The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1913, Page 8

THE STAR'S SATURDAY BY THAT FAM TORY, SHORT S$ BT. W. CHAMBE OUS AUTHOR, ROBT. CHAMMRS) (COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY ROBERT Ww As I er dim clty tolled for the passing nigh and mist-choked streets & policemar t din ¢ rushing through 1 from river to rly v7 n alley a shadowy form passed, All around ed with opium and a flare of yellow ligh from an opening door, There was a momentary mur mur of voices, the soft shuffle of felt-shod feet ' » of atlken sleeves. A pain paper lantern swung from a aly and disappeared. I heard the deadened slam of the and Dlack night veiled my eyes again I raised my eyes to the dark house before me, where from a rusting Dalcony a sign hung low above the doorway This was her house,” I said aloud to myself; but 1 passed on to the next house. Before 1 could find the handle, the door flew open and I heard McManus’ angry bellow: "Git t hell outer here, yer dope suckin and a Chinaman was hustled Into the area, fleeing sap! like an tnfuri ape. I stepped into the low-cetlinged room and took a chair at a t beside the wall. Two young men sitting there sald, “Hello, J ood evenin’,” said McManus, leaning over the bar, “did you see ™e givin’ de bounce to Wah-Wot Yes, when did he come back? | “He in, I told him to git an’ he give me de ha-ha, so} Charley him down One of the young men at the table beside me looked up from the Welsh-rabbit he was eating and called for ale. McManus brought} ft himself, a brimming pewter mug. Then he bawled for Charley) to take my order. | Lynde, of the “Herald,” advised me to try a rabbit, and Penlow, | of the “Tribune,” spoke well of the chops, so I left it to Charley and be retired, whistling, “Oh, I don't know’ “It's a wonder to me,” I sald, hanging my wet mackintosh on a peg and kicking off my overshoes, “It's a wonder to me that Wah-Wo was discharged by th® court “There was no evidence to hold him,” observed Lynde Penlow lighted his pipe and led his mug on the table. “No evidence,” I repeated; “do you fellows doubt that Wah-Wo! aid it? | “I suppose he did,” said Penlow, “it was my scoop, too.” “We may scoop yet,” said Lynde, “the man’s bound to be caught.”| “Gents,” began McManus, is dead off Wah-Wo ain't fm ft,” be said contemptuously I give him de t'row-down,—fur why?| But he eo?! —fur because I don’t give de glad hand to no dope suckin’ chink he didn’t do no dirt to the gal whut youse gents was stuck on ain't that Kind! He give me the laugh an’ I t'rowed him down, se An’ I won't do a t'ing but push his face in. See?" “Well, M said Lynde, “what's your theory? Much about it as anybody. The girl came in here every she? People say she lived alone, but of course she had o when she wanted {t. What's your idea, Mac?” McManus looked out of the window and drummed on the with the blade of his oyster knife. As 1 was eating in silence, thinking.of Wah-Wo and the dead girl, Caithness of the Consolidated Press came {in looking cold and Mi, and we hastily made room for him at our table. “You're sick,” said Lynde sharply, “you ought to be in bed." “T'm all right,” said Caithness, glancing at us with his large, dark eyes: “Mac, get me something hot.” I turned again to the chops, scarcely listening to the voices beside | me, for I was thinking again of the dead girl | I had no doubt that Wah-Wo had killed her. Again and again T had seen bis eyes fastened upon her as she sat chatting with us, here at this very table. The motive was clear to me. | had spoken of this to the others but they laughed at me. The district attorney took no stock in it, either. How could anybody but a Chinaman, crazed with Jealousy and opium, harm the child? For she was a mere child, this pallid victim whose soul had mounted to the Judgment seat from the filth of New) York's Chinatown. Pale, slim, childish, she had never haunted Chinese resorts, nor. to my knowledge, had she ever touched needle to Mame. She hai shunned the women of the quarter. 1 seldom saw her speak to any Man except the reporters and newspaper art who came to McManus’s | for a midnight chop or rarebit. | Her acquaintance with us had been open and gutleles: Bhe chatted with us about our business, discussed the latest police shake-| up or the newest Tammany scandal, and glided away into the street again followed by her dog. Her dog A great hulki You know as night, didn't mpany bar brute, with sombre ey: WRITTEN Wah. Wo. | WI! RS ILI “Lit Was Found on Her POSED BY PAULINE FREDERIC face to! shuffling | — creature silent, unmoved except when she t her pal his ear and whispered, Then and then only he would ris from the sawdust, and stalk after her into the night He never pald the slightest attention to us. Calls, caresses, threats, | left him unmoved | What {a it you whisper into his ear, she would only smile and answer “His name | And as none & us knew his name, we called him simply,| er dog.’ | It had been two months now since Lil was found on her bed} with a bullet In her heart and the dog lying stolidly across one bare Uttle foot. And after we had clubbed together and buried her, we were kinder to her dox Every night he came gravely into McManus'’s to Ie down just as he had done when Lil sat there chatting with us Lit" we often asked, but! At first McManus was afraid that the dog would “hoodoo the place,” but he left the silent brute undisturbed, and, after a while, began to grow fond of it ‘ As I sat thinking of all these things, I heard the tron door creak on tts hinges) MeManus stood up saying: “Here he comes, gents!” Her dog entered | Lynde held out his hand as the brute passed, and Penlow flung a bone on the floor, The dog noticed neither the caress nor the bone, but lay down under the bar and stretched his great Mmbs across the floor, sighing heavily. | ‘There is one thing certain,” sald Lynde, looking at the dog: “the man who killed the girl was in the habit of visiting her—and the dog knew him.” “I also believe the murderer was known to the dog,” said Penlow. | “The murderer,” said Caithness wan her lover.” | “It fs strange,” said I, “that none of us suspects anybody except | | | oo ed With a Bullet In Her Heart , and the Dog Lying Stolidly Across One Bare Little Foot.” K AND HER GREAT DANE, “JIM.” “yos, it is strange! Do you think she would have looked at @ Chinaman?” ‘The Chinaman looked at her; | aaw him,” I replied “After all, she was a common girl," said Penlow, unaffectedly, ‘and 1 guess pride cat no figure with her.” “That is where you Ife,” sald Caithness tn a low vote, There was a dead atience. Then Penlow said: “Did I under stand you, Caithness?” 1 rose and latd my hand aon Penfow's arm, which was twitching though his face was calm “Are you crazy?” I said to Caithness “1 think I am,” said Caithness slowly, “I beg your pardon, Penlow.” Lynde turned his puzzled eyes, from Penlow to Caithness and Mfted his mug mechanically. Penlow straightened in his chiar but said nothing, and | leaned back, motioning McManus to remove the covers. Lynde picked up a paper and ran through It, unaffectedly search- Pp i ing for his own matter; after a while Penlow did the same hat man killed the woman I loved,” he said, “and now I am 1 looked at Caithness, and he felt my eyes, for presently he foing to give him up! Then he rose trembling. The sleeping dog §& moved a little and p his hands over his sunken cheeks. sighed heavily a coe “What's up?” 1 asked, dropping my volce and bending towards Caithness bent and touched the masstve head, muttering, “Come ‘ him. “Nothing—why ?” “You look Ike the last rose of summer—you've got a beastly cough.” He smiled faintly It's consumption,” he said, “! found out today I stared at him stupidly. don’t mind,” he said; “I'm dead sick of the whole business.” How do you know It's consumption?” I asked at length. “I went to three doctors to make sure; I tell you I don't care.” Little Penlow was listening now; before I could speak again he leaned over and took Caithness’ hand affectionately. y." he said, “Ko to © rol. and get well.” LUSTRATED WITH SPECIAL PO FREDERICK, “WORLD'S MOST BEAU ee SE BY PAULINE IFUL WOMAN” went out Did you never know,’ . © to the devi Chuck up your job!? Lat the Consolidated Press 60 t @ 4 urged Lyt ought I'd com y om resigned,” said Caithness quite I thour around tonight and say good-bye + aatied “eat The dog shifted hin position under the bar and sision Caithnes Do you fellows know that I have scooped oa abruptly ee t—not the fellow who shot LAl,” faltered Penlo thrown his le soul Into solving the ater eee 4 Ye the murder f Lily White aid Caithness dr hes , I could hear MeMenus grinding his toothpick in his yellow tee F j “I'm out of the Consolidated now,” continued Calthne = “the scoop Is yours if you want it, Penlow = | But—but you"—began Penlow ; ‘ = 1?" gaid Caithness fercely what do I ca ash - bo = What do I care who knows it now—what paper prints it firete, | = Lynde leaned over the table, his head in his hand; Penlo E S % said Caithness, with a touch of scorn in his Do you think I am ashamed to for into MeManu nd gousiped with the newspaper men. When she was voice, that I also loved the girl? ? Hell? Ob {t? Do you know what I have been through since she died? Hell? yes, that's what they say In books, Jt doesn't matter;—-Penlow, whes you are ready ot taal aula = Penlow ptarted,. the yped in his pocket for pencil and paper 1 ¢ paid