OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
STATS.
.. .Silas Holcomb
... ..T. J- Majors
1,-ut Governor. ... .J. C. Allon
|rv of State. J. 8. Bartley
Fri usurer. .George H. Hastings
' ,• General. .Eugene Moore
i ill'tor •
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vkVt-STATS ilNIVERSiTY.
kSTaSStIM.J. Hull.
CONGRESSIONAL.
(-,lflS 1\ MiUlderson, of Omaha;
fUlen. of' Madison.
[Allen, of M*lMm,1'Brynn. Llnooln; O.
b»r.;^-Uow“vmrS‘cKeltrhan.fa«l
JUDICIARY.
. . ..Samuel Maxwell
tustlce-.. ji0,t Bnd T. L.Norval
rKENTHJWAL^™
J . .. J. J. King of O Neill
per.. t Bartow of Ohadron
[ .L. Warrick. of O’Neill
land offices.
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John A. Harmon.
..Elmer Williams.
COUNTY.
.Geo McCutcheon
[ f the District Court- • • •OoUln5
fit Schools...
..
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,,..1. P. Mullen
.Sam Howard
...Bill Bethea
.Mike McCarthy
..Cbas Hamilton
.Chas O'Neill
...Vt. K. Jackson
Mrs. W. E. Jackson
.J)r. Trueblood
.M. F. Norton
.H. E. Murphy
SUPERVISORS.
.Frank Moore
, Wilson Brodie
.. W. F. Elsele
. George Eckley
. .L. B. Maben
..A. S. Eby
. .A. C. Purnell
.. D. G. Boll
. John Dlckau
I1*. H. B. Kelly
.. K. J. Hayes
',llley. .E. H. Murray
.8. L. Conger
.John Hoage
irk.
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. ffm. Lell
.E. J. Mack
George Kennedy
....John Alfa
James Gregg
.. 7...F. W. Phillips
A. Oberle
.Hugh O’Neill
.D. C. Blondln
John Wertz
. H. O. Wine
T, E. Doolittle
J. B. Donohoe
rl, .G. H. Phelps
.a. c. Mohr
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CI1Y OF a NEILL.
trvlsor. E. J. Mack; Justloes, E. H.
■let and 8. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed.
Ide and Perkin9 Brooks.
■ COUNCILMEN—FIRST WARD.
I two yearB.—John McBride. For one
■Ren DeYarman.
SECOND WARD.
years-Jake Pfund. For on© year
Guta.
THIRD WARD.
two years—Elmer Merrlman. For on©
■$. M. Wagers.
CITY OFFICERS,
or, It. R. Dickson; Clerk, N. Martin;
urer, John McHugh; City Engineer
Horrlsky; Police Judge, N. Martin;
of Police, Charlie Hall; Attorney,
Benedict; Weighmaster, Joe Miller.
GRATTAN TOWNSHIP.
ervisor, John Winn; Trearurer, John
r; Clerk, D. H. Cronin; Assessor, Mose
►t»eii; Justices, M. C&stello and Chas.
sell; Justices, Perkins Brooks and Will
kie. Kosul overseer dlst. Allen Brown
u; 4, John Enright.
HI Kits' RELIEF C0MNI88I0N.
ilar meeting first Monday in Febru
tuch year, and at such other times as
uieJ necessary, ltobt. Gallagher, Page,
nan: Win. Ilowen, O'Neill, secretary;
Hart Atkinson.
I’ATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH,
'"ices every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clook.
[lev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath sohool
K-iately following seryices.
T1IODIST CHUBCH. Sunday
servlces-Preaehing 10:30 a. M.and 7:30
Class No. 19:30 A.M. Class No. 2 (Ep
|,l.eaguel6:30i*.M. Class No. 3 (Child
“"*J p-M Mind-week services—General
er meeting Thursday 7:30 p. M. All will
uie welcome, especially strangers.
E. E. HOSMAN, Pastor.
A,It l.0S,X, N°. 80. The Gen. John
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40 YEARS THE STANDARD.
AT THE LIBRARY.
Why Overcoat*, Bundles and Wraps
Are Barred.
One of the most rigidly enforced
rules in the Newberry library in Chi
cago, is: “No overcoats, bundles or
outside wraps can be worn or carried
up stairs.”
Just at the left of the entrance is a
large check-room where bundles,
wraps and coats can be checked.
