The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 2, 1905, Page 4

ne SRE en nenM A 8 eames easton BY STAR PU OF FICKS. BREN ON excert pun TELEPHONES, Martine htaeBiunmet, Main 1060 ISILING CO, DaY. i THE SEATTLE STAR 19T and 159 Reventh Avenue Cha ia Sees he RD #TAR AGENCY-an Bet copy, sty enn’ Tati ar carrier. Nt BUBACHINERS ver w ange enters « at Beattie <a rid aetna opding the public or The Star r Kleven dtete Vertised in the columns of Th corded spa. eopy furnished by Several propric e In this newspaper. T the y medicines, Physicians and are preserit be excluded B Wodicines as a class. Bnd which it believes should not b Tho fact that there is conside Es Fesult of the elimination of these a 4 Moment. Tho reason is not far to seek. Te many cases the formulas were k | Possibly the doctors, whose vo! * @al supposition that they “hollere and leay * nt patent medicines Seattio Phe editor advertisers of these Ave abi whi Star, wil which are gem “l by them if ordinary pa which ft i to the ™ rable | ds. cannot Why has Sunset, will euntary be considered for a ton, aa soond-s B-RAGRYS DCG STORE COR Office at the ado h have been regularly 1 no decline concoctions. erally rec pract! from the advertising columns of The Star jenounce loss Inv t waited SECOND long Red 10. © twenty-dwe conte per mony, ption expires ie f your Aubsortp a from the lat Inne matter ava ad ac to receive a by ©, will not oRn AN adveetising grrangements made by this paper are subject to @itorial control. Th itor can determine what matter offered by : @ivertivers is fit to print and what is not @t to print The Star's oditor has determined that ghjegtionable matter lies in © ‘most patent medicine ads and that they hipth subject to re fusal. The Star desires to be consistent in its crusade against nt It does not seem right for the paper to accept Profits from advertisements of artic ed ally, olved a8 « Some reader may ask, “Why has The Star not refused these pat @nt medicine advertisements before? Only recently has there been any opt secret Like many another public evil the patent medicine for their curealls. stances that alded in saveral enstern weekly pu that they will soon see their di | Pegardiess of consequences. Worthless “remedies.” Recently numerous advertisements of patented Yaken on most absurd forms, inciuding claims that wore plainly pre osterous. The finger marks offraud were so palpable in these in- it served to direct editorial What probably lay behind those specious claima. At the same time specialists in the east began analyzing the pat- ent medicines and the first surprising discovery, which was duly her was that some of Most popular “remedies” were mainly composed of alcoho! and optates Investigations once started along this Hine were kept up and soon ‘The Star became convinced that it, ad been helping along a bad traffic through its advertising columns. , Knowing what it should do, The Star started in to tell the peo- ‘ple of Seattle what it had found out and to put an end in this city _ to the use of fake remedies as far as possible. _ far stands alone, other publications in Seattle appearing loth to ‘take up a course of action which must me: of their patent medicine advertising. Ddlications, with many ‘The Sad flourisbed, the venders of the “medicines” waxed opu they grew more and more confident of their hold upon the public they became correspondingly more blatant in their advertising claims “re other newspapers, Tn this endeavor it so the speedy destruction Star believes, ty in this matter and will perform it ‘The Star doesn’t claim to be able to protect the people against All sort of fakes. But it does say that simple duty to humanity re- “@Uires it and overy other newspaper to raise a volce to the undoing Of the takirs who have played with human ills and human lives with Attacking the Hills anybody under the gen- nedies @earching inquiry into the constituent elements of patent medicines, Their use became gew @fal so gradually and the evils resulting therefrom deve! Petceptibly that no particular notice was taken by es were not heeded ed so im except because they had axes to grind.” trade grew mt and as have attention on The Star to the however, ‘The hill-leveling spirit is growing in Seattle, with the growth ‘Of the city, and there isasyet no telling to what lengths {t will lead ‘The farther the steam shovels gouge thelr way into the “first hill" ‘and Denny bill” the more abrupt become the cliffs and