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 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, Pvtfl f*rppv ___ . ttg every Wednesday evening * isitlng brothers cordi hull, attend. N. U. C. L. Bright, Sec. J. C. Haiinish, Ht P ’ A LI Ueti. •Utiimmrlul LODGE, u. d. i™«7 •lion,<’a5' at ft o'clock p. HUuws ball. Visiting brethern U \i i ifin ( HAS. Davis, C. C. allaoher. k. of K. and 8. ' j'A ( .\M l‘M J-" \'T V/\ nn Y second and'founb rnrathm Odd Fellows’Hall. Scribe, H. M. Uttlky. 'k’iKkaio o',;.,1,1 ’ “AyHTEHS ':mi >n "'Id Fcflows1' Han,3** ACAMS.i^^’»'"OHT,N.G. ' Lc- A, L. Towle, W. M. Stand7 or A. H OrniuETT, clerk. ^ O.F.Blg„u,M.w; ‘"■''tl of Mail. '^y'lScrudedMatnE EAS-1 < the west inciudel ai I'U'irtr ....... ••■aves;,.J?ORT Ltsg. p. A’M’ Arrives ’’vUeday Arrives ' NEnr — a J";»>'.'wt*dDanH°JKARA. —• •'■burs’1"! si.at.; , '•a>‘.Tburs "<1'rt-»H a E,H. Avn „ " Sat r BMfNii PWDBI 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. TELL5t“5ECREI SINCE I USED ^ SANTA I CLAUS SOAR Clothes are whiter,njy Health bette* my Labor less:* Best. Pwest Mmt Econonkn* ITHTwnlS lUENXrASBJUKCdPiUlT. MMK W MANHOOD SESTORRTO rr.lidMof Arftla UtiiR, Norvoat* Haer tOX o««h| •lytum or •lift ui bo carried || '>»* * |S ordar wa ' K* all mfiv. Hold hr Korualu In O’Neill, Neb • t .. * i uib.v *•*•*-' <• -UaruiijcXuiUpi«,0ll|CAaO. 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