The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1908, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR BY STAR PUBLISHING CO, 1907-1809 Seventh Ave. EVGRY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, Reni at (he Postofnee at Keattte. Weshinaton, a8 gecond class UGHTING PLANT DESERVES SUPPORT As a corporation, the city of Seattle has the power to in yest money in profit-bearing enterprises when authorized to de so by the voters. Such a proposition has been submitted to the pe yple in the 800,000 bond isagie for ¢ ' nn nd impgove nts of the nicipal lighting plant, to be voted on December 20 The municipal hting plant already represents a cor ble investment of public money, but the bonds issued cover the investment should not be considered by the people a a public debt, but as an investment, because, despite assertion municipal Highti tting the city to the cont plant is ne ry, the a handsome profit: During the last eleven me ths, the plant shows a profit of $30,000, after all expenses of operation, int on bonds and other proper charges are deducted from gr re ceipts Besides earning a real profit, the operation of the municipal lighting plant has so reduced the rates for electric light and power in the city of Seattle, that private consumers sive & large aggregate amount on light and power bills, to say nothing of the direct saving to the taxpayers in the reduced cost of lighting the city. The municipal lighting plant is at present inadequate to meet the demands made on it. The growth of sopulation and area of Seattle necessitates a great! ! service, and the demands must be me The larged in order to do so; either bonds must be i and power cost or the rates for electric li provide for the extensions out of the increased revenue The latter plan would entail a direct tax on the ¢ of Seattle, and it is to avoid such a contingency that issue is proposed. ‘The taxpayers have no cause to worry over any bond issues mapas" \ for the mur alrea ipal lighting plant, for it has a all oper mits st Strated that the plant will make pr cient to pay a oe ating expenses and interest and retire the bonds w! No bonds through direct taxation due future generation will be ca if the municipal h developed as it should be. In proposing the issue of bonds to extend the plant, the city | council is doing exactly what the directors of a private corpor tion would do under similar circumstances. Private corpora- tions invariably raise money for extensions and improvement through the sale of securities, and so the proposed bond issue is based on sound business principle and practice. Failure to vote the bonds would mean a set-back to the plant and would extend the time during which the Seattle Elec tric company in vicinities which the extensions of the municipal p not yet reached, The extensions contemplated will do away with the danger of repetition of the poor service from which the city recently suffered because of the inadequacy of the plant Tha bar association investigation committee is willing to go on record to the effect that Judge Gordon isn't exactly of a confiding nature. ant have Except for being a half brother to the president-elect, there dows not appear to be any particular reason why Charles P. Taft should be a Vaited States senator, From some of his sagacious moves it becomes evident that Prosi dent Simon of Haiti is not the gentleman whe met the pie man If the insurance men had thetr shaved today, WY rion Sy THe Divvie. The blowhard never mak . Santa Claus would get way, a cyclone finish. see Even a foot may speak witdom in the eg irivm of fever. ‘s.. 8 ee \ Ours is a merry crew. We have a stage smoker every night. se 2 a9 Bad neighbors become good neighbors if they move away. ” spi ye aay es Men goverred by their wives are least apt to appreciate an ab- solute monarchy. te ot ea A hard loser, | find, is the choicest morse! that can be speared on a@ pitchfork. Rogues fait out over the same things honest men do, but not as often. IF THE WICKLEBRIDGES IN WHITE House BY FRED SCHAEFER. “What we want to do this Christmas.” announced Mr bridge, “Is to use equine intelligence in making our gifts. to give discreetly as well as