The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 3, 1909, Page 4

Member of the Untied Press, Pub: ¢ detty by The tag Oo. Cook, BUTLER AND PRESIDENT 1 € pra which is conteree rable dinner Joe and render artisans at at or the 6 ertain free raw material 1 and she will 1 Mary's t 4 down, a ak when he bumped w and sister stocki wre But on the very chef anc tariff tax is $2.00, and mother’s and Mary's is 25 ce that puts us four to the bad 16 of iron ore we buy, we, as a family, are even, and the free-raw-material victory wi velvet on the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th tons of iron ore that we buy. (Our family, being small, seldom uses more 20 tons.) The steel trust, being ! a somewhat larger purcha fron ore than father, comes out a little ahead, but it m feel clubby with Andy Carnegie Schwab when we are sharing their benefits with them a while we only got so far as to share our good these gents.) Then again, we all expect to be taxed a bit extra on shoes. |), But that's that horrid old Aldrich again, and the chef and the | one of butler have fixed it with the “substantial revision downward | 0) on raw materials,” so that we can get even on every pair of woo hanks to the president and hi xtr tor Taft ll enable us to actually play on tha er of tention to stars than thoy rs with THE STAR TUBSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1909 THE SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE IT’S DOG DAYS, BUT “DOG DAYS” 4 monthe, Vintered at offioe, os aeoagioelnas Hm IS THE BIGGEST HOAX EVER MET RKUAECE ER EER . WEMARKABLE FACTS ABOUT MAD DOGS, | Europe averages only one death a year from mad doga In Chicago alone two deaths have occurred in 1909 from mad dog bites. Madatones will not cure or help a mad dog's bite Killing @ suepicious dog that hae bitten some one is unwise; the dog should be kept alive to wateh for the disease, If you think your dog Is going mad, don't shoot It; call in & competent veterin: arian and have him look at the dog. ee It's dog days! And those two words stand for} of the biggest hoaxes ever] world | hot weather dog days really know how rung on the Few persons who call this n| the lerm started, The old Greeks. | whose pet Paris poodles weren't as good-natured as ours, pald more at aid to * | spant and Pierp Morgan and Charlie} So they let astronomy go to the (For | dogs when they called the brightest star In the sky the ‘ther name ts Sirius preferred to call it t the constellation to looked to Jupiter's pet ‘ Marathon all over Mount mpus after a piece of beef. {| Steak was bigh in those days, too This bright bowwow star dogatar ite The Greeks dogstar be that Sirius like ry longed rises shoes we buy for the baby by buying a couple of nice green) with the sun over the horieon in hides from Argentina, Now when father Aldriched brother Bill has to pay higher prices for his new trowel, is on his new shovel can get even on the very next car load of structural steel beams that the family uses, and so, too, when mother’s gasoline bill goes up, her remedy is at hand—-straight from the White House} kitchen—buy a couple of barrels of free crude oi! and save the duty. That's what John D. will do, and isn’t he rich and prosperous? : So the president, the cook and the butler have saved us| from Aldrich and the tariff robbers ALL YOU AND I HAVE TO DO IS TO SO SCAT- TER OUR PURCHASES THAT THE SAVING ON THE PROPORTION OF IRON ORE, STEEL BEAMS, HIDES AND IMPORTED COAL THAT WE BUY WILL OFF- SET THE EXTRA TAX ON OUR CLOTHES, FOOD, HOUSES, SHOES, FURNITURE, GLASSWARE, DISH- ES, CARPETS, STOCKINGS, GLOVES, FRUIT, FLESH, an the | August, #0 we call this time of year days, Dogetar days would be ‘ ter y |. Mad dogs caune more }hot weather than in winter some remarkable wa belleve that the dogetar made dogs go mad As soon as Wo tear the July leaf calendars and August stares the face of a dog ris up like a mindghost. Then we begin to watch every restless dog that) }mota In our wuy, even if he is only chasing the butcher's wagon with |fond but vain hope | All the dog wants ls hie dinner, and yet we think he wants to bite} somebody, | Seriously, though, there are a few) things the readers of The Star/ ought to remember, There's a dit! FROM DIAN trouble In and in people got to really oft jat ference fn a mad dog and a mad dog weare, such as we hear about #o much Kablew, the disease that dogs go mad, is the stood of animal complainte dinease hydrophobia, which man