The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 31, 1921, Page 9

ONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1921. The Wreckers | by } Francis Lynde (Copyright, 1980, by Chartes Horth- ner’s Sone) ynthia rey Believes Many Di- Result From larriages Between len and Women of| Unequal Social Rank. iy Dear Mise Grey: 1 would just $0 may a word or two with re to the young girl ef today. I HOt Write this, but I have just ore (Continued From Yesterday) CHAPTER XNXTII The Major's Premonition Notwithstan w run and/ the near-disaster Mountain, we had our meeting wit e Strath a mine the fell }morning; and that much of th 2 cial train trip. se pur &® trying oxperien anyway The boss met the miners that where my trouble was.| a yoot bit : ja good bit more than half-way Mlso, ts the trouble of other gave them and Thad met a Hatchowned ame by promising that our traffic depart: | ' | | | | a ng the al on 8 a ape ved and ple and their reilef the young man in an un seid ig ob > ad Way, consequently I the knowledge of my with him from my par because he was not] i cteot eclal equal, and 1 did not wish best frienda to know him. Part]. They tried to give him an ovation Y his Jee ea: par rad | for that--the men— did tiie Reker tet ‘ind lgive him a banquet luncheon at the to like me and did try to | Shatt House Grill, a luxurious club MKS Me like him, which I did, after | fitted up with rough beams and raft fashion. Weill, to make long |¢rs to make it look like its name. Short, he asked me to marry | And on account of the !ANG, On the spur of the moment,/W84 Nearly three o’ek After I got home I afternoon before we got fo think things out, and I saw|the return to Portal City dm the light my friends, who} We had seen nothing of Mr. Van Be wholly uninterested in him,| Britt during the day, and until we eee him in. Jcame to start out I thought maybe Ht knoW what to do; I talked |he bad gone back to Portal City on 4 land tried to raise him to my }the regular train. But at the sta Tn a rough way it could/tion I saw the pilot engine just But he lacked the refine |ahead of us again, and tho I Of character that I had been | couldn't be quite I thought 1 to in my Boy friends, so I was|caught a glimpse our athletic and gave up. little general superintendent on the pt you think that I was right?/fireman's box think that if we girix| The boss was pretty quiet all the to our tmothers, and|way on the run down the mountain they tell us and meet boys|to Bauxite, and, for a wonder, he Us to, a whole lot of jdidn’t pitch into the work at the be saved many people? desk. Instead, he sat in one of the foo many marriages made) big wicker chairs facing a rear win the social scale is too badly |dow, smoking, and apparently ab @on't you think that that sorbed in watching the crooked | the Cause of so many divorces? |track of the branch unreel itself ae ¥. PO. F. jand race backward as we slid down Were tm the right, according to the, grades Of thinking. A sone person! 1 coull tell pretty well what he ‘Rot rush headiong into a busi-| was thinking about. For six moi without seriously consider- he had been working like a horse @utcome from every angle. to pull the Short Line out of the stripped of its sentimental-|mudhole of contempt and hostility Blamor, is much like a bust /into which a more or justly ‘ship, and to found it swc-|aroused public enmity had dumped the parties must be com |it; and now, just as he was begin: | }ning to get it up over the edge, he |had been plainly notified that he was going to be killed if he didn't [let go. | On the reverse curves he could see the pilot engine feeling its way | down the mountain ahead of us, and I guess that gave him another twinge. It's tough on @ man to think that he can't ride over his own railroad without being hedged | up and guarded. But the really tough part of ft waa not so much the mere fact of getting killed. It was the other and sharper fact that, | just as the way seemed to be open-| ing out to better things for the| |Short Line, a minset switch or a| bullet in the dark would knock the | jentire bard-built reform experiment into a cocked hat. | There was every reason, new, to| hope that the experiment was going | to be a success, at least, at our end/ of it, if it could go on just @ little farther. Slowly but surely the new| policy was winning tts way with the public. Traffie was booming. | ment would make an tariff to the independent smelter on the oth er sid low enough to ore of the range the producers. Strathcona banquet it k in the away for sure, oft 3 friends could make or mar fature married life by placing samp of approval or disap- Wal on the man you chose