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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1906)
J Kv seRiA 0s TORY MARCH OF THE WHITE GUARD 3F SIR GILBERT PARKER Copyi ljlit IXBt y 1 F rcnno Co CHAPTER IV Continued A tent was set up provisions were -put in it a spirit lamp and matches were added and the simple menage was complete Not quite Jaspar Hume looked round There was not a tree in sight He stooped and cut away a pole that was used for strengthening the runners of the sleds- fastened it firmly in the ground and tied to it a red woollen scarf which he had used for tightening his white blankets round him Then he -said Be sure and keep that flying men Jeff Hydes face was turned toward the north The blind mans instinct was coming to hiin Far off white eddying drifts were rising over long hillocks of snow When Jeff turned round again his face was slightly trou bled It grew more troubled then it brightened up again and he said to Jaspar Hume Captain would you leave that book with me till you come back that about infirmities dangers and necessities I knew a river boss who used to carry an old spelling book round with him for luck It had belonged to a schoolmaster who took him in and did for him when his father and mother went into Kingdom Come It seems to me as if that book of yours Captain would bring luck to this part of the White Guard that bein out at the heels like has to stay behind Jaspar Hume had borne the suffer ings of his life with courage he had led this terrible tramp with no tremor at his heart for himself he was seek ing to perform a perilous act without any inward shrinking but Jeffs re quest was the greatest trial of this momentous period in his life This book had not left his breast save when he slept for twenty years To give it up was like throwing open the doors of his nature to such weak nesses that assail and ronquer most men at some time or other hi their lives Jeff Hyde felt if he could not see the hesitation of his chief His rough but kind instincts told him something was wrong in his request and he has tened to add Beg your pardon sir it aint no matter I oughtnt to have asked you for it But its just like i me Ive been a chain on the leg of the White Guard this whole tramp The moment of hesitation had passed before Jeff Hyde had said half a dozen words and Jaspar Hume put ithe book in his hands with the words No Jeff Hyde take it It will bring lluck to the White Guard Put it where I have carried it and keep it safe until I come back Jeff Hyde placed the book in his sbosom but hearing a guttural Ugh behind him he turned round defiantly The Indian touched his arm and said Good Strong back book good Jeff was satisfied At this point they parted Jeff Hyde and Gaspe Toujours remaining and JJaspar Hume and his two followers going on toward Manitou Mountain There seenied little probability that iVarre Lepage would be found In their progress eastward and north iward they had covered wide areas of country dividing and meeting again aSter stated hours of travel but not ia sign had been seen neither cairn nor staff nor any mark of human pres ence Jaspar Hume had noticed Jeff Hydes face when it was turned to the eddy ing drifts of the north and he under stood what was in the experienced huntsmans mind He knew that se vere weather was before them and that the greatest difficulty of the jour ney was to be encountered Yet somehow the fear that possessed him when the book was taken from his breast had left him and he reaped in hfs act of self sacrifice a larger courage and rarer strength than that which had heretofore stayed him on this cheerless journey That night they saw Manitou Moun tain cold colossal harshly calm and jointly with that sight there arose a shrieking biting fearful north wind It blew upon them in cruel menace of conquest in piercing inclemency It struck a freezing terror to their hearts and grew in violent attack un til as if repenting that it had fore gone its power to save the sun sud denly grew red and angry end spread out a shield of blood along the bas tions of the west The wind shrunk hack and grew less murderous and ere the last red arrows shot up be hind the lonely western wall of white the three knew that the worst of the storm had passed and that death had drawn back for a time What Jaspar Hume thought we shall gather from his diary for ere he crawled in among the dogs and stretched himself out beside Jacques he wrote these words with aching fingers January 10th Camp 39 A bitter MARCH OF THE WHITE GUARD W35jeSr day We are facing three fears now the fate of those we left behind his fate and the going back We are thirty miles from Manitou Mountain If he is found I should not fear at all the return journey success gives hope We trust in God Another day passes and at night after a hard march they camp five miles from Manitou Mountain And not a sign But Jaspar Hume knows that there Is a faint chance of Varre Lepage being found at this mountain His iron frame has borne the hard ships of this journey well his val iant heart better But this night an unaccountable weakness possesses him Mind and body are on the verge of helplessness and faintness Jacques seems to understand that and when he is unhitched from the team of dogs now dwindled to seven he goes to his master and leaps upon his breast It was as if some instinct of sympathy of prescience was passing between the man and the dog Jaspar Hume bent his head down to Jacques for an instant and rubbed his side kindly then he said with a tired accent Its all right dog its all right Jaspar Hume did not sleep well at first that night but at length oblivion came He waked to feel Jacques tug ging at his blankets It was noon Late Carscallen and Cloud-in-the-Sky