i- O’NEILLBUSINESS DIRECTORY
H. BENEDICT,
LAWYER,
Office lathe Judge Robert* building, north
of O. O. 8nvder'» lumber yard,
O NEILL NKB.
R. DICKSON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Reference First National Bank
O'NEILL, NEB
I^ARNEY STEWART,
PRACTICAL AUCTIONEER.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Address, Page, Neb
£)R. P. J. FLYNN
FHYCIAN AND SURGEON
Office over Corrigan’s, first door to right
Night calls promptly attended.
£)R. J. P. GIX.L.1GAN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
s Office in Holt County Bank building
Qt Orders left at our drug store or at my
residence first street north and half
block east of stand pipe will receive
prompt response, as I have telephone
connections.
He. S.T.TttaEbloo<l
SPECIATLIES:
EVE. EAR. NOSE AND THROAT
Bpectaoles correctly fitted and Supplied.
O’NEILL, NEB.
Griffin Bros.
MERCHANT TAILORS
O’Neill, Nebraska.
H. W. PHILLIPS
AUCTIONEER.
Cries sales in either German or Eng
lish. Satisfaction guaranteed. Twen.
ty years experience.
ATKINSON, NEB.
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F. J. DISHNER
Successor to A. B. Newell
Real Estate
Selling and leasing farms and ranches
Taxes paid and lands inspected for non
residents. Parties desiring to buy or
rent land owned by non-residents give
me a call, will look up the owners and
procure the land for you.
Fnie New Market
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IHavlng leased the &atz Market
and thoroughly renovated the
same we are now ready to sup
ply you wlih choice Fresh and
I Malt Meats, Ham, Bacon, Fish,
In fact everything to be found
in a fllrst-class market. We
Invite your patronage : : < :
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Title Abstractors
3ffice in First National Bank Bldg.
Scottish
Sharoi)
OF GREYTOWER 153330,
Assisted by Imported K1NU TOM 171879.
Both prize-winning bulls of
the Pan-American, heads the Ak-Sar
Ben home herd of Shorthorns. Young
bulls for sale.
J. M. ALDEESON & SONS,
Chambers, - - Nebraska.
SHORtHORN BULLS
AND HEIFERS
SCOTCh tops on best BATES fami
lies, 35 BULLS 14 to 26 mo. old. 20
HEIFERS and 10 COWS bred to our
fine Scotch bull MISSIES PRINCE
15402. Over 200 head in heard to select
from. These are the cattle for western
men,as they are acclimated. Come and
see them or write for prices.
THE BROOK FARM CO.,
1. R. Thomas, foreman,O’Neill. Holt Co..Neb
Township Treasurer
Order Books
Manufactured and for sale at $1
each by
THE FRONTIER
THE
Northwestern
LINE
ONLY
DOUBLE TRACK
Railroad between Missouri River
and Chicago.
Direct line to St. Paul-Minneapolis.
Direct line to Black Hills.
Apply to nearest agent for rates,
maps and time cards.
Tierney <&LaRue
BLACKSMITHS
We have recently opened a new
ihop foi all classes and kinds of
blacksmith and wagon work. We
ire located in the new building just
icross the street from Mellor &
Juilty’s livery, are fully equipped
vith all modern machinery and tools
;o rapidly turn out first-class work,
vork that we can guarantee, and at
noderate prices.
Baker & Brittell’s
RESTAURANT
(The Lapham-Koberts place)
It’s all right. The best place in
3’Neill to get a hot or cold lunch,
i full meal of all you can eat for a
luarter, a good cigar to smoke or
inything a first-class restaurant can
lerve you with at all hours. Fresh
broad and all bakery products.
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Freight via tha
Chicago & Northwestern Ry.
TIME TABLE
TRAINS EAST
Passenger, No. 4, 3:45 a. m.
Passenger, No. 6, 9:52 ■e. m.
Freight, No. 116, 4:25 p. m.
Freight, No. 64, 12:01 p. m.
TRAINS WEST
Passenger, No. 5, 2:50 p. m.
Passenger, No. 3, 10:05 p. m.
Freight, No 119, 5:32 p. m.
Freight, No. 63, 2:50 p. m.
