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THE SEATTLE ST INOT Seventh Ave. Near Co! SCRIPUS NORTHWEST LmAG Teleeraph News Service of the United Prees Aaseot Entered at Se By mail, out of city le, Waah., Postoffice as Second € © per month up to 6 mom; @ moe 61,00; year 63.60 By carrer, clty a month Memories Me sheand tie. Me ; | to me, of trusting elther of the im- c. € ¢ , y |plements within reach of bis P Fepublic eng haw vente 1 ices has on weameal GHih’ «aura aaa | master, than from any excess of | r: For the second t while the heroe wore blue | ulttiue Weeds hea and ihcinane ete ee industry or complaisance. His de Sor the gray in I86l are passing in ever inishing review In the strength and the glow of youth, meanor was dogged in the ex ES. their sons tad Shaatadteatt oh, Bibs vial aaak Waittnalaeece tre treme, and “dat deuced bug’ were : : 4 Anil tought the fighs Und hor mode ve one the sole words which escaped his | Fededicate in Liberty's name nm that was saved for Wi HaAlide a Tekh: ave: aroun lips during the journey freedom by Grant at ‘ Ninetee ) young Americans donned the uniform and sallied forth to + Oust the oppressor ; Today our sympathies are aroused to the actuality of war t by the sufferings of Belgium, Serbia, Poland, Montenegro ! \ and the dangers of France and all democracy 10 Herein lies our pledge to the brave men of '61 that their | \ppomattox years ago it was bleeding Cuba for whose sake Taday And 6 w At th And 1 “Th i] 4 oe v4 The And now 'STAR—WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1917. PAGE 4 (Continued From Our Last CHAPTER II With a heavy heart I accompa nied my friend We started about four o’clock—lagrand, Jupiter, the | jdox and myself. Jupiter had with | him the seythe and spades--the! whole of which he insisted upon | carrying—more thru fear, it reemed Old Boxr | by Derton Braley For my own part, | had charge of a couple of dark lanterns, while their geil lea trifle rlow Legrand contented himself with help rank# are thin, but their old ayer glow the scarabaeus, which he carried th @ light that if clear and brave, attached to the end of a bit of ay brudge along on therm tired feet, whip-cord, twirling it to and fro, 1f& ther faces again to gre a flog Ghat they helped to rave with the air of a conjurer, as he went, When I observed this last, plain evidence of my friend's ab- erration of mind, I could searcely refrain from tears. I thought it the test of OUR roulr har P heritage has not been forgotten; that Americans today, as} | Me tie dh ae ee best, however, to humor bis fancy, : then, stand ready to lay down their lives for an ideal | And the young bay Fight er the old boys fough. at least for the present, or until I } ow their hearts must thrill as they march today, be-| Willing to hold’ their liver ar navghh could adopt some more energetic hind the fife and drum, thru the flag-decked streets, in the] é an eevee worth dying fer sag yy rt faded apr ashe Semmes ~) knowledge that other men are taking up their burden nd | In the meantime, I endeavored. | 7 knowledge tha er n are taking uf ' and} | but all in vain, to sound him In re-| @fe preparing to sacrifice their lives, if need be, that the re And we somehow know net in war's red hell gard to the object of the expedt- | | public may insure, for the future years, peace without dis ‘These lade will bottle of nebly well tion. Having succeeded in induc: | ? At the Grand Old Beyr we cheer ing me to accompany him, he! nor. What sorrow must mix with their pride as they realize ») that, tho their steps will soon cease forever, generations to Who Or thos Tor many a q falter by to « who martial er th tran jeemed unwi , : d hove lain soem ‘owllling to hold conver: | sation upon any topics of minor| importance, and to all my ques- >) come will continue the beautiful custom of Memorial day, bmg enon no other reply : 5 ‘ . : J i of 186 sat an, @ shall see!” and ever-thinning tank will wear, not the blue 1861, but le ‘qoomesd the. avast it? ihe the olive drab of 1917! head of the island by means of a! a Who have ai skiff, and, ascending the bigh| : . Ms Tor the stelwert br krounds on the shore of the main Wh Russians Disa ree Tor the Old Boys land, procveded in northwesterly y g ; direction, thru a tract of country | { e PTY 40 