The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 14, 1923, Page 11

SATURDA " ing and arranging his ¢ wea into @ be vy formidable pyramid when Buck Bo: 3 WARY SINCLAIR DRAGO ane dine banged open the «winging doors | w adovadiewn Hap Oy uaa‘arnseener went and strode menacingly up to the ber, | qi Oe. Where's all ihe Aasque gente to: A BRGIN NERE TODAY | not gone 20 yards before something | BEM Buck asked insolently ithe Bateban and ly moved in front of him, It was My| ahi" ns. ye Man, grazing where he had beer: loft,| With growing anger he strutted iy Dick " The boy uld not tu: back about the deserted town, trying to ua valley. A ae Peadie A ranch. P rok - t- “ *}ond brought him abreast of the learn what had h ened at the ’ : , er place, (| rocky Indane fence His tmpationce was akin t >- Esteban's Keon eyes located hie| that with which Juan and Romero re j one as he croue! rifle et Usarde and young Salvator Rodrt Bat be te fellewine te er, on the outcropping, Eye |RUS% And their follow-conspirators #rNOW GO ON WITH STORY and finger acted at the same moment | sulted St the sheep oorral north « the Double A | He reached th Pottom none t the west looks c wher the spot F_pmware of eac Be “galked made th fn opposite ban Below him a fe eropping lay in mion Was searc ping the ri Blaze wrigs!e fend sand that Dis armpits. B: mer. tmpeded, the that fell away to th over My }e reached the rocky | Esteban got down on bh Knees and studied the bank of rock Y, APRIL 14 ‘el road that 0 the valley across p. Hardly had e when Cash and ng to the kly as possible, creck," he or . ‘This thing to rooked to mo,” ad retraced d yards of was So © Exteban elr way downstream es, golden-yellow snoon range at Kydare's in its glowing 4 from his saddle w yards, a rock out- shadow, Already the bh at the hillside willo¥s, Drop on ht s hands and filled the ch: ol of He stid into the water. Tt came to} into the reasting the current, ter swept by him. “The theft was plain and certain. Wet and bedraggied, D> erawied out on the bank. But he had thelr back. Esteban | in the young From where he waited a short 300/ he emptied hi Drought him to the Zipped down Int had broken for Morrow was | mile-devouring but when he saw road he guessed his Intention. way around by the Chimney was the h other, stalker and | ¢ i,j and the gray was upon him. 1} te boy on the gray's back pulled him up, and wheeled him to swing down ix Blaze J was simultaneous with be Be waded to where the cloudburst had/ brought his gun down with a shud éxce closed the mouth of the Web- | der. fo such barrier arose now, U: ADVENTURE OFTHE TWINS €“ Olive Roberts Barton SPE RING Banque. wun, In wild pan From the road across the creek came cries of men and the patter of rapidly driven horses, ¢ willows tn the creek | energy Esteban His mot drove his nt, “p ome. the gray Bodin him head for th Th only moans of escape. Kildare gc nto his saddle and lned straigh for It, Blaze reached the Chimney tn ad- vance of the Hasque by a full min ute. the wall of rock, in di He found the road, in front ¢ mlight penetrated there. rom saddle, he walt The tattoo of the flying hoofs ¢ jouder and louder, Another tn: co came almost to the road, Th © the valley south of the wir Tho gray moonlight. Recogniti The boy would never know ho -| near he had been to death, Esteban saw the arm. The pursuing horsemen pounded at Esteban stiffened. GENERAL GOLD BRAID mmoke had ‘Every one of thelr brave “Are they a! them?” They down the middie.” “It's funny h in spite of “Wooden sold! " exclaimed the Tinker Man. one gets knocked over, he againat the poldier rext to him knocks him down, too. He falls, |I believe.” 