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Membet of the Bertpps North. League of pers The Seattle Star |: Tutered By mail, out of ett: Seattle, Wash. Po iy, One Fear, $1.60; € n By carrier, elty, & month wblished Dy Hy The ® ne Co. M 400 | Pur | Ph sath up to @ mos. hupt | Roosevelt, Taft and Hughes : ; : Tt ought not to be forgotten that everything that Roosevelt is now + Tt p their advance north of the Somme, the allies are now ition to invest Peronne upon two sides, and force the to abandon the town or leave it to eventual certain ing about the superhuman qualities of Hughes, he said with equal or about Taft eight years ago. Taft was the one man in the country fitted by experience perament to continue “my policies and He was a paragon of all the fatesmanlike virtues and'would make a record in the presidential of- ice unequaled since Lincoln. nae Taft was elected and in less than two years the great illusion was tered. There is nothing in Hughes’ record that puts him in a cl: He is very much the same kind of man, with much less expe- mce in public affairs than Taft had. : | Just because Roosevelt is willing to try another Taft experiment, not seem to be a very good reason why the rest of us should be to suffer such a calamity. Phase Likely AVING captured Combles, the big fortress holding up | der, with its great stores of munitions and its large is not necessary even for the allies to attempt to the town. They have but to advance their two wings} dually surround it, just as they did Combles and capture of Peronne will give the allies control of ‘failroad upon which the Germans depend for the mai: “Phe striking fact emphasized by the foregoing statement the earnings on the entire investment prosperous year of the company’s history, are but) er 6 per cent, and even in recent years average but pre than 5 per cent per annum, and it must be borne that of these earnings it is necessary to appropriate of their whole present line. The most important defense remaining between the French forces and is the river Torille. the Somme the French have won to the river bank, }east of Bouchavesnes they are within one and a quarter | it. D say ess they can rally tremendously, the Germans cannot! ‘Peronne and will be forced to retire all down their All menace to Verdun will then be at an end and the the west front will enter into another phase. Hughes and Fairbanks, who spoke here, had noth- about the government owned railroad in Alaska, yernn construction of battleships in our navy yards. | does their silence mean? Jim Ham ISewis says they the influence of those who want een of Tom Sawyer | nmenting on the big increase in earnings of the Santa fe for the year ending June 30, 1916, President Ripley At the junction of the Torille to kill these uring this, s above 9 COLYUM THe nono of the curbatanes! |. Betther dees be spin, aor wash, nor shave. What dors he de? Well, he doce things the hale off emr Me eats, sleeps, around pas the the money be cause they don’t hand him some kale se he can fill himaeif up te the ears with boots, He hasn't got as much set-up and backbone as 9 jelly fish. Dow't you | think the street clesers are rather care lene when they overtook the hobo? see YOU CAN'T GET RID OF YOUR STENOGRAPHER BY MARRY- ING HER. eee NAMING NO NAMES The green and white striped awning was stolen off the front of Smith's ico cream emporium on Mato st. one night last week. Liddy Jackson, who dors the washing for folk In their neighbor STAR—TUESDAY | sasseseseasestsaense ateatsetessuansestessssesetysaetensstet pitisistiteeneeas “MR. PRATT” Next A Novel “The Taming A Week Week Butte Western” , OCT. 10, 1916. PAGE 4 of Red BY FRANCIS LYNDE SUNENSTNRTUaaaavacea | yerpeieveagipeaanscntemsteaneeneaeasan (Continued From Our Last Issue)! She looks up at Hartley as she} polities EXT thing | knew the pig shot | out from underneath the pile same as if he'd been fired @ cannon. Down the field one of the of him was that He makes a grab mut of he went and the only chasers in front little red head Misses, and the pig keeps straight on, right into the crowd of men and | horses and carriages “Look out!" xo! yella everybody Let him Hut that little | shaver wa'n't built that way, Un der the ropes