The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1920, Page 11

HUESDAY. DMCEMTER 2, f926. ar. Srattle Page 245 OAPTIVES HGCY sald, “T think that litle her breast girl dit be pretty smart, too I *epect she could know how to/behind her was the sound in endtien fear, for surely, surely there on the road ot Indians’ voloes; drunken, rolater ous volces, and soon they would j overtake her, and there was no “ t she could, dear, of escapa © stories I lowed best when| “Her little horse was no match T was little had Indians in it. |for thelrs, and she gave up her “Grandmother was riding horse | effort to outrun them, back from Olympia to Nisqually."| “Presently they were only a “Whoopee few yarts behind her; then they “From Olympta to Nisqually! rode up, one en either side of ber some ride! "Bout 25 miles, isn’t | horse . we | “‘You mo can go fast? they “Oh, not Not that far; but ft ts lsaghed Into her face. "We maka 20 or 12 mile, and she had also? The Indian on her right baby in her arma too—a little treat wicked Indians when they would creeping coukin't she™ come around, "spec One| * David exclaimed welved the bridle rein, the one on { baby girl about’a year and a half | the left lifted the baby into his a jown lap. “It was a lonely road, with the) “On they flew, and on and on: great forests crowding close on|the wind whipped her hair into either side, but she was used to! her-eyes, and her breath came in the forest—its big silence and | gasps, her horse panted and foam its beautiful winding roads—and ihe fogged along on her pony and | flecks Sew from his mouth, but he erooned a little hushing song to| felt the excitement of the race her baby, with no sense of fear in | and kept up with the other horsea her heart. “Mile after mile they went at a “She had gone about half the | terrific gallop, till they reached distance, the baby had fallen’ the reservation road) Grand asieep in her arms, and her mother had no idea what they thoughts had gone on ahead to! meant to do with her or her baby spher mother in Nisqually—the|—ehe only knew she was ag their she would tel her, how | mercy. the grandmother would be) “ut when they reached the Bbout the new toth tn baby's| read where they meant to turn | Pink mouth—she must not forget they placed the baby in its moth. to ask mother— What was that!!| ers arm, laughed loudly, and call- “Her heart seemed to stop beat-/ing ‘Goo-bye? rode off to their and she caught the baby tolown people” Rktree gg he Nk ne oa OF THE T 1 | . ’re the helpers the Fairy Queen sent,” smiled ¢ f Peete’ welcome about a million times.” ta Claus made another bow to! jolly Nttle Christmas elves, laughing p twins and laid his hand over bis | and dancing, and singing this song: Dut really it looked quite a lot | curty neade enuggic en downy white pil- he had a tummy ache, j lows, You're the helpers the Fairy | Chebsmine enseu unde CMentety 08- sent,” smiled Santa, “you're pesaming of Sugarloaf Lotty-gep Land. ye about a million times. What Where trees with their geedies so tempt- F your names, may I ask?” j ingly stand. fancy and Nick,” spoke up the| WR#"s, dailies say “Mame” and @uckiee And « Hobby-noree offers @ ride on Rie to asked Santa Claus 4 beck. pep eats h-o-las™ said the other. | created ey oe wew y, that's my name,” dectared | Ana ola Jac! Chtus, much pleased. And out Nancy repeated her name he| “That's a fine name, too, | ana you. * & “Reem™ and the hern we a “Bqueak,~ thing-um-0-bebd gives your some o. rs with gums have @ starey nt look, began to hum. book! donty he reached out a chubby | ¥™*t, g. post of surprise tn Sugurtear and touched a bution. Instant-| where ducks ewim om mirrors asd cst- usand candies flamed up like t a bright stars, and before) Nancy and Nick clapped their knew it the twins were in the hands with delight. of a company of tumbling,! (Copyright, THE WRECKERS By FRANCIS LYNDE (Copyright, 1920, by Charles Seribmer’s Sons) START HERE TODAY “fimmy” Dodds, secretary (who tette Phe story), and bis bom. Graham N he has @ ease, he'll get Justice” Naturally, a few litte @ukes like this, face to fate with the men them- DOINGS OF THE Dl JUST AMmUTE AND You A DEMONSTRA | \ Youre Ci ¥RECKLES AND H1 O1,TOM,Do You kaow 1M LEARNING ‘TS BB A VeNTRUOQUIST NONSENCE MosT OF THe Time IFFS VovLi NOTICE ) Never Move my LIPS! Vie ove rion | FULL. OF S FRIENDS THE SHATTLE STAR PRETTY POLLY POLLN WANTS A cracner! Aan = CANT PLAY ) MIS MOQNING oT GatTA PATTER OUR DRE dow Boause My) BoP WASN'T ANY OTTO AUTO A Nord TS 1G THE USED ELECTING RUNIABOUT I WAS TELLING You f HAVE. Seodiprd WRG PARKER of the Pioneer Short Line od Iteelf tn a and all of jthem sawtoothed. On that first trip over the line I heard a Leaterbure |banker fell the bows, flat-footed, that |the country at large would dhver be |Heve that @ny measure of reform ment would be accepted as sincere. “You taik Uke an honevt man, Mr. Norcross,” be said, and he was say tng i right In the boew’ own private car, too, mind