The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 24, 1920, Page 8

Copyright, By HORACE ANNESLEY V- ACHELL HM. A. Vachell From Our Last Issue) Presently Dorothy went to her own fFoom and Min slipped out of the house. Gasgoyne, at bin hotel, was _— @ bag when his son came “Oh, We you, te itt maid Dick “I'm sorry,” said Min. “I called heat ame, sir, but I didn't ‘And hew much do you know At the ond Gasgoyne nodded approv ou have had a knockout.” he “but you have picked yourslf ‘Pretty quickly, and I'm glad you the sense to come here. What plans? I shal try to make a her somewhere, unloas- Jaen al é offer her one.” © won't take what I offer you.” out of the way, If It's best ii fr 3 3 z if i you? You're a good fellow, You're hard hit, as I said, and be secing stars. When my when I found myself and homeless, | saw stars, been a manikin; fighting hand made a man of to fight as I dia?” 3 you, and I won't You speak French well, Well, I can give you a It will be hard work have to start at the foot ; then he wishes the world to believe own son. Tell her from willing that it should 0 her,” he paced up and the room, frowning, “tell her your future shall be my care.” looked nervous; then, after a it's hesitation, he said abrupt “You are goms away!” H at the bag half open and half Hi Hh i fang hi i i be obtained by treat. & tanic that will so biood that nourish HI @ized every part of the body is @trengthened. The symptoms @imppear when the cause is earrected. Men and women who suffer from any of the symptoms mentioned Gbove will be interested in the ex of Mrs. H. Moulton, who at No. 102 North Lincoin ave Bue, Aurora, Ill. She says: “My blood had become so thin that I suffered with increasing frequency from smothering spells. These at- frightened me and gave me a of worry. I was #0 pale lends remarked on my ap was weak and my «tom. upset that solid fond of cansed distress. I didn't and had frequent head- tet friend who had used*Dr. Wil ik Pillé as a tonic urged me 4 trial and I procured Ten days after I began tak- the pills my appetite improved it wasn't 2 great while before 1 eat 2 good mea! withont I have regained my and as I continued taking the remedy my blood became richer. I seldom have a headache now and well. I strongly recommend Dr. Williame Pink Pills to everyone fm_need of a tonic.” Dr. Wiliams’ Pink Pits are sold by af Gruggists, or direct from the ‘Dr. WMiams Medicine Co, Rox 1002 5 +s ; | now,” said Gaagoyne, but he looked |with acute attention at the flushed joheeks of his son, | “If you would do me a favor “Wel? ° “Stay here for 24 hours? Gasgoyne was about to speak, but he shut his mouth quickly, @ go» lure of his whenever he was alight ly perplexed. “I know What Mm abgat.” added Min, with dignity, “IN stay.” “Would It bother you to write ‘a line to your Paris people about me? | Again Gasgoyne stared at his son | recognizing hia own qualities repro- duced #0 strongly, He mat down at once and wrote a letter, “That will |do.”" He handed it to Min. “Thanka Ciood-bye.* They shook hands quietly eee CHAPTER X11. Her Own Son Next day, very carty In the morn jing, Min and Susan might have been seen in earnest conversation—what jthe Irish call “cofloguing.” Dorothy remained tn bed—epent by what had |passed. Min had come fm as usdal to kine her. Meanwhile, he was writing letters jOne was addressed to Gasgoyne; the jother was ré@written several times. | This letter he sealed and gave to Susan. Very shortly after this, theses two [might have been seon sneaking out of the back garden, Min carrying a portmanteau. At the back door stood a fy. | “Good-bye, you old duck™ | Regardices of the driver, who look }ed very much aatonished, Min ‘em braced Susan.with vigor. Then he entered the My, telling the onach- [man to drive to the station. Susan | hour later she gave to Dorothy Min's letter; but she left the room beforé | Dorothy broke the seal. Darling Mother,” it began. “When you open this I shall have started | for Paris, where I shall find work) waiting for me, the work I like, the work of a journalist. H “Why have | left you so suddenly? “I don’t know that I can tefl you) quite honestly. But I'll try. Yester- day afternoon J enlled at the Dean- ery, at the Barracks, upon Mr. lies eltine, and upon the Head Master. At the Barracks I was lugky enough | to find the Colonel in." I told every-| body the truth and what you did) for me. They won't cut you again, | You angel, but you may have to cut and run from their siopdoshing. My ba not even with you beside me. offed it write from Paris “Your own son, forever and ever, “MIN, Derothy showed the letter to Susan, “His father persuaded him to do this” “Not he.” 