GRN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
i STATE.
» aLd^rnor.Silas Holcomb
Wieutenant Governor.J. K .Harris
Secretary of State.Wm. F. Porter
State Treasurer.John B. Meserve
State Auditor.John l‘\ Cornell
Attorney General.C. J. SnUff"*
Com. Lands and Buildings..-J. V. Wolfe
Sunt. Publlo Instruction.W. K. Jackson
KEGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY.
Chas. H. Gere. Lincoln; Leavitt Burnham,
Omaha; J. M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Holmes,
Pierce; J. T. Mallaieu, Kearney; M. J. Hull,
Edgar.
Representatives First District, J. B. Strode
Second, H. D. Meroer, Third. S. Maxwell,
Fourth. W. L. Stark, Fifth, R. D. Sutherland,
Sixth, W. L. Green.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senators— W. V. Allen, of Madison; John
M. Thurston, of Omaha.
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justioe.A. M. Post
Associates.. .T.O. Harrison and T. L. Norvall
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Judge.M. P. Kinkaid, of O’Neill
Reporter....J* J. King of O Neill
Judge.W. H. Westover, of Rushville
Reporter.* 'tin Maher, of Rushville.
LAND OFFICES.
0’nBiu,.
Register..
hocolvor...
..John A. Harmon.
...Elmer Williams.
COUNTY.
X
judce .Geo McCutcheon
Cleric of the District Court ....Johu SkirviiiK
IVimtv .. M. Collins
Treasurer .....>. P. Mullen
rufrk...B'H Bethea
Deputy::..:.Mike McCarthy
Supt. of Schools.W. H. JackBOn
Assistant.Mrs. W. K. Jackson
Attorney.w -B. Butler
SUPERVISORS.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga,
Rock Falls and Pleasantvlew:J. A. Kobertson
SECOND DISTRICT.
Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wll
lowdale and Iowa—J. H. Hopkins.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Grattan and O'Neill—Mosses Campbell.
FOURTH DISTRICT,
Ewing, Verdigris and Dololt—L. 0. Combs
FIFTH DISTRICT, .
Chambers, Conlev, Lake,-. McOlurt and
Inman—S. L. Conger.
SIXTH DISTRICT
Swan. Wyoming, Fairview, Francis. Green
Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—0. W. Moss.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Atkinson and Stuart— W. N. Coats.
on Y OF or NEILL.
Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, E. II,
Benedict and S. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed.
McBride and Perkins Brooks.
COUNCILMEN—FIRST WARD.
For two years.—D. H. Cronin. ■ For one
year—C. W. Hagensick.
SECOND WARD.
For two years—Alexander Marlow. r or
one year—W. T. Evans.
THIRD WARD.
For two years—Charles Davis. For one
year—E. J* Mack.
CITT OFFICERS.
Mayor, H. E. Murphy; Clerk, N. Martin;
Treasurer, John McHugh; City Engineor
John Horrisky; Police Judge, H. Kautzman;
Chief of Folioe, P. J. Bigllu; Attorney,
Thos. Carlon; Weighmaster, D. Stannard.
GRATTAN TOWNSHIP.
iHupervisor, R. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney
iUoUreevy; Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben
JPohrlng: Justices, M. Castello and Chas.
tVilcox; Constables, John Horrisky and Ed.
MoBride; Road overseer dist. 36, Allen Brown
uist. No. 4 John Enright.
SOLDIERS’ RELIEF COMNISSION.
Regular meeting first Monday In Febru
ary of each year, and at such other times ns
is deemed necessary. Robt. Gallagher, Page,
chairman; Wm. Bowen, O'Neill, secretary;
H. H. Clark Atkinson.
aJT.PATRICK’S CATHODIC CHURCH.
© Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o'clock.
Very Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school
Immediately following services.
Methodist church. Sunday
services—Preaching 10:30 A. M. and 3:00
p. M. Class No. 1 »:30 a. M. Class No. 3 (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.
/s A. R. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John
IJT. O'Neill Post, No. 86, Department of Ne
braska G. A. R., will meet the flrat and third
Saturday evening of eaoh month In Masonic
hall O’Neill 8. J. Sun h. Com.
Elkhorn valley dodge, I. o. O.
F. Meets every Wednesday evening in
Odd Fellows' hall. Visiting brothers cordially
Invited to attend. _
W. H. Mason, N. G. 0. L. Bright, Sec.
Gr
ARFIELD CHAPTER, R. A. M
Meets on first and third Thursday of eaoh
month In Masonio hall. _
W. J. Donas Sec. J. C. Harnish, H,
P
KOFP.—HELMET LODGE, U. D.
, Convention every Monday at 8 o clock p.
m. In Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brethern
oordially Invited. _ _
Arthur Coykendali,, C. C.
E. J. Mack, K. of R. and S.
O’NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 30.1.
