The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 30, 1922, Page 11

e190) (Continued From Page 6) pether window of the atral shop WAS A lesson to the profane in the » the dignity and the variety Sf Vestments. 1 also informed rural » haply in Tidborough on a What surplices can be like if high to support them, | The windows of the p to the a you faced the lectern and the estments) displayed schoo! furni- @nd school fittings bearing the ig *F. BE. & 5." stamp. ‘Were adjustable desks for boys pshouldered, which could be ad upwards for tall boys and ds for short boys, and th ef which could be advanced foi afficted with short legs and for boys in. the possession of tees. It was believed by those had seen the full range of “F. &." deskk models that, if a head Or bursar had telegraphed to . East and Sabre the arrival ‘& Siamese twin boy at his school, @esk specially contrived for the Accommodation of a Siamese boy would have been put on Failway before the telegraph mes had loltered his way out of shadow of The Precincts. ‘The shop front to the right paid ; y to the standing of For book publishers and bindery. window gave chastely, on purple Not more than two or at most exquisitely wrought Bibles and books for lectern and altar; other showed severely, on green q bandsome prize volumes in calf displaying the classic arms School entrance to these premises doors of the central It was considered proper im keeping with the times to window dixplays, but it was tmapfeper and out of keep with the traditions of Fortune, ca You entered therefore but one door, which was, more mot a shop door but a church aad ode of the several models ch Fortune, East and Sabre had ‘ executed, you entered, ‘Yestments and the leo but a vestry; and ‘and the faith are suffi: | Which no boy could possibly ait | i THOSE “Two EGGS ARE COMEDIANS ALL H A NEW THEY WOULDNT f] pty A GIVE US SEATS FoR) aATTic Box! / HIG! ASMHUTCHINGON rs | with a tough scrub of ¢ beard, Tho line of his mputh showed thru} the scrub and turned extravagantly | downwards at the corners, He had ja commanding, heavily knobbed brow, and small gray eyes ef in | tense severity, Hin voloe was cold, and bis manner, tho intensely pol | ished and suave, singularly stern and | decisive, He had an expression of “I | have decided” and Sabre said that he kept this expression on fee. It had an fey sound and it certainly had the rigidity and imperviousness of an joe berg. Hearing it, one might believe | that it could have a cruel sound. The Reverend Sebast Fortune had come into the business at the se of twenty-eight, He was now sixty-two, He had come in to find the controlling interest almost entire jly in the hands of the Fortune branch of the firm, and in his thirty. | lfour years of association, indeed in | the first twenty, he had, by fortu: | | ftous circumstances, and by force of his ‘decisive personality, achieved what amounted to sole and single }eontrol. Coming in as a young man | of force and character, he had added jto thesé qualities, by marriage, a | useful sum of money (to which was | attached a widow) and proceeded to |deal decisively with the East and the Sabre (Mark Sabre’s grandfather) of that day, Both were old men. The Bast, young Mr. Fortune bought out | neck and crop. The Sabre, who owned then a fifth instead of a third! interest in the business, and had de. | veloped, ax an obsession, an unrea-| © © VYpphhdaa sonable fear of bankruptcy, he re-| freedom from Mr. Fortune's survetl- Heved of all ability for the firm at/lance, but much more for the solid the negligible cost of giving himscif| personal satisfaction its wlaning & free hand in the conduct of the business, The deed of partnership was altered accordingly. It was to this fifth whare, without control, that Sabre’s father and, in his turn, Sabre | succeeded. would give him. It would be @ trib: ute to his work, of ail the greater | ¥alue because he knew it would be bestowed grudgingly and unwillingly and he was keenly interested ia and proud of his work. The publishing of Iv educational textbooks “for the use of Sabre had been promised full part-| schools” had been no part of the nership by Mr. Fortune. He desired | firm's business until he came into it it very