The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 30, 1909, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR @Y STAR PUBLIaHING co. 1907-1308 Seventh Ave, _ BVaRv AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, T Winterea at the Pasterton at “AS OTHERS See it The proposition made by a councilman of Seattle some Sonttia Washington. os time ago, that the saloons of this city be permitted to remain Gpen all night upon the payment of a supplementary license fee, which would increase the city’s revenue about $75,000 a year, is the subject of an editorial in an Eastern paper—the Cleveland Press, Here's how they look upon the proposition in the Ohio city “How much are decency, order and fair name worth to a great and growing city? price. If he can get an agent on the inside, the better will be his bargain. “He has just made a bid in the flourishing city of Seattle, “prosperity of that city he offers, through a member of the city council, $75,000 a year. “It is figured out that by permitting the saloons of Seattle | to remain open.all night, upon the payment of a supplementary license fee, the city’s annual revenue may be increased at least $75,000, and possibly $80,000. “It looks just like finding the money. revenue scheme imaginable. And it is an old one. “The devil has bought out more cities and made them branch offices of hell by this seductive scheme than by all others combined. “But one would suppose Seattle had learned her lesson. “Time was, not so very long ago, when, with saloons never closed, Seattle was the toughest town in all the wild/ west. Sodom and Gomorrah are but mere figures of speech} compared with the old Seattle reality. Life and limb—to say nothing of property and employment—were never safe. With} all her inestimable advantages, and with all the hustling, public- Spirited men she had, the town made little progress. “And then Seattle waged a war for decency and won it. With good order and fair name came one of the most marvel- ous “booms” ever known in an American city. It is a sub- Stantial, steadily-increasing prosperity that only the devil can Stop—and he only with Seattle's own consent. “Seventy-five thousand dollars a year is a lot of money. But excluding all sentiment and measuring only the actual ‘eash value, it isn't worth a tenth as much as municipal decency. And Seattle needs to look only to her own experience for the proof. “Revenue is necessary. But the devil drives his most Man's admiration frequently runs to feet and to features. ne. 8 About the time a man has sown his wild oats he marries some patient woman and expects her to help him harvest the crop. ¢ Me Cte A manly woman is attractive to a man as jong as he knows ahe ta Just an imitation. eee aren,” A woman may sweep before her own doot and stil! take good no- ‘tice that the other woman's threshold is dirty. : omar sage Fiattery will be found the best fmitation of atncerity when dis- eussing marculinity with itsel, VILLAGE CUT-UP DESCRIBES + Discipline te Perfect. But Once | a While the Pupils Get in @ad Through Some Smaii Fault in Deportment. By Fred Schaefer. t= y | | two | adn Ere after peer jie? Made me go ome — ter carrier and remain there ti | o'clock. | But | made up for ft; I always get home from school first. I leave jby special delivery. Some of the! | boys who live on R. F. D. routes | | don’t get home till next day Old Judge Skoover is going to | address our school in chapel Tues a" day. Then we are going to give him proionged appiause in the shape “THE OTHER DAY | COULON'’T of a postecript to our Wednesday FIND A POSTAGE STAMP AND ®uewer blanks. The judge has a ” | pull with our faculty because he's MOT LATE TO SCHOOL: stockholder In the stationery going to a correspondence | trust. ee oe viele in at | Oh, yes, we have a glee club. It Year, anit were, What|mects every Saturday, We have I studying? Well, moat of the Tm studying bow to keep tn ear fare. We call postage stampa fare. The other day | couldn't! a stamp for the longest kind time, and got late to school. Just for that | bad to stand tn ‘the corner. 