The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 3, 1921, Page 12

PAGE 12 r * ee Page FORGIVE AS YOU {4 PANDMOTHER got supper) and cleared up after it, and whon things were all quiet in the house she got the Bible and in her | sweet voice began to read aloud. “The flame flickered in tho little hammered tron lamp, the wick in the fat gave the only light they had. | about the fire ‘The family sat and listened as she read story after story of Christ's life and teaching, then she knelt down and prayed, and asked God to take care of them and keep them safe and to forgive them, just as they were forgiving their enemies, “AN night long the river roared. The ‘great logs boomed as they struck each other, the banks cracked and splashed and hissed into the roaring flood, No one slept; the house seemed frail enough and the river terrible enough, but it was not fear for themselves which filled them with horror, Every one of them, saw as they looked into the blackness that y, helpless, selfish man clinging to his: tottering cabin roof, or crouched upon the black stump waiting—waiting for thel eek OF THE SANTA’S By Mabel C) he ete solemn dressed himself and went ADVENTURES Olive Roberts Barton Ghattle |» + » 250 YOUR ENEMIES hungry water to tear away his stiffening hands and drag him be neath the rashing torrent dawn, without “In the early saying @ word, Grandfather got up and with his face glum and out. “Grandmother alipped quickly out of bed when he was gone and her mother, who went to was living in the house with her. To- gether they went to the window oh. to w “They saw John Carson get into his rowboat and push out Into the raging flood Saw him start toward the aggled Qgure on the make-believe “marker,” saw the poor bachelor wrapped tn his wet red flannel shirt huddled in a heap on the very stump he had been so gleeful about; his house was gone and the Puyallup River raged about him on all sides, “The watched the rescue. two Pioneer women Grandmother said, ‘Forgive those smiled and who trespass against us,’ then they turned around and got break fast for the men who had‘ been enemies,” “ee TWINS DREAM “In fact, the buzzing was so loud, it woke me up,” said Santa. Nancy and Dick were listening; breathlessly to Santa Claus’ story. ‘The fire in the great grate roared cheerily and the candles sputtered in their thousand candlesticks in the nta's home. nta Was ay door unk . my bird me could get in if he brought me Jost Christmas notes from the chil dren “Bye and bye I went to sleep and ve | ked so nger, told all my little elves and helpers to go to sleep, too, for I knew they after pasting wigs onto the dolls and ears onto the dogs and cats and toy horses and bears day “They had finished ‘em all, how even, and now the toys were in great bags and boxes for safe keeping until they were needed.” “Then what happened? Nick anxiously. asked | ! starts, leaving take shelter witness the h nized Chadwick, Chicago wheat bandits drive away, and the wateher the tank walk up the mine road he locomotive, which has been di ‘The locomotive ts soon repaired, and the private car is found with Chadwick fn it, uninjured, unable to account for his kidnaping. | Chadwick greets Mrs. Macrae aa an old friend. Norcross is appointed general superin tendent of the P. 8. L. Chadwick, a Job that means more adventure than re ‘muneration NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY I liked Cantrell. He was just the sort of a man you expect an edi tor to be; tall and thin and kind of mild-eyed, with an absent way with him that made you feel as if he were thinking along about a mile ahead of you when you were strik-| ing the best think-galt you ever knew of. After the cigar was going he talked a little about my sore hand and then switched over to the big puzzle. yet from Mr. Norcross, | he said I told him there “It's very singul you think, Jimmie?