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TITO NORTII PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. CREDIT AGENCIES RECOMMENDED ASPIRIN Name "Bayer" on Genuino Chairman of Congressional In vestigating Committee Out lines Needs of Farmers. SHOULD BE SELF-SUSTAINING Copyright br Kathleon Norrlt ' "I'M Tin ED." Hynopsls--Doctor Strickland, re tired, la living In Mill Vnlley, neor 6an Francisco. His family consists of his daughters, A llx, S, and Cherry, 18, and Anne, his nlerc, U. Their closest friend Is I'otr Joyce, h lovable sort of recluse. Martin Uoyd, a visiting mining engineer, wlnH Cherry, niurrloH her and car ries her off to Kl NMo, a mlno town. I'ctor realizes that he loves Cherry. .luslln Utile wooh Anne. Cherry comes home for Anno'H wedding. Cherry realizes her mar riage Is a failure, l'oter tells Cher ry of his "grand passion," without naming tlio girl. Mnrtln cotnes for Ctierry. CHAPTER VIII. Martin's work was In the Contra Costa vnlloy, and he and Cherry had a small house In Red Creek, tins only toivn of any size near the mine. Hod Creek wns In u frult-furmlng and dairy region and looked Us prettiest on tlio spring cvenlnu when Clierry saw (t first. Her llttl house was a cottage with a porch running across tlie front, whoro windows looked out from the sitting room and the front bedroom. Back of theso rooms were a dark III tlo bathroom Hint connected the front bedroom with another smaller bed room, u little dining room and n kitchen. Mnrtln, mau-fashlon, had merely camped In kitchen and bedroom while awaiting his wife; but Clierry buttoned on her crisp little apron on the first morning after her arrival, and attacked the accumulated dishes In the sink and the scattered shirts and J collars bravely. ' For a few week the novelty lasted nmt CJUorrv was enthusiastic about everything. She looked out across her dlshpn at green Holds and the begin ning of the farms; she saw the lilacs burst Into fragrant plumes on the bare branches of her doorynrd tree; spring flushed the wholo world with loveliness, and she was young, and hcnlthy, nnd too busy to be home sick. The duys went on and on, each bringing Its round of dishes, beds, sweeping, marketing, folding and un folding tablecloths, going hack and forth between kitchen nnd dining room. Martin's breakfast was either promptly served and well cooked, In which case Martin was silently satis fied, or It was late and a failure, when he was very articulately disgusted ; In either ense Chorry was left to clear and wash and plan for another menl In four hours more. She soaked fruit, beat up cake, chopped boxes Into kindlings, heated u kettle of water nnd nnothcr kettle of water, dragged sheets from the bed only to replaco them, (Hied dishes with food only to Und them empty and ready to wash again. "I get sick of it!" she told Martin. "Tell, Lord I" ho exclaimed. "Don't you think everybody does? Don't 1 get sick of my work? You ought to have the responsibility of It all for n while!" Ills tono was humorously reproving rather than unkind. But such a speech would till Cherry's eyes with tears and cause her to go about the house atl morning with a heavy heart. Sho would And herself looking thoughtfully at Martin In these days, studying him as If ho were an utter stranger. It bewildered her to feel thnt he actually was no more than that, after two years of marriage. She not only did not know him, but she nai a naiiicu sense tnat the very nearness of their union prevented her from seeing him fairly. She knew that sho did him Injustice In her thoughts, It must ho Injustice, decided Cherry. For Martin seemed to her less clever, less just, less Intelligent, and less gcnerouH thun the average man of her acquaintance And yet he did not seem to impress other people in the way be Impressed her. He wits extraordinarily healthy, und had small sympathy for Illness, weak ness, far the unfortunate, and the complaining. He whistled over his dressing, read the paper at breakfast, nnd was gone. At noon he rushed In always into, devoured jus luncii up prcclatlvely, und was gone again. At night ho was usually tired, inclined to qunrrcl about small matters, inclined to (llsapprovo of the new positions of the bedroom furniture, or the way Cherry's hair was dressed. He loved to play poker and was bos pltnblo to n certain extent, llo would whistle nnd Joke over tho prepara Hons for u rarebit after u game, und would willingly wulk live blocks for beer If Cherry had forgotten to get It On Sunday be liked to sco her prettily gowned; now nnd then they motored with his friends from the mine; more often walked, ute a hearty chicken dinner, and went to u cold supper In the neighborhood, with "Five Hun dred" to follow. At ten