The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 6, 1916, Page 5

STAR—THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1916 PAGE 5 REPORTER-CONVICT PUT TO. WORK vA Y% % TELLS OF HIS EXPERIENCE IN oar v Y% @% Fee TT yt i oe WE'LL TRUST YOU UR CREDIT SERVICE is established for YOUR convenience. To ASSIST you to FURNISH your home along your OWN INDIVIDUAL ideas. Our TERMS are EASIER and our PRICES are LOWER than will be found anywhere. NO EXTRA CHARGES. NO INTEREST. JUST YOUR WORD THAT YOU'LL PAY $ 60.00 Worth of Homefurnishin 1.00 Down, $1.00 Per Week WE § 75.00 Worth of Homefurnishings, $ 3.00 Down, $1.25 Per Week YOUR $100.00 Worth of Homefurnishings, $ 5.00 Down, $1.50 Per Week | CHARGE ef Homefurnishings, b 7.50 Down $2.00 Per Week NO $10.00 Down, $2.50 Per Week 5,00 Down, $4.00 Per Week / INTEREST aS ae wT yim == The jute mill at Walla hese This bullding Is 450 feet long and 350 feet wide, It contains thousands of ry. Ato ind of the plant raw jute—a coarse grate from india—is put “ds ind, completed grain sacks are turned out. Peters worked one day in this in assistant on one of the machines that sews the edges of the sacks. It is a case of “grab” in the Walla Walla dining hall. If one {s quick to grab the dishes as they come passing from hand to hand down the middle of the table, he! can get a goodly assortinent or! covered with fine pow- y di lipped into the cell oad. clanged the door behind him. This man had been celting with his brother, who wae also Congoleum has deep, if automo- | Prisoners Allowed jto Talk at Table. The prisoners are alldwed to talk quietly while eating. I sat next to my new cellmate, but he made no offer to speak, nor jeven to pass me avything. I learned afterwards that he was one of the type of “grouchy” convicts who has served so many THE QUICK MEAL ts the most and effictent Gas a convict, but the brother was (food. If he is slow, he gets lert. Rugs Come in in the hospital, Ill, and they had given me genuine leat! regular price Special .... THE new sanitary floor cov- ms Of $1.00 down and * a k. Your old gove payment he was serving hie fifth term In prison, He wae a thief. “Sip,” the sweeper, had told me all this. “How do you do?” I spoke up, as r Y &. A. PETERS Y FINGER-PRINTS were taken by ¢ the Ber- tillon officer on the M lhe entered. “My name is Wilson. second morning of my stay IM [1 just got out of the fish cells to sentences that he has lost all love prison, and then I was taken | aay and they brought me here for mankind or even friendship for back to my cell, where a com- “You?” sald my cellmate, with-| his fellow prisovers. plete sult of prison clothing, | ous interest We marched back to the cell, including underclothing and Then he turned his back on me,|and @ few minutes later the gong cap, wi ven me. wat down on a stool, lit his pipe|rang for the jute mill workers. it wae a reilef to shed the Single fi “ish clothes” and put on some- ingle file, we passed outdoors when “Sip” and down a long walk to the mill lamp, and began reading @ two-day. came by with his ofl ed more soothing to the /oi4 newspaper. uae with rifles over their “ That his only conversation | shoulders stood on the high brick Bina pat han ike picture, of ie ee re with me while { was in prison. wall above, Shae lates: eeeme wee taken to Wing 3, eoeu- We marched out, single file, to} Nobody talked. It is against the on drawer OOD BED In either old tvory Ree cam ced Geen in |the dining room & few minutes | rules. two small. silver drawers or white enamel tint jute mill, and led to a cell | ister, To have been caught talking In| pparentiy was occupi lar price $12.00. | 1 sat with 500 other men in blue line would have meant a “red tag. qoerint as by some other mene, *\igray woolen sults, while armed or demerit, against a convict’s va sen tote Loti guards watehed us from cages name, and ether artes In &. |near the ceiling, and ate my firat| Before my cell division had Occupants of ail the ceils were out in the “mill.” A colored convict was sweeper of the tler In which my new cell was located. jah name's Mistah Missiasip- pi,” he told me when he’ intro duced himself at my cell door, “but they calle me Sip for short.” A fow minutes later he gave me a en in prison culture. “Ba: Wilson,” said “Sip,” “Ah bi fe a fine set of toothpt hich Ah * salle to best men in mah di made by the men and they certain- ly is fine. Ah’d Ike to sell you some, at cents or maybe a reached the mill, 200 or more men Were already at work and the great roomful of machinery was beginning to clatter and drone. The room is 450 feet long and 350 feet wide, the floor completely taken up with machinery and the celling @ network of revolving shafts, QGoards with rifles patrofied a tumneliike cage of bars that ran the entire length of the bitiding overhead, I was taken to the rear of the building and given a job as second assistant on a sewing machine. Tells of Work in | teal For Piles Pyramid Pile Treatment le Used At Home and Has Saved « Vast Number from the Horror of Operation Don't permit a dangerous opera- tion for piles until you have seen what Pyramid Pile Treatment can do for you In the privacy of your own home. t a prison table, DEFENDS A FORCES ‘MOTHERS HEAR | Cynthia Grey’s OF BABY SAVING] LETTERS iin | quartah 7 the Jute Mill ‘WASHINGTON. April 6.