The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 18, 1914, Page 1

— A Little Chat With Kelly! only $2,000 a year. “It's - to be a bo BY RRR ner nrnnnnrnnnrrrwv he sighs. MORE THAN 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY _ old-fashioned mother, who used to tell the time of day by the planing mill whistle, has a daughter who wears a watch on her wrist The VOLUME NO. 99. SEATTLE’ BESTBABY Grand Prizes Will Be Awarded in| 16. on Hen Question. | Thinks “Sets” Expression; However Isn't Yet Settled. PADDELFORD, DUMMY TRAIN APROF,’ SAYS. WRECKED BY | THE HEN SITS DYNAMITERS yes of Learned University | Precaution Taken by Railroad) Educator Brought to Bear HE TELLS STAR WHY|MANY ARE Is a Countrified | Special It * Does a hen sit or on een? “ Better Babies Contest for the ,,2%, omy: ocr -3 by would-be grammatical Most Perfect Girl or Boy wentka ‘who dea voninntae teams proof in favor of one word and st the other. It's the re Have you registered yet? loving cup for the best all-around (suit of a bet between two men on Oh, Ja, la! not polities! | baby boy a Phinney ay. car Tuesday morning Rabies! These two grand prizes will top| One bt the other $5. They came Right now babies are the all im- the list of awards. lto The Star. They asked The Star Portant subject in Seattle homes. Many Seattle merchants have|to settle it. The bet hasn't been Tf you haven't registered your given prizes for various classes of | paid yet bouncing offspring yet in the the judging What's the anawer? Or is there fourth annual Better Babies con A diamond ring, a French doll | any? fest. you're way behind several/ and a go-cart, for instance, will be ° hundred other folks in the town. | some of the awards Deda shdthape di emee erg lire But you'll have time to do it In Doctors Will Be judges Tt » outcome looks gloom Fv the next two weeks. The babies will be judged on|¢rybody’s so blamed certain with This show, July 4. at Leschi! points, by the standard rules of |their arguments, and THEY park, is going to be the biggest| such contests, three Seattle physt:|PROVE IT BY THE DICTION i ever held clans acting as judges. ARY * Star Will Give Cup Entries are being made at Pan-| Does a hen sit or set Two grand prizes will be/ton’s store, on nd av Dr. F. M. Paddelford, professor awarded Mrs. M. E. Howe, one of the Of English at the University of The Star will give a handsome| women in charge of the contest,| Washington, had his sleeves rolled silver-loving cup fot the best all-| urges parents to make their en-| high preparing to leave town, and around baby girl in the show of tries as early as possible. was submerged in the dark, dis any age under the three-year limit.| After the prizes are awarded |tressing mysteries of a trunk at The Standard Furniture com-/there will be dancing at the pa-|his home when a Star reporter pany will do the same on the other} vilion during the afternoon and in side of the family, having posted athe evening until midnight. FIRE! ENTER OLE! BINGO! OUT! ‘HAL HAY-SAYS-OLE, LIKE THAT: “Chug, chug-a-chug.” purred the|reach half-way around, | auto of Ole Hanson, candidate for) Ole got mad then the U. S, senate, as it bore its own-| He picked up that part of the cited. er home last evening. “Fire, fire!” suddenly came cries | and threw it into the street from an apartment house at Minor) “Get out, drat ye,” said Ole. ay. and Howell st It was part of the stairway He came up on the Insta long time, Well, anyway right, doean't it? “Sets” Is Countrified then, on_the other ait?) Why, he asked. “But jdoes a_ hen tt” He paused again, and mopped brow “The hen sits on the egg,” lar, conntrified expression |word through general ‘The auto coughed and stopped. Ole gave the fire department the| Westion, but ‘sit’ Out sprang Ole. He rushed into| haha when it arrived. correct the blazing building, seized a rug) “Chug, chuga-chug,” said Ole's It would seem that, hen was once content to ‘si and tried to embrace the flames, | machine. at it was no use—he could only! Exit Ole. ]eatiety popular demands, Dictionary Says ‘Sits ary sit’! imp’ on.” nest, if he later return and ait on them. There is no doubt but what ‘sit’ The word ‘set’ asion of action, as The boy, robbing the WHIRL AT ERUPTING GAME REDDING, Cal, June 18.