Save Work Worry= Money by using a Stover Gasoline Engine. Made right. Sold right. Send for llustrated catalogue free. SANDWICH MFG. CO Council Blutls, la. 1 General Agents. HOtVlESTEAD LAND OPENING! FORT PECK INDIAN RESERVA TION MONTANA REGISTRATION—Register at Grand Falls or Havre, Mont., daily Sept, ist to 2oth inclusive. RATES —Round trip rates to Great Falls or Havre from Omaha, Lincoln, Hastings and other Nebraska points, $35.00, ON SEPTEMBER 9TH AND 16TH. CHARACTER OF SOIL—486,667 acres classitied as farming lands and 737,181 acres classified as grazing lands. Write for maps and further particulars. D, CLEM BEAVER Immigration Agent ICOi Firnam Street, Omaha, Nebraska studentsT I - I Here’s the Neatest, Cleanest, Easiest I to Fill Fountain Pen You Ever Saw “HOTJSTOIT” I “Everybody’s Wearing Them Now’’ loHN W. HIBER |^^^Jeweler and Optician Supervisors Proceedings. (Continuer! from page four.) take approprate steps to hold him harmless by paying the amount of principal, interest, and costs to which lie would have been entitled had the land been rightfully sold. (Sec. 222, page 1532 Complied Statutes of Ne braska Annonated 190!).) Your peti tioner further shows that he has paid the county treasurer in connection with this sale the sum of $20.88. Respectfully, A. Baker, purchaser and owner, Box 335, Cheyenne, Wyo. Mr. Chairman: I move that the petition be granted and the county clerk is hereby instructed to correct tax list as the aforesaid property is Government land and not subject to taxation. M. P. Sullivan, 'D. M. Stuart. Motion carried. Five o’clock p. m., on motion board of equalization adjourned until Aug. 20, 1 o'clock p. m. Th. I). Sievers, Chairman. S. F. McNichols, County Clerk. O’Neill, Nebr . Aug. 20, 1913, 9 o’ clock a. m. Board met in regular session pursuant to adjournment, all members present, upon motion the following bonds were approved: C II Fleek, road overseer. On motion the board took up the matter of auditing claims against Holt county. On motion board adjourned until 4 o’clock p. m. Th. I). Sievers, Chairman. S F. McNichols, County Clerk. O'Neill, Nebr , Aug. 20, 1913, 1 o’ clock p. m. Board of equalization met, all members present. The State of Nebraska. Oilice ol State Board of Equalization and As sessment. To the County Clerk of Holt coun ty, O’Neill, Nebr. This is to certify that at a session of the State Board of Equalization and Assessment, held at the State Capitol in the year A. D. 1913, pur suant to an act of the legislature ol the state of Nebraska, approved Apri 11,1903, the following rate of tax was determined and levied by said boarc for the year 1913, on the total valua tion as shown in the abstract of your county assessor now on filed In this office and as equalized of said state board. Total valuation $1,737,294 General fund. 5 mills on the $1.$23,686 47 University fund, 1 mill on the $1. 4,737 29 Special University fund .75 mills on the $1. 3,552 97 Normal school fund, .85 mills on the $1 4,026 70 State aid bridge fund, .20 mills on the $1. 947 46 Total, 7.80 mills on the $1.$36,950 89 The above amount will be charged to Holt coun.y upon the books of the auditor of public accounts. In Witness Whereof 1 have hereun to set my hand and affixed the seal of the State Hoard of Equalization and Assessment at Lincoln, this 6th day of August, A. D. 1913. H. Seymour, Secretary. Mr. Chairman: I move that the following levies be made on the one dollar valuation of the taxable pro perty of Holt county for the year 1913. County General fund.8 mil's County Hridge fund. .4 mills Emergency Hridge fund.1 mill S"ldiers Relief fund.1-5 mills County Road fund .$ mills County Dragging fund.i mills Total.14 1-5 mills J. O. tlubbell, 11. W, Tomlinson Motion carried. Rate of tax levied on eacn one hundred dollars valuation In Holt county, Nebraska, for the year 1913. State tax consolidated 7 4 5, county tax consolidated 14 15 TOWNSHIP LEVIES. Township General Rrldite Road Total .Mills Mills Mills Mills Atkinson.2 2 10 14 Chambers.2 2 8 12 Cleveland.1 i 1 2 Conley.2 2 10 14 Deloit.2 14 7 Dustin .1 o 2 3 Emmet.2 2 6 10 Ewing -2 2 6 10 Fairview.2 1 2 5 Frances.2 0 2 4 Grattan .2 1 4 7 Green Valley...2 15 8 Inman. 2 0 3 5 Iowa.2 0 1 3 Lake*.2 2 9 13 McClure.2 2 10 14 Paddock.1 0 7 8 Pleasant View.. 0 0 5 5 Rock Falls.1J 1 2 4 Sand Creek.0 0 « 6 Saratoga.2 0 0 8 Scott.2 1 2 5 Shamrock .2 0 8 10 Sheridan.2 2 0 10 Shields. 2 2 4 8 Steel Creek— 2 0 3 6 Stuart.2 2 10 14 Swan.2 0 0 2 Verdigris.2 0 2 4 Willowdale ... .2 0 0 2 Wyoming.1 0 2 3 Grattan Railway bonu..8 mills Atkinson, general fund 10, water fund lO, sewer bond interest 2, side walk special 5, total 27, Ewing, general 10, sidewalk special 5, total 15 O’Neill, sewer bond sinking 2, gen eral 10, water works extension 5, sew er bond interest 6, R. R. bond Interest 10, total 33. Page, general 10, total 10. Stuart, general 10, water works ex tension 10, total 20. Inman, general 10, total 10. Emmet, general 10, total 10. Caught a Bad Cold. “Last winter my son caught a very bad cold and the way he coughed was something dreadful,” writes Mrs. Sarah E. Dunkan, of Tipton, Iowa. We thought sure he was going into consumption. We bought just one bott'e