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? e ‘} | SAYS MAX NORDAU: } eo \ “To the American woman, it seems natural that man should slave from morning till night in order to satisfy her.” * 5 \ \ i f es JOSH WISE SAYS: “Give a harcdworkin’ woman her way and she'll always marry a man with white, soft hands.” VOLUME 16. ADR AAARRAARARAALA RADAR RADDA : What Is a Husband Worth? have opinions that clash on the two questions above. Smith's first article in The Star today. DAR ARAARAAAAAAAA DADA ADAP DEDEDE DAP DDS The Seattle Star PPR PR ADI AADARARARAR ADR ADAP AP APDLAAAS It’s worth your while. What Is a Wife Worth? Nixola Greeley-Smith, Star writer and noted essayist on feminism, and Max Nordau, famous German author, satirist and reformer, In a series of articles for The Star they set forth their views. Read Miss Greeley- Nordau has his say tomorrow. The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News 2 NO. 13. ORDER BOALT OUT: BUT NOW BOALT IS IN MEXICO CITY! WASHINGTON, July 29.—After| Issuing his second order for the/ deportation of Correspondent Fred) L. Boalt from Vera Cruz, Secretary | of War Garrison suspended it to- day, as he did the first one. This was to give the Newspaper Enterprise association time to file an analysis of the naval board of inquiry'’s report. | The association maintained that the court’s findings were contrary | to the evidence. WASHINGTON July 29.—Despite | the fact that three yarns vo are nding in congress dem: ing an [iventigation of the alleged white washing of United States naval of- of the charge made by Cor- L. Boalt of o y! years from the burdens an which were operated direct insure tranquillity to states. loyalty See. give victory to my arms.” GIRL SCHO before his departure and is now en- gaged in making a general survey of conditions in the Mexican capi- tal, and of the steps being taken for the ilitation of the govern- ment since the abdication of Huerta. The original ordeg for Boalt's di portation was issued following publication of a story telling of an American naval officer said to have shot unarmed and fleeing Mexicans during the occupation of Vera Cruz. Boalt said he received the infor- mation from the officer himself, En-| sign Richardson, U. 8. N. Margaret Chambers, a school| teacher, is in the Steflacoom in sane asylum. And she doesn't be- long there. She was suffering from a nervy lous breakdown. It was necessary \for her to rest. There was some ltrouble between her and her rela- tives. They would have none of her. There was no other place to send her. Be ay Report sation|, All the rest of her life she will Accordinaty vo ‘a th pd feel disgraced, for the bitter order wag, suspen’ an @ mat-| thought, “I have been an ingane ter ed over to the Vera Cruz na authorities for investigation. Yesterday Secretary of the Navy Danfels received a, report of the board of inquiry's findings, in wuich stated that 30 naval officers asylum inmate,” will haunt her as jong as she lives. | oe ca on he ‘The case of Margaret Chambers differs from that of Emma Bremer, e of Whose story was told in The Star ight” | Yesterday \" Emma Bremer, heart-broken be-| ha |cause the laws of her church for-| of le a divorce from the man she | pe ed that she might marry the | pj man she loved, was suffering from | in temporary melancholia. She was) cu sent to Steilacoom, because the} state has failed to provide an ob- servation hospital for such pa- tients. | With Margaret Chambers it enforcement of the at Vera Cruz, and never heard Rich- ardson say he knew of one. | The testimony of Boalt and other | ca correspondents directly contradicted | this. | TU and despondent, Harry Snow,| seems to have been a pure case of fa middle-aged man, put a bullet f railroading.” Nervous prostra is > SHOOTS HIMSELF his brain im his room at 1414%|tion, brought on by overwork, se m shi th el tic to th al a —— A woman came into the office today and handed me a card that brought back memeries of days long past, when I was a very small boy, just entering school. The card bore people to the heart, forms the vi for her with the no taint of an provided for MADEN GIVES IENNA, July 29.