0 on down the line. No doubt Seneral got hit with a splinter ind Nick saw a dreadful sight. “The tin soldiers had put a big | and blown {it up. Tong row on the ground. “oe in dismay. “Did the shooting "No," said the Tinker Man, “but H have to hurry and help them at once,” Nick couldn’* help say- cleared away Nancy | {t the wooden soldiers Ted jackets lay In a i dead?” exclaimed low they could all te their hurry. are ike ten- | shoot Braid stiffly. for my arms. off the bridge and fell backward, and that knocked them all |General Gold Braid ts atways get- ing hurt.” All the time they were talking, the @racker under the toy three of them were hurrying toward r jthe scene of battle, and now they Something else had harpened, too. jarrived at the field. ‘The tin soldiers had stopped firin: |becnuse there was no one left to , and the bridge being down they could not get over the river to| dine, he cried in a volce that shook capture the enemy. They had jumped off thetr tt |horses and were wiping the water | off thelr steeds and off themselves can't get up when they |too, to keep from rust because they can’t bend Nick st General Go'd Bratd o1 his feet first, and soon they had the |had not been sho who had attacked rest of the wooden soldiore on their) feet in @ nice even row, “Thank you,” said General Gol (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1923, by Seattle Star) fe too, things over, this, or thi Watch, the | foes, 80 pre #on family, they knew ing in Seats EF Qualtnie, an tts prospects 89 on to tuts and f dither, ana on Mie omin the ih, into Mr. Mothers and fathers will talk does th thing the father decided | Upon. And that's the way the world best way. Anyway, it’s the way Mt was decided in the Frederick- ing up the wert coast of America fn the steamship Pucific, bound for the port of Seattle. ‘ (And, by the way, that was the last trip the old Pacific made, for she éank on her return trip to Ban Franc | Went down into the sea with her | “94 were drowned.) The father thought about stay: ™men who told him all about Sno- P Buch good talkers that fie decided #0 finally they found them- } Mlveo with a great pile of furnt Jndians were tonding their * = OD i Cleland _4 q Page 963 TO SNOQUALMTE Now here is another thing pretty busy seeing that It was that's queer—and you may watch “ FROM CHICAGO and say shall we do at? But you just family most always ‘obably it’s the very and the first thing here they were, sail- » and 200 people 16, but he met some 4, how much better were, and they were Snoqualmie, Tugs and hoxes of dlctures and bedding! tla wharf at Sno- long, topply-looking Frederivkwon was) ARKO ar Grattle » » * done right, and his big boy was helping him, but Mrs. Frederick son and Amelia, feeling very strange and half frightened, stood at one side, watching. And right then and there fs where John Alfred Cedergreen first saw Amelia, and they look- ed at each other, and—but we must not get ahead of tho story. Sornebody who knew the Chi- cago family brought John Alfred up and introduced him to Amelia and her mother, then the family got carefully Into the canoes, with the tall Indians at the paddies, their fat squaws squatting In the bottom, and the luggage and rugs and boxes piled in, way. it was early morning when they started, and the sun was shining and the river seemed to Amelia very narrow, but oh, #0 Indiann didn't “Kiyi" as they moved, but of: quite unexpectedly — the and back from some Indian cam on the rivera bank came bac answering yelln. till the alr neomed filled with yelling. Sometimes they sang a while, but rarely were they aulet. Get a bag 2 and trace with a encil the riverway from § fominh to Tolt, and you will nee why it took them two long, hard dayn to inake the trip At event: time the Indians turned ine jones of their canoes into the bank, and Amolia shiver- ed with dread at the thought of spending the night there in the wild foros (To Me Continued) With savage rs kneas, No ray ped for the bridle, and with ‘the creek, all unmindful of the grim} his uninjured arm Jabbed his six-gun figure that lay on the rocks above| into Exteban's riba shield, dragging Blazo h. laze} biood-covered over. x, an the |wooden soldiers had used water) guns. “Will you kindly look I’ve lost them both, growled thank the o not | me, that you are alive to do It.” CHAPTER X | An Important Meeting One-eyed Manuel was lazily poltsh- | the Ugarde ranch for the belated Ds | teban. | Esteban's regard for himself had altered largely tn the five miles he had come from the Chimney With the cheers of his followers ringing In his cara, he