The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 28, 1912, Page 4

*, millionaires who THE SEATTLE STAR _ a noraniore _ — vate Wachange Matn Od00 hy powtottte Hon. up to al I am a candidate for the office of county commissioner, | because I want to put back into the hands of the common people the power of self government. Under the present system Whe Interests and their favorites the I have nothing in common with these grafters and if of the absolutely dominate county. Tam elected I will devote my entire time to the service common people. Every contract will be advertised before it is let, if I have to do the advertising myself. And every dollar's worth of supplies will be bought in the open market I will organize Good Roads Associations the tricts throughout the South District, and thes iati have entire charge of the work that is done in their district They will have control of the money to be spent and will hire ns will and fire the road foremen. This will make the r ad foremen responsible to the: people in the district, and not to the lea saloon keeper. Thé law provides for some of these thi now and | will delegate the rest of for that is where the power belongs, with the people th the se ‘ I will make it my nt depart $ of the county goverr y myself they are on the job ar w ‘ ir emp ; are. At the present’ tin would have to vis 1 the poolrooms and saloons ler to round up all their employes: I will put as g to work a eakfast at the Tunch 9:30 in the morning ‘ eounter in th be ne sary to move t {I can worry t / find out for my own satisfaction why the judges in uity courts need a clerk and two bailil I have been trying discover this for two years. When | find out I will tell yo is I will have the county prisoners put at work. The law pro in every way Vides for this and. the men will be much better We can make better men of them and save thousands of dollars © year by working them and paying them a small wage No oll will object except a few well-fed contractors, and I don't owe them a cent. If you do, don't vote for n I will refuse to grant saloon licenses where there is not ade quate police protection or where the majority of the residents object, as at Kennydale and Duvall I will guarantee real competitor of the Furth-Anderson Ste 1 will make the county poor farm and hos the needy poor and not a dumping ground for grocers and a bone of contention among undertakers. If you believe in these things and wish to 90 by voting for me in the progressive primaric Rictecabec 7, HUGO KELLEY. Take Thyroid, Add Cubit to Stature The Scriptures call attention to the fact that personality is beyond control. “By taking thought,” queries the inspired writer, “carr a man add a cubit to his stature?” The expected answer is, of course, “No.” em But the news comes from that metropolis of doctors, Edin- burgh, that Dr. Gibson of the Royal Infirmary, by giving a stunted boy extract of the thyroid gland of sheep, caused him to grow seven inches in six months. The boy had been too short to enter Woolwich Academy "=-but was literally trained up in the way he should grow by the boat Co. you can do doctor. The doctor says that he has had great success in stimu-}. growth by the use of the thyroid extract. ti of the thyroid to stimulate growth $ The Edinburgh story seems well vouched for—but so far ' gs its truth is concerned we shall know more hereafter. In the i meantime, if the stature of the people is thus brought under (tract. For most small people, for some obscure reason, warit to » be big. * ‘ © It is perfectly true that, tried by the severest tests, the * man just under the medium height is the best physical risk. He #8 the hardiest Soldier. He is the most comfortable in all the Lerdinary conditions of life. The world is made for th i Seized person. It fits him. It does not fit the very b small. Nevettheless, the people will want six-foote fons and daughters “divinely tz + + Thyroid extract will be as precious as radium. The rich @nly will be able to get it. And at last we shall have a class of we can distinguish from the waiters at a * glance—by their size. For when size can be bought in thyroid extract, it will become one of the stigmata of wealth and rank Perhaps by feeding beef animals with thyroid, huger beeves may be produced, and therefore more food for the nation. Per haps some way can be found of breeding sheep and goats which * pre-aji thyroid gland, and can therefore be used up as stimu- fants of general growth But let us not be visionary or very for their | Observations WE STAND at Armywormville, and we battle for the atop.