ll"‘ Ji'L OFFICIAL directory STATS. .if state Lorenso Crounse .T. J. Majors .J. C. Allen J. 8. Bartley ,Iury .. .o. o. nariney 'fp'i.-iun'r--. .George H. Hastings •, t'i "1 ---Eugene Moore instruction .A. K. Goudy ,.V1V ul’ATE university. vf.r.ENT^ ■ , 0in. Leavitt Burnham, ^". ^r'liutt, Aima; E. P. Holmes: Kearney; M. J. Hull, roNO HES8I0NAL. °rlias. !'• Manderson. of Omaha; f A!i>’n-''“vv’m!1 Bryan, Lincoln: O. 'f1‘jl’pikin llow; Wm. McKoljihan. bed JUDICIARY. .Samuel Maxwell Justle0.judge Post and T. L.Norval JUDICIAL DI8TB1CT. fjjTEEMH J Klnkald, of O’Neill .. ... J.J. King of O’Neill ..A. L. Bartow of Ghadron "'.".A. L. Warrick, of O'Neill re. iirter. ’«er " land offices. O’NEILI* igter.. slver.. ,.W. D. Mathews. .....A. L. Towle. nkliqh. iiter. *iver • COUNTY. .C. W. Robinson . .W. B. Lambert io! tiro District Court. _Wm Bowen •John Sklrvlng uty mrer. uty — .Rhody Hayes. . .Jas.Sullivan. ...C.E. Butler ...J. O. Harnlsu y. .H. C. McEvony J. .John McBride. '.ty• • • ;;.H. W. Dudley . „f schools.. ..Mra. H< w> Dudley cant. .Dr. H. A. Skelton met. .W. W.Page ....H. E. Murphy irney ■ • • •..—— SUPERVISORS. '_ SAME )iaWW lie W %,0E iley H dord John isli Wm _ins W ley HB ton £ D IsF II . oboe John ijnS \\ B . WT sJD ley Peter se.Iohn meily Geo f SI D nniber R ierii iarthy M H Hips Frank HJO IteJ E son J H ins; E M d John township Plcasantvlew Delolt Cleveland Verdigris Inman Sand Creek Hock Falls Conley Falrview Dustin Green Valley Shields Francis Emmet Sheridan Stuart Swan Scott Lake Paddock O’Neill Chambers Atkinson Saratoga Steel Creek Ewing Wlllowdale Wyoming McClure Iowa Grattan ADDBfgS Itay Ewing Brodfe Page Inman Atkinson Turner Chambers Inez Dustin Atkinson O’Neill Atkinson Atkinson Atuinson 8 tup rt Swan Scottvllle Delott olackblrd O’Neill Chambers Atkinson Saratoga Star Ewing mlnneola Amelia Little Ocelli C11T OF & NEILL. ipervisor, M. D, Long; Justices, B, H. edict and B- Wei ton; Constables* iRlhn pan and Perkins Brooks. COUNCILMEN—FIR8T WARD. nr two years.—Ben DeYarman. For one ; r-Davia Stannard. j SECOND WARD. j jrtwo years—Fred Gatz. For one year— j lullen. THIRD WARD. urtwoyears—J. C Smoot. For one year— L Wagers. CITY OFFICERS. * 8jor, R. U. Dickson; Clerk, N. Martin; asurer, David Adams; City Engineer, n ilorrisky; Police Judge, N. Martin; ef of Police, Charlie Hall; Attorney, Benedict; Weigh mas ter, Joe Miller. ORA TTAN TO WNSHIP. apervisor, Joiin Winn; Trearurer, John yer; Clerk, D. H. Cronin; Assessor, Mose npbell; Justices, M. Gastello and Chas. orsoll; Justices, Perkins Brooks and Will iskie; Road overseer dist. 28, Allen Brown .Nu.4, John Enright. j LDIERS’ RELIEF COMNISSION. fgnlar meeting first Monday in Febru of each year, and at suoh other times as eemed necessary, ltobt. Gallagher, Page, irmaii; Wm. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary; H. Clark, Atkinson. 'PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH. Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock. t Hew Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school aediately following services. ETIIODIST CHURCH. Services (every Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, im ^aiel followed by Sunday school. Preach Jnhe evening at8o’clock. Prayer meeting loesday evening at 8 o'clock. Epworth *ue devotional meeting Sunday evening wo clock. F. Ellis, Pastor. M. C. A. Bible study and consecration • acting every Monday evening in room, M.K. church. Will Lowrir, Secretary, A. IMPOST, NO. 80. The Gen. John It! <”e . ?0Bt>No- *• Department of Ne A. K., will meet the first and third KKf.1evening of each month In Masonio °-VlU 8. J. Sail H, Com. WIIORN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O. nut CTery Wednesday evening in Sto attend ’ Visiting brothers cordially L- liiuoHT, if. G. E. W. Adams, Sec. CHAPTEB, R. A. M S" ®rBt and third Thursday of each 1“ in Masonio hall. u»“ks Sco. J. c. Habhish, H, P (,LP'T,'1IELMET lodqs, it. d. i (!ZV!