The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 20, 1925, Page 16

PAGE 16 WIDE-*. WATERS V® ~4 boas IMY MULE -7 fp in Lpe NHGIN Heme TODAY »t nd sea with a} . rf ALDEN DRAKE, formerly « } } (TRAININ, er, grown soft if thru Neen pol . * ager sh nu bla hadow of th ¢ STEVE © enmity | wa Curses stabbed t tinh . if ure because of tual lov metal. The mate ran to the rail, | ‘ MARY MANNING, daughter of wling down for silence, Mary half the owner, who is a passenger, At| emerged, glad of anything that prom Cape Town, Stevens ts d| ised to ss tha’ awfal heaviness as captain by Drake ¥ i Bry yers have seen to the purchasd of | that hung over a the Orontes during its cruise, In I keel your’ a his new role of master, Drake be- |, fomes " ne | To! pres: u won't! Bil'me W chief mate, finds tim ‘ ¥ : ms suit screamed 'Hbert Oats in ratlike fur Stevens shyly appre Ere hut yer bleedir row eee outta. remem | |wheesed Joe Bunting, Then Mr, | NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Stevens 4 down the ladder and OE QUINCE THE SHATTLE STAR Mules Always Were Beasts of Burden! BY KEN KLING WELL HAFTA Be BEATIN FROM MIAM\, Boss — THE i RACIN’ SEASON STARTS. VU’ EAST NEXT MONTH AN! 1 WANNA GIT ) [BUT x WAVENT] -“Geqo ape. [AND Do YOU THINK | RMR Ts NAW! Y'NEEoNT]” Jest SAY THe) | p|( THE PRice (oney’a SD I'M Going To Q | : D>) vorRY ‘Bour WORD WHEN } \OF RAILROAD / Hike! SLEEP IN THE : } DAT, Boss! 5 You'Re ‘ ‘ FARES wiry Ha Beh oh Se SLEEPY! | “! BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES CORA .CAN ‘You LET ME HAVE TWENTY DOLLARS? A DRESS Jus’ ay rae headlong into the unseen Blushing furiously, Mary sprang Mary stepped from her shel from her chair, hurling her work | and hung over the poop r broadcast over the and ran be tarry ¢ with exeiteme rhe jow, leaving Jak the th | tim epi apprentice eared his question from his ow ding pla swered plain! 4. His breath | t whistled et He felt Somebod soing H murderous. ‘I swam forward | he grinned in peace © the peace his} “Hush!” whispered ne Stormy tem \ dark discord, |stifled a scream t “Call all hand: roared. “You, ‘scuffle of feet ar of ; THRU THE SALOON ‘THE CARRIED JAKE STEVENS TO HIS BERTH. Boy! Call the bosun. Te m . the darkness turn out all hands and J of blows; then a hi everything all around the ship! Get shriek = move ont" Holy Mother!” It sounded . There was anothe CHAPTER XXI1 >» man but like th A Knife in the Dark pt tree NE man’s turbulent ‘anda orf?’ lea epettering hen the mate uttered pean beings. If that was cut « they had beer they soon fel hy had been not ernise. “There ain't cal us like this, Mister Stevens tle Joo Bunting told him one blazing ng but o 1 it died to # iydam My Cr ‘There's somett tat lite | UPS”. sasped tho apprentice stood irresotutely at the ladde ; pen no to forenoon when Madagas ed | ANd to the rail glided Drake, awak hlue thru the shimmering Joe | ened by the breaking of the night's had Just finished a boy's job, far/ Peace. re oe loft, siushing down the mainsky hat is it?’ he demandec ¢ sail pole and royal mast, It was/Slanced around, saw no officer, an mear noon, and Joe had gone gripped the boy's arm The boy! straight from the wheel at 10 o'clock | Choked down his fright, but could to the slushing job, without the five | Only point. Drake ran down the jad minutes’ smoke which was the re-|4¢r. Soon he shouted for lanterns. Jieved helmsman’s immemorial priv. | The rest of the watch ran up, then flege. He. knew that eight veils |the sleepers aw and swarmed Would strike before he got haitway |around in the lantern glow. Mary up to his next job of slushing ‘own | Stared down from the poop and felt | jas ff she were on the edge of Inferno me slack?" | looking in. pmarled Stevens. “Are you giving) A deathly hung over th ‘me back chat, you useless