The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1914, Page 8

STAR—FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1914. PAGE 6. SERGEANT LICKING eee Now Ie the Time to Get 11d of These Unty Spots There's ne gor the aliqhtest nesd of feeling # of of r freckles jan t pre othine--double |atrength—1s guaranteed to remove \SAVEYOUR MONEY AND EYES | | oot Sa''sd ca tora ROWDY » €y | pair of glasses you require | orren mo ee j a _ - —_—— you BEET IN }romantic. The oldest passenger| figures standing in the porch of| tween two of the porch planks, and | fee asp | gave the bride away. All the crew| Graves’ house. I was about to call |all the time we were working OVéT| psrtment of came aft and sang “The Volce|to them and warn Graves that Bo| Mrs. Graves he whined and strug-| tometrr here r | That Breathed O’er Eden That| was loose and dangerous-—-when a gled to get loose | Bariiest Wedding-Day"—to the|acream—sbrill and frightfal—rang| ‘Then I turned and freed Don |tune called “Blatrgowrle.” They|in my ears. I saw Graves turn to|and took off bis leash | te BACK THERE IN THE GRASS There is a cable station just up rious problem. Twice he carried her he had played Bo wan very| my cabin to see how Bo was get-|teoth marks this way and that with) “How is she?” —_—_——_——— —— |had worked it up in secret for alhis bride and catch her in his| “Hunt clone, Hunt close!”| | 1 duvit Vo * a9 . . best man. The | arms. Thus hunting, we moved slowly |") sigere on A Botanist’s Introduction to a New Species of Woman in the South Sea Islands |) qs inte cok ae enies, nuntbe. ve moved sot | Wisroueue, a2 INVISIBL | choked occasionally When I came up she had col- terior of the scent Double Vision As for me, I went back to my/|lected her senses and was behay-| grew hotter—suddenly Don began od BEST IN THE : ‘ ey ayaa rox : lechooner, feeling blue and lonely.|ing splendidly. While Graves \to move more atiffly—ae if he had an 4 By Gouverneur Morris taboo” ae | ary sobe—no tears,” fe ne Saar - ee ea knew little about women and | fetched a lantern and water she the rheumatinm—his ayes straicht t the yore ced C " ¥ + Pi ty a Soo on te le bout 7 | “ ciatinin son world’ one par OPTICAL ; Tt was spring in the South Seas} “As far as they know—yes.” | A week before Misa Chester’s|!e Was “making game T icouk caters wick Gas! Waid itiaiees tae seen cee atid hep luce sen te the ot of taking 4 | pt earn eee “4 arlpda ce Ma tea cg Well!” sald 1, “my dusiness will steamer was due the situation had | k on the beach—in the “could pull her|wary step, he came to a dead halt.|__ 70° First Av. Washington Bidg. 3 ore at Batengo, which te tho|take me back there for days at &/not changed. Graves’ pot was ae] direction from Graves’| stocking off her bitten foot. Her| “Steady, boy!” ‘Dr. Edwin J. Brown : Nghe at crane Ghent of tho anins _ Hs a y, ‘ae aan much a fixture of Graves’ house as ant everything | house, of course. Toward dusk we|instep, into which Bo's venomous I pushed forward the safety of) Main 9640 base mat ot . c = me pel find | the front eee : ro Se man was| in ina sald about| returned to the achooner and bad | teeth had sunk, was already ewol-|my shotgun and stood at attention Bag AT a Oa PR SMG 3° ever confronted u ore a dinne bd name. , Sernome. Gromeen fur met |never ronted with a more se | er the| dinner, and after that I went tnto|len and discolored I slashed the! ° BULL BROS. | the beach from the village, and a Be natured young chap named wes had charge of It He was upstanding, clean-cut fel- tow. | Don, who dislikes anything Poty- | - mesian or Melanesian, took to him at once. } a He gave us lunch on the porch, | and because he had not seen a white | | man for two months, or « Iiverand-| _ White dog for two years, he told us the entire story of his young life and plans for the future thrown in. he said, “but I found something very curious that I want to show you and ask your atfvice about So we started for Graves’ house, Don very close at my heels “Graves,” I said, “surely a taboo by