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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1903)
BBHK iiiiiu mill IIIIIEaHKffi iJr i vM i B - mil im r K fc P 1 hs y n - rMfiivivvyrffrrainwWirwj THAT GIRL of JOHNSONS y JEAJV KATJZ LWDLJJM Author 0 At a Girls Mticx EU Entered According to Act or Concress in tho Year 1890 by Street SrnitU In the Office of the Librarian of Concress at Washincton D C liMwvmvHwtttawxljrtexPvc0rfMrm CHAPTER XVIII Continued The deputies Dolores repeated slowly The softened color and gentle expression disappeared from her face the drew her hands away from Doras dinging fingers she pushed back the hair that had slipped down on her forehead Then the deputies had been searching for her father That was what those men were there for that T morning when they stopped and asked of her where he was And if those men of the law came for him when he was not there when every one knew that lie was not there and sought for him over on the oppo site mountain among its dangers would they not come at any time for him to prove their case Might they not even insist upon taking him over to the town in spite of his condition Unconsciously her fingers closed over the flowers in her lap crushing them relentlessly Two soft hands released the flowers and as Dora wiped away the red stains of the blossoms from her cousins Lands she said with a sweet laugh Dolores what is the matter See what you have done to the poor pret ty flowers you have killed them their blood is on your hands and your hands have stained mine The effect of her words on Dolores was startling She drew away her hands sternly and arose to her feet clutching the door post to steady her self her face was white and her eyes wide and terrified Youig Green re turning from up the mountain heard Doras last words and turned away with a face as pallid as Dolores Dora arose quickly and clasped her hands around her cousins arm raising her sweet penitent face to hers Dolores Dolores I did not mean that I was only joking I could not have meant it I would not have said such a thing for the world I forgot you were not used to me and The words ended in a violet fit of coughing that racked the slender frame pitifully Raising her handker chief to her lips she sank upon the step Young Green entered the house un noticed and spoke to Mrs Allen who came out at once and sat down beside Dora placing her arm around her with low tender words of- comfort Young Green came out with a cup of water and Mrs Allen thanked him with a grateful glance but as she took it and placed it to Doras lips she glanced at Dolores and her glance was full of hate while young Green himself for the moment dared not meet her eyes for fear of betraying what was in his mind and heart Will she lie down and rest asked Dplores presently still standing at a distance from her speaking as though her lips were stiff I At sound of her voice Dora opened fier eyes slowly and looked up at her with a faint smile but Mrs Allen without replying motioned to Charlie who understanding her wish crossed over to the bedroom and tapped light ly on the door Dr Dunwiddie opened it at once and after a whispered word or two he went out to the girl while young Green entered the quiet room Johnson lay in a stupor among the pillows his sunken eyes closed his cruel lips apart showing the discol ored teeth within his short white beard was coarse and thin and lent additional repulsiveness to the narrow face The young man stood at the bedside looking long and earnestly at the face of the other until the expres sion of wonder and horror slowly gave place to one of pity Poor fellowhe said to himself poor fellow Surely he has suffered Sim mp xT KC3ft r5SL 1 J llwiM mmlim s9mm - i t Eb Dolores S Did Not Mean That enough already why not leave him in peace to God and his conscience Forgive as ye would be forgiven Friend go in peace Truly I have ned of forgiveness and should not pull down the bridge over which I myself must pass But how such a woman as she could have come from such a nature as his is a prohlem My poor tender hearted girl how she suffered just now and I could do noth ing Dr Dunwiddie meanwhile went out to the group in the sunny doorway full of kind His grave dark face was ness as he bent over the frail girl and spoke to Mrs Allen She must lie down at once he said and be kept perfectly quiet for a -while No you must not walk as - J she attempted to rise Allow me Miss Johnson He raised her in his arms as though she were in truth a child and carried her to the settle between the south windows She did not speak until Mrs Allen brought her beef tea and fed her with tender care then half rising among the pillows whiter than they she asked faintly with a wistful ness In her eyes that sent an angry pang through the womans heart Where is Dolores Nurse Allen I want Dolores Mrs Allen called sharply in a voice that caused Dora to look up at her in wonder Come in at once Dolores Dora wishes you Dr Dunwiddie hearing the words and catcilng sight of the womans face crosesd the room and spoke to Dolores his voice low with kindness She started when he addressed her and turned obediently with one swift startled glance up into Ins face and entered