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4 Hl i 3 $ ‘ Lge oe ene PrHE STAR—SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, voy, Member of the Untted Press, Pub- od dally by The Star Publisn~ GREEDY SPOOKS AND SPECTERS Ghosts and specters receive vall heed from intelligent | ps8 But the United States devotes two-thirds of its revenues] » arlene = , | (IMustrated with actual photographs made in New York by How. to ghos and specters jard Doncourt, with special pictures posed for by a New York chorus Therefore the United States is not the most intelligent] girt) nation on the face of the glob BY canis aan oor th a “* * Chapter 1. round the Two-thirds of all the money handled by the United States} rhe year sensation : her ratlrond tare paid, and all she is for the gho: jutare wars j devouring public is entertained bY | Win have to buy for stage wear are vf wars past, the specter of aa woandale which tm Ithe shame Aecording to the report for the year ending June 30, 1909, : — and mon stockings volve women of the etage, and the chief expenditures were as follow - } Begin Rehearsing. " * 2 many wonder why such a number! Phe 37th wt, hall eveaked under Civil and miscellaneous ...6....5+5 $164,000,000 Jof young actreases go wrong. Is ft/ the feet of 200 boys and girlk and War ae «+ 164,000,000 Jany mystery? krowoups. members of two mustoal A ne. aie . a Tee |companies, rehearsing. It sounded hl pak 4 ee tie tnmorane romantic and ruacept [HK® & Monkey house at foeding Pensions . +++ 161,000,000 livle girl, come to New York to go|2™* One class was rehearsing the must, gathered sbout « piano jon the stage, She knows an asto®-/ 1... country singing school. The 15,000,000 |ishing lot about the world for a Indians ... Postal Gefictt ...0..cccnccecqgescecss 19000000 l1tyearold girl, due to lax’ home perme a on Sor ag Interest on public debt .......seqee++ 21,000,000 waning, Sat: Stat cea tak ~~ With infinite patience the db Pensions and the interest on the public-debt ace legacies of | knows ft. The terrible thing about nn Teid the typowgitien ae: . Pi a Seinen . jher and her Kind is that she ts) 2° : a past wars, There is no disposition to reduce ¢ ither item, That afraid of nothing, and she think | WO@# and learned the Imusic from the plano. There are a few good soprano, alto, tenor and bass volces in the chorus, and they lead the cho. | SMmMmoner voices, Ike Edythe’s, the gly borne does not, however, diminish the | that the worst thing which might the charge is willin | m to her’ . | fact that it is a heavy annual bill for a war nearly hali arcentury | BAPHED to her would be to fall to i ; » idea of © ago. 2 Anseew crhote, dea of the hol ensemble being loud and effective The othe © big items are at we pay for the upkeep o ene - “ ° noe anes Awo big Heme ase what we } Ags girlish charms and sho is willing,| Daseme of Umes the director, the specter. ever willing to do almost anything | sinenennneesninaseaniiinsiindiie All that this great government spends for administration, | ##t 4 Job and hold it Essential Features. The environment te sensual and coarse, Lege are more important) than arme or face ere are! |mighty few choruses or ballots| jwhich do not held downright bron | girls, who are mistresses of the | jaubtle art of shaming the goodness | j out of Innocent girls, The good girt| And the expenditure for the navy is like unto it. ji the immediate quarry of vic tous | men of besiness, and all sorts} A reasonable amiount for laying a specter is all very well, | of stories are told of the infamiea bat two-thirds of the national revenues—that seems just the | of such monsters, I do nat believe | all of them and-I do know honest | least bit out of een gentlemen tn theatrical life, But oe | IN LITTLE OLD NEW YORK for justice, for education, for agriculture, for pure food, for the preservation of its forests, for the struggle against disease, for maintaining its commercial relations, for pleasing its neighbors, for collecting its dues, for searching its resources, for stocking its streams, for lighting its coasts and ports-—all that is almost exactly equal to the amount spent for the specter of war. ae opportunities for lax are manifold on er about the sage } Edythe discussed these things | with me. She stoutly declared that | she wasn't going to throw hersetf/ away. I*thought of my grandmoth-| ers axiom | “Vice is a monster of such dread- bid mein, that to be hated ne bat 10 be xeon; but seen too oft, famil- i ‘The Quick and the Dead. The good ship Portsmouth salled| Dreexe, people stood agape at the | then pity, then embrace Jevery bit of muslin swelled in thel ier with her face we first ndure, up the North river one recent after. *Pecter ship of the past. noon, and people who didn't know Jiei'6 : m the firat day of job hust| her, and know what