The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1911, Page 4

“"“Miiiber of United Press. Published Daily by © “tS 3m, v mart LE STAR out of © up to six monthé, Six montha, é Story About Mother’s Christmas Present “Woo-oo-o!” went the wind, like a pack of running wolves,| and the snow pelted the window panes, made downy hillocks of the evergreens, buried the fences, made smooth and fleecy all the corners, stumps and homely places of the land. It was a ficrce winter's night and when old Santa Claus reached a €ertain chimney he was very tired and somewhat cross, He Was a bit late, too, for there seemed to be more good boys and girls on his list than ever before 3ut he wouldn't miss this chimney for all the world. He had been coming to it regularly for four years, and each time as he climbed up to again take his reindeer in hand he'd been a bit warmer-hearted and jollier, with that cunning twinkle in his eve a bit brighter. First year he'd left a rattle and a small wool hood. Next time, it was a Teddy bear and a cute little spoon all bent around at the handle, Then it was a big picture book, and a warm jacket and real outdoor shoes, Last year, a sewing-box and a great doll that would shut her cyes and say “Ma-a-a” pretty plainiy. This year, he brushed the snow pile off the chimney with his great fur hat and went down with a very, very large lot of very many different things, because his little child-friend had always been very good, very loving, very sweet to every- one, and he had come to love her very much. When Santa Claus squeezed himself from the fireplace, he found the room cold and only dimly lit by one brave moonbeam that fought its way through the Storm outside. The little bed was where it always was, but there were no tiny shocs beside it and no little skirt, shirt and underclothes with long tape gar- ters hung on its post. What could it mean? Santa crept nearer. The bed was empty, but on the pillow, folded and bound with blue ribbons, were avsmall dress, the wool hood and the wee Shoes beside them, with Teddy bear lying prone on his face, quite lifeless like. Into every corner, behind every piece of furniture, old Santa peeped, but his little friend was not there. Then Santa slyly peeped through a door that was slightly ajar. Before the dying grate fire sat a man. . Flashes from the Sputtering coals now and then made pictures in silhouette on the wall Tchind him and lit up his face so you could read it. He was seeing things in the changing shapes of the fire, living "ever again things that were past, and that could never come - again, hungering for shouts and laughter and songs that were - forever. And kneeling at this man’s feet, ber arms and a) on his knees, her lips pressed to a little folded stocking, ‘was a woman. Then old Santa Claus understood, and he softly closed the door. He stood silently thinking for a long time, scratch- ing his old white head to help him remember. something. Finally he dove for his great sack of presents and began rum- aging its contents excitedly. Pretty soon he found it—a beau- tiful card with reading on it. Quietly he tiptoed over to the trundle bed and placed the card on the pillow. Then he hurried up the chimney, mounted his sleigh, and, as he rushed _ a@way with the storm to the faraway regions of the night, the , esa a something was saying, “Ah-aa-a-a!” The fire in the grate went almost out. The man in the chair went to sleep. The woman arose, looked at a nail in the mantel piece, shook her head, put the little stocking in her bosom. and stole softly into the nursery. Beside the trundle bed she took her hands from her eyes. Behold! a present from Santa Claus, as usual! Shining out from between the hood + and Teddy bear, to put blessed hope in the human heart and love ‘mot, T of the Father in the human soul, were the words: “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” ' ~ THE real affinity of China's flora ts with that of the Atlantic side of the United States. wee ee Eee TWELVE HUNDRED automobiles were used to beat Harriman, @ocialist, for mayor of Los Angeles. ° o oO “MISSOURI'S little ouster case against the Harvester Trust goes up’ to the United States supreme court on error, That's the place for ‘error. o ° oO “NOBODY loves nic. I'm going ont in the garden and eat worms,” ta the middieman's constant refrain nowadays. He's getting it from ‘every side—also the profits. o © ° MAY FUTRELLE, writer, says the way to treat smutty plays is to have them all produced in one theatre. and bar young people from that oe Printing a list of regular patrons might be a pretty good too. ‘The single tax ix a tax on land