were still sleeping inanimate bundles among the dogs In an hour they were on their way again and toward sunset they had readied the foot of Manitou Mountain Abruptly from the plain rode this mighty mound blue and white upon a black base A few struggling pines grew near its foot defying latitude as the mountain it self defied the calculations of geogra phers and geologists A halt was called Late Carscallen and Cloud-in- in-the-Sky and the stalwart but emaci ated Indian who had beckoned to them speak to each other in the Chi nook language the jargon common to all Indians of the West Jaspar Hume saw a form reclining on a great bundle of pine branches and he knew what Rose Lepage had prayed for had come to pass By the flickering light of a handful of fire he saw Varre Lepage rather what was left of him a shadow of energy a heap of nerveless bones His eyes were shut but as Jaspar Hume with a quiver of memory and sympathy at his heart stoctd for an instant and looked at the man whom he had cher ished as a friend and found an enemy the pale lips of Varre Lepage moved and a weak voice said Who is there A friend A friend Come near me friend Jaspar Hume made a motion to Late Carscallen who was heating some liquor at the fire and he came near and stooped and lifted up the sick mans head and took his hand You have come to save me to save me said the weak voice again Yes I have come to save you This voice was strong and clear and true I seem to have heard your voice before somewhere before I seem to have But he had fainted Jaspar Hume poured a little liquor down the sick mans throat and Late Carscallen chafed the delicate hand delicate in health it was like that of a little child now When breath came again Jaspar Hume whispered to his helper Take Cloud-in-the-Sky and get wood bring fresh branches clear one of the sleds and we will You You Are Jaspar Hume the Sky looked at the chief His eyes were scanning the mountain closery Suddenly he paused Five hundred feet up there is a great round hole in the solid rock and jrom this hole there comes a feeble cloud of smoke Jaspar Humes hand points where his eyes are fixed The other two see Cloud-in-the-Sky gives a wild whoop such a whoop as only an Indian can give and from the mountain there comes a moment after a faint replica of the sound It is not an echo for there appears at the mouth of the cave an Indian who sees them and makes feeble signs for them to come In a few moments they are at the cave xVs Jaspar Hume enters Cloud- Medical Science Makes Light of Grand mothers Cures A distinguished inventor has applied for a patent for a very superior lini ment which he has compounded and wiiich he honestly believes did him good Many intelligent people think liniment should be applied to aches and bruises Modern doctors do not believe in it and oppose the authority of our grandmothers not only upon this point but upon a multitude of others with respect to sovereign remedies L K Hirshberg M D says in the cm rent American Magazine that saw dust poultices would cure boils bee stings and mumps as well as flaxseed or other poultices that sage saxifrage and beef tea never relieved a bodily disorder that mustard footbaths hot lemonade hot Scotches whisky and quinine and powders are all alike hope less for colds that faulty logic stops a nosebleed by pinching the patients upper lip and that boils will no more purify the blood than electric belts will ward off ghastly maladies A boil is an exaggerated pimple caused by the incursion of noxious cerms from without upon slight abra sions of the skin That is why men who wear stiff collars are more sub ject to this affliction than women The healing agent if any in poultices and in the various effusions of herbs and other concoctions for internal appli 1NSTALLMENT c start back with him in the early moan ing Late Carscallen looking at the skeleton-like figure said He will never get there Yes said Jaspar Hume he will get there But he is dying He goes with me to Fort Provi dence Ay to Providence he goes but not with you said Late Carscallen sadly but doggedly Anger flashed in Jaspar Humes eye but he said quietly I shall take him to his wife get the wood Car scallen TO BE CONTINUED O O cations is the hot water But colds must run their course and stop of themselves Hot water olive oil or Worcestershire sauce would do as well as any other preparation for bruises and stiff muscles it is the rubbing that heals not the liniment Porous plasters and other counter irritants are as a rule useless Nosebleeds rare ly last more than a few minutes Na ture aids quickly and the specific gets the credit Some very serious diseases such as pneumonia typhoid and consumption that used to be drugged in all mannner of ways are now let alone by the best practitioners after the patient has been made clean and comfortable while a greater percentage of cases than formerly make recoveries The crisis of a particular disease is not necessarily on an odd day as the third the seventh or the ninth Obesity is not caused by overmuch drinking of water or cured by its abstention Sleep ing after meals is not unheajthful Dyes in stockings are not poisonous and taking lime water will not cure warts Grandees of Spain Spain has 600000 titled persons or about one to every- 3S inhabitants Such titles are held of no esteem to the original peerage of the country however These original peers are known as grandees and Tform an aris tocracy entirely of birth some of them having no handle at all to their names yet they refuse to mix with even dukes of new creation Tvtr -1 Famous Nebraskan and Wife tti M I UHnBvVkLfimln IVJE1 IHVnw Krtt V m Recent Portrait of Man Who May Again Lead Democratic Hosts TO INCREASE OUTPUT COSTLY MINE IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED FOR KLONDIKE Indications Are That Dawson Will Be Center of Worlds Largest Gold Dredging Fields Value of This Years Product Dawson Yukon The gold output of of the Klondike for the season of 190G reaches the total of 5697942 This figure is based on the average valuation of 16 to the ounce By the Klondike is meant that asrea of placer producing streams within a ra dius of 50 miles of the city of Daw son The total output of the Klondike since the discovery of the camp in 1896 is 112786572 These figures are based on the collections by the Canadian gov ernment which controls all the big camp The figures are from the office of J T Lithgow comptroller of finances in the Yukon If anything the amounts here given are very conservative They are well under the mark particularly for the earlier years because it is believed that many then evaded the payment of the royalty exacted by the govern ment Now evasion is impossible be cause all dust attempted to be taken across the boundary before it has re ceived the stamp and certificate show ing that the royalty is paid is con fiscated The indication is that the output for the future will be greatly -increased as soon as the many big streams now be ing acquired by the Guggenheims of New York Sigmund Rothschilds and associates of Detroit Colonel Wil liams of Paris Tex and associates Dr A S Grant of Toronto and N A Attacked by Indians in Early Days They Buried the Treasure Topeka Kan We have heard of buried treasures but did you ever know of a case in which one was found Well Joe Prentice of Heb ron Neb formerly of Sabetha some time ago found a buried treasure Prentice formerly operated a hard ware store in Sabetha Prentice traded the store to John M Evans now a resident of Ohio and got among other things a farm near Heb ron Neb People laughed at Pren tice a good deal because of the farm That country was not considered much of a- farming country then When Prentice got hold of the farm Evans told him the following story A party of immigrants were traveling over the country in the early days to seek their fortunes in the far west One night near the present site of Hebron the party was attacked by El Paso Tex Some of the accounts of ostrich farming in this country have been so glowing that the reader was left much in doubt as to their accur acy The ostrich business is fairly prosperous especially in the Salt River valley Arizona where 1500 of the 2200 ostriches in the country are now owned This is a new line of animal industry for Americans and there is much to learn We have not thus far produced such fancy birds as have some of the more experienced breeders in South Africa but the size seems to be in creasing and the health ot the birds Is all that could be desired So far serious ostrich diseases have not trou bled the American raiser even the so called barring of the feathers has not been observed Ostriches need a hot dry climate such as is found in the southwest The rainy portion of the south is far less desirable al- Fuller of Michigan are fully equipped with dredges hydraulic and other means for working of low grade as well as high grade grounds at a profit The Guggenheims alone have se cured hundreds of claims and are spending millions in improvements in the Klondike It Is Believed that with all the improvements that these big companies will make a heavy pay roll will be maintained here every sum mer and that Dawson will always be an active mining town and the center of one of the largest hydraulic and dredging fields in the world MURDERER HAS PRIVATE JAIL His Precautions Will Cost Him Double Term of Imprisonment Rome A wealthy laud owner Rai mondo Pace was in 1898 condemned by the criminal courts of Roggia in Italy to ten years imprisonment for having murdered a servant of his Judgment was passed in default and it was surmised at the time- that the man had escaped to some distant land under an assumed name Quite recently the police heard that he was in Foggia and raided his house They were very much amused in finding him safely locked up in i cell which he had built for himself in the basement of his house One of his servants was paid by him to act as jailer and by order of his master supplied him once a day with bread and a jug of water During eight years Pace never stirred from his cell and he told the police that after completing the full term of ten years to which he was condemned he intended petitioning the king for a royal pardon As it is the unfor tunate man has to start his punish ment afresh and in the end will have served almost twice his time OOOSOSOOOSCQCCOSOQCOOGCOSOSOOOCCC06COOSCCCOSCCCOSC09 GOLD LEFT BY EMIGRANTS Indians A man named Wilcox or Wilson was wounded The Indians were routed The wounded man was taken to Fort Kearny and his brother was sent for When the brother ar rived the wounded man told him as nearly as possible where he had buried more than 2000 during the night of the Indian attack The wounded man died but the brother could not unearth the gold Later the land where the money was sup posed to be buried passed into the hands of Evans Evans tried but could not locate the gold Prentice paid no attention to the story Some time ago while he was grading down the road near his house he uncovered on a steep incline a rusty can such as tomatoes and apples are put up in Opening the can Prentice counted out 213650 in gold and silver In addition to this the farm which people joked Prentice so much about is now a very valuable property OSTRICH FARMS PROFITABLE Dry Climate of the Southwest Favor able to the Industry though this is sometimes mentioned as suitable for ostrich raising Alfulfn nactnro ic nlen occonfiil acre of alfalfa will