The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 5, 1904, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR STAR PU RLISHING CO ioe Heventh Avenue ERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT BUNDATY. b Independent 113% Dep eieerum its Main 1a STAR AGENCY The date hen E. W. BLACKWOOD, Chic ——ee HAS AMERICA REACHED A PERIOD OF DECLINE? | lthe The following article le} which marked the beg students of history reached her period of decline in the news rial columns of growth of an York's society people, who, | little sm distin: netion |_ . of being the Lord's anointed. This | Theodora, wife of Em: is precisely the condition that ob-| Roman empire among | class of people, period which marked the ning of the decline and fall of ‘that tained in the In the period to which I refer the Roman matrons and holy virgins them in their meranian dogs that 2 $10,000 each, as do ladies of America’s ies and some New York jewels and Who has not heard ‘of the gilded oats that were fed the horse of Emperor Call- There is enough in this to sug- Pest the pessimistic query whether America is She period of decay. What ts char characteristic ‘among the same classes in all of the large population centers of the While there is no eranian record left of the r is recorded that they had a similar craze lap dogs and indulged it at a tre that they sent as far @way a5 to the forests and jungles of Africa for birds and birds’ eggs. caught and gathered at enormous . to be used in entering to the Jaded appetites of their pampered Lo mendous cost; There ts no mistaking that fines of the American people in the Desinning of the fury have » not only in New York. ry other state metropolis. any one who nt listen to the dialogues lent to everyday street car travel ywherever transfer Yogue. .Requests for transfers to wide two squares, or square, will be heard coming from both male and female passengers. and im the majority of cases those transfer tickets are used, all to save the effort necessary to put forth to fwalk 400 or a thousand feet vigorous and rugged constitutions nd ruddy faces, People who live in rural end who earn their bread. cordance with ancient maxims. the sweat of their brows, also characteristic eee characteristic of the humbier of Europe, are comparative- ly unknown in American citi fess among those recently recruited from the farm. hours, late suppers, the opposition to all kinds of healthful that will make and keep muscles are bringing on a race of weak women which make, of course, & race of weak men inevitable. In the rural districts, and this is especially true of European » @ walk of three or four miles for a woman is not 8s worth a second thought of that length, taken by any mod- elty-bred woman, Biscussed by the Sorosis « ‘weeks and occupy a half cc the next Sunday's society ¢ I now recall a rugged Eng) thought nothing of walking. and women where the various nostrums now adi ime the mother from, and a eg ancestors the legitimate dern American craze for fads which that they must entail » Weak mothers and uence, weak sons and daughters Gf there are any- sons and daugh . and weaker generations still In our grandfather's da heard of the various baby the names of which are now hous There was but Kind of food then for babies, Kind old Dame Nature always had Yeady ad properly prepared, and as & consequence babies thrived Gre now strong men and home is no longer the Proper place, according to the mod- . in which children should be born. A hospital, with ali of its artificial surroundings, is the prop. er place for weaklings to begin tn, unless some @re s00n wrought, evitable place for them to end and that, too, about as soon as they | @te born. The age is effeminate feminate in tastes and effeminate in strength. In the period of Trojan and the} ines, when Rome was in the fall vigor of its might and power. hold words? it will be the Mere strong almost to the degree Of masculinity, and were when handing the husband or son, of saying bring this back or be brought back it.” The frugality and h once marked the life m matron finally gav in the plentitude eraze for avoiding ali efforts which contribute to heal and vigor, both of mind and wad As is the case in American popula- tion centers today, the rivalry was te spend the greatest number denern for magnificent entertain- ments. Bradicy-Martin balis were pe frequent occurrence in the dayr of their wealth M \ ago Representative, 1006 Hartford Building W. D. WARD, New York Represen tative, 53 Tribane Building foan customs and follies was con h it worth pite its lengt « well h aning of the f the town be disturb some m € e mis noon nap. 1 ald igleep well last might.” said typical Sy was becat up under me.” The Sybari the degenerate Romans Who in Seattle has not heard the unm latakable fobjections frequently ral |magnificent manufacturing tnd tries because, forsooth, they mal and soot soil my lady's dimity In the splendor of the decline