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| THE SEATTLE STAR ember of United “Gail ‘The iar Publishing Go. mal, out ot sity, 00 conte per month uo vo ‘ix months, Six moutha 1.18 | The Birth of a Baby > Ona little tron bed in a stern prison hospital a baby girl first saw ‘of this world yeatorday. mother is Mra. Angelino Napolitano, rescued from the gallows American people, and the babe is her child, born a few days 4 the original date set for her execution, ‘The baby helped save her mother's life torn from her child and sent to disgraceful death that inaptred ‘of thousands of true-hearted men and women to mak the for Mrs. Napolitano’s reprieve—that, and tho fact that she had beciuse the brute who called himself her husband had tried to her into « life of shame. Tt was the thought of & A large percentage of: the firat day's depositors at Chicago's new savings bank yesterday were children. They lined up befo! ing hour. Seattle youngstere can begin saving those nicke| imes right now, to be ready for a postal bank here, Berger's Original Ideas Vietor Berger, socialist congressman, has called at the White House He had his requests to make, too. He waa not looking for ff privileges, dollar diplomacy nor even immunity from prosecution ‘Dehalf of his constituents. His requests were humbl oPirst, that a Texas boy, serving a five-year senten year for ach dollar) be pardoned and child labor boreafter eschewed the government. Second, that letter carriers be permitted to go in -Shirtsleeves on ‘very hot days. © What does Berger think he ix representing at ¥ > ehumantty? Well, the idea Is original. Ought to hington, anyhow it patented! Beattie police complain that they work too many hours. Stop|’ Mabel; they're not joshing. And there's an ordinance guard- from the possibility of nervous prostration, too. vilization-Cash Return “The true test of civilization,” said Math Arnold, the ques Is it tnteresting? And Edmund Burke said; “For us to love . Ur country ought to be lovely.” si River jay Nock, having traveled the length and breadth of Canada tatked with hundreds of Americans now settled there, says, in be American Magasine, that it is an undeniable fact that the United fails when measured by the rule of Arnold or the rule of Burke “ Americans in of sentimental ‘They find “What's the matter with the United States?” you ask. Mr. Nock isd we hope you won't think this name suggestive, for be writes io Aenderest strain of his love of our country) says “Life based on the economic conditions that m: our Industrial ‘our Industrial slums is not amtable, It cansot be. It fs with the curse of hardness, and the inevitable penalty that ‘on hardness Is hideousness. One's interest in It depends urn. When one puts aside, it has little fasctna- memory.” “an amiable, interesting ctvilization and advanced democratic instt thing we could get in reciprocal be her knowledge of “how to live.” Treason so many of our countrymen are going effort to make “a cash return™ bas resulted that fx barren, even in its pleasures, and hard to the If so, we bad better reform—eapecially as 95 per cent don't even get the “cash retarn.” ide the ranks of ardent baseball fans felt o y as they scanned the Northwestern league the Giants are © ing up on the scamper- 2 fine fighting chance @ piace near the top. ‘Loveliest Woman's Age is lovellest at 49,” says the beautiful Otero, famous dancer, over whom Paris has raved for 20 years, and is still ‘idly, But we had an impression that the most beavtiful woman ‘ever seen was about 26. She was stately, yet quick; quiet, yet fire at times; self-contained, yet suffused with blushes when it time for blushes; with maturity marked in her figure, still with of the girl. on second thoughts, maybe that one wasn't the most beautiful Rather to us now that it was a woman of about 36 it, she had about the same fine qualities as of 35. And, after all, we remember now that there were several others ‘ages ranged all the way from—oh, well, probably some of ‘em past 50. Anyway, IENTO girl's black hair has turned yellow in @ night. have taken a night bath in the Sacramento river. se 8 (MONTGOMERY, Ala. bas a chicken with two heads, three eyes, fee bills and four feet. Wonder how many eggs ft lays per day. oo o | OR. HENRY SMITH WILLIAMS, who wrote “The Science of Hap * says a large part of it is early rising. He sleeps six hours, ‘says that's enough for him. o 0 © GRACE GOULD says foreigners like American woman because