The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 9, 1917, Page 4

STAR—FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1917. PAGE 4 ‘FISHING IS HOBBY | ! dential attorney of most of our The Seattle Star (e=/| orf WILMON TUCKER, | “The Mystery of the ct cra a red at Reattia, W etty, one year, my clase matter om month up te @ mes hae : | “Mr. Lester,” he began 1 | derstand that you are the admin |trator of the estate of the Inte Philip Vantine?’ Boule Cabinet” BY BURTON E “EVENSON WHO DEFENDS GILL Copyright, 1911, by Burton 1. Stevenson Our firm I corrected ltitminaiicada And on his last trip to Europe, from which he returned only few . d ©, he purchased of Armand 4 v (Continued From Our Last Issue) ] examined the bottom of the table jaye ag r he Ww P I Ss for the CHAPTER VII minut but again wit t result & Son, of Paris, a Boule oe on ki e ropose ron rosse Preparations it * him with breathless : ceo is rare you actin ‘ Ht e The next morning I went over| interest, but no hidden spring was | *stonishm 1 7 avr toed Kaiser ’s U S Senators the whole affair with my tner,| touched; no drawer sprang open ae ae an ; ne nae, Mir, Royce, ax soon an be ched|no poisoned fangs descended | o ng for aieian . : bs r , ra ig : ee off! fee Dray He ast the rest of the] 1 de know "what it was—for 1| lady whom, se the present, we will JONES, Washington. WORKS, California. day arranging the papers relating| was conscious of no nolse—but| al! Madame "| 2p ; a iS. lows to Vantine’s affairs and getting|#ome mysterious attraction drew| vant! ach CLAPP, Minnesota. CUMMINS, Iowa. a tceas sh erepata, “Parke |it 1 to the window at tho far | cabinet.” I sald, explaining the mis > IN I ak TENY J « alled mo ce or twice for in-| ther side of room. Near the| take made in shipmen LA FOLLETTE, Wisconsin. NORRIS, Nebraska. middle of the afternoon, came the| Parks had put in place, was a small|t© my client seeing this cabinet r Eh cablegram from Paris which I had] semi-circular opening, to allow the| Mr. Lester : KIRBY, Arkansas. LANE, Oregon. almost forgotten to expect | passage of a little light, perhaps, | wt was my turn fo he aitate Mr. y J 4 J ‘eaten’ : . ng thru this opeal ope | Hornblowe said, finally, “I w O’'GORMAN, New York. VARDAMAN, Mississippi. hoyee & Lester, New Work: | 4,.|two eyer—two burning ever, © * | be frank with you. There fs a cer TONE iss i Jodfrey , | tal it ding this cab STONE, Missouri. ceedingly. Our representative will| : jodtre I waid, in a shaking Ey wre GO cane at bean be a call to explain. | Yoles, “don't look up, but there is ; re { whould ohtent , “se 5 agains “Armand et Fils.” ome one peering thru the bole in| to solve. should not object to Now, mark you, what these men did was not to vote against Bo there was an end of the ro-|'%e shutter opposite us.” Pirgtnn hey Fo By title g the president the authority to arm American merchant mance Codtrey had woven, | |, Vedfrey passed ble hanGhorchiet| 1 PTs det knowing. why a i i Pe ¥ such ac , tap | Seaube Soren an ly to ex.| Wished to do #0, You will remem Wships. That would have been bad enough. But such action would o'clock |!eaned forward, apparently to ex-| Wished to do so, You will remem: » the legs of the cabinet “I've engaged a table at a little | #'r ot have been utterly indefensible, because such a vote might have Oe an ee ania hime he auld, Or, rather, | Of WB abe te interested tn 1 > se sed by a frie of|1l saw bis eyes, Rathe: co| “Lam quite ready to tell you the presented the sincere convictions of the senators so voting. “It ta managed by ‘friend (of | sa es cecaliamne Pe at Tt would have been an un-American vote, a cowardly vote, but [PT did. Indeed, the dinner was go| | “They're a tigers eyes," 1 xaid,| Zou have beard. Uf you estes, We 7 i j A 004 demanded undivided) With ¢ fetic 1 3 ne X. to #6 e ustifiable on the ground that there is consistency even in coward- S908 jee St Comanaied - wail ition | eet Yee tg bee tia Cabhnet Sc senres i H g of . > it senate “nNtime | a 4 te an » cleare| Ahead with ‘ fle he ‘ery we assented ce. What these men did was to refuse to permit senate sentiment |was on. the table