The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, April 08, 1904, Image 7
K t i 4 y -- x m r c - r M7 B tfiTSKt v CHAPTER SIX Continued Isnt It good to foe an American asked Jessie as her hand stole into Johns Just then a full rigged ship making from Boston Harbor spread her sails and stood out past them Jessie looked at her as Lohengrin might have looked at the swan and whispered Wasnt it Longfellow who stood vhero and felt with us My oul Is full of loiigliip For the secret of the sen And the heurl of the great ocean Sends a thrilling pulse through me Yes Jessie not only Longfellow hut Emerson Hawthorne Thoreau and Channing dreamed here said John But Jessie poetry makes poor feeding Im hungry So am I laughed Jessie Come on Ill race you to the inn and she sprang to her saddle before John could assist her Picking their way carefully down the steep hill they reached the hard roadbed Then Jessie spoke to her hoi so and dashed ahead She was a good rider and though it was a close race John gallantly conceded defeat In the dining room were many guests from Boston and they united to make a merry party It was three oclock when they started again for Nantas ket The five miles they covered at a cantor As John helped Jessie from her horse at Nantaskct some one touched him on the shoulder John turned I Iaou de ye dew John exclaimed a strange figure of a man standing there all grins I swan Im glad ter see ye up an round agin Haou de yc dew John Haou air ye All right Sam said John shaking hands Sam was the country sport of Rocky Woods with a fame extending to Co hasset and not wholly unknown in Hingham It was Saturday and Sam was in gala attire He was tall and w iii ii ir irTl V H IIjqhn btot1 assail L ol AaUw7 Tbo Cftta3PPcd Millionaires Colons Monrooa Doctrine Etc g HT f oi Corvmoirr 1902 dt I All rights I Coptiuout 1W3 r ESQ CVP FuKDniiI K Upuam ADAiS reserved A J Dubxkij limn bis Icvj I V this no account Jones It takes a pow erful long time ter clean a cistern out proper Bill an Gus is down stairs waitin fer yc Lets play cm one game an then ye can go home an pull the old woman up As I said before its always dark down in Jones basement an none on em took any account on what was goin on You know how it rained yesterday momin It started in tew pour long about nine oclock Sam paused to laugh When old man Shaw came out er Jones basement the gutters was full of water an the rain was comin downin sheets For three hours it had been rainin cats an dogs Old man Shaw was plumb scared ter death He ran all the way home Every time he looked at a gutter spout he nearly fainted away He come tew his place an ran round the back way He looked down the hole an saw noth in but water Sallie Sallie he hollered The old woman was standin on top the bottom of the pail up agin the wall The water was up tew her chin but she was mad all over an she hadnt lost her voice Yeve come at last Bill Shaw have ye she said You haul me outer here quickern scat an when I gets up Ill scratch yer eyes out Ye done this on purpose Ye haul me out an Ill fix ye fer this days work The old man lowered a rope an after a hard tussle hauled her up The neighbors say she mopped him all over the yard an I say it sarved him right Sam related several other incidents in the career of the Shaws and Jessie laughed until the tears ran down her cheeks They bid Sam good day and watched him until he disappeared with the famous trotter in a cloud of dust After supper they waited for the ris ing of the full moon They saw the fzzoir jD pz jQ7 jovp i3Gymxz7 awkward His large good natured mouth wide open displayed rows of white teeth his small blue eyes twin kled shrewdly and his ears stood clear of a mass of red hair John glanced at Jessie and the laughter in her eyes was a sufficient hint Miss Carden let me present Mr Rounds a schoolmate and neighbor Sam doffed his cap with a sweeping bow Delighted ter meet ye Miss Car den he exclaimed with a sincerity which did not belie his words He ex tended a huge hand Have often seen ye rid in by and heerd all erbout that air runerway I swan that was a mighty ticklish shave fer ye Miss Carden Tell ye what lets do Lets have some sody water an ice cream Its my treat to day Sold a boss this mornin an made forty two dollars clean profit on him Im great on bosses Miss Carden John here runs ter books an studyin an all that But as I say my strong holt is hosses They say we all has our little weak nesses present company of course expected Lets go an git that sody an ice cream And Sam led the way to a pavilion and impressively or dered the suggested refreshments Jessie engagetl Sam in conversation laughing merrily at his odd remarks and stories He pointed to an old farmer who drove past in a rickety wagon There goes old man Shaw said Sam He