The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 10, 1916, Page 4

SEATTLE STAR foe of the United Prese Asecctation Wash, Peatoftice ae Seeon poe € mee 81.00; your 08 month. a Se eee es omy_reapectiog ell Oh, “Dear Jesse’’! $@ENATOR MILES POINDEXTER, at . Spokane, nailed to the mast the ma licious publication in a standpat paper here “tyesterday that he SPOKE and then VOTED ee Cudahy’s, 17.5 per cent against a tariff on lumber and shingle The ree is true. Senator nbn pore posed and spoke for an amendment in a senate FOR a tariff.on lumber and shin- les. He specifically voted against the free lumber amendment introduced by Congress- man Tawney. Caught again! But maybe “dear Jesse” will suddenly receive another letter. Congressman Borland’s resolution to have the fed- eral trade commission investigate the meat packing in- dustry is being fought by the packers with a fierceness that’s not only hignly complimentary to the trade com- mission but strongly indicative of a colored gent in the woodpile, as it were The Meanest Trust HILE the price of meat to the consumer remains stead- ily on a wartime basis—a basis which makes meat a Peal luxury to the average family—the packers have the power to put up or down the cattle market at will In 1915, under the identical conditions which exist now, the price of cattle was so low that the cattle raisers and farmers faced disaster. Still, the retail price of meat was some Pwhat higher than now 4 Six months ago, a resoluti by Representative Borland, of Missouri Pgation of meat prices. Representative Borland made specific rges and backed them up with positive proofs. The reso iTution went to the judiciary committee, where it has peace- fully slumbered Yet it’s a matter for genuine, searching investigation ‘The packers now control nearly everything that is valuable im connection with the whole live stock industry of the ‘United States. They are the sole buyers of the farmers’ Cattle and, worse still, they completely control the facilities for marketing them Swift's Packing “tent in 1915, Armour’s, was introduced in congress demanding an investi company paid dividends of 187 per cent; Morris, 77.3 And that on a capitalization of which how much is water no man on the outside knows, tho many suspect. ~ Sarah Bernhardt, despite her 72 years and her artifi- ial leg, says she’s going to tour America again and for the first time act English-speaking roles. The nation that a Bernhardt may be defeated, but surely it can fever be crushed. ‘Overheard in Crowd PEVOME of the best editorials we have ever ported and not composed “friend of ours on the Potlatch per een were re Here's one overheard up by way the Hood canal = “How many children have you?” a comely young woman sasked a handsome man who had been acting like the father chum of a boisterous boy “T haven't any children,” he replied, the boyish smile ' fading from his clean, pink face. “I supposed you had a house full,” she said, “because I Mever saw a man who seemed to love them as you do or who “, attracted youngsters as you do.” ad Bey of how rich Morgan was than the statement that his total] !* Saturday, and you won't be going] The silence was lengthening when he asked “You have children?” And then it was the woman's face which clouded with as she replied: “No; and that’s all want that we can’t have.’ Tt was a long while before these two resumed conversa tion amidst a happy, laughing throng of Sunday excursionists we : The lemon rub is being resorted to by German au- thorities to bring out possible maps traced on the skin of spies. They ought to try a lemon rub on the big political bosses. Voting would be much more simple then. _ J.P. Morgan and Preparedness HEN J. P. Morgan died he had to leave behind him $8,639 worth of cigars, $44,743 worth of booze and $174.- 450 worth of watches revealed the ap % praisal of his estate, will give the ordinary man a better idea These figures, by ‘estate was valued at $78,149,024 If Morgan could have taken all his cigars with him, and had smoked one nice fat cigar every evening after dinner with Noah or some other fellow, it would have taken him 50 years to finish up the lot. Did J. P. believe in preparedness? He did The speeder speeded and wondered how folks who don’t own automobiles can possibly be happy. And then « his car swerved and hit a telephone pole Foolish and Harmless EPUBLICAN LEADER MANN consent of congress for the printing obtained of Charles Hughes’ acceptance address in the Congressional Record The printing of the