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THE STAR—MONDAY, JULY 7, 1913, 3 THE SIGN OF VENU A_ SHORT STORY BY ROBT. W. CHAMBERS. A face of amazing beauty—her | quietly If you will telephone to face transfigured, radiantly |the house and ask somebody to go origied out to the pergola Raed oe : My soul!” she d, and would No," he said, “I will go; 1 will : ol have fallen at hin had he not/so anywhere on earth for you ob Bi. held her and supported her to the| He stood up, his sensos in a “a ge i stairs, where she sank down, hiding|whirl She rose, too, leaning ples lean ailonce, {Her face in her arma Mghtly on the balustrade ovale ah As ff r he was «terribly Thank you sald sweetly lien With o shake he strove to speak, to|“When you awake me give me profile was + t = toward | ree with her, with himself, but | thts She held out the Signum A at hained body and mind,|Venerts; and he took it and ralagd s r " eaned there on the,!t to his ,. e vaguely aware of his It was alr t morning when he tty! a found himself jn a car, clutching RE the night the hella of his ticket in one hand, her ring in Jn et the hour pr ng sascha It fs I who am mad, no “sil Mt a wagon sounded. |2® muttered. “It is 1 who am med ee city ceived tn ten atentane love mad!" he whispered as the | ; whistle aroused him and went him |. He found Nimaelf bending beatde | stumbling out into the soft. fresh her, b ve hands {n his once rning alr at Willow Brook | more, and Re was gaying: “AS 6 rising sun smote him full in| matter of fact, all this is quite an he came in sight of capable of an ex; anation Don't ase and the dew on the distros please don't be ike tema. é + frightened or sad. We've both had | signy Weneris n the ting wf neia| 8¢ sort of hallucination, that's |go tightly 5 | }—really that {s all.” Across the club house lawn stood -- 1 am not frightened now,” she z with gardens sald pamily Tam quite sure H to the left,! that—that I am not dead. [I am among young trees, the white| only asleep in my hammock, When columns of a pergola glistened | I awake Tt Was not a soul astir as he} | Again, in spite of himself, he crossed the Jawn and entered the| ° | shivered garden, brushing dew over Wh fve Catholic Will you do one more thing for| weighted blossoms as he passed. | me?" she asked Suddenly, at a turn in the path os—a million,” he came upon the pergola, and saw | “Only one, Tt is unreasonable, it a brilliant hammock hanging tn the ld Be a Socialist is perhaps silly—and 1 have ‘no| shadow Fight. to. ask , Over the hammock’s fringe some A * he begged. thing Haht and fluffy fell in fold : teria he on—then, will you go to|like the billowy frills of a ball| ee | wun ow Brook? Now?" kown. He stumbled forward, dazed Poverty ts the Fath ¢ Ignorance. ow?" he repeated blankly incredulous, and stood trembling} @ng Ignorance ts the her of Sin * She looked at him with a/for an instant | the dark oa tener smile touc lips and eyes 1 Then, speechless, he sank down ae nd Sin te ation te whic lam asleep fn the hammock; I sleep |beside her, and dropped the ring| th @ laree p ““*lvery soundly—and very late tnto/into the palm of h half-closed tn orier that the morning. They may not find |and unconscious hand! | I shal! at the me there for a long while. So; A ray of sunlight foll across her true Cacho would you mind going to Willow |hatr; slowly her blue # unclosed, | qreny Athelat, ever Brook to awaken me? smiling divinely ol Infidel, as I—I—but you do not expect me; And in her partly open palm the . « to leave you here and find you {n|Sign of Venus ¢ A like dew ees mam, Fe Westchester!” he stammered. \stlvering a bude ! | a "You need rc t id THE | world, by eating a om not go," she sa ( fooda wearing © with the right to lite tteelt with out | Chrtatiantt 4 with such denial every! gas forfeits and foregoes hie Chris-| tantty and his regard for natural human] daw. Dressed in a Trowsere, a Plucky College Maiden Sets Out to Study Alas- ka Indians. WHO I8 THE JUDGE AND AUTHORITY? low every person knows what pf Socialienn 1s; just to he e are NEW YORK, Par {nto n to\the wilds of Northwestern British | S| Columbia, and beyond, into the wil- derness of Alaska, where the Car