value, and to know its meaning we ‘should know what land value is. Land value is a virtue attaching to land “<< alone, and Is measured by the amount in money, crops, goods or things that a person is willing to give for the possession of a piece of land. Its an- nual value is its yearly rent; so a tax on land value would be on its yearly rental value. In political science, rent means nothing else in the world but the amount you pay for the right to possess land. If you borrow a house, tools or other things made by man, the amount you pay for the loan of them is called interest; for this amount is payment for the use of capital—stored up labor or wealth, used for| further production. If you borrow a man to help you! make wealth, the amount you pay him, or for him,| is called wages: yment of labor. So we see that this question takes us right down to the elements of ” or political economy; the difference between which only shows itself when political action or governmental action—like tariffs, | taxation, “regulation,” “sumptuary laws,” etc—tnterferes with the nat-| ural economic laws which govern men's economic relations, as natura! | law governs the tides and the swing of the planets. Nobody passes laws to interfere with the planets or tides; but they do pass laws| to interfere with the hatural laws of production, trade and the} distribution of wealth, hecause, by so doing, they are enabled to acquire | large masses of wealth that other peaple produce. This ts what the| wingle tax is claimed to change by restoring natural order for the dis- order that has been produced by politieal crookedness. Now, for a moment to return to the A-B-C’s of “economic: which you can always reason for yourself: WEALTH is anything and everything produced by man, from land. to satisfy his desires—food, clothing, shelter, et LAND is the surface of the earth—with {ts water, air, sunshine— in truth, everything outside of man himself. It is sometimes called matural opportunities, or, as Herbert Spencer puts it, the “materia Media,” or material medium surrounding man, It is also called the “passive factor” in production of wealth, because ft never produces Wealth without being acted upon by man. LABOR, the “active factor,” is man himself, without whose work no wealth could possibly be in existence, CAPITAL, sometimes calied the “auxiliary factor,” or helping fac- tor, is that wealth which is stored up to help further production—like axes, steam engines and all other tools that help man, ‘Those, also, are utterly useless without man taldng them and using them. When these three factors; of land, which came first; labor, which came next; and capital, which came last of all, have brought forth ‘or “produced” wealth, we come to the problems of distribution—and ‘not = See ia iow, in this problem of distribution is the whole questi economic justice or injustice. way sates Wealth is divided or “distributed’ labor; and interest, to capital. And here is where the single tax comes in again, Under single tax on land value alone there would be: First—No taxes on labor—not any poll taxes, nor taxes on food or clothing, no tariff taxes, nor license, business or occupation taxes: no taxes on houses, trees, fences, nor any improvements made on land by the exertion of man—nor on inheritance nor income. Second—There would be no taxes on capital, money, machinery, factories; none on trade or barter; none on any form of wealth, pro- suction of waste, nee gonsumption of wealth; and, ‘ ird—" le burden of government, national, state an f nicipal, would be placed on land value, or the annual rent yo yc ; As an abstract theory, this taxation of land value would gradually a other taxes were removed, until the entire rent of land was into the public treasuries of the state, municipalities and nation, and there would be no other tax in existence. = 7 bs adhe We of what the single ta: Merns, t #0 the place to “rip, tear and snort,” as the ard idee breathe. rt,’ the Missour! | from | as rent, to land; as wages, to _ wow said to the vi THE STAK—SATURDAY, YOU HAVE ALOT OF CONSIDERATION FOR PHYSICAL AFFLICTION — / DONT THINK !/ THE OLD KICK Satan—I'm surprised to find you here. I thought you would surely wet a goat in New Yorker (weartly)—Nothing doing; speculators bad them all.— Puck, HIS SUSPICION “T get a lot of mail offering chances to invest.” “Maybe you have a reputation as a financier.” “Or maybe somebody has my name on a sucker List,”—Loulsville Courier-Journal. ; oe ee ee eae iid COULDN'T FRY EM. * “Some of those Southern roadbeds are pretty rough,” com- mercial traveler remarked. “I remember on one occasion order ing some fried exes for breakfast in the dining car. After waited quite a while the colored walter returned and sald: ‘Sorry ‘bout dem fried alga, boss. De cooks says de road's so rough dat ebery time he tries to try algs dey scrambies."