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The Seattle Star (3: Bntered at Reattia Wash. Postortt ' By mail, out of ctty, one y: Wilson’s Way That of an | Executive, Not of a Monarch TRANGE that Washington should be surprised and the president's appeal to congress for a vote on the proposal to warn Americans off belligerent merchant ships Ours is called a representative form of government. One man cannot correctly shocked by Pudtiehed Datiy nome ie Co. Phone Main ascond-ol atier nd-clane mi ryt) je per month up to @ mos. Mayor Gill Starts Off Right AYOR GILL’S for appointment of a special prosecu tor to handle violations of the prohibi tion law. will the approval of all fair-minded The state “dry.” The of this. community depends in a meastre on the elimination of the liquor suggestion the win persons. is now peace large question STAR—FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1916, PAGE 4 THE RANCH AT THE WOLVERINE By B, M. Bower—Copyright, by Little, Brown & Co. | A Novela A standard, ise novel, ee this paper. Ne lone wr ment will come to you Wee This Is a part of a book. run compl: thie.week in thie newepaper, Others are to follow from week to week, beginning each Monday and ending each Saturday. A COMPLETE NOVEL EVERY WEEK! If you want back coples of the paper, if you are not a regular sub. soriber and wish to take ad. vantage of this feature, call thie paper's circulation de “| { {| 4} | NEXT WEEK, “THE OUTSIDER,” the head of the canyons. demand te The river bottoms came as near “Never mind about that, now being unknown territory as she|l'm talking sbout thone feabeck {| could have found within 40 miles of | cattle you folkn stole {her home, But after a long search “Oharile never worked any {|ehe found the c6 where she! brands, Hilly Louise,” Marthy stated {| thought Mue could nerambie down.| With her glum directness. | {| it was with a distinct air of tri-| “Well, who did, then {lumph that Bite reached the bot Laéiuise faced the old woman {\tom, even tho he slid the Inst 40 lensly. 3 {/feet on bis haunches and ianded> “That's jt, Miss Loutse,” broke tn velly-deep ine soft snow bi Charlie, “That's the point we'd ike {| Blue scrambled out of the bank/to settle ourselves, I know ft (\to fem footing on the ripened grass founds outrageous, but it's a fact ‘lof the bottom, and, with d toan of|Peter and I found thone cattle up Billy piti young woman her cattle ranged at, which the announcement seemed toby BY LOUI6B JOSEPH VANCE the loose stock Where war! Ward? Ih Billy Louise saw the doorstep banked over with old, crusted s Her heart gave a jump and sto wtill Her wh b contract with the deadly uripped her It took courage to ope ut Billy Louise had cour: to open it close the door after her. “Throw up your hands!” hoarsely from the bunk Louise gasped and pulled her gun, | and dropped crouching to the floor. | fear that that 4 came ing seemed to | re enough | amaz and to step inside and | clung Blind pigs represent the country’s sentiment in every ' prejudic particilar, on every occasion Since his inauguration, Woodrow Wil son has defied precedent and custom, and in many other ways manifested strong desire to get into close touch with the é resentatives of the people sent to * ashington from every part of the ' He has seen two of his secretaries re ‘sign bécause they thought his policies Were not indorsed by the people. He has had to make personal appeal to factions “in congress in order to prevent open re- it against measures of vital importance to his plans of handling foreign relations a and preserving genuine neutrality almost wide rels, of the law, there will fectiveness. It for th idea of a can only presented iy The police ing, as special much to the city tor, or two, or three, or a dozen of them, many number of raise up dead ghosts, quar es, unnecessary bickering, and official demoralization Peace comes with proper enforcement with be enforcement that about its ef such no question his reason that Mayor Gill's prosecutor will mean 3ut a special prosecu asecute when the cases the proper authorities ure the He must have their co-operation are fully capable of learn vate citizens have, of nd pigs