cheerfully.” “Indeed, Cicero,” chimed in his wife. “I heartily indorse the idea. 1 think we can accomplish it if this year you will leave the entire matter in my hands. “What! Why, woman, the Yuletide junk shower.” netiled. “Don't take on #0,” his better half such matters has been admired more than you suspect. My. selec tions have always been exceedingly appropriate. [| mm sure that whenever you become president you can depend upon me to guard you from any mistakes of giving what would subjest us to ridicule.” “Oh, \au't she the ambitious little 200-pounder?” snarled Wickle Wickie- We ought you aro the very one that always crabs Wicklebridge was wrathy. He was even admonished My taste in bride, goaded into one of his sarcastic moods Bhe already sees herself spending the 00 salary as the Lady Bountiful of the White House, Already sees herself billed in the headlines Prem dentess Shops Karly, Plans to Make Extra Hearts Happy will Distribute Fur Caps to Every Barefoot Child in Washington “1 wouldn't give them fur caps,” she flashed back, hotly. “I'd them skates.” Vhew-yip!” he exploded. “That's a corking start After they'll come like this: ‘Bizarre Gifts at the White House. Vet Cook Gets a Set of Bullding Blocks. Recelves a Tennis Racket. Pound of Pranes Conferred Upon Rach Secret Service Man,” ‘Cleero Wieklebridge! 1 never gave such Idlotle presents In my life. Judge me, i beg of you, from the perfectly serviceable things 1 have always given you.” “Aba, that simplifies it. give Now we're down to brans tacks; “hx tra! President's Christmas a Howling Farce! Wife Gives Him a Stuffed Gila Monster, Two Kyebrow Pencils, a Set of Sterling Sit ver Heel Plates and a Fried Ege Mounted as a Seart Pin!’ Wow!” Just for being so petalant about it, Mrs. Wicklebridge tx coing to buy him an ivory-and-rubber Laby pacifier, so there! | can demand exorbitant rates for light and power SANTA CLAUS IN REAL LIFE BY MERLE WANE Here te a way man et py like Kipling’s, & s0ughE efter He haa wo rival! Ho ip the only duplieate 1 Glave io tho ety even think he has that qaadt tired # Cita ye pletare of the mo sont In Beatth ap atrahip? and landed on the Bon Marche roof He a hole through the roof han no affiliation with mod eam pip and set up his dquerters in ¢ ; toy department. Here his shing! j wos swang and his “at ho { hours tabulated, Here the genta! i; eutlomao, himself, received a steady Sino of and ettendant Tet! ydmiring mothers Him Alt hiv acquaintance. With Nttle on the tea mm fidenttally jovial face, whispered Parents their calling Santa “a Rowa ci and he tweaked when patted Tom But the this twin average hero it after he aud departed for Little folks will next Christmas, « their visit to Banta, wh }ful sagacity supplied th desires of i hung This was fmmatare gene jmany years hence will have | but foud memories of the mi j hind the whiskers. | He at least in reaponstble mora! reform tn Seattle the velvety beat Santa Cl will packed m. not Hf antinue hie worship hi w Good Advice. \ | Sheer All-Linen Handkerchiefs Wee r peeny Short and his sister Marcelia | That paternal pat on the head of | Rather Rude. A = a! un eg walk uader < ddy’s v » yptoens each supplicant, accompanied by | My word!” exclaimed the visit-| ene ne pee oti ts about | the sage remark, “Well, be a good ing Britisher, in angry to You lil he turned the umbrella completely without jchild, and Santa won't forget!” has|have the most insolent walters in ; Baillargeon Perfume Specials 25¢, 50¢ and T5¢ ee i | put children 00 good behavior! this blarsted country I ever heard A raheraglbsam gy were wine for r yours |for the past weeks Tomorrow | of.” owen at tas peal ab. Andy 5 |night each Htthe bed will hold a My @ vir.” said the hotel! ju n it over pe Barges orted e | vortt. angel, awaiting the mys-| proprietor, soothingly, “what seems | Holiday Boxes of Fine Stationery ad aca! nr = baci | terfous dawn of the morrow's para ito be the troubk j agnin safely inetd | dise Why, I asked that tal) waiter) | How about the man }hind the © who | hotly? Ww rolled out } }complexton and yrown, he talked Fhansrenne SAME TO BIIIERENT PART wasted some boy | boy asked for a suit | st | phe ones. © and through my