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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-27
BY AHERN

tkG
An thru the beautiful forest
roads about Enumciaw. Kent
Olympia. Seattle and Tacoma
there had hung a smoke ven for
many days.
All the way up the sound from
Tacoma 10 Seattle. Seattle TO
Everett. Everett 20 Port Town
send the blue veil shut out tho
view OF the mountains and often
made the shore itself seem far
away and strange.
You see David and Peggy were
having a wonderful trip 60 all the
beauty spots OF the state. and be-
Ing pioneer hunters. they gather
ed stories all the way. And be-
cause when they reacf-d Lake
Crescent far up in the ciaiium
county they found tho veil iisht
and clear and bracinE. we are go
ing to begin with Lake Crescent
story. II happened like this:
Mr. Elmer Fisher twho. by tho
way. was the very first druggist
in Port AnEelcs) took them out to
the lake in his car. and mother
dear said she never saw anything
40 deeply green AZ the forest, nor
so absolute . blue as the lake.
They passed Lake Sutherland
and were Just rounding turn on
the new road around the base OF
the mountain when n soldier.
looking man stepped out and help
up his hand.
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Have 10 stop your car. sir" he
said. "w~'re going to blast Just
ahead"
And almost a. he spoke the
sound OF tho blast shook the road
and echoed and echoed across the
lake like the noise Of deep. rolling
thunder.
Little stones clipped and clutter
ed down the cliff. and ratified
against the car. and II was alto
gethcr rather a terrifying moment
for everybody.
But OF course. II was all right
and II made Mr.. Fisher think of
once long ago when he and a
friend had come 10 Lake Crescent
TO fish. No roads had been built
nj that time and no inns and
camps and taverns were about tho
Lake shore.
They were alone--just they two
on the blue lake. shut In by the
mountains. IL was n close. hot
day and tho air seemed charged
with Soma strange element.
Presently they knew what n
was. for n mighty roll and rumble
OF thunder startled them In the
great stiffness OF the place.
And the lake trembied and rip.
pied into little white caps. and the
TAN trees whispered in their high
tops while their straight trunks
swayed and made 4 moanlnp
sound as they rubbed against each
other.
To BE Continued
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kiss him. to run my fingers thru his
hair. TO forget Barnick's money. !
thought ] would scream II stayed
in our suite--ciose to Jack without
touching him.
was tired of staggering about
Independence. ] hadn't been born in
dependent. and i told myself that
didn't want to achieve Independence.
But what II It were thrust upon
me?
What II Jack meant what he had
saIdf What II we were parted for.
ever by my acceptance Of the money
for the pearls7
The things one doesn't want to
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-07-27
BY STANLEY
BY ALTMAN
BY. BLOSSER
BY CONDO

