Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (March 7, 1902)
f4 1 A J f gBg fMf3gesmrr BOOK THREE The Modern Monte Cristo CHAPTER XIV The Marquis of Montezuma It was lovely June and London shel tered at least a million and a half of visitors within her gates for the great est jublilee the world has ever known wag in progress to celebrate the end ing of sixty years reign on the part of the beloved sovereign Victoria Among the millions who gazed upon the marvelous spectacle none occu pied a more commanding position than a gentleman of distinguished appear ance who seemed to control several of the best windows in the second floor of a famous hotel in front of which the procession moved His manner seemed cold and re pressed as though his heart were not in this scene Indeed at times he ap peared gloomy as might a man bowed down with heavy cares Among those who speculated with regard to the identity of this mysteri ous guest of the fashionable hotel were a couple of gentlemen seated at the window of an office further down the street One of these was no other than Cap tain Maurice Livermore the famous traveler His companion was a club man who pretended to do a little busi ness for the looks of the thing which accounted for the office in the Strand Come tell me who that fellow over yonder may be He seems to lord it like a prince of the blood From what part of the world does he hail ask ed the captain Some weeks ago- said his com panion he burst in upon London like a comet and in two days the talk of the town was nothing but Don Juan de Overton or as some have called him the Marquis of Montezuma His wealth is affirmed to be with out limit and in this day that is an assertion which can be said of few men but Don Juan spends money like water and his extravagances have cast poor Barney Barnato quite in the shade while even Dumas Monte Cristo is hardly in the swim It has even been given on strong authority that he has a personal for tune of over twenty million pounds sterling The captain raised his hands to ex press surprise Jove Have you met the Marquis Well I have had that pleasure complacently Then some day when the oppor tunity arises make me acquainted with this remarkable Spanish American na bob this modern Croesus whose touch is gold like that of mythical Midas Willingly You like to study man and in him you will find a puzzle worthy of your metal Well find a chance to bring me into touch with this American nabob I never saw an American yes there miSjtegaCBBtS vu iiawi hum n 444 444444 An American Nabob A RemetrkoJble Story of Love Gold and j Adventure 4 J By ST GEORGE RATHBORNE 44 - 444444 44444444 444 4444 444444444444 Copyright by Stuubt Suixh New York CnArTKR XIII Continued If one falls the other takes all binding himself to carry out those small favors that are on the list Senor Facie my brave friend everything is yours I brought you power now riches beyond the maddest dream of any human being on earth Your fu turo lies before you In good time when it pleases you return again to London there to punish and reward But amigo sometimes when perhaps surrounded by happy scenes let mem ory carry you to the lonely grave of your comrade in arms far away under southern skies and drop a tear to Barrajo who met a soldiers fate Tack was affected almost to tears so that he could only squeeze the hand he held in his The presence of the Dread Rider upon the White Horse is always sombre and never more so than when by violence he snatches the life of a sturdy soldier upon the field of battle One last request Senor Jack Prom ise that you will some day send a force of ma1 hither to remove my poor bones to the consecrated ground of San Jose cemetery It will give me satisfaction in the last minutes of my life I swear it declared Jack stoutly The general pressed his hand He was growing fainter his eyes assumed a far away stare again his mind wandered to earlier scenes in his tempestuous life and he gave orders to his army called upon the enemy to surrender uttered endearing phrases to some lovely woman whose face haunted him at this the closing hour of his career and then addressed wait ing spirits whom he seemed to see hovering near Who dares to say it was only imagination Then came the death rattle the rigor that stiff ened his stout frame and all was over As Overton knelt there above all that was mortal of his genial old friend mentally renewing the vow he had taken with the general it seemed astbough the scroll of time were un rolled and once again he looked back to the hour of his awful humiliation and despair when the woman he loved betrayed him for gold and gave her self for life into the keeping of his rival whose foot had pressed the lad der of fame and fortune It is Destiny he said solemnly I pleaded with high Heaven to grant this one request The wonderful op portunity has come and now to my work was one but he hardly counts with whom r waa not able to get upon fa miliar and intimate terms on short notice Somehow they seem to like me -I notice you have a marine glass on the wall among those yacht prizes and burgees Would you mind hand ing it over I would like to have a closeY survey of this man Why bless my soul the windows are empty nor can I see any sign of him in the apart ment Your marquis has made a move at last Langford When the marquis left the hotel he was gradually pushing along when among the slow moving vehicles he noticed a hansom