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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04
An 0. HENRY Story a Day :SS$s;

you blamed littlc. sawed off. buckle
berry eyed. monkey faced hot tamaleH
give en- another OF them Jalu loo
looa and you'il eat rice In ST. Peters
burg Talk about your Russians
say, wouldn't they give you "a pain.
hty when u comes 10 "A sorapovltchf
Not even on tho fair island OF Nip
pom was there moro enthulastlc
champion OF the mlkado's men. sup.
portera Of tho Russian cause did well
10 keep clear OF engine house No. 80
Sometimes all thoughts Of the Japs
left John RyrncH' head That was
when tho alarm of IRE had sounded
ana he was strapped In his drivers
scat on tho nwaying cart guiding
Ercbuz and Joe. the finest team In
tho whole OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TO
tho crew Of 90
OF all the codes adopted by man
for regulating his actions toward his
fellow mortals. the greatest are those
tho code OF King Arthurs knights
10 the Round Table. the constitution
Of the United States and the unwrit'
ten rules OF the New York IRE de
partmont. Tho round table methods
are no longer practicable since the
invention OF street cars and breach
OF PROMISE suits. and our constitution
IL being found more and more un'
constitutional every day. SO the code
OF our firemen must be considered IN
tho lead. with the Golden Rule and
Jcnries' new punch trying for place
and show.
one OF the Transatlantic liners
dumped out at Ellis Island lump Of
protoxoa which was expected %
evolve into an American citizen. a
steward kick him down the ganEway.
doctor pounced upon his eyes Ike
raven. seeking for trarhoma OF
ophthaimia. he was hustled ashore
and elected into the city In the
name OF Liberty perhaps. thcoret
ically. thus inoculaiing against king
ocracy with a drop Of IT. own virus
This hypodcrmic injection OF Euro
pcanlsm wandered happily into the
veins Of the city with the broad grin
Of a pleased child. IL was not bur
drncd with baggage, cares or hmbi
tons Its body was iitheiy built and
clothed in sort Of foreign fusuan
It's fac. was brightly vacant. with a
small. fiat nose. and was mostly GOV
cred by a thick. ragged. curling
beard like tho coat OF spaniel In
the pocket 81 the imported Thing
were a few acudl-
hopecks-- pfcnnlEr - pilasterH What
over the financial nomenclature OF his
unknown country may have been.
Prat,llnR 10 himself. always broadly
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04

l am regular every month and have
no pain at all. / recommend your
medicine to everyone and you may
publish my testimonial, hoping that
the Vegetable Compound does some
other girl the good it has done me. =
Mrs. GEORGE TEGARDEN, 9l5 Third
Street, Moundsville, w. Va. i
How many young girls suffer as
Mrs. Tegarden did and do not know
where to turn for advice or help.
They often are obliged to earn their
living by toiling day in and day out
no matter how hard the pain they
have to bear. Every girl who suffers
in this way should try Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and If she
does not get prompt relief write TO
the Lydia +. Pinkham Medicine Co.,
Lynn, Mass, about their health.
such letters are held in strict con
fidcnce.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04

door of the engine house and called
to Byrnes:
Hello. there. Jimmy. me boy
ho~'s the war coming along7 Japs
still got the bear on the trot, have
they?"
"oh. I don't know said John
Byrnes, argumenmtively: them
Japs haven't got any walkover. You
wait TN Kursapatkin gets good
whack at EN-. and they won't be
knee-high To a puddle-ducksky."
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04
The Foreign
Policy of
Company SO
Copyright. 1890. BY Tho Wheeler
Spetdrufr Inc

fCopUtVHts iHs0. op INC Nhr"ltf
Syndicate. Inc
John nyrnes. hose cart driver OF
Engine Company No. %, was affliqt.
cd with what his comrades called
Japanitis
Byrnes had a war map spread per
mhnently upon table In the second
story OF the engine house. and he
could explain TO you at any hour OF
the day or night the exact positions
conditions and intentions OF both tho
Russian and Japanese armies. lie
had little clusters OF pins stuck In
the map which represented the or.
posing forces. and these he moved
about from day TO day In conformity
with the war news In the daily
papers.
Wherever the Japs won a victory
John Byrnen would shift, his pins.
and then he would execute a war
dance OF delight. and the other fire
mon would hear him yell. Go H..
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04
The Rhodes Co.
STORE HOURS TO $50
Women's Soiled
Handkerchief
Reduced
to Close Out

