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16, 109%, THE STAR—SATURDAY; SEPTEMBER THE SEATTLE STAR change Mata 9490 and Independent 441. ‘ ~—~"lenber sf United Press. Published dalty by the Mer Fublishinew Gx at Beattie, Pee terion. second lees mation, —_ out of city, 30 conte Loa : unetbeghathes monthe fix moathe pi GlRCLE. How do you like the new heading we are using for this of our own Star Circle members, and there is a dollar waiting for th fice—a special prize for exceptionally good work. The winner is Gr W. Third av. N. W., Seattle. HERE 16 THE CONTEST FOR NEXT WEEK Drawing contests have always been most popular with members of the Star Circle, so Uncle This time we will have a One Dollar cash prize for the Now, it may be @ boy or a giri or a cat or @ Gem The drawing must be on plain (uaeg 1, age, school and address must be om. je of the drawing, and it must be mi in Friday morning. Now, then, win $1 cash for your drawing, T' will be two other prizes—pound boxes of ¢ second and third rewards, Addcess Uncle Jack, care The Seattle Star. f liaiieliailieielaielaiaieielehelell 1.1.1.2 1 tdaddetedaidaiede 1) Seleieieieieleiclelelel:!.. vata * “Perhaps you can tell me.” ONE THING THEY MUST LEARN |, pingy PRIZE WINNER fie THIRD PRIZE “What im itt “Why do you think Siobber's wite | # tin “Well, I only go to the woods was a chorus girl once?” AREER E EERE ERAEE Cee EEE EERE EEE HH once a year, and I have been won- The first prine for the essay this “The second prize in thin week's dering what the mosquitoes live on week go0a to Carol Tait, DOX 14. /ossay contest gook to Louisa im the meantime.” Algona, Wash. Here is the Com iwaiker, 667 Orcas st., Georgetown, tribution that wins « pound box of |) _, ensay follows chocolates: School was called a week ago to- We went to school day. We all met at the school amectog, Ouse teacher house and saw the boys and girls name, ago and grade. once more. We marched up the and of Seattle in particular, le of this sta hy ag wae the recent attitude of the have reason to be proud of o May Reyna, 15 years old, of. “A railway company, being @ private service corporation and ‘endowed with the right to take private property fer public use, devote that property to public use, irrespective of ite stock n carrier cannot be made to carry passengers with- but at the same time it Is not fair to charge more afford to pay. The rate cannot be above the service, and the public must be con- THOSE SUMMER ME N A MYSTERY “Do you read fiction during the summer?" ‘No; but I Haten to it.” SECOND PRIZE * * raed kth thhthihees Grace Lovelace, box 14, ton, Wash. wins the thing Here is her composition: I am in the eighth grade, Lee is my teacher, and I dearly. Besides our lessong have domestic “Cause she atways wears # happy smile.” Tuesday took our Then we earned to march out of the room in line. We marched just like the soldiers in the army mancouvres. Then we sang # song and played & game, then we went home and came back at 1 o'clock, Then we got our books and got acquatnted with the teacher and the children. Then we sange two songs, Then we studied reading and arithmetic, broad stairs, keeping time with the music best we could, for we were a little out of paretice, We all went into our rooms, and stared {around to see who was there and who was not, Our teacher had a broad smile on her face as she saw the rosy cheeked boys and girla be- fore her. Some were tall, some and sewing. much, for that ts what should know, Several lfriendé have quit school science, We enjoy that % they did.mot pass last really, I wanted to stay but mamma said I had as I was only past of a bem | COURT CLARK has died at Jor dan, Conn., at 90 years, and they say he had no bad habits, He re ‘the ceiling at Atkinson, Il, his hatr in curls and rings in bis Woman who wears her own hair, ears. That sort usually doesn't @nyway. | have to have bad habits. and when we were down we studied spelling. Then when the school dismissed for recoas we went out and played our 15 minutes, And when the bell rang we got in line and when the triangle was beaten we began to mareh in the school |room, got our seats and got to work. My teacher is very pleasant and kind. AS IT ACTUALLY HAI “Reexy thought he was going to & number of times The fathers of the republic thought the plain people) ‘uring