—or do you?” | “It's as singular to me, and to all| of us, as it | I threw in. | “Branderb “ one of the Mountaineer reporters— “tells me that you people e had a detect ive on the job. Did he find out ything?”" “Nothing worth sp ing of. He fis the Overland Central's ‘special,’ and I guess his best hold ts train| robberies and things of that sort.” | vi r smoked on for a full THE WRECKERS By FRANCIS LYNDE (Copyright, 1920, by’ Charles Scritmer’s Sons) “Plenty,” answered Santa. “I'm telling you just as fast as my poor old tongue will waggie. That nigh I dreamed that I heard a loud buz zing. In fact, {t was so loud it woke me up. Then I <4 that it no dream thing was buz ing like a mi ‘Myr I thought. "Those poor elves must be tired to snore so loudly. If I could just catch those snores and put ‘em into the growly children tick! to pieces, I'll just go get those bears and see what can be A little mag & push spring to press on—I'll Just do it.’ "I jumped out of bed and ran over jon bees. be What a sight met my eyes! It was as empty as a drum. Cleaned out! The buzzing was dying away. I knew what it was then. Blue Santa had come in his flying machine and the political bosses, That ought to all of you s y suspicious, Jimmi and I admitted. isn’t the slightest reason be enough to make picious “tt did “But there to think that the Hatch crowd t made away with Mr. Norcross—rea on in fact, I mean, Hatch, him elf, says that his directors ar willing to sell out, and that if Mr Noreross were here the deal could |be closed in a day.” The tall editor got up and made to go. “You remember the ing, current in Kurope in Napole¢ time, Jimmie: ‘E ¢ of the Russians when they retre If 1 were in your place, or rather in Mr. Van Britt's, I'd get an ex bears, wouldn't the}, toy room as fast as I could. | MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1921, THE SFATTLE STAR By ALLMAN 4 Tom Gives Olivia a Tip TLL Snow You hovi 17 WORKS AND) > THEA MAYBE You WON'T CRITICISe —. SoFReeN! oe AND You x Pec To GET Twin wire MH CERTAIN wuatr You VanT 1S A 1 STEAM ROLLER You Dou'y Mean ‘TO SAY Youve BEEN SPENDING Your Goo Money pea A THING LiKe THAT! 7 FRECKLE let much grass grow under my feet |while I was about ft. Call me up at the Mountaineer office if I can help.” And with he went away It was just a little while after this that I put on my hat jstrolled acroes the yard tracks Kirgan's office in the shops, Kir gan was an old friend, as you might say: he had been on the Oregor building job with us and knew the bom thru and thru. I didn’t } anything special to eay, but I k of wanted to talk to somebody wt knew, So I loafed in on Kirgan 1 wish I could show you Mart Kirgan just as he was. You'd pick him up anywhere for the toughest tad Man from Bitter ever swaggered into a saloon te Creek thet throw down on some poor tender foot and make him dance by shoot ing at his heels: big-Jowled, black jwith a hard jaw, sultry hot eye jand a pair of drooping mustache jlike the penny picture-makers une jto put on One-Eyed Ike, the Terror Uintahea. ly, however, Mart wasn't half as ked; hd didn’t ha yw, looking that | way ed the bons like a ther fired his kid stenographer on some Aa soon as I came Jn, he jerrand or other, and made me sit |down and tell him all I knew When I got thru he was pulling at [his long mustache and wrinkling his nose as I've seen a bulldog de stolen my whole stock!” Pome ettin ay to bite (Copyright, 1920, N. B.A) ee getting ready to bi “You havent got al the drop-out business cornered over yonder ir the general office, Jimmie,” he said slowly, tilting back in his swing —of— chair and glowering at me with/ vr, Van Britt a letter saying that)than you I confessed. “At * |thone sultry eyes of “On that had quit and was going Bast on t jsame night that you're talkin’ about midinieas Gai Ad tame atl fam ¢, I can't break away one perfectly . h is Geek ee me down from the x Mr. Norcross locomotive. t 10 so somewhere on that en-|89N¢, and the Ten-Sixteen is gone more, and he seemed to be staring | \ hun © ee aking After I had said It, it sounded and 1 « absently at a steamship pictt pen oe SS me M {foolish that I wanted to take it/ Mart, I don’t be ‘ 7 th mal "When he aot ood” ana| wenn, thee to se If Der fre tack Hut Kiganidut seam 0 | went’ Hasta 406 Pike Street i “You A ws a any common caeeda sen rh be i he ¢ “ae (Cont Tomorrow) (Seaboard Bldg., Near Fourth) 