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About The Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898 | View Entire Issue (April 21, 1898)
gg ya i ss r i I ii in i MMiigiiirtE I m Tili ii V S r fFAfS T1 THE TELL TALE TICK LZ2S112 I had knocked around In Australia for live 3ears put In a years service u India and had a whack at the Transvaal insurrectionists as a volun teer only to settle down at last as a Telegraph operator at Rocky Forks a telegraph station between Omaha and Sioux City It was y business to transfer messages between the two places and to connect with points fur ther along The next station fifteen miles fur ther up the road -was Dismal Point and here Tom Brown my oldest and truest friend operated Tom and I had roughed it all over the world together and when we settled down here it was to be near each other One day Tom telegraphed down to me that he would meet me at Rocky forks next Tuesday for a days shoot ing He said he would come down on the 5 oclock train in the morning and wait for me to get off at noon After that we would go up into the hills and shoot along the points of the ravine I liked nothing better than a days DUtmg with Tom and I quickly ticked back Avord that he could reljr on me next Tuesday as that was my day off The following day there came a mes sage through Omaha that the United Express would ship 12000000 in bul lion over the road to Sioux City the next Monday night and that the train would pass through my station Rocky Forks at S15 in the evening I tele graphed back that I understood it and then I opened up the instrument and asked Tom if he had received his mes sage yet He said that he had and would look for the train seventeen min utes earlier at Dismal Point That day and the next I passed in my usual way Sunday was unevent ful and would have seemetl long ex cept for the constant ticking of the in strument which was kept busy send ing messages about the important ship ment to be made the next day Mon day evening at 730 I looked at my watch The train will soon be along X said I guess I will call up Tom and see if he knows where it is my old friend a dagger sticking through him and fairly pinning him to the table I grasped the wooden han dle and pulled it out with all my strength only to receive his cold body in my arms Well they never found out the rob bers of the train The engineer had been struck from behind and could re member nothing and after waiting only long enough to see my old friend buried I resigned my position at Rocky Forks and struck out again But on Toms grave back in the woods at Dis mal Point I put a shaft of wood and on it I carved these words Living I will pursue you to the end of the world Dead I will come back to you Below it I put Toms name and age and vowed aloud the oath that I had there written to find the murderer of poor Tom Brown Three years later I found myself stationed at New Elsworth a suburb of New York I was in charge of a pri vate wire connecting with the New Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Com pany which communicated with all parts of the world It was one of the richest organizations of the new world and I was proud to be an operator in its employ My duty here was to transmit the private messages of the company for here the president had his summer home and here also were the trustees and those who manipulated the road Many confidential messages passed through my hands and I treated them with becoming confidence I never liked the president of the company though he lived in the handsomest-house in the place and treated me with uniform courtesy He had a cold uncertain manner that did not seem to be worthy of trust Certainly I should not have put my millions into his hands One night when he did not reach home his wife came down to the tele graph office and asked me if I had heard from him I was forced to tell her no This happened frequently and one evening when he had been late ttW ma LmlJkmMKliH LWiLVfntLauijjuiuiiiuiJiLLiiiiijjiiii jliti V kil Stifle I fn flWrlnl VwBrJwf AlJfSTlVTl 4tEU lvjMHx3Va kw iu XPt Tkvrk0rTv 4tZU iirtttjU Vl ill imb y SI A DAGGER STICKING THROUGH HIM PINNING HIM TO THE DESK I called up Dismal Point and Tom answered The express train is one station up the road said he and is ahead of time It will wait here five minutes 111 let you know as soon as it leaves here Tomorrow There was a sudden pause in the ticking and then a strange hand sent the message That is all I called up Tom again but he did not answer I kept calling but no re sponse came and I thought that the wires had become entangled I waited for the express with its 12000000 in bullion until 815 but it did not arrive Then I telegraphed up road to Tom but there was no answer I waited five minutes longer and tele graphed again but still no response The wires must be down I said I walked out upon the platform and looked up the road To my surprise I saw in the distance an engine coming toward me slowly swinging down the track As it came nearer I saw it was empty and as it passed me I board ed it Reversing the engine I started back up the road I went with such fire as I could get up back to Dismal Point Here in frontof the station stood the express car rifled of its contents Across one of the trunks the express messenger lay dead The engineer and fireman were so badly stunned that at first I thought they too were kTlled but after some time I brought breath back into the life of the former He poor fellow was too dazed to speak and I lifted him into the car thankful that he was alive When I stepped into the little station where Tom always sat an awful aight met my eyes There sitting at the In- jstrumeiit with his back to the door was j and she had made three trips in her carriage to the telegraph office he said to me To morrow I will have a pri vate wire put in my office in Pine street and when I am detained I will tele graph you and you can send a mes sage to my wife The next day the wire was put in but as the president came nome promptly that night It was not used But on the following day at 5 oclock I got a telegram from him telling me that he would not be home until 8 oclock and ordering me to send word to his wife I did so by the station messenger An hour later there came another message from the presidents office It was that he would be detained still later and telling me to send word home to that effect Is that all I asked The message came back in sharp staccato notes That Is all I leaned back In my chair cold and faint for the hand was the same that had sent me the message on the night poor Tom Brown was killed The next day I came to the city on a leave of absence to investigate the life of Anson Tryson president of the At lantic and Pacific Telegraph Company I found that three years before he had been a laborer on the Sioux City Rail road with not a dollar to his name and that his sudden rise had been the talk of Wall street Well I did not let it drop there but I hunted down the case until I proved that Anson Tryson with a gang of accomplices had robbed the express train that