“*ton every Monday at 8 o'clock p. NflnvUed”™' ”aU" Vl8ltl“* brothem F,?0* 41. DAUGHTERS Vo( ««BFKAH, meets every 1st and 8d 1 1 eac“ month In Odd Fellows’ Hall. Ihdie n„„„ Lizzie Smith, N. G, “ Hershiskh, Secretary. t n, E. M. Grady, C. 0. E Evans, K. of R. and 8. 80.1. fourth Odd Fellows’ Hall. Scribe. 0. L. Bright, tetra£D LO»GEi N0.85.F.A A.M. **** ^^8. Seo.^ a . L. Towle, W. M. Seas on';?11*No’ mo. m. w. or a. “'JiitUn h 't?4 “n-Sunday included at.6:16pi riday Sm,!i“os!THE WEST. * r-ounduy Included at... . 0:46ai ir“» <'verv ,u,r c aBOBT line. »Us 7. a"> except Sunday at 11:35 p I 9:56 a i fn* Monday vv *ND OH'LSBA. 1te® T JesdSv’ no?d" und Friday at7:i , Thurs. and Sat. at.. 1:( n’v ?ns MondHvJI\v A,ND pai>i>ock. 1tt8 Th^an*d„rLday_at. .7:00 7:00 a: :00pi “uu maay at. .7:uu a - 0. Thurs. and Sat. at. .4:30 p Monday1, ur'4?® NI°DRARA. t(rsTuesday' th?1’and «. • ■ .7:00 a y' TTiurs. and Sat. at...4:00 p O’vvi u‘b* Dftu at,,. ?'"* Mon UviND OfMMIHSVIIAE. ^ Mon.’.'wod “nAEC,d»y« at.. .11:30 p ' "4- *ud Friday at.1:00 p hb was DESPERATE. jndg« Wouldn't Commit Him, so Bo Brought tho Court to Time. Magistrate Ladner was seated in state behind the tall railing in his office, his dignified clerk atone elbow, hla dreaded constablo at tho other, when a well-dressed man entered, mounted the step below the railing, leaned over, and observed: “Judge, I wish you would commit me to the house of correction.” “Too late,” answered his honor, curtly. “Drop around to-morrow morning.” But Ladner's visitor was not to be discouraged. “My name, judge,”»said he, “is Silas Elkinton. I’ve been drinking too much and eating too little. I’m all broken up and I haven’t a cent Won’t you give me a chance to brace up?” “You can have it to-morrow," was the reply. “The boat has gone up the river and I don’t commit in the after noon to suit the convenience of any man that wacts to go to jaU.”.' “I’m desperate,” rejoined Elkinton. “If you don’t commit me now I’ll Bmash somebody’s window; then you’ll have to do it” "Go ahead,” said Ladner, for the man did not look a person to carry out the threat “You won’t commit me?’’ “No!” Smash! Silas Eliflnton's fist went through Magistrate Ladner’s door pane, price 81.75, right under the awful constable’s very nose. “Now,” said the visitor, “I’ll bet you’ll commit me.” “You’ve thrown aces,” the magis trate rejoined, red-hot “I'll commit you for a year." '* “You are more than kind,” said Elkinton, and the constable marched him off to a square meal. HIS FIRST FEB. But the Old Servant Beat the Doctor Out of the Precious 92. “You can tell your hard luck stories until you are blue in the face, but I can beat them all." “Yes of course you can.” yelled the crowd. “Well, lean.. When I graduated from the medical college I knew it all, as is usual, and got out a nice gold sign on the front of the house, with M. D. after my name. Then I got a tin one on a .post to swing over the side walk. Then I waited for busi ness. We had an old housekeeper who nursed me when I was a baby, and felt that she was privileged to take all sorts of liberties with me, and did it; I will always be a boy in her eyes. Well, I got a case eventually. The patient was a neighboring servant girl with some ordinary trouble, and with due ceremony I gave her advice and a prescription besides. As we ap proached the front door she asked me what my fee was, and I was about to make a bold play for $2, when the old housekeeper sailed up with ‘Hello, Mary; why Louie won't charge you anything—I hope you’re better,’ and opening the door old Bridget let my first patient and my first fee sail down the steps together. Wasn’t that hard lqck?” “Not by several fees!” said the young surgeon of some practice. “Wait till you see a whole book full of fees get away, then begin to kick.” DESERTED BY MEMORY. Two Instance* of the Treachery