The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 2, 1909, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR ay STAR PUBLISHING CO. 1907-1909 Seventh Ave. a EVZRY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, - Bor Bt the Posteffice at Geattion Warhington, as second claee matter ee BLOWING UP “HANDS” IN COAL MINES | ne aa | Down in West Virginia there is a “model mine,” where ev¥erything ; In late 4 he miners it blew up and killed 50 men Two weeks later it blew up and killed 100 men More 10,000 men have been killed in explosions in Goal mines within 12 years, a great proportion of them in this | country after every one hat they can’t be prevented Tt was made 1a mine killed 70 men, after Marianna ter the Monengah mine killed $56—all within two years of this day “We give the men safety giant powder cartridges,” say 4 nt, “and we really can't see why the gas takes | i t he he fire-damp forming; and we don't know . vif! | a were horest nut it, too. | 2 want their mines blown up, nor their — } and children and sons and brothers r own wives Bed been setting off these blasts, do you suppose they would Have been satisfied with “supposing” that the cartridges were | Pemeie to explode in gas? No! ‘They would have got down to} Mass tacks. They would have known The gover Ament of the United States has figured it all} experts say that a miner takes his life in his hands every time} B hie sets one of the infernal things off. And they are given to} © the miners as “safe!” Years ago the Minneapolis flouring mills blew up, one] 5 aer the other, by the explosion in them of the fine dust of e” blasts, would be quite as likely to explode as flour dust But the mine owners never knew that coal dust, confined |" mine, will blow it up if it takes fire. They said it had to mixed With gas to explode. But the government experts} re proved—-over and over——that pure coal dust explodes like when one of these “safety” explosives is shot off into it ow “would you feel if your husband had been given one “safety” explosives and told to run along and blow the mine—including himself and the rest of the hands?! what do you think of the demand of the men—who have this—for a little more pay and an eight-hour day? , now! eee ee SPRING STYLES; 2.2002" Lats of women are worrying about spring clothes. And it take the extremist’s views, which are found in some of the magazines, they may be well worried. But why do that? ‘Toke the Pebruary numbers of sensible, normal fashions and ins magaxines, which foretell styles, and leave the bysterieal aione. Yoo will find plenty of pretty ways of having your thes made without resorting to skirts two yards wide and a bat & chopping bow! which is too large for your heed. And mark the stores will have the things you want, too. You wili be able to buy a tailor suit mech like any tailor satt Mf the past. except the sleeves won't be very large and the ilaes will better. You can wear any shirtwaist you please, providing sleeves long. Your thin dresens will be in one piece, like last year, and while Mores are uot showing short siceves on them, stil! reliable dress. and fashions do not disdain them—only they are close fitting red, of made wp with tiny tucks and lace. (One woman worrted over a pinited skirt she has and really to wear. Now you don't hear « thing ubout platied skirts, and & French book showing new silk materials had platted skirts, and short coats. _. After all, the way to look the best and keep your individuality to carefully call the points you tike from new styles, discard absurd 4, and thea wear what, in your judgment, seoms reasonable. As John Hay Might Have Written ft. BY FRED SCHAEFER. been initia had never been broken inte that kind Of dexterity. Miss Merk retreated | placed bei to a good old American fork One. Would have thought that anyone would say that coal). 