The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1919, Page 13

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AAD GET ACROSS wiTHOUT Johnny Chuck’s Near Neighbors USING A BALLOON of AIRPLANE G CAMPBELL ‘ is i edtime | SQUIRREL FOOD— = (ene en \ TRICKY, Now-) LT , “ (OHNNY and Polly Chuck had/to pick them off trees or bushes or f made their home between the | fr round, and go I don't need of an old in t far | any m « a han I have. Its of the as every- | the sam w w my legs. Have knows. dug their you ¢ seen goe walking on the between those roots beca: ground had discovered that there was Johr thought a moment. “No,” room enough for them to pass | sald he. now you speak of it, I nev. | @m nd out, and there wasn't room| ¢r have h to dig the entrance any larg: So they felt quite safe from 1H’ RECIPE SAID WITHOUT USING A BALLOON OR AIRPLANE, ELL, Now Fox and ther of whom would have delighted ite @ig them out but for those roots. i When Johnny Chuck had a fu ch and not else to do, j ghted to sit on his doorstep. CoPprmiacnr ey YOSEPN VAN | poset ohnny’s nearest neighbors had made home only about five feet above (Continued From Yesterday) scalp and hia flesh acreep. and with y . tala Ther ras on one | ‘The gate clanged, the cage mount-| When at length he rose and drew | turite the least bin Se oe snow fut Gla tice.) fd to the next floor, and P. Sybarite/A WAY it was with ail stealth. asisuddeniy impri fe, and the doorway of their home Rot out. requiring no direction: for| (a he too meres tn tho shadow Ue weap adittle round hole In the trunk Peter Kenny's door was immediately » wl rror bred of « nameless t to hh above Bayard Shaynon's. - Ereater ease Kinoe that apple tree, 2 hole which had eut some years before by one the Woodpecker family Po Johnny Chuck's way of think | : : Once more at Peter Kenny's door | As he touched the bell button for! nis qimdent fingers evoked from the t of the clevator man—but nei but @ aingle chirp—a sound that in bl watehin the bene ame® « puneled. for his own, failed to prens it hom |Troop Train Jumps | Track; No One Hurt | OMAHA, Neb. June 25.—A troop | train carrying 183 soldiers for the Presidio, San Francisco, was wrecked Neb., near here, this out giving P. Sy-) the t of his Intention, | individual and t f with a quality as P. Sybarite took | at Schuyler, } pned his wrist, |it, somehow intimidating—too com-| Morning when the engine blew up. yn by the barrel,| plete in its promise. | Engineer Norris, of Omaha, was se- meelf—with the! And so for a durkly-dublous mo.| Yerely scalded. ‘Three baggage cars the other neithet | ment th tle nan hung back. ‘To| Mft the track but all the coaches re-| mpted resintance.| nis quick Celtic. instinct. there; ™4ined on the rails. Aside from a| tT" he inquired, | seemed to inhere, in that open, dark, | ***king up, the soldiers were none! the worse for their experience, and | Peter turn the/and silent window, something as ain a oe cae enite ao trian Nfser the grumb) the door bell below | Wamiuston Nad weapon ¢ uriously in hiv hands. | ister and repellant as the inscrutable, | (ne train proceeded westward after | heat appearing as Skimmer, with i could be heard faintly thru muMfing tip in bed, reac : " ere men 4 revolver pre ot PRR a Snowy white breast and biue And have you ever seen me hop- | fire-brick walls. ails 66 tie eae Peter interrupted placid: | sente A to on Find L.W.W. L d | Tats ane winks. Two thitgs branches of a tree? per ip grumble persisted long after) pi. i, the coogesion: 4 11D) = gare 4, boy yoga in -W.VWV. Leader | + as 3 r the elevator had dropped back to the mt the butt and return | enced anev x oO hat odd ly be ventured to ask Skimmer | And presently the voice of West-\init he b Saunas qntteds en bed n along. Fire exe out-|that had assailed him some time) DENVER, Colo., June 25.—Phin- wee I have for fect,” |ern Union waa Mfted in sour expestu i ow in the bedroom, | *ince, outside the hall door to this| cas Eastman, alleged I. W. W. lead. them. demeanor) walked In wit te contin i Skimmer, is for perching | lati SGracious, | Johnny?’ exclaimed) whiie I rest. 1 don't need long legs| “'Sa-ay, whatcha s'pose ‘a th’ matta | CTale Swaemer—with & careless, go © deuce! What's the mat-|et | ago on charges of sabotage in the dimmer "I wouldn't have & big i roe walking or hopping about, so|wid dis guy? I’ been Fingin’ haffan: humored ned for his host and « quick | tor with you? Hand over that clip But at length, shaking his head im-| wheat fields, is lodged in the Fort} for anything. I wouldn't know | xother Nature has made my lege | hour!” look round the room to make certain | wat good ia this gun without it? patiently —as if to‘rid It of its pester-| Morgan, Colo., jail today. A nation-| t to do with it. It wo very short. You see, I spend most} “That's funny,” commented the ele-| Pe” Were alone “For your prosent purpose, it’s bet-|ing swarm of fancies—he stepped | wide search for Eastman was ended} fie way. You see, I get near! es cru bs te ate | tor ben; “io chine ta ants abbas 3 Doctor been?” ter than if loaded,” Peter asserted | noiselensly, in his unshod feet, down| yesterday when on a “tip,” Denver | food in the alr when I am fh “The only use I have for feet,”| minutes ago ‘Ob—an hour ago.” complacently. “For purposes of in-|thru the window, cautiously parted | department of justice agents arrest. | juitoes and files, and all sorts! continued Skimmer, “is for perching| “Yun wuddn' think he cud pass| “And—?* idation—which je all you want|the draperies, and advanced into ed him in a New Raymer, Colo., res-| Pinsecta with wings. I don't have | while 1 rest. laway ‘s quiets ali that die digs Bae oti i £ blood poison And [t can’t go off by | darkness #o thick that there might as | taurant he was conducting under the| I suppose it’s the same way with| “Ah, I dunno, Mebbe he had a ing doesn’t set ke you an uninten-| Well have been night outside instead | name of “Pat Early.” | your cousin, Sooty the Chimney | bun on when he come in. Gen'ly has,| Shutting the ned | Uor 4 of glowing daybreak | % ae a | Swallow,” said Johnny. I didn’t notice : not altogether happily at's one) FP arite’s jaw dropped and his} Then. with eyes becoming accus- 1,400 Dead Letter “That shows just how much som “Well, th’ way he must be poundin’|of the most fetching features of the opened: but after an instant, he/tomed to the change, he made out . | je know! twittered Skimmer, |his ear now—notta r dia racket—| new code of medical eth you know | nodded in entire agreement hapes and masses that first con Articles Are Sold) |self seemed infected with ita shud. gs tention—thinking of other things pom and stillness absolute ade of enigmaUc and uncanny qui-| er, and indicted in Kansas two years En silhouette against the light, his|tent to indicate a case of suicide “The idea of calling | yud think he was trainin’ for a Rip|—complete confidence inspired in pa # a head you have on your |firmed Peter's surmise as to the na-| In a speed-record-breaking sale, low! I'd have you to|van Winkle Marathon.” tient utter frankness on doctor's ers, boy!" said he. “As for room, and next gave bi | more than 1,400 articles which have Johnny Chuck, that Sooty| Pause—made audible by the per-| part—and alk that! ¢ ® notion that it has never accumulated in the gad letter de- en related to me. He's altinacious bell, grinding away like a significant pudeture’” fe Over across from the window stood | partment of the postoffice for the nd not a Swallow.” With this|dentist’s drill in a vacant tooth, | vou'lt be right ae rain ia 1 the bedroom, but|a door, its oblong dimly luminous |last six months of 1918 were auc- | er rted away, leaving a the wound decides to | paused with light softly shining down the| tioned off Wednesday y Chuck to think it over “Waltin’ here all day won't get me| gangrene—it's apt to, all on ita owr ‘Only —why aa, walls of a private hall, from a point - _ ie iethaa’, “thie, whet’e th! chatth wid |'males. 60 thing we can 4o-ia|want? W « yme distance to the left of the open AGHAN ELECTED Next story: Skimmer’s Biggest | you signing wh ane, we'll have to acnputate|to your purr Have y« ing CISCO, June 26.—J. 8 __.) | Cousin. “G'wan nd stick " a 6 pr ction | ct 1 for the Rounding a dining table, P. Syba- | O’Callag of San Francisco was ~ ———— | unda the 4 spreading our head on rite st softly on, and paused, lis-| Yesterday elected grand president of IN A Second pause borfg on,| “Well?” be wound oat admitt tening, just within the threshold the American Registered Pharma- ind Vv LIDS but more faint-he if doubt | “What luck anwh circum From some rtain quarter—pre-| Cists in convention here. Gordon A ing whether it ¢ ach that The wor sumably the lighted room—h could | Bye of land Was elected first ASK FOR nerve I've > Sybarite with con-| hear a sound. ry slight slight | &Tand vice-president Horlick’s Finally Western Union gave it up.