the room half hesitatingly Dora put out her hand as she crossed the room Dolores she said entreatingly Dr Dunwiddie turned quickly away and entered the inner room where his friend was waiting for him By and by when she was better Dora sat up among the pillows and drew Dolores down beside her hold ing her hands caressingly between her own smoothing the tense slender fingers now and then with pathetic tenderness as though to atone or soften her careless bounding words She leaned her pure pale face against the gray window casing that the soft low wind with its subtle odor of pines should blow upon her Her large gray eyes grown black with a half shy love and pleading rested on her cous ins grave face And she did not know that the slender shred of pale blue ribbon lay safely hidden in the depths of the doctors pocket as he re entered the sick room beyond They talked long there at the cool south window she smaller girl hold ing her cousins hands closely in hers telling her of the world beyond the chained mountains of the life that throbbed and pulsed out of her sight Dolores listened in silence wonder ing more and more how this girl could care to love her could care to have her for her cousin We will paint together Dolores she said and sew and play You shall sing and I will accompany you on my guitar and you shall sing and accompany yourself for the guitar will just suit your voice and how you would look in an old gold gown with warm colored roses about you play ing a guitar its broad ribbon across your shoulders your eyes just as they are now Oh such a soul as there is in them at this minute Do lores Johnson The men will love you and the women must Dolores Do lores I cannot wait I wish I might take you right now She paused breathless smiling sit ting erect holding Dolores by her two young arms her sweet face flushed with excitement At that moment Dr Dunwiddie opened the bedroom door and spoke to Mrs Allen and she entered with him young Green coming out Dora flushed as she saw him and she aroused from the settle shaking her head sunnily Mr Green I beg your pardon for detaining you I do indeed Truly I did not think He smiled reassuringly at her It has been pleasant to me Miss Johnson so pleasant that I had for gotten the case on at eleven at home It is now ten minutes of that hour and if you will pardon my leaving you I will send the carriage for you at any time you name Dolores did not move or speak The case on hand Her ears seemed sharp to catch and hold such sentences These words only were clear the rest were distant and jumbled Even when he spoke to her she seemed incapable of hearing or replying That her si lence was caused by anything he said he did not imagine but he was grow ing accustomed to her silence I wish I could stay with you al ways Dora said softly when the young man had gone but I cannot leave father Dolores you know You do not blame me I am sure And I will come over every day or whenever I can Father would have come over with me this morning but Judge Green wished him to be in court They have a strange case on hand and I am so interested in it arent you Do lores About the laming of young Mr Greens beautiful mare you know I believe they have some new evidence to be heard this morning Young Mr Green was to have been there early to attend to some important matter be fore court opened and here I have detained him Still Dolores did not move orSpeak In a vague manner the thought pre sented Itself to her that one of the marble gods Dora had been telling her about could scarcely be more like stone than she and she wondered too in that strange half sense if these marble men and women were capable of suffering as human men and wom en And Dora continued in her pw voice rising and pulling Dolores by the hand for her to follow Let us go out of doors cousin mine it is so beautiful there with the pines- and the mountains I feel as thoajsh God were very near in tho el lence of the hills and to be alone with silence is to be alone with God but I think he is somehow nearer in the hearts of his humanity You have not even a church here Dolores Why what do you do with no church nor schools nor anything And Dolores driven at last to speak asked mechanically Why should we have a church and what is a church CHAPTER XIX Times Developments Johnson slowly recovered the days passed and the weeks while he lin gered weak and complaining Dolores presence annoyed him and drove him to fits of temper until Dr Dunwiddie advised her to remain away from him as much as possible Dr Dunwiddie regularly drove over to see Johnson once a week and Mrs Allen remained in the low unpainted house In the miast of its desolate gar den filling the rooms with her pres ence but daily growing more hardened toward the quiet girl who was winning Doras affection away from her she It Is So Beautiful There told herself in excuse for her un friendly feeling but the girl herself buried in other thoughts believed it was from the kindness of her heart that she talked to her so often during the long evenings of the life outside of the quiet settlement and of the man ners she would there be expected to copy and sne accepted in silence the many words of advice as to her lack of