The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 12, 1917, Page 4

Published Datty By The Star Pobiiehing | The Seattle Star ond-clame matter Der month up to € mow Newepape: Kotered at Meattia, Waah, Posteffion as seoe My mall, oul of otty, one year, 1250; E month, #190) He Ry carrier, city, the a month opyright, 1911, by (Continued From Our Last Issue.) Awor ity. tl wa 12 Senators Warn! Shall the power interests which have been able to dominate the 15th ses- sion of the legislature be allowed to continue their influence or shall the state Madame will remember her despal capital be cleared of them in the making of laws at the next legislature? abn eatared TOR ten 52 Hae Twelve state senators signing their names to a statement, put the situation BP jospair desired with my whole equarely to the public just as the $21,000,000 legislature adjourned. iva che Romane A 5g The senators’ statement was public condemnation of the continuous @ nodded toward the photograph Stone-Webster lobby, which has been able to hold a dominant position in the ff) whlch ly spon the floor, “T told legislature. It was an appeal to the voters to “send to the 16th legislature men Ho questioned me—he learned 0 are above these sinister influences, men who will put public above private J) eveything “1m drawn, how it wae 1t was on hin mind, But on th interest.” It was signed by Senator Nichols, of King county; Senators Metcalfe, she foto 9g He Karshner and Davis of Pierce; Phipps, Johnson and Hutchinson, of Spokane; fii w in all, madame,” she the session.” This is rather an unusual document, Godfrey Weaves a Romance the need bringing close to the public | I had begun to fear that Godfrey Of careful selection of legislators. Will the people heed the advice? pepgek agen reggie dives: }eame at my door that night. 1 | " ——- jhastened to let him tn. Well,” 1 sat almost before he Senate Bill 176—A Gross Violation BY JOHN R. JOHNSTON Everett, Wash. | Was seated, “tell me first how you sy rer es came to be follow nd because I had ' Editor’s Mail | hi Fe AY PLEA FOR J iusrice 3 of th ost impor ts passed by the recent : : One of the most important acts pas ed by ¢ rece Gan ak tues fame Plegislature is the one proposing to submit to the people of the) Herewith ar acts estate the question of calling a convention for the purpose; In the North adway distrt by different three houses were bu rted owne of amending our state constitution the a 1 ¢| burns every Perhaps this instrument may be proper but] Purported owners, In every cas to frame and declare the fundamental principles upon which tracts on these houses lost th In amended, ~ about the firm's answe Our rights as citizens of a free commonwealth depend, and) pay thru tec . law course he did, t aus your “to set bounds beyond which no rash and daring adventurer >” Bates i - sane sa ne. j Far Al peel 1 Blan ire “ean or will be permitted to pass is a work of such tran-| costed, but he Glantna 66 the er this tailows employ: and ot. was | Scendent importance as to cha allenge the ability and integrity )pers was delayed to give the mort-| that conf @ who answered it @f our foremost sociologists and jurists time to file his mortgage. bad trie - known foresaw As a result of the tendency of our modern corporations pers were signed. The/® ot the "Ar ~ pt eg EO overstep fundamental principles, we have an open ste Sad whee | : oi. eel. Ge Fe and flagrant illustration in the passage by this 1, to their great asto accordingly ature of Senate F No. 176, framed to meet special at waa no mone till believe thet the ets in Spokane, but applicable all over the state, author: | von cant ‘e, Phetering Bh t , ‘ de ing two or more corporations owmir or operating street | them futile, ar igments gave nt by the bear lines in cities or their suburbs, to consolidate with, or|pay, T just and logical conc 4 fn because {| ston would be that the houses be| ‘ey bell ved that tt had been pur t, |80ld by the authorities to satisfy al jchased by Vantine—all of which just claims of those who made the| ad b arranged very carefully houses a reality, and put the proy-) 0% the Great Unknown.” tng on those who lend thetr lote for _ me how you know all this, schemes like these to beat the me-|Fodfrey,” T waid chanics. | “Why, it