The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 18, 1911, Page 4

renns BATUR WED vs Member of United Press, Published daily by The Star Wa “We Bar FS a IERABL A DAT! / AD AN Awd TINE GETTING OT NERO! e Star A Personal Word to Every Boy and Girl Reader of Th sections o but prizes low more in Beattie and other state Uncle Jack prizes given. fifty cents cash of the club wil There are than 600 boys have joined the Star Circle club. Begin in this department, but there will be « | First, cash; second, fifty By having only one contest a week ning @ prize. The contest for will be one for compositions. This is t |\/ASHINGTON.” The anniversary of the birthday of the “Father of Our Tell, in 100 words, why we good Americans celebrate this day as @ holiday, ar of the man Ali contributions must be written the top of the paper of first page You must mail your contribution or bring It to the office of The Star night, and address it to UNCLE JACK d girls ig next total five cents cash; third every member living who running this: a book of wine SE ORGE vary 22, © memory will have e contest These have the week or of ke t one dollar a book ave one ki fit vhe tr me fair chance re ye MOF are labeled “Taxpaye Before you vote anybody's advisory ballot, ask who is be hind it. Find out if the men who are appealing to have ever done anything for the taxpayers except to draw sal ; aries from them. Find out, in fact, if these men aren't the worst enemies the taxpayers have in Seattle. Ana well, ar pped next week had Country’ 4 do hor taxpayers’ ain in ink on one side of the paper; put your name and age than next Tr ow at again not later ureday be ad of he re stuck ry ba w wan of tk * LITTLE . THE CLUB. & * ee THE PRIZE-WINNING DRAWING open thing + behind Watehe SOME OF MEMBERS THE know OF here all night 1. headed la t h VORSE a at 1 axpay 4 ‘ v ste for a blind list, let him tell you| If anyone asks you to vo tay his name and his motive. BEFORE dying, a Los Angeles man wrote, “Two physicians mur dered me.” The police will not follow up the matter, The physicians admit that they got the man’s appendix two years ago. ey much We glad have bright Little entered tim . \ \ eral conte ha nati native ta are auch * cee to THE FALL OF THE HEN nev and We THE SILVER LINING many mon M 5 has past the have Ge shown talent tad bright famil y. accordi to yard full of b 4 the profe man are gorging taller In with a banker fessional Prie sional man. ther any wet fine been a w k is h fayori m big ith Em who a day rise nod the mark sh hen work ¢ NEVER TOUCHED HER. My dear,” said the long-suffer.| ba ing husband, “we could soon own| Wrest our own bh f you were not no ex . \ yoo {i travagant prt Yes, but what would be the use? | achoo! rejoined his alleged better half. “If er | we owned our home it would be . jonly a matter of time until we'd have to sell it to pay the mort gage.” r Une storag f toot definitely in ean « limits, cannot The 4. Seattle der other owner of a ached eggs, and blamed ple ™ boiled ¢ tried « the fortunate fried eKES, pC whenever b eantime a cken, prosperous wit boys Hi are int and well wr mught to deve ward winner hen is still a good bet MISSISSIPP! supreme court is wrestling with the question: “Can &@ man marry his mother-iniaw?" In the pending case the fellow did and we think he is entitied to the thanks of mankind for gliding with romance one of the sorriest jokes of the ages—the idea that no man ean possibly think kindly of his wife's mother. THE LIVING WAGE ! Under the New Zealand system of compulsory arbitration, the M court seeks to determine just one question. It is this “How much is a living wage? A big, broad question, too, involving the Constitutes decent hom food and clothing. tling that question itself. It capital and labor. In & recent case the employers thetr mine and pay a living wage. Decisi Thea shut up your mir We de tries iu this country that pay « livin Well, they didn't, but paid th Ht has been weeks ao eee eee ee \* Brewer, who with b and f r five little by ers and wi Vale CAN THIS BE TRUE? mothe ttle drops of water, oth Little grains of sand, the grocer's fortune Swell to beat the band ole Western Hemisphere mish In proper That's wh m a book 5 HONORABLE fo! with Spoke tion in big type, would rather ack has seat Stee eee eee ee el * THE PRIZE WINNERS. & of what/ on set-| consideration Society insists SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT It to be fought out By} Blox—They t 2 talks French fi Knox —Oh whe talks it enough, but the trouble nu understand her ee refuses to leave A CHANGE What every poll OF LANGUAGE THE STRENUOUS KIND hang around tle W you car Larry 1h MENTION, 4 cirls are claimed they couldn't a of the court ing al mat ked 1 M you wi have | up we won't dus body © Shut wage " er living n" they a NOTHING DOING. Felt Said She-—Miss Oldham says © a man after her own by 1 He—~Mias Oldham x ing under a delusion ayin ROBERT G. INGERSOLL gets his statute in his old home town of Peoria, Ili. It’s a splendid, heroic figure in bronze, set at the entrance of Oak park. And it is not only a monument to Ingersoll, but even more a monument to the tolerant spirit of the age, for there was a time when a statue of Ingersoll would not have been allowed anywhe: im the Christian wortd. OBSERVATIONS HLLINOIS farm statistics Nike 14,039 less owners tn 1916 than in 1900. a Sa | Bric-a-brac is junk that's got | society: OF abs 1911 PARABLES if you to sur little t * * * * * . * The RRR RR farmer adv edt and you not kw bing op sudden } in th But the man pa the f ) short days who gathers pus ns in th h a short it | makes ¢ from day Moral who p € ba ywa ad T who b gets th who th stlea who amen the business adlet that are the rest ¥ schem! work w o © wit income o tax And Montana tin drawn MONTANA has the incomes, to day He for Hke We n't r t o t yest of the might add that be had on ratifies the ame a nicely too. thatand ainen adaches Hard headaches. Dizzy, sick too" Cheap |headaches. Burning, throb- | fréers!, Paint & | bing, splitting headaches. — F 5 jAnd the great majority are [Doctor of " Ophthal molegy a — and Optometrist all due to constipation. Any- Sie te Bias Ges | thing better than Ayer’s Pills? aq : ys Ask your doctor, a on off sing wud a who te pet ean | CLEANING TIME 1S HERE 0 are going ° shock the is his JUST think of that meas! Advertising sections of magazines « o o @ ANTISKYSCRAPER movement in Chicago bas from 260 to 200 feet. Quite a slice, but still they tudinous to our ancestors o 0 nate the *. or tacking Taft's appropriation busine adver war pillt | ob ov t we t ma. you 1A good line LESS RISK. So,” said the brilliant attorney he chair and faced the youth just ou’ th law, do you No, I can't reduced the timit) would appear altt around in his office you want to study swung > Hing SENATORS BRISTOW and Lodge are at issue im the people holding the power. Lodge doesn’t will be the issue in every future campaign until it's o °o “LINCOLN came up from the soil,” said Mr. Taft in his Spring field address. Right, William! In those days there was still enough un-Guggenheimed soil for a fellow to come up on. a, ¢ THEY say the aeroplane has modern art in the early stages of dev the fact that it slays only its devotees, instead of the outside public o °o old age pensions in England is an in ariy half a million pounds booming In consequence ° versity St SED EDITIO Bristow believes | It is the Issue that ettled. REVI say that I do,” replied the youth, “but I guess have ° a * queried the legal light like this: I wanted it. T said by taking any cha OG. SCHAEFER, the You think you'll have to? answered the aster, “it's but my folks wouldn't stand for I'd get just as much coin to be pow nk a burglar jollars. | a lawyer S. neces £5. HEAL ONE world wonders what ¢ She gave her other half has for li case for his bi THING PRESENT longer death list than any other Adee pment. It's peculiar, too, in f the ® the bu pag fo bday (PAID ADVERTISEMENT.) ‘Geo, Debritz, Candidate for Councilman- ONE curious effect of the creased consumption of tea, amounting to ne day. Stocks of tea-planting companies Intest is to dress up a8 @ coachman and drive . day that girl may dress up as Simply hag to be In the newspaper some HARD HIT. Bearit lem Philadelphia B half i mitt t about fift jelgh — How has fa Hetin. nd redi and he only the Anothe ‘One Admission stepped up and sion and invited ¢ reciprocity. | * on it ultimate ab 4 1 didn't Looks good aa straw that reached y oi seasion of bis faculties to the | Don't know will b $6.50 Puts This EdisonStandard Outfit jays 2 rich uncle retain pos ° th mey | Lamt about Benrit | thousand give does feel ELEANOR SEAR through Fifth av. New York @ farmer and grow a beard. way Some = |Has Had Unlimited Experi- ence in Municipal Af- fa rs. Sore course of News Fifty | is a . = Chicago u » whole town in o oo © ENGLAND yells lustily at the prospect of Canadian Says it means complete conquest of Canadian trade and sorption of the Dominion itself by the United States to ws, all right! ie ere THE LIMIT | ‘wan when|, Bingles—They say old Skinnem|} my doortender got sick and I put a fe man ly etingy. green man in his place. I told thi dangles ngy' Why, he's so t anyone get in with.