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0> KATHLEEN NORRIS ~ C?l5yn6Mr <f? KATHlttN MORRIE 8YNOP8I3. CIIAPTBH I.-With his two daughter?, Allx and Cherry, tho latter Just eighteen years old. and his niece. Anno, I>octor Btrlckland. retired, ls living nt Mill Val ley, ii ?hort distance from San Francisco, lill closest friend ls l'cter Joyce, some thing of n recluse. Visiting In tho vi cinity. Martin I.lny?, mining englneor, falls In love with and secretly becomes engaged to Cherry. CHAJPTKIt H.-While the family ls speculating MU lo Lloyd's Intentions. Cher ry brings him lo supper, practically an nouncing her engagement to him. CH APT KR III.-Doctor Strickland feels Cherry IH too young to marry and urges her to wait at least a year, but tho girl coaxes him Into agreeing lo an Immediate wedding lind thu ceremony taken jil.ice, thc cou|.)e leaving nt once for Kl Nido, wlu.ro Martin i? employed. CHAPTER IV. Meanwhile thc Iud train sped on, and thc drab autumn country How tty tho windows, and still tho bride sat wrapped lu her tironui, smiling, mus ing, rousing herself to notice the scenery. When Mart lb asked her If she liked to be a ftinrried woman, traveling with her husband, she smiled and said that it seemed "funny." For the moat part she was silent, pleased and interested, hut not quite her usual unconcerned self. After dinner they had a Jong, murmured talk ; she began to droop sleepily now, although even this long day had not paled her cheeks or visi bly tired ber. At ten " and overh foreheads air. "Is this i ry, clinging "This ls the pince, Baby (liri; DI Nido, and not much of a place !" her husband told her. "That's tho Hotel MrTCI ' '..*...''*..?. are' W'i 'o''.- (.might und drive j oui to ? ntl >? romoi row ) ?i mun uM> the .'?/.?*, . ti tj .' you -...?; .nb'e "* j '.1M- wa? \v.''(.?.?tkc P'ONV; IboItlTi,*? I of the little town. Mud squelched be neath their feet, planks-tilted. Beside Martin, t'derry entered thc bright, cheerful lobby of a cheap hotel where men were smoking and spitting. She was beside un bim write o tl ft ixl wife." across Ibo ? to ti ritttlln She had a .".0 , of Dad reading before the fire, of the little brown room upstairs, with Alix, Blender in her thin nightgown, yawning over her prayers, A rush of reluc tance- -of strangeness-ol' something like terror smote ber. She fought the homesickness down resolutely: every thing would seem brighter tomorrow, when the morning and the sunshine came again. There was a brown and red car pet In the oblong of tho room, and a brown bureau, and a wide Iron beti With a limp spread, and a peeling brown washstand with a pitcher and hnsln. Tho boy lighted a Hare of elec tric lights which made the chocolate and gold wallpaper look like one pat tern In the light and another in the shadow. A man laughed in thc ad joining room ; tho vole? seemed very near. Cherry bad never been In a hotel of this sort before. It seemed to ber cheap and horrible ; she did not want to stny in this room, and Martin, tip ping the boy and asking for ice-water, seemed somehow a part of this new strangeness and crudeness, she beean to be afraid that be would think she was Silly, presently, If she sahl her prayers ns usual. . ***?**? In the morning Martin hired a phae ton and they drove oui to tho mine. Cherry had had a good breakfast and was wearing a new gown : they slopped another phaeton on the long, pleasant drive and Martin said to the fat man in lt: "Mr. Bates, I want to make you ac quainted with my wife!" "Pleased to meet you, Mrs. Lloyd 1" said the fat man, pleasantly. Marlin told Cherry, when they passed him, that that was the superintendent of the mine, and seemed pleased ut tho encounter. Presently Marlin put his arm about her and the bay horse daw dled along at his own sweet will, while Martin's deep voice told his wife over and over again how adorable and heall' tiful she was and how he loved her. Cherry listened happily, and for a little while the old sense of pride and achievement came back-she vns mar ried ; she was wearing a plain gold ring! But after a few days thal feel ing vanished forever and Instead lt began to seem strange to her that she lind ever been anything else than Martin's wife. For several days she and Martin laughed Incessantly and praised each oilier incessantly, while they experi mented with cooking