— | Mount Lassen was again in erup- tion today. The outbreak could be} About 1,000 toutists were encamp- ed at the mountain's foot when the eruption began, but it was thought! no one was on the slope. is the correct the sun sets, would set upon the eggs, failed, the mother robin would in my shouted the question down to him Hment pian and pondered the matter for a mans, yes; of course she #ifi—T've sebh Nor dothg he re 1 am inclined to think the | building which happened to be afire word ‘sets’ is just a sort ig mes ler it has qualified as a legitimate usage is a is bistorteally| whereas the, she | has now changed her tactics, and, to nets.” I'll consult the ’ | “Wait a minute. dictionary “Here it ie—the Standard diction Ah, you see, It recognizes only conveys the ‘to set up robin's but mind word “But,” complains Kelly, the traveling salesman, to a Star man, SEATTLE, WASH., TH | | Officials Saves Life of Russia’s Ruler. INJURED Trainload of Police Rushed to Scene, But As- sassins Escape BERLIN, June 18.—The czar barely escaped assassination Wednesday, according to a St. Petersburg dispatch which, somehow escaping the censor, was received here today The cons mite the impertal train Kiesheneff and t ital peared | Send a Train Ahead n would ha the rafiros » usual pre ordinary of the wife plotted to dyna their i children sulte crar, his the members traveling to The track Trehudnow 1 train reached comotive was ches were ber of paxser ing splinters Rush Police to Scene message was sent to Kasatin, the czars train wee waiting special carrying police was to the scene of the ex No arrests had been made at the time the message was filed When the jal train finally |left Kasatin, an were | gers wounded by fly | A whe and a walkers preced ed tt on foot and every inch of the roadbed was minutely inapected un- ti the travelers were. beyond. the ears region ~ LONG DISTANCE HOLD-UPPING IS POOR BUSINESS While long-distance telephoning and other forms of aman oe iy at a distance have proven ful, long-distance holdupping dpeon'é t Ko. A bold Seattle highwaymay tried, Woodland Park av. last night, to hold up G. F. Schutt, 4918 Wood- land Park av Schutt was hoofing it along the avenue when a man, half a block behind, commanded him to halt. hutt!” said Schutt, as he sped up the street, leaving the robber well in the rear. seen plainly from Redding at 11:1 Some of the rangers wanted to a. m. ascend to make a short range inves It was the crater’s eighth period tigation, but Supervisor Rushing for- tivity. bade it. pure descent. if they wi of OD HISTORIAN HAMILTON FYFE says that Carranza is a Mexican of What a starter for a national mu ted a rip-roaring specimen of misc might put “Napoleon” Villa in the next ca um in Mexico! And janeous descent, they This Will Give Every- body Something to Think About! THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY | Watch The Star | 1, BLOW UP TRAIN IN ATTEMPT TO KILL CZAR nnn nen rn nnn” Kelly’s the whole thing at Everett. of all the other commissioners, left to run the town all by himself whole works. Read about him on page 2. Three months ago a ‘tiawalitie wal sman, dian elected commissioner ie public wittiy inn: direc: the recall } that’s Kelly’s career in publi “they forgot to URSDAY, JUNE 18, 1914. ONE CENT |AUTHORESS OF “BETH-TO-BABE”’ LETTERS, AND HER SON, GIVEN TO arenes in DIVORCE COURT) Mrs Pigaoel ee Brerton:Holran. HUGH CHILBERG SMILES AND SMILES AS HE'S ARRAIGNED FOR IGNORING TRAFFIC LAW Hu The appearance of young $50 assessed against Perry for an Chilberg, boon companion of John-| infraction of the speed law that fly Considine, $x. tn police | court next week would have meant a jail} sentence, Charged with going 45] today on a charge of violating the| miles an hour, Perry denied it em.