of fnfinite variety.” Shucks! “infinite variety” can't begin to com- ‘with “infinity of dollars” as an attraction. o o o THERE seems to have been no place on Mr. Taft's monetary com or other soft perches for that distinguished lame duck, Mr. whom Oakiand has repudiated for accepting bribes from a water ° ° o (NEW YORK discovers with surprise that the average seaman is jJonger a drunkard and roysterer and that he usually saves bis money x Oh, yes, there are one or two things that New York still to learn. o oO o | NEW YORK hotels have been grafting $500 to $30,000 per year the taxicab men for use of adjacent streets as stands. That's : ‘the people who own the streets have to pay high for cabs, Isn't his bold-wy business a peach? territory, is now held up by that one respondent; and I am informed from creditable sources that an en- deavor is being made on the part of the city to compromise with the railway company, but that the lat. ter is affecting aughty pose, and CARRY POLICE CLUBS. Georgetown, Aug. 2, 1911. I think it is a y the women of Seat- ‘are stared at, followed and ac- sted by street mashers, Work- ig girls going to and from work, women shopping or going! refuses so to do. theaters, and, in fact, all women) Honest compromise is often tha “are constantly annoyed and ‘ccost-| better policy, but a compromise ed by these insulting brutes. | with the devil is dangerous and wi Sensitive women do not like to! satisfactory. We have waited p their husbands or brothers, or| tiently for years for this great pub not like to make @ scene, and) jic improvement, and we can wait suffer insults in sflence.|/ until September 5 next, when the Would it not be well for the women | new trial for the Oregon and Wash- of Seattle to carry police whistles | ington ha sbeen ordered, Then let ‘once for all squash this noxious | jt take what a jury awards It, and truly, Jet us pay for no blood money for jcompromise. I believe the tax- | payers have better use to which to Editor Seattie Star: Does any | put their money. | eitizen of Seattle, looking out over! The Northern Pacific | the Sound, taking in the big, vacant | award without complaint. So did Aimbered Magnolia bluff, wonder |the Great Northern, The bridge that magnificent plece of rest-) must cross all these Mnes of track. property is not densely| Should any compromise be made lagged with home? Hundreds of | with the Oregon and Washington, 4 owned by handreds of small|{t puts a premium on obstruction “owners, have been waiting for the | and blackmail, ‘and hammer to break the long! But ntly this same Southern of years. The condemnation | Pac! has been trying to thwart the matter of the W. Wheeler st.| the will of the people of King coun- ‘ has been finished, One re-|ty in the matter of the Lake Wash- Ts otaged the bete noir and black | ington canal. Had we compromised far of all municipal progress, is with them then, we never should ing the wheels, as usual. The| have had a canal of any kind at hern Pacific, by its local pup,|any time. The same application Oregon 4nd Wahsington rafl-|easily and naturally fits in the way, ia st ie ola tactics of bull-| matter herein. blackmail. It, and it} Laban “put it over” Jacob pre! of all the respondents in the | badly in Scriptural faye? ro condemnation case, has asked for Jacob, being an honorable man mew trial, which has been grant-| waited, and in due time got what ed. The W. Wheeler st. bridge,|he wanted. So will Shieh wis Magnolia bluft, will open up that immense G. W, LAMPSOD Very MRS. A. J. took ita THE STAR—THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1911. FANTASY Most TO THOSE WHO NEVER READ POETRY ANYTHING VACATION IDL! We found a fine vacation spot; It Just exactly suited us; irte wore fair and shapely and heir bathing suite exiguous. very little thing will chango your vi noe or happening one's thought# confuse, M or coax exalted It's funny how some slight clroumat we have the cunning skill to fashion wondrous thin music from the commonest of strings, Perhaps we have the genius © construct a castle grand, to work some magic which ¢'en we, Our selves, mayn't understand, ‘Then some slight circumstance upsets our comp! ed scheme, some ewift, sharp ft awakens us from out our roay dream, ‘Tis a bad season for fruit, Even Now, there ia no more hunible yet exalted state of mind, than haa] WAtermelons look seedy the chap who writes of things to beautify mankind, It's fashionable to scoff at rosy poeay