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; STATE.
Governor. Silas Holcomb
Lieutenant Governor...... J. *• •£‘rtr.ri?
Secretary of State... .:.... Wm. F. Porter
State Treasurer.. Joltii B *J^ser'f1“
Slate Auditor ....John!. 0<>rnell
Attorney General.... . C. J- Sniythe
Com. Lands and Buildings.•••■•J; V. Wolfe
Sunt. Public Instruction ...... -W. M Jackson
REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY.
dials. H. Gere. Lincoln rJbeavItttBijrulian.,
Uluuba; J M. Hiatt, Alma; E, P..liotu,e^
fierce i J.T. Mall ale u, Kearney; M. J null,
Edgar. ^ ' •
Representatives First District, J. B. Strode
Second, H. D. Mercer, Third. 8. Maxwell,
Fourth, W, L. Stark, Filth, It. O. Sutherland,
Sixth, W. L. Green.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senators—W. V. Allen, of Madison; John
M, Thurston, of Omaha.
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justlee.....A. M. Post
Associates.. .T.O. Harrison and T. L. Norvall
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL pibTHlCT.
Judge .. .M. P- Kinkald, of O Neill
Heuorter . ..J. J. King of O’Neill
JuSgel?....’.W. U. Westovor, ot Kushvllle
Reporter ' 'On Maher, of Bushvllle.
LAND OFFICES. ■
' o’axtLL.
hhlister . .JohnA. Harmon.
Keoe*ver.......... .... . •.-Klmer Wtlllams.
COUNTY.
Judge . ..... .........GCo McCutcheon
Clerk of the District Court ,. .John Sklrvlntf
I )p in i tV • LOllIDll
Treasurer........... .I. P. Mullen
Deputy....... -Mike McCarthy
DenStv! .OhttsO’Neill
Supt. of Schools...,.•••••■ j' R- Jackson
Assistant.... .Mrs. W. B. Jackson
Coroner.Dr. Trueblood
Attorney.....w Butler
(WJrJSit riauMo.
T1KBT DISTRICT.
Cleveland. Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga,
Bock Falls and Pleasantvtew: J. A. Robertson
SECOND DISTRICT
Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wll
owdaie and Iowa—J. II. Hopkins.
THIRD DISTRICT.
d rattan and O’Neill—Mosses Campbell.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Ewing, Verdigris and Delolt—L. C. Combs
FIFTH DISTRICT,
Chambers, Conlev, Lake, WoClure and
Inman—8. L. Conger.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Swan. Wyoming, Fairview, Francis. Green
Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—O. W. Moss.
SEVENTH DISTRICT^
Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats.
OUT OF Of NEILL.
Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, B. H.
Benedict and S. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed.
McBride and Perkins Brooks.
OOUNCILMRS—FIRST WARD.
For two years.—D. Hi Cronin. For one
year—C. W. Hagenslck.
second waWd, '
For two yeark—Alexander Marlow. For
one year—W. T. Evans.
fHlKli WARD.
For two years—Charles Davis. For one
year—E. J. Muok.
Ill'll HFflCKHS. j
r »yo , 11. I- Murpliy ; oiers, N. ilaiiin;
Iriiiuitiivr, John Mi-.ogh; Uuy hii-ii.ev
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IlhiHItlSVI, ........ .... , T >
iiot i,|c«hji Li 'orllci J miuv. tt. kauiiiimi
• uf Police, P. .1. iliMiiu; uu..
• fit-.ii ut POUCO, r. uwm,
TtiSd; Gallon; Weigh master. D. g:auuard. \
f *. - uuA.ri^\
supervisor, it. J. Hayes; Trcaruroi. Harney
A cGreevy: tlerk, J. >ulilvan; Afescwso. lieu
•fokriior: Justices, M. Costello ano Chins.
Wilcox; Coustauu*s, Johu Horrisky ami Kii
McBride; Ltoau overseer dist. Alien iirotvu
l ist. No. 4 Johu Enright..
. ULDIERH' RELIEF OOMMSMOA.
Regular meeting flrst Monday in Feliru
ary of each year, and at such other times as
is deemed necessary, llobt. Gallagher, Page,
chairman; Wm. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary;
U. H. Clark Atkinson.
ST.PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Services every 8abbath at 10:30 o’olock.
v erv Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school
Immediately following services.
Vf ETHODIST CHURCH. Sunday
IjJL services—Preaching 10:30 A. M. and 8:00
p. M. Class No. 1 0:30 A. M. Class No. 2 (Ep
worth League) 7:00 p.m. Class No. 3 (Child
WUIliU UCOguw i .w * ■ .
tens) 3:00 p. M. Mind-week services—General
prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m. AH will
be made welcome, especially strangers.