—Declar-| CENTRALIA, April 6.—"Twenty 1 politely declined The jute plant turns out wheat . years ago 35 out of every 100 In-) | Urged to Buy sacke—"gunny sacks”—at the rate National Guard was a patri- of 6300 a day. Jute is a grass grown fn Ind: In the big mill, this grase is nd- ed into fiber, epun into thread, woven into burlap, and sewn into sack form. It waa my duty to tle a knot in the loose and of the si jeft by the sewing machine the corner jof the gunny sack, and cut the sur- fants died tn the first yoar of their! life. Only 20 die during the first) year today, and yet in this great} > work of saving a ye have only |” scratched the This was the preety of Dr. T. D. Tuttle, state health commission- er, of Seattle, speaking at the sixth | annual convention of the National) Congress of Mothers and Parent-| Q—Can you tell me of anythin, |can put in the rinse water besi peaide bluing to bleach white clothes that! ave become yellow? STAR READER. A-—Make @ solution of one part) turpentine to three of alcohol, and| use one tabdlespoonful tn er used | tn the last rinsing | Some Toothpicks Every man who wants to show breeding or culture, Mistah |’ jon, should use a toothpick aft er every m he coolly tnformed me, “It is a mark of refinement and makes other men look up to; you. All the best men in the prison use toothpicks morning, }noon and night. Of course, Mistah his in’s charges that the militia a lobby at Washington, end took exception to Chamber-|Teacher associations, in ‘ses*ion| @—Kindly tell me if there are) Wilson, if you all don't want to _| plus away with a tiny pair of scis- dog to fight for complete | here. {any booke which give Instruction on) buy any, th up to you, I ain't sors. 3 More than 200 women were pres- how to make furniture at home. trying to urge you, nohow.” Take your time, lad,” advised JOHN. At noon the prisoners came | the score from who believed |the convict who taught me my ent at the second day's session. Miss Margaret Evanston, a blind| A.—Home Furniture,” by Raeth; girl, of Kent, read a story and|“Furniture for the Craftsman,” by wrote letters under the direction of Otter, and “Box Furniturey’ by Mrs. W. B. Hall, superintendent of| Louise Brigham, are a few of the the state school for the blind. books on this subject. Louise Brig- ham {s the originator of a new home ACQUIT DRUGGIST art, the making of furniture from thetr cases hop are in our files. They fairly breathe the joy of the writers, Test Pyram! ‘ourself. Pith: 0o-—-from your coupon below right feotly tree trial task. “Nobody works hard here. There's twice as many men as there are jobs.” 1 found it to be the truth. There are two men for every job. Each group bas & certain daily task, but the tasks are simple. For Instance, the sewing machine be- side which I worked had to sew | 900 sacks into form dally. oh Kindly send me a The group had finished 800 be. sample of Pyramt@é Pile Tres | fore noon. ment, in plain wrapper, | _ It only took back from the mill, and cell doors began clanging. A man whose bivegray sult and cap WOMEN SHOULD” GET THIS HABIT | AS WELL AS MEN packing boxes, She has designs for every room in the hous nd the furniture so made is useful and! William Woodcock, a druggist of | beautiful 604 Pike st., charged with selling whiskey to an investigator of the PYRAMID DRUG COMPANY, Pyramid Bldg, Ma: Q—My husband has just one m | nm | hour to finish boys, 11 to 8, a week ago and ypen to meet any amateur base-| prosecuting attorney's office, was/fauit. He will Watt. . scdedesedixdabaisers inane | the day's work, and then we loafed team in Seattle. acquitted | Wednesday in Judge] gooa man and a good father | have sheets 2 po alae ow”) ed ata lurey’s court. . eoeve quitting whistle blew. Jurey’ Mo complaint to make about money! The weekly bath took place as Don’t Eat Bite of Breakfast Until You Drink Glass matters, as we have our own home,| |an automoblie and money in the soon ag we had returned to our KILLED BY A JITNEY ——————r—r—~eeeeeeeE bank. But | do get eo lonely. He h le no company at all. Can | change of Hot Water Rheum atism Ba ee Mae kar neat for gels TACOMA, April 6—Mrs. Alice him? What do you sistent id Mapey, bright, alett—vigerees ond scrubbing. Crooks, who was struck Sunday! 