The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 5, 1911, Page 4

Member of United Press. Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Batored at Seattio, Wash, po stoffice as second-class matter : ; ; NO, THE TELEGRAPH OPERATOR WAS hy NOT ASLEEP——-WAS HE TO BLAME? ba There was a wreck not long ago at Molinta, O., at t crossing ot Raps, the engineer's wife and children, it was merely a passing inot dent in railway annals. But, though merely an incident, it ts a significant incident The operator of the signal tower was responsible, No doubt about & There hadn't been a train over the crossing for three hours. The signals were mixed—one signal lamp had blown out. It seemed ar, @nd it was so reported, that the accident was due to the operators Begligence But was the operator really to blame? Before we decide this question, let's seo what the duties and emol ‘Wments of this particular railway telegraph operator were. Those were Most of the duties Carrying mail, selling tickets, checking and handling baggage (In @luding sample trunks), putting up, cleaning and taking down all switch Qnd signa! lamps in the vicinity (about a dozen) doing the janitor ‘ wk at the depot and the Interlocking tower, cleaning, olling, ad: the signal tower and manipw 0 sting and repairing the machinery of ting the same, assisting the agent in clerical work, and taking charge @f the telegraph office from 10 p. m. to 7 a. m The emoluments? Forty dollars a month—less than ten dollars a the operator, then, really to blame? Is the operator really to be blamed at all? lame “big business” for the marder—no less than that . J. Lewis, who was killed at Molinta Junction? For it stands to reason that competent, reliable @ecured to do for $10 a week the work that this unfe Green boys, incompetent older ones—tt are itch in many, many of our signal towers; the leep at the switch. And they are more to be When they do. Some day, perhaps, we shall have official boards for the examination @f signal watchmen; perhaps—who knows?—federal boards But probably we must needs own our own railroads before we @an achieve this Should we not, rather, of Engineer en cannot be tunate operator men who men who fall the ar pit A WORD TO ALL PARENTS. Tt t& a long time since anyone has sald anything sweeter about @bildren than Pastor Hucke! of Baltimore: “Some people think of children as a burden, or a bother, or an feconvenience, or an expense. They may be all of thiw—but they are it. They are worth all they cost. Children help us to renew our th. They make us read fatry tales aga! they initiate us into ‘* games again; they Introduce us into the fascinating world their young friends. Children make us kindly toward all ebildren. open up fountains of sympathy. Children teach us infinitely than we can teach them. Children are really given to train & parent in the way he should go. Children bring us messages t from heaven-—messages of innocence, tenderness, dependence. ve. A parent's love and sacrifice—a true father or mother would @e for their child—is a vision of the supreme sacrifice in Christ. A | od home, with the child in the midst, becomes a very window of v a MORTGAGING A MAN FOR LIFE. Chinamen still struggle to get tnto the United States. They are to suffer and to pay for the privilege. It costs them about } for passage acroas the ocean and services of guides to show them ‘ weak spot on the border. Once safely across, they get Jobs as cooks, gardeners or laundry. men, at $35 to $50 a month—as much as they would make tn a yea: fm China. They mortgage themselves to refund the company that Mnances the adventure. But what if they don't get fn and are sent back to China? Ah, ‘s the rub, for then they are mortgaged until they can pay back Whole expense, including return trip, at Chinese wages. And that practically a mortgage for life! It's awful to be a Chinese coolie! TODAY'S GOOD SHORT ONE. “What did ye say the doctor's name was?" “Dr. Kilpatrick,” was the reply. “That settles it,” replied the sick man, “that doctor will not get @ chance to operate on me.” “Why not?” asked the nurse. “He ix a good doctor.” “Maybe so, but not for me. You see, my name is Patrick.”