The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 10, 1922, Page 15

i eDpay, NOVEMBER 10, 1999. BY S. B.A. HURST Author of “Goomer Ali" THE LOCUSTS S228 ey wand the locusts went up ever the land, and rested 4 7 very gravitons were they: Defore them there were no am pong For they covered the face of the whole ee sarkoned and they did eat pha ‘of the trees” Reodus w, 19-15 . » locusts « so that the land every herd of the land, and all the fruit . rom Page 6) Ie uminees ¥ a aah : iis emen, You know all about the re Of how he tc n ; tation in which this young lady @ the mail Ca : “aj stands with the accused, and car gnuckles whic > hardly expect her to assiat the pros torney exhids joutton, Also, she may feet that it Gector was called for, how he came | strange that a young man of app pronounce awe serious; of ently good health should dic from } nd Re memmene ambulance by/a blow on the nosef @lephone, He recogniaed 7 — “1 Tom paused, conscious of that a er, & man who had wok . = the oa mab a t Ng of plot aguinst Jack, of which a ee nenintied then went|.Utzy felt so certain. But that a ‘The doc yet titted that he {24 man had been substituted for on the stand, a | Ue itving Uren whira never en arrived upon the soone ot A, he crime ltered his head. Such thingy might tmmediate!y ey : poles hse. | be done in melodramatic rie bu gaitted. He wait he fount bleeding {NOt {8 real life. Besides, so many erased = une Poe, oe the | nae identified Uren Takahira aa the from sever’ Ne | dead man, and even Jenkins himself © poltoeman geisoner being held dy had believed that the Who bad just testified. He went in| mo corpee in the Se endo ¢ along with the hospt = rune wee Uren Takah The physician in order to render as }Japs ayleted down, annoyed that Sa ore aed | HF ABy had Betrayed thom Serres k might wet th opine ot | arte of the scowt on the face ¢ Gh that he and his brother doctor | en poss.” He had arranged every qould do, Uren Takahira died just as| ing, and their acting had not ” : a eit y infies the ambulance reached the hospital. | op irene cies nim. So, with shrugs The ambulance doctor corroborated | ie ta cet fers, and tw whieh Gates doctor, miding that he gave [trict %0 express the words “Wel fee neceamary oriern and mw the| west Ca? you expect from a young body taken to the morgue, He alwo| te ye. ey Tesigned thpmaelver de out death certificate, which | £2, listening to the evidence of Mary | Carleo iwas to the effect that Uren Takahira | - Bed as a result of several blows | That Uren Takahira, Igtruck by his assailant, Cartson, whe | Under the kindly guida feed @ brass knuckle, The actual kins, “made those disgust gause of death was probably throm. | [Ce #t me. Every woman knows Trae, what I mean, and everybody knows The coroner then gave evidence of /MAt BO decent man can stand by Raving made a post mortem, He | #84 see such @ face made at the gir! fed that the skull of the deceased | ** loves!’ She smiled encouragingly been crushed as from a heavy |#t Jack Carlson, who smiled back at @f some weapon, in the region | ™* what was commonly called the} “And when Jack told him not to So large was the area af.|100k at me that way, he went on do by the biow and so heavysie it, So Juck Just bit him on the | Rose, and the Jap fell bieeding « bit Jack never used a brass knuckle jand it's a lie to say that he ever | threatened Uren Takahira. Jack, on | the apur of the moment, just hit him, and all he did was to make his nose that blow, or blows, have been “Mat the pressure upon the brain, due ito the clotting of the blood, showed Mm that nothing known to surgery ould have saved the life of the vic fim. Thrombosis, as the last speaker bad called it, was as good a name an ‘any to give to the actual cause of t of what Mary she could, but We. And, tn apite of every trick of This was the « Geeexamination he knew, Tom | said, telling what } could do nothing towards /not helping Jack. For Jack was be the evidence of any of the/yond the help of justice, and) no sort of evidence could do him | any good, as Hammond could see No, there was only one way to save Jack, and the veteran of Chateau / Thierry intended to try that way. So the inquest dragged Its way t its comic opera finish, with Jack witnesses “He called his one witness for the Mary Hammond. | Please tell all you know about | is affair.” he coached. And Mary “It's all a scheme to get Jack into At this the Japanese coroner and Be attorney for the county jumped ‘thelr feet, protesting. “One at a time.” shouted Jenkins, | until the trial. posedly woven against Uren was| hardly referred