The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 16, 1912, Page 4

4 THE SEAT Phones TLE STAR Private Bxehange Matin 9400 and Independent 441 ‘of Whited Press. Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. t Beat a “postottice as necond-claea 1 nis per month up te #ix months fatiure t to mubat of the mana: once of an: f, Of any atter are given courteous and pr rive any nient by 00 Ind. 4 [Straight Ahead Towering skysctapers and giant structures of steel, itute another pa gemont to secu amp 8 chick kindly phone this ‘fax for the Circulation Depart stone, concrete and brick are not what make great cities. These are but material monuments. of the observer. They are inte! They catch the eye resting sights at which the in- habitant may point with pride, as he tells the wandering visitor all about it. But that doesn't make a city. ; No city can be greater than the composite mind and heart of the people. What the people who make up a city are, that city will be. : And the aim of municipal government should be, first of all, to make life better and more beautiful for the men, women and children whose lives are to be lived, whose souls are to be/ hasn't ne?” developed, whose minds and hearts are to be expanded in that community of human souls, That is the doctrine of mayor George F. Cotterill, candidate for Mr. Cotterill, as an expert engineer, knows the value of these material things, but he is a man who, under stress of the industrial struggle, has not los' rtant thing—the welfare of the whole people. has been a soldier in the battle. t sight of the other more im- For years he Now the people have an op- mony to make him their leader to guide them on in making eater Seattle” greater in the ‘ Keep your eye on the vote will just about decide what right way. doings of that state labor convention The labor vote consolidated with the farmers’ course this state will take. “Should a girl offer to shake hands when introduced to # lady or on the street tT” Just one of the questions asked Cynthia Grey, but it shows the common fn 6 What rea? value has the reers Erte known her 47 years? iifting of a bat, the opeding of a door,| ‘of a chair, if not inspired by real kindiineas of heart’ Does! ly matter, that is-—whether bride or to the lucky mam himself” “ to send a girl anything besides fruit, flowers Is it really beyond the pale for a girl to address the wedding gift Is it wrong—really wrong and candy until the street if she likes the person, the person they are going to be friends? in a poor in have in the development of a ‘The real thoroughbred may ; it doesn’t matter, The fineness {* You never saw a man throw clothes around the way be does.” THE STAR—TUBSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1912 “Hh has « mean disposition, “I should say so. Ho's the kind of & man who'll rake in a jack-pot on a bluff, and then, after he's stacked up the chips, will spread out four hearts and a spade for ev erybody to look at. love to most-—little girls or giria? He getting squeezed. IT PLEASED “JIM” HILL §$he—-Which do men like to ame ti (a bdroker)—Well, it's the shorts that you always hear of as James J. Hill, the railway king, told the following amusing tncident|'242 who always carries on one of his. roads plaints that freight trains were in the habit of stopping on @ ing in a certain small town, thereby blocking travel for long He Issued orders, but still the complaints came in. Finally be to investigate personally “A short man in size and very exettable, he went down to the ing, and, sure enongh, there stood, in defiance of bis orders, a freight train, anchored sqnarely across It A brakeman didn’ know him by sight sat complacently on the top of @ car, “ ‘Move that train on!” sputtered the little ‘super. Move on, I say! “The brakeman surveyed the tempestuous little man from head to foot. ‘You go to the deuce, you litte shrimp!’ he replied. small enough to craw! under.’ ” Ree RAHAT ® LONG PRACTICE * “My husband ja just awful when he wants to find anything. * * “Where did he learn to be so untidy?” “Why, he was in the custom house for four years.” RRR Hee eek hehe HE KNEW HIS BOSS John R. McLean, owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Wash- first of others may be expressed in 4 grace-| ington Post, tells this story of the days when he was actively in charge with untutored roughness, but it is courtesy—| of the Cincinnat! newspaper. re—just the same. ing ourselves over what { iiterally and figuratively, with every buman be-| and occupied a front seat. correct in manners, ours from now on. inly right up on her toes on this which means that Seattle will have better mal. There never were so many , and never was the world so _ We hear more or less complaint 3 rich es if they don't want to? We hear more or less talk about business stagnation. It fan't nor- people needing so many things well equipped to serve the world’s of hunger in many lands. It lan't enough to give everybody a square Or will they over. law-making bodies on that subject by threat- you going to do about it? Jegisiature provided an inheritance tax that rich that it “has already driven $400,000,000 ft “ rts people is not able to train all the bi ‘allied real estate interests, bankers, law- ii result in closing