The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 1, 1920, Page 11

THE SEATTLE STAR A WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMRTER 1, TP90 » * DANKY'S VACATION piDA‘T stem TO Improve VERY MUCH -He’S Beew QvITE A CARE ALL PAY- We HAD A MTTLO SEYTD JUST BEeFoRe You Voit HAVE To MmtD- * » * Cleland Page 144 DANGER 66 A ND when the big old greasy Indian gate the baby back, @id that little baby be yout Pex BY asked. “Oh, Peggy®™ David protested, “Don't you remember she just sald it was her brother?™ The gentile lady drew Peesy into her lap. "No, dear, I wasn't that baby. My mother bad two little boys be fore I came, and the winter I ame she was in San Francisco, spoke almost no English. They had played eo constantly with the Indian children they knew only the language of their playmates. “One day they came tn and said, “Mama, @ boy said “water”; what is “water"? Indians—not our own Indians, the Clallum tribe—they were devoted to mother and her children, and as much afraid of Snoquaimies and Northern In- as the white settlers were. rel t rough they picked her up and car ried her. “She got eo she didn't expect to walk anywhere; her Indian friends were always there, and al ways ready to serve their bhyas mahkook t'kope sikhs (very dear white friend), “So you see it was only some of the Indians we had to fear, “The back parior of the big house never was furnished. “I should say it had no chairs and tables and pictures and rugs im it. “Instead were boxes of ammunt tion, kegs of gunpowder and stacks of guna It was @ real lit tle arsenal right there in our own housa “All thru the country people were being murdered by hostile Indiana. No white man was safe, for the Indians’ doctrine was onq must kill a chief in return. “If many men of a tribe were Geatroyed then that tribe must in turn destroy many men of the enemy. “One morning mother had fin- ished her household duties, her baby wag sleeping, and the little ones were playing about the door, when she heard the sound of moo casined feet. “It was not the soft pad-pad of & man who comes on a common errand, but a swift running thud. thud-thud-thud of one who is in sreat need, er who flees from dan- ateehdil What Boomer the Nighthawk Saw million Ifttle stare looked down and twinkled and twin- ‘led. Eneath them lay the Green Meafows and the Green Forest. They didn’t look green now, because jelly, round, red Mr. Sun had pulled his nightcap on and gone to bed be- hind the Purple Hills, and there wasn't light enough for the grass and the leaves to show their green color. ‘Over the meadows and along the of the forest sailed Boomer Nighthawk. Sometimes he was Jow that he almost touched the ow gYass, Sometimes he flew Circles way, way high in the sky. wr the Nighthawk was happy “had slept all day, for Boomer t best to sleep by day and fly by night. The bright light of day L hurts his eyes, and he can see bet ter in the starlight than in the day light. Then at night there are lots ~ and lots of little insects flying about and very few hungry Uttle people to catch them. Bo Boomer the Nighthawk was happy, for there was plenty to eat. | Every few minutes he would open great big mouth and then close with a snap, and every time he this there was one less Insect to fly about and get into mischief. Realiy Boomer was helping Farmer Brown, tho he didn’t know this. You see some of these little insects on the green things growing in Brown's garden, and would have killed the little plants ing thera But Boomer the there, But Boomer the Night ‘wasn't thinking of this. He ‘per (this was really his dinner time, know) tasted, and what splendid in it was to fly and fly, and not al! the time have to be watching out for danger. By and by he flew away, way up er #o high in the sky. Then he half closed his wings and coasted n, down go fast that it seemed as if he must surely hit the ground. } But he didn’t, Just before he reached the ground he spread his wings and it skimming over the meadow 8 Then he did it all ever ‘as He came down so fast alg sushed thra the long, stiff feathers of his wings and made | a loud, booming sound, which is the reason he is called Boomer. It startied some of the little birds out | of their sleep in the bushes along | the edge of the Green Forest, and) this Made Boomer chuckle, for he thought it great fun Once when he came booming down out of the sky he saw something | that made him stop hia long slide half way. It was something moving in the bdlackest shadows. Boomer turned and flew right over the black | shadows where he could look right vane in America is the golden grass- hopper that has Whirled since 1742 above Faneu!! hall in Boston. Up in the Sky Boomer the Nighthawk Watched Gran- ny and Reddy Foz. down into them. As he looked he saw two figures creeping slowly along. One of thi limped and seemed to be having @ dreadful time to get along. “It's Granny and Reddy Fox,” said Boomer to him- self. They were so intent on their own affaires that they hadn't noticed him at all. He opened his mouth to shout to them, Then he closed it again without making a sound, “I'll just wait and see what mischief they are planning now,” he thought. So from up in the sky Roomer the Nighthawk watehed Granny and Reddy You crows the Green Meadows and climb the hill toward the far- away 614 pasture. “I wonder what that means?” ald “Boomer the Nighthawk to himeelt, Next Story: Pater Rabbit Harts nating | FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS OW, YEAI- My DoDI GOT A Var oF CONS > VA WANNA SEE € D ON OPPOWENTS HAVE UNEARTHED THE FACT THAT YEARS AGO You WERE IN THE DAiR Perhaps the most famous weather S(OP ITCHING ECZEMA Penetrating, Antiseptic Zemo Wi ! Help You Never mind how often you have tried and failed, you can stop burning, itching | eczema quickly by applyir 0. Furni: by any druggist for 35e, Extra large bottle, $1.00. Healing begins the moment Zemo is applied. In a short time usually every trace of eczema, tetter, pimples, rash, blackheads and similar skin diseases will be removed. For clearing the skin and making it vigorously thy, alwaysuse Zemo, the ete cone uid. It isnot ¥ anditdoesnotstain, When fail it is the one dependable treatment for skin troubles of all kinde The BOW. Pree Cr, Cleveland, O, Ellen Terry’s Gems Are Sold at Auction LONDON, Sept, 1—Jewels worn by Mise Ellen Terry during her vart ous &ppearances on the stage were 8014 at public auction for $4,875. A lovely emerald and brilliant pendant, the pick of the lot, brought $2,000. Seattle’s Leading Dentist I am now devotim, my entire time to my dental practice, I make al] examinations and diagnose each case, as well as do all extract- ing between the hours of 9a m, and 5 p.m My offices have beer _lestablished for mor: Malus dim than a quarter of a century, and under my personal management 1901. I do not compete with cheap, transient, advertising dentists. re “TABLET S= Bh WR Tomolit Geta morrow Feel Rioht)2s Box My prices are the lowest con- istent with first-class work. EDWIN J. BROWN, D. D, &. Dentiaé » Pe Columbia Bi Sweethearts Unite; Separated 26 Years ELIZABETH, N. J. 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