The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1916, Page 4

a A ae STAR—FRIDAY, DEC. 29, tapesrerpreen ata: Next Weel Pubite The Seattle Star enese sorts, Ing The Star A Novel = “The Green Seal” weet League of Phone Mate A Week 8 - Entered ot Geartia w. retottie second-class matter ° ec y —— ie wah out cb On tue bean Ohta Gena 6 be per menth up te @ mos Ll CHARLES E. WALK Pibsaeiitesss 1916. PAGE 4 eo Peerprereprarerereeeesereeyy “Christmas Carol’? cm disen Mn ini reer Snsaarancresaanaaas | (Continued From Our Last Issue) }rovolving In bis mind a change of; know the value of it. Speak out ying up at who had a book, fly sorry for it, Mr. Cratehit,’ he EE The Last of the Spirite lain’ new-born resolutions carried |see it. We knew pretty well thet | daughters were engaged in sewing.) good wife. If I can be of service HE Phantom slowly, gravely, out in this we re helping o ‘ fore | Hut surely they were very quile to you in any way,’ he said, giving silently approached Quiet and dark, beside him stood | we met here, L believe. It's no And He took a child, and sent|™¢ his card, ‘that's where I live, It was shrouded in a deep, | the Phav with ft» outatret dj sin, Open the bundle, Joe bim i. the coal of th : ra come to me Now, it . ° . Ll rs ok garment, which concealed ite| band. They left the busy scene! jsut the gallantry of her friends Paes tone | ¥en,” cried Hot © the Sean owrrest ent anJSaveDi ionDo a its face, Ite form, and left} and went into an obscure part of! would not allow of this; and the See eet emmad them (ot anything be might be able to do nothing of It visible save one out-| the town, where Scrooge had never! man in faded black, mounting the ig > eae Mee oot tomy nut {for Ws, BO much as for his kind The feder: » ent’s rec . ions *xpenditure ) ie stretehed hand penetrated before, altho he recom | breach firat, produced his plunder, |) B® boy msl Dave tear ” mill ol, | way, that this was quite delightful, _The federal government s recommendations for expenditures for the FA NR aide grad betare, altho be recog |bresah first, produeed his plunder. tas tg and the ‘Spirit eronsed the| M*yectly" soomed te if. be had eoming year, which are now before congress, reach the enormous total of Ghost of Christinas Yet To Come?" | puto, For tn this den of infamouR |iwo, w pencil-cane, a pair of sleeve: |("renbold. | Why tld he Hol ko OA) known our Tiny Tim, and felt with 654,819,654 sald Scrooge. rt, there ¥ a low-browed, | puttons, and a brooch of no great ¥, ee eer tae soak at te $1,6: 4,8 19,054. ae : The Spirit answered not, but tling shop, below a pent-houre | value, were all. They were nev |t!* , and put hee hand up to) (concluded in Our Next Issue) This is $370,000,000 more than the original estimates for the present pointed onward with bia hand root, where, iron, old rags, bott erally examined and appraised hurte my eyes,” she : Hi * IN " rreate You are about to sho ponen, 7 offal, were | oi¢ Pee ii weil i 6 color b ny eyen hi : year, and more than SIX HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS greater than Jf (tou, are shout to, shew me| boven, Andy, meas, tte. “ope | Old Jor, wh chalked the eu Kansas Has First the total expenditures in any year prior to 1915, Out of the excess two happened, but will happon tn the| wares he dealt in, wax a gray-halred ine wall, and added them up into, The color? Ah. poor Tiny Tim? Woman Coroner! P. wr Is could be built Ume before us,” Scrooge pursued, | rascal, nearly seventy years of age.|q total when he found there was They're be now again sei anama canals cou UU. : cae t Ix that so, Spire? Scrooge and the Phantom eame | nothing more to con tehit’s akon | them There is just one way in which these millions. can be collected with The upper portion of the garment into the presence of this man, just astls your aecodat,” sald 20s, Pug enaiasight: and ; ice ¢ i i ing » a . ers a contracted for an instant In as a woman with a heavy bundle d 1 wouldn't give another six nie Pee degli roadie justice and without BAPOsOS undue burdens veer honest hel ehh _ That ids, ae if the Spirit had in-|slunk into the shop. But she had ence, if 1 was to be boiled for not saa Mtrinast be okas nel by putting an end to income tax evasion and enforcing the penalties ned itn head, That was the only scarcely entered, when another|doing It, Who's next? world, It must be near hi 5 0) § answer he r 4 woman, similarly lad i Mrs. Dil time, | J ; Py or he received oman, similarly laden, came in| Mrs, Dilber was next, Sheets | #Me which the law provides. . 