was not tnclined to teli thom by what fortunate circumstance i, leaped ahead in| he was here, safe and sound. There strides. Once he) fore his colorful recital held no men hed the road, he would be un-/tion of Kildare When he had fin beatable | shed, his position as thelr leader wan Blaze felt his arm. It burned as| secure. tho he had been branded with an| With a jingle of xpur-chaina, they tron. He did not recognize Esteban | headed for the Rancho, shan h® | stopped for a consult. spatehed Romero to re ground for him Romero waited until the meeting got under way before he stole back to his crowd, 10 ot nt for about to Tuscarora finished his appeal law nhow and order and them the fe to the tactics some of thelr men had employed earlier in the evening when the wild clatter of rapidly driven horses forced him to stop. | Esteban could not have hoped for a dramatic entrance. He |tramped authoritatively to the con ter of the big room he knew so well 1 come from e other side of the Double A wire!" the boy announced. Tn an Instant the meeting was in an uproar. ‘ries of “Tell us what you saw!” Cosar Ferrt, a great hulk of a man ‘om down on the river, got to his| was of hardiness of re: more | ba feet, and, In a yolce to match his Wi weight, shouted for ailence. The} very size of the man seemed to have a commanding effect. “Give the boy a chance!” he cried. “Tell us how you got by the fence.” Esteban told them; and the mur f approval that greeted him as ~| murs © needed. Jose and Tuscarora nged glances. The thing they red was happening. ran my hands over every tnch of that pile of rock and sand. No| | storm ever put It there! It in full of | granite and quartz stringers that are as sharp as the day they were blown out of the solid rock.” THE SEATTLE STAR t Most of the new frocks are trim. med in front and severely plain in the rear Umunily the trimming tant of the boyant sort, but merges into the lines of the frock; It's the color that | maken It noticeable. { ‘The sketched show pointed front panels and fabot 4 models peries worn Paintey and Persian igns main the favorites for trimmings, well as being much in demand gownn Cynthia Grey Old Age—Do We Ever Really Deceive It? Does It Peer Grimly From the ri nd shown everywhere. re for Oo Oo vt | Jeath the Gilded Lily or the Painted Rose?—Beauty of Spirit Only Real Com- | petitor. HIA GREY “Grandmothers with their white caps and smug bla BY CY} of thes modern mothers from their daughters,” a you ck ng gave the boy the cour-| dresses are out of date, and one can hardly distinguish some ng matron remarked the other day, “It's truly marvelous, isn't she continued, Poor little misguided matron who spends her hours fl. tering about gilding the lily and painting the rose, what | it, the way the 20th century woman can deceive old age,” it- 4 | Jolt she will receive when she discovers that it is impossible He paused to let this Information| fo deceive old age! All of the face enameling, the gaudy sink home. “But they |mandbar th mouth of |The water Now,” he | truth! “Dios mio, no!” Cesar yelled. “T| j fight! didn't stop there! The stretched across the Webster creek is gone. came up to my neck.| cried, “you know the) weeks our crops will be dead! Whero/ will we be next winter then?” “It lan't only that we are robbed of our water,” Romero's father add- e4, “Dut It Is wasted before our eyes. We all know about the «ink that swallows every drop that reaches It; and west of town Webster creek was running full to its banks \oday.” “Weil, aln’t {t got a right to run there?’ The question cam: over the | bands of the crowd like the snap of a/ whip. As one man they turned and saw | Bodine in the doorway, standing head and shoulders above everybody lelse tn the room, a sardonic smile | playing about his mouth. CHAPTER Xt Buck Intrudes Beside himself with rage, Esteban Grew his gun, and, leveling It at Bo- |with emotion: “Get out of here, or len blow your head off!” Mercedes, attracted by the notse of her brother's attack, had edged close |to the storm-center. With marvelous lewiftness she reached for Eateban's gun. Bodine looked at her with a sense of reilef.. He was glad that It| in him. ‘ The boy tried to flight her off; but Jose got between them and took the) gun. Father and son gtared at each! other, but the weight of a score of years of submission was too much for the boy. He turned and slunk)} is jaway. At the door he called back | |venomously: “Acklin’s dog! That's! | what you are!” | Jose appeared not to notice his son's departure, so intently did he watch Bodine. Evan Mercedes had | slipped out without attracting his at- tention. | For the first time that night Buck |began to grow uneasy. The dignity j of the old Basque was unassailable. He knew it was time for speech, He tried to address them all, but against his will his gaze reverted to Old Ironsides. “He's only a kid!" he mld. “Just la kid! ‘This ts no time for kinder- garten cackle. I'm going to talk to men, like a man would. I brought lout old Hank Webster In good faith. I never saw Ackin until 1 met him in this very house, Before I bought |that place, I hud the records |eearched. ‘The state says I am en- | titled to 14 inches of water out of Webster creek. And I'm going to get it” “Fourteen inches?” Tuscarora questioned sarcastically, “You've taken {t all.” “You mean,” Bodine contradicted, “that I'm getting it all, Well, I don't need it. Suppose wo turn It back into the Rebel, do I get my share?” “It you did, Senor, there would be none left for us,” Jone answered. “I know Webster filed for 14 Inchen of water, but if we agree to any such compromise, there won't be an Inch of wator left to flow into the Washos, Acklin and you would have {t all, and wo would be helping you to It Wo have all filed, and been granted water rights on either Rebel creek or tho Little Washoe, What about “He ‘s onty a kid!” he repeated. Continued In Que Next Issue) DR. EDWIN J. BROWN’S DENTAL OFFICES 106 Columbia Bt. Beattio’s Leading Dentisy |colors, the youthful styles of apparel, the dyes and per- fumes, only cause covert smiles on the faces of friends They never really deceive. Life is dear to all of us, tho, and old age is the only road | to long life that has ever been discovered. We can ward off the rigor of old age in our hearts by refusing to allow dis-| fresh by contact with youth and youthful enthusiasms. What good ts water it we| couraged thoughts and set ways to rule us. We can persist | walt three months to get it? In two in being active and useful, in keeping our minds and hearts But even these remedies are only palliatives. The infirm- ities of old age will not stop for their power. There's really only one way in which to beat the epecter will not fail with failing physical powers. these the years cannot rob us of. sunshine of thought and life experience. ured in our own, That's the only way to really cheat old age. And this a oom time in which to begin to do 80, whether we're or 60. of a goodly share of its terror. That is to prepare for its encroachment by filling our minds with those things which Impersonal interests, truth, charity, beauty of outlook, f 4 When the outer windows grow dim, the windows of the soul may be open wide to the We can have in store memories of sweetness and delight of association to draw upon; riches from other minds, treas- is r6 What does “Nemo” mean? Latin, meaning “no one” o- What Is the name of the famous old tree located at Oaxaca, Mexico, United States at present? 4 Approximately 450,000,000 acres, *'s What does “carnahan™ mean? Cornish for “valley of rocks.” and how old ta it? CEE “Arbol Del Pule” Ite age ts un-| Silence Is certain, but i 4a sald to be about! Golden 100 years. ae Dear Miss Grey: Have been reader of your column for some ti What city has tha highest pald elementary school teachers? New York city, with salaries from $1,500 to 33,250 a year, see What are the largest battleships In tho United States navy? The Washington, West Virginia and Maryland, ail three of one size, 52,000 gross tons. oe you for advice until now. ing company with a young man will designate by calling A. friend whom I have known mu longer, tho I never go out with hi tom of extending certain courtesies to one another in tho senate, expecial- ly