The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 8, 1912, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR _ Hwest GUE OF NEW: wed wire mews service of the t at Heattle, Waah,, postotiice as second « ity, 386 per mon, up to six mow! wlx s ishing Oo. Phoner ie jase mattor achange Main D400, The double-platoon system in the fire department ts cal- culated to appeal to humanitarian feeling and so, of course, those to whom the dollar is first consideration are oppos ing it. Light Under a Bushel For right down uncharitableness observe the Cincinnati P to get Nick Longwe lasiff issue! In the first place, Nick is almost as eloquent as a hard boiled egg. Then he’s got to be regular for Taft and regular for Father-in-Law Bull Moose, no slouch of a diplomatic job I itseli We guess that that river district of Ohio isn't learn all Nick knows about the tariff. However, it’s T Post's duty to get all the light turned on it ¢ Pension Our Teachers Included among this state’s most valuable public §re its school teachers. Their emoluments are not overly t. Yet the training and preparation for their work must t of a high order : School teachers exercise a most powerful influence on the wholesomeness of the growing generation. We need in that Bervice men and women of the highest degree of eff We need for that. work those who are willing to make it their} life work. This state should make it worth while for a man or woman make schoolwork a life work. It should recognize the value that service. It should adopt the teachers’ retirement fund pension teachers who have given service for a certain num of years and who have reached an age when they deserve} 's endeavors ervant jency wth to publicly debate the| Not s $140; year ¥536,| Conductor—You should walt un- til the car stops, madam. Pair Passenger—That's all you know aboyt it; I have an accident | that hasn't paid me a cent | ! polley yet GROWN FAMILIAR to retire from active work with the assurance that they need| pot fear starvation, Teachers should be pensioned just as we gre now pensioning members of police and fire departments. Bills to that effect have been killed in the past legislatures this state. Progressive candidates for the legislature have Bw themselves to pass such a law. And we should have puch a law. _ Observations DON’T forget to register. The last day is October 15. WHO'S going to win, New York or Boston? That's this fweek's absorbing question. NO, VOLIVA, overseer, of Zion city, has not come out for Taft. It was Joseph Smith, the Mormon chief. BEG PARDON, it wasn't $13,000. Of course not. It was} ee which putty Gov. Hay spent in his primary campaign | that $6,000 job. AND now Alton B. Parker declares that he’s a Progress- There are only a few of the strictly “safe and sane” left, Jud Harmon and Willie Taft. COLLIER’S makes out that Hearst's Standard Oil letters If so, how infernally mad must be the fellows forgeries. Bio have already pleaded guilty to them! CAN'T get jurors in the labor case at Indianapolis because iremen believe the accused guilty, and can’t get ‘em at Ours is a pee because they believe the prisoners innocent. ge and sincere country. CHINA having shown ability to borrow money, Russia is ing claims for $25,000,000 damages during the Boxer “Did the eruption of Vesuvius greatly impress you?” “Why, no. Td seen it before ia moving pictures.” ' Tek eee eee ae * TITLED P “There's one thing | can’t “What ie thatt’ “How mother and the girls * marquis sonindaw's broken Eng eee eee eee A GOOD Tt was on the sleeping car “Say, mister,” said the man in the lower, “quit that music, will you cert hali? The reat of us want tc “Why, the car is so stuffy, miing @ little air Tt was then that he was hit wi conscious for seven bours.-- Harper The boys of the place son of a cldse-fisted oid requested the price of a ticket “What?” circus? It was only ere wi Ss Frosbies Russia is also accused of fostering war in the Bal s. ‘It is about time for somebody to give Russia another licking. THE standpat press is becoming so desperate in the reali- zation that “Bob” Hodge and the progressive cause are daily growing stronger, that they are exhibiting their despair in the hill to see the eclipses of the sun. to be one wicked round of gayety? COLLEGE “I have just the job for that have anything to do.” “What's the job? soa very ridiculous and inane lies which they are circulating. For example, how silly it was to lie about the attitude of John C. Lawrence toward Hodge, when Lawrence is immediately able! to nail that lie and to come out openly and frankly in enthusias-| tic support of “Bob” Hodge and the whole progressive ticket. | IN THE EDITOR’S MAIL Seattle, Oct. 4, 1912, poem me es sling toller of the midnight hours, hing S said the warbler, demanded the old farmer; last month that I let you go to the top of th’ “Wardrobe mistress with a barleaque company.” THE STAR—TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1912. Wifey—Oh! the sclesors to Hubby it? Wifey Henry; baby took your Panama bat! Heavens! Did he