FfldAL DIRECTORY STATIC. ..Lorenao Orounse . T. J. Majors .. j. p. Alien late.j g. Hartley ;"na:.'::v:::oeor^H.H«?uu?s I instruction. v.^TATB UNIVERSITY. nXURKSSrONAL. ,.hlis p. Manderson, of Otnaba; , ,,f Sladlsoii .lives—Wm. 1 .keu Row; Win. JUDICIARY ..Samuel Maxwell e.judge Post and T. L. Norval .. J.J. Kin* of O Neill .. U Bartow of Ohadron .A L Warrick, of O'Neill IANu vrr w&v* O’NEILL. . John A. Harmon. ....Eluier Williams. COUNTY. Geo McCutctaeon . district Court ... .JolmSklrying .O. M. Collins .I. P. Mullen _Saul Howard "".Bill Bethea .Mike McCarthy ' "....Chas Hamilton _Chas O'Neill ..W. H. Jackson Mrs. W. R. Jackson ... Dr. Trueblood ...M. F. Norton ... H. E. Murphy SUPER VISORS. .Frank Moore .Wilson Brodle . .Willie Calkins . .George Eckley _Fred Schindler . .J. 8. Dennis .W. B. Halgh ..D. G. Roll . .S. Gllllson .H. B. Kelly ,.R. J. Hayes _R. Slaymaker .E. M. Waring .8. L. Conger .John Houge .J. H. Wilson ... .John Murphy .George Kennedy .John Airs .James Gregg ..F. W. Phillips .Peter Koliy '.'.'.John Crawford .L. A. Jilllson ... II. O. Wine ...T. E. Doolittle ....J. B. Donohoe G. H. Phelps .J. E. While .... D.Trulllnger 77 Y OP O'NEILL. r, John Murphy; Justices, E. H. ml B. Welton; Constables, John i Perkins Brooks. INCILMEN—FIRST WARD. years.-*! ahn McBride. For one DeYarman. SECOND WARD. pear a-Jake Pfund. For one year THIRD WARD. rears—Elmer Merriman. For one , Wagers. CITY OFFICERS. . R. Dickson; Clerk, N. Martin; John McHugh; City Engineer sky; Police Judge, N. Martin; Police, Charlie Hall; Attorney, lict; Weigh master, Joe Miller. I ATT AN TOWNSHIP. or. John Winn: Trearurer, John .■rk. D. H. Cronin; Assessor, Mose Justices, M. Castello and Chas. Justices, Perkins Brooks and Will ioad overseer dist. 2ti, Allen Brown John Enright. ((.s' RELIEF COMNISSION. meeting first Monday In Febru i year, and at suoh other times as necessary, llobt. Gallagher, Page, "m. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary; . Atkinson. HICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, is every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock. Cassidy, Poator. Sabbath school ly following services. >DIST CHURCH. Sunday ces-Preaohlng 10:30 A. M. and 7:3U sNo.1 9:30 A. M. Class No. 2 (Ep Kuei6;30p.M. Class No. 3 (Child ' m. Mmd-week services—General etmgThursday 7:30 p. m. All will eicume, especially strangers. E. E. HOSMAN, Pastor. ■f£8,T*Na80- T*16 Gen. Joh d Post, No. 80, Department of N< the fll-8t and thlr , enlng of each month in Masoni S. J. Smith, Com. S?.VALLBY LODGE, I. O. G -kit an ^ )y,edn,esday evening 1 ittend' Vl ltlng brothers cordlaU N’ G- C. L. BniQHT, Sec. BHS Stc- J. C. Harnish, H. P fssSSRKffiSA? ivlted.W8 ' Isltlng brother! ^^B.K.MnTs0-0' NO 80-1 Scribe, H. M. Uttley. EBEKAH^a4*1* daughters -“SS'S™"A“ ADAMS,SeSy.“K,UHT-N-G ^ V5“mwhnUraday c- A. L. Towle, w. M. ^S-kSH Tueed^ in A. H. Cohbktt, clerk. ;;uf'\1Tud?aay50:t'(.^.Ket8 s°n°nd iL «aU. * 01 e*ch month in iHu-^ Hec. ~ - O- F. Bljflin,M. W. f0ST°PFICEDmcET0RV *">»»! of Main FUnu .. -Jnd»nnc&£ SACinr __ * “*viuat-(i at '"1&SD CHtLSt* •ndaj-. W^f JeADDocit. °May vr'l^0 Ni°MRara ]^hv Th^-antlFri at .* Oft. V?1W> CtHKXRa. ‘••• •a.1 00 llnd I'riday. ^1-* ’ '""‘‘•And Friday ^"U:: Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair, •30R; BAKING POWBffi MOST PERFECT MADE. A pUre Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. Lord Fitznoodle, the second cousin of Lord Dundreary, had; .with his valet, the estimable James Yellow plush, come to America and gone West in the hope of bagging a few grizzly bean and buffaloes. America and Americans seemed to the noble lord “beastly vulgar, donoher know," and this opinion he frankly told those Americans whom he favored with his lordly society. Nevertheless, fate compelled him to accept as a traveling companion a rampant American. They were traveling on horseback across the prairies, and one day, after a vain search for the settlement in which they were to spend the night, they came to a cross road which boasted of a charcoal blacksmith’s hut and a sign post The sign read: “Mugg’s corner, four miles on the right-hand road. If you can't read ask the blacksmith." Thereat the American laughed long and loud but the Englishman re mained silent and pensive. “I say,my good fellow,” he expostu lated, “I cawn’t see the joke, doncher know. What is it?" "If you don’t see it,” replied the American, “I shall not tell you. But I will tell you what I will do. If you see it before we leave the inn to-mor row I’ll pay the bills.” All through the rest of the day and