rabies, suggests another hoar It comes from two Greek words that mean “afraid of water.” Mad dogs are supposed to fear water, when in reality it te the glitter of water that they fear; it hurts thoir eyes which are always affected by rab les, For the same reason they bide in dark cornere and under the shed to eseape the glare of day Another dog days hoax ie the madstone. That revered gerolog! cal specimen, generally owned by the Indian doctor or the hert) heal er in the next county, once wae sup posed to be a surething cure for hydrophobia. But the experts tell us it does on more good than a piece of blotting paper Muselea are still another hoax Dr. C. W. Patr, the noted Aiiégrican authority on disease of atilmals. says wire muaszios now Io ude will not against » mad dog's hite, A furious dog can andp and bite through the wire, he detlares. He recommends tying up restless dogs Even now the Pasteur treatment ich is supposed to have sated so many lives, is being attacked by La taud, the great French authority, and doctors in this country, They A'S DIARY makes under The in ho least protect SALT, SUGAR, BLANKETS, BOOKS, TOOLS AND) Mis Dilipickies Becomes Entangied in » Gea Berpent Romance—But That's to be Expected at the Seashore, SEWING MACHINES. ‘While it must be annoying to the BY FRED SCHAE Any nation which gets ite sport Metropolitan Building company tol! out of sticking skewers in the cow's fr be aasessed, the real anguish won't! gentleman friend can expect to whip} |) Come until the digging up period. eit ‘The political outbreak In Mexico will never be understood on this aide] ‘of the line as long as the fight ie) over a vice president. —_——-. As the summer days go on, Uncle Joe Cannon's popularity increases) lke a chunk of ice out In the eun C. A. engages @ cook, he hol inspection every morning. |wees @ tow fairly rough riders, Tt was really asking @ little too! much of Mr. Hillte stand around and admire himself in bronsze. NEW YORK, Aug. 3.--Walkingjheard an amusing be attracting considerable atten*|on her face tion. People looked back over their | in shoulders and grinned. Other peo- ple in doorways of stores and res-|tlon,” she said the cause of the commotion, and [|two minutes.” will do the best I can to describe it. | Tt was 4 tail woman tn a very tight sheath gown of black satin On her head she wore a tub-shaped } hat that was easily two feet in di- ameter and aimost concealed her head from view. Several huge black plumes nodded from it, and the whole contraption could hardly | She drank it. have been crowded into a bass drum | without musing it. The woman had elevated her skirts with her left hand so that they were full around the hips, rath er tight just below and her left leg was visible up to the knee, The sald leg was about as thick at the ankle as a plece of gaspipe, and at the calf it was about as big as the cal of the East Side rfully. “Aw, nuttin’ like dat,’ he | “Dis'll fix you up all right." or 80," sh I'll go home The clerk beamed he sald | ute wald “Sure not. The Englieh channel appears be having a well earned vacation. real men when war is declared. wil conversation. | up Sixth ay. from Forty-second st. There entered a woman about 26 | yesterday afternoon, | noticed that | years old, slinply dressed, and with | something ahead of mo seemed to just a reasonable amount of paint She spoke quietly and sort of bored way to the clerk. want something for indiges- “ft drank a lot of taurants smiled and commented. | booze and ate some cheese, and J Hurrying a trifle, I got look at|think I'm going to croak in about The clork waa o young chap, typt He grinned said. | He poured some thick pink stutt | into # glass and handed it to her “Guess I'l hang around five min « ting.’ You'll be all right you aln’t, we'll call de coroner.” The lady was still hanging around/a seamstress. when I left, so I don't know whether | bronzed that way doing plain sew: | salt-water taffy they had to bother the coroner or | ing Hereafter when the exposition ¥ i j have to lay his breath out for aleo- While they haven't any San Juan | hits in Moroceo, they seem to por- \“HE BUTTED INTO THE LINEN Him and me bave met again. 