> GEN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTOR!!
STATIC.
Governor.,..Silas Holoom
Lieutenant Governor...J. K .Harr!
Secretary of State.WmJ. Porte
State Treasurer.John B. Meserv
State Auditor.John r. Cnroe
Attorney General.. ..C. J.^Sm^Ah
Com. Lands and Buildings.-..J. V.
Suot. Public instruction ....... W. K. Jackso
REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY.
Chas. H. Gere, Lincoln! Leavitt Burnhan
Omaha; J M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Holmei
Pierce; J. T. Mallaieu, Kearney; M. J. Hul
Edgar.
Representatives First Dlstriot, J. B. Strod
Second, H. D. Meroer, Third. 8. Maxwel
Fourth. W, L. Stark, Fifth, K. O. Sutherlanc
.Sixth, W. L. Green.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senators—W. V. Allen, of Madison; Johi
M. Thurston, of Omaha.
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice...A. M. Pos
Associates.. .T.O. Harrison and T. L.Norval
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Judge.M. P. Kinkaid, of O’Neil
Reporter.J. J. King of O'Neil
Judge.W. H. Westover, of Rushvill
Reporter.- >bn Maher, of Rushvlllfi
LAND OFFICES.
o’lranx.
Register.. ..
Receiver.
..John A. Harmon
...Elmer Williams
COUNTY.
j udge...Geo McCutcheoi
Clerk of the District Court ... .John Sklrvlni
Deputy ... ..O. M. Collin
Treasurer...,.I. P. Mullet
Deputy.Sam Hoivari
Clerk;..Bill Bethei
Deputy.Mike McCarth;
Sheriff..Chas Hamlltoi
Deputy..Chas O’Neil
Supt. of Sohools.W. R. Jacksoi
Assistant.Mrs. W. K. Jacksoi
Coroner.Dr. Trueblooi
Surveyor.M. P. Nortoi
Attorney.W -It. Butlei
SUPER VISORS.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga
Dock Falls and Pleasant view: J. A. Uobertsoi
SECOND DISTRICT.
Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wil
owdule and Iowa—J. H. Hopkins.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Grattan and O'Neill—Mosses Campbell.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Ewing, Verdigris andDelolt—L. O. Combs
FIFTH DISTRICT,
Chambers, Conley, Lake, KoClure and
Inman—8. L. Conger.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Swan, Wyoming, Fairview, Francis. Greer
Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—O. W. Moss.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Atkinson and Stuart— W. N. Coats.
OUT OF O’ NEILL.
Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, E. H,
Benedict and S. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed.
McBride and Perkins Brooks.
OOUNOIUMN—FIRST WORD.
For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For ons
year—0, W. Hagensick.
SECOND WARD.
.Fortwo years—Alexander Marlow. For
one year—W. T. Evans.
THIRD WARD.
For two years—Charles Davis. For one
year—E. J. Mack.
CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor, H. E. Murphy; Clerk, N. Martin;
Treasurer, John McHugh; City Engineer
John Horrlsky; Poliee Judge, H. Eautzman;
Chief of Poliee, P. J, Blglln; Attorney,
Thos. Carlon; Welghmaster, D. Stannard.
GRATTAN TOWNSHIP.
Supervisor, B. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney
MoGreevy: Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben
Jobring: Justices, M. Castello and Ohas,
Wilcox; Constables, John Horrlsky and Ed.
MoBrlde; Hoad overseer dlst. 86, Allen Brown
dist. No. 4 John Enright.
SOLDIERS’ RELIEF COMNISSION.
Hegular meeting first Monday In Febru
ary of each year, and at such other times as
is deemed necessary. Itobt. Gallagher, Page,
chairman; Wm. Bowen, O'Neill, seoretary;
11. H. Clark Atkinson.
PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH.
(J Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock.
Very Uev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school
Immediately following services.
* 5t/f ETHODI8T CHURCH. Sunday
IM. services—Preaching 10:30 A. M. and 6:00
I*-. M. Class No. I 0:30 A. H. Class No. 2 (Ep
worth League) 7:00 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 made welcome, especially strangers.
E. T. GEORGE, Pastor.
GA. R. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John
• O’Neill Post, No. 36, Department of Ne
braska G. A. R., will meet the first and third
Saturday evening of each month In Masonic
hall O’Neill S. J. Smith, Com.
PLKHOBS VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O.
A-J F. Meets every Wednesday evening in
Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brothers cordially
invited to attend.
W. H. Mason, N. G. O. L. Bright, Sec.
SXARFIELD CHAPTER, R. A. M
ve Meets on first and third Thursday of eaoh
month In Masonic hall.
W. J. Dobrs Sec. J. C. Harnish, H, P
cordially Invited.