speech can do no-harm and it may be a handy thing to have around to pull on Mr. Hughes at gome future date, should he be elected, but properly it has about as little business in the Congressional Record as has the 1916 baseball schedule Congress its w ters doth perform in the most mysterious ways and the Congressioral Record may some day have the Encyclopedia Brittanica relegated to the back shelf Sen. Lewis says the United States hasn’t a friend. They're fighting for our good graces in Europe. Von Gets the Jobs (8) eral to jopes. He is being continually Ymand to the other @and he has heretofor wheen given Etold to mye propose to send Gen. Von Hindenburg Gdecoration on our own hook, if it's To stop the Russians now i whom Kaiser Wilhelm hands all the shifted from first one begin to look real gloomy, make good. \ he ha the front and advance he does it some kind of a traffic cop's badge a harder job than killing forlorn com when pre ct managed to Yow supreme command on the Rus Kastern If go out and stop ian only a LD MAN VON HINDENBURG seems to be the gen- A Novel 'A Week BY ROBERT AMES BENNETT STAR—THURSDAY, AUG Week “Into the Primitive” (Continued from Our Last tesue) moment, in Limber-Limb Grant had in storage, a hundred thousand dollars’ worth of Jewels, which he could not dispose of on the pres sure of the moment, The law was crowding him close, and he ran He reached Mount Mark, and trusted to its drowsiness for con Jcealment for a few weeks | But Mount Mark had aroused |from its lethargy Limber-Limb ‘Grant was in the hands of the law | Mr. Starr bad been greatly in |terested in the meetings in Bur ington, He attended the servic both afternoon and evening, and then went to bed at the hotel. He |alept late the next morning. When jhe finally appeared, the clerk came Jat once from behind the desk to speak to bim We've junt your girls, sir,” spectfully Ivana Nttle bunch! You of them! “My girls!” that been reading about pretty nervy must be proud ejaculated Mr. Starr “Haven't you seen the morning paper? You're Mr. Starr, the Methodiet minister at Mount Mark aren't you?’ “lam! But what has happened to my girle? Give me the paper!” Five minutes later Mr. Starr and his suit case were speeding toward }Union station, and within eight minutes he was en route for Mount Mark-—-white tn\the face, shaky in jthe knees, but tremendously proud }in epirit |. Arriving at the parsonage, he found two-thirds of the Ladies’ Ald society, the trustees and the Sun dayschool superintendent, along {with a mincellaneous assortment of ordinary members, mixed up with Presbyterians, Baptists and a few Unclassified outsiders, And Pru }dence was the center of attraction | She was x the “whole |story,” for perhaps the fifteenth [time that t off when b flone her Oh, papa mustn't praiee jthere was a b when I ran if I hadn't been careless and left the dungeon unlocked the money would have been In no danger, and if the twins hadn't awakened me I wouldn't have known there was a burglar about the place. Oh, I honestly can’t see that much credit jie due me | But Mount » so calmly Ar hey idea house stairs, and relar down in the at iving with t ithe girls caught parsonage.” When the five hundred dollars arrived from Chicago, Prudence felt that personally she had no real right to the money. “We must divide {t.” she tn- sisted, “for I didn’t earn {it a bit more than any of the other.” Neither the younger girls nor their father would consent to this Rut when Prodence pleaded with jthem earnestly, they decided to divide it tl dollar Method burglar since in the two bh fou at w | “tw rite jones. you as m So it was settled, and jwas a happy gtr! safely put away in ndreé and r younger eatd cave ach and t Prudence when she saw ft the bank CHAPTER V. Romance Comes Years before, when bicycles were fashionable, Prudence had been in tensely fond of riding. But as she gained in age. and bicycles lost In popularity, discarded =the amusement as unworthy a parson. age damsel One evening. early tn was foreordained that should be turning in at par lsonage gate just as Mattie Moore whirled opposite, on her dusty wheel Prudenc | polit They t she June, it Prodence the stopped to ties ed of the * neichbor rT, of the |coming s of Mattie’s school | Then said Prudence ‘Tan't it great fun to ride a bleycle? I love it. Some time will you let me ride | your wheel?” | Why, certainiy lnow If you like.” No,” sald Prudence slowly. “t want to get at six o'clock and |go early In the morning when th | world is fast asle Lat jit tomorrow