Jus tinian , made a journe asses, in the n tronarum,” which, being interpr ted, is ladies’ ear scratcher; if th one kind of jewels of a heavy pat tern, and if in summer their wan ing strength would not b weight were worn. Do the “titled” ladies of mode their lly fing along the Appian be seen any day in Central F the magnificence of their dress. To the magnificence of their pri deposit boxes? folds of their gilded umbrelias unguarded and imperceptib guage, that they were not born gions of eternal darkness. * %& When they ha water, if @ slave has been t his obedience, he ts instamtia ¢p tised with 300 lashes, but urder the master ‘will mildinfan4 that if he is a worthless fel shall he repeat the offi popular they celebrate their private ban nicious panions of the pr m ws useful of all arts, ry.” ompare this description with Ihe modern « frequent Bradley-Martin functions and the “its” who attend them. There is but one feature of mod ern, up-to-date American society erazes to make them exact parallels with the crazes which marked the beginning of Rome's decline, and that is the introduction of the Oriental insect which Queen Semir amis is credited with inventing, and that feature I have no doubt will be introduced before very long. 1 refer, of course, to the eunuch. G. M. R CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bougiit Bears the Signature of the art of Going Out of Business Prices in Pianos and Organs and Piano Players Are Slaught- ered to Quick Selling Point—Terms Made Eany. STORE OPEN EVENING: we | ae a | CHESBRO PIANO DEALERS | RELIABLE TRANSFER CO. | Baggage, Furniture, Storage Office and storage room, 1216 First avenue, Postoffice building. Phones—Sunset 902; Independent, DON'T FORGET THE TIN SALE AT Red Front Furniture Co. 208 SECOND AV, SOUTH. For a Disease Germ That Liquozone Can’t Kill. conte per month | ot man wer Then that made notse ter work work in wed anywhere tn the not the parite, “and I think it rose leaf got rumpled s were sed to her ke and soot, which smoke immense ap One Million Dollars | which medicine never of@® In ne re es of the gas. one is the result of a pro for more than 20 years, tant subject of hemical research is to get into @ and thus into the blood, yet harmless, germicide Another result ts to create a vitalix- which no other can compare. the Pythian warm baths. In ber train] were the practorian pracfect, the great treasurer, several counts and patricians and not less than 4,000 attendants. In addition to this was a drove of several hundred she Ik of which the erstwhile dissolute women took #/ bath every day. Aping their em-/ press. the titled ladies of Rome took thelr journeys with an outlay of wealth almost equal to hers, They had in their magnificent trains has been the |known product Acts Like Oxygen = '"°28 ‘The great value of Liquosone lies | years, through physt« what they called “aurtscalplus ma-/in the fact that it does what oxy-| pitals, tn this country and others, Oxygen is the vital part | be yurce of vitality,| proved it in every ki . element of life | case—in thousands of the most gf ' Bure or potas ned blood journey was in winter they wore most essential r their weight, and so jewels of a Nght America travel less ostentatiousty in their private cars? They may |not have their “auriscalpius ma- tronarum,” but they have thelr «pe clay tipped menial to manicure “A Bid For F reedom”i = a The coaches o the senators of the declining Rome, as they moved ay, were seen to be made of solid silver, while the trappings of thelr horses were| | of embossed gold. Their types can > rose from his cushions and; pac stately a fig ddenly be « round on me et come for me to tell thee a on New York's and other great pet and, wheel! boulevards of this country. The Roman senators and nobles meas ured their rank and importance by the loftiness of their chariots and|‘hee. There is a England cheerless country of Ht mot say now whom [ m Is it necessary for the purposes of this article to call attention to the| °F friend oF for modern American standard by which people's rank is measured? for me to act in th vate ears, their autos and other|®0t send my servant equipage, to the cost of their Jew. |" to the length breadth and thickness of their well-stuffed safe jacek is powerfuli.ou tail and fall) “Would that { could fear more ligt sagen In writing of the people who|!