The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 15, 1922, Page 11

SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1922 THE SEATTLE STAR PAGE 11 OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN BY STANLEY WHAM le THERE 24 SIN WHERE YARE SAV“ You EGGS H Goes W KITCHEN 4 BUS * TELL HER ITWAS H KEEDNYT THINK You're >= HGAZER™~ Nice WoRK 7] CRACKED ANYWAY= H GONNA PUT"! BUZZ ON fini ANS) (2 /a eles ~ 2 BUS, OL! BOY = WHY WAHA“BABE RUTH BUS! H ye TO PAY FoR THIS YeH-i 2 o{\NELL,YOUNG twen DIDN'T V'PICK OFF HE SAID,"SHOOT ME A | witpow = You “THREW SPRAINED a MAN. WHO'LL. - MAT HIGH ONE INGTEAD]| FAST ONE AN! TLL SOcK)) tr MACK™ CIMON BACKAY VT A LYT TLE (ssid GRIND THE f i pleleeti | 3 2, ¢ (Continued From Yesterday) {instead of freewheeling the conch with |sion of the ride, He ran into the| house and into the morning Mabel was not there, It was almost dinner time. She would be in ber room. He ran upstairs Bhe was standing before her dressing table} and tured to him in surprise. “Whatever “I say, Ite wart She echoed the word, “Wart™ “Yes, war, We've declared war!" “Declared war? “Yes, declared war, We've gent Germany ultimatum, It ends to- | Might. It's the same thing. It means/ gi his concerns with his room. and } were dis 4 by the that the one navio his mir s event new hour discharged watched them as a a burning build aad feeling at every moment that qeof will crash In, yet somehow | that it cannot and will not mm. The thing was gone beyond lity of recovery, there terribly now the urgency for Great Pian to declare | for honor, yet ie felt that ft could not | war,” fad would not fail to be averted. Bt! See was breathes, panting. Ghia not happen. | maid, “Good gracious! Whatever will did happen. On Tuesday the|happen? Have you brought an eve g amazements burst. amain.|ning paper? Do you know the pa-| Tuexiay the roof that could not | pers didn't come this me fm fell In, On Tuesday, the day! He could not hear hei 4 for his letter to Nona, he} 1 didn’t wait. I simply rushed aw in realization that which, ut-| He was close to her, He took her fm speculation, had been mean-| hands. “I say, Mabel, ite war.” His OF LETTING IT ZIP OVER YOUR HEAD INTO TH CRASH 2 = GANGWAY t as an unknown word spoken |emotions were tumultuous and ex traordinary. He wanted to draw her| 7 |to him and kiss her, They had not Mee news of Tuesday morting | kissed for longer than he could have| him at six o'clock in the eve | remembered; but now he held her! to have been standing two hoursa/hands hard and desired to kiss her, @ithe great th that filled Mar}*t way, it's war.” fusing towards the offices} She gave her eudden burst of ie County Times, Our mobiliza-/laughter, “Yok are excited. I've ima, our resolve to stand by France| never seen you so excited. Your col. ig the German Fleet came inte the|lar's undone.” iaanel, lastly, most awfully pres) He dropped her hands, He sald mat of all, our obligations to Bel-| rather stupidly, “Well, it's war, you that had been the mornina’s| know,” and etood there, | conveyed in the report of Sir] She turned to her dressing table atement in the] “Well, I do wish you'd stayed for a| ‘That afternoon | paper, Now we've got to wait till| Ga Prime Minister was to make @| tomorrow and goodness only knows eatenent. —" She was fastening something Agmt murmur ewelled up from | about her throat and held her breath Pe waiting crowd, a great movement in the operation. She released it and greet it forward towards the Coun: | said, “Just fancy, war! I never iy Times officea, On the first-floor thought It would be. What will hap Jneay men appeared dragging &| pen first? Will they—" She held | get board faced with paper, on the | her breath again, She said, “It's too r enormous lettering. The board | annoying about those papers coming [ew pulled out end ways. The man so late. If they haven't arrived when ‘ast thru'the window took a step for you go off tomorrow you can Yell jd and swung the letters into|Jones he needn't send them any prog more. He's one of those independ: ent sort of tradesmen who think they _ PREMIER'S STATEMENT can do just what they like. Just —- | fancy actually having war with Ger. ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY | many. 1 can’t believe it.” She turned EXPIRES MIDNIGHT |towards him and gave her sudden laugh again, “I say, aren't you ever going to move? He wont out of the room and along the passage. As he reached his own room he realized it again. “War- He went quickly back to Mabel sax He stopped. His fool mont frightfully desired some ¥ None here, “Look here, Don't wait diater for ma You start. I'm go- ing round to Fargus to tell him.” At the hall door he turned back and went burriedly into the Kitchen. “I say, it's wart” “Well, there now ried High | fabre eaid aloud. “My God! Wart Aga retreating wave harshly with upen the rel Gere sounded from the intaking of the breath. An "s stupendous silence, the wave for return. Down! A shat Tear, tremendous, wordless. figure of Pike appeared upon the Tacey, im shirt alreves, bts tong Make wid about his face, in bis hands | tet which caught the roar as it wwe by the throat, stopped tt and Bete t out anew on a burst of Meet camer, A Union Jack. He Jinks t it madly with both handsabows| “You war, We've sent an ultl head. The roar broke into a tre matum to Germany. It ends to chant. “God Save the night.” | Lew Jinks threw up her hands. fhbre pressed his way out ef the “Well, If that isn't « short war!” *. Hie kept saying to himself,| “Girl alive, the ultimatum ends, -+. War...” He found him-| not the war Tunning to the office; no one|an ultimatum te? in the office; then getting out| Outside he ran down the drtve and Bicycle with frantic haste, then/ran to Fargus’ door. It stood open. bome—hard. Im the ball the eldest Mise Fargus And he kept saying, “Wart | Appeared to be maintaining the last Me thought, “Otwa and before| moment before dinner by “doing” « yea appeared a vision of Otway | silver card salver. th thoes little beads of perspiration | “Hullo, Mise Fargus. I say, is your hig none, father about? I say, it's war. We've War—he couldn't get any further | declared war!” that, Like the systole and dias | The eldest Mies Fargus lifted her of a slowly beating pu the | head to another Miss Fergus also kept on forming fn his mind) “doing” sonmmthing on the stairs Welling away In @ tide of con-| above ber, and in « very high voice feed and amorphous scenes: and ‘called, “Papal Wart Heming again; and again oosing in| ‘The staircane Mins Fargue took it Feentments of speculations, scenes, up immediately. “Papal Warf" and . and in profound disturb-| Sabre heard it go echoing thru the Sen of strange emotions, War. house, “Papal | War! Papa! War! 4+. And there kept appearing the| Papa! War Se of Otway with the little points| “How terrible, how dreadful, how Mrerspiration about his nose. Ot-| frightful, how awful,” sald the eldest My had predicted this months ago.| Misefargus. “You must excuse me Mt he was right. It had come | shaking hands, but as you ese I am ae over pink plate powder. I'm not sur- — prised. We were discussing it only CHAPTER IV iat breakfast; and for my part, tho I * | Julie, Rosie, Poppy and Bunchy were He approached Penny Green and | against me, I—" She broke off to Melized for the first time the hard|turn and take her portion in a new MP at Which he had been riding. | chorus now filling the house. Sounds Trallzed also the emotions which | of some one descending the statra at Meonsciously had been driving Him | break-neck speed were heard, and the All the way he had been #ay-|chorus shrilled, “Papa, take caro! ie Wark What nted, mort | Papa, take care! Papa, take care!” biy, was to say it aloud to some Mr, Fargus’ gray little figure came He wanted to say it to Mabel. |terrifically down the last fight and had a gudden great desire to sea|up the hall, a cloud of fei el and tell her about it and talk | guses in his wake. He ran - He felt a curiously | with hands outstretched and grasped eeling towards her. For|Sabre’s hands and wrung them, Be first time in hie life he pedaled| “Sabre! Sabre! What's this? Re. APyv ENTURES OF GENE, TWINS THE LAST MOUNTAIN The last of the Seven Mountains) Nick. “I thought the Mountain - That Wasn't) When i “I =| there might be some trick about It because ite name jis so funny, or homething like that Nancy and Nick stepped off|I thought maybe there was no moun Piveand-Ten-Cent-Store Moun-|tain. But there ls because we can Still holding tight to the record, | see It. Oh, come on, we'll 1 to was with great Joy that they saw|get there sometime.” And he gave ther mountain before them in| Nancy’s arm a *. 