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0 f THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE mARY MARIE Uy Eleanor H. Porter Illustrations by H. Livingstone Oprrfffhttr EImmt II I'rtr CHAPTER VIII--Continued Something u TTttlo different did happen yesterday, though. There's going to bo another big astronomy meeting here In Boston this inonth, Just us there was when Father found Mother years ago; and Grandfather brought homo word that Father was going to be one of the chief sinkers. And he told Mother he supposed she'd go mid hear him. "Well, yes, I nni thinking of going," sho snld, just as calm und cool as could be. "When docs he speak, Fa ther 7" And when Aunt llnttle pooh-poohed, and risked how could .she do such n thing, Mother nnswered: "IU'cnuso Chnrles Anderson to the father of my little girl, and I think sho should hear him speak. Therefore, Ilattle, I Intend to take her." And then she asked Grandfather again when Father was going to speak. I'm so excited 1 Only think of see ing my father up on a big platform with a lot of big men, and hearing hlrn speak I And be'll be the very smartest nnd handsomest ono there, too. You sec If he Isn't! TWO WEEKS AND ONE DAY LATER Father's here right hero In Boston. I don't know when he came. But the flint day of the meeting was day be fore yesterday, and he was hero then. The paper said he was, and his picture was there, too. There were a lot of pictures, but his was awuy ahead of the others. It was the very best one on the page. (I told you It would bo that way.) Mother saw It Hrst. That Is, I think she did. She had the paper In her band, looking at it, when I came Into the room ; but as soon as she saw me she laid It right down quick on the nble. If sho hadn't been quite so quick about It, nnd If she hadn't looked quite so queer when she did It, I wouldn't have thought anything at all. But when I went over to the table after she bad gone, nnd saw the paper with Father's picture right on the llrst page and the biggest picture there I knew then, of course, what she'd been bulking at. I looked at It then, and I read what It said, too. It was lovely. Why, I hadn't any Idea Father was so big. I was prouder than ever of him. It told all about the stars and comets he'd discovered, nnd the hooks he'd written on astronomy, and how ho was presi dent of the college at Andersonvllle, nnd that bo was going to give an ad dress the next day. And I read It nil every word. And I made up my mind right there and then that I'd cut out that piece and save It. But that night, when I went to the library cupboard to get the, paper, I couldn't do It, after all. Oh, the pajier was there, but that page was gone. There wasn't a bit of It left. Some body had taken It right out. I never thought then of Mother. But I believe now that It was Mother, for But I mustn't tell you that part now. Stories are Just like meals. You have to eat them 1 mean tell them In rog- ulnr order, and not put the Ice cream In where the soup ought to be. So I'm not going to tell yet why I suspect It was Mother that cut out thut page of the paper with Father's plcturo In It 1 Well, the next morning was Father's lecture, and I went with Mother. Of course Grandfather was there, top, but be was with tho other astronomer?, I guess. Anyhow,ho didn't sit with us. And Aunt Ilattle didn't go at nil. So Mother and I were nlono. We sat back a long ways bnck. 1 wanted to go up front, real far front the front seat, If I could get It; and I told Mother so. But sho said, "Morcy, no,!" and Bhuddcred, and went back two inoro rows from whero sho was, nnd got behind a big post. I guess ho wan .afraid Father would see nil. but that's what I wanted. I wanted him to seo us. I wanted, him to be right In the middle of his lecture and look downtnnd see right there be fore hhu his little girl Mary, and 'sho tbnt bad been tho'wlfo of his bosom. Now that would havo been what I called thVlHIng, ronl thrilling, cspcclal Kv If' be Jumpod, or grow rod, or white, or stammered, or stopped short, or anything to show that ho'd seen us and cared. I'd hnvo loved that. But Ave sat back where Mother wnntod to, behind tho post. And, of conrso. Father never saw us nt nil. It was ii lovely leoturo. Oh, of course, I don't mean to 6ay that I understood It. I dl'dn't. But his voice was fine, and ho looked Just too grand for anything, with tho light on his no bio brow; and ho used the 'lovollcst big worlds that I ever heard. And folks clapped, and looked nt cadi other, and noddel, nnd once or twice they laughed. .And when ho was nil through 'they