The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1920, Page 7

vf 000 IS f@ BASEBALL GAME BET? President of Chicago Na- tional League Club to Make Reply to Charges Sept 4.—Charges of $50,000 game here CHICAGO, Made here that a Was bet on baseball between the hs and Nationals last Tuesday will Bwered in a statement soon by Nam Veeck, president of the poot be an wit chi azo club, it yas said at his office} soday, Acconiing to the story, pools wer formed in Detroli, Cincinnatt and other cities to wager on the Phililes against whom the Cubs were held two to one favorites, Acconling to the story, the odds Were reversed by the time the game Btarud, Tuesday Alexander pitched for the its. The unusual part of it was that Alexander hed out of turn and huried a gure, ut lost thru poor support Canadian Census Report Is Coming VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 4-—Ar. Fangements for the taking of the de @ennial census of Canada, in June, of next year, are almost completed. The census department, upon the | Dasis of the average increase in pop- wlation in the past 20 years, esti mates the number of the country's inhabitants at about eight and three quarters millions. Orphan Boys Run ’ Away From “Home After nearly two weeks’ walking Russell Groves, 15, and Loweil Fer. ris, 13, two runaways from the Wash Ington Children’s home, in Seatti are in the Yakima jail Saturday awaiting transportation back. Both boys had been received at the home as wards on August 20, and y tely decided they would rath “J pick apples in the Yakima valley. _ Bo off they started. ‘They hiked practically all of the distance over the Cascade moun tains, they told the Yakima police. Motorists occasionally gave them short lifts. The Groves boy was deserted by his parents some time ago, and told the police he planned to run away whenever he got a chance, #0 that he could find them. The Ferris béy has ‘® grandfather living in the state and he wants to find him. ‘ bau thousand cigarettes, two stickpins and two neckties, formerly the property of William Handecker, Coderberg hotel, 1616 Seneca st., left Handecker’s room Saturday morning im company of an wan . The police are hunting for Philadetphin | unidentified | (Continued from yesterday) But he asked me to do other things, The next day after the walk he asked me to play to him, Yea, he asked me to; and he went into the parlor and sat down on one of the! chairs and listened while I played three pléces, Of course, I didn't play loud ones, nor very fast ones, and I was so seared I'm afraid I didn't play them very well. But he was very polite and said, “Thank you, Mary and That that was very nice;" then he stood up and said, “Thank you" again and went }away into the lbrary, very polite, but stiff, like company. The next evening he took me out to the observatory to see the stara That was lovely, Honesty I had a Perfectly beautiful time, ahd I think father did, too, He wasn't stiff and polite one bit. Oh. |he was impolite or rude. It's just jthat he wasn't stiff as if I was com. pany, And he was so happy with [his stare and his telescope, and so }glad to show them to me—oh, I had 4 beautiful time, and I told him so, jand he looked real pleased. But | Aunt Jane came for me before I'd | had half enough,and I had to go to bed The next morning I thought he'd jde ye tt somehow, because we'd had Mich a lovely time together the night before. But he wasn't. He just said, “Good morning, Mary,” and began to read his paper.) And he read his paper all through break fast without saying another werd to |me. Then he got up and went into jthe library, and I never saw him again all day except at dinner-time And supper-time, and then be didn't talk to me, But after supper he took me out Again to see the stars, and he was just as nice and friendly aa could be Not a bit like a man that’s only a }father by order of the court. But jthe next day—! Well—and that's the way it's been |all the week. And that's why I say [he's been so queer, One minute he'll be just ax nice and folksy as you Jeould ask anybody to be, and the very next he’s looking right through you ax if he didn't see you'at all, and you wonder and wonder what's |the matter, and if you've done any thing to displease him. Sometimes he seems almost glad and happy, and then he'll look so j sorry and sad I just can’t understand my father at all. eee Another week later. I'm so excited I dorft know what |to do. The most wonderful thing has happened. I can’t hardly believe it yet myself. Yet it's so. My trunk is all packed, and I'm to Ko home to morrow. Tomorrow!