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But fn these modern days the pretty eustom has heen turned against the morebants dy grafters, And the law haa come to thotr Originally and for yeara the an an expression of cheerfulness and kindness tn basiaess Thoveh the practice fs abolished, let ua hope the spirit may rernain and apread There fe a tngniappe which ought to be antversal, and which protection practioe atood transactions te natural. legitimate and lawful—o pleasant word and friendly emile with every package. “Rk a ce ‘The best capital any man can put into his business fs cheer fulnesa. Tt can be cultivated, and any man who will can be a milion aire ta cheerfulness, which is far better for allaround happiness than being « millionaire in money A man may spend his money, and in proportion as he spends it he redvces bis principal; but cheerfulness ts entirely different, for In proportion as you expend that your principal increases. Cheertulness draws dividends all the time It turns strangers into friends, disappofntment into hope, failures into successes rae" Bee ae People instinctively fall into a habit of going to a store where a gencrous meed of cheerfulness ts given along with (he purchase The traveting salesman furnishes a good example of the actual cash value of cheerfulness in business Hils stories, his jokes and hie hearty laugh clinch many & coutract that bas bees held open for him Beewnse he is a geod fellow ‘The lawyer or doctor who ts a good fellow bas more friends and gets more good will and more business than the erusty fel lows do. It ts proverbial that the politician owes most of his sucwess to bis follity. He may be a smal! man-—often te bat ta his at mosphere of complainant got humor he t acceptable when an adler man without cheer is unconcernedly passed by People Hike to deal with the cheerfal man, Th, makes dull business a pleasure. The pessimist says: “Hasiness is not halt as good as tt would be if were twice as good as it ft" The optimist says: “Business is twice as good as ft would be if ft was only half as good as it te.” i You see no actual difference between the two men? F Thore is al! the differeaee between content sud discomtent—the world-wide difference between success and failure * dathibiin ven. -2> inde noo: hundehehyipteheeaaddlae. TEN COMMANDMENTS . » For the Girl Who Would Marry NO. 8 BY DOROTHY D.LE. PT eee eC eee eed Pee Sh eeeeneeuas fe 2 e He A ii F i during the inet 10 years have! to live with mother or and so have lost the experience of their lives. | (t you noticed the intmit-/ of happtness tn the young | ho grips you by the | i! 4 Band and holds on while he says.) ““Come and take dinner with us any | oid night. We have only to! stratum causes an earthquake that sends the young couple howse-hunt- ing. But the nesting spirit fs gone Only dissatisfaction, that they can’t start out with # home as well ap polnted as the one they've left, re maina And boarding—well—a boording house ts what General Sherman sald war was. All young married people who enter that Gehenna of gossip and jealousy and strife and dyspepsia leave peace and happt ness behind. A heme and matrimony should go baad tn hand. Let the girl who would marry be gin, as her great-grandmother did, te batld for a home with the mak- ing of her troussesu, and go atraight to it after the honeymoon. t-dacked chairs and are a bit forks, but we can work in stoat that Bess brought and we're great on And did you ever enjoy « dinner, where “covers and all of the rest of was piled on by florint terer, as much as the little married y it 332% th ae 3 pute and jelly in a gravy boat and idearied” each other at every word? Oh, those first days of housekeep ! There is no happier time in married life than when two people and talk over just what shall thix nook or look best in that corner and join hands in giving up & coveted bit of bronze in order to a chocolate pot and a parlor ee ee Tamp ag home to mother after the) Dance in Warm Hall = honeymoon is death to the joy of! The dance given tonight in the home-buitding. No hurried prepara-|Lescht Park Pavilion will be am tion, no pulse-quickening anticipa-! enjoyable one, as the hall