The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 8, 1909, Page 4

is Bp Mi the grafters fice will be compelled to work for the and will not be permitted to take from the pockets of the pub: | lic sums aggregating $25,000 per year been paid to Hodge. many months ago that Hodge was an honest man, and would make the best sheriff this coun ty ever had iff we have ever had. every tained by the occupants of that office forms in the conduct of his office and the county jail which give to the public competent service and which give to those unfor tunates confined in the jail humane treatment county. of sheriff a most undesirable one from the standpoint of the pol some of them hold high positions, will continue to throw rocks, forgetting that some day a missile may crash through the glass houses in which they live TF THE WICKLEBRIDGES TAR PUBLISHING CO. 1907-1309 Seventh Ave. EVARY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, Morered ot the Postottioe at Mente, Washington as segoindolass matter @emenos rt ces = Eee: een oD SHERIFF HODGE “Oh, yes; I suppose he'll make a good enough sheriff, but spoiled the best office in King county.” | This statement was made by a King county politician to he can keep a sort of @ paternal ‘ . 4 oy faye er everythin Mihiy,” aw} The editor of The Star a few days ago, Sheriff Robert T,X, Ove" overuse tne | Hodge was the man referred to. sed gy aN a yg «ty 4) And in these few words thie politician expressed the views | takes It from long-entabliahed prec fedent, Ih Dugd. hasehall dope, | of all those who have endeavored in any way to embarrass|i¢ the commodions Dug will forgive) Sheriff Hodge since the date upon which he assumed the du-| "jhe phere Sa Lu ee ties of his office nomey fecha kon auananlons weds HE HAS SPOILED THE BEST OFFICE IN KING mausagen and Killed cow, me ane outhful aage deserthed it, But the COUNTY! city need Billy and could well > pay him several times the You know what that politician meant, don't you? Seaatm olftale Guach for wie nereieaat He meant that Hodge had spoiled the office of sheriff for} He meant that hereafter those who hold that of-| salary attached thereto, It was the greatest compliment that could possibly have]; The Star told the people of King county} was a good man; that Hodge And he IS honest, and IS making the best sher He is turning in to the county treasurer month hundreds of dollars that have He has inaugurated re Sheriff Hodge is certainly “spoiling” the best office in King He is establishing precedents that will make the office} | tical grafter. And so the politicians in the court house, and nd destroy them and their ambitions ALASKA I Romantic realm! Region of cold and gold! Land of the “Arctic night” and “midnight sun!” reamed of O04. Great treasure-store. unknown, und terprise shall waken more and more, The spirit that grand victories have won And stil! shall win, despite the Pole storm's roar, While breaks the mad sea-surf upon ber golden shore! YUKON, For it. O, giant river of the new Northwest! Two thousand mile#—whence his head-waters flow— He bears upon his broad, enduring breast, Beneath the “midnight sun's” continuous glow The products that in climes more genta! To shield adventurers, in Fortune's que: om Arctic winter's siege of storm and ‘snow; m his tide, with quickening haste and seat, Garten the yellow dust to bear the capel teat PACIFIC. un Earth's grandest ocean! Rolling unseen of men For centuries—a narmoless mystery! Ralboa, from the heights of Darien, Saw, far away, « wrinkled sallless sea: Ocean of Peace! The world’s highway to ba, What tongues the glory of thy reign shall sing, Whet prophet shall foretell thy destiny’ What honors may not future ages bring To thee: 0, evertasting, Oceante King! EXPOSITION. TV. Pair site the “City Queen” in high estate, Enthroned above her tsie-enchanted bay’ Old Ocean's tides sweep through de Puca’s Gate, And at her feet in laughing rippies play She greets the nations, near and far away “Come ye who cherish Art! Let none decline “To share with us thie A~¥.