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ee —— POPP Prrrrr Tit Lee ” was hidden, but the figure and walk Pee eee ETE ee | THE SEAT ‘The powtmaa paused a moment “No, 3, why, yea, thu Colonel Greathead. Mra, Greathead and Miss Greathead,” Miss Greathead! bane, Mise Greathead, No, 3 Ran “What was Miss Groathe christian name?” he turned to ask, BALLARD STAR AGENGY—O0 Wollard Ave. Muneet, Ballard toe . « By F.W. Schaefer . . Poewererr rr eit ttt tok iieleielelelel we conte per wont, Delivered ow vet coo, im conte, pat week, oe ementyet se eae EASE: SSE Cees ct Nhe Poet ‘At Beattie, Warhinuton, as secnnd-ctnas moter — ck TO AUB RH —Rrewld your Cony af The Star fall to roach rou bp —_—— Th i wore hablo, i He b dows pe * EVERY AFTERNOON ; ¥ J out of the gaie ho tell into + oo toring * Teapnonee- : REGISTER—NO. tomar ths owt Eattorial: inde nt 87H; Guneet Main 1080, $ —N / 13 ‘ go A 2. at # Randoft ores ! Bustneset Independent 1138; Sunset, Main AREHRRERHHRERRANRERER HERA HHA WE loomt he cnet pi * * * . at aeeenceean rae That was her ve | EyeQOnp we Saturd TCR TO AU Hat oe Berar {iat et ee ee ee a] but the postman had already gone, | Mince, Tt you should mise it mare (hak Ghee, please telephone ua every time He proceeded down the street, but | ire he was following Poar's Boap ( found A. d vanished, too, ” ever mind!” he sald to himself, ‘colonel Greathead’s the man for otprobably a momber of the od Bervice club, sure to be, in ot, and Teddy Sinclair's a aon ber, too, and oan Introduce me, rm wee Teddy tonight.” He had quite given up all ideas of jeaving bis night's experience as 4 beautiful 0. y Binelatr was interviewed that afternoon, apd he did know Colonel Greathead, “Greathead! Ob, yes, that old man with a Gery temper, and & taste for Dilstering curries and the Indian Ho's a nice old man, provided you haven't too much to do with bim,” “{ntroduce me to him tonight, will wales it thie way te can Be B le the only way, en The Progress of Human Life certain of giving cur eubsertbere © perfect sarvtoe-dind ; cuke Poar's Boap (seentedy Gardener's Brome, td ae botle, regular pris $1; PS ph Ren. ps.” We carry » full Pure Food Company's i Batracts 2a, Bottle Hottle Dr. MeGee, of St, Louis, in a paper read before the Amertean Aw goclation for the Advancement of Selence last week gave & cheerful message and added to the literature of the “race suicide” discus sion Dr. MeGee says the race suicide ory is a false alarm. He takes sides with the quality-ratherthan-quantity champlons, Putting his theory—now generally accepted by actentiats--tnto the terms of ratio, he says the number of offspring of any type varies inversely with the life of the type. ‘To iuatrate: ‘The eagle ta long-lived. It lives a hundred years, It lays but few egss. Tho shad, on the othe hand, Mvea but a few weeks and It lays millions of eggs. So, when men are longJived nature sees to tt that they have fewer children. “In America the average length of life has Increased, and there fore nature has reduced the number of children.” A hundred yeurs ago fa this country the average Jength of life was 25 years; now it is 29 years, Besktos, says this doctor of 1s Antiseptic 404. Bottle . Penn's Carbolie price 166 per’ ‘ eclal 8 for , Jumbo Tollet Paper, to “Vot are you ditting det glim mit, Ougar?”’ doit, ias a dark lantern.” a metch und Jed Ws Bee id.” ! J om a private perspective. h, you are Olt Blewfoot, aln’d ld? “Lam satrebing for a susplc!ous.” re you on bie track?” ‘No; I hat been derailed.” “Why ine he wanted?” “Recoas no von hase any tse for him.” “Can you nod fint him ouldt” “Oh, yeas. Der Wouble iss, I can nod find him in mean you know vere he ies, bud he iss vod dere.” Yess; he manetcnes somehow to exclude me, although 1 haf asked him oferyvere.” “Vell, of | run across him I vill inquire of him for you.” “{ vish you volut tell him so, He may mod know he + erepe Und vot iss your game?” 0 . Yonight? Tonight 1 wanted you to dine with my Uncle James. He's met some old friends of your peo ple, or rather they met bim. No, lve forgotten how it wen but I know they particularly w came across: you, & Mrs. and her alece. You must he heard of them.” ———e The Quaker 1019-1015 Fire, "Tix said your sin will fied you out, ies ® actence: But tf, on calling terme with sto, “You, 1 believe | have, but really fugutive.” The “yellow streak” in buman nature—the tendency toward ane A hy Httle room to sous they don't interest me. Tell’ your ee vill 1 know him?” . will call s@aiuand find you In. wicle I'm sorry I'm engaged, and “L vill gif you a ledder of introducement.” @isease and vice—1s gradually dying out, We are growing saner, We are growing healthier In body, soul and mind. To the question which naturally oceure, Is not the struggles for existence growing keener al! the time? Prof, McGee answers Yoa, but the struggle fe not growing severer “any faster than the power to struggle.” To learn that im this country life te becoming longer and better and more worth living is worth while. But there is another side to the matter. It ts good to know that, Af the struggle to Ive Is to be harder for our children than it was for ‘us, that they are to have greater power for striving. But— ‘This, after all, te only a restatement of the cruel, but necessary, law of the survival of the fittest If the struggle ia to be keener than ever what of those who are not born with the stronger power? Will not the weaker suffer then, mere than now? In other words, in spite of the scientific tmprovement of the rece of mee there will never come a day on this earth when some thing more than selence will not be needed. ‘There always will be scope for mercy and charity and! helpful take me to meet the colonel stead.” “All right, if you tnatet.” That evening Corving, Sinclair and the colonel dined together st lone of the smal) club tables. The jold warrior wae | cellent eptrite and delighted to find such « good jIietener | “Would you believe it, air,” said jhe. “I've told that story (nm this very club half a dosen timos, and che young jackanapes who crowd the place won't listen to it, won't hear me. I don't know what young fel- lows, nowadays, are coming to.” ‘orving selsed what appeared to be a favorable opportunity. “Don't think, sir, the bringing up i» very different?” Think! think! 1 was a bopmy fathor would have whipped me for sayts half the tn boys “Rubbose he shoult dental his ideneit “Look ad his pose; id iss & oot clue.” “Why, bleaseT” “Recoss he vill nod be far avay,” “How vill 1 tell id?” “as chently as bowsible.” “Dot vill eome natural.” “Bud his nose tea o artifictal.” “Dot oxblains why be put you on « false scent.” “Yes, he tna a counterfelter.” “Dot isa queer.” “Yous, passing queer.” “Vot ine he chartched mitt” “Mit carbonic. He schtole » soda fountain.” “1 am afratt your case vill tiesto ould yo.” “| guess nod; I haf eferyding bottled up.” “Rt he voult see me fairat be might run avay.” “Ob, no; your diagees tes pairfect; rf face tas vashed. “| clean forgod dot. Do you dink vill suspender resistions “Bure Yust tell him you are a biain clothes man” “Vot! Mit dine vest? “You simbiy vill haf to chloroform 14.” “Hew do you get paid for diss?” Probably, too, you may think the world does not suspect what you were up to last night, but what do you suppose the clerk said to bee be boy when you rang twiee for lee jor at 4:10 in the mo! FW, “Muchmun has promised to give/ A WORD FROM JOSH Wise. $100,000 to the ‘a “Yea, provided the trust ralse another hundred thousand ed they name one of the after him; provided they jet him direct the expenditare of the money; and provided two or three ‘ mitoutd Dat it was not bo: ‘ess, a8 NOW. other things thet I forget. ; -xsepeani bation santas pot be possible. “Humph! Muchmun is & good come to disouns, and he ventured “Ry der ploce. You see, liom @ peace offiteer. , omeeeateanemend provider, len't he?” to interrupt the flery old man with “Ine dot wo? Who svore you int o The French Nation Trying To Abol sac Teanga ei ree wt sub guicay vo vil hat Aor hovee fas ¥ at's jt ic a - ish G og tasol tb sey, but be always male-| darkeoed und gif you a fmitation of dor inrite of w Black Maria.” For anything od tained that girla were the most | secu ee —arepeenrared | om Did you find that, Se RRR RR HS NEAR-LIMERICKS | troublesome. er “t, str, I? What do you mean, wrt ready-to-wear Men and We terre _ mint to substitute on all cotns the words “Liberty, Bquality and A * oF ty” for the old a Protect F m » igs Giris? What's that to you, * ene eC ne aan on. saan Corving felt he had somehow or} © BY BTUART MACLEAN, ignored. And thus France proposes to close all relations Cther put hie foot Imto He DAU. | See eee EERE ERR REE EER “I thought you had » daughter of with God—as the ostrich thinks it is eluding its pursuers by atick- fica aac tae tng its own head tn the sand. ‘ir!’ said the colonel, starting (Bee if you exn make ‘om rhyme) _ It te by no means the first attempt ever made to sbottsh the up ina xyem of rage, “Sin flee the matinee idol, O. Skinner, Belty. Not long ago the people of the little Russiag village of Yast clair, why have you broaght thie Who, alas! never grows any more fragile. ~ : Novargansk, on the Baltic, fasued a manifesto abolishing the rule ‘6 &| man deliberately to Insult me, sir? Ho weighed fifty pounds less mat of both the cear and God. pA an a as Fe be oe oon ean aca ee oem tan en Prices are right, Now, the caar may be abailsbed—and happy the people that pe ding gntetn i phone gen fy v4 yea can set up in his stead a government of good order and justice, The colonel, rosring with rage, Bewitching and sveite Matte Dressler! pay upon which God may smile. But poor, deluded victims of a cruet od -jstamped out of the room. When Pray, how would it sult you to draw her salary? buying easy. ' stant bis back was terned Sinclair col For she lands all the boys destiny and 4 still more crue! delusion! Blinded by the glowing Ww r Prospect of Wberty, they madly strike alike at the source of their ee lapsed Into a heap and shook with vith her pew evening gowns, f “Tm stuck,” safd the manager of suppressed laughter, and Corving. And there lent a man who could box with her fire rounds. misery sod at the source of their hope. As the blind ond furiow® [i. isnot department of the whole who had been too astonished for « Samson tore down the pillars of the temple, so would these poor, [sale grocery moment to speak, tarned angrily on That prolific playwright, Clyde Fitch, frenzied people, wild with their new strength, tear down the sanc “What's the trouble?* asked the bine. Has grown awfully, awfully well off; tuary of all harman rights . onperententes. Sig a aut ee tos en onto Whenvhe writes ‘em 80 one after aaother “4 e a? a seo Its The Fresch of the revolution tried the very same thing. i oes ae, Oeeten. & ee is ag eat bid That he's able to tell which ts the best one ‘They, too, declared God abolished; and for a long time It to [ style, or ‘Vermont syrup, maple “B>>ot,” ctammered Sinclair, |) ere ~aperearaa —_arepereren deed did seem that His countenance was forever hiddes from man jwtyle.”” oo gy gh aa Op EE dnd talent ap ssangiaare be labebetaia — fellow, didn’t you! ® * flowed in ging from the guillotines and by ‘The Res! © of Life. kno’ His daughter, Peggy Great- * Saughed from the torture pyres, and that His ear (ia teres seta) ne jhond, bas just run off with per * the curses, the shrieks of anguish and the Walk | Act I--Matrimony. IT HAS ITS FINE POINTS, | chauffeur” * which turned France into an laferno. = i on an - wie Corving was BY CYNTHIA GREY. . * iipony lations! i" LS "hull Dieinyctaes @em on oe 7 oe If a darkey waiter drap «| “Do you know her, old chap? EEE EERE are Up, many deep wounds | 1 tte debs of whitewash, platter of tarkey, how would it af-| “What's that to yout” said Corr] There was an accident in my kitchen. The accident resulted tn a rudely. group of grease spots on the and scour the Moor. The woman same. She went at that floor tn a promising fashion She drenched it with water, lathered it with scouring sand, wiped it, charged me 15 cents an hour, and left. The floor dried. There were the grease spots Someone told me of a man who had muscle, I sent for him. Again there was water, cleaning soda and suds. I paid him 17 12 cents ap hour. He went away. ‘woes to ameliorate im the shattered nation— feet the world? . It would result {a the downfall of Turkey, the destruction of China, the overthrow of Greece and the confusion of Africa. Put tn certaia places, Makes a great disaster, Like all commen casos —BOBCO. “Bex, lady,” he began, “I ain't no commen beggar. I'm de victim of fire dat destroyed our mate me & homeless “It's nothing to me, of course, ex- cept that I'm sorry to see you cut Hy lg ne it; of course, if I had any “Bay no mere about it; she's ‘not! to me.” “ nid Sinclair, “I'm not go WELL KNOWN WRITER NAM iN UNCLE’S Wit ee “Poor man” exclaimed Mra.| ,,Wiehard Handi Geediey. handing him « quarter, “you mean the fire at Gan Fran- cisco, I suppose Tt iar ma'am; in Chicago, back tn 1." man and woman had been over, around, between these spots. in eude. Both had left the spots, In general ition of the floor was all right, but neither man or woman had hit the spots, [resolved to try it. of warm water, 4 cake of cleaning sand end 4 1 got down on my hands and knees and went at it. suds! The spots remained. Plenty of water and ap sand! The spote remained. Of course that was ¢x- I might have “You expect me to believe such ‘a story as that?” asked Mrs. Smith. ere. “Well, I can't say positively that Pee ee eee COCO CCC COS eee eee eee eae | ” co of plied scouring Leap i #11 do,” replied the meck and hamble " actly what both the man and the woman had done. > coe ee eee BACK. A yeh Pay h rae dent pik on » * ‘Theodore postoahi a ary and ral It disappeared. I tried another; ft went o| Carrie Nation declares dancing is i, charged ay. 1 continued from epot by spot and board by boa-d until I had 4 Siete beguing., Deneing with tage em $1,400 from the Seattle Dut Corvi treated each tadividual on that kitchen floor. Then I took some For the Girl Who Would M (Fle might be called plain bugging. company last rte tt ne clean water and washed the whole floor to a uniform ‘ » jarry : ol bn gee Rent oe gg ps ger gt Perhaps you think I did to 20 minutes what st took a man and a NO. Maybe the car shortage hax been| night by Deputy Sheriff Starwich. ang woman two solid hours to do, It took me longer than ft took either 4 : caused by too many attempts to|A big fight pad been made |hand, which he shook with the ut of them. But when I was through I bad the satisfaction of kuewing Ce. @ BY DOROTHY DaLe. * mae te trains pase oe track 'agatnst the Mostoski extradition. bey bee ad while he erted wild epee or _ a wi n, 0 y08 Ser when. et oe, oe STE NT ENR sontmeecunan, |1¥ tor & en! 0 myself? ‘ell, do you remem! when made your B - nydaeggia netic gle inl ihe a nd ti inl Sa Reelin idl firet kite or your first doll’s dress? 1 felt that way. I went Into the | Malf an bour later. he was face to face with bis divinity. SMARTLY ANSWERED, yl eoge living room and sat down to rest my back and to think ft over. 1 had discovered something: to take spots off the kitchen floor don't slop sonpsuds all over the floor and all around and above and among the spots, but hit straight at the spots themselves, E : Be thou natural. For lo, man ing practical piano adoreth the angels, but he marry- musicians, We = ~ } eth them not. A USELESS. PURSU “What could he ee in her! i Why, she as ' Vat a kiddy, BY JAMES MANOFiED. = ee ye ey its spots, How many of us workers strike 5. ing!” cries y° It was morely a face, the glorious | theater hy , PENS REI EIS MERE INS fete RNG. x “a sparry sit to her dearest visage of a woman's face, fascinat- perme bombay = ih aden pe cash dealers, evening callers would never recog: a Page ej a a on ihresbe at the aoe tole the A COLLECTION FOR THE BISHOP W Soll m7 . at on nize. “Men seem to have an eyo she at the other, a row ot thees pm into the srecte door, looking out 4 for nobody but the silly, laughing rating thom, “In front lay the| It had just begun to rain. Because Of Naturally. | ony Poe mae Mong —_ and cotor.| They were obviously debating the Bishop Talbot, the “Cowbey;seemed nervous, and hesitated |§ is about one ° w what was boing| question whether to wait for a cab, Bishop,” whe has recently told, inj while he fumbied in his pocket of most dealers. * Oriental Billiard and Pool Men have a predilection for the gheery, laughterloving girl—one who could make a dinner, served én the back stairs during the hor- played before him, but again and again He tried to catch here eye, and feared to succeed, but by and by turned distressed dames his own havink been hated dented them. Should he give py to them and pose as the reliever ot | No, she looked | his book of reminiscences, “My| People of the Plains,” of his strange} life as bishop among the cowboys After considerable delay be brought out a quarter, “Oh, put that back. Come, now, Bill, the bishop is not after emali| Because us to do so, and yee rors of housecleaning time, enter the fear w: taining, or could get ready with- Sis ae hier themh tome ond eel dae ce ee | and minors of early Wyoming and|game today. White,chips don't g0)9 remains right hen yg ining Tie fog dip once at him, through him, and be-| would sot hurt her eae aaaaet many an amusing ex-[ nero He wants.a wheel out of you. | fnstcad of being seat or to Kurope, if necessary, at a min- and gazed without restraint “ his was clearly the conclusion cowed Burry up’ houses. ute’s notice. Tus certain tat peergeay a ~ igen herself arrived at. @| Bos ee and made hosts of devot “The hymns were being rapidly! je ° pute or two pasted { | jed friends ed up, a . el i yee wile sere ts that the acta, atid the lights were tnived in|tions and romonstrances andvchen | | 4 triewaldiant at the close of one ot| Wee! UP, aut at last the colonel ret The fig r-Toner P pute on @ seraphic ox- the suditorium, Some seized the|the two plunged into the di | Man-—Wherg docs this road go to,| his meetings, In the dance hall of turned to the platform with the hat. | ‘ eonaes oo ee Henny tim opportunity to openly chatter. But) streets. is my boy? "lg sabnon town, to thee Gecesibedi [ian mee Command With satiatection ompany Bothinas every time & man appease for Robert Corving the interval| “Follow those two, but n Sep —Obid ldkow, taining; “t's oi "Anether Dome eae Gen Ola ate. te owrrees tates Sie way! 214 Union sty OPP Te gg rd p aed 2... bye wen wae ig oo ed indulge his| close,” he called to the ale ways here when I come thie way. and I was about to dismiss the con jit Re yo - lem Aes cussion t ston, @ short liv jelight hastily! a low volo Y; gre t os yho ee See vom _ fmmortality of the soul, docs not snatched before the curtain should| Up one st | REQUIESCAT. Freee ome my landlord, step-| 2%, Lcnatge up every feller ac-| re th fh Bae alge = rage P One street and down another | Colonel Burns my landiord, stem) corain' to his pile. 1 know these HLER & Gill Bho averse men prefers t9 saw hin Sas bad delenan Well. tsk: ho tes eee ny cob “s the two invent ‘They aid the white form tenderly Boreas re in a low but dis) Kays. Most on ‘em grub with me.| KO Patablished 186M with « partner who has some tleed, an old lady, aunt or 'mother|eloaks di sends away . ‘ ‘ |f made one feller cough up a ten-| ’ RSF | awn tightly * "Bish haven't u fo t \ j Tris Seatac combi diay te heres: due tadettnnn'< ts sobtininlng |e Doped on auat—and © youlh~| etn artoping ee Aghly rounds the There was no need for tears son Bishop, haven't you forgot) gojiar gold piece, and you will find PIANOS or idle feara, a good many fives in the hat 13058 SECOND A’ adoration before a wooden-nos Mon marry women, not ange Moch as they Intend to be master of the house, they don't want faa whe my sag d — bod hands and say “me, too,” to every remark they make. ey want none of the parlor ef r, and worse, know that she’s posin¢. 4g pecgpe Perhaps, like Titbottom, they carry about a pair of wonderful spectacies that show a clear, sparkling mountain stream, joyously 1 saint of the Carlo Dolce type. a u u a fg baie tare ora #5 Os eee oi, hha. the platform with a ticket for Baris | portance, the plain light of day and} straint any suggestions, Colonel ™ . ith «filigree covering sourt. © small worries of e his Ta hac parlor clothes. at say sutas Waa thaueed tt when she As he walted for the train he be-| sional be ho afl | | And why should we a thought of Buy tg omer oar And * @f penetration seems to have no difficulty {n seein . ¢ h an ounce | gan for the first time to reflect on| newly launched into private prac| sadness borrow? want plenty of time, I do not want a» qualities behind the spontaneous laughter or girlish aie ——. what he was doing, but the reflec | tice—ea sisted to throw up his| om if the truth we tell, to be opewiiod, The boys are a i AWG Shallow pensonality of peppery shrew behind a Madcanelike 5 the | tion only led to a determination to|last night's exploits in rather in| ,°%, ¥° th . aaetesees e wa ho : ¥ shre adonnalike pose. | see the adventure through. At Karis | different color The hen can lay another one to ot ator D8 pover to 4 o- atopped over to the organ, ané The unaffected girl is bound to be popular, Ever: t % erything she does fings true. She doesn’t scold the children and nag her mother, then stand before a mirror and say “pruned and prisma” to bring back the curves to her lips. And it ts in that very unaffectedness which leaves even her faults bar g lors, 1413 Third ave. hay = t freene If th e eight | not freeze ey are installed new tablon and the only 5x10 pool | by the G. H. Brown Plambin table in the’ ctty. “** | 221 Ping st. Both phones. Mees a foolish, chattering youth. The play ended. She was gotng! At least he could follow her out pace them at the booking office and which they were bound. A few minutes Jater he found himself on court he hurried up the stairs and arrived before any of the passen- gers at the station door. Finding | obly three cabs waiting, he jumped i called for the dri arrived o@xt, and calling the Thy The next moment they ap at the stition door, Th youth who Was with them in the) He followed discreetly, timing his| q so a8 to arrive just behind! catch the name of the station for | addr N 3 Randoff T ston A few days later borhood of Maris « very street that le his eyo, It was the same. He began to feel a little brutal... | Eventually Corving had thh lop treme satisfaction of seing ‘hls ty alight and disappear crescent | quite still in the cab, repeating the | over and over to himself. | hext morning his hew mfB-| yp, 4 shrank considerably in tm-| professtonal business called him into the neigh | urt, and to the from the sta: / Aw he left the house and st Bee ee disappeared with tt |for & moment on the doorstep red |fignure, stooping to the wind and {ity | hurrying toward the station, caught} may, Hg~ nat | plaint, And every other throat Took up the note morrow! The face at. Nor reason for a deep and dark dis deat She lifted up her volce tn wildest ‘oreaking every semblance of re- Olympic Market “What do you mean? sald I “Why, the nat,’ replied the col-| onel. ‘It won't do to forget the} hat, for yesterday was pay day, and these boys have a lot of money, and if you don’t get It the saloons will, and it {s much better for you to have it.’ “"Vory good,’ I eald. ‘Have you we sent tarted In, The colonel pre i the hat to the man imme my left. He was sitting the edge of the platform. He pm the hat was passed fob the example of the first, each 4 doliar; but the fourth man} that her success lids tition to Randoff o . We wes ietiiadeainiiecesdia ____. |airotighathe trap to wait. An old|a worrying case of a sick child vee Nait your tok 8 efiver Golan, called EVERYTHING MUSICAL. YOU CAN'T BEAT US UNLESS GentiemAp Followed him and drove| patient. of a friend of his from lengecge of te: YOU CHEAT. Water Pipes ff in theg@eond cab, Another man|whom he was locum tenons ad and third men} “I need not say that the collection; was A generous one.” PIANOS © Arcade Bul 1 FINEST LINE, ONE PRICE, HONEST METHODS: — Sherman Cla 1406 Second Aver —