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Burnett Lumber Co lumber 135 60
E G Ciiinoifc Co lumber 52 70
W C Bullard lumber 145 CO
The board of county commissioners met Mooro it Overstnke nails
cepted C II Angell same
On motion road No390 petitioned for by Alex Ed Couse same
Ellis et al was laid over until next meeting for M A Richard same
investigation Barnett Lumber Co lumber
In the matter of the application of C B Q W H Brown bridgo work
R R Co praying for an order canceling of C A Burgess same
3 50
nntto adjournment Pretent D A Waterman H X Froncli nails
Samuel Premer ami C B Gray county Crawmer Grimes rope and nails
sioners C E Eld red county attorney ami E GWJones hardware
J Wilcox county clerk II H Jones bridge work
Minutesof previous meeting were read and C F Waterman same
approved W F Bethel same
On motion the resignation of C B Cray as John Bernhardt same
2 55
3 OS
4 88
5 00
55 50
7 50
C3 00
constablofor Willow Grove precinct was ac- C E Cos samo 2 00
14 50
10 00
1 50
17 25
1 00
32 00
ord the taxes and tax sale for the years 1901 J L Bodenhamer samo 7 00
and 1902 upon the following described property Geo Younger samo 15 50
to wit Lots six and seven in block twenty- John Miner same 7 15
seven in the original town of McCook Red J L Poole same 12 00
Willow county Nebraska for the reason that And on the county road fund levy of 1905 as
the property was erroneously assessed by the follows
county assessor tho same having been assessed A D Johnston road work 6 00
by the state board M Fossen samo 4 50
It appearing to the board that said property James Doyle samo 6 00
was for tho years 1901 and 1902 asessed by th Frank Cain samo 6100
state board and the taxes levied under said Ted Cain samo 27 00
assessment paid thereon It was therefore M II Feekin samo 6 00
ered by the board that tho taxes and tax sale Martin Kennedy same 3 00
made under and by virtue of tho assessment C E Widener same S 00
made by tho county assessors for the years 1901 On motion the board adjourned to meet
nnd 1902 be and they are declared erroneous tumber 20th 1905
illegal and void and ordered cancelled of rec D A Waterman Chairman
ord and that the purchaser of said lots under Attest E J Wilcox County Clerk
said tax sales be held harmless as provided by
law and that tho county treasurer refund to
said purchaser the amount of said tax sale and
on the county general fund in payment thereof
as follows
C L Fahnestock medical services 3rd
quarter 25 00
M J Campbell board of prisoners 25 00
G A Folden painting 2 25
Andrew Phillips salary as janitor for
August 25 00
McCook Electric Light Co lights for
August 1 70
L W McConnell supplies 6 35
The Republican printing 2 95
W C Bullard coal for paupers 7 75
E G Caiue Co same S 00
A Guy mdse for paupers 22 50
J A Wilcox same 5S 10
Vance McMauigal appraising road No
390 4 50
Chas Weintz samo 4 50
H P Bailey same 4 50
Margaret Heinlein care of pauper 3 00
H P Waite Co nails etc 8 51
Mabel E Wilcox correcting assessors
books as ordered by board IS 00
George Elbert painting court house
tower 43 90
Barnett Lumber Co lumber for court
house tower 5S 60
Strine Miesen labor on court house
tower IS 00
Ed Walters same 9 00
C V Rundel same 9 00
J W Wimer same 17 40
R W Devoe preparing index court
R W Devoe office expense 1 75
J H Bennett commissioner services 27 40
And on the county bridge fund levy of 1905 as
follows
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McCook Nebraska Sept 20 1C05
Tho board of county commissioners mot
interest upon presentation of tho certificates of suant to adjournment Present DAWater
salo issued to him therefor man Samuel Piemer and C B Gray county
The following claims were audited and allow- commissioners C E Eldred county attorney
ed and clerk was instructed to draw warrants and E J Wilcox countv clerk
The minutes of previous meeting were read
and approved
Pursuant to law in such cases made and pro
vided the board on motion selected the follow
ing named persons from which to draw a jury
for the November term of the district court
Alliance precinct O V Ault Adolphus Heat
on
Beaver Tom Boyd Henry Kittering Clayton
Burgess and Alex Strain
Bondville Charles Ebert Joseph Downs
Box Elder Martin Kennedy Win F Satchell
Coleman M H Cole
