The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 24, 1903, Page 4

4 THE SEATTLE STAR ny PU RLISHING Co. OFFICES. and 1209 Rev « h avenue. oo EVENT AFTERNOON © °T BUNDAY TELEP MONKS ee Business Department—Suneet, Main 1080) Tndependens 13% Aitorial Department—Sunset, Main Lia 7 The & » Mastern offices: 106 Hartford bullding, Chicago us Trib it New York W. TL PF r 1 anad tating. BALLA! AR AGENCY $21 Nallard ave Bur Tred 141 "1 te per week, or twenty-five cent pet arriers, No free copies ans matter, een ee) Jas. Frank Daly—thus his parents christened tho little sprout of hu- manity, and that’s about all they did for him ew from babyhodd Into boyhood, as other male humanity does, takes care of that, H help it. Maybe he didn’t care. Certainly nobody else seomed He came into the w dren do, as ignorant of tte ways ° as he was inv of ite ev A child i ae plastic ax clay and may be molded into most anything Tt was this boy's fate to fall into the hands of a poor modeler, Buthe couldn't help that At the age of sewen he was led by hia elder brother to “play hockey” from school, ‘They were arrested for truancy and James was sent to th Juvenit What Db ¢ his broth: A the rent of the lly, he never knew, The great city of New York was now his parent He st plastic clay, A wew modeler had taken hold of him, Ho couldn't help that, either © three years he was kept in the asylum and/was then transferred to the hb of refuge. He didn't wowhy. He thought that waa all s there was of | A child understands so little ; And J was taught nothing. At 10 he knew no more than he ¥ had known at seven, except what he had seen In these reformatory tn- stitutions, and that is not very enlightening nor elevating, Well, h couldn't help t could he True. he never forgot that there was some peculiarity and tndefin ably sweet charm about the miseries of his eariier days It was mem- ory of liberty aged bird, whose ancestors have been caged for Generations before It, still sobs out its heart in sweet songs of freedom. Then can a human soul forget liberty? The streets, the alleys, the fields, the trees, the atreams, that are so much of iif childhood. & part of life as jong a life lasts. And if James, not understanding things, had longing for Uberty, how could he hetp it One day he sought to emcape. Kaowing no more than a child of seven, he had not measured the enormity of this crime, But that one thing the state now proceeded tardily to teach him. He was sent to the reformatory at Elmira, He sometimes wondered what folks were born for, anyway, He couldn't help 1. But nobody explained anything. So he went on be- ing molded. One day a keeper caught him chewing tobacco and struck him a biow that laid open his cheek. He struck back. Most people might have done the same thing. James w then, in years, but still seven tn moral training. So how could he help tt? Tt meant Sing Sing fer four years. That was in 1900. At the state ptison he learned a principle which revolutionized his philosophy—fur- nished him a standard by which to control his conduct. Me wae told that good behavior was to his own advantage. It was str to him at first, Dut he begun on that basis and earned stx months “good time.” The other day he came out of prison, free for the first time since he was seven, The world is a mystic maze te him, He had never seen a trolley car, the completed Brooklyn bridge or an automobile, He had never played a game of ball, gone swimming, or done any of the things that are perquisites of boyhood. “Z wish so hard,” he said, “that away.” But does the state regret tts crime? Do the people of the greatest of the Ametican commonwealths gtve @ thought to the awful wrong they have done this boy? — There is a historic story about an excited individual who once rushed nto the office of the tate Jim Pisk, exclaiming: “Mr. Fisk! Mr. Fisk! The world is coming to an end!” and was met by the calm reply “Well, what do T care? I don't own it." In view of recent disclosures tm steel, railroads and other things, it ls to be feared the time bs not fap Gistant when & similar remark addressed to J. D. Rockefeller could net truthfelly be met by a similar show of uncencern. — ‘The Ohio supreme court hax decied that it ts not unlawful for a person to @ip without the aid of @ doctor. Now let a case be brought to determine whether it Is pefmissible to get well under ths treatment of a Christian Sotentist. niny had made me ver run “Phe United States cruiser Baltimore has arrived. Business ts at « etandatill,” says « dispatch from San Domingo. Those navy officers certainly bring a reign of jollity and good cheer wherever they go. ee Coal of! has gone up 2 cents a gallon in the last few weeks and the Standard Of! dividend just declared is $2 higher than that of a year 4g. Coincidences are funny things. ——- Now that the grocers no longer have to pay for the pasteboard umd in cake and cracker boxes, perhaps they will cease to charge the