The service is greatly improved by
he addition of the new passenger
rains Nos. 4 and 5; No. 4 arrives in
)maha at 10:35 a. m arrives’at Sioux
}ity at 9:15 a. m. No. 5 leaves Omaha
it 7:15 a. m., leaves Sioux City at 7:50
i. m.
♦Dally; tDally, except Sunday.
E. R. Adams, Agent
Frost.
IIow small a tooth hath mined the sea
son's heart!
How cold a touch hath set the wood
one tire.
Until It blazes like a costly pyre
Built for some Ganges emperor, old and
swart,
Soul-sped on clouds of inconse! Whose
the art
That webs the streams, each morn,
with silver wire.
Delicate as the tension of a lyre?
Whose falchion pries the chestnut-bur
apart ?
It is the frost; a rude and Gothic sprite.
Who doth unbuild the summer's pal
aecd wealth.
And puts her dear loves all to sword or
flight;
Yet In the hushed, unmindful winter's
night.
The spoiler builds ngaln with jealous
stealth,
And sets a mimic garden, cold and
bright.
—Edith M. Thomas.
If one were looking 'or a cure for
bashfulness, carbon paper would seem
an unlikely thing to select. But it was
a piece of this paper which, If it did
not exactly cure John Kendall, at least
overcame the effects of his shyness.
John’s bashfulness was most per
nicious, and while it had not retarded
his career as a successful manufac
turer, in the flourishing town of Schuy
lerville, it proved a very embarrassing
possession when lie was smitten with
the tender pass ion.
In the first place, Margaret Little
was “an authoress,” and that alone
was an awe-inspiring circumstance. To
be able to write stories which met
with occasional acceptance; to have
the postman sometimes bring her Giin
letters containing checks, and not to
be the grinning bearer of bulky pack
ages of rejected manuscripts, placed
her on a plane above other women—
in John’s eyes. Not that she needed
such placing, for it would be flitile to
chronicle the angelic qualities v> ith
whicn he endowed her.
The trouble with this endowment
process was that it was not disclosed
to Margaret. John could write, and
did write, letters teeming with <=enti
ment. Of course, it was unfortunate
that these letters were never Gent. It
was more unfortunate that he found
himself unable to express In her pres
ence the feelings which agitated his
six feet of manhood.
He had made three attempts at a
proposal, each of which had ended in
stammering confusion and dire fail
ure, and it is probable that the num
ber would have been extended in
definitely, had not a rival appeared on
the field.
Anyone who showed Margaret the
slightest attention was a rival in
John’s view, and it seemed impossible
that the editor of a New York maga
zine would come fifty miles to Schuy
lerville for the sole purpose of con
sulting Margaret about a series of
stories for his periodical. If this in
nocent purpose brought the editor,
something emotionally attractive in
Margaret’s pretty face must have in
duced his reappearance within a
month, and it was during this second
visit that John spurred himself to ac
tion.
On a June afternoon he deserted his
desk and determinedly strode toward
the Little homestead. His courage
usually lasted until he passed the front
gate, but on this occasion he was sur
prised to find it upholding him even
after he had reached the veranda. It
evaporated when he rang the hell. A
maid told him that Miss Little had
gone for a walk with a gentleman from
New York. This information, coming
as a respite, at first relieved John.
Then jealousy renewed his courage,
and he boldly said he wished to leave
a note for Margaret. '
In the matter of impassioned mis
Dashed off a few glowing periods.
slves John Kendall was no coward,
and he sat at Margaret’s little desk
and dashed off a few glowing periods
on a sheet of her manuscript paper.
When the elfusion was finished It
proved satisfactory, being, in fact, a
condensation of the others which ho
had left unsent. He folded it neatly,
and was reaching into a pigeonhole in
the desk for an envelope, when he
happened to glance out of the window.
Across the orchard came Margaret
and the editor. The latter—a small,
blonde, handsome man—was - walking
close beside his contributor, and look
ing smilingly into her beautiful eyes.
After viewing the scene John was
seized with panic at the thought cf
Margaret’s reading his note immedi
ately. The next instant he was strid
Ing away from the house, scattei. ag |
bits of white paper to tho Ji ae
breezes.
He did not see Margaret for a wt >k,
and during that time deep desj dr
held him for Its own. Then an urg, nt
business affair led him to call on 1 er
father, whe was suffering from a all. ht
illness, and was unable to leave me
house.
