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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1903)
i u 3 syw ttaMMMMMHMN By JBAJ RAT L7iJLM Alitor a At a Girl i Mtro Etc Entered Accordinc to Act of Concrcs in the Year 1390 by Street Smith In the Ofhco of the Librarian of Concress at Washinzton D C CHAPTER XIX Continued And as Dora kept to her word and drove or rode over every day when the weather was pleasant and together they wandered under the pines in many a daring place the color of In creasing heatlh Blowly tinging the cheeks of each while Doras cough grew less and less frequent and vio lent and an added grace and spring showed in Dolores Btep though there was a growing sadness upon her lips and a hunted look in the wide dark eyes that her friends could not under stand this woman gloried and exulted In her power to wound the girl Dora loved with a deeper truer love than she could ever give to her and she planned out many a subtle manner for wounding and sending her shafts deep er into the soul of the girl who was she told herself over and over steal ing away what rightfully belonged to her Lemuel Johnson went often to see his brother who grew civil to him after a while though at first he was surly and resented his brothers long silence and neglect Together they talked of the future and laid many plans to be carried out as soon as Joe was a little better Dr Dunwiddie still positively af firmed that he would recover but that this must needfully be slow and Joe Johnson was never possessed with pa tience enough to bear quietly much waiting And as the days passed Do lores waited and waited the dread fear shut in her heart they would come for her father from the town The subject of the mare was never mentioned among them it had dropped out of the house as suddenly and completely as though death had touched it that day Dora gave her i cousin a sketch of the feeling regard ing it in the town though not one of them understood the girls horror of it excepting it might be the one who had seen the most of her emotion Sometimes the girl was tempted to ask about it but the dread of bringing down something worse upon hersslf and her father kept her silent to suffer alone But Johnson lingered along in much the same condition in spite of the in terest of his friends or foes from week to week scarcely getting better yet growing no worse Dr Dunwiddie knitted his brows and looked very grave and puzzled many a time after his visits he did not like the appear ance of things they were going crook ed something must be done and at once He did not wish to arouse the thought of such a thing in the minds of Johnson himself or Dolores in fact he wished to keep it from Johnson more even than from his daughter for he was in such an excitable state that it went much against his recovery petulant fault finding with many a word that showed his brute nature and cruelty At or against Dolores and fate his anger and spleen were direct ed Dolores was of no use no earth ly use in the world she was without even the sense of most women and that was little enough Had she been a boy things might have been differ- 1 lilmffliti The men dropped in occasionally ent boys were 01 use And it was not enough that this ill luck of her being a girl was upon him but he must have this added to the rest to be laid up with not even the use of his feet or hands Here he was crippled help less constantly in pain scarcely able to move -without pain and there was his brother healthy florid a rich man with a fine home and the comforts of life at his disposal And what reason was there that his brother should have the gains and he the losses Was he not quite as de serving and capable of appreciating them as he Fate was a powerful master partial and many times cruel in its decrees Life was a pretty tough thing anyway scarce worth the living To lie in that hole of a room day in day out was growing unbearable nothing to do but watch the bit of sky and mountain through the tiny win dow the scent of the pines stealing through or closing his eyes to think think think his narrow thoughts that never got away from the mountains the smithy the tavern and the town until he was driven nearly wild by the thoughts that no one else ever knew though those who were with him most guessed nearer the truth The thin face grown pallid with confinement would narrow and seem to contract the small eyes Eet deep CHAPTER XX THAT GIRL of JOHNSONS and close together grew cruel and junning the coarse mouth under the scant mustache closed with sinister meaning For hours he would lie in the same position scarcely moving his long hands grown bony clutching convulsively the bed covering And to those who watched with eyes sharp ened with interest all these actions were full of meaning and proved much that had but been guessed be fore As time went by the men at the tavern got over their stiffness and dropped in occasionally through the days one or another to have a chat with Johnson but mainly to see how he bore his affliction and to know for themselves how much better off that girl of Johnsons was since her fath ers brother