The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 17, 1917, Page 6

Our boys—Uncle Sam's boys—are fighting in France. Think it over. | They are not in camp for ten days; they are not on | Mexican border; they are not drilling in arrories | They are FIGHTING in the trenches | Many of them will never again see their homes, this iful God's country of theirs and ours. They will die be buried thousands of miles away, with a little Oden cross at the head of a mound of dirt to mark fall. In time the elements will destroy this cross, and per @ bursting shell will level that hill of dirt. are dead | Are they forgotten in death? Wou know they died for the Stars and Stripes, all for their flag and us—we who are here at home our three square meals a day and sleeping in our ble beds. © Altho we are doing, or trying to do, our bit, still we fh sac- Mine wet, cold and muddy. We are not bleeding. We t comfortable physically. ery rings thruout the land— | bh Ave, ar Talon st. YS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEW Telegraph News Service of thi Uutted Press Association at Seattle, W sh. | | AIMLESS MEN man who has motored from New York to Seattle says on the whole trip astonished him so much as the of aimless men ‘was his habit to slide out of cities early in the morning d the traffic, but he was never too early to miss the P who idle away their days inthe public parks and boule- ds. And often he slipped into towns very late at night, too late to pass other loiterers of the same kind pn in the parks of cities whose papers are crammed ‘ads—“Help Wanted—Male,” these strays are always to Dn cool days they lounge in the sun, on hot days they fon the grass in the shade. They never seem to have or want them. They walk aimlessly. They sit ly. They look as if ai miessness had cursed them since fwere able to toddle alone. And probably it has . © Not much can be done to reform the habits of a man, 90 years of age. It is not likely any of these men will have a well-defined motive in his life the sight of them should be warning to parents. Get ‘child to work toward an end. See that he is able t his object. ess is a habit formed early in life. ad it can hardly escape the man who is able to rest in bed every morning while answering the question, am I going to do today? a who is trained in this habit will never have to hunt a im a park. DY, BOY! der the horse. thing in the morning the horse is hitched up. Then tr climbs in back of the reins. All day long the horse s where the driver bids. He stops when the driver shouts, and starts again when the driver yells, “Geddup.”| < attends no movies after working ‘hours. He just @round his stall and rests up for the next day’s work.| “Som ple, when they consider horses, get awfully senti : they waste a lot of sympathy on the horse. What really should have is not sympathy, but admiration. ice is the chief aim of life, the only aim, and the doesn’t do a blamed thing but serve. | Are you tired of serving? Piffle! Consider the horse. THERE GERMANY SHOULD PAY ‘The United States entered the war without any thoug ht} demnity or acquisition in any material form But Uncle Sam should write that German bombing of| ferican hospitals into his war diary and, when he comes to| the ¢ table, demand that the Teutonic brutes pay S for the deliberate, “a npprareere murders. And Germany be made to pay, too, if justice at all sways the peace menor — iddle Age them are Alleviated by Lydia E. ' Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. | Here is Proof by Women who Know. rane Lowell, Mass.—“For the last three years I have m troubled with the Change of Life and the bad ings common at that time. I was in a very ner- yous condition, with headaches and pain a good deal of the time so I was unfit to do my work. A friend asked me to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta-| ble Compound, which I did, and it has helped me in! every way. I am not neatly 80 nervous, no head- ache or pain. I must say that Lydia KE. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is the best remedy any sick woman can take.”—Mrs, Manoarer Quinn, Rear 259 Worthen St., Lowell, Masa. Tells Her Friends to Take Lydia FE. Pinkham’s Remedies, orth*Haven, Conn.