The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 17, 1908, Page 4

4 “THE SEATILE STAR_ . as second clana matter, a THE NATIONAL RAINY DAY office at Seattle, Warbingt Bntored at the The conservation congress which assembles this week in Seattle, under the auspices of the Washington Forestry asso ciation, will arouse but little general enthusiasm, for the sub ject, vitally important as it is, 18 still too far removed from present It with that saving -and looking into the future which is foreigh to the American tem perament and mode of thought, which spends its substance to day, blindly confident that there is plenty for tomorrow As a nation we are So young, and our resources have been | $0 vast, that we have grown to believe that all things we have/ To make this the worse, we are nationally | We build labor-} consciousness. is instinet are inexhaustible careless and reckless, and not a little selfish ourselves and our children as individuals, but we/ jously for have no racial consciousness or canscience. For the future race that must follow us we have no time to think, and if we do think, it is in an abstracted, disinterested way that leads to} m that those who come later will have to take} Behind ws, especially in| the conclt care of themselves as we are doing the West, there is no frugal ancestry, who took only what they We found the country, we developed it, and it is ours to do with as we please We have seen Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota strip ped of their vast forests in a few years, and before our eyes) today the same is being done by fire and ax in our own state,| The announce-| needed and left us all they could and the protests that arise are few and feeble. ment that campers, careless with their fires, caused the de-| struction of ten millions of dollars’ worth of timber ip the} United States in one year is a statistically interesting fact that} arouses no resentment in the soul. If this harrowing waste could be stopped by a hundred thousand men getting up a half-hour earlier every day for a week, it would probably re- quire organized agitation and a considerable expenditure of funds to bring it about. The destruction of forests, the eno sion of soils and the various forms of elemental waste do not) appeal to us as any of our business. We instinctively feel that) there should be a “somebody” looking after these things, but further than this ayr interest makes no headway | That a day of repentance is conting is a Cassandra-like| prophecy, It creates no fear or apprehension. We all feel that} the good old earth that has taken care of us for so long will not desert us in an emergency. Most things great had a small, inauspicious beginning, and there is the consolation of experience which predicts that the conservation congress, small as it may seem in comparison to its task today, will grow so that tomorrow its sessions will arouse the interest of a big prizefight or a pennant-deciding baseball game CHINA, THE IMMOVABLE | ~ — | Glibly we prattle of the awakening of China, as we hope-| fally compute the force of our civilization and its revivifying | effects on this dry-rot land. For years our missionaries have} given their toilsome lives, and commerce has struggled to bring to the quick that appalling inert mass of humanity, never will- ing t accept the dictum of Kipling that east is cast and west is west. The inroad of the 20th century civilization into the 30th century barbarism was accurately measured in ail its petty futility by the dual tragedy enacted in the darkened chambers of the Forbidden city palace. Here a feeble, imbecillic man, a puppet ruler, lay dying, and nearby a woman, the equal, if not the peer, of Catherine or Borgia, in devilish cold-blooded po- litical ingenuity.. Around the death bets, a rod’s distance from the sufferers, clustered the palace entourage, foreheads to the floor, scrupulously exhibiting every demeaning mark of sub- jection and adoration, but not one hand to smooth the pillow of the dying or to coo! the lips fevered by the last halting} breaths. To approach the sacred bodies of the emperor and the dowager would have been sacrilege. The pain-racked vic-| tims of slow poison would have resented it with their last ounce of strength and cursed with their last breath the one who dared to minister to them in extremis. What can we of the Occident do against this? What pos-| sible leverage can we get on intelligences that conceive and exist in these archaic forms? There was no burlesque about this death bed. It was all real, pitiably and wonderfully real, ex actly in accord with the cold Confucian philosophy that squeezed all the humanity out of life thousands of years ago. | These nobles of the empire kotowed with mathematical preci sion, as the souls of their rulers slipped away, but without one spark of sympathy or sorrow in their hearts. The jade mon strosities’ calm contemplation was not more indifferent and! unemotional than this abject, fawning throng that went through its reflex mummeries | There are some three or four hundred millions of these iced beings in a territory as vast as the United States, and every year sees a few more never-despairing men and women sailing from our shores to grapple with thém in their inborn