The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 4, 1921, Page 5

THE SEATTLE STAR PAGE 5 An 0.HENRY Story aDa you blamed little) sawedoff, huckle berry eyed, monkey faced hot tamale give ‘em another of them Jalu loo } toon, and you'll eat rice in St, Peters | burg Talk about Tueslans may, wouldn't they give you a pain: |é sky when it comes to a serapoviteh Not even on the fair island of Nip pon was ther enthulastic HUMOR PATHOS ROMANCE New Phone, Elliott 4910 Second Week OF OUR BIG RE- ADJUSTMENT SALE 50% —SAVINGS—33% This is the second week of dur giant clearance sale. Hundreds of customers, attracted by the values we offered, came in flocks and have gone away to tell their friends about our sensational bargains, But there are still hundreds of values left. Every piece on our floor has gone under the axe and is being offered at absurdly low prices. Come early and pick what you want. Remember—our credit system will enable you to pay as you earn. The Rhodes Co. TO 5:30 «rinning, pleased by the roar and movement of t rous elty into whieh the ocut-rates had shunted hir the allen strayed away from the sea, which he hated, as far the district by Engine pany No. as a cork was kept bobbing along by the Tide, the crudest ‘om in all silt of the stream that emptied rvoir of Liberty ave. by STORE HOURS 9 ~ Musli The Foreign Policy of ‘Company 99 | (Copyright, 1920, by The Wheeler | champion of the mikado’s men. Sup Synideate, Ine. | porters of the Ruswian cause did well John Ryrnes, hose cart driver of | keep clear of engine house No, 99 croasing Company No, 99, was afflict Sometimes all thoughts of the Japs | slowed hig with what his comrades left John Byrne head. That was) Japanitia | when the alar of fire had sounded Byrnes had a war map spread per |@nd he waa strapped in his driver's nanently upon a table in the second | #eat on the swaying cart, guiding engine house, and he| Erebus and Joe, the finest team in could explain to you at any hour of | the whi department the day or night the exact positions, | the crew of 99 conditions and intentions of both the| Of all the codes adopted by } Ruslan and Jap armies. He had little clusters of pins stuck in the map Which represented the posing forces, and these he mov about from day to day in conformity with the war news in the daily paper Women’s Soiled Handkerchiefs Reduced to Close Out Hi assortments include en of plain white handkerchiefs lows 19¢ your covered 99, Light Crepes, Sheeting, Ete. —Featuring the New 1921 Prices Upper Main Mloor he he the brok initial, plain col and embroidered reduced aa fol tops thunder of the elevs fim and the soothing |wheels on the | there was a new the uproar—the A gONK and a great naut belching fire ole were hurry called liner Full bleached muslin, . Underwear crepes in white and color 81-inch sheeting, standard quality, a yard... 72-inch sheeting, with soft finish, a yard 2x90, a yard 19¢ 35¢ 70¢ 65¢ $1.80 45¢ 30¢ crash of the orn, And then delightful chord in musical clanging of shining Jugger nd amoke, that cobbles , a yard Handkerchiefs Handkerchiefs Handkerchiefs Handkerchiefs Handkerchiefs Handkerchiefs Handkerchief» Handkerchiefs, Handkerchiefs . Be 10¢ is¢ ike 25¢ a8¢ B8e + BOE ..63¢ tory of the cording to Pequot sheets, torn sizes each Pequot pillow cases, torn size, Pillow torn 42x34 Huck towels, with colored border, each man & to pee utiful thing, entrancing to 12x36, each... t, and the proto? t stepped into the his broad, enrap- nding rin And into the path of cart, with Jobn with arms of steel ks of for regulating his actions toward t fellow mortals, the greatest are tuyere | the code of King Arthur's Knights | fo the Round Ta the constitution of the United States the unwrit ten rules of the New York fire de | partment, The round table meth no longer practicable invention of atroe of- promise sults, and our lip being found more and me cases, size, each, . mic immigra wake of it with tured, uncompreh stepping, ster 99's flying $1.00 size since nd br onstitution Hyrnes gripping | the reins over the plunging Erebus and Joe The unwritten constitutional code Wherever the Japa won a victory John Byrnes would shift his and then would execute High Grade Winter Suits Reduced Keo Wool Coatings and HALL RACKS—4 OFF 3 $55.00 Fumed Oak large Mirror $27.50 $58.50 Fumed Oak large Mirror $29.25 $64.00 Mahogany large Mirror $32.00 $67.50 Golden Oak large Mirror $33.75 $80.00 Mahogany large Mirror $40.00 83.50 Fumed Oak large Mirror $41.75 15 styles to choose = List of Reductions: $42.50—Lmitation leather, fame -. $28.39 .00—Imitation leather, fame —-- 33-39 $50.00—Imitation leather, imme »---- PIS+DO frame ....- ee leather, fume .... $36.69 $66.00—-Imitation leather, imme .... 944.00 frame ....-- 22 styles to choose from, including those covered in From the Carpet Section Rugs priced at 10 to 33% per cent reduction. Linoleums priced at 1% off. Hall and Stair Carpets at ¥, to ¥, off. Bedding, Sheet and Pillow Cases Are All Very Specially Priced LIBERAL CREDIT EXTENDED other fire Go it, dance of and the }men w him yell FINE FOR RHEUMATISM Musterole Loosens Up Those | Stiff Joints— Drives Out Pain drug store. It is a clean, white dint: {ment, made with the oil of mustard. | Better than a mustard plaster and docs |not blister. Brings ease and comfort while it is being rubbed on! | iblains, frosted feet, colds of the chest (it often prevents pneumonia) SSc and G5c jars; hospital size 35.00 Sizes E. price ints, spraina, sore muscles, | | | Sale | beard like the coat of a spaniel constitutional every day, so the code of our firemen must be considered tn | olden Rule and » trying for place the lead Jefirie and « with the new pune of liners duaapes oh Bn Ive into an Reward kick hie down the @ 4 up for was the city perhaps diating against king the transatlantic lis Island a lump of wan expected to American citizen eway like ma or ah in the theoret & doctor pounce n his ey raven, seeking ophthalmia; he es » Liberty and name ly thus inc racy with tx own Thin hypoder wandered happily the city with the It was nm cares or ambi mic injection of Euro into the ad grin of a pleased child. bur dened with bagirage tions. Its body was lithely built and hed in a sort of foreign fustian tte face was brightly vacant, with @ small, flat nose, and was mostly cov ered by a t curling In imported Thing were a few denart)—acuds kopecks — pfonnigs — pilastern—what | ever the financial nomenclature of his unknown country may have been Prattling to himself, always broadly | raged of pocket This entire stock on sale at prices you will find it hard to match for Quality Footwear. Men’s Shoes Hundreds of pairs to choose from in all styles and sizes; for- merly sold at $12.50 and $ Pa 5.00, 4, to 12, widths AAA to $8.95 Women’s Brogue Oxfords Dark brown calf with heavy A} |of the fireman has no exceptions or amendments, It is a simple thing an the rule of three. There was the heedless unit In the right of | way; there was the hore cart and the ated raliroad | John Byrnes swung all his weight and muscles on the left rein. The team and cart swerved that way and | crashed like a torpedo into the pillar | The men on the cart went flying Uke Jakitties, The driver's strap burst the pillar rang with the shock, and | John the | as simp! |iron pillar of t track y whickering in ness with a broken leg neideration for the feelingn of 99 the details ‘The com y touched to be Was & great crowd, and and while gong was clearing the way the men of No. 99 heard the crack of the 8 P. C. A. agent's pis and turned their heads awa daring to look toward Erebus | When the firemen got back to the Jengine house they found the them was dragging by the collar the aune of thelr desolation and grief They sot tt in the middle of the floor 1 gathered grimly Thru its | whiskers the calamitous | tered effervescently and waved hands. Sounds like a said Mike Dowling nakes fr day hurry the calls were went in ambulane at one of ite