OFFICIAL directory ,STA**'.Lore 11*0 Orpun»e . . ...T. J. Mrtjora .... ..*.j. c. Alien .......J. 8. Bartley .. 11 lIuuYlnifB ia'iieral— ..'.‘. J. 8. Bartley George H. Hastings Eugene MtK>re ’Huninhrev tU-tierin- Eugene rntwre ■"cinsir!al;;v;vr,«TTY. JUDICIART.^^ MMWel, I»tlcc.11,'dtre Post and T. L. Norval StS,NUOK|.«% . J.J. Kin* of O’Neill .A.L. Rnrtow of Chadron ' A. L. Warrick. of O Neill lie instruction. . ,T ate university. :KnTj' iT.u'ohi; Leavitt Burnham, Uure. LlncolOj p jj0jmegi C°i0VKS™*°< Omahai '■'-".‘f Madison. SgS5*sa«aa LAND offices. O’NBILL. ..W. D. Mathews. .A. L. Towle. NBLian. ..C. W. Robinson ...W. B. Lambert COUNTY. tlm District Court ....Wm Bowen .John Sklrvlngf .Barrett Scott .K. L. Clapp. '■.C. E. Butler .J. C. Harnlsh .H. C. McEvony .John McBride. .H. W. Dudley "...Mrs. H. W. Dudley Dr. H. A. Skelton .W. W. Pane ..”. ... H. E. Murphy icliuols., IV w V F, H rt John Wm W IB 1) II John SUPERVISORS: township ; u ? T A I) nUL° IT It v M 11 Frank E III EM Im Pleasantview Deloit Cleveland Verdigris | Inman Sand Creek iBook Falls •Conley [Fairvlew Dustin [Green Valley Shields Francis t Emmet (Sheridan 'Stuart !Scott I Lake Paddock lO’Neill [Chambers [Atkinson [Saratoga jSteel Creek Ewing Willowdale Wyoming McClure Grattan ADDRESS Ray Ewing Brodie le Page Inman Atkinson Turner Chambers Inez. Dustin Atkinson O'Neill Atkinson Atkinson Atkinson Stuart Swan Scottvillo Deloit blackbird O’Neill Chambers Atkinson Saratoga Star Ewing iimoola Amelia , Little Pasre O’Neill CllY OF (yNEILL. isor, M. D. Long; Justices, E. H. and B. Welton; Constables, John and Perkins Brooks. | COUNCILMKN—FIRST WARD, o years.—Ben DeYarman. For one i avid Stannard. • 1 SECOND WARD. o years—Fred Gatz. For one year— j THIRD WARD, o years—Barrett Scott. For one year illard. CITY OFFICERS. •,0. F. Biglin; Clerk, Thos. Campbell; it, David Adams; City Engineer, Adams; Police Judge. N. Martin; >f Police, Charlie Hall; Attorney, Mon; Weighmaster, Ed. M'.Bride; ommUsioner, O. E. Davidson. OH ATT AN TOWNSHIP. visor, John Winn; Trearurer, John Clerk, D. H. Cronin; Assessor, Mose l; Justices, M. Castello and Chas. 1; Justices, Perkins Brooks and Will f: Hoad overseer dist. 3tf, Allen Brown 4, John Enright. 'EM RELIEF C0MNI8SI0N. ir meeting first Monday In Febru act year, and at suoh other times as *i neoessary. Ilobt. Gallagher, Page, Wm. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary; ark, Atkinson. IHICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, tees every Sabbath at lOitWo’CkxJk. Postor- Sabbath achool >tely following gervloea. POWfT CHUBCH, Services ISfij morning at 11 o’clock, lm by Sunday school. Preach c,'lvfnlu? AtSo’clock. Prayer meeting dayevemng at s o’clock. Epwortu fetlon»‘ meeting Sunday evening ciotk. F. Ellis, Pastor. CHUBCH Servioei [1 Sunday morning at 11 o’oloOk. Khool at io a. m. Usv. N. S. Loykih. Pastor. ClpS-Nase The Gen. Johr a » m’ Department of Ne ev^:,r ll.nieelthe *»t and thirc ? evening of each month in Masonic 8. J. Smith, Com. S valley LODGE, I. o. O MSS;u.8A-H-g0£fgjb»f’s £' H. Thompson, Trees. **’ J. C. Barnibh, H, F aw. Louo^ tr.». "lday at 8 o'clock p. VUltlag brethern Lv«8, K. or K. and', Gradt* NO. 80.1. of eogu teevery second and fourth J and tlme ln that race than ewr before About loo yards from “V »»M w the blood ‘»oo^, S^ken^ y b°0t le*’ Jet I neve^ wUhTdUmy alth°«eh I went browt 1 tumbled °™r the bwast works and lay gasping for boys said: “A1 breath. One of the biSt^r^ 1 r®P1*ed that bullet had struck me in the leg, an h*TJ Wa2 bleediBfiT to death. i*o of my comrades came up an began searching for the wound. Ti boot was drawn carefully from m foot, when out fell a minie ball, had passed through the leather, bi had not' even broken the skin, swollen place about the size of a hicl ory nut, where the ball had struck i was all the wound that could 1 found, but I never could imagine wh I could feel the blood slosh around i my boot leg, when the skin was n< broken.” • SHE WAS STUPID. Th* Idea of Leading the 8at(|eet to Hie Lungs. They spoke st greater or less length upon politics, religion, weather, mil linery, gloves, neckties, skating, the drama, society, dancing, the public , schools, the. church and its mission, the probability of a continuance of sleighing, the difficulty of getting hired girls, the supply of natural gas and other topics of minor importance. Still he lingered. Instinct told him that the old man was yet awake, but he set the danger at naught and stayed. There was another danger which he wished to broach. “My dear friend—” It seemed a very cold and distant form of address, bnt he had previously