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BY BTAR PUBLISHING CO. — - © EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, pendent S76; Suneet Main 1050. 5 pendent 1138; @uneet Main 1080, “BALLARD WTAR AGENCY—an Mallard Ave. Sunset, Mallard A “SVENETT eTAN AGRNCY—Homer Beans, Rockerfeller Ave; Munwet 156% Ome cent per CODY, HIN Cente per Week, CF LWERLY-fiVe CeOts per mont Delivered Bey mali or carrie® No tree conten. ne eatin, Wa Kottios TO MALL AUBVCHINERS— The date when your Gbxer I of each pai Whee thy te arrives vit paue Wubscription, has wet been papt in advance. your name \# tanen from thelist, A change of date om fettieee laBel ts & reesipt NOTICE TO SUBACHINENS-Showd 7 cur copy of The tar fall te reach zou by es please do us che fever to call up our main offi anwet, faim to0e o twean @ am To o'clock, and th send ® copy ons ff you should mig? i more than ones, please telephone we every time i tt we can be certain of giving our subseribere @ perPret service-and 0 @ lar wae Asliaalcared cinema siaieeneineaieaaeaipeneemeaiaamenimnns ON THE WRONG SIDE John Wurster, who lives In Seattle and who reads The Star, Delleves he is “on the wrong side of the Mr, Wurster read the editorial in The Star a day or two 4 the caption it The laws once moved him to write to the editor be all right,” says Mr. Wurster, “but it ts ter ribly gall and provoking when the laws are often maniptlat ed to the entire advantage of those who have-the money or the The wretch who steals a loaf or two because needa the bread gets the full rporation thieves can quoted, and may power of authority he Is in poor health and his family penalty quickly laugh. A law punished for mismanagement fines.” And then Mr. Wurster tells his story—a grievance against city officials or employes, whose carelessness robbed him of a son, and who have never even expressed to him a feeting of sympathy or regret at the occurrence. “Please notice this Incident,” writes Mr. Wurater grading was dove on First av. N. E A city lighting pole, new, thick, heavy pole, was left standing on TOP of the ground supported by two strong stay wires. The wires were attached to FRAIL OBJECTS, one being a small rot “after for over three month and gets no redress, The © ts needed whereby trustees of corporations can be Negal refusal to pay actions and “Last year a large, on fir stump. unlawful condition the rotten stump on the 19th day of December, 1906, and the pole swayed back and forth until it fell into the street, dragging down with it pote on the opposite side of the street upon which were lighting wires. “My little boy—a beight, clever, ambitiows lad, with a aplendid future of possibilities before him; a boy who had been a life saver and a property saver—was coming home from school that day with ils books under his arm, but was killed by that hateful, tnvistble death-trap on the ground. “For tearly two hours before my boy came along neighbors had been phoning anxiously to the city lghting department to come quickly. Besides this they remalued outside, watching the street. But there wa A few minutes before the children came along, the half-frosen neighbors had to go inside, and when they returned my little boy had pald the penalty of someone's criminal carelessness and gross neglect of duty.” And thea Mr. Wurster says the coroner came and sald he would hold an inquest, “but when he got the facts, he quickly decided there would be no inquest, in view of the fact that it was the city Nghting department that was so atrociously guilty.” No one has ever been punished for this crime—this killing of the Wurster boy. The city bas never expressed to the father Its regret that through the carelessness of its employes the son should have been killed. And Mr. Warster feels that he is with that great throng the wrong side of the fence.” remaining tn this treacherous and gave way a small ho response. “WhurgolnLis?” | “Shegimmyadurtyiook.” “OverterLoos,” “DatsLooeverytime. Wodden ? “Thotyounherquitspeakin.” “IstoptentalkterEd. Lolliedbim- “Awdatwuzyistiddy.” | fertair.” “Lawdidyousmaikupaready 7" IbettithordLoo.” - “Yubettidid. Juatdonnltterbor or “Yep. “Geeyoussiseasy, I betrerspok rat” fi | “Wethowdshycomterspeak “Nawinever. Loodid.” | “Ikepehinnen Edeolngshehadter.” “Howdithappin ?” “WazEdnext?”’ “Shewuz walkndownderstreet.” “Naw. Hediddennowottermaikot- “Woll™ | fit.” “Edwurwither, YunowHd.” “Diddenhewanternowhatferyous “Bhoorinokd.” diddenspeak *" “WelwheonysormeEdtipt.” “Naw DatswhatmaidLoospeak “Edalluswuzzercourtchusguy.” Loodiddenwanterieton weezmad.” “Nofcourseispoke.” “Iguesaldneverdidgitwine.” “NotterLoo?” “Nottia. Hethotweesderbestot- “Nawterisd.” rena.” Iwishtihadyernoty. Liz.” “Ineo. Wotdidloodo?™ A BIT OF VAUDEVILLE GY F. W. SCHAEFE “Bay, Osgar, cashier me blease diss check.” “Led me see dot check. Aha, as I oxpected; id iss from a yeast firm.” ‘Gootness, den maybe Id iss raised?” “Yess. Besttes, id hass der looks like a blacksmith forged 14.” “Blease cud ould der anvil chorus “My frient, we vish to accept nodding bud negligible paber here.” ‘ “Dot makes no difference ould. 1 vant my money or der Preason why Do you know diss paber iss wortless as der check id iss writ ten on?” “I hobe you voult nod rejection fd yuat for dot?” ‘i Make me no oxcuses, und klotly sep asite for cash custom “I can proof you dot I am a expositor of diss bank.” “I voult nod care ef you wass a compositor, Diss check hase onpired.” “Could you nod refife id mid a draft, blease?”* “Ef you canod raise der vind, we cannod efen afford you a palm leaf fans, und so dere isa nodding abouid id.” “I make on dot chock der ink on id ins nod yet my vet own endorsings, Notias, blease, dot “1 epik id again; dot » of stationery isa ef no account.” “Vell, | hope nod. I got id off a countess.” “How much does id call for? “Fordytwo doliars, lisdened 14.” Vait, Can you identifrice yourselut?" unless id hass changed ids mind since 1 “Sure, [am your yife's first husbant.” “You are a fool.” “Il am nod der only von. I haf obbosition.” “Are you vishing diss check paid in curreney?” “Why? Do you pay off in clegtritaity?” “Yust a wort to dose members of der audience vich are going ould: All who do nod vish to come back can ged a return check ad der door.” ene - Charles Siringe, body guard at) Helene (Ark.) World, who was shot Boine to Detective McParland, has| and killed last Sunday morning. oa ras od at Pe ndipton, Ore, 0) The first class battleship Con. a fs Kei ey | necticut, in a series of 14 runs at m Carruth, a former police of-| Rockland, Me. showed an average _fieer, has been arrested for the | speed of 18.58 knots. murder of tty Wiltor Seott of the Giine to rent. ay. “Baying tor Mts wd Quick tay “The Grotto” Mr. Achelie has opeped the “In tovation Grotto,” the finest equip od welll dn town, at the oprger of Hail’ it Pra oe Dae tiete the Plavmer Bieta Ss Viret and Cherry. Mr. Scheffe has the Limgest, shislest and est eveaged some excellent concert Bed Stier \elowe fw bie euveriain Dewers au the tee, Say pay tiated 20° gas of ie palrons eoatarasintan tania mss & ase s DUST, Ghee Sotbie A Word From Josh Wise, on “To many to fast sooma too slow.” Hy patient and long continued labor and minute sifting of nw merical results, the grand discov ery has been made that a great part of the space, so far an we have visible knowledge of it, is Joocupled by two majestic streams lof stars traveling In opposite dt rections.