i.LN'L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY % STATE. Governor....Sllu Holoomb (lieutenant Uovernor..J. E .Hurl* aucri-tary of State.W ui. F. Porter Treasurer...John it Me.erve ■*»»«• Auditor .JohnF. Cornell Aii .rin*y General.C. J* Jbitythe Com. UudttiHl Buildings...J. V. Wolfe s. oi. Public Instruction.W. M. J tckaon MKU ENTs STATE UNIVEBSITY. fi.twU. Lure. Lincoln; Leavitt Burnham, buml.a; .1 M. II utl. Alma; E. P. Holme*, I lurce; J. I. Mmlaleu. Kearney; M. J. Hull, i nt " .t|i . II- o-ex iiih'Ivu*First Oleirlot.J. R. Strode *««-• .mi. ■* l> vi«r,» r. Third. 8. Maxwell, I- orita. 'A. b. 'Inrx. Filth. It. I>. Sultur.auU, alxili. W. L. Qreeu. ' OSQRSS8I0NAL. -funtor*—n jxe.W. U. Westover, of Ituahvtlle : ....if.rtcr . «ho Maher, or Kush villa. LA.su OFFJCSa. u'mu, ■»ter s'*-, or.. John A. Harmon. ...Elmer Williams. UUVNTY. • k»v ■ xv. *}■*’. e./ee ••• iirn . ...... .tcrin... .K'puty •... • i. of e^ulkoolr t..hlllLHIl|.ii.. ... Joi'uiur. .Oeo McCutcheon .... inairimCourt .JohnSklrvlng * ..O. M. Collin* .J. P. Mullen . Saui Howard . ..U.il liuihea .Mike HoCartby ..Ohaa llaiuilton ....Chaa U’.helU .W. U. Jackaon ......Mra. VV. It. Jackson Dr. frueblood <»: ' >’>or. •uru >. .. M. F. Norton ... ..W .H. Butler HUPB&VI80R8. ritier district. Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga, U-ick rail, awl Pleasant view :J. A. Uobertaon anCOUD D1*THI0T. Shield*, Paddock. Scott, Steel Creek, WU . wdaleaud Iowa—J. U. Hopkins. y. THIRD DISTRICT. U rattan and O’Neill—Home* Campbell. rODBTB DISTRICT. twins, Verdigris and Delolt—L. C. Comb. rirTH DISTRICT. Chuuiliers, Conlev, Lake, laoClure and . iiumii-5 b. Conger. SIXTH DISTRICT. Swan. Wyoming, Fairvlew, Francis. Green Valley* Sheridan nod Emmet—0. W. Hoes* SKVKHTH DISTRICT. Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats. our or & ns ill. Supervisor. E. J. Mnok; Juetlom, E. H. Beuedlot aua 8. M. Wiisn; Constables, Ed. Ma Bride end Perkins Brooke. OOtmOILMM-IIMT WAMD. For two year*.—D. H. Cronin. “or oM year—C. W. Hagenslck. SSOOSD WAMD. , ' Fur two year*—Alexander Marlow, for unnyear—W. T. Evans. THIHD WABD. For two yean—Charles Davis, for one year—E. J. Mack. 't ctsv orricsas. Mayor. H. K. Murphy; Clerk. N. Martin; treasurer, John Slr.lugb; City Engineer John Uorrlsky; Polloe Judge, U. Kautsmau; tiller of Polloe, P. J.Blglin; Attorney, Thus. Carlon; Welghmaster, D. tannard. QRATTAN TOWNSHIP. Supervisor, B. J. Bayes: Trearurer. Barney McOreevv: Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben Jobring: Justices, M. Castello and Ohaa. Wlloox; Constables, John Uorrlsky and Ed. McBride; Boad overseer diet. Ml, Allen Brown •list. No. t John Enright. .'ULMERS’ RELIEF C0MNI88I0N. Begular meeting Erst Monday In Febru ary ot each year, and at such other times as is deemed neoessary. Bobt. Gallagher, Page, chairman; Wm. Bowen, O'Neill, aeoratary; U. H. Clark Atkinson. WT.PATBICK’B CATHOLIC CHUBCH. O Services every Babbath at 10:30 o'clock. Very Bev. Cassidy. Poster. Sabbath school Immediately following services. VIKTHODIET CHUBCH. Sunday ill services—Preaching 10:*) a. m. and »:Wl r. m. Class No. 1OUW a. m. Class No. 3 (En worth League) T:00 P. M. Class No. 3 (Child rens) 3:00 p. rr. Mind-week servloes—General prayer meeting Thursday T:*> p. m. All will Ke mad. welcome, ^•“^tran^era.^ i i A. 11. POET. NO.»«. The Gen. John Ur. O'Neill Post, No. HS, Department of Be braaka G. A. B„ will meet the ttrst and third Saturday evening of each month In Masonic hall O'Nell) S. J. Smuh. Com. Elkhohn valley LODGE, 1. 0. o. f. Meets < ' s’na odd Vellows’ cvei mil. invited to attend. W. U.Masom, N. G. VWAJMi A «vWSH »e w. ys nr Wednesday evenlng ln Visiting brothers cordially O. L. Baianv, Sec. / 1ABF1KLD CHAPTEB, B. A. M YXMeeu on Brat and third Thursday of eaoh month In Masonic hall. _ _ W. J. Doans Sec. J.0. Bamism, H. P H, Coovontfam every Monday atio'olodk pi a. in Odd Fellows' halL Visiting brethern OP P.