running open, some of them wi now partment. ||tie head, wet off in a swinging lope. Hilly Louise pulled Blue dowp to a walk as she drew near the buch (Continued From Our Last leeue) |ed = and be ta He poe aid : " . | They did not loo! © any of bers, rN never Knows Just how after all. ‘There wore five dry cows he can do until he fs making | 424 two steers Din last stand in the fight for self-| One of the ateers stood broad preservation Ward had no mind|#ide to Billy Louise, The brand to He there and dle of blood poison: | stared out from hie dingy red side, | ing, for instance; and b » bones |the mort conspicuous ghing about) do not set themaelves. , swent- | him, Billy Loutae canght her, ing and swearing with the agony|reath, There wan no faintest line of it, be set his leg and bound the} that falled to drive ita menage in-| splints in place, and thanked the|* her rangetrained bratn. She Lord it was a straight, clean Dreak| Went hot with anger and disap and that the Mesh was not torn. jpoteesaet and contempt ; Ae the dayn passed, he nettied| Finally she swung Bine on the) himeelf grimly to the bustness of 4own-*tream «ide and shouted the! range cattioery. The animals turn ably as pomwibhl fe had foo ed awkwardly and went upstream, fn Kisttebeny?And arpeent pot sa an they had been going before Billy sized, popular novel being nh getting thru the ordeal as comfort in the hills, with our brand worked | over the V. On my word of honor, not one of us knows who did it” “But you've got them down here-——" "Well" hand helplewsly looked into Ward's fever-wild éyen He wns sitting up in the bunk, and pointing his bin 45 at her ly, “Get up from there!" sternly, “Don't try any game like that on me, Buch out the brands; what else could we Get up and go over and ait do? It neemed to me they'd be chair. safer here than anywhere else, 1 to you. had {t ized up that the fellow who® Hilly Loulse somehow grasped the worked those brands would never jtruth, wp to a certain point. Ward dream we'd bring the stock fight|was pick; #o wick he didn't ke into the Cove.” her, Bhe thought she would ter | Billy Louise glanced uncertainty |humor him. She got up and went at him and then at Marthy, facing |and nat in the ehalr as he directed her grimly, She did not know what| Ward, keeping the gun pointing to think, and she showed It her way, 4 at her in @ way He went on, with an tmpuletve |that made the soul of 1 Louise burat of confidence: “Mies Louise.jerimple. His voice was hoarse, an have you ever, in your riding around |he coughed with a hard, croup up above Jones canyon, in all thowe| enone while he poured out accu deop little guiches, have you ever|sations against Buck Olney a Charlie threw out a ‘We conidn't rub n that] I've got a few things to nay | ow From her crouching position she |comfy Relations with Germany are at a stage bordering on actual rupture—war or the next thing to it. He is trying to put the S most vital of all questions up to the ople’s immediate representatives. He doing just exactly what the kings, S, ¢zats and courtiers of Europe fot do. He honestly believes he is fight in his attitude toward Germany's Marine warfare but he recognizes that is & power, a responsibility, in this greater than his own, and that is will of the people; and his own way Qn understanding of that will is thru to the representatives of the ople. fe is too proud to fight the will of the le. i aed is a novelty. It is Wil- nh. It is right. It is the act of an utive, not of a monarch, and ex- that glorious distinction in a way the people will like. Dictation of Styles ILLINERS and modistes all over the the cotintry are trying to make, Woodrow Wilson the absolute dic- of women’s styles. Save by the of King Edward of England and sthe marriage of the prince of Wales to L young woman, no one can be d to set the pace but Mrs. Wilson. No other woman of world importance tich enough, y: enough and beauti- ‘enough to F Spe iy. what's use of Woodrow fool- with that president job? mited States of America have 2 idents, but néver a dictator “world’s fashions. | Why, it’s about the biggest honor one 4 think of, not only for Mrs. Wilson ‘but for Uncle Sam. __ By all