The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1905, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR 4 BY ETAR, PUBLISHING CO. OFFICWS—tw? and 19 Seventh Avenoe BEVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT BUNDAY, TELEPHONES: Business Denrrtme nt Bun: ) nt is AAR STAR AGBNC an Relard a t Red 141 One cunt vet conr six conte Der w eek Selivered te mal wr earrler, No free TO MAIL SUBSCRIBERS Che when your subsert label ef each paper, When that date arrives, [f your subsorty em the eddre Son has not o » been pald tn a ee, your name Is tasen from the tiet etyt Aehanme of date on the address label te ar: Batered at the Poxtoffion at Seattle Washinton. as seond-claas matter A Square Deal to Everybody or twenty-five eenty per month, pilon expires le ane eel i = aa aN What the future of the great Americar wit t " pends upon what kind of a average American citixen will be. If we permit our gover tod in the Interest of « priv Heged few, and build up a few great powerful gnen while the reat majority are forced to wear out soul and body earning a b existence for themselves and their families, then the great Ame Tepublio will not be worth while, but will g a in history as the Most colossal failure of the experiment of self-government in the #3 history We must > 4 up the average man And to that end we must regulate our governmental affairs » an to bring about the greatest possible equality of all mon in the eye of the nw And to that as to bring eye of the law end we must ernmental aféairs » about the greatest ssible equality of all This newspaper is more interested In the peace, Dicks prosper and Harrys o miment and happi he Toms, men in the munity than In the private fortunes of all of the so-called great captains of industry in the woeld The physt and spiritual well-being of the good men, women and ehildre our own community means more to us, and, indeed to civilization, than the building up of outrageously vast fortunes and es outrageously great power m the hands of a few privileged men who grab the m whe toll a of the product of the abor ave dar dd body together so they can keep On working. And, howev much honest men may disagree on all things else, fre believe there can be no honest disagreement between honest m @verywhere as to the absolute honesty sincerity of Prowid Roosevelt's policy in demanding govert tal regulation of ra ad fates, and the abolition of rebates in ordér that this gov ent ghall guarantee a square deal to everybody and see that everybody gets It 2 ‘ In making thie fight for the people, President Roosevelt Is pro- Recting and preserving the spirit of the American constitution, and $m that fight this newspaper is with him to the finish. Governmental regulation of railroad rates Mental confiscation of Faltroads, but tt YVestigation of rallroad manage for everybody. And that's what doesn't mean gove does mean governmental in 1 ought to mean a square dea ne people want Wanted---A Cure For Poverty Tt seems odd, doesn't It, that with all the knowledge in World; with all the good brains and the inventive genius and grea’ If there is famine in Ireland, and famines have periodically visit is repeated. ‘ Humanity seems powerless to learn, or too callous and indiffer - @nt to make one calamity the certain cure for the next. pendent poor population of over 120,000 in London alone. pay for the same. With the ald of the queen and after months o! effort an “unemployed” fund has been raised, but the thing hi felt the pangs of hunger and who would grow faint at the idea o seeping in the park. Nothing happens without a reason. want a cancer that can be cured. * Uf humanity cannot find a way to put an Poverty is a disease and men and the life plan a failure? These hungry folks do not ask for wealth Simply want a chance to earn bread with no thought of Juxuries. Tan’t a big question? Be kind and charitable and t houghtful for you. But don't let the main topic get away from you, for If na tions are to live and prosper IT MUST SOME DAY BE SOLVED. Hungry men are dangerous men. Absorption of Canada * A special agent of the depart ment af commerce and labor