The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 6, 1917, Page 6

STAR—THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1917. PAGE 6 99 ,room, for Peggy, on the threshold wom, or Poor mime Oooo STAR BEAMS ... By E. D. K. \ ° 19 Hz SEA LE S A R : ‘sp rsuasl e P. Next Novel ‘Ont tae.| HORACE IN WONDERLAND fort down on the Oregon coast : q 4 i e V e ” Then—she clutched at Mra. Lee] way), aa 1 feo Nick e over: : gezy “The Moss Mystery got and drew her forward and to-|_ “What! Am I dreaming? = * Joyed at his transfor to Siberia, eo = \ BY CAROLYN WELLS thor they stood stock still and|™marked the stunned Horace ps he} “— 180T Sevemth Ave. New ) omums BY MARAVENE THOMPSON = - gethur they stood stock lored,|*WAyed on his heels for a few ec a #. 4 ae Copyright, Paget Newspaper Hervice _ _ J} ntared at—a tall, broad-shouldered, |Pwayed on hin hunla tor well after| @ > HR OF SCRIPeS NORTHWEST e la Ae eer a J distinguished looking youns man, | ie shock SUMMER TRAGEDY — ~~ ‘ t ughing bab: urs, r met rt nph News Service of the United Press (Continued From Our Last Veoue) | # { sympathetically and con-) confidentially It sounded to you ! eo laughing bat Eg ed ae That's the sixth panhandler The man and maid lie #ide by - - ee CHAPTER XXX oe. ly She talked for an hour perhaps like he waa joking But ane wo giggling sma 4 ‘ok.{ankled by and didn't warble a sob wide Entered at Seattic, Wash Si Trowbridge rushed into the liv-|>¥ The white-tfaced clock opposite he wasn’t, really, He says ie ' eos “ and Sow pe gomaen Rad bettie tee a. anaes ie Beneath a headstone made 7 ——r | hei use g at their m and each ©} ' for two ‘mall © per month, & mom, $1.90; your $3.80 oom to kiss his wife good-by, | her. jno Use making up funny thi 5 elle et some < ne kind of eats ; -reliaad hy carrier, ¢ Me a month por Rear edhe Ayal feot to his| Hut when, at the close of the|say when he can find a fact any- the four was covered with—yellow Secs Retaa maa sap ge bottle| | The tale is short and sad—he Gee Co, hone vain OG Privagliarme with a laugh, when—thore,| Pech, Qey were Invited to ask|Where or any time funnier than he Auffrago buttons! and from every! ii verial blahe ’ tried aectOg @ deere gD cdl ubdes his nant: a ging at him from | duestions, embarrassment foll, and | could tmagt@® tn a year’s thinking.” Vase and bowl floated @ ye ; “ rn To make love in am frafl cae tiaie 1 yello® background, he reg!—| they shifted in thelr seats and mut gary's smile rippled to a laugh.|*"ffraxe fag Pe “It win’t wo, tt ain't #o, it can’t annoe P bongs rs 1 »| ne! @ co oO * 1 sathus Why?" she erted Why be!" he whispered, as he grasped) go ae - “Potes (er W 4 He quickly | fled their feet ay or eo The color agd Nght and enthust ts uatiod Sis anly, but there|hold of « lamp post till th nay ene } © smiled humorous ou « old o! spon > bor OW, uvkinwd, willy uy-|looked shyl¥ ong at avatBer, Ret | Gye Dolled to Mrw, Logget's taco) | Ml - rf so 4 | ° | ' or ig as a seriousness in his low volce.| feeling of his wabbly knees hard-| , @ umanity an Unknown aware of (er c@DmIcD jt length Moe Rebhény gran, agus» Her lips moved, but not to heard Pou speak this after-|ened to supporting qualities again.| If this fe really to be a war of The “Welt aw Montag.” a Berlin newspaper, recently oaiyo » ware Aad some fla. ©) Two German prisoners were shipped from Saigon in Asia|to tp “Oh!” assured Peggy, quickly, d by a German submarine. The prisoners were in the} s, athe pins \ sha'n't do anything bad it, the French non-commissioned officer, who had them in/yowd get yourself tn Jail. Only id set them free with the movement at all?” ‘ F | don’ ow,” said Pegay They managed te save themselves by swimming, but the eth es See ees ys. 34 ous Frenchman lost his life as a result of his humanity. | pomenow.” the prisoners reached Marseilles they voluntarily signed) A faintly humor vhich they pa a tribute of gratitude to their|to her husband's eyes Seats — ae 3 | 1, pet, send for some antt ctor, ©) The “Welt am Montag” makes this comment eat be dak, Oh einai “Huge quantities of documents of hate are being pub-| “No, almost daily here as well as there. In opposition, it is/ couldn't be an anti.” t f n » toward, "Why not? Lote of women are.” to point out from time to time that humanity toward wiaad” Wek-mek ¥ eens ae é W Hed the cheek of the German who wrote that paragraph. !t {s for women not to