The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 17, 1916, Page 4

Member of the Bertppe North west League of Newspapers Entered at Be By mail, out of city steady Fz is Caution for Farmers TIMELY warning has been issued by the conference of Cotton States | bankers to the cotton planters. It is in- teresting and informative for it gives the views of trained students of conditions as to the possible effect of a prolongation of the war on the cotton market. While its object, primarily, is to accomplish a reduction in the cotton acreage, it in one respect applies to every farmer. The ad- vice to diversify; to grow, first of all, feed and food for their own use and the use of their local communities, is well worth following. The farmer should and can be suffi- cient unto himself. He can raise, if he uses. ordinary intelligence, everything he and his family needs to enable them to The Seattle Sta action on the ing effect, which will bring quick action. lexican affair, it is quite within the range of tt Mexico is not entirely alone. = i = Sarve Rye Low crisis with Mexico will have at least of our peanut congressmen into a measures. In view of t for IMMEDIATE preparedness; argumen| stimulate congress with all the effectiveness of an morn. Prospective certain war another, even if it is only a live well. No man can tell what tomorrow may bring forth. We may be plunged in war ourselves. It is no time to gamble in cot- ton or any other farm product. By gam- bling we mean raising an excess of any one crop to the exclusion of the home essentials. INCIDENTALLY, THE talk of a epecial pros ecutor (even at an additional expense of $2,700 @ year) serves to distract attention from the police chief. OFFER: A YEAR'S subscription to any chap who'll invent phosphorescent ink, so newspapers can be read in the dark. AS AN illustration of “eternal vigiilance,” witness tho crooked politicians returning from the penitentiary to their old jobs at Terre Haute. Z tate to tell you. Q.—For the past five months | have been going out frequently with “B® young man. | have every reason “fe think that he cares for me, but has never told me so. The fact 1 am learning to care a great dea! for him, which | shouldn’t do J} thought his intentions were not Bo you think h Hy for me, or would he tell me he did? INQUIRER, _A—The young man must enjoy society, or he would not seek but it is impossible for any one himwelf to say whether he cares ly for you. When he ts cer- be a good comrade, but don't ex pect him to marry you just becau Q—How can | own feelings until he gives you some intimation that he cares seri-| ously for you. | ily In Brooklyn, N. Y.? : BROTHER. family, Sele look in Q.—Please tell me how to word an invitation to a thimble party; also how to accept or refuse such an invitation, BESS, | A.—Use your visiting card and write on it the day, date and hours of the party. In-one corner write “Thimbles.” Such an invitation at the offices of the R. rectory Co. L. as to their whereabouts. ESSE within two paces of the low stone | didn’t know how you'd take tnt ference. I might as well make a ‘clean breast of {t—I was fust selfish jenough to have @ sneaking sort of hope, deep down, that maybe you'd find tt so anpleasant you'd quit.” | he admitted, evading her Indignant vcorroded with things fixed know the inside story of how your predecessor good deal of her own disposition to squabbling and backbiting and tat understood very sweet to her just then, what ever its source. anything but easy. was—well, any fool coulda see that Get Rid of > STAR—FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1916. “AN OUTSIDER” By Loule Joseph Vance—Copyright, Frank A, Munsey Co. EXT WEEK, “THE MAXWELL MYSTERY” . A Novel a Week dard, high-class, heok- je thie week tn | } | (Continued from Our Last leeue) STRONG hand closing uncer emeniously on her wrist brought Sally to a standatill this society much show,” “Show!"* “Ot making wall that guarded the Urink of the clit jabout the bu or—ah—Miee bh Manwaring!" Trego's volce coun | seled her quietly, Then, seeing | that she ylelded readily, he releas. He was mak his simple ed her, “I beg your pardon,” he |in a beam sea, " pt pe rald, “but tn another minute, 1€ 1) «if you'll marry me, that Is,” he or Stor th clined nee ie vision bedn't taken the iheriy of — concluded fn a breath, with obvious ss ping you, you might have hurt | retiet 2 PER V yourself.” | “Oht" whe sighed, “Why?” CHAPTER VIII She managed to mutter an un He misconstrued “Because Fi Witness gracious “Thank you” lyou're « woman, not «a mantkin.