Even casual visitors must remove
their overcoats and have them checked
with their hats and bundles before
they can examine the beautiful build
ing.
Some persons who do not under
stand the reasons for this rule have
become indignant when the>man at
the foot of the stairs quietly and
firmly insists that overcoats, hats and
bundles must be checked. In the
Newberry library are thousands of
rare and costly books. Admission is
free. No one is barred from the
pleasure of the greatest reference
library in the country. But men and
women who are professional book
thieves infest libraries. It is an easy
matter for them to slip a rare volume
under an overcoat or wrap, stick it in
a pocket or hide it inside a paper
covered bundle. Librarians know
these tricks, and the librarian of the
Newberry library, to guard his books,
compels patrons to check their over
coats ana Dunaxes.
The young women in charge of the
check room are gowned in black, as
are all of the young women employed
in the library. They attend the check
room in turn. Whether they are
afraid of contagion or plain Chicago
dirt is not in evidence, but before the
young woman in charge is fairly ready
for the day she slips a large easy
glove on her left hand. The mate
lies on the table, and before she
takes the proffered coat she slips her
hand in the right glove and then
places the coat in a cubby hole.
After she has given the owner of the
coat his check she returns to her
table, removes the right hand glove
and resumes her reading.
BROTHER JONATHAN OONE.
Genuine or Typical Yankees Becoming;
Searee as the Buffalo,
To people who have not visited the
United states it is perhaps not gener
ally known that the typical Brother
Jonathan, with his grotesque appear
ance and strange accent, is becoming
almost as scarce as the buffalo, but
such is nevertheless the case. During
the last forty years a great change
has taken place in the manner and
appearance of the American people.
To-day we find that the true, native
born Americans, descended from sev
eral generations of American ances
tors, are a mere handful among the
bulk of America’s population.
They are far outnumbered by peo
ple of foreign birth and parentage
the Irish, Germans, Swedes and
Italians taking the lead. The enor
mous influx of immigrants during the
last forty years has completely
changed the American type, until the
people of the United States are now
found to be mainly composed of
German-Americans, Swedish-Ameri
cans, Italian-Americans, Irish-Ameri
cans, etc.
T A A J 4 V, AMA n n _ _ M XL —
United States where little or no Eng
lish is spoken, where settlers of a
non-English speaking race have made
their home, who read newspapers
printed in their own language, and
conduct their public meetings in their
own tongue. These people, however,
are not looked upon as foreigners, for
as soon as they become citizens of the
United States—which is possible after
a four years’ residence in the country
—they have all the rights and privi
leges of native born Americans.
There are many other national
peculiarities which might be quoted
as reasons for abandoning the cus
tom of calling all Americans “Yan
kees,” but I believe I have said
enough to show what a great mistake
it is and why so few citizens of the
great republic really deserve the title.
A Bottomless Pit.
A wonderful natural cavern was
discovered in Lafayette county,
Georgia, in 1891. It has the usual
complement of “rooms,” “galleries,”
“domes,” “pits,” etc., but its sole
title to being something out of the
ordinary in the cavern line is a well
like abyss in one of the rooms, which,
as far as anyone knows, may once
have served as the chimney of hades.
It is known locally as “the bottom
less pit.” Stones of large size have
been thrown into it with a hope that
they would be heard to strike bottom
after awhile, but, ^according to re
port!?, “there were no reverberating
sounds borne back to the ear by
which its enormous depth could be
gauged.”
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CHAMELEON SPIDER.
4a latent Which Changes Ita Col dr at
WU1—Ita Delicate White Web.
“It has always been a hobby of mine,”
said T. L. Grimshaw of Raleigh, N.Cl,
to a reporter, "to collect strange
bugs and insects during my travels,
and I think I have succeeded in get
ting together a pretty ohoice collec
tion. Of the whole assortment I think
the chameleon spider, which I got
last summer on the coast of Africa, is
the most valuable. The capture of
the insect was highly interesting to
me. One afternoon, while tramping
along a dusty road, I noticed in the
bushes which grew along the side
what appeared to be a white flower
with a blue center. Stopping to ex
amine it I found to my astonishment
that it was not a flower at all, but a
spider’s web, and that the supposed
light blue heart of the flower was the
spider itself, lying in wait for its
prey. The mottled brown legs of the
spider were extended in such a way
as to resemble the divisions between
the petals of a flower.
