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

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1922. THE SEATTLE STAR PAGE 13 a a a S BY 8.B.H. HURST OUR BOARDING HOUSE BY AHERN THE OLD HOME TOWN 8. B. H. HURS' , eee om Se | a THE LOCUSTS 222822 | (ame Va Copyriant, 1088, Beattioc Mar 1 crte You AN EXAMPLE = Y S | “the. er Line We'd BETTER a) ONLY THE OTHER DAY T . WRITE ONE OUT] | tS) the land, and rested in all the coasts; 4 # OF WIG* I KNow ite evertsae snore aap; berere them there ware rtaytie: | leeunte a “TRIED “TO “TALK ACCIDENT A GUY WHo FoR HiMGELF they. For they covered the face of the whete earth, s@ that the land INSURANCE WITH A BROKE His a BEFoRE HE was darkened; and thay did eat every herd of the land, and all the fruit YOUNG MAN WHO WAS , so DISLocaTes Wis. ~ FINGER SIGNING & Of the treca”—Hwodus a, 1416 TAKING SAXOPHONE Vest \ parte \ CHIN “TRYING TO (Continued From Yesterday) — foourt. Oh, by the way, I under bags LESSONS © THAT NIGHT //Klow « BUT AN ACCIDENT “TALK BUS INTO VL Jatand that the ‘forgiving, Christian WE WAS FOUND LYING 1 GOT ALL TH’ BoucY « /lh- BUYING ~ / Jenkins phoned Hammond net pirit’ of the yellow fellow citizens ts ON “HE FLOOR ALONG WWGURANCE ; r~ > diesBli on the scendant ‘There t# no _ at « have Jack tn the new ail at| revenge in their make-up, they tell ASIDE HIS HORN = a CAN “ToT Now « : 5) S1DE WALK Connell,” he announced. “ “Te protect | me." BRICK FROM A SELL“THIS POLicY re§ & RIDIN! him from a possibly inf@ated mob’) “What are you getting at, Tom BROKEN CHIMNEY To-TH’ EGG WHo ® . 7 is what they say he went on. | asked Hammond. HAD CRASHED THRU GWE You MY i ”y ° 4 the ithe “Oh, they are so indulgent that et ust. fay, Hammond, dosen't it] thay’ will silow the prisoner to have THE WINDOW AND NAME = HE'S strike you that the Japs have alan interview with hie attorney; and STRUCK HIM! GONNA HAVE Al t ood intelligence service o his friends, now and ties Le $ PrSteo damned ood,” admitted Ham- | then,” sald Jenkins sarcasti | ACCIDENT! mond, “But’s what to do now?” | “How kind!” growled Hammond. | “Well,” answered Jenkins, "It | “But will they go so far to admit won't do any good to try to pull off) that a man is guilty till he's proved | | that same stu again, They'll | innocent know all about ft before we try Bo “That's about the size of It." agreed I guess we'll Just have to fight in (the lawyer, “They figure Jack ts) o are 4 aces ~~ | guilty, and don't care if the law says) h ‘t until he's proven guilty; and they're going to take a damned good leare he ts proved gullty. Hammond, | T'm he quitter, but I don't see a way out of thin And that Jap governor | will never commute the sentence, | Mottled sen | And while he was not a quitter Jenkins knew he was beaten. The Butterfly case was so different from other cases, It was like a book with « hart | chapter torn out of tt—an Important Rs Post, rors ye vertes on oe! | chapter, without which the book aid oar. not make story-sense. For blunt as woke tind, x ogy ge oe | Jenkins was he coult feel the map, ee | OH It Wore, tn the evidence without | being able, as was Mary Hammond, | (Starts on Page Six to feel certain that there was a gap. ° But not even Mary dreamed that {imbination of the safe? This ling gap tn thelr feeling of logical on ° continuity was the substitution of a Sad tether thorn Marque | corpse for the still ving Uren Taka- bira. events have demonstrated. Perhaps o hey. these. discussions we gave ta-|_ S@* had Sens ahout effecting the escape of her sweetheart by cing formation ahr bone age weve this! ciothes with him, but when she vis be 08 te this oes ba eeiwre {ited the Jail she found that the visit 1. Prefect o! ‘oliee «=made was watched by @ sharp-eyed citt-| Tw =e a Z os AUNT SARAH PEABODY WHO TOOK SUCH AN ACTIVE PART IN THE CAMPAIGN To OUST TOWN MARSHAL. OTE Y WALKER, WAS G/VEN OP POLITICS AND IS BUSY CLEANING KovuSE - Fn INGURANCE HAWK FANS BUSTER'S EARS == = | There Must Be No Waste vague gesture and continued (0/10, with inscrutable Oriental coun THAT'S A FING SIT WELL.