;rn’l official directory STATB. Governor. .Silas Holcomb f A Lieut Jiuit Uovernor.J. K .Harris 1 Secrumry of State.Win. V. Porter m Siatarrroasurer.John H. Meservo " Slate Auditor.John l'\ Cornell Attorney General.C. J. Sinythtr Com. Lands and Buildings.J. V. Wolfe Sunt. Public Instruction_...W. U. Jucksou s ; 11EGENTS STATE BNIVEliSITY. Uhas. U. Qere. Lincoln: Leavitt Burnham Omaha; J M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Holmes Pierce; J. T. Mallaleu, Kearney; M. J. Hull, Kdgar. Bepresontatlves First District, J. B. Strode Second, H. D. Mercer, Third. S. Maxwell, Fonrth. W. L. Stark. Fifth, U. D. Sutherland, Sixth, W. X,. Green, CONORESSl 0NA1.. Senators—W. V. Allen, of Madison; John M. Thurston, of Omaha. JUDICIARY. Chief Justlce .• • - , ■ A. M. Post Associates.. .T.O. Harrison and T. L. Norvall FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. Judge.M. P. Klnkald, of O Nelll lie porter.J. J* King of O Neill Judge.W. H. Westover, of Uushvllle tteuorter.• -’bn Maher, of Itushville. land offices. O'KSILL. Uoglster.. Beooiver. .8. J. Weekes. .K. H. Jenness. COUNTY. judge.Geo McCutcheon Clerk of the District Court ....John Sklrvlng Deputy...ChasO Neill Supt. of Sohools......W. K. Jackson Assistant.Mrs. W. B. Jackson Joroner.Dr. Trueblood Aoi I rveyor......M. F. Norton Twfney.:... -W R. Butler SUPERVISORS. FIRST DISTRICT. Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga, Hock Falls and Pleasantvlew :J. A. Robertson SECOND DISTRICT. Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wll cwdale and Iowa—J. H. Hopkins. THIRD DISTRICT. ll rattan and O’Neill—Mosses Campbell. FOURTH DISTRICT. Ewing, Verdigris andDelolt—L. C. Combs. FIFTH DISTRICT. Chambers, Conlev, Lake, UoClure and Inman—8. L. Conger. SIXTH DISTRICT. Swan, Wyoming, Fairview, Francis. Green Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—0. W.Moss. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats. 017 7 OF O'NEILL. Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, B. H. Benedict and S. M. Wagors; Constables, Ed. McBride and Perkins Brooks. COONCILMEN—FIRST WARD. For two years.—D. H. Cronin, year—C. W. Hagenslck. For one SECOND WARD. For two years—Alexander Marlow. For uneyear-W. T. Evans. THIRD WARD. For two years—Charles Davis. For one > ear—E. J. Mack. CITE OFFICERS. Mayor, H. E. Murphy; Clerk, N. Martin; treasurer, John McHugh; City Engineer John Horrisky; Polloe Judge, H. KautzmSn; Chief of Police, P. J. Bigllu; Attorney, Thos. Carlou; Welghmaater, D. Stannard. OB A TTAN TO WNSH1P. Supervisor, R. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney Mcofeevy;Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben Jobgfcng: Justices, M. Castello and Chas, WiloVx; Constables, John Horrlskv and Ed. Me*ide: Road overseer dlst. SB, Allen Brown Utia. Nc4 4 John Eurlght. SOLDIERS’ BELIEF C0MNI8SI0N. Regular meeting first Monday in Febru rv of each year, and at such other times as is deemed necessary. Itobt. Gallagher, Page, chairman; Wm. Bowen, O'Neill, secretary; 11. H. Clark Atkinson. .jT.PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHDRCH. D Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o clpek. Very Rev. Cassidy, Postor. 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Tub , oe) are in the almond flower, The birds renew their stro n: But the old friends, once lost to us. Can never come again. Tho old friends, the old friends I Their brow Is lined with care; They've furrows in the faded oheek And silver in the hair; But to me they are tho old friends still In youth and bloom the sumo As when we drove the flying ball Or shouted In the game. —London Spectator. THE SfOLEN JEWELS. ‘•Why,” cried Eleanor Goode, “it’s a perfect palace! I really had no idea of grandeur like this.” “Isn’t it?” echoed Miriam Kasson. ••I wish, dear, I could ask you to stay and spend the day, but I dare not; I’m too much of a stranger here to take any liberties. ” “Oh, I shouldn’t expect it!" said Eleanor, looking around at the dec orated ceilings, pale blue silk draperies and lovely bits of land scape on the walls. “I'know exactly how you’re situated, Milly. But can’t you come shopping with me? Bob has given me a five-dollar bill to buy a new gown with, and there are some of the sweetest old-blue ging hams at Tuck & Nipp’s. ” Miss Kasson shook her head. “Impossible!” said she. "You see the family have gone to Barrington to a funeral, and I am left in charge. And you don’t know,” she added, with a