decided it was the best under the circumstances. “I wish—to—speak to you of some thing very near my heart.” “Why—” ■' As she stared at him the perplexity in her face suddenly gave way to intelligence. “Oh, yes, I know; your lungs. Uow are they, anyway? How stupid in me not to ask.” He never knew what he murmured in reply. When he recovered com plete consciousness he - was walking home and the crisp snow was crushing noisily under his fefefc A CLEVER RUSE. How Baron do Reinach Won Applause for Aorobatlo Feats. An amusing story is told of the late Baron Jacques de Reinach, whose end was so tragic. Last] year, at a large costume ball given in a house in the avenue d’lena, the dancers were sud denly disturbed by the appearance of a clown wearing a mask, who pro ceeded to perform acrobatic feats worthy of a professional. Everyone crowded round the new-comer, press ing him with questions as to his iden tity, but with no result, amd he disap peared. Later on in the eiveming the clown again was seen, and this time he deigned to lift his mmifr The as tonishment of all was great when they recognized M. de Reinach, who, how ever, did not deserve the compliments that were showered upon him. There were two clowns! Baron de Reinach had engaged the services of a well known performer at the Nouveau Cirque. He had two cos tom es made exactly alike, and after the professional had departed M. de Reinacii appeared on the scene and reaped his unde* served laurels. Ancient Bridal Wreath* The Roman bridal wreath was of verbena, plucked by the bride herself. Holly wreaths were sent as tokens of congratulations, and wreaths of pars* ley and rue were given and Sr a belief that they wene effectual presetwtires against evil spirits. The feaWthorn was the flower which formed the wreaths of Athenian brides. At the present day, in our own country, the bridal wreath is almost entirely com*« posed of orange-blossoms, on a back ground of maiden-hair fern, a sprig here and there of stephanotis 1 blending its exquisite fragrance. Muclt uncer tainty exists as to why this blossom has been so much worn by bri fies, but the general opinion seems to bo that it was adopted as an emblem of f kuitful* ness. _ j Scimitar Snake. There is a little reptile belonj jing to Madagascar known as the simitar snake, that is the curling swore. V Run ning along the back from head to tail is a Uackish, horny substance, which bencra with the convolutions of the snake’s body as readily as v itmld a well-tempered steel springy and throughout its entire length itj bears sn edge as hard as flint and as sharp as a razor. They are not poi to nous, but when one of them spring [s on a naan, which he likes very well to do, do will soon have a leg off «»'««« tracked on the pate. The Fenian Darky. They have a derby in Persia. .A lot it men enter their horses and de posit the entrance fees with the shaiu The race is then run after which thtf skth takes possession of the winner, and •ticks to ali the entrance monqy BRAVE ANIMALS. The Klaphant Shows Cnnraga In UkS Face of Daagir. It Is said that the scent or roar of • bear in the jungle will often scare elephants beyond control. And they have the same intense nervousness shown by the horse at the Bight of things unusual or out of place. A big elephant, which was employed to drag away the carcass of a dead bullock, and had allowed the burden to be afe tached by ropes without observing what It was, happened to look around, and instantly bolted, its fright increas ing every moment as the unknown ob ject jumped and bumped at its heela After running some miles like a dof, with a tin can tied to its tail, the ele phant stopped and allowed itself to be turned round, and drew the bullock back again without a protest. Yet an elephant without a mahout gives, per haps, the best instance of disciplined courage—courage, that is, which per sists in the face of knowledge and dis inclination—to be seen in the animal world. They will submit, day after day, to have painful wounds dressed in obedience to their keeper, and meet danger in obedience to orders, though their intelligence is sufficient to Un derstand the peril,and far too great for man to trick them into a belief that it is non-existent. ■No animal will face danger more readily at man’s bidding. As an in stance, take the following incident, which recently occurred in India, and was communicated to the writer. A small female elephant was charged by a buffalo, in high grass, and her rider, in the hurry of the moment, and per haps owing to the sudden stopping of the elephant, fired an explosive shell from his rifle, not