(iHN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY 1. STATE. Gifcarnor.SUas Holcoint LiFutsnant Governor.....J. E .Harris retarjr of State.Wm. F. Porter Ktite Treasurer.Jolm B. Meservc State Auditor.Jolm F. Cornell Attorney General.C. J. Srnythe Com. Lands and Buildings..M. V. Wolfe supt. Public Instruction.W. K. Jackson REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY. Clias. 11. 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. Strode Second, It. D. Mercer, Third. S. Maxwell, Fourth. W, L. Stark, Fifth, R. D. Sutherland, Sixth, \V. L. Green. (J ON OR ESSI ONAL. Seuators—>V. V. Allen, of Madison; John M. Thurston, of Umaua. , JUDICIARY. Chief Justice.A. M. Post Associates.. .T.O. Harrison und T. L.Norvall FIFTEENTH J UD10IAL DISTRICT. Judge.M. P. Kinkald.of O’Neill tteporter.J. J. King of O’Neill judge.W. H. Westover, of Rushvllle Reporter.- 'bn Maher, of Rushvllle. LAND OFFICES. O’NEII.L. Register.. uuuctver... .John A. Harmon. ...Elmer Williams. COUNTY. judge.Goo McCutcheon Clerk of the District Court .. .John 8kirying Deputy.O. M* Collins Treasurer.P .Mullen Deputy........Sam Howard Clerk . '.Bill Bethea Deputy .Mike McCarthy Sheriff.Cbas Hamilton Deputy.Chas O'Neill Supt. of Schools.W. K. Jackson Assistant... Mrs. W • R. J ackson Coroner.. Dr. Trueblood ■.Attorney.W -R. Butler SUPER VISORS. FIRST DISTRICT. Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga, Rock Falls and Pleasantvlew;J. A. Robertson 8Ec6nd district. Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, WU CUICtUO) Jt »UUCvAj UCV/VP) utvotv owdaie and Iowa—J. li. Hopkins. .*• THIRD DISTRICT. Grattnu and O’Neil 1— Mosses Campbell. FOURTH DISTRICT. Ewing, Verdigris and Deloit—L. 0. Combs. FIFTH DISTRICT, Chambers, ConleT, Lake, KoOlure and (nman—8. L. Conger. SIXTH DISTRICT* Swan. Wyoming, Fairvlew, Francis. Green Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—0. W. Moss. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats. G11T OF Or NEILL. Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justloes, B. H. Benedict and 8. M. Wagors; Constables, Ed. MoBrlde and Perkins Brooks. GOUNOU.MEN—FIRST WARD. * For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For one year—C. W. Hagensiuk. 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 llorrisky; Police Judge, H. Kautzman; Chief of Police, P. J. Blgliu; Attorney, Thos. Carlon; Welghmaster, D. Stanuard. JORA TTAN TO WNSH1P. ipervisor, K. J. llayes; Trearurer. Barney Sreevy; Clerk, J. Nullivan; Assessor Ben ring: Justices, M- Castello and Chas. cox; Constables. John llorrisky and Ed. McBride; Road overseer dlst. 20. Allen Brown dist. No. 4 John Euright OLLIERS' RELIEF COMMAS ION. Regular meeting first Monday in Febru ary of each year, and ut such other times as is deemed necessary, ltobt. Gallagher, Page, chairman; Wm. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary; II. 11. Clurk Atkinson. CT.l‘ATBICK’8 CATHOLIC CHOKCH. (j Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o'clock. Very Uev. Cassidy, Poster. Sabbath sohool immediately following services. YJETHODI8T CHURCH. Sunday At, services—Preaching 1U:30 A. M. and 8:00 f. M. Class No. 10:30 a. m. Class No. 2 (Ep worth League) 7:00 p. m. Class No. 3 (Chlld leus) 3:00 P. M. Mlud-week services—General prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m. All will be made welcome, especially strangers. E. T. GEORGE, Pastor. 1 1 A. B. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John VJT. O’Neill Post, No. 86, Department of Ne braska O. A. K., will meet the first and third Saturday evening of each month in Masonlo hall O’Neill S. J.Smiih. Com. HLKUOBN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O. U jr. Meets, every Wednesday evening in Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brothers oordlally invited to attend. . _ _ W. U. Mason. N. G. O. L. Bright, Sec. Garfield chapter, r. a. m Meets on first and third Thursday of eaoh month in Masonlo hall. _ _ W. J. Dobrs Sec. J. C. Rarnish, H, P KOFF.—HELMET LODGE. U. D. . Convention every Monday at 8 o clock p. in. In Odd Fellows' hall. Visiting brethern cordially invited. Arthur Coykendall, 0. C. E. J. Mack. K. ol K. and 8. O’NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 80.1. O. O. F. meets every second and fourth Fridays of each month In Odd Fellows' H ill. Ohas. ItiuQHT, H. P. U. M. Tttley, Scribe I?DEN LODGE NO. 41, DAUGHTERS J OF ItEBEKAH, meets every 1st and 3d Friday of each month in Odd Fellows' Hall, Agnes T. Bentley. N. U. Dora Davidson, Sec. GARFIELD LODGE, NO.Oft,F.dtA.M. Regular communications Thursday nights on or before tne full of the moon. J. J. Kino, W. M. Harry Dowl.no, Seo. HOLT-CAMPNO. 