Danbury W V Miller and J C Ashton
Driftwood George Plumleigh
East Valley E J DeArmand Henry J Hall
Frank Hodgkin and Hiram Walton
Fritsch James Barber and Joseph McKiver
Gerver Don L Thompson
Grant August Wesch
Indianola John Beck Harry Whitmore FM
Emerich A J Roher
Lebanon W R Morgan J W Adkins Lon
Weir J B Cummings
Missouri Ridge Harve Springer
North Valley Perry Ginther
Perry Marion Plummer Ed Flitcraft
Red Willow James M Brush Jacob Randel
Tyrone E E Feichter
Valley Grange R D Rodgers E J Baker
Willow Grove E F Couse D G Divine
Walter Hickling Julius Kunert James I Lee
M S Modrell Otto Pate Tom J Ruggles Paul
Anton E M Bigelow C W Britt D C Marsh
Geo Cooley W P Bross Ed Jeffries E C Mc
Kay W B Mills Ed Polk W O Russell T A
Wilburn
Tho following claims were audited and al
lowed and on motion clerk was instructed to
draw warrants on the county general fund levy
or iyoD m payment thereof as follows
J M Brown medical services for pau
pers 2nd quarter is 75
R B Campbell same 18 75
o ij jjourott uomdse paupers 64 24
EJ Wilcox oilice expense 25 60
D A Waterman commissionerservices 41 80
Samuel Premer samo 15 40
C B Gray same 15 70
And on the bridge fund levy of 1905 as follows
Chas Masters bridgo work 2 00
Thomas Masters same 4 00
Standard Bridgo Co bridge across Re
publican river at Perryclaimed 150480
allowed at 1455 go
And on the road fund levyof 1905 as follows
J H Beeson road work 18 00
Geo W Dillon same 10 00
On motion board adjourned sine die
D A Waterman Chairman
Attest E J Wilcox County Clerk
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continued fkosi last week
ny ag and smirking come very easily
One soon gets accustomed to it
One has to she replied with a lit
tle sigh Especially if one is a wom
an which little mishap comes to some
of us you know I wonder if you
could find me a chair
She was standing with her back to a
small sofa capable of holding three
but calculated to accommodate two
She did not of course see It In fact
she looked everywhere but toward it
raising her perfectly gloved fingers
tentatively for his arm
I am tired of standing she added
He turned and indicated the sofa to
ward which she immediately advanc
ed As she sat down he noted vaguely
that she was exquisitely dressed cer
tainly one of the best dressed women
in the room
Mrs Sydney Bamborough looked up
at him with a certain admiration This
man was like a mountain breeze to
one who has breathed nothing but the
faded air of drawing rooms
She drew in her train with a pretty
curve of her gloved wrist
You look as if you did not know
what it is to be tired but perhaps you
will sit down I can make room
He accepted with alacrity
And now she said let me hear
where you have been I have only had
time to shake hands with you the last
two times that we have met You said
you had been away
Yes I have been to Russia
Her face was steadily beautiful com
posed and ready
Ah how interesting I have been in
Petersburg I love Russia While she
spoke she was actually looking across
the room toward the tall Frenchman
her late companion
Do you answered Paul eagerly
His face lighted up after the manner
of those countenances that belong to
men of one idea I am very much in
terested in Russia
Do you know Petersburg she ask
ed rather hurriedly I mean society
there
No I know one or two people in
Moscow
She nodded suppressing a quick lit
tle sigh which might have been one of
relief had her face been less pleasant
and smiling
Who she asked indifferently
He mentioned several well known
Muscovite names and she broke into a
sudden laugh
How terrible they sound she said
gayly even to me and I have been to
Petersburg But you speak Russian
Mr Alexis
Yes he answered And you
She shook her head and gave a little
sigh
I Oh no I am not at all clever I
am afraid
CHAPTER IV
ATJL had been five months in
England when he met Mrs
I ney Bamborough Since his
A ried departure from Tver a win-
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By
Henry Seton Merriman
Copyright 189 5 by HARPER k BROTHERS
ter had conie and gone leaving Its
mark as winters do It left a very dis
tinct mark on Russia It was a fam
ine winter From the snow ridden
plains that lie to the north of Moscow
Karl Steinmetz had written piteous de
scriptions of an existence which seem