night and killed my old friend Tom Brown And one day I took a trip up country to see him swing for it Milwaukee Wisconsin -2 TETJL5T A COMPOSITE RIG OF THE AMERICAN GIRL THIS SPRING New License in Tailor Millinery Hats Are Now Very Elaborately Trimmed Three Tailor Dresses Got ten Up in Varying Shades of Brown Surprises of the Spring New York correspondence T once dainty and saucy in the same breath tailor made and frivolous Eng lish French and American all at once and in one rig that is what the fashionable dress er is accomplishing this season The severe fit of the strictly tailor made style has returned for the street cloth dress The figure is blocked out in a square fashion that gives value to ev ery curve and yet seems to deny cor sets and squeezing The skirt falls so close and smooth that femininity is not a bit insisted on in suggestion though it is not likely to be forgotten in effect Then the severity of fit and simplicity of outline are relieved by a little dash as if all of a sudden the demurest pair of eyes twinkled with a little wink in one of them of braiding more or less elaborately applied to bodice and skirt The petticoat underneath Is a dazzle and splash of brilliant color and a maze of audacious frills The hair there again is the flip of contrast It is a riot of half-held-back waves and curls Time was you re member when the tailor made dress im plied hair austerely smooth wound in tight and shiny flat braids in the Eng lish fashion and any other coiffure would be dicountenanced as ruining the effect of the tailor gown It is not a bit so now Now the effect of the gown is heightened and the face set between the strictly mannish collar and tie and the romping girlishness of crinkly hair is simply irresistable Yet she does not stop there On top of the American hair and saucy Yankee tilted chin and you-cant-catch-me eyes she sets a French hat or something of tJ2irt tSAJfl is attired product for how welcome usually are specifications as to the latest styles For the original of the initial picture these were mode colored cloth glove fit and trimming of fancy steel passementerie In the two jackets of the second sketch are two distinct types of cut The blazer was dark red cheviot trimmed with bias folds of black cloth and was worn over an im maculate waistcoat of white broad cloth The other was the newest box front shape in bluet cloth 1 rimmed with black soutache that was hardly larger than coarse thread The question of hats for such rigs is a serious one Of these two models the left hand one was a black straw shepherdess trimmed with cerise silk and a fine bunch of white hydrangeas The other wras turquoise blue straw trimmed with blue and white gauze cocks feathers and a most assertively fanciful buckle Tailormades have changed toward severity but what is lost in dainty suggestion by tabooing highly wrought trimming is more than made up by the new license in tailor millinery Very early this season one of our best known mens hatters as tounded his women followers by dis playing a window full of sailors trimmed out of all severity and of walking hats as gay as a Turks turban With Winding scarfa up rising aigrettes and flashes of jewels and buckles As a last flirting kick at severity behold a tilt is given to the brim of the walking hat that is even more startling than the gaiety of its composition The artistic effect of this contrast between hat and gown is excelled by new fancies It is one of those few complete changes that captivate the observer from the start rather than filling her with doubts as to whether it can ever be accepted One of the best of the latest color de- THE LATEST BLAZER AND BOX FRONT velopments consists of combinations of browns from chocolate through bronze into nasturtium gold and three rigs that carried out this scheme attractively are presented in the concluding sketch Right here it may be said that many of the women who respond to changes of style in hair coloring have dyed their locks bronze The first gown of this trio was a dull tobacco brown braided with tiny threads of red bronze It was made on a drop skirt of orange taffeta finished with lemon and tea color frills and a chocolate brown belt clasped with a copper buckle The cut was as severe as that of a riding habit so were the linen collar and the swagger of plaided yellow and brown tie but over all this as yet not seriously broken austerity was a hat of golden grass - THREE TAILOR RIGS WITH A SURPRISE TO EACH American make so suggestive of the French milliners taste and skill as to prove that there is no longer excuse for buying headgear In Paris Dress after the manner of the women pictured here and few of you will have an excuse to blame Nature very much for her outfitting let from the girl dressed to the details of her dress is a descent That fact alone speaks vol umes for the glory of the finished that woven into great soft curves and fin ished by a sunset riot of goiuen bloom In the second costume though square toed shoes English gloves and military shoulders conveyed the idea of most strict tailormade austerity there escaped right under the chin a frill of golden chiffon that matched the dash of softness and color that constituted the stock over which a pretty chin will lift Copyright 1888 66 ROMANGE OF ROOM 77 ir Ep3to rr sfTi Parted Iovers Accidentally 31eetialt and Bencw Their Vows The house must have been crowded that day or the room clerk would not have sent a drummer to 77 the bridal chamber says a Chicago paper The smell of tobacco is an evil vhing in bridal chambers and there never was but one drummer who did not smoke This smart New Yorker elevated his ayebrows when he saw the rich hang ings and gave Buttons 4 a quarter which it may be remarked was mucn more eloquent of his astonishment Mrs Parks the head housekeeper was filled with indignation at the sac rilege to -the bridal chamber She sent Susy the second floor maid to change some of the furnishings of the room to a less elaborate kind Buttons G who was passing through the hall heard a slight feminine scream from 77 soon after Susy entered After about an hour Mrs Parks no ticed that Susy had not returned She sent the hall man to investigate Come in answered his knock and he stepped on the velvet rug and paused in astonishment Susy was sitting on the sofa and the arm of the drummer was around her She was blushing fu riously but seemed otherwise uncon oGrnwL I was sent for you miss began the hall man Well you can tell Mrs Parks that I am not coming that I have quit the hotel She point ed to the table where her cap and apron her emblems of office lay dis carded The hall man had npt the gift of speech he retreated Presently came the head housekeeper the head clerk and the head porter The clerk after the manner of his kind was smooth May we ask what the mean ing of this is he said The drummer spoke Susy here and I were engaged back in Connecti cut four years ago had a quarrel and separated I went to New York and she came here to Chicago We lost sight of each 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