| Sally fatled, however, fully to ap “It's none of my business,” | Marriage would mean something preciate how long {t was that she Trego Volunteered with some heat, “but Td ike to know what Vielous old vixen found ty upset you this way “Oh, you were watching?” “No; I just happened to sticking round when you flew out of that fool sideshow of hers like Were porsessed, And then I that y to idlen entertain my f “How do you ed, almost pa you swored herself. saw you weren't paying much at-| You assert things—I only wish they | night’ teutton where you were going, and! were true I was afraid. Hope you don't mind my butting tn!” don't nly,” most think I mean to be rude./to me. she gulped again, “I'd al Nef you hadn't stopped me dad that w wasn't there!” “Now, now!” he reminded her. It can't be as bad as all that, you sound as “Look where you're going, Miss |think I can make you happy heavy woather of | declaration like an old-fashioned square-rigger PAGE 4 good with you. ? ¥ love you, Sar Manwaring—and laborin riends. know?" she proter asionately, Jus long as you were #o strong for! racket I dida't stand Oh, }look here, what's the use of beating more to you than clothes, Burope, | ha and flirting with other) ble reat spellbound tn the thoughts women's husbands, jnst as it would | of her first proposal of marriage. have to mean more to me than| hiring @ woman to live with me and | nold House only on the prompting and an-| she must present herself first to her “You don't know It! mn appl “Oh, they're true enough,” he tn- ‘terrupted, unceremontously, “Not at all,” she gulped. “Please | no use trying to run yourself down | 1 couldn't feel the way I do} about you If you were not at heart/ no matter stood on the threshold of her bed- what nonsense you may have been |eullty of at one time or another, as levery human being’s got to be.” No other been maneuver could have more shrewdly calculated to advance his cause; nothing makes #0 compelling an appeal %o feminine sympathies #8 @ rejected suitor taking his punishment like a man; the emotional affinity of pity has| been ablished ever since the in vention of love. Sally sank down mechanically upon a iittle marble seat near the spot where they had stood talking rested upon that secluded mar She rose and turned back to Gos | of instinet, vaguely conscious that |the time was drawing near when er with the tale of Inst doings, then to Savage to | learn his version of the happenings |! New York, Sally made off to the door of rs, Goanold’s boudoir. A voice sharp with veration an ed her knock, Mra. Gosnold emp! | chamber, clothed simply tn under. garments and impatience. BY CAROLYN “WELLS. main staircase at the precise mo- ment an unmasked Harle quin was about to set foot upon the upper landing. Mr. Savage was emiling anietly to himself. Somewhat renasured by the vision of this amiable coun tenace, Sally paused “Oh, Mr. Savage, please “Whaat!” blankly “I'm looking for Mrs. Gosnold Have you seen her anywnere about?” | “Miss Manvers! Rut—what how the devil did you get back here | when if you the man ejaculated haven't been out.” “You haven't been out! ten minutes ago—out there hind the trees She shook her head and tried to emile a supertor sort of a smile. | “It_ wasn't | who met you.” The man made a gesture of hopeless confusion, and she could not but remark his surprising loss | of color, Suddenly he stepped to! her side and seized her roughly by | the arm, “Then who waa it? he demand. ed furtously. “If it wasn't you ae who then? D——n St, you'd better tell me—" “Lat go my arm!” she demand But be “Quick!” she demanded, “Get know," “Has nobody told you anything | out of that costume at once! if “Well, but think how you would |About me? Mra. Gornold | you'd been two minutes later—I'm| feo! If you'd been accused twice of) “Mrs. Gosnold ‘tends ber own! simply going to pretend I'm you| stealing Mrs, Gosnold’s jewols last |Knitting. And nobody has told me| for 10 ‘minutes or #0,” she ex night!” Anything—except yourself. More! niained, lowering the shimmering| Once would be plenty.” he said than that, I don’t go by other folk's gray Quaker skirt over her own kravely. “It's Just like that ehrtv eled old shrew. What you might expect. If I had thought of tt tn time, I'd been willing to make a book on her laying !t to you.” “Rut why—" Bally protested per plexedty. "Sure, I don't have to tell you! why.” he ratd diplomatically. “You| |,* know as well as I do she's plumb You Jealousy of you for| "tll winning out with her dear Abtent!