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THE SEATTLE STAR T STAR PUB LISTING CO. TORR 19 and 1) Geventh Arenge . Pane AFTRANOON EXCEPT SUNDAY RLEPHON ba: Qe Dovartme nl Guneet, Main iste: Independent tim BALLARD BTAR AGENCY 48 Pallant Ave “One oo Wwered Guneet, Hed 16. ot per comr. by madd contig wer w twenty (ve conte No tree on eubseription ives, (f your subsort + le tamen from the liek na recetipt ar w ae 4 lame ppthess h, spirit at f an extingu remain ple who t and and ¢ rficte his re thrilled ¢ pity that springs fr But to the Ww ty, though gener vital lesson of t than the bullet, the certain ways to a m Tn his 1} this poor of himself serm ay fool th sheriff and the jud, preme law and The Depew we hav dead 1 nny and it not only breaks a man in b ope, peace. Se there ts Right he bread enough for everybody and even a! © to spare, where poverty fe almost unknown, a case of real distress bas at leat me to light ‘The Seattle Electric Company is the It haan’t one dollar to the good. Worse, It is $164,019.65 to the bad’ It spent that much more last year than it took in car fares from the people The grim wolf stands before its ear-barn doors and howls Gaunt-eyed, starving, it looks forth upon this hopeful and bapp community and, with bitterness of heart urees its ha ck The Times yesterday told the sad story exclusive It had picked up the facts somebow, and with philanthropy a tent, gave them to Its readers. It told the people who are now leating so strongly towards the municipal ownership of street allways what a condition had over taken the Electric company because it had built car tracks this town and had tried to make good and subsist af fare tt weea arning well w h heeding, showing where t ar me q themselves would land if they persisted in fooling with car-track schemes of t own The case, as described by The Times, almost cal f cm plates and Baskets of prov! But the most sorrowful feature of the affair ts yet to be told The people didn’t believe the story of trons. They simply laughed “What do they take us for?” demanded one stony. hearted Nin-com-poops,” replied another And so {t want all over The Seattle Electric Company may be starving in it and the yelieving people of thin city will go thetr way 1p posing that the Times’ stories of distreas are only “paid readers, in tended to “queer” the agitation for municipal street ratlways Really, there should be a more philanthropic spirit on pest of the Seattle public Somebody should go and |} k im th f ° tale of hunger and suffering is really true? The Love of Money “Money makes some men & with shriveled » says Da fel R. Torgen of Chicago, man {fairs and consort millionaire To be sure. But All men who make mey a And money 8 Bot arfly sbrivel a man ‘The distinction all ix s. DOP 7 MAN OW EY OR DOES HIS MONEY OWN HIM? Is he the ma " ey or its lav The « ture is often q t as follows M y all evil It does. not i the money is the root of man 4 That is it. Money no © root of tt e ma is of goe 1F OVE OF ‘ men's s mal A an wi tm i me of t anest mon v 2 en t have a little m ot mm SS are for rn T are in the game to wit {KY ARK N« LOVI iM BUT WITH THE GAME Th ar , f - “ and to use generous! Th Bh the money *® fere ! . fi ng with a dollar, Every coin 2 with f heart. His sla « th w ara al ‘ make fr y req i j COURAGE, PATIEN \ n i 1 . admirable qualit a are b t or didness comes ® n He who worships th . and insensate nn Why Women Boss Us We now know wh h wily p ' o aecaline Miss Agnes Rep a Philadels ay ist ‘ . na w on ra . Kle 2 ft 1th , i} man fr Sen © e 14a t fe e aA Woman Ko on It bs up to man. A. Bh. STICKNEY, | One evening I found myself in |etaring stupidly at the glittering President of the Chicago Great Westerg Raltr lfromt of & 1 cabin, nestling at; heap of yellow aand in my open —_—_—_—_—_—_— the foot of a great mountain. and| Palm, asking myself if 1 wer } re !reaming Ounces of pure, bright A law | stablish and jbasis of reasonable rates, and by| {cine & level stretch of sandy plain. | poi4) | laughed aloud, moving fre force J and reasonable rates| what method they can be ascertain-| dotted with clumps of sage-br ar All told the same story t with referer ed, and, if he regards the questt As I dismounted I saw ¢ gold, and full almost t the fundamental fm which seriously, he tuust confess