TUE assortments include brok
L en- lines Of initial. plain col
orr. plain white and embroidered
hnndkmehiefs. reduced as fol
lows.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04
Wonen's
Union Suits
Special $3.50
- as1

NOR a cleanup sale
i the Women's Knit
Underwear Section has
taken from regular
stock $50 wool and
cotton m liked union
suits OF medium weight
In a broken line OF
styles which are slight.
~ soiled from showing.
Sizes 20 TO 81 but not
each size in every
style. Formerly s3s0
and 800 while they
last. a suit. $3.50.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04

because my Pc
RODS were irregu-
lar. came every
two weeks, and j
would suffer With
b EARN o wn
pains. A lady told
me of Lydia +.
Pinkham's Vege.
Compound
and how much
good it had dono
her daughter, SO
i took it and now
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04
FINE FOR RHEUMATISM
Musterole Loosens Up Those
Stiff Joints-Drives Out Pam

You'll know why thousands use
Musterole once you experience the
glad relief II givcA
Get . jar 1t once from the nearest
drug store II Is . clean. white oint.
ment. made with the oil Of mustard
Better than mustard plaster and docs
not blister. Brings ease and comfort
while Il 10 being rubbed oni
Musferolc Is recommended by many
doctors and nurses Millioos OF Jars are
used annually for bronchitio Group stiff
neck. asthma neuralgia. pleurisy. rheu.
maiixn. lumbago. pains and aches Of the
back or joints sprains sore muscles.
bruiscA chilblains frosted feet. colds OF
the chest tit often prevents pneumonia
Sc and &c jarss hospital size $40
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04

LNOR me day only
l. (on Wednesday, the
Kodak Section will take
orders for the enlarge
ment OF your choice
negatives. These will
be made on the best
paper In two sizes. TX
II or sxi0. and Will be
hand colorcd In oil
Formerly 500. Special
Wednesday. each zoe.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04
No Poison Found
in Death LIQUOR

Ed Parsons. so: II. $. Smith. 4s.
and Herman Hansen. 81. who died
in the city hospital from delirium
tremens during the holiday week.
were not victims OF poisoned liquor.
according to the coroner's Office.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04
No Blame Attached
in Woman's Death

Investigation by police and the
coroner's office into the death Of Mrs.
Mary A. Robbins killed Sunday
evening. when struck BY an automo-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04

bile driven by c. A. McGovern. has
shown the accident to have been un
svoidable. according to the report
submitted.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04
Muslins, Crepes, Sheetings, Etc.
Featuring the New
1921 Prices
Upper Main Floor

Full bleached muslin, yard ............... 19c
Underwear crepes in white and coors, yard 35c
81-nch sheeting, standard quality yard zoe
72-inch sheeting, with soft finish, yard. -. CSC
Pequot sheets torn sizes, 72x90, each 800. $1.SO
Pequot pillow cases, torn size, 42x36, each 45c
Pillow cases. torn SIZE 42x34, each. ...... soc
Huck towels with colored border size 1884,
each ................... 15c
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.ONE NE|GABOR
TELLS ANOTHER
Points the Way to Comfort
and Health. Other Women
Please Read

Moundsville. W.Va.--'T had takcn
doctor 8 medicine for nearly two years
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-04

Few men believe In everlasting
fire and brimstone-except for their
neighbors.
The Washington times., 1921-12-27
Household Hints

