The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1920, Page 9

r Qhattle ” * a Page 242 CHRISTMAS SNOW By ALLMAN Thar’s wier tu Do! [li Compromise ~ I*Lt GE WER AN ANGORA CAT You Promised HER A FuRCUAT GOOD MIGHT, You'Re THroven 1 PRommaD my Gia. Some. FURS FoR CHRISTMAS AND I Pies | hover I'D GET HERA SAY, WeL-Lon! now MUCH DOES A FUR COAT Like THIS ONE OF Yours CosT? | WAS GONNA BUY One Fer Somepopy FER CurisTmAsS BUT Aow | f VID grinned tn his aloe boy | beat of the hoofs of the mules ‘Way, and moved over closer the chair of the guest. “Seems ‘s if Pioneers fust about & story to Mt everything | pens,” he sald. time anything happens @mi I tel about it to a Pio | the says, “Phat reminds ms," | goes right on and tells me an | geod story about some when she was litte : “T Ike the ones about mow. | ree you say you had lots o’ snow ands TA Waite Walla “Snow! Winter meant snow to Davia. “There was the fort—old Fort ‘Walla Walla—with {ts soldiers, ft» teams and its great sleigh used by | @ay for hauling army provisions | by night for sleigb-ride par tea, “When I was little, and after I inte my young lady days, | which drew the sleigh was music to our eara “Add te that brilliant moon Nght, the Nqutd notes of the bu gla, for the bugler was always there, and the never-ending jingle of tho sleigh bells; voloes full of joy and rong and laughter, and Now That’s Food For Thought! Nou WAVE | metr niere WHERE IS IT “lw FRanir- Cane : 4 _FREC Shee! rt cane Gor Selo WH AWOLE WW Ay you will see why it just made us tingle with excitement and Santa Claus seemed Just ‘round the cor T CANT Go “TT SCHOOL ‘TAY ner.” a “Geer David sighed, “that's ‘Ddout the only thing the matter with Seattle We miss ‘most all @ that snow business, and when it does snow it's so awfully wet a fellow hardly gets a bit o” fun out of tt Tell me some more about it, wM™ your “Yea, that reminds me (rou ses, you've started another Pioneer on & story) of « Christinas in the early "80s when Walla Walla had made mo feel more/a big, big snow, and a big, dle ry than these sleigh. | trea, and came very terribly near gnow over there gets bard) paving « big, big tragedy smooth so sicighs slip over Mike winged things, and the Rkkeee ADVENTURES oe] OF orient Mans THE END OF MEADOW GROVE SCHOOL OTTO AUTO DAG NAB IT: THATS THE WAY WITH WOMEN + 1 TOLD THE MRS TO WURRY WER CHRIGTHAS SWOPPING AS TM OHLY ANALOWED “TD PARK A WALT ROUR OF THIS STREET: BEEN PARKED HER AN WOUR!+ WoW+ HERE COMES A COP> TLL HAVE TO TAGE THROUGH THIS (To Be Continued) > maw lady * © merzanine * * */ stately old gentleman, with fierce wants to go up to her.” white mustaches and @ goatee, and The bons acowled at the young| “Southern Colonel” written all over fellow, who was now handing him. | him welf around the corner of the coun- ter to get at the clerk again, and jwald: “Why don’t you ring for an The most officer and have him run in? mor the The night olerk was evidently | Zour, mouth, the weared of his job. “I wouldn't dare | health, ts the guar to do that.” be chittered. “He's ene | antee given by of the New York crowd—the rail read = people—-President Dunton's nephew—guest of the house.” The young fellow had pulled him- self around to our aide of the coun bter by this time and was hooking | his arm to make @ pase at Mr. Nor. |crovs, trimming things up as he jcame with a lot more language. The bows sald, right short and sharp, to the clerk, his room key and) | give it to a boy who can show me| the way,” and the hext thing we/ jknew he had bashed that lunatic | wquare in the face and was cuffing | him along to the nearest elevator. ave Dee are T gues it sort of surprised the | ty and. the express | clerk, and everybody else who hap- ny re-ices them daily until | pened to see It—but not ma. It wi destination is rea: We se just like the bosa He came back |} Sntee all shipments to arrive in | |] wood condition. in @ few minutes, looking a# cool 4s a cucumber, Simply Mall Us Cash er Money “What @id you do with himr “ THE WRECKERS By FRANCIS LYNDE * (Copyright, 1986, by Charles feritmer's Sons} bead for | START WKAR TODAY o’clotk of @ Sunday night and bang | ni timmy” Dodds enerstary (whe {908 | around ite best hotel If the town Oe rer aod ae vered construction |1@ dead, there wont be anybody werk on the Oregon Midinnd. ae 50 | ettering around the hotel at that route from