was As it ts, there are technicalities | C&D! of the law which protect the mort sell, lease or convey the same as a majority in interest « the stockholders of the respective companies may see fit provision in this bill being made for the payment of exist ee liabilities to 342 of the road’s “creditor” shareholders, ir rights now being tested in the courts An individual conveying his property under similar cir- tances is guilty of fraud, and notwithstanding our state easy enough 1 a to inves r man went at once to titution, reinforced by supreme court decisions and state |#agees first, no matter what the) 4* mand, pere and he learned a tutes, expressly prohibits corporations similarly to merge, akanis cae — tote’ One por 5 that pepe py os 9 inly a pernte w, , th 807 the representatives in both senate and house voted forlang should be revckaa | hae delice eae And will we allow our beautiful) ¢ ber of the firm knew hing about your cable or the sage of this bill. Ls those who care to investigate the above, I recom-|flag, embiem of loftiest princip! : é ° : , ove ch answer to tt thire ‘4 wnd the reading of the bill itself, also Art. 12, Sec. 8, of our _hebegirthochemer tr @ which ted the pls Ay 4 we hat late Constitution, also 37 Washington State Reports,|” Rather let it be sacredly folded) ¥OU! aderstood, . until we have laws founded (as) > show Art. 12, Sec. 8, of our constitution reads: was intended by the founders of the | tat this cabinet wan by government) on justice and | “No corporation shall lease or alienate any franchise | yong and trusting this DB as to relieve the franchise or any property held thereunder| which not only “rails at the pm the liabilities of the lessor or grantor or the lessee or| but tights for the right ntee contracted or incurred in the operation, use or en-|!t* power for the early er ment of said franchise or any of its privileges.” of a law to right this Bill 176 is not only of local import, but may lead to imilar transgressions all over the state. A lation of the “state constitution is state matter paper wrong, RUB NEURALGIA | AWAY! END PAIN, | Instant Relief From Nerve | Torture and Misery With use ele Orthopedic Hospital i‘ NE of the most urgent needs of the Seattle Children’s! admit the American virgin i isn’t honored as she should be. without { It has the bulge It excels barley grea MOORE? stee.tiais [sco Sc2%. BIG EATERS GET THE SEASON’S catia. one . Raye ry tha - KIDNEY TROUBLE hot In the ro tunda.” If he had been son this couldn't ha him . . READY thin per © happened to COMING UNCHANGED FROM ITS LONG RUNS IN NEW YORK, BOSTON AND CHICAGO Take a glass of Salts before break fast if your Back hurts or Bladder bothers you. UOMN CORT PRESENTS Whene’er they say we're threatened inet out of the steel cell at the y My bldad. besine to’ bile aie “hain dain spsie sitautt rd at. station, in which we have THE BEST COMIC OPERA IN YEARS I feel like 1 was 20, mu guard netantly againet| it locked!” CHARLES DARNTOM NEW YonK WORLD And right in marchin’ style. Kidney trouble, b We eat too| |,took my head. T ain't no shakes on fightin much and all our food 1s rich, Our He's no such fool,” I said. “He'll VW/C TOR HERBERTS I've got a squeaky knee blood is filled with uric acid which| #¥¢ !t up and go quietly back to| | But If there's any trouble, the kidne strive to filter out,| PS" | Just save a gun for me they weaken from overwork, be-|, ot Sf he's the man I think he | CIVIL WAR VET, |jcome sluggish; the eliminative tig.|!*:" ald Godfrey, and he went PB a] sues clog and the result 19 Kidney|#¥ay down the hall, leaving me POTATO ON KEROSENE CAN trouble, biadder weakness and a|St#ting after him | A telephone inquiry to B,D, K,:|eneral decline in health, | CHAPTER XVI “What has become of the potato When your kidneys feel lke! It seemed for once that Godfrey | on the kerosene can? lumps of iead; your back hurts or| W4# destined to be wrong, for the . BE. D. K. confesses he doesn't the urine is cloudy, full of sedi-| ays passed and nothing happened Low, Ik 1s poet nce seoean't iment or you are obliged t> srg | y-nothing, that ts, 10 90 thr as tis see how surpassingly full- are room of Jawn D! relief two or three times during| CAbinet was concerned. There wa nL che tigate Mf YOu cater eran aRntiont ot ocniene aver thea flavored and delicious it is! iat wa “Bancy New Laid Eggs,” ad. |"eadache or dizzy, nervous speils,| tim of the latest tragedy LYRICS Siaer | vertises a certain food empor. |Acid stomach, or you have rheuma.