The death rate in London for 1920
was 1875 per thousand-which is the
lowest ever registered. In New
York 1t was 12.93-also a record.
Last May, while the coal dispute
was still going on, the railways in
Great Britain carried 7,158, 425 tons
Of goods, a fall Of 21,250.000 tons
compared with May, 1920.
During 1920 there were 6,993 ex-
periments with anesthetics on Nv
ing animals and 63,374 hypodermic
inoculations without anesthetics.
The total number of experiments
was 1890 in excess of the previous
year.
The first Photographic disk Is
still in existence In the Smithsonian
Institution. 1t was made in 1897
by Emil Berliner, and the first song
sung on a Photographic disk was
THE Sweetest Story Ever Told"
The Washington times., 1921-12-27
Makes a Family Sappkyq
Of Cough Remedy
DsoUy beeosp than ReaAy-0ade
eslGA. WPups. and caves abeat ~.
EAsiH sd Su1ckiy prcparsd.

II you combined the curative prop:
critics Of every known "ready-made,
cough remedy, you probably could
not get - much real curative power
q there 10 in this simple homemade
cough syrup, which is easily prepared
In . few minutes.
Get from any druggist 2H ounces
ef Pinex, pour it into. q pint bottle
and fill the bottle with syrup, using
either plain graduated sugar syrup,
clarified moiasses, honey, or corn
syrup, ~ desired. The result 10 .
full pint Of really better cough syrup
than you coulf buy ready-made for
three times the money. Tastes pleas
ant and never spoils.
This Pinex and Syrup preparation
getA right at the cause of . cough and
gives almost immediate relief. 10
aoosens the phleRm, stops the nasty
throat tickle and heals the sore, irIi-
tated membranes 30 gently and easily
that it 10 really astonishing.
A days use will usually overcome
che ordinary cough and for bronchitis,
Group, hoarseness and bronchial asth-
ma, there Ii nothing better.
Pinex 10 Q most valuable concen-
trated compound Of genuine Norway
pine extract, and has been used for
generations to break severe coughs.
To avoid disappointment, ask your
druggist for "2N ounces Of Pinex"
with full directions. and don't accept
anything else. Guaranteed to give
absoluts satisfaction or money
promptly refunded. The Pinex Co,
n Wayna. Lad
The Washington times., 1921-12-27
By Ann Lisle
XIII CORDOvA." I said
H., thoughtfuIly. Evidently

XII COHUOVA, / said
thoughtfuIly. Evidently
Jim has enlisted outside
aid. I wonder IL this is some one
who II buying an interest in the
company-or merely an obliging
person who's lending money!
I've heard the name before"
broke in Miss Storrs. "The Cor.
dovas are an oil-country family.
This Ia one OF the people I knew.
probably. And any of them might
conceivably have an enmity toward
Dick West"
want to tell you how I came
to know Dick West. I feel that
1 want you to know. You and 1
have fight ahead with Dick
West. And you've a right to every
bit OF knowledge I can give you
about him."
So Mabel Storrs plunged into her
story: II drifted down to the oil
country with a kid brother who
was all the family I had left after
the flood hit Galveston. I had
great uncle down Tampico way.
Il met Dick West when he came
to board with us. AZ he would
have put ibid put 1t. no doubt
In the boasting Of his conquest-I
fell for him and fell hard We
were secretly engaged-waiting for
him to make his fortune. He
didn't make II very fast. After
we'd waited for two years, some
rich people came to stay at the
hotel. Their name was Cordova-
Dick began at once to try to
make friends with the Cordovas.
But they held themselves aloof.
There was a father and two sons
and the beautiful young wife of
the younger boy. Dick tried to
f1irt with her-to irritate the old
snobs, he said. It hurt me, but /
loved Dick 80 devotedly I never
crossed him. What he wanted I
wanted, even thought It grieved me.
But consoled myself by reason.
ing that these were influential
people and that II Dick got in
with them and they made our for
tunes we could be married the
sooner.
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a. THE BRIDES PLAY
Read the Serial Here and Watch for the
Motion Picture Soon to Be Shown
at Leading Theaters.

