The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 26, 1917, Page 4

Entered at Reattia wi My mail, out of olty, ene ye MORE THAN 61,0 THAN 61,000 COPIES SOLD DAILY. — Published Datty Ry The Star Publishing Oe, The Star Gets Unusual Request Editor of The Star: I come to you wit request: Please find me a bank that wants to sum of, say, thirty thousand dollars. neat job promptly. Ill tell the officers « positors and the dear public all about it a nered the coin. I'll get in touch immedia h perhaps an unusual be embezzled of the I'll guarantee to do a nice, of the bank, the de- s soon as I have gar- tely with the prosecu- tor, pick out my judge, plead guilty, accept my sentence, and be- gin to serve the sentence at once. I'll leav certified statement so that the state bank ex my presence. will be given to any charity named by Tl Of course I want to be mollycoddled by ply insist that my sentence be for not over may not have to mingle in the common jail or a few paltry dollars at the point of a gun I'll report in 24 hours. We like the way Mike Alexandrovitch looks at his throne job. Says he'll take the job only if the want him. Mike seems to see a lot of smokiness the idea of divine rights. ve Learned How AR NICHOLAS was very foolhardy that revolution was on, he hurried back from the front front was the safest place for him. a : » This war sure is taking the conceit out of rulers by divine Russia seems to still be clinging to the “royal family of worship but she has learned that she can revolt, suc- ly, and her autocrats have been shown that they are the whole thing. War is ——, all right, but it must be tted that it has its great lessons. ‘ When notified Thru his invitation to neutrals to break with Germany, President Wilson bagged only China. And now China is figuring on joining the allies in actual warfare. Those heathen like to hunt up trouble just as if they were civilized We must make our own public opinion, to buoy us up in every loftier aspiration —Adler. 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ANXIOUS TO WEAR A NUMBER AT THE PRICE. e a correct, accurate aminer won't require I want to keep half of the money I embezzle. The other half re Star. the judge, and I sim- one year and that I or tanks with such slow witted criminals as may be there thru having stolen food . Name the bank and Editor’s Mail RAPS “WILLFUL” SENATORS Editor The Star: I am from the jstate that La Follette misrepre sents, and | want to Sta that the people do not ind se his action, It is my opinion t it is not be yond the possibilities that the scenes onrcte Petrograd may} jbe reenacted in Washington cit jif the men guilty of such traitor ous conduct do not get out Ston should least resign from the chairmanship of the for eign relations committee. This stato in disgraced as well an ten or eleven others. AN WILSON FALLS DOWN Ediior Th 5 Let it be} Cistinetly understoc at the ma, Jiority of bona tide A fean cit ens do not want but the jelghthour law, on which basis we elected our president, and has he made good on all those idealistic pre-election speeches? This {9 what we got: Four bank failures, Food sky high, per tions, f that rattlebrained jackass wants to fight, we should ph in over to England, and tf they don't want him there, he can get all the excitement he wants down in Mex {co; and his one time protege can do all the reforming on his broth er's estates down there. We could also,very easily sp the Morgans and such (heaven save the name) Lodges By an Amertean eltizen are | patriots as the STAR—MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1917. Russia, Europe,” With a past bathec |Oriental than to the jracy and taken its Believing its readers will wish to know more abx virtual republics, The Star has compiled a tabloid history of the Russian empire. the it has been 3 ’ PAGH a ahi Q, LitTLe new including 8,647,657 equare miles.) nearly three-quarters of the empire, but contains only about one-sixth of the people. s 2,254,301 square miles. The total extent of the empire is est cracy, is a nation of contradictions; “ar Asiatic section of ly called 1 in mystery, and a present that more understandable to the Euroean or American, it now has tt over a century’s-old autoc- ace among the modern democracies ef t West this new giant in the family of The first will appear tomorrow. Music Mountain By Frank H. Spearman. Copyright, 1916, by Chas. Scribner's Sons who ts] (Continued From Our Last Iseue.) in the daytime, follow.” “Come at dusk. You know I am no murderer.” “T don't know ft,” she persisted stubbornly. It waa her final pro- t Trouble would Jount, some day, on knowing i CHAPTER VI. Planning the Escape A grizzly bear hidden among the haystacks back of the corral would have given Nan much less anxiety !than de Spain secreted in the heart 5 § rr | want me out of here?” imbued with the spirit of ‘76 "Very much.” of the Morgan stronghold. M. J. B. Toward daylight of the erecvns | “No "sore than I want to get| On the second day she found her. —- do Spain dreamed a Pee ot ier, {O¥t. Perhaps by tomorrow I/self deciding to see de Spain for ENGLISH ALSO GUILTY But when he opened his ees found | Could walk a fow miles. 