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Xcw WeefJij Tribune .... AND.... THE McCOOK TRIBUNE ONE YEAR t^Address all orders to THE McCOOK TRIBUNE. W. C. BULLARD & CO. • LIME, CEMENT, DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS. • LUMBER. HARD AND SOFT COAL. RED CEDAR. AND OAK POSTS. STU. J. WARREN, Manager, B. & M. Meat Market. MEATS, BACON, BOLOGNA, CHICKENS, TURKEYS, AC., Ac. ■ - 1 F. S. WILCOX, Prop. F. D. BURGESS, PLUMBER^STEAM FITTER NORTH MAIN AVE.. MeCOOK, NEB. Stock of Iron, Lead and Sewer Pipe, Brass Goods, Pumps, and Boiler Trimmings. Agent for Halliday, Eclipse and Waupun Wind Mills. CABLED FIELD and HOG FENCING, 24 inches to 58 inches high j the best alt-purpose fence made. Also STEEL WEB PICKET FENCE for yards and lawns, and STEEL WIRE FENCE BOARD and ORNAMENTAL STRIP for horses and cattle. The most complete line of wire fencing of any factory in the country. Write for circulars. DE KALB FENCE CO., De Kalb, III. UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1895, 25 CENTS. If yon are not already a JOURNAL subscriber that is all you will have to pay us for the journal from now until January 1, 1895, if you will at the same time pay a year's subscription in advance to the Tribune. The Semi-Weekly Journal is the greatest paper in the west, pub lished Tuesday and Friday, giving two complete papers each week, with markets and telegraphic news of the world. Send in your orders at ouce to the HPRIBUTSJB.. DO YOU REnD \ G The Leading Weekly in West ern Nebraska. $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. A SAMARITAN. BY SEWELL FORD. — [Copyright, 1883. AU rights reserved.] | T WAS Christ mas day. The unfortunates who were obliged to spend the day in the St. Julien hotel realized it painfully. They wished they could forget it, but they could not. v Not that the St. Julien. as a hotel, was not well managed a u d cheerful enough in its way, but who has ever passed a Christmas at a hotel and wished to try another one? Rooms No. 83 and No. 33 in the St. Julien were both occupied on this par ticular Christmas day. Both occupants were women. Both were young—that is, about 25. In No. 32 was Miss Estelle Fabayan, a soubrette filling an engagement at the Empire. It was just noon. Miss Fa bayan had evidently returned from an after breakfast walk, for she was stand ing in the sunlight at the window with her hat and street clothes on, idly tap ping her still gloved fingers on the sill as she looked out on the almost deserted sidewalk. In room No. 33 Miss Eleanor Carlysle was sitting at a table, her gold eye glasses poised airily on her tip tilted nose. She was looking over some pages of manuscript. Miss Carlysle had come on from Boston at the invitation of the Young Ladies’ Scientific Relief society. She was to read an essay that evening on “The Ethics of Charity.” She had been giving the finishing touches to the essay. Presently she put down the last sheet of the manuscript and walked to the window. The soubrette and the Boston essayist, unconscious of each other’s presence, were at that particular moment doing precisely the same thing. Each was looking langidly out of the window, and each was tapping the sill with her fin gers. Just then something occurred. A young woman who had come suddenly into view on the opposite side of the street from the St. Julien attracted the attention of the two young women at the hotel windows. She was glancing nervously behind her. As she broke into a run and dashed across the street the soubrette pressed her pretty nose to the pane to see where she went. So did the essayist. Neither of them saw, for a jutting cornice hid the sidewalk imme diately beneath. Miss Carlysle returned to her table and began to write a letter. Miss Fabayan had a different impulse. The sunlight had seemed so inviting that she determined to take another walk. She had just opened her door when some one rushing along the hall almost col lided with her. The person turned sharp ly and brushed past her into her room. Miss Fabayan saw at a glance that it was the young woman whom she had seen a minute before running across the street. “Well!"