The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 13, 1911, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR Private Kxchange Math 9400 and Independent 44. Sulted Press, Published datiy by The Star Publishing Go. The Reason Today the people of Seattle get the benefit of a voluntary| reduction of rates in electric light, given by the Seattle Electric company PHE STONE & WEBSTER SYNDICATE H FORCED TO COME DOWN TO THE PRICE CHARG FOR LIGHT BY THE MUNICIPAL LIGHTING PL? Otherwise there would be no reduction, This needs no proof. The policy of the Seattle Electric is well known, It is pared to fight to the last ditch to prevent any concession the matter of street car fares, or even a concession in the ape of selling reduced tickets on cars. “a PCOMPETITION in the light business did it. All the legislation by the city council or orders from courts could not bring about a reduction in charges as speedily and effectively @8 competition. x This ought to drive home a lesson with telling force in the matter of telephone rates The Bel! will not come down as long as it maintains its death grip on the service, Monopoly never results in fair rates. : A municipal telephone system would have the same effect in compelling reductions in phone rates as the municipal light system had in the reduction of electricglight rates If You Had $50,000 wi ou do If you ‘suddenly fell heir to $50,000? © cesetien of sanestr ‘academic interest to most of us, but to Elisur Sage nsselaer, Ind, it was a live issue. He soe man who once negotiated a loan of $50 from his uncle, ‘and thon declined a dime museum offer of $200 a week to pose as “the man who borrowed $50 from Russell Sage.” 4 Before he got his legacy Blizur Sage made a living by hard work on his farm. He testifies that the $50,000 brought him no particular happiness. He was 58 years old, with fixed habits, when It came, and whereas he used to go to bed and sleep soundly, he now lay awake and “worried about that money, Everybody was after him for a alice of it. put most of it Into land at $75 an acre, and the land has risen, show ‘& profit of $30,000. He ts no happier on that account truth is that it ts quite an art to enjoy money. ‘aa ire the art if you are past middie life. Happiness comes largely + from within, and $50,000 in the bank or fn land doesn’t put anything in Your soul thet wasn't there before. Now, we should advise you—but first get your $50,000, That wil! De time enough for advice, won't it Tt is difficult “Doe” Wiley isn’t satisfied with running the pure food business of the nation. Now he is telling us what we ought to have for Thanks dinner. It's just this i etxey, areaon, potatoes, cranberry sauce—only that, and noth- aq What—no onions, doctor? Nor sweet cider? Nor mince ple? Nope: he says not—says we just want to settle down on turkey and make a meal of it. Dressing, of course, goes with turkey “stutfin’,” if you prefer—but even potatoes and cranberry sauce the doctor regards as big concessions. ‘Well, we agree with the doctor to this extent: The Thanksgiving @inner of our grandmothers was principally turkey, potatoes, giblet Sauce (part of the turkey—you don't cheat « t of that, by heck!) and it was licking good. A fellow eame to it after a whole year's fond ‘Bnticipation, and wasn't disappointed. It was one of the few things tn life that came up to the prospectus. Of late years we've nearly lost the turkey in a wilderness of Salads, soups, entrees and desserts, until the Thanksgiving dinner has been robbed of its historic character and distinction — Let's get back to grandma's turkey. It's something to be thankful for in itself! Prof. Charles Zueblin says it was the business of the eighteenth century to decigre theoretical democracy, of the nineteenth to establish the capitalistic system of industry, and that it is the business of th twentieth century to extend real democracy into all the reiations ‘of men. Looks as though the twentieth century ts right on the job, too. CHINA has had a dozen revolu tions and many rebellions, but the it article is so well staged it seems to be the real artic! 2 oo 0 HARPER'S WEEKLY says La Follette will probably be nominated for vice president. Oh, forget it! men boast that aeroplanes will not equal the feat for years. 00 0 E. 8. MARTIN, who's some humorist, says women probably marry men because there's nothing better in sight. Anyway, that's o relief from the excuse that they ooo }do it to reform the brutes. SPOKANE has proved the possi-| oo 0 bilities of day labor over the con-| CHINA has more tract sort by saving $250,000 in the | newspapers, and nearly @rection of new reinforced concrete | “agin the government.” bridge, with the biggest arch in the oo 0 world, being 241 feet long | GARDEN OF EDEN was In New oo 0 | Mexico, say apple raisers from that POTTERY products in the Unit-| state. They have the apples to ed states are breaking all records.) prove it-also the snakes Ohio leads. , "0 00 WOMAN at Davenport out for the mayoralty What is the voters in Dave than all 2,000 were Wash., is She's only nale majority of ort? - oo 0 90° MICE may be color bi as al FACT that a silk train crossed! professor says, but we notice that continent from Seattle to New York | their sense of smell is on the choese fm 82% hours is making rallroad| all right, © 0° WE SPENT about $3,600,000 last ear for mineral waters. Minnesota the leader with nearly 10,990,000 gallons. You've seen caught in the coll of time, broken o1 rth, fluttering weakly in the late October wind, sailing to their] death on battered and| lusterless vanes? j That, too, is a mystery,| why butterflies were born| to die so miserably, but this ign't about bitter. flies. It's about a girl,| who, like an autumn but terfly, got caught in the coil of the. She was a good girl; She was warm-hearted | and generous; — modest | and chaste. She had ideals of a certain sort.