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Twain shed hae th The jackios’ song Mark must have been eating hot tw € pra You'll doubtless fad, males. YOU CANNOT SEGREGATE A VICE ty this: ~The it 1 left behind,” From The Colar. clous—the amelling salts, dear! You cannot segregate a vice 5 “How do you Intend to have the - Chas. T. Barney, Cleveland, O.. boy, later New York] study decorated, Mra, Smithers? Steadfast. sds le, among his other|,,."l@ brown. My husband always) “Senator, are all banker and speculator, who committed suicide, among hi SMC" | Hikes to sit in a brown study | standing by you in this campaign? failures, failed to segregate his vices Sins, somehow, always hunt in packs, Barney speculated with trust funds, Until the great exposure came no ane knew this except Barney, but he, exposed in his own sight, was weak ened thereby, and his moral fiber broke down in other direc tions. Unfaithful to his bank depositors, he next became unfaith ful in his family relations, and lived a lie to his wife and children, He could not lock sin up in his office desk and go home sinless. Sin is a moral disease, and a man cannot quarantine} it from one part of his life while he permits it to exist in another part. It is too infectious He who has “one pet failir same breed. The only safe eule is to cut them all out unless you want to fet them all in. * soon has other pets of the SPEAKING OF UPPER BERTHS i here are certain institutions in this land of the free and | home of the brave which we approach with reverence. It seems} almost a blasphemy to point even so much as a derogatory! finger in their general direction. That is how it comes that | we trembic a little at the mere thought that the government is actually going to have the audacity to investigate our old | friend the Pullman company When we speak of the Pullman company as a friend, it | not in any presumptuous spirit. We would never dare to claim downright intimacy with anything as haughtily ‘a } | as the Pullman company. We use the word friend only in a figurative way, and as a result of that familiarity attained be » Cause we have contributed to its net profits so many, many times. The interstate commerce commission proposes to take up | two issues—whether the company has a right to sell upper berths and whether its tariffs are just and reasonable if $1.50 is the lawful charge of a lower berth for 400 ; is a lawfu! charge for an upper for 150 miles, or whether it is by reason of these disproportionate char that the company piles up yearly gross carnir There are 13,000,000 Pulim hitherto re signed to fate, who will prick up their cars over these glad tid ings. j THE ARMY OF IMMIGRATION and a helpless public f $25,000,000. | | Tf there were any doubt about the vastness of our country # would be dissipated by year 1,285,349 immigrants ha. of them already been so swa dd up that no one realizes that they have come. i The immigration flood of 1906 was huge. This year it was exceeded by 184,614 _ Where have they come from? Everywhere. Nearly a half hundred countries have sent their quotas. The g¢ ber came from Austria-Hungary, 338,452 ; 37,807 from Germany, “285,731 from Italy, 258,943 from Russia, 56,637 from England fess than 1,000 from China, but more than 30,000 from Japan. Yes; so did we think there was an agreement with Japan through which her little brown men would be kept at home These 30,000 and more are only those whom we know have come. ‘The figures do not include the armies which have slipped in by way of Canada and Mexico America is very well content to receive the greater number realization that during the past been admitte |, and h ve most atest num they are being assimilated. ‘The portion incapable of a ilation she de $ not want, and she has never wanted Bhere is now a bill before congress which will exclude fhe japanese. It will not be pleasant to pass it. It would be wiser for Japan to read the handwriting on the wall If not, we shall be obliged to lock the door = — — Swans have been known to live| | 900 years, But who wants to be a! actually rather ewan! i move."