comical little pursing up of the lips, “how afraid I am of Mrs. Yerkes, the housekeeper, or how my heart beats when I feel myself com pelled to give an order to the butler. ” “I wish I were you!” cried Eleanor. “It would be such fun.” “One hardly knows,” sighed Miriam, whether one is a lady or a servant!” “Oh, there can't be much doubt of that!" said Eleanor. “Look at your* self in the mirror, dear. Wouldn’t you say you beheld a princess in dis-* guise?" “Nonsense! But at least let me get you a glass of cool water, Nell; you look so flushed with your long walk.” She slipped away, while Eleanor beguiled the time of her absence by a lengthened survey of herself in the mirror. Yes, it was no unsatisfactory view —a dimpled, rosy young Venus, with sparkling hazel eyes, red lips and a complexion of purest pink and white. And then—Good gracious! one of the ribbon loops of her airy summer dress had come loose. She looked frantically around for a pin to repair damages, but no pin was to be seen. “They’re in the bureau drawer," said she to herself. “Milly always was too distressingly neat for any thing. Oh, here they are!" grasping at a paper of pins. “And here too— oh, the delicious little glutton!— here’s ft box of chocolate caramels, tied with pink ribbon. I'll teach her to hide her sweeties away from me! How she will stare when she finds them gone!” It was the act of a moment to whisk the bon-bon box into her little shop ping-bag and appear deeply absorbed in repairing the damages to her wardrobe, when Miss Kasson came in, bringing a glass of water and some fancy crackers on a small Japanese tray. By the time she reached the fam ous emporium of Messrs. Tuck & Nipp, the “bargains" in old blue ginghams were gone, and nothing remained “fit to be seen” at any price to which she could venture to aspire, and so she betook herself sor rowfully to the pretty flat which she called home. And none too soon, for a telegram awaited her there, announcing that her mother, in Orange county, was very ill, and it was necessary for her to go thither at once. At the end of two weeks she brought her mother home nearly re covered. Liitue saran, tne youngest sister, received her joyfully. ••It’s been so lonesome without you, Nell,” said she. “I’ve kept house beautifully, only Biddy has scorched the oatmeal every morning, and the coffee hasn’t tasted just right, and Bob has been so busy he couldn’t find time to go walking with me.” “Busy!” satirically echoed Eleanor. “Oh, but he really was! He’s got a real case, Bob has, and it’s awful interesting, too. The judge assigned it to him because the defendant—I think that’s the proper law phrase,” with a pretty little wrinkling of the eyebrows—“hadn’t any means to provide one for herself. And she’s ever so pretty. Bob says, and he’s quite sure she isn’t guilty; and won’t it be strange,” nestling her curly head against her mother’s shoulder, “if Bob should fall in love with his first client?” Eleanor looked distressed. “Mother,” said she, “didn’t I tell you what would come of your allowing Sarah to read so many novels? In love, indeed! Most likely the woman is an adventuress. ” “All the same,” persisted Sarah, “Bob says it’s a very interesting case, and it’s in all the papers headed, ‘The Great Diamond Bobbery. ’ ” “Well, I declare!” said Mrs. Goode, who shared the romantic proclivities of her young daughter. “A diamond robbery and a beautiful girl! Of course she didn’t do it.” j “Oh,” cried Eleanor, impatiently, stamping her foot, “how impractic able you all are! Why shouldn’t she be guilty? Can’t a pretty girl be wicked as well as a plain one? As if looks mattered! But all the same I’m glad Bob has had a good opening in the courts. And now, mamma, you must have a cup of tea, and lie down awhile before dinner. I’ll go out for a little; I want to see a dear friend of mine who must think I’m negleoting her shockingly.” And in the toft July sunset she went to the big house on Fifty-seventh street, and timidly pressing the elec tric button, inquired for Miss Kasson. The tall butler froze her with a glance. •Ain’t been ’ere for a long time,” said he, and shut the door unceri moniously in her faco. And she returned home in great amazement. in her absence Mr. Robert Goode had been “turning the place upside down," as Tittle Sarah expressed it, in search of a bag to carry his pa pers in. ••The lock of mine is out of order,” ' said ho, “and I can’t get it back un til Wednesday. Any one of your bags will do. Nonsense! Do you think I want a Saratoga trunk P” as Sarah produced her mother’s travel ing case. • *Or a doll-baby’s satchel P” as she reached down her own from the top shelf. “Is this all you have got?’’ “There’s Nell’s shopping-bag,” said the little girl. “It's littler than mother's and bigger than mine.” “Get it, then—quick! there’s a dear little dot! Oh, don’t stop to dust it!” “But I must,” pleaded the house wifely little thing. “It was on top of the wardrobe where Nell put it be fore she went to Orange county to bring mother home. And it’s—awful ly dusty! And I think there’s some thing in it, too.” ••Pshaw!” said he impatiently. “A box of candy.” He tore the pink ribbon knot apart, the lid dropped off, and little Sarah, standing on tiptoe to look into the bag. stepped back with a Shriek. Something from the inside seemed to flash up into their eyes like impris oned fire. At the same time Eleanor came into the room, flinging1 her hat and scarf wearily down. ••So,” cried Robert looking up with a face which would have furnished a study to any physiognomist, "you are the one who stole the Grafton diamonds!” ••IP The Grafton diamondsP What do you mean. Bob? Have you gone crazy P" gasped Eleanor. “What are you doing in my room?” ••We found the diamonds here in a box in your leather bag,” said her brother. ‘ The diamond necklace for the theft of which poor Miss Has son is on trial!” ••Miss—Kasson. You never meant that it is Miriam Kasson—my friend Mir lam P” ••Didn’t I tell you so this very day?” cried Goode. ••You never mentioned her name at all. You kept saying my ‘olient’— •the defendant.' But, oh, Bob, I know it all now! I was there—at the big house on Fifty-seventh street, the day before I went to Orange county for mother. 1 was in Miriam’s room, and I opened her bureau drawer to find a pin, and I thought it would be a joke to take her box of candy away. I never opened it I never dreamed what was in it, and when I got home and found the tele gram from Aunt Laura, I first flung the bag down and thought no more of the whole thing. Oh, poor, poor darling Milly! But how came the diamonds in her possession?” • ‘Don’t you knowP But how should you?” said Mr. Goode. ‘‘The necklace was put in her special charge to be delivered to the jeweler who was to call for it at 3 o'clock. And when he came it "Whs gone. But it’s all right now. Great Scott! Nell, who would suppose that you were the thief!” Eleanor made an hysteric'grasp at her brother’s arm. “Will they arrest me, Bob?” stam mered she. “Will they put me In prison? But I don’t care, so long as Milly is no longer unjustly suspected. Yes, I am a thief! But—but I didn’t know it And I never meant it!” And she burst into a storm of min gled tears and laughter. j.nere was a ratner unusual scene in court that day when the necklace itself was presented in evidence be fore the legal luminaries. The complaint was withdrawn and the prisoner honorably discharged. The composed and aristocratic Mrs. General Grafton was greatly moved and made many apologies to Miss Kasson for the position she had taken. The newspaper reporters got a great many “points” for the evening editions, and Mr. Goode, the “rising young lawyer,” left the court, with Miss Kasson leaning on his arm, am id a tempest of applause. “Lucky dog, that!” said his com peers. “After this his fortune is made!” “And all because of my foolish lit tle practical joke,” said Eleanor. “After this I shall never want to look at a chocolate again. But, Milly, darling, why didn’t you send to me in your trouble?” “Could I bear to have my dearest friend know that I was suspected of theft?” sighed Miriam. “And when I knew the name of the coun sel assigned to me by the court my lips were more tightly sealed than ever. Oh, Nell, he has been so good—so noble! He has never doubted me for a moment, even when appear ances were most against me. No. I will not go back to Mra Grafton’s, although she has begged me to do so.” “You will come home with me.” said Eleanor, caressingly. “Yes, you must—you shall!” “I will stay with you,” she said, “until I get another situation.” But she never took another situa tion. Anyone could have guessed the outcome of it all. Even little Sarah guessed it, when she said: “I do believe that our Bob has fallen in love with Miss Kasson!”— N. Y. 