to put on fanciful rings while the
admiring eyes Of her father fol-
lowed her every move.
Into the scene walked Bridget
Mallory bearing that most prosaic
burden--a tureen of soup from
which rose savory smells.
She stopped short. "Oh. hor'
she cried. rs your Royal High.
ness ready for your evening meal,
or will ye both be incoming the
rest of the night?"
Aileen pirouetted In front of her.
Follow me, Bridget, but be careful
not to step on my train. Don't you
. admire my diamond necklace7"
A grin spread over the woman's
face as she set the tureen on the
table and caught the girl in her
arms.
Yell be grown up soon enough"
she said. but that's no reason to
let the soup get cold"
They sat down together.
10 you Think, asked the girl,
seriously. that goose girl ought
to wear clods?''
Could anything prove better than
a remark like that-that Aileen was
a long way from romance?
John Barrett and Bridget ex.
changed looks.
All. haT' said the mans look.
Il told you she was a baby"
"Ah. har' said the woman,s look.
i told you she was no baby"
John Barrett had not exaggersted
when he told his daughter that Cir
Fergus Cassidy was a fine man. II
he hadn't been he would not have
remained on the estate descended
to him from remote ancestry and
now sadly in need OF attention. sir
Fergus believed that charity begins
at home. and by charity he meant
the giving that comes out of the
heart as well as out Of the pocket.
The Washington times., 1921-12-27
When q Girl Murries


MY old uncle acted as MINT
clerk generally. But he took alex
one day and l decided to stand a
double shift. Dick was away on
business. At about nine Ramon
Cordova and his wife Rosa came
" from riding-they acted very
much excited; they talked about a
'gusher and the title to some
property-stood arguing for awhile
and then asked me IL they could
put some very valuable papers in
the safe. l locked those papers
away myself.
Hardly had they left the office
when my Dick came In looking
greatly excited. He, too, had papers
Tor the safe. He stood fondling my
hair while I shot the bolts and
worked the combination. Then he
complained of being very sleepy
and went up to bed. Five minutes
later new maid we'd hired came
down to tell me that my grand.
uncle was asking for me. She said
she'd watch the office while I was
gone.
When I got to my uncle's room
FOUND him in a stupor; next him
was a drinking cup which I'd
oAeSh obSh IlCk use, IL omeIie0 OF
q green drug. 1t took half an hour
to bring uncle around. Then / went
back to the office and sent the
maid away.
In the. morning when the Cor.
dovas came for their papers they
were gone. Suspicion fell on nv
Door old granduncle and me. Dur
Ing the trial that followed the poor
old man died. loved Dick too
much to come forward and ten of
the circumstantial evidence which
pointed to him. He left the
neighborhod without defending
me- i was bounded out of town
by the relatives of my granduncle's
wife. And Dick West filed his
claim to. the very land the Cor
dovas had expected me to protect
for them.
People said was his tool-his
plaything. I've never been home
since then. / have no home. No
PEOPLE. But I've always known
that some day Dick West would
CT oss my trail again"
(To De Continued Thursday
The Washington times., 1921-12-27