to, being withheld | And Jack Carlson, | sitting there listening to his brave sweetheart, felt also that something had been done by the Japs which he could neither see nor understand. But that a corpse had been substi. tuted never occurred to him. Bad as/ was his opinion of his Japanese fol- |low citizens, that they—the sworn jotticials of Grant county—should stoop so low as to plot deliberately to murder him legally was something too base for his imagination to credit. SUH, he could feel the trap closing around him, and he could see so chanct of escaping that trap. Capital punishment was still on the statute books of the state of Wash- Healy. “T really cannet un- the excitement of you gen Off with Fingers) | bleed. That he died shows that he | had a mighty poor doctor to attend | death. him. And Jack used no brass ‘And e0 on, with every Jap politely | kmuckie, so how could he break his/ awny the life of Jack Cart| head?” | jcommitted for trial, and bail refused. | | That long plot which he had sup-/ ington, and Jack, brave as he was, | shuddered as he visualized his end) by means of the awful rope. | For men did not aiways die swiftly when they were hanged—sometimes, often, they hung there helpless and | strangied slowly; and a more awful death could hardly be imagined. But some ministers of Christianity had never thought of imitating Christ by fighting for the repeal of this disgust-| ing punishment; Indeed, some of} them had fought for it! | ened by his terrible situation—saw, there was no more room for Jesus and His teachings among many of the people of Washington than there had been two thousand years before in Palestine! So Jack was committed to trial for first degree murder, and after a few hurried words with his sweetheart and friends he was taken back to bis lonely and miserable cell—Hammond Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little | leaving him with set face, and filled " on an aching corn, in- | with the determination that had car- Mantly that corn stops hurting, then | ried fear into many a German heart Mortiy you lift it right off with | 30 years before. ‘Truly! So it was that, after a hurried sup- Your druggist seiis a tiny bottle | per, with the coming of the wonder- | 9 “Freezone” for a tew cents, suf-|ful summer night, Hammond told Belent to remove every hard corn, }Mary that he was going to fly over | fott corn, or corn between the toes, |to Seattle, and the girl understood. "ind the calluses, without soreness | “I expected so, daddy,” she com- & irritatios. mented — “I am sole executor, without bonds. for poor old Carlson,” he added OD FOLKS NEED |<‘: ‘The girl smiled. NOT BE FEEBLE -:-: that has to be done on the | Carlson property, hardly a lawyer tn along in years’ |needed. Tom Jenkins, who drew up you are “getting you don’t need to sit in a chimney | the will, could attend to everything dream of the days when |in a few minutes. In fact, he does [not have to—you could do everything yourself. Or is it you fear trouble with the Japs?” “1 do! But they are far too wise to hurt the common-sense notion of property rights or to do anything ille- gal aboyt Carlson's property,” an- swered Hammond. “No, there will be no trouble about probate—the titles will be kept clear! So, I am not going to Seattle to consult any big firm of attorneys, Mary!* ‘You don’t have to tell me, dad,” she squeezed bis hand. “The men -Mangan you are going to talk with in Seattle { : { Blood Enricher |". ™"* awful lot of respect lfor the law as administered by the | Jap-Amerieans when you get through |telling therm what took you to me |them. Maybe they are expecting you?” , “Maybe!” he grinned as fighters grin “I! wish T was a man-—for tonight |and a few more nights,” she blushed. “Just long enough to get Jack out of cod-liver ofl. J of jait, 1 suppose,” her father amiled The discovery of vitamines | #t her. “Then you'd want to change has helped solve the riddle. |back into a woman again, eh?” I don’t stay about the house you will worry about me, and not be able to do whatever it Is you are going to do « well as if T aia!” They kinwed, and then—the derful green of the sky over the hills “Something like that!” she ad- 8 mitted. “But be very careful, dad.” “You must promise me” (he be- came very grave) “that you will not leave the house, will not become isrich inhealth-bufldingvita- jj mixed up in anything that 1 may do, mines and helpful or in anything unusual that may go in isa on around here pr in Neppel!” Preventing “1 promise, dad,” she answered the so-called “winter with equal gravity. “T know that if fils.” It