at 1 sald Caithness, almost eager! On the 13th « ae BE Aegon r, was shot through the heart by a4 who was jealous of her, He knew that she camer Jgat § | with us here, this man was not jealous,—have you got that, Penlow? | “You,” said Penlow, scratching away on his pad “He was not jealous when Lily chatted with us, but when he saw Wah-Wo talking to her one r the electric ight by the Josshouse, he watched the girl night and day. She said that she love him—she laughed at him when he offered her marriage,—so he watcher |her. Have you got that, Penlow?” | “Then a day came when Lily was to go to the country to see her sister,—that is what she sald,—to see her sister, and this man went with her to the train and saw her off on her journey. But something told him to watch next incoming train, and he did ‘ “And Lily was on It! | “He followed her. She came straight to Doyers st. heavily velled and entered a house that you all know—the house with the paper zy |ianterns and red signs. Wah-Wo lives there. A week later she re lturned to the man who had followed her. He was waiting for her— have you written that?” | Yes, Jack.” | “He was waiting In her room—alone with that dog there. He ac- Joused her, and she denied {t. She called Heaven to witness her tn- noc He offered her marriage again; she laughed at him. Then he shot her through the heart nlow ceased writing and looked up expectantly j murderer's name? Have patience,” said Caithness grimly j smiling The man called to the dog—her dog there, and, because he was the ONLY LIVING SOUL who knew the brute’s name, the dog answered and followed him out into the street H “All day long he wandered about the city, and at night he went bac Ito look upon the dead. He did not care who saw him—he courted d |covery, but no one paid bim any attention, and, as it now appears, n | body even saw bim, About midnight he went aws leaving the dog crouched at the dead girl's feet, and since then he has moved like a living death among the people of the city, unsuspected, unnoticed by any—except me.” | He paused and looked at us. Tears had quenched the pale flame lin his eyes, and the hair clung to his damp forehead, At his touch the agg raised its head and looked at him with grave leyes ‘ | ‘Then, moving toward the door, he whispered again, CALLING THE | DOG RY NAME; and the great brute rose stiffly, yawned and slowly | followed him out into the night. The iron door slammed behind them; the ar odor of fog came Lynde buried his head tn his hands; McManus Presently I heard the é q | from the black street. leaned heavily on the bar, pale as a corpse. sound of rustling paper. It was Penlow, tearing up his notes, THE END. SECRETARY LANE IS CITY’S GUEST TODAY Secretary of the Interior Frank- Mn K. Lane, of California, formerly & newspaperman in this is guest today left Tacoma about noon | Shortly after his arrival here at noon, he will be taken on an auto; tour through the city by a joint lcommittee from the Rainier and the Press clubs At 4 o'clock, there will be a pub | | lie reception at the Seattle Commer cial club, to which invitations have \been extended to the Chamber of |Commerce, the Rotary club Municipal league, the King ¢ | Democratic club and the Woman's Commercial club. In the reception committee will be Mayor Cotterill, President Jones of the Commercial club, and Gov Lister is also expected At 6:30, the secretary will be guest of the Rainier club at a At 9 o'clock, he will at the ate, | | formal dinner. }be tendered a reception Press club. } Somewhere in the day's program the secretary will sandwich In a talk on Alaska land matters with the local land office official; Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo pooh-poohs grape juice, but swears by buttermilk as a beverage. eo of the order of Eagles in Baltimore today, a delega- At the parade will wear slit skirts and green silk) tion of women from Cincinnat! stockings. ee age Using a Frankfurter as bait, Mrs. Goodsell of Connecticut caught &@ 14-inch black bass in Highland lake Should have been a dogfish, Dut it wasn't. Fashion Note—Business directory just | shows that two bustle factories are still in operation in New York. What? eee * t Virginia Last of John Brown's captors just died again In W. 7° . . advertised In the German newspapers for alkan government ha 8,000 artificial legs. Martin W. Littleton, who formerly occupied the Logan hou! Washington, says he can understand why Bryan, who now lives there, can’t live on $12,000 a year. He says tt cost him almost that much for coal to heat it. Prisoner serving life sentence In Jefferson City applies for pardon and witnesses swear the man he was convicted of murdering is still ally $35,000 FIRE AT PORTLAND PORTLAND, Aug. 16.