pride in allowing young Green to see so clearly her feelings toward him and the cautioning uttered with a kindly smile or soft touch on her arm against allowing herself to be so in fluenced by almost an utter stranger who was kind to her only out of pity and who could never care for her other than as the merest acquaintance she the daughter of the blacksmith who was waited for to prove the malice in the laming of his mare The woman knew well the stories adrift in the settlement that had somehow come to her she scarcely knew how herself and of the girls dread of what might follow the prov ing of the case waiting in the town for her fathers presence That the girl had never done her harm to cause this feeling of hatred she would not believe Had she not won Doras heart in a fashion she could never do Could she accept this unmurmuringly Was there nothing she could do to hurt the girl in Doras eyes And if that were impossible and she soon learned that it was was it impossible for her to wound the girl herself in every way conceivable to a narrow mind To be continued PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE DARK German Professor Says Light s Not Needed for Making Pictures The light is not needed for the printing of photographs is a discov ery which has been made by Dr Wil helm Oswald professor of chemistry in the University of Leipsic He produces the required changes in the sensitized paper by the use of silver on nega tives treated with a solution of per oxide of hydrogen The presence of silver causes the elements of the solu tion to react against each other In a very short time in those places where there is silver in the negative the solution will disappear in the other spots remain This invisible pic ture is then transferred to gelatine paper and finally developed by iron sulphate in solution Gallic acid is then applied and the result is a genu ine ink picture Dr Oswald declares that in this method the sensitized paper will keep indefinitely and the silver can be used over any number of times He says the process is far cheaper and quicker than any now in use besides requiring no light By it any design or drawing can be quickly copied One At a Time A fond father was giving advice to his young son the other day Among other things he said If you try to do more than one thing at a time you cant do anything well Oh yes I can said the young hopeful Ive tried I did thres things the other day all at one time and did em all well How was that asked the father Well you see I swung on the gate and whistled and threw a stone at Tommy Brown and hit him too Had Often Been Kicked John Jones the patient who came in a little while ago said the attend ant in the out patient department didnt give his occupation What was the nature of his trou ble asked the resident physician Injury at the base of the spine Put him down as a book agent MBWpBBBWttwtgaagiiattiwamaaKafami THE EXTRA SESSION NECESSITY FOR IT SEEMS TO BE DISAPPEARING There Is No Probability of Agreement on Currency Legislation and Noth ing Is to Be Gained by Forcing Action on the Cuban Treaty The necessity for an extra session seems to be disappearing It was given out some weeks ago that the President had determined upon Nov 9 as the date on which Congress should assemble in extraordinary ses sion to consider currency legislation and the consummation of the Cuban eciprocity treaty Since then reports iave been current of an intention to name a date early in October There s gratifying reason to anticipate that the earlier date will not be the one selected Members of both Houses of Congress are as a rule strongly averse to assembling in extra session at all much less at a date when state and local politics require attention In many of the state legislatures are to be elected which are to choose United States senators In all of the states elections of one sort or an other are to be held Hence the strong objection to an October session It is understood that a large major ity of senators and representatives are also opposed to an extra session in November They argue that inas much as Congress is able to assemble the first week in December for the regular session they should not be called to Washington in November unless some pressing emergency exists which requires prompt action They can perceive no such emergency iney know of no legislation which could not be as well or better attended to at the regular session which be gins early in December Currency legislation they maintain presents no such urgency and the Cuban question contains any reference to tariff rcvla Ion it will be about as follows W favor lowering the tariff on sucl articles as may be deemed unentitled to protection and raising the schedult on such other articles as need furthei succor This vague and dolightfullj indefinite declaration would be broad enough to permit the gathering of ah sorts of tariff Republicans All could equally enthuze and after the vie tory indulge in an exciting famllj fight over the interpretation of the ambiguous plank Let us lose nc sleep however in contemplating the possibility of the Republican part adopting a tariff revision plank menac ing to the present schedule of rates Terre Haute Tribune