The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 20, 1920, Page 13

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THE FATE OF THE PASSENGERS SOE ENNOMORE! seen.no] “This litt N mo seen-nomore™ the Click of the be saying Mmore!" the engine echoed “Daddy.” had listened to those sounds a f “if folks ught most Same all the way out ap the country were Porave and everything.” “You'll find as you grow fon,” Daddy answered, “that all the men who go anywhore, “Good and everything,’ and one of the hardest tilings the had to go up against Mean men who came out here to get rich quick, no matter who suf. fered for it.” “Well, Daddy, after they right edabout the left Mr. Fox to be drowned with his crew and his little boat, what did they do—¢o on back home™™ “Oh, no, David; the captain of that ship meant to make a land Mg, and after a time he did, but he was as cruel a man as I've Met in any history “After the storm paved went out a larger boat, 2, and tho the men car wheels seemed t and “no more! ne David said, after he je while are me good up. not are Pioneers was the ship and poor over wel were do. fe boat, too, had a wild time, but made thru to a place of safety, the men roasted on thelr ars and the man in charge sig the ship to follow, as w the channel but felt that small boat could not safely the ship safled in, tt en in the little boat walted watehing with sober faces the on coming vessel, then, if you to the horror of all on board, the amazement of the crew in the ittle boat, that grouchy old cap. tain sailed right by them without #0 much as throwing them a rope “Yea, that boat was lost, and all but two of her crew with her. “The men ted a hard Iife after they were mufe on land, alsa, }it was going to fall, it seemed the right op | “You nee, they about ploneering, and when they cut down the great trees serapped about the best way to do it and never Knew Just which way knew nothing they and some times It fell across the tops of amalier trees; then there was the mischief of a time to get It down “This was Astor's little colony Hj) and there is a whole book about it, but Walla Walla, and we'll have to finish it we're nearly to some other time.” Reeeee ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Clive Roberts Barton “Oh, hide me!” he panted, all out of breath. take us after Wasp; om Bunny, shaking her apron at “ald Nick to the Green ‘Wasp had rushed out of ‘Meadow Grove school had given them. ‘him. “Get ofr” Waspy Weasel bad few friends, I must tell you, being! the terror of the whole neighbor) after | hood. the charm the Magical) So out he had te go and ancy and Nick spied him, for, of course, the tly fhe little Magical Shoes Green Shoes had followed right after. ‘the twins from under the old But before Nick could catch him,/ t where Mr. Scribble Scratch had | Wasp had found Wally Woodchuck pol and carried them thru the) front door, and in he bounced, th air to Wasp Weasel's twins at his heels. Mrs. Wally was just getting the there was something unusual | beds ready for their long winter sleep “Warp, or Earny Ermie as wi call him. He was the best) into the bedroom, “Land o' Love™ fm Mesdow Grove Land, I she cried, throwing up her hands in) that he had the best nose and | astonishment. led the twins coming sailing air toward his house as the he: tp the right direction. fhe tore thru the kitchen where | say that she'd do no such thing, but was (and nearly upsetting | Wasp Jumped into one of her beds then into Mrs. Bunny's bur-| and pulled up the blanket right over where he almost scared that his head, bide mouse. 40 death. “Oh, hide me he panted, al! out of bre: 9 no such thing’ cried Blos Nibble Rabbit Leaves Home t, 1920, by The Associated Newspapers) alr was blowing in at they; to tell Slink the Weasel and Silver-| | Pmouth of hin hole when Little 5 Rabbit opened pis eyes. That a cold south 4 outside, a He could see the wet} wind hanging from the top of his @ earth doorway. They it iis back when he tried to go out that wouldn't be nice. He shiv Bed and closed his eyes again. Then huddled tighter than ever into ttle furry brown ball, Still he was #6 hie tried to cuddle into th farthest corner, where his moth would Ti? wok p ealled softly; . He put hia nose to the earth if found it #til] warm. She could not | He been gone