carry four os triches and whicn is of far more importance will keep them in good health Our American ostriches are now worth 800 a pair at four years of age No one should imagine that os trich farming is a get-rich-quick scheme for the birds are not ready for mating until they become four vears old Their Lives Were Parallel Battle Creek Mich A remarkable parallel has come to light in the death of General William R Shafter and Thomas Ford a farmer of Lacey town ship They were born on the same day in Galesburg attended school to gether enlisted for service on the same day in the civil war were mus tered out on the same day died on the same day November 12 within a few hours of each other and were burled on the same day- and at the same hour i ILL BREED ZEEfflDS NEW YORKER TO EXPERIMENT ON A LARGE SCALE Financier Claims Cross Between Horso and Zebra Greatly Superior to Ani mal Now in Domestic Use His Purpose Explained New York From zebras which he has Imported at great expense Warner M Van Norden president of the Vnn Norden Trust company of this city entertains great hopes that the ze broid as the hybrid offspring of the horse and zebra is called will come toj be generally and favorably known In this country The zobroid explained Mr Van Norden the other day makes an ex cellent ail around animal for domes tic use and I hope to introduce it in this country It is already used in South Africa where it has given sat- isfaction I cannot say just how speedy the zebroid will be but those I shall raise will be from the finest stock especially suited for driving purposes These animals aro much more strong and vigorous than the horse and live about twice as long They will rank witli any of the horses in gener use to day and in value will range from S00 to 1000 They will bo very tough and able to endure twice the hardship the average horse can stand The parents perhaps of genera tions of American zebroids yet un- born are now contentedly munching hay in the barn at Mr Van Nordens country phfee at Rye N Y all un- conscious of the weight of the re sponsibility resting upon their care fully groomed backs In temporary quarters in one barn1 are three zebras said to be among the finest of their specios ever brought to this country One of them is de- clared to be a genunie Grevys zebra from Abyssinia and this animal alone is valued by Mr Van Norden at 5000i The othor two zebras belong to what is Known as the Bohimii class Two more equally as valuable as those now in Rye have been captured for Mr Van Norden and will be shipped to tills country early next spring These animals are about six years oldl and inasmuch as the life of the aver age zebra is about 50 years they are as yet mere babies and are full of more life and tricks than young colts So much for the zebra parents of the zebroids Their parents on the other side will range from a full blooded Arabian mare down to little burro jennies through a list of horse flesh including piebald hackney and mustang The zebroids will owe their appear ance in this country however not so much to Mr Van Nordens desire to raise them for themselves alone as to his determination to solve the problem of telegony He is determined to demonstrate whether it is real as breeders of blood stock assert or whether it Is a vagary of the breeders mind as scientists declare Explaining the ob ject of his undertaking Mr Van Norden said All breeders believe in telegony It has always been their claim that if a female animal is bred to one of a different species but of the same family and is afterward bred to one of her own species the second offspring will show resemblance to the first sire Opposed to the claim of the breeders is that of the scientists who say there Is no such thing as telegony aid that the breeders are mistaken in their diagnosis A man who stands near the head of the scientists in their contention that there is nothing in the breeders fear of telegony is Prof W Ewart of Edinburgh university and for years he has conducted experiments to sup port the correctness of his theories Prof Ewart is now experimenting with pigeons and rabbits He asserts that no one has ever gone into the subject of telegony in such a manner as clearly to demonstrate the truth or falsity of the many claims made concerning it The experiments of Prof Ewart and others have thrown some light on the subject but there is still much to be learned Pays for Hole in Carpet Jefferson City Mo The state su preme court affirmed the decision of the trial court in awarding Mrs Sallie Nephler of Kansas City- 5000 for injuries received in a fa caused by catching her foot in a hoie in a Kan sas City theater carpet The de cision says This is a somewhat un usual case A hole in a carpet is not ordinarily such a menace to either life or limb as would justify the court in assuming it to be dangerous to per sons passing over it- The question of whether it was in this instance of such character that the proprietors of the theater ought to have recognized it as a danger to their patrons and have guarded against it was a ques tion of fact for the jury Order Girls from Matrimonial Club Sterling 111 Please send us 20 marriageable girls from your club We can place them to their advan tage While these are not the exact words they express the spirit of a proposition received by the Girls Matrimonial club of Rock Falls from the Mens Want to Marry club of Net tinger Idaho The girls club was or ganized to vote on whom each mem ber should marry They maintain they did not form the club with a view to furnishing wives by the whole sale and to ship them out of the state Similar propositions have been re ceived from other western states al- though this is the first job lot order spnt to the club