The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 10, 1905, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR BY STAR PY BLIRHING CO. Bs—130 and 106 Beyenth Avenue RY AFTERNOON EXC#PT SUNDAY. TRLEPHONES Sunset, Main 9 DATTAND STAN AGENCY ents pes week 2. NO tree orri Business Department Independent La TT Wallan ove Buneet oF twenty-five cents per month lew One cent per cop: BACRIBERS—Th lof each paper im advan the Washingt econd-otn KY Ofte = : &. W. BLACKWOOD, Chicago Rep W. DX WARD. New York i 5 Honest Circulation certify that the DAILY AVERA BOWA FIDE CIRCULATION of the SEATTLE STAR for the Y AR 1904 BX CRE! ) 16,000 COPIES DAILY, and for the FIRST QUARTER OF 1905 (January, February and March), Exceeded 18,000 Copies Daily F. CHAS gr c | Mana, Gen Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this Ind day of April, A. D. 1905, A. J. TEN Notary Public in and for State of Washington, residing at RRR RR RRR RARER RRR Re THE SEATTLE STAR—-MONDA Do You Cook With Gas? If not, NOW is the time to buy a It will save you @ork, ime dd money, Call at our offtees or drop us a card and our represe ntarty” will call upon you 7 Seattle Lighting Co. P.-1. Bullding, Phones—Sunset >) n. urth and Uni x Ind ness quickly. »: STAR DUST —_———— May says that pa lacks the pro Pa saya he has lots TO THE WEATHERMAN pen A little sunshine kindly «ty | grewaive bump. To dry the grass and things of noledge stored away, But I guess ro { the fragrant onion #¢ he has lost the key. Pa saya that And thaw the birdies’ wing | we an ows her existence to man He says she was made from man’s Anwure us, pray that “gontle spring” | rib, Ma says there is some mistake Will not give us the alip. about that. She saya the Lord must Or een expire before her time | o¥ made woman out of man’s brains have With some newfangled «ripp. as he don't seem to any TOPSY TURVY /now! An’ then pa gut so red in the -_ face that some ov it fell of (the red A BUNCH OF BALLARD I mean.) Pa says that women are FAIRNESS like rs packages—they are al * * * * THE STAR'S PLATFORM, *. * The best news first. * * All the news that’ * * All the news without f - * Honesty in official and private life. * * Municipal ownership public utilities, * 7 The business district for reputable business enterprises. * A gross earnings tax wpon all public service franchises, * * An up-to-date pul schoo! system. * *x € rights for all; special privileges for none, * * enforcement of just, and repeal of unjust laws. * * Beare ae eeeeaceeeareage tees tee ee ” WE ARE NOT “GOING TO THE DOGS —_——- Many have got an idea from the sensational announcements of measures under way, that the people ef this country are engaged fm a tife-and terests. The people have been pictured as being strangled In t he tentacles of hideous octop! until many seriously believe that to be their real condition That there are wron: there can be no That wise remedice might better the condition of all is not to be Goubted. But that this country Bhings are promptly turned upside down and inside out ts poppycock The wh business structure rests and hag always rested on the conviction that men will fulfil! their obligations and deal fairly. This is the foundation of credit. Ninety-five percent of the total business transactions of this are carried on, not tn cash, but tn credit Dazed on that conviction, showing how general It is and how firm, jeath struggle with the great financial and industrial in- in big business enterprises and in small, question. is going to demnition bowwows unless country Confidence, not suspicion, is and muat be the prevailing tone of the business world. The proceedings of the bankruptcy court a! strikingly that the great majority of business failures are not tain by dishonesty or dishonor. We hear more about detinquenctes of all sorts than we aid when the facilities for gathering news were meager. And every little village and country cross-roads even has its self-appointed oracte, who may hot know enough to earn a dollar and « half a day, but who imagines he clearly understands the most intricate mysteries of great business enterprises In volving millions of capital and employing tens of thou- sands of men, and noisily preaches the doctorine that great success is great fraud. But honesty are the broader minded optimist sees that justice, honor and the normal conditions—that they rule as a matter of course in social and business relations. Millions of instances in which they are in evidence never appear under startling headii Paper. They are far too ordinary to constitute An honest man creates no sensation as he passes along the st attending to legitimate business, but the thief in custody attracts a crowd. ee of a news- “news.” The common belief that the vast majority of men are honest ts Just as pronounced now as it ever was. It bears silent but convince ing testimonye to the fact that humanity is not going backwards. | The great