The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 11, 1905, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR orriditn tai and. {wi Beventh Avenos ‘ EVERY AFTRRNOON BXCHPT SUNDAY. TRLEPHONDS: Business Department—Sunset, Main 1900; Independent 138 WALLA STAR AGHNCY-a allard eve” Be hea 1a ued ' five conte per month One cont copy, sty conte per week, or twenty Setivered hy mall or arrlers. NE res coptes. a The da te when ye Thac a >) MAIL BCRSCRIBRE wee YP hen that xpiree is dd label of each Biber has nov aenin been paid in advan ce, your name ehanae x on the @ me label ls & reoelpt tice “Bnivred ai UMP Postotficg ®t Bvattl « Washington, a econd-olare ma [WANT AD, OFFICE—NAGLSYS DRUG CO. COR BHCOND AV BNUB AND Pike RPRERT dove number has recently heen on Convenient. place to le news Items, ependegd 1 1006 Hartford Bulldip nt Ad Offtee at the » ot affording the ubscriptions for office ar Ll ot et ave we The phone fer, and) at eat i The § “BR W. BLACKWOOD, Chicago Re} W. D. WARD, New York Represen HONEST CIRCL LATION, | ‘This ta to certify that the DAILY AYE ie : CIRCULATION ef the SRATTLE STAR for the YEAR 1904 | ; CREDED 16.000 COPIBS DAIL Y, and for the FIRST QL ARTER OF 1905 (January, February and Mareh), 18,000 COPIES DAILY. Ey Cirase General Manager —E, BONA FIDE before me this Sed day A. J, TENNANT. hington, residing at Seattle. Subsertbed tn my presence and sworn to ‘of April, A. D. 1906. Notary Public in and for State of V KR RARER RARER RRR RRR ® THE STAR'S PLATFORM, The best news first, All the newe that's fit to print. All the news without fear or favor. Honesty in official and private life. Municipal nership of public utilities, The busin trict for reputable business enterprises. A gross earnings tax upon al! public service franchises, An up-to-date public schoo! system. Equal rights for all; special privileges for none. enforcement of just, and repeal of unjust laws. FX FEES SESE EEE +RESSEEEER RR EE JR. pee eee eee ee ee ee ee JUST A TIP Here ts a quiet tip to Mayor Rallinger, One of the first official acts of Mayor Dunne @eeded Carter Harrison as chief executive of Chicago, was to serve Sotice on the Chicago City Railway company that he Beastic measures unless it provided “decent service” for its patrons The street car company officials hastened Mayor Dunne that by the end of July they will have 200 new street @ars in service which would Increase the seating capacity 40 per cent. They also promised to put all available present equipment into better condition as rapidly as possible. Of course, any former mayor of Chicago could have made a sim- filer demand. It was a simple exercise of the city’s police power and had no relation whatever to Dunn o's public service corporations. Now then, it is a notorious fact that the Seattle Electric y, om many of its lines, has been giving exeerable service, espe- eially in the matter of schedule and seating city of its cars. On some of the lines, Green Lake, Ballard, Capitol Hill, Broad- Way and Pike, Lake Union and otbers, (he passengers are packed in- fo the poorly ventilated cars like hogs in a stock yard. During the busy hours night and morning, it is the general rule that there are more people stand ing up clinging to straps than there Gre sitting down. Mayor Dunne’s praiseworthy acj might well be taken by Mayor Ballinger as a meritorious precedent And Mayor Ballinger would be acting well within his authority to emulate Dunne's example. The question is— Will he do it? who recently suc- would adopt to assure of mu plans ipalization of com- A “COLLARED COMMITTEE The United States senate committee on interstate @eems to have resolved itself into a railroad lobby. If unofficial but seemingly reliable information be true, the committee has formulated a report upon the Esch-Townsend rate bil which in sum and substance ts a high-class brief for the rall- roads. The committee has concluded an “investigation” in which only the railroad officials were beard and oaly the railroad interests given consideration. This senate committee is composed of men naturally supposed to be servants of the public and guardians of the public jaterests, but af analysis of its personnel seems to have shown that practically all of the senators who took prowinent part in the so-called inquiry wore the collars of the railroads. This “official” inquiry, in which only the one side was per- mitted to be represented, and even the carefullp.gifted testimony of this one side was strictly sterilized before going on record, con- stitutes one of the greatest farces ever perpetrated upon the patient American