The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1916, Page 4

[THE MEMBER OF SCRIFYS NoRTHW ——— ines ‘Telegraph News Service of SEATTLE STAR]» «- Next Week A Novel ‘The Secret of the Reef’ BY ee MAROLD Botered at Se , Postottice « Mall, out of city The Phone Injustice the people for service. people. When it’s the company’s turn to pay, ® $4,558,724. “CITY OF SEATTLE ALONE. to the public. a phone simply adds to the injustice. people on the same basis it pays taxes them. new valuation. . But listen to this: called the man into the phone A minute's delay Minute seemed an hour Then Pyoice of the girl at central, saying “Main 3838 has been ch ; N service, cither. F “Main 3838,” nged to Main 6279.” "pastime of going up in the air. #0 the ceiling, saying: “Main 3838 has not.been changed. I ought to know. my residence I'm calling. fain 3338 has been changed to Main 6279." Exasperating, wasn't it? P Because you've had the same experience, haven't you? But| Anne heard her out, quiet with| home and Elsie, She snatched 4p) Bef Shave you ever had this further experience? jthe very ag ray Seactinns of go ecsor tag a "aes tad ag ago 4 i . hs her torment. But when a pause ane noid 10 but wt Suddenly it dawned upon the man that, because he had came, the docks cavely enna hor cheeks, her breda,| She see called Main exchange numbers several times during the day,| “Don't make too many plans.| [) wn Elsie was forgotten.| where she was, and, as her room fhe had sort of formed the Main exchange habit. The num-| Perhaps you will not be in New| This was her child, just as it had — & h b Baby! Minna f hi phone really was 3838 with some othe x.| York much longer. Mr. Inslee is| been thru ha PO ith ea bis home ph i gd 1 : veg He 2 i thinking of transferring you to hin| My baby E she crooned to {t/ had a room adjoining and was wi But did he apologize to the girl at central ¢ did not!) western company.” lin a passion of tenderness and|her constantly, an: eo and h PDid you, the last time she had the goods on you dead to Transferring Tt The giri| yearning * ° were in and out all day, he » rights? jwtood aghast. "Oh!" she breathed,| Bat the room was growing Into! nselves at her beck and « 4 i ——_—_____. a vindictive gleam lighting in her close again. Breathe as! aio was not so devoted. She M4 J leyes. ‘Ob! You asked him to do} as she could, she could not oned daily, and sent an occa Public Sentiment Needed iB get air enough. Still pressing the| sional basket of fruit, but after the ; HE democratic members of the senate finance committee I agreed that it would be wise.| picture to her face, she struggied | first, Nig oo slg Papel pores tor ; hav od lev " f And you will have @ better part window The exertion quic he sir ma - no attempt have voted to levy an income tax of 1 per cent on in-|ana more salary—" e her beeettitns . phen © ‘ a Aaee a cae ask for 4 “I won't go! I won't leave New| beat, but w ho wind blowing| her, nor for anyone else. comes over $2,000. fect ad full upon her, sho still felt suffo-] Inslee and Harland sev This move should awaken every citizen to take an in-| Anne shrugged. “Tell that to| cated Il at once, a surprixed,|eral times during the first few terest in the manner in which the income tax is enforced. Insiee.” | questioning look dawned in her|days, but Wall to If the income tax had not been evaded to the extent of! “I'll tell it to Harland! Why, it’s| eves = My ae -g eg yn . > 4 sehen ’ ‘j 6 u withou gume: more than THREE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS by| idiculous! 