| while you're back in five | that emed guarded, but none the re “a garergearsane: A'Matet. Gueed will . nt t “ stakable; the hiss of car-| fore, even tho his face was disfigured The Original | lang of the gate; whine of the de | good enough « his weird adventures, this ed water squirting from a sy-| by @ scant black visor across his eyes ‘ scend ar; silence oda at eared him least, It’ one r as and the bridge of his nose. | reid 4 ‘ tipteed down the| Whereupon take ot ee und o ort wait followed and| He was Red November , . q t wher tin} then a faint “Aah!” of satisfaction,| What P. Sybarite would have done aed Substitutes Hisappoit however, lay in kets wine th the thump of a glass set down |had he been armed is problematical Infants, Invalidsand Growing Children | Rich milk, malted grain extract in Powder ambush for him at his nefarious goa . head; but an on some hard surface What he did was remain -noveles: Original Food-Drink for All Ages|No Cooking = Nourishing Digestible evidently Western Un been r 1 to burgiarize| And at once, before P. Sybarite| even as he was breathless and power. Ci va punctilious about his duty; not even! pened at the r enemy's ntx via the fire 1 by ony means reconcile these | less, but for his naked hands, either so much as the tip of a corner of ye But wh en nt bt, and cold * with the summons at the front | for offense or defense. For that No- i low envelope peeped from under the | vishly wh er. For by now the light was|door that hnd been ig within | vember was armed w aS unques. An Opportunity to Buy an laoee ard Sh on und strong, In the oper the quarter t soft footfalls be-|tionable as his mastery of the long. Oe a ” Reckless in exasperation, P ot t to his relief he found no more|ca audible in the private hal d revolver of blue steel (fa | barite first wasted time educing « Didn't occur to me; and if you ht cramped | st ng toward the dining room 4 by gunmen of the underworld) | series of short, sharp barks from the | ask me, I don’t « wh should in ! wn which zig stinctively the li man drew! which he held at pois MN the while = aig amcor d Pongo neat aad (taaet YOU sow 1pe; while the op-|back (regretful now that he had|he carefully surveyed his line of re. , culated (one would think) to rouse the “Pecaune I barite, qui a ding 1 to Peter's prejudice ainst | treat, 4 ES: S ie dead—then tried the door, and find-|etly, “I'm 4 down th and nd from earth te giving loaded pistols) retreating sideways| At length, releasing the curtain. Ws ingiit fast, in the end knelt and bent | break in oon as I'm ¢ rtable ~ assurance none along the wall until he had put the|the gang leader hopped lightly out on the Easiest of Terms an @ar to the keyhole, listening. | go to jail upon him save from the| bulk of a massive buttet between | upon the grating, and disappeared, | b fa In the sacred name of Insan-| Monastery wind: him and the door; and, in the small| In another breath Py Sybarite him-| $10.00 Down and $10.00 Each Month. Not @ Bogite.silencetet the grave;|ity—?" | Ine thing eter Kenny |space between that article of furnt| self was at the window. A single | the house deadly atill. He could heat If he'd out, I'll ste came to the window to advise, ax P and the corner of the room,| glance thru the curtains showed the | We sell the best makes only lide own heat Gradmatnn; MATIN | and find out whether barite scrambled out upon the grid-| waited with every nerve taut and| grating untenanted; and boldly pok eae ory’ Gercnaeielisan any an iilcleds Shaynon’s flat, nothing ing on the case. If it hasr ron platform—"Shaynon's flat isn’t) m tense, in full anticipation of | ing hig head forth, he looked down to THOR, EDEN, HAGG, WESTERN ELECTRIC, 1900 Or-—was that the crack of a board|every inch of the room for a suspi|arranged like mine, He's better off | incontinent detection, see the figure of the gunman, fore- - } . . 