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1307 Seventh Ave. Near Union OF SCRIPPS NORTHUWKST LEAGUK OF NEWerarkns Telearaph News Service of the Mall, ont of city, bbe per month; 3 montha, Pear, $5.00, tn the State of W hington, Outs! month, $4.50 for é months, or $9.00 per year. — With the growth of the great war has run a coinci- @ental growth of so-called war films. Dashing madly over “No Man's Land,” the handsome with a handful of American boys, captures the Ger- trench. Cheer, sustained. He is not hurt, and if nded, he never dies, '_ Im the last minute he does something disastrous to >» kaiser, and clasps the heroine in his arms. More ring. Occasionally the American flag is waved as a bait for ? The drummer pounds with all his might, revolver | man are fired, and there are numerous injunctions that kaiser be sent to perdition. Unexampled opportunities are offered for hissing and really heroic display of hate whenever the face of a ike-believe German appears on the screen. When the man commander provokes a splendidly made-to-order pic platitude from the lips of the handsome leading n, there are wild cheers. ¢ It is noticeable that men in uniform who attend the do not applaud the hero or cheer as much as the Probably they are so inconsiderate as to wonder w he is not in a regulation uniform doing his bit in eal trenches. The non-combatant masses, however, having cheered c ited and consigned the kaiser to hell, then emerge, shausted and content, feeling that they have done a day’s ts it Esthonia, a republic, protests against German oc- ong Occupation seems to be a favorite occupation Huns. J e king the King’s Favors Have we got our democracy on straight, when we no protest against King George's decorations of is. Pershing, Bliss, March and Biddle and his more re- award of the Order of the Bath to Admirals Sims, in and Strauss? As we understand it, such decoration is the prerogative the king. If so, we have the active leaders of our dem- y accepting favors from a king. If we are to have admirals of navy and “Knight Commanders” of army, hy not barons in the senate, counts in the house and Majesty the President? Why not Lord Baker instead ew? Why not Marquis Daniels, instead of hese decorations are of and by autocracy and tainted caste, and you can’t get away from it. We don’t intend at all pro-German by mentioning it but it is an in- de democracy, we are yoked up with half a dozen and a mikado “by divine right,” and we can go too the matter of accepting favors based on that sort er, it is possible and looks probable that the business will be carried to such an extreme as decoration commonplace and cheap enough to not our democracy at all. Albeit eternal vigilance he price of liberty and, sequentially, of democracy. 4 _ King of Bulgaria is suffering from mental STrAIN. third letter in that last word is superfluous. : Kaiser’s Medals A sweet little girl asked it. Just such a child as the in Belgium bayonetted to doors, crippled and mu- and scrunched under monstrous foot or tore from arms to be stuck thru and carried aloft. little one pointed to a picture in the outspread “How did the kaiser get all those pretty medals?” We thought of the Lusitania and those pieces struck } “commemorate” that world-horror. | We thought of the aluminum piece he gives to every soldier; it bears these words: “Strike him dead. The a of Judgment will not ask you for reasons.” We recalled some of the savageries for which he had ed the Iron Cross to his butchers and beasts of and atrocity. ' And we wondered, and answered that we could not an- but decided that the Hohenzollern would answer some for every one he wore, and every heart he tore and drop of gore in which his filthy fists had steeped! ‘ou can hasten for him that Day of Judgment which ask him for REASONS—by the simple expedient of tment, by “going over the top” with a W. S. S. pledge will pinch your purse but pinch him worse! ocracy Th Oil and water will not mix. Neither will a lot of other} democracy and autocracy, for instance. And be- these two will not mix, they have clashed in a death! for world supremacy. There is no need to define them, black. with the blood of martyred heroes, the other and shining with the light of freedom. To the lat- force our boys in khaki and blue have rallied. Over they are spilling their blood for freedom for all, for- Over here we are standing, a united America, back In the face of these great facts, can there be any for the smouldering germ of autocracy, however i? In one of our largest cantonments a dance was n for enlisted men, officers and privates, and was at-| d by both. One young lady present was thé guest of| She has a brother who is a captain somewhere| in