—Ste David Gill Don't worry, Dave; the interna | tional theatrical = trust —will| straighten that out all right } Still, you know, if railroads did n't kill and injure people occas fonally, a whole lot of hardwork jing claim agents would be out of @ job | What te life without an autol—) St. Louts Post Dispatch, Reasonably sat it's Funny, But— A youth who does not earn enough To pay for clothes and cigarets Goes to the races every day, And bets. Bpeaking of Mysteries— WHAT BRCOMES OF ALL THE PORMS THAT ARB NOT) PRINTED ft The Jolie Jester, ° —— ° ’ difference between a fom slinal | on a ship a@@ the sheep that leads | reviving funny 1 shall the king| stot | thou the! | “Come, sirrah, flag my | | lapirita with some # jish, or by my halide jhave you Mogged, |petulantiy to the jolie je Well, then, knowest os There are now tn the New York leavings banks §963,631,500. { 1 te the fashion in France for |achool boys to have their hair shar led off. A chimney 115 feet high will laway 10 inches in a high wind with {out danger Prosident Davis, of the Confed oracy, believed that the preswoce of children brought him luck Viadivostok imported last year from Australia and the Argentine Republic more than 12,000,000 |pounds of meat. Although the streets of Nankin are reputed to be the best of any interior Chinese city, there is no sewerage system Theodore Roosevelt is not the first to give Oyster Ray presidential distinction. * George Washington once spent two days there According to the moat reliable reports, there are 262,000 Sunday jachools in the world, with a total ritng enrollment of 26,000,000 pupils. The Ttaltan women are im dustrions. Bren while walking along the street the Roman «iris are busily engaged in knitting } 1t ts the opinion of the supporters jof the Queen Victoria Clergy fund lin London that the minimum wane of the clergy should be at least $1,000, This year 128,006 tons of pig fron have been shipped from Scotland, nt which the United States took 49, 000 tons, eleven Umes as much as in the same period of last year Engineer Gulla are recommended in place of carrier pigeons in consequence of experiments made in France, which showed them to have supe rior intelligence and to able to brave stormy weather much better than pigeons. ‘The only law passed at the re! cent session of the Manx legislature, which has received the royal a sent, has been proclaimed at Tyn wald Hill, in accordance with the custom for 1,000 years The law abolishes the compulsory viewing of bodies’ by coroners’ juries ‘The gutters of Rio de Janeiro ran with beer for several days recent ly. The munictpal laboratory, hav ing discovered that practically ev ory beer in the local market com tained a dangerous amount of sul phurie acid, the authorities pro ceeded to destroy all stocks on hand The Church of Ragland Ineorpor ated Society for Providing Homes for Waifs and Strays has taken up 4 new line of work in finding places, with medical appliances, for crip | | pled children. } There are in London a round} dozen churches named after St Mary, nearly all of them belong Pacific Squadron at Navy Yard, ***| Daniel Fuhrman The popular Second av. talior, has received an early shipment of the latest fall and winter suitings of exceptionally attractive patterns. Up-to-date dressers, who don't care to pay exorbitant price. call on Mr. Fuhrman, 1016 See av., as soon as these early ship | ments arrive. “ Do You Want to Fit up @ restaurant Furnish a rooming house. Embellish a home Buy @ plane or organ Pureb 4 desk or office fix tures. Or acquire a rare old piece of briowlrac or furniture, then visit the store of | 416 PIKE ST 11; e° USE & PHONES. we'd |] Complete housefurnighere and Sole Agents for Charter Oek | Panges, the flock?" asked the fool glee womoly In very much truth,” sald the king, “I know not the difference?” Why, the one Is a weather bell | BMOKE® GOCIABILITY. Land form a and the other la a bell wether, | “| would fain atnterrogatea you!Pro tem., whe For a whole day