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EE PRES EEE RPE PT THE SEATTLE STAR BY STAR PUBLISHING CO 1307-1909 Bevonth Ave. EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT PANAMA AND PANAMA CFE SUNDAY. LITICS | deafe veiy t th \ nN r t H nn 1 wreck h } aay \ t 1 at yt ant ly terranean lake, an hat they « 1 ar th tam It is true that the Gatun dam is founded on clay, that there flo bursts it will sweep out the cana is a subterranean “artesian” be in it to destruction w of water under it, that if it 1 and all vessels that happen to} before don the integrity of such a dam. It is a daring, an audacious neering | who buil and do« : rr is an earnest pe Panama He think ¢ Gate la a menace of the gravest rt, and p at ate Y $550,000,000 for an unsafe waterway, ar k A 4 national shar worse than that wh ame to de I ' France Now, what attitude can the av ake, W pays his taxes and loves his « y He must rel re engineers who a ally t ling the canal. They are th non wi ‘ y Theirs the sha 1 a A he | r They are on the fightir To doubt t to stab soldiers in the back, It mecivable that they v ! 1 building for their own and our hum and st le und unprotesting, if they had not faith in tt elves and the plans THEY ARE OUR PHYSICIANS. LET THEM HAN DLE THE CASE. THEY ARE OUR LAWYERS. LET THE TRIAL GO ON UNDER THEIR COMMAND. THEY ARE CHEERFUL AND CONFIDENT; FOR US TO BE GLOOMY AND PESSIMISTIC WOULD BE A PUERILE CRIME. Let's back them up. Tommy Burns ha sproven himse & fighter, with all due respect to the He is a mighty Taft at golf these promising days. poor politician The geographical center of gra + Pittsburg. The Christmas tree is properly evergreen peri) BY HAROLD CARTER. The barking of the big mastiff brought Harry Wayman to the gate. Behind bim, over his should er, his through her spectactes. “Another of those tramps,” said briskly Dh, let the poor fellow come in Lily,” said her husband It was the usaal story, so famil lar to ail who live on the pike be- tween Baltimore and Washington “An old soldier, tramping in to draw his pension; two weeks to walt till ft was due and no means of sub- aistence. Soon he was sitting down to & substantial meal in the kitch little wife peered she ro “I don't grudge a meal to a wor thy man, Harry,” bis wife declared “put I do draw the line at taking in every tramp.” If her husband fafied to share her views the old mastiff didnot. He growled and menaced the visitor so | Strenuously that he was kept chained. “Harry, dear, that tramp friend of yours isn't worth two cents,” de elared hia wife that afternoon. “He hasn't touched that cord of wood and now he's lying over there smoking under the peach tree. Why don’t you bundle him out’ “Oh, never mind, Lily,” faltered her husband He's an old fellow 1 wouldn't be hard on him.” “Well, its your house,” she snapped. “You can do as you like I wash my hands of him. I sup pose you'll be offering him a bed in the spare room next That waa precisely what happen ed. Toward evening the old fellow came siouching to ‘Guess I'll bev supper an’ go to bed,” he muttered “Y've offered him a night's lodg ing.” sald Wayman apologeticaliy “We can't turn him out in the rain Next day the tramp was formally installed as hired map until his on should. fall due “Why you should take to that old wretch so is more than | ca fathom,” said Lily Wayman vindle tively. “Snap doesn’t like him any more than I do. And you—you Why being seem positively afraid of him is it, told.” Then, Harry? I insist upon seeing the de she laid her Tell me, palr upon band on his dear,” she whispered fe used to work at the laiston You can stall off the chronic right back with a request you can't COMMS OF CON elf a much better financier than sporting ¢ | who allows himself to defeat ft has be shifted from ‘Frisco to designated and deac ed as the “TUTTTRIATS. LRA Ly Works in Chicago, said ber hoe band huskily ‘Ob y Godt” she whispered Does know?" she went on. That | committed manslaughter | during the lal strikes and had to run for ft-" seid Wayman moodily Yesa—i guess he knows. | Has he said anything? | No, he's hinted. He's been hint. | ing about knowing something that would land me ta ja rsinee he came in at the gate, » broke out desperately That was many years ago, Hen-| ry,” she sald solemnly | Yes. It's one of those things that turn ap about an hour and a! half before Judgment Day.” There was little happiness upon the farm daring the ext two/ weeks, The tramp had become the master. He loafed round the house, mostly with one of Wayman’s pipes between his teeth, and worked by|* fits and