fflCIAL DIRECTORY i-rnor.. Into. ST AT is. . .Silas Holoomb . K. E. Moore ..'.'...J. A. l'lpor . ..J. S. Bartley .."..Eugene Moore ' A S' Churchill fp-i'-TATB UNIVEK8ITY. ft,, laicu. Kcarneyi M.J. Hull. 3.V OliESSIONAL. ltlJi j,', Mandurson. of Omaha; ' ,.f Madison. k,]-s—First,D!StHct,J.B Strode Mercer: Third. 3o^ O. Mikel llaincr; Fifth, W. E. Ana i>. M. Kcm. JUDICIARY. ...Samuel Maxwell ■" judge Post and T. h.Noryal .•nuumdATDisTKi^^ .“• j! J. King of O'Neill .A. I,. Itartow of Chadron A. I.' Warrick, of O'Neill AND OFFICES. O'NEILL. ...John A. Harmon. . .Elmer Williams. COUNTY. f!nn ■1)istrictCourt;.:..J0h,M8klrving . I. P. Mullen . Sum Howard . Bill Bethea . Mike McCarthy .. ....Cbas Hamilton . Chas O'Neill 1,119. .Mrs. W. It. Jackson . Dr. Trueblood . M.F. Norton .H. E. Murphy SUPERVISORS. .Frank Moore . .Wilson Brodle . W. F. F.isele . George Eckley . L. B. Maben ...A. 8. Eby . A. C. Purnell . D. G. Koll . John Dlckau . .H. B. Kelly . K. J. Hayes .,...B. Slaymaker ty. K. H. Murray .8. L. Conger .John Houge ..\Vm. Lell .E. J. Mack ...George Kennedy . .John Alts . James Gregg .F. W. Phillips . .A. Oberle . Hugh O’Neill ..D. C. Blondln .John Wertz ..U. O. Wine .T. K. Doolittle _J. B. Donohoe .”,.G. H. Phelps .J. E. White .A. O.Mohr CITY OF Of NEILL. nr, E. J. Mack; Justices, E. H. ,ml S. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed. nil Perkins Brooks. OUNCILMBN—FIRST WARD. years.—D. H. Cronin. For one . MeEvony. 8RCOHD WARD. years—Alexander Marlow. For -Jake l’fund. THIRD WARD. years—Charles Davis. For- one ler Merriinan.*) CITY OFFICERS. O. F. Biglin; Clerk, N. Martin,* , John McHugh; City Engineer risky; Police Judge, H. Ivautzman; Police, Charlie Hall; Attorney, lou; Weighma8ter, Joe Miller. RATTAN TOWNSHIP. sor, U. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney K; Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor, Ben Justices, M. Costello and Chas. Jonstahles, John Horrlsky and Ed. Road overseer dist. JMS, Allen Brown l, John Enright. IRS' RELIEF COMNISSION. meeting first Monday in Febru ch year, and at such other times as necessary, liobt. Gallagher^ Page, Win. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary; rk Atkinson. 1'1UCK*8 CATHOLIC CHURCH, ces every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock, r. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath sohool *ly following services. [ODIST CHURCH. Bund viues-Preachlng 10:30 A. M. and 7: tssNo. 19:30 a. m. Class No. 2 (E •ague) 6:30 f.m. Class No. 3 (Chil iss ’ague) 6.... a.w. o 11*. m. Mind-week services—Genei met mg Thursday 7:30 P. m. Ail w welcome, especially strangers. I E. E. HOSMAN, Pastor 80. The Gen. John lull Post, No. 88, Department of Ne t- A. it., will meet the lirBt and third r evening of each month in Masonic S. J. Smith, Com. fw X VALLEY LODGE, I. 0 5“e58, every Wednesday evenln E attend'' Visiting brothers cord; ?’ N‘0. L. Bright, Si chapter, r. A. I »Ma8or“eahall dThUI'Bda7 °f eac Hours Sec. J. c. Habnish, H, P {SivLvin ev?r? Mond»y at 8 o'clock p. r tavftodT fiaU‘ Vl8itln» brethem ""'■•Tv.K.otKTaIda8OLDEN' C'C’ S-y^1 SLo" to -— ’ 'U U. Ckonin, Clerk, W' KKCAMPMMT no 30 I « 'SMleC Sprl he Pinn Ik., j' r, i ciiuwH tiau beribe, Chas. Bright. i'eUEK fl?0- 41» UAUOHTEBS Adams, SAeS^VID80N-N-0' -— ’ 0> H. Benedict, W. M, W»ourX'Tud?dM?ets seconi b0I1u; linn. u aay 0( each mouth ir "'ini. Kec. T'V. Golden, M.W. I'l^T ^,:a. 'V*0EI1S, Sec.150' SlcCt'TCHAN, G. M. ssESrawsw «s Arrival ofMail. dsi:.S?May'i^luded“ar,l KASrT ,i„_ _ rnoM . .. 'laJ'. 3'anda0i!nT,fE west. 11,1 included at.. i. TACIkip o.,,.. l^f-kwe*».S,bH* Mke. *xcm.vS*U:W'p £'*' ^rriv«s hl.humjaj.' M Arrives1; s ^“n’dayl tvoi*® ™ ar right nowP” “Why, my dear sir, it’s in motion.” “I don’t doubt it, but I thought I’d like to look at it from the outside and see if I can't tell which way it is going—Washington Star. Tho (ireateat of Plea. The largest pie ever made was baked at Denley Dale, England, for the queen’s jubilee. It spoiled, how ever, so that when it was opened the stench was awful. The next week another was -made, of 672 pounds of flou*, 1,300 pounds of potatoes, one heifer, two calves and two sheep. Couldn’t Buy It. ' Guest—What a magnificent' resi dence that is opposite. Mr. Pompous—Grand! A veritable palace! I have been trying to buy that place for years. Guest—They won’t sell, eh? Infant Terrible—Yes, but they want cash. Near Enough. She—You say that you have never been in love. How near have you come to it? He—I was married once.