The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 6, 1922, Page 11

= 615 . oS EaPRS seFs2 pas dl Brg ’? at rede « Ww @ preg 326s RFR Gee atret country, devilish with Its purpose to | paign a very previous were they For they covered the face of ad; and they did eat ever Baeodus x, 14-15 they was darke of the trees.” (Continued From Page 1) | clutching fingegs over the} bsorb. And behind this Hammond sould visualize the banner of the ris. ng sun, leering at the flag that had Open Child’s Bowels with taste of “California Fig Syrup.” If of cold, or has colic, give a teaxpoon- | ful to cleanse the liver and bowels. | self how thoroughly it works all the waste out of have a well, playful chfld again. via Fig Syrup” handy. They know «| reamed. ii uit F have i it 8g : ever been defeated, but which « areless and inefficient breed of self. ~ MOTHER! “California Fig Syrup” Even a sick child loves the “fruity” THE LOCUST “And the loousts went up over the land, and rested in all the coasts; defore them there were no such locusts as BY S.B.H. HURST Author of “Coomer All” Copyright, 199%, Seattle Btar the whole earth land v herd of the le so that the d all the fruit seeking politicians had for genera tions used merely as gla’ for cam speeches careless = who trampled upon it Hammond clenched his fists, The tiny, one-man flying machines of the innumerable Japanese — farmers | bussed overhead like so many files, | “My country, ‘tis of these! he) growled. It had come to this! Of all that million and a quarter acres which had, years ago, formed the basis of the Columbia Basin irrigation prod ect, only Hammond's holding and that of bis neighbor, Carlson, re. mained in the hands of white men! All the reat, as well as adjoining tor ttle sections of the state of Washing ton, was owned by Japanese. But this was not all—the Japa nese owned the Pacific coast! | To give the story of how the con templative gentieman who had sipped that fateful tea had realtzed nis vision would be to write history; Hammond's mind ran swiftly over ft The maginficent acherme of redemp tion of that valuable land, of which the Columbta basin formed part, had been the idea of white men backed by the newspapers and civic organiaa- tions, and to benefit not only the farmers who would buy land, but, & corollary, the four cities, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and Portland. | The Japs had gradually absorbed it, while, concurrently, they had ab- | sorbed the most of the businesses of | the cities mentioned. Hotels, stores, he Mttle tongue ts coated, or If your Hild te Ustloss, cross, feverish, full 2 a few hours you can see for your- constipation poten, sour bile and the bowels, and you Miltions of mothers keep “Caltfor- easpoonful today saves a sick child omorrow. Ask your druggist for | terrupted. ceonuine “California Pig Syrup” which |and with no more sound, a }and at least some of the most power. }ful newspapers themselves had} passed into the hands of the Orient als, The insidious brown man had Jerept into public office here and | there and the threat of the Japanese | Political bosses made the entire state government {ts servant. Just as the eipper of tea had Bot Hammond's thinking wae tp With the ease of « bird, tiny vas dtrections for babies and children | “flivver” plane landed tn front of the f all ages printed on bottle, Mother! ou must say “Caltfornia” ray get an tmitation fig syrup. Sterling L. Brooks Your Kidneys or Back Bother You? ead What Mr. Brooks Says} thrusting their enmity tnto the fam. Cal—“Two years ago the bad 4 i almost getting well, I of Dr. Pierce’s Anuric Tablets i i E y Remedies, tableta or liquid, or rite Dr. Pieros, President Invalids’ fotel In Buffalo, N. ¥., for free med- al advice. 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From tt, In tearful haste, 20, who was the living. loving image of the wom. ! an who years ago had walted for Hammond to come back from France. “Oh, daddy, daddy,” she gasped ae he took her in his arma, “they | have arrested Jack!” | “For what? exclaimed Hammond, | knowing that a more law-abiding boy | than Jack Carlson, his neighbor's only son and his daughter's fiance, | aid not Itve. | “Assault!” she orted. Hammond's face grew grim. This was the stab direct, following repeat. | ed velled threats. To give up their} holdings, and get out, had been the! gist of various unsigned letters (let: | ters which did not need any signa-| ture) recefved by both white men. Un- wilting to damage the properties which they wiihed to acquire at Prices below their value, the Japa- nese had refrained from the then Popular form of “reprisal” of drop- ping fire bombs from airplanes at night. Now, with every “legal” in thetr hands, they were ly affections of the whites. “Tell mel said Hammond quietly “In front of Tanaka's store in Neppel.” the girl went on, after her| father had led her to a seat. “Jack and I were standing there, talking. . . . Oh, Daddy, you know} how those beasts regard women, and how they stare and leer at us white! women—every look « dirty = tnsult!! Well, there was « Jap man standing at the entrance of the store. I think ft was one of Takahtra’s sons. I was facing this Jap, while Jack had his back to him. And