seldiits powder,” disgustedly, “and er than one hon h two. steamer full of #u mals. It's a immigrant jit ta” “Look at the doctor’s chalk mark on its coat.” said Reilly, the desk man, “It's just landed Tt must be a kind of a Dago or a Hun or one of them Finns, I guess. That's the kind of truck that Europe unloads onto us.” “Think of @ thing’ Ike that get tng in the way and laying John up in hospital and epotling the best fire team tn the city,” groaned another fireman, “It ought to be taken down to the dock and drowned.” Somebody go around and get Slo vieki.” suggested the engine driver “and let's see what nation is respon sible for this congiomeraton of hair and head noises." ' Slovisk! kept a delicatessen store around the corner on Third ave., and the odors of many kinds of meats upon him, “Take a whirl at this importation with your jawbreakers, Sloviski,” quested Mike Dowling. “We can't quite figure out whether he's from the Hackensack bottoma or Hong Kong-on-the Ganges.” Slovink! sddressed the stranger in several dialects, that ranged iy rhythm and cadence from the sounds | produced by a tonsilitis gargle to the | opening of a can of tomatoes with a The immigrant re pled in accents resembling the un corking of a bottle of ginger ale. “I have you his name,” reported pair of sciasors reminded of that} Skirtings Reduced Upper Main Floor Fifty four-inch Orlando coatings in navy, ¢ jade, brown, red and black; a yard.. light blue, tan Fifty fourinch cashmere cords ing fabric in navy, Cop blue, brown, reindeer, red and black; a yard Fifty fourineh plaids dapted for skirtw Enlargements Special 70¢ Main Floor i ae (on Kodak Section will take one day only Wednesday) the orders for the enlarge of negatives: ment your choice ‘These will in be made on the best paper In two s, 1x ly 11 or 8x10, and w hand- colored in Formerly $1.00, Special Wednesday, each THe. last Marvella, Evora Superior penhagen and twi reindeer, nhagen annorted Union Suits Special $2.50 Upper Main Floor Lire the Underwear Section has taken stock cotton sults of medium weight a styles which are slight solled from showing and $4.00 to $69.75 Second Floor HE special sales rack on which these suits are displayed fea- tures high grade winter suits made of the favored fabrics in the ap proved colors. Included are: 1 8u 36 :.. $8.50 4 #plendid coat it formerly duced to fe Suite, formerly color combi duced to re 869.75 re 869.75 re $69.75 re $69.75 blue, twilight merly Suite, former Suit, f Suit, formerly duced to . Suit, formerly uced to formerly duced to Suit, formerly duced to Suit, formerly duced to Suit, formerly duced to . Suit, formerly duced to Suit, formerly duced to Suit’ former! duced to formerly merly Women’s wits $97 $95.00; wize 50% male Knit a cleanup Women's size 48; from regular 260 wool and mixed union $95.00 $95.00, broken line of $95.00 6 to 44 but not in every Formerly $3.50 > While they wine Suits. duced formerly a suit er buzzed up to the door of No. 99 and the deputy stepped inside for an informal inspection, The men kicked black «peck out of the noise. | door of the engine house and called Only 15 minutes after Svangysk’e | to Byrnes: last kicking at the hands—or, rather,| “Hello, there, Jimmy, me boy— Svangvek out a little harder than| the feet—of Engine Company No, 99 | how's the war coming along? Japs usual and proudly escorted the dep- uty around 99, in which everything shone like my lady's mirror. The deputy respected the sorrow of the company concerning the loss of Erebus, and he had come to prom /ed his head against Joe's and made ise it another mate for Joe that would do him credit. So they let Joe out of his stall and showed the dep uty how deserving he was of the finest mate that could be in horse dom While they Joe confabbing, the deputy’s auto and threw the pow er full on. The men heard a monster | puffing and a shriek from the lad, and sprang, out too late auto shot away, luckily taking a straight course D the atree The boy knew