- I don’t mean that | Mary Marie Py EleanorHPorter COPYRIGHT ‘Thin is the way it happened Mother wrote Aunt Jane and asked if T might not be allowed to qome home for the opening af school in September, She said she understood quite w jask this, ahd, of course, if they saw fit, they were entirely within their rights to refuse to allow me to go juntil the atlogted time, But that she }could not help asking it for my sake, Jon account of the benefit to be de rived from being there at the open ing of the school year Of course, 1 didn't Know mother ng to write this, But | about the school here, and how I came out, and everything. I've other everything that Oh, of course, I every few minutes,” jaa she asked me to. (That was a joke, anyway, of course) But have |written every few days, and, as I |auid before, I told her everything Well, when the letter came 1 took jit to Aunt Jane myself; and I was Jorazy to know what was in it, for I recognized the writing, of course. }But Aunt Jane didn’t tell me, She Jopened it, read it, kind of flushed up, and sald, “Humph! The idea!" under her breath, and put the letter in her pocke Marie wanted to make a scene and Insist on knowing what was in her own mother’s letter; but Mary tented herself with looking superb and haughty and disdainful, and marching out of the room without giving Aunt Jane the satisfaction of even being asked what was in that letter. But at the tatte that noon Aunt Jane read it to father out loud. So that's how I came to know just what was in it, She started first to hagd | ft over to him to read; but as be put out his hand to take it I guess he saw the handwriting, for he drew backdjuickly, looking red and queer. “From Mra. Anderson to you?" he she has, happened haven't written con. her head he sat still farther back in | hie chair and said, with a litte wave of his hand, “I never care to read— other people's letters.” Aunt Jane said, “Stuff and non sense, Charles, don’t be ailly™ But }ahe pulled back the letter and read it after giving a kind of an uneasy wlance in my direction Father never cored up once while he was reading it. He kept his eyes was ating. I watched him. You see, I knew, by Aunt Jane's reading the letter to him, that it was some thing he had got to de I found out what it waa, of course I was just crazy I wanted to go #0. So I watehed father’s face to wee if he was going to let me go. But | couldn't make out. I couldn't make out at all, It changed—oh, yes, it Graded Streets Curbs and City Water 1920 | that she had no right to| anked. And when Aunt Jane nodded | on his plate and the baked beans he | ide; and when | THE SEATTLE STAR it [changed & great deal as she read; but 1 couldn't make out what kind of a change it was at all Aunt Jane finished the letter and | begat to fold it up. I could nee she was waiting for father to xpeak: but he never said a word, He kept right eating beans Then Aunt J and spoke “You will not let her go, of course, Charles; but naturally I had to read the letter to you, I will write to Mra, Anderson tonight.” Father looked up then “Yeu,” he said quietly; “and you tell her, please, that Mary will e cleared her turoat | £0, | fChartest* | Aunt Jane said that most ran around the table and/ hugged him, (Oh, how 1 gish he| was the kind of a father you could | do that tod “Charles! But 1 al | said Aunt Jane again ‘Surely you aren't going to give in so tamely an thin to that child and her mother!” “I'm not giving in at all, Jane,” said father very quietly, “I am con sulting my Own wishes in the matter I prefer to have her go.” I ‘most cried out then. Some way, it hurt to have him may it like that right out—that he wanted me to go. | You wee, 1d begun to think he wns wetting #0 he didn't mind so very much having me here, All the last two wetks he'd been different, realty different. But more of that anon. | 1'll go on With what happened at the} table, And, as I maid, I did feel bad to have him speak like that. And £ can remember now just hi the] jtump came right up in my throat Then Aunt Jane spoke, stiff and dignified “Oh, very well, of course, if you put it that way, I can quite well| understand that you would want her | to go*-for your sake. But I thought | that, under the circumstances, you | | would manage somehow to put up| |with the noise and. Just lke that he inter rupted, and he thundered, too, #0 that Aunt Jane actually jumped. And L guess I did, too, He had |eprung to his fet “Jane, let us jclone thin matter once for all. I am not letting the child go for my sake. Iam letting her go for her own. So far as I am concerned. if I consulted | no one’s wishes but my own, I ahould | keep her here always.” | With that he turned and strode | from the room, leaving Aunt Jane jand me jusg staring at him. | But only for a minute did I stare It came to me then what he had said —that he would lke to keep me here |always, For I had heard it, even it| |he had gaid the last word very low, | and in‘a queer, indistinct voice. .1) wan-mure I had heard it, and I wod-b “Jane! COX CONFERS | tiona} creanten ion some to collect WITH MANAGER Discuss “Slush” Fund Probe! Testimony BYL C. CHICAGO, Sept, 4 democratic nom senate ‘slush fund” investigation here today with Hd H. Moore, hin convention manager, who Is sohM-| uled to present new “leads” to the wenate committee next week M talked briefly with Cox in| the governor's private ear, which re mat in Chicago lems than two hours, Together they went over the Information Moore planned to give the senate committee ‘Tuesday, to ‘lp it dincover evidence which, Moore, says, will prove conclusig:ly Cox's charge that the republican na ARTIN Gov. Cox, the discussed the uption fund” ofM§15,000,000 or 000,000, to “buy an underhold on | the government.” Part of the lence Moore plans to give the committee consints of a circular known as “Form 101,” said be the plan for collecting large sums in the big elties, thru a # organization which, Moore charges, under direction of a profesisonal denly realized what it meant. So 1 ran after him; and that time, if I had foend him, 1 think | would have hugged him. 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