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»w»i i C J CHAPTER XV.—fCoNTiNC*D). "Of course I do. I'm naturally of a benevolent disposition. I remember once I gave a little beggar girl a quarter of a mince pie, and then made cook give tne a half one instead. That was to pay me for my generosity, you know. Come, take bold of my hand.” "Thank you. I do not need your help,” he answered, coldly. "If you can speak thus to me after the danger I have been In—’’ "Yes, It was awful!” she exclaimed with a mocking shudder, "dreadful! There the wounded hero lay panting and exhausted in the middle of a trout brook, with his exhausted steed eating gray birches on the other side—” "M.ss Fulton, yon are impertl''~t!” cried St. Cyril, making his way lu the shoro, "impertinent and unkind. If I have njct with an accident—” -Ofi, I do hope you haven’t spoilt your patent leathers!" cried Helen, in a tone of great anxiety, "I should be positively 1? distressed to think of it! They had ^ such sweetly pointed toes, and such charming heels! Why, bless me if the man hasn’t taken off and left me alone In my glory! Didn’t I touch his fine old English blood, though?” and Heleh rode leisurely toward the Rock, singing snatches of merry songs, and snipping off the young buds from the buBhes as she passed. As ■ for Guy 8t. Cyril, he went home In a rage. He had never ioved before, and now to bo treated in this way by a mere girl was a little too much. He determined to leave the Rock the very next day, and forget that Helen Fulton bad pver existed. He hated her, he said, fiercely; to be sure he did! The little minx! And halt an hour later the little minx found him sltttng very forlornly but on*the cliffs, looking at the sea. She stole dfe to him. "Are you expecting your ship to come from over the sea?" she asked, archly. "I am expecting nothing, Miss Ful ton.” ■ “Oh, indeed!, What a nice, reason able young man. You quite remind me of my grandfather.” * ’tf presume It is of little consequence of whom I remind you. MIsb Fulton, ^pfce 1 leave here to-morrow." "You do? Well of all thlngBl How we^'shall miss you! Who’ll bring me flowers to put on Quito now, I won ?” ' ’Hie had grown very red and angry; he roes up quickly to leave her. Helen |n|t her hand on his arm and looked in(o hia face. ,• ------ - - “Mr. St. Cyril, 1 am sorry I am im pertinent this morning, and won’t you please not to go away?’|| 1 He was conquered at once, his face softened, he caught her hand to his Ups, hut she slipped It away, and darted off ttPthe house. CHAPTER XVI. ONES WENT down to the Jail frequently to visit Lynde Graham. Her brother knew It, and offered no ob jections. The poor girl bore such evi dent marks of sor row that he could not And It in hts heart to say any thin j that would make her more wretched. And she seemed to derive seme little comfort from these visits, <sad as they were. She and Ly*nde un derstood each other now. No word of I<nre had ever been spoken between ithem, but she knew that he loved her. i One day Helen Insisted on accom panying her to the prison. Agnes waB .hardly willing, but Helen would not be denied, and the two girls went in to gether. t After a little desultory conversation /between Lynde and Agnes, Helen, who had been busily engaged in looking <about the cell, came and stood before Dr. Graham. "Well," she said deliberately, “did you murder Marina Trenholme?” ■ "No, I did not,” he replied. | "Then who did?” . Hei colored scarlet and evinced more confusion than Agnes had ever before ^teen him do. .< . . . i "How should I know?” m “Because I think you do.” answered (Helen, promptly. “I’ve always thought ' ;ymi knew who did the deed, but I’ve hem thought you did It yourself.” ■ ' “Thank you for your good opinion.” " ■'"Ahd that means you won’t tell me.” ' "There is no.hlng to tell.” • » 4"Ah! it Is breaking one of the ten ' .Commandments to lie, Mr. Lynde Gra f^ham.’* "T try to be resigned, Miss Fulton,” he said, gravely, “if It Is God’s will that 1 Wall die—" /... “But It was never God’s will that at Jtpnqcent man should be hung while the real criminal goes at large 1” she an jjfswered, excitedly; “and to think yoi gf/^n'gbt save yourself if you would!” ■ i$i v'*?--' ;• • .