The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 12, 1919, Page 13

THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, JUNE 1 ee ee By CONDO! —- — lose DOINGS OF THE DUFFS— NHATEVCR = oonaME Df. AOR : meacianiinene Wein, ! Don" WANT 0, Nod f MADG ME MARRY ~ M eur, KID, You’Re ALL RIGHT. THAT WOMAN ZF ~ sad toner 10 ae ~ ware | | 28mm Woe - You Ger & Sai We"D WAIT GET WA ovr OF How 010 You Gi PEE pom. ow uae © 7M™r You covro HERE = GET RID | 3 See Vou - See Wim- oF HIM some WAY: WEDLOCKED Is That So?” Asks Annie Wecc, IT Didn't MY FATHER - BECAUSE 1 DID | WHAT DID You Do Sekt tv == = : ALWAYS LIKED | HIM A FAVOR He| FOR HIM THAT HE oh te You, PETER CAN NEVER REPAY ‘eon Co FoR : pr didacbaacts OM o D v " — ——— Wap ‘ Hi BY THORNTON W. BURGESS QUIRREL’ FOOD— (Copyright, 1919, by T. W. Burges > Yellow Wing and His Smallest Cousins mapetee wre we. (Yes ee Ad ! ELLOW WING THE FLICKER thing about the Woodpecker family er © fh BACK CAT GONNA CROSS IN PROT Tes AND HELL BE came out of his hole in the Big! So Peter scampe: back fo the CROSSED HIS PATH nits oa ge BAD ACROSS —~ BUT HE IST Hickory Tree and flew down on the | Old Orchard, and ax soon as he @round near Peter Rabbit, Peter saw | Jenny Wren he began to ask q that when his wings were spread “Afe there ahy other Wood iy showed a beautiful golden-yel den Yellow Wing the on the under side, and he under- = » come down on the Hew Yellow Wing comes by his | stound?” asked Peter, ame, The under side of bia tail Tut, tut, tut, tut! cried feathers was aixo yellow. Around Wren. “Think a minute, his throat was a broad, black collar, Think a minute, Haven't you ever From this clear to his tall were biack seen Redhead on the ground? | dots. When his wings were epread.| Peter blinked his eyes. “Yoon,” | the upper part of his body, just he sald, slowly. “Come to think of | above the tail, was pure white. it, L have. Woodpeckets are a‘ funny “My? exclaimed Peter. “You are family. [ don’t understand them.” | @ handsome feilow.” Juat then a long, roiling ratewtat | 1 t Yellow Wing looked pleased. Per. Wt rang out over their heads. | i ® dark and silent house at dead of| him were a menace of known call- ~ ) haps he felt a little Mattered. “I atn “There's another Of them.” ehuc 7 Nn i } night, @ trespasser unable to sur-| ber, With whatever shrinkings and_ Biad you think #0, Peter.” mid he. Jenny "That's Downy, the # | i F pu mire when the righteous household-| dire misgivings, P. Sybarite went on, “I am rather proud of my sult. I of the witole family. He certainty | ZOPYRIGHT BY u er, lurki on familiar ground and) (Continued tomorrow.) @on't know of any member of my Makes an awful racket for a little] - Lous N vigilant under arms, might not open| woe family with whom I would change | fellow, He's a splendid drummer | free . « | A kiss on the lips ts worth 4 Continued From Yesterday) fother. Ducking beneath a windmill, citable window was lighting up in| moved from the grasp of his yearn ertheless, the police behind on paper. With thie P. Sybarite abot out into| PlM4Y of arma, he shot an acournte | hin honor; all in ail, aa distreseful|ing fingers _———— the hallway, slammed the door be.| fist at thin aggresor’s jaw; there waa/a figure of @ fugitive from justice) Yet that mad attempt must be call of “Peok! Peok! Peok’™ hind him, and darted into the ad.|% click of teeth, the man's head) as ever was on land or sea. made. Why die fighting when a “Excuse me, Peter; there's Mrs joining bedroom. Once there, he lost| *@pped back, and folding up like ®) Conceiving the block as a well a-| broken neck would serve as well? calling me,” exclaimed Ye! ‘ |no time changing coate—net forget. | tripod. he mubsided at length jbrim with binekness and clamorous| Gathering his slight person togeth Wing, and away he went. Peter , ting to shift his money as well—| Then swinging on « heel, P. My | with violent sound, studded on higher, p. sybarite crouched, quivered, SHANER & WOLFF ced that as he flew he went up cocked the cap jauntily on one side | barite met @ second onset made more | with tnadcesibie, ‘yéliow-bright loop-| jumped for glory and the Saints—| down. It seemed very much as 4 of bis head (a bit too big; it fitted) 4ngerous by the cooler calculation | poles wherefrom hostile eyes #pled and al! but brained himself on that Exclusivel Clothing S he hounded thru the air just o é better that way, anyhow) buttoned|°f 4 more sophisticated antagonist./upon hie every secret movement. | impish and trickish grating. Clutch: | usively a Clothing Store botinded on the ground ) }up, and left the room on the run.