—HELMUT LODGE. U. D. cordially Invited. „ _ _ ARTHUR OOTUMDALt.. C. C. E. J. Mack. K. of B. and S. r O'MKILL KNCAMPMMNT N0.80.1. O. O. F. mm every second and fourth Fridays of eeoh month In Odd Fellow*’ Hell. Ones. ItiuoHT. H. P. H. M. Tmii, Scribe PUCK LODAI NO. 41, 1)A COBTIU Cl OF BHBBKAH, meet* every let end M Friday of eaob month In Odd Fellow*' HaU. Aunbs T. Bun.IT, N. O. Done IUtidn>, Bee. ncitniiii) hooec.no.HJAAJC. VT Regular oommunloetloo* Thursday nlerhta on or before the full of themoon. J. J. Kin, W. K. 6.0. Smtokb, Bee. _’NO. lTlO.M.W.OFA. _ieeta on the Bret end third Tuesday in each month In the Itesonlc hell. Neil. Bhemkah, V. 0. D. H. Oeoru, Clerk AO, U. W. NO. IBS. Meets aeoond • end fourth Tudsday of each month in Masonic hell. 0. Bbioht, Bee. 8. B. Howard, M. W. 1NDKFKNDKNT WOBKMIN OF AMKUIOA. meet every Brat and third Friday of each month. , „ „ „ Gao. MoOutohaw, N. M. J. H. Weltoh, See. POBTOFFH5B OUtCBTOKT Arrival emails F. 1. Is. J. B.R.-mqii m bast. day,Sunday included ~~ raoMTBa west vary day,Sunday Included at.. ot.B :40 pm 10:04 am PACino SHORT LUI. I’aaaenger-leaves 10:01a. m. Arrives 11 :S5 p.m. Freight—leaves 0:07 r. s. Arrives 7:00 p. m. Dally except Sunday. O'niLL AMD CHELSEA. Departs Monday, Wed. and Friday at 7.-00 am Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Bat. at..1:00 pm O'HXILL AMD PADDOCK. Departs Monday..Wed.and Friday at..7:00am Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at. .4:00 pm _ O'MEXXJ. AMD MIOEEARA. Departs Monday. Wed.andFri.at....THM am Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at...4:00 pm O’Slhli AMD CC1CMIMSVILLB. 4SSKISS:WL7«aSS’.r.::!lSU 8AYINOS OF COL. NORTH. i WaateS Soma Maw Words for Hta f Vocabulary. • ■ The late CoL North, the- nitrato king, had a ready, If somewhat rough style of wit peculiar to himself, says the London World. The trap in which i he was seated being on one occasion | blocked In a crowded thoroughfare in Immediate Juxtapostlion to a coster monger’s cart laden with vegetables, ' the coachman, finding that the horse was about to help himself to the cab bages would have backed the animal out of harm’s way. “Let him graze," said the colonel “I want to hear the man swear!” The costermonger turn ing his head around at this moment, the colonel’s wish was promptly grat ified by an exceptionally choice and ex tensive selection of expletives. “Bravo,’’ said North, as he threw the man a coin that would more than have bought the whole cargo of vegetables. “I thought I was pretty well educated In your line myself, but hang me it you haven’t taught me four new adjec tives.” North, although fond of pic tures, hated what one calls “doing gal leries.” Once, being pressed to go and see a picture after Rubens, he.quickly replied: “After Rubens! Why, surely, Rubens was the brute they were after last year when you dragged me in here. Haven’t they caught the old cuss yet?” The colonel loved children, but was not wildly keen on kissing babies miscellaneously. Once, being implor ed by a handsome lady to kiss an ex ceptionally unwholesome-looking in fant, of which the mother stated her self to be the living image. “Well, herb goes for the image,” said North, and he forthwith imprinted a sounding kiss on the fair mother’s cheek. NEW YORK FOOD SUPPLY. Kaoigfe n Base la WltlutaaU a roar Moatha’ Blega. It the city of New Tork and the neighboring district were to be be sieged or in some other way entirely cut off from the outside world, and therefore deprived of the food supplies which in normal times come in daily In large