1 didn’t think it made Say difference what corner | stood fa, #0 1 stood in the corner gro-| ‘i But soms iattiotale sent in a of me standing ther: 1 was suspended for throe da: of that! Wasn't allowed step inside of the postoffice for, whole days, Hee-haw! other day | wanted to go out, €n4 it cost me two cents to hold up hand. When | got # postal card) * me permission, it cost me! class. The fellows with the Spen corian flourishes are tenors and those who write with a stub pen re the bassos. If any of us get | writer's cramp we are excused on account of sore throat. Here is one of our choruses: “Oh, dear old Alma Mater, What metories of thee Come surging to our minds, when A letter box we see. 1 won @ prize for my essay on ‘The Celestial Empire; Its Oppor- tunities in the Twentieth Century,” when I mailed in a Chinese laundry slip. Have any of you heard that the dead letter office is going to start a urso in embalming? ra A yo jaw x0h 1 Time on ¥ who has been doing a job . nae, teturned to "New York why do you accept my mn vent e happened to be at a, Bhe--I love chocotates. — Stray oross-roads grocery store at 4| Stories Omark we of fags’ Getting into conversa: De you think Putter will marry quenters 2 | men ‘a a? pense te eaution | “tineles of 0-9 I have never geen & man go in Jone of a wife.” neolable over the Lite. What is your name? Michael Greaspolec- an 01d fellow Pol ah Pedier 7 o . kd t recollect no feller at vd am te here. He must ap ti ry len’) Secsanar for e from beyond the ridge Rat se z amy Sees, te it, whan y aia “1 Padier~-{ didn't sneeze, your bon or! That is my name!—Dorfharbier “The devil is always ready to buy at the lowest possible | Wash, For the hard-won decency, good order, fair name and | It is the simplest | hellish bargains whea he supplies it as paltry pay for manhood | J “LIFE IN A CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL some fine volees tn our penmanship | BY PRISCILLA PRIM The soelety girl may begin her day along about noon when she nip | |her chocolate tn bed, and she may | end it with the Inst dance at a ball} the following morning | By popular tmpreasion she posed to lead a life of undiluted up ane lgiven up to butterfly pastimes | | She fe not generally constdered | }within the ranks of women who work. In reality, however, ahe In a }woman with a definite oceupation Jand working for definite wage: The varied and manifold demands | upon her me would plunge many a novrapher or professional woman | rvous prostration, Her en gagement calendar is a constant joare. She knows that to achieve Jand tnsure popularity she must be! | punetilious, j ‘The arrival of the mail ts not) conducive to ber serenity. An ave lanche of invitations for luncheons, | | diane balls and musicales cost! jher end diess planning and the exer: | jolse of expert diplomacy. There are | numerous requests for subscriptions | }to halting charities and interviews of various sorts. If the wealth or mwition of the woman ma tt necessary, ONE OF More private retaries are employed to look after | soctety girl generally d jher “At Home ten j various friends @nd associates call and leave their cards. After their jdeparture the bow ets the ecards and they are with | reference to future, social obligations. Considerable time and money must be spent by the soctety «irl in keeping her youthful or good looks jintact. Sundry devices and inven: | | tions of modern selence are aids in| |this quest. The beauty sleep is geo erally given up beeause it eats up too muoh time, and the services of j the manseure are employed instead | The soctety girl to be a success [must posses talent and executive ability of dinary sort, which }if whe were placed under different | clrewmstances of birth and eaviroa jment would Itkely prove a success in @ loss ornate bat more useful career SHE SWALLOWS 100 PINS AND LIVES FLORENCE, WHO STILL CON. CEALS 2 PING. NEW YORK Jan. 30.—it's pretty hard to have to go to schoo! when! you don't want to. Florence Smith, an attractiv wir of 15, realized this fect. The boys who liked her and) whom she liked were all young men, She couldn't meet that sort, ‘of course, In the seventh grade. She almost as well develop ed as a girl of 20, but her mother insiated on her going to school. Se Florence swallowed 100 pins. Mr. ond Mre. Ernest Smith, her parents, found her in great die tress, They called the village doo tor of Patehogue, L. 1, where they lived The doctor, after working two A. professor Berlin. who “My birth have my pi of credit aaih the porter, know Whether you have an upper or lower berth.” pe | veil highly born’? Yale Alumni Weakly WHERE THE “GOOD UNS” GO. One of the mottos wh 004, a pelea. for