for a You were, indeed, wise to break sl ment, for his sake, as| your own Miss Grey: Several Umes T have written to you, and food advice, so here I am ‘16 years old and weigh 136 and look as tho I weigh Of cours, I wish to » Won't you please print strict dieting menu and what etc, to follow? = » BABY ELEPHANT. wil help to reduce wll also give freshness to complerion: t Breakfast, exy fruit except or bananas; but it must de ae * * FS VD LKR To BAKE A FRUITCAKE SuT IF | DO SOMEBOW WikL HAVE “TO MAKE A TRIP To ‘THE STort First! + DOINGS OF THE DUF. FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS {_ WELL, COMB On IF Yoy'QE SP “nrev«~T Shown Wave TAKEN FRECULES OTTO STREET CAR RIGHT INTHE PATH OF A BIG $9000. LIMOUSINE! Qin Page 274 CROSSING THE PRAIRIE THE SEATTLE STAR It Sounds Like an Alibi | WANT Five POUNDS OF SUGAR ~TWo Pour. DS OF RAISINS AND Some TOM, WiLL YOU GO ‘TO ‘THE STORE AND GET SOME THINGS FOR Me? | WANT "To MAKE A Fruit cake! — uM -YUM~- A FRUIT cae! WELL-Uow DID (OW) UKE WE WKE UD WACTAKT WAS A BAD * ACCIDENT FRANK WAD* BELIEVE A WORD WHAT WAS “THERE TD “MAT GUY SAYS? WALDO, MEET MASS KRONE, YOUR DINNER PARTNER pp without sugar, Weak tra with if @ lump of sugar and a dash of rye or whole wheat toasted, caten with salt in- Of butter; one soft-boiled cag. “funchron,-any veoctable that see em top of the ground, except and corn, weak tea with lemon, gan chop or bit of steak. G@ianer, lean beef, lamb, or the meat of chicken; any veoe- above. No sweets, ‘mo malt liquor. Milk, but- nuts, potatoes, chocolate, are only seven hours at night; mo maps during the day, and at least three miles every 24 A fiwe-mile walk is bet- meotning take at least deep breathing. eee pare the Rod, poil the Child? Miss Grey: In anewer to ot Maybe my |help many Fo am a mother somewhat older the one just mentioned I my two boys with the lay-on I want to write “Sorrowful experiences and almost from the first the inter- state commerce inspectors had let | us alone, just as the police will let | a man alone when there is reason! }to believe that he hay taken a brace and is trying best to walk straight. | Also, for the drastic /tntrastate regulations—the laws about head- | \lights, and safety devices, and grade [crossings, and full crews, and the making of reports to this, that, and the other state official; laws which | if enforced to the letter, would have jleft the railroad management with |little to do but pay the bills; | for these something better was to be} substituted. We had Governor-elect | Burrelfs assurance for this, He} had met the boss in the lobby of the Bullard the day after the elec tion, and I heard him say: “You have kept yc promise, | Norer For the fir Ume in its |history, your railroad has let @ atate | campaign take its course without | bullying, bribery, or underhanded | corruption. You'll get your reward. are going to new | and a railroad commission with au thority to both ways—for the his | laws Yee Guyt You sald somebody |‘cause they were evertastingty told you a peachy story, | ens to fight the Indiana you were just starting In to tell ft} “So there were scouts, grown to me when we had to go In to| Gp men, you know, who rode far school, remember? said David. [ahead and found out If there was “Sure, I do, but I can’t remem-| “ny danger. “So one day the two scouts came back and mid, There is a |band of Indians riding this way ber the names or just where it/ was, only I know ft waa some peo- | ple who were coming out to the Puget Sound country, and these|st full gallop! They are in war two children are the ones they lived that| paint, and they look dangerous? “They stopped then and fixed up their for€ the way they told the story, and all right here afterward. “But, all right, if you want to hear ft, anyway, [ will go right all did. Made a circle out of the wagons and horves, piled what pid |solld things they had against the inside of the ring, put the women “Well, these settlers were crom# ing the prairie on thelr way to|and children tn the middie, and the Coast; there were 25 of them, |the men stood up and fired or got mostly men and women, but there | ready to shoot thru the cracks. lt Twenty-five isn’t a very was one little boy and one ney didn’t have any time to tle girl. jlowe, either—not a minute—and Voy wiFe 1s GOING “TO BAKE A FRUIT Cake! ANY BOTTLES Do youP A NICE EASY Nive NAN, BUT T HAD “To CARRY THEM JUST CARRIED ME~ Bom T CARRIED JunBo 1 Kilow “That Wu > — BRAGGING ABOUT BEWG RUN OVER BY ASQO00. . LIMOUSINE, MIDI BET / TT WAS ONLY A - — WHY, THEY NGVGR DID ANYTHING OF “He t ENGLAND NEVER HAD THAT You MGAN “To Tecu 2S GE. Y system. Result—I have two 1 big bunch to trawel like that, but |their weak fort was barely fin T MGAN TO TELL YoU THAT I CAN HGAR You WITHOUT YOUR SHOUTING UKE A RED- HEADED HOOK*AND-LADDER CAPTAIN ATE ——— A Fire tf Yours ARGUING With ME, NOT WATH THG RES ‘men for sons—perhaps no bet-| People when it's needed, and for the “han thousands of other men.