The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1920, Page 11

3 By Mabel Cleland» Page WALLA WALLA'S BIG CHRISTMAS SNOW #18 Chrigtmas I'm going to | inches more were added to what 4 teh you about was in the Garly ‘SOs, The people in Walla Walia decided that it would be! & fine thing to have a community Christmas—not a Congregational ORe, and a Raptist, and a Metho @ist, and o Presbyterian. But to Wet everybody into one big hall @ huge trea, make it eM Beanti¢ul an possible and bave a F regular “got-together” good ume as “After a lot of talking and plan Ring among the grown folks and & wt of ®veases and the children, planned. “Smalt’s opera houre was chosen exeitement and wild wonderingy among the thing was as the place, and committees were | Bppointed. A great beautiful tree Wwas cut and brourht in, gifts were ) Being made, and gifts bought. “A program was nearly ready, ‘and Walla Walla tingled Christmas joy. “Every night the dig siete jin- Ged thru the streets with ita mer BY crow@ of young folks, and Gildren in their beds huceed ach other and shivered for very Y fey. On the morning of the 2d we AR Degan to snow, but that was Bg@ething unusual Nobody minded with | | prob * Goattle s - 243 ireadty lay on the ground and BE carerur now! NoT SO WaRD- NOT SO ward! roofs, “So that on the morning of the 24th ft began to look {ike a real bls snow, but ft only, added to the general excitément, and al) jong Mughing, hurrying fie ures sourrted thru the drifts, ehook themselves into the opera house and deposited tay mysterious Nota minute but there was a crowd of busy folks decorating or watching or marking packages them on the tree, Not a minute tll 6 o’elock. Then some one maid. We must go home and get some parcels for the great tree, or tying | supper and gut back here or we'll be late? So they fixed the fire and left the big hall all alone, waiting. The beautiful tree with its hundreds of gifts and the rows and rows of empty seats waiting neq a human being was there! “Suddenly a thunderous crash the stillness, heavy timbers broke like splinters, glass shat tered, bricks tumbied like toy blocks, the weight of the snow on the roof had been too great—the Opera House waa wrecked! “But when tire silent, shocked crowd gathered, there on the stage stood the beautiful trea, not All that day ft snowed injone single gift so much as dis and that night several | placed.” Rkkeke ADVENTURES OF AE, TWINS Olive Roberts Barton OFF TO SANTA’S HOUS a very edge of and lakes, Ni their wonderful) skyrockets trav. horizon. The air cold as they few , awhile the earth look white instead | brown or crystal as it had depending upon the places which they were passing. last they came to Santa's rivers and a glittering palace of lee I'm sure it was as hich @e the park | roofed with snow. It reaily, like an ¢normous mountain, why one fairy should have a) eo large all to himself the, could not imagine. It was even | than the palace of the Faity stop?” they called to thelr! nm Shoes, and gently and quietly little shoes deposited their wear. | at Santa's front door, just as Shetland pony does df have one) when you call out,! ¥ @ great black hole. Nancy over] “Whoar as loudly as you can, ‘They had acrambied to the top of an enormous sign over the door Which sald in bold lettern “Door broken! Please use the chimngy™ “Gootiness!" gasped Nancy. “What a funny place! How are we ever go ing to get up so high?” It ien’t the least bit of wonder |, that «he wus perplexed becaune) Santa's big chimney was as steep as the Washington monument. At least fountal But “Humph! than that. “Oh, I always forget.” Nancy a» clared. “Pleane, Green Shoes, take us to the top of Santa's big chimney right away.” And almost lore she had finish- ed speaking, tl were thera bal- ancing on the very edge of & great biack hole. (Copyright, 1920, N. F. A) anyway. k atewered right away Dr. Muskrat Offers His Advice (Copyright, 1926, by The VEXTOU couldn’t be in better hands,” BY said Dr. Muskrat, poor Nibble Rabbit thought he | n't very well be In worse ones. Which waa very ungrateful. For !t Dr. Muskrat who