1 made the hit of the FREE TO Shas tee ox Ana or tee oie those persons with large incomes who are now subject to its|trq the critics mad Inelen timeclt rebuffs, they, like Ellis, Shel-| | provisions, there would have been no need to extend the tax! —everybod ASTHMA SUFFERERS don, and a dozen ott ap [$0 as to include the men with relatively small incomes who| “In 4 very small, very easy, and pi con | Darent y lost either heart or in 4 ciceady ber Saha tate oF 4 - Gory good part,” ‘Anne reminded| my terest, for they confined their at are already paying not only the bulk of the indirect taxes tentions to telephoning Blevied by the federal government, but also the larger part!” Then what couldn't I do in a ve a New Method that cures} Gradually, inevitably, the first i © of the state municipal taxes big « like—like ‘Elfrida want you to try it| great wave of sympathy and solic : If the income tax returns had not been kept secret, there! There was a second’s silence, of jong-standing or | {= ibe porsgeces Weng dota 4 | Ma Have been no evasio during which Elsie looked a little ment, whether ja | Pealized it, she made no comment & 4 4 son. frightened. Then Anne smiled, Fever or chronic| Looking at her as she lay silent . rightene hen Anne smiled, un ade public 80 as to|affectediy contemptuously end with eyes half closed, hour after If the tax returns are not now mad bl to| art 1 1 contemptuously 4 re ee Lee half closed f rent evasion under the proposed law, the federal gov-| “Perhaps you want to play it? you. live, no matter | "our, Mattie often won what ernment, in its wild scramble to find the millions needed » pay the enormous cost of preparedness, will be driven LOW AS $1,000. The only way to prevent th OF RETURNS. There is practically no hope of securing publicity of turns from congress unless there is AN ACTIVE PUBL DEMAND. tax returns see the light of day (MODERN DENTISTRY Are offering the peo- ple of moderate in- come the opportunity of having their teeth attended to at re- markably low prices for a few days only. Twenty-five per cent reduction these regular prices below: 22-k. Gold Crown. .$5.00 { Gold Fillings......$2.00 Bridgework, tooth $5.00 | Silver Fillings... $2.08 Porcelain Crowns. .$5.00 | Best Rubber Plates $5.00 and up. The man who 1s content with well enough does not operate a chair in our offices We demand nothing but the best. We act upon the prin- ciple that a pleased patient will return and bring others with him. PAINLESS EXTRACTIONS Lady Attendant Work Guaranteed ELECTRO PAINLESS DENTAL CO. 8. E. CORNER OF FIRST AND PIKE Opposite Old Public Market—Laboring People’s Dentist J. R. VAN AUKEN, MGR, Open From 9 A. M. to 9 P. M—Sundays Until 12 on ELEPHONE rates are a form of taxation. | They are the phone company’s tax on) It remained for the state public service) ‘commission to show that there’s a rank dif- ference between the basis on which the phone} company pays taxes TO the people and the one on which it collects taxes FROM the) says all its properties in King county, includ- its franchise value, are worth only But when it comes to collect taxes from)..." | the people it secures the co-operation of the state commission in demanding the right to earn a fair return on $6,799,902 IN THE, That discrepancy alone means injustice | And the fact that the company is to be) | permitted to charge a $3.50 fee for install- No record appears of any effort by the state to make the phone company tax the There may be some solace for the people,| however, if the taxing authorities do their sskei ease) duty and make the company pay taxes on its Do You Ever Apologize to the Phone Girl? OT that we are so all-fired setup over the telephor To the man waiting at the phone that into the man’s car came the Whereupon the man indulged in that favorite hot-weather|a dream Straight up he went, clean| New York, and What's the matter with this tele-, ’ _ service, anyway? If you girls knew your business ® little better, telephone companies would be more popular.| iii; Ring Main 3838 again and don’t tell me they don’t answer.”