He hadn't to kiss the blarney
stone to tell ye that. Aileen."
80 you've been kissing 1t. too"
She tapped his wrinkled cheek.
I'm glad he's come back to
Newrie to stay. Is he as good a
landlord as his father was?"
IT never heard of good land
lord; it's q bad business" grunted
her father. But I'll say this for
him, and who could say more, he's
a fine man."
The girl put her arms about his
neck and kissed him. John Bar
rett took this for a sign. but he
made no comment, only his heart
grew q little warm with q hope Of
what might come true after all.
Especially now that he would
soon have the quarries under way.
Let q girl be as pretty as a rose
and as sweet as a honeysuckle II
she has q goodly BIZ Of money.
sure 1t would make her seem the
lovelier.
He did nothing cynically.. The
world was the world and money
was the only material thing he
could give Aileen.
II didn't know Sir Fergus Cas-
sidy had any money to spare" said
Aileen, unconsciously striking the
keynote of his thought.
ITS a legacy he's fallen into.
girleen."
A pause, then, "And when tho
qYarries are working shall I have
jewels and fine clothes"
THAT you will; there won't be a
commoner's daughter this side Dub ,
lin can hold a candle to ye''
She jumped from his knees. made
him curtsey and then, with an !.
elfin grace, began in mock earnest
ness to try on imaginary gowns,
to preen herself in visionary hats,
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The Wine of Life

right, threshing her from side to
side. shaking her as a terrier shakes
a rag. Then her struggles sudden
ly ceased.
For a moment he thought that
she was unconscious. But her eyes
were open, he saw, and her body
was still twitching. She stared up
at him. apparently without seeing
him, limp, passive. inert, no longer
ready to oppose him.
He turned and staggered out
through the door. making his way
blindly toward one Of the studio
windows. There he awakened. for
the first time, to the fact that he
was sobbing aloud. He was Sob
bling and gasping with unutterable
self-shame. He had ill-treated a
woman, had beaten and abused her.
He had reached the lowest, the
lowest depths beyond which there
was nothing. nothing in any way
human. He had at last touched
bottom.
The Lowest Ebb.
Wave after wave Of remorse well
ed through him, melting him into
a newborn and uncomfortable storm
of pity. He went back to the bath.
room. He stopped over the tub.
where she still lay, white as the
porcelain beside her.
Storrow slipped one hand under
Tories shoulder and another I'M
der her softly. yielding hips. Then
he lifted her up. He felt her
weight. cool and limp and plant.
against his body. In that way ne
carried her to the bed and placed
her on It, very carefully, finding
a wordless relief in even that small
service.
Then he adjusted the sheet and
blanket and coverlet over the
bruised body, as languid now as a
sleepy child's.
He returned to the bathroom,
rubbed alum on his scratched Shout
ders, drenched his throbbing head
in cold water and put on the rest
of his clothes. Then he caught
up his hat and STROBE from the
room.
He escaped to the street,
oppressed by the wilderness Of the
sunlight, vaguely afraid to look
men and women in the face, burn
ing to walk off the poisons which
were souring his body. dumbly
longing for the lapse of time.
time which alone could heal such
deep and ugly decorations of the
spirit.
Go Be Continued Tomorrow
Copyright 1890. by Arthur strlnger).
Publish by arrangement with Internal
tional Feature Service. 1nc.
The Washington times., 1921-12-27
STORY OF AN AMBI.
BY Arthur Stringer.
WelI-Kn0wn Author and Novelist Of
Countrywide Reputation.

