The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 28, 1921, Page 9

ATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921. yathia Grey: @ Profession—Financigl Independence in| d Comes Only Thru Hard Work and Con- | ted Energy. % » ohigiall My son ts 23 years old and is working in a good com- with a chancea of advancement to a position paying him © per month, but never much more than that. Weaning towards the medical profession, wants to specialize tn has asked my advice concerning taking up the study of medi Rext October. how to advise him. He wants something that will make t living where he can be his own “boss,” as he express | he rather “ likes the medical profession has, as I sald, asked my Wi it pay him a good ving? How nruch does the average surgeon er ‘tell me that tf my son likes) what he should take; | his heart ts there his best | be spent, etc. We know I do know that unless he food money in any line ho | jot like it, because he wants to pay him as much Copyright ty Rebert M. Meiirids 8 On small business he : “Van Remboid is there, preparing radium in quantities hitherto un-/ known from the vast pitchbtende de | posits of Ho-Nan—which industry we control, He visited China arrayed in | his shroud, and he traveled in a/ |handsome Egyptian sarcophagus | | purchased at Sotherby’s on behalf of a Chinese colletecor.” Fo-Hi stood ap and cromved to the! | hissing furnace, He busied himsecit | (with some obscure experiments which | proceeded there, and: | “Your own stateroom will be les» romantic, Dr. Stuart,” he said, speak- | ing without turning his head; “possi bly a packing case, In brief, that in tellectual giant who achieved so much for the Sublime Order—my im- mediate predecemor in office—de vieed a means of Inducing artificial | catalepsy-—* “My God™ muttered Stuart, as the |tmeredibie, the appalling truth burst upon his mind, | “My own rather hazardous delay,” continued Fo-Hi, “is occasioned in |some measure by my anxiety to com plete the present experiment. Its product will be your passport to China.” | Carrying a tiny crucible, he re | turned to the table. Stuart felt that his self-posseaxion jWas deserting him. Madness threat ened ... if he was not already mad He forced himself to peak. “You taunt me because I am help leas. I do not delleve that those have been spirited into China. Even | it it were so, they would die, as I would die, rather than prostitute their talents to such a mad infamy.” FoHi carefully poured the contents WIN you please |Of the crucible into a flat platinum +) pan. Fo-Hi rested one long yellow hand upon a kind of model searchlight. “I nearly committed the clumsy in. discretion of removing you with this little instrument,” he said. “You re. | call the episode? Brickson's disinte | grating ray, Dr. Stuart.” “You would scarcely suppose,” be nd| Went on, “that yonder window opens 1q|%pon an ivy-grown balcony com- of| ™Manding an excelient view of that picturesque Tuder survival, Hamp ton court? “Scotland Yara men may surround the house now,” said Stuart vi- clously. “One of the two followers I have retained here with me watches at the gate,” replied FoHi. “An intruder seeking to enter by any ober route. thru the hedge, over the wall, or from the river, would case electric bells to ring loudly im this room, the y is it that |BOte of the bell signifying the point are qvoted|° entry. Finally, in the event of Detter, while Liberty |"UCh @ surprise, I have an exit 10% and 15% whereby one emerges at a secret spot (CISITIVE. |°% the river bank. A motorboat, may be de- vag ge 9 gpg dosed nag @ treasury as security| He placed a thermometer in the national | 8°CK Of the yellow bottle and the bot | This og\le in @ rack. He directed the in- Liberty | lerable gaze of his awful eyes upon the man who sat, teeth tightly clenched, watching him from the di- van. “Tea minutes of life—in Engtand | —yet remain to you, Dr. Stuart. In| Is the second|/ten minutes this fluid will have) nt Wilson of Eng-| cooled to a temperature of 99 degrees, | , Bd bas she a jewelry|when I shall be enabled mfely to| ? LL. N. |make an injection. You will be re. en American by birth,| born in China.” Pocehontas. She| Fo-Hi walked slowly to the door store in Washington,| whereby he had entered. opened it| / jand went out. The door closed. i between his knees, and his gaze set | upon the yellow flask. | — @| The faint sound occasioned by the opening of one of the aliding ¢ s Advice jilee te F Miss Grey: Piease tell mq S Of Frankie Kiolet, winner of B Gonducted recently by CHAPTER IT ‘The Uttle furnace hissed continn- ously. A wisp of smoke floated up from the incense burner. Stuart sat with his hands locked brought him sharply upright. Miska entered! She looked #0 bewilderingly beau. | tiful that terror and sorrow fled, leaving Stuart filled only with pas. sionate admiration. She wore an| Eastern dress of gauzy shimmering silk and high heeled gilt Turkish slippers upon her stockingless fe “Miska® he whispered—"Mi “You must go-—this instant, said. “I show you the way. is not a moment to lose. * “Miskal” “You must come with mmr "Go, please go!’ she whispered. “Tt is my only chance—there is no other. There is not a moment to wait. Listen to me! You will go by that door by which I come in. There is @ better way, thru a tunnel he has made to the river bank, but I cannot open the door, Only he has the key. At the end of the passage some one is walting—" “Chunda Lal? “Yes--poor Chunda Lal, He is my only friend. Give him thib.”