| GUESS | WAS A speak. , ‘VATION * * “The Marquis, upon discovery of | ‘nance, who gave her no chance for 1S "THIS THE MONARCH N YOU CANT GET THE LITTLE Too HASTY INMY YY the robbery, at once notified the| (Tichery. And then—for even « tiny | COAL COP WHAT? COAL OFFICE AND You CRITICISM ~1T LOOKS AS isos atthe Raptameegitan soem | TWAT LINE: 18 OUT OF CANT GET ANY CoaL THOUGH THEY'VE BEEN tain of the tmpossthle found herself losing heart and her belief tn the wonderful ‘being’ of her dream frittered out against the hard facts of circumstances. Jack was bearing up bravety, but, | like Jenkins, be knew quite well that | | the Oriental jury would accept the| manufactured evidence, and “decide” | that his striking Takahira was the culmination of a clever and long meditated plot The brase knuckles would cinch the matter. They would argue that there was no difference in effect be- tween a brass knuckle that killed «| man and « shot fired with the same remult—behind which waa the long- walted-for revenge. The sister of the Japanese would also testify as she was ordered, and so on And Jack was right! The day of the trial might have (been a great Japanese holiday. A |e would have believed this to IM YOUR CELLAR! be the case, had he happened to arrive in Neppel that morning. For ft seemed that almost every Jap tn and around that part of the Cotum- bia basin had come to town. But sot Hit faredl i Flags Gf iH | “If one of them #o far forgets him- Forneau at once suggested | self as to express hin real feelings he j Will admit that save for utilitarian | Durposes the alten ts not figuratively an|to be embraced as a brother.” since the slip of paper| And while It must be admitted that must have come from some one em | in the state of Washington there had im that establishment. so far been few demonstrations jut here the Marquis Chantelle, | against the whites, ft ts possible that an intelligence superior ta | this quietness was more due to orders that of this officer of the Surete, emanating from political bosses than pointed out that no one would come | from any desire to neem friendly. Be- om such an adventure bringing with | sides, while the economic conquest of paper, and especially | Washington and the Pactfic coast indieatory piece of paper, upon | was an established fact, there were which to set down such a memoran-|other parts of the United States Tt was more likely that) where the whites were still on the the piece of paper had been acquired | ascendant. Particularly so in the somewhere in the apartment. South. “He then suggested that an in-| But this day, the day of the trial, qumacsnpueennminnnpenmesadth aces wer nnn RN made to discover whether all restraint had been thrown off. = — from this American firm |It seemed Uke the celebration of a | WHAT'S Moore-Poole & Company had not/ victory In some Japanese village. one time occupied an apartment | Scenes Ifke this had occurred during in the building. the Japanese-Russian war. For “Forneau acted upon this sugges | while the Stara and Stripes still % , tion and ascertained that Monsteur | floated over the courtMbuse, Its proud | meaning had been lost. In Neppel| covered a quantity of these blank | that day the flag of America was a printed slips in the bagement of the joke! Because every Japanese car- building, where, with other rubbish, with him a cheap banner on they had been retained by the con- | w was painted the well known a clerge to kindle fire in the furnace. | risfme sun of Japan. | | ; “Thus Monsieur the Marquis at| And in Neppel that day there were Page 833 ‘one stroke removed any suspicion |exactly four white people. Mary | PEGGY'S STORY BOOK that might have been attached bd | seomgeoee'§ — her father, Tom Jen- (Chapter 1) this firm of brokers and confined | kins and his client, Jac ba Inquiry to some one having ac-| Small wonder that ins Seer eae Once upon « time (in the year) He talked with all the men, and cess to the building and knowledge brated! And small wonder that old 1849, on the 14th of June) in @ lt.) Said, “I tell you, Whidby island ts of it, else he would not have been in| Takahira, with victory so close, saw tle town tn the forest, called Ore-| t* ene wonderful oo a? tm thts the basement where this debris from}®O reason why his countrymen gon Clty, @ baby. girl came inte! iets the world, and there are the apartments of old tenants had / Should not banzai that victory. f | donafion claims still to be had qbeumnulated. Prior to the opening of the trial the home of Mr. and Mrs, William! there; the land is rich, the ships “The query as to how the robber | the Hammonds waited in the lawyer's Wallace can find good harbors and it had obtained access to the Marquis’ | Office with him, watching the shift. “We'll name her Betsy Jane,” | Would be easy for & man to get his apartment on this night now ad-|!ng crowd thru the window. produce to the world’s. markets. vanced itself. There is no key to| That the crowd was waiting for - So that night Mr. Wallace said these apartments except the one de-|Something was obvious, becaune it frow up to love this new town, | to his wife, “Ruthinda, Col. Ebey livered to the tenant by the bank| Was beginning to pack along the and think of it as her home, even | interests me with his tale of tho it seems so wild and strange} Whidby Island. Let us tale the to me.” children and go there and take co = Pg Mages fg. cloned, it DD snp ce ree oon 4 Me qeing to “Every night I had an adventure with the children” But Betsy Jane was not to grow | up a claim, and dig « fortune out up in Oregon City; her father had | of the wilderness.” | locked trom the outside—that in to| “I wonder,” said Jenkins quietly,| Nick picked up poor Jack o’Lan- |the middie of the table with row of say, the knob of the door does not | “If that bunch of fellow cits is wait-|tern’s head, where it lay beside the | red apples around moe and a fine Nght urn on the outside; it turns only |!"