their hostess would flutter Into her kitchen; there would be lemonade and beer and rich layer cake. Then tho men would be gin to match poker hands, und tho women to discuss hubles In low tones Cherry never saw her husbund so animated or so Interested us when men he had known before chanced to drift Into town, inlnlug men from Ne vada or from Hi Ntdo, or men he had known In college. They would dis cuss personalities, would shout over recollected good times, would slap each other on the back and laugh tirelessly. .She thought him an extremely dim cult man to live with, and was angered when her hints to Ibis effect led him to remark that she was the "limit." They bad a serious quarrel one day, when he told her that she was the most seltlsh and spoiled woman he hnd ever known. lie called her at tention to the other women of tlio town, busy, contented women, sending children off to school, settling babies down fot naps In sunny doorynrds, cooking and laughing and hurrying to and fro. "Yes, and look at them I" Cherry said with ready tears. "Shabby, thin, tired all Hie time!" "The trouble with you Is," Mnrtln said, departing, "you've been told that you're pretty and sweet all your life and you're spoiled ! You are pretty, yes " he ndded, more mildly. "Hut, by George, you sulk so much, and you crab so much, that I'm darned If I see It any more! All I see Is trouble 1" With this ho left her. Left her to a burst of angry. tours, at first, when she dropped her lovely little head on the blue gingham of her apron sleeve und cried bitterly. The kettb' began to sing on the stove, a bee 'came In and wandered nbout tine hot kitchen; the grocer knocked, ami Cherry let the big lout ' "' "! "J ''aiing. '''hen she went swiftly Into the bed- '"" '''' !" rhnnge. l'i''l '""' Mnrtln Lloyd she'd show Martin Lloyd I She was going straight lo Dad shed take the take the She frowned. She had missed the nine o'clock train; she must wait for the train at half-past two. Walt where? Well, she could only wait here. Very tvojl, she would wait here. She would not get Martin any lunch, and when he raged she would explain. She finished her packing and put the house In order. Then, In unaccustomed mld-mornlug leisure, she sank into a deep rocker and began to read. Quiet and shade and order reigned In the little house. Steps came bounding up to Cherry'B door; her heart began to heat; n knock sounded. She got to her feet, puzzled ; Martin did not knock. It was .loe Itoblnson, his closest friend at the mine. "Say, listen, Mrs. Lloyd ; Mart can't get homo to dinner." said .Toe. "He don't feel extra well he was In the "He Was in the Engine Room nnd He Kinder Fainted." engine room and he kinder he kinder " "Fainted?" Cherry turning a little pale. asked sharply, "Well, kinder. Luwson made him lay down," Joe said. "And he's com ing home when tho wagon conies down, at three o'clock, lie suys to tell you he's lino!" "Oh. thank you, Joel" Cherry said. She shut the door, feeling weak and frightened. She Hew to unpack her hug, hung up her hat nnd coat, dark ened the bedroom and turned down the bed; waited anxiously for Mart's return. She was deeply concerned over the news from Martin. Clierry met his limp form at the front door, and whisked him Into a cool bed and put chopped Ice on the aching forehead and got him, grateful and penitent, off to sleep. For a day or two Martin stayed In bed and Cherry spoiled and potted him, and was prnlseu unit thnnked for every step she took. After that they took a little trip Into the mountains near by, and Cherry sent Allx post cards that mado her sister feel almost a pang of envy. Hut then the routine began again, und mo renrrui heat of midsummer cuuie, too. Hod Creek baked In n smother of dusty heat, the trees in the dry orchards, beside the dry road, dropped circles of hot shadow on the clodded, rough earth. Farms dozed under shimmering lines of dazzling air and In the village, front ten o'clock until the afternoon began to wane. there was no stir. Files buzzed and settled on screen doors, the creek shrunk away betwen crumbling rocky banks, the butcher closed his shop and milk soured In the bottles. The Turners and some other fami lies always camped together In the mountains during this season, nnd they were off when school closed, In an enviable state of ecstasy and anticipa tion. Cherry hnd planned to Join them, but an experimental week-end was enough. The camp wns In the cool woods, truly, but It was disorderly, swarming with children, the tents were small and hot. the whole settlement laughed and rioted and surged to and fro In a manenr utterly foreign to her. She returned, to tell Martin thnt It was "horribly common" and weather Ihe rest of the summer In Ited