GEN'D OFFICIAL DIRECTORY v STATE. /•Governor.Silas Holcomb /•bleutenant Governor...J. K .Harris ^Secretary of State.Win. K. Porter Wstate Treasurer.John B. Meserve I State Auditor.John b\ Corueli ' Attorney General.0. J. Bmythe Com. Lands and Buildings.I. V. W olfe Supt. Public Instruction.W. K. Jackson REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY. Ohas. H. Gere. Lincoln; Leavitt Burnham, Omaha-, J M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Holmes Pierce; J. T. Mallaleu, Kearney; M. J. Hull,’ Edgar. Representatives First District, J. B. Strode Second, H. I). Mercer, Third. 8. Maxwell, Fonrth. W. L. Stark, Fifth, K. 0. Sutherland, Sixth, W. L. Green. CONGRESSIONAL. Senators—W. V. Allen, of Madison; John M. Thurston, of Omaha. JUDICIARY. Chief Justioe.A. M. Post Associates.. .T.O. Harrison and T. L. Norvall FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. Judge.M.P. Kinkaid,of O'Neill Reporter.J. J. King of O’Neill Judge.W. H. Westover, of Rushville Reporter.• obn Maher, of Rushville. LAND OFFICES. O’KIILL. Register.8. J. Weekes. Receivor.U. H. Jenness. COUNTY. Judge.(ieo Mcuutcneon Clerk of the District Court.John Skirving Deputy. O. M. Collins Treasurer..J. P. Mullen Clerk f.Bill Bethea Deputy.Mike McCarthy Sheriff..Chas Hamilton Deputy.Chas O’Neill Supt. of Sohools.W. K. Jackson Assistant.Mrs. W. R. Jackson Coroner. Dr. 1'rueblood Surveyor.M. F. Norton . Attorney.W .R. Butler SUPERVISORS. FIRST DISTRICT. Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga, Rock Falls and PleasantvlewiJ. A. Robertson SECOND DISTRICT. Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wll 'owdale and Iowa—J. H. Hopkins. TRIRD DISTRICT. Grattan and O’Neill—Mosses Campbell. FOURTH DISTRICT. Ewing, Verdigris andDelolt—L. O. Combs FIFTH DISTRICT, Chambers, Conlev, Lake, McClure and Inman—S. L. Conger. SIXTH DISTRICT. Swan, Wyoming, Fairvlew, Francis. Green Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—0. W.Moss. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Atkinson and Stuart— W. N. Coats. 012 7 OF O’ NEILL. Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, E. H. Benedict and S. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed. McBride and Perkins Brooks. COUNCIL-HEN — FIRST WARD. For two yoars.—D. U. Cronin. For one year—0. 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. Kautgman; Chief of Police, P. J. Biglin; Attorney, Thos. Carlon; Weighmaster, D. Stannard. GRATTAN TO WNSR1P. Supervisor, R. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney McGreevy; Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben Jo tiring: Justices, M. Castello and Chas. Wilcox; Constables, John Horrlsky and Ed, McBride; Road overseer dist. 26, Allen Brown /eiat. No. 4 John Enright. SOLDIERS’ RELIEF COMNISSION. Regular meeting first Monday In Febru ary of each year, and at such other times as is deemed neoessary. Robt. Gallagher, Page, chairman; Wm. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary; U. H. Clark Atkinson. yT.PATRICK’8 CATHOLIC CHCKCH. K5 .Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o’olook. Very Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school Immediately following services. Methodist church. Sunday services—Preaching 10:30 A. M. and 8:00 p. M. Class No. 1 9:30 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. p A. R. POST, NO. S6. The Gen. John VJ, O’Neill Post, No. 86, Department of Ne braska G. A. R., will meet the first and third Saturday evening of each month In Masonio hail O’Neil] S. J. Smith, Com. L'LEHORN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O. JCi f. Meets every Wednesday evening In Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brothers cordially 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 Masonio hall. W. J. Dobrs Seo J. C. Rarnish, H. P KOFP.—HELMET LODGE, U. D. , Convention every Monday at 8 o’clook p. m. in Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brethem cordially Invited. Arthur Coykendall, C. C. E. J. Mack. K. of It. and S. O’NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 30. I. O. O. F. meets every second and fourth Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows’ Hall. Chas. Bright. H. P. H. M. Tttley, Scribe DEN LODGE NO. 41, DAUGHTERS JCi OF REBEKAH, meets every 1st and 3d Friday of each month In Odd Fellows’ Hall. Agnes T. Bentley, N. G. Dora Davidson, Seo. /^A-RFIELD LODGE, NO.05,F.