The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 4, 1917, Page 4

The Seattle Star cond-clase matter Rotered at Seattia Wash, Po: By mail eut © MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES SOLD DAILY Published Datiy Ry The Btar Puvitening Ce Phone Main 00 Shall the Law Kill in This State? Do we want a hanging in this state? Do we want to take a step backward and admit that our anti-capital punishment law is a failure? Edward Mayberry will hang on Janua dent Wilson commutes his sentence. Gov. Lister has joined in a state-wide commutation. ry 19 unless Presi- effort to get this The people of Spokane are aroused to high feeling over the threatened execution which is scheduled to take place in the court yard here, practically in the heart of the city. The whole state should be equally aroused. You can help by sending the following petition, properly signed, to President Wilson: To the President of the Unit Edward Mayberry has been Ju Rudkin, of the United States district court here, to be on January 19, for the murder of Alice Vivian, a half-breed Indian the ¢ n, last August. Mayberry's trial developed a reasonal to whether the murder was premeditated Stood six to six for some time In 1913 this state « an almost unanimous \ £ The people of this state feel that a Within its borders, not would be Annoying, but would tend to repudiate the ac legislature. ; This progressive state Edward Mayberry would be Progress of humanity As a citizen of therefore, to comm imprisonment. dd States te girl, on 1 ervati The jury ul and tion of the the backw that h a step th state I Mayberry’s e ) ) ) Name Street > | coL (UM FAMOUS UNIONS Chamber and Commer- cial club. David and Jonathan Damon Pythias Ham and Eggs. and scussing The federal authorities scored another great cap- “ture when W. H. Pielow, the last of the Billingsley gang under indictment, walked into U. S. District Attorney Allen’s office and SURRENDERED! Some one had presence of mind enough to accept bond before Piclow left and the Bee HE real wonders of th . Which the public cares mos camera discloses in the various fields There are thousands of movements in nature for the human eye to detect ly been conquering time. The case of the photographing of a 4m flight, as told by Francis A. Collins, in his book, * Camera | fs a romance of a race between nature's mechanism in the shape} (@ bee’s wing and the mechanism man has devised tn the f Moving picture machine It appears that the beat of a bee's wing is one t 4 ts in nature. The ordinary moving pictu camera takes 15 a second, but this was too slow for the bee. Then a machine could do an exposure in one-two hundredth of a second was but the bee was still leading. Finally a special type of ectentific moving picture machine was . which took 20 sharply focused pictures in one-hundre ar which are far too the most rapid} " But so slowly does the human eye accommodate itself to the ¢ fis of motion, that when the bee films are shown, they must down to the rate ordinarily used, and the bee's wings “appear D flap as lazily as those of a very deliberate chic ing Itself. ‘Thus the most ardent movie fan is quite unaware 0 most sing features of this great modern art ~ ¢ the A dumb waiter has been brought to court in a dry " law trial here. Now that the Billingsleys are talking freely, ‘even a dumb waiter may “squeal.” Year’s a Leap Year Now! INETEEN-SIXTEEN was leap year. There won't be another leap year, the calendar till nineteen-twenty | But the calendar lies | EVERY year's a leap year these days Wr and prestige and privjlege grow The mere frivolous pretense that tn leap years only can a woman @ man to be her’mate is dead—defunct—decedent We reckon as many will do the asking In 1917 as tn to feel the urge. ‘The leap year just past saw a woman elected to congress—but fi take her seat this year, and then will her greatest service com Whe leap year just past saw a woman fly nearly from Chicago York. But in the current year, which is not a leap year, ll cross the continent thru the air. The calendar still observe > year. | But the sex doesn’t EVERY year sees woman's 1916, if they Albert Brilliant will lecture before the Seattle Literary ‘lub Thursday evening. We have not yet executed the reader who headed the item, “BRILLIANT LEC- _ TURE.” The Seattle woman whose husband ran away with clothes after a spat has a right to think this is a cold world. Somebody stole Sergeant Quinn's clothes brush from a locker in the police assembly room Wednesday. He should report it to the police. The Bank for Saving (CAPITAL STOCK $400,000.00) from January 1st on all deposits made on or before January 5th. | The Bank for Savings tints Pine Street at Fourth Ave. TURNING | of | er.