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«| The Seattle Star nd-clane matter per month up to € mow Kotered at Mattia, Wash, By mail, out of city, one year, $3.50; € mor By carrier, elty Postoftion as ie @ mon Published ny Pubtianin Y 600 1 a Wall St. Shivers at “Pay-as-Y ou- Go’’ Plan and will taxed extent be incomes are war that the war, or a F HALL it be a pay-as-we-go wn borrowed money war? | A pay-as-we-go war involves big increases imcome taxes, even to the poi i on, for war purposes all O00, and a tax of from 5 to 50 per all incomes from $2,500 to $50,000. "This would mean that the enor the war would fall on those t the burden. A_ borrowed billions of bond t and higher 7 So far as we both of the justice “for the war as we go of the rich and well-t As has been frequently pointed few, if any, millionaires fires are young enough to be of ser EVERY AMERICAN MUST DO HIS &8 soldiers, and in this war for demo Our conception of those who are and those w! pay is significant that Wall st -as-we-go proposition and strong all st. * t+ =e Your Congressman! HE news irom Was! he Opposition is devel oping the administration's war he least, alarming d and encouraged by as the Woman's Peace Union Against Militarism Same character, many #0 be willing to hams t unpopular Wall qu the war an the f is u or 3 sales ad private wire of v ps house There today other " h t about us ‘ able ey < fixing lities t prices t to comm } 1 w nx war t , wi have ar inflation, tl taxati ated ibilities any but taxation 4 1 from near future A NIGHTMAR on before and smal ‘ imy we ' are con m of f the are cx 1 wi ray a taxing swe gol " 1 by war by drear whi \ tastic out in tl or mu! THAT 18 BOTHERING DAY get the I mea i The mere s ggesti t universal se e able to fight s °C re d is ag most enthusiastic ac can ab we-go argument t imagine * * * what * the extent at * realizes that to 3 i the c complete tat <tent of co-operation the \ vork in te al ngress to say re is ire s of ngressmen g the gover be the ad the war and the y compulsory un e points of attack w 's plans for financing I to raise an army service. Atally a great ef will be made to ent an alliance between this country and other allies against Germs 1 president's war plans, power autder power d them * * including the * 8 * comprises a sixth of all the land world and has a twelfth of the popu- Three of every four of its men can read nor write. a task he undertakes; to invent Pope. ‘war emergency has leap year beaten a 3g “ won't fight for his wife. you like” is a bad finger-post —George —Drummond. ited taxing pr spec I as st’ a fre big. br loose mn t sur part « anothe il ew HAS B hat la on that we pay for the i ve } w result ey Just to be obnoxious, we are going to ask what has become of Harry K. Thaw. TAR BEAMS believe, in| @——— edlineg judgment on the defendants that Logan Bil- lingsley should be With as having performed a function in appearing on the Tt is my firm belief that the fs no more guilty than half a Witnesses who appeared on I do not agree that the committed by Logan Bil Merits a term tn the pent. "—T). S. District Attorney in his plea before Judge major general, }upon calling him T =? And that's what Remember when you used to pull We should brace y " shirt over your head? And hooked on your bow tie at the back of your celluloid collar? Pittaburg Post 1 went out buggy riding Sun fternoons?—Boston Globe And got potatoes free with eggs the restaurants? t will way a peril ab Wh » does Bi “wer? . in Ri YOUR FACE WITHOUT A POLICY? A. Brown, Everett barber @ insurance agent, was a witness ‘Tracy trial fal Thursday, a TIBIRS : WIFE NOT TO BLAME ee at . And another thing, suburbanttes,| ff you ape potatoes In the front) ard, will not have to cut grass all summer. He needn't shout yo I'm atrictly Amer’ fellow everything. an writers tor The Star: Don't think women are not to blame for| th Rousewife to blame for high|high prices. Mr. Morgenstern has|to go to on all feed, grain and all| proved it when he says, “It ta fool fotien for man and beast, also|!sh of housewives to reckless- | have . Get wholesalers’ prices |ly, especially of perishables. hav You can better understand. In ho ever heard of women laying | T stores, _ Wheat is $5 per sach e supply of pert ratch, $3.35 If there {s such a woman | for ven bran $36 per t her come forth and | othe tell us wh r Every course blame for high prices, » KO now what to do But, are like sheep | flight shepard No! r. Bridges, I shake your hand The time has come when the men of brains, who have any love for humanity, must stand as elder brothers to us common people We need help and must have tt| or drift