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Published = of United Press. g Co. by The Star Publist Borers ot Seattle, Wash, postettion as Ae RRR * ha * *® WANTED—A man to polish & % woodwork; private residence; * steady employment * * * ee ee This advertisement in the “want columns” brings {ts own picture a picture that, looked upon closely, inspires no envious thoughts Can you see It, that massive pile of stone In some fashionable wenter? Do you hear the horn of the auto or the champing of thor ughbreds before the door? Do you see the glistening stairway that feflects the glory of a costly Parisian creation which enshrouds the | proud mistress of the palac Perhaps you think you would Itke to live in such a pal tally along about rent time, when Johnny needs a new pair of shoe Bnd little Sue's dress is getting to the point where it can’t be turned aga! jaybe you would be happy there. brings a second picture. it Is a vislon—rather a memory—of a woman who dusts each day a cheap little center table in the “partor” and lovingly rubs a reugh cloth over a dent in the paneling next the door, Her hair is whit atep is slow, and she stoops But as she works, that little scratch in the table brings to her fgain the day when her little boy—a man now—sat upon her @bd played with her shears as she sewed patches on his stockings. at dent brings back the day when he ran, crying, to her apron, efter rushing heedlessly into that panel. She is proud of that boy now. He may not be she knows that he is something infinitely better But the vision of this splendor & great man, but & good and useful jomething to her in her years. She would not trade them for the most highly polished bit of furniture tm any palace. They tell her that she builded something better than & palace, and that her life had greater interests than the polishing of woodwork. A house without some scratches on the furniture? A pile of Marble with woodwork that must be kept Inviolat An edifice with ut the trademarks of careless childhood and happy motherhood? Such a place answers no cry of the heart for a HOME. THE BRANDEIS MEDICINE The ratlroads say their proposed rate increase 8 per cent to their operating expenses. Louis D. Brande fmprovement in efficiency would reduce operating expenses cent. He would save in equipment charges, in the conduct of machine repair shops, in planning work before performing !t, in standard methods, material and equipment justrial performance, in offering adequate Becomplishment. Now, this is a very bold proposition on Mr. Brandets’ part—that he will teach the railroad men their business to the tune of a daily paving of $1,000,000, or $300,000,000 a year. offers strong medicine to sick railroads. Or will they ignore the prescription and hit the public for more money? If there is any power in the government, people’s side, the railroads will ll swallow a good stiff dose of his new tonic, HONOR AND FAME KNOW NO SEX would add only 20 per rewards for individual over the head and if that power ts on prove Brandeis wrong or they Efficiency.” The French Academy of Sciences has declined to elect to its mem-| bership Mme. Curie, who, with her late husband, discovered radium, and who is one of the world’s greatest investigators and scientists, Note the reason given “The election of WOMEN is contrary to AION, which it would be wisest to respect.” ~ Thus is the world held in thralidom to the past But the world moves, even in the French Academy of S Where were 52 men who voted to break “immutable tradition,” who stood pat The world honors Mme. fants do not. TODAY’S GOOD SHORT ONE Bernard Shaw, presiding at a banquet, @uce Sir Edward Lyon, who conf! his diet to nuts. “And now,” sald Mr. Shaw, “I present to you Sir Edward Lyon the of the earth, earthy, and of the nuts, Butty."—Ladies’ Home Journal IMMUTABLE TRADI to 88 Curie, even if tradition-bound French sa OBSERVATIONS | VICTORY for Grandpa Diaz! wut a fight. oe « WITH «& total population of 191,909, the Hawatian 863 Japs. We scem to already have ® Jap army ENGINEERS raising the ° Maine up by internal explosion Qhat 12 years ago. te. eae. MRS. CATHERINE M. SI RANCE Sromen’s clubs,” is 91 and doesn't deny it. fount grandly for human good. istands have our midst. “suggest” to Taft Pretty late. All that she was Spain suggested of California, “mother of And she has made her life ewe. PINCHOT told Chicago Sunday that unless more Goldén Rule is it into public affairs, more socialistic doctrines will be put into effect. t's how she’s headed, Gifford! . s - ESKIMO MENE announces that neither Peary nor Cook found pole. As human testimony accumulates, the necessity for sending falter Wellman and the cat into the Arctic grows. ° ° oO PROF. CASTILE, zoological sharp of Harvard, has bred two new 3 Chicago packers are out for 60 per ®ent profit this year, and we're going to need rats. et ae: MILITARY now aid in publishing Lisbon's monarchist newspapers. keep off the republican mobs outside while the editors taside lak up opinions that wil! flatter ex-kings and not hang editors. ° ° o TWO Japanese warships are inspecting the Panama canal zone. Sapan has placed an order for rice such