evening the Englishman remained silent. He was working the brain of five centuries of culture. When the American retired to his straw mat tress there had as yet dawned no gleam of intelligence on the English man’s face. But in the middle of the night the former was awakened by a loud knock on his door accompanied by a hearty laugh. “I say, me good man,” came the voice, “it is a good joke, doncher know. Suppose the blacksmith should be out?” CURINO CROSS EYES. This 1* Now Bead 11/ Performed by the Earl/ Use of Glasses. Strabismus, or “cross eyes” are now safely and almost painlessly cor rected. The desired result may be obtained by the wearing of proper spectacles in early youth; but if the evil is not then corrected, an opera tion, later on, will be necessary. The removal of a "cataract” from the eye is one of the most delicate operations performed by the oculist A cateraot is formed by the lens of the eye becoming opaque, so as to appear grayish or otherwise, when it shuts out the light from the optic nerve. The oculist of to-day outs into the ball of the eye and removes the dark ened lens, and the optician supplies the defect by artificial lenses that make good the sight The demand for glass eyes is in creasing as the character and quality of the eyes improve. Unsightly eye balls are now removed in part leav ing enough of the muscles to rotate the glass shell that is placed over them. Where the work is properly done the possessor of the glass eye can move it about with all the natur alness of a real optic, and in many cases it is very difficult to tell the manufactured article from the genu ine. All the wild stories about substitut ing rabbits' eyes for human eyes, or the statements to the effect that oculists can take eyes from their sockets, wipe them on a coarse towel and restore them unimpaired to the happy patient, are all moonshine, and any one who is called upon to listen to any such tales is perfectly justified if, under such circumstances, he should wink the other eye. 1 wo Dafinltloni of a Goat Is man. “It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be breve, to be wise, and possessed of all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful manner,” says the great novelist, Thackeray. A-dlner, who had been im bibing too freely, became so noisy that the proprietor directed his re moval. The waiter who successfully accomplished this, on returning to the room, expressed his regret at having been obliged to put the indi vidual out. “For,” said be, with etn phasis, “he’s a perfec’ gentleman;" adding, after a pause, as if to ex plain how he arrived at so decided a conclusion, “he gave me ’alf a crown.” froit In Kggs and Apples. An egg expands when it is frozen, and breaks its shell. Apples contract so much that a full barrel will shrink until the top layer is a foot below the chine. When the frost is drawn out the apples assume their normal size and fill up the barrel again, borne varieties are not appreciably injured by being frozen if the frost is drawn out gradually. Apples will carry safely in a refrigerator car while the mercury is registering twenty degrees below zero. Potatoes, being so largely composed of water, are easily frozen. Or. Price’* Cream Baking Powder World-. Mr Highest K A DOQ’S BURIAL. Th« ttnan rmnl That Mad* Faria Talk. A tale of grief ia related in the Paris newspapers in connection with a Mr. and Mrs. W. (only the initial is given). They were lately staying at one of the hotels in Paris. Their dog, a little fellow named Kwik, fell ill. The most renowned veterinary of Paris was summoned. He took the dog in cltarge. Mr. and Mrs. W. paid four visits dally to the ailing puppy. But the dog died and an undertaker was summoned—an undertaker of the pompes funebres. ne winces when, being ordered to take the measure, he finds the mortal remains of a little dog. But the gen erous orders given seem to have re stored him to satisfaction—a coffin of oak, lined with white satin, an out side coffin of lead, a mausoleum in the garden of their country place, &e. At the last moment the undertaker, feeling that the proceedings were a variation from the usual customs, and --'tiv jcuuiyc a shock thereby,paidjh visit to the police commissioner. He asked for a permit to pass the customs, Ao. The com missioners had doubts and suggested that two witnesses be procured to prove that the double coffin contained the corpse of a dog. Finally came the interment. Two hundred francs bought flowers enough to serve. Several friends were in vited to assist at the burial. Three