—In a manifesto issued Tuesday night, Emperor Francis Joseph told of the fervency with which he had hoped to save Austria during his declining d sacrifices of war. “But the intrigues of a malevolent opponent,” continued the manifesto, “compel me, in defense of the honor of my monarchy and for the security of its possessions to grasp the sword after long years of peace. A series of murderous attacks in an or- anized and well carried out conspiracy, whose success wounded me and my loyal le and bloody track of those secret machinations in Servia. “In vain did my government make a last attempt to induce Servia to desist, Servia rejected the just and moderate demands of my government and refused to conform to the obligations forming the rational foundation for peace in the life of peoples and states. I must, therefore, proceed by force of arms to secure those pledges which alone can “In this solemn hour | am fully conscious of the whole significance of my re- solve and my responsibility before the Almighty. “I have examined and weighed everything, and with my conscience clear | set out on the path that duty points. people, who throughout every around my throne and have always been prepared for OL MAAN LOCKED UP WT LUNATES SENDING SANE PEOPLE 10 ASYLUM DEPRESSES JUDGE, HE TELLS STAR} Czar Warns He Doctors Say She Suffered From Melancholia- Discussing the lack of a proper place of detention for victims of melancholia and per- sons pending examination as to their sanity, Superior Judge Boyd Tallman said today: “In my fourteen years’ experience on the bench | hawe frequently SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1914. Dee bey ~ ONE CEN’ ULTIMATL “Why I Am Sending Thousands of Men to Their Deaths”—A Statement by Emperor of Austria and child-rearing, any man’s job | is a cinch!” PLP LLP LLL AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST — Fair tonight and Thursday, Moderate northwesterly winds. N x EMAINS AND AND, Be Te | | Kaiser Wilhelm, the “war lord” of Germany, is today sitting on the safety valve of the greatest war |horror the world has ever known. Unless Russia ceases its military activities, a Ger- |man army mobilization order will be issued at the end |of 24 hours, a high official told the United Press at Berlin today. % This stand was regarded virtually as an ultima- tum, fixing a time limit within which the czar was required to reply. Official circles are extremely pessimistic. Under secretaries and attaches of the foreign office remained at their desks, in Berlin, and all the officials were working tonight. The kaiser has instructed the Austrian govern- ment, Berlin dispatches say today, to delay its invasion of Servia until he gives the word. The German em- peror is striving to confine the imvending struggle to Austria and Servia. Russia, it is believed. will refuss, to forsake Servia in the latter country’s dilemma. Russia goes to war, all of Europe will go, too, | millions of men and thousands of ships. English War Fleet Sail was today unofficially reported to have sailed Portsmouth. Its destination was unknown. The . miralty refused information. If Great Britain, through | its treaty obligations with France and Russia, is drawn been depressed by having to send persons pending examina- tion or suffering from melan- cholia to the county jail. They are not criminals, They are more like helpless children and aman fee! like a crim- detain them there. From the bench, in public and in private | have frequently called attention to the outrage and disgrace inflicted upon such people by the lack of a Proper detention place. | am not an insanity expert, but | have bee ompelied to send People to Steilacoom suffering from melancholia whose afflic- tion would only be increased by their surroundings and asso- ciation with insane people. Any campaign for a proper deten- tion place should be pushed hard will receive my warm support and | think that of every other fair-minded per- son.” re for the girl. There was but © place for the state to care for r—Stellacoom' The authorities did their best equipment they id, but it was not the right sort equipment. She should have en sent to an observation hos- |. In a few weeks she would, probability, be d red. And there would isylum for her to rry around the rest of her life! The case of Margaret Chambers be and thot of Emma Bremer are in} many respects radically different. | Yet the resuits are the same. BOTH ARE LOCKED UP UN- DER THE SAME ROOF WITH) \ Fifth av. today. He had been dead|drove her to seek the protection |LUNATICS! several hours before the body was/and sympathy of her folks. Put bite we discovered by th» landlady, Mrs.