•■ VL OFFICIAL DIRECTORY STATU. .. .-.Umua Croons* IKWW"-.T.J.Ma|o» . u V ,-d I'and Boiiinsfs—*3eor*e Humphrey 1lie instruction...A.K. Goudy KEGESTS STATE UNIVERSITY. ii Gere. Lincoln: Lea yin Burnham, ■ j x Him. Alca; E. P. Holmes. 1 j t’ Xtilaitu, Kearney; 1. J. Hull. ' COSG HESS!OSAL. . ._( has. F. Manderson. of Omaha; 'viler. ,»f Madtsou._ T , ^ ,„.<,-ntativeg-w.m Bryan. Ltnootn^tX ^Bwfcen Bow; Wm. MeKelghan. Bad JUDICIARY. Justice.. Samuel Maxwell elates■• .JudjeFW andT.L-Norral Judf* ^^isapsasrasw. .J.J.KingofO’SeUl ■ A.L. Bartow of O hadron gcrerter . A. L. Warrick, at O'Neill jerirOft.. 8<\e’.ver. land offices. o’siiul. .W. D. Mathews. .A. L. Towle. Setter. .. Kive.ver . .C. W. Robtnsoo .W. B. Lambert COUSTY. .Geo McCuteheon Ger~°of the District Court- .I-John^Skirring .. .-O.M.Collins T. a-u'er ....-J. P. Mullen Jr' a,.v .Sam Howard •. .Rill Bethea /V'-v" ...Mike McCarthy , % .» ' ‘ .Cbas Hamilton .f1; ;;,*V......Chas O'Neill IW ' Schools.W.K Jackson fner... .Mrs. W. R. Jackson .J)r.Truebiood _M. F. Norton H. E- Murphy Attorney. SUPERVISORS. ...Frank Meore ,nj .;.Wilsor. Brodie ^\..y V...Willie Calkins Chambers.Georye fickle? i .*. Du?tin.*. Ln.ir.ftt. niicis. j;rv;-'W. .Fred Schindler .J. S. Dennis .\Y. B. Haigh .D. G. Boil .S. Gill Ison . .H. B- Kelly .S. L. Conger i.se .John Hodge .J. H. Wilson l y.ii; John Murphy Mdl’.-k.--.George Kennedy >|wy»r; Clerk. D. H. Cronin; Assessor. Mose Campbell; Justices, M. Castello and Chas. IiiL'orsoll; Justices, Perkins Brooks and Will Manskie; Koad overseer dist. 26, Allen Brown disi. No. 4, John Enrtght WLDIER& RELIEF COMNISSION Kegular meeting first Monday In Febru ary of each year, and at such other times as is deemed necessary. Robt. Gallagher, Page, chairman; Wm. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary; H. H. Clark, Atkinson. CT.PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH 0 Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock. Very Rev. Cassidy, Poetor. Sabbath school Immediately following services. \f KTHODI9T CHURCH. Sunday iU. services—Preaching 10:30 a. M.and T:dO p.m. Class No. 1 0:30 a. m. Class No. 2 (Ep worth League) 6:30 p. m. Class No. 3 f Cblld i rensi p. m. Mind-week services—General prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m. All will he made welcome, especially strangers. B. E. HOSMAN, Pastor. G A. R. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John • O’Neill Post, No. «6, Department of Ne braska G. A. R., will meet the first and third Saturday' evening of each month in Masonic hall O'Neill 8. J. 8*11 h. Com. pLKIIORN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O. «F. Meets every Wednesday eventnv in . Wd Fellows’ hail. Visiting brothers cordially ravited to attend. Owes Davidsox, X. G. C. L. Bbiobt, Sec. (JARFIELD CHAPTER, B- A. M A* Meets oo first and third Thursday of each Bomb in Masonic hall. _ _ W. J. Dobbs Sec. J. C. Hahsish. H. P Kof __helmet lodge, it. d. ■ Convention every Monday at H o’clock p. m. in Odd Fellows’ hall. Visit! n* brethern cordially invited. „ _ „ E.M.GRADT.C.C. E. E. Evass, K. of B. and 8. O’Neill excampmext xo.30.i. V 0. o. F. meets every second and fourth Fridays of each month fas Odd Fellows’ Hail. Scribe. H. M. Uttlet. Pl'EV LODGE XO. 41, DAUGHTERS K of REBEKAH, meet, every 1st and 3d Friday of each month in Odd Fellows Hail. . Lizzie Smith, X. G. AhhiE Hershisck. Secretary. (JARF1ELD LODGE XO S5.FA A.M. " Regular communications Thursday nights ®r^fore iric fun of the moon. " • T. Evass, Sec. A. L. Towia, W. M. H'jl r-CAMP NO. 1710. M. W. OF A. i* Meets on tbe first and third Tuesday in month in the Masonic ball. *• *• Pri-stHU, V.C. A H. Coubett. clerk. i o, U. W XO. 153. Meets second ti fourth Tudsday of each month in “5 Masonic haU. (~C.McHuxh.Bec. G. W. Meals. M. A, POST OFFICE D1KCETORY Airinl oTKalSa M.tX.Y.1.1-HWMI TUB BAST. "ery day, Sunday Included at.S:1S p I , FROM THE WEST. ®vtry day, Sunday Included at.t:B a i PACIFIC SHORT