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

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMRER 15, 1922. THE LOCUST “And the leouste went up over the land, and rested in all the coasts very previons were they, defore them there were no such locusts as they. Per they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they did cat every herd of the land, and all the fruit of the trees.”—Beodus «, 14-15. 8. B. H. HURST a of “Coomer Ali” Copy rent, 1922, Beattle Btar (Wontinued From Yesterday) [Japanese language. 1 might ave Te leave the office, and work thru | been a signal, The crowd formed a deat crowd, needed more than physi lane, and altho 1 ne offe to lay of moral courage which #© often goes | denun atten. ee eee with martyrdom. But not one of the} But that was not the worst, Not three so much as hesitated. They hs a long way The ancient Japa were going to do their best for Jack | MO"? Sttitude towards women had not CGastecn, without heed to the conse agp ‘ nt = owe was all men quences to themactves, | such animals ‘and they boxan. "Thetr They walked down stairs and into |!Meults were entirely phystologtea! the street. For « fow moments they |"! be it passed thro the crowd of similtarty attired people without being noticed, | ‘ i s only her tearty request. that prevented he Then a youth, with the degenerate UP" ens Ot ees ibese ee commen to his kind, ob ‘° on Astle and starting a fight them, and shouted some tnault in the} Which Would have meant death to ee them both—-and doubtless worne than death for Mary Don't, daddy! Please keep quiet Mr, Jenkins—for Jack's sake | So they kept quiet, these Ame | cans, because they held that ¢ to « friend im need should tak | preceder over personal pride; t Mottled it was dittic 80 bec of the insults shouted at Mary Butterfl }Then, at the door of the cot house they found that only tho: A short story by Melville Davis. || D&¥!D& tickets were to be admitte shor the excuse being that the trem son Post, one of a series on “Tri umphs of M. Jonquelle.” Copy right, 1922, N. EK. A. Service, _dous crowd necessitated thin reatric tion—and so unimportant {trial were considered the attorney [ANd nearest friends of the acouse jthat no tickets had been sent ¢ jthem; and not until the sheriff had aaia.| Wh some difficulty been notitic [were the three white people ad | ted! it was more like going to a the ater than anything che—with thy jtickets tn the hands of scalpers- 2) #Md, indeed, the affair might have been a play, a tragedy, with the to the tarts on Pace Six) Jarrested the man’s attention. “Monsieur le Marquis,” he “Mme, Zirtenzoff will not be pipased with her bouquet of orchids." The Marquis turned suddenly on ) him; his eyts were now contracted with an tntense expression. “You know, monsieur, that I hay went a bouquet of orchids to Mme. SrtenanttT” tragic end known to every partic! “Surely, monsieur,” replied the) P&@"t Quite an amusing perform ance it would be for the citisens Prefect of Police, “I passed the boy departing with them when I en.|Present who were of yellow extrac tered. They were very lovely, su. ton. Yet more enjoyable than the perd, exquisite, the Mottled Butter.| tual play, more tickling to the fly! How aptiy adapted is that) feelings of the audience than even | flower to Monsieur te Marquis!” }the coming sentence to death, was | The Marquis continued to regard | the sense of power, the stimulation Saraase to national pride national “And why, monsicur, do you com.| pride ts, perhaps, stronger tn the pare me with this variety of or-| Japanese than in any other race), chia?” brought by the knowledge every “If you will tell me, Monsieur le |Oriental possessed of the fact that Marquis,” reptied the Prefect of Po. | the “dead man” was to be married | lice, “why Jean Lequex refused to/ that very day in Japan! ay where the necklace was that he| other people coukt such a secret had stoien, I will answer your ques-/ have been confided—that fs, with tlon.” the certainty of tts being kept—and The hauteur im the Marquis’|no other people would have eo en- Voice was now distinctly audible. | joyed the knowledge that ft was “Monsieur.” he said, “it was you/ sufficiently powerful to stack the © promised to tell me that.” cards of “Justice” “And I shall tel! you,” replied man had no chance. It gave the Jonquelie. “Jean Lequex refused to silent Japanese-Amerteans thrills no if say where the necklace was for the | white man can comprehend to ett man of a quarter of « century ago | & mock sentence of imprisonment | under sn arrangement with the! court... . We did not find, the thief who opened the safe to real, when she could have be Meved that she alone existed, and that all things outside herself and everyone except herself, were crea- tures of her tmagtnation. How could it be real? That disy . | walk to the courthouse thru a lane | |of yelling Japs! The ceremontous G@ecovered neither the| Person at the door af the court thet eer the, Becklace.” (house, demanding tickete, as if to “ah, yes,” replied M. Jonquetie %™Me show. Then the tense crowd tn the modulated voice of one who|!n the room. staring at her before Dids another adieu. “We have dis-| the proceedings began, and from her covered both.” ‘to Jack Carlson during the per He took @ mass of Jewels out of| formance. It moved before her now, his waistcoat pocket and handed |@® almost stately procession—with m to the Marquis. that martonette statelinens of wood- “I found these in the bouquet of |©n things, made to move by the orchids which you were sending to|Dulling of unseen strings, And in Mme. Zirtenzotf. May I trouble you the agony of her sorrow Mary felt to present them to Madame ia Mar-|her hold on religion slipping until quise “when she shall return from! she could see the world as a mere America tomorrow?” show of moving and talking tmages, who jumped or danced at the wil! of an Unseen who pulled the strings. |For even if there were another life of wonderful happiness, could that other life ever atone for the tain of this? She brought herself up sharply, ashamed of herself, of her lack of faith. But there was far more ef- fort than joy in the bellef that things were, after all, for the best, to which she compelled herself. Then, again, the droning figures of the seene in the court began their jerky procession across the screen of her memory. The fiag of America—tt hung above and behind the judge As Mary's eyes had focused upon this emblem for the first time, she had WOMEN! DYE ANYTHING NEW FOR FEW CENTS Dresses Kimonas Draperies (turned to look for that army of Skirts Curtains Ginghams |fiapping bunting on which were Coats Sweaters Stockings | Painted so many rising suns. But Waists Coveri: |there were none visible in the court ngs Everything |i cuse. And the girl had found | herself wondering in an abstracted |sort of way why those who had | gained admission had hidden their banners of victory. The Judge had | worn gold-rimmed spectacles and | had a mustache of about fifty hairs. Mary could have counted these hairs had she troubled. Of this she felt argumentatively certain, They had brought im Jack, but they had seated him at the end of the table—as far from her as they could seat him. 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Jack had made fa brave attempt to seer at ense, but the ¢ffort was so obvious that it had been horrible. In some way it reminded his sweetheart of some- For a long time she had puraied over that, Then it had cofne to her. That smile of Jack's had had about it all the effort one would expect to see in one who tries to hide a gaping sore. Yen, that was it Thru the mista thronging her even the girl had stared at the flag—before which the judge seemed to move like @ midge against a t which one is sultabl Port of Beste. 132" ponite the P. of To no! until the white! him—trying hard for the old smile, |W smile wan one of the worst things | PAGE 1% BY STANLEY. 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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS i | | | ar Page 834 BETSY JANB AND CHIEF SEATTLE Pegey’s Story Book—Chapter 2 Slowty, slowly the big fiat boat} from his fathers, he said, “But made its way over the water,| why do you go to the island? You Sometimes the sun shone and the| will be lonely, for none of your water sparkled and it seemed] people are there, Your white great fun to be going along on) brothers have come to our coun the waves, and sometimes it seem-| try here and we have made them ed to little Betay Jane that there| welcome. Why do you not stay was nothing In all the world but| here with them There ts plenty gray sky anf grayer water and|of land,” and he waved his endiess shores slip ing past. brown arm toward the tiny cab- Green shores, they were, with | {na and the new clearings made great forests coming close to the | by the Terrys and the Dennys, the water's edge, except for oo| Borens and the Bells, who were casional pebbly beaches. the only inhabitants at that time On the beaches were often scat-| % Our beautiful Seattle, tering villages of Indiana, the| Betsy Jane heard them talk, but meant ttle to her, All the They asked some chickadees if they had seen Snow Man Jack o'Lantern did not have! They were hunting for Snow Man, Mother Goose's broom—or broom |ang Snow Man was « long way off Ag stick, I should say—after all. a wsuntee. children naked for the most part, greatly relieved to fina|“? 