|they were busy with their own af- Margaret Chambers ‘spent her fairs, and chose to have the state) 11, girlhood in Greeley, Ne |braska. She was a precocious youngster and a hard worker in hool, and soon she left her class: ates far behind. Her own other was unable to re for her, and when 9 years old e was adopted by a family, They her as she speeded rough her school career. At 16 the age when many boys and ris are just entering high school she graduated from that institu on, She was ambitious, She wanted repay 1 dopted parents for eir kind *. Having won her ploma, she Immediately obtained position as school teacher Imagine, you parents, with 16. the name of the Band of Mercy. proves Fos phe ed apa slip of a ' ae ve aaltew a 4 girl teaching schoo A I remember the teacher in the first grade starting a livis Mor tae waare che taseioked ; ifn of the Band, and how we all signed the pledge. It was|then came the break-down, Physt- 1 F a big event in our lives, The idea appealed to our childish | cians told her she must rest, A f fancies. Forthwith we became ardent defenders of all dumb |#udden longing for her family tm- pe animals. th We lived in the day of “Beautiful Beauty”—heart-gripping and beautiful stories of a dog and a horse, in which all youngsters of my time delighted. And we had but to look around us to find ample material on which to expend our energies, for that v long before the day of the automobile, and a humane society hadn't been} heated of—at least in our town and “Black and sald she was suffering from melancholia! They sald she shouldn't have th gone to Stetlacoom, Hed to come to Tacoma, But e fami turned her over to a commission physicians examined her but what could ey do? She is over the now We did a lot of good in our small way, too, nursing Her mother came to Seattle yes back to life a half-dead bird, feeding starved cats and dogs,|terday, following The Star's story a yerforming numerous little acts of kindness both to dumb |of Emma Bremer, and said she nd performing would do her best to have her animals and. human beings And because we signed the pledge when very young and impressionable, the whole class, I am certain, has always re membered it. Its influence has been lasting, and we are better, kindlier men and women because of it | b 1 am glad there is a Band of Mercy in Seattle. da ughter released When you lose something leave it to STAR WANT ADS to find it. BY PLUCKY SWIMMING | } | . | | PARIS, July 29. Mme. Henrlette | Caillaux, acquitted last evening on} j charge of murdering Editor Gaston | ficiently recovered today from her experiences to hold a reception at her home. Even the war scare was insuffi-| clent to detract interest from the | Caillaux case, and the ex-finance! minister's residence was surround- ed all day by a gaping throng, which made it difficult for the au- tomobiles of visitors to reach the] door. The rumor afloat shortly after | the killing of Calmette to the ef-| fect that Caillaux had tired of his wife and might soon seek a di voree, and that she shot the editor | that her husband might regard it as a sacrifice on her part and thus change his mind about leaving her, | seemed to be utterly discredited today, for the two seemed constant ly together, and showed great af- fection for each other, The verdict, it was predicted in political circles, would have the ef- fect of restoring M, Caillaux to his former standing with the govern: ment | Miss Beth Wiley. ‘SAME OLD STORY BERKELEY, Cal, July 29.-—Her plucky rescue of 11-year-old Ear!) Acai! j Rose from drowning in: the way| A oese of too imueh mothertd here, in a struggle which all but| aw was made the basis of the di jeost her own life, has made Miss) vorce complaint filed today by Mrs, | Beth Wiley the heroine candidate] Margaret Van Ness against. Wal lof this city for a Carnegie medal] jace Edson Van Men: Van jot braver: |Ness says her husband's mother She herself was so abashed at} nagged her so life was made un the plaudits of over 200 people Who} pearable. had watched her thrilling half-mile | swim in choppy seas with young Rose's unconseious body that she fled as soon as she had dragged | him to safety | | ‘The boat in which Rose was| watching bathers was swamped by | Ness WANTS DIVORCE Gus Swanson, marine pllot on |a big wave, and Mixs Wiley, after a/ vessels running to Alaska, declares desperate sprint, reached him just! his wife, Gertrude, deserted him, in ae he was sinking the last time. a complaint for divorce filed today, am nesoues vrs | CAILLAUX AND WAR TO BRING s220 Sez ieoen sot ert HIS WIFE PUT GOOD TIMES IN IN HAPPY