scared him he had been asleep in the arsh, but it was Dr. Muskrat, too, ho dived in after him when he fell 9 the pool, and it was Dr. Musk who had held Nibblé’s head above rabbity heels and steered him But Dr. Muskrat had also mn itn a bite of root which set throat on fire and the tears ng down his whiskers, Pa rather be eaten than choked to th.” he tifought. “But this awful animal ig perfectly satisfied with Wt for doing it! Ah! OW! Un f” he coughed. And Dr. Muskrat back and looked more wise and d than ever. “| knew that would open your fhe explained, “It was a flag: | ot gnawed in the wax of the moon. fou gee, | know what every plant in Whe mareh is good for, and I dry them for my medicine chest.” “What would have happened if you hadn't given it to me?” asked Nibbie, weakly. “¥ didn’t risk it.” said Dr. Muskrat, Huo, of cOUrke, I don't know. I gave you the proper remedy as soon as you could swallow, so, of course, ou're all right now “In the toll of the moon, Hyena open soon; Plucked in the wane, Kyee close again,” quoted, “That's the rule tor fing Now, I'll put you to sleep the other dose if you feed a and Tl w#tay right he teh you.” “Oh, no!” protested Nibble. Ho just beginning to breathe and he! ant want any More of kind pr. Mcuskeat’s medicines. “I must look my mother, under Hooter the! Dwi's tree.” e and) | vy | Clean, so you could hear. Asaociated Newspapers) “First,” suid the doctor, looking at him very severely, “you must clean yourself up and put your fur in or der. “If your feet hadn't been all caked with mud, you wouldn't have slipped at all.” “They too,” Nibble agreed, giad that his | ewim had melted his boots, at last “I kept them 6n so Glider the Black-| | snake couldn't track me. An@ he told his experiences with Glider and the Fox. verthélems,* sala Dr. Muskrat, “you weren't mafe, beca you couldn't keep your nose clean and emell afl around you, for your ears Alwnya be sure you know everything about it | before you decide to try something new, For instance, rabbits don’t be long in a marsh, do they?” “No,” murmured Nibble, “But looked #6 hidden and #o snfe.” So hidden,” Dr. Muskrat snorted. “It's @ mercy it was I who found you, and not Blyfoot the Mink. Bo safe that you neatly drowned when you tried to get away. Now you my you Want to visit the owl's tree, that any place for a rabbit? me that!” “No,” whispered Nibble very meekly, “but I want my mother and I don’t know where else to look.” He wished Dr. Muskrat wouldn't scold him, But he hadn't seen the kind look in the fat old gentieman’s snap. ft Answer ping black eyes, | |Says They Lay Only 16 Bricks Per Day BATH, Wig, Dee. 24,—-Alderman Mills, @ builder, stated at a meeting of the local housing committees that he had men In his service who lald no more than 16 bricks a day, I guems we've been higher) How about our shoes?”) were very uncomfortable, | Is! DOINGS OF THE DU. THE SEATTLE STAR FFS A0-TAL ASTe. Dod, oule ‘TE ACUETZ. TOD US “Dy usr ga, A \dr oF TY SARS Wont - So THE WRECKERS By FRANCIS LYNDE START HERE TODAT “Timmy” Dedda sorstary (whe sed bie bes, Graham Nor completed — gonstrwetion Oregon Midwhd, are en from Portiand te Chics va ft Pioneer Mhert Line At a desert water tank the train siewe down, aad e young bac im, and th the four behind ater tank and withe™ the holdup ef & one car by four men, > the mine road, coming to the locomotive, which has been dis- abled. The locomotive ts soon repaired. and to aecount for ick greets Mre a NOW GO ON WITH THE «TORY “There's one of them now; Major Raat! Kendrick—Kentucky born and raised, as you might gucan,” Mr. Chadwick was eying. “Old schoo! Southern ‘quality,’ and as fine as they make ‘em. He is a lawyer, but not In active practice; owns a mine or two in Strathcona Gulch, and is neither too rich nor too poor. I grabbed at the name, “Basi,” right away; ft lan’t Puch a very com mon name, and Mra. Sheila had sald something-—mder the water tank you fecollect—about a “Cousin Raat!” who waa to have mot ber at the train. I was putting §wo or three Ittle private guenses of my own together, when ohe of the elevators came down and