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BALLARD STAR AGENCY-—29) Ballard Ave Sunset, Mallard 206 ; BVRRETT STAR AGENCY.1tomor Ryans, 2941 Rookefeltor Av.; Munset 1849, [Gre cond par copy, ste cents per week, @ twenty-five cents per monty De Hivered by iWAll oF carrter, No free copies Eniore® at the Dostoffice at BOAttign WABhIngton, 00 Bec tter © MALL SU subscription @apires te on the addrons Iadel vos, eiputo + addr tabel Is a receipt ASCHIBERS Showid your 2 tty The eal copy of NOTICE TO st « favor to You by & o clock Buneet, Main 1060, Ind T188 you & copy a tf you ah everp tine you mites tt mh thin way we can be certain & perfect service and tt only way ™ _ ere HEALTH BOARD _— MAYOR JUSTIFIED wininbienens IN REM@VING Mayor Moore’s action in removing the board of health and demanding the resignation of Health Officer Calhoun is fully justified on political grounds Mayor Moore is the head of the city government. The suc- cess of his administration depends upon the harmony and ef If they fit of their co-operation and time tiveness with which the officials under him work be bene give the mayor the full their official acts in harmony with his, no embarrassing situa tions arise in the ministration of city affairs, but if they aet , without due consideration of their chief, they dam x of the administration with the public and de efficiency. fficials under any executive take action which dis credits their chief or other members of the administration, 1 yval shor thics decrees that ow rer politica cal This is tl practice from the presi promptly follow dent and his cabinet down s been followed in the cases of various cabinet o as lesser officials The board of health arbitrarily condemned the city jail with out giving the mayor noti ir intention They acted after the may iad taken action toward finding better quarters m of the board. for city prisoners upon the st essary to force the mayor to act, it might be of public action been ne condoned on the grounds good, but following, as it did, the effort ade by the mayor to provide better quarters, it is arbitrary a inexc ble from the political standpoint, | teniling, as it does, to discredit the administration of which the health board and health off h board has placed itself above the are a part By its action the heal administration. There is no course left for a self-respecting executive in such a case but to remove the men whose actions are a violation of good fai if nothing more. The late members of the board of health and the late health officer deny that there was any politics in their action regard ing the jail, but they fail to explain why it was taken just at this time, wh didate to defe with much m da can n the political pot is beginning to boil a t Mayor Moore ore diligence than success election is be It is adm than it has been for some years for re tted that the jail is in better condition n ‘o such action was even contemplated under previous adr N h act templated ler 5 and it is beyond q istrations, when conditions were worse, tion that the agitation to condemn the jail was started by po litical conspirators who sought to @iscredit City Thomson and Mayor Moc that the the health board may have had no political reasons for the ot members anting action themselves, the fact still $ that they were pou { into the action which they too and cry of the pack which is seeking to drag down City Engineer Thomson Being made the object of attack which was really directed at} tlteir chief, the proper course of the health board was to stand} by their chief and take such a sired reform without serving on as would accomplish the de the ends of the political conspir- ators. It was their weakness in giving way to the pressure brought to bear on them that Mayor Moore most bitterly con demns The abandonment of the present jail is an act which the pub lic in general applauds on humanitarian grounds, but this end could have been accomplished just as quickly without any arbi trary action which places the administration in the position of being forced to do what it was alr Considerate conduct on the part of the board complished the same end with credit to the ad i of discre would have 3 tration, stead