and the cigars] thead with thie while thand’ the| “My client,” he began, “is a mem- . we'd both be dead an in-| Der Of & prominent American fan t ly—a mort prominent far favor of President Wilson’s armed neutrality proposal to express jness which had brought us to “94 | gether. *] f. “Anything new?” 1 asked, as we You mean he'd kill ust” arta gfaeres «<i eoedingrhis rely 3 $ . co ate r > oo m back 0! t He would shoot 1 ” rench nobleman They were able to do this because there is no senate rule which FEE Pan ONT chairs, cortance,| Icoulda't help tv--I glaneed egaia| “TRMs noblowss bas Teen both ibits unlimited debate ; |The man at the morgue bas not) the windc Litre aed ya Be et gs ei: apt Y . : a d been identified, In the first place, He's gone!” I cried + a oe ee 7 This means that so long as there is one senator able and willing ' 9 the Paris police have never taken| Godfrey was at the window in| Doth hands, At last her trustees is “s . 4 : . bis Bertillon ressureshents.” itwo steps interfered, for her father had been _° on a measure, it is not possible to force a vote on that Wilmon Tucker een koe aot k crteinelt” Look at that!” he said, “ana! Wise enough to place a portion of | “He has never arrested,” | then tell me he isn’t a genius! her fortune in trust. They paid Ht 4 Wilmon Tucker, who le asso y Tucker has one hobby—that’s| Godfrey qualified. “More peeuliar| 1 followed the ection of his |2€F husband’s debts, placed him on ore SIX senators SI gned amanifesto saying that they w anted clated with Judge Frederick [fishing. He keeps his rod im his) is the fact that he hasn't been rec-| pointing finger and saw that, just; *” allowance, and notified his « Te Baueman in defending Mayor | fice and hikes out to the streams) ognized here. Two million people,| opposite the opening in the shut-| ‘tors that his debts would not | | when the spirit moves. | | | aid again.” | Gill against federal booze | He's never been particularly stuck | | De ben cut In I had by this time, of course, D vote for the resolution giving the president authority to defend probably, saw his photograph in/ter, @ Iittle hole |the papers this morning. The po-| the windowpane. erican lives and ships, but were prevented from doing so. graft conspiracy charges, climb- [on criminal law, but has never hesi-| icy para no report of wey wuch Man | That fellow foresees everything.” | Kuessed the name of his client. te > ed to his position in the legal (tated to stand with the democrats ‘ ” aid trey 4 ‘The allowance is a princely We have faith enough in the wisdom and determination of Presi- J} S2.fo.0 Bog aan rr nF AAR OE tt Wilson to believe that in spite of the TREASONABLE AC- He never went to a taw for mayor and was defeated bY 1,190) mented " Te le AS 800M |syut tt does not suffice Monsieur States Distric t) “It's very peculiar. It means one we were going to examine| He has taken 4o selling the objects LIONS of these senators he will tind a way to protect American lives ad ships and uphold the honor and dignity of the nation. awe are not prepared even to consider the possibility that a na- Tucker camo to Seattle when he| | Tucker Defended Munday = lin Now ae 2 was 21 years of age. He had stud-) With Walter Fulton, Tucker help-|ihen, one would think th: of a hundred million people is impotent to defend itself simply [flies 1aw is months at home, attend-|ed defend Charigs ¥. Munday when| (20% one would think that who Now he is president of both Attorney Clay Allen, he made an/of two things—elther the fellow's the State and King County Bar | unsucceswful race for corporation] rieads s associations | counsel or he didn't hav Inet tonight—and he want.