officer. ‘France, another brother who is a lieutenant about to and still another brother, the youngest, who is a pri-| At this dance the young lady met| fate in the rear ranks. B number of former classmates, now privates. She pro- d to dance with them, and thus brought down upon ie head a cool reception from the officer crowd, who This ale ila ought not to have any place in ite, No Let-Up Now is just the wrong time for any real American to doing all he can toward making the allied war against y and Hun kultur a huge success and complete up, a paris reigns supreme at the present writing on allied side. General Disaster has taken charge of the Huns. The Yanks, the Tommies and the French been dealing the real wallop to the kaiser’s army, nerican The world war is still on! The French and Belgian Temains in the hands of the Huns, and until the watch- d, “On ql Make becomes a reality, there should be Tet-up in the helping spirit of those who are back home Amarin cS ored the privates and their friends as they would pillars) | CON OF AWIFE | APRA | ANNIE'S HOUR OF NEED | oo Late last night my phone rang and lite Margaret Anne'n voice came | over the wire. "Can't you come over to the house very quickly, Aunt Margie?” “What is the matter, dear? I'll | | come if you need me." | “Mother ts very ill, She does not | know any one and father is almost corasy.” | “Have you sent for a doctor?’ “Yea; father woke me up when he telephoned,” | “I'll be right over, dear, as soon | T can get he man at the gurage a have him bring the electric out for me. | “AN right, Aunt Margie.” | 1 tried th call up the garage, but 1 jcould get no one, Finally I succeed led in waking Dicky’s nurse and we went out to the garage and got the ear out ourselves. Someway my mind flew to Jim Edie, and I had a great desire to tel) t ree to call him up after I had gone, and then I thought that it was not for me to say 7 As I dr over to the “Queen Anne” that Tim had pur chased when he first was made com missioner, I could not help but won der at the great changes that had come in comparatively few years that had passed since Annie had come me that day with the black eye and had valiantly lied to me in defense of her man. I thought of Annie—dear, dear counselor and friend—the woman who had been more to me than any other—the steady fine charac’ who had many times kept me f ng fa snob. Then I thought of her as Jone who had made more of hervelf than any woman whom I had ever known, and who, if she were now leaving earth for the Great Un «nowable, was leaving behind her daughter and son to whom she had given much more than I could ever give to my son. Annie, in spite of fate, made her life just what she wanted it to be. Her children would always rise up and call her blessed And then my mind strayed to ‘Tim. What would become of him without the sure compass of Annie's Hove to steer him aright? 1 was sure that little Margaret Anne—or Margot, as the children called her—had absorbed enough of her mother’s teachings to get along all right, and the boy Harry would be mothered by his siater; but blur. good-natured, lumbering Tim Laff ty, I feit very sorry for him, had to go the reat of his life w Annie's protecting good keep him in the straight path Way up in the tower from the windows the light streamed. I could see that little Margaret Anne had house put te neneg and that her mother's condi he ing room, tion had been #0 precarious that had not left her after telephon: me “I'm no glad you have come, Aunt Margie,” mid Margaret Anne. “Fa-| ther is stamping around like a wild man and mother does not know any | of us.” | “Has the doctor been here?” j | “He in with her now. It is Doctor | | Virot, and he sald when you came to send you right up.” Quickly I went up the stairs. (To Be Continued) | FALL STYLES and materials for Suits, Coats and One-piece Dresses. RABY TAILORING CO.,Inc. 425 UNION ST. It's a patriotic duty. It save man power, the | same as a repaired shoe } saves leather. We've tne largest shoe repair shop in America, } | Bas, THE SEATTLE STAR—TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1918. Profiteering in Chicken Feed, Too Dear Miss Crey At the Ume and for some time past ery paper one reads, much in being said of the ways of the “unholy profiteer,” but tho T have read them all, I have not #een anything that ntates Just my pecull For inatance, when, in the good old days be the war, we were get anything we paid for we bought a we paid th price per pound and got CRACKED CORN Now, when we can only get cer tain things to feed our chicks, we buy a sack ed com, pag the price per nd asked, which three or four times higher than be fore, and get a muck of ground corn cob and corn—heavy on the