The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 5, 1921, Page 13

FRIDAY, AUGUSTS. 1921. THE SEATTLE STAR EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS’ GREATEST STORY DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Tom Takes a Trip to the Pust Office I RZAN i HE TERRIB Seng ose aR By Mee ° - _ WELL, HI, YOUR VAC mon] YEP. BACK To o ; - STER MUST BE OVER~1SEE J THE OLD ELEN, ILL MAIL THOSE ie ) USTEF OWN. | YoURE BACK ON : hs Ap Past CARDS! 1M GOING | ye RE ahi Py ov prive.¥'| A RACE HORSE <a egy oA Begin Reading This Red-Blood Novel Today TO RIDE INTO TOWN . THEY PRETTY WHEN | WAS eb sable WITH THE CLERK! {i ARE! FAST ! Hf EtIRtEREttst Conyeiebt, 198. AC Mociure & Oo. gtentteeetteseetstzteen | . <atte S t | | \ | (Continued From Yesterday) [te nor that she had not even any! Y Jane's days were very full ones tre to keep account of it, How] OW. and the dayli¢ht hours seemed!) long since she and Oberguts ba Pall too Short in which to accomplish fied from the wrath of the neero The many things sho had determined | villagers she did not know and she! Mpon, since had concluded that| could only roughly guess at the his Spot presented as ideal a easons. She worked hard for two Pas she could find to live until reasons; One was to hasten tho! fi WA 41 C0uM fashion the weapons «he cc completion of her little place of ee i (Ul Pt necessary for the obtaining refuge and the other a ; ire for a Bet UL A AL Meat and for self-defense uoh physical exhaustion at night . tae MECH Qual che gist have, in| that che whuld eleep thru. thee} 5 ~: a Be Mit MEMGon to a good spear, a knife, and! creaded hours toa new day. A Taree Mina, AY | wit J im ew and arrows, Possibly when/ matter of fact the house was ' pe Rene had been achieved she might| ished in less than a week-—that is. | metously consider an attempt to/ it was made as safe as it ever Might her way to one of civiliza-| would be, tho regardless of how Mion’s nearest outposts. In the mean-| long she might occupy it she would | Rime it was necessary to construct! keep on adding touches and refino- "he 4 , "i BY BLOSSER wort of protective shelte ments here and there - . ince —- eh she might feel a Her datly life was filled with her Suow! 4 of security by night, for she|hovse building and her hunting, to! WELL, You SURELY MUST GEE,T Lo SAY ; W that there was a possibility] which was added an occasional spice WANE HAD A WONDERFUL | | SEE TU’ SUNBY A BEE STUNG ME AN } % any night she might receive | of excitement contributed by rov NM r ST DROWN Visit from. a prowling panther,| lions. To the wooderaft that sh } “TIME ~ MY-MY-MY | Seer FROM v* ALSK ALINCST ONMED tho she had as yet seen none upon | had learned from Tartan, that mas ¥ WELL, TELL AN’ A TURTLE BIT side of the valley. Aside from tor of the art, was added a consid:| . : h MG, DID You FRECKLES Toe danger she felt comparatively | erable store of practical experienc / \ whe tn her acrial retreat |derived from her own past adven 9, ; w AN — Ou, GEE "Phe cutting of the long poles for| tures in the jungle and the long | a } WE HAD LOTSA Ther home oceupied all of the day-| months with Obergats, nor was any ~ hours that were not engaged day now lacking in some | added! Pin the wearch for food. These poles | store of useful knowledge. To these | Carried high into her tree and | facts was attributable her apparent | ‘with them constructed a flooring| immunity from harm, since they two stout branches binding|told her when ja was approaching} Po the= poles together and also to the| before he crept close enough for a| | Branches with fibers from the tough | successful charge and, too, they| Darboraceous grasses that grew in| kept her close to those never. failing | Profusion near the stream. Sim-| havens of retreat—the trees | /Marly she built walls and a roof. The nights, filled with their weird | the latter thatched with many| noises, were lonely and depressing Rayers of great leaves. The fash-| Only her ability to sleep quickly an toning of the barred windows and| soundly made them endurable. The © door were matters of great im-}first night that she spent in her) tance and consuming interest.) Completed house behind barred win -he windows, there were two of bt gp and ee door was one them, were large and the bars | °f Almost undiluted peace and hap- Ppermanently fixed; but the door was Piness, The night noises seemed far £% GAY GILForD- wha nist pall, the opening just large enough |"*™oved and impersonal and the wo ON EARTHY-YouRE | MLS TWS FLIER? to permit her to pass thru casily | SCUshing of the wind in the trees WATERING “THE Q IVE BEEN CRANKING IT Tands and knees, which made | #5 sently soothing. Before, it had | LAL Mt easier to barricade. She lost| Sfried @ mournful note and was| Mes FOR 15 MINUTES AND IT * jsinister in that f iy ef the days that the house | 1 oor noe woe ‘rent ght hide the | ’ ) ot INSTEAD OF i DONT SEEM “TD TAKE THE her; but time was a cheap|SPPr real danger. That (4 j RY?) SPARK! + MAYBE “THERE'S Gdity+-she had more of it than| ™8ht she slept indeed. Le v | She went further afield now | anything else. It meant so little ything __. | Search of food. So far nothing but ’ | rodents had fallen to her spear—| EVERY PERSON IN | her ambition was an antelope, since! t | beside the flesh it would give her | and the gut for her bow, the hide ; FAMILY HELPED would prove invaluable during the 4 |colder weather that she knew would | iin’ accompany the rainy season when it! ther Gives Tanlac Credit ban She had caught occasional * m of thes | ring Health of Son, | {Ut °f these wary animals and was sure that they always| Daughter and Herself | crossed the stream at a a pind ees jabove her camp. It wns, therefore “It's an honest fact, every mem-|to this place that she went to hunt ie of our family has taken Tanlac them, With the stealth and cun th good results, and I oan tall any. | ning of & panther she crept cau-! it's the best family icine | tiousty thru the forest, circlin f the world,” was the emphatic |about to get up wind from the owe | EVERETT TRUE made by Mrs. Eva Perrez, | pausing often to look and listen for "Magee avenue, Oakland, Cal../aught that might menace her—her [*JHROWING INY . y fle purchasing a bottle of the|self the personification of a hunted ; | Cr le j Clive Roberts Barton (3) a GOSH THIS OLD LAWN MOWER 1S GOING saa es cine at the Ow! Drug store. | deer. Now she moved silently down ix months ago I felt the need | upen the chosen spot. What luck! Pm tonic, as I was badly run down | A beautiful buck stood drinking in re ie , | ‘and felt weak all the time. I was|the stream. The woman wormed her in J » } ‘not really sick, but just felt miser- |way closer. Now she lay upon her wh “i / ible. We are not much on taking/ belly behind a smal! bush within oe : medicine, but had heard #o much|throwing distance of the quarry SS 7 — Tanlac that I started taking | She must rise to her full height and “i 7 = J q p ~ : four botties just did me a| throw her spear almost in the same ‘of good. It gave me a good | instant and she must throw it with % \ , | . I got to eating and enjoy | grene force and perfect accuracy Mv % Uy + A #ttabel S 434 ema pnd have felt real good | She thrilled with the extitement of | = | ~ = A jthe minute, yet cool and steady were | =~ | “THIS IS NO OCEAN” “My oy ooo 8 who had suffered| her swift muscles ax she rose and |p i Peggy crept very close to Mr. river or something. We've for Rt coe el = aber rau tier gaan wit G, I ~—* 4 . | |] Himes. “Tell me about your! a mistake, that’s no ocean? it, and it did her more good/strike from the spot at which it i. 7 mother,” she said. “We were at Olympia at \ ved her in-ghad been directed. cl , : ; s ia cer hor aroansoh te in Thigh, landed core na tae Toe Ve y ‘i } |] “Oh! Did I not finish? The pic-| time and a man near said, ‘All condition than it has been stream and fell dead. Jane Clayton | 4 > hermit c aS J&B ture on my mind is this: my| right, friend, try it for yourself | boy. ameeing tha Prd wed be ope baiageathoe wie one A 5 is ¥ on “6 - 5 mother standing on that steep| if you think that’s a fresh , and it hae built him up won- | “Bravo! A man's voice spoke in > J Ze ni a hs " ee. Ys i] river bank with her baby clasped| lake. Just stoop down and ally. During’ the pase winter| English from the shrubbery upon i ail took eceasionally and| the oppanite side of the stream. J . - ms VA 2 to her breast, her hair blown| up a drink for raseangies kept us in such good health wd Borme Clayton halted In her tracks— at ee ‘ Z A |] back from her pale, drawn face,| see what you think.’ @idn’t catch colds like we used to! stunned, almost, by surprise, And : i i like the neighbors did in that| then a strange, ations fieare off ick rolled the whole barrel of pourdowns into them the tears dropping one by one as “Then such a spitting! “We ee es a tee ck eee inte view. | At a ae - O14 Sizzly Dry Weather didn't} green grass peeping up to seo what|| { wrung from an overfull heart,| he said. “Well! Well! Here I aim a that Taniac was due all the|«he did not recognize him, like West Wind. Much ‘less did had happened, Farmer Smith's gar-|] her 2%-year-old son clinging to! born on the Attntic, and h ei “af for the good health we have|when she did, instinctively on Ls | den plants lifting thelr tired droopy enjoyed for the past several | stepped back. heads, and a hundred grateful crea-|f her skirts and the little 6-yenrold| am really on the Pacific. Tam getting a bottle today J “Lieutenant Obe ‘ad the largest and blackest clouds In} pure, ii wide “Une 4% a sick friend, and T know it will “can It pe reuse rgatz?’ she cried. Gillon IN. . tures running here and there to|} daughter leaning against *her ‘Ungle Joel and father and - his xtorehouse, Sizzly watched out/ talk of the good news. Y : 4 oihers ee ee enka ane St te" Tevet ‘the Ger. | for both of them and when either! No one minded a soaking! |] mother as she, too, watched the| dug potatoes that full; we did 3 man. “Tam a sti { | . . | Taniae is sold in)Seattle by Rar-| doubt; but still it ‘a i. Wich Goer | of them started to blow a cloud (To be Continued) bodies of the faithfal oxen float|.0n shares; they dug and I 's Drug Stores and by leading | gutz, And you? You have changed over the sky, he'd biow his hot «c opyright | 1921 by Seattle Star) down the swift current of the| ed them up, and we got one-fourth © cm! everywhere, — Advertise| too, ix it not? | breath around everywhere and} river.” of the crop for our work. ~ i He was looking at her naked limbs seare the clouds away | frorf’9 sun- \H “Who was your Uncle Joel?"| ‘We hadn't any big scales. We and her golden breastplates, the loin When &prinkle-Biow got Phil] shiny climes Pegsy asked after a pause. managed like this: 1 gathered cloth of jato-hide, the harness and Frog's letter, he knew what to do! poured into a ' Ornaments that constitute the ap 2 ; . ut onee. “I can’t turn Mr, Moon’s| single glass for i “Not a real uncle at all, dear,”| them in a tin pail, three pails I i vi parel of a Ho-don wornan—the ain t is - srners down, as Phil asked me, but} you. — Mr. Himes told her. “He was a| would empty into one pile, then jf ON a like East Wind, for Bast Wind kept things that Lu-don bad dressed her I know of a better way,” said he.| ‘The Coce-Cote Co. { neighbor of ours im Iowa, a handy| one pail on the other, so at the in as his passion for her grew. | | be Nick, ¥ou open that barrel of rain} Atlanta, Ga. . i 3 Ko-tan’s daughter, even, had fi Her pnen Ties sort of fellow who wanted to come} end of the day it was easy to see trappings. marked ‘Regular Pourdown,’ Nancy had’ no family and simply} which pile of potatoes was San T 7 is et: out Thunder and Lightning. I'l s : EA “But why are you here?” Jane in-| 7% tt || telephone to both East Wind an al joined our party and was a great} “Did you work all day?” Peggy 4 sisted. I had thought you safely lWeéet Wind to 4 all the black| j help to my father. interrupted. among civilized men by this time, if y Ra aa gt clouds they can possibly gather up,| A “I recall his disgust when he; “All day,” Mr. Himes replied. y ) , m A. you still lived might ksi omen | We'll nous w f better lc a “Gott! he exclaimed, “I do not | '***,,° + Might evolve ne of women | We'll have enough rain down on th first saw the sound. “When there was work to be know why I continue to live. I have “Salt water? he scoffed. ‘Sea| done, everybody worked. - That ts prayed to die and yet I cling to life “You lived long then in the city told me about the plan—not with | «arth in about five minutes to float of A-lur?” he said, speaking in the|any intept to warn me of danger,|— whale or two, not to mention ‘ language of Pal-ul-don but pronipted meret feminine eu-| Phil Frog's baby tadpoles.” yA water, indeed! Why, that’s no} the way a new country is open ‘There is no hope. We are doomed ~~ “ ‘ 4 it is w " 4 You have learned this tongue | Plow as to whether or not I would Well, at West Wind sent clouds) ocean, that’s a lake or a wide} ed up and it the only way. For the best iced tea || to remain in this horribie land until she asked. “How?” Jbleed if stuck with a dagger. Shelona 1 Wind sent clouds and) § - . we die. The bog! The frightful bog! ‘ell an of a could nol a seemed lor the! » p Buy Hilvilla Black. |[i"strs ions futur tts pcg sit Matt, YM hn oie a a ee ' m breeds,” he replied, “members of a/orderly procedure of the deal down into them and it according to the Place to cross until T have entirely | proscribed race that dwells in the|she wanted to know at once, and| turned spigot, Howly ‘Thunder| ry . oi a hideous country Caaily ’ ock-bound gut thru which the prin-| when I caught her trying to slip a] +, é Bie be ind od ~ erections HEHE GOR.” | enough we entered; but the rains | "oc bound gut thr which the pr eee. INO eet ride andl eduestioned | [Ok the Dig bass drum Snd Lumpy our off into a have come since and now no living |} morass. They are called Wax | her explained whole things cae sus & Git tk wold Have scar [man could pa ha i iy 7 t 4 T " ma dweilihgs and part-|riors bad already commenced drink-| Sissy pry Weather ice, sweeten and j net tried itt And the beasts thst/,,, arved from the soft|ing—it would have been futile, to] 2" DY weg | |roam this accursed land! ‘They hunt |,¥../ foot of the cliff. They|make any sort of appeal either to] Nancy and Nick and Sprinkle me by Way and by night.” : erstitio yy tellects or their supersti.