gejpl official directory STATS. Qapern&r...Silas Holcomt - rjKutotJittt Governor.J. E .Harris -tociSBrv of State.Wm, F. Porter WtateiTreasurer.John B. Meserve ^State lAudltor.John F. Cornel] Attorney General.C. J. Smythe Cuiu. I-ands and Buildings.J. V. Wolfe Sunt. Public Instruction.W. R. Jackson REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY. Chas. H. Gere. Lincoln; Leavitt Burnham, Omaha; J M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Holmes, Piercer J. T. Mallaieu, Kearney; M. J. Hull, Edgar. Representatives First District, J. B. Strode Second, H. D. Moreer, Third. S. Maxwell, Fourth. W, L. Stark, Fifth, U. 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. Norvnll FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. Judge ..M. P. Kinkatd,of O’Neill Reporter.J- J- King of O’Neill judge.W. H. Westover, of Rushvllle Reporter.• >bn Maher, of Ruahville. LAND OFFICES. O'NBtUi. Register.. Receiver.. .John A. Harmon. .Elmer Williams. COUNTY. SECOND DISTRICT. Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wil lowdale and Iowa—J. H. Hopkins. THIRD DISTRICT. Grattan and O’Neill—Mosses Campbell. FOURTH DISTRICT. Ewing, Verdigris andDelolt—L. 0. Combs FIFTH DISTRICT, Chambers, Conlev, Lake, IfioClure and Inman-—S. L. Conger. SIXTH DISTRICT. Swan. Wyoming, Fairvtew, Francis. Green Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—O. W. Moss. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats. Gil 7 OF & NEILL. Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, E. H. Benedict and 8. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed. McBride and Perkins Brooks. COUNOIDMEN—FIRST WARD. For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For on© Fear—0. W. Hagensick. SECOND WARD. For two years—Alexander Marlow. For one year—W. T. Evans. A THIRD WARD. wor two years—Charles Davis. For one ■^fcr—E. J. "Mack. • V CITY OFFICERS. 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, Thos. Carlon; Welghmaster, D. Stannard. GRATTAN TOWNSHIP. Supervisor; R. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney MoGreevfiTClerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben Johring:f Justices, M. Castello and Ohas. Wilcox; Constables, John Horrisky and Ed. MoBridie; Road overseer dist. 26, Allen Brown [list. No. 4 John Enright. SOLDIERS’ RELIEF C0MNI8SI0N. Regular meeting first Monday in Febru ary of each year, and at suoh other times as is deemed necessary. Robt. Gallagher, Page, •hairman; Win. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary; ti. H. Clark Atkinson. luT. PAT RICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH-. O Services every Sabbath at 10:30 oelook. Very Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school immediately following services. Vi ETHODIST CHURCH. Sunday 31 services—Preaching 10:30 A. M. aud 8:00 -. M. Class No. 1 9:30 A. M. Class No. 2 (Ep vorth League) 7:00 p.m. Class No. 3 (Ohlld •ens) 3:00 P. M. Mind-week services—General irayer meeting Thursday 7:30 P. M. All will le made welcome, especially strangers. E. T. GEORGE, Pastor. X A. R. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John jr. o'Noiii- - ‘ V. A.. X USX) -AW VF. OWE. AUU VA • O’NoiU Post, No. 86, Department ol! No-; raika G. A. K., will meet the flrat and third iBUrday evening of each month in Masonic alKo'NeiU 8. J. Smith, Com. ELKHOUN valley lodge, i. o. o. F. Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brothers oordlally Invited to attend. _ _ _ W. H. Mason. N. G. 0. L. Bright. Sec. Garfield chapter, r. a. m Meets on first and third Thursday of each month in Masonic hall. _ _ r, ~l. J. Dobbs Seo. J. C. Habnish, H, P Ir I OF r.—HELMET LODGE. U. D. Convention every Monday at 8 o clock p. Eil'JBdd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brethern tally invited. „ _ _ Arthur Ooykendall, C. C, E. J. Mack. K. of U. and S. O'NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 80.1. O. O. F. meets every seeond and fourth Fridays of eaoh month in Odd Fellows' Hall. Ohas. Bright. H. P. H. M. Tttley, Scribe Til DEN LODGE NO. 41, DAUGHTERS OF REBEKAH, meets every 1st and M Friday of each month In Odd Fellows’ Hall, Agnes T. Bentley, Ni G. Dora Davisson, Seo. Garfield lodge, no.»5,f.*a.m. Regular communications Thursday nights on or before the full of the moon. J. J. Kino, W. M. ry Dowling, Seo. OLT'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 Masonle hall. C. Bright, Bee. S. B. Howard, M, W. LN DEPENDENT WORKMEN OF AMERICA, meet every first and third Friday of eaoh month. Geo. McCutchan, N. M. J. H. Welton, Sec. POSTOFFICE DIRCETORY Arrival of Malls r. E. a M. V. R. R.—from the east. day, Sunday lnoluded at.8:40 pm FROM THE WEST ■.very day,Sunday included at.10:04 am PACIFIC SHORT LINE. Passenger-leaves 10:0Ya. M.Arrives 11 :55p.m. Freight—leaves 0:07 p. m. Arrives 7:00 p. m. Daily except Sunday. a O’NEILL AND CHELSEA. mday. Wed. and Friday at 7:00 am esday,Thurs.and Sat. at.. 1:00pm O'NEILL AND PADDOCK. mday. Wed.and Friday at..7:00 am _ esday,Thurs. and Sat. at..4:30p m 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 CUMMIN8V1LLE. Arrives Mon.,Wed. and Fridays a . ..11:30!p.m D^arts Mon., Wed. andFriday at 1:00 p.m PAINTERS OF ROMANTICISM* Carat. Charaaraan, Camilla, Kogtar gad Marllkat la Thalr Tamth. No anchorite ever disdained the lux uries of life In better faith than the enthusiasts of romanticism, says Tem ple Bar. In the year 1832 a little hand 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 en 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 ruih, 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 hut 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 ceiling with oriental fancies; Marilhat, Celestln Nanteull, 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. Four