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THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1921. aa yynthia Poor Man’s|| rey Rock | BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR Coprriaht, 1926, by Little, Brews & Ca espondents in To- day's Brunette-Blonde Discussion Do Not Be- lieve Question One of Science. —_— | Pear Miss Grey: White I cannot) any scléntific explanation of more brunette girls leave home Mondes.” I would like to ven @ conclusion and have arrived game by observation. Ke (Continued From Our Last Issue) | MacKao mat down on one sheave of hin deck winch, He took out a) claret and lighted It, swung one/ foot back and forth, He did not make haste to reply, “He shut down the cannery,” the fishermen's spokeeman sald at last. “We ain't seon a buyer or collector for three days, The water's full of salmon, an’ we been kin’ our thumis an’ watchin’ ‘em play.” My work bas taken me tnto the} «woot was the trouble!’ MacKae| of many different national | asked aheently and I find the Scandinavian) nobody knows Anyway, we lead oe dpe ory | con't care why be shut down. It! now tes q : ¢ ¥ —— os Te centered | 208't make no difference. What we =. ‘ i ete42 ii want is for you to start buyin'/ Sines the Scandinavians @Fe | again. Hell, we're losin’ money} for a large per cent Of) trom daylight to dark. The water's Diondes, It ts easy to understand | wives with aalmon. An’ th more blondes only = Iav8/ snort, Be a aporr, MacRae” they are ready to estab | wtachae laughed BT. KR “Re a sport, ch?" he echoed with & trace of amusement tn his tone. | | “I wonder how many of you would have listened to me if I'd gone around to you a week age and asked you to give me a sporting| cason's i leave home than blondes” is a Ct perchance, you | characteristics chance?” © or psychological. No one answered. MacRae threw | 1 | amt wed Sa Pan rag away his halfamoked cigaret. He} stood up. | all giris disappear trom home |". cn catateation tor worse | gg A, ret, TH buy men quictty, “bat I want or are influenced te leave De |i, tet) you something. You fellows of he opposite sex. The WO | arent fishing for sport. You're at of the dark races, French. Span: | this to make money If you can. So a ae ae eae uy, | am 1. You are entitied to all you Facts, conseq' ‘lean get. So am I entitled to what | eppeal te more dominant Mir can make But there ts a Itmit| ig yer to what either of un can eet. We| jcan't dotge that, You fellows have in their teens to become | dodging jt with “No fisherman can get the prices you bare had Iately, No cannery/ can pack salmon at thoee prices. Sockeye, the finest canning salmon | that wims In the sea, In bringing | Qrey: 1 notion’ a/ 80 cents on the Fraser, Mluebacks * request for the recipe for)are 5 cents at Nanaimo, 60 at A wenly hash." This is the way 1/ Cape Mudea | it: “I can do a Mttle better than that.” One cup whipped cream. 1 cup/ MacRae hesitated a second. “I can) pple, 1 dozen marshmallows, % | pay 75 centa, because the cannery I'm supptying ts satisfied with a lit Ge less profit than most. Stubby | .| Abbott fs not a hog, and nether am ready to serve. I also add one/I. I have told you before that {t In Maraschino cherries and straw. |to‘your Interest aa well as mine to/ Place on ice or in a cool| Keep me running, I will always pay This will serve eight. as much as salmon are worth. But I MRS. & cannot pay more I mt blame you for picking up eaxy money. Only iapeen to Chua yeu, Gnd severely cones tent always oo good as| morning, | fish at the price y Ray erte into| the game aguin, t's up to you.” | “I wonder,” Ferrara said to Jack, | | “why Gower shut down at this stage | of the gamer | MacRae shook bis head. He was! wondering that himseif. e2e CHAPTER X The Dusty Past fiat and sti, unharansed by wM the |erty. The Cove was eripty. All year, | Meet Wns scattered over a great area. eid? |The Btuebtrd was somewhere on her rounds, MacRae dropped the Black: | tirt"s hook in the middie of Cradle | bay, &@ spot he seldom chose for an. | chorags. Rut he had a purpose tn | thin, When the bulky carrier swung | head to the faint land breem Mac | Rae was sitting on his berth tn the pilot house, glancing over a letter he held in his hand. It was from Goes the} landdealing firm in Vancouver | ? One paragraph is mufficiently 1) name ef @ lee4- juminating: Iven Btefano-| “In regard to the purchase of this im the Russian | squitty island property we beg to © nodle family. advise you that Mr. Gower, after education, he | some correspondence, ntaths dix of John \tinctly that while he ts willing te There is @ | dispose of this property he will only | nodleman,|deal directly with a bona fide pur. | surprised him in an intrigue | chaser. } CALL ‘THE NEXT wit one with the eres oe you could Ox lame “Dent when she tive, wagon tr fittie whi