| nay he wouldn't even give a ‘nd when I went back | 4rowning man a drink of water f hour later I found him giving ja ticket to everybody that went ONE OF SEATTLE’S BIGGEST TAXPAYERS. ave a ‘oke its bac ca oe ene LATEST thing in vote selling is the allegation that patients from the Insane ward in an Mlinois soldiers’ hon wheeled the polls, and that the men who took them there got $10 apiece for the Yotes. Happened in Uncle Joe's district, too ae ERS JUST as soon as Baritone de Gogorza can wriggle through th divo: coart, Emma Eames is going to pay Mra. de Gogorza $100,000 , and take Emilio for her very own, according to cablegrams. They call | . it “le grande passion,” but it looks like le grande easy money for Mrs & de G. Once upon a time I owned a cir tol cus. It was @ three-ring circus, |} but once It showed In a mining camp that was on a drunk, and half the crowd went away ing on} it having six rings. 1 I also had a menagerie. sisted of a monkey ca arved elephant named a zebra that doubled as a tr mule in the arena when his str were washed off. | One day there was a fight with) were to George Debritz, | councilman-at-large green man for office has held several county posi this country In Portland positions uty assessor, and came out of the office with a clean In this city, among a host of business and social acquaintances, he is knowr more for his business ability as an jabstracter and real estate dealer In the last few years he has pafd | jin assessments over $19,000 candidate for not asking to support a Mr. Debritz municipal and since coming to 1887 he held, the place TO DISCOURAGE HIM George don't one of those birthda That's right dear wife's hush lm p them until our Willie w rm to smoke said ber husband's wife believe you have smoked gave you on ons in cigars I Most alwa amen ¢ 4 ® carpenter knows | any little fixings be puts up around a house and what they are for, but I put a shelf in « flat the other day that stumpe a} me said a member of the guild I put it In a bedroom. The shelf was about four feet long and six liking. Helinches wide and was held up by worn an overcoat, a silk| brackets, The woman who employ or a pair of kid gloves in allled me to do the work was very ‘ul lite. anxiou. about the height of the shelf, She wanted it at just such PLAUSIBLE THEORY. a distance from the floor that her Little Willie—Say, pa, why do|elbows would rest upon it when the merry viliagers and the canvas.|they stamp eagles on our coins? | Spread out straight from the shoul men rallied, crying, “Hey, rube.”*| Pa—Probably as an emblem of|ders. After a good deal of expert At that the elephant broke hig|*wift fitght, my son menting I got the shelf at the chains and stampeded the crowd, | proper height; then she told me It thought at last it was going to] what it was for It was to serve eh ened ee as a kind of lady's maid and help 1 had a queen of the high wire. fasten her dresses down the back. ites heel ate Ue chow Gath Ge The woman was alone in the flat wist teuet make wire so high fo all day and she had a terrible time Me a ning Hag gre with her buttons when she dressed During a storm the tent bie in the afternoon. She had discov. dotn. n ta ia eow, al Ge ered that if she had a shelf at freaks got burt except the living! elbow height to back up against and skeleton. He went through the can rest her elbows on she could get at yas like a darning needle. But| * the buttons twice as easily, and she there's @ grease spot on the tent|* figured that that convenience paid yet where he bit the tat lady + for the cost of the shelf, This and several other things| * w broke me up, There was a gang of| pickpockets followed the show, but they were guilty of unprofessional | conduct. They went through | crowd before it got to the among of dep- your the ‘ex. a MADELINE SULLIVAN, Chicago girl who has been trying outrun Chief Plenty Hawk and marry him, is game. She says he's the finest specimen of manhood on earth. Which is