very long ded to the mouth of the hole 4 with his Mttle hind feet ing all the noise he dared, Then wat up and cecked his ears for answering thump. He half ex ted @ glimpse of her white tai bing down of the ju the prickly ash mother was thers She can't go off and len me his,” he said to himwelf, and he Jown his nose to find her trail gall washed out by the imp, thufnp! he went again y were cross thumps, becaune 0 terribly disappointed fe suddenly sat dowr uffy tall and wa mmy, marmmy ” ice heer up, Bonny. What's | * chirped #ome one from a} 4h just above his head. It was Robin, and he peer vith the most puzzied ished look in his black ey *I’'m Nibble,” sobved the Jittie rab . “and I've lost my mother.” Nibble,” warned Bobb: ible way, “if she eae back pretty noon she'll lone her So he one tunne thic rain and and) he Mamm at the top of his! and ~~ Don't you know better than! is empty. [bit for breakfast.” when Wasp flew up the stairs and “Hide me, hide me™ Wasp beeged as he had done Mra. Bunny, Of course Mrs. Woodehuck was going to then lay as still as a In rushed Nancy and Nick. (Copyright, 1920, N. E. A) Up the Fox and Hooter the Owl, and ¢lle who wants to know Nl find a nice young rab But the tears ran faster than ever down Nibble's whiskers. “It's Hooter," he sniffed, “He caught her when she went down to the brook for a dPink. I know he did. She'd Nonsense,” said Bobby, and he said it peckishly, for no one likes to rabbit ery. “I know| and she knows th@ law You can fi rune ? And feed your r a little n can't you | Yes,” answered Nibble, for his brothers and sisters had gone to dig their own holes and find their own} Well, then,” finished Bobby, nod ding wisely to himself, “if there's any fréewh Fabbit fur under Hooter’s tree, it's not your mother’s.” his Nibble stopped from his ¢ Im ge And he ind polish oft little soft fore surprise, squeezing the tears and opened them wi look!" he announced be erub hi with ears nh e to oUtn. lota of places—the und the Brush Pile, But first I'm going to look where?’ asked Bobb: Oh Clover s any fur under Hooter's “What?” squawked Bobby tumbled off his pe ing Nibble on the and he h and stood face ground. Next story: How Nibble Fooled, Glider the Bi kenake: When a lazy man comes home| to supper he likes to tell his wife how hard he has worked all day It's an easy matter to sympathize with the poor when your oom jtrain | neighborly | shuffied THE SEATTLE NOW. | THINK WE OVEHT TO | END UP ‘THIS LUNCH WITH A NICE DISH OF ChocoLaATE Ice CREAM! WwHaT Do You SAY, sou? J- 7 Fine! / Ld f } STAT om Had as Good a Time’ as Danny WELL»DON’T You Think ‘You HAD A PRETTY Good “Time TODAY? Now, WHAT Are, KID: Do You SAY? WILL RQGERS (HIMS. Gookt-1 sea, CHAS ARRON ALK PORN in’ ted KONTIN’ A Dre. ae ¥RECKLES AND HI i | WELL-WELL, DID Your, DADDY WHIP Nov AGAW, ONE OF AY CHAUFFEURS WALL COME Wh “DAY AND EKPLAM “WWE “TROUBLE A DETAIL YES GR VERY Good ‘O\R~ EXACTLY- THE WRECIKERS By FRANCIS LYNDE (Copyright, 1990, by Charice fertimer’s Sone) reach for you. “There are times, Jimmie, when (Starts on Page One) Ing machine again and went on with the letters; but never mind about|you see altogether too much,” he that. As I began to say, things | said, sort of gruff; and he a rocked along until we had about|etraight thru to the far side of } worn the day out, and at the second | icecream pyramid before he began cali todinner Mr. Norerows told me | again. to strap up the machine and put the| “Macrae,” you my: that tx Scotch files away in the grips and we'd £6) Ang so is ‘Shelia’ Most likely the eat Tho I was only his stenog rapher, and a kid at that, he was! downs. big enough and Western enough not! (o ine.” to let the buck-privateto-officer gap| “he le pretty enough to look any make any difference, and. always |tping,” I threw in, just to see how when we were knocking about to/|he would take it gether he made me sit at his table. | “Right you are, Jimmie,” Sometimes, when it happened thatlagreed. “I've been looking at way, he'd ditch the rankand-file| pack of her neck all day. I don't dignities and talk to me as if the!know whether you've noticed it thousand miles or between a boy and probally job and mine were wiped out. But} you haven't—but there are so many this Sunday evening he was prettY| women who don't measure up t, aking