he dives, right where the jam of wheels and hoofs was thickest, The horses rar up and |jamped and ked. You could | hear wheels grinding and men yell | ing and women screaming 1 was one of the first over that fence, but, quick as I was, that Hartley invalid was quicker, For the doings of the next two or three minutes you'll have to ask some body else, All's I remember real well is catching bold of Issachar Tiddit’s Sunday ping it from main truck to keelson. Finally things cleared up some and there was a ring of folks jam- |ming and pushing and climbing be- jtween wheels and under wagon bodies, and in the middie of the ring was Hartley, kneeling on the ground and looking pretty middling white and sick, with a dripping cut over his eye, and with that little shaver's red head in bis lap, And old Doo Bailey was there, but how or when he come I don't know, Yes, me and the pig w there, too, but the critter was ow’ of comminsion, being dead, and I was too busy to think where I was “How is he, doctor?” asked Hart ley, anxious, . The Doe didn't answer for a min- ute or #0; he was bending over the | boy, sponging and | possessed. “How is he ye Hartley again “He'll come round all right now athe Doc, “There are a0 bones |broken, But he'd have trampled to death if it hada't been for you, sir. Better let me fix up that ent.” But the Twin shook his head kind of impatient, “*Tend to the boy,” he says, So the doctor went on with his spong ing and swabbing Gnd pretty soon stooping over. “Did I get the ple? comin’ to me?” “You bet you did,” says the doo- tor, laughing. You're a spunky little rooster. Whose boy are you, anyway? Belong in Eastwich?’ Naw,” says the little feller, like he was plumb disgusted. “N'York.” Hartley smiled. “A brother out- cast,” says he, looking up at me. Major Phinney had been shoving thru the crowd and now he was in the front rank, where, #o they tell me, he used to be in war tme— after the fighting was ov: “He's one of them Fresh Air says the Major. “There's a summer school of ‘em been started Is the fiver cutaway and rip-| bbing like all) been | | Inat to ask the owas staring at her as as a sheet of paper Why, Agnes! she went white and then red }"Ob!" ways whe. And then “On!” ain, “Oh, Martin! quéstion white he says And too a CHAPTER IV The Cruise of the Dora Bassett | After that there was a kind of tableau, same as them they at church #ociables, the taking it all in. Hartley got up and bowed young woman held out her hand But afore he could take it, she seemed to remember something, for she dropped the hand and turned to the boy, who was on his feet by this time looking down at the relics of hin clot | “You naughty be says she. |“How could you do so? If you know how frightened Miss Talford jand I have been, Are you burt, dear? have crowd The says the dear, “Suro 1 j ain't.” | “If you'll excuse me, Miss,” says! il, “1 think perhaps ‘twould be a good idea if we went somewheres where ‘twaan't so popular, Maybe we might go into one of the rooms at the hall | “Why, of course!” says Hartley “We'll go to the hall, Ag—Miss Page, let me present my friend, Mr. Solomon Pratt.” Bo ‘twas the Page girl, after all I'd guessed as much, tho how she come to be in twich when she'd ought to haye been in Europe was }more’n I could make out | “I'm very glad to know you, Mr. Pratt,” says she, just as tho she meant it Then Major Philander shoved jher arm into his and headed for the hall. Hartley looked kind of iset back like, Then he takes the boy by the hand and falls into the | Major's wake. trailed along behind. The little chap was chirping up }to Hartley all the way. What Martin He'd it ing to Ket his five dollars {told him he'd get it all right. ady © it himself and collect afterwards, “What's your name, son?” says | he to the youngster, “Denny,” says the “Denn: Dennis, Dennis what? “Aw, I don't know. 1 guess.” What do they call you over on the Fast Side when you're at | home?” “Redney,” says the little shaver. We got thru the crowd and Into the hall finally, I'd lke to have got rid of Philander, but you couldn't do that without a block and tackle. After a spell I nee my chance and I cornered the Major and commenced to talk 'GASCARETS SELL you mean? Plain Denny, PtIsTti