The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 8, 1921, Page 8

SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1921, THE SEATTLE STAR ANO.HE NRY STORY EVERY DAY—Humor, Pathos, Romance , ‘ Unique Recognition of Pee tion America Occupies on the Pacific BY J. W. T. MASON | The Famous Military Critic and Student of World Politics) Unique recognition of America's @ominant position in the Pacific ts ‘eontained in the persistent indica fiona that Canada, Australia and New Zealand desire to share the shel fer of American battle Meets, ‘An understanding among the four Gommonwealths for saferuarding the Pacific against Oriental control would «greatly add to the prestige Of the United States and would tn- “€rease the authority O this country ‘as the spokesman of democracy tn Far East Phe warships of Canada, Australia fe Now Zealand will not strengthen @aterially the fighting power of the American navy. But the moral ad- Wantage of having the three great ealf-governing English-speaking do-| Minions co-operating with America’s transpacific policies woul: ts, As Jong ak such a combina- existed Japan would have to on every idea of expanding In @ny direction that would imperil the @gonomic standards of the white “The @itish dominions facing the Pacific have no first class naval sta- tions for their own use. The United Btates ts now planning the construc ‘tien of several stations of the most f type. Canada, Australia and Zealand would have no major (mee for their navies in a war for i control of the Pacific if they 4 a avail themselves of the stations, Every reason of sound strategy, Wherefore, requires that the three @eminions co-operate in Far Eastern affairs with the United States, The dominions and America have Don't go or your tnitials, or something at be of de when you wear evening gowns, or you aren't fully “clothed, F @inive weight in all critical develop. according to Miss Bird Millman, New York girl, whom you see here being decorated fora News of the Big Auto Show Opens Today i NEW YORK, Jan. §.—Motordom's Diggest yearly event, the National Automobile Show, opened tn Grand Central palace today. This year’s ex position eclipses any of the 20 shows that have gone before. Not only out half dressed, gi The Pimienta Pancakes Copyright, 1980, by Doubleday, Page| & Co.; published by special arrange ment with the Wheeler Syndicate, Ino. While we were rounding up bunch of the TriangleO cattle in| the Frio bottor projecting | jbranch of @ dead mesquite omught |my wooden atirrup and gave my ankle # wrench that laid me up tn joamp for a week On the third day of my eompul-| sory idleness I crawled out near the lqrub wagon and reclined helpless | under the conversational fire of Jud son Odom, the camp cook, Jud was & monologist by nature, whom Dew | tiny, with customary blundering, had | net in & profession wherein he was! bereaved, for the greater portion of hin time, of an audience | Therefore, | was manna tm the) desert of Jud’n ebmutercen Betimes I wae etirred by invalid longings for something to eat that) did not come under the caption of | “grub.” I had virions of the mater nal pantry “deep as first love, and) wild with all regret,” and then 1| asked “Jud, can you make pancakes?” Jud taid down hin sixshooter, with which he wan preparing to pound| an antelope steak, and stood over| me in what I felt to be a menacing attitude. He further indorsed my! | impression that hin pose was resent ful by fixing upon me with hie anit | blue eyes a look of cold syxpleion. “Bay, you,” he mid, with candid, tho not excersive choler, “did you! mean that straight, or was you try. | ing to throw the gaff into me?