* She removed_an amulet upon a gold chain frofm about ber neck and thrust it Into Stuart's hand. She slipped from his arma, cromed and reopened the lacquered door, re- venling a corridor dimty lighted. Be looked into her eyes, stooped and kissed her upon the lips. Then, with no other word, he tore himself away and walked quickly along the corridor. Miska watched him until he waa out of sight, then reentered (he great room an% closed the door Sine turned, and “Oh, God of pered. Jast within the second doorway sod Fo-Hi watching ber. eee a E i a rH ae i Feist a mercy,” she whis CHAPTER 11 Stricken silent with fear, Mixka eating the | staggered back arainat the lacquered | door, dropping the keys which she n her hand. .” Foi said softly, “you speed the parting gues, and did 1 mp 38 TORTURE ited by y, ture Supp give to prove its superiority. LUNDBEKG <0. ‘Third Avcaue Beattie [held i THE DOINGS OF THE DUFFS THATS A GooD IDEA! PLL SPRING IT ANYway! EVERETT TRUE ROBINSON, t WISH You'D Cook in THE DICTIONARY AND See war iS THE EXACT DEFINITION OF THO WORT CUSPIDOR® ——— Here IT'S, MR. TRUS, *CUSPIDOR — A RE- For ---— MYS: CEPTACLE iT READ fT TO YouRseCe ANO S@@ IF You Can; TRREMENBER hear the sound of a chaste salute?” Miska wetched him, wild-eyed. “And he knows,” continued the metallic voice, “how to deal with Chunda Lal’? But ft may be that Chunda Lal will know how to deal} with him! “You mean he has your orders to kill him!" she cried desperately, Fo-Hi closed the door. “On the contrary, he has my orders to take every possible care of him. That Dr. Stuart covets my choicest possession in no way de tracts from his value to my coun cil.” “But you plan to carry him to China—like those others.” “T assign him a part in the New Renaissance—yes. In the deluge that shall engulf the world, his place is in the ark. I honor him.” “Perhaps he rather remain a—no- body—than be so honored.” FoHi stood watching her, and slowly, as he watched, terror grew upon her and she retreated before him, step by step. “Ob! she moaned, and sank cow- ering upon a divan—“why do you watch me #0? “Because,” came the Miska, I would daughters of men. make life sweet for yo! “Ah! you do not mean that? she whispered fearfully. | Fo Hi approached her closely and) abject terror now had robbed her of strength (Continned Monday) metallic! | voice, softly—“you are beautiful with | a beauty given but rarely to the| | | | | pang Ai ry i Mrs Hicks Relieved By Four Eatonics “I have taken four Eatonic tablets yt they sree Bog me of sour stomach. recommend it to everybody,” ea; Mr. G.P. Hicks, If stomach is not digesting food; if you have sourness, bioatin; food repeating, ind: or stomach, Eatonic 1 remove the up and carrying out quick relief an healt” digettone y suffer stomach tronbie' bare Tan hoe? 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Si | Page 375 THE BIG FOREST FIRE “Coultnt you tefl just one more before you fot berged Peery. “Bout Harry er “bout you or anything Miss Fyances thought a minute before she mid anything. “I have about used ap the sure enough Earty Day ones, I think, but I was just wondering remember an awful forest fire about 19 years ago.” “Were you 2 RP” David asked “You, we surety were to IL" “Then it's a pioneer story,” sid David with masculine finality, “If it was a big forest and you were living In the middie of ft and not in a town, and if the forest was there, I guess you were a pioneer in that place, no matter what year it was. Go on, will you? I love forest fires.” So Mise Frances beram “Ore lovely evening In the summer of 1902, Clara and I were ins the garden watering flowers. Mother was setting ont the Iit- tle cabbage plants and we carried Bittle buckets of water to her to wet the ground around them as she put them tn. “We noticed a fire in the woods way up in the hills toward the White River Lumber camp. “Presently some Neighbor chil- @ren came to play with us and we stopped working and all stood watching the distant fire and wondering, as children will. “Whoopee? cried one, ‘that's an awful big fire, I bet the mill's on fire” “ ‘I'll bet it ta, too,’ said another, ‘TT bet the whole mountain is go ing to burn over, because when it's dry like this it burns and burns’ “It's dangerous, too,” sid a ) third, ‘T'0 bet It'll come right on down the side of the mountain right down here” “This sounded pretty ted. ‘Papa? I called, ‘Papa, will the fire come down here? “And father stood ami looked at it and answered gravely, ‘It's a big fire, I was up there riding old Dick (the pony) and I had hard work to get him thru; the fire was on both sides of the road and it was so hot I had to put my arms up to protect my face from the heat. “Tt won't come down here, though,’ he added. "That's quite a way off. Looks nearer than it ts!” ENEN Confessions of a