Deen investigating Canadian progress and discovers that in the firw @ominion, carrying with them $10,000,000 worth of effects. +. An estimate prepared by & Montreal bank management of Amer. fean Investments in that city places the minimum at $26,000,000 dur ing the last five years. Canada can be accurately estimated, but it is certain that Present year have settled upon the farms of the Canagian northwes and entered into competition with American farmers in, ‘wheat for the British market. Mne American workingmen lose. Mere is nothing in them to justity a pessimistic view, it has gained hundreds of thousands by immigration. Ana the mill fons in money invested in Canada are paltry compared why Great and constant stream of foreign investment in our own land, thy with us. ‘Though she seéms to be absorbing our men and money, it is onl the method by which the United States is really absorbing C: da. Some day Canada is to be part of us. feams securing control of her industrial and commercial affatre? NANA E REAR KE FOR YOUR BOOKCASE DOOR, They are thieves that steal your money— Marked by law as thieves and crooks. Does this fact strike you funny? “Tis your friends that steul four books! Many of my booka are missing— Oft I've searched each case and rack. As a favor, grant me this thing— Dear thief-friend, do bring? them back! FH I TTT TTT TOTTI TIT TTT I Pere eee areas t 1 the t ‘Wealth and almost endless years of opportunity, in the face of POV- ERTY and HUMAN SUFFERING, the world seems almost helpless. ed that country for ages, a few ship loads of corn are sent in; many Tesolutions of sympathy are passed, a lot of men, women and pinched children starve to death and sink into soon-forgotten graves, and ‘that is the end until another day, when the whole distressing thing England has had the unemployed problem since the days when her inhabitants were little better than savages. “Today she has a de- She is absotutely unequipped to grapple with an evil that may enguif her. The makers of jaws say they cannot MAKE work. And while there are enough things needing doing to give work to every pair of willing hands, there is no legal method of securing funds to it not reached the stage when the starving multitudes Have been able to touch the money because of red tape inflicted by men who never it end to the buman misery that girdies the world, imn't it almost time to vote our great In most cases they Those things are good has it 10 months of this year 25,000 persons went from this country to the ‘There are no data from which the total American investments in the trebling in the iast 20 years of the capitn! engaged in mannfacture in the dominion ts largely due to the great influx of American money. Mont of the 25,000 people who have gone over to Canada in the raising By the shifting of enormous capital and production across the But, though these figures are large and steadily growing larger, During the same months that this country has lost 25,000 people the Canada needs American biood and enterprise and capital not only for her development, but to bring her into closer industrial sympa- y And how 1% this eventual- ity to be brought ubout so naturally and so readily-as by good Amer- > * * * * * * * * * * AAA apn ee ENF ‘They Show an Average of Three and One- | Half Children to Each Member PITTSBURG, Pa, D 2t.-In-/of the babies of thelr mombers on Women's Civic Mother of Four. President Club, STAR. DUST » ot for marriage, aay the members of a ‘There are 10,000 people in'Wash-| woman's ciub im Chicago. The) ington who think they are entitled amotnt of love necessary is not) to Invitations to the Longworth-| mentioned, but it must be a whole Roosevelt wedding. The president | lot when the income is so small. should ‘have no difficulty in whip- ping bis rate bili through the sen- The club women were sot think- ate ing of the an trust official Former Secretary of the Navy} W. T. Stead ry the ctar Long has published a book of the papers. Eadfie Bob's poems. Schley is vindicated at Inat. | | “Did your wife ever put any of | UNCLE HENRY THINKS that ti-tobacco stuff in your) coft “No, but I believe