ed hardly worth the living But each
letter had terminated with a prayer
near to a command that
he Paul Howard Alexis should re
main in England So Paul stayed in
London where he indulged to the full
a sadly mistaken hobby This man
had as we have seen that which is
called a crank or a loose screw ac
cording to the fancy of the speaker
He had conceived the absurd idea of
benefiting his fellow beings and of
turning into that mistaken channel the
surplus wealth that was his
But Paul Howard Alexis had the
good fortune to be rich out of England
and that roaring lion of modern days
organized charity passed him by The
only organized charity of which he was
cognizant was the great Russian Char
ity league betrayed six months earlier
to a government which has ever turned
its face against education and enlight
enment In this he had taken no ac
tive part but he had given largely of
his great wealth That his name had
figured on the list of families sold for
a vast sum of money to the authorities
of the ministry of the interior seemed
all too sure But he had had no inti
mation that he was looked upon with
smnll favor The more active mem
bers of the league had been less for
tunate and more than one nobleman
had been banished to his estates
Although the sum actually paid f
the papers of the Charity league wrs
known the recipient of the blood mon
ey had never been discovered It was
a large sum for the government had
been quick to recognize the necessity
of nipping this movement in the bud
Education is a dangerous matter to
deal with for on the heels of educa
tion socialism ever treads When at
last education makes a foothold in
Russia that foothold will be on the
very step of the autocratic throne The
Charity lergue had as Steinmetz put
it the primary object of preparing the
peasant for education and thereafter
placing education within his reach
Such proceedings were naturally held
by those in high places to be only sec
ond to nihilism
All this and more which shall tran
spire in the course of this narration
was known to Paul In face of the
fact that his name was prominently be
fore the Russian ministry of the inte
rior he proceeded all through the win
ter to ship roadmaking tools agricul
tural implements seeds and food
Paul had met Mrs Sydney Bambor
ough on one or two occasions and had
been interested in her From the first
he had come under the influence of her
beauty But she was then a married
woman He met her again toward the
end of the terrible winter to which ref
erence has been made and found that
a mere acquaintanceship had in the
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lie could not have told when and where
ihe great social barrier had been sur
mounted and left behind He only
knew In an indefinite way that some
such change had taken place as nil
such changes do not In intercourse
but in the intervals of absence
That friendship had rapidly develop
Mrs Sydney Bamboroughs cousin Mag
gie merely because that young lady
existed and happened to be staying in
upper Brook street
At 5 oclock the next afternoon he
presented himself at the house of
mourning and completely filled up its
small entrance hall
He was shown into the drawing
room where he discovered Miss Mar
garet Delafield in the act of dragging
her hat off in front of the mirror over
the mantelpiece He heard a suppress
ed exclamation of amused horror and
found himself shaking hands with Mrs
Sydney Bamborough
The lady mentioned Pauls name and
her cousins relationship in that casual
manner which constitutes an introduc
tion in these degenerate days Miss
Delafield bowed laughed and moved
toward the door She left the room
and behind her an impression of breezi
ness and health of English girlhood
and a certain bright cheerfulness which
acts as a filter in social muddy waters
It is very good of you to come I
was moping said Mrs Sydney Bam
borough She was as a matter of fact
resting before the work of the evening
This lady thoroughly understood the
art of being beautiful
Paul did not answer at once lie was
looking at a large photograph which
stood in a frame on the mantelpiece
the photograph of a handsome man of
twenty eight or thirty small featured
fair and shifty looking
Who is that he asked abruptly
Do you not know My husband
