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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-12-18
HERE
Public welfare commission viii

Public welfare commission will
hear cigar girls after Christmas.
Wheat, $3.50 per busheI; highest
I'm five years
Canadian club holds weekly
luncheon at Allen Dsle's.
Sales Managers association ban
quet employees Dec 20.
Government transfers DR.. Jems
Madsen 10 Glendiye, Mont.
e. L. Grondahl, banker, departs
for East
Man found dead on shores Of
Lake Union identified as H. NJ.
Bonnett.
Six hundred debaters to argue
single tax throughout state Friday
night
Bank Of California holds annual
dinner.
s. 8. oanfa returns 10 Seattle
trade.
Canadian government opens
Broughton straits TO navigation.
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acropiane 10 make is the propel-
Ter.
II must balance perfectly.
Maurice discovered that boys all
over the United States we're try
ing 10 make teroplanes- the
boys OF previous generations made
kites-and were finding 1t almost
impossible 20 construct their own
propellers.
He bought five or sir spruce logs.
and in a local factory superintend-
ed the manufacture OF 5000 toy
aeroplane propeliers.
What he didn't use for his own
machines he sold through his mall
order system TO boys who we're
making their own models.
Maurice Is known 10 hundreds
OF customers from Grand Rapids to
the Philippine Islands as The
Grand Rapids Aero Supply Com.
pany, Incorporated
He rides In his own automobile
and travels when and where he
likes.
Il expect TO average about a
hundred dollars a week this year,
said this 1s-ycar-old youth. Il in
tend to work for two years. and
then / think I shall 20 TO college
or a technical school"
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TAPE FOUND NOT
GUILTY ON HIS
SECOND TRIAL

For the second time. q Jury In
the federal conrt has acquitted
Frank II. Tape. former Chinese i'm
migration interpreter.
Tape was on trial for alleged
taking OF bribes for smuggling
Chinese into the ". s. The trial
lasted q week and was concluded
with the argument Of counsel
Thursday noon.
At O'Clock. the Jury returned
verdict OF not guilty.
Tape had previously beon &C.
quilted OF conspiracy with others
TO Intimidate witnesses from testi.
Tying against him. In this connec-
tlon, the government had contend.
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l4YEAR.0D YOUTH
IS AWARDED MEDAL

LONDON. Dec. rs. Among
three boys awarded St Georges
Crosses by Russia In the 14-year.
old son OF a Warsaw engineer. who
carried cartridges to the trenches
in a dozen battles. led n German
company into 4 village where a
strong force OF Russians captured
them, and gave information that
led 10 the seizure of ten heavy Ger.
man guns
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TAKE DOG LICENSE
TAGS FOR MEDALS

GENEVA. Dec. fs.--The state
ment that all dogs here were being
decorated with German Iron
Crosses has aroused storm OF In
dignatIon IN the press.
Subsequently II is explained that
German visitors had mistaken the
ordinary dog license tags for the
German valor badge.
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COWS GO ON A JAG

HAMMOND. Ind. Dec. 49,
state veterinarian and health Off
GERS. speeded to Tippecanoe county
In answer to hurried summons
from Samuel Shearer. who report.
cd n violent epidemic OF foot and
mouth disease on his ranch When
the officials arrived they found
Bessie. a blooded IIolstein, and
Darby, a Jersey mixer. feet up.
ward on the sward. apparently TAX.
ing the count. Investigation dis
closed cider press in an orchard
and o pile of fermented apple pulp
The cows were drunk.
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1aiiH=a o Haaaa=
Ell SEWHERE

Giuseppe Motts heads Swiss par.
lament.
Commander kittelle Of cruiser Al.
bany. at Bremerton, ordered south.
TO take command OF Maryland.
Representative johnson, WashInu-
ton. begins agitation for better sys-
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Humane society asks parents not
to buy air guns for gifts this year.
Christmas assembly at Franklin
nigh to be given by Dramatic club.
Edward oruby, 50, OF TT Marion
st., attempted suicide.
James J. Clark, reelected presi.
dent Journeymen's BARRIERS union.
Mrs. Euniee Irons, silvcrdale,
dies here.
Funeral services held for Samuel
Johnston.
U. 9. Moore appointed receiver
for Woodland general hospital.
Yukon Order OF Pioneers elec,
John G. Nelson president.
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MAS SMOKED 10000
PILLS, SEEKS a CURE

MOUND CITY. Mo. Dec. sc.
w. Cornell has started on a 1000.
mile journey on foot to cure him.
self of the cigarette habit. The day
re decided to slap smoking, Cornell
estimated that he had consumed
moro than 10000 cigarettes lie
was rarely without one In his
mouth, and his range was from 80
10 so a day.
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OPEN SATURDAY UNTIL 8 p. NJ.