rapidly back to barbarism Those who have ears, let them ar. e young ar? t bu tis; an r ise as qu 1a to t about without , beans and pork, mostly | ly knows who by the hard laboring Bre and have been so h very few, if any, can afford tl in a position to know Tam not a crank elther. father fought and died for beautiful America, d it's a) to humanity and C those Gave their hearts’ d but t f for tt a us whil not m. this | Ve ¢ | @Men of in ever rime I-headed ent The war of to way ce and blood for I he people of today, for such con A deadly wrong some the sooner we locate the the more quickly will peace to us. God speed the day! AND PEACE TO ALL. | toda jit calls sense and venture, The men's wi them no mo be missed for not the A HOUSEWIFE. MAKE MEN, NOT BOYS, FIGHT Editor The Star Some of the letters sent to you make me dis-| sweethearts, Tho gusted. Why is {t that all of our|are ready and ab — — -| places at everyth MATS., 2:30 NIGHTS, 7 AND 9 a OINNING MONDAY AFTERNOON TheGirl FromAmsterdam’ Rollicking symposium of music, songs, pretty girls, fun and frolic, starring Roy Clair Roach & McCurdy Late feature of “Way Down East” company, in “A Touch of Nature” LIKES BRIDGES’ IDEA The Star: How perfectly @ man to blame a woman for Why shouwdn't ‘6 the patriots; jthat hold encourage the Which is good, of and yet there United States along easily witho is few years o1 m into the great |lota of men | We now jtion on eartu | represent it Let it be men Editor The Star George W. Barbier-Carrie Thatcher & Co., in “The Mkg Out”’ Dramatic Playlet with a Punch Jand has alre: carriage (prepa 4 p ly But even if he wo ah he goes on at ey-orry knocking. our strength Sunday I bave no money-Jag « Why we want TT They are self-reliant, they patriotic we b at does a ry Alls th it u ¥ a king. Dn and px wage expect ‘t fa 1 ou One man o oul to r ny on m dat tt might cause enil our » wo t e we ha 30 year hey are business t " lov ves sands le hing r exce they go? meetl boys to course, don't they go themselves? |of them say that they are too busy, one not could put whter, ‘T F As re Ho obtained ness)? steel which the government thi fs more ter of brains than anything else. | business forget about them tn a few we Dery Pt limited ulation vastime tate « om tl okerage talk and g Ito y the fan f wake HOWEVER, IT N SPECULATION TO- ast sen neomes tmare army Me many the ecome rf el al oat HOW ABOUT You? Pill Sunday says we're mo ey drunk nation. ove the this degradation. length, mean by at me, n ROY EK MOL LTON. SENT : TO: THIE : EDITOR he other rut 20, pe who nen, and 8 of life? & sudden ore than fle an to ot place sted t oyn to ve men? » better their more a mat man's © of ad would miss » than the boys will y thelr mothers ppt would 2 ngs and| enlist. But why Many in the not get Give the boys a chance to live a nhood before going | [Ff here are have the strongest na Are we going with boys or men? to A. F IT'S PREPAREONESS wards to | the high cost of living, I would like to say a few words on that subject I seo in your paper you are blamir the housewife for putting supplies of staple goods the man who got married last week in Dw big a baby So please jon’t put all the blame on the house ives Yours truly, MRS. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great! for he must be forced 20 more to maintain that one.— | about if k i t te b jtween her and Eaton | | ~ Wh r t M ac w f plain wh A that iy The man who won't t fight for his country |ot Property has its duties as well as its right. |»). ” € | j this tra a ly or y t a m E 8 y Asiatic steamer and took this train. 7 | better judg | Yokohama to Seattle on the Tam F a and | ship's passenger list. of women to take men’s|nery said 8. | They | “elther you were not on the are the onea)| Maru or y o was it?’ b e n C | feeling a t fully! her the rest of ft | morning, to be all right.” STAR—SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1917. PAGE 4 Outbursts of (Copyright, Paget Newspaper Servies) Continued From Our Last tesue) CHAPTER IX Questions led Baton Avery I dread but aeht the | ONNDERY wash-room ri followed not ito the the and ston's ke ‘ear that} belleve ainst Excuse Me, SIR, BUT IS THAT THE POST OPF ACROSS THE STREG rs was uences to himsert, would be br ut ho bad struck fathe let Santoine was gazin t Avery; and blow ag Hay it, his heart Don! throb don't believe on felt ratitude. We are going to make y nve It by proving to you rue,” Avery declared Maton, gazing steadily at s chilled and terrified as i the firat time ¢ tw Avery's pt with} ou it Ave teh ence adk relations between Harriet San and Avery he did not know early they were and tt equally clear that