eminences “Gust behind, and the more necessary apparently does it become to Amerease the fervor of the assault on the ground plan of the town. It has been truly said that the population of Seattle is largely ‘Composed of “plains people,” who have come from level states and Smooth flat towns of the Central West and the regions to the East- ‘Ward. They naturally prefer horizontal sidewalks to those tilted up- » wards, and buildings constructed on a flat piece of real estate instead of on an incline. Knowing, therefore, the tem per of the town and the vigor which Hes behind that temper, it requires no very wise man to foresce the @ay when “Denny hill” will be toppled over entirely into the bay = and more flat country opened up for the growing busineva of the elty. Whiie the cost of this work ts certainly give ultimate satisfaction. Editor Star: There appeared for a so-called “ethical” den that will bear some adverse! The article referred to} wsplanting of a tooth, an op-| that involves the taking of} Goed tooth out of the mouth of a) y individual and putting it tn mouth of another. This opera tion was performed by a man who dentist. That is to say, he Advertise his profession in} the newspapers. Common Honesty. Bthics means in dentistry the f oF calling. It is common honesty | | between man and man, or, literally, “& correct rule of action. Tam an advertiser, but I cannot e608 why 2 man cannot advertise! truthfully and still give his patient! tBe best skil! and knowledge at his | command. The ethical men of the Spee say it pute dentistry on a lal basis. Us analyze this “ethical” op and see what it amounts to. Begin with {it assumes that a girl with money onough to have that tooth than the poor gir!! ns. high, the in who sacrifices It. | your paper recently an advertise-, taking a perfectly sound tooth from the mouth of one who not only needs the tooth, but needs thi money, is Justified on what basis Not a The “commercial basis?” The possibility that Seattle will ever be able to entirely cut away ) her biggest bills, Nos. 1, Zand 3, seems very remote, but there is lit- tle question that the assaults on the first bill will continue until a Surprising quantity of dirt has been hauled away and numerous low Tying lots developed from the excav accruing results will operation of Oh, no; it is merely a matter of benefitting humanity, the part of humanity that puts up the cash Denounces Operation. Outside of the money part of it to call himself an “eth-| there are two points that cannot be Justified on any basis whatever. The case of dental ethics or the ethics of de y and humanity annot ex- cuse the act of removing the tooth from the mouth of the girl who was foolish enough to seil it, even if she #ame as in every other occupation| did get a good price for st. On the other hand the operation itself is always questionable in far as positive resuits are concerned and sctentific ommend the dentists operation. £0 do not Thus ree works @ positive injury to both par. tles, and the only one to benefit by it is the dentist who thinks bis ethical There standing is a than his religion, ig honest is no reason why a man thing cannot advertise and be ethical There are many who do not ad Dr. SETH C. tooth, is more deserving to| vortise who are not ethical MAKER it} more} | fled tn his THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, DEC BOSS BUTLER, OF ST. LOUIS aaoneeneSSOR AD ARE Abba a fin WRITES DEFENSE OF BOSSES Written by Baw T. Butler TH Former Blacksmith Bow oft Route ie OF Tiere, ane 900 © WITH BRIBERY TO SECURE A CONTRACT WHICH Millionaire. Political bosses are a | ARE A NECESSITY, BUT THEY .MUST BE HONEST but They must be honest They must be truthfal They must have the confiden the people and be outspok They must have no relatives or | THEIR OWN | ot Jerome's success in New York ts a remarkable oxample of the r lution against bossism that is going do it honestly. If he gets crooked ©” off comes hia head, Every bank and 7 i m that 18 €OINE every business haa ite bows, and on all over the coun a ta | Over ee nee sues were similarly drawn in any OM vs grid Siitmeut leoduee @ other ble city, the result would pe | party will disorganize itself Daaeti nly trance have digreased |, 1¢ Cox in Cincinaat! hed been from the path of strictest honesty |hesest he could not Rave Peo ‘ar Be |heaten. 