The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 6, 1916, Page 4

Member of the Scripps Northwest League ef Newspapers Published Dalty by The Star Publishing Co Phone Main 9400 > _ COLYUM VERS Links wae 8 country gtrl, maldst the buttercups and lowing kine dwelt Im the happiness of ignorance day the city feller came, in "Way Down Fast,” weet away, old folks used te sit around the and wonder what Tidy was HE WILL BE MISSED Phe neigh MUSICAL CRITICISM singer and pianist at the con- night wore her dress Yery low in the back, in the style that Mark Atherly bis —Gridle; nt a safe safety pin that bite in the dark. they can play “Hearts and | There are two boys in this coun- fy below the age of 15 who have said they would like to be big pitchers—bdoth of them and dumb, and neither knows sign lancuage. foe I PROPOSE | That you take advantage of this ‘opportunity and have your Teeth attended to while we are offering a 20 per cent discount on the be- low regular prices for our high- | grade work. This week only. LADY ATTENDANT Best Rubber Plates $5 and up Free Examination Electro Painless Dental Co. CORNER OF FIRST AND PIKE r Laboring mer, FALLS TIRES whom they are to rep concern, looking nominee. with its parent. Burton. known quantity. But they fellows. After Them! trom it in the past. A Novel A Week! By John Reet (Continued from Our Last lseue) ARRON ited her at the foot of the clambering stair. His expectation had not time to sharpen to !mpatience before she appeared, still in her brown skirt and working blouse, but with the dull cloud of her hair admirably controlled. “Which way shall we go’ she inquired. “Oh, any way! You take me!” His frritation, his chafings were withdrawn. “Then I will take you to the spring. It is about the only thing there is to see that we will have time for.” | They walked along the drive. Carron looked at Blanche and looking thought: “She certainly fan't pretty. Sh less—or more.” Aloud he said, “And have you lived here long?” “Eight years. The new house has been bullt since then.” she m . “Look, there are the old gate posts. They ought to have been pulled down long aro, but | am afraid I should miss them. The spring path tvfis off just here.” He would hardly have known It was a path. To one driving by it would look like a natural opening in the forest. Some little distance on he saw the fragment of a board banging gray and rain-worn from ®& post; farther yet the thin fron legs of a chair—such a chair as One sees around caf tables—thrust out of the drift of pine needles Between these relics the lithe bor of the girl swung at a quick-foot Ing pace Then, a little in front of him he saw two hand rails, all but col lapsing, yet somehow clinging to gether, and embracing ort fnclosure, clear of pines and f haps 30 feet acros In the cer lof this Blanche Rader was stand ing by a circular ledge inclosing what looked to be a well “This is where they used to come in the morning to drink the water, she explained Carron was astonished and en- Nghtened. “Do you mean to tell me that this was a heal off here at the end of creation” She nodded. “‘The G Min eral Spring Hote Remember the tumble-down sign as you came in the gate? I supposed you knew | but, of course, mother never speaks lof it. She feels so badly about It.” Oarron raised interrogative eye brows at her. “What is wrong with having a health resort? She gave him all her “Nothing, if it is a real one. a ° er smile. But NUXATED IRON creases strength delicate, ner a, rundown people 200 per cent in ten dave in many Instances $100 forfelt if tt falls am per full e vo pear in thia paper k Your doctor or | iekist @bour It. Owl Drug Co, Bartell Drug Co land Swift's Pharmacy always carry Itt in stock. 5,000 Miles Adjustment Guarantee Costs Less Per Mile BLACK TREADS Give us a call—it will pay bie. Prices are right. REFINED APPEARANCE you. Our Tires and Tubes are Seattle Tire and Rubber Co. 1624 Broadway—Opposite High School—Telephone East 813 OURO OAC OLE Next Week ‘The Duke of Oblivion’ What Washington Expects ASHINGTON’S delegates are at the two Chicago conventions The people of this state who, theoretically, at least, selected them and their ¢ resent, will observe jollars over 1915. This is d Beott Kan? | SRNRRRRRRR XERRRRRRRRREER TE you see—well, we bought [t. “You—bought tt—* | “Not exactly. Father took ft for! e didnt know when | place. It was a very fine house) at the time tt was built, but tt had) been closed so long when we got) it, 1f was dreadfully ron down. You) see, we thonght we could sell it. Father thought the mineral springs | would be worth something, but} when we had them analyzed we! found out they were just ordinary water that had been charged with sulphur and tron.” She lauched.