-P. display; “Come te the world’s Artfest in nineteen-nino, “and, o'er Pacific, see the Star of Empire shine!” oat ee bl “Chineok Poet.” Es WERE IN WHITE HOUSE BY FRED SCHA “1 do wish you were an accomplished the old Roman you were named after, Cicero,” sighed Mra. Wicklebridge. “fsn't one delirious declaimer in the family enough?” snickered 1'm thinking we'd better draft a few more listeners.” iow don't treat the matter in a frivolous spirit,” his wife plead ed. “One makes such progress in public life if one can express one’s self foretbly and fluently.” “It's a pity you aren't In public life then, mented. “You'd crowd out a lot of linguistic lghtwelghts. Just you leave me enough oratory to order the coal and ¢ali the floor I want to leave the elevator at, and yo be the lady Demonst of the Wicklebridge family “Ah, but some day you might become president, and then Her husband glared at her. “Come out of it,” he bawied. “Think @ president has nothing to do but make an elocution recital of him speaker—like Wicklebridge com self? Think he slips a hard rubber record into himself every five minutes, like a phonograph? Think congress would sit around con tinuously listening to its master's yolee? Think | But she was not attending to his words. Oh, how alee it would | be to pick up the paper and see right on the front mitinued on | « Ume ago th lived a very we four--headlines like these: "Eloquent Triby President | Wonderful man {n London whose Wicklebridge Moves Vast Multitude to Tears and Laughter. Radi | name was Topham. He was so ant Face of Wife Spurs Him to Hitherto Unattained Heights of Fo- | strong that he 1 do what no lc Fervor.’ other man was able to do who lived Well, it would take a tolarable hard, sharp face to spur any- | at that time; he could bend an fron Hut wouldn't the headlines be like Time, Vapld Vociferousness of Preat. Resentment Growing Against Wife body,” muttered Wicklebridge this, possibly: “Talks Against dent Puts Assemblage to SI for Encouraging Him “It you couldn't make a better speech than that, I would deliver it myself,” sniffed Mr, W found a watehman at th d of a *You do it every day,” grow led her husband Street asleep in bis box, Now, in il wf a“ 7 +|those days watchmen had these A Thoughtful Guent. Grant at, bas a sister who teachen «| DOxes to stay in, and they watched n at o fe visiting clase of boys in #unday Sahoo Injeverything around them all night Her hontess told (nicknamed Hvtek Bagte. but! go that no harm would come to the | Cripple Creek at the conclusion lesson, tha| Delghborhiood. Of course a watch girl takes up a ¢ tion from the| man must stay wide awake—that Dees. Last raft A at the din-| was what he was hired for. Well,} Fa mict pe sin, rick Top said tor me to tort |this watchman was sound asleep, erude ou not to tr money A » him next Why Hott” asked the girt fis father’s goin’ to give him « to put in an’ he wants to . a night ie Grigpt woman appeared Parletan gown ond she w at pana the plate to| gir) ertainly said th re wie ast $2,000 worth of tine diamonds Well, Brick Top's bigmer than Self-Protection, me an’ he aeid he'd beat the ple out Georgio, a small boy whe lives on ef me if you did” \OAt Liberty hitherto been re-|> |carried the box with the man in it clap ign SALARY- FROM THE CITY | BILLY MURPHY, HOWEVER, GIVES VALUE RECEIVED FOR BAID BALARY. | BY G, & COSTELLO t's funny how a habit grows on | 4 man. Por inatance, take Willan HH. Murphy, counctiman-at- large, not mind you, jet at large, | Murphy has been logtalating f jong, long time, Just how kk {t hard to say. Me was discovered conatituency which ahd SO AO ' Wp for some time for tat rit al times and putting ve logiviator, Murphy pet measure of the bunch on sounded like a fighting name. Hin| the rack wanted a fighter and they| And because Billy can M ph 1 him, posed fr oy have been elect |apot a * th & proposed fran ing him weer since johine oi about an far Works With Soft Pedal, the average oan Kee Murphy takes bis lrmiaiating just | (rough & hlgh-g felt sis. As he takes his meat business—very |? Das bad the on: Se neriously. He works with the nore, |rack on many and sundry occasions pedal on, most of the time, and) Murphy le one of arcs uaubay tonceree ubstantial citivena with lots of com mon & He ts thoroughly honest aves the apect » his ans OT land uncompromisingty square. Mur Dat hen die [Phy the counciiinan, applies the and indiaputante /#ame standards of business in the ta he ie in @ clase by himaolf ee Murphy, the Probably because of his in the ahop. | And h naghly standard which exacts n te due and in not sativ charactorintic way of ladeling out the aforenaid facts and logic, Mur ~ phy has long been recomnined as the a with any lee. leader of thy jon of the coun Got Improvements. cf! designated In partimentary lan- | Murphy fitet went the guage as the minority, The major