The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 21, 1917, Page 6

".E. ID, IK.'s.*. COLYUM i { AR |} i} |THE SE + * MEMBER OF sCRIPVS NORTHWEST . ‘Telegraph News Service of the U ATTLE ST - @ | BY CAROLYN WELLS HAGUH OF NeWerarwne (Continued From Our Last | I showed her the ring and asked i? A WORD FROM JOSH WISE Ula, Waah., Postoffice again if she could ‘hot _ remember ever having seen nite seh ted “i basin Never,” she insisted, “Madame Fi seca jae @ would not own such junket or w'at! hg see you eall it, And 1 have never be Dear BE. D. K fore seen It, no. . “Vida,” 1 said, suddenly, “you ented a way of taking tigavet ta te ‘rhia saves have not told me all you know of} 'HEREFROM WE DRAW A LESSON a cigaret in the arm. at-that night of Madame’s i one all the trouble drawing in and that-t _ Suppose, when the Liberty Loan was announced, nobody | Flowing out smoke, carrying match: |death, Tell nen Ss ehou 3 eaty said ssessed any savings. es and knocking off ashes. Do you) | It was a chance shot. I oaly sald ‘body could have bought Liberty bonds on cash pay suppose I can get it patented ah hacen Se ger eaa § pecree i A . eee and yearned to share ft Success of the loan would have been very questionable But, no. 1 know nothing. id ha i _ y J “Yes, you do; out with | But thousands did have savings—and they went to their Yes, you do; out with Itt” ks and drew out money and bought bonds. — This war will likely be a long war. There will be more The government will need much money, just as it will much powder and shells and food When the next loan comes will YOU have money Miss Field sitting on the stairs.” | Miss Field! Sitting on the ataire As I have sald, to repent a state ent blankly is the surest way to} ampilfication thereof. | “You, sir, She sat on the stairs, Looking over the war dispatches we note that the Russians are fight ing on the Aa river, Probably us ing Bb shot TENG! ' Avold fresh paint and people. motionless, at 4 o'clock of the a | ; P seh | | However, you must admit the o'clock! Miss Janet? | Russians love to fight. But we) You're crazy!” wish they'd fight the “But no, I have not the craze. 1) stead of fighting one another. come from my room, which {# on | eee the floor above, and as I am cold There may be an excuse for|I go to the hall cupboard for another J | boosting the price of me things.| blanket. It t* permitted we do this; ’ w +4 | But where do they an excuse |if cold. Then, as I leave my door,| ? Will you be able to step up to the cashier with pride | cor poosting hogs? There never|I see Miss Field @lt on the statr and ask him to was a time when the old U. 8, A.' five, six steps from the top. I slip ur ¢ please hand out $100 so you can Uncle Sam? had as many hogs—if you know|back to my room and she does not) : ‘ y what I mes wee me. When I peep forth again, 3 oP he begin to save today you will be able to hel; gr aa ~ ted cf next time he needs help ‘ SUFFICE If 14, 18 ENOVOH “Look here, Vide. 1 belleve in 3 7 wr ave more seli-res yo To wny they be you onesty u t ‘ou re : what's more, you will hi lf-respect if you r honesty, but I think you are| money saved. You'll have more spunk in your system, ee mistaken. ‘Come with me, and we! will ask Mise Field. She ts in the) library now.” | “Oh, I ike not that!” | “I didn't ask you of your prefer ences. I sald come with me.” Unwillingly Vida went with me, and I took her atralght to the I brary, where Janet and Lord Her-| er | Tingdean were atill sitting, talking. | trancing pleasure resort, pep in your actions and more of the flash of life in your | lagen the placte ie today to SAVE A LITTLE MONEY REGU- ‘There’s no better habit—no more useful service. SAVE YOUR MONEY FOR YOUR COUNTRY! US KNOW THE WORST! sarin, warning the happy circle that the| "Alay Field," 1 began straight : ‘ wns gone, sunper was announced away, for this might be a plece of | The senate’s plan of war taxation has passed to confer- a ere in alt ie aplender’ hemes|MY material, and I mustn't mise a it i hoped that the basis of federal taxation | ward bow wrbids ws chance, “Vida says you were sitting and it is to be hoped ‘ ighitwt