| supper, sho sald Se raved the man, but the girl at central only replied You can sympathize, can’t you? ‘lower the exemption still further and TAX INCOMES AS — ™ the law as it stands is enforced. This means PUBLICITY All the senators and congressmen pay an income ftax and there are many who are afraid to let their income | (Continued from Our Last sue)! NNE read each notice thru A calml And as calmly di missed Minna, promising that she would go to bed almost at things once. She knew that the sho had read were unfair, that she could redeom herself, and that Klsie was perfectly incapable of playing Irida.” But it cut dee And bitterest of all was the know! edge she fought to astifie, that {t was all her daughter's fault, the Whole miserable business. ‘I've got to stand itt she thought I've got to convince them all yet. I'll play ‘Bifrida’ all the better for this!” And, in truth, an fdea for the improvement of one scene had al ready come into her mind Rising, she hurried over to the desk for her manuscript. The litte old photograph Blste, lying in & pigeonhole, was a sharp reminder of another dream that had failed to come true, and as she picked up her “part,” the lines she had studied with such happiness and hope blurred thru sudden tears of/ desolation 1 I mustn't! I must think just of! night!" she muttered, and turned away quickly | She had turned off the lghts, when there was a knock at the door, She sprang up, thinking of Harland, and trembling with wild foolish hope. indignant at the it critics, to come ort and encouragement! Let me in, mamma! The door is locked!” came Elate's ve Anne's 4 moved sound }leasty, and the b rattled j agein. “Ob lips door you must let me in! Some | body's coming, and I'm not dressed! * © © Hurry! Please hurry! ‘The rattling grew frantic Anne h itated desperately, and then. | eathoring the papers, tossed tO}trem into a corner behind a chair and opened the door, & eo dodged in and slammed it shut with «a mischievous laugh “Where the papers?’ she I'm crazy to see |my notices pe cee, FFP tired, and it's too late for talking Malicious amusement flashed in joe's face and out again “Oh, | understand,” she sald, in genuously They say such horrid things you don't want me to read to B a| noticing Anne's start of surprise. | Harland was horribly disappointed he couldn't take her out to | going tomorrow night, and as goon s his royalties began to come in jthey would start on a round of all the fam restaurants in town to| she asked jly, when he was Mr. Harland never anything of the sort er—~Iinventing. | promised you “He did!” Elste blazed. “Or—or if he didn’t it in #0 many words, | ," she amended, fal tering again under Anne's smile “Why, he's crazy about me. I can wind him round finger!” “Oh, hush, hush!” “You'll see when Inslee tries to} end me off out West! Me!" She| wheeled, went half-way to the door, | and turned bac I'm going tol marry Phil Harland! [ll be the wife of the author of the play! Anne caught her vt Msharply and her hand crept up te heart. | “Go away, Elsie!” she choked, | “Go! Quickly!” The girl drew back with ap un-| | ®teady, meaningless laugh, hesitat-| Jed, and then obeyed, mumbling an Jabashed good-night | Anne's first thought was to lock the door, That done, there ecomed | no me to do, and she leaned against it, trembling and dizzy,| o 6 Sh wondered janguidly| ut her own tr Within a few hours st an over whelmin al jonally, | |had lost her lover, and had read| hatred in her daughter's face, yet the only thing that seemed to mat ' BINDLOSS seerannanateannnanst (Setenuresertsrenesenserastaiaaaaaant: It would be like him! But they were; STAR—FRIDAY, AUG. 25, 1916. ter was thie question of what to do next The room was close, she noticed, and as she tried to turn, her knees) and | gave way and she sank to the floor. | and she went to a window tained it wide open lt was snow PAGE 4. “ANNE, ACTRES T CAN'T STAND 11 10 SE& A BIG STRONG MALE CRUSH AHEAD OF WOMEN Hey The little man t advanced, grinnin * ¥ A Novel | 99 Juliet G. Seger Week | | ens! what an impression of Anne it will give!” Mattie groaned; and th ned up the case providential, they all] agreed, that Anne would not wee it, and that, with precaution, they could keep her from hearing about it for some time to com But even while Mattle consoled herself with that assurance, she shook ber head over the condition that made ch concealment possible It was that afternoon she and Dr, Wallace worked out a ¢ h ful plan, to whieh Anne acquiesced with more or less languor CHAPTER XII Anne's Victory “On a Sunday afternoon, some two weeks later, Tom Inslee was