The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 22, 1917, Page 4

_QEVENTEEN years ago, when German troops were about to depart from Brem- erhaven to help suppress the Boxers’ rebell- jon in China and secure revenge for what had been done to Germans, Kaiser Wilhelm said, among other things: “If you meet the enemy, you will * defeat him, give no quarter, make no isoners; let whoever falls in your a hands be doomed. Just as a thousand ago the Huns, under their King Etzel, made for themselves a name which to this‘day is a mighty one in tra- dition, so may your appearance make _ the name German be feared for a thou- "sand years in China, so never again will a Chinaman dare to look askance at _ any German. % ES Ave. Near Union Se. OF SCRIFYS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWS Telegraph vice of the Untied Press Association Entered at Seattic, Wash. Postoffice as Second- mail, out of city, as © x7 cs iy month up to 6 mos; & mom $1. rier, city, 200 a month. t E "The world is too busy acting to do much reading | Americans read only about 80 per cent as many books! three years of war as they read three years before the} began. Tn 1910, the record year ‘in United States publishing when apparently everybody stayed at home nights and the midnight oil, a total of 13,470 different titles were in 1916 only 10,445. )The publishing business is as keen as any other of different books printed is an accurate index @mount of reading done “Why are Americans ceasing to be bookworms? Evening ‘jaunts? Or are they completely occupi@! with their The to Q that the day’s news pushes all other reading ma t library table? ‘Men said the war would turn the race to religious thought} [make mankind want to be comforted by God’s “rod and ” But it hasn’t. Americans read one and one-third as p books on religion and theology in 1910 as in 1916 High prices and food shortages have sent housewives ing to the library for books on domestic economy? ly. Only 157 such titles in 1916 as against 332 1910. ‘The diagram speaks for itself When a nation is devoting every energy and resource t the world safe for democracy,” it hasn't much time d about dead heroes or dead deeds. Not much time for when the day's facts are stranger than fiction Even books on travel show a decrease. Only history fecord of the past by which we try to understand the ‘presents a growth 10 LONG, LETTY! © We want to thank the “So Long Letty” musical « 0 yy for the splendid manner in which they organized put over the Friday noon show at the Metropolitan for The Star's tobacco fund F o railways’ Most folk find the h. ¢ aaid t such autumn pers in these days when history is being made, so rap-|on the sport pages about the ball tter off|players who are going to give Ty }C family in the United Stat a ton of coal saved a ton last winter burn it in PITY MAYOR OF has developed master wacht" | who ha mous lett STAR—SATURDAY, of Substitute for the word “Chinaman” the word “allies” and the speech might have been made at the beginning of this war. The spirit of ruthle’ sness, of Hunnish savagery, of utter disregard of restraint which breathed in the words of the kaiser in 1900 is just as alive in his heart today and in the hearts of his men. The Germans have not made war as civ- ilized human beings t nake war. ‘They have made war as it was made a thousand years ago. They have made war as their ancestors made it long before that, before the religion of the God of Love them. had been preached to The God to whom the kaiser is always appealing and of whose aid he is alway: cocksure, is not the IK."s.". | COLYUM By Lannnnnnewnnrnnnnrr The high cost of living, says a consulting engineer, is due to the poor terminal facilities: of |. due to heir own poor terminal facilities, f. being so constructed that hey are unable to make both ends meet “The law,” sald ex Fort, talk ng of coal prices, “in full of t Jaby, permanent or false? eee sends it, calling it R. M | Standbys’ Every time I see A new toy I go in And buy it For my kiddie And each time 1 picture His delight in receiving it Then when I take it Home to him He gives it the Jabbers an In his baby rope it ind goes back To an old tin And piece of wc If skirte are to be any kling is around he lingo, box . shorter, might beneath her little mice coat (That is, of course if there's a thing as any more.) A