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

They’re Boss Jake's Victims, Too > By the way, have you considered that the passengers are pot the iy victims of Ross Jakey Furth? ’s another victim—AND HB'S THE CORPORATION'S CON- HK 0 ve you realized that 3 Tike this transfer hold-up game, that ft “goes against the grain’ ‘them to be instruments used in fleecing extra nickels from people's ‘And that they only do it because Furth's fat fist ts held over a fact. the conductors are In entire sympathy with the passengers on. tangle, Most of them believe that transfers should be hout protest. Here and there some seryile bully follows, brutal fashion, the more refined butlylsm of his “higher-ups, ‘at and “bounces” citizens. But most of the men are gagged by ‘grim _necessity—tha' He sympathize a little with the men in eaps and faded blue remember that they are really with us, and be glad that wo ‘pet industrial slaves under the tyranny of Boas Purth and his pals. Girl With No Chance rs of sits on a table in the Richmond Jail, ewing- Pr en a Teet, ‘milling and philosophizing on life, Sho ia held as case of the State va. Beattie, Beattie being suspected wife in order to engage in freer relations with this girl, h Binford. Beulah was a mother but not a wife at 15. She had when-I was only 13, Nobody pushed me down. . that’s all, My mother couldn't give me the train: had. Oh, what's the use trying to be good? ‘T've I get a place somewhere, but soon up go the eye ned Out on the street again. T didn't expect Beattle imself by marrying me. I'm got blaming anybody. is remarkable only in that it has come to light. There r cases in every city, but they get pudtic attention ie always in them spells murder, Then it is an awful thing. r at 16, and in jail at 17, this girl sums had a chance, that’s all.” real home, Go through the hovels and ‘and see the chances of a home that hundreds and girls of 13 years and less haye not, yor can jety and government plant them in a cotd thelr infaney, transplant them into a field of tmmorality them an honest calling in motherhood at 15, and would feel could hang them as party to a wifemurder. without coercion. th they suffered in vain? Not a bit of it! They have vestment of privation on which the future shall col- comfort. Wait! the “Hoe,” rang so true lee another singer with there is a certain amount Man to and it the tale of woe, to Binkc'a need and help to make Mt grow— would mean 3-cent sugar for 6 of oratory you're away off. 4 iato GARVIN’S CO BY REV. JOSEPH L. GARVIN, B. Pastor of the First Christian Church, and France, we, as Seattleites, can handle our street car questions in a sensible, profitable manner to ourselves. THIS TRANSFER MATTER is a little thing in itself. But it shows the temper of the public mind. It we modern toilers make the bricks of civilization. We beat the Egyptians here. It is a ripple on the sea of Progress. WHAT 18 THE TROUBLE? It is ® question of our contract with the 8. ©. Co, Our city fathers gave it @ franchise. We gave the coun- eilmen power to make the contract —they represent us. Wives dele gate power to their husbands in and/the same way sometimes. drug por cent of the men who work on the cars oo @ years . goes to battie on the whisky F. ue ot Pron think the old Pino Tree ts not shak-|“0e “that yours are th And what dear little feet you bh 4 is one of those straws out of which |- ‘hunt up a nickel when you A om transfer, anyway. OUR CITY FATHERS could ghildishly, I would infer that the cars to avoid block- or violence borders on child- realm. Why not put it _pguarely up to the “Big Men” of ger to keep the cars ; JARELY UP TO THE people use common sense and get on ears where our franchise says should. Keep cool, hot-headed { Read your franchise. together on what we ought to tion and then—remember the bal- STH “PUBLIC BE DAMNED” Policy 1s out of date today, Surely THE COMPANY is compelled to give transfers and hi transfer points. change cars at such and euch points, It may be within