Creek. Martin sympathized. He had never eared particularly for the Turners; was perfectly willing to keep the friendship within bounds, He sympathized as little with an other friendship she made, some months later, with the wife of n young engineer who had recently come lo the mine. Pauline Hunynn was a few years older than her husband, a hand some, thin, Intense woman, who did everything In an entirely Individual way. She took one of the new little bungalows that were being erected In Ited Creek "Park," and furnished It richly and Inappropriately, and cstnh llshed a tea table nnd a samovar be side the open llroplnce. Cherry began to like better than anything else In the world the hours spent with Pnullne. Pauline read Browning, Francis Thompson and Pnter, and Introduced Cherry to new worlds of thought. She talked to Cherry of New York, which she loved, and of the men and women she had met there. She sometimes sighed and pushed the bright hair hack from Cherry's young and Innocent and discontented little fnce, and said ten derly: "On the stnge, my dear any where, anywhere, you would be n furore !" And thinking, In the quiet evenings for Martin's work kept him Inter and later at the mine Clierry came to see that her marriage had been a grent mistake. She had not been ready for marriage. She would sit on the hack steps, as the evenings grew cool er, and watch the exquisite twilight fade, and the sorrow and beauty of life would wring her heart. A dream of ease and adoration and henuty came to her. She did not visu alize any speclul Jace, .any special gown or hour or person. Hut she saw her beauty fittingly environed; she saw cool rooms, darkened against tills blaz ing midsummer glare; heard Ice clink ing against glass; the footsteps of at tentive maids; the sound of cultivated voices, of music and laughter. She had hud these dreams before, but they were becoming hnbltuul now. She was so tired so sick so bored with her real life; It was becoming Increasingly harder and harder for her to live with Martin. She was always in a sup pressed state of wanting to break out. to shout at him brazenly : "I don't care If your coffee Is weak! I like it weak ! I don't care If you don't like my hat 1 do! Stop talking about yourself I" Various little mannerisms of his be gun seriously to annoy her; a rather grave symptom, had Cherry but known It. He danced his big lingers on the handle of the sugar spoon at break fast, sifting the sug.ir over his cereal ; she had to turn her eyes resolutely away from the sight. He blew his nose, folded his liandkerchlef, and then brushed his nose with It firmly left and right; she hated the little performance that was never altered. He liad certain mental slowness; would blink nt her politely nnd patiently when she flashed plans or hopes at him : "I don't follow yu, my dear!" This mado her frantic. She wns twenty, undisciplined und exacting. She had no reserves within herself to which she could turn. Had things were hopelessly bad with Cher ry; her despairs were the dark and tearful despairs of girlhood, proma turely transferred to graver mntters Martin was quite right In some o ins contentions; giri-iiKc, sue was spasmodic und unsystematic In he housekeeping; she hnd times of being discontented nnd selfish. She hated economy und the need for careful mun aging. In October Allx chanced to write her a long and unusually gossipy let ter. Allx hud a new gown of black grenadine, nnd she had sung nt nn nftemoon ten, nnd hnd evidently sue ceeded in her first venture. Also they hnd bad n mountain climb nnd en closed were snapshots Peter had taken on the trip. Clierry picked up tho little kodnk prints; thero were tour or five of them She studied them with a pang nt he heart. Allx In a loose rough cont with her hair blowing In tho wind nnd the peaked crest of Tnmalpals bo hind her Allx busy with lunch boxes Allx standing on tlio old bridge by the mill, A wave of homesickness swept over the younger sister; life nsted bitter, She hated Allx, bnted 'eter; above all she hated herself. She wanted to bo there, In Mill Vnlley, free to play nnd to dream again A day or two later she told Martin kindly und steadily that she thought had nil "been a mlstnke." She told i him that sho thought the only dlgnl- ed thing to do was to part. She liked lilin ; she would always wish him well, nit since the love had gone out of their relationship, surely It was only honest o end it. 'Wlint's the matter?" Martin de manded. "Nothing special," Cherry assured Im, her eyes suddenly wuterlng. "Only in tired of It nil. I'm tired of pre- ending. I cun't nrgue about It. Hut know It's the wise thing to do." "You'd go back to your father, 1 suppose?" Martin said, yawning. "Until I could get Into something," 'berry replied with dlglnlty. A vague bought of the stage flitted through her mind. "Oh!" Mnrtln snld politely. "And suppose you think your father would gree to this delightful nrrangoment?" e nsked. "I know he would!" Clierry an swered eagerly. 