5 ‘ The Phantom moved away as {t|top: and sho was closely followed |and towels, « little wearing ap-|_“PAst it, rather,” Peter answored, Basil Manly’s investigations, as reported in The Star and its sister pa had ‘come toward him, | Serooge | by a man in faded black, who wan | parel, two old-fashioned silver tea: [Shutting up tix book. "But 1 think | - in ; ine . a, followed in t hadow of its dress.) no lews startled by the t ¢ * a pair of 0 ongs, and |D® han walked ower thi pers, have proved that in 1914 the evasions of the income tax amounted to- JU TING htmup, he thought, and | them chen theo hed been wit ue [atest bose, Mereaccount ” waa od, these few lest evenings $320,000,000, without taking account of the penalties of 50 and 100 per carrie’ him along recognition of each other, After alatated on the wall in the «an ? “ah ie whe eee ise aie 4 : , ey scarce gemed to enter short period of b ate nent, | man i ere very qu 5 amount of evasion in both 1913 and 1915 was proportionately g to-spring up about them, and @n-| had joined them, they ciiahiie fisat women cheerful voice, that only faltered We have, therefore, an enormous sum, somewhere in the neighborhood ee nae haeet oh it eh & laugh ME Mery kes fot eer neve known bim walk with JE ar rove . The & . rs et the eharw alone to pe | the greater ce ence ¢ rat 3 of ONE BILLION DOLLARS, actually due the federal government The Spirit stonped nentde one Mt |he fi:at!” cried she who h tame 6 Paatadind Ihave known him walk with Tin It CAN BE COLLECTED if the income tax returns, now kept secret, No” eal 8 groans fat mhep. with | ree sree see teelaundrece Alona | evel of nome gark euatt. (3 : ~ : } ; . » be the aeco! nd under hea oll of some dark stuff. '! ; are published, so that THE PEOPLE MAY KNOW who the income tax & monstrous chin, “I don't know | o,yo,1ne necond, and I ihe third What do you call this?” said Joe. ! have 1," cried Peter om a ie weil ‘ che ; much about it, either way, 1 on! oar Wein att Rae hai ance! | “"Bed-cx " Often thieves are. The mere announcement that they are to be published will vam gy Look here, old Joe, here's a ciance! Bedcurtsing” oman Rut be was very light to carry bring into the treasury a flood of revenue from thos¢ who fear the exposure When did he die?” inquired 90°| without meaning St laughing and leaning forward on | *he resumed, intent upon ber work, | ee: 2 * .- A . ic thor in , tt her crossed arma jeod-curtains and his fath: iy 0, that that will inevitably follow when these tax lists are made public Pelee t Manas bet egret mong de oa ge abe atgte ci reagevngroadal byes fie-vae. le eemas aud hace ° . “ , sin | t08 place,” ma id Joo, removing ou don't ” the nigh . Under the income tax act that passed congress in gen wager Ag presi- What has he done with Me) his pips from his mouth. “Coma|‘em down, rings und all, with him | thire 18 your father st the door!” ) To wfnaraEo Views i i i 5 Seca ed eB | into the pario Y ade | lying ther sald » hurried ont to him + dent has absolute authority to open the income tax lists to the public. : tree of It lone ago, you know: and| "Yes, 1 do,” replied the woman. |and Hob came in. His tea was} | ee said the man |} ? ady for him on the hob, and the ir. Viers has been 0 other two an ater Wa Why not r him on the he 4 th osen in, yawning again ait s able As gpBeadsons or pr “You were born to make your! “I tried who should help him to it|oner of Ottawa county, Kansas; the ammenndie meet: Y ; his compan : haps. | well matched. into the par- | fortun said Joe, “and you'll cer-| most | first time the state over OS ae 7 AS : tit tome, Thet’s all . TT Y Ys poke ' ple ly to all the the office. There are 155 other lo tain! ho it B ¢ pleasantly to all the Rep. _ Victor Zednick proposes military training for ow ’ iomuas I certainiy shan’t hold my hand, | fami! Ho looked at the work |women holding office in the state, boys in high schools. Training, by the way, is not only a This pleasantry wan recolved with | | pogren thing in it t n the inble, and praised