happen are always the things that
do. The one particular person
least cared 20 see that day was Mrs.
Herrod. So. OF course. she turned
up In her car to take US into the
country for a few hours.
THE Chinese say a husband and
wife should live like guests In a
house. Then they won't quarrel.
Jack and ! are playing the game
today" explained.
had to account somehow for the
formality she would surely detect be-
tween Jack and me.
ITO BE Continued
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seemed TO grip Jack. He said sud.
denly:
Lady wifel We remind me of the
Chinese advice for making marriage
successful. That husband and
wife should DO as guests In N
house"
To which ] made a practical re.
ply:
The best thing we can do ia 20
get out OF our house. want to hike
till I'm wearyr'
] didn't want to at all. I wanted
TO stay at home and hear my hus.
band make love to mo. i wanted 10
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viii and my husbands.
/ counted the troubles he and i
had. normal first year moods and
siiences. How petty I had been in
each cnsel
Never again would be petty. II
our home survived our present quar-
rel.
Jack and 7 were beautifully polite
and conslderate of each other over
Sunday. We talked OF Mary Smiths
new baby and Of Mrs Herrod's new
car. And all the t!mo we wanted TO
discuss our personal affairs.
AT last tho hunor OF the situation
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knew nothing was left for me in
any life apart from Jack. That was
the chief penalty for getting married.
Had / never lived with Jack I'd have
had thousand interests in life. all
humanity for my friends. all the
world to wander in.
But just by having been married
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pesdl Houston saw Medains Rob
inetts pass In tho distances. and hts
eyes followed her until she had
rounded the curve by the dead as
pens---the eyes % lost hope. For II
was upon life that he had planned
and dreamed; that tho woman Of ths
lonely cabin would stand by her
promise made IN q Tina Of stress
and right at least some of the wrongs
which had been his burden. But
now
~she--she didn't ten yeu anything
before she wentf"
Ea'tiste shook his head.
"She would not speak 60 me,
Nothing would she tell me. A. first
I 70 aione--shen yesterday. when
tho snow. no pack. take Coleman.
Then she T. unconscious. All day
and night I stay beside tho bed. but
she do not open her eye. Then. with
the morning. she sigh. and peuffl
She II gone
without a word" II spelled
biackness for Houston where there
had been light. 'T--f-suppoSe
you've taken charge Of everything. /"
~Oui' But I have look st nothing
II that IL what you mean"
no Just had something here
that you ought 20 have" Houston
fumbiei In his pockets. "she would
want n around her neck. feel sure.
when she is---~-"
But the sudden glare IN na'tisie'r
eyes stepped him an he brought
forth the crueiflx and It's tangled
chain. The giants hands raised.
HIS big lips twisted A iungc and he
had come forward. savage. almost
bcast.iske.
Your 10 beloved. where you
get thntf Hear ms. where you get
THAR
From her. She
Then comet Corne--quick with
meF He almost dragged the young.
or man away. hurrying ftrn toward
tho sled and tn hroadbacked old
horses I'VE must 80 60 tho cabin.
oui---yrsf Hurry Houston saw
that he was trembling. ''Eet IL the
thing I look for--ths thing look
forrs
~Ba'tis,ss what DO you meant
MY Juiienne.~ came hoarssly.
'-Est = my Juficnne'sr'
Already they were 10 the sled. the
wolfdog perched between them. and
hurrysng along the rnushy road.
which followed the lesser raises %
snow. taking advantage Of every
windbreak and avoiding the greater
drifts OF the highway itself. Two
mile. they went. the horscs urged
to their greatest speed. Then. with
a leap. Ba'tiste cleared the runners
and motEoned 20 ths man behind
him.
Come with mel Goismari You
shall stay behind. You shall fan In
the drift The ola man was talk.
ing excitedly. almost chiidishiy.
MOI Then comc-Eet IL your own
self that must be careful. Ba'tecse.
he cannot watch you. Gomez
AZ run. ha went forward. 10
thread his way thru the pines. TO
founder where the snow hnd not
melted. TO 10 waist.deep at times.
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Nancy and Nick and Or. SNUFF
es were watching 20 see what Sis
|kparrow would do. now that she had
a bright red head and wings Of black
and white stripes like win Wood
packers.
sis had said she was tired Of being
brown. so the fairy doctor had kindly
consented TO use magic and a little
Wild strawberry Juice to fix her up.
The first thing she did was TO cut
her old friends.
The second was 10 forsake her
home under the granary roof where
her relatives lived.
The next thing was to be extra
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OUR FIRST YEAR
IXXIII-HOW EMPTY LIFE WOULD BE FOR MI
WITHOUT JACK!

less than year I had limited my
happiness In some ancient elemental
way TO whatever made Jack happy.
and my homo 20 the place where
he found his rest. couldn't grasp
the meaning OF this change.
After had no narrowed my hori.
zon II WINS cruel that fate should
make mo choose between my own
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Then. Mon Barce. he have come
back 20 na'teesc. All. Coleman Mon
hareo. he have come back. he have
come back
We've won. Ra'tlatei The lines
open-~they'il be running trains thru
before night And n she keeps her
promise"
''shef'' Ba'tiste stared down ~
him. They had drawn away from
the rest OF the excited. noisy thrcng
"Shef You mean"
Agnes You've been taking care
OF her, haven't your | found her
she promised that she would toll the
truth Cor me when I sot back. that
she would explain the ieasc and con-
tract and tell Medaine that Il was
all a lie. She"
But Ba'tiate Renaud shook his
head.
mo. Baree. rrct II the too late.
have Jus come--from there. l
have close her eyes"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-06-16