dey.!on the staira the nizht I long be fed its pleas. (Ng. rather, of Marybelle ey. Hot, wald Janet, « | was | | Lord Herringdoan gave alittle ox-| clamation of astonishment, and 1 went on, “at 4 o'clock, Vida saya.” | | “Yea, about 4," agreed Janet “T thought I heard some one moving about downstairs, and I went out to| look down. if 1917 will be settled with the minimum of delay " Neither the senate nor the house measure is conscription | Mem wealth, by a good deal, but the senate measure stands for ress in that direction, and the long-continued un inty to taxation is surely becoming a peril to all busi and a nightmare to the individual. Over two-thirds the year 1917 are past and nobody yet knows how to cal- ul jis tax out-go. : i ey will re-convene in December for the long ses rye ‘ ze on, and additional sources of revenue will certainly be one wher t pio A Seager LR oil the subjects it must consider. most know, Mr. Prall, my hearing | * Hiram Johnson and his following have made a good fis very acute, perbapa abnormally conscription of wealth and made more progress tow 0 Msg on he ar very faint Mithan was perhaps to have been expected. The seed is|_ What # ico ldoking cove ob! Sis thought 1 beard an tatra lanted in public thought. It will germinate and yield a) / oie in his web making Why? er. | stepped out to the hall and Ae to sitting on the Can't you make out, under the coat | she emiled a iittle, “that is ‘The present need is certainty. The business of the coun-|of dust, the letter writing material? ought to have at least the task quarter of the year in which| Oh, yeh! Weil, that explains it. /taviam. I have Indian blood tn my| * 1A safe place for a spider to apin| Yeln#—North American Indian, 1 } try to adapt the business of the whole year to the new re-|) =a E ares letter ‘writing aun jmone, and by putting my ear to the terial. wall, or to the ground, I can hear conscription of excess dol-/ Well. how Is it Postmaster ard beehbenpen? Feat down ane pat} | gar Battle's mailmen are kept busy? Against the wall, an mae oe neve what we cen iy Why, they're rrytae those y- ° letters that say, ‘Why don't you! tion of the senate’s plan will surely mean many | write me more often?” That's what ts for the ranks of those who are fighting the blood- | 50 per cent of the people write in We are not going to get full from this session of congress. here tn the library.” “It was 1” and Lord Herring-| dean flung back his handsome head and looked proudly defiant. ‘, ca ti 50 per cent of the letters to their “a « Profiteers. If not money-conscription this time, then) (7 Dit “iat “write back the same|Was kept awake by those con-| t on. | thing to them. tounded—1 beg your pardon—by Ls, The other 50 per cent of the Iet-|those annoying ghost stories the T IS A GOOD MOVE lters read, “Why don't you pay your! girls told. I am foolishly sensttive| bills?” to such matters, and when I tried| What to do with the aliens in our midst is a real, live.) Here is the big reason why there to sleep, I seemed to see that lone, ming question, so many of them are jumping into the | isn't much letter writing: Because yellow hand, creeping—creeping—| bes vacated by drafted Americans, and the senate has People don’t know just what to| well, I simply couldn't stand it. 1 write about except the weather, and|Kot the jumps, and I came down| tkled it by passing the Chamberlain bill. Under this measure aliens of the central powers can be Mutilized for necessary purposes during the stringency.” In her words, such aliens can be drafted for other than fight- nearly all the papers print the|#tairs to see if I could get a peg of! country’s weather reports anyhow.|brandy from the aldeboart. But! eee there was nothing of the sort! One of the fighting euffa just re-| about, so I wandered in here and leased from jail says there wasn’t|ttied to read. I couldn't bear to purp n . . ht i t k-|BO to bed again and see those German aliens, for instance, will not be holding drafted aa waa ae rae ta — 7 ae wretched spook visions.” tricans’ jobs, while the latter are at the front fighting had been engaged in some work t it was you, Lord Her 0 protect them and the jobs ; outside of prison she wouldn't have |! 