The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 7, 1921, Page 9

The Wreckers by Francis Lynde Universal Marriage and} Divorce Laws Would e : Prev | t can be dono; and I could 4g ent Immoral, Irre |it right here poe: Hey "short| aera Fathers From tine if 1 didn't have to fight so serting Their Off-|mary different kinds of devils at “ the same time,” sald the boss, spring. scowling down at the fire in the emtea, And then with a quick Dear Mise Grey: I am a young Jerk of his head to face her “You “woman and have a baby|sent the major a wire from the ly 2 years old, and expect an-/capital last night, telling him to} soon. I have heard, but did| persuade me not to go to Strath: elieve, that my husband is not)cona, Why did you do it? And how did you know 1 was thinking (Continued From Saturday) Finalty, one of the «iris with his name ts linked, came to And confessed. It would be im- for me to write or to ex: in In any way my deep despair, I have loved my husband ly and still care for him, But #o unhappy that I feel I should him as soon as the second babe bern. I could not support two i but I would take the first With me Could he take it away me? Thank you in advance the good advice 1 know you will ma MARY. | My dear girl, whatever of sym- You expect, I know that first will want the plain truth, ond, much I should like to say that would lighten your T must be frank with you of going?” For the first tine tn the whole six months I saw Mrs, Shella get | & little Mustrated, tho she didn’t} show it much, only In a Uttle more color in her cheeks, “Some day, perhaps, I may tel!) |you, but I can't now," she said |sort of hurriedly. And then: “You mustn't ask me “But you did send the wire?” “Yea.” “And you also sent another to Upton Van Britt? “I did” The boss smiled. “That second |mesage was an afterthought. You| | were afraid I'd be stubborn and go, | anyway. That was some more of | your marvelous reasoning, Tell me, | Your first duty is to doth of your! Sheila, did you know that there was | mot to one of them, and going to be a broken rail joint set duty ig doudied if your husband | to kill me on that trip?" his own You ought not to| That got her in spite of her heav-| the man from the responsi-lenty calm and I could see her press! Of his offspring’s support by) her pretty lips together hard, & all yourself. “Was that what they did? ehe T have not overlooked the fact that | asked, a bit trembly. Can remain with your husband) He nodded. “Van Britt was on the Gt the sacrifice of your own dig-| pilot engine ahead of my car, and he| But—4/ you divorce him, he | found it There waa no harm done.| find some way to evede paying) It was bad enough, God knows, to #et Glimony which the court would|a trap that would have killed every ‘ bedy on my train; but this other) = Letters lke this one show exactly | thing that has been pulled off tonight | kind of wretchedness results|is even worse. Mr. Dunton and his gome men atiempt to make|unprincipled followers have set a social customs to swift them-|thing on foot here which is due to More than that—it should grind us all to powder. Past that, our legislatures thrwout the they have contrived to handcuff me 4 WANT “Too ‘TO A Movie? FRECKLES AND HIS Aow, TAG, WELL HELEN, HAVEN’T YOU AND ‘TOM MADE UP YET? FRIENDS TAKE A NICE QI ON.A YACHT. Lows? urs that we must have universal and divorce laws, and eco- independence for mothers gad plight of this one. When, J will they awaken? . oe on Taz Dear Miss Grey: My wages for @re $2,204.60; I have a wid- mother to support; have built & home, which has a mortgage $4,000 on it; I have to pay per cent interest, with no income fom the house I am single Am any exemption on my tn- 193 man and Amer- Cugnot, im 1769, con- @ steam carriage, running 1 wheels, one in front and at the sides, and ren by en en- composed of two single-acting, cylinders, the pistons » N. Yu who, in 1895, obtained a for @ machine he had con- of the gas engine to the au- _ Recent earthquakes in Chile cans #4 mountains in the Andes range to/| |. so that I can't make a move without pulling down consequences of a per sonal nature upon President Dunton himself.” “Now my ‘marvelous tnner reason ing’ has gone quite blind,” she said, with a queer little smile “You'll have to explain.” “It's simple enough,” sald the bows shortly, “If Mr. Dunton had sent lonly hired emiasqries out here to | bribe the members of the legislature |—-but_he didn’t; he included a mem- ber of his own family.” I was looking straight at Mrs.