as she placed just before the jumped on Russia unexpectedly. Peady for some antiJap legislation. ‘Soar ee HIGH society Chinese ladies have part in politics at Peking. We don't know much about Chinese poll tics, but we guess those Chinese mesdames have made the correct Btart in cussing Minister Wai Wu Pu until he doesn't know whether he’s a statesman or a horse thief. ‘lease get scared, uncle! begun 0 © © UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT set aside United States dis trict court which set aside Seattle's plan to set aside Mayor H. Gill That nursery yarn about “The House That Jack Bullt” ought to be fewritten. The steer that tossed the dog that worried the cat that @aught the rat isn't modern enough. ater ie CACHE of burglars’ loot has been found in Rockefeller’s yard at Cleveland. We take pleasure in saying, in justice to Mr. Rockefeller, ‘whose reputation as a fine Christian gentleman {s well established that he did not know that this loot was on his premises. will restore this loot to the rightful owners. Police right successful at restoration Special Train to Tacomatt FOR Lester - Muldoon Bout TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 17 Leave Seattle 7:00 p.m. g Leave Tacoma .... Bh 30 p. m Arrive Tacoma -8:15 p.m. IF Arrive Seattle 2:46 a, m (Special leaves Ballard 6:20 p, m.; returning, arrive 5 aaa 1:15 a. m. Ponitortable Coaches, No Delay—Buy Your R. R. Tickets Early So ample ccommodation may be provided. TICKET OFFICE, KING STREET COLUMBIA AN SECOND. | PASSENGER STATION, are sometimes lap | attorney for the shippers, says his proposed | in keeping accurate records of | Will they take it?! | was called upon to tntro- His army has taken Guerrero with | { Ren California legislature is getting | taking a conspicuous | The police | Bishop Rowe—He Guards Men’s Souls, From li rips with dogs and sleds, and I Man Talks With Man }do yet during the winter and when Who Has Largest and Cold-|1 nave to make cross country est Bishopric in World. trips. I also used a small canoe, - — in which I would paddle up the Yukon, with a lone companion, but That there is in Seattle today an| after a few thrilling escapades in Episcopal bishop whose territory | the rapids, I decided upon a safer in probably the largest and certatn-| means, When I was in tho states, ly the coldest in the world? not long ago, I purchased a steam That his work covers roughly | launch.” from Ketchikan to the North Pole? That he wae appointed firnt through the activity of J. Plerpont Morgan? That last year this bishop travel jed 4,000 miles through his parish, joing by dog sled, by boat, and mushing on foot? | Star | bO YOU KNOW— With these facts in mind, the in terviewer went out to a little home| out on 34th ay. to see P. T. Rowe, bishop of Alaska, who is “out for the winter.” The Star man wanted to find out what sort of man this Bishop Rowe was and how it all happened. Was Historic Meeting. Tt seems that about 15 years ago there was a notable Eplacopal con vention in St. Paul. That conven. / } tion made railroad history because - | it first ght together J. P. Mor gan and J, J. Hill in personal and ' / |Dusiness relations. It also started the Alaska bishoprie. | There was skepticism and dis-|~ nt when the proposal wat made to send a bishop up there. This was before the days of the Klon dike rush and people didn’t know much about Alaska, except that it | was awfully cold up there, It would | coat a lot of money, too. | But » n was interested. “I'll jpay the expenses of a man for thr years to start the work he if you ean find the man.” ow it happened that one of the delegates to that convention was a young Michigander named Rowe, | who had been doing some good work among the Indians of North Jern Michigan. Th go, sald Rowe, simply. And | within a fow weeks, with his brave ung wife, he was ablished in | Sitka and was laying out his cam When I first went to Alaska,” the bishop continued, “It was eight years before the big rush. I one of the pio , and I blazed my own trails, made my own boats, sleds, depended upon my for food, made my own| my own own gun “THEN IT HAPPENED | (Our Daily Discontinued Story.) | paign. He doesn't look ik ehureh- man, does Bishop Rowe, except! from his dress. You'd take him jfor a sturdy miner, rather. He has| ® roughened, rugged face, with a| sort of perpetual dry bloom on it like a frost-bitten leaf in autumn His eye ts quick and alert. There | jare marks of hardships about him. | He outlined bis year's work.