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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1905)
&&xamzmsizxmitmunttitjxzzzz. ssaiMssantaa i Hi" r W 1 t......?4.4.v ""a,J' "1 W't rcucoti Hnttvllle's uny k 'w ivfF "l'J " Him juiiiiu inline riiu $; t"M"t"t"H" H'HH''M't''f ! yours lie's lio'n here. Well. It's n gootl TT " .PA Tr lul,,h " Ut'l I KUUHS II Hill I U.MIVI ,v2y 7P 4. W - -- . ff ly lilgli llfo for lilm." lie klcki'il a Htlck "? CD f? Jf6flT6fTlCltl ?2 out of Ms w,,y luiimtloiitly. "Now. "2f rr vmr w w m0 wwwww w, j . x Wlure.d U)U ,, ru (or ,le gnni. .i. - ?r From Indiana "By Booth Tatikmgtom 4 Copyright, 1899, by Doubleday L McCturt Co. Copyright, 1902. by MeCtar. ThiUlpj I W Waft i,i.a4,!44't!'S'4!',I','2,!'i''4',t''4,,i't44'4',4''3!,'i''t,4't'1 ai ijiiiftftiwitMya(ifcwiHwt!ibwi&t: ' 32 Co. f "Thnt wns Hob Sklllelt. tlio woihI of the lot," wilil the Judge. "Hutkloss sunt Ills tmii iiml one hrothi'i to prison, mill It Hourly broke Ills hoitrl Hint lie couldn't Hwenr to Hob." When tlic.v wore beyond the vlllngo and In the oicn ioikI iikhIii Miss .Slier wood took a deep breath. "I think 1 breathe more freely. That was a hid t'OUB lutili lie sent after us." The Judge glitueed at hit quest's face nnd chuckled. "I guess we won't frighten you much,'' he said. "Young ludy, I don't believe you'd be afraid of many things, would you 7 You don't look like It. Health's, the Crossroads Isn't riattvllle, and the White Caps have been too seared to do anything much except try to get even with the Herald Tor the last two years ever plnce it went for them. They're lay ing for llarkless partly for revenge and partly because they daren't do any thing tint 11 lie's,out of the way." ave a low cry with a sharp The girl Intake of breath. "Ah, one grows tired of this everlasting American patience! Why don't the I'lattvllle people do Bomethlng before they" "It's Just as I say," Hrlseoe answer ed. "Our folks are sort of used to thorn. I c.pcct we do about all we can. The boys look after him nights.. but the main trouble is that we can't make him understand he ought to be more afraid of them. If he'd lived here nil his life lie would be. If they get lilin there'll he trouble of an Illegal na ture." lie broke off suddenly and nod ded to a little old man In a buck board turning oil' from the road into a l'urni lane which led up to a trim cot tage with a honeysuckle vine by the door. "That's .Mrs. Whitby's husband." wild the Judge In an undertone. Miss Sherwood observed that Mrs. Wlmby's husband was renin rka hie for tho exceeding plalntlveness of bis ex pression. He was a weazened, blank, pah! eyed little man. with a thin white mist of neck whisker, and he was 'dressed In clothes much too large for him. No more inoffensive llgure than this feeble little old man could be im agined, yet his was the distinction of having received a hostile visit from his neighbors of the Crossroads. A vaga bonding tinker, be had married the one respectable person of the section, a widow, who bail refused several gen tlemen at the Crossroads, and so com plete was the bridegroom's Insignifi cance that to all the world his own name was lost. The bride continued to be known by her former name as "Mrs. "Whitby." and her spouse was usually called "WIdder Woman Wlmby's hus band" or "Mr. Whitby." The bride sup piled bis wardrobe with the garments of her former husband, and. alleging this proceeding as the cause of their anger, the White Caps broke Into the farmhouse one night, tore the old man from bis bed and before bis wife's eyes lashed hlui with sapling shoots till he was near to death. A little yellow cur that had followed his master on his wanderings was found licking the old man's wounds, and they deluged the dog with kerosene and then threw the poor animal upon a boullre they bad marie and danced around hi heartiest enjoyment. The man recovered, but that was no pnlllatloti of the offense to the mind of it hot eyed young