The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 15, 1916, Page 8

SUNDAY— 4 DAYS —of a strong man who turns with his own hands the Wheel of Fate to win the woman of his choice. y Fatty —with Al St. John and be Arbuckle witching Betty Grey tn “His Wife's Mistake.” Two reels of canned Key stone comics and sheer nonsense. of i First at Pike Continuous 11 to 11 MATINEES 10c EVENINGS 15¢ CONTRACTOR [BANK FAILS BUT KIDS GET SAVINGS BACK PITTSBURG, in, BER April 15.—Thou- Driver, aged 67, a well-|sands of Pittsburg boys and girls for) were delighted today when they Sat-'got back half the savings they "o famally resi- thought were lom forever when the late Mr. Driver was given last December. The kids also will @ontracts for some of Seatie’s get back the other half, because and finest homes. Henry C. Frick, the millionaire survived by his widow, & son steel man, has pledged himself to three daughters. Death was see that none of the boys and girls ie to hardening of the arteries. loses a penny by the bank's failure. The Charm of Sunday EN THE WORKER drops his tools Satur- ‘day evening, when the busi- ness man locks his doors, it is with a sigh of tired satisfaction. Sunday is at hand. No work, no worry ‘for a whole day. A day to ' devote to rest, recreation, _ reflection, improvement | —spiritual, mental and | physical. Half the pleas- ' ure of that day is in GOOD -READING— There is but One Newspaper in Western Washington which offers All the News and All the Features i of Interest to Men, Women and . Young Folks. That paper is +/ The Sunday ‘Post-Intelligencer | Pittsburg Bank for Savings failed, | PREPAREDNESS - SPLITS MOOSERS= jness advocates are rallying deead — Preparedness loome up as the big lseuve In the county conven tion to be held by the progree sives here Saturday afternoon at Ellere hall, Third ave. and University st. } Two groups are sald to be Motng up for @ battle royal, to be centered | about tho selection of a permanent chairman, The “peace” candidate ie C, J, France, attorney for the port commission. The prepared CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 MAYOR DUMPS BEER INTO ELLIOTT BAY of beer on the Mayor Gill heaping the cas deck of the fire boat worked with them. Then she steamed out into the stream and stopped. Her cargo was unceremoniously dumped over. | board. | After the beer w w. x 707% Fourth *, Went to police headquarters and clatmed the beer. He was immediately arrested for having more than the lawful amount of liquor tn his possession. Two watchmen, Walter Shelton and J. J. Frederick, were also booked. They had been employed on the scow that carried the beer to Harbor tsland. Russell and his attorney, W. F. Van Ruff, claim that the beer had been consigned from San Francisco and was to have been taken to Ketchikan on a boat now being constructed at West Seattle Beate Restraining Order On investigation, Mayor Gill learned from federal authorities that the beer had not been labled on the outside according to law quietly with his plan for ite destruction, on the the ory that a restraining order might/ be granted to stop him ff tt was) generally known, “The labels on the beer indicat ‘SEAMEN STRIKE seized Tues | $1,700. = LOOMS ON COAST Seamen in coastwise and transpacific service have de manded wage increases Satur day, with the probability that a eympathetic strike, involving longehoremen, will be catied un- fees the Shipowners’ associa. bas anewers by May 1. scale presented by the eskey union of the Pacific, the Marine Firemen, Oliers and Water Tendere of the Pacific, and the Stewards’ association of the Pacific Coast, te for an Increase In all lines of employ- ment of approximately 10 per cent, STRANGE MIXTURE c. Schroeder, 24, 24, was arrested Friday as he wae trying to sell two dozen packages of cigarets, a dozen silver spoons, and two boxes of chewing gum to a second-hand deal- er. He said he found the merchan dise on the ater front. ast night of the au- At 10:30 the Arena will close its doors, and Seattle's third annual auto show will have become & part of history. George H, Walker, who was perma nent chairman of the progressive convention at Aberdeen when the | big split oceurred in 1912 Nonpartisanship will be endorsed as a state program and a platform expressing the hope that reunion | with republicans on a progressive basis can be expected, will be adopt ed. However, there is also a strong element that t» against adopting any platform at this time, ed that It was manufactured tn Be attle and the numerals tndicated it had been bottled in 1915," explained the mayor. He belleves that it wa ed here and hidden away The beer was valued at purchas- about WII! Bottles Float? The authorities insist that ft will not float. There are om- ployes of the harbor department, however, who claim to koow that bottles not quite full of beer will float. The paper board cases tn which the bottles were packed, tt Is point ed out, will eventually erode. Other Arreste The police arrested the proprie- tors of four soft drink estabiieh ments Friday for violating the Hquor ordinances Two hundred empty tube con tainers for “extract of bourbon and rye whisky” were found tn John Stude: soft drink parlor at 71 West Yesler way. The directions on the tubes called for adding thetr contents to 60 per Beam alcoho! and 60 per cent r Sugar, quart bottles, and diatilled water were taken to headquarters as ev idence. Others arrested were Chas. Erickson, 211 Second ave; Nels Nelson, 201% Occidental ave, and J. Ro Herrick, 221 Second ave. 8. Each had to put up $200 ball Chief Heckingham will have fed eral authorities Investigate Stu der's case. BOTH PARENTS ATTEMPT TO DIE BAN FRANCISCO, April 15.