THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE
MARY
MARIE
Dy Eleanor H. Porter
Illustrations by
9. H. Liyingstone
Otnitbikr lw U. r.ru.
OIIAFTER IX Continued
Before I was clRhtor-n, liowcvcr, I
hnd nlmndoncd nil this. Father put
his foot down hard on tlio missionary
project, nnd Mother put hers down on
the stage lden. I didn't mind bo much,
though, ns I remember, for on further
study nnd consideration, I found tbnt
flowers find npplnti.se were not nil of
nn nctor's life, nnd thnt Africa and
Indln were not entirely dcslrnble ns a
place of residence for n young woman
alone. Besides, I hnd decided by then
that I could enlighten the world Just
ns effectually (nnd much moro com
fortnbly) by writing stories at home
and .getting them printed.
So I wrote stories but I did not get
nny of them printed in spite of my enrn
est efforts. In time, therefore, thnt lden,
nlso, was abandoned; nntl with Ic, re
gretfully, tho lden of enlightening the
world at ull.
Besides, I hnd Just then (ngnln If I
remember rightfully) fallen In love.
Not thnt It wns the flrst time. Oh,
no, not nt eighteen, when nt thirteen
I hnd begun confidently ami hnpplly to
look for It I What a sentimental little
piece I wn! TTow could thoy have
been so patient with me Father,
Mother, everybody I
I think tho flrst renl nttnek tho
flrst thnt I consciously called love,
myself wns the winter nftcr wo hnd
nil come back to Andcrsonvlllc to live.
I wns sixteen and In the high school.
It wns Paul Mayhew yes, tho same
Pnul Mayhew thnt had defied his
mother and sister nnd wnlkcd home
with mo one night and Invited me to
go for nn nutomobllo ride, only to bo
sent shnrply about his business by my
stern, Inexorable Aunt Jnno. Pnul was
In the senior class now, nnd the hand
somest, most ndmlred boy In school.
He didn't enro for girls. Thnt Is, he
paid he didn't. lie bore himself with
n supremo IndHTerence thnt wns mad
dening, nnd flint took (apparently)
no notice of tho fact that every girl In
school was n willing slave to the mere
nodding of his bend or tho beckoning
of his hand,
Tills wns'th'e condition ,of things
when I entered school that full, nnd
perhupa for a week thereufter. Then
one day, very suddenly, nnd without
apparent reason, he awoke to the fct
of my existence. Candy, flowers, books
some one of these ho brought to mo
every morning. All during the school
day he wns my devoted gallant, danc
ing attendance every possible minute
outside of session hours, nnd wnlklng
homo with ,mo In tho afternoon,
proudly carrying my books. Did I suy
"home with mo"? Thnt Is not strictly
tru(J he always stopped Just ono
block short of "homo" ono block
All Durlna tho School Day He Was My
Devoted Gallant
short of my gate. He evidently had
not forgotten Aunt jnne, and did not
Intend to take nny foolish risks 1 So
hu said good-by to mo always nt a
safe distance.
Tills went on for perhaps a week.
Then lie asked mo to attend a, school
slelgh-rhle and supper with him.
I wns wild with delight. At tho
same time I was wild with apprehen
sion. I nn'oko suddenly to tho fact
of tho. existence of Father nnd Mother,
nnd that their permission must be
gained. And I had my doubts I had
very grave doubts. Yet It seemed to
mo at that moment that I Just hn'd to
go on that slelgh-rlde. That It was
t tho only thine In tho wholo wldo world
worth whllo,
I con remember now, as If it were
yesterday, . tho wny I dclmtod In tny
Vinlnd as h. whether-.. I . should ask
Father. Mother, or both tojrcthor; and
If I Hhonjd lot It be soon how greatly
I desired to go, and how much It meant
to me: or If I should Just mention It
ns In pnsslng, nnd take their permis
sion praotlonlly for granted.
I chose the Jntter course, and I took
a time when thoy were both together.
At the breakfast talrte I mentioned
casually that the school was to have
a slelgh-rldo and supper the next Fri
day afternoon and evening, nnd thnt
Pnul Mayhew hail asked me to go with
him.
"A slelgh-rlde, supper, nnd not
come homo until evening?", cried
Mother. "And with whom, did you
sny?"
"Pnul Mnyhow," I nnswered. I still
tried to speak casunlly; nt tho same
time I tried to Indicate by voice and
manner something of the grcnt honor
that had been bestowed upon their
dnugllter.