she «as, got an| Boy, Rescue, Cop. | waytne Be geen Sewage idea that some nautical feature of} gtaurico Duseman, 6 yoars old, fell! t the Leff oe te ¢ or > e ice ol he Leffler i the Hudson-Futton celebration was into a ditch mine feet deep, over in! pn hong cu a a Het. Ponies for she made, in ber 20th century sur | ing Poticoman John J. MoCormick| | Nowtyweds companies, 80. We goundings of ocean leviathans, | neard frightened ittle Maurice wall-lwont back. Of ali the managers at electric launches and car) ing in the water pipe excavation, and) gy had seon we found these men 4 — eR was launched in] “Sn,'°, aid. the fairest and most considerate, | ‘The only way he could gethim| Baythe bad made an fmpression | A848, and fine United Staten war out was to jump in afer hn od tun them end when she ene back et ee oe ta Sones Saye. | Bt! ing which the police-|they were willing to talk contrast equare-riggers, that depend solely) man did tetting Maurice to be sure} Not the least tremblingly the «irl Spon canvas for their progress over ty send somebady to get him out. | sang and danced and talked before the ‘raging tain, are out of date! aiaurice had a broken arm, andlihem, They inquired minutely as eres tm the merchaat marine. and) waar with the pain, and beingito ber age and her right to leave 4m the navy they will not do at all.) Aoied to m hh ; et to A hospital, and his par-lhome Finally, being satisfied with The Portsmouth was saved from) wats’ excitement, the little bey for | her, ahé was given a paper to align, oe Pia fy. N we | ee all about his reacuer and in short order our litte girl € Abip of the New Jer! go McCormick walled in turn tn] was a ember of thesfamous ”N sey naval militia, and once a year! } she goes on a cruise with the ama-| ‘ {°¢? hole. until, after Maurice! jyweds" ballet. The company had| tout tare. was all nicely tucked in his bed, he} been out a part of lsat season, but a finally remembered. It was a dirty, expects its big run this your, | Comes in Under Sail. weary, disgusted good Samaritan of | Rdythe tx to sing the “ooge-boo” | *@%4ing at the keyboard, repeated She was away nine days on her|* CoP Who was pulled out of that) song. engage in a pillow fight, doa the unlearned strats. Willingly trip this summer, and when she got | hele along toward midnight. ttle minstret stunt, dance and sing | 404 to the best of their ability the back from Gardiner's bay, where| ee land wear all sorts of abbreviated | Chorus followed. “Now give it to fhe men had thelr drilis, her com-| They're great kidders at the ball) costumes, six changes in all we ee eee oe mander found a favorable brecze| games. Umpire Bob Emsile walked| We went to a ratty old hall in W.| ¥°"4. “Oh, rotten’ he'd say outside the Hook, and decided to! along in front of the grand stand, as| 37th st. where the company is re me have that bass; dou't pray her up to Hoboken with all/ the Giants were about open up/hearsing without pay for five through your noses, boys on the Cincinnati Reds, and bawled: | weeks. We passed a drunken biond| 0% musical directar was a pleas Panes mblaliadd at ee tent has been| “Dr. Frank Key te wanted! Dr.| woman, beautifully dressed, in 34th | ®%t fellow, but we have seen some geen for many, many years, and) Frank Key!” st, and on Bighth ay. saw the house | %h° are not. Ours didn’t swear at when the Portsmouth sailed past! “How much does the doc pay for|in which Elsie Sigel was murdered | ‘* Sire: others do. the piers and on up the river sid ad?” clamored the populace, by the Chinaman. Edythe looked Chorus at Work. = with wonder at these things, but | two, she was as happy as & child over|throe, now A DELIGHTFUL PROSPECT sts EDYTHE, OH, HAPPY GIRL, sing ‘One. a aS altogethor—tra-gda— HEARD ON THE STREETS They were lunching at a down. town cafe. They were probably on @ vacation trip, though there wen |some who thonght that her white hat and attentive gaze bespokea| The waiter out of formality, laid honeymoen. | down on the table the two dimes He was trying to play the part ot | change which, however, he fully | the sophisticated cafe habitue, He | pected as his tip. The young man’ [topped off bis lunch with a seldle of |4weeping wave of the hand as he beer and lighted a cigaret while | paid had indicated that he was to waiting for the waiter to call with op the change | his score Hut, ales, for the plans of both | The bill totaled $1.40. The young | watter and guest. it was written by| | the fates that the one was not to) |get bis tip and the other was) | not to get away with his bluff. For ws she of the white hat and the af-| |fectionate gase arose, her glance | | shifted momentarily ‘to the table | She saw the two dimes “Oh, Frank,” she called so that all the house could hear. “Oh, man tossed out $1.50 and arose. He took down his hat, and, turning to- | ward