vote—and: ¥ have made hideous war more hideous by their inhuman-|putton and forget about a society it atrocities. They do not even display the ordinary sportsmanship of B good fighter. They bomb schoolhouses and slay little|« scrap about it—then—" They fire at hospitals and kill wounded. They} Pessy's eyes rose quickly © and sink hospital ships filled with sick men. They}, “But you needn't be against tt a bluff at rescuing men swimming in the water, after ine, leaving the men to drown like doomed rats in a/this society?” said he, sharply fen of surrender, crying “kamerad,” and then, when in ing distance, spurt liquid fire over their foes There is nothing hateful, nothing vile in the history of the|for a short while be Interested?” ey scem deliberately to have put themselves beyond ‘Ge pfctl tl le of civilization. They are reckless of the fact that they | morrow—1 suppose you'll h ve placed a blot upon the German name that can never be speaker and all the firework ir zeal for frightfulness, in their belief in the efficacy ba poten enagt sve Whe Il furnish th Ffuthlessness, they have left nothing untried Hg eg gh Hay boar Pe yp Real 9 » humanity, war as practiced by the Germans sheer | Manning - ~ * she cried, brist murder. To achieve it, they stop at nothing. They | 4. somethin © bound by no rules of honor, by no respect for the spoken| rn y y Pt i ‘other week of that » ower Bread Permitted eiat on the ribs instead of a wifely Fi i | “You'll deserve a slat if you try ‘The wheat price committee, recommending a basic price|to br for government purchases, agreed that this price re. a F fits” a 14-ounce loaf of bread, allowing a fair profit to|p unaea tele Sas Uk oe the flour manufacturer and the baker. house. “Permits” will probably fit the case. To the popular] A little while later, over the tele. Pp y pop’ ls n has recently been added thé knowledge that a drop| Phone, Edna Wilmers announced ir does not necessarily, hardly ever, increase the weight bow Bnd pl Tak ated te ons Tony loaf or cut down its price. : {Sam, and that she knew they were While President Wilson's fixing the price may be a blow planning to break up the meeting eat gambling and will result_in savings for our govern-| “Ob!” cried Peggy despairingly the effects upon him thru his usual intimacy with his |Cause. Gradually her eyes began to gleam with a new hope. Sam ———_—_—_— |the two, and, when disagreement WHAT'S BECOME of the old-fashioned farmer who sald there S10F® Detween them ft was always Ichy Sam who bent his will to Sam Money for him In $1.00 wheat? lIchy’s. Sam Ichy would be for her in this, as he was in everything else ART 1S the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being, ‘twas the former made us men—Schille j | ‘A $250,000 painting has been stolen from a Russian grand duke’s oy: sudo toady ta na tea ent? Its owners have no cause for complaint. They ought to be|ichy e id the palace was left. : CHAPTER XXX1L It was the next day at two in the jafternoon. For an hour, pouring down each of the four roads that led to the Crossroads Chapel, had come the jingling of sleigh-bells, jand each and every sleigh held a |woman—or more, and each driver had clambered out, lightly or heav- fly, according to her age and weight {and habiiiments, hitched her horse, lanketed {t, and gone tnside. | Inside the Chapel portals, in knots of twos and threes, here and there all over the place—in the "1 THE man thinks about his physical or moral state, he nearly al- discovers that he is ||! —Goethe. ty | THE NEUTRALS should realize that while Uncle Sam Is cut- ut the middiement at home it ie only natural that he should the same abroad. LIVE HOGS are almost three times what they were three years Yes, two-footed as well as four. ely show the former czar HIS LATEST pictures most appropri; 2 to be up the stump. hunched together {n the pews, the feminine contingent commented and exclaimed and avidly questioned each other. |a ncant white-haired bit of a wom- an impatiently. “Don’t walt for lever! Can't y’ see how worked up |we all be?” | Ann Patton settled herself let- jsurely in a pew, and it was consid- erable settling, as she weighed 170 ‘pounds, put on her reading glasses, |still leisurely, and smoothed out the paper she was fumbling “Here it 1s, Em'ly, But Ia! you know 's much ‘bout {t as me.” Nevertheless she read it Mrs. Laura Mercy Legeot, the well-known