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Honesty in official and private life Municipal ownership of public utilities, istrict for reputable business enterprises. pee vs i pubhe service franchises, AAEAERES rights for d enforcement of just, Unionism and Rockefeller Rockefeller’s New York pastor, on Sunday last, preached # @trong sermon on the necessity for and probability of a universal @hurch, the consolidation of creeds, the wiping out of denomina onal strife, ete. Whereupon the most successful men on earth, financially, said: “When we (the Standard Ol] Company) first began work in con Solidating the competitive system it was sald that it could not be @one. Today we are vindicated on our judgment, for we can show the world the progress achieved by consolidation and its benefits to etvilizatior As we become more imbued with the spirit of Jesus Christ—individually, | moan-—the chureh will naturally follow in the Same channels and tend toward one great end.” Perhaps Rockefeller will become a union man If “consolidation of the competitive system” In reapect of church, @r petroleum, means progress of civilization, surely “consolidation of the competitive system” in the field of human labor is a good thing. But will Rockefeller, imbued with the spirit of Jesus Christ, Individually, as he himself intimates, agree to this? No. He will not say that organized labor is a good thing; that the “consolidation of the competitive system” in the matter of rais fing wages and shortening the hours of carpentera, iron workera, bar- fel makers and other man beings who earn their bread in the Sweat of their brow, means progress of civilization, or that it is at ail in conformity with the spirit and teaching of Jesus Christ, No! Rockefeller may talk otherwise on Sunday, but the sort of con ‘Solidation of competition which he has practised has ant tyranny €e the producer, ruin to the dealer, extortion to the consumer and @@slavement of the laborer by the demon of insatiable greed. Spirit of Jesus Christ! What was it? “Love ye one another!” “Love ye one anothe: The grand, beautiful, all-sufficient lesson unionism. The unionism of all humanity! It bullds no denomina- tons. It creates no monopolies of human neceesitics. It fosters @aly competition against wroms. injostice, greed and sin. © ye hypocrites! Ye Rockefellers and Carnegies! Ali your lives Jou have striven to consolidate copetition against the happiness. Abe natural rights, the progress of the brethren of Christ, the poor Sad lowly, the laborer who ix worthy of his hire, whose labor alone You say, shall be an “open market,” with no “consolidation of the Competitive system.” And now, in your old age, you stand up in Public places to talk about the apirit of Christ and pretend to good Mess and beneficence, like sin-ecarred olf hags who, in the decline @f their powers of seduction and sin, seek to enter a nunnery. PEPER EEE EEE EER Re tere EDITORIALS BY STAR READERS : BUREN ER ERE RHE RENE HEE ESKER EBB Tt would be an excellent thin g if some sort of x scheme could be arranged for getting everybody to go about being happier by being better. It ought to be a scheme that wouldn't cost any money, and that Money wouldn't influence—just a simple scheme whereby all of us, Both sexes, young and old, and all colors of the rainbow particular- ly “blue” people—rich and poor, and anywhere and anytime, could ‘Be geting a little better, and therefore a little happier all the time. If there is any one class of people who more than any other ‘@eght to join in this effort to make people better and happier, it is the Christians—Christians who are willing to ignore all matters of Beliet or disbelief about religion and do and say all they can to make themselves and all the balance of us better and hapler—tho only true Purpose that intelligtnt and good people can have. Good deeds never degrade one; on the contrary they add to one’s Self respect and pleasure in living. There is no way of estimating the good that can be done by each of us. It would make the whole ‘World giad if we could all be influenced to do better and put away the selfish, greedy disposition whi ch is gaining control over the whole Ration. MR&.E. OADES, 420 Third Street, Olympia, Wash. * x * * * * The Big School The Thorough School | You know of our past work Well, we are not resting on our oars, Wilson’s Modern }) Business College ] Collins Bldg. ames and Second Phones, Main 416; A 416. Barrie ‘ONO e Qy WON WILL PAY FOR A SUIT, A JACKET, A HAT, OR WHATEVER YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR SUMMER ATTIRE COMPLETE. GOOD GOODS, HONEST PRICES, TERMS THAT SUIT. | Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc. 422-424 PIKE STREET, COR. FIFTH “SEATTLE’'S RELIABLE CREDIT HOUSE.” | eyes (Contin@ed from Yesterday.) CHAPTER X—Coatinued Ho stalked off towards the door but I called ont imptoringty, “One moment, sire. If your majesty would be so good Houl In that ¢ > and ould accompany and dur ing the journey they might wet ac quainted, and I could reason with her ast a the tts. » much trouble for a woman!” growled The woman, sire. I retorted sharply. He cast at me a glance anger half amusement, shrugged his shoulders he ts my alster,” of half then I have not heard that you have | been always a devoted brother. Re IN A SBOOND MY HANDS W part has maligned you, prince,” he Bheered Well, then, let it be at Boulogn: ssand thanks, sire!” e door crashed ahd I doubt if he heard me. In a transport of delight f apos- trophized the bedpost Dia f not say that chance is the best mis tress?” I demanded. “I'll play cards in England yet, and with my wife beside me; my wife, do you bear?’ But the name gave mea cold turn, for | was past 40 and « long sworn bachelor. Wife! H'm! After 25 that is a word to make a man shiver in his shoes. I was about to throw myself on the bed again, when with « crash one of tho jogs which had been burning bravely tm tne fireplace broke in half at the center where the flames had licked it through and rolled from the hearthstone to the carpet. I eried out to the lack- eys, and myself rashed forward to kick the fagots back and so pre- vent a blaze. Imagine my astoniah- ment to perceive behind the actual fire a broad open ledge of bricks, probably designed for the heating of water, and reposing on its sur face, not even scorched, there lay the crumpled up dispatch which Napoleon had thrown to the flames @ little while before. “Traly this ts my lucky day!” 1| etied. And so it waa, for bad the pleces of the broken log rolled backwards instead of forward the paper would have been destroyed and | never even aware of its ex- istence. It la on such slender accidents as this that providence delights in bal ancing larger issues. On the pos seasion of that crumpled and soot Diackened paper, though | never guessed it, my very life depended. CHAPTER XI AN INTERVIEW WITH TALLEY- RAND. On my outery th room, in front of gentleman dressed state uniform, who was subdued and all entered the the servants, a in a glittering when the fire made right | again, lingered ag if of right. It is hard to deseribe him ade quately by werds, yet I knew him before he spoke, although I took pains to affect otherwise, His fnee was horribly sallow and inanimate; his cheeks wore hollow; his large dull and deathifke; his lips thick and sensual, but yellow as strips of gold. He looked what he was—a diseased and wornout pro filgate, and he walked In ungainly fashion on a pair of clubbed feet hideously turned and blunted We regarded each other mutely for a while, then he spoke, slowly and with a certain effort, and af fected deference. “My dear prince. I had just ar | rived and was about to pay you my | fled heir of the Borbons respects when you cried out for “A Sword Mislaid” ——_—_——— BY AMBROSE PRATT. Copyright by the R. F, Fenne Company. —— TTS help and | took the Mberty Of ft minced the honor,” I sug upan not truding 1 have gonted coldly | Me shrugged his shoulders.” At | 1 was foolish to exgoet you to re noe, momber me, dear pr My nage ja Charles Maurice Tallyrand 46 | Perigord.” 1 have never had the pleasure of | meeting you before, menseigneur,” ded he murmured, “true, pursing up his Mps. He, uninvited, took « chair and |favered me with many furtive glances before he apoke again know, count,” he mat tered at last, “you have surprised wa all by declaring for Napoleon.” indeed,” 1 said coldly. yea BARE AROUND HIS THROAT "Yes there are those in France who have long held your given ua both hope and heart for the future of France. Long have we watched in sorrow and tribulation the struggle: mo mentary successes, the ox cosaen of our fate-stricken and dis loyal subjects. if by the hand of providence the wsurper be laid low Rnd France calls to us, it will be/ Jour duty to returm—our sag duty monseigneur,. In such a cawe it will | be our pleasfre to pardon rather | than to punish, for France haa for her faults already suffered eh. | All those who assist in the great | work will meric our protection, ay even hoe whose hand shall strike the blow. We shall be humbled by the) means whereby we come to our ywn, but, as the church teaches us, the end may justify the method, | and what aim could be more noble than that which seeks to giv not only to our laboring | but to the whole distracted world, which is now ridden by In the future, you, monseigneur mall live in our gratitude and spe cial care During the reading of this letter I was able to calm myself, I aban doned the suspicion that Napoleon had sent Talleyrand to sound me I foresaw that more was to come. I foresaw that all this was but the pretude to the proposition of some monstrous Infamy. 