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ould . fer he wasn't a boy, and even if this/other that wns visibly twisted and| MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1921. Poor Man's| Rock | —eT- BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR Copyright, 1920, by Littie, Hrews @ Co. Girl Would Spurn Means to Continue Education Offered by Father Who Deserted Her When} Small. pear Miss Grey: WIM you please me in the following: I am a lady now, and when I was very small my father deserted moth @ and me and since that time has part Ho has always Deiped me, and bas been very kind, only that he would not live with us and IeR us whea we needed him | Gtarts on Page One) The question ts, how can I get thera positively and in quantity? “Buy them,” MacKae put im softly. “ofr have the carriers true, But where am I going to find men to whom 1 | can turn over a $6,000 boat and a| couple of thousand doflars in cash ant omy to him ‘Go buy me salmon’ ?* MacRae made the ptunge he had jbeea coming to while Stubby talked, fest of all. | “CR get them for you. I was going Now I want to study music and be to puy tiuetmoks around Squitty apy | pes offered to send me to a COM | way for the fresh-flah market in town if I can make a suredelivery | independent and not accept his offer. connection. I know these growods ince I am oki enough to think for | Know a lot of fishermen. If you'll myself a little, I feel more and more | give me 20 per cent over Gower Ike I should not accept any ald from | pricey for blucbacks delivered at! him. If I were not good enough © | Crow Harfior I'l! get them.” | tive with him and he cared #0 Wrtte| “This grows interesting.” Stubby about me that he dererted me, don't | straightened in his chair. “Have you | you think in after years I would feel a suitable boat?” peter to know that I had been inde) “No.” Macktae admitted. “But 1) t since Tam grown and CAD have been Jooking around. I find| mpport myself? that T can charter one cheaper than , Recently he has married and well can build—until such tae as 1) {dave mutual friends who tell us he | make enough to build a fast, able car | is very happy in his new home My | rier." mother feels that his prevent wife| I") eharter you one,” Stubby of. had something to do with him leav:|fered. “That's where part of our ing us; but I can't feel that way. He) money ts useleasty tied ap, I'm going | was a middieaged man and if he | to sell two fifty-footers and a seine padn't wanted to leave us why) There's one called the Black gervatory, but 1 would like to feel woman did appeal to him, should he | scarred between wrist and elbow, | sot have been man enough to stand above his head, “let's go downstairs | by us and not desert us? amd prattlen, I see a car in front, Please teli me what you think ef and I hear twittering voicen” {his matter? I know what you say ae be your honest opinion amt will right DESERTED, te true, @ father owes his chil love end protection that be bestowed upon them resides in the home with he owes them financial If your father, hav- the one, offers you the need not feel in any wey ations to him by accept- partly of his flesh te responsible for not cut your nose face—accept the wil enable education, nesally x4 = ri always in the gulf, but is a finny Inystery with rule for his comings and reed i i tt 4 3 t sf ne De rm i ii i In the spring, when Ife takes on & new prompting. the blueback salmon shows first in the gulf. At first the schools pass into the Straits of San Juan. Here the joint firets if i i; FRI fina a @ back. . § Ht ai Ta |i DOINGS OF THE DUFF, ye Oe Oe Page SAF. rails, and when « fierce curt of wind struck him, his body twirted and swung like @ pendulum, now this way, now that, slamming against the tower, swinging far s : i A } iy ~ wondering if it would not be something about it Last my personal knowledge, four women assisted, each mak Uttle sum. Each one of) But since the Folly Bay cannery in owns a nice home, has never opened until the fieh ran to! ing and drawing a big | greater mize and number, the fisher- nit i 15 [ | is «different and no trolled for Jack MacRaa ; but now, with our wol-| To the troliers’ surprise they found home and out of work last | themselves dealing with a new type this, it’s a shame The ¢x-|of independent buyer—a man who and is, that the housewives made hia market trips with clock- of strange men. How silly! like precision. He managed it by ‘The census takers stand at the dodt | crace of an able #ea boat, engined to for their information. MRS. G. [drive thru sea and wind, and by the ee Nerve and endurance to drive her m any weather. It was work, strain of mind and body, long hours filled with discom- you te me| fort. But