The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1905, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR BY STAR PUBLISIING CO. OF TICS Qt and im Keventh Avenue WYER APPR CON exCRPt pUNDAY TELEPHONE ND; Independent tm Business Department ‘Sune ‘< BALLARD STAR AGNNCY-B Bal Ave Sunset, Red 14. One cont per cony. sin conte ner week, of twenty-five gente per Month Belivered by mall or carries, ree covles, TO MAIL SUBSCRIBARS. ae Becription expes is en She addrece labo} of ench paper, Ben'that date arrives, It yo nace @ not again Id'in sdvanes, your name ie tasen trom the list da’ dress label te 8 recelpt, The Leaven of Life Th le the day assigned by tradition to the humble birth of a lowly child, who ame the founder of a religious system, adher ence to which for tenturies succeediity was a reproach in the courts of paver and the palaces of the rich. The humble birth was at tended by Incidents susual and miraculous, A star moving through the sky stayed its course and paused over the spot where the tnfant lay, while wise men, guided by the eatial courter, brought gifts to the feet of the lowly babe, Meanwhile the shepherds of the Judean hills hekrd a host of angels proclaim the new birth and announce from the heavens the evangel of peace and good will among men. It was a to the wisest Morant, of the and d velation, alike clear and the most ix nted within hamanity which, if nurtured passions wloped, wilt f t it te divin ity will The blood-stain and the singing of the “Peace -and and peace,’ @@ earth ami alave drowned the .ct Drought gifts to the helpless, unfriended stooped fo weaknems Wealth bait ity treasures at the door of pov- erty, ‘The spirit of that morn & the leave of ing, the philanthropy, the moral aad the material world have eiily followed Cie Marne of until they have almeat circled the earth. For here wae One whe came to serve, Gmd pot (0 pamgan Min He came to bless theme to whem blessing wan the stranage hame of an unknown emperionce, He came to teach that im this life we may, If we will, practive all the weneroum dreds and Impalas ond know all the pare Joys which we attriate to heavem His works, which have caumd Mim 0» hetd (he supreme acdimsvtira- tion of manteind, tire weeektp of millions and to stir the emmutadion of Boed ond trae men cmd women the werld over, ware Mile @ifte to the poor, the lame, the ste, the blind and the emtcast Hore iy the divine sumwestion te everyene who weuld know really the fi pro- portions and power of happiness. The star trat ghome o'er Bitte tetunty tith, thext might <furll eacur shine in thut great dtr again But lowe and faith and cary omy still thee cfu the amtine world a brighter Itght, a sscanter joy At every loving Geat amt word and tiemagh> the angus sing, oe then. With every kindly beputee stilt wore steve chain breakin, som poor hearts pain ig eapeth sore wat ip atdied, au aw eatin —_— _KReilway Kings ond Railway Men ‘The other day 30 luber leafy rs get tegetior in Chicago and adopted reselutiens, referring to Presivant Reoserdt’s mewage im the whereas, and tien resetving, that “any ieterferenee wilh the earning power of the railreads will be detrimental to the railroad employes and make hasder the combitions new exieting and would be used as a bar towerd any future mevenent on owe past far (ho Detterment of wages er conditions, and for thin reasom Wo are op- posed to plaéing the rate meatal power in the hands of amy com mission.” 4 These resolutions were signed by Georg: Wi. Lovejoy, of the switchmen’s unien; W. M. Olark, ef Ure Ordo ef Raitwey Condwe- tors; A. Goyt, of the Beottrerheed of Reiiway Traiomes, and P. J. Culkins, of the Bretherheed of Lavometive Hagtneors, No deubt many henest ratiwey employes will be sedweed tte making the same serious mistake of fighting against the preshdtemt when he is advocating a poliey that will (ke aebitrary power out of the hands ef the few im erder te protect ah the rights of the many. The president's polcy dves net demand a eripplicg of the cars - ing power of raiicomds, and dows. net meanee the well-boimgy of roil- road employés. What he demands is that the peaghe ef this country, through THEIR government, shai sontrol raileoad rates amd pre- vent rebates. So long as the railroads are permitted to take the kre into thelr own hands smd wy a refieead tax om ail ehippers—for that's what menoy celigcted for hanliog either freight or passenmorm really te—fost so leng will railroad managers have the