rest of us for butter boats an@ paper bags. —-_-_—_, President Roosevelt will personally entertain nix labor leaders at the ‘White House. It is up to Uncke Mark to rush out and settle a few strikes, if be expects to keep even. —_—_—rs Panama has named her only warship the November 2. When she hae used up the rest of the calendar, he'll ave quite & Meet. ee etieeeeneeneineinee ‘Thus far $669,000,000 worth of water has been squeesed out of the steel trust. And it's still kind 0’ soxaly. Nasal Catarrh! Have You Got ht? ‘We can cure you. Con@ultation free. Seattle Rye, Kar: Nose and Throat Infirmary, 2-4 Haller block, cor. Second and Columbia WHEN LETTERS begin to dance and fade, don’t delay. Con- sult us, we will correet the trouble. THE WILZINSK! ove Suite 314 Arcades 1 Main We Have no Students—All Our Are Licensed by the State of Washington mag Au our work onder the Supervision of Dr. 6 M. Milne and M beth nebding the 6 ot . D. &, D. D.&., and both members of College of Lady attends: Boston Painless Dentists 2.4": Houre-€'% om tof p m Sundays, #4 m. till) pm o. «++ Mot inthe Combine.... OOO Queen City Laundry Out Rate Offices }{ Main Office and Plant—Cor. First Ave. and Bell St. Down Town Office—Third Ave., near Pike St. Shirts 100 Collars 2c Cuffs 40 No Work Delivered at Above Prices. $e ct: I iis nee a BY MAA PEP Copyright 1908, t be ee rar Newspaper Enterprise Association, eke | tents, and Hve by luring ships to de struttion on the rocks, At certain times of the year deadly vapors arise | Jon the island, killing all whe come in | gontact with them avold there | Crerny has built hunself a b- nm ler the in the depths ne | reef. The “sleep time” comes to the | island, and Begg and his compant ong seek for nome shelter | They are nearly overcome by the! vapors, but find refuge in Ruth's house, which is occupted by a stranger, a doctor. | doctor proves to be an expert} taken to the tsland by Crerny to in | ventigute the strange vapors, ‘The! Jhouse ts struck by lightning | The doctor has discovered an un | derground passage to Cxerny's house | funder the and the five start to! ‘on Caerny’s mer- . the doctor In seized y. In aca by a devil fish. ‘The doctor escapes but i# badly} hurt, The party reach « door which leads inte the house under the Jasper enters the house to ask shelter of Czerny. He parses an! engine room, where a great fan | draws air down Into the great house, j wes b built im the crat of an extinet submarine volcano. Me sees & great number of Ceerny's men tn Jasper calle up his friends The|the sea, which played at hit very guards are locked in their room, and | feet Jaaper prepares to close the two| “Shut—shut, by thunder!" cried 1 |qates, shutting Ceerny and his men|to thone w, and gladder worden t of the house. He mounts the|seaman never spoke (o cymrad ladder to close the small gate which|watting for hi “One gate mot ts guarded by two mon. lade APTER XVUL(Continued) He nodded bie head, and but half understanding what I was gbout he watched ously when I put my nak ith wary step on the ladder and began to go up. I mw him for a oment, but clenched my teeth and bean my journey. Below me werg the fittie omve and the glimmer @ distant lamp, shipmates crying “God speed!” the hidden house, the mys-[again. Let ¢ gate of Caer tery; above me that dark funnel of[ny's house be all the rock and the eky, which seemed | won, indeed, to beckon me upward to freedom] Aye, and you shall and the sea. as, mounting a broad and the night in . They heard me in astonl¥hmert femember how new thia phice of mystery was to them: how) tte I had told them of that which|I do. It they followed me like the brave men that they were, net it down t the affection they bore me, ond ¢ belief that I led them on ho obihi's errand. So much must have dc Fred to them as we gained the up- per house and shut the tron deere behind ua ‘The way lay to the sea ure, tand with me stairway” be MAP OF KEN'S ISLAND, Ie danger lay there I could not | yond Mise Ruth's own door, I found hor detect its presence. Not myself out spon ‘eat pla the open trap, no rock and beheld the ocean spr seen, BO spoken out like @ silver carpet before my to be heard, And I went up teful eyes, and knew that the Uke a cat, rung by ruam. my hand| house was ours—that house the like pon the iron, the thought in|to which no man has built or will my head that madness sent me and build during the ages. |that I might never see another day: — CHAPTER XIX | No man appeared at the orifice, I {ne gate might Rave been un-|Which Shows That a. Man Whe Thinks of Big Things Sometimes any sentinel I could leery. Nevertheless, 1 knew that the ' the Little 0: the first to be out on the Italian spoke the truth, Edmond pme- | rock, but Peter Bligh close upon | Ceerny was no fool to leave a se gate open to all the world. where on the rocks men were Turk-|my heels and the Italian almost ae ing. I made sure, That they heard | quick as any of us. To