The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 22, 1912, Page 4

SEATTLE STAR ia Private Meckongy Wale Vite NORTHW ist LRAGUB © NEWSPAPERS tall leased wire news service of the United wi 4146 your FETE, Maechange Main ¥400. The Long Arm of Science When Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclam- ation he struck the shackles from millions of slaves. But a group of college professors in Berlin, and another in London are now engaged in putting an end to the awful torture and enslavement of negroes in the Kongo country in ‘Africa, and the Peruvian Indians on the headwaters of the ‘Amazon. These men send out no proclamations, muster no armies, fight no battles. They pour bad-smelling stuff from one bottle to another, putter about with beakers, stills and flagons—and finally they have found a way to make rubber in the laboratory. Natural products made in the laboratory are called “syn- thetic” products. “Synthetic” means “put together.” “Syn- thetic indigo” put the indigo plantations out of business. “Syn thetic” rubber is sure to put the rubber plantations out of business. i When rubber can be made of starch, metallic sodium, fusel oil, isoprene, butyric acid, and a few other things, it will no longer be sought in the deadly tropics, where every ton of it costs a life. Automobile tires will be cheaper. All rubber goods will go down in price. More potatoes will have to be grown for the making of starch, and the honest farmer will do the work with a corn-plow which is now done by a tortured Indian or Negro with a machete. Professor Perkins of London and Ferribach of Berlin have made rubber in the laboratory as good in every respect as that obtained from trees. The question of price depends on the cheapening of the production of fusel oil. This oil is now sade setly $700 per ton. Fernbach of Berlin is credited with a discovery which will bring its price down to less than $200 a ton. Profes Perkins says that this discovery should bring the price of synthetic rubber down to sixty cents a pound —with a probability of further reduction to twenty four cents We shall more of us be able to ride in motor cars when this happens The poor man will be able to afford waterproof clothes with real rubber in them The long arm of science will unlock the shackles of the slaves of rubber in the tropics. And then, if the professors will only give us synthetic ivory, the “White Man’s Burden” may be quite removed from the Kongo. Two Great 1912 Races Perhaps you have wondered why baseball has its hold on the American public, Perhaps you can’t understand the peculiar attraction of this game which a St. Louis minister in sists, causes us all to suffer from a form of insanity. After all, it is not such a deep or serious problem. Base ball holds the interest of the country year after year for good reasons. In the first place, it is straight. American people are be- ginning to show their contempt for crooked people And c rooked methods. In baseball they find little to condemn and much to praise. They know that when they go to a baseball game they will get a run for their money, They will see cach club do all it can to win; they will see mistakes, but they will not be mistakes of the heart. In the second place, the uncertainty of baseball makes it such a wonderful sport. League races rarely run exactly to form. For that reason, in the few instances where gamblers have attempted to break into baseball they have found the venture unprofitable. > This year’s American league race furnishes a startling ex- ample of the uncertainty of baseball. The Philadelphia Ath- Jetics, for the last two years winners of the American league Pennant and later winners over the National league champions, were generally picked to repeat this year. Now, with the sea- son two-thirds over, they are no better than a poor third with only the slimmest chance of winning out. Washington for years the butt of baseball jokes, invariably at the bottom or thereabouts, is the wonder of the diamond this season. With only a few changes the club has turned from a chronic Joser to a consistent winner, and has a chance to win the American championship and even the world’s premiership. The National league race is one of dogged grit. The New York Giants have monopolized the lead practically all year, but not far behind them have been the Chicago Cubs, winning con-} sistently, beating the Giants whenever they meet them and] hanging onto the tails of the frightened leaders like bulldogs If you are a fan you know that the major league races are both wonderfully interesting and exciting; if you are not a fan you'd better wake up and take a look {The Three Million Dollar Baby We noisily chatter over the fact that the Astor baby pborn to three millions. But what can money mean to this or any other babe? Are its eyes any brighter, is its smile any sweeter, or the touch of its lips upon its mother’s breast any more tender be- cause of the fortune that awaits it? To Baby John the clink of coins is but a sound, the tints _ Of bills and bonds are but a flare of color, and all the money in the world means less to him than the kiss and clasp of love. The pure soul fresh from the heart of God is far too wise as yet to be dazzled by the glitter of wealth which later we sink to worship. _ _The infant mind is