—* When I was 45 I had the Change of Life is a trouble all women have. At first it didn’t bother me after a while I got bearing down pains. I called in doctors who ld me to try different things but they did not cure my gp One my husband came home and said, ‘Why don’t you tr dia E. tham’s Vexetable Compound and Sanative Wash?’ Wan I got and took about 10 bottles of Vegetable Compound and could myself oo ergs my health. I also used Lydia E. Pinkham’s mere Wash and it has done me a great deal of good. Any one to my house who suffers from female troubles or Change of Ttell them to take the Pinkham remedies, ‘There are about 20 us here who think the world of them.”— Mrs, Florence Iszuia, 197, North Haven, Conn, You are Invited to Write for Free Advice. 4 Be No other medicine has been so successful in relieving woman fering as has Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. fomen may receive freeand helpful advice by writing the Lydia B. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, Such letters are received by wemen only and held tn strict confidence, 4 | ae HE SEATTLE STAR ‘Fish Man Will Confer STAR—MONDAY, Americans, do your bit! Send our boys ammunition, food, guns, bayonets and the necessaries to win this war for us Quite right, send them, But what about SMOKES? \ soldier's work is to destroy and kill, so that we may live This work to him is repulsive. He is not a murderer He does not revel in bloodshed. He is HUMAN He doesn’t want to work all the time He wants play, recreation and comfort the same as we do, HE WANTS A SMOKI HIS OVERSTRAINED NERVES NEED ONI These are facts, not theory Perhaps you will say, “My boy is over there and he doesn't smoke.” D : Don't fool yourself, After he has “sat it out” on the fire step of a front line trench for a few days he will smoke. HE CAN'T HELP I1 Are we going to send them tobacco, or are we going to let them keep on longing? Phe need of smokes for the boys in France became apparent from the very start. Accordingly, a number of IE. DD, IK."s.". COLYUM , nd ny clube, Upen the festive links to play BY CAROLYN WELLS (Continued From Our Last tesue) | | ‘Then Cissy came. ». She wan the one to whom had confided the secret new necklace, tho, bolled With sundry other dubs, the down, it was merely a whispered of two as the women sald playing golf word or ‘yenet good-night on the stairlanding the From Mogadore, Uncle Kitchel Sight before Pixley postcards: “War hath its) “And,” Cissy related, “Marybelle victories no less than pea Or-| sald, ‘Come in my room with me, nery old Constable Seth Beardsley’s and see them’, then she said, ‘no, macientious scrooples, not tonight, either. 1 don’t want claiming © tho he wouldn't be touched by a draft that included the aged, halt, blind, toothless and club-footed Huh! Seth has a fourpound wen on his head, but no-serooples on anything.” to show them till tomorrow. But you'll be surprised!’ 80 that's why I thought she was keeping her or locked, to put up a trick on us, of some sort. But now | know the ris were taken away in the/ night, and I know-—" Ctasy’s voice grew solemn, “I know who did !t and who killed her.” ME. OF i * and the coroner turned pe “You do COME. mn her almost fiercely. “You do, “ung woman! Who then? “Pol ch ing whisper wild and weird in thetr sion. “H ox * she held up her roner began to speak, h sh hand as the e you don’t know what I didn’t suppose you But ft fs an evil # it who course t means! ald. attacks kills them! T has power of materialization or dlsap- arance, at will, And they can J and maim and kill, Hush! J tell yOu, till I have finished! This Poltergeist assumes any shape it and th ne was a hand le rong, yellow hand, and tt clutched Mra, Stafford, the mother by the throat; but in Marybelle’s care, it came night—ellently in the dark hour, and slowly turned on the gas. Then, laughing, In wicked, fiendish glee, it disap peared, leaving {ta victim alone- to die—to die—" “Take me away,” “take me awny.” And it was Frank Wesley who her away, beckoning Vida as the y went Coroner Kemble looked helples: she moaned, . Firet Impressions oe Big aches from little toe corns &# some men do when women fatnt grew. or fly Into hysterics. Altho they | No man {s ever too busy to stop 20 *8y women don’t faint nowa days. But there are other tricks and tell what a terrible cold he ha of the sex quite as effective, and | Most people are on the Lord's side a9 long as that side wins the | anyway, feminine