Portiaag te wae vie |hour. Bat Portal City seemed to be and : Pioneer hort Line ALS aya pouse|Rood and altva ‘There were lots of and Nick stood watching) snow and leaves and started to ‘1K, | girl, Maisie Ann, b people knocking about on the side: | Walks and drifting in and out of the Scratch open Jetters | While Nancy went around and gatir | Pack tform, and jumpe off to « a, | lobby, | ollowed by the cousin with whore she |ered up everybody's belongings. {rareling. Mra. Minette, Mactan. Nerarces parents of all his puplis,| rato the hole they dumped all the and Jimimle Jurep oft et! By and by, I went down to the! } laf down the last with ® | books and slates, and then carefully on the tyala, ang the! hey |station and began to hunt for the he unhooked his glasses covered them over, too. No one tank ae¢|)Alexa The yard crew had side his ears and folded them would have dreamed that a wonder ni train of | tracked ft on @ spur down by the Glasses, not the ears, I mean, | ful university of learning had one car by four men. | wee tre run freight hous, and when I had| letters, too. | Gourtshed on that deserted spot Jens | ato aa 06 Be stumbled over to it the negro porter over for this term, chil than a day before. |= gulch, but wot |remembered me well enough to let g - band with the snow and I smaller until his curled up tos the & m nonth#’ vacation.” He touched his chin. There was scarce. to the locemotive lasses into his coat pocket | ly enough left of him to wave good-|*” EER “his large lead pencil into his bye to the twina Something ele the tak ie . Then he turned and unm | happened, too! Nancy's charm un- |i (4 on * Chadwick greets Mra ‘Diackboard from the tree Seribble Scratch began to shrink. He got smaller. 1 FOR CHRISTMAS | ‘The bow and Mr. Chadwick were facing each other across the table which was all littered up with papers and maps and reporta, and they hardiy notleed me when I blew In| and sat down @ little to one sida 1! had known well enough, when Mr fe soon repaired, and 4 with Chadwiek vere cat ie tow rolled itself from the corner of Wer vio cras as an olf friend. it carefully under the snow lenves. Anyone passing | have seen it corners sticking goodness! It looked just like of the flat stones lying not the least bit magical. | A suppose you dig a hole,” their schoolmaster bye and and the old stone, and & snow-cov- put all the books and ered meadow. into it und cover them over! brushed away some more I,” answered Nibble Rabbit, been thinking of that; it matter to me which ents Mhey've both tried to eat me He was still the knot on his log that he n into when Silvertip came “Chatterer, is Silvertip look He's spread out in the sun off his meal,” answered , craning his neck to fee Nibble was hidden. fhirly popped when that little knot slipped down from the hanky and floated away before she) could catch it, Next went the Green Shoes, leaving the children tnatead their stout little play shoes of leather, Onty the old oak tree—no, ft was beloved cheatnut—remained, Slowly the little folks trudged | homeward. (Copyright, 1920, N. BE. A) sheep hey, iil | tide , ust i, Cie (Copyright, 1920, by The Associated Newspapers) Silvertip the Fox snatched “Glider the snake from under Robin's very wings, out of the the Brush Pile, not one of the | could make a sound. sudden it took their breath ‘Then tha sparrows began to ‘and chirp in their noisy way, iterer Squirret said to nobody ir, “Great acorns! but that One minute Glider & trick on Bobby Robin and tt Slivertip jurnps up from no at all and plays the biggest Ghide: bent down by the Winter Wind, and keep his feet safe from the sticky mud below, Pretty soon he found a little raft hidden im the middie of a clump of cattaila, “This In the place for me,” he sald to himaeif. “It's warm in the sun and enug from the wind, and no- body'll ever find me.” So he curied up and fell fast asleep, He awoke to feel a shadow falling acrows him, He looked up into the homeliest face he had ever seen, It was pointed, like his own, but fat ter, and it had little cropped ears and sleepy, biinky eyes, and long, yellow teeth that flashed when it said ne verely; “What are you doing here?” Poor Nibble! He was only half awake, He had forgotten where he was, and it's rabbit nature to jump first and think while you run. He jumped, His feet slipped, he splashed ahd the water