| She was, perhaps, a little fi than the average country girl of her day. Yet this girl, good and clean, and not unhappy, | was rendered vile and miserable, just because| she got caught in one of} the cross-currents of life.| When her fotks died and the household scattered, two of the chil dren were young enough io go to the county home, but this girl, being 18, had to shift for herself. So, after working sixteen hours a day for @ month as a farm hired girl, till her strength failed her, she went to the ~n digg look for less gruelling work. She found it in a store, at $5 per week. Somewhere between $5 and $8 a week there is an trreducible minimum wage at which a homeless girl in a city can hold her own not her wonted health, perbapa, but still a measure of vitality, with virtue anda certain weary independence. The minimum 1% nearer $8 than $5. Go below that minimum, and it’s only a matter of a little eae till the girl who gets it goes home, or perishes, or begins “pick- ing up.” This girl got up to $6 and had hopes. But she was living on crackers, sardines, jams and soda water, and in a maelstrom of life that was victous. The foolish tood sapped her vitality and with ft her moral stamina. She did try to save up $8.75 to buy a ticket back to her own district—but when her store Bot up to $6 the waves went over her and she bought a hat instead. And #0, like the October butterfly, she went fluttering down the wind of life, too frailly fledged to do anything but drift. FE, ghia ol who can’t oe any mystery in this—but then re Superior persons who can’t see any myster: ‘arvation of the world. sane! Casas | wouldn't know THE STAR—MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1 PSSST — watch me GET EVERETTS GOAT YOU'VE GOT IT I NOW TAKE THIS WITH IT f!) THAT CROWD STAYED Senator Swanson of Virginia tolle a m the first political speech he ever made. “I jumped up and began ‘Which tickets he op? yelled the man with the red shirt od story on himself about He says Herodotus tells us ‘Herodotus entlemen, tells us,’ I resumed, with a gulp, ‘of a whole army that was put to fight by the braying of an ass, Then the crowd rose above the din, “Young this crowd. It's been texted ‘A CHANGE FOR IT “1 believe there ta a plot against me.” “Somebody trying to make a man ot you?” ylauded and I felt fine. jor,” he called, Buffalo Commerctal Then the man's voice you needn't be afraid of FOO DIFFICULT “That band leader good many airs.” “Yes, and some that his band can't play.” pute on a HIS OPINION She—Anyhow, you must admit that he is a well-read man. notice his knowledge of Aristotle? He~—I did, and if you want my r been there.--Sketch. Did you candid opinion, I don't believe he's THE OTHER SIDE “I'm always frighte: up, go ahead full spec usually does.” ed when I see an automobile.” But thing how you'd feel If the auto should start , and then swerve, all of which the pedestrian dodge back, back IN LUCK Ra Romer ey 4 “Oo00, Henry! A horrid stole poor little Spot.” “Awful! And to think 1 the man to thank him if I met him on the street.” man AMBITIOUS ‘A FAIR QUALITY OF PROOF | “Doesn't that enamel ber face?” “I think so. I notice she has to leave the room when she wanta to change her expre: Mrs. Wrinkles “Thinks he's in the same class with Abraham Lincoln, does he?” “Yes, @nd confidently expects a promotion Harper's Bazaar. EXPLAINED Phrenologist- » you & soldier?” Customer—No ~~ ‘FOO EXPENSIVE — “Does your wife object to your smoking?” “Yes; she says we both can’t af- ford to. 1am a chauffeur Dear me, your bump of destructiveness is very large! Sydney Bulletin i “OH! PITY! ae “What did Percy do when V Wefused him outright?” “Went right home an’ had a good cwy.” ivian ANYTHING | ETT Russian fur dealers have }for a two years’ closed season to nave the sable from extinction According ‘To them, {t's not fur to the end of jthe sable. A doesn't well - thumbed cookt an the best mea nok They are advo ting the removal jof all. bright electric signs fro: Broadway, Why not make ped trians wear smoked glasses? Superintendent Charles M. Me dary of the United States Express Company of Allentown, Pa. no: tieed that the women friends of some of his drivers were wearing silk stockings. 80 He deduced that something |wrong and made his drivers fess they had rifled silk stockings. was con packages of sucn Keen observation of hosiery! And #© unusual in a man! We wonder what Mra. Medary had to say about tt ‘The trouble with the gentleman from Indiana appears to have been that he was away from there entirely too much.