The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 6, 1917, Page 4

Col. Roosevelt has again found speech, after a comparatively long period of silence for him. He goes ham- mer and tongs after President Wilson. Omitting his characteristically free flinging of those short and stinging words, there is one topic on which he cannot say too much. And that is the subject of universal ; We cannot afford to forget the prob- lem of national defense. We cannot risk keeping quiet on that. Whether we like Roosevelt or not, whether his tone is right or wrong, whether on most things or on many things he talks too much, on this one topic he cannot say enough. For more than six months the Hay bill, designed to give this country an adequate system of defense, has been in effect. It provided for the increase of the Ave. Near Caton st. | “NEWSrArEns| or scnires | NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF eee || SEEEGESGSSSSESSRESRS | SEGUDIDITORIIETIERGSEETSTTT TWINHNUMGGMinnnannain inet (inte @ cab and was driven to the . ania Errsrtry only haven he could think of— ‘Telegraph News Se Service ot the Unites Prese Aesoctation ; only (Continued From Our Last Issue) |tune smells o © wrest from the remote and 4 tattooed the sy e Mar-| Steve bad stolen the diamond, the er Hardwick’s residence—must Entered at Seattic, Wash. Postortice as Second Cla Matton Paaperciggesetany ib vienna tie. t ar but inaccessible lamasery of Tao-fu, | 1an’s throat, his to/fact that it had not since reap-|all be passed over. Mall, out of city, Ibe th up {0 ¢ mea: @ mes 11.90; year #40| one who promised to respond to pt During the first days in which er a ed argued that he had hidden | The letter, of course, had been . @ month lit 1 was at the exped or what remaine o, where taken to Steve, and Steve would Daity by The Star Pub! Privete| learned t Y t Steve had to light out o° Hongkong of at Tao-fu, Lao wa ames Strang ight he knew here the diamond had been say nat Lao's There's sc parts o' China where ‘amas with all the connection with the Hard Ther ¢ Hardwick's ma- him, to! " r t ed an Sam his nding as a Tao-fu f he was kept informed |chine was pressed into service and - = sith ——-—— = Steve's che Willets; b for the most part I'm jeader entitle to. Thus he t Lois and me a guard of private detectives fol- — , na had given J trang had je opportunity to perfect innocent came to America, Los An. | lowed me to protect me from Steve e Want No Usury! of the langua Major Hector Sylvester was a a plan of seizing both the ring and little party wa within a zone geles, and secured a room at th ie his following of Hop Sings. “i . cadet ata ! neve od 0 of safe Rey ic, on an impulse registered And at last, when he had about i fact that 15 per cent is more than the legal rate of interest h never | the diamond. afet 4 is enough Gohacn in itself, w the legislature should repeal and custome t € hi mn Ul the Masquerading as one of the In. When, with the 4 bis true name, then boarded a car | Made up bis mind that be was weil r Re ‘ edition. T eters © y fellow wh - 1 u for San Pedro. | enough to leave bis retreat and pay the usurious penalty imposed on those who are unable to meet . . pon ahaa Bedi onge oes oe ae tele me the long deferred call, Strube: tax payments on time race whose ou when the two 6 was a nkilled carver in ivory—mone and Strang were tr Among the hills on the old home hat te rote erred call, Struber Low AW rr of t a nspects he assumed as a d ase for me other than present old man | him of his share in place was a certain ravine; in that | "4¢@ found him. But there are many more reasons. R. W. Hill, member of the leg. ¥* p a “ ™ v Teel i this w th 1 " t ravine was ac e he instant w Committee of the Seattlo Real Estate association, has 6 gule Big natty Wor bad encountered @ ® bazaar solved to retaliate by placir ravine Was a cave Ww . in the old Pi re 9s beaaasovage oH bebe ite 9s follows Even with the ad on, I'd been hearts (who was set to manufacturing 4 Hector Sylvester's daughter beyond had been known only to bis e ou Face rol "a ) “The present law is a relic of an age when conditions were en-!ed out, however, ! je of a big diamond | number of replicas of reliquar reach of whomeve t brother and himself: in one of the " re puntable agitation. e si colt at was sald t romewhere UD | in which the ring was kept. Whe ted in settling { Tave's rough walls was a small con-| "4 oward the door. ely different from those of the present time, Interest rates 20 fare bag Bey it aaa beet twas Gaathaned! Gan ae tuple tain Red tiie . cenled niche that “haa Bs t “Where are you going?” I asked, &g0 were about 12 per The present plan was enacted for {al ass eS aera prog A cecal ebay a hoon he ate and finding his be . eee eee eee tet | oid whan une 464 nat eee Protection of Investors, at a time wt real estate was hard to| Was & , h stone ceeds tec iar 9 Age oat: Steve Willets’ fight with the) © . ayo tre vn teen re | know you really do not intend go- Upon. It was intended as a temporary measure. ons secret « ees ferent messengers Leo geen stolen diamond fell in admirably many a tim ¢ during the period of ing ‘a all-enywhare. Yalan eee SUMTE tie ao not exist in other states. Tho Iaw places 8 pre st ail fap hoping gatiennrered pore ne | with Lao’s plans and, incidentally, heir youthful maraudings and ett down—here—pleama) 1 On Wealth, and a penalty and privation on owners of land who‘! t ne borg ees Hh | with Steve's, Steve was not averse He went straight to it, thrust a pointed to her chair. | , Pe 1p noth-|country over as many different ito gett) c hi hand Into the reces: a dre’ . fm distressed eonditions There was at least one of these the ity | rostes, thelr purpose being te keep Betting possession of what he “= S _ # and drew out)” She came slowly and paused with | “Large profits are permitted to be made by speculators, from the|~-the Hop Sings—-that wan ard. I was the parent 6a ‘a false trail as long ooked upon as another rich prize,|® #mall package which once had /tne desk between us. Mes of the poor. Whatever profits are made (if any) from wholly 1 author inlet ageie toe the Heeeioae lan aeenaan : cecenleny Whe 120 was Willing to | Teen HEMIy weaned Molise SR] von eee ae {Interest rates charged on delinquent taxes, should be made by |tty. It was pecullarly fitting that boarding with a friend o'| up, oe Mahe wat ga feces all Sxpenaes of his and | aside it reposed the diamond. {that she sald in a low, constrain- * county, for the benefit of all taxpayers. these thugs should have furnished med Late Chane agro mp om a as ir — ae Pace x: igrape to America,| Ho crawled out of the cave, and/ed voice, not meeting my look. i" “ " fant nd lent bi t auey J mond in Strang whimesically | whieh tneluc ‘0 eco “ se Te" « D> “Under the present system, buyers discriminate carefully, so that | Steve with an asylum and lent bim ight Luey came to ™y|Osserved, “idoked like poor pay for Mart re u et @ nurse for little a « et nd later came face to face Oh, haven't I!" I retorted. “My pot worth taxes revert to the county. If the county must acquire | their ald. , dan tare wee @ Sen 5 ke poor pa | jan, who was now nearly three | with—not a Chinaman, as at first! peautiful dear, your last defense tracts by default, {t might as well handle the whole, But in the end Lao found re eo tell trying to get out o' that hornets’ | years old. he had believed, but Steve, With|bas been swept away. You see is by enge for the ¢ ngrati op who mi; - M4 nest. But, by heck, I did ft! Three! Then shortly followed Lao’ ‘ fue. * venge for the aw's ingra ‘iy Mamone Tl 7 y ao’s own a roar of fury, the disguised fugi-| how fragile it was—a rope of sand. “Che present system acts as a deterrent to the purchasers of planned, w the aid of a eae gp I A ~~ See rai pt egg = culties and his hurried | tive plunged at him, and the quiet, | 1¢ frightened me like the very a - a Sin, ne . Meanwhile o was havin, flight to America. ecluded in " | “ ‘and real estate investments, and consequently prevents thrift. none re Lao Wing Fu.’ says Luey.