The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 10, 1916, Page 4

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RRKMKRERED X¥XNUKMERMRRMMNN MRI CHAPTER I. | forlorn shack on the edge of the) {Ilimitable saltmarsh prairie stretch The Man's-Size Job iag westward from isle Bone LOW, San Anton--e' woods to the Gulf of Mexico. Laughter it was, and| “Doctor Dick, what do you think mocking us, as we sat in|! got sto'ed in that camp? Two! the Good Child. The south coast | eds and a cook stove and a box of [66 sun was April-warm, and the gray | (is! d six chaire—and a baby | forest wall of Isle Bonne invited| buggy. Yes, seh—A baby buggy! with its shadows as we drifted in| “Man from Ohio,” went on Viretl |gently. “He was the first of ‘em. Got a-hold of some of that common | literature they put out—fine little books showin’ a girl in a picture hat pickin’ Satsuma oranges tn De cember—on Isle Bo: Sold his farm and bought fo'ty acres of frawgs and water moccasins, and down he come pieturin’ his wife trundiin’ that baby wagon under his own orange trees. His wife was ‘along—I ain't fo’got her face when \the limit!” she looked at the swamp they'd | Virgil Williams nodded to me,|bought. Nor his!” The Texan's | ignoring the other man, as he had|eyes grew hard. “Well. 1 come done these four days now whenj|close to resignin'—I wired the their batred deepened. | president of our company that if “I told you, Doctor Dick,” he put jhe eve’ sold another acre of land in gently. “That's the girl, and/and the man came down here ex-| that’s the island. It’s the last of| paictin‘to find a home fo" his wife | the sweet lends and beyond it run|and bables befo' I got the water |the salt tides. The sweet land is/off, I'd come nawth with a gun jwhat I'm fightin’ fo'—against the | Yes, seh—I told ‘em.” Gulf of Mexico, and a girl!” “What's become of your first land “Blow, San Anton—e! Blow San/| seeker?” Ignacio’ San Pancrasio! San “Took one look at his homestead, | jetro! San Barrabo!” oe then blowed his head off. [) But—on my word—at her elfin| bought this stuff from the widda laughter the Good Child lifted,| that's how I got that baby buggy that morning calm. “Blow, San Anton—e'” And again the three of us in Allesjandro’s lugger stared help. lessly Into the cypress jungie— where was she? For of all places—as my young | friend, Redfield, put it when he #rose astride his suit case in the [stern of the Good Child—"of all |places that one would expect to find girl, and laughing at us, it's heeled a bit as her red canvas | Well, just you walt—” filled; and the lugger stole from| And then he stood up on the pool to pool in the opening chan-| shell beach rimming Isie Bonne’s | nel. forest, slowly dying of salty sea| Allesjandro was forward when|tides creeping in, and spoke with | her bow grated on the shell beach; |the fine drama of a man defying he was out and bowing exuberant. | failure | “You neo, it's me—personal and | specified—fo’ the sweet land, against the guif, the girl and the xing o° Spain . ly, Then wo saw—wide-eyed, silent, curious at us—Allesjandro's wood saint. She was swinging her brown foot in the clear black water about | the cypress spikes, and was looking | with an assumption of a grand dame’s hauteur at Virgil Williams; and the Texan returned her gaze . | You see, the fellow had been| | bred on defeat I don't know just when he came }to the south coast country; I had patiently. Then she arose with|met him first in Mary Mason's careful dignity, picked her way to| apartments, on st; sho had the stairs of Papa Prosper’s gallerie| known him sinc as a child, she} and up them to the house on stilts|rode his saddie in the Panhandle| above the low shell ridge }country. He had loved her, but she} She didn't like us, that was be-|had come East and made good; | yond doubt and again the silent soldier of mis The tall Texan sighed: “It's me. | fortune had stepped aside for an-| You see we're fightin’ her fo’ the | other. | land. Laure and the Gulf of Mex-| But I shall have to go back a ico, and a little old king o' Spain—/ bit to tell how it was that I came) the three of them is some hard com-| south with these two men, Wil-| bination.” Hams and Clell Redfield, and the} “The king of Spain?” I said.