|°@‘riers when they need it. If you} daring all their period at home|°&n show that the present laws are | let the unhappiness we all had.|¥PJust to your earning powers, you'll | cross and dinagreeable—|eet relief and the people of this bee afraid and unhappy—father Commonweal cheerfully pay GaAs night, tired, disgusted, and|the bills.” they got along all right nearty all | ished when over the hill came the , : The iceberg beneath had turrets and towers and chimneys and windows exactly like a castle. he way they came wasn't tn | At twon or fours like soldiers now, 50 yelling savages, the way. Then one morning two ng back ; - scouts came rid h will last the twins were ahout to escape from the undersea palace of but cause a voleano to appear at that very moment. Up it boiled from| “Boy scouts?” interrupted Da contented. n years later a little baby | ame to our home. I started game way—was sick and cross ‘of the time—but finally. one I found a more loving, sweet happy way to live and tried it ys my daughter. . to think of a ty, disobedient, etc, my family fould reflect those things in return I just began to correct her by and gently showing her the ‘Way to do things, and now that in a young lady, we are the best chums, and our home is very con and happy. MOTHER OF A HAPPY HOME. 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T manent prosperity tho, and even past | machinations of t afters, there wag the original barrier that al reform coul ere could be no per for Short while its majorit ock was mmtrolled by men who cared abso jutely nothing for the property as working factor in the Ife and uctivities of the region it served That was the way Mrs. Sheila had put it to the boss, one evening along in the summer when they were sit ting the Kendricks’ porch, | and I had butted in, as usual, with @ bunch of telegrams that didn’t She had said ox be a un ditions could be changed that ro long as the owned or control'ed Mr. Dunton sort and in the money-mak would never be any the t that the ment couldn't success pe in railroads were by men of the some way; used as counters ing game, there real pe d the ce between comp: nies people at | I knew that the had taken | that saying of hers for another of | the inspirations, and that he believed | it clear thru to the bottom. But I guess he didn't see any way as yet| in which the Duntons could be or just what could be made if they were shaken out Bauxite netion that He had been down in the sugar-beet country a business trip, and had come up as far as Bauxite on a freight, | after the Sedgwick operator had told that our spect on the way from ‘Strathcona, and that he could catch it at the Junction I was glad when I saw him come 1 had just thinking that it wasn’t healthy for the boss to be grilling there at the car window so long @lone, and I knew Mr, Hor nack- would keep him talking about something or other all the rest of the way in (Continued Tomorrow) large. boss shak en out to happer It at J nack on hom the | harm, even if it didn't help me. | very lightest of food do even & little testimonial add my voice to all the rest who are Stores. vid |but the whole business strung out lin a straight line mide by side.” (To Be Continued) “No. Yon nee all these partios had to be kind of like little armies, et , An alr mail and passenger service betw nd other large ports Philippine islands will seon be The annual cost of maintaining; troops in Ireland is $250,000,000 IT MADE LIFE WORTH LIVING AGAIN, SHE SAYS Spokane Woman Declares Tanlac Has Freed Her of uffering. “DANDERINE’ Girls! 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For years m stomach was badly out of order had to li on the and en then after meals and yurs of suffering and dl I was very nervous, couldn't at night, and often had terrfble headaches, I always felt so tired and worn out it was an effort for r weeping and a number of and they # ne gas would form suse trene, reat rr Immediately after a “Danderine” masnauge, your hair takes on new life uster and wondrous beauty, appear ng tylee nd plentiful, be: cause each hair seems to fluff and thicken, Don't let your hair sti ifelens, colorléss, plain or dusting Tania med so sin wre I decided to try the medicine, on idea that it would do me no But done me ¢ I want te Well, I read us ser ly You, too, want lote of long, strong beautiful A cent