8 © mount coal ved ere rite ody had not been | They asked some chickadess i¢|] Or dronsed tp any oad ite of white| #reen shores looked alike to men's clothes, The Indiafis didn't | Betsy. |they had seen Snow Man, and the chickndees had. They told the “It's bad enough to have to spend | Twins where to find him | the rest of one'’# days leaning up| “He's standing In front of the against a barn,” said Jack, “but !t|wood-chopper’s house and he's got would be worse to go to jail,” jon red mittens and a muffler and @ Scarcely had the words left his|butter bowl for @ hat, and stones mouth when the farmer's wife came|for eyes and he has an old pipe in out and lifted off Jack’s bead and/his mouth,” said the chickadecs. set it on the ground, Then she|“And he's got a broomstick over his walked back to the house with the |shoulder for a gun.” broomstick fn her hand “That's the very person we are “This ie a fine stick for beating |looking for,” #iad Nick positively to carpet,” she said. “Much too use./Nancy. “Perhaps his gun is Mother to be wasted on a silly pumpkin.” | Goose's broomstick.” By this time Nancy and Nick were| The Twins thanked the Utde gray far down the road in thelr magia | binds and burried on een Shoes, And you'll never gueas (To Be Continued) where they were going. (Copyright, 192%, by Seattle Star background of eunset, Put the Naw had also moved. Its colors seemed to rin—as wet makes poor dyes run. So she had looked away from the fing to her father, But even he stolen from the fairy lady who swept the sky, neem strange to Betsy Jane be cause she had seen Indians all her little life. One day toward evening the soow was anchored off the shore where Chief Seattle lived. And the grand old chief came down to talk with his guests, Seattle, like all other old In- dians, who were great men in their tribes, never learned to speak the white man's Iapmuage, nor even Chinook, but always talked thru an toterpreter, But he was kind and friendly to all white men and when he stood on the shore of what he! its promise of wealth, considered his own land, inherited (To Be Continued) ee OT enna —_—_——e\FF}$3——————OCOoT?wwTlzwrleuaaaeeeeeeee And, Indeed, It ts a wonderful thing that any pioneer knew how to choose, for remember, there were no‘towns, or mills (or very, very few), or ofty lights, or gov- ernment lighthouses to guide them; they simply must choose, without anybody's help, And so ft came about that some chose wisely, and some were sorry later of the choice they made, And Mr. Wallace thanked Chief Seat- tle, and took Col. Bbey’s advice, and struggled right past the land which is now worth $1,000 a front foot In Beattle, to the island with They had put @ Japanese girl in tho witness box, and that girl had looked at Mary curiously. There were times when the white girl be Meved she caught a flicker of sym- pathy in the almond Inascrutability ly fine display of acting, in which fear of her father, old Takahira, was the stimulant. And, yet, not only that. The Japanese girl. had in her all the feelings and ambitions of her race, proud of that last phrase, and he had repeated it, And so he had wone on, until it really did seem that Jack's thoughtless anger—jus tified by the occcasion—had been the culmination of @ carefully planned dead Uren Tukahira hed been &/I sayt From some similar assault knightly/St. George. to that which he himself had at- Revenge! Yes; revenge upon the/tempted upon the person of the man who had thwarted his unholy | sister of the deceased? From some designs, had been Jack's motive./real and threatening danger? Nol had seemed unreal, unsubstantial.|in the other’s eyes; at others, shel] And “the cleverness of ft,” as the| Nothing of the sort. But from a of pain abe had tried to pray, but the | could have sworn that they mocked | prossoutor had phraned it. man who made faces! Did ever aj*cheme. Jack Carlson, instead of) ang lying tho she herself to “tnstead of taking gun, and|jury hear the like absurdity? seoming what he was, appeared 46/59, she believed cher lies were her, But what 414 the look tn her eyes matter when she could tell, with every semblance of careful rehears- ing, the awful He about Jaok's try voice of the Japanese pronecuting attorney opening the case for the people had interrupted her prayer. ‘The next memory was that of her wishing she had a pencil and plece of paper, because she wanted to ing to assault her? To the prose. count the Hes the various witnesses | cuting attorney's quentions she had told. about Jack, and there were|answered gitbly, making Jack Cart| of protecting his sweetheart! Pro- too many to keep track of in her|/#on out to be one of the worst/tection from what?” here the at- head, blackguards unhanged, while the'torney had thundered, “irom what? a brute and a murderer. And having done this, and enjoyed the doing of it, the attorney for the people had rested his case. Mary went back over the blur. ring pletures. She saw the care- fully taught Japanese girl begin her ready tears the moment Jenicins began his oress-examination—a real not only excusable but patriotio, All was fair in war; and this act in court was her part In the war—the “peaceful wai which had for its object the depopulation of the whites, And nothing that Tom Jen. kins could do shook her evidence in the least. “But, cunning @s he was, the ao- cused has outdone himself. He did overplay his part, and he made his plea absurd. In taking Ms tong mediatated revenge upon the person of Uren Takahtra, his cunning had turned upon itself and bitten ite own tail!” ‘The prosesutor had seemed very with it shooting his victim to death, this prisoner Carlson had taken a brass knuckle, so that at the worst, manslaughter would be the charge; and he had attempted to disguise his motive in the fallacy