<& A.M. VI Regular communications Thursday nights on or before the full of the moon. J. J. Kino, W. M. Harry Dowling, Sec. HOLTHJAMPNO. 1710. M. W. OF A. Meets on tne first and third Tuesday In each 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 Masonic hall. O. Bright, Kec. S. B. Howard, M. W. A Clover Trick. It certainly looks like it, but there is really no trick about it. Anybody can try it who has lame back and weak kidneys, malaria or nervous troubles. We mean he can cure himself right away by taking Electric Bitters. This medicine tones up the whole system, acts as a stimulent to the liver and kid neys, is a blood purifier and nerve tonic. It cures constipation, headache, fainting spells, sleeplessness and melancholy. It is purely vegetable, u mild laxative, and restores the system to its natural vigor. Try Electric Bitters and be con ■vinced that they are a miracle worker. 'Every bottle guaranteed. Oply 50 cents a bottle at P. C. Corrigan’s drug store. FOB SALE—Thirty head of white face Hereford young bulls. \ 17tf Jacob Shaft, Stuart, Neb. MEALS IN TIN CANS. COURSE DINNER IN CANNED POODS. Ifo Beeleged City Need Star re—Pari. Bel Stored Enomsoi Quantities at Them, Enough to Feed the City Eighteen Months. HAT greatest ter ror of war, a starv ing garrison and a starving town, sur rounded by a hos tile camp, yet able to see far-off fields of grain and plenty, could not be re peated In this age of canned goods, meats, vegetables, puaaings ana fruits, all incased In tiny Jars or boxes of tin. It used to be easy to beleaguer a city and starve it Into submission with hardly an ounce of shot, for it was a foregone conclusiori that If all avenues of food supply were shut off only a few weeks would elapse before both garri son and citizens would have to capitu late, though they might eat ratflesh and horseflesh first. But now. so cleverly are provisions compressed and packed away into tins, and so long will even the foods that most usually spoil quick ly keep—for years in most cases—that no city or town could be starved out If it only had a chance to provision Itself properly. The city of Paris has stored away hundreds of thousands of packages con taining canned and cempressed food enough to supply the entire population for at least eighteen months. This out fit of canned food is not permitted to be touched, though at times it is tested to see that it still remains unspoiled. Other cities in Europe have built up stores along much the same lines, though Paris has by far the most im portant assortment of canned food held ! in reserve. Outside of these preparations the manufacture of canned articles has grown to be something enormous, es pecially in meats and vegetables. In many cases the canned goods seem to be actually preferred to the original prod ucts. Nearly every wise housekeeper nowadays emulates Paris in a small way, for she keeps on her shelves any number of these little boxes and thus finds herself always ready for any emergency sboiild company suddenly drop in or the butcher or grocer fail to turn tip. | It is really surprising the variety of things to eat that are put into cans. As a matter of fact one can live, and live comfortably, on canned foods alone. “I cau stock your house,” said a big whole sale grocer to a World reporter, “so that you need not make another pur chase of food for five years, and you shall have every day a perfect dinner of soup and fish, entrees, roasts, fruits, pudding, cheese and coffee, all canned goods.” Canned goods, though, have proved themselves of the greatest value to travelers from the fact that an enor mous amount of nourishment can be carried in an exceedingly small com pass. The Arctic explorers first found out the value of canned meats and vege tables, and in this way were able to tra vel with less hardship and to do things which would have been impossible had it been necessary for them to depend upon food in its original form. When the Greely expedition went away in 1881 a large quantity of pem mican was put on board. ' A large part of it was not consumed on the trip, and on the return of the explorers it was sent back to the firm from which it was bought. When the Peary expedition was being fitted out ten years later and the same firm was doing the providing, they opened sample cases of this pem mican and found it to be in as good condition as if fresh made. So it was sent out with Peary, and on that explor er’s return to New York what was left proved to be as good and as nourishing as it had