a lot of fool islanders hasn't upset you. Theres something on your mind. Bad news?” “Oh, no,” he said. “She's com- ing. Li other -things. I'll tell you by and by—everything. Don't mind me, I'm all right.” “You say you found something ‘The future was very simple. Very curious back there tn the _ steamer but one; the captain of _ that steamer would join them to- a in holy wedlock, and after the Lor? would provide. He led the way to his bedroom, ‘and stood im silent rapture & fore @ large photograph that leaned t the wall over his dressing “keeps trom going mad by having @ dog or cat or some pet or other to talk to. “But I can understand a photo- to any man—even {f he had never _ shake hanée with you.” eee “You haven't asked me my busi- ' Ress im these parts,” I said, “but _ Fil tell you. I'm collecting grasses _ for the Bronx Botanical Garden.” “Then, by Jove!” said Graves, “you: have certainly come to the tht place. Grass! The place is around my house here.” co “ve noticed only 18,” 1 sat.) > “but that isn’t the point. The point | | 48; when do the Batengo Island| “The usual cable agent,” I said,| On the edge of Grave’ graph like this being all-sufficlent | i eraset” He unlocked the door of bin house and stood aside for me to go in first. z ee “Shut up, Don!” The dog growled savagely, but I banged him with my open hand across the snout, and he quicte? down and followed Into the house, jall tense and watchful. writing bie, with legs banging over, what I took to be an {dol of some light brownish wood—say sandalwood, with a touch of pink. Tt was about a foot high, and rep resented a Polynesian woman ip geen the original. Allow me to| the prime of life, ony 15 or 16 years old, only the features were finer and cleaner carved. It was a nade, fm an attitude of easy repose. The | thing was eo lifelike that {ft fright- ened mo. And when Don began to growl like distant thunder [ didn't blame him. When I looked up the satuectte’s eyes had moved. They were turned grass; there are 560 kinds right | downward ay the dog with cool curtosity indifference. A kind ot shudder went through me. And then, lo and behold, the statuette’s tiny breasts rose and fell slowly, back Into the grass and deserted | "O° & Deallisible welght on Graves’ | ting on. her, and each time she returned |?Und and was found sobbing—horrible dry sobe—on the porch. Well, a day came when Graves, who bad been up aince dawn, saw the smoke of a steamer along the horizon, and began to fire off his’ revolver so that I, too, might wake! and participate in the Joy. I went| ashore. It's hor steamer,” he said “You,” said I, “and weve got to decide something “About Bot” “Buppose IT take her off your hands—for a week or so—4Ml you and Misa Chester have settled down and put your house tn order. Don't eay @ word to Bo-—fust bring her out to the schooner and leave her.” In the upshot Graves accepted my loffer, and while Bo, fairly bristling | with excitement and curiosity, was os the farther corners of my cabin, we slipped out and locked | the door on her. | |. She flew at me like a cat, and If | I hadn't jerked my foot back she must have bitten me. As it was her teeth tore a plece out of my trousers, I'm afraid I kicked her. | Anyway I heard her land with a! crack in @ far corner. I struck «| match and lighted candles—very | wartly—one eye on Bo. She had retreated under a chatr, and looked out—very sullen and angry. I sat down and begun to talk to her. | She hated me, and after a time I) got bored. I threw a pillow on the| floor for her to sleep on, and left | her. Well, the minute the door was shut and locked she began to sob. | So T went back—and talked to her as nicely and soothingty as I could Now, I don’t like little creatures that anap—eo when I picked her up| If the wedding was quick and/b bustnese-Itke, ft was also jolly and ROUND TRIP Children, 5 to 12, 50c Children Under 5, Free my lancet. And Mrs. Graves kept| “Seems to be pulling through, “Good Don,” I eald, “good boy— | saying “All right--all right-—-|heard you fire both barrels Find her!” don't mind me—do what's best.” | luck ?