The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1907, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR stars, ‘They were there for Menas, and they were there tury Paul, and they are there for you. THE SEATTLE STAR ev STAR PUBLIBHING CO, © 1307-1308 Seventh | _ Only, you must look UP and you must keep looking. 4 BY JOSH A Word From Josh Wise, Pronently another match was) heard to snap, and the gas shed its Ught around the room, Suddenly a peal of - Telephones— Private exchanges connecting all parte of the — Sunset, Main 1080 and Independent, 441, uw artment or the name of the person “'PALLABD BRA AGHNCY *, EYPROTP SPAR AGNOT S21 Wallard Ave @upseto Matiara Mower Kvann 2881 Rockefeller Av. One cont K, oF twenty-five cents per month, De: Mvered by nvell > aaah Wak tae carrier = No 2 cop _Bawared at the Poatottioe at Heactia, Washington, ae eeannd-otase matter ehtidiah a 7 eh your wubeeription exptr 3 laughter rang out, and she hurried : FE cack poagh, Wien thal dete arrives, tt year sori Sometimes {t's | to the altting room with the ques q Rann been pald In edvance, your wame ie taken from the lit A cham & question of who | ton | 3 2 ee eee ee 8 ee gits th’ most in a What ft the matter, Ruth?” | 4 tf The Star fall to reach matrimonial Yon Do you know what you did,! oh Maio] ture-th', preacher | mamma?’ | phone us or th’ “oontractin’ parties.” No. Well, you took a mateh from the you mise it cam be certain of giving our subsoriiers a pertact services ~ ie B. |Kitehen, Ht ft and went tnto the SaenenEnEEee oe bedroom looking for more matches THE DREAM OF MENAS, THE PUSHCANT MAN o eae oe ; Optimiat. , y Strange. With the ptimn ‘ Here is a little story in which the only two names are oitieiibint Optiniom and Pessimism have Your lank weed " , eg fought many blood if Op those of a Greek pushcart man and the Apostle Paul the visiting foreigner, “it e@8 #0| \fem had now > on " 1s $ . | strange.” ; The pusheart man's name is Menas, Ten -years ago he |" “Why #0, count?* Theron ha w have dic a | came to America, penniless. Now he has saved $100,000, aml When a man spend all hees Sin tee. talk of the thvdn, hel ; “« mowey one man say hee's all tn M . | he is going back to his own country to open a bank Lam & hl hee's all Gut. | ark ff, the Outimiet ithe crow ta] going to realize a dream,” he says. “I shall open & bank, and | | leasing ‘aeuen saetiiionion and? be its president.” | tiit financial conditions hay ait es for who never had This was his dream, he says. rs ‘ S hnek I€ was a wild dream—a pushcart man, like those you see{ luck stories, than anything that has tt ; sé sie al ida fa bank! happened since the elvil war | every day, thinking of a fortune and the presidency of a ban | “Lat Optimiam and the Optimist Look at the next pusheart man who passes in the street, What . the laat hope r the Pos ‘ : 4 perfect confidence will] is he to you? He is only a pushcart man—nothing more. So It with geace and plow | you might have passed Menas. There was nothing in his ap pearance 10 years ago to make pusheart man into Hine and the sunshine! née and the glory of trade reflect the delight of a gra him different from any other | will cious personality.” | v 7 But Menas had a dream, and he never lost sight of it. | ‘There was one thing he wanted, there was a realization upon | “DIC” AND “Doc” which he had set his whole heart. Up and down the back q streets, in the rain, in the snow; sometimes hungry, some | | rue shessenger tay Sages ranett | often when times fed; when the pennies came quickly, more they came so very slowly; and gets Into trouble, but hie faith ful purp squares things metimes in his dre times in sickness, some i | am | A High Singer. Menas plodded on and on and on, | health; up alleys and down avenues like a star § until at the end he reached his star because he was faithful. | So many of us have had our dreams! : ok back at them, We can remember when great thoughts came to us, but always w tn front of him, Complimentary. “How do you like me in my new) dress suit? } Fine! You look almost as dig the dreams | . nified as a head waiter.” | As men and women we can lox of youth. and we lifted up our eyes from the Delectable mountains and The Senator's Acumen. I've always noticed,” remarked looked at the beautiftil vision across all the the sidewalk philosopher, “that the shadows, and we didn’t sce anything of the trials and the | man who eats the most isn’t al ways the fattont “True,” replied Senator Grabawl, ‘and the man who talks the most isn't always the wisest.” | valleys and the temptations and the dark places waiting on ahead between our | mountains and the dark places waiting on ahead between our life is going on—we may go any way we please, but we must be going, because the path seemed to lie that way—we had to | The Reason. come down from the heights of youth into valley of manhood |, “Old Souse quit drinking again 4 - last night.” and womanhood, and most of us have lost our dreams in the What was the reason?” | lowlands. | “It was up to him to buy.” | Was the pushcart man’s vision so much clearer than ours Wise. | He never lost sight of his dream, but the reason was he | She was wise as could be, | | She od no book never would look any other way. It ea, for cho knew | You are wondering where the Apostle Paul comes in | How to make the cook cook. Paul was a good deal like Menas. He had his star, too, | Can Wear a Smile. though it was more distinct and more beautiful, and when he | If you can’t wear your clothes In the latest of styh stood before the great representative of Rome, he explained his | ivs'a cinch you can wear actions by saying: | A good-natured smile! “Wherefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto! the heavenly vision.” Perhaps Menas had other dreams as well But the visions are there still, and the One on Mother. Mother scratched a match on the sandpaper, and carefally protecting the flame with both hands, disap peared into the back as this dreams one. and the bedroom RE - SOLV E D> THAT THE GIVER 1S JUDGED BYHIS GIFTS. YOU MAKE OTHERS HAPPY WITH Your GIFTS AWWO BRING HAPPINESS UNTO YOURSELF, DoNT BUY TRASH FoR. PRESENTS WHEN YOU CAN BUY SENSIBLE y Dog Ain wie HET PESKEY Fox | Guess ve acer THE = Lae Xmas Turkeys ) oe Xmas turkey to be dis of at the Oriental Poot R ~ ird ay. from Dee. 21 wu Bus ness Men 1 carry their banking ac with the company which offers the be commoda tions and which t acto’ handle a banking affairs, This We Invite the Ladies To come and see what sent smoking jacket sensible presents we have—pre- 8, present bath and lounging robe present suspenders, present neckties, present hosiery, hundreds of beautiful presents for men And you may purchase present silk pettic present lace , present present furs in ties and coats, present umbrel nd man ents, equally as for ; You May Pay “ NORTHWEST TRUST & SAFE DEPOSIT ind and net waist kirt COMPANY pres- f&. BHORROCK President HARTMAN Vice Preatdent DER MYERS, Hecrotary 4. Vv. A. SMITH, Cashtor ensible, A Little Down and a Little at a Time.” for 4 P. We make absolutely no charge the accomniodation. ALEXAN It is the easiest way to buy, and account with w will ta ketbook Fastern Outfitting Co., Inc. Second and Union Seattle’s Reliable Credit Ho use. Open Evenings. a great strain off your poc first Ave. and Columbia St SEATTLE, WASH, ALBERT HANSEN Diamonds, Watehes, Jewelry. FiaesT AND CHERRY Optical Department. st in! they little mensenger was troubled pondering, Wat'll do wit yeh at th’ pen? The “bona kid | wore in chent te "Ohatr! trlouted! breathed Mickey I'd hate to be ‘lectricuted oy were half way between the and the “IMR. SKYGACK, FR FROM MARS :: He Visite the Barth - growled one peclal Correspondent and Makes Wireless rvations. in His Notebook. - - _- Administration building cottage now, Frits halted “Kid,” he said, looking cautious |ly all around, “I'm gotn’ t' make me | git-@way.” Gitaway!” FOUND TURNED AND SAM SAYCHY —— MAD LARGE TROPYY OF ~~ WORE FACIAL LAPRES ~ | Mickey's face went old and gray with panic. “Don’t] Me aivins Woe Wwabe | \o it. I got me orders, kid, t bring yeh back, an’ if yeh make yor git away whih beatin's, “Heatin's!” said Fritz with scorn Wat's @ beatin’ to bein’ ‘lectricut Im wit yeh I'll get me Jed? | Hut Mickey could only moan lagain and again, “lll git me tin's, sure | And it is of thie that the Jittle enger Wasa thinking A wole ked and full which, when blisters as symmetric ~~. The meond time the} THE GQ | WHOLESALE DRUG DOWN-TOWN STORE } $O13-1018 FIRST AVENUE UP-TOWN STORE PIKE, ST. om WESTLAKE AVE OF rice sue STATION 1 THE UPTOWN STORE KER is & MONGY SAVING CH last two days everything ts specia fear of the quality, We have no o everything we sell. Here are PAPER WEIGHTS, metal, in TOILET SET, brush and mirror, in odd lined box JEWEL CASE jolced Mickey, “Yeh out, Tn All rf ‘ght re when yeh com BY FRED Lt. BOALT. Fritz was the “boss kidde All the boys at the reform schoo! sald large size so. A stolid boy, his broad face so! Fritz went Into “th’ of Mned; with tray; handsc emn to sadness, “yeh never could | ™4 ht mt were like trimmed $2.22 tell when he was kiddin’ yeh loa n he came o ut they were | Ginis: WORK BOX, nicely The “boss kidder” was about to | tke r d in