's { KATHERINE MILLER FINISHES THE W1 RD. ve | inane sailor's spectac r Grattle + te Page 33 TER the story of the giant ghosta told. the ohflds mee more full of eager question # about the frat settiors and their lives, David pressed Grandmother for mo ories, and more more “And about that massacre White river--you told us what it means,” he reminded Grand mother, “but you never did tell ux what happened to the children. | want to know about it all. Please, Grandmother, tell, us a jong, long story about it. One with Indians in it, and soalps and overy thing. | m. t know,” Grandmother | began, “I don't really know; and pet it was children who lived ft little children, T think you and Pessy are old enough to hear about that massacre, but it is waa very terrible. 1 wilt tell you about the children in the Jones family “This famftly moved from Call fornia to Washington in the year aot It took them months and five days to make the trip, and they landed on the banks of White river, about 20 miles up stream from Seattle. There was a little settiemen! there, some five or six farnilies, but the nearest neighbors the Jones family had were a quarter of & mile away *, Je John King, Mra. Jones’ had been were an on | T years olf, Peery } “John had oa half Jaulte 4 years old, and |brother, not quite 2 “They many friend» among the Indians who lived near them, vnd Mr, and Mra, Jones would not ve all the stories ard, it how the Indians w ¢ more and more how Just about a big as ter, not a half i. they x | row! }the time would | some day rine up and begin @ savage war on [the white people, who had come }to ve in their beautiful forests. “It was Sunday morning, an bet morning, and the family |wan sitting down to breakfast Just a year had pamed since } their tong, hard journey had brought them to this place, and they feit, very happy and thank |ful. They had a nice little house with several rooms in it (real finns in the window, and they were rich enough to kegp a hired man to belp with the heavy angry all and they ybe very soon, fick, bat ee the moat awful whooping and ing--and there were the Indi leaping wp evt of the grass, Sut from Behind treee—trom verywhere they came It seemed te the frightened people they Jumped eut of the very ground tteeit, “Quick te ot her babies Mre eldest child, walked two and «| balf miles to school every day of | that next summer, walked along | a rough path thru the dense) wood, in cdnstant danger from botti wild beasts and unfiiendly Indians And think of it! w He was only CG Jones fan with them te her bed | room, end hid them beneath her [| he jure hoping | exac! TALE BEGUN BY GENE ARCHER “The situation was deucedly weird lor course, and ahe took great pains | I confess that I didn’t like it my-| self, and nabody can call me a super | stitious chap,” ran the last page of Archer's long letter, “I was glad when Certeis took advantage of that lar exit to break up the seance. We actually | bad to shake the Russian dandy to bring him back to our commonplace world. The poor fool kept calling on Rasputin for instruct but that @ucked—gone back to hell, I'take it At any rate the tripod on the oulja board refused to bude. “I don't eve why oulja controts can't come back from hades as well & paradiae, and the next time J get lose to one I'm going to ask if the oom are fifty fifty. “1 guese I was the onty one who | s*Susan, tt has driven him from hie home, from us.” | “We can follow him” “I think not; he has left ua Oh, Susan, it te a great thing that he has done, but I have jowt him—tI have lost him.” And in her heart she knew that Min did not wish her to follow him to Paria. ardent desire of hin heart was not to |cancel his obligations, but to prove | crept out of Russia and Germany | ‘#7 took their places and we lean that her never-failing tenderness and (self-sacrifice had not been manjfested in vain. | Presently Susan bustied up to say jthat Mrs. Heseltine wished tq see her. Dorothy wag tempted to send down an excuse, but she ended by recetving the little woman Og her heels came Mra. Chatfield whose “slopdoshing,” as Min would call it, was exceedingly uncomfort able. Presently her visitors went away; excellent women faithfully the conventions and tradi tions of the College and the Clore A memorable half hour followed. In which reason wrestled with im pulse. Dorothy had a vision of a charming cottage just outside Paris, jon the river, of cours near Passy or Auteuil. Fancy wreathed it with honeysuckle and roses, furnished i delightfully, painted it white, wit apple-green shutters and