Lemuel he who left the settlement years before had returned Many an hour in the wide low room at the tavern or beside the door of an evoning they discussed Johsons condition and freely expressed their doubts and views as to his recovery in spite of Dr Dunwiddies assertion to the contrary While Dr Dunwiddie over in the town among his friends at Judge Greens also discussed John sons condition and decided with them that it was time something was done and done speedily or it would be too late Spare no pains nor expense Dun widdie urged Lemuel Johnson pacing up and down the pleasant parlor at Judge Greens his hands clasped be hind him his florid face and kindly eyes full of anxiety Joes got a won derful constitution always did have sinews like steel when we were young sters This illness has been heavy to bring him down so Surely there is some way of hastening his recovery and we must find it you must find it Hes got to have a fair chance for a place in life comfortable like other men and not end it all that way Why its death in life over yonder Its buried in a grave large enough to turn around in but it isnt life No wonder hes lost all ambition staying there with everybody around him duller and more listless than he ex cepting of course Dolores Shes a body one wouldnt meet always Joe doesnt appreciate her because hes incapable of judging out of such a batch of Comrades as hes got there That Lodies a good enough sort of man make an intelligent man if he had a chance but my powers such a life for man or woman Where I was born too and not a school house or church in the place and my own brothers child ignorant of even the catechism or the existence of God Do your best for him Dunwiddie never mind the cost Money is noth ing compared to a life worth living You start him on with a lair show of strength and Ill do the rest Hes the only kin I have in the world he and the girl and the Lord knows there isnt a man in tne world who wouldnt do all he could for such Eh Dora A Sudden Message Man alive exclaimed Lemuel Johnson as he stood beside his brother one morning with Dr Dunwiddie and Dr Grey explaining to him a plan by which they hoped to benefit his condi tion and hasten his recovery Man alive Joe exclaimed the excitable little man thrusting his hands into his pockets his florid face growing redder his eyes sparkling with indig nation Have you no sense at all Have you no pride no common ambi tion to get well To make a success of life Would you rather lie here growing Jess and less capable of any thing like an indolent tramp and keep on suffering straight ahead for years maybe when by perfect care in this hospital or infirmary or what ever it is in the city something may be done for you and you would be set up like a new man ready for any position and to build up as good a home as any man living Why great Scott Joe Johnson if you are my brother and the only one Ive got I must say Id be ashamed to own you if you refuse The Invalid was growing excited also He struggled up to a sitting position half reclining on his right arm and glared at his brother as an infuriated animal at bay Etd be nothin new ef ye was shamed o me he cried the veins of his forehead swelling like cords his small eyes glittering like serpents Ets no morn done all yer life I sence yer t away ter make yer money a many yfci ago Ye left er folks ter starve fer allt yeve done fer em tell just now when ye kem hyar ter gloat owver me I may be thout yer style o sense Lem John sing but I hev got ther common sense t ken tell beans when I sees em Ye neednt make outen t ye dont know what I means wells I do or them as hev lived hyar sence theys horned An theys ken tellt ye left us thout nothin an outen yer life tell jest now whent aint no use an es long es Ive got breath nough left ter tellt Ill jest say this An I aint goin ter be put in no horsepital neither where a feller ken stay forever an folksd never know but hes dead an buried I stead o livin locked up in a cell like a crimnal an kept thyar an never let out Mebby et do run in thes famly ter be shefless an no count LIFE OF KING ALFONSO Young Monarch Becoming Popular With His Subjects The young king of Spain is daily making himself more popular in San Sebastian which may be regarded as the summer capital of Spain Rising very early he goes down from Mira mer palace before 8 to San Sebastian beach for a swim He takes long rides in the valleys and across the highlands of the Basque country with out an escort but he is always in uniform and is accompanied by two aids-de-camp and two palace servants He takes great pleasure in returning the salutes of the peasantry At mid day the king attends to state business with the minister for foreign affairs Before lunch he gives audiences and generally rides again in the afternoon or drives his own four-in-hand with Queen Christina and his sisters sit ting behind him He takes an inter est in yachting in the rowing boat races in the bay and in pigeon-shooting He is already a good shot and a keen sportsman The Basques are pleased to see him interested in their national ball game styled juego de pelota Suburban