—Life’s Calendar. Tk* Aeqnlr*m*aita of a Omni Barolitlonllt of 1840. An old man with long white hair and beard and an anxious look was seen by a Pittsburg Dispatch reporter poring over a directory. When he was asked what he was hunting for he said: “I’m trying to find the only man who I can count on as a friend. Ho was living here forty years ago, but his name 4s not in the directory now.” As he was talking a lady approached to ask a question The old man stopped suddenly and with a “beg your pardon" doffed his hat and stood aside at a respectful distance in a Chestorfiold manner. Continuing, after the lady had left, he said: “You are correct in thinking that 1 have seen better days. My name is Carl Maier, and I was ono of the revolu tionists in Germany in 1849, being secretary of the Democratic party and civil commissary at fiuchen in the grand duchy of Baden. I am an examplo of a shattered ambition, it being my ono aim in life to do some thing for the good of the public. After the failure of our cause I was forced to flee to America, and went to the house of Frederio Hecker, chief of the German revolution, who had also come to America and located in Illinois. Here I resumed my old calling as a professor and taught his children. When I look back upon my seventy years oi uie x can say that the only friend I have in the world is myself.” Did you ever see a person begin writing a letter at the last period and then write backwards and finish up at the beginning P That’s what Carl Maier can do without the least exertion. It seems just as easy for him to remember the words and let ters of a sentence in reversed order as it is for the ordinary person to re member them in their regular order. It is an easy matter for him to think < backward, and, what is more aston ishing, he writes upside down. The letters are all inverted as he looks at them when writing. And, again, performing this feat, whieh one thinks would require all the power and attention of his brain, he is not disturbed by carrying on a conversa tion with you, no matter how foreign the subject may be. Maier’s per formance would almost make one believe the theory promulgated by a scientist that we have “double-bar reled brains. ” If you repeat a sen tence to Maier, no matter how long it may be, after hearing it once be will commence and write the sentence verbatim, starting at the last letter of the last word and finishing it through the first letter of the first word. It seems to be natural to him to* invert his mind in his work, for he never falters or stops to think, but writes as rapidly as a person writing in an ordinary way. “I acquired this in a peculiar manner,” said Maier. “While I was clerk in a grocery store in Saxony I was an ambitious sort of a boy and always wanted to do everything differently from every person else. When the customers came to me for their bill I would place the bill head in an inverted position in front of mo and make the bill out backward, as I have written for you. “I came very nearly being prose cuted for practicing witchcraft. Many people assigned this power to the witches. Then the Spiritualists came to me and told me I was con trolled by a wonderful mind. Although I couldn’t explain it by any other theory than that it was a concentration of my mind. I at last persuaded them that there was nothing supernatural in it I am not able to perform the feats I used to when I was younger. I am get ting old and my memory is not as it used to be. My eyesight is pretty near gone. I can't see very much. In looking at you I see that it is a form and know that you are a human being, because you speak to me, but I could not see my writing if I did not use a blue pencil. It seems to be the only color I can see, True to the letter* <3as Officer—You say you are used to taking meters. But we want a man who can do the work expedi tiously. Applicant—Oh, I understand that. I just take the meter for a few quar ters, and after that I strike an av erage without taking the trouble to consult the meter. Gas Officer—That's all right as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough. Instead of striking an av erage, we find it more business-like to strike the consumer for all he will stand. He'd Been Backed. Horseman—That is a remarkably fine animal you are driving, madame. Lady—Oh, I wouldn’t part with this horse for the world. He's just as gentle as can be, and real fast, too. “So I should judge. Has he ever been backed against any noted trot ters?" “Well, I don’t know, but it seems to me we back against pretty much everything in the street every time I attempt to turn ’round. ”—New York Weekly. Material for *■ leaven. “See how the sun gilds the west ern sky!” he said as they emerged from a leaf-embowered avenue. “See what a soft, rich color the blending tints produce. How delicate it is, and yet how glorious.” And she, raising her soulful eyes to the sky, replied: “Uh-liuh; it ’ud make an awful pretty dress, wouldn’t it?” Good or Had, Not Explained. Jones—I say. Miss Brown, how is it that you are always out when I call? She—Oh, just luck.