landaus costing ISO francs, a grilled vault, a monument costing 1,500 francs, an undertaker’s bill for 450 francs, altogether the bills amounted to 3,500 francs. The paragraph de scribing the event closes thus: “Not only is the dog the friend of man, man is also the friend of the dog.” TWO VEGETARIAN DOQS. Canines at the Ball Persuasion Fond of Potatoes, turhlps and Cabbage. Jim Boyes, a San Francisco man who keeps What it known as the Golden Shore butcher shop, has two vegetable-eating bull-dogs, who have managed to live and thrive on pota toes, carrots, turnips, cabbage and other varieties of vegetables, together with a little fruit occasionally by way of dessert. Paddy, the male dog, 6 years of age, has been living on green goods for about five years, while Nellie, the mate, has eaten the fooa since her acquaintance with Paddy, which is of about two years’ standing. Mr. Boyes recently fed the dogs in the presence of a reporter. He threw a big early rose potato down the sidewalk, and Paddy reached the prize first, took it in his mouth, bit it in two pieces and dropped 'it again. Nellie took the largest piece an ate every fragment. Paddy then took the other half and gulped it down whole. “He doesn’t care much for potatoes; but he will eat them if Nellie does,” said Mr. Iioyes. “You must not imagine that he broke the potato in two as an act of chivalry. He proba bly thought it was a turnip.” As intimated by Mr. Boyes, Paddy prefers tfirnips, and always peels them himself. Mr. Boyes then threw Paddy a white turnip about the siza of his fist. The dog caught it in his mouth, rolled it around a few mo ments, spit out a handful of peel, and quietly munched the tender heart with as much relish as Ward McAllis ter would dissect a tenderloin. His mate used the same care while eating* her turnip, but swallowed the pota toes, skin and all. i i THE BRAIN NEVER SLEEPS. \ It Is Bare, However, That Sermons | Are Tbns Fashioned. j The late Rev. C. II. Spurgeon never ] composed his sermons until late in i the week. One Saturday night he j shut himself Into his study, chose his text, and began to work out his idea. But the wheels of thought drove so hard that he strove in vain. The sermon would not come. Despairing of success that night, he retired, but on awakening he waa confronted with the awful state of affairs, the gravity of which only men who have had a similar experi ence can realize. Church services were only three or four hourB’ distant. He had his text, but not a shadow of a line of thought was in sight. In his extremity he ap pealed to his wife to help him out. "What is your text?” she asked. He told her, and at once she pro* ceeded to put the whole thing before* him—firstly, secondly and so on. “You’ve hit it exactly!” cried Spur geon, in astonishment. "Where did you get it?” "Why, you sat up in the middle of the night and went through it your lelf,” was her reply. New Imitation Silver. This alloy has the appearance of silver, receives and retains a high polish, does not tarnish, can be rolled, into sheet or drawn into wire, and is. cheap to manufacture. It is composed of copper, nickel, spelter, animony, tin and lead, and is prepared as fol lows: Mixture No. 1 is first prepared, by melting 73 pounds of copper and adding first twenty pounds of nickel, and then twelve pounds of spelter, one pound of antimony and one pound of tlri. Sixty-four pounds of this mixture is then melted, and thirty two ounces of spelter, two pounds of tin and eight ounces of lead are' added, thus forming the improved slloy._ Wholeoulfl Elopement. At Delnicze. near Flume, on the. Adriatic, twenty-six girls were car ried off on horseback in one night, recently by lovers to whom their' parents had refused to give them. It. is not uncommon for Croatian girla to force consent to their marriage by an elopement, but an organized raid like this is unprecedented, and has. made a sensation, even in Croatia. CURB FOR 8NORINO. Bat a Lawsuit la rnapMt II Trouble KnsasU. Every one tn tho sleeping ear was sound asleep when the train stopped at a water tank,and some one sudden ly be (ran to snore. In three minutes everybody but the snorer was wide awake and growling about it The porter was routed out and ordored to stop the disturbance, but after a brief investigation he reported that tho offender was a woman, and he did not dare disturb her. We hoped she might cease when the train moved on. but it was a vain hope. High abovo the rumble of the wheels sounded her lonely and long-drawn snore, and at length a woman was prevailed upon