tPl-'lCIAL DIRECTORY
static.
Lorenso Orounse
T. J. Majors
. .. j.o. Allen
in'.j. S. Hartley
" .George H. Hastings
' .Eugene Moor©
Instruction.
N ..^tatkuniveksity.
M.J.HalU
7 iSilliESSlONAL.
, Ml', r. Mamlerson, of Omaha;
iken i«ow; Win.
judiciary
.Samuel Maxwell
V.imiiio Pit ami T. L. Norval
.. J.J. KiiiK of O Neill
.A. In Bartow of O hadron
.A. L. Warrick, of O Nelli
AND OFFICES.
O'NEILL.
John A. flarjnon.
..Elmer Williams.
COUNTY.
..Geo McCutctaeon
;l;nistriotCourt.....J^Slffi
. .I. P. Mullen
. ..Sam Howard
..Bill Bethea
.....Mike McCarthy
. ....Chas Hamilton
. .Chas O'Neill
,.\V. H. Jackson
11,111 .Mrs. W. It. Jackson
.Dr. Trueblood
i . . M. F. Norton
.. H. E. Murphy
.sii’Kii vi son*.
.Frank Moore
.Wilson Brodle
.Willie Calkins
. George Eckley
.Fred Sohindler
.I. S. Dennis
.W. B. Ilalgh
. .D. G. Boll
. .8. Gllllson
.II. B. Kelly
. K. J. Hayes
„. ,...K. Slay maker
.. E.M. Waring
. 8.1i. Conger
. .. ..John Hodge
.J. H. Wilson
.lohn Murphy
V.George Kenuedy
. .John Alts
.James Gregg
. F. W. Phillips i
.Peter Kelly.,
.....John Orawfordl
.L. A. Jillison I
... H. O. Wine I
.'„”.T, E. Doolittle ij
.... J. B. Ilonohoe
. G. H. Phelps
.J. E.Whilo
.D. Trulllnger
/ / 71’ OF O' NEILL.
nr, Johu Murphy; Justices, E. II.
mill 11. Welton; Constables, John
id Perkins Brooks.
OPSCILMEN—FIRST WARD.
years.—John McBride. For one
I it Yunnan.
SECOND WARD.
years—Jake I'fund. For one year
THIRD WARD.
rears—Elmer Merrlman. For one
. Wagers.
CITY OFFICKRB.
Ii. Ii. Hickson; Clerk. N. Martin;
.lulm McHugh; City Engineer
risky; Police Judge, N. Martin;
Police, Charlie Hall; Attorney,
Jilin; Wcighmaster, Joe Miller.
U ATT AN TOWNSHIP.
.1 <ilin Whin: Trearurer. John
irk. U. II. Cronin; Assessor, Moso
■Pi'tiees, M. Castello and Chas.
uM.ces, Perkins Brooks and Will
I: ‘ el overseer ilist. dll. Allen Brown
■P im Enright.
'US' RELIEF COMMISSION.
meeting first Monday in Febru
l:year, and at such other times as
Mwssary. Kobt. Gallagher, Page,
"m. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary;
k Atkinson.
UK K’S CATHOLIC CHURCH,
is every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock.
Usttidy, Postor. Sabbath school
A' following services.
IHMST CUUItCU. Sunday
iri'—Preaelilng 10:30 a. m. and 7:1k)
" .'o. 1 «::ju a. m. Class No. 2 (Ep
Lgut*>0::«) p. m. Class No. 3 (Chiid
M Muid-week services—General
“‘ursday 7:30 r. m. All will
eioumo, especially strangers.
K. E. HOSMAN, Pastor.
POST.Nq. 86. The Gen. Joh
, ‘ No. se. Department of N<
"HI meet the tlrst and thir
tmng of each month In Mason!
S. J. Smith, Com.
"W'ALLEy LODGE,I. O,
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* isitlng brothers cordi
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MOST PERFECT MADE.
A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free
from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant,
40 YEARS THE STANDARD
PERILS OP THE SAHARA.
Chief Among Them I* the Terrible
8bmum or Sandstorm.