Sonmbedy had left the dof! o nthe porch steps, and some heedtjem, heavy grown-up foot had stepped om the fat little foot and forever afterward, unless fianta Claus comforted. “Dont you ever cry. TU tel you bout how my very own mother got her own foot burt was coming out to Washington to They came af the way from! Kansas in q wagon—not an ox bat a wagon with horses to pull tt. “And my grandfather bad one race horse, and he sid, won't nell that hore Il take! him along and someone can ride ahead on him, and ride back every thing ts mfo, so no Indians or wild | beasts can surprise ua’ NESS! Page 314 A RACE HORSE ON THE TRAIL Alice and Peggy mt solemnity |nearty to thetr new house which looking at the baby dol}—the big | crandfather had bultt tn Colby. “It waa awfully cold and dark when they got there, and grand the eunning dimple and | which seemed to really mother had to carry Mt, that Dolly weuld be you ary, Peexy,” Alice! wagon, was a baby when she * some of the ploneers,|ewift for her, and ‘No, 1/ mashed off. © to tell us when every while grandfather led the horses. “It walk pretty bard going thru | the woods, but after a while they came to am open place, and grand ma was oo tired she placed « blanket on the ground and eet the two bables Gown om ft beside the the babies “When granépa mibtftched thease boress they @idnt act as if they were tired one bit, They Ricked up thetr heals and ran and gab loped Mike wild things, “Grandma mw them start toward her babies and ahe ran te take the children out of danger. “But the race horse was too before she reached her Iittle ones, the horve had kicked mother’s soft little ankle, and then stepped on ft a little, and grandma thought it was “But tt wasn't. Babies can grt over an awful lot of burtings.” “Oh? Peggy breathed. “Don't you think the mothers had much im, naked, on | 4 the animal The horse car- his own dlatant residence | ‘keroine, aa haa deen often | Mazeppa, owt of shame, to Ukraine, joined the Cossacks, to high distinction among them, » their Hetm Bamilo- ond tm 1687 was elected to his STOMACH ON | A STRIKE | “Pape’s Diapepsin’’ puts Sour, Gassy, Acid Stomachs in order at once! Wonder what upset your stomach | which portion of the food did the) @amage—do you? Well, don’t both wr. If your stomactt is In @ revolt; if tick) gassy and upset, and what) | you just ate has fermented and} | turned sour; ich gases and acids and eruct gested food—just eat a tat ‘0 ot Pape’s Diapepsin to help Betiralize acidity and in five min Stes you wonder what became of| fhe indigestion and distress. | If your stomach doesn't take care | your liberal limit without rebel 3 i your food ism damage in of # help, remember the cl wurest, most harmless ant- is Pape’s Diapepsin, which #6 Hittle at drug stores—Ad isement.. oMoreMisery After Eating it Takes An Eatonic “The fires dose of Eatonte 414 won- | for me. I take it at meals and am bothered with indigestion,” | irs. Ellen Harris, more * | greteinily shout Eatonie, cb does ite ronders by tabiog wp | n Sy Bnd ex acidity asee Ww on indigestion, | tbarn, blosting! belchin and | ‘Acld stom also Sears nae oree- ourself. of Eatonie conte & trifle with Meas droggist’s guarantee, | Advertisement head dizzy and aches;) 4 t i ; i wh | whi ond quality of Gower’s tone. There was somethin, Very like appeal tn his efbreasio MacRae was suddenly conscious of facing a still different |man—an oldish, fat mal® with thin | my les fal “We therefore murgeat that you | take the matter up with Mr. Gower personally.” | MacRae put the sheet back tn tt» | envelope. He stared thoughtfully | tru an open window which gave on shore and cottage. He could nec Gower sitting on the porch and an he looked he mw Betty go across Qhe untrimmed lawn and paas slowly out of sight among the stunted, wind. twisted firs. He walked to the after deck, Inid hold of the dinghy, and slid It over board. Five minutes later he was walking up the gravel path to the h 1ouse, Gower eat in a deep grams chafr, 4 pipe sagging one cotner of his mouth, his alippered feet croased on a low stool. He betrayed no surprise at Mackae’s coming. “Hello, MacRae,” he maid. “How @ do," MacRae answered “I understand you are willing to sell this place. J want to buy It.” “It was yourn once, wasn't it? MacRae’s face grew hot. If that was the way of it he could save his breath. He turned silently. “Wait.” He faced about at the changed ning hair and tired, wistful eyes “If you want this land you can have it. Take a chair. Sit down I want to talk to you.” “There is nothing the matter with * MacRae said shortly. “T| do want this land. I will pay you the price you paid for it, In cash, when you execute a legal transfer Is that satisfactory?” Gower looked at him Though ht She Would | Die from Eczema “1 went to Johns Hopkins Honpitel. 