closed over his long ears, Then didn’t he kick and struggle! No sooner did he get bis poor littie nose out than it went under again. Mut the second tine the green water parted and his seared eyes could nee NOW GO ON WITM THE sTOBT This didn’t help out much, but you can bet that I made a note of the two names, We were just > ing into the hotel, so I didn't have la chance to ask any more questions; and after I had paid the porter for lugging the grips, Mra. Sheila had made whatever arrangement the elevator. “You are going back to Mr, Chad wick’s car?” she asked, when she wag telling me good-bye and thank ing me for coming up to the hotel with them. I told her I waa, and then she came around to the kidnaping business again of het own accord. “You may give Mr. Norcross the hint I gave you, if you wish,” #he said; “only you must be a good boy, Jimmie, and not drag me into it 1 couldn't be positively certain, you know, that the two men were really Mr, Hatch and Mr. Henckel. But |if there is any reason why thore two | wouldn't want Mr. Chadwick to reach the city at the time he was count ing on——" “IT see,” I nodded; “Ht just puts |the weight of the inference over on |that side, I'll tell the boss, when I got a good chance, and you can bet your last dollar he won't tangle you up in ithe isn't put tom jthat way.” “Well, then, goodnight,” amiled, giving me her hand. And jthen: “Mr, Norcrow says you'll be |going on Mast tomorrow, and in that case it may be a long time before |We meet again, After @ while, after he has forgotten all about ft, you may tell him from me——" She stopped and gave me that funny littie laugh again that made her |look So pretty, and said: “No, I guess }you needn't, either.” And with that |she sort of edged the tittle girt into |the elevator before we could get a chance to #hake hands, and | heard jher tell the boy to take them to the mezzanine landing. Since I didn't have any reason to suppose that the bons was needing whe she | wanted to with the clerk, and she| and Maisie Ann were ready to take | [he said, still sort of stubborn and Norcross had turned the new offer down, that Mr. Chadwick wasn't go | Ing to let it go at that It seemed that he hadn't; he had got the bons sufficiently interested to go over the papers with him, anyhow. But just after I broke in, Mr. Nor. } cross jumped up and began to pace back and forth before the table, with his handa in his pockets, No, I cant seg it, Uncle John,” determined. “You are trying to make me believe that I ought to take the biggest job that has ever been wet before the expert in any field; to demonstrate, on this rotten corpse of @ raliroad, the solution of a prob lem’ that has the entire country sueening at the present time; name ly, the winning of succem, and pub Ho-—and industrial for a carrier corporation which had con timuoysty and persistently broken every commandment in all the deca logues—of business; of fair-deal ing with ite employes; of common honesty with everybody.” Mr. Chadwick nodded. “That ts sbout the size of it,” he anid. “IT wouldn't my that it can't be done,” the boas went on. “Perhaps it is possible, for the right man. But I'm not the right man. You need somebody who can combine the qualities of a pretty brutal slugger with thore of a finehaired, all things-toallmen, diplomatic peace- maker, I can do the slugging; I've proved It a time or two in the past Hut I'm po good at the other end of the game. When it comes to handling the fellow with a ‘pull,’ [ve elther got to stash him or quit.” At that Mr G.hadwick nodded again and #aid: “That is one of the reasons why I have reached out and picked you for the job. There will be a good bit of the slugging needed, at first, and I guess you oan acquire the other things as you go along, an't your” Not at thie late day, I'm afraid People who know me best call me & scrapper, and I've been diving up to my reputation. Yesterday, when we were held up behind the freight | | 1 we might assume that the good woman hasn't presented herself, Let it go, The facts still stand, I am too heavy-handed for this job of yours, I should probably mix up with nome of these grafters you've been telling me about and get a |knife in mp back. That would be all in the day's work, of course, but it would leavg you right where you are now. And aa for this other thing—the Industrial side of