burt Hi SAVING LAGOR | cut @ canal ‘ous It Wen Why did't you dust the chairs? Mald—-1 didn’t think they'd need it. The dust will all come off ap soon an they've been sat ip. Lady ee ee RIVILEGE f understand,” said Mr, Gumrom can approve so heartily of ~y lish, and be so terribly annoy * at my occasional mistakes in grammar.” * ee ed EXCUSE the upper berth to the oecupsat of t What do you think this Is, a com 1 was only br th a Pullman pillow, rematning! aah « Weekly A circus came to the little village of Wuzslevale with excitement, and the young jarmer rushed up to bis father and eagerly “waste good money to see @ My lad. do you want all your life Chicago Record-Herald. HUMOR old rheumatic woman; she won't Cornell Widow, SETS ED Mise Dilipickies Throws Merself Heart, Soul and Suitcase into the Mockhiser Spelibinding Campaign as an Advance Agentess BY FRED SCHAEFFER Editor The Star: I am proud to be 4 subscriber to a paper whose efforts are all for the betterment of ity, and whose steady watch- contributed her very best to humble duties, and In her hopeless poverty gave her uncheered strength, add- ing thereto, “pressed down and run- ning over,” the free-will offering of for kindly treatment of our) the roses her humble hands had @umb creatures is well known to its/ readers, and because of my pride in the high standards of The Star, I look for something beyond a casual! rowed poverty-stricken life. jem of the Pendleton Round-Up. it such an orgie as bulldogging! ould be applauded by any crowd is & shame to humanity and a aad re-| own sorrows, yet keeping step, and flection on the ideals of that crowd. ‘Are the Spanish bull fights more! brutal? Of the women who partict- ited in the various bucking con- few I've nothing to say beyond the of the performance, Where is Pendleton’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals? E. M. B. Editor The Star: In the deeps of every human heart is the instinctive} yearning for a home—a home of our “very own,” where, round its sacred hearth, we may command and nur- ture our own souls, the best attri- ites and ambitions of which we are capable. Mrs. Jones, the strug- D® PRICE’S CREAM brought, by added toil, into the ex- pression of bounty—something to give to others from her own nar- Oh, the world is not so calloused as it sometimes seems, but careless grown, each with the burden of his silent along the way, a brother falls) from out the ranks, and lo! kind hands are stretched in helpfulness, kind hearts send out the cheering word, and we find we are no more forgotten and alone while journey-| ing. “Bear ye one another's burdens” is not a command of pulpit or Bible alone, but echoes in many a heart in the everyday world, giv- ing needed strength to help the faltering ones over rough and rug- ged places, where they may reat awhile, and resting, remember to thank God for all the kindness tn His world, SEV EVEN. field where there was to b My whole soul is in this advance/evening rally on the 4th. I work for Mockhiser. I never /ed up a chairman and a committe’ heard of Mockhiser before I went|and had the town billed and then to work in his campaign, and rath-|rushed to the telegraph office to er wanted to see Bimley re-elected, | send in my first day's report. but now I am full of enthusiasm The message | wrote was hope You can’t stay ful and proud. When it came to kind addressing it, 1 was stalled, L long around any of a headquarters and not ‘| * at her teeth BAKING POWDER A Pure Cream of Tartar Powder Indispensable to best results —saves have some of the zeal rubbing off on you, and here I am in Spinach- dale trying to work up 4a meeting for Mockhiser, It rather peeved me to find very few people in Spinachdale were at all “het up” over Mockhiser. I finally did get a leader. He was a farmer a mile or so out of town, I pleaded with bim an hour to be chairman of the Mockhiser rally wotry—saves work—saves money— saves health—saves complaints at table but his mind’ was on spuds, 1 finally got him to promise to at- tend, and hired a hall, and got rid of some of the big bundle of bills, [ was carrying by baving a boy post them, and rushed on to Beet- couldn't think of the’ name of the campaign manager. It was provok- ing. I'd just left the office yester- day and I knew his face almost as well as I knew my father's, but I couldn't recall his namg. “What's his name like?” said the telegraph office clerk, trying to help me out. “All T can remember,” I said, “! that his name is the color of horse.” So we took a chance an sent It to “Mr. Sorrel.” 