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.. lioveruor. j Allen
,,f state. J.S. Bartley
usurer.-.George »• Hastf'UW
•acral. ..Eugene Moore
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cllSr,REGIONAL.
dirts E. Manderson. of Omaha,
!-'»■Vf Bryan. UnootasO.
i’.’r.ikt-n Bow; Will. McKelEhan, bed
JUDICIARY.
Samuel Maxwell
■.'.judge Boat and T. L.Norval
BESTHJDWCIALDimHjCT.
. .1. J. King of O Neill
.. I, Bartow of chadron
.A L. Warrick, of O’Neill
land offices.
O'NEILL.
_Elmer Williams.
COUNTY.
.Geo McCutcheon
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.I. P. Mullen
_Sum Howard
_Bill Bethea
■’...Mike McCarthy
..Chas Hamilton
_Chas O'Neill
,W. It. Jackson
' Mrs. NV. K. Jackson
....Dr. Trueblood
_M.F. Norton
E. Murphy
SUPER VISORS.
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. .Wilson Brodle
..Willie Calkins
. ..George Eckley
. .Fred Schindler
. I. S. Dennis
.W. B. Halgh
. .D. G. Boll
. .. .8. Gllllson
. H. B. Kelly
. R. J. Hayes
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“ky.. ..E. M. Waring
. S. L. Conger
. .John Hodge
.J. H. Wilson
..lolin Murphy
..George Kennedy
■. .John Alts
. I ames Gregg
..'.F. W. Phillips
...Peter Kelly
.John Crawford
... L. A. Jilllson
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"T. E. Doolittle
, J. B. llonolioe
... G. H. Phelps
J. E. White
... D. Trulllnger
CITY OR O’NEILL.
isor. John Murphy; Justices, B. H.
■t and B. Welton; Constables, John
ami Perkins Brooks.
COl'NCILMEN—FI RST WARD.
wo vears.—John McBride,
cn IK'Yiirman.
For one
SECOND WARD.
to years-Jake Ffund. For one year
Katz.
THIRD WARD.
royears—Elmer Merriman. For one
, M. Wasrers.
CITY OFFICERS.
. U. n. Dickson; Clerk, N. Martin;
■r, John McHugh; City Engineer
irrisky; Police Judge, N. Martin;
){ Police, Charlie Hall; Attorney,
■nediet; Weighmaster, Joe Miller.
r,RATTAN TOWNSIIIP.
visor. John Winn; Trearuror. John
Clerk. 1). II. Cronin; Assessor, Mose
11; Justices, M. Castello and Chas.
ll; Justices, Perkins Brooks and Will
■; Koad overseer dist. Allen Brown
4. John Enright.
rKRS' RELIEF COMNISSION.
nr meeting tirst Monday in Febru
Hth year, and at such other times as
*'i necessary. Iiobt. Gallagher, Page,
n: Wm. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary;
ark Atkinson.
iTlilCK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH,
nuee every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock,
'v. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school
Rely following services.
IIODIST CHURCH. Sunday
mws-1'reachiug 10:80 A. M. and 7:30
No. 1 0:30 A. M. Class No. 2 (Ep
- Iiguoi |.. M. Class No. 3 (Chlld
"1 >i. Mind-week services—General
Thursday 7:30 p. m. All will
'Udeume, especially strangers.
E. E. HOSMAN, Pastor.
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evening of each month in Mason
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T!i( Dialect of the Yakut*.
An interesting piece of translation
is that of the Russian liturgy into the
dialect of the Yakuts of Northeastern
Siberia, which has just been accom
plished by some Russian scholars.
The language of the Yakuts is so poor
that it can only reckon a total of 200
root words. They have no word for
'•body” as distinguished from "flesh,”
and none for "bread.” The Lord’s
prayer, even, could not be translated
literally. _
Be Was Nettled.
The man was losing every game at
cards, and the lady on the other side
of the table was laughing at him.
'“Ah, well,” she said in sarcastic sym
pathy, when he had to buy another
basket of chips, “unlucky at cards,
lucky at love, you know.” "Yes,” he
said, "and I guess it must be true, foi
you see 1 am still a bachelor.”
A Washington young man was so
much given to exaggerated expression
that his friends found it necessary to
remonstrate.
"Think before you speak,” said one
of them. “That’s the only way to do
it.” And several friends who were
near endorsed the advice.
“But that takes time,” he pleaded.
"I never misrepresent anything that
is really important, you know. All I
do is to allow the exuberance of my
fancy to gush forth.”
“It doesn’t make any difference.
You are making a mistake. You are
getting a reputation which is hurtful
to you socially and in a business way.”
“What’ll I do?”
“Neve*- say anything you are not
absolutely sure of.”
“Well, I’ll try it.”
It was some days after when they
met on the street. Both were in a
streaming perspiration, and the friend
of the imaginative man remarked:
“Hot, isn’t it?”
The only reply was a look of earnest
reflection.
“I say it’s mighty hot.”