| hate between them. | Virgil made a gesture out to the| I had retired from our firm of wide hot prairies beyond the swamp | manufacturing chemists, that year isle. “He is the worst of all. Baen | Virgil was in the city, called to his dead a hundred and fifty years, but | annual conference with the direc once he gave a grant of land to one |tors of the land company, facing of these Drouillots. And here, the last of ‘em sits on it-——the last of the sweet land, fo’ most of {t's gone under the Gulf of Mexico.” |tion projects Then he looked up patiently! I had met him once; Clell, never. again at the shuttered house on its | But Clell knew what Mary had been ubsurd stilts above the shell-}to the Texan; that Virgil had grown margined swamp. “And I offered | from boyhood with a passion, then, | ‘em forty thousand dollehs once for|reallzing its uselessness, had their rights to Isle Bonne—which | laid it away, simply, without resent- rights are just none, unless they ment, when he knew she cared more their losing faith, complaints that he had drawn them into the most daring of all the Gulf coast reclame, find the original grant from the}for another king o' Spain, Otherw the| Clell’s and Mary's affeirs were | French he! in Bordeaux hold {t,/an open book For all the six land it's the Bordeaux Drouilllots|years of their engagement, since | company bonght the titles|/they had both graduated, class | m. Forty thousand, avd Laure | mates at the university, not a week j wouldn't take it—she rather put | had passed thet I had not been with |faith in that little King 0’ Spain| tt listened to their hopes and than she would in me!” |fears, succesves and discourage: | I knew the man’s stuff; he had! ments | got twenty thousand dollars of my| It had been queer enough. They money into the Prairie Lands & De-|had plunged into the business} velopment company, just because; world together at the foot of the | once I heard |,im tell his story over| ladder in the same huge utilities a directors’ table. |corporation; Clell Redfield with his The dlrector electrical engineer's diploma in the! cn impossibl drafting room of the Amalgamated | tising while the land had! Wlectric company, and Mary Mason pleaded in vain for funds to keep|in the offices his dredges from rusting out, and| And his drainage canals from choking | with jungle growth, The nearest Lever saw Williams come to anger was now when he pointed out to me! nm, had spilled mo; campaigns of sdve boss ars of thelr enga ment had come and gone, and © as still a drafteman at twenty. | five dollars a week; while Mary| was now the confidential secretary | have issued a statement in Seattle, pointing to Wilson's record on many country are divided as to the proper course to pursue. divided between Wilson, Hughes and Benson, the socialist candidate—and if him. It is only proper that the progressives—who stand foremost for the idea that there is no sacredness in party—should each, in his own conscience, de- a slur on as true progressives as Gov. Johnson, Senator Miles Poindexter and It is just as fair to say that Poindexter and Barnes have the same ideals because they are both republicans now, as to say that Ole Hanson and “Stand- ard Oil” Bailey of Texas have the sameideals because they are both supporting Wilson now. It is just as fair to place J. W. Bry same level as to put Edgar C. Snyder and “Boss” Murphy of Tammany hall E’VE something nearer than an influx of Europeans after the war, and that is the incoming of Mexicans by the thousands which is already or somebody else’s soldiers confiscated all they had raised and it was useless Intervention, war or any other calamity could hardly country, even a country about to become an enemy, because there’s hope move for U. S. territory by the tens of thousands, STAR—MONDAY, JULY 10, 1916. PAGE 4. m and Edgar C. Snyder, HETHER the boys go forth to war or not, the men are in for this summer. Progressives all over the Their votes will be a riage. He will not put it off with his uniform. “round shoulders” permitted in his family. All which is worth a lot. No man, soldier or gressive votes will go to less he walks and stands right. seven progressives to cast the greater a man’s energy and power. The most critical pacifist cannot deny that a ¢ n with Penrose, Barnes, barrel” politicians. is unconsciously improved. hands come out of pockets, slouchy coats are pulled yan and Penrose on the body recognizes it. sess power in all the activities of his life. ie hietew T reported to have entered nany other Te points. rk. Carranza’s soldiers fortunes in order to carry out his convictions. co, and they come to a ican occupation of that country. that unhappy anarchy-ridden country? Should we ould put Mexicans on the and give Uncle Sam a ns and Servians would seek it. Does not your heart of hearts tell you he is rig JUOOOROOOCOOOCUOCENER JOOCOOMEX LADO OOO. OCONOOCO OOO OC OE KI6IOXUOROOC CCQ GUO OOOO TIO ALLOW OI ROP IOI IIA IIRC Next Week sted multe “JOHN THE FOOL” ~ A Week! PERCY 2 BREBNER ues to the general manager at five thon “Pxactly like you, Mary sand a year! That was the tragedy.