1 way to the next town, Thrips, when I remembered his name wasn't Sor- rel at all, but Roan, (Continued), érious First Hobo—I gave de only mil Honatre in dis town his firet start in life. Second Hobo—How's dat? Firat Hobo-Wid a bent pin at chool A MAN'S GUESS “Wh summe: “Whatever they happen to be overstocked with in Paris, 1 sup tpose.” fashionable this Mos DIANA DILLPICKLES. The social event of the season is always the debut of Diana Dill pickles in some new sphere of en- deavor. Mina Dillpickies has” a coming-out party, of thie kind so often that the public is becoming really impatient to know why she doesn't get marripd to some good man and cut out this gay butterfly bree yer Honestly, dear people, it : She see, Diana ts still on the south side of 23, and will continue to have ad- ventures vibrant with the: ingenu- |Ousness of youth long after some of her contemporary heroines have jentered the sere and yeilow-leaf and alammed the door behind them Drop in often, breezy little call er, the Comic Page will always | have the latch string out. David Harum's Regret. Toff-—-You told me that horse was free from faults. Why, it's blind Dealer—Blind? Well, that’s not @ fault; that a crue) misfortune.— San Francisco Chronicle. 5 dh dadhavtralndl- cede Anda te Ansaid’ * What She Wanted. * * <A lady rushed breathless ® into a dentist's office and * clamored for the dentist to look After a careful *® wearch he told her that there * was absolutely nothing the *® matter: with them, * “Oh, I know that, doctor, * but aren't they beautiful?’ TAREE +eeeeeeen JOSH WISE SAYS: “Th' letters he gite when a man accidentally falls inter some money shows that peo- take He'd Get Even. traveling on a South , handed the conductor his fare in the form of silver, aven't you a ticket?” asked the conductor, “No, and I won't buy none,” said the farmer. “Last year this here railway killed one of my cows, and they refused to pay me for her; so. I decided right then that this line would never get another cent from me.” THE FAIR AMELIA TELLS STAR REPORTER HOW SH E Lert “THE CLIMBERS” AND TUMBLED INTO VAUDEVILig AT THE THEATRES THIS WEEK. Moore—Dark, Metropolitan— “Pomander Walk.” Seattio—"The Old Homestead.” Alhambra — Photoplays and vaudeville, Orpheum— Vaudeville. Emprese— Vaudeville, Pantages -Vaudevil Grand—Vaudeville pictures, Clemmer—Photopl.ys and vaw deville Melbourne—Photoplays and vao- deville. nad motion “Vaudeville is the hardest work | * did, and | consider it my st triumph,” quoth Amelia Bingham, fair, stately, lovable ingham, of “The Climbers” rummaged a trunk in ‘oom at the Orpheum d museed up | don't y worth of , hunting | "hitherto-unpublished-photo- | Chatting away In the hap- plest frame of mind imaginable, Amelia (honest, | wanted to call her) Ameiia before | left, she was so pleasant), Amelia, | repeat, told me ¢ tumbled into hi fast night, know how many dolla goodness kn how much money, | I think she mentioned $2,000 a week careless way, found that she| | a real job ahead of pre) pared her own act and made good) with it, } “Making good in vaudeville ts the hardest task a legitimate star) ever goes against,” stared Amelia.| \"I have to pick my audience up after it has laughed at a blackface act,! or watched some athletic people, or) listened to a rag time feature. In} a minute I must get them away into) the spirit of my “Big Moments From Great Plays’ and bold them for 28 minutes, carrying them to the cli- max of emotion as it is found in the crucial moments of pieces like -—— ‘La Tosca’ and never lose them) have a gold piece in our pockets.’ for a moment, I tell you,” and she| “I laughed, and told him that if |iaid an emphatic hand on my arm,|! played “The Climbers’ so long as where it didn't leave a single pow-|he played ‘Rip,’ they would chloro- dey mark, “I earn my ary. Iiform me. He was a dear old Joe,” never was #0 near failure in my life|and the rkiing Bingham eyes as when I thought | could go into softened as she spoke of the old vaudeville and do any old thing and|time star who was dear to the get away with it.” jhearts of a thousand friends and “What is my favorite plece?”| millions of those who saw him act went on the “distinguished Amer-| “The public,” continued Amelia, loan actress,” taking my cue read-| “likes the classica best. I am ‘up’ ily, “why ‘The Climbers, ofjin ten of my ‘Big Moments,” and course, It has been my big suc-|/both in England and America it is cess and my big money maker. One the French masters of the drama. year I followed Joe Jefferson in a and Shakespeare, whose work the Chicago theatre. The big hearted | public wants. I went to gland old genius greeted me warmly, and for six weeks and payed 37 when we began discussing our ve- added, and the proud note in her hicles he gave a shrewd nod and voice told me that the fair, the lor exclaimed, ‘So long as you have able Amelia truly meant it when The Climbers,” Amelia. “Rip Van Winkle,” we'll always| greatest triumph.” AMELIA BINGHAM Popular Prices—The Watchword of Cheasty’s Caneetgh OEE te : Benjamin Clothes Especially for Young Men, College Men, University and Hi like to have the spirit of youthfulness pervade their clothes, ond Floor Department, featuring popular priced Suits, Ove the latest New York and London styles for young men, wi tractive fabrics, the mark of leading tailoring houses, and th 24 years of successful business upon them-all at $15.00 The regular Benjamin clothitig de Floor, Benjamin price ange up from $18.00. 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