1710, M. W. OF A. Meets on tne first and third Tuesday in eaoh month in the Masonic hall. Neil Brennan, V. C. D. H. Oronin, Clerk AO, U. W. NO. 153. Meets second « and fourth Tudsday of each mouth In Masonic hall. 0. Bright, ttec. S. B. Howard, M. w. INDEPENDENT WORKMEN OF AMERICA, meet every first and third Friday of eaoh month. C. W. Haoensick, N. M. 0. J. Uoeeey, Sec. POSTOFFICE OIRCETORY * Arrival ofMails r. a. a s. v. r. a.—from the east. day, Sunday Included at.»:40 p m rROM The west very .day, Sunday Included at.1C:04 am PACIFIC SHOBT LINE. Passenger-leaves 10:07a. m. Arrives 11:55 p.m. Freight—leaves 0:07 p. li. Arrives 7:00 p. m. Daily except Sunday. O NEILL AND CHELSEA. Departs Monday, Wed. und Friday at 7:00 am 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. .4:30 p m 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 CCRUINSVILLE. Arrives Mon., Wed. and Fridays a .. J l :30p.m Departs Mon., Wed. and Friday at t KM p.m GUTENBERG'S INVENTION. Wtat the Prletln* Preu Haa Dona for Mankind. s Fire hundred years ago the literary Zeitgeist, Inky-fingered and forlorfa, cried out tor 3ielp, and his cry was heard in Germany and answered by the birth of Gutenberg in 1397, who gars 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. 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 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 manv an Ink.hAffnttAn ham in ns 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 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 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 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 Hosier to the discovery of movable types, we have no desire to quibble. If they had not lqvented something of the kind somebody oIbo 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 nni—f 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 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 Mosqnltow. 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 flies 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 as the small bird regards the hawk. i NOVELIST'S FIRST EFFORTS. Kn BarrU'a "Recollections of a School BWtar Written nt an Early Age. Having regard to Mr. J. M. Bar* rie’s visit to Dumfries academy, tba Courier and Herald of that place prints some extraots from the novel* let’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 second installment he complains that the editor “spelt sun) of the wurds in my last reo* kolleotions rong,” and he adds: “Altbo, of coars, I maik jew allow* ance for yoor eddukation not being equal to mine, I hop you will be more cairful.” Besuming the “Reckolleo* tlons,” 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 j the boys orept in belo the tabel, and | when he was there anuther boy oam in at the door with a eleen face. This was too mutch for the boy in I belo the tabel, and, just as I had fin* ished saying 'And may they crie I from the botom of their harts—,’ he | shouted out 'Lord Almiohti, there’s Jock Smith wl’ his face washed I” 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. "x again answered ‘Aye.' “ ‘Sir, said he, aI sea you want to Insult me I' “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?’ ] agen asked. “To my surprise the elder ex* claimed: ‘What abomnabul lmpurt nense. Pray, sur, do you know oor respecktit ministir P’ i “ *Me no him? 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 oourse I was grately 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 Horsey and the Sentry. When Admiral de Horsey, who some years ago had command of the British fleet in the Pacific, was the admiral of the North Atlantia 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. ”—Argonaut Learned by Kxpeilenoe. 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 elfort to hurry him up. “Can’t we assume," he said, blandly, “that the court knows a little law itself?" ‘'Lliat’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 Keletlre |u 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 oxcited, and money was subscribed to enable the pious youth to take away his tether’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 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.—Texjts Sittings^ HOW TO FIND OUT. Fill « bottle or common glass 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. WtfAT 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 nrinary passages. 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