u liEN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY 4. y STATE. h^jJfraoT.Silas Holoomt Ll ftenant Governor...J. R . Harris Secretary of State.Wm. F. Portei State Treasurer.John B. Meserve State Auditor.John P. Cornell Attorney General.....C. J. Srnythe Com. Lands and Buildings.J. V. V\ olfc Sunt. Public Instruction.W. R. Jackson REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY. Chas. 11. Gere. Lincoln; Leavitt Burnham, Omaha; J M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Holmes, Pierce; J. T. Mallaleu, Kearney; M. J.llull, Edgar. Representatives First Dlstrlot, J. B. Strode Secoud, rt. 1>. Mercer, Ihird. S. 'Maxwell, Fourth. W, L. Stark, Fltth, R. 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 J UJDICIAL DISTRICT. Judge.M. P. Klnkuld,of O'Neill importer.J. J. King of O'Neill j aage.W. H. Westover, of Rushvllle Reporter.■ ’bn Maher, of Kuehvllle. LAND OFFICES. O'NULL. Register.. .. t.cuelver. .John A. Harmon. ...Elmer Williams. COUNTY. j udge.:.Geo McOutcbeon _ Cieric of the District Court ....John Sklrvlng ,.-\neasiIrer...J.P.Mullen ..Sam Howard .Bill Bethea Deputy.Mike McCarthy snerltt.Chas Hamilton L Deputy.Chas O’Neill of Sehools.. W. R. Jackson Mm W H. .huilfmui ^iSssistant.Mrs. W. U. Jackson ■ pjuer...Dr. Trueblood Krveyor.M. F. Norton .Attorney........;.W ,R. Butler SUPER VISORS. FIRST DISTRICT. Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga, Rock Falls and Pleasantvlew:J. A. Robertson SECOND DISTRICT. Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wll owdale and Iowa—J. H. Hopkins. THIRD D1STH1CT. Grattan and O’Neill—Mosses Campbell. FOURTH DISTRICT. ■ Ewing, Verdigris andDelolt—L. C. Combs. FIFTH DISTRICT. Chambers, Conlev, ’ Lake, UcClure and I nman—8. L. Conger. SIXTH DISTRICT* Swan. Wyoming, Fairvlew, Francis. Green Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—O. W. Moss. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Atkinson and Stuart— W. N. Coats. ) CUT OF ear—E. J; Mack. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor, H. E. Murphy; Clerk, N. Martin; 1'reaaurer, John McHugh; City Engineer John Uorrlsky; Police Judge, H. Kautzman; chief of Police, P. J. Biglln; Attorney, Thog. Carlou; Welghmaster, D. Stannard. gf GRATTAN TOWNSHIP. SmpoFvlsor, R. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney VAiQreevy: Clerk,' J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben Jobrtng: Justices, M. Castello and Chas. Wilcox; Constables, John Horrisky and Ed. McBride; Road overseer dlst. 20, Allen Brown diet. No. 1 John Enright. ■«OLDIERS’ RELIEF C0MNI8SI0N. Regular meeting first Monday In Febru ary of eaob year, and at suoh other times as is deemed necessary, ltobt. Gallagher, Page, chairman; Wm. Bowen, O'Neill, secretary; H. H. Clark Atkinson. UT.PATRICK’8 CATHOLIC CHURCH, u Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o'clock. Very Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school immediately following services. VCKTHODIST CHURCH. Sunday LU. services—Preaching 10:30 a. M. and 8:00 h. 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 be made welcome, especially strangers. E. T. GEORGE. Pastor. 4 i A. R. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John Of • O'Neill Post, No. 36, Department of Ne braska G. A. R., will meet the first and third Saturday evening of eaoh month in Masonio ball O’Neill S. J. Smhh, Com. LUKHOBN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O. u F. Meets every Wednesday evening In udd Fellows' hall, visiting brothers eordially Invited to attend. W: U. Mason, N. G. O. L. Bbiobt, Sec. I 1 AKFIKI.il CHAPTER, R. A. M UTMeeta on tlrst and third Thursday of each month In Masonic hall. W. J. Uobks Sec. J. C. Hahnish, H, P Kof p.—helmet lodge, u. d. , Convention every Monday at» o'clock p. m. In Odd Fellows' nail. Visiting brethern cordially invited. Arthur Ooykendall, C. C. E. J. Mack. K. of it. and S. O’NEILI. ENCAMPMENT NO. 30.1. O. O. F. meets every second and fourth Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows' Uall. Ohas. iirioht, H. P. U. M. Tttley, Scribe LUiEN LODGE NO. 41, DAUGHTERS £i OF RUUKKAH, meets every 1st and ild Friday of each month In Odd Fellows' Uall, Aonbs X. Bentley, N. G. Dora Davidson, Sec. . 1 AltFlKLD LODGE, NO.OS.F.dt A.M. VJT Regular communications Thursday nights on or before the full of the moon. J. J. Kino, W. M. Harry Dowling, Sec. HOLTH1AMP NO. 1710, M. W. OF A. Meets on tnc first and third Tuesday In each month In the Masonic hall. Neil Bhennan, V. 0. D. U. Cronin, Clerk AO, U. W. NO. 153, Meets seoond • and fourth Tudsday of each mouth in Masonic hall. O. Bright, Bee. S. B. Howard, M, W. INDEPENDENT WORKMEN OP AMERICA, meet every first and third Friday of each month. O. W. Hagensick, N. M. C. J. Coffey, Sec. POSTOFFICE DIRCETORY Arrival ofMaUs F. B. A H. V. R. R.