J “a » excessively wild and desolate, | i Russian lack of stability in these trying times is a source ees Sa A 88 where no trace of a human foot- Pot great wonderment to most Americans. The a P SH N iy [step was to be ween. Legrand led | Son in this country is unable to see why a nation situated as d } jthe way with decision; pausing © Russia is must imperil, or at least seem to imperil, its new < Ja | Coly for an instant, here and there, s peru, oF aes seal . to be certain of landmarks of his Tiberty with internal dissensions But the situation is not so difficult to understand as it|——— “seems to many to be The disputes, so far as we know of them, are between) the duma and the council of workmen and soldiers ; The duma is, for the most part, a body of middle class} reformers. Perhaps a better idea of the type of this body, ly be had by comparison with some Americans with whom try one is familiar. BACHELOR WRITES Dear Miss Grey: “E.R. W.” is al wise to stop, at least for the present cere acs Nee tee wanton bne tiet The council of workmen and soldiers, on the other hand,|girt will be a better wife, having composed of men of the most revolutionary type. Imagine | acquired skill and experience in the) council in America composed of men like William D. Hay [re eeenuce ar ceneaa fC Gna Carlo Tresca and Alexander Berkman and you have |gavoir vivee is the main thing. ing of the type of council that is opposing the duma.| 1 never regretted the dollars In view of the violently different types of mind and the/did spend to make the little “Bun- differing philosophies of the men in these two power- | dle Bll chai icra in ata | opposing groups, it is not difficult to understand why| Happy memories is the only para-| last of such import and possible consequences arise dise from which we can not be Incidentally, the Russian situation is one worth while|driven; therefore | want as many true Americans to study well in connection with the asl can collect. If | ever get mar ried | want my wife to be my be: _ * measure Resistance is anarchy. SHOULD HAVE FRIENDS | Blt ToSoashi.g hours. such girls are lacking in sense. Far to 30 y some one else for pleasure. which referred to the impoliteness core to be out with the men who) it of women In public. would have read his own letter a few times he never would have apartment night after night, wish- ma wise very rude. men, would perhaps step aside |i gentiomen, there would be no occa: the sion for shoving.» him, for the greater nowadays do considera boya cheap own contrivance upon # former oc- | canion | In this manner we journeyed for | about two hours, and the sun was Just setting when we entered a) region tnfinitely more dreary than | any Yet seen. It was a species of tableland, near the summit of an| almost {naccessible , densely wooded from base to pinnacle, and | 1 do not mean to say that! um citizens between the ages of 21 “THE GOLD ' BY EDGAR ALLAN POE Ro Ap A AAA peer A ADAP PARRA PADD DODD PAPA DNA Issue) Pintersperged with buge crags that appeared®to Me loosely upon the soll, and in many cases were pre vented from precipitating them selves into the valleys below, mere ly by the support of the treen Ds Ka against which they reclined ravines, in various direction an air of still sterner solemnity to the scene The natural platform to which we had clambered was thickly overgrown with brambles, thru which we soon discovered that it would have been imponsible to force our way but for the sxeythe; and Jupiter, by direction of his master, proceeded to clear for us a path to the foot of an enor mously tall tulip-tree, which stood, with some eight or ten oaks, upon the level, and far surpassed them all, and all other trees which | had then ever seen, in the beauty of its foliage and form, in the wide spread of its branches, and in the general majesty of lis appearance. le When we reached this tree grand turned to Ju asked him if he thought he climb ft. The old man seemed a Hittle staggered by the question land for some moments made no reply. At length he approached the huge trunk, walked slowly round it, and examined it with minute attention. When he had completed his scrutiny, he me sald “Yes, massa, Jup climb any tree he ebber see in be life.” “Then up with you as soon possible, for it will soon be dark to see what we are about.” ely as too “How far mus I go up, massa! inquired Jupiter “Get up the main trunk first and then | will tell you which way to go—and here—stop! take this beetle with you.” “De bug, Massa Will!