—-Columbia State. WOODROW WILSON says he’s going to make some “mom-partisan campaig That's an absolutely ‘unique idea by a party pre n€ speeches ial nom AND IF any man suggests another convention, lynch hint on. the, spot York Sun. EVERY live citizen will participate in the progressive pri- maries n September 7. The standpatters will take care of themselves at their little tea party on the tenth. ‘ A MASSACHUSETTS sufiragist will take the stump for Roosevelt. The feminine of Bull Moose is Bull Doe.—Cleve- land Pi Dealer, ANOTHER steamer is to be purchased for the Seattle- Alaska trad@ With present steamer ning full 6f passen- gers and freight, and more needed, it doesn’t look as though Alaska busines’ was very bad, does it? . THE five hundred ear specialists who have met in Boston to adopt a program of noise abolition have plainly overlooked the fact that this is a presidential .year—-New York Sun AVERIL HARRIMAN, prince of the house of Harriman, is in Seattle today. As he travels over the lines which were controlled by the late’. H. Harriman, he must thrill with pride for the gegius of his mighty dad. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH’S Armageddon would seem to be at some indeterminate point between Beverly, Mass., and| Oyster Bay.—Washington Star. THE PROGRESSIVE voter has a choice of four men for governor, and of four for congressman of this distric t, while the standpat voter will have n thing more exciting to do than to vote for Hay, the putty man, and Humphrey, the discredited. | _ ‘THE REGISTRATION books are open now at the Pre- » see that the Kirkland ferry becomes a} yju¢¢ o. tal a refuge for}seen lots leer things . ¢ thyroid is a mysterious gland at the top of the wind-|* the use of which has been a problem. Maybe it is the bd 1 suppose you heard that Rig Sister out, Willle,/ your sister and I became engaged ithe 1 don’t get caught by the night before last undertow Mary—Sure, But dat aln't de jat- ain't no crabs | ent ter another Sis got engaged ast night dere wi Aw! here “TRY AGAIN HISTORY REPEATS | Jonnie—Freddy told me last He--Whats nicer than a biginight that he wasn't haif good looking the ocean? enough for me. She-—-If you mean yourself, I've Minnle—I told bim once that be twasn't half good enough for 4 IT WAS ‘The city chap who had hired owt as Sn extra farm hand during the ym Saturday,| harvest was not quite able to respond to the 4 o'clock pounding on bis bedroom door the first morning as promptly ace he had anticipated, says) Lippincott’s. He lingered with the pillows for a quarter of an hour, past the appointed time and then dragged himself out, and by half-past 4 he was stumbling actoas the field where the old farmer was at work Fine morning,” said the neweomer, briskly The old fellow looked up sourly “Yes,” he grunted; “it wna.” A LOONYLINE “Here's an item,” observed Rivers, who was looking ever the ex changes, “to the effect that the king of Sweden raises prize dogs on bis farm.” “I suppose he uses them,” suggested Brooks, “to drive his Stock |* holm.” After which the rattle of the typewriters broke out afresh with Steat violence.—Chicago Record-Herald. ee eed * A SURE SIGN * “So he took you out auto riding the other evening?” * “Yeu; what of it?” * “Do you think he fs fn love with yout” * * “I think so. I know that every time I spoke to him the auto @ # tried to climb a tree or jump a fence.”-—-Houston Post. * * * ee ed — a a a Miss Dilipickles Hoists the Black Fiag and Will in the Country—But Some Gu Are Pirates Themselves. BY FRED SCHAEFER fa-0n Fished out the missing garments of our victimized “bearders VI The jinx is dn Idyiwild.. to sympathize with us. bad | The sheriff came. I told-him all is flo way to beat it. }1 could, incinding the strange con This morning produced the | duct of the forgigners at th» well grand transformation scene. Yes-|durng the night. He terday everything wae lovely and | Were evidently the thieves, ‘and he |did not think they were foreigners 4 jat all. His hinch was that they suinmer hotel was going to put us| were the very hold-up mon who on Easy avenue. lay we arelhalted the bus, and had conte to shy all our boarders and all our | the hotel after the guests to gather money and all our prospects, up anything th rlooked The first alarm came when one |None of us could say that was a boarder declared that her room| bad hunch, either. . had been robbed during the night| Especially after M. de Potence's of $87 just sent her from home and |false chinwhiskers were found in a diamond ring that she had saved’ his room. So that is why he kept out of the stag h robbery.