— began Miss Fabayan. “Oh, please don’t put me out! Please don’t! They’ll get me if you do, and I never did it! Please don’t!” The young woman had sunk on her knees on the carpet and was convulsive ly grasping Miss Fabayan’s hand. “Wewill see about that,” said the sou brette. “Now, who are you and what is the matter? Sit down and explain.” Instead of obeying the young woman threw herself on a sofa and cried hys terically for several minutes. Then she grew calmer and began to speak rapidly. “Oh, indeed I am not so bad as they say I am! I did not steal! It was the woman I met on the street. It must have been that one. But you don’t know —do you? I was drinking. Yes, I drink. When I came down to the city from Ver mont, I expected to do very differently from what I did. I thought it would be all pleasure and excitement. But it wasn’t. I found work. It was in a dressmaker’s shop. Some of the girls who worked there taught me to drink. They took me to their rooms, where they had wine and other drinks. After awhile I ac quired an appetite for it Last night 1 was drinking with them again. There was a strange Frenchwoman there, and she went with me, when we left, to my room. There we drank more, and when I woke up there was a man from the dressmaker’s, asking for a costly dress which 1 had taken home to finish in time for Christmas night. “1 could not find it in the room. He said he must have it, and that if 1 did not give it to him at once he should go I to the police. He saw that 1 had been | drinking, and he accused me of taking the dress to a pawnshop. He said I had . stolen it. But 1 didn’t. It must have been that Frenchwoman who was with ! me. 1 did not know when she went out. j But the police will not believe that. No one knew that the Frenchwoman went to my room with me, for it was late, j They will say I stole it myself, and they will put me in jail. If 1 could get away ' now, 1 would go back home. They would take me back there. I would not drink on the farm, and 1 would never come to the city again. I hate it. But if 1 am put in jail 1 never could go back i to the folks again. They would know \ about it, and there would be no place ! for me to go. Oh, you do not believe | that I stole the dress, do you? Tell me you believe what 1 say!” Miss Fabayan was biting her pretty | lips. Evidently she was undecided. Just then there was a sound of quick footsteps in the hall. The sounds came nearer. “They are coming! They are coming!” sobbed the girl wildly. | Miss Fabayan turned quickly to her. “Hush! If I can save you. will you go back to the farm and stay there?" “Oh, indeed, I will. I”- i “Get into that closet then—quick!" The girl ran to the closet and closed < the door just as a sharp rap was given on the door leading into the halL The hotel clerk and an officer stood in the hall. “Er—ah—Miss Fabayan—er—did you see a young woman pass down the hall?" asked the clerk. “1 did not.’’ “Did you—er—ah—is there anyone— ah" “Well?” demanded Miss Fabayan sharply. “That’s all. Excuse us,” stammerec the clerk. Then, turning to the officers he said, “She must have gone througl the other corridor." Miss Fabayan had but closed her doo. when there came a second rap. This time it was the essayist in No. 33. “I am Miss Carlysle,” said the essay ist. “I have the next room.” “Come in,” said Miss Fabayan. “I have heard all,” said Miss Carlysle after the door had been closed. “Well?” replied the soubrette icily. “I simply came to ask if you intend tc shield that female from the law?” “To what female do you refer?” “To the one in your closet.” Miss Fabayan walked to the closet door and opened it. "Come out, now,” she said kindly. Placing one arm around the unfortunate young woman, Miss Fa bayan looked calmly at the essayist and said, “I intend to give this young woman a chance if it lies within my power.” It was a singular group. Miss Car lysle stood with her back to the door, a haughty look on her face. Her cold gray eyes looked sternly through het glasses at the two young women in the center of the room. Miss Carlysle broke the silence. “Very well. If you cannot see what is your duty, I am fully alive