80 poor, a very high one,” said | genin 4 we ought to be over It WwW while. Just beyond is the Bktom of the Diddyevvers.” tt they started an fant an thetr| legn could carry them to make [P for the tine they had lost. But they walked and walked unti ny to orop t uddenty. Then they Inughed mer- no nearer, jrily. “Why, we were getting nearer ere must be somehting the|@!l the time,” said Nancy, “and we "aid Nancy. “I'm wo tired 1 | didn’t know it.” “Well, ull, tired Naney trudged on | Buddenly the mountain wan as. near to them as the house next door {4 to yours. It was hard to eay how it happened, but It wasn't more than 10 steps awny. “On? cried Pantain appeared now that {t's here, we'd Don’t you know what | the Twins, stepping | ally? Tru! ‘ar? We've declared wa Well, I aay, thank Ge Thank God! 1 was afraid, I was terribly afraid we'd .etand out, But thank Ged, England ts Bngiend still And will be, Babre; and will bel" He released Sabre's hands and took out & handkerchief and wiped his eyes, “I prayed for this.” he sald. “Tt prayed for God to be in Downing Street last nigh . The chorus, upleasantly shocked | at the idea of God being asked to go \to Downing Street, said In a low but stern tone, “Papa, hush. Papa, hush, Papa, hush”; but Sabre had come for this excited wringing of hin hands and for this emotion, It was what he had been seeking ever since Iik notics board had swung the ne | before his eyes, When presently he jleft be carried with him that which |when his mind would turn to it, caused his heart to swell enormously within him, Thru the ing, and |wone to bed and lying awake long linto the night, he waa at Intervals sive pictures of hia mind by aurming Mr. Fargus’ emotion, War.... His epirit answered, “Rngland* u Lying awake, he thought of Nona. He had not written the letter to her, ‘The appointed day was past and he had not written. He would have said, during that unutterable darkness tn which he had awaited {t, that not the turning of the world upside down would have prevented bim writing: but the world had turned upaide down, It was not a board Pik men had swung around im that ap palling moment when he had watched them appear on the balcony, It was the nocustomed and imponderable world, awfully unbalanced. Nona would understand. Nona always un derstood everything. He wondered how she had maintained this terrific day, He was assured that he knew. She would have felt just as he had | felt. He thought, with a most pas. | sionate longing for her, that be would |have given anything to have been hal | claimed, “My God, war," and to have caught her hands and looked into her | beautiful face, Tomorrow he would send the letter, Tomorrow? Why, ye, today, like all todays in the re moved and placid light of all tomor rows, would be shown needlessly heo- tie. Ten to one something would have happened in the night to make today look foolish, If nothing had happened, if it still was war, tt could only be « swiftly over bosizfeas, « rapid and general recognition of the impossibility of war in modern con ditions. | Disturbingty upon these thoughts appeared the face of Otway, the Lit | tle beads of perspiration about his | nose. | File consctoumess stumbied away linto the mazy woods of sleep, and turned, and all night sought to re | turn, and stumbled sometimes to its | knees among the drowsy snares, and sow strange mirages of the round | world horrifieally tilted with “War" upon Ste face, of Nona held away and not approachable, of intense light and of suffocating darkness; and rousing and struggling away from thess, and stumbling yet, rarely suc cumbing. ' | ur ‘When he went down Into Tidhor. ough in the morning !t was to know at once that this tomorrow gave no le to tts precedent day. It intensl- fied it. The previous day foreshad. lowed war. The new day presented it. The papers, as ft happened, did | had more to say of her annoyance | with the insufferable Jones than of what his withheld wares might con- |tain. Her