man front the east who was besieging the county authori ties for redress and writing brimstone and saltpeter for his paper. The pow ers of the county proving either lack adaisical or timorous, he appealed to those of the state, and he went every night to sleep at a farmhouse the own er of which had received a warning from the White Caps, and one night It befell that he was rewarded, for the raklers attempted an entrance, lie and the farmer and the farmer's sons beat off the marauders and did a satisfacto ry amount of damage hi return. Two of the White Caps they captured and homid, and others they recognized. Then the state authorities hearkened to the voice of the Herald and Its owner. There were arrests, and lit the course of time there was a trial. Every pris oner proved an alibi could have proved n dozen but the. editor of the Herald, nfter virtually conducting the prosecu tion, went upon the stand and swore to man after man. Eight men went to the penitentiary on ids evidence, live of them for twenty years. The I'latt vllle brass band serenaded the editor of the Herald again. There w.ere no more raids, and the Hl.x Crossroads men who were left kept to their hovels, appalled and shaken, lint as time went by and left them un molested they recovered a measure of their, hardiness and began to think on A4,4,&JUAA: warnings lit a column which he headed "Humor of the Day." When tho Hrlseoe huckboard had left the Crossroads far behind and had come hi sight of I'lattvllle Mr. I'.ris coe's visitor turned to, Klsbee with a repetition of the shiver that the laugh ter of Mr. Sklllett had caused her and said half under her breath, "I wish I half wish that we had not driven through there." She clasped Mr. IIs bee's hand gently. Ills eyes shone. He touched her lingers with a strange, shy reverence. "You will meet him tomorrow," he aid softly. She laughed and pressed his hand. "I'm afraid not. I was almost at bis Bide last night when Minnie asked hint to call on me. He wasn't even Inter ested enough to look at me." Something over two hours later, as Mr. Tom Martin was putting things to rights In his domain, the Dry tJoods Emporium, previous to his departure for the evening's gossip and checkers nt the drug store, he stumbled over something soft lying on the tloor be hind a counter. The thing rose and would have evaded him, but he put out bis hands and pinioned It and dragged it to the show window, where the light of the fading day defined Ids capture. The capture shrieked and squirmed nnd fought earnestly. Grasped by the shoulder, he held n lean, tierce eyed, undersized girl of fourteen clad in one ragged cotton garment, unless the coat of dust she wore over all might be es teemed another. Her cheeks were sal low, and her brow was already shrewd ly lined, and her eyes were as hypo critical as they were savage. She was very thin and little, but old Tout's brown face grew a shade nearer white when the light fell upon her. "You're no IMnttvlUu girl," he said sharply. "You lie!" cried the child. "You lie! I nut! You leave me go. will you? I'm looklu' fer pap, and you're a liar!" "You crawled in here to sleep after your seven mile walk, didn't you?" Martin went on. "You're a liar!" she screamed. "Look here," said Martin slowly, "you go back to Six Crossroads and tell your folks that If anything happens to a hair of Mr. llarkless' head every shanty hi your town will burn, and your grandfather, and your father, and your uncles, ami your brothers, and your cousins, and your second cousins. and your third cousins will never have the good luck to see the penitentiary. Reckon you can remember that mes sage? Hut before I let you go to enrry it I guess you might as well hand out tho paper they sent you over here with." His prisoner fell Into a paroxysm of rage. "I'll git pap to kill ye!" she shrieked, striking at him. "I don't know nothln' 'bout yer Six Crossroads, iter no pa pers, ner yer Mr. Harkels neither, tier