bottle of delightful Danderine” freghens your scalp, checks dandruff ‘and falling hair, Thig stimulating “beauty-tonic” gives to thin, dull, fading hair that youth ful brightness and abundant thick ness—All druggists! to my hair world surprise it has of good and now praising it. It certainly ts a grand medicine, and I believe it will help anyone who gives it a fair trial’ Tanlac is wold by the Bartell Drug Advertisement, the wicked Jinn, With the aid of t friends, the lobster, the crab and the sea cucumber they found their box of charms and the Magic Shoes. Nick was looking at his wonderful Map which owed him the road to the South Pole, when suddenly the lobster ried, comes the jJinn for his supper and I haven't it) |ready. I didn’t know {t was so late,” | | Yes, It was getting dark and the the bottom of the ocean (the lobstei r and the lava turned to rock, which piled higher and higher until { wched the top of the waves and made a very safe little island. he twins lost no tim up and before the Jinn could follow, they had wished then in their Magic Shoes. was floating moorings in the Arctic sea slowly southward Jinn was sliding down from his ice palace in the North on the Northern | the | Lights. |above it, Nancy's sharp | ‘Oh,” eried Nancy, do now, Nick? He ers again.” | But something happened. Sam] on the icebe Swift, the bird messenger, knew | very interesting. |where the children’ were and told] “All right,” agreed Nick, who had uiry Queen, What did she do something himself. He take us privon-| things on the moving mass. ‘ickie, let and crab scurried away just in time) selves far away wish ourselves down "she said, “It lookia| al THe WORLD ti” d clambering ) An iceberg had broken away from | nd As} twins were whizzing thru the air little eyes “what shal) we| spied something, in fact, two some ‘seen that the foeberg beneath had windows exactly like a castle, Aturrets and towers and chimneys and (Copyright, 1921, N. E. A) A GLORIOUS ESCAPADE FoR ANN A cheap bag lined with magenta silk; sleazy lace of a hideous desig Jand heavy gloves twice too large for Ann's wee hands; such was the trove Ann Lorimer, daughter-inlaw of a munitions millionaire, 1 snitched from the counters of a department} |store! “Why did she do it?” I whis to Martha “T can't imagine! Not one of these thi ¢ ever put on! | ible that Ann is a punishment on the willful child-wife of my brother-in-law, I was close to tears when ‘I followed the guard thru “the "up the narrow flight of steel steps of the woman's . and along a narrow gray cor lined on one side by a row of steel rods, the front of the cells. I bad never been in prfson before Never had I been in an asylum, or and institution where human beings are barred from the outside world. The strange odor of the place op- pressed me thought I must be walking tn my sl How could it ered would ‘Can it be kleptomanis moaned “I hope said Martha | go up to her cell at one ne. child needs you.” | I Mhorted—there is no other word to describe my indig. nant tone, “What Ann needs ts an old-fashioned © tisement!” I left: Marth: Just the legal p |be possible that I, Jane Lorimer, was “You | Per going to visit my sister-in-law, lock ed up in a cell? “T simply wouldn't believe me when I gave them my name and address,” was Ann's excited greet ing. “Why should they?" I said in a tone which I intended to make very difficulties with officers at the, hard and bitter. “The Lorimer wom- | desk tion, In |en are not accustomed to get them Igpite of my desire ‘al! selves into—* not haps the pe “Needs me th In spite of my indigr to inflict corp CONFESSIONS OF 4 Why THE BOOK OF MARTHA Th Just where I made my big mis take, Jane. If I'd only = snitehed | things I could use myself, the store tectives would have listened to me," Ann answered with a grimace, (To Be Continued) A BR I stopped suddenly. the poor girl's feelings? The gugrd walked away to the end of the odfridor. At last I had my chance to put the big q tions: “Ann, how did this happen? How did you get We ? Did you actually steal that awful bag and lace?” “Sure I did!” was the conscience. “Cheap stuff! hurt ouT—T ONE Cut out this slip, and mail it to Foley & Co,, 2885 Shef- field Ave., Chicago, writing your name and address clearly, You will receive urn a trial package con taining ‘s Honey and Tar Com |pound for coughs, colds and croup Foley Kidney Pills for pains in sides and back; rheumatism, backache, kid ney and bladder ailments; and Foley Cathartic Tablets, a wholesome and thoroughly cleansing cathartic for constipation, billodsness, headaches, and sluggish bowels.—Advertisement. 1S WORTH enclose with 5c 1221-Third Ave *COR.UNIVERSIT ¥