| Nevertheless, deftly blocking « rain’ and haunted below by vicious perils jing it and kicking footloose, he was| know him just as far as ‘oF ~< x For by this time the front doors had|o Diows, he closed in as if eager) both animate and still; he found) stunned by the wonder of many id see him by the way he flies.” 1 s fatlen in and the upper floor was|' escape punishment, and planted a himself possessed of an overpower: pritliant new-born —_conate Peter. “I know he belongs echoing with deep, excited voices and | lifted knee tn the large of the deter | ing desire to 0 away from the swirling round his poor head the Woodpecker family, but he 4 heavy, hurrying footsteps. In an-| tlve's stomach so neatly that he, too. | quickly. | thunderous music of the spheres, as n't seem like a Woodpecker be s other moment or #0 they would be| Collapsed like punctured presiden- | t—short of further dabbiing in| rendered by the ash can which, die he is on the ground so much. drawing the basement for fugitives. | Ua! boom and lay him down at rest. | crime—how? placed by the vigor of his acro He had pianned—vaguely, incon.| Success #0 egregious momentarily! ‘To break hie way to the street|batics, had toppled over and was cluaively-to leave by the area door | *tupefied even P. Sybarite. Gazing thru one of those houses uli be|rolling and clattering hideously on when the raiders turned their atten. |47¥2 Upon thene two still Shapes. *9/ not only to Invite apprehension; it| the flageing | | tion to the basement, presenting himn-|[™ahty and formidable when #eD-| would be downright burglary In his terrified bosom P. Sybarite A WORKING GIRL’S LIFE Po self to the crowd in the street in the| tent. he caught his breath in #harp) To continue his headiong career /feit the heart of him turn to cold} — My? exclaimed Peter. guise of an officer, and so make off, | “masement of the fugitive backyards tom-cat and clammy stone. ‘ | handsome fellow. But now—with bis fingers on the| “Great heavens! Is it possible 1) was out of the question, entirely t No clamor’ more infernal could well bolte—misgivings aseatied bim. He|@4 that?’ he cried aloud--and the) much ike hard work, painful into| have been improvised, given similar was physically not much like any | ext moment, spurred by alert disere | the bargain—witnexs scratched and | circumstances and facilities as rude. policeman he had ever seen; and the| “On, Was scaling the fefce with the/abraded palms and agonized shins./1t seemed hours, rather than in blue tunic with ite brass buttons was |Peadiness of an elley-cat Sooner or later his strength must/ stants, that the damned thing wal a wretched misfit on hie slight body.| Iiatantaneously, aa he polsed) fail, some one would sur eapy |iowed and bellowed beneath him,| Ho doubted whether his disguive |Sbove the abyae of Btygian blackness | him and cry on the chase, he must jraising a din to disturb all Chris- vould pass unchallenged—doubted ao | 0M the other aide, not a little daunted/be surrounded and overwheln tendom, While, the moment it was strongly that he doubled suddenty to|DY ita imperturbable mystery, @ quick | while to hide Yehind some ash bar-|guil, the cries of the p pack the back door, flung it open, and| backward glance showed hin figures| re! was not only ignoble but down Ned clear a8 near at hand threw himself out Into the black | moving in the basement hallway of/ right fatuoum; faith the most sub-| ‘This way, b'y atrangeness of the night—and at the | the gambling hove; and easing over, | lime in his Kismet couldn't excuse! “phere he is, the—* thes and nervousness. Such|a little scarlet patch on the back|*%me time into the arms of two|h@ dropped ths ae Siew See, Seer) mewenes | Got ‘tal Sow actos Ge icy teatiaenik | ad: pla bendy, Yee was tasking « tre-|ROFty plain-clothes men ponted theres Ass BAgs received Kise Wilh Ae just be muasowered end pepemmereny | ““ stale Oe ee act uacindiie fer tee: |candete racket for, eash a Tiras | forestall praclacty cuch an attempt} uve Sapassivity: stumbling. Be Let) rove ue ee tt! 0 | Another pistol shot! . , fils, Lydia FE. Pinkham’s|chap, about the size of one of the | “t escape balance and sat down with an empha-| Very well, then! So be it! Calmly| Giancing over shoulder, the hunt een Sela tor aparow tenis, stron,’ arma clipping him, he sis that drove the breath from him|P. Sybarite elected to venture an-|ed man caught a glimpse of un than forty years has been | struggled violently for an instant. |!" one mighty “Ooor other and deeper dive into