-—Boston Transcript. * ARATE ee oO. K. “How's everything at your house?” “She's all right, thank you.”-—Detrott Free Pross, PREPARING ALGY t Her Prospective—There are no grounds on which your father gould throw me out. His Prospective-—No; not in the front of the house, but there is a bed of gladioli in the back yard looks soft,-Brooklyn Life. “I thought she exhibited nerve and gplomb,” said Mra. Oldcastle. “Josiah said she had nerve, but eeeeeeeenn 4 ) , “How many foreign languages; “Thrifty, isn't he?” can Jones talk?” “Thrifty? 1 won't go into a long “Weill, he s he understands discourse. everything his baby says.” HIS IDEA. jhe banks money ii December.” 1] FAR, FAR AWAY. a) Customer—What fleas on a dog? Novelist—1 Druggist (absently)—Dog fleas | honest lawyer. get slong all right without any as Humorist—Then keep on travel sistance from anyone, ng to the Never, Never Land. USUAL WAY. HE KNEW HIS TROUGI can I do for! am looking for: an lin “Why didn't the chief of Invgstigate the matter befor Mra, Henpeck ow should you expect him to} today at our daug! know anything until he sees it si Mr. Henpeck the papers,” for the groom. police 4 Why did you cry ter's wedding? Out of sympathy I merely tell you that/ DECEMBER 16, 1911. things better mated than th’ average line o’ music an’ th’ average line 0’ vitelethat's ased out now. days in th’ ewell cafays?” 12 You Can't Lose it. “Ot course,” sald the optimist, “if & man gets into the habit bunting trouble be's sure to find it “You,” said the pessimist, “and 0 lawy that he always tries it will find bim. So what's the difference ?’—Catholic Standard and Times. A Masculine Surprise. Hudson-—How id you explain the inscrutable Mona Lisa smile? Judson-—Some one bas told a tun- ny story and the poor woman is smiling in the wrong place.—Har- per's Bazar, Scaling the Peak. Knicker-e that Boston girl frigid? Hocker—1 should say so. When) ohri; fellows call on her they tie them- selves together with ropes,—Har- per's Bazar. His Motion. “ a had to disband very or aa make the motion to ad- Journ “1 did” “How did you do itt” “1 made @ motion ike | was reachin foh a razor."—Pittsburg Press. peer Manne HAD FED THE HORSES And PUT THEr AWAY For THE NIGHT, HE MADE STRAIGAT FOR THe KITCHEN TO eer HIS cAKes wen We wWAs creereo WITH, “IP A DEPARTMENT STORE HAD A BARGAIN SALE WOULD A BAgBeR SHOP #” ano wey teT rive! Endiess Chain “How in thunder can you afford & motor, Binks?" demanded Hark- r way, “Oh, I mortgaged my house and bought 1t." said inks, “I am buflding a garage now. “Well, I never—a garage, eh?” said Harkaway. “How the deuce are you going to pay for that?” “Why, that's simple enough,” said Binks. “I've mortgaged my car.” “But my dear fellow—these mort- gagon will fall due some day, won't they?” asked Harkaway. “Bure!” said Binks, “but that'll jbe all right. Then I cati mortgage |the garage.”—Harper's Weekly The Worst Over. Mary-—-Are you going to ask Ida |to your bridge? She has been hoe |from Europe six weeks, Alice—Why, yes; T'll ask ber. |She must have stopped telling her| | for ign experiences by now,—-Har- |per’s Bazar. jhouse while papa lived. |i showing such common » rou Bove AnD GIs ee ed * HERE'S ONE * * * * * * ed Hoping you will not be disap pointed to know that one of your lithe nieces never did believe Santa Claus, 1am going to why. My mother explained to the beautiful German story of Nicholas, showing where gift giving originated, and it seems so much more loving to be grateful to our friends for the many blessings Chan to give the credit to a mythical per: sonage 1 would think all churches that believe in Christ would rather ce brate his birthday anniversary without the Santa Claus lie beivg the main feature of the day, for as it is now they lose the beautiful spirtt, “It is more blessed to GIVE jthan to receive,” | My Nttle sister and 1 love Christ |mas, #0 we are sorry for our little friends when they discover there |really ts no Santa Claus, and that their own dear folks misled them, too. BEATRICE MELLOTT. 