E. T. GEORGE, Pastor.
< ■* A> R> POST, NO. 88. The Gen. John
Ur.tr- - ~ ....—*
„ . J*Neill Post, No. 86, Department of Ne
braska G. A. R„ will meet the flrst and third
Saturday evening of each month in Masouio
hall Q’NeiU S. J. Bmii h. Com.
ELKHOUN valley lodge, I. o. o.
F, Meets every Wednesday evening in
Odd Fellows' hall, visiting brothers cordially
Invited to attend.
W. U. Mason, N. G. 0. L. Bright. Sec.
, a-eve ixiui/ CHAPTER, It. A. A!
JTMeets on first and third Thursday of eaoh
month in Masonio hall. .. _
W. J. Uobhb Sec. J. 0. Babnish, H. P
KOFP.—HELMET LODGE, U. D.
. Convention every Monday at 8 o clock p.
m. in Odd Fellows' nalL Visiting brethern
oordlally Invited. _
Arthur Coykendall. C. C.
- E. J. Mack. K. of It. and S.
O’NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 30.1.
0.0. F. meets every second and fourth
Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Ohas. Bright, H. P. H. M. Tttley, Scribe
Eden lodge no. 41, daughters
OF REBEKAH, meets every 1st and 3d
Friday of each month in Odd Fellows' Hall.
Agnes T. Bentley. N. Q.
Dora Davidson, Sec.
pABFIELD LODGE, NO.»5,V.<feA.M.
VJT Regular communications Thursday nights
on or before the full of the moon.
J. J. King, W. M.
O. O. Snyder, Sec.
HOLT»CAMP NO. 1710. M. W. OP A.
Meets on tne first and third Tuesday in
eaoh month in the Masonic hall.
Neil Brennan, V. C. D. H.Cronin, Clerk
A O, U. W. NO. 153, Meets Beoond
• and fourth Tudsday of each month in
Masonic hall.
O. Bright, Uec- S. B. Howard, M. W.
INDEPENDENT WORKMEN OF
A AMERICA, meet every first and third
Friday of eaoh month.
• .. Geo. McOutchan, N. M.
J. H. Welton, Sec.
POSTOFFICE DIRCBTORY
Arrival ofMails
F.B.EM. V. R. R.—nos THE BAST.
■ day,Sunday included at.9:40 p m
TROM THE WEST
very day, Sunday included at.10:04 am
PACIFIC SHORT LINS. -
Passenger-leaves 10:0 >a. m. Arrives 11 :58 p.m
Freight—leaves 9:0* p. u. Arrives 7:00 p. m.
Dally except Sunday.
O'NEILL AND CHELSEA.
Departs Monday, Wed. and Friday at7:00am
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at..1:00 pm
O’NEILL AND PADDOCK.
Departs Monday. Wed. and Friday at. .7:00 am
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at. .4:30 p m
O’WMT.T, AND NIOBRARA.
Departs Monday. Wed. and Frl. at_7:00 am
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at.. .4:00 p m
O’NEItX AND CUHMINSVILLB.
Arrives Mon.,Wed. and Fridays a ..11:30 p.m
Departs Mon., Wed. andFrlday at 1:00 p.m
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[Copyright, 1804, by J. B. Upplhcott Company.]
name were among1 the prisoners who
escaped yesterday; Pm-told.”’
“Yes, suh. The same family, suh;
Col. Scroggs’ brothers. I can’t discuss
them just now, hut if the colonel should
< Dims here to see you before Capt. Close
gets back, if you’ll take my advice
you’ll listen to him. lie wants to speak
about that arrest and square things;
and—well, I know a gentleman when I
sec one, just as I know a rough—like
that soldier you were examining. The
colonel was conductor of our train
night before last.. Noiw I’ve got to ride
like hell. Good day, suh.”
And, pulling off his hat and sticking
spurs to his mud-covered steed. Mr.
Pot-ts galloped niway along the Tugaloo
road into the gathering darkness.
Soon after nightfall the rain ceased
• ul the wind died away. For the first
time since lie’had turned in the night
before Lambert, bethought him of the
) intern he had purposed buying, even
i f he had to send to Cohen’.-; on a Sun
day. Burns sent some candles over
from the company stores and the young
German “striker” set two of them
alight in his tent, with empty whisky
bottles—off which he had deferentially
washed the labels—as candlesticks.