|his face in the old oaken bucket Pretty soon everybody In the house | when I found the two at the well reported valuables taken. Some of| That well was considerable clue to the men had to come down wrap-|the sheriff, and he invesAgated tt ped in blankets, because even | Result: He fished out the missing their trousers had been removed | Sarmenta of the victimized board The lightning struck me and majers. The crooks had taken them too. The teapot on the kitchen | out there to search at their lelsure shelf where she banked our capital|and then disposed of them by was now empty. It was @ bigger|throwing them into our water cleanup thap the robbery that took | supply. There ma and me saw where running a fontaine building. All citizens who did not register for the last j Spring election and all who have moved from one precinct to another must register in order to vote at the primaries, Sep- : tember 7, , ited Viace on the goad. And all the boarders are going Only two persone didn't com-| home at once, because they don't plain. They were M. de Potence| want to drink from our well any and M. de Laloi. robbed. They hadn't been | more. They weren't even there THE END. THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1912. Board City People| It looked | said they’ WHEN THE BOTTOM FELL OUT. OF PAPA “GROVER’S” FORTUNE, MILDRED JUMPED RIGHT INTO VAUDEVILLE “| AT THE THEATRES jewelry. They bave not been ahs THIS WEEK. ‘ew ‘York and Chicago more that ! NOTHING DOING MocreDark |® month.” Sho offered what ge fetropolitan—Dark | opection te Dene Damen It in @ round, fet h gold, that } d ® $10 gold ptecg Seattic—The Pollard Opera Co. in “The Toymaker Orpheum—-Vaudeville. Emprese—Vaudevilie. lacy, fine m if it might b a pinch m , » 1 came by that Pantages— Vaudeville. Lm y that 10 9 curlons Grand—Vaiideville and motion re a page — Grover, "1 pictures. (ae playing recently tm the Clemm Photopleys and vau +s thea * Chicago, Siese ie deville. ‘oquols ¢ T most of the Melbourne—Photoplays and vau- sone M thea Astg sauipped wine deville. onderful system of fire doors, The Majest as them. Th m Ney Work ay. by @ system of If you had the reputation of being the best coonshouter in Mrs. Por- | and in the | ter’s select school for select young |hand on | ladies in select Connecticut, and fig- cep ica ly ured that your father had oodles of | eviae ‘aaa - money, and r best chum and| feing ey tars Pog vestion T wag room mate was @ niece of Jawn D. everyone in the howe En Rockefelier, and then suddenly re concussion, Tt ee ee ceived word that your pappah had) Nomen ae shook the building failed in business, and that the flood) afterward it was due 45 A pow mill explosion {i f gelt that was keeping you In the! ' Piosion in Kenosha, Wis, 20 miles 4 select school had been cut off at erie mend away. The force of He~I feo! just Hke proposing to|the fountain head, and that you [that explosion was sutflctent jp echanism of the antg ors, and when the big pen with a erating rm lence me pante atric > wasn fire, I knew was wrong, but could seq ® stage, und so 1 people, I would have to hustle for the mocha ywiand sinkers, what would you do? r, | You would go on the ie wouldn't —~|you? That's exactly what happened | to Mildred Grover, who does a clev: er singing and talking turn at the Orpheum this week Except in ‘them good old days” her name was plaia Smith. you right here. She--Well, I'll tell you right ithat you're getting into 4 doors ‘* jsound the a ~HARO HIT “| was rooming with Daisy Scho : ae or: ce jeld, a niece of Rockerfe * ald peech, und then ‘isa §=Grover, “when th crash 1 on my funniest song, and soon had thein laughing, ame in my fathor's business, and cre’ Kou |] was thrown on my own resources: Pr gah cn bag rage Ma “L had seon Mame Remington and paso yt vis gold Quaker t she was pleased to ence of mind. i name was Smith, heard of @ gir _ Smith making good on the I had to take another name, so. took Grover, and when I Dick Richards, who plays the plano 2 “I| for me, | took & second look at im : he sald.)and then decited to let i go at thing in| Grover, and Grover ft is” . know you had money Tae . Pot } @) Ardent Suitor—1 haven't much; but it tak very little to cover OS OHHHSHHHHOSHHHHOH EHO HOO OOOH a ff Dispatoh \* Sam Schepps Is in Bad, But He’s a Perfect Gent, * eg Says Johny. ° | OSM)" /ISE. |P OCHS HHS OE SOOH SEO OOO OHO OOEOS VV | BY THE JUNIOR OFFICE BOY Jand parts his hair on the side, a y., aug. 2 talking.