i , CKS’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY Vs STATE. Governor... .... ..Silos Holcomb Lieutenant Governor... B. E. Moore Secretary of State.• ■ J- A. 1 iper State Treasurer.•••J. 8. Bartley State Auditor.Euifeuo Moore Attorney General.A. 8. Churchill Com. Lands and Buildings.0. H. Bussell Supt. Public Instruction. H. B.Corbett REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY. Chas. H. Gere. Lincoln; Leavitt Burnham. Omaha; .1 M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Holmes, Pierce; J. T. Mallaieu, Kearney; M. J. Hull. Edgar. CONGRESSIONAL. Senators—Chas. F. Mandorson, of Omaha; W. V. Allen, of Madison. Representatives—First District, J. B Strode Second, I) H. Mercer; Third, 3eo. D. Mlkel john; Fourth— Balner; Fifth, W. E. And rews; Sixth; O. M. Kem. JUDICIARY. Chief Justloe...Samuel Maxwell Associates.Judge Post and T. L. Norval FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. ‘ Judge.M. P- Klnkaid,of O’Neill Reporter.. J-J - King of O'Neill Judge..A.L. Bartow ot Chadron Reporter ...A.L. Warrick.of O Neill LAND OFFICES. O'NSIIsLe Hofflstor..... ..Jobn A> Harmon. Revivor.... ..Elmer Williams. COUNTY. judge.Geo McCutcheon b Clerk of the District Court.John Sklrylng Deputy.O. M. Collins Treasurer. I. F. Mullen Deputy.Mike McCarthy Sheriff..:.Obas Hamilton Deputy..Chas O'Neill Supt. of Schools.. W. B. Jackson Assistant.Mrs. W. B. Jackson Coroner.Dr- Trueblood Surveyor.;iM.F. Norton Attorney.... H. B. Murphy SUPERVISORS. FIRST DISTRICT. Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga, Hock Falls and Pleasantvlew—J. D. Alts. . SECOND DISTRICT. Shields, Paddock. Scott, Steel Creek, Wll lowdale and Iowa—J. Donohoe. THIRD DISTRICT. Grattan and O’Neill—R. J. Hayes. FOURTH DISTRICT. Ewing, Verdigris andDelolt—G. H. Phelps, FIFTH DISTRICT, Chambers, Conlev, Lake, laoClure and Inman—George Eokley. SIXTH DISTRICT. Swan, Wyoming, Fairvlew, Francis. Green Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—H. 0. Wine. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Atkinson and Stuart—Frank Moore. C11T OF or NEILL. Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, E. H. Benedict and 8. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed. McBride and Perkins Brooks. COUNCILS!EN—SIRST WARD. For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For one year—H. C. McEvony. SECOND WARD. For two years—Alexander Marlow. For f one year—Jake Pfund. f THIRD WARD. 1 For two years—Charles Davis. For one ^ year—Elmer Merrlman. i * OITT OFFICERS. Mayor, O. F. Blglln; Clerk, N. Martin; Treasurer, John McHugh; City Engineer John Horrlsky; Police Judge, H. Kautzman; Chief of Police, Charlie Hall; Attorney, Thos. Carlon; Weighmaster, Joe Miller. GRATTAN TOWNSHIP. Supervisor, K. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney MeGreevy; Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor, Ben Johrlng: Justices, M. Castello and Chas. Wilcox; Constables, John Horrlsky and Ed. McBride; Uoad overseer dlst. 28, Allen Brown dlst. No. 4, John Enright. SOLDIERS’ RELIEF COMNISSION. Kegular meeting first Monday in Febru ary of each year, and at such other times as Is deemed necessary, ltobt. Gallagher, Page, chairman; Win. Bowen, C'Neill, secretary; U. 11. Clurk Atkinson. mT.PATRICK’8 CATHOLIC CHURCH. Q Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock. Very Rev. Cassidy, Poe tor. Sabbath sohool Immediately following services. Methodist church. Sunday services—Preaching 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 F. M. Class No. 1 0:30 A. M. Class No. 2 (Ep worth League) 6:30 p. M. Class No. 3 (Child rens) 3:00 p. M. Mind-week services—General prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m. All will be rnude welcome, especially strangers.' E. T. GEORGE, Pastor. A. K. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John IT. O’Neill Post, No. 80, Department of Ne braska G. A. It., will meet the first and third Saturday evening of each month In Mssonlo hall O’Neil) S. J. Smiih, Com. LUKHOliN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O. JCi F. Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brothers cordially invited to attend. 8. Smith, N, G. C. L. Bright, Sec. Garfield chapter, il a. m Meets on first and third Thursday of each month In Masonic hall. W. J. Doans Sec. J. C. Harnish, H, P KOFP.—HELMET LODGE, U. D. , Convention every Monday at 8 o'clook p. m. in Odd Fellows’ nail. Visiting brethern cordially Invited. T. V. Golden, C. C. M. F. McCarty. K. of R. and S. O’NJULL ISHUAMl'MJSST NO. BO. I. O. O. F. meets every second and fourth Kridays of each month In Odd Fellows’ Hall. Scribe. Ohas. Bright. 