tendency of our American society, whether political or industrial, ie toward the general welfare and the common good. We @id not begin with classes in this country and we ase not ending with | them. The pessimist sees in a few conspicuous railway magnates the sole owners and Beneficiaries of the twetve billions of railway wealth. | The optimist sees in them men of gentus for organization and man- agement and back of them something like 2,000,000 persons wh through dividends, interest and wages, divide among them the earn- ings of the roads We cannot retrograde so long as we do not cease to believe in the right education of every child and to remove as far as possible the obstacles that would interfere with the moral and intellectual as well as the industrial advan: at of every workingman’s family whether In town or country Vast as are becoming the fortunes of many individuals through their control of productive f excessive “centralisation of Wealth in a few hands ts mc on the other hand, of diffased comfort neral intelligence and cared iiity ounterbalanced by the growth, and, above all, by the growth \ elicited th hhh tee eee eee eee ee M * DON'T ChASE THE MEN ; bs BY CYNTHIA GREY. t ei 44 6 HOURS 45 E SEN YORK ENED EY EERE Someone has asked me what a girl can do when when her sweetheart’s affection changes slowly bat surely to mere good will, or when he, after calling steadily for a year, suddenly grows cold and stays away. Well, there is just one thing to do. No, there are two things .o do. One, be glad; two, forget | him. Never chase him | It is a hard thing to forget a sweetheart? Yes, but not so hard as it sounds. I know @ beautiful bilack-haired woman who has @ beautiful little girl and a ha boy, and is about as happy as any human an be. T was 18 she lost a sweetheart “Why,” she said, laughing, being day she told me that when she T had read of hair turning white in a single night, through terrible suffering, and the morning after my Gweetheart left me for the last time. I was actually surprised that my hair was not snow white. [I cried and cried, and every time I looked in the glass I was disgusted with myself because 1 wasn't getting pale and wrinkled. Hut I wasn’t; I was as r and fresh as ever. My appetite was good. So | braved up and, and” (here she blushed like a girl) “I braved uy beat! is now her devoted husband tut what does your husband think about your trying to break your heart over another man I asked “Oh, we never think to mention it now. Of course, we used to talk about it. But you see my first little love affair was only just a Iitste bit of practice for the great love of my life.” and found another beau.” And that It may be a little hard to try to be glad. But consider for a | momicat, What if you were to win the man back and he was to mar- | wy yea? Phere is alw the danger of his backsliding a second | Cree And Bow muck better to get rid of him eather woile you are young and ein perme wale, wrens wile, wilh (kw Ginagrmes of Mavens vom je ihe form, Toe mun (bet e girl bes fo chase offer |i seldom @ cond hus- | Aaa to wer Hie will clip out of hee sigt&t sometime, either before the heartache ané the | than '@ be beft @ | e @rorce comm OH aor eaarr i te | So, girie, don’t Bold onto the man thag wants to get away. Let } him go. He glad, Forget bh Spruce Up Spring is here and you should be properly attired to meet it. Boy your new Suit or Jacket here aud pay at the rate of ONE D@LLAR A WEEK Eastern Ouattlitting Co.: 422-424Pike St., Com Fitth (3004 Goods—Honest Prices—Tevms That Sult. { to Lady | it | gguroely ® iPaay Murtel é" col themselves—an’ he who makes apec thot kind ov goods will go broke, so many of the pack “are bogus, Ma says there Her voice is sweet and musical, is lota ov things that pa shouldn't Her lips are like the cherry, |no, on’ them proceeds to toll him} Ah, she would win the beart, I| what they are so he kin avoid them, | know, Pa says while woman is a great | Of each “contrary Mary.” mystery she is not past findin out hho says yu kin fied her out most any evenin' when sho should be/| home with the baby, Ma ts very im | preasive at times, 1 Aprilfuled her jan’ she impressed me with her It wos what Kuropatki regret to report” a rear at-/ A WORD FROM JOSH WISH = (tack. Ma says I don't take after her nor pa—but I notiso a slight) resemblance, as they both take af ter me sometimes, expesuely when I tell them they wood work better single than double. I no « lot more about pa an’ ma but I can’t tell It now cus the supreston editor may | think I'm batty like pa ls. Se good | nite. BILLY KOs. | Her eyes are like the violet, Her hatr a silky brown, Complexion ts of nature's best. (A rare thing In our town) ways exprossin says that any Co. lolty ov handila Oh, alastone lucky chap Sits close by her at dinner. Wish I could wear a manty face! From him I'd try and win ‘or 0, BOSH lot. A millionaire th’t j thinks he needs more