rier Indians live in primeval sim plicity and a white woman has nev- Ser been—that is where Miss Mary |L. Lobe of New York Is going to/ July 7. | TO KNOW. we MUST STUDY — | spend the summer and early fall 7 | And she will be all alone, except for Many are stuiing 10 tate on | Bw ctrent corner to some fet ‘weap | two Indian guides Miss Lobe is a pretty girt of 26,) who has been looking forward to/ such adventure ever since she left! | Bryn Mawr college, six years ago. She {s now instructor In history tn} the New York Normal college. | Here {9 her “trousseau” for the} and get t of his 4 ance at “pork > Socialist movement to» from the pockets of the wor Yet they sel ry yn expound | , 8 EE ter | et < oso phy of Soctal nor D: talk, economic determine Te make a| A corduroy suit, Norfolk jacket Mrade on some religion or individual *Ith/ang knickerbockers, with a green f RID the Socialis pee ye tne bum |jaeger hat, ma red kerchief tied laround her neck, and high, heavy shoes. Her provisions will consist most-| {7 of bacon and beans, Also tobac- —ftor the guides | gore} Her luggage won't weign more | vier "| than 40 pounds. There isn't much | ra and|to it, except a light tent and blank-| ets, @ camera and some maps Miss Lobe has had experionce tn | including two bel that she made into the Selkirks 4 nadian Rockler, And| SOCIALISM? WHAT 8 SCIENTIFIC ‘The critics of soctaiiam must first know | several expeditions, 4 foals make the {and the for what ft lg and means, If ther wo ncere, The Individual qutherity, nor, can individual Boctaltat party responsible nett] ahe has learned the advantages " Tagaey' tn talking snbotaae, direct acto | eeaveling Mgnt.” ‘ gy o Social na ae She {s a good swimmer, a tireless | sombied. an held. | walker, can shoot straight, and| (Bo A es nthe and tacticn isn't afraid of anything. Of Boctallem under which. the (partys Aside from her love of the wild, she has a serious purpose, which is }to study the Carrier or Athabascan Indians, and write a book about ¢|them, {llustrated with her own pho- tographs. She speaks their lan- guage and anticipates no difficul- ties. authority and our guide ‘The soctal production of wealth social exchange forms the basis t Socialist movement. The Socialist party {s crystallized from the movement, an unless it represents the movement other polftical party will do so the party Goss not represent the mor - GIRL EXPLORER TO ' TRAVEL ALONE INTO | NORTH WILDERNESS. MISS MARY L. LOBE IN HER} EXPLORER'S COSTUME meant, it is as & ro ning trickaters and ers of the rank MOVIES on the part direct ORITATIVE SOCIALISM Sy estan oon seeet ongrese [erful two-reel melodrama which | has declared | opened at the Clasg A today. An} and) attractive girl, influenced by a cou- ple of crooks, engages in the job re habe rob a jewelry trunk on the train, “The Penalty of Crime” {s a pow-| Gamble With Death.” | .- ° At the Melbourne Until Wednesday. “The Seal of Silenc ‘A Mod ern Lochinvar,” “The Politician.” AT THE THEATRES THIS WEEK. Moore—John Mason in “As a Man Thinks.” Metropolitan—Dark Seattie—Frank Rich Co,, in “The om the Industria 9 Soctaliat part vention tn Hon @ of the “That | but falls in love with the victim | She, however, Is forced by her com- “.« t1-| panions to continue the plot, but it] #* */\ turns out to be a failure. The rob thome | bers’ auto * '* land oth and chased down the embankment of a river. Fielding, the jeweler, rescues the girl. One of the crooks is Instantly killed, and the other confesses the whole also tella of the girl's oppost tion to the job and her love for the jeweler, who in turn forgives her and makes her happy. acquire the tive and plot, should produce for profit Private ownersh!r the Olympian Until Tuesday. A rhe Grim Toll ot War,” two “The Granja,” “Hydrogen,” y of Lauperbrunnen, Switzer: | Hubby Buys a Baby.” eee At the Elite Until Thured “The Struggle,” two reels, “Mr Jeftersan Green.” | At the Yesler Until Wednesday. “A Victim of Heredity,” “A Ro- mance of the Ozarks,” "White Lies,” “Some Spots in and Around Los ‘| Angeles, Cal.” “Don't Worry.” ee At the Dream Until Wednesday. The Miner’s Destiny,” two reels tweet Deception,” “An Old Man's Faust