evidence is so | money ctreumstantial and circumferential eee and ctreumlocutory, that I don’t There has been a great deal of | blame a coroner much for Ignoring agitation about tax reforr so |'t. However, I do blame him for far nobody has risen to mand | ° xh other things to make up the exemption of dogs for that oes | So the blameworthy Mr. Kemble 4 his tnquest’s slow length he fashion of the v ded snake, and what ‘ ents and recallings I thought it never “She didn't rah her boy to be 4 » done. a soldier,” applies to most women At last the name of Mr. Owen but our observation {s that she is Prall was called A line of an old jusually crazy to have her daughter sory Mashed into x marry a guy with a brass-buttoned | mind he cat, when called, will uniform. walk away 1 1 was ponsensed s2e of a strong desire to follow in the Charity begins at home, but that | cat's footsteps. But, of course, I doesn't reconcile the man who has/| didn’t, and I gave my evidence in to provide for @ dozen poor rela-|my best Friday afternoon declama tions. tory style. eee Now, don’t you think for a min The world ten't altogether cheer. that I wasn't sertously inter. Jess.” People have almost stopped 1 in this case. Interested, my arguing about who started the war. rd! I was crazy to get at real work on {t. But these men in charge saw only the tragedy—the COMMON-LAW WIFE he death of a beautiful wom d tho eager to fasten blame was to blame or what for, and they sy tulhek Gees Eoaesl Wie 1 no mental means of finding OAKLAND, Cal, Sept. 17.—A | out oot ith whom he admita a| When I detect, I cant see the des arriage in Michigan human sido at ail, I see only the , today claims separate main, material facts before me, and thelr Me TOE, the eae Tha, | significance. When a minister ma F Brown, 85, altho Brown fa ifving | e® & couple, he may be laying the LS dil thal gs ped pee fe foundations of a heart-breaking tragedy, but it is no » of hin busi laintif? also has married agal D ; en ness. He doesn’t ® the huma “I opposed my daughter dotn, , tik™ tia woman, le the Joti J aide of it. If he did, he'd refuse aftér explaining that after yeara of '© touch off the match. So with separation she had located Brown|™¢, | longed to get all this over, thru circulars her daughter had | “24 devote my intellect to the psi Be problem in earnest “But, you see, my daughter t#|, And at last it was all over Pate gh +4 but the shouting, and the coroner “How old 1s she?” asked the| id the shouting court. He s by way of summing up. “Forty” ‘was the tects, that the ‘case was inexplicable That death occurred in a securely fastened room, with absolutely no Search for Woman means of ingress or egress, there fore it could not have been a mur. Missing From Home Consequently, {t must. have ea fan By seis accident or suicide, But tt 1th ave. N. K., has been missing i not have been scetdent, for from her home since moti] set. eae ree Or Ae. h of the ing —- Sho had been suffering from a nervot breakdown for ae al months, and had returned t her home recently from a anitarium She left the at ock Frt i morning, and has not returr tho neighbors and friend © re io neieibor'and Hents tare TE ty $190 searching for her, that they hav " & | seen her on the street in the vicin-|] Furniture, Pianos, House- y Mrs, Stonebank has light brown hold Goods, Storage halr, partly gray, and wears a tan Receipts, Live Stock, Etc. All_ transactions If not or held strictly confidential convenient to call, write phone and our representative will call at your With Hoover, Sept. 25 nager of the Giavior nish Co,"ot acon wii | Sanders & Company 1003.4 L. C. SMITH BUILDING September 26 on the fish Phone Elliott 4662. food sit | uation in the Northwest, with excitement and {m:| and| SEPT.