* • ‘ • ‘ . . "Let us drop the subject. It you please.” “And what If I don’t please? It’s no use to deny that you know who did this murder! I can read It In your eyes. If you did not sec the deed committed, you are morally certain whose hands are stained with blood! But If you pre fer to die rather than speak out, we must let you have your own way; only I do hope you’ll not feel too much dis appointment if before the twenty-fifth of June, the day your reprieve expires4 the real murderer should be discov ered!” He started up, pale and distraught, ; and laid a nervous hand on her arm. J “Miss Fulton!” he exclaimed, “what | do you know? What—” j “I know nothing,” she said, button [ ing her gloves coolly. “I’m going away now. This cell would give me the rheumatism in an hour more. I wish you good-by, Dr. Graham. Come Aggie, dear.” Agnes had been greatly pained by the turn Helen had given to the conversa tion, but she knew the girl’s warm heart too well to think for a moment that she had designed to be unfeeling. That evening after they had gone to the little parlor they had In common, and Agnes had seated herself, looking so pale, and worn, and distressed, Helen sat down on a low stool at her feet and folded her arms over her lap. "Agnes, dear,” she said, coaxlngly, “if I were you l wouldn’t fret about that Lynde Graham.” Agnes burst into tears. “O Helen! Only two little weeks more, and ho Is to die! When I think of it, it seems as if I shall go mad!” Helen rose and stood behind her chair, holding the wet face to her bosom, and smoothing tenderly the soft hair. "I beg- to differ from you, Agnes, on that point. I do not think Dr. Graham will die on the 25th of June unless he eats cucumbers and catches the cholera.” "O Helen, Helen! how can you joke so dreadfully.? Only think If you were Just In my place!” “I would not like It. I’ve no taste for melancholy. I don’t like to cry. It makes my nose red, and swells my eye lids.” A few days afterward Helen was out in the garden looking at the syringas which were just bursting Into flower. She stood a little in the shadow, and Imogene Trenholme passing hurriedly down the path did not perceive her. Something In the expression of Mrs. Trenholme’s face struck the girl, and She followed cautiously along, In the shade of the shrubbery. At the ex tremity of the garden there was a great oak, and in It a hollow scooped out by the hand of decay. Imogene looked scarchlngly around her, then drawing from her bosom a folded paper, she dropped It into the hollow, and hastily retraced her steps. £ "Now, young lady,” said Helen to her self, “It’s your duty to see to this post office that is established without the sanction of your Uncle Samuel.” And going to the tree she withdrew the paper. It was not sealed and was mere ly a slip bearing these words: “In the Haunted Chamber, at Eleven To-night.” "So ho: mused Helen. "It’s an ap pointment with the ghost, by all that’s good and bad! Well, I never! If It was a gentleman ghost I should suspect Mrs. Imogene of infidelity. But there's some thing behind this, Helen Fulton, and it's your duty to watch till you Bee it.' You’re kept here at this house for Heaven only knows what, but you’d better not be caught napping. And you must not go into the house until you see who takes this precious bit of paper, will you?” She refolded tha paper and returned it to the hollow. Then wrapping her shawl around her, she crouched down behind some tall lilac bushes and wait ed. Twilight had already fallen, and it was soon quite dark. A stealthy foot step crunched the gravel. Helen peeped through the leaves, and saw a man re move the paper, and conceal it in his bosom. She caught her breath quickly. “It is Just as I thought!” she said. “The man with two fingers missing from the right hand. I think, to speak slang, which, as nobody is hearing me, will bo perfectly proper, I think I smell a mice. At eleven o’clock to-night. I shall be there.” And gathering a handful of blossoms to excuse her absence Helen hurried into the house. CHAPTER XVII. RECISEL.Y AT 10 o’clock Helen Pul ton stood at the door of the haunted chamber. The door was locked, but the key was on the out side. The girl en tered, shut the door, without locking it, and put the key in her pocket. Her pretty face wore a look of care that did not alone there. She was a shade palet than usual, and thestern lires about her mouth looked as If she had made up her mind to do a desperate thing. She put a small wrltlng-deBk on a shelf in the closet, and after satisfying herself that there was no one in the room, she took from her dress the pistol with which Mr. Tronbolme T:nfT inlended to shoot Quito, and examined it carefully. Theu she put out the candle she had brought with her, and concealed