power to beild ap their friends among shippers ard bill off (he mea in competition with their friends. And just se tome will they be abje to KIN off commeanitio: by diecriminating rates and rebates where ormmalred labor gets strong eheugh to protect its rights. Amd just so long will the money king whe centre! the ralireeds be abds (to silence amy big shipper who might have the temerity to stard Iny the people im any content apeinst the crecashremts of gmewdy, umocrapulows amd predwtory wealth. ‘The place: for all rativoad emaployes is shoulder to shoulder with ail other men who earn their bread in the ewont of the face, amd right backs of President Roosevelt im his courageous fight for the peogin Awey down deep in the very heart of things, the fMakt of tie poapie in America is net camattally different from thw fight of “tee peagte im Bussia agwinst th producing comme and grad dukes It is a fight for hamem liberty. Amd the itght lewe mt ter the freedom of il whe work from the grand dues of finance and induatry, who ave «3 mueh cur overlords as the grand dukes are te overkieds Oo the Wearieinny chem 06 eu rniry, good good will th wank of his chars “with joy at prophecy he wise and favored ones despised babe. Power ctytiization. Pee te Prowm of the that ster 40 (be wet ward, at welt. Comfors : ene ‘$ should peeach shorter sermene aed moore comfueting oman.” mid ® bfett preacher, “It I hed my life te ve ower mame. Brotbly evory oh mon thinks seonsthing lide (hawt. ‘Ti com look bovk and swe where pore meat bre came font whey (cy got the stoee of retradon Me com think of they wien be might howe accomplintea@ bp pation, grwile afivction,.whah tpégiind to giuea by barshecge amd Reyne 5 Rowe all wore caly a Hitt moore townsfut af ome another—a Mn- de more cxtatn that most ob us seally seem wl, and only de idl fre ignerance co watiocing, that wo wait qt mere esmiéartally. asd be rowne kind. ‘Adtws al it be eliier fo Sent enue ctatebes od “ost Min neve to tenes angone. And whoee you tens) @ man yom will net Re fw og oriumltion to commtert bien, Mle will feed tier leefleemee of your trust. Pt will be tite, opening wedge fe pew name lds ration ahout hie ron treatiu EB WIE leosom ks lomcing fer qpmgethy upcm you, amd give yam a simmce to bseson yours Aad thea comes metwak oom fort. ‘The (ip chillimees of the exp resubon, “I've troublew of my own, don't tell mo yours,” fides mo respouding ecko im thy heart af a kead men. sen? We at batter plane at lowhr sates grat qn caster payteentp tity qoy otter baum ie the ofp. KOHLER & CHASE, $05 Sword Aone Gk, NTE, tae of my to dig free. ot pe rooms. BY Speaker of the H Christyias? Christmas from this modern minute Christmas of my boyhéod runs back to the pioneer days on the banks of the Wabash, ple ways and simple Tho settler opening wheel of the houehok took the bunch of woo! te her bee! and walled beet amd forward in from @rawia owt loth for our clothes was woven THB: SEATTLE STAR—-MONDAY, DEC. a5, 1 SPEAKER CANNON WRITES OF THE CHRISTMAS OF HOMESPUN DAYS THE PICTURE PAPER THAT CAME ON A MEMORABLE CHRIST MAS AND 80QN BECAME THE TATTERED TOY OF ALL--THE HARD, HARD DAYS OF LONG AGO WHEN HE WAS A BOY ON THE BANKS OF THE WA BASH—THE THAT WERE MADE FOR THE HOLIDAY SEASON JO&, G. CANNON ise of Ropresent ative Does any Christmas early boyhood stand out in my memory? were daya when rather different 20th century, Up clvillaation, The Those was It was a case of sim wants. went tn, and he had to make anthing of the 80 acre tract which he took up with his goverapart geri. or very cheap wa it out fram uster a rank growth nape, nth, bh male. Lend vane lem cf anythin, very much of (he peconaition, whee The how wu a boat Uo Me got bis land but he had to and and Tt meat lemg be There wwo't very ‘wason't le There Teeurios af life, That wan the day © whee (he mot ber of the wheel the thread, aad whem * STAR DUST > MO8S AND BOSS. & strange shepherd dog is pottime| do net Wan! them, bet wait y «p with Baxter Skate aud Baxter ie pattie op with H.