_ Arthur Coykendam,, C. 0,
E. J. Mack. K. of H. and S.
O’NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 80.1.
O. O. F. meets every second and fourth
Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Ohas. Rhiqht, 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. O.
Dora Davidson, See.
Garfield lodge, no.gs.f.&a.m.
Regular communications Thursday nights
on or before the full of the moon.
J. J, Kino, w. M.
Harry Dowling, See.
HOLT*CAMP NO. 1710, M. W. OF A.
Meets on the first and third Tuesday In
eaoh month In the Masonic hall.
Neil Brennan, V. C. D. H. Cronin, Clerk
AO, U. W. NO. 153, Meets second
• and fourth Tudsday of each month in
Masonic hall.
0. Bright, Hec. 9. B. Howard, M. W.
INDEPENDENT WORKMEN OF
JL AMERICA, meet every first and third
Friday of each month.
T _ „ „ Geo. McOctchan, N. M.
J. H. Welton, Sec.
POSTOFFICE DIRCBTORY
Arrival of Malta
F. B. * M. V. R. R.—FROM THE EAST,
day,Sunday Included at. 9:40 pm
FROM THE WEST
very day, Sunday Included at.10:04 am
pacific short line.
Passenger-leaves 10:01a. h. Arrives 11:5S p.m
Freight—leaves 9:07 p. it. Arrives 7:00 p. m!
Dally except Sunday.
O'NEILL AND CHELSEA.
Departs Monday, Wed. and Friday at 7:00 am
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at. ,1:00pm
O'NEILL AND PADDOCK.
Departs Monday. Wed. and Friday at.. 7:00am
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at. .4:30 p m
_ O’NEILL AND NIOBRARA.
Departs Monday. Wed. and Frl. at_7:00 a m
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at.. .4:00 p w
. . O’NEILL AND CUMMINS TILLS.
Arrives Mon.,Wed. and Fridays a ..11:30 p.m
Departs Mon., Wed. andFrlday at.1:00 p.m
GUTENBERG’S INVENTION.
■ Wtat the Prlnttn* Prw Hh Done foi
MuklaA
jj Five hundred years ago the Uterari
r Zeitgeist, inky-fingered and forlorfa
8 cried out for N.elp, and his cry was
e heard in Germany and answered by ths
0 birth of Gutenberg in 1397, who gavs
1 to the world, in 1450, its first com
Pleted printing press, says the New
, York World. "Pour men,” writes the
• German historian Kapp, “Gutenberg
j Columbus, Luther and Copernicus,
, stand at the dividing line of the middle
• ages and serve as boundary stonee
marking the entrance of mankind into
, a higher and finer epoch of its develop
ment." From centers of discovery and
invention in ever-widening circles that
t development has gone on. But of all
l the means by which the divine flat
“Let there be light” has been fulfilled
[ —in its inner sense—through the long
> agfes, there has been none in the mate
- rial realm that has exerted an influence
as powerful and far-reaching as the
printing press. Compared with this
■ discovery, which has evolved from the
nebular chaos of man’s thoughts and
emotions the vast solar system of
1 hooks, even the finding of a new con
, unent, palee In significance. The pri
| ority of Gutenberg’s discovery over that
L of Columbus is in itself evidence of its
' 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 bom before the Newtons and
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 is 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
livion. Better than all the promises of
immortality offered to Ulysses by Calyp
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
sea,” 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.
For the printing press has demonstrat
ed in a most convincing manner that
only what is good and beautiful is per
manent. Every vile and morbid book
has died, 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
that in 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 modem
belle outvie the impromptu makeshift
of our fig-leaved mother Eve. Con
cerning the respective claims of Guten
berg and Roster to the dlsooVery 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 or 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.
AU Things to Bar Who Walts.
The Irony of fate forma a strong leav
en In the story which comes fqom Kan
sas about the luck of Mrs. H. H. Leon
ard. While engaged in tte task of
searching among a lot of oldletters she
discoyered that her brother had de
posited in a Trenton (Tenm) bank. In
1863, $10,000. Not long afterward ho
was killed in the clyil 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 than
the ill-starred career of Mrs. Leonard’s
husband, who, having only last fall se
cured a divorce from her to enable
to marry another woman, was mur
dered within two months of his
marriage. Mrs. Leonard, since the loss
of her husband by divorce, has been
obliged to adopt the arduous profession
of a washerwoman. Now she alone, of
all the parties concerned, comes out
ahead!
A Scarecrow for Mosqultcca.
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 fine
silk under the root of an open porch.
