UEN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY * STATIC. Governor. lieutenant Governor. secretary of State... . state Treasurer. suite Auditor. Attorney General. Com. Lunds and Buildings., sum. Public instruction... ....Silas Holeomt .J. E .Harris ...Win, F. Portei Joliu B. Meservi ..John F. Cornel _(J. J. Smytin .I. V. Wolf* ...W.U. Jackson HEUENTS STATE UNIVERSITY. Ohas. H. Gere, Lincoln; Leavitt Burnham Cmuba; J M. lliutt, Alma; E. P. Holmes I'lerue; J. T. Mallateu, Kearney; M. J. Hull udgar. Representatives First District, J. I). Strodt Second, rt. D. Mercer, Third. S, Maxwell Funrtli. W, L. Stark, Fifth, K. D. Sutherland, Sixth, W. L. Green. VON OR ESSIONAL. Senators—vv. V. Allen, of Madison; John M. Thurston, of Uenana. JUDICIARY. Chief Justice.A. '* Posl Associates.. .T.O. Harrison and T. L. N irvall FIFTEENTH J UD1C1AL DISTRICT. Judge .M. P. Kinkaid,of O’Neil] reporter.J. J. King of O’Neill jduge.W. U. Westover, ot Rushvillt neporter.■ >hn Maher, of Kushville. LAND OFFICES. O’NEILL. Aegis ter.John A. Harmon, Ueoeiver. ...Elmer Williams, COUNTY. Judge.Geo McCutcheoc Clera of the District Court .. .John Sklrving Deputy.O. M. Collin! Treasurer.J- P. Mullen Deputy.Sam Howard Clerk.Bill Betties Deputy.Mike McCarthy Sheritt.Obas Hamilton Deputy.Chas O’Neill Supt. of Schools.VV. K. Jackson Assistant.Mrs’. W. R. Jackson Coroner.Dr. Trueblood surveyor.M. F. Norton tttorney.W .It. liutlei SUPERVISORS. FIRST DISTRICT. Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga, Rock Falls and Pleasant view :J. A. Robertson SECOND DISTRICT. Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wll owdalo and Iowa—J. H. Hopkins. THIRD DISTRICT. Grattan aud O’Neill—Mosses Campbell. FOURTH DISTRICT. Ewing, Verdigris and Deloit—L. C. Combs. FIFTH DISTRICT. Chambers, Conley, Lake, McClure and inman—8. L. Conger. SIXTH DISTRICT. Swan, Wyoming, Fairvtew, Francis. Green Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—C. W. Moss. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Atkinson and Stuart— W. N. Coats. Oil Y OF Of NEILL. Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, B. H. Benedict and 8. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed. McBride and Perkins Brooks. GOUNCILMEN—FIRST WARD. For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For one year—C. W. Hagenslck. SECOND WARD. For two 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; Police Judge, H. Kautzmau; Chief of Police, P. J. Bigliu; Attorney, Thos. Carlon; Weigh master, D. Stannard. GRATTAN TOWNSHIP. ' Supervisor, R. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney MuGreevy; Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben Johring: Justices, M. Costello and Chas. Wilcox; Constables, John Horrlsky and Ed. McBride; Road overseer dist. 2H, Alien Brown dist. No. 4 John Enright. "OLLIERS’ RELIEF C0MNI8SI0N. Regular meeting tlrst Monday in Febru ary of each year, and ut suoh other times as is deemed neoessary. Robt. Gallagher, Page, chairman; Wm. Bowen, O'Neill, secretary; H. H. Clark 'Atkinson. UT.I’ATBICK*8 CATHOLIC CHURCH, h? Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock. Very Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school immediately following servicos. Methodist ciiuhch. Sunday services—Preaching 10:30 A. M. and «:U0 f. M. Class No. 1 0:30 A. M. 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 he made welcome, especially strangers. E. T. GEORGE, Pastor. I i A. It. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John U • O’Neill Post, No. SO, Department of Ne braska G. A. It., will meet the first and third Saturday evening of eaoh month in Masonio hall O’Neill S. J. Smiih, Com. LjlLKUOltN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O. JCi F. Meets every Wednesday evening In odd Fellows’ hall, visiting brothers oordlaUy Invited to attend, W. 11. Mason, N. G. 0. L. Bright, Sec. ClABFIKLD CHAPTEB, B. A. M WMeets on first and third Thursday of eaoh month in Masonic hall. W. J. Dorrs Seo. J. C. Rarnish, H. P OF1*.-HELMET LODGE, U. D, l, Convention every Monday at 8 o'oloek p. oi. in Odd Fellows' ball. Visiting brethern cordially invited. Arthur Coykendall, C. C. E. J. Mack. K. of K. and 8. O’NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 80. I. O. O. F. meets every seoond and fourth Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows' Hall. Chas. IlKiGHT, H. P. H. M. Tttley, Scribe DEE LODGE NO. 41, DAUGHTERS J OF RKBEKAH, meets every 1st and iid Friday of each month in Odd Fellows' Hail, Agnes T. Denti.ey, N. U. Dora Davidson, Sec. i 1ARFIELD LODGE, NU.95,F.a. m. Arrives 11:5.1 p.m. Freight—leaves 0:07 P. M. Arrives 7:00 p.m. Dally except Sunday. O NEILL AND CHELSEA. Departs Monday, Wed. and Friday at 7:00 am I 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. .4:80 p m _ O’NEILL AND NIOBRARA. Departs Monday. Wed. and Fri. at_7:00 am Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at.. .4:00 p m O’NEILL AND CUMMINSVILLE. Arrives Mon.,Wed. and Fridays a ..ll:30‘p.m Departs Mon., Wed. and Friday at.i :00 p.m GUTENBERG'S INVENTION. What the Printing htm Bh Dene 1ml ManklnA Five hundred yearB ago the literary Zeitgeist, tnky-fingered and forlorh, cried out for ^elp, and hie cry was heard in Germany and answered by the birth of Gutenberg in 1397, who gavs to the world, in 1450, its first com pleted printing press, says the New York World. “Four mpn,” writes the German historian Kapp, “Gutenberg, Columbus, Luther and Copernicus, stand at the dividing line of the middle agee and serve as boundary stones 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 development has gone on. But of all the means by which the divine flat "Let there be light” has been fulfilled —in its inner sense—through the long ages, 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 books, even the finding of a new con tinent, pales in significance. The pri ority