LITE, jj^'^crery day except Sunday at II :'S> O'sttu. A5D CHELSEA. Monday, Wed. and Friday at 7:00 rr-Te*Tuesday,Thun.and Sat. at.. 1:06 r, O’XETI.L JVD FAPDOCX. Monday. Wed.and Friday at..7M 4fr,Te* Taeaday, Tbura. and Sac at. AJ» . O'SEILL A3TD nomiu. .:Wrt* Monday. Wed. and Frt. at....7:06 Te* Tueadar, Thurv and Sau aL .i.uC v * v a v a vd HR BR RB 9 B CHIPS WERE A DOLLAR EACH. j 1 SU,**y DMate l. ta wtau^ *• » Cm r«aA This story was told the writer by a trieod who was *n itinerant Methodist missionary. His friend was working | *be of Arizona a food many I *8*^ One Saturday evening the , missionary entered a mining camp whose inhabitants had loot aU track of Snnday. He went to the biggest [saloon in the camp and introduced himself, telling the proprietor that [the following day was Sunday and i be would like to preach a ser* [ mon to ‘be miners. The proprietor's j name was Jake. ‘ All right," said Jake, “we will be ‘ ?lad to bare yon. I will ft* it with ; the boys." l He did fin it and all of the saloons | were closed when it came time to de i **TW ‘be sermon. The exercises were j held in the big saloon and Jake made himself the master of ceremonies, l The missionary took his stand against i the bar and delivered his discourse to all the idlers in the town who had col | leeted in the saloon. At the close of i bis address he timidly suggested that traveling was expensive, and. while salvation was free, the gos pel had to be paid for. He suggested the pro priety of a collection, j “AU right, parson. 1 will attend to i that; shell out, boys,” cried Jake. He passed his sombrero through the i crowd and everyone threw in a large coin, until he came to a stranger in the camp. The stranger pot his hand in his pocket and felt around there for a while. Finally he polled out a quar ter and started to drop it into the hat. 1 Jake drew back the hat and put his , hand on the handle of his revolver. “Look a-here stranger," he said, 1 “chips are a dollar in this game and it is your ante." The stranger played the limit and Jake’s hand left the handle of his revolver. After that every one played the limit. LITTLE TRAVEL ON FRIDAY. Popular Superstition Affects Railroad and St came hip Botiana Mueh ridicule has been poured upon Thirteen clubs, Friday < clubs and other associations formed for the laudable purpose of dealing in a practical and pleasant way with some current superstitions. General Wolse ley, who in a recent pretentious military criticism included Dessaix, the hero of Marengo, among the generals who accompanied Napoleon to Bussia, has written a flippant letter to a Thirteen clnb in London to say that he loves to cherish the pretty superstitions of his childhood. Against this false sentiment it must be said that some of the current popular beliefs are positively mischievous in many respects. Not a transatlantic steamship com pany has Friday among the days of departure, and until quite recently none of the coastwise steamship lines had put the unlucky day on its list. It would be highly desirable for the ocean mail service that some steam ships should leave Atlantic ports on Friday; but while the owners are doubtless exempt from any supersti tion on the subject, they are obliged to defer to an absurd popular notion. Else they would be apt to find a very small passenger list, and might possi bly experience some difficulty in ob taining a crew. Baiiroad statistics show that there is less travel on Fri day than on any other secular day of the week. Experienced travelers are so well aware of this that they some times do not take the trouble to se cure a Pullman ticket on Friday, as they are pretty sure to find an empty berth. A FRIEND IN NEED. Sot Sot a Friend In Deed, an Ike Smart Man Discovered. There is a young man in Louisville Who has always prided himself on be ing exceedingly sharp. The other day the gentleman in question boarded a Portland avenne car and proceeded to make himself at home by