of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and that one bottle stopped his cough and cured his cold completely.” For sale by all dealers. Adv. __ Diarrhoea Quickly Cured. “I was taken with diarrhoea and Mr. Yorks, the merchant here, per suaded me to try a bottle of Chamber lain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After taking one dose of it I was cured. It also cured others that I gave it to,” writes M. E. Ueb hart, Oriole, Pa. That is not at all unusual. An ordinary attack of diarrhoea can almost invariably be cured bv one or two doses of this remedy For sale by all dealers, adv Inman Items. Elmer Rogers returned to school at Wayne last Sunday. Carpenters began remodeling the M. E. parsonage last Thurs day. Miss Barbara Sovergnier is suffering from an attack of apen dicitis. Miss June Hancock left for Wayne last Monday where she will attend school. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Golden were down from O’Neill last Sun day on business. Miss Blanche Bitner went to Wayne last Sunday to attend school at that place. Charles Stark and Pop Boodle went to Boonsteel, S. D., last Thursday to register for land. C. P. Hancock and little son, Charles, were down from O’Neill last Sunday visiting relatives. Mrs. Charles Fowler and Mrs. James Coleman returned home from the hospital at Omaha, this week. George Wilcox commenced teaching in the Willow Lake dis trict last Monday and with a good attendance. The Chambers Boosters were welcome visitors in Inman last Friday, boosting for their fair the 16, 17 and 18. CURIOUS HERMIT CRABS. They Keep Housemaids, and Also Use Sponges For Protection. It has been said that crabs are as artful as “a barrow load of monkeys,” and no one who has read Professor Edward Step’s “Messmates; A Book of Strange Companionships In Nature,” will deny that there is considerable truth in the remark. Amazing Indeed are some of the revelations tvhich the professor makes regarding crabs. He relates, for Instance, how the common hermit crab actually keeps a housemaid to clean out his house. When he first starts life this particu lar species of crab hunts for some large shellfish's shell in which he can live at ease, rent free. He usually chooses a large whelk shell and Introduces a large seaworm, belonging to whut Is known as the “nereis” fumlly and which grows to a length of six or eight inches, to keep the interior of the shell clean. The crab feeds hearti ly on sea creatures that wander care lessly into the shell and throws the in digestible parts of them about the floor. The nereis worm promptly con sumes these remains and keeps the shell as clean as a new pin. The nrtfulness of this crab, too, is strikingly illustrated by the ingenious manner In which he protects himself against the large fish which look upon him as an excellent article of food. Sometimes he Induces a sponge to grow on his shell. Sponges in a living condition give out a strong odor, which is distinctly unpleasant to fish, and even a dogfish will not attack a crab protected In this manner. TTTTTTTTW. . l"rnll.,,n7'IT | LAIS ! I A Story Showing the Pow- i er of Beauty Without Conscience For :: Evil " By P. A. MITCHEL Alexis Alexandrovich, a tall, slender youth of fifteen, while hunting rode up to a peasant's cottage on his father's estate in Russia to ask for a drink of water. A little girl, not more than seven years of age. stood In the door looking up at him with the mild blue eye indigenous to northern climates. Her hair, too. was of a light hue. but her cheeks were a pair of roses. As she looked at the young man her face broke into a' smile, revealing white teeth, wlillo a dimple appeured in each cheek. Alexis forgot* about the drink of water, so enraptured wus he in the beauty of the child. •‘Lais!’’ he exclaimed. The girl continued to look at him and, notwithstanding her few years, perceived that she was admired. "Do you know,” he asked, “why I call you Lais?” “No.” “I will tell you. More than 400 years before our Saviour came upon earth an Athenian general captured a pic turesque village on the island of Sicily. •Among his prisoners was a little girl about your age. so bewltchingly beau tiful that he curried her back with him to Athens, whore u great artist painted her as a nymph at a fountain, and all the great men of the time were enrap tured with her." "Did they give her pretty presents?” asked the child. aius. t nucincaui au mis ueauiy lurks tin* viper-the desire to use the charms t<> obtain "pretty presents.” One day tin* child* might not only se cure the presents, but ruin those who gave them to her. This was the first meeting between Alexis Alexandrovich, the son of Count Alexandrovich, a Russian nobleman, who dwelt, as Ids ancestors had dwelt before him. on his estute, a kind mas ter to his serfs and a humble subject of the czar. The boy received a cup of water from the child, and as she banded it up to him he noticed the beautiful shape of the arm and hand that extended It. And as tender as were her years out of her eyes came a look to charm him. lie laughed that one so young should show such a dis position and rode away, leaving the child gazing after him. Alexis, who was