lives down the road from our house an hes a great character Yesterday mornin Mrs Shaw told the old man the cistern orter be cleaned out It hadnt rained fer so long that the water was all gone and she lowed it was a good chance tew clean it out Old man Shaw lowed she was right but said his rheumatics was so all fired bad it wouldnt dew fer him tew o down intew no damp place like a cistern so he lowered the old woman an sent her down a pail of water an some soap an a scrubbin brush Ill go down tew the postoffice an see if thares a letter an then come back and pull ye out he hollered down the openin She said All right an went tew work Old man Shaw went tew the postoffice asked fer a letter an of course thare warnt none He started back an was just passin the cobblers place when he met Jones Whare ye goin he asked old man Shaw The old womans cleanin the cis tern an Ive got tew go home an haul her out says Shaw She aint got it done yet says stately orb of night break above the oceans rim and blend its white light with the pink afterglow of sunset Eathed in her flood they turned their horses homeward riding through a shadowed and shimmering fairyland The gnarled and wind wrenched ap ple trees were etched in lines of weird beauty against the sky The rugged stone walls were softened and faded away into dreamy perspectives In the years which followed how the scenes and incidents of that summer came back to John Burt Under many skies he recalled the happy hours spent with Jessie Carden Again he drilted with her in a boat floating at will of breeze and tide her hand trail ing in the water and the murmur of her voice in his ears Again they walked down the wooded path while the black of the night stood like a wall in front of them and Jessie clutched at his arm when an owl sounded his solemn cry Jessie was going to Yassar and John had passed the examination which admitted him to Harvard He found that he could study much better under the shade of the Bishop trees than in any other spot and Jessie held the text books while he recited The weeks gilded by like a dream One day in autumn he stood by her side on the station platform in Hing ham As the train rumbled in some thing rose to his throat and a film stole over his eyes Good by John Good by Jessie The train glided out from the sta tion a little hand fluttered a lace handkerchief from a window a sun burned pair waved in reply Jessie had gone back to Boston CHAPTER SEVEN Arthur Morris When Randolph Morris had amassed a couple of millions in New York bank ing and stock manipulation he decided to establish a New England country place in keeping with his wealth and station He selected a site near Hing ham overlooking Massachusetts bay with a distant view of the ocean For 3ears workmen were busy with the great stone mansion Terraces ver dant in turf gave beauty to the sur rounding rocks now softened with vines Stables conservatories and lodges lent new distinction to the land scape The eldest of the Morris children was Arthur the heir to the bulk of the Morris fortunes His age was twenty-four and his experience in certain matters that of a man of forty He 1111111 hnn onimmlMalaaWm n itjmatiycipif was of medium height and stocky build with features of aristocratic mold but weakened and puffed as from habitual excesses He had recently attained the notoriety of an unconditional ex pulsion from Yale His name hac1 figured In New York prints in an esca pade with a foreign actress but the story was denied and suppressed be fore it reached the usual climax Commencement days were past One June morning Jessie Carden arrived in Hingham and was met by Mr and Mrs Bishop In the old family car riage Arthur Morris also chanced to be at the station As Jessie Carden ran forward and affectionately greeted her relatives Arthur Morris gazed at her with a scrutiny too close to be condoned as a well bred stare She wore a gray traveling dress and look ed so charming that one might be pardoned for an almost rude admira tion Gad but shes a beauty he ex claimed as Jessie stopped into the car riage Thank God theres at least one good looking girl in the neighbor hood Who the devil is she Stranger I suppose James he said in a low voice addressing his tiger get in and be ready to take the horses if I tell you Yes sir replied the boy solemnly raising a gloved hand to his hat Un der a strong curb the horses followed the Bishop vehicle Delighted to return to the country Jessie Carden little suspected that her arrival had so aroused the blase blood of the banker millionaires son It was a long drive but at last Arthur Morris saw the carriage turn into the Bishop yard He drove leisurely past the place till he regained the main road On the old bridge spanning the creek he met a young man in a light road wagon