tramping, ankledeep in snowy slush, along the street of a small town near New York Inslee wcrutinized every house with the hopeful eye of a stranger seeking marks of identification. Presently be spied a little man clearing the walk In one of the he called out urned, stared, and He had on a NTO_A shabby coat, evidently not made aad ye oar Tl for him, and a queer old cap with enrlaps, He held out his band, and Inslee to it, with a chuckle “Wal, [ swan!” he exclaimed tr the broadest stage version of “ru ral dialect How alr ye, Uncle? And alr the folks tu hum? Mttle nN nod and toward the house went on, relapsing into apeech How in she?” Walks miles.” } | “Fine! But I knew she'd pull thru She's the ort to be downed, even by a bad heart * * © Bay! Thin is all righ he added, aw the lite man opened door and they went tn. tle greeted them site!” she exclaimed. her hand ou two doing here ned was in New and they came down nights after the perform sai age Bray {ll Monday after ! | “Minna!” she gasped. } It no more than a whisper, The anow drifted in on her bright jand tore her. nobody thought of questioning Suddenly her tumult of emotion | Elsie. She volunteered no suc subsided. She“ merely felt tired/ gestions, In fact, after the d end very, very lonesome. It was) ful first hour or two, her moth the same sort of lonesomeness that crying nit bad sent her to be after night, when she first cupation Get the Round Package Used for Ys Century. Caution b avoid Substitutes" | $ ED Ae B wall G ere Ja | Lf i, ) ena eins Ye MMALTED MILK CO mE, | 1f you MALTED MILK Made from clean, rich milk with the ex- tract of select melted grain, malted in our own Malt Houses under sanitary conditions. Infant. the wea Needa no cooking nor addition of mith. Nourishes and sustains more than tea, coffee, ete. Should be kept at home or when traveling. Anu- tritiou Substitutes Cost YOU Semo Price Take a Package Home rooms and her mother's f had not seon much of her A excuse was t she could be thinking erhaps I shall it!” the with asthma. our! it was clear to all of them that to) sirt retorted, bridl | Heve you promptly. | Anne was reluctant to take up life Has one notice y gone to ° ope! ases,/again in earnest. She shrank from is to see that your head like t here all forme of inhalera, douches, every intrusion of the world out “No, it’s not the notice. I am eos tatied We | Side her sick-room, refusing to talk |to understudy it. Phil promised] want to show everyone at our own | about it or even to read the papers A jthat tonight. And he said if you| oxpense, feat tee Uttlcule teach | This had its advantages on one -|gave it up ing. all wheex idioult breath occasion, at least. One Sunday AC| “It 1 gave it up?" terrible parox and for|the “Recorder” published an arti ‘Well—when you give it up, that] # me |cle headed, “The Two Elfridas; or I'm to play it regularly. I'm to be! Mele dag Welte tangy | Daughter in Name Only starred in it Starred!" She the metho t | It was a flippant, exaggerated | tossed her head, her cheeks hot and | }? ho money Simply mail coupon) but fairly accurate story of the —|her eyes defiant fs Do It Today relations—real nnd assumed—be Anne looked at her a moment tween her and Elsie, with respon. and went a step nearer. “Elsie!” ASTHMA COUPON sibility for the masquerading put| she sald quietly. The girl just met ASTHMA CO., Room || by implication solely upon Anne her gaze and glanced away, with || 2744. Nisgare and Hudson Sts, || Elsie was described as grieving,| an uneasy movement WONG” gare toes tal of youdsaen |but submissive, and there were | laughed. fixe your method || sympathetic references to her| “Your father's expression exact | father—"handsome, brilliant, much beloved and much maligned Blair North.” Phere isn’t a i whole truth in it whole but lie nor a good Heavy THE ORIGINAL d children thrive on it. Agrees with it stomach of the invalid or the aged. food-drink may be prepared in a moment. | hot before retiring induces refreshing 10 in lunch tablet form for business men. [ance and stayed t jained. It was rather lonesome for