palings. | She was evoking shadow, not sub stance. Men like Min did not attain their full stature im sweetemelling cottages, tended by loving women. No, Min must range free, YWrhting for his own hand, as his father had fought before bim. His father, who now cared more for his ambitions he did for her. How small a thing love was to men; how great, how overmastering a domination to wo- men! She shivered slightly. ment she heard the doorbell ring, and | step outside, ae Susan answered |the bell. Then the door of the draw ing-room opened. “Who was it, Susan?” Dorothy asked, without turning her*head. As Suran did not answer, she turned her head and saw Gasgoyne immediately she rose, confused, sen- sible that she was not strong enough | to cope with this masterful man. “Oh, it's you,” she gaid, helplessly. He came forward, slowly. “I knew I should find you alone, and—" “Min told you? e me a line saying that ving for Paris. Ihave of He's a good boy. need not worry about hin future She wondered if he knew what Min had done. her plainly that he did not “Yeaterday,” he continued gravely. “I entreated you to let me clear your good name, once and “for all; I still think it would be the wise thing to do, but so far aa I am concerned I urge it no longer. You must do what you think best for yourself and the boy. It's hard for me to put my self into your shoes—" He paused, “Won't you sit down, Dick? Have you had tea?” “Hang tea! Dorothy, 1 If, you cloud, I'l) tive under one’ Well,” his voice der share the same She guessed that the most! reflecting | At that mo-| His next words showed| Seine esas happened to notice Mins Miller in the midst of the confusion. I certainly must hand it to her as some littir trailer of conspirators. The plot she had come go far to get was in ber hands. As I reread it, on the first of this letter, lingly simple, but you must remem ber that [@have condensed the full account of it “The idea in there, and it backs up a heap of evidence which baa by various ways. More than one modern philosopher has warned the world that a coming league of na-| tions will inctude all the peoples be tween the Rhine and Viadivostok! Maybe we'd better get used to the idea, for, believe me, kaiserdom has not perished from the earth even though the old kaiser straddies a chair and smokes in Holland when he isn’t working at his woodpile™ There Gene Archer ended, to get fils letter onto the mail steamer, be explained. So it happened that our |next news came from Katherine Miller. Bob “Your sister is not prostrated by the events of yesterday,” she wrote, “but she is awfully buey nursing the injured man, She has asked me to rite to you, and Archer tells mo hat he has already mailed you the first chapters of the tragedy | you. “You and Jane wi anderstand that Rasputin was a fake, invented | vy me, partly as a joke, partly to | discover what effect the name would have on the two Russians, I found out, didn’t I? The result nearly | scared me stiff for the younger man his position, than) went quite out of his head and tad |ejty be carried on under a | his sub-conscious mind bare for af lof us to gaze upon! And the other ‘conspirators, altho they heard him give away the big plot, didn’t dare to stop him for fear of giving thém- selves away! It was nome weance, I {do assure you, and I wish Jane Lor. imer had been looking on! “But I can't gloat over the catas trophe which followed. “Chrys kept the party to dinner, |brella. If England doesn’t mult you, | we'll find another country. North, jsouth, east or west, it's all the samo to me, if you'll let me come, too. Doll,” the last rag of restraint fell from him as he concluded desperate ly, “for God's sake, come and take yore of m You don't done?” “Min?” ; She told him, showed him the let ter. He read it silently, weighing every word written or implied, Then he sald slowly “He is your #on,” "Dick, he hag go ever. Oh, I know,” “That is true,” he answered slowly. “And there is not a mother in all the world who has not felt the pangs which are tearing you. Doll, I asked you yesterday, in my arrogance, to let me take care of you; a minute ago I asked you with greater reason to take care of me; now, for the third time I beseech you to let us take care of-~each other.” know what Min has e from me for Susan Judking anid afterwarde, to|with a complacency which Min ade- quately deneribed an “fat,".that noth- ing ¢lse could possibly have hap- et te mo it does seem astonish. | Her letter was addressed to | 1 hope | Sho smiled derisively, knowing that! | can make the denouemerit clear to|C®20 might be getting Into action to apologize for Sandy's presence and is condUtt, and she told the strange story about his transiedt fits of mad news at sound of the word ‘war.’ Sho said that she would ask the cnptain | to amsign him to @ particular job/ that he liked, if Sandy were permit | ted to run the power boat his mind) | would mnap back to normal in an in stant, she explained. “After that it didn't surprise me to see Sandy McCall in command of the moter boat when the threat ened storm had shifted south of us and our guests were ready to go | cr were to stay en board the) Blue Bird, and the next day their baggage was to be sent over from the Argentine. Then we would mail. After that seance, the harbor was no pines for me, at least. have an idea that the Russians were take the staterooms on the Argentine, which bad been ~vacated | by the two Americans. “As 1 maid. I was extremety eur prised to mee Bandy McCall ready to run the mator boat, and I think Cer tein wan astonished, too. Rut he | Never flinched. Ho simpiy motioned the Ruawians not to object. And | | | }ed over the fail, and waved them food-night, and hoped that they | wouldn't get wet, and they replied that they couldn't because the run | jAcrows to the Argentine wouldn't | jtake 10 minutes, | “The rain came down very mudden. | | ly, aa rain often does in the tropies, | and we had to flee to the cabin, | |wher some one anid that it was a 008 Wing to have Sandy in charge of the power boat. Once hie coursg| wan net, Sandy would run alongside | the other yacht In the dark, if any man could do so. “So we sat down to bridge, but we hadn't dealt the first hand around | when the fnint and faraway boom of a ingle exploxion made the dealer panne | It waa diffuned by said that it might come from the | town. Another suggested that a vo! One ts always looking for a volcano to go off tn thin latitude.” (To Be Continued) |Wants Contract Building System ‘That the construction work of the apecial |type of contract instead of by day labor, as at present, was recommend ed to the board of public works Fri |day by J. D. Blackwell, superintend. lent of buildings. The proposal was |referred to the corporation counsel | for opinion as to the legality of the mefhod proposed. | mL BREMERTON.—Chamber of Com: merce requests immediate carrying out of improvements planned for navy yard. FOR Yor Grip, Influenza, Cough and Sore Throat, | To get the best remilts take “Bey |enty-seven” at the first feeling of a | Cold. As Spring advancen and Colds do- jerense, the devotees of “Seventy. seven” turn to the vast @ystem of | Dr. Humphreys’ Remedies for other ifs, which are described in the Doc. | tor's Rook in English, French, Span ish, Portuguese or German—mailed | free, | | | Catarrh, At at! Drag end Country Atores, | stallation |_ “Nobody contd lacate the sound. | * 1 | the rain. One | freight cars the use of a tiiting hop. a After tt has gone thru several punctures and blowonts, your Inner tube need not be hurled into the gunk | Mere are two of the many uses it can be put to. larger hale made, it makes a good folding water bucket for filling the radiator. | for this use, it can be cut In two for boots for your sonny | put on a pair of rubbers to eave the soft rubber from hard wear—and thare you are. heap. Changing M in Automobile BY JAMES Bt. President Hriscor early days of auto the old Latin matto Back tn the mobile selling, ethods Noticed | With the top o' | Merchandising FINDLATER Motor Corporation Uttle about motor absolutely pothing care-the buyer A joy ride was “Let the buyer beware” would have/ the mai? argument used in peiling tly expressed the pica ne in RUBBER REMARKS Wf you want your tires to cover the fall distance for which they are guaranterd: Drive slowly. Fast driving heats the tires, wears them down faster, and gives a:ride swing which grinds the tres over the road. Apply the brokes slowly Applying them suddenly equses,the wheels to slide. Adjust the brakes evenly, LOADING A BIG FACTOR Delay in loading of unloading ix the thief whieh steals untok truck “profits. Every motor truck operator should give the loading and unloading question the clorest atten Von. First consideration, of course must be given to the type of body in the lumber trades, steel rollers mbedded in the body platform and equipped with ratchets, fuctlitate the loading operation, aa well as unload ing. Interchangeable, badies, semi trailers, cartered hand trucks and other devices which roll onto the |truck platform solve various loading problema. The arrangement and height of loading platforms, including the In of ‘overhtad manorail tracks, aif the handling of many