The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1920, Page 13

THE SEATTLE STAR GWAN, GeT OUT or The. WAY THERE, DAuny bur! = *. ly «| Page 246 “sour prssr was dotighted with the out against @ dark background stories Mrs. R. was telling. lke a glowing signal, Sparks fell © “Davie, don't you like em more | all about us and burned holes in Detter tis way? Don't you | the blankets over the hay en the Indians be kind and| “Our eyes amarted and we could 4 | sealup ‘em of anything, or | fee! the amoke in our lungs. dy gets murdered! | “The forest afire ts a fearsome yre peachy stories, all| place/and tt didn’t need the added Pee: I don't like all the terror of yellin® Indians to make stories to be awful, only | it worse’ ] \ ae Wore awful ones I like to} «pot that ts what cama As , about ‘em. Do you KNOW | neared the Indian villages an In- 4 ) any more, Mra. RT | Sas WERE! Nou AND JUMBO dian spied .ua, and mounting his “I recall one more,” she said “with Indians in it. This one I fi can remember, as it happened when I was about 4 years old. “Our home was in Olympia, as T told you, but tn the summer we Weed to go to Oyster Ray gamp during haymaking tima and _ “One afternoon we started home | With a big load of hay, expecting to Stop an the way. | “The air was heavy with smoke We conld smo! it when we left Oyster Ray, and as we rode on it Became thicker and thicker. * Father spread heavy woolen Wankets over the hay for fear ) Bying sparks would fal! into it. “Soon we could see that the for- | i about us waa afire; fames $ smtch on a pitchy stick and ike a serpent of fire from to top of a mighty tree horse dashed past us, yelling. “Where are you going? called father. “So? he called back, and was off down the read ahead of ua “In a fow minutes he came j dashing back with a cross-cut mw. “"Bor he sald, trying to say ‘mw,’ and he and another Indian went busily to work cutting away a log which had fallen acroas our road. “When this was done we rede on without further trouble, “Pretty soon we came to old ‘Mud Bay Sandy,’ sitting hunched up on a stump in the smoke. “Road clear ahead, Sandy?” asked father. ~"Uawatka’ (yes), he answered, and we drove safely on until we mes one tree would stand | reached our home.” Raekane m1] ADV Lo hte te s oF Pay! A Barten > SANTA CLAUS TELLS A STORY, ow on he sat and lifted a twin onto each knee. Christmas elves stoppedjocte each knea. “You don’t mind! and singing and crowded Tf to the twins, who clapped | asked. if 1 light my pipe, de youT’ he “I seem to think better and Fy) hands in glee at the pretty| talk better when I have it.” Nick jumped down, ran to the | broke in. He looked as if he'd been |mixing it up good and plenty with \Mr. Rufus Hatch—and’ enjoying it “We've got ‘om going, Jimmie,” he chuckled; and he said it without ask ing me how I had found Mra Sheila, or bow she was looking, or any | thing. I told him I had met Mr. Hatch on the stair going down. “He didn't my anything to you, did he?” be asked. “Not a word.” “I bad to pull that Band Creek business on him, and Mm father sorry,” he went on. “He and his people are going to fight the new company to a finish, and he merely came up here to tell me so-and to “clans came near and in-| hearth and returned with an cnf|add that I might as well resign firet e them ali “Elves-twins,” he, “Twins-clves.” and that ber which he held up to his host. “Thank you, tittle man,” smiled as last, because, in the end, he'd }get my goat, When I laughed at all there was to it. “Now off | Santa when he had puffed, puffed) bim he got abusive He's an ugly like a coal. “I see that @ side door. “If you don't) you have fine manners, an) we're ® little faster there won't be enough dolls for next pas. You've only about half/tumbled down Hien done and we'll need at) you?” asked Santa when they were} BE five. Off now, I wish to ith Nancy and Nick.” the host of little workers ppeared, Santa turned idren. “Come and sit with my big armchair by the fire won't you,” he said kindly. mt to hear all about you Your journey.” i he sat and lifted a twin |7ou going to get along famously.” “You didn’t get hurt when you my chimney, did settled again. “No, just surprised” answered Nancy. “And dirty.” She started to|to brush the smudges off her dress | when suddenly, lo and behold, they were gone-—Nick too! “Magical laughed Santa Claus “And now I'll have to tell the tale of my big chimney (Copyright, 1920, N. E. A.) soot!” |THE WRECKERS By FRANCIS LYNDE (Copyright, 1920, by Charles Beribner’s Sons) Elon the Ore E ong Portlan Chicago via ©hfrom Portland to Chicago vin the down, and s youns her maff from the mpe off to get It with whom she ts Noreroms fate Ant, loaes na Mel tour benind. They ‘sbett OF he water tank and the holdup of « #p* by four men, who