the of QRee ga different thing than compulsory service, but may be the & seneral laug try and 4 of Mra. Cratchit . , It's Mhely to be a ve cap and the girls, They would be dane | means of preventing the latter. funeral.” said the cam rr, | ine sade 0g. a oe for m1 I don’t ke whet | “Sun 1 went today, thei ’ ” Pony 1 went today, then, WJatch for Theater e 7 to One Robert h i ire is wife. d The Lawyer in the War Department ke up «part otunte ‘ : edict. | sige gry deers waaataeet ane and Date ECRETARY OF WAR NEWTON D. BAKER never don't . te ofc " mae » do you think?” re-| “I 1 could have gone. It ; believes anything until an army officer tells him COL UM n with the ex 2|" ° ee ae Gare |aee prep rite Page ig i When charges reached his ears that a piece of mail had KEMPSTER, NOTICE ne But 1 om “ia Badd fmt ek =. as : was ay [ : ee it often, 1 promis a bine the JOHN MASON G& > been taken from the mails at a town in Kansas by order off "80%, "mew . mow y then 1 ng Scrooxe Itstened gue |1 would walk there on Sun ALMA HANLON an army officer on the border, because it contained a round! . ae if FOR we “4 | “eg! “iam tee a ot a gran a “pie ey 3 ee jove y he wiser? We ne Ha laughed the same | little child! - 2 ‘robin making complaints of conditions on the border, Baker There's no heat in the car. ' ' 1 Beale gg ib ‘ Me" woman, when Old Joe, producing a| He broke down all at once. He as d he could not recognize such a “rumor.” It would have oe 28 fanne « money in it, t couldn't help it. He left the room, | Mag to come officially from the army officer in question PRANK, AT LEAST inde OE i Ate nald MM lher | ont r several ga on the/and went upstairs into the room s fi D, r a ; vests On ace t of hea fi atma rh of it, ¥e - ver ry » could take any action. This attitude i¢al of the lawye , ‘ . wea 1 of great _ Preps “mind of the present secretary. He ne elieves thin k Hanner s u i point , away fro whe aiive,| There was a chair set > he is it reaches him over the red tape — ; “ t it © wan Me the nd there were signs of hc thy eer ” wala sot a few|H or ving been there, latel We cig atta laser if an intercepted babs tree THE PRACTICAL JOKER Dee ae sede things like these toad man Spirt Beroone ude eat down, and when he inds of some newspaperman some day Jlrs : * 1 suppose? ng from foot Il had ¢ ht a little and comporad | that the fleet of a foreign power had started with a : aii ins Ret. Ole No, indeed,” sald Mra, Dilber, | ce T e of this un imeself, he Kissed the little face. oy of transports to land a hostile expedition on Ameri- eo hes sot his own ot fast, | Suebing iman might be my own, M | He was reegnctiled to what had hap: | : co has got bh a In f he wanted to kuep ‘etn after \ggnds that way now. Merc j pened, and went down again quite} “ } m told.” returned the|h¢ Was dead, @ wicked old screw *«:: n, what is this! happy j No doubt Baker would discredit such an unfounded scctad. “Cold, lant RT” **\ pursued the woman, “why wasn’t He recotlod In terror, for the » They drew about the fire, and| rey ” and wait to mobilize the army until the commander Seasonable for Christmas time,|*° natural in Nfetime? If he! had changed, and now be i talked; the girls and mother work. | the hostile fleet notified him “officially” of his intent to You're not a skater, I suppose?” | bad he'd have had somebody | + {ing still. Bob told them of the ex-| " * " to look after him when he was raordipary indness of Mr. d F No. No, Something else to Y nt hen fh traordt k . think of, Good morning!” struck with Death, Instead of lying a something cov-|Scrooge’s nephew, whom he had/| KAVANAGH’S Nat another word, That was |fasping out his last there, alone t tho jt was dumb, | scarcely seen but once, and who, sake Bune nb: eae Corn is king. Value of this year’s leading crops runs thelr meeting, their conversation, | himself. : in awful language. Presse? him in the street. that | like this: Corn, $2,295,000,000; cotton, $1,080,000,000; |.) jens tn? Wan bron? wont s j Mee We eet an sing in th stele AYat’ ities eee eee oem p? Wan-ten! He ooKe at first inclined te m t on the : a little own, r wheat, $1,025,000,000; oats, $96,600,000; potatoes, $95,000,- Why all the 7 y guffaws big Pe ood Mh ro nage t on bin tind © know,” said Bob, inquired what * : a 000. And would you