Anne, with Just Minna for company expected to be wi gone off on a b Doctor Wallace had hem, but had trip that eines was keeping him away much longer iaeriste! How--how dare yout” | {ng now, and the wind dashed fine, | hair, leaving glittering specks of | “About me, I mean. The ‘Re-|halltike fiskes in her face and| moisture. than anybody had lcorde:’ was awfully 4, but per-| against her bare neck. But she was — Anne's almost haps the others not cold, and there was none too cuapren xt pose?” he asked You've seen the ‘Recorder’? much alr for he ‘at hiihen Ota Oh, yes. Ye Elsie nodded jubilant! I'm #0 beck, after a time so far as 1 can lnapny that everything seems like, *he or desk, and stopped| “She muet have undergone some! hesttated, with a To think ['m restly in| by lesely. There lay her k—some sudden, great actress, with| “part” and the picture of Elsie of excitement Harland's com nudiences applauding and critics|Fymbols of ‘he best thing that bad t day, when they ne and] day with Elste, lwriting about me, and the author| been in her life and the best that suca things served. It’S| bringing me home in a taxi!” |had promised to come into It. She sat was it? What could] “With Elsie Elsie rattled on joyously, never| looked down at them dully, and pened?” they asked each | indignant! |then the first great sob wrenched Nobody could answer, and|—and maybe you runs out every 4 ar she is?” “Doesn't she?” John coughed. didn't mak Tom. It to tell she Old gir do b back 0} of the ® ma’ Mattie felt d be truly nd of A fore d and Anne aybe this certainly he sald, h part!" hands She erently Let's get ness,” Insleo said what abo your “AS good time, Better, 7 a long rest.” You know ed into erk your he nodded And that she's “I took that for His eyebrows did! Then | equal to it?” “Ino, I didn’ had turned ale glanced from one surpr “Oh, nounced yet?" I!” John spoke this time ght, according to the ver satisfying for ne's to hear he could utter them, the door doesn’t as it's been in a long Elsie hasn't foreseen. Except poor Aunt Phoebe. He went on rudely to express the well again, 1 84D-/ needs me yet. She'll care,” opinion that the word “philoso thought, with a pale smile, half af- her’ was but another way of she's pretty well.) fection and half iro spelling “fool om * - What is your opinion, profes doubtful glance (Concluded in Our Next lesue) sor?” he asked, smiling. “Is there | ry ae wruch distance between them?” ing out here to SUQUAMISH BOATS — the professor surveyed bis vie 1 hear,” be ob avis keenly for a moment, thea, | Yes.” Sho snifted| “{ wuppose he thinks | gion do, too—that she| or so, Itke the| aweet, attentive daughter that| Chief Seattle's birthday, will take ¢ me promise not) was Harland that Jobn, turning her And she related the epi anged gowns on the| Bic | id genial expression | that his remar' any| But be | came in | an invalid, but| look the! as they shook| smiled languidly—or was tt| | right down to busi | briskly. First, health, Anne naps, for I've had Miss North part the next granted.” went up. “You thought she was | t. But"—Mattie| tly, and Anne to the other in it been an-| What?" they both asked | riedly ‘s of no to me that I'v ing the star |Inslee said, with | irritation, “I've ause, with you much of any got thing, nothing! * she said, hur » consequence.” | “It’s of considerable consequence} an amateur play rt in my production!” poorly repressed | let her keep on sick, there didn’t | thing else to do. | But if you're going to be able to work again—why, that puts a new] | face on things She leaned forward, flushing slowly “You want me to come back? To play {t again? After—after what the crities all said?” They didn’t realize how sick you| were, They do now, and they'll give you a fair hearing next time I'm not afraid of ‘em. I know what you can do.” “It'd all happened so quickly! To} think I sh “Next Monday 1 play able | / | e | Ash tt s he was getti Ask For and GET | sho asked in @ hesitating way what HORLICK’S ne of h was to becc ke care of | ly t I tioned before. “But she'll never cast With you again he