into the buffalo, but into the elephant’s shoulder. The wound was so severe that it had not healed a year later. Yet the elephant stool firm, although it was gored by the buffalo, which was then killed by another gun. What is even more strange is that the elephant was not “gun-shy” afterward. WANTED BY BRITISH LORDS. New York Dealers Kept Bur Shipping Wild Animals Abroad. There is a great demand nowadays from wealthy Europeans for American wild animals. Every year hundreds are shipped abroad by New York deal ers, but there never was a finer pair of any kind sent to Europe than the young bison which left by the steamer Dovic lately. They came from the St. Louis Zoo, where they have been on exhibition for a number of years. They were consigned to W. A. Conklin, who pur chased them for William Cross, a Liver pool animal dealer, who in turn pur chased them for an English lord,'to'be placed in his game preserve for breed ing purposes. The bison came origin ally from the plains of Wyoming. On their way East they got into a terrible rage and ripped and tore their boxes to bits, and the train men had hard work to keep them in subjection. When they were boxed at the St. Louis Zoo they gave considerable trouble. John C. Gray, a veteran cow boy, and James Crawley, a former lion-tamer, lasso “d them around the legs and horns and then bound them tight. The male weigh;*- fully 5,000 pounds and the female 3,000. Mr. Conklin has a large order for bison and other wild animals to be filled for the English nobility before next fall. Some of the animals are on their way East. Several panthers from Washington statS are among the lot, besides several consignments of deer, elk, mountain sheep from the Rockies, some bear from the Sierras and a large lot of other game. He has one pair of handsome panthers at his stable. It’s m Wet Day. A stout man got on a horse-car the other day. “Wet day,” he said to, a stranger, who was sitting near him. s “Hey,” said the other. • “Wet day,” said the first, a little louder. “Excuse m.\ I’m a little deaf and hardly caught your meaning.” “I said, ‘It’s a wet day,’ ” howled the fat man, getting red in the face, as the other passengers looked up from their papers. “Ah. yes, yes; how much you must pay. Five cents, that’s the fare.” Whereupon the fat man got off the car. “Yes,” said the deaf man gently, “that’s the seventh man within an hour that told me it’s a wet day. Praps they imagine I don’t know it.” Fat Enougli. A Philadelphia citizen who was rais ing' a fine hog in the rear of his resi dence was notified by the board of health to remove the animal outside the city limits. Not wishing to move and thinking the hog was not fat enough to kill, he sent word to a col ored man who had a small farm in Montgomery county to take the pig to his place until it was fat enough to kill, agreeing to give one-half his car cass for his trouble. Sam took the hog home and the next morning brought half of it back to the Mana yunker. “Why, Sam,” said the owner, “I told you to keep that hog until it was fat.” “He war fat enough for me, sah; dar's yo’ haf,” replied Sam. To Find Your Future Husband. At bedtime, having fasted since noon, two girls who wish to obtain a sight of their future husbands boil an egg, which must be the first egg ever laid by the hen, in a pan in which no egg has ever been boiled before. Having boiled it till it is hard, they cut it in two with something that has never been used as a knife before. Each girl eats her half and its shell to the last fragment, speaking no word the while; then, still In silence, they walk backward to bed. “to sleep, per. efcanoe to dream." WHV HB p»8UKKP ham. *• WII Snrf.lt.d With It Daring Ult ' Johnstown Hood. , "If there is one thing on earth that I can’t eat it’s ham,” said Charles A. Morton of Pittsburg. “And I used to be a great lover of it, too. I’ll tell you how I came to tako such a dislike to it, it was during the Johnstown flood, excitement. I was in the news* paper business at the time, and, with the* other boys, I was sent up there. For the first couple of dayB, when there was nothing to eat, it was pretty tough, and we all swore to eat every* thing we could lay our hands on if we ever came within the sight of food again. “Well, the first day the relief train got up there it was laden with ham sandwiches, and the way wo put them out of sight was a caution. You’d fte a man coming away from the train with a sandwich in each 'hand and another in Ills pocket. The next day it was the same way. “On the third day the ham sand wiches began to pall a little, and on the fourth they had become