herself behind the bed-curtains. How .'ong the time seemed until the clock in the hall chimed eleven! Every thing was still. Tiie family had retired early, out of courtesy to a gentleman who was Journeying to the East—a friend of Ralph—and who was fatigued with traveling. By-and-bv Helen heard the handle of the door turn. Then a light burst through the darkness, and peering through the folds of the cur tain, the adventurous girl saw that the ! intruder was Imogene Trenholme. She J was very pa'e. and there were great i dark circles around her eyes—those ! fearfully brilliant eyes, that glittered | with an almost supernatural lustre. She stood in an expectant attitude— her eyes fixed on the east wdndow. And directly there was a rustling among the vine leaves outside, the window was softly raised, and a man entered. "You are punctual,” he said, in alow, hoarse voice. “I am glad to find you so.” “Yes, I am punctual, but 1 have only three hundred dollars.” "Only three hundred! I told you I must have five hundred!” “I know it, but this was the best I could do!” "But I cannot do with less than five hundred!” he said, fiercely. “You’ll ■ have to do a little different, madam, or you'll get shown up in a way you won’t like!” "Have a little mercy!” she said, pite ously. Heaven knows I have resorted to every means in my power to keep you supplied. I have not bought a new thing for more than a year!” “So much the better! Women do not need the gimeracks with which they have a fancy for adorning themselves. Two hundred lacking! By heaven! I’ve a great mind to peach and have done with it!” "Don’t talk so!” she cried, seizing his arm. “You frighten me! I have suf fered fearfully! My punishment is greater than I can bear! There are times when it seems as if I must tell the whole, or go mad!” i (TO HE CONTINUED.) FULMINATE OF MERCURY. I The Powerful Explosive Used In the ltomb Made by the Anarchists. Fulminate of mercury, which is used by European anarchlsits in the manu facture of their bombs, is one of the most treacherous and powerful explo sives known to science, says the New York World. Heretofore it has been employed in percussion caps and as a detqpator for nitro-glycerin prepara tions. It explodes when subjected to a slight shock or to heat and not a few ex pert cheraisits since its English inven tor, Howard, have been seriously in jured or killed while preparing or ex perimenting with it. In France some years ago the cele brated chemist, Barruel, Was manipu lating this dangerous product in a heavy agate mortar when his atten tion was suddenly distracted and he let the pestle down with a little less care than ordinary. The explosion which followed literally blew the mortar to dust, and it tore Barruel's hand from his wrist. Another distinguished chemist, Belot, was blinded and had both hands torn off while experiment ing with fulminate of mercury. Jus tin Leroy, a French expert in the manu facture of explosives was one day en gaged in experimenting with this com pound in a damp state, in which condi tion it was supposed to be harmless. It exploded with such force, however, that nothing of Mr. Leroy that was recoguizable could afterward be found. An English chemist named Hennell, while manufacturing a shell for mili tary use, into the composition of which fulminate of mercury entered, was also blown literally to atoms, and the frag ments of the building where he was conducting his experiments were scat tered for hundreds of feet In every direction. Ulrls Fined for a Kbs. A New York city dispatch says that, one night not long ago Cosias Drescler was out late. He decided to go home without an escort. He is good looking and well dressed, but so modest in his deportment that he thought if he' walked quickly he would be safe from molestation. At Allen and Rivington streets stood ^ four pretty girls. Wrap ping his coat around him he tried to hurry past without being noticed. "Ah, there!” said one of the girls. Drescler screamed and ran. The girls | gave chase and surrounded him. j “Ain’t he pretty?" said one. Then two of them deliberately kissed him. He struggled .and fought, but could not escape, and his silk bat was smashed. The unfortunate man yelled and a heartless police officer arrested the four beauties. "They’re what’s called the new wom en,” explained the officer to the judge, the next morning. "They stand on the corner and insult respectable men. We've had many complaints from mothers.” “What do you want me to do?” asked the