4 said Janet, fixing her | There is widespread demand for some such measure. found time to be sent there i iar oy ss 1 goveel ; ly ia: hail on | have called Spears to look after TWO 14-YEAR-OLD Berkeley, Cal., boys have killed a woman You can see what happens when J re comes oe ee the old man’s right arm isn’t strong enough to run the ranch | Adam and Eve Alexander and Draga Nicholas and Alexandra. Constantine and Sophia. We expect to add Gustav > she was “old, very dirty, and no good anyhow,” and professors ef California university are studying the psychology of It. We fi mut that when boys go to killing folke because they’re dirty, the I in boys. AUSTRIAN FLEET bottled up at Pola and the in Germany,” and nobody abie to pull the cork! wakeful and wanted to read, and, aving satisfied myself there wae » burglar, I returned to my room. | I saw you, Vida, when you poeped it at your door, but I didn’t speak, lent we waken some sleeper.” | tm German “some- The real quie' and e oi : oe an “Oh, Miss Field, I'm gind to In war seems to be a fleet that isn’t big enough to get out of a Mecngieg to the list one of these know all. 1 wondered why you sat ‘ on the stair. Now I know.” | And you know why I was prowl “lve ng about,” said Herringdean. wondered whether I oughtn’t to Sect vention {t, but there seemed no vig need, so 1 Sin ” nas <>) said I, eagerly, “If that) iy, a Daye was the very hour that some v marauder did come in and turned b, 1 the gas that killed poor May belle, you ought to have caught a glimpse of him, Herringdean.” | “| didn’t see anybody, nor did 1| hear any sound.” | Did you, Miss Meld?” “No unexpected of ut astanatte sound. 1 heard Lord Herringdean | moving about, and I heard Vida, as| she came into the hall and went | back to her room.” | “As you sat on the ataira you! were right against the wall of! Marybelle's room—”" I said, think ing aloud, rather than inqutfring. "Yes," and Janet's big, dark eyes were full of grief. “I could hear! her breathe. Her asthma, you know, made her breathing audible! and my hearing is #0 acute.” “You heard no other sound tn her room?” “Absolutely none. Had there been, rest assured I should have! heard ft. Had there been any one else in there, I must have heard him breathe, even tho he stood mo- tionless otherwise.” “And this was at 4 o'clock?” About that,” sald Janet. “| glanced at my watch on my return| to my room, and it was a few min utes after 4. Aw T had satisfied my-| self that the sound I heard was Lord Herringdean, I had no further, anxiety on the subject,” | “To think,” exclaimed the Earl,| ‘that you sat there by the wall of) that room, while Marybelle was be ing murdered—” | “We can’t be sure of that,” I sald. | ‘The doctor couldn't place the turn- ing on of the gas definitely to the minute, It may have been done after Miss Field returned to her| ro ‘af Another Great Mountain Range Conquered by Electricity The mighty Rockies, the Belts and the Bitter Roots have bowed their lofty heads before the onward progress of man. The limitless energy of their Jv Dr has been harnessed to furnish et for the giant electric locomotives which haul the heavy steel trains of the “‘; Road” across their rugged slopes. And now another great mountain range—the snow-capped Cascades in Washington has felt the hand of the conqueror. The work of electrifying the 2 7 oi rior _ lying the 211 miles of line through Mountain travel is given a new charm—no smudge of smoke paints its¥black line across snow-clad vistas—travel is clean, smooth, silent. When next you journeyZacross the continent travel the electric way—via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry. Electrification and western travel literature free on request Second and Cherry. before I left it,” added I agreed We were all silent for a moment, thinking of the strange situation The Earl in the library on the first floor, Vida in the hall on the third Jy STAR—FRIDAY, SEPT. 21, 1917. lecould | reach PAGE 6 “The MOSS MYSTERY” necond and Marybelle in third floors, and her bedroom