tm will weath ner You may ride take It me ring, you? to school | “Of course,” was the hearty janswer. “Take 4t in the parsonage |now and keep it until morning.” | So early the next morning, Pru dence set out upon her ride. Tt was a magnificent morning, and Prudence rode farther than she had intended She knew but Fairy’! it was growing get breakfast,” ‘An Easy Way to Get late, | she | | Fat and Be Strong, unanimous | The trouble with moat thin folks who wish to gain weight is that they Insist _on drugming their stom ach or stuffing it with grevsy foods rubbing on useless "flesh creams’ or following some foolish physical eul ture stunt real caune of thinness go ouched, You can wot get fat until your digestive tract latent to ingly emb ted } then uctive powers to hand intestines to up the fattening elo. food and pass them o they are car broken down your body. You what rewuit thin n should pro welght the about neck pear, and olld, healt} readily pte eokn shoulde from 10 refund natintied NOTE only a« lexcellent ram indigestion care she unle said the clerk re) interchange | | Chicago, | THis IS MY CARD, 10, 1916, PAGE 4 ‘Prudence of the Parsonage Sick Wagutancas™ Docsteesaestsousscosagessgess MRS. TRUG, AND 1AM FROM THE CHILDREN'S | WELFARE SocleTY— 1 nn | T ALREADY thought comfortably Finally she turned into a by-road, leading between two rich hickory Kroves. At the top of a long hill she gazed anxiously ar her No one was in sight idence ye i for a co thing cefully e hill tke arance sponsible Prudence | “Here goes!” she cried, and the | wind whistled about her tn a most exhilarating way But as she neared the bottom the placid mule, which had been graz- ing beside the fence, suddenty! stalked into the middie of the road. | Prudence sereamed, jerked the handle bar to th then to the left, and th a sickening thud ot the old » right side her pled on acrons the raise herself, ». She heard ng over the fence xt instant, a fhan her he erted, to ning over ‘Are you hurt? poor child!” Prudence ankle Is hurt a | a child.” The young Man, In great relief. jaughed aloud, and Prudence joined him rather faintly | I'm afraid | can not walk,” she! said 1 lieve I've broken my Jankle, It—hurte—pretty badly!” | Lie down like this,” he said helping her to a more comfortable May I ex sition © not | amine yc “You! smiled pluckily. “My| ittle, but I am not move ir foot? ok her head he the shoe regardiess of her believe it sure the bone te not broken. But how in the world will you get home? How far is {t lto Mount Mark? Is that where you | live?" Yes,” considering, there, and ft must be four anyhow, What «ball | do? In answer, he pulled off his coat and arranged it fully by the side of the road on the grass. Then | king open the bag he had ried, he took o few towels three soft shirts, hastily them together for a pillow he turned again to Pradence. WHAT DYSPEPTICS| SHOULD EAT ADVICR but re moved d-shake { sprained. [ am yea, I live miles. car and rolling } Then | | A PHYSICIAN all nine Hit | trouble are dus te nufferers # td Sta ction in the auch A” eliminates which are pleasant to the taste, as well as t whieh are rich in blood, flesh and nerve bulid ing properties. This is the reason | |why dyspeptics and stomach muffer- | ore are umually #0 thin, emaciated! and lacking In that vital energy which ean only come from a well-fed | body. For the benefit of those suf ferers who have been obliged to ex Jclude from their diet all starchy |mweet or fatty food, and are trying to keep up ® ble existe on gluten products nigwent stomach tunately most foods a little hot will neutgalize ar acid which may be present, or which may be formed, and Instead of the| | usual feeling of uneasiness and full |ness, you will find that your food | |agrees with you perfectly. I know of | |nothing better than plain bisurated magnesia an n best food corrective Jand antacid. It has no direct action} on the stomach: but by neutralizing | [the acidity of the food contents, and} thus removing the source of the acid | frritation which inflames the dell-| ate stomach lining, {t does more| than could be possibly done by any ar medicine. As a ph in the use of medi that T cannot ee the wenae of ing an inflamed and irritated ting rid of the acid—the cause of all the trouble. Get @ little bisurated magnesia from your drugmiat. eat risurated magnowla tod above, and wee if I'in not ke, In nediate of bi sid water, This | mit do | bad | and la nice name. proper V WOULDN'T YOu Lik& TO ADOPT A BABY £ I COULDN'T NO, TAKE CAR® OF