=to their bh lived in the beginning of the De cline, Ammianus said: “Should a| fly presume to settle on the silken dst thou re-) “Will your majesty thegpfore par-|body of the prophet, wh should a sunbeam penetrate some chink, | they deplore their intolerable hard-| ships, and lament in affected lan- r the land of the Cimmertans, the | called for Win | {same slave commit wilErve that | whenever | th profuse and per-| ae the modest, the| quets, f © learned are seldom | sober the frequent and fa- | arasites who practice rant eription of the too| 1 WAS CONDUCT £D TO MY CELL. e to do my bidding. harder still, for thou knowest what} speak the words I hi men say of me.” 1 knew only too well to understand, your for 1 pletely taken aback by his 'extraor-|foot tapped the floor tmp that I am to by force or | speak like an honest man |go to England, | otherwise, abduct personage and bring him, whether say he likes it or not, to Madrapore? * he anewe » of saving thyself 1, for by the beard of my father, no other. We will this matter again.” my reverence as best I my hands fastened be was conduct hind my back, and I CHAPTER. V. slept a wink all night, » light of the new day in through the barred door such an over: , out of the | better than a dead lion o and when the stole faintly grating of the whelming desire came over me w honor must be thrown to the winds anf I must accept the fer his majesty had made me. g5 Itmust have been nearly 2 o'clock] “I speak straight because I have before | was eummoned 1 found his majesty attired for rid-|to angh we otherwise my lips had| ing, and pacing the wild animal in a cage. Forsome minutes he paid no at- man.” continued to 1 was now coming to the most room like a} by tention to me, but THE SBATTLE § We Offer $1,000 Don't you know that a hen the ¢ And that xt be cared until then hat not d Liqu me alone can | germ " ttl t of Liquozone we Tt ls the bi food, the nieve food, ; fleult cases obtainable, We eured| In ner Hine | t avenger of the blogd with it every disease which was| 5" th We toxygen that turns the blug bl considered incurable, Then we paid i” that Liquo-|red in the lungs; that @in $100,000 for the . the waste thwue and bullge and tho Dritish rights ha nee oans, » Every | new little oxys always | br m Like m. We tell you| If ' ian mows that near: | cause of vitality. Bn excess| these facts beca they indicate | never the little tls of it gives strength to evbry func: | the great value of Liquozone pon below aused by germ | tion of Nature 1 an ror the Oxygen {8 also a germigdde. Whe Germ Diseases a full-size bottle troyed before reason is that germs are v@getahle These ar nown germ dis-| will pay th And they know|and an excess of oxy very | oases; all r the pol-|it, This apr 1 inside germs, | "fe of an animal—ts 4 ) vem: | one whi reate, These are| bottle, of ann are f t Liquezone like | the diseane on have ¢ 1 ns wh ar not ly ann i in rt . perhaps —a ta ide germs pla . fit. ‘The cured th All that medte an do for these We simply w me are blood goes, It} troubles is to act as a tonic, alding to let the prod t Wor tonto—the best | Nature to overcome the germs. But what it can quozone 5 6 world for you ¢ it; those results are indirect and un- judge by rew 1 ways blind certain that we | certain ey depend on the pa | wish to comt ‘a 4 Ghee sttle an offer of | tent’s condition, When drugs were ‘ to cure sick © germ that {t|preseribed for these troubles, no This off it ause, And body £ germs. Now overy| 70" the Mew y We would the cost while| The discoverer of Liquozone has | g00d physician knows that they call S ae8 sive olved the great problem of killing for a germicid: iny doubt ¢ germs tn the body without killing Liquozone alone can destr the veauie What Liquozone Is _| the tissues, too, “And there is no cause of these trout It ¢ at Ls ca other way. Any drug that kills ever the blood goes. No germ iucn to yourself Aquozone is not @ medicine. It 15! parma is a poison, and tt canno’ ape it, and we have found 0/1 o¢ter today ing acids or . taken internally. Liquozone germ which resist & ohol in) only way that any man know ases which have resisted nA ° dert solelY| end the cause of any germ « ine for years yield at once » 14-|” oxygen gae—by quozone. and i ure tin } any stage of any dineag In thi ent by us to « Our offer to t tires the one aw first bottle has been accepted 1,800,000 people. And we have spent this Vast sum to publish the offer and to fulfill it The It is that millions now use It, These have told others about it, and the others told others. Your own Khborhood wherever you are ot Liquo zone users, And half the people you meet know some one whom Li red this product for two # and how who a Asthma ‘ese — Anaecm| mia ar Tuber nes Tumors Varicocele teate orrhea—« Women's Diseases ¢ we made the first bottle. We si) fineancs that begin with f 1 of germ digf tagioun dine e results of it Pee gAPOOPELEEEHETEDESEDOEENESOD | ror. Her name? | enc nag to gasp. I could not repress a cry the whole villainous trick THEY my hands been By auy pTHe |have killed him (Copyright, 1904, by M™*PADEr Enterprise Association.) | “Your majesty x . erfed with despair | $000000es 0000800 60400000000000 er oe rr ee ee) impossible coulk | ja thing. I knew her years ag | “You have sworn to me that you| will do it—sworn by all c asit in | was f sacred. It is too wht. At lant warew| “If Tam to undertake this work ae +4 that om, scowling he with his b the floor | delicate part of the business, and 1) ful how he might take it. | making as | and I had see if on his cushion like your _—* fast thou conside ¥ whet Ijance that th ee yesterday? inquited |aire me to bring to you > that was liket the wnarl|ceive no bodily harm.” of a wolf : | His face bri It is not te tempest of The time would I can|that; I was going to riskMt. ,¢ |deal If only he were not playing same} “Your majesty,” I Begnny “Ils|me false! 