| Sheila as he spoke, and I saw a sud den frightened shock jump into the slate-gray eyes. Just for a second. Before you couk! count one, ft was) gone and she was saying quietly: “A member of his own family? That is very singular, ten't {t? “It is, and it isn't The man who was sent with the bribe money has every qualification for the job, I should say, save one—diseretion. And I'm not sure that he may not be discreet enough, when he isn’t drunk.” | Again I enw the curious look tn) her eyes, and this time it was almost | like the shrinking from a blow. “Was there—was this thing that was done actually criminal? she asked, Just breathing at him. “It waa, indeed. The election laws | of this state have teeth. It is a pen-| itentiary offense to bribe either the electorate or the law-makers.” and she was no longer looking at him; she was staring into the heart basket. By and by she said: “You haven't told me this man's name—| know it?” I knew fast what the boss was the slip of paper that Dedmon had | written on from his pocket and/ was another shock for her none of | us could #ee it, She had her fuce/ the name on the paper. Pretty soon she said, sort of drearily: test of any human being came when he was asked to eliminate the | completely in order that his cause might prosper. Do you still believe at?” There was nilence for a little time of the glowing coals in the grate | the one who did the bribing; may I going to do, and he did it; Bers! Passed it across to her. If there turned away when she looked at “Once you told me that the true) personal factor; to efface himself INDIANS Page 280 WAS the daughter of a very, etirred up al the Indiana. They eartyday Pioneer talking, and | sid: she was remembering fust as hard “"White man come—more white an ever she could the stories she | ™man come—more white man! In had heard her father tell about | “an country—Indian no can stay the Tadlin war: if white man take all? “You eee,” she anid, in answer| “And they called a thousand In- to a question of David's, “that|dlans together and held « council Indian war was not fust a little of war and decided to kill and, fight between the Seattle settlers | burn and destroy all the white and the Indians about them. | people and thétr hares, for it was “In 1854 there were only abont | the Indians’ own country, and 4,000 white people weet of the | they had a right to ft. Cascades, A few on the Cowlltz| “So, of cours, all the settlers river, a few on the Coltumbla, a/ were getting ready, and they built few at Olympia, a few at Stella | blockhouses and forts and stock coom and fewer in Seattle. |ades and had bullets made, and “Little scattered groups of Uttle | watched and walted new homes, miles—and rough| “Now, father was one of the miles—ot river and lake ‘and| young men, and he belonged to a sound separating them from each military company of soldiers, and other. |one morning the white soldiers "The Indians were curious, like| were together on the side of a children, and like children friend. | «mall mountain—waiting, ly when they were pleased; but| “They had been told that an an a t 0 it. nee ot 100 tee It’s aN tn the diiy’s worth while ts any man who is “Of course. work. Any cause “They WORK while you sleep” Wowea\ 0, 7) \o THe Bow’ Do you feel bilious, constipated, Theadachy, upset, full of cold? Ta ‘One or two Cascarets tonight for your | liver and bowels. Wake up with h clear, stomach right, breath sweet and feeling fine. No griping, no in _ convenience. Children love Cascarets too. 10, 25, 50 cents. 