The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1916, Page 4

Pestoffice as Seoond-Ciass Matter, @ mos. m ee Entered at Seattie, Wash ‘| By mall, out of city, aso ; . per month up @ mos 61.90; year # carrier, city Bbe nth A Week (Continued From Our Last Issue) Dally by The Star Publishing "Go to Hear H umphrey TMHE evident abandonment by J. E. Chilbe . n here against the Seattle congressman. for Humphrey. on of the present been a negative quantity. ok upon him as a considerable joke. site. Under such circumstances, Humphrey, best, would be worth little to the state in t nited States senate. ] poking legislation, his inherent and unreasc amendment favoring private shipyards, whi s for battleship construction. public expense, his vote to pay himself $1,2 ed to the collapse of the Humphrey forces. u et us hear Humphrey. lanations. Flag and the “Investment” election day, a whole lot about American honor of Wilson’s Mexican policy. Mr. Hughes is going to lat Taft's and Wilson's treatment of Mexican affairs was png and that he has the only pacifier, altho he doesn’t it is. ir international honor and rights, they'll i hostility to Americans, which cause is the fact that wealth of Mexico, according to the nationalities, Amount of investment, 321,302, Phene Main 600. Private i and other Seattle business men of the cam-| of Rep. Will E. Humphrey is but the nat- ural bursting into flame of fires long smoulder- Only one Seattle councilman has come out On every hand, there is the indication that King county is going to bury the vaulting ambi-| representative by an} che of votes that will make new history : In the house of representatives, Humphrey His colleagues They penly josh him about his “duck-pond” post- Besides his general opposition to forward- ble enmity toward labor, he has much to answer 10 the Northwest, particularly for his vote on the ald have destroyed the Bremerton navy yard His connection with the “duck-pond” post- site purchase, his raid on the United States! ry to circulate private campaign pamphlets veling expenses” for a trip he did not or intend to make—all these have contrib- Humphrey will speak at the Moore theatre esday. The Star bespeaks for him a good audience. et all those who can attend his meeting do so. Let him make his ex- HE spellbinders are going to tell you, between now and and tsin Mexico and the mistakes, inconsistencies and coward- climb into the presidential chair largely thru convincing you} But, though the standpat spellbimders will roar about keep mighty as to the real, underlying cause of Mexico's troubles and been mercilessly looted by foreigners, especially Amer- Six months before President Taft let go of the Mexican pblem, with pleasure, the U. S. consular reports showed $1,057,770,000 143,446,000 | RESENTLY Anno started he As who neared the house she could see thru the lighted windows of the living room that Elvie and Harland were there. Anne went up the walk slowly, Jcomposing her face. and thoughts tor the trying encounter At the door, with her hand on the knob, she hesitated a shrinking sec jond. Mattie was talking, Anne ould catch only a phrase here and there, but they were enough “Went without comforts to give you luaurtes”—"sla’ away the best years of her life at stock work for your sake, when she might have been on Broadway”—"every cent of her savings in the home she deeded over to you as soon as it was paid for—" Anne opened the door and went tn. Mattie was standing by the table, a newspaper clipping in her hand. Elsie was backed up before the fireptace. A little apart stood Harland, frowning and intent. None of them noticed Anne. “I'm only explaining why nobody could suspect you of this!” Mattie was saying, with her terrifying alt of innocence, “But it isn't possible you'd do such a cruel, treacherous thing. Is it, Mr, Harland? Your own mother! And when she was sick, too—almost at death's door. rg to injure her professionally, to drag her down from the place she's climbed to so painfully, you on her shoulders Mattie abruptly dropped pretence. “You taunt her with being your mother! You make her out a jeal ous old woman—Jealous of you!” “Oh, 1 didn’t! 1 didn't!” Elste stammered, shrinking back af didn’t tell him that. He put it to of his own accord. lips parted, and horror in her face. Mattle