studying at the time to enter the university, found xvhen he returned to his books that the f4ce and figure of the child kept thrust ing themselves between his eyes and the page before him. As soon as his school hours were ended he went again to the peasant’s cottage, making ex cuse this time that he wished to bor row from her father a gun with which to shoot birds. The man was intent on the matter of the gun, but his wife noticed that Alexis had not come for a gun. but to feast his eyes on her lit tle daughter. After Alexis had gone she said to her husband: “I foresee great things for our ICatla. Such beauty must elevate her to a higher rank than ours. Did you notice the admiration in the eyes of the young count?” “No." “It was plain to me. He will come here at times to gaze at her, and if her beuuty holds when she comes to wom anhood he will marry her, and, Instead of spending her days in this hut, she will live up on the hill and be a coun tess.” Many were the excuses Alexis made to see his Lais, as he called her. Now it was fishing tackle, now his horse needed a shoe—for the peasant was u smith—but whatever it was he wanted his eyes never left the child while he was at her father’s place, and Lais knew that she had made her first cap tive. When Christmas came and brought with It a little ring from Alex is she gave the kiss he asked for, but after he went away her young brows knit. and. her mother asking her if she was dissatisfied with her gift, she pouted and replied: "Yes. There is no gem in it.” Alexis went to the university; but though he left Ids father, his mothei and his home behind him, he could nol leave his Lais. Those innocent eyes that delicately rouuded face, those ex quisitely curved lips that seemed form ed only to be kissed, were present ii his memory and in his thoughts dur lug his absence, and ench year whei he returned she had grown a year old er, and instead of losing her childisl beauty there was udded to it that o: a budding womanhood. And now the countess had learnei the secret that her son was infatuatei with a peasant’s daughter. Kealizinf that such a passion could not be eradl cated by argument, she said nothing ti him, but arranged with her husband t< send Alexis away as soon as he wai graduated from the university. Tin count went to St. Petersburg and oh tained a government position for hli boy. But, alas, it came too late! Thi day the appointment arrived Alexis in formed his parents that he had mar ried the blacksmith's daughter. There was nothing for it but to ac cept the situation. Alexis assured lib father and mother that his wife’s beau ty would gain her an entrance lnt< any society. An elaborate wardrobt Iwus procured for her, and when hei husband set out for the capital to entei r-r- crrrrs no rook ms' yodhg bride with bine.. There was no disappointment in the reception of the young countess at the capital. From the moment she ap peared at court she created a sensa tion. The czar showed his admiration upon receiving her, and the men of the Imperial family vied with each other for her favor. The first painter in St. Petersburg begged to paint her. Her husband, far from fearing that he would be ignored from having a peas ant wife, began to dread the attention of men who were loading her with every attention. It was not long be fore n certain grand duke fell under the influence of the countess’ beauty, and one evening when she was pre paring to go to a ball at the Winter palace her husband saw her putting on a necklace of pearls so valuable that his father's whole estate would not have purchased it. Tho trouble had begun. The countess admitted that the grand duke who was so attentive to her had given it to her, and since her husband could not give her such presents she would get them where she could. Alexis did not go with his wife that night to the ball, nnd when she came home be was not there. Nor was he ever seen again at the capital. Ills wife continued to live there sumptu ously. but whence she derived her ln como no one knew. The Grand Duke Ivan was devoted to her and wished to marry her, but could not do so as long as she hud a husband living. One day papers came from America stating that a man hud Jumped from the deck of a steamer in New York bay. His baggage on being examined had revealed the fact that he was a Itussian named Alexis Alexandrovich. Had this news come n year earlier the Grand Duke Ivan would have mar ried the widow. Unfortunately when it reached St. Petersburg she had had an illness that spoiled her beauty. So her lover settled 600,000 rubles ui>on her, thus purchasing an amicable sep uruuou ueiwceu mui null Iit'i. But the countess had not been Idle In the matter of drawing wealth into her net Iier gems alone were a for tune. She had been successful in the way she had planned. She was very rich, but she had no standing among her own sex. She left Itussla and bought a villa on one of the Italian lakes, a chateau in an aristocratic quarter of Paris and several minor es tablishments elsewhere. But, while she lived in grandeur, she had not risen socially above the peasant she was born. She made several entrees into the social life of places where she was not