1" blown throughout the mine by the explosion of these | aeked Chin then told us wh |weoming. The skill required to cut Through the trembiin’ frame of the aoe jot blooming boat i Jack Binns’ volee was heard; Ha the curdied, foggy gloom And they all put trust in his wire ‘And quick as a flash the wireless ol | hummed And knowed he would keep his} ‘Ms messages over the apame. word There was runnin’ and cursin’, but And sure as you're born they all got|’ Jack Binns yelled out oft | ‘Over ail the infernal roar "‘Cawse Jack stuck to the key “HT pick bup ‘ely, hand ‘ave They owed their lives to the Cock ships ‘aste ‘ere ney lad A dollara-day man he IST SKB! Ur errorn comrected We all make mistakes. It in one hand give um the ¢ many thing which human e Gannot help, and it tw unt i¢ pistakes may be lettie or ralatakes by ance t ero in that position we would te jand exult tn her triumph: or do y to laugh a fgnd sneer at the we ourselves are fo Just such errors In % tab) i 1 at wan] thin the next time fatoke y_ the same attatne amount of knowse Some have hold only by « falents in one line, some in another, | correction of your mistakes. Re po We learn by oar mistakes, and |lite, at leart--Monsiour Mumbleson PALACE MARKET Wanted, Wanted, Wanted We have 9) cash buyers Cor Second and Vester erty ranging from $1,000 ta $2 va uals, sas » if you have ANY property to sell Fresh Poultry, Mea Rest th east of ones Wi en tan Market affords. Order early INTERNATIONAL BOND & MHALTY Special—Bear Meat iE COMPANY, 1009-10 American Bank Ballding (7, match his stockings an BY A. M. NELSON Is it correct table etiquette to leave your chop aticks on your] bow! | Mine Clarice Merk, whose coy and | Waiting for a Certain Girl” with Bugene Weiner, the tenor, tn the Stroliors,” at the Grand idat week which was one of the hits of that tuneful comte opera, asked the qu tion, This clever Httle actr well liked here, had just bulated between the dimly Learned Some Things t dint ating Imptoments and |p v galety for parties and couples |f drew a H tur iw t " id, I few! about Pilipewn to brass tacks. It has sct up a plant neay Pittsburg in | em mbarransed areon country work in their own mines, y would have done this years He eee ce eeete ieee ied ue Me And then they would-have known what the government} ‘ ate 7 ! shea and several |. So @mperts, working for all the people, have found ot | . a we bogits Me: Chin? fea a They would have known that the “safety” explosives they| merchant and head of the Quong have been shing their miners are about as safc as a lighted | Tusk cpmpany, was the host and | Bi © feetern in a cave full of acetylene or gasoline. The government} by many tine th Chinese Good Manners. Ickes In bie right hand. Holt one still, ihe this, and ve |S nly the other It seemed simple, but our fingers Is it good manners to leave your IMPLICITY OF GOWNS TESTS womeTse sxiet| The costume of ceremonious vie-| Miguel advanced slowly iting is to the casual observer sim | ple and elegant. The latter is trae)! pers but the former ts so only in outward and adjust them is great and the handsome fabrics used make them AN OSGAR u ND- pou delightful to look upon. as "hire fe tell her? stown Dees Kennedy"? What do Does he say, that apart—that I no c might ask bh know of my suffering * Oh! what must I If there in a Ge things be? “| have never # said « man in the f Hine, “how some men are plagued with wives who have a mania for moving Most men, when they get settled | in @ hous ping there, | as content as with | given | | fs probably away all “1 have women on my books who | remove every | Mrs. Brown = your husband | ever use profane language? Mra. Black—No, but he'« going to buy an automobile next month buying bis cigars for hin Wagg~-Horrible! Wiks—Yea, sho bu } Wigg-—Bigeins’ wife insists upon} | BLUE BAS DRUMS® |: MI86 CLARICE MERK, Clever