the door, waited for his com | panion FIRE ALARM FOR HAT. | Guest—Dut won't it disturb your wife, this bringing hame com. pany for dinner unannounced? Suburbanite—Oh, I suppose not. You see, the cook has left us in the lurch, and our cow has died, and the wife has a nervous spell and a sprained wrist—and hustling a meal for company may take her mind off her other trouble nasi you think? anu no SSS Frank, ye e forgotten your; change * Then she picked up the #0 cents, 7s passed it to her escort_and they GARVIN CORNER i if 4 Vu BY THE REVEREND JOSEPH L. GARVIN PASTOR OF FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH the first mon to There is a young wife bill who has the habit |many women) of shifting the fur-| | jniture around about gece every OUR JAPANESE VISITORS to their country a iove| month Are receiving many tokens of friend- a mater which strength-| ATLANTA.-Attracted by the Recently her young huaband had ship « 4 will, Among the wo the ties of friendah iready |smetl of smoke at the unton sta-| been detained down tawn in the I was the interest shown | sation and saw flames issuing from |neas engagement. Wifle wasn't to he people by the leaders | the third story of @ stylish hat worn | sit up for him, she waa iyformed om, Gen. ¢ " Kowo),/by a pretty girl who was eating | by telephone, as he would he quite and other educators by the exponi-| tion managoment -~ the vietor at Port Arth now! Pieaineak | president’ of the nobles |°% depot sandwiches in the lunch | tate getting home. Wifle’s mother shington unlveraity pre-| Pex" and virls ‘The hero of the na-|room. An alarm was promptly turn-| was spending a fow dayp;with her, Ident Chilberg was pres-| iren.” Baron Maeda te Piatt cull- led im. The No. % howe reel was|so whe wasn't lomesome author of & fender and. ureramae {first to arrive, by which time the| Along about 2 a. m. in comes that i# stud 4 throughout’ the na-{fire had gained great headway and| young husband, whose presuing pore ‘reat men are it#| wag spreading toward some glass | business bad involved the taking of a Our own men said some mighty | srapes on the second floor and en-|of rather more strong drink than eormen they will receive while ing 86 cities of Americn during the next few weeks | Baron N. Kundo'n address was witty, instructive and touched the te of bis f a things oft frt ween th received, President r Whitworth college ald ‘iis achool | had used a pelt nlways tire everyboay. by | by the dang of the apparatus, suc on outlined a| vel instruction «well welt | dies, ing the wings. Before water |he would have cared to have wifie wad thrown by the gallant fire lad-| know about. So he took off his however, an unknown hero| shoes at the front door and, with © bottle with tell-|/out turning on any lights, tiptoed | softly to his room and sat Bown on the edge of the bed to undress had expert J self confidence was now confirmed. | She is to get $20 per week, have "¥’ TRACT AND i6 NOW A MEMBER OF THE PONY BALLET. and all of ber) it's fun to bave supper out Goors, | cluded in aw THE SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND. MAGAZINE PAGE except when the rain comes down and away the chorus would go, anly to be stopped shart and made to repeat a single strain « score of times. By the way, did you ever think bow foolish aré the score words which carry th tory of a musical comedy? special | songs which do not rettte to the eomedy bring out the encores | Kdythe ts to try out dancing t and have some new expert ences and she is still unafraid. 1 have told her that if her money gives out I will loan her a few liars and whe hi soem 4 straw ack hat Ina Sixth ay, shop which SIGNS THE MANAGER'S CON. she'd like to apend $5 for, She! ways: “I'm the plainest dressed girt in New York, Mins Pollock never mind, I'll have nice clothes In 1950, |. “Iam thinking seriously of marry ing.” sald Mise Strongmind, “and! you'll be «lad to hear that Tim now Benttle, W hanno STAR DUST donk Wine Sayer Piano Recital A.-Y.-P. Auditorium Tomorrow Night PROGRAM Ontter am devoted jnneit his lawn Mos Eula Howard | The Distinguished San Francisco Pianiste No Admission Charge Conseis i ’ a atranger | Bhe¥ and 1 intend to remain one, Good da Cor wee | Of Course the CHICKERING | ‘ Paraphre tors PIANO Will Be Used | That lady looked at you as if she knew you.” Ye who ia my the biewest jobs in Ne is to love his wife about a millionth part asx much as it sound. | td in their love letters.—New vork|} Eilers Music Bidg. Third and U; volver. This tittle gun saved my life! “WE'LL one How exciting! Tell me about tt” “L was starving and I pawned it Cieveland Leader Small axes fell great treos.