1 jenen Precious Stones and Jewelry Unquestioned Quality Reliable Prices | AUBERT HANSEN ; is 1010 Second Avenue vastly bigger than trying to advance it.” | “Than any man, yes; but for a woman, Graham; wouldn't you allow something for the woman?” “I thought we had agreed long ago that there is no double stand ard, either in morals or ethice—one thing for the man and another for the woman, That is your own at- titude, isn't it?” | She didn't say whether ft was or not. She was holding the bit of paper he had given her #o that the| light from the fire fell upon it when she said: “I suppose your duty Is quite clear. In the slang of the street, you must ‘beat Mr. Hatch to| it’ You must be the first to de-| nounce this bribery, clearing your- | self and letting the ax fall where! it will, You owe that much to yourself, to the men who have| fought shoulder to shoulder with | you, and to that wider circle of| the public which is beginning to be-| lieve that you are honest and sin cere, don't you?” ‘The boss was shaking his head a bit doubtfully, “It isn't quite so simple as that,” | he.objected. “I don't know that I'd have any compunctions about send jing Collingwood to the dump. If the half of what they say of him is |true, he is a «pineless degenerate and hardly worth saving. But to ido as you suggest would be open re- |bellion, you know; while Dunton re mains president, 1 am his subor dinate, and if 1 should expose him jand his nepbew, the situation here would become simply impossible.” | “Well prompted. “Such a move would rightly and |properly bring a wire demand for lmy resignation, of a nature that leouldn’t be ignored—only it wouldn't, because I should anticipate it by re jsigning first, That is a small mat ter, introducing the personal element which we have agreed should be eliminated. But the results to! others; to the men of my staff and the rank and file, and to the pub-| lie, which, as you eay, is just be-| |ginning to realize some of the bene fits of a real partnership with * she its | they had the hearts of savages, and ‘specially those tribes east of the mountains were treacherous and cruel. “So when the settlers came and took up claima, and more trains of covered wagons brought more white settlers, and when gold was found on the Cowlitz, @ rush of many men from California army of Indians was near, and they chose that hill as a good thing for thetr little group to hide behind. They lay down all night and slept or listened. “And always a sentry whiked | up and down to watch and scouts crept out this way and that to seo what they could sea (To Be Continued aaekrne be so easily ignored.” “You have thought of some other expedient?” “No; I havent got that far yet. But I am determined that Hatch shall not be allowed to work his graft a second time upon the peo ple who are trusting me. I believe in the new policy we are trying) out. I'd fling my own fortune into) the gap if I had one, and, more| than that, I'd pull in every friend) I have in the world if by so doing | I could stand the Pioneer Short Line upon a solid foundation of hon | est ownership. That is all that te needed in the present crisis—abso lutely all” (Continued Tomorrow) cr .0n700. 8.188 PORTRAIT AND NATIVE it HERBS ‘soma pwr eveny paraat Over One Million | aorowta Tablets Taken Daily Cleans Body’ Inside Clears Complexion DRIVES AWAY * PIMPLES FO CALOMEL OR HABIT FORMING DRUG MADE FROM ROOTS, HERBS & BARKS ONLY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE IN EACH BOX | Girls! “DANDERINE” Save Your Hair! Make It Abundant! Immediatety after a “Danderine” masaage, your hair takes on new life | luster and wondrous beauty, appear ing tw cause thicken, © as heavy and plentiful, be ch bair seems to fluff and Don't let your hair sts color! plain or seraggly You, too, want jots of long, strong, beautiful hair, bottle of freshens your scalp, dandruff and falling hair This stimulating “benuty-tonic” gives ALONZO 0, BLISS MEDICAL CO. | fo thin, dull, fading hair that youth ful brightness and abundant principal railroad; unese Unjngs can’t! et, 1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. $ noss—AU druggists! Helen Uses a Bit of Strategy WELL, WHY DON"T You MAKE UP AND GET (T OVER ~ IT'S NOT SUCH A SERIOUS MATTER (3 ITP Y YZ I've Decibed To WAIT BUT WHY WAIT UNTIL ir 1 WAIT Maybe 1 CAN GET A NEW DRE: Yachting Is S XS \ trange to Tag T JUST HEARD one~ MAAN TELL ANOTUERY | | thick: | dreadful EVERETT TRUE ved | Ag the whales crowded near, the floating palace mo NOW, Go AHEAD WITH THE STORY —— TL THINk HG more and more swiftly. Wicked people are sometimes very stupid, and the wicked wizard, the Bobadit Jinn, who had taken Nancy and Njck prisoners in his iceberg palace, was stupid. Day