~ Today | They are States himae THE TABLES ON THE GAS MAN? Fisher, manager of a gaso m at 1 Lenora. Attorney n diseu: Fourth ar last No But the scientific camera has! yim WE SHOULD SAYS 80 Wanted—Skilled Hickville Morn’ ar THE WILD FLOWER when I got out of bed I nearly jumped joy And looking in the m rea 1 ical ms if last night reserved.) . (Mu ri . “Walter, pork chop Watter No.” Well, is this a lamb chop or a Can't you tell by the then, what does {t mat ter . MODERN NURSERY RHYME boy bloole, y do you blow a corn in the rn, When you could make money ing for d me . Yes, Steve, a cemetery near golf links would be the last hole IT'S YOUR LIVER! YOU'RE BILIOUS, HEADACHY, SICK’ Don’t stay constipated with breath bad, stomach sour or a cold. Enjoy life! Liven your liver and bowels tonight and feel fine. Ss WORK WHILE YOU SLEEP, Tonight sure! Remove the liver and bowel poison which is keeping ur head dizzy, your tongue ed, breath offensive and stomach sour. Don't stay billous, sick, head- achy, constipated and full of cold Why don't you get a box of Casca rets from the drug store now? Kat one or two tonight and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver d bowel cleansing you ever experienced, You will wake up feeling fit and fine, Cascarets never gripe or bother you all the next like calomel, salts and pills. They act gently but thoroughly. Mothers should give cross, sick, bilo’ dren a whole Cascaret harmless and love them. any time. children BULLBROS. Just Printers 1013 THIRD MAIN 1043 A‘ or feverish chil-| STAR—THURSDAY, srreereeereeese ners A Novel A Week Next BY HARR suergrangesereeereterrs rte jell 4, 1917. PAGE enegeaatytsis Week “Overland Red” iv HERBERT KNIBBS SESTRLGEESERTRTSEGTE | SERRTREATRRTRERATITTT ETT ' i (Continued From Our Last the last-mentioned came! and yak train, store of fresh supplies, be tn waiting. Thence northwe ward to Ching-too the party d, avan had bee After leaving Ching-too the party would be thrown entirely upon tts yurees and the doubtful hom | f the natives—not alone suc’ of the enterprise, thetr we) | nt a with a would t wan to supply n arranged for pro where a second own re pitality for | but for very lives Thus far I read, and then I was at once struck aghast; one of party had been—a Ia The expedition had under auspices of the British Govern and in command of Major Sylvester of the British all the y! been ent, Hector Army Here, then, was "Syl"; the lady was his wif | As is to be imagined, the news-| paper accounts made the most ot} able hardships and dangers \countered, Each r| arty had been chosen for | 1 fitness for som of the several pu | tion—whieh, br ha make geological and « and ethnological tabula} tions, Here and there among the] personnel | encountered ne | that was not unfamiliar to me. And| a within my vision amped old clipping» itmost consequence—Lao | InAvo to of his spec ps of the surveys swam these Why he, a mem this of red: | ' Lao Wing Fu! ber of this very a I was at A in Los on—"boss natown! emed In too astounding for belie the other clippings, over excitedly to find o in time, | Rumors | began | ata r to mission drift tions, into various r to be gat J to the British w red th ood fortune had aa Ching-too, was en hardships and p and over The moun after party them a last # Here pply tr but only Ive of the r on, thos starvation overtoc Their the ex iraelf. h ks, at the cy of an uncouth lot of barbart not m had ev be a dau was ester one of w face ant, I learned in a mo was Marian Marian Sylvos Marian for whom a quarter something was to be re served if murder had to be done. When my father penciled that had it been conceivable to } that this tender bab |have survived the final catastrophe. |when ail but a handful were slain? !The circumstance was profoundly verplexing. ¢ details of the end were not sfactory. Before the party oved on, Mra. Sylvester was bur ed. Then one night the exhausted t was by an & force, Only four) 2 © tioned as being survivors of the slaughter; two of | these are now nous and loaded | with honors for later exploits and for knowledge given to the world; |the third has passed into obscur-| ity The fourth was Lao Wing Fu. » could n w CHAPTER IX Lao Wing Fu not remarkable that Lac Fu should have chosen the next afternoon, after my night of poring over my father’s |Papers and diaries, to favor me| jwith a call? | Lois showed him tn, Stub being out on an errand. He came to the point at once. doubt you are wondering rris, why I have trespassed | your time this afternoon jand, indeed, the object of my call| jis of such a delicate