| “Think what the man sald when | father told him what we had found ont! He said, ‘Why, of course, I expected that you would do as I aid” } “And Mr. Rader éidn’t?” She shook her head. “Mother wanted to, but he wouldn't let her. She says he doesn't have the prob. lem of running a hotel on not enough; and besides it would be| good for the people to drink a lot| of water even if it is just plain. | But father sald be couldn't live a pretense.” “And how abont inquired, “1? Oh, I don't know. I eup Pose it would be hard to know all the time that you were cheating | but the way the thing is| is rather hard on mother.” | Doesn't she--tan't it—" He waa afraid he was golng too far, but the idea of any one in financial straits, above all these two women, disturbed him mightily Ob, yes; we have a number of| people in the summer, We do quite well enough in a business way, only if it were a health resort we should do much better.” They walking bac house now, and at in the path were r The scholar had come a step for-| ward, and now tentatively lifted his voice Blanche?” he sald “Your mother says she is waiting {for you to stitch the quilts. I've | | been looking for you all over the yout” Carron were toward the first by the turn Ta | ba” “But why didn't she blow the horn? Why should she send you?| I don’t believe she did,” Blanche Rader objected mischievously to the scholar’s diffident glance. “It is Mr. Carron who has waked you | up and got you out.” “You will have to hurry, won't you?” Rader asked his daughter j “Don't let us detain Car. }ron sald. | She gave an amused, puzzled {glance, as if she thought her| | father’s behavior a little odd. “Very ’ she said, “then, since you're so good, I will run.” | She darted among the trees. | The scholar was pulling thought-| | fully on his pipe, his eyes, at in tervals, making excursions to the! | young man's face. “He believes |{t,” Carron reflected, “yes, by Jove, | |he does!" The singuiar old chap,| always in the clouds, his belief wa |not much reassurance! But there was the man on the road. “Tr nad sald. Hadn't he ant, “Try Blanche Rader’? Carron caught himself drifting Just on the edge of credulity He drew a deep breath for his |dive- Into unknown waters He |’ | walked a little itative half |eirele on the soft piny floor of the forest, anc ame to a # square front of Rader. “Woll!” he wi a falling Inflection | | 17" Rader replied smiling at does she want of the Carron said quietly. He |said it so quietly one could hardly |think any risk attached to it or! jany suspense for him, | | Rader took his little yellow |bowled pipe out of his mouth.) “Didn't she tell you?” “The truth 1s, I don’t believe she “Whe horse” a debt. A friend of his built the| “Better ask her straigh jall that |In th | appeared TAR—TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1916. ourse with considerable The people of Washington want an opportunity this coming fall of choosing between the democratic party with a progressive, forward-looking presidential nominee, and the republican party with a progressive, forward- They want a clean-cut issue, with the progressive party joining forces They will look to this state’s republican delegates to fight to the last ditch for such a ticket. If these delegates and the others who will gather from the four cor- ners of the land are more faithful to the reactionary bosses than to the voters and nominate a Root, or a Taft, or a Burton, then they may come home ex- pecting nothing but contempt and dishonor. For the people of this state will not swallow a Root, or a Taft, or a They will turn rather to the progresslve nominee or to Wilson, the The people of this state like Wilson; what they distrust is the party with which he has to work. would rather have him, with that party, than a reactionary with a party that is guided and owned by Barnes, Penrose, Crane and their NCLE SAM has put a big crimp in one hoary-headed swindle, anyway. Notwithstanding the remarkable spread of prohibition, revenue col- lections on distilled spirits for the first 10 months of the fiscal year have increased ten million ¢ undergauging, equalizing and blockading in distilleries. government is collecting more of the revenue on spirits which has been stolen ue to a campaign against In other words, the If the government will get busy and collect all the income tax coming to it and stop a few of the other steals, akin to that of the distilleries, from the internal revenue department, Uncle Sam can build the new navy with- out loading a blanket mortgage on future generations. Go after ’em! ORE YOK KOKO 2 9 EO Ce knows she's told me Carron confeased of speaking. | got it out of her.” Rader knitted his forehead it.” be sald anything. laconically, “De you me? “Heaven think she would tel! knows,” eald the jecholar, with a humorous eye; “I never do!” She told you.” Hoe was making assumptions as fast as he could find them, and every time Rader transformed them Into