starts. was enormous. At night they consulted together sleepless tights these fol lowed by haggard days. We must end the suspense,” they both agreed. And they went on through many days. still unbroken. who broached But bis appetite were it was the tramp the subject one morning, when he was in a fair temper. “I've kinder got a longing arter the road again he said “a s'pose you've guessed that pension fake was a ile. Well, you've treated me square, an’ I guens we'll call the score even between us we here,” the woman burat if you've got anything to ac. se my husband of speak out like a man. What is it?” The old tramp turned upon Way man with a wink It's my profesh,” he muttered apologetically I got ter do it Do what” I saw how fond you both was of him when I came tn, an’ I says to monelf. ‘Here's where chance lHles, ou wouldn't him shot Shot? My No, ma’‘am had no Neense husband shot?” Snap. He's puppy, an’ one word to the dog ketchers would bring them down ure. Well, ma'am, I'll bid you both good merning. Can you spare & quarter or the pike?” NG PAN so to help me along ywer only partially well sidestep , for he comes the stience | * THE STAR—SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1908. BLACK EYE FOR CITY YOUTH (verenan actor 100000 SSI a LW Deo. 26." Of course, we are @ , antry homes |and are not contemplating mar et ity th,” is th lety of men who a al work Des s girls under t ader~ | dincu . phase of th ty fine Kthel Wall, youth. Som bects sumgested for Away, t ay, with fratl | diseussion are Bhould Men Know y t fed tre 1 pad- | Mow to Cook and Sow te Ther 1 At shoulders. ‘Tt ant the | Anything the Matter With the City t { real brawn, brain | Gtr When Is a Man Old Knough and heart to Know His Mind,” and “Mow Old hey have junt fe thelr firat| Should a Ma Before Hin Pro x nto a ntry that | posal of Marriage Should Be A ‘™M Wa pa . epted as Sertous . ¢ the girls « tudy 1 , t girls re t nbout home and wo that tend in avolet ey long for the } girls, “bu yt ake th © girl's & The xpect t te ' ave a ke excursions te the tandard for male associat two weeks to th wh war a dis and will tater MR. SKYGACK, FROM MARS He Visits the Earth os a Special Correspondent and Makes Wireless ® independence or of an of-|and free preas is endangers Deomrvetens Mi bite Seeteneeits kantzation’s methods does m find it out. If the labe f [to be.wo 5 vent as the gro tion has pureed an un 0 REASANT-TO- CONTEMPLATE FEMALE SAAT ison Waka Gem fenders let find thet ent, ton, on tneaie dame omar ae ane al right of “free speech and a free|now. Never has business recetved poraee, rene Son maee ~~ es ~ press” been abused, or has the ta-| such honest prot The Amer OY SECTION OF SAGNDER LUGE TUBING COM> jbor organization place on |tean public believer in tatr play ‘NECHED WIT TRANSPARENT UTENSIL COMTMMING d ae out of nym with | Let as all be calm, Let us oe con RUE WHITE FLUID meen YOUNG GALE D ican principles? siderate. Our interests are Indis FIXEDLY INTO IPACE. & personal matter. These sols The principles for which thre are, in private life, law-|Mr. Gompers declares he stands abiding and typical American cit! dear to us all, The whole mat tenes They are known p adjusted, and undoubt spected, as are the owners in a right m ck Btove and Range cx “ oCe Re will be or the men of the law r us to practice the oo ee el proved law touching the following * ® subjects arcela post, employers’ |.” Pinson fiie <n & FOR DEBATING CLUBS: #/Iiability, child and women iabor, | tonal rights of American citizens, and if allowed to stand will for * - - ® forest pre inland water kill fr om of 8 hb and} % te the United States the Most # ways, improved roads, old-age pen tod ie Bessy ited oe | i : : 3 % Unprogressive Nation in the # sions and the general care of the | F The on her ti Every garment in our showing of Men's, Women's * World? he Aowtity state-owned of controtied Piha if tae os sieaten ap ths and Children’s Apparel is greatly reduced in price, the b-| ae os railroads, telephones. | sng the sentence stands, they will saving ranging from 25 per cent to 5% per cent. * WHY THEY SAY IT 18. & workmen's Insurance, convict labor, * @| quicker justice in civil and criminal | become martyra to the cause that In addition to the extremely low sale prices, you are SEER EEE EEE EH BH CAFO INheritance tax, Income tax oat arg paged ~ re heartily welcome to take advantage of our Liberal Cre@- " | Lovejoy it is shown that they nd educatt 4 y le and ttle at time BY GILSON GARDNER. ‘ « Ray — United Staten behina| defied” the law, they will be vic ft Plan, and pay a