nature that I | would hesitate to broach it were I not confident of winning your! sympathy | Wing Fu highly educated nd quite perfect as to our speech | nd manners, tho he still a queue and Chinese dress Perhaps you alres years ago in China, I was well ac quainted with your late father?” he added, when I didn’t speak No,” I replied, “I did not know it. But,” 1 added, “I have recently had reason to suspect as much.” Nothing in his manner betrayed how this impressed him Then,” he continued you can not, of course |that on one or two occasions I was able, In a modest w to be of some slight service to him.” Well, tt d to record the tiresome Chinese politeness with which Lao led up to his re quest for the ring. Of course, that | was what he wanted. And after he Inad made his errand known, 1 |aroppe d all subterfuge and de- manded knowledge concerning sey- jeral things, | One th kn | “No | Mr. Fe: | upon | was wore know that, smoothly, be aware is no ne Lao confessed jthat he James Strang, He also admitted having been the guide in the Sylvester expedition and in this connection volunteered a bit of information that staggered me. Marian” had not died with the illfated party, Lao himself had borne the infant to safety—and then lost her How or where he lost her he would not say was w | It was while I was politely but| firmly refusing for the third time to part with the ring, that Stub thrust his head in at the door and announced “Mr, Struber.” end himrin,” 1 sald quickly look who's here!" burst surprisedly from Struber, as he came in and closed the door He stood a moment glancing question. ingly between Lao Wing Fu and me I s'pose yuh wouldn't abeen waited inquiringly sit down,” said I. “Lao Wing Fu has just done me the honor of wanted asked me, in.” orl He asking me for the ring. Hoe more over hinted that there might be Interesting story with it; I thought perhaps might want to hear it.” Surest thing agreed Lao Wing Fu sider the matter. slowly to his , and add or me, rather; he hored Struber's pre This conversation has taken turn that I did not anticipate said. “I came here thi prepared to pay for the thing within reason that t have d little intrinsle attempt te it does # considerable value for its antiquity—for its religious associations, tf I may say #o. I want to be fair However, this matter of infor. mation—1 hardly know wh@@ to say I do not want to appear reserved or tnaince “If you will can BURKORt of resolving the dif Ferris an connects n uh know,” Straber to he appeared Finall con wed us ily ie ence a he afternoon ring any Mr. Ferrin panded, It has value conceal the fact that I allow me, 1 think I mple means if Mr write a brief note, | will undeFtake to have James Strang at 4 certain place tonight at 10:30," Struber almost sprang from his chalr. ‘The dickens you will!” he yelled. “You've been hiding bim What you've been doing. I've tion to take @ chance and pinch right now.” This threat left wholly unmoved It Will take my messenger at least until 10:30 to go where Mr Strang {8 at present and return with him,” he continued, “In presence I shall not hesitate to t freely, and Lam sure he will the gape where | am ignorant that satisfactory?” Struber and I exchanged dered glan Wing Fu thoughtfully con- ated the pad I had drawn to- a very the Chinaman k in bew!! ward Simply say: ‘Please accompany bearer of this note without delay. | He will bring you to a safe rendez vous, where | shall meet you. Upon this meeting depends the clearing up of all our perplexities, and the removal of all the dangers that have menaced us delay.” That will be sufficient cluded Sull more or less mystified, how ever, I signed the note and enclosed it In an envelope. The Chinaman de no move to take it. Instead sald If you are satisfied h my part of the bargain you be willing to give me the ring? Not only willing, but TH do it with * he con ” 1 returned the greatest together when my i must you reliquar ymes, Now with the tvory messenger hurry.” With rapid strides, he ad vanced, picked up the envelope and thrust it inside his blouse, and in two GIRLS! LOTS OF BEAUTIFUL HAIR | 25-cent Bottle of “Danderine” Makes Hair Thick, Glossy and Wavy. Removes All Dandruff, Stops Itching Scalp and Falling Hair. To be possessed of a head of heavy, beautiful hair; soft, lustrous, fluffy, wavy and free from dandruff is merely a matter of using a little Danderine. It is easy and inexpensive to have | nice, soft hair and lots of it get a 25-cent bottle of Knowlton’s Danderine now—all drug stores rec ommend it--apply a little as direct ed and within ten minutes there will be an appearance of abundance, freshness, fluffiness