suffrage leader, will speak on Woman Suffrage in the Crossroads Chapel on Thursday afternoon at 2:30 p. m, with a view to forming a local Equal Suffrage Society, You are urgently requested to attend, Edna J. Wilrears, Peggy Pattoa Trowtwidre, € ‘0 & lnvgb cume from near the “Iehy Sam sys he'6 wming to [ee meeting, ud ths wed are all | ob meine amd! car wotbina, With Ichy Sem Ryesling the men agunst it, the only society Peggy'll able to pull off i an anti. Which ‘Il let me out. I’m not keen on voting, but I'm not willing t’ fight again ft, elther.” The door opened upd® Mrs, Lag: get and the committee. All eyes fastened upon the newcomer, What they saw was a sifght woman of middle age, with a sweet, plain face Junder smooth parteg gray hair, be- comingly gowned ia blue tallor sult Mra, Legget started in at once to convert her audience. She was a Look for this signature Ht Aedly All Wheat Ready to Eat aisles and gathered about the big/ cannon stove at the side and! e “Coed benvenn, Peasy! Ware oN You Weartog (tu (bing? Folowd asernputionty. “Womum have witomicd bes chill!” ae mugmured erman ir ue Pewee bunt bur bed aNn™Mr to| Twn vo Yet on lone dmouKh, Amd to barat Them dhe wmpod. Mor iether yellow dation, und ar tt with ted an account of ap incident connected with the sinking “We're getting ep a soctuty, aud E the French ship Athos about 250 miles east of Malta last oo & Whole baxful of buttony Good Lord! Haven't you enough rest you without smashing tS France in the Athos. On February 17 the ship was tor-|windows and burning up houses?” cabin and regarded themselves lost. To their amaze-|" won 7 aidn't exactly moan that/ defiantly around on whosoever ran down in the sinking vessel, unlocked their door)why do you want t' be associated us smile leapt |suffrage literature, and see if you * said Posey gravely, “T @ enemy also puts forth its blossoms in time of war.” Jexcited over trying to keep things H One is forced to speculate whether a blush of shame as they are. We know already how as we are aware, humanity toward the enemy is a blos- ar - ee, oh seo how ft "é be Phat is totally unknown to Germans. To the contrary,|” «como, Peggy, let's take off this heir lack of decency and chivalry and fair play, their/It'l! only be a bone of contention ‘ . * between us. “If you're for woman suffrage and I'm against tt, we'll naturally argue—then we'll get tnto darling. Men belong to the woman frage party. You can be for ft.” P Ship has been sunk, and then deliberately submerge the “Then you mean t’ go abead with water. They come up to the enemy with hands aloft)“And I can like it or lump ft. But of 3 P |why, good Lord, why should you | Trowbridge meditated tn silence of the world of which the Germans have not been guilty.| “So !t's Just you and Edna shout- Ing #0 far, and the society depends | s eoting to- a out and that will never fade. In their lust for power,| “They wrote that they'd send a "War with them is no longer combat. It is something!a shrewd calculating expression in than overcoming the foe. Robbed of all chivalry, gal-|ber husband's eyes, “What ‘re you Trowbridge, if you ething to spoil our meeting, by no regard for decency. | “There! It's begun already. An-| w button and you'd be greeting me with a ak up our meeting,” cried egay's husband rose and left the ‘ ; . e jt this awful news that Ed had} and its allies, the ordinary @onsumer will have to dis enlisted Ichy Sam against the Let us hope for a 14-ounce loaf at five cents! |Ichy was much more influential of Eyes wsparkle, cheeks flushed! |to break up th | “ “What d’ {t mean, Ann?” asked|! war horse in the Cause, and no one kaew better how to present the jg Caltadaihel deed ol data dlladt bee ba as ages 71D vom, our,” she Rew AtowS manmmwts®’ “You dear ywo way (rue, we lume too much Mew Frowtridue tad tripped to tu about Gomens duty to fer home rar of the room and avw mood ber unde restion om leby ‘» shoulders, Who, at her ap. vote and look out tor oar owe tn. proach, had orisoa and teed ber torests, We've been cheated out | solemnly. of our privileges right and left,) “Itchy Sam,” sald she quietly. Just plain robbed.” Then, with a|“gam Ichy {# for us. He told me ‘I'm with you, heart and soul, that he was willing to shut every | ma'am,” she plumped down, gazing | man who opposed us out of his house and never let him in till he dared to eriticise her bristling in-jwas on our