and guch—one hears that poet's visious really don't amount to much! Prince, we have twanged the lyre quite a little in our day,.you se@ that you are lint'Ing, too, no odds what you may say; the printer sets my rhyme like thix to make you Hat’ to me— and whilat I breathe, the be no broken flutes in Arcady! q ~ NATURE WORK. On July 26, 1898, Spain sued for peace through the French ambassa- dor at Washingtow THE JULAIYAT, cate Area” | A hammock #lung upon an ANO STILL WAITING j floe, A group of Icebergs sailing to and Aretlo And thou beside me, pelting me with snow— If that aint Paradise, I'd like to know! Sorigetietd Union, fing files [A lackey standing o'er mo, swat i From carly morn until the daylight dies, Another through the ulght to slap the skeet Ab, that, methinks, complete ~New York Globe. were Paradise David BE. Lewis, Newcastle, found a girl's name writtes on an He will marry the girl. Bat | If it had been a cold ees ena, he'd marry her granddaugh- ter, you kindly tell your sister Dispatch that « military waiting fully three vt ger Ay was having target prac: Live Oak, Pia, and “a truck “Why do you bring that camera when you go fliahing?” ' “Why, old chap, the fish are such | @ slow biters I can tak Ume wre of them swallowing the hook. A FINE POINT “Tot! mo,” sald the newly-rich indy, as they were discussing points of pronunciation, “do you say ‘the Rhine’ or ‘the Rhone’? I hear it both ways."—The Christian Register. “wit ha compan. tioe at bullet missed ite mark and walting three years for her.” Mra. KR. Greene at her hom That’ Hitting ‘om where they live, King George ta to bulld a royal residence ia Ireland, And wont =_er the windows be t places to A brick fell from a scaffold on top of a fivestory building under! pounce half bricks off of? construction on Whitehall st. in Atiay Ga. and, crashing through the wind-shield of a Hmousine at the curb, fetched up againet the hood with a frightful crash and shattering of glass. The negro chauffeur, who was cranking up at that moment, thapght the engine had exploded. When he got back to the car—from acrost the “treet—he picket up the brick, examined it critically, and stowed ft away in @ box under the driver's seat ‘What are you saving it for-—-evidence?” asked a bystander. “No, seb, dons,” replied the darky. “Dat'a de only God-biessed brick L eveh did see travel so fast ‘thout hittin’ some olggeh, I'm gwine to save It for a souvenir Everybody's Magazine, A man can't get half as mad over a $4 cigar bill as he can over $1.26 gas bill ed John Howard Payne. from home, splendor daz slos In vata; Oh! give me my lowly thatch'd cottage again! The birds, singing gaily, that ee came at my call— INCENTIVE TO LABOR Mrs. Doty (reprovingly)—“Mre. Enpeck told me today that her hue band always keepe her on his office desk. Mr. Doty—"! guess that explains why he's always late getting home to dinner."—Puck, mind dearer than all. Home, home, «weet, sweet home! Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home! A l. A eee SUCRE EES E REE EH * PENITENT TRUST * RaeRatenenehanee Oh, who could “bust” The timid trust? ‘Tis like a young gazelle, It rubs its nose Against our clothes And seems to love us well, And thus it sighs, With swimming eyes: “Oh, pity me, I beg” Who could be stern? But wateh it turn And bite as in the leg. —New York American That Georgia man who got a £20,000 bequest for giving up bis lower berth had better look out or Pullman will be claiming a percentage. Why Work If— You have to be a lighthouse keeper Or a baseball umpire? Or a dog catcher? “Don't you think It’s posstble for & couple to get along on a salary of| “How much the baby looks like her : bis father! ite only the warm woather. couple to get along |The child is usually bright, cheer- ful and handsome.” WHY, OF COURSE! Miss Chatterton (gushingly)—What a magnificent And, of course, his name is Hamlet?” Mr. (the owner)—"Not exactiy; you see, 1—er—couldn’t consistently use that name. The best | could do w Ophelia!”