The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 5, 1914, Page 1

mune GUARANTEED PAID CIRCULATION OVER By Fred L. Boalt He put a silver dollar in my hand “Your name?” | sald Never mind my name Christma: He started for the door, halted, hesitated, came back id he, “what are you going to do with the money It'e for the littlechimney kide’ | told him about our plans for the big Christmas show at Dreamiand, but | could see he was not entirely satisfied, to give 'em any brea d and soup?” and underwear, second-hand, but still good?” Id again, “It len't going to be that kind of a ahow at all, Just toys and candy—foolish like, Santa Claus and a tree all covered with candle and a vaudeville show, Moving pictures, maybe. Want your money back? “Nol” he sald, and laughed Got a minute to spare | told him to shoot ahead “My folks were good people, but old-fi “They had the i that it was wicked wai presents on Christmas or birthdays. “We were poor, and there were a lot of us, so we kids had to work, and turn our money over to dad. Until | cut loose from “| wanted to make sure, that's hioned,” eto give usel 50,000 COPIES DAILY -P-R-E-W-W-E-E! SHRAPNEL FROM BIG BURSTS ABOUT WRITER’S EARS AZEBROUCK, France—(By Mail to New York) — GUNS By William Philip Sims I wish to record in the first paragraph of this com- deep regard for the Belgians. “pinch” the average war correspond- eum. G el ae bn leon lee oe Russians welcome him in flowery speeches, then keep him so far in the rear that he cannot even hear the sound of the guns. But the Belgians are real sports. They wink an eye and look the other way while we get close enough | to the firing line to give the Germans a chance to take | pot shots at us. Only this morning they let me chase one of their battles on the Yser into its very lair—and then let the battle chase me to Haze- brouck. I outran the battle. Early in the morning I was at Dunkirk, yearning for a closer A acquaintance with the fighting I could hear 12 miles away. 1 asked the service lieutenant for a pass, but, plead as I might, the only one he would give me was to England I left ai es Meutenant, crestfalien and disappointed. There seem- 4 ed na hope. . Li¢utenant’ Takes Him to Front through the barrt the sea-water moat, and drove on into the country. The car's wind shield had been shot away, and a fine mist stung our faces. the lieutenant, could see the puffs from their guns Sauntering past the Belgian headquarters, I met a Bel, tenant with whom I had dined the, night before, and told him my troubles. “Too bad.” he sald Tm going to Hazebrouck today, ad my laissez-passeri is good for two. Want to go Did I? 1 did We hurried to the lieutenant's car, and in no time passed ades at the city gate, over the bridge spanning As we passed through Coudekirk, my friend asked ‘Like to see some fighting?” T could not believe my ears. he said, “and the roads I gasped, swallowing much mist “It's just a short distance to our left,” are good. Want to risk it?” 1 could only nod “Ye ng lovely Berques, moated, battlemented, for. |, we turned to the left and sped along the road, only stopping once to show our pass at East Cappel, where we entered Belgium. Then we turned north toward Dixmude. Hears Big Guns Banging Away All at once-—BANG! We darted into a cross-road, and right near us, judging by the sound, the big guns were slamming away We left the car and walked toward a windmill 600 yards away, across beet flelds and a truck garden The firing became louder. “The French are using their 75-mfllimeters over there,” said pointing northward In the distance I saw a small village We mounted ladders to the top of the windmill and looked out There was the battle. The German batteries were hidden in a depression, but we The shells were flying back and forth over the village. Occasionally a shrapne| sbell would burst above the tiled roofs. “Belgians and French hold that village,” the officer told me, fore. | found he was right a mom not bad shooting. And He Didn’t Stop to Argue directing the Fren “and the Germans are about to attempt to drive them out Through the glasses | could see many houses and churches In ruins. Sims Wants to. Get Closer “Let's get closer,” I suggested, “I've seen artillery duels be I waht to see the infantry ‘You'll find you are cose enough,” warned the Heutenant. I t later. S-prewwwwwedeee! A shell hissed noisily