that he| slowly toward me the fi of #/ the Gold enough for a king the basis of such rate A great deal|does not know, Ask the doctrine} man. His long hair 1 longer | ransom, and al ne for the taking of tntetl nvestigation lives who write books, and they|Deard were snowy white, and his|{ was rich now, but, O God, of ! etaining the prit m ofess that they do not! tall form was by as with the hat use? With the trony of ar s of operations, but no | kne | wetght of years. | me fortune had wait oo na have been attemyp The fact is, nobody knows; no-| | asked permission to stay al! |ed until | was ready t wntil any O respect to the fundamentals body hae the basis, the formula, or| bight. He readily assented, and led | hopes were already dead, and then reasonable rates. leven @ theery jthe way tnto the eabin, where be | overwh me with ber golden Ask the expert traffic official the Have reasonable rates relation to) Seon prepared supper hower. | raved and cursed. F When the table had been cleared | ently I grew calmer, Riches meant away, | confided to him my mania! p and revenge. I could x for “proapeeting,” still persistent| back to my old bom ive like @ | after years of fruitless efforts to! prince, her next doo ighbor | strike it rich, | “Ho long I gleated over my sud | A mania you call he sald: | denly acquired wealth, a my wild te %e ‘and rightly, too, as are all « imaginings of revenge, that the cha | forma of our greed for gold | house alr ¢ chamber ¢ | | ke ywe no one can realise this tr hed my tor leaving me tr | | more bitterly than I Exyptian darkoces, Groping abo | “Kighteon years ago this month I) 1 caught up one of the precious jars | EEE | discovered a rich ledge, bearing gold and worked my way to the openin | land silver, wp the mountain side All night long the wind raged | “Stighter and his wife appear to} stories about the earth having about a mile. I had high hopes and/with a fury | have never known | be as far apart as ever towed John D. Rockefeller its | worked hard, for | passessed the since in the long years of my reat | “Yeu | guess that's so. He's In} more then probable that delw be*) mightiest incentive that can nerve | dence b Whea morning came |New York, and she's in North Da-|swallowed the earth. } & man to wrest a fortune from fate! my first thought was of my treasure | kota, | — es a loving little woman back in|house | hastily dressed and| | | Pretty soon Lawyer Patrick, of! New England awaited my return stepped outside, The sun was just ut. Lowe police have been fo Ring, won't know whether he For some time | worked as man above the horizon, smiling genially etre to arrest every man who!killed Rice or not jean work only when nerved by such/upon the gulet landscape, which sweark Pretty soon there won't be _— | b \pes as were tal: But f soon | nome way looked very strange to my any St. Louis p . | foreed to the conclusion that I must/ anxious eyes, as they sought the ] Rust Hall te thinking of deeorst-| 1.4 assistance and machinery to| particular sage bush which marked | ,« WORD FROM JOSH WISE. ing his ball players this year. He develag tay mine, One day 1 set out ow oneal ya an coe ek Tempos DIG AND FIND HAT IS “A REASONABLE RATE” Suggested by A. B. Stickney, President of the : Chicago Great Western Railroad, in an Able Article Written Expressly for The Star. | the cost of producing transportation punjust and unreasonable rates a | capttaltzation of each raliway Jof the present law, and must be th pany? |fundamental principle of ali law le @ railway ompany entit to} for th regulat of rates , earn reasonable profits on cost | Laws of thi ws, making those | production, or reasor Interest as crimipal chich the day b iy necurities Leas tne Nobody | for enactment had been re knows arded as lawf t be inte r The peoplo, the logisiators and Kent and expla , courts are at s@a upon th funda Ai to that sense of just ' mental proposition All in myatery innate in t Ar 1 | tf th are such things as reason f rt t ent }able rates, they must t oy t ! _ th h ‘ thing, which, by tnvewtig an a b m. f th ra | be ascertained and ated e f reba \ if the are woh thing th he reasons and ‘ what nonsense ingress to ena be m awe declaring th all rate hall a | be reasonable and just and that « ‘hw 1 m ' might take a cus from ropalty and ewtabiiah a