MacRae had never shrunk Jew to can or dry wild mushrooms? | from things like that. He was aware MRS. H | that few things worth while ero Before attempting fiela| tary, The world, so far ag be knew, Mushrooms, be Je nyedwafiad peat seldom handed a man a fortune done "Bnow the difference between the Up in tienue paper merely because he PPT EGY) Het “To tris horror he found that he could not do it, His feet touched ground all right, but the weight ward Ul his whole body swung out from the tower over the cliff edge, “Hie Ganger wan far greater than it had been on the higher balcony, for there, at least, he could walk about @ little, and he had the protection of his heavy cont, “The rain beat into tis face and nae of the long rope pulled him back-/| ADVENTURES | OF cles tele Botan 304 AT LAS? | “The storm broke again, We ter dashed upon him as if thrown | from buckets, and he was beaten | Mat against the tower, But tt came to him instantly that the the o storm alane could could harfly move, and ones more | crawled to the door. = | “The light was almost gone, Only one small flame flickered and leaped | nearly gone. “He exerted af his strength— he tarned and turned the winch to raine the weights: It memed | ae tf the lieht would never flare | up, the off was £0 low. “But at last al was agteam, and the boy finished hin watch. The older keepers called him fool for his daring, but I think he was a young Here, with a ise H* trt Wholesome mushroom and the Poisonous toadstool. Wipe or wash the mushrooms one Wone. Remove the stems and pack fhe caps into sterilized jars. Adjust Sew rubbers, put 1 teaspoon salt in- te each jar, put the lids on loosely ead stand jars on a rack in a wash- Veler. Pour sufficient cold water in- to the boiler to come nearly to the tops of the jars. Be careful not to Rave too much, or in boiling the Water will overflow the jars. Cover @nd boll for 114 hours. FW two jars from a third» put on Me lids, return the jars to the boiler end cower and cook for 30 minutes longer. Lift out the jara onto a wrung out of tepid water, and fee that the tops are tight as pos sible. Keep in a cool, dark place. aia tt dl “DANDERINE” Girls! Save Your Hair! Make It Abundant! Immediately after a “Danderine” Miteige, your hair takes on new life, ‘unter and wondrous beauty, appear twice as heavy and plentiful, be ise cach hair seems to fluff and thicken, - Don't let your hair stay Melons, colorions | plain or scraggly Tou, too, baatitu! hair, want lots of long, strong, | happened to crave its possession. He made a hundred dollars his | first trip, paid the trollers § cents a fish more on the second trip, and cleared a hundred and fifty. In the second week of his venture he struck a market almost bare of fresh sal- mon, with 3,700 shining bluebacks in his hold, He made $700 on that sin- gle cargo. A Greek buyer followed the Biack- bird out thru the Narrows that trtp. | MacRae beat him two hours to the |troliing fleet at Squitty, a fleet that | was growing in numbers, “Bluebacks are 35 cents,” he anid | to the first man who ranged along wide to deliver, | you something that you can talk over with the rest of the crowd. I have a market for every fish this bunch can catch, If I can’t handle them with the Blackbird, I'l) put on | another boat. I’m not here to buy fish just till the Folly Bay cannery opens. IT be making regular tripe to the end of the salmon season, My price will be as good as anybody's, better than some. If Gower geta your bluebacks this season for 25 cents, it will be because you want to make him a present, Meantime, there’s another buyer an hour behind me. I don’t know what he'll pay. But whatever he pays, there aren't enough salmon being canght here yet to keep two carriers running. You can figure it out for yourself.” MacRae thought he knew his men Nor was his judgment in error, The Greek hung around, In 24 houry he got 300 salmon, MacRao loaded nearty 3,009. Pnee or twice after that he bad competitive buyers, But the fisher men had @ loyalty born of shrewd reckoning, They knew from expert ence the way of the itinerant buyer. lThey knew MacRae, Many of them | had known hi« filther. If Jack Mac Fae had a market for 11 the aalmon he could’ buy all season, they saw | where Folly Bay would bny no fish lin the old take-it-or-leaveit fashion |-rhey were keenly alive to the fact |that they were retting mid-July prices in June, that Jack MacRae was the first buyer who had not tried to hold prices down by pulling @ poor “And I want to teil) “I was starved for a bite of paper.” when Mr. Bobadil, the clown, told | Nancy and Nick that he had eaten thetr precious Map. “When did you do It? asked Nick nays to go straight thru the Cave of severely. ends. After