The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 19, 1911, Page 4

THE SEA By Mah, out of city, Fe conte per monte One year, 68.28 Taft’s decision goes people of the United States who WOULDN'T LET HIM FIRE WILEY. _ Taft, just starting on a re-election campaign, simply DIDN'T DARE to fire the man who has stood between the impure food makers and the consumers of the Maybe Taft wouldn’t have fired Wiley anyhow. Maybe he feels the same way Wiley does abou: pure IF HE DOES, LET HIM CLEAR OUT THE FRIENDS OF THE FOOD POISONERS WHO ARE IN PUBLIC OFFICE, AND WHO TRIED TO “GET” Taft has the power to do it. And the Wiley on ea pretty clearly. , Taft “ ined” that Attorney Gen- ‘explained ey G e. investi- had recommended Wiley’s CHINA'S going to beat the corporation idea in the railway if edict directing nationalization of the trunk lines is carried to completion. “If you don’t own public service companies, in time they will own you,” said Tom Johnson. One place where China wins. GOMPERS, that great friend of labor, ts doing some fine work for man, socialist candidate for mayor of Loe Angeles. “Men before dollars!” says Sam. H i ‘An Awful Load on the Millions Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad is wildly excited over the propositions to make railroad travel country. cent on all the millions as against out and.tens of thousands of and the Widow Harriman will it can be taken out of ‘ senish | OHIO man swatted at a fly on his ear when he had a knife in his Band. The fly and part of the ear went off. o o °6 DUTCH astronomer is counting all the stars up to the nineteenth magnitude. Whew! He'll have to interview all the roller skaters on the globe. °o o ° NEW YORK clergyman left his valise, containing a prayer book ‘and his pulpit clothes, with a railrond gateman. When he opened It, Jater, he found nothing but two big bricks in it. What we want to know fs why. Sia Sane TEXAS widow marries a man she had arrested for picking her ket. He deserved something for finding !t, but wasn’t life sentence much? Vs oe OF THE 246 towns and cities In Vermont, 53 celebrated their 150th Dirthdays this summer. o ° oO LARGEST typewriter made handles the Russian language and its 86 characters. Not much chance for Merchant Ching-a-Ling to have ® pretty typewriter girl in his office. Would take a machine as big as & house to record the 50,000 Chinese word signs, SN yar: UP IN British Columbia they train mallard ducks in six weeks to decoy wild birds within reach of guns. Do it quicker than that with human geese down here. In the first edition of The Star each day now a frec “Help Wanted” department is being printed. It is pri- marily for the benefit of men and women who are looking for work. But it helps the employer, who can insert an ad, free of cost, and the department is of real interest to all ff} readers. These free help wanted ads run exclusively in the first edition of The Star, ON THE STREETS AT 11 O'CLOCK. Buy a Noon Edition and watch the ads. anh every WMIONDAY WED! Ss satlsfying manner | SONS MODEIN BUSINESS COLLEGE sore A¢ra | would not buy those things we sort. news, wages.—Harper’s Bazar, THE REASON Ruyters Millyuns buying my new book yea SOs ‘v7 1 while your wife was away? “Oh! in a way; she phoned me twice @ day of baby's cule say- at” an | “Yee; I don't think i ever saw | any one tle a necktie quite as artis: tically as he can.” “That fellow made it hot for me ast winter.” “Who te he?" “My coal man.” NOTHING DOING M. P. Cuntus—I'm up egainst it. just have money, but I've no idea N Koyne-—-Giad to hear that— iT thought aps you had an idea 1 MIS BY BERTO ee ee CHAAR RHRERRRE * * TODAY'S BEST STORY * SPSS eseeeeaeeee In the days when the race tracks were doing a big business, the so- called race track touts were always in evidence at every meeting, and the hard luck stories these fellows could tell were never excelled by any other single