mali.” Travelied Far. Mr. Mayeent ts @ typieai Nick in personality, He ts bition ts thers the same. He » have basso profun | warble Chrinteoas } travelled from and eas! Nome to and knows the most frequented by Senior N | Hut mainly in his favor jder form that ada padded paraphern He bh had number of to play Santa Claus at private affairs, to GN) such engagements. going to shut colebrate Christmas eve. itwolf We ie by eal that BY AND ABOUT 45 per cent ad valorem upon OPINION works of art imported into Amert: | joa be might not have been quite so | loquacious, even in his cups, in | THE AMERICAN SUFFRAGISTS. the smoking room of the lner/ | My Lady Auckiand, Author of “Six Weeks in New York omagea } | Your (American) suffragists are funny looking women. They Cestoms Inspector Albert Jones looked as if they had been disap 1 in love and wanted @ Tight | who was returning by the same somebody or something, just to re minds, ‘They al} wore ei, had found it inconvenient | stiff linen collars, looked antidy and awfully out of date. Like-most [to retain his official designation American people, they take themselves so deadly serious, that ft is | during the trip. Beckwith, three funny, awfully fonny v parts intoxicated, a red the ——— most histicated mortal that | PENSIONS FOR MOTHERS NEXT, ever attempted to smuggle any of By Prof. Charles Zuebl in of Chicago University. the old masters through the lyux eye spection of the custome. I think we shall pe driven to pension motherhood, unless, some. “ To Albert Jones the attempt was how, some other change takes place in the status of the wite and |) 14 - aah ane SOA 2 Oe mother. It seems possibie to give the mother an Income wirtth shan | "OG Andy " yr iain cradeness, It was obvious at be fixed, and which shall give her an Independent economic position heneg that Wismuel nae odoed In soctety, Keonomic dependence becomes an inevitable feature of | Munee that tvek wilt he adopt | marriage, and too often its ehlef reason, tect Boon ies ong : painting out the signature of the ss | great artist and substituting the THE WOMAN OF THE FUTURE. jname John Phillips, date 1906 | By Lady Grove, Author of “The Human Woman.” 9 » safely landed, a trifling ap- | The woman of the future will not be man's rival. She will ape- | ation of refined turpentine jelalize In the work for which she t» best fitted. She will no¢dmspise | Would easily efface Jobin Phillips cooking, but will administer all the affairs of the home in hk highly | and restore the signature of Ru sclentifie manner. She will be very tall, bonutiful, with} the | bens. By this means the pieture beauty of perfect health, and a new self-reliance and self-dependence | would passed at a trifling ap | will Improve her carriage, She will wear itiful clothes, designed | praisement jto suit her special work, while the squ jn waist will have disap. Mereover, M was evident at a peared, and very possibly the collar glance that the pleture which Heokwith displayed in his ngaroe, the Thouwsods of children have have adjusted his up shop early IS A TALL at a YOUTH ot pop ie, and of Banta Home Hitle tots 4y ple tot akinned to a fintwh r Banta Claus eame tn children made hands in his and big wondering eyes fixed they have ehin of tny t of it all le that ke tho to b most THE STAR—THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1908. STAR DUST A Word From Josh Wiese. “Th orb changed t' ‘Many a makes a too much,’” old prov read little aack | world’s unknown. | 4 happtly talk of onde unspoken kings ration be for a is be on he in dismantied and un of his encasement, he appears as Mr. Harold W. Maysent frie and while some are only | and gradually raised until hot or & pop KUD.