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A MEDICINE pipe THE BEST are hundreds of advertised, (here really stands out} remedy for dises fiver and bladder Swamp Ko: stands ye the reason that it to de just | medy apon thousands post distressing es friend is ediate Je compound bar's Swamp Koot 20 ption for # Ee janet recommended te of Purity Peli deux stores. in bol | Faaeeefifty cents and Le FREE BY MAIL what Swamp Kidney, fiver and will. do for you, any alrendy tried HP sample bottle by free. Address Dr Binghamton, N today. Phato Shop nidg —— Both Phones tee Tv rantTy” 1 Comed DEODING Dart” Gh &@ C ACTS } ps Musical Comedy. | are Bill "Ite and 200. ed Patient 1 Private reference good faith interested. ak: Dam up here) ) getting some ot | out of me, and @ good job. Talk ared away and on “ ls the best ever ba few days off and come) 4 days they can fix you ‘Poore looks like car they treat you T Will be home soon | fo come in and let 70 i” : take the positive assertion OVE expresses the sevti LL NEAL CURED PA.) Mak us for the proofs ome here ‘and try it! ‘Seteement that will ® Cent unless you are at end of th vat e lehants to the pro \6 GOLDEN DAYS | j TURNED INTO ~ GOLDEN CASH “t:|Glove Trust Uses Public! Schools as Apprentice | Shop at Gloversville. (iy Calted Press Leased Wire) GLOVERSVILLE, N. Y., Aug. 6. Weill, you ought to know about Gloversville, It is interesting in a (number of ways. For insta is the metropolie of the ch paid glove industry. It is the capi- ytal of the glove trust. Also, and most remarkable of all the public schools of Gloversville MANU. FACTURE HUMAN MACHINERY for the glove trust, It is @& great experience (and you should have a kodak) to #8 through the quiet streets of Gloversville, and kray-haired erandpas and grandmas at the windows, making gloves. it it's between meals, there will be mothers and other Lome bodies on the porehes, making gloves. You see, when a town has only one industry and all the manu facturers in that industry unite to keep wages down, everybody in the family has to pitch In to help on the high cort of living But in Gloversville they little farther than that THE LITTLE CHILDREN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MAKE GLOVES! t And. why, you ask, must the little children be dragged into this pur- suit in those first, fresh years when they ought to be Jearning just beautiful, usefal things that will help fit them for things above glove making, if possible. Well, there are three answers which you can pick up in Glovers ville: Here ts the first one--from Supt James A. Estee, who represents the view-potnt of the public schools in this mating situation, where publie schools are training puptle to enter one trade, and are teach ing NO OTHER TRADES. “We have established our VO- CATIONAL school,” says Supt Estee in his report, “because, Gow, Foss of Massachusetts has said, ‘in the lack of such training we find one fruitful cause of many aimless careers which can lead to nothing that is good and must tend to sweil the number of our ineffect = Here Is answer No. 2. This is from Lucius N. Littauer, head of the glove business Gloversville, Littauer, who once a congreseman and is a Monaire, appeared not long ago before the national ways and means committee with arguments which persuaded that committe to Increase the tax on women's and children’s gloves. “Of course the manufacturers’ association is for such training,” says Littaver. “We aid it all we can, We need helpers and the pupits need work when they get out of school.” And bere is answer No. 3. This is from Leo Grinnell, so- cialist member of the board of education. “Pressure of the ers has established a glove ma! ing course in the public schocis because they want to get the ace was mil cheap, efficient help of the very ‘#in temperature | | |young and they do not want to MDear the expense of m: aining an apprentice school for those glove trade. THE MARKETS The following are ¢t prices paid by local ce erage prices paid by the retalier to the commis stoners. The prices paid the farmers me under “buying price,” and the sum paid by the retailer under “set! mg price.” Prices in all cases are t to variation, according to oun and general ae priver ed, are for Vax" | al Institute p Sixteenth Av. ‘Seattle E. 4381 - i INLES? / sog00ge Work at Cut mates on the Easy Pay- E are actual! ing % *10 GOLD AND PONCE. OWNS FOR $3.50. WE IG $8, $10 AND $12 TEETH FOR $ eWhile some Dentist Fidieulous prices for We are making $8 bridgework fy and Cemen # Gold Fills are from cting is free ee all wor in today. 