—Detroit E: OBSERVATIONS . HIRAM JOHNSON says he's for the La Follette brand of tn- 5 surgency. That's the stuff! oo oO A MAN I6 VISITING the agricultural department at Washing: ton who got rich at raising potatoes and strawberrics in Alaska. ‘Think of that! o oo AVIATOR LATHAM says he found the alr above Los Angeles Hike Swiss cheese. Now see what old Otis has done by his promis uous cussing! oo o PORTUGAL is to model its new government after France's. ‘Thought the whole trouble arose over a French model—or was she an actress? o 0 0 THAT Adams county, Ohio, grand jury has indicted two minis- ters for selling their votes. They were cheaper than Judas. Sold for $5 apiece. oo o INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION formally de ¢lares that football as now played is 4 safe game. It Is—for the doctors and undertakers. o 0 o IF UNCLE SAM can keep shop for fuel and ship supplies at either end of the Panama canal, why can't he do it at either end of the Harriman railroad system? ° 0 o NO dancing at the insurgent inaugurals in California and Ne- braska. That is, none of the society sort. Maybe some of another kind when the reformers get real busy. oo 0 SHOPLIFTER MARIA FERNANDEZ has got an awful sentence @ Los Angeles judge. Can't enter a shop during the next Year. Just think cf that, girls! But you watch the offers of mar- Flage pour in on Maria! ° ° 0 MRS. STETSON’S followers protest against the guarding of . Eddy's tomb. Think it shows lack of faith in Mrs. Eddy's ity to rise from the grave. Shows lack of faith in some people who haven't got as far as the grave to rise, anyhow. oo ¢ ED KEATING, Los Angeles millionaire, is accused in Hazel’s Aivorce petition of shooting at ghosts, saying awful things at din- Rer, throwing sofa pillows around, kicking in the auto and getting fed hot when sbe plays the plano. The judge might hear Hazel hit the piano a few. It sounds like a case of plano to us, ° 0 oO HARRISON FISHER, the New York artist, has picked out Miss Maurine Rasmussen of Frisco as the typical’ American beauty. She's of Irish-American descent, has black hair, blue eyes and a mouth that looks like two cherries sparring for a toe holt, Fisher says she has a “slashing head and good jaw.” He wasn’t looking for &@ good head and a slashing jaw. Maurine is a quarter-century old INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, SOURNESS, GAS AND STOMACH-HEADACHE GO If what you just ate {s souring on|Diapepsin ia harmless and tastes Your stomach or lies Ike a lump of|like candy, though each dose con Jead, refusing to digest, or you|*#!"# power sufficient to digest and belch gas and Poetic ‘wie Bat Prepare for assimilation into the gested food, or have a feeling of diz- giness, heartburn, fullness, nausea, bad taste in mouth and stomach headache—this {s indigestion A full case of Pape's Diapepsin costs only 50 cents and will thor- oughly cure your out-of-order stom- and leave sufficient about the house in case some one else in the family may suffer from stomach trouble or indigestion. Ask your pharmacist to show you the formula plainly printed on these nt cases, then you will under- stand why dyspeptic trouble of all ds must go, and why they usu-| Get some now, this minute, and Telleve sour, out-of-order stom-|forever rid yourself of stomach # oF indigestion in five minutes, trouble and indigeation, sides, {t makes you go to the table with a healthy appetite; but, what will please you most, is that you will feel that your stomach and in. testines are clean and fresh, and tives or liver pills for billousness jor constipation This city will have many Diapep sin cranks, a8 some people will call them, but you will be cranky about this splendid stomach prepar ation, too, if you every try a Lit for indigestion or gastritis or any other stomach misery, THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE 4 than blamed | blood all of the food you eat; be-| | You will not need to resort to laxa-| THE STAR—THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1911. Dy Mall, out of city—-20 cents for one month, 60 cente for two months, 75 cents for three months, Twenty five cents per month when sub tion is for three months or more. STAR DUST WOR6E THAN A MUGTANG, ‘Before You Marry a Man, See Him When He’s Wine and woman! . . di Drunk, Is Advice of Girl Who Has Seen Tragedies | "¥35."