The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 7, 1912, Page 4

THE STAR—SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, (HRN OF THE SCRIPPS NORTH WE © having full leased w R mon Should Uncle Sam spend millions of OU on Interior “forte” tike Fort Harrison, in indiana and Fort Russell, in Wyoming, when th ‘ ing to defend but some standpat politician's repu- tation as a “pork” getter The Scripps Ohio league of newspapers, sister pa- of The Seattle Star, have just won a most re- of that state. i for th le markable victory for the peop Eten Oe meee ago these newspapers of the peop! ment for governmental reform last Tuesday, when Ohio's citizens adopted a new progressive constitution. the Poa matande law under which has voted to govern in the future. All candidates for elective offices, from governor | ;t (o table, hereafter will be chosen by the people) 7; The le, whe: which finally came only overwhelmingly If you accept me doosn’t| make a new man of mo, And if I don’t shall never be the same What will happen when women have the ballot?” will be a big rush among the young men to get out the good-looking vote,” treat me right I never knew EWSPAPER LETTERS) AT THE HENPECK CLUB, PERSONAL? i og never they see fit, will draft laws for their own welfare through initiative petition, and im the event of failure of the legisla will, the voters themselves the referendum. Cities of the stat ture to fulfill the peo- will enact the laws, e, hobbled in their deali it service corporations in the past by archaic legis- robbed right and left by street railways, gas and electric lighting concerns, now are to own and operate their own public; and to barter on equal terms with corpora- or two generations have had the upper | Cities may choose their own local form of gov- own charters. en to fix and regulate the hours establish a minimum wage, and ize the duty of the state to provide I've just written a scathing letter denouncing that newspaper, calling it cowardly and spineless.” “Did you sign your name to it? She—In a way getting married First Member—They say Home-jts like using the telephone Who | bully bosses hin wife terribly. Second Member—Yes; tainly wears the okt One dorsn't always get the party one wanta, I didn’t want the editor} to know who wrote it.” HOW TO GET RICH. One of the richest men of « certain Indiana county is known as well by his penurious habits as by bis bank account. ago he invited an old friend to dine with bim. Accepting the invita don, the friend was piloted to one of the cheapest place and two dinners were ordered at 26 cents each. ‘of coffee was ordered by the guest and when he finished it the pair, after the bill of 55 cents was paid, meandered out om the street tictng his host's downcast expression and silence, he asked what had come over him. “Nothing.” said the bost. something must be wrong,” said his frieod. 11,” said Croesus, “I can't anderstand how my bill was 66 MU ry a week's Circle contest. In this man- f ner each boy or girl member of the A abort Ume Ohio has proudy seized the banner of bee. and stepped to the forefront of the new cru- CHARLES H. MORSE a year ago was dying in prison lay he’s well, pardoned and the head of wide operations in fall street. A year ago that poor devil, John Doe or Richard , was in the next cell to Morse sick and hopeless. Today ’S still there. Hobbies The cheapest thing to ride is a hobby. @ses up no gasoline, and it calls for no ticket. ta.” “Oh,” sald the guest, “I had a second cup of coffee—but I'll pay He at once took a nickel out of bis pocket and Croesus accepted Indianapolis News. CATCHING A BACHELOR. “ The orchestra played No. 6, a selection that seemed to the bach- He leaned toward his companion and whispered; What is it, do you know? Sbe smiled demurely and replied tn a low, thrilling volce: “it is the "Maiden's Prayer.” And at the same time she banded him her program, pointing te No. 6 with her finger. He read and started, for the real name of the selection was The bachelor bought the ring next olor very beautiful. It eats no oats, it “How lovely that ist There is no objection to-the riding of a hobby, so long as @ is not ridden over people's rights Many have a mania for talking of their ailments. @vestion about their health will tilt over on you the great _ feservoir of their complaints. “ Some have turned into temperance monomaniacs, heave dwelt upon the one Ail until all o |. forgetiul of the fact that the only decent thing about thou- gands of men is that they do not drink, and that they might @ that if they were not too stingy. The fresh air crank sits with doors and windows open, and, While his family’s teeth are chattering with the cold, descants @n the bracing weather. Witticism is the hobby of another. We cannot always have the corners of our Neither can we always have the corners @f our mouths drawn up, We want information, facts, realities, as well as fun. Theodore Hook and Charles L, Selves into melancholy. Clowns are apt to be hypochondriac. Harsh criticism is the main mood of some. their lives in hunting for something to chew up—goats browsing He who, finding within him the powers Of satire, gives himself up to that, might as well ‘be a wasp Stinging the bare feet of children, Pride of ancestry is with others the chief mania. They go through life with their faces turned backward. They feel sorry for Adam because he had no grandfather. wish their-precious ancestors had been childless. “Mendelssohn's Wedding March.” day.