and an incom parable gloss and lustre, and try as you will, you cannot find a trace of dandruff or falling hair; but your real surprise will be after about two we use, when you will see new hair—fine and downy at first yes—-but really new hair—sprout ing out all ove Dan derine is, we believe, the only sure hair grower, destroyer of dandruff and cure for itchy sealp and) it never fails to stop falling hair at once. If you want to prove how pretty and soft your hair really is, moisten a cloth with a little Danderine and carefully draw it through your hair taking one small strand at a time. Your hair will be soft, glossy and beautiful in Just a few moments a delightful surprise awaits every one who tries this, Just ory | but 1 shall not | hint An} jar I urge you not | the aid Dor 1 wan ! wan at he nd night another Unul a Kone about gotta 4 know exploded Now what d’yuh I be Struber “Ever hear of Sturtevant Camp It's somewhere up east @ Mt won Get the machine 1 trust know what a” grinned cheerfully and wrin- hin none | That's where Hardwick's fishin’, he left me to mull over. then you you're He kled CHAPTER K A Disappearance During the afternoon Miss that » both #0 busy that we found little ough time for discussing the tople that had come pretty near to filling our whole horizon. Immersed as | was in a welter of legal details, be-| periods of dictating, and| her typewriter wasn’t like @ machine-gun, 1 did now and n grasp the oppor. tunity to drop a word or two about the developments and the proposed programs for the night, so that in a Jerky, unsatisfactory fashion, she got some idea of what was in the wind When she learned that Lao Wing Fu had promised to produce James Strang that very evening, and that the whole confused and confusing mystery very Mkely would be | cleared up, a tinge of color stole to | | her cheeks and her glorious eyes shone with suppressed excite. | ment Her loveliness gave me an idea. | After a particularly trying spell of | | dictation, | asked “If I get word that Strang will | me, how would you like to be present, too?” lier countenance lighted up. “Oh, I only could!” “Bless you, you can. The hour | will be late—10:30, or thereabouts per it would be better for me not t 1. 1 will send a taxi.” Ob, no! Come, if you can 1s convenient.” She hurried away ime to consider the length. For obvious reasons I had never | called on Miss Fox, close as our | friendship had grown, There was, | in our association, a level of con-| fidence and esteem, of liking and | companionship, that was entirely | Separate and distinct from the dull | grind of daily routine; but to the world at large we were merely a| busy—sometimes a fussy—lawyer and his young lady stenographer | jand typist, and I could not be too circumspect in my conduct toward her. rattling ays v € it it We had matter no at . | it, however, was to be big things were in d we could afford to dis-| regard the conventt Nites Just | this once. 1 would accept her in- Vitation and call at her home that very evening | Why wait alone in impatience | until 10 o'clock? I could leave | word where Lao Wing Fu's mes: | senger would find me, and Lois | and I could relieve each other's | impatience. I dallied over my dinner and killed time until elght o'clock, then went to Miss Fox's. Imagine my amazement her aunt informed me that Miss} Fox had gone out shortly after | eating her own dinner, and had not | returned “Where?” I sald blankly | The lady stared at me in sur- prise. “Why said, “I supposed you would know. She got your jnote and hurried away in the auto- mobile you sent.” | A thrill sho automob!! She st an store ) when she arm ran thru me Automobile!” I almost I sent no note and no/ What do you mean? away from me with | a hushed, sched cry of conster nation “Oh! Mr. Ferris!” she gasped— what can have happened?" With an effort I got a grip on myself, heaven's sake, what do you note from me* Wh she he her get in big touring tell me,” nean by 1 a why showed from m you. ea 1 door and watched »p machine; it was a g-car. It left immediate: y * Wait a minute; I'm so frightened and confused that 1} forget. She left your message on the parlor table. In a moment note 8 stood she returned and placed jn my hand a sheet of | vaper Mat looked strangely, terri. | ly familiar Please accompany bearer of this note without delay. He will bring you to a safe rendezvous, where | | shall meet you. Upon this meeting | depends the clearing up of ali our perplexities, and the removal of al! the dangers that have menaced us, | urge you not to delay.