she put some in a box of cigars she gave me inst Chickens y¥ come | Christmas.” ome t roost, but I — notice they go ‘way It’s no wonder the navy lost 0 frum there when | few men in the war with Spain they want « garden Look at the Annapolis training they t ncrateh, ad The circus tent to be used by) Sarah Bernhardt in her Texas tour! will, of course, be egg-shaped. | PATIENCE HATH ITS OWN Re-| WARD. | There is no prouder man in Berne- top today that Mr. Chas. E. Beery, and no persons have a better rea- son for happiness than he and his amiable better half | Mr. Beery has always been a lov- | er of children and for over 20 years be has tried to induce the fabled stork to visit thetr home and leave him a dimpled darling, but although | every home in the township, almost, in that time has received one or A RUSHING BUSINESS. “A man tnt y pr tention Fannot declared the as- more babies at the hands of that/p. « wonderful bird, it always missed the | tronom Beery home until Thursday after- are you do, the stars noon when the sum burst forth| and pianets thd fan. hesvens, from the clouds and « stork appear- | gweepiftg with your glase the mys. ed «bearing sweet little baby ous depths of space, you ed daughter and deposited it in the That's just it,” he Interrupted. home of this pair, whose cup of) “Business with me ts always look- joy is running over.—Lancaster, 0.,| ing up - Eagle. - 5 e : A S-cent cigar has bi The governor of Kansas says the after Secretary aft Standard Oil Ce. robs that state|keep the Ohio man down, ‘of $22,000,000 a year, and yet John | D. Rockefeller’s profits for the year | nm named ou The ongagement were only $20,000,000. Somebody awson's sons to a rich widow in must be holding out on John. | announced this must not be - taken as ¢@ ce of any lack of Love and 91,000 a rare enough egpfidence in father, — COLLINS BLDG, JAMES AND 2ND. PHONES 416, “THE SCHOOL OF QUALITY.” an't} | of one of Tom| LOE ene. TTLE STAR-—-THURSDAY WOMAN’S CLUBS DENY | RACE SUICIDE CHARGE iiien,"” sald Mra, Ludwig Klethen, (decrease in the number of children Jr, president of the Women’s Civic! in this country, I believe that wo Jelub, and the mother of four, “and| man needs relaxation, and that the jthey do not neglect their families.) clubs offer this to women, but I de »me #o interested | purdize thelr |The we | be In existence long ¢ wibly to have been a factor club move not think they b in club work as to } home work.” nent has not ough por im any Jignant Pittsburg club women have! thelr membership lists, notably the | OO O0OR OOOO 0 8 6000464 OES OA ORO ade & canvass of the married mem-| Women's Southern club. Three tit-| % * rs in order to disprove the alle-| tle toddlers attend the meetings reg- |» MOTHERS PROMINENT IN PITTSBURG CLUBS. * | gation, that “the club woman com-| ularly, Wimodasausis has a pretty | ¢ Mrs. Bnoch Raugh, president Juvenile Court Ald society, # |mits race sutcide and encourages! custom of presenting ea of it) two children, * other women to do eo.” The result| “elub babies" with a boquet of r lw Mrs. Ludwig Koethen, Jr., president Woman's Civié club, * is a vindleation, they claim, * It) tied in the club colors. During the|® four children * shows an average of 3.6 chil jmonth of Octoler three children | » Mrs. Minnie Ourey Roberts, Vacation School Flower com- # each married woman tn the were born to members of the club.|% mittea, four children * | Federation of Women’s clubs and the mothers were presented | y Mra, Grace Warmeastle, president Colloquium, one ehild - | Twenty-one members, selected at) with Cowers, i’ Mrs. A. Leo Weil, chairman Columblan Council sehool, * j random, had 62 children, an average| “Club women make the best and|% three children * of about three children to @ach| most successful mothers,” said Mra. fy Mra, W. H. Philiis, Civic club, of Wilkinsburg, four ehil- # }member, While number of the| Minnie Ourey Roberts, who Is the] dren * | mothers have but one child, enough) mother of seven, “A club woman 1s| » Mrs. & M. B. Hooker, president Woman's club, of Sedgwick- ® | | have three, four, five or six to bring! @ mother woman, and