magistrate, addressing the plaintiff. "Do you wish me to hold these prison ers to await the result of your inju ries?" Everyone roared with laughter. “No,” said Drescler, “what I’m after is protection. Just bocause I'm good looking I’m annoyed continually by pretty girls. I want an example made of these persons.” “It is certainly a fine state of affairs when a respectable young man cannot walk the streets of New York without being publicly kissed by a girl,” said the court. “To anyone who has sons of his own,” he added, “this case par ticularly appeals.” The girls denied their guilt with great efhphasis. The court believed the plaintiff and fined each of them $2. j GOT IT IN THE NECK. j OUR SHEEP DRIVEN TO DEMO CRATIC SLAUGHTER-HOUSE. American Farmers tost the Sales of 84,000,000 Founds of Wool Last Year Entire Clips of California and Texas Supplanted. // The excess of raw wool Imported in 1893 over the average importations of the years 1891, 1892, 1893, and 1894 was over 115,000,000. The increase in the importations of "manufactures of wool” in the first full year of the present law over the average of the years 1891,1892, 1893 and 1894 Is nearly $28,000,000, equivalent to nearly 84,000,000 pounds of raw un washed wool used in the construction of these goods. That is to say, the wool grower has lost the sale to Amer ican manufacturers of 84,000,000 pounds of wool heretofore sold to them by reason of the loss to the home manu facturer of about $28,000,000 worth of woolen goods, requiring in their pro duction 84,000,000 pounds of raw wool, previously manufactured here, but now manufactured in Europe and exported to America, a quantity greater than the entire annual unwashed clip of the states of California, Texas, Montana and Oregon. The feature, however, that is most striking and the one causing the most regret is the increase in the importa tions of shoddy, waste, rags, etc.. The increase in the importation of these wool adulterants in the year 1895 over the average of the four years of 1891, 1892,1893 and 1894 (all but four months or which were under the McKinley law) was over 19,000,000 pounds. This was almost as clean as scoured wool, and required in Its production over 58,000,000 pounds of unwashed fleeces, equal to the annual wool crops of Penn sylvania, Ohio, New York and Michi gan or the western wool growing states of Utah, California and Texas. The total increase of foreign raw wool imported in the raw state, In the shape of cloth, or In the form of waste, rags, etc., amounts to over 270,000,000 pounds, a quantity greater than the entire American wool clip shorn in the GOT IT IN THE NECK. Bummer of 1895. These figures are the result of the first full calendar year of the present law. What has been gained? A paltry Increase of $10,000 In the exports of woolens while our home mills have lost business represented by an Increase of $47,000,000 in imports of all sorts of “manufactures of wool.” —Justice, Bateman & Co. Shoddy Useless in Illlszards. As shoddy is made from framents of old cast off woolen clothing torn into fibers and respun into yarn it is evi dently not exactly the thing to protect Americans against western blizzards. —New oYrk Herald, November 9, 1892. “Not exactly,” Mr. Bennett. Why was it, then, that you clamored so per sistently for a tariff bill that increased our imports of rags and shoddy by upwards of 16,500,000 pounds in a single year of free trade in wool? Why is it that you continue so persistently to misrepresent the exact effect of the law you advocated, which increased our imports of shoddy by 400 per cent, within a single year. The Wilson bill “is evidently not exactly the thing” you thought it was. But your editorial writers continue to write falsely about it. They are nor honest enough to ac knowledge the truth. It is “not ex actly the thing” to print a lie, Mr. Ben nett, any more than it is to be par t.ceps criminis in the theft of a yacht ing report. But these are the methods of the “shoddy” journalism that you foist upon_the public. Repent and be nonest. * ~ While the lamp holds out to burn The vilest sinner may return. Pacific Coast Lumber Trouble*. Pacific coast lumber producers in 1892 thought they would “be benefited rather than hurt” by free lumber from i Canada. Now, in 1893, they have free ; lumber and thry don't like it. They j report that the sawmills of Oregon, I Washington and California can turn j out 1,200,000,000 feet of lumber a year, and that the off-coast cargoes demand is never over 400,000,000 feet a year. | The Victoria and Vancouver mills in Canada, can turn out from 200,000,000 to 300,000,000 feet a year, and under free trade in lumber they are enabled to add their capacity to that of the Oregon, Washington and California mills, making a total yearly capacity of 1,600,000,000 feet, against a total yearly demand of 400,000,000 feet! Great is free trade in lumber! That is what Oregon, Washington and California producers in 1892 thought f would not hurt their business. Well, where foresight is absent it is neces sary to learn by hindsight, however inconvenient, unsatisfactory and ex pensive it may be.