ID RITISH, Italian and Belgian mem
- bers of the reparations commits
sion voted to enlarge the international
committee of bankers that was trying
to adjust Germany's financial affairs
and to permit it to make it's own in
Quiry into Germany's capacity to pay,
ignoring the London schedule. Amer
ica's unofficial delegate, Roland w.
Boyden, though he could not vote,
stated that he considered the repara-
lions demanded-$33,0 900, 000,000-to be
too high. Frances representative,
however, voted in the negative. This
created a tense situation, for although
a unanimous vote is necessary for the
reparations commission to reduce the
sum demanded from Germany, until
1926 only a majority vote is needed to
give Germany a partial or full mora
forum.
The bankers, recognizing that una
nimity does not exist among the nations
that would be expected to participate
in the immense loans they were plan
ming for Germany, decided to give up
all idea of an international loan, and
so reported to the PREPARATIONS commits
sion.
Premier Poincare and President Mil
lerand-who, 1t may be said, are
backed up completely by their govern
ment-asked a special meeting of the
commission, and to it the statement
was made that France denied the right
of other allies to reduce the French
claim on Germany since the amount
of reparations has been fixed and ap-
portioned; and that the French gov
eminent would not consider reduction
of the reparations unless the war
debts were reduced proportionately.
The latter proposition, of course,
would put the matter up to the United
States, which up to the present has
shown no disposition to scale down the
vast amounts owed her by other ma
lions. Meanwhile there hangs over
Europe the menace of independent &C.
ton by France against Germany.
II u ~ W Tx COullAud
IL and increasing warfare in ireland
between the Sim Feiners and the vi
ster folk, the British government has
undertaken to resume control of the
situation. Large reinforcements were
sent to the troops already in the islan(
and vigorous attacks were made OF
the republicans who infested the Dor
der and regions adjacent. The British
used airplanes and small wal vessels
with telling effect. The Free STATE
leaders and the British government
are discussing changes in the Irish con
stitution which the latter demands
and both sides are awaiting the Dali
elections, which come on June 16. I
has been surmised that the De Valer'
faction might win more seats becaus
of the bitter feeling aroused by tn
fighting, and indeed it was intimate
that the fighting was instigated 70
that purpose.
COVIET Russia, having failed t
~ brighten the rest of the world int
giving it large credits, has resume
its old uncompromising attitude. Fol
eign Minister Tchitcherin, who say
he is not going to the conference a
Tho Ho01a dooIoroc RucSIo mill mr.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-06-16

Consider for a moment, if you Will,
some further figures. This is your
money / am talking about.
For every fiscal year from 1866 to
1893, inclusive, there was a surplus of
receipts over expenditures. During
this period of % years the surplus of
receipts over expenditures tOtaled ST.
92O, POS, O13.41.
For the fiscal years 1894 to 1899, in
elusive, the expenditures exceeded the
receipts In the aggregate of $283,022,-
991.14. For the fiscal years 1900 to
1904, inclusive, the surplus of receipts
over expenditures aggregated $780,
319,165.O4. For 1905 the expenditures
exceeded the receipts by 1916
622.3O.
For the years 1910 to 1914, inclus-
i've, the receipts exceeded the expendi-
lures by $40, 024, 404.27. For 1915
the expenditures exceeded the receipts
by $33, 488, 931.53. For 1916 the re-
ceipts exceeded the expenditures by
$55,171,553.59, and for 1917 there was
a deficit of 500, 724,S64.73.
From 1866 to 1917, inclusive, the re-
ceipts exceeded the expenditures for
each year with the exception Of 1894,
1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1905, 1908,
1909, 1915 and 1917. The total amount
by which the expenditures exceeded
the receipts for these IL years just
named, is SAB, 766, 744.70. For the SO
fiscal years, 1866 to 1917, inclusive,
the receipts exceeded the expenditures
in Al years, the total of such excess
for that period being $2,591, 453, 184.16.
For the fiscal years 1866 to 1910, the
revenues were raised through an in
direct system Of taxation. Beginning
with the fiscal year ending June 80,
1910, the receipts from direct methods
Of taxation have usually grown each
fiscal year. as will he cen by the fol
lowing table:
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-06-16
Bv EDWARD G. W
XVII.
THIS WAS YOUR MONEY