* The moon had risen T saw two Don's had wedged be! (THE END.) Positively the Last One This Season GRAND ROUND Children, 5 to 12, SOc Children Under 5, Free begin to go to seed?” Anh | sae & Sone breath came out of it] 1 was by the scruff of the neck. | “You think you've got me stump-|_ I backed violently into Graves, eet ie het ae aaseng ged 4, dont you?” he said. “That|4ragging Don with me and Balt) eee eee eee ee rnat| ‘a mere cable agent wouldn't notice choking him. | struck me as curious, I examined} such eo Well, BN grass P ag God Almighty!” I sald. “It's | hem through a pocket magnifying | there,” and he poin' “—beach | alive.” acover nut we call it—is the first to ripea| “Isn't she!” said he “I caught SS casa, Perhape T poor poe her back there in the grase—the | back of her neck harder than Uttle minx. And when I heard your/1 veant to—anyway her lips began! “Anything I can do to help you/high for her to jump, and #! ded tocked & i test Rabat gon While you're gone? I've got loads|sore about it.” ; i d held fi adily tt i 7 ate “You fouhd her in the grass,” 1/0, candle ond Nell te ghe atrue "If you k anything about) sald Phd oe sake -are there | ea turlously, om that eng ” more of them | A | BT don't. But I'll blow back toto| “Thick as quail, said be, “but it's| down the candle and cateh, bes, town | the interior and look around. I've|hard to get a sight of ‘em. But/io4 seen enough. I felt wet and F been meaning to right along, just) YOU were overcome by curiosity.) .14 all over. For if the swollen for fun. But I can never get any|were'nt you, old girl? You came|fisias at the base of the deeply of them to go with me.” out to have a look at the Dig white | rrooved canines meant anything “The natives?” sant, and he caught you with his| {ict which I held behind my hands “Yes. Poor lot. They're com-|thumb and forefinger by the scruff | way not a woman, but a snake mitting race suicide as fast as they|of the neck, so you couldn't bite! y nutherin a wooden box that had can.. There are more wooden gods/bim, and here you are. contained soap and nailed slats over, EXCURSION) To Port Angeles, Sunday, August 30—at 9 o’clock a. m.—on the Big Ocean-Going, Fast Steel Steamer Iroquois Give the Children One More Good Outing Before They Start. to School than people in Batengo village, and| Tho womankin’s lips parted, and)», top. | * = 77 wt the superstition’s so thick you)! saw a flash of white teeth. She) 8 ering 25 c4k ig could cut it with » knife.” |looked up into Graves’ face and the |, A% A extra precaution in cage of i eave Colman ASPET S pk Oe ia C- "1 " v ; . ‘They say that if you go "back| steely eyes softened. It was evt|cing chest and made up & little ; . there in the grass’ something aw-|dent that she was very fond of him ful will happen to you.” “Rum sort of a pet,” sald Graves. “As what?” I asked. “What?” “The last man to try {t,” sal¢) “Rum?” I sald. “It's horrible—it 3 Graves, “in the memory of the old-| Isn't decent—it—it ought to be . est inhabitant, was a woman. |tabloo. Dons got !t sized up right Tt was a lovely, starry night | When they found her she was all|He—he wants to kill it.” I determined to sleep on deck Diack and swollen—at least that's| “Let me ask you one thing—what| fore turning In I went to have a look what they say. Something had| would Miss Chester think?” - |at Bo. She was gone bitten her just above the arile.” “Oh, that doesn’t worry me,” said ‘The crew, warned of peril, search: | “Nonsense,” I said. “There are|Graves. “But I am worrte ed the whole schooner over, slowly | package for the breast pocket—a lancet, a rubber bandage and a pfll box full of permanganate crystals, | eee Leave Pt. Angeles 3 P.M. Dock at 9 a. m. m Arrive Pt. Townsend 11:30 4 Mo snakes in the whole Batengo|rted sick. It’s early—shall and methodically, Mghted by lan-| 2 4 ans now, or wait till after lunch?" terns. We could not find her. Well, | if “They didn’t say tt was a ennke, Now,” I said. swimming comes natural to snakes. | 3 said Graves. “They said the marks; “Weill,” sald he, “you left me| 1 went ashore as quickly as I/ | of the bite were Ike those that! pretty well enthused on the subject et a boat manned and rowed. | | would be mare by the teeth of alof botany, so I went back there gg on a ean; @ shotgun a Very little—child.” twice to look up grasses for you.