Avery had the growing friendship be | | ine | Why did you ring th Santoine’s berth Ave him sud Everett True cted the attack upon To call help,” E You had known, eodod hel 1 saw it then When? When I found him.” When was that When I went forward to look the conductor to ask him about ing @ walk on the root of the tlow, Mr, Eaton, or Hillward, or hatever your name is, how did you 1 him? I saw 1 to hed it 1 Then Yes Ani Santoine Injured any v ton answered then, that he of course.” hin hand came back {t didn't look me, 80 I stopped and and I found that it was fn the aisle. ie you looked into the ! having looked in and seer vou did not merely d th fr. all one—you loaned ent on and f © bell an Yes orm of but 1 waited on the next car us to believe act that of an Innocent been guilty looked tnto tae the ot have or berth not answer reflected Seattle, then Faton did t Ye ou had. ne ner br acting aa ou did. it waa? I can xplain.” mont Harttet poke to uletly arim! » reanon Will you ex No ot that; I do not triump Santoine on thts many as For was M m, you of days nat 11 train left came to the Warden and waited | he was brought heen for as fore you rie! him dead!” . Eaton looked up at the conduc b your father waa struck?” tor; his glance caught Avery's it was you, then, who took the|an instant; he gazed then to Har jock from my bag?’ Eaton demand. |riet Santoine. She had started d }but Avery had not, The {dentifi “Tt was the conductor, and 1 can|cation, therefore, had been agreed ssure you, Mr, Eaton-Hillward,|upon by Connery and Avery vat We are preserving it are |gestion of it had not come the Santoines “You came to see Gat jin Seattle 11 days ag Connery ‘on, when you came to|reasserted. “You are the man wh he gateman at Seattle | waited in his house that night and attention to you,” Con-/whom every one has been looking for since’ Ien't that so? Or do yx ou} | want to deny that, too, and have he | proved ' me ab ® j days be Seattio that house of Gab there for| home Avery smiled id he? He did not happen to tell ou, did be, that the kind and sire ocka he wears and carries in traveling bag are very nearly . as the black sock in the bar was wrapped with! Ho did it he wus ory froz Avery te riot W immed to Connery * he directed Tell rden| Mr alled my ery began. Eaton felt hin pulses clone with shock ue recognized me? sked qu No, be didn't; ou,” Connery Eaton decided. that.” 1 “1 do not he couldn't piace granted, “But I ave kept my eye on you ry s Now, this you claim a telegram neant for another man who seems \ to the that bh have Eator deny admit t t he could not fro Li hat. Baton's ad mission of the fact, Connery Avery bad been disappointed If Mr. Eaton is the one who hac n intment with Mr. Ward ht, does that explair silence?” ash Harriet “ Mr. Warden's word that Mr came that night because he trouble—he had been wronged. Don; he Because of tedly wn sinc ot reason has your questions now Jerked out shortly returned to his| were you waiting to/ train before you} « rm oe A wonne t by n “Did ho read ou?” Eaton aske He dt wi ia all anked. s not. You'll walt a min Avery, and you, Mian San n't be long.” © washroom DR, no ® y returned he carried which he had written s he had asked swers, The En telegram your" you have against rageoual danger unc self k the only * Avery Who the vine, He I lett pr, | that be avokled| As the|unda, nat w one ° May e he he questio nd Eator van What 1 > th or den 1 Katon reflected aid, “Philip D. Eaton.” When I asked this afternoon. ‘ou sald you came to Seattle by the! i 0 were you using, Mr. | you came from Asia d States?” the conduc " To what was All that had been only pre ad been lea n wet his pe t b “My own,” hich Py . then p by tance which was in the eyes of Harr! ntoine. She, he saw, had also sensed the ng that something else more nite and conclusive was coming What do you mean by that ques-| | lim tne ng \ fh | circum mn hin p st he ‘Asiatic er | faru t Eaton Mr Eng steam the was, Mr. Eaton d nothing. fish, Conn shman—"you came Tamba | tacea |* fro he . . tion?” he asked I mean that you'll have a hard |time proving that you did not wait Mr jand watch and take this train be ', eause Basil Santoine had taken it Pas land that you were not following him. Do you deny it?” Raton was silent ‘ou know no one tn Chicago?” No one,” Baton repeated nd certainly no one there knows you well enough to follow your movements in relation to Mr slish | Santoine.” The conductor pulled a telagram ¥ 0, | rom his pocket and handed it to | Avery, who passed it on to Harriet ther name than maton’ ereiie | Santoine. She took it, staring at it is hich! mechanically and vacantly; then suddenly she