1 7 We will « CUT-RATE DENTISTS FLOOR PEOPLE's BANK BLDG, Second and Pike. Elevator. a ile for 12 % Liver Heart Mutton Ewes Wethers Spring lamb Breakers Pork Dressed Trimm id sides 6 ribe rk sausage Liver sausage ‘turnips, Radiahes, doz Parsley Caulitiow | Hothouse ead doz. | Cantaloupe Veed, Setting Washington a Timothy atern 18. 00019 14, 00@ 15 13.00@14 4 26.004 27 28.0040 29 44.00 137.000 48. Middlings» 36.00 Rolled oat#@and ba ley mixed see 37.00 415 oe Modern Furniture Company, Pike. Everything. it) in} who are desirous of entering the! Try flex.” | ~ — THE STAR—TUES A champagne cooler, t DAY, AUGUST 6, 1912. “The car is sow {SECRET OF MAKING CUT GLASS HAS| WHY $5,000 |__BEEN IN ONE FAMILY 200 YEARS PASADENA, Cal., Aug. 6.—Look- ing at a cut glass vase, did you ever think how it is made The window of Somman's Cut | Glass factory is a riot of light and lecolor. As you flash by it on the | street car you are almost blinded |by the reflected light from the polished surfaces and gleaming angles. J. H, Benner is superintendent of the factory. “Making cut glass is remarkably interesting; only one family in the | world, the Webbs, know the seeret of making lead giass, Lead glass is the same as Mint glass, or what in known as rock crystal. This family originated the mixing of fine glass, discovered the secret in some way while blowing glass a couple of hundred years ogo. They lkeep a mixer in every factory in the world, but the secret is guarded | 80 carefully that not even a scient list has ever been able to discover [how it was done. : “Lime glass, which is the ordinary glass of commerce, has no metals in it. while lead glass con | tains aylicate of potash, soda and other minerals and metals, The! manufactur. mase is fused in such a way that Copenhagen were arrested yester } some of the minerals are conaumed. The batch. ax the mixture is called | in the trade, is then kept at a cer and, for four hours only, it te used for the! |making of flint glass. After that }time some chemical change takes place that renders it useless for anything but ordinary lime glass. ‘There you have all that any glass | manufacturer in the world knows |about the process. | "We buy our blanks from the| factories just as you see them,”| indicating long shelves filled with glass ware of every shape and| size. All the objects were plain; | but showed beautiful prismatic col-| jors when touched by the light; Jand all had immensely thick sides. | Some objects had designs drawn upon them in yellow paint | | im a long room six or eight men,! healthy and strong looking, were leaning over boxes filled — with water, above which spun at a high |rate of speed wheels of various sizes. The wheels were kept wet |by rubber tubes that connected with swinging tanks above the| |vats. The room was absolutely dustless. | | “Untill 15 years ago,” said Mr | Benner, “all cutting was done by | the’ dry process; then the oldest | known glass worker died at |now—well, you see my men “That stone is a brown Benny }it comes from Craigieith, Scotland, jand {s found nowhere else in t world It is a certain quality of | Have a Glass Boat to Study) ed of the Ocean. | A plate glass bottom is a feature of a 60-foot gasoline launch, launch. | ed at Camden, N. J., and designed | for examining the bed of the ocean with a submarine radio-light } The boat will have accommoda-| tions for 50 persons besides the} crew. will With Hat as Incubator, Hatches) Snake With H | John Duyser of Winsted, Conn., (killed a large snake and found sev eral snake eggs, which he put under his hat for safe keeping. Soon afterward he felt something | crawling and