Nearly a Thousand Fancy Plates
Divided into three big lots Some OF them sngly, 9th
in lots Of six, and OF twelve but you
| take dozen. More than half OF them are hand
| painted VIII make beautiful and acceptable presents.
| Lot Values to CSC, for. .........,....49 c
| Lot 2-VaueS to S.. IS for............... 69c
| Lot 3-VaueS to ST. 49, for............... 98c
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ed Lum Kong was murdered last
September
Tape Ia an American-born Chi
nese. lie formerly lived in San
Francisco
He had been In the government
service for about 10 years, but was
dismissed recently when the
charges OF bribery and extortion
we're presented against him.
Tho extortion charge IL ETH
pending
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'STAMMERINe SAM
NICKNAME Of GUN

PARIS. Dec. 1s.-"Stammering
Sam" is the nickname given a
type of German magazine gun by
British soldiers. There Is also an
other gun nIcknamed Weeping
Willie"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-05

The man stopped again. The mus
cles of his face were twitching
queerly. Suddenly his weary frame
assumed the appearance of a savage
warrior. His eyes burned with a
strange light. Then his voice came
out clear and strong.
''But I'll find Them" he cried out.
':By God l will" And he turned and
left the place.
The party that heard his story
we're hushed when he left. Then
some one to break the spell ordered a
drink. Then the whistles blew and
the mans sadness was forgotten in
the greetings extended to young
1914.
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POETS IN VERSE DUEL

New York, Jan. 5.-Petulant, ap-
parently, because England jailed him
when he arrived on her chalk cliffs
a penniless stowaway, Harry Kemp,
the hatless long-haired Kansas rhym-
ster, took bitter fling at Rudyard
Kipling as poet. Bertoh Braley took
up the cudgels for the creator of
''Mulvaney," and this brought on
a poetry duel recalling the famous
interchange between William Watson
and Richard LIE Caffeine when Wat
son with his:
'''She is not old, she is not young,
The woman with the serpent's
tongue"
made a yelled attack OF the wife of
Premier Asquith.
Kemp wrote this:
.. ITO KipIing."
Vile singer of the bloody deeds of
empire
And of the bravery that exploits the
poor,
Exalter of subservience to masters,
Bard of the race that bound and
robbed the Boer-
We note your metaphors that shine
and glisten,
But, underneath your sounding
verse, we. see
The exploitation and the wide cor
Uption,
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IN FoR IN

81 had a beard like yours till saw
myself in the glass; then cut it off,"
81 had a face like yours, but
couldn't cut it off so grew this beard
to cover it"
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The lying and vice and misery.
Your people lay upon the backs of
others
The bullet and the prison and the
rod,
Wherewith ye scourge the races that
subserve you
And then blaspheme by blaming it
on God.
To which Braley promptly replied:
"To Harry Kemp"
Emitter of unnecessary noises,
Blowing a penny whistle loud and
long,
Trying to drown the blowing of the
trumpets
With puny tootlings or with futile
song.
We hear your notes of thin and strid-
ent clamor;
We see you whirl in wild and Dervish
glee,
Shrilling at Kpling- and we look up
on you
Saying in wonder, "Ooinellishe?"
Not always does the master sing his
roblest;
Sometimes he carols in a dreary
- style,
But who are you-you cheap and
tawdry bartlett
To hint him servile or to call him
"vile"?
1910
An fastener, who thought he
could write touching poetry and had
spent all his savings buying Pacific
coast real estate, sent the following
telegram to his father: "The rose is
red, the violet blue, send me fifty, ].
o. u" He received this reply: "The
rose is red, the pink is pink; send you
o. IL i
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Copyright. 1918. by w. G. Chapman