Writing of the misconceptions that
exist about the almost unknown land
of the desert, a traveler says: And
now to the sandstorms! Is the samum,
as it is called, really a poison that
brings destruction to man and beast?
Just as we discriminate between a
wind and a storm, just so the Sahara
has sandwinds and sandstorms.
Nachtigal, the great explorer, relates
that during a visit at Mursuk the air
was so filled with sand and dust that
everything on the oasis, the green in
the gardens, the palms, etc., was
changed to a dirty grayish color, and
such a veil of dust covered the heav
ens that the sun appeared as a mere
white speck, whose rays were so
broken that the entire surroundings
were in a constant twilight. This
was the result of a sandwind. The
samum, or sandstorm, makes its ap
pearance in a quite different manner.
About an hour, or even more, before
reaches you, heavy yellow clouds of
IM appear on the horizon. The at
a jrosphere is heavy and charged with
Electricity. A tired feeling befalls
jean and beast, and the camels be
Fcome unruly. They are forced to lie
down with their heads with the wind.
Men and women cover themselves
with their clothes, doing their best to
have their faces well concealed.
The samum generally lasts from ten
to thirty minutes, and is frequently ac
companied by a very heavy rain fall.
A samum with such a heavy down
pour was encountered by Rohlfs on
Easter Monday, April 12, 1879. The
wind changed to a terrible hurricane.
Rohlfs hod his tent, which was the
largest of the caravan, taken down
and crawled under the canvas, await
ing the “bride of the desert,”
as the Bedouin calls the
samum. The storm became fiercer
and fiercer, thick clouds, of which you
could not tell whether they were sand
or masses of steam, circled with ter
rific velocity over the heads of the
travelers; a cannonade of thunder vi
brated the earth. Once in a whilo
you heard the cracking of a palm as
the storm broke it in two. Then the
storm lifted the tent like a balloon, and
to make the confusion perfect the rain
came down in such a volume that a
few seconds sufficed to drench to the
skin. Then as if by magic, it became
wonderfully still and the glorious sun
appeared again in the purest and
bluest of ethers and, its powerful
tropical rays soon dried everything.
Without a doubt the samum is one
of the worst plagues of the desert; it
weakens man and beast, and the sand
and dust that is driven before it
forces its way through the smallest
crevices and thickest covers and per
meates mouth, nose and eyes, but not
In such quantities that it cannot be
got rid of with the greatest ease. The
very finest sand even forces its way
into watches, but none of it will suffo
cate man or animal, though one some
times fears that it may. A samum
ever so severe might- cover a whole
caravan with a heavy pall of dust and
sand, but it would never throw up
Such mountains of dust as to bury a
whole caravan. This is only one of
the many fables of the desert. These
sandstorms may, it is true, become
dangerous to travelers, but in a quite
different manner. The stock of water
of a caravan is generally carried in
goatskins. They are not particularly
good reseryoirs, however, for they
soon allow an enormous quantity of
their contents to evaporate, a result of
the extraordinary heat that a sand
storm brings with it. This evapora
tion, now and then, takes such pro
portions that a whole caravan might
die of thirst, especially when the hot
sandstorm has dried up all the springs
and pools on the way.
Ju Fear.
Enoch Arden, after an absence 01
forty years, approached his humble
cottage from the rear, but the most
casual observer could not fail to no
tice that Enoch’s suspenders were
fastened with shingle nails and that
there was a dearth of woman's care
throughout his make up.
“Ah!” he sighed as he faltered on
the back door step.
Ho raised his hand as if to knock,
hesitated, covered his face and shrank
away.
“I dare not!” ho exclaimed.
He had suddenly reflected that he
had forgotten to buy saleratus, as she
directed upon the occasion of his de
parture long ago.
After ho had gone the gibbous
moon rose grandly above the treo
tops just as if nothing had happened.
—Detroit Tribune.
Our Ladies $2.50 Camels Hair Under
wear has been reduced to $1.50 per suit.
Don t miss the Emporium when you
want underwear. 28-2
Cream Baking Powder
World s Fair Highest Medal and Pl|-|mi
VERY SENSITIVE.