nothing of its machinery; he sat clutching the cushions and howling. With the power on, noth ing could have stopped that auto ex a brick house, and there was to gain by such a cept nothing for Chris stoppage Demetre Svangvek was just com ing in again with a grin for another kick when Chris played his merry little prank. While the others sprang were circling around | kicked Chris climbed into) er so strongly by the hand that De- The big Sarpy a fireman who had seen a he rode Joe back thru the door with still got the bear on the trot, have the boy safe, but acutely conscious | they?" . of the licking be was going to re-| “Oh, I don’t know,” said John celve, Byrnes, argumentatively; “them 9 — Svangvek slipped to the floor, lean. | Japs haven't got any walkover. You wait Ull Kursapatkin gets a good whack at ‘em, and they won't Be) knee-high to a puddle-ducksky: _ontinernemeninmeniaccs SAYS WIFE MUSSED UP HIS INVENTION IDEAS; IS DIVORCED Because he claimed his wife, Lydia, would interrupt him in hi inventions by declaring his ideas were no good, Judge J. T. Ronald granted George Beazee a divorce afternoon. & noise like a clucking hen ¢d and whistled loudly thru his nos. trils, putting to shame the knowl-| edge of Sloviski, of the delicatessen, Joe Byrnes walked up to Svan vsk, who grinned, expecting to Le Byrnes gripped the outland Joe nod metre grinned, anyhow, conceiving it to be a new form of punishment, “The heathen rides like a Cossack.” Wild West show—"they're the est riders in the world.” Yas--yas—me Cosrack great i " he splut | tered, striking his ches | books between fire alatms. ‘Comwack!’ thoughtfully; Russian “They sure epeated John Byrnes, ain't that akind of a e one of the Russian tribes, said the desk man, who read Ed Parsons, 50. and Herman Hansen, 3 in the city spital from tremens during the holiday were not vi delirium” Just then Alderman week, Was on his way home know of the runaway Foley, who and did not . stopped at the according to the coro: JANUARY CLEARANCE SALES Special prices will be found in effect on many items throughout the entire store. Galvanized Wash Tubs at a Tremendous Saving The special prices quoted on these heavy Galvanized Wash Tubs for tomorrow represent values unheard of for many is months. * ee Sei ats regular 98c $1.29 Size No. 1014x22 inches, regular $2.00, jac r at Size No. 8, 11x24 inches, rene , Special at... aay Galvanized Pail, regular 69c, special at. : Delayed Shipment of Fire Screens At Two Special Prices for Clearance. Lot No. 1— Lot No. Values up to $7.50 Values up to $ ry 00 $4.98 $6.98 Each lot includes FOUR-FOLD BLACK SCREENS HOOD TYPE SPARK GUARDS Fireplace Grates and Wall Guards also included in these price groups. Sloviski. “You shall not pronounce it. Writing of it in paper is better.” They gave him paper, and he wrote, “Demetre Svangyak.” “Looks like short desk man | “He sp perforation and heavy welted soles. Sizes 24 8, AA to Actin $7. 95 Women’s Oxfords [une Se arp for the door, Demetre sprang for Joe He glided upon the horwe's bare back like a #nake and shouted something at him like the crack of a dozen whips. One of the firemen afterward swore that Joe answ him back jin the same language, Ten seconds his| after the tauto started, the big horse was eating up the asphalt behind it Uke a strip of macaroni Some people two blocks and a half away saw the rescue. They said that the auto nothing but a drab noixe with a black speck in the mid of it for Chris, when a big bay ne with a lizard on its back can ered up alongside of it, and the liz and picked up the B Basement Store Specials ~—B WHERE PIKE MEETS FIFTH hand,” said the 4 some Innguage,” con tinued the interpreter, | bile driven by C. A. McGovern, hax No Blame Attached | shown the accident to have been un-| in Woman’s Death | «vitabie, accoraing to the report | | submitted. Investigation by police and the! | coroner's office into the death of Mrs.