IT—— HAVE ONE HERE ABOUT FIFTY YEARS OD. Ill carry you over here, and fix you as comfortably asl can. Then Tl go to the nearest houne and get & wagon to take you home.” Dut the first movement sent such a twinge of pain thru the wounded ankle that she clutched him frantic alr. and t tears hurts,” she cried wit out speaki , ae gen pa he ¢ er to the place for her TH run. Do know which way is the nearest to a house?” he asked “The way I came ts the nearest, but tt's two miles, I think.” “I'll fo an fast as 1 can, and you will be all right. This confounded cross-cut Is so out of the way that no one will pass here for hours, 1 suppose.” Off he started, but Prodence, left sions, wan suddenly frightened Please, ¢ please,” she called after d when he ahe burted her face } 1 afraid.” she whispered uC snake might he had © back ery A come amp He sat down beside her. nervous. I'll stay with you until you feel better. Some one may come this way, but ft isn’t likely. A man I passed on the road a ways back told me to cut thru the bick ory grove and I would save a mile of travel. That's how I happened to come thru the woods, and find you He smiled a little, and Prudence, remembering the nature of her ac cident, flushed. Then, being Pra dence, she laughed. It wan my own fauit nese to go coasting down Hike But the mule wan so ata tionary. It never occurred to me that he contemplated moving for the next cent at least I'm afraid your bicycle is rather done up Oh—whatever will Mattie Moore say to me He looked at her curiously. This beyond his comprehension fence expl 4 Maybe pay cluded, “But ways does h be prepared She turned man beside down at her eyes me and clon dark color o fel caused by ou're 1 bad no oT worr she con then, something al on to me, so they'll gravely too for an instant his face. tious breathless her hurting ankle. Pruden nens undoubtedly My name ts Prudence Starr—tI am the Methodist minister's oldest daughter “And mer." my name is Jerrold He was looking away to the hich er “My home | n Des Mo T e about it, 1 wi forget nkle. So he told her about Dea Moines Pr lay with her eyes haif-closed, listening, and wonder ing why there was more music tn his voice than in most voice: I have talked my share he was saying, “tell me all yourself, and the parsonage your family, Do you at at Mount Mark? You lege girl.” 1 am ory © now help me now,’ about and end college look like a Prudence not said | reluctant to make the admission for her life. 1 am college girl. Our not li and I left big hool five years ago and have keeping house for my father sisters since then. 1 am years old, How old a “Tl am twenty-seven, amiled “Jerrold Harmer,” she said slow ly and very musically. “It is such Do your friends call the firat time too stupid to be in mother in bee and twenty you? and he rry?” boys at But my called me Jerry now, either, You will you?” Yes, 1 will But that difference to me might shock want you you J The Roldie. school called me mother always She isn't Hvin: call me Jerry but it never won't makes except be any when it members! You don't the me to call you Jerry, *, | do. And when better acquainted, will you let call you Prudence? we are LEttitt Me sites » cred SSS ESSr Teer sv eeees | “Can that too particular lyfng your with your belongings to college? | “Yeu, to Harvard,” and for eral hours they exchanged | dencen | And, in the meanwhile, at the | parsonage, Fairy was getting break jfast. “Prudence went out for an early bieycle ride--so the members wouldn't catch her.” she explained |to the family Here, twins, you jearry in the oatmeal No use to | wait for Prudence-—it would be like | waiting for the next comet Indeed, it wan after noon when @ small, onehorse spring wagon drove into the parsonage yard. And | there was Prudence! | Connie's single | brought downstair | deposited upon It jto put upstairs,” she assured them, “I want to be down here | where I can bows the girls,” | The doctor came and bandaged the swollen ankle. After that family grouped about the single bed in the cheery | room | “Whose cont is this, Prudence?” asked Connie ‘And where in the world did you me now—T can't be oe, when I and pillowed Did you go on cout nev confi was hastily "There's no use sitting get added Fairy Prudenc itely The she said, and ¢ her fathe will will blushed most exquis Mr. Harmer's anced nervously are a orused the f am if still, | But you What ume “Two o'clock “Ob Then I have plenty of time,” and the proceeded to make them all laugh over the mule, end- ing with: “Then Mr. Davis