picked off a baby enake that had hatched from the heat under his bat His Sixth Marriage, at 80, Is to a 13-Year-Old Girl, Jones Blevis, 80 years old, was married at Hafler, Ky., to Jean) Dixon, 13 years old, a country school irl. . It was a brief courtship, the bride- groom being an experienced wooer through having had five wives be- fore. Paroled and Given 156 Years to Pay His $75,000 Fine. Harvey Whitlock, former treasu- rer of Vermillion, was fined $75,000 ODDITIES IN THE NEWS | | | J. H. BENNER, Mint, partly decomposed. A wheel! that size costs $35 and lasts a few months—sometimes. We use it for the first polishing.” } Another man waa holding a flat- tish glass dish against a’ steel whe while « tube played a mixture of! water and a brownish red powder about the constituency of molasses upon it co The wheel sped and a frosted) design appeared on the dish. “That powder {is bauxite.” ox plained Mr. Benner. It is four} times as hard as any sediment that ean be found. No, not harder than diamend dust. Diamond dust is useless for this Work: it breaks more. things than tt polishes. It) js too hard ; ENGLISHMEN - ARE ARRESTED; SUSPECT SPIES KIEL, Aug. 6.—Suspected of spy ing on coast fortifications of Ger- | many here and at Eckernfoerde, | five Englishmen who arrived from | day and are in the fortress at Metz awaiting trial. A German sergeant. & corporal and a private were also | arrested today charged with fur nishing military informa: to} England and France tt ix reported that many photo: «rapbs and notes were found on the! arrested Englishmen, who, from) meager information given out, are believed to be in league with the three German prisoners WONDER CAVERN WHITESBURG, Ky., Aug. 6. —What is considered the most wonderful cavern in the a has been discovered in Eastern Kentucky. Not yet explored and ite grandeur viewed by few, the cavern lies in the Cum: beriand mountains on one of the Ford creek headwaters. A few exploring parties who have ventured into the cave re port the finding of old kettles, parts of dishes believed to have belonged to former ex plorers who peristed while searching the cavern’s depths. WON'T DARE DO IT, WASHINGTON, D.C, Aug 6. Believing that President Taft will not dare veto the legislative appro priation bill, leaders in the house here today declare they would not recede from their demand that the} commerce court be abolished He was paroled on condition that he pay $40 a month on the fine, which at that rate will take 156 years and three months. Appetite Won Admiration of Restau- rant Man, Meal and 50 Cents. Jimmy Ryan of Mahony City, a miner, went into a Philadelphia restaurant and ate nine large beef sandwiches, three cheese sand wiches, five raw tomatoes, thr ears of corn, ix cups of coffee, for fried eggs, two slices of ham and five’ glasses of water. The proprietor so admired Ryan's appetite he charged him nothing and gave him 50 cents to buy a snack with later on Not a Thing on This Steamer Ex- r—2,583 Barrels, nothing in the chreo of the steamer Main just in at New York from Bremen, except beer There were 2,683 barrels of beer, consigned to New York importers Stork Leaves Three Children to Each of Two Sisters. Three six-pound sons were left by the stork on Yts first visit to Mr. and Mrs, Frank Martin of Wilkes barre, Pa. FROM GUFFEY WAS REFUSED Vrens Leased Wire) IN, E Aug. 6 Why the $6,000 contribution of Col James HK. Guffey of Peonsyivania was refused by the democratic na tional committee in 1908 was told to the senate contrivutions investi gating committee today by Norman Mack, chairman of the national com mittee that year, who asserted that it was generally believed at the time that Guffey was connected with the Standard Ol! Co, Mack watd: After the election I acce contribution because the teo's funds were $10,000 short Bryan had b ted 1 would not have accepted Guffey'’s money TERROR- STRICKEN (By Uolted Press Leased Wire.) GUADALAJARA, Mex, Aug. 6—Terror stricken by con- tinued heavy earthquakes hun- dreds of residents here fied from the city today and much of the | substantial section of the city is in