Husband 20. WHY WASN’T DOT LIKE MRS. TALBOT? ‘The balmy spring air had put everyone at the office in good humor—even those whose salaries had been cut. Talbot, the bookkeeper, who boast ing about his little home in the country. “You ought to come out there one night and see it, Howard,” he said. “Um ready,” I replied. “When do you want me?” “Why not tonight?” “It's a go.” I called up Dot and told her very abruptly that I was going home with a friend at the office and would apend the night at his house in the country the first time we had at night sinee our er parents would ark a lot of q her to have the pleasure of trying to answer them. I was surprised to find that Tai bot, in spite of living in the suburbs, got home nearly as quickly from the office as I could. He had a very modest little place, but it was neat and attractive and flowers were al ready blooming in the gurden When we got within about 50 yards oh ke home ao uxchin Wo tue roms extions and I wanted | (Copyright, 1921, by N. BA.) yard set up a cry of “Daddy™ and ran to meet us as fast as his four- year-old logs could carry him. His shout was echoed by a tiny tot of a girl who was playing on the poreh, fenced in by a little wooden railing. A motherly person with a pleasant, smiling face—the gossips of the sub: urb probably were saying, “It's a pity Mrs, Talbot 1s getting #0 stout” —came forward and kissed my host as we went up the steps. + Jt was very easy to see that Tal- bot was a rather popular person in his own household. I wag warmly greeted and made to feel at home, ‘The two children thelr supper and then ‘albot helping in the we had dinner—a eable meal After din about many |different things. |bot told me he was gra for his home and expected in three years to own it outright except for a small permanent mortguge. I knew he was earning only $40 a week, hardly more than half what hard to get along on my reduce salary, dihon J went up lo my small but I was making. And I was finding it| HE CAN RUN OVER TO JERSEY CITY ON THE SECOND AND SEE THE DEMPSEY - CaRrP*: BY BLOSSER WELL E'S A SISSY JUST TH’ SAME = UE PAID To 6ET INTO BY AHERN ’ THE MUT BROS: CHES & WAL- IT WONDER HOw WE LET “THE Two NOAH SAW INTHE |/ ELEPHANTS GO FOR A DARK KT NIGHT /| Swim AND THAT MADE. “ME ARK-LIGHT! The Fairyman dropped into his bed at once “Now think what each of you should like best,” said the Fairy Queen to Nancy and Nick and Flip pety-Flap, the little fairyman with the enormous shoes who had helped the kiddies (or rather they had help- ed hi} to gather up the circus ani- mals way off in the-Landof-EverSo- Far-Away. “I wish to give you a re- ward for helping me so nicely. Just | think! If it hadn't been for you there |wouldn’t be any more circus this year than there is snow from last winter. And that's all gone, ages ago.” Flippety-Flap Minked his eyes and yawned, Then he stretched and yawned again. “If—if you please, your royal highness,” said he, yawn- ing a third time, “I'd like a nice, large, soft, feather-bed, without any dreams in it. I'm as tired as poppy: | Juice and if you look in the books you'll find that’s dwfully tired. These shoes—they’re so big, 'n’ 80 full of things, ‘n’ so heavy 'n’ all, that I do believe I'll have to have a good solid rest for a summer or 80 to catch up. I sez to myself, sex cheerful. room I wondered how he} did it and how Mrs. Talbot throve so | well on such hard work. Dot found | it difficult to take care of one child and our apartment; it seemed easy) for Mrs, Talbot to attend to two and | manage the house at the same time. | Yet Dot was more efficient than | Elaine, Lestie Wiggins’ wife, who) didn’t see how she could live without | 4 butler and an automobile, | Why were the Talbots so happy? Tt wasn’t merely that Talbot was liv: | ing within his income, I myself had) always done that. But Talbot and) his wife weren't pining their hearts | away for more money, tho they prob-| ably would have been glad if he had; | gotten @ raises But they seemed to have sensed one great truth about |more you get, the more you w | That night I dreamed that itn | was wearing $20 gold pieces as ear-| rings. (To Bo Continued) “STUDY WIT AN-EXPERT usiness I, ‘Phippety-Flap, old boy, you've everything useful in these shoes yours, but a bed. If the Fai ever offers you a present, to her, ‘Yes, ma'am, I need and a bed.’ So if you'll just . it a bed, your highness, we'll call a day, and thank you kindly.” So the Fairy Queen told her secretary, to phone i, Down, her carpenter, to send Flips, pety-Flap his best bed. Which “ did. The fairyman put it into shoe, carried it home and into it at once. I think he’s asleep, yet. i “What would you like? the Fairy. Queen asked the twins. s (To Be Continued) 7 (Copyright, 1921, by N. E. A) set WE HAVE RECENTLY ADDED 1,500 NEW BOXES | TO OUR MODERN SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS. ' Come and examine our. equipment for the safekeeping of bonds and other valuable papers. Entrance corner Second ave. at Pike st. PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK aod clea by ining Curicare Soepend wes and Cuticura Talcum to powder roa pertame, Nothing better. Sse &