is welt tion—-juat the same dead levet of heated, the floor ts In fine condt everything fn place, everything at ‘tion and excellent moste will be hand, which 2 years of saving and furnished by Wagner's accumulating have accomplished. (Come out and have a good time. flo the fat salary melts on gvod| Gentlemen, 25¢. Ladies, free. °* Clothes and theater partion 1117 tye | a | Water Pipes Bursted day « tilt with tho mother tn-law on short notice by Don't clothes. Have look like 221 Call up Mat eee oA to | Can be repaired the G. H. Brown Plumbing Co., Both phones. throw away them at the 1948. PIANOS Steinway = Knabe your cleaned Pantortum. oo*! Pine at. FINEST LINE, HONEST METHODS. EVERYTHING MUSICAL. ONE PRICE, Sherman Clay & Co. 1406 Second Ave. Seattle, Wash. Liitajenty, to hie [E] deiogation from the coal combine ts orchestra. | _—— ——————— ee CREE EEE EERE REE ER EEE ERE EEE F THE TRAVELER’S i REGISTER—NO. 11 : TOwREROBOOER SSSR OSLO RSE E SEES ee 8 Sometimes I look with eyule eye Upon the wortd and all ite gods 1 camnet help bat wonder why Tt does not do what it applauds. For you know the papers always say ward and shook the band of the engineer, while the crowd cheered wildly.” But why not the freman’s band, and the Drakeman's, and the condwetor’s, and the signal um ad the train dispateher’s, and the Magman’s? Amd if it is such Jimirabie courteay in the prea | deat, why not In all the rest of the passengers’ And how loog | would it be before the engineer was laid off for never making sehed- ule, and hia euceessor would greet your extended hand with “Aw, go | chase yourself!” What? STAR DUST By “ jos n” “The averet of the success of & reception lies In knewing whom to invite,” dectared Mra Aliduat That is only a small part of tt,” wald Mra. Pursefull, “The real oe eret lee tu knowing whom not to invite.” A WORD FROM JOSH Wet. There's mare peo- ple okie’ fer treth th'n there te “Ah, you, she con Indeed so one arrreod gireri!” said the French tryin’ Of ogive it count to the American hefress away, Cf father. “I am much honor sat she pay me se compleement to be my iit * one eweethearret, ut, sir, may I id make so bold tat bask you, cam you *leapporeet me in ae style to which prea 11 have been accustomed? Freese. Out. iste Bap (Can be played on bay Proven Something Im the concrete—Ce peat. water pipe.) “Tw in a hilly ofty were fronen o'er, “Our pew senator will make « hit as on orator, ie Bas a splendid de itvery.” “He sequired that at collers. was o k piteher on the (oom the fire was no mitre? When icoking through the window, at the house serous the way, He saw « jelly crowd within, and these words he @ say He batt A Warm Welcome. “We must double the force at the brimstone works,” «aid his Satanic aid de camp cnorvs They do not care to visit me, ance this place was their goal, Al fut now they call serome the way, for there they bave some cust, expected in a few days aod welie! but had a ton of it, or aay kind — do sa ronan oo pee aft fuot, a ir rece = were oor y ft s would aes 0 peut, f ood, te toa] wat aapes tae baat ane: like to meke It an Interesting for them as they have been making it far those who have bees dependent upon them for thetr oanl, but im or der to do that I would have to freere them ont. That, | cannot do, owing to climatic conditions that prevail in the regions over which ft rule. Bot f can make ft hot for them-—-yes, very, very hot!” JO KOR Dark Room Secrets. Malad (to caller) ie Brown's ta the dark room with Mr. Jones developing negatives She be right down. Caller (to Mixes Brown, half an hour inter)—I wee told you were developing negatives, Put from the The wan Was getting tm the weet, he ill cat on the stove, roe cae one by hie home, called him « chilly cave. With teicles upon Bie chin, frost upom hie heir, ta a cold toge, he glanced around, and thasly did deciare And and CHORUS They do not care to visit me, oper this place was their goal, ete NOTEH—AMore veress can be add od as the cold increases posco Young Jack Rockef: talking to his Sunday schoo! clans oa “Friendship.” Jack and his papa time you've taken [ should thinklare authorities: on one phase of they might be afftrmattves' friendship. They