| traffic ordinance, resulted in a|phatically, but it didn't go \wordy war between City Attorney} Judge Gordon took occasion to Van Ruff and Judge G n. tell him how lucky he was to Officer R. J. Wiley tified | have it happen now, instead of young Chilberg, in a cycle car,| when the new schedule of $5 per passed a Madison cable car at con-| mile becomes effective next week siderable speed when a woman was | For everything above and including getting off 40 miles, the guilty parties will go He also sa Chilberg had no/to jail on and after Sunday numbers on the car. | M, %,.2 Chilberg’s attorney objected, on| G. E. Collins was scolded by the the ground that this wasn't part of| judge for having no license num- the charge. Van Ruff argued that} ber. it all comes under the ordinance, If these traffic violations don't but the judge said no. He said | decrease I'll impose fines that will the only way around it was to try| give you fellows something to talk each charge separately j about,” he said, “All right,” said Van Ruff, and| oda promptly issued another warrant| The usual grist of speeders and jagainst Chilberg, charging him with | traffic violators are on the docket having no numbers. will | today, the last “speeders’ day” un. be resumed on Tue der the old schedule of fines. It tickled Hugh. He smiled and| Predictions that the speed smiled ers will slow up under Gordon's ‘asinine new schedule, were offered at Perry city hall today CITY MARSHAL TURNS GREEN, WIFE SAYS IN DIVORCE SUIT Cook of Kent}whom 4 Huff's papa paid a fine of City Marshal A, T turns @ pale green color when he| Cook | ed with not only “files into a fit of rage,” according |treatening and abusing his wife, STR A TC OF FOES, 6 but with heaping petty annoyances to the charges made in a complaint jn her way | tor divorce filed today by his wife,| He is accused of wrapping himself Hortense L, Cook. They were mar-/in all the bed clothes and lying ried in Waterville, Minn., in 1885, | cross-wise in the bed, to prevent his and have four children, three of wife trom sleeping with him [WANTS DIVORCE CANNOT TEACH AFTER26YEARS SCANDINAVIAN Inability to agree on finanetat Scandinavians who some time questions brought Mrs, Virginia M go asked the school board to have! Elder and W Sider, her aged} | husband, before Judge Smith for|that language taught in the city a divorce today Married in 1888,|schools were disappointed yester. day when the board announced that | A consignment of gold that/there would be nothing doing for amounts to $168,900 arrived from! the present Vancouver yesterday, the first of 1 board decided o ¢ ‘the spring shipments to the U. 8 me bowed dagia BF oi Pay say assay office here It's from Daw-| tation system to cost $7,000 at th | Latona school, Atlin district, son and the The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News ic life. He’s mayor, chief of police, city counc'l, the roll all the salaries into one for me.” He still gets : AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST — Fair tonight and Friday; light westerly on winds. NeW WIFE ASKS $90,000 OF PREACHER “Beth-to-Babe” Love Letters Read in Court as Woman’s Soul Is Laid Bare by Merciless Lawyers HARTFORD, Conn., June 18.—Through the pitiless vivisection of @ woman's soul by attorneys in a damage action on trial here, a new phrase has been brought to light to take its place in the vocabulary of love, along with “affinity,” “soul mate” and “mind mate.’ It Is “mystic mating.” The new expression has been disclosed in the action for $50,000 damages brought by Mrs. Elizabeth Curtis Brenton-Holman, against her former husband, Rev. D. Cranston Brenton. While she was still the wife of the Rev. Dr. Brenton, the woman | appeared before Frederick Ernest Holman, a notary public in Rockland, Me., and made a sworn statement that she and Holman were mat that on December 16, 1914, they are “TO TAKE A LITTLE Rite GETHER AND BE THENCEFORTH NO MORE PARTED"; that the have dreamed and fought for this for 14 years, and serve warning on ail gods, men and devils to stand out of the way and let them march trie umphant to their goal, and that they are never to be parted in thought, word or deed Mrs. Brenton-Holman refers to this sworn statement as “the certif« Icate of mystic wedlock.” What was the “mystic marriage” marriage” which took place while is now suing be Many letters written by Mrs. |band, whom sh cause he inearcerated her in a | 8renton to Holman have been lunatic asylum after he had dis- | offered by Dr. Brenton’s lawyers. covered the “mystic” union of | Sample extracts are as follows: O, my Beloved—you know that you are my life, and my heart's blood, and thy desire isomine honor: ‘the time has come when you want me ‘you know that | am yours. if, when summer comes, the gentle hands are stil! thus— are hungered—they shall possess their own. ee is