known, but her story followed her, and she was dropped. The countess had no conscience, but she had a dread. There were active as well as passive crimes to her debit, and she feured that some one of them would tear down the structure she had built up and leave her at the mercy of the law. She had no remorse for the young man whose life she had wreck ed. She had been born without such sensibilities. She lived without either conscience or remorse, but the cloud that hung over her slowly deepened. At first it was no bigger than a man’s bund. She had relied* implicitly for immunity from punishment upon that puissant beauty with which she felt sure she could bring any man to do her bidding. Then came the loss of her weapon, and for the first time in her life she felt defenseless. One day the cloud which had now be come as black as midnight sent forth a bolt She wns In her garden In her villa on the lake. A man whose hair was as white as snow and whose face was furrowed met her face to face as she turned a clump of trees. "Who are you?" asked the countess. “And what aro you doing in my grounds?" “I have come to warn you. As to who I am, I can prove my identity by a single word.” "Speak it,” she said. "Lais!" Qhn C->111,1,1«»1«/1 1/ii 4- mn.U .anlo - --, ~--—“ -'•rv But presently she said: "I thought you were dead.” “I preferred you should think me dead and arranged the evidence of my demise. But there Is no time to lose. For that love I boro you when you were a child, and I but a youth I have come to save you. Go from here at once. The Italian police are coming this night to arrest you on tho requisi tion of tho czar of Russia. This I know; how I know It does not mutter.” He turned and left the garden. The countess staggered to the house, and within half an hour, disguised as an old man, she was pulled In a boat across the lake, where she hired a post carriage and was drawn over the bor der into Switzerland. Count Alexandrovich returned to Rus sia, intending to devote himself to his old father and mother, whom he had made to suffer for his ill fated mar riage. He found them both dead, hav ing succumbed to the ruin of the son they loved so well. The count sold his estates and. returning to America un der an assumed name, mude a home 1 for himself In the fur west, where he 1 endeavored to forget his past in the work of raising grain. Amid the tall corn and the waving wheat he gruduul ’ ly became again a man with a future, 1 for he was still barely past middle age. 1 An old woman, Lais now lives on a ■ bill looking down into one of the sea coast cities of South America. She is 1 a veritable hag. She has no servants ! to do her bidding, for all her visible fortune was sequestrated by the gov ernments of the countries in which 11 lay, and her jewels she lost years ago at Monte Carlo. She has returned to the conditions under which she was born, except that her marvelous beauty has given place to hideous ugliness. Since this was written her husband, having received the news of his wife’s death, has married again. _ GRIPPED BY A LION Livingstone’s Fearful Ordeal and His Narrow Escape. A BATTLE WITH A MANEATER. The Wounded and Maddened Monster, In a Paroxysm of Dying Rage, Caught the Explorer In His Jaws and Shook Him as a Terrier Would a Rat. David Livingstone, the famous Afri can explorer and missionary, once had a singular encounter with a wounded lion that nlmost put an end to the ex plorer's remarkable career before It had fairly begun. But the story must be unfamiliar to many persons who have never read Dr. Livingstone's books. The adventure occurred while he was living among the Bakatlas, not far from the present town of Mafe klng. This account Is from his own narrative: The people of Mabotsa were trou bled by lions, which leaped into the cattle pens by night and destroyed their milk and draft animals. They even attached the herds boldly by day light, and ulthough several expeditions against the wild beasts were planned the people had not the courage to car ry them through successfully. It is well known that If one In a troop of lions is killed the others leave that part of the country. I therefore went out with the people to help them destroy one of the marauders. We found the animals on a small hill cov ered with trees. The men formed round It in a circle and gradually closed up. Being below on the plain with a native schoolmaster named Ma balwe, I saw one of the lions sitting on a piece of rock. Mabalwe fired at him, and the ball hit the rock. The lion bit at the spot as a dog does at a stick or stone thrown at him, and then, leaping away, broke through the cir cle and escaped. The Bakatlas ought to have speared him In his attempt to get out, but they were afraid. When the circle was reformed we saw two other lions in it, but dared not Are lest we should shoot some of the people. The beasts burst through the line, and as it was evident the men could not face their foes we turned back toward the village. In going round the end of the hill 1 saw a lion sitting on a piece of rock, about thirty yards off, with a little bush In front of him. I took good aim at him through the bush and fired both barrels. rm. ___II_a ItTT«