—de goole bug!” cried the negro, drawing| back tn dismay—“what for mus I tote de bug w if I do!” If you are afraid, Jup, a great] big negro like you, to take hold of a harmless little dead beet) why you carry it up by this string but, if you do not take it up with you in some way I shall be under the essity of breaking your ead with this shovel.” What de matter now, massa?” ‘s under the select service len of the type of David Starr Jordan, Amos Pinchot, together too serious about this girl | from They are clever enough army law! MRS. P. ;: . " 2 ‘to diaguise it, And as for those 7 Bvery tween d k C. Howe and John R. Commor and perhaps not question. Why expect brains to be! to 0: A.-Yes, Every man betwe sical cipal nd ae M a the chief accomplishment of a girl?| purely mercenary girls, | think If\thone ages must register, tho it is etters to @8 radical even as these—make up the duma. They Pleasant face, form and manners, the fellows would not look so MUCH almost certain aliens will not be wish solid progress, who wish elimination of her brightening eyes when he gi for the girl with the clothes they salected for service S@espotic evils, but who are revolutionary in neither her a present and her red lips are would find some not so mercenary, — m PLAY SQUARE | jon a f . . {| a8 those kind are the ones who DISAPPOINTED, TOO Editor The Star: 1 greatly ap- on and who fin finite lines where they believe it| e*ough for me. A good scout is a p Mor action and c d de ere y be c \ care for, Gomebody else will marry| ir Miss Grey: We have b preciate the stand you bave taken \in regard to this agitation for the) importation of Asiatic coolies into this country under the pretext of} being a war necessity. Labor everywhere has signified its willing: ness to do its share—and more, too —in this ir. There is internal] trouble ahead, and plenty of it, if! | Capital intends to try to make this & one-sided truce. Any attempt to | deprive labor of its hard-won con- | cessions—regardiess of the guise [they are brought forward under | will surely cause as much trouble now as it would in time of peace tly have to depend On| reading the letters written to you by the bachelors, and we agree 1 wish to remark on the letter!enat there are many giris who only 1 think if he spend money freely, But here we sit in our little it, He says women frequent. g that we knew some nice boys ly shove past him and are other-\who would treat us as companions. if he, and other in the city of Seattle today there are just as many men iiving off gee, hard-earned money as \f they want there are girle looking for the men women to be retired and modest. with the let them tr them In such @ man- there money. So we think are just as many “good” tent anti-draft propaganda Russia's splendid Ooppor-|¢riend as well as my sweetheart "@" that they can. | have heard girig disappointed, as “good” bach-| This is a fair sample of what labor, ity for pronounced freedom and ideal democracy is)forever and ever, and not only an Nice “olauetoer oe ee one elo THREE GIALS. [has to contend with 18t the-is e h is no recognition of a CENTRAL. efficient housekeeper. Whatever yy something in —- | stant vigilance has apparently been Bescon A. chy a “ Ss vk age happened before stepped into "Gard to the ever-increasing loss DIFFERENT MEANING | relaxed a little, or labor depends e ; - Anarchy and democracy do not run jive only she herself and Allah| of chivalry in men. it worke both) @.—in the 13th Amendment of the on Capital to “play the game on lel. They run counter to each other should know. Cheer up, “E.R. wW."! | “8Y® FRANCIS. | Constitution of the U. 6. A. it saya the square,” then and there an at- In the United States, we have our president and con-| Some day you may find a brainy PROPOSES CLUB that there shall be no slavery or ins tompt is made % put pee ore : y y free votes h yres our wit dth ill bore you | volunta. rvitude, except for pun. on labor. a gress, elected by our own free vote They represent ow hi pikes iad ee petite you!" Dear Miss Grey:—Will you kind: seth dh she / centralized authority. They have adopted certain war HAPPY BACHELOR. | !