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Of scientific research they tried to find
out how fast the thing would go. In the
midst of the interesting experiment the
belt broke, leaving the entire ship, crowd
ed with guests, in darkness.
The owner came below seeking the
cause of the trouble. He was about the
1naddest yacht owner who ever invaded
his own engine rooms. One bright, al
belt greasy and scared, young graduate
of Cornell lost his first job exactly one
twentieth of a second after the old man
arrived.
But young John Jacob was game. The
story of George Washington flashed into
his mind Father" he protested. IT did
it with my little Ratchet. or words to
that effect. "McAllister is not to blame. "
So McAllister got his job back, but he
and John Jacob were hurried to work,
spurred on by fine flow of Anglo-Saxon,
to splice that adjective belt in the adj
jective fastest manner in which an ad-
jective belt ever was spliced and get
those qualified lights going again. They
did. Thereafter that particular dynamo
did not figure so largely in scientific eN-
Fermentation. 1t took on an aspect of
SacrednesS.
A year of oilng and running the dyna-
mo, the practical experience he felt he
needed to start his lifework right, and
McAllister moved to the Cramps ship
building plant as craftsman. There he
was put to work on the plans of the ships
for the new navy which Secretary Whit
years work in the plant McAllister was
employed on the plans of the Newark,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Yorktown.
famous ships in their day. component
parts of the White Squadron that re-
cto f1o
the high seas.
Then McAllster shifted to the Navy
Department at Washington for a three
year stay there as a craftsman. \ part
OF his work there was on the designs for
the boilers of the battleship Oregon, the
Bancroft and Columbia
FROM Washington he returned to pri-
Vate employ, going to a Newport News
shipbuildng firm. also as craftsman.
He was working there when, in 1892 he
was appointed second assistant engineer
In the revenue cutter service, that smart,
always prepared" and highly useful aux
Hilary navy. in the upbuilding of which
he has since played a prominent part
During the Spanish-American war he
obtained leave of absence and accepted
a commission as past assistant engineer
IN the navy, being assigned to Admiral
Miller's flagship, the Philadelphia, in the
Pacific fleet. The Philadelphia was start
ed for the Philippines to the aid of
Dewey, but was diverted to go to Hawaii
there to take over that republic as a
territory of the United States. At the
ceremonies of raising the flag by the
navy at Honolulu Capt McAllister servaS
on the staff of Admiral Miller
The peace protocol being signed. the
Philadelphia was brought back to the
Pacific coast and sent to Panama There
Capt. McAllister left her and returned to
the revenue cutter service, being detailed
to the cutter McCulloch. In this cutter
he made two cruises to Alaska On one
of these the vessel carried Senator
afterward Vice Observation-Disclosures and
the Alaska boundary commission.
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The Sarcastic Juvenile.
Upton SINCLAIR said to a Ne

Upton SINCLAIR said to New
~ York reporter:
Il don't believe in mine guards. Mine
guards, working for multimfllionaires,
may not be actually corrupted. but their
minds don't point directly toward jus
tice: they are bent a little toward their
employers. And a bent mine guard
well, he's about as useful as the eggs
"A boy, you know, was carrying home
a basket of eggs when a man ran into
him and knocked him down. The bas-
ket struck the ground with a kind Of
soft crash, and the man said:
Dear me. I hope none of your eggs
is broken
oh, no. said the boy as he looked
under the basket lid; only bent"
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Especially True.

THOMAS w. LAWSON. apropos Of .
! very honest young millionaire who
had lost all his money through specu-
lation, said in Boston the other day:
The good die young. This Is ss-
pecially true Of chickens"
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ce:ving the big leagues scores. Jacky
is a thirty-third degree fan.
But more than that, he is player OF
rare excellence. too. The average ship
of the American navy possesses base
ball team quite the equal in playing abll-
ity of the average minor league team. In
these days in which there is an absence
of long cruises, jacky has much oppor-
tunity to go ashore for practice, and he
avails himself of it,
How about discipline?"
well, jacky does not take as kindly
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crowd of American jackies is coming
ashore.
Now, don't mistake me. Jacky of to-
day is no mollycoddle; no bespectacled
animated intellect. He is just plain,
average American boy, and he is ready
for a fight or a frolic, as healthy youth
always is. But he is not the dissolute
roaring, bowling savage of the lower
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X
Rushing bubblingly at him with
lovely feminine lope, unmindful of the
sad havoc the briers were playing with
her pink chiffon frock, which had been
almost torn from her back in her sprint,
came Nurse Van 1.-the! 1t was indeed
none other! In all Cuba there was
nothing like her-nay, in all fiction there
was no girl that had anything on her
for pippinesqueness!
He bounded over the last rubber plant
on the edge of the clearing. She also,
with the glad, sweet cry of the homins
pigeon, bounced steamingly at him.
20 Man-in-khaki!'' she cried.
They met in mid-air. That was some
meeting! The Merrimac and the Mont
tors, was an anemic affair alongside of
it! They landed on soft rock, clasped
in each others arms, just as if they had
been properly introduced.
And as they sat there. he holding her
by her shell-like ears, the low. nauseat-
ingly sweet means Of a Cuban love song
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4 r