laughed unpleasantly and turned away with a glance toward | Harland “You see, Mr, Harland?” no! Listen, Phil!” the girl eried, but as he turned his back on her, she broke down and burst Into tears, There were exclamations—trium phant on Mattie’s part-——-when she and Harland discovered Anne's presence. Hut Anne paid no aatten tion to them. “Elsie,” she sald, uncertatniy The girl wheeled, uncovering a face that was passionate and de fiant in spite of the tear marks. “Ob, you're here, are you? heard? Then you're satisfied, suppose? You can oust me now you and Inslee! Oh! I know how you've been trying to do it, from the first. I know how you've schemed and plotted with him Phil was the only friefid 1 had, and at last you've turned him against me. You're all against me now!” “Hush, child, hush!” Anne sprang toward her, “Don't talk like that! You Elsie pushed her away “Don't pretend you'd wouldn't trY|comes of mo.” at he on- ch (00 You 1 are. You Thep all at once her bravado and grown-up airs de- serted her, her head dropping in- stinctively on Anne's shoulder. “Oh, 1 wish I'd never come to New York! I'm so wretched. Help me, mamma! Help me!" Anne held her gently and tried to quiet her, but she did it with @ stiff, conscious lack of spon taneity, The room seemed full of Plair North; there were echoes of his sophistries and selfishness in every word of his daughter's self-defense ing arms around her neck were calling up other memortes. “What is {t yon want me to ¢ she asked, at last. “Oh, I don't know! don't let him hate me. l care about. Help me, mamma Harland and Mattie had with all tell she as Only, Phil That's all 0 “fl 4 118,535,380] qrawn to the remotest window Mexican........... 4 ¢ 187,242| “Mr. Harland!” Anne summoned : Americans have more mofey in Mexico than Mexicans)h!m ‘ themselves, by $264,582,758—twice as much in railway stocks, par Oe hrs 5 tieeeeed rasp. | 35 times as much in railway bonds, 30 times as much in}—what 1 told you that. night | Mines, four times as much in smelters, three times as much in|about him and me oo". thirty times as much in oil and twice as much in| Anne released herself slowly ber lands. This gigantic sum of $1,057,770,000 is called|*"%, 4rew back, holding her at ” . Sigg te s jarm's length. It wasn't true “investment.” A big part of it is “water | “Not—not exactly Not—yet Mr. Wilson's alternative has been, as was Mr. Taft's, to}. Harland had come down to ther the limit in permitting Mexico to settle her own troubles |i@0kins at Anne Inquiringly. Elste If, or to slaughter a looted, oppressed, starving pec For objecting to being owned by outsiders. When Hughes talks about going further than has been gone, talks war, or he talks bosh. REGULAR SUNDAY EXCURSION NAVY YARD AND BATTLESHIPS SUNDAY, AUGUST 27TH All Boats Leave Colman VISIT THE SOLDIER BOYS fe caur av Pont wonben | Take Steamer Whatcom Sunday, Aug. 27 : Wes Colman Dock 9:00 a. m, rn on Str. Sol Duc, leavin, Townsend at 5:30 p. m., ving in Seattle 8:30 p. Round Trip $1.00 PUGET SOUND NAVIGATION COMPAN an m. Mr he did not seem t» see. You've been badly treated, Miss Houghton F the very first you haven't had a square deal. Ins lee called me a } ockhead for not seeing it, and I reckon that’s what »ple| he PORT ANGELES EXCURSION Sunday, August 27 $2.00 ROUND TRIP From Colman Dock 8:00 a. m., Steamer Sioux to Port Townsend, thence Seattle, Port Angeles & Western Rail- way along the shore of Discovery Bay, arriving Port An- eles 12:55 noon. Afternoon for visit to lighthouse on iz Hook with three miles of interesting beach fronting on the Straits. Leave 5:25 p. m. same day, arriving Seattle 10:20 p. m. For further particulars ask MILWAUKEE TICKET OFFICE Second and Cherry or Puget Sound Navigation Co,, Colman Dock. and conflict only sure, final way—the only wa possible, if any good of it But how could you, Anne?! How could you?’ Mattie watled, unreconciled “Mother Nature did it, dear. not I, Anne Houghton, one-time star, She let me have my own way and think myself my own mistress for a good while, and then she took me tn hand, Elst too, It was sho who taught her the magic word to use, ‘Mother’ all walls go down before that call, Mattie—even such walls as had piled up between my daugh and me, God forgive us both And when Mattie idea of any permanent er oh in nge fe: “Oh, I'm not expecting miracles. ole will be Elsie and Blair North's daughter as long as| she lives. And I'm reapon sible for that, too. I gave her To hold her up to ridicule, to try) carrying | * She paused, | Nobody cares what be-| No, I settled it the | is to come! sniffed at the | A Novel ‘The Secret of the Reef’ 66 HAROLD BINDLOSS ERUERRRERRRRRRRTDR HPTTTTTT nae ra Ttssasaaatestesttetesae: win | STAR—SATURD. 