ruins as a re- sult of the seismic disturbances. Every church in the city is jammed with weeping, praying people. It is estimated that 300 tremors have been felt since the disturbance began a few days ago. A BILL FOR JUDGES’ RECALL HINGTON, D. C., Aug. 8. Ashurat of Arizona \ ed in the senate a resoiu- « 7propesing a constitutional nt which would make ef of the inferior courts subject rei ay All out! DR. ELIOT BACK FROM WORLD TOUR OR. ELIOT. SAN FRANCISCO, Gal. After circling the glob interests of universal ce, Dr. Chas, W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard university, arrived here today accompanied by his wife and granddaughter, Miss Ruth Eliot aboard the liner China from the Orient. As a trustee of the Car negle peace fund, Dr, Eliot visited governm: officials throughout the world and lectured at missions and colleges. Dr. bitot is high! the progress of th republic, He declared that the Un 1 States should recog nize the Chinese republic only when the other nations of the world did Iikewise. Aug. 6 in the enthusiastic at new Chinese his "belief | j\ESCAPED FROM CHINESE PIRATES | SAN FRANCISCO, Cai., Aug. 6 Enfeebled and bearing hideous scars as their testimony of the hor rible experience undergone when attacked by a band of river pirate jA8 Chinese soldiers in the province of Szechuen, Western China, Albert M. Sheldon of Berkeley, a teacher jin the government coll at the Chentun, arrived here today aboard the liner China in the hope of re gaining his shattered health With two compantons, also teach Rert Hicks and Po-Hoffman Sheldon was attacked by pir the carly dawn of March % {pirates set fire to their boat the teach endeavored to escape to the shore they were hack ed down with long Chinese swords. CHINAMEN LIKE AIRSHIPS ALAMEDA, Cal. 6,—Gen Lan Tien Wel, of the Chinese rev: lutionary army, is enthusiastic day over hips for in new Chinese army. Gen. Lan & passenger with Tom Guon daring young Chinese avi series of f its, and is the | Chinese r ry officer to risk life in an aeroplane. The f lagted ten minutes, during wh |time Gunn put the machine throt | all its stunts, to thd delight of hi passenger Twain’s Pilot Tutor Dies Capt. E. W. Bixby, to Whom Ciem | ens Paid $500, Dead at 86. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 6.—Capt. E Bixby, who t t Mark Twain to pilot a mboat, w dead in bed at his hom He was 86 years old. Mark Twain paid $500 Jo Capt. Bixby for teaching him how to run a Mississippi river steamboat ae * to th wa he use first his w now found ' Hear about my Friend Mrs. William Rickard of that city, a sister of Mrs. Martin, was also left three children when she be at Danville, 1)., on a charge of mis- using $37,600 of county funds. came a mothe® for the first time recently. He chews CLIMAX “The Grand old Chew” “What @ head WIDOW IN| TACOMA GETS $9,576 DAMAGES SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 6 In an opinion handed down here today by Judge Ross and confirmed by Judges Wolverton and Gilbert the United States circuit court of appeals confirmed the decision of the lower courts in the case of va Maerkl for her husband, ree Maerkl, who was killed at Tacoma while working as a carpen ter for the Northern Pacific rail road, The widow sued for $25 ind was awarded $9,576. attorneys contended that the widow not legally to bring hit for her husband, This conten tion was overruled Find Mastodon’s Tusk Fragments of Prehistoric Animal ¢ Dug Up in American River. BACRAMENTO, Ca Aug. 6 Fragments of the ivory tusk of a mastedon, excavated from the gravel beds of the Americ near Folsom recei by Supt, Hyatt from Charles Lewis, ford university engineer, who s directing the prosecution of the on project of the Natomas olidated Company The southernmost point by the mastodon in prehistoric ages the asphaltum deposit in the troleum fields between Los An- nd Santa Monica. According to the best estimates of geologists the period during which the masto- don lived in this state was from 150,000 to 200,000 years ago Ma was entitled vat reached

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