The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 7, 1905, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR BY STAR PUBLISHING CO. OF FICKS-JHT and 1A) Beventh Avenve BAY arrennoy PT BUNDAY wa ALBONRELS Ce Rvsiness Heprriment 1. Main 1980; Independent tim BALLARD sak AGENCY—an F 1 Ave Sunset, Red 14 ‘One gent ver atx conte per week wenty-five cente per me Setivered t: by iy « cart No free coplee : . arn Se. Sa TO MAIL SU HA . UG STORR, COR. BRCOND AV 4 a A i { AN) x PRE iF hew Want Ay ie Purpowe of afto aubse for this ntly Deen opened jo joave want ade, Me The phone num fent USB ae] SSS ESE TAINTED ADVERTISING A renders 8 tit heartily approving of the stand taken by the against patent medicine advertising Qnd sugeesting that stil! another advance be made by eliminating all wack doctor's ads” so that “the reform. w omplete,”* ‘The suagestion would be good, if it were not altogether imprac ; B teadlea Who is to distinguish between the good doctors and the 4 quacks? Who has the necessary wisdom? Onee upon a time it is sald that all doctors were imposters, mas Be QUerading under the title of “medicine men,” However, that was in the days of tribes, and cannibals and w { — Later on, when the world had grown somewhat in wisdom, all ' Dpathic and homeopathic practitioners appeared, who lat hard 4 3 Bad did much good, but between ases” they made faces at each F other. Then for the first time was the language of the barnyard healers of men ted Boose seized upon by the “Quack! Quack! Quack!" As added wisdom came to the two cl MEN to see good in the works of the faboring side by side almost in a spirit of amity 1 But the cry of “quack!” ie still raised in the land against many Men following the art of healing, who for one they er . see of healers, each be- yther, and today we behold them reason or another do Rot belong to medical socteties, or belonging, have violated “the code Of ethics,” which forbids a physician to advertise. t In pettain cases, no doubt, the epithet is justified and again, it Ws not. Some competent physicians have advertived im the daily eo Pabers And Wil! continue to advertise. seeing ao harm in it and sor Pervoual sdvantage accruing trom increased practice. The this paper knows one old school physician of great experience and BAmitted skill, who through a long “eth Faithfully, but made no money. too, P| He began to advertise extonstrely, at the instigation of the writer aaé horrified his brother physicians But the results were otherwise Most satisfactory. His office was crowded He did | mich good and made a great deal of money. Now he Is well-to-do. ‘On the other band the quacks, the real quacks, haunt the news- Papers and seek for space to advertise. The Star has been diacriminal “Hag as wel! as it could, against practitioners whom It believed were ‘Backs, even to the possible extent of doing some injustice to indi- it has asked for medical school diplomas from intending and has taken other means of securing such information | @8 Was possible so as to prevent frauds from posing as doctors a th the columns of this paper. That the available information is by no means reliable in every pe The Star well knows. Even doctor's diplomas may mean little B cases where the holders have been ground through the diploma of a few so-called eastern medical colleges. It has therefore been a difficult matter to determine whether alleged doctors who desired to advertise were competent or in- c Judged by any accepted standard of the day. s ‘The Star has followed the best course possible, stipulating that advertisement should contain offensive matter. By fol- this course money has been lost by The Star, but the paper as been that much better than publications which have accepted sorts of medical advertising, inclading that which t# dirty and {im- editor of course of years followed ew He bad a family and needed money with patients Bome persons object to the ads of clairvoyants and lament the of individuals who patronize them. Others firmly believe ‘Clairvoyants. When it comes to a clash of beliefs, the daily per has no more business to take sides or discriminate im {ts ad- columns than it would have to take sides for or against Other cult or belief, as spiritualiam, or theosophy, or any of the Feligions in which men believe. These things are not having Immediate bodily effects upon the people, ike the quack doctors ‘Mad the patent medicines have. Ae ¢Mo newspaper can guarantee the advertising that appears in its But it can do what The Star bas always done, try to keep fily the better class of advertisers in its columns and protect them ‘Well as the public from contact with the immoral and the debasing EE The Good There Is in Life * While the air is filleg with gloomy stories of graft, of dishonesty high places, of bosses and their satellites who have plundered public, ac <ivorees, scandals and wrecked homes, let us not forget a8 & people we are no worse than our forefathers, while there ground for belief that the race may have improved in moral ‘and