| Blow followed Howly and Jumpy tol } are v nt and superstitious! their intellects or their supersti y. “But how have you escaped|” Y ear 5 Skin| when they first saw me and re-|tions. ‘There was but one alterna-|the black cloud and peeped over the| os an. *, 02, Dot. Eaow,” be. replied joes eae and feet were not iks|told the woman. that Teas very| \Gisaly Dry Weather sneaking off i eng (eS Bsltew CSARMM Ae) cloomily. “I have fled and fled and|syoi.y they were afraid of me. They|much outraged and offended at this|toward the south as hard as he| ‘Si and T. lc ASK. FOR fied. I have remained hungry and) tyougnt that I was either god or!reflection upon my godhood and] could go; Phil Frog's children swim} oap um £5 gs |thirsty im tree tops for days at 4) demon, Being in a position where ark of my disfavor I should | ming about happily in a cool, new Prete: Paws A [clubs and spears—and I have t if, 1 made a bold front I shail return to heaven at : a lion with my club, So even Will|.ich an extent that they conducted| “She wanted to hang around and You will have no idle dollars if you have’ an ac @ cornered rat fight. And we 4re/ me to their city, which they call Bu-| see me but [ told her that her count with this Association, They are always busy— no better than rats in thie land Of inp and there they fed me undtreat- eyes would be blasted by the fire three eight-hour shifts daily they are on the job earn- stupendous dangers, you and I. But) eq me with kindness. As I learned surrounding my departure and that ndid Ny “ ° Golden Age Egg ing for you, and as a reward every six months the teli me about yourself.” oe their language I sought to impress |she must leave dt once and not re fo tee tn wel ‘ Semolina with salt and 7 eurnings are compounded, Sriefly she told him and al) the 101 and more with the idea | turn to the spot for at least an hour while she was wondering what she|that 1 wus a god, and I xuccecded, |1 also imprexsed upon her the tact , Golden Age Eg Noodle Ratsin Pudding LAZY DOLLARS might do to rid herself of him. Sh@ jtog, yntil an old fellow who was|that should any other approach this ||ey i . pty conteats of one regular package of Golden Age | Dollars that are only earning a part of what they could not conceive of a prolonged) something of a priest among them, | part of the village within that time \ Hex Nood ne salt contee:toce J should earn if placed with this Association will give existence with him as her sole com:| or medicine man, became jealous of | not only they, but she as well, would | gq one plut milk, onedylf you the ofit of their FULL earning power, panion. Better, a thousand times|/my growing power, That, was the, burst’into flames and be consumed. | . ‘pcenked nowdles | $1 to $5,000 accepted,*and all money received on or better, to be alone. Never had her|peginning of the end and came near| “She was very much impressed | ~ ago 08 Fourth. package before the 6th of this month earns from the first. hatred and contempt for him le* to being the end in fact. He told|and lost time in leaving, calling , G Q buttered pa’ : sened thru the long weeks 404 /them that if I was a god 1 would! back departed that if I wer N : tablespoon butter, nu te ee Ley teak baat WAI ee fae at alae te hour ga. tog silt ep , Bake omatalt hour Sy AAT jonship, me—if I did bleed it would prove|the village would know that I was : served plain or with civilization, she shrank from the| without my knowledge he arranged |and so they must think me, for 1| Qn) Naalles) aS 9 cram Ss an AN Wri 00! thought of seeing him daily. And,|to stage the ordeal before the whole|cun assure you that I was gone in Gemtlabdtencnrel Oe. SSOCIATION |; too, she feared him, Neve@had she | vijjage upon a certain night—it was | much less than an hour, nor have I! jy, a a Cleveland, OFF trusted him; but now there was 4/ypon one of those numerous occa-| ventured ¢ to the neighborhood |ao a strange light in his eyes that had|giong when they eat and drink tolof the city of Bu-lur since,” and he} t ) 3 - —=j3d A not been there when last she s4W | Jad-ben-—Otho, their pagan deity, Un-|fell to laughing in harsh, cackling | Ria! "she Grud’ oot interpret 1t-+| ser the Intivanes of phot vile gues |otea. that eeckcn ative tery. tie | [Linnie all she knew was that it gave her they would be ripe for any blood. | woman's frame @ feeling of apprehension—a name-'thirsty scheme the medicine man (Continued Tomorrow) LR ey eT i tee a leapichccl on Re RR er pT ar en