drawing himself comfortably up in a seat and perusing a newspaper. A few min utes later another middle-aged man entered the car, looked about him, and espied the gentleman of brill iancy. Going up to him the new comer patted him knowingly on the back, at the same time saying: ‘‘Why, hello, Fred, don’t you know me'?” Fred didn’t remember ever having met the gentleman, but added, as a matter of form, that his face looked familiar. At this the new-comer did become familiar. He told the young man funny stories, and by way of giving emphasis to his remarks be stowed upon the youngling sundry slaps, punches and pinches. The two parted the best of friends, but when Freddie went to bed that night he dis covered he had been “slapped” to the extent of 810, “touched” for his watch, and “pinched” relative to his diamond stud. Freddie is now a sad der and a wiser man. The Oldest British Mariner. The “grand old man" of the British nary is Admiral Sir Lewis Tobias Jones, who recently completed his j ninety-fourth year. He is a native of j Sligo; entered the service when he was eight years old, and was a mid shipman when he took part in the bombardment of Algiers in 1S16. He succeeded in iseniority Admiral Sir Provo Wallace of Halifax, X. S-, who was more than 100 years old when he died a short time ago. Xot Worth aa Eton. At the naval academy at Annapolis they tell this story of an English pro fessor. While marking his class at the end of a recitation, a cadet in the rear part of the room craned his neck eagerly to see what had fallen to his lot The professor saw the movement, and, removing his glasses, said: “Mr. Blank, yonr mark is entirely too small to be seen at such a great distance.” A NEW SCIENCE. **•» * Mae MsT M tkt NS Is Uss TIM Ms Bm US. A wiU-kaows madieil isms was busy is his office when a patient called apon hint who hail a peculiar and in teresting malady. “Doctor, my arm twitches aad aches all the time; I can feel the pain to my finger ends," he said, presenting a stomp of ao arm grown from the shoulder for an inspection. ‘“How did yon lose your sad arm?” asked the doctor. “It was blown off in a mining ac cident.” “Yon are trembled this way often?” “Constantly, doctor. I ean at this moment feel the Angers of my lost arm contracting with pain.” "1 don't doubt it,” answered the doctor, calmly; “yon most dig up the arm and haTe it burned,, the n you will not suffer any more.” “Doctor, you are making fan of bm.** “1 .was never more in earnest in my life.” “I cannot find my arm- It is some where in Montana, returned to dost by this time.” “If that were the case your arm would not ache As soon as that member is entirely decomposed yon will lose the sense of pain. That is why I said it should be burned. There are sympathetic magnetic chords con necting it with your physical system; when eTery vestige of it is destroyed it will become a part of your astral body and give yon no pain. ” The man walked-thoughtfully away, and a visitor in the doctor’s office asked: “Doctor, is that superstition?” “So,” said the doctor, in a convin cing way; “it is science.” TOOK THE CAR. There is a decision and energy about Englishmen sometimes that arouses admiration. A case in point occurred very lately. Two men. whose clothes, monocles and accent forcibly an nounced their nationality, called at the ticket office of the Southern Paci fic railroad at Los Angeles, and asked for two lower berths on' the train to San Francisco. “They are ail gone. You ean have uppers, though,” was the response. “Oh, no; doneher know me friend is beastly 01, and he can’t go unless he has a lower berth. He most have one, doneher know?" The agent was sorry, bat as he only had upper births, he could do nothing.' Then the spokesman insisted on see ing Mr. Crawley, and that official again explained the absence of any lower birth, only to receive the reply: “Aw. yes; but we must have a lower, doneher know.” “All right, if yon must, you must.” answered