1 knew bim too well by be an easy} known throughout the J@pgth)gand |this time to place much reliance in whom I/ breadth of your kingdom as one | hie assertions. many | who likes straight talk.” He must have had times rath Tear me in 5 do with me gindly suffer , idea of ing his right hand he go hardjof it.” I heard him mut said very solemnly, “I swe It is too 1 done, must be ore ——~e—= jhe blessed, and the soul father, that no harm shal that person. Dost thou até eueen to me! ‘no harm; nay The oath was a solemn one, and that She sha and why shou im earnest shall be my May it please your majesty then to tell me the name of the man giready.” I whom | am to bring? “Bism ‘I thou wilt do it or not? i “I have no « must lhorror expre ‘Swear that thou wilt be faithful |jts own tale | sont three oak “| sweart” I answered in a yolce | chuckle “Swear it by all yc he went on, “and 1 will belleve | spring a 1 swear it by all I hold sacred. « It is well, Thou shalt be a free | art about to thee |return to Ma ! He rose from his ¢ hions 4 shall be thine. crossed the room to the carved Summoning the guard, he | med | possible that I | heads should any one enter until he And thou gave permission. Then he return Once m he seated himself o cushion I could feel my p' thou wilt not swer to my question The thought one id On hearing this I stepped back a | insy yw you the largest var en’s- it will go}don his servant,” 1 conti mind? Yesterday your m enough to say me to be an ho d, but I notie hat ‘you t rohn that his iently on bywill a abid was com- “Then with your permit 1own in Sea All Styles Best Qualities Reasonable Prices well known |the con yences,”* was his rept “From what your majpsty told me yesterday I gather thd I ay to go to my own country, , and, by some means or other yethto be de. cided, induce, inveigle oF force a certain exalted person to visit Ma drapore. In return for which I re ceive my Hberty, Your highness was pleased to call me an honest man. Has it struck you that if I do this thing T shall never be able to cajl myself that again? What then, dog? Thou wilt have thy life, and does not that count for something? Hast thou not a pro: verb which says that ‘a livg ass is a am giving Ponder it certainly are right ment ill and look all we ask, ND oy, Hatters and Men's that's “And we have another, your majepy, ‘Honor above all | Body of prophet! darest thou mock me to my face?” This time|received your gracious permission | ed." “Speak on, for thou art a brave A 50c Bottle Free. an right First Bottle Free fet, the results are so atain that| | CUTOUT OUT THIS COUPON by We will gladly send Ray patie for this offer Pill out the t 468-464 never but if you will suppl bottle free, I will take it pas jthe right to die | der me as you p' make an acc thou I humbly answered that I had. [and then b ay And what wilt thou Mo? Dost| “I give thee my word, the w Again he said thou accept my offer orpnott:, [of the sultan, that T mean no harm.|‘ 10 it, snd thou It was a dangerous sep Powas|It is rather to the contrary jeet, Ss = Jabout to take, but I coulf not,belp| This cleared up matters a good | ™ . © than es with wild « lease me from my oa What is more, | If thou wilt not others who will give heed to thin do it, there will be hee that I me I will do more “wan your majesty has @ sultana h! on “a that? 1 Before 1 do that, tell me whether 1 mot sultan of this country? : | He must have seen e,” 1 replied. “I | passing in my mind and that {t shall not be known who | gmiled more pleasantly than he had and that | scarcely recognized as my | upon my faithful servant, the grand own vizier, ax a tok shold sacred,” | She hath the temper of a camel tn 1 his happiness will then thee.” be complete. But let us not speak talk of what th that. Let us man. Now the rest shall be told| much gold, and, shouldst thou eve I only shook my head ould do this thing them that it would be upon their/and again I told him so.” hast sworn to me by all thou hold lly closing the door after him. est sacred! I know Christian's oath ts worth. throbbing Ike piston rod: thy wish and I w Then came this astounding an- have never treated man before.” It is not a man at all, It is a scrupulous than OUT INTEREST woman, and, by Allah, a beautiful | called in to take my through me flashed upon me pace in sheer amazement and hor iTo Be n SECOND AND UNION J) The QUAKER DRUG ©. S<cCON! will save Full set of Teeth t Gold Crown Gold Fillings Say Silver Fillings ... 5 500 | 614 FIRST ‘AVE. “SEATTLE. Furnishers 1331 SECOND AVENUE, ARCADE BUILDING. 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