people. commerce It is possible that the verdict of the committee is right. It is possible that the government could never justly fix railroad rates. It is possible. But no snapshot judgment by railroad senators, based upon railroad testimony alone, will ever satisfy the public. If the senate tamely acceptsa report made up in this manner {t will be a disgrace to free government. It will be a scandal that must stink to the stars. ‘The only comfort the public has Mes in President Roosevelt's Denver speech the other evening, in which the president stated that rate legislation was urgent. It may {nvolve Roosevelt in another em- brofiment with the railroad owned senators. Tt is gratifying to know that Secretary Taft is just as firm as the president on this point. The coming special session of congress is bound to be full of fire- works. rs It is a pity for the public that the Times has so little common manhood and decency in its columns. They way it rails at the Post- Intelligencer for surpassing it in everything except sloppiness and evil must sicken its readers. It is no wonder that both The Star and the News are taking its respectable readers away.—Post-Intelll- gwencer. ot We Dress Men and Women in the Height of Fashion for One Dollar a Week stern Outfitting Co, (inc.) 422-424 PIKE STREET, COR. FIFTH “SEATTLE’'S RELIABLE CREDIT HOUSE.” (Continued from Yesterday.) CHAPTER IV Command. HE torture how ever, was suffi olently keon Ly ugh!" i ad oringen iN sted imam ) ly Speak! commanded | But I continued to pant and blow BN fy, ¢d his men to arise, and got to his and made #0 good a show of it that he order feet himself | Water!” I gasped. One of tho} ruffians fetched me a glasa and | raised my head. I pretended to be} utte than | half, but I had effected my purpose, and I knew where rested my sword when I fell back; but the marquis} got impatient ang gave me a brutal kiek in the ribs. ough of thi he snarled point out your hiding place.” 1 nooded with an affectation of parlous weakness to the wall op posite, 20 feet away, “Button, third | p--panel—corner, I mutteredand pretended to swoon. from almost closed eyes 1 watched two of the rascals speed off to tap the panels indicated, but | the marquia was than Tt] thought , and he remained by me with naked dagger. But his men were slow and himself impatient ‘One of you come here,” he cried, “and let me look.” But he did not walt, striding off apoke as I seized the opportunity and put THE THIRD MAN GAVE SOME TROUBLE FOR A WHIL | thorities, so I ° BY AMBROSE PRATT, Copyright by the R. F. Fenno Company. ——_ floundering over the wreck and I sent my point through | both his damaging his molars in the passage I faney The third man gave me somo | trouble fer a while, but fondly | get under hm gaurd and drove my rapler bik p in hie heart Hevringen did not, hofwever, wit cheeks for me to finieh him; his retreat was open, and, like a good gen ob rving himeelf overmateb he took to his heels with a grace and readiness I could not suffictently admire, 1 was far too weary to fol low him, and, besides, the out on my arm was bleeding freely, This however, Richards soon put to! rights, binding it up with « balsam | which his mother had given him as | A for all freably ills, and which | I imagine overjoyed the rascal to find of use. Then ensued the question what/ to do with the bodies of my two late enemios. A glance assured us that both were dead. Richards was for in forming the wateh, but | #aw trou ble in that churse, and as it was now dark, and the street at | that hour quite deserted, we simply undied them out the window and, let them thud onte the pave below never afterwards heard of their having been discovered by the au infer that the mar who had prove pont a of wide resoul subse ntly returned and found a means getting rid of such nasty rengin iscences of his visit to my apert ment The wretch had treated my ward- robe as shabbily the reat of my meings, so 1 was constrained to tend the prince in the clothes | wore, he having se commanded me before he left me, I found him at St. James’, just sitting down to dine in the old banqueting hall of the palace, which he had tavefn- quis erson forth every ounce of force 1 pos- | sessed. The cords parted with a| ries, Twenty erackling rend. Quick as thought I flung myself upon my eword and dragged myself to a stand aid of a bi table, cutting the | bonds off my feet as I rose, Even then I was scarcely in time, and the Marquis’ dagger scored my left arm from wrist to elbow as he darted at me. I sent bim back with a right hand blow, smashing hia face with my sword