over the arms of the windmill Bo-m' Jt exploded quite a distance baok of us. “Bad miss,” said the lieutenant S-p-r-e-w-w-w-weweee-e-e! Again that hissing, a cross between the sizzling of a safety valve and the shriek of train wheels, with air brake applied, B-o-m! This shell burst nearer than the first one “Gay,” exclaimed the leutenant, “they're after us, and that's We'd better get out 4 quick with their glasses and think we are It won't take than three shots to us “They have spotted h fire more = porte rear anes She stared fixedly out of the win- J'M GOING ‘To Get RID Ls IHAVE IT, ML. BUY _| )4#i522 1s NO SMALL Sickem, fw oe the Wit} not right that you should be cast am OF THAT BLAMED CAT | A DOS, AKO DOGS port SICKEM : : : off like an old shoe, 4 NOW BELIEVE MEE WATE CATS Sy | AMOUNT To PAY After they had been married aj)" «4 man who sets his wife adrift s A vos BUT ABTLL time, she learned gradually that _ r ‘i DRINKIA? BLACK COPPER pas HHP NPAs res ; a at your age, after she has given him Alb FIX THAT CAT all he wanted was a cook and seam-| four children, when she has lost ALLRIGHT ALLRIGHT stress. much of her power of caring for To LEAVE CREAM FoR A CAT IS Too MUCH! The SeattleStar “ VOLUME 16. “So my wife and | got to talking last night little girl, and she believes in Santa Claus We've got a N 5 rthern Pacific's Man, ght give Potato ‘that pic Great Big sent for a Star man t lay usta Che Phe tmas by Che Star So,” pur nutritic The Star ritu “She's got Santa Claus and God mixed up in her head, and she thinks God, alias Santa Claus, is a jolly with red cheeks and white whiskers, who wants everybody to be happy. Maybe she Ian’t wrong. She laughs when she says her prayers. ecurred to me,” mi mall children the tummyache man udmitted iftc ita Star Ne they might railroad would be tummy-ache this would vehture to man rthern Pac grieved if it unwittingly marred for child others far ritus indeed be a ug that any an giving eld admitted Pita I restible man said at pressed electric make thor said to my wife | guessed we'd ought to do a little some- thing for the little-chimney kids, and that I'd give a dollar. My wife, she said we couldn't really afford to give that much just for foolish things, when so many people are going hungry. “We had quite an argument, | said there were people with more money than us who were doing all they could to take care of the poor by giving them food and clothes. “And mebby,’ | said, ‘it's our part to see to it that some- body else's kid Is as happy on Christmas day as ours is going to be. You wouldn't want HER to get just ‘bread and soup and underwear on Christmas, would you?’ “That won her over, all right man sued sad ending of a happy day we substitute for pie low would a cake mus, once that fruit cake button \ ye sand fruit would be than pie ung man appeared promptly, “TI for The Star Just like that! far nicer an aid ‘Titus to the awrence,” young man, “please one cakes home | don't remember ever having any money that | could spend ‘foolishly,’ or even getting a ‘ men and women agd hungry children. “1 know there are good people in town doing all they can to “For Christmas | generally got hobna provide the poor with food and clothes and shelter—and work, “1 haven't much notion how much a doll ought to cost. You Ings and underwear That's fine! could get a pretty fair one for a dollar, couldn't you?” “Now, | ain't knocking useful things, I've had my upe and “But, my friend, folks—especially young folke—need some: | told him | was sure a doliar would buy at least four very downs, and | know that bread and soup are good for a man when his stomach's empty, and that woolen underwear is fine when you're cold. “1 know, too, that times are hard, There are many hungry thing more than clothes, food, shelter and work. “Without fun, half of the bo re will starve, even though he eats bread and soup three times a day and wears the thickest underwear. Yessir! fine dolls. This seemed to restore his self-respect. He had been clined to be apologetic for having given only a dollar. Personally, | regard a dollar as a pile of money AST EDITION Tonight and Sunday unsettled. The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News parvese WASH., SATURDAY, TIDES AT SEATTLE High 7:58 a. m., 148 ft 2:23 pom, 19.0 fe : a low oy AINS 12:47 p. m., REWH NT ANE AND ne NO. 244 SE ATTLE, DEC. 5, 1914. ONE