—The Lumber World. Senator Mitchell** Figures. According to the official report of the comptroller’s office of the state of Texas the number of sheep in that state in 1893 was 3,366,257, valued at 84,776,848; while the number in 1895, the present year, is but 2,386,822, of the value of but ?2,442,162, or a falling off in number in the last two years of 979,435, and in value of 82,334,686. Ac cording to this same report the average price per pound of wool in the state of Texas in 1892 was 15.72 cents; while in 1893 the average price was but 9.82 cents; in 1894, 7.44 cents, and in 1895, 7.89 cents.—Hon. John H. Mitchell, U. S. Senator. Senator Warren'. Biblical Study. I If the McKinley bill of republican j fame was a “hoodoo,” your own Wil- ! son bill has certainly been a “Jonah,” and it seems to me a most conspicuous, indigestible, and soul-stirring Jonah at that. If I may be permitted to make comparisons, I believe that the Jonah of Biblical times was a sweet morsel in the bosom of that ancient and re spectable whale when compared with the nauseating, rantankerous Wilson bill in the distended stomach of the corpus delicti of democracy.—Hon. Francis E. Warren, U. S. Senator. A Deserted Democrat. A famine of statesmen.—N. Y. Even ing Pest.. Of course there’s “a famine of states •LFi'itr men” in the democratic ranks after the three years’ experience of democratic statesmanship since. 1893. What demo crat wants to shoulder such a load 'of responsibility? This “famine of states men” in its own ranks is the cause of the great democratic editorial interest in the ranks of republican statesmen. The one receiving the most abuse just now is Governor McKinley, and when ever democratic editors unite in attack ing any prominent republican it is sure proof that they dread his power and popularity. By Their “Fruits” Wa Know Them. The fruits of the democratic victory should be, and we believe will be. some thing more substantial and important than possession of the petty offices.— New York World, November, 20, 1892. When a $100,000,000 loan has been secretly sold at 104%, and a subsequent $100,000,000 loan has been openly sold at an average price of 111, it certainly does seem that “the fruits of the demo cratic victory” have been “something more substantial and important than possession of the petty offices.” The World evidently knew its party leaders. The Free-Trade Experiment. Imports of— 1894. 1895. Wool .$13,862,512 $33,770,159 Shoddy . 533,310 2,759,478 Woolen goods... 16,809,372 57,494,863 Totals .$31,205,194 $94,024,500 Free trade loss.$62,819,306 Speaker Keed on Frogreit*. In my judgment upon wages and the consequent distribution of consumable wealth is based all our hopes of the Balance sf Trade hi Favor nf the United. States future, and all the possible increase of our civilization. The progress of this nation is dependent upon the progress of all. This is no new thought with me. Our civilization is not the civili zation of Rome, a civilization of nobles and slaves, but a civilization which tends to destroy distinction of classes and to lift all to a common and higher level.—Hon. Thos. B. Reed. Mad* of European Bugs. With four exceptions, 1872.1873. 1883 and 1890, last year’s imports of for eign dress goods were the most valu able on record—to foreign manufac*. turers. WHERE DIO YOU GET THIS COFFEE! Had the Ladles’ Aid Society of oui Church out for tea, forty of them, and all pronounced the German Coffeeberry equal to Rio! Salzer’s catalogue tells you all about it! 35 packages Earliest vegetable seeds J1.00 post paid. If you will cut tills out nml send with 15c. stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., you will get free a package of above great coffee seed and our 148 page catalogue! Catalogue alone 5c. __ W.n. No Use for It. 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