Taul muttered an apology but he
did not turn away from the photo
graph
Oh never mind said Mrs Sydney
BamboroKgh in reply to his regret that
he had stumbled upon a painful sub
ject I never
She paused
No she went on I wont say
that
But so far as conveying what she
meant was concerned she might just
as well have uttered the words
I do not want a sympathy which is
unmerited she said gravely
lie turned and looked at her sitting
in a graceful attitude the incarnation
of a most refined misfortune She rais
jieuiy never iiiauca uu uwm
It He was easily led I suppose ana
people said tilings of him that were not
j true Did you over hear of him In
sia of the things they said of him
i She waited for the answer with sup-
pressed eagerness
t Xo I never hear Russian irossip I
f1A - nn tfi PnkicjKiiHr 1111 f7V
ed into something else Paul became1111 7
aware early In the season and as we Msonv
ttle sh f
she iive
have seen from his conversation Mrs I
Then perhaps poor bydney s delin
Sydney Bamborough innocent and j
have been forgotten she
guileless as she was might with all auencles
six months everything Is for
In
modestv have divined the state of his said
He has only been dead
gotten now
feelings had she been less
know He died In
six months you
owed by her widows weeds
She apparently had no such Russia
cion for she asked Paid in all good j AH the while she was watching his
faith to call the next day and tell her fce She had moved in a circle where
everything is known where men have
all about Russin dear Russia
of iron and nerves ot steel to con
My cousin Maggie she added is j
staying with me She is a dear girl I ccal what they know She could hard
K believe that Paul Alexis knew so
uiu sure you will like her
Paul accepted with alacrity but re- little as he pretended
served to himself the ontion of hatimr o I Heard a mourn ago nc suu
ed her eyes to his for a moment a sort
of photographic instantaneous shutter
exposing for the hundredth part of a
second the sensitive plate of her heart
Then she suppressed a sigh badly
I was married horribly young she
said before I knew what I was do
ing But even if I had known I do
not suppose I should have had the
strength of mind to resist my father
and mother
They forced you into it
Yes said Mrs Bamboroush And
it is possible that a respectable and
harmless pair of corpses turned in their
respective coflins
Paul standing in front of her look
ed down thoughtfully at the beautiful
upturned face His hands were clasp
ed behind him his firm mouth set
sternly beneath the great fair mus
tache In Russia the men have good
eyes blue fierce intelligent Such
eyes had the son of the Princess Alexis
There was something in Etta Bambor
ough that stirred up within him a qual
ity which men are slowly losing name
ly chivalry Steinmetz held that this
man was quixotic and what Stein
metz said was usually worth some
small attention
Pauls instinct was to pity this wom
an for the past that had been hers
His desire was to help her and protect
her to watch over her and fight her
battles for her It was what is called
love But there is no word in any
spoken language that covers so wide
a field Every day ind all day we call
many things love which are not love
The real thing is as rare as genius but
we usually fall to recognize Its rarity
That which Paul Howard Alexis felt
at this time for Etta was merely the
chivalrous instinct that teaches men
their primary duty toward women
namely to protect and respect them
But out of this instinct grows the bet
ter thing love
There are some women whose desire
it is to be all things to all men in
stead of everything to one This was
tne stumbling block in the way of Etta
Bamborough It was her instinct to
please all at any price and her obe
dience to such instinct was often un
conscious She hardlv knpw nnrivmc
j w
that she was trading upon a sense of
chivalry rare in these days but had
she known she could not hare traded
with a keener comprehension of the
commerce
I should like to forget the past al
together she said But it is hard
for women to get rid of the past It is
rather terrible to feel that one will be
associated all ones life with a person
for whom no one had any respect ne overythin
was not honorable or
She paused for the intuition of some