and the Lily.” . Deception, 4 {s pursued by the jeweler | Cabaret Girl.” Orpheum Vaudeville, Emprese—Vaudeville, Pantages—Vaudeville. Grand—-Vaudeville and motion pictures. Clemmer — Photoplays vaudeville. Melbourne — Photoplays vaudeville, Alhambra — Photoplays vaudeville, and and and 'He Won’t Close | Indians’ * Church United Prem La LITCHFIE July 1—The| |Chautauqua here will be forced to| worry along without the sunport of the Rev. V. W. Thrall, who refused to “close down” Sunday night in| honor of the presence of a band of Pueblo Indians on the Chautanqua program “T will not dismiss my congrega- tion,” he sald, “to see an Indian dance. Rev. Thrall recently gave a beg- gar $1 for “railroad fare.” He th followed to watch bis man board ny Until Wedni . the train, When the beggar took i At tne Angel of tt » Slums,” the moat direct route to a dram % Weekly, Sure. Shot,’ |shop, Thrall demanded his dollar i Should bem Love's Quarantine [and ot tt back, ‘| Moxt week | sh Pope Le . aa ss lil oat it the Heldelberg Cafe—Mu- a” ois Firs ee vaien ah Good Joke Deserves Knochasyt “~ Pirat and Spring.— Advertisement. e - SEATTLE d Cotton Chal rt lengths, 2 to ; best patterns Clearance Sale price, yard Aue 10¢ a yard Apron Ging hama, assorted colors and checks an every day family fabric of known value Clear ance price, a yard 100 a yard Percales, ansorted patterns 0 dark =oand = medium Krounds. Clearance Sale price, a yard and Girls’ Two Barefoot San- dale, sizes 12 to 2; the money-saving shoe of summer comfort Clear. ance . & pair §9¢ Infante’ White or Pat. ent Leather One-Strap . sizes 1% to 6 » Sale, # pair 79¢ Child's White Strap Sanda One- sizes 6 to 11; smart style for the well-dressed child Clearance Sale, a patr s Tan Lace Ox. #12 to 2; the shoes. the light in for or Wear. . pair Ladies’ $3.50 White Nubuck Shoes, sizes 2% to 6; very stylish Clearance Sale, a pair Hand Bag; al- Hand Bag; seal n genuine leather. same mate you pay $1.50 Clearance Ladies’ Ls Coin purse rial. Why elsewhere. Sale price Ajc Children’s 79¢ Milan Straw Hate; ribbon band and = streamers. Clearance price 500 Hats, 25c—Ladles’ and = misses’ summer sun hats; large un- trimmed straws colors white and black. Also straw sailors with rib- bon band. Choice 25¢ $1.00 = Petticoa' of Mercerized Sateen; 18% -Inchflounce, tucked; made to reta{l at $1.00 apiece. Clear ance Je, each 99¢ selling up to $4.50; and cheviots, hard wear; price— | Mith Cerise — Collins" Ruth, the one with the lithp, rethently Joined the cabaret geothe ac ‘Thunday. a flock of hithing Lake Wathington jthe of her new dreth) wath the thtory of adventure |by Mith Ruthie herthelf when got_ home BOYS’ SUITS Lot 1—Double-breasted styles, formerly materials cassimeres made for school service and sizes 13 to 17 years. Standard Patterns RUTHIE ATTACKED BY HITHING GEETHE | THTEPTH ON TOAD, AND GETH NECK THUNBURNED ON THUNDAY, thithter | started across fields to the steamer gram at Tato’s, wath attacked by geethe gave ner thuch a fwight ‘her whole afternoon (not to thpeak wath thpotled, OUT OF THE MIGH-PRICED DISTRICT ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE TWO BIG STORES NOTED FOR LOW PRICES ASS EA NNUAL CLEARANCE SALE) pega, Not a Minute Wasted—A Grand Windup of Our Season’s Business OUR ENTIRE EMBROIDERY AND LACE STOCKS AT CUT PRICES BUY SUMMER WASH GOODS, DRESS GOODS, NECKWEAR and TOILET ARTICLES NOW Now, Men, Listen to This A Clearance of Men’s and Boys’ Clothing © $20.00 AND These are not left-overs or old s styles that you have seen. Get You will They have two pair o have been offered; $15.00 Suits $7.45 Tomorrow we sta thi going at prices that are less than half thetr value. Tis is the only store that makes you offerings on clothes of this quality. Don't Fail to See Them. sizes there the bes are value you agree v now $25.00 SUITS $14.75 tock, but the be n looking that cut, fabrics atch—the greatest fines er snappiest, f pants to | Here we have one variety of patterns and the standard. In a mammoth stock not walt until the last tend this sale as early t, these and or two of a styles ar like this we da minute to as possible. handsomest Suits; the tailoring are $18.00 Suits $11.95 nd, but the all up to unload, At- HOUSEKEEPERS’ DAY TUESDAY See the Pretty Patterns and Special Prices on Lace Curtains. 