°17, 1917. PAGE 6 well known citizens organized the “Our Boys in France | same in paper before enclosing in envelope, so that it won't Tobacco Fund,” establishing headquarters in New York. | roll around, Remember, not a cent of your contribution They agreed to pay all the expenses, such as mail, office | will go towards paying expenses of any kind, All of it rent, ¢ An appeal was then n for popular con- | goes to the mmies’ tobacco fund tributions e a ance at every ce co! yuted | ' ite ributions with the assurance that r ent ntrebuted So don't 4é with your own “bit Clip the follow- | would go for the purchase of tobacco for the Sammies, and | ‘ i ‘ q ing coupon today, and send it in, properly filled out, with for nothing else | | your contribution Arrangements were made with the leading tobacco | companies to put up special kits. These kits cost the fund | [parame aot . " 25 cents each, but they contain tobacco that costs 45 cents | retail This amount, it is figured, will last ammy fora || | week, In each kit is also enclosed a postal, so that the TT EAE ir gs EY OA rm a Peg Sammy may return his thanks to the contributor Every | “¢ ? " « doling boys four packages, ench with = | | 25 cents buys one kit of tobacco, A dollar buys four kits, and that In ench of my packages will be placed | | | 1 « pow on whieh wm, " jenn he idier, | ete. The contributor of $1 will have his name forwarded | ie ae i SB. ve en Pees to four Sammies, | | The “Our Boys in France Tobacco Fund” is endorsed | Name secre | by the secretaries of war and the navy. The Seattle Star | | | | has heen appointed as the fund's collector for the Seattle 1} nes rccctsciecccers Sent. | | district 1] | | To contribute to this fund, send your check, money | ae order, currency, or silver Joccupant of the room, or imagined. Therefore it was not dent and must be suicide. it was clearly proved by the evi dence of the belongings of the 4 ceased, the clothing, the letters, and lastly, by an entry in her diary (which had not yet been read), that suicide was utterly out of the ques |tion. Therefore it must hay }murder. But that could not be, for no murderer could leave the room ;(with the doors locked and bolted behind him, and the windows fas tened. Therefore—but the coroner had completed his circle and had letarted round again, Helplessly he | floundered in the bog of his own intelligence. Therefore, he con | cluded, the deceased could not have met her death by accident, she could not have committed suicide and she could not have been mur |dered. He submitted that it was an inexplicable mystery It was. The jury returned an open verdict, Kindly explaining ‘and by this we mean that we find a sudden and violent death has oc curred, and we do not find the cause proved.” Legal phras sense of terminolory not have b be now the farce war oy sudden and violent curred and I was at the cause proved Barroweville, natural! ferment over the matte Oldest Resident to Rich, th abject was pi discussions were held, suger ade and enough »® to keep an ordinary thing for a year. ned to none of ther 1 took possession of Mary to work. often show a fine That could worded. And r and the h had oc to find sina nt ply belle’s room and ae’ You see, the fact that I can solve roblem doesn't necessarily mean that I can rolve it quickly or enst ly It simply means that I finally ive. l try, of course, to get the |by the nearest route, but it may be that the longest way round is the surest way home. The Wesleys fell enatly into po seanion of t stato. Too easily, some for I was ated to many sand % sinuations by the townspeople. to be obscure, I may well say that not a few opined that the two Wenleys were tn » mysterious way responsible for the deat Marybelle motive be speedy inheritance of her wealth But I didn’t think this, tho I was looking into the matte nd I accepted the W: in to stay on after the fun willin aley vitat nd see what I could discover. This invitation of the was in their favor, but if they were clever enough to bring about that mystert ous murder, they were clever enough to pull the wool over my eyes I say murder, . Sammies. Are Human, They Have Nerves, and Need Smokes When sending silve “THE MOSS MYSTERY” and no way|the She was all|to get up to It could be discerned | T But | the larg | the! for I gave up all| dea of autcide (for the dozenth time) after reading Marybelle’s diary, | The pathetic entry, written the night of her death, was enough proof for me, It sald, in part “Tonight, dear Journal, is the happiest of my life. I have an-| nounced my engagement to Geoff rey, and everybody see d « pleased. Even Helen was very sweet about it, tho I told her I should alter my will. Oh, I am so glad Geoff is an Earl! A title has always been my heart's dearest de I shall be Countess of Her ringdean! How different from be ing merely the wife of Bradley Moss. And the two men are as different as day and night. Brad was , in a way, but so slow and