« for us to appear?” barn, and put it on his broomstick | Inside. a “roving foot’ and someone had Now, by that time Betsy Jane Syn the inside, so that it can always| “! don't think #0,” answered Mary. | body “Then suddenly next morning I told him of a place farther west, | was a littlé; blue-eyed girl about opened from the inside, whether |“And even if they are they don't| “Ob, thank you,” remarked Jack | was thrown away, so to speak. Mis- |] called Olympia, a little place on| 4-years old, and she remembers ocked or not, | mean us any harm. They may shout |o’Lantern, gratefully. “I was just|tress carried me out here and no Puget Sound, and talked of its ad-| great deal about the strange move t cannot be opened from the| and jeer at us—nothing more!” saying to my friend the turkey gob- | body has looked at me since. Turkey vantages, and Mr. Wallace once} from Olympia to Whidby Island. outside because the handle of the) And Mary was right. Even as they |bler, that I couldn't understand the |Gobblr gets all the attention now.” more packed up his family (th First, Mr. Wallace got a big doorknob, as I have said, does not| watched, the noises of the crowd be-| world. It's a queer place!’ And he} “Never mind,” said Nick kindly in truth, they were scarcely rest-| flat boat called a scow and on this turn. How, then, would this robber | #40 to rise tnunison. Then the |sighed loudly. |“Perbaps Turkey Gobbler has his |] ed from their long trip across the} he put all his belongings, his enter the Marquis’ apartment? | multi-gabble of mingled Japanese and| ‘What's the matter?” asked Nancy | troubles, too. Other folks besides you plains) and took them to Olympia | household goods and his family, Again the Marquis was able to give| American words ceased, and for | kindly. “You look #0 happy with that |are in danger of lowing their heads. before Betsy Jane had even her | and his few farm implements, and Forneau an explanation. | Some moments there was a tense sort |nice smile on your face.” Don't you know why you are for firet birthday. even his chickens and his cow, “On the evening of the robbery, it of silence. The crowd was waiting.| ‘Well, I’m not,” answered Jack | gotten? Because Halloween 1s over They looked at Portland as they| There was no sturdy little tug was his intention to remain in his) And then—at the end of the road|o'lantern, “Last week I was the |and won't come for another year.” passed, but it was only an ugly! boat ready to tow the scow from apartment. He had dismissed his farthest from the courthouse—began | most popular person in the covntry| Suddenly Nancy remembered her little stump town, with nothing | one place to another, no engine of valet and the servants and was ® Chorus of “Banzai,” and the word|round about, Every night I had an errand, “W rehing for about it that looked hopeful. any sort. Mr, Wallace hired an lone. Later he changed his mind | ran along the lines of people like fire |adventure with the children. We had Mother Goowe's broom,” she said That was in 1849, and Olympia] Indian with a canoe to act as his | was but a bit of n village, and yet! pilot, and then they somehow or it seemed to have the makings of | other managed to get the scow go: a city in it, ing with only the help of big Fr the mother said, “and she will roared out its paen of victorious joy! Jof its power upon a defenseless boy Yea, thinkin, and imaginative s Japaneso—not offi-| was seen at its best, or worst. With | UPON IT! that to do so would take away every | .ersoh, closing Me opes and ieteninn| BOR Sica wae IN. Mane and coneluded to go out. Upon re-|thru stubble until ft rose to the sum-|dress-up parties and parades and|“Did you see it, Jack o'Lantern?” = | flection he remembered that he did/™er sky in a perfect roar of sound. |taffy-pulls and all sorts of merry-| “I don’t think" began Jack not entirely close the door; but it| very Jap there—and there must|making and I was right in the mid-|o'Lantern, when suddenly he turned ‘was a thing which did not at the | have been 18,000—roared out his na-|dle of it all. Everybody wanted to|pale. “Do