believe that we raised $18,000,000 t can't restrain ourselves t was a litle heavte t i had happened to distress him. “On worth of beans? fron fing at the merry a let Of apy t oman th ‘| 1.” said Bob, “for he is the Just Printers he practical joker—he's so clever! ., ‘<aeeen may any person in the asantest#poken gentleman you || 1018 THIRD MAIN 1068 x hidd elf to © laid emotion caused er heard, I told him, ‘I am heart- 'T is possible that neither the kai has|you to put your he death vance 1% ec ! nm full consideration to the the |#mell tt, the that MORS rh antom spread dark that squirts r roy. ‘ b for a moment ish character, up to this time He's the soal » wing nd withdrawing it. re Great Britain entered the war, her ing water on AND AVOID DISEASE room by daylight, where e an Save and protect the smaller and weaker ni fone es to an he : a mother and her children were € Always has some le r il ng She a © ting omneon und “Row talks about reparation and restitution, scl where his vi « a full-bearded Humors muse inter) with acclaud GAueteee hr bho = = is the crushing of Prussian militarism nelangora, but somebody na ect Iked and down the room e “the aim of her statesmen but it has becom f shanges the act uses him for bolls ' = ed at every sound, looked o' A d th the nanny—oh record rattles off| ; iis ar arhey the window, glanced at n e u I i her_people. thusly That's a dirty “! fect all t : Joc Restore Belgium to the Belgians and Alsace to the French; don da joke, but that ain't no membranse a ane - A h the long-expected knock ws we Constantinople to Russia; return Germany's nies to | Joke ke's a joke, but that's dir age die uh heneeb ty a * ardr= She hurried to the — her; give Bulgaria the territory she lost in the alkan |" © reek | tract dikeane i Jeep r husband, @ mar H 4 * fort 2 « hore ‘ac was ¢ e M _ | war—get thus well along toward peace ent 1 you ABDICATION ver: Ser earn Hood's Saretye-| renee "cha be be re “Banks are merely instruments for the service of Bee still have to ask, What will Gr Britain have He—Queen of my heart rilla has been more successful than | way a remarkable expression in It the public. A bank’s first duty is not to its stock- 4 gid Hot p ; rs mediclae in opretliag t : P y Y Nothing short of the execution and buri i Prussian mil-| She—Queen nothing! © and rer ng their inward n kind of serioun delight of holders, but to its depositors.” . P' itarism, say her people, and in Lloyd- hey. ‘faves |oee eae rent Basnaate atfocts. It sa dintin. | Which | ' , “bu ho ¢ be prie loose fre what he e ze r thore ‘ n e se are the words of Elliott C. McDougall, President iidog” who can’t be pried loose from what | és Judge. if tout ule Pao He sa th of the large Bank of Buffalo, Buffalo, N. Y = 00 DELIC rieh vigorat ther | had beer May secs T LICATE Sted a, pApeoed fT | fa 4 i js ‘ A man traveling in Maine met ’ h medict like it, for no other! 1, what . € A more sweeping statement might be ‘A troubled conscience” causes Laurence Martin of middle-aged farmer who said bis fa-| among the multitude that poure medicine ts Hke it atrassed how to anawer nnd A einy Sag 6 Get Hoo arsaparilla today made. bank is, in many respects, New York to confess, at Sacramento, to a murder com- _ ther, 90 years old, was still on the thru the pore , Tinsist on ha Hood ; : 8 it good?” she a public utility. It has a duty to mitted 20 years ago. It’s the most remarkable New a where he was t surprise, how Pest ue Be fulfil to the whole comm sit York conscience we ever heard of. casper wig diene twat | Magia Rots nose oie, Chee — “g: ; ‘ os ogi Glasses eet ' It is this Sense of duty, first to its Depositors Silence is golden,” but no one came forth with the soap ce aces 2 gion 1! next to the lic, from whom its fut ic old for Logan’s bonds. Wherefore, he talk sac aie ¥ ny ee ape “4 Gainer 8 6 ee eth hats the matter with bin: e on Earth rs must come, that this bank first established unno sometimes thin fi f ¥ ‘ and W maintains its long-fixed custom of pa “4 Relative of Seattle man kicked to the court because he at bd ‘ A Bol at him ~ the fullest AeGitne upon ae Saving Dep : Lie Fe a hi . Western stlan dvocate. - AEESSE ae ra we . -. OS: 5. E bought meals for $1 each. _Must have been eating eggs. - | AMINATIONS FRE! but trusted to its care consistent