Morris halted his team and signaled the driver with a wave of his hand I say who lives in the big house to the south on this side of the road Mr Bishop lives there Mr Thom as Bishop replied John Burt Thanks said Arthur Morris with a short bow Any daughters Im a new comer in this locality he ex plained with a smile meant to be con fiding Mr Bishop has no daughter said John proud to give information on a subject so dear to him The young lady in their carriage was probably Miss Carden She spends the sum mer seasons with them Shes ex pected to day from Boston Carden Carden repeated Mor ris as if the matter were merely of passing moment I fancy Ive heard of her people Her father is a Boston banker Ah yes I know Lovely old place that of the Bishops isnt it Fine old gables and an air of age Pilgrim Fathers and all that sort of thing dont you know Think Ill try to in duce the governor to buy it Lovely day Delighted to have met you Mr Mr Brown Git up you brute and the tandem was lashed past John Burt That evening after dinner Arthur Morris found his father in the li brary For some time both smoked in silence I say governor said Arthur as if the thought had suddenly occurred to him do you know any Cardens in Eoston I know Marshall Carden the bank er growled the millionaire What about him Oh nothing much rejoined the son carelessly Whats he worth Hes worth more than hell be again said Randolph Morris grimly Hes in L O stock up to his neck If you knew as much about stocks as you do about trousers that would mean something to you but it doesnt Carden is supposed to be worth half a million When he gets through with L O some one else will have the money and hell have experience What do you want to know about Carden Has he a daughter The old man looked sharply at Arthur Morris To be continued One on Senator Overman Senator Overman was recently in North Carolina to act as attorney for defendants in a murder trial He climbed into a bootblacks chair in Salisbury one day The negro boy was rather bright and the senator en gaged him in conversation Who is the governor of this state asked the senator I loan no boss was the reply for which the senator chided the boot black Gov Charlie Aycock is very popular in the old North state and Democrats think everybody ought to know his name The polishing of the senators shoes proceeded and the negro lad seemed to be in a mental abstraction But he soon broke the silence Boss he inquired who am the gubehnor of Mississippi The senator had to admit that he could not remember Washington Post Advisers of the Czars The great czars of Russia somebody said when they want a man go out into the street and find one It is another way of saying that the czars ministers spring from nowhere It is almost true Russia has had an em press who began life as a peasant and married a Swedish dragoon and it was an Armenian who all but destroyed the autocracy of the czars and set Russia among the progressive nations Sergius De Witte descendant of a Dutchman started at a wayside rail way station on a career which has brought him almost at the head of the state So too with the man who to day holds the key of all the mysteries of the great Russian war machine Alexei Nicholaievitch Kuropatkin be gan life as a sublieutenant London Answers A TEIFLE PREMATURE THE HON CHARLES A TOWNES DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM Would Have His Farty Commit Itself to Many Strange Reforms Consti tutional Amendments and Some Platitudes to Fill In The Hon Charles Arnette Towne whose Democracy is by Silver Repub licanism out of Republicanism has written a platform for the St Louis convention Any sketch of this sort should be received kindly but Mr Towncs proposal that the Democratic party guarantee ultimate statehood or independence to colonies or depen dencies of the United States seems decidedly premature He speaks of the anomalous relation of such de pendencies to the government The relation of Alaska is anomalous but nobody is excited about it The Democrats have tried reasserting the verity of the Declaration of Independ ence as Mr Towne says The less Miey have to say about that smashed scarecrow of imperialism the better for them Independence for the Philippines is out of the question for the present at any rate As for ultimate statehood that is too far off Americans are able to wait for the ultimate The immediate is their business What principles marked imme diate has Mr Towne Revision of the tariff on a revenue basis All right if the Democratic protectionists are not too numerous Economy in public expenditures honesty in ad ministration Ancient and fishlike every party is for economy and hon esty on paper Mr Towne would declare against every form of special privilege and monopoly existing either by virtue