of the Human Mind. A smart young cavalry officer was recently exercising his regiment upon the drill ground when the familiar words of command suddenly slipped from his mind, and the strenuous ef fort made to recall thorn was utterly futile. In order to cover his embar rassment he was compelled to retire from command under the plea of ill ness. The fugitive sentence came to him when he reached his room. A still more singular case is that of a well-known and esteemed mer chant, whose memory so treacher ously failed him one morning after leaving home that he was totally un able to locate his offices, and was actually compelled to inquire as to their whereabouts. Another inter esting example is that of a popular novelist who had nearly finished an important work upon which he was engaged when a sudden failure of memory deprived him of his plot and necessitated the laying aside of the book for more than a week; then an association of ideas recalled the miss ing plot, the novel was brought to a successful issue and enjoyed a wide circulation. Uiiilns Heir to the Aberdeen Earldom* The present earl of Aberdeen, vice roy and governor .general of Canada, is liable at any moment to be ousted from his seat In the' house of lords and deprived of his peerage and es tate by the reappearance of his elder brother, who vanished in a most mys terious fashion years ago, during a voyage from New York to Brazil, from a vessel where he was serving as sailor before the mast. He was very eccentric, had been roaming around the world for years without letting his relatives know of his movements or of his whereabouts, and hence it is quite possible that he may still be alive somewhere or other. For, not withstanding all efforts to discover a triice as to what had become of him, no clew has ever been obtained, nor is there any certainty of his death. A Poor Bargain. A Scotch minister is said to have re buked his wife for sleeping during his sermon, in this fashion: “Susan," he exclaimed from the pulpit, in a voice that awakened her, as it did all the other sleepers—“Susan, I didna marry ye for yer wealth, sin ye had none. And I didna marry ye for yer beauty —that the whole congregation can see. And if ye had no grace, I hae made a sair bargain in ye, indeed.” AN OLD SUITOR. IMIat'lMn Work Generally Many External Changes. Time, indeed works many changes. Yesterday a well-known resident said to Ins wife: “Oh, I forgot to tell you, my dear, that I invited a friend here to dinner to-day.” She was in a flurry in a moment “Why did you not tell me before? We are not prepared. How careless of you! If I had only known—” “He will be glad to take just what we have.” “But.who is it my dear?” The husband mentioned the name of the expected visitor and then went on reading the paper. But the wife seemed greatly agitated. She fussed around and went into the kitchen her self. The visitor arrived. He was a portly person, extremely large of girth and bald. He passed most of the time talking business to the husband. When he had departed the wife, who is sometimes given to touches of sen timent, in spite of her forty odd years, Bald to her husband: “You heard that he said he knew me when a girl, Frank?” “Yea” “Well, I have a confession to make.” “What is it?" “We were engaged once.” Instead of expressing any surprise he merely replied: “Pooh. What of it?” Then he went on reading the paper, and she tried to see a certain resem blance in a slim, aristocratic young man to this modern Falstaff. Gifted with great imagination, she almost succeeded. bank notes in her bed. wi >■ unm noniuy oi jjuuii Philippa’s Time. Mile. Humbert, a woman whose life was shrouded in muoh mystery for many years, has died in a veritable garret in the Rue des Martyrs, Paris, at the advanced age of 87. In her district tho old dame passed as a mendicant, owing to the shabbi ness of hor attire, and