class of individuals. One of the best of these stories con- cerns a tout who was following the ponies and who reached an Eastern city when @ race meeting was at to open. The tout was broke, and, accosting rather stingy horse man of his acquaintance, told him t ‘t had a thing to sald the tout said the horseman, in here to this restaurant, and I'll buy you something.” With visions of a big meal, the poor tout followed the stingy horseman tnto the restaurant. “Give this party a glass of milk and a piece of custard ple,” sald the horseman to one of the wait- ors. | “Gee!” sald the tout, “I thonght | was going to get some meat.” “Change that order from custard pile to mince ple,” said the horse-| man, a he left a dime on the coun ter and went out.—National Month- ly. * I WOULD MAKE ANGELS WEEP “Jimmy, what on earth are you crying about now?” “Tommy Jones dreamt las’ night that he had a whole ple to eat, an’ I didn’t.”—Toledo Biade. CHEERFUL GIVERS Mrs. Cantwell—The — junkmman ed out, Cantwell—Then let us be char-|f itable, my dear, afid give them to/|}ff the poor.—Puek. THE TYRANT Bridget—Phat is she loike? Delia—If yez break a plece ay she takes it out ay There are nearly 6,000 common ue eanal in 1910, NEW BLOCKS for Feit Hate now in. We dye, clean, block, remake and trim all kinds of hate. MODEL _ MILLINERY EAL N BRALEY. HINGS aren't just right; tt seems to me That Ife is quite A mockery; For I love Nan And Nan loves Tim And Tim loves Fan And Fan loves Jim. It's sure hard lines, For each one frets And pants and pines With vain regrets, For I love Nan And Nan loves Tim, And Tim loves Fao And Fan loves Jim, ‘This thing's askew Ané@ should be straight; Hero's what I'd do It I were Fate; Make Nan love me (Since I love Nan) And make Jim be In love with Fan. And as for Tim Skidoo for him! SR TIPS FOR HEIRESSES. ®/ in yeare that are gone, an helrese With a coachman did elope; * | While now a chauffeur bridegroom le ‘The very latest dope. But soon she who to Fashion's rule Religiously would cater, WItl not elope with euch as theee, But choose an aviator, Speaking of belreases, the Ger- agbtys are tving in a Newport cot- tage, and Mra. Geraghty is doing the cooking. How would you like to eat meals cooked by a Newport heiress? USUAL REASON “He used to be a straight enough young chap, What made him got crooked?” “Trying to make both ends meet, I belleve.”—Toledo Blade. It is claimed that more wooden shoes are worn in Chicago, Grand Rapids or Holland, Mich., than in Amsterdam. It Fits Like a Glove Because System “At th’ biaze in th’ town hall “th’ hook - an’ - ladder boys done yeoman service choppin' escape.” RHRRHRHAHREAh * * * # A VOICE IN THE NIGHT * By N. P. Babcock * « * RRRRRRRER EERE Waat ever in the darkness Of thy quiet room at night, Aroused from fitful slumber By a sudden sense of fright? Didat ever listen, trembling, In the murky midnight gloom, To one small voice repeating Thy inexorable doom? Too tate to cry for mercy; Yours fe the hopeless sin. You left the screen half open And the skeeter flew right in. TOO EMPHATIC Head of the Firm—William, what did Mr. Sloppinger say when you handed him a statement of hts ac- count? Bill Colleector—Mr. Sokum, if— ah—you'll send the typewriter lady out of the room for about five min utes, I'll tell you—Chieago Trib- une. If your complexion {is marred with blotches, moth patches, pim- ples or freckles, it's useless to put- ter with powders and paints, lo tions, creama and things, in an ef fort to get rid of the trouble. Un- less you have some ability as an artist youll mar your appearince still more. | The new and rational way is to take off the complexion itself, with jall {te offensive marks. Just get [an ounce of pure mercolized wax at |the druggist’s and use at night |same ag cold cream. Remove next morning with water and soap, fol- lowing with dash of cold water. |The mercolized wax absorbs the