amateur-|couth shapes wriggling along a ” “ | a a o cor h falfeasance, and gravely he stud ence lige » 1 <7 m =, Here u voice warned him There was a simultaneous con: | ts « fence ridge several rods away. No girls strength to do their! Next story: Peter Learns More fusion of new, strange voices on the|!ed the inoffensive building whose| more than the barest glimpse, it 4 | roughly.” “It ain't goin’ to do you no About the Woedpeckers, vi oe i« wide of the fence; cries of mur-| back premisos he was then infesting. | served; with a mighty heave and prise, recognition, excitement It seemed to offer at least the neg-| wriggle he breasted the lower plat ‘Feeny, by all that's holy!’ ative invitation of desuetude, It}form, shifted a hand to top of “Mik ‘ogan, or I'm a Hart showed no lights; had not an open! its railing, heaved himself up to al of his borrowed plumage; “Damned Ml if it ain't a policeman!” What hit the two av um?” window—#o far as could be deter-| footho and swarmed up the iron “Why the hell didn't you any sor | “Gawd knows!" mined by straining sight alded only | ladder with an agility an ape might demanded the first, as P. Sybarite| “Thin ‘tis this waay thim murdher-|by a faint reflection from the lvid| have envied | ] fell back, free. |ous divvies is b’atin’ ut!" skies, One felt warranted in as But as he mounted, it grew mo Didn't—have--time. Here —im. “Gimme « back up that fine!’ | suming the premises to be vacant.| mentarily more evident that the f a me a leg over this fence, will you? P. Sybarite picked himself up with | Encouraging surmise! If such were | stage thunder manufactured by that . a | “What the devil—-!" even more alacrity that if he'd land-|in fact the case, he might hope soon | wretch galvanized iron cylindet Daal | Just then, trom the edge of the Forest, there sounded a clear, | “Day in ada My ont, month atter|* ith, she toile, Often she is the |and just ax good a carpenter. He winner of the family ondimade the very house I'm nest Work that others may live. | ing in.” or shine, warm or cold, she| Peter was sitting with his head be at her place of employ-| tipped back trying to see Downy on time. A great majority| At first he couldn't make him out. guch girls are on their feet) Then he caught o little movement morning until night, andjon top of a dead limb. It was of female troubles are | Downy's head, flying back and forth Manifested by weak and fach-| ase he beat hin long roll. He waa backs, dragging-down pains, | dressed all in black and white, with Another interrupted with an accent of deep disgust, in patent recognition , door thru to the|ed in — bed of nettles, tore across) to be counting his spoils in thejhad, in fact, served him far from next house—getting out that way,| that terra-incognita, found a second privacy of his top-floor-hall-bedroom, | il); reverberating from wall to wall k That's what I'm after—to stop 'em,| fence, and was beyond it in a twink back within the hollow of the bi its | Pp X* af however, detec:|0f the primary principles of house-] many quarters, luring the ifmbs of Swift as he was, - a | ‘and ¢ well!” aid one of the plain.| tion attended him—a voice roaring breaking, the problem of negotiat-|the law every way but the right thes men, in a slightly monifea| There goes wan av thim now! jing an entrance was of formidable | one, Nobody, it appeared, was alert s —'if that’s the way of it—all| Other volces chimed in spendthrift | proportions enough to expy that fugactous shad om 00: or ege +] | right with suggestions and adviee. .. . f bts a basement window was|ow on the fire ladder. And in less “Come along, then,” brusquely Blindly clearing fence after fence| feasible, certainly—but highly inad-| than a brace of minutes P. Sybarite | f so, you wi , » ‘ok Come along, then,” brusquely In visable for a number of obvious rea-| at the top, was pulling himself ging | 1 yoo ill surely need a new suit for i y Madi {sted the Impostor, leading the way | Without even thinking to count them. , A new | Commercial Bldg, 2nd ahd Madison sisted the impostor, leading the way | © 'ayyarite hurtled onwar | sons erly over the lip of @ stone coping the many affairs and ceremonies incident to P. Sybarite hurtled onward. Noises to the eastern wall of boards enclos ae Lom she babi yard. ards enclos| the rear indicated a determined | TO force a window latch required| Surmising that he had gained not commencement. pursuit; once a voice whoope (if menfory served) a long flat-blad-| the roof of the house, but that of | Curiously complaisant for one of | i y breed, the detective ber “Halt or I fire!’