Father was Impressed plainly Im
pressed; but not n. all In the wny I
had hoped he would be. He gave me
a swift, sharp glance; then looked
straight at Mother.
"Humph I Pnul Mayhew I Yes, I
know him," he said grimly. "And I'm
dreading trie time when he comes Into
college next year."
"You mean " Mother hesitated and
stopped.
"I mean I don't like the company
he keeps nlfendy," nodded Futher.
'Then you don't think thnt Mnry
Mnrle " Mother hcsltnted ngnln, nnd
glanced nt me.
"Certnlnly not," suld Father de
cidedly. I knew then, of course, that he
meant I couldn't go on the sleigh ride,
even though ho hadn't said the words
right out. I forgot nil about being
ensual and Indifferent nnd matter-of-course
then. I thought only of show
ing them how absolutely necessary It
was for them to let me go on that
sleigh ride, unless they wanted my
life forovermorc hopelessly blighted.
I explained carefully how he was
the hnndsomcst, most populnr boy In
school, nnd how nil the girls wore Just
crazy to be asked to go anywhere
with him ; and I argued what If Fath
er had seen hltn with boys he did not
like then that was all the more rea
son why nice girls like me, when he
asked them, should go with him, so as
to keep him nway from bad boys. And
I reminded them ngnln thnt he wns
tho very hnndsomest, most populnr
boy In school ; nnd thnt there wasn't
a girl I know who wouldn't bo crazy
to be In my shoes.
Then T stopped, all out of breath,
and I can Imagine Just how pleading
and palpitating I looked,
I thought Father was going to re
fuse right away, but I saw the glance
that Mother throw him Hie glnnce
thnt said, "Let me attend to this,
dear." I'd seen thnt glance before,
several times, and I knew Just what
It meant ; so I wasn't surprised to see
Father shrug his shoulderB and turn
nway as Mother said to nie:
"Verywell, dear. I'd think It ovei
nnd let you know tonight."
But I was surprised thnt night to
have Mwther say I eouln go, for I'd
about given up hope, after all that
talk at the breakfast table. And she
snld something else that surprised me,
too. She said she'd like to know IVsl
Mnyhew herself; thnt she always
wanted to know the friends of her
little girl. And she told mo to ask
him to call the next evening nnd play
checkers or chess with me.
Hnppy? I could scarcoly contain
myself for Joy. And when the next
ovcnlng came, bringing Paul, and
Mother, nil prettily dressed ns If ho
were really, truly company, camo Into
tho room and talked so beautifully to
him, I was oven more entranced. To
he sure, It did bother me a little that
Paul laughed so much, and so loudly,
and that he couldn't seem to find any
thing to tnlk about only himself, nnd
whnt ho was doing, nnd wlint ho wns
going to do. Some wny, he hnd never
seemed like that at school. And I
wnB afraid Mother wouldn't like that.
All the evening I was watching and
listening with her eyes and her ears
everything ho did, everything he said.
I so wanted Mother to like him I I so
wanted Mother to see how really line
and splendid nnd uobte he vas. But
that evening Why couldn't he stop
talking about tho prizes he'd won,
nnd the big racing cat he'd Just or
dered for next summer,? There was
nothing flue and splendid nnd noblo
about that. And Nvero his linger nails
always so dirty?
Why, Mother would think
Mother did not stay In tho room all
the time; but she was In moro or less
often to watch the game; and nt half
imst nine sho brought In somo little
cakes and lemonnde ns a surprise. I
thought It was lovely; but I could
hnvo shaken Paul 'when ho pretended
to bo afraid of It, and asked Mother
If there was n stick In It.
Tho Idea Mother I A 'stick!
I Just know Mother wouldn't Uko
thnt. Butjf sho didn't, sho never
showed n thhig in her face. Sho Just
smiled, nnd snld no, there wasn't any
stick in it; and. passed the citkes.
When ho hnd gono I remember 1
didn't llko to meet Mother's oyes, nnd
I didn't usk her how sho liked Pnul
Mnyhew. I kept right on tnlklng fast
about something else. Somo wny, I
didn't wnnt Mother to tnlk'then, for
fenr of what Bhe would say.
And Mother didn't sny anything
nbout Pnul Mayhew then, But only n
few ' dnys later sho told mo to In
vfto hlmngnin to the house (this time
to n chafing-dish supper), nnd to ask
Cnrrlo .IlCy wood and Fred Small, too.
