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ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS ive Roberts Barton DOWN THE Nancy and Nick started Jooko, their lest toy monkey having the least idea eof where to go, They put on their tle green shoes, however, and Nancy put the magic mushroom Pinto her pocket Suddenly Nick cried, “Ob, Nancy, the ants going in and out of at hole! ‘Don't you wish you were tle and could go inside, too? “Um hm!" nodded Nancy One Pou to oy And! Well, 1 ANT HOLE “I wonder whether they want boy help or girl help,” said Nancy “Let's find out.” suggested Nick. So they rang the doorbell. An old lady ant answered thelr ring and my, but she looked sur prised when she saw them! ¢ saw your sign,” explained Nancy, “and wondered what kind of help you needed.” The ant looked them over kindly, Wasn't expecting humans, An old lady ant answered their ring, and my, but she looked surprised when she ddenly they were really as little the ants themselves. They had otten that every wish lke that r we true when they had the magic oes on, “G _s hat “Why don't you go insile?” enid it mushroom. So the twins went sald Nancy. “Now @own the hole. And there was @ Mitle street with houses on each Nice, neat little houses with c. ! And on one of the houses a sign, “Help Wanted.” saw them! that’s sure, but I'll take what I get. Perhaps I could use you both. What ean you do?” Nancy was just starting to ex plain that she could dishes and make beds, and that Nick could sprinkle the lawn, when someone called, “The rooster's coming! Run!" Of course it was the worst thing they could have done, but the twins ran down the street and up the lad der into the sunlight. And there stood Mr. Rooster, as big as a giant, tooking right at them. (Copyright, 1919, N. EK. A.) wash Jerry Maskrat’s G BY THORNION W. BURGESS BROWN'S BOY was gone up the Laughing Prook a time. He waa gone so long that ‘rry Muskrat finally made up his that he would see no more of friend that day. Bu twas Farm- Brown's Boy his friend? Jerry iN 2 | But now ‘a great doubt filled Jer. with that doubt was pull himeeif free. hat Farmer Brown's that trap. Jerry because he had watched , tho at the time he did was a trapper. But |. just such a friend as was He had brought food day after day, the Jerry dearly loves, and had ‘Then, when Jerry had ac- PORTLAND MAN HAS GAINED 30 POUNDS INA SHORT TIME I} Thinks So Much of Tanlac Wants to Stop and Tell Everybody About It “Since I have taken Tanlac I sm) thirty pounds heavier and am feel- fing as fine as a man could want ‘to feel,” was the statement made Tecently by R. H. Wood of the - Foster hotel, Portland, Oregon. “I was in such poor health and lost so much weight that all My clothes were too large for me,” S continued Mr. Wood. “I had in- digestion so bad that even the sight Hot food would nauseate me, and Enearty everything I did eat Mented on my stomach 1 troubled something awful after Bing and the only way I could get relief was by taking ‘a dose of and water, but the next time I ate anything I would go through u same misery. I would have spells so bad that I would we to take hold of something 4 close my eyes for a while to ep from falling over. My kid o neys badly disordered and Worried me all through the night I took cold easily and whenever I did, 1 always had severe pains in the n of my kidneys. 1 was so nervow and miserable 1 could never get a good night's sleep, and from morning till night I felt so weak and tiredout I could hardly do my work “Tanlac was recommended to me by a friend of mine in Seattle and before I had finished my first bor ie I began to feel better. In all, I took four bottles and now all my troubles have completely 4 appeared and I have gained bach on my lost weight and strengt! J have a splendid appetite, and I di gest everything I eat without any fad effects at all. My kidneys and nerves were never in better von dition, and I don’t know what it means to ever have a dizzy spell. 