its rights there. ' AME THE COMPANY for suddenly enforcing this rule with- out taking the “dear public” into its confidence. It hasbeen neglect- ed ever since I have been in Seattle. Why didn’t their officials explain the trouble they were having? WHY DIDN'T THEY give us all a talking to and then pay atten- if themselves? A corporation that doesn’t have its table talks with the beople ie facing all sorts of fam!'y broils, FOUND IN A ORSERTED MAD HOUSE Ob, that wy soul &-marrow-bone might selne! For the old egg of my desire is broken, Spitied ts the pearly whtte and spilled the yolk, Aa the mild melancholy Jenin grease My path the shorn lamb baas Uke bumblebees. Time's J y purse is a taken token, Or like @ reaitation, spoken By mournful mouths full of mirth and cheese. And yet, why should I clasp the earthful ura? Or bw 3 ffittered fig that folt the fant? Or to Chase the cheese around the ehura? Or swallow any pil) from out the past? Ah, no Love, not while your hot kisses burn Like @ potato riding on tho blast! “Why should-people be so hard on the Sugar trust when It bas done such a noble werkt” t noble work has. it done?” “Hasn't it brought sweetness into many « lifeT’--Baltimore GRACIOVe! Have you Observed how polite those boys are? They always insist on letting (heir eistor have tho hammock . But have you noticed how breaks held it in front of bis nose and ? tewwible.” FATHER'S SIZE. “Dearest'” he orted. “Dating!” she murmured. “Do you know,” he said as she coyly surrendered her Jittle hand, maliest hands 1 have ever kimsed—I tenn, seen, “Do you think eo?" she answered coyiy. 1 Just compare them with my great clumsy hoofs. If % “‘And I take ‘twelves,’ my boy!” shouted an angry wWlee behind them. The lover seized a conveuient vine and slid down from the balcony }into the darkness below. “He must be rich. He owns an automobile.” “That proves nothing. You ogght to hear him every time the price of gasoline goes up another cont."-—Detrott Presa. SHE SPOKE OUT Father (to his daughter whom he sees whispering to her mother)—| Elsie, how often have | told yeu mot to do that? Speak out if you want mr El Well, father, | wanted to know why the lady near me has euch a red nose.—Filegende Blatter. NEEDED THE MONEY. “I called on Miss Sweet tt night.” “Did Donald take it very much) “What? I thought her father told to heart because Marion gave back} you never to darken his door?” his ring?” “Ho did, #0 I climbed in the “No; he took it to a pawnshop.”' parlor window.” ALIVE WITH TITIANS. Jones returned to his native village, which had not moved with the years, and it was per! natural that he should boast a little, says the Argonaut. The village pump was still broken, th n sign had ee syprn repaired and even the one shop-window, from its appear- ance, ha ‘in my house in London I've two carriages and a med his hearers. he continued, “containing two thousand books.” came a chorus, —he waved his ‘hands airtly—‘well, my ejaculated an old yokel, with a horrified look. “Ain't there no way o' killin’ ‘em?’ THE IDEA “The way that man looked at me was most insulting.” “Did he stare?” “No; he looked once and then turned away aa if I were not worth noticing!""—London Opinion. SIGNS OF LIFE IN TEXAS. It is beginning to dawn on thinking persons in Texas that the Lone Star State is not the exclusive balliwick of one Senator Bailey, This de thy vaudeville horse play t# disappear: ing. Hall of Fame. Lafayette Choate of ham, harrow with a mule and drove her four times around a corn field. Birming- The wireless telegraph ta used by the monks in the Alps for the rescue of biizzard victims. ‘A Wisconsin minis reluned & proffer of $3.00 for a prayer in the state senate ‘ we Can see where a good, effective prayer in most of our state legis: “ma would be worth more than BY WHITTIER. I know not whore sis islands lft 'Thetr fromded. palma tn air; T only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and ca |We make fun of the procrasti- wating Mexican who saya “ma- Dene,” meaning ot danced and bottles danced on asked the soda “Have you been taking something? gurgied penser, gleefuly member when our water wore frozen last winter?” “You, but what". “Well the plumber .who fixed them has just come in to have @ proaeription Oilled."