| Some of the boys been telling you about me and that pancake racket? | “No, Jud," 1 maid, sincerety, “I meant It It seems to me I'd wwap) my pony and saddle for a «tack of! buttered brown pancakes with #ome | first crop, open kettle, New Orleans | sweetening, Was there a story about pancakes?” Jud was mollified at ones when he eaw that I had not been dealing in allusions. He brought some mys terious bage and tin boxes from the | grub wagon and set them tn the shade of the hackberry where T lay reclined. I watched him aa he be gan to arrange them lelwurely and| | irls! Have a bird, or a snake, “fancy” painted on your bac party by Artist Millard, Auto World New York Chamber of Commer@®, Of this total 88 concerns display pamenger cars. No motor trucks will be displayed. There are no radical changes among the several hundred car mod-| is housed in the palace. Manufac- | | foots up beside him on my brone amperated the plano quite @ lot with | “"'t aaid a sheep man,” Unele | operas, 1 gave au "You must have heard tell of | quotations from th nekson Bird, He's got limitations df a rattlesnake, and told tions of «racing and four thousnnd|her about Bnaky Melee's new way | head of the finest Merinos south of | of skinning cows, 1 denoribed the the Aretic Cirele. | trip I mae to Saint Louls once, We ‘T went out and sat on the ground | was getting along in one another's) in the shade ef the store and leaned | estimations fine. Thinks I, if J against a prickly pear, I sifted sand/son Bird can now be persuaded to into my boots with unthinking hands | migrate, I win, 1 recollect his prom. a J eight nec a | | while I soliloquized a quantity about | ise about the pancake recipe, and I| «ives me about pancakes? |thin bird with the Jackson plumage | thinks I will persuade it from Min | that.’ to bia name, Wriiletia and give it to him, and then) “I never had belleved in harming |if I catches Birdie off of Mired Mule | sheep men. I nee one, one day, read |again, I'll make him hop the twig ing @ Latin grammar on homback,| “Ho, along about 10 o'clock I put and I never touched him! They never|on a wheedling smile and says to irritated me like they do mont cow: | Minn Willella: ‘Now, if there's any men, You wouldn't go to werk Now, | thing I do like better than the slight! and impair and disfigure snooxerr, | of a red steer on green grasa, it’s the | would you, that eat on tables and/ taste of a nice hot pancake, smoth- | wear little hoes and peak to yOu OM | ered in sugar-house molaswen,’ | subjects? [had always lat ‘em pans,| “Mine Willelia gives a little jump just as you would @ jack-rabbit, with! on the piano stool, and looked at me| & polite word and a guess about the | curious weather, but stopping to wap) “Yen, ayn she, “theyre real canteens. I Over thought it Wa" nice What did you say wan the! worth while to be hostile with &/ name of that atreet In Saint Louis, anooser, And because I'd been len-| wr Odom, where you lost your hat?’ Jent, and let ‘em live, here was One| «Pancake ave,’ says 1, with @ going around riding with Mise Wil: | wink, to show her that I was on ella Learight! about the family recipe, and couldn't “An hour by sun they come loping | be sidetracked off of the subject. back, and stopped at Uncle Emeley’s | ‘come, now, Miss Willella,’ I says gate, The sheop person helped ber | sey hear how you make ‘om. Pan- off; and they stood throwing ach | cayen te just whirling in my head other sentences all eprightful and | i> wagon wheeln, Start her off, gacious for a while. And then thit| now pound of flour, eight dosen feathered Jackson flies up in hin m4! porn and wo on. How does the cata- | die and raines hia little stewpot of | iene of constituents run? a hat, and trots off in the direction of | “Sees me fee 8 mem his mutton ranch. By this time T “ “ had turned the sand ont of my boots | Please’ saye Mine Willella, and she gives me a quick kind of sideways Se Pe ecg nei aire wets | 00K, and slides off the stool She bait a mile out of Pimienta, 1 sina | poser ee his shirt sleeves, with a pitcher of water. He turns around to get a eins on the table, and I see a .46 in ashes was p ad fi his hip pocket, ‘Great post holes! spiyt ana. Ga aed pi the idea |thinks 1, but here's a family thinks Sheep mant—he wasn't more than |" heap of cooking recipes, protecting lamb man anyhow—a little thing 't With firearms. I've known outfits with his neck involved in a yellow | that wouldn't do that much by silk handkerchief, and shoes tied up | family feud’ | tn bowknots. | “Drink this here down,’ sayn “‘Afternoon? myn Tto him. ‘Yor! Uncle Emsley, handing me the glass | now ride with a equestrian who in| of water, ‘You've rid too far today, commonly called Dead-Moral-Certain- | Jud, and got yourself over-excited. ty Jadson, on account of the way 1) Try to think about something else shoot. When I want a stranger to | now.’ | know me I always introduce mynelf| “De you know how to make them | before the draw, for I never did Ike | pancakes, Uncle Emaley? I asked. to shake hands with ghosts’ “Well, I'm not aa surprised tn | “*Ah, mye he, just like that—‘Ah, | the anatomy of them as some,’ says I'm glad to know you, Mr. Judson. | Uncle Emaley, ‘but I reckon you take “I mld that snoozer was pink-cyed, but he waen't, Eile seeing arrange ment wae grey enough, but hin eye lof his shirt and shoved him in a cor |my natural cogitative instincts run / In newspaper. How does the anter “They're delicious,” I answered, | “Why don’t you bave some, toa Juar" | wan sure 1 heard a sigh. “Me?” said Jud. “I don't never eg m." or something Ifke that.’ “Married yenterday,’ says Unele Himaley, ‘and gone to Waco and Ni sgara Falls on a wedding tour. Why, didn? you nee none of the slens all along? Jackson Bird has been court | ing Willella ever sines that day he took her out riding.’ ‘a ‘Then,’ saye I, in a kind of yen, | what was all this sizaparoola he! Tell me FUNERAL SERVICES MAKION A. SANDERFER, 45, death by « truck at pendent Paper Stock Qo, plant Wednesday, were held at 2p |m, faturda the Georgetown Up dertaking parlors. ORE THROAT was crushed to “When T waid ‘pancakes Unele | 1% Ot omuley wort of dodged and stepped back “ ‘Somebody's been dealing me pan cakes from the bottom of the deck I ways, ‘and I'll find out. I believe you know, Talk up,’ says I, ‘or we mix a panful of batter right here.’ “J wlid over the counter after Unch Emaley, He grabbed at his gun, but it was in a drawer, and he minped it two inchen I got him by the front ner “Talk pancakes,’ says 1, mate into one. Does Miss Willella make ‘ém? = ™ Bhe never made one in her life and I never saw one,’ says Uncle Emaley, soothing. ‘Calm down now, 66 Y ‘Cure Your ; Jud—calm down, You've got ex! Rupture Like : etted, and that wound in your head . Tr} bi Vuimnee, try 'eat't wink won| | Cured Mine pancakes.’ “‘Uncle Emaley,’ sayn I, “m not! wounded in the head except no far az| Old Sea Captain Cured His Own Rupture After Doctors Said “Operate or Death” VArORUE tee 6] to runta, Jackson Bird told me he ’wan calling on Minn Willella for the purpone of finding out her system of producing pancakes, and he asked me to help him get the bill of lading of the ingredientn. I done so, with the remults as you see. Have I been nodded down with Johnson grass by & pink-eyed mnoorer, or what?” “Slack up your grip on my dreas shirt,’ says Uncle Emaley, ‘and I'll tell you. Yes, it looks like Jackson |: Birt had fone and bumbugeed you some. The day after he went riding with Willella he came back and told me and her to watch out for you whenever you got to talking about pancakes. He said you was in camp onee where they was cooking Map. jacks, and one of the fellows cut you over the head with a frying pan Jackson said that whenever you got overhot or ‘excited that wound hurt you and made yon kind of cragy, and | you went raving about pancakes. He | told um to Just get you worked off) His Remedy and Rook Sent Pree Capt Collings satied the seas for | many years; (hen he sustained @ | bad double rupture that soon forced him to not only remain ashore, but kept him bedridden for years. He tried doctor after ductor and truss No results! Finally, he that he must either dangerous and abhor- tion ar @ 1 He cured hime I'm Jackson Hird, from over at Mired| «lifter of plasterof-paria and aj of the subject and soothed down, and, Mule Ranch.’ Fee | fittle douch and saleratus and corn) you wouldn't be dangerous. Lng me “ 'e 4 and Willella done the best by you) Just then one eyes saw a) meal, and mix ‘em with eggs and) : roadrunner tkinping Gown the nin | buttermilk as usual In old Bili|we knew how. Well, well, with a young tarantula in his bill, | ome to ship beeves to Kansas City | Uncle Emaley, ‘that Jackson Bird is untie their many strings. | No, not a story,” maid Jud, as he worked, “but just the logical dis closures in the case of me and that from Mired Mule urers are tending to conservatiam in betterments, and the most pro nounced change will be found in the straight stream lines that now extend from the hood clear back to the ton- interest in making a circle doom it break all records, but it ts democracy around the Pacific. the most comprehensive autornobile ‘s vital needs for defense are | show event held tn the world. of the Pacifio far more| The first auto display was held tn anooner of the Atlantic, ‘Under these circumstances, any “‘¥enture by America into internation- * politics is more likely to Make) country an associate of Canada, Australia and New Zealand than of the transatlantic powers, _ PREDICT GREAT NAVAL BASE AT SAN FRANCISCO WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. — The it congressional committees scon } reach ® unanimous decision on a Gite for establishment of a great pvat base for the Pacific fleet at _ @ar Francisco, Senator Ball, of Dela- Predicted today. | chairman of the committees, RESENTATIVE 'S COAST JAP PLANS WASHINGTON, Jan. #-—"Con- no doubt will solve the immi- problem without offense and stil! exctude all who cannot fit inte our na Representative B. F. lelty, Ohio, wrote today to Gov, W. ing @ special national laundry wash the dirty linen of his state, mn the fact is that every state in Union has an undesirable class.” Welty objected to what he said Stephens’ statement that the outnumbered whites in Cal- fornia schools. “No unbiased man can quite on ind the settlement of your land c jon,” the representative wrote, prohibiting land ownership by “Japanese, when the question could Rhave been settled without giving ‘of fense and as effectively by making | it unlawful for any allen to own = = st OAT | PREPARED BY SAMUEL J. HUMES Beat Des Moines—Goot. Motnes-Tacoma Highline—Fair te © King county line. Benton Renton Junction—Fatr; reerading at Renton; almost impassable. Maple Valley — impassable at Cedar Mountain; regrading. To reach Maple Valley go via Inmaqnah and Hobart or via Swan Lake Pipe Line road. Maple-Valiey-Blark Diamond —Coed. Keat-Mapt eValley—New ron4 open from Kent east; fair shape; balance of road good. joodin vite Good. I-Fall City—Good, yall " - Isenqaah—G oot ton- Kelleview —Good. law-Franklin—-New eonerete two miles from Enumclaw, Good gravel beyond Auburn-Black Diamond—New concrete two miles beyond Auburn, Good iso via Soom creek. Kast of North Bend— Wee or Camp Mason. Snow on mountain section, Snoqualmie ALL PAVED ROADS IN GooD CONDITION Beach Koad — Paving oom. pleted; use care. — The Seattie-Vashon Heights ferry discontinued. Dew Moines-Portage ferry is in operation. Road ‘om Vashon Heights south cloned for paving, Other roats om island good to fair. -Kent—Kast Side—New concrete pavement open for travel Continuous concrete road from Kenton to Auburn. One. er mile from Renton city Tints almont impassable, BRIDGES UNDER CONSTRUCTION Duvall bridge will bs open for traffic funday, January 9. Yor further iptormation eall Main 6 “4 Madison Square Garden in 1900, and had a total of only 66 exhibitors. There are nearly 400 exhibitors at this year’s exposition, held under thé auspices of the National Automobile Accessory H Conditions thruout the country @uring the past year on the whole have not been altogether satisfactory, due to a certain reaction, which al- most necessarily follows any creat struggle such as the one which ended @ little over two yearn ago. Expecially was the falling off of mies Roticed tn the automotive and acces. gory field. There hax been one ac cessory house, however, which has done exceedingly well and indeed has largely inereanad its sales, the Western Auto Supply Agency. Their progress has been a succession of expansions from a small beginning until now they are operating storea in many different cities, extending as far Bast as Chicago, The Western Auto Supply Agency recently announced that this past) Auto Engineers | Set Sizes of | British Tires LONDON, Eng. Jan. &—-Follow- ing the example of the automobile }and tire manufacturers in the