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

The Seattle Sta Entered at Beattie Wash. Postorfice By mall, out of city, one year, $9.60; 6 montha 61. jee per By carrier, elty, 180 @ month MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES ecconG-class matior month up to @ mos SOLD DAILY Pass Rural Credit Bill BY AUSTIN E. GRIFFITHS We have men. We have land, Idle men. 1 would put the man on the land. Our greatest asset is productive land. first. Men of capital chase sunbeams the world over. dle land. Good sense Good sense would use this asset Meanwhile our storehouse of land production remains locked for want of funds. Help the farmer and he will help you. At the present time, and mainly since 1900, about 30 countries have a They give direct state aid Loans are m land productive policy. farming. Cheap lands are provided. to land settlement and ade. Interest rates run from 3 to 6 per cent. Time of payment varies from 30 to 75 years, When the payments end, the farm is paid for. This policy induces the man to stay on the la nd. Cheap money and cheap land enables the farmer to pay his way out of his land. ate There is no country with land more costly to subdue than W ashington. On the west side men are scared at the sight of st their hearts sink at the cost of getting water. We are top heavy with cities where people fe and parasites, rather than live grand human_ beings. food land is left in greater part a picture of desolat ness. umps; on the east side ster and decay like flies Yet our heritage of ion or a howling wilder- If we want our state and COAST’ to be a “white man’s country” the state must aid men to settle and improve our idle The federal rural credits law is splendid as fa state should have a law for the same object, especially this state land. r as it goes. But each British Co- lumbia has one, Oregon people passed one last November, California will soon have such a law. ; Senate bill 25, introduced by Sen. Iverson, is a state rural credits system. It amends the constitution to let the state borrow money at 4 per cent to lend to actual settlers at 5 per cent on 36 years’ t _ improve it. No loan can exceed 50 per cent of the state farm loan system will be wholly self support ' suffered loss from this new agricultural policy. small profits. Dr. Hurty, of the Indiana health board, says that only out of a hundred Americans are perfectly sound be- of typhoid. And typhoid comes from familiarity filth! At -any rate the local customs officials can’t be 4 with international discourtesy. They didn't the captain and crew of the Saxonia until after ship's engines were smashed up. Beware of sham patriotism. Real patriotism means ee, not cheap talk or franchise-grabbing from the The Bone Dry bill was passed without debate in house. If it can cut down legislative oratory, why d anyone be against it? Write to your representative and senator in Olym- and urge them to vote against restoring capital pun- in this state. Many Germans are asking for U. S. citizenship, 3 better than having American councilmen sneak- off to Mexico to gobble up rubber franchises. Have you registered yet? Only the rest of the week Yiother Praises Remedy elieved Her Baby t all the sickness incident | baby’s life is due to constipa-| or inaction of the bowels. At @ first indication of irregularity in this important function, relief id be afforded promptly. A laxative should be adminis- to gently carry off the con-| *| waste and leave the stomach | bowels free to perform their , d tasks. Of the various remedies recom d to relieve constipation, the imple laxative ow 7 Syrup Pepsin, is the most lve. It contains no opiates or nt to the! Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin is gentle in action, and gold in drug stores everywhere and ly brings the desired relief in costs only fifty cents a bottle. To iM easy, natural manner. javold imitations and ineffective Mrs. €. J. Douglas, Mason, Iil.,| substitutes, be sure to ask for Dr. v that she cannot say enough|Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. See Praise of Dr. Caldwell'’s Syrup that a facsimile of Dr. Caldwell's jin as a dependable family lax- signature and his portrait appear Little Mary Eva had been|on the yellow carton in which the ly constipated until they tried bottle is packed. A trial bottle, free i. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, which | of charge, can be obtained by writ- 1 ght the first natural relief the; ing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 455 had had in two weeks. Washington St., Monticello, Illinois. ing—it takes less par ot me packet and puts a j chew into your mouth. No big i _ pocket, no big wad sagging your cheek. “Ha padteord of this rich tobocco goes twice as far as ordinary plug. W-B saves your silver and gives you a silver-lining Teel 4 of h iness hove. You can’t help from telling Mode by WEYMAN-BRUTON COMPANY, 50 Union Square, New York City 4 Hine something curious about W-B CUT Chew- ime to buy land and to value of the land. The ing. No country has yet Several countries have made > COL’ [uM ALMOBT FATAL “She was in an automobile acci dent—nothing sertous—only had the enamel scratched off.” “Her face or the machine.” Judge. ee Cheer up, you bank victims, and think of this poor fellow. After the stork had left twins, Joseph Marcink! of Terre Haute, thought it would visit him no more, but it bas just left triplets ee OOD, ISN'T IT? HUM, JUST A LITTLE rete es Y Chicago chuurea jound more than five dozen minnows in the snow. The only explanation that presented itself is that they rained from the clouds. sehou do“all our banking in the right hip | pocket is that we naver have to fear |for our feet during a rush, eres WAR EXTRA E. D. K, ts absolutely neutral. Sergt. Putnam, it is has placed an extra guard over a lot of schooners, interned in the istock room, in the public safety building. Harry Stahl was seen to receive |a mysterious package early today.) It is believed he got in an extra supply of French sardines, If this is the case, Harry will get | walking papers. A mysterious man, with a black | mustache, was seen going north on | Second ave, in a Ford at 4:34 p, m | today. A close lookout has been kept, | but as yet no submarines have been seen around Auburn. | The food supply at Chauncey | Wright's is holding out well. 2. | CAN'T AVOID THEM | “Don’t you find it hard these jtimes to meet expenses?” | “Hard! Man alive, I meet penses at every turn.” ex. see DID YOU KNOW— The Chinese don't laugh in a | different language than ours. When a fella falla overboard a boat it isn’t falling on the bottom of the ocean that worries him. Aviation is safe as long as you have one foot on the ground. A Byracuse (N. Y.) genius has invented a chair that a person can't fall over in the dark. It is so constructed that when one walks into it the chair tips over on him Crabs and shrimps swim back wards so they won't get anything in their eyes. one ODD, ISN'T IT? DANVILLE, Il, Feb, 2.—George Stunkard, an aged citizen of Sidell, laughed himself to death over a funny story told in a grocery **# Water in which girls will swim at the University of Chicago will be purified with violet rays and per. fumed with violet extract, “ee An Igorrote little boy never gets 4 tanning from his mother because he forgot to shine the back of his | office, One nice thing about us guys who! rumored, | his} CK YARD AND LEFT TO howe AND YELP ALC NIGHT — . SAY, NEIGHBOR, 1 CAMe OVER TO SPEAK ABOUT THE Dos You TIED TO A STAKE IN Your — WELL, SIR, I TURNED THe DOG Loose!— AND HERE'S Letters to the Editor HOMESTEADER LOSES THRU FRAUD; U. S, WON'T AID Editor The Star The seal you |manifest in the well being of our | beloved country prompts me to ask (this favor at your hands. This in brief! A forgery has been committed against the department of state by a U. 8. land commissioner, Binger Hermann by name, at this writing &@ fugitive from Justice, He sent out from the U, 8, land under his own signature, a fraudulent Northern Pacific rail road jand patent to a fractional | Part of section 25, township 9, N R 2 E. This instrument now rests, with the sanction of the U. 8. land com- missioner, secretary of the interior, Yakima cotinty judges, in the hands of a firm of land mortgage brokers. They, in turn, secured permission from Thomas O'Grady, judge of Yakima county court, to send an armed force to my home- stead. I had entered this land, paid the U. &, and received a U. 8. cor tificate. They took down my house, pot me in jail for 80 days and nights, No trial was permitted me, but was turned out on a heartless world without so much as a piece of bread to eat afier 34 years of citizenship. I protest this man, Binger Her- | mann, never owned any of the U. 8. public land he could convey under his own name to any one, and his forgery should not operate against a bona fide homesteader, MORE ABOUT CRUELTY TO INSANE PATIENTS Editor The Star: I know for a fact that three inmates of the Western Washington Hospital for Thoroughness ch nethods in dd our cus. ery cour- teay consintent with sound busl- ness judgement. 