out in the|the promises they make when you meat courwe to tell me that he'd just| see ‘em from behind. You catch # had @ forwarded telegram from an/ pretty neck, and when old friend of his that would stop us und to the face you find oft for day or two in Portal City. | out that the neck was only a bit of the hendqnarters of the Pioneer| pitt.” Short Line. Farther along, pretty| if 1 had been eating anything well into the jeecremn and binek | the world but idecream I believe it coffer, he came to life again to a K | would have ch 1 me What be me if I had n 1 the young lady | said led up to the admirsion th nnd the girl in the Pullman se had been making these face next to ours |neck comparisons for — gé I told him 1 had, and fen, be-| knows how long, and I couldn't sur cause I had never known him to|round that, all at You bother his head for,two minutes in was such a picture of a man any woman, he/man in every sense of the word; a they were|fighter and a hard-hitter, right from and to find the jump.* And for man of thi have asked the! sort. women are us y no ™ that when/tlan fluffy little side issues, aa would be theteaid when they toid she wa thing for to do to|made out of Adam's rib. them off with their hand-bags| ‘That ended the diving-car part of that they got a cab if they i The sureenough, knock-cut wanted one round was fought at the rear end “gure I of our Pullman, which happened to if the lady be the Inst car in the train wheet them.” |we walked back after dinn Norcross Wave me a cigar and said What Fie we'd go out to the observation pla form ty smoke, bee * the smeak ingycom was full up with apple raisers, and sheepfeeders and cat tlemen, all talking As, we went down the aisle T no ticed. that Section Five was empty and when we reached the door we found the young lady and the girl ayainet Mr Norerogs. But | standing the rear railing to it so happened that I wae able to. | watch the track unroll itself under “Her suit case {4 standing in the|the trucks and go sliding backwards 1 1 saw the tag. It has h into the starlight; or at least that *. Sheila Macrae,’ on it."| was what they seemed to be doing bous has a way of making|The young lady was wearing a two upanddown wrinkles and a lit-| with a «torm collar, but tle curved line come be |had a fur thing around tween his eyos when he is golng to’ and her he the no his|you are only once | once, about cs me a shock; said ticketed to Portal City that he conductor hed uccession must adding Portal out we rea her me and see will,” sys I “That ia, * husband isn’t there to he out. is married?” snaps “You She 1 don’t exactly know her,” 1 But she is married, all right.” | “How can you tell if you don't) khow her?” he barked; Just like that © good does at once. right quick who goes up Graham at aisle, name The coat airl neck the horseshoe her | names both of them, are only hand: | Bhe looks straight Americar } stocky, chunky Lite armsrun, They THEY USED To sayy VOI? MADE Bus OUTTA Men = BOT FROM TION 1s . "Tt Fon THe > CEITTAINLY 4 GREAT AX DID YER Pod EVER WHID You, AWS DID HIS PoP Wuip WA 2? VES T BELIEVE T DID, WEN UE “WATS OLD TD. LOTRATACK « GUN HAS MORE KALE THAN A FOX TERRIER WAS BARKS» WHY HES = BY PARKS (7016 woman went on, gasping ® littie “Ien't there any telegraph sation, or—or anything?” There wasn't. So far as we could see, the surroundings consisted of & short sidetrack, @ spur running off into the hills, and the water tank. The siding switches had no lights, which argued that there wasn't even )® pump-man at the tank—as there | was not, the tank being filled auto |matically by a gravi pipe line |running back to a natural reservoir in the mountains. (Continued Tomorrow) If you want to make s thief angry call him @ thief. were elbow deep in a big pillow! muff to match, thio the April night | wasn't even half-way cbilly. The boss growled out something about waiting until the ladies should Jeo in; and then, for pure safety’s] he stepped out on the plot the «ide trap door with the railing ga on that had been left open by a care rear flagman. Just then the big “Pacific type” that was pulling us let a whistle screech that | would have waked the dead, and the| | air-brakes went on with a Jerk that] show how beautifully reckless the | re jing wae on the Short Line. : Mr. Norerose was