tier isstiietiisiise titer i ties Me and the doctor | worried him was when be was go-) SeTitiieiiietiiisiieeeeeeeetiseeteieeeeettiteessieiesssteee es keeeeee eee itd inty représentative nomina | 1 knew soft spot. | nd the Page girl got to but they didn’t and his rtley tion ui gether th to know what to say 1 heard her explaining that she hadn't gone to Kurope at all, Her ma had been took sick; nothing to speak of, I judged, spell of “nerves” or the like of that fo Agnes and chum, Margaret Talford, had the cha » they'd been walt ing for and had got thelr poor chil dren tribe together and come down and took the Lathrop place at South Kastwich. | Well, that was about all ley and me had to be coing walked along p brisk waye—after we had sald gor tby te int Page—nelther of us sayiog| much of anything, By and by we come to the railroad crossing. And here Hartley stops short “Bol,” says he, “I believe I'll go back by train, I don't feel ilke aj sea trip this afternoon. That-—er— that crack on the head has shaken me up some, I guess.” Hartley left me and went over to the railroad depot and I kept on down the road to the shore. “Where's Martin?” drawls Van, when I reach the beach “He's gone home on the train,” T says, “Got a headache.” Van, James snd me climbs aboard the Dora Bassett and casts loose. Then afore | could tell Van the news about the pig race and the rest, the Dora Bassett run her nose on a sand flat and there she stuck, We got out of that blessed cove and into the channel som-- | wheres around six o'clock, Then! |‘twas a dead beat home and the jbreeze pretty nigh gone. A few | minutes, and a fog shut down on! tus, wet and thick and heavy as lever I see it, We poked along }for an hour or so more 4nd then \‘twas ‘most dark and we wa'n't | half way to Wellmouth. Lord James was in bis usual po- ion, banging on to the center- Van was stretched our on} the locker, blowing smoke rings and spouting poetry | here,” says I, finally, “one! of you fellers'll have to go for'ard snd keep an eye out for shoals.” Van went, and pretty soon the breeze give out altogether. And) then, from off in the distance, I/ heard a nolee, a rushing, roaring| kind of noise, “Hark!” I yells. “Do you bear/ that? Here she comes! Down! with the jib. Hag! on that rope,/ Mr. Van, will you? No, no!/ |'Tother one! T’other one! God-} jfrey sclesors! Here you, Opper; hang on to that tiller! Keep her | Just as she is.” j | Then I took a flying leap for’ard| | where the Twin was trying to cast) }loose the peak haliiard, having a | notion, it seemed, that it ought to | Delong to the Jib, The squall struck us. The fog split into pieces, The Dora Bas- | nett heeled over. His Lordship | turned toose a yell like a tugboat | whistle, lets go the tiller and dives headfirst into the cockpit. amid- ship. As for me, 1 was swinging seem for # sf bw “See th | back during ny A prastiiettiitittiitiitistiiitiiiettit tates erected Srieeeeaeeamaaaaooat TT He was hankering for|some, aod in 10 minutes or so he{ comes poking out with a lantern. I knew him then, ‘Twas Ebenezer Hol- brook, Huldy Ann Beadder's sister's band, who lives over in the woods ¢ the line between South Kastwich and West Ontabie. Ebenezer heard sald why didn’t I turn in on his setting room lounge for the few hours till sun-up, and in the morn ing take bis yaw! dory and cruise alongshore and hunt. S80 I done it, tho ‘twag precious little sleep I got About six o'clock I started. There as a nice fair wind and a smooth sea and ‘twas #o clear after the my story, then | rain that I could see the bills across the bay, But no sign could we see of the Dora Bassett nor her pas sengers. I was getting more wor- ried every minute, 1 crutsed along till I got abreast of the point from where the Old Home pier was in sight, But the sloop wa'nt at the plier, No use going any farther, #0 | came about and begun to beat back again the way I'd come. At the point where Road comes down to the beach, there on the shore w feller hat! ing me, And when I got clove in it turned out to be Hartley himself. He was glad enough to see me but when he found that Van and Lord James had turned up missing he was in « state. He'd been kind of scared when wo didn't come the night and had walked