been in 1881. No e-pedition of recent date has plunged into the Dark Continent with out being well equipped with tin boxes of all sizes and varieties. It is said that there is no desert plateau in any part of the earth where one is not liable to run across an empty beef can. Transatlantic steamers and sailing ships about to start out on long voy ages use these goods in great quantities because they keep so well and because they can be stored so easily, When pre pared by a skillful cook it is impos sible for the diner to distinguish be tween fresh meats and vegetables and those that are canned. One-Armed Woman Tennle Champion. The woman tennis champion of New Zealand is one-armed. She is Miss Hilda Maule Hitchings. Her arm is the left one. In three fingers she holds the racquet, and between the remaining finger and the. thumb she grasps the hall. A slight toss of the ball, fol lowed by a smart rap of the racquet, re sults in a fast, low service, which is anything but easy to take. Besides her ability at tennis the New Zealand champion is noted for her dexterity in everything she undertakes, and espe cially with her needle. Sling Dictionaries. The are plenty of dictionaries oi French slang in existence, in which a slang word is explained in good French and the first dictionary in which the slang equivalents for good French words are given is to be published in Paris. It is needed apparently by the writers of stories. Faith. The time has come when a man must be ready to show reasons for the fcaith that is in him if he expects others to accept it—Rev. Dr. MacAXee THE ALLEQED HUMORISTS. Town Topics: Slumlelgh—I don’t lee why you ears so little for me. Miss 3yer—Have you ever taken a good look it yourself? Indianapolis Journal: “George de scribes the girl he Is engaged to as a jerfect vision." “Yes; and his sister says she Is a sight.” •‘Treddle is Jealous of his proroga tes. Isn’t he?” “What makes you say so?” “He got angry the other night ind. told me not to be a fool.”—New i’ork Sun. Cincinnati Enquirer: She—Did you iave any trouble in getting papa to isten to you? He—Not a bit. I be ;an by telling him I knew of a plan whereby he pould save money. Cleveland Leader: “How did Nell .rlynu look .in her new ball dress?” she asked. “I don't know,” he replied, ‘but the large majority of her that .vas out of It looked stunning.” -O you think Skinner can make a iving out there?” "Make a living! iVhy, he’d make a living on & rock in ho middle of the ocean—if there was mother man on the rock.”—Tit-Bite. Mrs. Spat—Your husband is an in .•entor, I believe? Mrs. Spotter—Yes. Some of his excuses for coming home ate at night are in use all over the country.—Philadelphia North Ameal :nn. “Was hael!” cried the Mediaeval Bra. ‘If I were so drunk,” retorted the End it the Century, “that I could not pro nounce 'wat Cell’ I think I would go ‘lome and go to bed.”—Cincinnati En luiror. Chicago Tribune: "Let us be fair, ■ven to the ‘new Journalism,”' said Uncle Allen Sparks. “It isn’t wholly ;iven over to printing indecent pic u res. Part of its mission is to publish 'ake interviews.” . “And how did he die?” asked the lady who had come west to inquire after .he husband she had lost. “Er—by re Hiest, ma’am," said the gentle cowboy, ss mildly and regretfully as possible.— Indianapolis Journal. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune: “I ;ee where the Queen of England has sixty pianos and doesn’t play any of hem.” “That’s a good girl. I know it a woman who has only one piano J'lt she plays like sixty.” Simonsbee—I have a chance to marry -VO girls; one is pretty, but a mere but terfly, as it were, and the other, though plain, is an excellent housekeeper. Mr. Russell of Chicago—Take the pretty - r‘ - first.—Indianapolis Journal.' ‘ It’s perfectly absurd, this clamor ibout our hats. People who can’t see aver them would better not go to the theater.” “I know; that’s what I told my husband, and he said, ‘All right, we won’t go;’and we don’t.”—Basar. A young student lately presented himself for examination and ignomln iously failed. To his family, anxious to hear of his success, he telegraphed thus: “Examinations splendid; profes sors enthusiastic. They wish for a sec ond in October.”—Tit-Bits. MIXED PARAORAPH8, A St. Louis woman was married to a freight conductor Saturday, and they are now making a honeymoon tour through the southwest in a caboose. He—For perfect enjoyment of love there must be complete confidence. She —(of Chicago)—I have heard pa say identically the same thing about saus ages.