kinds of freight fipecial loading equipment work, Coal, gravel, sand or crushed stone oan be loaded Into a truck Within a few secands tf hoppers are constructed. The trucks ean eet into position either underneath the oppers or alongside them. For the nding of these materials from which ts agtached to the wide of car in excellent. A gang of shov. s can keep these hoppers filled While the trucks are on the road Where the insta porary character, portable’ endless belt or bucket conveyors will quickly load and, gravel, coal or crushed stone from a pile ta the truck fiome types of work require the use of a crane hotet and I-beam track mounted upon the truck Iteelf Power winches operated directly by the truck engine cut loading delays tn other kinds of truck operation. DAVIS HOLDS OPEN HOUSE That Seattle people may know the size and extent of the only passenger car factory in the elty, the Davis Car company have announced open house at their plant at 7714 1th ave. S., dh Sunday, April 25 Much attention has been attracted to the Davis car for a period of years. per now has a full-fleged automobile fac: tory In operation i# not generally The completeness of the equipment and the magnitude’ of the plant will surprise everyone who takes advantage of the opportunity offered to examine a modern motér ear factory The content that has been conduct- ed to secure a name for the car manufactured by the Davis company has been and the name chosen, and the name of the person winning the car will be announced shortly, MARK WATER HOLES It's safer than ever to tour acrons the Arizona desert nowadays, since the Automobile club of Southern California, has dug up all the water 9 |but the fact that the Davis company | known. |holes tt could find along the route and posted signs there for the benefit of the tourists, There are 6,219 of these signs in the desert of eastern California and Arizona, Sixty million doflara will be spent upon the construction of good roads conditions | cars. apecde Jup truck operation in many lines of | ation is of a tem. | If the dealer could make his t the ather fel y “got the or r do something th low com@dn't he usual der. Put times have changed (for the better Iam giad to may). Today it would be hard to find an intelli gent man or woman who doran't know something or other about av tomobiles 6 average school boy knows gs much or more about carn than his parents, This education of the public in motor cars pute a new seljng problem and I to may that automobile be merchandised the sar as tooth-paste, planes ar lawn-mow® cm In the old days little or no thought was given to manufacturer of the car. Today, about the first thing the prospect wants to know ts, “who makes the car.” The houre-behind. | theproduct angie to merchandising | plays an Important part in satomo- | ble og glgd “nm GRAVEL Kent.Dee Maines to: Dee Moines Tacoma Highline Poor. Renton- Maple Valley eh Maple Valley Kiack Diamend Woodinville Duvall Coot exe milee Into Snoquaimie e Davall- Pall City Pair 1 Clty» Redmond Hatlywood Renton-lesaqaah—An s< att Rene’ unt of paving the new gra field, roed vale Tesnguah-Pall City-North Bend Good. | IeaquahRedinood vie Lake Sammamish erally good Dood rict—A}l ronde fate, Renten-Renton Janction. air Kenton-Lellevue Gener Kenton -Oriltia (east pide vail Newport-Lssaquab food Auburn-Mlack Diamond Cored arcevnt bridge, two mil tour via ward Bnumciaw inflen, we Muckieahout bill into Green River valley; roads good Sunset Highway (east of North Bend)— Good to Camp Mason, 12 miles from North 4 for repairs it | good. ley) —Nowgh. AN paved reads in condition | Seattie-Mewton vin Rainier Valley section now open for traffic between Rainier Beach and county line; watch for cromover near Taylor# milk Vashon The ferry from Des Moines to Portage, also the Reattle Vashon HMeights-larper ferry ne running; roads om island generally | ony good | Renton-Kent (east side)——Rond closed be- | paving. “ er | BRIDGES BEING CONSTRUCTED | Novelty bridge over Snequalmic—Cioned over Green river, near) care In panning Cedar river, 2 miles from Renton Temporary brid | Raging Hiver bridge over Raging river Fall City-—Careful driving. | Oriilin trier over While river—Closed; new bridge bullding formation regarding King An call Main 6900, local 88, $10,000 WILL BE DRIVERS’ MONEY INDIANAPOLIS, April 17.