you spose I'm wearing | One day, after the Wallace fam- | oars and a clumsy Uttle sail. moment impress him. tional cry of triumph, “Banzal,|carry me and the only way they it?’ he gasped. “Do you s'pose my ily had been quite a while in that Such a trip! “It was his habit, always, of | Banzai!” could settle it was to take turns. | broomstick body can be it?” place, Col, Ebey came to the town. (To Be Continued) course, to close the door, and he| “Quite @ fuss they're making,” said | Why, one night I was even the guest (To Be Continued) ekkee had closed it, but upon natnrning | aes of honor at dinner. I was right in! (Copyright, 1922, by Seattle Star) ama I cm ace aa ene cece eee for a glove, he had left the door! ey sure are,” repiie IMPE PING | orously ‘ ink ‘ues ‘his. tene adeoboaey) aike| “Wander What is ab os Jecktaes EMPEROR OF JAPAN SITTING |orously resented the tnsult; tt was to establish because of @ trivial in-| that seems certain!” mee wee © cial! hat ‘here was both the|the average minds of small boys who; That was the Japanese “humor,”| vestize of chance of Jack Carlson's hy ident. He remembered the glitter| The noise seer grow ly, that r | . to the noise, could mentally have] MOB KNEW QUITE WELL THAT of the electric ight on the a of | ume; altho a penal B- in vol-| sting and the safety of it. For the|draw unpleasant pictures on walls,| perpretated by American citizens, | getting @ fair trial! constructed such a beast; and in thelJACK HAD NOT KILLED fore such an/men who were doing this insult to| these American-born Japs were try-| And since the whites had been driven| The picture passed the window of|terror this imaginative creature in-]TAKAHIRA. THEY ALL told frame at thi increase woul the Cn on ee cae pes hd framed Impos-|the country in which they had been | ing to be funny while insulting. It out of the Columbla basin, there was | Jenkins’ office In such @ roar that | spired seen the end of western civill- THAT JACK CARLSON WAS A drawing-room table. ting whites | po ith a few exceptions, | was not a pretty sight; but the whit there to resent the insult. th 1 articulats it qnuatit his ave as he 4 saw what rn were, with « » | was & pretty sight; nm 6|none there to r a ne usual articulation of the human | zation; seen, indeed, that civilization] VICTIM, WAS A SAMPLE $ se the po ae fe glen oe thudaen " eausing the en-| americans. Americans they were! | mon of America had only themsolves| None there, but two white men and| voloe seemed lost, and, instead, the|crunched and bleeding between the| WHAT THE POWER OF rt toe It ‘Americans who were celebrating, not|to blame. And ‘f American citizens|one girl, and these, smarting under | nots made by the breath of some| creature's jaws! ACTING THRU HER peceetie ith the that he had was not @ pretty sight for|the victory of America over some | desire to insult .seir flag, who in all|}an inte ble sens? of insult were} huge animal of a past geological! And, for the state of Washin: A NTIZENS, COULD Meglected entirely to close the door. Americans to witness in thel: | 4 | roa "oy Vaadioar rn - Tt impr 4 him merely as an inci.|country. Indeed, had such py ioe! foreign power; not even the victory|the wide world |) going to prevent |compelled to watch the scene in ei-| period sounded. It was as if the|it was the end. Only a mangled] DO! t ich hi wl been di of Japan over some Oriental neigh- | them? |lence, Hammond, indeed, had thrown | millions of ybars of born and dead/remnant of what had been, and off And M: Hammond, sensing eo ere Saad hesoeetiaged to Preis pvt celle Becpanon It would have| bor, No, these yellow “Americans"| DOWN THE STREET, BORNE|open the window, but Jenkins had| Japanese had taken trom every such|what men had dreamed would be,fmueh more than her. male es . ose oat. aye Tineaae AP hr a 2 : aps even the|were celebrating the victory (the|BY HIGHT ME CAME A HUGE! wisely stopped him from going fur- | individual a quota—which bits of per- | was left; while the Oriental creature fons, trembled with fear, snd . (The fin installment of “The Plomatic relations, | “peaceful penetration”) of Japanover|PAINTED SIGN OR PICTURM.!ther. They had to keep quiet. It wonality those years had moulded into | of cruelty and superstition raged tts ; caged Butterfly” will appear ta | Pot thig thing was not being done by |the United States. [ON THIS PICTUIUE WAS A SESE Md not so much that their own}an incomprehensible yet terrible | vulgar joy, nd crowded around the] “Ian't It dreadful, daddy: = feowe ‘The coarseness of Oriental “humor” EL AMERICAN FLAG WITH THE Poach lives might pay forfeit if they vig- creature, a creature which now ' jail of Neppel to witness the venting (Continued ‘ 4