5 7 ie beneath a stealthy footstep? ion of a leading clue.” than I 1, you know—can afford| In line with these apprehensions, | shortened unrecognizably, movin A good broom costs $1.50, We will place a good oS oh, i: @huWh Mapented Pi-put i he's in more elbow room. I'm not sure, but|the footeteps Came mo further: than |down the IOn tanals Already. severe] Vacuum Cleaner in your home Again, could it be possible his ears| “I'll take my chances P I think you'll break in—if at all r g room door n died out} flights below, singularly resembling | $1.00 Down and $1.00 Each Week | aia actually detect a sound of human |barite, with erim brevity |by the dining room window what seemed full two minutes—|a spider in some extraordinary web. | |respiration thru the keyhole? Was| “Undethed? » long. Good luck! a pause as fll to his understand-| Incontinently, the little man ran| HOOVER. ROYAL EUREKA | Bayard Shaynon just the other side| ‘Not if I know the nature of the| P. Sybarite began his cautious de g as their manifest stealth back thru the dining room and down | ’ 9 9 lof that inch-wide pressedstee! bar-| brute.” He atood up, fully dressed | scent Why need Shaynon take such elab- | the private hall, abandoning every ef. THO) WESTERN rier, the fire-proof door, cowering|but for his shoes. “Now—#y gun,| Not that he found it dificult; the/orate precautions against noises in! fort to avert a noise. R, [in throes of some paralyzing fright, | pleas |Monastery fire escape wan a his own lodgings? | No need now for caution, if his pre- | . Ki : ‘ afraid to answer the summons? »p drawer of the buffet there.|of steep fights of iron steps, instead| Suddenly, and more confidently,|monition wasn't worthless—if the We can help you choose the best Washing Machine : How are you going? Fire excape of the primitive vertical ladder of|the footfalls turned into the dining | vengeful spirit of Mrs. Inche had} or Vactum Cleaner that will suit your needs, because | if so, why? What did he fear?| “Where ia it?” P. Sybarite aeked,/round fron rungs in more general|room; and without glance right or|not stopped short of embrofling son we are specialists on | The police, perhaps? And if »o—why?| as he possessed himself of his weapon. | use, There was even a guard rail at|lett a man sinde directly to the|with father, but had gone on to the| What crime had become his so to un-| “Half a minute.” Peter Kenny held|the outside of each flght. Conse-|open window. There for an tnstant/end ominously shadowed forth by the “ELECTRICAL HOME NEEDS” man him that he dared not open and|out his hand, “Let's have a look at| quently, P, Sybarite gained the elev-|he delayed with an eye to the crack / appearance of the gunman in those Call MAIN 5331 and arrange for us to make a demonstration at [§| Dut his fate to the tent? . | that gun—will you?” enth floor platform very readily |between the curtains; then, reas-| rooms. 2 \] your home without obligation on your part, Quickly there took shape in the| “What for?” | But there he held up a Jong in-|sured, thrust one aside and stepped| What he saw from the threshold | |imagination of the little Irishman a| “One of those new-fangled auto-| stant, dashed to discover his task|into the embrasure, there to linger|of the lighted room was Bayard| hideous vision of mortal Fear, wild-| matic pistols—ian’t It? I've never | made facile rather than obstructed, | with his head out of the window, in-| Shaynon still in death upon the floor, | s eyed, white-lipped, and all a-tremble, | seen one before | ‘The window was wide open, to| tently reconnoitering, long enough to|one temple shattered by a shot fired . |akulking in panic only a little be jut—Great Scott!—you've had|force whose latch he had thoughtfully |nable P. Sybarite to make an amaz-/at close range from a revolver that q ¥Oné bid reach: @ faney that ool thia herw provided himself with a fru. knife|ing discovery: the man was not Bay: | lay with butt close to his right hand | § | worked upon his nerves that he him.| “I know, but I didn’t pay much at-|from Peter Kenny's buffet, Within |ard Shaynon carefully disposed with evident in. | T 509 PINE STREE was ‘re delaying me. one rendered the sald Peter Kenny pur heavy velvet hangin, | dering dread, and thought to feel the [fine hairs a-crawl on his neck and “Put yor ‘Mean to, more opaque by|slight and supple form was the | unmis It isn't the rent a man feye thal gs, shutting out! takable to one who had seen it be keeps him moving. rather than of murder. (Continued Tomorrow)