Wo had a beautiful time, only ngnln
Paul Mayfiow didn't' "show off" nt all
In tho wny I wanted him to though
lie most emphatically "showed off' in
Ws way! It scemcll to mo that ho
bragged oven more nbout himself and
his belongings than he had before.
And I didn't llko nt nil the wny he
nto his food. Why. Father didn't eat
like thnt with such n noisy mouth,
nnd suchji rnttllng of the silverware!
And so It went wise mother that
she was! Far from prohibiting me to
have anything to do with Paul May
hew, she lot me see all I wanted to
of him, particularly In my own home.
Sho let nie go out with him, properly
chaperoned, and she never, by word
or manner, hinted thnt she didn't nd-
mire his conceit nnd brnggndoclo.
And It nil came out exactly as I
suspect she had planned from, the be
ginning. When Paul Mayhew asked to
bo my escort to the clnss reception In
June, I declined with thanks, and Im
mediately afterward told Fred Small
I would go with him. But even when
I told Mother nonchnlantly, nnd with
cnrefully nverted eyes, thnt I wns go
ing to the reception with Fred Smnll
even then her pleasant "Well, that's
good I" conveyed only cheery mother
Interest ; nor did a hasty glance Into
her face discover so much ns n lifted
eyebrow to hint, "I thought you'd
come to your senses sometime I"
Wise little mother thnt she wns I
In the dnys nnd weeks thnt followed
(though nothing wns said) I detected
n subtle change In certain matters,
however. And as I look back at It
now, I it m sure I can trace Its origin to
my "affair" with Pnul Mnyhew. Evi
dently Mother hnd no Intention of run
ning the risk of any more courtships;
also evidently she intended to know
who my friends were. At all events,
the old Anderson mansion soon be
enmo tho rendezvous of nil tho boys
nnd girls of my acquaintance. And
such good times ns we hnd, with
Mother always one of us, nnd ever pro
posing something new nnd Interesting!
And becauso boys not a boy, but
boys were as frco to como to the
house as were girls, thoy soon seemed
to me as commonplnce and mnttcr-of-course
nnd free from sentimental In
terest ns were the girls.
Again, wise little mother!
But, of course, even this did not
prevent my falling In love with somo
one older than myself, some ono quite
outside of my own circle of Intimates.
My especial attack of this kind
enme to me when I was barely eigh
teen, the spring I wns being grndu
nted from the Andersonvllle High
school. And the visible embodiment
of my ndorntlon wns the head master,
Mr. Harold Hartshorn, n handsome,
clenn-shnven, well-set-up man f (I
should Judge) thirty-flve years of age,
rather grave, a little stern, nnd very
dignified.
But how I adored him ! How I hung
upon his every word, his every glnnce !
How I mnncuvercd to wiu from hltn u
few minutes' conversation on a Latin
verb or a French trnnslnHon 1 IIow I
thrilled If he bestowed upon me one
of his Infrequent smiles ! How I
grieved over his stern aloofness !
By tho end of a month I hnd evolved
this: Ills stern aloofness meant thnt
he hnd been disappointed In love! his
memncholy wns loneliness his hem
was bronUing. How I longed to lie'
to heal, to cure! How I thrilled at the
thought of the love and compsmhmtihlp
I could give htm somewhere In a rose-
embowered cottage tur from the mad
ding crowd! (He boarded at the An-
licrsouvllle hotel alone now.) If only
ho could see It as 1 saw It. If only by
some sign or token he could know ot
the warm love that was his but .for
i he, asking! Could ho not see that no
longer need ho pine alone and tump
predated In the Andersonvllle hotel?
Why. In Just a few weeks 1 was to
be through school. And then
On the night before commencement
Mr. Harold Hartshorn ascended our
front steps, rang the bell, and cnlled
for my father. I knew because I wus
upstairs in my room over the fronf
door ; and I saw him come up the walk
nnd heard him ask for Father.
Oh, Joy I Oh, happy day 1 He knew.
He had seen it as I saw It. He had
come to gain Father's permission, that
he might be a duly accredited suitor
for my hand!
During the next ecstatic ten min
utes, with my hnnd pressed against my
wildly beating heart, I planned my
wedding dress, selected with onre and
discrimination my trousseau, furnished
the rose-eniUowered cottage far from
the madding crowd and wondered
why Fntlicr did not send for me. Then
the slam of tho screen door downstnlrs
sent me to the window, n sickening
terror within me.