| The Bertillon measurements of HENRY FACOG iA lum. We can't. tism when the weather is bad, got| ths victim had beon cabled to Paris, \| Bossom ies aa from your pharmacist about four| and be had been instantly identified 5. i Goin booed: tamarow ounces of Salts; take a table.| a8 a fellow named Morel, well THREE gin work,” clinched the 1 poonful in a glass of water before, known to police as a daring KINOS COPIPLETE NEW YORK CORT THEATRE Leslio's be ikfast for a few days and your| and desperate criminal; in fact, M PRODUCTION Try that on your clincher. kidneys will then act fine. ‘This|Lepine considered the matter 80 Pit a amous waits te made from the aetd| important that he cabled next. day A peaceatany-pricer would (Of rapes and lemon Juice, com-|that he was sending Inspector bined with jithla, and has sed| Pigot to New Y a 4 a 4 try to dodge a flood by hid h 0 used | Pig ew York to investigate | ome SPECIAL AUGMENTED HERBERT ORCHESTRA the cellar. yada Teer gumarations’ to Beh ne atten’ | toe tele nee | e Flavor Lasts Cast and chorus of unusual excellence, including ' eee the panera’ Kidneye; to neutralise) It was while I was sitting mood pies The Hohenzollern #5 yo.| ‘e urine so it no lon-| ily in my room one night, debating cone Duffield, Oscar Figran, Eva Fallon, Alexander Clark, elias It 1s ae pas Pe , Del ger ia ource of irritation, thus! whether or not to go in 1 that H Ben Hendricks, Louis Casavant, David Quixano, Isabell Jason, Miticing cannibulion: that tae ette:|ending bladder disorders a knock came at the door, and I arm Quimby, Florence Press, Erne Scanlon, Jack Pollard. ct ivawatne erat suena ae ve) Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot] arose joyfully to admit Godfrey | PRICES—s50c to $2. Sat. Mat., 50c to $1.50, s4\ 8 ae kes & delightful efferves:| “I know who the Great Unknown | SEAT SALE TODAY Congresswoman-elect Rankin [jonus in every home, kecama oe Te Arteta nate likes Charlie Chaplin. She cer: {body can inal th Th eaica ay. ey ae Leeeerrow y can inake a mistake by having] Wednesday—I'll know all the rest ‘ y' tainly will enjoy congress, a good kidney flushing any time. OTHE, A BAIT GE et AD ay A POE STAR—MONDAY, MARCH 12, “The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet” BY BURTON E Cox, of Walla Walla; Burton, of Snohomish; Iverson, of Kitsap; Kleep, of J) "tse hs # ia Gas Pacific, and Morthland, of Yakima. frey, in voice; “but there It follows canother?” echoed the vetled “We believe future prosperity of the state of Washington depends in a Bi) indy, looking at him great measure on the proper utilization of the resources of this state, and in ee ame at ek order that this may be brought about and the source of law be cleansed, we before last, and saw Pt believe the interests of the public require that the power interests of the state asa onit ahetobes the aii: Ger and their allies be subordinated from their present dominant position In the ace at It t# a lie!” ] legislature, one branch°of which has maintained a continuous lobby during iii waite 4 Orthopedic hospital is a convalescent home in the coun Rub this soothing try. There are many cases that need not necessarily stay in rip the sore, inf he hospital any longer, but which must have observation] Og (UM ryder ft. Jacobs O f and care; and a home in the country would build up the soy I hhaetition youngsters as nothing else could enn te skin of a b igia relief h doesn't burn or| Twenty-two applications were made at the hospital last penn Hi isan aes » lor the s axidermist, who Don't suffer! It's 90 needless month. Three new beds have been established, one by ‘ae ature to Usie Sere bled at cides & saaall telal-kodlle freae one Elbridge Stuart in the name of her mother, and two ty Mrs.