The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 16, 1916, Page 4

ot the North . Postoftion as ha, $1.90 By carrier, city, to a month Hughes Trying to Hedge He eight-hour-day labor breeze, Mr the RIMMING his sails to the strong lated announcement that he is for R¥ersion may not too openly smack of political acrobatics, Hon to the Adamson bill, on the grounds that it is not fa wage measure Was there ever so hypocritical an argument presented v 10 hours instead of 8 : tion for a legal day's labor? The very nature of the service rendered by trainmen makes it necessary for them olten work long hours, for it is impracticable for the ra he ivy expense. Therefore, the regular men are called upor Teason that it means dollar saving for the roads Is that any reason why their faithful service should The trainmen, no doubt, would much prefer to be relieved, that they might enjoy ime of the relaxation and rest and recreation which fall orker. And the one way by which the rai roads can be cor is to make it, by legislation, to ther advantage, or to their disadvantage, to do so Does any one believe that the railroads, or any other tions, would relieve an employe at the end of eight | him to work 10 for the same money? Not much! ree The Adamson bill seeks to find a way by which railroad crews may be replaced it the end of cight hours of labor. Pe It is obvious that the roads will prefer fresh crews, the cost is the same, and that, sooner or later, they h it, under the spur of the lew law. The Adamson law it from any other eight-hour-day law Mr. Hughes, in admitting the justice of the eight-hour Wilson does. The only difference is that Mr. Hughes st the middle; Mr. Wilson is not in the character of the two men. ms whi sridge Asks War! NATOR BEVERIDGE, in his speech here Friday, “made a plain demand for intervention in Mexico. does that mean? TAR! Means war, widows, waste. orphans, | a ee or eee. Is that the) war with Mexico means war elsewhere, too. that when you vote. on of the U-53 B arrivai of the U-53 at Newport must shock this lation out of its fancied security from attack on the part Propean powers.: Deutschland should have taught this lesson, but the _ surely will. nany’s raider is still within her rights, it is true, in commerce on the high sea. The vessels sunk have heir warnings; the passengers and crews have been Germany,’or any other possessor of a sea-going it, CAN, when she chooses, make war on America in waters, just as she now is making war on Great} on the very edge of American waters | unexpected U-boat could have sunk an American afloat in Newport bay, or destroyed an American leaving New York harbor. Atlantic ocean is no protection : lesson is: PREPARE! He Ought IE new Bethlehem Steel Corporation's new ordnance oving plant will surpass that of the German Krupps, size and equipment. But where the German gov- is largely interested in, and profits by, the Krupp} the Bethichem concern generally gouges Uncle Sam} ercifully or sclis its output to some foreign nation. lé Sam ought to be building the “biggest plant” himself. 4 e Seattle Star | per month up to # mow t is any eight-hour-day law but a wage increase for the man who elects to work What is any eight-hour law but a basis for reckoning com ¢rews at points where the regular crew's cight hours would expire, except at a They would surely be GLAD to be relieved after eight hours’ continuous And therein is shown the fundamental differ- | PEN. STAR—MONDAY, Seueesseseseaesrese Next Pubitened Ny The Star tehing Ce. Phone Mata BY #00 ae matter A Week | enn CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ighes comes out with a be But that his he again asserts his oppo an eight-hour law in fact, Gridley, the master mechanic, will be nominally under your orders, but ff it should come to blows be tween you, you couldn't fire him It's @ family affair He is a wid ower, and bis wife was a sister of the Van Kensingtons, He got hin job thru the family influence, and he'll hold it in the same way principle to an intelligent people? there is one other thing Hallock, the man you will | find holding down the headquarters ailroads to always have re- loffice at Angels, He was Cum ‘ berley's chief clerk, and long before Cumberley resigned he was the real superintendent of the Red Butte | Western in everything but the title. jand the place