is better fit-'y Jey, one child * Jup the average Then, too, it ts] ted by her education w systematic » Mrs. W. P. Price, president of the Travelers’ club, five chil- * | pointed out that many of the moth-! aly raise a family in a satistactory|y gren * ers a yung, and may have more| w i* Mrs, Dallas Albert, president Pittsburg Sorosts, one child. * hildren in the future. “Three-fourths of the club wo-| » Mra. Jas. R. Kibler, president of New Era club, one child. Many of the clubs carry the names|men I know have good sized fam-| » Mrs. John H. Armstrong, president Wimodausis, two chil- & | : —_—-—— ~|® dren. * | \* Mrs. Ci Brown, of Sewickley Woman's club, six chil- # | ® dren, * | * * RAHA AAA AAR AARNE EEE EE MHF STRANGE SUIT OF SUIT MAN SUITOR “Fifty years old today,” said Mr. “Bo, this Is what becomes of leap hickfield, looking dublously in his your, is it?” said Mr. Chickffeld, |eiaes and shaking his head at the] rapturously prospect of silver haire and crow's| “Hurrah for leap year! 1 wish it | feet, which it uncompassionately re-| cai often a it docs! Dear! flected. “Dear, dear me, how time little Barbara! Of course I'll call) fies! Fifty years old today there. Mr. Caleb Chickfield, head of the|I will.” great sult manufacturing establish At 8 o’clok precisely he made his ment of Chickfield & Gunnebag, was| appearance at the Widow Trefoil’s an old bachelor, One would have|house, newly barbered, perfumed supposed that there were no diffi-|and dressed In an entirely new sult culty ia his obtaining a wife, for he| with @ hothouse rose in his button owned a ang brown-stone house, ap | hole. open barouche and a pair of horses.| tittto Barbara met him all smiles jand a cottage at Saratoga. And! 1 hope you'll excuse mamma for | Moreover, if he had had any diffi-| suse @ fow minutes, Mr. Chickfield,” cultios in making his selection, there | said Barbara. “Old Mra, Bartlett has was the 200 girls employed im the|catied and—~” sult manufacturing business to *e-| G certainly,” leet from. And Mr. Chickfield had) and he cam en thought to himself, as he sat|ing behind the plate glass little wal of his sanctem on a Saturday nig’ and saw them file up one by one to the cashier's desk to be paid,| “what pretty girls they were “T really ought to get married,” sald Mr, Chickfield musingly. “Tt's (=. lonscome since sister Polly | Heaven bless her! to be sure/ said Mr, Chickfield langerously near say “with the greatest of pleasure.” yall,” watd Barbara, shy and blushing, “what did you think of} |my note?” “Think of it, my dear!” said Mr. | |chickti id, taking both her bands in jhis, “lL never was more delighted in my life.” “Then you didn't think me very |botd for sending it?” “My dear child, as If I could ever died. 1 don’t know how it is, but whenever | think of getting married} I think of Barbara Trefoll. She's “ | young enough tobe my daughter'to| {nim You bold! And besides,” with be sure, but what then? T think 1a \'™* ody wang Be ligating to h tomorrow, if only I your privilege this year, you ki rw had the courage. And it’s leap year.! ..Clu'mne Caleb, my dear,” a How I wish she'd propose to) onscxtield, tenderly. Mr, Chickfielg was rubbing his} “Oh, I couldn't!” hands at this idea, when the serv-|half frightened jAnt brought 1m @ note on a silver | familiar.” | trmy.” “But you have to after the wed- “Vory singular!” cried Mr. Chick-|4ing day,” coaxed Mr. Chickfield. field, his face Mghting up itke an} “After what wedding day?” cried October summer's morning. “From | Barbara, with ber blue eyes wide | little blue-eyed Barbara herself!” open And he opened it at once and read| “After ours, to be these ines: “I don't understand you, “Dear Mr. Chickfield: 1 dare say | Barbara. you will be much surprised at what| “Aren't we to be married?” { am going to write and perhaps |*¥ered Mr. Chickfield displeased. ("Diapleased! Not a| “Not that I know, of!” answered | Dit of ft,” interjected Mr, Chick-|the girl, looking as if she thought | field, half smiling to himself at the | Dim a little crazy idea.) But I thought tt over and But this note?" he gasped, draw- decided that I must write to