Copyright, Western Newspaper Union
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-06-16

COVIET Russia, having failed te
- frighten the rest of the world into
giving it large credits, has resumed
Its old uncompromising attitude. For
eign Minister Tchitcherin, who says
he is not going to the conference al
The Hague. declares Russia will not
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-06-16

preme court, read by Chief Justice
Taft. in effect sets aside the damages,
finding the acts which caused the de-
struction of property were not melted
for the purpose of restraining inter
state commerce But the court also
held that labor organizations, even
though not Incorporated, are not only
suable, but are amenable to the Sher-
man antitrust law, and under it may
be prosecuted for restraint of inter-
state commerce.
Samuel Gompers, as might be eX-
Dected. denounced this decision bitter
ly, saying that 1t set a precedent under
which capital "can impose any condi-
ton on the working people of the coun-
try, and they would no dare resist.
He declared he believed congress and
the people of the United States would
repudiate the ruling, and continued:
"The court has, for the first time in
the history of federal legislation, laid
down the principle that a voluntary
corporation is liable for damages by
u act OF one OF IL group VI IT'S llehi-
bers, no matter how far unrelated
they may be in distance or supervi-
sion"
Unless 1t Is nulliied by COMPRESSION
al legislation, this decision of the
highest court in the land will power
fully and widely affect the future rela-
lions of union organizations with en-
ployers and with the general public.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-06-16
Brahmlns Avoid Erid.,