—Fire in the basement of the Phoenix bullding did damage today estimated at $25,000. The flames were subdued after a two-hours fight during which a fireman was overcome by the suf- focating smoke. Women Who Take this universally popular home remedy—at times, when there is need—are spared many hours of unnecessary suffering— “Midge,” and the aliigator raised BELO BE Sr TLL 4 CHICAGO, Aug. 16.—The “flirta- \tion squad” is the name of a new Geld everywhere, In bones, 10c., 250 KINGSTON, Mo., Ang. 16.—The old swimming holes around town are deserted. “Midge,” the alliga- tor,.-has reappeared. “Midge” was brought from the South 12 years ago by Samuel Bridgewater, a mer chant appeared from the aquarium built in the rear of Bridgewater's store and every one supposed he had started South to his old home. But the last week while a num favorite haunts one of them saw a “shiny log” near a bank of the creek. As the crowd watched, the “log” slid into the water, It was band of detectives detailed to ar. ‘rest mashers, THIS “HOG” SLID Five years ago “Midge” dis-| ber of boys were bathing in their | WHAT'S ON AT THE SEATTLE HOUSES }| At the Olympian Until Sunda: “Clarence at the Theatre,” “Pix- ing Aunty Up,” “The Little Tease,” “The Ant-Lion,” “The Chateau of| Blots.” | eee | Clemmer, Sunday to Tuesday Night | Pathe’s Weekly,” “Alkall Ike's! Gal,” comedy, two reels; “The Lady and the Glove,” drama. ar Movie Shows At the Colonial Today | “The Flight of the Crow,” ma; “Rattleftelds Around Chat- tanooga,” educational; “The Right Number, but the Wrong House,” comedy; “A Trip Throngh the Grot-' toes of Baume.” ee Dream, Sunday to Tuer Night 1 Was Meant for You,” drama; “The Erring,” drama; ‘Keeping Husbands Home,’ comedy; “The a. | . | Melbourne Sunday to Tuesday Night “A Fight for Right,” a two-reel Reliance feature drama; “The Girl lof the Cabaret;” “A Chip of the | Old Block,” Keystone comedy World Above,” dram ee Mrs. Laura Cogswell at Rig The children of the United States are to have their own “movie” the- atres! This is the plan of two New York | 2 ee women who bellev p 6 that there is no Lge le ite boi Tueneey' Night | greater educational medium in the nternational mechanical motion | woud i¢ rightly used, than the mov pictures, showing travel pictures of \the world, These pletures are oe companied by trained mimics who |imitate the different sounds. . . ing pleture. These advocates of visual instruc tion, by the screen routes, propose |that there shall be established a CHAIN OF THIRTY-THREB CHIL. At the Alhambra Today aR fay! i. “The Honor of Lady Beaumont,” |PREN'S me THEATRES ldrama; “Alhambra Weekly,” local |‘roushout the country’ jand foreign news vents; “The| The two who have undortakon Suffraget Tames the Bandit,” "Sal-\such a big scheme are Mrs, Laura ly Shagge, Housemaid,” comedy | Cogswell, founder and president of drama |the Children’s Motion — Picture eee Heague, who Is called the “Mother of | At the Class A Today the Movies,” and Mra, Fraak H. | The Pet and the Pendulum,” | Dean, whose interest in the welfare | three-reel Solax feature. |of Brooklyn children has won her |the tide of “Fairy godmother.” Alhambra, Until Sunday Night. | “God flent the motion picture for “The Honor of Lady Beaumont,” |an animated text-book,” says Mrs, a two-reel Eclair feature; ham-| Cogswell. In this belief she has \bra Weekly,” “Sally Scraggs,” com-| worked out a scheme which she be- ledy; “The Suffragette Tames Bad|Heves will make the “movie” a \ Bui,” comedy, Frontier Spectal. | moral and physical ald to children ° ALL THE NEWS OF THE LOCAL MOVIE WORLD | Women Plan Chain of Children’s | , from 6 to 16 years of age. GOSSIP PICKED UP AROUND LOBBIES Another two-part comedy, “Al- kali Ike's Gal,” is one of the fea- tures of tomorrow's new bill at the Across Country) Clemmer. “Alkali Tke's Gal is built for laughing purposes only. It tells of lthe experiences of four pals of the range in trying to win the prize beauty of a matrimonial bureau. Pathe’s Weekly comes again with |a big bunch of interesting happen- ings picked up in various parts of the world “The Lady and the Glove” is an exceptional drama. This extra- ordinary offering goes back to the olden times, when tournaments of Hons were held to please the | whims of the royal personages. To jtest the love of a royal suitor, @ lady throws her glove into the |lion's pit below. He recovers }but her rash act costs her his love. Musical numbers are offered by Esther Stindquist, violin solots Mazie Martz, lyric soprano; Erne: Moeller, baritone, and Oliver G, Wallace, at the pipe organ. Monday, an old favorite will be heard at the Clommer. W. K. Lal, the popular Chinese tenor, will