The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 10, 1923, Page 7

Page views left: 0

You have reached the hourly page view limit. Unlock higher limit to our entire archive!

Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.

Text content (automatically generated)

10, 1928 with foart amiss, Tha gravely aro! boats, nery, In thelr boats The thre were strug: back for t enemies Proof t was not ¢ loosened ma deen laug' portion of act of vill seore survi the shore. for wh offense they posed to do be probed. was now in had gtven. mption A nd of these do them f Upon this cond! That was crew, which pleces of eight ul Again a moment then among those Spanish pirates all Was gibbering and Jabbering and | dock, stood a score of men tn two splashing of oars, as they attempted | well-ordered files, with breast and to pull in every direction at once. | backs of steel, Some were for going ashore, others | ions on thelr heads, overshadowing for heading straight to the vessel and | their faces, and muskets ordered at there discovering something was there could be No furs | ed to recognize at a glance In these ther doubt, particularly as whilst upright, furbished, noldierty figures they discussed and fumed and cursed | the ragged, unkempt acarecrows that two more shots came over the water to account for yet a third of thelr at " their of wh it t had been st © boats th; ow Spain come down fi of the Cinco Lingas, England soar to Even then some bew sisted, and it was with fe: that they observed the return of t who might vent upon them | tion of amazement of ye ason’ ach say in the absence of any ch their fate may be tr: lack of records fs in It We know that they w a 1a! ‘Thi frh longer be doubted afte wh But ey ran ti resolute fo its ow! sterday. end of this pirate minutes ago had the at he wo unk. Followed silence, might Justitying “é D0 more remained, without concerning themselves with their more unfortunate fellows, the water, ft at speed. If the Spaniards understood noth- ing of all this, the ashore understood still less, u y up nent (Continued From Yesterday) Plump {nto their middle came a jot which had been contributed almost third shot, smashing a second boat | entirely execution awful The resolute Ogle was making ex cellent practice, and fully his claims to know something of gun consternation Spaniards had simplified his task by huddling thelr boats tog After the fourth shot, opinion w no longer divided amongst them with one accord they went attempted to do so, for before they had accomplished ut, or jorn islanders help their wits they saw the flag of om the i and th empt the ferocity aroused by these extra- ordinary events. Ogie, how h ontinued to give| “My: dge of gunne! After thi shower of | at would fall to the th I nd co! Sst ec got aboard seized mained to ascertain erran n not permit the for hin share nse upon trived that three. to reach ad cause od. eloqu e ma oc ani du ship. i given I am not dis t that they reason to regret the sury The mystery of t come at the eleven vengeance upon the § to preserve for the Island th tionate ransorne of sand pleces of eight, remained y in exto’ a hundred th am unable to records in That at © fast fg the had every r that had h hour to wreak ards, proofs it ing I by the people of Bridgetown asked one another, the men in possess whence had t the t re Governor Steed's ing him to go in ionel Bishop as the . atte two be very the As of who ended SERVICK une} BLOOD by Rafael Sabatini} © RAFAEL SARATI annot NEA oH |treasure chests, tho contents of one dy hima some xp tod in beholding olf, Tt wan a glad otacle, and his eyes spark. Ranged on either side, athwart the | thelr aldos, « polished Spanish mor. | Colonel Bishop could not be expect: but yesterday had bebn tolling {n his plantations, Still leas could he be ex: | Deoted to recognize at once the court ty gentleman who advanced to greet gentleman, dressed in the Spanish fashton, all in him—a lean, graceful binck with silver lace, a gold-hilted sword dangling beste him from a gold embroidered baldrick, a broad castor with above carefully curled deepest black. “Be Liagas, vaguely fi or, colonel, Welcome aboard & sweeping plume set ringlets of the Cinco darting,” a voloe millar addressed the plant. “We've made the best of the aniards’ wardrobe in honor of this visit, tho It was scarcely yourself we had dared hope to except. yourself among of yours, all.