—Life. SUPERSTITIOUS RAILROADERS. Th« COM Which AocldcaM Hun Upon and fireman. Of the superstition of sailors, Ash' erfolk and others we have all heard, but that such a distinguishing char acteristic should have attached itself to railway men does not appear to be generally known. It savors some what of the anomalous that tuoh a pre-eminently praotioal class of men should be the victims of oredulity re garding the supernatural; such, how ever is the case. I recently had ocoaslon to inter view a prominent railway official, and in the course of the conversation that ensued that gentleman incident ally alluded to two collisions which had lately occurred in the neighbor hood, following up his remarks with the announcement that the local men would be in a state of subdued ox cltement and o the drlvor of one of the engines, a reliable servant, noted for his alertness and precision, with an honorable record of some forty years’ servioe, who being, it was believed, so disturbed over the “omens" of the first occurrence and so engrossed with what he felt would be two other catastrophes, that he committed the slight error of judg ment which caused his locomotive to crash into another coming in an op posite direction. The statement is given as the conviction of one who has spent upward of a quarter of a century among railway men of all classes, and who has known the driver alluded to for a long period of years. So came about a second collision. Surely supersti tion could go no further than this. But here is a tragic sequel—a se quel which, unfortunately, will in all probability do much to strengthen the reprehensible beliefs of these men. Two days after the interview above mentioned, within fifteen min utes' drive from the scene of the second collision, an express mall failed to take the points, a portion of the train with the tender of the engine was violently thrown across the rails and one poor stoker killed. This is what the railway men will term the "third mishap." “There’s the third,’’ they say; and now per haps they will breathe freely for a season. A Qaanr Klaotrlo Cloak. T. F. Hudson, a convict in the Maryland penitentiary.has construct ed a real horologioal oddity in the lhape of an electric clock. The dial la a semicircle of white marble with twelve marked at each corner, the other numerals for the hours being figured along the arc. It has one hour hand and two minute hands, the last two set opposite to each other, and in such a manner that one is seen at noon and the other at midnight, and at no other time. The seconds are marked on a dial that turns from right to left, while the pointer or second hand is stationary. Hudson is a born genius, and nearly ivery room in the prison is adorned with a specimen of his ingenuity. What Will tha Cook Da? Specialists on throat diseases are beginning to take unusual interest in culinary methods. They advise a kitchen quarantine on wash days and boiled dinner days, giving as a reason that the steam from boiling clothes and pickled meats that re quire much heat produces many illnesses of the respiratory Organs aggravates slight or chronic diseases of tne nose, throat and lungs. Patients are advised to vacate apart ments having dark or ill ventilated kitchens and to keep all babies and ailing children out of the kltohen when cooking is going on. It itemtnded Him. Before the night session began, the senate had adjourned, snys Kate Foote, " and several senators were getting their hats in the cloak-room, Mr. Stewart among them, when one of his fellow senators said: "Stewart, you remind me of a clergyman. ” Mr. Stewart naturally stared, then laughed and said: “How,pray?” “Yes, you are like a certain minister who was telling a friend that he had preached two hours and a half. ‘Were you not tired,’ said the friend, sym pathetically. *No, no, I was as fresh as a rose; but you should have seen the congregation. ’ ” Expected Him. Young Yardlie—I understand that there is a vacancy in your establish ment, sir, and I havo come to apply for the position. Senior Partner, dryly—I havo been expecting you. ” "Expecting mo?” “Yes. I heard you ask one of the ilerks if it was true that odf Satur day half-holidays were to be continued a month longer.” This Hoy a philosopher. Tommy—Are you going to whip me, mamma? Mamma—Yes, I am. Tommy. Tommy—You said the Other day that whipping never did me any good, didn't you? Mamma—I believe I did. Tommy—Then what's tbs use of whipping me again?