United States, the Institution of Automobile Engincers has worked out @ series of standard sizes for tires which will be adequate to the requirements of all cars made in England. Britwh tire manufacturers have already decided to suspend produc tion of tires not included in the standard list. They are, however, continuing te supply such tires to those who have automobiles that re- | quire them, but this supply will dwindle as new automobiles are bought up. | It was in 1917, when, partlyjas a ‘war measure and partly to malfe for | | cheapness in production, the Amer-) fean tire and automobile manufac: turers came to an agreement on cer- tain definite sizes for the whole in- dustry. The result has been that |no car has since been made whose wheels would require tires of irregu-| =| MOTORCYCLES TO AID lar size. | The British manufacturers have) | the same purpose in securing cheap- | ness and better production in view. | Standardization of the tire sizes wil also make for more accurate manw facture, it Is contended, because an} entirely new series of molds will be) made for the new sizes. The automobile manufacturers tn England have agreed not to pro- duce models hereafter that will call for tires of other than the standard | sizes. IN CHECKING CRIME Gripped in the throes of the most stupendous crime wave in its his- tory, New York City is making use of every method known to modern police forces to combat the menace. An appropriation has been made by the city’s board of esti mate and apportionment of $50,000 for the purchase of 80 motorcycles and sidecars. This equipment is to be used by armed patrols and will serve to make escape of daring | holdup men by automobile more | difficult, Burglars have committed | crimes in broad daylight@ escaping | with ease from police on foot, who| were powerless to pursue except in commandeered autos, which not ajways instantly available or efficient. The motorcycie's propen- | sities for rapid acceleration and) high speed make it especially adapt-| | werr able to the work of tracking down | criminals mounted in high-powered autos, New York's experience ih the matter of motorcycle police has been such that the expenditure | ouse Remarkable Progress' | Prix, the Indianapolis 6004nile and | study the effects of pink-eyed neau in some makes. Engines have) been impraved in many cases, but | the four and atx types stlil predom- Makes Canada and Misy Willella Learight T don't mind telling you. 1 was punching then fer old Bil Toomey, on the San Miguel One day I gets all ensnared up tn axpt! rations for to eat rome canned grub| that hasn't ever mooed or baaed or grunted or in peck measures. So, I gets on my brone and push the wind for Uncle Emaley Telfair’s| store at the Iimienta Crossing on the Nurcen “About 3 In the afternoon I throtwed my bridle rein over a mes quite limb and walked the last 20/ yards into Uncle Bowley’s store. 1 got up on the counter and told Uncle Emaley that the signs pointed to the devastation of the fruit crop of the world, In a full minute I had a bag ot crackers and a long-handied spoon, with an open can each of apri cots and pineapples and cherries and xreen gages beside of me. with Unc Emaley bury chopping away with the ohet at the yellow clings. I was fooling like Adam before the apple stampede, and was digging my spurn to the side of the counter and working with my 24-inch @poon, when I happened to look out of the window Into. the yard of Uncle Ems been year has been the most prosperous one they have ever had. The reason | for Uhetr prosperity can be attributed | to the fact that they are giving the! biggest values and their doing bust} ness on so large a scale that they can buy in larger quantities and cheaper, thus giving customers we benefit of the savings in lower prices. Mr, George Pepperdine, president of this organization, saya: “The co operation of our old customers /and the making of new friends will en able us to continue to grow and give even lower prices for standard | and dependable auto supplies By | growing cooperation we will be able to deliver the goods at even greater savings than we have tn the Past” Barred