The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 14, 1922, Page 13

PAGE 13 THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN HOLD ER NEWT Tot ait FER SHES AREARIN’ oyna oe I, eg | beroaes = ALVIN, MY LAD © VOU MIGHT PREVAIL “74 kT TH SIZE Oe A OF EM= THEY ALWAYS CLAIMED THE WORLD OWED “TO YoU TODAY wit | UPON YoUR DEAR . AUNT TO PREPARE You A LIVING, of lane og onthe THESE PASS FoR aD I KNOW IT adh MOR ING" BIGGEST / You = I WASN'T HAS PAID 15 DEBT E REASON fl isH WAS & “* “THEY'RIB A LIL! os tH j TRYING YO CATCH (Continued From Yesterday) — pmarry, if that THOSE “TWO Poor | | BIGGER Now L) WRONG END could have repair U @im trom getting tt to the mill by! her tn any way for what he Power ANY THIN'G , it COMMON LITTLE FIGH f \e BECAUSE oF TH HEARD ME ,, 49> Ah_mexpensive process she had done tor him, had proved BUT SOMEHOW OR ~ ; We FED 'EM _SOMING” & Fram dawn unt) Guat he labored, | tra orous, His letters, written to! OWER THEY GOT — BEBE iinet BAIT ALL a ewmetimes with Batiste singing) her at general delivery, St. Louis, ON MY HOOKS £ ~ DAV! | DONT Dastily je him, sometimes alone.) had been returned uneaited for.| WILE L WAS / GOSH, H ’ ft lj \KNOW j Bae task was a hard one; the snak-| From the moment that he had re WH! 5 DNCLE AMOS, ) 4 ing of thru the forest to the) ceived that light taunting note, he TAKING A // iF. re 4 high-tine roadway; there fo de load-| had heard nothing more. She had NAP! Sf {th bE qf upon two-wheeled carts and) Wone her work; she was gone | , i ad /YoU WAS AWAKE qareed, by & @low, Inborious, coat December came. Christm . »cdeess, to te mill. Por every} with it Battista, with four i cot log that he sent to the saw in this) hair and beard, his red shirt puiled| wine, he Knew thac Thayer was/out over his trousers, 4 tributing | sending ten.and at ® tenth of the the presente which Houston’ had| cost, But Houston waa fighting Bonght for the fow men in hie em.| the last Nebt, a fight that could net} ploy. Januaty. wore on, bringing | end until absolute, utter failure: with it more snow. Februgry and| stood sturk before him at the end! then— | af the road “Bet in come! Eet ts come? Ra’. became October with) tiste, waving his arms wildly, in and its last flash of bril/ spite of the stuffiness of skis heavy | ve from the lower hills,! mackinnaw, and the broad beltwhigh | hiteness, November had! sank into layer after layer of cloth. | exvived, dringing with it the first! ing at hin waist, came over the brow | q@ew and turning the whole, great,) the raise into camp, té~seise! Already desolate country into a dee! Blouston in his arma and dance him | grt of white. J about, to lift him and titerally throw! Tt was cold now; the cook took +) him high upon his chest» as ons! e new duty of the maintenance of) would toss a child, to roar at G@ote.| Not pails of bran mash and ‘malt! mar, then te stand back, drandiah-| & the relief of frozen hands. | ing an opened letter above his head. | cumshoes, worn over lighter! "Bet is come I have open eotet r and reaching with felt.) cannot wait. Bet say we shall have — thickness far toward th) the.eontract! Ah, oul! oul! oul! oui!| ‘ encased the feet. Ham #hall have the contract!” } aumbed, in spite of thick mitteps;! Houston, suddenly awake*to whae! seach week saw & new sfowMll,) the message meant, reached for the with i the conpequent) letter, It was there itf black and < thaws and the hardening of the sur-| White. ‘The bid had been accepted. . anne > face. The snowshoe rabbit made There need now be but the confer “ , = fs wppearance, tracking the shad-|ence in Chicago, the posting of the! hea | HE "MAJOR BRINGS HOME ‘ ‘owy, silent woods with gfeat, out: forfeit money, and the deal was THE DAYS CATCH Jandish marks, Tho coyotes howled | made. Fy, reappoint DRE ik BEIM ~ @ nights: bey and bog Houston, }* “Met say five thousand dollars he worked, saw the tracks of a cash, and the rest in a bond!” came 1" TT EY we or the bloody imprints of a/ enthusiastically from Ra‘tiase. “Ket DOINGS OF THE DUFFS Nou'D A CAUGHT & SHARK, = SIM LONG RUSHED "THROUGH THE WAITING ROOM To ert LETTER ON THE NOON TRAIN- AND —s tity COLLIDED WITH “THE STOVE PIPE. ‘ tain ton, ite paws