* ‘The colonel stared In stupefaction, Mr, Blood tricked out ural taste—his face carefully shaven, fri in You find all nds—old friends this splendor—indulging therein his nat. his hair as carefully dressed, seemed | transformed into a younger man, The fact is he looked no more than the 33 years he counted to his age. Tt was an ojacula. “Peter Blood!” }lowed swiftly. olf It wa: ;my good fi | there. The colonel ad's my life: of foolish Ju f men Was friends and Blood tossed back the fine lace from | fleeing Spaniards went his shots. The | his wrist, to wave a hand towards the last of their boats flew into splinters as tt touched the wharf, and tts re mains were buried under a it you, “And spaniard and turned th those her “Herole, ts it? dogs! begin to perceive th of my gen: hatch-coam mopp ” am: covered the a this It t the other amaz fine or this, Ye damme, deserve, w the who w the rp amongst sor P= per ness. a9 ran aded tt me!" 0 met treasure you ai how gr: a whad Bedad, It's epic! the breadth and} f it was} took the | tables on Oddswounds! It Satisfaction fol then myself and these, yours.” Mr. nding at attention looked more closely. he crowed on a note ation with these fellows that yo was g, took off his broad sh will be ac nged to “On ve re have nhe's nething to set x James ts rebels. one ventured to lnug 1 Bishop started up. o first p mn considered w of surprise tn He that another matter,” ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS ‘Ok Mistah Rat cotton grov “That's funny, “s i Tw M Fox me geomet Rabbit could ¥ bit } I i { I t 5 rigl tail ht, tah F Yidn’t I tole And t (To Be Continued) Mi wi a we have suf. As Gad’s my life, you deserve ly of your opinion.” deserve | find me gra That's as it should be,” said Mr “The question ts and him. fag a was ne of uneast al as friendly aa ap Mr. Yo off ‘oman to tar) SEATTLE STAR Ye} net Bishop sat himself down on | | ow well we| Jt is Shirley Mason, now at the Colizeun eful shall we! other CO: Here is a pretty girl if there ever was one. Look at the picture in“The Eleventh Hour.’ if you don't believe it. She wears this and stume just as alluring. ! cin answer DO ANY WORK sce ... But Since Taking Lydia E. Pink. \"** ‘cru, ham’s Vegetable Compound This “y t mu: worked a de | elty in Woman Feels So Well member—for the othe Keeseville,N.Y.—‘‘I cannot praise |who may come ‘after Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- | (0°? Diagw. taken As a prize | Jeremy up there in the pound too highly vi prisoner aboard. You with a back that's ever ‘or the good ithag |" °°) iatand teak T Gave ene |rainbow; and the pc > Gone, me. I Wa8 11.6 tables on. more than. the Span | rea a nay ll 9g 2 t 80 much troubled |'"*, ban: the | Bpan t hadn't been for the Spaniards ma with female weak- | !"'¢*. | ladder. You'll na it's dead he'd. be by now;and ma ness Icould hardly | ‘" con n being : do an J | heaved ov what'll saw your adver- |") mint At dl TE are : tisement in the|, 7 Sin Ob wus, Some | | wing: 28 paper, and read it to my husband. He said, ‘You had better try Lydia E.Pinkham’sVe; etable Compound’, so I bought six | bottles, and by taking it I am not trou- | bled as I was. m gaining strength and getting fle M femaale troubles ave vanished and I have never felt ll. The Liver Pills are the best apart from was utte inca 809 Iever took. If you think my letter |. f will encourag ufferers you | gat knew how ¢ have touse itas an ad- | and ler b vert 8. SARAH BLAISE, | t getting ur Doing the housework for the aver- | ea led, th 1 out for the ‘amily is some task,and | open t without many women lose their health in >| @ cried, his deep , doing. If you, as a housewifo, are As th to the z ts f troubled with backache, irregulari- | he and east ¢ Blood r ms m ties, are easily tired out and irritab’ ¢ under or have other disagreeable ailments | euard and pan oh, had defect 1. Mr, ¥ caused by some weakne ¢ coam E.Pinkham’s Vegeta erstone a) trial, Let it help you. om (Continued Monday CAN BE CURED Free Proof To You