|dertully sane, practical—all Mary dumbly tried to conceal {t| but a man 1 looked pityin from herself and from him. Only] Cletl, and it stung afresh, I fear ten Minutes before Virgil came this| “Doctor Dick sees—" he blurted night, her lover cleared it for both.) «near og Dick is as outof-the 7s century as you are,” Mary retorted, turning to me, as I removed my| overcoat, with « beseeching pathos: | ~o. 1 want to help—and I want to tree-—free—to help!” paid—and I don't want a home, if I'm going to be a parasite on any y at} man—to clog his steps, hold |him down—and think that he's ¢o- ing to wear last year’s overcoat and rave bis nickel car fares by walk ing. merely because be's got a woman at home who's got to be sup- ported Won-| at “Doctor Dick, I'm tired of wait ing. Good Lord, I've tried—I've| ”, a Clell tarned grimly to me. “Doo- smashed away down there six) “Er—but marriage—" I maid, and) sey rm ons. “Ihave failed. years. And Mory—well, I ‘Asked | the «ir! cut me off sharply. |I"—his voice broke—“what's the her to resign her posttion and) “Marriage—is what?” use of us fooling each other? Mary marry me and take a chance—and the won't!” Mary's grey eyes had sought mine, strangely touched “On your salary, Clell?” I ven- tured That's just it, Doctor Dick, Stx| years, and by this time we had | planned that I'd have got ahead and| breaks up the bome, does it?’ Mary would bavo quit her place and What sort of a home would that we'd been married. And it's Mary| be?” Clell retorted. “On your who's gone to the top!” | money. No—that isn't my idea of Clell, dear,” Mary had put in| a wife.” softly youve done splendidly.| “Well, comrades then, dear—but Only. | together.” “Il am offering to make a home, “That's it—only you've done bet-| She was really trying, I could nee, | Clell!” she answened simply ter. Mary, there's something wrong) And she loved him—greatly, beau-| fighting for my home—for my chil somewhere. You're too—too med-| tifully—with all her moderniam. ero—1 ask you to marry me on my| “Think of what men ‘d say—Red| sort of women did. The children salary and you won't.” | tretd- bis wife working. Down in| We refuse to bring Into the world “Well—" | cleared my throat se verely. “All these ideas of you in- tensely modern young women--er, break up the home and everything.” Mary laughed—there at the out-| reged two of us. “To be free—and capable, and able to help make a home—that ~rand 17" She caught his arm appealingly, “Clell, you won't let me help-and marry me?” “You don't want to give up your |apartments and good clothes and |theatres and cabs—all the things ' you buy with your own money, and YI couldn't buy you with mine. That's it! You're the most selfish, | coldest person | ever knew—you re- | fuse to make a home for a man— when you love him!” No. And you know I love you,| the same office—and making five|{n dirt and poverty and disease— Clell.” And Mary turned to me| times what he does.” that's what » mean-—we new wom- with a bright, brave eagerness,| She shrugged “Oh, well! Tien! That is the greatest love of Doctor Dick, I Just asked him to| can't stop for what men say! all—the wisest, biggest best marry me! Now—at once—tomor-| “If your dad was alive he'd call; That is what we mean-—we row—and we'd both keep on work-| you one of those damn modern | ¥omen'” ing. It would only be for a year| women!” She had laid a ring upon the }table. But Clell was going, ignor- ing her and the ring entirely; and lthen he stopped, facing me. or #0, And we could keep on right] “I don’t recall father's views on in my apartments, Doctor Dick—~| anything well, except that he was and live on his income—and save|a disaster as a farmer in Texag my money to open his business with| 1 remember the bitterness of board- Doctor Dick, that foolish invest when the time came." ing-school when the bills weren't | ment of mine, of my sister's money —_——— | —1—1—thank you. She"'—he