¥ Print this for me in wer to! What | want to know is, can they |@ ] Americans accept their decisions as their very \"A Boy"? | certainty agree with a law abolishing it without a WHALE PRICE TOO HIGH | The The whale Star they draft men if they etand up for meat that they are trying to serve | part of the girls constitutional amendment, and can, Evitor ~ each, and the poor con: the Editor one eats it with the same feeling of a child taking medicine, even when fresh, in conclusion, let me give the new line of food speculators a tip. 3 they could give the people some resh (which is more palatable than a humpback or sulphur bottom) in these trying times, to sell in the store at 5 cents a pound, they might possibly be able to market suffi clent of it to make it stick This would give the producer, wholesaler and retailer 100 per cent umer would still be able to have a substitute for meat at the price of a substi tite If the sealing hed not been done away with, we would likely have sealers coming in with loads of car- casses at 5 cents a pound, instead of throwing them into the sea. The taste ts somewhat simil. EC ONOMY. Money makes the war go. | | Have you bought your bond? PP Bibkeaial adele AAPA ALR ALLEL LALA, BUG” y up de tree?—d—n meat from a finback whale NEXT NOVEL “JANE EYRE” BY CHARLOTTE BRONTE World's Greatest Love Seo raid Jup, evidently shamed tary” compliance “always want for to raise fuss wid old nigger. Wag only funnin anyhow, Me feered bug! what I ker for de bug? he took cautiously hold of ¢ | treme end of the string, ae |taining the insect as far from big person as elreumstancen would pen mit, prepared to ascend the tree, In youth, the tulip-tree or Lge. dendron Tullpiferum, the magnificent of American for |has a trunk peculiarly smooth, gag | often rises to a great height out teral branches; but, in tte | rip: age the bark becomes |«narled and uneven, while many short limbs make their appearance on the stem, Thus the diffiewky of ascension, in the present cage, lay more in semblance than je reality Embracing the huge cylinder, ag closely as possible, with hig arms jand knees, seizing with his some projections, and resting naked (oes upon others, Jupiter, after one or two narrow eacapes from falling, at length himself into the first greet fork, jand seemed to consider the whale usiness as virtually accom |The risk of the achievement in fact, now over, altho the climb | er was some 60 or 70 feet from the ground “Which way mus go now, Mame Will?" he asked (Continued in Our Next ‘seue) eee EYESIGHT ? yet we neglect and even abuse our eyes. Half of all blindness could have been prompt and — proper care; a | third is the te sult of socal “babies’ sore eyes.” Four o spent for four drops of silver pi- | trate, dropped into the eyes of the infant at birth would have saved the | eyesight. It is the best sort of insurance to |have the eyes examined by @ com- jpetent oculist every two year. Often the earliest sign of Brights disease can be seen within the ege. It is @ daily occurrénce to relieve headache by means of proper lenses, Nearly half of all headaches can be d to the eyes. Squint or crossed eyes can be ‘cured without an operation in ah |most every case where the child | comes for treatment before the of 6. Don’t trust the child to grow this condition. The gradually disappears from disuse (the eye that turns inward or 4 ward. 4 Trachoma is a dangerous eye , ease that leads to blindness if treated vigorously. The 4 towel is the usual carrier. 4 | Do not jet any one but a in diseases of the eye operate or prescribe for your eyes. In almost every shop and f is some man bold enough to try te remove some foreign body from the eye. Infection, and even blindness, often follow, | HEALTH QUESTIONS | ANSWERED | T. P—1 get very sleepy every day | after lunch, and can hardly keep my yes open; sicep nine houre every | night. | Perhaps you are constipated, of your noon-day lunch may be @ bit too generous. Eyesight in a priceless possession, | preventedby | It has been suggested that gone. It has. The prune has come into its le fruit nowadays The foods that used to lo No More Kidding the Prune the day for kidding the prune own. The prune is a respect rd it over