AMT want i your name and address so T ean send you a free tring J+ Ss HUTZELL R. P, troatment. I want you just to try this treatment— that's all —jusi DRUGGIST try Jt. That's toy only argument, | GEWERZNABBRPPROR CET AND MAIL TODAY CORTON For Colds Headache » HUTZELL, Druggist, No. 4816 West Main St, Neuralgia Rheumatism Fort Wayne, Ind. ; i Please send without cost or obligation to me your Free Proof Treatment Lumbago Pain, Pain Age 0 only ‘Baye package ch contains proper directions} Accept re wh ottion No. Btreet and “well, boys," chirped — Cappy Rick» as he bustled in and took his accustomed went at the able at tho Bilgewater club, nerved tho flag at half mast on the fing-pole at the foot of California st. this morning, Who is the latent person in- the financial district to shuffle off?’ “Old man Skelton, of the Navigation & Coal company, body replied. “It wan about time he quit play ing hookey from the cemetery nomebody else volunteerd. “Old man Skelton was older than Jamestown, Virginia. Pacific some- 4 Cappy and hurled “Ouch!” er an olive pit at the youthful speak- er, “They'll be hoisting the flag for me almost any day now, and when they do I dare say you young pups will be remarking, as you look at my vacant chair, on what a blessing it is that some people do not live forever.” “Oh, say not so, Cappy,” the last speaker protested. “You're humgn. Old man Skelton wasn't.” “Wherein wasn't he, my arrogant young friend?” “He was the posseasor of a cold |flinty, unsympathetic nature, Cap |py. He was miserly, sharp in his business practic nd overly relig |tous for such an old wolf. Of cours he was honest and his credit was unquestione It is but that he should leave this vale of tears without regret on the part of his friends and associates for he never did anything calculated to impress his fellow. man. He was frightfully egotistical.” “Which proves old man Skelton was human,” Cappy challenged. “Listen to me, you arrogant young pups. I’am firmly convinced that there is not a man among you who can hope to acquire the years and the dignity which are my portion, but {if the impoxsible should hap- pen, and you should be truly hon- Jest with yourself, you will find yourrelf developing In your old age | quite as much ego as old man Skel- ton. Exo, in business men, comes | with white whiskers, a bankroll and of the local CAPPY RICKS He Discourses on Human Frailty Written for Tho Star by Peter B, Kyne—Auother Coming Next Saturday natural) Cham-| beautiful type on beautiful and ex penstye paper and bound in imp green leather, Jf 1 had my life to live over ngain 1 would make a j collection of all of this sort of literary piffie and stick it in the cornerstones of buildings in order that future generations might come to realize that their ancestors were not monkeys, but plain, simple, hu- man beings. “Of all the prize boneheads of busliess, however," Cappy contin- | ued, “God grant that I may ever avold the business man who, ha ing retired at 60, decides that now is the time to circumnavigate the globe. He docs—and keeps a diary. Upon returning home he calls in his. secretary and hands him the | diary ype this diary and put it in nice shape,’ he orders, ‘I in- tend publishing it for private cir- culation among my friends.’ | “Immediately, that secretary, anx- |fous to pl proceeds to soak his | soul in Stoddard's Travels and in- |terpolates entire chapters in the |diury, In due course one recelv 4 handsome volume, which he se on top of his desk where the au- thor can see it every time he calls. Each time he. drops in he asks you if you have read it and you tell him you have not as yet found time, but that you are keeping it before you until business slacks up nd you\can afford a Uterary fedst. nally, one day, you look out in little square at the intersection California, Drumm and Market sts. and you see the flag go to half- mast. Imm y you send dow | the lot dint the office boy to ask who Is dead and lo, it {s the author of ‘My ‘Trip | | Around the World’ With a glad Jery you hurl his book into the fire- place, and when you return from |luncheon another blow has fallen. On your desk is a magnificent yol- ume, profusely illustrated from poor dak