down to the beach in the morning to see if he could sight He got in the boat and we headed off shore again. Pretty soon we were passing Horsefoot Bar, a little island about five miles from the Old House, a mile and a half from the the Neck mainland, and two foot from the| | jumping-off place, All to once Hartley grabbed me by the arm and pointed. “Sol,” he says, “what's that stick- ing up over the point there? There, behind those trees? Isn't it a boat's! mast?” I looked, and looked once more. From where we was you could see a part of Horsefoot Bar that was/ out of sight from the rest of the bay. gave the tiller a shove that brought the boom across with a slat. I spied the Dora Bassett'’s mast over the sandspit. In a jiffy we see her plain. She was lying on her side in a little cove, Just the tide had left her. Her canvas was down in a heap, partly on deck and partly over- board, but she didn’t seem to be hart none. alongside of her, dropped the sail, chucked over the anchor and jumped over myself. Hartley fol- lowed. We was yelling like loons. Up thru the bunch of scrub pines we tore, still hollering. And then, from away off ahead somewheres, come the answer. I was so tickled I could b jood on my head. In a minute here comes Lord James to meet us. His Lordship looked yellow and faded, like a wilted sunflower. But his dignity Copyright, Home| As I say, I looked, ‘Then 1| I beached the yawl just} sgugnnsnnanasszugszuseaayaseaiyusszagaisy By Joseph Lincoln 1906 6. Barnes & Co Possess sesh ststctis: g We fell into the valet’s wake and waded thru the sand hummocks up to the house, And th he piazza, sitting In a busted cane-neat chair, with his feet cocked on | the railing, ciga his mouth, was Von Brunt, kind of damp and wrin kled far as clothes went, but otherwise serene and chipper reach- “Hello, skipper,” says he ling out bis hand “Bo you got | ashore all right. Good enough. 1 was @ bit fearful for you after you left us last night.” | After I left him! I liked that | “Humph!” says I “look here, | Mr. Van Brunt, afore you and me go to wea together again we'll have a little lesson in running rigging. 1 | want to learn you what a main. | sheet in.” Ob,” he says, careless Iike, guess I found it, after a while jany rate if it's a rope I cut it | cut all the ropes in sight.” Then Van jumped up, grabbed other Twin by the arm and led |him down off the piazza and up | to the top of a little hill near the house. 1 followed without being invited “Look here, Martin,” says Van, | when we got to the top of the hill | “Look around you. Now what is } it?” ] 4 is it?" what? mi At I Martin What do fay, you “Why, this whole business, Is- land and house and scenery and quiet and all. You old block-head!” , Riving the other Twin jasting bang on the back. “Don't you see? It's what we've been looking for all these weeks— it’s the pure, unadulterated, accept no-imitations Natural Life! 1 set down in the sand. Things were coming too fast for me. But, would you believe it, Martin Hart- ley didn’t seem to think his chum was out of his mind. He fetched a long breath. “By Jove!” he says, slow don't know but you're right.” “Right? You bet i'm right! It's been growing on me ever since I landed We'll be atone; no fe- males, native or imported, to bother us, Here's a bully old house with some furniture, bedsteads and so on, already in it. I broke a window and climbed in for a rummage. Joliiest old ark you ever saw. Here's a veranda to sit on, and air to breathe, and a barn for a cow, and plenty of room for a garden 4 chickens—whew! Man alive, | it's Paradise! AndI it to locate the man that owns It | “Belongs to Nate Scudder,” says | “Good,” says Van, and slaps me jon the shoulder. “Pratt,” says he. “Pratt will }come here and cook for us, and navigate us, and be our general | manager. Pratt's the boy!” “Hold on there!” I sings out. “You're coming,” say Van. “Never mind the price; we'll pay it. Now shut up! you're coming.” “What can you say to a chap Mike that?” I groaned. “Live on Horsefoot Bar,” I says. “Live on it!” tantial amount each year for improvements and better- “ | heod, appeared out Sunday in On| jug: outside the town here. Couple } was on deck, all right. of them new style sport suits of New