Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1930, Page 23

TS STRANGE AT Guy HOLMES WOULDNT Teyy’ ME OVER THE PHone WHAT HE WANTED TO Sec ME ABOUT ' WeELL Iwy YOu MIUNDERSTAND ME SIR' THIS BRANCH OF THE SECRET SERVICE HAS NOTHING TO DO Wit PROHIBATION! 1T 13 WORK OF THE HIGHEST INPORTANCE, AND 1 SCARCLEY NEED Say OF THE UTMOST ' SECRECY. 1 CANNGT ENPHASIZE ToO ot i STRONGLY THE z‘ece&my oF KEEPNE YOUR By WANTS ME To CONNECTIN WITH THE SERVKE A PROFOLND SeeT' NOBODY MUST KNOW ! \ heart my Though it’s sadly worn \J battered . Tfli My affection is 1. sincere itis o trifle scatterea. 3 A Government Revder, plesse sccept ‘fjfl;&s il } NOW, CHILDREN = \T'S TO BE & ‘JI[“” % 2 WASHINGTONS BIRTHDAY PARTY | il 'l.: p AT MY HOUSE NEXT SRTUWRDAY LS Y AFTERNOON - AND REMEMSBER.- ’ NOU ARE ALL \NWTED - MM, ANNE - GEE- A REA, THET WWL PART™- &N 1T'S TH FIRST one | 'VE BEEN “WITED YO SWNCE \ CAME TO BLUNDERVILLE- THNK, St ? M WTED Yo $..s“w‘5“" g S NEXT SATURDEY AT JEBCHER'S HOUSE~ A FLORIDA TOURIST OUGHT B HAVE A G0OD CAR. = AND A COUPLE. oF TRUCKS. Bt~ Fesn BEDTIME STORIE Baby Has a Tumble. You'll often find a sorry deed 1s traceable o naught but greed BY THORNTON W. BURGESS | |it seemed as if the worse the weather, | the stronger those babies grew. They |certainly were a healthy pair. —Old Mother Nature. | It happened }hal one mnn;ms fian:;:w sk o ay got over there very early. He dis- Sammy Jay couldn't keep away from | ,verad right away that Hooly and Mrs. that part of the Green Forest Where | gijecGore both away. Those two lit- Hooty the Owl and Mrs. Hooty had e owis were fighting over something. their nest. He knew he was running|yes sir, they were quarreling and fight- a risk every time he went over there. ing’yt wasn't at all a nice thing to see. But the idea that any one could have | presently one of them, who was a little babies in Winter, with snow and ice all |pj¢ stronger than the other, managed about, was something that Sammy |t punch the other to the very edge of couldn't get over. Once he gOt MEAr |the nest. Then what do you think he enough to that nest while Hooty and |qig> It wasn't at all a nice thing. He Mrs. Hooty were away so that he got a | sushed that other right out of the nest. good look at the two baby OWIs. He | yes sir, he did just that thing. Sammy discovered then that of all the bird | Jjay’saw it all ies he ever seen these were the " The Jittle owl who was pushed out most warmly dressed. They had downy | fell over backward. He turned. over coats that went clear to their toenalls. |once in the air. He hit against a limb, He understood a little better then hOW | and before he could grap it with his ;z_e ;;serthn they could stand the cold | claws he fell once more. He hit on the 5 |broad part of a hemlock limb below. And such a hungry pair as they |1 gidn't hurt any, but there was noth- were! Sammy soon discovered that |ing o hold onto. He just slid off. So, Hooty and Mrs. Hooty hunted by day | fiapping his funny little wings, that as well as by night. He used to Wonder | hagn't feathered out yet, he tumbled sometimes when they slept. He Was |on clear down to the ground. He land- shocked many times, was Sammy Ja, |eq with a thump. Sammy wondered if when he saw how many little people | ho were hurt. Then he concluded, by had been caught and killed that those | the ‘fuss fhe little Owl was making, little Owls might grow. = that he was more frightened than hurt. ‘They have bad tempers,” declared |Sammy himself was very much excited Sammy to Mrs. Sammy. ‘They fight |He wondered what would happen now. over their food. Youwould think there | What would Mrs. Hooty do if the came was enough for a dozen babies, but, |home and found only one baby? Wonld just the same. they fight over it. Never | she go looking for the other? It tho In my life did I see such cross, greedy | found him, woulti she pick him up and TOrBE was quite true. Those bables | U7, him back? were short-tempered and they were s.mlx‘:y.'m ve Jumt Pok o 025 Wi paea | 5 3 However, Hooty and MTs. | Hooty will o ’%’z’esf‘éfr."’xvi?s:’?z‘iom uHEN THE JUDGE OFFERED-- THE greedy. Hooty were good providers. It might | = - - be hard hunting at that season of the |this for angthings- oo v o0 year. but the bables were never allowed | those two young Owls have! Im glad to go hungry. The father and mother CITIZENS OF SCRAMSBURG R CHANCE TO INVEST IN THE YOUR HUSBAND (R SPORT ARENR DIDN'T THINK MucH i | my youngsters t es. If Mrs. | might g0 hungry. but the bables mever | Hioly docent take that youngster back HE IS OF MY 20g ERECTING = DER EVERYBODY N I sy TowWN GRASPED < |up in the tree, Reddy Fox or Old Man | e o m'e‘;‘du"nz' grlolwm i | Coyotte or Yowler the Bobeat will have | was a storm of snow or rain their ’;e;:}‘n'nnee EAR R e mother kept them covered. Sometimes ! (Copyright, 19%.) AT THE OPPORTUNITY EXCEPT PR RUWEY — THAT MAKES 17 . 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OM, HE's ALWAYS SUSPICIoUS OF EVERYBODY —— HE'LL EVEN ARGUE THAT j| fine JOUNSTMNN FLOOD NEVER MATERIALIZE —— \T WARNS meas Sl s RER ‘.2';,‘0“\.‘.’:’392‘5‘ Bal| CITIZENS AGRINST PUTTING il d 7.5 THER HARD EARNED DOLLARS %" INTO THE HANDS OF A MAN SR Twar Tey Know LITTLE 5 OR NOTHING ABOUT { WELL, WINDY - WHRT DID I TELL You ? ¥ THis PAPER CAWS THE JUDCE'S IDEA § AN IMPRACTICAL DREAM THAT WiLL 7] WEW, VIELLY TM SURPRISED TO SEE YOV ON LINE, MRS RWLEY= ESPECIALY AFTER 1 HEARD THRAT REGRET 7, DOLLARS THAT MRS RILEY TM INVESTING KEN KLING Daily Cross-Word Puzzle aadd Aadaa daaal AEEEE aEEE| Anxious /5 72 BUT You DON'T SEE ‘EM RAISING MY HANDICAR Do You ? .- AT @ NG AND ThEY RAISED THE ASSESSMENT FoRr CLu® PRIZES, DIDN'T TheY 7 S WHAT DO You [ MEAN, THIS B Tae MONTHLY CLUB S ALL P\ DUES, DIDN'T WRONG ? b AND THEY RAISED W “TWE LOCKER RENTAL CRARGES, DIDN'T TREY ? FREEMAN One Thing That’s Stationary. Is discordant. An individual. In no respect. Bound by promise. 8Sun god. 6. Way. 7. 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