(of art with which bis residences mely,| ed not only to see, but to hear, He| are filled, and which are really the here rd everything we said» Lester!” property of my client, since they en Let's go after him!” I cried, and |were purchased with her money who-| without waiting for an answer, 1| About two weeks ago, my client ret rang across the anteroom and| turned to Paris from a stay in Nor ug dark pur any frien | | | school. votes. Like United | y ed normal school at Shenandoah,/he was tried on charges of conspir-| 4, . yme he doc mandy to find that he had almost cause A FEW TRAITORS happen to sit in the sermate. Jia. for m year, Hp studied 18|acy in the government land fraud| vould mate eons tnguiteon ne M the oor which ded | Ta tsa the town home, Atboes The fundamental principle of democracy is majority rule. |months longer after he reached Se-|cases. Allen represented the €V-| “Perhaps he hadn't rented a| 1 opened the front door, leaped | other things which he had taken : > ; “ ‘ ? jattle, and was then admitted to the ernment. |roow,” I suggested. “Perhaps he! the r gz, and stole along the|*4* *% Boule cabinet, which had What happened in Washington was minority rule. |bar.” BNR | ,dwcker te married, bas a 14year-|had. just reached New York, and rg hy wor been wnsed by my cllent as her pri- ishing ls His Hobby old boy, who promises to give Bill ent direct to V: ne's.” | There w n0 Of bt: | vate writing desk. Even if the senators who composed the minority could be shot at J) during we tant 29 yours he has | Shakespeare a. run for writing) “Godfrey's facm lighted. up “omewhero neat at hand|. “There is one drawer, a secret Mrise tomorrow morning for treason, the machinery which they f[}«?t ht nose close to his work, as] poetry, and lives at 2832 Broadway) From the steamer, of course! & burst of mocking laughter. |ar@¥er, known only to my client orth a partner of Ivan L. Hyland I bt to bh essed ch oinpitanie That drawer contained a packet of d for their nefarious work would still have been intact until yes- ete aria Ale Sl | omy ep SA renga ng oe Gcragiane ab leltérs ‘Stich tay elaat te moet y, when the senate agreed to change its rules. | |been ont of France more than ten anxious to regain. days or so, Excuse me a moment.” A Distinguished Caller “My client went to work at once He hurried away, and five min-| The next morning, soon after 1|/to regain the cabinet,” continued WINNER NOT NAMED YET ° BY E. D. K. $10 prize offered by The Star for the“ best Editor Ss Mail } Author of “If You Can't Smile, Gigg! utes passed before he came back, | reached my office, Godfrey called| Mt. Hornblower. “She found that “I ‘phoned the office to send on the telephone to tell me that the| it had been sold to Armand & Son. jsome men around to the boats) aga French: hi |Hastening to their offices, she |which came yesterday, If he was|°°* nehman had been a steer | tearned that it had been resold by & passenger, some of the stewards | °° Passenger on La Touraine. jthem to Mr. Vantine and sent for- fial submitted last week has not yet been awarded. SHE'S FOR PREPAREDNESS umber of good editorials have been published Réttor 8 nkt wathinns” Other Says sa, ehh ‘t | 300 00 hn. pel hn od of 14 feet in| that Freylinghuisen thinks he has|It opened. There was little doubt | Mr. Vantine’s permission to open ate still to be published. No more editorials are {| ,,. yt" Stat:,. Taking oxception | i, pretty hard to work are Tuesday nity deplete whe this Ik so Prat, | “iscovered the nature of the poison | that Vantine's mysterious visitor | (he crawer and take opt the betters. . F }to 3 , . . . 0; 1 to y s Teceived. But it will be several days before the [garding compulsory training Thursday, Sunday, Wednesday, /ably the high prices have something He saya it eer aa ence ne pre ee eed | ar Vantine’s "executor, to Testers is named. | I consider {t no more an tnfringe-| Monday and Friday to do with pushing it down. “| gathered from what he said| This intelligence had hardly been | these letters to thelr owner.” | will recognize his photograph.