of the appearance, at least Therefore board, and if any blame Mayor Moore is fully justified in ving the be meted out, health board and health officer it was at all public buildings are kept in liti fir action in condemning the m of their liction of duty year f Ma Moore administration, rse condit s to exist in the jail without protest or action, and justifies their removal on that score as 1 as on political Is ~ BUMP TALKS By Prof. Bumptarara. Here is an open-faced cranium this of Engene V. De no hair to deceive the eye or confuse the holder. There are strong traces of @ literary bent in the curvature of the conk, which pr that he Is a native of india Hence also hia resemblance to Jim mb Riley. Apole are due ‘ tlemen The general 1 f™M D | faculties are controve He ! argue at the drop hat, « cially if you kick th a He frequently outdlatances } : He stands up for his princiy and jumps up ar wa on the i ples of the other fellow. Wh not evgaged in t is leeturin and when ng he is tell-| the railroads, and ha ‘ug all ab has bumped rcla-list, ha, ha Had their | Engineer ady secking to accomplish. a ca ponesent ry WHAT WON’ LiABiE TO BE TRANS PARENT, | ier ir? * 5 OW LEMONS Wrke Goes MY HAIR A CRASH IN MAI Gooes | On account of the vined wigs and toupees of finely any #hade, and ts of wonderful te I am doing everything | promt one cigaret last night (just one) a nail, won't you, dear? You know once. I told the governor that I wai ought to have seen him sw HH think you were a peach. He sald t bad such hard lack tn that | against you. He told me that we'd T THEY INVENT NEXT? scarcity of false hair ‘towWousYou riloveLemer,? yeaa fr" WER WA 4 REAL CUT Sey «aC AB HAIR PULLING WOULD HAVE PECUIAR DANGERS French genius has de n glass, which can be colored in ture. 22a eres SWER, <2 love letter ~ to Marte Hore is a problem written by Geo. ~- What sort of a fellow ts George? A lightheaded, selfish cad, or a fe oh youth who n turn out to be a good husband? How would YOU answer thie lot- ter If It were addressed to you? Dear Mari 1 arrived home safely. Everything o, k. at home and office. Meant to write this yesterday a. m., but was too busy and last night we had that smoker, Had @ hot time, but | went home early wed you I would, dear Marte, Only ad no drinkab! Forgive the one & fellow can't stop everything at thinking of marrying you. You jonest he did, Marte. He always did hat he regretted that your dad had winee® game, but that that was nothing get the new sh k On the aventiey which will help some, and he t# going to make me vy. p. of the uslih company, Say, faut that the candy? | Now, Marie, I love you, don't I? You love me, don't you? Lat's te up for keeps on Christmas day, What do you say, my dear little kid? All I have will be yours. you know and | will make you stand ta the center of the first row of the society show in this town. Don't let's linger. I am standing on one foot waiting for you Good night, my bestest dearest. Your true and faithful lover. ako After these answers have been published, The Star will be glad to receive letters, 75 words in length, addressed Dear George,” from women readers. How should woman's idea this problem lett | My Dear George— Too bad you went to the trou! pose you mean your father) tha | me," because | have changed my Blame it on that delightful m club (1 always feel so trresponait mains | had no right to give you love you—I never shall, Let m attitude toward life, which quite the vice presidency and that ne | father’s wealth, I am only a gt | demand the highest market price | rave and tear her hair, | know, b of being the “center of the | hot compensate for the futur You are a dear, good boy character I must prop up to kee have no faith in “marriage alte ly led 1 | } er be answered? Hore follows one By JESSIE M. PARTLON. ble of telling the “governor” (I aup- { you were “thinking of marrying mind. oonlight spin from In & motor car) oven a half-way p y excuse be your br took me off my feet—and perhaps w “shack” on the ay and your rl, you know, and we are taught to our beauty will bring. Mother will ut I just can't do it. Even the joy the Country but the fact re. mise. I don't y, optimiatic ety show you