—Life. A young man of Omaha, presumably belonging to the first circles of that town, recently called on a jeweler there and asked to see a nice pair of golf links for his cuffs. At the recent village election in Con stantine, Mich., the women tax-payers were allowed to vote on the electric lighting bond proposition, but only three availed themselves of the right. A man well up in dog lore counsels intending purchasers of a puppy to let the mother of the puppy choose for them. In carrying them back to their bed the first the mother picks up will always be the best. The shipment of apples from the port of Portland, Me., to the European mar ket for the season ending last Saturday reached a total which is unprecedented in the annals of the apple export busi ness in this country. “Yoh can't alius tell whah ter put de credit by lookin’ at de surface,” said Uncle Eben. “De cork on de fishin’ line dances aroun’ an’ ’tracts a heap o* ’tention. But it’s de hook dat’s doin’ business.”—Washington Star. ITEMS, A Jersey City landlord aroused a ten ant at 12:45 a. m. on the morning of March 1 to demand the rent due that day, and was thrown down his own stairs. England has one member of parlic ment to every fD,250 electors, Irela’ one for every 7,177, Scotland one f every 8,974, and Wales one for eve 9,613. The Swiss government is about to es tablish at Hauterive, on the River Saane, a grand central station for gen erating electric power, at a cost of 2.800.000 francs. A Bath (Maine> boy is the proud possessor of an autograph letter from the queen of Holland. His interest in collecting foreign postage stamps won him the royal favor. Morocco’s city walls are now adorned; with a trophy of eighty human heads, removed from the insurgents defeated at Sus, in addition to the forty-three heads of the men who attacked the sul tan’s body-guard some months ago. “Aha, he’s working for his own ends,’’ chuckled the funny man as he saw the cobbler making a pair of shoes for himself, "and he’ll put his foot in it, as usual, before he’s through.’’— Pittsburg News. A REAL GHOST, Seon and Vouched for by m Judge While *£o you really belie re in supernat ural visitations? I had sized you up for a man of too muoh mental power to lie a believer in ghosts,M said Judge-. ‘ Well sir," said I “I am not am bitious to be classed with the supersti tions, but I do here affirm that if ever a man saw a real ghost it was I.” "If it is not a long story tell us about it ” said the judge. Uvlnsr In Nebraska. •'"ell. the supernatural visitation occurred near liaiveys ranch, in Ne braska, several years ago. It was a bright moonlight night in May. I bad been to the ranch (or an even ing's visit Between the hours of 10 and 11 I started to my home on Little sandy, a mile distant Ascending the bill I turned to the right talcing i by-path which was called the -out 0 .. which led into a strip of woods, •iuut before entering the timber re gion and while musing on the events of the evening, 1 suddenly confronted h iigure draped in white lying on a partly decayed log just at the right alongside the path. Halting quickly, my band dropped involuntarily to the pistol in my belt but before I had time to draw the weapon the ghost t rned its head and fixed its gaze upon m‘\ Its great dark eyes were fringed with white hair, and while it looked more in pity than in anger, my heart ro-o and the pulsation quickened to a quiver—every hair of my hea'• "Come to me; your weapon is harmless. I am as the air—invulner .-me I am a real ghost! Since that "me 1 have been in fires wrecks and Unities, but under no conditions have >. r nerves been so severely tested or co.,i-age subject to a more serious 1 - .1-1. 1 could see the eyeballs move — .nvut li juid orbs—and the eyelashes i.verin the great moonlight Ke i!.j iihering the injunction of my l or to never retreat from a ghost under any circumstances, no matter :> -w positive I might be of its ghost i) but to always advance to it I a Jo a desperate effort to approach • ghostly figure with eyea ears and u t le image of a being whioh imag nu tr-a fashions or the spirit world, on.o or' four prevented a retro o movement—fear that the figure "in ■ spring ujjon ihe. Bgacing my - and summoning all my oour •' ret ailing the early preoepts on ..