petticoat eee one fine thing about You never see anything There's ‘obb a battle for batting honors. Doe Harry Garfield urges every to save What's and uly and August ALTWASSER; HE GETS ALL BLAME The Prussian town of Altwasser humorous burgo- “Schwaebische _ Tag The says “The burgomaster of Altwasser. been oded with anony- * accusing him of fail ng in his duty as regards the food supplies, has caused a reply to his accusers to be posted at the town hall It reads § Stage folks are busy folks, but Miss Charlotte Green I am blamed in letters for the and her players were not too busy or too s h to re-| scarcity of potatoes, for the heavy mber the actors in a vaster theatre, where rs is the|rains and the consequent muddy director. state of the streets, and for the nembered th ¢n who a tanding in the/!wtal appropriation of food remembered the men who are standing in the| Cords on the patt of many of the ys of that theatre awaiting their cue |inhabitants. Besides the writers thought of the weary nights these men will spend|of these missives attack me for ’s men tobacco. lanager George Hood, of the Metropolitan theatre, did » the Metropolitan orchestra and stage crew con- their services, the naval militia band and the helped, as well as all others whom The Star aske it was the “So Long Letty” company that really did Tonight the company plays its final performance of a| '§ engagement here. It’s a good show. Its people are sts and good scouts. If you haven’t yet seen them, do tonight. So Long, Letty, we hate to see you go. HAT ARE THE KINGS THINKING? And now it’s statesmen of Italy who -are boldly declaring it their country is in the war for “the democratization of Ss. We would give something nice for the private opinions the kings of Italy, England, Belgium, Rumania, Serbia Montenegro on this world-wide movement for democ- . We already have a fair idea of the czar’s (Ex.) opinion n it. atarrh of Throat Amalie Bt, Farce gad mig Could Not Sleep have suffered with catarrh of the No I caught cold and it settied Appetite iy jit ci p war widows in cannot be allowed to remain wid- ows for two reasons, place, the empire looks to them to| blood of the nation ts being thrown provide an army for Germany's fu-|!"to this world’s war, and we know ture defense, and in the second) Mot the end |place many of them are attending |th@ conservation of waste, Christ-| jto the business of their late hus-|™as gives us an {deal op bands without possessing the neces. | to practice what we preach sary knowledge. Ret married at p| advertisements erally read by war widows,” -rimmed, mud-fouled trenches, and of the comfort och gd pele ony with more sco will give to their fretted, shattered nerves rer aie toi: opr gl ate ien they acted : om - eit poe rae "aes Th 4 nvite some of these pett! From the giddiest chorus girl to Miss Greenwood and fogging spirits, who have no other ger Cyril Ring, the “So Long Letty” company worlkged | 'e* @ than to besmirch the rep 2) : , ae tion of their public officials, to and night to produce a program which would please|-one and dine with me any gun le people and swell the fund which is to buy Uncle | as fs ‘They would regret not having stayed at home to partake of the meat with which they are no doubt provided, |and turnips which they would find rep ble |GERMAN WIDOWS | MU instead of the cabbage enting the jgint on my MARRY AGAIN Germany's new “National Com- pleases neither the for The “at least Crefeld equal “General “There are more than a mitilion Germany. They Ip the first “All the widows must, therefore, oldiers, in and out. | ta-| ones, and, prefer-| ably, to wounded or otherwise un-| fi oO tan God of the Chri ' Armless, Legless, He Has Six Children . is ap Herr Groy was born without |arms or le just a bead and trunk He is now 60 years old, and was married 30 years ago. He ts the father of six children, three sons and three daughters, He was born in London, but has lived in Berlin, Germany, for many years. Two of his sons, big, husky young men, are soldiers in t nglish army. ey, Editor's Mail | COAL SITUATIONS Judging from your various {tems about the coal business, including the conspicuous one last evening The Star evidently te not aware of the local coal situation You make the excuse that retall « coal at a higher price per contract than the president bas fixed If you had taken the