|nands full persuading the lam Teer ines Woes Das HES [rgety meth yin Meer the scene » While you were in "It keeps from the state capital, and perhaps population one eee 1 already k > 08 Gl esat he wae bi 5 ae (ia dc lusts aheat : y bh f rrific combat. “The experience of other states has proven that ft ts not necessary ee aghieng pretty shrewd young chap Who'd sioiung of the ry of itsly cs deme Pag pmo sans |... The very flerceness of Steve's on-| “I am Miss Marian Sylvester,~ t ore ec a ec a , n yor te . . e uJ se slaught, how r, t % aw voice. ll exact heavy penalties in order to make collectio members ngs with your father | se-red relics lditaae abled We Wat of enmiaas ght, however, defeated Its pur-| id in a weak voice, “of—of. “The proposed jaw offers a remedy for the evils of the present | | Thus {t was that every member|tion, “so be seized every acrap 0° | poe, pen eee nurtling Leng piace 28 te vd he beagle "3 . e seised ov » 0" | down the incline, and before | mee!” said I. “You can without endangering the credit of the county, without prevent. 1 heard in one} o¢ the party, except Lao and three |his personal belongings he could lay | aon, “2°, Stee? i { oe b ! b ke Steve, t ea @ the county from promptly meeting obligations, and without impos , ut_ my in of the five he contrived to save two bands ce Asieuee "thee py . e a our Sm no longer dismay me. deat. | You ‘@ burdensome penalty upon delinquent taxpayers. | room Lao and bis toc os i. we by sending away with the boxes,| were two o' the ivory boxes, one| again, he had W nm the highway poe | the my Ife.” r elp me lain by the frens " 4 had wo \ ¢ b ¢ mm e. been Fr sible for my were slain by the frenzied priests. | containing the ring, which Peter B , } © somethi: oe : the open, where the other 7 Our eyes met, she la — Is all this graft discussion to go on without even a [automobile ride, the ranss him t mething | 1+ was tree that Major Syivester kept: I got the other, wt lnot press him. 6 epics Anak sink pteiyws preg the of . * entrusted his daughter to Lao Wing pt ry ~ “i ome? . oe sper from Dr. Matthews? Can't be possible. | ey -lhe vig i meas be thls. auuaitng (Qin | Gene’ arcana Gaetan pep ieeeos rogyreyuniatasn and al As a result of this narrow escape, |the most beautiful music In the Gaaud tate ¢ a asked him. ‘It's at Ta | omergency will leap at the -only ral years elapsed before Lao | St?#2& Was obliged to remain under | World. Her lovely countenance’ Georgia remains the banner lynching state, with 14 — a , as gotting , however & s, of & way Fu was able to bein a ped cover at San Pedro until near night-! Was transfign ured. Pea a long 4, in 1916. might as ’ a Ime | 2. nursing his braised body jPause she whispered ¢ of a total of 5 in i » North Sole i= anu ahah Wks atiawek | ae okae a When he started on bis return to} ‘I shall always—I hope—be Lois * i n talk of the Engtish | ¢o tell in his own language the most! prison fc a > w | Los Angeles he discovered that he} you If we were Turkey, we'd throw a fit. Germany | sae ee ng an explor etl ese lecios: ee of all | Rts se me i r Lac te nable to | was surrounded by a veritable cloud| My desk has been described asa inks it well to give up her old peace treaties with Tur- | - peenenay Lao said he "Where any white man would| Steves ond Game a for who, of | of Chinese Choe Incbomeihae sani cal io. , before stating her peace terms. hae straight that if the edition een as helpless as the baby|course, was now Mrs. pedo ® It was too late to find mo at my| Upon It—somewhere about the cen- porte eve arted ter would be in been thrust on him, what/and no longer living in San Fran Can; SOG De Srentes Sram eer cee te laeain eo Seapor me — : A P . cor r his wife had big darn Chink but dellb —— om “| with the diamond in his possession, | by leaning toward each other, we Villa is moving on Chihuahua, which means that re orers ete agenrgg : ie He could not even open his door|@iscovered that we could ‘kiss is moving elsewhere. Every day is moving s not Steve trying to mur-| nue they were Pd gy Se focal » by and by | put seeing a Chinaman some-| ross its top without the