what gate of nothing of their friends’ outcry in|the sea the staircase wax the- corridor below, that they did|me I knew no more than the not anawer it, wae a thing Thad not) The time w gone by when any- junderstood, but it became plain|thing if Cxerny's house cowl) wus |when the chimney I climber shut|priae me, and when at the pstal jout every sound but that of the head we found that which breaking seas and gave intervals of silence so great that a man might /hole with a sawing door of steel to! jhave heard a ticking watch. io shut It. I climbed through it with truly, it wae no wonder that they jout hesitation and so steod mM the os yore a. or ms beet Big |freah air for the first time for nearty }loud alarm, for they hunge for | three * i. oo a oe pillage plunder, That this was the main em 4 L.- | a grucsom sea T had all along surmised): a |tsland that night could show them,|now proved surely. No sooner, was J jand this hunger kept them at the| through the door than all the World Water's sdse, unwilling idlere on @|seemed to spread out again Prat ars ay. jo nows, “y pe my eyee—the ietant island, & price for that when the good time | shimmering sea, the blue sky fg Re oeeR to ua through such lon hours, The | Now, a adder'n , every-lrock itself, where we gained |thing was as I had seen It in the hold, lifted iteelf clear and dry abaye jmind's picture, and even before t/the breakers at my feet. ‘Therd were |made the top fresh spray would |steps leading down to the water’ |shower upon my face, while the nea jedge, a still pool wherein boats were sounded as though its waves were warped, other crags of the reef dé- |breaking Simost at my very care. fying the tides: these and the sflence Jel one and unwatched, I grew of the night everywhere. ut ot | older ‘ntap by, step, until at inst | men I sow nothing. | The bloady toue! ye topmor rung. en it we d_ anticipated, blow for looking over, I saw the breakers and |biow, and ringing alarm, the strug the reef and the distant island un-|gle for foothold on the roek, the der Its loom of fog. Halted there, |chillenge to Cxerny’s men with one hand swung free and my | things did not befall. od uns pistol ready, I peered intently into| challenged on the plateau, and w the night—a sentinel watching sen- | stood alone, tinels, a apy upon those that should| I said that ft was a miracle and have «pled. And standing #o I saw | yet It waa no miracle at all . the men, and they saw and| Let me try and describe this plada |quickened to the act by the sudden |for you that you may understand danger, 1 swung over the first half our situation mora clearly. We had ‘of the trap which shut the chimney come up from the heart of the reef in nd made ready to closé the sec- and th sintironse led out to a gate ond with all the deftness I could of stect opening in the face of a ¢ommand. Tocky crag. which stood well above < sYyorsis. There were two men at the sea's Koaw, who toile the story, [edge and they did not hear me, L be Ken's island to hia for: 1h unt the firat door of that | her mistreas, Ruth Bellenden, who, trap was down, Perchance |} When she married Kam Caerny, | then, they thought that mneade and was taken to the | 1, asked] played « jest upon them, for one of him to come to her ina year, Shelthem coming up leisurely peered is unhappy, but is closely watched [into the hole and put a question to and cannot get away, Jasper, Wholme in the German tongu This has with him Dolly Ve Peter} man, my heart beating like a piston, |} Aitgh and Seth Marker, sailors, I*/and My nerves all strung up, I hased by Caerny’s mon and rescued |atruck down with the butt-end of by an old Frenchman, Clair-de-Lune, | my pistol, and Lawung over the trap Ih at great storm, Jaspers ship island ahot the bolts and locked the J tomt, Leaving the foe OT Ue BRR | eee ent me. They discover that Caorny jand his men have erected false | various room# and finally finds Ruth. A tiqnal te given that a ship has on ba on the rocks, Caerhy a; nd his men rush out to their devil's { padlock before the other could wor, leaving only # dozen men in the * hand or f For the foreten: house. fell, without a ery, headiéng into rrying} ogheta.| ook | or at! the world lke a great-port-|done entirely, captain.” such | THE SEATTLE STAR, Hownarte,” I ' 1 he guns in le Weld up hin fir « rage juited out { here one gun much bigee and by being best ¥ ; I made a bit 1 Exvelloncy 5 Sarn\- Dre $ it will enable ar ne Ah! the leg on th T mers, 5 lithe position truly. Ef « t lowent at 5 pelt at the main gat it racked his fing CLOTHE H wonders and pula Cs ye or by maid th nd h ity, Mt and ) to him ke a madman, ¥ many high pfice tallors, ~~ The imliand lay mile to th uth 1 make either bh aee~o: tls Es tacaabes hat he meant, but rned ae though he fended It Ty & por m, or I'm a heath. . , ried Peter Bligh, half mad at jihe sight of it. “A pom-pom, anda “4 shield about it. ‘The glory to Bt Oh, Mr. Begs. ob hat