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ar Stelle. * * & I Cleland _» Page 164 AN INDIAN DUKE sighed contented!y and the band of the Tall fast tel stortes beauti- said. “I ‘apect you can go right on telling and telling if you aren't getting don't get tired re. he tokt her, we get okt, the trouble ‘we are afraid to talk too much folks get tired listening to “Not to eartyday things, they @on’t.” David assured him. “Every Prince or something; said his _Bame is in the Pioneer histories, But I dont remember what it f was” . » “An old Indian who called him- | a @on’t mean the ‘Duke of York,’ @o yout” __ “Yea, that’s ft!" David cried | Duke of" York—what about I tell you he feit prince? Let's see. You! as dreaned up ae any fairy prince on a card or off It “He wanted to look Ike the white people, and he di¢ his best with what he had. I have heard my mother laugh about the first time she ever saw him, It waa in Port Townsend, and he came into town Just to show how grand he wan, “He was, as T say, trying to Jook and act like white men, a# he had two wives with him, one on either arm, one walking be hind him. “These women he tntroduced to my mother in a jargon of Chinook and English, ‘dling klootchman’ (bring two wives). ‘See Boston Slanna, this one Jenny Lind,’ nod- ding to the one on his right; ‘this }one Queen Victoria,’ motioning to | the one on his left arm, | “Mother knew she mustnt laugh; no one must laugh at an Indian. But to keep a straight |face and hear these fat squaws called Jenny Lind Genny Lind, you know, was @& great singer known the world over) and Queen Victoria, it was almost too much. “And the ‘Duke of York’ him- sett! “Hoe wore his hatr long, as all the Indians did, and it hung straight and biack down over his ears and On his shoulders. On his bat, like the one “Uncle Sam‘ weare, And he wore @ white shirt with @ stiff bosom, and—that’s al, ‘The tall of hie shirt Mapped in the wind about his bare brown thigha, his stocky brown legs were without stockings or trousers, and bis + | dare fect plap-plapped on the ground as he walk: “Rut he thought Re was the finest tiger m the jungle!” giggied Pegay. eetkat Muff Turned Suddenly and Gave Flop a Hard Pune tn the Eye | Well, Muff Mote started along the Paseage again thru which he Floppy Fteld-Mouse were run from the Meadow Grove Pty teat i where outside, — “Goodness allva, go on™ shoved Flop. “Why don't you move?” “Oh, let me one” grumbled Muff. “Can't you I'm having a feam? 1 told you the storm would make good earthworm hunting.” “See! enorted Flop. “I can't see & thing in this coal pit, Can't you wait Antil you get me out of here before you go stuffing yourself. I'm |e hungry as you are.” “Weil, if you're hungry, you're welcome to all the worms you can fin@. There are plenty all around you if you weren't too lazy to dig @ bite “Worms erted Flom “Ugh! Who'd eat worms?” “I do,” answered’ Muff quite net. tled, “and if they're good enough for me they are for you, I'm sure.” “Well, they're not. I wouldn't eat them.” snapped Flop. And he gave another shove. Muff turned -jsudderily and gave Flop a . hard punch in the eye, abet & iW | tide BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Peter and Unc’ Billy IGLY hidden under the alder bushes beside the Laughing Brook sat Peter Rabbit and Unc’ Bitty Possum. “Now,” said Peter Rabbit, as they Settled themselves to watch, “we'll gee for ourselves whether Sammy “What do you make of it?” | whispered Dilly Stickytoes. have been telling the truth or if they have been telling truth or if they have been dreaming. If we hear > Sammy Jay's voice down here in the @iders tonight, we ought to be able to see who is using it, for pretty goon the moon will be up, and then ‘we can see easily.” Une’ Billy Possum didn’ a word; but if look there. The fact ts, Une! Billy | fwas thinking of the time when he thought he had heard the voice of an his from way down was beginning to sus- right, and that Possum Keep Watch “Ah reckon Jt sho'ly is, and h Plumb full of his ol’ tricks, just like he used to be,” muttered Unc’ Billy. “What's that?” asked Peter, prick ing up nar “Nuffin, nuffin, Brer Rabbit; nuf- fin at all, Ah has a habit of just talk- ing foolishness to matmelf," replied Une’ Billy. Peter looked at him sharpty, but Une’ Billy's sharp little face looked 80 Innocent that Peter was ashamed to doubt what Unc’ Billy said. “T guess that we better not talk any more for fear we might be heara| and have our watch for nothing,” said Peter, Une" Billy agreed, and side by side they sat, a8 still aw if they were made of wood or stone. The Black Shad ows came early to the alders beside the Laughing Brook, and soon it was very dark, so dark that Peter and Une’ Billy, whose eyes are meant for seeing in the dark as well as in the light, had hard work to make out much. It grew later and | and still not a sound of thb either Sammy Jay of Sticky Treetoad, Petor began to get hun- gry. The more he thought about it, the hungrier he grew. Hé was just about ready to give it up when the Toonbeams began to creep in among the alder trees, just as they had crept thra the Green Forest the