Was he going without seeing me,
his future bride? Impossible I
Fnther and Mr. Harold Elartshorn
stood on the front steps below, talking.
In another minute Mr. I -raid Harts
horn hnd walked nway, and Fnther
hnd turned buck on to the piazza.
. As soon ns I could control my shak
ing knees, I went downstnlrs.
, Father was In his favorite rocking
chair. I advanced slowly. I did not
sit down.
. "Wns that Mr. Hartshorn?" I naked,
trying to keep the shako out of rrrj
voice.
"Yes."
"Mr. IMInrtshorn," I repeated stu
pidly., "Yes. IIo camo to sec me nbout the
Downer place," nodded Fnther. "IIo
wants to rent it for next year,"
"To rent it tho Downer plnco I" (The
Dow.ner plnce wns no rose-embowered
cottnge far from tho madding crowd I
Why, It was big, and brick, and. right
next to tho hotel 1 I didn't want to
live there)
i "Yes for his wlfo nnd family, no's
going to bring them back with him
next year," explained Fnther.
"His wlfo and family I" I can imag
ine nbout how I gasped out thoso four
words.
1 "Yes. Ho has five children, I be
lieve, and"
flntI hnd fled to mr room.
TO BE CONTINUED.
The Mutual Building & Loan Association
has plenty of Money to jLoan on Improved
North Platte Real Estate.
We make loans:
To finance New Buildings, '
To Assist in the Purchase of Improved Property,
To Pay Off Mortgages & Liens on Improved Real
Estate.
The compulsory payments on our loans are $5.00 per
month on each $1,000.00 and interest $G.OO per month.
Borrowers participate in the earnings of the Asso
ciation and the stock dividends pay off $360.00 of each
$1,000 loan. Bccter for the borrower than a straight five
per cent loan.
T. C. PATTERSON,
President.
J. J. WILSON DENTIST
OPPOSITE McCABE HOTEL, OVElt
STAMP'S BAKERY. PHONE 71.
R. B. HOWELL
u. s. senator
R. B. HOWELL.
R. D. Howell Is Republican Nations
Committeeman for Nebraska and Genera
Manager or the Omaha Municipal Water
Gas and Ice Plants.
He has devoted thirty years' constant
labor to. relieve the people from the
burden of exorbitant rates charged bv
Public Service Corporations.
HE FAVORS:
Collection of our loans from Britain
France, etc.
Adjusted compensation for ex-service
men. paid by the wealth of the
country.
A government merchant-marine.
Enforcement of the Eighteenth
Amendment.
A rational tariff policy, framed U
destroy monopoly.
A Farm bloc In Congress.
Restoring railroad competition as a
means of roduclng rates.
HE OPPOSES:
Proposed wrecking of the direct prl
mary law.
The proposed Ship Subsidy.
The Esch-Cummins law.
R. B. Howell Is the only candidate for
Senator who served In either the Spanish
American War or the World War. Ht
served In both.
R. B. Howell Is paying all his own
campaign expenses. When elected he
will be entirely free to serve the people.
VOTE FOH HIM.
Republican Primaries July 18
John M. Matzen
State Superintendent
of Public Instruction
Candidate for Second Term
Non-Political Ballot
26 ykoars experience) as an edu
cator in Nebraska schools.
Stands for progress, economy,
effloienoy and a square deal for
all sohool interests.
Solioits your support on his ex
perience, qualifications and record
in office. "
BESSIE F. SALISBURY
Secretary
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Licensed Embaliners
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Day Phone 41 Night Phone Black 5JR
Eyes examined, Glasses fitted. Sat
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Y. T. PRITCHARD
Graduate Veterinarian
Ex-Government Veterinarian and ex
assistant deputy State Veterinarian.
Hospital 315 South Vine Street ,
Phones. Hospital 633 Residence 63S
ED KIERIG
Auctioneer
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First National Bank
North Platte, Nob.
DR. REDFIELD
Physician, Obstetrician, . Surgeon
X-Ray
Calls promptly answered Night or Day
Phones. Office G42 Residence 676
DR. HAROLD FENNER
Osteopath
Over Hlrschfeld's
Office Phono 333 Res. Phone 1020
DR. M. B. STATES
Chiropractor .