containing two ladles one of them young the other middle aged The marquis stood there unmindful of the good natured shoves of the crowd seeing nothing but the charm ing countenance of the younger lady At last were the only words that came from between his white teeth as the vehicle passed on Then with a cynical smile upon his face he once more joined the onward surge of the crowd Half an hour later he shook himself free from the rolling billows and en tered a narrow court by means of which he was enabled to reach a street leading to the poorer regions Suddenly he paused before a house a shabby looking affair where a dirty little paper in the windows announced that apartments were to be let Some Quixotic notion seemed to possess him for he gave a quick look uy u uuwn me street laugneu a little harshly as though in judgment upon his contemplated action and then boldly sounded his knuckles upon the door A frowsy woman opened it You have rooms for hire madam asked the marquis in the best of Eng lish She was rather appalled at the ap pearance of such a howling swell as she was inclined to consider a ably dressed gentleman and very humbly answered that it was true though surely none to suit his lord ship I am not so certain of that he replied quickly for I am looking to find a sky parlor for a friend of mine a painter who will furnish it at his convenience The womans face grew brighter If it was an attic the gentleman was looking for she did have one va cant it had even been occupied for a season by an artist who was pleased to say the light was exceptionally good She led the way to the attic and the marquis followed From object to object he glanced and upon the yawning aperture yclept a fireplace his gaze seemed to linger longest With a calm voice he inquired the price of the attic and upon being told immediately paid three months rent in advance Then he seemed desirous of being rid of her presence and expressed a desire to be left alone for half an hour So the woman went below to relate fairy stories of the Prince Bountiful whom she had unwittingly entertained and boast of the new artist lodger who was to occupy one of the attic rooms And the stranger in London stood there in that upper chamber motion less evidently overcome by memories that crowded upon his mind As he stood musing on the strange and remarkable vicissitudes of for tune he heard a footstep dragging wearily up the stairs and thinking it was the landlady he did not move Then a door was closed and he heard a key turn in the lock Some person had entered the adjoin ing room probably a counterpart of the one he occupied Yes there could be no doubt about it since he now caught voices Unconsciously the marquis listened Evidently something had given him a great shock for his attitude betrayed this as he stood there with one hand half raised his head bent sideways and evidently intent upon hearing what was said beyond the thin parti tion while to himself he was mutter ing Marvelous indeed the hand of fate After two weeks of searching through half of London and now to discover her by chance to occupy the adjoining room Ah this is kind in deed but one of the many favors with which I have been blessed by an indul gent fortune As he listened he discovered to his dismay that there was a sound of low weeping in the next room He heard a window lowered which struck him as singular as the air was very close on this balmy Jubilee day Is there no escape dearest said a voice that seemed half muffled by the bed clothes and yet one knew instinct ively that it belonged to an aged wo man None whatever Aunty We have endured everything that mortal can on earth There is nothing left for us but this one resort came in a low quavering voice that somehow caused intense emotion to pass over the mar quis face possibly because the speaker was a woman and in trouble Then God forgive us said the cracked voice very reverently Hush Aunty dear say no more have keyed myself up to the desperate or you will unnerve me just when I pitch Happiness was never meant for me doomed to always sup with pov erty Kiss me again Aunty Soon I will come and He at your side where your arms can enfold me dearest arms that have so many times crushed me to a loving heart The marquis was strongly shaken for a man whose untold millions were the wonder and marvel of Lombard street to be thus brought face to face with the direst poverty was a rude shock Suddenly he became aware of the fact that some noxious gas came to his attention He sniffed at the charged air suspiciously and decided on the in stant that it was the fumes of smold ering charcoal Then the dreadful sig nificance of what he had heard the prayer for pity and forgiveness the gradually dying murmur of voices good heavens It meant the desperate poverty stricken wretchs last fling at outrageous fortune the sole relief from gnawing hunger and corroding care it meant suicide while he lingered and planned those whom he would have helped might have crossed the grim divide that bordered the shadowy land of death CHAPTEK xv The Turning of the Tide Whatever may have been the mys tery of his past life the marquis dem onstrated the fact beyond all perad venture that he was a man of action able to meet an emergency as it arose and overwhelm it One leap and he was outside the door of his attic room another took him to that of the adjacent chamber from whence had come the murmur of voices He tried to