pictures. It is No. 141 of a | limited edition of Henry Grigs’s ‘Record Of My Journey Up the Yang-tee-kiang ! with som | notes oh the ent condition of the ¢ } Wall’.” or e and pres- ‘eat Chinese the presidency an| “Have you ever been tempted to |ber of meocipe iy hen er a book, dealing with your ad. |has devoted all of his life to the 4 usiness, Cappy?” J. |aole task of making mon isn't it inquir ised }it natural that a safe deposit box| m times,” Cappy replied | filled with tax exempt vs | truthfully. yearn to write my should represent to Alc i ent? Of} Sutoblography and entitle it ‘On the |nacle of human achievemen (Trail of the Dodo’ When I do, course old man Bk ton ven | however, I'm going to sell it. None | had a lot more fun out of vabit of Of YOU Young idiots would appre- had. also cultivated the | Meiving.| ciate my autoblography if I sent reasonable spending and wre a {You autographed presentation cop- However, he did manag }fex. On the other hand !f I mail st |tremendous kick out to you on approval, with a request cause in his old |for five dollars in case {t interests literary.” i y,| YOu, you'll read it in order to get “I never 1} ae We b os slot “~|@ line on the exact Proportions of Augustus Redell, “How Geclared. | ™Y_ Monumer: Ko dN at ita ey art OR and a| "Then you'd send me = your [eee eumern, hanian srallty, Tt] (Meek | very well known Sark fe old} .“You'd walt a long time for my Jin probable, that all ¢ £ |man Skelton struggled f elt exprensic He must e had m of » sing but he t time » sing until he quite old and extremely rich president of the mmerce three e lividuality up- @ one pieces his ir it became to ree ed, with old man Skelton limited to one five) speech on foreign trade at) banquet | Skelton never amount he | minute each annual “Old man ed to ar g worth while, but thought a when he accum-| ulated a la fortune, Thereafter | | he wrote little booklets for the sav- |ings b which he was a dl rector. f his best sellers Rise and ‘Hints on |man, I once ind k," Eddie Smith, the marine in- surance t er declared. “1 would?” Cappy queried. “I | think not. I haven't lived 74 years |in a real world without locating the point of least ce in. every, uman ne. die, 'd have a photograph of you in my book and the photograph would be captioned: | ™ urance Dodo, early part of 20th century. Now almost ex- tinct. This cles noted for tts complacency and decency.’ After| seeing that, you would read my book to see If I had recorded your rest and the fine visited upon you last week for giving Gus Re- dell a premium rebate on a policy. Not finding this oblt on your record, you would think kindly of mo and send ur check. Your ego would respond to the advertising and you would have to own the book In or- der to exhibit the ad, peaking of the literary business | i old man Skelton | PAGE 7 to make the donation, I merely | thought he ought to make it because |ho had more money than he needed and # friend of mine didn't have as much money a# he needed, “It wag before the war, One day a | young man came to me and told |about @ sawmill and a nice little | patch of A-No, 1 spruce, very accas sible. The owner was in a deep fl |nancial mire and had to sell in @ | hurry and at a bargain price, in order to escape foreclosure and a total | loss, and the young man in question | brought the good thing to me out of «ratitude for a favor I had once done |him, He didn't expect to make any+ thing out of it, He just happened to be the possessor of an inside tip of | great value and he gave it to mo freo ratis. “Well, I had the property appraie ed and the timber cruised and made |up my mind it was a good thing to |buy, At the timo, however, it was Almont too large a bite for me, so I |took old man Skelton in on the deal | with mo, fifty-fitty, Wo had scarce. |ly recorded the deed before the | United States declared war on Ger- |many and our spruce was in great demand for airplane manufacture, | We hung on to {t two months and | sold it to the government at a profit |of half a million dollars, and when dividing the swag I suggested to old man Skelton that, had it not been for my young und penniless friend |we would never have heard of the |good thing, so I suggested