— Went keting wt (0) Indieater, WARD LUCK. Jack Spratt could eat mo fat, Mia wht could eat no lean; Ad so Che man whe sehd “om comm, ‘Thott parse would dally clean. ‘The dremutic critic kad growe excited and wan talking lwudly, Boh!” he reared 2 bey with he tet palr ey boom on 8 an wth his fest pair ey patent beathew hoe - erred by th samme fretin's. “Which way do you prefer me te wear my hat, colemel! Tes way, or” and he Ulted tte «ie colomet vives: ‘Sith Ser ent h Boma |-ofteially | tate to give will th aightes Hwee of resigning. not en amb e Cn nee. a mattek,’ replied the gelinet old printer of meay yours’ stamdiug from Leulewille, “and | hes awah fom foam Kaintwcky fh move than 50 yombm) Kos ‘a land [ am compelled We atviee you mm fo wants 14 seradecht. By eary wages in the ext of a) « AsUTAN! COMmpeY pewwkhum! No, sr, I havem't the have its tee lwrestigatiag com mittee, Third—Bamorre that (he @inetorw ave mreegtod Bhi rentgman bm. Fourth—Mat @ werd cf truth he F hove motking fo say repawted bis reskeettom kas keee mcouptod. Dekte-t dectiae Ww viewed _ Nin wet ated bs cords PoRne people womt be imter- Roignition of fcimliy wm. Sled Toatt--t Aawo mot bing to way. ROASTED BOM Sanday night » evoed of o Mt. Mion ded 8 ridicklows maome, ac to the vepeet thet oom to “Tue GGHODL OF QUALITY? NEW CLOTHES of this house. H they were about t color of butternut generally; » times if one were disposed to be ex thread right there in the Ne travagant, indigo dye stuff war bought and they were colcred blue But that was putting on style Christmas was generally the time for the new clothes—woven, cut and made in the house. There ts one Christmas which does stand out from the rest. It was mI was 15 years old. My older brother had gone to New York to study medicine, In that elty he bought, for « nickel, perhaps, or a dime, a pleture paper called “Broth jer Jonathan” and sent it*to me by mall ' 1 remember it was mostly ple tures, very little reading matter. two or three sheets, Well, we ‘de voured the paper, It lasted us about three days in our bouse and thee it was lent aropad the neigh borkood and was pored over by the | neighbors until it was frayed and tattered. That colored picture paper was an event. We had little of! that sort of thing. Horace Greeley’s | but there wad Little of tire friv lous | Uew York ‘Tribune canmie once &/ in that. woek and that gave us ournews and|, The condit fafo outside world; | primitive. Whi we lived there w SPEAKER * of that life were in the town where not a hause that | | | | | | r | A few days after bis return to ling im South America, Alfred Letghtom found the following letter | at hie hotel we We did mot got fhe @ warning. never do the Iie or you will pay wail fer & It does | Hudeom, April 26.—Dear Alfred: To Bot make a boy Of Young MAR ORY my axtoniehment sed delight | ran better, but lowers hie stamding UW across your mame aAmORE yout the estimation of alt goed citieems. | day’a betel arrivals. Come up he Take warning fer your own good with and bagwage se thet we and for Ue publie, and ghow that mey Calk ever old Uimmes—Mbetyille you are « wood cilisem, well bred fmcrett” and bosor your coustry.Bell-| Leightom stoed dumfeunded.. It| plaim, the sky overhead, amd fmally brovke, Qulo, Moos. wat Mow almew SP years since le the ground, Mftchell gave a cry of : —— and Melville Burrett had chummed | asfomish together at cellegm, but the letter and the signature were enough to reeaM the briliiaat, luckheas fetlew ’ Five hours ieter Lekekton’s lan- dau @opped at a big colonial m mm and Lelghton wat sehored om imposing hallway. As the two men sat together be- “Weuna Vista, Tarryville-om-the-/ the landscape, faced about CANNON, | nad a carpet on the floor until after | 1 was 48 years of age; and that first carpet when it came was a three-ply rag carpet of the kind that would } fade. All the reserve currency in COMPASS OF THE SKULL out-stretched hand over my head, as New York from 20 yrars’ prospect-| though indicating something in the | distance. Naturally, we both turned in the direction of that ges- | ture, but seeing nothing unusual in again toward the figare. Thee we looked at card of ber in biagk astonishment The man bad vanished a com- pletely as a soap bubble bursting in air! “As we stood there dumfounded, our eyes scrutiaiaing each other, the “Why, there's (he shall!’ be ex- tnd med “Sure onomgh, Urere wan the skull lyieg om =the ground scarcely two yards from where we stowed. At frst it seemed much ke any bumen skull except that {t was wousually jurge, amd polished so that its top fore the opee fire in the Werary, Parrett said: “IT Sapper! you are aurprived to find me, at last, a property holder, instead of the lucklem, poverty- strickem chap you used to kndéw. “The meaner ia which I obtained wealth is os great a mystery to me y ae when it happened. 