least dis- rs P . ‘ © that made me light out,”| 2. nere 2 to Tao-f : i Se ae ace grow | ¢ comfort in Chihuahua. i ’ ge where close to Tao-fu . ple o Jyade wom to be bs in the hall. Ont of this pre- day, ABs Strang began his story. “It wna you want? I by.s2"|abecace thats Gen babies aa’ belir oe bine Or ; nent grew the idea of mailing! we ris Se ee this way y father was a renter , camo increas »pportu lthe a " . fhe diamond all this time was “ogy ‘ . the diamond to me and accompany The man who does not profit from a mistake does not m @ tract o' poor land among the f » women and the baby 10 his quest y | i » act o' poor la among thi i this. Illestriogs One . uM wit letter of ‘’ safe in my deposit box, I ultimate- _know ds cue. ra chaars hile about Log Aceeoe| cea ustr crates r the ho} je o' making | stata arp had been spreading not | sr di a letter, of proineation, ly sold it, and the fortune it — —————|Steve an’ I'd Just about reached} »arty | want it. Your ¢ Chuen country, | alone among the Pacific Coast and o| brought netted over $40,000 t rote . starts I wa o 0 years went by be | othe > ni wei soon as it was possible for him to 4 over ' each ore wht when wo both fell in ltriendship w an Ferris ca a that Lao Wing “t Ps a9 Ine y ecndith ns, it | 2,20 hs oe ee ee love with a pretty Mexican ¢ leet me 1 nt ete pea a changing conditions, ow he 8 = EN He paused and chuckled reminis-|froy the d a tereeereyee. sad wos u. an’ it was my | was once more coming Into its own | How be was pscauited. ant THE BND. cently. “Gosh! I've even forgot| "Smit Gnunt tom it any, | SCRmP Of & brother who brought me |in China. Lao ank made it ‘im-| "% tj her name, But at the time I thought] ner et tannins make it easy, t Hongkong, He’ ative that he recover the sym.| A ‘on ime of the har name, But at the time I thought | Hatt edict rom ol"ot ae anion entcen|| Su ap and lit out 5 , ne at the time of the I drifted to China, but for the!’ tre sat studs a bit: then t ay ula other's Might from China, an |past six years I stuck pretty| answer made Bg ee r point in others that v bein Orn Cocoa |close to the St Bettlements.| usher made ait up an’ pa 1 had just 4 ac k from | ca el left to the disposition ears. I've made my if I do #ay Pepa ; ny . where it had} chance. | | jare things in this world t ¢ ‘ > =" ————————————— it myself, I'm one o' the rich, 1n-| then eae ‘ un 1 But Peter B. Ferris was dead ha . © great ved now to find Lao Wing : fluential men o' the as cl ate | ined n ing {and what had become of the rir Ss ‘ood np pro — hile DR enh ee el ket tho stone, an’ divide| Occurred then Charley Yen's death, | Its My wan r "7 — Site. Glitamoe with ter tithes i h ds among three instead! and the trail was indicated to him,| fra, Elizabeth Reuther, 1002 11th esome and nour about in the moet natural Not ash Mo re @ pretty big | o four, poor Sylvester being out o | tho for a time he hesitated to ap. W. Washington, D. C., Standby {maginable. Both men were| SUM Among the Tao-fus,’ I said, ‘can | our calculations. Proach me, and did not do so until! writes: “I am pleased to endorse € 2 hope to succee uch | bs > _ y ‘old | ot r ’ er é ishing as itis delici young enterprising [You SYSE hops (o> naooeed tn:auch a] | “Iao was st Eakin) Bere. told! obilged to Peruna as a splendid medicine for| for g . had a knack of digging up oppor- 7 : iors pam 1 eS: eee With true Oriental patience and | catarrh and stomach trouble, from EMIMETA | tunities for financial profit, and] There is much,’ he says, ‘that Your tath i ah started from |impassivity, Lao bided his time. | which I suffered for several years, | Walter Baker & Co Ltd. PMMA [ho had the time: my father's time| must remain unspoken between me| Hongkong with the diamond. He|The fact that the diamond never | took it for and at} Cold. ow oy 7 wan cele b an’ you. Taofu is far out o’ the|an’ I arrived safe an’ sound, but| appeared b "e , ESTABLISHED 176Q DORCHESTER, Mass. R((\| was pretty well taken up by his| an | a Re : fe ni appeared between the time of its ind of t! found my health ‘J business, but