Infested with mosquitoes will scare all!
of the little pests away, and they will
not come back while the dragon files-,
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, mid
ges and mosquitoes, and it is but n»t- ■
ural that the mosquito, who is a wise
insect, should regard the “spindle,”
“darning needle” or dragon flv as the
small bird regards the hawk. j
NOVELISTS FIRST EFFORT8.
Hit BarrU‘a “ftacollaetlMu of a School
mastor Written at an Barlj Age.
Having regard to Mr. J. M. Bar
rie’s visit to Dumfries academy, the
Courier and Herald of that place
prints some extraots from the novel
ist’s early contributions to a school
magazine called the Clown, which he
and some friends started. Young
Barrie writes some “Reckolectlons"
in the asumed role of a “skoolmas
ter" whose spelling is Artemus
Wardian. In his seoond installment
he complains that the editor “spelt
sum of the wurds in my last rec
kolleotions rong,” and he adds:
“Altho, of coars, I maik jew allow
ance for yoor eddukation. not being
equal to mine, I hop you will be more
cairful.” Resuming the “Reckollec
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 he was there anuther boy cam
in at the door with a clean face.
This was too mutch for the boy in
belo the tabel, and. just as I had fin
ished saying ‘And may they orle
from the botom of.their harts—,’ he
shouted out ‘Lord Almichtl, 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 schoolmaster says:
••On my rode we passed the river
•Aye.’ A gentleman asked me,.
•What river is that?’
••I was meditatin’, so I answered
abruptly, ‘Aye.’
“'Hie gentleman repeated his ques
tion, and I, thinkin’ he had not
heard me, again replied ‘Aye.’
“ 'Could—you—tell —me—what—
river—that—isP’ he roared, into my
eer.
‘‘I again answered ‘Aye.’
*• ‘Sir, said he, ‘I sea you want to
insult me!’
••I couldn’t comprehend what he
said till another person in the trane
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 muntb. I went early, and their
wer only one person there who I saw
was a nelder. I sed to him, ‘When
does service begin?’
“The man staired.
“ ‘When does service begin?’ 1
agen asked.
“To my surprise the elder ex
claimed: ‘What abomnabul impurt
nense. Pray, sur, do you know oor
respecktit ministir?’
“ ‘Me no him? No,’ sed L
“ ‘Then get oot o’ this,’ he re
plied. ‘You impurnant s&oundral
git oot o’ .this; an’ if I sea you here
agen I’ll kick you oot my sell’
“Of course I was grately aston
ished at the man, not noing any think
I had sed about the minister; but it
struck me at wonce that the minis
ter’s name was Servioe!”
Admiral da Honey and 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 Atlantic
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 negleoted to get the pass-word
before leaving the ship. “That’s
all right,” he said carelessly, hoping
to overcome the man’s scruples by
indiiferenoe; “you know who I am."
“Dunno nobody, sar," 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 cans if you’s Admiral de
Donkey. ’’-—Argonaut
iiOirnea oj mcperience.
A certain judge in Chicago, who
rather prigles himself on his vast and
varied knowledge of law, was com
pelled not long ago to listen to a case
that had been appealed from a justice
of the peace. The young practi
tioner whp appeared for the appel
lant was tong and tedious; he brought
in all the elementary text-books and
quoted the fundamental propositions
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 knows a
little law itself?” “That’s the very
mistake I made in che lower court,”
answered the young man, **I don’t
want to let it defeat me twice.”—
Argonaut
A Ralatlva In Need.
Half a century ago, when “sub
jects” were bought by the surgeons,
a poor man, writes James Pa;sn. fell
dead in Fleet street Without a mo
ment’s hesitation, a young fellow
who was passing threw himself on
his knees beside the corpse, ax claim
ing: “My father, my dear father!” A
crowd gathered round, their sym
pathy was oxcited, 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 Uttla 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, I’ll buy
you another one."
“I am calm enough now, but when
I saw that poor little dead bird I
oould have cried like a child,” said
Molly. -«Texaa611 tings.
HOW TO FIND OOT.
Fill a bottle or common glass with
urine and let it stand twenty-four hours;
a sediment or settling indicates an un
healthy condition of the kidneys.
When urine stains linen it is positive
evidence of kidney trouble. Too fre
quent desire to urinate, or pain in the
back, is also convincing proof that the
kidneys and bladder are out of order.
wkat to do.
There is comfort in the knowledge so
often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer’s
Swamp Root, the great kidney remedy,
fulfills every wish in relieving pain in
the back, kidneys, liver, bladder, and
every part of the urinary passages. It
corrects inability to held urine and
soalding pains in passing it, or bad
effects following the use of liquor, Wine
or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant
necessity of being compelled to get up
many times during the night to urinate.
