The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 27, 1925, Page 16

TERS: “>, CAPTAIN A.E.DINGLET Sam 1924 my ORENTANOE INC ALL QIONTE QESERVET Ce Brtans tm NBA. SERVICE INC. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Tho lacking pawls ceased, Tho men streamed sweat, Even fat lit- He Joe Bunting wh 1 horrible profanity as # Vocal pow ers wer ed of the necessity of tawht encouraging chantey Strain they mix hey only wheezed, less .conside agreed wit this back Jabor .was fut! most loyally bv little Joe Bunting, sian at the pacing figure of Jake § ens in the waist By 10 o'clock the tide was full All the movable wel pt the deck water tan shifted aft “Try her now, Mister Twining!" cried Drake, eagerly. Suddenly the men capstan bars again. the ship except Drak "Erb Oats put his bars. “Heavel wheezed Joc Bunting. #Oh,..Heave an’ bust ‘er!’ It was useless starting a song. The ship must be moved before she would be- gin to slide fast enough to call f a ng. But to move r was a ter- Hific task, With muscles cracking, the veins swelling on the fore of the few real workers, on! “Clack, clack, claa-ck!” of thr luctant pawls resulted. ing straightened his agonized | Mr. Adams almost fell forward the expiration of his heroic effort “Blitme! I'm done"’ panted Bunting. Nick Coombs, silent hither: to, but heaving wi very atom of his tremendous id shoul from bene brows, shaking his head, “Qught to make everyt ‘is pound,” he grumbied young Adams, knowing th spoke the truth, glanced a deck at Stevens and at the locker door. He knew how ¥ all this Jabor was. He thought knew, anyhow. And the cof been pretty bad. Adams was re to back his skipper to th as was Twining; but he wa and with the proneness of youth was likely to overlook a few things in the heat of annoyance He watched Drake, pacing the poop, apparently only thinking up ways to further bedevil and bully-damn the mates and the men. What Alden Drake was really thinking about was how he could get his ship afloat and on her way to her port with least delay “Mister Twining!’ he called out Twining responded brisk! was word to quit breaking men’s hearts. Drake leisurely pack ed his old black briar pipe, and as liesurely lit the tobacco. The smoke was jetting freely when Twining} peared at the head of the ladder, Mister Twining, you may ‘vast heaving for this tide.” Twining’s| {Umbrella Mend face brightened. “Let the men § their dinners, give ‘em a spell for a amoke, then go to work and shift the water tanks aft.” Twining’s jaw dropped. His eyes clouded Drake puffed placidly at his pe, and went on In the same voice as he might use to tell Ike to put but- tons in a clean jacket “Tomorrow, if shifting the tanks doesn’t help her off, we'll open ‘the | fore hold and break out those Man chester cases. Send the cook aft to set the cabin table when the men Mave got their rations.” Twining was halfway down the poop ladder beforo "he could govern his voice enough to respond: “Aye, aye, wirf? He said nothing to the men ex. cept that they were to have their dinners and a smoke. He saw them troop forward in glee. “Some of the men are r chuck in th hands now!" sa Adams. “Break out cargo in this heat? Have to do it, I suppose. The old man knows his business, It's darned hard, tho. I don’t be Hieve the ship can move before spring tides.” “Vil agreed it's bard,” returned ‘Twining. “But if Captain Alden Drake says he can move the ship, 1 won't believe it imporsible as long ag he carries on trying. I'm await ing to see him set sail and back her off yet.” Stevens watched the last sailor carry the Jast mess kit into th forecantic. ‘Then the Doctor sham bled aft, curbing, taking off hig fil-' played chess hawser stretched taut string al the deck ght up, from t ads to the fal It quired to th the fast ebt tide wa < m if its normal diamet of tremendous elastic that cocoanut fibr It exerted a pull tons even while stret there Uonte Drake knew what he was ut when he planned every move made, & conee vitatt H 1 looked { shea for the open overt best piece bread wr the forecastie, wi ly men ar 1 loudly and ¢ grinned, but position neither come passen, He had no do that reac t nothing at all but loss of his dd starting powerful frame at t ily lowered hi pan in one ircling arm could set it afioat off from the ship and » towards the shore, float head of him. & QUINCE Ls'Pese THEY THREW You OUT LCAUSE YOU DIDN'T EXPLAIN Wk LWHY, THEY'D BE PROUD To Give LOF MY APFLUENCE - \ NIGHT! ~) Sea THE SEATTL RSONALLY ! 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HANDY AROUMO THE ' \ HE'D POLISH YouR * CooK BREAKFAST o~ J é ERRANDS =} NO WOK DONT S GOT YO DO Now 16 Jav Doesn't Do Any Better! WELL WELL! 2 HAVENT SEEN YOU FoR AN AWFUL) LONG TAKE RAY! TAG re TOLD ME THAT" ) OU HANE BEEN + nme SICK. YES, Ray "si \ WEOL ) SEE CHICK 18 LATE FOR He turned when, he had almost; reached the rocks. The Doctor had not appeared yet. He grinned again jand now there was a trace of ‘nat ffaction in the grin. If } y win out of sight from before the Doctor discovered the loss of the beef and bread, would soon be sitting on top of the world He scrambled out of the w carried his stores hurriedly ‘ sight beyond the waterside, an crouched expectantly. 