know where it MM. W. censor SEER ERR IN THE WILD WEST BY OTTO EDWARD. SA 2 + > * » * » . * * * 7 » ‘Tam by ne means awkward or |atrendy covered a large territ sow.” said the multimiitionsire, | lownrd Jack Detraie. T have been a very] seven or cight miles away from the good business man, but, to be per- | camp. | fectty frank, I owe my awecees lone | The surrounding country was very to that then to luck. Z@ay whatewer | fat one may y and howe we fund curseives | covered with eran y tall, which was luck ie always a very im~- ; not ¥ in one of two portant factor tm Ife, I owe my | places, and there w iat fortune and my success to an old | two or three clumps o |woman from the southern part of | which a man might hide Texas whom 3 met on the prairie; |jooking if the direction from whtch t was at the time when the ‘Reed! Theseus had picked up the scent boys,’ to whom I belonged, were but It was some time before 1 was | fighting another crowd known as able to discover a waanenom the }*the ehtid f the blacksmith, for | grass some distance aw ~ the 5 of a silver mine. | walking ard us and was accom Ne knew very much about | panied by a girl of abut Igoor 18 the mine, but we imagined that it | years, contained tmmense quantities of| Bhe soon saw un and) when she ore, and that ft waa well worth) was about one hundredyparde away | fighting for.” He went on as folk [8 called to her. She anewerpd with lown @ eourtesy and evidently waked for The country In which we were|gomething. A moment lgter she was living was wild and unctvilized, but]at my adie, and I saw a tan face thig made no difference te who | surrounded by white hair, and a« had not come to admire it or to/liong curved nose resemspli pe seek the comforts of eivilleation, k of an owl, and tw Te vee but fo get such metal out of the! gr eyes, The girl, who wae earth aa we could in the shortest| most as brown as the,@d woman possible tin The “Diackemith's| wan quite pretty, and | expeciatty children” were nearly all Americans | were her eyen exceedit@y benutl- ¢ Englishmen, while we were an | ful ational crowd of Scandinavt-| “Well, mother,” 1 sald, wont can rman, Poles, Russians, Mex~| 1 do for you? - nd Frenchmen, and because| “Give we something to eat,” she xup nationalities we| replied, weakly. “My girl and I are were at « disadva stilt | dying ) starvation and I have @ so because our = were | only one cartridge left in my rifle i markamen, while we were not All right.” I replied, “It you are proficient In handling revotv-| not afraid of pemiean, cold corn ars or Winchesters. One ntage | mush and cheese, you are welcome we had, however: The 1 vas |to take dinner with os.” surrounded by swamps which It waa] “God bless you,” she said, with a ximost Impossible to cross, with the | sigh of relief. exception of one or two places which| We sat down and I must any that w ified an well as we ¢ it was @ pleasure to see those two The “biacksmith’s eh at| people eat. For som 16 nether Irat tried to starve ws out; as they |of them spoke a word. { then the Hid not succeed, because we were | old woman told mo that she had Ie very saving with our provisions, a settlement in the east with her they had suddenly disappeared. son and her lohiid and that her } Matters were thus when I one! son had drowned tn a river ths morning left the camp to scout, t| way and that for ten days she had had an exceedingly keen eyesight been wandering with the child with ard was used to life in the open alr, out knowing where to go and with and besides b had as company my ont being able to find her way jog Theseum, that was able to smell through the prairte being a mile off. We had 1 still have one cartridge,” sho “The president went for « ng, hilt | A man was sitting on # stove, where| ler has been | ait tne | leata, “My poor son earth reat of the ammunitiens ™® hin belt when he Yhs drowned, 1 have killed a rabbit ond @ dove, Then came starvation, and if we had not met you We should surely have tied You must be quite a good #hot,| mother,” I sald, | "Qh, you; I have alwayn been jy with & she replied, mly | “It you are not # of rough | boys, you are web ne «6te)| Cour oamny.” Like all the American women in, she