greatly. The apportionment |The idea had. been his own, and Mr of duties in the establishment was| Fortune, because the idea was not thatSabre managed the publishing | his own, had very half-beartedly a» department. Twyning supervised the| sented to it and very Alsencourng factory and workshops wherein the | ingly looked upon it in the fiddiingty ecelesiastical and scholastic furniture | email way in which he permitted it |was produced, and Fortune super-)to be begun. vised his two principals and every! From the outset it had been a very least employe and smallest detail of | considerable success. Sabre wan in Aji the business. Particularly orders. | terested in books and interested in He very strongly objected to clients | education. He had many friends dealing directly with either Sabre or | among the large staff of Tidborough Twyning. His view was that It was| School masters and had developed the business of Sabre and of Twy-| many acquaintances among the large ning to produce the firm's commodt | body of members of the teaching pro ties. It was his place to eel! them. |fession with whom the firm was in It was his place to deal with clients |touch. He was fond of discussing who came to buy them, and it waa | methods and difficulties of encourag his place to sign all letters that went! ing stubborn youth in the arid paths out concerning them, of assimilating knowledge, and he Sabre, In so far as his pubfications|had a peculiarly freeh and «ym were concerned, resented this pathetic recollection of his own boy- “If I bring out a new textbook,”/ish floundorings in those paths. ‘To he had said on the occasion of a/thene tastes and qualities, and per formal protest, “It stands to reason |hape because of them, he found he that I am the person to interest eft | YEH AND IF |i I WAS SO “HEY DID HA RIGHT, OR ELSE Y gy -qieie acti] MAN THREW OLD BY TH’ “TIME IT GOT, UP HIS | i NH i CoD COD CVO chs eGo CY OUR BOARDING HOUSE } NERVOUS if WHEN “THAT JOKE He 2 (@) | “TOM, TELL ME- HOW Do ‘You LIKE MY NEW DRESS? | \YWVP EE ents in {t; to diseuse ft with them if they call and to correspond with N was able to bring what was incom | testably a Mair for dimcovering the wort of book that needed to be com. HE WAS OFF WIS AIM- WE OUGHTA COME ouT Now AN’ HEAVE A SET AT “TMS DUGAN-DXON RIOT AN! CLT EM OFF TH BILLY WHY, I TMK THE Bovs ARE SPLENDID= THE WAY “REY DANCE = (T MUST BE AWEUL HARD = MAYBE “THATS Wow TT HAPPENS “THE Toes W THEIR SOCKS ARE ALL ty “SDucan & DIXON TREAT THE GANG TO A GALLERY BOX === SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN 77 WIT HER ONCE} Z worn our! 4 4 g Yijhp tt: ANGE 7 Mig), WHA yyy, M404, THAT'S ALL THE SATISFACTION YOU GET WHEN TRY To LOOK Ni PLEASE SOME MEN JAMES BARK: HE STOPPED THREE THE You cE TO THE OLD HOME TOWN BOTTLES OF HORSE LINIMENT~— ‘Tom, COME OUT HERE A MINUTE HEY’: DONT NO OnE KNOW ME? Fo ad OFACER, BROUGHT INA STRANGE RIG RIDGE ROAD To DAY ~ HE CONFISCATED t \ Suit You? ¢ Le te | entrance at the buck of the building, thoee who take up our notions of It." | piled and, what was equally tm the three prin | Mr. Fortune wheeled about his re | portant. the sort of man to compile Reverend Sebastian For | volving chair by a familiar trick of |!t. Also, in his capacity of general Twyning and Sabre. There | his right leg against his desk. It pre-| editor of the volumes, to give m wer an East in the firm. | sented his whalelike front to tmpres | stimuleting suggestion and advice tc central, vestry-like show-|stve advantage. “You do correspond | the authors. ® broad and shallow stairway | with them.” Me bad never been ©o pleased as halflanding, containing the! “But you sign the letters, You freon the day when the Spectator, in 's office, and thence to the spa-| quently make alterations.” jan. extended notice of four new text gous apartment of Mr. Fortune with| “That is what I am here for. They | books, had written, “It ix always a Which, by doors at either end, com.jare my letters, It will be time to| pleasure to open one of the set Wunicated the offices of Sabre and | bring up thix matter again when you| textbooks bearing the imprint of Mr. Twyning. Many stately and are admitted to partnership.” Fortune, Hart and Sabre and issued eminent persons—and no ill-to-do or| Sabre gave the short langh of one|in the pleasing format which this @oubtful persons—passed up and/ who has heard good thing before.