CEN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY state. * - Governor......SilasHolcomb Lieutenant Governor...J. E .Harris Secretary of State.Wm, F. Porter State Treasurer.John B. Meserve State Auditor....JohnF. Cornell Attorney (General.0. J. Sinythe Com. Lands and Buildings.J. V. Wolfe Supt. Public Instruction.W. R. Jackson REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY. Clias. H. Gere. Lincoln: Leavitt Burnham, Omaha; .1 M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Holmes, Pierce; J. T. Mallaieu, Kearney; M. J. Hull, Edgar. Representatives First District. J. B. 8trode Second, H. D. Mercer, Third. 8. Maxwell, Fourth. W. L. Stark, Filth, K. D. Sutherland, Sixth, W. L. Green. CONGRESSIONAL. Senators—W. V. Allen, of Madison; John M. Thurston, of Omaha. JUDICIARY. Chief Justice.A. M. Post Associates...T.O. Harrison and T. L.Norvall FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. Judge.M. P. Klnkaid, of O Neill Reporter.J.J. King of O Neill Jadge.W. H. Westover, of Kiishville Reporter.. ■ 'ton Maher, of Uushvillo. LAND OFFICES. o'HBinn. Register.. Receiver... .John A. Harmon. ...Elmer Williams. COUNTY. 1 udeo .Geo McCutcheon Clerk of the District Court ....Johu Skirving I).it,v . .......... ...........U. M.\joiiinB rreasurer . .. .I. P. Mullen Chirk .Bill Bethea .. Mllrn \liWu Kt lio Deputy.Mike McCarthy lerltf.I"."..;..Chas Hamilton Demi tv .. .Cbas O'Neill Supt. of Sohools.. W. K Jackson Assistant...Mrs. W. R. Jackson Coroner.Ur. Trueblood surveyor .... .I1 • Nortoo atwrnoy::::.:.::::::.:.w .r. uutier SUPERVISORS. FIRST DISTRICT. Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga. Kook Falls andPleasantvlew:J. A. llobertson . SECOND DISTRICT. Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wll owdale and Iowa—J. H. Hopkins. THIRD DISTRICT. C rattan and O’Neill—Mosses Campbell. FOURTH DISTRICT. Ewing, Verdigris andDelolt—L. C. Combs FIFTH DISTRICT, Chambers, Conley, Lake, IfioClure and Inman—8. L.Conger. SIXTH DISTRICT. Swan. Wyoming, Pairvlew, Prancls. Green Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—0. W. Moss. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats. CITY OF & NEILL. Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, E.H. Benedict and S. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed. McBride and Perkins Brooks. COUNOimBN—FIRST WARD. For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For one year—C. W. Hagensick. SECOND WARD. For two years—Alexander Marlow. For one year—W. T. Evans. THIRD WARD. For two years—Charles Davis. ' For one >ear—E. J. Mack. oitv ornocRS. Mayor, H. E. Murphy; Clerk, N. Martin; Treasurer, John McHugh; City Engineer John Uorrlsky; Police Judge, H. Kautzman; Chief of Police, P. J. Biglin; Attorney, Xhos. Carlon; Weighmaster, D. Stanuard. ORA TTAN TO WNSH1P. ' Supervisor, R. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney llcGreevy: Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben Johrlng: Justices, M. Castello and Ohas. Wilcox; Constables, John Horrisky and Ed. McBride; ltoad overseer dlst. 2H, Allen BrovvD cist. No. 4 John Enright. '•OLLIERS’ RELIEF C0MNI8SI0N. Regular meeting first Monday in Febru M-y of each year, and at suoh other times as •s deemed nooossary. Robt. Gallagher, Page, ihuirmau; Wm. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary; H. H. Clark Atkinson. wT.PATltlCK’S CATHODIC CHURCH. O Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock. Very Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school immediately following services. VS ETHOD18T CHURCH. Sunday SX services—Preaching 10:30 A. H. and 3:00 i*. M. Class No. 1 0:30 A. M. Class No. ‘i (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. 4 t A. It. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John VJT. 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 ball O’Neii) S. J. Smith, Com. ELKHORN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O. F. Meets eveiy Wednesday evening in Odd Fellows* hall. Visiting brothers cordially Invited to attend. _ W. H. Mason, N. G. O. L. Bright, Sec. HARFIKLD chapter, r. a. m UTMeets on first and third Thursday of each nonth in Masonic hall. _ „ _ W. J. Dobbs Seo. J. 0. Harnish, H, P KOFP.—HELMET LODGE, U. D. . Convention every Monday at 8 o clock p. m. in Odd Fellows' hall. Visiting brethern cordially Invited. _ _ Arthur Goykendalx, C. C, E. J. Mack. K. of U. and 8. O’NEIL, L ENCAMPMENT NO. 80.1. 