absolutely tiresome. We hod had more of it than we could stand. Still, we must eat, and there was nothing else to eat, and we had to stuff the liain into us. It got so that it was an awful dose, and many of us went without ham sandwiches until wo got so hungry that we were compelled to eat. When we got away from J hnstoivn and got to where we could eat something we thanked God sincerely. Since that time I have never been able to compel myself to oat a ham sandwich, and I think the sight of one would sicken me. There is such a thing, you know, ss being surfeited even with food.” THE GROWTH OF AN OYSTER. Each Overlapping Layer or Shell Mean! a Year of Age The oyBter at the commencement of its career is so small that 2,000,0.0 would only occupy a square inch. In six months each individual oyster is large enough to cover half a crown, and in twelve months a crown piece. The oyster is its own architect, and the shell grows as the fish inside grows, being never to small. It also bears its age upon its bock, and it is as easy to tell the age of an oyster by looking at its shell as it is that of horses by looking at their teeth. Everyone who has handled an oyster shell must have noticed the successive layers overlapping caoh other. These are technically termed shots, and each one marks u year’s growth so that by counting them the age of the oyster can be determined. Up to the time of its maturity—that is, when four years of age—the shots are regular and successive, but after that time they become irregular and are piled one upon another, so that the shell becomes bulky and thickened. Fossil oysters have been seen of which each shell was nine inches thick, whence they may be guessed to be more than 000 years old. One to two million oysters are pro* duced from a single parent, and their scarcity is accounted for by the fact that man is not the only oyster-eating animal. The starfish loves the oyster and preys upon it unceasingly. A va riety of whelk is also very fond of young oysters, to get at which he bores right through the shell and sucks the fish up through the hole thus made. A WORK ROOM. Every Douse Should Have Sueh an Apart meat In It. No matter how large or how small your house may be, there should be one room set apart for a sewing room where all appliances for work should be kept, and which may be shut against all of the outside world. If ever such a room is appreciated it is when the dressmaker comes on her half yearly or quarterly visit, and where together you plan and work without danger of interruption. The room need not necessarily be large, but it should be light and sun ny, and should have a large closet, fit ted with plenty of roomy drawers. If there is a carpet on the floor, cover it with linen, so that the threads and scraps may be easily gathered up. Place the sewing machine to the right of the window, and have a good-sized table upon which cutting may be done. Have low, comfortable chairs, and a 1 big family work basket The darning bag and all the conveniences for work should be kept in this room, and not be allowed to overflow in any other part of the house. In this way all evidence of labor will be kept out of sight of the men of the family, who are not over and above fond of seeing too much of the do mestic machinery. Once such a room is established, you will wonder how you ever got along with out it, and the positive luxury it affords you will more than repay you for what trouble and expense you may have had in fitting it up. His Father Mot a Worker. In one of the grammar schools in New York is a boy who has a great ad miration for his father. His father’s word is law to him, though he pays not the slightest attention to anything that his mother may say. This bright young one was very much disgusted by the question put to him by his teacher when he first entered the grammar school. After giving his name to the teacher he was asked: “What is your father’s occupation?’’ “Wot’s that?” was his reply, in a mystified tone. “What is your father’s business? What does he do?” “Do? Why he don’t do nuthin’. He just bosses, see?” the boy answered in a most aggravated way. The boy’s father is a foreman in Superintendent Brennan’s street clean ing department, and his son had seen him directing the men under him and so considered it an insult that any one should suppose that his father worked like ordimuy mortals f, j'U EMIL SNI66S, PRACTICAL HORSESHOE* ^vna general niacKsmitiung carried on m connection. Car* riage work in either iron or wood executed in the most skillful style possible. 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