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Beeleysport Whang an- Chester Teegarden, age 13, 1909] Marcelia Cater, 4001 Dayton av. ces that hereafter It will come as a daily every Thureday, in- of as a weekly every Wednes ¢ submerged, National City Bank Of Seattle, Washington. Willie, you know not to go In swimming, and yet you have been in the er to amuse. water. ths drawn down. Willie—I know it, ma, but Satan 4 ad why GO yeu met gerous and destructive to life and|the old city hall site to the park mb grinned them tell Satan to get behind you? They spend A TIMID TRADESMAN, Clock Drummer — I've got the fest Itne of alarm clocks on the market, Mr. Schmidt. Sehmidt—Vell, you can't sell me any alarm clocks dis season. Clock Drummer—Why? 1 tell you. Dts ts that should not happen. Of course, | as helpful and beneficial to the peo- on morning glories. We all get tired and Report of Condition Made to Comptroller of the Currency 1912, |A PIG WAS THIS GIRL’S PET— Whtworth School Boy in SHE WINS PRIZE OFFERED the Circle Dear Uncle Jack: As I have no brothers or alsters, | have had many pets, the strangest one of them b a pig, “Oh,” some say, “l wouldn't touch an old dirty pi But pigs are very creatures if given proper care, They are also very smart and show groat gentleness. My pet pig followed me all over and would have followed me up town had he gotten the chance, When 1 returned he would run to the gate with & lot of welcome grunts, and fondiy laying bis head against me, would not be satisfied until I bad patted his back Finally Pet (that was his name) Was killed. This made me very sorry and I resolved never to have another pet pix. MARIE BCHOLZ, Startup. LETTERS TO UNCLE JACK FROM CIRCLEITES WERE NOTICING CIRCLE ship card.—Beatrice Baker, 2022 Dew Incle Jack For some] iind ay. N. time my brother Ashley and I bh been noticing the letters and con WANTS CARD tests In The Star Circle, and we| Dear Uncle Jack: I have belong have decided we would like to join.| ed to your Circle quite a while, bot 1 am 10 years old and in the| never have asked for a membership Fifth grade at school, My brother|card. Would you please send me is 12 yours old and in the Sixth} one now, oe J am anxious to have Krade one?—Mareella Cater, 4001 Dayton Will you please send us member-| av, ship cards’—Deena and Ashley — Dunham, Anacortes, Wash. A NEW ONE Dear Uncle Jack: I am a reader EMERSON SCHOOL MEMBER of The Star and would Iike to join Dear Uncle Jack 1 am very| your Circle. Please send me a ted in your Circle and| membership card, 1 am 9 years old ould like to have a membership| and in the Sixth grade-Milton card very much. Harter, Sultan, Wash WILLIAM EMMELUTH. 1 am almost 12 and am in the aad ‘The boy in the picture fs Willie Sixth B, 1 go to Emerson school,| LIVES AMONG SAGEBRUSH | kmmeluth, a member of the Cirle which ts one of the new brick ones.| Dear Uncle Jack: I have been @/club. William has been (athe I tatend to enter some of your con-| Circle member a long time and|Cirele but a short time and he tests, hoping | shall win some of| used to write to you when I lived) tikes it fine. The dog with him i your prizes. I am, Marjorie Wilson,|in Arlington. Now I live over here| his pet, and William and the dog 9266 GT7th av. 8. ia Douglas county and am #0 far), nstant companions. The lag from you I don't get my Star in| is he third grade at the"Whit BAKER GIRL JOINS time to get my answers in contest) worth school. He lives at 4826 49mm Dear Uncle Jnck: 1 very|in time. You see, I live over herelay g much Interested in The Star Circle.|among the sagebrush and bunch- we I am 10 years old and in the Fifth| grass, and hunt coyotes and jack- arade. I should like to join your) rabbits, mostly jack-rabbits, Wish club, and will you please send me/| you were here to help me bunt rab- one of your membership cards?—/| bita, Uncle Jack.