Well-knOwn Author and NOvef1St OF
Countrywide Reputation.
kkI makes me sick to look at
you. he cried, now in the full
sweep Of the passion which he
could no longer withhold. But as
he repeated that cry she advanced
slowly towards him. Her face was
white, like paper. The pupils Of
her eyes were enlarged. making
them look almost black. Her move
ments were tauntingly slow and de-
liberate. But her breathing was
quick.
A Warning.
Keep out of here!" he cried, not
SO much as a warning that she
should remain beyond the radius Of
his rage, but more because 1t was
the only ground, at the moment, on
which he could confront her with
opposition. Yet he knew he was
no longer master of his own move
ments, and he was afraid of him
self. He even shrank back, az
though there were still deliverance
In distance. Yet she followed him
step by step, with her face out
thrust and the challenge of unutter-
able hate in her eyes.
You steel-puddlerv' she gasped
out. You common cur! You cow
ard! Oh, you cowardr'
Keep out o here" he repeated,
thickly, foolishly. And as she
stood with her face thrust against
his he flung out at her the one
word he knew would hurt her most,
the word that had floated 40 re-
voltingly up to his ears the first
day he had ever seen her.
That word electrified her into
sudden and feline movement. She
struck at his face, foolishly. fren-
, ziedly, as he made q last effort to
push her away from him, to get
her out through the door before
the last OF his reason slipped away
from him. But she resisted him,
relapsing blindly to the plane of
bind force, clawing at his bare
shoulders, scratching with her
hooked finger-nails until the blood
showed on the white flesh.
That seemed to madden him. He
caught her suddenly by the throat,
sending her swaying and stagger-
ing back. But she chung to him,
ciawed at him, painting and sobbing
with the fury Of her anger. You
coward" she blubbered, loose
Tipped, as she fought against him,
resisted him to the utmost.
But he was too strong for her.
Even as he held her by the firm
column Of the neck some forlorn
ghost OF chivalry forbade him to
strike her. All his instincts were
against striking her. 1t was not
what white men did. Yet he felt q
great hunger to hurt that body
OF hers. the grim demand to inflict
suffering on It.
depressed impulses clamored for
liberation, aborted intentions and
thwarted desires re-arose on the
stirred pool of his passion. No; he
must not strike her. Yet he must
hurt her; he must hurt her, to
make up for the past.
He lifted her bodily ana twisted
her back over the lip of the enamel
bath tub In an effort to fling her
from him. But she was 1.-the, 1.-the
as cat. As he forced her down,
vaguely wondering IL the strain
would break her back, she tried to
set her teeth in the firm white
flesh of his shoulder. That sudden
pain brought a reaction that was
unwilled and unconscious. He I'm
prisoncd her arms and held hsr up
The Washington times., 1921-12-27
THE RHYMING
OPTIMIST
The Outlook.
BY Aline Michaelis

DAYS Bill: "It looks like rain
- to me, the sky is getting
gray" Says Jim: Its bright
as bright can be; twill never rain
today" Says Bill: THE times are
getting tight and cash is hard to
get; our land is in an awful plight,
/ know I'll run in debt. 1 see no
chance to get away, the crash is
sure to come; so / don't hesitate
to say that things are on the BUM"
Says Jim: why, boy, we've lots
Of food, our pigs are extra fat. our
crops are more than middling
good; things amt 80 bad, at that.
No mortgage camps upon the
place, and soon, il looks to me,
we'll greet that chap with smiling
face. Old Man Prosperity" Bill
groaned eight hours every day
about the price of shoates, about
his measley crop Of hay, about the
slump in oats. OF course, as jim
my said, twas true, he never was in
debt, but still he howled: "Ah, me,
boo hoo! The worst Is coming YETI
His sheep were fat, his cows were
fine, his porkers won the prize, but
brainless Bill would groan and
whine and fill the air with signs.
While everywhere that Jim would
stray, his smile preceded him, and
neighbors all would cry: ''Hooray.
Here comes our good friend, Jim"
When Bill could only see the gloom
and hint at drouth and pest, Jim
always found a lot of room for hop
ing for the best. And neither Of
them could explain just how the
thing was done; Bill saw the shad-
ows and the pain, while Jimmy saw
the sun. And you'll agree 1t was
quite queer because, from day to
day, while Bill saw clouds and Jim
The Washington times., 1921-12-27
Accepting the Tickle
DON'T MARRY MAN YOU CAN'T TRUST

hurt the woman who loves him
now and then, by showing sudden
flares of individualism and of self
expression which takes no heed of
her. Then a sensible woman will
just remember that we are all
persons and that none of us has
a right to try to chain or fetter
any other of US.
But the philanderer is another
matter. He may not be bad at
heart. but he is likely to be weak
right to the roots Of his being, and
unless the woman who loves him
IL an angel in sweetness and VAL
kyrie in strength and a Minerva
in sanity, life with him Is going
to resolve itself into a sad thing
Of shattered hopes and broken
ideals.