1 know nothing about th ms eee | twets, but the result plainly akow But every party needs a boas, be cause every business ts a head There must be some supreme au thority whose word is law The preacher fs the “boss” of bi hurch. He has the board directa with him, and he “gulla” the people on the outaide of the ring, but he must | that there dishonesty sd | where | An honest boas is never beidte | He cannot be beaten as long ad'thi people have confidence !n bim,'an j they will only lose confidencé | him after he has proven his Gi PRODENCE MANNEN* ‘The mothers’ congress is a waste of ammunition. We are not at the piace where a vital issue calla for a mothers’ congress, although \e om to one doubties* would say so. re naar innlegg tawue that called them forth—ap issue not of mothers: The need of wome® for brain work. That ts the real disease of which the mothers ts congresses, and a lot of other useless things, are dug up that the women may find vent for their bottled up brain power. People are calling some of them names for being strong -minded. and going in for professions, and auch; and they are being assured that to be a mother defines the proper limite of a woman's endeavor. Because of this the timid and conservative try to make peace by using up their eapacity to work on mothers’ congresses, and the like ‘As s00n an Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Cleveland and a lot of others, whose specialty ie NOT the woman qu 4 to the fact that the WOMEN WILL WORK, and ces the half-frightened females who are trying to aatiaty thelr cravings for brain work with- out rousing the Ire of the woman-in-the-home advocate, will stop dig- ging up pacifying and placatory jobs, and do the things they really have reason to believe their talents preseribe. congress ls the some mildly blasphemous terms which he uses only of extraordin- ary occasions. ‘The rat, seeing that things were not going to be pleasant andi hat monious with Aleck in such # pér- rs. Momuch makes me tired. We had a real quarrel this morn- ing.” “What about?" “She became almost insulting be- cause 1 couldn't understand her ly, pre- ¢ quoted Browning over the|tarbed state of mind, hastily, pe tetany , cipitated toward gravel, where Jt ei was immediately trod upon, and transformed into e dead rat, mever again to be enticed into the dark unexplored regions of a big leg. UNCLE HENRY THINKS When a feller gits Aleck is going back to thel@ghj to’ lookin’ fer | fitting style of some years money he's more | which is much the safest In rat Hkely t' carry a jim- | season.—West Lafayette, O., Indt- my th'n a bottle wv | cator. ~ NM “If I do say it myself, my hus band was one of the best dancers I ever saw. I remember how every- body liked to dance with him-when we went to balls and parties before taint remover. ALECK’S NARROW ESCAPE Aleck Reddick bad a narrow es- jcape one day last week while hu we were married ing corn for John Kirk. “When Mr. Smithers and I went A rat ran up Aleck's offside pants |to balls and parties before we were leg, causing the owner of the leg| married he was one of the best to act very skiddish and undigni-| dancers in town,” said Mra demeanor and to uselers, “All tho girls were just crazy DEPARTMENTS: and Telegraphy, portation, Common English, Shorthand Bookkeeping, Typewriting, Trans- & MAN WHOM FOLK TURNED OUT, AND WHO WAS CHARGED BENEFIT HIMSELF, SAYS IN AN ARTICLE THAT BOSSES TRUTHFUL—DECLARES THE BOSSES WILL COME BACK TO Croker, I think, waa fairly honest but I do not Fr bows who Is honest, However, I out of politics and don't keep close track of the leaders. AND yhen I was in politics I i a man. e yhody I stood, I did not do much bossing—in fact, I let the other fel lows do most of that, but | gave advice where it was needed, and took It, too, I never asked « candi date for money for the campaign. WOULD ™ m by orn dishonest hor dishonesty among fact that they were y giving them the “dou Jatt the solutte they are erroneous Newton's.” “sare to dance with him.” “Oh, it was perfectly natural for) you to think he was such a good! Smith-| dancer,” said one of her old friends. Relatively speaking, two “He probably couldn't dance a bit! above freezing is cold, but speaking | better than anybody elm You | absolute it is rather warm, since thought so because you 4 him.” | absolute zero is 480 F. below our) ‘0, indeed,” insisted Mra, Smith-| present or 493 degrees freez-| era, “I think so yet.” ling: therefore, since freezing is oan warm, the question ‘how cold must | ©. Rosh has been hoard from| it be If it is twice cold as two} in. Inaptred