— Mre. Margaret Lynch lies on the threshold of death today, plead- ing with emergency hospital doctors to let her join her two dead children. In an adjoining ward lies her husband, George Lynch, re morseful because In a moment of weakness he forgot his duty to hie two living children and attempted suicide. He will recover, but bis wife may die. DR. YANDELL DEAD; WAS 82 YEARS OLD Dr. Henry ‘Yandel, in whore arms Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson died of his wounds at the battle of Shiloh fn the civil war, is dead today at his home at LaConner, aged 82 years. Twice King county coroner, Dr. Yandell engaged tn active practice in this city for 18 years, He w: 27 years a resident of the He leaves four sons and ter. ©. B, Yandell, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, ts one of his sons. Funeral services will be held from the Bonney-Watason chapel at 3 o'clock | Sunday. Consfessious of a Wife DEAR MRS. SELWIN EXPOS. TULATES “Don't you think you are mak ing a mistake, Margie?” Dear Mre Selwin had come upon me as I lay in the enclosed porch. My thoughts were far away. “Making a mistake about what, dear Mra. Selwin?” “Not about what, but whom,| dear child,” she replied with a| smile. “Look how charmingly that male) bluebird makes love to his mate, I said, pointing to the trees, “Don't you want me to talk to/ you about Dick?” asked Mrs. Sel win. “IT always want you to talk abont| anything you wish,” I answered evasively, Mrs. Selwin looked down Into! my eyes with so much love and understanding, and lack of that pity I have been seeing in most eyes, that instinctively I held my | arms up to her. “Dear Mrs, Selwin, I know of| what you are thinking,” I said. | “Perhaps | am making @ mistake; I seem to have been making them steadily ever since | married—but just what is the particular one you think I am making now?” | “Cutting yourself so completely | off from Dick.” I looked at her {f surprise. “Ia not that the kindest thing I could do to bim?” “1 don't think so,” “But I don't think you under stand. Dick has many cares. Must| I add the burden of my affliction to th | “My Hae Margie, you cannot by| any possibility take away that bur den. Fate has taken it out of your hands. You are his wife and you are helpless, He must bear his part as you must bear yours.” “Yes, but don't you see that if 1 can impress him with the idea that all I shall ask of him fs the mate rial and physical comfort with which he and you have so gener ously surrounded me, it will make it easier? I am worse than a dead | wife, Mrs. Selwin, worse than an | unfaithful wife, for if I were dead in time he could forget me, and if I had been unfaithful he could di vorce me. “Now, whenever he thinks of me he must understand that my great est suffering is not for myself but for him, and that must add to his troubles in spite of all I can do to make him feel that he ts per fectly free to live his own life in| the future.” | “That is just ft, dear Margie. Dick ts not free, He can never be free as long as you are alive and lying here helpless. Your assump. tion that he can throw off all re | Sponsibility except that of seeing that you have purely physical care, shows him as well as me that for }some reason you have lost faith tn him.” i I 14 not know what to aay, little book, for she had hit the nail on the head. If I could not hold Dick when I was well, attractive and “Still, I think I am right, my dear Mra. Selwin. After a man ts tired out with the problema of bust. ness he surely does not want to} come home to—thim “At first he probably will be hurt and think I am queer to tneiat that he shall practically live away from me, at the other end of your beau tifol big house, but after a little he will be glad.” | “But, my dear Margie, there ts one thing you have not taken Into consideration, A man of Dick's temperament needa a responsibility lof Just this kind.” | I laughed hysterically. “This ts the first time, dear Mrs. Selwin, I have been able to find any reason why I should be affiicted tn this way, but ff it ts for the stabiiiz ing of Dick's character and the strengthening of his will, aa — I should be content.” ‘That was your despair Inatend | of your courage talking,” sald Mra Selwin quietly | “T could not bear It, dear friend,” T said, as I held out my hands te her. “The only way I can kee from going tnenne 1s to cut my volt off from everyone as much as pos sible, If T were to allow myself to watch for Dick's comings and gret his goings I would probably berin to ask more and more of hia time You know that most sick peonle are very selfiah “No, dear, | must constantly re member and try to make Dick un. jderstand that he has no longer # wife in Margie Invalid who aske Waverly, nothing but an jactive, how could I hold him nw? = erslla yy : of him Al hat he does not give freely,” l i (To Be Continued) (a THE SEBEA~t1. eS DAAKN BE ALARA RR ET wl 20 Chaplin's Income Thie Year Will Be $670,000 “CARMEN” In 4 Acts CAST OF CHARACTERS Darn Hoslery...Charies Chaplin Carmen Edna Purviance Toreador ...........Jdohn Rand Second Officer. -Leo White The Uncie Jack Henderson Smuggier . . 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