26, 1916. ANNE, A uti WHAT Excuse | HAS ANY HUMAN BEING USING SULPHUR MATCHES IN THIS DAY 4ND ace PAGE 4. Blair for a fat “Yes, but wh Mattie blurte ashast at the b his arms! He “Will marr They're fond they have eve astes, ambi and youth ters One was to anything more bim The second, protests, was t | “Walt a few |"Give yourself le know you'r Yet the cling-|may not want me p tion, She was +{ily, to Wallace, who had borne all | the expenses ¢ ‘The house had been leased—and the rent paid lace!—until th week; and tho going to New York at once, Mattie and Minna between them persuaded | her to stay out the fortnight could do nothin heard from B and she might joying herself money's worth 4) “And it woul doctor right to ting him know, “He'll expect to find you here when/in me for anybody or anything,” |the room, gets back.” “He'll hardly be glad to fi that you've thrown her plump into him, I think, and }it ends in a wedd Anne said, with ur CHAPTER XIII Anne's Last Engagement That night Anne wrote two let-| ing—for she knew him well enough to be sure she need never expect tng the explanation that wer. . more wood on the hat about 1 out, Innder: Harland? and then, “T-—-1 mean 7" Very likely slory of her hair of each other, and oe aaeetaaitien. and discontent i be happy with | safe, too. I hope |truth—the old, ing very soon,” |truths of life! haken serenity on the other's sho who's inslee, asking noth fire. in ulder Anne stood beside her, dreamily watching the sparks fly up and the flames leap after them. green of ber gown brought out the The dull a thoroly stagey way, but her face was clean of rouge and her eyes of unrest “How long it takes us to see the simp) Doesn't ft, Minna sho said, letting her fingertips rest) eternal “Anybody few years older could teach us, but we won't listen.” She laughed without bitterness “The old sayings are right, Minna. the ‘To be good-——' and “Better a dinner of herbe-——’ and all those. They're the wisdom other womer jhave gained, slowly on phy an handed y it fa we chance has | know whi from him—but #1¥-lthry the centuries, was 40) down for us, What a p ..| won't take thein to ourselves and in epite of Mattie’s| ise them before the o Praver ae days,” sho pleaded, | Passed a chance. Lat peo-| ‘“I—I guess 1 don't © well and ready to|you mean, ma‘am,” Mi Jout firm, cool “It ts! It's breathed; it see she even dout changed in debt, and heav han r of her illness. in advance by Wal middie of that Anne was all for| ne > of relief. I thought hands of me She) your friendship and faith went ng in town until she| when you saw how things were be-| rauer, they argued,/tween Elsie and me!" she stam as well be here, en-|mered. “It was terrible. I must and getting her| have seemed heartless—a failure nds eally nna confess work again. foere'll be a lot of |ed; and Anne laughed again. productions around Christmas “1 don't blame you. It’s vague to “But Anne object-|me. But, meanwhile, is that some lod you know, Mat-|body knocking, or isn't it? } tle.” Minna rose with deliberation and ‘Oh, eat! If ft came to that,) Went to the door. you might as well sterve as be} “Miss Anne!” buried alive in a oklyn stock!”| Anne turned in time to get one “But | may not go there. Bruin| beaming, excited smile, and then Ww" saw Minna disappear into the kiteh-| | “He will. He'll snap you up by/en, closing the door discreetly be- ltelegraph,” Mattie asserted, dis-| hind her “” consolately “Dr. Jim!” she cried, before she And indeed Anne's situation | him. called for some sort of prompt ac-| “Of course!” he laughed, holding you!” she ned incredible that his returning, un oud washed that the last bit of| misery more weird than the wildest | Change anything!” But she confessed brave. ly, her voice unsteady, with a rush | secon your | where you had believed in me the! year-old mother n't be treating the| most.” run off without let “When my friendship for you * Mattie pointed out.