ignorance or wisdom, for the white man's God. Such courage would seem to be irresistible did not that great yellow mass appear so im- movable. salary jumped from $2,500 to $6,000 to give information concerning the Mr. Russell, whose prospect ® year overnight is well qua manners, habits and babitat of prosperity The only ot able result of the supteme court decision taking | Sand island from the state of Washington was # natural euriosity to | learn where the isiand is keeping Itself | Oyster Bay is already ambitions resigned to geographical oblivion and all politicians are discarding the tennis racquet in favor of the bravale and clec _—— With eust ’ ervatiam, the republican national committee ia taking " iblishing the campaign contributions until after | the inauguration | Affa hay a a th where the identit names and | addre ot the highe eagerly demanded by the reading | public In addition to his other endow n nd emoluments Theodore P. Shouts is now the proud gra idad of a bouncing dukelette Assassin Haas’ suicide hab sa ed the California supreme court the kuotty problem in finding the flaw in the indictment The government has brought suit against the sugar trust for 94 million and will probably collect a chocolate eclaire Por the “never-give-up” and the “try-try-again” honors, Albert T Patrick of Sing Sing goes to the head of the clas a Has pletogeaph certainly d nt entitle him to be classed amoug the intelectual gant he age Nowhere ts uncertainty of pack of the Manchu dynasty the life more certain than the pin Pernicious garrulity ta the reichste eokunt Magnosis of what alle the WHAT EVERY WOMAN DIANA’S DIARY ey Miss Dillpickies Discovers That Some People Whe “Put on Agony” Have Most of the Agony in Their “Breadbaskets.” BY FREO SCHAEFER. “BEING A GUARDIAN ANGEL FOR MORTIMER, JR. 18 TOO MUCH LIKE THE REAL THING. Li Say, this Smeariton bunch has got the funniest way of rolling in tue ory | BVER saw, They roll in it like they was afraid it would rub off the bunch, the SECRET of this be tog that he bas « garbage can route that he's very devoted to when I take him and Mortimer, jr, out of a morning. When it comes to the roaning festal board, the board THE STAR—TUERSDAY NER ST AR DUST : OV 17, 190 BY JOSH A WORD FROM Un WISE. | us someth’n ter | talk erbout when others have it.” Nothing Doing. | | “L suppose,” sald the poor but) otherwise honorable young man, cautiously feeling his way, “that wida’t be watisfied with love not?” queried the fair) lmaid. “I'm sure I'd rather marry |the right man with an income*of lonly $10,000 & year than a mil Honaire T didn't love.” } And having sense enough to see | through the hole in a doughnut, the young man quietly faded away | The Exceptions. “A woman,” observed the home- | grown philosopher, “can keep @ secret as well as & man can—with the possible exception of two kinds.” “And what are they?” queried | the Innocent bystander. “Those that are not worth keep ing and those that are too good jto keep,” explained the philosophy dispenser, Knew the Sex. Tt was evidently her first trip to the hair goods department of the great emporium and she was /noticeably embarrassed | “Ler—wish to look at some— —falee hair,” she stammered “Very well, mins,” Joined the diplomatic ealeaman Yhat shade |does your friend wish?” ] Proparing for Winter. “You,” said old Graspitt, “I'm ab to help the unfortan- H ‘s two cente—now don't) spend it for drink.” | “Shure | won't,” answered the un-) Inundered hobo, “I'll blow de most) uv it fer a suit uv silk underwear an’ a ticket t Florida.” Different Now. | Knpeck-—“You don't act like you, did before we were married.” Mrs. Enpeck-— “Why don't It | Enpeck—"1 don't know why you idon't—but you don't. When I first| proposed you sald ‘You’ Now) levery time { propose anything you! teay ‘No’ ” | | ¢ eeecemserare Juvenile Philosophy. “Young man,” said a father to bis precocious son and helr, aged wee. ame By F. W. “What now, Edwiat” “What makes you talk so funny, mawr “I bab a bad code.” “Why don't you have a good cold onoe for a Change?” “Dere ared any good codes.” “I guess there ain't much differ.) ence between a bad cold and a good) whipping, ts there, maw?” | =o | “Shrund did you day, Bawidt’ “Yes. You sald you contracted the cold.” 1 mean dat I caught id.” “Maybe tt stood still while you were running after i, maw.” No, tudeed; ope dud nod run) ‘el, if 1 thought I was gotng! to catch a cold I'd muff it.” | r Ira sort INQUISITIVE EDWIN 1, “here's where I pay you that whipping | owe you,” é “That ain't fair, dad,” protested the youngster, “You never pay | anybody else that you owe, and I don't see why you should make @ preferred creditor of me,” Pertinent Inquiry, “At last,” said the poet who had conned to commingle with the struggling push, “I am now in « | position where | can rest on my laurels.” Do you think,” queried privileged friend, “that you will be comfortable standing on your head?” Those “Stepping Stones.” Poorman" understa 4 millionatre. Would y mfnd telling me about your opping stones to success?” Richley--"l inherited them.” Poorman-—"Beg pardon?” Richley 1 inherited my wine old father’s ‘rocks,’ see? Cut Rat Young Doctor-—"You don't mean to tell me that old Bawbones charg @ you $25 for amputating your big toe?” The Vietim—"That's