Gne thought led to another. The pro
posed purchase reminded jfambert that
nil the money in his possession was now
the $20-bill borrowed of Close, and this
reminded him that he wanted five dol
lars in small currency—“shiuplasters,”
The non dripping from bit and boot
as the miniature greenbacks were
called at the time. Since hearing Mur
phy’s story he better understood the
straits to which his neighbors were re
duced, and he had determined that the
aid he had proffered in one way should,
despite madame’s high-spirited rejec
tion, be rendered in another.
At eight o’clock he had secured the
amount he needed through the good
offices of the first sergeant, and he was
wondering how soon he might expect
the visit of Col. Scroggs and what could
be its purpose, when all of a sudden
the. clatter at the other end of the
camp told him of the return of the de
tachment sent out the previous night;
but it was Sergt. McBride, not his com
pany commander, who met him at the
tent door.
“The captain’s compliments, an’ He’ll
be back by an’ by, sir. He stopped
over to have it but with somebody that
fooled him.”
“Stopped over where, sergeant? Not
alone, I hope?”
“No, sir; the sheriff was along, an’
two others. They were talking with
Mr. Scroggs—or Col. Scroggs—and a'
young fellow they called Potts, who
met us across the track on the Quit
man road. The captain said you wasn’t
to worry about him, but we didn’t get
the parties the sheriff was after, and
the captain thinks he knows who threw
us off the scent.”
Manifestly nothing was to be done
but await the captain’s return, and
nine o’clock came without him. Lam
bert had determined to investigate the
butter market, however,'and time was
not hanging heavily upon his hands
by any means. Throwing a light-blue
overcoat, such as was worn by the rank
and file, over his uniform,- he sallied
forth just after nine o’clock, and made
his way around the camp until he
reached the road, and followed it to
the gap among the rose-bushes whence
had rolled the tin pail on the previous
night. All was dark and still. Set
ting the pail just within the hedge,
he patiently waited. Presently voices
—feminine voices—became faintly audi
ble. “Elinor” had evidently been pushed
forward en reconnoissance, and, after
her recent nerve-racking experiences,
didn’t like the detail.
“I tell yo’ dey ain’ no one ’bout, Mis’
Katie. I done felt fur de pail, an’ ’tain’t
day-h,” was her protest. At this Lam
bert saw fit to give a low whistle, at
sound of which Elinor, with prodigious
rustle of skirts, bolted back towards
the house, and her'unseen companion,
after emphatic and scornful reference
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to “buwn cowuds,” came Hurriedly for
ward, but paused at discreet- distance.
“You’re theh, ah you?” vr’nsthe semi
assertive, semi-interrogative remark in
disdainful and truculent tone. “Ah
hope you’ve got that money at last.”
For an answer Lambert reached in
and shook the pail. The combination
of “shinplasters” and small coin within
gave a reassuring rattle. Eagerly the
girl bounded to the hedge. He could
just discern the slender little form and
the tumbled head of hair as she dropped
the enfolding shawl and stooped to take
the prize—which the unprincipled young
man had by this time cautiously with
drawn. He could hear hereager breath
ing and the patter of her hands among
the'ruih-laden branches.
“Whuh on earth” (who on earth can
spell the word as a real southern girl
says it?) “did you hide that pail? Ah’ve
no time fo’ nawnsense.’’
Silence a moment.
' “Look hyuli, Mr. Yankee! Ah’mnot
accustomed to being made a fool of,
’n Ah want that money. Ah’ve had to
wait too long already.” ’■
A sound as of something .Shafting in
a tin vessel, but further away, towards
a broader gap in the dark hedge.
“Ah’m not going up thuh. Ah told you
twice befoh. You bring that pail back
liyuh” (indignantly). Ah don’t be
lieve you’ve gawt the money at
all.” (tentatively). “If you had, no
gentleman ^vould keep me waiting—
when we need it so much.” (Symptoms
of vanishing nerve, and again a tempt
ing rattle). “Ah can’t go there”(plead
ingly now). “Please bring it hy.uh, Mr.
Higgs.- Erotliuh Floyd would be fuyious
if he knew” (pause)—“an’ we had such I
awful trouble las’ night—all on .-•nv- j
count of some of your' rascally—Oh! !
wkut’r. that row liculcnant’s name?” '
(Sudden change of theme and tone); I
“His r.ipac’a Ike,” was the response J
in a h6ar.se whisper across the dripping ;
rose bushes. '
-Ah don t believe. a wuncl you any. j
WJiut*«%Ts ic a! name?” •
“Ask ilr. i'otts if his name isn’t.Ike; j
and conic sn:d get your money.”
“Ah don’t have n'cbanca to ask Mr.
I’otts anything. They don't allow me
[ in the palilor when Mr. Bahton Potts
comes. Ah’m too much of a child to be
trusted with family secrets, it seems:
though Ah’m not too young to find out
how much we need money.—Whuh’s
that pail?”—suddenly coming down to
business again.