factories and throw- and constitutions, ien’t ft stil! true ie the power to rule? men in habits the Mississippi penitentiary is helping out with the convicts from that institution are not shunned, but} tenants and bired hands. negroes who have not They, make twice ay much corn had the benefit of prison training. Is the day coming when the convict will be the aristocrat of the Mlelds, rejoicing in advantages reserved only for those who commit ‘crime? inconvenience of crime, arrest, trial Or would it be possible to get the prison education without the and imprisonment? It shows that we are ali good for something if we know how, Goenn’t it? ee n the Editor’s Mail January 15, 1912. To The Editor of The Star: Dear Sir—You seem to be of #0 much aid to the average public that 1 thought I might come to you for counsel. At the preesnt time and for the past nine months grading has been going on between HE. 48th and E. 69th sts, and between Sth ay. N. E. and Latona av. All through the season the con- tractors have been doing just about | the way they pleased, taking their | time about working on the streets,| leaving them in a fearful condition and making tt almost impossible to get to our homes, Recently they moved their pow- er house, containing blasting pow- Ger, to within a short distance of our property. The powder house contains about a ton of blasting powder. We have complained to city authorities but been done, Is there a way to get this menace to publie life from here? Yours very truly, A SUBSCRIBER. nothing bas Daily Star: I have long wished to} express my gratitude and thanks| for the faithful and efficient ser-| vice of your paper in the cause of Seattle workers, and the public generally. I consider this people extremely fortunate to have a champion so fearless and so able. It is not for these people alone that The Star labors, but it is the cause of man—the cause of prog- ress. It is the effort of justice to save selfish man from his own destruc. R, L. HAMON 2812 W. 7ist. = Time Changes the Ties. A party were talking of success. A certain man who had made a for- tune was mentioned. “When that man came to London in ‘79," one said, “everything he wae tied up in a hand- chief. Today——" The speaker smiled and stroked his close-clipped mustache. “Today everything he possesses is tied up in his wife's name.” he added.—Tit-Bits. His Brand, “Here's an article in this maga- zine entitled ‘How to Meet Trouble” said Mra, Wedderly, “Shall I read it to you?” seo <3 ank you,” replied his wife's husband. “How to dodge trouble is the brand of information I'm looking for.” —Tit-Bits. Valor and Discretion. “What's the difference between valor and discretion?” remarked Mrs. Brown, looking up from the paper in which she had been read. ing a leading article on the opera- tions in Tripoll. “Valor,” replied Brown, “is bawl- ing into the ear of a ‘champion pugilist the assertion that he is a ruffian you could knock into fits, An Enquirer reporter was sent to « town in Southwesterg Oboe to get the story of a woman evangelist who had been greatly talked about. The reporter attended one of the meetings aaked to arise he kept bis seat and used his notebook, The evangelist approached. eship “Madam,” said the newspaper man, “I'm here solely on business—to report your work.” “Brother,” said she, “there's no business so important as God's.” seeeeeee When those who wished to be saved were TO ONE IN PARADISE. Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul didst pine: A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and « shrine All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers, And all my days are trances, eee Add all my nights are trances, | And all my nightly dreama, Are where thy gray eye glances, And where thy footsteps gleams- dances, “Well, maybe not.” said the reporter; “but you don't know Joha R. MeLean.”—Cosmopolitan Magazine. THE VILLAGE CUT-UP. BEST CURE. Tom—From whom does he inberit; Prospective Patient—Say, bis great surgical ability? Dick--From his father, who used| Dr. Mendum to be a regular cut-up. sleep and forget it. USE OF AN ENGAGEMENT RING ‘Two young women rode Into Boston from Newton on an Oak Square They were very chummy and punctuated a lively car the other day. particular where it looks, A bird in the bush ts worth two on a hat. A Chicago woman arrested for biting a policeman was 4 when she proved that There are six (6), a half dozen, elevators in Japan. Which about numbers the bulid- ings im Japan tall enough to need elevators. “PERFECTLY RIDICULOUS” A drunken man’s excuse. The Christmas presents we get. The names our neighbors give their bables. The novelixt’s idea of a heroine. Doo. ost body's idea of ev what's the best cure for insomnia? kare is cag (absently)—Go to A Good Reason. “Why do so many of you classic Ww musicians ear such very long hair?” asked the inquisitive girl. “So that we can comb it down conversation by pecking at a box of chocolates, in a kind of “onefor-me-| over our ears in case anybody plays and-onefor-you" style. It was just after Christmas, and {t was nateral that the conversation should have much to do with that day. It rattled on like this: “Beasie haa a diamond ring!” imparting a profound secret. “She has?” expressing great surprise. {Insert chocolates here.) “Engagement, I spose? I've been expecting it.” “Yep.” “Christmas present? “Yep.” . More rumination on chocolates and also thought. “1 don’t like it. This making a diamond engagement ring a Christ mas present.” “Why?” “Why? you think?” More chocolates.