4% Sevings Accounts to Check Are Invited. racterizea our transaction, « Accounta Bubject Cordially Peoples Savings Bank SECOND AVE. AND PIKE 8T. [the Insane at Steilacoom were cru elly treated, altho | have only been there to visit My uncle, an old man 78, with a weak mind and a mania for wan- dering away. perfectly harmless, Was buried three weeks after en- tering the hospital On our first visit, and the ONLY ONE while he was alive, as they | Will not let you see any one until they have been there two weeks, he begged us to take him home, We decided to do-so, The next week we received a telegram he |was dead. When he was dresrea for burial, black an blue marks were found all over bis body. If we bad had the monoy, we cert. ly would have reported it Also @ friend of mine was con fined there—a young boy, 25. He was there five years off and on. At times he fs better and is brought home for several months at a time. He is now at the Northern State Hospital at Sedro-Woolley. Me has told us how hard they made him work and cf brutal treatment to himself and others, Tam glad to hear that an inves- tigation is being made. MRS. R. SMITH. In proportion to size, a fly walke 13 times as fast as a man can run The United States has 3,000,000 Jews. | AND SORE FEET | ‘ sa | Use “Tiz” for puffed-up, burn- | ing, aching, calloused | feet and corns. | exeiiie | Why go limping around with aching, puffed-up feet—feet so tired, chafed, sore and swollen you jean bardly get your shoes on or off? Why don't you get a 25-cent box of “Tiz” from the drug store |now and gladden your tortured | feet? “Tiz" makes your feet glow with jcomfort; takes down swellings and draws the soreness and misery jright out of feet that chafe, mart jand burn, “Tiz” instantly stops |pain in corns, callouses and | bunions “Tis” is glorious for |Ured, aching, sore feet. No more shoe tightness—no more foot tor. Whatever your taste in Biscuits may generonsly good. O edatlihd sicdd has EL a Le ah Not Guilty —no indeed! that Swastika Biscuits are more than good for the little folks at all times and during all seasons. And so she always leaves an open package of dainty and nutritious Swastikas where the children can get at them easily. SWASTIKA BISCUITS ‘are no pure and good that countless mothers know them to be the safest and best food for romping, ever-hungry boys and girls. These wonderful dainties are made of selected and tested ingredients, in big sunlit planta under the supervision of Master Bakers who take pride in nothing short of perfection. Mother knows be, we bake @ Swesibe to suit you ex- actly. From our crisp and flaky Snow Flakes and health-sustaining Grahams to Panama Creams, Fig Sultanas, Fiesta Wafers, ete., you will find all Swastthes Pacific Coast Biscuit Company ‘\the children inherited some of his Idealism, Ralston alwaye was writing. Hie dramatic efforts have not ye le about to give up with her matterof. Henry in order to take up work “for unborn generations” — eugenics. Chloe hae broken off relations with her cousin, Alex, a mechanic, and was helping house. The mother, ge, Uncie Henry said, ‘was a wonderful woman. Then there was little “Billy,” too. ‘The family introduced, now go ahead with the story. (Continued From Our Last Issue) An hour up in the green park, with sun and birds and opening earth, took the fever out of her The probable loss of Sabra’s earn ings had at first troubled her, but their mother would manage some way She always managed No doubt some rich old admirer of Sereno Gage would be glad to back Sabra in the more valuable work People never tired of paying honor to Sereno Gage. When she returned to the Mur ray’s garden, Billy wan seated on the gravel nursing @ sleeping cat whore nap must not be disturbed the house to wait After a while jbench againnt the cat's pleasure. she became open window just over her head. Who's the fourth youngster? That ts the Sereno Gage grand- jehfid;” Mrs. Murray spoke with a note of laughter. He is dumped down here rather often—you know \the family way! But Mary doesn’t seem to mind.” | For a moment Chloe sat white jand helpless with bewildered pain |Then terror lest Mrs, Murray |might come into the garden made jher start up “Come, Billy; come home at she commanded, and the sleeping cat was bundled out with a horrifying lack of respect. All the way home, with Billy laboring to keep up, she burled at Mra. Murray her mother's creed of kind ness and neighboriy duty; she pointed to her father's life, given to the cause of all children. “And grudged a little gar |den space to one good child'” she leried. Not till she opened her jown door was she aware of the finshed, anxious face upturned at her side Ob, my dear!” she apologized “The Seed of the By Juliet W. Tompkins~——~~~~~ “Was I bad, Toto?” Billy quay ered She knelt down to comfort Billy! Good as gold! Only grown people are bad,” she added hotly Chloe did not dream of telling what had happened. She covered it up aa something shameful, un repeatable. The house grew very quiet that afternoon Mrs, Gage and Sabra were at the Congress and Ralstou had taken Billy up to the 200. When Ralston's® work had gone well he had a romantic Impulse toward excursions with his little Both alwaya caine back on ge of tears. "No, Chloe on the tasks that fall naturally to |the untalented member of a fam- fly, then, drooping bodily, she went out to sit on the