| wasent liable to be pinched |sam-shepps may be In bad on the| wheres o her pickaninnies, and I knew I | could do & coon song as well ae she did, and w direct to Wil | Morris in New York and proved it | to him, | got away with it, and this is my third year now on the Or | pheum cireult.” The Quaker Purse Ae whe talked Miss Grover gored @ little gold contraption which’ 9 OMAR MILDRED GROVER | was suspended from her neck. see you looking at thi,’ “That's the very newest NOT A QUESTION OF MONEY George-I_ was considered the} Ardent Buitor—I lay my fortune handsomest man in my class at|at your feet. | college. Fair Lady—Fortune!l | didn't | Honrtetta—Well, if I couldn't say janythiog good about my clase |mates I wouldn't say anything, if I were you. his travels, and his vac KI rosenthal murder, but he is a per-| tion would not be disturbed } Pr ie genni bene A | fect gent but the districkt atterny he leeite inte waste” sam is stopping in a private and| hard-harted guy, and rite while “How now?” exclusive jale just off broadway,| was being entertained by the | “Why do candidates go around | #inse he got back from his pleasure/and the best folks in hot |utestag babies? None of the babies trip to hot springs he was asked to come back to ay, likes it. Gome of the big girls it rather bored him to have to) and he came ’ come back to wew york rite in the| but you bet your life sam 4s heat of summer, still, being a gen-| there with the polite sosiety telman, sam could not refuse to soon as he is nicely located oblije the districkt atterny [hie cell, he sends telegrams to he would even have came if the| mayor and other people ia cope had wanted him, probly, but | springs that entertained him, the a y.-police force is a very po|ing them for their borspitality, ite and considerit bunch of guys. [saying he expeckts to see they had herd that sam knew) again as soon as this Iittle sumthing about the rosenthal mur-| trouble blows over ix der, and might come in handy for} after witch he sends bis a witness, but they said, why dis-|)out for some silk sox, witch turb a feller that is just gone away) taleum powder and lavender QQMMETE | on his vacation be sure to get me white silk so they sent all over the country/ he says, any other kind makes village cut-up, a picture of a crosscyed man seven| feet too warm but it aint warm feet that troubling some of sam's frends the police dept these days Johny might.—Loulsville CourierJournal. THe ee eat hhhee ° * A DISCOVERY * * “There in something un ® canny about this baby, John.” & ® “Then, my dear, it must be # ® bin creepy ways.”"—Daltimore #& ® American. * * * THK EE FIFTEEN CENTS SHY Waiter—Anything the matter with the meal, sir? says his appointment as one of th’ fect high, with his hair parted in Diner—Yea; it looks like a 10-|judges of jams, jellies and pre-|the middle, labeled “sam shepps” cent tip Instead of a quarter —Phil- serves at th’ Beeleysport fair is ali, as sam is only about five feet adelphia Evening Telegraph la ‘put up’ job.” sfour, has regier eyes, wears glasses|from it “Gey Bean, our Do you know of the wonderful possibilities in the vast new Inland Empire of Central Oregon? If not, investigate at once, where railroad and timber interests have already spent over $40,000,000, and are investing much more. Special Train Excursion to Bend, Oregon FROM eee Seattle, Tacoma and Portland August 31, 1912 | a —VIA THE— ‘A pleasure trip. of 872 miles, into the newly opened, rich and scenically beautiful Deschutes Valley; Sunday a day- light journey of 253- miles along the Columbia and Deschutes Rivers, acknowledged by tourists to be the fingst railway scenery in the world; a day and a half of picnics, banquets and automobile drives in the most perfect climate in the world; followed Tuesday by a daylight journey of 183 miles through the state of Washington. All this in a complete private train of sleeping cars and dining car, run on a special schedule, sanitary cars, cinderfe s: locomotives, courteous treatment and unexcelled, cuisine, From Seattle and Tacoma Total Cost $25.00 From the time you buy your ticket until you return to’ your home you will not be allowéd to spend a dollar. It will be readily understood.that the fares paid will defray but a small part of the expense of this unique excursion. You will be the guests of the two Companies, at least forty officers and gmployes of which will accompany the train, and of the people of Bend. POSITIVELY NO SALES WILL BE MADE unless demanded. You are guests on a pleasure trip and will be treated as such, 5 SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 MONDAY me 11:00 p.m. Leave Seattle. 10:00 p.m. Leave Bend SUNDAY TUESDAY 12:30 a.m. Leave Tacoma. 7:30a.m. Arrive Portland. “6:15 a.m. Arrive Portland. 8:00a.m. Leave Portland, 645 a°m. Leave Portland. 1,15 p.m. Leave Tacoma. » 4:30 p.m. Arrive Bend. 2:30 p.m. Arrive Seattle. Make your reservations at once with either Company. For further information see OREGON-WASHINGTON RAILWAY BEND PARK COMPANY J. H. O'NEILL FRANK B. POOR, District Passenger Agente General Manager, 716 Second Ave., Seattle. Empire Building, Seattle.