the two wooks at the soa se aa \ unfit to choose a oe and to this day they have|”"?;4 dian’ het” ae oa ante pach is flying a fing mever been allowed to so. constitution pro-| He got ons the first week, /of distress e % ; break it off.” When Jones was but a mere small) boy His trial was that bis ma'd employ A slipper in Her dainty fin To wallop him for peccadilloes. | Her blows fell hard, not soft Ike pillows. NOT THE SAME thought you sald the bath- house had capacity for 500.” No; I “Wants to know kecrew aboard.” pe meee 2 pemectoma FAIR PLAY Now this ts the rule of the game, A rule that the player must learn: ‘The deal that you GIVE t* the same Aa youll bably GET in return; So, if you given out hate And hate’s what you get while you live, Don't grumble and rail at your fate— Be ready to take what you give, , aes In course of time he grew up, aid “One man in| mang boyhood’ al bis achini 6 100 kin ‘bulid a) VOM hie ra 4 etable) whereupon he ewore chicken coop.) ied pause before } but 99 in 100 j104 marry a woman who believed psd ay righ} spanking a juvenile whea she kind 0° bulidin’s| ee Fee fer a world’s a, Jonos for his wife took a damsel fair. po sence Who vowed that she never would Speaking of cigars, why ts it, strike a child— when someone wants to cement a] put who waded in friendship with you he bands you] with a rolling pin an atrocious nickel smoke? And warped it over her husband's — head It your wife objects to your smok-| For Jones waa no longer a child, tng fu the house because it makes she sald. the curtains smell, teli her it's good for the geraniums, If you've trampled the weaker ones down, He game when you're trampled yourself; If you've fouted the poor with a frown When you were just rofling in pelt, Don’t clamor for help when your goid Has drained like « drink through a sieve; i Remember, these words you were told— i “Be ready to take what you give!” he writing and arithmetic. |to pass by Christmas. 1 help and me we spent our vacation, what we/the beds, practice my a long chat we said “Good-bye” and | mile to w ik, and it is up Seattle, Sept. i4, 191] 1 see in our tast I have = 50c, also a quarter |S*t ® Job of some kind? £ rays. MRS. MAX STEGER. | way over due and I am 1 know you are a friend of the'10 years and younger, to fake monorail scheme you will see /It seems impossible for $10 to $100. ito make existence under absolutely faise pretense. send same to you. I rem it, ont small, all the same to her, for she jafter the first week, I am go) was the one to teach them reading,|I went. I am going to try so ihm When we were dismissed we ma, too. I sweep and stopped on the way and told where rooms and do the dishes did and the fun we had. Each girl|son half hour every n ng | had a different story. Then, after |fore I go to school, and I started on our homeward bound. |ly all the’way. = = es = e Editor’sM ih, KR. F. D. No. 1 =— To The Editor Seattle Star: Daw paper, Wednesday, another e / wi ease > Piece 1853, 1 cam go them one bet-|°'" you plenee Say of the date 1853, on one side the |teaming. Any kind of « fom | broad arrow, on the other the sun'#/do. I am out of work, my September 15, 1911, |8™@ married, have lived in Baditor Seattle Star: Dear Sir jee years. I have siz. working men and women of King/and my wife, 1 am 29 county. If you will look into a robust and able to do where poor mun and women by the anything to do. I am set as score are being feeced out of from for charity; all J ask is The stock they get in return fs those who are dear to worse than useless and it is sold | want my name and Very respectfully, J. GALVIN. EI ————— THE REASON Mrs. Knowall (reprovingly)—-Mrs. Nag told me today that Ber band always keeps her photograph on his office desk. f Mr. Knowall—1 suppose tbat explains why he's always late home to dinner. If for somebody's ruin you plot, And the plot is the ruin of YOU, If you've handed out words sizzling -hot And for each that you give you get two, Don't swear that the is amiss, A place where it's dreadful to live, But—whether a blow or a kise— Be ready to take what you giv —_ Rome has a fine 200, The ani- riding t» the latest fad/ mals are confined in artificial jun- ge ~~ gens semana eer York debutantes. The| gies and caves made to m them ide saddie and drives | feel home. No bars are used, leading horse. Now, doesn't| the