CHESS Krag- Jorgensens. Overhead couid
be heard the passionate shrieks of bull
let's tearing their way through the male
and female eucalyptus trees.
The Americans had been momentarilE
repulsed.
Cant Cortlandt Schuyler. a descendant
of a number Of New York's most tire
some families called by his regiment
The Hairy One" as a slight testimonial
70 his extreme masculinity), was pol1ins
his sword impartially into the calves OF
the legs of his deroralized boys and
cursine them into condition for the next
attack on the Spanish blockhouse.
Schuyler needed no orders, nor did he
wait for those he did not need. He
knew all about war, as he had slept in
Brooklyn for years and had an office in
New York.
Had you asked him what fear was, he
would have looked at you in a dazed way
scratched his head and laughed foolish
", "Darnfino.'
Taking from his pocket a massive
solid gold cigarette case. which had
been a present 10 his great-great grand
father the admiral. from the Maharajah
Of Poo, he drew out a gold-tipped ciEa-
rette marked only with his initials and
simple coronet, and nonchalautly
lighted it. Although a member of an
old New York family, Schuyler knew in
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The pan of instruments dropped from
her nerveless though beautiful fingers
Are you sick?" Gatesby's voice was
hoarse with emotion.
Never felt better in my lifer' Miss
Van 1.-the smiled unsteadily at him.
This rather got his goat
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"Tae Montgomery Fagg Takes UP Gripping Fiction

HE ardent Cuban
sun shone down
through the pail
of snokeless pow
der that foated
over the soldiers
of Weyler and
Shafter. From the
palm clad hills
above the stricken
valley sounded the
S T e a d V rasping
bark of 5000 mer-
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Back to the Atlantic came McAllister
as an officer of the cutter Onondaga.
Cruises to Cuba, to Mexico and the or
binary active duty of the service filled
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CHAPTER Il