women is marvelous A slight charnre
of conn tenn nee had told her that char
ity especially toward the dead Is a
commendable quality
In a Hash of thought Etta remem
bered that It was only within the last
four weeks that this admirer had be
trayed his admiration Could this be
that phenomenon an honorable man
She looked at him with curiosity with
out it is to be feared much respect
And now she said cheerfully let
us change the subject I have inflicted
enough of myself and my affairs upon
you for one day Tell me about your
self Why were you in Russia last
summer
I am half a Russian lie answered
My mother was Russian and I have
estates there
Her surprise was a triumph of art
Oh You are not Trinee Pavlo Alex
Is she exclaimed
Yes I am
It is to be presumed that Mrs Syd
ney Bamboroughs memory was short
for it was a matter of common knowl
edge in the diplomatic circles in which
she moved that Mr Paul Howard
Alexis of Piccadilly House London
and Prince Pavlo Alexis of the prov
ince of Tver were one and the same
man
Having however fully established
this fact from the evidence of her own
ears she conversed very pleasantly
and innocently upon matters Russian
and English until other visitors arriv
ed and Paul withdrew
CHAPTER V
MONO the visitors whom Paul
left behind him in the little
drawing room in Brook street
was the Baron Claude de
Chauxville baron of Chauxviile and
Chauxville le Due in the province of
France attache to the
French embassy to the court of St
Tames before men a rising diplomat
ist before God a scoundrel This gen
tleman remained when the other visit
ors had left and Miss Maggie Dela
field seeing his intention of prolonging
a visit of which she had already had
sufficient made an inadequate excuse
and left the room
Miss Delafield being a hen 1 thy mind
ed young English person of that sim
plicity which is no simplicity at all
but merely simple heartedness had her
OAvn ideas of what a man should be
and M de Chauxville had the misfor
tune to fall short of those ideas He
was too epigrammatic for her and be
neath the brilliancy of his epigram she
felt at times the presence of something
dark and nauseous Her mental atti
tude toward him was contemptuous
and perfectly polite With the reputa
tion of possessing a dangerous fascina
tionone of those reputations which
can only emanate from the man him
self M de Chauxville neither fasci
nated nor intimidated Miss Delafield
He therefore disliked her intensely
His vanit1 was colossal and when a
Frenchman is vain he is childishlv so
M de Chauxville watched the door
close behind Miss Delafield with a
queer smile Then he turned sudden
ly on his heels and faced Mrs Sydney
Bamborough
Your cousin he said is a typical
English woman she only conceals her
love
For you inquired Mrs Sydney
Bamborough
The baron shrugged his shoulders
Possibly One can never tell She
conceals it very well if it exists How
ever I am indifferent The virtue of
the violet is its own reward perhaps
for the rose always wins
Etta smiled almost relenting She
was never quite safe against her own
vanity Happy the woman who is and
rare
I suspect that the violet is innocent
of any desire to enter into competi
tion said Etta
Knowing suggested De Chaux
ville that although the race is not
always to the swift it is usually so
Please do not stand It suggests that
you are waiting for me to go or for
some one else to come
Neither
Then prove it by taking this chair
Thus near the fire for it is quite an
English spring A footstool Is It
permitted to admire your slippers
what there is of them Now you look
comfortable
He attended to her wants divined
them and perhaps created them with
a perfect grace and much too intimate
a knowledge As a carpet knight he
was faultless And Etta thought of
Paul who could do none of these
things or would do none of them Paul
who never made her feel like a doll
Will you not sit down she said
indicating a chair which he did not
take He selected one nearer to her
I can think of nothing more desira
ble
Than what she asked Her
van
ity was like a hungry fish It rose to
A chair in this room
A modest desire she said iH
that really all you want in this world
No he answered looking at her
She gave a little laugh and moved
rather hurriedly
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