night that Sammy Jay kept awake. The moonbeams crept farther and the} INK " GET IT JULIE: OTTO AUTO other side of the Laughing Brook. “Do you hear that? Do you hear | that? ‘There's my volce over sthere, and here I am~here! What do you make of it?” whispered Stickytoes. Peter didn’t know what to make of it, All he could do was to gage at |Stickytoes as if he thought Sticky | toes a ghost, Just then the voice of |Sammy Jay, or what sounded for all the world like Sammy‘s volce, |mcreamed: “Thief! Thiet! Thief!" from |the very spot where they had Just +, | heard the voice of Stickytoes. Peter turned to ask Unc’ Billy Pos sum what he thought, but Unc’ Billy wasn't there, Next story: Unc’ Billy Does Some | Surprising Himself, Turkeys are native only to North America. WOMEN WATCH THE CLOCK | farther into the thicket of alder trees in our stores and factories for that and bushes where Peter Rabbit and blessed hour when the day's work Une’ Billy Possum were hiding,| ends, The reason is readily seen, as Then it was that they heard the the nature of their duties too often voice of Stickytoes the Treetoad. Atfdrifts them into the horrors of all any rate, Peter was sure that it was| kinds of organic troubles peculiar to the voice of Stickytoes until a fierce, | women, causing backache, headaches, angry whisper came down to him|neryousness and irritability. Lydia from the branch of an alder just over| B.“Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, his head. Peter looked up. There|a simple remedy, made from roots sat Stickytoes himself, but his voice} and herbs, may be relied upon to j was coming from an alder on the! overcome these troubles.—Ady, i THE SEATTLE STAR WEAR You LOST AGANW LAST NIGHT =~ Guu. pope LL WaLWilLot Dont SEE Ts paws) | WNNou Suowd cay J | Nour TEARS un LA So ~ Come Come. THEY ARE REALLY H L TH LADIES ARE Im GOIN’ To ADDRESS & ‘ert Catarrh Will G Help Comes in Two M Pleto Relief in a F joe—Com- ks Don't go on hawking yourself sick every morning; it's cruel; its harmful and It's unnecessary. If after athing Hyomel, wonderworker, you are not rid of vile catarrh you can have your ¥ back. ch dowing—tuat take the the it a few drops of Hyomei e it according to directions. a minutes tt will relieve you of that stuffed up feeling. Une it daily and in a few weeks you should be entirely free from catarrh. * Breathing Hyomel ia a very pleas- ant and certain way to kill catarrh germs. Get a Hyomet outfit today. It's sold by druggiate everywhere with guarantee to quickly and safely end th, croup, coughs, colds, thre bronchitis. or money b It's inexpensive. Bartell Drug Co. can supply you. sore MIONA It relieves stomach misery, sour stomach, belching and all stomach disease, or money back. Large box of tablets at all druggists in all towna, ~ & Looks! THEY Love A‘CLASSy LOOKIN Guy, SO THIS, OUTFIT OUGHTA GET 'Ert: Abandon Me a Suit— Boche Waiting Yet LONDON, Sept. 24.—Wanted— One suit! An Oxford st. store re ceived a letter from Fred Scolden Vienna, which read in part: "Suits Says Old Art Is A : Rapidly Decaying PARIS, Sept. 24.—"In a hundred years, unleas a great change occurs in the composition of artists’ paint ings, nothing will be left of modern paintings but unsightly, blackened canvases,” declares an art critic. | if one of your clerks will abandon me ‘Millet's great pictures are showing | 4 suit not quite new, I have heard rapid signs of decay, Attention to| that English are kind to help us. 1 the mechanical side of art must be | will try once, I cannot write well resumed if modern works are not to | ¢lse I would say you more." The firm perish.” has not yet sent the suit REAL PAINLESS DENTISTS In order to ch te the 1 and strongest plate nowm, covers very Nite ot the pout of the mouths 12%, BP bite, comm off the cob; 16 years. Whalebone set of teeth... —..-$8 OPOWNS ... -na--eccnennoncoeson- 94 4 soceccccceneces BS $8 Bridgework ....-.. we 82 Amalgam Filling PAINLESS EXTRACTION tnaraing ana Get trots tates dey 7 *meamitetion aud aavice trea, = oSPLPELES Baran or itsce more om to te te Open Sundays From © to 13 fer OHIO CUT-RATE DENTISTS ONIVERSITX 8T, _ - Mwpeelta Freser-Patereem Cay fA APAMO I MoD 17 AWN - You'LL Wave > oer a New ONE You «.osr LAST NIGHT? OUTFIT LOOKS LikE YOURE TRyING TO GET THEIR GOATS here cost 9 much that I beg you § Indian summer days and “forests flushed with crimson” make autumn @ wonderful time @ enjoy the Canadian Pacific Rockies Scenery and appetite grow here together. The clear Alpine alr does tt. It gives zest to ‘every thing you do—golf or fishing brook trout, tennis or camera hunting, pony riding or swimming in warm sulphur pools, going your first climb alone at swift beginner's pace, or following a Swiss guide slowly over ‘some glacier's age-old surface, Full information furnished on application to E.-F. L. STURDEE, General Agen Pasagnger Dept. fs Canadian Pacific Ralway 608 Second Avenue, Seattle. Telephone Main S515 Canadian newspapera and information regarding Canada on fle at this office. , STAR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS | 4 ‘a7

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