means elect her Social Dicta- tor and then they can put anybody they to in the White House, say the its. ery family in the land will then be iJ of the.city hall to p a stone's throw The Star does not wish se ina Super-puritanical light, but “blind pigsy” houses, make for trouble and trouble They do not bring either riches or happiness to the city The mayor's expr of friendly at titude toward the enforcement, of the dry law is fine Action will be even finer And action must first be derived from the police. Then may come the prose cutor And, incidentally, Mr. Mayor, it will be a most serious mistake to allow the Anti-Saloon league or any other private society to “hi pr cutor Name him yourself, Mr. Mayor the corporation counsel do it like gambling only ésion Ipick" a special prose or let The Difference LEVEL-HEADED hess man put this question to Theo- dore H. Price “If Germany can't invade England with only the English channel to cross, why should we worry unless the Atlantic dries up?” ‘ Mr. Pricé says it was a “poser,” further, that it reflects the sentiment of the public generally The answer, My. Price and gentlemen, is that England has a navy so much larger than that of Germany that the English channel is several times wider, patrolled by that navy, than the Atlantic would be patrolled by our own. It is not the English channel which protects England by any means or manner Western busi SAYS MR. FORD: “Would any man, pre Paring to fight a fire In hit shops, ¢ those same shops with tons of inflammabies?” Sure not. But, Henry, what's the fool preparing to fight fire for, when, under your theory, there fan't any such thing? HOUSTON AND Dalias are scrapping forthe ALL democratic or at least half- Sourn»” ev lcattle down there tn that bottom, | tilly Louise, I'm right glad to see you suggest the cause and a rem- edy? H. J. K. A—The cause may be that there is no cellar under those two rooms and water may have collected around the foundation because of lack Of ventilation. The earth ont- side should slope away from the wall. Your trouble may arise from & leak fn the roof or cornice where ft Joins the wall. The only remedy is to have a reliable butlder examine the house. CHARLES. A—Your conduct was perfectly ‘The girl should have been emt to enjoy the company of with Whom she attended In shielding her from ntanée of a man whose You aif not know you i! a8 an éstort should whose ch: always thought of the best. Lately | have heard insinuations that she is not what | think she Is, but | have no proof. {| do not like to part com pany with her, #8 she has always treated me right. Would you ad- vise me to continue our friendship or to keep away from her? L. T. $5 SUITS For Boys New Norfolk styles, ae pockets, knicker- ocker trousers; good, sturdy fabrics, firmly Le | put together. In fancy _/ mixtures and stripes, in gray, brown, tan and { fr li blue, at $5.00. / ' Other Suits for Boys / $3.50 to $12.50 Redelsheimer’s W. H. Fisher, Mgr. First and Columbia Our house seems to be wel! ft, ae it te easily heated without rn But the bathroom and foom afe very damp. Can ents | Q.—I have been going with a girl honor of being called the “Cleveland of the ! ntly the best thing about Cleve. land is its press agent. ; A-You would do injury to your| own character as a man if youl should abandon your friend bécause| of insinuations. If ever a girl needs & true friend, it is when the tongues of gossip are busy. Fen {f there we & slight ground for the stor. ies, it Is your duty and privilege to help the girl to correct her error Q—In a short time my father is to be married again. What shalt | | call my stepmother? ELLA. A—Call her by the name whic! Will please her best. The sweetest tribute you can pay the woman who # the position of mother tol hter not her own by blood} to cail her by the name of} ‘Mother. Q.