—New Orleans Picayune. Tkar War* too Full or right to tail Hli Quiet Spirit. It was s curious olroumstanoe, sad everybody in the smoking-car seemed to oatch on at the same moment. On the right-hand side sat a man with a cowboy's hat, woolen shirt, red neck tie, pants in his bootlegs, and a gen eral air of toughness. Opposite him sat another man similarly attired, but with the addition of a grizzly bear’s claw for a scarf-pin. Ono had boon with us for over an hour—the last had just boarded the train. Those two men bogan to size each othor up and snoor and look sarcas tic. Finally the man on the right meanly observed: ••I reckon your bag of Injun soalps is in the baggage car, eh)”’ ••Yes, but my guns aru yero!” promptly responded the othor. ••What’s the use of guns onless ye know how to shoot P" "What’s the use of gab if you don’t back it upP” They were now hot and ready for more, and it soon oamo. ••Out on our ranch wo size sioh fellers as you up fur wolf bait," said the right-hand man. ••Is that soP Wall, out on our ranch we don't wait to size up ohapB like you. We knows ’em a mile away fur duffers. ’’ "Take that back I" "Never!" -Luujr uuui up, ctuu, ui course, we rushed forward to stop the fight Near by was a man who had been trying to get to sleep to cure a headache. He sprang up, peeled off his ooat, threw down his hat and shouted at the two terrors: “Both of you sit down!” as if death wasn't five feet away. They dropped back on the seats like bags of sand, and he stood over them and demanded of the one on the right: “Where do you camp when you're at home?" "In Ohio,” was the meek reply. “And you?’’ "In Indiana.” “I guess that’s right. That’s about the way I sized you up. Just a word to you. Shut right up. Don’t peep another peep about b’ars, injuns or ranches or shootln’. You have made me tired and if there’s any more of it I’ll drop both of you off this car into the ditch!” He went back to his seat to nurse his headache, and the two terrors sat so quietly for the next hour that some of us wondered if they hadn't been scared to death. Later on one of them fondly caressed his b’ar olaws and the other read a dime novel, and they were at peace with all the world. Lord Crom*.r Lord Cromer, the British diplo matic a gent at Cairo and the real ruler of Kgypt, is a very interesting Englishman. It is his habit to read Homer in the original Greek for half an hour after breakfast every morn ing. and his afternoons are given up to lawn tennis. At the time of the recent "crisis”In Egyptian affairs ho ordered the khedive to dismiss his prime minister within twenty-four hours, sent to Malta and to Aden for troops to support him in case of emergency, and went out and played tennis until sunset Richard Harding Davis, who has sent to Harper’s Weekly an en tertaining account of this and other of his lordship's performances, thinks that a diplomat who can snub a king and set 8,0(X) soldiers in motion in the morning and spend the afternoon calmly calling out “forty love," “forty-fifteen,” etc., is a very re markable man; and most people will agree that he is.—New York World. Her View of It. City Girl, to farmer boy—Do you like living on the farmP Farmer Boy—Yes, I like it very much. City Girl—1 suppose it is very nice in summer; but to go out in the cold and snow to gather winter apples and harvest winter wheat must be anything but pleasant. Let me read you a little poem I have written about the farmer’s pleasant life.— Texas Siftings. Ground* for Divorce. Mrs. Thompson—So you have de cided to obtain a divorce from your husband, Mrs. Arnold P Mrs. Arnold—Yes, it's the only means of settling matters. ‘•lipon what grounds will you sue?” “Too frequent change in hired girl and typewriter.”—Arkansaw Trav eler. Partial Information. Little Boy—Every time I tie my shoelaces, they slip. I wish you’d tie them in a pine knot for me. Grandpa—What sort of a knot is that? Little Boy—I don’t know, but I’ve heard it’s tough_Street & Smith’s Good News. Proof Positive. Mr. Beenthero Yale—Well, I guess John has settled down to study for his examination at last. Mrs. Yale—Why do you think soP Mr. Beenthore Yale—He doosn’t write home for money to buy books as often as ho did earlier in the sea son. —Puck. war Op. Dillaway—Talk about your aris tocracy descent; why, my father had ofteu 1 i,000 men directly under him. Caraway—Ah, a general? “Well, not exactly. ” “A wholesale contractor P” “No, an aeronaut”—N.Y.Dispatch. Heart Disease JO Yrs! Short Breath, Palpitation. Mr. G. W. McKInsey, postmaster of Kokomo, Ind., and a brave ex-soldier, says: “I 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 beoamo 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. 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