The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1916, Page 4

STAR—MONDAY, AUG. 28, 1916. PAGE 4 Next Week A het “ais “The Seeret of the Reef” “Mt Wot By Kate and Virgil Boyles agegasdetes tein Brvscssscscsseststey Feaaaasdatesedanags (Poaenaeeseestssesessecsseegeaestssest: f itiattesascsstetst a eres sais {THE SEATTLE STAR CHAPTER 1 { 1 ‘The appliances the party had|the dory and row off at once to been able to procure were of the|look for the wreck, but Moran ob COL UM By um | hese cheapest description, and there was | J¢cted . : - “It's a long pull, and we don’t} a risk in making the long voyage in wit Ad p time,” be nai NO COMMUNITY EVER PRO- #0 small a vesse! as the sloop. Stl), | rie nee find her? We couldn't |GRESSED TILL IT WENT T' TH’ Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Phone Mate 600, Private | HE big Hner's smoke stream exc! [ess ting at partment | straight astern, as she clove - = b th: th smooth | all ; f haar of the North Pac lees goes “ohana needed & desper| rk the pump from the boat, and|GRAVEYARD AN’ BURIED TRA. y on Your Record, Humphrey A glow of electric light streamed | |v Swell,” he sald, “IT suppose wowed b to come back for the| DITION 10 FOOT DEEP. cut from the saloon-companion, | ere! an] : =<} |nave some chance; but I don’t quite|#loop. You don't often strike it Z : ventigate WN HIS speech in Seattle Tuesday night, it is to be hoped|inq when the notes of a plano THis HeAT what made yc keen on tak here, and we have to get) Congress is going to in vress phrey w come dow cific] ¢rifted aft with a girl's voice = | d while we can.” Ithe advance in the price of flour, that Congressman Humphrey will come d own to specifi |Jimmy Farquhar, iskond mate ™! UMIT fy - jing up ee rh se ibers eareeti Madi GMM: 1 Gheal wines: Ge sullere ure ata of particular interest to the people of the Northwest) amited at the refrain of the old Z oe drawied, "Victoria's « handsome tried breakfast they hove th@|they’re to be investigated by com d of indulging in generalties love song, He felt there was some = city, For all that, when you can|@?chor and m a start, Moran| gress instead of the attle elty Spokane, Humphrey said “President Wilson has be-/ anger of his losing his head as |find no occupation, and have spent | *culling the Cetacea, Jimmy and | council ” 7 his eyes rested samiringly on his same years iounging about the|Bethune towing her in the dory “ee At last Moran dropped anchor; ard, boarding the sloop, the mes jon'You could leave it. Asp mat-|*Pent an hour of keen sus | ze t Vancou watching the sea, ter of fact, I met you at Vancou-| "Sore ne tis om simmy quietly glancing at his watch now and then; and at last Moran stretched Jout a pointed hand - sche! Dynegy eel» | “What's that, to starboard?” he not 4 — joked as the New Haves lof every month, Then I was paid | **ked “ . nt wi Med | enough to keep me, with rigid econ-| codi” cried . Bethune Maybe the Doc Is a Spiritualist Jomy, for the next four weeks; but |™uRt Krow on something!” | “aky"ciay wan submitted to the lon the fire easton I failed tol 9} &" “4 ses pee — *| tre, an well as chemical tests, and |come up to time the allowance was |'*®™ to & ship . Mu sdorf declares t the pop ate 004. It's a nystem that], Five minutes later the head of Pog et poy rf m8 1 Pre Jha» some advantages for the peo-|t%® er was visible, and in kee | structed, will be traveled by our ple who provide the funds in the| Ut silent excttement they took Out] sicestors in the years to come— old country, since it assures the|®, Hine to it and hove the sloop |1 tie Rock Ark.) Gazette. | sping where he te—but| COs? uP. The diving pumps were oe Ss | psp already rigged, and when they had . jit has its drawbacks for the Iat-| towered and lashed a ladder, Moran| John 1. Sullivan is again chaw ter, How can aman get a job and) voony put on the heavy canvas |tuaquaing against booze and nearly Jvery month? When 1 was in Van-|, When the copper helmet sank |country are making fun of him Creer tt cost me a large share of |PClOW the surface