or n a moved only by an unselfish desire t restore its prestige which It has los partly through u combination of cir cumstances over which it had no con trol but principally through the In ability of tios responsible for its wel fare to agteo upon a line of pollcj which would recommend it to tha kindly consideration of the people There is not to be sure much of a chance for the Democratic party at present The immediato outlook for Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democra cy is dark But the work of upbuild ing might be commenced Nobody can tell what may happen four years hence and if not then eight years hence or twelve years hence But what do we find Discord every where Democrats in New England saying mean things about Arthur Pue Gorman Democrats in the West utter ing inexcusable things about G rover Cleveland Democrats in Indiana form ing factions on the sides of William Randolph Hearst and Thomas Taggart Democrats in Chicago calling the Hon Carter H Harrison a little speckled breeches ingrate traitor and outcast Democrats everywhere denouncing other Democrats as no Republicans would denounce them even in the heat of a campaign It seems next to impossible for any of the many really great men in the Democratic party to escape the fury of the factionists It matters not whether he comes from the North the South the East or the West the mo ment the name of a natural leader is mentioned for the highest office within the gift of the American people his party associates who ought to be throwing bouquets begin to hurl abuse at him Chicago Inter Ocean MERELY CROAKERS Men Who Predict All Sorts of Calami ties as the Result of the Tariff Nobody will talce seriously the hys terical calamity croak of Congressman TORPEDOED - f - r yff by permission of the laws The patent laws for example Having reasserted the verity of the Declaration Mr Towne proceeds to reassert and repair the Constitution We should pledge ourselves to re spect the limitations ot the Constitu tion and to restore the co ordinate dig nity of the Congress in our system We should declare in favor of con stitutional amendments authorizing the direct election of United States senators and the enactment of an in come tax Respect the limitations of the Con stitution by changing it Restore the co ordinate dignity of the Congress whatever that means by making the senate a six year house Mr Towne wants to restore the action of the Federal government to the principles of Washington and Jefferson which were not precisely the same we be lieve At any rate Washington and Jefferson were for representative gov ernment according to the Ccnstitution a form not direct and popular enough for Mr Towne It would seem a little more Demo cratic to propose that the several States should levy an income tax if they choose but Mr Townes Democ racy is liberal and composite Surely there must be plenty of Democrats who are willing to stick to the constitution instead of trj ing to plaster it with amendments DEMOCRATS IN A SNARL Internal Dissensions Wreck What Little Hope They Have It is really too bad that the natural leaders of the national Democratic party cannot come together save in the way of head end or rear end col lisions For more than forty years the yearnings of all true friends of the country for an intelligent and ener getic Opposition have been disappoint ed if we except the two brief periods in which Grover Cleveland was appar ently the leader of the Democracy Even in these periods however the natural leaders of the party of Jeffer son and Jackson were divided and when Mr Cleveland retired from the Presidency for the last time at least one half of those who should have ex pressed regret made no effort to con ceal their satisfaction The country would be glad to see the natural leaders of one of our great partes come together like brothers Lovering of Massachusetts to the effect that our boasted prosperity is fast coming to an end Intense devo tion to a single idea has a tendency to warp the judgment and upset the equi librium as to other matters Mr Lov erings single idea is the passage of his bill to facilitate the payment of tariff rebates There was once a man who insisted that unless his theory concerning the procession of the equi noxes were instantly and universally adopted there was great danger that the world would wake up some morn ing and find itself without any equi noxes at all Congressman Lovering is equally in earnest about his draw back bill If that fails look out for the burst of our great bubble of pros perity Not long ago Bourke Cochran Tam manys appointee to a seat in Con gress made a speech in which he went even further than Mr Lovering and declared that net only was the claim of 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