12UIKN LODGESO.41, DAUUUTEltS li OF KKBEKAH, meets every 1st and ad Friday of each month In Odd Fellows’ Hall, i_Zj Anna Davidson. N. G. Blanche Adams, Secretary. GA11F1EL.U LODGE, N0.95.F.& A.M. Bogular communications Thursday nights on or before the full of the moon. W. J. D bs. Sec. E. H. Benedict, W. M. Holt cami*no. 1710.m. w.ofa. Meets on the first and third Tuesday In each month In the Masonic hall. O. E. Biodin, V. 0. D. Li. Ohokin, Clerk. AO, U. VY. NO. 1511, Meets second • and fourth 'l'udsday of each month in Masonic hall. 0. Bright, Uec. T. V. Golden, M. W. INDEPENDENT WORKMEN OF AMBLUCA.;.meet every jfirst and third Friday of each month. Geo. McCotchan, G. M. S. M. Waders, See. POSTOFFICE DIP.CETORY Arrival of Malls t. K. a H. V. R. n.—FROM THE EAST. ' Every day, Sunday Included at.6:15 pm FROM THE WEST. Every day,Sunday Included at.9:68 am PACiriC SHORT LINE. ' Passenger—leaves 9:36 A.H. Arrives 9:07 p.m. Freight—leaves 9:07 P. M. Arrives 7:00 P. M. Daily except Sunday. O’NEILL AND CHELSEA. Departs Monday, Wed. and Friday at 7:00 am ArrivesTjesday,Thurs.and Sat. at.. 1:00pm , O’NEILL AND PADDOCK. Departs Monday. Wed.and Friday at..7:00 am Arrives Tuesday .Thurs. and Sat. at..4:30 p m O’NEILL AND NIOBRARA. Departs Monday. Wed. and Fri. at_7:00 a m Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at...4:00 p a O’NEILL AND CUMMINSVILLE. Arrives Mon.,Wed. and Fridays at. .ll:B0pm Departs Mon., Wed. and Friday at 1.-00 p m ETHEL TOWNSEND. ERA Ismail Khan Is a frontier Btation on” the cutthroat side of the Indus. Its name means that Ismail Khan— may his bones rest —once pitched his tent there, but a not too careful phil ology forgot to add some eloquent syl lable which would signify that Ismail Khan—who lies with the prophet — cleared out again as rapidly as possi ble. Unfortunately the maintenance of the Pax BHtannica In the valley of the Indus requires the constant presence in that delectable spot of a squadron of horse and a battalion of foot belong ing to those fine troops, the Punjab frontier force. In the middle of June It Is often impossible to see the com pound gate from the verandah at mid day owing to the prevalence of a swirl ing dust storm, and twelve hours later It may be necessary to pour water over the bed to render it sufficiently cool to be laid upon. let tne officers or the Piffers—so called by Anglo-Indians as a phonetic way of expressing the Initials P. F. F.— manage to live there, and, what Is still more marvelous, half a dozen Regent street gowns may be seen there when ever the station foregathers at club or gymkhana. Not long ago the C. O. at Cera Ismail Khan had as a daughter the prettiest girl that was to be set eyes upon along the whole 2,000 miles of the Indus. Ethel Townsend was known far and wide as the pride of the Piffers, and I will tell you another time how she won the title. Just now I wish to place on record what Major Dalrymple did for her. Dalrymple did not know, un til Townsend married the only child of the chief of the Indus flotilla, that he would never care for any other woman. Mrs. Townsend never even guessed his secret, but It nearly broke his heart when she died in giving birth to the little one who afterward bore her name. Ethel always called him uncle, and next to her love for her father she gave him the full warmth of her impulsive affections. But now that she had come back from a seven years’ residence in France and Germany she found that there was yet another corner vacant In her heart, and this place was at once bestowed upon Capt., the Hon. Robert McGregor Cameron, whom the natives had christened the Babadursahlb, and who was known to his associates as the Hon. Bob. Hence it was that when the Guides— to which distinguished section of the Punjab frontier force all these people belonged—were ordered to join an ex pedition against a particularly obnox ious tribe in the Bara Khel, Ethel be took herself to Mayor Dalrymple and cried her pretty eyes out on the score that Bob would be sure to get himself killed. “He won’t be in any greater danger than your father or I, sweetheart,” said the major, at his wits’ end for words of consolation, "aad you have seen us return safely too often to feel alarmed now.” "Oh, dad and you have got good sense, but Bob is such a mad thing—and he will do something ridiculous, and I shall never see him again,” boohoo, boohoo—the