—-Boston Globe. It looks to me like killing two birds with one stone, don't “There was never but one cuest at this here hotel that stung me while | waa on the job,” the landiord confided. “Several have boat us, but not while 1 awake, But this here feller certainly got one on me. Say, be’s livin’ here yet, an’ he ain't never pald me a cont. Why don't I collect his bill? How canI? Walt till J tell you. “He'd been stoppin’ here for near two months when I approached him on the subjeck of gettin’ something on account. He was cheerful. 1 was polite. Finally 1 got mad and put it up to him straight. ies ," Young man, says I, ‘you can’t leave this hotel till you pay your “Will you put that in writin.? saya be, And before I knowed what I was doin’ I done it!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Touching. j Not Musical. Mr. Prosperous—-A great, big.| The Vicar (ending speech)—And able-bodied man Hike you ought to|so we have decided to pregent Mr. be axhamed to ask a stranger for| Smith with an honorariuny on his money. departure | Meandering Mike —1I know I| Villager—I object! Whi ought; but, mister, I'm too kind-|{s give ‘im something usefu}, hearted to tap you on the head and) we don’t even know wh take it away from you. jean play the thing. ON THE LIPS, TOO. GAVE HIMSELF AWAY. T says Why, her he Pune Carry kisser. She (examining the ring) Jack Hugger is a great ngagement I hope this tsn't a cheap Imi. “And discretion?” “Ig doing it over the telephon —Tit-Bits, Entelle—Hearsay? Carry—No, 1 got it right. from him tation. Hé (absently)—No; it’s the most expensive imitation I could find, ‘This was sald with the air of one ragtime.”-—Washington Star. Remembering the Absent. “I guess I'm getting into this social game. all right,” said Mr. Cum- rox. “Be polite and courteous yet formal. That's the idea.” “What have you been doing? inquired his wife, sharply. “You know them people who sent regrets because they couldn't come to our party?” “Well, after I saw the party I sat down and sent ‘em congratulations.” —Wasbington Evening Star. The Other Fellow. “The man who sings all day at his work is a bappy . “Yes; but how about the man who works and has to listen to him?" —-Tit-Bits, Too Poetic to Be True, “Perce,” she whispered softly, ‘mark yonder breadth of cloud, stretching to the utmost part of the heavens——a boundless, infinite soa of nothingness,” “Nothingness!” he echoed. “Why, goodness gracious, Jenny, there's a quart of rain in every square foot of that cloud!” Just the Place “Sir, 1 have come to ask you for your daughter's hand.” “AN right, my boy! I think you'll find it in the dishwater.” Then the young man left, smiling, —.. |knowing that if such was the case he had won a prize. Encouraging. |. “Biliggin’s friendship seems to flatter you.” j | “It doesn’t flatter me,” sald the cynical statesman, “but it encour. ages me. He is one of those people who never trouble themselves to be | affable except to those who are re- garded as liable to have some pull.” Washington Evening Star, Speeding the Guest. The hostess was so weary, after \an inordinately long call from a bore, that when he at last rose to go} she was almost incapable of coher-| ent speech, and her verbs in conse- quence changed places in her final effort at hospitality. It ran as fol- lows: “Oh, Mr. Peters, must you jstay? Can't you go?'—London Opinion. Familiar. Satan—Did you tel) that how we are paved? Imp—Yes, he said it reminded him of dear old New York.—New York Sun, spirit HE GOT HIS FIRST VIOLIN WHEN JUST THREE YEARS@ NOW BOY IS MUSICAL Mo let out his firet baby yell in & musical environment, and tt has music with him ever since When only 3 years old teopid Rosen received bis first violin, built es y for him by his father, Herr joritz Rosen. Now, at 16, he has Hl ERs “Think of it, my der,” remarked Mrs. Emily Streat, looking from the morning paper she had cabbag- ed at the breakfast table, “just think of It! This paper says that there are three thousand millions of dollars in circulation in this coun- “Well, ways experience in getting you to “Yes; eet to music it will become popular song.”—Tit-Bits. Net Legal. “Now, what's to be the considera tiom tm this deed?” asked the law- “Don't you let ‘em put dat in, squire,” said Unele Rasberry. “If dar’s anythin’ in dat papah “bout dat man showin’ cosstleration to anybody, dar ain't a jury in de Get the Original 204 Genuine HORLICK’S MALTED MILK The Food Drink forAllAge Guaranteed to Stand Three Months of Hardest Wear Hougen’slightnin Shoe Repair Shop 110 Madison St. “REPAIRING WHILE YOU WAIT” | He Knew. Cook (shaking his “fountain ‘* pen)—You have no idea how & eanily these pens run! # I bave ap inkiing!—Harvard ® Lampoon. * SRR ERE EEE “Those Youthful Prodigies” GENIUS OF SEATTLE “It requires 96 “Will wonders never cease?” said} have long, soft, glossy Jones to his wife. “Here is the ac-| Mrs. Mae Martyn in count of a ¢-yearold boy who can! 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