CENT —o get our range at this rate. Come on Fiat down!” cried the ieutenant I was already on my way. Of course, I did not argue. Yes, | hurried 1 fell flat, clinging to my hat As we reached the machine, we looked back in time to see @ We began a rapid retreat across the truck garden and the beet BOM! huge pile of beets leap high In the air, making @ purplish, smoky, fleld | A shrapnel shell burst not very high above us muddy, streaky splotch against the sky, like a multi-colored ink Another shell dropped quite close to the windmil! as we stop: Following the explosion, there came a great buztihg and zoon spot in motion ped and looked from behind some piles of beets. We were in a ing, not unlike the buzz of 100,000,000 mad hornets, It seemed as B-O-M! field where harvesting had begun | if It would go on forevermore And the splotch disappeared. The offensive beets fell back In regular pyramids, 40 or 50 feet apart, were great purple Time into the shrapnel-torn hole, a ton of bleeding shreds. They Get Out Just i When {t was over, I looked across to see if my had been hit. He grinned ' Shrapnel,” he said BRIDE COMFORTS BOY HUSBAND JAILED FOR A BRUTAL seseed and white stacks of beets. 1 was behind one; the Heutenant be- hind another S-prew ww weweeeee! This shell was mighty close HODGE NAMES HIS DEPUTIES: Sheriff-ele nounced his deputies J. Beringer, ebiet son. office deputy bookkeeper keeper ean | Jas RB (ASK CITY LIGHT AT EVERETT Because of the extortion charged by the Stone & Webster concern, an appeal to the city of Seattle to extend ts municipal light and water service to the city of Eve: Good shot,” said the Neutenant. “Let's go away from here.” And here I am I wonder If they go’ Belgian friend that windmill WORKING HABIT IS. FOOL H. Rensing, “schoo! principal | Kennydale, was arraigned in Ju: Brinker's court Saturday, chai | with third-degree assault on | olas Angelo, a schoolboy. When the case was called, at 10° o'clock, the courtroont was filled with Kennydale grownups and chil- | dren, witnesses who had come to Se- attle from Kennydale at consider- jable cost and inconvenience to them- selves. Rensing was on hand with his at | torney, Gienn Hoover, But there was no prosecutor, At the prosecutor's office two uties were found—Butler and vain, Butler said-he was working ~ on a brief and Silvain was something eise, and they couldn't Let's + crank p and go. t Bob Hodge today an They follow ” deputy: A " SLAIN. AGHT 70 EIZE U. S. CRAFT WASHINGTON, Dec. sg The German embassy made it plain today that Germany does not regard the seizure of coal by German warships from American and neutr, merchanymen to be any more violation of American neu trality than England's selz ure of copper rd such vessels, It was stated that coal and copper are contra- them on the high seas wher- ever they can. was made Friday night by the = while the value the Everett | come and prosecute. Everett Tradee council. The Railway, Light & Power Co. for ‘And, besides, it was Sata resolution to that effect was actual property and utility is) morning. Re introduced by State Senator | $2,000,000, the company has out | And, again besides, the deputies | John €. Campbell standing $2,000,000 of capital stock are going out of office in January The minimum electric lighting of bonds; that oly anyhow, so why work? charse of, the Everett. Railway | $500,000 of the railway bonds have, | “I set the case for Saturday morn Light & Watér Co. for households | been sold, so far an any records ing,” said Justice Brinker, “because. 0 the highest in any first-/Show, and that the company ha: ie $1.1 ‘3 ine 3 Bighin. béen earning from 10% to 14% per & number of the witnesses are chile “ ity in the s ate /, ae dren and would have to miss school erhe,minimam charKe tn The working men and women on any other day. I don't kntw lants are in operation, is only 60/0f Everett.” sys the Trade Coun whether to continue the case, and lants are in opera oe. ene thanekenirweed Haan te : |make all these people take another cents dt at an’ Cones Although he Is awaiting trial In Los Angeles, Cal., on a charge of murder in the first degree, Percy trip to Seattle, or dismiss it for wa Bi Olfference in Rates seree wurden which has become | TUBWEll, accused of having taken the life of Mrs. Maude Kennedy, August 31, declared in the county jail| want of prosebution. In the