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The opposite side was defended by a New York traveling man, commonly known as a "drum* mer,” and he was not only a stylish fellow, but he had the nerve that Is sometimes ascribed to that perlpatetlo fraternity. “Come with me," he said, “and I’ll prove my point.” It was about 11 o’clock In the morn ing, and the conversation was occur ring in an offlee on F street. "How?” Inquired the reporter. "I’ll show you how, it you’ll come with me.” The writer agreed to the proposition, and the drummer escorted him to a dry goods store where women congregate, and led him inside. They moved about the place for fifteen or twenty minutes, the writer asking for an explanation of the strange manoeuvres every time he had a chance, and getting no satis factory answers. Finally the drummer overheard a lady tell a clerk she want ed her packages sent down to the train In time for her to get them there and carry them home with her. The next minute, as she turned away, he rushed up to her with his hand extended, and the lady shook hands with him. "How do you do?” he said in the friendliest way. “How do you do?” she responded, but with some doubt in her voice. "I don’t believe you remember me,” ne said in a hurt tone. "Your face is quite familiar, but I don’t quite place you." "Don’t you remember,” he explained, "that I met you at the German am bassador’s not long ago, and also at the dinner dance at the Brices, and again at the Assembly?" She hesitated a moment, looking him over as she did so. "Why, yes,” she said, smiling very pleasantly. “I remember you quite well now, but I wasn’t expecting to see you, don’t you know, and didn’t recognize you at first. You know how It Is in Washington." She smiled again and he smiled and chatted with her a while, then they parted, and the drummer came back to the writer and took him out on the street. "Now, what do you think of It?" he asked. ■»■■■*?: * “Think of what?” "Of my proof that I was on the right side of that discussion." “I don’t see any proof. You merely met a lady whom you had met before and recalled yourself to her. There wasn’t any proof In that" “Wasn't there?” and the drummer laughed. “Think a minute. You know I don’t know anybody In Washington outside of three or four merchants I sell to here, and them only In a busi ness way. I never was at the German ambassador’s In my life, nor any of those other places I mentioned. I have read of them In the newspapers, that’s all. And the lady? Why she doesn’t live In this town at all. Didn't you hear her order her packages sent to the train to meet her? I never saw her before. Just the same when she saw a well-dressed man identifying her as a member of the fashionable set of the capital, and knew the clerks and other women were hearing It, too, she let It go at that e-1 never said a word to correct me. S’ never was at any of those places any more than I was, but she was too vain to deny it, even though she had to lie to maintain her position. See?" , The writer saw very clearly, but he never would have aeen if the proof had not been presented In each unmistak able form. The Whet* Teaehleg el Lite The whole teaching of hia life. In deed, le to leave ua free and to make ua reasonable, and the supreme lesson of hie life is voluntary brotherhood, fraternity. If you will do something for another, If you will help him or serve him, you will at once begin to love him. I know there are some casu ists who distinguish here, and say that you may love such an one, and that, In fact, you must love every one; but that you are not expected to like every one. This, however, seems to be a distinction Without a difference. If you do not like a person you do not love him, and If you do not love him you loathe him. The curious thing In doing kind ness Is that it makes you love people even in this sublimated sense of liking. When you love another you have made him your brother: and by the same means you can be a brother to all men. a . ■p • • §g Celebrated a Death Senteaee. Dr. Smolka, formerly president of the lower house of the Austrian legislature, 'recently celebrated an unusual anni versary—the "golden Jubilee” of his sentence to death. The doctor was found guilty of membership In a trea sonable society and was first Imprisoned for four years and then In 1845 was sentenced to death. The general am nesty came, however, before the sen tence was executed and the enly thing the doctor suffered was the loss of his title, which prevented him from prac ticing law.—Exchange. 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