facts “That is different. She tells me everything because 1 d& care. What would an old fellow Ike me care? She might just as well co whisper it to one of those stone heads on the mountain top yonder.” Carron restrained a smile at the scholar’s (Mea of what a tight ves sel he was for a secret “Bat ask her—ask he insisted. “And suppose she won't answer?” Rader shrugged, as one who would say, “Then, that will be the end of it.” The young man laughed. The thing would not end ax «imply as If Blanche Rader would " Rader not speak CHAPTER IV Wild Things and Tame The next morning Blanche formed Carron sho would have time to take him up the canyon, so he saddled the horses and they set out The elusive quality in the gtr fascinated him, and he found him putting forth effort t draw her out. She nan the 1 fous peaka as they rode; some with a sweep of her arm she indicate a canyon or an old trai giving bits information or ing Indian legend Carron realized that she knew every inch of the country, rough and wild tho it was, as well as every creature roaming over it. He anced up at a kreat rock wall they were just rounding, and ex claimed over the sight the turn tn the trail brought to view. They stopped their horses high on the mountain side and stood overlooking canyons and lower pea Just opposite a rugged out line suggested a great face topped by a hel But tt was not this strange formation which attrac Carron’s attention, but rather a lit window set jewellike in the helmet of stone. And thru it shone strange bine of the distance. © looked upon white lights and adows, and lines of summits half seen and half imagined by the eye setting of the solid wall it a hundred times more bright and marvelous than with the graduated lines of distance be- tween; nearer, yet more tmprob. able What is the name of that?" he said Vhat? Where?” in self tell W She looked !n all directions but the right one. It odd that she, who had pointed out so many objects less remarkable, should not be on fa miliar terms with this one, and fn stinetively look in the right direc tion. “There,” he said Her head came around very slow. ly toward the thing his pointing Indicated, “Oh!” her glance rest on it for a moment. “You mean that gap? It hasn't any name.” “It looks as if it had insisted, “I never saw “Oh, there are lots of 1y her eomed like It.” ups,” she sald va He le lead him from subject as well as from the “Aren't you tired girl "I could the sight he asked the keep on all day,” she ‘waid. “So could I, but I would so much Carron ’ PAGE 4. Guess at It, Gentle Reader HO will be nominated at Chicago? Search us and if any of My mati, owt of efty, one year, aoe month J “air. a60 month months. carrion, ofty, Entoret at Beattie, Wash., postoffice os eocond cinee mation your friends or of your friends’ friends say they can tell you, put it down as hot air. For it will be a plumb crazy convention, if signs go for aught. Have you noticed that Ford’s delegation from Michigan is inclining open- ly to Hughes? That the pacificist delegation from Nebraska is divided between the two war candidates, Roosevelt and Root? That the old guard chieftain, Penrose, put Roosevelt men on Pennsylva- nia’s delegation? That Roosevelt, not even a candidate in Illinois, bagged 30 delegates? That Arizona, most bitter of all the states against capital and “big busi- ness,” goes into the Root column by common consent? That Root, pro-American, ‘and Burton, pro-German, are reported in agreement? Reason Is turned topsy-turvy and logic is an outlawed thing when it comes to figuring on the G, O. P. convention doings. But it will be a great show, all right, and worth the price of admission. Tough on a Ne REECE vengeance, utral is between his Satanic Majesty and the deep blue sea, with a Clinging desperately to the policy of strict, neutrality, it has permitted its territory to be repeatedly violated by both the allies and the central powers. The latest development, the surrender of some of its forts to Bulgar- jans, without resistance, is the climax of a weak-kneed Greece bids fair to become a second Belgium; wit polity. the difference, that should it fail to participate actively in the conflict, it will hold the But it faces an even more serious proposition, bag, whichever side wins. a revolution at home. The result of the Bulgarian invasion can mean but one thing—a show-down between King Constantine, backed by his pro-German courtiers, and Venizelas, at the head of the Greek people. Whichever way the pendu- lum may swing, the handwriting on the wall tells plainly that Greece must soon get into the fight or forever forfeit its erstwhile proud position among the Balkan states, and have inscribed upon the tomb of its national hopes and aspirations the words: “Died of aggravated Oe {rather att on a cool rock under aj the untverse.” | She laoghed. “I shall