open this but was baf fled then he remembered having heard the key turned in the lock after the entrance of the dejected miniature painter He threw his full weight forward in such a manner that the impact was something tremendous There was a crash and the door flew back Into the chamber darted the mar quis holding his breath for the deadly fumes of the wretched little charcoal stove were almost suffocating His first move was to throw up the window thus allowing a current of pure air at least as good as this sec tion of London could boast to sweep through the chamber a draught being formed by the open door Next he picked up the pitcher of water standing on the box and dash ing it over the smoldering charcoal effectually wound up its miserable part of the tragedy To the bed he hastened The women lay there wan and mo tionless indeed his first thought was that he had come to the rescue too late and that death had already claimed his victims Picking up the younger one In his strong arms this resolute man of ac tion bore her to the window and laid his burden down where the incoming current of air would fall upon her face Then he went back for her older companion Her eyes were open though she seemed to be speechless evidently she had partially covered her head with the bed clothes and thus in a measure escaped the full result of the smoth ering sensation Again he hurried to the side of the form at the window bending oh so eagerly over her and scanning her pinched face for signs of returning animation The flutter of an eyelid a low sigh a slight movement of a hand these were enough to tell him the joyful tidings and when he had assured him self of this fact a faint but fervent thank God came from the bearded lips of the man To be continued IRISH BURIAL PLACES Strong Desire of All to Bo Buried with Their Ancestors The Irish are very particular as to where they will be buried It goes without saying that they want to be interred in consecrated ground but they also wish to be laid with their own in the ancient hallowed spot where their ancestors for many a gen eration have been put to rest Each family has its burying place and whenever a member dies unless it be beyond the seas or at some insuper able distance he is brought to be buried with his sires Hence it is that funeral processions are oftentimes seen to wend their slow way past many a wayside churchyard to some far off burial ground because it is there that for many and many a generation the forefathers of the deceased have laid themselves down for their last long sleep Rev C OMahony in Dona Iiogs Funny Things That Escape W J Arkell complains that most really funny things happen outside ol the comic papers and dont get round ed up and brought in One morning he was at the telephone in his office apparently having trouble of his own trying to communicate with some body What Speak up Cant understand a word Say give me that all over again please Then he turned to those about him and said Ill bet the wires are crossed again This telephone service is getting woroe and worse Another fruitless effort and then t sudden light broke in upon him Well thats the limit Do you know whats the matter with the wire The fellow at the other end thats try ing to talk to me stutters New York Times J BEDUCING THE DUTY 60ME ASPECTS OF THE CUBAN SYMPATHY QUESTION Ought We to Injuro Domestic Arrlcal ture Becausa of Conditions for Which the Overproduction of Sugar Through ont the World Is Alone Itespomlule The Washington press dispatches of February 3 tell of conferences be tween President Roosevelt and mem bers of the House committee on ways and means in which the President Is represented as having made some progress toward impressing upon the Congressional conferrees the necessity for consenting to some reduction of the existing rates of duty upon Cuban 3ugar and tobacco To what extent this executive pressure has been or is likely to prove successful we are not at this writing advised but it is well known that the strong protectionists of the ways and means committee have been subjected to such pressure It is also well known that the President is so firmly convinced of the need of doing something sympathetic for the Cuban sugar and tobacco interests that he has in view the sending to Con gress of a special message on the sub ject It is not unlikely that the Presi dent would prefer to reach in advance an understanding that would make such a message unnecessary and at the same time remove all danger of an open rupture on the question of the Cuban tariff concessions To ar rive at such an understanding and avoid such a rupture is on all accounts desirable In urging the protectionists in Con gress to forget for the time being the rightful claims of the agricultural in terests of the United States the Presi dent is doubtless actuated by warm and honest sympathy for the distressed planters of Cuba Is he not however asking protectionists to forget that if there Is any honest claim on the part of Cuba against anybody it is against the world at large and not against the United States The low price of raw sugar to day is the result of the very large product all over the world and not the result of any relations between Cuba and the United States Protec tionists have a right to urge that this fact be not lost sight of when the question of Cubas claims is under consideration They have a right to urge moreover that unless the Re publican