rte. The car and enc’ approach fn * motive, which has been au set) | fore I get thru with him. don’t want to hit him below the belt, if I can help it; but on the other band, it’s just as well to be able to give the punch if needed. You remember what told me about that Monday morn ing talk between Hatch and Henekel in the Bullard lobby. Would be willing to go into court as a witness and swear to what you heard? Sure I would,” I said “All right. I have that Lite it in you may incident on Mr. to pull Hatch be The train a criminal act, and you are the witness who can convict the palr of them. Of course. Macrae and the ¥ out of it. Nobo were with holdup was we'll leay little girl « i knows th they body there us, and ni 1 know.” “1 to that, and this mention “|himaelf away |me Goll babies,” ‘he commanded | cn bis little pipe until the tolwcco | Dewar, Jimmie.” ittér with a wave of his hand | glowea pats what everybody says of him.” “It's true. He and his crowd have plenty of money—stolen money, @ good deal of it with every political bom and gan, ster in the state. There is only one [way to handle such a man, and that without gloves. I told him we ad the goods on him in the matter jof Mr. Chadwick's venture. At first he mid I couldn't |prove it, Then he broke out cursing and let your name alip. I hadn't | mentioned you at all, and so he gave He knows who you are, and he remembered that you had loverheard his talk with Henckel in the Bullard lobby.” I heard what he was saying, but I didn't really sense It because my head was ram jam full of @ thing that was ep pitiful that it had kept swallowing hard all the way back from Major Kendrick’s, It was this way. When I had jiggled jthe bell out at the house it was Maisie Ann who let me in and took the box of flowers and the bon note. She told me that Aunt Mandy the cook, hadn't made any pie that da wat in the dimly light hall and talked for a few minutes. One thing she told me was that | Mra. Sheila had company and the name of it was Mr, Van Pritt. That |wasn't strictly news becanse I had known that Mr. Van Britt was | dividing time pretty evenly with the in the Major Kendrigk house visite. That wasn't anything to be seared up about. I knew that all Mr. Norcrow# asked, or would need would be a fair fleld and no favor ut my chunky little girl didn’t stop at that 1 think we can let Mr. Van Britt jtake care of himself,” “He |has known Cousin Sheila for a long |time, and I guess they are only just wo we bows she said. and they etand in/ kidnaping ad-| GUT MIS RAAT AND Nou Gt oFF TUT ‘ravit; AS Nov ARE SURE with ail of her; and that the one big reason why he had let Mr. Chad wick persuade him to stay in Portal] City was the fact that he had wanted to be near her and to show her how he could make a perfectly | s00d spoon out of the spoiled horn of the Pioneer Short Line, When I began to get my grip back} 4 little I was right warm under the | ollar. / “She oughtn’t to be golng around telling people she is a widow! 1 blurted out. “She doesn’t,” was the calm reply People just take it for granted, and t maver a lot of talk and explana-| jons that it wouldn't be pleasant to make, They've separated, know—yeary ago, and Cousin la has taken her mother's jen name, Macrae, If we were ing to live here always it would| be different. But we are only visit ing Cousin Basil, or I suppose we are, tho we've been here now for! nearly @ yea There wasn't much more to be nave to ‘To FAL! |BETTY AND HER BEAU— land president, Mr. Lepaige, sy that it was not good for a man always to succeed; never to be beaten; that | without a eetback, now and then, o man never learned how to bend without breaking. The bose had never been beaten, and Mr. Lapaige was talking about him when he said this, What was {t going to do to him when he learned the truth about Mrs. Shella? On top of this came the still harder knock when I saw that ft was up to me to tell him, I remembered all the stories I'd ever heard about how the most cold-blooded surgeon that over lived wouldn't trust himself to stick a knife into a member of his own family, and I knew now just how the surgeon felt about it It was up to me to whet my old Bar low and stick it into the boss, clear up to the handle While I was still eweating under the big load Maisie Ann had dumped upon me, the night dispatchers boy came in with & meneage from Mr. Chadwi¢k, and I read it with my eyes bugting out. This is It was te Joy of With Je BY ZOE BECKLEY NEW YORK, Dec, 24.