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Show T I t i FIGHT FOR COUNTY SEAT. VVT O V" -- K4,TTTtTttttT d. JS. VTWVTVTV If a person should take a pencil and back In the In ginning of tinle west of tw a line from one corner of Knox the Missouri, a party of Mormons county, Nebraska, to the opposite cor- Journeyed up the Ilig Muddy on their ner, then draw another line connecting way to Utah. At the junction of the the other two corners, the lines will Niobrara and Missouri rivers they intersect on the farm of William f, camped for the winter. Traders were twelve miles from the nearest attracted and there was born the town When the railroad, aud on the border of the of' LEau Qul Court." Niobrara Indian reservation. On the county of Knox was carved out there morning of the fust day of April, ac- was no other town nearer than Omaha, cording to an order jo-- t Issued by the and the trading station under the new Wlsh-endof- Nebraska Supreme court, the county name of Niobrara became the county seat. Lattr the Elkliorn and the Omaha railroads were buMt into the county and the towns of Wausa, Bioohfieid, Verdigre aud Creighton appeared on the map. Twruiy juirs ago the county seat fishl that was continued constantly since that time has sent the ing In the ."ivt don of the broad prai- vuie;s to the polls in a score of special rie. The pah nit county seat is the elutions, and h;: cost the comity town of Xio'iuar.i, on the Missouri, Each town then tried to wrest the tl:- new center. eighteen ml!' s county capital from the river town, hut The board of p .visors has marked Niobrara alwavg won. her people s:iy a cross in a die y gridiron of lines, because it was the oldest town and officials of Knox county must open their offices eu tills fai m, where now there Is nothing to be seen on the site of the future town of Center but the sleepy old fn milieus" of the Wislieu-doff- s, and where the coiii ilicmse must stand pigs and are io-ilromp- .1 1 loe !" iestH .? I. &.. ttWtttt...H..!.1ll.tl. $ liy... Ss DAHXf-- MARSHALL M Copyright. l.y Only sUirv Vub.l.i.ir.g Percy Haddock sat lolled hack In a rocking chair, the blue smoke softly puffing and curling from the i:alf consumed cigarette, which he held iu bis hand. look of comfort pervaded the room and the fire threw a delicious crimson light until the air seemed an ethcreal-lzewine aud yet he thought lie was Irn-ii.iiahly unhappy, desperately and lie Two passions, mighty unhappy. said to hiniself, tugged at his heart, the love of his art and, of tumiv.'. the love of a woman. Ever dnee he could remember In bad purposed to become a great w nu i. lie had resolved to devote liii.cA-f- ci. tirdy to Hrt, ami allow nothing to interfere with this consecration. lit must observe aud know the pa I'ur.s. i but not foal them. To feel would be to he swayed from tl e attitude of Impartiality the artist must feel to depict life perfectly. Of course, so consecrated, he must not alius him self to become entangled in the meshes of love and matrimony. But things, as they have a provoking way of doing, were about to turn out differently from what he had proposed. He was about to be, or rather lie had been, swerved from this perfect calm essential to literary exactitude by Miss Kate Murchison. He felt humiliated at the thought that so slight a thing as a mere girl could swerve a man like himself from the plans of a life time. Had it beiu some unnoble ambition, some great ity like that of becoming a gnu statesman, whose plana could map of the world and alter of history, the liuiiii .i:n i i. would not have been so great, nor t lie wound to his vanity so profound. But alas! He was undeniably In love. In love, like any other ordinary mortal who had no dream of literary greatness and no higher concept inn of life than that of having a good lime. Not only was he, the seeker after literary Immortality, In love, but he had to acknowledge that he actually enJoyed the sensation and at tinu.-questioned whether he would derive greater delight from winning a kiss from the girl than he would from achieving applause from a sonnet. He knew this was & lapse from his higher nature, but he either could not or would not help It And yet he had been warned. Charlie Rawlins, his best friend, had aid to him, "Look here. Perse, you are putting in a lot of time with Kate Murchison, and the first thing you know it will be love and a cottage and to consecration to art and good-by- e the ideal. He replied, smiling ' rffWsiujsrior smile of the fatuous and complacent, "Dont concern yourself, I am simply studying das ewige wcihliche, and getting material for a masterpiece. "Ah, I see," said Charlie. You have revised Popes lines: Be woman's ways your study and dep.i-sim- (Vmpaay. her a rose, carelessly observing and enjoying its red crumpled petals, and the pm fume drifting from its amber heart. She pinned it under ner throat, uud as lie looked at It again a miracle seemoj to have I wrought. It was no longer a m- e hut some llower somehow fallen from the walls of paradise. Still he did realize lie was in love, but thought the she produced In him arose from some occult power Liiat wonnn possess, lint once, she went off on a thr. e visit to flic:. d.s in Laon Rouge. It seemed to - d nt t i r . him tl; rt - vea-.s- . Tlicii he mad' the g'vnt discovery. -t This ct did imt disconcert him. Hi at eiicc resolved to cast the p.i-- ! oof his heart. Hr world fee her no more. Though , he had bten veiy atirptive In he g-r- f- j -- lo-r- l.:i;i iif-v- r (pivssid anything deeper ilmn friendship, aud mi eon Id honor-id- . !y retreat. Ilow could lie di vote hh time to literature with a wife to care '. ; , t - had