shivered, and the yel Jlow paper which she had read slipped from her hand and fluttered to the floor, Connery stooped and| picked it up and handed it toward) Eaton, “It a Maru, Yes.” “Do you ton was ngers? “You.” “How do you know?” The Englishman produced didn't you?’ know not that among this the the “That's all, | Mr. Standish,” Con Eaton sat silent as the En nan left the washroom Now, Mr. Eaton,” Connery if never sald I was on the Tam- a Maru,” Eaton returned steadily “I said I came from Asia by steam: | r. You yourself supplied the ame Tamba Maru,” “You weren't on Tamba the {s yours, isn’t it?” Connery Thoroughness Characterizes our methods tn every action, and our cus- tomer accorded every rour- tesy consistent with sound just- ness Judgment 49 Paid on Sx SECURED INVESTMENTS Carrying Our Unqualified Recommendation for SAFHTY In Amounta of $100 and 9500 Yielding: 6)l2 Per Cent BOND DEPARTMENT Guardian Trust & Savings Bank First Ave. at Columbia St. Accounts to Check Are Invited Accounts Subject Cordially Peoples Savings Bank SHOOND AVE. AND PIKE 897. ‘| went to bed wi jand | outside ‘We | said to the girl, rged Yea ad ne,” Eaton is on of Dor The message Cor your train wae not signed. Kate Fat lowed rot econ jopen the door next to t You'll do we He cloned the and locked it staring at the fic thru the most hya overstrained gi o wa door As stood ar Eaton CHAPTER X The Blind Man's Eyes Half an hour lat Connery un: Hocked the door ment, brought in Eatoi ag and searched him parted About 6 o'clock again © car bearing at At 10, Conner; with the p r onductor he porter made peared ay with din came o of the car by r. ce me nd the while Paton ty He tood ' the b h the « absolut still, and lay awake understood 4 charge of mur dependent toine died or would be made elty they reac 1 star again 4 over to the poll inquiry would be made In the morning again with the Want to t 1 want? thin train would be t came wa bringing k yet?” he asked. there you he aske like to see Misa furned away when they he rep Santoine.” r noon broug ated Was again refused an ir afterward in. foor again, and n saw Harriet ri as asked to to you,” Con y announced admitte spea and h Ave How {s }asked the Dr. Eaton He seen Sinclair seems to think, M at Father was found Just 1 that whatever ch for recov from Avery and have ndist 1 clair says that if he had been } as long as that, he would have had no chance at all for life. He has a chance, then, now? “Yea; but we don't know how much. The change Dr. Sinclair 1s expecting may be elther for better or worse. II wanted you to know, Mr. Eaton, that I am trying to think of you « him the chance.” Tho t flooded She, then, was not wholly to him “What was it you wanted to ail Miss Santoine?" Avery challenge Baton thought for a moment “Are they looking, Miss Santoine, for any one besides me in connec. tion with the attack upon your} father? She glanced at Avery and did not | answer Avery's eyes narrowed Wo are quite satisfied with what we have been doing,” he answerd ‘Then they are not looking, Miss ar o has you I would til noon. Dr. Eaton's he rod face | Santoine! It Avery who have not sald so. assume it, then,” Eaton without regarding “Among the people on the the--the man who made the is being allowed to move he could even leave Tam not asking you to let to give me any--any in Nberty I—I'm only warning you, Miss Santoine, the you mustn't let them stop lookin That is what you wanted Avery asked That is Raton We can then, was answered I must Avery train, atta about; train me go or of y to Ba tt FO, answered Harriet.” the} | ished. {1 will = “Tale IBLIND MAN'S EWES” = f Eaton's compart-|since I was a little girl, and st | For * traveling | has Then he de-| what ing he a| Aver the one who gave | , Connery are pl }ju ° oO By Wm. MacHarg and Edwin Balmer FRANCE GAVE US BLALF BIULILION FOR FREEDOM the Ame re nment free themselves veliwh by expending 1,000,000 to $500,000,0 ary exped The Un paid this now exceed a It is beca proposition aros kovernment to to Franc present wa ta nH H tex has never re st this would t vent gave ring the freedon th intere billion the that of this © 000, ald it in the Att thr ” 4) huge @ in no to »0n Eaton st move eet ; } why don't eaths from cance ig number each year tics st unless conditions and Why did p Pathe mean any n't you tell who doing? are prevent & or where you ha | you Father you give the know or te knows about might Eaton said, worth wh 80 much first met this had happe “My Father as sald. Why?" As she hesitated hand upon her pear unt this train name o on stroyed anybody an tubefculo: H of one who monia ar you ask “wh about me she Avery hg shou an her