dull. Of course, he was tll poor fellow, but I wasn't, and I wanted life and happiness. Well, I shall have it now, And I have a marvelous string of pearls, I sball exhibit {t tomorrow, and how the girls will envy me. Cissy and Janet will fairly turn green! Tomorrow I must send notices of the engage: nm to the New York papers. I hope they will send up reporters Now, dear Journal, my only con fidant, I must go to sleep, for to morrow morning I ride with Geoff rey and I must look my best The tenor of this entry did not show a fine nature, I admit, but we never ascribed high-mindedness to Marybelle, She was one of For tune’s spoiled children, and had a knack of getting what she wanted her own powers of persuasion. none the less, she had been foully murdered, and the vil 1 must be brought Justice. Also, | had my case. A murder—it WAS a murder—mysteriously cor mitted in an inaccessible room WAS Inaccessible—and no clue to work from! I took possession of Marybelle’ room, I mean I occupied it, night and day, for I felt that only thus could I succeed in my task, I was not in it every minute, of course, but many daylight hours I spent there, pondering. 1 had chosen a chair in the front window, and 1 stuck to ft, as it was a seat prac tically commanding the whole room. Remember the house faced north, The room was the north east one, and back of it, southeast corner of the house, was the Wes 8s’ room, The north and east |sidesof Marybelle’s room had two windows each, and the other side, But the , wrap x Well! Here’s a Fish That Doesn’t Bark Like a Dog Copyright t Newspaper Hervice west side, was next the hall bath was between the room and the Wesleys’ room, as was also clothes clonet. Also was 4 corr nding bath, next back of Maryt ‘8, which opened into the Wesloys’ bedroom, Thus, the two bathrooms were side by side. But tho I hung out my bathroom win dow for hours at a time, and out of the Wesleys’ for, say, half-hours at a time, I couldn't for the life of me see how Frank could have climbed out of one and in at the other, when there wan no ledge of the any sort, windows were eight feet apart, and the one in Mary belie’s bathroom fastened with a sixinch opening. Only a monkey could have done {t—stay, a mon. HAZEL GLADE, Ont, Sept. 17—) When afloat he kept the strange key! The Murders in the Rue de| J. A. MacDonald, the Hudson Bay/| brute trafling in a strong net be- Morgue! Hut Wesley didn’t pos Co.'s factor at Moose Landing, has hind his canoe. sess & trained ape or chimpanzee, come to town with a etrange ani-} Apparently the animal-fish has and anyway, there was nothing for mal that seems to be a cross be-| no voic It has not been heard him to climb upon. A monkey can tween a mammal and a fish, to utter a sound. It will be shipped scramble pretty nimbly, but he It has scales and fins like a fish,/{n a steel tank to the museum of n't be trained to spring ad resembling that of a pick-| McGill university, Toronto floor to el nd a pickerel’s tail; but it| (Note by Editor: The last para- when the teh dar ur legs and its Jaws are set| graph in above account {ts be- benides t old Frank nine incisors Heved to be convincing proof of its 1 knew him well, and tho are furnished with)| veracity. Usually, when such sto- and He m to enjoy » thase of a seal; there ries are sent out by imaginative heir goad fe and didn't seem the fish-like ant- » no nostrils on the head. Breath-| correspondents, to mourn M yelle overmuch, yet g is thru the gille nal “barke like @ dog.”) I discarded the monkey idea as just The creature becomes “dopy"| . errant about as impossible as any other| when out of water. MacDonald] GEN. SERRAIL’S great army in theory. had to make quick trips over the|the Balkans reminds one of the The nutshell into which I put my final tabulation was simply this: The gas was turned on Marybelle could not turned it on. Nobody else could have turned it on. These seem to be contradictory facts. But there are no cont tory facts. Very well, tt one is a fact, and either. two hree is not @ fact. I am sure number two is a fact, anyway, it s far more likely to be than num. three, if only for the reason that there was but one Marybelle. oc se In Our Next Issue) German battle fleet—it is so quiet s on his way here by canoe. portag Girls! Use Lemon Juice! 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