it, that's & large order; @ whaling big order. lym pot even prepared ‘to say, off hand that it’s the right thing to do” “Right or wrong, ft's a thing that ix coming, Graham,” was the sober reply. “If we don’t. meet it half way—well, the time will come when we of the hiring-and-firing side won't be given any option in the matter, You may call it Utopian if you please, and add that I'm growing old and losing my grip. But that doesn't obliterate the fact that the days of the present masterandanan rela \dons in the industries aro num: bered.” The boss shook his head. “Aw I say, I can’t go that far with yon, off-hand; and if 1 could, I should still doubt that I am the man to head your procession.” I thought that settled f, but that was because I didn't know Mr. Chadwick very well, king Just smiled up at the boss, sort of fatherly, and maid: “We'll let it rest until morniffg and give you a chance to sleep on it You have spoken only of the diffi jculties and the responsibilities, Gra- |ham; but there is another side to It. The big wheat | [present Get your hat and we'll walk | uptown to the hotel I want to have ja word with Durton tonight, if T can jshake him loose from hig junketing |buneh long enough to listen to it, {Beyond that, I want to get hold of the sheriff and put him on the track lof those’ holdups.” Here was a chance for me to butt | with the hint Mra Shella had | given me, but I didn't see how I was |moing to do it without giving her jaway. So I said the little end of nothing, just as hatd as T could; and when we got out of the car, Mr. Norcrom told me to go by the ata- tien and have our luggage sent to the hotel, and that killed whatever chance I might have had farther along. Tt was sore time hfter 11 o*clock when I got around to the hotel with the traps. ‘The stir In the lobby had quieted down to make It seem a little more like Sunday night, but an auto: mobile party had just come in, and some of the men were jawing at the clerk because the house wasn't serv- ing © midiight theatre supper in the eafe on the Sunday, Mr. Chadwick but I mw the boss at the counter waiting for his chance at the olerk The quarrelsome people melted away at last, all but 6ne--a young swell who would have been handsome if he hadn't had the eyes of @ maniac and a color that was sort of corpse like with the |fighter, He hdd his hat on the back jof his head, and he was ripping it loft at the clerk like a drunken hobo, His ravings were #o cluttered up }with ours words that I couldn't get any more than the drift of them, but |eweepers to put him in a bath and had disappeared, | pallor of a boore|- asked the clerk, kind of awed and half scared. “Got a couple of the corridor turn the cold water of him. That'll take the whisky out of him. Now, if you have a minute to spare, I'd) like to get my assignment.” We hadn't more than got our} réoms marked off for us when I saw Mr. Chadwick coming across from the farther of the three eleva- tors. He was smiling sort of grim, as if he'd made a killing of some sort with Mr. Dunton, and instead | of heading back for his car he took the boss over toa corner of the lobby and sat down to smoke with him, 1 circled around for a while, and after a bit Mr. Norcross held up a finger at me to bring hitn a match They didn't seem to be talking any: thing private, so IT eat down just beyond them, so sleepy that I could hardly see straight, Mr. Chadwick Was telling about his early expert: | ences in Portal City, how he blew | in first on top of the Strathcona gold boom, and how he had known mighty near everybody in the region in those days. While he was talking, a jtaxi drove up and one of the old fesidenters came in from the street and crossed to the elevators; a mighty handsome, Christmas simply isn't Christmas | without “Blue Moon"—the holiday | drink.