|loaded, and both pockets of my =. |The second time I went I got to a| jacket full of cartridges. We ran Five weeks later I was once more | deep sort of valley where the grass | swiftly along the beach, Don and I coasting along the wavering hnis|is waist high, and that piace was/and then turned {nto the grass to of Batengo Island, with a sharp eye|alive with things that were fright-| make a short cut.for Graves’ house. out for a first sight of the cable|ened and ran. I could see the direc-| All of a sudden Don began to trem-| station and Graves. And when at| tions they took by the way the grass — - last we rounded on the cable sta-|tops acted. There were lots of| Arrive Pt. Angeles aa mal 9 P.M. THIS IS POSITIVELY THE LAST EXCURSION TO PORT ANGELES THIS SEASON. DON’T MISS IT. tion I let off both barrels of my|loose rtones about, and I began to| DANCING i i 4 icone stokes. about, 006 F began to HIPPODROME Yo The beautiful Straits of Juan de Fuca, Dungeness Spit, The salute brought Graves out/one of the things over. Suddenly | HIPE O of his house. |all at once I saw a patr of bright Even at that distance I detected | little eyes peering out of a bunch of &@ something irresolute in his man-| grase—TI let fly at them, and some ner. |thing gave a sort of moan and “That's funny,” I paid to Don.| thrashed about in the grase—and| 4 % “He's coming to meet us in s#pite|then lay still. I went to look, and| oy an’ og ve came to and tried to bite me, but I 5 e @ schooner while she|had her by the scruff of the neck A Fas wi ter, way, a Heachiod ant she cour.” Parone she'ees SSC Will Do for You the beach before Graves came up. sick with being hit in the chest with There were too many strango|the stone, and first thing I knew | OUR DOCTOR brown men to sult Don, and he| she keeled over in the palm of my| Will give you a thorough examina- kept very close to my legs. When|hand in a dead faint. I couldn't! tion, diagnose your case and fur Graves arrived the natives fell| find any water or anything—and I|nish you bottle of medicine, all away from him as if he had been | didn’t want her to die—so I brought | for ; 4 a leper. He wore a sort of sickly her home. She was sick for a week 60 smile, and when he spoke the dog |-—and I took care of her—aa 1 would bed stiffened his legs and growled me|a sick pap—and she began to got RIGHT DRUG CO. nacingly. | well and want to play and romp 169 WASHINGTON : “My dear fellow,” I said, “what|and poke into everything. * * *] War Has Not Affected Our P the devil is the matter?” | You see how ft all happened, don’t Roshdn at thchenlbi a « Graves looked to right and left,| you? Might have happened to any | »R E u See — Bd ~ — Dungeness Crab; Fort Worden, peel 5 ort Flagler and Fort Casey, the three big forts whi Will guard Puget Sound. ve ee “se Dairy Lunch “sv Aboard the Boat Other first-class food at city prices, or take your own lunch basket if you prefer. Tickets on sale at Colmna Dock, $1.00 round trip. Children, 5 to 12, ROUND TRIP : and the islanders shrank still far: | body.” es ides | Wiss Adwlrsion Children, 5 to 12, 50c | 50c. Children under 5, free. Childesd, 8 6, te ane : W yes,” I said. “Take her| ‘ ! : te tia den Ser youredt’! ke \back-where you found hor, and ture AT DREAMLAND Children Under 5, Free Children Under 5, Free Remember, the boat leaves at 9 a.m. Be there early. > ~—s wala curtly. “I'm taboo.” |her loo é “I've been back there in the} “Well and good,” sald Graves. “I grass,” he said, “and because—he-| tried that, and next morning I found cause nothing happened to me I'm her at my door, sobbing-—-horrible 10 Dance Tickets for 25¢ Everyone Welcome