came along with his cart, and Jerry—er | Harmer, you put ]im, and the cart was so ema bor it me ou all not interrupt Fairy tel about at tw ft | two. know I me and had hing to | His coat underneath me in the wagon, nd he woulda’t take it out for fear of hurting my ankl “He'll have to come for bis coat, sald Lark We're bound to see him.” Whe does he live? What w Eithtsiteitssees se 9 ETHEL pyrieht be and Prudence, the | #itting-reo iittle | #YMpatheticalls these towels and slik shirts?! | prompt reply auLEEE gazanasngeeerruttz A Novel A Week Pevrverevicrrvrizitt) grove?” a strangely . By HUESTON o1 Merrtil or with he nqul doing in od Mr heart with the Starr for new her eye ‘ and wonderful alight { radiance He lives in Des Moines. just walking Into town a vhort cut thru the grove Walking! Prom Des Moines? Prudence flushed uncomfortably ‘1 didn’t think of that,” she said. “But I'm sure he’s no tramp, father, if that is what you are thinking.” 1 am not thinking anything of the kind, Prudence,” he said with dignity But I do think it rather strange that a young man should set out to walk from Des Moines to Mount Mark And why should he be at it so early in the morn ing?” ‘How should I know? He had as much right out early as | had He 1s coming at four o'clock. I you want to ask if he is a tramp you can do it.” And Prudence burst into tears Dramatic silence in the cheerful Then her father said He and wan took “You're all nervous and wrought up, with the pain and excitement Prudence. I'm glad he is coming so we can thank him for his kind ness. You'd better straighten this room a little, girls, and have things looking nice when said Father Starr, with great diplo macy He was rewarded observing that F wonderfully at startled, udence bright Yes, do e urged eager the put ma par ite dresses, ar Connie must on her blue and wear her bows, Fairy, do you think it would be all right for you to wear your silk dress? Of course, the silk is rather grand for home, but you do so beautiful in it. Father, do it would be all right for r that silk dressing-@ ightgown, and my ono or ther said | was to t now Do yor would be all right? But not want me to wear it 1 do want you to,” was the “Yes, it is quite time I'll get it out blue look ou thi et of m ing over you were wearing it of the trunk myself.” Then he turned toward the door with a heavy heart, for he knew that his | fears were Tealized. ASTOR SETS CIGARET STYLE | | | if you want to keep in line with the 400, boys, get this in holding a cigaret! Vincent Astor, the richest young man in the world, shows the new col way in this picture t style Astor is an ensign in the first aero squadron of the New York naval mili and here is shown watching production of a movie at Bay-| shore, N. Y., holding his smoke in the new-fangled way—gripped with Har thumb and the first and second fingers and protruding straight forward. COLYUM AS MUCH USE FOR A MAN HAS FOR BUTTONS ON THE HIS FROCK COAT | VERY DIFFERENT | A penniless German noblemen wan courting American heirege, Well, is she going to buy you?" asked a friend omedimes I dink plied, “but only A PIG HAS A TAIL AS THE TWO ieee or she in,” he te nomedimes | dink she ts shobbing A nUOMMY “« he gets here”) ttle finge | een tat p thru ft-hotled can't @me withe In other eylnéer « missing LONG ONES He—Just one more kiss befere I £0 She—No; it’s now 11, and I mt get to bed by midnight —Judge. of} | see Villa could make an honest living, showing fish how te slip thru nets. S-H-H-H TS OVERDONE Edith—Haren't you and Jack been engaged long enough to get jmarried? Ethel—Too long! a cent left He hasn't got We are now prepared te re ceive the transatiantic ai¢ cruiser from Germany. eee GENEROUS | “Why, Willie, I'm ashamed of |you. You should have shared your apple with your little cousin.” “Well, I let him chew my chew- ing gum while I was eating the ap ple."—New York World. see NO CAUSE FOR WORRY Husband—That is the limit! You've ordered two new dresses! Don't you know that we are already head over ears in debt? Wife Yes, 1 know, but the dress maker don't. . . JUSTIFIED Jobn received two birthday pres- ents in which he was particulariy interested—a diary and a pea- shooter. He wrote in the diary faithfully every day and the pea- shooter he fired off on all occa- jsions. One day his mother found | the following terse record in th book Mundy co! id and sloppy. sloppy, shot gra. and sloppy. Teosdy Wenady cold and ndmother.” A tailor predicts the return of the cutaway. What fun it will be to see them on others.