—Should a mother let her baby! lie and ery just because her hus-| | band thinks It Is erying for apunk? SUBSCRIBER, A.A baby should not be allowed) to ery too much; neither should it! be taken up at every whimper. Bables form habits very quickly and soon learn how to have their own way. The discriminating! Mother or nurse knows by the cry whether it comes from pain or| temper. Dear Miss Grey: In reading “Bungalow's" letter, It seems to me! as thovhe Is looking for the kind of| a wife he or any other man would! like to grace his home. i'm wonder. Ing If he expects to find a woman like that among those he terms! “good spenders.” If he does, I'm sure he will be very much mistaken,| just as | should be if | were look Ing for a husband who cared for nothing but carousing with a crowd who cheapen not only themselves, but those with whom they late. If he would but look around he would find plenty of nice air They may not be “good spenders but are in most cases “good savers, for they know héw hard it Is to earn the money which means their! |lIvelihood. What that cannot afford, | they leave alone. 1 know, for | be jong to that class. We may fook| plain and uninteresting, but we, too,| have our dreams of a neat littie| home, filled with cheerfulness and| | love; of some one whom we can| care for and of some one who willl care for us Beware, “Bungalow"—those “good | spenders” will finally get you, if you don’t watch out. SINCERE, water. Ne Iny there and saw snow slith or past hin window, driven by « whooping wind know that hin calves were unshel tered and unfed, while hin long #tack of hay stood untouched And on Chri a day a letter came for Ward a ranch on the Wolverine, and Phoebe put tt be hind the clock, where it lay for two weeks, Then another letter foined ft, and thie time there had been a \ for Phoeba, too. Phoobe's letter said simply that mommie was dead CHAPTER XI Seven Lean Kine ily Louteo, having arrived expectedly on the stage, pulled off ber fur-lined fittens and put her chilled hands before the snapping Diage fn the fireplace “TH take a cup of ten, Phosbe, but I'm not « bit hungry,” she said Has here lately? he come Ina’ woek rheumatis tn her 1 np and see her when I get rested a little, 1 feel tired to death, somehow. Has—Ward been around Intety 7" Ward, ain't been here for long time. I guess mobbe {t's been lalx weeks T nin’t seen him. You let me drag this couch up to the fire, and you lay down and rest yo'selt.” BINy Lemine dropped apathetical ly upon the couch after Phoobe had helped her pull off her cont afd not feet as tho anything matter. ed much, but she must go on with life, no matter how purposeloss ft |seomed. After a day or two Pilly Loutan took up her work again Jobn told her two of the beat steers were tmissing, and she sould not afford to let them ray Avd you looked good, all up above here?” Billy Louiae held Biue firmly ton curved-neck, circling stand, while she had @ tast word with John before she went off. “All over.” John's mittened gee. tare was even more sweeping tha thin statement “T guess meb>y them rastiers git ‘em.” * “Well, I may not be back hefore dark, so don't worry If I'm late.” Pilly Loutse siackened the retina, and Miue went off with short, stiff. logged fumnps ru the sagebrush and rocks, wonving in and ont, siackening speed a little when he went down into deep gullles, thundering np the oth er side, and racing away over the level again, went Biue. “Hold on, Blue!” Billy Loutse pulled wp on the reins. “There's he sure an you live.” One forme habits of journeying. Billy Loufso had Always loved the Wolverine canyon, and {ts brother. Jone®, canyon, which branched off from the first, As a child she had explored every foot of both, and had ridden the hilis beyond. As a = If your dealer does not carry Folger’ to Coffee, telephone our rest bre jon Gat jenit ralesinan who will Bame of @ dealer who doe M. H. JONES Office: Western Ave. and Yeuler St. Telephone Elliott 3958 » Res, 635-16th Ave., Phone, Rast 86 J. A. FOLGER & CO. San Francisco It worrted him te} ive you the | Loutee stopped them, jseen anything of a-—-corral, up | Hilly Louise had never known | there? |there was a trail up this gorge, Sb) Tiny Loutse held herself ristdly jeyed tt eritienlly and saw where! from starting at this boulders had been moved here and| “Whereabouts js it?” she asked, |there to make fis passage possible. without looking at him, And then | She thought of Ward. Mentally +] thought you would go to any #he abaved herself before him be jength before