and ate delicious gypsy meals. / r Hy midwinter Cherry hail settled down to tho business of life, buying bacilli and hird und sugar and mutches Rt the store of the mine, cooking and cleaning) sweeping, and making beds. She still kissed Martin good-by overy morning and met him with an affec tionate rush ut the door when he came home, mid they played Five Hundred evening after evening lifter dinner, quarreling for points und laughing ut each other, while rain sluiced down on the porch. Hut sometimes she won dered hew lt lind nil conn? about, won dered what had become of the violent emotions that had picked her out of thu valley hume and established ber : her?', in this strange place, with tills man she laid never seen n year ugo. Of these emotions little was loft ! Sb.' still liked Martin, she tobi her- ; self, ami she still told him thal she j loved him. Hut she knew sh? did not , love Iiiiii, nial in such an association j as theirs Herc can he no liking. Her ! thoughts rarely rested on him; she ? was either thinking of Hie prunes (bat \ were soaking, the firewood that was I running low, the towels that a wet breeze wns blowing on the Hue; or she was far away, drifting In vague realms where feelings entirely strange to this bare little mining camp and this hungry, busy, commonplace man, held sway. The liest time that she quarreled with Martin she cried for an entire day, with tho old childish feeling that somehow her crying muttered, some how her abandonment would help to ! straighten uiTulrs. The cause nf the quarrel was a trille; her father had sent her a Christians check and she Immediately sent to a San Francisco shop for a clock that bad taken her fancy months before ii rill ' !.. pi* - .lid for lootic,.', althougl h. did : hq! know ? , ?van t.biindorstriK'k upon ? d'..--r,,.!. ipili ubi] o ) ' notui ;i,v di? i severin nays a shadow bung over their Intercourse, and when the clock came, ns Inrge as a bunjo, gilded and quaint, be broke her heart afresh by pretend ing not to admire lt. Hut on Christinas eve he was de Inyed at tho mine and Cherry, smitten suddenly with the bitterness of having their first Christmas spoiled In this way, sat up for him, huddled in her silk wrapper by the air-tight stove. She was awakened by feeling herself lowered tenderly into bed and raised warm anns to clasp his neck um) they kissed each other. Tho next day they laughed at the clock together, and after that peace reigned for several weeks. Hut it was Inevitable that another quarrel should come und then another; Cherry was young and Undisciplined, perhaps not more selllsh than other girls of her age, but self-centered and unreason able. She had to learn self-control and she tutted to control herself. She had to economize when poverty pos sessed nelHUT picturesqueness nor In terest. They were always several weeks behind In the payment of do mestic bills, and these recurring re minder? of money stringency mad dened ('berry. Sometimes she summed lt up, with angry tears, reminding him that she was still wearing her trous seau dresses, and had no maid, and never went anywhere- ! Hut she developed steadily. As she grew skilful In managing ber little house, she also grew In the art of managing her husband and herself. She became clever at avoiding causes of disagreement ; she listened, nodded, agreed, with u hoi lim/ heart, and had the satisfaction of having Martin's viewpoint veer the next day, or the nexl hour, lo meet her own secret conviction. Martin seemed satisfied, and ?ill their little world accepted her as a matter nf course. Hut under lt all cherry knew that something young j and Irresponsible und eon ll dent in her had bei n killed. She never llkinl to think of the valley, of the fogs and the Spokes of sunlight under the redwood aisles, of Allx mid the dogs und the dreamy evenings by the lire. And es pecially she did not like to think of that eighteenth birthday, and herself thrilling und ecstatic because the Strange young man from Mis. North's had slured nt her. In her sticky apron, with so new und disturbing a smile In his eyes. CHAPTER V. Be winter pissed at the mine and at the brown house under the shoul der of Tnmnlpnls. Allx still kept ber bedroom windows open, but the rain tore In, lind Anne protested ut the en suing stains on the pantry celling. Cherry's wedding, once