| just when she thought she had 1 don't suppose you ve I was a if a min all this, told bh the stood but kn “You you're my have to tell me trouble remain ened out then, natural job up for you.” + “Bat if 1 wan got the sack? The Pride petson was responsible. Mim Matring wae tn her way, and a boot while It waa a mer: ft war, all right lasted—echeming and ‘Oh, forgive m him Why didn't you?" She didn't like Trego but irl in trouble ing what ho ca: that? wa: sympathy was “Weill, {t wasnt my fight. And! “Mr. Trego!" No more than that. He had taken her breath away. “T guess that does sound funn word of two } ou can't trust me, ever, 1/lieving the wrong way; ing I do.” for you to ex-|"Good night” “It's possible, all right. but it's What I mean * enough for me. want to hear anything more until wife. protection—and when Nght and there's muste In the air!” He checked himself with a lifted hand and stood for a moment, half smiling, as if made suddenly con- velous of the pulsing rapture of those remote violins, “Please don't say anything. know very well what you mean, but I'd rather not hear it in ohe jettere—not tonight. I'm fust foolish enough to prefer to go on hoping for a while, be there was a bare chance I had misunderstood you.” He laughed half-heartedly, sald with an admirable alr of accepting his dismissal as a matter of course, and marched off as abruptly as if reminded of an overdue appointment. shop-«irl——” ute. . doesn't she?” or tor you?” 1 don" After that you'l jopintons when | make up my mind| ut & matter as vital to me as marrying a wife,” “Then | must tell you—my name isn’t Manwaring—tt's Bally Man- Mrs. Gosnold everything, and and {if there's any ing to be stratght- . Why, it'll be my a husband to fix 1 i Of a sudden his tone changed o'" he pleaded. of rome sort, need a give he Pimples—Quick 'By Using Stuart’s Calcium Wafers—Natural Little Blood Purifiers That Work Like a Charm. Costs Nothing to Try Them Get all the pleas-|may be accepted by note or by tel ure you can from his company and | ephone. locate a eleter he takes you out, and restrain your, who was adopted In 1902 by a fam. 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Now I mean to learn | the rest, to find out precisely what} shenanigan he's up to; no good, I) warrant, or he wouldn't be so ri-| |diculously cautious about {t.” Mrs. Gosnold turned sharply from her mirror. “Walt here till I come; | back.” | She darted hurriedly out Into the corridor and drew the door to. Sally recalled Trego with a re current glow of gratification. The clock on the mantleplec: | struck a single stroke. Sally start- | ed and looked up, to meet Marie's questioning glance. | rf) clock? | Yea, Mies Manwaring.” r why, she’s been gone over 15 minutes. Yes, mites. What could Savage have found to say to Sally that her substitute need be delayed so long to hear att | At the en4 of another five min- utes Bally got up and went to a| window which overlooked the drive way and lawn. After some minutes) of fruitless watching, Sally n tured doubtfully: “What time is we? “Ten past one, mine.” “Nearly balf an hour—" s, mins. | “Do you think Mra, Gosnold) would mind if you went to make! sure whe was all right?” “I don’t know, Miss Manwaring She doesn't Ike tnterferenc may make so bold as to A little later, however, the woman added tentatively: "s wouldn't care to take the responsl-/ bility, myself, of going to ¥ | “But if I order you to go— | es, mins,” Marie emiled | “Then I do order you to go. But don't be long” “No, miss,” Marie was back within five min utes, wearlng an apprehensive countenance. “There's nobody out back, miss, near the road, where she sald she was to meet Mr, Savage, and I asked Thomas’ and some of the waiters, and they all said they hadn't seen her.” “But in my masked—" “Ita past 1, miss, already, and everybody has unmasked.” “To be sure. I'm going to my room and get into another dress. Then I'll look round for her my- self.” | “If you'll be without letting on ] costume and the other Free Trial Coupon Street City... whether it | there. | keep it In the house alw; ed with a flash of temper that was instantly respected. “If you must! know,” she went on, reckless of consequences, “It was your aunt who met and talked to you out