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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.
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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« <n „t,n*
la shot!” Others cried, "Let us go to
him!”
I saw the lion’s tail erect In anger
anil said, “Stop a little till I load
again!” I was in the act of ramming
down the bullets when 1 beard a
shout, and, looking half round, 1 saw
the Hon in the act of springing at me.
He caught me by the shoulder, and
we both came to the ground together.
Growling horribly, he shook me as a
terrier dog does a rat The shock pro
duced a stupor like that felt by a
mouse In the grip of the cat. It caused
a sort of dreaminess, In which there
was no sense of pain or feeling of ter
ror, although I was quite conscious of
what was happening. This placidity
Is probably produced In all animals
killed by the carnivora, and, if so, It is
a merciful provision of the Creator for
lessening the pain of death.
As he had one paw on the back of
my head, 1 turned round to relieve my
self of the weight and saw his eyes
directed to Mabalwe, who was aiming
at him from a distance of ten or fif
teen yards. The gun missed fire in
both barrels. The animal Immediately
left me to attack him and bit his
thigh. Another man. whose life I had
saved after he hnd been tossed by a
buffalo, tried to spear the lion, upon
which he turned from Mabalwe, and
seized this fresh foe by the shoulder.
At that moment the bullets the beast
had received took effect, and he fell
down dead. The whole was the work
of a few moments and must have
been his pnroxysm of dying rage. In
order to take out the charm from him
the Bakatlas on the following day
made a huge bonfire over the carcass,
which was declared to he the largest
ever seen.
Besides crunching the bone Into
splinters, eleven of his teeth had pen
etrated the upper part of my arm. The
bite of a lion resembles a gunshot
wound. It Is generally followed by a
great deal of sloughing and discharge,
and ever afterward pains are felt pe
riodically in the part. 1 had on a tar
tan jacket, which I believe wiped off
the virus from the teeth that pierced
the flesh, for my two companions in
the affray have both suffered from the
usual pains, while X have escaped with
only the inconvenience of a false Joint
in my limb.
Old China.
The beauty of old china is often de
stroyed by brown spots which appear
on the surface. An effective way to
remove these is to bury the dish in the
earth, covering It completely. The
darker spots require more time to re
move them than the lighter ones. This
method will not harm the most deli
cate china.—New York Telegram.
Universal.
“There is one thought which cornea
dally to every man.”
“What’s that?”
“That nothing is too good for him.”—
Chicago Record-Herald.
Either I will find a way or I will
make one.—Sir Philip Sidney.