ick at last 1 1 the plateau 6 the 8 | 2-8 | 4 Between nodern krupp quick-fir ell Fi | bi and Marion kept, well fitted, well pln ; t A Columbia T pi me Bi, Irs venue worked it ega Those who set tt ck wo wet It that not oF nen but the second gate I've 4 with them fered by its fire It we the Ttallan and we he water with « hall of } great hall again. Many | ave unseen those that burning and women rk. And the trony of t of the rooms. At} hiefly this, hat Pdmond Mise Ruth's coking to defend the > s|own apartn the Italian @ to houne against ail th now |# halt and began to gabble og | hut ft Upon bimaelf. | “Exceliency live here, sir,” sald Yea.” said 1, at last, and I ke he “the gun-room—you go right most lke a man drunk with « brough to him, but excellency, he itement: “give me ebell for that|haye the key. Me only doorman, I ad we'll hold the gate againat 600!" | speak true, sir!” | The hope of It wet every nerve in| (Continued,) | |my body twitching; sweat began to] ‘ ward, and nearer to us a et it down my face like rain Free Want Ads | rocky pinnactes tn the open You have © magazine in this| See Classified page for Free Want | The Richmond Piano Club ha marke the door we had shut place.” I continued, turning upon Ade. shed this, Joining you «@ the Indder by which Caerny's men! the Italian; “ye ave armas {fn this eens Piano and pay for it in tittle went in to eh or Bu the Jest | house and shot for that gun. Where that are never misao thing of all wae thin, that the main|are they, nen, where are they? BONNEY-WATSON CO. aman. pet. te to this house of wonders should| He stood stock-stili with fright alma a Eee dollars left unguarded at an hour and stammered out a broken reply. ag ga necked. critical. Dark ax it was, neverthe-| “Hxceflency haw key, captain lenm the mere fact that we had|I @how yor Don't be angry, cap | poreed unchallenged told me. that|taln | j we we al For why should Me turned to enter the house| | two mer Up and raise | again, and I followed him, as eager| no Alarm when alarm might mean|a man ae ever much? might take a fell | ‘ould they not have etruck us! De you, Peter an ps — REDUCED wn as me out toh here. id I, “while I @ | * to ¢ low with this man. We must S vee ea and rir the gate, lads, hold it with our lives! a! Goode in oucehele p of If the two yonder come back, be| Matches. Cy Z. a Pon COAST and then? Of close their mouths. ‘You! Repairing of Complicated Wa Prema ly they could. nd yet 1%. was not . Peter close thetr} ; 406 Ocoidenta And who was the im . t} | Louis Klodt Jewelry Co. THE SEATT! at finding the gute ungu: or my sald TRANSFER comrades to over th re was sing! New Location 202) Becond Avenue “i semeceegiiied “ ~ such & gate at’ all, the Lord only knows Like three who stumbled} upon & prectptes we halted there at} the sea’ od: another to lookh at bh @réat good) and one if fortune could, Indeed ours. 1 have told you Before that ¢ Itallan was at our heels when we jaained the rock, and it was to him! now that I addressed my question, | You said there gate, Regnarte jthen, an | He }to gabbie tongue which no right-minded man} [whould talk. When he came to some} mnews and to a sane man’s epeech | he pointed to the pinnactes of the llesser mate and began to make the truth ¢ ; Tou lucky. jhe and mate. jother men cry out 1 maw it like a flash, ‘The alarm had been given at the other end of | the reef, apd the two that should) have guarded thia, had put out In their boat to see what the matter) was If 4 man had wished to be-| leve thet Providence guided him that night, he could not Rave found! & clroumstance te help him farther om the road. The fingers of the white man's God potnted the road for us, and we took ft, fair or crooked | prove to Be Luck! Luck’ no word for it, my lads.” maid, “If a man told such a thing ashore, who'd belleve him? | And yet It's trae—true, as your own eyes tell you. They had not found thelr tongues et and none of them uttered a ey!- able. The wonders they had seen, the surprise of It all—who shall | diame them If they could answer me | never a word? They simply halted| there and gage@—epellbound across the shimmering water, T alone kne' how far we stood from the end| where safety lay. Now, Peter Bligh waa the firet to ive up his star-gazing, and he turned to me with a word of that ‘ommon sense which he can spea ometimes “"Tin a miracle, truly, and a cou- ple of doors to It.” cried he, Ike ane thinking keenly. “Nevertheless, I make bold to say that ff they have! a key to yonder hatch we are un-/ I sat upon a crag of the rock and tried to thin it all. c rny's men would return in an hour, or two at the mont, and the truth would be ut. They would come—the sed i m to the lesser gute, the others to {this door, and, finding that knock- | at the] they were tw Where are too: he go to see why Uncalled for | Pants 2.15 Worth $6.00 to $9.00 At 3 Little Tallors First Ave . Q. 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