¥.227%%% a eau ? . Age improves wine - we “6 eae But woman It doesn’t! You May Think This Girl Is her; asks her to marry him, and ; Entirely Wrong, But Any- it's done, She's as happy asa lark.| The expected never happens, The 5 how Let's List Wha Jimmy is such a nice young man. | unoxpected always happens—which } now Lats Listen to ty “Then comes the awakening proves that we don't know so| She Has to Say, for She Be “about 8 G, X. she is startled | much, after all lieves It Is True, }from slumber by the overturn | jot @ table or chair, Instinetively| The girl you courted, the bride| | and I always say, before she reaches for Jimmy, thinking) you proudly led to the altar, the} you marry, get him drunk,’ | buralars are in the house. But Jim | woman with whom you spent a de-| | Miss Frances Baoh, now alnging my len't there Bhe ia about © lirtous honeymoon, is identical with | jat a downtown cafe, was talking scream when the light is turned on | your wife, Mr. Husband, Please let | to the police reporter land there, dizay and drunk, t# Jim: | this soak tn, Now, bold op, folks, Miss Baon }my. She erles, Jimmy curses her doesn't approve of intemperance jand smashes the furniture-—maybe| how na a man who has defeated | 5 She Is strongly opp: d to it. You'll jthrowe @ shavmg mug at her for! john Barleyeorn.in a rough and| probably say she is wrong, but, let's having furniture in the flat tumble fight, and we will cage a| listen to her reasons Money In #hy he must HAVe| white blackbird and or ft at} 5 j Why get ‘em drunk?” even the rome to pay the rent, Bhe asks ur how charges prepaid road | | potloe repe ‘ Jimmy, whe uch a niece young i % Well, I've Been singing in high man, for son ange, Jimmy has! 1 27 years the Kimberly diamond clans restaurants where liquors are been drinking again and she picks nes yielded $420,000,000 worth of sold and while singing I've watched |herself up from the floor, pursing | diamonds. Got your share? and studied men, young and old, and }@ great welt where Jima fist | the effect liquors have on them; struck her Devotion By rane gr yo and I | “Bhe knows now what Jimmy ts ieee toe 4 DF sede le ont thrown? | Don't you dare put this In the and it's the divorce court f rive - “— oo Mh | 5 r 4 the baby girl, 1 t h er,” she suddenly interrupted | jand back to the abirt waist « | Five Fy Bovay Rye Ben Ba ge oe he | | again igure to wh only . ¢ brown and You seem in your All men, of course, are not Ike wd bit xis eee theory,” evaded the Jimmy. But sober Jimmy was euch i os Coo Me i *, 1am a nice young man. Now, then, here|, It Was remarked the oth “nt She Thinks It Over, is my cont 5 ee $ The words came slowly as the P “Had Mrs. Simm her hu f re not MEN, dear cyni ; . . R. furtively watched a nifty Ittle band und fluence of liq Those ware not MEN, dear cynic.1e Better Cough Syrup Than $ hand pull petal afte } from an before whe © ed t © one ) a aeeeeen 3 es ENO) You Can Buy P| ° | thought w from fae @ to wa a, EEE, iy nee Re A Family Supply, Saving $2, § pher bre advice to the girls is: | | olen 5 been comentt and Fully Guaranteed . niin - ‘Oh if you want 1 sup) G k before you marry ie 4 bed penengedl fee gee = © pose you would anyway him depends upon wha’ . Go here &t ts Just then Mixes Raon tripped away | °O** » SMILE AT YOURSELF IN My theory's thin: If half the to sing, “I'm on My Way to Ret a Bie — | women who are now secking or| and the P. R. ducked for the night] A Comic Book. | jhave sought relief in the divorce jair to think it over | » day an ox-ne | | court had been