but a and n Pe he aton recog thought Mr. Ea u " disinfe tions of are the infect ancer o ® much rotected rig caetl paled Mr He me?" had gaze ind had and 4 about Harriet Eaton's | Mr. Eaton with me. is obliged mine, to Faton You repea has started without umn. Car a local con- a be remove ich lkel er in the beg under /dition and becomes understand, |after it has had tir was entirely imper- irrounding tissues. My Father, being to use the «& for one; he has see for him ever| Aver sent reddened “You 1@ to in | sonal | blind, lof others trained me Warden spoke to h will not help y take, keep going further Her color deepened, and for an instant he thought he saw full belief him growing in her eyes; but the hands she had been press- ing together suddenly dropped “I—t afraid nothing I could jsay would have much effect on them, knowing as little about ur fath em from tell him} n detail, the way would see it elf; and « him to see other things Mr. Avery. He calls us made 1 see that he for help has [his eves “I understand ly “Your father had jtaken in thinking he voice.” No—not that he had heard it 6 learn to i * sald Eaton quiet-| been mis knew my MY | about you as I do!” The ed the door open then, ce overwhelmed him, the room and ieft again. But there was left with him which not take away; he knew that Har antoine never could think of him again without a stirring of her pulses which drew her toward him. following morning wplows ar moved. The attack upon Santoine having taken f in Montana. Eaton jthought he would be turned over that t on started to riet gave up | What was the use? ut of lif toine’s lette I He And he to! = her from alone k 2 some they “Come, Harry,” he said Harriet arose, and Eaton got up as she did and stood as she went toward the door Suddeniy she faced him, flushed and with eyes suffused. As his! gaze met hers, he realized that life held Harriet San. inaefinite . might be that him—was dearer nan he had thought Aver) ad reach holding it open for tore grasp, shut upon him foot against it Miss Sante hoarse God's sake, they 4 a the latter spoke the re the ve the hac him hi to the the door. ‘ ate her to go out the handle slammed t and braced He b write to Har the empt. He was going nly Harriet San- but all life, and the was writing would make his death injustice, not help rself had been ntal in his death, was the accusation of against her father which to show who he was and him. Dared he, dying, ting like that in the door his y ine with ma doing » pleaded, his his emotion ke them think before they aga me he » believe act of She a feel that she h ay instrum make | me—be: this to I can't te there is a reason reason. and one death to me. merely accusation they make me—it will be my sen I shall be sentenced before c ednd ed thout tra ye or it oO th ly about a fair and hon which means It will not violer wa 1 est s0 condemt lee a girl's life? Two days passed. night, awakening his ton r d that the car was motionless in a railroad yard. He could account for this stoppage in their progress only by some change the condition of San- toine. Was Santoine sinking, 80 that they no longer dared to travel? Was he, perhaps—dead? No sounds came to him from the ear to confirm Eaton fn any con- clusion; there was nothing to be learned from any one outside th car. Eaton lay for a long time, listen- and wondering. Toward morn- ing he fell asleep (Continued in Our Next Issue) life or against I About mid- in berth, Mr, War. helped am tr hance to defe the reason I ward after the den. 1 i or aided in the if I had appeared merely would have been destroyed myself! The only thing I could} Jhope to ace lish has bee in following my present cours which, I swear to you, has had no connection with the attack upo your father, What Mr. Avery and nning to do to me,| they cannot undo. They will mere ly complete outrage and in tice already p—of which murder of could not have ‘ suit of I i enemies ' the de Peruna, Only Remedy for | Spring and All Other | Ailments i hen Wilson No More Toledo, Obio, writes: “I a new person, IT have no » heavy feelings, no more pain Belch U don't belch up gas, can most P enything without it hurting me, I Gas, Can want to be working all the time. I have gained twenty-four pounds.| Eat Most People that see me now and saw R me two months ago seem aston. Anything | tell them Peruna did it. without It Hurting ay It is the only remedy for and all other ailments.” how to The Pe Me. runa Co., Columbus, Ohio. a Those who object to tiquid medi. 2 Wenty-four Our booklet, telling you keep well, free all cings can now procure Peruna Tab-| Pounds. lets. Mrs Robison, No. 744 Pain, Don’t sprir Gained to