The tjtild and the extraordinary effect
pt Swamp Root is soon realised. It
stands the highest for its wonderful
cures of the most destressing cases. If
you need a medicine you should have
the best. Sold by druggists, price fifty
cents and one dollar. You may have a
sample bottle and pamphlet both sent
free by mail Mention Tor Frontier
and send your address to Dr. Kilmer &
Co.. Binghamton, N, Y. The proprie
tors of this paper guarantee the genu
ineness of this offer.
* rrauiMIH uumm BUMJI,
fl. M. Blossom, senior member of H,
M. Blossom & Co., 21? N. 8rd St. Louis
‘writes: I had been left with a very dis
tressing cough, the result of influenza,
which nothing seemed to relieve, until I
took Ballard’s Horehound Syrup. One
bottle completely cured me. I sent one
bottle to my sister who had a severe
cough, and she experienced immediate
relief. 1 always recommended this
syrup to my friends.
John Cranston 908 Hampshire Street,
Quincy, 111., writes: I have found
Ballard’s Horehound Syrup superior to
any other cough medicine I have ever
known. It never disappoints. Price 20
and SO cents. Free sample bottles at P.
C. Corrigan’s.
FKU BICYCLES.
The State Journal is offering a first
class bicycle free to any person who will
get up a club of 100 yearly subscribers
for the Semi-Weekly Journal at (1 each.
The bicycles are covered by as strong
a guarantee as any 8100 wheel and are
first-class in every respect. Any young
man or woman can now earn a bicycle]
If you find you cannot get the required,
number, a liberal cash commission will
be allowed you for each subscription
you do get. You are sure to be paid
well for what you do. You can get all
your friends and neighbors to take the
Semi-Weekly State Journal at 81 a year
Address State Journal, Lincoln, Neb.
Mr. Isaac Horner, proprietor of the
Burton House, Burton, W. Va., and one
of the most widely known men in the
state, was cured of rheumatism after
three years of suffering. He says: “I
have not sufficient command of lan
guage to convey any idea of what 1
suffered. My physicians told me that
nothing could be done for me, and my
friends were fully convinced that noth
ing but death would relieve me of my
suffering. In June, 1894, Mr. Evans,
then salesman for the Wheeling Drug
Co., recommended Chamberlain’s Pain
Balm. At this time my foot and limb
were swolen to more than double their
normal size and it seemed to me my leg
would burst, but soon after I began
using the Pain Balm the swelling began
to decrease, tbe pain to leale, and now I
consider that I am entirely cured. For
sale by P. C. Corrigan.
Marvelous Basalts.
From a letter written by Rev. J.
Gunderman, of Dimondale, Mich., we
are permitted to make this abstract: "I
have no hesitation in recommending Dr.
King's New Discovery, as the results
were almost marvelous in the case of
my wife. While 1 was pastor of the
Baptist church at Rives Junction she
was brought kown with pneumonia suc
ceeding la grippe. Terrible paroxysms
of coughing would last hours with little
interruption and it seemed as if she
could not survive them. A friend
recommended Dr. King’s New Discovery ;
t was quick in its work and highly sat
isfactory in results." Trial bottles free
at P. G. Corrigan's drug store. Regular
size 50 cents and 81.00.
Pacific Short Line
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-IN
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Through Freight and Passenger Rates
TO ALL POINTS.
If you are going on a trip or Intend chang
ing your location, apply to oar nearest
agent, or write to
W. B. McNIDBR.
Gen'l Pass. Agent, Sioux City.
KINGSFORO’S
OSWEGO CORN STARCH
MOST DELIOIOOS OF AT.T. PREPARATIONS
roit
Custards, Cakes A Blane Haags.
FOR SALK BY ALL FIRST CLASS OROCKRS.
Tor Man who is Raising a Big Crop
—realize* that the harvest that is ahead.
Ideal firming comprehend* not only the growing of the tallest grain—the moat tom
to'theoaere of hayi the best farming—the farming that aaya nmat contemplate
something more than this) far there I* a harvest timet and juet in proportion as a
crop is saved, successfully, speedily and economically, in Juat that prcportioamey ha
measured the season's profit or loss,
Harvesting Machine* are the proflt'bringing kind| they are the hind that keep daft
expenses; there are other kinds that don’t, and are in fact a constant expense because
they are so constantly out of fix. Let's admit, that wears all trying to make msasyi
let's admit also—because experience has proven it true—that there's nothing cheaper
than the best. Ia harvesting machinery here it in
The McCormick Right-hand Open Elevator
The McCormick New 4 Steel Mower.
The McCormick Folding Daisy Reaper.
The McCormick Vertical Cora Binder.
Gome in and let t:s show you these machines 1 they are the only kind we
they are the only Lind to own.
a a
Ala#
McCormick
Write me for prices on Twine. 1
O. ^- BigHn
‘Bless me!
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