given a chance to BOYDEN, |congressman will write a it i know their busbands better, to see } ndals | Know About Congress,” |ee jthem under the influence of intoxt |\OPERATED ON LION and he'll be the most famous and} gts cants, there would be fewer Ul- CUB; NEVER AGAIN "c80* living writer—if be escapes rie mated men and women ’ alive Here are some important things “Never does a man more truly oa : a j - : | show those characteristics, which, NEW YORK, Jan. (Dr. Wiliam) Two Words Defined. | for you to consider Your teeth funder normal conditions, tie hidden Sayder portormed - 7: at "| That sallow, lean, dyspeptic, |* |may be decayed badly enough to in the depths of hi I, than why & 1¢-month- old croas * o otistical laxative enough to he terfe ith yo 0 l influence of alcohol.” As she appeared in musical comedy. | was over he de-|® r-4 ogy rar echas. Gl, taal! ‘ sion when you talk or laugh. Some Explains Her Theory. (She doesn't sing in this costume clared that he! cerful, ploasantfaced, laughing. |,, 7 on |of them may trouble you when you “Conselossly, asl sing. 1atudy the| at the cafes) never agaln PO | Lcerful, popular chap you mest is| ™, | are eating or drinking. Again, they faces of those betore me Often 1 ; | pa a.4 ‘ ‘ton an OPTIMIST | may keep you awake nights. If you ave watched the progress of some wages, trying hard to live a decen ey o pee man who travels the highway from life. She m < man whe Heory Hudson : p | Sernennes any ‘et theater | kentee! sobriety to drunken, sodden seems so nice ake of him as y the Hon, develop oe a as being part of your experience, |ruffiantam. There are many men husband. About her Is ed a tumor in bis ne |we want to suggest that you ask > THAT BIG Loom ey have im reely, you see ing wor oO more worry Ove A of PUNO Ora : wa | " they are not mistake of yester while dis Joly an CORNER boo jered from a business standpoint: “I have seen men come fn with tractingly tired ar y able to would save his le ares | Would not your time be worth more their wives, perfectly sober and all stand, are bh 5 ~ ite. iene (tO yourself or employer if your tender solicitation, and become dreams—then the 4 The surgeon cautiously entered toe tt tolteeth were good? Is it dread of rude, brutally mean and contem: other girls she going a's cage carrying _ knives " refund the purchase | ible. . | married,” and, last and m antiveptics and a sack. The | X Ady. | pain or on account of the expense “In this the fault of wine and/drous triumph, that of telling succeesfully car | MEALS SERVED. that you neglect your teeth? Pa» whisky? LI eay no. It fe the man,/| Moorwalker to “get somebody elag” fried out at etre was | Ste, City of Bverett of Telegraph. j} tients of our office know that dem the material of which he is made|—and mean It la envelop Henry's head in a bag } tal operations are not so harmful, revealing itself. She Marries Jimmy. nd tle bie forefeet to the bare of | . is ar kaw at “Take the girl behind the counter.| “Say bis name is J y. Jimmy Bhe cage. The lice kicked and fought | after all; they kno guar She works for pitifully small/asks her to the theatre; he likes but finally ary's mouth j antee our work to be the best, an@ [ees a = muasied. his head covered with | they know our charges are the low the bag and paws fastened to the } ont Th C i P liti l B bare of the cage. Then the surgeon | | e Uom o ca Oss made an incision five inches long | ath, Punt vive, dali, Ieee Se] REGAL DENTAL OFFICES tn the HMon's neck, removed the —» Oe Sésttie "When women have their longed-for| tumor, dressed the wound, took / ep 1405 Third Ave., N. W. Cor. Union rights jsevon stitches and the thing was Fett ° | done. “Want” A And mix io all election fights, Henry Hodson in doing quite well ene Cotman cot: Star ant” Ads Are Aud men, more men, are sorry — - * ject to change Busi heed endl FOR new, modern forniahed reams at| SRiNNEY A, NOUGH, THE VIL Main 2908; tna iness Who vainly mourn thelr losses, 2 EM soled behets Will then we be compelled to mind | sremagevsangses~ Some