on the pay-roll, Nat- urally he thought he ough: to be jconsidered when we clinbed Into |the saddle, and he haa already | Written to President Brewster, ank |ing for the promotion tn He |happens to be a New York lke idley; and, again like Gridley, he |has a friend at court of the labor grinding cor knows him, and he recommended hours when they could re j= for the superintendency when 7 Mr. Brewster referred the appli |tion to me, I couldn't agree, and 1 had to turn bim down, I am tell. Ing you this so you'll be easy with hita—as easy ax you can.” eee » to work overtime, for the be penalized? to the lot of the average npelled to provide for such more properly speaking, rather than jaded ones, will find a way to accom- differs in principle not one Gridley, a large man, virile of face and figure, and Hallock, a }dark man with gloomy eyes and |& permanent frown, met late in the evening of the day Vice-Prey lident Ford named Lidgerwood superintendent “They tell me you have missed the step up again, Hallock,” said | Gridley |, “Who ts lock asked. “Nobody seems to know him by name. Hut he is a friend of Ford's all right. That is how he gets the fod." day, declares for just what is trying to play both ends the new man?” Hal A college man, | suppose,” Hal sjlock commented. “Otherwise Ford wouldn't be backing him, It's hell. Gridley! I've bung on and waited and done the work for their figure heads, one after another, The job belongs to me!” “You're not built right for it Hallock; the desert would give you the horselaugh.” “Would 9 COLYUM WAT WILL THE NRIGHDORS SAY? ot before I had Grid: i don't you forget thi “Threatening, are you the virtle one. if you had the chance, Ran- kin?” I'd kill owt some of the waste and recklessness, if It took the last man off the pay-rolls; and (4 break even with at least one man over in Timanyon!.” jeored #F3 fF? j i "| master-mechantic, Vd kill Plemister on sight, if 1 had the sand; you know that, Gridley. Some day it may come to that. But in the meantime—" “In the meantime you hi been DANGERS OF EATING snapping at his heels like a fice Joseph Sary, a rigger at Bethle-| dog, Hallock; holding out ore-cars hem Steel Works. fractured his/on him, delaying his coal supplies, left leg between a plate and a) stirring up trouble with bis miners. roll. —Stroudaberg, Pa., Daily | Flemister may need a little Red (Ga.) Journal. Butte Western nursing in the Ute Gilad Valley irrigation scheme he is pro. THE WASTE BASKET 18/ moting, and I want you to see that OFTEN MIGHTIER THAN THE|he gots it. You may take that as : a word to the wise.” CHAPTER I! The Outiaws For the first few weeks after the change in ownership and the ar rival of the new superintendent, i E i NO GIRL APPRECIATES A LOVER WHO 18 UNABLE TO HOLD HIS OWN. ee POSSIBLY MORE SO Wook iA Novel The Idyl of Twin Fires WALTER P,. EATON CUUNENNESTEETaRRUTTa | Firereivaaentaesdtatsaetsaescsattestaay Magnus! “Flemister again?” queried the i OCT. 16, 1916. PAGE 4 !the Red Butte Western and nerve-center, the town of |neemed disposed to take | Howard Lidgerwood as a rather | {I-timed Joke, perpetrated upon a primitive West by the Paeific | Southwestern The Red Desert grinned like the | famous Cheshire cat when an tn coming train from the Kast brought sundry boxes and trunks, said to ntain the new boss’ wardrobe. Iidgerwood slept in the Crow's eet——the headquarters building not much from choice as for the reason that there seemed to be no alternative save & room in the town tavern, appropriately named “The | Hotel Celestial,” That a battle would have to be! fought was evident enough. Grid ley, whore attitude toward the new superintendent Was that of a dis | interested adviser, assured Lidger wood he was losing ground by not opening the campaign of severity | at once. “You'll have to take a club to these hoboes before you can ever hope to make railroad men out of them,” was Gridley's oft-repeated assertion, Hallock attended to his 4 and carried out his superiors tn automaton, but his attitude was dis tinetly antagonistic, None the less Lidgerwood acknowledged a grow-| ing Mking for the chief clerk McCloskey, the trainmaster, who had served under Hallock for a number of months before the | change in management, confided to Lidgerwood that Hallock was mar ried; that his wife, a strikingly beautiful young woman, had disap peared, and