lump o'| circle of illumination. In {t, on the queerly streaked silence |deck which wa. Jara?” ‘Don't call me out o’ mé name,| with glistening fluid, Tony lay dead returned Jor, fearlessly. “I{|his hands clutching at his breast Beside him Jake ly toppling ove “Tl show you!’ gritted Jake, e jack » breast Knocked fat little roly-poly Joe | | ¢ Bunting half knelt beside both. jong with a cruelly unexpected | In his hand was a dripping knife. In punch on the ear. Joe scrambied| his round gray eyes horror, Men to his feet, blood trickling from his| crowded around. The hung var, his twinkling eyes cold andjon the edge of the circle, chattering starry. Drake was taking a noon | with fear, holding a gleam sight on the poop, with Mr. Twin-| in one palsied hand. It's nigh vens knelt, slow blood staining his ain't givin’ yer no slack eight—" Doctor cleaver The other hand ing taking another for a check from | was outstretched, talonwine, toward the monkey bridge. Drake hap- | Joe. pened to remove his sextant from his E done it, Captain! It wos ‘im! eye for a rest, the sun still being| ‘Im wiv the knif short of meridian, and saw Joe con- CHAPTER Xxit front Stevens, There was something | Mah Jonge gbout the happy little seaman that | rmHROUGH the saloon they carried warned Drake all was not well. He/ 1 jako Stefens to his own berth, Yai4 down his sextant, and walked] srary followed, white and silent. The forward along the monkey bridge. iy: Bhvared tinet, -Weinaina’ hie “Mister Stevens, you ‘it mi sea CAME For tin COD _" AM BROKE. Boy! D'vA spose sure! cant |) LDS HE'S REALLY WALRIN ]ys READ & UE T WALL 4cRoss ™ Neda «| Tr SIEN S. | MAT FAR Y — ‘ STATES? suucks' Tu sr HEAVENS | THAT a, WAIT = ‘LL SEE! FRIENDS t \ MOM’N POP ; GREAT HONK! - El OCLOCK AND OLGA PROMISED TO CAI ME AT SEVEN | | | ANO Bi! READY GHT LL HOW) WOULD You IF SHE HASN'T ze Cor: LEAVES ME WS A Second Mr. Weston! vihy SAY! Tuard / 95 SWELL«1 Berna / T COULD WALK THAT § FAR BASY! Y'KNOW vA | 1 “2 1 Gets Off ———~. 7 In Bory | RIGHTY CENTG «1 DO WIGH YOU'D MANAGE| Aw IT OST A LITTLE BETTER, DEAR ~ YOUVE BORROWE EARLY ALL | HAD. hukling BY MARTIN GQ WiELL — THATS THE FIRET DREAM OF A } HAT YOU EVER THAT DONT | COST ME GDMETHING £ —/ ed Kasy / \T 1S A MIGHTY { CUTE .\TTLae SPRING DRESS. © ~ OK, CORAL THAT REMINDS (1E ~ LAST NIGHT 4 DREAMED | HAD TH’ MoGT BEE-OOO-TIFUL..GPRING i]~ 1 COULD WALK AS FAQ WELL! 1 couLD 4 AROUND IT, COULDNT I a | wh Must Be EAKFAST EITHER» £ WONDER vies ee Ri Too > hands, useless, pallid, “Where shall I put Bunting, sir?” the second mate asked of Drake, coming into the saloon after the bearers, “Ironed him?” snapped Drake. The second mate nodded. (To Be Continued) wheezed Joe simply. “I’m a hable Beaman, sir, and I give yer no lip. I dos't hallow no man to ‘it me for | nothink. ‘It me again, sir, please. | Jl pay yer aht for two in one, Come | om, nah, You started it.” ‘ “y talk ter you afterwards, me} won!” said Joe grimly, waiting for up his challenge: «© a snarling dog,| The March Hare and the Twins leaning forward in crouch, his|went in ‘ot. ait’ the great hands clenching and unclench-|clowns, and before the week war ing until the bones crackled, Slowly jout they had found every ono of ADS search he reached out until the clawlike | them fingers of his left hand wese almost| By that time all the elephants at Joe's neck: nis right fist drew| were scrubbed and the camels well ack to strike. Joe watched the ap- proaching claw out of a corner of |practice, and the white fone eye; but he evinced no fear.