mine to cool that blood of thine, if it mounts to a living fever that will not be denied. Be patient. “In a few weeke | shall be in thy arms, with all | have to give thee. “lam thine when thou wilt, in body as in soul. hearts and minds which joined her and Holman! eee Th 1900 Cranston Brenton was’a student at Trinity College, in Hart- ford. Elizabeth Alden Curtis, an intel-{ Jectual and cultured girl, member! |of an old New England family, met | the young clergyman; they be: an | engaged, They had not long been betrothed | when Miss Curtis published a small volume of verse. | Frederick Ernest Holman, who, | with his brother, conducted a pa- per in Taunton, Mass. read the| volume, printed a review of it in| |his paper, and wrote to the author-| | ess e replied, ‘and a correspond-| ence began which continued several months. It revealed a kinship of spirit be- ween the girl and the young news: paper man. But Holman had little money and no particular prospects. Dr. Bren ton came of a wealthy family, and} his rise in the church seemed as-| pe that masked figure that is Purity his ultimate price. eee “It is my pride and crown that you desire me beyond the power to keep silence. “My wet lips upon thine— misty brown eyes in thine. Ah, Babe, Babe, Babe—God keep us one! Ah! od hen, too, Holman and Miss Cur- rm we tis had’ never seen one another. BETH: The marriage took place, and was followed a year or two later| for vindication of her character. by the marriage of Holman to a girl in Taunton . She says she was not guilty of the infidelity to which, she alleges, she was forced to confess, at the price of her release from the asylum. She has a son, Jonathan, eight years old, whom the decree gave to his father, Dr. Brenton, and a verdict for her in the suit would mean a renewed fight for his custody. HOW’S THIS AS A CUTE SAYING For four or five years no word |passed between Holman and Mrs Brenton But both marriages turned out unhappily, and eventually letters began to pass between them again Souls in distress reached out for one another, for solace in the old friendship. Still the image was only mental The correspondence went on, af- ter its renewal, for two or three years, before Holman and Mrs. |Brenton finally set eyes on one an- BY BOY OF SIX other! Then, one day, in 1908, he came to Hartford... Editor The Star; When my fath- She met him at the railway sta-|er and mother celebrated the fifty- tion. seventh anniversary of their wed- fe ding, | took my grandson of six on In 1909 Holman and his wife|™y knee and told him the life his: tory of his great grandparents, of the many hardships they endured while crossing the plains, etc. He listened closely and when had finished he said: “Fifty-seven lyears. Heavens, grandma, | don't believe ! could live with a lady that were divorced In the summer of 1912 Dr, Bren lon became possessed of letters that had passed between the two, and had his wife shut up in an asylum in Battleboro, Vt., claiming that she was “morally unbalanced.” After a week's incarceration, Mrs, | !0ng." Brenton signed a confession of MRS. R,, Seattle. wrongdoing with Holman, on which <—ieee Rae’ “confession” Brenton got a divorce,| Have we heard from YOU yet in May of 1913. regarding the brilliant remark The day the decree was signed,} made by your child or grandchild? Holman and Mrs. Brenton were| The best and cutest “kid” story re- married—after 13 years of tangled | ceived each day will be printed in The Star the following day. A STAR WANT AD will I sell it quickly paths and waiting. Mrs. Holman for money as The says, present trial, is not so muc PORT OF SEATTLE DOUBLES BUSINESS OVER YEAR AGO The port of Seattle broke all former records during the month of May, according to the report of Port Warden A. A. Paysse, just issued, in which it is set forth that the total value | of exports and imports in Seattle during May was $15,077,372. | This is practically double the value of exports and imports for May a year ago—$7,885,427. The value of domestic imports in May was $5,201,327, and of foreign imports $2,309,402, Foreign import figures were boosted by the arrival of about $1,000,000 worth of raw silk and | $15,000 worth of Australian meats, Domestic exports amounted to $6,673,977. off in foreign exports was noted. A slight falling