quantities, how long would it be before the pinch of hunger would be felt? That Is a very hard queetion to ■uch Inequalities of purchasing capac ity in New York society that some go hungry In times of greatest prosperity for lack of means, while the great ma jority eat more than is good for them. Undoubtedly the number of those who always go hungry would be Increased after two or three days of a siege, and then day by day this number would In crease until the public authorities would feel compelled to take possession of the food supplies and distribute them among the people. With the exception of milk and some other things the sup ply of meat, poultry, hardy vegetables and fruits would laut for two mqnths at the present rate of consumption. If all the supplies were taken charge of at the beginning of a siege—and this could easily be done—the food within New York could be made to last for four months at least. The siege of Paris lasted only four months. Before two months had passed high and low, rich and poor, had learned what hunger was. And, as is well known, the French are the most thrifty and economical people in the world. In the arrangement and disposition of food the Parisians are especially distinguished. But the food supply in New York cpuld be made to last as long as the Paris siege lasted, and the people would still be comfort able.—Ladles* Home Journal. Kuilui aid AraMalaas. The Russian people cared a great deal about the Bulgarians; they do not care at all about the Armenians. Englishmen are apt to be puszled by this difference of attitude; they would find it more intelligible if they bore in mind the place that religion holds in the Russian mind. The Bulgarians be longed to the same church—the Rus sian peasant does not trouble himself about “autocephalous” distinctions— the Armenians do not belong to the church at all. They are monophysite heretics, and though the peasant prob ably thinks that it might be better that they should get their punishment from the orthodox csar than from the Mus sulman Turk, he is not greatly concern Ail that fhnv eViAiiM ml It rrvi. i- - — example of Indifference originating in religious diversity, Just as the last war with Turkey was an example of sym pathy originating' in religious agree ment; but it serves equally well to en force the paramount part that religion plays In the formation of Russian popular opinion. Saved by Saashla*. A writer in the New York Ledger says: "I think the superb health of my fam ily is to a great extent due to the hab it we have of almost living in sunshine. Every bright day all the shutters are open, and the entire house gets the benefit of sunlight. It drives away dampness, mold, microbes, and blue devils, and puts us all in 'good humor and health. I cannot imagine good sanitary conditions and darkness. Even my cellar is as light as I can make It; and whatever fruit and delicacies need to be shut away from light, I put in close cupboards or covered boxes.” Me Basinas* Baa. “You have a safe in your house for money, haven’t youT” “Yes, and no burglar who knows any thing about It would take the trouble to open It.” "Why notr* “My wife knows the combination.”— Detroit Free Press. Oaasasad. Baldup—“I was amused today to seo Gadboy’s mustache catch fire while he was trying to light a cigar.” Teldoo— | “Damage it much?” Baldup—"Yes; it was burned down."—Roxbury Gazette. I NOVELIST’S FIRST EFFORTS. Mn Barri*'* >>R«eoll«otloni of a School in tutor Written at an Karljr A|a Having regard to Mr. J. M. Bar rie's visit to Dumfries academy, the Courier and Herald of that place prints some extracts from the novel ist’s early contributions to a school magazine called the Clown, which he and some friends started. Youpg Barrie writes some ■•Reckoloctlohs” in the asumod role of a “skoolmas ter” whose spelling is Artemus Wardian. In his second instauiuont he complains that the e».ito.’ >‘ , elt sura of the wurds in m. last veo< kollections rong,” and he adds: “Altho, of coars. 1 maik jew allow ance for yoor eddukatlon not being equal to mine. I hop you will be more cairful.” Resuming the ‘‘Keckollsc tions," he writes: “I alwais open the school with prair, as I think it a verry good thing to do. and I got two skollars by it Now, my skollars have gen erally verry durty faces. Well, one day in the middle of my prair won of the boys crept in belo the tabel, and when ho was there anuther boy cam in at the door with a cleen face. This was too mutch for the boy in belo the tabel, and. ju3t as 1 had fin ished saying ‘And may they crie from the botom of their harts—,’ he shouted out • l.ord Almichti. there’s Jock Smith’wi’ his face washed!” Here is an instanoe of how ef fectively the lad could reproduce a . conversation. Relating a railway journey the sohoolmaster Bays: l “On my rode we passed the river . ‘Aye.* A gentleman asked me, j ‘What river is that?’ “I was meditatin’, so I answered abruptly, ‘Aye.’ “’iiie gentleman repeated his ques ! tion, and I. thinkin’ hs had not heard me, again replied -Aye. ’ | • • ‘Could- -you—tell — me—w hat ~ I river—that—is?’ he roared into my eer. “1 again answered ‘Aya’ “ ‘Sir, said he, ‘I sea you want to insult me!’ | “I couldn't comprehend what he : said till another person in the trane I informed me that he thoat that I meant *eh’ when I said *aye.’” Here is another example well worth giving: | “The minister of the .town was sed to be a good preacher, and so I went to heer him on the furst Sabboth of ; the munth. I went early, and their ' wer only one person there who I saw was a nelder. I sed to him, ‘When does servioe begin?’ “The man stalred. “ ‘When does servioe begin?’ I agen asked. I “To my surprise the elder ex claimed: ‘What abomnabul impurt nense. Pray, sur, do you know oor respecktlt mlnistir?’ • “ ‘Me no him? No,1 sed L “ ‘Then, get 00V o’ this;’ here | plied. ‘You impurnant skoundrql \ git oot o’ this; an’ if I sea you here ; agen I’ll kick you oot mysel!’ “Of oourse I was gratoly aston ! lshed at the man, not nolng anythink , I had sed about the minister; but it struck me at wonce that the minis ter’s name was Servioe!” Admiral da Horsej aud the Sentry. When Admiral de Horsey, who some years ago had command of the British fleet in the Pacific, was the admiral of the North Atlantie squadron, he was one evening dining on shore at Port Royal. Jamaica. On returning to his flag-ship alone after dinner, his way to the boat led across the barrack square. A black sentry, of one of the West India regiments, halted him at the gate with, “Who goes dar?” Great was the admiral's annoyance to find he had neglected to get the pass-word before leaving the ship. “That’s all right,” he said carelessly, hoping to overcome the man’s scruples by Indifference; “you know who I am.” “Dunno nobody, ear,” replied the nigger, pompously; “you can't go in dar.” “Why, I’m Admiral de Horsey.” “Well, you can’t go in, I don’t care if you’s Admiral de Donkey. ”—Argonaut Leurnad by Experlenop, A certain judge in Chicago, who rather prides himself on his vast and I voncu nuuwmugu ui mw. was com pelled not long ago to listen to a case - that had been appealed from a justice J of the peace. The young practl , tioner who appeared for the appel lant was long and tedious; ho brought In all the elementary text books and quoted the fundamental pro; ositlous of law. At last, the judge thought It was time to make an effort to hurry him up. "Can’t we assume.” he said, blandly, "that the court know i a little law itself?” "That’s the very mistake I made in the lower court.” answered the young man, "1 don’t want to let it defeat me twice.”