cob Yet, the food administration sa Farmers, me MUST have more eggs to help win the wart" Kelieve me, if this is all we can buy for our money to feed our chicks 1am going to whisper in the pink ear of my boss chick to lay near eggs heavy on the NEAR. present in ev ore Play Square With Desirable Tenants Mine Grey: I own a home which is very desirably rented, and wish you would please advise me as to the most diplomatic way in which I could get to show the place “for sale” without displeasing the present tenant. A SUBSCRIBER Surely you do not contemplate selling the place unknown to your tenants, Since they are conscientious people and are dealing fairly with you, the leant they could expect would be a nquare deal from you in turn. It tieally impoasible to ob- je living quarters in present time Dear is pra tain desir city at the notice not with to place a non the premises you can advertise it in the daily papers, but at any event you should acquaint your tenants with the facta. Shall We Judge The Future by the Past? Deag Miss Grey: The experiences of forgiving are above the theories. Hefore | married my wife | knew of certain conditions in her life, and it was evi t to me, or so 1 wished to think it, that these thin ere all against ber will and better self. 1 loved her for the good I saw, or thought I xaw, in her, I heard ber story, which I already knew. I overlooked and never threw it up to her, and we lived very happily in deed Why? which she Necause of the attitude ok against herself when * ng. Not because she thought I ought to forgive her be cause lawas no better, Dut now ! am convinced that I did not know fact that, in this bloody business of promoting | '*ft the lishts burning in ber tower) near ail of My accusations are not dim pre monit. prompted by jealousy, but facta. She has betrayed that sacred trust, and has carried on an affair with another man. She admits that she had no grievances against me that I never neglected her, or, as she says in her own words: “You never ow reel to @ Good Position NORTHWESTER’ BUSINESS COLLEGE A Northwestern aw Repertiag Shorthand oC Service Heokkeeping Advanced Grammar NIGHT SCHOOL 7, Wridey Elliott 1581. Way For that auto trip, | up in three convenie: prepared, picnic, boat trip or theatre, NUT IEOUSE NUTS are put nt sizes. The cups, of heavy waxed paper, are scientifically absolutely moisture, dust or germs. them for sale everywhere. Yours for $5,400,000. sealed against You’ll find FESSIONS did or did not do a single thing that | wouta exouse me in this,” And then please give « nee?” “For our ebild's sake, and because uld not live without y: adn y person without experience “Won't me just please, more you one the utter Again I is man this thing right? d marry him and be a be honest.” But she does not want uh tion of it? I waid, “if ¢ other man claims he does, tho. She has told him to keep away, but he continues {n annoyances, He now brags about it and publishes it On one occasion it nearly cost me) my Tife when I surprised him trying | tire department for their individual | «7¢%5 go to find an entrance to our house in the night during my absence. Now I do not believe she encour. agen him in this; but I am told that | they write, This is the result of thinking that the future can be dif ferent than the past. The only way to judge a woman, is by her past, {and you will get Just that | Womanhood lost cannot be re | gained by love. A woman who has no self-respect |i only fit for the underworld and }it in a crime that such should want | to appear decent and aspire to moth | erhood. Still, the heart that hae tried so hard to save and to forgive, suffers more in seeing them go there than they do in the going If there is anything known among | | women that will change this, may it Do I love her? If pain, or disgust, or pity of it, then I do. Amide from this, there are many other hearts old and young that would wuffer if I cast her aside Now let your theorists give their advice. Can anything which in useless be |any good? Tie dapanese industry of making na, scarfpins, shirt studs, cuff and the like from seashells brought from the Indian ocean, the PRlippines and the South sea istands has made mighty strides th few years. Millions of the shells are gath ered from the ocean bottom by wom. en divers, who work without the aid of any diving apparatus whatever 1 | | | | Pyvvvevevvryy) or dimappointument is a sign | STARSHELLS | ONE A WORD FROM JO8H WISE lots of genteet ban. dits. , hang the expenne! | heap at half the price.” | I can't wear a darned sock.” “I'm not kicking on the price.” ose | THERE, BY HECK! | Certain parties habit of using the equipment of the | use, These practice must stop and anyone having any