O. O. F. meets every second and fourth
Fridays of eaoh month in Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Ohas. Bright, H. P. H. M. Tttley, Scribe
TNDEN LODGE NO. 41, DAUGHTERS
OF REBEKAH, meets every 1st and 3d
Friday of eaoh month In Odd Fellows’ Hall.
Agnes T. Bentley, N. G.
Dora Davidson, Sec.
GARFIELD LODGE, N0.95.F.&A.M.
Regular communications Thursday nights
on or before the full of the moon.
J. J. Kino, W. M.
Harry Dowling, Sec.
HOLTH3AMP NO. 1710, M. W. OF A.
Meets on the first and third Tuesday in
each 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. „ .
O. Bright, Kec. 8. B. Howard, M. W.
INDEPENDENT WORKMEN OF
AMERICA, meet every first and third
Friday of each month.
Geo. McOutchan, N. M.
J. H. Welton, Sec.
POSTOFFICE DIRCBTORY
Arrival of Malls
F. E. A k, ▼. 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. m. Arrives 11:55 p.m.
Freight—leaves 9:07 P.M. Arrives 7:00 P. M.
Dally eioept Sunday.
O’NEILL AND CHELSEA.
Departs Monday, Wed. and Friday at 7:00 am
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at.. 1:00 pm
O’NEILL AND PADDOCK.
Departs Monday. Wed.and Friday at.. 7:00am
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at..4:80 pm
O’NEILL AND NIOBRARA.
Departs Monday. Wed. and Fri. at—7:00 a m
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at... 4:00 p m
O’NEILL AND CUMMINSVILLE.
Arrives Mon., Wed. and Fridays a ... It :30h>.m
Departs Mon., Wed. and Friday at.1:00 p.m
PAINTERS OF ROMANTICISM*
Carat. Chuitmi, Camille, Roster sad
Merllhat la Their Tooth*
No anchorite ever dladalned the lux
uries of life In better faith than the
enthusiasts of romanticism, says Tem
ple Bar. In the year 1832 a little band
of artists—true bohemians, long-haired,
cadaverous—extravagantly dressed In
all colors of the rainbow, encamped
themselves In a desolate quarter of
Paris. One comes suddenly from the
roar and turmoil of the streets into an
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 et 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 size, 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 haye been found to con
mm, ior me 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 peintres romantiques
produced masterpieces of genius. On
narrow panels high above his head,
Corot produced two exquisite views of
Italy; below him Chassereau designed
a Diana bathing, where was already in
dicated the almost savage grace and
freedom of his later works; Camille
Rogier covered the ceiling with oriental
fancies; Marilhat, Celestin 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.”
WOMEN OF THE WORLD.
Foot Honored and Throe Girted With
Long Life.
Miss Margaret Cresswell receives
(3,500 a year for dbting as postmistress
in Gibraltar. The Gibraltar mall can
not be very heavy, for Miss Cresswell
at the same time acts as superintend
ent of all the postofflces on the North
African coast. The first woman who
has received the permission of the min
ister of public instruction to attend
lectures in the University of Munich
is Miss Ethel Gertrude Skeat, daughter
of Professor Skeat, the eminent philolo
gist. Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, for
mer president of Wellesley college, is
now in Venice. She has accepted the
invitation of the American Missionary
association to be one of the speakers at
the 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 has
lost a whit of her intellectual ability
and all three drank gayly out of tea
cups 250 years old as 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 lats war, but now lives in a
quiet little town on'the Pacific cpast,
where sbe is known as Major Belle
Reynolds.
Things Warn Going lo Tarn.
In front of a Dakota sod cabin sat a
man about 50 years old who was
ragged and forlorn and hungry-look
ing 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 matter with you?”
“Billyus fever.”
“Where is the wife?”
“Inside the house with the same
thing.
“And the children?”
Out thar behind the haystack shak
in’ with the ager.
“I see you've lost your mule.”
“Died two days ago, sir. Can’t
rightly say what ailed Tiim, but he’s
gone.”
I suppose you are dead broke on top
of all?” I queried.
‘ Haven’t got a red cent, sir, and
nuthin’ but cornmcal in the bouse,” he
replied.
‘‘Well, I don’t blame »ou for feeling
b’/ie over the situation.”
“Who’s a feelin’ blue?”
“Why, I expect you are.”
“Then you make a big mistake,
stranger. Things did look a little blue
last week, but three days sro I had
this ’ere farm cut up into ^.000 town
lots and arranged with a critter to
boom It, and I'm feelin’ like a steer in
a cornfield. Two thousand lots at |100
apiece, six railroads to ctc|bs yeare,
three big car-works a-comiiT, schools!
churches, factories, parks, hotdls—why!
durn my hide, but I Jist sot yere cal
kerlatin’ on startin’ five banks and
foundin’ two or three orphan .asylums
with my money!”