animals being confined by wide AOsT bacco In town in & campus bonfire , ee ee re eee sound real exhilerating? ditches. kind nowaday big sea fell of twenties, BUY LAND THAT IS NOW READY FOR THE PLOW ‘ ROCHESTER — STUMPS — oe eS DIG OUT ACRE TRACTS OUT OF FASHION “Well,” her friend said, “he seems to be able to make an lied, “but, heavens! who wants to marry & mag’ Chicago Record-Herald, The government's shameful neglect of necessary aids to navigation on the Alaska coast, among the most dangerous waters in the world, is the one theme of comment among the survivors of the Ramona wreck and the passengers of the Northwestern. Captain Taaffe was attempting to make the narrow entrance to Chatham straits, just below Cape Decision. Not a light, a fog bell nor a signal of any kind was there to help him as he tossed helplessly in the fog bank. He made the best ess he could—and lost. And the Ramona is another of the ber list gone to the Port of Missing Ships. sacque.’ In humiliating contrast with the Alaskan coast, Canadian |! care not how much the dress costs waters are splendidly lighted and protected. Alaska is the “neglected stepchild of a nation which has no adequate apprecia- tion of her needs, resources or possibilities. How many noble ships must be fed to the hungry sea be- fore Uncle Sam wakes up and does his duty? Husband Murmurs: The hum of the sewing machine With melody fille the air; And the nimbiefingered modiste, At three bucks a day, ie there; I hear the voice of my helpmeet As she calieth down the stair: “Oh, put on a fiat, Belinda, For | needs must press this Ever Hear Thie One? “Ta rather smoke @ stogie than & 10-cent cigar.” NO TO me, Ul cheerfully squander my stack | As long as they don’t put a hundred) Smal! buttons down the back. Syrian peasants have a supersti- tion that druggists and doctors A HOPELESS CASE. “Sir, [ have come to ask you for Be THE War Lord of Germany ts) convinced that airships are a great thing in battle. Look out! } AFTER Bridegroom Ben Manilow! had shot his obstreperous uncle dead at Springfield, Tenn., the wed- ding couple repaired to the minis- ter’s home and were joined in hotly wedlock. They are strong on s0- cial functions in Tennessee, all right. lin it, too. have the right to kill one man and jone woman each year in order to make medicines out of their bodies. SOME of those Canadian stamp- ers have to speak in English, French and Gaelic at every meeting. ute “A Prayer of a Business Man,” a citizen sent in: “O Lord! let me get to the job with my liver working right.” A whole lecture could be written on the appropriateness of this short appeal, without a word of sacrilege —— a GARVIN’S BY REV. JOSEPH L. GARVIN, B. D., M. A, Pastor of the First Chri THIS $500 CHICAGO JUNKET Is @ money saver and has my endorse- ment. If these men are as sincere as you or I would be, they will make money for us by mixing up with others at this Municipal Con- ference. DON’T BE PENNY WISE and! Cities to! pound foolish about this. save money must get together and talk things over. This is the wise way to do it. Seattle never has been represented before. We must stop being a country village. THE GOVERNORS ARE in ses- sion now. They meet every year. It’s a new move in national life. Bot it is going to pay big. Uniform methods, better between states mean jess taxes in time to come. BE AS BIG AS YOUR JOB, Peo- ple of Seattle. The mayor and his “floating cabinet” are taking no joy ride. We ought to have scouts out studying better city plans, appa us and methods all the time just} BASEBALL MAGNATES have scouts traveling for hidden phe poms. The Japs have followed this heme © years and call it “good psine: What's the use of elect. | Se COR NE ONG OF THE Laavers if CIGARETTE CIRCLES LED HER | PET Doc To THe FRONT Ano never learn where and how to save maQuiRED,* ATyte09 | Money if our officials do not learn.