Don't you understand? She borrowed my costume end went to| meet you In my place.” | “Oh, good heavens!” Savege was now chalky pale. He turned and flung himself headlong down the steps. Unable to pursue, dressed es she w ally went on to her room tn a mood of dark per- plexity Ry happy chance, her very pret | tiest evening frock didn’t hook up the back; she vas able to struggle into {t but ft took some time. Some one rattled the knob of her door. A knock followed the| noise of the knob. | Well? Who is it?” lew Manwaring, are = 6you “ Heartfelt relief informed voice of Mrs. Standish. “Please let me fn. I must speak with you immediately.” Without replying, Sally moved to the door, unlocked and opened it. “Come in,” she said gractously. Mra. Standish swept in, gay, crimson domino over fluffy skirts assorting oddly with the agitation betrayed by ber unemiling eyes. “What's the trouble?” Sally asked. “You haven't seen Walter? hasn't told yout” ‘No; I tried to speak to him) half an hour ago, but bi n from me as if I were « ghos' j un-| He Splendid Laxative for El Has Been Prescribed by Well Known Physician for Many Years The Infirmities of age are espe-| cially manifest in a tendency to) constipation, and call for treat- ment that will afford relief in an| easy, patural menner. The rapid action of cathartic remedies and purgatives that shock the system | should be avoided, more especially as the relief they offer is only tem- porary and {s usually more than! offset by disturbance to the vital or- gans caused by their violent action. Nearly thirty years ago Dr. W. B. Caldwell, Monticello, IIL, prescribed a compound of simple laxative herbs that has since become the standard household remedy in thousands of homes. It acts easily and gently, yet with positive effect, without griping or other pain or discomfort. Mrs. Rachel Alien, Galesburg, Kans. {is seventy-one years cld, and, after using a bottle of Dr. Caldwell'’s Syrup Pepsin, wrote that it had done her a world of good and that she intends to Drugetsts sell Dr, Sally caught a cloak tghtly) about her, She fairly ran in her |impatience, and thru this haste was brought sto the head of the | Dress Well and Never Miss the Money—Connect Up With Our Chain of Stores “You know why!” | voice trembled rage. “You impossible girl! why did you let Aunt Abby meet him instead of yon? It fatal, {t was criminal. Of course, he gave the whole show away to her, never guessing. Now it's all up with us; we'll never be asked here again, and the chances are she'll cut us out of her will into the bargain. Why did you do it?” Well, if you must know, Mrs. Gosnold overheard you three plot ting together out there just before I came on the scene. She was at the window overhead, listening thru the utters. I don't know what you were talking about—she didn’t tell me—but it was enough to make her {insist on my giving her my costum © that she might go and hear the rest of it.” Mrs. Standish bit her Mp. And her eyes shifted uneasily from Sally's face. But t have sald she might to the defiant girl was cut short by the sudden and unceremonious opening of the door to admit three persons The first and Inst of these were Mercedes Pride and Mr, Lyttleton. Between them entered a man un- known to Sally-—-a hard-featured citizen in very ordinary business clothing, cold of eye, uncompromis- ing of manner. Jubilation glowed in the witch's with restrai why, KO was glance. She struck an attitude, singling out Sally with a denun- elatory arm. “There she is! That's the wom- an who calls herself Sara Manwar- ing. Now arrest her—make her confess what's she done with those Jewels—pack her off to jail!” The strange man confronted the girl squarely, appraising her with an unprejudiced gaze. “If you ph she appealed directly to him. “Mason's my name, miss,” he said, “operative from Webb's Pri- vate Investigation agency, Boston. Mrs. Gosnold sent for me by long- distance telephone this morning I've been here all evening, working up this case on the quiet. The un- derstanding was that I wasn't to take any steps without her permis- sion, but she left it to me to use my best judgment in case her little plan for getting a confession didn't work. So I thought I'd better not walt any longer, seeing how late it is and how long after the time limit she set—and all.” . u (Conctuded In our next issue) TO INVESTIGATE ‘GAS’ State Oil Inspector S. P. 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