York women brought t “Horsefoot Bart” says Vi “Mr. ‘Artley,” says he, touching proms om = that its name? TWENTY MILLION ‘a out over the side with my whole g’wan, Mr. Ripley, ard stop your colin’! Don’t we) mber Tom Sawyer used to spread the jam on both sides) bread and then show his auntie the thinnest side? ll Street and Eight-Hour Law E day after congress “demoralized the industrial life of nation” and “wrecked the railroads,” by passing the ir law for railroad employes, the stock market began It has been booming ever since. oad stocks, which for months had been inactive threat of a strike, are from five to ten points higher) n the day the eight-hour law was passed, just a little “the weeks ago! is the real answer of Wall st. and the investing pub- the claims of the railroad presidents and managers that ion of the president and congress was a blow at the | of the country in general and of the railroads in d, Gladder, Gladdest \DNESS has been glorified in books and plays and es till the whole land would just drip with glad- there weren't a few antidotes. dness is good; we wish every living thing could be) But until everybody is glad MOST time it isn’t best for anybody to be glad ALL of the e need other things than just sugar in our diet. “Henry Ford declares for Wilson, which would indi- | that Henry has changed his slogan to “Keep the of the time. out of the trenches.” is Simple Laxative a Household Necessity :. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin id Have a Place in Every Home. on, or inaction of the a condition that nearly ev- experiences with more or uency, is the direct cause disease. When the bo io clogged with refuse m the stomach, foul gases and Bi are generated, and unless } congestion is quickly relieved system becomes weakened and mt susceptible to attack. remedies to relieve con- n are prescribed, but many aT contain cathartic or purga- Muive agents that are harsh and vio- fn their action and shock the The moat effective rem- the combination of simple herbs with pepsin that ts fn drug. stores under the name Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. fhe Hon. John D. Keister of Bran- W. 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When my head stuck out |of water there was something big land black swooping past it I made a grab and canght hold. As jluck would have we was towing a exiff astern I climbed tnto that skiff. I could see the Dora Bassett flopping ahead of me with her gaff halfway down her mast. 1 roared, a sputtering kind of roar, And then Van's head stuck out over the sloop's stern, “Heaven sakes!’ says he. you drowned “That rope at the stern,” I hol- lers, dancing around in the skiff. “Cast it off! Lively!” The second squall struck us. 1 see the Dora Bassett drive off in Aa sweeping circle, the end of the boom knocking the tops of the waves to pieces and the spray fly- ‘ng like a waterfall. “Are | There was two or three ropes at|! the sailboat'’s stern and Van had cast off one of ‘em, same as I or dered. Only, as {t happened, In- {stead of the mainsheet he'd cast | off the skiff's painter. Me and the} | Dora Bassett was parting company fast, | From out of the dark ahead of| me come a yell, louder even than| Lord James’ distress signals, | “Sol!” hollers Van Brunt. “Sol) Pratt!” “Ay, ay!" I screams. right. Never mind me, helm over to port.” “Put what?” “Put—your—helm — over—to — port! Port! you lubber! Port!” ‘Twas quiet for a minute, Then, from further off comes the screech: “What—part—of—the — damn - thing—is—port?” “Nover mind!” Tiyells. “Keep— her — just — as—she—is, You'll fetch—up—all—right. Better—take -reef, Slack—that—main—sheet! Then I had to quit and grab up! jthe oars and bring the skiff bow on to the seas, When I got her headed right | couldn't see nor hear nothing of the Dora Bassett “I'm all) Put your CHAPTER V. Along towards midnight I butted ashore at the little end of nowhere where there Was nothing but | bushes and sand and pines, no sign jof civil m, And by this time ‘twas pouring rain. | After a couple of years scratch ing and swearing and falling down 1 come out of the scrub into a kind of clearing, There was a house a little ways off, and pretty soon a light showed fn an upstairs window and somebody sticks their head out and wants to know what's the! matter, “Who are 7” he says. “My name's Pratt,” says 1 “What Pratt?” he hollers. I told him my name and where IT hailed from “Sol Pratt?” says he. “Of Well mouth? What are you doing way over here?” . “Blust it ali!’ I yells, “if 1 wa'n't half drowned already 1 should say | was getting wet.” 2 That seemed to wake him up what was left of his hat; “‘ope you're well, sir.” “Where an?” asked Hartley, brisk. “Mr. Van Brunt, sir? Up at the ‘ouse, waiting for you, sir.” “The house?” says Hartley. “The house?” says 1. mombered. Then I re} | Well, it's Horse- | foot Bar no more. I’ve been evolv- | ing a name ever since I began to | breathe here. Breathe, Martin.” he says. “Draw a good breath. That's it, That's pure ozone, Gentlemen, permit me to introduce to you, | Ozone Island.” (Continued in Our Next Issue) ‘There is a house on Horsefoot | Bar. It was built by old man Mar- cellus Berry, who died years ago. The house was there, and Nate Scudder owned it. Likewise he owned the sheds and barn in back. Iron Is Greatest Nicholas, Christian name of the czar, means victorious; George means farmer; Albert, illustrious; Peter, a rock; William, a defender, and Frances, free. of All Strength Builders, Says Doctor A Secret of the Great Endurance and Power of Athletes ’ ed Irom Will Make Delicate, ous, Rundown Peo- 200 Per Cent Stronger in Two ecks’ Time In Many Cases, NEW YORK, N. Y.—Most people foolishly seem to think they are going to get renewed health and strength from some stimulating medicine, secret nostrum or narcotic K Dr. Sauer, @ well-known clalist who has ‘studied widely both tn this country and Burope, when, as a matter of fact, real an true ‘strength can only come from the food you eat. But people often fall to get the strength out of their food because they haven't enough fron in their blood to enable it to change food into vtng matter. From thelr weakened, nervous condition they know something is wrong, but they can’t tell what, so they gener ally commence oring for stom- ach, liver or kidney trouble or aymp- toms of some other allment, caused by the lack of iron tn the blood, This thing may go on for yea while the patient suffers unt agony. If you are not strong or well, you owe It to yourself to make the following test: See how long you can work or how far you can walk without becoming tired. Next take two five-grain tablets of or- dinary nuxated iron three times per day, after meals, for two weeks. Then test your strength again a see for yourself how much you have gained. I have seen dozens of ner- vous, run-down people who were ail- ing ‘all tho while, double their strength and endurance and entirely get rid of all symptoms of dyspepsia, liver and other troubles in from 1 w 14 days’ time simply by taking iron in the proper form. And this after they had, In some cases, been dectoring for months without ob- taining any benefit. But don’t take the old forms of reduced iron, iron © or tincture of iron, simply ‘¢ a few cents. You must take good, otherwise {t may prove worse than useless, Many an athlete or prize fighter has won the day sim- ply because he knew the secret of great strength and endurance, and filled his blood with tron before he went into the affray, while many ‘nother has gone down to Inglorious jefeat simply for the lack of iron. NOTE—Nuxated Iron, recommended Above by Dr. Sauer, t# not a patent medi. cine nor secret remedy, but one which is well known to druggists, and whose fron constituents are widely prescribed by eminent hysictans everywhere. Uniike the older ‘inorganic tron products, it ts eanily assimilated, doom not injure the teeth, make them black, nor upset the stomach; on the contrary, {t fe a most Potent remedy in nearly all forms of indi gestion, as well as for nervous, run-down conditions. ‘The Manufacturers have such great confidence in Nuxated Iron that forfeit $100 to any charit m if they cannot take any lacks tron 0 time provided they have no serious organic trouble. They also offer to refund your money If it does not at least double your strength and en durance in 10 days’ time. It ix dispensed in this city by Ow! 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