18 yours ayo. My friyad Mitchell am | bet been homtiog im (he mow (aime of Somthera Catifornin, One evening we made camp im one of the most picturesque spots im all that bountiful coumtry. The camp fire mve forth a cheery glow as we sat and smoked our pipes, recounting the day's spert. After we had ished oer smoke we rolled in our! SINGING BOPORB Chow xR HEADS, A Kanes CMy jodge imme dun ded ollk skirts are met a neces®y, Al glistoned like a billiard ball. As ‘¢ tummed it afound, however, a cry of astonishment brolse from beth. The eye sock were not empty, but contained a pair of the oddest sort of eyes, They were per- fect in shape and expression, and though carved from what seemed to be deep blue ghans, looked almost too lifelike for pleasurable couterm: plasion, But whet added to the um caney effect of the lidiess blue orbs wae the fact that they moved, be- ing evidestly set on some sort of bearteg. From time to thi glanced towar had placed the u it, Rut wo. It remained just where we honor te a judge whe refuses to/ wear a atk skirt. blankéts, aad, with saddles for pil- lows and our heavy sombreros cov-| WORKED OW HTS’ ree. \3e our fares, were soom asleep. | 1 Harves, “travel: v “My next comacious thoughts were) jouer Harsta, @ “teaveling fe"! warmth on wy face. 1 sat up ter, boon anatet t Nes oma! my Gen md, eg pr enc Raa the a on | enddenty to find the sun fust abowe by consulting mo in ragerd te wuch| week. He le 61 year of age amd a| ‘D* treetops. As I did so T saw the | tran *. Tt was the form of a man, but a man whose like I had never seen jnor imagined. He seemed to be at out figure that ever met my Antwerp, Obie, Bow “I will tell the mallors that the country the ad. {the Yery least seven feet high, and, | ‘even shrouded as he was by the folds of his odd costume, magnifi % phay deined the = mevoletioniate said the battlersip's | C°Btly proportioned. He was garbed Wen'd better tell it t the| i" ® flowing robe of white, wound around by @ broad crimson #ash into which wore stuck two daggers’ and a long curved sword with a handle of gold set with jewels while q buge turban of Oriental | fashion, snow-white like his gown, | crowned his head. Beneath the tur- ban gleamed two eyes, but plere: | ingly brilliant, while the lower part of the dark oval face was half hid @m by a mustache, jet black, and as long as the horns of a big Steer.) What finally riveted our attention, however, was neither the man’s | garb nor his features, but an object | that he hel@ in the curve of his} right arm—a hunian skull, of size) that seemed to Indica mn larger stature than peters an the ground, and pointed with the Me placed the skull upom| om a2 COACH AND FOUR. Ontes rofmed to go to RE waetes, ving os on cocmme that che had a sore throw, Of course, M anybody realty kee © wore theond theara ten’ suck wae lu ging to Kilwauser a . with ws for arything selected Covtitn Outlitters for Men, | camp. — And remember that your credit is aherwing of practical Cheistmoes gifte im te city, Eastern Outfitting Co., do. Cor, Pike St. and Fit Ave, had loft it, ftw top glistening im the sun, its lidless blue eyes gleaming with an almost heman @upreasion. As I looked, for time, at the grewseme thing I ob- served that the eyes were turned toward the left, and seemed gazing fixedly at the hillside above our Seized by a strange iden, I arose and turned the skull in the direction of the bill towards which the eyes looked Again I looked at the skull. Be- yond a doubt Its deep biue eyes were directed toward a particular portion of the rocky wall marked by a small depression, shaped like a diamond "I'll go to the camp for an ax,’ sald Mitchell. Ten minutes tater he returned with the. only available tool we posséssed, and«I began hacking feverishly at the rocky wall, keeping the mark upon which the eyes were riveted as our guide. Before long we bad a big sltice of the rocky soll cut and Mitchell had at the work when his ax suddenly | buried Itself in what seemed to be a soft shell of rock. The next mo- ment a section: of the earth, six feet each way, gave vealing quite y. re to our astonished eyes a vation The walls were cut and carved te maay curious devices, while around the three sides ran a shelf cut im the the community, if gathered in a pe and melted up, would not have be enough to make a bracelet wach a by the wife of distinguished senator But we were quite happy boy of 12 has his dreame—and the secret of happiness is to have work and your dreams, Those were good old days? is good to be a bare-legged