party stands up squarely for the principle of protection let it lead where it may we shall always be con fronted with an agitation similar to that which preceded the enactment of the Wilson bill with its attendant devastation and ruin to our domestic business interests If we are going to repeat the Ha waiian experiment we shall not come off as well as we did then for that was a little affair and this will be a big affair and one that will grow greater every year We will commence by losing for the United States a great deal of honest money which belongs to it and end by destroying an industry which for the first time and after many struggles is in a position which seems likely to produce valuable re sults These are things which ought to be duly weighed before the protec tionists of the ways and means com mittee before they consent that their deliberate judgment be broken down by executive pressure Is Ho President Havemeyer of the sugar trust is hostile to the tariff on raw sugar This mind you is all in the interest of the poor consumer Mr Havemeyer finds that 85000000 a year could be saved to these people by the abolition of the duties on sugar and these he is sure the country with an overflowing treasury does not need How unspeakably gener ous Now there is one question which the country is anxious that Mr Have meyer should answer Is he willing that the duty on refined sugar should be abolished along with that on the raw article The people do not use the raw but the refined product Therefore If it is their interest that we are to consider it is the duty on refined sugar that muBt go first There is no question about the position of the philanthropist who wants to kill the sugar planting Industry and the beet sugar industry in this country I when It comes to admitting the cheap sugars of Europe In competition with his product It la a pretty good rule to find out what Mr Havemeyor wants to do and then not do It Seattle Post Intelligencer Future Value Said Governor Cummins of Iowa In hs inaugural address Reciprocity that takes without giv ing is an idle dream and a contradic tion in terms and if its scope embraces only non competitive products it Is of little future value In the economy of the nation That is exactly what the Free-Traders think In their estimation the free admission of non competitive prod ucts is a mockery and a delusion and not reciprocity at all The only re ciprocity which suits them Is the kind which lets down the bars and invites the competition of all the world even the partial displacement of domestic labor and Industry by a limited ad mission of lower priced foreign com petitive products does not please them Thia is only partial reciprocity and partial reciprocity they tell us Is only a step toward free trade Good enough as far as It goe3 but It falls far short of the thing hoped for They agree however with Governor Cummins that reciprocity which embraces only products is of little future value in the economy of the nation Future value to whom To foreign produc ers Yes that is precisely what the free trader means Is It what Gov ernor Cummins means Has he fig ured out the future value to our country of taking from foreigners an increased quantity of articles which we can make are making and ought to continue to make ourselves Is lie a Freo Trncler Democratic newspapers are greatly pleased at some of the things contain ed in the inaugural message of Gov ernor Cummins Iowas new executive They are patting him on the back with a degree of strenuousness that ought to jar him into wondering whether he really said such a smart thing after all when he declared that Protection is established for man and not man for protection Considering that Gov ernor Cummins calls himself a Repub lican and a protectionist does he know what he meant when he said that We dont and we dont believe he does We have an idea that he was HOW TO AVOID ANOTHER TUNNEL DIASTER What we want to do is to keep out of the Free Trade tunnel and it is for the American voter to guard the switch When the Free Trade League tries to obstruct the track and wreck the industrial train we must be ready for them at every turn Eternal vigilance Is not only the price of liberty but of permanent peace and prosperity just trying his hand at phrase making If so he is not so much He was simply paraphrasing what somebody said long ago about the Sabbath being made for man and not man for the Sabbath Is Governor Cummins a free trad er asks the Buffalo Courier We think not He is merely a protection ist temporarily off his base Hell be all right when he wakes up from his dream of adding another to the list of Iowas great statesmen t ir Wo Owe Before we make the farmers pay Cuba something would it not be well to see it we owe and tnen if we do owe pay it ourselves out of our own treasury and see that the right people get it Bnnanus by the Million How largely the toothsome banana and the festive cocoanut enter into the dietary of the American people may be judged by the fact that the United States Fruit Company alone during the past year distributed in the United States and Canada ap proximately no less than 17500000 bunches of bananas and 13500000 co coanuts in addition to other tropical fruits Sixty ocean going steamers were engaged exclusively in the ba nana trade Estimating not over 160 good ba nanas to a bunch these figures show an average consumption of more than twenty bananas