'All right you write and ask him!" Martin agreed good-naturedly. Cherry was surprised nt his nttltudc, but grateful more than surprised. "Not cross, Mart?" she asked. "Not the least In the world!" he nswered lightly. "Because I truly believe that we'd oth be happier " the woman snld hesitatingly. Martin did not answer. The next day she snt down to write her fnther. She meditated, with a troubled brow. Her letter was unex pectedly hard to compose. She could not tnkc a bright and simple tone, nsk- Ing her fnther to rejoice In her home- oinlng. Somehow the matter persisted in growing henvy und the words twisted themselves about Into ugly ind selfish sounds. Cherry was young. but even to her youth the phrases, the misunderstood" and the "uncongen ial," the "friendly parting before uny ilttemess creeps In," nnd the "free to decide our lives In some hupplcr and wiser way," rang false. Pauline hnd been divorced n few years ago, and the only thing Cherry disliked In her friend was her cold nnd resentful references o her llrst huband. No, she couldn't be n divorced wom an. It was all spoiled, tlie innocent past and the future; there was no way out! She gave up the attempt nt a letter and began to annoy Martin with talk of a visit home again. "What you want to go for?" "Oh, Just just " Cherry's Irrepres sible tears nngered herself nlmost ns much ns they did Mnrtln. "I think they'd like me to!" sho faltered. "Go If you want to!" he said, but she knew she could not go on thnt word. "That's It," sho said at last to her self, In one of her solitary hours. "I'm murrled and this Is marriage. For the rest of my lite It'll be Mnrt and I Mart and I In everything ! For richer, for poorer; for bettor, for worse that's marriage. He doesn't heat me and we have enough money, nnd per haps thoi! nre u lot of other women worse off than I am. But It's It's funny." "Dad ill. Don't worry. Come if you can." (TO UK CONTINUED.) TOO MUCH FOR MRS. SMITH She Couldn't Allow Her Old Friend Mrs. Brown, to Keep Up Her Bragging Remarks. Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Smith were neighbors, both were fat and both were extremely sensitive nbout it. Both tried every method they could hear of for losing weight, nnd, until this summer, both continued to guln. Mrs. Brown went West early in the sorlni: and while there managed in some way to lose nearly thirty pounds. When she came back Airs. Hmltu snw her step from the taxi and realized that her neighbor had accomplished what to her seemed unuttulnable. "Hello, deurio," called Mrs. Brown. "Don't you think my trip has agreed with mo? Four months In the West certainly make a difference In one!" Jealousy seized Mrs. Smith. The Idea of Mrs. Brown brugglng thnt way just because sho weighed a few pounds less! "You have fallen oft marvclously, dear," Mrs. Smith replied. "When you stepped out of tho taxi I never would have known you, only for your hat I" Portland's Famous Houses. In Portland, Me., near tho water front, there stands, side by side, two weather-beaten, neglected houses. One of them is tho houso In which Long fellow was horn ; In tlie other, Thomas B. Reed, "tho czar of tho house," first saw tho light. But as far as Portland Is concerned they are Just plain houses. Must be Comprehensive Enough to Meet the Requirements of the Large Farmer Borrower, but also Small Farmer Borrower. Washington, D. C. Permanent agen cies should be established to provide credit, running from six months ta three years, for farmers' production and mnrketlng purposes, to fill the gup between short nnd long-time credit furnished by existing banking systems, Chnlrmun Anderson of the congres sional commission invcstlgntlng agri cultural conditions declared. There Is "Immediate, imperative and conclusive necessity of setting up permanent machinery," he snld. The proposed credit, the statement continued, must bo of such character as to conform to the farmers' turnover and of sufficient flexibility to meet the requirement of different localities and commodities. Mr. Anderson contended that tho credit should bo extended "for a time sufficient to cnnble pay ment to be mado out of the earnings of the farm, -without frequent renewals, which ndd to the expense of the bor rower In fees nnd commissions." Declaring machinery of sufficient scope can bo established only through federal legislation, the chnlrman hold that, onco established, It should be self-sustaining and should require no government support except