and a train of |Possibly the editors know more | Wee iniaaeaeeg ke-ecrtaae ie bubbles rushed up, Jimmy felt his |#bout booze then John does. “And now, by going no yo and grow damp with perspiration. Plein oy Per! ha i aan ae rth, YOUlss6 held the signal lite and knew | 4 ™an named Money saved a ro Ht upT id Bothune. “Ir! the code, as well as the number of |S!t! from drowning at South Nor- should have been done before, but,/ strokes to the minute that should | walk, Coma You can see the a¢ ae I bad never been taught to|S!v@ sir cnough; but he bad mot {vantage of having « little redly work or go without my dinner, the| [ a in the pumps. Tho | money around ‘ mat 1g|tielr hire was costly, they were far | | saa se Sa RN seen ae ew “| Gasoline ts becoming so cheap It was © relief when the diver|that @ family can save enough j } | odion companion, for there was & seduct Whether the president is deserving of such a derogatory |ive giamour in the splendor of the | Mee or not, the people of this state will have a fine op-| might tunity to decide at the November election. Ruth Osborne leaned on the On September 12, however, the candidacy of Rep angen rail viaghong B asgegy ced phrey is to be decided, and the people of the state age] encately pretty... : | itled to know specifically something about his record “Tt has been a delightful trip | | | | A newspaper paragraph says the crookedest railroad in the world is the one up Mt. Tamalpais at San Francisco, the longest stretch of straight track being only 400 feet flong. It m be the crookedest rauroad now, but it's a safe bet ft water front the place loses its | charm,” | ver. “Oh, yes. I could leave ft for a maximum period of 30 dayg, be cause I was required to present my self at a lawyer's office on the first | Congressman Humphrey should, in fairness to his audience |she sald, “I suppose we'll see the state, tell why he wrote letters to the treasury de-| Vancouver island late tomorrow? t urging the purchase of the “duck-pond” postoffice It will be dark when we pick e from Frank W. Baker, his campaign manager; why he ae cae tha seen phn as the price of $169,500 is “reasonable,” when, in truth|think you leave us there?” | in fact, it is unsuited for a postoffice site and can’t bring} «in a way, I'm sorry we're so if the price paid for it by Uncle Sam. pearly home,” Ruth sald frankly 5 ssman Humphrey should also tell his audience why . “Were you not charmed with} for the amendment (which would have killed the|""25), ans oe tin. seis ae | ton navy yard appropriation) to compel the secretary |anything I had ever dreamed of.” | navy to let private companies build battleships before} “Still, you must have seen many | ing any navy yard. interesting places.” Tt would also be interesting to hear Humphrey explain Ramer See Saga Fg | p the treasury of the United States is being taxed to pay| very much about my own coun on his private campaign documents. try.” tt is hardly worth while asking Humphrey to explain acaba aad or ci have met his vote for $1,200 “traveling expenses” for a trip he did not) “phe richer ones are.” she an or intend to make. He has steadily refused to explain|rwered frankly. “But until quite vote in the past. lately, I think, we were poor, It § iid ry was during the Klondyke rusb| But these other matters are new—have come up in the) °% sar dais Sedadde pecabaenen. | two years. When my mother died I was sent _ Humphrey should explain his votes on general legislation,|to a small New England town position to labor measures, his failure to vote for direct | "here some elderly relatives took of senators. It's Humphrey's record Seattle is inter-| Cave Of me. Thon I went to « very owie aes.” crawled on board and they un-|oney on Sunday to buy bread for screwed the helmet. the rest of the week CHAPTER II The stand. “Ite not too bad after the first On a gray afternoon, with a tog | minute or two, jinto the wreck, and he made hie Moran said, and we cng just n strict school and stayed there much ; Near wanmceate intend es. Ow. Jonger than other giria.”’ Ruth/ hovering over the leaden water, | this was the only allusion he mi i . - Woodrow Wilson's is another matter entirely. paused and smiled. “When at last tehey sighted the island where the|to his sensations. “Now, so fn Sor a : I joined my father I felt as if 1 | wreck iay jux I can make out, there's no get-|4 bank of sand which oa Sp to the The men were all worn by the|timg into her from the deck voyage, which had been long and enn we'll have splintered deck. Jimmy began to use | to break thru | r |difficult. Their clothes were stiff|the after bulkhead; but it's sanded |r, Bove! 1s > ad suddenly awskened in a differ Tax Burden ent world, I had the same feeling RLY one dollar out of twenty of the average Ameri-| When | saw Japau iffic one dolla out of twenty of the average Ameri: | MA on wil bead 9 | ew ES | it nan on. anther af nl ltt ur on N cans get home I've seen more cheerful places,”|move. You're sure about the/and then the pain in his head got ext year to pay for the big army and navy program and the} “Yes, and you must come to see] Jimmy knew he could make no Though I'm a part-| Bethune declared, when Jimmy had | strong-room, Bethune?” worse, and, driving in the shovel ; ae * t it en, as now usual, a fast vou abou ® wreck you 01 bring up bin. couldn't | The total income of the people of the United States is| “jimmy thanked her, and soon| sore vcntwe te laid att tn dewrooe us up to look for ern end?” | of her.” paresis | Oe ae ane meas Bow between forty and fifty billion dollars a year, and the|atterward left her, to keep his! accurate steering is tmportant, and| “I'll let Moran the tale. He| Moran nodded | “We'll try the bulkhead.” Moran cen rdicaiien “nevarioas SGMUE opriation bills of the present congress will amount to a on Be bridge + page en he had been actuated by somew found the vessel.” ; “Poh Bercy tne bight | turned to Jimmy. “If you're go-|he recovered his footing, and then ly two billion dollars. All of these appropriations MUSt | Oe eked A pe ph one * linjudicious pity Evar a The ree said Moran, — © fw home : ling next, take the shovel and see |the signal line, which he felt at to | 4 out over the starboard | steady man. with a family fg open to the southwest. A m ey ran into @ basin with gray | if you can shift some of the sand.” |reassure himself, seemed tauter /paid either by direct or indirect taxation iquarter; J stones on its landward nuticed this while |ignd to provide for. had and near a low island, a t Jimmy was not a timid man, but| than ft should be ‘The state, county and municipal taxes for the coming year|he paced to and fro, turning now |; oot Hig ato thie a al on which . i iJ ) | . 4 once, by prompt action, preven out Into the atres a on which the surf ¥ . amount to $2,200,000,000 more, making an aggregate tax °nd then to sweep a different are ine « wa masa’s being tajered by |hall of the wreck lien é ard: and, soon after |D¢ felt far from happy as bis com-| | ae, oe, teeorre. Jae rden of about FOUR BILLION DOLLARS of horizon. The lant time he did|¢ heavy cargo- of it, w 4 well down | hor, rowed ashore rades encased him fn the dress and | commen retres' Vr : > . - FT » mew [so he stopped abruptly, for the! «py, nis sa ine an helmet. He found them an intol-| might be foul of something, and if | Nearly ONE DOLLAR OUT OF EVERY TEN that/smoke had movee "forward Heliee age ree h ptat id iend of lela Rea sallae sland appeared to be twolerable weight as he moved toward|#0 there was a danger of the air . ing the situation,” the captain sald) cnd of one or two ber ick ® long, and nothing grew on it the ladder and went down ft, cling-|Pipe’s entanglement. When he left paverage American receives during the coming year must | sprang to the pilot house, and saw | curtly, “would be for you to Yolun-/ing up out of the broken water.” /except a few patches of scrub, but|ing tightly to the rungs, and then|the bull be felt a strong inelina- y of mect-|sand. At low ebb ye to pay taxes cither to federal or local governments. jthe quartermaster leaning