1 | in 891 He butted Into the linen room borrow needle and thread, He said he wanted to sew something. Ne If} what does he want to sew? He} looks more Itke a beach guard than | He didn't get all “Bxouse me, mister wre oe 1 (an ROOM TO BORROW A NEEDLE AND THREAD.” like tambourines when swimming sideways.” Well, one friendly word led to mean the bronzed, handsome gent | another, and he dates me to meet| “ll right to knock off him on the boardwalk in the even Ing after his day's work was done. It I'm still|at the Blenborough-Marblehetm to|For a minute I bad a suspicion that | he was a4 rolkchalr man, but no, that couldn't be, He'd not be stop ping at the BlenboroughMarble helm. But he didn’t tell me what his work was, Maybe it te making Vhat’s one form of seafaring life. Anyhow | don't I said, “but | care, so long as he is a gent and | rooms 1909 eRe WHY AUGUST I6 ® DOG DAYS MONTH, Ancient Greoks called Sir jus, the brightest star which is above the horison with the sun in Augual, the “dog star,” Birius ia in the stellation,” a group of dtars that the Greeks thought looked like a dog in the sky This star doesn't influence dogs to go mad, but the hot weather In August does ‘dog cou eee eee eee eee tees Se ee ee ee ee ee ed eay that everybody who has been cured by the Pasteur treatment would have recovered anyway, Bo. they argue, what's the use to take the cure? Deaths in Chicago are. more fre quent from hydrophobia than in any other clty of Europe or Amer lea. In Kurope there In strict super vision over dogs, The dogeatch ers over there are highly reapected individuals, and the chief dogecatch er ina ropean town wears a badge twice as big aa the chief of police. He has a whole force of deputy dogecatchers. A dog over there must behave himself, or the neat morning hie master will whistle and then say: “Doggone.” WASHINGTON, D. C., July 25 Dear Dad: The ultimate con attorney (L @, secure the addition of this daily | neceastty to the Taft free liet. Of | course, the imposition of the 30 per ty on imported yachts will! | enormously increase the cost of itv. jing to the Morgans, Goulds and Vanderbilta, and the rest of us ‘ve just gotta have ‘em, dont rknow jand your Unele Nels was on the Veron of ay a Be ity, whey « ebipya rpm Nowbort Wows ko! As he game, and has ever s¢ince been howling like a tomcat Bo, you see, there are all brands of ultimate consumers. . Just as “raw material” ts such only from certain points of view |The hide of the steer {x “raw ma terial” for the shoe manufacturer, but te the “finished product” of the | farmer; crade oil fs “raw material” | for the refining company, but ts the tnished product” of the man who }owns one small off well; tron ore is ‘raw material” for the steel trust, but is the “finished product” of the iron miner; coal is “raw material” for the man who owns a mill, but jit in the “finished product” of the | coal tminer, Tt all depends on who | in to be favored, and who Is to bear the burden of the tax, If the farm er, the ofl well owner, and the min er do not count, and it is only de sired to favor the refiner, the steel trust, and the rich and prosperous owner of the shoe factory, then It is the little |duty on the “raw material” and leave it on the “fintahed product.” And that seems to be the theory of the Aldrich tariff bill; so let her go. rae | Won't somebody tell me why Jas A. Homenway, exeenator from In diana, has offices in the senate of fice building? Also why he has the next to Aldrich’s finance eee eee eee eee eee ee And all was going well, | heftiest part of a baseball bat. It ‘Was encased in a transparent silk | stocking. Her low shoes had heels | about four inches high. As she turned Into Forty-fourth st, toward Broadway, she flashed a/ look backward. Inside the huge bat was an enormous mass of false | hair, Her face was so thickly} painted or enameled that no trace | of the natural hue was vistble. Her eyebrows were heavy black arches, her lips bright red. There was no more expression in her face than | there f# in a hair-store dummy These anomalies, these perver sions of humanity, are bred in the night Iife of cities auch as New York and Paris. They are night birds by nature, and attract little at tention in the yellow-lighted lobster palaces, fut when they stray into the sunlight and the herd of hu Manity, they attract attention, even in a city so used to odd sights as New York eee About 1) p. m. T was standing at the soda fountain of a drug store at | Bixth ay. and Portyfourth at, and “ee 3 People who rode home on the Third av. “L” a few afternoons ago had an experience that you can't buy for 10 cents on any of the freak conveyances at Luna Park or Dreamland. At 261 Bowery the high-pressure wagon was working on a fire in a fivestory butiding Just as