afteF this the Mbows coe Cie” cot Ee wapped off f jester was nuraing his bruises y the train rolled ¢ x08 St! another thing that keeps a We've got a Gobble-Turk, an’ ha®@ reht new oy > e ae man broke in these dayne tx trylig |, Mother said there:was room for him. A few of o have oteerved 7 to live up to the unparalleled prog OV clucky ehikens, they wae all we had travelers don't converse with each |" pority o€ his frienda,—Puck An’ most ofethem was just as mean an’ bad other coplously « in the wMok- | Pookut An’ wouldn't lay no eggs nor nothie.” When ing compartment rs should Fepect , The Sympathetic Bond. I tried to shoo the big ol’ speckled hen, the smoking compartment be #0 | drusime The old woman who lived In a Ghe runned sq rusned an’ runned, an’ | ruanéd, too, signally productive of camarag: , wa shoe nodded sympathetically Mut when I tried to show her what to d@ po pr dae I know just haw Ohio fools,” She flewed up the fences, an’ said “C-orack, ocrack,” Yes, Rollo, it fs the one best | himscit 1 tells th sho remarked. “She has so many An’ then flewed down, an’ never did come back, bet, that Hele do at the ond of |t aed teal things . , at th 4 % t he we w favorite sons she doesn't know the car, where the tr tourist | anybody ° oe what to do Gobble-Tark, why he can't fly at all, who has left his doe reclining her|it ie a grand ¢ anger 1 Herewith she watched the cam: ‘Cause if he tried to, he'd be sure to fall; Ne Alpeo flare pe dnagPranee Syed bile TM aa paigh with interest Judge. Dut he's got whiskers on him like a goat, umoke and stock up his pockets Tis od gratit An’ ail his front part's like the preacher's cont no leap lie Sige me My: thua Lead Us Not into Temptation, Where It comes out over his stomach, round entety thatebes. There ie & com | pe if it fe Seen Ceett much tmprtened by Like barrels. An’ he can make tho funniest sound genial atmonphere consisting of @ ut it inn't, Rol uring: the Sunday school teacher's plea Down in hisself, ike “gobble, gobble.” When Turkish odor, produced, it te|ing, whon th bunch ta for missions, and decided to save fometimes ho's feelin’ bad, he's cross, an’ nen lonrasa. fenas mad Ginteiet at lover the tact fs his pennies for the heathen. Hoe He jumps at you, an’ flutters out his wing, Mew Work eldavete Here the | even lent bonhommte fe made a great effort and failed An’ makes you run as fast as everything travelers are thrown teaether hep |ias eos ment tha mee ae once or twice, Then he prayed hazard, the same as in # wreck, | bow room there ‘Oh, Lord.” he beaged, “please Our Gobbie-Turk’s got meatscraps on his nose, “ A Insp help me save my money, and An’ takes ‘om with him everywhere he gooa, j Saemeas, iou don't let Jim, the peanut man, I don't know why, unless somebody tied e4 from the Orient, wang come down this street!”—Lippin ‘im to him with « string. 1 tried an’ tried SAY TRUST iS on the Riojun Mang ‘ eott's. To slip up close enough to him to see, fm migration offieag - TH mother said my cu-riombty BEHIND PAVING mit her t land ae A Way Out. Was stimply awful, If he wants, he can wks pe ed, a . A girl sald, albelt regretfully, that Spread out his tail just like grandmother's fan - laws of Japan she Rae she could not marry bim, that she I wisht he'd fan hisself when he unfoldn it; Hassam cement pavement, which | ried in her own county gy was wedded to her art But then | wonder how he ever holds It? ; was yesterday ordered by the coun-| yo, ~ ae o other reason?” he asked ane ' n Moltke, the great Gams None ws cll to be laid down on « stretch of | general, would never ., “Well,” he responded, “I've said Wentinke av. to test its weartng 0 & Frida ” I'd dare anything for you, and I'm) qualities, is being assailed by con-|~ _ —_,. willing to run the risk of bigamy tractors as trust proposition. The| %* the Dette ’ Tg og pla too pavement patented, and the} jadelphia Lodger profit on it is said to be very great —_——e “ IMBSONWEED- The bid made for laying the pavement on Fourteeath ay W Boys Wanted last week was $1.45 « square yard. To sell Seattle papers I wiate aa it in ol i the profit would be mation apply to On oa tg Ste Gh ‘ the difference between about 70 effice, old library batiding, y ys of the cents, the cont of laying the pave § and 11 in the . 