0.0. F. meets every second and fourth Fridays of each month In Odd Fellows' Hall. Ohab. Bright, H. P. H. M. Tttley, Scribe Eden lodge no. ii, daughters OF REBEKAH, meets every 1st and 3d Friday of each month In Odd Fellows’ Hall, Agnes T. Bentley, N. O. Dora Davidson, Sec. p ABF1EL.D LODGE, NO. 95,F.A A.M. Vj Regular communications Thursday nights on or before the full of the moon. J. J. Kino, W. U. Harry Dowlinq, Sec. HOLT»CAMP NO. 1710, M. W. OF A. Meets on the first and third Tuesday In each month in the Masonic hall. Neil Brennan, V. 0. D. H. Cronin, Clerk AO, IT. W. NO. 153, Meets second • and fourth Tudsday of each month In Masonlo hall. O. Bright, Bee. S. B. Howard, M, W. INDEPENDENT WORKMEN OF AMERICA, meet every first and third Friday of each month. Geo. McCutchan, N. M. J. H. Welton, Sec. POSTOFFICE DIRCETORY Arrival ofMalls f. I. A M. V. 1. R.—FROM THE EAST. day, Sunday included at.8:40 pm from the west very day, Sunday included at.10:04 am PACIFIC SHORT LINE. Passenger-leaves 10:0ia, M. Arrives 11:55 p.m. Freight—leaves 9:01 P. M. Arrives 7:00 P. M. Datly except 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..7:00 am Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at. .4:30 pm O’NEILL AND NIOBRARA. Departs Monday. Wed. and Frl. at_7:00 am Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at...4:00 p m O’NEILL AND CUMMINS VILLI. Arrives Mon.,Wed. and Fridays a . ..11:30|p.m Depart* Mon., Wed. andFriday at.1:00 p.m PAINTERS OP ROMANTICI8M* Carat. OhMwui, Camilla, Rosier |id Marl! hat In Their Tonth. 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 or artists—true bohemians, long-haired, cadaverous—extravagantly dressed In all colors of the rainbow, encamped themselves in a desolate quarter ot 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 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 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 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 him Chassereau designed a Diana bathing, where was already in dicated the almost savage grace and freedom of his later works; Camille Rogler covered the celling with oriental fancies; Marilhat, Celeetln 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 thoee scenes which mer ited Carlyle’s fanciful description of the Stirling'club, "A little flowery island of poetic intellect.” WOMEN OF THE WORLD. Four Honored and Three Gifted With Lons Life. Miss Margaret Cresswell receive* |3,500 a year for acting as postmistress In Gibraltar. The Gibraltar mall can not be very heavy, for Miss Cresswell at the same tim.e a$jts as superintend ent of all thy postbftees on the North African coas^. The first woman who has received tire 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 yearn 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 ariny. She distinguished herself conspicuous ly in the lat* war, but now lives in a quiet little town on the Pacific coast, where she is known as Major Belle Reynolds. Things Warn Going lo Torn. In front of a Dakota sod cabin Bat a man about 60 years old who was ragged and forlorn and hungry-look Ing, A few rods away lay the dead body of a mule and beyond thit 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 men 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 ■■■"« “And the children?” “Out thar behind the haystack shad in' with the ager. “I see you’ve lost your mule.” “Died two days ago, sir. Can’t rightly say what ailed him, jbut 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," he replied. Well, I don’t blame you for f—Hwir 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 ago I had this ’ere farm cut up into 2,000 town, lots and arranged with a emitter to boom it, and I’m feelin’ like a steer in. s cornfield. Two thousand lots at |10» ipiece, six railroads to cross yeare, three big car-works a-comin’, schools, churches, factories, park^ hotels—why' Sum my hide, but I Jlst sot yere cal kerlatin’ on startin’ five bsmks and Foundin’ two or three orphans asylums with my money!” “Then I can’t aid you?” “Jlst a pipe o’ terbacker and a nip of whisky, stranger, and you tell every body down the road that ole Bill John son has founded the town o’ Golden pity and is goin’ to plant gdld watches or mile posts all over the utait. Feel n’ blue? Waal, I should rayther gur Ele to obsarve that he hasjto keep hold >f the i-*-- - • - !ur Jay ousarve tnac ne hasjto keep hold ■ grass to prevent bin flyin’ away y and sqraltashunr ^ SAYINGS OF COL. NORTH. H* Wutid Sam* Jf*w