But tbi Spick ul lp» Tons Mu
Made a Mistake.
A man I know ia telling with a
preat deal of delight a story whloh he
declared actually happened in hla
presence, on a train between Chioago
and Kansas City recently. A young
man and a young1 woman entered the
day coach at Chicago. They were
both very spick and span, and the
young man's spick and spanness was
of the sort than cannot be over
looked. lie had a new silk hat, a
new top coat, a chrysanthemum In his
buttonhole, and the air of one who
knows it all. lie had been in the car
only a short time when his sensitive
nostrils began to dilate with disgust.
He looked about him suspiciously and
he called the conductor.
“Conductor, conductor,” he said
languidly, "there’s a person in this
car smoking a cigar. It is a horrid
differ, one of the sort, I fancy, you
can buy five for a cent. It is very of
fensive to me and I must ask you to
have the person removed.”
The conductor looked all around,
but no cigar was to be seen. The
smell was unmistakable. Just then a
man in the next seat reached up and
took the dapper young man’s silk hat
down from the hat rack. There on
the curling brim waB a spark from
some stray cinder which had burned
a track nearly half way round the hat
Nobody said a word, but when th„*
young woman innocently remarko l:
"It wasn’t such a bad cigar after all.
was it?" everybody within hearing
felt that the first coolness of the
honeymoon had been inaugurated.
A QUESTION OF CZ AND T3.
How the Title of the Emperor of Rat*
•la Should Be Spelled.
Mention of the Parisian controversy
on the Russian emperor’s title has
brought out several communications
on the same subject. One writer says:
“The initial letter in Russian is a
double letter representing Ta,’ and
the title in our characters should be
spelled tear. I may mention that his
wife's title is tsaritsa and not osarlna,
and that of his eldest son tsosarevioh,
the other sons being ealled tsarevich. ”
Another correspondent writes: “The
first letter in the emperor's title is
the twenty-third in the Rus
sian alphabet It has invariably
the sound which in English
would be most accurately rendered by
‘Ts.’ The second letter is equivalent
to our 'A,' the third to our 'R,' and
there is a final semi-mute letter, which
may, perhaps, be disregarded. The
Russian pronunciation of the word is,
therefore, 'ts-a-r.' How the general
English custom of employing 'Cz’ in
the word arose it would be difficult to
say,for the Russian letters, 'Cz’are used
initially in only two or three words
in the whole language. They are
never employed, however, in ‘tsar’ or
any of its derivatives. There is no
‘czarina’ in Russian. The word is
•tsaritsa,’ with the accent on the
second syllable. The fact that the
Empress Catherine, the Emperor Paul,
and other Russians have used the
form ‘czar’ when writing in a foreign
language can hardly justify its use
when ‘Cz’ does not convey the orig
inal sound of our ‘Ts’ in that lan
guage.”
An Uncomfortable Howilih.
The elephant’s howdah is that bee
of Procrustes, in which one can
neither sit nor stand with any ap
proach to reasonable ease, and in
which a recumbent position is impos
sible! Its advantages are: First, that
standing in it, a man can shoot on
every side of him; second, that it is
convenient for the carriage of the oc
cupant's paraphernalia—his guns on
racks on either side, his ammunition
in a trough in front, his other requi
sites in leather pockets here and there
on the sides of the machine, or, as to
that bee blanket, on his seat, and,
third, that in the hinder compartment
an attendant can sit or stand to hold
that monstrous umbrella over his
head, or, when quick loading is re
quired, take from his hand the gun
just fired and recharge it. Those are
the advantages; otherwise the how
dah is an abomination.—Blackwood’s
Magazine.
Souvenirs In Balk.
Occasionally it is possible to satisfj
the souvenir seekers without doing
any damage in particular. This is
the case at the tomb of George Wash
ington, in Mount Vernon. A lady
had just picked up a pebble from the
walk in front of the venerated spot to
carry home with her, when a work
man came up with a wheelbarrow
full of gravel, which he dumped on
the spot. “Gave you—havo you
fixed up the place that way recently?'*
the lady asked in a slightly appre
hensive tone. “Bless you, miss,*’
was the reply, “>ve has to do this
about every two weeks so's the tour
ists can have something to carry away
for momentums.”