Foresight The citizen of Drearyhurst was showing his visitor through the spa cious garden in the rear of the house Over there he said pointing with his cane is the turnip patch You must be a good deal fonder of turnips than I am commented the visitor Oh we dont use them on the taole his host replied We raise them to throw at the neighbors chickens Theyre cheaper than coal One Advantage Is Cleveland really as slow as peo ple say it is asked the Chicago man Its worse replied the Cincinnati urummer Why some of the resi dents of that village actually die of old age but I hev es good sense 6s ye hev Lem Johnsing an I aint ter bo tom fooled like a woman Dr Dunwiddie laid his strong hand on his shoulder and spoke to him sharply Lie down he said man and listen to us We give you the choice You shall have from now till to-morrow morning to consider after that will be too lite Choose one of two alternatives Remain just where you are from sheer stubbornness and die for die you must if you persist in this and in such a slow torturing man ner as you cannot comprehend or comply with our wishes that may doubtless be painful at first and may even end fatally I place it all before you holding back but with ten chances to one of your recovery and a long life Johnsons face lost its defiance and cunning It grew livid and paled to a deathly hue His sinister eyes were fixed on the doctors face with an expression of cowardly terror in them His brothers fit of violent temper he could meet with equal force but Dr Dunwiddies voice and manner bore as much weight as his words which were uttered clearly and calmly but which the man was unused to hearing and which therefore impressed him more than they might have done other wise full of meaning and warning as they Tvere He lay among the pillows with his face turned to the wall motionless as though he were already dead his sinewy right hand clutched the cot- Etd be nothin new ef ye was asham ed of me ering long after his brother and the doctors left not knowing that through the half open door Dolores from the outer room was watching him with a face set as his own her hands clasped passionately her lips shut close to still the cry that rose from her heart that found words only In a new wild inarticulate prayer God whom I know not forgive him forgive him But there was not a trace of this emotion upon her face or in her man ner as she stood a day or two after at the west window of the library at Judge Greens the soft brown dress Dora had fitted for her falling grace fully around her She held back the lace draperies with one arm leaning against the casing of the large French window and looked like a picture so quiet she stood flushed from the light of the sunset above Dora was sitting upon the ottoman at her feet her delicate face raised to the face above her Dora said she could sit forever at Dolores feet and watch her Dolores face was a study of which one would never tire which onevtnust study to understand which one could never fully under sCand To be continued MOVING THE WHEAT TRANSPORTATION COST LOWER ED BY PROTECTION As the Recult of Making Our Steal Rails at Home Railway Freight Charges on Agricultural Products Have Been Reduced Over Eighty Per Cent The London Statist for August 15 1903 contains a leading editorial arti cle on Mr Chamberlains colonial policy of discriminating duties from which we take the following extract We have seen that between 18G6 and 1902 the cost of carrying wheat for export from Chicago to New York was reduced by over 80 per cent roughly from a little over 23d per bushel to a little under 4Md per bush el In other words during the period referred to the cost of carriage by railway over a distance of about a thousand miles was reduced Is Gd per bushel West of Chicago the re ductions were certainly not less Hence it will be seen that during the past 40 years the reduction in the cost of land carriage has been extra ordinary Furthermore we have seen that the cost of carriage from New York to this country was reduced 2d per bushel that is to say from 3 15 lGd to 1 7 16d per bushel Alto gether therefore the cost of carrying wheat from Chicago to this country has been reduced during the past forty years from about 27d per bushel to about Gd or about 21d Is there any reason to suppose that the ex treme limit of reduction has been reached We fail to see any In this great reduction in the cost of transporting the Western farmers -heat to New York and Liverpool American steel rail makers have borne a prominent and indispensable part In 18GG we had not commenced the manufacture of steel rails and our entire supply was obtained from Great Britain who charged us 15 10s or 7543 per ton on board ship This sum did not include the cost of car- posltors with an aggregate accumula tion of 2750177000 on deposit Tak ing the year 1890 as a point of com parison it appears that since that time there has been an Increaso in the number of depositors of 1601072 and an increase in the total deposits of 843177000 This exhibit shows the remarkable Increase in seven years of 30 per cent in depositors and 40 per cent in total