Actress Finds Out Some Things About Chinese Etiquette. your tea uheupped en drink | we 1 during the me bration, and sugar recepta jamong them Mayor and Mra Miller Wierd Music. ‘Three Might of stairs op answered ( taking and audy hand embrotde were tion, Then she ps wnse headed Chinese mistress and sata Now you can see both extremes Miss ‘tn millinery | fited the room. m your dish?” Miss Merk | Merk, whe had discovered some suahed Chin, but he | room, civilization and a new are 60 superstitions, seers for valuables, but seize t sir! and bring her to the retreal If her lover offers fight shoot hi Do you understandt” her alone was | faithieas to like « dow clined his head affirmatively Tt is time to ge off, “Dees the fair one k reception you bave pr vided her benefit, seaor? “Of course not, I have little chance to carry out my Bhe hates me. my power her her plan protests will avail She wae destined for a bandit's wife and let Fate take ite course. . You shall be obeyed.” But in the somidarkness Ferando failed to see the that hung heavily on the brow or | the flashing eyes of his Heutenant. | Biee would he hare not slept { soundly | alge jot steady |gleamed in the rays of the rising sun and stern eyes watehed him! deadiy fire and his limbs struggled | tmpotently to free themselves from hear at-hand, but to touch it meant) the bonds that beld them iu thrall Don Pedro subattted lenly to be bound and placed on alter the curses that choked him. horse by his captors. from the shadow Miguel, his trusted lieutenant, peared Don Pedro started vio jlently as hie eyes fell upon him. | indifferently and springing on the |back of bis pony slowly followed} “It was I that brought the offi-| the cavalende along the narrow de-| sald slowly,/ file. And fn his heart dwelt a a your | great peace. anemia from every side. His own rifle lay | death. who will encom: Vot toa der differnce, Do you know der difference I dit nod guess it. Jee dere any & human skeleton ive human mnplicatie Big Hat in Troub Mise Merk 4 sity gett she Answered, in inted to a be Not only in millinery, but ox- cock feathers in ber survey of the tremes in other things had been “just to think that Chinan we had commit-| would have peaceck feathers ted a breach of Chinese etiquette. — | they “It is the Mandarin #tyle,” he sald, wouldn't have one for anything.” OVIRIZ TT. BY AL H. MARTIN, noted, the extreme between an old oust and the west; the Oriental, the Ovcidental c |rain, tn daring to touch the fatr Ines, you touched me. Many years ago, she rescued me from death |S pledged her fidelity, Por > ope Dou Ferando leaped to his foot! to save her will I tell of the crimes and ganed into the unwinking mux tie of a Winchester held by a pair Even now the rope yearns for you, rifles and there Ix no escape.” that you and I have committed Don Pedro's eyes famed with Hia strangling volee strove to ut- And before him he could see the trees,|mooking faces of those who had ap | died through bim. Miguel shrugged his shoulders ‘Ene Adolf, betveen you und a 176: Vot ina id? ha, bh yetveen you und a human not at nothing ean keep | i kee e of fovin that worst all. surel would not hold him when onging to b i im go. HT hurt desperat or hut it t# bet to send hin io ee Now toh. | { er you | " feet, | see | Good Advic fho-—t'm losing « y hate | No Seoret About It } Why i ne Plippe such a fe Mother—Joh wash your ta “Now, suppose a man loves a cer tain woman-—-" “There ain't no such thing. | They're the uncertainest critters | between the| there It.”