clapped ugnln, hnrder than ever. Another man spoke then, a little (not near so kwiI hs Father), and thon It was all over, and everybody got up to go; and I saw that u lot of folks were crowding down tho aisle, and I looked nnd there wns Father right In front of the platform shaking bands with folks. I looked nt Mother then. Her face was all plnky-whlte, and her eyes wore shining. I guess she thought I spoke, for all of a sudden she shook her bend nnd said : "No. no. I couldn't, I couldn't! But you may, dear. Hun along and speak to him; but don't stny. Remember, Mother Is waiting, nnd come right hack." I Unev then that It must have been Just my eyes that spoke, for I did want to go down there and specfr to Father. Oh, I did wnnt to go I And I went then, of course. IIo saw me. And, oh, how 1 did love the look that came to his fnce; It was ho surprised and glad, and said, "Oh I You!" In such n perfectly lovely way that I choked all tip and wanted to cry. (The Idea! cry when I was so glad to sec hlml) The next minute he hnd drawn me out of the line, nnd we were both talk- He Saw Me. Ing at once, and telling each other how glad we were to see each other. But he was looking for Mother I know he was; for the next minute aft er he saw me, he looked right over my ncau at the woman hack of me. And all the while he was talking with me, his eyes would look nt me and then leap as swift as lightning llrst here. and men there, all over the hall. But he didn't see her. I knew he didn't seo her, by the look on his fuce. And pretty quick I said I'd havo to go. And then ho said: "Your mother perhaps she didn't did she come?" And his face grew all red and rosy ns he asked the question. And I said yes, and she was waiting, and that wuh why I had to go back right away. And he said, "Yes. yes, to be sure," and, "good-by." But be still held my hand tight, and Ills eyes were still rov ing all over tho house. And I had to tell him again that I really had to go; and I hnd to pull real determined at my hand, before I could break away. I went back to Mother then. The hnll was almost empty, nnd sho wnsn't anywhere In sight nt all; but I found her Just outside the door. I knew thon why Father's face showed that he hadn't found her. She wasnH there to Hnd. I suspect she had looked out for that. Her face was still plnky-whlte, and her eyes were shining; and she wanted to know everything wo had said everything. So sho found .out, of course, thnt he" had asked If sho was there. But she didn't say anything her. self, not anything. In the afternoon Invent to walk with one of the girls; nnd when I enmo In I couldn't tlnd Mother. She wasn't anywhere downstnlrs, nor In her room, nor mine, nor anywhere else on that floor. Aunt llnttle said no, she wasn't out, but that sho ,was sure she didn't know whero she wns. Sho must be soniewhoro In tho house. I went upstairs then, another (light. There wasn't anywhere else to go, nnd Mother must be somewhere, of course. And It seemed suddenly to me ns If I'd Just got to And her. I wnirted her so. And I found her. In the llttlo'bnck room, whore , Aunt llnttle keeps her trunks nnd mothball bags, Motlior was on tho floor vln tho corner crying. And when I exclaimed out and ran over to her, I found'sho was sitting besldo an old trunk thnt wns open; and across her Inn was a perfectly lovely pale-blue sntln dress all trimmed with silver lace that hnd grown black. And Mother, was crying and, crying as If her hoart would break. Of course, I tried juitl tried to stop her, nnd I boggo'd ho'r to .tell mo .what was the matter. But I couhlu" thing, not a thing, not for , do a Then I happened to say long time, dress, only what n jrity what n lovely lnco was nil black. It was thnt tho She gave a little choking. cry. then, and began to" talk ifttle short sen tences nlf choked up with sobs, so that X could hardly, te'll what slio.wos talk ing nboiit., ThenSllttlo" by little, I be fan to' understand. Sho said yes, It wns nil black tnr alshcd; and Unit It was Just llkc.ev,ecy thlng.Hint she had hnd anything to do 3ylt,h-u'ni lilimiubiir life ami her nunr- rlage, nnd Father's life, nnd mine everything wn tarnished. Just like that silver lnce on that dress. And she had done It by her thoughtless selfishness and lack of clf-dlsclpllne. And when I tried nnd tried to tell her no, It wasn't, and that I didn't feel tnrnlshed a bit, and thnt she wasn't, nor Fnther either, she only cried nil the more, and shook her head and begun again, nil choked up, She said this little dress was the one she wore nt the big reception where she llrst