• point of supernatural visitationa i m ule a stop, or plunge rather, like one leaping over a precipice to escape u h. nnd nick as a Hash the illu • i . was blasted—it broke in twain. (. :■■■■ half of the horrid being trotted o . on lour legs." ■"'but was it, ’’ breathlessly evacu at'd l.he utigo. tithing but a sheep. Two of them h i : moil i ted the log to air themselves. . 11c/ h til streiohed out, one at the - o end o; the other, and with his a obscured. forming a figure about ih :e jgtu of a man. The moon was u i'-ct.y overhead, and shone upon the e.m of the one whose head was ete tt.,ed. greatly magnifying the eyes nnu eyelashes. I remember distinct ly t he hideous aspect of the upright '•nr . 1 recall toa thefforeleg, which w.;s e tended when my eyes first be h -'l.i t-lio ob ect, but imagination, n i:honed by a sense of fear, trans fo une 1 the two sheep into a tangible gi.o.t,” NEW TREASURY NOTES. -. e *ia>T.!os Th»l Stake Them OtlHaalt to Counterfeit. l-Vrhaps tho principal object of the revision of the United States paper money is to make the backs of the liuiuo more open—that is. less covered * it-’i the engraving, so that the silk bres shall be more distinctly visible. The distinctive paper now In use no longer bus the two threads of silk run ning longitudinally through the note, says the Paper World, but in their place arc two stripes, each half an inch wide or so of short red and blue siik !i brts scattered thickly in the paper, in such mauner that they show 0 ly on the reverse of tho bill. These two fiber stripes practically divide the note into three sections of about equal size, and this feature ol bro in tho paper is held to be an al most absolute safeguard against suc cess'ul counterfeiting. But that is only one of several devices employed 1q insure the inviolability of the aur reii.sr. Koch note has an entirely separate dedg , the work of whioh is so open -is to show readily any error of an 1 temp ed counterfeit and no portion af -be design is repeated on the same note, so that no small part could be engraved by a skillful operator and then duplicated by mechanical pro cesses to fill any amount of space, as has been the case with some of the orevious "paper money” of the gov ernment The geometrical lathe work of the new designs is said to be the most ex qu site and complicated ever executed and such as to utterly baffle auy at tempt at its illicit reproduction. Johnny Wan Right. Mother—Johnny, go into the bed room at once! You neglected your piano practice to-day and I am going to flog you for it. Don’t you know that you can never become perfect in music without practiceP Johnny—Yes, but practice on my ernatormy ain’t gonter to make no per/eck music.—Boston Courier. Our IVIoderu Womei. Mrs. Llncrusta Walton—1 like the design of this wall paper very well; but I cannot take it Salesman—Why not? Mrs. Lincrusta—It is too thick. It is my flab I am going to paper and I have to economize space as much as possible.—Puck. the royai. messenger. A British Official Who Used to Be T«7 Important on the Road. When a messenger returns to Lon don from foreign service he is placed at the bottom of the list of those at home available for duty, and may thus reckon on perhaps a fortnight clear at his own disposal, says the Quarterly Review. It is not well, however, to count on any precise period of leisure with too much cer tainty, os is shown by the following veracious tala which has been re peated many a time and oft in Down ing street: '-Captain A- having just returned from St. Petersburg saw his name well placed at the bot tom of a goodly list of names ready for duty, and judged It expedient to spend his anticipated fortnight in the sunny south of France. About a week after his arrival at Monte Carlo he was startled and annoyed by the receipt of the following strange and apparently impertinent telegram: ••Chief Cleric Foreign Office to Can. tain A-: You are fast and dirty. Return at once." Having puzzled awhile over this enigma it ooourred to him that, whatever might be the ex planation of the first sentence, tho last was an order which his sense of duty compelled him to obey. He ac cordingly packed up his traps and re turned forthwith, to find on his arrival at Downing street that the telegram as originally dispatched ran as fol lows: "You are first on duty. Return at once.” Thirty or forty years ago, perhaps even more than now, the messenger was a personage of the first Importance on the road, claiming the earliest attention from guards and porters, civility and expedition at every