| goes, Anne, there'll be none left Vreder! PSPYSS TST STVIYENSE) 7] the cried; and intent to heed “1 ean offer you practically ey spice in your life now. You'll soon lorget—all this 1 whall try to.” Anne caught her bresth. “But you'll be in New York a good 7 1 shall nee you I think not. I've been consid ing a trip to Vienna for a course in the hospitals there, Probably 1 shall go now.” He was very quiet, ery gentle, but there was rigidity in his face that tola with what ef. maintaining his self fort he was control “It's not that roy ‘friendship bas gone,’ .you know,” he went on, re peating her phrase, “But I have a feeling that tonight decides it that if you don’t care for me now, }yon never will, And since you | don't" he paured There was only one thing to say and she could not say it. He wait ed a second, then turned away for his coat You're not going—now?” she managed “What is * to walt for?” he returned; and again there was no answer she could make. She moved instinctively nearer the table for support. There lay the other letter the: had come at the same timo as Travers, In a pur poneless way she picked it up. Where's Minna’ I musto't go without bidding her goodby,” Wal lace said. room door. Anne heard him call and Minna arewer. To keep herself from thinking, she opened the letter in and went to the dining | | ber hand Tho signature flashed up at her Wallace was returning, but she raid no attention, A spasm of pain contracte jsaw her wo ab with had LU ® ed interest mouth as he her face vivid in which he some d no p sut turned suddenly the letter into his hand. Read it, Doctor Jim! Read it!” MOTHER JAILS HE DAUGHTERS TWO and tb | | TOMB; RAW MEAT IS PART OF DIET, |Charities Agents Who Break Into Apart- ment Find Woman Who Feared She rvs awrez « Would Die If Light Whom She Compelled to Sit in Chairs ‘ts 1 =a «; Day and Night. BROOKLYN, N. Y., Aug. 26. —Florence w | lyn’s “living tomb” apartment, | will recover their minds and health, according to word just | given out at the hospital where they have been cared for sirfce they were rescued from a room In which it is claimed they were imprisoned two years. Agents of the Children’s society say that when they broke into the floor apartn t of a brown house on Stuyvesant unearthed a tale of ghastly | stone they fiction in the Arabian Nights For two solid years Frances Weeks, 21, and Florence, 20, had sat motionless on hard chairs in a pitch-black while their 70- Mre. Emma Hall, tramped ceaselessly up and down, never going out, never sleeping, never letting a ray of sunlight Into according to the author- he said, with a faint smile at the | ities. come now—or he'd | word nd it unnecessary friendshi nly a phase. of any otk | | | relieve these | bowels. promptly clearing Mild and harmless, ner medicine in the world. trouble Largest Sale of Any Medicine in the World, Sold everywhere. In boxes, 10c., 25¢. Public Opinion Indorses this family remedy by making its sale larger than that The experience of generations has proved its great value in the treatment of indigestion, biliousness, headache and constipation. BEECHAM’S PILLS “No, that's You'll pass through | door of Mr. I've been,” he sald. “He wants |Very likely he’s gone home direct,|{t, and so will Pisie. You'll find you to play ‘Elfrida’ again, So dojand {s working night and day to/cach other. It will come out right, | i. Will you do 1t?” make up for lost time,” Anne said,|1 know you too well to doubt it “Mother?” ¥ whispered, un-|in a matter-of-course way | “But it has! Already, thank certain and anxious. ‘“Mother!"| She and Minna, who was one of|God!" And she told him the har she repeated brokenly, and Anne |the family now, went to the station | Penin n Sunday, sparing Elsie suddenly drew ner close Monday afternoon with Mattie and|#!! she could, and making as little ood!" Harland said, with alJohn. As tho train pulled out: | 48 possible of her own part in the breath—of satisfaction r|We shall be on {t ourselves Thurg-|f'' 4! arrangement. When Wallace, y coneurrence? “When shall|day.” she said, bright-eyed, but|/N0t at all misled, exclaimed at her xpect you back?" {sighing faintly sacrifice, she disclaimed all credit, Never.” Anne smiled at him} Anne was outdoors almost all the| “* she did to Mattie. and shook her heaa. “Never, if it/next day, tramping about fm the| She told him bout Brauer and means supplanting Elsie.’ jsnow, musing soberly but not un-|th® Metropoliten with what vt ee ete = ca ee happily oa her hilltop, and coming | Y#cttY she could summon “Halt-measures wouldn't have an-|home with frost-brightened cheeks|, '#e Shook his head over it. “Too swered,” Anne said to Mattie, and eyes. [ts rd work ail never stand when Elsie and Herland had gone | that.” And when she disagreed off together, with the Ona be, |_,A letter from Brauer came in the!Oh, my dear, haven't you had |tween them’ already closing over, |S{eTnoon mail. It requested an in-|enough yet? Aren't you tired of If I had taken back the part, even |{e™ in New York the following / it? You've had your fling. Aren't lif I'd kept her with me in New | Saturday Another letter was|you ready to come home? To York, there'd heve come. times |there, too, but she put it by and| Brookfields and me” when she would have felt 1 hag |Went to change into indoor dress,| Aune did not answer Jrobbed her of something—that's determined to be thankful over get-| “I can ask you now with a clear human nature. The thing always |{M& 4 engagement so soon, When| conscience. I cin even urge you!” |would have been between 1s, |8h@ came back Minna was putting| he continued, with a laugh of sheer breeding suspicion and fealousy | sa IIS ” paceseeeieneneescenapsasieenes eEaeunaniataecenannd nd prevent them from becoming serious ills by vastes and poisons out of the digestive system, They strengthen the stomach, stimulate the liver and regulate the A proven family remedy, unequalled For Digestive Troubles ) | These neighbors noticed that the Hall's apartment was | roped and bolted, and never opened Sometimes they heard strange lerfes from within But nobody *HE SAYS MUSIC CAN BE TASTED ° ROBERT W. STEVENS. Stevens is the man who says music can be tasted. He is di- rector of music at the University of Chicago. Notes from the flute are like sugar; the clarinet like grapefruit; the piano like clear water; the vio- lin like claret, and the saxaphone like buttermilk, he says Chopin is luscious fruit, while Gilbert and Sullivan are prunes! | Bach, Stevens finds, is oatmeal, while Irving Berlin is a “penny all- day sucker,” Juliet G. Copyright, ry Joy You won't be throwing your self away or we country doe-| tor, It tursed ont to be coal land, Anne, | wold it for enough to make us both rieh—-modestly rich even in New York ani shamefully, tn docently rich out bome! “Doctor Jim! Oh! Oh! don’t! but be was too elated | orything you ‘want, from motor) cars up. Gfeat Scott! and tw hours ago I was wondering what d all that tauney would be to! me! But now “But IT must finish what I've be gun. I can't give up yet efor my great name?” She turned, a trifle pale, but so ant mated and gay that he w re pelled I'm worry to hurt you, Doctor Jim,’ she added, her voice faltering. But there'll be more ave., A Novel A Week b svvvrverersrrsiital y Sager 943, ok Sissritritsiteeee tions |nhe cried Lao Stolpir ne of she b managers ew York waste me for la Mucbeth as covtar with bis great @, ° lEinelishman! Ho says my ‘Elfride’ IN THE PRICE BUILDING |wan pretty bad"—she laughed ju 7 jt flantly but it showed him | PAA NAG cli leould act. Read tt yourself—'con vinced me you have ft In you to do |the best tragic acting of this dec jade | 4 ELEVATOR 1 congratulate you,” he said |heavily, “It will be a very good en . od? There * nothing this |sedson to compare with St Bee jh says the entire production will go to London in the spring. Lon don! And as Lady Macbeth! And to think this blessed, blessed letter has been lying here all this time! She snatched it away and pressed it to her breast with such exulta tion that he marveled with a touch of scorn “Bo you're happy now? Quite happy? You've attained to the top most peak of all your desires? Heaven grant you never find the me, as the years pass! Why, Dr, James H, Wallace “Forgive me!” He made a gen erous attempt at sympathy course, I'm glad for you. I can't) HOME GOSSIP be very enthusiastic, tho, when I Dear E. D. K.: You know how ft linow it means I'm losing you noW|(s when the wife goes away on the surely, for good and all.” big vacation with the kids, leaving “Put you're not. That's just ft! | father at home