here came our two, the young Indy and the chunky little gitl, with the major chuckithg and «miling and giving an arm to tach. They had appar ently stopped at the Bullard only to walt until he could come after them and take them home, Mre. Shella was looking just aa pretty as ever, only now there wasn't a bit of color in her face, and her eyes womed a good deal brighter, some way. “Yea, tndeed; the major {fs all right, as you'd find out for yourself if you'd make up your mind to stay in Portal City and get acquainted |with him,” Mr. Chadwick was going on; and by that time the major and the two pretty onew had come on to where the boss and Mr. Chadwick could gee them. I saw the bows sft up in bis ehatr| and wtare at them. Then he sald: “That's Mrs. Macrae with him now. In she a member of hie family?” “A second cousin, or something of that sort.” mid Mr. Chadwick. “T met her once at the major’s house out in the northern suburb last sum: mer, and that's how I came to know her when you put her aboard of the Alexa back yonder in the gulch.” Mr. Noreross let the three of them get out and away, and we heard thelr taxi speed up and trundle off before he said, “She is married, I'm} told WRE Where in her husband?” ERS—Galley TEN .. .....- Mr. Chadwick looked up aa if ho'd already forgotten the three who had Just cromed the lobby “Who~fhella Macrae? Yes, ashe ‘has been married Rut there ten't any hushand—ehe's a widow.” For quite @ while the bows sat staring at his clear in a way he has when he ls thinking right hard und Mr. Chadwick let him alone, being basy, I guess, with hts own littic serap that tay just ahead of him in the coming directors’ meet ing. Then, all of a fudden, the boxs an up and shoved Into his coat pockets ‘I've changed my mind, Uncle John,” be said. lenkine anrt of ab his bands the privare car ie found with Chadwick | ured, ‘ (Copyright, 1980, by Charts ferttmer’) Gems) |wentdike out of the window to where the major’s taxi had been standing. “If you can pull me into that deal lormorrow morning—with an abso lutely free hand to do ag I think beet, mind yoo-I'll take the job.” CHAPTER V ‘The Directors’ I wae up bright and earty the peat morning—that ts, a good bit brighter and cartier than Mr, Norcrom was! and after breakfast 1 took @ littie| aashay down Nevada avenue to have a look at our railroad. Of coutne, I knew, after what the bos had sald to Mr. Chadwick the night before, Just before we went to bed. that we | Weren't ever golng to see Canada, or even Tilinois rl have to admit that the look t got didn= make me feel ar if we'd found @ Cullinan diamond. Down in the yards everything seamed to be At the loosest kind of loose enda. A |ewiteting crew was making up a freight, and the way they slammed the boxes together, regardiess of |broken drawhends and the like, was 4 an and a shame Then I mw “some grain care with the ends qtarted and the wheat running out jal along the track, and three or | four more with the atr hose hanging |wo tt knocked along on the ties, and }a lot of thingw like that--and no. body caring a hoot. There wae a big repatr shop on |the other mide of the yard tracks. jand tho it was after 7 o'clock, the |men were still etraggling over to go |to work. Down at the roundhouse, ja wiper was spotting a big freight |puller on the turntable, and I'm blexsed if he didn’t actually run her forward pair of truck wheéla off the edge of the table, right while I wae | looking on, Just as if it were all in the day's work, In the courne of time 1 @rifted back to the office headquarters, | which were at the end of the pas | aonger station and in « part of the! |aume building, downstairs and up. | A tow clerka were dribbling in, and! |none of them seemed to have lite | | enough to get out of the way of an lox team, One fellow recognined me |for a member of the big railroad |family, 1 guess, for he stopped and |anked me it I was looking for a job. | 1 told him 1 wasn't, and gave him a cigar—just on general principles. He took it, and right. away he be fan to loosen up. * “If you should ¢hange your mind about the job, you just make it a