“Then I can’t aid you?”
“Jist a pipe o’ ter backer atfd a‘ nip of
whisky, stranger, and you tell every
body down the road that ole Bill John
son has founded the town o’ Gulden
City and is goln’ to plant gpld watches
ror mile posts all over the fetait. Seel
in’ blue? Waal, I should rayther frur
Sle to obsarve that he has to keep Hold
>f the grass to prevent h'k flyln’ atf&x
tur Jay and exuftashun!” £ J *
SAYINGS OP COL. NORTH.
He Wanted Soma Maw Words far Hla
V a cab alary.
The late Col. North, the nitrate ■
king, had a ready, if somewhat rough
style of wit peculiar to himself, says
the London World. The trap in which
he was seated being on one occasion
blocked in a crowded thoroughfare in
immediate Juxtapostiion 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 grase,”
said the colonel “I want to hear the
man swear!” The costermonger turn
ing his head around at this moment,
the colonel’s wiBh 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 if 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, here
goes for the image,” said North, and
he forthwith imprinted a sounding kiss
on the fair mother’s cheek.
NEW YORK POOD SUPPLY.
Kaoagh on Band to Withstand a roar.
Month!' Bloc*.
It the city of New York 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 question to
answer, for the reason that there are
such 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 laat for two mnntha
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 could be made to
last as long as the Paris siege lasted,
and the people would still be comfort
able.—Ladies’ Home Journal.
RoiaUoa and ArmeoUna.
The Russian people cared a great
deal about the Bulgarians; they do not
care at all about the Armenians.
Englishmen are apt to be puzzled 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 monophyslte
heretics, and though the peasant prob
ably thinks that it might be better that
they should get their punishment from
the orthodox czar than from the Mus
sulman Turk, he is not greatly concern
ed that they should get it. This Is an
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.
■ini by luihlu.
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.”
Mo BnatnsM Hu.
“You have a safe in your house for
money, haven't you?”
“Yes, and no burglar who knows any
thing about it would take the trouble to
open it.”
"Why not?"
“My wife knows the combination.”—
Detroit Free Press.
Damaged.
Baldup—“I was amused today to see
Gadhoy’s mustache catch fire while he
was trying to light a cigar.” Teldoo—
“Damage it much?” Baldup—"Yes; It
was burned down.”—Boxbury Gazette.
HOW TO FIND OUT.
Fill a bottle or common glass with
urine find let It stand twenty-four hours;
a sediment or settling indicates an un
healthy condition of the kidneys.
When urinC'Stains linen it Is positive
evidence of kidney trouble. Too fre
quent desire to urinate, or pain in the
back, ip also convincing proof that the
kidneys and bladder are out of order.
WHAT 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
scalding 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 mild and the extraordinary effect
of Swamp Root is soon realized. 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 Tbs Frontier
and send your address to Dr. Kilmer &
Co.. Binghamton, N. Y. The proprie
tors of this paper guarantee the genu
Ine^ess of this offer.
What * Prominent Ini an net Ku Bays.
H. M. Blossom, senior member of H.
M. Blossom & Co., 217 N. 3rd Si. 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 I
relief. I 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 25
and 50 cents. Free sample bottles at P.
C. Corrigan’s.
FBBB BICYCLES.
The State Journal is offering a first
class bicycle freo 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 caunot 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: *T
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, the pain to leale, and now I
consider that I am entirely cured. For
sale by P. C. Corrigan.
Marvelous Results.
From a letter written by Rev. J.
Ounderman, 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. C. Corrigan's drug store. Regular
size 50 cents and 81.00,
Pacific Short Line
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TO ALL POINTS.
If you are going on a trip or intend chang
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Gen'l Pass. Agent. Sioux City.
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FOR SALE BY ALL FIRST CLASS CROCERS.
TUP Man wlio is .Raising a Bio Crop
.. , , —realize* that the harrett time is ahead
Iieol farming comprehends not only the growing of the tallest grain—the moat tons*
to^thc/acre of hayi the best farming—the fanning that pays—must contemplate
something more than thlsy for there Ts a harvest time, and Just in proportion aa a
crop is saved, successfully, speedily and economically, in fust that proportion may ho
measured the season's profit or loss.
Harvesting Machines are the proGtobringing kind| they are the kind that keep datrd
expenses; there arc other kinds that don’t, and are in fact a constant expense because
they are oo constantly out of fix. Let'a admit, that we are all trying to make money!
let's admit also—because experience has proven it true—that there’* nothing cheeper
than the best. In harvesting machinery here it is,
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The McCormick New 4 Steel Mower. "f
The McCormick Folding Delay Reaper. <
The McCormick Vertical Corn Binder.
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Gome in ar.-l kt u.-. chow you these machines 1 they are the only Mn4 we *•—
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