you, ye razorbacked ole devil. Pap 'II kill ye! Leave mo go! Leave me go! I'ap 'II kill ye! I'll git him to kill ye!" Suddenly Iter struggles ceas ed, her eyes closed, her tense little mus cles relaxed, and she drooped toward tho tloor. The old man shifted his grip to support Iter, and lit an instant she twisted out of his hands and sprang out of reach, her eyes shining with tri umph and venom. "Yahay. Mr. Itazorbnck!" she shrill ed. "How's that fer high? Pap Ml kill ye Sunday! Ye'll bo scroechln' in hell in a week, an' we 'nil set up an' drink our applejack an' laff!" Martin pursued her lumberlngly, but she was agile as a monkey and ran dodging up and down the counters and mocked him, singing, "(Smii'mammy, Tipsy Too." At last she tired of the game and darted out of the door, fling ing back a hoarse laugh at hint as she went. He followed, hut when he reach ed the street she was a mere shadow flitting under the courthouse trees. He looked after her forebodingly, then turned his eyes toward the l'alace ho tel on the corner. The editor of the Herald was seated under the wooden awning, with his chair tilled back ngalnst a post, gazing dreamily at the murky red afterglow In the west. "What's the use of tryln' to bother him with It?" old Tom asked himself. "Hold only laugh." no noted that young William Todd, tho drug, hook and wall paper clerk, sat near the ed itor, whittling absently. Martin chuc kled. "William's turn tonight," ho murmured. "Well, the boys Ml take care of him." Ho locked the doors o'f the Emporium, tried them and dropped the keys in his pocket. As he crossed tho square to the drug hied. The Imp was lying under the court house steps. When the sound of Mar tin's footsteps had passed away she crept cautiously from her hiding place pud stole through the ungrooined grass to the fence opposite the hotel. Here she stretched herself flat In the weeds nnd took from the tangled masses of her hair, where It was tied with a string, a rolled up, crumpled slip of greasy paper. With this In her lingers she lay peering under the fence, her fierce eyes fixed unwhtkhigly on the editor of the Herald. The street ran Hut and gray in the slowly gathering dusk straight to the western horizon, where the sunset em bers were strewn in long, glowing, dark red streaks. The maple trees were clean cut silhouettes against the pale rose and pearl tints of the sky above, nnd a tenderness seemed to shimmer In the air. The editor often vowed to him self he would watch no more sunsets in Plnttvillo. He thought they were making him morbid. Could he have shared them It would have been dif ferent. Ills long, melancholy face grew lon ger and more melancholy In the twi light, wlille William Todd patiently whittled near by. Plattvllle Jiad often i,uuiai(UauuuU(Uuu4iU(U(U(ka(Ua(ia,uwuU(U4(aiVakU(vi(ivuaU(Ui(vtoa(ii- 5 AY, HISTER! Do you know that It will pay YOU, as woll as US, to buy your Building Ma terial and Ooul ut our yards? Not only that our prices avlraok lower, or at least us low, as those of our competit ors, but iieoause wo tnlco espnuial caro of and protect all can bo classed as R 13 (i U Ij A It C U S T O M E Ii S . PL ATT FREES CO. Coal. Lumber. iififMHiififitkifiimififiifli(f iqwivwWP'PWPWIiWTMfiWH'TiWQWPHWWfi'flWf TRADERS LUMBER CO. DEALERS IN Lumber and Coal, BUILDING MATERIAL, ETC. Red Cloud, - Nebraska. ' II I I :,"iii, J lia.'TJ tll-3 S- "-g5- BEST 15c MEAL IN THE CITY Oysters in Any Style H ALB'S R.ESTAUR.ANT Damcrcll Block. THE FARMERS 'l(Vi,' ON THB Homestead LANDS Of Western Canada carry tho banner (or yields of wlwnt and other grains forlOW. 