alone, with the cats I'm going to marry you, whenever and the canary for company you like!” She laughed a bit by®| jience the outburst, with apolo terically, and as he stared at her in gies to Ken Beaton, and I hope the stupefaction: “I've loved you all| Mrs. gets home on Sunday. C. 8. the time—you anc Elsie. The rent aga |has been bubbles on the surface | MOUSE '* Ke |, | Underneath it was always you two,”| an AUTOMOBILE. | she said, brokenly. “But when you came back a rich man, with every thing to give—and I was #0 poor! mG one |IT'# NICE to have | and adrift, with nothing but failure! and opie to give in exchange— TO SHOW OFF wr} moke peop “Anne!” THINK YOU'RE “Ah, but some time you might e have thought of it that way—won-|O® SOMETHING, dered how much your money and| put rs different my faflure had to do with our mar-| riage. But now I don't come to|W#EN YOU MAYBE to, clean jrou with empty hands. I, too YOURSELF Wait, Anne!" Her bands were y in his, but he held her away, afraid 27S J1KE « even yet to believe, “Be-be very | runny PAPERS tr sure, dear. It's so much you're giv-| ing up for me! A great career, cel-|PABN SOCKS or sew on ebrity, all you've wanted 60\,4 BUTTON. Then the luxury ton SA “oe ae | “Shadows, Dr. Jim! Just flick-|OMTS TO BE s jeder. ering shadows, I'd starve and | awyway, WE'VE got s freeze among them. I'm wiser now A bee It's the real things I want—love CAB end « dig house and peace and a bome and—and He opened his arms then and she went into them, her own outstretched. “Take me home, Dr. Jim. Back to the old house in | Brookfields your house home!" (THE END.) AND TODAY we looked AT THE YLOOR, SWEEPING oF something you! a nested AND WE put on apr AND GOT broo YEARS IN LIVING WE covLD entre AND STARTED 1 to clean, IT WAS SOME son 1M WILLING to ve nd JAPANESE labor OR ANY KIND 1) |TO DO housework Struck Her, and Girls 4x0 1 x:o~. POLISH THE stove ever came out. Twice a week a strange, lit- | MAKE THE BED: | RECOVERED ye! tle, old man would come to the | °° door, whisper thru the crack bee | BUT THE PLACE jooks “ neath it, and leave a package : anal of food. aad CLEAN AND mk y, that we Finally the, neighbors reported HAVE TO GO dow “nm 80 |this queer story to the authorities. | w, Children's society agents broke in - to the apartment after an hour's/ parley thru the keyhole with its |mysterious occupants. | “Don't let the light touch me!”| the old woman shrieked when the agents finally entered. “Don't let jthe air touch me! I will die! I will die! Don't touch anything! Don't WON'T DIRTY it up again. | The woman was clad in many dresses, one over the other, and wore three night caps with a sun. bonnet over them Her two daughters, neatly dress ed, but with matted and unkempt hair, sat motionless before a table|, piano is a wooden box with on which was thetr food, raw meat,| 248. miles of wire and a shelf, raw whites of eggs and some cheap|SPrinkled with ivory and ebony keys. pound cake. From Mrs. Hall the story was finally obtained. Authorities Say she told them her first hus- band, father of the girls, died when he was 42. | Some human heads resemble it in every way except for the wire strings There are two kinds, the upright and the kind that lays low like ee Gradually she had come to /Villa. Some pianos are played a, elapse Gowen with the fingers; some with the She seemed to gain a weird ' eee opgee ety gigi rd Very often the finger pianos daughters, and shut them up jsound as if they are being played | with herself in the suniess pris. | With the feet and some of the feet on where they have just been |/'anos sound like—yes, Harold, ein Milwaukee is in the United States. All the shades were pulled down, Parents should see to it that papers pasted over them, the doors sealed and paper and wax stuffed in all the keyholes. | \their children, especially the boys, take lessons on the piano After six or seven years of les- The man who brought food was|sons and constant practice, they, their step-father, Adam Hall might tura out to be great ba When taken,to the hospital, Mrs.|players or prize fighters o} | Hall was said to be cemented plumbers. We-NEW PANTAGES -2 OPENING MONDAY MATINEE 4-BIG SURPRISES-4 PANTAGES’ TREAT JESSE LASKY’S SOCIETY BUDS Vincent Erne, Jack C, Claire and Beauty Chorus of 10 AND ANOTHER THRILLING SERIAL