side, But It's your dependence, |house as well as Sam Ichy’s, and “Madam Speakeress |his shutting ‘em out won't help us, Tt was a male voice from the|if you let ‘em tn,” last pew, left. The “speakeress’| Ichy Sam started at this an- directed her gaze back to a very/nouncement of Peggy's about Sam rotund ctreumference topped by a Ichy's attitude. Like his twin, Iehy with the door ajar my | things couldn't life I've helped things to er 1. Tom and I were in the vestl-|"No sir, something {s wrong, such | “If I'd had coffee this morning and when you spoke of growth—I|rq het my rubber collar to a Lib be,” he continued patgn understood. And then I had to help erty Bond somebody put a shot of ee lyou, of course, just as | |looney liquid in the Java, But I - “Just as you always have,” com-|qidn't have any coffee, I know I| nig ors ba pleted Peggy, in startled compre | didn’t, because I got it fn the rail-| ee Pte ous s ae | mension | “Not always,” he sald simply. this town.” \*mut always when [ saw it that With that, he unbuckled himself ay—ns growth, as something You| from the post had to do. For then highway th But he didn't get to finise that +), wonders ye: sentence; and Mrs. Legget, pre-| while im Wonderland tending ignorance of the fervid| jembrace, continued to address the| small boy It was a starry-eyed Peggy who bent over her diary that night, writing busily while Ed slept | be delighted road lunch room before leaving for Cel. Clarance Blethon MAY from the command ef the ‘Then spent « fortune for @ shaft ‘Te mark her welcome grave. exhaustion, we feel safe in predict ing that the telegraph editors ang bulletin writers will be the first t@ succumb to another Russian camp and started to hoof) Aatter plowing thru « fivefoot Little did he know t to be encountered mt his transfer very red head that she rightly di-|Sam was naturally a radical, tem|" gh4 wrote: “Ed loves me, even| Puget sound defenses te seme | Poetry by correspondence school. vined to be the “Ichy Sam" spoken |peramentally tnclined to further of so mysteriously by the commit-|new causes and help the onward! tee. marchers, Whoever they might be. “You expounded true, ma’am, an’) Now, with Peggy's pleading eyes! Miss Robbins opineated true, Wom-|upon him, he grew suddenly dis an has been squehed. I'm a bach,/gruntied over his position of De- ma‘am, an’ not havia' ary wife er|fender of the Male Sex daughter of my own t’ bamboozle| “I got t' save y’ ‘gainst yorself, an’ browbeat an’ deelude by my | P Thin he suffragett masculine supsereority, I Jest ain't no kind o° business fer you nacherly goin’ t' set ca’mly by « . he blustered. see other men enjoy that thievin’ “You say you've got to save me privilege. No, ma‘am. Riz, woman,'against myself,” repeated Pogsy sez I, riz in yer valeant might an';"Yoet, I don't think you'd try to overthrow the ty-rant Thar ain't | save a growing vine by slashing its a woman tn this here whole com-|loaves off every time it put ‘em munity who has enough shelves in/out. I can't tell you how much I her kitchen er pantry, ma’am, An’ want this soctety, but—but {t's to mostly tie stairs air on the wrong’ help me, not to help it, that I want) ride o' the house, shettin’ out the/ft— If I was a plant you ‘n’ Ed'd , ation, whieh frritate and inflame | the use of Bi-nesia, all leading sun, an’ the doors don’t open con-|study me carefully to seo what'd) Tacoma that the mill and logging || {h.Scneate stomach lining, is the | druggists Dow keep It put up ready venient, an’ the windows look out}make me grow tho bert, and would| camps of the Index Lumber Co., at || direct cause of most of th ble, | for ‘use in both tabi kuplunk on the barn an’ the hen'give it to mo, no matter what !t/ Index, Wash n@ of the biggest || Therefor aiewaters, ine of fhe oy ener pam house—whar there fx a hen house. was.” concerns in the state, has || {8 sliow the wena lonthal ela lamaation: "money An’ why? Because Man bullt) Sho walted, her eyes expectantly her house an’ Man planned {t,/on his, not so much questioning tn ma‘am, The varmint! For years them, but trust. Ichy Sam moved an’ hundreds of years woman has from one foot to the other submitted to oppression and sur-| Her voice rose in passionate ap pression in the home—the place! peal, t Man calls her ‘own domain!'