hetps keep the vital forces of the body strong to resist disease. Seott & Bowne, Bloomfield, NJ won Erma EI nN aR a 8 RRR MTSE TL Truly, as the boy—his mind sharp- | | “Yen, daddy, but for all the legal | OUR BOARDING HOUSE TMCOLD OATME A). WITH MY “THRILL FROM NOW ON + SHH f SCRATCHED A DATE LI FRAMED FOR LAGT NIGHT BECAUGE SHE HAD A HEADACHE ~~ AN! “THEN 1 GEE WER GoWwe W A MOVIE WITH A GUY £2 THAT LOOKS LIKE HE/ POSES FoR “OTH PASTS Avs | A—— DOINGS OF THE DL PANSY, You'RE LATE AGAIN THIS MORNING! awe “Hello!” answered Scarecrow. The Twins took Simple Simon's advice and swung themselves down to the earth on a giant cobweb. ell ask Searecrow first, if he has seen Mother Goose's broom,” said Nick, taking Nancy's hand and starting off. Pretty soon they came to Farmer Smith's cornfield, Farmer Smith had patched up Scarecrow until he was as good as new, with new arms and legs and a sult of his own clothes and a rakish hat. Also he had given him a new stick to hold. Nancy and Nick picked their way betwen the corn rows until they came to the middie of the field “Hel they called to the silent figure standing there. “Hello!” answered Scarecrow, “I'm glad to see you. I was getting vo lonesome. Are you admiring my new clothes? Well, dear knows, I didn’t get them before I needed them! My last year's ones were in ribbons. FA hcws SWEETIE GIVES HIM “THE TOSS FoR A 'FFS YASSUM, | OVERSLEPT MyseLr § Rgoers SCARECROW ALARMED STAR BY AHERN | THE SEATTLE ttt he HA:HA * WELL CLYDE = SHALL WE “TAKE HIM BACK IN “TH’ GRAND ORDER OF GKIRT DODGERS, OR warr AN' See IF ANOTHER SOFT SPOT BREAKS OUT ON HIS HEAD % WHAT DO Y'SAV« 16 HE ELEGIBLE “To BE A MOLLY HERMIT “Too Late BUS SHE'S GOT A HALE NELGON ON HIG HEART NOW, OR HE WOULDN' Be Soke! ~ Het GE OVER 1 HER HOUGE TOMORROW NIGHT POLISHING “TW’ DOOR BELL WITH HIG "THUMB AN'GHB'LL FLAGH A SMILE ON HIM THAT'LL MAKE HIG WATCH GAIN "TEN MINUTES =~ _~ — Sa NIGHT ==. WHAT DID You DO WITH THE ALARM CLOCK 1 K. GAVE You? OH | HAS IT In MY Room! ar. Day or “They pany. Judge the were a fearsome com those three Indian bands,” continued, “under of Chief Joseph, Austin leadership White Bird and Looking Glass “Hevery traveler who came to us Almota brought of horrible things they were do: ing, us to be prepared. build a fort,’ they told us. warfare is a terrible thing; your at fresh stories And every traveler warned ‘You ought to ‘Indian I'm glad to see you” They got so bad I lost nearly all my | families are not safe a day, not straw stuffing, and my very bones an hour, unprotected and un. showed.” a, ul “Well, you look yery nice now,” | rhe land that Joseph wanted said Nancy patting him was Camas Prairie, And the set “Did you see anything of 4/1 tiers there kept hogs, and pigs ate broom?” asked Niek suddenly. “We! and spoiled the camas root. This are hunting for the one Mothe made Joseph furious. He shot Goose lost.” Scarecrow turney very red. “Why, I don’t know,” he said in @ worried voice. “I—I'm made of broomsticks, you seo—and wouldn't it be queer if if my backbone, or my arms, or my gun happened to be the very one two men down, and little by little worked hi way on to the Snake river, “That's where IT was, you know, and word came down the river to us that the Indians had captured two freight wagons at you're looking for! How can you Glenn's Ferry, driven off 100 find out?” horses, cut loose a ferry boat, “We'll ask Mother Goone,” said |] destroyed several farm houses an Nancy the settlers were fleeing in terror. “Well, tell her that my arms are “New, you know, I put in the blue, my backbone red, and my gun yellow with green stripes,” said Scarecrow. “If her broom was any of those colors perhaps I’ve got it.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) first cable ferry across the river, and I had put everything T had into @ grain business on its banks, and I had brought my little fam- it having changed into a royal. purple, with dark lines merging into the haze-dressed sky of summer night— Hammond ran out his most power- ful airplane, and ascended, with lights burning, straight up into the multry air. When 2,000 feet up, he stopped his ascension, and started his engine full speed ahead-—a wonderful pros- pect of beauty drawing his attention from the grim situation of his pros- pective son-in-law, ‘The glory of na- ture soothed him as he dashed thru the night, and, tho he was no poet, Hammond was moved until the at the end of the lease leaving the land actually eaten up, all the nour- ishment taken from it, saving money on the last year by omitting the use of fertilizers—with this beginning