the largest grave yard on election It was pr.ipi.sed to cut the comiday. ty in two and make twy counties of it Then a plot was ori foot to deed the land on width Niobrara was situated to South Dakota. Finally it was proposed to send the county seat to tha geographical center of the county Three elections did so, and when carried through the courts the Supreme court sustained the elections. It Is expected the people of Knox county will Imitate the example Ret by that of Gregory county. South Dakota, when three towns were hitched to horses and literally pulled across the country to their newr locations. The traveler in Knox county between now and April 1 may expect to see buildings journeying down the roads to the new county Beat - Mrs. Langtry i in New Play. While London critics find nothing deserving of favorable comment In the new play, Mile. Mars, which Is based on the career of the noted French actress of Napoleon's time, the theater is filled nightly, according to London dispatches, liy women anxious to see the gorgeous cost "ini s worn by Mi. Iang-tr- y In the title role. The clothes and Jewelry used in tin- play are described as wonderful. 'and ifvp said to surpass any costun iug seen on the London stage. See light. her by day and dream of her by night, And then the sale of books that you may write Will simply he, my hoy, far out of - sight " Accordingly he pursued his studies very ardently and found them more and more pleasant as the days went by. He derived an added if ignoble Joy from the worry this course of study seemed to give one Howard Making Monaco Attractive With Jillsbury playing chess and operating his flying machine at Monte Carlo, there seems to be plenty of attractions at Monaco Santos-Duuio- s nt besides the regular game. ('old In the Hoad, An Austrian scientist haB discovered that a cold In the head is due to the bacillus, which he has called the catarrhalis. presence In the membrane of a special mico-coccu- Dia.z Successor Is Popular. Mill .1 "No," said want How One hard-worki- r. tln-in- . the girl, not if you don't THE TRAMP FRO PI Furiqr XV Keep from 111- EM. fury Wan-rirr- rn Cal-- . "I think 1 have solved the tramp problem in u perfectly way, said the New Jern y fi.rmcr as the snbji i t w.is under i. It did no good whatc-ieto pul i.p signs off, or to keep a bulldog warning tln-iat the gate. 1 tiled all th.it, arid last spring 1 made a i linage. I put up signs for three miles uiouii-Tramps l'leu'-- Call nt the H.iker Farm, and All Trumps Welcomed at Baker's, and the result is that not over three of them have called. Thu other day, tu show you how it works, a tramp came along and looked things over and said to tne: 'Any (om tuhles hidden in th barn?' "'Not a one, I replied. How many bulldogs you got? None at all. " 'Got a lot of spring guns or beu traps set about Hie place? "Nothing of the kind.' " 'Has a feller got to do a days work to get a meal? "No work at all. You come right In, and I will give you a square meal for nothing, and if you want to stay all night I'll give you the best bed In the house "He looked at me in a puzzled way for about a minute," continued the fanner, and then indulged in a wink and said: "You cant play that little gam on me, old man. This is my sixteenth year on the road But what game? I asked. Tutting poison In the milk and selling our cadavers to a medical college for 5 apiece. 0, no, Mr. Bakei not this eve!' "Baltimore Herald. snl.-fuctor- y di.-e- r l ica-ling- , e "But there won't be any next time. for? Women are such exacting, egotistic things, no artist could think of marrying one of them! It was not yet too late, lie would break off, and she might marry some man more foolish than he. Then he She thought of Howard Griggsby. might, she perhaps would marry Howard. He started uncomfortably at this thought. How could he boar to have her marry Howard? Howard had always gotten the things he desired and rather looked down on him with contempt. Suppose now he should heat Howard In the thing Howard most desired, who would have ground for then? Who could afford to be contemptuous? Can wc despise those who win what we most desire? Had he not better marry her after all, If he couhl. Literary fame ia sweet but distant, and love Is sweet and near. He did not know what to do. He puffed at liU cigarette, hut In it was neither solace nor Inspiration. lie flung it in the fire and strode over to the hook rase. He picked out a volume of Iirown'ug. and opened it at the poem, "Youth and Art." where the poet tells of the two who had achieved the fame as sculptor aud singer they desired, but at the price of their love and happiness. He read aud reread the stauza. "Each life's unfulfilled, you see: It hangs still, patchy and scrappy. They have not sighed deep, laughed free. Starved, feasted, despaired been happy." He threw down the book, chose another. It was Baudot's Femmes des Artlts." He read a while, drew a sigh of relief. Baudot was a sensible man, no love sick rhymer. He had lived in Paris, where if any where the artist can be known and studied. Each of these artists of whom the book told had married. Each of them had been unharpy, hindered In their artistic development by heir marriage. They had sold I heir birthright for a mess of pottage, nay, for the apples of Sodom which had turned to ashes on their ce liiw. No, he would he true to himself and Xotra. I'niqnt Marrl-igThe following curious marriage notice appeared the oilier clay in the Lon- He picked out a volume of Browning. don limes: "fin Tuesday, tlic lath Howard was a practical, lust., at Dottrsiii Id, Lincolnshire, John Griggsby. young lawyer, who had Kirk, an oecasinnal preacher