The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1919, Page 17

EVERETT TRUE BY THORNTON W. BURGESS (Copyright, 1919, by T. W. Burgess) Bully the Fighter ELLY THE ENGLISH SPAR- | anyway. ROW is a born fighter, He is | better off "Mever is happier than when he is in Mhe midst of a fight or a fuss of p@ome kind. The fact that all his Meighbors were against him didn't other Bully in the least. Jenny Pea Mr. Wren are no cowards, but \ two together were no h for lot here and we would if they were not it may, I do ha be a 5 © to admire time Bully darting at this one and that one, having a thoroly good which is more than could be sa any one elxe except Mrs. Bully you folks to know that I am in was and iy. In fact, Bully did not hesi h to fly fiercely at any of the on who came near enough, not when they were twice his own! They could have driven him the Old Orchard had they set to. But just by his boldness and he made them afrakl to/ ® |All the time Mrs. Bully sat fn the round doorway, encouraging She knew that as long as she there it wouk! be impossible for Jenny or Mr. Wren to get in. | th to tell, she was enjoying it for she is as quarrelsome and fond of fighting as is Bully him) pee “You're 2 sneak! You're a robber! y's my house, and the sooner you @ut of it, the better” shrieked ny Wren, jerking her tail with ‘@¥ery word as she hopped about just | | @ut of reach of Bully. “It may have been your house , but it is mine now, you little ‘of nothing,” cried Bully, rush at her like a little fury. “Just to put us out if you dare! You t make this home in the first pe, and you deserted it when you South last fall. It's mine now, there isn't anybody in the Old hard who can put me out.” Rabbit nodded, “He's right ," muttered Peter. “I don't like » and never will, but it is true he has a perfect right to that People who go off and leave for half a year shouldn't ex to find them just as they left . My, my, my! What a dread oise! Why don’t they all get to- h and drive Bully and Mrs. | Hy out of the Old Orchard? If don’t, I'm afraid he will drive m out. No one likes to live with | h quarreisome neighbors. They ft belong over in this country, TIZ FOR FEET For Tired Feet, Sore Feet, Tender, Aching, Swol- len Calloused Feet and Painful Corns “Tl teach you folks to know that I'm in the Old Orchard to stay,” shrieked Bully. the Old Orchard to stay,” shrieked . “It you don’t like it, why don't you fight? I am not afraid of any of you, or all of you together.” This was boasting, plain boasting, but it was effective. He actually made the other birds believe it. Not one of them dared to stand up to him and fight. They were content to call him a bully and all the bad names they could think of, but that did nothing to help Jenny and Mr. Wren r their house. Calling another bad names never hurt any Brave deeds and not brave words are what count. over + one Next story: Peace Is Restored at Last. Wit without wisdom soon becomes wearisome. “Can't beat ‘Tiz’ for aching, swollen feet. Don’t stay footsick I" Just take your shoes off andjYour feet will with then put those weary, shoe-crinki- | also you will find all pain from corns, callouses and bunions. poe Sening, | There's nothing like “Tiz.' It's bunion-tortured feet of yours in @/ the only remedy that draws out all | “Tiz” bath. Your toes will wriggle|the poisonous exudations which ith joy; they look up at you|puff up your feet and cause foot and almost talk and then they'll | torture take another dive in that “Tiz"| There's nothing like bath. | Get a 25-cent box of “ any When your feet feel ke lumps|drug or department don't of lead—all tired ovt—just try|wait. Ah! how glad your feet get; fiz.” it's grand—it's glorious! how comfortable your shoes feel, j f Joy gone burning, corn-pestered, It's By CONDO! PANN “The CASHIER, PLEASE WH o< WEDLOCKED— _ || i It Happens Once a Year —By LEO SQUIRREL FOOD— “HAVE OTTO AUTO RUN ACROSS SOME MONEY ON TEN” f copyright, tense evens (Continued from Thureday) K. tever forgot thes scene in ahe emergency ward to which |Johnny had been taken. Under the white lights his boyish figure looked strangely long. There was a group around the bed—-Max Wilson, two or ternes, the night nurse on 1 Head inside door on dney 4 neon be her eyes wide and nds clenched in ber he stood beside her, she ave or look up, The group e bed had parted to admit nfeld, and closed again. y and K. remained by the | door, isclated, alone, You must not take it dear. It's sad, of course all, in that condition—”* b such e that t, after | It was her