bis little balliwick r fy, or “the buneh.” have fo Billy | mont, and feinity, was considered and his counei! constitu: ya ta Joke am « the suburbe. holy horror. He has a thoroughly |real estate men, with all thetr pc demoralixing way of raising the flag lof deduction and stock of POCOCO CSE Oe Oe HOSeeeeeerereeeeSeeeseoeseeer® OUTBURST OF EVERETT TRUE PPCSOS SOS ESOS HSOSHSOSeSossoes you'v® CHEWED THE ai with THE COOK AND SNE'S LEFT / AS WARD as (7 1% TO Gé1 4 SERVANT You INSIST ON DICTATING ABOUT EVERY 4077L£ THING! = =Now You CAN SPEND TWE NEXY YWO OR THREE WEEKS AMLPING WITH THE WORK AND HUNTING ANOTHER FOURTH ROLL OF HONOR IN STAR GUESSING CONTEST © The fourth poesie wee an easy, concerned, bot fell down on the one—but just as 1 tntiinated. there | last | were over ft who gucesed part) A. Hamfatter, one of the moat the answer ond 4 it go at that./ ermetio * in the four con © 10.781 anewere received. teats, hae ‘daffy trying to! were away off, while oth ors showed that they were good at making up answers ° Here i the correct Pieture figure out the pusstes, ax the fol lowing will show anewer Picture the morning.| 1 grieves me Pieture And me forl queerty, Fieture To thing that i can't solve the Pletute riddle Picture | But Eve studied it merely in full—mint Patrick's for fun, and paid dearly roing, M. ho 17, 1m ‘Cause my head's jumbled up ™ the in thelr ane middie fpaem 1 riats's Gay, . And all of thetr fixtures There were hundreds of funny sapewers. Now say the puxsle that the pictures were swine for a purposs. So and the purpose was ta) confuse you.. You all remember that quotation acoredited to Abraham about te the people { the Star's guess e know what I ix the roll of honor for the} A!! from, eating # that has fourth punste o Pio ba Mra. Ime Smith. Iq the memory of A. Hemfatter | He hae went daft THANKS ‘Tomorrow the fifth and last pus nip se boner. sit be réward w 4 one Tar as sour of the piete ole work PUZZLE BLITOR poker a8 easily you or | could with his fingers aw bend a little wax candle. One night Topham was on his way home in London, when he and Topham thought that he would sive the sleeper a little surprise and teach him a lesson So he took hold of the box and Vifted it on his broad back and bump. woke the wate and he rubbed his eyes and lool around, My, but he was frightened to find himself all alone, way off in that lonely spot, in the middle of the night I don't know if he ever learned who played the trick on him, but we hope he remembered after that jot to sleep when on duty off to the graveyard, where he dumped his load.” You can sae how very strong be miat have bepn to do that he 2 | became & different story Murph [demanded Improvements, and he got ati it wan ol proat t ead ith par se / | and ejaculate, “Lood Se Table Linen ipes oiuy tenner “hafta tor the ate: | You know Baillargeon quality—you know {tir some wave Tilly Murphy to|, RNtcker—Are you afriad to go that remains the same, however the pric¢ fluc- unique,.Me ls very co0d looking, in| "Oye ID (NG Gare ty atrald when tuates. faot ia, parents thous t he wa the my wife leaves the Haht burning AU thWtthey: hed: tots of reanon tol Good Feather Pillows, $2.00 Mr. Wiliam H. Murphy t# ft cb, Mised, whuve a4 you eat that Full Size Cotton Blanket, $1.00 a pair. foacirea® hea ta tar anu ta | ove CELE mate."-ninedten White Bedspreads, fringed, with cut cor phy seems Mfferent and odd and ript anne é 4 ee Ne a rd ste Finished Marseilles Bedspread, $2.00. 8 a Consistent Legislator oe hen nbt to . Ce ‘ wena . | In all the years that Murphy ? Rin oon ” W hite ( rochet Spread, full size, BOd. Jatin fay the and the. on have @ fine house and pleoe Full Size Bed Comfort, , silkoline covered, tion ie ies "nt “chang Ste: | *FeaY™ hE an wit mr wen |p With plain border effect, $2.25. on he Opposes a thing ‘at "ey Slanke: ve her alway “pow tat) ba Wh PEE solve Wool I faid pa ts, oar $4.65. See ae tare te tke bak | “kwon witheat eligton te ike 18-inch All-Linen Towe rash, bleached, place. | Pore ly Billy Murphy jai" horse without a bridle.