slackly |tarily leave the ship at Vancouver. In it always broken water?” |it had two springs of good water. rhe i f he A 3 iti vak: Jon the wheel. His face showed | You can me know what you de-| Jimmy interrupted | wh * as a green mist crept across the|tion to kick off his leaded shoes It about time for the American citizen to wake up) ii in the moonlight lice on Pasig hethng Preate aan y assed en dusk came in they went | glasses, ho was conscious of an un-|and try to swim to the surface, in- find out not only how this money is being spent, but how| “what's this, E ” y ee ee aes & | oe, oe oe back on board, and with the lamp/|nerving fear. Struggling with {t,|stead of slowly mounting the lad- y f e sp abe inge immy| Jimmy moodily returned to his| “Doesn't seem a nice place for/iighted the narrow cabin lookéd|he descended, and was nex |der, but he conquered it and climb- t trou being collected. The returns from every local and na-|cried | duty He thought his fault was! , diving job. How did you Ret) very cozy after the desolate land; |bled by a pain in his head and an|¢d up. P pap Pulling himself together with an be t ” tax ought to be carefully analyzed; but this cannot be small, but there was no appeal. | de o her but conversation Jangilshed, for t When at last the glasses wi ‘ r ftort, t f con - \ 7 Petr L unpleasant feeling of pressure. « ere 5 until the returns from the most important tax of all,|Slor Yn alarm: Sance! at Me come He kept is watch, and afterward tripped and swam dont fae | the wen were anxious Daylight| As he reluctantly let go the lad.| unscrewed and the air flowed in on f ; , ; 7 nt to sleep |day whe lor | would show them whether | « rived by his face, Jimmy was conscious of federal income tax, are made public. : ~% ni fd, thie > | é . m wh or not\der, he was surprised by another his face, . Pp one a sald, thickly, spin-| The xt evening he was idling/houre and Jake was busy patch-|thefr work had been thrown bay. | caanre Instead. of carrsing a|intense relief. For a minute he sat # fallen off a| gisconsolately on the saloon deck|ing the sail, 1 pulled the dory| They w I J * a wd - | y went to sleep early and) wel 5 it ab lmply on the cabin top. f th Cc. } bo rapreevegpond came over me; but) when he saw Miss Osborne coming | across. I went down twice. The|awakening in a few | no Pe bong paygow Wcodl - M seven ‘I dare say we'll se accustomed wth pln pels toward him nd was well up her bilge, but! dewn breakin 4 5 ~ ~ " " te. cou c " & bre &: for when the lon it w fier to the thing,” he said slowly to SCORE of years ago the house servant topic was one of nat may come over you once too| “I have been looking for you,"|sie was holding together. I coull|jy waters are free from leu there Telenes vt poser ref cee cial Bethune, “but you'll find ont "nat often. This isn't the first time,”|she sald. “As I suppose everybody | have walked right aft under decks little night in the North.|he must hopelessly float away; but one mustn't expect too much at es; but I'd tide was falling, Jimmy |he resolutely pulled himself togeth- first.” the main standbys of the professional jokeste emin - 1 ft — I . ter. ut n y re pinded him ; will be busy tomorrow morning. I/\f rd had a diving 4 vant problem caused more gray hairs and broke shadow obscured the moon- a th B c 7 r lon 0 ‘ar ated " The serv Pp d gray and br may not see you then. ut YOur/ teen in the wate one - — kgested that they should launch er. It was his business to break! (Continued in Our Next Issue) housewives’ hearts than any one other source of worry, [&ht. and. turning Pog Aleem ecem Gownenst!” iting ner! oor je . : wk ny ie capt @ doorway.| Jimmy shrank from telling her hi Jimmy coul problem largely solved itself, because needs must when) The skipper looked at the compass|that he had been dismissed; and. acta t ardihood he had devil drives. Tday 3,097,000 residents of New York city and studied the quartermaster’s| after all, that was a comparatively |,nown. The wreck lay far up on in apartment houses or flats. Thousands do the same in| fee: then he beckoned Jimmy out-| smal! part of his trouble northern coast, where the sea ttle. ei Ab ee IEP Well,” he said, “for one thing.