—~Toledo Blade HEARTHSTONE FODDER. the dope dis pipes “1 do not care if wife can Keep house,” says cousin Bil; “I'm quite contented if she can Keep titi.” Philtp Reamer, aged 96, halped pitch a load of hay at Mt. Bethel, N. J, lamt week. “Come, fly with me,” the youth id. “W if frat called “The Bmating took one bath, Une! forever. play was Girl.” She nm left the stago Bet You Don't Know. To-win undying fame a man roll o4 over Niagara Falis tn-« barrel: Now, what wes bis mame? VACATION IDLES. 1 never knew why hotel clerké could drese ao fit to kil! And wear euch diamonds; | was blind watt! | paid my bith, Vacation Query. “I wonder if.1 could get the bong to give me another week?" By Richard Henry Stoddard. ‘There are gaina for all our losses, There are balma for all our pains, But when youth, the dream, de parts, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again. A LIMERICK. A natty young Was a reguiar devil to flirt; ‘But when hit in the eye, He exclaimed, “Gracious, My! saecchaedialagbe tic Ei (SUN SPLASHES a RRA eee ee When a young man eaye he doesn't care to play pool and he thinks he'll nettle down, it's time to ask what her namo fs. Bome millionaires are starvii for a hunk of hot gingerbread an © mug of milk, and, poor things, they can have only caviar and champagne. A woman who hes nothing to worry about, worrlos about it. Some doge are aimest human; others more go. Booze brings bust. dust a Loulesiana Lie, A lighthouse keeper on the Gulf of Mexico found.the body of « fiah the other day which ho claims te be the missing link between the mythical the real thing. Tho head was crushed, but the body was exactly like that of a female, except for a fish's tall in place of sockets for the legs. The skeleton, excellently preserved, was pore to the Louisiana Historical so- ye * * * * * The Almost Victim—VYou sald these lots fronted New York. Why, they’re at least thirty miles out. Real Estate Agent—True, but what of it? See that glow in the/ sky? That's New York,—Puck. SEMEN * * * SIDELONG SQUINTS * * * SEER ERR RY ee Most self-made men look It. Some women don't reaily strike their pace till they've been divorced & couple o’ tim If you took their whi and gold» apectacles some learned men they'd be stark naked, Can you remember when tooth: pick pointed shoes were all the rage, Clarence? Some men like to.see their names in print so much that they keep « city directory on the parlor table. Mo, bitched his wife to a|* “But do you re|* ROB bas The § HERE 16 Three boxes of chocolates, full in the best verses (they must be original) one of these four subject®—"BCHOOL DAYS, tar THE PRIZE pounds, will _be.given to the thre ir tines. PLAY-TIM CONTEST FOR NEXT WEEK. members of The Star Circle who send Th pretty wide choice, doesn't it, children? Bend In your contributions as early in th very last day Ie Frida TALL * * ® FIRST PRIZE WINNER *& * ee eee ee ee Here a tho first prize letter of the week. Uncle Jack thinks it is the best one written in the com toat on the Art of Swimming, The winner ts Alico Anderson, 14 years old, of R. PF, D. 1, Box %6, Aubura, Here is a picture of our pretty little fellow member and her eon ponition “Swimming t* the act of floating is one of the cles of the back, the arme and the jJeas. It i# a wholesome form of exercise and) prevents apec helps fn overcoming It develops a certain amount of skill and adroitness in action, too. “To my knowledge, the art of knowing how to swim isa very helpful art, especially when out on the water phould you happen to meet an accident which threw you out in the water. If, under the oir. cumstances Just stated, you couldn't awit, changes are that you might get drowned “Therefore, my advice to all is: ‘Learn how to swim {f you