10¢ Curtain Serim, terns. Clearance Se Shelf Oil Cloth, ance Sale price, a yard 760 full size Sheets, hemmed and seam vecial, each Sale, a yard $2.00 Cotton Blankets, 64x80, a pair 40c Bath Mates, each At this searon we (ca Yd. i i. e ferie * All Laces not le a it rs cost ore reeted, to Investigate this, HAIR ORNAMENTS The Back EveryClothSuitin Stock Reduced white and ecru; crossbar pat another lot goes at ( ear. French and ndrot it prices ar Comba, and Barrettes, in plain and fancy shell and jeweled; all are marked at Clearance Sale prices, Art r saw. Ae yard 12%e 480 oe Lonsdale Mills; Sale. Special, $6.00 Wool Ticking, Clearance Sale price, a Wibkched | Muslin, factory ends. @ yard ...... Blankets finest German art patterns 16i¢ white A Clearance pure 83e $2.25 Comforts, each .. ke a general nd Embrot e cut, in many | | fi t will pay you, if rahe th 5 other new things tn Combs, Side Hair Pins | ern ‘Gloves *: McCormack style, quality and color, and the price? fellow's. Potlatch Pennante—2¢inch felt, ters. Matl one as a souvenir to your East- ends. elsewhere at the price. ser’s and Fownes’ During the annual has just what MAKE A TEST. Not to be had ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE White Serge Suits at less than one-half value. Ladies’ Novelty Suits in novelty mixtures sacrificed. Suits, former values to $25.00, now ......... Young Ladies’ Norfolk $16.50 § Suite, Mow ..............$11.98 +++ $9.57 White Serge Suits, value to $22.50, now ... JUST A WORD about the Nothing 1s lack materials and The white one low-mrade In and look the Every Cloth Coat in Stock Reduced Young Ladies’ Golf Coats, values to $9.50, now ..... Fashionable | Mixtures ‘Cutaway Conta: values to $18.50, now ...... handsome sults, re ing in the talloring or finishing styles stamp this the beat o serge sults are all of the hig sult in the lot. resenting the bi it of two the splendi rim us eas PPro} Make yourself at home !f you fin m through yourself, 1 sy. Mark well these reductions: you -$4.98 Silk Gloves Clearance Sale, all question of profit ts elim- you want in Less than white let- «+++ $12.50 reat lines: a array of trimmed—not Pitch right . 83.98 _ $1.98 "89.98 TACOMA Men's Balbriggan Un- derwear; summer welght shirts or draw. ers; all sizes; drawers ddle seat a gar Men's $1.50 Solnette and Madras Negligee Shirts, price summer Suits; Union weight Clearance price 49c Men's Four - In - Hand Ties of heavy silks and silk crochet; best of shades and patterns. Clearance Sale price Ic Athletic Mesh Underwear; shirts and Jength drawers. Clearance price, a gar- 19¢ Men's Nainsook Ath- letic Underwear; shirts and drawers; knee length and sleeveless. Clearance price, a.gar- 39c Men's 50c heavy web and Hele Suspenders; re-enforced with kid ends. Clearance Sale price 29c White Lingerte Dress es, where sizes are broken or slightly mussed; lace and em- broidery trimmed; val- ues to $3.50. Clearance 98 75c Summer Walsts of fine India Imon, high or low neck; % or long sleeve styles, trimmed with lace or embroid- ery. Clearance Sale "“ A9c $1.50 Kimonos; attract- ive challis, trimmed with silk or satin bands —% length or flowing sleeves. Clearance.Sale price 97c Values to $12.00, White Lingerie Dresses, elab- orately trimmed. lace and embroidery; finest of materials; some slightly mussed. Clear- ance price $4.29 Children’s 25c Elastic Knit W. reen- forced seams. Take two for the price of one. Securely fastened bone buttons. Clearance price 12lac Men's Clearance 9 to 17, BOYS’ SUITS Lot No. 2—Double-breasted styles, for- merly selling tweeds and worsteds; and grays; pants Knickerbocker style, of them full lined and all are full cur; Must be seen to be appreciated. Clearance price— to $6.50; materials colors, brow: heavy , tan pme sizes Warner’s Corsets — Fownes’ Gloves — Nalad Dress Shields who |that three hithing geethe attacked pro: | Ruthie. | Geese Chased Ruthie Ruthie’s thoeth hurt her. She had lagged behind and was quite alone when the three geethe made their hithing attack, ross | How “Thothe awful geethe jutht told thtuck out their neckth and hithed she jand hithed and hithed!” said Ruth. Ruthie climbed a fence. With Mins Ruthie’s set had a ptente.