manly vigor, ‘There have been corrupt men, evil men, im all times and in all A thousand years ago stories of graft, of corruption, of evil ft# manifold forms, disturbed and distressed the people in nations ead and gone. Through the thousands of years to come, while rise, flourish and decay, the bomses will continue to mount the steps of moral depravity to power and the voice of the re- will ery out during the countless years against the oppressor’s even as it erles out now. We talk of the desire to get rich quick as though it were a new implanted only in the minds of the people now on earth, a of spiritual decay entirely unknown in other ages. The hunger Tiches is os old as life itself, as widespread as want. Corrupt men may mount the ladder of financial success until they at the top as leaders in insurance, in finance, in politics, buat slow-moving patient public—the honest, sound, wholesome mem- of society—eventually tears the masks from their faces and them to prison cells or makes of them pariahs, cast out by clean At the core the people are sound. © The reiterated tales of wrongdoing, the widely exploited stories if vice, the continuous charges of corruption, while fortified by facts probably indisputable, are prone to make un forget that in every ty, town and hamiet honest, sober, truthful men and loving, virtu- Godtearing women are living upright Ives, corroded by no un- thought of plundering their neighbors or rising to power through an enlarged capacity for taking advantage of their fellow creatures’ We can look too often and too longly at the dark pleture of human frailty, A healthy mind may be corrupted by constant contact with | evil things, ‘White not forgetting the existence of evil, It fs well also to re- Member that there is a brighter, a better, a nobler side to life and Mre Wm fener EXTRACTS FROM THE DENTS MESSAGF. hs PRES! “Bvery big corporation should be uniable to some sovereign strong enough to control its oop duct.” A heavy penalty should be exacted from any corporation that refuses \to respect an order of the commis | ston. An encouraging feature of the Philippine situation is the interest taken in education. And to think that the director of) the mint has decided to coin no more silver dollars, and we haven't paid for our Thankagiving turkey. AN EASY CASE. By Dr. Hotson. “Please tell me just exactly how the burglars tortured you,” sald Hairiock Holmes. “First of all they tied my hands and feet,” said the old man. He spoke slowly and in great pain, an he lay there in bed, still too weak to be propped up on a pillow, "Go on, please,” sald Humes kind- y. “Then they tled my wife's hands and fret.” “How off is your wife?” asked Homes. “Kighty-three last May.” And how old are you “Ninety-one next month.” “and after binding your and feet?” “First they shaved me with a safety razor. Then they made my wife do the kangaroo walk up and down the room. Then they took us out of doors and made us stand in the hands » middle of the road while they | llow the mind to dwell upon the good there ts in it, A little wunshine in the soul will brighten the hours and make “SWeeter the rest that comes as a benediction at night efter a day of Bonest toll, OF Lire, It's A Sight WoRTH SEEING. GET OUR @TALOGUE. ® | the crown of his head See THE SEATTLE STAR—THURSDAY, DEC. SHE MAKES SALOONS HER GOSPEL MISSIONS PATI . 's 1 an iy nightly ral in #o pratae Mra, William Aw ting bet her small organ, in some back room f a low den, ha t night she has asked ¢ . 1 bu join her tr ng. Th me no, and u for the hyw hole thought “ poor creatures and do ft it fo them to come tou a Mr Aaber, in telling of 1. “To be mure the churehes are ready to recetve THE OLD OF T That old stile! It stood on the the men to « I try toh ening us fr their int 1 ght iF iz We a t Id neve 1 often peo f " to ar eat has once are these temperance uid be poo: wate f buntt spation, Ours etings pure and str Anhe wrting of drink me thelr ind ank to om, and ab thie «ft STILE OWERVILLE the tion courted, he was often on outskirts of the village and was the|polnt of leay ber and giving up drove their motor car up and down, | trysting place of the lads and tnsses|{h® PUreuit. Then, Nellie was the trying to see how close they coull| of Towerville when aur grandmoth-| (0 0° 11° Kona ee mad the run to um When they tired of that)ers were young. There was an old) ~ onal Pon sala oa they ried vs back into the b ory in the village that a yo or p Pade ete ‘atid with oes but my veruaifortn sppendis. farmer, in the days of the revolt alouny. ¥ lly Nellie went home They then forced my wife, wholtion, had hidden in some t © wan at ao anaes ap a eee weighs 189 pounds, to put on « cor-| nearby and heard (wo Tories, seated | 4 "ae Of no we te tty to forges Ber wet be « to my granddaughter.