what he did.” Young Doctor-—"Next time you send for me, I'll cut off both legs for $10.” it We BOX OFFICE MAN, wouldn't be so ne . I (The young ones 1 would not guy the folks who buy They know I'm “bugs” Instead of be resigned Such actions to eschew. of Matter of Duty. Shopper—"“What makes goods so expensivet” Clerk-—-"The duty, ma'am.” Shopper—"Oh, then they are im these ported?” Clerk—-"No, they dre domestic goods. Hut the proprietor thinks it his duty to Increase bis bank balance ” Schaefer “But why don't you do some thing for the cold, maw?” “Oh, deah me, Ibe taked ebby. dig for 14.” Including the cold, ch, maw?" “Hush, | dell you.” “Where ts your cold?” “Id my head.” “That makes you coolheaded, doen't itt “‘Shud ub.” “If you'd put your head fn the +| refrigerator, maw, we wouldn't need any toe, would we?” “Bdwid, dode day dat.” “Aod if you did, your cold would be in the chest, wouldn't it? “Chide, you aggrabade me.” ‘Never mind, maw, even if you [have a cold in the head your face woulda’t cool soup.” “Maw” let that go for a compit- ment until Edwin added that the soup was already cold, anyhow, and you are! | ii the | med, ete cach = good ones, and they're going away Corset Cover Embroid- | ery, 50c a yard—50 pieces of fine cambric cries, in new excellent edge 75c¢ grades. made especially for us; staple shapes and should wear as well as those been paying $1.50 a dozen for. See them in our window—$1.10 a dozen. Sizes are perfect, and here's a chance to save. Splendid Room-Size Rugs, $10.00, $12.50 and ° l ee At Baillargeon’s Long Black Coats At About Half Price Dressy, newest style Lon ert, satin and broadcloth; 1 Coats, of fine blaelelggg: 4 ; Coats you'll really be pr Imported Fancy At About Half Price Maderia, Wallachian, All sizes; round or square, or scarfs. See these on the third floor Jattenbery ; ee Special Value Beading and Corset Cover Embroidery | yard—~25 embroid designs, with | Regular yard. Tomorrow Men’s Collars$ 1 WaDozen 55c for a half-dozen—New 4-Ply Collars, that these come in all the new J. A. BAILLARGEON & CO. “st a ON EASY PA —a little down and a little at a ud to own under regular French Beading, S¢ pieces of Swiss and Nainsook B , ing, in qualities thay regularly at Be and ff “Shud up, Edwid. | wand read “Mariie’s Marble Heart, to| thea she warmed him up to a de or| gree that insured hint from catch. on them. | groans because {t's ASHAMED of Old man Smeariton, Mra. Smearit-|iteelf. The eats are served in on, Mortimer Smeariton, jr, me and | courses, but the whole menu lumped the domeatic live in a “sweet” in/ian't equal to one bow! of corned the Ormuta Apartments, rent $75 a/ beef and cabbage the way ma slaps month, UP, The Smearitons have it up at home. They SAY Smearit- mahogany furniture and wear! on drage down $150 per week from plenty of giad rage and go In so-|/ bis business, but evidently it Just clety and keep an auto and put on reaches for the GAY GLITTE LUGS generally, but they’ don’t) and doesn’t leave enough to flag FEED so you can notice It. “Jewol,”|the provision market. Being @ the dog, is the only good liver in| guardian angel for Mortimer, jr., is Anty Drudge’s Cure for Wash-Day Aches. Mrs, Hardwork--‘‘Of all the things I’ve tried for that wash-day pain in my back Dr. Flimflam’s Dollardope is the best."” { . used a cake of Fels-Naptha and lukewarm water, instead of scalding your Anty Drudge—‘‘Dollardope indeed! If you hands and breaking never have a pain. than half the time.” F ead back over the washtub a loosens it from the fabric. from the clothes and the wash is ready for There’s no boiling, no steam—no. hot water at. all, our washing would be done in less Duh Quarryman’s Daughter Wad Odly Ont for duh Rocks. ceo cE eee too much like the real thing, if it'« true there's no eating In heaven Why, | can almost seo Mortimer's his tea and toast in 'rame after he sur: MYSELF, I alread food with AVIDITY, transparent nde it. As for nsume cereal being as there ain't no hope of getting CREAM to | than any lau (human or together. soap on them, just cover them cold water, a thirty minutes. you'd fag cold even if he sat on a chilly | doorstep eat it with. rich live? 1 take back something. There ts another fleshy one in the Smeariton family besides “Jewel,” the pug It's Magete, the domestic. HOW does she do It? (To Be Continued.) Is THIS the way the People call Fels-Napthaa laundry soap; and so do we— for want of a better term. is more than a laundry soap. Nothing else is just like 1t; no words exactly describe it, except Fels-Naptha. Fels-Naptha does more It ndry soap; it does almost as much as a laundry soap and a washing machine mechanical) put This is how Fels-Naptha works: You wet the white clothes, rub. the put them in the tub, with lukewarm or nd leave them for In this half hour, Fels-Naptha completes its work. It atomizes the dirt—that is, it dissolves the dirt into minute particles-—and the line. Nor any Then a little rubbing and a thorough tinsing separate the dirt hard-rubbing. The wash is done in half the time with half the work; it is cleaner, whiter and the clothes last longer. Insist on getting the soap, in the redand green wrapper. [ There are imitations of Fels-Napthe soup, {te ¢areha. 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