by the first feath-| degrees above freezing,’ would read: | ere let fall from the angela” wings | ‘How warm must it be ff it is one-| this season, ©. Bosh has burst into! retrompective verse anent a colder country. Here it in—# D. M zing {9 492 degrees F. ab | solute, two degrees above would b all any present day | newer | knew | friends who want office, and the , > ~ sein MEN ahis dope bosses themselves must not be office | BOSS BUTLER $ CAREER but I did ask it from people on the |f PYRO oven pie DEP = wong nw far tag ou seekers or rafters | outside, The poor candidate who graphic Artist burns any design on any article to ord The wave of resentment against | ia elected isn’t well enough pald to) BAD h® see at al Beit | boasiam, the results of which we! Kdward T. Butler, called “col- (later a millionaire Japend his money running for the VELVET rr NISHED SHEEPSKINS—regular price $1 QUAKER saw in Mixourt a year ago, and tn was boas of St. Louts for 3) As a result of Folks’ tnvestign-| office wold Bh! niece yyy ne Be }Ohto, New York and Philadelphia tion, Butler was arrested on a! The boas who In out for rite QUAKERS new end peautl? Roa” ; we in the last tion, grew out of die In turning him out and sending| charge of bribery to secure @ con-| coin will soon be found out | sath, “ike Yo’ Maines nate: Gabew.¢ ia Gneiel oot re Jership, I look for these | his Heutenants to jail, Governor | tract for a company of which he| dethroned, Why, 1 know bones |— fit. lial ol isu ts bu 0 Me ERS, and other seationas ‘0 prevail for a while, | Folk, of Missouri, made a natiodal| was a stockholder, Ho was convict-| who made $50,000 or $60,000 a year Sak dae 10e though eventually political parties | reputation od, but a higher court released him. | Hut they are not borses now, and |B Dil. CMek Aa rea ice cine ‘dbeeawet “piel” poeta ae will drift back to leaders-—but those| Butler started In life as a bisck-! He has boasted of how his lieu-| they won't be any more, The peo at tie Anita easton. ibe leadera mttat be b t. They can’t) smith, became boas of St. Louis and tenants stole elections in the past.| ple found them out and turned 1 ne ot AKER mak peek very to all part t Gan noodwink" the people and remain | them out rang 4 in eee sa a grea sr see cummed | “ account for the prevalence of your phones-—Main 4202 se the | It was the same way in New York.| Trace any man’s family history Certain democratic leaders, who as-| Who has been caught In crime, and | pired to be bonaes, tried to organize | somewhere along the line of his an-| a Taimmany in St. Louis several | try you will find a black spot years ago. I told them they were| It's in them to be dishonest fools to undertake such a thiug. Al After a few years the partie Tammany can be successful only | will return to the boss {dea. Th whore there are masses of ignorant | can’t be run successfully with {voters who are willing to be led| leaders, and leaders will be called} around Ike bulls with rings in their| bosses, though most of the talk noses. The people of } York are| about “ringw 1 “combinations” | evidently « more tntelli-| is nonsenst gent, and the revolt against boss-| But when the bosses do come iam is the natural consequence of| back Into their own they will be } dishonest boawstsm. Now, Dick | honewt, and they will not deceive | thoughtful, | even “Bir Isaac | ONE-HALF PRICE For Handsome FRAMED PICTURES and ART STUDIES WATER COLOK liege @ Ls Water cones —CGame and b hF ‘on fi a et The entire line at half pr " irday only HWLECTRICAL MINERAL ART P ried colors; regular price % PMPTY Re UP TRAVEL! ci pigskin, alligator, wa i with bruwhe vm by tn, ete. as your taste may ellent assortment ranging 82.50) up |i LADIES AND GENT EN'S TRAVELING CASE fitted with ebony eocobola, or sliver fittings, ®1.00 to 830.00, A k un | surpassed in the city POCKET TRAVELING CASES—tmuch tna The QUAKER DRUG CO 1013-1015 First Avenue degrees | aeehtenm, oh — = snowflakes, | 494 degrees: and one-half as warm, | eigen tadong towmres | would be 247 degrees F. absolute, or Soar. wale i. “Chats 47 equals 245 degrees be pertttny ex t — Bisco je and Chelatmas) iow treesing, or 213 degrecs below | wero. Should any star dunt readers dis- chigan, we well remembe at we icicke in wild Decembert | Agree with this solution I should How the snow goes whirtin’ driftin’,| Uke them to ask themselves the | question: “How poor would a man | be if he were twice as poor as an- |other man who had $1007 Then