Whe» the interview with Mr. Little
was at an end, and John reached the
front door he found Margaret sitting
on tho veranda. He thought to pass
her with a formal greeting, but- his
intentions usually went astray where
she T7aa concerned, and he was ^oon
seated near her in a wide-armed ver
anda chair.
"* am sorry I missed you when you
called last week,” said Margaret after
her father's illness had been discussed.
“I’m sorry, too,” John replied, men
tally condemning the memory of tho
maid, whom he hoped had forgotten
the incident.
“The girl said something about you
leaving a note,” continued Margaret.
“Yes—er—an invitation to a picnic,”
John said weakly, “but the affair was
postponed.”
"Before you could write the note?”
“No; 1 thought it would be post
poned, so I changed my mind.”
Margaret was looking demurely at
a rose hush. “It has been postponed
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Glanced shyly down at Margaret.
before,” she murmured softly, but her
companion did act hear the remark, i
“John,” she said, In a louder tone, “I
suppose It is only in an invitation to
a picnic that you would address me as
your dearest Margaret.” ,
John Kendall turned slowly, and I
regai-ded the object of his affections
with bewilderment. He wondered if
any of the torn bits of paper had been
picked up and pieced together by Mar
gai’et, but he had scattered them so
widely that that seemed impossible.
Mis3 Little, who had transferred her
gaze from the rose bush to her lover’s
face, seemed to enjoy its expression.
Then Jonn rocked violently in the
veranda chair in the hope that the
action would induce mental stimula
tion, but it did not.
‘‘Will you come with me for a mo
ment?” Margaret asked, rising and .
entering the house. J
John followed her to her study. .
There, on the little desk, was the pile
of munusoript paper. Margaret took a j
note from the bosom of her dress,
unfolded it slowly, and handed it to i
John. 1
"There was a piece of carbon paper
amoDg the top sheets,” she said, “and :
this vss under it,” and John read an
exact copy of the effusion he had ad
dressed to Margaret the week before.
For a moment he looked helplessly
at the note, then he glanced shyly
down at Margaret, apd the expression
he saw in her eyes was entirely unlike
that with which she had regarded the
editor.
It seemed to say, "Speak for your
self, John,” and had tho stolid type- 1
writer which stood on the desk risen
to the occasion it would have added
another love scene to its long list.
In the hopie of Mr. and Mrs. John
Kendal’,, in Schuylerville, is a den,
and an one of its walls hangs a bit of
black paper in a gilt frame. When the i
curious question John about this paper
he tells them its story, if they are
worthy, and if they are unworthy he
merely says that it is an impression
istic picture of the darkest hour be
fore dawn.—Bennett Musson in Los
Angeles Times.
EXPLORATION OF LAKE CHAD.
Valuable Discoveries Made by Two
Venturesome Frenchmen.
Two French officers, Capt. Truffert
and Naval Ensile L'Huard, have com
pleted an exhwustlye exploration of
Lake Chad and Its numerous islands,
hitherto very Imperfectly known. Ac
cording to these two explorers, the
lake is 185 miles in length by 89 miles
in width. Curious enough, it Is on
the whole extremely shallow, the
deepest part of the western side,
where the water is 25 feet in depth,
while on the eastern shore It Is only
5 feet in depth. The lake Is inter
spersed with eighty Islands divided
into three groups—the first void of
vegetation; the second, covered only
with grass and out used by the
natives for pasturing cattle; and the -
third, inhabited islands, which are
thickly and well forested and contain
extensive millet plantations. Altogetlf- *
er, 50,000 people dwell on these isl
ands. One of the most notable
achievements of this expedition was
the discovery of a hitherto unknown
tree, the wood of which Is lighter than
cork. 4
Somewhat Similar.
Brownovich—Hold-up men aro not
the whole show. I
Smithlnsky—What’s the answer?
Brownovich—I know quite a num- :
ber of women right here In Cincinnati :
who are engaged in holding up infants.
Your attention iB called to the fact that
you can find at
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ESTABLISHMENT I
anything you need in these lines—Champion binders, mowers,
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dealer also. The lineBt grades of machine oils at these low prices: I
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Caster Machine--35c 1 «•
Eldorado_1
White Caster_ 1
Molme wagons—the best on earth for the money. John Deere 9
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