he had some capttal,| World to be the fource o' spi jthe diamond was missing. So was/joss and t meeting between Lao | wae restored and have feit splendidly which Strang lacked Besides,|uidance for the Thrice-bl aos ’ : and Strang at Johore Bahru in No-| ever since. I now take it when I con- Those who object to liquid e father never learned. to speak| One's children. I hold a commis- While we were pretty certain] vember, had prepared the minds of , and it soon rids the sys-| medicine can now procure Peru. Chinese, which, Strang told us,| sion But this must remain &| Saxe was eco in oF stone's | each for openness to conviction re catarrhal tendencie: na Tablets, ni ‘Steve and I picked up a@ easy as| secret between us loss, we always half-way believed | garding the other's innocenc NEW PANTAGES MATS., 2:30 NIGHTS, 7 AND 9 BEGINNING MONDAY AFTERNOON THE RED HEADS” Merry Musical Comedy, Featuring WILLIAM K. SAXTON Mile. Verna Mersereau & Co. In the Beautiful Dance Pantomime “A Romance of Old Egypt” Other Big Acts—10c and 20c RRA RRR eens GUARD INADAQUATE! WE MUST HAVE UNIVERSAL TRAINING! THE SEATTLE STAR. A Novel STAR—SATURDAY, standing army wail National Guard forces. Our militia system, which never got much sympathy from professional sol- diers, was smiled upon with favor by the politicians. “Make the militia service attrac- tive,” they said, “and young America will respond.” That was the way they went about it. Pay for enlisted men and pay for officers was provided. It’s about time for the first pay day, but the militia of the country hasn’t blossomed. And there’s a pretty good chance that our revamped national defense sys- tem, as provided in the Hay bill, will emulate the morning glory. General army staff officers are reporting un- favorably on it. The militia didn’t stand the sun on the Mexican border, and former defend- ttt: Semmens mummers ext Week “Overland Red” BY HARRY HERBERT KNIBBS ‘*Knough,’ I says. ‘I'll got word to Kwan Ferris at once.’ rin’.” | Wing Fu, the two learned to know thru various business deals.| “Six days later Peter B, Ferris, | ‘For several years, while I was) lao Wing Fu an’ I were sitting making Hongkong my headquar-|with our heads together in my ters, | was still Samuel Willets.| room 4 But, ke the bad penny he was,| “Well, the upshot o’ the whole Steve turned up, an’ about the/ thing was that when the expedition firat thing he does is land me in al started Lao an’ I went with it. It peck o' trouble with the British he got t diamond, the four of us, authorities, It was a matter o’|includin' Major Sylvester, was to oplum running that I needn't go|bave equal shares in it,” into here more than to say it was| $ the firat lot I ever shipped to old | tion in Beet Hardwick at Honolulu. Hel|ume, but used to run it into Frisco in the| myself to hold of his old schooner, the Mary | neces Kenton. That was a good many! For nturies the Tao-fu lama- years ago, but see how all these|sery had been the shrine of the things are mixed up together. Mary | sects most sacred relic. This was was the daughter o' Beef's partner,|a ring of great antiquity, which tn Anthony J. Kenton, old-time | reality was nothing more than an # narrative of the expedi Tibet would fill a vol 1 am obliged to confine those details that a y to make everything ¢ Frisco merchant, an’ she married | ingenious instrument for making Beef. She was Me Jassassination safe and easy It mother. Anthony J seef found: | was venerated in a phrase that sig ed what is now the Kenton-Hard- | nified he Kiss of the Silent wick Company, Beef an’ old An Death "and whenever a victim was thony's both cashed in long ago; |marked for punishment, Bearer but I own nearly half o' the K Jof the Kiss” was chosen by ton-Hardwick stock, besides looking | sent forth to carry out the after the Eastern end o' the busi-|of the order ness. It was this ring, investing its But the point’s — this’*—he| possessor with leadership, which chuckled: “Meyer Hardwi for-! Lao Wing Fu had been empowered SSK OY Be HEAL EN JAN, 6, 1917. PAGE 4 ers «te lost iinet out