1) went to several doctora, I tried other remedies. 1 thought I would die D. D. D cured me after I had given up all hop to ever get well nuain on enrth.—Mrs. | Bina Wise, 128 Poppleton St We ourselves have seen D. D. many canon of revere skin trouble know It will help you, tao. In fact, we guarantee the first bottle. 5c, 60¢ end $1.00. BARTELS © | , of | “STUDY WITH AN-EXPERT | AT thought Baltimore. and much the addest hard time @ pioneering™ “Well, after months of travel they got to Washington, and were RRP KE ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS Clive Roberts Barton Flippity-Flap squinted thoughtfully at the sole of his shoe.) oy) After Nancy and Nick and Filp into her valise and jerks it shut,|care about her finery for its own pety-Flap had brought Squeak, the and then says: elephant-baby, back to the eireus,| ‘Come now, whatever-your- Flppety-Flap rat down and equint-|nameia, I'l gettle with you’ And ed thoughtfully at the pole of his|whatever-his-namets, that's been ‘enormous shoe jafter sonny, usually howls and turns his reminders). | tall and runs. Mrs, Kangy isn’t Just “Mrs. Kangy !9 gone, too? anid he.| talking when she says she'll Jump “The gnomes let her out of her cago |0D people. She's the best kicker, and #he took her #on, Kicky Kang, | too. I'll te you about that again.” along back home with her.” (To Be Continued) is Sgn ane” cnet Naser. “We HOUT PO) DA RKEN GRAY HAIR “The big kangaroo,” explained Flippety-Flap. “And she carries her | A Ctnctrmati Barber Tefls How to Make » Remedy for Gray Hair (wehe he wrote all son around in a valise, Handiest thing you ever saw.” “Bot what if she'd check ft some time,” said Nick, “and lose the ticket? Daddy did that once.” Flippety-Flap laughed heartily A well-known resident of Cincin- |--why, bless you, boy, she can’t lose | nati, Ohio, who has been a barber for either the valise or the ticket. She suldn’t check it if she wished to she carries her valise fastened tight] “Any one can prepare a atmple mtx- to her tummy. Most cohvenient, I| tnre at home, at very little cost, that call it, with a neat drawstring on| will darken gray bair, and make it top! When sonny has a cold and| soft and glossy, To a half-pint of she does not wish him to go and| water add one ounce bay rum, a play, she merely sayw | amal! box of Barbo Compound and % “It’s damp out today, my @ear,|ounce glycerine, These ingredients #0 you stay In the house.’ Thenyshe| can be bought at any drug store at ties a doublé knot in the drawstring | very little cost, Apply to the hair and sonny stays in. Or when he's) twice a week until the desired shade been naughty, it's easy as butter to! is obtained, This will make @ gray put him to bed without his supper| haired person look twenty years and tle three knots to make sure! younger. It is easy to use, does not of him. But, better still, if sonny | color the most delicate scalp, 46 not more than forty years, recently made the following statements Business Gllege, gets chased and someone threatens | sticky or greasy and does not rub W hurt her darling, she chucks him’ off."—Advertisement, | | of a Bride Coprrighted, 1991, by the Weumpager THE BOOK OF MARTHA IDLENFESS AND FLIRTATION I used te think that Ann's engram- ing Mirtation with Van had come about atmpty because she and he had nothing to da Also T believed that | Martha would be delfvered from « similar temptation because she was fo very busy. But all theortes of conduct seem to go wrong in this strange ora of social change. Ro- | mance pulls both the idle and the occupied hither and thither, I felt sure that Martha could be) trusted to take care of hersef; or/ perhaps I loved Martha so much that I would have approved of her under all conditiona I did not approve of Ann: abe could not be trusted to guard the honor of the house of| Lortmer. Ann must be cured of her fofty Her. menace to the happiness of my husband's clan made me nervously alert te what she waa doing. She) was #0 absorbed in writing her play | with Van that she did not see that our precious Jimmy-boy was not get ting well. Ther had been an operation, Jim was home from the howpital, very | weak and deprensed, and asking for | his wife every hour of the day. Stm-| ply because he had been brought home, Ann was sure that her hus- band waa improving. I could have shaken the afity bebe. | She was too shallow, too frtvolous, too #elfish to perceive the truth, and she waa not to be told it, Dr. Mar. | shall and Daddy Lorimer had agreed. | Also they agreed that Ann should) be spared the knowledge that she| was responsible for the hurt to her husban& which would result in his death. It became my duty te keep Ann within call of Jim's sickroom. When ashe should have been with Jimmy, she was searching the shops for the “firet showings. 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