| No use talking, Gilpin's yellow Across the Chileoot Pass, shooting | purp was as worthless as a pair of the White Horse Rapids, dow Yukon and up the branches, wher lever there was a settlement, down into the Iditarod, and as far north | cided to eradicate the purp, whose jas St. John's Mission in the Wil-jname, by the way, was Narcissus. derness, a last desperate dash to-| Just to be sure the job would be ward the pole to the little settle |a complete one, Gtipin selected a ment of Ellkaket on the Arctic) likely looking stick of dynamite ocean and tied it to the vacillating caudal Some 4,000 miles in the year pendage of Narcissus. Then he “You didn’t ride on the trains|lit the fuse and ran for the house. all the way, either,” the interpreter} So did Narcissus, faithful dog | sugested. THE EN | | The bishop laughed. | Travels With Dogs. : | I first started making my uae” i | Looks Like Miner. | consumed was a crime. Gilpin de “Well, ] In Town! ments. Hot water heated. Madison car and wal tance. A Month jattended to my duties of org 1} $19.00 BIGHOP ROWE, ! |Ae Ho Appears “in Civilization.” implements, and et the same time ane ing the church and administering to the needs of 50 or more settle ments I had to visit.” And the bishop looked the part of a man who bas seen hard serv ice, but who was ready to go on with his work, And he is now pre paring—“getting into condition, an he calls it—for another dash up towards St. John's Mission in the Wiidernens. Suicide scares onused by deaf persons are not unusual tn a big hotel,” said a manager who had been reading a story of # particu ar Instance in The Star a few days ago. “I hardly think I #hould ceorate if I were to amy that such « thing happens in the case of an average of one in four deaf persons who travel alone. Only a few minutes ago we thought for re a woman on the seventh floor d made way with herself, when t turned out that it was because she was simply very hard of hear ng that she did not respond tc the loud knocking of the chamber maid on her door, and we bad the house detective up there. A similar % happened two days ago. If persons who are hard of hearing | id make a point of telling the| clerk as much when they regist it would in many cases save @ lot of worry.” In spite of his weight, Prest dent Taft has more endurance at dancing than Mre. Taft. At a re cent White House ball he for four hours. Kansas City—Employes of the Armour Packing Company over 60 yours of age are to be pernioned Three- ‘and four-room apart- Gas range, bath and toilet. king dis- Apply BOYER, The Bovingdon Eleventh Av. and Madison danced) |The only baking powder Far Ketchikan Clear to Arctic Seas in Alaska . do danesd 6 4.08 88 STAR DUST But ‘twas no giadsome frolic. | He simply had to do a turn The baby had the colle Carnegie says international peace is coming in a year or two, His former partners keep right on mak- | ing armor plates for battleships however. J. Pierp Morgan has gone to Europe to wait until the lambs fleece out again. Gov. Bass of New Hampshire wants corporations regulated. That makes it unanimous There are an average of eight dwellers in every house tn London. A row of nine apple trees on & farm in Maine yielded 90 b No. 1 fruit this season, besides a) few barrels of No, 2 grade. Straight Up. Smoke up, tobi 0 trust | A letter mailed 72 years ago has! just been delivered at Yonkers, N. ¥ | . | saw & man who bad a) cousin whose uncle ate a fried ees for breakfast. But that was a long,| long time ago. | Chicago prophet says the world | will end on April 7, 1911, Which end? We once How can ayNew Year resolution be “kept,” and at the same time carried out”? “Waste not fresh tears over old kriefs.”— Kuripid | 1 suppose, Heggie, that ie would sel! ~at soul for a cigaret.” Well, hardly for one take at least t ; up terribly of | Absolutely Pure made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar No Alum, No Lime Phosphate! t of cit it of city, By mail, « to six month $3.2 SAW ASSEMBLAGE OF VERY ODD EARTH- | BiRD-BRUTAS — DD NOT SNOW SIGNS OF HIGH ORDER OF INTELLECT, iN PACT, HAD PORTIONS OP BODY BEDECKED IN VAIN MANNER WITH SOFT PLUFFY ORNAMENTS EVIDENTLY OBTAINED PROM.HEAD-GEAR OF FEMALE BART H- BGINGS. TODAY’S STYLES TODAY Advance Showing of Spring Suits conveying the « new ng Suits are here the authentic season. ‘T are n ich ly t fects ; square sa lars, erge, in and fancy tail revers, a with silk bra 26 inches long constructed they are fu fort in walking We wel 1 en yme you Eastern Outfitting Co. 1332-34 Second Av., Near Union St. “Seattle's Reliable Credit House” Scandinavian American Bank AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, JANUARY 7, 1911 Loans Real Estate . Furniture and Fixtures . Stocks and Bonds . Cash and Exchange ......... Warrants, Capital Surplus Undivided Discounts Profits . ee eC RESOURCES $ 6,819,653 60 112 46 35,000 00 1,524,201 55 2,265,568 47 $10,730,536 08 LIABILITIES $ 0,000 00 500,000 00 460 72 Demand Deposits ... Time and Savings .. $10,730,536 08 We are pleased to invite additional accounts from b: yankers, Alaska Tut Jing, Home of the andinavian A an Banks EARNED by Depositors saving m the easies earn more NOW count from $1 upward is, corporations and individuals, ways and absolutely certain of every ser conservative bank can cx in this one b irest, s always an ¢ add to each of ¢ that a big msistently render, $178,290.98 IS THE INTEREST ings Deposits and ik for the year , or if you keep your money safest way yet knoy the § PAID to the Sa 1910. If idle, ye of mak € not missing ¥ xceller : ta new an old one. We welcome Savin Deposits may be sent BY MAIL f street car fare. Scandinavian American Bank RESOURCES, $11,000,000.00 ‘\. CHILBERG President J. E. CHILBERG Vice Pres. T. B. MINAHAN Vice Pres. J. F. LANE Cashier ame ALASKA BUILDING, SEATTLE, U. S. A.