Out, Germans Build Own Speedwa Barred out from the raoe on the Indianapolis speedway, Ger- many’s auto racing enthusiasts have | decided to bulla their own course. Heretofore most of Germany's rae ing prowess was gained on foreign soil, expecially in the French Grand store. “There was a gir! atanding there an imported girl with fixings on— phitandering with a croquet mau! and amusing hervelf by watching my style of encouraging the fruitcan ning industry, I slid off the counter and deliv. iJ el to Uncle Emsley * gay he; ‘Mine | Willella Lenright, down from Pales Une on a visit. Do you want that I should make you acquainted? “The Holy Land,’ I mys to mynelt. my thoughts milling some aa I tried to run ‘em Into the corral. ‘Why not? ‘There wav sure angels In Pal om Why, yes, Uncle Emeley,’ I enys ont loud, ‘I'd be awful elified to meet Mian Learight.’ “So Uncle Emsley took me out tn the yard and gave us @ach other's entitiementa, the old Vanderbilt cup road races, Refusal to accept the Mercedes as one of the contestants at Indianap- olis, and the intimation that German cars would be kept from participating in the Grand Prix has resulted in| “I never was shy about women, I the move for a German race course.| never could understand why some ‘The course, it ts said, will be bullt| men who can break a mustang be near Hanover, It will be five miles | fore breakfast and shave in the dark, in circumference. ‘The track will be| get all jeft-hamded and fall of per-| 140 feet wide, It will be made of steel | *piration and excuses when they see plates over a foundation of trussed | a bolt of calico draped around what concrete. Within the track circle it, belongs in {t. Inside of eight min is proposed to erect @ gigantic build. | utes me and Miss Willella was agera. | ing containing private assembling | vating the croquet balls around as planta and testing laboratories. amiable as second cousins. She KavP me a Aig about the quantity of canned fruit I had eaten, and I got back at her, flat-footed, about how a certain lady named Eve start- ed the fruit trouble in the first free grass pasture—‘Over in Palestine, wasn't It? gays I, a8 easy and pat as ‘ roping @ one-year-old. Transport “That waa how T acquited confit. ty for the proximities of Mix Will SYRACUSE, N.Y, Jan. &—Motor eNa Learight; and the disposition transportation has loomed so large,| T° larger as time passed. She was especially wince the war, that it has | tOPPing at Pimienta Crossing for | been made a special ‘subject for | Mer health, which was very good, and | study by the Syracuse University |r the climate, which was 40 per Setiech ek etncen, cent hotter than Palestine. I rode The course over to #ee ber once every week for le being conducted bo Ponportation |. while; and then I figured out that | L, Raper, who is taking up ‘the sub- tt I doubled the number of tripe I Ject expecially from ita economic and | Ould see her twice as often. selentific standpoint. A prerequinite| “One week T slipped In a third trip:| for the course is ability to operate | 224 that’s where the pancakes and and care for an automobile, and most |‘he Pink-eyed snoozer busted into of the students are already expert in|‘? #™*- Tea acegeeblia secuetey, ‘That evening, while T set on the | “The course has to do with the| fnter with m peach and two dam- solution of motordom problems,” ex. sone in iy mouth, I asked Un plains Professor Raper. “How to ree | ney how Miss ‘Walele was, duce annual cost of maintenance and hy, says Uncle nsley, ‘she's depreciation, how the life of the car | "0" "ding with Jackson Rird, the | can be prolonged at least expense, | (noer man from over at Mired Mule the ad o! tC ap | the two damson heeds, I guess some. speed. Zhe moter track will prob-| yoay held the counter by the bridle ably replace short hauls on the rad} ¥ while ” or d road; therefore railroad men want to| cue. stwghie heat Kice ; bles a know what kind of competitive serv: | against the meaquite where my roan ice to give. waa tied = “‘She'a gone riding,’ 1 whiaper in| The government of France ts pre-| my bronc’s ear, ‘with Birdstone Jack aring to apend 1,500,000 