|firm have made their own. Their Gown this stairway on visits to the | “When will that be?” | publications give the impression of Principals. It was not used by the! ‘ot today.” ;& directing mind inspired with the clerks, the half-landing communicat-}| “Well, ali I can say Is—" happy thought of ing with the outer world by the| Mr. Fortune raised a whale-like but | books, not for the master, but clerks’ stairs leading to the clerks’ | elegantly white fin. “Enough, I have the pupil, and of carrying out decided. jdesign with singular freshness and ih the showrooms by the| Sabre kicked out of the room, using | originality.” clerks’ stairs leading at one end to'a foot to open the door, which stood On the day when that notice ap the book-lined study and at the other | ajar, and hooking back a foot to shyit | peared, Mr. Fortune, who considered to the mode! classroom. The clerks’ | it, because he knew that this sloven. | that his mind was office, by the taking down of original| ly method of dealing with a door posed to be—the directing mind re walls, ran the whole length of the| much annoyed Mr. Fortune. ferred to, had repeated hi building, and accommodated not only| He was not in the least in awe of of partnership, firet made when the the clerks, but the designing room,/ Mr. Fortune, tho Mr. Fortune had | enterprise Baan to show unexpected the checking room and the dispatch | power to sever him from the firm. | signs of responding to Sabre's enthu first ted H ty HF of presenting text for this and room. This arrangement was hichly| Mr. Fortune was aware that he/siasm. “Very good, Sabre, very good imeonvenient to the performers of the | struck no awe into Sabre, and this| indeed. I am bound to nay capital Yarious duties thus carried «gj, but| caused him on the one hand to dis-|I may tell you, as your father prob. essential to the more rapid exe-| like Sabre, and on the other (subcon-|ably told you, that it was always eution of Mr. Fortune's habit of|sciously, for he would emphatically | understood between him and mo that “keeping an qye” on everything. This | bave denied it) to | you should be taken into partnership habit of the Reverend Sebastian For-| ‘Twyning, Sabre if you showed ns of pr Un cip. tune tune was roundly detested by ali on whom his eye fell. He was called Jonah by his employes; and he was . di stand in awe of M and did not resent ha ed for him and his « stionably y« ight the publish otters sign our established depar called Jonah partly because his visits | interviewed for him. Indeed he fre-| go into the matter a "he to the places of their industry in-| quently took opportunity to thank|one of his nearest aches to variably presaged disaster, but prin-| Mr. rtune for rations made in| pleasantry—"take ete; to restore eipalily for the gross-minded and |b for d carried | the house of Sabre in some part to Wrongly-adduced reason that he had! out with nts, luo for direct |its ancient glories in the firm—in Gn their opinion) a whale’s belly. | interference in his workshops. Mr.| some part.” nt Fortune liked Twyning, but he did| A when Sabre exprensed his He bore a certain resemblance to| not respect Twyning, consciously or! gra anough, Ib ae a stunted whale dominal. He was chiefly ab- | subconsciously. c Hig legs appeared to be-| v | ted In 1912 Sabre felt that he had n gin, without thighs, at his knees, and| Sabre greatty desired the promised | brought the publishing inte « his face, without neck, at his chest. | admiasion to partnership. He desired the extabtisl departmenta His face was large, both wide and/ it largely for what he knew he would | had empha he firm's rep Jong, and covered as to its lower part | make it bring In the form of greater|in this activi the con — — — - $$ mes | aiccens that attended two texth tary Mathema had b “Sabre'a Modern H * ehunn = by the public schools in accordan DREADFUL DREAMS with their principle of ignoring all y mellowed by fewer than three haa Eena Meena, the Magician, @4 right away to boil two dreams for|then held a bag over the kettle 80 | onthuwia the hools vai 7 that the steam went straight into|. then dawni dar bat elve oo the Sorcerer) whe the Srestys. Toew “Ge it; when it was full he hastily tied |iqea of presenting to the rising gen }h start- green steam arom. Kena Meena be ceived to shake over } were peacefully step mountains in a | ey and Nick, Who /it with a string. 