| was chilled by currents from the of * SETS - Svans had his helm hard over; |the end of the voyage Is often &| pole, and Moran had gone down to ‘The flat habit is spreading fast everywhere and we are! was she much off her course?” the| melancholy time. After spending| jer when the ice was working in ing to type; becoming a nation of cliff dwellers, on a|captain asked with an ominous!some weeks with pleasant people But if she was lost on the r dern scale. eat ‘biden a it’s not nice to know they must all) now did she reach the bank a mye FA " % f. : " bout thirty degrees, sir.” scatter and that you have to part yay The > Seiciortleiengtag nb gi is ge disappearing. The I gathered that Evans had been|from friends you have made and a can't tell you that, but I the cook” joke is sadly out of date seized in this way during your/||ike.” guess she shook her engines out watch before. A faint tinge of color crept into | arter she broke her back, and then Yes, sit, Ruth's face; but she smiled slipped off into deeper water. : Russia and Japan have signed a treaty “to preserve In not reporting {t, you took wp. It doesn’t follow that they're it came out that she had only | the peace in the Far East.” Maybe China is the piece on yours responsibility I can’t | forgotten,” she replied; “and we|, tittle rock ballast in her,” B i going to be preserved. lallow my officers Have you any-| seo you at Tacoma; ft tent) ine explained But the import thing to say very far from Vancouver.’ ant point is that the strong-room Jimmy was not a presumptuous | was aft, and Hank says that pa man, but he saw that she had given |is sound a lead an® he bitterly re Jimmy nodded etted that he could not follow it Suppose you tell me all you ko of hopeful temperament, stern | know about the matter,” he said, | perience had taught him sense,| Leaning back against a boul and » recognied that circum-|pethune refilled and lighted his ; . stances did not permit of his dally-| ripe | + : 3 DK romance. There was noth Very well,” he sald, “When , _ — PS” Da SES 2 ng to be gained ond something to| Hank mentioned his discovery, I = x Ry per Fe ‘ be lost by cultivatia. e ¢ w opportt of} a Dra d card sdb ye ol yt gla fomerety Pe Ay INDIANS SENDING MESSAGE TO THEIR ) 7) SAFETV-FIRST MESSAGE TO vue |g I may have to sail on a differs}; took some trouble to. find out, [Aghk MATION WIM SMOKE ano ~FIREOLANKET- aN Dei, NATION. U. S Government Sreciat (big nt run before long,” he said. what I could about the vessel. She She gave him # glance of swift} was an old wooden propeller that but careful serutin lcame round Cape Horn a good Well,” she responded, “whether | many years ago. When she couldn't | ne or not, my father and T|compete with modern steamboats, re in your debt You have done/!t looked as if there wasn't any h to make this a very pleasant |trade in which she could make a/ ca the American Indians signalled steel train for the purpose, and be the pion- their Nations by means of the primi- eer in the great educational plan. Bee Columbus discovered Ameri- tion of this mammoth enterprise, furnish a » tive Smoke and Fire Blanket, effective but The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, whose pyage.” She gave him her hand, |living; but the Klondike rush be-| Hrnited dei Shope: lines reach cities and towns covering more which he held a moment. “And,/gan, and somebody bought her| pay now, since you wish It, goodby!” |cheap and ran her up to Nome.