open a short engagement. see Tonight is the last appearance of \the great Pathe feature, “The Mys |tertes of Paris.” This is the first |time a big five-reel feature has jbeen showing at the Grand. It was lupon the success of this one that | decided whether the Seattle public | would support a feature of this lsize. The fact that it has played to capacity houses during Its run, has more than justified Eugene Levy's faith {n the Seattle public, |Mr. Levy announces that this film lig the first of a number of big for eign feature films booked for his }local houses The travel pictures at the Grand, starting Sunday, should be a strong drawing card. They are staged by the International Mechanical Mo- tion Pictures Co, and accompanied by trained mimics, who imitate dif. ferent sounds as they are produced on the screen. ° . “The Fight for Right,” to be seen She has organized the Children's|@t the Melbourne Sunday, ts a Motion Picture league of Greater |*trong story written by James Op- New York, with President Wilson,|Penheim, It 1s an interesting plot, Gov. Sulzer and Mayor Gaynor as | Showing the trades union opposition Mbascate crentiants to the system that makes money off ‘Tho purposes of the league are to Convict labor, The trades union at klve programs especially suited to|tittde 1s that a prisoner should be children in. theatres, auditoriums | Ven & chance to learn a trade that and motion picture theatres every | Will be useful to him as a citizen, Saturday morning from 9 to 1\that will keep him occupled as a o'clock, and every week-day morn-|Prisoner, and will not in any way ing duting public school vacations.|be turned to the benefit of private The films are to be educational as| capital. Tho film has been indorsed well. as entertaining, illustrating|>Y trades unfons as representing history, geography, commerce, plant | thefr attitude on this big qnestion ht and Mrs. Frank H. Dean and animal life, ete, to stimulate | dl d the virtues of patriotism, honesty, Tho Blograph drama, “! Was loyalty, humaneness, ete, Meant for You,” coming to the Dream Sunday, is the story of two sisters and their sweethearts, One sister, loved by one man, imagines she loves the other sister'a sweet heart, The plot revolves around the second “sister's attempt to straighten things out. There are some stirring scenes, Above all, there !s not to be ANY- THING to SADDEN the children! The first of the children’s thea- tres is to be a big building In New, York, containing four auditoriums and seating 5,000 people. Fills the toott—banishes Tooth- ache—Butler’s Liquid Tooth Filler, Druggists, 26c,--Advertisement, Dance at Dreamiand tonight.—Adv. Alkall proves to be the best man.| oe be seat. il ‘GAME BIRD,’ ISHUGH, ‘WHO HAD TWO WIVES” 1912, Mra, Embry No. 1, who wasén court to substantiate the story of the second Mrs. Embry, was mas ried in 1899 in North Carolina. MANY TO COMPETE IN CHUGBIKE RUN One of the most successful runs in the history of the Seattle Mo- toreycle club is e&pected Sunday, when the starters in the Ellensburg run are sent on their way. Many valuable prizes are offered in the race and a large number of local riders are expected to compete. The riders will return Monday. Earl Blair, of the local club, who mapped out the course last Sun- day, reports the roads in excellent | condition “Ereuse me wifle, dear, got to ‘leave for a few days,” sald Hugh FP. Embry. | “Where you going?” asked Mrs. Mollie Embry. ; “Oh, just to visit a while with my other wife, at Mt. Vernon; that's all,” replied Embry. And he went. | Mra, Embry No. 2 thereupon brought divorce proceedings, alleg- ing bigamy. F. Bougher, of Pacific City, | where the Embrys Itved, told Judge Mackintosh that Embry admitted he had two wives but that he was a “game bird.” The knot was untied by Judge Mackintosh yesterday and Mrs. Em bry was given a judgement of $5,000 damages, though Embry is said to| be so flat that he borrowed $14/ from his second wife when he left/ to visit his first wife j Mrs. Embry No. 2 was married to ombry at West Plain, Mo., Feb. 11, Don't feed that horse for ancther month before you sell it. Tell over 40,000 Star readers you want to sell it, and some o among them i will buy. Use a Star want ad. Unequaied Vaudeville M Vaudeville BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE The Great, Ever-Mystifying CARTER | The Magician, In a Series of New Illusions and Effects, + 4 | FRANK MILLS PLAYERS , ; OTHER BIG FEATURES—l00c AND 20c, 7 Nights (Including \ Next Sunday Night, August 24) Starting MONDAY, August 18 Bargain Matinees Wed. and Thurs. Best Seats $1.00 REGULAR MATINER SATURDAY, 50c TO 81,50, HENRY W. 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