sweetened by the summer sun. Be sure you get the genuine Post Toasties in the red and yellow package. Postum Company, Inc., Battle Creek, Michigan. POST TOASTIES