attitude towards the in- ternational position was—up to this point of its development—precively |this: she had been following the lerisia day by day with appreciation lot {tm sensational headlines while | these were in the paper before her, but without further interest when the paper was read, She folded up the thrones, the chancelleries, the coun- cils, the armies and the peoples and put them away in the brass newspa |per rack in the morning room and | proeseded about her duties and her Some "INSIDE BASEBALL'’—= |not arrive before he left, and Mabel | IT OUT OF DATE" wow ! x art eat tons re ; |S caught up from the dark and oppres: | onset of the emotiona that came with | | | ie to turn to her when he had ex-! engagements, But she Liked unfold | ing them and sabe was thoroly an noyed with the insufferable Jones for | preventing her from unfolding them. | She said she would come down Into | Tidborough and #peak to Jones her | seit. There wore things to sea As he rode into the town people were stand: | Ing about in little groupe, excitedly & newspaper. In @ row, proached the news agent's, hugely printed contents bills, all with the news, in one form or another, “War Declared.” a It was wer, Yesterday no @ream. He could not stop to reat his bicycle | against the curb, Ho leaned it over and Gropped it on the pavement with |a crash and hurried into the shop and bought and read. War. + He looked ont tnto the street thru the open doorway. All those knots of people standing talk. jing. War, ... A mounted orderly passed down the atreat at a brink | trot, his dispateh bag swaying and burping across his back. Every ono turned and stared after him, stepped | out Into the roadway and stared after |bhim, War... . Hoe bought all the | morning papers and went on to the office, Outside a bank « amall crowd lof people waited about the doors. They were waiting to draw out their money. Lloyd George had announced the closing of the banka for threo | days; but they didn't believe it was real. Was tt real? He passed Man bury's, the big grocers, It seemed | to be crammed. People outaide walt- ing to get in. ‘They were buying |up food, A woman struggled her way out with three tins of fruit, o pot of jam and a bag of flour. She seemed thoroly well pleased with her- self. Iie heard her say to someone, “Well, I've got mine, anyway." He actually had @ wense of reassurance from her grotesque provisioning, He thought, "You sea, every one knows it can’t Inet long." (Continued Monday) Y'COWARDS = THAT BALL, WENT IN, BUTI AIN‘T GONNA CATCH TH! AC _ rt, add MT f o 2 RED BURKETT kaso NOAH DOINGS OF THE DUFFS m4 GEE THIS SPRING SUN- SHINE MAKES YOUR OLD | CLOTHES LOOK SHABBY — } \"D UKE To GO IN AND ORDER ONE OF THOSE MINUTES YET BEFORE | HAVE TO BE BACK AT THE OFFICE- GUESS ILL GO IN AND “TAKE A LOOK AT ONE ANY WAY = r Qrattle x * or te * _By Mabel Cleland _» Page 651 A CHICKEN STORY If you ever go to a pioneer) eggs enough for every day, had meeting you will have no trouble | YOU?" she asked before Peggy's request could be granted. Picking out this delightful father | "St" Cue oe ee way, Mra. and mother of Libby and fam. | Cainoun sald, “Do you know, Buch dear people they are, That) there is quite a story about the yould would just know by looking| first chickens we had in the at them that their mindy were| Puget Sound country. Quite a stored full of all sorte of tn .| story. We came up from Calffor- nia in 1870. I had a brother up {ng memories and their hearts) 14.4 who with his family, had set- stored full of love and sweet- ness. tled at Port Townsend, Port Townsend was the big David had « long Ist of ques | town then; had about 2,000 inhab- tone al) ready to axk the minute | !tants, while Beattle had only 800. it should be polite to begin, but | We were going to be farmers, tho, for once Peggy got abtad of | #24 only stopped for a short while him. at brother's. She wasn't a mite timid with| “When we were getting ready this gent, little mother person, | t© £0 on to LaConnor, my sister. so she fust climbed prcmptly,| "law safd, ‘You know, IT think without any Invitation whatever, | YU ought to have some chickens, into Mra, Calhoun's lap and said, | YU have no idea what @ help it “Bhould you ‘spose, before Davie | Would be to have fresh eggs and eta started on bears and pigs and chickens, You can’t buy them, things, you could tell us a story | YoU know.’ *bout early day Easter oggs?”’ “And sure enough, we couldn't Now, who but Pegsy wouta|>Uy them. The few people who have supposed that they had boil 6 ap A Faster exes in the ploneer times? I wouldn't, would you? Noither id mothor-dear. really need them." more we thought about it, the more we realized that we should “Why you hadn't chickens and (To Be Continued) § corree fA Now 7, WORKIN TODAY! ”) Se HIS WRIST CRANKING TERS COFFEE MILL THIS MORNING - Mi THERES BEEN A NUMBER OF APPLICANTS FOR THE JOB- ‘i BY ALLMAN. 1 GUESS, NOW THAT I’VE BEE VACCINATED BY CUPID'S DART "0 BETTER WAIT A WHILE AND WATCH FOR | A SALE ON HANDMEDOWNS! UPPOSING THE MEN GoT ALL KORKSD UP BONNETS BVGRY “EAR AS US — a =a S55 Fllleg i | ime | THERSS NO SBVEPOSING ABovT \T —— Trex “DO !1! eee 7. uzaled | better climb it,” sald Nancy wisely. OE ee? | COMe Out with a deep look tn their | tween two tiny villages a repair train eyes that Polly had not been able to| was at work and had met with an ao- read. As if they knew many things |cident. A load of concrete had fallen they did not, or could not, tell. upon the track. She went cold at the responsibility.| With the other passengers Paul The next Instant she felt lifted up|serambled out to ascertain the 4s on a wove of exultation. trouble. It was nothing, they said; the | Would take but a short time to clear, Thus it happened that Polly wait Not even at It was She Polly and Paul—and Paris By Zoe lieckley (Copyright, 1913, by The Seattle Mar) into the strange region of her tnner self and finding marvels there. Dim shadows lurked, hopes half formed, vague fears that made her shiver. Mysteries beckoning and receding, knowledge revealing itself, and a great deep wisdom over all—mother- hood Motherhood! Polly whispered the} brief and curt. “No—No," Polty told herself bit- terly. “He doubted me, He let an: | other woman sow distrust tn his! heart. I shall not tell him, He's forfeited the right. It Is my secret.” Aloud she said to the concierge, “Dear Mme. Duobis, you've teen a comfort. Leave me now. I think I They were about tgs to take # step Jup ft# steep side when, without any | warning, the mountain did a mont outrageous thing. It #wung slowly ae", and balanced itself quite nicely g f on its top Dr By, “On, man Ct Over 100,90) Katine and t fine CHAPTER LXIII—FATE TANGLES HER THREADS Nerves and body can play strange} nick. Despite the woman who patted tricks upon the mind. As Polly lay|her shoulder and spoke encourag: there, holding the conclerge’s hand |ingly sho felt alone and deserted in to steady herself in the of|the hour which should have been |can sleep.” | word over and over to herself. How | emotion that awept over her, rhe did | golden with love and her mate's com.| ‘Yes, sleep, ma petite, Al will be| many times she had said it und read) not think with the clearness and |panionship well, beleve mo.” it and dismissed it with searcely a|some work ina neighboring town had| At 8 o'clock he rushed !n, breath ntraightness that was natural to her. Contention and a sleepless night When she had gone Polly had an| realization of what It meant, Some|gone wrong and Paul was required |less—and found an empty Mat Sie still felt miserably dissy and added their tax, aad Paul's note, solodd faucy—as If she were Uiptocing | of her friends bad passed thru it, and to straighten it out, At a point bel {To Be Continued) now J aged Nick they know!" said discour. “When anything's erazy fen't there. That mu [be bow the mountain gets Its name ‘To Be Continued) 1922, by Seattle Star) Paddock, M Specialist, of | has distributed copies of @ booklet of inflamma Indder and “" If Paul had come home when emotional wave was bearing her on | its crest the clouds that had hung|ed at home, brooding. so heavily would have been tnstantly | dinner Ume did Paul appear. dispersed. too much, He was cruel, brutal. But he didn't. It chanced thet | wished she were dead | siorm (Copyright, Vree Book to Dr. Vs Box SW 201, Kenaae City Mont of the familiar lcorles root Advertisement Comes from Syria,