line of honors something like mountain in would ad al i on foot acroas the mearch of someone who vance the necessary ca landmark could I see. With flendiat malignity the wind had effaced Upon ery familiar bush, and hillock, run with three men on c " reaching town I went straight to|ravina I returned to the cabin dis " t of the ©: d le ; Knight of the (rand Hyngir;| the postotfice, where, ax { expected, appointed, but thinking myself ok P'4 | | found @ letter from my sweetheart. |fucky to bave fetched one jar with | never “t need not tell you that my eri me, I atooped and stroked ite ugly | . | fugite much when |. aoe — Knight of tho! ntsined « story as old as lovelsides with a miser's tenderness, | we keep our eye on |* so wcely | itnelf—the # { woman's falth-| Then, to reassure myself by a sight | * ol i pearing fast grounder with one th’ cloek. Inand—-Kaight of the Lucky Mit lenane of the y dust, | put my hand/ = + play—Knight of the Tight For a long, long time I lay in}into the jar and lifted it full to the| ly ty 4 my little buek youder, praying for | light } Fading the v death, and then there grew in my White, red and yellow beads! In lean Biot | mind the sugestion of suicide the darkness 1 had got hold of one! Pe Se Ba | I got up at last, and dragged my-/of the only two jars in the grave} a jmeif outaide the cabin. Sitting in| which did not contain gold. | HIT IT EXACTLY, | the sunshine, | lifted my eyes to the} “From that day to this I have | westward, and then leaped to my/beon searching for the entrance to CITY OF MEXICO, Feb. 12.—The | feet, shouting for insane y. Althe grave Storms have cast up Star D pondent here is be- | | great bank of gray clouds lay almost /and demolished hillocks, covering ng warmly congratulated by the eigen tana touching the mountain tops. and uncovering sage brush. Day ificlals for bis success in bis pre-e} The Taylor npany returned You noticed this evening the) after day, armed with my steel-nbod thoms of ground hog day weather,|the Third Avenue theater yeaterday | level stretch of plain to the east-| pole, I've sought and sought that | was warm and clear here all day, afternoon with the presentation of| ward. The soll ts a loose, light sand, | grave and reports from cities in Central)"The Lit Church Around the|and the terrific winds which ocea-| The «ky had become overcast na America say the same kind of wea- | Corne The company was given | sionally sweep n over the MOwn-| he ceased. and the soft soughing of her prevailed thera an cathuslastic woloome back to the | taine play mad pranks with ft. Great | the pines told of a rising wind Third Avenue, and Alleon May, the hills and hollows are piled up and) “t's going to blow tonight, and/ THIS DAY IN HISTORY leading woman, recetved an ovation | scooped out, familiar landmarks are! that means no sleep for me, said my |when she first appeared. The Tay ones uncovered.) host, “but you are tired Let me 12, 1642-—Stranger im NewWlior company bas won a home with|in the bank of clouds I saw the/ show you where to make your bed.” York won §1,2 in & poke line Third Avenue theater goers all} promise of one of these periodic) For hours I lay awake, thinking} ame. Hetieved he was Joba W.| of whom are firm in the belief that/storma, and like an tnspiration| how curiously the man’s carly his- | Aileen May has “Sarah Bernhardt|to my muddied brain came the ideaitory coincided with my own. The} 170.—Ico men predict looking ike 30 conte of fashioning myself a grave 1m) mania for gold. the tneentive om on account of cold! tn “The Little Church Around the| which [ could Ile down. allowing the |treawure hunting-—love for a bean i¢ ‘orner” the members of the com wind to wrap me deeply in a wind-|tiful woman—the exile to the moun . - pany appear to the very best ad-|ing sheet of sand tains, all were the same; only In you good at gues! ] vantage and the performance proves | Tt wasn't far, Just out yonder, at| my case the woman loved wan bound e. T used to rus s bw & most enjoyable one The scenic|the foot of a giant sagebush that I/to me by ken tle, Years ago} board in a railroad station leffects are far superior to those us-|chose the spot for my grave tlt had vow at I would never ask sally seen at the Third Avenue. One| worked rapidly, pausing for an ocea-| Agnes to be my wife