1 wleep like a log at night and 1 have so much strength and energy hat my work is a pleasure to me e. ac is certainly the greatest PMiider I have ever seen and I think so much of It that I want to stop and tell everybody 1 meet S about it.” Tanilac is #014 in Seattle by Bartell Drug Stores under the personal di fection of a special Tanlac represen tative —Advertisement, Pe was eat. were fer-| (Copyright, 1919, by T. W. Burgess) cepted him as a friend and trusted him, he had set traps That trap in which he had been caught had done more than hurt Jer | Ty's tall; it had destroyed his faith at least, it had destroyed it for the time being. It had filled Jerry with | @ Great doubt. If one of those great te>legged creatures could appear to be so friendly and then prove to be the very worst+kind of an enemy, how could he be sure that all others Were not just Ike that one? He couldn't be sure. | So an Jerry waited and watched for the return of Farmer Brown's Boy, he was filled with a great doubt | ~—doubt of the friendship of Farmer | Brown's Boy. To be sure, the latter | had appeared very angry when he) had discovered those traps at the| Smiling Pool, but that might be be-| cause he had planned to set traps himself and was provoked to find that some one had been ahead of him. Jerry looked over to where Farmer Brown's Boy had left a couple of car- rots for him. His mouth watered. But he made no move to get them. “There's no such thing as trust,” said he. “And faith in man is not for me. Hin seeming ndahip is, pe But covering for wicked traps So it was that Jerry waited and watched for the return of Farmer Brown's Boy, and the doubt and dis trust within him grew and grew as lhe waited. Next story: The Angry Trapper. | BURIEN WAY TC BE EXTENDED | |Council Committee Accepts: Condemnation Awards | Burien way wi West Margin miles to the city limits | ‘The council streets and sewers) committee Wednesday accepted con |demnation awards fixed in superior | court, and thereby laid clear the way for the building of the new arterial highway. The committee authorized installa |tion of water mains on Nickerson land adjacent str grading and! placing of concrete walks a and ads t streete, of crete walka on 4 improvements w way southeast two on monds placing total $131 |SAYS CITY, CAN BUILD RESERVOIR IN PARK ‘The city has the right to build a second reservoir in Volunteer park. This is the opinion handed down |by Corporation Counsel Walter F.| | Meter, The Swan lake development lof the water system will require an) additional reservoir, Volunteer | {x one of two places selected an suit able by City Engineer A. H. Dimock. | Objection was raised to the construc tion of a reservoir in the park, on) the ground that it would mar its beauty. | 14 » extended from| — THE SEATTLE STAR-—-THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1920. DOINGS OF THE DUFFS MY HELEN, DO You Know WHAT Time IT 1S? WHY O10 You LEY ME oveRsinepPp YOURE HO HELO To me AY ALL NO~ ANNIE - | MEAN IT THis YEAR OTTO AUTO I'VE OLY BEEN CALLING You FoR A HALF Hove Tottc® You saio You were vp! TW’ LITTLE DALEY Boy, FROM NEXT Door, WAS IN HERE 7 THIS MORNING | = wits A Box OF CIGARS Do You know fe penal LATE. To THE OFFICE FVERY DAY THis ween? Nov KNOW WHAT Tne. loucur TH Be down “Tere! It’s Easy to Make Resolutions— WELL, WHO'S FAULT IS tr? Your BeeaKrasr BEEW READY FoR “TWENTY FIVE MINUTES foy Know (75 HARD FoR | YES, 0 wheal t Do You BARK AT Me AS ThovcH You ARE. GOMG "To BITE MY ARM OFF~ 16 To GET UP IN THE 1ORMING= WHY Dow 'y You WAKE ME OR PULL THE OVERS OFF OR DO GOMETHING TO MAKE Me wake up? HIS FATHER “SwoRE OFF” THIS MORNIN’ AN’ HE SENT THEM OVER To You BUT | ToLO T Gor Lorsa CTUER THWGES BE- SIES THESE Unith~ AIR GUN-SLED- CAD SMOBS- CANDY- AW, BALL MITTENS -MAGI LANTERN- HORN). GEE~ T Gor EVERY. THING AND SEE Z WH NG BLECTRIC TRAW- Foot HiM You HAD QUIT SMOKIN’ Too AN’ TO You DIDN'T ETHELBERT; HES HOWLING || HAVE NOTHIN’ HS HEAD OFF! WELL FOLKS <"TIME To TURN OVER ANOTHER WOW LEAF, CRANK UP TH’ OL! 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