ask ‘How poor would he be if he were one-half as rich? PYTHAGORUS, 2003 22nd Ave. N. "T have patiently read the various| “The homely old thing! She had answers to “how cold must it be,|no leense to marry a handsome ete.." but after losing much sleep| young man like Harry!” and wasting many large sheets of “Gracious’ 1 wonder if the min- paper, I have found that although ister knew that?” And neath the shingles siftin’. No; we never have « longin’ To o'er jine yer winter song In. Or to be a datly facin’ Yor eternal cold embray n , BOSH. Merely a Case of Matching _—— ALTHOUGH BERT SMILED AT her last visit “THE PLAN HIS WIFE KNEW) bad been abr time she in which 4 ve id ount for the ABOUT THE BUSINES | enusuad or which stole over him as found himself at his Stephen Henderson was quite “a | friend's thresh He w friend of the family,” and especially | giffident at first since his mother had been staying! women, but this stupidity | with the Coopers was be considered and seif-conact amounted as entirely one of themselves. It | to decided embarrassment when he was & matter surse that he| was presented. He saw in the per- should come out to dinner on Mra.}son of Lisate Grant a slight, girl- Cooper's birthday, the 20th of No-| ish figure, with bright mischievous or, but she had alr forgot- 4° dark brown hatr. She the invitation until re- rming and his first Impres- it Dy her husband a few the scheme of days before. Mrs. Henderson but tnown it to finieh her visit about a w young woman’ had partly from that time so the occ guessed what was in Mrs. Cooper's for the elder woman had often of her husband's junior 2 @ Way that left no room for doubt aa to what she would like to have happen, For this very rea- son Lizate had been determined that would be a happy re’ the invitation to Stephen, Cooper toid her husband of a little plan that she had arranged for the surprise of the young man. It was that Lizzie Grant, a close friend of| she should not fall a vicitm to her hera, aid be at this same birth. ze, but when she saw day dinner so that Stephen might n began to melt, meet her, and, if possible, fall in| During the dinner Henderson de- } love. voted himself most agreeably to his Bert Cooper had smiled when he/ fair neighbor and while the party heard of the plan and advised was mall that general conversa- wife not to get into the business of|tion was to a great extent indulged ding that he feared | in, he managed to monopolize a good share of her attention, Before he | left that evening he had asked and ks Were not at all alike tn their tastes. It was quite dark on the short! received permiasion November day before Steve was! Grant's home, He co ushered into the drawing room| tentions all through e the family had gathered. | lips the news of her Grant was pouring forth an| early the following spring Frances inexhaustible flood of news, non-|Cooper had the extreme sattsfac- sense and clever criticism upon|tion of hearing from Lizsie’s own what she had seen and heard since’ Stephen Henderson. Buy your NEW SUIT AND OVERCOAT here, and take advan- tage of our EASY PAYMENT PLAN GOODS RIGHT, PRIC RIGHT, TERMS THAT SUIT. Eastern Outfitting Co Cor. Pike St. and Fifth Ave, ‘Complete Credit Outfitters for Men, Women and Children.” (Inc.) Special Offer for the Holiday edina Music Boxes And the Tune Sheets DISCOUNT 1-4 OFF Large Assortment---All Prices SHERMAN, CLAY & CO. EMERSON AND OTHER PIANOS. 7il Second Ave., Seattle San Francisco Tacoma, Wash. Oakland, Cal. 1515, 1517 1519, 1521 Second Avenue Watch for the Announcement of Our Big Discount Sale In The Sunday Papers sac. *SRARTLE an BUSINESS COLLEGE Four Nights Each Week, $4 Month MILLER & ELSTON, PACIFIC BLOCK. Saar A WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT If prospective buyers of Real Estate were “on the inside,” and only knew of the rapid changes being made south of ttle, WHICH FOR OBVIOUS reasons are not being published, I would not have a tract of land left in three days at ©. D. Hillman's Meadow Gardens. COME TODAY BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE And secure some. of those cleared and grubbed tracts, If you pre- fer you can buy alder bottom land in any quantity and clear it your- self. Bring the ladies, as there are sidewalks in front of every tract. City water. DON'T BE A CLAM. Get busy and do ft now. Take new Renton car, get off at Duwamish Bridge. g EEPTU2E8 PARLE ance, summ ‘schoo quest! iso, The avera, surpr! shows ‘spent