to go to the berth and arouse her. It was an old lady who had raised all the row, and she put her head out and looked around and in nocently inquired: “Has any one in this car bin sud denly tooken sick or anything?" lou woke everybody up, ma'am," replied the porter. ‘‘I did I For tho land's sake, but how did I do it?" “You snored, ma'am.” "Was that all? 01 course, I snored. I’ve been snorin’ ever sinee I was married, which was thirty-one years ago, and yon don't expeck I’ll quit now, do you?" “But we can’t sleep if you snore," called a passenger. “Sakes alive, but how pertlckler! My old man has never lost two winks of sleep on that account. Wall, of course, there are folks and folks. I don’t want to disturb nobody, and if—’’ “What is it, ma’am?” asked the por* ter. "I want five or six pins to hold In my mouth. If I was home, I'd use skirt buttons, but I guess I couldn't find ’em here. I’ll use the pins. I’ve tried 'em before, and I know they’ll stop the snorin’; but I want to tell the hull passle of you sunthin’ right here and now: If I swaller them pins, and anything eums of it, my old man’ll make every one of you pay in as much as a itollar fur funeral expenses or start the biggest lawsuit you ever heard of!" WEAR TROUSERS. The Costumes of Milkmaids In Prussian Dairies. The maids in the great Elbing dairies in West Prussia have taken to wearing trousers. This establish ment is the largest in that oountry, and employs nearly 300 milkers, all of whom are females. For years the management has been experimenting with different kinds of costumes for the women, trying to design one that was warm, useful and becoming at the same time. The skirts, were they long or short, full or narrow, always proved a hin drance to the work, and often a dan gerous ornament, too, for once in a while an enraged cow would take offense at the frock or else step on it and upset the milk pail ahd the milker at the same time. Finally the management adopted the dairy-maid costume. Its desing, is after those of the“advanced”bicycle and fencing cos tumes for women. The costume is of blue and white striped linen for summer wear and of flannel in similar colors for winter. The girls wear no corsets and the modern hygienic principle of combin ing warmth with the smallest possible weight in woman’s dress is well ex emplified. Nothing hinders the free use of their arms and legs. They may sit down,rise or bend over their work without adjusting their clothes and also without experiencing any dis comfort. The trousers have a slit about six inches long above the hips. The loose-fitting waistband serves to hold up the stockings by suspenders. To distinguish between the differ ent grades of employes the milkmaids wear white caps, the pupils white caps with black velvet bands, and the teachers caps with silver lace, for not only the employes, but also the appren tices, among whom are daughters of well-to-do farmers and ladies of the landed nobility, must don the new costume, which is not only becoming but has prevented the accidents com mon in a dairy. A physician of Montpelier was it the habit of employing a very ingen ious artifice. When he came to a town where ha was not known, he pre tended to have lost his dog, and or dered the public crier to offer, with beat of drum, a reward of twenty-five louis to whomever should bring it to him. The crier took care to mention all the titles and academic honors of the doctor, as well as his place of res idence. He soon became the talk of the town. “Do you know," says one, “that a famous physician has come here, a very clever fellow? He must be very rich, for he offers twenty-five lonis Cor finding his dog.” The dog was not found, but patients were. Rapid Movement^ In Insects. The rapidity with which certain species of insects move is something truly astonishing. The common house fly is known to make 600 strokes per second with his wings and the dragon fly 1,600. In the case of the fly the 600 strokes cause an advance movement of twenty-seven feet. These are figures on ordinary flight, and it is believed that the fly is capa ble of increasing both the strokes and advance movement sevenfold. Free Rides to and From School. By. a vote of the aldermen of Mal den, Mass., the children of Linden will be conveyed to the Maplewood grammer school ut the expense of the city. The Lynn and Boston street railway has agreed to carry the forty four pupils the distance of one and one-half miles for SI a trip, and to moet this S360 was appropriated. 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