—and a shot, wak-|¢d Knifo—a kitchen knife: and P./a two-story rear extension, Ko found 8 ant, you are goi i breed, the detective bent hia back |8ybarite happened to havegno such | himself in what seemed a small roof Most Importans, you are going ont into tiie ‘. | aa take 4 nq [ite echoes, sped the fugitive's heels. e " Direct From Trapper lander Dut no soonts had DY Brtents| But in time he had of, necessity |!mplement about him garden, made private by awnings world, perhaps into business. How you dress | Similar! y n 3 | fitted foot to that same to pause for breath, and pulled up| Stmilarly, to pry open the back|and venetian blinds. Between his . 7" ‘ | fitted foot to that same than the man} |door would require the services of | soles and the stone flooring he could and what your manner of bearing are vital : - a ait peasatGartinar oy in the back yard of a Forty-aixth st. | ; ; den to Wearer—Retail at started and, straightening up abrupt-| raidence, hia duty—to find a way|® Jimmy (whatever that might be) |feol the yielding toxture of a grunt factors in securing a position. uPatectmnan, helt, Whateng doint | Way to the street and shift from| | More there were such things | mat, and he could not only dimly dis ; Bios a a atcha doin’ | ine cniform of unhappy inspira-|48 burglar alarms—inventions of the|cern but also smell the perfume of Be well and distinctively dressed. We have * in them pants and shoes if you're a evil! : | eT) tion—as plain as the problem it pre- | dev! green things in pots here and there, | s . Wholesale Prices. . | patrot Tented ph mseninas On the other hand, unless his| And his first step forward brought successfully catered to the needs of young | “Hellor exclaimed the other, in fe senses deceived him, there were po-| him into soft collision with a wicker | men for many years and the name of Shaner dignantly. “Impersonatin’ an officer =—y lice officers { pnty 0 . r if i XI ce officers in plenty only a fence | basket ehair. | = na Burglary Under Arms or two away; and the back of this) He paused and took thought in| & Wolff is a by-word among the best dressed —This Week’s Special— Pte the ne dived at P. Sybarite;! Ana there P. Sybarite stood, near| house boasted a fire escape. By in-| perturbation. | fellows. Q : who, having boune 1 up froma #U-l ine middle of a fenceclosed area of |Verting a convenient ash can and| A most disappointing and decep: a ‘ FOXES IN ALL SHADES AT pine position, promptly and peevish-| oti and. flagato winded and| standing on it, an active man might|tive sort of a house—inhabitated, ‘Clothes That Are Different” | ly swore, rolled to one side (barely ry: looking up and all around| possibly, if sufficiently desperate, | after all—its somber and quiet aspect | eluding clutches that meant to him] O°") Gitransed. perplexity; in a e to jump a vertical yard|masking heaven alone knew what} E those frightful and humiliating | ‘jien cont (to be honest about it) or less), eatch the lowermost | pitfalls! . . . consequences that arrest means to]! oa’ iin aix months’ income from|srating of the fire escape and draw| Not a glint of light, not a sound. | |the average man) and scrambled tol)” miion dollars unlawfully pro-| bimself up. When he moved again, it was with er a nis feet Cured and gecreted upon his persgn;| In a thought P. Sybarite turned | scrupulous caution, Immediately the others closed in| Wanted for resiating arrest and as-|the galvanized fron cylinder bottom| Stealing softly on, the darkness upon him, supremely confident of ye) Ul clambered upon it, and on tip-|seemed to thicken round hi He . ~ * + saulting the minions of the law;) UP, Pp n up rou im. ie Also showing beautiful wraps in Squirrel, Mole, Seal coming by concerted action that|Heunded by @ vengeful and deter.| toe sought to gauge the exact dis-| was sensible of suspense and qualins, 915 Second Avenue ‘ |emallish, palesand terrified body. n tance of the requisite leap, Bi y of creeping flesh Imo . ; : " i ‘ e; unacquainted with hi quisite leap. But now /of creeping flesh and an almost ir and Mink at interesting summer pric Whereupon P, Sybarite stepped| rinesabouts’ jenorant of @ i | the grating seemed to have receded|resistible inclination to hold his whereabouts, ignorant of any way of quickly to one side and, avoiding the| gscape from that hollow equare,| at least three feet from its position breath. Uncanny business, this— [rush of one, directly’ engaged the|Pouna whose sides window ater firat.Judged—to be honolessix xe-!/ penetrating unknown faatneeses of ' '