DAY THIS COUNTRY What effect will the all-Buropean | war have upon the United State How will It affect Seattle? Will times be more prosperous, |Calmette, of “Le Figaro,” had sut-|0T Will the war have a depressing effect? That the United § es will called upon to furnish Europe wi a large portion of its food supp is a foregone conclusion. Whee of industry will hum busily, tories will have crops will find an easy These are assured facts. Meat Will Cost More. It is 0 positive that the cost of living will soar sky- ward. Edward . Cudahy, the big Chicago packer, today sounded a warning that a big jump in the price of meat is to be expected. The cattle supply adequate to meet With the foreig ized, the export demand country would be abnormal Wheat Up Several Points. would the demand The stock markets throughout the feverish state to country day. points. twe today the wheat crop in the Unit States has increased $100,000,000 value, All indications point to a wave are in Wheat has Jumped up sever It is estimated that b \ great industrial and agricultural re vival in this country. This mea plenty of employment and general | against prosperity—unless the cost of | ing soars out of proportion. In Seattle, the financiers, t brokers, the big mills, wholesale | ourrent here today houses are all of business. | time in grocers and supply prepared for a rush The lumber market, whieh hi been at a standstill for some tim is expected to do a brisk business.|4 conspiracy hatehed in LUNDY'S SON DIES Councilman Ira D, Lundy's 7-yer old boy, David Stewart Lundy, di yesterday of pneumonia I7-year-old daughter is also fll with} which declared Gavrio Prinzip, who! not pneumonia, ar fac: plenty of work, market be in ) markets demoral-|the kaiser will try to crush the French before turn- in this] 5 yesterday noon and at noon) deeply resented, and finally peror Francis Joseph that a hot ex- ed/the Belgrade newspaper “Zvono” change of messages ensued. bes Lundy's | answered it by publishing « letter |tween Vienna and Relgrade, the into the impending European struggle, it is conceded jits chief duty will be to engage y's forces sea. The two fleets, land’s and Germany’s, which | are now within a few miles of each other in the h sea, are the two greatest in the world. 9 es ll Fight LONDON, July 29.—The czar has praetically notified the kaiser that Russia will mobilize its if Austria invades Servia, it was stated here on high authority. | It is considered certain Germany will mobilize if Russia does so. E Austrians and Servians are preparing today for — their opening battle. Six Austrian army corps are y on the Servian frontier. The British cabinet is feverishly discussing plans for averting a general conflict. Russia Masses Troops ST. PETERSBURG, July 29.—A partial mobili zation of the Russian army is in progress today. Fourteen army corps are being concentrated jalong the Austrian frontier, from the Austro-Germ wm | border to the Black Sea. , 8? ee f,) be th phy pls J # France Is All a-Bristle © LUXEMBURG, July 29.—French troops were ~ concentrating on the German frontier today. ’ | * Alsac-Lorraine was considered the spot where |trouble was likeliest to begin. It has long been rey ported that Germany planned to expel the French from the two provinces. + Should the czar lend aid to Servia, it is believed ds ing his attention to Russia. andal Story « Austrian War Cause? Royal Sc ral ne. of! BERLIN, July 29—In explana-,Servian, as had been reported, bat H,{ tion of Austria's sudden outburst the illegitimate son of an Austrian Servia after it had been | WOMAN of royal biood. This woman's husband, the let- ter continued, had been murdered, and the woman herself was said to have sacrificed her honor to learn who was responsible for his death. Gavrio, it was asserted, was born after this, and it was deciared that the mother urged him to kill the archduke, telling him the latter plotted her husband's killing, 4 This publication, aceerding to the current story, so infuriated Em- tv-| supposed the incident of Archduke | Francis Perdinand’s assassination he | was closed, a remarkable story was freely asserted at the Austrian and Hungarian 45/ newspapers thot the assassination N@,lof the archduke was the result of ervia | At Belgrade the charge that the murder plot was of Servian origin ur | was It was final result of which was the Aus a trian declaration of war, * killed } Ferdinand, was i

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