1 Doctor's untidy head bobbed along above ithe rail of the Orontes, going to {the galley. Jako listened, and| scratboaes, Se i REF y Olive Roberts Bartor. NO. 15—THE UMBRELLA MAKER AND THE UMBRELLA MENDER | “There are two peoplo we must seo today,” said the March Hare. “Who are they?” asked Nick. |Please get on, both of yc will go and them.” the Umbrella } jbrella Mender lived side by aid like Tweedie Dum and Tweedle Dee. ‘The two old men, like the D: |boys, were always quarreling | The Umbrella Mender said that | “Very important persons, indeed.” " said the March Hare. “April showers are’ coming. | and we) wins jumped on the hare’s| ale |tho they were the fastest of friends. watched, The Doctor reappeared. and passed back to the cabin, Ap parently he had been so intent up ho had not t cabin dishes that noticed tho loss of beef and bread. (To Be Continued.) ie after day passed Mister Sprinkle Blow, the weath-/I want to make lerman, must have gotten his dates |mixed up on his calendar, up in the “The Umbrella Maker and thel|sky, and thought it said April 1st Instead of that it was only the 21st} joe March. | hose. ut the Umbrella Maker and the |Umbrelia Mender played right on. | The Maker moved a pawn and Jumped a bishop, and took it. Then the Umbrella Maker made such|the Mender moved a knight one |xood umbre any work to do. them so well t out, \n W ones. |apend their time playing chess. One |Mender’s house. the umbrellas in the world we gotten, one, Scareely anybody land sunpy—so nobody complained. |blowy Still nobody complained. arch. That isnot awfully So the two Umbrella Men sat and that he never had/square straight and one square And #0, a8 neither of them had janything to do, they decided to they played in the Um- |brella Maker’s house and the next |day they played in the Umbrella And so things went on, and all Fobruary was cold and bright— nobody needs umbrellas much and played chess, and | lcater-cornered and took the Maker's And the Umbrella Maker said! queen. that the Umbrella Me mended | The Maker was so mad he nearly { wore | had a fit, And then they began to | and so the peuple never needed quarrel os usual. | They never saw the rain. And not | alx good umbrellas in the world | that hadn't been lost, or broken, (ba forgotten! Lippity, loppity camo the March | Hare and the Twins. They reached the Umbrella Maker's house just as | the pourdown started, And all tho time the old men were quarrel: | -ling, they kept knocking to get in. | ting lost, or worn out, or being for: | 1 scarcely anybody had Finally they Just had to walle in,! And then the March Hare gaye | |them a plece of his mind, Quite a| large pleco of it—about being two] jallly altho it was a better day | v waa cold and dusty and|for ducks. | The Umbrella Maker and the Um | brella Mender put their chess-board | away and got right to work | (fo Be Continied) ail (Copyright, 1926, by Seattle star COTT TO JOHN ALD CONTINUED ¥ you read this, John, lives like. this, should go into this iso IT want to let you in upon the ways by which I am tryin certain that there ho misunderstandings so Tam trying honest with both you and myself. | , however, there is no “The world is pretty dirty after a|know that I would never rd winter, so I'll give it a thoro | w hing,” sald he. And he rolled|my children if kk and away he hopped. By and/his barrel marked “Regular Pour they came to the place where} downs” to the edge of a cloud and affairs of thin kind, there are alway aker and the Um-/turned on the spigot Down came the rain like a fire-y | | lout taken into con make my mother very unhappy would feel it her lit struction, but now it se almost a cago of either Scylla or Charybdis, I wonder if the matri- monial 1 people sails in such@®troubled wa. tors. 5 Yours with Marcum Optical Co. 20 VICATIS’ WNP NOn Our Prices Are as Low jvet, Leslie, DR. BE. HW. MELIUS Optometrist and Optician SoRRV BuT 1T WAS ON ACCOUNT OF You don't have to know music to sing your own praises. to confess, John, I myself am most ensitive to the speech of people. 1 | . }would not caré to go out among tty to come home | my friends if TI knew that after I Nett the room they were wondering | [just what I was going to do. 1 cannot bear, John, to let tho world know that my matrimonial ship has gone on the rocks, We have, it is true, steered away from many of them—some of them which I thought would surely be our de- ms to be k of all other married Perhaps it is because we are both filled with vain pride for, after all, |Jack, it is the hurt to one's pride jrather than the wrecking of ono's love or the 1 jthat plays n kitig of one's heart With marrlag Tig this to Ruth and ah “Yon haven't reached the dept "sho wold, “It ds on after one has thoroly realized that one must bury all pride, that ono i@pws that love is dead,” Ruth thinks that we can, out YES,BUTTM ALL” WELL A IS ALL GONE. — ~ COUGH. GONE. IN=AY WICKING pS ac I Peci.r8 AN-YOU SAY STALL URONG BE e (; WHAT'S THE 4 YESSIR~ BUT STREET CAR TIE-UP } YOU RIDE ON GOT ‘To DO WITH wardly at least, come to some kind compromises Sho insista that} pin that yerso Marriage itself, with or without} where 1 could love, with or without trust, is noth: |Just at this moment, John, however, jlonger hus “& Series of compromiges.| I cannot bring She quoted to me that old stanza lwith wl the y Cowper but To.pity and perhaps forgiy« {T= You DRIVE A { MACHINE DON'T / UO ? <Q HOW MANY C2 \TIMES HAVE | TOLD You NOT is gnum| TO PAN OVER »_ \ THOSE CLOTHES “)) WITHOUT WASHIN Le@\ YOUR HANDS!! ED WURGLER, WHO DELIVERS WASH HIS WIFE, WAS BADLY INJURED BY A PIN WHILE HANDLING SOME LAUNDRY "To Day- | HEM HIS HOOKING COUGH. IS ALL. mething every day they live { do think, BY KEN K SUST The 1 WANT! 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