1 should |the last time, and toward sunset. Editor The Star: In my opinion, pe sh po ngage aed |HAY® to assassinate somebody to| She began dressing early for her tood at r, He you are wrong about Geo. W. Wick-| ersham's answer to Miss Crystal Eastman American passenger ships on the guarantee of the U. S. ¢ that they are free from contraband. | Does England do that? She does| not. We have to go to Halifax and be examined. If the U. 8. arms merchantmen will England allow us to ship food) and clothing to Germany? I think the president would find the people of the U. 8. ready to} }back him in a fair fight | What is the use of going to war with Germany and “laying down’ | te England? Why is Mr. Wilson }“stall” the people about “our peaceful pursuits’? Everybody knows how peaceful are our pur. suits, The U. 8. ts bleeding to death over the war in Europe. trying to thing about the food situation tn this country? We are the ones who are paying daily with the sweat of our brows. How do you think you would feel if you had to buy food and shoes for a family on @ bare $3 per day, and then would read tn your even ing paper about the riotous extrav- agance of makers of war profits? Sincerely, MRS. R. R. “Y, S. OF RUSSIA” | PETROGRAD, March 26,—Russia jis likely to bear the name, “The | United States of Russia,” if the tem. |per of the people in Petrograd is an| index. 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De “You Gap,” "s truth,” But I without outside “You Mounta where “You meant Pills after meals Thousands of families are tak- ing these medicines. Let your fam fly take them, too, Get them now, Iness. if I can't, going to get out could tell me where I am—" “Do you 1't know where you are?” Spain her scepticism anything else,” couldn't crawled here for “Then she said know you responded hardly here where I am, in the Gap, was Inside but once. know if you did tell me.” {his wavering senses inti! he put out his hand and felt actually the substance of what he she her presence. scattered handfuls of gravel and lit |tle chips of rock cross the ledge in could hardly escape rousing him The device betrayed her parcel. ju once you he ean mean seemed “T can't tell you deo He was determined, if ahe should come again, td intercept his visitor For forty-eight hours ho tried cat naps with an occasional sandwich to keep up bis strength turned unseen, and disappeared de-| spite his watchfulness. did time, an innocent snare discovered get some ammunition.” trip, and with constantly recurring “It wouldn't be hard for you to/ dissatisfaction with her wardrobe— do that, I presume.” | picking the best of her limited | Her words and tone revealed the |*tock. Nothing satisfied her, and intensity of her disitke and the{sho was obliged at last to turn depth of her distrust. from her glass with the hateful He was silent for a moment. | *ish that It made no difference any- Then he said, without resentment: | WAY. “You are ashamed already of say-| De Spain was sitting with his eiving him, n re-| ing that, aren't you?” back against a rock. His heart “No, I am not,” she answered jumped at the sight of her young ome, the third defiantly “You are known from | face. come, ur’ lone end of the country to the other I am going out of here ‘omor- | a8 & gunman” row night,” he confided, after his De Spain had 0) “i6 answered impassively: “Did/ thanks. “It is Saturday; a lot of that the awake,” announced de Spain. give me no chance to thank you.” Nan, drawing gr bed put down | restive. thanks,” she replied with calc “IT am hoping when you) are well enough you will go away,| in the night the only way you can thank me,” I shall be as glad to go as you be to have me. § “But that won't be thanking |you as I am going to. here isn’t just what I'd choose for] But if by doing it I could two You won't see me again.” “No news could be