1 see by thee papers, sex paw att/gott out and youse yore bigg stik| ment, and the bid, or about $1.15 °3 ir the afternoon Ithont any Monda: ve pe Mn i" te oe thee brekfuss tabul this moarning, | 0 theene jappennees thatt aro malk- | a square yard. paid by Engler. We'd all labor thatt thee japps are farely itchin|'8& ® Munkey out of you, insted of| Had it not been for the action Bo equa! for warr with thee yownlted steite cing itt out on @ peasable amer-| of the property owners in wanting qj Jand thatt they wad like too gobbul | reas sittizen, and | geen thatt wu | to see @ text of the pavement the With Saturday banished |upp thee filluppeens and unatch| "Old Bim for a while ee a i ne ieee are And pay day wiped out thee sandwitch ilunde aad cum over] Im the manufacture of tinfoil, a| am amindes sti inna MAM STOmE Our wealth would be equal [heer and blow seattle into the! ine is made of pure tin, and this} sin mae rast Without any dowbt, jashon . ‘ itts & durty shame { think, sez|!* filled with lead. The whole is Married Over Again. a Without any Sunday To preach what we should, We'd all of us sinners Be equally good. No moro shall we hunger, No more shall we sigh, | When each day is no day Some sweet bye and bye —New York Sua, ing to a single group closely pack ed together, showing that they all came from the one great pariah of Aldermary Wesley's chapel, London. has turned over $200,000 during the year to its children’s home and or phanage, in which are 1,729 little | inmates, one « day having been re cotved during the year A Chinese shopkeeper In London, charged with selling a cake con-| taining cockroaches tastead of cur rants, and contipedes instead of candied pect ciplained that the det leacy was sold by mistake really a medicine compounded for his © use A money londorn’ victims’ defense association is being formed by the } was! j Rev. Herbert Williams, of St John's church, In London, to save men and women who have fallen into the power of usurera, many of whom attend court sessions and offer to pay fines at exorbitant) rates } Aladar Strolincki, an aristocratic Heutenant of a Hungarian Hussar regiment, has resigned bis commis | sion to become an apprentice to pork butcher in Budapest. He says he cannot live on his pay year well in the pork trade TOMO TICKETS are first class either standard or tourist bert ten days, a final return limit PURCHASED AUGUST 9-10; week later if you wish Prices Are Low The ground is easily clear times a ready and convenient that you can raise. The Prices Range From per tract. Bear in mind that tract and not a single acre quired. Balance on easy mont Go out to see these trac steadily increasing in value you can buy at such low pr terns. Cait at aur office; wa wil way of te thee inlor ation you may wi oad ae eo DP 6.0 atet Home nne lower native shoars frum these imp latake with his fork |) “FOREST FIRES ARE DEAD. few blazes are left emoldering, and and up. $400 a grind glasses and that he considers a man | fects of intelligence and energy can do | sonable. | 1207 Second av, astern Excursions ON SALE TODAY AND Next Selling Dates—Sept. Great Northern Railway «Second and Columbia St.a Contain Five Acres Each Sea View is a larga, level area of land, fronting the Sound between Seattle agd Everett, For summer home sites, gardening, ranching, berry and fruit raising, we believe these