half-dead scarf skin In flaky par | tleles, so gradually no one guesses you're treating your face—unless it be by the result, which fs truly wonderful. There's nothing like It | for restoring a natural, healthy and | beaptiful complexion. Advt. | It Is a Bradbury These are clothes that are de- signed and proportioned to ideal fit and i) and— '@ the lasting satisfaction. They are moderately priced, too, 6) And ‘}Then to his break yer | On Easy Credit Terms This accommodation is for your individual convenience-—to have | what you want tn stylish apparel } when you want it. Ask us about WW this desirable way of buying. EASTERN Outfitting Co., Inc. schools in Norway and 233,978 pas |} sengers were carried through the |ff 1332-34 Second Ao. House”’ eet LES BANK BLDG. ‘Seattle's Reliabie Credit = = Ss BACON'S BUSY DAY Sir Francis Bacon rove at five waid: “An sure an I'm alive got to get & Move on me or famous I shall be.” Hu bbed his quill fixed his ink And rubbed his head and tried to think, then, like gathering black- berries, He wrote J, Caosar's Comm A I've it To while away an hour he wrote The Pilgrim's Progress, with a note iy To the effect that Bunyan should Bo called the author, if would, ere he should begin rk on medi ti And just to wave « lot of pother | He named Hippocrates a» auihor, t, but between The grapefruit and the ham ‘twas seon He seribbled still, by fits and jorks, ‘The most of old Josephus’ works, Then smoking, with his long } And Scottish Chiefs, while as a solo He wang the words of Marco Polo. we” And wrote the books of Mother Goore, Then penned, to start bis cipher atepa, The diary of Bamuel Pepys; R, Crusoe’s thrill! tale wae next ‘To leave his pen h flowing text And then, to please his matden auntie, He wrote the rampant rhymes of Dante. The pen And Homer's verse, from start to end Works of Virgil then he ned, Then Fox's Martyrs, and a bit Of quaint Aristophanic wit— And then all day he worked like ain To put the hidden ciphers in. That night, with many a splashy ahiver, He sank all this beneath a river, —Chicago Post. What do you think of Magistr Otto Kempner of Brooklyn? ruled that cucumbers ‘Bre not vege tables, in the meaning of the law, but fruit. Everything That grows on & vine is fruit, he ay Which lets tomatoes, pump- king and egg plants out of the vege- table clas | Pw-Y¥i, the child emperor of China, | went to school the other day for the | firet time in his life. And every | other school kid in China got a holl-| day to celebrate the event. | BLANKETS You Pigeontoed? If You Needn’t be Lonesome Are you a pigeontosd man? No? Neither are we, but about five por cont of the men im Seattic are. Of the 600 or #0 men and boys who passed the northwest corner of Second av. and Pike st, between Zz and 2:30 p. m. yesterday, 26 toed in either with one or both feet. Tall men and boys were in the ma- jority. The short, fat men and the tall fat men all toed out to a great- er degree than men of average pro-| portions. The expert Dean, bootmaker, was sought. wasn't told the count. “Men are pigeontoed and have other defects of the feet because they don't know how to walk,” said Dean right off the bat. “Toeing in ie more notic le than toeing out because a majority of people toe testimony of Harry He aa incorrect as the other. “Sixty per cent of the men and 85 per cent of the women are fMat- footed, They have broken down their inateps through continued in- correct walking. The Indian never had a step, yet he was not flatfooted. |doesn’t need an arch because eel arch to support his tn-| = So walks correctly down with the me ahead “He lets his heel touch ground first and brings hig squarely onto the ball of | instead of on the inside of or on the outside as do men toe out or toe in. “But the pigeontoed man’s is never broken, though bis may be weakeved. Less thas: y ~~ of the men are x He puts toes Men who get over the rapidly