A Peculiar Proposition There never was and there ncvei will be a soup house during a Repub lican administration says the Vintor Eagle Can we not afford ever soup Oelwein Record Dem Under the McKinley and Roosevelt administrations the Record has en joyed the largct measure of pros perity in its history Its columns are filled to overflowing with advertising its subscription list has never been so fat and doubtless the output of its job department has been correspond ingly augmented Yet strangelv enough in the face of conclusive evi dence right at home of the prevalence of prosperity it sneers at a conditior the actuality of which it is too sen sible to attempt to deny The average Democratic newspaper these days it a peculiar proposition Manchestei la Press Best Tariff for Revenue The customs receipts during the last fiscal year amounted to 283891 719 Their magnitude suggests that the best tariff for revenue is a pro tective tariff and not a tariff for rev enue only Whenever the lree traders have attempted to frame a tariff on the latter lines it has invariably re THIS OLD HEN VILL SET NEXT YEAR AS USUAL involves no exigency justifying the unusual and hazardous proceeding of an extra session So marked is the difference of opinion as to the proper measure for imparting elasticity to the currency that there is no prospect of an agreement and hence no prospect that final action could be had on a currency bill prior to the time for the regular session As to the Cuban treaty if American growers of sugar and tobacco are to be robbed of the protection guaranteed to them in the Dingley tariff and solemnly pledged to them in the national Republican plat form they can be as effectively robbed in December or January as in October or November Extra sessions of Congress are seri ous things All Presidents heretofore have resorted to them with great re luctance Even in the presence of so grave a condition as that which exist ed in the early part of 1897 when hun dreds of millions worth of foreign goods were being hurried to this coun try in anticipation of the higher duties certain to be imposed by the Repub lican party and when all labor and industry clamored for a speedy res toration of adequate protection even under these circumstances President McKinley was loath to call an extra cession and only consented to do so as the result of strong pressure and strenuous urgency on the part of the business interests If President Mc Kinley was reluctant to break prece dents and summon Congress into ex traordinary session to pass the Ding ley tariff in much more re luctant should President Roosevelt be to take a step so fraught with risks on the eve of a great Presidential election Currency legislation being practi cally impossible because of the failure of those leading in the movement to agree upon any plan an extra session either in October or in November need not and should not be called on account of the currency As to the Cuban question if there is to be a fight over it inside the Republican party in Congress surely there should be no precipitate haste in bringing on that fight Let us have peace as long as we can Tariff Revision Many Democratic some independ ent and a scattering few Republican newspapers over the country are in sisting that the Republican party in its next platform declare for tariff re vision In the meantime Uncle Mark Hanna and his associate standpatters just laugh It is pretty safe to as sume that if the Republican platform suited in a deficit High duties prop erly applied promote production in our own country and through the conse quent prosperity enable us to in crease our imports of articles which we do not really need but which with the perversity of human nature we are willing to pay more dearly for on that account San Francisco Chronicle Trade Statistics English papers to prove that Great Britain is not retrograding under free trade assert that the aggregate for eign trade of their country is 155 per capita while that of the United States is only 45 per capita Hence Great Britain is three or more times as prosperous as the United States Let us look at one item in the propo sition We are in round figures buy ing 100000000 worth of foreign sugar year by year and equally ex porting a like value with which to pay for the sugar Sugar adds to our sta tistical evidence of prosperity 200 000000 or 250 per capita per annum If we made all of our sugar and paid our own farmers 100000000 for it we would by this standard of prosperity all lose 250 per year The Democratic Position Whatever the Democrats of Iowa stand for as to the Tariff is represent ed in the demand for a tariff for revenue only What they allege with reference to trust made goods is no more than appeal to prejudice What they are after is to get rid of protective duties altogether The Democratic position is that the way to correct abuses is to destroy busi ness That is not the Republican posi tion The distinction is easily marked Sioux City Journal No Change The Montgomery Ala Advertiser says the nomination of Mr Clevelaad or one of his kind would be due to the returning sanity of the Southern Democracy after an aberration of seven j ears As most of the Southern States