to mine.” “You may do as you please,” hotly’re turned Miss Fabayan. Miss Carlysle set her thin lips firmly together and left the room. “Oh, where shall I go? What shall 1 do?” sobbed the strange young woman. “I must get away from here. They will arrest me now. That woman is going after the police.” “Stay where you are. It is useless to try to escape now,” replied Miss Fa bayan. They heard the door of No. 33 close. “She is going now,” sobbed the young woman. “Yes,” said Miss Fabayan. “She it going down to the office. She will send up a policeman. I have it! Here—quick! It may succeed!” Miss Fabayan had jumped to her feet again. Her eyes flashed with excite ment. She hastily opened her trunk and pulled out a wrapper. “Here, now, take off your hat, youi cloak, your dress! Put this on!” The young woman mechanically obeyed. “Now, listen," said Miss Fabayan. “They may send another officer. You are to stay here. I will go in your place. As soon as I am gone you take one of my dresses from that trunk. You will find a hat and a jacket. You will put them on, also a heavy veil. Here is some mon ey. Half an hour after I am gone you will walk out. Go directly to the station and take the first train for your home." “Oh, but you” “Never mind me. I can get out of this all right.” The two young women worked hastily. In 10 minutes there was another knock at the door. This time it was a man in plain clothes. “Which is the young woman who came into this house a few moments ago?” he demanded. “I came in a few moments ago,” said Miss Fabayan. “Then you will have to go with me. I am a detective.” “I will go.” answered Miss Fabayan calmly. All that afternoon Miss Fabayan passed in a cell in a police station. She had “I AM A DETECTIVE. refused her name and would only say that she had been falsely arrested. The police officials laughed at her. It was 6 o’clock before she asked for a messenger. The message brought the manager of the Empire down in hot haste. His astonishment at seeing his favorite soubrette in a cell was great. He swore at the sergeant, threatened to 1 enter suit against every official within sight and finally gave bail for the ap pearance of Miss Fabayan in court. The soubrette, after leaving the police station, dropped her air of outraged and indignant innocence and surprised her manager by laughing heartily at what she called a most ridiculous mistake. She made him promise to make no fuss whatever about the matter. The police, When they found out who their prisoner was, were only too glad to let the affair drop. That Christmas night was the happi est, Miss Fabayan assured her friends, she had ever spent. The essay delivered by Miss Carlysle of Boston on “The Ethics of Charity” was declared by the young ladies of the Scientific Relief society to be “perfectly lovely.” Miss Fabayan has received an invita tion to spend a month next summer on a farm up in Vermont. She says that the invitation comes from a young woman whom she met last Christmas day “un der most peculiar circumstances." and the is going to accept it. H. THOMPSON & CO. FLOUR, Feed and Baled Hay. OUR PRICES TODAY: PATENTS. 84.$1.20 Wauneta High Patent. . 1.10 Our Best. 1.10 Pure Gold. 1.00 STRAIGHT GRADE. Lion Patent.$1.00 White Fawn. 1.00 Eagle. .90 BAKERS GRADE. Legal Tender.$ .90 Pride n! Wauneta.85 Choice.75 Eureka.7tl |3gCMill feed of all kinds. Baled hay cheaper than you can huy the same grade loose. West Room A. 0. l!. W.'Muilding. Believing it to be to the interest of every body concerned I will adopt the Cash Sys tem, Jan 1st, 1894. YVm. M. Anderson. What is rarer or richer than a set of cut glass tumbers? Noble has some handsome ones, artistic ally cut and tasteful in design. Noble’s stock of Christmas can dies is unusually fine, this season. Leach, the jeweler, has an ele gant line of watches at all prices. BEWARE.