hilt, and then engaged the points of the other two, who now confronted me Another second and it was three, for De Sevringen disc drew his rapier "Twas then I needed every parti cle of my strength, every tittle of | rded his dagger and | my skill of fence gained in parad ing various gentlemen on a hundred diverse greenswarda. But it a differer skilled t matter to fence with three swordsmen than with one; | besides, my limbs were cramped and my head dizzy The shape of the room alone | saved me—that, and the rascals’ |own reckless waste of my good | furniture. I sprang over a pile of wrocked goods and confronted them from a for Richards’ mattress, now a tangled mass of straw and horse hair strewn at the other end of the apartment. They came at me like biood hounds, but one tripped over an up- turned chair, and I spitted him with the best heart in the world I came very near forgetting the marquis’ armor once, thrusting full at his chest, but luckily he stepped by the} | long alcove which usually served | lad; ished with his not Infrequent revel- brilliant gentlemen attended him, but he shone forth the handsomest, and at the same time the most uncouth of all. I noticed Lord Melville, Brunimel Eveste Bailey and Winston Dodge, the coarsest and wittiost man in London, among the guesta/ The fair sex was well represented-4 & seort of beautiful ingenues being Present, chaperoned by Lady Ham- fiton, into whose ear Lord Wellgnd, then on a flying visit to the cagitol, whispered continual! George swore at me for being late. | “Damn your eyes,"he roared, “we waited for you a quarter hour!" I tapped my bandaged arm and muttered meaningly, "I received @ seratch this afternoon, your bigh+ ness, which I was for i to have at- tended to.” . Was it my fahit that he should jump to a false conclusion? I spoke the simple truth, and yet he sprang to his feet and patted me affection- ately on the shoulder, then dragged me to a seat beside him, ispossens ing no less a person than Lady Pauline Benson from her chair tn order to do so. you ther he blustered, “and don’t highness me to you I'm G geo—plain jorge,” and he laughed bolster ously Melville eyed me from across the table with an incredulous stare, then turned to his companton, “It’s that damned young ra 1 Franke— Devenac’s brother," muttered he hoarsely, and his astounded remark gent the entire table pals of laughter, into p THE SEATTLE STAR-THURSDAY, MAY 1 “A Sword Mislaid” ! mw singularly beautiful woman, and | flatter myself I am competent to} pass opinion i such matters I led her gently into her chamber and she sank upon her couch, #till | in @ real or affected half-swoonin condition, 1 put out the lights on by one and then crept om Uip-we to th puter door ‘ortune vored me and emotion at entrapping me, lady had actuntly feft it ajar I slipped out and hurried Uke a apir it from the In the bracing | alr of mogming was able in her haste the palace gratulate Myself on having given the devil, for once in a way, a good wound drubbing, but [ am not prig enough to declare that I paid my 1 bowed to him ceremontiously if th compliments with any And entirely at your service at heartiness any hour or place you Please,” I as . ured him. CHAPTER V Put this was treated as an even Richards had, during my absence. greater joot, and in a fow seconds 1 | Teduced the ruins of my-apartments found mysok tho lion of the party. |to something lea» of disorder, but }1 prince recounted in a racy | When in the gray light of morning manner his (maginary enture of || once more stood among my beaten the ‘afternoon, and in the recital [| 8nd bruised belongings,« great rage was made to appear a veritable | in filled my heart againat th preux chevalier, “And now you be petrator of the damage, which hold him, this young hero, wounded | Only the recollection of the ten in my service,” concluded his high: |thousand pounds which he had «. “He may be all you say, Mel- | sven me could at all assuage: vi I won't gainsay that, but a| 1 slept for a few hours, then made to get Richards out of I might satisfy a mity, Opening the I found the skull | some ¢ the road so that | very natural « man is none the worse for his wild Un Vranks ia my very good | oata, and friend I enjoyed myself to the top of my | fron rubb: CAR bent, and not till the clock chimed | 4nd purse quite intact, and be as }sured I lost no time in examining fa sin with | midnight did I permit mys » pause, But b that th y few exceptions, the gentlemen © drunk or had remembered | their apointments, The prince re- fused to part with me and insisted I should spend the night with him At this