ill the scoffed at Percy's literary prealways Methodist connection, to Susanna Seatensions, and who when they were ton of riurringham. mantiia-makcat school together had gi norally The patient bride lias kept company hoys won the gone near two years with a blacksmith of ne wasahead end about prizes while dreaming the same place and was actually pubIt was amazing to Perry how much lished with him in the church the very lovelier the world seemed to him when Sunday preceding her marriage, but Miss Murchison was with him. There for reasons best known to herself was something, lie thought, hvpnotie The report that President Diaz will eloped next day with the preacher; so bout hep presence. The sunlight ,rns resign in favor of Gen. Reyes, minister true It is that we know not what a never quite so golden ns when lashr., of war, Is greeted in Mexico with great day may bring forth." back from her hair. Once he had given It" SOLVED I satisfaction. It had been feared that the president would resign in favor of his son, who is not deemed competent to administer the affairs of the republic. It is felt by the conservatives that President Diaz is doing wisely in resigning to a man In whom lie has abundant confidence. since if he died In office tluue would lie long discussions which might even go as far as revolution. there?" will op-pu- labeled "Ceute., i'eb.," and stowed of the county reaway in the v:. corder, anil the i ss represents a corner of one of th? Wishcndoff pastures, which the supcrvhnis Lave bought for the site of the new county seat. The supervisors hive appropriated $1,500 for the building of a new courthouse, but an injunction lias been procured against their expending the money for this purpoi-pand when the county officials lock up their offices in Niobrara the evening of March 31 it will be with the piorpei-- of resuming business on "Fools' day In a pasture lot, with nothing but a fence to greet them. This remarkable order of the Supreme court is the outgrowth of the most unusual county seat fight In Nebraska, if not in all the West. Away '13 Perry did not wait for the closing of the sentence, but hurried on. It seem-- d to hiui Mise Kate would never coma down. When she did arrive, she excused her delay on the ground that fibs had JuAt returned from a ri.lc with Mr. Griggsby and had to change her costume. To her amazement, the usually languid and proper Percy strode across the room, took her hand, and said almost fiercely, "1 dont want you to ride with Howard any more." "What right have you, Mr. Haddock, to make such a demand?" the girl asked, hut not as Indignantly she felt she ought. "No right, no right, yet. sail he, hand hi Lire tb.- could kissing lo-withdraw it. "it is or.y a rcpu-KtDon't yu l know, can't you sec, I don't want yon to drive with, to le with anybody hut me forever." Hut," said the "Mr. Cirgshy has asked me io he his wife." to Percy turned pule. V:.--- . c her again tliwnit him? lie hand again, and said .it bluesly, "And what was jour answer?" "1 told him 1 would it next time." Percy looked in Ikt eyes, lie saw there a gleam he had ncvi-- su-- before. It was as if a win. low in heaven had been opemd. Then lie said very longingly and yet very triumphantly, "But there won't be any uet time, on tlm Cum. I)f ran across a county fair out In thp southwest last fall, said the traveler, "and was considerably int'. rested in a lmrse race in which there was a I big field. There were all sorts of horses, and it was owners to ride, and 1 had a seat in the judges stand. When the race was finally run, one particular horse came in lengths ahead, and another twenty rods behind. It was dead easy to make a decision, but the judges hesitated so long that I asked what was the matter. " Why, replied one, we are waiting to see if old Hill Harper, the one who came In last, has his guns along " But what difference does that make? 'A heap, my friend. If he hasn't got his guns along he's distanced ii this race, hut if he has then hes got to he declared the winner or some of us will get shot. Willy Snylng of Famous Men. King Henry VII. of England was to his art. Even Howard might marry one day much annoyed by a long speech delivered to him by a pompous her. As the mayor went on with And yet he must see her again. Just mayor. one sight of the bright hair, the dewy his speech an ass brayed. "Gentlered mouth, the rounded check, 'to light men," said the king, "pray speak one llin loveless years of his literary striv- at a time, please." The Btory must ing. He removed Lis smoking jacket, have been In the mind of the judge slammed the door and hurried towards who twitted Curran, the Irish orator. the Murchison residence. He was met Curran was addressing the court when and stopped by Charlie Rawlins, who the bray of an ass was heard outside said, Tieiiii, old hoy, which way are and the judge could not resist the you going?" temptation of saying: "Oue at a time. "To Hie Mm ch Isons," he replied. Mr. Curran, please. But the ass gave "TLafa right," diawled Charlie; Curran his chance. As the judge "make the must of your study of the summed up the bray was again heard eternal feminine while you can. How- and the great lawyer, jumping from ard Griggsby is goiug up there pretty his scat, asked the judge: "Does not regularly." your lordship hear a remarkable echo "What do you mean?" asked Perry. In the court? "I mean," said Charlie. Howard is The best wav to bring others to our likely to put an end to these studies, Ideals is to get there ourselves. ror a fellow isn't likely to want his wife to figure as literary material for The church founded from wrong another man. motives can never do right work. |