you, “but thir region haa suffered too long and too bit by & ttle shou! der-patting in the way of better train schedules an@ things of that sort Yowti have to dig a good bit deeper and that you won't be allowed to do ‘The boss just «mifled at this, anc offered the banker man & cigar which he took. “When the time comes, Mr. Rige low, I'm gotng to show you that I can dig as deep ag the next fellow Where shall I begin? The banker laughed. “If you had k-m-the-bee makes © spring ia rpade with a handle a mile long | you might begin on the Red Tower people,” he suggested. “Hut, of course, you can't do that: your New York people won't let you. There ts the real nib of the thing, Mr. Nor “Little Naney Etticoat—'"| and goodness, why there te another sew|crons. What we need is a rafroad | line that will stick to Its own proper business—the carrying of freight and Passengers. What we havo ts a gigantic holding corporation which fathers every extortionate side-isue that can pay It @ royalty™ , pleasant as a basket of chips, “that past; We won't try to go behind the returns. But it is not whit you have now. From this time on, the | Short Line proposes to be just what |you said it should be—a carrier cor poration, pure and simple.” “Do you mean to miy that you are going to cut looxe from Hatch and Henckel and their thousand.and.one robber subsidiary companies? de manded the banker. baring completed? construct " At this the boss stood up and } on the Oregon selves, goon began to put new tifeliooked the Mig banker gentleman jPeate from rn 7 [into the rank and file Mr, Nor squarely in the eye. ee lee down jcromw’ old pet name of “Helland-| “Mr, Bigelow, at the present mo jrepeat™ had followed him down from!ment I represent Pioneer Short and sumpe , | Oregon, as It was bound to, but now|Line, in management and in Its pol jit began to be used in the sense |that most railroad men use the phrase, “The Old Man,” in speaking |of a big bows that they like This winning of the service exprit de corps—it that’s the word—com- Menced to show results right away, The first time Mr. Norcross’ special went over the line anybody could see with baff an eye that the payroll men were taking a brace. Trains were running on better time, there was less slamming and more civility, and at one place we actually found @ section foreman going along and picking up the spikes and bolts and fish-plates that the wasters ahead of him had strewn all along the right-of-way. There was so much crowded into these first few weeks that I've for- gotten half of it. The work we did, 4 a still equarer one a little far-jpulling and hauling things into Iner along, if you will only stay on|#*hape, was a fright, and my end of job and keep your clothes on,”|the job got so big that the bores had Iwas the way the boss went at the|to give me help. Following out his trainmen’s committee. “We are out| Own policy, he let me pick my man, make the P, 8. L. the best line for|#nd after I'd had @ little talk with ice, and the best company to|Mr. Van Britt, I picked May, the mn for, this side of the Missouri} young fellow who had been so dis- Fic. 1 want your loyalty; the loy-| usted with his job under Van ly of every man in the service.) Burgh. Frederic of Pittsburg wan go further and say that the new agement will stand if you and he gther payroll men stand by it m good faith, or it will fall if you n't” preling. Mrs. Shella Macrae Jimmie jump off * 4 that Insta four behind. he water tank a Ines the holdup of a special train car by tour men, ‘The ear a old mine road inading up into Sut not before the car Is recon- "Alexa," owned by John % The ek walk up ¢ jocomotive, whic ve tx goon repaired, and sdent of the P. that means more ad ration. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY “You men are going to get the marest deal you have ever had, ture than Te haps, but @ worker from away back, and that was what we were looking for. Out of this frantic hustle to get ie ure 1 will—every time. More han that, I'll take a leaf out of né| Goethals’ book and keep open has @ grievance ewtate it, and if all right; @ Uttle too tonguey, per-/ icy, as it stands today, I can as jroad management hao nothing what jever to do with Red Tower Con solidated or any of its subsidiaries.” “Then you've broken with Hatch?” “No; simply because there hasn't been anything to break, so far as I am concerned.” The banker man dropped tuto the nearest chair, “But, man alive! yon enn’t stay here if you don’t pull with the Hatch crowd,” he exclaimed; and then “Somebody ought to have tipped you loft beforehand and not iet you come here to commit suicider* After that they went out toether, uptown to Mr. Bigslow’r bank, I guess, and as they pushed the cor. ridor door open I beard the banker |say: “You don’t know what you are up against, Mr. Norcross, That out fit will get you, one way or another, as sure as the devil's @ hog. if it can't break yon, it will hire a gang of gunmen-—I wouldn't put it an inch beyond Rufus Hatcu; not @ single inch,” There ft was again; but as he went jOut the boss was laughing easity and saying that he was raised in a gun country, and that the fear of a fight was the least of his troubles at the Present moment. CHAPTER VIII undertaken by the Dunton manage | Excuse me,” said the born, atill as | may be what you have had tn the | |sure you emphatically that the rail | FATHER .