placed him under arrest. They took
me also, but when l had told my story
they did not detain me, other than to
send me back to the convent under the
care of n matron. It seemed that the
man who had wooed me was no gen.
tleman at all, but deserter from the
army as well as fugitive from civil
Justice. He had police record in
nearly every country in Europe.
'The matter was hushed up by the
authorities of the convent. Not even
my parents knew Of it. But Nikolas
met the man afterward and learned
the whole story. Now he threatens to
tell the count If I do not do just as he
wishes me to-"
Tarzan laughed. "You are still but
a little girl. The story that you have
told me cannot reflect in any way upon
your reputation, and were you not q
little girl at heart you would know It.
Go to your husband tonight and tell
him the whole story just as you have
told it to me. Unless I am much mis-
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taken he will laugh at you for your
fears and take immediate steps to put
that precious brother Of yours in pris-
on, where he belongs"
II only wish that dared" she said,
"but I am afraid
AS Tarzan was leaving her a short
time later he wondered little at the
clinging pressure Of her hand at part
ing and the firm insistence with which
she exacted a promise from him that
he would call again on the morrow.
AS the countess turned back into the
room after Tarzan's departure she
found herself face to face with NikO-
las Rokoff.
How long have you been here" she
cried, shrinking away from him.
"Since before your lover came" he
answered with nasty leer.
"Stop" she commanded. "How dare
you say such thing to me-your sis.
terri
"well. my dear Olga, If he is not
your lover accept my apologies, but It
IS no fault Of yours that he is not"
The woman put her hands to her
yarS.
II will not listen. You are wicked
to say such things as that. No matter
what you may threaten me with, you
know that i am good woman. After
tonight you will not dare to annoy me.
for shall tell Raoul all. He will I'M
derstand. and then. NJ. Nikolas, be-
ware!'
'.You shall tell him nothing" said
Rokoff. II have this affair now, and
with the help of one of your servants
whom / may trust it will lack nothing
in the telling when the time comes
that the details of the sworn evidence
shall be poured into your husbands
ears. The other affair served its pur-
pose we'll. We now have something
tangible to work on, Olga. A real af-
fair-and you trusted wife Shame.
Olga" And the brute laughed.
So the countess told her count moth
ing. and matters were worse than they
had been. From vague fear her
mind was transferred to very tangi-
BILE one. 1t may be, too, that con-
science helped to enlarge it out of all
PROPORTIONS
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She Tore Herself From Tarzan's Arms.
81 do not know. He struck me, and !
went mad. I have seen the apes Of my
tribe do the same thing. I have never
told you my story, Olga. 1t would have
been better had you known it-this
might not have happened. never saw
my father. The only mother I ever
knew was ferocious she ape. Until !
was fifteen had never seen human
being. / was twenty before ] saw a
white man. A little more than a year
ago was a naked beast Of prey in an
African jungle. Do not judge me too
harshly. Two years is too short time
in which to attempt to work the change
in an individual that it has taken count
less ages to accomplish in the white
race"
81 do not Judge you at all, Jean. The
fault is mine. You must go now. He
must not find you here when be re-
gains consciousness. Goodby."
1t was q sorrowful TarZan who walk
ed with bowed head from the palace of
the Count de Coude.
Once outside his thoughts took def
mite shape, to the end that twenty min
utes later he entered police station
not far from the Rue Maule. Here he
found one Of the officers with whom
he had had an encounter several weeks
previous. The policeman was genuine
" glad to see again the man who had
SO roughly handled him. After mo-
ment of conversation Tarzan asked IL
he had ever heard of Nikolas Rokoff or
Alexis Paulvitch.
.Very often indeed, monsieur. Each
has a police record. and while there is
nothing charged against them now we
make it a point to know pretty well
where they may be found should the
occasion demand. 1t is only the same
precaution that we taken with every
known criminal. Why does monsieur
ask:'
They are known to me-" replied
Tarzan. Il wish to see M. Rokof on
a little matter of business. If you can
direct me to his lodgings shall appre-
ciate it."
A few minutes later he babe the po-
liceman adieu and. with a slip OF paper
in his pocket bearing certain address
in semirespectable quarter, he walk
ed briskly toward the nearest taxi
stand.
Rokoff and Paulvitch had returned to
their rooms and were sitting talking
over the probable outcome of the even
ing's events. They had telephoned to
the Offices of two of the morning pa
pers. from which they momentarily ex-
pected representatives to hear the first
report Of the scandal that was to stir
social Paris on the morrow.
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CHAPTER vi.
A Duel,