customs frontier, and the best places in train and steamboat In the present day, traveling always by train among the ever-inoreaslng crowd of tourists, the comfort and prestige of a journey with dispatches is some what on the wane; and except In times of war, the adventures of the queen’s messenger are reduced to the possible chance of a railway smash. Only a few years have passed, how ever, since most of the habitues of the mall route between London and Paris must have been familiar with the bluff and burly presence of Major X-, the Ajax of the. corps of queen’s messengers and hero of a hun dred tales. We can see him now, striding from tho train to the boat at Dover, followed by two porters bear ing the dlspatoh bags. Passengers' scatter right and left as he calls in loud, commanding tones: "R-room for her ma esty’s dispatches!" and the little procosslon, headed by the major, steps across the gangway and flndB its way to the proper reserved cabin. DUST AT SEA. Strang. as it May Stun Ui. Phanom.aa In Kfioorded. The British ship Berean, whloh recently made the voyage from Tas mania around Cape Horn to England, encountered a remarkable, but not unusual phenomenon at sea, viz,, a storm of dust declares School and Home. After crossing the Equator, she fell into the northeast, trade wlnda and when about 600 miles west of the Cape de Verde Islands, the nearest land, "the Berean's sails and rigging were thinly coated with a very fine powdery dust of a dark yellow or saffron color, scarcely discornible on or near the deck, but profuse on the highest parts of the rigging," so that the sails appeared "tanned.” Fine dust falling on vessels in the Atlantic near the Cape de Verde arch ipelago has often been reported, but it has so often been of a reddish hue that it is known among sailors as •Ted fog,” and has been generally supposed to come from South America. The observation on board the Berean appears to overthrow this conclusion, and to determine the African origin both of the Atlantic dust and the so called "blood rains” of Southern Europe. Admiral Smyth many years ago re ported, during his stay in Sicily, on the 14th of March, 1614, a "blood rain,” which fell "in large, muddy dropa and deposited a very minute sand of a yeilow-red color”—quite similar to that now reported by the Berean. He then regarded it as •sirocco dust” from the African desert, crowning the beautiful theory of atmospheric circulation.” Both on the Atlantic ocean and in Europe these rains of dust have almost in variably fallen between January and April—a period of the year in which the Sahara is most arid. Unique In Tlielr Way. When Sheffield first became famous for its cutlery a peculiar shaped knife, designed for a variety of usea was made with great care and sent to the agent of the cutlers’ company in Lon don. tin one of the blades was en graved the following challenge: Loudon, for thy life, Show me such another knife. The London cutlers to show that they were equal to their Sheffield brothers made a knife with a single well tempered blade, the blade having a cavity containing a rye ‘straw 2J inches in length, wholly surrounded by the steel; yet, notwithstanding the fact that the blade was well tempered, the straw was not burned, singed or charred in the least. —Times-Star. A Bad Sbot. Daughter—First he kissed my hand. Mother (severely)—An essentially low proceeding. Daughter—But, afterward, he kissed me on the forehead. Mother (more severely)—Then he went too far.—Smith, Gray & Co.’s Monthly. Country Bumpkins. Little Miss De Fashion (at the opera)—I guess those folks in that box is from the country. Mrs. Do F—Why dear? Little Miss De Fashion—I can’t hear a word they say.—Good News. DON’T HUHHV. A TMf Ward at Warning to Habltnat Rashers. Many sudden deaths ooour every year as a consequence of running’ to railway trains and ferry boats. The victims are mostly persons, middle* aged or older, who, without knowing it, have some disease of tho heart. This kind of over-exertion, how ever, does less harm than the com mon habit of being continually in a hurry. A habit that keeps the nervous system at a perpetual tension leads to excessive vital waste undue suscepti bility to disease and in extreme cases to nervous exhaustion. Under its in fluences persons naturally amiable are transformed into petulant and noisy scolds. „ The woman who is a wife and mother is peculiarly liable to this habit; she has so much to do and so little time in