that since her depar ture Hallock had lived alone in two | rooms over the freight station. For the first few weeks Lida wood let McCloskey answer t “hurry calls” to the various scenes | of disaster, but when three sections of an eastbound cattle special, tx | noring the ten-minute-interval rule, were piled up in the Pinon Hill he went out and took personal }command of the track-clearers He found that the wrecking-crew had taken a tengallon keg of whis- key along wherewith to celebrate the first appearance of the new! superintendent in character as & practical wrecking- boss. jcome ow rather =a Lidgerwood'’s first executive act was to knock in the head of the ten-galion celebration with a strik | ing hammer. | This | went | punishment | had gained by being too easy Jack Wenson, the young | gineer whom Vice-President Ford had sent to put new life into the! tracks, happened to be present lwhen the reckless trainmen were told to go and sin no more. “I'm not runoing your job, Lidger- | wood,” Benson volunteered. “But | you can't hold those fellows down with Sumday-echoo! talk.” Tho merry jest on the Red Butte | Western ran its course for another| week after the threetrain wre} in the Pinons-—-for 4 week and a day. Then Lidgerwood began the drawing of the net. A new time) card was strung with McCioskey's) co-operation, and when it went into effect a notice on all bulletin: boards announced the adoption of | the standard “Book of Rules,” and | promised penalties for departure} | therefrom | Promptly the horselaugh died away and the trouble storm was eroked Grievance committers hapnted the Crow's Nest, and the insurrectionary faction, starting Malcolm Hyatt, who has got back from a trip to New York, says that as far os he could see, every wom- an there wore silk stockings. Preston (lowa) Herald, bh Ve Yae OMOLER Crser" %, Flour (hos Mu} MOH DKON You'll Be Interested in the SLL L MIS mn SSS Holly Flour Windows It’s the Official Endorsement of Unbleached Flour—by the Grocer Kindly give me a recipe for preserving eggs with water glass, MRS. T. er glass comes in two a syruplike NMquid and a powder. Use one part of the liquid to 10 parts of water. Pack clean eges in clean kegs or crocks and cover them with the solution. ry am a girl of 16. Some times a boy | know brings me home from the park, and we stand outside and talk a while before he My mother objects to this. ie there any wrong in it? NELLIE. A.—It {s not good form to stand on the steps for long conversations in the late evening. Neither is tt correct for you to let © boy bring you home from the park who did not accompany you there, Your CHILDREN HATE i PILLS, CALOMEL fe AND CASTOR OIL If Cross, Feverish, Constipated, Give “California Syrup of Figs.” Look back at your childhood Remember the “dose” mother ed on—castor ofl, calomel, cathartics, How you hated them, how you fought against taking them. With our children it's different Mothers who cling to the old form of physic simply don’t realize what they do. The children's revolt ts well founded, Their tender little “insides” are Injured by them, If your child's stomach, liver and bowels need cleansing, give only delicious “California Syrup of Fi Its action is posigve, but gentle. Millions of mothers keep this harmless “fruit laxative” handy; they know children love to take it; that it never falls to clean the liver and bowels and sweeten the stomach, and that a teaspoon- ful given today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle of “California Syrup of Figs,” which han full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on each bottle Leese | Beware of counterfeits sold here. Ps | See that it is made by “California Fig Syrup Company.” Refuse any other kind with contempt. forms \ SS etic aS WIP) Seca TyCptin. Gor of propriety are! mother's ideas Follow her advice. | quite correct. | sweetheart, but not an i | band. He makes good money, but he spends it ali on himself. He plays cards for money, goes to shows d ball gam but never seems to think that | should go, too. He never greets me kindly when he comes home, or takes any Interest in our hi ir our 3-year. daughter. It seems to me ! cannot stand it any longer. What leant do? SORROWFUL WIFE. | A—If you honestly try to please |your hi and and make his home happy, and he will not respond to your efforts, there is little you can | do except to hope that your good influence will prevail and make him see the error of his ways. How ever, you have the training of your Nittle girl, ond you can make of her what you wish, Since you have few interests, you can give your | whole attention to her, Read to | her; teach her carefully so that she | Will be a companion and a comfort jto you. Making her happy ts the Pomag way to forget your own trou | bles, Q.