money ain't any bet- ter off th’n a pauper | value. ~ tht thinks he don't heed any more. ECHO! FROM BATTY L MA AND PA My ma noes a lot. She noes all that pa noes an’ a lot mor on the side that pa noes nothin’ about. | Pa tr to April-fool ma—bat ma said she maried him on the furat of April an’ got fooled #o bad that she always remembered it. Sometimes ma chips in when pa is reeling of his oratory an’ that makes pa mad. | He gets #0 hot that he smokes—ct- D. Th gare. An’ then he says to ma you! must hav m raised by the Goats family—you are always buttin’ in! Pa says the tung is mitier then the HER CLOSE FRIEND. BY HEADON HILL COPYRIGHT 1905, BY THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION -_ CHAPTER XVIIL expectedly ) effect while, minute by minute, the! SLEIGHT-OF-HAND And Roy you must have time drew near for me to face the Lord Alphington’s buttler an-| missed Roger,” Lo’ Alphington | crisis of the evening. That crisis nounced “Mr. Martin and Dr. Bar-|chimed im rather anxiously, 1) came all too iekly with the rising Fables” at the drawing room door,| thought. “Can't tzangine what pos-| of Lady Muriel, who, as whe left the and Lady Murtel and the greatest | sessed the fellow to run off lke! diningroc m, flung back to us the ervant of the king came forward | that. He had no notion of it, I am | laughing command not to leave her to welcome the escaped conviet sure, when he came down to the | alone to long “In such a debt as you have la pier to meet me. His excuse of a/ When we drew together over the on me, Mr. Martin, words j telegram calling him’ away won't’ decanters, the butler and footman little, said Lord Al = see -~ _-- = warmly gripping my han shou'd like to do something. But] there, you are @ rich man, I am] told, with no preoccupations beyond | your health, and I must comtent| myself with conventional thanks.” | With ready tact he passed on to| Herzog, and I was taken in charge | by Lady Muriel. Her eyes kept! wandering to the door, and I guess ed that our dinner party was not complete Mr. Ralph Carden” was the| announcement Which soon drew my | gare to the door in consternation and told me that I stood on the verge of discovery, Yes, there was no shadow of doubt about it. The well-knit, sunburnt young fellow who entered was the same Ralph Carden who had joined the Royal Military academy at Woolwich in my last term there, That had been 10 years ago, but we had been ca dets together for three montha, and he could searcely fail to recognize me. | The removal of my muatach was really in favor of such recognition. | For though it had completely | my regent appearance, it me much more closely what I had been in my Iwich days. Carden advanced rapidly into th with many apologies for being giving all his attention at Pirst Muriel and Lord Alphing ton. | “Mr. Carden,” said Lady Muriel bringing him forward, “let me tn A TAP ON THE SHOUL LIGHT I SED ME TO WHEEL | R CAL ROUND. troduce you to Mr. Martin and his | wash. No telegram was brought (0 friend Dr. Barrables. You have|him in the interval between” my | heard of my narrow escape from | landing and his bolting off eo ud drowning the other day. It was Mr remoniously as we were walking Martin who so gallantly jumped up.” overboard and fished me o Mr. Marske's goings and ¢ont Ralph Carden held out his hand |ings are beyond me. Tcannot’ nay with frank Impetuosity that I have missed him,” wad tte was to learn later, of gra rejoinder of Lady. Muriel, whieh | man who had saved the woman | brought a frown to her father’s ns | he loved. Then, aa his gaze met brow, and a pleased flush to Ralph | having departed, our di@posltion at | mine--I made no attempt to avert Carden's cheek the table was thu L.gat on Lord} A Rpasmn crossed his boyish gace, From the general conversation | Alphington's right, Carden on hts and the laughing eyes grew Mar@ that ensued I gathered that Carden | left and Herzog on Carden’s left and cold. Whatever feeling may | Was serving as a liewenant in one| with a long gap between him and have been in his mind he mastered | of the batteries of garrison egtiliery | me result was that my ac t quickly and spoke a few words | stationed at Golden Hil fort—the | tions could not be closely watched | conventional tribute to what he | headquarters of the coast defense in|by Carden, but that Herzog, who was pleased to call my pluck part of tye island. His pres-|was nearly opposite to Ine we the Dinner was announced at that | ence at the promier’s table was ac-|small round table, had me entirely moment, and, as the honor of es-| counted for by the fact that he was! under his observation F corting Lady Murlel was allotted | a distant conngegtion, his mother re The arrangemomt @uited me ad to me ag the guest of the evening, | siding in the ‘ower-house” on one|mirably, for it witigated a danger the immediate tension was reliev- ~* ‘rd Alphington’s country es-| which had been @ptirely ou