virgin soil for whatever seed modern civilization may sow in it; and according to the planting the fruit will be bitter or sweet, yielding sustenance to the com mon impulse or being poisonous to it The now tender, tractable heart will some day beat strong with love or hate. These are the things that determine useful and happy life, not money, There are some things dearer even than money, and a baby, tich or poor, high or low, is one of them is EVIDENTLY you must cross Bridges before terminal leases can be signed. WON'T somebody now come and play “wiz” her? Anna Held trumps in divorce court A AUGUST was a little on the lion-like order the first part of the month, but she’s going out like a pretty, docile lamb. SEPTEMBER 7—that's the day of the progressive party primaries. September 10—that’s the day Col. Roosevelt comes to town JIM SHERMAN was notified yesterday that he’s the joat that's expected to be slaughtered side by side with W. foward Taft on November 5, THESE are the days when the kiddies are beginning to find out again that there is a calendar, and that the “first day of school” is approaching with more or less rapidity. _ “PUT the Clamps on” Hay is the putty governor who ie the =, aap? the supreme court judges out of the primary law and putting them under the old * enti system of nominations, vf oe Raerctaace THE STAR—THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1912 Nothing Serious THEN DECIDED “1 am looking,” said the lunatic, “for a tall, dark man with @ bald head and splay feet.” Mre. Pauline Berry looked into the man’s wild eyes and knew him for a lunatic. “Did he have a wart on his nose?” if so, t 9 by, from the window, not five minutes ago.” “Ho bas stolen my secret from me,” said the lunatic, “I have solved the problem of perpetual mo- SHE COULD MAKE HIT IN VAUDEVILLE performed at amateur concerts, The lunatic mumbled SHE PLAYED TO A LUNATIC FOR THREE SOLID HOURS ’ Motion, must be—must hex “It the| Ho dart Griving force equals the resistance, | fright plus wear and tear, then Perpetual! i an inquiring finger at instant put the naKay lips and blew a tootle, The lunatic was so surpriseg m down suddenly ang erry, taking her ow from . lost secret, played, “Every on Movement Hae a Meaning Own.” The so then new. Baad beg quite tion, He stole the secret, and now The lunatic’ I can't remember—I can't remem ae Reet “ae 5 one wanes bert Mra, Berry played for threg Before the tunatic entered, Mra. hours. Mr. Ber Berry had been amusing herself by Tos ate ataneh tee fom playing & saxaphone, She and and said: “Who's your f Franke were mustoal and frequently “This gentl ve i” -- she, aemm f ils gentleman,” sald Mes, Be ry, winking the off eye, “ig for » tall, dark man with ota i Ss 4 head and splay feot. He may ! tn at any moment, and 1 have deep entertaining this gey Berry slipped out and retumed 2 lowa has an Il-yearold mother. with @ policeman, who took the —— lunatic to the «# on, But tet us hope that Iowa tsn’t “My dear,” said Berry, “if i proud of her “heathen India child hold a tunati pik | mother” record, ought to by a vaule ville audience * “Diamond Jim” Brady paid a hos pital $220,000 for a renovated stomach. Prose Agent Works Overtime “Taft saves life of young girl” “Senator Crane saves life of poor man.” —Late Dispatches. Chollie—On what grounds does your father object to me? Anne—On any grounds within a mile of the house, eee ehhh hhh So they went on the the Berry musical act ip on the at the Empress theatre this week, a AT THE THEATRES THIS WEEK, Moore—Dark. fetropolitan—Dark, Orpheurn— Pantages—Vaudeville, Grand—Vaudeville and wotles pictures. Clemmer—Photoplays and EDITOR'S NOTE—The American Medical association has recently had @ prize cartoon contest en The above cartoon was one of the prize winners and The Star prints It today national health subjects. by courtesy of the American Medical association. HIS CHANGED FORTUNE “Wow! There went Smithking in his new six. When | knew him, a few years ago, he had a junk shop.” “He still has, Only moved it to a fashionable street, kept the same stock and labeled it ‘Antiques.’ "—Judge ee TOO NEAR “What animal,” said the teacher of the class fh natural bis. tory, “makes the nearest approach to man’ “The flea?” timidly ventured the litte boy with the curly hair.—Chicago Tribune. aeeeeee Peeeeeeee RRARHRKREARARKRARER EER HARARE HIS FATHER’S CHURCH Dr. David Bokhof of the Swope settlement waa enrolling several | boys for the privilege of the vartoun departmenta of the Institutions the other day, One particularly restless, tousle-headed Uttle fellow was be | ing questioned by the doctor. “And what religion do your parents profess?” There was a silence. “Do you know what church your father and mother belong to? came the second question “Sure I do!” blurted out the boy “All right; which is it? asked the doctor, “They belong to the Turnervereln,” proudly answered the young | fair scion of the clan of Germania OLD RUNNING MATES “Who is this Damon and Pythiag I hear so much about? good deal about ‘em at the Baltimore convention.” “I think they headed a ticket back about 1840,” ventured the other man cautiously —Kansas City Journal LITERAL SURGERY “Did the surgeon, when consulted, write that man he was going to sew up his beart with gold wire?” “No; he didn’t write; he wired bim.” I