after day the twins played checkers, as the Jinn stood by, com. pletely forgetting who they were, where they were, and the errand up: on which they had started. But outside, their friend, the wal rus, waited patiently, He had prom ised to help the children and hoe had not been idle, altho his great, awk- ward, lumbering form seemed #0 use lens, and his long sharp teeth looked 80 fierce, Tho Jinn, watching carefully to seo that Nancy and Nick did not kick off the Slippers of Forgetful ness, did not notice the many dark forms that had gathered in the waters around them. Day by day the great black, bulky shapes bes came more numerous, crowding more and more closely around the float Ing tcepaince. Nor did he notice | that the walrus, lying near to the/ | water's edge, seemed to be giving | directions, just as the captain of a} ship might order about his crew. | As, the whales (for the black | shapes were whales, you must know) | |crowded near, the floating palace moved more and more swiftly south | ward out of icy waters and into the |region of warm ocean currents and imy winds. The walrus, knowing! |where the waters were warm, had directed his crew of whales most | cleverly. Suddenly, Just as the children were finishing an exciting game, there was a rush and a roar of water into the room where they were ait ting. “We're melting! shrieked the Jinn, and disappeared at once, The twins were soon floundering in the ocean and their Slippers of Forgetfulness were gone! Then memory returned quickly, and for the first time since thelr tmprison- ment, they remembered their er- rand. They realized, too, that the more. (Copyright, 1921, N. E. A) ad CONFESSIONS TRAGEDY CLOSES IN “are you ail right, Mrs. Bob? The question came from the man who was supporting me above the crowd, whose body was shield ing me from the pressure of that heavy weight of humanity, The query came in a voice I knew well; more than once had it me in danger, most of all as trag ly seemed to close about me. “Morrison!” 1 exclaimed. I put both arms round thi detective’s neck. With Daddy Lort mer good frie ter-indaw was safe And in any emerg on nat’s right! Hold tight! Now Aelightfui | you're safe, Mrs. Bobl* “Morrison! Don't help me! Help Ann! Jim's wife—you remember her! She's In there!" Rut Morrison, did not eatch the import’ of my words, “Ain't it gust like that litle pop comforted | dear old | nd, Daddy's daugh-| per-pot to follow a crowd into trou ble? I ask you, ain't it?” was the detective's amused comment. “But don't worry, Mrs. Bob! The |firemen are driving ‘em all out, and she'll come along, with the others!” Sut she can't, Morrison! locked up in a celit “Whazzat you say? Morrison mumbled in his amazement. Then he handed me to a uniformed com panion, muttered, “I'm taking 1to nd dashed thru the! procession into the burn-| She's | this time the firemen, police | deputy sheriffs and a few men in military uniform were directing a} subdued and obedient populace. | What common sense had not done fer the mob leaders, the fire which they themselves had set ac- |complished, ‘They gave up the} man hunt and hunted for thelr owns | jh OF A BRIDE... safety. I would have followed Morrison into the jail but his subordinate kept a firm grasp upon my arm. | “Can't let you go, ma'am! Sorry! Just you trust the old man to look out for your lady friend!” He indicated the vanishing Morri- son. “And watch! The prisoners are coming! Look!" Out of the smoking buflding they a few walking quietly by but most of them afnpid and hysterical. Out of the smoke they came, and they,made a strange procession, those pretty ladies who d been trapped by the vice eru saders the night before, They were shopherded to some, waiting trucks and autos, “to be transferred to an-| other precinct,” my companion in- formed me. The spectators were securely packed back of the fire lines, The fire department had brought some, | THE BOOK . OF MARTHA ~ kind of organiztion out of the inferno and chaos, ‘The stoke from the women's prison grew denser and blacker. The proces sion of guarted women ended with” those so hysterical that they had to be supported or carried. And Ann Lorimer had not come” out of that crackling furnace! 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