-—Latin 10¢ a yard likes him, “Officially the profosstonal | gq 74, hays, quest ideas of, veluen,, 20 inch Cotton Huck Towel Crash, 8 1-B¢ a and “paid agents” have no use for! for $1.50 But he hae a yaller dog ya Z him, which Je just about ae big|that no money could buy,”——Cleve 66-inch All-Linen Table Damask, full bleach- @ boost as an honest legislator could | 160d Leade 1 Tb¢ —s Us dsubell le wal eae plete witt man way that eG, 40F a : 1 Murphy. We have our Mt cin, | at ee Table Sets rd hemstitched cloth with hie biting «a om d atin a » e stit 4 a x Sad lag tepabete tee Ret ee el i and one dozen hem tite hed napkins—a fine, | to an would b satin-finished quality, $5.00 a set st P but Growler i without Murphy, the quiet, un- your bratr min optimiam, | hopelensty or @ | ® sentence with Kven the |assuming bulwark of strength for the rity Mahtors, it lopsided #how Tee Much Tre. in a strugwiing young wri induced « singer attend a w flat to riter couldn't m the er without ver rat amburcaded be paper tray | Stories ter | Let hie silent 9 a wide pair. Fine would a planked # demonstrates that of escaping punish gerting It Lis er get to the! a light upper, 50¢. te wet} pleasure for a| ry * he pew Oe. STORES” OPTINISt (BY FL. C.K.) Stokes sat idly munching a crack t the close of the meal. Mra. Stokes xeemed to have some | 5? Was married abv thing on her mind jhe had known that this moment was bound to come sooner or later | Still _he had heard so much before it the cost of ok & Woman's spring ward | fina / If the truth were known, the thing apes that it took a lot of will power that Mra. Stokes wanted to talk |‘ “ppear so free from the vague | Jabont was clothes.” “*™ | aread that came over him. He wa BY FRED SCHAEFER. j Stokes hadn't really been up determined, though, to show that “This ia the time of year,” mur- jagainst the problem of woman's | "* be rous to a tault mured the Prescription Clerk to | dress ypt. | They had been married | eed iat are y tat |his chum, the Soda Clerk, “that jabout & year, but Mra Stokes © you need right now and get thoughtful parents had bought her |‘ S00d out of it,” sald he mag-|the baseball bunch ts in the leverything she would need for a 28°!mously, “no use waiting until |chrysalis state.” season or two. Her troussean had ‘Sl! to buy summer clothes. Now's | Meaning, of course, one of held out like prunes at a boarding ‘etme. thowe southern states where they house up to the present time. ' next ning Mrs. Stokes|have the training ” an The time had come, however, LTOURKt home enough samples to|ewered Hair Ol) Harry understand- 10S STONES SITMID 10. JUNE SOXE- THING OW FAP KD ~~ Stokes wax no tightwad, and then | weakly “VENVOL,’ When th’s last Hehed, Don't take the above for Tanted beer 7 — " And the wheels are coated with rust yourself and let the clothes convince you. “t “*\¥ ‘come tm w hen the rate 1 ha n ¢ : There | is no disappointment tn store if you purchase a “Brad. And the straps are mingled bury System” Sult—but many months > We aball reat, and faith to confiem your good hetgueat.” geehatee coda masamnide: fit down for an age o “pee Bradbury System Suits rango from $18.00 to $42.50, Shall set us to torture anew | ‘i ° They shall sit on bene hes of plush ny > cuail view ‘with sone somienen jf i at your disposal—you are welcome to ope i . he terrific 6 o'clock rush || @ Uttie down and a little at a time) for your Noten ecco (oay *y shall have real atraps to swing from, Ss ; . ‘ nd plenty of room to sprawl. il Tied sail’ and Gor ke het teh Joutnay, tore Open Till 10 p. m. Saturday And never be tred at all! » And only the conductor shall jostle, And only the gong shall jangle. | And no one shall step up forward, | Bx? be iort In a human tangle KY e ut, each from his own strap #winging And in 4 | e 8 from. thia tender delusion | (Incorporated) Way thes realty arc GQUSSIB RUBRD 1332-34 Second Av, 209 Union St 711 20th ay. 8, elty “S ; Member Strap Hangers’ League, Al rules obsorved | ‘Seattle's Reliable Credit House’ 9 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT work up into a highly successful | ingly, as he rubbed whiting on the craay quilt, and spread them out on |nickelplated fixtures. “All of the |the davenport near where Stokes | players have emerged from jsut cocked back in the big chair | harness shops to get into harness; }looking over the penny paper. ‘have quit teaching school to school | “Do you like this one?” she in-| themselves to touch second base, quired, picking up a dark blue sam-|and have quit playing pool to pool ple with green jiggers on It their playing.” Sure. That looks like the real “I wish I could laugh, thing me all rightski,” says the Pharmacal Phellow. Stokes. “What'll they set you back | didn't hear anything funny.” for that "un? This ie the season,” continued } “It's only $21,” Harry, “when every club is going