bave to tn | Yent them then.” | “That's easy endugh. The prod: | lems of the untverse are nothing |to the problem of where two peo ple are going to find some shade.” | “I know where there {s some,” she sald He gazed. Sky, him, ks, bright and naked. “Wher “Just around © corner.” | He thought meant the next) bend in the road, but she turned | Promptly from the beaten track into as blind a bit of country as| Carron ever cared to experience. They o larger than the little peaks around | it. Upon the farther edge appeared | @ small company of cedars. At the entrance of this prophet's retreat, the girl slid, ting and suuling, into Carron’s hands. “The only shdde in this section of coun-| try,” she remarked. “I found it all by myself.” And, leaving him| to fasten the horses, she walked forward thru the trees. Following her presently, he found her sitting on the other aide of the grove, leaning against an ancient cedar With. a sigh he stretched himself fulldength on the ground beside her. “Father told me that you had come here for the hunting.” She spoke to break the toe long stlence. Carron lifted one eyebrow. “Hunting will do, But what I have really come for is for aste of the irresponsible life.” all bole expect you to do! or me.” Her eyes grew shake me up out of my *, Wake me up. Show he hesitated—“all of it!” “Of what?” “The odd hours—sunset, moon- ‘rine, whatever time out of the 24 you like the best.” Her eyes sparkled, and a emile curled the corners of her mouth. | “Well, which ts it?” he asked, jand felt an impulse to reach out) and stroke her, she looked so sweet. | “The middle of the night!” she sald it very softly, as tho she f ed the day might overhear her. I love to be ont fn ft; it Is Mke water, emooth and deep; like flood tide.” Her voice became a part of the silence. | “Will you take me out ftnto the | middie of the night, and drown me in {ft some time?” he asked, “Will you bring me ont here?” She glanced at him, no longer Tconfidentially, side-long and rather |mockingly. “What would the peo- ple say to me, running out here tn the middle of the night?” “I thought you had been out here at that hour before?” “Never! Sunset, moonrise, sun- rise—those are different. 1 come out here once In a while at sun rise, you can’t guess what for.” In spite of himself he was aware of suspense. “To watch squirrels play.” The mischievous bright face of a child peered provokingly thru the wom n You think that 1s silly, don’t ou?” she asked, noting his relaxa- of interest Very! You can see squirrels play anywhere at any time of day,” “Ah, that shows how little you know about squirrels They are » busy thru the day—they have to} Sunrise is their party, Over| | there on the hill opposite there are | lots of holes, I sit up here and see} their heads pop out, If 1 keep per: fectly quiet sometimes they come to the edge of the grove,” toc work ORO CIOS OG OKC |told her warmly. | neutrality.” 2OCOOUR OOOO OOK WG “SON OF THE WIND” ” sxrspomnan Copyright, 1910, by Bobbs-Merrill Co A Week! BRARRKA KG RMN REO “And you tame them, I suppose?” | most infernal nonsense! “In @ manner tree and Msten to your opinions of| For his life he couldn't keep the! talk! frony out. “No!” she scorned him. “I hate tame things. I love them to be wild!" “Indeed?” His alert mind caught a eignificance here. “I thought women liked to coax things to eat from the hand.” She shrugged. what most women Ike, but I know what I like. Most people don’t know what wild animals are Iike/| at all. When they think of the/ word ‘wild’ they think it means fraid. But really it {s just the ‘opposite of that. It is when the! creatures are alone and don’t sus-| what « wild creature really means.” “it means? Carron prompted, | very cautious for fear of startling her broken. Woman- A horse is no use until it's That's sense, tan’t !t?” “And she won't tell you where she saw it?™ “Tell! She would no more tel) than ff !t were the encred {bie and she {te priest. Oh, I don't doubt she bas seen something remark- for anything—to use man, that’s the deuce of it, she doesn't.” but, Carron brooded sulkily and final- ly flung himself out of the room and went for a long walk He returned to find all the heavy It seemed nateral j the scholar should shut himself in | pect any human being, when they | batteries of house cleaning un- 16 Out on a summit MUCh | are themselves, that you can see | Masked that with the peace of his books, while the upheaval in the hotel went for. ward. “It means something quick and|iess in such an emergency. beautiful and heavenly fearless!” Carron He would have been help- But # born for the handling “But there's a difference in de-|Of Objects, animate or inanimate sree, You have found that sof” “Oh, yes course, as long as they don't see you, feel perfectly safe. But some are almost impossible to watch without thelr know!ng—the larger animals, the ones that sniff you.