ed. Only, however, to be diverted ‘ Muriel afd ho had/seen when I enterdu the house. I into another channel for we wore ed at the table when confided to me that she had had two dull days because her dear 1 Miss Chilmark had to go to London tA no doubt| become open denunciation if otis what I was about to do. hid inal t-natrdm childhood. |had not expec to gaeet there a Jot to me, but|man who suspected iden med a dis-| Carden evidently Oand hington and | suspicions would almost cerfa as ose inly he It Tomorrow fully two-thirds of the stock of Men’s Spring and Suits are offered at on price. The ( Men’s Suits Worth $15.00, $16.50, Are Put in One Lot at There are all the popular fabrics and all styles in the lot. count, over 600 suits. The man who fails to find fit and satisfaction would be a phenomehon. Odd Suits Left over from various lots sold out during the early days of the sale; values up to $15.00 for $4.95 Not more than two suits of any one size in Come quick! Keith’s Shoes At Less Than Factory Cost Men’s Shoes in all the best spring styles, un- equaled for wear and looks, now away below THE OUTLET’S GOING TO QUIT. $3.50 Shoe $4.00 Shoes for... . .$2.85 $5.00 Shoes for .... .$3.45 e Outlet’s Going to Qu Corner Second Avenue and Washington Street for.....$2.50 was a re Carden so | premier therefore, placed that, to with the between us, I was com | paratively hidden from him. As for | | Herzog 1 anked for nothing better than that he should note my every | action | Lord Alphington passed the wine pushed a couple of cigar boxes about, making conversation the while th the cheerful air of on | who te performing a that wil soon be over. He was glad, no doubt, that I had saved his daugh ter from drowning, and was honest ly anxtous to be civil to me, but he fh found the process more eenial if I had been—well | Preoceupied with the necessity prolonging my life by something into his glass. The not squirting opportunity arrived when, aving helped himself, he turned slightly to Carden to pass the de. canter, at the same time asking his young relative's opinion of the wine. I had already removed the lid ot the pill box in my pocket, and now, quickly withdrawing the rubber tube, I stretched out the d in which I held it concealed, as though to take a pear from a dish the center of tae table. In doing so my hand traveled directly | over my host's glass, and during its | passage I squeezed the bulb. The next moment Herszog’s face went ashy grey. By some nervous mischance I dropped the murderous contrivance into the dish of fruit. I made a frantic effort to recover it but Carden forestalled me. His hand shot out and his sinewy fin gers closed on the syringe while I “I will trouble you to hand me that little instrument, Mr. Carden, | Diease,” he said, with cool deube tion, “It will be safer in my pos }Seasion than in Mr. Martin's. He | will be the first to thank me for re Heving him of it, for it is my duty undertaken at his own request, to » that he does not indulge in a certain small fauing of hia.” | Looking puzzled,, Carden r tantly complied with the demand Lord Alphington, hospitably rry that a guest shou’ } a8 a narco-maniac con fusion with a series of grunts, and | then t consolation by drain jing ass to the dregs CHAPTERXIX AN UNWITTING CHAMPION Never during my enfor asso elation with him had I greater to wonder at Herzog’s power f cont hat the moments fol Alphington’s draught told me that the atro: tantaneous fn its but there was nothing nor to show that he sence of a man who He arly ir | pine was r fatal effec n was in the 1 ts, | might be expected to fall dead. On the contrary, he busied himself with his almonds and raisins in the de tached manner of one who has had to make himself disagree a sense of duty. able from My own feeling at that juncture, so far as my noble host was cam cerned, were those of perfect com placence—for the simple reason that | knew that I had done him no injury, While dressing for dinner I had thoroughly washed out the bulbed tube, replacing the original intinitesmal contents with pure water. Hence my dismay when Herzog had asked to mine the tube on approaching th® house, and my relief when he did not appear to detect that I had tampered with it, I knew that I should have to reckon with him afterwards, but I was fighting for my life hour by | hour till Janet's retura, and every | minute gained was untold value. ee THE OUTLET GOING TO QUIT AND THIS IS THE MANNER OF ITS QUITTING! have| of} was still fumbling. He began to/| examine it keenly, but Herzog had managed to pull himself together ——— ummer Jutlet’s determined to go out of busi- $1.8 00 and $20.00 $8 ree By actual All Boys’ the Cloth- ing and All Men’s Fur- nishings at Exacty One- Half the Marked Price Spring Top Coats Are Slaughtered Fabrics are castor, tan and gray or black covert cloth. All ordered for this present spring trade; now offered at at about half. THE OUTLET’S