| JUST MET LIEUT LOON AND HE WANTS ME TO 6O FLYING WITH tim? j | | jand get busy laying new astesl, | building new bridges and moderniz ing the permanent way generally extra office force to ransack traffic records widespread invitation was given to shipper# to come in and air their srievances—which you bet they did! jong private conferences with Mr Ripley, the bright young lawyer Mr. Chadwick had sent us from Chicago, and with a young fellow named Juneman, an ex newspaper man who | wae on the payrolis as “Advertising Manager,” *but seemed to be to keep the Short Line public fully and accurately informed of everything that host railroad companies try to keep to themselves. The next innovation that came along was another young Chicago man named Billoughby, and hig title on the payroll was “Special Agent.” What he did to earn his salary was the one thing that Juneman didn't publish broadcast fn the news papers; it was kept so dark that not @ line of it got to the office rec orda, and even I, who was as close to the bors &s anybody in our out fit, never once suspected the true nature of Billoughby’s job until the day he came in to make his final report—and Mr. Noreroms let him make ft without sending me out on un errand. “Well, I think I'm rendy to talk Johnson, now," wag the way Bil loughby began. “I've been into all the deals and side deals, and I've had it out with Ripley on the legal points involved. Red Tower is the one outfit we'll have to kill off and put out of business, Under one name or another, it is engineering every «raft in this country; it is even backing the fake mining boom at Saw Horse—to which, by the way, whose real business) Mr, Hornack was told tg put on an|it the | «witches, track facilitie, and the and make’ reports | like. Wherever local competition has showing the fairness or unfairness | tried to break in, the railroad com. of existing tariff and rates, and a| pany bas given ft the cold shoulder | Uc, utilities Red Tower has every body else shut out, because the rail road has given them-—in fee simple, seome—all the yard room, and it has been either forced out or frozen out.” “Exactly,” sald the bos “Now Sandwiched in between, there were | tell me how far you have gone in the other field.” “We are pretty wel shaped op and are about ready to begin busi ness. Juneman has done splendid work, and #0 has Fupley. Public sen Ument if still incredulous, of course It's mighty hard to make people be Neve that we are in earnest; that we have actually gone over to tho the opposition has been keeping up a steady bombardment. Hatch and hie people haven't been idle They have a strong commercial or ganization an@ a stout pull with the machine element, or rather the gang clement, in politics. They own or |control a dozen or more prominent newspapers in the state, and, as you know, they are making an open fight on you and your management thru these papers. The net result so far has been merely to keep the people stirred up and doubtful. They know they can't trust Hatch and his crowd, and they're afraid they can't trust you. They say that the rail road has never played fair-—and I guess it hasn't, in the past.” ‘Not within a thousand miles,” was the boss’ curt comment. “But go on with your story.” “We pulled the new Geal off yeetorday, simultaneously in 11 of the principal towns along the line. Meetings of the bankers and local their | doubters, and some few greedy onen |The doubters wanted to know how much of the mtock was going to be BY PARKS | there were some doubters, and some | | held by officials of the railroad com-| pany, and {t was pretty hard convince them that no Short Line | official would be allowed to partici pate, directly or indirectly.” “And the greedy ones?” “They kicked on that part of the pian which provides for the local apportionment of the stock to cover | the local needs of each town only; | they wanted more than their share. |Also, they protested against the | fixed @ividend scheme; they didn't |nee why the new company shouldn't | wed to cut a melon now and i it should be fortunate enough to grow ona” Mr. Norcrom smiled. “That ts pre. |clwely what the Hatch people have | been doing, all along, and ft is the) \ chief grievance of these same people | who now want a chance to outbid | their nelghbora The lease condition was fully explained to them, wasn’t it?” “Oh, yor: Ripley maw to that, and ‘copies of the lease were in the ex | hibits, ‘The new company ts to have |raftroad ground to build on, and ample track facilities in perpetuity, | conditioned strictly