Stokes, amilingly, to win the pennant, regardiess of to “but I replied Mra. j ain't so worse! I supposed from all ever, having been polished all win- jthe dope I heard the boys handing/ter till you can't see last season's around at the office and at the club| tarnish. All the players are rush that a woman couldn't buy a mother |ing to the training grounds. Each |hubbard wrapper for that That one expects to cop a regular berth Jost shows what a lot of knockers |{n the pay car. However, to do this, 4 fellow meets up with, especially | some will have to be born again. if he’s about to tackle the connu-|The cripples will be looked over bial proposition,” Stokes rambled|by the mar have their on ¢ fully temperatur jome will be | Some 14 or ays later the new |found to be not so hot Those gown came home from the dresa-| with charley horse, which tn an. maker's plant, and Mrs. 8 an-|other na for spavin, will be d that it was a dream eed that it wasn't far Stokes | given an ercise gallop to see if from be on patatio PSBAT When things bad” begun to fray |Inx about IT in capital letters, |ambutation from the calace le about the edges Fits you, too,” he commented,| The tardy ones press agent them Little did Stokes reatize what he | proudly, “just looks as if you'd been | selves with telegrams declaring | Was up against poured into it. That's what It doos.”|that they are fit and fine and 1 think I'll look at something to- Oh, and here are the bills for}O. K, Spelled out, O. K. often day for a spring dress san Mrs, /it,” added Mra. Stokes, handing him| means Only Kidding. Managers Stokes musingly, as she swept over a couple of slips of paper are worrying over the lineup for }some crumbs up into a little pil One was from the big dry goods | ———_______ Bs with her dainty white hand firm, $21, just for the raw material, | made the aark ever so casually,;The other was from the dressmak jas if it were no more consequence er, and included such items as $24 }than that she had @ notion to eat|for the making, $81 for es and another bit of chow chow other truck, and—well, altogether Duds wearlag out, hey?” re-|the whole thing amounted to $81.94 sponded tokes agreeably Hum, murmured Stokes, REGARDING THE END OF THE STRAP HANGER, the | | groaned % In Bedding and Large Lines of Fancy Hosiery Jesides quality, style and low price, you have variety from which to select at 50¢ a les, in tan, self-embroidered, 50¢@. Fine Lisles, in black, embroidered in colors, 50¢, Silk Lisles, with stripes separating dark foot from Extracted Polka Dots, on black and colored grounds; Fancy French Ankle, with polka dot uppers, 50: Ankle, with plain upper, 50 J.A. Baillargeon& Co Second and Spring St. HAIR OIL HARRY SAYS “0. K” SO) MEANS “ONLY KIDDING” Sle ten hee the, ee Two-Toned Striped effects, 50¢. the was regaiing « & | Qusiniances with an account of bow| A ‘ " Mme. Hissesky simply tell In love | nck man conn Fancy | with my litte when she came lito run his own « % te my tea”—when, from edae |iong to the church = - of the group, came # thin, catty kind of vote muet y the Ha " Wise Guy fitted t Simple Le be pays the er) The strongest woma ing lett for hie |she who appears to be the we a — = | the opening game, and players are | peeving over the lineup at the window. The boys are put tow chasing grounders and the waters, and try to dodge the fatal number slipped a lot of dope about rigors of the training table. Alas) there's table hotel tables ‘eu rut. “Funny how ing about round Prescription they're have to take the grab as it | ba Cth day hotel menu is a heap friend to the home team than the umpire is ever.” Buy a Champion Gas Range and” ‘get a coal or wood range free. Do you want to buy a farm, Lots of them on page 6. The Best Dressed Men in Town This Spring Will Be Wearing Clothes with the “Bradbury System” Label —“the best Men’s Clothes made yet”— Best in Style, Best in Fit, Best in Quality pair Stokes was agreeably surprised the fact that there Is only one | that means back to the ten-tw #t the cheapness of the proposed fluttering rag. Bat hope covers althirt league. At that, lots new garment multitude of turnstile clicks. This them get canned before they Twenty-one, eh? Gee, that hope thing is now brighter than tanned. In the meantime we the tralia are in they ore leaves in than the careful they are feeding them while funning in the palmetto,” said the Clerk, “and whem down to real work they ays.” the $34 better said Harry,” oe oon