4 why) Ss the| 8nd vivactous—a good clear skin; More than 700 tren ran in single night by a fitney bus driven by ie conversation in the 3 file, stark naked, thru the prison ja natural, | freedom from rosy complexion and eee? Home Cure Gives By One {Ilness are assured * home {s one of the chief pleasures iad It—He Wants Every to the shower room, took a brief of life, you really have very little Walter Jones, died last night. An Sufferer You are interested In a||inquest was held today. ground for complaint. If your hus-|nly by clean, healthy blood. If _—— peti ger coll. "The position paying frem band had been of the scatter-brain| ONIY every womam and likewise) send No Money—Just Your Address Jontire prison bathed in less then every man could realize the won- ders of the morning inside bath, what a Pern change would type, scattering his mental force in idle talk, you would not have the comforts you now enjoy, He haa preferred to concentrate his en- ergies on his work, and has made a success of it. I do not think you can change him. Be content with the knowledge that he thinks of| Years of awful suffering and veces ‘Mark 3, | an_hour. Before the supper gong rang, the brother of my “grouchy” cellma: eo farmpatny with al returned from the hospital, and I He wants every rheumatic victim to know | WAS unceremoniously ordered into how he was cured, Read what he says:| another cell. In this second cell I bunked with la prisoner known tn the peniten- Gasoline advanced to 19% cents }@ gallon Thursday. The Standard || Onl company also announced an ad- | vance of 1 cent per gallon for naphtha and distillate. $160 to $300 a month and will spend $75 to| qualify, call at once 663 Empire Bidg. of the thousands of sickly, anaemic-looking men, wom- en and girls with pasty or muddy complexions; instead of the multi everywhere An inside bath is had by drink-| ing, each morning before breakfast, | Wy fi a glass of real hot water with a/ i teaspoonful of Hmestone phosphate jin it to wash from the stomach, lin tune any length of time. | tive! |In the basement of an apartment. Do you think the dampness causes| this? Also please tell me what to| do for my fern. The | brown and fall off. |Cellmate Jealous of Clean Cell Floor “I don't see why they want to |}put a fish in with me,” he grum- bled. “Anyhow, I want to tell you |that I've got the cleanest cell in| fou bought it i FOLGER } WEEK By, prs A.—-Probably there are abrupt|liver, kidney and ten yards of |changes of temperature in your bowels the previous day's indl-| and it has to be apartment, which cause the trouble|gestible waste, sour fermenta-| informed him that I with the plano. Place {t against an| tions and poisons, thus cleansing, | anxious to have a! inside wall, as far from the heater ®weetening and freshening the en-| 4 pe moe sy as possible. Your ferm acta as tho tire alimentary canal before put- Jackaon had spent his odd mo- the gas is affecting it Give jt\ting more food into the stomach. | "io the spring of a eked | ments Cleaning the floor with er » wate " how sk he b lar and Inflammatory itheum more weer, Nght and better venti Those subject to sick headache, | by Muscular one ry Hheume*| ery cloth, ‘and the ates! surtace | lation, billousness, nasty breath, rheuma! ic know He insisted ro pers for me to walk on, until I laying newspa- i | | |tism, colds; and particularly thoge |: —you liked it ‘EATS WITH GENERAL °"°.25°°,.20saow comple 45c COFFEE jon and who are constipated very | say, that cured me completely, and it has| learned to take proper care of the it ood ncieed |often, are urged to obtain a quar- 1 hi shiny floor. —it was £ 45c QUALITY | wasnincTon, Apri 6.—Prest-|ter pound of limestone phosphate | 5 I slept in an upper bunk that dent Wilson journeyed to Port|at the drug store which will cost night. Lowers are always taken || 7* |Meyer, Va., Inst night, to take din but a belts but ; Ragin gece yada Py Bayan t by the men who been longest | ner with Ge ' » Ber onstrate the quick and remarkable Seatin ower, Don't send y| in prison. ‘When ordering sgain remember the h Gen. Hugh 1. Bcott, chief) One ts in both health and appear-| mail your name and. ad ‘The aext ay wes Sunday. Wel of staff of the army 1} He establish-| brand: FOLGER’S GOLDEN GATE ed @ precedent, as it 1s customary) ance awaiting those who practice | ‘) slept an hour later than on week for the president to accept dinner internal sanitation. We must re-| j, *|day mornings and had boiled eggs || vitationa from members of the! member that inside cleanliness ts) one| for breakfast cabinet only | more important than outside, be- i Vnderatand do ot ws *) In the morning I went to chapel. | cause the skin does not absorb im y| This is an optional privilege, but 4. A. FOLGER & CO., Sea Fraaciece ly every man in prison pean | takes advantage of it. The prison auditorium, FRANKLIN HIGH BALL purities to contaminate the blood, The annual ball of the seniors of| while the pores in the thirty feet Franklin high will be beld May 13.’ of bowels do, | your needs as he sees them jtudes of “nerve wrecks,” “run tiary as Eddie Jackson, a safe}. Insist on “Brownstone” at your hair- —_—- downs,” “brain fags” and pessimists cracker from Spokane, with no lit-| "Sti nettie and Interesting booklet Q—The strings of my plano We should see a virile, optimistic tle reputation for his ability at|wiil be matied for 19 cents. Mention |seem to stretch and will not stay) throng of rosy-cheeked people | opening “boxes,” shade desired. 2 ; dares The Kenton Pharmacal Co., | Dresses, pam eee 7 inches wide, flower blue, blue or white. Imported Moire Ribbons in black and of a very brilliant luster, at 50c, 65¢ and 75¢ yard. A Faille Ribbon with picot edge in new mil- linery shades, at 60¢ a yard. 1,100 on the main floor, was well | filled Eight or nine women prisoners, | whom I had not seen before, occu- | pled seats in the balcony. There were guards stationed about the auditorium. I noticed that the convicts, when called upon to sing hymns to the accompaniment of the prison or- chestra and quartet, made little ef- fort to join in the harmony. Prisoners Play Ball Sunday Afternoon But ip the afternoon, when I again went with the men to chapel, this time to attend a musical fes- tival conducted by the chaplain’s wife and several young women of Guard present, and my fellow pris it, @D oners nearly raised root with their mighty outburst of song. They were the same men who hed refused to sing in the morn i “t wondered if the absence of guards hed caused them to shed thelr self-restraint. During the afternoon all prison- ers were turned out in the “yard,” a field about the size of a baseball e The umpire, wh noted as one of the “toughest” men in the prison, was absolutely fair. Sunday event: Warden Drom sent for me. had awaited anxiously the srrival of my papers, and when they had not come, he began an investigation. Frankly, | will say that in three days | had acquired a tremendous desire for liberty. Altho | would have remained In prison longer, if possible, | LS “Brownatone”’ Tints Your Hair In a Minute Preferred to Siow Acting Dyes. The atraightest road short cut to the certainty of a Deautiful appearance “Bi This preparation will inetantiy ush it Into your hair. Impoastble of de- and needs re. touching only as the hair grows out “Brownatot hatr stain Ie far ou- perior to “dyes,” and absolutely armies in every tn two sites, 260 and $1.00, If you jored @ substi tute, save annoyance by refusing it and ordering “Brownatone” direct from the makers. Pike St, Covington, Ky aie by the Owl Drug Co. ac Dougall ¢ fouthwid Established 1875 The Best for the Price, No Matter What the — New Colors in Wide Millinery Ribbons IBBON trims for millinery this season are ex- tremely popular and this French moire taffeta is particularly adaptable for the new bows. in these colors: Salmon pink, sulphur, coral, char- treuse, brown, black, pink, corn- American Beauty, Petrole green, wistaria, orchid, light In our Ribbon Shop particular attention is given to making Millinery Bows—both simple and elab- orate styles are tied without charge. —rirst ricer. Government league made tion at First and Union in an to learn the how and why of gration. = It is 81/,-inch Ribbons in very new French Pastel colorings, at $1.00 a yard. And a 5%-inch Moire Faille Ribbon in new | colorings, is 50 yard. was thrilled with we — the warden dem: tell him my real preset When | had finished explain- Ing my motive In “breaking Into” Walla Walla, the warden But | believe there is noth! In thie prison which 1 not care to have the public hear about.” Thirty minutes later | was @ free man again. (Continued Tomorrow) Wednesday the Women's BERLIN, April 6—An official statement issued by the German ~ army headquarters yesterday stated that during March the Germans lost 14 aeroplanes, the allies 44. one One Pound of White Flour. costing 3% cents, will produce 1,600 energy units, waile und of beef ceveral imes as much X unite. test, however, et story. It represents the energy in the food, not what the Bus man system gets OUT OF IT. 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