are usually those their feet down straight. All sprinters have toed That babit, acquired | training, remains their j set im later life, say foot “People abuse their fest ; than any other part of their out, but one manner of walking is, and there is hardly ‘traceable directly to abused many instances, “Learn to walk then walk a lot in the health ts sure to result? Underwear — GRAY BLANKETS—104 size; worth $1.00 a pair; come in neat blue and pink striped borders. Special sale price, per pi preempt *....68¢ ALL-WOOL GRAY OR TAN PLAID BLANKETS — Measure 68x80 inches and weigh about 41-3 Ibs. This is a $5.98 Blank- et. Special sale price $4.85 WHITE BLANKETS—10-4 size; neat blue and pink striped borders; $1.00 vaiue. 73 Special, per pair . c TAN OR GRAY BLANKETS— Good double-bed size, striped i * pink borders; $1.26 value. Special sale price, per pair on T9e @LB. VICUNA WOOL BLANK- ETS—(Note the weight); ex- tra large size; come in browns only, with striped borders. These are a bargain at $10.00 a pair. Special sale price, per pair aters Cardi- Sweater of mixed Swe hs me " Women's > nal Coats, wool, or house wear $1.25 Children's Misses’ Sweaters; red, Oxford — gray, white or combtna- tlons— 48c Sweaters, and Coat Misses’ Coat fitted Women's White Wool Sweaters, coat style or knee length— 7.50 Sweaters .. $6.00 Sweaters $5.00 Sweaters Children’s 98¢ Sweaters, red or gray Children’s Play Sweater: mixed colors Women’s and Misses’ Sweaters; 50 Children’s $1.00 Wool Sweators; sizes to 26 Childe $1.50 Heavy Sweaters, plain and combination colors All-Wool ...15¢ Wool for outing | Sweaters ae} At Seasonable Reasonable Rates Wool Batting London's Pure Wool Batting | pleases everybody that gets hold of it; clean, light, sweet and sanitary; never gets soggy; packed in 1, 2 and 3-1b. dustproof cartons; per Ib. 87c blood” in Lon- don's Boys’ Section! It's a ively place all day long, and we are simply walking away with a lot of new trado. Your boy and our Suits—let us try that | good combina- tion. No high prices; nice, genteel tweeds and wool cass!- while you are dry and before it rains again— Cons tee 2.48 $1.48 Men's Rubber $1.48 BOYS’ HATS Coats Men's Slic Coats . Men's Sticker Pants .. Big variety; a good-looking hat Just about makes a boy, Strong values-—$1.48, $1.24, $1.19, 98, B9c . A choice Scotch mixture, 64 inches wide; especially suitable for the new tailor suits. You'll see on every hand rough, heavy stuff of long-fiber combed wool Heather Suiting will prove high- ly satisfactory in every way. Not $1.25, but London cuts for, MEN'S HEAVY WOOL UNDERWEAR Fall and winter weights; advantageously, so that can save you 25c, 50c and per suit right at the b of the Fall rush. Wool and Drawers for men (no variety indicated by MEN’S WOOL UNION Every day sees more men ting into Union Suits; who've tried them never go back to the two-piece wear. London's Union should be seen before you The warm, flannel wide and full and well “ [> $1.10, 98c, 750, every biggest bundle is at London's, as gain; to 75c on every one, at $2.48, $1.98, $1.48, $1.10... Clip the above lst and to the store. London will good.” Dress Good Twenty-five good, plain, shades; all pure wool, of firm quality; come and these serges, madam; searce believe your eyes sale the balance of the 39¢ week at aaneees i NOVELTY SUITINGS P Fifty-nine cents is far too Ba | small a price for such Oe jannels as these. ct all-wool, full yard wide, ly clean-looking browns, and likable mixtw FALL PLAIDS Several full and complete mostly gay colors, of waistings, house wear, wear, etc.; 59c, 490, 246 and some as low as FANCY LININGS Fancy Jacket Linings. when you see these you'll want to get to once on your fall sewing. plex, Herringbone and stripes; fine sateen yard wide. Special, ee xt BROADCLOTH Beautiful German make; ite chiffon finish; shi leather, tan, brow U. S. red and_ oth wide; actual $2 yal London