had absolute confi. | of men, and t my) west, ¢ tn the honesty did not hesitate to o offer, Three hours later I led her tito} camp, where the boy# revetved her quite friendly, though with ne marked enthuatasm a whe Ever since the “blackamith'’s obit dron” had dinappeared we were at & loan to decide whether we should atay where we were or begin to look | for the mine, On one hand we were | afraid of @ trap, on the other we hated fo leave the place, To be mare, we mgiht hve nome to bh but we did not trust each other, and for this reason did not de it, lverr day we had a councll of war, avd every day we decided not to deetle anything watt! the next day, Mev eral days had @ whan the sentry one morning awote ae auddenly, and it did not tke ws long to see ¢ we were in danger, Bhets were heard, and one of our boys had been kilted, another wounded. nh wae clear that it wae the “Dinckmaith’s chitdven” wht had surprised us| though We could not discover them any where During the night about fen of them hed crossed te an istend net far from our possession which we had not thought it possibie that anyone could reach because it wae in the midat of « ewamp. How the ‘Dlackemith's children” had gotten | there we could not discover untlt tater: for the preaent it wae enough | to know that they were there. | Having gotten thie new pomseston they could now bisckade us ontirely | and had every reason to hope to be | able fo starve us out | ‘The majority of them marched | ahead, evidentiy with the tntention to cceupy the pomsension they had | left before, and it wae innposstbie | (for ua to prevent ft. “Mt we cannot drive them away from that intend.” said the man who had come to be recognized ae onr leader, “we're leet, How shall we drive tiem away? If we hed only ja few good mariomnen, The island | is eral) and fet and we could clean [them out, firtnge inte every bush but none of as Knows how fo bit the side of & barn af that distanos, | jo it would only be @ waete of curt- | vidtpen.” | When we had eon sitting im at | lence fer some time the old man stood wp and said: “How many cartridgns will you sacrifies to clean out the Gland’ che asked. “any number, even should it be | half of all the ammunition we have; | but why @o you ask, mother? “L wilt tell you pretty seen, but first let me know how many cart- ridges we have.” “Keach man carries about staty cartridges and there are thirty of replied cur leader Well’ replied the old woman, | ently, “matters are not ae very Give me «good rifle and five | had. or sin Gomen cartridges and | am | quite sure thet 1 can drive then away from the tstand, and thu» show my aretitude for your hemp | tality.” | “You must be craay.” the tender | | shouted, “or do you think that you an make fun of ue? It ie no thine for fun, | tell you.” i War be it for me to make fun of lyou. ‘That man over there saved my We and you bere al! she yourselves kind and friendly ta me the other side the men on that ‘gland heave shot ot os tf We were with beasts, One of their buldets might just ae well have killed my seit OF my granddaughter, #0 { do| Ot ate why F stevuld oot shoot at them.” ape One of ue banded the old woman & Gun with » emile: “All you need to de tp to ates wt the water, and the bullets will conte ewarming teck * ‘The oid wetnan did not reply, but | withowt making (he jeast molee she teagprared through the grass and reached the water's dae She Wied her gun, took @ careful atm | and fired. The report of the stfie | | Was followed by # cry, and we saw }& man on the istund jump thfo the } air. Carn two OF three times as men often do when hit by a bullet in the head, and fall to the ground. We oud hear bie comrades ewear, and | (ratteeDately afterward they gave we 8 Yotloy Which did Bot do the alight- | harm I dare my that new jheve I seen a more surprised lot of | met then We were at thet monent | ond our leader cried: “Lf you akin’ hit that man seccideptaiiy, old lady jyou are a damned good shot, | 1 shall soon show you whether It on | j i | | Was an acckdent oF not.” she re | plied, softly, “I shall soon clear out } that stand, Ik was, of course, impossible to eee the slightent sien of anybody on | jthe isiand, All