pride of the Piffers was but a woman. “Ethel, my dear, listen to me,” and the fine-looking soldier tenderly TROUBLED HIM A LITTLE AT ' FIRST. smoothed her. golden-brown tresses back from her forehead. "You know how much I value your happiness and how glad I am you are going to marry a man like Cameron. I promise you now that I will look after him as though, he were my own son and bring him back safe and sound to you. Come, you have full trust in me?" Dalrymple knew that his promise was of little avail m view of the chances of a border campaign, but it soothed the girl's heart, and her tears fell through a smile as she kissed him. As a rule a mountain battery, two j companies of the Scottish Rides, two native regiments, a ad a detachment or the Guides should be more than a match! for any tribesmen that ever swept down on a marauding foray into the lowlands. But that day the Ghazis fought with demoniacal skill, and, just toward evening, they made a last wild rush ; that nearly settled matters. Indeed, ■ the square bulged in rather unpleasant ly on one side, and had it not been for 1 the way in which Cameron and a dozen of his sowars laid about them with, their sabers it would have been all up> with the expedition. As it was, everybody breather hard for the next ten minutes, and the Scots men iWere just beginning to wipe out their rifles, the barrels having been fouled with drippings from the bay onets, when Dalrymple discovered that 1 Cameron was missing. Some one had : seen him get knocked off his horse and he had evidently been carried away in the rush of the retreating enemy. A. hasty search in the vicinity showed that i his body, at any rate, was not to be found, and anything like pursuit In the growing darkness was quite out of the question. Townsend and D&lrympe did not dare to speak their thoughts to each other, but a couple of hours later, when the wearied force was seeking rest from the turmoil of the day, a moullah placed all doubts at rest as to Cameron’s fate by shrieking out of the gloom that when the next day dawned the followers of the prophet would first crucify the accursed Ferlnghi in their possession and then wipe the British troops off the face of the earth. “Jackals,” he yelled, "will turn away gorged from your corpses,” but it was his figurative eastern way of putting it. Then Dalrympe swore he would ful fill his promise to Ethel. To obtain the permission of the briga dier for his project was out of the ques tion, so he consulted with no one, not even Col. Townsend. With the aid of a sub adar he was soon dressed a la Ghazl, and he borrowed the tulwar of a dead tribesman who was lying, among plenty of his kin, on front of the zereba. This, with a couple of revolvers con cealed beneath his flowing robes, con stituted the whole of his appliances, and Indeed of his plan also, as he had resolved that If he could not save Cam eron he would endeavor to get near him and give him the means of avoid ing crucifixion. me mountain village to which the tribesmen had retreated was 'distant some four miles. The road approach ing the place was fairly free from ob stacles, but It twisted and turned in all direction# as It climbed up the side of a precipitous gorge, finally reaching a plateau about 1,000 feet above the level of the small stream that dashed along beneath. The moon was trying to strug gle through a great cloud bank, but gave light enough to show the way and to distinguish objects c\ose at hand. Nearing the village—as no semblance of a guard was kept—he passed several scattered groups clustered round tires or huddled among bundles of fodder. Many of the men were groaning and their women bandaging their wounds. Dalrymple shuffled painfully along, finding the native sandals difficult to walk in, and he came upon Cameron suddenly. The Hon. Bob was seated on the ground, with his hands apparently tied behind his back, and resting against a low mud hut, inside and in front of whloh were some twenty of the tribesmen—a few smoking round a fire, the others asleep. Dalrymple walked straight up to him, and growled “Srg!” That is the Persian for all that we mean when we call a man a dog—and more. The action was natural in a tribesman and evoked no comment; in Dalrymple’s case it was a fine piece of art. He squatted on the ground close to the prisoner and whispered. “Steady, Bobs I’ve come to help you." Cameron had nerves of steel, but the words tried them to their utmost ten sion. When he could trust his voice he only said: “Thanks, old chap. It’s no use. My left ankle is sprained so I can’t walk a yard, even if R were any good. Get back safely and give my love to Ethel. As for you, God bless you." At that moment a horse neighed loudly at some distance and Dalrymple, in a Second, had formed his plan. He whispered again: “Can you manage to stand straight up when you hear a horse coming this way?” “Yes,” said Cameron. “Very well, be ready in five minutes.’ Then he rose, growled another Persian oath, expectorated again at the pris oner, and left the circle of light cast by the fire. He had little difficulty in find ing the animal that had given voice. He was tied up in a rough shed and seemed to be a strong beast. Ethel said afterward that he was the best pony she ever laid eyes upon, but she was prejudiced in his favor. His sad dle and headgear were hanging close at hand, and Dalrymple lost no time in getting him ready, although the queer Afghan bridle troubled him a little at first. Then he led him out and mounted him, but at the same moment a fellow sprang out from the rear of the shed and wanted to know in the name of the prophet why a cursed thief was mqvlng off with his master’s ghora. There was no time for a long discourse, so Dalrym ple gave him the weightiest reason at command by hitting him such a crack with the tulwar on his shaven crown that, like Bret Harte’s orator—• “He smiled a kind of sickly smile and curled up on the floor And the subsequent proceedings inter ested him no more.” Then the fun commenced. He rode up to the hut at a canter, found Cameron standing, swung him crossways on the saddle in front of him, and started for home. The excitement on that hillside dur ing the next ten minutes was some thing remarkable. Jezolls were fired, tom-toms beaten, gongs banged, and not a few Martini bullets whistled past them as they galloped down the path way. Cameron and Dalrymple weighed twenty-three stone between them, but the little horse would have run away with two more like them. There were no other animals handy, to all appear ances, so pursuit was out of the ques tion after the first 100 yards, and in less than half an hour Cameron was in the hands of the doctors, Dalrymple was drinking some hot whisky and water with the brigadier, and the Ka buli was being groomed by about six men, while if he had not been a wise little beast he could have burst himself with gram. Next morning the village was shelled, and when the moullah was hit with a shrapnell the tribesmen -gave in and promised to be good. • •*•••* All this happened six years ago. Since then I have seen a fat youngster held on to the back of a still fatter Kabul: pony, and the name of the youngster was Robert Dalrymple Cameron.— i Utica Press. . NO HA8TY MARRIAGES. Higher Education Make* Woman Low Dependent. “So long a* the attraction of sex re mains you cannot abolish marriage!” excitedly exclaimed the conservative man, according to Vogue. "I have no desire to do away with marriage, but simply to mitigate it,” replied the woman propagandist. And most thoughtful people will fcgree with the woman speaker that the reckless ness which characterizes marriage should be moderated. It Is encouraging to’ those whose hearts are touched by the manifold sorrows of humanity to observe that. In this matter of mar riage (a most prolific source of mis ery to human beings), different agencies are at work, educating people to an ap preciation of the gravity of the estate, and Its tremendous consequences to in dividuals and to nations. The higher education of women has, from the start, shown a tendency to disincline those who took the college courses toward early marriages and toward Imprudent ones—quite a large percentage of them moreover, taking up careers and re maining single. A recent canvass of college graduates is said to have shown that, while 90 per cent of non-college women become wives, only 5S per cent of college graduates resign their lives into the keeping of husbands. From other sources it is learned that those who marry do not swell the lists of Invalid wives; neither do 50 per cent of the children born to them figure in mortality tables, as Is the ghastly fact with the everyday woman's children. College women are not apt to marry a man to save him, and thus Insure for children morally weak or vicious fath ers; neither does love (?) In a cottage translated in these days into a cheap flat in an unwholesome locality—ap pear to her finer or more winsome than the self-respecting Independence of the bread-winning