first knowledge that he | But she did not turn. “They say I poisoned him.” infloctionless. was there Her voice was dreary “Ye what?" Bae: I gave him the wrong murdered him. K. touched her har lice cold. Te ] oy on duty y ine nay that She shivered ney were me about it.” ¢ is nothing to tell. at 6 o'clock and gave the medicines. When the night purse came on at 7, everything was all right. The snedicine tray was just as it should be, Johnny was ash I went to « good night to him nd he—he waa asleep. I didn't give him anything but what was on the tray she finished, ptteously “I looked at the label; I always look!” y a shifting of the group around the bed, K.'s eyes looked for a mo. ment directly into Carlotth’s, Just for a moment; then the crowd closed up again. It was well for Carlotta that it did. She looked as if she had seen a ghost—closed her eyes, even 1 Miss Harrison {s worn out," Dr, Wilson said, brusquely one to take her place.” But Carlotta rallied. After all, the | presence of this man in this room at #uch a time meant nothing. He was | Sidney's friend, that was all But her nerve was shaken. The | thing had gone beyond her, She had not meant to kill ened condition that was turning enge into tragedy “Tl am all right.” she pleaded across the bed to the Head. ase, He's from my ward I am responsible.” Wilson was at his wits’ end, He had done everything he knew with out result Th g for instant, would ‘ in into stu por. With a healthy man the could have tried more vigorous could have forced him to his him about, could vith knotted towela But the wree ‘on the bed could stand no such ‘ole treatment It was Le Moyne, after all, who saved Johnny Rosenfeld’s life For, when staff and nurses had exhausted all their resources, he stepped for. | ward with a quiet word that brought | the internes to their feet astonished. There was a new treatment for | such es—it had been tried abroad. | He looked at Max | Max had never threw out his hands. y it, for heaven's sald I'm all in | The aratus was not in the \house—must be extemporized, in sures feet alked have heard of it. He he WN NOON that I} T came! “Get some} It was the boy's | “Let fiE SEATTLE STAR WERE WERE Give ME BOTH OF THEM CHECKS. You A ' HOME AT PETER ? | Ty —} T ARE 7 ASKED To GET OFF FoR AFTERNOON FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1919. Alike WHERE Do You GET THAT GRABBIN’ STUPF WHEN I EXVITED You IN WERE cA ~ Tue IDEA sr Then Must Hane Dned ee ee \HOW Much 1S BorTw | or Those CHECKS TOGETWER, YOUNG | | SWouLD SAY NOT — I mverep You ovr To Lunch - WAY, THE l \DEA- Give Me TWAT CHECK o. — r > ey "Lt Go AN’ GET TH’ OocTor HUH Money? LEAD ME “TD HIS VACUUM WUBE Wort MISS A CENT OF IT ~~ WHEE ~ THIS KALE WILL KEEP Me I GAS FoR A YEAR AH — WHEN He SwPS To PICK IT uP WE'LL RUN GOSH~ TEs LOOK At tr #10, 15, 20, 30, ~% ~4 - ppepscrensecc = oo 8 OCHO —_——~ ee ee Roberts Gis y | deed, at lant, of odds and ends from tha, operating room. K. did the work, his jong fingers deft and skill ful—while Mrs, Rosenfeld knelt by the bed with her face buried; while | Sidney ant, dazed and bewtidered, on ther t » chair inside the door, while night nurses tiptoed along the cor. dor, and the night watchman stared incredulous from outside the door When the that were the had tu 2918, Reberts by Mary Minehart two great rectangles ergency ward win ned from mirrors flecting the room to gray rectangles in the morning light, Johnny Rosen feld opened his eyes and spoke the rst words that marked his return from the dark valley, Gee, this is the life? he aaid, and | smiled into K.'s watchful face. When it 1 live, le and was clear K. rose «tify went over to Sidney's w from the bediah chatr. | “He all r t as he You did it—you! How strange that you should know such a thing How am I to thank you?’ The internes, talking among then- mel had wandered down to their ai flee. Wi last instruc Quite un caught K.'s hand nd held it to her lips The iron repression of the night, of months indeed, fell away before her simple chrean “My dear, my dear,” he anid, hunk fly “Anything that I can do—for you—at any time It was after Sidn a broken thing to lotta Hartson and K face, Johnny was quite that time, a little blue around lips, but valiantly cheerful. | “More things can happen té a fel |low than I ever knew there was!" he said to his mother, and submitted ather sheepishly to her tears and caresnen. | “You were always a good boy, Johnny,” she said, “Just you get | well enough to come home, I'll take |care of you the rest of my life. We will get you a wheel