| Yet, if ever you can, seeing them is the most wonderful thing in the world.” Carron lay for a moment without speaking, studying her face. “Did| it never occur to you, when you} are looking at such animals, that it would be even more wonderful to catch them?” “No, I would rather see them killed than caught.” Carron bit his Ip. “My dear young friend, do you think that is quite ible?” “No, he said. “I don’t. ButJ don't think it is sensible either to want always to catch things and break them.” A word had slipped out that showed too plainly of what | she was thinking, what vision was continually before her eyes. “Men are always shooting things, or taming them, or controlling them,” she went on, vivid with argument, “and they always say they do !t because it's reasonable. But I don't believe it {s reasonable- nese that makes them do it. They want to and so'they will! “I broke {n my mare myself,” he | “You must think me a fanatic. 1 have never seen a horse broken, and I never will if I can help it; | but, of course, horses bred on ranches have to be broken, I sup pose. That {s rather different.” “And the wild ones?) What would you do with them?” “Why, let them alone, of course.” CHAPTER Y. The Window of the Sphinx “Think of it!" Carron came bursting in on the peaceful scholar. The young man was hot from his ride, and exelted. “She wants it let alone!” he almost shouted the words. Rader looked up startled. What?” he murmured, “Your daughter! the horse! that's what she wants of it—and that’s all,” The quickness with which the | scholar took his meaning suggested | a mind that had been dwelling on the samo subject. | “Did she tell you that?” he asked, | “Didn't she, tho! That, and a lot more!” The long-pent frritation | broke forth, “Oh, she gave me her | ideas, she didn't leave me a doubt | on the matter! Said she would rather see it killed than caught; that breaking horses was not a sensible occupation.” “I don't understand that," scholar said slowly. “Of course you don't! “Who? the | | It's the {In the first days of his arrival, The squirrels, of} While operations bad been limited Cynthia Grey’s LETTERS Dear Miss Grey: You certainly hit the nall on the head when you | warned the girl of her oversaving |®weetheart, and allow me to add | to that sound advice of yours from |my own bitter experience. } rt,” too, would «i | 1! for you to have |when we get married.” We got | married dhe is still saving it \all, | am the drudge, and to asx \for a new dress or a carpet means for him to go on a long period of sulke—three months at a clip—he comes and goes and never speake to me or his two daughters during all that time; and this means, too, that he Is sulking most of the time, for we have to ask for things. 1 sew and bake, knit and do fa laundry, and he Is perfectly willing to have me do It, for he is saving it all. Don't words and |fine personal appearance. Shake him! ONE WHO KNOWS, Q.—Please give me a good, sim. ple recipe for lettuce sandwiches, CAROL, A.—-Wash and dry fresh, crisp lettuce leaves; butter Ughtly thin slices of fresh bread and place the lettuce between, with a teaspoon of prepared mayonnaise dressing #pread over the lettuce. Cut diag- onally across the slice to make the sandwiches attractive in shape, Q—Is a man justified in insist- ing his wife teil him where she spends the time during the day? th only been marrie short tim ind often, when | inquire of my wife where she has been and why she is se late in getting home, she replies, “Oh, Just bumming!” Now, hasn't a man the right to know something definite concern. Ing his wife's habits? if | am late, or must go out In the evening, | always give her a definite explanation. Ww. H. A.—Certainly he has the right, and she should wish to tell him. You are experiencing the uncer- tainty which so many men think themselves justified in keeping their wives in. It is probable that your wife is simply careless in not telling you more fully. Many women use the expression you quote for an aimless trip thru the stores, which is a perfectly inno- cent diversion. to the more polite business of sweeping, he had kept his distance, but {t was impossible to ret aloof when two women were strug- gling with ladders and hammers. He, in spite of Mrs. Rader’s ob- Jections, made himself aide-in-chief of the situation. She was most un- anxious to accept him in this role, |She looked at him as if he were exclusively an ornament, and at best a suspicious ornament. There was no argument for this attitude of mind but to take off a coat and show this self-willed crea- ture that, if she knew what she wanted, ho knew how it ought to be done. Mrs. Rader betrayed a |diffidence in the situation that | spoke touchingly of a woman unac- lcustomed to be helped. 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