the “Dischmenith's jchildren” were hidden among the | bushes and teens, | “Dam afratd I shall. nave to waste 4 couple af bullets, the old } | Wornan, “but you might took and sve | ji there are any of them hiding there | jon the left, | “Sam pretty eure f hit some. body that time,” the old woman sald reloading her gun. | When fifteen minutes had thus gone by the boys on the island bad enough, and a voice was heard fre oem the water begging for peace Although your al fe not worth maid « H much a8 that of a mangy dog wit take pity on you and step aot. | jing on the condition that you throw | yoor £uns on the water and with jdraw from the island. You have Jone minute te decide. ' “We d® pet need the minute,” ame the reply. “It te all agreed and we will throw our guns in the | Water and get out of here ax quick a2 Wwe can ‘Then you had better hurry houted our leader If your guns }are net all in the water ide of five minutes the dance begins aguin and be king enaugh to throw them *o that we can see where they fall He had hardly finished talking | When ton rifles, one after the other wore thrown into the dirty water of the aw Arey asked All right are fo not lose any time the taland.” ‘on minutes later leaving the tetand. ou satisfied now?” the voice we satiafied in getting wut oft we sow a raft On board it and lying on the logs five mer — ered with clothes were lend bodies. We could see the c 4 while, when it disappea be hind another ttle imfand Three cheers for the cried Walter Big None. | We gave tho cheers with a will and our leader paid hie compliments to her and declared that she was old lady! to have a double share in the sliver mine. The old lady lintened to thet congratulations just as «he had fs toned to them when they ridtowled her and said The Bible tells to respect the white hair. De forget that, children.” | Nobody 44 forget it } that. - The woman was made mascot ever a and» after lwe returned to etvilteation | PIANOS Her wun had made such an tniprem | weet and ( ww harity tecenenry ¢ GOTCH Longe sion on the “biackermith dren” | say that I fell in love with her « — that they did net come ar We) when she wun 17 we married Fr MINNEAPOLIG, § ' again, Bhe nev Inet the ope | the $0,000 { dum out of the mine | ¢ ; waa tunity to show gratitude tow grow my prenent Inrwe forte but | eb ve lime and she became Ike a mother \1 oare far lose for that than for t m. tin 1 nino earned to love her for) reat gold whieh I, during ’ oh od the kind ar sd heart which whe | years 4 Mmooverod tn the } fr ponsenned, though It did net prevent | of the nan whe ie wit oi a her from shooting down fel w ond the mother ¢ my cniter ; : ad ¢ like dogs when she considered It ; 0 hg fg necewar yx. | The mine turned out well and I mate about $5,000 out of it, and true to thele promise the boys gave the old woman twice a much. | After the bloody battle with the blackamteh’s oblidr Un whieh our female sharpshooter teok part After many hardwhips we got back, and the old woman and her eranddaugh ter declared they Were hever going to leave me, I cannot sey that } was sorry, for the olf woman made an oxesiiont housekeeper and the young «irt grew prettier every day When she was 16 years old whe wan | mont beautiful miris tn the jo! irs! : BLOCK Is Your Supply Of Warm Clothing Proving Adequate ? During this’ exceedingly cold spell? If you need anything in the way of wearing apparel, and you are hardly in a po- sition to meet the extra oo pense, you're cordially im vited to open an account with us for anything you select—just pay a little down, and a little later at your convenience The finest stock of Men's and Women’s apparel in the city to select from, every garment perfect in style, quality, workmanship and fit, and our prices are abso lutely right FRIDAY and SATURDA Pear’s Soap (unscented), per cake Pear’s Soap (scented), per cake > osetia regular price | Gardner's Bromo, full pound bottle Two- Four-ounce bottle munce bottle . A brisk rub-down these cold a 1 s with preventg! Sponge and British Linen Eastern Outfitting Company, Inc. 1332-54 Second, near Union “Seattle's Reliable Credit Heuee.” la grippe. 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