Rooms 5. 6, 7 Building & Loan Bldg
Offico Phone 70 Res. Phono 1242
NOTICE 'OP THE FORMATION OF
PAVING DISTRICT NO. 16 IN THE
CITY OF NORTH PLATTE, NEBR
ASKA. To the owners of tho record title
all property adjacent to or abutting
upon tho streets hereinafter described
and all person interested therein:
You and each of you aro horoby
notified that tho Mayor and City Coun
cil of tho city of North Platto did
under dato of Juno 20, 11)22 pass and
approvo a cortain ordinance forming
and creating paving district No. 10 ot
tho city of North Platto, Lincoln Coun
ty, Nebraska. And that tho following
streots Including tho Interactions
thoreof within tho limits of the city
nro comprised within said paving dis
trict, to-wlt: All that portion of
Eighth Street commencing at tho west
lino ot tho intersection of Eighth and
Locust Streets in tho said city of
North Platte, thenco running west
along said Eighth Street to thp East
lino of tho intersection of said Eigth
Stroot and Augusta Avenuo ot tho
city ot North Platto, Lincoln Couuty,
Nebraska, there to terminato.
Unless objections nro filed ns re
quired by statuto within twenty days
from tho first publication of this
notico, tho Mayor and City Council
shall procood ot construct such pav
ing. Dated this 2nd day of June, 1922.
E, H. EVANS
Attest: O. E. ELDER, Mayor
City Clprk. (SEAL)
J. S. TWINEH. H. D.
(Homeopath)
Medicine nnd Surgery
Hospital Facilities
NORTH PLATTE, NEBR.
Offico Phone 1S3 Residence 283
JOHN S. SIMMS, M. D.
Special Attention Glvon to
Surgery
McDonald Bank Building
Offico Phone 83 Rcsldcnco 38
DR, J. R. McKIRAIIAN
Practice Limited to Discosso of
Women and Surgery
Over Rexail Drug Store
Phones: Offico 127 Resldonco 656
Office 340 Houso 723J
DR. W. I. SHAFFER
Osteopath Physician
Over tho Oasis North Platto
Offico Phono 241 Res. Phone 217
L. C. DROST
Osteopathic Physician
North Platte, Nebraska.
Knights of Columbus Building.
OTIS It. PLATT, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
X-Kny
Diagnoss and Treament
Over Union State Bank
Offico Phono 296W Houso Phone 2U6R
GEO. B. DENT
Physician nnd Surgeon
Special Attention Given to Surgery
and Obstetrics
Offico: Building & Loan Building
Phones: Office 130 Residence 115
PRIMARY ELECTION
By virtue of tho authority vested
in me by law and in accordance with
Soction 2159 of tho Revised Statutes
of Nebraska, I, A. S. Allen, County
Clerk of Lincoln County, State ot
Nebraska, do hereby direct and pro
claim that a Prima i y Election be
hold In the several voting places
within Lincoln County,State of Nobr-
aska, on Tuesday the 18th day ot
July 1922, during tho hours dc t
ed by law for tho following purposes,
to-wlt
For tho nomination by each of tho
politica? parties ono candidate for
United States Senator.
For tho non-political nomination of
two candidates for Judge ot tho Sup
remo Court for tho Sixth Supreme
Court Judicial District as provided
by tho Constitution of tho State of
Nebraska,
For tho nomination by each of tho
political parties of ono candidate for
Congressman from the Sixth Congres
sional District within tho Stato of
Nebraska.
For tho nomination by each of tho
political parties of the following can
didates for State Offices, to-wlt
Ono Governor
Ono Lieutenant Governor
One Secretary ot State.
Ono Auditor of Public Accounts
Ono Stato Treasurer
Ono Attorney Gentnui
Ono Commissioner of Public Lands
and Buildings.
Ono Railway Commissioner
For tho non-political nomination of
two candidates for Stato Superintend
ent of Public Instruction, as provided
by law.
For tho nomination by each of the
political parties ono candtldajto for
Stato Senator from tho 30th Senat
orial District as apportioned by tho
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 ot 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 tho
political parties of tho following can
didates for County Offices, to-wtt
Ono County Clerk.
Ono County Treasurer
One Register of Deeds
Ono Sheriff
Ono County Attornoy
Ono County Surveyor
Ono County Commissioner from tho
2nd District
For tho non-pf)lttical nbminhtlon
of two candidates for County Super
intendent of (Public Instruction as
provided by law.
Polls will open at 8 a. ra. and so
main open until 8 p. m. of the same
day.
In witness whereof, I havo hereunto
set my hand and affixed my offklal
seal this 26th day of May, A D. T922.
A. S. Alton
(SEAL) County Clerk