cut by tho) te «imple. You have the mill, you “a Ney crust of the snow as it trailed, have the timber. Ba'teese, he have HELLO DANNY! DEAR DADDY — Ph th lf ee ere the elk or dedr. ‘The world was a) the friend in Denver who will make ow's Mi a , Witt. ‘You GIVE. of eae. quiet thing, a white thing, a cold,| the bend.” x " i WERE'S A TEN CENTS To GET, OF ASKING ME FOR TP unrelenting thing, to be fought only| “Rut how about the machinery; NIGHT P NOTE FOR E ICE CREAMP by thick garments and snowshoes! we'll need a hundred-thousand.dollar You DADDY bi pet ay Have A DIME FOR SOME ICE CREAM P “THAT | WROTE J\_ “THANKS. Your SON BECAUSE | m DANNY .D WANT IT "To , be BE A_ SECRET: ste ease. He have figure he can borrow | Shortawkwardapptaring \ Sle dsiten thousand ‘dollar tn his own and sang along the icy.) name. But he have not think about packed road of snow, to ap-/ the machinery,” the piles of logs snaked out) “But we must think about It, Ba’: FJ @ the timber, to be loaded high/tiste. We've got to get it. With f all seeming regard for gravi-| the equipment that's here, we never 3 or consideration for the broad-| could hope to keep up: with the con. | patient horses, to be secured) tract. And if we can't do that, we one end by heavy chains leading | lose everything. Understand me, I'm © & patent binder whieh cinched) not thinking of quitting; I merely hem to the sled. and started down/ want to look over the buttlefield first. Shall we take the chance?” *Big Ba'tiste shrugged his howl ff s i i “Ba'teere, he always try to break the grinding | the way,” came at last. “Ea'teese, js | . You axk Ba'teese—Ba’| | teese way go ahead. Somehow we) make It.” } | “Then tomorrow morning we take | the train to Denver, and from there TT go on to Boston. I'll raise the (money some way. YT don't know! of how, If I don't, we're only beaten ty to in the beginning instead of at the Hood, the! end. We'll simply have to trust to snow, the fact that the! the future—on everything, Ba'tiste. squirreis were more pien-| There are so many thingy that can one part of the woods than Whip us, that—" Houston laughed \ or that they chattered| shortly—“we might as well be gam Simore in the morning than in the) biers all the way thru. We'll never @flernoon. Hours he spent in watch-| fulfill the contract, even with the ing Old Bill, a lumberjack who. in| machinery, unless we can get the his few moments of leisure between | use of the lake and a flume to the! the supper table and bed, whitted/ mill. We may be able to keep it up 4 laboriousty upon a wooden chain,| for a month or two, but that will be whieh with dogged persistence he all The expense will eat us up ; \ had jugged with him for monthm)| Put one chance ts no greater than) Or perhaps staring over the shotlder! the other, and personal! m at the |} P= of Jade Hains, striving to copy the! point where I don't care.” | | picturé of a motion picture star| “Oull Ba'terse, he have nothing. || | 4 from a worn, dirty, months-old maga-| Ba'teese he only fight for the excite. |] | gine, as excited as they over the| ment. So, tomorrow we go!” .* tiny things.in life, as eager to seek) And onm\the next day they went & bunk when eight o'clock came,./again to go over all the details of SS grudging to hear the clatter of|their mad, foundationless escapade alarm clocks in the black coldness! with Chance, to talk it all over in Before dawn and to creak forth to/ the old smoking car, to weight the cujtous grades, Houston felt that he the watering and harnessing of the balance against them from every! was headed finally for the dissolu fiorses for the work of the day.jangle, and to see failure on every tion. But ther fome way, it all seemed to be nat-' side. But they had become gembiers jat it ural to Barry Houston, natgrafthat | with Fate; for one, it was his final) time he should accept this sort of doxged, | opportunity, to take or diregard.! be en humdrum, eventiess Hfe and strive| with @ faint glimmer of success at forever, or rea to think of nothing more. The other, one end of the vista, with the wip-| «pa'tiste’ They wer existence, for him, had ended) ing out of every hope at the other. | ghods at Crest ip « binckened