franca to the hired mule from Sheep Man's | automobiles and | ¢ nda. Did you get that, old Leath trucks on road surfaces, The present| er-and-Gallops? roads were never intended for the at brone of mine wept, in his strain put upon them by motor ve-| way, He'd been raised a cow pony hicles, and it is the object of the] and he didn’t care for snoozers, government to find a new kind of| “1 went back and said to Unele New Course to Study Auto | | 1 pi of such @ large sum is entirely (Justified, road that will effectively stand up|Mmsley: ‘Did you say a. sheep against such wear man? 1 ley’s house, which wag next to thegnyphens and at least one eet of him, ‘and Il] do the same, One one generation to another, but they | and the other eye noticed a rabbit.| S#in this epring, Judt hawk sitting on’s dead limb in a| “That was all the pancake epectts. | water elim. 1 popped over one after| Cations I could get that night. 1/ the other with my forty-five, just to|‘tdn't wonder that Jackson Bird show him. “Two out of three,’ says | found !t uphill work. So I dropped "Birds just turally seam to|the subject and talked with Uncle ever I go.’ |omstey a while about hollow-horn * Maye the sheep | and cyclones. And then Mins Willella man, without @ flutter. ‘But don’t | “me and mld ‘Good night,’ and J hit} you pometimes ever mian the third | {he breese for the ranch. shot? Elegant fine rain that was| “About a week afterward I met) last week for the young gram, Mr.| Jackson Bird riding out of Pimienta | Judson” saya he. Jas 1 rode tn, and we stopped in the “Willie,” says I, riding over ctose| Toad for a few frivolous remarks. to his palfrey, ‘your infatuated pan| ‘Got the bill of particulars for ents may, have denounced you by | them flapjacks yet? I asked him. | the name’ of Jackson, but you sure| “ ‘Well, no,’ says Jackson. ‘I d@'t moulted into a twittering Willie—tet | seem Mp oc oP pot a in getting us slough off this here anal: of | bold of it. Did you try? rain and the elements and va ap od “"l did,’ mays I, ‘and ‘twas Ifke try- to talk that in outside the vocabulary \!ne to dig @ prairie dog out of hin of parrots. ‘That is a bad habit you| hole with a peanut bull That pan have got of with young ladies |C@ke receipt must be « jookalorum, over at Pimienta. “ve known birds,’ |the way they hold on to it’ wayn I, ‘to be werved on toast for lexa| “‘I'm most ready to gtve it up.’ than that. Mins Willella,’ says I,|®y" Jackron, 9 discouraged in his don't ever want any nest made out) Pronunciations that I felt sorry for of sheep's wool by a tomtit of the| him: ‘but I did want to know how to Jacksonian branch of ornithology,|™make them pancakes to eat on my Now, are you going to quit, or do| lonely ranch,’ mays he ‘T lie awake you wish for a gullop up against this|*t Tighte thmking how good they Dead-Moral-Certainty attachment to | ®t" my name, which - food for two| ~ “You keep on trying for oe ee tt» | us in bound to get a rope over horns before tong. Well, solong, Jackay.’ funeral obsequien? “Jackson Bird Rs ealiied and then he tnughed. “Why, Mr. Judson,’ ayn he,| “You ee, by this time we was on | ‘you've got the wrong idea T've | the peacefullest of terme. When I allied on Mins Lenright a few times, |W that he wasn't after Mise Wil but not for the purpose you. iim. |slla I had more endurable contempla- | agine. -My object in purely & gastro.)%ons of that sandy-haired snoozer. | nomical one.’ i gap ll acon hs [In order to help out the ambitions | “t reached for say gus: of hin appetite I kept on trying to “‘Any coyote,’ says 1, ‘that would | Ket that recipe from Miss Willella. boast of dishonorabie | But every time I would say ‘pan-/ “Walt a minute,” says thin Bird, |caker’ she would get sort of remote ‘uM I explain. What would I ae | Phoane Gk oes “iy #1 a — with a wife? If you ever saw that | © change the subje ‘anch of mine! I do my own cook.|to it she would slide out and round tenth tb podieaiien Eben “atue Lox | store with a fine bunch of blue ver- righ. waaieae? |benas that I cut out of a herd of “'Me? No,’ I told him. ‘1 never| Wild flowers over on Poisoned Dog | culinary maneuvers.’ i eye 8 way | “They're golden sunshine’ sayn oma n . ve fara the news? | he, “honey browned by the ambrosia!) inci, and Jackson Bind was fires of Epicurua. I'd give two yearn en wee ccs Ban we of my life to get the recipe for mak. | MAFTis® in Ssiestine yesterday, saye ing them pancakes. That's what 1|4¢, ‘Just got a letter this morning. went to see Mins Laaright for,’ myn| “I @ropped them flowersin @ Jackson Bird, ‘but I haven't been | cracker barrel, and he eh tes able to get tt from her. It's an old | ‘tickle in my ears and down towa: recipe that's been in the family for |i upper leftshand shirt pocket until years, They hand it down fi po achieved gon 7 hat tt | "Would you mind saying that over again once more, Uncle Ems ley? nays I. ‘Maybe my hearing has got wrong, and you only said that prime heifers was 4.80 on the hoof, don’t give it away to outsiders. If I could get that recipe, so I could make them pancakes for myself on my ranch, I'd be a happy man,’ says Rird | “‘Are you mre’ I mys to him, ‘that It ain't the hand that mixes the pancakes that you're after? “ ‘Sure, says Jackson. Mina Lea. | right is a mighty nice girl, but T can assure you my intentions go no further than the gastro—' but he seen my hand going down to my holster, and he changed his xtmiti. | tude—'than the desire to procure a copy of the pancake recipe,’ he fin. ishes. “"You ain't such a bad Nttle man, nays I, trying to be fair. ‘I was thinking some of making orphans of your sheep, but I'll let you fly away this time. But you stick to pan cakes,’ says I, ‘as close as the middle one of a stack, and don't go and mistake sentiments for syrup, or there’ll:be singing at your ranch, and | you won't hear it.* “Po convince you that T am cere,’ says the sheep man, ‘I'll you to help me. Miss Learight and you being closer friends, maybe she would do for you what she wouldn't for me. If you will get me a copy of that pancake recipe, I give you! ‘ord that I'll never call upon her again “That's fate,’ T says, and 1 shook | hands with Jackson Bird, ‘I'll get it for you if T can, and glad to oblige.’| And he turned off down the big pear flat on the Piedra, in the direction of | Mired Mule, and I steered northwest | for old Bill Toomey's ranch | “It was five days afterward when | I got another chance to ride over to| Pimlenta. Miss Willella and | A Good New Year Resolution Keep a Record of your Automobile and Truck Operating Costs sin ask A Btewart Speedometer will help you. AN models for cars and trucks. Drive In for Service Stewart Products Service Station 910 East Pike Street passed a gratifying evening at Uncle Limsley’s, She sang some, and ex- sure a seldom kind of a moozer.’” During the progress of Jud's story | he had been slowly but deftly com- bining certain portions of the con- tents of his mocks and cans, Toward the clone of it he mt before me the finished product—a pair of red-hot. rich-hued pancakes on a tin plate. | o4 From some secret hoarding place he alxo brought a lump of excellent but- ter and a bottle of golden syrup. “How long ago did these things! happen?” I asked him | “Three years,” said Jud. “They‘re living on the Mired Mule Ranch now. But I haven't seen either of ‘em since. They my Jackson Bird was fixing his ranch up fine with rock ing chairs and window curtains all | the time he was putting me up the| pancake tree. Oh, I got over it after | a while But the boys the racket up.” | “Did you make these cakes by the famous recipe I asked. | Didn't I tell you there wasn't no} recipe?™ said Jud. “The boys hol-| lered pancakes till they got pancake | hungry, and I cut this recipe put of | Capt Collings made a study of himself, of his condition— end at bh maelf, and how any one follow the same treatment in own home without any trouble. book and medicine are FREE. |will be sent prepaid to any ruptu! | fi sufferer who will fill eut the b coupon. But send it right a new—before you put down this pe- per. ea They FREE RUPTURE nook REMEDY COUPON Capt. W. A. Collings (Inc.), Box 47-K, Watertown, ©. Y. Please send me your FREE and Book without aay my part whatever. 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