| patient should relax tn the tub for! id she! 10 or 20 minutes, according to her| Tv | Ove poor) warm upon retiring and the sleep ft clothes, He-| buay at the tele | ated made for autos, “the big kind you} Of NWEE O¢ UNRD BY OTHER EARTH BEINGS |yide in,” for grand planos, LYNG MYAL FORA OR m= OBSECT steel rances 1 PRO, Y BENG GO ROW SUSPICYON UPON OFMER. for a Toddy bear | One Iitile beribboned mins sa was tired of girl dolls and that she! Saint jolly free, and clatma his am. a good time and bas a voice that can carols, He has Mexico routes tevias. ia hia salen. to the otiers home but he eays he hasn't time He ta and The poultry prices in India have| doubled within a few years. BY HAROLD CARTER. kwith had consistently re there is a duty of atal an the room was none other th | eT | $500 Reward famous. lost Rubens which bad ee, 19 Seastatiy i | cannet eure in trom 3 tof, dave fore in an old Antwerp print shop nd i dive 1 free to seary J. B. BRISBOIS and had = mystertovsly vanished aed > | au again, Since that time the ens j a MA | Coe, view Ry. wad’ pinto toms of all civilized countries had scales 1414 Beoond wa | Private Office, tnd. been watching and waiting John Phillips did that litte thing,” sald Beckwith tipsily, “That LOW RATE ploture’s worth five hundred dol lara if it's worth a peony, sir,” he . : continued with a leer I guess | Through ear Certice to Lee Ansel’ San’ Plencine’ end Oakland I'll have to pay some two hundred | Inquire |dollars to the customs before | BEKINS MOVING & STORAGH Cv. they'll pass {t through--well, it's | Cor, Tétied Ay. ond Was }worth it on a picture Ike that,’ Main 1623) tnd. | of & Rubens, ten't itt im, | May be selected this « » a rgeoh'g ] Doubtful Bargain We're keeping open for your benefit, and wil Don't you f ber t " 7 q the thin chap with the sharp goate give you the best possible service With our and yellow watchel, “Why, I fendia ae 4 the corn doctor that removed your endid equipment, we think we can safely corns last summer » * ait fely say ; Yous, | remember — yoou, | AR j stranger,” mumbled old iil Spre is it will be satisfactor I by, as he pulled bis chair up closer i A to the red-hot stove in the back of | AR et u tievest 80 ‘ oe ail 3 | Jason's store , Let 4 Igg me ¢ articles ) } “Then, how fs it you don't seem | “i } : lgiad to wee me? Didn't | remove |My @t Specially interesting price so |them all for a quarter a a | “Yeas, but after the corns were | je / gone I had to pay 39 cents for a/ 4B 4 34 See ene Se ee Guaranteed Silk Petticoats & going have fallir weather. | J Don't see much bargain in tnat,! a4 stranger | } Incredible. Fancy Evening Scarfs é Over here, sald the Arab £ mulde we bave another mommy i | From the cooking untensile found | " le supposed to have been Hand-Made Lace Centerpieces HALF a For 0 thousand years | she has remained just where sh | was found. Rosh!” scoffed the American | | tourtat ‘that’s no cook Why not? Who ever maining in one heard place of a cook re that long? if he had any plum duff and the nite woot and the merry | blooming dunce shouts through the | | scarlet suit trimmed with bells and | tube ‘One portion of duff for a duftfer!’” Different Church. A little girl sald to her mother tall, slender and suppliant. He Why does not the Lord go to was president of the freshman class|our church the way he does to | jof 08 at the Broadway bigh. He! Aunt Nettle’s jhas had emp noe on the stage Hut he my dear,” said the jand knows the art of “make up.” | mother : As he rubb om bis red wine) No mother, for 1 went to chruch | | with Anut Nettie, and the Lord was of his} there in a long black gown; and He t ae am in the field of Santa | kept talking to the people, and they iF = a § | kept answering, “We'll be switched Third Time. }if we hear Thee, good Lord This is the third time I have MARY'S TIPS | lected 0l6 Genta. Somenew the} ki yey @ the wa Canty is} A sent cap, like @ dusting cap, He Visite the Marth ass Special Correspondent and Makes Seat oor be amet ones, but! will protect and perfume the hair pec lees h just a word is usually enough to/at night. Sprinkle aachet powder ; book. | 0ting them to me all smiles and | gic kily between the onter cloth and SAM MALE EARTH BLING AND FEMALE ACCOMPLICE frie an. e things they say \the lining PROWLING STEALTAUY ABOUT IN HOUSE mmm would fill a fuany book. It would! eee j REMWED COMRCTION OF GAUDY CW fROA stagger & Rockefeller—the Hat of) tot baths and hot water or milk | PLACE mmm HIT LATREAE CAOTION things they ask for, Requests are| taken at night will give relief from The temperature of the comfortably warm | The | insomnia bath should be strength. he bed linen should be ing chamber should be well venti- When frying fish do not cover the skillet, as it makes the flesh soft and pot flaky as desired Asbestos mate or sheets under the tablecloth will proteet it from being scorched and marred by hot dishes. English Christmas Pudding.