“The web itself, very delicately
woven into a rosette pattern, was
white, and the threads that sus
pended it from the bushes were so
fine as to be almost invisible. The
whole thing had the appearance of
being suspended in the air upon a
stem concealed beneath. Upon
knocking the spider from his perch
into the white gauze net which I
carried, my surprise was greatly in
creased upon seeing my captive in
stantly turn in color from blue to
white. I shook the net and again the
spider changed color, this time its
body becoming a dull greenish brown.
As often as I would shake the net
just so often would the spider change
its color, and I kept It up until it had
assumed about every hue of the rain
bow.
A BOGUS BILL.
Out of Which the Mice Had Cut the
Bad Hark.
Not long ago a $20 note was sent to
the United States treasury for re
demption. Accompanying it was an
affidavit saying the owner had put it
in a cigar box where mice had got at
it and nibbled it The note was a
counterfeit Not only that, but it had
been through the treasury at some
previous time and had been stamped
with the word “bad” in letters cut
out of the paper. But the alleged
mice had almost obliterated the let
ters by nibbling around them. It was
a queer way for mice to behave, to
say the least of it A detective of the
service was sent to look the matter
up. He investigated the case fully,
and reported that it was all right—in
short, that the note had been sub
mitted for redemption in good faith.
The owner, it appears was an old
German sailor of respectable charac
ter. Nevertheless, he would go on
an occasional spree. Waking up one
morning after a night of dissipation
he found all his money gone except
this note of $20. Somebody had
doubtless passed it off on him. He
noticed nothing wrong about it, and
had put it into the cigar box in which
he kept not only his ready money,
but also bird seed for his pet canary.
Mice attracted by the bird seed, vis
ited the box and incidentally chewed
up the note. On finding it partly
destroyed the sailor forwarded it to
the treasurer at Washington. The
case is interesting, chiefly as an illus
tration of the way in which appear
ances of fraud may sometimes mis<
lead.
A DELIGHTFUL MEETING.
But She Hadn’t Thought It Beit to Be
Too Explicit.
“Fancy meeting you here, dear]”
“It’s quite too delightful, isn’t it?”
They kissed one another rapturous
ly—a short peck on both cheeks. I
had taken down the young lady
in the white gown at a dance supper,
and I knew she was from Chicago. 1
stood behind her in the corner when
the young lady in a blue gown floated
up, and I couldn’t help hearing. I
wish I could, for the young lady in
blue stepped back a pace or two and
said, in tones of astonishment:
“Why, you’ve got on your wedding
“Yes, I only wore it twice, you
know, and nobody knows it here. I
had new sleeves put in and-”
Here her eyes re sted upon me, and
'my face must have expressed the fact
that I had been addressing her for
the last half hour as an unmarried
woman.
“Perhaps I had better get you—er—
an ice or something,” I ventured mis
erably, trying to wriggle around a
palm, but she turned to her friend
brightly and remarked, without the
slightest embarrassment:
“So perfectly ridiculous, isn’t it.
But Mrs. Blank (the hostess) didn’t
think it necessary to tell any of the
men that I had taken my maiden
'name after getting a divorce. I was
married last February, you know,
and divorced in Springfield. That’s
how I happen to be wearing my wed*
ding gown.”
I haven’t got over it yet.
A Trotting Juryman.
Some people are too trusting for
this world. At a recent trial the
prisoner entered a plea of “not guil
ty,” when one of the jury put on his
hat and started for the' door. The
judge called him back and informed
him that he could not leave until the
case was tried. “Tried!” cried the
juror; “why he acknowledges that he
is not guilty.”
Arrested the Joker.
A Y. M. C. A. young man of Indian
apolis put on a false beard and fixed
himself up in order to terrify his
roommate. Then he went out on the
street to await his friend’s coming.
The consequence was that the joker
got arrested and had a hard time to
establish his identity. .
FELT GUILTY.
A Slick Cut ot Filin- Mam bjr mi Inno
cent nptnton
“Talking' of flim-flam games,” said
a quiet little domestic woman, who
was dining with some friends at a
restaurant, "I must tell you how I
flim-flammed a strange milkman out
of a dollar’s worth of milk.”
“Why, Mrs. Blank.” echoed her
friends, “you didn’t do it on purpose,
surely?”