| Few men believe in evertasting | Mary <A. Robbins, killed Sunday fire and brimstone—except for their evening, when struck by an automo-! neighbors was ard reached over ONE NEIGHOOR TELLS ANOTHER Points the Way to Comfort and Health. Other Women teasen.” Whatever he is, he’s a bird,” said | Mike Dowling; “and you want to watch him fly.” aking by the wing the alien fowl had fluttéred into the nest of Lege rty, MIke led him to the door of the engine house and bestowed upon him a kick hearty enough to convey Please Read |the entire animus of Company 99 fn ct i a | Demetre Svangvsk hustled away Moundaville, W.Va.—“‘I had taker |down the sidewalk, turning once to doctor's medicine for nearly two years show his ineradicable grin to the ds because my pe- | grieved firemen riods were irregu- In three w John Byrnes was | lar, came ever: back at his post from the hospital two weeks, and | With great gusto he proceeded would suffer with ) bring his war map up to date, “My bearing-down money on the Japs every time,” he pains. Afady told declared, “Why at them Rus me of Lydia E. |alane—they’re nothing but wolves Pinkham’s Vege- Wipe ‘em out, I say—and the little table Compound old jiu-jiteu gang are just the cherry and how much blossoms to do the trick, and don’t ood it had done et it er daughter, s¢ cond day after Byrnes’ reap. I took it and now me Dome month and have | the unidentified, to the er recommend your with a broader grin than ever eryone and you may managed to convey the Idea that he Publish my testimonial, hoping that Selinad' to sobamatiiats the int the Vegetable Compound does some delver on his recovery and to apolo- other gl the good it has done me."" | gine for having de Mrs. GeorGe TEGARDEN, 915 Third |‘This he accomplished by so many ex-| Street, Moundsville, W travagant gestures and explosive} How many young ce suffer as | noises that the company was divert | Mrs. Tegarden did and do not know Jed for half an hour. ‘Then they kick. Where to turn for advice or help. led him out « and on the next They often are obliged to earn their ‘day he came back grinning. How or living by toiling day in and day out |where he lived no one knew. And fo matter how hard the ang they jthen John Byrnes’ %-yearold son have to bear. Every girl w! 0 suffers |Chris, who brought him convales. in this way should try Lydia E. Pink- Jcent delicacies from Home to eat, #m's Vegetable Compound and if she btoote a fancy to 4 ”vak, and they 40€8 not preipt relief write to allowed him to loaf about fhe ‘inkham Medi Nouse comislnnalls Lynn, Mass., about their health, One afternoon the big drab auto-| Such letters are held in strict con ‘mobile of the deputy five commission: ! fidence, An extra fine quality calfskin la little Turkish And, den. in tan or black, formerly sold at |* ome Magyar words and a T AAA to widths. Bessarabia, I do not him quite un Sale price $9.95 | derstand.” dle . ee Would you call him a Dago or al ),, | a ker, or what asked Mike,|, 9, | fro at the viyglot descriptio: Women’s Brogue Boots fs tn c'iewerea siovinct "he This style in brown or black be * = dink he come from—I dink he calf with extra heavy welt soles, J))his lngustio fulure, cand if vou An ideal walking boot for winter ff}: Pa, ‘ months. Sizes 2', to 8, widths AA to D. Sale 5 price $9.8 Men’s Shoes, values to $15.00. . Women’s Pumps, values to $10.00. . Women’s Oxfords, values to $10.00 Women’s Pumps and Oxfords, small ee Women’s House Slippers. . $2.95 and Children’s Felts, Baby soft soles $6.50 and $8.50 $4.95 $4.95 $1.95 §) $1.95 $1.50 .89¢ $1.40 $2.95 $3.95 $4.40 $4.95 mata reese ese Peet ee nee! ak look Yes, it is that deli- cious flavor that wins so many cus- tomers for BUTTER-NUT, HOLSUM and <0 BB you forg The w pearanc |. $2.95, $3.9 All Felt Slippers for men, women or childr Tweedie big reduction. UEENANN GATADS Refunds or Exchanges | poo¢ oe $1 85 Try each kind E, Capertully Basement Store see which you ; : like best. Order these quality breads of your grocer. Iam rae hs hone: THE STORE FOR USEFUL ARTICLES va UNION STREET.