trouble to ask, you would have found that the big fellows would not give them any contract to buy ahead at any time within a fr ago, The retailers had to pur chase their coal without getting fur ther notice. And thelr rates kept Increasing whenever the wholesal ere felt like dt, until prices jumped to what they are at present A READER | CONSERVATIVE CHRISTMAS It is urged me, thra your editorial, “Let's Begin to Think About Christmas,” that there are dance halls in this city that have a of $5,000 a week; that there is one famous candy and re freshment parlor that has an equal revenue, and if this is so, the reve nue from the dance hall and the ice cream parlor {a sufficient, under present conditions, to run the en tire Red Cross organization of this elty It is also stated that $190,000 a month, at least, line for cars used strictly for pleas ure purposes, This ts five times tha amount that the Red Cross of this city is at present able to spend to relieve pain and save lives Can we not, all of us, bring our selves to a realization that Christ mas this year {s even far greater than the Christmas .that comes from Bethlehem and from Christ, and means 4 life and death struggle for the survival of and the en largement of true democracy? T have not the slightest doubt in saying that {f every citizen tn this jelty would read your editorial, and act upon it, that the citizen himself, lor herself, would be better as a cit! revenue mittee for the Remarriage of War|zen and more helpful in the com- Widows” | widows or their spinster sisters,|there !s not one of us who would the former objecting to be disposed | desire to eliminate the many little of willy-nilly, and the latter con-| Pleasures | tending | chances.” Anzeiger” explains: | munity and in the nation. While that must, and should, |come to children at Christmas, we | should cut out te the core the giv. | ing of presenta one to the other, the lindulgence of costly dinners, cele brationa, the extravagance im drees, for, after all, what are the material things of life when the very life If we really helleve tn h. | J. F. MANNING, FOR TOBACCO FUND Editor The Star: In reference to Mrs, R. A, MeMillan's letter in | (Continued From Our Last Issue) | beneath the hole I nad found in, her Indian tribe, and smouldering | ! | | is spent on garo-| “They may reat assured that the |Your column, would like to say a national committee will handle the few words business with the requisite discre. fon, The committee will pay spe lal attention to men in the how pitals,, and will insert anonymous in the papers gen. my throat, and I coughed badly Now Well. ‘was very weak. I could not sleep 4 had no appetite. I had two doc- We Alwa al Have PERUNA in th and hed taken so many different and found no help. I thought Home. ~ — | Those who object to liq | will have to give up; but at last ly mother read about Peruna, so 1 "i “medi cines can procure Peruna Tablets, of trying that great medicine I got # bottle of it and 1 four ys | almost stopped jing, and after a while I surely relief, and from that time we fe not without Peruna in our home,” Dr. F. N. Freer PHYSICIAN AND SURGHON rectal Traders’ Block ave. and Marion i m.; evenings, 7 to / 10 to'1% Phone Bl- I think she ts wrong. Even if any one is against tobacco he should have at least a little consid. eration for our boys who are fight- ing for us and our beloved land A good smoke is about all the enjoyment that they can have, and why deprive them of that? What about women? They Invest about {oll their money in cosmetics. That Is extravagance also. I way to every American citizen to boost the tobacco fund MISS IRENE PERRY, Burnside Hotel | SEPT. 22, 1917. PAGE 4 the Hing of It is the God of his Hunnish an- world, cestors, a God of batt! in bfood. es, a God that rejoices No man, not even the emperor of the Huns, could dare ar worship, when his ha the blood of the innocents. have outraged wome dren, carried off the assassinated civilians In no way, as a ppeal to the God we nds are dripping with His minions n and mutilated chil- helpless into slavery, upon the high seas. brute and a barbar- ian, is King Etzel the superior of Kaiser Wilhelm. mould. They are from the same Just as King Etzel made for himself a name, so has the Hohenzollern—a name of jnfamy which will be execrat- ed by generations y: et unborn. SS the Huns