of the equip ments will return it at once and save unnecessary trouble. borrowed the lantern belonging to | the chemical engine is ordered to re | Mhe'd better re: By order of | she's quite Ii Morristown (8. | enemy before long.” | turn the same at once. W. K. Amoo, Chief. | D) World | . “The baby tanks waded thru the Germans,” says a war correspond ent, Forded ‘em—eh, wot? A Brooklyn boy caught, without help, 17 Germans. It's safe to say he never played on the Brooklyn ball tearm | anything Re that as it ma ‘The party who | | | thin earth with my husband. None of that tribe cap catch | or words to that you were always dancing with Certein.” See rurTH CHAPTER Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n Dr. Hamilton Cartets comes clone to being a short man, while Bob Lorimer towers, Certeis has a square torso like Napoleon's, His enope moun lung space gives him energy and power. Hob, too, is strong, but, like Lincoln, he 4s thin and awkward and loove-jointed. Certeis looks de eidedly foreign Ile resembles, per- haps, that pecullar and distinguished Itallan type which han atee! blue eyes and slightly reddixh wavy hair, Bob i dark and his hair is straight and thiek “Tony Curt would make a lovely spy.” drawled Boban Certels rejoined Chrys and disappeared with her down the moonlit veranda That speech wasn't like Bob. If he can’t say decent things about a man, Ons ™ iT TING AT MY SIDE has been in the|he usually holds his tongue like a gentleman “I don't know anything against Tony but his crazy name,” 1 flared, fancy when it's spelfed and only plain ‘Curtis’ when it’s pronounced,” “Also consider his nickname,” Bob said. “ “Tony Curt’—sounds like &@ banana peddler.” “Not a bit of it. “Gee! Chrys says he has a real Spanish duke for an uncle.” 1 can see Chrys planning to be the queen of Spain som, her future in her pet oulja board. If she takes to find perself interned as the favorite wife of an alien I changed the subject. “What kept you #0 long?” I asked. “Father.” From the tone of his voice I knew perfectly well that I’ never get another word from Mr. Bob on the subject. It doesn’t take long for fathers to say good-bye to gons even in wartime. But Bob's father had used up my precious parting hour, perhaps the last hour I'll ever have on And I can’t know why! } it taciturnity or by any other name, that mood of my husband has most of our sorrows. Bob never tries to control it. Maybe it's ® maybe @ mental, irritation, but, either way, I'm wondering if it ‘1 came to get you several times while waiting for connections, but Bob spoke as if the matter were effect, George Light is manager of quite unimportant the Dayton Gas Co at Centerville, Mo. see A FOX, THIS ADVERTISER Found—A Liberty Bond, Owner can have same by paying for this adv. Also for sale a good, heavy work horse. HB. J. Steinman.—Adver tinement in Ann Arbor, Mich., Times. eee Indianapolis citizens have begun hoarding castor oil. There's no ac counting for tastes . oe HEARD ON A STREET CAR “I nee we captured the place where that long range gun was stationed. “Where was it?” “Near Ferry Tardynolse, wherever | that ts.” | Then he lifted me into my corner of the car. “Evidently you only came to look at me. If you came to get me, why And ft. 1. January ts probate judge | didn't you take me?" I snapped, and I wanted to add “away from Certeis.” “Sometimes I don't understagd you at all, Jane,” said my husband blankly “If you love me, you ought to understand me always’ Then came Sergeant Searle to say the machines were come. The men wanted us to be off so they could get back to camp before taps. There waa plenty of time to make our home town before midnight, as we had prepared to start from the clubhouse Bob caught me up and held me close for a minute without a word. We were about to pull out when Dr. Certeis stepped forward. “May I ride?” he inquired. “I've wrenched the brake loose og own machine, and I've an operation in town at § in the morning.” Chrys moved to her end of the seat and the next instant Certeis had slipped dn beside me. ‘The last I saw of my husband, he was lined up with all the other dear soldier boys, saluting gravely. As we sped away thru the moonlight, 1 could have wept over the vision of his face, grim and hard—and sad, as if the dangers before him were not all to be found in the trenches. (To Be Continued) hi ~on Occasion. of these occasions was when his faithful servant allowed his hand to slip—whereupon the General arose in his wrath and finished the job himself; for the Father of our Country was very properly fond of a good, clean shave. And in his simple shaving kit may still be seen his equally simple razors. 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