worse. I don't know how at u he sal have are in are knowing what huntin, ian't ing, but how could I get here with- |you for rheumatism, catarrh, scrof-|out being stopped?” “Everybody inside the Gap was y ‘« for much to tell any believe it rode a good many miles that night your men will be in Sleepy Cat. these men who call me a gunman in get a good start outside before oul she - should she) over tell you why I'm one? I guess | dark She) not," he went on, “Lat me tell you | daylight ony now. The next time you hear me “What will you do then?" she m ‘ sked cyan | called a gunman you can tell| asked : them.” Hide. Watch every chance to “1 won't Usten,” she exclaimed, crawl a mile nearer Calabasas, 1 can't walk much, but I ought to t need any stad make it by Sunday night or Mon- you will Isten,” he sald “you shall hear every|4a¥ morning. By the way,” his My father brought sheep | Slance resting on her right side as That will be | nto the Peace River country. The| he noticed the absence of her hol- jeattlemen picked on him to make|*ter, “wh is your protector to- jan example of. He went out un-|4ay?" She made no answer. “Fine Totnes de {armed one night to take care of form,” he said coldly, “to come un- were! the horses, My mother heard two| armed on an errand of mercy to a Lying out | Sots. He didn’t come back She | desperado. : went to look for him. He was} Nan flushed with vexation. “I |came away in such a hurry I for- got it,” she replied lamely. “A forget might cost you your lying under the corral gate with a hole smashed thru his jaw by a or three| rife bullet that tore his head half off. I was born one night atx | life.” And months after that. My mother dfed| “Perhaps you've forgotten you I'm {that night. That,” he said, “ix |left a cartridge-belt behind once all, If you] Wat, made me a ‘gunman.’ Not| yourself,” she returned swiftly. 7 . whisky—not women—not cards The retort startled him. “How ae yon | 1st what you've heard, And I'll| did you find that out?” Nan tell you something else you may| She tossed her head “Other people forget, too, then,” was all she said. “No,” he protested, “TI didn't for- Het; not that time. I went over to the Joint to get a cup of coffee and expected to be back within five tell the men that call me a gun- man. The man that shot down my | father at his corral gate I haven't jfound yet. I expect to find him For ten years I've been getting ready to find him. He is here— in these mountains. 1 don't even know his name. But if I live, I'll find him, After I get thra with that man’—he hesitated—"“they may call me whatever they like You want me out of the Gap,” de Spain concluded, his voice un changed, "I want to get out. Come back, once more, in the daytime I will see what I can do with my) foot by that time.” He paused “Will you come?” She hesitated. “It would be too dangerous for me to come up here nmoved by} id simply idea fun \ the of into a bear trap.” He drew his re- volver and, breaking it negligently, took out the single cartridge, “Take this.” “What do you mean?” she de- manded. “I mean,” he said, “you are to take this cartridge as a remem- brance of my forgetfulness and your adventure.” She drew back. “Take it.” She allowed him to drop the | loaded shell into her hand, “Now,” he continued, replacing his gun, “If I encounter any of your people in Morgan's telling the at length! I I was do- I “T don't want ‘ou, supe ' it use asking | I never | I shouldn't | ar t } M Herod te Maer oe inn an attempt to break thru a Ine, t itve.” and somebody gets killed, you will LEA ie ea PLASTERS |know, when you hear the story, ¢ World's Great y to raid your house, You c ohetol or sal | oer ame aa liner Alt “All the same—" She hesitated, “What's that?” “Some one is coming,’ Backache, Rheumatl Lumb: Any Looal said de | Spain. Nan ran lightly to where ain. | she could peep over the ledge, She ahi te stepped quickly back. “I'll go right Having on up the mountain to the azalea ALLCOCK’S. A! fields,” she said hastily. (Continued in Our Next Issue.) minutes, never dreaming of walking | GIGANTIC PROFITS OF FOOD KINGS MOSTLY FROM POCKETS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! | By Basil M. Manly WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26.