“Not exactly, and the funniest part
of it is that the raau never knew
he was flimflamined, or else he did not
have a very good bump of locality. It
was this way. 1 had promised to help
furnish edibles for a church supper,
and 1 had agreed to send oyster
stews sufficient for a certain number
of guests. When I was cooking the
oysters I found that three gallons of
milk that had been ordered had not
eome. A milkman was just passing
the house, and 1 sent out for him and
he had enough, and measured it out.
I went upstairs and got a dollar bill,
which I crumpled up in my hand
while I assisted in disposing of such a
lot of milk. Then 1 mado some re
mark to the man about the occasion
for which the unusual supply was
needed, and be went away.”
“And you did not pay him?”
“No. All that afternoon I was con
scious of something in my hand which
I clung to, as they say a woman does
to a receipt, only to throw it away in
the end. When I found time to look
it was the dollar bill, and you can im
agine how I folt. Of course I sup
posed the man would miss it and re
turn for his money, but he never did.
Now when I see a milk wagon I feel
guilty, almost as if I had done an in
tentional wrong, for it really was a
very slick case of flim-flam.
SENATOR PALMER.
The Aged Virginia Lady Not Anxious to
Claim Kelatlonshlp with Him.
Senator Palmer of Illinois, belongs
to a family wliieh for longevity can
scarcely be equaled by any other in the
country. The senator’s grandfather
was born in 1747 and fought in the
revolution. His father was a soldier
in the war of 1813 and he himself
fought in the rebellion. Senator
Palmer is, moreover, the oldest of
four living generations of Palmers,
all bearing the name of John M.
“My grandfather,” suid Senator
Palmer one night last week—and
Senator Palmer is second to no man in
Washington in telling good stories—
“was born down here among the fish
and oysters of Northumberland
county, Virginia. There are plenty
of Palmers down there yet, and my
friend, Colonel Jones, has had a great
deal to tell me of them. lie went to
sec an old lady one time when I was
expected down to make a speech, and
when he discovered that her maiden
name had been Palmer he told her
there was a man up here in the sen
ate of that name whose grandfather
was born down there. The old lady
remembered that branch of the fam
ily perfectly, and claimed kin at once.
She could even detect in me some un
mistakable family traits.
“ ‘But aunty,’ said Colonel Jones
‘Senator Palmer fought in the North
ern army.’
“That staggered the old lady, for
she is as loyal to the lost cause as
anybody in all the South, but once
she had claimed kin she wasn’t going
to back down.
“ ‘Well,honey,’ said she with a sigh,
‘there's always a black sheep in every
family.’”
A Ramin ler to Cnclo Mark.
Mark was growing old and had seei
a great deal of the world. The result
was that he was rather given to relat
ing stories of his vast experience that
were courteously doubted by the
younger men. One night a young
fellow told a story that was especially
wonderful, and some one turned to
the old man with the query: “Doesn’t
that remind you of your younger
days, Uncle Mark?” “Well,” said the
old man, “it does remind me of a story
I heard when 1 was a boy.” “What
was it?” asked the other. Uncle Mark
looked solemn. “It was a darned lie,"
he said.
Instrument of Fata.
An old man who believed “what
was to be would be,” lived in the
West, and was one day going out sev
eral miles through a region infested
by savage Indians. He always took
his gun with him, but this time found
that one of the family had it out. As
lie would not go without it, some of
his friends tantalized him by saying
that there was no danger of the In
dians; that he would not die until his
time came anyhow. “Yes,” said the
old fellow; “but suppose I met an In
dian and his time had come; it would
not do, no how, not to have my gun.”
new Medical Treatment.
A doctor, whose home is near Frank
fort, Ky., presents a new medical
treatment, which consists in exchang
ing liquid for aerial draughts. Live
in a perpetual draught, so he
preaches, and you will never catch
cold. And his practice is in keeping
with his precept. At his establish
ment all his patients, many of whom
are suffering from serious diseases,
are constantly subjected by day and
night to strong currents of air, and
when they go out generally dis
pense with hats and bonnets.
Dangers In Target Fractlee.
Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the
late commander of the forces in Ire
land, once told Father Healy that he
found “blind shooting” prevailing to
a deplorable extent among the Irish
militia regiments, and that he in
tended to insist on a greater attention
to target practice. “For goodness’
sake don't do that, your royal high
ness!” exclaimed Father Healy; “if
Iyou make the militiamen good shots,
there won’t be a landlord left in the
country.”
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