\ HEAVY step sounded on the STAIR
~ way. "Ah. but these newspaper
men are promptly" exclaimed
Rokoff. and as knock fell
upon the door of their room, Enter,
monsieur"
The smile Of welcome froze upon the
Russians face as he looked into the
hard, gray eyes Of his visitor.
shame of a name.' he shouted,
springing to his feet. what brings
you hereT
''Sit down." said Tarzan so low that
the men could barely catch the words.
but in tone that brought Rokoff to
his chair and kept Paulvitch in his.
"You know what has brought me
here" he continued in the same low
tone. 'sIt should be to kill you, but
because you are Olga de Coude's broth
er shall not do that-now.
II shall give you chance for your
lives. Paulvitch does not count much
The is merely a stupid, foolish little
tool-and so shall not kill him so long
as permit you to live. Before / leave
you two alive in this room you will
have done two things. The first will be
to write full confession Of your con-
nection with tonight's plot-and sign it.
"The second will be to promise me
upon pain of death that you will per-
init no word of this affair to get into
the newspapers. If you do not do both
neither of you will be alive when 1
pass next through that door. Do you
understand" And. without waiting
for reply: Make haste. There is ink
before you and paper and PEN"
Rokoff assumed a truculent air, at
tempting by bravado to show how lit
tie he feared Tarzan's threats. An in
slant later he felt the ape-man's steel
fingers at his throat, and Paulvitch.
who attempted to dodge by them and
reach the door. was lifted completely
on the floor and hurled senseless into
q corner. When Rokoff commenced to
blacken about the face Tarzan released
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CHAPTER v.
A Plot Against a Woman.

THOR month Tarzan was a regu-
II lar and very welcome devotee
at the shrine of the beautiful
Countess de COude. Often he
met other members of the select little
coterie that dropped in for tea of an
afternoon. More often Olga found de-
vices that would give her an hour of
Tarzan alone. She grew to speculate
much upon the strange force which
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the countess ears Alone" replied Ro-
koff. Tell her that she must arise
and slip something about her and come
to the telephone. l shall call up again
in FIVE minutes" Then he hung up his
receiver. A moment later Paulvitch
entered.
The count has the message?" asked
ROkOff.
HE should be on his way to his
home by now." replied Paulvitch.
Good! My lady will be sitting in
her houdoir, very much in negligee.
about now. In . minute the faithful
Jacques will escort Nj. Tarzan into her
presence without announcing him. The
count will break in upon very pretty
love scene in about fifteen minutes
from now. l think we have planned
marvelously. my dear Alexis. Let us
go out and drink to the very good
health of NJ. Tarzan in some of old
Plancon's unparalleled absinth. not for
getting that the Count de Coude is one
of the best swordsmen in Paris and
by far the best shot in all France"
When Tarzan reached Olga's Jacques
was awaiting him at the entrance.
This way, monsieur" he said and
led the way up the broad marble stair
case. In another moment he had open
ed door and. drawing aside heavy
curtain. obsequiously bowed Tarzan
into dimly lighted apartment. Then
Jacques vanished.
Across the room from him Tarzan
saw Olga seated before little desk
on which stood her telephone. She was
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Certainly. M. Tarzan would be de-
lighted to place his interests unreserv-
eddy in the hands of his friend, Lieu
tenant D'Arnot. And so it was ar
ranged that D'Arnot was to call on Nj.
Flaubert at that afternoon. and the
polite M. Flaubert. with many bows,
left them.
When they were again alone D'Arnot
looked quizzically at Tarzan.
'Well?" he said.
Now to my sins must add murder,
or else myself be killed." said Tarzan.
Il am progressing rapidly in the ways
Of my civilized brothers"
what weapons shall you selectY'
asked D'Arnot. s;De Coude is accred-
tied with being a master with the sword
and splendid shot"
II might then choose poisoned ar
rows at twenty PAGES or spears at the
same distance" laughed Tarzan. make
it pistols, Paul."
'He will kill you. jean"
81 have no doubt Of it," replied Tar
zan. II must die some day."
1--WE had better make it swords" said
D'Arnot. "He will be satisfied with
wounding you. and there is less danger
Of mortal wound"
Pistols" said Tarzan, with finality.
D'Arnot tried to argue him out of it, |
but without avail, so pistols it was.
D'Arnot returned from his confer
ence with Nj. Flaubert shortly after A.
1T is all arranged" he said. Every
thing is satisfactory. Tomorrow morn
ing at daylight-there is secluded
spot on the road not far from Etampes.
For some personal reason M. Flaubert
preferred II. did not demur."
Continued on page l0)
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husband!'
Tarzan was deaf with rage. Sudden
~ he hurled the body to the floor, and,
placing his foot upon the upturned
breast, raised his head. Then through
the palace of the Count de Coude rang
the awesome challenge Of the bull ape
that has made kill From cellar to
attic the horrid sound searched out the
servants and left them blanched and
trembling. The woman in the room
sank to her knees beside the body Of
her husband and prayed.
Slowly the red mist faded from be-
fore Tarzan's eyes. Things began to
take form-he was regaining the per-
spective of civilized man. His eyes fell
upon the figure of the kneeling woman.
"Olga," he whispered. She looked up.
expecting to see the maniacal light Of
murder in the eyes above her. Instead
she saw horror and contrition.
.Oh, Jeanw she cried. ''See what you
have done. He was my husband. l
loved him. and you have killed him."
Very gently Tarzan raised the limp
form of the Count de Coude and bore
it to n couch. Then he put his ear to
the mans breast.
Some brandy, Olga" he said.
She brought it, and together they
forced it between his lips. Presently
a faint gasp came from the white lips
The head turned. and De Coude
groaned.
HE will not die" said Tarzan.
'sThank GOdv
why did you do it, Jean? she
asked
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-03-17
CTo be continued
GMful Come Down.