the official. “They will cost you just We have an extra ear here and can pnt it in for yon at that figure, if upper berths are not good enough.” “Awl Yes, thanks awfully.” They paid the money, the empty Pullman was coupled onto the train, and the boys at the depot say that be fore the cars left the Englishmen had made the porter make up every berth in the car. They said they had paid for each of the sections ami they pro posed to come as near as possible to getting their money’s worth. HIS MEMORY. Judge Tomlinson of St. Paul had the reputation of being a little slow in paying his debts. Upon one occasion he was examining a witness, and in answer to almost eTery question the lawyer pot the reply was, “I don't re member,” or “I don't know.” Jndge Tomlinson became exasperated, and said: “Yon seem to have a very short memory. Is there anything that yon do remember?” “Yes, sir. I re member that a part of my father's es tate cons!ted of a note of yours nearly outlawed. I put it in judgment, and the statute of limitations witl run out in a few more weeks.” There was a general smile passed through the court room, but the judge was not pleased for an instant. He said: “Well, sir, you have by your admis sion a better memory than 1 have. Will you explain to the jury how it happens that you were able to forget the circumstances of the ease upon trial in so short a time?” The laugh was effectually turned at the expense of the witness. WnlUit Race of People. The inhabitants of the Andaman islands are the smallest race of people in the world taken as a whole. The average height of a full-grown Anda manan is three feet eleven inches and the average weight less than seventy pounds. They are very warlike, and, as they throw poisoned spears with marvelous accuracy, it is not at all strange that travelers do not care to encounter them. Without Doubt. Father Healey of Bray, one of the rery few avowed Unionist priests in Ireland, has been known for a long while past as a wit. The other day, an ardent politician asked his rever ence, "What do yon think, now, father. Mr. Tim Healy will be in the first Irish parliament, lord chancellor, attorney-general, or what?” "Share, he will be a very old man,'* was the reply- _ On the Safe Side. Whether an epithet is' libelons or not is determined by the law alone. There is a pleasant story of an Eng lish gentleman rushing into his friend's chambers in Lincoln's inn, and exclaiming: "Quick! quick! that scoundrel Jones is in Chancery Lane, and I want a list of all the abusive names I can call him without risk ot prosecution.'* BAROMETER OF THE SENATE. U tt» Ftn CaBnrj 1* CmM Tin Th« moTtmeats of the press |tUer]r overtaokiBg the seute chamber at Washington are doubtless the safest , barometer of the importance of the i doings on the floor below. If the gal ' Icry seats are well taken np some ! t bitty is surely transpiring in the chamber that is worth watching. If ! they are empty the {troceedings are ; apt to possess no interest. The public | may be mistaken and the visitors' gal I leries may be orerflowing, bat the curiosity seekers do mot possess the i delicate instinct of foretelling isn j pending crises, and if the press gat ; lery be empty, though expectancy be | written on entry face that peers down from the crowded balconies, no gladiatorial feats of competing orn I tory need be looked for, and disap pointment will overtake him who die j regards the signs. This eras well il i lastrated one day last winter. When : Mr. Gorman rose to reply to Senator Sherman not more than two or three heads appeared shore the row of seats ; in the press gallery. Once or twice ! Mr. Gorman’s eye wandered carelessly in that direction and encountered a tier of vacant seats, but he had not got far into his subject before bead after head appeared oxer the row of desks, and, as if by some subtile mag* : ie, forty or fifty men were in their : seats following the debate with close attention and