Honored end Three Gifted With Long Life. Miss' Margaret Cresswell receives $3,500 a year for acting as postmistress in Gibraltar. The Gibraltar mail can not be very heavy, for Miss Cresswell at the same time acts as superintend* ent of all the postoffices 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, la 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 bo “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 late war, but now lives in a quiet little town on the Pacific cpaat, where she is known as Major Belle Reynolds. Things Were Going lo Tom In front of a Dakota sod cabin Bat 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 w agon with a broken wheel. There was no smoke coming out %f 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?” “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 nuthin’ but cornmeal in the house,” he replied. ‘ Well, I don’t blame you for feeling b'pe over the situation." “Who’s a feelln’ 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 critter to boom It, and I’m feelln’ like a steer in a cornfield. Two thousand lots at $100 apiece, six railroads to cross yeare. three big car-workB a-comin', schools,’ churches, factories, parks, hotels—why’ durn my hide, but I Jlst sot yere cal kerlatln’ on startin’ five banks and foundin’ two or three orphan asylums with my money!” “Then I can’t aid you?” * ^ 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 City and is goln’ to plant gold watches for mile posts all over the stait Feel in’ blue? Waal, I should rajther gur gle to obsarve that he has to keep hold of the grass to prevent his Ilyin’ awax fur Jay and •xultashun!” SAVINGS OF CPU NORTH. Wanted bm Haw Wards far Hla Vocabulary. 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 Juxtapostllon 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 wish was promptly grat ified by an exceptionally choice and ex tensive selection of expletives. “Bravo,” said North, aa 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 FOOD SUPPLY. K*o*|h on Hans to Withstand a Poor. Months’ 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 oome in dally in large quantities, how long would it be before the pinch of hunger would he 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 last 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 1b 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. Banians and Armonlan*. 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 monophysite heretics, and though the peasant prob ably tblnks 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. Saved by luihlM A writer In the New York Ledger ■ays: “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 boxea" Ho Bailaoaa Mao. “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."—Boxbory. Gazette. 1 HOW TO FIHD OUT. Fill a bottle or common glue 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. 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 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 cures of the most destressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the beat. 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 send your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co.. Binghamton, N. Y. The proprie tors of this paper guarantee the genu, ineness of this offer. What » Prominent lniurtno* Hu hji, H. M. Blossom, senior member of H. M. Blossom & Co., S17 N. 8rd St. Louis writes: I had been left with • very dis tressing cough, ibe 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, 111., writes: I have found Ballard’s Horehound Syrup superior to any other cough medicine I have ever known. It never disappoints. Price 96 and 60 cents. Free sample bottles at P. C. Corrigan’s. IBU BICYCLM. 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 81 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 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 Bev. J. Gunderman, of Diipondale, Mich., we are permitted to make this 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. 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 60 cents and 81.00. Pacific Short Line -HAS THE— ' BEST TRAIN SERVICE -IN NORTHERN NEBRASKA. Through Freight and Passenger Rate* TO ALL POINTS. If yon are going on g trip or intend chang ing your location, apply to oar nearest agent, or write to W. B. McNIDER. Gen'l Paw. Agent. Blonz City. The Smart Housewife Gets The Best at same price others pay for inferior brands lyywnag she always asks for KINGSFORD’S OSWEGO STARCH >• v •, : r*V “PURE” & “SILVER CLOSS” fcr tki laundry give a gloss and that is inwtxaalML FOR SALE BY ALL FIRST OLASS QROOERS. Tup Man wiio is Raising a Bio Crop —realises that (he harvest time la shael, Hesl fanning comprehends not only the mowing of the tallest grain—the most tons' to'the/acre of hayi the best fanning—the farming that pays—mo»» contemplate something more than thlsj for there Is a harvest timet and just in f—yrtitn an a crop is saved, successfully, speedily and economically, in just that proportion may be measured the season's profit or loss, , expenses; there are other hinds that don't, and are in fact a constant expense because, they are so constantly out of fix. Let's admit, that we are all trying to make moncyi let's admit also—because experience has proven it true—that there's nothing cheaper than the best. In harvesting machinery here it is, The McCormick Right-hand Open Elevator Binder. The McCormick New 4 Steel Mower. The McCormick Folding Daley Reaper. The McCormick Vertical Corn Binder. Game in end let us show you these machines) they are the only kind vis hsndhf they are the only LLid to own. 3 M^CoiltMlCK^BMg T ..ptf ^aai^a'-- ~ * Write me for prices on Twine. o. -^ITilE FRONTIERS For Up-to-Date Job Work.