the prune on the tding house table every now and then have gone so high Dear Mise Grey:—After reading gkate if he doesn't take them to a Ann's somewhat pessimistic article theatre and out to dinner, but | do in your columns, | hasten to assure! not and would not and would eurely| her that she is indeed a very desir-| ike to meet some one that likes to able type of young lady for a real/ have a nice time but who doesn't gentieman to associate with, and in care to stay out till one and two in my estimation nothing is too 900d! the morning. My mother doesn't for her. After having jociated object to my going out with nice with various types of girls during young men, but she does to my stay- the last four years, | am firmly | ing out so | convinced that a real live man of | wish someone would start intelligence would not consider mar-| club go that we girls might meet not call upon him to serve it a thelr constitutional rights? {to people in workingmen’s res- heaviest meal }taurants is evidently not creating A-——The 13th Amendment to the such a demand as was expected, A Constitution was made at the time friend of mine went to one of those ery wag abolished in the Unit-|iestaurants yesterday and asked ed States, The gist of this amend. for beef stew, but when he start ment is that one man cannot be. (ed to eat it he noticed the qualicy long to another. It does not mean,|of the meat, and the restaurant) however, that the government can-|™man bad to admit {t was whale jm and my friends left the place) ond ste elsewhere e | Having spent 14 years at the — SPECIAL still within and foods price that the prune is one of the f h of the masses. It is the good old standby to him who bawils out his best friend be bought with a jewel, and if Ann is what she claims to be, it is in- deed unfortunate that she is spend-| ing her youth without woe ; o * s Editorialettes— «THE WORDS of Rear Admiral Sims, “We are ready to start at once,” summarize the feeling of ALL America and PART of congress. ally and several of my friends would be glad to meet Ann and all those like her and | am sure she could be just as frank, decent and human as/| she desired and we would do every-| thing in our power to make the| companionship enjoyable and whole.) some. It cannot be denied that there are quite a number of young men ch as she ref to, who care only for the frivolous or loose-connected ype of girl, but | feel that their kind is being replaced by a better type, but the most difficult problom scema to be in the higher types! 3 AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS knew when the torpedo fleet sailed and how many ships were in it. They were their own censors, And that beats any autocratic censorship a thousand ways. le “WE'RE ON the job,” says the navy. ays congres: “Tap another barrel of guff,” FROM WHAT we see in the windows, father’s new straw bonnet will be but |ittic less blithe than the festive and wonderfully adorned butterfly. meeting each other. A good many} of the lower type girls frequent public places, more co than the het ter ¢ and this to some extent explains their popularity. However, Ann may rest assured that her pure conscience and red blood are worth | more than a littie popularity, and her waiting will not be in vain. There are plenty of young men who BERLIN HAS been calculating that if the war ends now, Germany ‘would be the gainer. Berlin must have some amusement, and this kind Ig as cheap as any. LOOKS AS if the Hindenburg line is made of elastic THE EMPLOYE who has a horror of working overtime will never @wn the business.—Newkirk. — — |would greatly onjoy her com.| CUBA'S PART seems to be to provide swectaping for the war. | ponionship if they could only meet} - ther. c. Ww. GERMAN PROFESSOR suggests eating grass. Why not eat the chestnuts of which that suggestion is a sample? | CHIVALRY FADING Dear Miss Grey:—l wish to add to the general discussion caused by | Peer eee ee ee ‘ | . “Norma.” | think the boys who! *STAR BEAMS ... By E, D. K. irsiire' we! aceon ‘tense’ ln gina . ELECTROCUTE Stns 1 REAKING THE NEWS are in the minority. For my part ® kaditor The sta ' t ou want exes keep, you|| have found that the girl with @The Sar of « tts yuoat the | trong yaar ry FN @ is not as popular as a girt| as to ox; SS Manoa Puck can babble of nothing for Gwould use in sinking » sub ; sae pi aed eats bes —| Eeolution co ed papteree:-the MAY COMM TO IT meres“ i ever write on an empt | PAN battleships . 