until | had ene, that which shows the bint nal reaseurin at the bank/ made a fitting home for her | hurch In New York city, know f clouds I he ed out the sand When i awoke = the sun wa the’ world over as “The Little a depth of paps thre streaming in at the e Church Around the Corner’ ts as nm th of my spade unex-lcabin. I went outs good a plece of stage work as has | pe ame in contact with my As my " jever been seen at the Third Avenue. | hard surface. | knew that the le across th | play fs of an emotional type| wae f 0 to feet 4 a 1 by an obje ves Miss May and the ot impossible that I foot of # giant shrub, an t | members of the cast splendid oppor ed bedrock #0 olw re of © man that I ran tunity to display their cleverness A few moments’ work| swiftly toward it, with a strange} It affords, also, to little Rdith Ray the intervening sand | fear tugging at my heart. Lying on| nore an opportunity of proving h lat, round rock. Using | his back, his white face upturned to | acit of the cleverast little girls|my spade as a pry, I lifted the rock|the smiling sky, 1 1 my old} lin the business today slowly from ita resting place, and/ host, his madness cured at last } "The Little Church Around the| perhaps you can {maine my sur-|Grasped firmly in both hands, and| |Corner” w tinue at the Third| prise when fggmeowered the, dark/lying partly across his dead body Juntits Sat night, with mat th of a well” [ secured a pit was the steel-shod ie, the pe ew Wednesday and Saturday. At|* m cabin for a torch, and |thrust deeply into the loose Wednesday matinee little Miss f] this new ‘lead’ to} The ner, wh I brought fror | Raynore will hold a reception for ! At the bottom of the/a settlement a the 1 n the children at the conclugiog pf the | ¥ n Je, was a small open- | tox st last act | ing among which w ' | attered about the floor were] jar and the bea I | rude implements of stone mena! traveled, and then a th , A special matinee of fTannhan- | of can ¥ 7 yttory all ja ha be Bron me ‘ re : nee I found er’ was given at the @rafd tt ered and we and/the old man lying dead, caused me P n by the Savage Opera Co. | arrows of gayly-pain vod, wrt race my step night “La Boheme” will row heads and «pear nt 1] proved corre If mnce that I was standing in] point his staff bh an ancient Indian grave, and was|rock, the entrance to his P . Jaltimore Beautide” pened | 20% sutprised to neo three grinning/ sought t house i renee Soeeher yerarens 4 again, in idle curiosity, | inter was as he bad =e were Kagement pottery Pust off the! d Lit t and it wh y of the jar nearest me, I can-! go in tal ! ne, not ath T I in day wodk and the vosly thrust my hand 1 mania ar atiafied . 2 {lchow «@ " yath, and | alt an mn Am ater | wa ew he « and then I 4 t | married Ag | F a ( her|tace minets pam puen. Pne Se ? Why It Pays to Trade Here th a ; + Buying as we for six Pacific Coast st we buy t« helle inte t ad than most er stores, and » give ur Sa i hee $ tomers t fit of this fact A mm as a new and desirable style 1 8 in the Big m Aiton Loder BWrognaeegi Qo oxy tly cash Our Early Spring Showing of CLOAKS, SUITS and MILLINERY is Now Complete Phones 416. . itti ster, Brighter, Better ‘Than Rver Eastern Outfitting Co.., (iv. me and See—Seeing 1s Believing. Cor. Pike St. and Fifth Ave. ng noon to 1922 and 1994 THE SCHOOL OF QUALITY, Moy Avenue, near t 1 Street Tempting Offers {or the Com ’ The Quak ken free « to all ts of the efty, Use The QUAKER DRUG CO LLOYD TRANSFER CO. Furniture and ALBERT HANSEN BROWN’S DENTAL PARL u to pt ry Webght of t ‘ t 7 tg mer ape a by t railwa ape ” ” mathema . y hay ‘ alculating t ‘ need in presen ft The mittee wh " ‘ rit femand from th w ' ing Week at The Quaker Quaker Ihe ach Be Thr ‘Quaiieg -I9e by your trees shrubs with Swift's A t esd; ordinary omes in paste f easily b 4 ken 50 gallons: ur phone, Mal 1013-1015 First Avense SOME FACTS ABOUT THE ESTEY PIANO The mode of Eetey Plano te new, the frame betr pendent of the ase. The frame in «id The wre ank of : of several yere of wood turned s sawine and end- we the « w pin is drives 1% these s pul” This e the reason why wonderfully sweet tone Kate The Pri pay SHELRMAN, CLAY &CO, 711 SECOND AVE. SEATTLE, WASH. MEN GOING IX tracts 500 feet long men to work 08 ge N. 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