point- jed his thumb back at Mary—'said you got it and it's in the court's hands. God bless you, Doctor Dick! | Bless you, boy!" I retorted with |my fatal facility for blundering. “I |never raised that confounded money when Mary told me yesterday, I was flat strapped. Then along came Williams and we held him up, seeing it was a matter of moments | before court closed.” And at that stared into the silence that fell be. tween us all, not knowing what I had done-—the bell rang. Another minute and Virgil Williams came in. “You took it from Willlams, Doc- tor Dick!” retorted Clell My attempt at nonchalance was the baldest taste: “Now, my dear chap I began; but Clell had leaped back before Mary | “The man from Texas!” he cried “I might have known. That's a part of it. Every year—sometimes }twice a year—he turns up here— and you—" “Bh “You!” Clell swept around on him owe you two thousand dollars,” “You owe—to Doctor Rainey—~ two. thousand dollars,” put in Mary, and her voice came from far cold spaces of impersonality “No!” Clell answered, “I—yes- terday—my honor—so it was called 4was endangered because I couldn't account for two thousand dollars in my lttle sister's property settloment, But you—you dared call upon this man for help about it.” Virgil looked at him with a sud- den dangerous alertness, But Clell | was speaking to Mary, | “You wanted to break the en- | gagement—you wanted to. IT know!” She merely shrugged. Then we were all still for a time, Clell | broke it, turning again to the other man “Damn you Outbursts of EverettT rue WELL, SUPPOSIN. L DID SWEAR IN PRONT OF SOME WOMEN AND CHILDREN F IT’S NONE OF| | YOUR BUSINESS? Do You KNOW WHAT still,” said the Texan yd (Pure) wHar Do You THINK (PUFF) (purr) (PUFF - PUFF) L THINK CPUrP- Purr - PUFF) You'Re A’? RIGHT — (Purr - PUFF) ! your meddling—~your coming here, But that's all past |l—personally—owe you two thou | sand dollars.” | “All right.” The other man’s soft | drawl had the caress of the south | wind before the hurricane month “You—personally—owe me two thousand dollahs" Setting Up Exercises Good for All the better off for the “setting up” which some 128,000 of its young When Johnny comes marching home again, he will have acquired, nong other inevitable results of discipline, a very handsome military car- And best unless he breathes his best, and he cannot breathe in the best way un- The better the oxygenation of the blood, sertain positive good is bound to come from all the drilling which is going on in the land. Every sidewalk crowd which watches a company of regulars swing by ” Shoulders are thrown back, chins are raised, There's power in the proper position of the human body and every- The body reflects the will within. disciplined soldier makes the best of models for any HE speech of Woodrow Wilson before the New York Press club was the utterance of a high-minded idealist and a genuine patriot. even if he be, perchance, a political enemy of the president, may impugn the sincerity of his statement that he is ready to sacrifice his own political As Wilson says, he is the servant of the rank and file of the people of the United States and not of the few who wish to advance the value of their investments in Mexico by Amer- And who dare say that the rank and file of our people look with anything but loathing on the prospect of war with by circumstances over which we have no control, Mr. Wilson will give the word with firmness and decision, but so long as a loophole exists he will WRKMRMRRRNRARAN AMEN BERGA | murmured Virgil. “rm | dren—fighting better than the old| moment—while 1} Dy mall, out of eity, one year, 04.40; © months, 61.90; Be per month ap te @ mathe. carrier, tity, the @ month, Batered at Beattie, Wash. postoffice ae ecoond clase matter When You're We! KEEP WELL country is going to be Anothar Article In The Stare Health Camp Being Conducted With Co operation of American Medical Association there will be no civilian, can work his | Since our etvilized form of life imposes upon us many bazar of health whi otherwise w would not have to contend with it, is worth while to try | land establish | what is the great- est single offset | to such hazards. | In other words, what is the greatest factor in maintaining our general | | into shape. " * health? The figure of the | Look over the fist. There is man who would pos- air, nourishment, cleanliness, | work, rest and sleep, some others, but | © the