—Everett Stevens, Olive Baker, 2022 42nd av. N. Leahy, Wash, Thelma iverson. Gladys Luther. Bessie Day. Arnold Drew. Lindsay McHarrie. Inez Fullerton. Martha Fenn, Constance Harold 0” Alice Bi VERY MUCH INTERESTED . YORK GIRL WRITES Dear Uncle Jeck: [I am very| Dear Whele Jack: I am very much interested in The Star Circle) much interested in The Star Circle. and would like to be a member of|I am a girl of 12, and would like it. 1 am 12 years old and in the|very much to have a membership Seventh grade at the Longfellow|card. I go to the York school. school. Please send me a member-| Marguerite . ollock, 2239 32rd av. S. ALL TO HAVE CHANCE CAN YOU DO IT? IN THIS ONE Three white barges going one Uncle Jack will let ench Circle] ¥4Y im a canal met three black member decide for his or herself on| barges going the other way. The what subject to deal with in next! onal was too narrow for barges to | pass each other, so & bay had been Circle club will get a fair chance contribute something along thelr) (———______} spectal line. ~ Anything will be scceptable. jOCoo ss¢ Drawings, stories, photos and poems) {| _ preferred. For the best contribu- ton a prize of a id box of cho-| constructed at this point. But the colates will be rded. Letters) bay was only large enough for one must be in The Star office by not! barge at a time, How to get the later than 2 o'clock next Friday af-|three white barges past the three tefnoon, black barges was a big problem for ne the canal men. How did they WRITES POEM ABOUT Theodore Hamilton. Lucile Longly. William Swanson, Rose Gabriel. Edward Hughes. Margaret Houser. Victor Stacks. Going After Water. A soldier crossing the barrack square with a pail met a who noticed that Mike was wi a very disreputable pair of ers, Intending to report unsoldierly appearance him and asked: “Where are you going?” “To get some water, sor,” solve it? swered Mike, . CIRCLE “What in those trousers” Once I bought an evening Star cates “Ne, sor, in the pall. =Wouth's Just to see tho comic arts, Companion. But I found that on page four Were some more important parts. ve The following girls and boys bave applied for Circle membership | certificates. The certificates have | Sosa sgiiem Sg Une Jack [WHar's THE GOING T0 DO? Marguerite Pollock, 3239 33rd av. | Everett Stevens, Leahy, Wash. Deena Dunham, Anacortes. This important question now answered in the ifying way by the For the Circle there I found, And I thought It was so nice That I soon became a member; And I sent in drawings twion, So now each week I wait and wait Till Saturday eve comes roun: For then I know that in The Star May a nice surprise be found. Ashiey Dunham, Anacortes. Marjorie Wilson, 9256 57th 8. Oliver Baker, 2022 42nd N. Beatrice Baker, 2022 42nd N. Minor Ave. Seattle. Milton Barter, Sultan, Wsh. — SS IN THE EDITOR’S MAIL Faitor The Star: The automo: reation and Play Grounds leagu ue, bile, used as It should be, may be | requesting the council to submit to a good thing; but its reckless use|the people at the next general elec- recently in this city ts most dan-|tion the Proposition of transfering IN. limb; and the worst of it is, near, all these fatalities could have been cane spl diel eoregeme: 94 ial Prevented with a little care. The! Certain parties residing in the eet, shows wrasse ot — southern part of the city are op- come from nonobservance of rules pein, the roposttios i necessary to protect human life that the value of the stouae soe Divers of and riders in autos are | preciude its use for park purposes. erried away with @ mad craze Of/Our league is, however, favoring speed, become reckless and disre-|the resolution, as we believe there gard the rights of those who walk,/is no use to which the property the result being many fatalities | could be placed which would prove : thia does not apply to all users of| pie of the clty as that of a public Here at home, the young And effery candidate, wit all dem the machine; but those who commit | park, and we hope you will unite will be fitted to earn poo, | ka All our faculties were made for use. He who is always one theme cannot give full play to judgment, imagination, y, reason, wit and feeling. We want harmony of intellect—all the parts carried, treble, Slto, tenor and bass, accompanied by full orchestra, violin, cello, eorner, drum, flute and cymbals. He who goes through life using one faculty to extreme on one foot, instead of taking the strong, smooth gait of the healthy walker. THIS is the progressive party primary day. Help nominate the best men on the at Close of Business, September 4, 1912, mera, vill ras gountry and ‘view mit alarme’!— RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts iiichelicliatetelelRelelieieRaieheiel +$1,531,103.95 J. S$. Bonds, to securg circulation . Premium on U. S. Bonds . Real Estate . jonds and W Furniture and Fixtures ., Cash and Exchange .....