deposits There is no dream about all these cold millions in the banks mostly placed there by and belonging to working people The total deposits in all the banks amount to about 5000000000 of which the savings fund the money of the common people make 2750000f 000 more than half Clearly not all the money in the country Is owned by the great financiers This showing of money saved by the working people of the country be comes all the more remarkable when we take into consideration the pre vailing high prices Wages have not gone up in proportion to the univer sal increase in prices With only a little more money to buy with labor pays far more for all the comforts of life Yet the savings report shows that their share in the benefits of prosperity is no small one Another important fact is to bo gleaned from this report Of the 2750000 savings deposits the New England and Eastern States possess 2300000000 leaving only 450000 000 less than a sixth for all the Central Southern and Western States This proves not that the people of the Centra Southern and Western states are making less money than those of the East but that in their younger and more thriving communi ties there are more inducements for investment Throughout the great West farms are being paid for homes are being built natural resources are being developed and nerf industries established None of this can appear in a report of the controller of the treasury But the savings thus invested are the THE RECKLESS BOATMAN riage across the Atlantic or the duty bee Fossicks History of the British Iron Trade In 1871 we began the policy of adequately protecting our steel rail industry with the result that we were soon producing steel rails as good as those of Great Brit ain at a much lower price than her rail makers had been charging us This price was afterward steadily re duced so that millions of tons of American steel rails have been sup plied to American railroads at less than 25 per ton or less than one third the British price of 1SG6 To day the price is 28 which is exactly tne amount of the duty of 1S71 on for eign steel rails But for the great reduction in the price of steel rails to American rail roads during me period referred to by the Statist it would never have been possible for Western farmers to secure the low rates of transporta tion for their wheat that they have long enjoyed Nor could we ever have built up our magnificent steel rail industry without the help of an adequately protective duty on for eign steel rails We commend these indisputable facts to the considera tion of our Iowa friends who have been invited by Gov Commins to assist him to place steel rails in the free list It may also be worth while to consider the further fact that all Western wheat growers are protected against the competition of the wheat growers of Manitoba and other British North American provinces by a duty of 25 cents a bushel on wheat and a duty of 25 per cent on the foreign value of wheat flour Iron and Steel Bulletin LABORS SHARE Tremendous Increase of Deposits in Savings Banks People are said to sometimes pinch themselves in order to prove that some particularly pleasurable sensa tion Is not due to a dream The recent annual report of the controller of the treasury admirably serves the purpose of a pinch to as sure the public that the prosperity of the country Is no dream It proves that the country is wideawake and that the pleasureable sensation of prosperity is real From the section of his report deal ing with the funds in savings banks it appears that there are in the United States 6666672 individual de- Plgg most important of all Indeed they furnish the foundation of the coun trys prosperity Grand Rapids Her ald The Opponents of Protection Some time ago the papers opposed to a protective tariff made a great flurry because it was believed that the Republicans of Iowa would call for tariff revision What was classed as the Iowa idea it was claimed would be certain to break down the walls of profpction But prosperity and high prices for the products of the farm caused the agriculturalists of Iowa to decide that it was wise to let well enough alone But now it is claimed that the Iowa idea has switched to Minnesota and that there will be a fight there for tariff revision It is probable that the reports of the favor of tariff revision in Minnesota are largely exaggerated and that the demand there may col lapse as speedily as it did in Iowa But to tnose who think the assumed positions of Iowa and Minnesota are significant Both are agricultural states The few goods manufactured in each do not come in competition with the cheap labor of the old world Neither Iowa nor Minnesota realize the necessity nor the true benefits of protection States not practically in terested in the tariff are poor speci mens to decry its benefits When sections which have no in terest in protection oppose it the les son is that manufacturing states must stand solidly for it Philadelphia Item Industrial Absorption Said Senator Depew in London last week speaking of our prosperity The railroads have never done so much business and the