— Argonaut A Bolotin 4n NenO. Half a century ago, when "sub jects” were bought by the surgeons, a poor man, writes James Payn, felt dead in Fleet street Without a mo ment’s hesitation, a young fellow who was passing threw himself on his knees beside the corpse, exclaim ing: "My father, my dear father'” A crowd gathered round, their sym pathy was excited, and money was subscribed to enable the pious youth to take away his father’s body in a hackney coach. He did so, and took it to a surgeon, who gave him a hun dred dollars for it Poor Uttlo Thing. "What’s the matter. Molly?” asked Colonel Yerger of his little 6-year-old daughter. "Pa, my mocking bird is dead.” "Well, never mind. Molly, l’U buy you another one.” "I am oalm enough now, but when I saw that poor little dead bird I could have cried like a child,” said Molly.-wTexas Siftings. -V'*fr i: ?-■' ^' • v. 4 y«>» ^ I OUTENHBRO’S INVENTION. ****** 111* Printing Pr*a« Has Don* for 1 Mankind. • Five hundred years ago the literary EcfiP'ist, >bky-tingered sad forloih, cried out t *r ■'dp, and his cry was heard in Germany and answered by the birth of Gutenberg in 1397, who gave to the world, in 1450, its first com r’o‘i,y printing press, says the New Tf rk V. crld. “Four men," writes the Gersier. historian Kopp, “Gutenberg, Coiiir,!, ny. I.itUuv and Copernicus, e 1 U it the dmti’t g lino o£ the middle t v ' -I 'o-rje as boundary i.ones 5 tie ortviat.ee ot mankind Into r. id. hoi- and .finer epculi ot its develop hktiit." From centers ot discovery and invention in over-widening circles that development has' gone on. But ot all the means by. which the divine flat “Let there be light” has been fulfilled —In its inner sense—through the long' ages, there hp* been none In the mate rial realm that has exerted an Influence as powerful and tar-reaching as the , printing press. Compared with this 'discovery, which has evolved from the ^‘.nebular chaos ot man's thoughts and .emotions the vast solar system ot -books, even the finding of a new con : tinent, pales In significance. The pri ority ot Gutenberg’s discovery over that ot Columbus is in itself evidence of lta vaster and more urgent import. How ever it may be now, there was a time when we needed a printing press more than we needed another hemisphere. For there has never been any miscal culation in the order of the discoveries and Inventions of the universe. The Edisons and Maxims never could have been born before the Newtona and i Watts any more than man could have . made his appearance in the early pro , tozoan eras. The wonders of electricity and Roentgen rays are the culminating luxuries of invention, so to speak, and not Its first necessities. Added to all | the bare utilitarian services It has ren dered mankind, the printing press has enabled man to repeat in a spiritual sense the divine drama of creation. | And many an Ink-begotten hero ia as ; living and effectual an inspiration to noble deeds as though he had lived | and breathed In human form. It is, moreover, by means of their typograph ical cerements that the real heroes of every land and clime have escaped ob lfvlon Rottnv than oil 4K« «# immortality offered to Ulysses byCalyp so has been the immortality conferred upon him and his comrades by the no less magical wand of the printer. "Were our mother Island sunk beneath the ***•” wrote Lowell, "Shakespeare would still be an immortal England." On the other hand, candor compels the admission that sinful man has made use of type—as of every other inven tion—for base and Ignoble ends. But the most pig-headed pessimist would hardly maintain that the evil results thus obtained