everything and everythin | place.” A writer telln of « leab driver wh | affairs we! tern. As he swung an Amertoan aittl asked him to point interest “Right you are, sir! im ite ndon f. omed to think that 4 after this pat “4 ‘spots of agreed the driver, touching his hat. “There's Laggii “til, whe 4y ‘ang 'om.” Kites inter eres lament ‘ouses, where law wot dons it way. An there's Westmin hey. where they buried the wot didn't eet ea Dund ertiner. AN APT COMPARISON, A haughty Bogiish girl was at tending & celebration In a Canadian town where both the Kngiish and American flags were dinp As | thay floated before the bi fully, aide by. wid ‘i “Johnny Buil ox "O, what a ail Amertcan Oag 4 ' nothing so much as that cheap striped candy you sell in your stores “Yes,” roplied an American girl, who was standing near hy, “the kind that makes everybody sick who tries to lick 1t."—Judge’s Library TOASTS FOR THE BRIDE. For Mollie, who has been asked to propose the toast at a bride's dinner thi one is sugmested—though It's by no means new—"The bride: The beat detaila of correspondence | One afternoon of each week the} to} On these occastone | forey ¥ found reeentiy ey 4 AMERICAN WOMEN HO WORK NO. 5 — THE SOCIETY°GIRL GARVIN’S CORNER | BY THE REVEREND JOSEPH L. GARVIN PASTOR OF FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH ‘S"insiaious tt oe. If the phor ie threat ee Ihave Rh the rieh qunaet csveper’ ties h OW have It Thy ody l4.to stamp tt out. TI ction, and quick aeth of all. It can be done. | demande om the pa ae | bereutosie. Mis loyal wite touy washing to make the Hring eee oe came from well-to-do fast They hed a hard struggle. The tow ne mother iittie girl T ites. Charity Organization soctety in bed both affected with girk, ease, are on thelr way to Bt Joseph Mo. The clothes In that room might be infected—no oes clothes may have a ine dead ny on sitting tn a crowded car and spal floor. He had consumption. should have been arrested. This) happens dally, but we do aryl my Yon” barricade your, homes Sgningt thieves, DU open the city death from sputum ennee of iweereuloele have hoes the poor, shows that the fected milk and meat have come from tuberculous cattie. We are all tn danger. Prevention in worth ere ean in” id) Htart * | tablish county and aned over « lady | Provide for visitin, You seedn't die frow it it! you tke proper prec and} help the rest of us suppress it in our eny interested taking it up Every doctor should be vitally | The women's clube are| Ministers are lending | all} nurme bewinning to te irons sake. bie work in set ting the matter. | Charity Greauisation society med the way, Mra Hensie visiting nurse, has made disevveries You will help? A fnther leughed at the doctor be- | on the wumption, The mother| out and worked. The (wo girin ined in the room most of every | Mer school, He said it did na | harm. He recently died, and si iat were washed | much alarm is felt for the children Whe were subjected to this eontact | with the disenae | What must we de to be sevedt campaign and take advan- tage of the experience of other oftics, Hike Denver, and tn m their tuber+ x > serine | o will inatruct to avoid readin Enforce Hf oroualy the law axainet spitting s in this Instance, must come through preven- nurses the people how the contagion Fedacate, ED) whe redemption ef the Tinto imesh — WOULD SPARE r M THE TEMPTATION | speakable joy ized \ “Not ‘Where do all the pine go? but ‘Where does ail the pin money gor ie what | want ter know.” No Apologies to Make Nan--Your nice new waist in all crumpled! Fan-Woll, suppose tt ist Do you think Jack ts views wonder Chleago Tr see At La Porey—Have you ever loved be fore? KAith—No, Perey. 1 have often admired men for their strength, OnUrAge, beauty intelligences, or something lke that; but with you, Perey, it {s all love-—nothing else! Comic Outs. ee The Other Bide. “I've been wondering about some thing.” A out what?” I wonder if cooks ever get to gethor and discuss the missus prob. tem."—Kannas City Journal see Poor Stuff, The Servant—You cheated when you bought that chiny vane mum Tho Mistress The Servant busted all to am dropped {t.