|beanty. Placed ts the Lacie Jons\é ag store and ras the “ae Hi. F. Ostrander for her two little girl Twenty-two case ee ne oe re etted hite]| ing nerves, Just a moment Can you help? enhance the domestic obit effect, | will 1 » is, that the ae ellett td m back Mass meeting in St. Thomas wants the late Danish KING CORN r your pain West Indies renamed “American Virgin Islands.” We'll tiv ane em e & of crops n the face, PAGE 4 'Capital Entertains Popular Debutante 1917, Letters Sesto. Grey | PROGRESSIVE GAMES now ne Q—!t expect to ve a party . soon. | don't like kissing games e ce nd | Please suggest some sultable kind. | STEVENSON GRACE = ° play them, and enjoys ve : i might b a conte Here | Philip Vantine for the sum of one cal Flor BE BRAVE fifteen thousand france | The que a have been eft dietigured by ' | é sickness his might have bee: N t this one 1 protested | ve hig 4) prevented if any interest had beodl “Yea; this one. void taken in me when | was younger, But I don't rstand! 1 night “What and the disfigurement, together stammered Vantin 1d me him-| was the {aterte A with the useless regrets are driving solf that he did not buy that » performed the cere me toward suicide. | am afraid of cabinet.” | oe ce a t capo (myself, What shall | do Nor did he, But some at elder read the \ MAUDE, bought it in his name and directed best ¢ eight |, A—Be brave, Every life ts full of that it be sent forward to him were bridesmaids? What | ight have bee Perhaps you “Rather an expensive present,” I/ was worn on their hands? What rn your disfigu |naid, feebly, for my brain was be two men we usher What two |) “ b ome skill ginning to whirl again tramps occupied ce What og vit im Poe A you “Do net “Oh, {t wasn't intended as a pres-| word composed benediction? (oe ew it for tenes os fo hae nt. The purchaser planned to What fee did the minister receive? |Nmen | - who have claim tt—but Vantine’s death threw | The answers are . him out. If it hadn't been for that | sunflowers “™ TINJURES SKIN for an accident whieh no one nd moon flower -s Q.—Does it injure the skin to use i could foresee—everything would ells and harebells face er tantly? 4 : " ‘ 4 et 4 asnaindt: damkel . powder constantly have gor nk smoothly and no Y on “Pie png le cece = eine gf i PAULINE i arpa ever have been the Miss Helen Grogsr a jump-uj lack d Sui tt oe the Goel Washington society is entertain 7 vents the s#kt “But what was his object? | Wasling Miss tome extensively during | gy, ‘ ot , thy. Use a ttle he trying to evade the duty? , |her short stay at the capital fame 0nd cocoa butter under ‘Oh, nothing *o small as that lig 4 popular debutante of P rg Fr und cleanse the face The clerk who m the supposed | dence, RL, and the granddaugh Attaresoi before retiring male to Vantin resigned suddenty|ter of Senator and Mrs, Le Baron rises may - two days ago—just as soon as help coe brag hay Meee WANTS TO DANCE nad int wroepted your cable and| Bist EIS ar Rta oh GE viey ebe in cur een yawered r gedit * = do something to entertain th What in ft 7” 1 demanded.|day morning's paper.” ers for the consolation prize 9 : e He t fe Tale o erp - But how “as - except me. | can't sing or recite, so | thought | would like to learn . eon REGAINING MUTUAL TRUST f course ' a great criminal, and has da fancy dancin ‘oe for the au n his pocket heet of |confidence in a person after one’s ou¢ being mode fun of, us | in a details " nd handed it over to confidence has been entirely de- man past 307 . N. Pp 3 1 co ts r ss eu , Stroyed A.—-You could take a few private success, For disot an astonishment which in 1 at one time had perfect confi-|iessons at any of our dancin but one punishment " For | creas with every word, | read|dence in my husband, and he for-|gramatic pt Ml * ou ancing or traitors are und to have died, in-| this raord! epistie felted the right to that confidence. ER evitably and invariably, from the)" My Dear Mr, Godfrey However, we made the mistake of effects of an insignificant wound 1 have been highly flattered by | getting married. God alone knows bd lil th fs | call on the right hand, Just above the| your interest in the affaire of the} how hard I’ve tried, but I can't celving formal callers should a person ask them to remove ly klew Seine Seng Be and a me = feel teat we Cont tdence, | and he ltheir wraps? was listening intently now, a ee rrivin ini ¢ has a jealous wife, so we you may well believe correct are neither one happy. We seldom! 