The young man reached around into
his coat-tail pocket, drew out a ther
mometer and, after gravely inspect
ing it, said:
“Ninety degrees in the shade. Yes,
I think I am justified in replying to
you, as I have to several other people
to-day, that the heat is very intense,
although nothing extraordinary for
this time of the year.
snaps or a rut’* Eye.
In a communication to the London
Zoological society, Mr. Lindsay John
son describes the results of his exam
ination of the eyes of 180 domestic
cats, as well as those of all the acces
sible vfild meinhers of the cat family,
lie concludes that the natural shape
of the cat’s pupil is circular, though
under various degrees of light it as
sumes every shape from the circle
through all kinds of ovals to a straight
vertical line. The younger the cat
the greater the tendency to become
a pointed oval in ordinary light. In
the smaller felidaa, brilliant sunlight
causes contraction to a line; in the
larger, som.-tirais to a small circle.
When a cat is suddenly alarmed the
pupil momentarily dilates, in sleep it
always contracts.
In Command for the l ir>t Time.
A man-of-war was lying off Gibral
tar, and permission was given to the
men to go ashore for the day. The
sailors amused themselves iu various
ways, among others by riding about
on donkeys; and their want of experi
ence in this line caused much merri
ment. An officer observing one of the
men sitting very far back on the ani
mal, instead of the usual position,
called out, ‘T say, Jack, get up more
emidships!” W.tli an injured air he
replied: “Well, sir, this is the first
craft that ever I commanded ift my
life, and its hard indeed if I can’t ride
in the quarter deck if I like.”
t he Life-Saver.
On the road between Yarmouth and
Gorleston, England, is a small obelisk
or monument, with a device of a ship
in a storm, a rocket with a rope at
tached just passing over it, and bear
ing the following inscription: “In
commemoration of the 12th of Febru
ary, 1808, on which day, directly east
ward of this spot, the first life was
saved from shipwreck by means of a
rope attached to a shot, propelled by
the force of gunpowder, over the
stranded vessel. A method now uni
versally adopts 1, and to which at
least 1,000 sailors of different nations
owe their preservation.”
The I'irat I)oj Tac.
The inventor of the dog* tax in Ens
land was Mr. Dent of a Westmorelai:
family, and a partner in Child’s banl
After Pitt had imposed the tax, Dei
was universally known by the nan
°f, Dent.” He frequently r
ceived large hampers freely garnishf
with hares’ legs, pheasants’ tail
grouse and partridge wings, etc., bi
invariably filled with dead dogs.
HE’S AN HEIR.
Bat Sergeant ••Billy” Blair Will stick
to the Force.
It would be difficult to find a hap
pier man on Manhattan island than
Police Sergeant "Killy” Blair, who is
attached to the city hall station.
“Billy,” as his companions style him,
has fallen heir to a fortune of $50,000,
left him by his uncle, Lewis R. Blair,
and yet when seen the other evening
he was as assiduously delving into
the depths of the Police Manual
as though nothing unusual bad hap
pened.
"Will I leave the department?’’ re
marked the sergeant. "No, sir. Fifty
thousand dollars will make no dif
ference in me. I’ll remain right here.
I'm too fond of my duties and com
panions to permit such a trifle as $50,
000 to change my course of life. By
the way, that puts me in mind of
something. Say, do you know that
my uncle, Lewis, was a son of Robert
Blair, of Marlborough, Ulster county,
N. Y., a member of General Washing
ton's life guards and the identical
soldier who gave Major Andre his
last breakfast on earth. Proud of my
genealogical tree? Well, I should say
so. And if ever you visit the parlor
of my humble abode you will find
Robert Blair’s honorable discharge by
Georgo Washington framed and given
a prominent place in my collection of
valuable paintings.
“How many years have I been on
the force? Well, I guess you may
say 38. One of the old volunteer fire
laddies? Yes, sir, and proud of the
distinction. I haven’t got the $50,000
yet, for I understand that Surrogate
Arnold’s decision is to be appealed
from. But it will make no difference.
Nothing but old age will drive me
from the department. What’s that?
Purchase a racing Btud? No sir—but
excuse me, I must attend to my
duties,” and Sergeant Blair proceeded
to answer a hurry call on the tele
graph instrument
TOLSTOI,
And the Challenge He Threw Down to
the Ciar.
I dare say that many of my readers
will hare wondered how it is that the
novelist, Count Tolstoi, should be per
mitted to profess such very socialistie
and revolutionary doctrines in his
writings without hindrance on the
part of the Muscovite authorities,who
have sent many another to the mines
of Siberia for utterances in speech
and print not one hundredth part as
inflammatory as those of the count.
In the first place several of his rel
atives hold high office both at court
and in the government administra
tion, one of his cousins being minister
of the interior, while another is chief
of the household to old Orand Duke
Michael. When the novelist first com
menced to write in his present in
cendiary fashion the emperor sent
for him and urged him to desist.
“Will your majesty,” answered Tol
stoi, “doff for an instant your impe
rial mantle and judge my works, not
as an autocrat, but as an ordinary
man? If a single word of my writings
offends your human sense I will cut
off my right hand. ”
Alexander became thoughtful, did
not reply, and affably took leave of
the novelist, who, no matter what he
has written, has ever since, by his
majesty’s orders, been treated with
astounding immunity in connection
with his socialistic writings. The
czar, however, was unable to prevent
him from being excommunicated for
his heresy by the holy synod, of
which M. Pobiedonotzoff is the chief.