hope. Yesterday some troops in Texas went marching to the song, ‘‘We Want to Go Home.” Our own signal corps, at Calexico, would like to come home. The governor of the state has asked the war depart- ment to send them back. The National Guard, even tho in such excellent shape as in this state, has proved inadequate. What, then, the answer? IT’S UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING. The American people must sooner or later come around to Roosevelt’s viewpoint that those who enjoy the priv- ileges of the democracy must shoulder its obligations equally. Our national de- fense is at stake—and universal train- ing is our refuge. The Star has consistently pleaded for universal training, believing that it is both democratic and a national ne- cece mnnianeseal ternetaeeienaan PAL AAPA ARAL LLLP PPL PPP cessity. With sister papers, it joined in sending Charles Edward Russell to Switzerland, and he sent back a series of articles explaining the Swiss system of universal training. \ os Again The Star urges its readers to i think soberly on this vital problem. ’ “The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack,” Fathers, mothers, sisters, wives and sons of Seattle need be thinking of this step. It may be that your boy, who now sits on the floor with a pile of blocks between his legs, will face future in- vaders with a rifle at his shoulder. He should not be a unit in a mob. He should know how to be a soldier. And it’s time we took definite steps to train him. WE MUST GET IN THE MOOD FOR UNIVERSAL TRAINING. | | T thinsatassesmeagey | dragced into an when he went forth to hunt a letter-box; how he succeeded in dropping into it the By Charles Copyright cM A Novel parcel but not the letter, which was E. Walk taken from him; how his assail- Fg PON xbox A Week | aits were finally routed, and him eat self, now seriously injured, crawled Lao was at the bottom of it him—he thought we two had ch jed him out o° his share. jhe held it against us “Bo it came about An'| at For years The two ther picions toward prisoner in San Quentin vassed the situation from this point that thru all r 0 of view, They traced Lois as his | lost, Lao Wing Fu has kept his}qaughter, and from tho first be-| mouth shut about Marian Sylves- lieved her to be Marian. ter.” When Strang wrote I turned and stared at Lots. 1 rdwick Sho erties warning him to be cautious about was regarding me with a wide-eyed, |} ois and when this warning was | frightened look followed immediately by another I heard Strang chuckling in high|from Lao to the effect that Lois’ good humor with himself at the presence might be part of | surprise he was about to spring. mailing scheme a black that threatened all ‘Yes, Mr. Ferris,” he was say-|sorts of dire calamities to Kenton ing, “that's the young lady herself |Hardwick, Meyer Hardwick wy | —Miss Marian Sylvester, of Yalung,|thrown into a panic which wa Tibet—sole heiress to a tidy for-| openly manifested by his blunt di tune in England, that’s been piling | missal of the innocent and unsus. up interest for more'n twenty | pecting girl | years, not saying anything about| Strang and Lao became reason- | her share in a pretty chunk o' erys-|ably certain that tal that’s worth around twenty|the diamond to thousand pounds.” with little Marian | How long we thus contemplated each other I don't know; but both | | Struber and Strang were conscious that the situation was become tin | “1 with a new and potent influ Both grew restive and the al proceeded swiftly to its con clusion Accordingly starting from Lao immediately | resolved upon starting the conspir- | which acy was soon to effect the | scape; a degenerate and | » Steve Willets at lib. | Jerty to pursue his erratic inclina- | } tions, would in time expose what | ja Steve Willets confined could so asily keep concealed trang was in possession of facts that Lao Wing Fu did not have. therefore, Tao-fu, before Lao Wing Fu Tomorrow \HIF 1 to 11 p.m, “ANEW BIG SHOW Don't Miss Seeing the Gordon Bros. 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