| A bag belonging to him was be, Ward to him here. So she came There is nothing else that I know | {ng held by the steamship company OVeT OM the first boat, ostensibly to lof,” he added thoughtfully, “except | and Godfrey was going down to see | Visit her family, but really to ask | ment on personal liberty than any ° Now you're talkin’ : boy | 1 f t ' | D that ordinary prussic acid, which| received when the office-boy came! sat for a moment turning this other du y of the individual as part ee ee era pon ‘ is de enough, heaven knows, in and handed me a card bearing | extfeordinary stery over in my and E my ° sae community. m ae coe yr om oh . contains only two per cent of the the name of Sereno Hornblower, | mind ee BP cua tao nana ng armay might pos wee Womb ea merited hast os poison. Freylinghulsen says that; Sereno Hornblower is the confi-| (Continued in Our Next Issue) (3416 21st Ave. 8.) |{mprobably, become a menace, But|® relative, ‘ Sane uae arbeedis dlunetamea a ae SING taxes is often considered a sure method of increasing | with each individual trained for de ned 82 new way of doing it—or rediscov-| financial difficulties. In reality, however, the exact opposite|fense only, | see no such menace SIGNALS TOMORROW ered an old way—eo that It {s oe be true. Indeed, a new dollar of taxes should seldom be voted | We are of a peaceful, not warlike} When you see a man tip his hat jleast fifty per cent effective. In| it eaves us more than a dollar's worth of time or money natu but If forced in self-defense | three times tomorrow afternoon in mS take a concrete local example. Mr. Ordinary Home Owner into war, the better prepared we | front of The Star office, you'll the city of Seattle $20 per year as taxes, What does Mr. O. H. O. are, the fewer of our men we sac-| know the tide is going out. i his $20? One dollar of this goes for garbage collection. In rifice. - ré eta r quicker than if you. put a bullet Swords, city garbage collection has increased our city taxes 5%. We must never wage aggressive| fxactly at 12 o'clock, come out|in Willlamebuth eouet ae td thea his heart.” | estimate {s about $3 per year for private collection war, but I belleve with Charles Ed-}to the front of Rhodes’ store, and {f for vagrancy. He was whot PR eigen “Nothing can save a man, then?” fax increases are so clear a gain as this, however. At the|ward Russell. We enjoy our liber-|you see Doe Proelas start out to in Boxer war, thru arm in Ruseo.|I questioned : | Fate of loss on our municipal street rallway, Mr. O. H. O. will|ties thru our forefathers’ selfsacri-|lunch, you will know {t's exactly | Jap mixup, and lost a leg in Wranes “Nothing on earth. Freylinghul pay about 20 cents per year to keep them going. | flee, and should never suffer them | noon in 1914 ‘nC? | con thinks it is a new discovery. I Proposed bond issues should be considered in the same light.|to lapse thru a cowardly peace.| ‘ eee eee don't. I think some one has dng] & a financial one, and, really, very little else ia involved.| whilo bending every effort toward THE FLIVVER Harvard professor has just an-| UP one of the old Medict formulae. | B city-owned. and-operated market give us, in lower prices, enough a better world condition, where| wel), Pete. put down that pickle; Mouneed that baldness is hered-|Maybe it was placed in the secret | to more than offset the possible cost of establishing and con-|law, not force, shall rule between| sandwich and give a listen, We've itary, Sure thing. Nearly every| drawer, so that there would never other words, if you can get a frac | tion of a drop of it in a man's blood, you kill him by paralysis] Such an enterprise? The grocers have answered this question nations as it now does in city.) cot one of the greate os pad be any lack of ammunition for the} definitely by saying that this market would lower prices enough | state and national affairs poplin te Hoa Rae elaaadbat we aay mechanistn.” / iy affect them | Would Switzerland be better off| day's mena—and that are the fiiv.| The secretary of war says peace| difrey sald, “are you stil!) are two main things to keep In mind when considering tax| today, unprepared, and untrained?) yor | will come to Europe by fall But | bent on fooling with that thing?” One 1s that by working together, eve tho we increase the | She is like a well-trained but peace A cat has only nine lives, but a| by whowe fall? “More than ever; I'm going to We way get some service performed for ourselves cheaper and | {ul athlete, with roughs scrapping | rivver dies #0 much, Buclid him-| ee find that secret drawer, And if} e by the city than we can by indfvidua! action. This is about our all around him. But