absorption of agricultural and manufactured prod ucts was never so great How differ ent is the absorption of protection and the absorption of free trade The former absorbs products the latter ab sorbs producers Only One Way Reciprocity would be good for Can ada but not so good for this country Canada has everything to gain by it and nothing to lose There is only one way in which Canada can secure the benefits of American trade and that is by petition for admission Jersey City Journal HOW TO HOLD YOUR FRIEND3 Live Cheerful Optimistic Qualities Needed to Bind Them Those whp would hold friends must zultivato the qualities which are ad4 mired and which attract If you are mean stingy nnd sol fifth nobody will admiro you You must cultivate gen oroslty and large heartedncss you must be magnanimous and tolerant you must have positive qualities for a negative shrinking apologizing round about man is despised You must cultivate courage and boldness for a coward has few friends You must bellovo In yoursef If you do not others will nr beneve in you You must look upward and be hopeful cheery and optimistic No ono will be attracted to a gloomy pessimist The moment a man feels that you have a real live interest in his wel fare and that you do not ask about his business profession book or article merely out of courtesy you will get his attention and will interest him You will tie him to you just in propor tion to the intensity and unselfishness of your interest in him But if you are selfish and think of nothing but your own advancement If you are wondering how you can use everybody to help you along If you look upon every man or woman you are intro duced to as so much more possible success capital if you measure people by the amount of business they can send you or the number of new clients patients or readers of your book they can secure for you they will look upon you in the same way Success HE KNEW THE PLACE Grim Man Had Just Left Ideal Spot for Reformers The long haired young reformers were holding an informal debate and when they had agreed that the world was just about as corrupt and bad a place as it well could be a grim faced man arose What you seem to want friends he said is a place where everyone has to be good by law Thats it chorused the reformers Where smoking aint allowed and such a thing as drink is unknown Where no one need worry about food and raiment and where money does pot exist We do Where everyone has to go to church on Sundays and everyone keeps regular hours That is just what we do want Oh to find such a place said a soulful young fellow speaking for the others Well Ive just come from such a place You have cried the soulful one Oh tell us tell us man of wonderful experience where it is that we may also go Its a place called prison said the grim man Cold Comfort for Travelers Ex President Cleveland used to fish and hunt a good deal in the Barnegat Bay district John Camburn a Ware town guide says that one cold wet night Mr Cleveland got lost He wandered through the mud and rain and darkness for more than two hours and not a house could be seen not a light not a road Finally thougn he struck a narrow lane and in due course a house appear ed Mr Cleveland was cold and tired he thought he would go no further So he banged at the door till a window on the second floor went up and a gruff voice said Who are you A friend said Mr Cleveland meekly What do you want To stay here all night Stay there then And the window descended with a bang and Mr Cleveland shouldering his gun again resumed his journey wearily Today How little we think my brother When the evening shadows fail Oer the light of day As it fa lies away Forever beyond recall That the day has gone forever With the sunset of the west And the toiling- hands Of a hundred lands Are one nearer rest I But a fleeting of time to tarry In journeying down lifes way So put all your might In the good old light For now is the time today Theres sunshine in the midnight Theres starlight in the clouds If only you keep a courage true Though dire misfortune crowds J X - Its hope that will buoy ambition Its grit that will pull you through Its ever a work With never a shirk And a grim resolve to do The living present is with you Improve it while you may Procrastinate and you challenge fate Now is the time todty -Harry S Chester Elkhart Ind What the Cook Left A party of Philadelphia business men were relating their experience with rooks when one of them said he knew a man in a neighboring city who after keeping a cook for a week made a tour of inspection one night below stairs There he Ipund a policeman locked up in the pantry How did that man get there asked the gentleman severely Im sure I dont know was the ool reply he must have been left over by the last cook Walked for Union Cars Harry Estridge a machinist from Wilmington Del found himself in At lanta Ga without his union card nchough he was a member ot the Delaware unJon in good standing For this reason he was refused work in the Georgia city and walked back to Delaware where he procured the necessary paper and will return south to follow his occupation