CHAPTER II.
IN one Of the noisome hospital tents
1 Nurse Van 1.-the, with a pan of steril-
lied instruments, stood at the surgeons
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little and this is the form of discipline
he gets today.
THE American naval officer has been
quick to realize the change in the ma
terial under him, and quick to adjust the
system of discipline to the new material.
Once the iron hand and the overbearing
manner were necessary. Quiet, reason
able dignified firmness now prevails and
there is a pronounced absence OF biuSler
and bullying. Barriers between the en-
listed men and the officers are much lower
than they We're in an earlier age The IN
creased average Intelligence of the enlist
ed men, taken in conjunction with the
change in the character OF the WORK
aboard ship, has brought this about
Results are admirable. You will find
an officer ready on the instant to fight
for the men under him, and they for him;
not merely in war, but in the quarrels OF
peace time The good naval officer of
today has an abiding faith that the men
of his command are the pick of the navy,
and have it all over any other ike COM
mand in the fleet, while his men have an
equally sincere conviction that he is by
far the ablest officer in the service. That
sort of mutual confidence breeds effl-
ciency.'
A solidly built, pleasant-mannered
frank-spoken and yet most tactful sailor
man is this revenue cutter service cap
tain who knows SO much of Jacky. In
cdentally it might be remarked that he
also is profound student of congress
men. For number of years at Washing
ton he has studied the congressman at
close range, with the result that When
the revenue cutter service wants some
thing from Congress Capt. McAllister
is the man who goes up on the hill and
unit II, a
winning way. AS go-getter he ranks
high This is because the committees
of Congress have learned that he always
tells the truth, that he never seeks TO
put something over on them and that
he deals with them in a spirit of frank
ness and fairness.
Forty-seven years old, Gaelic ancestry
showing in hint of sandiness In such
hair as he has left and in complexion,
suuare-iawed Capt McAllister is an en-
eineer every inch of him. And yet it
must be confessed that much of his life
has been spent ashore. From line OF
seafaring and shipbuilding folk, how
ever, he acquired his maritime tastes and
they are a part OF him.
His is a curious career. Born in New
Jersey, he received his education In the
public schools of City Island, Bronx. n
Y, and at Cornell. from which university
he was graduated in 1887 At the univer-
sity he specialized in mechanical engi-
neerlng.
Promptly on graduation he went to sea,
not in any exalted capacity. but as an
humble oiler in the engine room Of Will
liam Astor's yacht Nourmahal, later the
property of William Astor's son, John
Jacob Aston, who persisted in the Titanic
disaster.
The Nourmahal was fitted with one of
the first electric light plants ever in
stalled aboard ship. 1t was McAllister' S
particular pet and joy. Young John
Jacob Aston with strong mechanical
bent and McAllister used to play with it
as a gorgeous toy, seeing what it could
do.
One night when William Astor was CIV
ing q party on the yacht, John Jacob for
sock the festivities to join McAllister and
f,,r urifh he in ri
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On again, though the thorns ripped his
fair, boyishly white young flesh. He
should worry:
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His fad and fancy for years has been
the study of the American sailorman.
In his everyday life he works with
the inanimate things of the sea. ships
and engines, and boilers, and wireless
equipment and dynamos; in his hours
of ease he prospects the soul of the
man who makes all these useful He
has been called the poet laureate of
the American iackey.
Years ago. before the dignities and
responsibilities of his present duties
came upon him, Capt. McAlllster
wrote a series of popular articles
about "Jackey. He had "Jackev at
Church" "Jackey Eats" Jackeys
at Play" and he led jackey through
all the phases of his existence. with a
sympathetic understanding of him. a
charm of treatment and a breezy. salty
style that give the author real stand
ing among American writers. But
that was long ago.
1.-The man-o-warsman Of today is quite
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were waited toward them from shep-
herd hut nearby, where some one. played
upon the saxophone.
(To Be Discontinued in Our Next)
Copyright 1914, Otis F. Woody
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lister. chief OF engineers OF the reFe-
nue. cutter service. about him Other
wise you might get prejudiced view.
To obtain the proper perspective on q
subject one must be just bit aloof
from It. Stand too close, and you
can't see the woods for the trees;
stand too far of and your eyes fail
to grasp the intimate details that are
so essential to an understanding of
the picture.
Now, Capt McAllister has studied
the America jackey for generation
or SO. partly in the navy, partly from
the shore. If Capt. McAllister had not
been an engineer, a naval architect, a
designer of ships. a highly efficient adj
ministrator of the affairs of his
bureau he would be a poet He is a
modern and Americanized McAndrews
in one aspect and a clear-sighted lit
erary man in another.
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In Intelligence the
Sailor Is Superior to
the Enlisted Man of
Any Other N avy
AAoat - The High
Character and Attain
ments of the Man Who
Fought at Vera Cruz.
Not a Roisterer, but
a Healthy, Average
American Boy.

F you want to
know all about
the A m e T j C a n
man % warSnan
of today, the sort
of IN a n who
fought and died
at Vera Cruz,
who mans the
floating for t.
resses of the new
navy, ask Capt.
Charles A Meal
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M III III III 9SIiil III III III 0MIG6ll
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-03-13
Some Substitutes
for Meat; Try Them!
az PROF. EDNA NOBLE WHITE
Domestic Science College Ohio
state University

II has been we'll said that II
was not n study OF what the fam
lily wanted to O't that was need
ed. but a study Of what the family
ought to eat and how to get them
to eat II.
The latter part OF the problem
might be easily solved II the food
we're more attractlyely seasoned
and served To say TO people that
they we're eating too much meat
and then to serve In It's place an
unsavory concootiou. would not be
convincing
A French rarebit In simple
but most acceptable substitute for
a meat dish.
Cut 3 large slices OF bread.
measure tablespoons butter. 3
tablespoons cheese. 1.2 cups
milk, and IL eggs.
Butter the slices OF bread and
cut into inch squares. FIJI but.
tered baking dish with alternate
layers OF the bread and grated
cheese. Molsten thoroughly with
"A mixture made OF the milk and
eggs. seasoned with salt. pep
per and mustard Bake in n mod.
crate oven until tho mixture sets.
like oustard. and brown II on top.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-03-13
JOBLESS ARMY
STANDS PAT; TO
DEFY SHERIFFS