with judicious and EX. u to economical 3 tare AR RDRARARRARADARAARAAA, lanagement, namely 4 A complete reorganization of the Chamber and Com- TRdit t} M {} tenting ¢ und op said so, with Bem mercial Club is another “million-dollar” idea. ors ai {) wg ie prayed forgive paces 3 Sbwenaiel | errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmrrerwd) next moment, and was RANCHER KICKS | other heart INTEREST __ Holly, Wash., Deo. 12, 1916) NPS 2 What the half-drunken woman 4 peice ky bo [am eee, om I told you of last night, said —ON— 0 i stant reader of The Star, and read + ihe whee Sheiek to ibaa hit aie - every evening about how the howe the Marcum Optical Co. | '\,"\;: fake agin bee O SAVINGS wives of Seattle are trying to bi or ST AVE. NAIL MADISON OUR emer to avoid cott the egg prices. I/do not be ma tina one 6 = ite : E lieve they know what they are true, H not only ver t 4 F t talking about. | have a small|- ” : ne, the ¢ chicken ranch of abc 1,000 | . : A ey orge chicken gage owe" Doctor Tells How to Strengthen | -'.»! vi ow i | | Northwest Trust & Safe ferrec deposit Company r fifteen years of banking living on them, but find it tt : : t I 3 8 . 1 don't know Tut before that ? hard : hen i have to pay $3.50 Eyesight 50 Per Cent in One ays sai) ie Meads SG ne experience, see no reason now to make any reduc- ncek for wheat, and getting re ‘ ave y tion in the Interest Rate yon gs. They , ’ . noney; and even tho We Were not Rate upon Saving ney centa per doze ‘or strictly esh 5 " ‘ cents ver dozen tor wtcicly treet: Week's Time in Many Instances |»: \» tune, indeed helieve this return can be made to the bank's cus- -” at Christmas time, remerr per dozen for eggs. Now how can|A Free Prescription You Can Have ae ‘ with lig E hecoitias profit for the stockholders, without in the least ber you? likey @ je Pilladand Uee-at Mt night with light heart vroline ! ‘ ‘d time to retrievs sched iy eMepelah l adltat a lade ei ' Ye often it as they would, it way jeopardizing the safety of funds committed to f with Vos They surely «do not realize how |, hiilad mPa 5 Dopodlotai dadereege sys Mag rye” the keeping of the bank puch it takes to feed them. If the at " 7 : a strain « ak ; Ghost could show him, gaused in You are invited to b Voir Sau here with ¢ tould only try to boycott the ee es iow that he a ‘ae Ware invit rit ur Say rere with The “Sjjver-Easy-Payment-Plan prices of feed they “* get eggs |eccording.to Dr rt ! Sh MB pate gaat iit the assurance of receiving an adequate return, 3 f cveaper Aw it is. chicke Y “ u 1 € 8 = Ae : - onnected with a death,” said ‘ : Will Help You to Remember Poacgiadany Eda ap tad hel the principle Scrooge; “or that dark chambe s $1.00 “Pit Selb Pak ng eal gE rine hey Spirit, which we left just ow will N h 1 payment each week . Tio Vepetat tab iia a 1 not seo 4 be forever present to me. t. t t erteas purses of Will open |4 ins ounniven tame the) itlerehton ee Satteenad Re teh fhe hat ode nh orthwest irus in and go ove “You will not t Mas hae teodnae dk or nest eres 1 ater any more, At ed several streets familiar to his feet fe and 0,0 your rancher can produce eagn for next | teh, 4 fying tty dee tiih everranieauler umn tees ize and ges ges “ 4 now they feel fine all the t 1 looked here and there to find him account 2 while, The rancher produces the | w \ mira ot \ legit, i : q 2 a hile EMEHOMDIaaaTS tion sana a t The atinoaphere self, but nowhere was he to. be t il Cc at this ike money. and we have to take|Ricmmet, RAS, ¢ fit oF irae tered. Yor non g, Nake Meposi o. Dan H. Silver & Company Dia dete eter toes ae enters ces at tea ratchits house: the dwelling he SECOND AND UNION store If 1 was allowed to use stronger ;Reoms clear. 1 « en read fine | manute ve iie| had visited before; and found the 715 Second Avenue Yanguage, 1 might tell them a. few [Print without wus It Is beloved he") mother and the children seated ra ‘ ; 4 ‘The Home of the Lucky Wedding King more things, I hope this will bojnow dincar Seneonahle ; shy: ound the fire : E. Shorrock, President. T. S$, Lippy, Vice Pres. rinted in The Star, as tt might do ‘ and £1 tow Pdonore.|o, get. Very quiet, The noisy a little goo WILFRED HOLE 1 tet kept on Nat Uttle Cratehit as still as ar use In ery tanily statues in one corner, and sat look i