that of deferring to the wishes of the senators from a state with refer- ence to the confirmation of nomina- tions from that state, cee What ts the longest at inion? Texas: Length, 690 miles, eee strangely tho seeming to be quite for dates with me. but I have found out on good authi ity that A was responsible for fe In the in another town, He goen to soe On what day of the week did June 6, 1880, come? Sunday. can't understand ts why he don't me ho Is engaged. When did the house of representa- tives elect a president of the United States? Thomas Jefferson, 1801, and John Quincy Adams, 1885. In 1887 the senate of the United States elected Richard M. Johnaon vice president, ECZEMA CAN BE CURED Free Proof To You Srentaeet ind address go T can send a E _ | on ara erat ‘treatment: hate all fost: etail Drug using friends, but I know A cannot ‘aryone in Fo Over twexty thousand Men, Won have, according to thelr own statement in offer pubiito. um, Tett mind how bad—my chance to prove my el CUT AND MAIL TODAY SHWE! Druggist, No. 4510 West Main St., Fort Wayne, Ind. Please send without sost or obligaticn to me your Free Proof Treatment, Name o.. Postoffice for More Than 21 | Youre ea, SmaI RENT What ts the forest area of the a me but have never had occasion to ask I am a girl 23 years old and for the last two months have been keep- of the same age as myself and whom I 1 was introduced to this boy by another boy 10h im, . and whom I shall call B. Since I What Is “senatorial courtesy"? have been keeping company with A I This term is used to define the cus-| have noticed he has acted very in- terested in me and asks constantly Now he lives with B and they are very close friends, or. the separation of B's brother and wife, even paying for her divorce, and is now engaged to this girl, who Hives} her quite frequently I know, but what T tell B does not know! anything about this affair, and what I want to know is if I should tell B what a cheat and how contemptible A is? I know they are confidential be | trusted with confidence for he has | told me things which has proven it. I'm sure under Ike circumstances 1 | would want someone to put mo wise Deen cured by this adding the added also. Gingerbread 2 cups Olympic Flour, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, Ger, 1 teaspoon aii, 1 teaspoon baking powder. 1 cup molnsens, 44 ow, (sweet or sour}, 1 eg, 4 cup shorten ing. Mix and aift dry ingredients. Put molasses and shortening into « sauce pan and heat slowly until shortening ie melted and mixed with molasses. Beat eae, add milk, then molasses mixture and dry ingredients, Bake in greased shallow pan or muffin tins in moderate oven twenty-five minutes, Gingerbread is greatly improved by ‘ated rind of an orange to the batter before bak chopped weinuts or F PAGE 11 1 teaspoon soda, Be pone milk One-third cup sins may be She makes is better with Olympic Flour Mother knows that the better the flour, the better the recipe will turn out. That’s why she says “Olympic Flour” to the grocer. Learn from her the satisfaction of having your baking light and tender and flaky—the “melt in the mouth” kind that comes always by using Olympic Flour. It is made of the finest wheats; tested to meet the highest standards. Sold by grocers everywhere. PORTLAND FLOUR MILLS CO., Portland, Oregon Mills at Portland, Oregon and Tacoma, Washington Manufacturers of Olympic Pancake Flour and Olympic Wheat Hearts OLYMPIC to anyone I was placing confidence in If they were untrustworthy. spect and admire B as a very good friend, but Oh how I despise a cheat. Please advise. MISS PERPLEXED. If you are certain beyond the shadow of a doubt that these things you have heard about’“A” are ada~ mant truths, simply drop him from your Ust and let well enough alone. Don't »peak to his friend about tt— no doubt, if it ts trv, he already You would only place yourself in an awkward and ques Honable position by attempting repeat what you have heard, eee knows it. Fruit Salad Dear Miss Grey: print in your column how to make a fruit salad for two? A FUTURE BRIDE. 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