8g pening yore hey 2 Jim-) The Last 1016 » the devil ¥ . he ent and real, dyed-tn-the- wool rH k Wher told me he was shy|now would he get there wit URNS i Holmes, if there ever were such a|*),”" t pg ie or isn tee eh See woes wee wet tebingrende The entire stock mas apr ogl [att sorte of eeavens. Of course,| Sam Hill would he do a thing li afterward apply gently— f Jewelry, Um “Yor there was nothing on earth to con-|that.anyway? Wh c Mowe y - : a P that of the engine whieh had been! had to do was to ca 2 11Aas, y y Cae catie prplled, Joking atratght|iett standing below the coal chutes lind ta the Sunetihen aod do 4 VAPORUB beeline, Tecky, Gus a 6 n his id blue eyes. “ 7 o th napped em} « gure " n | ase 9g Silver. I were one of Mr. ‘Norcrons’ clone |eiven together Te OO the et es | Over 17 Million Jars Used Yearly 5a cca teael Glass = “i er tend ould get the best help|haives of an automatic coupling $$$ | aa " etches From 7; : that, Could be found and not lose &/ang 1 couldn't wedge them apart. cike te SmbRaD ao — placed on ingle minute about it “An engine—even a little old At ae Onefourth Off sale who wna any closer to the bor liose, isn't it, Kirgan?” 1 asked bie ee re oe tcc than T was, I jumped Into the hole|""Tcirgan righted, nis chair with al! TOCUrE ACOId DENTISTS AT GREAT REDUCTIONS ‘Ooetourth Off ba $i ganna crash, e . 3 | mae io 3 pe af jha7thing that) “Jimmie, T've sifted this blamed | in ne Da | ris Set antre asked outfit thru an 80-mesh screen! he| O D. Not cifically sh could “ % PR am in is i” festh ae srowied vith all tie Sevilto sar y DIAMONDS 25% OFF ALL CUT GLASS 4 PRICE air at's goin’ on over at he head-| s Rufus Hatch and his associates up! quarters, I didn't want to bother 1 E % 1, one rie and down the other, they [Sarwre © Gere want to bother ake WATCHES 25% OFF IVORY GOODS 40% OFF are handin-glove with the politicalladvertirin’ in the newspapers. But| SILVERWARE 1-3 OFF UMBRELLAS 1-3 OFF Or Te control th tate. From |it's a holy fact, Jimmie, That en Grove’s oo ms oe (Soe pag oh ig and|gine's faded away, and nobody mw | " ne emt Ge ne nas been pub-lor heard it go. I've had men out | ‘, H 2 lished tn the Hatch-controlled mews | for four days, now, lookin" and | Laxative order to Introduce our new| Solid Gold and Gold-Filled Jewelry All One-Third Off papers all over the state during the|pryin' ‘round and askin’ questions | Bnd ktronesat late Guo . past few weeks, it is apparent thatlin every hole and corner of the| B. hot cover tha roof of. the eer) * : . Mr. Norcross! removal was a thing three divisions. Tt_aln't any Un romo “ty nf you ean, bite corn oft the Similar reductions on the entire stock. An exceptional opportunity greatly to be desired, not only by|‘The 'Sixteen’s gone! ry uaranteed 16 . ~~ a larm : ena ale Sis teasiesl inal it * hag cant pe ger AEA Lae nye «a = Hana oningptre ing dermal to choose from a large, high grade stock of jewelry and buy at prices anime far below actual worth. |body tried to » it, ft couldn't pass the first telegraph etation east jor west without being reported |And that isn’t saying anything at all about the risk of hypering a wild vgine over the main line with: Jout orders.” “I know all greed, “But the fact's right amonget us. The Ten-Sixteen’s lost.” I was still trying to pry myself |loowe from the notion that the lows that, Jimmie,” he here of the engine, and the boss’ dis appearance at about the same time, were in some way connected with each other, It was no use; the idea refused to let ¢ Look here, Kirgan,” I shoved in ‘can you think of any possible rea Minute without saying anything’ pert on this job—and I shouldn't }son why Mr, Norcross should write Mystery , Savers t ) ( You Logan I: Swart ) a te ( FUNNY ! i! PA sels OW DEAR: 19 TWAT MRS. MILLS~ ve WHAT IT 192 evaabateeeonoed we “WE RADIATION 1S FROZE! wow WANT You TD COME OUT AND GEE fF (T NEEDS anv tar y cee = a, oes, a Ge WICHITA, Kan.—Sermon sent by ~ 600 miles to six cities by B. We Coyle to Speak to | x J WASN'T "THAT VES Young Republicans ' 's, Fairmount Congre A LOVELY ENDING wish You'd William J. 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