on the second floor, perhaps at that very|at this juncture, I had to) on one ~ { ‘ The regrettable thi t the viettm of foul play side, bright and new, Doubtless the |S4te thoroly its contention of losing bl ama Aids 16 that nine out a The fact that three people were | Tne had been slipped there lately, | MOMey What if that company does | oe 19 one sees on the street have awake and stirring made {t difficult 40d was not a relic of Marybelle's |0"® money? If It ean not furnish) Oo in their mouths to nee how an intruder « »| mother’s time. eee ‘ ean tad Gin aly ean ene hundreds of starve cone about thin dastardly d Hore was a start. A tip removed, | out of Bustiers, and the city Will) ai oricans and Belgians, why {t wae already impoeald a ring added, by way of preparation | fzniah tt \should not the men economize, as how the deed could have b for the deed. ‘Thin told me, at the| The statement of the exconsive/ On tn. women, and not putt and the story of Janet's vigil on the Moment, only the fact of definite |Co#t Of production of gas in this) ME) My ee Ae oe datinrs which . stairs added but a trifle to the mys) 2nd deli preparation. Wan it|Clty may be true, put it appears) Ooi ie nut to better use? poe Helen Wesley's ring? But Helen|#omewhat queer to me that in| oe our boys to be aweet, “Let us go to Marybelle’ wan fo matter-of-fact, not at all| Washington, D. C©., the compan pure and clean, that th have . « Marybelle’s room imaginative. That was more in|there can furnish gas at 70 cents fi ible chance retu Jand think 1¢ over,” I proposed, and) (ymminMtive. jand continue in business. I under-| the best possible chanes tf veltrm Tow > enid tik we tae | While up there, I studied the key | #tand the price in the District of Co-|t? 4# Seana ee. ae i he A ene De et to, tht that had been turned. It was, as a|!umbia has been reduced to 66 edir-aruhicrn 5 nwo and ho! whole, diamond-shaped, with a|cents. That city is not #0 ¢ lore to conse and say what we really think round bulge on each corner, It was |the coal fields as the local com Editor The Star; The Star de I shall be glad to!” Herringdean of filigreed brass, in openwork pat-|Pany, and {t also has to contend | serves great credit for {ts con | burst out, “I've tried to keep it) tern, With my lens I studied the| With freezing weather from No-| sistent advocacy of conscription of back, but I'd like to put on record) dust in the interstices, 1 looked | Yember to March wealth to pay for the war. No that I belleve Marybelle'’s death, saplently for fingerprints, when 1| Many people in the District of! single measure it ever expounded | Was in some mysterious fashion | realized that if 1 found one it would| Columbia use gas for lighting as would have so far-reaching results brought about by Mr. and Mra, Wes-| probably be my own, as, when 1/ Well a# for fuel, and yet their bills for permanent peace among nations ley, or both,” sprang for the high key and turned |@re not as high each month as we|as a law providing for conscription Janet looked at him in horror,|!t that morning I naturally gave it| pay in this city, of wealth to pay the expenses of Her great black eyes seemed to ac! cuse him of wickedness almost equal to the crime itself. She was about to speak, but I interrupted “Why, and how?" “Why? To get possession of the fortune coming to them at her rath. They knew her marriage to me would doubtless deprive them of their expected inheritance. How? » means we have not yet discov but their room ts next this, some diabolical contrivance was used that defies detection.” The Karl was very much in earn- ost. Evidently he had long wanted to express his suspicions, but had ontroiied himself, until I invited frank speech “You aro wrong, Lord” Herring dean,” said Janet, and her quiet tones were emphasized by a vibra- tion of Intense conviction; “it ie {m-| possible, I know the Wesleys bet-| ter than you do, and they are tn- capable of such a thought as crime to win fortune! Please never hint such a thing again, unless you have some shadow of proof or some sug. Feation as to how they could have accomplished it—" “They had motive