case of ‘move on, Joey,’ and don't stay here and try to hit this gxlomeration,” he maid. “Why not?” I asked. “It's a frost. I'm off the Ponnsy myself, and I'm ashamed to look in the looking-glass since I came out here, The P. 6, L. im't a railroad, at all; it’s Just making a bluff at be ing ono. Besides, we're slated to {h a new general manager, and if | he’s any good he'll fire the last liv- ing man of us.” “Maybe, if T change my mind, I mightiget a Job with the new man,” I said. “Who ts he?” “Search mo! I Gon't believe they've found anybody yet. The bir people from New York are all here now, and maybe they'll pick some- body before they go away, If I had the nerve of a rabbit, 1’ take the next train back for Pittsburg.” “What’a your job?" I quizzed. He grinned at me sort of good naturedly. “You wouldn't think tt to look at me, but I'm head steno; rapher in thy general aupér's offic “You haven't got much of a be f he can’t command any more loy: uIty than you aré giv him," 1 offered; and at that he spat on the that t fired this wide of that. ; 1 couldn't help it “Tell me,” I broke tn, “are ther many more ike you tn the Pionser Quarters who would on a bat anc paint this town a bright vermilior if the new G, M, whoever he ts go ing to be, would clean out the whole rookery, cousifia, Nephews, and all “I think I'l] have to take your name,” I told him, fishing out & pencil and a note book—gust to see what he would da “Huh! @> you are @ mpotter, after My name's May, And when you want my can find it just eractly where I told you—in the general super's office You'Te a #trang¢? and you took me in, Bo long.” Wouldn't that jar you? A man out ot the general offices talking that way about his road and his own bone? 1 couldn't help seeing how rotten the thing must be if tt smelled that way to the men on its own pay rolia After a while, after 1°4 leafed thru the shopa and around the yard and got a few more whiffe of the decay. I strotied on back to the hotel. Seen by daylight, Portal City seemed to be a right bright little burg, with a cutatone postoftice and a new court house built out of pink lava, and threes or four office buildings big ehough to be called ekyserapers any where outside of a real city lke Portiand or Seattle. The streets were paved, and on the main one, Nevada avenue, there waa plenty of buiinew, Also, I tipped off a min. ing exchange and two pretty nice looking club holises fight in sight from thé Ruflard entrance. There wasn't much of @ crowd tn the lobby, and as I didn’t me any thing of Mr, Norerom or Mr. Chad wick, I sat down In a corner to wear out some mote tima Tho it was now after 9 O’tlock, there were stil! a food many people breakfasting tt ‘the cafe, the entrance to which was only a few feet away from my cor ner. I was wondering a Uttle what had become Of the boss—whd waa gen erally the carliést riser on the job— when two men came bulging thru the screen doors of the cafe, pick ing their teeth and fooling m their pocket# for cigara Hight on the dot, and In the face of knowing that it couldn't reasonably be so, I had a feeling that I'd seen those men be- fore. One of them was short and rather stocky, and his face had a sort of hard, bungry look; and the other wae big and barrel-bodied. The short one was clean-shaven, but the other had a reddish«gray beard clipped clos on his fat jaws and trimmed to & point at the chin, After they had lighted up they came along and sat down three or four chairs away from me. They paid no attention to me, but for fear they might, I tried to look as sleepy as an all-night bell-hop in a busy hotel “The Dunton bunch got together in ene of the committee rooms up-| And if we get right down to it we ARE BIGCER'N “tu' Canty «ur AWT So, tr? } | | _ the short man, in a low, raping voice that went thru you like a buss waw, and it wae evident that he w merely going on with a talk which had been begun over the breakfast table, “Thanks to those Infernal blunderers Clanahan sent us last night, Chadwick was with them.” I think that was choost so,” sald the big man, speaking slowly and with something more than a hint of a German accent. “Reckler was choost what you call him—a tam blunderer.” Like a flash it came over me that I was “listening m™ to a talk be tween the same two men who had sat in the auto at Sand Creek #4 ing and smoked while they were waiting for the actual kidnapers to return. You can bet high that I made myself mighty emall and un obstrurive, After a while the big man spoke again “What has Trcle Chon Chadwick up hia sleeve got, do you think?’ “I don't think I know! was the sappy reply. “It's one of two thing a& fecelvership—which wilt! knock us into a cocked hat because we can't fool with an officer of the Tinked States court—or a new deal all around in the management.” “Vich of the two will it be that wit come ott of that commiddes room obtrusive. “A new management Dunton can't stand for a receivership, ano Chadwick knows it Apart from the fuct that a court officer would turn up a lot Of wide als that wouldn't look well for the New York crowd if they got fnto the news Papers, the securities would be knocked out and the majority holders-—-Dunton and his buneh-— couldn't unload Chadwick has got him by the neck and can dictate his own terms.” “Vieh will bet “That he will name the man who ia to take Shaffer's place as gen eral manager of the railroad outfit We might have stood it off for a while, just as I said yesterday, if we could have kept Chadwick from at tending this meetin, “But now we don't could stand it oft—-what then?” “We'll have to walt and see, and aize up the new man when he blows in, He'll be only human, Henokel. SHARD To Teie who Is The mD WwW Twe FAMILY} ( wowsve Teveo To tw Awa, 0 Q ‘ | EEE make him wish he'@ never been born.” The Dig man got up ponderourly and brushed the ciger ashes off of | his bay window. “Yon vait and see |what @omes mit the commiddee room out, I go up ta.the ovvice.” When I was left @ene in the row of lobby chairs with the snappy one | | 1 was scared stiff for-fear, now that | m, he didn’t have anythmg elem to think of, he'd catch on to the fact that Tt) might have overtpard, Hut apart jfrom giving me one long stare that made my blood run cold, he didn't seem to Mm me much, and after a little he got Up and went to sit on the other side of the big rotunda | where he could watch the elevators aving and coming. I guess he had lots of patience. for I had to have, It was after 11/ o'clock, and T had been sitting in my orner for two full hours, when I saw the boss coming down the broad marble #talr with Mr, Chadwick. 1 dont think the Hatch man saw them, or, if he did, he didn't let on. Mr, Norcross held up a finger for me, when L jumped up he gave [me a sheet af paper; a Pioneer Short Line president's letterhead with @ few lines written on it with @ pen and & fort of crazy looking signature under them, “ke that t the Mountaineer job office and have 500 of them printed,” was the boss’ order. “Tell the foreman ig a rush job and we want it today Then make a copy and take it to Mr, Cantrell, the ice morrow’s paper as an item of news, if he fools like it, When you are thra, come dawn to Mr. Chadwick's | car.” Since the thing was foing to be published, and I was going to make) a copy of it, T didn't seruple to read it as T hutreia@ out to begin a hunt | for the Mountainder office, It wns | the printer’s.<opy for an official cir cular, dated @t Portal City and ad dressed to all officer and employes of the Pioneer Short Line, It read “Effective ‘at once, Mr. Graham Norcross is appointed General Man ager of the Pioneer Short “Line Sys tem, with jaesdquarters at Portal City, and higsorders will be reapected aceordingly. “BRECKERRIDGE DUNTON, “President.” We had get. our fot, all right; and elation and made a face like « kid | stairs @ little after 8 o'clock.” said! aan null him over to our side—orleavine the ladder and the Friday editor, and ask him to run it in to-|f, fort ont of the aneetfon, T erinned and told myself that the one Otug UUNg Lot coum so Moet wad the fact that Mra ShéHa Macrae was fean troops on the Rhine, there are / 124 “¥" men and women. 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