waste; even the one| They tried not to look at the gloomy | pointed. excit Ioteon in whom he had trusted, the | side, but that was impossible. As ‘oman he would have been glad to| the train grotnd its way up the cir FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS AS 1 SAID, FROM MIDNIGHT ON EVERYTHING WAS IN «FULL SWING AND HE EXCITEMENT WAXED 7 MERRY WHY, THEY DONT = WERE DID You EVER. " . You—you no see it, because he come to you with a amile, when ry or he frown. You think she ts the angel, yes, oui? But she ¢ try to turn you against your frier re ¢ pax? Ba‘teene selfish me bs By Mabel Cleland _* SS OF HS PURG AIR WITH SUCH ‘ tI WHY DO YOU CONTAMINATE | BECAUSE © a“ ie A STRONG, SovR line, and How: he west-bound tr t them on the wa | slope. A woman was there ]| APventures (fF . | eg ee Pade 72 4 ly. ut with not er i ‘ ‘ ; ‘ 7 T T THE PRINCESS GOES TO THE PARK ip nt g wight of her by t her 2 oF HE wi NS | Cans diad who glanced quickly and| With that resolution they went to Old Angeline’s picture came; body in ce ute e elty yt fo = : i . and it a kindly interes n hel Ch Barto an + | gasped: Denver, t t few next with its flat face, little eyes | and : ‘ Ps friends Pia J, to argu fs So one day they p 1a trip 5 4 S >} BE. Reha 0 <1 countless wrinkh She § J = M TREATED ts ee one of them Ir f ten thou. an out to L kK and took TORTY Tt RTLE Ss ‘Tl M fY IS TREA | Houston leaped from his seat, anid a ° ior Si melgcerpsonap are cp dary out ran ok sand dollar worthy « ran to the ve in vain. It } pulling p with the ¢ n one,” I with the not even an 1 on Monday. And when out to the park the peo: pared for it were busy said, gazing long at the old In dian’s picture. “I wish she had been just a little bit pretty.” he returned to th beside bis Barry Sunday BRdvic C might Aunt Pol at Aunt acs wan she, Ba'tiste.” came with st this her sweet w saw woman sorting over Jeonviction. “I got a good look at childrer ke she had left from Sun THen WS Bork Cert ; 0 or of Chief Seattle which would! day's sale her before she noticed Ther ev. m ter of Chief Seattle which wou ‘ when 1 pointed, she turned her head} Ah, oui! Somehow. I e make them se how she might be| So she went to her A KICK OUT Of \T failure, then 4 beautiful—really—even back of a! a big box of sliced ne, he see her.” will fin’ th regular “hickory-nut” face of it, and took it to t ing back. What do you| Now, Ba'te 1 she remembered the day | cess.” can mean? Can she Yes, and keep wateh on that ago when the picture was| “Ught’ grunted Angeline, and ut here for some-| of it—something hayer, Before} make the rounds and she told them about) sitting down with a fat sigh she quickly spread her red bandana eline wasn't shre about a! handkerchief on her lap and things that the white men| turned the box upside down, ae catch the nex’ train to so soon as we have fir business. Ket is for no employment agencies and tell g004' ght to her father's coun- gpilling all the cake into her hand | “I wonder—” it was a he end you every man they didn’t trust them kerehief a faint one—“if sh ald up to a hundred. We'll was afraid of street cars, afral Then she ate _ os ‘ | tag back to make 1 work xtent! of certain things in white me Piece after plece tt dis In walked Mr. Torty Turtle, moaning and groaning — | ‘rriat—that other 4 usand dol ug houses, and deathly afraid huge mouthful fol | unlike the pe who had en able tO & enough cameras. mouthful, and when the last One day when Nano was dusting ; kindly “T know exactly what's) good to me apart from the » keep us going for a while But because they were always’ crumb was gone, I think she must Dr. sn offic, the doorbell | wrong with you. Here are five kinds | 6¢ her nature that I knew especially with the roads to her, she wasn’t a bit| have been too full to be afraid fang and in walke# “ir. Torty Turtle, |of medicine; one’s for the pain in| “she have a bad me Batiste | ices h 1 of “Uncle John s Aunt “I'll always think of that,” Moaning and %eaning and sighing | your ear, one's for the rheumatism | repeated grimly She have a bad| “Ah. Oui! It is the three o'clock Polly avid lnnahed: when f ack at a bad tons A| Bon voyage, mon Baree (Continued Tor And makina «dreadful fuse. in your toe, one’s for the cold in|eye, she ha Now, “Uncle John wanted] that picture of her on the post “Hell forty, what's wrong?” ask-| your rose, one's for that tired feel-| very much to get a picture of| card, with her hands folded across et recy, he ing and the last is to give you an — on i] Angeline’s good old ugly face, be-| her tummy like that. What | could, for p ¥ appetite.” \# |] cause she was the of | funny boats, Aunt Polly, where || thing “But, doctor." protested Torty, “1 | T YEAR |] Chiet Seattle, for wi Seat: | was this picture taken?" | th ay cnc eemacremeraet.3! ~~ OUR FIRST YE sie a ed oa | x. All I've got is" | @aten too much. I was at @ party} t+ By a Bride ——-——-------~--_ 4, Bak Ati ene last night and I had 10 lghtnin ut, tut!’ said the doctor. | bugs, six >pers, 15 mosquitoes; * know better than you, my dear atr, | CHAPTER LXII 1 “| “You're going to let her go then| Jack would come up as if hunting flies, t ong-legs, nine #pid-|what’s wrong with you. Take my! poMANCE OF BONNY AND BART RIPENS; I PLAY|!0ve each other more, your after | us all | for some horrid old sport like Gey for me, discover me with Bart, and erm a andlegger for des-|advice and my medicine and you'll | **’” A HAND | year, if they were fond of each other I realized if she were a poor girl, | Bradshaw? He's poor enough—even | then drift by, That sort of indiffer. sert be better tomorrow.” # |to start Bart would have asked us to witness |in scruples!” lence made me furious—only to leave” get to xleep at all, and| When Torty was gone the Twins| Since this is an secount of our Sh y have been married} “Marriage is all right as an instl-|a wedding ceremony at some village| ‘Well, if Bonriy says she loves me} me heartbroken, shall not augment it | five Bart became they make every va-jtution. There's nothing wfong with! parsonage along our route. As an|—then falls for a guy as old as her} When we did have an odd moment cation a new honeymoon, Our party | matrimony, but some human beings | old friend, T suggested this |father—I don't think you and I/alone together my man avoided be 1 fortnight, how | dubbed them * } « 1 feel as if I'd swallow-| asked the Iittle doctor man why he/first year, I wd they dug out of the | hadn't given Torty something for|with the story of ho 1 his turmmy-ache. devoted to Bonny in " odhers.” don't know how to live up to it.| “I'm too poor, Peggins! Bonny un.|better interfere with fate,” he/ing personal. It occurred to me the fairyman doctor “| did,” laughed the fairyman. “It| propinauity turned the trick They But that wasn't true of Jack's and |‘They spoll it. A wife ought to study | derstands, T can't m: a girl with | drawled | Jack was being patient with tam, 1 was nll for his tummy. But I didn’t | were thrown together, day after day, | my jcation, and Mary noticed | ali yer chances—just as Bonny ts|@ fortune when I haven't a cent,” More than once I argued with Bart | just as a devoted parent with a way- ‘Torty's tonfgue and|let on for fear he'd ask me for ajand Dame Nature, supreme match. | something had gone wrong. But, of | doing!” | “But Bart—you'll break —her}and much of our former brother-and- | ward child, who hardly can be man- felt his pulne and took his tempera: | plaster. And how could I ever put | maker, performed her task course, she couldn't speak about it} Certainly Bonny wasn't missing | heart! I pleaded. sister attitude came back. More than | aged, who will fly into a tantrum if tum and then filled some bottles ba plaster on Torty Turtle’s tummy?” Propt ity, according to Mary ept indirectly any of hers! In a few days she dis-| ‘Girls’ hearts don't break nowa-jonce Jack noticed Bart and I were|not carefully handled, With pilis | (To ¥ ‘ontinued) lgmith, ought to keep people as “Just being together ought to | carded her flapper pertness and ac: | 4 Peggins,” he said quite say-jextremely confidential, (To Be Continued) “Mere you are, Torty,” sai bel (Copyright, 1 by Seattle Stax) | happy after marriage ax lefore, jmeke @ normal husband and wife gulied a demureness that charmed | agely. ‘Sometimes at our evening camps! (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Steep