and opportunt ty," 1 began, but Janet cried‘ out Op tunity! What do you mean?” | “Only that they occupied the next room, and no gne el#e was as near. As Lord Herrihgdean says, suppose | some diabolical contrivance, intro- duced, say, thru the open bathroom and window—thelr bathroom is next, you know-—perhaps a long, jointed tehing rod, Inserted—" t looked {neredulous. “A Tod that would come in at the window, turn round a corner, he Kas to turn It on? It did sound absurd, and as we looked at the distance and the devi ous directions It must take, we were forced to discard the fishing-rod theory | “But something like that,” per. sted the Earl. We talked a long time tn thin vein, We suggested and riddied| and reach hear somebody moving about down | tome Ingenious theories, and at last) Wbat smaller in size than a lead my two visitors left me to brood alone, | And brood I 414. Started on the! fish-pole track, I devised a pliable affair, of finely tempered steel, that be insinuated and finally| the gne jot Could force enough be exerted to turn the key at that distance? Well, then, a magnet on its end, that should pull the key around! Fine, as an exam ple of a fecund Imagination, but ut terly impracticable, as a glance out! of the window fn question showed me. Then, I advised mynelf, the fame contrivance put thru a bole in tho wall, But, tho I examined the wall between the two rooms inch by inch, even atom by atom, | there was no hole thru ft. The parrots blinked back at me, and 1 could almost hear their words of Jeering scorn that I could not find| out what they had silently wit-| nred | “Tell me,” I cried, “you grinning | wretches! You saw the me com-| mitted, tell me How? V Who?! How? Why? Who?” I sounded like an owl, and as 1| realized it, I said, angrily, “Don't! tell, then! The owl is a wiser bird than a silly parrot, and I will fina! out for myself!” 1 sat down in my thinking chatr. 1 took from my pocket the ring the moonstone ring “This ring holds the secret,” 1/ mused. “I'll wrest it from it Is this ring a sign or a clue or not? If it tm, it was placed on that burner by the hand that turned the key—" Ry ald of the step ladder, which I kept in the room now, I looked at the burner from which the ring had REAL PAINLESS DENTISTS vr Paes n order to introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which ts the lightest and strongest plate known, does not cover the roof of the mouth, {f you have two or three teeth left in the mouth; guaranteed 15 years. Gold crown ... $3.00 $15 set of teeth (whalebone) $8.00 $10 set of teeth . Bridge work, per tooth, gold White crowns .. Gold fillings ... Silver fillings ++ 600 Platina fllInBS ..-eeeeeeee ees 750 All work guaranteed for 18 years, Have imprension taken in the morn- ing and get teeth same day, Bxam- ination and advice free. 0 fice famples of Que Plate ae Work, We a | © Test of Time. t of our present patronage ts amended by our early custom: whose work t# still glving good action. Ask our customers wha re ve tested our work When coming to our office, be sure you are In the right place, Bring this ad with you, OHI Cut - Rate Dentists ey UNIVERSITY #7, ‘Fraser-Vaterses Ca PPPLIPIPLLLPS LLL LLL LLL PPL PLP PLLA eee | r, Janet on the stairs between; been taken, It wan lightly crusted ‘there be anything in the fish-pol | down between the walls. |be the hole was for the entrance} ) | Letters to the Editor you are advocating #o strongly, None but a tobacco fiend or a trust would encourage our boys to indulge GAS PRICES Hditor The Star: The high cost of living has undoubtedly hit the vaBons gas company, but in view of its|!n such a r,t Ao rye present exorbitant rate it seems to| The boys who have no v pe me that it would b el] to investi.