satisfactori ly over, was a cause of great satisfac tion to ber sister and cousin. They bad Stepped huck duly, to give ber the l'enter of the stage; they had ad mired and congratulated; had helped 1 ber In all hearty generosity. And now that she was gone fte j enjoyed their own lives again and cast over noni 111? glamor that novelty and distant nev? j er fall to give. Cherry, mar ie : and . keeping house and managing ? ft .. was an object of rotuuntlc Int*. The girls surmised that Chin, be making friends; that every? ; admire her; that Martin wpuUl rich some day, without doubt. Chery wrote regularly, uow ami hen assuring them that she was tin old Cherry. She described her tlnj right at the mine, and the lon of the plant, and the bare big lng that was the men's boardl...; Martin's associates brought bei and ducks, she wrote; she and M li bad driven three hundred ml leu superintendent's car; she wu < p/e? paring for n curd pnrty'. "Think of little old Che ?rv ul kg .off on week-end trips with ?nen !" Allx would say proudly. of Cherry giving a pnrty I" Si. hap? wo'.id make no comment, oft?m felt a pang of envy. < ny seemed to have everything. Suddenly, without warning, was a newcomer in the circle, a beaded brown-hnlred little mun '?? . vn aa Justin Little, Ile lind been Introduced ot SOr ty to Anne and Allx; be call? was presently taking Anne rn turo. Anne now began to ! him und sn j that he was "too ItlotlS," but she did not allow ni ?un else to say so. On the contrai told Alix at various timei. tin mellier had been one of the Ol I land retries, ai d Iiis great-grit i was mentioned in a honk b ter Scott, and that one hud to the man. even if one didn't che marry him. "Marry him !" Allx lind . simple umti'/.ement. Marry bin was nil this sudden chai e household when a man couh : o appear than some girl beij ii of marriage? Stupefied, Allx w the affair progress. "I don't Imagine lt's soi lon? 1 falber said on an April walk, "I Don't imagine lt's ? :." He.* Father Said on an A| Ik, tramping beside them, w ?od but silent. "My dear father," the u ?di "Have you listened to them? They've been contending for weeks that they were just remarkably good friends that's why she culls him Frenny I" "Ah-I see!" the doctor said mildly, us Peter's wild laugh hurst forth. "Hut now," Allx pursued, "she's told t him that us she cannot be what he wishes, they had better not meet!" "1'oor Anne I" the old doctor com- ! men ted. "Poor nothing! She's having the! time of her lifo," her cousin said un feelingly. "She told me today that Bho was afraid that she had checked one of the most brilliant careers nt the har." "I had no Idea of all this !" the doc tor confessed, amazed. "I've seen tho young man-noticed him about. Well i -well-well ! Anne, too." In .Mme came tho blissful hour In ! which Anne, all blushes and smiles, could come to her uncle with a dilti- j ful message from the respectfully | adoring Justin. Their friendship, said Anne, bad ripened Into something ' deeper. "Justin wants to have a frank talk with you, uncle," Anne said, "and of course I'm not to go until you are sure you cnn spare tue and unless you feel that you cnn trust him utterly!" Anne's engagement cups were ' ranged on tho table where Cherry's had ?tooti, and where Cherry bod talked of a coffee-colored rajah silk Anne discussed the merits of a "smart hut handsome blue tallonaade." The wedding was to he in Septem ber, not quito ii year after Cherry's wedding. Alix wrote ber sister pages about lt, always ending willi the em phatic declaration that Cherry must come down for the wedding. Cherry wtts homesick, She dreamed continually of the cool, high valley, the scented aisles of the deep forest, tho mountain rearing its rough sum mit to the pale blue of summer skies. 1 June passed; July passed; lt was hot at tho "Kinmy Younger." August came In oil a furnace breath; Cherry felt headachy, languid and half sick all the time. Martin had said that he could not possibly get away, even , for the week of Anne's wedding, but Cherry began to wonder If he would let her go alone. ! "If he doesn't. I shall he sick I" she 1 (Continued on Next Page) MkNY LIVES LOST IN AVRECK H Great JMrigtble in Europe--Forty? Three Lost in Mid-Air Explosion. Hull, England, Aug. 24.