-Washington Too Many Cooks Spoil the Graft. Be neighborly, but don't encour age your chickens to be #0, Being content with what you have is the first step toward never having any more. But — being discontent when you've got enough is often a step toward baskers’ row. ‘Those were giad days when the her made you ait by a little girl aa a punishment. Astonishing how much punishment some of us could stand and live! When you fall quick before some low trips over you. In the stone age they brought the letters into court on a stone boat How thankful we should be when we consider how many ways there are to keep out of society! When you meet a movk person nember that no animal SEEMS so meek as a mule There is no such gay decelt as that practiced by the man who buys a knife, when all the time what he really wants fs the cork screw THE RETORT GALLANT “At what age,” she asked, “do you consider a woman to be most beau tiful At your age,” he replied. But anyone might have said it Her father had a million.—Chicago Record-Herald ALL FIXED I think I'l propose at the party t lo, You won't!” Why won't 1?” "My stster knows the young Indy the case, and it has been ar 4 for you to propose at the ball next week.” MODERN PHARMACY We have a very fine course fn pharmacy,” says the president of the college to the father of the stu dent who is entering. I'm & to hear that, My boy expects to become a druggist.” Well, we give special lectures on soap, stamps, cigars, perfumery soda water, candy, city director telephone books and statione: Life, A PREFERENCE I shall leave my reputation to ged by posterity.” That's a good idea,” replied Sen. ator Sorghum, “The way things are going I'd much rather take my ~|chances with posterity than with an investigating committee.” ington Star. Wash THE HORRID THING WITH CUT 4 14 1 * “You won't go baek to that den tist? Why? * ause the last time I was there he swore in my presence.” “What did he say “He said ‘Bicuspid’t’ Jobn B. Randall of Oklahoma wants to marry a widow Hold on! Don't alll, once-—Wants to marry widow whose husband has been hanged. Randall says he wants to make sure there will be no come-back bunk about how angelic her first husband was, spea a at “You look blue.” 1 have called on your at did he say that 6o upset was upset me. not what he said Houston Post, that “It’s Beastly Ridiculous, Don’tcherknow, This Closing Pubs. on Sunday,” Says Comedian D’Orsay “You are quite sure—ah, ah— that you are not spoofing me?” The Gtar interviewer said “hope |to die” and that the thought of “kidding” Lawrance 0’Orsay—not | Lawrence, you see—never entered dis mind, weil, now," gald the English |comedian, twirling his méustache jand cane at the same time } quite an accomplishment— that damn remarkable?” D'Orsay had just loarned that the "big mountain,” which he had to climb on @ previous visit to Be: }attle to get to the old hington hotel, had been cut away, and that he was probably occupying the same spot in the new Washington hotel that he did on that former | occasion, when looked out of hin window to view the bay. ‘ was another change that D'Oraay observed The pubs weren't closed on Sundays, then.” D'Orsay took an other tug at his moustache—he's very fond of it, and that’s one rea m he wouldn't play Hamlet, he ways “Hentdes, 1 #ould get too laughe-—if 1 played Hamie that wouldn't do at al), don'teher he and | know. And I won't bave my ‘moos taanh’ ‘sbived’ off for any jolly | thing like that.” He lawffed quite heartily | D'Orsay also smokes a pipe. “And that wouldn't sult-ah, ah— now would it?” he awsked. “Fawn ey a tr dian who not too ser lous to smoke a pipe. D'Orsay came back to the Sun day iid. It's beastly ridiculous, this clos ing up of the pubs, don'tcherknow It's bally rot to suppose it-—ah, ab what do you call it now—oh, yer, to suppose that it will ‘cut out’ in. toxication. Now don’t you think a chap could purchase a flawsk on Saturday night?” The Star interviewer agreed that it was quite porstble some people 4id store up Saturday night Wanted to Be a Soldier DOraay started ont to be a law- yer. Personally he cherished a de- sire to be in the army “But the army fa such a deuced expensive commodity—ff you be- long to crack regiments.” And so Lawrance has had to content himself by tho wearing army uniforms on the stage-—he built up quite a reputation doing that—D'Orsay parts called aulets and act the “swell” better than any man in England, and that was the beginning of his “rep.” He Chucked It TYOrsay’s family for generations ed to law. His father was a jater, he sald, and his grand. father was a law lord—that is to op LAWRANCE D’/ORSAY say, & judge Who was kuighted “But 1 didn’t fawney it just a bit, so I soon folly well chucked poe “* “ % Makes Home No other aid to it, and went on the stage.” Only |humor now DOrsay pronounces {t “stige.” D’Orsay didn't fawncy being bar And we've had the D'Orsay | rister. = as = TRUNKS AND SUIT CASES. 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