the locusts from the Orient had made and saved money for the time when their descendants could buy land be- cause they were American citizens, Always watching, the Japs had pre- pared like an invading army for the great Columbia basin—a project which would not only have made ing of Indian lands for three years-|money for the white settlers (as its outbidding the white men because of| sponsors had intended), but which their being able to make up the dif-| would also have richly benefited the ference by their cheaper labof—and' four citlea, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma poetry that is in every white man rose to the surface and spent itself in heartfelt admiration. It was approximately 140 miles to Seattle, as the airplane flies, across some of the most wonderful country in the world. But it was the old story—the richer the inheritance the awifter its dissipation, ‘The locusts had come into the land, and had devastated it. Beginning with the Japanese leas- The Alarm Me@t Nothing * o CO) we (Poo * _By Mabel Cleland _» © ane JUDGE AUSTIN'S STORY (Chapter 4) a THE OLI) HOME TOW HOLDER “> NEWT SHES) Reason sina Af N PAG BY STANLEY CHECKERS -DOMINOES ROLLING PINS @& OTHER INDOOR GAMES MARSHAL OTEY WALKER HAS STOPPED CARELESS BICYCLE RIDER’ — MAYBE THATS WHY ADNT SARAH PEABODY TREATS HIM Do You seT IT AND WIND IT UP? Grattle _« oo | ily there and I didn’t in the least fancy having everything spoiled and made into a tragedy by the Indians, and it began to look as if our location was about as bad | as it could be. On one, side of us | was a band of Indians wholly | friendly to us, on the other side }an enemy tribe. These tribes, | stirred up Sy tales of other In- dians on the war path, were ready | at any moment to begin a war | right across our little settlement “I got my gun one night and stood it near the head of the bed, within reaeh of my hand. “Why do you do that, dear?’ my wife asked, anxiously, ‘You never slept with a gun before.’ “ Well,’ I told her, trying to be comforting, ‘I've quite a good deal | of cash under my pillow. Got pay. ment for a big shipment of grain today, Just thought I'd be on the safe side in case anybody tried to wet at it’ “Presently she fell asleep, and T lay staring in to the dark, won | dering how long I could keep her | in ignorance of our danger, and what 1 could do to make things any safer for ber. “About midnight I heard the steamboat whistle, and dressing quictly, 1 slipped out and went to the dock to get further news.” (To Be Continued) ree and Portland, Instead, it had benefited the Jap- anese. But Hammond could not dwell upon the situation and continue to be calm. He needed some calmness, So he flew through the dark, with all the beauty of the hills and forests hidden from him, until the lights of Seattle guided him to the landing place, Tn the state of Washington tn the year 1945 there were about 10,000,000 men, women and children, Of these loss than 2,000,000 were white people, The strongest “colony” of whites was in Seattle. It was as if they had been t YASSUM - EVERY NIGHT! ecg ooaereetmam yn apeyt ne man me WITH RESPECT. HEAR IT IN « THINK THAT A “THE MORNING ? BY ALLMAN DAT’S THe TROUBLE, IT GOES OFF WHEN 1'S ASLEEP! MAN OF YovR AGE LOOKs CiKS A Foot wen HE WoeaARs driven there, like a beaten army that still continues to fight. And while the various cities and villages not altogether given over to the Japanese contained posts of the American Legion, Seattle held the largest and strongest aggregation of the veterans of the Great war, And to one of these posts, which listed several thousand men who had actually seen fighting in France—-on whose books were the friends of Hammond, members of that famous fighting aggregation from the West Hammond was making his way. He was a long way from his usual calm self. Quite certain that the law was being used against Jack Carlsap HERG You Go AGAIN! | SOMETHING NICE ONCE IN A WHILE § You ASKED ME FoR MY OPINION AND I GAVE IT. L Cace PRetry mice!!! CANIT You SAY THAT as a “cold deek” is used by a tin- horn gambler determined to win by cheating because fair playing will not win for him, Hammond in his fevered state could see nothing for it but “to fight fire with fire,” as the old saying puts it, and help Jack by means just as illegal, but more spec- tacular, Had he known the truth—had he known that Uren Takahira was not dead-—his methods would probably have been the same. The only dif- ference would have been that he would have been madder than he was, and his friends likewise—whigh is saying a great deal. (Continued Tomorrow)