Just as he desired the name of Ger- man should be feared for a thousand years in China, so the name of German will be hated for a thousand years thru- out the world. It will not be necessary, after this war, to form an economic tions against Germany. It is a union of hearts and ready formed. of spirits. union of the free na- The union is al- To mark an article “Made in Germany” will be to put on itt People will pass it by THE GERMAN FOR A PENANCE WHICH WILL MENT he mark of the beast. ‘PEOPLE ARE IN AND A PUNISH- LAST FOR GENERATIONS, THANKS TO THE KAISER AND HIS HUNS. “THE MOSS MYSTERY" BY CAROLYN WELLS Just then the luncheon gong sounded I stopped the Earl as he went by and said, imperatively, “I shall not be at luncheon until later, Keep everybody at the table, until come. On no account let a single one leave, on any pretext. Detain them by force, if necessary.” He knew from my manner how in earnest I was, and, nodding bis head, he went on downstairs. Silently as possible, | visited ev ery bedroom in the house, search ing my final clue. 1 now knew How, I must learn Who and Why After trying several rooms, learned Who. Why, | couldn't imagine, but the motive would soon appear. said there are but two motives for murder— money and revenge. Well, it waa doubtless one or the other I went downstairs and went first to the cook, Mra. Klum. in a way, housekeeper also. “Mra. Blum,” I sald, “who dusts airs?” ‘Which stairs, sir?” “Any of them. Say tween the second and third Moors.” “Well, sir, ho maids are kittle cattle. Take the lower flight, now Norah, the parlor maid, dusts up to the landing, and Vida, the chamber maid, the steps above “And the flight above haa no half-way landing “Well, sir, Vida does the lower half, and Ellen, the second bo: maid, the upper, There's a divid Ing step, I don't know which {It te but they know: ah, yes, well they know, and neither grurl wed touch on the other side of it, Why, sir? Any complaint?” “No. Call Ellen here.” Ellen came, frightened out of her wits “There ‘se no fault to be found with your work Ellen,” 1 said pleasantly, “but there's a bit of money waiting for if you think streight and clear, and an ewer one or two questions.” The girl stood quiet and looked compored and sensible. “Yes, sir,” she sald. “Think back to the morning that we discovered the death of Mrs. 1 th that? It you Moss. Did you dust your stairs as usual that morning? “Yen, sir Wes there any unusual dust or dirt on them? “There was, sir. “Was tt reat, not hear it “It was, sir I gave her the promised and went to the dining room. Those at table were just having coffee served. I took a small cup and declined Helen's solicitous of fers of food » all were finished. l come with a little Tl whispered the wanting Mrs, Blum to reward 1 asked me to Mary seated, please,” I said, “tT olved the mystery and I want you about sat down. nk and Helen on the edge of the bed, Janet in a little rocker, and the Earl in the straight desk chair. I closed the hall door, and stood by it, scarcely knowing how to begin my sad rev elation method of bringing about ath of Marybelle I have dis 4," id, “the one who did , T have learned, But the motive 1 do not know. I will show you first how it was done.” I took from a table where I had laid ft, a long mattress needle, the kind used by upholsterers for tuft. | ing mattresses or furniture. Also 1 took a spool of heavy, dark linen thread, and breaking off a piece about six yards long, I threaded the needio with it. Then I opened the hall door, and stepping outside brought back a strong, hich chair. This I placed directly beneath the eas burner that had been found turned on. I thrust the long needle thru the hele In the side of the key, the hole that I had thought seemed Tees dusty than the others, and pulled the short end of thread completely thru, Then, unthread. ing the needle, I pulled the thread till the lengths were even. Then, twisting the «wo ends of thread tightly together, I threaded both at once thru the needle's eye, Refraining from glancing at the portunity | face of any one of my audience, I stepped down from the chair, and| moved it over till it was directly Thoroughness our methoda y consistent wit 4 Pala om Savings Accounts Accounts Bubject to Check Are Cordially Invited. Peoples Savings Bank SKOCOND AVE. AND PIKIG 8T, 1 | She was, | the Might be- | the