doorstep in the soft new born warmth of the day Seeing her #0, a young man wi had been coming down the block hesitatingly, as tho some argument | blocked his path, leaped the ob letacle end started forward “Well, Chloe,” he said “Well, Alex,” she returned j “I have been thinking about yor jall day,” he persisted, putting out |his hand, “Truly, I've missed you |like the dickens. Can't I come back?” She took his hand, but provision- so Chloe sat down on the stone} re of voices at the} ythat jally. “You're not saying anything jabout having been in the wrong,” she observed, lie avoided that issue. “I was all in the wrong to lay down th |law for some one else,” he said |"Couldn't you forgive me enough jto go on with our Itallan? They were still visiting there on the steps when Mrs, Gage, worn, dusty, triumphant, came marching | home. | “Oh, Alex she greeted him with |her hearty kindness. “Why, we haven't seen you lately, have we? |T suppose you have been too busy | with your invention. Your father jspoke about it yesterday. Don't |stand up, dear children; I'll sit down here and tell you about the Congress. Alex, did you realize some big proportion of the blindness of the world—seven eights or something like that—is entirely preventable’ Sabra was jfine; so dignified and handsome |Of course, Alex, you understand that defectives ought not to have children—any one can see that Sabra is going to get a law passed against it.” Alex was listening with resist ance in every line of his vigorous body. His frown seemed to in in one sweeping disap- , kept down by sheer mus- Righteous” worked for faithful hours | clude Sabra and the andience and| 1918 Copyri«ht “ Merrill Co. by the Bobbs jcular force Some day, Alex, when I am not so tired, you must tell me about your invention,” Mrs, Gage con- tinued. “I might be able to in t t someone in it. I know so many influentlal people, And they would be interested for your uncle’s sake, The world doesn't forget what owes to Sereno Gage.” it ly, you are very kind;” an effect of bittirg off the words; “but I am not looking for any one to push or pull me ‘along. -Good night—I must ron.” His squared shoulders had a fight- ing quality ar he strode away “L never supposed Alex would turn out so good-looking,” said Mrs. Gage. “I hope I can do some- thing for Alex—a word here sad there.” Chloe took breath to speak, taen let it go again. Mrs. Gage was gathering herself up. “Oh, I got Ralston a fine p’ work this morning,” |she straightened a |The old billlard room at the t lof the house. Mrs. Cartaret was | delighted to have it used. Coming in, dear?” The next morning Ralston set out for his new workroom in high excitement. “It is my first real chance,” he told his mother. He even allowed Billy to walk to the corner with him. The statue of Sereno Gage greet- ed him with grave kindness. Billy, who supposed that this actually was bis grandfather and loved him | dearly, ran to thrust his face be tween the iron palings and shout good morning. Raiston looked up at it with self-absorbed eyes. “Some day they may call that mn Gage's father,” he said, then sent Billy bome and hurried on. A few moments | way to the office, Sabra passed the | patient figure. Sabra could remem- ber how the pennies had poured In from all over the country—warm from the little tight fists of the givers—to set up this monument to the children’s friend, Perhaps the chief lesson she had derived from the memory was that money was very easily raised. Today her eye: still saw upturned faces, her ea: echoed applause. “T shall not be unworthy of y name, my father,” she promised. Presently Mrs, Gage came past. her driving soul blocks ahead of |her ignored body. She would not have known where she was if a humble neighbor had not stopped her with a piece of news. (Continued In Our Next Issue) later, on her “‘Anaemia--Lack of Iron-Is Greatest Curse To Health and Beauty of American Women’’ Says Dr. King, Physician and Author Any Woman Who Tires Easily, is Nervous or Irritable, or Looks Pale, Haggard and Worn, Should Have Her Blood Examined for Iron Deficiency. Administration of Nuxated Iron Will Increase the Strength and Endurance of Weak, Nervous, Careworn Women 200 Per Cent in Two Weeks’ Time In Many Instances. THE CHILD'S APPEAL Mother, why don’t you take |NUXATED IRON and be |strong and well and have inice rosy cheeks instead of being so nervous and irritable jall the time and looking so haggard and old. The doctor gave some to Susie Smith's |mother and she was worse |off than you are and now she looks just fine. “There can be no healthy, beau- tiful, rosy cheeked women without iron,” says Dr, Ferdinand King, @ yr to clans on the grave and serious conse- quence of fron de- ficiency in the b of A 7 n. atrongly fact that prescribe ron zed the doctors should more organic nuxated nervous, haggard - patients, means anaemia, The skin of an anaemic, woman ts palo, the flesh flabby. The muscles lack tone, the brain fags and the memory fails, and aften they t come weak, nervous, tr table, despondent and m ancholy. When the goes from the blood 0 women, the roses go from h women white br biseults, macaroni taploca, sage, tna, degerminated cornmeal, no’ longer’ is tron to be found. Refining processes ha moved the iron of Moth from these tmpoverished f ailly methods of home co: throwing down the waste water in which our cooked, are respo grave iron loss. Therefore, If you wish to pre rve your thiul vim and. vigor oa ripe ¢ Ke, you must suppl iron deficiency tn your food by some form of organic just as you se salt your food has not enough salt As I hove said @ hundred times ors, nds, Pye aoe ables are nother iron when using: ver, organic fron is the greatest of all strength builders, If people Dr. Ferdinand King, and author, tells physicians that they should prescribe more organic iron—Nusated Iron— for their patients—Says anaemia—iron de- tron |ficiency—is the greatest curse to the health, strength, vitality and beauty of the , American Woman,—Sounds warning would only throw away habit-form- ing drugs, 4 nauseous concoc- t and ke simple nuxated T am convinced that the lives of thousands of persons might be saved who now die ¥ ear from pneumonia, =rippe r t a“ ened condition ght on by a lack of iron in the i ‘On account of the peculiar nature he great drain tem at certain fron much more than man to help make up for the lors, “Tron is ab able your b living tinue. olutely necessa: f h ng you any good. he strength out of ft, and as a consequence you ome weak, pale and sickly loc ry plant trying to « cient ig tron. If you are no or well, you owe it to your make the following test long you can work or how far you walk without becoming tired don't get pur strer n h you have gained. ns of nervous run- e and entirely rid the! mptoms of @yspepsia, d other troubles, {n from ten to rteen days’ time simply by taking fron in the proper form. And thia, after they had in some cases been doctoring _ for without ob- taining any But take old of reduced fron, iron acetate, months or use of metallic iron which may injure the teeth, cor-| rode the stomach and dol far more harm than good; advises use of only nu. lated iron, tincture a few cents 1 by Mother red coloring blood of her not that kt must take can be ea of iron simply to save The iron demand Nature for the matter in the ehildren ts, alas! of iren, You nin a form tha ly absorbed and as- me York physician ‘modern against edy "for nervous, manufacturers lave rious organic aad all g00d you You can tell the women with plenty of iron in their blood- <e\: beautiful healthy rosy cheeked ‘2.5 women full of Life, Vim and Vitality similated to do you any good, other- Wise it may prove worse than useless, “I have used Nuxated Iron widely d in my own practice in most severe aggravated conditions with unfail- ing results, I have induced many other physicians to give it a trial, all of whom have given me most surprising reports in regard to its great power 4s a health and strength builder “Many an athlete and prize fighter has won the day simply because he knew the secret of great strength and endurance and filled his blood with iron before he went into the affray; while many another has gone down in Inglorious defeat sim- ply for the lack of tron.” Dr. Schuyler C. Jaques, Visiting’ Surgeon of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, New York City, said: “I have never before given out any med- teal information or advice for publication, as I ordinarily do not believe in it, But so many Amer- ican women suffer from iron de- ficiency with its attendant {lls— physical weakness, nervous irri- tability, melancholy, indi flabby, sage’ —and ' in consequenc weakened run-down condition they are so Hable to contract se- rious and even fatal diseases—that I deem it my duty to advise such to take Nuxated Iron, T have taken it myself and given it to my patients with most surpris- ing and satisfactory results, And those who wish quickly to. jn- power and arance Will find it @ most re kable and wonderfully effec+ tive remedy, OTE-—Nuxated prescribed and recommended above Physicians in such a great variety cases, is not & patent medicine or ret remedy, but one which ix well nh to druggists and whose tron natituents are widely prescribed by: ninent physiciang both in Europe America. Unlike the older inor c iron products it {# easily as: does not injure the teeth them Iron, which is in nearly Y run down conditions such great conth 1 tron, that they cannot ta ho lacks tron er cent or over Kded they have no se trouble. ‘They also offer to re if tt does not at least double and endur in ten days time, 1 in this by Owl Drug Os. rugelata, 5 | y