9 : HELP | Beatie of secs, the vy ned | _ Author—Well-—er—no; but paper te | Fewitn elects! y : Ing to be pretty expe fost turn th YOUR COUN | Piew i up THE AMATEUR GARDENER TRY BE, nce nee tue, anew Has busy William Leeds; pdigg Me | Pattieship? Whey mus be electro He spends one day in fighting bugs Subscribe for a U. §. Gov. Hf! algo. No, they Here The next in fighting weeds, ernment Bond TODAY! | ‘oapr: The batt han Pine eer W ‘i b | BED Sine on the ery thi je accept subscriptions simple ending A A QUESTION OF MErHOF ' : THOMAS JOSEPH O'MALLEY. shed ym pretty “American gi service 4 Hell ‘Town, | Who sald BOND DEPARTM ‘ a aie And aia kill @ German a | r A 2 We suppose the pnblic will have ch hand 4id you do It Guardian to stand it if the barbers raise the) .)'") "his rent hand” he asta . “ price of a shave to 29 cents, But sere iis he or wr Trust & Savings | ' Bank Vab: Cor, First Ave. at Columbia st. fy! “we hope they don’t put on an extra ehatge for putting their fingers in) “", your mouth, rying the type of a girl that could some of these rice boys. ompanion-| your column, ship of the right sort, as | person-| zen will have to regia lave you a deposit In the’ | Whaling business, from atenogra Pos avinge bank? Uncle |pher to assistant manager in the Sam pays you 2 per cent on it. || main office of « $2,000,000 whaling | He'll pay you 3! per cent on ||company, meanwhile being super a Liberty Bond. Get busy. | |Intendent of the plants where the - — ———-@|whale is cut up, and having been| on the whalers when catching whales, 1 probably know as much jabout whales as any man in the United States, and was surprised| to see it in Seattle restaurants, es [pecially at the high price asked |for tt Our brokers at one {ime thought they had a market for it in Japan, and we put up 20 barrels for a tarter, at 85 per barre! (21% cents per pound), which would have shown enormous profits, as compared with the usual way of disposing of the whale meat, and even at that price most of the 20 barrels was later destroyed Rut when ft comes to asking 10 cents a pound wholesale, there is graft somewhere A good sulphur bottom whale will give five tons of guano (or fer- tilizer), for which $35 a ton is a good price, and this fertilizer is the whale meat, after the oll has been bolled out of it, and then thoroly sround and dried. The same whale ould give about three tons of at or carcass oil, at about $60 per ton, or, in all, $355 for the meat less the expenses of botling and DAISY. Q—Will you please answer, thru whether a non-citi! r the same @ Outbursts of Everett True uinly, the meat or flesh of the whale is only a by-product; the principal income is derived from the blubber and gill bones, which alone is sufficient to pay big aivi-| dends if they catch enough of} aien Now, compare the price they are glad to get und es, $355 for ol] and 1 the oil has been’ ex nd the moisture dried out The same whale would give about | tons of the meat or flesh in the W state, and at 1 cent per pound] would bring $300, which would mean better results than the above 356, as the labor of boiling and| drying would be eliminated, But when it comes to 10 cents a pound] there is an outrageous profit some-| where | Just imagine 00 for a by-| product that ts usually worth $300 But everything is going up. I have eaten whale meat from! different kinds of whales just for} curiosity, and even when cooked by those who know how to cook ft, which ordinary will prevail until further 100.00, nothing down, 150.00, $ 5.00 down, 200.00, 10.00 down, 250.00, 12.50 down, 300.00, 15.00 down, trustworthy hy The GOTTSTDBIN original tinue as heretofore. payment. NOTICE For the purpose of cooperating with the homefurnisher during the present high cost of living, the following terms on hamefurnishings $ 50.00, nothing down, $1.00 week, or $4.00 me. We invite the accounts M. A. GOTTSTEIN FURNITURE CO. || Seattie’s Popular Homefurnishers. Second Avenue, Between Pike and Pine. SOLF AGENTS: BUCK'S UNION MADE STOVES AND R! PULLMAN REVOLVID AT BED DAVEN THE O8TERMOOR MATTRESS. 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