William Draycott. playing in Under
Cover is a Scotchman. one time.
while under the Williamson manas
ment, he played the title role In The
Duke Of killiecrankIe' ia New yea
land In one scene he wore kills such
as the Clan Gordon uses A Scotch.
man in the audience sought him out
after the first performance aud ex-
pressed great pleasure at seeing II
Scotch actor in kits
oh it's fine said the newcomer.
You're a pleasin sight to the ewes
He hung around Draycott every
night Finally, one evening, tho actor
told him the bin was TO be CHANGED
And what are you going to play
now" asked the other
I'm to appear in a playlet called
Madame Butterfly, said Draycott
And what part win YOU take?'
'1'll be = lieutenant in the United
States navy
HUH came from the Scot. "Aia'i
it an awful come down FIR you?"
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-03-17
CHAPTER XxXtlI.
The Voice From the Past.

ne Voice from the Past.
Though the doctor left the church
with Shirley and her mother. he did
not drive to Rosewood, but to his of
lice. There, alone with Mrs. Dan
bridge while Shirley waited in the
carriage, he unlocked the little tin
box that had been the majors, with
the key Mrs cambridge gave him, and
put into her hands little packet of
yellow oiled.sik which bore her name.
lie noted that 1t agitated her pro-
foundly and as she thrust it into the
bosom OF her dress. her face seemed
stirred as he had never seen it. When
he put her again in the carriage. he
patted her SHOULDER with touch far
gentler than his gruff goodby.
AT Rosewood, at length, alone in her
room, she sat down with the packet in
her hands. During the long hours
since first the little key had lain in
her palm like live coal, she had been
all afire with eagerness. Now the
moment had come, she was almost
afraid
She tried to imagine that letters
coming to her-then. Thirty years
ago! A May day, day of golden
sunshine and flowers The arbors had
been covered with roses then. too, like
those whose perfume drifted TO her
now. Evil news flies fast, and she
had heard OF the duel very early that
morning. The letter would have
reached her later she would have
fed away with it to this very room
to read it alonc-as she did now!
With unsteady fingers she un.
wrapped the olcd-sllk, broke the let.
ter's seal, and read:
Dearest:
Before you read this. you will no
doubt have heard the thing that has
happened this sunshiny morning. Sas-
soou-poor Sassoon! J cau say that
with all my hearts dead What this
fact will mean to you, God help me!
/ cannot guess. For have never
haeo Certain. j.airb. o. your hea1f
Sometimes have thought you loved
mc--me only ] love you List
NIGHT when ! oaw Epu wearing lay
cane iessamiuas 81 lae ball. was
almost aulp Of At. Ru' when yoa ma3a
mo pru,niyr. vn-u}er Unopened not
TO l.ft my Hand against him, then
doubted. Was i; because yoe feared
for niu9 Would TO God al this moment
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-03-17
Famous Authors once saiiora.

Perhaps the most celebrated au
tors who started life as sailors are
Fenimore Cooper. the famous author
of the Last of the Mohicans.' Clark
Russell, the author OF Alone on the
Wide, Wide Sea" and Frank Bullen,
the author of THE Cruise of the Ca
chalet This trio has made excel
lent use of the seafaring lore which
only experience can give in the long
list of works for which they are re
sponsihle.