wall of the room. xt the hall Getting on the chair again, showed them the tiny flaps of pa- per, turning them back carefully |for they were getting worn, and thrust the threaded needle thru the hole, leaving it there “1 will ask that no one moves for & moment,” I said, as I stepped down from the chair, and went out in the hall. | In a moment, thore in the room | jaaw the needle pulled on thru and the threads drawn after it until taut. I wat on the stairs to do this The needie had come thru the wall j}and thru the wooden mopboard that 2 up the staircase next the wall hen, slowly and firmly, I pulled both threads at on and the watchers in Marybelie’s room saw the key of the burner turn slowly, as the thread pulled it round. It direction of the thre: turned till it was in the same direc- ition and the gas was turned on full. Then, letting go one end of the thread, 1 pulled the other, and the whole length was drawn thru the hole in the key, thru the hole ‘in the wall, and disappeared from view of those in the room and closed the door 1 returned, behind me. “That is how it was done,” I said simply, “An ingenious means, but neither complicated nor difficult The hole was bored with Mary- belle’s own auger, perhaps some [time before it was used. The thread was strung thru, doubtle jthe night it was used, before Mary- | belle came up to retire, With her nearsightedness and her low, shaded electric lights she did not notice the thread, which was pulled by the murderer at—the doctor says—about four o'clock.” Who did it?” said the Earl, hoarsely, his face as white as death itself “Suppose we ask for a confes sion,” I said, keeping my eyes on the floor lest the face of the crim inal unnerve me. I will confe " said Janet, in low, even tones. 1 am the mur derer. May I tefl you about it? see Jane I looked then t Field's face aglow with vital emo tion. She sat upright in her chair, every m je tense, but with abso jute self-control ‘A red spot showed on either cheek and ber binck eyes blazed with almost a wild Heht “1 killed Marybelle,” she sald in exactly the manner Mr. Prall has shown you. Now, I will tell ve why Nearly four ye ago l came to live with Marybelle as companion and secretary, I told od to Bradley Moss stay with her some. a year, when | her I was eng and wanted t thing less than would marry him. Marybelle agreed to thiw and sald 1 might leave when | chose. I was and wanted to save up Mary- until From very ny bell poor, alary for my trousseau. had never met Bradley he came here to see me. the moment she saw him, jplanned to steal him away from jme. For time Hradley resisted |her charm and was true to m lauching with me over the wil and snares she lald for him. But an could long bold out against ha woman » flattered him, |she teased him, she tempted him, |she lured him with all the powers no lof her siren nature. She made her- ef beautiful for him, and wove jan ntment that succeeded at liast. He came and told me, He was manly and frank, He was sorry beyond all words, but he| Jcould not bb married her. “1 went away, broken-lived, but willing to forgive [them both if she would give him happiness. You, Frank Wesley, |know whether she did or not. You |months or less, how she made him rule his very soul JiN, and the doctor ordered him‘ to Arizona. Marybelle refused to let him go, and kept him here, dancing | attendance on her, tho there was |no longer any love on either side Sho shed her charms on other men, Then he grew -she was unfaithful to him—yet she made him stay here until—um til he died hand as if she had stabbed him with a dagger! “After his death live alone, and she asked me to come back to her, I came—for this |sole and only purpose—revenge! I am of Indian descent, My |forebears were of the Cherokees, and a vital, an innate trait of my character is revenge—Justifiable re jvenge. And I vowed that in her happiest hour, 1 would kill Mary- |belle, as she killed me. went out when Bradley Moss died | Had Marybelle loved him, had she | made his life happy, I should have rejoiced.” she couldn't Janet rose, and stood, a tragic, a Gominant figure. Tall, lithe, and strong, she looked the epitome of |she was cold and cruel to Bradley | killed as surely by her | My life} she | ak her thrall and my broken hearted, | |know how she tired of him in six | |her puppet, boasting that she could | Copyright, Paget Newspaper Bervice in her great, cloud-black eyes was I| the dull light of a soul's revenge, | an accomplishment of the vow, a Mfe for a life! ‘I made it my life-work. 1 plan- ned for it, and 1 waited the day, which I knew would come, when Marybelle should be on the thresh- old of the greatest happiness she could desire. It came the night) of her engagement to the Earl. I didn’t falter, I was in no whit | stayed by a thought of pity for her. Indians are not like that. The time had come—that was all. I came up here while som were playing bridge, and 1 knew where all the others were. There was no chance of failure, but I must do my work perfectly. Bringing in that very hall chair, I stood on it, while I removed the tip from the burner. Then Janet's clear voice faltered a lit burner the betrothal ring Bradley had given me. A poor little jewel |—but the symbol of our deep, pure, perfect love, that Marybelle stole away from ds. Thru that ring— at sign manual of our plighted troth—-should flow the fumes that should mete out righteous judg. ment on the woman who had mur- dered my beloved “In Bradley's name and mine, I put that ring on the burner, and thra it came the death that avenged ovr wrong. Marybelle had killeg both our souls—wiifully, knowingly, purposely. Also, she had killed Bradley's body—wilfully, knowingly, purposely. She has paid that debt—a life for a life. The murder of our souls, of our happi- ness, of our hopes, can never be repaid. I have no care as to what becomes of me. An Indian never forgives or forgets. My life ended when Marybelle stole my love. There is nothing more.” Janet sat again in her chair, re- axed but not limp. There was a silence, and then she said, in her lence. Are you taki All you need do is money order, cash Bank by Mail Banking by mail Is a modetn conven- |usual tones, “What am I to do? j Tell the authorities?” | cried Frank Wesley. “Thi story shall never go beyond the |four walls! I forbid it. Here the cone was done, here it has been explained, No one knows but the |four walls, nor shall know. You * with me, Herringdean?” “Iedo,” said the Earl, firmly, 1 don't know what became of Janet Field. I left Woodhurst the next day, as my work was accom | plished and my connection with the Moss case at an end. 1 had achieved my desire, I had |solved the mystery of a murder [committed in an inaccessible room. | I don't suppose any further eluci- dations are needed to make all clear to the reader, or to impress — further with my marvelous perspicacity and perspleulty in {handling this affair. Janet had first conceived the idea of her plan by seeing the long, thin auger which Marybelle had bought for the purpose related. One day, when Marybelle and all the servants chanced to be away for the afternoon, Janet had bored |the hole, with extreme care and caution. It had begun in the wall had stood at right angles to the tle, her scarlet Mp trembled, but | at the height of the gas burner ad. Now it W85 she went on, “Then, I put on thatj/and had come out thru the base board at the sixth step from the top of the stairs, She had care- fully removed all plaster that fell and all sawdust on the stair side, and replacing the tiny paper flaps, had bided her time, without fear of discovery. The night that she drew the threads thru, she had let fall a slight dust of plaster without know- ing it, and this I suspected, after f began to see into the truth. She had pulled the threads at four o'clock that morning, when Vida saw her sitting on the stairs, Her marvelous hearing had let her know just where the Earl was, and also had shown her that Marybelle Was sleeping soundly in her bed, | Janet's own poise and controlled |mature enabled her to answer | Vida's inquiries casually, and to |turn the question of the situation toward the Earl. | The plan was the concept of a (master mind, but I may be par doned if I add that the solution of the mystery was the achievement jof a mind rather more remarkable, THE END. HOGE BUILDING Second & Cherry Owned and Occu- pied by this Bank. ng advantage of it? to send us a postal in registered letter, express money order, bank draft or check on local bank. Write us for parti Trust C The procedure {fs simple, for we credit the amount in your bank book and re- turn it to you by mail. 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