little down and a little at a time for WASHINGTON, D. ©. Dec. 28 the civil ted world on all these mat- | “tne of their splendid organtzation. CE STA | anything you select The United States is the me tere? | The American Federation of La LOB ANGELES, Cal. Dec. 2 | Could clothes buying be made any easier? progressive nation among th onator Depow suggested that it| Ot has too honorable a name and | Newport has thought of, something (aed ren of ee rn, ae ‘our dual system of federal and | to important a history to afford | new. : | It takes longer to accomplish Gny | 011. sewers which accounts for the |(@ Sllow its nam Newport MUST see plays, but up-to-date progressive reform 18 (BO siew pace of referme or impr the “unfair list cannot mingle with ordinary folk United State than In any civil ee ee ot ete hand, hata, | stitutions in order to do #0, What then? E 4 C | Sei as sn average, 40 {8 the “foar of centralizati The public is deeply interested Why, entire companies have to be astern ut tting 0., nc. and on t other “the devotion to|!” this wh matter, It can be imported to put on special perform fh to necure from congress action | erates’ righta” will not do it.| ances for wport. Sometimes 1332-34 209 on any ordinary 4 wia th Sach side he ends, bat tk though, thia kes eat deal of ° : are| Perhaps that t# the swor. if) Bach slid a nds, a gh, thie ma & great deal o! involving a progressive TUES | ao it ie intaroating La Mcaire | sides should be friendly, A house | inconvenience. The best compan Second Av. Union St. from things an they awe eee What t« the r ’ divided against it cannot stand, jes aren't always ready to come to “. , 5 abd Lawoine grepioaaedyesiecebe ingen BS ES snore than inter. /aid in America today, labor, cap: Newport at & moment's notice jeattic’s Reliable Credit House. Se ee oe ening vis (cating. 1¢ te suggestive of failure in |!tal. bw id all of ue live in » the new plan 12 Ra bgoanenesTiron ee ana [the plan of government worked out |0ne house. We all must depend Mra 1yvesant Fish, Mra. Her by no lee 7 “= m authority than liy the fathers. A aolous cae ipon each other too much to feel| man Oelrichs and Harry ir are Chauncey pow on 3 © Mipliie Stn. ceatiads ecacsa tt dent now. This is a time| named as a committee to arrange! Tin tale ao saieeas: oaaiiniaaieen tal legisiat ; Hity, not haughtiness, We | for a permanent stock company for We amp the: og‘ sanatevativel, neat to being @ ti nust be sympathetic, and continue wport. Then Newport can have tien of being th ’ radical lle tt t t Senator at truth startling thing aby w's charg its evid senator was considering the |). ‘« our vernment > ado wt eee grag altho govert to adopt lemnment — their national legial the postal savings bank system toy « hiet * adopted Hritain Y } 1 why in OGladet * day and has been ” “4 Ben 4 in successful operation in the fol- |) cen Mi mole mer) ag aon lowing countries: Austria, Belgium. | trite Htnteu: Res a, Bulgaria, The Netherlands, Russia “ei pip an Reggae people of the United eth 8 m, the British Kast Indt “ British India, Ceylon, Btraita Settle- | Won nerearessive we: vents, Duteh «, Formosa. ty ‘ at th Japan, the Philippines before we ac-|loresontatives und @ enate Gold Coast, Orange River Colony, |tuton, te « tather a Cones Leone, the Transvaal, New | i: via ot for oy Pg Secth |, Before the bar the burly prisoner sn » South | stood unbashed Bone ° the Bahama tniands, Brit-| har” asked the clerk at the @, Dutch Guiana and Can-| raigns, “do you wish to challenge any of the Jury The prisoner wf which the syster ’ ae og _, 7atem has looked them over carefully, “Wel wualified and notorious |hg replied, “I'm not exactly” Wot et you'd call in training, but 1 would wenderd jn't mind a round two with that a t old Josse: © corne ahett mics, |fa Id Jowser in the corner kentous igoroun ang” na thon | Ie it true, or jen't It? ‘$500 Reward Consider the place of the United | For any case of sleohotiam States in the matter of other things |§ [7% eure In from 8 to § deze requiring intelligent up-to-date les J. B. BRISBOI islation | Globo Motel Daisy ae the Po First Ay. and Main St y Ne nations above| ute Office, Ind. 4201 named have adopted new and im-| PREDICTED HER SUCCESS Jmont of Jos. Jefferson that MI Thais Lawton, leading an f " Mi y peed x her act, prophesied that she ly 1 an the mrea trons in line Lawton at t tin " an of Toul Ky. her hon Bhe asked t ' 1 chat whe Jinight take k pertounly The + fod in th ine li dine La . \ lia has kept on with her pro | The problem of bleaching clothes Jin lmende without rotting the Jeloth