—Brice Ferris. Excepting that the tion had been neatly cut away, it was the very note I had written that afternoon and handed to Lao Wing Fu! I felt ill and weak. I staggered over to the hall-tree and dropped upon its leather cushion. Like a tremendous blinding white light, | came the realization that I loved this girl, and my whole being sud. | denly surged upward on a wave of pure jJoyousness One instant of dominating happiness, fears rushed back again It was only a few blocks to po lice headquarters, and I hastened away. What I had to say was quickly told. Already the chief had sum. moned an attendant and the place had taken on an air of activity that it did not have when I arrived Men jn uniform and men in the ordinary habiliments of everyday life entered, were told briefly what had happened, were supplied with a minute description of Lois—1 was too miserable and distracted to wonder how the police happened | to be so well informed—and were | | went away | “Well, the drag-net is out.” sald | the chief when the last man had | gone “Where you suppose Lao Wing Fu could have betaken him- self?” The chief superserip: irrepressible, then my do sat thoughtfully a SEREESERESSIRETERSESEESEEERESITETE ssaasesteetstteeees By A Novel Charles E. Walk A Week Copyriant, 1914 A M Presently he said n a radius of twenty ty there are dorer that rent market garden ‘onstitutes a scale Jclubs milex| 1 did nome moment “With of t Chin trac rapid the thinking while collecting ring and the 1 don't know why I did ft ed the ring on my finger ed to the ball where the neld made partial round when I came upon an man carving in ivory that I was alone be nnd the old man been looking for me he muttered at once. Shut oon. I come for you.” Just then a crowd of young peo- ple came by and | turned away. Bcarcely had I done so when | ran into Stub. The wight of bim put an Idea into my head, and I kept him talking while I serfbbled on the back of t note that had brought me here. “1 want to give a plain. clothes man a note from me, and tell him to get it to the chief of police or to Struber as quickly as be car bs hat's » compante large of land for ing. Kach of there Chinatown on a small By trying to put myrelf in La Wing Fu's place, it belief that he may be found at one of th little Chinatowr Don't fo get—he wants that ring more anything in the world famond perhay were 1 pt rtain he would ture before many days bad Miss Fox will fer nd rm, for the present, at | .” Vith these slight crumbs of com fort 1 was obliged to be content retain only the haziest of leaving the police none at all of my prog to the San Gabriel Club. clear recollection is the club entrance and somebody touching me upon the Then, as I wheeled round, fingers #lipped down my arm to my own hand and pressed some. thing Into it Quick! 1 turn was disappearing in the shadows of the eucalyptus trees that lined this portion of the street. I noted only that the person manifest! was a Chinaman; then he was gone. 1 opened my hand and saw smal! slip of paper folded once nd ha festiva was being a booth ancient Ch ened nt than elne the and I'm pretty some port next we 1 collec station 8 tion and back My next pausing at arm. on, boss? The place’s been lousy with fly-cops all even. ing. One's behind you right now, pipin’ us.” “Lat bim pipe. I mustn't be seen talking with him; and don’t you go directly from me to him, either. Find a way to slip bim this with- |out anybody seeing you do it.” I handed this to Stub | Am obeying these directions tit- a erally. Just received first sign from I old Chinese ivory carver at ivory opened the sheet and read six booth, who doubtl is to conduct written nes me somewhere m waiting for If you attend the Oriental Bazaar|him. 11:40 p. FERRIS, tonight before midnight, bringing| He darted away. with you those potent charms, the | (Continued in Our Next Issue) ring and the box, but not the police, | When You Learn at thelr magic may find for you the fair white lily. To disregard thi Stevens’ You Can Dance simple directions may caus lily to droop and fade, as | swift fat jas, of all such beav-| tiful, tender blooms when eons anywhere and really enjoy it ! 4") In 1 oF 2 lessons. |W Private halls. n as the person from the stem. CHAPTER XI The Ivory Carver The bazaar in question was being | held by one of the local women’s) 1523 Fourts, Main 2911 OTTO F. KEGEL, General Manager JANUARY > Furniture Sale Offers Unusual Opportunities for Saving Sale Price Twenty-Five Dressers At $19.75 Each Regular prices $25.00, $27.50, $30.00, $32.50, $35.00 and $37.50. Mahogany, bird's-eye maple, old ivory enameled and oak Dressers in all finishes are offered at the special price, each, $19.75. 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