boy with a robust appetite and youth's imagination But don’t mistake. I am not of those who would turn back the hands of the clock. Those good old times good to remain what and where they To go back would is worn of our your Yes. It are mean giving up the many things} which have come to make our lives happy and which have caused our small wisdom to Increase. We would have ive it all up, and I for one, would not make the trade This is a wonderful time—this in which we live. It is a time of much Jrock, on which reposed many human bones piled in regular heaps. I was examining @ pile of these at the end farthest from the opening, compar. ing them with the skull in our pos session, when, finding them ap parently of the usual size, a thigh bone carelessly back on the shelf. It struck the pile with more foree than I had intended, and they all came tumbling to the floor as they fell they revealed what ap peared then, and subsequently proved to be, a crystal casket. Car- rying it to the opening I net it down jin the light) Upon examining the Ud [ found that it was not hinged but simply set on over the top. A quick jerk brought it away, and there before our staring eyes lay a huge heap of blue stones, all cut, and polished to a dazzling brilitancy “ Sapphires!’ cried Mitebell, and his eyes bulged from his bead: “I thought as he did, but, being no judge of such things, was not too ready to let my hopes soar, only to be dashed to earth again. There) must have been at least two pecks of them, ranging in size from a@ small pea to stones as big as the end of my thumb—and all perfertly cut, Suddenly, as we stood gazing incredulously at the gleaming stones, my thoughts flew to the skull, and I ran to fetch it As I it into the light I saw that its gaze was now riveted on the THE QUAKER WISHES EVE! MAS—A HAPPY AND PROSP! EMANATING FROM HIS GRE. THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMA: MAS. ERY ANB CAFE 1413 BECOND AVENUE. STEAMSHIP ALAMEDA SAL. | WAGE SALE At tho Mevelty Clesk and Swit Mfg. Co. ae? SECOND AVE, WELIABLE TRANSFER 69, Baggage, Furaiture, Steraye Office and storage room, 1215 Piews avenwe, Veatettice buthiing. Feme—temet 680; In Oh good as your cash from out store, The fincat Womrn and Childees, The! I towed | bat} GIFT GIVING, BUT IN THE SPIRIT ACCOMPANYING THE GIFT—BE IT A COSTLY ARTICLE OR CERS Wiest. AGAIN WE WISH YOU A MERRY —— The QUAKER DRUG CO 5053-1035 Fiest Avense to each, The man—any man—who pute forth muscle-effort crossed | with intelligence gets more for the same today than ever before in the history of the world, That is the real test, the real measure of value | not the dollar, not a coin but muncle-effort cromed with intelli- gence. Sixty years ago there was not ju the cotmtry or on the con lof the multitude and abundance vaterial things; and a man's ex |penditure of his musele-effort | brought slender returns, Today see what the poorest may have, see what muscle-effort, with the small | eat attendant amount of intelli- gence, will bring. It is not so much | what another has. It is what the individual may have as @ result of his efforts. That is the meaning of opportunity. That is the wealth of our time and country. That is what makes this a Christmas season of abundance. casket, the Hdiess blue orbs seem |ing actually to at over the piles lof blue stones. A new thought flashed through my mind. Could jit he——? Yes—undoubtedly—«the eyes that we had thought only bite of blue glass were themselves sap- | phires, but larger and finer thi any in the casket “Well, Mitchell and I were prac tical, first of all. Fin@ing nothing more, we took ourselves and our | previous burden to the camp, and | that very night we started for San | France isco, “The leading jewelers pro- nounced our gems of the first wat- er, and gladly paid us $20,000 for 60 of the smaller stones. Upon part- ling company we divided the sap- phires equally between us, and since {then I have visited every capital of Europe, in each of which the stones have been pronounced flawless. “So tar I have converted less than |hatf of them into money. The re- ket of sapphires over which it kept watch and ward. RYONE A MERRY CHRIST- PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR—A WISH AT BIG GENEROUS HEART. $18 NOT ALTOGETHER IN MERELY A SIN- BOSTON DENTAL PARLORS ‘Twelve-year Guarantee, Laay Attendants, 0 to 6; Sundays; 9 . Both phones, 1420 SECOND AVENUE. 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