|great presence of mind she drew She would. have had re the nicest time, she sald, but for the j me a toad, the ice cream soda | lrowing, what people said, her sun- ‘ 173 rovia See Ee'eer at teooe| Fair Lilliags &, land what happened to her new ae ee censad GW Winner NEW YORK, July 711 should It was Ruthie Collins who, only | ¥°'Ty about the price of bacon and two weeks ago, Ho cigar-cutter on a chewing counter, and clipped off the tip of h) ber finger. But adth are worth,” Ruthie, he darned thingth me eweapth.” And right at stepped on one. the start When she sto; screaming she sald that when she stepped on it she thought at it was going to pop. It was not until the party poked an automat Ruthie leges for the next year or so. This as the declaration of Lillian | Russell, the actress, just before she sailed for Europe on her annual va- th Miss Russell, who, in prt | vate life, is Mrs. A. P. Moore, wife of a Pittsburg newspaper man, |signed a contract with John Cort, |the theatrical magnate, calling for ($105,000 for next seasn. Moore ac. gum sald | give pped up her feet and thcreamed. She was still drawing up her toeth and thereaming and the oth- ers were wushing to her athith- tance when she fell off the fence Into the edge of the lake, She Fell Into the Lake Ruthie was thoaked from ban- deau to buckles when they pulled her out, limply, a circumstance which led mistaken citizens at Madison Park, where she landed, who did not to say that while they did not-wish | to criticise, they could not but | think that in striving for clinging | effects the new styles were carried | entirely too far. “IT wath tho mortified sald Ruthie, “My neck wath all thun- burned, and my dwethe tho wet I couldn't even thtop. for an ithe eweam thoda, Can you imagine my feelingth?. I couldn’t help thob- bing. My whole afternoon wath Jutht thpailed.” SEATTLE LODGE, No. 7, Degree of Honor, will give a debate this evening in the Balllargeon buflding, Second av. and Spring st, Mrs, L. ©, Anderson will read an article on first |companied his wife abroad, He sald he saw no reason to worr: had ' oither, “Women in Politics,” followed by a Beneral discussion and her wet dress hung) know she had fallen into the lake, | 1 He Says Children Are Made Insane by Too Much Petting CHICAGO, July 7.—Present- day home life is the cause of much of the increase in insan- ity, Dr. H, C, Norris of Ederlin, N. D,, told the National Con- gress of Alienists and Neurolo- gists here. He said: “Instead of being trained to be a member of the family, the boy of today is taught to be president of the United States: The children are being petted and allowed to have their own way until they get an exalted idea of their importance. “The mothers are continually exploiting their children as the brightest ever, and consequent- ly they develop egomania, “Egomania results in a lack of self-control, and finally a nervous and mental breakdown, which leads to the insane asy- lums.”” LONDON, July 7.—Miess An- nie Kenney and Mise Barrett, militants, were again re sed from Holloway jall here, to- day, under the terme of th “cat-and-mou act ‘women are greatly em: from hunger striking, THWART PLOT TO BURN HOTEL SAN DIEGO, July July 7.—The most | daring arson plot ever foiled here |was discovered when | | Blanchard, 23, disco |creeping up an electri outside her’ window in |hotel here. The plot, as sbown by the fuses which had been jald, was |thoroughly planned. Fuses saturat- ed with turpentine and connected with excelsfor soaked in oil, bottles jof coal oll and distillate and five- gallon cans of the ofl and distillate were about the whole back of the \first floor of the building. Three fire companies responded to the first alarm, and for an hour and a half scores of firemen fought before the flames were extinguish. ed. The fuses. and oil were all found in stores on the ground floor. On the second and third floors, in the hotel rooms, 100 persons were asleep. Odeon Theatre 1a, our AND IN THY or TH Keyntone. Firet Ave, 7 uns Titeeaae PUPAE eae 5 dol