vote the Democratic ticket without question any change in polit ical sanity one way or the other in that section is imperceptible St Louis Globe Democrat FairnesG The Sioux City Journal which clips every mean thing that any editor writes about Bob Cousins speech has never printed the speech in full and probably never will Yet Uncle George will lecture before the next editorial association on Fairness in Journalism Des Moines Capitai HJSfiBrjwaB THE LIVE STOCK MARKET Latest Quotations Prom South Omaha and Kansas City 1 i M SOUTH OMAHA CATTLE There wan a much heavier run of cuttle hero than was generally anticipated which makes the supply for the week to nte tho heaviest of the year for tho corresponding length ot time There were just a few earn ot torn fed steers on sale and as tho d was in wood shape for that class salesmen found It an easy matter to dis pose of them at steady prices There was a big run of cows In sight and the tendency on the part of packers undoubt edly was to get their supplies for less money The best grades were not a great deal lower hut the medium to mon kinds were slow Bulls veal calves and staKs all felt to some extent the weakness on cow stuff and common steers and in a good many Instances sold a shade lower Theie was a large supply of stoekers and feeders on sale and although the demand from the coun try was fairly good the market on all but the best grades was slow and a Ilttla lower Anything good In the way of western grass beef steers sold at gen erally steady prices while the medium to common stuff was slow sale and a lit tle lower owing to the large number of eattle of that description that have been on sale for feeveral days HOGS Receipt of hogs were light but in spite of that fact the tendency or prices continued downward Light hogs wore scarce and sold about steady but heaviest were very low sale and MjlOc lower than yesterday A good many or the trains were late In arriving and that also bellied to delay the market The close of the market was certainly no bet ter and if an thing was a little weaker Heavy hogs sold largely around S37t7 with some of the common kinds below that figure Medium weights sold largely around 373 while the lightweights went from J3S0 to 333 SHEEl Quotations for grass stock Choice western lambs JITIWjCO fair to good Iambs 1Mi 175 choice yearlings S i30f373 lair to good yearlings 323ffl s0 choice wethers u25Cif fair to good wethers Wu choice ewes IU 75 JAOO fair to good ewes Z5TtZGT feed er lambs 57l125 feeder yearlings 323 G0 feeder wethers JUOOtTaa feeder ewes 1301250 ICAVSAS UITV CATTLE The market for corn fed ealves was steady for wintered west erns weak and slow for quarantine stron for stoekers and feeders slow Cows lower Choice and dressed beer steers 1301i5C0 fair to good 1C0frl5j stoekers and feeders 210fi 3 western fed steers S2crf0 Texas and Indian steers 131jJo5 Texas eews Jl13fi22Ti native heifers 2C01i4I3 canners i00f 130 bulls 230fr23 calves 273f3W HOGS The extremes of prices were from 3c higher to 10c lower Top C20 bulk of sales C05fi18 heavy 380010 mixed packers G02v861i light 3Utt C20 yorkers 10iG20 pigs 330jGlO SHEEP AND LAMES Xative Iambs 523i330 western Iambs 290 313 fed ewes S20fi3 73 Texas clipped 3O0O Texas clipped sheep 210373 stoekers and feeders S2COTi343 BLACK FLAGS FOR GOVERNOR Porto Ricans Are Inciting a Hostiie Demonstration SAN JUAN P R The district court has ordered the release of Eduardo Conde and Leonidas Guillot socialists who were recently sentenc ed to six months imprisonment for insulting the American Hag and threatening the life of Governor Hunt The majority of the judges of that court are natives The Americans con demn the decision to release the two men The prisoners lawyer has been arrested on the charge of contempt ot court Certain newspapers continue to abuse Governor Hunt and are in citing a black Hag demonstration when he returns here October 1 The police are on the alert and the gov ernment is firm The reception of the governor however at his personal re quest will be simple South Dakotas Banner Yield DESMET S D The banner yield of wheat for the entire state is re ported from the farm of Thomas berry who lives near here He threshed out a fifteen acre field of wheat which yielded an aggregate of COO bushels an average of forty bushels to the acre It was of the blue stem variety and was sown upor last years breaking Gold Ring en Cornstalk NEW YORK A farmer at Sound Beach Conn has found upon pulling up a cornstalk a heavy gold ring en circling the stalk Through the en graving on the inside it was identified as one lost in 1SG7 Yellow Fever Develops LAREDO Tex Notwithstanding the strict quarantine which Laredo has enforced against Monterey and Montejo Laredo has yellow fever two cases having developed here i o Restrict Coal Output WILKESBARRE Pa The orders for the restriction of the anthracite coal output has affected nearly all colliers hi that region Over 4300 000 tons of coal have been mined since January 1 which is several million tons more than was ever produced in a like period in the history of the mining industry The present glut in the market and the efforts to prevent a break in prices is the cau3e of the restriction J 1