Mra, Cummings gave me 4 glance I could not mistake, for the prince waa plainly intoxteated, and | he kept replenishing his glass with frank aband Now Jane Cummings was super What a fool I must first instance, or blinded with overhap y luck! The purse was quite bulky, even after the abstrac tion of the treasury billa, With a little patience I discovered its sec ret and presently drew forth a roll of very thin foreign papers covered with writing. There was a secret, | | too, in the skull, for on pressing a | | small diamond set cunningly in the | latively pretty, and her figure at| occiput, a section ne apart, dis onee the envy and despair of all | closing a cavity almost filled with other women who aspired to the|@ humid paste which smelt strongly prince's favor. But {t is one thing] of almonds, But I set myself to 4 the papers without troubling to deceive a man in order to win . his friendship. That I count par-| much about the paste, which I took donable if no more vital harm be|for nothing more than a dainty intended. sweet meat When all had gone the prince (To be Continued.) took my arm and staggered with me to his chamber, where be allow- i me the distinguished honor of removing his boots. I think, too, he expected me to undress him, but 1 was spared that superlative di tinction by reason of the fact that long before I had removed his sec- ond buckle he was locked in the arms of Morpheus, This pleased and I determined to summon his servant and quietly steal away Imagine my consternation to find the door bolted and from the out- aide. My thoughts flew at once to some plot against the prince's life, and I had my rapier out in a twinkling. I wickly lighted every candle in the } me, In the days of dope and pills, What was worse than ague chille— BLETHEN’S BLATTER. “Cropley’s wife is going on the stage next season ‘She is! Did Cropley give his con- apartment, and searched under the | sent to such « thing as that | bed, behind curtains, in the prince's ‘Oh, yes, after she explained all wardrobe, everywhere, in fact, but | about the play and the rt she te 1 could not find a living creature|to take, he insisted upon her go- bigger than a mouse, which darted | ing.” wader the wainscot from 4 feast of ‘What kind of a part will she crumbs at which I disturbed him. | have?” 1 don't know much about it, ex- jeept that she will have only two words to aay in three acts.” Plainly then I had to fear from without and not from within, My first measure was to bar the door from witio. I then commenced to mine the other entrances to the apartment. At first [ could discov er none, but presently drawing a curtain aside a thin bar of light ar rested my attention. I approached cautiously, searched for, discover- od and tried the handle; it gave A WORD FROM JOSH WI8E. softly. I turned it, but of a sudden the door was plucked from me, and / th standing in a flood of golden e “Too much fam! arity bi oede re spect,” said th’ feller, light. appeared an apparition of marvetous loveliness, I fell back after touchta’ th’ dazed, but the Indy gave a little scream at sight of my rapier 1 found the outer door locked,” I ex- bussene, plained sheepishly “And you suapected an assassin,” flashed the lady. “But I, air, sus oe pected you; it was I locked the NESSES DEBUT. door.” The audience laughed at Besnie's| “Name of a dog and why?" Ide- | “Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight” | manded Juntil it was nearly black im the Because,” she returned taconi-|face. The mad little song about} ly Purewell, Dear Heart,” was so ex- “Because why?" cruciating that the pianist feil off She shook her head at me and | his seat. There is no use in talking, | took the rapler from my hand, | Deasie was awful. This remedyor “Because I knew you Intended to} Bessie’s « k of stage fever wan a alip away.” and she put the rapier | severe but it w the only be i the door jthing that would cure it No one} How did you know?" I queried, | could ten her anything. It is now fecling the while the biggest fool in | hoped that Bessie will #ettie down! London. jand be of some service to her moth-| Atchi Globe. She jer mous | but | | ra Gates put Because h told me.” launched the shaft with ven directness, and it struck hot I was too experienced to let her see it R A London acientist has discovered am in wheat. Maybe John W. it there. “Then if you knew this, why seek | to detain me?” I retorted. THE ART EXHIBITION AT What do you think of my compo- I declare that this pretty crea- ture,in all the witchery of her | sition T splendid beauties, chose tears for] “Composition? You mean