-Sixteen meera and men. of tho United States iavy and 27 officers and men of the Irilish navy met death to-day in the ollapse of the great dirigible ZR-2 -vcr the city of Hull Only one of the vmerlcans on board the ill-fated ' raft escaped, as far as could be as- ? ortained at midnight to-night. Only five men of the 49 who were' -baking the trip in tho dirigible prior I 0 the vessel being turned over to he United States navy aro known to tave boen saved. The British losses ncludo the famous air veteran, Brig, j Jen. E.Al. Maitland, and all the other ' ?filcc irs on board except Lieut. Wann, j he commander of tho ZR-2. Wits on Test Flight. Starting from Howden Tuesday norning on a test flight to Pulham, he big aircraft had been afloat for j 14 hours, at times In bad weather, md was rotuming to the Pulham ilrdome at the time of the disaster, rvhlch constitutes tho moat terrible )f Its kind in peace times. The ZR-2, which was a sister ship ' :o the famous R-34, the first dirigi ble to cross tho Atlantic, was on her' lnnl test trip prior to being accepted oy the United Slates navy and taken icross the Atlantic by an American zvow especially trained for that pur pose. She was 606 feet long and was built to carry a crew of 30. Her speed was estimated at 70 miles an hour The American navy was io pay Sii, 00 0.000 for the era fi. While flying at about 1,000 feet over Hull spectators saw the ZR-2 seemingly huckle amidships and plunge downward over the cit> and into the Humber river. One theory of the cause of the disaster is that while the ship's rudders were being, tested Hie giant craft took a sharp turn, which caused her framework to buckle, and that the explosion of a gasoline tank completed the tragedy j of tho air. "flie actual cause, how ever, may never be known. A rumor had been afloat for some days that, the ZR-2 was structurally weak, but this was stoutly denied by all in au thority. Tens of thousands of spectators saw several men climb outside the ( hoUnnn ?ind drop from the falling | turn's, whioO w?.- enveloped iv ?uioko. others Jumped inj.r thc (lumber i djtted erat*. o.nuo nvj i i.ho ? 'rr. ? .'he ?frtgibt? fcC.-tteY, The wi-c.-.ui/: i ?vi the water was ^urn ing, and there was slight chance for. any of the men caught inside to es cape. I Tugs immediately put out into the stream ?ind brought ashore survivors, who were taken in ambulances io ! hospitals. Among these wes the j American quartermaster, X. Q. Wal ker, 8U tiering from severe burns.! Lieut. Little also was rescued from the debris alive, bul .succumbed :o his injuries on reaching the infirm ary. A rescue tug pulled another Ameri can out of the water. He was dead., inside of his coat was the name , "Commander Maxfield." American Survivor Tells Story. Howden, Eng., Aug.2."i.-Norman, Walker, sole American survivor of j he wrecked airship ZR-2, to-day gave | tho first circumstantial account of I the disaster which late yesterday de-i stroyed tho great dirigible and every j American member of tho crew ont board except himself. Walker was seen at the Hawdon airdrome, near Hull, where ho has just beim brought after tho terrible experience through which he passed unscathed. He comes from Com merce. Texas, and was a rigger on the ill-fated airship, ile is of boyish appearance, 20 years old, and of wiry; build. He said: "We were all in the highest spirits' when we left Howden on the trial flight. We sai'led over the North Sea first and then started down the north coast lo Culham. A thick fog dove! ASPIRIN Name "Bayer" on Genuin? Take Aspirin only tts told in each ; package of genuine Layer Tablets of Aspirin. Then you will be following the directions and dosage worked out by physicians during 21 yea r.s. and provod safo by millions, Take no Chances willi substitutes. If you seo the bayer ('ross on tablets, you can take them without fear for colds, headache, neuralgia, rheumatism, earache, toothache, lumbago and for pain. Handy tin boxes of twelve tab lots cost few cents. Druggists also sell larger packages. Aspirin ls tho irado mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacctlcncldestor of sallcyllcncid. -adv. oped, so lt was found impossible td] lund at Fulham. In fact, the fog was so dense that we were more or less lost, although we knew the general ? locality." ! "We were flying at a height of about 3,50a feet, with the wireless keeping touch with both Howden and Pulham. Tho Bhip