--Monuments to love awakened at the dinner table! And why not? We erect memorials to ead things. Why not to glad things? And are |not much happy experiences oftenest | begun across the gleaming whiteness jof a dinner table? Think back— aren't they? Would a Uttle golden tablet ert with turquoise and graven with a just over that ifttle table seem ‘amine? You know it wouldn't! | NOVEL IDEA 18 | BORROWED FROM PARIS | That i exactly what they some times do in Paris. Some pair of lovers borrowed the idea and trans \ferred it to New York. For years, jin three dim, intimate cerners of the lurked three precious love tablets, in the wall above three special tables | dedicated to Romance By chance I saw them the other, night and wondered what they were. The waiter shook his head. The manager only smiled. But Madame |Louls Bustanoby, widow of the | genial Frenchman who for years pre | sided over the Beaux Arts, and made | It sparkle with the indefinable charm of Paris, nodded her small head sym | pathetically. “They are love tokens,” she said, “placed there in memory of life's moat beautiful experience.” | She beckoned me to follow into another part of the restaurant, the | formal “Art Room,” and pointed out jan ebony tablet with a pearl set in | gold in the center. FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE | COMMEMORATED |. “This one ts a friendship plaque |from some of our patrons,” she jamiled, “placed there as a tribue to my husband and me, on hi |from two years if France. | Of the “love memorials” placed to commemorate more intimate affairs | of the heart, one is of bronze set with 4 large turquoise and engraved: “A. and L, “Aete Perennius. XVMIX.” Madame does not know the names of the couse who placed it there. secret word or tw® set in the wall) Cafe dea Beaux Arts, Bave quietly, Dinner Table Romance weled Plaques Or perhaps she just won't tell— derstanding smile, “they were a beautiful pair. three evenings a week for nearly ten years. I cannot tell you why they come no more.” On another tablet the words are graven: “Happy Dawn,” and the date “Bep- tember, 1905.” 4 In its center ts @ circular opal of lovely color and fire, and like the others, the plaque is under glass. Farewell Reception for Dr. J. E. Crowther Dr. J. BE. Crowther, retiring pastor of the Firet Methodist church, was honored Tuesday evening when a farewell service and reception was held at the church, Representatives of various church bodiew joined in | expressions of esteem for his services here during his pastorate of four years, Filipinos to Honor Memory of J. 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Y., for a sample bottle, When writing be sure and mention this paper.— Advertisement, Sheila and Ma Ann remember that been g therm out pretty ee while, They weren't n reality—not by a jugftu of the rush and hustle f Xow Go ON wiTH THE STORY A. dlp ym sear i Hatch won't sell,” he predicted. |quainted with Major fil be up here before night with | and had n made at hom in his eye. I'm rather glad it | transplanted Kentucky m ‘come down to the actual ¢ ; Seeehaie eters, 1A hebe there take. I don't play the rt e very exsfully, Billoughby. | flo p in touch, and keep me | tell Ripley to keep on pushing | oth the reins. The sooner we get| hunt good friends, But there i« something ou ought to know, for Mr He has been ing of flowers and things Cousin Sheila has been taking ¢ bee T guess it's just doesn't know how not to mn,” T said, but my mouth had grown dry id, and pretty soon I had stam! iat it maid: off with my load and gone] wo G, Norcross, G. My the office, And this was! “portat city, |why I couldn't get very dgep intol wp os. 1, Common dropped to 34 (he, Hatch business with*Mr. Nor-| 4,4, y, and tanks lending on short roms when he told me what he bad/ time notes for betterment fund are to do about the Sand) geting nervous. Wire from New York mays bondholders are atirring and talking recel General opinion in finane idea that new policy is foregone fall- ure, Are you still sure you ean make it win? CHADWICK.” Right on the heels of this, and before I could get my breath, In me I've FRIENDS ALL TALKING ABOUT CHANGE IN HER Umes became go nauseated T could | Seattle Woman Says After | .i.'cuiy reain a thing on my stom: || Years of Suffering Tan-| 0h. 1 didn’t know what it was to get a good night's sleep, and on ge lac Has Restored Her to) (;, ip pb ; : Perfect Health Ung up mornings was #0 dimy I “My friends are all talking about | could hardly keep from falling, | also had rheumatism in my hands and | the. wonderful change Tanlac has made in me, and T just can’t praise feet, and they ached and pained me | the medicine enough,” said Mrs. y all the time. waak and rundown I couldn't even Sarah E. Wilson, of 834 W. Gist St., Seattle, Jimmie jeavin never Norcross mck to sake send 4 good eft out long and In spite of al nuKe—well been obliged Creek holdup. He didn't my anything forther ibout It, exeept to tell me to be flowers, you know | careful and not let any of the Hateh anything in New tangle me up #o that my evi Men|dence, if I should have to give It, friends | would be made to look like a faked cigar cases | up story; and a little before 9 o'clock men friends.