people, struck by her miserable appearance, some times spontaneously offered her alms in the streets. She never refused the money, but was in the fiablt, after receiving it, of telling her benefac tors to keep away from the side of her dress in which she kept her purse. This extraordinary oonduct was usu ally set down by good Samaritans to craziness Surprise was great when it was dis covered lately that Mile. Humbert had left a sum of several thousand pounds in bonds and bank notes sewn up in an old mattress, and that, moreover, she had a valuable collection of paint ings by old and modern masters in her garret. It has since come to light that the apparent mendicant and fe male imitator of Daniel Dancer was a great beauty in the days when Louis Philippe was king, and that the money and the pictures were gifts of her ad mirers, one of whom was a prominent supporter of the second empire. The ex-demimondaine’s property now passes to a relative, who is naturally overjoyed|at the unexpected and wel come windfall. A. Valuable Bello. It is claimed that at police head quarters at Wheeling, W. Va., is a precious relic in the shape of the remnant of an ancient pistol, said to have been carried by Washington when he crossed the Delaware. To prove that it was, the rust caused by getting in the water is still on it, after all these years. The funny fact about it is that it has a percussion lock, which goes to show that the popular idea that percussion caps did not come into vogue till long after Washing ton’s time is without foundation in fact This reminds a fellow, as the late lamented Lord Dundreary might have put it of the fellow, you know, that owned the demijohn, you know, out of which poor old Noah got drunk, don’t you know, and made such a blessed aws of himself. Origin of the. Peach. It has never been clearly ascertained what was the- original parent of the peach. It is, however, well known that the peach, the almond and the nectarine can be developed, the one from the other; that it is therefore, reasonable that all had the same origin. It has been supposed that the almond was really the antecedent of the other two. Recently, however, there has been found a wild plant in the north of China and it is believed that this is really the parent of the peach and its allies. All that is known of the peach and almond is that they were in cultivation as garden plants as far back as written history goes. Sir Humphrey Davy's Safety Damp. The smallest lamp is the miner's safety lamp, invented in 1815 by Sir Humphrey Davy. The frame of this is of iron and brass inclosed in wire gauze. The reservoir is of brass screwed to the bottom of the lamp and locked with a key. Its wick is raised by lowering a sliding tube over the wick carrier by means of a wire running outside of the lamp and ex posing a fresh section of the wick. The key to this lamp was kept by the officer in charge of the mine, so that the minor could not possibly expose the flame to the fire-damp. Tea Tears Asleep. For more than ten years Miss Susan Friend of Prestonburg, Ky., has lam in a sleep or stupor that nothing can arouse her from. Ten years ago she fell and cut her hand on the stump of a sapling. The wound did not appear to be serious, and healed in due time, but gradually there came a change in her condition. She grew morose and silent, her health gave way, and final ly she lost the use of her lower limbs. Following this came a drowsiness that nothing could shake off, and she was placed in bed, where she has remained •ver since. Understanding the difficulty people living in email towns who have any eye trouble, have in obtaining the proper treatment without going to great ex pense, THE TUDOR OPTICAL CO. MR. G. D. BRUCE TUDOR. M. A. O.. Eye expert ot the Tudor Optical Co., will be at the store of their agent DR. P. C. 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