express it, could ur wife want @ husband whose p from r” reforms sagging in the center, I and you are most east My husband must be a man doing a man's work in the world not a dependent whose very cig It is more your father’s fault th | see the whole idea is wrong? arettes are an your paid for by I know hia father wn, but can’t you 1 And then you're so slangy Am I too critical? But think of dying and having one's husband say, “S old girl; it's all to the bad, isn’t it?” matter how deep his «rief, those words would rob death of solemnity, even as they take the bloom off love So I must decline. Your MARIE “INQUISITIVE EDWIN By F. W. Schaefer “On maw.” | “What, pet?* They'v got a new baby over at Mr. Skiddlehop’s house Dear n that ix the second time the rk has been there in two years. | “Huh! The stork? Toll me at t the stork, ma. the stork is a bird, Ed win It is said to the bat I thought the stork was a use bird Why of course it is, It brought you Me? Huh, why I'm bigger'n a stork But you were a little child then, Edwin.” And the stork brings all the babies ? .” Some families must keep a pet stork Never mind, Edwin. Go ahead and play while I finish reading Madeline the Manicure; or From Orangewood Sticks to Orange Hlosson' But, maw | «weil? Where does the stork get the | babies |. “From—er—the orphan asy luma Where do the orphan asylums get ther You may continue playing, Kd win Supr * home when the atc maw’ Then left on the doorsteps It is then called A waif the up claimed Can the stork count? Oh, to , ure Well, it must have lost chunt because it brought Mra. Smithers triplet An h maw And that | 1 Did t have to make three trips to} em No It t ery triplet of the Ye 3 maw Heca he the la t « “The Seattle Spirit” ca f it, and if ' B. Co. to exy nak the ain r ure the exclual tle Pacific & Puget Company Sound Bottling Phone 927 }the pr 4 lifet anda of your cars | Place there a ules fender—remem ber, we're tender | And bave no desire to be court: | ing the stars! | 0, list to the voice of my plead: | ing, dear Jacob! | The dope I am dopetng may | bring thee renown | Get a nice rubber fender-—an up| lifting fend: you are both too hasty, Go into Then folks that are hit will not/ the ante-room, and | will give you feel #0 run down! |half an hour to make up your dif nees Of butchers wo have in our city a| The two sulkily retired plenty il, hay you decided t You savvy? Oh, yea! You are| age the judge asked, as they not 7 ae | led before him again |Then cut out the maiming—we'll Yes, your honor,” they said Sam “Under the tropics our language | cut out the blaming looking at each other smilir reer spoke.” EDMUND WALLER For Iately, you know, they’ve|“we are agreed that we do not been current events! & separation, but an absolute We Progre JO KOB. | vorce instead.” “How we do change! | ‘ | “You, you,” the Stoux All Differences Over. or was 0 bundy mee Falls lady rs ago I married! “Now, look here,” sald the judge| ~ and versatile as well @ man that I wouldn't invite to a to the warring cx But he never got off speeches eee which larteh “This breakfast, Rotlo, is all to but as a matter of fact, it the bumaky,” said hi t as te was not. True, there was not that Hi day-before-yesterday's handkerchief, | steak that might have b de aaninde pee in Heu of an which the vil-j sired, and ” : orem 6. h he call oe lage b ry aff at ee then uae tec bout half trust ose er, at the stace e both nutritious and presentabl guage,” replied Rollo say noth- though not absolu desirat Ing of the pain I exper at your However, I have no doubt that the unparalleled inp se humble t whose caravan ve ney of slang. You would greatly a Ary patronizing would me if you would see fit to elimir oe service was fur at least a portion of this peculiar nish ve him an inti line of conversation mat rehensit #8 of Aw, chop it, Rollo, « ex: the ng in that line claimed his fathe The time be Rollo, you are a wonder in your fore this train is too short to in-| way verybody was as dead dulge in such long words. What | ea are there would be meant to say wa mply that the nothing to it The churches breakfast was rotten mulda't hold ‘em | Leave Per 2 to see pattionhip Guns For Rent-—Piper & Taft *¢ 1024-26 Second av oo mone STAR DUST [MR SKYGACK, FROM | your heart te qui Place & lifesaving fender upon | aaepeonaes each street.cart A Piausible Reason. #4) you $10,000 worth of this Chorus. } mining stock for 60 cents,” urges | | omoter It's the chante of O, give us m fender that's not a be selling at a dollar a share. “Then why don't you he jit?" asks the canny man. “lL would, wait & month?'