don’t know how.’” | tinh se din tg fet pain td bt SECOND PRIZE WINNER. & *” * Sl a I i aie et Here ‘in @ photograph s price winning essay on “Swim ig,” went fo thin week by Grace Lovelace, Box 72, Arlington, Wash. A COLD 6wim. One morning early in the spring jone of my brothers sald to the lother one, “There is lots of good timber lodged on the upper sand var. Let's go up and get it and wow it up fer wood? The other one said, “All right.” So they took ax and the hammer, and OUR EXPERT FURNACE HOW TO GET Bunker Prices Per Ton: Lump, $5. Main Office: 401 Hinckley Block Both Phones 6040. Phone West 11 for 10 a.m. Address your letters to Uncle Jack, care of The eee * TWO MEMB! * * * Tet) Pee e ee 2 ee ee! away they “Bo careful, river is high yet. They picked out the best planks and made a raft and got on it and atarted it down the river. It went all right for about a block, then they were in the current, and then they happened to think of the cable crossing the river under the bridge, but the river was so swift they-could not turn thelr raft,.#o one sald, “Wo will have to duek apder it or jump.” Just then it hit the cable wire and went to pieces, throwing them both in. It im or sink tight there, 66 am the best they could with t heavy clothes on,.and one of them had a heavy leather coat on. Several of the milimen saw them and shouted, “Keep up courage, boys, we Will save you. Just ‘keep swimming right down stream.” They took a canoe and started after them in the fee cold water. Every+ body thought they would drown, but they kept wp courage and didn't get frightened. They ewan two blocks before the canoe over took them and got them in it. One of the boys was nearly played out. He sald he couldn't have held out much longer. So it was a good thing they both knew how ‘to swim, and I'm going to learn, too. . you know the MAN WILL SHOW YOU BEST RESULTS 450; Nut, $4.00; Furnace, $3.75 Latona Buokers: 113 Northlake Avenue North 465; Green 652. West Seattle Prices. free Examinations —EEE————————_— ‘Open Daily From 8:30\to 6 P. M. Sundays, 9 to 12, and Saturday Till 9 Buy or Sell Real Estate. Business Chances. See 10c Double Cut, or German Pattern Gimlet Bits, 5¢ EVERETT-SEATTLE INTERURBAN RAILWAY SEATTLE TO HVERRTT—Limited trait Ajax . and Greenwood WIT TO SEATTLY—Limited traing a.m. and Drug thie style. recom to wagon, and othor high-olaas wood ae Noto that our line is com- » Bae 94° with ‘no num. Bay | 09," > turdey and baggage trains 2 froight shod at Sixth shartus Retr RACTION co. SNOHOMISH-EVERETT INTERURBAN TRAINS LEAVE BVERETT--6 9:00, 10:20 ma m., 22:10, 18 5 56. Sunday rt All tools r cent, prior Yours for Bargains, Spinning’s Bargain Store’ 1415-17 Fourth Avenue. Same station tn Bverett as Soattte vers ett Interurban, HERRERA RKAEH eh * * THIRD PRIZE WINNER. & . * DM SWIMMING. To know how to swim 4s very im portant. Just stop and think of the lives lost here in Seattle. Drowning is the case, and nine times out of ten is not knowing how to swim. Olten if one knows how to swim many lives could be saved. -If not one could save this be our motto, “L . If each one would stick to this en not so many lives would be Swimming {ts also very health ful. Taking a good swim every day is the same as taking a bath every day. LOUISE NEFF. R, ¥F. D. 1, Box 29, Seattle. Ago 13. SENT GOOD LETTERS Here are some of the members of the Circle who sent in particu lntly interesting Jetiers to Uncle Jack this past week: Carol Tait, Algona. Iva Knight, Algona. Myrtle Tait, Algon: Grace M. Reyna, Seattle. Peart Loucks, Geattiec.~ Edward Nagley, Olatia. ary “€ Lusk, Mount Vernon. Marion G. Ross, Clear Lake. Lenore Schoenheit, Oso, Wash. Pet al ew se Al A hema DEPARTMENT STORE ADVERTISING No. 18 In Louisville Ky. “We use afternoon pa- pers exclusively during the week, morning papers Sun- days only.” JOHN C. LEWIS CO. Paint, Olle, Glace ES Now ts the time te Gecorate and fix up. Lat us estimate your Painting and Pepering. 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