| “I only ask the right to grow— only been squshed but | just to grow!” A tense moment while Ichy Sam y? agin Tasks, an agin I gazed upon that young face turned answers—-Man! He plans the ho Irrestetibly toward life's fulness—a she does her work moment more while Ichy Sam the outlandish garments that dis | shrugged his shoulders over the figwers her body pn’ adulterates | discomfiture of the borhood's the food she puts Into her stomach | male contingent—including his own, #ticks his ornery band into ev tucked his antieuffrage principles important matter thar be, both in his boots and Peggy's arm in great and small. Goldast the p his, and turned to the “speakeress.” {nventin’, interferin’ bru If you've th’ papers thar fer ma‘am!” startin’ off this here soctety, y' kin His eyos swept over the others; | put three names down right now. his oratorical voice raised itself to Samuel Richard Loomis, Justice of still nobler effort the Peace: Peasy Trowbridge, wife “Riz, women! Riz! Let yer|‘n’ mother; Richard Samuel Loomis, motto henceforth now an’ forever|/bach. An’ y’ might Jest add etcet- be ‘Shelves or bust!’ jera, meanin’ th’ rest o' this com: He sat down and folded his arms,| munity, male ‘n' female. For them his face becomingly grave. Little that Peggy ‘ns’ me can’t git, Sam titters followed upon his silence. Ichy kin. Now, !f the sisters will Mrs. Legeet'’s face dyed to crim. excuse me I'll go and inform my son. The Cause has been attacked waitin’ brethren of thefr unazimou maliciously and—unprecedentedly. election to Our Equal Suffrage So-| For once she did not know just how|elety. And the Lord have mercy to countercharge. She heattated|on my soul!” for words, wanting to choose them He stalked toward the door, well, knowing that the fate of the turned, raised his hands above his local society depended@upon the is- head, uplifted his voice tn a yell sue with this unexpected foe. |that shook the rafters, a big, rip- A gray pallor replaced the crim-| pling, roaring—"“Hooray!—Hooray! son of Mra. Legget’s cheeks. She|—Hooray!” wanted to cry—not salt tears, but) Mrs, Legget had not been able to tears of blood. She was worn and|leave on the 4:07 train, and the desperately weary with ber sex's|next train was not due till 8:20 deadly inertia and lack of soctal| Peggy eagerly took her home with onsclousness, her to supper, glad of this oppor-| -- tunity to postpone the encounter CHAPTER XXXIL |with Ed alone. Ae would never “Madam Speaker.” | never under “Mra. Trowbridge.” to do as & The speaker's worn face softened | wildly, a2 and that she had had id, her heart cried would be ¢ al to a She did not expect/and deeply hurt over her defiance words of from the slip of a his wish The criticisms woman { |Pegsy could stand. But the hu “Ichy Sam Loomia),” be-|jook in his eyer—! And the ques. gan Pegey » here a-purpose| tioning of her love—-! She trembied meeting. Yester-| with arrant cowardice before the day I went to Endwater and aspent|thought of these. all day in the iibrary reading up| “Oh on woman suffrage, thinking I'd be| home. ready for his argume -|nant distress sho cast a quick friendly smile over| Mra. Legget, conjuring up a her shoulder at the little man “1 sinton of a smart, domineering, bru- might ‘ve known that Ichy Sam/tal specimen of the husband spe id get in a stroke that I hadn't | cies, followed her hostess into the thought about, or that wasn't in| house with inward reluctance, fall the books,” She Inclined her head| tng quickly behind her at the door a little nearer the speaker, smiling | way that led from hall into Iving- uttered on the way and “Oh!” in polg: wou “7 BL BCTRICITY’S Latest Achievement Wonthrough the medium of akite string it hag performed mighty feats in the service of man—and now it has been given a new and perhaps greater task—the mov- ing of the nation’s commerce and travel across the mountaing, e On the “Milwaukee” for 440 miles over three ranges of mountains steam baa given Plach fo electric ‘ity. Nosmoke,no cinders, just smoothgylean travel on trains traditional for the excellence of their service. ° What more delightful vacation than a trip to the historic East over the electric high- sei CHICAGO i Milwaukee & St.Paul RAILWAY Reduced fare tickets to Chicago and cities East now on sale, We wilt plan your entire trip and arrange all details, City Teket Offte SECOND AND and I love Ed hurts, it's when he's cronsest iil my heart |so full of love. 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