|taught new tricks nnd the Rather he looked as if he welcomed |repaired and the the chance to take a good solid wal-jand everything. Jop at that terrifying face. He hoped | were ready. the mate would not be too long get And in no time at all, the circus Ying started. {t was almost eight) was ready to start on its travels elle. to all the towns and cities where “Tha. will do, eat crowds of people wero anx- dusted, and the trained seals put in horse ulliope agons painted en the balloons Mr. Stevens! You} may go aft! You, Bunting, get |iously waiting. for'ard at once!” said a clear, level| As the big red wagons bumped soice, and Drake leaped from the|along the rod, the Circus gman came to the place where the March Hare and the Twins were standing. “I'm much obliged for your help,” |he said gratefully. “If {t hadn't been for you I never would have known that spring’ was so near. |Down South here where the circus stayg in winter, ono loses all t of tine. Would you like to come with us and have some adventure Perhaps 1 cowld teach you to do a circus act.” monkey bridge to the fore hatch, and thence to the deck between the bel- | ligerents. “He's a mutinous dog!’ snarled Stevens. “He wants flaking.” “phat will do, I want no flaking fone, Mr. Stevens. Go aft!” retorted Drake. Tho mat® turned aft mutter. Ing. @The seamen dispersed, still mut- | tering their krievance, for they felt | they had been robbed of a piece of | sport. ok On the night following the trouble| Nancy and Nick would have iked with Joe Bunting, Mary was rest-|to go but the March Hare shook loam, could not sieep. She slipped ajhis head, “Ng, thank you, but I swarm robe about her to stand off|have more wor to do. Besides I'm the heavy tropic dew, and went on|not much good at ting 1 wor deck, fhe did not go outside the|put Into a story book onve, some ‘open companionway, but stood there|thing about a tea-party, I belies $n the shadow, gazing out across the |and that was bad enough, 1 only noftly heaving *& which lay like «| behaved foolishly.” nem smothered carpet of purple| “Well, then, good-bye!’ sald the patin under the glittering heavens.|Circus Man. ‘Come to see mo next Hteven: on watch, His big, pow: | year And he shook hands all erful figure pac fore and aft on} around feet ght an a girl's, head sunk be “God-by called Bimbo the 4ween his shoulders, exeept at each! clown, fwrn when he rnined his eyes to And he blew them @ kis “Goodbye!” said the March Hare, pevgewupes hy eirens | Olive Roberts Barton NO. 9—THE BARREL BESIDE THE BROOM FACTORY | [litting his hat, "Good-bye! waved the Twins When the cireus had disappeared in the distance and nothing but Jeloud of dust to be the March Hare looked his watch “Dear, di he eried in y, “it's the middie of March!? ‘Can you tell dates by your watch?” asked Nick. ‘ertainly,” sald the March Hare “Days, weeks, months and yeara as well as minutes and seconds. It’ fairyland wate! The Fair: Queen gave it to mo on my las’ |birthday, Now it says that it's 10 minutes past four on the 16th day lof March, two years after the year |before Jast. ‘That means now. And |not a chimney cleaned out was seen, at gain disn a “What!” cried the Twins “You shouldn't say ‘what.’ You should say ‘I beg pardon’ But |this is no time for a lesson in man- ners, What I said was, that there |TheTangle | TELEPHONE MESSAG ; FROM JOHN ALDEN PRESCOTT TO MISS ANDERSON, NURSE TO MARY ALD PRESCOTT “L wish you would persuade }mother, Miss Anderson, to go to jAtlantic City without mo today. I j know, of-course, that sho has been jterribly disappointed over the {changing of the plans, but I think sho will be all right when sho finds that I want you to take her with. ont me. “You'll do your best? | know jt will be all right, and after you have persuaded her to go call me up and tell mo so that not bo worried about her T am sending you by messenger $100 for! any incidental expenses you may have and you can wire my necre- tary, Mra, Atherton, in Pittsburg, if at any time you shguld need more | money. , take her to the best hotel. All T want you to dods to keep her busy that sho will forget all bout mo and my affairs, I have |troubles enough of my own just at present, : | “Thank you very muoh, Miss Andernon, I shall expect to hear from you shortly for I &m leaving the hotel in the morning.’ staan w || Telephone Message From Mary | Then 1} I nieod | find my wardrobe you. hard.” Good-bye, Don't | dohn Alden Pi 00, The Waldorf, |%¢— baggage now, hotel. Just J am not sure yet (Copyright, 1926, TOMORROW—Dnay John (Vo Bo Continued) | ; { HUNT E ye PAM AE kyo ke isn’t a single chimney cleaned out Alden Prescott to John Alden | | We must go at once and find Johin- Prescott, ° | |ny Sweep and wake him up. Hoe |p¢ works so hard that he sleeps sound) ‘John, 4 ly, and 1 doubt if he Knows that/for making such lovely arrange. spring is not only coming, but|menta for mo. Perhaps I was a here,” little impatient this morning, but @ “Where does he lve?" asked! Miss Anderson says you are yory Nancy. much worrled over business. Henide the broom store in a bars) “Yom, 1 will stay In Atlantic City {rel,” answered the March Hare.!untii 1 hear from you and then |"Come on, wo' I be going will come on to Pittsburg. You | They traveled all day and by linow, 1 have not aden the new '|moon-up they arrived at the broom | hapy store “Goo D) « son’ which sounds of snoring were com-|stiicteq her. bik ers ie A her to get rooms for us | "Just am 1 thought,” atid thet tho Traymore, ‘That will bo very March Hare, pecping in. “He in| teresting. T ike to seo beautiful fast asoop, Johnny Sweep ta," renee ANd ¢at Rood £004, “you Know “Yes, Mins Anderson has told me, Tae ton, work Many a girl who cats three aquare meals a day gets just dessorts, and 1 may wire Mrs, Atherton. if 1 insufficient, 1 think, however, I have enough for the present as I have dono a great deal of shopping in New York, the bills of which T have had sent Room | the for It is all ready, “No, you need not check jt to any to the station will do. whether 1 stay with a friend of mine or not,” ‘The Seattle Star) letter Alden Prescott to Sally Ather: —¥ breakfast this 10:10 my @icase have my bill re@fy. T am checking out after morning, Get a chair for mo and a ticket to Albany on train, You can send up will from Kivery person should drink at least threo pints of water daily. Vv to too L Bee | Order Sent to Desk Clerk by | tt, _THE OLD HOME TOWN Dieting OLGA! OLGA! COME WN AND GET SOME BREAKFAST — TANKS - BUT L DONT WANT ANY Ho HOLD ER NEWT SHES AREARIN - 1) WISH HED SHOW “THAT, SPEED WHEN HES BEHIND oe, DOG IF YOUSE GOIN “TO CATCH ME YO SHURE AM YouUR ANKLES-- STANLEY = ly CG Ba Be AWA Nerd Tai : ITWe PORTER AT THE CENTRAL. HOTEL WAS TEN MINUTES LATE GETTING STARTED To a THE DEPOT But BOR HEDGES Dog HELPED @ WIM MAIKE UP TRE LOST TIME IN YE ~ @ FIRST BLoci< 1028 BY NEA SERVICE, INC 3-20-25" Ontario.Immigration | FARM SCHOOL IN RUSSIA OTTAWA, Ontario, la during the month of Jan MOSCOW—Seven American col-|toms and excise revenue for the 1 uary totalled 2,007, made up of 543} leges are repr@nted on tho staff of|months ended ebruary, 1925, was Britishers, 632 Americans, and 842] the American Trptitute of Agricul: 691,523, according to a stale from other’ countries, according to! ture In Stepanavan, Armonia, whicli}ment issued: by the department of a report issued by the department] is now the largest farm school in| customs, Customs import duties col of Immigration and colonization, In] Russia, 1t is supported by: the Neat | lected totalled $107,386,958, Excise addition, there was recorded 1,716] Bast Rolief with an appropriation | tax collections amounted to $T8 288. returning Canadians from the Unit-}of $120,900 a and hay yenr, 1,200 students, all Armenian orphans, vhhile ox Hed $3 ed Staton. pais, While excise duties totalled § 088,814, lini, bandioanacabig