--Cle How cheated’ Why, it's weak It hh the first time I land Leader. . . Made the Brush Bristle Up. Envelope Opener—Well, if you ain't the stuck-up thing! Muetlage Brush—I'm not like you, anyway, always prying into other people's correspondence. ary Our Friend the Purist Excitable Party at the Hello! Whho ts this? Who is this, I say? Voice From the Other End— What the dickens are you asking me for? Don't you know who you are yourself? e+ 8 And That Ended tt. Hub—Forty dollars for a hat! It's a crime Wife-—Well, the crime be on my own bead eo 8 Got Him Guessing. He—BSo you've read my new nov-| ol. How did y it? } Shel laid down the volume with intense pleasy . She Knew Her Man. She (enthusiastically) —I | just die waltaing. could He Visite the Barth as # Special © Observations in ANCLOSURL CAME TO SHMG« BY HAROLD CARTER. Nicolas Ferreira opened bis eyes, heavy with fatigue. At first he! could not remember what had oc curred to him; he only knew that he was weak and intensely weary his left arm and side and his head swam dizzily Gradually be made out his sur- roundings. He was lying upon 4 rough canvas stretcher that served the purpose of a bed, inside a smal! hut. Close at nd was a pitcher of lukewarm water. With an Intense effort he stretched out his arm and drank of it. He closed his eyes again. Biowly the remembrances of the past came back to him. He had been riding a pony, with the Boer contingent * * * they were to have surprised the British camp at dawn * * * there had been a long night march. om they had there was a ch He—Me, too. into heaven I could walts right She—Oh, but you might have to reverse. 3 ee Ail Too Fluent. Seott—Women are keenly senst tive to pain and pleasure. Mott—-But there's one degree of the latter abe can never attaln—un In Boston, Too. Daughter—Ma, my glasses need fixing. Mra. Newrtch—-Let me have them, child. Ill send them to the optim: iat's,—Boston Transcript "ee ‘The aeronaut may be a high flyer in more ways than one. “e* It's when a man bas too much to drink that he feels he's the real thing. es te When a fellow says “I pledge you word” it doesn’t go with the pawnbroker a. ‘The braggart can seldom make good, expecially he who brags about hin honesty “* The follow who does the most talking about his family tree may be a blockhead S . After all, it ia better to be damned ‘delet tha. to be damned * When it comes to the sticking point, some people have a porous plaster peaten to a frazale. ee Perhaps the reason the goddess of Fame ts fickle is simply because she is a goddess, and therefore} feminine. A man may be excused for ox claiming “Ob, rate!” when a wom- an asks him how he likes the way her hair is dressed. .ee Biobbe—Is he rich? Slobbe—He has =m money than he knows what to do with. Blobbe—Ah, then, he has no wife HOUSEKEEPING BY MLLE. DOMINO, A medicine chest not be a amall-sived drug store in order to supply all the simple remedies need- od by & household. A jar of white vaseline and ao packet of court plaster or new skin are almost indispensable. wa Inxative end ¢ spirits of ammonta to bo} {ther as a remedy for sick ¢ or as a stimulant ehould hnadac be included tn the modicine eupply A bottle of two-gratn quinine pills box each of mustard and belladonna plasters are good ttems to keep on hgnd. Sweet apirite of nitre Is goodo use tn case of alight and one fever Boracic acid is an excellent antiseptte Camphorated off 1# a counter trrt- tant to use in case of sore throat br cold on the chest, and witch hazel | for | and carbolic salves are good *, sores or flesh wounds should be a supply of stertl- are, and a medicine glass in| a necensity. ' ‘Lemme carry yor p Misa Mamio,” “| couldn't think of troubling you, Mr, Jimmie, Besides, dere’s | money in it.” ee = saline r hair in good f external o hair, The bi of health and all prosperity to her Or this ono—tf the bride Is some: thing of a besuty irs, Blank OUT prettiont bride-one case where 14 wan not blind.” Or this one The bride: Dan Cupid, who brings her to It, be her gulde all through it.” WHRBN TO COMP BACA. Mrs. Oh, I'm not afraid of Nowa ably walt was wur married again before I showed up of a spray will revive a faded complexion, Ite a attach a amall plece with a nosle—a plumber will give you the right kind—to th water faucet ulate the right degree and let pon your face until y and glows hange in the mode of road toward | and the ooils of hair receive no ven Ulation, either. And ventilation ta nocensary for the health of the hair of intl macy scquatnt nude, Criendship and acquainted with felgns friendship for t really ew we Orr A orr at ND | THIRD Ay. wna ps 3 LAUNDRY RY, Cotton batting which is to be used for stuffing cushions should be put into an oven and baked. After tt hos baked it will not mat in the cushions. There are three degree COLLARS 1c, 2c, 3c AMOUS Mae) CUFFS. 