reaching for the cateh on the floor trap and the Jerk | lidn't throw him. But. it snapped | the young woman and the girl away | from the railing suddenly that} the little one bad to grab for hand holds; and when did that, of course the big muff went overboard, At this bunch of things hap | peed, all in an eyewink. ‘The train round and jiggled to a wtop; the fin squealed, “Oh, my mut and) skipped down the steps to ditappear | eneral direction of the Pa the young woman after her, “Maisie Ann! ok here-—you'll be left!” and k her turn at disappearing | @ route; and, on top of} jumped off and} sprinted after both of them, leaving a string of large, man-sized com: ments on the foolishness of women as a sex trailing along bebind him las he flew form | which to close A Watch Repaired by Jones Is Always Right Telephone Elliott 2607 1329 FOURTH AVENUE leas out ioneer | Lenses Duplicated for Less MAN OPTICAL © Market Below Rotary Bakery a manner of use, the boss quit on the| handicap race and put his two arm- fuls down while he still had breath | enough left to talk with, | “Well,” he said, in his best rusty: hinge rasp, “you've done it! Why, in the name of common sense,| couldn't you have let me go back after that muff thing?” | The young woman was panting as if she had been doing the running, and the girL was choking and miak ing a noise that made me think that she was crying. If I had been as well acquainted with her awl got to @ little later on, T would have known that she was only trying to their skirts were too fashionably narrow, and there were etill three or four carlengthg to go when the tank spout went up with a clang] und a clatter of chains and the old Pacific type” gave a couple of hisses and a snort. “They're going! gritted the bors, Right then {t was my golden mo-|*tt of between his teeth, and with: |ment to piny safe and wane. With | ut another word he grabbed thove jthree of them off and logt tn the} i> lo erica sn ¢ sag oh | night, somebody with at|%% arms, just as if they'd been a lehat @ grils cf sande Gdéht 20} couple of sacks of meal, and broke into a ryn, stood by to pull the emerge It wasn't ® morsel of ume, you #if the train should start. But lcourse I had to take a chance and|know. Mr. Norcross stands six feet | | two in his socks, and I've heard |wpill the gravy all over the table jcloth. The stop was at a blind | that he was the best all-around ath-| bottle up a laugh that was too beau lete in hie college bunch. But old | ty ste 01 8 |diding in the edge of @ mountain tifully big to be wasted upon Just up| Hercules himself couldn't have run| three people and a treeless desert. | desert, and when IT squinted ahead and saw that the engine was | It was the young woman who answered the boss | taking water, It looked as if there “[—I didn't stop to think! she) going to be plenty of time for ja bit of @ promenade under the] | fluttered, taking the blame as if she we —— had been the one to head the pro . | United Painless Dentists |etare, So Il swung off and went to join the muff hunt the night. | ce “Ten't there any way we tad that)}can stop that train?" 608 Third Ave., cor. James Elliott 3633 If your gums are sore and bleeding you have Pyorrhea. This disease should be cured to insure good health. We specialize in high- class dentistry at reason- able prices consistent with best work. Jronclad guar- antee 15 years. Extracting absolutely without pain or bad after- effects, gathering very far or very fast with the hand icap the boss had taken on; and in than half a minute the “Pacific r stride and the red tail lights of the train were van ishing pin points in We were like the Wttle | were to asion. Amongst them, they had found} went out to the garden to eat! ‘The boss said there wasn’, and I worms, Nobody loved us, and we| know the only reason why he didn't were beautifully and artistically left.) cay a lot of other things was be: | eause.he was too much of a gentle man to say them in the presence of | a couple of women. | |the pillow thing before I had a} chance to horn in, ‘They were com: ing up the track, and the boss had each of the two by an arm and was * telling them that they'd be left to CHAPTER IT a dead moral certainty if they didn’t A Tank Party couldn't run because saw that it was When he ne “But what shall we do? the .