—Judge, MR. SKYGACK, FROM He Visite th: ih Special t page when a richly dressed dame @ Earth as a Special Correspondent and Makes Wire Le esis tx wed Gua Olin wate ta wast rey Introduced make a hit Not a LITTLE bit fave me one of those clothing store (dummy stares and asked to the observer's eye at once. bore an expression of girtish and and stated as does a hungry man, | With hunary ing th firm clasp. “Why that sigh’ Isn't . . . business good this seas jer from old Mone Queer, ixn't It, aw he Is a bachelor BY JOSH A Word From Josh Wise, A wi Bolled Them Again "i “Look here, walter, “There's a heapo! | those soft-bolled exme 1 ord pleasure in anticipa- “De cook boiled * tion, but somehow it | #0 he bad to boll ‘em over again,” don't satisfy an emp ty stummick.” Not any A you do, son.” | the ac ate I Observations in His Notebook. ENTERED NARROW CATACOMB ~~—— SAW YELLOW EARTH-BEINGS WITH LONG TAILS GROWING FROM BRAIN ~~ WERE SNEEZING OV RAGS AND STER/4 (2ING poet WITH LUMP OF HEATED METAL mm 'ONVERSED WIN ONE ANOTH: iv SM/PPERY LANGUAGE, a8 Tio DOW LEELAN! INGAH CHOO row TORE PING! THE LOVE PICTURE By HAZEL WARWICK canvas and rested full upon Jeanette Dupre’s face attracted | tte it Mise Dupre would rath of the idew a tte, t treet car Delaine turned Hef that by he knows not what part artist's slender hand in a {terest in her Jeanett Yes, I'm doing fine; have an or- | ¢, for the “Lov ship had G painting representing ‘Love ina, for st and hie mod Have you started In yet? lor No. Do you know the «iri in the pretty girl nv da lly rejected, Yes. Why do you ash and trinkets he tt I'd like her for my model in the to in new picture, She would make @ would i! Bh ntinfac hter, ¢ Delaty lead and bh Yo b © Delaine did , 7 ' ade bh z But Seo 5 1 Re uti asked | "Wha toes fa man at the ¢ 7 Jeanette shuddered Means th ft hing harsh |? ‘ 1 ome into this little !9€ his hold up art and bea wil p the Gavins, the picture 1 THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, DEC. 28, 1907. FROM DIANA'S DIARY Mise Dillpickios Entore the Noble 6; Win Herself a attome, or By F. W. OCHEFER, He makes grim onslaught on the wnowy poreh STAR DUST jontiat hae traced man back to the flah, He probably got his in formation through suckers. m too hird, aah, A Difference. “What salary do you m “Don't get any salary,’ “No, Only wages.” A woman says she saw Mark) tears at a banquet ia now wicked than Chicago. I should say #0,” A Lightning Rod Grabawl. “Everyone Ln = t his hand to me and k tit after I have passed replied Benator “Bay, dad; what's a jeer if &@ man who has sense | | Explained. | | jenough to save tore money than} | Intimate Friend } breach of senatorial | which you accused Senator Graball?| | Senator Grafton (fiercely) undrel approached the inter ‘enent and offered to work for 26 per cent los legal expenses than they are paying me! The Inertia of Jones. “What do you suppose cause of Jones getting world so slowly?” Pure laziness “HIG MA GAVE ME ONE OF THOS That man wou} 4 blow has FELL, and out of a STARES.” v How's that for a hearty welcome! sont” To make # long story she «| I bad just tidied up Percy Scads sates | Borogh's Nite, hid away from a $4 bunch of obrysanthemums ad sent him and was pre ‘ing to help him convalesce some by reading him the sporting THE MAN WITH THE SHOVE! BY WILL F. GRIFFIN, She With burdened look upon his mug, he dons Hin mitts; and then, with shovel firmly graaped ere of Nursing, But Do Grateful Patient a Quince In manner quite herolc, Frequently He pauses, looks around, to woe If he's Observed from neighb'ring windows, If he ts He straightway cheaty %, for then he knows They think he's all the eream—and soft he ‘Ob, I'm the noble husband every time! wayn: The porch cleaned off, he pipes the snow-clad walk That rtches out a hundred feet or more. ‘ And thinks it's time for him to cateh his car Hut he must finish or endure a piker’s tot ‘ And so he shovels on and on. And for a change He also sometimes shovels off and off At last, when all in done and muscles ache Comes floating from the kitchen John, be sure And feed the furnace, for 1 think it's nearly out THE SAGE SAYINGS OF OSCAR 14 tan m Jong lane dot hase no! was all inter road houses Vere fir det in doing ug, ‘se & aceidenee, ofer. © ina & coincidence, ny @ varm heart beats gndge Efex corn eribs haf ears tnsurane / | Laffers should nod arrel—id| tnkes all der nofeities ould of mar- | « rled life Fiten der optician gets tookeg Historical tetla us dot vomen | der little blint god ra ¥ ruled kings; {4 must haf been eas Brag ies a good dog, b to get a line on dem rubber toe + A mischiefous boy may be a A graceful skater eut | P 2 blessing in dingeese, but id iss hard| much fer nod 9 a & graceful spender, jan der root of all ett, yet to penetration der disgeene Mone ' ly preferences id to dee wg | We wase all f{nteresdet in der doings of der rich, und der rich | te CLOTHING STORE ODUM Insyector: Why do you stop writing your report? Because ot on the car? rey's ma swiftly and very form-| ally “dispensed with my services.” | Conductor: No; end of the line In plata English, she handed me the | _ % CAN and told me to take it with “tay oo , oe a a eee me. 1 THINK I have Miss Lint to |=) 004 has had throes love aftairn!| . S. Navy Yard thank for Percy's mamma batting is and been fortunate In every one of Rory * lip ou the Sousd ang HOWEVER, Percy threw me of ect what way?” Settienten Oregon,’ Wisetaaeal t | | Ne pty ab feonesh king, ene “They all broke thelr engage | Nebraska, the cruisers Buffalo ang 7D ge aye pyetnta sp he gets |ment with him at the last hour.” Pome only Pulladelahin, Se m j armmeth ary " boats out. I think I have him WON aaa 3 and prison ship Wipele, Reems ae WOULDN'T {t be a dandy wheere| The president of a bank says the | Pier 2, foot of Yesler way, 5 times to send Miss Lint an invite to the |best way to tell counterfeit bills ix daily. Round trip, 50e oe wedding? to get acquainted with good ones. | FILS ES ti Bill the Brute and the Barkeep! de gaff is stickia’ In, but as opened and tn breesed Champagne z out Ike the riding Nahts of | | it's gain’ trough | straightening ap expectan what'll you have? Jed the newcomer. “Mine's water take something yourself shoved the redeye to the For a minute or so the avy enough to turn the edge Then it was broken by Hero's luck, bo. three pairs of eyes gazed ceiling de origin of de wold ‘hippodrom MURINE—Regularly 50c. Special | “An de American league was | ORANGE BLOSSOMS—Reguilarly $1.09. yocial . fightin’ like a meeting of de Cherry MILES’ PAIN PILLS—Regularly 25c. Special os his mouth on the back of his hand wotcher tink of dis here trade wot It looks good to me. indifferently Delaine quite formally Diyuh yuh mean And so this is the original of expectant beauty, fall of hope and | yonder picture longing So she looked to Roland Delaine, | *®* the artist, one day, when he walk abroad. As she disappeared in a plete crowd Yes It does, ter tell me dat yuh tink in on de level watcher givin’ have it than the can # cannot have both ¢ Is contract tne to be All the papers say when he traded five men for Ten Needham and Bridwell od to think tRey ure talking about after a short stay ilo, Delaine,” said Scott, “tak. | hich he sought eo dispiay halt wise to dis McGraw wants Rreanahan and was at piet rf get rid of Roge now I gets a hunch he awkward atte lor Ciney wit Bros id Schiet an aire to togratia flowers secon ght 40 necessary had brightens Nitles of that & Ratley have wot de Mant aide t (Continued) All right, old chap; we're ready for | tor the ore ! 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