—Ger man. Letter Carrier —~Reiny weather, Farmer Farmer—Yes; our boarders « kickin Latter CarrierThey can't you for the weather blame Farmer—Can't eb? Goxh, some of ‘em soem to think T ought (o furnish , moonlight nighta—Hoston Tran "nce AEM script INavy Yard Route wale 4 ee gy j Can't y the detatie | nlor p a very large business,” ox plained the new clerk « 1599, \ eamer on type know, but you seem to be able| Thursday. Saterday and Sund: aoe without a card index.”——| pose tor Geattioeise |" Ote® City Journal w vere ; (encen Sis, 20:18, Lids ow FARE, 30 KOUND TKI ae weapons at the] 3,836 > om Poe Be, ese} to 1k bent — Black Phones: Ind 729; Main 2161, eaeaceeetin Ba Fh. en OO > Little Wiltle—Say, pa, what ts a | eeniuss EVERETT AND EDMONDS Pa-A genius, my son, is a person m natere lete hk the ground floor, but whom cireumstance foree te tive tn an the Chicago News. MEALS siuVED Me rowne tripe Gakiy. _tanve t #0. says it's o,/ *, Colman dock it's 90 even if] ind “T38 Wiaconsin | Credit That Satisfies —that has no red tape about it —that makes unlimited allowance for sickness or loss of employment —that costs not a cent more than if you speak to your father ed young Lightwate. pa in already married.”—Spokane onicle Got the Craxe. always a tire?” T can't afford an automobile “Kansas City Journal ppear in some day. Nice clothes! Yes, my little girl, but Mitle do you know of the} souls that are sacrificed in the} name of nice clothes, of the flesh | that is bartered for the poor, quickly perishing coverings which such as you learn to prize above honor and all else in life. { three; one, two,! | Miss Potlock'’s story will be con- 8 others is ike getting peal in a letter An idle rumor is about as busy ax & pesky housefly. The toper’s peck of trouble is al- waye full and siopping over. y Mr, True: My husband won't go to church. Can | turn him into the right path? Pious Heipmect Dear Sir: careless, although we have |been married nine years. He has a | habit of throwing his clothes on the Mr. True, is very My husband floor when he retires, I would dear paid cash This is the Credit we offer you to” make the buying of your summer outfit easy. Why not take advantage of it? Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc. 1332-34 Second Av. 209 Union St. “Seattle's Relioble Credtt Howse” eRe: ik ROUND TRIP, SEATTLE TO ounce “VIA FHE COMFORTABLE age Island-F. risco For Full Particulars and Information Apply to j Geo. P. Cave, Gen'l Agt. C. D. McNaughton, pet: | 705 Second nate Near Cherry MASSILLON, O. coming so bold around here that | they steal steak out of frying pans. | Mra, John Suivers was preparing | ‘Tramps are be- breakfast when two of the pan handlers called and asked for food. iM was raining and the woman let them step in. While she was get-| ting them bread, one speared a luscious steak that was frying on the stove with the woman's um- and passed it out to a friend t h a window. The man left before ane loss was discovered. Estimable Sir T hate to knock|™ my wife, but she is always before the glass primping. I even have to walt for my meals on account of her vanity, How can I gently re- buke her?—A Mere Worm. “White Machines | $30 B. D. VORIS Pioneer Dealer In White Sewing | Herring-Hall-M Safe Co. Machines. Dear E. Veritas: aged man, My father ts an and I do not like to be 1105 Third Avenue. Ko a tow works | Was reduced to a smoldering mass| The bang, when young husband = ape eae gf Bagrp all fee proud of the edus|of debris, ‘The salvage corps | hit the floor, awoke everybody in The young people of | gh gf ee searched the ruins, owing to a re-| the house including wifie's mother, J for knowle ¢| over the gathering, and triendly Hew | port that a rat was burned in them, Young husband was very properly | BD awe giott a d me away |but its body was not found, lectured for coming home in that “ by applica: the A wi 1 op-| ‘The origin of the fire was traced | beastly condition, lower grades, Japan tine aroused a gous have }y | to the fact that the girl in her haste - - » it mgood Three ‘akos which ia|to eatch a train bobbed her head POINTED PARAGRAPHS. sible places of government and hue. |by much a tell FS on of the to against a cigar Hghter, The train] Some women's only interest tn lite re) now Over there were educated in our universities, These graduates! God spead! ceeded in making her way to safety, clad only in her clothes. The hat Let un wish our Japanese frtends _ delayed five minutes by the ao-| is to dress to kill, jent, But wifle that day had moved||!y love to teach him better.—Outot- the bed. Patience, ANSWER: NAH. JEM \TO. THE FLOOR, a HEU. HANG eM Learning from the up NEXT, TIMeL experience of harsh with him, but he persists in eating with his knife, answer?—Mra, Gibble. ANSWER FEED nin Is there an MANUFACTURE gic OCCIDENT ay Diosed Sept. 6th the Rxpositlon. We will bed H | | } H Ind. Phone 594, | Sunset—Main 705, IANO coKOR RENT. a SRWRN SYS Fake Elevator to T K. Shoe Store, 204 litg.. cor. amd tnd. 1082,