1723 Grand Ave As the Yuletide draws near, the Judgment day for two pig, tat, juicy turkeys, weighing § and 6 pounds respectively, comes nearer also. The turks are trying various methods of wtaving off the and for a time refused to eat. The one thing the birds are thankful for is that some cle er child will feast upon them mas. “It's going to be hard work pick ing the two winners,” sighed Uncle Jack, after opening the mornings mall, i ond The contest has not closed yet [and does not close dntil next Thurs- day. Several children have made themselves ineligible because their drawings were in pencil and some because their stories were written “terribly.” Remember two children are going to get these birds. Better horry with your verses or drawings or stories. I think Santa Claus ts a nice fel jow and he used to come to my But since father was killed he doesn’t com 80 often, for mamma has to work hard for what we do get, and my DISAP! “Did she get her divorce?” Why not you?) The Star | | @ I never had an Ostrich Bird And tried to keep him in a cage, But what his feathers all fell off— And HE fell in a rage! sick sister, too, she bas to be taken care of, for she bas been out in the open @ight times and has been sick eight years. So mother says we ‘are too poor for Santa Claus any | more, so we have to get along the best way. I wonder if he goes to nee other people. DWIGHT INGRAM. Thomas, Wash. SEEEEEYEENID TES * GIRL A CLEVER POET - * Oe ad Dear Uncle Jack—On account of | moving and helping mamma put things to order in our new home, I have not had much time to enter the contests Iately. Now that we are nearly settled I shall write for the Circle this week. I made the enclosed verses up in San Antonio, | POINTMENT “Ob, yeu; but she was terribly disappointed in a way. You know he didn’t contest it."—Detroit Free Press, I love nothing better than TOO SUGGESTIVE “Do you know a reliable dealer in automobile tires?” “What's bis name?” “Skidmore.” “Umph! Tell me some one else.”——Birmingham Age-Herald. DID HE HAVE THE COURAGE? card: Henpeck—And yet you won't let me play cards. I'd win a fortune—j|* Boston Transcript. Mra. Henpeck~You know the saying, “Unlucky dn love, lucky atin kkk eke eke eka 2." * A FINE GAME “I think bridge is an elegant game.” “It in very interesting to the player “Yen; and one of the players Is always left free to Serve the drinks.”|one of Uncle Jack's —Kanaas City Journal. GARVI word of praine. wally, each week as many confi I know they do not in kind. SHE LIVES IN a caldron of human passions. It ts not a pleas ant place for a man to be, let alone a woman, et her counsel is aght on all is increasing. CYNTHIA WRITES four papers. Her fame and name is igrowing. There is a secret. She e in for SRERO ETHER HHH BED * THE TEST, * * *% have a good time at your birth. * * day party yesterday. . % Willie—t bet I did. * * Billy—Then why ain't you ® ® sick today?—Philadelphia Reo- */ | ® ord, *) I a i i a a i i a a ie id “i assure you,” sald the porsist- ent suitor, “that I will not take ‘ho’ for an answer.” “You needn't,” replied Bright. “Tl say ‘yes’ upon conditipn.” “Ah! Name the condition.” “Just ask mo if I am determined | pot to marry you under any ciroum-| atances.—Catholic Standard and Times. | | Miss one Men the Biggest Mrs. E. 4. Harrima it a dinner in New York, said of the begring letter nuisance: Tam overwhelmed with begeing }letters. 1 received five thousand | |begging letters before I started on my recent Western trip. It isn't unusual for me to recelve one hun- dred begging letters a day. “And most of them are from jmen, Women have a finer, bolder} jspirit than they used to have. clinging, babyish type of woman is |disappearing—the type of woman,) I mean, who writ begging let- ters and who, if married, has for her motto: “Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you get what you want.’”-—Roaton Globe, | | | | Buffaloed “Mr. Wiggledy,” smiled Mrs, Leeder, “that column article of yours on the play last night was a wonder.” “You flatter me, madam,” said the dramatic editor of the Daily Bread, much gratified ‘Not at all, It must have taken & long time to write it.” Yeu; I spent two hours’ or more jon that criticism, t confes “Well, it was a splendid piece of |work, The play, you know, is ab- surdly simple, and anybody ean un derstand it, but your explanation jof it is 80 profound, so—er—incom |Prehensible, don't you know, that Billy-—Hah! I bet you didn't #! The | « jher replies that bewildered ones and despairing people turn eagerly |to her. YOU NEED NOT know her to |appreciate her work. It is better |that her identity remain behind the veil, Those who docknow h a patient, level-headed, warn ed little woman who is d | DOING GOOD. The in the Bible about Jesus, went about doing good,’ my mind when I think of perlences Cynthia Gre: Last week 214 people sought her counsel, and 135 were from Seattle. THE PAPERS do not employ her to be this angel of sympathy. She jhas a full day in doing her editorial work, but outside of this has de veloped