—1 have been going with an awfully nice girl for nearly a year. A short time ago we had an argu. ;ment, and | got drunk and said things | am sorry for now. | had never been drunk before, and do not know why | did it that time. | od her to forgive and she said she would t me back if | could prove to her that | would never do such a thing again. | love her, and am willing to do any- thing to make good again. Now. | how can | prove to her that | am | sincere? cc. A.-You can't prove it to her Juntil your life is lived, So she wil’ have to modify her ultimatum if she ever takes you back, Don't in dulge in any more heroics, She {s a wise girl, and you can't deceive her by resorting to such methods, Go to work in sober earnest to make a steady, dependable man of yourself, Only by continued good conduct can you restore your friend's faith in you, Clyde rkins, Bernard, Mo., postmaster, 1s only 21 years old, yet weighs 413 pounds. He had to make a trip to St. Joe for a special office chair, He tried to drive a small automobile, and got so wedg- ed behind the steering wheel that ahe had to stop the engine and call for help to pry him 1 > * ita) with Angels.) to the track force Mr,| Involve th unanimous and in the mass events, woo! striving, himself a good soldier behind him came suave batant hostilities he seemed to have made # pact with himself not to let it be known by that he was aware of the suddenly precipitated conflict the nose, and his gargoyle face portray ing soul agonies. now!” new has disappeared shop, men know anything about it | had Callahan, the dispatcher, wire 1o8 | cant opens up a field [trying to get into for some little) have sent a committee to me to ask! | time, Mac,” the superintendent be gan. thresh | mand on it showing lowes and expense in the general maintenance account them over and tell me what you think.” | ton, | from thrown aside jisn’t the worst of it.” The trainmaster was nursing a! al knee and screwing his face into | the reflective scheme of “Those things are always hard to prove for instance, you couldn't prevent) Angels from raiding the company's coalyard for its cook stoves.” 322%: the trainmen and the vatened telegraph to become operators 4 protest In the pandemonium of untoward McCloskey war lAdger ‘# right hand, tolling, amiting and otherwi proving t clone always always Gridley good-natured firmness and and ounseling discipline Hallock the the only beginning was From non-com of any act or word of his One McCloskey came offies, hat tilted day private into to “They've taken he burst out saddle-tank to pillaging “The 316, that shifting engine, Iv'* nowhere in he yards, the roundhouse, or back and none of Gridley’s fore. I've and west, and if they're all telling the truth, nobody has seen structions with the exactness of 40) (1 or heard of it.” CHAPTER IIT “This that “Sit down and we'll out Here are some figures Look “Wastage, you mean | the trainmaster. “That is what I have been call- end to end with mate tortion. Short of a military guard, lidgerwood swung his chair to face McCloskey. “We'll pass up the petty thiev higher,” he said gravely in transit between here aj i : 33223853! t3tt 33 HiMMESSitiiisiireiitetisteeeeeee ete Le “THE TAMING OF RED BUTTE WESTERN” spreading y threatened to) itself to the perpendicular with a | partments more, witching-engine mystery/or thirty of the losers still in the) I've been| employ of this company, and they| | queried | that the house-building scheme was Rut I'm afraid that) tendent, ‘ae excellent, as far as it|¢ries, for the present, and look a| his own battles. But tater, with the offend. | litt “What would youl ing crews before him for trial and| “Have you found any trace of those | Hallock.” Lidgerwood lost all he|t¥o carioads of company lumbe lont on.