possibly for the Initial capital required. A system established by such machinery, he con tinued, must be comprehensive enough to meet the requirements not only of the large farmer borrower, but the small farmer borrower. On completion of its Inquiry the com. mission, Mr. Anderson predicted, would be able to recommend to congress "n definite concrete plan." which, be added would "complement the credit facilities now offered through the farm loan nnd tho federal reserve system, and would give to the American fnrmcr the most comprehensive nnd fexlhle credit system in tlie worW." Taxpayers Receive Warning. "Washington, D. C. Taxpnyers were warned by tho internal revenue bureau against attempting to reduce their tax payments by the use of '.'formulae." Certain self-styled "Income tax ex perts," the bureau announces, arc ad vising their clients from 30 to 45 per cent of their excess profits tnx. can bo saved by the use of "formulne" such as capitalizing all earnings in excess of the average capital employed nnd setting, up this excess amount as good will. Increase In Fraternal Insurance. Chicago, 111.. Tremendous gnlns in Insurance business nnd membership have been made by fraternal organiza tions during the last year, according td reports mndo to the National Fraternal Congress of America, in session hero Insurnncc in force with the 88 bodies comprising the congress nt the begin ning of 1fl20 nmountod to $r,200.347,007 At the close of 1020 It wns $5,407,846, 829. Use Chloroform on Chickens. Chicago, HI. Chicken thieves are now using chloroform, It was revealed when Charles Clapham of Llbertyvllle overslept because his rooster failed tc crow. An Investigation revealed only a few feathers nnd a strong odor of chloroform. The drug had been used to Induce the fowls to yield without resistance. Labor Ready to Aid. Atlantic City, N. .1. Organized labor Is ready to consider nny Invitation from the government to participate In a conference with a view of solving unemplyment, Snmuel Gompers, pres Ident of the American Federation ot Labor, announced at the closing ses sion of the federation's executlvo coun cil. Drive for Reduced Rents. Farmers of Tama county, Iown, nre Invited to a mass meeting to bo held near Tama, for the purpose of forming nn organization to obtain lower farm rents, according to a clrculnr Issued. All "farm renters nnd conscientious land owners" nre invited to attend the meeting, according to tho circular which 1b "for tho purpose of putting down farm rents to a lower hnsls, to be In accord with tlie prices that farmers nro receiving for their grnln nnd pro duco; also to put a bun on profiteering as the war is over." Senator Norrts Regaining Health. Washington, D. C. Senntor Norrls of Nebraska, who collapsed In the scnato several weeks ago, Is Improving rapidly, nccordlng to word from the Wisconsin woods where he is recuper ating. Navy Dirigible Destroyed. Rocknway Point, N. Y. Fire swept at the naval air station hangar at tho Rockaway Point station hero. A amnll dirigible was destroyed. Naval ofllcers snld no one was Injured. Warning! Unless you sec the name "Bayer" on package or on tablets you are uot getting genuine Aspirin pre scribed by physicians for twenty-one years nnd proved safe by millions. Take Aspirin only as told In the Bayer package for Colds, Headache, .Neural gia, Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache, Lumbago nnd for Pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve Bayer Tablets of As pirin cost few cents. Druggists also sell larger puckages. Aspirin Is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacotlcacldestcr of Sallcyencld, Advertisement. Sympathy Is the very soul of life. Tho war has made table linen very valuable. 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The quite common possession of the same recipe Indicates that dandelions this year may bo selling by the Indi vidual dandelion. "Packed like sardines" Is nn old, old misstatement for crowded h man bclnga. Sardines are greased before they nre packed. Salvador Is trying to snub tho Unit ed States. It Is ns fierce .as the ant that angrily wnrned the elephnnt to quit its shoving. People who vote carelessly or not at all In local elections nre generally tho ones who protest most loudly when the evils of boss politics hurt them. The ex-kalscr Is snld to have set by enough securities to ennble him to put In the time not spent in cutting wood, in cutting coupons. Why cannot that Englishman who Is predicting nn nlrshlp that will fly, fiont nnd submerge nrrnnge to have it hlbcrnnto In winter? Another reason why It Is safer to fclss after dark Is, the pntemnl eye lids droop and the paternal boots are drawn when tho nocturnal ihndowt creep.