met Fnther. And she wns so proud and happy when Father and he was line and splendid and hnndsome then, too, sho said singled her out, and Just couldn't seem to stny nway from her a minute all the eve ning. And then four days later he asked her to marry htm ; and she" wan still more proud and happy. And she said their married life, when they stUrtud out, was Just like that benutlful dress, nil shining and spot less nnd perfect; but that It wnsn't two months before n little bit of tar nish appeared, nnd then uioHier nnd another. She said she was selllsb and willful nnd exacting, and wanted Fnther alt to herself; and she didn't stop to think thnt he had his work to do, und his plnce to make in the world; and that all of living, to him, wasn't Just In be ing married to her, and unending to her every whim. She snld she could see It all now, but that she t4j1dri't then, she was too young, nndundia clpllned, nnd she'd never been denied a thing in the world she wanted. She said things went on worse and worse and It was all her fault. Sho grow sour and cross and disagreeable. She could see now thnt she did. But she did not rcnllze nt nil then what she was doing. She was Just thinking of herself always herself; her rights, her wrongs, her hurt feelings, her wnnts nnd wishes. She never once thought that he had rights nnd wrongs nnd hurt feelings, mnybe. She snld a lot more oh, ever so much more; but I can't remember It nil. I know thnt she went on to sny that by and by the tarnish hegnu to dim the brightness of my life, too; nnd thut was the worst of all, she said that Innocent children should suffer, nnd their young lives be spoiled by the kind of living I'd had to have, with this wretched makeshift of a di vided home. She began to cry ngnln then, und begged me to forgive her; and I cried nnd tried to tell her I didn't mind It; but, of course, I'm older now. nnd I know I do mind It, though I'm try ing Just ns linrd as I can not to be Mary when I ought to be Marie, or Marie when I ought to lie Mary. Only I get nil mixed up so, lately, and I said so, nnd I guess I cried some more. Mother' Jumped up then, nnd snld, "Tut, tut," wlint was she thinking of Jo talk like this when It couldn't do n bit of good, but only mnde mntters worse. And she snld thnt only went to prove how she wns still keeping on tarnishing my happiness nnd bringing tears to my bright eyes, when certain ly nothing of the whole wretched busi ness was my fnult. She thrust tho dress hack Into the trunk then, und shut the lid. And she began to talk nnd luugli and tell stories, and" be gayer and Jollier than I'd seen her for ever so long. And she wns that way nt dlnnei. too, until Grandfather happened to mention the reception tomorrow night, and ask If she wns going. She Hushed up red then, oh, so red! nnd snld, "Certainly not." Then she ndded quick, wjth a funny little draw-lng-ln of her breath, that she should let Marie go, though, with her Aunt nnttle. It wns the only chnnce Fa ther would have to see me, and she didn't feel that she had nny right to deprive him of thnt privilege, and sho didn't think It would do me any hnrm to be out this once late In the evening. And she Intended to let me go. TWO DAYS LATER Well, now I guess something's doing all right ! And my hand Is shaking so I can hardly write It wants to get abend so fast and tell. But I'm going to keep It sternly back and toll Itjust ns It happened, nnd not begin nt the Ice cream Instead of flic soup. At tho reception I saw Father right away, but he didn't see me for a long time. He stood In a corner, and lots of folks enmo up nnd spoke to him nnd shook hands ; nnd ho bowed nnd smiled but In between, when there wnsn't anybody noticing, ho looked so tired nnd bored. After a tlmo ho stirred and changed his position, and I think ho wns hunting for a chnnce to get nway, when all .of n' sudden his eyes, roving around the room, lighted on me. M.v ! but Just dl'dn't I love the wny he ciuno through that crowd, straight toward me,, without paying one' bit of attention to the folks that tried to stop him on the way. And when he got to me, he looked so glad to see me, only there wns thu snmo quick search ing wltiriils eyes, beyond nnd around me, as If he was looking for somebody else.'just as he hnd done the morning otho lecture. And I knew it was fothcr. of (diirse. ao I snld: "No. she didn't come." "So I see," he answered. And there ns such u hurt, sorry look away back in his eyes. But right nway he smiled, i:nd said: "But you came! I've got , ou." Then he began to talk und tell stories, just ns if I wus"a