—Ady, der for A wilt arantee Ge! ey nadress in the United States without further charge. Order Today to Insure Karty livery Christ- with An attractive mas mailing given to send ach shipment. Railroad Ave. Foot Pike Street Whis Fish Co. Dock ‘Telephones: Main 990, Killett 5363 “What You G e 39 When you call Main Six Five Hun- dred you are automat- OUR PRICE For Glaanes the Lowest In Seattle BXAMINA- TION FREB plicated for Lem FOREVER ically ii Your fare is auto- matically figured by a printing taximeter, which issues a printed receipt. Be sure and get your receipt, as it is a printed record of your trip, as well as stating the amount to be aid. You get the the rushes waving in the lovely ait,|/me, 1 tock my own time about go ahd his lungs could get one T¢/ing back to hunt for Mr. Chadwic breath -that tasted as sweet ag clover car in the railroad yards, loafing ye in the spring, He felt a grip on the|4 while in the Bullard lobby to rub: back of his neck. <A gruff volc@ ber and look on at the people com growled: “Take your ume, You/ing and going. You can tell pretty should learn to swim.” well how a town stacks up for bus news if you hit it between 10 and 11 ARR nannnnnnnnannn head til you get the water out of your eare! Now eat this!’ And Nibble swallowed a peppery bite of root that made hin eyes pop. “Who are you?" He gasped, “Dr. Muskrat, of course,” answer 4 the voice, “You couldn't be in bot ter hands,” fe of the log and limped away limped—for not only waa Nib- very tired rabbit from sitting I, but his little mud boots that fin the Broad Field when he mning away from Glider were f and vneornfortable, Now he nt & wash and & drink, and # Tent. * id hear water whispering fF away, but he didn't dare go Mthe tunnels in the Prickly Awh to get to it, Bo he didn't bahe brook he knew. He went ier down, where it spread out broad pond, It was all edged and rushes that had sore us watercress growing up be ‘the roots, He could step on ‘6 stalks, which had been owest rate in the city and pay only for actu- al mileage run. We do not add a commission to your fare, Seattle Taxicab Company MAIN SIX FIVE HUNDRED eck at Widner, U got off to see/In a way, it's an opportunity, oar what we were in for, The conductor |rying with it the promise of the big of our train had spotted me from | gost kind of a reward,” seeing my pass, and I happened to| "I don’t see it,” sald the boss, hear him docketing me for the wreck: | briefly. ing bow, He waid I was known on| “Don't you? T do, T have an idea the Midland as ‘Helland-repeat’ Nor-jrambling around in my head that crome; tat it waa a habit with melit fe about time some bright young to have a man for breakfast every | fellow was demonstrating that prob morning.” « lem you apeuk of—showing the “L can add a Ittle something to|ple of the United States that a rail that,” Mr, Chadwick put in, quizaieal-|road needn't be regarded as an out ly. “Lepaige, your Oregon Midland |law among the industries; needn't president, says you need humanix|have the enmity of everybody it ing, and wonders why you haven't|serves; needn't be the prey of a lot married some good woman wholof disloyal and dissatisfied employes would knock the rough corners off.|who are interested only in the figure Why haven't you, Graham?” of the payday check; needn't be The pows gave a short laugh, |shot at as a wolf with a bounty on “Too busy,” he said, “Past that, |ity scalp, Let it rest at that for the it seemed that he had caught a | alimpse of somebody he knew—« | woman, I took it, because he said Jooking down from the rafl of the mezzinine, and he wanted to go up to her. And it appeared that the clerk had told the elevator man not to take him up in his present con | dition, ‘The boss was growing sort of im- patient; 1 could tell it by the way the little side muscles on his jaw were working, When he got the ear of the clerk for a second or 60 be tween cusses, he asked what was the matter with the lunatic. I caught only broken bits of the clerk's half. whisper: “Young Collingwood * * * President Dunton’s nephew * ° ¢ FREE from ASTHMA Hundreds of people are ar. tomished and delighted with the quick and PERMANENT relief they have received from the use of eur wonder. ful new discovery, Asthma Sera. Asthma, Hay Fever, with all their tortures, may now be BANISHED FOREVER. Make 1921 « healthy, happy year, Write at once to R. M. B. LABORATORIES 1079 Alaska Bidg., Seattic, Wn. ? Somehow, even if the volee was gruff, Nibble wasn't #0 very scared He wie being ateered, wo he kicked more gently and didn't flop right over backward the Way he had at first. And then his little forepaws touched the raft and he dragged himself out and toppled over in the very spot where he ‘had been asleep. It wae etill warm. The next thing he knew he was! a eing shaken very hard. “Cough!"| Next story; Dr Miwkenp Offors ordered the gruff voice, “Bhake your | His Advice, peo e