that Jap—tookea— at me! Jack saw my face, and turned, ae the Jap knew he would—and Jack saw the look on his face. . .” A fresh outburet of sobs Interrupted the girl; but when she was more componed, she went on. “Yes, Jack went up to this Jap, althe I tried to stop him, and he sald: “If you don't take that look off your yellow face, I'll knock It off?” “And the Jap just moeered, and enlled Jack a son of-——-you know, father. So Jack hit him, and the Jap dropped, with a yell; and a lot of Japs came running—fust as ff they had been waiting for this to happen! “I was 20 worked up that I didn’t know what I did next, but the Jap Jack had hit lay on the ground, and |make no effort to get up, while the other Japs yelled for a doctor, and a Tap doctor came. | “He looked very serious, and said they would have to send for an am | bulance, as it was a case of concus- ston of the brain! Why, Daddy, Jack only bit him on the nose! It | did bleed, but anyone could see that |that Jap was shamming. So the po- lice came along gnd took Jack. It was awful to see Jack going with {those Jap policemen—all American | citizens. So, then, I came home to you, as fast as I could? The buzzer of the wireless tele- phone stopped what answer Ham-| mond was about to make. He lifted) the disk receiver on the veranda rail. “Yes,” he said, “this is Hammond. What—attempted murder! The Jap not expected to live! Imposaibl You say that anything ts possible in| this country now! Yes, you're right. | We'll be over right away” “it's Carlson,” he explained, as he! replaced the receiver. “Jack is held| for attempted murder. I don't get it! You say he only hit the Jap on the none?” “That was all, dad!” the girl clung to her father in an ecstasy of fear. Her woman's intuition was gathering to itself the varied vibrations of the conspiracy of the Japanese; that ts, the “Americans” of Japanese de scent! And while she could not re duce these vibrations to an intelligent concept, she felt all the fear which! 1 real understanding would have! caused Indeed, her ignorance of the actual facts made her feel worse than she would have felt had she known| everything instead of merely feeling. | “He only just hit him, daddy. But, as I said, it was just as if they had rehearsed it all. The Jap, Takahtra’s eldest son, I think, fell down, and the |rest of therm came running. Then the doctor said it was serious, and! concussion, There's 2 scheme against ‘You Cannot isuy | Ty a New Eyes - |, ATS eta circa | OUR EVES Yarn as Rened ono Parnes, Cte at osty “OUR BOARDING HOUSE MESGRG. DUGAN & DIXON We ARE ARRANGING A SUNT NIGHT AND WILL PAY You $ Uo FoR YouR acT HA-HA« TLL Werte "EM BACK “THAT ALL “THEN CAN GET ON. “THEIR STAGE AT THAT PRICE IG A COUPLE OF CARPENTERS ! 7 READ “TH" 7 LETTER AGAIN pyragbe nal LopeE GUS, WHERE THEY WAN'T US “To PUT ON OUR ACT = tT HANDS ME A LAUGH AT “TH’ PRICE “HEV OFFER us! \ Jes ey Ven i (aa HAN AEENS <5, PLAYING WITH “THAT FOOTBALL IN “THE House You’! SOMETHING ADVENTURES = OF ake Hebets Bete SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN “THEY'RE “THROWING “THAT LINe For uS= WHY, “THeY'D SING “THEMSELVES BALD HEADED AN DANCE A Hoe i-th’ STAGE FoR THAT MUCH JACK = Weres NoTHIN’ “Meir NAMES IN PRINT ON “TH’ PROGRAMS ~ 5 * ONLY L4 MONEY “THEY EVER PASSED UP WAS WHEN “THEY WALKED A ‘ar. David and Peggy bent together over @ little card. On the card was not only a nanre, such as mother dear’s cards had, but a face besides. Peggy said, “Davie, I don't know why I ‘spect it, but I just simply know that that is a pto- neer. I simply know he can tell early-day stories, and I'm going right straight and ask grand mother.” “Goodness -alive! How did you get nerer asked ‘And sure enough he ts, and sure Nancy. enough he does know lotsa of Nancy and Nick looked and looked ; here?” asked Nancy. thrilling stories, and sure enough and looked for Mother Goose's) “I'm looking for the cow oe he was perfectly dear about tell- broom. |jumped over the moon,” answer tan ts ‘ David. ‘They were still up in the sky on/the cat. “I feel that my playing gy tismpeligal wipoopa ane pr the star ca Jupiter, a great big caused all the trouble, and her ‘1877 it was," he oaid, ‘when I bright ome where a lot of Mother |m needs her, Also, the dish|{ Came to this state. I was in ill tran off with the back Goose's people lived. | Pretty soon they heard music, {come “It's a fiddle,” said “It |elther of them?” makes me feel like da “Nof’ said Nancy, “It must be the Pied Piper of |head. “Ioverything ts | Hamlin,” said Nick “Or King Cole,” remarked Nancy. “Perhaps it's one of his fiddlers.” “Or it might be Tom the Piper's | think they are clouds. Mother Goose has lost too, und the cobwebs on the sky are so thick that people on health and I came out hoping to get well, and I did, “I came first to Seattle, but it was cold and rainy, and the town looked so little and hopeless that my friends advised me to go east of the mountains, ‘Walla Walla ts much larger place,’ they said, ‘and it's bright and sunshiny over sp Did you happen to see on havn't | shaking her lost, it seems, her broom, the earth ‘They say she son, who learned to play when he/has started to ride one of her geene.” there? was young,” sald Nick “No