upon the limited dividend. If the dividend is in- creaged, the leases terminate auto- matically.” The boss drew a long breath. “You've done well, and better | than well, Billoughby,” he said. “Now we are ready to fire the blast. How was the proposal to take over the 'Red Tower properties at a. fair valuation reveived?" “There was some opposition. Lee and three of the other larger towns, want to build ther own plants. They are bitter enough to want to «mash the big monopoly, | root and branch. But they agreed |to abide by a majority vote of the |stock on that point, and my wire |reports this morning say that a lump-sum offer will be made for the Red Tower plants today.” Mr. Norcross sat back in his chair and blew a cloud of cigar emoke to- ward the ceiling (Continued Tomorrow) Egypt is again open to visitors ofter having been closed to tourist | travel for almost seven years | A cocodnut palm of the tropics |booms like a gun when blooming. side in the fight, They're all from | (@S@Seseseseseseseseseseseseses: | Missouri, and they want to be shown.” j Makes a Family Supply t “Naturally,” sald Mr. Norcross. of Cough Remedy “We have succeeded, in a measure, — C and Shout saves } icky propared, If you combined the curative prop: srties of every known “ready-made songh remedy, you probably not get as much real curative power as there is in this simple home-made ‘ough syrup, which is easily prepared na few minutes. Get from any druggist 24% ounces of Pinex, pour it into a pint battle ind fill the bottle with syru either plain granulated sugar clarified molasses, honey, or corn yrup, as desired, The result is a full pint of really better cough syrup than you could buy ready-made for three times the money, Tastes pleas- ant and never spoils. This Pinex and Syrup preparation geta right at the cause of a cough and gives almost immediate relief. It loosens the phlegm, stops the nasty throat tickle and heals the sore, irri- tated membranes so gently and easily that it is really astonishing. A day's use will usually overcome he ordinary cough and for bronchitis, to! | part of city. 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James Elliott 3633 . on Strike 20 Years Kill That Cold With ats CASCARA QUININE 4 .) Colds, Coughs om? La Grippe ‘You'll mect the grievance com-| things started and moving right, any e this railroad company is now build:|capttalists were held, and we had a he ordinary cough and for bronchitis, ; and:talk things over with|body could have pulled a couple of With the Strings Off ing @ branch line.” man at each one of them to explain | na here ie nothing better. 7 there's a kick coming j cauietustans that stuck up higher As*soon a4 we returned from the| Mr, Norcross turned to me our plan and to pisdae the packing Pinex is a most valuable ‘concen-» Neglected Colds are Dangerous ture c nmenge a 6 n The ection tr e bor pulled of le, ake a yte to te y e va Notwithstanding a rated compound of genuine Norway A old Tom McClure, the passenger | than any of the rest. The bons and {inspection trip, the bows pulled off Jimmie, make a note to tell Mr.|of the railroad \ p ductor who was acting as spokes |MtgVan Britt were steadily win-|hie coat—figuratively speaking—and| Van Britt to have the work stopped|the doubt and dust that's been | ine extract, and has been used for ‘Take no chances. Keep this standard remedy handy for the first sneeze. ning the rank and file over to some-|rolled up his sleeves. It wasn't his|at once on the Saw Horse branch,| kicked up by the Hatch people, it| ‘enerations to break severe coughs Breaks up a cold in 24 hours — Relieves thing Uke loyatty on the one hand,|way to talk much about what he ouse here in this office every Sun-|ing the freight a solid unit against |erward—it @ey morning. Any man in the serv-| us, hating us like blazes and entire-| knowing the reason why. and on the other, wherever we went,| was going to do; he'd jump In and do| And then to Milloughby: “Go on.” “With money?” queried the boss. A writ ee Meer Pl pia Quinine in this form does not affect the head—Cascara is v we found the people who were pay-|it first, and then talk about it aft-| “The main graft, of course, is In| “Yes; with real money. Citizens"! sything else. Guaranteed to give Laxative—No Opiate in Hill's. bent Tonle anybody insisted on/the grain elevators, the fruit pack-| Storage & Warehouse @as launched, oaalute ee ge or Or, eries, the coal and lumber yards and|as you might say, on the spot, and} romptly refunded. unwilling to believe that any good| Mr. Van Britt was given swift or-|the stock yards and handling cor-|enough capital was subscribed to| it ‘Wayne, iad ALL DR UGGISTS SELL IT could come out of the Nazapeth '@ery to fill up big engineering staff’ sala, In these public, at quasipub- gmake it a golng coyperm, Of courses’, i‘) eee Advertisement, To avoid disappointment, ask your went Uke wild-fire.” Grippe in 3 days—Excellent for Headache and all the equipment brought in