has been stmplified by a | machine now on the market, wich jis expected to do away with the uw ide of lime bleach. Ac »pular Mechantes tt ts roducing bleaching trolytically from an or brine. Th vor, oF ‘ is claimed to be harmless to clothes, and, in fact consid: | MISS THAIB LAWTON GARVIN’S CORNER BY THE REVEREND JOSEPH L. GARVIN PASTOR OF FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH A NEW YEAR'S ISSUE jon as to wheth Let the disew | STAR DUS A Word From Josh Wise * al OF gy fell tn i ang “Th’ idler ca he ho exhaust himoeif Bi. by watehir wleve 4 ers work with” the wt ed a, point? ae 106 9 spgg He-—Bo you think 1 was (ntoxt. “Would tT cated la ight De ' wth . came ¥ Mgaine he i do a kn jo randilatg 1! an home § Willie: How do you like in the ponater, Geer pany Nell: J prefer bim open-handed yo om Go} Bin yi 6 wane “i i ‘ 4 Sy THe Divvie. The pretty witches are the most. idle mind the devil's work dangerous more than idie hands When pride has # fall, then is the This side of Inferno there's me winter of ite discontent sense n asking a man if it io het ies enough for him The devil and men at each other J age is much fikp { the dyspeptic, throws stones at women, and women at men The virtue of the frugality oree PPPOSOOHSOSSOEOESC OOS HOSES OOOO ONES The American Federation of La free 1 denied or t John Mitchell and Frank Morrison due 5 f law it w be un « meres wee -s5g Po gar owe Pst reach a tr a PeSeSoSeSeSoSesooes SOHOOrS Coe oeoeoree nthe ¢ nthe, tu conclusion in the end Aether ioe - nr a by J ight, of But let be settled J fr Ss S oO the District ‘of Columbia, forswioiat-| No eobersminded person wants| ACORN wypom cna Seem Metimory tn ction granted the | to see these great men suffer im SS SICK-ROOM RECEPTIONS HkLD applte the Hue and | privomme njustly ey are too WR TY An iesve is thus placed before if guilt The men of the Fed | Spear r the American * inennen | th Labor are too manly and eit in al neat win a t on a techni eallt merely the principle of lens at com i question of a wh they mut which w and for which dtd * of organized labor © of what they believe | we they did as re ven all talked jong j just itself, must have recourse to law. Law te an justicn between 2 oc) buat interpretath men and | nesses. Courts are temples of jus iUce and under their roofs right eousness should ever be exalted But here it is claimed that consti | tutional rights have been infringed. |The heritage of free speech and « free press has been taken away, a } Ahab took Naboth’s vineyard. This | seems to be the issue, One affirme |that the defiance of the injunction how reaulted in a “studied confitet | lbetween the tribunal ordained by government of the federal union and of the tribunal of another fed eration.” One or the other must succumb, for “those who would un law the law are public enemies.” The leaders, on the other hand, de clare that a “judgemade law has been elevated above the constitu of batting in a | newspaper, place in oven one at a time, and leave them there about |five minutes, or until thoroaghly heated. They will retain their fluf. finess and keep one extremely warm 2 6 Oe « | If you have a pair of curtalnawhich have become worn in the feenter from the sun, cut out the worn part and sew together, tle them back from the window, where they have been sewed, using curtain cords for the purpose, and the result will be found extremely pleasing the hema of table linen ¢ and accurately, re the needle from your sewing machine, adjust the hemmer to the trod width, and pass goods through. They are then ready for ming by hand, You will find this saves a great deal of time and gives you @ straight, even hem To turn When the children's stockingsare worn at the knee, or even darned all over, one may turn the stocking around and have a new knee, The darned part will be under the knee, where there is no wear, Cut off at the ankle and turn half way around and darn to- wether with @ again smooth darn The stockings will last twice as free speech | and In defe plead #o earnestly wit ie c corporation question, ana|NEWPORT AFTER ITS Lmecscee 4t0uere oatuem, to Om OWN STOCK CO. Outfit Yourself and Family at Little Expense by Taking Advantage of Our First Big Reduction Sale J A New Style Victor Talking Machine Embodying the famous Victor T Arm principle, the only sclentific method of con the tone from the sound box to tho r This machine complete with 12 eightineh r rds, $21.70, Rither cash or Sherman, Clay & Co. 1406 Second Ave. EXCLUSIVE VICTOR DEALERS. OPEN EVENINGS. 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