latter Vater rates charged by the | stock. & fs that Thankagiving was the best day he ever experienced in his life. event, the ends of justice would not pene & bho mga a param 5 2 The assertion followed the visit of his young bride. be served.” so gon wie Le pee ee Young M Tugwell carried some home-made candy and some cake to him and spent the greater por-| The court continued the ath; $1.85 per month for seven | ton. of the visiting hours reading to him. case to December rooms, ete. with an additional 26 Jt ts little incidents like this cents for each of the four sum: which make one wonder if the fee n form of government isn’t @ failure, and if a despotism wouldn't be nicer, after all. mer months. The minimum charge in Seattle. prorection iN Married a Man and Found | » department is the statement issued by the Hy-|¢r appeal to the sta whe the city owns = th weter plant. le only 50 cents per month His majesty the king could at The rate per kilowatt hoar in chop off the heads of his loaf. Everett for lighting service is MEXICAN A im ut--- er - M4 ame ing servants, 8.48 cents, practically 9 cents a gene while in Seattle it is only 6 cents she'd tae We appeaied to the public serv Jc. 5. Ane ».vili-tehatp ngs tawe wilted tor the I wanted to a long time lice commiasion for relief in 1912,"|_ WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Anoth-| De rau kaew neu have asked for th aaa “pi bestow vas) Lae becatieg abtkars bildreneey birt ver Whe ky the > aba Maniike, you have questt m ny soft young cheeks one | the broken-hearted woman, dully. Jerett Trades council, “but obtained | from Gov. Hunt of Arizona, asking| Ever made by the Mand avore oad at the bar | know the real trouble,” she hee |none, We now appeal to the city | adequate protection for non-com er oe win y © me then, ‘mid the fall | “there js another woman. * ® of Seattle to inaugurate co-overa-| batants in Naco, Ariz, from bullets) i : eda scalpel SF | Her husband wants the custody of tion between municipalities, to the| fired by Mexican troops at Naco| D° Yeh Knew nun Bars maked fu | the 12-year-old boy, The wife, sHinaan Jasting benefit of both Seattle and | Sonora, was received today by Se | iin eae wishing to please the man she once Bryan verett.” mn ary , Earning Big Dividends Gov, Hung called Bryan's atten “dl ers have died to tg ema ti took for her king, sald she was | Citing the report of the public|tion to the killing of Bracemonto| — With the reckless dash of a bey RS mcigh, ~ RE wre Fone PL RE re eek gh Igervice commission Issued Novem-| while the latter was working In). oa many years ago Wm, W.)” Sy : v ; ‘ But Judge Smith Inter : ber 20, 1912, the Trades counell {front of the Federal building yes ‘0 a ears s was fair and young, There| mouth turned up at the corners ut Judge Smith interposed: | points to statisties showing that! terday ‘Raker married a lass. were roses on her cheeks and her} with laughter From what I have observed | Friday she sat in Judge Everett| While raising a number of boys, I Smith's court and told why she| know this boy is at a critical age, ag | wanted a divorce. Gone were the| When he needs a mother. If his ig | roses, the youth, and the fairness, | ther ts as you say, the boy might Her mouth drooped, Sbe talked| S00” be hitting a fast pace. And in low, lifeless, monotonous tones. | Certainly after all your work, rails Gq | ing and educating the children, itis — 7 But her love died hard Even when he accused her of go ing with other men, when he for | bade her to eat at the table, or dered her from the house, threat: ened to shoot her—she still loved | him, though her respect for him| mother, | Was going rapidly, | Mrs. Glara Baker is free, He Calls Her Names 4 But when he censovd all the let | RUSSIA GETS coin q 8 she received before she read them, and began calling her names) LONDON, Russian notes herself, and needs a provider, has little sense for the proprieties And 7 I should like to know what sort of spiritual or mora! care a young boy would get from him.’ A long, deep sigh from the Dec, 5 before their four children, it was}to the amount of $100,000,000 are too mueh being discounted in London for pay- 4 Still she hesita though he | ment of interest and to enable Rus- urged her to get a divorce--said sia to purchase supplies in Great he'd make it so unbearable for her,| Britain and the United States,