was behaving in a magnificent manner, and there was not a sign of weakness anywhere. "We drove out over the sea again1 and as the fog continued bad we flew along the coast until Wednesday af ternoon, when we sighted land at Hull. We then flew across to How den, where it was decided to land at 6.30 p. m., so we sailed over Hull j again. We encircled Hull twice, and the speod trial was completed with out a hitch. "A test of the ship's control then began. I was at the lower rudder, proceeding back to ;hc tail, and had Just reached the cockpit when there was a tremendous crash. The gird ers amidships broke and the ship split in halves. "Roth the tail and the nose im mediately pointed downward and th-; halves started to descend toward the Hu tuber. "1 cannot begin to describe my sensation, but I thought my time had come. I made, a rush for the tail ro get a parachute, but I found two of my English comrades, Harry Bate man and Walter Potter, were already there. I knew Hiere was only one chute there for the i h rec of us. Bate man had the chute and jumped, bul if fouled, and he hung lo the tail of tho dirigible. "Both Potter and l started, to run forward for oilier parachutes, bul just as I got In thc kool there came an explosion of either a petrol tank or hydrogen, and Hames immediately liegan to sweep the forward part of our Half of tho ship. "What was happening to our com rades in other parts of tho dirigible 1 do not know. Most of tho officers and crew were amidships, either be ing seated or lying in their blinka, when the girder broke. At least one man diopped through th? by tho break. Possibly but probably most of then ward when the airship's ' down. "I ran back, to the tail to get away from tho lire in the bag. Bateman, Potter and T got -into tho cockpit. ly this ll .' pas w?fl becoming depletnd and the -hip v iltoon rtowi rapidly. TU'' Ktfv/it/d h: U b;e' lit.. .. fj' bi .MC4?, u:% '.-.1 ?- i KV-v ?'.,'? .Ii? i*." Wo i-oit]<h( t nf..< . parachute Ililli, ns wo were iou io??, oui} :i 1 I dred feet up. "I saw we wero going to land in the water, so 1 climbed on the fabric forward of the tail cup. I could not tell how fast we were fi when 1 thought we were strike I jumped. "I was surprised to lin striking the bottom. I h in four feet of water near shore. Both my comrades stuck to the ship and continued to cling to ber as she struck. 1 managed to scramble onto the wreckage, and the three of us were picked up by a tug." Halves Landed Nearly .Milo Apart. Some spectators assert that the airship began (o huckle before any Haine or explosion was seen or heard. Tlie broken halves of Hie ZR-2 reach ed the waler nearly a .mile apart. The general opinion of the public of Hull ls that the commander of the airship accomplished a remarkable feat of bravery in diverting the descent of the vessel so that it fell into the wa ter instead of in the crowded streets. Ono Carolinian Lost. Keviscd lists of the dead contain the name of Lloyd 10. Crowell, of Charleston, S. C. One man from North Carolina also was killed, he being .Maurice Lay, of Greensboro. To Cure n Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE (Tablets.) It stop* thc Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. E. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 30c. Negro Kills Wile with Shotgun. York, s. C., Aug. 24.-Sadie Hen derson, negress, 25 years of age, was shot, and killed by lier husband) Krod Henderson, near here this morning. A load of bird shot, fired al close range. Look effect in (he woman's side, penetrating the heart and lungs and causing instant death. Hender son made no effort lo get away anil was committed to jail. Thc killing is said to llave been the result of a quarrel bot ween Henderson and his wife, in which she had threatened t'? leave him. Henderson bore a bad reputation among both whites and negroes in tito Bethel section, and much indignation has been aroused by the killing. Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Druggists refund money li PAZO OINTMENT falls to euro Itching, Mind, Mecdlng or Protruding Piles. Instnntly relieves Itching Piles, and you can get restful sleep ofter tho first application. Price f>rt> Although we wero still legally al war with Germany and Austria in ?Inly, during two days in that month ?i single New York .Judge admitted lo American citizenship over ?',00 Ger mans and 200 Austrians. MAICES * pr*llN STATfe?t??T Concoj nipt: gale .nul Distribution of Improved K?.rm Machinery. . "Never before has the Inter-de pender."