doubt,” answered the cat “So I went. But to thelr amazement tt was|solemnly, blinking his eyes. “But 1| “T went right into the grain none of these, for along the road|must be on my way. Don't forget|] business, when I got there, and came a cat, at that very instant, |to look for the cow, will you? Or the |] goon found that it was better for playing a fiddle and doing a Jig dish! As for the spoon, And now you know who it was,/me the had seen a dipper my dears? sky. Maybe that's it! “Hi diddle diddte, the Cat and the | look.” Fiddle,” of course. “Goodness alive! How did you get! (Copyright, 1922, (To Boe Cgntinued) by Seattle Star) someone told in the I'l go and mo to start out in a new pla Walla Walla was already started, was less serious than it looked, while if he had gone nearer to solving the Jack, dad—tI can feel itt and that had seen the arrest when he first means the scheme is against us all; | heard of it as a stab at Carlson and he had seen it only as an against the Carlsons and ourselves, | himself, the only whites left in the bia basin can we do?” | put up the «mall amoun “We are going over to Carisons’| cases demanded now, and then 11 all go to the| ‘he attempted murde: jail—picking up Tom Jenkins, the) shown him the world, as we go!” ag confidently as he could- more confidence than he felt- with far | was trying Colum-| unnecessary arrest of a Oh, what can we do, what | would not run away, and who could greater seriousne best white lawyer in this part of the | but he was nowhere near sensing the Hammond spoke | larger plot, as his daughter ‘Thus, he, in the clumsy way of an affectionate man, tried to comfort’ monds found him on his veranda ANT A D & ‘Gasteo ‘voRemedyConO Feet Chie Sireet.Chteen to comfort the girl, Wor while he| the girl by pretending that the affair wringing his bands, op the yerge ef pemenns bin band te din cide, ont, plot of the Japanese, and so come earer to removing his daughter's intuitive fear of the unknown, both of them would have felt better. ‘They found Carlson—who, Itke Hammond, was a widower—in bad shape. He was less able to stand a shock than his friend, and this arrest hig son was the culmination of his apprehensions become conerete, In ill health for some years, the con- Unued fear of what the Japs might Jo had worn him out, and the Ham- man who t of bail such r charge Mary Everything Is “Balled Up” * OT i Cleland _» Page 826 JUDGE AUSTIN REET —emenen “THE OLLI) HOME TOWN Grattle _ « Cd so I went to Almota. Henry Spaulding lived there, son of Dr. Spaulding, one of the earliest mis sionaries in the state. “It was a brand new country; there were five families in Almota at the time and three in Spokane. “There were no railroads, and everything had to be shipped by water, and boats could run as far as Almota only during high water. “That made the coming of the boats the event of events, and no matter if a steamboat whistle sounded at midnight, or at 2 in the morning, everybody got up and went to the landing, to get the news, and see the boat come in. “It was a wild sort of place to take a young wife, and two babies, but I made them as com: fortable as & could, and kept a lot of things to myself, I had heard that the Nez Perce Indians were restless, and were threaten. ing to make trouble, but I didn't tell her that. “Almota was poorly situated, I knew, if the Indians did ‘break out’—one strong tribe on either side of us. Our own house was not completed, and I was rather glad, for we rented the parlor of the Spaulding house, and I felt safer to have the family there ear someone when T was out of the house.” (To Be Continued) tears. “John he exclaimed, clinging convulstvely to Hammond, “what will 1 do—-what can I do? Isn't it awful?’ “Ole,” consoled Hammond, “you just stay here while Mary and I go to Neppel and get hold of Jenkins, It won't do a bit of good for you to come along—you're sick, you know, and it would worry Jack a whole lot if he thought you were making y self worse by going about when you aren't fit, So, just stick around home awhile!” and sat down in a wicker chair, He i “The doctor left some medicine,” he said gaspingly. strong as I used to be, John, and this business hag upset mo, —if you could find—the medicine! Hammond looked at him sharply Something in Carlson's voice roused @ memory of many men, and of many men dy - | Honey | ter; and as she hurried into the house he reached for the phone disk to call the doctor—Carlson watching him Carlson obeyed the stronger will,| with white face from which stared eyes wrenched with fear. ‘Hulla,.” began sarily turning away from Carlson te speak into the dise. “Give me A-700!" An unusual noise came from the wicker chair, just as Mary came out of the house with the bottle of medi- cine. Hammond @repped the phone and took Carlson In his arma. “The medicine can do him no good, Mary,” he announced quietly as he stood up. “Now, don't ery, dear,” he went on. rison has been ailing @ long time—the Japs have killed him His heart couldn't stand this fast shock.” He put an arm about the girl and led her away. “I don’t know but what he's better off, { trouble, and everything!” ROC wy ‘m not 80 I wonder if ing. if you can find the medicine, * he whispered to his daugh-