Lambert gave it a shake, this time
within reach of a little hand that darted
in among the bushes and firmly closed
upon his own.
“You let go that pail!” was the im
perious demand from within.
“I can’t—till you let go my hand,”
from without.
“Ah don’t want your hand. Alt
want—”
“I didn't offer it, but, since you like
it so much, here’s the other.” Anil
through the darkness another hand,
with soft warm palm and long, slender
fingers, closed in upon the hot little paw
straining and tugging at the original
occupant of the handle. Instantly, with
indignant force, the enfolded member
was snatched away, and the stooping
girl sprang to her feet, wild-eyed and
alarmed.
“Wh’ ah you?” she panted. “That’s
not Sergt. Riggs.” A window was sud
denly raised back tow'ards the house;
the mournful toot of a tin horn began.
“Quick! Ah’ve got to go. Roll that pail.
through. Why didn’t Mr. Riggs come ?’V
“He’s detained—on duty, but it’s alf
right. Where’s the buttermilk?”
Through the trees behind the girl
came Elinor at top speed; one could hear
the rustle rods away. ”F’ Gawd’s sake,
Mis’ Katie, come quick. Mis’ Walton’s
callin’."
But Kate was fumbling for something
in her pocket and bending forward to
the hedge. The next instant, with bril
liant flash, the glare of a parlor match
leaped out one second on the night and
fell full on a laughing, handsome young
face peering in from under the visor of
an infantry forage cap. One second
only, and down went the match, and
with stifled cry bounded the youngest
daughter of the household of Walton
even the precious pail forgotten.
Ten minutes later a horseman came
galloping up the muddy road and in
quiring for the lieutenant. Lambert
recognized him as one of the deputies
or assistants engaged in Saturday’s af
fair at the jail. He handed a folded pa
per to the young officer, and, in low, ex
cited tones, began some explanatory
comments.
“Wait,” said Lambert* “Let me read.”
, Tearing open the paper, by the dim
light of Burns* lantern he made out the
following:
“Lieut. Lambert; Post guard at once
around Walton place, so as to prevent any
men from getting In or out. Take half the
company If you need it. I’ll be there in half
an hour. CLOSE,
“B’vt. Capt. Com’d’g.” ^
(To be continued,)
Paint your house (not red) but any
color you want, and call on Hersbiser .&•
Gilligan when in need of paints. 45tf /.
. PAINTEBS OP ROMANTICISM*
Coret, OhtMWfn, CamUla, lo|IM «a4
Hard hat Jn Tbalr I«tk>
No anchorite ever disdained the lux*
uries ot life In better faith than the
enthusiasts of romanticism, says Tem
ple Bar. In the year 1832 a little band
of artists—true bohemian's, long-haired,
cadaverous—extravagantly dressed in
all colors of the rainbow, encamped ,
themselves in a desolate Quarter of
Paris. One comes suddenly froth the
roar and turmoil of the streets into an 1
oasis of solitude and silence; the ruins
of an old church make the place a sort
of sanctuary* the houses on each side,
once imposing, are dilapidated and
abandoned. In one of these an ample
lodging was found for those immoder
ate lovers of art to whom the consider
ation of personal well-being was quite
unimportant—who were more than con
tent to breakfast on an ode and to dine
on a ballad. One empty room of im
mense sise, going rapidly to rack and
ruin, seemed especially fitted for their
needs and was soon turned into a tem
ple of the arts. Could the already
tumble-down place have possibly been
preserved to the present day, what a
mine of wealth, what priceless treas
ures it would have been found to con
tain, for the Impromptu decorations
were undertaken by hands then quite
unknown but bound to emerge into the
full light of celebrity. Perched upon
ladders, a rose behind the ear, cigarette
In mouth,' the pelntres romantiques
produced masterpieces of genius. On
narrow panels high above his head;
Corot produced two exquisite views of
Italy; below klm Chassereau designed
a Diana bathing, where was already in
dicated’the almost savage grace and
freedom of his later works; Camille
Rogler covered the ceiling with oriental
fancies; Marilhat, Celeetin Nanteuil,
Adolphe Leleux added their daring and
picturesque contributions, and, brush in
hand, these artists—themselves aspir
ing poets—recited verses from Hugo
and Alfred de Musset as a fitting ac
companiment to pictorial inspiration.
It was one of those scenes which mer
ited Carlyle’s fanciful description of the
Stirling club, "A little flowery island
of poetic intellect.”
i
; WOMEN OF THE WORLD.
Four Honored and Thn* Gifted With
Loefc Lift.