dec And by order’ agement,” phasis. Sunday ‘R it again night, if you're| ng into his er le. Oh, he'd wered care have that part in Western company that he men any idea who was responsible for it?” “She didn't see interposed wasn't well thought Better it g a neatly fold you read cketbook, | You who Anne guess Anne reluctantly and came to her uncomfortably. it, Tom,” Mattie “She we know, and he said, and Jed clipping from | e handed it to} t to able to it the facts,” read a few lines, husband's name, | | | playing ft ra | Bi I—I can't!” she shivered, shutting ¢ a COLYUM her eyes 1 handed it back to him A contemptible, dirty, lowdown tr But who gave the reporte : hin cues?” he persisted WELL TRAINED But Anne would 6 nothing A Scottivh farmer of a miserty either then or afte was gone ‘inpont bought « horse af The time wan we t for Elsie|fair, On the way bome he thought and Harland to arrive if they had|a drink of water would refresh iy cor on the three o'clock train,|so he got a pail of water: but the was no other for twolanimal would not take it W pure presently Anne set out/he got home, he offered it a feed the datly walk W bad pre-jof corn; but, te s wurprise, § ribed, promising to be back before| would not touch that, either As usual, Anne struck out for) "if only I was sure were gal the open country. She t ex-| worker, ye're a unhappy—nor happy either,| me tho Inslee had given her back at| one st a part of all she had lost ofessionally she was not disered: | {~~ ited; she could begin again where she bad left off. And yet a At the top of a little hill there was a view that #he particular! tked, and there she came a halt. There was a view in Brook fields very Hke lt. * © © Andin Brookfields, too, there r 80, whe had been lace who had t and com similar! dt The first t A varation la = two weeks! period fe A = work creeping back to life convalenc I gocran she had had her ¢ c 0 #0, Wallace was betide her, with | , camp in the nds outstretched *, the mountains, or the farm s time, he had decided for ord fruit, flab, vegetables r, and gone away himself. is A storsae cans taste so and gone & bs from home, am at sight, after vortant bu she disintesed the weeds ah. agri as an ot * o surf, jen't it gloriogs te he had filled in her for 40 e bed with = lovely, tight. ad filled in b d at of sumbern, and « ‘man ears was cold and empty wjuitors and beetles while try b And there would be other such sleep? ee the air empty places Elsie’s. The estrangement between them would be all the hopeless wh Inslee’s inte were made known. The girl had simply never her Elsie at all. Hers—her | was somehow not affected ming or going of this one fell the “millinaire’s daaghtery’ have Just sneaked away from chaperone,” bow th bored to death fons by” * © © Harland’s too. If she ha on ao blank distance (racic center of the world ‘ em would not have been | ee wider or more impassable. Yes Siar word @uuit ity waka vo | mOMe, ane MEN ARE peopling. © © © 4 |GLAD THEY HAVE THE PRIV- los Sisio, she had lost an|!LEGE OF THINKING AS THEY ine was There would ive whose driving power she| beginning dimly to perceive. | be nobody now to work for, nobody to share her suc cesses and sweeten them, nobody and nothing to dream of. INFORMED A famous scientist at a dinner at Boats for the Suqeamish excur- Saturday, when the big In- Gian celebration to commemorate | with a polite bow, responded: table.” Johnny—Papa, would you be gl if I saved a dollar for you? place, will leave at § Papa—Certainly, my son. m., 12:16 | was present which one of the guests began to deride philosophy. “Sometimes only the width of 6% handed ont The “millionaire’s sone” that that p.m, 2 p. m. and 7:30 p.m. Re! Johnny—Well, 1 saved it for turning, they will leave at 6:30/an right. You said if I broulht a p. m. and 12:30 a. m first-class report from my t this week you would give me CLARA BARTON PICNIC | dollar, and I didn't bring it. Clara Barton tent, Daughters of Veterans, will hold an all-day pic-| / at Alki beach Wednesday, Au-| gust 30. 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