—New Orleans Picayune. pips csgars possible for Don't worry about your holida well anyhow. + ia ont 4 Blan, for you don’t freckle you're sure to tan. There were 186,017 negro troops in the northern army in the ctvil war. great Dane! Maybe you didn’t realize it, but Australia is about the size of the United States, excluding Alaska. Thomas W. Lawson is looked upon as a patron saint ‘ guese fishermen who live in the vicinity of Dreamwold, the Lacon summer place. There have been occasions when the great man has|¥¥¥ SER EERE HS handed out bills of large denominations for small favors, such as boat|® BUBBLE AND SQUEAK. * rides, #0 every fisherman is anxious to do all he can to gain and retaln|\@ekeekkeekkeeeee the favor of his wealthy neighbor Gil ues man 004d 0 pide .ast summer Mr. Lawson had driven over to Cohasse h The captain removed his hat and stood at “attention.” pb ty Bg Peeper ‘ “hay tke you ay, Be Eee kay ee cae pala with, ber new hair ribbon as the captain © 70 Sa, Mr. Lawson, Any time you say,” responded) she does 10 years later with her week's washing If you've got a clock-wateher In the office, fire him or the clock. A married man whe doesn’t care to look at a pretty woman Is re. signed to his fate Some couples are too cowardly to get a divorce; they pray for death THE PRINTER'S ERROR “My pigmy counterpart,” the poet wrote | Of his dear child, the darling of his heart; Then longed to clutch the stupid printer's throat That set it up, “My pig, my counter; H it isn’t always the price that makes a bungalow YS ad, page 7. $5 Set Swan’s Jennings Pattern Auger Bits $2.50 4, thas, 5-18, %, 118, % 4, M, 19-10," te, hy, You can have set put up tn on box or canvas bit roll, You le value now; every tool in cod during Pre-Inventory oD 8 $5.00 Bat f 19 Caldwett’a Lightning BUS sessecen oonee $2.50 $4.60 Sot of 12 Irwin Auger Bits $2.50 $6.50 Set of 19 Ro Bits, in bit Fol, $1.60 Set of 6 Bits, in bit roll. “Did she marry the man who res- cued her?” m “Yes, and now she’s discovered} ‘Jones ts going away next month.”| that her life was the only thing he “Hay fever or a vacation?” ever saved,” ea SPECIOUS LOGIC “Why do you consider women superior to men in intelligence?’ = bald-headed man buys hatr restorer by the quart, doesn't he?” “Er-yes,”" 2 Well, a woinan doesn’t waste time on hair. restorer; 1 San Jose Palladium, ne TRUTH WILL OUT 7 ay The candidate (having quoted the words of an eminent statesman ti ‘a Yours for Bargains, Spinning’s Bargain Store 1415-17 Fourth Avenue. REAL ESTATE with tide fa; 9 ae Hand ronnt $1,600, hair, s4 Jandy fine car L elegant telghborhood; +600 4 view: in support of an argument)—'‘And, mind you, these are not my w ghia This 1s not merely my opinion. These are word: what he's talking about."—London Sketch, beste eae a ‘ eee THe REAL DAMAGE jervant—"Heavens, ave knocked the bi S . dow ledge and it struck a man on the head, pe Pea oo the rp Mistress—"Whatl My beautiful majolicat’—Wilegende Blactter, % mile wont Heights station urban; good #oll; tee well; @ bar- wain for $1,260, on good terme, ALBERT B, LORD jorthora Hank Bidg.—tth and Pike Of Beattie on Bverett os ¢ me them!—and the peace of|~ Only the Cowboy Knows the Real Joy | of Giving a “Bronce” His First Saddle ARTICLE NO, 3. BY M. C. LAR out in the lower corral,” enid./coit performed up to standard. If you've wever seen It. think was continuous performance until SNELLING, Cal, Aug. 3.—Tick-/ you'll find it exeiting—and,” be |the saddle was on and cinched. oN bestness, this, Also it's © | added, with « ghost of a smile, — mighty tmportant part of the busl-|“since Frenchy and Boots La Tour cab “tenderfoot” shows ness of the modern cowboy, aa It\are going to do the job, I think Ni tae Seat story on the pet fo: was of the business of hin cow-|may safely say you'll find it Dic | cowboy in The Star tomorrow.) boy grandfather, if he had one. | turesque. Didn't you say you want- candintones You can't run a cattle ranch with- | ed to find the picturesque features?” | Seatt out cow ponies, Neither Is « cow! They are there—the features. The | Broadway. pony of much use until he’s broken. | You can't break him without #ad-) Wing bin. | Baddling is an operation much re | fented by the most affable colt, if be has never been through it be Any seeming indignity peeves unbroken horse ax much as it! an unbroken young man. The colt looks upon bis first sad-| dilng as an insult, and rene accordingly, by the most remark able series of defensive plunging, bucking, sitting down, lying down and rolling over I went out to the Rancho Balu. | arte, near here, to find out whether | the life of the cowboy had lowt its roman I bad imparted my se- to the foreman. | They're going to saddle a colt! —FURNITURE At Last There is One Place In Town Where You Can Get Good Furniture PAINLESS EXTRACTION FREE ALL WORK GUARA(ITEED FOR 12 YEARS Fillings ... ° $6 Bridgework . 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