positions that are now within her reach. Tears ago some con servative men had the perspicacity to realize and the courage to state that fuller life for women meant the lessen ing of her Interest in marriage (the only profession her foremothers had been permitted to consider) and that she would be harder to please and more deliberate in her choice. That the phophedes have come to pass Is matter for congratulation or for condemnation, according to the observer’s point of view. A WIFE’S TYRANNY. Soma of the Awful Thine* Sho Do** to Annoy Bar Huabaad. She contradicts him at the head of hie own table, Interrupts his anecdote to set him right on an utterly unimpor tant little detail—say the date of a trans action, which he makes the 7th of Sep tember and she asserts was the 8 th; she interferes in all his arrangements, and questions his authority in the sta bles, the field, the church, the consult ing-room; she apportions his food and regulates the amount of wine he may take; should she dislike the smell of to bacco she will not allow him the most transient whiff of the most refined cig arette, and, like her brother with his victim, she teaches the children to de spise their father by the frank con tempt with which she treats him and the way In which she flouts his opinion and denies his authority. If she is more affectionate than aggressive she ren ders him ridiculous by her effusiveness; Like the "Sammy, love," which roused Dean Alford’s reprobation, she loads him with silly epithets of endearment before folk, oppresses him with person al attention and treats him generally as a sick child next door to an Idiot All out of love and Its unreasoning tyranny she takes him Into custody— in public as In private life—and allows him no kind of freedom. Robust and vigorous as he is, she worries over his health as though he were a confirmed invalid; In the hey-day of his maturity coddling him as if he were an octo genarian bordering on the second child hood. She continually uses the ex pression, “I shall not allow my hus band to do so and se;" or, “I will make my husband do this or that." Never by any chance does she confess his right to free action, bound as he Is In the chains of her tyrannous affection. In the end she makes him what she has long fancied him to be, a backboneless valetudinarian, whom the sun scorches to fever and the east wind chills to pnetfmonta—one who has loBt the fruit by “fadding” about the flower.—Chica go Chronicle. Dr. Clark's Moral Idea. The Rev. F. E. Clark, president of thi Christian Endeavorers, suggested a unique plan a week or two ago. It Is to start a “chain of prayer,” to reach clear around £ho world, and In which every member of the society, if he wishes, might form a link. Each Endeavorer Is to offer one short petition every day for other members and for the cause at large. Special objects may from time to time be included. To become a link in the chain requires but one con dition, viz., belief in prayer. , It Wu Rotten. A tery speaker In Berwickshire held a nut in his hand and said: “This repre sents the whole church question. This shell is the free church, good In Y » way, but not the best of things. No* crack this nut and you get the estab lished church.” He cracked it and it was rotten and he had to retire amid lerlsive cheers.—Fun. Blarney. His Reverence—I can’t take your cab, Pat. I see your horse has been on his knees. Pat—Arrah, yer rlverence; be aisy about that The last place he had was with a praste and faith, he had to keep up a simblance of religion.—Sydney Bulletin. This S86 Music Box and one Ladies’ Cold Watch actually to give away. Do you want them? Buy a Dollar’s worth of goods at Bentley’s and learn how to get them. Always Buy the Best. The . . . Best is Cheapest The Finest and Largest stock of good in the Hardware and.. .Implement Line in the Elkhorn Valley is found at : : UTIITII . John Deere plows, Moline wagons, David Bradley & Co’s famous Disc cultivators... Riding and walking cultivators, harrows, Glidden wire, stoves, oils, cuttlery, tinware. W SBBSL SR Sll m sia * m tr W’ W am NERVE SEEDS>-WEAK MEN This Famous Beiaedyeures quickly, permsnsotly *U nervous dlwmses, Wuak If emory. Loss of .Brain hnw, ‘ lioiulacho, Wakefulness, Las* Vitality, Nightly Bulls, youthful error a orexcotaea. Contains no opiates. la a atnra (Mils and blood builder. Makoathe pale arid pony atrone and plana. ISnaUy corrled In vos t pocket. St per box* O fopfA. Brmsttjife* paid, ivith a written guarantee or money rafwuUd, Write n«,