+0 MAKINGS OF A PUGILIST “I understand your boy has He positively won't fight with anybody he isn’t sure he can aeeeeeeeee enpmemencentarenronenene! $2,540,615.24 CREAR KKK BROAD DEFINITION, Drivers must be held responsible : ° Fe . and pay the penalty for this reckles- “what's a leading Ti Anty, ness and then it will stop, and not German -American Bank ¥ tl then. a “Any woman,” vote, rain or shine. ‘LIABILITIES. repued IF COURSE, having found that the county poor farm did not raise many onions, there wasn't very strong evidence Vive la sauerkraut! ++-$ 500,000.00 Sgainst Hamilton. Undivided Profits EVEN standpat ed the fact that “She's really a sensible girl.” pers, during the past week, have men- ps her mother, I suppose?” resident Taft has been somewhat lame. lost people have known that for three years. JOHN MURPHY, an English aristocrat, saw, met, pro- to and married Eva Kelleher, a cafe singer, in San Fran- The girl couldn’t have been as Deposits ..+ sew and cook and make a .$2,540,615,24 “As well as any housewife.” Roosevelt and the progressive “Still, even a lot of flighty girls] "cket. Overdrafts ...... rn PLEASE COMPARE THIS STATEMENT WITH OUR FORMER ONES AND SEE THE GROWTH WE HAVE MADE, , all within 24 hours. ight as she looked to John. “But this girl doesn’t think the men she meets at a summer resort are any better than FOR years scientists have been trying to find a practical hod of extracting the gold from sea water. en have solved the problem, fishing smack helpers hav- received $23,000 for their season’s work OSCAR STRAUS, the well known merchant prince and is the bull moose candidate for governor of traus held high public office, both under Grover and, democrat, and Theodore Roosevelt. She must be Seattle fish- naible girl.” — Detroit. Free@Y occasion and — opportunity! OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS. J, W. MAXWELL, President W. BAKER, Vice President J, H, BLOEDBL, Vice President JOHN K. BUSH, Cashier C. B. WEST, Assistant Cashier OLN GAVE THEM CONFIDENCE, |Tesards the Spanish-American boys dge KH, Rockwood ing on President Lincoln's dry r, says that on one occasion legation of negroes had waited |!" through a dictionary, he should r. Lincoln and were evidently |Chance to run loss to know just what to say, president waited a while, and philanthropist Cc. A. BLACK ALBERT DAUB The college instruetor should take due pains to practice what he OLOF OLSON W. C, PRATER A. J. RHODES D. E. SKINNER CLIFFORD WILEY WORRALL WILSON One member of a class in English composition brought bis theme the professor after recitation hour, in order that the ht read a marginal correction which he had written and which fo had been entirely unable to make out Y,” explained the professor, “that says, ‘Write more plainly,” Paul Dispatch, . A n to be present,” io the ice and from the African jaw, these outrages on pedestrians | with us in our efforts to retain i y und théir gongs and keep onlas such. IT 1S THE LAST OPPOR, grceremnire Ye their way toward the victim tll NITY OF ACQUIRING WITH- caer i eal On. almost on him before setting }OUT FURTHER EXPENDITURE Day and Night Courses. brakes—too late to save life, If/Or A LARGE AMOUNT OF y . the speed is slow and brakes were | MONEY, AN OPEN PARK OR Get the Catalog. X|set whon the danger is first seon|BREATHING PLACE IN THE|P Teh @& 4 254 4 and auto stopped, or turned, there | powWN-TOW mT : : ur boy has | would be a0 ailing: and if drivers [erty TON SECTION OF THEE Coattle Engineering Sd xj fail to take this prevention they | SEATTLE RECREATION AND tac. ; believe he has, #|"7° criminally responsible for the PLAYGROUNDS LEAGUE. First Ave. West & Roy St | death—it is not an accident. Many By JOHN E. PRIC resident : ® people, after 60 years, are more or Herald, | /08* deaf and do not hear the horn * yjand got out of the w: re enjoy- %| ins their rights to the street, sus- REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE pecting no harm till struck, father, DBE cd atans OF SEATTLE. September 4, 1912. Organized January 19, 1910. RESOURCES, Loans and Discounts . Editor Star: Dear Sir: I see that the Hay- Humphrey crowd are vigorously ua ing the influence and strength of the Spanish-American veterans’ or ganization to help them defeat And this, notwithstanding the fact that Roosevelt is the only na- tional candidate who is one of the veterans, and who has always had their best interests at heart and has helped and alded them upon ev- Furniture and Fixtures Real Estate Other Resources those she h one of the other three or r candidates for president are absolutely indifferent at heart as Capital Stock .. Surplus and Undivided Profits. . Deposits ....... . Letters of Credit .. Hoar, re-|~-While one of the candidates tn particular would throw a Chinese fit, or have a spasm, if, while look- across the word "SQUARE DEAL.” $560,992. Bremerton, Re ay eS ERNEST CARSTENS, Pres. here! jaitor of The Star; THOS. B. MINAHAN, Vice-Pre® proposition} Dear Sir: On next Tuesday I. J. RILEY, Cashier. removed the|morning the city counoll will act H. ROHWER, Asst. Cashier. upon the resolution which was sub- mitted to them by the Seattle Rec-