which to do lb in these days when so many outside things crowd upon her domestio dutiea There is no doubt that hurry claims ten victims where hard work kills one. ^The man of business suffers in much the same manner. The hurried break fast and the hurried skimming of the morning paper are but the beginning of a hurried day. Yet it is unsafe for him to act in a hurry, or in the spirit generated by it The uncertainties of his calling make entire self-control of prime importance. School ohlldren are victims of the sameevlL They must be at sohool exactly on time. But in thousands of cases the family arrangements are not such as to favor punctuality. The child is allowed to sit up late, and so is late at breakfast; or the breakfast itself is lata and the ohlld must hurry through it and then hurry oft half fed and fully fretted, dreading tardi ness and the teacher’s displeasure. Robust children may work off the effect amid the sports of the day. but many others are injured for Ufa Oooasional hurry is hardly to be avoided, society being what it Is; but the habit of hurry should be guarded against as one of the surest promoters of 111-temper and ill-health. If necessary, less work should be done; but in many oases nothing is needed but a wiser economy of time. Some of the worst victims of hurry are men who dally with their work until time presses them, and then crowd themselves into a fever; pitying themselves meanwhile beoause they are so sadly driven.—-Youth's Com panion. TOO MUCH HAT. A Granger Winds Oat That It Doasaf Do to Trust a Barber. A old granger dropped into the Sherman house barber shop reoently. says the Chicago Tribuna who would have proved a gold mine if Denman Thompson oould have captured him for his rural drama Hu hat* looked as if it had not been cut sinoe the last Blaine campaign and after he had passed through the hands of a barber it is doubtful if his own family would have recognised him. He paid the cheok and the porter brushed the hay seed from his coat and handed him his hat. The old man put on his head ooverlng and it immediately sunk to the level of his earn practically snuf fing out its wearer like a candle. ••Here! See here! Tarnation,that ain't my hat!” he oried, throwing it down and glaring around the room, every bit of indignation in his giant frame aroused. "Beg pardon. Bah; but dalfs yo hah sab, shore’s yo is bohn.” said the highly amused darky. ■ -Don’t ye s’pose I don’t know my own hatf” snorted the rural visitor. "I've worn it every day for the last two years Guess I Oughter know it purty well by this tima The porter made no reply, but stood holding out the hat and laughing at the old man’s earnestness. Suddenly the latter -turned loose” like a torna do; and the language he used would have made his own cattle flee in ter ror. The foreman of the shop hastened forward. -i don’t want any of you fellers ter think that I accuse you of takln' it” exclaimed the irate, customer. -But I kin lick the lowdown sneak who crept in here and stole it while I wus havin’ my head shingled. And I shall hold this shop responsible fer It too. Cost $1.69, and I kin prove it” -But Mr. Butler, are you quite sure that—,” began the foreman, bal ancing the hat in Ms handa --Butler! How in thunder did you find out that my name's ButlerP” "It is written on your hat band here. -See? -Abner Butler. Piper City, in.”’ The old man hastily snatched up his hat jammed it upon his head and rushed opt into a cold and cruel world again, saying several things which can not be put into cold type. FUUag for mermen. One o( the old stories la that in the year 1619 two councilors of Christian IV. of Denmark, while sailing between Norway and Sweden, discovered a merman swimming about with a bunch of grass on his head. They threw out a hook and line, with a slice of bacon, 'which the merman seized. Being eaught he threatened vengeance so loudly that he was thrown back into the sea. Time Bssagb. Mrs. Bingo—Are you going to the theater in your dress sultP Bingo—Of course I am. Mra Bingo (wildly)—Then why don’t you put it on? Dear, dear, I am almost ready and you haven’t done a thing. Bingo—Don't worry, dear. I have ample time to put It on while you are seeing if your hat is on straight, — Clothier and Furnisher. Hah Bead or Them. Father—My son, don’t you often feel ashamed of yourself for being so lazy? Son—No dad; not when I think of all the great men who were notorious* iy lazy in their youth. —Yankee Blade.