tracts to be unexcelled and the large cities to the north and south furnish at all $250 to $750 hing Sea View, and to furnish you with any fur WEST & WHEELE gott a hole lott we end thatt we « ships, so thett pa me a livwer and the (lecktrick lites out of them littul yello devvils are sittia over thare makin fa 18 | aft ue and daitin us too cus out «@ be Heked. iff | badd my way about itt, sez very moarning and chase away to washington dee see and give pres tident rosavelt « good bawling out for nott having @ lott moar shipps on band and for lseving ower pas-| aiffick cost without a singul foart or a hate inch gunn to perteckt pydent heethun. I bett ide malk him lissen too me. and paw sertinly did look fierce he stabbed his beef. but suppoasin he gott affter you with bis bigg tik, sed maw | thatts rite where ide back att! him good and hard, wed paw | how #0, sed maw. why, ide aay to him, youd better) j - | EVERETT, Aug. 9.—Recent rains | have about put an end to all forest fires. Reports from various pointe | in the county indicate that only a| that they amount to little. Nattioship Nebraska at Navy Ya $1.00 | We are specialists and to suit all eye de Our prices are the most reg Schuchard Optical ¢ RROW with option of purchasing h, bear a going transit limit of of ninety days, and MUST BE although you can start a 11-12-13. Terms Very Easy ed, the soil is rich and deep market for all the produce this is the price of a whole Only one-tenth cash is re hly or quarterly payments. ts. Sound front property is Investigate Sea View while ices and at such very easy Fhe glad to tell you the best sh te kivow COLMAN s BLOCK ae C&M e aH then beaten out in the same manner "s\0/} aa gold leaf is beaten, the tin coat around cuip bern and dart across|ing spreading with the lead core thee passiffic cshun and nock thee) The three sheets are sometimes re duced to a thickness of .0001 of an | tach. | which the fighters wear erased with a drink of liquid opium | mixed with an infusion of hemp, | stopovers enter the arena them is certain to be killed. Miss Kateu Saikt and R. Asha hina, the former having just arrtv | PIKE ST 4WOSt LAKE AVE New steamer Tourist for navy yard. | In the kingdom of Baroda. favorite sport is a fist fi a Cheap Excursions East Ry the Oregon RR. & Nav. Co.) Aug. 8, 9 and 10; Sept. 11, 12 and} 13; Chicago and return, $71.50; Bt.) Louis, $67.60; Omaha, Kansas City, | ete, $60. Good ninety days with Fail particulars at Union Ticket Office. KE. EB. Ellis, | General Agent oon India, cht in atoe! been singing. One of We are getting the business because men fresh and carefully kept ca better than the other E; Saturday's speciale: NEW VICTOR RECORDS Owners of Victor machines will be pleased to learn that records sung by Alice Nielsen and Fiorencio Con- stantino are now on sale, Nine selections have been re corded, and the records are especially clear and distinct. Drop toto our Victor parlors any time and Meten to these records. TWO STORES 1013-15 First Ave. Pike and RE SOLVED THAT NICE TOILET ARTICLES ARE A GREAT SATISFACTION BUT AFTER YOu'VE PREPARED YOUR TOILET DONT YOU WANT SOME LOVELY EARABLESTOPUT ON? | Do! THEY MAKE You FEEL. GOOD AND Look 2 Setenegn ST — OT. ct | PS OG Es Pe PP Pe Pre NOT ONLY Do GooD CLOTHES MAKE YoU FEEL GOOD AND LooK GooD, BUT THEY ARE A POSITIVE AID To ADVANCEMENT To THE YOUNG MAN WITH HIS CAREER BEFORE HIM. THAT'S THE KIND OF CLOTHES WE SELL -~-GOOD CLEAR THROUGH--AND NoT ONLY ARE OUR PRICES RIGHT ($15 To $32.50 IS THE RANGE), BUT WE’LL BE DELIGHTED To HAVE YOU OPEN AN ACCOUNT WITH US, AND PAY ALITTLE DOWN AND ALITTLE AT A TIME FOR ANYTHING SELECTED. SO YOU SEE THERE'S No EXCUSE FOR YOUR DRESSING SHABBILY, 1S THERE? OE. Eastern Outfitting Co. Incorporated Ave n “Seattle's Reliable Credit House.” 1332-34 Second 209 | y : a RAN Se