plenty tough on the rest of us fellers, seeing that last time Madeline looked on} the Hawk he was in Montaua wearing the title “Plain Drunk” Hawk reco! the alabe a ” A great man is Rai — son, and much to our has never hat his Thomas A It con a half. Rabe” and Mr. Debritz is a family man. Heogm |bas five children TODAY'S STYLES TODAY o 0 Oo UNCLE KITCHEL PIXLEY writes: “You notify old reciprocity | Bill Taft that we Mogadore folks hev looked the platform of 1908 all} through and don’t find no promise to cut down the high cost of our livin’ by putting our Rhode Island Reds on a equal footin’ with those consarned Ontario pullets, no how.” o “DEAR OBSERVATIONS: deposit fund. He has drawn use it to secure a divorce. Plenty, plenty, Mra. P.t eal to start another mutual deposit fund for Jow who'll spoil wifey's divorce fund sure o Mr and el ° and I had $2,000 in a bought an auto. I redress ?— Mra carburetors until divorcee purposes. loves his auto. mut nded P. a it to of Ha The city of Bombay 1,000,000 population. 2,000 telephones. eee ee ee ee es * * he agrees Any feb ~ has nearly and less than You Can Dress Well on Credit Our Easy __ BOXING — WRESTLING | {4 99 Prot. M &. eREED | Washington Bldg. | We're going to elect sen ators by popular vote anyway, & but of course it would be bet. & ter if the senate gives its * permission, But we don’t * care, particularly, one way or * t'other, * * RTT tk tte te Main The Rubber Store 714 Fire: tandard k the. foile Latest Btw Humphreys Seventy - Seven Breaks Up Colds and RIP “Seventy-seven,” taken early, shortens the attack. Payment Plan should ap- peal to you if it is a problem of dre ing on limited means; the values offer in our Men's and Women’s New Spring Apparel should appeal to you if you can afford to pay cash. In either case the price remains the same, no higher than quality requires. This should be of interest to you to know berol Recorda. Graphite. 1 bottle Of and 1 OW Can For $38 | of only $6.50 down “The chewing gum habit is not peculiar to girls and women by any means, Birds are fond of chewing | gum,” said one observing woman “The feathered chewers are very partial to gum from the spru Ave. Oldest Alaska Outfitters in Seattle Speaking the | they tek of telephones, have | installed your Morgan talk- [meter yet? “rite te they that We carry a complete tine of Rubber and Oil Clothing, Rub- ber Yootwear, Pacs, Aret: Moccasins, Woolen Underwear, Mackinaws, Mitts, Gloves, Blankets and Kenwood Sleeping Rage Seva Sega. Scar Main 6089. Phones: Ind. 2880, Be careful, during the prevailing ‘epidemic of Grip; keep your feet dry and your body warm, and take “Seventy-seven” at the first sneeze or shiver. Don’t wait until your bones begin to ache; until the development of influenza, Catarrh, Pains and Sore- ness In the Head and Chest, Cough, |Sore Throat, General Prostration and Fever, or the cure may take | longer. Humphreys Momeo, Medicine Co, Cor } Wiliam und’ Aan Btreete, New’ York g FATE NO FIDDLER, AFTER ALL, We supposed that Fate was not a fiddler at all, and we resolved to puncture his pretensio: “Kindly favor wu we sarcastically requested, “ » ‘Me Bird’ and vartations. Hasta on sabia. eth: The result was as we foresaw. Fate turned red, shifted uneasily from one foot to the other, scraped a few flourishes, and at last owned that he wasn't equal to the test, : iS SAM FELT THE CHILL, ‘& eginald is telling ever me bh Bp phil. Hest aaraeetinald ta telling every one ho meats that this fs the chil Jack—Don't doubt it, Reggy proposed to and has been rejected by five girls since Juno, When you find a lump of pure crys. tal tears exuding from a spruce tre you've got the best that’s going. “So the little song birds in the 200 seemed to think when a fresh Spruce tree was put in their cage a few days ago. The African waxbill, the masked weaverbird, the finches and others left the dishes of food on the sanded floor and took to the brfinches, You could see them pecking away at the small globules of gum as though they had met with & great treat, And no doubt they had, 4 will up in sho h fo get one It wilt be to aot quickly, Be here thing tomorrow have for you and only #8 outfits, It pays to deal at headg the first One wet special you pay no more for the conven ience credit affords you. Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc. St. 1332-34 Second Ave., Near Union **Seattle's liable Credit House"