SACRAMENTO. March 13.-A-
though Joint ultimatum has been
delivered TO the unemployed army.
by associated sheriffs and district
attorneys OF Sacramento. Yolo. So
lano and Contra Costa counties To
the effect that the army must dis
porae or other measures Will be
taken" the unemployed have sent
back the message that they refuse
TO move and Will stick year II nee
essary. to win.
The defiance complicated the sit
uatlon. and county and city officials
expressed Indignation when they
learned that Gov. Johnson had or
dered Adjutant General Forbes to
send all OF the national guard back
home and keep only n few of the
Sacramento militia in the armory.
The citizens committee still holds
good It's agreement to pay fares
within radius of so miles II the
army will scatter in groups Of not
more than 80,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-03-13
LOSE
SAv|NGS;;RI0T AS
STORE IS CLOSED

NEW YORK. March IA near
riot occurred here today In the sigel
department store. on Fourteenth St.
when tho sales girls realized they
we're TO lose not only their positions.
but their savings. deposited in the
defunct Seigel bank, as well.
Let's wreck the store" cried one
girl. Others Joined her. Cooler
heads. however. persuaded the girls
10 abandon their idea.
The trouble followed the appear
ance OF Mrs. l.. Matteson. an en-
ploye. who had Just returned from
Europe and learned for the first
time OF the banks failure.
I've been robbed. she said. AN
the money had in the world. $4,000.
has been stolen"
More than a thousand employees
will lose their places tomorrow. by
the court order closing the store.
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Ruth Stripping was baby in
arms when her father effected
his escape from a Georgia
prison. after being sentenced
for life. She was reared 10
young womanhood In another
state, and In honorable elreum.
stances. She had learned TO
love. and was engaged 20 be
married. when her father was
finally recognized and sppre-
hended. She declined 10 fulfili
her engagement 20 wed with
the shadow Of disgrace hang.
Ing over the family.
II was In 1897 that Edgar strip.
ling killed BIN Corucit In Chipley.
Ga.
lie was prompted. he said. by lll
usage OF HIS sister at Comet =
hands.
Cornet vas shot at night through
a window OF his home
Escapes From Prison
About n year after the killing
Stripping escaped.
nv was goib'd Nv tFNfAhh1Fus ~
C.. by his wife and two babies.
The little family later moved 20
nsnville. Pa. where Stripping lived
for / 8 years under the name OF ". T.
Morris. He eventually became chief
OF police. His family In the mean.
time increased to ~.
he Has No Hope
He is now the most hopeless man
In the world.
The Law does not contemplate
such awful punishment as I have
had" said Stripping My health il
falling and my spirit Is broken,
Justice isn't served by heaplng 40
much on one mans shoulders. !
could stand II all right but for my
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10 CRAFT SUNK

MELLrLLA, Morocco. March 10
An italian steamship and rs native
craft were sunk In the harbor by
a hurricane.
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THIEF CORNERED:
STARTS TO SEA;
COPS LAND HIM

VENICE. March l3--WaIter
Brundage. wanted at Flagstaff.
Aria. TO answer 20 a charge Of
horse stealing. was arrested today
in the Pacific ocean.
Deputy Sheriffs Sweexy and An.
derson found Rrundage sauntering
along the board walk lie fled. and
when the chase became hot he
skipped into the surf and headed
for the open sea.
The officers overhauled him NJ
the breaker line. and after bit OF
fast submarine work. brought him
ashore.
nrundage denied the charge.
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SANTA BARBARA. Cal. March
i3.--ln all the hundreds Of miles
swept by the great storm In this
part Of the state there was no more
pathetic sight than the scattered let.
tiers and papers which showed
where J. c. Rockwell. n rural mail
carrier from Santa Barbara, was
drowned by the flood in seeking TO
deliver the government mails as he
had done for IL years. He is sur.
vived by IL children.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-03-13
CNlVALRY