you would accuse any cause of her donbts, She hurried |pogy.” |the cattle atong the dangerous tratl,| «1 would. Hut when they deliber |tmpationt of thelr cautious pace. jately try to hand me the blame any | Since she had closed mp on the and I'm not accusing anybody jeattle and had read on their #ide® | body in particular, am 1? ‘The cor the shameful story of theft, MMlly jrai is at the head & steep little |Loulse had known that «he would lcanyon or gulch, back in the hills eventually come out at the lowerlwhere all thoes blexer cahyons end of the Core; and that in spite /nend Some time when you're rid of the fact (hat the Cove w HOt ing up that way, you keep an eye supposed to have Bny eKresS BAO lout for it. That,” he added grimly thro the gorse, “in where Peter and I ran across Bhe scemed tn no doubt a8 10 there cattle: right near that corral what she would do when she ar) The heart of Billy Lotiise. went | rived, She drove the cattle into the heavy in her chest tral farthest from the house, rode “Have you any iden at all who— onto the stable and stopped Blue. |i: ist she forced the words out of Then, tebt-Hpped still, eho Walked jer dry thy | leterminediy along the path to the yp, Fox met her look, arid in ate that led thru the berry Jungle yin eves whe read pity—yes—pity jto the cabin for her. “If 1 have,” he sald, with Hey! — Charife! Somebody's jan air of gently deliberate evasion, jcome!“ Peter Howling Dog, &) yy watt 1111 tam dead sure before pistol in his hand, came runing |) game the man.” down th h from the cabin. He! miny Louise left them with a saw Billy Souls and stopped proud lift to her chin aod a very jabruptly, his mouth half open. Straight back, went to Blue and | From a shed near the stable came mounted him mechanically Frightened, worried, sick at heart |Charlte, also running “Why. Mise Louise. How are you? pecanse her crowding doubts and ruspicions had suddenly developed |} thought Ee “You thought somebody had fot-/into piack certainty just when she your |» thought them dead forever, lten into the Cove without Knowing Mt. Well, some one did. I iniiy Louise rode up the narrow up from Below, along the | rocky gorge How could she help 1t? She bad seen the corral and had seen Ward ‘ide away from ft tn the dusk of evening; of aho believed sho had soon him, whith was the same thing. She knew that Ward's pros rity waa out of proportion wit |. “I drove up those cattle you had jy Visible feopurtes And toe jdownt below. You are awful care knew what lay behind him. Was jlows, Charlie! When & man steals his verston of the past, after all, the cattle by working over the brands, correct one? it's very bad form to keep them) At the ford, ‘when Blue would right on his ranch, in plain sight have crossed and taken the trafl Her totes stung with the comtempt home, Billy Loutse reined him tm- he managed to put Into it. ° Bee . ve | “What's all this? Worked branda! Pulsively the other way, Until that Why, Louise, IT wouldn't know how to r. | “t know You did an awful punk job. Why didn’t you let Peter do it, or Marthy? You could have done a better Job than that, couldn't you, Marthy?” ; Poor old Marthy, with her rheu matic knees and a gray hardness tn her leathery face, had come down the’ path and stood squarely before My Loulse, her hands knuckling her flabby bips, her hair blowing lin gray, straggling wisps about her | bullet head. “Better than what? ir “Oh—er—dl4 you? Pretty rough |roing, wan't tt? I didn’t think it could be done. Come fn; Aunt Martha will be——" ‘I don't think she'll be overtoyed see me.” Milly Loutee stood still. Ward, but onee her fingers had twitched the reins against Blue's neck, she did not hesitat The two mares fed the lowest corner of the iba showing. A few h and calves wandered among the thinnest along the creek ribs than did the mares. Farther «iong came Rattler, thin. lanked and rough-coated, trotting down a shallow guily to meet Blue. j } ritedly at eld, their of cows almlesstly fringe of wil. brows. Ward might neglect his stock, but ke would never neglect Rattler like this, And he must be at home, since there was his horse Orele— © © © Come tn. lye back and lookin’ so well, even lif