| on the atile, discuss the plan of at-| Jere soon found that out, and « who welghe 104. They then forced | tack on the next town and by his) )°0 Rage ee: = Dene a hero rent w secretiy bernet | onto ee SO BETO —. ¢ . "Did ene of thone men wear 4 os a a answer to an important question. quali cn, just large enough to cover |, © Nellie Grayson, as sh sat | Ax he drove slowly over the well “Rxactly And the other a flat pink felt hat with « purple and yellow ribbon on er | True, true” | Heth had Jong hair, both appeared to be broad shouldered and both wore trousers that Mapped in the wind T You have described them a ». Hotaon.” sald Homes, “our | work t at an end. The men were hot tortaring them to learn where ir money was hidden. Then they | ‘They were only a couple of hasers from a nearby coll UNCLE HENRY THINKS Th’ man th't fights an’ rune away lives { rua away another “Toys.” said the captain of the life saving station, “when you cate into the service you understood that ‘ou might be called upe y day » give up your Hives In the per formance of your duty.” Aye, aye, sir!” sang out the brave Nife savers. “I know you are without fear, my lada, but I will never order a man to} #0 where I can't lead him, so I can-| not command you I can only call/ for volunteers. Those willing to go} Will please step forward.” Not a man moved from the lina “So be it,” said the captain, and he turned away. And the football game that had been arranged between the life savers and the high school boys was declared off. The farm cro; | worth nearly | Teast tha for them. this year ar $7.000,000,006—oF al « what we'll have to’ pa: ‘The amount does seem am you think of the price of 1 Whe cunt we ¢ UD, | make a few or gold bricks and take it all dwa: m the poor farmer “That fellow a good insurtnc man'" Say, if he ever knew @ny thing about tife Insurance, he's: for gotten it ' “I know ft, ‘That's why hela’ s good.” 1 “It seen to me, in view otith fact that the of! you sold meava: such an inferior quality, that am entitied to a rebate of at lanat af cent a gation,” said the retail oll] dealer | “Goodness, gractous! the great off magnate. times mi to rebat sputtered | How many t I say that Iam opposed | there one afternoon pulling to pie | the | Matened to by thought times she bad! with her| last left for her 26 lovelorn farmer's son, ly of the many the old handsome lover, the guest village. George Lawton. Poor Notlie' George was the son bouquet of he the! ar |remembered road he paused near the| stile, Someone there fastened bis horse and start ed across the field. Yen, there she was seated on the stile actually ming, in her old gipsy hat, just jas he remembered her, There was & stealthy step behind her and be ofa onyer who lived in Boston; a\% * free man of weslth and influence who| Fe she knew there was anyone oe Se an cceremcate “hia| 808 @ pair of arms circled her waist health at his cousin's, Nellie’s|¢"7 ® darting kiss was pressed on mother, her lips. No use to sist. Nellie Tr did not take tone for the hand-|*®** captive and the old stile heard some, talented lawyer to win the|*#other love story thet afternoos simple, trusting heart of the oO alle nd yom carried Nelite ¥illago girl He had taught her pa, RE eee ne tutt nauee|. Self Lighting Gas Mantios at 610 pupil George had gone home. He had spoken ng word of love to Nellie thoagh every look and action was more eloquent than the mort studied | speech. He wrote to her, but the let ters, though treasured by her, did not fill up the gap his absence/ made, and as the village beauty sat musing on the old stile no one would have dreamed that half the men tp the little town wore in love with her Of course, she admitted to herself George, with bis fine education and talents, looked for accomplishments in bis wife and Nellie determined to have these For two months she coaxed and} persuaded her father to let her go] to a Boston boarding school couple of years. He was rich. } He was the only child and at the unwilling consent of both ents was obtained and Nellie placed in the best school the | afforded Four years rolled rapidly and Nellia now in her 2 was one of the most cultured youn Women ia the Inetitution At the earnest solicitation of George's! mother Nellie went for a visit to the} Lawton home be ning Towervilie. George was in Europe and his mother thought this would}, be a good time to return some of Mra. Grayeon's hospitality to her son when he was not at home and in danger of failing in love with country girl Contrary to the mother’s expecta- tons, George deciied to return home at once and arrived shortly after the beginning of Nellie’s stay. The young man scarcely recognized his cousin. She had changed wonder- fully in four years and decidedly for the better. He was soon in love, deeper than Nellie had been when he left her, and the girl saw her power, It was a long wooing. The object of bis affection gave him lit tle encouragement Whenever he spoke of love her innocent little look of surprise was too much for bim and. accustomed to have his atten You need a good Raincoat. Ours ate strictly waterproof and brimful of style. They are ONE DOLLAR WEEKLY for any rajncoa’ your stand for a new Eastern Outfitting Co., (inc.) 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