| the habit are not hankering for Copyright, Paget Newspaper Morvice with rust and dust, It showed a slight werateh (yen, I did use a lens a hard dab. Well, | found no defin Something is wrong somewhere.) war. Such a law would hit the ite print-—never did think much of | Let In the light on the situation very class in every nation who are ‘em anyway—but I imagined or I Ww. J. M. interested in fomenting trouble, thought or hoped that I discerned ——- No one who knew he would have a cleaner hole in one of the cor HATES TOBACCO to for it would ever dream of ners of the diamond than in any other, The diamond was longer than wide, and fn one of the side apexes, the hole showed a brighter insiae edge than the oth Could staging a fight LEO NORDRUM. Editor The Star: 1, too, would protest against this tobacco fund The Bank of California National Association of San Francisco game, after all? could taper small enough to go thru that tiny hole, and have any strength at all And, too, there was no hole for It to come thru from Wesley's room, and the idea Wt no fish-pol of its possessing the human intel he ligence to wiggle thru the bath. * . Re uatow Gat Mat uoastent United States Depositary its goal in the corner of the gas burner’s key was a little too much to ask Of course, I didn’t have in mind Statement of Condition an ordinary fish-pole, I thought Pee ‘ vaguely of 6 willow band, of a long Including its Branches in Portland, Seattle and wire, of a jointed steel rod—oh, I Tacoma, at the Close of Business, had a magictan's whole parapher- nalia in the back of my head. Yet, nothing could be done with my ideas unless I could find the hole thru which the instrument of | th had enter®d the room. I scanned the mopboard all around, the door frames, looked behind pic tures, and at last began feeling for what I could not discern by sight I pawed all the walls, punching A smug parrot now and then, to} ease my !mpatience, and suddenly, on the wall next the hall, I felt a depression. It was high up—I was going round the room on my step September 11, 1917, ASSETS Loans and Discounts anne aee aren ecoemeneneeer ee $A45,507,100.48 Bank Premises (San Francisco and Branches). Other Real Estate — Customers’ Liability under Letters of Credit. Sundry Bonds and Stocks. — United States Bonds to secure Circulation____. Other United States Bonds —.___. —_— Redemption Fund with United States Treasurer Cash and Sight Exchange... 1,198,403.08 150,000.00 27,132,439.19 ladder—feeling at the height of the * LIABILITIES burner fteelf, and the wall paper | - gave a little beneath my Capital Paid in Gold Coin ne u I felt a queer ation | Surplus and Undivided Profits — before going further I stepped |f| Circulation down and locked the door and re-|]| Letters of Credit ; turned. 1 carefully investigated, ||| Other Liabilities 1,101,024.58 and found there had been made, on ||| Deposits —. siianiatemasan’ wees ean aie aan the paper, a cruciform Incision, and the flaps were atill in place, » that | the crossed cute scarcely showed. Carefully I turned back the tour | tiny triangular flaps, and saw a neat, round, cleancut hole, some | $98,055,456.98 The Bank of California, National Assoctation, San Fram cisco, and its Branches in Seattle, Tacoma and Portland com #titute one association, under one management, and depositors at any one of the bank's offices have the protection of the entire capital, surplus and undivided profits of the Association, etl. naw at once ft had been made with Marybelle’s auger, and I thought, disappointedly, “one more place to hide her jewelry!” | The hole was too small to hold | any jewels, unless some small} chain or narrow bar pin, and, too, any such thing would have fallen Could it pen Ls AGENTS FIRST NATIONAL BANK, FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, The Bank of California of my hypothetical fishing-rod? I ; : looked thru, but could see no light National Association. and concluded it did not go clear SEATTLE BRANCH: 801 SECOND AVENUE, FE. C. WAGNER, GEO. T. 8. WHITE, Manager. Asst. Manager, thru the wall. But I must see, and carefully replacing the minute flaps of the wall paper, I went out into | the hall. | (Concluded In Our Next Issue) The management of The New Washington Hotel desires to an- nounce the opening of a series of Supper Dances to be held Monday, Wednesday and Satur- day evenings of each week— 9:30 to 12:30—the opening dance to be held Saturday even- ing, September 22. Music Furnished by Wagner’s Orchestra SoS KAS S Wy"