an open car came along side the water tower the pressure was shut off. ‘That water which happened to be in the alr became a waterfall, or a cloudburat, or some |such phenomenon, and fell upon the open car, drenching everybody At 138th st. the station was afire and blazing rapidly when the same train came along. All traina were rushing past at full speed, Thi one whizsed through the smoke and heat, and the bedraggled Individuals who had survived the flood came out of the flames with an experi ence that would last a neighbor hood a whole evening fn the tell ing. Don't budge if you alt at ease Gorman ° are you a buttonhole maker or do|conducts himself like one. His| Committee roomat Also why he is you embroider sofa pillows for pas | n is Mr. Finn, and he wears a|O0 the government payroll at the time? yachting cap. I'd say he ts | eee No, my little bow! of clam chow-|yachtaman, but not every yachting der,” said he, “I stitch bangles onto | cap covers a yachtaman's Wan. starfish #o they will make a notae | (Gontinued.) a= SS ore ree Ree = SUIT CASE BRIGADE the problem KEEPS WET IN KANGAG, | largo dry families Every day the brignde acrona the Missourt river bridge with Nght sult cases and panting throata, vh moves slower and in more teregular line of march, The sult cases usually go in and Gov, Stubbs of Kansas te trying to find @ way to stop the pro- eoding for heads of | nolved comes weathound procession pairs POINTED PARAGRAPHS And many a man who looks wise and says nothing ls unable to make good Men hasten to accept the mute standing Invitation of a pretty girl who enters a crowded car. | It's difficult for a girl who is en gaged to realize hoW lucky—-or un lucky—-she is.—Chleago News, ', JOBBPH, Mo., Aug f the suit “a a Missour near aking she temperance peo us, Everybody knows At Kas of driest towne on the map of North America Hut the sult case of commerce has | Winthroy village here, tan plo Jenl Hison Mr. Lizard shed your old akin, Mr. Snake—To be sure. Boaut PEELING DOWN TO PULCHRITUDE. How handsome you are looking, now that you have | | “tn apite a! "| } ole’ ett” 5% tt titled ter th) ere tall ) e I'd a jot bum king Times putting in oo Spanien children have aftably ‘ Netter a red face than @ biack | Portuguese | “fe heart Have you ever at the te phone in a stort wife occasionally ne Up 4 won't be mitten a mitten A man t jriehman brought lerayman who was not averse asional giass, hired an Ir out hie cellar, The his work Ie tof empty whinky liooked through it at the sun, The lpreacher, who wan walking on the lawn, saw b and said hey all dead ones. Pat “they maid Pat. “Wel re ie one be sbout it—they a t t m whee they were dy Hite began forth ng." —Tit Quit ye iikee men, and be firm in the bettie —Momer 8 “ft whall never speak to Jane again The mean thing What's the matter?” Tt gave her 4 pickle 4ish for her wedding present and she @ot three! thers just tike it, aed, would you! believe ft, mine waa the one abe ex changed.”—-Detrott Free Py same salary he drew before he be came an “ex"sonator? Also why the government pays his secretary & salary of $3,000 a yoar? best anewers to the above questions the writer will pay, out of the reg ular office appropriation, five dol Write on one side of the paper, and address answers to me jin care of this newspaper. dle, Te. Lost—A letter addressed to T. K-——— by a gentleman interested in ite lumber achedule. by) Ig cap | ito’ loye ybo fe that letter | pieast ‘bute it, an 7 hothing about the former United States senator whose ne is mentioned in the letter? Do you know what I would do if Tf were Bill Taft? | would let the Aldrich-Payne bill fail. And for these reasona | «ae revenues are all right with out any tariff revision at the pres tent time. | Nobody could kick except the special interests, and they wouldn't dare. Business would be glad of a chance to go ahead under the ac customed conditions of the Dingley | law The country has had tts lesson as | to the meaning of tariff revision “at the hands of Ita friends.” The political consequences, now jthreateuing, might in large mea sure be averted Taft would hero. Will he see the chance? . Did you know that the first suc corsful flight made by the Wright} brothers took place as long ago as| } Dec, 17, 19037 Such is the fact. At} Kitty Hawk, N.C, on that date| the first Wright machine flew 862) feet against a wind blowing 26) }iniies an hour, carrying Wilbur Wright. 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