loader of new womankind, | TODAY’S STYLES TODAY ; Who keeps our freedom undermined ¥ And posts sa» bonseent Our January Clearance of And will she choose to dominate Fr uw R re} | T Ww Ht E co Street Dresses The party, and then nominate SECOND AVE BETWEEN PIKE G Ping. The persons we abominate, Offers some exceptionally strong values Like all our bosses do? in serges, cashmeres, voiles and broad- Or will she pick the proper dames} cloths, in various shades and a diversity Who'll further just the people's | ERMS l O SUI | y of braid-trimmed effects. Following are claims, | examples of the values offered: Til we forget their husbands yee op $24.50 Couches, $15.00 $2500 Dresses |, GA8aD And give a deal that's new? | e 9 e $25.00 Dresses ....$17.50 $30.0 sses 22.50 Oh, there's the problem wo must} $30.00 Dresses ....$22. face (ooo When woman euters the merry 1 | $1.50 Heatherbloom Petticoats, 98 ‘ chase | eon aa sec ORS ee For fame, authority and place, m dod jen © cogrened Minoen Just Use Our Credit Plan But even if we don't advance 4 | 2 ‘ When femininity wears the panta, RAITT oa You don’t have to pay all cash with She can't be dodged, there's not a} LM SIE AO RE AE ES TEAS ARERR us—a little down and a little as you get chance paid is all that is required, and you do The coming party bossess. not pay one cent more for the conven- % elie shetsimiasinisenmpanaaienes ience. Why not have what you want to THEN IT HAPPEN wear when you want it? aut A quantity of well-made, attractively designed Couches “ ‘ sss is offered for two days at this special price. These are con- Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc. structed of oa »pular golden f h anc ols St. Valentine's day will fail cTptes oF Dak a, the popular golden Eitish snd -apholetanes 1332-34 Second Ave., Near Union St: a 8 ; with best quality chase leather. The interior construction . re ; on Tuesday; Lincoln's birthday, ‘ "*Seattle’s “‘Relioble Credit House’* Sunday; Washington's birth- is of steel. Couch measures 3-ft.x6-ft. Six patterns from ahi day, Wednesday; Ash Wednes- which to select. | day, on March 1; Easter Sun $ | day, April 16; Decoration day, $1 Now—$1 Weekly Tuesday; July 4, Labor day, September 4 . | ing day, Nov. 30; Christmas NEW day, Monday. — / The smoker says that it is better > to stoke here, and not hereafter. r . | Aw an afterthought he adds: Tho | oe °. home pipe is better than the down | = town affinity and the second | thought may have bred the first. Life is neither a joke nor) a} . | tragedy, except as we make it so. ewing ac mes | Overfatness Condemned This convenient vacuum whe want tow inthe mode this rear |g cleaner will prove a time and must understand that the demand t* for|B qa} ’ all abor saver to the house-wife, SCENE: Vestibule of the church, |! not curves, and govern themselves | I< oe e@ | DRAMATIS PERSONAE: Deacon | *cordinely i ; Edsy to operate, thorough in its Gink, and Deacon Boogiesmith’s|, That means OFF with the tat It hae : | TIME: Just before the doxOlOBY.| ines methods too siow and unreliable. | lutely free with pur- WHY jmencing to rain and I have no Um-|o¢ Marmoia Prescription Tablets. Any | amounting to $50 or MORE |brella. (Sighs). This Is really t00| aruggiat (or the Marmola Co. 468 Farmer ROE, ERAS |bad. What shall 1 do? (Looks| jue, b. Mich.) wil give you aff Over. Be sure that around and sees Deacon Boogle:|iarge-sizod case of tv want little £ you g , % sinith’s umbrella.) Ah Feducers, containing « good, ge All nS ag (THE END.) 18 cont these service- B D V oO RR E veh : . ax Rinioeas able cleaners, e e by Olga wag very much excited over mcription Tablets Pioneer Dealer in White Sewing Machines. Nora’s account of her elopement. being made atrict= i “How romantic! But weren't you the famous’ Mar : 1105 Third Ave., Seattle, Wash. Jafraid of the ladder slipping?” "i pihey, re of cones Phones—Ind. 594; Sunset, Main 705, Nora: “Oh, no! Mother wa: than otherwise, Infact a 7 peep 2 if he |turbing the stomach ‘ot causing’ 8 writ SEWING MACHINES FOR RENT,