1 turned to him at to calm an ice “1 perceive you are accredited STAR DUST IN THE MUSEUM The Bkeleton—The Legions Won- | der ie in a pretty bad fix The Fat Woman—What’s hap- | pened to him? The Skeleton—The manager just gave him his walking papers. A WORD FROM JOSH WiSk Lots uv felers load ié-inch guns with charges th’t wouldn't bust a shot gun. NATURALLY. Wiare-1 went to & memory schoo! last year Wagge—You don’t say! What was the name of tt? Wigge—1 can’t remember. | name as « synonym for loyalty to | the exiled Bourbons.” |} I shrogged my shouldera, “Their | cause is hopeless, monseigneur. Do | You mot think so” He spread his hands as If to d the question Do you think asked Has Napoleon sent him to test me?” I asked myself, but aloud I said, “l am sure of i monarigneur.” And yet,” murmured Talleyrand, almost in a whisper, there are I many in France who think the con trary and continue to walt and hope.” | “They are fools you not think sor” He spread out bia hands with a dramatic gesture. lcoutd be sure,” he muttered, and his eyes searched mine with @ glance that sickened me, for more than his words it proclaimed the man @ traitor. | “You mean?” I suggested coldly. | “That what has onee been, dear count, magebe again. The world was shocked at the death of Eng hein, but France was furious.” | Fr is ruled by a strong man,” I answered. Talleyrand looked at en the strongest man mured, a world of suggestion in hie broken sentence | “Speak out, monseignear@ a | commanded, holding mysei( saying | difficulty | May count,” he answered, glancing quickly up. “There is no man immune from death. “Ant death may spring from fiany sources; disease, old age, a cape ball, a bullet, poison, or—* . “Or,” I muttered. He looked furtively about #him then bent towards me. ‘a A “Or a dagger, monscigneury, be whispered ni 0 I sprang to my feet agitated past |bounds; I felt my cheeks bunming | my eyes hot as coals. | so, count?’ he I declared. Do again If ons - the flodr be mur- “And you,” I cried with a sting ing sneer, “are the trusted nainis: ter of the emperor!” m, above France!” he moved. “By Napoleon's word,” 1 granted By France's need,” he corrected gravely I folded my arms to prevent my- | self from strangling him, It is the proposition of a das- tard,” I stammered, and the words |mear choked me. I could hardly wpeak For answer he drew from his pocket paper which he thrust to wards me, “It is from the rightful king of France,” he said. I snatched it from his grasp, It was a letter, in truth, from the ex It ran Your message, monseigneur, has all, minister quite af answ un - - Our school “closed iast Friday. The scholars presented their teach or, Albert Smith, with a fine rocker. Pokebury correspondence, Orr ville, O. Courter. TOUGH Biinker—tt's no wonder that} Hamfat, the tragedian, is so fond | of poker: Clinker—Why so? Blinker—Because occasionally he can get a full house She-—How did the deaf and dumb Jing come on? Very quietly. “Pardon me, sir, pardon me, I beg of yo said no 1679. “Not much, You've got four more years to serve,” replied the warden. THE CAUSE. The first F of Indi, ition, A a- cy, is Constipation. Don't take ¢ tate t tics, as they irri » lining of the bowels, and only a temporary relief. Dr. Nerve and Liver Pills per- utly cure by strengthening the | nerves of the stomach and liver They effect a mild, natural move- ment, | ald; gneur,” [ said gravely. bien!” be answered. taken long to convince you.” And this interposition of provi it hae dence which is hinted at?” I asked pointing to the letter He mniled, Napoleon sets out tonight for Boulogne,” he muttered. 1 accompany him,” I struck in You?” he gasped, starting with surprise 1 nodded. “And my sister.” “Ah, that is bettog, Soe that you do not ride in the @mperor's car riage during the first part of the journey.” Where will it take place?” I de manded hoarvely in the forest of Complegne “How?” My throat felt parched “Napoleon rides with his - usu escort, a paltry handful. He eve depends for his protection upon the love France bears him. Bah and he gave vent to a low, diabolic laugh I shuddered, “Proceed, monseig ur In the rt of the forest, near the vilage of d’Amboine, Hie io wait nigh a regiment e now Chou ans, who have so far escaped cap ture in apite of Napoleon's efforts to run them down, They are led by Comte de Sevigne. An hour since my messengers set out to warn them of their chance But f had got all | wanted. For this I had restrained myself, is tened with a smooth face to his worda, allowing him to suppose me in favor of hin hideous designs, Not to have saved my life, not to have naved Clarinse, not to have saved England—and | love my country fre 1 damnation, could I have long er forborne with this dastard tral tor, thie asenssin. With a cry I throw myself upon him, forgetting, rage and indignation which 1 me, my wound and weak In a second my hands were round his throat. He struck out at me, but he was a child in my rough grasp. I marked him with savage satis- faction his eyes start from their sockets, his tongue protrude, his lips coarsen and swell, bis Cesh turn blue. With his last strength to the floor with a crash. He tried to scream, but | strangled the cry in his throat. In 10 seconds more he would have been past human when of a sudden fierce hands 1 hung om blindly the strength of despera assailed me. with all | Gon, but an angry voice was buried into my ears Madman, give over!” It was the voice of Napoleon (To be Continued.) New YorkLiquor Co For Best Wines and Liquors 2317 FIRST AVE. NORTH. FREE DELIVERY. 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