heard a Miss Dillpickies Hoists the Black Flag and WIll Board City People in the Country—But Some Gusts Are Pirates Themselves BY FRED SCHAEFER it's a Rummy, Run-Down, Romantic Sort of a Ranch 1. That's why ma is with me on thie This year I'm going to the coun-|Proposition, She has, about 100 but | bones saved up which she succeed it will be different from formerly. | with it weve rested « place ta the Instead of paying money for my|country. It’s a rummy, run-down, vacation, fam going to make it|romantic sort of a ranch, W. earn money, It's me for the profit|/named it Idylwild, partly because end of the game. This year you'll it's in uncivilized’ condition and see Diana in the ticket wagon in-| partly because the owner of it is ad of sali water to the ele-jidie. I've been getting things in try for the summer, as usual, phant, Self! entertainment for|shape there and ma ts coming out man and bea, pays better than |tomorrow with the first bunch of being one. Hence, as It were, I'm | boarders, They're mostly people going to bank Instead of buy chips.|that we‘know, They also are ac In other words, I'm going to run a|quainted with ma’s reputation as a summer hotel instead of support|cook, We're sure to do well, We'll one. have our vacation and the ma Ma and I have tt all doped out.|it costa the other poople to have It's hard enough to keep the wolf|theirs, too, It's the only correct from the door in winter without en-|system, and we are going to sting couraging him to come again the|them good. In fact, | am tired of |i next winter by spending all your|being the one wh 5 3 e who gets st money for @ good time in summer, ao (Continued.) ay Billie went out to play, In five| but, shucks, them guys cant take |in the trane i a * iminutes he was back, with this) bint while the woman was taking the Fheo | plaintive wail: ; they never can get it through |baby the guy beat it ; QYAYTE | “Mama, 1 can't wear these |thetr nut that any dame can help| mrs. brooks chased Bim ® panties; they're tighter than my/ falling in love with them at first]and she caught bim, and when | “Boy Bean, our village cutup, le akin.” alte cop come to his rescue she had runnin’ a lemonade stand at th’ “Why, that's Impossible, Billie,” well, this boob he waited a/busted her umbreller om he looked like will scarcely squeeze th with- tighter than your skin.” could take him all in and see what|had fished out of the a out » foes, and is sour on whole) “Rut these panties are tighter,)/a cholee piece of goods he was,| then she went back venture, acid were.” \Mamma,” he cried. “I can sit|then he give her a nudge baby 5 eal j down in my skin, but I can’t sit] you don’t mind me talking to you,| the more mrs. brookses Dance at Dreamland tonight. ***!down in these panties.” do you, he says rer, eny i - a IN LITERATURE * * - Author's Friend--Our baby & * enjoys your new book more # ® than any of us * MRS. PAULINE BERRY. ® = Author—How can the baby 9 | teense ee & enjoy i? o # Author's Friend—He stands * # on tt to look out of the wine ® * dow. * t Recah heh Tut, Tut! Mow Could You, Mabel? Mabel was visiting her aunt down in the country. One evening she came in the house rather late. The wri ff JOHNY’S STRONG FOR MRS. BROWN fe ° “Where in the world have you| BY THE JUNIOR OFFICE BOY 1, ™rs brooks she dident ‘him, y Osh VA 1Sé. * [been all afternoon?” asked ber) » y, aug. 22.—all mre. brooks “ ange bo 5: ae on the ‘ y aunt other side of her, please “Ya the hammock with my be-|B¢eded was sumboddy to hold the/1.1, or ne ra baby loved Longfellow.” the dame took the baby, and Be ‘The wunt eyed ber sternly. Then| she done the rest |brooks handed the gent a @ the said mrs. brooks is a lady that dont/short arm jabs that was allt. “It | hear of any more such scan-|like mashers bat nelson fae: dalous proceedings I shall certainly| any woman that dont like mash well, be was closed for r ers has a tuff time of it In nm, y.,/ till the tfane got to 126 they run about 6 to the biock mrs. brooks got off « mrs. brooks was riding in a sub- this guy got off also, and be | Way trane with her baby when one | stepped up to her, and he lof the grand army of lady killers|will strike me, will you, Ad thats the kind of a guy a mash set down next to her slapped her face my, what a pretty baby, he says, but it aint nearly as pretty as its|er is, you get their number right ma jthere * é mrs. brooks she give him « look] please hold my baby for me, says mrs. brooks to the same woman that had been setting next to her write to your mother Just as Detroit was bragging about being “a city of the firet class” she breaks into Pittsburg’s clase. And Wasn't Billie Right? Billie's mamma bought him some Infce, new, white duck pants. The first time they were washed they ¥ shrunk. that ought to have showed him he was backin into the wrong siding, However, he says he aald mamma, “Nothing could be| couple of minutes, so mrs. brooks An Added Plea O your week-end outing, auto- mobile trip or camp is always the result where Is a Part of the Outfit Always fresh, always pure. Free and prompt delivery to garages, hotels, trains and resi- dences. If you want a cool, refreshing, invigorating bever- age try A Case of Rainier Beer—Order Today Seattle Brewing & Malting Co. }} }): peenegemerepnmiees ait Sidney 526 PHONES Sidney 1 if 5 ° ie * i ite