—To a certain extent an increase in prices of foodstuffs, the cause of the food riots in various parts of the country, may be justified by the failure of practically every important |crop, but the prices which have been in effect since last ;summer are out of all reason and are actually yielding | greater profits for the short crops than were realized |when half as much again was produced. Every corporation report that is published proves the prices are unjustified. Here, for example, is Armour & Co., with a stock dividend of 400 per cent; Swift & Co. with a cash dividend of $25,000,000; American Beet Sugar with net earnings of 40 per cent; National Biscuit earning nearly 10 per cent on common stock that is all water; Sears-Roebuck with earnings of 26.56 per cent on {te common stock, and so on in every line of business actively connected with the production and distribution of food and clothing. A part of these great profits have unquestionably been | secured by holding up Europe, but at least THREE-FOURTHS came directly FROM THE POCKETS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, and many of the concerns which have profited most | heavily HAVE NOT SOLD A DOLLAR'S WORTH OF GOODS | ABROAD. Every indication points to the existence of a condition as scandal- ous as that which the federal trade commission found to exist in the paper industry. The department of justice for nearly a year has announced that its slguths were on the trail of the food monopolists and speculators, but #0 far these investigations have produced no more result thin the decade of trust baiting, which did not reduce the price of oll, steel or coal a single penny, and resulted simply in intrenching the trusts more solidly than ever in their monopolistic positions. The federal trade commission is the only government institution that has secured results, Now that its membership has been strongly reinforeed by appointment of W. B. Colver of St. Paul, its effective. ness will be greatly increased and real results may be expected if it is given the munitions with which to attack the problem. The refusal of the house appropriations committee to report favor- ably the fund of $400,000 estimated by the federal trade commission to be necessary for the investigation of the cost of living recommended by President Wilson comes in striking coincidence with the outbreaks of food riots. The commission, by forcing an agreement to reduce the price of paper from manufacturers who had insisted at the start of the investigation that they had not unduly Increased prices has just shown what can be done. What bas already been accomplished in the paper industry will pay the proposed cost of the investigation about ten times over, and the results that are sure to follow any real probe of high prices in other lines would repay the cost a thousand times. Congressmen who vote against the appropriation are going to have a hard time explaining why they voted a billion and a half dollars to pay for other legitimate and illegitimate projects, and refused an in- {nitesimally small part of that sum for relief of the people from the burden of high prices. The Nose Small Organ May Inter- fere With Breathing | | white colds often lead to some | thing more serious. | Adenoids should be removed and ‘tonsils taken out when they inter- fere with breathing. Among habits of children which { the upper jaw and raise the roof of \the palate, with a resulting nar- jrowing of the nose space, is the thumbs or pacifiers. They should be broken of such habits. The child should have ev- ery opportunity for play, breath- ing deeply and developing the nose space by exercise. In early life it is possible to spread the upper jaw and drop the roof of the mouth, increasing the uose space in this manner. Thi straightening of the midbone ef helps, but the real remedy is to; that the nose is in proper shap childhood, A g004 nose ts much more than a matter of good looks. A bad nose means bad health. The nose must be not too large or not too small, but Just right in size, if we are going to enjoy the best of health. Many things are respon- sible. : h A small nose does not give Bs: Week oe eee symptoms of kidney trouble?” Shortness of breath, weakn pallor and,dropsical swelling. U. S. MAY GIVE A BILLION TO FRANCE NEW YORK, March 26.—Follow- ing up its suggestion of a gift of $1,000,000,000 from the United States to France, the New York World today declared the plan had | met with approval from every quar- ter. Bankers, business men and toflers, the Werld said, had tered unqualified approval of th plan. Diliddle Age Many distressing Ailments experienc by them are Alleviated by Lydi Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound enough air room. 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