—One pound of kidney suet chopped fine and mixed with a pound of four and a cup of bread crumbs... Add one pound of eeeded raisins, one of currants, one-half pound of citron and a pound of light brown sugar, } mixed. Season with a tablespoon {ful each of cinnamon and allspice | and half as much nutmeg. Add six! eges and one wineglassful of lbrandy. Mix well and boll for six or seven hours in a cloth wet with hot water and aprinkled with flour | acked Jones casu heart leap: ing within him as he detected, with might be tittle BP PddIIIId> >> 339 ‘ The Few Last - Things Popular Copyrighted Fiction | Framed Pictures—excellent subjects rnd | ~ | Cut Glass Sugar and Creamer, set . JA Baillargeon&Co. SECOND AND SPRING ST. j / | A New Style _ Victor Talking Machine Embodying the famous Victor Tapor-Arm sited the only sclentific method of conveying | from the sound box to the horn. This j complete with 12 eight-inch records, $21.70 Bither cash or easy payments. | Sherman, Ciay & Co. 1406 Second Ave. EXCLUSIVE VICTOR DEALERS. | soos OPEN EVENINGS. in Europe. He hes a regular {two men, in fact, until Beckwith | } was standing with his bacege lly stipend of five iol the New York wharf, impatient-| When he has com the eye of an expert, the extra|i¥ clamoring for a customs tneper:| which usually o« thickners of paint where the faise|'T ‘Thon a man heavy with gold | ter part of a . signature hid the true one.” {braid came up. Sundays—he forges the “Probably,” sald Beckwith care Have you a a,” ts aid, | of the Old Master. Whea the * |“whieh you have deciared is dry he-patrta hia ows an oath D ri ors it to Beekwith. Phillips paints after the of several of those old gays ons, Michelangelo, Titan, it's ail one to him, T think he's betier than any of They were ai very well weren't a p at the contr why, it's And you « day, but Phil a8 Rood 48 an oloog an get a Philips for hundred, while you wouldn't g a Rube for ten thousand Humph!” said the walking away But on the following da on he attempted to renew. th my veraation, Beckwith eyed him me rosely In vain he led the conver they inspector sation up to the painting; Rook with, evidently suspicious, vouch sated no further Information, } word passed further between the however. gome » making teh half an hoe wr later, within the pre- in all of the world. i. jcinets of the customs house, the ae f paintir mis nt roualy ¢ sored There Are Slow Times, ted. | genuine Rubens—the Rubens, b n—I see the average }15 experts. Tho application of a, '? & large office building Japonge dipped into turper ) an hour. |speedily brought to light the sig ert-—When a fellow nature of the great painter under | Urry you mean? the pseudaym Phillips. Watches in gold, filled 4 sliver am Wm. Ii. Finck, 816 Second a eT Mt ore AT THHRD AV. 1021 RSE A Beckwith submitted sullenty. Af ter mach wrangling he paid out even thousand dollars in bills and permitted to take his piety r God's sake keep this out ot | |the press, anybow,” he pleaded as he departed annouy yo te" amos Toc mantras PRA), CES « Cae being shouted by newsboys along isnt SHIRTS 18 {Park Row and Broadway, That jevening 17 dealers were besieging nares ~ Beckwith at his hotel. Noxt } cable dispatches awaited / rom Paris and London Reekwith's refusal to sell only nereased the rage of the prosp es purchasers. Museums. were ft FOR SATURDAY in open competition for the ture, Ten thousand was the first 3 CUSTARD CREAM PUl bid; within a day and a night the ‘offers had reached fifty thousana,g "OP eve nonce ae es Our goods recommend the Fine Arts Museum for seventy | selves, Come and Tag thousand prices. John Phillips ts stil painting Imitation Rubeus and Titians over suestieeresntstrenas; careeeneeatneesteenty | t ti | Bakery} H. L. KLEIN mernationa THE SHOEMAKER, Stalls 40-41, Public Markit If you cau't get boota or shoes to fit you, get them made to measure at 217 JAMES STR suerte Bakery, 1219 Yester Ways BAKERY, IND. L 4780; MAR KET, L S517, cT.