4 Reilys ela S COUNTRY. It tw by th secret,” Godfrey ! t nk you, quarrel, but are growing farther ces at but it would continued, “that Armand prese for ry n keeping apart every day. He thinks it is pole te sak 7m to remove hin absolute supremacy. But © informed of th asures which! my fault and | think it is his, 1 ir coats if the weather ts cold. % sionally the temptation too|bave been the eabl-|don't want to hear from any old - great, and one of bis men deserta,| net, and wh to me Very | bachelor, but If any one has actu- NOT RECOGNIZED Armand sends this cabinet to|Complete and well thought out. I/atly solved this problem | would, @-—Is it true that one’s physical America. He knows that in this have myself visited the station and like to know about it, and your being changes once every seven | andi f that years? And that the skin on the case the temptation ts very great| inspected the cell, opinion, too. R indeed, and he arranges In the cab-|!n every detall you were correct I would say that {t would de. human body peels constantly, tho inet a mechaniam which will in It is because I so esteem you! pend lar, upon one’s tempera invisibly, and is replaced by new flict death upon the traitor in pre |as an adversary that I tell you. in| ment as to whether one might ever skin? CURIOUS. cleely the same way in whi he| confidence, that it is my intention completely regain a st confi A.-Old dead cells in the tissues himself inflicts it—by means of ato regain possession of my property dence. Ordinarily, I do not believe |4T@ Constantly being replaced by poisoned stab {n the right hand.” enday next, and that, hav- jt is possible. Suspicion plays too|neW ones, but the time limit of But,” 1 questioned, “what act so, I shall beg you to ac great a part in the lives of every #even years is not recognized by of treachery was {t that Armand |¢ a small souvenir of the occa- one of us scientists. . f ’ sion Q—Can walls that have never The ypening of the secret I am, my dear sir, most cordial. CAUSE UNKNOWN been papered or painted be clean drawer.” ad yours Q.—! am only 22, yet my hair is HOUSEWIFE. Then you still believe tn the} JACQUES CROCHARD, quite gray. Can you tell me what A—If you mean the plastered polsoned chanixm ? “Lilnvineible'” causes gray hair? ELLEN. (walls, the only way is to have a (Continued In Our Next | WRIGL THE FLAVOR A.—The cause of gray hair is un-'new coat of kalsomine applied. LASTS S ; I certainly do. The tragedy of this afternoon proves the truth of the theory.” “I don't eee it,” T said, helplessly “Lat us reconstruct the stor Godtrey went on rapidly. traitor discovers the secret of the cabinet; he follows Armand to New York, shadows him to the | house on Seventh ave, waits for! him there, and setzes and binds him. He ts half mad with triumph | he chants ® crazy sing-song about revenge, revenge, revenge! And, in order that the triumph may} be complete, he does not kill his} prisoner at once. His triumph will be to open the secret drawer be fore Armand'’s eyes. And Armand lies there in the corner, his eyes gleaming, because {t ts really the moment of his triumph which ts at hand-” | “The moment of his triumph?" | 1 repeated. What do you mean! oe s 99 ay tent anther An Opening “1 mean that, the Instant the | trattor opened the drawer, he | would be stabbed by the poisoned mechanism! It was for that that Armand waited! 1k back in my chal ith eS eee =" Open the sealed end with your tion It was not until the last mo finger nail t Godfrey went on, “that I realized what was about to hap pen There was no time for hest tation—I sprang into th oom Armand vanished a tant —_ and the ¢ niso tried to en , lca but | caught him the door I had no idea of his danger; I had {8 Leg thought that Armand | would ! GIDUNT LEAS FLAVOR SY dare linger. And yet he did. Now tha it is too late, I understand Ho had to kill that man to seal his lips. If we had captured him, =m Push on the other end to make would safe for an in would safe for an the sticks project ed i It and Sot : "Ee woett ast iM uicy FRUIT) | aod se CHEWING GUM Syl a eyes were gleamin a8 ar | ve got our trap, Lester, and it's baited with a bait he can’t re LE, sist—the Boule cabinet! And you really think he will walk into It?” I asked incredulous ly. I know he will! One of these days, he will try to get that cab- back: in 702 Tho whole story will be in Thurs