yuh do ‘pear to be fn one of your tantrums, How's yer maw?” Billy Loulse gasped and went She struck Mlue suddenly with white. “Mommmite’s dead,” she anid. her rein ends and went clattering She pulled herself together and up the trat! where the snow lay in went on, before the ot could shaded, crusty patches rimmed with begin the set speeches of @ympathy dirt. The trail was untracked save Link Your Interest to Our Chain of Stores—Our System Plea: DRESS WEL GRecipe for a good night’s rest: Plenty of good fresh air. Recipe for a Good Breakfast: Folger’s Golden Gate Coffee. Grocers will collect the difference from us. natant she had not intended to seek | they showed | Billy Louise rode with puckered eye. | | Ward's flogers loosen on the revol-|t | ver, saw bis head turn wearily on igia | | *harlie Fox, Finally he stopped and ay quiet, except for his rasping breath, and watched Billy Louise saw waver, saw hia ¢ lewaly about the his attention es wander aim room. She saw the pillow Hilly Louise got up quietly, went | clone to the bed, and-lald her hand on his forehead, His head was hot and the veins were swollen and throbbing on his temples Ward closed hin eyes, opened jthem, and looked up into her face. | One hand came up uncertainly and! caught her fingers closel) Start It Today Neata Wings week Nothing by tom: “Withelmina- mine? HIB eyes Cleared to * he #aid, int oarse vor unity under her touch Hilly Louise drew a small sigh of tet unobtrusively for the gun. thing. He reached hand and ality of her presence. Ho to her fingers and looked nt at intent stare of his, her with if he trying to hold the er power of hin will ‘Well, how am I going to doctor you and feed you and make you all with one hand? Loulse with quavering Mpg “Kien me!” “Ah—tmight cough,” ba any d Billy the y Louise. catch Olney. | “Oh I s'pone wick fi to be humored. 4 closer til places left,” #he « same shaky later. For the next t Louise was very busy a fire and made her pa fortable as she coul Ward drink « quart of p sage tea, and when he fot to sweat ing well and let Rat ter and mares into the barn When she went again Ward gave s his eyes like one doring. Pilly Loutse © fication He was better. 414 not wr but stove and” pretended to be busy re, When she tu finally and 4 toward the bed, Ward was fit fiippanc she went out the two into the cabin start and opened who has been emfled with She r to the asleep, Billy Louise took a deep breath, tiptoed over to the bench beside the table, sat down, and pillowed her “i on her folded arm. She wanted to ery, an heeded to think, and she was deadly, deadly tired, (Concluded in our next Issue) A Hint to Mothers of Growing Children A Mild Laxative at Regular Intervals Will Prevent Constipation ° | A yital point upon which all schools of medicine seem to agree ‘se that normal regularity of the bowels is an essential to good health. The {mportance of this ts impressed particularly on mothers of growing children. A very valuable remedy that. should be kept in every home for use a8 occasion art, js Dr, Cald- compound of simple laxative berbs that has been prescribed by Dr. W. B. Caldwell, of Monticello, IL, for more than twenty-five years, and which can now be obtained In any well stocked drug store for fifty cénts a bottle. In a recent letter to Dr. Caldwell, Mrs. H. C, Turner, 844 Main at. Buffalo, N. Y., says, “I bought a bottle of Dr, Caldweti's Syrup Pep- sin for my baby, Roland Lee Tur ner, and find {t works Just lke you sald it would. It ts fine for the stomach and bowel Home of the Best $2.50 ROLAND LEE TURNER A bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin should be in every home. A trial bottle, free of charge, can be obtained by writing to Dr. W. B. aléwell, 454 Washington St. Monticello, Tl. Glasses on Earth If you use glasses you should be up to date and take advantage of this offer. Get the deep curved lenses; improves your ap- pearance and gives, you a larger field of vision. For $2.50 we will give the deep curve meniscus spherical lenses like this cut, In the latest etyle finger-piece mount- tng or spectacle frames, inciuding a careful examination. 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