a correspond bui which takes her extra time and sur plos energy. N’S CORNER BY REV. JOSEPH L. GARVIN, B. D., M. A. stor of the First Christian Church, Seatt! A WOMAN WHO REALLY HELPS CYNTHIA GREY deserves this told me. “The stories, I dare say not a|them, are so tragic, pitiful, sad, person in the elty receives, individ- | all of them true, that I cannot cease | dences as this remarkable woman. |bome with me.” ides and the number) |swamped with letters. is having! ee many” of dj thinking about them. I carry them ALL WHO GIVE themselves in service of others know what ex- hausting work it is. Her task is staggering because each confiden-| tal letter needs soul assistance (do you know what that means?) so badiy. LIKE TOPSY, this work just grew, She did not seek it. But the appeals came in because of the saneness and wisdom of her print ed replies, Today she is literally } | VERILY TRUTH Is stranger than to make up pleces. Drawing is my hardest study at school, 1 love all my other studies. We got our report cards two weeks ago and my aver age was 99 per cent. Mamma thought that was splendid, and so did Miss Henderson. Dan Join B, Allen School. RRR EERE E CHRISTMAS POEM. % * REE Dear 014 Gants will soon be here, with him the Christmas ‘The children are waiting Por old St. Mick they want to ses. ‘When the stockings are hung by the fireside aptly" ~ —allemaaeetlinceder::: And fills all with candy and ‘Then creeps sway without any noise, ‘ext morn the children are fall of For in their stockings they are going presents old St. Wick had Page as coe * * * Everett, Wash. * * HER DOLL 18 31. * * * ERR EERE RE One member of the Circle, 11, has a doll 31 years old. name is Mary Cameron and she Youngstowy nieces. She has four sisters and you can bet, they are a wee bit jealous of Mary and her “old maid” doll. Mary attends the Youngstown school and it would be hard to find a brighter pupil in. the fifth grade than she. You Ought To Know that impureblood. with its weal ening results, mmpleasant breath, headaches, onrestfel nights, poor | appetite, sallow skin, pimples and | depression, comes ftom constipation BEECHAM’ _ PILLS fiction, Such stories you_ neve heard or read in print. Many les ons are taught by her unselfish Mfe. Thousands with anxious mind: and aching hearts long for a con + fidant. WHOM CAN Wwe TRUST? That is the question, She has won their confide The world is full of others, too, who would gladly help, but they are not known REMEMBER THE saying, “Two heads are better than one, even if one is a sheep's head. That is her working principle. But that other head must prove trustworthy. This is the woman behind the principle HONOR CYNTHIA GREY for her work's sake, Her position is unique, While she is just a woman trying to unravel tangled lives, she “THESE APPEALS are begin-\Is throwing rays of hope into dark ning to affect me personatly,” sho! places. Editor Star The Star fine, Editor of The Star. Dear Sir: Being a constant read. ér of your paper and noticing the generosity and help extonded to the needy, I should like to put in an appeal for work, I don’t smoke or use Hquor fn any form. My trade is general miliwright—considered a good mechanic, both wood and iron worker, T can rough my own plans and work off blue print. I have looked for work daily, resulting in no prospects. My wife is now working to help me out, but is not very strong and must have rest. Possibly you or some reader of The Star (if you publish this) may help me to find work AN APPEAL FOR WORK If any reader of Star can give this man work, send your let ter to The Star it has me completely buoffalood.”— Phicago Tribune, ’ the writer's address. Inthe Editor’s Mail | }ean be given or not | Surely = Seattle, Wash., Dec, 13, 1911. Would be much obliged to you if you could find a little apace in your paper to tell the ladies of Seattle to be a little more careful with their hatpins in a crowded street car. cannot always buy their sight back if they lose #, but a hatpin protector can be purchased for a small amount, and lots of trouble can be if they would take that little trouble, A person oi Will also say that we like A SUBSCRIBER, Editor 8! The letter tle “Blue who is 1 old and has never had a Christmas, published in your on Wednesday, should heart that is human, whether +hel T have litt ones of my own to provide for, b will inclose $5 to assist in giving “Blue Eyes” and other needy little ones a merry Christmas in 1911 the efforts of The Star and the other papers of the city de. serve the highest commendation for the appeals on behalf of thosein distress. 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