each for every man woman and child in the United States and a few million extra for good boys and girls But an attempt to divide up the cocoanuts per capita will probably get us into trouble for while the bulk is enormous It means only one cocoanut to every half dozen persons enough for all perhaps if the division was made on strictly equit able principles Land Free from Snakes The Saidwich Islands resemble Ire land in their freedom from snakes One species only is known and that Is not common Methods at Craatu Separation From Farmers Review Stenographic Report At the recent meeting of the Illinois dairymen Oscar Erf of the Illinois Ag ricultural College spoke on the dif ferent methods of cream separation Wo present In condenaod form some of hla remarks Since the Introduction of the cream separator the question naturally cornea to many dairymen whether It paya to buy a centrifugal separator when they can get one of the cheap gravity sepa rators for Icsb money Tho so called dilution method of separating cream from milk Is an old procoss that long since fell Into disuse But now and then It Is brought to the front again by men who want to sell dilution cane Theso cans differ some In detail but have all the same prlnclplo The milk Is diluted with an equal quantity of water and permitted to stand for a short time Tho sklm mllk Is then drawn off at tho bottom and 13 sup posed to leave the cream From re sults of tests at the Illinois Agricul tural College and from the results of tests at other colleges It may bo stated that milk set in the ordinary way will give as good results as when these di lution cans are used There aro four methods of cream sep aration separator deep setting dilu tion and shallow pan syBtem Tho value of these systems Is first separa tor deep setting dilution and shal low pan setting Tho centrifugal sep arator system Is the best of all Q What about the calves and pigs in the places where they are using the dilution separators A I am afraid they are getting some pretcy poor stuff for food Q In running small separators where are we most likely to lose cream A In the hand machines It Is likely to be lack of speed The speed should bo good and should be uniform The trouble that the one that runs tho ma chine starts off at a good speed but soon gets tired when tho speed falls off Then too a man naturally push es forward and downward on the crank handle but does not pull under and up as hard or as rapidly Even with a hand separator It Is better to have some power to run It rather than to depend on the human hand Q What kind of power would you use A I like the gasoline power but if you have a common engine it will be Just as good With the ganollne en gine you can start it at any time You do not have to stop to build a fire and get up steam I think the gasoline en gine has that advantage over the steam engine Q Do not gasoline engines give Ir regular speed A No sir not now The old-fashioned ones did but tho new ones are improved to such an extent that somo of them are used In the production of electricity for lights where the power has to be veiy steady Q Why would It not be a good plan to use some kind of a time keeper on the hand separator especially at the beginning A I think that would help if you could persuade a man to keep his eye on the pendulum but there Is the trouble Q Have you had any experience with the tread power A A tread power I3 a good thing if you have a good animal to run it But you have to teach an animal be fore he Is of much value In this way We find some difficulty in getting ona trained We have found a bull a good animal for this use Sheep are not very regular Kaisln Knrly tarn In From Farmersj Review My ex perience and observation convinces me that the small farmer that is well lo cated near a city and fixed with proper buildings warm with pouth exposure for cold weather and who will go at it in a business like way can make plenty of money in raising early mar ket lambs A man should not keep more than he can care for and feed aright He should choose some good mutton breed The Southdowns have proved to be the best in most places and are the best sellers However great things in this line are claimed for some of the other breeds Private trade is a great thing in early lamb marketing Wherever possible the lamb raiser should engage his lamb crop to some fancy hoteL Then raise for your customer good fat South down lambs that will delight his pa trons and he will be your good buyer next year Chas J Stuckey Cham paign County Ohio making Backets The latest craze among fashionable women in New York is basket making It has entirely supplanted Iacemaking bookbinding leather work and some kindred occupations which but a short while ago were so popular All the girls are either making bas kets or talking about it generally both of course Some excuse them selves by saying they are learning aow in order to teach the poor others simply take up the art be cause it is the novelty of the hour and is considered the thing to do Waited Opportunity And what do you think is the cau3e 3f your remarkable longevity asked he reporter I think said the centenarian that lt is because I have all my life abstain 2d from the use of tobacco Did it ever come into your head jut in the hale and hearty octogena rian who sat contentedly chewing in -he next chair that if yed done the jther things ye might have been a 110 years old by now Washington fimes