——(Cleveland Leader e “We alluse se when our congr love another ” "Give me hig name and addre “Why? Do you wis hto kill hin “Kill himi No, 1 want to sell the ring The Tatior | Money also helps the man who heips himeeif When a man’s toos turn tn, ts his toot.apt to go asleep? i Don't wait for opportunity to knook. Have the door open Would you pat & man pol- ished just because he cast reflec tone? BARTELL’S. | of drug stores now—and we started with but one PLEASANTRY ANN a cs 1st ay toad OOT fies acces Misetiel caunvescensed 89¢ 25e Hygea Bottles and Nipples complete for | $1.35 Utility ieiataa Sickie for ....98¢ Regular Bottle Nippich for, each --..- agit hateealtae stiri en 5. $1.25 | Full Pint Botties Lime Water for ......9¢ 1 5175 Goodyear Septol Hot Water Dotthe $0c Bottles Eskay’s Food for ....... WM en eee SLa8 SOc Borden's Malted Milk for ...... 30¢ | 25 Pure Imported Olive Oil for ......17@ | 25c Bottles Pure Glycerine for | 22c Boxes Week's Break Up a Cold .. .14¢ || $2.25 Ladies’ Purses for ...... 81.65 | 22 Bottles Bell's Pine ‘Tar Honey for .16¢ | 4-0z, Bottles Syrup of White Pine for ..18¢ |] $1.00 Bottles Dr. Scott's Pure Norway Cod FACE CREAMS AND LOTIONS POP OSPSHSCSOSHSOSOHEO HSS OOGee Seeooeees ¢ OUTBURST OF EVERETT TRUE ¢ PT TT er a DO YOU MEAN BY ABUIING THIS WOMAN F— you INFERNAL COWARDS v STAR DUST from Josh Wine, Just the Word What do you think of my angel Hard to Do. Uncle—You should always look up| your father, my boy } “ rE a a The t Aw dat! I'm a} — THAT'S GENERALL 7 _— et ae | "yoo ween, PROTECT 4 WOMAN FROM m ft A Reminder, | DEARIET WER BRUTE HUSBAND AND He (resentfully)--And what am I 1 SHE'LL TURN ON YOU AND } r i id- blooded GIVE YOU THE WORST OF IT if Becaure he kia them all.” mp! How doos he man what were town edly) —From be } eta oo mone woes = , ss | A woman with large foot can) ‘The conl desler can make things latways wear a amall shoe when it|warm for you, expecially if you Comes to @ pinch don't pay your bills raplcuous NN eT eee We Announce the Arrival of Advance Spring Models not ston Johnny's Reasoning. No Such Thing. Ladies’ and Misses’ Suits, Coats ona Skirts . to pick a time man is powerful to come to Washington,” said Our Liberal Credit Plan is at your disposal—to make Spring Outfitting ‘Seay. Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc. 1332-34 209 Second Ave. Union St. “ Seaitle’s Reliable Credit Howse" wered Farmer eas Proposition. / our ring, Harold, 1) "ee eee Birthday Sale Monday, February Ist, we were 21 years old— 21 years in this good city. We have grown—not so much as Seattle— still we've grown, for we have three in our family --21 years ago yesterday. 50c Infants’ Hair Brushes for ........ 33¢ | 25c Merck's Sugar of Milk, 1-Ibh. boxes, for 35¢ Infants’ Hair Brushes for ........-BB@ foo «s+ reer eee -19¢ 25c Infants’ Combs for .. 14¢@ || 65c Yukon Hot Water Hotties tee 75e Infants’ Sets for .... +... 48@ | 85c Fairfax Fountain Syringe for ... All Nursing Bottles, regular shapes, for, | $1.25 Utility Seamless Hot Water Bottles 25. 2c cans Borden's Eagle Condensed Milk | 45¢ Botties Pure Imported Olive Oil for .. Be seiatal bis gee iterad , a's gh.» inns sVaRK Ea ies 33¢ 21 years of drugs and medicines is cumania not ‘ the pile of doll: have made, but by Bartell’s big business in three busy drug stores = 18¢ | | PURSES AND HAND BAGS, 25 PER 15e Boxes Pure Charcoal ‘Tablets ......9¢ |) CENT OFF—SPECIAL 22e Boxes Pure Charcoal Tablets for ..16¢ || 75¢ Men's Coin Purses ce \¢ Men’s Pigskin Purses for $1.50 Ladies’ Hand Bags for a 22c Boxes Hill's Cascara Quinine .....16¢ $3.50 Ladies’ Hand Bags for .. 5 2.60 |) $4.50 Ladies’ Hand Bags for .. : - 83.37 Liver Oil for ssseagseedaieh MMOL There e teen 25¢ Bottles Howard's Hive Syrup .....17%¢@ || 50¢ Dupont’s Almond Benzoin Cream for 25e Boxes Mentholatum for OY OO ahaety! Hse P eee > Mlldbshhecn nhs : : | 25 ‘Jars Almond Cold Cream -7..2""" "deg $1.00 Size Beef, Wine and Iron for ,,. .68¢ | 25¢ Rose Toilet Cream for ........... 15@ 3 Bartell “a Stores No. 1 No. 2 | No. 3 | Old Store | Main Store New Store nO0 Second Ave, | | Cor, First & Pike Newr Coster Way | G10 Second Ave, | Near Olty Market ae hye