Mist Margaret Cresswell receive!
$3,500 a year for acting aa poatmlatreaa
In Gibraltar. The Gibraltar mall can
not be. very heavy, for Miaa Cresswell
at thesame time acta aa superintend
ent of all the postofflees on the North
African-coast’ The first Woman who
reclel^ed the permission of the min- ,
later of public Instruction to attend
lectures Ip, the University of Munich
Is Miss Ethel Gertrude Slceat, daughter
of Professor Skeat, the eminent philolo
gist? Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, for- <
rner president of Wellesley,college, la
how in Venice. She has accepted the
invitation of the American Missionary
association, to be one of the fpeajcers sit',
tfie jubilee of the association In Boston
next October. Her subject will be
“Educational Equipment for Mission
ary Service.” Three active spiritualists
In San Francisco recently held an In
teresting celebration on their common
birthday. Each one has a great-great
grandmother, one being 82 years old,
another 85, and another 89. None haa
lost a whit of her intellectual ability
and all three drank gayly out of tea
cups 250 years old aa they discussed
free thought and spiritualism with all
their old-time keenness. Major Ara
bella Macomber Reynolds Is the only
woman who was ever commissioned
regularly in the United States army.
She distinguished herself conspicuous
ly In the late war, but now lives In a
quiet little town on the Paclflo epaat,
where she Is known as Major Belle
Reynolds.
Things fw D«lu( lo Tan.
In front of a Dakota sod cabin sat a
ntan - about 60 years old who was
ragged and forlorn and hungry-look
lng. A few rods away lay the dead
body of a mule and beyond that was a
wagon with a broken wheel. There was
no smoke coming out of the cabin
chimney, no fowls or livestock about
and no other human beings to be seen.
“Well,” queried the man as I looked
about, "things look sorter lonesome,
eh?”
"Indeed, they do, sir. What's been
the master with you?”
“Blllyus fever.”
“Where Is the wife?”
"Inside the house with the same
thing.
"And the children?”
“Out thar behind the haystack shak
ln’ with the ager.
“I see you’ve lost your mule.”
“Died two days ago, sir. Can’t
rightly say what ailed him, but he’s
gone.”
"I suppose you are dead broke on top
of all?” I queried.
“Haven’t got a red cent, sir, and
nuthln’ but cornmeal In the house,” be
replied.
“Well, I don’t blame you for feeling
blue over the situation.”
"Who’s a feelln’ bluer*
“Why, I expect you are.”
“Then you make a big mistake,
stranger. Things did look & little blue
last week, but three days ago I had
this ’ere farm out up . Into 2,000 town
lots and arranged with a critter to
boom It. and I’m feelln’ like a steer in
a cornfield. Two thousand .’tots at $100
apiece, six railroads to cr ess yeare,
three big car-works a-comln’, schools!
churches, factories, parks, h ntels—why
durn my hide, but I Jlst a »t yere cal
kerlatin’ on startin’ five banks and
foundin’ two or three orph an asylums
with my money!”
“Then I can’t aid you?”
“Jlst a pipe o’ terbacker and a nip of
whisky, stranger, and yon tell every
body down the road that o le Bill John
son has founded the toam o’ Golden
City and Is goln’ to plant gold watches
for mile posts all over the i stalt. Feel
ln’ blue? Waal, I should raytber gur
gle to obsarve that he has. to keep hold
of the grass to prevent h JS fljdn’ awax
tur Jay and exultashunl" 7J ,
that the
Ideal farming comprehends not only the growing of the tallest
tosthesacre of hayi the heat farming—the fanning th
something more than thisi far there u a harvest ana*
crop is saved, successfully, speedily and economically, la
naewured the season's profit or loss.
Harvesting Machines are the profit-bringing kind| they are the Mad that
expenses; there are other kinds that don't, and are in fact a 0
they are 00 constantly out of fix. Let’s admit that we are all 1
Jet's admit also—because experience has proven it true (hat f
than the host. In harvesting machinery here It Is,
Tho McCormick Right-hand
Tho McCormick Now 4 Steo
Tho McCormick Folding Dalay Reaper;
The McCormick Vortical Corn
> Gome in end 1st us show you these
they are the only kind to own,
Write me for prices on Twine.
O-IF1. Big'lxzi
Pacific Short Line
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BEST TRAIN SERVICE
-IN
NORTHERN NEBRASKA.
Through Freight and Passenger Rote*
TO ALL POINTS.
’"If you are going ou a trip or intend chang
ing your location^ apply to our. nearest
agent, or write to
.. -- W. B. McNIDBR.
Gen'l Pass. Agent. Sioux City.
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