4c buns \| INS | SHIRTS 10¢ RACK muy wise Wot PvE Eft a fame from the serried ranks of the enemy, flight * * * silence. “Hullo, olf man,” said a voice be. side him. Ferreira looked up. A man in the uniform of the colonial seated beside him. T” be asked. sked the wound. “Where am I ed man. “I guess you'll pull round now,” eaid the colonial ago. what?” “Where are the soldiers?” “Gone on in the direction Lydenburg. I'm sione with a couple scouts, guarding the new bridge. So when I saw you were living 1) thought I might as well pull you; round. We don't fight with sick men, what?” Ferreira smiled and stretched out bie hand. The other clasped it. There was no enmity betweer, these men; the one was called from his farm under pain of death by a roving Boer commando, part in the campaign; the other a simple soldier in the forces. They saw nobody during the next two weeks, At the end of that DEVERMINED Mh EARTH ORING ChIMNG- (NG DESPERATELY TO FOP PORTION OF FARTN = BRUTE mmm ART = OLIN G BREATHWED 1 CHOPPY GRUNTS mmm LARTH- DROVE SHAPED VICTIA OF SOME PAINF U4, SNTERNAL rnd et eit There was a curious numbness in| ‘I found you) lying upon the veld three nights | This is better than prison, | of Cartridge into its groove, and rais stationed here | C¢ bis arm. They were not five of native) to take | colonial | Wireless orrespondent and Mal His Notebook. caw {time the Boer farmer's wounds were healed Well, I must go,” he said one day Friend, | thank you. If ever you are in such a condition, you know * * ©” he broke off silently, | “Going back to the army? the colonial “No, to the farm,” the Boer an- “Why should I fight any The war ts over * * |e are beaten. And then my girl | lives near; we were to have been married when they fetched me | away e Tye got a nice girl, too,” said the colonial, “A real little Dutch girl; her lover's away with the troops. It's thirty miles from here, but I ride over once a week to her. when it's safe to leave the bridge. Well, #0 long.” They parted awkwardly. The Dutchman, taking three days’ ply of rations, set stolidly home road. When be was out of sight the colonial whistled, saddled his horse | swered. longer. crep' pokets had flared int a sheet of Three days afterward the Boer reached bis farm. It was a stretch jof arid land lying upon the out- skirts of a little village that nestied into the hollow of a bill. The long tramp, the sleeping in the bush, had | not discouraged him. He was tree at Inst, the war would soon be over; by the next harvest time he would |be married and settled down with his bride. As he passed through the village | groups of women looked after him jeilentiy, They returned his salota- |Hons awkwardly and asked after news, But they said nothing of Trana. The half-formulated ques- tions died on his lips; with a beat ing heart he pushed his way on to- ward the little house on the out | skirts of the settlement. Had any harm come to her? His heart leaped up as he saw jher form silhouetted against the | whitewashed walls. He came np | the road in the shtheetng dusk. He | was at the door. Then something jimpelled him to pause before | knocking at the door. She was not alone. Inside the room was a man, dressed tn the uni- form of a colonial soldier. He went to the window and looked through | cautiously. And even as he did | be saw the man who had him place his arm round her and | draw her toward him. She made no resistance. The son bad sunk, and with the | swiftness common to those lath tudes, darkness rushed over the land. For a few moments the wateher stood there trresolutely, His hand strayec toward his ster, where his pistol lay. He drew | the weapon out, clicked the bright feet from him. Then he returned It slowly and a softly away. He went down e road frresolutely. At firat he soomed to be about to turn toward | his farm; then he swung round ab | ruptly and passed off toward the |biue hills in the distance, behind | which lay entrenched the remnants of the Boer army. A nice won ti not pi ail ‘] the, wnt ‘ie the tt for her.— om Nonsense.” All passenger steamers leave Col- man docks for Puget Sound a 4 ards. 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