—Do not buy poor truck, but go straight to the 15. & M. Meat Market and get as choice a cut of meat as can he produced. Noble is distinctly iu the holi day trade. Call and see his hand some and elegant assortment of china, queensware, glassware, etc. Nothing like it for richness and variety and reasonableness in cost in McCook. The burning question with house wives of all lands, all creeds, and all ages is: “Which is the best Cooking Stove?” S. M. Cochran & Co. answer this question today by proclaiming the “Charter Oak Stoves” to be the best in every conceivable shape. knippIjE is official headquarters for S. Claus, this year. Vases, pretty and useful aud or namental at Noble’s. And a thou sand other things to please the old and the young. Dont close your holiday purchases until you have seen his stock of presents. Noble carries a large and complete stock of the best brands of canned goods of all kinds. Perfumes and Toilet Articles at Chenery’s City Drug Store. We don’t sell pack ing house lard, but our own make. F. s. Wilcox. If you are looking for a fine and ornamental lamp of any descrip tion, don’t waste any time running around town, but go right to head quarters. Noble's assortment is simply out of sight. S. M. Cochran & Co. have an im mense stock of farm implements on band. See them before buying else where. hog cabin maple syrup, finest in the market, at Anderson's grocery. Use McConnell’s Fragrant Lotion for Chapped Hands and Face. Ileekur’s self-rising Buck-wheat at Anderson's grocery. Try a package. Try how far a dol lar wil go for holiday presents at kxipple’s Dk. W. MOORE, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON tl.ATK OK Dknvkh. Colo.; TRENTON.NEBRASKA. rff-Day or night nails, any place in the vaT ley. promptly Hitemledto. OlUee—Di.lliomM drug store. _ . IMPERIAL EGG FOOD. (Tr*dt> M«>'K < B. & M. Flour and Food Store. TRICE LIST: Pillsburys Best,.$1.50 per sack. Boss, granulated 11. P... 1-35 per sack. Monogram “ “ 1 20 per sack. Charm “ “ 1.15 per sack. 91 “ “ 1.15 per sack. Jack Frost, winter. 1.00 per sack. Faultless.90 per sack. Favorite. .90 per sack. Pride of McCook.80 per sack. liye Flour, Graham, Buckwheat, Flour and Corn Meal. Bran, Shorts, Chop Feed. Grain and Nay. All goods delivered free. J. J. Garrard, 211 Main street. Manager We invite inspection and defy com petition in quality and price of Meat at the B. & M. Meat Market. Put your $ $ $ where they will do the most good, where they will secure the best and the most groceries for in stance. You will make no mistake if Noble’s is the place of deposit. He gives the limit in quantity, quality and value, and his stock cannot, be duplicat ed in Western Nebraska. Lots of nice toys at Knipple’s. Yon can’t afford to disappoint the little ones, even though the times are close, while presents can he had for so lit tle money. 8. M. Cochran & Co. carry a large line of buggies in stock. See them if you want a good vehicle cheap. Sewing machines at $5.00 per month on the installment plan at Bade & Son’s. Well Digging. If you want a well put down in fine shape see Frank Nichols. He guaran tees his work. Leave orders at S. M. Cochran & Co.’s. Come in early and often and see the fine line of meats at the B. ♦V M. Meat Market. IN QUEENSWARE Noble carries ' the largest assortment and the richest designs of the season. His prices are reasonable. Use McConnell’s Fragrant Lotion foFChapped Hands and Face. Make Noble your family grocer and many other blessings will fall to your lot, besides having the best groceries on your table that the market affords. Try the Cream Pork Sausage at the B. & M. Meat Market. Tnk, pens, pencils school tablets, etc., at The Tribune stationery department. Club House cheese, nothing finer, for sale at Anderson’s grocery. Use McConnell’s Fragrant Lotion for Chapped Hands and Face. Remember that S. M. Cochran & Co. now carry in stock a full and complete stock of builders’ hardware supplies. Wanted : -- Fat and stock hogs at the B. & M. Meat Market. .1, 11. Ludwick is buying and selling second-hand goods at the old stand on west Dennison street. Give him a call or drop a postal card. To Whom it May Concern: / pro pose to carry a finer line of meats than any other house in the city. F. S. WILCOX. Leach, the jeweler, has some of the Latest Novelties in Silverware. See the display of Fine Jewelry and get prices. Chas. A. Leach. Dainty and fashionable water sets at Noble’s. Buy a set.