could be more than an infinitesimal part of the good ones, f °r the printing press has demonstrat ed in a most convincing manner that only what is good and beautiful is per manent. Beery vile and morbid book mufcdled,- or eventually will die, of its own diseases, till at length authors and publishers will have learned the folly of printing such things. It is not mere fancy that sees in the steady external improvement that has been made on the first book models a symbol of an internal progress in the matter between the covers of bookdom. However much antiquarian rapture we may feel when we buy a worm-eaten old book In fif teenth century print, we cannot deny t ha bin their superb typographical ward robes the books of to-day as far sur pass the first Gutenbergen attempts as the dainty tinted gowns of a modern belle, outvie the Impromptu makeshift of our fig-leaved mother Eve. Con cerning the respective claims of Guten berg and Koster to the discovery of movable types, we have no desire to quibble. If they had not'Invented something of the kind somebody else would have done so about the same time dr a little later. Be that as it may, in recognition of his service to mankind we are willing to pledge Mr. Gutenberg’s health—he surely would excuse us from drinking it unless we followed it up by swallowing a blotter —in a brimming bumper of ink. ▲11 Thing* to Her Who Walt*. The irony of fate forms a strong leav • In ll» __.__ ■as about the luck of Mrs. H. H. Leon ard. While engaged In tbe taak of searching among a lot of old letters she discovered that her brother had de posited in a Trenton (Tens.) bank, In 1863, $10,000. Not long afterward he was killed In the civil war. Inquiries elicited the fact that the'bank was still In existence and had sought the de positor’s heirs in vain. In this story we have first the tragic fate of the man who owned the money, and then the ill-starred career of Mrs. Leonard's husband, who, having only last fall se cured a divorce from her to enable him to marry another woman, was mur dered within two months of his second marriage. Mrs. Leonard, since the loss pf her husband by divorce, has been Obliged to adopt the arduous profession Of a washerwoman. Now she alone, of all the parties concerned, cornea out ahead! A Scarecrow for Mosqaltoat. John Habberton states with the sol emnity of firm conviction that mos quitoes are extremely frightened by dragon flies and will not come within yards of them. He says that one or two dried dragon flies suspended from line silk under the roof of an open porch Infested with mosquitoes will scare all of the little pests away, and they will not come back while the dragon flies are there. This, he says, he has tried with surprising results. It is a well known fact that dragon flies are pre datory and voracious insects, and that they subsist largely upon gnats, gea and mosquitoes, and It is Nut ural that the mosquito, who is a Insect, should regard the "spindle," "darning needle” or drugs fljf as tap small bird regards ths IQB . u me Man wlio is Raising a Big Crop —realize* that the harreat time is Mul farming comprehends not only the growing of the tallest to*the*acre of hay) the best (arming—the (arming that pa something mare than thlsi for there u a harreat time) end just In crop fa saved, successfully, speedily and economically) In just measured the season's profit or loss. Harvesting Machines are the profit^hringing kind; they are the hind that expense*; there are other kinds that don't, and are in fact a they, .are,.so eonsUoUT oui el iis. Let'a edmilU .that we.are ^ let's admit also—because experience has proven it true—that th than the best. In harvesting machinery here it is. 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