you, |!n« the letter from his pocket. “You (“Bless her little heart, and why|—Wrote to. me—asking shouldn't she?") I have been a gov “Asking for a place in your suit | eroness in Mr. Simplo’s family, as manufactory,” Barbara interrupted. perhaps you know, and Mr. Simple! o"Barbara, I thonght—no matter business, and Mre./what I thought, I want you to be | Simple has concluded to educate her|my wife | So I have lost my| “I never sald Mr. said Barbara, “It would seem so faltered jown children. dreamed of such a | piace, gnd, of course, It won't do to|thing.” sald Barbara, laughing and | live on manima’s little savings, I\crying im the same breath | have made up my mind to ask y “Please to think of it now,” }if you'll have me? Pray, don't think |the old bachelor said “Dear little Bar- it bold of me (“Bold, the little dar-| bara, I'll be geod to your.” ling!) because we are so poor and/ I'm afraid I'm not olf enough I cannot be dependent upon poor/and wis nough,” hesitated Bar- | mamma. Of course, I shall be dread-| bara |fully stupid and ignorant at first.| “You are exa, tly right,” said the} but I know you will be patient and | forbearing with me (“Oh, won't I though, ecstatically cried Mr. Chick field); ind I have every confidence | in your kindness. But if you really | field don't want me, pray, pray, don’t} And when hesitate to shy so frankly, and I'll] Bartlett promise not to be offended. “I shall be at home this evening and hope to see you. But ff you can't come one Mne from you will settle the matter in one way or the| other, “Mamma sends her compliments and I remain, old gentleman “And At you think I could suit) you “Lam sure of it,” cried Mr, Chick- having dismissed Mra, the Widow Trefoil came in, |she found Barbara engaged, And to this day, when he wants to tease his pretty wife, Caleb Chickfield declares that she pro- posed to him in leap year. “T've got it down tn black and white, her own writing,” says he And Barbara turns celestial red and| exclaims ours, dutifully, week & f 50 Whirling Spray Syringe--Regular price 250. Hol week Specta $189 Umbrellas— Large new at priced all week at from one-third to Fancy Box Perfume—Regular price $1.00. Holiday week special 5O@ Fancy Package Kaatman'’s Celebrated Perfumes, two bottles, two odors, in handsome box—Regular price 40c, Holiday week spectal price D Very Handsome Perfume each - $4 HANDBOMELY FRAMED PICTURES AND ART STUDIES for New Year's remembrances, All week special at..15¢ and 2h@ THE Quaker makes FREE delivery to all parts of the clty. Une Main 1240, Ind. 1240. The QUAKER DRUG CO. orate Pia at the expense of qua coat of QUALITY. less than anywhere else. ord that have made and will sus- tain our reputation-- STEINWAY PIANO DEALERS Home Swee BARBARA TREFOIL.” “I never did anything of the sort Big Reductions Are In Order Throughout our store, for we must clone out our stock before move ing to our new location at Second and Union. The first two days of our Removal Sale have met with gratifying success people have been quick to recoggize and act upon Lhe money-saving oppor- tunity which thts sale affords. Liberal Credit goes hand in hand with lowest prices here—come in and replenish your wardrobe at a Dig saving to yourself, Eastern Outfitting Co., (inc. Cor, Pike St. and Fifth Ave. “Complete Credit Outfitters for Men, Women and Children.” IDAY WEEK SALE Prompt action will give you @ share of the rich savings offered during the Holiday week—no line in im from the eductions and an im 18e quantity of excellent merchandise will be 1 he week at prices which In many in es does not represent the cost production Read th tover carefull Come to the store. i will find much to interest you Domestic Rubber Glo Hegular value $1.00. Holiday week special, per pair WO, Like gualty wo! week special pe Quaker Special Rubber Gloves elsewhere at $1.50. H Cabineta—Regular $5.00 cabinets, ay 58 one-half less than regu PERFUMES Box of Kastman's two bottles latest odors, Regular celal price Atomizer Perfume, containing Holiday week spe- High-grade price $1.00 50e¢ Regular values 25e to S0c. 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