Amongst the Brahmins of India M
business is ever begun on a Friday.
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mother-he was always her fayorite
but Mark, as usual, got his salts
faction out of it. He preened him
self on his judgment of character
in having chosen me and not Philip
twelve years before.
Later on apOlogized to Mark for
the reckless things / had said to
him, and he played the part of a
magnanimous gentleman with his
accustomed skill, but, though out
wardly we were as before to each
other, from that day forward, though
his vanity would never let him see
it, was his bitterest enemy.
IF that had been all, | wonder if
| should have killed him? To live
on terms of intimate friendship with
a man whom you hate is. dangerous
work for your friend. Because of
his belief in me as his admiring and
grateful protege and his belief in
himself as my benefactor, he was
now utterly in my power. l could
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take my time and choose my oppor.
tunity. Perhaps | should not have
killed him, but | had sworn to have
my revenge-and there he was, poor
vain fool, at my mercy. l was in
no hurry.
Two years later | had to recon-
slider my position, for my revenge
was being taken out of my hands.
Mark began to drink Could / have
stopped him? l don't think so, but
to my immense surprise | found
myself trying to. Instinct, perhaps,
getting the better of reason; or did
| reason it out and. tell myself thSt,
if he drank himself to death, should
lose my revenge? Upon my word |
cannot tell you; but, for whatever
motive, did genuinely want to stop
it. Drinking is such a beastly thing,
anyhow.
Continued in our next issue.)
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to his inn?"
That's it. Bright, wasn't it?"
Brilliant. And what was the re-
sult?"
The result was woman"
A woman?'' said Antony eagerly.
"A woman" said Bill impressive
ly. "Of course | thought it was
going to be Robert-so did you,
didn't you?-but it wasn't. 1t was
a woman. Came. quite late on Mon
day night in car-driving herself
went off earlynext morning"
g Did he describe herr"
Yes. She was middlin.' Middlin'
tall, middlin' age, middlin' color, and
SO on. Doesn't help much, does it?
But still-a woman. Does that upset
your theory?'
Antony shook his head.
No, Bill, not at ALL" he said.
You knew all the time? At least.
you guessed"
Wait till tomorrow. III tell you
everything tomorrow"
Tomorrow" said Bill in great dis
appointment.
We'll, I'll tell you one thing to-
night, if you'n promise not to ask
any more questions. But you prob
ably know it already"
What is it?'
Only that Mark Albeit did not
kill his brother"
And Cayley did?"
That's another question. Bill.
However, the answer is that Cayley
didn't either.
Then who on earth"
Have some more beer" said An
tony with a smile. And Bill had to
be content with that.
They were early to bed that eve-
nign, for both of them were tired.
Bill slept loudly and defiantly, but
Antony lay awake, wondering. What
was happening at the Red House
now? Perhaps he would hear in the
ri2rning; perhaps he would get a
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noble young gentleman he was, aud
Philip aad |, hastily washed and
crammed into collars, stood in front
of him, nudging each other and
kicking the backs of our heels and
cursing him in our hearts for hav-
ing interrupted our game.
He had decided to adopt one of
us, kind Cousin Mark. Heaven
knows why he chosa me. Philip
was eleven; two years longer to wait.
Perhaps that was why.
Well, Mark educated me. | went
to "a public school and to Cambridge,
much more than his secretary as
your friend Beverley perhaps has
told you. Mark could never live
alone. There must always be some
body to listen to him. | think in
his heart he hoped | should be his
Boswell. He told me one day that
he had made me his literary execu-
tor poor devil. And he used to
write me the absurdest long letters
when was away from him, letters
which read once and then tore up.
The futility of the man!
1T was three years ago that Philip
got into trouble. he had been har-
ried through a cheap grammar
school and into a London office, and
discovered there that there was not
much fun to be got in this world on
two pounds a week. had a frantic
letter from him one day, saying that
he must have hundred at once, or
he would be ruined, and | went to
Mark for the money.
only to borrow it you under
stand; he gave me a good salary and
| could have paid it back in three
months. But no. He saw nothing
for himself in it, | suppose; no APP
plause, no admiration. Philips
gratitude would be to me, not to
him.
81 begged, / threatened, we ar
gued; and while we were arguing,
Philip was arrested. 1t killed my
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letter. He went over the whole
story again from the beginning -
was there any possibility of mis-
take? What would the police do?
Would they ever find out? Ought he
to have told them? Well, let them
find out; it was their job. Surely
he couldn't have made mistake
this time. No good wondering now;
he would know definitely in. the
morning.
In the morning there was letter
for him.
CHAPTER Xxx
MY Dear Mr.. Gillnngham, r
81 gather from your letter that
you have made certain discoveries
which YOU may feel it your duty to
communicate to the police, and that
in this case my arrest on a charge
of murder would inevitably follow.
Why, n these circumstances, you
should give me such ample warning
of your intentions | do not UNDER
stand, unless it is that you are not
wholly out of sympathy with me.
But whether or not you sympa-
tlize, at any rate you will want to
know-and | want you to know
the exact manner in which Albeit
met his death and the reasons which
made that death necessary. If the
police have to be told anything,
would rather that they too knew the
whole 7tory. They, and even you,
may call it murder, but by that
time | shall be out of the way. Let
them call it what they like.
Il must begin by taking you back
to a summer day fifteen years ago,
when | was a boy of thirteen and
Mark a young man of twenty-five
His whole life was make-belieye, and
just now he was pretending TO be
a philanthropist.
He sat in our little drawing
room, flicking his gloves against the
back of his left hand, and my
mother, good soul, thought what a
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1t was nearly eight O'Clock when
William Beverley, the famous sleut7-.
hound, arrived, tired and dusty, at
lg George to find Antony, cooi
clean, standing bare-headed az
e door, waiting for MIN.
Is dinner ready?' were Bills
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Yes"
Then I'll just have a wash. E67Gf,
I'm tired"
Il never ought to have asked you"
said Antony penitently.
"Th@t's all right. l sha:'t be
moment Half way up the stairs re
turned round shvt' asked, Am y.
your ROOM"
Yes. Do you know the way?"
yes. Start carving, will you.
And order lots of beer" He dis
appeared round the top of the stair
case Antony went slowly in.
When the first edge of his ap-
petite had worn off, and he was able
to spare little time between the
mouthfuls, Bill gave an account OF
his adventures. The landlord of the
. Plough ano Horses" had been
sticky, decidedly sticky-Bill had
been unable at first to get anything
out of him. But Bill had ben tact
full; lcrblessyou, how tactful he had
been.
"He ,-eot on about the inques4,
and what a queer affair it had been,
and so on. Then | said carelessly
that it must be very hard to remem-
Der anybody whom you had just
| seen once, so as to identify him
afterward, and he agreed that it
would be 'middlin' hard and then"
Give me three guesses," inter-
rupted Antony. You asked him if
he remembered everybody who came