—FROM THE BAST. day,Sunday inoluded at.9:40 pm FROM THB WEST very day, Sunday Included at.10:04 am PACIFIC SHORT LINE. Passenger-leaves 10:0iA. h. Arrives 11:65 p.ii. k Freight—leaves 0:07 p. M. Arrives 7:00 P. M. x A Dully except Sunday. W O NEILL AND CHELSEA. -T Departs Monday, Wed. and Friday at 7:00 am Arrives Tuesday, Tburs. and Sat. at.. 1:00 pm O’NEILL AND PADDOCK. Departs Monday. Wed.and Friday at..7:00 am Arrives Tuesday, Thura. and Sat. at..4:30p m .. O'NEILL AND NIOBRARA. Departs Monday. Wed. and Fri. at_7:00 am Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at... 4:00 pm O’NEILL AND CUMMINSVILLE. Arrives Mon.,Wed. and Fridays a ..IDOO'p.m Departs Mon., Wed. andFrlday at.cOOp.m GUTENBERG’S INVENTION. Wktt the Printing Praia Has Done fel Mankind. Five hundred years ago the literary Zeitgeist, inky-fingered and forlorh, cried out lor t>.elp, and hie cry was heard in Germany and answered by the birth of Gutenberg in 1397, who gave to the world, in 1450, its first com pleted printing press, says the New York World. “Four men," 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. Qompared 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 Edisons 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 byCalyp 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 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 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 hhve 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 uni—y we followed it up by swallowing a blotter —in a brimming bumper of ink. All Thing* to Bar Who Walt*. The irony of fate forms a strong leav en in the story which comes from 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 he 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 the 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 him 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 Mosqnltoc*. John Habberton states with the sol emnity of firm conviction that mos quitoes are extremely frightened by dragon flies and will not come wfthin yards of them. He says that one or two dried dragon flies suspended from line 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 flies are pre datory and voracious insects, and that they subsist largely upon gnats, mid ges and mosquitoes, and it is but nat ural lhat the mosquito, who is a wlso insect, should regard the “spindle," “darning needle” or dragon fly as the small bird regards the hawk. i NOVELIST'S FIRST EFFORTS. Mr. Barrie's ••lUcolIactlou of a 8ehool maiter Written at an Barly A|a Having regard to Mr. J. M. Bar rie's visit to Dumfries academy, the Courier and Herald of that place prints some extracts from the norel 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 rec kolleotions 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 “Reokolleo 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 orept in belo the tabel, and when he was there anuther boy cam , in at the door with a cleen face. I This was too mutch for the boy in belo the tabel, and, just as I had fin ished saying ‘And may they crie from the botom of their harts—,’ he 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—isP’ 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 Xurst 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 mau stalred. “ ‘When does service beginP’ 1 agen asked. “To my surprise the elder ex claimed: ‘What abomnabul impurt* nense. Fray, sur, do you know oor respecktft ministir P’ “ ‘Me no himP No,’ sed L “ ‘Then get oot o’ this,’ he re plied. ‘You impurnant skoundral git oot o’ this; an’ if I sea you here agen I’ll kick you oot mysel!’ “Of course I was gratoly aston ished at the man, not noing anythink I had sed about the minister; but it struck me at wonce that the minis ter’s name was Service!” Admiral da Homy and tha Santry. 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 Fort 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, 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 care if you’s Admiral de Donkey. ”—Argonaut Lfmrnod bjr Kxparlence. A certain judge in Chicago, who 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 asdume,” he said, blandly, "that the court knows a little law itself?” "Twit’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 Bolatlvo In NmiI. Half a century ago, when "sub jects” were bought by the Burgeons, 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 tba 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 Uttlo 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, 1’U 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. _ NOW TO FIND 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, ir 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. 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