—Cham. jpionship points Awarded the eighth international 500ile $50,000 «w stakes on Indianapolis Speedway, the contest for the 1920 driving championship, conduc under the ausploes of the American Automo- bile association, total 2 points, of which 1,000 are for first place. | The Indianapolis race is awarded | 4 much heavier point total than any | other racing event on the 1920 cal- endar, the inaugural contest on the Los Angeles speedway, for instance, | having been awarded 1,116 points, or less than half the number, with 600 points for first position, Winning the driver's championship carries with it the award of a cash prize now being made up by racing enthusiasts thruout the United | States, the probable amount of which |i figured at $10,000, mo that to breeze home in front at Indiangpolis has an additional prize incentive. | Tho average weekly wage in the automobile industry was $25.74 last year. Hamphreys' Homes, Medicine Cy, 166) in the province of Ontario during the “Wagons must carry fights at ‘Wiliam Biresl, Now Xank, poxt five years, wWgbt in New York stata, Vuleanize one end to fit Ue foot, pull it on and TRUCK WEEK ANNOUNCED I, April 24—0" n thawe people interented ig give eapecial age rtance of the country® Frank ©, Ilinots and proclie week of May nee as “Ship by he proclamation fol transpor tention to , ot nt ernor ntl ‘ presic mation low I take ple sure in the people ng the at taken linols ta y the em her states n naming the week of Bt by Truck’ being om of man Unior to aw AN AL ROADS * “The tranportation system of the — country will not be complete until our highways are improved so aa te permit the of both passenger ears and throughout the em yen tate Iinoin i making « determined effort in at odds brought about by existing conditions to complete, at the earliest ponsible moment, such 7 wystem of highways reaching” ery section of the state, “In harmo with the action of the other states, I am asking afl eth zens of Tinols interested in trans portation t6 give especial thought and attention during that week, m lonly to tran#portation by way motor truck, but also to the’ ea@g nomical development of such a hit way mystem ae will enable us to bring about at an early date the om of this method of delivering the prod tucts of our farms and factories.” 7YEAR ane ¥ fj by f the valve removed and a slightly Even if tite tube ix too torn a & Electric Troubles To prevent trouble om the road with the electric system of your machine, make an occasional inspec tion of the wiring. Look for loose wires and worn places where they vibrate against the frame or other parts, Keep the wires free from of or grease. Keep the terminals and witch pointe clean and keep the battery charged. These precam | taken, you should have ag trouble with the electric system. LIGHT CAR POOR MAN’S BLESSING the real light car comes market, even the manot means will be outo, Conmider car's advantages leads When into the medium own an the Jight to this. A lightweight car means more epeed and especially less trouble om muddy highways. Being light the machine will require a small engine to produce results equa! to thone of a larger and heavier car A smaller engine means the use of lewn gasoline, and less gasoline means lems upkeep. English light cars can run from 36 to 40 miles on a gallon. American inventors are seeking to better that record Being light, the car will need emailer tires and will not cause * much wear as the heavier-built cars. Lene expense again. And finally, a light car will cont leap—the smaller engine, emailer tires and smaller hood, begides various other factors— causing lower cost in construc. tion. . Sales were made of nearty all the 150 passenger cars displayed the twelfth annual automobile in Louisville, Ky Over the Top BADGER BRAND AUTO | TOPS SEAT COVERS Pickard & Trail 1722 Broadway East 820 Better Tops for Less Sun Never Sets —on—_ Traffic. Trucks From North to South— From East to West— From Africa to the Orient— TRAFFIC TRUCKS are hauling their 4,000-pound loads economically and dependably. Chassis $1,795 Delivered to You. Shields-Livengood Mot or Co. “The All-American House” 4 Seattle Yakima Spokane Mfg. wv Traffic Motor Truck Corporation, St, Louis, Mo. pen House The Davis Car all day Sunday Co, will keep open house You are cordially invited to call and in spect the new plant, See the completed new car with the Davis Drive. Automobile authorities say it is going to revolutionize the industry. DROP IN AND SEE US See it demonstrated on the road. sure winner, It's a ‘The plant of the company is located at 7 14th ave, S. Drive out on the high road to Tacoma (Des Moines Road) or take South Park car to the end of line and walk few blocks. You will be surprised to find the company 60 far advanced in the actual production of the highest class passenger cars. DRIVE DUT AND SEE HOW SEATTLE’S AUTOMOBILE FACTORY IS PROGRESSING