A gentleman lady meets
Upon a windy day.
A. soon as he's found out they're silk
lilo looks tAs other way.
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WASHINGTON. ID. c.. Mar. Ia
Records which vitality affect the
federal investigation into operations
of the New York. New Haven e
Hartford Railroad Company have
been destroyed by rats. 1t was dis
covered when the janitor opened the
office OF Attorney General Mercy
nolds' investigator. Mr.. Gregory.
and found a great mass OF paper re-
sembling a far-fetched crazy quilt.
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=
wife and children
Il II more than tao years since
STRIPPING was brought 10 the Geor
sia convict camp
Reelected az Chief
shortly after he oamt he was
radiant with hope.
Influential friends had come To
his assistance
The police commission at Dan
Vile reelected him It's chief having
absolute confidence IN the man who
had served the city 80 well In spite
OF his confession His record In
the original trial. his career as n
citizen. all weighed well IN his
favor. but the law lie Htiii insisting
upon It's due the rest OF hia life
Mrs STRIPPING and her children
have moved to Columbia to be near
him. but he Is powerlcAs TO help
them.
No" asun, poverty sssres then,
In the face.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-03-13
IAPAN'S NAVAL
ESTIMATES ARE
SLICED BY HOUSE

TOXIC. March iS.-To the tune
az vehement protests from Premier
Namsota. the upper house OF par
lament today reduced the naval
estimates from sS0.oo0.oo to siS..
O00. 600.
The government originally want.
ed sss.0o0.ooo but previous cutting
had trimmed It's figures by SIS.
a00. GOO.
The next step viii be the esti-
mate submission 20 a conference
committee OF both houses.
Indications are that they viii 40
through Ia their latest form.
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the RUDE MAN

LONDON. Mar, 10 The dramat-
ic censor has licensed play called
'La0Reve.' In which an actress APP
pears on the stage In her sleeping
garments. In granting the license
the censor specified that the actress
must wear thick night dress"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-03-13
Charlotte
Herman

RoMARATIN. Sweden. March 7.
Miss Charlotte Herman OF Ruth.
erford. y. J.. alleged accomplire OF
Affinity Earle In KIDNAPPING his
son from a French school. VIII be
tried here with Earle.
She declares that In aiding Earle
10 kidnap his son she acted in good
faith. believing the father was en-
titled TO take the child from school
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Nine. Leone Reboux is the most
beautiful woman in Paris. accord.
ing TO her husband. Paul Reboux
noted playwright The latter is In
New York with his young wife for
the purpose OF discovering whether
she is not the most beautiful woman
on this side of the Atlantic. also. II
she is. Mons. Reboux says, he Will
80 home happy to work on his new
play.
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SENT BACK TO PRISON AFTER
MANY YEARS; HIS Il CHILDREN
STARVING; HIS HEART BROKEN

MILLEDGENlLLE, Ga. March l5.-Thomas Edgar
STRIPPING the famous prisoner in Georgia serving life
sentence for murder after many years OF freedom during
which time he raised family Of IL children, slowly dy
ing in the convict camp here Lost hope has broken his
hearth
Receptly he has received letter from his wife telling
him of the serious illness OF his favortc daughter Ruth and
that bills for food and medicine have reached than
hundred dollars and shc
United labor bulletin., 1914-01-31
LOCAL UNIONS.

AmaIgamated Sheet Metal workers
NJ. w. Burg, sec, 241 Grant ave.
Meets Monday evenings, room ..
66-(Raiiroad Men)-J. X Abel. sec.
2o2 Quincy bldg.
Bakery and Confectionery WORKER
Ray e. Lowderback. sec and bus
4th Saturdays.
Bakery and Confectionery Workers
No. DOS (JewishD-David Herman,
sec. 2639 w. Holden PL Meets End
and 4th Friday, 10 a. m. 2642 West
BARRIERS No. 205-John z. Connolly,
Sec. sos Club bldg. Meet last Tues
day in month. 5os Club bldg.
ast. rm. SIS Club bldg. Meets -- ev-
cry Sunday evening at o'clock at
Beer BottIers No. 5S-wm. Koch. sec.
Champa 1888: residence phone Gallup
27s7. Meet End and 4th Tuesdays.
1913 Larimer.
Beer Drivers, stabIemen and Firemen
No. 5G-Wm. Koch. sec. office 432
1858; residence phone Gallup s7s7.
Meet LIST and ard Saturdays. Building
Trades Club. 1871 Arapahoe.
Bindery Women No. bs-.Miss Matte
ondna Hoffdmsn, ,ss sse ;Sa rs Psn,I s1dI Meet lst
Boiler Maker. No. i7e-Earl Watson,
sec. 500 Club bldg. Meets End
and 4th Wednesdays. sos Club bldg.
Bookbinders-R Y. Harrison, 1871
Broadway., Meet 2nd Tuesday. 2o2
Brick. Tile and Terra Gotta Workers
Howard place. Meet Thursday. 1851
18th st.