1g between two! ‘are you are, Twelve Tors,” he y valley. said, holding out the ba. "Take it, First he took seven green feathers! and when you reach your cave down eration some glimmering conc of the constitutional and which it wan a which ption ing. thi facts Into © trbutes with attr or would be sup | promise | S x &S = 3 3 3 3 x | |primer of one hundred and fifty |pages for elghteen pence had been | HI Bony Uaur a = 3 HAT | ereet inspired Sabre towards a} | much bolder work, on which the early | ar Goa ie * SovR PIPE IN HERS summer of 1912 saw him beginning | * BECAUSE IF You DO, IT WiLL ONLY Go Jand » which he found himself able {2 , ' o pour in surprising volume uit done J thoughts and feelings which be had | iOVT \ MAY s scarcely known to be his until the|f @& pen and the paper began to attract | hem » title he had conceived | 1 Cc sione stirred them in his mind and | e abe Lc anal ——<$—<—$—<———= drew them from it as a magnet stirs P — . 1 ‘age 637 and draws iron filings. “Kngland ? i 3 Just “England.” id wee it THE OTHKK DAVID'S STORY printed and published and renowned | (Chapter VD as “Sabi Bngland.” Kings were} “1 should think,” David said to; other in horror-filled silence while o enter this history but incidental! Kings have in Tact ever b ti] Mtr. Neeley, “that if there were| the dying camp fires, fanned by taniental so; eemee® ‘ only six white men to fight all| the breeze, sprang up and sent lit | was to be just “Englan }iand of the English people and how |] those Indians, the savages could! tle tongues of flame up out of the and why. And the first ventence |} aye kitled sin ini ‘Car nant eats sald 20. hem or ; ? Mnginnd™ Ot said) “is yours. |] kitted the other settlers. Just six ‘No use hanging around bere, ngs to you. Many enemies || sith poor guns! I don't see| I reckon,’ my father sald after a ired to take it ause it in| i t glorious and splendid coun- |} pow they did it.” while, ‘there's nothing we can do. try in the world, But they have} GiSSyes aS Segre tei aeeaed Beale tes never taken it, because It is you No,” Mr. Neeley replied, “the ‘ scant You Guess wot, eu $ and has kept for you his |] Indians couldn't do it, Ifa party | dreadful to believe, and they stoo WELL URE A DOGK 28 <0: F6ih Feet BOW. 3 BAe Cee Jazed for another moment before » VO useball team or| dazed for ‘ours and how it has been kept or an army or a basebs * n u—not by kings or by state a boy scout company has a good| Mounting their horses, wher they POOR QVESSER ve great men alone, but by | . be tagy h people, Down the long |f leader and if that good leader geta| heard a low, pitiful ery. | years they have led iton to you. |$ any sort of backing, nothing can| “Running as quickly as he could sa torch is sent from hand to hand, | ‘nd you in your turn will hand {t|| beat ‘em—not even wild Indians. | 1" the direetion from whicn it on down the long years before you “go after a flerce fight, which | SMe, father came upon a little |They made the flame of England R a lbright and ever brighter for you cost the Indians many men and boy, lying near one of the wagons land you, stepping into all that they | with an arrow in his back. the In- SO ene tn will make it|| t2¢ whites thelr one man, | bright and brighter yet. They passed |{ dians wuddenly took fright, and Jand are gone; and you will pass and | Rut England will continue. Your thelr | England. Yours.” whooping off Into the distanca | (Continued Tomorrow) “He was moaning and crying with pain and weakness and ter wheeling ponies, went ror and grief. “Where there had been a deat-| “‘Are they gone? he scbbed, from seven green parrots, the rind of @ pineapple cheese and a pint of bar nacle shelis These he ground together coffee grinder. Next hg mixed the milk of # cocoanut gre on the North Pole with a quart of medium oi] and « drop of bay rum in a wn Lastly he sifted into one bowl a pinch of sulpbur, two pinches of gunpowder and three pinches of uff He mixed the things all together then and poured th applebutter kettle o muttering thene words as tb little dream, hot ¢ wtirred liom what they mem. Firet with Nancy, then with Nick, Help Twelve Toes to turn the trick.” The keile bolied and a queer on the earth “They'll be awake by that time,” croaked Twelve Toes. Can't we sent it from here? “Nothing easier,” answered Bena | Meena, going to his mantel atelf and takin, “t at's | Where is the earth?" By Zoo (Copyright, 1922, down a telescope nee. | These two wicked creatures conld| CHAPTER XLIX—FUN C see as well at night as during the| ~ fay. “Right down there!’ waid| Under the bubbling fun of the Twelve Toes. “The one that tooka| whole thing, Polly's shyness vanish- like an orange, slightly (lattened |ed. As “queen,” her part required ut the pole only grace and prettine nd the “Hum, ho! Oh, yen, there it ts." |favor of her smile, and she soon sid Kena Meena. “And where are | found berself entering Into the merry the Twins?” spirit with the best of them. r «pointed them out | Suddenly the “king” rose in all the “Fly to a place over their heads| majesty of his tablecloth robe, his and untie the string,” id the| brass kettle helmet, and waved his magician. “There are two dreams,|scepter which had started life as a one for each of them.” breadstick | “Ho, my subjects?’ he boomed. t| | (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1624, Beattle Star desire minstrels from all corners of Polly and /Pawl—and |Paris by The Seattle Star) Beckley ening din of sounds all was still. “A cool breeze sprang up and whispered among the tree tops; shadows tmgan to be long and black, The men looked at each ey RE NDO—DIMIL jthe earth to sing before my queen. | I command bards, and thom who dance with sekilifnl feet! Come, Ladisias, of the new-hatched Repub: lic of Georgia, give us your famo tzovk putz! the of the the sneezed mid Barray name dance, and shouts of the company a little slim | bowing till bis forehead touc with blue-black hair and eye that made a straight line man brows ‘Are they all gone? | think—I think they got everybody but me. One of them pushed me with his foot. I want my mama! my mama!” (To Be Continued BY ed | I want then gradualty speeding into daz ving leaps and rushes, punctuated | with cries of “Huss! Hoss! that | tirred the crowd to wild applause. nding with a wonderful leap in the} air, feet twinkling, hair a-wave, he brought up before the royal couple, the | floor. | He was followed by a tall, slender across his face, sprang forward and | fellow with great eyes and longish n round and round like a top Checking himself suddenly, he be. }gan his strange steps, first slowly, dark hair—a Persian sculptor, born | in poverty, who as a lad had tended He took from his pocket a thin reed | pipe and played a quaint melody that | made the heart weep— all minor notes and quaverings, A nightingale turned human and telling of it love. | So the hours sped by, with otal and dances, jests, buffooneries and} laughs. Half the languages of the | world were represented. Men and| women from nearly every country in Europe contributed their art. It was wondrous to Polly. And Polly, herds on the barren mountaln sides. | with her sweet, responsive gracious: givecr-inchief of Polly's evening. hess, was wonderful to them. “I'll see to Violet! She's got cavaliers The candies guttered, one by one. epough anyhow—she never lacks.” Then someone discovered that the! “Where are we going?t Polly moonlight was streaming in. | asked. hough of prison walls!" eried| “Isn't that truly American®’ put Barray, “Let us wander like Haroun in Barray. “She must have a pro- el Rashid, into the Kingdom of the| gram! Let's let our mood guide us moon!" come, forward march!” Phe party broke up with mien They walked on, unheeding. Then laughter and jest, and after the good-| they somehow realized that no foot nights were made Polly found her-| steps were coming in their wake, self, on the arm of the “king,” at) They turned, No one... . Only the the head of the departing crowd. echoes of their own voices answered “Go on, go on,” nudged Norma,|them, resounding thru the ailens who had not relaxed her role of en-| street, | (To Be Continued) a)