young lady to bo entertained. And he took me over towhero tllejvhnd thing to ont, and Just hcnpexl my pinto Willi chicken patties and sandwiches nnd oIItoh and plnk-nnd-whlte frosted crfko' nnd ice cnenm '(not all at onoo, of course, but In order!) And I bad'a ponfcctly beauti ful time. And Father sooaied to llko It pretty 'w.y. But .after a white ho gYcw sober again, nnd Iris ojw ben tojrove oil around the room. He took mc"t(7ri flttTc "seat In the corner afterward, and we snt down and begnn to talk only Fnther didn't tnlk much. He Just listened to wlint I snld, and bis eyes grew deeier and darker nnd sadder, and they didn't rove around so much, nftcr a time, but Just stared fixedly at nothing, away out across tho room. By nnd by he stirred nnd drew a long sigh, nnd snld, almost under his brenth : "It was Just such another night ns this." And of course, I asked what was and then I knew, nlmost before he had told me. "Thut I first saw your mother, my denr." "Oh, yes, I know!" I cried, eager to tell him that I did know. "And she must have looked lovely In thnt per fectly benutlful blue silk dress all sil ver lace." He turned and stared at me. "How did you know thnt?" he de manded. "I saw it." "You saw it!" ' "Yesterday, yes the dress," I nodded. "But how could you?" he asked, frowning, nnd looking so surprised. "Why, thnt dress must be seventeen yenrs old, or more." Then He Began to Talk and Tell Sto rles, Just as If I Was a Young Lady to Be Entertained. I nodded again, nnd I suppose I did look pleased; It's such fun to have a secret, you know, and wntcli folks guess nnd wonder. And I kept him guessing nnd wondering for quite a while. Then, of course, I told him that It was upstairs In Grandfather's trunk room; thnt Mother hnd got It out, and I saw It. "But, what was your mother doing with thnt dress?" he asked then, look ing even more puzzled nnd mystified. And then suddenly I thought nnd remembered that Mother was crying. And, of course, she wouldn't wnnt Fa ther to know she was crying over It that dress she had worn when he first met her long ago! (I don't think wom en ever wnnt men to know such things, do you? I know I shouldn't!) So I didn't toll. Father had begun to talk again, softly, ns If to himself: "I suppose tonight, seeing you, and nil this, brought It back to me so vivid ly." Then he turned nnd looked at me. "You. are very like your mother tonight, dear." "I suppose I am, maybe, when I'm Mnrle," I nodded. ne inughed with his lips, but his eyes didn't laugh one bit ns ho said : "What a quaint little fancy of yours that Is. child as If you wero two In one." "But I nm two In one," I declnrcd. "Thnt's why I'm a cross-current nnd a contradiction, you know," I explained. "A what?" he demnnded. "A cross-current and a contradic tion," T eAplnlned once more. "Chil dren of uiulkes, you know. Nurse Sn rah told m. Hint long ago. Didn't you ever henr that that a child of unllkes wns a cross-current nnd n contradic tion?" "Well, no I hndn't," nnswored Fa ther, In a quocr, hnlf-smothered voice. "I suppose, Mnry, we were unllkes, your mother nnd I.- Thnt's Just what we were ; though I never thought of It before, In Just thnt way." no waited.' then went on, stlU half to blu'seVf, his cres on. tiiednne(;rsj. -TO BE CONTINUED. J. S. TWINEM. M. D. (Homeopath) Mcdiclno nnd Surgery Hospital Facilities NORTH PLATTE, NEBR. Offico Phono 1S3 Resldonco 283 JOHN S. SDOrS, AT. D. Special Attoutlon Glvon to Surgery McDouuld Bank Building Offico Phono S3 Residence 88 DR. ,T. R. McKIRAHAN Praotlco Limited to Diaeasso ot Womon nnd Surgery Over Roxall Drug Store Phonos: Office 127 Rosldonco 666 When in Omaha stop with us Hotel Conant Hotel Sanford Hotel Henshaw Our rCDUtation of 20 Voflra fttJr .loollno. I Is back of these hotels. 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To tho owners of tho record title all property adjacent to or abutting upon tho streots hereinafter described nnd all porson interested therein: You and eacli of you aro hereby notified that tho Mayor and City Coun cil of tho city of North Platto did under dnte of Juno 20, 1922 pnss and approve a certain ordinance forming nnd creating paving district No. 1G ot tho city of North Platte, Lincoln Coun ty, Nobra'ska. And that tho following streots including tho interactions thereof within tho limits of ti u city nro comprised within said paviug dis trict, to-wit: All that portion of Eighth Street commencing nt tho west lino, of tho intersection of Eighth and Locust Streots in tho said city of North Platto, thonco running west along said Eighth Street to tho