Word* (or Hll Todtalui. The late Col. North, the nitrate king, had a ready, It somewhat rough style ot 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 Juxtapoatiion 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 graie,” said the colonel "I want to hear the man swear!” The costermonger turn ing his head around at this moment, the colonel's wUh 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 thh 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 laYly to kiss an ex ceptionally unwholesome-looking in fant, of which the mother stated her self to be the living lmafce. "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. Enough on Band to Withstand a Pour. Monthl’ Btaga. If 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 dally In large quantities, how long would It be before the pinch of hunger would bo 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 tti'ose who always go hungry would be iwgreasod 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 months 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.—Ladles’ Home Journal. RohImw and Armenian!. 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. land by Bambino. 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 bouse gets the benefit of sunlight. It drives away dampness, mold, microbes, and blue devils, and puts us all in good humor and health. .1 cannot imagine good sanitary conditions and darkness. Even my cellar 1b 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 Bnslneia In. “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 Gadboy’s mustache catch fire while he was trying to light a cigar.” Teldoo— “Damage it much?” Baldup—"Yes; it was burned down.”—Boxbury, Gazette. 1 HOW TO FIND OUT. Fill a bottle or common glue with urine end let It stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or settling indicates an un healthy condition of the hidneys. 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. WllAT 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 hold 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 cure* of the most'destressing cases. It you need a medicine you should have the beet. Sold by druggists, price fifty cents and one dollar. You may have a sample bottle and pamphlet both sent free by mail Mention The Frontier and seed your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co.. Binghamton, N. Y. The proprie tors of this paper guarantee the genu'; ineness of this offer. what • Prominent lneurtnoe Man Say*. H. M. Blossom, aenior member of H. M. Bloasom & Co., 217 N. Srd St. Louis writes: I bad 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. I always recommended this syrup to my friends. John Cranston 908 Hampshire Street, Quincy, III., 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 gt P. C. Corrigan’s. FRSA BIOYCUI. The State Journal is offering a first class bicycle free to any person who will get up a club of 100 yearly subscribers for ihe Semi-Weekly Journal at 91 each. The bic} cles are covered by as strong a guarantee as any 9100 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 91 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 i have not sufficient command of lan guage to convey any idea of what I 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 Basalts. From a letter written by Bee. J. Gunderman, of Dimondale, Mich., we are permitted to make thia abstract: “I have ne 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. ▲ friend recommended Dr. King’s New Discovery; t was quick in its work and highly sat isfactory in results.” Trial bottles free at P. 0. Corrigan's drug store. Regular size 50 cents and 91.00. 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Harvesting Machines are the profitsferinging Uadi they are the kind that InapdOVt expenses; there are other kinds that don’t, and are in fact a constant expense because they are to constantly out of fix. Let's admit, that we are all trying to make aaeneyi let’s admit also—because experience has proven it true—that there's nothing cbHfW than tjio best. In harvesting machinery here it is, The McCormick Right-hand Open Elevator Binder. , The McCormick New 4 Steel Mower. f The McCormick Folding Delay Reaper. The McCormick Vertical Corn Binder. Come in and l .t ua show you these machines | they are the only kind we handlet they are the only Lind to own. ' .. McCoSmicK Write' me for prices on Twine. O. Big'lian. it*,, -^THE FRONTIERS For Up-to-Date Job Work.