--Life SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY “Oxcuse me, “Ha, chudching from der size of your ear you must haf a ferry | “Don'éd pok seluf by gifing you @ poke in der vor humanis.” ue de aa i i a ai acmat Makoe Wiriey a ° He Visits the Earth as a Special Correspondent and Observations in His Notebook? BY JOSH mo ald Her. Jooh Wise Says: 6 now,”=-Wanhington Saw Two ORTH Blinas ONE 79 The eyelids of the average man open and shut 4,000,000 times a} AVIDENTLY Gaye, % your, —Hxchange THE OlwéR Pets “Javon th’ board uv] Oftener, tn prohibition states, COMPRENEND re 2 Nor hestth needs tum ‘ ' PORT OF J, Wie gatin’ when it raises A Request. HEIR WORDS srr wane hay a bad odor in th’ city | Pray, Mr. Furth, plesee don't be - : adminietration,” offended | Wher to THEIR I would ask a request—'tls the BUNCH é (STRANGE nn ERY pegple's desire fy st toile sis dodo: | means may lender \ rweery iff Fut tas fin tender— | pretender | The people don't fancy electrical | jars | Take off your off pretender, And place defender on all of | your cars! { ime, Within a month it will nm to vr, that bogus | but I need a hair out abave. How will | look if I INustrated Quotation. modern or nothing, the public} demand it! Unioosen the junk from the end Made the railroads yell OF VAUDEVILLE y F. W. Schaefer. A BIT. The lobster is becoming extinct | Well, the chorus girl did away with her share. One Way. He owes a great deal to his friends, doesn't het” Yes—that’s how he manages to get along on such a smal! salary BUCHAN'S WORLD-FAMOUS Cleveland Leader. TOULBT AND MEDIOINAL a aan cn NR SOAPS ON SPECIAL SALE U.S. Navy Yard Take a trip on the Sound and visit the U. 8. navy yard, see the battleships Oregon, Wisconsin and braska, the cruisers C rieston, on, Buffalo and the training ship Philadelphia, the mammoth dry docks, torpedo boats and |prison ship Nipsic. Boats leave | Pier 2, foot of Yesier way, six tim | Gaily Round trip, S0c. “NORTHWEST Be BUCHAN'S I tought diss wass & saongerfest, nod @ cheesofest.” ak you, dit you pring any moostk mit don’d need any. I sing by ear.” voloe, ha, ha, ha! funnyiemes ad my anatomy. or I vill haf to insuld my- Soap—a Spectal, per Cottoe Bloom Buchan “Oh, god mat ef you want to-—I voult sot vipe my feed on you.” any ie sae, 8 “1 come here oxpecting to sing & solic Sone, er ni Go ahead, den; der audience cannod ged ida money back.” SEAT VEE. WAntt, “You should haf id to understoot dot my voice hass great timbre” | “Yous, id lisdena Ike id was full mit splinters.” | “Make all you can; save “Huh, as for your yotee, der pitch tas too high.” | ee “Sure. 1 am prout becoss id resembles a tar roof” } all ne emg” sate all you “Lisden! How ts diss for a bass volce—D0-0-0-.0.0-.09" |g can."—John Wesley. “It sounts more like a sunfish voice den a bass voice, Howefer, | crete Sulphur |you vill do vell in der coarse, ha, ha, ha! | Ready money is the best a ea ben “4 | Vot shall we singing, blease?” M | “Led me seen. Ah, here iss seferal full notes followed by a rest.” } partner a business man Beches'’s Batt De “Yous, yeu, can have, for it assists him oe “y I vill sing der notes und you can sing der rest, ha, ha, ha! Bue Superd Bath in executing his lans go vise cake = | ‘When you spik ike dot you make me tired. Led us varble dot We . . ve wing : lddie fantasie ‘I Stood in der Forest Amid der Voodlant ¢ Invite you to open an 1. Und ad der proper time blease to make a noise like aces with this safe in We have fost received & }a nut Fins, zwie, drei stitution. pat | (They sing.) argo consignee am | eames = = Soap—the Antiseptic £. SHORROCK, Prestdent J. P. HARTMAN, Vice President. ALEXANDER MYERS, Secretary. A. SMITH, Ca which we The Quaker Dug | 1013-1015 Cor. Fourth | First Ave, av hier. per Ct. 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