| | 4 goo th, pg vel won , | THESE CONVENTIONS ARE . |schools of methods in clty govern-|| WOULD ORVILLE WrichT ¢ | ment and first AID TO TORTURED, ordinance-| ridden and law-burdened municipal- ities. Nobody going to these meet- |ings and feeling responsible for others will fail to get something} istian Church, Seattle. Goon NicnT! The students of Mars Hill college, North Carolina, burned all the to- your daughter's hand.” “Well, young man, I'm afraid 1 can't give you much encourage ment.” “But your daughter sent me to just {t—ff she really wanted you she wouldn't have waited to have you consult me,” RICH SOIL GOOD WATER CLOSE TO THE GREAT MARKETS OF THE NORTHWEST WITH THREE RAILROADS FOR TRANSPORTATION Easy Terms Double X Spectal Today: Marquard against Plank for the opening game of the world’s series. Or Will it be Bender against Richie? Anyway, It won't be Mullin against any- body else. . A man was arrested in New York \for kneeling in t treet and pray- | ing for the Fifth avenue rich. May: be he wasn't #o crazy after all, | Mra, BW. Bender of Atlan aged 30, is grandmother of th |ehildren. She was married before she was 13, ern products at a great profit kets of the Northwest. the land yourself. in $50,000 in wedding fees during } | Rev. Gordon Bakewell has takeh } \ree 27 years as a New Orleans rector. A soft answer wrath, but it won't agent. turneth away feare a book which means less taxes for you, Mr. Land Owner. IF WE LEARN WHAT FIRE ap. paratus we should not have—that is money saved. If we learn how to pave our 60 miles of planked |trestle roads, that is something. jIt is worth the trip to find a jcheap way to handle garbage. TO SEND FOUR responsible men to Chicago now is better than bring. ing experts on city management here to tell us how to do It. | THE GERMANS RUN their cities |sensibly. Their mayors grow up in the business. Our delegates should return with knowledge and ideas whieh mean efficiency and econ- omy. ‘WRITE To DAY: WILSON-BUILDING Fine 1526 -2NDAVE -WE-HAVE: NO: BRANCH: SCHOOLS: Photograph of a Rochester Orchard Now in Full Bearing Right now the A few Rochester tracts still remain at BEST HIGHWAYS IN THE STATE GOOD SCHOOLS MAIL DELIVERY TELEPHONES In fact, three transcontinental of the $75 AN ACRE—YOUR OWN TERMS Do you realize that within the last six months a town has been in the buildt that already has the advantage of three different railroad lines, located just a few hours’ ride from Beattie, in the very. center of @ great agricultural district that is just coming into its own? Rochester ia the new town that was necessary to this country. The city already has stores, schools, churches, telephones, free mail deliver y » Sol 4c 5 5 ry, a commercial club has been organized, and {ts 800 citizens are enjoying many of the advantages of city life right now. City lots in Rochester offer the best and safest investment possible, whether you care to make your home there earth LEVEL, |. GO TO IT, GENTLEMEN, Bring back to us money-saving ideas; methods that cut expense and in- crease service; and inspiration from it 414, Cedar 414, MADISON At 12th CLEARED LOTS IN A NEW TOWN THAT HAS MADE GOOD TALK PERSONALLY WITH THE OWNERS or not, A naturfl increase in the value of this property will pay you a higher interest than any bank on You should call at the offices at once and get all the information you want about the new city, YOUR OWN A few weeks ago we offered land as low as $50 an acre. are tracts as low as §75 and $100 an acre—on terms, mind you—but t Call at the office and talk with the owners. Arrange to go over to Rochester and You can go and come the same day. No acreage has ever been offered to the people of the Northwest that has appealed so strongly or sold so quickly as Rochester r Tracts, This land lies in a great, rich valley, that has just been opened up by the railroads. The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound, The Oregon & Washington and The Northern Pacific Railways—are operating there This land does not require clearing—a great natural prairie, that has the soll, the climate and the water to grow No stumps to dig out, but ready for the plow and planting, located within a few hi No other land has sold as fast as these tracts, acre of the $50 land now has an owner. have to act quickly to secure one of them. American Home Investment Company 313-314-315 MEHLHORN BLOG, 814 SECOND AVENUE, seat’ Write for tllustrated Booklet—Mailed Free All Mall Inquiries Answered Promptly ~~ Bekins VANS keep moving every day, and no wonder—everybody appre: clatos them, busy men to responsible office | handle millions THEN YOUR TRIP will be worth OR UG AND BIND their eyon|$10,000 to us in nervice, even it gag moutha? We willlsome of us cannot see it now, our sister citios.