decom- my undoing. She raised to mine | position.” two dark and tender orbs on whose lashes trembled two big, glistening,| “I hope you never ask that man to liquid diamonds, “I was jealous,”|dine with us again,” said Mrs. she muttered | Jones. Jealous’ I etammered. “Why not, my de ‘Oh, don’t tell me you do not] “Because he drinks.” know—you have seen it often.” “Oh, tut, tut, now. He doesn't { had suspected it certainly, but he does. He had been drink- | I temporized Seen what?” I | ing before he «.me.” How do you know he had? Because he tried to tip the dumb} whispered. That I love you,” she murmured, and with a gesture of passionate | waiter when he finished dinner abandon threw herself into my ~ arms, Our lips met in a long, mad What's all this talk about the} ly tntoxteating kiss. }author of “Robinson Crusoe” having | 1 worship ye I whispered|been a lar? Why, pretty soon with ardor equal to her own. Clos- | tt lh be pe who won't believ ing her eyes, she allowed her head|what those University of Chicago} to sink upon my shoulder, half | professors say. | swooning. It was an unfortunate manawa | Movement for her wishes, because “sh! I t say a word about it,| it allowed me full vision of the|but your old friend Planker has prince, who lay like a log, sleep-| dropped into shady business.” } ing the sleep of peace and perfect| “Humph. Well, I'm not surpris- | fullness, Jed. I've always had a kind of a But the eight brought me sharply | funny feeling about him.” | to my senses, and my conscience,| “He ways seemed honest} generally my friend, loudly at that | enough.” instant proclaimed itself my enemy.| “Yes, that’s so. But I've always| I determined to escape, but foresaw | hada hunch b turn out bad. | that I must not allow the lady to| What's he dott | Suspect it. She would not under-| “Bought out an awning factory stand, let alone apprectate, my| the other day.” | serupies, for a woman in love is| a | capabl any crime, Moreover,| ‘The manager of the Chicago base my determination was not so per-|ball team clares the spit ball; fect in itself that I could dare trifle | sho Careful ex- with it, since, as I have before re # of the games The Kind You I natur one to deceive you in this, health of Children—Experie Bears the In ave Always Bought has borne the of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been mad his personal supervision for over 30 years, + Just-as-good” are but Experiments, and ends The Kind You Have Always Bought r nder Allow Counterfelts, Imitati a eer the © against Experiment, Signature of HL Two men hired to count the votes. I vote for Mr, or Mra. I have sold so much land close In to Seattle the last two on terms of 10 cents a day, and give these choice five acres free man, rooms 1, 2 or 3 Times block. in which his team has played leads to the belief that it has al iy beén abolished—so far as his pitchers are concerned, “Be kind to the rich dent Roosevelt. Sure. be, to most of ‘em. “What do you think of that bank cashier, short nearly haif a million dollars “1 don't think anything of that Why, I'm short that much myself.” said Presi- We have to Lon Hootman has got a job on the canal, cleaning the lock. Modjeska is sald to have refused an offer of $1750 a week to appear in vaudeville. Rah, rah! Lets give her a benefit. A Pittsburg millionaire wae ar- rested and locked up in a police sta- tion cell by mistake the other night. Whenever you hear of a millionaire | being arrested and locked up, can put it down as a mistake. HEART TROUBLES Don't sleep with your troubles. If you have palpitation, short breath, in chest, side and shoulders, choking sensations, fainting spells, difficulty eeping on left std and you feel anxious about it, don’t sleep until you have procured a bot- tle of Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure, and you can rest assured you have a never-failing remedy for your af- fictions. If first bottle falls to benefit, money ba you The QUAKER DRUG C0. 1013-4015 FIRST AVE Both Phones 1249. Largest Music Improved 5 Acres Worth $500 Cash To the most popular man or woman in Seattle or King Couniy * STAR DUST ™)/ Pianosv6er Rent Allowed on Purchase Price KOHLER & CHASE, 1505 2d Ave. (Established 1850.) Contest closes May 15, were eeee the buyers feel so good 1 Bo send in your votes to C. D, EXPANSION . SALE. Have taken fn three floors in the Ranke fronting on Fifth Avenue, Inlaid Lino, per yard $17.00 Bedroom Suits, $350 Piano, one-half pricg, the installment. $126.00 Restavrant Range de. ble oven ........ Remember the firm's and place. 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