GOING TO QUIT $10.20 Covert Coats for $6.85 $ 15.00 Covert Coats for $8.50 $22.50 Covert Coats for $11.85 I argued that my terrible custo- | @ian could not, for considerations of | his own safety, reveal my identity there, if he ever did it directly at all. He would have to do it in such way as not to implicate himself, and that could not be so long as he was avowedly my companion. If | be was accused of nothing more heinous, he would at least be held guilty of alding my escape from prison. I wondered at his marvelous con- Yes, I was at Woolwich, for om coalment of emotion when a quarter term, with Rivington. What of Rf of an hour had elapsed and the pre-| said Carden mier chatted on, in no way the “Only this, that I am deepty inte worse for my bungling effort of ested in him, and am convinced tha Jugglery. he was no more capable of thaw As I sat taking an idiotic part in| atrocious crimes than I am myselt’ the perfunctory conversation neces-| Lady Muriel made answer |®ary for the consumption of Lord |“: thought you might enlighten | Alphington’s usual modicum of as to what he was like as a yout® | port, I was more seriously concern-| | “Anyone would think that 7a ed with Ralph Carden's attitude. knew the fellow yourself, an yo |There lay my most imminent espouse his cause so warmly,” mil close to his ear. Herzog had movel away from the girl, who was stand ing in the glow of a softly shaded lamp, and there was nothing to seg: gest that the question had bee prompted by him. In fact, the e- Pression on Herzog’s broad face wa one of bewildered amusement, bet there was always this about bis face ~that when it carried any expree sion it revealed the antithesis of his | thoughts. |danger. He sat for the most part Carden. “From the published a silent, and when he spoke at all it/ counts of the trial I shouldat was to his noble relative on some |think there was a shadow of 8 subject of private interest. The great man himaeif was probably too red to notice the electrical ten- sion a & his guests, but so mark 4 was Carden’s refusal to hold con- verse with Herzog or myself that I doubt about his guilt.” “I have never seen ton, but I know the girl gaged to, and from what she tells me there must have been @ griet ous miscarriage of justice,” was tht | fully expected to spend that night | reply. in jail an. to be delivered to the| “They don’t make such mistake | hangman on the morrow. jin courts of justice nowadays said Ralph Carden, a little doubt fully. “| shouldn't Ike to think, Raipl that you were as uncharitable |Mr. Marske; he won't tone, © word on Capt. Rivington’ my fair young companion went @ For all my preparedness I could | not repress a start when the crisis | come, as it did shortly after we en: |tered the drawing-room. Lord Al- phington had sald good night and had retired to the library on the plea of important business to at |tend with a private secretary, who|hotly. “For myself, I cannot, aa had Just arrived. Lady Muriel was| Will not believe that ® a chatting to Herzog, who, to my sur-|could have inspired such wel prise, had put himself in her way | trust and unshaken love as - jon entering the room; I was stand-| mean, my friend, has for that ing at an open French window, | fortunate. look i out ore the moonlit sea Carden colored stightly and shat {and before I turned my back on the | 4 glance at me. . room Carden had been examining} “I'll go so far as this, be alt some phot at the table. T hope they won't catch him. or Suddenly sing us something, Mariel, and |der caused me el round and | set all these horrors, [face him. The way in which he} With which he strode aft to oa looked at me was in itself an ac-| plano, and while he ar ara | cusation | Muriel’s music, I was free t rd | “I want a word with you,” he said|a long breatn over yet anothet peremptorily. “Shall it be here, or | prieve. shall we step into the garden?” | (To be Continued.) Here, by all means. There is| too heavy a dew to make it pl | on the grass in thin shoes, | swered carelessly | “Well, then, to put it straight, 1 Watch don’t believe your nar Our Ads he blurted out. “I once knew some one exactly like you, who ought to For be In a very different place from ounces this, Carry your memory back to Ann Woolwich 10 years ago. You are Arthur And then, before he could utter my name and set me the problem whether to lie or confess, Lady Muriel's clear voice rang out across | the room, uttering the very word she had arrested on his lps. | I say, Ralph,” she called to him, “you must have been at Woolwich with Arthur Rivington—you know who I mean, the poor fellow who St The QUAKER DRUG (0. was falsely convicted of murder Bad ox d the other day to Amer 1013-4015 FIRST AVE Both Phones 1240. * Carden turned round to her as though someone had fired a pistol Pianos®:Rent Rent Allowed on Purchase Price KOHLER & CHASE, 1505 2d Ave. (Established 1859.) Largest Music House on the Coast t y “ ’