that we |sllp the boy about ten thousand dol- Ints each, out of sheer appreciation, Old man Skelton promptly informed [me that if I waa crazy he was not, land I knew {t way useless to press |the insue, However, I called in my young friend and gave him my ten | thousand and some good advice, | “‘Bon,' I sald, reaching up on my | desk and taking down old man Skel- |ton’s book entitled ‘Short. Cute to Fortune,’ read this book, even if yeu jsicken under the strain, Read it |from cover to cover and remember |what you read, Pick out the least | dull of all the dull things in it and |memorizo them, Then some day | bump into eld man Skelten on chance jand tell him you have just finished reading his book in the public library, In order not to lie, go to the public library to read the awful thing, Tale |to him for half an hour about his book and wax enthusiastic, Prove to him you have read it, Nobody else jever has, and the thought that you lappreciate him will endear you to |him, Ask him if he ig the author lof any other books that will ald a |young man, and he'll send you an lautographed copy of his diary of a \trip around the world, Head that carefully and compliment him on his observant eye and analytical mind, Then ask him for another book and he'll send you a mess of banking brochures, Read them all and write him a letter of thanks and apprecia- tion.! “Well, the bey did it—and when he reported back to me that he had done it, I was not surprised when one day old man Skelton stole my original idea and appropriated {t to himself, He insisted upon beth of us giving that boy a substantial reward on that spruce timber and sawmill deal, and I fought him all over the lot. (he harder I fought the more anxious he was to give up, and in the end we called the young man fn and |gave him our checks, He sent mine back to me, of course.” “Cappy,” said J, Augustus Redell, “you MUST write a book.” | But Cappy shook his head. “Would |that mine enemy might write a book, }but not thine own self." he quoted haphazardly, and attacked his soup. (Co ight by United Feature 8; dicate, Inc. All Rights Resereedal Reproduction Prohibited) | From the Princeton Tiger. Harry—Se you won't kiss and |make up? | Harriet—Well, won't make up, Self-Sacri IT can to part, voluntarily, with ten thou ja wealthy successful hold-up | sand dollars he didn't owe. It wasn't {man, who had successfully escaped) tor charity and he wasn't called upon the police and had turned gray and ctable at 60, yearning to write ja book about his life and lecture youthful amateur holdup men on the jus operandi necessary to lberty and the pursuit ‘As a matter of fact, Cappy con- tinued, “the literary microbe at- tacks business men about the time it begins to dawn on them that, as public speakers, they are as good| as an anaesthetic, Then they com- mence writing dull papers to be| read at forelg trade conventions and about a month later we receive | a of that stodgy addre s, in} ad | Not a mars the perfect appearanc complexion, Skin troubl tively conceale: color and corre of her ie Flesh-Rachel, Trial Size FERD, T. BOPKINS & SON, New York City Gouraud's Oriental Cream PAINFUL RASH ON BABY'S BACK Arms and Limbs. Lost Sleep. Cuticura Heals. “My baby broke out with a most painful rash. It was in the form of small pimples that were red and very angry looking. His back, arms and limbs were affected. It itched badly and baby could not sleep night or day. He was very cross. “I sent for a free sample of Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment and found it helped him. I purchased more, and after using two cakes of Cuti- cura Soap and one box of Cuticura Ointment he was healed.” (Signed) ts. Dota Silva, Morgan Hill, f. Use Cuticura for ev: toilet purposes, Bathe with Soap, soothe with Ointment, dust on in cie Dexter National Bank Third Ave. and Cherry St. The money you save ings Account earns in- terest and is always safe and ready for emergen- Ss open 6 to 8 o'clock Satur- day evenings. Temporary Location Rescurces $24,503,557.07 depends not so much on your earning power as your SAVING power. a Dexter Horton Say- S or opportunities. vings Department Established 1870 Horton

Other pages from this issue: