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Sy ‘ Sar words tafe. i : E Todked at me doubttully. | "What yon nay eemmages igeatiiinionesiate in wa i bai & “Well?” she quent 4 the girl anid softly b. CS) Temporary Quarters, Old Library joned, ‘You are having a good time] Thig Ingld sometines 1 think = Tell me.” 1 puggonteg, re right pow,” ut BY STAR PUBLISHING CO. sald, teenth wi ie - BY de ISH wi! Mand Mx In your memory like | willing to nia EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, © & spreading shade treo on A July| "No, no, 1 cannot,cehe a ame pa ni NR , nit serpy " i ith a Wttle Telephones— nt 0. ? " 1 toy 1% P Henry, the auth@ vouchos for j straight up and their soula wander My companion wan silent. Welme, and 1 ° Seta, Ga cet net ee ee cettieran 50 the following ad jug through felda Wlyatnn, What ts lwo oe ing over the Inst] What would nesst Independent 1188; Sunset Main 1080. - | Aw offeminate young man daint-| the matter? att OF UE cours Mats sae te ~ BALLARD STAR AGENCY—an Bakgy 4 Ave Sunset, Ballard we {ly placed two cents on a drugstore Yours in trouble, “You will euttivate thie recollee | “tur this —— — ™ joounter and asked the clerk for a <a | tte the one green Min in the 1 Th VERETT STAR AGRNCT~omer Rvegy, Ei Rovkertelter Ave “= - jstamp. The clerk tore f and] The proante editor replied by po | | widet of ‘Georye mild counos oan te cme. COMI Per COPY, HIE Cente per Week, OF twenty-five conte per month, Weltvered | stig it over to hin. young man | turn mall | “| gald earnestly Atos is ae @ “ Br meh or carrion, No tres copies, Nike S ue jdrew an envelope from his pocket DEA FRIEND: The p@hetpal a Uttle afraid of Henry?” | Anatie Goodby é | AE Gh Gn Ganediien Gi Bean Weebianen, oa nesanh-clan watten "Would you mind Hoking tt trouble with your hens seems te be | Tame tak the eunrin ot & ett | ce ancy ened , a mo and placing, it on here?” Re/that they are doad ere tbn't eeesk and bright eye and «| 1 obeyed ren ats [tape much that you ean da, a@they sei Fone I I RS I 5 the list, A change of date on “Bure,” sald the clerk, as he start-| probably be that way for some time, maeae. 4 Walaa anoles te Wel chs tae te 4 ss ed to stamp the letter ° - . Heur rs apes SO SUMGCRIVENRS -anoatd y cur copy of The Mar fall to reach “Oh, stay!” cautioned the young flected with Lovelock any evening, please do we the fa vor A uP cur main, offiee ga coop (AN In great alarm. “Not that way, i. | Ow © cen Wels aaa hee eae Cee as ness eo Sow Uae |I beg oF you, Kindly place the! Tourtet What da you do, | my | Property ners a mien ft. stamp with the top toward the out | good m beatdes re ag ca a to The following i» @6 interest to| ‘1 amen | moved away ® Oe a wen aoe OF eon 0 tgs! er odge of the envelope.” Bur All owners of fire indurance rinks, |, hs Be, hl : ‘ = Sure,” sald the obliging clerk Rursfiet—Oh, F write life ineur | wether small or larg The |b her Rai “ - “But what in thunder's that fort — | ance ang sell fowere.—Chicago | \Northweaipra Mutual Fire Assocs was not the ! ‘THE APPALLING WEIGHT OF A DISHONEST DOLLAR “Why, you seo,” conded the youth | Nows. ation of Seattle, furnishes ite pol | 5 biushingly, “i'm @ student ta the rag |iey Nowlers absolutely the best tn | Dr. Lee Baker, dentist 1% 5 . Er 6 ee ce {Cosmopolitan Cor Die But Once, “e jdemnity at a saving of from 26 per] building. Phone, Matp 24, ] Th this dig, pulsing world some of our fellowanen come to | school and that's our college yell he teacher Ws tolling of the of | apy Fn ae lt Sol =n leent to 40 per centof Board of In @ is r pitiadle “ends. Careers are blighted by many insidious influences: ots of cigarette amoking om the) THE PELLY-CAN LOOKED 680 ANGRY THAT THEY RAN AWAY | ai pu Trust rates. Its propos Be r Unprincipted friends, perilous associations and bad habits Dang Queer tan't it |Doart, and added, “People with woak AND NEVER DID COME BACK, |tion to the owners of dwelling and] THE Cylaiph KE! 7 eens : “What's queer” rv often, die.” [desirable brick and tected man f About the necks of mon like massive millstones, Why, the night falle——" deoply interested boy asked vi ‘ body composed of a tin can, and He ciuring propertion ally} DRUG, CO. But of all the weights that pull us down, and crush ws finally “You here: “How often do they have to| Put they did not get to see | had web foot like a duck ; Saad. Sie nemnnnd ia & cea p+ Pie ? . ” whee more but ft doesn't brew.” die before they stay dead?'s-Phila- | whether the kingfisher had caught) “Ob, dear me,’ cried Mr. Whang oes ws itionat Awsociation of Fac | sos “Ons FIRST i f dew there is ONE which crushe at y if a I ato the mire of degradaijon, thore eat “No.” deiphia Inquirer. " |any kings for something dcourred |doodie when he saw it. “The pelly- /0t 1a National Awwociation of ae | ume relentlessly than all the others. And the day breaks af Ito make the Geegawiiand Zee no can has broke loose, and I can see asscciations of insurance com onemen ootie Li ‘ 29. 8.8 9 8 “Yeu. place at ail for them. jit ie angry as can be ailen te be found | wixe st. wis). Sad Iu Now York Mved Chester B. Runyan, a paying teller at | “—but it doesn’t fall." And he They were walking toward the} “Why it4s angry?” Pottie aad, eer your risk ie & desirable one, || LAKE ave if" ‘ nal pad, | Was gone. Jace where the unnatural birds | baiting ‘dle in’ . q the wsual small salary of a paying teller. His health was bad Sore kept, and Mr. Whangdoodie| “It has just found out that the ney fenioamaes eheen —" os ee 4 Day by day he felt his life force failing, He looked at the money “What's all the row over on the was in the midut of explaining how |label on It is Tomatoos instead of | iP" Yom owers Hime ee this 7 r “It 1 only had that,” he said to himself, “I |poxt block?” a reporter asked of a he never lot the chipmunks play |Balmon. It doesn't like tomatoes, / all around him y association at about the same #ay r could go away, TI could rest. I could get well policeman. with matches because they might on -_ like am. Bel koa |!ne In. raton H " : a seer . DISINTE- “Aw, only a wooden weddin’.” set the chips afire, when a peculiar They di ie Pelly-can loo! 1 isk which should This THOUGHT was the beginning of his MORAL T “A wooden wedding!” Jcrenture came running over the |so angry that they ran away and)!" vou have a risk which should | ‘ GRATION, It preyed upon him. Every morning the temptation was “Sure. A couple uv Poles ts get jlawn toward them, It had « big bili/never did come back matic eprinklers, {t will pay youl * more powerful. At last he sald, “If I take $16,000 bag hago : tin’ married.” with @ pouch on ft, and it bad al (That's All) _|to communicate with the Mill Own-| tn stocks, I can probably double it. I am surely safe UN July lL 7 | recone e ea TERN as 2 RES a = * * “====""lers’ Bprinkier Company, This com: |] a By that time I can put ft back.” And one day he took ft A Word From Josh Wise. | |pony: aise id independent, ot “the | ‘ At that moment he FELL an immeasurable distance, moral WW H A é 4 4 M EA N om, ar es oe a “yr pee . i whers’ prinkle ompany | Wy, as Milton says of Lucifer, “from morn till noon, from noon & iacndels ok Ges om wheats bs Gn Geer ove.” HE FELL ALL THE WAY FROM HONOR TO TO HELP AN OLD LADY ACROSS THE STREET tirs: cisse cauipmont’ and sprink DISHONOR, My deforaition we | ler head approved by the National Of course, the stocks falled him, and July 1, bank examination ri Bhar = p voll ems: iy Fk ig red ve oe hones | ‘i day, stared him tn the face. Unable to forget his peril, he went out, who will try ter How He Knew. Fleet of battleships at Navy Yard of not to his wife, but to cloud his memory with alcohol, He met a senvinee 9 mother ¥ eo | FY . rte lise to the th’'t her boy's bad.” Across the Court. ve woman of no repute. The next day, having carried a That eve Across the court they flirted when If That are pipes, sel Hi MK bank, he asked for a week's vacation, which was granted nat eve She deftly with ber fountain pen \f the best makers, In the ai +e ning be left the bank, the valise crammed with bills, and wont Made curlycues wpoa her pad, . quantities, are at the @ th: back to his new-found acquaintance. Or, poeading os the keys, w Big Fike Street Bore This e ° jowure followed. Th Kind | agent for the famous p The fateful day came, The tnovitable disclosure followed. The » seo him easing wow and thes t eit hewspapers printed his photograph. He bought a pistol. He drank | furrounded there by busy mea . Cc P F more, trying to forget. Do you think he succeeded’ No. “ lhe viewed him in hts little den ; o me e more and » trying You don't have any of those 1 the 3 Bag ; There was a WEIGHT around his neck, and it was dragging DIM | ramping old farm houses in Kan | Amd bg gh my al H IN | Pipes, the best sn be down, down, down , "Tatton ean pockecoll He gladly gave the preacher ten | pipe on the market bes Then the woman recognized him from the newspaper pictures. |. No" responded ro om 4008. | The dove hecame a pocking heo ee q or Apa and size, trom tf ” She went to the police and betrayed him. She hated him as these | oy they haven't time to ram | How oft the lovegod’s aim t# bad \ oe Women always hate the men who drag them down, His arrest fol- | pie.” —ex The ery Judge listened. aod jras Today's 08" cad wad Spect lowed. A little of the stolen money was found still in the valise, A ~~ To see them as they glances agein pr ‘The rest was gone, The total amount of his thefts was $96,000 i. me aia pete gone Across the eoart. of k : pectable looking shep Today he is in the mire. He tied « weight around his neck and | Domus Arayit with oe a ian a fell beneath it. You have a very fine view here! An trish Twister. j on DISHONEST DOLLARS! You Can see a Kreat way.” Pat—Mike, "tie drunk yor A straight reduction of = Nothing will crush us more. Nothing will so surely drag us Ya ay, yu ay, « ferry great way Mike—A lle, & He, you're sgek fi f * pny ‘eid Ah! You can see America from|ing Yer wou'd not dare td sphke| one-fourth from our regu- hére, I presume? lous 8 3 wer eanee lar prices right through our There are other dishonest dollars hestine wore Stes only ~ Farrer than that.” | Pat—-tf yes was sober y'd have entire stock of Suits, made 1013-15 TWO STORES bank. Every gold coin reaped from A COMPROMISE WITH “Farther than that | the comanen gonna ta huote Santen! ip of Voiles, Panamas and {|| First Av. j CIPLE is an added burden. Every bill thfust into the strong box You jist wait tul the mists gang! drunk.—London Tribune. au "pond — i } AT THE EXPENSE OF WHAT 13 RIGHT brings its added moral |*** 484 you'll ee the moon | as ry dainty mixtures. P Jumpers Hear the Honk. x : , Gstategration. ‘The standard keeps sinking lower. The mire keope | 1, pounry editor of the Buck-| “How's ininee te Loniey vile?” Our little-at-a-time plan is | 2 ly ol c coming closer. Jove Gazetto received this letter! asked the first farmer - at your disposal Cline Ss Pig f Retter that a man should die in poverty than live in moral tur hes a postions seater ee or Everybody's on the juntp,*}re 9EAR EDITOR: What shall 1/ plied the first . i pitude. Each morn when | visit g ‘Then the pe The combination of low | = a And the only safeguard is—NO COMPROMISE. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT, CONGRESS? ‘War or no war with Japan, we are waking up to the fact of our @wn unpreparedness, a state of things for which thanks are due only to congress, which, with childish biandness, has cone on spend tng millions and miliions of dotiars for roses and cuspidors and toilet water and scented soap and the deepening of obscure rivers and the carrying of mails which were never carried, and the like For years public sentiment has clamored for protection for the Pacific coast. This clamor congress has ignored. Of the 13 for tresses on the Pacific, not ope ts fully equipped. Their mine fields exist only on paper, Not only have they too few guns, but not more than 40 per cent of the guns in position can be used, because there &re not enough gunsers. The whole situation is a reflection upon our statesmanship, mot to say our ordinary common sense. This newspaper has fought consistently for the proper protection of our Pacific coast. We shall continue the fight. Whatever the outcome of the present turmoil, we welcome the apprehension be- cause it puts up to congress in big black letters this question: What are you going to do about it? : ee a OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE AIR. TRUE, YOU OUGHT TO MAVE THE TRIPLETS BAPTIZED... = YES, AND MT OUGHT 70 BE DID ww OUR cwunty, Toe —~—// Now YOY TWO MEDDLING CLUCKING AROUND: FO PMWAT/PLY your ane $175,000,009. As showing the rapid growth of the fron and 1 exports it may be stated that the exports in | 1887 were only $16,000,000, and in | 1897, $57,000,000. | The State of Washington has a| new law which hits the “trading | stamp’ hard, though it ts to be | fought in the courts as unconastitu tional It require that all estab lishments giving away tra ‘ HIS OCCUPATION. liyorce trial, brought forth the stamps shall p a cash value on following them and stand ready to jeom A Boston lawyer, who brought his| “You wish to divorce this woman them at any time wit from his native Dublin, while | because she drinks Five a Ago the population cromwexamining the plaintiff in a| “Yes, sir.” of the Canadian prairie provinces abner Avene adcmeretie “Do you drink yourself” was 466,000 and the grain or wae | “That's my susiness! angrily 43,066,008 busk In 1904 the pop Tug of War | Whereupon thay unmoved lawyer | ylation . ats naked crop wa ye Foot races, sack races, eg rac Have you any other busing?” |} nif of th yey fat ma racessbaby she 50 | __wverybody on han 4 he hat other event Ravenna Par ite 4 Ai Olympic Market SULY SPECIALS ees > eut your meat bills in halt. 118} In & tackle and’ rod: ar at r hat of Kan ka & | Pik t ite, the Bon Marche. | bi« ¢ ir Piper @ Taft Seeond av ove, oe? } 1024 nd e oon my | Shouse | find two or three fowls jon their back, their feet sticking | SCRAPS On the Tombigbee river, Alabama, }is enough Hmestone to supply a ce | ment plant for 100 years. | ' About one-third of the land in the Mexican State of Durango ts held filty-five men One estate . 1,900,000 acresl Since Plus VIE was alevated to the }pontifical throne, ledm than four years ago, no fewer than fifteen j cardinals have died. | Rex Beach, the author of “The Spotiers,” is a manufacturer of bricks—not the kind used in illegal commercial transactions, but real building brieks The next national Republican con vention will be composed of 992 del oxates, of which 222 will come from the South. The number required to rominate ts 497 Of all the slang exprossions with | which we are affiicted today, obser ves the Ratiroad Man's Magazine, the two that mean the most are “It's up to you” and “On the job.” | Nestiing under the shadow of al at Penon, Mexico, ts perhaps matiest church in the world. This edifice is about ten feet high and twelve feet wide. small volear Gulla are being trained for postal service in place of carrier pigeons by the maritime station of biologs |cal department of the University of |Lyona, at Toulon, on the Mediter | ranean | In Belgium all cows over months old are to be seen wearing rrings Breeders re oblige to » @ record of all cattle raised by nm, and each animal has a regis |tered trade number, which is en | graved on the ring fastened to its ' | ear. |. Where the trouble ts such as the fatiure of an organ digestion, of and #0 firm, three physical in congestion on, strong music will give best results, a Lateon, or ing to Dr. editor of Health | Calture. this class of treat ment the key of Canajor ts partl | cularly recommended. | An estimate of the value jexports from the United Sta }iron and steel for the fiscal nding June 30, 1907, places them at lof a metropolitan automobties ‘have | struck your town, too, have they?" | Yonkers Stateawan. | eas | area of land available for cultiva: | tow in that section —Consular Re porta Of the 237,720,000 population ot| France there is a working popala | tion of 19,780,076, and a third of the| samber of wageearners are women and girls, Nearly a third of the por sone engaged in agricultural par. salts are women. Of the womes | workers 4 Jbird are employed in the | learbed profeearcand about 36! per cent. in commerce. Who xtra ‘the tamitter| phrase, “The almfkhty dollar?’ It was Washington Irving, in “The | Creole Village,” which he published | im 1827. The phrase became so popular and excited so much con troversy in consequence of a doubt | whether the adjective was irrever ent, that its thor had to plain | eighteen years later that he had in tended “no irreverence, even to the dollar, which he ts well aware is becoming dally more and more an object of worship.” “Dollar” means | valleyer,” the “thaler” having been | named after the Joachimathal, in| Bohemia, tn whose valley it was| rat colned in the sixteenth cen- | tury The worm will turn, says the pro- | verb, and at last the newspaper worm has turned hard. In a re cont novel a well-known criminal lawyer represented the clity editor ly newspaper as remaining in the office until 2 o'clock in the morning, at which | time he was “finishing off an edi torial, A few days after the public | had been allowed to gain thin val-| uable inside information of the workings of a newspaper office the aforesaid daily newspaper worm | turned. It said It understood the! lawyer's next book was to be a realistic novel of sea life and that an episode would be the story of how the captain stood on the brigne | and oiled the engines. The Maw yer's demurrer is now awalte? with interest Pienio and dance, Ravenna Park, Sanday com Remomber that wo have ¢ best assortment of stand makes. } Remember that we shal most jealously guard our repht tation of giving the biggest val ve for the money that as piano maker member our knowl and mw os is always at your gis to why there is no other house in posi us explain you tion te compete with wu “THE MYER-TONER | PIANO CO. , 816 Union St Opp. tho P.4, a ae | everybody who is down or in trouble or unable to help themselves She was ost olf lady, but afraid of the busy street. As she hesitated, the boy came up. He took off his cap, and amiled “Lat me help yout” be sald With the feeble off arm in his, he Jed her safely over, It cost him only a minute and a ate thought It was « tritvute that youth owes to" age. It was simple kindness. It wae thoughtfulness, and, of course, politeness, because polite ness is nothing but consideration and thoughtfulness of other people. It was sympathy. The feeling that made the boy want to be of some service to the old lady was the same feeling that makes every one of us who bas a heart and is not ashamed of it want to help And it was chivalry towards womankind, We all possess that— some of it. It ts such a tremendous pity, fan't it, that we are growing #o selfish that we haven't always time to be courteous? There are still places fn big, busy America were men take off their hats in public elevators when women are present. Foolish? Perhaps. Hut the spirit that prompts it isn't foolish, It is only a survival of that world old feeling that every man owes all respect to every woman When the boy helped the old lady he not only assisted her and himaeif did a kind act, bot he furnished a lesson to a whole world full of people. BY VIRGIL Vv. M’NITT. It seemed a shame to take a wateh from such a mild-mannered young chap. Business is business, | though, and the watch was a val uable one, so 1 put the ticker in| my side pocket and forgot it. The | crowd waiting at You mean you'd like to steal me, I suppose,” the girl flashed back Par be it from me to deny your ference,” I replied were going down a long steep grade, and | thought my com- | nion leaned toward me just per | y As we slowed up on an-} incline, she looked at me} | the scenic rail-| through narrower lids for a mo-| way entrance was so great that 1/ ment. was sure I had been unobserved. “Well, you can’t have me," she In rushed a train of the little | Announced positively. “You have a} cars out scrambled the pleasure-| ¥AY about you of taking what you| seekers. Pushed forward, | jumped | Want, and girls like a man who} knowns what he wants and gets it, but I'm a little afraid of you. Henry may be slow, but he's good to me, | into @ front seat. Someone clamb ered in beside me, and my antict- | pations of a pleasurable three min- | utes rose when | observed by seat-|88d I'm sure he'll never be rash | mate. enough to get into trouble.” | Wh--why, you're not Henry 1” I protested. “You yourself,” 1 she softly exclaimed as the train | argued, njoy the spice of adven- | got under way. 8 was pretty ture. You lke the novel, the unex You, I am,” 1 reassuringly re-| pected, the unconventional.” | plied We were going very fast, and the | “Wh—why, you're not Henry,” | shriek of the giddy girls behind us objected. We had started down the | first Incline, and she brushed the xtray wisps of brown hair from her € M & St. Pp face with a small hand a + NY Hut I'm perfectly - serve,” 1 urged Even though I make a living by 4 Opens Four New Towns voking up trifles here and there, | toy so receuin ehivalcons a Next Week My well-meant offer of protection | (0. willing to was completed ignored The opentng sales of lots at Bev It was so like Henry,” the girl jerey, Warden, Goxboro and Othelle, sighed. to let me get away from four new towns on the Pacific Coast him like this, He can't take care /extenalon of the Milwaukee road of himself, to say nothing of taking | Douglas and Adams counties will care w * a womder s¢ take place July 16, 16, 17 and 18 body hasw’t kidnaped him long/in the Bik Temple, at Spokane apo. Wash it T were a horrid kidnaper,” 1) Moderate prices will Be placed on entured, “I should not take Henry, | these lots, and purchasers will be | think I cowid find some one much | required to bid for choige. Kasy more attractive s given ~ ~ = om ure under the management . Western Townsite Co., of Picnix and Dance Washington, an auxiliary of the $260 im prizes, Raveana BP; Railway Company, with offices at| Ay @4 Kmpire Building, this city, **+! prices and casy terms solves the question of get- ting that new suit. Popular Sheet Music Strongheart one When the Flowers Springtime .. ch aus . Sweet Potatoes—Hag .,., Pawnee ........ .. Walts Me Around Me ... oe eem If Anybody Wants to Jonah Shake Hands Eastern Out- | fitting Co. Blossom . Sunset—Rag 1332-34 Second Av., 209 Union St. Honey Boy .... “Geattie’s Reliable Credit | Somebody’ CELE MERTEEED REET THE HOUSE OF. QUALNI THRRE ARK THREE GREAT PIANOS THAT SPREAD THE GLORY OF AMERICAN ART TO eYERY aU ThR OF THR GLOBE that are owned, one or m eesential to the materilh moods, th proffer true has olther taste or precept more © o hom T thre Grand. the Steinway Vertegrend. and t No other pinsos can be justiy compared Bteinway Pianos Their distinct leadership ing gm ested * the $LEEFAEAALEA4*ACLLE STRICTLY SAVINGS BANK THE STATE OM ALL DEPOSITS MONEY IN THE Bank makes one feel ind op. A LIFE ON THE oceAN without s carb So be! piente, @ be sure ale, @ »partiiay viehy st and on your yachting apply of n Boda, are the | oruise ing ated ours Company