Telephone* In Church.
Supporters of the telephone system
in Birmingham can now be placed in
communication with Christ church in
that city and practically take part in
the services. The telephone wires
run straight into the pulpit, and the
listeners at the other end of the sys
tem can hear the tolling of the bell,
the prayers, the responses, the sing
ing, and the sermon. Even casual
coughing among the congregation can
be distinguished. There are many
classes of persons on whom this new
departure confers a great boon. The
sick and bedridden, who have long
been prevented from attending any
place of worship, can now be present,
if not in flesh, in the hearing.
Too Mach tor Her Pride.
A French conjuror, who was per
forming in Nantes, announced at a
certain stage of the 'entertainment
that his next trick would bo to cut off
the head of some one present, and he
invited volunteers to come up and sub
mit to the operation. Upon this a
young man, “who was known to have
quarreled recently with his fiance,”
presented himself with the resolu
tion of despair, and everything had
been made ready for his decapitation,
when the lady, who was also present,
broke into piercing screams, rushed
onto the platform, seized her intended
by the arm and dragged him from the
hall. _
Who Made This Neat Panic?
We should like to know the name
of the author of the following puzzle
and anagram:
A-old woman with — Intent
Put on her-and to market went:
••-,” said she, “give me, I pray.
The wherewithal to-this day ”
Each of the blanks is to be filled
with a word of four letters and the
same letters occur in each of the five
different words. These words are
consecutively, “vile,” “evil,” “veil,”
“Levi” and “live.”
Presumption.
Thomas Sheridan, the father 01
Lady Dufferin, once displeased Uis
father, who, remonstrating with him,
exclaimed: “Why, Tom, my father
would never have permitted me to do
such a thing!” “Sir.” said his son, in
a tone of the greatest indignation,
“do you presume to compare your
father to my father?”
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Dec. 15.
Hungarians are making prepara
tions on a grand scale for a mltlenlal
exhibition, and the government ad
dressed a prayer to the emperor that
he might lend thorn all tho his
toric relics in his possession which
have any connection with Hungarian
history. Tho emperor granted the re
quest and a number of Hungarian his
torians and antiquarians have come
to Vienna to study the imperial col
lection and make a list of tho objects
in question. They have selected a
great number, which roprosent a val
ue of 2,000,030 florins—if the value of
uniquo historical rolics can be ex
pressed in figures. Among these ob
jects ave copies of the portraits in re
lief of King Mathias, Corvinus and
Qucien Beatrix, a bronze bust of Mnry,
queen of Hungary; bronze reliefs of
Adrien Fries, illustrating the Hunga
rian wars; the remnants of the crown
of King Andreas and the imperial
globe, dating from the fourteenth cen
tury; the double cross that belonged
to Lewis the Great, with relics of
Christ’s cross; a map of Hungary en
graved in a metal plate, a nautilus
shaped cup, with arms of the Batthy
anis. It is easy to imagine what ef
forts will bo made in Hungary to pre
vent these objects from returning to
Vienna when once they have been in
the Hungarian capital; and if they
are left there surely Prague would
ask for all that referred to Bohemia
in the imperial collections, and Cra
cow for all that referred to Poland.
MU Idea Cost Him USO.
Arthur E. Fowler of Lynn, Massa
chusetts, pleaded guilty in the United
States district court to the charge of
using the United States mails in a
scheme to defraud. He was arrested
some time ago for advertising in the
newspapers staling that he would
send a lady, on receipt of ten cents, a
new improvement as a substitute for
the obnoxious hat pin. When he re
ceived the money he inclosed in an
envelope two small rubber bands,
with instructions to fasten one end of
a rubber to the hat and then pull it
under the car. After tho facts were
stated by United States Assistant Dis
trict Attorney John II. Casey to Judge
Nelson he fined Fowler 650 and the
costs of prosecution.
Cnod-NHtured and witty.
Perhaps the best-natured, and at
the same time one of tho wittiest, re
joinders in religious dispute was that
made by Father O'Leary to an Irish
Protestant. “I have no objection,”
said the latter, “to having the Virgin
Mary treated with reverence,but only
as a respectable, venerable woman—
just such a one as my own mother.”
"Still,” replied O’Leary, "you must
allow there is some difference in the
children.”
HEART DISEASE!
Fluttering, No Appetite, Could Not
Sleep, Wind on Stomach.
“For a long time I liad a terrible
pain at my heart, which fluttered al
most incessantly. I had no appetite
and could not sleep. I would be com
pelled to sit up in bed and belch gas
from my stomach until I thought
that every minute would be my last.
There was a feeding of oppression
about my heart, and I was afraid to
draw a full breath. I could not sweep
a room without resting. My hus
band induced me to try
Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure
and am happy to say it has cured
me. I now have a splendid appetite
and sleep welL Its elfect was truly
marvelous.”
MRS. HARRY E. STARR, Pottsvillo, Pa.
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