that there will be no “why @id4 you @o ft? azked| more troubla The Magic Green Nancy. Shoes will take you children safely to the South Pole and the Cave of Snitcher-Snatch. The tof are in the large cupboard at the left side of | the fireplace. The Goklen Key will unlock it." (To Be Continued) “1 did when you turned your back to crawl out of the cave,” con. femmed the Gont. “And I did it for two reasons: Firnt, becaume I was starved for a bite of paper. Second, lnecause I bad promived Snitcher. | gnatch to hetp him. The fact is, 1] lhave to help him whether [ wish to/ |or not, as I am enchanted.” | “Surely not now,” Nick reminded the Goat. “You are standing on the Equator.” ‘the goat looked amazed. “Why, ! INGROWN TOE NAIL \40 1 am! I never thought of that!| | Do you #pose I'll blow up, too like TURNS OUT ITSELF the frog?” “No, of course not,” put tn the! clown, “You were always a goat, weren't you?” Yes,” nodded the goat. “Mxcept when I was a kid.” “That doesn’t count.” mid the lelown, “You're safe enough. But the spe is broken and you need not |werve the wicked fairy any longer. A noted anthority myn that a few drope of “Outgro” upon the skin sur. rounding the ingrowing nail reduces inflammation and pain and so tough ns the tender, sensitive skin under |neath the toe nail, that ft eannot |penetrate the flesh, and the nail A db-cont bottle of delightful | mouth and telling fairy tales of poor |But how about the Map? These |turns naturally outward almost over “Denderine” freshena your scalp,|marketa in town. They admired|twins will need It to show them the night bom dandruff and falling hair.| young MacRae, He had nerve; he|rest of the way to the South Pole, ‘Outgro” tn @ harmless antiseptic Imulating “heauty-tonic” gives | kept his word, Wherefore it did not | You're @ nice one manufactured for chirepodists. How dull, fading hair that youth htness and AU drucciotal ue abundant thick’ | take them long to decide that he was a good man to keep going. ’ Wontinued Tomorrow) a. “Nice one, yourself,” retorted the jever, anyone can buy from the drug goat. “Dear knows you have caused |store a tny bottle containing direc them enough trouble, but—hark! My! tons, SEATTLE STAR | => Confessions of a Bride HUMILIATION “Tt would have been harriite ough without the gallery. I can't! tell you how awful it was with so Many persona we knew looking on. | While we waited, Mr. Van Eyck and/ I were discuming some bothersome | details of the trust he proposes to make for his sister, He wants a cer. | tain investment in bonds which will | mature each year, while Peery ts in | | | ‘The Goat looked down tn confusion | stomach is sending a message to my | humiliation! I suppose Arthur Mans brain. It's from the Map, The Map | field has read the whole story by this Gema to Capricorn, where the eave | conctude | have done at the age of 14. I felt as college. He had stopped talking to) pack the fur robe about gny feet— it was bitterly cold, you know— when Pvan threw open the door of | the car and stepped onto the running board. The rest, Jane, is toe humil lating to put into words?" “Well, it's overt ‘Thank your stars it never can happen again—and go ont” “Tivan—Fevan— boxed Mir. Van 1 whistled long and lew, as T might Eyck on one cheek!" I mmat still feel when I'm 40 that I was mighty glad , even a raseal like Evan, had really slapped | that breaker of hearts and homes, | Mr. Paul Van Eyck! “Van didn’t turn the other cheek?” I could hardly keep from laughing at the notion, “He did not. He sald, very calm | ty, ‘So sorry, Mra. Palmer? Then he/| jumped from the ear and the gallery | enjoyed a regular boat, I suppose. It| wan all over before the audience | could interfere. Evan was knocked out compiletety tn a few seconds?’ “Evan ought to have known bet- ter," I averred. “Athletics ia Van's only employment—everybody knows that” “But Evan ts perverse,” Martha explained. “Once the idea of making A noene about me in public had fired hin imagination, he would have per- sisted, had he died for itt I did not see van go down for I had buried my face in the curtains of the car. IT heard the chauffeurs in front of | ns tooting their horns, knew that the hill wan clear at last, felt Mr. Van Eyck leap into the seat beside me, and without replying, listened to his apologies all the way home. It's. short and simple annal, Jane, but the disgrace—the publicity—the time.” “Oh, taf iat Arthur Mansfield may that your husband was justified? Is that your big worry, my dear? Absurd! Arthur Mansfield will form his own judgment about you from what he knows of you! He will never let others shape his opin- jon for himf* “I'd Tike to keep hts good optnion. 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