of Gutenberg’s discovery over that 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 Edisohs and Maxims never could have been born 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 Bunk 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 th6 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 modern belle outvie the impromptu makeshift of our fig-leaved mother Eve. Con cerning the respective claims of Guten berg and Koster to the discovery 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. All Things to Her Who Walts. The irony of fate forms a strong leav en in the story which comes from Van. sas about the luck of Mrs. H. H. Leon ard. While engaged in the task of searching among a lot of old letters she discovered that her brother had de posited in a Trenton (Tenn.) bank. In 1863, $10,000. Not long afterward ho was killed in the civil 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 tho man who owned the money, and then the ill-starred career of Mrs. Leonard's husband, who, having only last fall se cured a divorce from her to enable Mm to marry another woman, was mur dered within two months of his second 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 Moaqaltoe*. 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 roof of an open porch Infested with mosquitoes will scare all of the little pests away, and they will not come back while the dragon flies are there. This, he says, he has tried with surprising results. It is a well known fact that dragon files are pre datory and voracious insects, and that they subsist largely upon gnats, mid ges and mosquitoes, and it is but nat ural that the mosquito, who is a wiso insect, should regard the "spindle," “darning needle” or dragon fly aa the small bird regards the hawk. i NOVELIST'S ?IRBT EFFORTS. Mr> Barrie's “Moolltcllou of a School* nuttr Written at an Early Ago. Having regard to Mr. J. M. Bar rie’s visit to Dumfries academy, the Courier und Herald of that place prints some extracts from the novel ist’s early contributions to a school magazine called the Clown, which he and some friends started. Young Barrie writes some "Reckolections" 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 reo kollections rong,” and he adds: “Altho, of coars, I malk 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 1 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 earn in at the door with a cleen face. This was too mutch for the boy m belo the tabel, and, just as I had fin ished saying ‘And may they crie from the botom of their harts—,’ ho shouted out ‘Lord Almichti, there’s Jock Smith wi’ his face washed!" Here is an instance 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.’ “The gentleman repeated his ques tion, and I, thinkin’ he had not heard me, again replied ‘Aye. ’ " ‘Could- -you—tell —me—what ever—that—is?’ he roared into my eer. “1 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 munth. 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 skoundr^l git oot o’ this; an’ if I sea you here agen I’ll kick you oot mysel!’ “Of oourse I was grately aston ished at the man, not nolng anythlnk I had sed about the minister; but it struck me at wonce that the minis ter’s name was Service!” Admiral da Honey and tlia Sentry. When Admiral de Horsey, who some years ago had command of the British fleet in the Pacific, wa9 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 darP” Great was the admiral’s annoyance to find he had neglected to get the pass-word before leaving the ship. “That’s all right,” he said carelessly, hoping to overcome the man’s scruples by indifference; “you know who I am.” “Dunno nobody, ear,” 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 care if you’s Admiral de Donkey. ”—Argonau t liMrntd bjr Kxptrlence. A certain judge in Chicago, vho rather prides 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 who appeared for the appel lant was long 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 itselfP" "That’s the very mistake I made in the lower court.” answered the young man, "I don’t want to let it defeat me twice.”— Argonaut A Bditln In Need. Half a century ago, when "sub jects” were bought by the surgeons, a poor man, writes James Payn, 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, exclaim ing: "My father, my dear father!” A crowd gathered round, their sym pathy was excited, and money was subscribed to enable the piouB 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 1 - - Poor Little Thing. “What’s the matter, Molly P” 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 could have cried like a child,” said Molly.-—Texas Siftings. HOW TO FIHD 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 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 ao 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 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 The Frontier and seed your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co.. Binghamton, N. Y. The proprie tors of this paper guarantee the genu inenesa of this offer. H Of 0 t BE H D 0 * . Purchase Tickets and Consign your F. E. & M.TandS. C.& P RAILROADS. TRAINS DEPARTt OOMO BAST. Passenger east, No. 4, 10:04 a. m Freight east. No. 24, 12:15 p. h Freight east, No. 28, 2:55 p. x. oomo wasr Passenger west. No. 3, 9:40 p. u Freight west, No. 27, 10:04 P. U Freight, No, 23, Local 4:00 p. ii. The Elkhorn Line is now running Reclining Chair Cara dally, between Omaha and Dead wood, jree to holders of llrat-claas transpor tatlon. Fer any Information oall on W. J. DOBBS, Aot. O'NEILL. NEB. DeYARMAN’S BARN. B. A. DaT ARM AN, Manager. f. D'Y ARM AIM'S fffffrwwfm Livery, Feed and Sale Stable. FineBt turnouts in the city. Good, careful drivers when wanted. ALo run the O’Neill Omnibus line. Commercial trade a specialty. THE ODELL Type Writer. (BOA will b“y th,e. ODELL TYPE WAV WRITER with T8 characters, warranted t