East lino of tho intersection of said Eigth Street nnd Augusta Avenuo of the city ot North Platto, Lincoln Comity, Nebraska, thoro to terminate. Unless objections nro filod as re quired by statuto within twonty days from tho first publication of this notico, tho Mayor and City Council shall proceed ot construct such pav ing. Dntexl this 2nd day of Juno, 1922. B. H. EVANS Attest: O. E. ELDBR, Mayor City Clerk. (SEAL) NOTICE ! W. E. Shuninn, Attorney io Auuison ju. uro, executor of tin) estato of Honry B. Erb, deceased,: Addison B. Erb nnd Elizaboth Erb, his wife, Genora E. Bonnothum nnd Clinton Bennethum, hor husband, LIn' nlo Kirk nnd Reuben Kirk, her hus band, Hnrry Erb and Donald Graff, a minor. You and each of you aro horoby notified that the First National Bank of Frcoport, Illinois, a corporation, commenced an action in tho Distrlc Court of Lincoln County, Nebraska, on May 29, 1922 against you nnd each of you as defondents,- tho object and prayer of the petition filed in said notion being to foreclose a certain mortgage made, pxecuted and delivered by ono Henry B. Erb (since deceas ed) to the First National Bank ot Frcoport, Illinois, a corporation, on "May 14, 1920 and which mortgage was given to secure payment ot a note In the principal sura of Fifteen Hundred and no 100 dollars ($1,500) bearing tho same date and with In-' torest at 7 per anum from said date, tho said mortgage convoying to tho said plaintiff as security for tho pay- mont of said debt, all of tho North west Quarter (NWH) of section Five (5) in Township Fifteen (IS) North of Rango Thirty (30) West of 6 p. m. In Lincoln County, Nebraska, and be ing recorded on May 21, 1920 In Mort gage Record 56 at Pago 9 of tho Re cords of Lincoln County, Nebraska and to cause tho said premisea to be sold to satisfy tho amount duo upon said mortgage and to bar tho defend ants and each of them from all in terests, rights, titlo and equity of re demption in tho said premises. You aro required to answer said petition on or beforo tho 17th day of July, 1922. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF FREE PORT, ILLINOIS, A Corporation. By Wm. E. Shuman Its Attorney PRIMARY ELECTION By virtue of tho authority vested in me by law and in accordance with Section 2159 of tho Revised Statutes of Nebraska, I, A. S. Allen, County Clerk of Lincoln County, State of Nebraska, do hereby trect and pro claim that a Prima, y Election bo held In the several voting places within Lincoln County, State of Nebr aska, on Tuesday tho 18th day of July 1922, during tho hours di t- ed by law for the following purposes, to-wit For tho nomination by each of the politicaJ parties ono candidate for United States Senator. For the non-political nomination of two candidates for Judge of the Sup remo Court for the Sixth Supreme Court Judicial District as provided by tho Constitution of the State of Nebraska. For tho nomination by each of tho political parties of one candidate for Congressman from the Sixth Congres sional District within tho Stato nt Nebraska. For the nomination by each ot the political parties of tho following can didates for State Offices, to-wit Ono Governor Ono Lieutenant Governor One Secretary ot State. Ono Auditor ot Public Accounts Ono State Treasurer Ono Attorney Geneiui Ono Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings. Ono Railway Commissioner For tho non-political nomination of two candidates for State Superintend ent of Public Instruction, as provided by law. For tho nomination by each of the political parties ono cand,ida)to for Stato Senator from tho 30th Senat orial District as apportioned by tWo Session laws of 1921. For tho nomination by each of tho political parties of ono candidate for tho Stato Representative from tho 89th District as apportioned by tho Session Laws of 1921. For tho nomination by each of the political parties of ono candidate for Stato Representative from tho 90th District as apportioned by tho Session Laws of 1921. For tho nomination by each of the political partios of tho following can didates for County Offices, to-wit Ono County Clork. Ono County Trcasuror Ono Register ot Deeds Ono Sheriff Ono County Attorney Ono County Surveyor Ono County Commissioner from Uio 2nd District. For tho non-iKolltical nomination ,;' of two candidates for County Supor-!, lntondont of Public Instruction aa' provided by law. Polls will open at 8 a. m. and re main open until 8 p. m. of tho same day. In witness whereof, I havo horeunto sot my hand and affixed my official seal this 26th day of May, A D. 1922. A. S. Alloa (SEAL) CouMty Clerk