| Mr. Ripley drapped in and he and|came the boy again with another different with » bom went uptown together. telegram. It was a hot wire from ne, too, Fred May| president Dunton, one of a series | thru and home, and/that he had been shooting in ever » nothing much that I could] gince Mr. Norcross had taken hold filing a few letters and/and begun firing the cousins and tidying up a bit around my own! néphews, “It mustn't be different, Jimmie.|dewk. But I couldn't make up my¥| “To G, Noreross, G. My Cousin Sheila's married, you know.” | mind either to work or to go to bed.| Portal City. RUSH. “I know the has been married,” 1 a chance to think over the] “gee stock quotations for today. corrected; and then she gave me the| horrible thing Maisie Ann had told] your policy is a failure. Am ad sureenough knockout me; time to cook up some scheme by 4 you are now fighting Red She is marriea and her hus.| which the boss could let down| ‘rower. Stop it immediately and as band {# stil! living.” eas sure Mr. Hatch that we are friendly, For a little while T couldn't do any If he had been like other men It] an we hove always been. If some: thing but gape like chicken with| wouldn't have been #0 hard. But T| thing cannot be done to lift securi the pip. It simply flerce! 1} had a feeling that he had gone into| ties to better ficure, your resigna- knew, as well an T knew anything, | thie love business just as he did into] tion will be in order, DUNTON," that the bom was gone on Mrs.|everything—neck or nothing—burn (Continued Tomorrow) Shella; that he had fallen in tove,|ing his bridges behind him, and hay pie : firet with the back of her neck and|ing no notion of ever turning back First gas mantles were made of then with her pretty face and then!I had once heard our Oregon Mid- platinum ine at take th | ‘ ‘Go on in the nsion in | suddenly Such udden-| Yor) and me 4 enjngs when I had to go and) just him up to give him a bunch /around among their Fit, the sooner it will be over.” jof telegrams. Of course, I didn’'t/But I'm afraid it's Atte? Billoughby had gone, Mr.| play the buttin; I didn't have to.!Mr. Norcross.” trons dictated a swift buoch of | Maisie Ann looked out for] “It iw different,” 1 rx and telegrams and had me and when found out that I} en she told me my shorthand notes over to/ liked pumpkin ple, m Kentucky|made ‘me swell up May for transcription. With| fashion, we used to spend mort of | burst @xk cleaned up he came at me| those errand-running gvenings to Hh a little matter that had sether in the pantry lowed to sleep ever since t But to get back on the firing tine. some time back, when I I waan't around when Mr. Norcross him Mrs. Shetla’s hint haa “declaration Of war" talk tity of the two men who had} with Mr. Norcross, being and smoked in that he wasn't going to have nday night at Sand Creek had me out n vat the talk between the same | nwood” with @ note and a box © ‘hat I had overheard the fol-|of roses, and when I got to ing morning. | the office about 8 o'clock, Hatch was “We are going to have sharp| just going away. 1 met him on the bie with a gentleman by the| stair of Hatch before very long.| ‘The bows was sitting back in his ” was the way he began. “I big swing chair, smoking, when I things waiting vomet carry a box of mean peor wers when the boss wa of where them we to they een living their women pass their suce touch. | called out town. ere as usual nald r t the thing that| there w and want to|do beyond it | me nt od been day, | 1 wanted his Hatch eure vin now be the auto Siding. | that evening off. sent back as do my housework and was greatly Worrled over my condition, | ‘iy friends persuaded me to try | Tanlac, and I just think it's the grandest medicine ever made, for it “For a long time I suffered with) has given me a wonderful appetite my stomach, and for the past three | and relieved me of all my stomach pars have been in very bad condi-| ailments, The rheumatism has en. Uon—that is, until Tanlao set me! tirely disappeared, I never have an | right, recently, I had indigestion in| ache or pain, andwsleep like a child all its forms and was in such terrible | every night, I can do all my house: | | pain, both night and day, that it was | work with ease now; just feel fine all just almost unbearable, My appetite| the time, and am certainly grateful left me, and even the little [ did man. | to Tanlac for my good health age to eat bloated me up until T| could hardly get my breath and was! Drug Stores under the persapal di simply miserable, [ had a very dis-| rection of a special Tanlac repregen. @grecable taste in my mouth, and at] tallve—Adverusemen*