Spontaneous Combustion iu Hay.
M. Berthelot has been investigating
the causes of the spontaneous ignition
of hay in stacks, and he finds that the
hay kept in a stove at a temperature
of 140 degrees Celsius will take fire of
its own accord, and that on the whole
hay in a stack or loft heats by reason
of chemical changes which take place
in it. It is only, however, after the
hay has been altered by fermentation
that these changes take place.
Some of Trinity*. Activities.
Trinity parish. New York, is served
by a small army of organists, singers,
acolytes, and other semi-ecclesiastical
adjuncts to worship. There are twelve
organists and assistants, and more
than 300 persons are employed in the
choir or as acolytes, servers, and
crucifers. Besides these the parish
employs nearly forty teachers in its
daily schools, a score of sextons, and
nearly a dozen doctors.
FORTY MILLION CAKES YEARLY.
Sponges That Destroj Ojritsri. I
Certain sponges (Cliona) boro into
shells, especially those of the oyster,
finally causing them to crumble to
pieces. On the American coast Cliona
sulphurea not only destroys the shells
of oysters, mussels and scallops, but
has even boon known to penetrate one
or two inches into hard marble. It
has been uncertain whether this effect
Is mechanical or duo to the solvent
effect of somo acid, but M. Latellier
has lately shown the French academy
that a purely mechanical action suf
fices.
A Cnnslrisratlsn.
“I know.” said the suitor to the
fair ono's father, “that my resources
are limited. But if I marry your
daughtor your expenses will bo dimin
ished.”
“How is that?”
“You won’t have any further rea
son to maintain that overgrown bull
dog.” __
To Fay His Far*.
In ancient times in Greece it was
customary to place a ooin under the
tongue of a dead person. This was
to pay his fars to Charon, whoso duty
it then was to fsrry the deceased over
the river Acheron, in the infernal
regions.
Unfair VMncrlmlnatlon.
Hobble—I notice that In some places
the authorities have prohibited trolley
parties on account of the noise they
make.
Lobbie—That’s quoer. The authori
ties never interfere with theater
parties.
Bar l.alln All Might.
“What," asked the flippant young
man, “was the name of Lot’s wife?”
“Sal,” answered the young woman from
Boston ;and the flippant young man was
afraid to ask on what promises she
based her conclusions.—Indianapolis
Journal.
On tha Side of Justice.
Herbert Hpencer, while traveling
in England, pounced upon every man
in the cars who smoked, or who even
attempted to smoke out of the win
dows. “Is it disagreeable to you?”
they would ask. “Not at all,” he
would reply; “but it is against the
law, and the law is a propor one. You
have no right to break it, and you
shall not do it; and if you do not de
sist I will call the guard.” With
porter, cabby, or steamboat captain,
he was ever ready to do battle in the
cause of justice.
F. J. Biglin will furnish you all kinds
of coal, in carload lots or in small
quantities. He can also furnish you
with coal oil and gasoline by the gallon
or barrel. Get his prices before buying
whereelse. 15tf
Heart Disease 30 Yrs!
Short Breath, Palpitation.
Mr. G. W. McKinsey, postmaster of
Kokomo, Ind., and a brave ex-soldier,
says: “1 had been severely troubled
with heart disease ever since leaving
the army at the close of the late war.
I was troubled with palpitation and
shortness of breath. I could not
sleep on my left side, and had pain
around my heart. I became so ill
that I was much alarmed, and for
tunately my attention was called to
Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure
I decided to try it. The first bottle
made a decided improvement in my
condition, and five bottles have com
pletely cured me.”
G. W. McKINSEY, P. M., Kokomo, Ind
Dr. Miles Heart Cure is sold on a positive »
guarantee that the first bottle will benefit.
All druggists sell It at tl. 6 bottles forte, or
It will be sent, prepaid, on receipt of price ,
by the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, lod i
For sale by all Druggists.
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Good, careful drivers when
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f Fresh, Dried and Salt Meats
Sugar-cured Ham, Breakfast
Bacon, Spice Roll Bacon, all
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