mentally registering their comments on the proceedings. Each man had come from a different direction and from every conceivable corner of the vast block of corridors and committee-rooms. No one had told them what was on. It was the indefinable instinct of impending news developments. CHANCING A STYLE. Bow trail* 61ms Gas k Favor la Row One day a young Sew Yorker •ranted a pair of evening gloves late at night, and had to go over to Sixth avenue to get them. There was noth ing of his size in stock bat s pair of white gloves, while pearl alone are de regnenr. However, he was a dancing man and had to wear gloves, so he bought the gloves and in due course of time led the cotillon wear ing them. The chappies were as tounded. Xobody could question this man's irreproachable taste, and in fact, he was something of a leader of fashion. After sapper a breathless deputation waited upon him to know whether or not white gloves had come back again. “I'm wearing them myself, you see, dear boy,” he said Jokingly, but with a slightly superior smile. “I really haven't heard whether the prince has found it out or not.” Now your true dude is not suscepti ble to the influence of irony. Besides the deputation was flustered at the innovation. The resnlt was that they mixed those speeches np and in half an hour everybody in the room was saying that the prince of Wales had taken to wearing white gloves in the evening, and that Tom Blank was the first man in New York to hear of it. So white gloves and not pearl are the proper things to wear in New York city on dress occasions, and when our man of fashion strolled into the Met ropolitan opera house the other night and looked around the circle he smiled grimly. Half the men in the boxes looked as if they were carrying snow balls. DIDN'T LIKE THE JOB. tar tkt Tm«|«r Bratkw. In a Yorkshire Tillage there lived three brothers, bachelors: the only other inmate of their household was a housekeeper. The brothers, return ing home to dinner one day, found the housekeeper missing. On making inquiries, they discovered she had that morning married a farmer who lived near. It was evident there was no cbance of getting bock their run away housekeeper, and equally so that they most have someone to manage their domestic affairs. The elder brother said that the best thing would be for one of them to marry, bat, he added, “I shall not be that one: I am too old to marry.” "Not I,” said the second one, who considered himself something of an invalid; "I shall never think of marry ing.” “Ah!” said the younger brother, "I see what yon are driving at- It is jnst what I expected, if ever there is a nasty job to do, it is always left fo* me.” _ Vanderbilt's tats The big fence which surrounds the palace of Cornelius Vanderbilt, at Fifth a venae and Fifty-eighth street, in New York, is commented upon a good deal by out-of-town correspon dents and others interested in the do ings of this mnltl-millionaire. The fence is by no means a remarkable one to the casual observer. It is an iron fence, ten or twelve feet high, and similar to those in general use in Paris and Berlin. A member of the firm of iron-workers who manufac tured this fenee. in speaking of it re cently. said that it was a better piece of work than it seemed to be from the outside. It is wrought iron, not cast iron, and it cost Mr. Vanderbilt 842, ooo. Bow Above a rail Hud? Foot charming- young ladies were recently discussing- the beauties of the hand in a New York drawing-room. They differed decidedly in opinion. In the middle of the discussion a gen tleman presented himself, and the question was pot to him to be settled. With quick diplomatic tact he replied: "The question is too hard lor me, but ; ask the poor and they will tell yon. ! It seems to me, however, that the i most beautiful hand is the hand that gives.*' The Hob’s “Head to Foot” BOY'S OUTFIT** The Greatest Offer of tfee Century! (A FULL SUIT OF CLOTHES, i Ajo 5 to IS years—