chair when you | can be about, and I cun take you out jin the park when I come from | work | “I'll be passenger and you'll be chauffeur, mat” | “Mr. Le Moyne is going to get |your father sent up again. With 65 jcents a day and what I make, we'll get a . all right now,” he sald—“as ean be, poor lad.” ing on was giving | tions as to the boy's xpectedly Sidney room for early ¢ had crept like room that Car onscious t we will!” Johnny! coming in the door ag ing ‘mother’ and ‘supp breath! . he meeting between Carlotta and Le Moyne: was very quiet. She had been making a sort of subconscious |impreswion on the retina of his mind during all the night It would be difficult to tell when he actually knew her. When the preparations for moving Johnny back to the big ward had b the other nurses left the rlotta and the boy were tow K. stopped her on her way | to the door, | “Miss Harrison! | “Yes, Dr. Edwardes.” | “fam not Dr. Edwardes here; my | nar is Le Moyne.” | nr’ | “I have not seen you since you left | St. John's.” | “No; I—t months,” “T suppose they do not know that you were—that you have had any | “Oh, in rr and yell in one rested for a few 4 re] that the boy | if I could see you} previous hon; Are you going to tell the w of al experience I not te em ourne al cc eact nent that rempect the onfidence agkered to room a time, just befe lawn, when had one of those wift revelat that sometimes come at the end of a long night. She had seen herself ax she was, The boy was very low, hardly breathing. Her T past tehed behind her, a sertes of amall Bevenges and passionate out: | ‘durante, swift yieldings,«low remorse She dared not look ahead. She would have given every hope she had in the world, just then, for Sidney‘s| stainiess past. | She hated hernelf with that deadli est loathing that comes of complete | Carlotta There had been weif-r alion i And #he carried to her room the | knowledge that the night's etruggic had been in vain—that, altho Johnny wenfeld would live, abe hag gained | nothing by what he bad suffered. The | whole night had shown her the hope leseness of any strategem to win Wilson from hia new allegiance. She | had @urprised him in the hallway, watching Sidney's slender figure as she made her way up the stairs to her room, Never in all his past over- tures to her, had she seen that look in his eyes, CHAPTER XIX To Harriet Kennedy, Sidney's sen- | tence of 30 days’ suspension came as a blow, K. broke the news to/ her that evening before the time for | Sidney's arrival. | | The tittle household was sharing in Harriet’s prosperity. Katie had a helper y little Austrian girl named Mimi. And Harriet had es tablished on the Street the innova tion of after-dinner coffee. It was over the after-dinner coffee that K. | |made his announcement “What do you mean by saying she | in coming home for 30 days? Is the |ehiia in?” Not ill, altho she is nou quite well The fact is, Harriet,""—for it was “Harriet” and “K." by this time- |"there has been a sort of seml-acci ent up at the hospital. It hasn't} resulted seriously, but" Harriet put down the apostle spoon | lin her hand and stared across at | him. | “Then sho has been suspended? | What did she do? I don’t believe she did anything!" “There was a mistake about the medicine, and she was blamed; that's jal.” She'd better come home and stay home,” said Harriet, shortly. “I Jhope it doesn’t get in the papers. This dreaemaking business ts a funny sort of thing. One word against you or ot r family, and the crowd's off somewhere else.” “There's nothing against Sidney,” K. reminded her, “Nothing in the world. I saw the superintendent my: | self this afternoon. It seems it's a |mere matter of discipline, Somebody mad n mistak 1 they can not let such a thing go by But he be |lieves, as I do, that it was not Sid jney. - | However Harriet had hardened | herself against the girl's arrival, all | she had meant to say fled when she | leaw Sidney's circled eyes and pa-| | thetic mouth. | “You child! she said. “You poor little girl!” And took her to her cor seted bosom. j now, “Y our Nose Knows” Finest Burley Tobacco Mellow-aged till Perfect plus a Dash of Chocolate any The Perfect Tobacco for Pipe and Cigarette For the time, at least, Sidney's world had gone to pieces about her Optometrist and Mfg. Optict Guaranteed by Meinnieas ae Inconronareo (Continued Saturday.) CHARLES SCHWARTZ All her brave vaunt of service faded | a ry anes Fitted before her disgrace. Prices Nearonable. 297 Mpler Mik, 81% Second Ave. Phone Main 2551 In the pliable tea foil package