? o? tho country and city-of agriculture and Industry-been so forcefully emphasized as during tho past few months," declares Arthur Brown, local dealer for the Samson power farming machinery. "The present economic condition, resulting from post-war deflation, proves conclusively that tho farmer is Just as dependent upon the city aa the city is dependent upon the far mer. In (he highly specialized sys tem of American civilization no one class or group can prosper independ ently of the other groups. "When the farmer refuses to buy, or ls unable to buy, factories close down, working mon aro thrown out of employment, the consumption of feed drops off, the prices of farm products drop lower and lower, the banks refuse to lend money and call in their outstanding loans, and busi ness is at a standstill. "This is more than a theory. Last fall in a small manufacturing town in (ho Middle West a factory was compelled io close because of lack of demand for its . netti any men were thrown < il ol and thc consumption ot i ? town alone'dropped oil , . , month. When people are ott work they simply cannot buy abu mit' of tho fanners' produce, and th nancinl predicament of tho agricultu ral communities is further aggra va ted. '"Tho fanner is dependent upon tho city worker to buy what he raises; tho manufacturer is largely depend ent upon the agricultural communi ties to buy what he iiinlteji-and if his goods are not sold his employees aro'thrown out of work, and their buying power is crippled, which',Im mediately affects the salo o? farm produce; the banks 'tighten up,' and the condition becomes worse than before. 3 have an endless circle tcies-which explains our ness depression, ow every onq wants busl len up,' but most of us wait for the other fellow t;o make the first move. "Mind you, I, am not saying that the fault is with the farmer, or the ma nu fa lurer, bi tho ban'c. o th?y dealer, er ij\lf\ ne; ono fciijsS ti'* C'VOi'dw I.!*1', ri ii<vi~,(Vei > .vt./;, },>?.* . I ni--A/id if uvory ono \ ;;? lo hin Cti.il without waiting tu *<;... what (be other fellow is going to do, tho problem will soon solve itself. "Tho farmer should buy what he needs-that is nothing more than use-because if a man i a thing be pays for it iel h buys lt or not. is applied to so basic an agriculture, should bo stretched to the limit. "Tho manufacturer should do everything within bis power to keep the wheels of industry moving, oven though it may bo necessary to oper ate ai a loss. By doing so be is keep ing (ho city man employed, thereby insuring his purchasing power and safeguarding the future of the man ufacturer's own interests. "Of course, when you come right down to it, few of us aro really phil anthropists al heart. We Americans, of the great middle class-including farmers and implement dealers-aro more interested in our little problems than in tho mader of '.saving tho country.' "But it isn't a question of philan thropy. lt's a question of doing a (hing because lt will pay-a question of constructive selfishness-and I'm not trying lo 'pass tho buck' to (ito other fellow. Hight now 1 am lining up my little business in accordance with this prescription. 1 am going to sell farm operating equipment for considerably less than (ho manufac turing costs, with terms thal take into consideration (ho financial con dition of the fanners of this com munity, But, of course, that's a sub ject for the advertising pages instead of the news columns of your paper." DODSON'S f-IVKIl TO Xii KILLS CAf/OMEL SALIO. Don't sicken or salivate yourself or paralyze your sensitive liver by taking calomel, which is quicksilver. Your dealer solis each bottle of pleas ant, harmless "Dodson's Liver Tone" under an ironclad, money-back guar anteo Hint it regulates the liver, stomach and bowels bettor than cal omel, without making you sick-15 million bottles sold.-ndv. - Ponce Treaty with Germany Signed. Berlin, Germany, Aug. 25.-Tho treaty of ponce botweon Germany and (bo United States was signed boro nt 6 o'clock Ibis evening. American women in Tokio, Japan, have refused to accept tho honor of hoing allowed to become members of tho American Association in Tokio.