70,000 FARMERS receive 555,000,000 as a result of tliclr Wheat Crop alone, or on average of $800 foreach farmer. Tho returns from Oats, llnrley anil other crains, as well as cat tle anil horses, ndd considerably to this. Secure a "I'll ijlt up to kill ye I" edscussed the editor's habit or silence, and possibly the reason Mr. llarkless was such a quiet man was that there was nobody for him to talk to; but his hearers did not agree, for the popula tion of Carlow county was a thing of pride, being Kn?pt" thau that of sev eral bordering counties. A bent figure came slowly down the street, nnd William Todd hailed It Cheerfully. "Evening, Mr. Flsbee." "A good evening, Mr. Todd," an swered the old man, pausing. "Ah, Mr. llarkless, I was looking for you." He bad not seemed to be looking for any thing beyond the boundaries of his own dreams, but he approached llarkless, vugglng nervously at some papers in ills pocket. "I have completed my notes for our Saturday edition. It was quite easy, sir. There is much doing." "Thnnk you. Mr. Flsbee." said llark less as he took the manuscript. "Have you finished your paper on the earlier Christian symbolism? I hope the Her ald may have the honor of printing It." This was a form they used. t " "I shall be the recipient' of honor, sir," returned I'Jsbee. "Your kind offer will speed iny work; but I fear. Mr. llarkless. 1 very much fear, that your kindness alone prompts It, for, deeply ns I desire It. I ennnot truthfully say that my essays appear to increase our circulation." He made an odd, trou bled gesture ns he went on: "They do not seem to read them here, although Mr. Martin assures me that he care fully reperuses my article on Chnldean decoration whenever he rearranges his exhibition windows." Ho plodded on a few paces, then turned Irresolutely. "What is It, Klsbee?" asked llarkless. Flsbee stood for a moment as though about to speak; then ho smiled faintly, shook his head and went his way. Harkless waved his baud to hint in farewell and, drawing a pencil and a pad front IiIh pocket, proceeded to In jure his eyes In the waning twilight by the editorial perusal of the Items his staff had Just left in his hands. He glnnced over them meditatively, mak ing alterations here and there. The last one Flsbee had written as follows: Miss Sherwood of Rouen, whom Miss BrlRcoo knew nt tho Misses Jennings' fin ishing Behool In New York. Is a guest of Judge Hrlseoe s household. (To bo Continued.) r Homestead at once, or purchase from sotno reliable dealer while lands nro .selling nt present low prlccH. Apply forlnformatlon to Super intendent of Immigration, Otta wa, Canada, or to W. V. BENNETT, Ml New York Life illdf., Omaha. Nek. , Mention this pujier. OYSTERS IN EVERY STYLE ISc Meals, Lunches and Short Orders v. Candles, Nuts, Pies, Cakes, Fresh Bread. The Bon Ton W. S. BBNSE. Proprietor. CATARRH Mtil. m Sffiftuf &?$ &ADJ HilMW TlM TABLE' iBflUl Red Cloud. Neb. LINCOLN DENVEH OMAHA HELENA CHI GAG O DUT'lE 31. JOE SAL! LAKE C't KANSAS CITY PORTLAND SI. LOUIS and SAX FRAXCISCO all points east and and all point south. west. b 'iot WfmWywS sj so rtf W3 SOK -Xsy THAINB LKAVE AS rOLI.OWS! No, 13. PatiReiiRer dally for Obcrlln and St. Francis branches Ox ford. McCook. Deuverand all points west 7 -05 a.m. No, 14. Passenger dally for St. Joe, Krjishs City, Atchison. St. Louis. Lincoln via Wymote and all points east and Houth 2-tO a.m No 15. I'assouRer. dRlly, Denver, all points In Colorado, Utah and . California 8:0:. p.m. No. W. Passenger. dally for St. Joe, Kansas City. Atchison, St. Louis and all polntB enst and south 10:35 a.m. No. 174. Accommodation. Monday, Wednesday nnd Friday, Hast- . lugs, Grand Island, black Hills and all points In tho northwest . 1 ;so p.m. Sleeping, dining, and reclining chair oars. ( scats free) on through trains. Tickets sold and baggage checked to any point In tho United States or Canada. Forlnformatlon. time tables, maps or tickets call on or address A. Conovor. Agent. Ked Cloud, Nebr. or L. V. Wakelcy. Otuoral Pas- H4UKei Anent Omaha. Nobras fYORic What they should do' to the man who store, where his cronies awaited him. hud brought misfortune and terror up- uc turned again to look at tho llgure of on them. For a long time he had been tno n,iislng Journalist. 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