| Red Butte two weeks ago? Pritticiissestessteee A Novel A Week B Francis Copyright By Charles Beribner's LAdgerwood's swing-chair righted latened to it.” “About this mens?” “Not about the wife. There are men here in Angels who hint that Hallock killed the woman and sunk her body in the Timanyoni : ens!” exclaimed LAdger. wood, under his breath. “I can't believe that, Mac.” “1 don't know as I do, but I can tell you a thing that I do know Mr. Lidgerwood: Hallock is a devil out of hell “You haven't asked my afvice, Mr. Lidgerwood, but here it is anyway. Flemister, the owner of the Wire-Silver mine over in Tig anyon! Park, was the president of that building and loan outfit. He and Hallock are at daggers drawn for some reason that I've never understood you could get them together, perhaps they could make some sort of a statement that would quiet the kickers for the time being, at any rate.” Next RID STOMACH OF GASES, SOURNESS AND INDIGESTION “Pape’s Diapepsi ” Ends All Stomach Distress in Five Minutes. y Lynd- building and loan snap, Mac, and it pretty it is an organized must have ite men well weattered thru th and have a good many members, too. I believe we'll get to the bottom of all this looting on this = switchng-engine business They have overdone it this time You can’t put a locomotive in your pocket and walk off with it Tho trainmaster shook his head in bewflderment Home years ago there was a building and loan association start ed here in Angels, the o#tensibie object being to help the railroad men to own their homes, Ever hear of it?” Lidgerwood went on “Yes, but it was dead and buried before my time.” Dead, but not buried,” corrected Lidgerwood, “As I understand it the railroad company fathered it, or at all events, some of the of ficlals took stock In it. When it! (Continued died there was a considerable def- —_ jet, together with a failure on the part of the executive committee to account for @ pretty liberal cash| balance.” } “I've beard that much,” said the trainmaster “Then we'll bring it to} date,” Lidgerwood resum “It} appears that there are twenty-five! in Our lesue) down he Stee for an investigation, basing the de the assertfon that they were coerced into giving up their money to the building and loan, people.” “I've heard key admitted that, too,” MeClon- You don't want a slow remed: “The story goes 4 when your stomach is bad—or an uncertatn one—or a harmful one— tomach is too valuable; you injure it with drastic Red if a Butte man promoted by the old Western bosses, and ing it; a reckless disregard for the| didn’t take stock he got himself value of anything and everything | disliked. that can be Included tn a requisi-| premiums were held out on the The right-of-way is littered | pay-rolls.” 1 If he did take it, the Pape's Diapepsin ts noted for its speed In giving relief; its harmless. ness; ite certain unfailing action in regulating sick, sour, gassy stomachs. Ite millions of cures in indigestion, dyspepsia, gastritis and other stomach trouble has made it famous the world over. “The loners,” said the superin-| contend that somebody ought to make good to them. They 0 call attention to the fact that the building and loan treasurer, who was never able satisfactorily, Keep this perfect stomach doctor to explain the disappearance of !" your home—keep it handy—get the cash balance, ts still on the| 4, lerée fiftycent case from any welrosd company's persue | should eat something which doesn't McCloskey sat up and tilted the) seree with them: if what they eat roy to the back of his head. |i ike lead, ferments and sours iridley?" he asked. jand forms gas; causes headache, No; for some reasons I wish it! dizziness and nausea; eructations were Gridley. He is able to fight | o¢ acid and undigested food—re- It comes nearer member as soon as Pape’s Diapep- The treasurer wes «in comes in contact with the stomach all such distress vanishes. By this time McCloskey had bis Its promptness, certainty’ and ease hat tilted to the belligerent angle. in overcoming the worst stomach I'm not a fair witness,” he said. disorders is a revelation to those “There's been gossip, and I've! who try it. home, Mac. WRIGLEYS is sealed — that’s the thing that counts. No matter when or where you buy it, the flavor is there — full strength, and it’s fresh and clean. So always make sure to get Wrigley’s in the sealed package — it’s the greatest five cents’ worth of beneficial enjoyment you can buy. Write Wm. Wri Jr. Co, 1626 K BI ~ re esner de ciicags