for a whole the Ty Cobb of arithmetic, | THe POTATO the fangs strike-—well, I'm ready| iy to co-operate effectively. Tho other ts that the downtown own- some respect for his prowess, the buildings and vacant property are strong financially and may give| would not in the least mind dig-|ordinary autor impetus to any anti-tax movement, no matter how beneficial tae, ing their elbows {nto his face, Or | for riding arot tion may be to the people as a whole Iknocking him down and trampling | re ago, if somebody|for them, See here what I made sct, “Potato,” and | today.” son it he would be| He drew from his pocket some 2 refinery |thing that looked like a steel ck of ita lives. An] A few yeu le i# only good| took the st din, but there’s no| Wrote an artic it to the things a flivver can do,| 4 candidate for the r obits him. A MOTHER. make dainty watch|and everybody would push heavy gauntlet, such as one sees on suits) i ts Pp » | for the literacy test lof old armor. He slipped it over! or National Loyalty? Then can be used as | Saag ke J. 4 WHY FEED WAR WHEN jalarm clocks or as pacifiers for ba-| But today everybody in kowtow.| bin right hand ‘SHORT time ago there appeared among the “Editor's Letters” in| FOLKS STARVE HERE? ble {nat to the potato stronger than the| fe ‘5 oe & moment gare, = ¢ par ag x 4 : Even when a flivver is ved | neighborhood kids are to Eddie and|bim, half In amusement, half in ‘The »Y some one 0 Editor The St | | ; t nelf iE Aeetcggaamata ee ee ee | still any longer nd cee Hac Jout, if any member of the family |bis new bike. Why, say, we can| Sorrow. He caught my glance, and | ies wrote, giving reasons for not supporting the country| eo. Proctor hit the nail on tts! thet long, it can be made into remember the gre ey hikers coe gauntlet back into his i ly | kitehen utensils io supply seven| Yodel, “Gro-crees!” as he came up th he is, or should be, a part. Among other things, he made the|!!¢ad when he said that Chas, K.|“ . E that it was immaterial whether this, our own country, were| Russell “made a fool of himselt.”{&"4 % half famille There will| the back stairs with a pound of| “Well, what ts it?” he asked still be enough left over to make|!iver under his wing and a bushel | quietly the present government, or that of England or Germany. He gave| 4#4in he hit tt right when be said, 006 u sweeper. y spuds @ ag ® s . Pot , hi n - not alone his own attitude, but that of working men in general | gf Ny embargo on all foodatufts,”|* 8904 vacu n we per F “ app pi tae Patan RBar pon ibd ibm ath bid! € f hy feed the war at the expense| a } < a a ; 4 casa fagmont trom a Team sciviae crocidteatipn |Of AZO reat? Tseo by the rapere| TH® moon is getting nearer to| Phy fall out of the basket and fox| He read it with brows contracted ” anks m1 4 sary ovis Y u didn't! “That seems to put met ate ex-Gov. Rich of Michigan: “It is a good thing to be an Amer.|that the people in New York clty | gemeonrigee a RE pee hte oe aes. You hsp Pe by ore photog Soe rere Hiving at this time.” Indeed, what is better than to be an Ameri tae pad food because tt is | Then he came in and headed for|! asked, at last this or any other time? p tho pantry, over would go the bas-| He nodded thoughtfully and hand- fen the time comes for it, world loyalty will be splendid, but! Think of it! Rioting for food in Snow we may show that loyalty best by giving our best to that na-|'" * land of prosperity! wi ideals embody equality, justice and freedom, In conclusion, [ am not in favor} sing over us is the shadow of impending war, and with it come|°f Soing to war at the present and machinations of the stranger within our gates time. If ft is true that the nations ket and the hambles would tumble|ed the message back to me. with an unmusical sound into the| “Well, in spite of this,” he said) potato box. A half dozen of them/|finally, “I am still interested tn} would roll out of the pantry and/that cabinet, Lester, and now let | steer for under the stove, Did you|us go down and have a look at it) fs to be the end if we Americans shall in this hour turn! War are getting hungry, why not scream? No, you did not }ax we intended doing.” the country which gave us birth, or be indifferent to hor fate? |/¢t them get more hungry? Per. Well, we don't want to take the) He sald nothing more until we ‘Away with indifference, with lukewarm loyalty, with peace for|!8?8 - thelr attempt to satisfy joy out of life by recalling them| stopped before the Vantine house, | fe's sake! Back from the past comes that ringing question of Pat- pee hunger they would forget to |times, but ain’t st ? But to-| but [ could see, from his puckered | “Is life 60 d OF peace so sweet as to be pu ‘of chains and slavery?” As a nation, may we volce again his an , ati, Wie? Porbid it, Almighty God!” Forbid that we should submit to ‘™¢ army. Why? T will tell you ins of an allen race or of class selfishness is ts the Canty OF en aniee ment and Christianity? Well, then |let's keep cool ed at the | day focus your glims on the potato, | brows, how desperately he was try-| IT have four boys, but none for | | Ow! fried diamonds, baked pearls, jing to untangle this quirk in the boiled rubles, sapphirés au gratin, | mystery j ete. Sirloin steak, mushrooms,| I rang the bell in silence | caviar, etc., are side dishe | Parks answered it almost tn Spokane federal officials find difficulty in selecting A SON OF A VETERAN, ea var ee rie HeewePpe tay peep to hang convicted murderer. It’s about time the —- aay en sade d States government took a tumble to the fact that Editor The Star: As you are ir lea “the way into the inner| punishment is passe i ies this tate. publishing letters, I wish to have | scat | — ) nh Jord bier I see — Need Attention in March or Face| “Well, there it 1s,” T said, and| ee ve condemned Mooney Sa ' Maybe our flag has disappeared from the Pacific but ; sabes, Hong Bs are die = é i May Stay Covered, nodded toward the Boule cabinet, fiotice that the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. earned 83 | killed some people with a bomb Now is the time to take special| standing in the full glare of the) cent last year, flag or no flag | And yet our government compels| Dr. J. R. Binyon Carpe ie cennresron it Zo WinMiMene, It Ht WO IAs tO Btve i ’ 4 . oy |{t. to look well the rest of the year,| up, Godfrey.” | * oar people to go to war and kill people FREE |The March winds h “Oh, yes, it is," 1 1 and calls it patriotism / nds have a strong | 1, ve he said, coolly, Washington reports extraordinary earthquake shocks What kind of 8 crasy world are : | tendency to bring out freckles that| removing Mis coat, It was too 00 miles away. We hadn't heard that Teddy had even | we jiving in? And also, that mur xamination A | may RAY all Bummer unless re. | late Bs anata you tola me that d 4 hevink enean at roved ‘ow is the time to use| story hy ester, if 1 gave it on that trip. de ing spre9 at Kverett; they are| = 2 50 eeneens othine—double strength |up, I should ‘never sieep again! —— c e the rea ore » BOC EA This prescription for the removal, He adjusted the steel gauntlet} A pacifist would try to dodge a flood by hiding in | {ree and ae the notte Wl eee viapecpab, Wbcthe’ thm |of freckles was written by a promt-|carefully to his right hand and sat cellar. Reta : arty |atores in the Northwest that Hy; Hent physician and is usually so|down on the floor before the cab: PHUAP CART 519% King at lmrind lenses from atart to n| successful that It is sold by drug-| inet These are frontier days for all the world, and the - on »,| Slate under guaranteo to refund the| ‘I'll begin at the bottom.” he| money if it fails. Get an ounce| said. “If there is any spot I miss, among nations must dance. t 4g |prescribed uni es-|of othine—double strength, and| tell mo of It H | absolutely n STAR WANT ADS jest even a few appli He ran hig fing " stl i plications should an i fingers up and down the mothers’ pension bill remains as criminally BEST FOR RESULTS || BINYON OPTICAL CO, | show wonderful improvement,|the graceful legs, carefully tecling ot justice and right as ever. és tl 1 | xome of the smaller freckles even every inequality of the elaborate % —i Near sene Vanishing entirely. bronze ornamentation, Then ho Ie LA OAR AG OA jain 1550