| In 1916, the United States Government than seventy-five million people, trans- ported the great train of twelve steel cars, ie tet e Mak, FOF. | There were better boats, but they 1 The sun had dipped behind a| were packed full, fore and aft, and mee sy feense So yea te Leiing Nasa comprising the “Government Safety-First Hdge when Jimmy, dressed in|the crowd going North was fastidi-| eee ry bree dn hy modern para: <_ ecial’’, to as many of the cities and towns Srowe oreraiis Gan 6 Seman’ se) 008 : on its lines as was ible; helping the Near him, a man with a weather-|™ining syndicate, which seems to! had spent more than $100,000,000 ina short what the Government means and what it beaten face was engaged in fitting e done pretty well, shipped a/ space of time for industrial preparedness in is doing for them. a plank into the bilKe of & hauled See eee te ae equipment and roadbed, was selected by — The train is now doing missionary work ee ae re tefore he |brought out a number of miners the Government to assist it in the prepara- on other lines. h aI who had been more or leas success Seb Ph gon ay pickiest {ful poicatuinecursat wrong cwics If the Baltimore & Ohio can serve the Government in this important capac- vhich had proved disappointing. | the engines when she had been aj} ity it surely can serve you. Investigate its modern train service for yourself, “1 have used KC BAKING POWDER for a great many years Bethune, who lay upon the shin. |4#¥, oF two at sen, but they got sail |] Send for any of these attractive Bsn ose “Illustrated Book of until she struck the Trains,” “See America,” “Blue and y,” al “Guide to Washington.” It was some tine since he had en-| and have yet to experience a failure in baking with it. fae weak wera “reratiance men |®, froth gale until “I believe in the “‘safety first’? idea and am sure of best results | ose {i "uly! vuactins, occupation, |. “It broke her back, and the after| All Liberal when I use K C, and HOW, cat waing the aay: all vtcucks The atrongroum was Trains via WASHINGTON Stopover at “NEW YORK LIMITED” “INTERSTATE SPECIAL” accustomed exertions and banter-|"nder water, there was no time to 5:45 P.M. Ly. Chi “Yes, I have used others, higher priced powders too, but have | in Moran CUE Gaya, Up St Pah aar uece boats away 1 after the er . ” Jimmy had met them both in a » Chicago - € bf always gone back to the old reliable. econd-rate Vancouver boarding | Passengers were picked up, a San , Bheebergh + 7:50 AM, Ar. Pittsburgh ina: NT, Louse, to which he had resorted Francisco salvage company thought . Washington + 445 PM. Ar. Washington 845 AM, after failing ‘o find a ship, an@y!t Worth while to attempt the recov-| . Baltimore + $50 P.M. . Baltimore 048 AM. @ working on the wharf. ery of the gold | . Philadelphia + 8:19 P.M. . Philadelphia 12:05 N'N. W The meal Jimmy had been pre-| “It was late in the season when| New York + 1040 P.M. New York 2:35 P.M, roring might have been better, but |their tug reached the spot, and the : P . sran admitted that he had often |ice drove her off the reef. After a Observation Library Lounging Cars eaten worse, and after it was eaten|Week they threw up the rontract. | The Chi Ni York Express | Chicago, 5 is always sure to give satisfact Its. F d, wholesome || tit 185 00 the shingle and lighted |The underwriters paid all. lonses,| The Middle-Weet Express leaves Chicago, 105" PMs y! gi 1 ory results, or good, oleso their s. Rotkune, jand that was the end of the matter. | | D. L. MELVILLE, Traveling Pass, Agent, 208 Transportation Bldg., Seattie, ween, pip aw usual, H. C, PICULELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 643 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. Timmy fe Ss uke K C—insist on getting it. vas the first to epeak |It fs only the drifting of the stern food: The lumber, end the canvas|half into shoal water that gives us “ts to vork upon tomor-|our chance. Now I think you know | row, have omptied the treasury,” |as much as T do S Af Ounces for he remarked, ‘If we incur any| Jimmy sat thoughtfully silent to Cc further ero? tee there's a strong |a few minutes, realizing that it wa than @ pound end probability of their not being met; |a reckless venture he had undertak Lager adhere |but that gives the Job interest.” |en. The wreck lay in unfrequented “Our Passengers Are Our Guests” ‘When you have finished moral-| waters, which were swe pt by angry laing we'll get to business,” Jim-| currents that brought in the ice.