bis heart was ony s be » paroled He didn't know it, An/® ! Free to return to that pee Oe 25¢ | was that the little mes. |life in the elty which he had almost yep vend Pty BOX, com- | senger from the superintendent's | forkotten’ He was in a proper mood ~antsnee a yrs $1.00 office had come with word that | for “kiddin PRESSED GLASS PUFF JAR, th’ of man” wanted him. A visit; The little measenger hopped first silver top Bae ito “th’ of man” was a fearful /00 One foot and then on the other Larger size, a beauty thing yw, yeh kin tell me he erted So, with his heart in his mouth d wit y bis brogans clump clumping acrous was the home the floor, be joined the nen y I hate t 1013-45 First Ave. wenger at the door, and at with | him along the gravel path that leads to the administration batlding j Fritz had never seen the little messenger before. Yot, when the latter, once away from the They turned back toward the cot tage, along the path | h sald yeh would! reproach That's right. I did. I'm goin tage, od: “Say, kid, wat does th’ of © th’ pen.” en | ' want wit yeh?” he promptly| “Pen! Wat fer alibrered Killin’ @ gay,” sald the “boss kidder.” Whee! Mickey, yeh kin search me.” He called him “Mickey” at ture. A wine, pinched f An’ wat did yeh kill ‘im He was runnin’ wit a gurl of ors, with a tur Dp nose ‘ middie, surrounded by |™ days. and shrewd gray eyes and| > yeh plugged ‘im, eh?” admir- || th framed for asking quos | !#ly | ] Yep, | plugged ‘im.” } Can't yeh guess?” No.” Would yeh toll me if yeh know? r U.S. Navy Yard ‘| a trip on strap falls the blisters are broken and new ones made, He bad tomt od the atrap—60 b) The “bows kid had carried the § with a gruff tinued on along the path One more turn in t y would re 4, it was aire 6 tern w * was worry he far, So, they com Come ly and? all tht m chance Kevaway” w be Fritz felt os at hb elbow, Well?” he 4 Mickey's b ard him, his eygn we on the wee not wholly when he sald Bay, kid, I—1—ain't jookin’, Yow | kin gun if yeh want to It was a triumph f At other triumph F forth in loud guffaws |could only swallow hard, and bine away ‘audden tours, and say Why, yeh little fool, 1 wus om kiddin’.” we GUNS FOR RENT—Piper gp Trdt, 1024-26 Bec av oe CO RETAIL, USE YOUR PHONE IND. 2915 ~ ~ MAIN 1240, WE DELIVER FREE TO ALL SEATTLE) LASTCALL-ONLY 2 DAYS 10 CHRISTMAS Time i short and there is no time to shop"—BUY. The QUA RISTMAS STORE For these lly priced and need have no id, shop-wo a few GILT and guaran JEWEL BOXES, very handsome, wilk lined; just the thing for milady dresser; each 85 GENUINE FRENCH 8TA TOILET SET, brush comb on tn Other REO RUBBER DOLLS, ANE MALS AND RATTLES for baby 25, up CHLORIS VIOLETTS FUME the fowane P me r made tn band. The The Quaker Drug Co. Twe Stores. —— Fourth and Pike, Store open evenings : until after the holi- ‘Sure 8. oavy see the ata | crown wnat £23 simmer | SHERMAN, CLAY & CO. [ Brown’s in Town ‘ the cruisers Buffalo and a “ lambing |e? tating ship Philadetphia, the|| | pisses | damn jet our figures plumbing | mamo ¥y docks. torpedo be oG and heating M baths and jand p ‘fonts ave Soenlieernatooes "4 Pee Aves sinks, Low prt G. HM. Bro Pier 2, foot of Yester way, 6 times || Plumbing Co, 221 Pine st ***\ daily, Round trip, 66c. eee DROP EVERYTHING ELSE AND Give a Dress or Waist Length of Fine SILK Leather Hand Bags Entire Stock on Sale at a Saving of Of knitted wool. All 39c, 75c, $1.25, $1.69, $2.75 values are now T5e Silk Crepe de Chines 69 $2.19 = em Taffeta Silk er Ow G Fancy Silk Scarfs} 25 nscw vaio si. 20m ur Gift Umbrellas nee $1.19 Are a Revelation. Reduced a ‘panini wry $5.00—For gold han- | $1.49 scart ose | 81 orted Pongee Silk, 34 dle pure silk; worth 7 ‘ $1.10 $7.50. $2.50—For Gold Silk 1 worth $3.00. Again We Say, MUFFLERS — Sterling mbrellas Sensible and Desirable itr ft tet all ie and Ii Doll Go- Carts Reduced 73¢ I ND Saved On Silk Petticoats Of Best Rustling Taf- feta nee Dent’s Gloves $1.22 Pair 2-Clasp; only store in tow i ha m at this price St.tt Exquisite Icewoo! Shawls Hundreds of Them— $1.25 to $3.98. $1.39 81.73 82.19 n that OME TONIGHT Get Ready for Christmas Gifts on Sale Tonight and Tomorrow 1 FINE FURS ‘4 ~=OFF Best Chance to Buy— Come Tonight. Hot Water Bottles A Comforting Gift. We have the made of good and brown; a¢ Bottle, wth Hot Water Bottle Minerva Bottle rubber, in white values to SMALL RUGS 83.15 $1.95 $1.85 $1.35 $1.05 ase a linen covering $4.50 v $3.00 values for $1.75 v » 4 Saved on Child- ren’s Bearcloth Bonnets , ak Stock on Sale. Men’s Bath Robes Cloth; Of Washable $5.00 Robee mow Terry eS RSEESERE_SEERETE SSESERES ESEe plFFsGere-2 ss e2ze3xOD S§2+22