most important, | To the average jndividual in the modern civilized Community, with {ts various opportunities and limita- tions, thee is good eason to believe that a proper amount of sleep is the chief health conserver. All about us, life, both animate and ‘nanimate, obeys the laws of nature and passes into some form resembling sleep, usually while the aun is beneath the horizon. Authorities on health and hygiene point out more and more the need of securing at least eight consecu- tive hours of sleep. Where this cannot be done as @ routine, day after day, they advise that the proper amount of sleep be made up }some time during the 24 hours. | The universal practice of this policy no doubt would do more than any other single factor to promote health and prevent disease. And no man, be forced into Mexico, ht? glimpsed back of it the shimmering canal, leading to the man’s size job. CHAPTER IL, Papa Prosper, holding a two monthe’ old New Orleans newspaper upside down, paddled out on bis gallerie in bis straw slippers to greet us with the.gourtesy due one's enemies. . “We were just passin’ this way,” “And I thought you-all might as well know these “I'll give you a note.” poor Clell|two fel-los to begin with.” blundered on, and Virgil let the! Papa bowed to the introductions, | Shost of a amile to his lips. “Ah, messieurs! Coffee, mademol- |, Note? I don't want a note. | selle, fo’ measieurs.” Down where I come from a man's| But mademoiselle was not there. word is a man’s word. Down where|1 saw her now crossing the shell 1 come from you'd learn a good deal| ridge to her former perch on the of men. Yes, seh—you'd learn 4| pole of the ancient oak. good deal if you could stand up| Papa eyed this evasion of bis under a man's size gam: paternal authority and sighed. The remote scorn tn that soft] “Ah, dis worl! She is too yolce was something you can not| much. Me—I—Prosper Drouillot— Suggest. But it found its way to] fo’ why I go sue somebody? Laure the city man's socal. —all atime, she come back from “I owe you two thousand dollars.| John-the-Foo!l and say, ‘Papa, dem Maybe you got a job where a man| Yankee fel-los dig and dig and dig could pay that out” in ou’ lettel isle—bom! Sooch a A Novel By Tenny Jackson A Week! pyright, 191 be, Merrill Co “I got"—drawled the other—“a/noise—sooch a smoke dat dredge man's size job—for a man.” he mak! Why doan yo’ sue some ‘T want it.” bod. Le bon Dieu, and dem law- “Seb! With me?” yers I trust fo’ ou’ lettle isle. So Yes. Laure go back fo Messieur le Baron, The Texan took him coolly. and Messieur le Baron, he roar. “Ninety dollars a month will/ Lake beeg steamboat when he Start you. And grub. I cain't say! blow up—sooch a nois just what you'll do. It's a right He waved us to the long benches lonesome camp way off up in/sgainst the honeysuckle shade of back.” his gallerie. Then he was gone He was at the door and within and to his coffee-dripping. then, from the” elevator in the hall, 1 slept that night in a corrugated |turped: “Maybe you'll make good, /jron shack after a rush eastward Redfield. You have your chance.”|from Isle Bonne woods thru a Then he had gone; and after a| time In which there was no word from us, Clell went out. When the boy was gone, Mary flew past the| sad little silver things on the table | that had been set for a bite with | Clell and me this piteous evening | “Doctor Dick!” she whispered, shadowy lake, and then up a 40. foot canal which turned westward again thru a stretch of prairie cane behind the island. But the morning showed that we were at the abandoned pumping plant of the Prairie Meadows Land company. Sacks of concrete, bar- “they can't do {t—they can’t-—|rels of cement, lumber, coal, ofl hating each other! Clell—and | tanks and machinery ill-housed and Virgil—who gave me up to him| rusted; a cook house with the win- long ago. Oh, something dreadful | will happen!” And so it was that the three men us came to Isle Bonne, and dows dirty and staring—over it all the silence of failure, the man’ size job hung as at a dismal gibbet. of (Continued in Our Next Issue) Excellent Tested Recipes bound in convenient form for use in your kittchen will be mailed FREE if you send yvour name and address. 3 The cooking less¢ons explain how you can always have! “good luck” in your baking through choosing the right materials, mixing’ them, regulat- ing the heat of your oven, etc, Address it JAQUES MFG. CO., "CHICAGO