The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 23, 1912, Page 4

co Nothing 5 O PUT THE CHESTNUTS IN ters Give Some full leased wire WH my VERSE FOR TODAY Why thus longing, thus forever sighing, For the far-off, wnattain’d and dim, While the beautiful all round thee lying Offers up its low, perpetual hymn? Harriet W. Sewall. A Big, Bully Job ‘A tremendous job offers itself to the victorious democ acy. It is not only a job that means relief and progress to the people but one that also means fine opportunity for the democracy to show how progressive it really is, We refer to the development of the people's Alaska in the in terest of the people. Let us keep an eye upon the democracy The present administration has not got any further than the idea of picking a little coal out of those Alaskan moun tains of fuel for army and navy consumption, as a policy of dealing with Alaska, although it does deserve credit for splendid work in preventing private looting of the territory. Let us see where we're at. In the U. S. senate we have that magnificent fighter and progressive, Robert M. La Follette, unequivocally com- mitted to Uncle Sam’s mining and delivering that Alaskan |‘ coal to the people. In the house, we have several bills pend- Ms , notably one by Congressman Sulzer, also a fine fighter oe who, as governor of New York, will have fighting to do elsewhere. With Bob La Follette and his fellow progres- gives in the senate and a democratic house and administra- tion pledged to progressivism, we have a right to expect great things for the people. : : In the last fiscal year Mt. Vernon Congress, at its last session, created an Alaskan railroad | nas nad 113,000 visitors, They paid commission to examine railroad routes from the Alaskan sea-/| $28,260 in fees, eee = mountaing. Th Word ‘soak” was used. the “Soaker.” A tacit FA i Ni A nS alia the Standard Oi! out. vice—but leas you do it with a wooden leg. \ + 4 { : j tle of red pocket.” ‘The United States exported 16,000 miles and imported 3,000 miles of moving picture films im the year ending June 30, 1912. and butter. A Moscow firm bought 200,000 aquirrel skine at the Nijni Noveo- rod fair last summer, cornering the |market and raising prices 26 per board to the coal fields. This commission left Seattle Sep- —_- tember 10th, tooked Alaska over pretty considerably, returned | Maybe the Operator Knew Witt to Seattle last week and will ous a report to congress. Wil Frith visited o farmer triand Also, Joseph Holmes, director of the bureau of mines,|the other day, and came home with has been at Panama, ascertaining how much of the canal dig-| his auto filled with mentee aoe ging — a available for use in Alaska. He * ul) eee eee tke ‘tone tthe report ‘Ong \ al that he was told there Five hundred tons of the Bering river coal will be mined a he should not have December Ist and tried out by the navy to see if it is|some, available for navy purposes, and a report will be made to Bg rh es ne al fon oe ‘Congress. * see anything the matter with it Thus, it will be seen, we have made some headway to-| Kankakee, Ill, Gazette, ward putting that coal into the navy. But, the real job is oo to put that coal into the private home. This last is a job! Dr. Holmes, director of the which in its ramifications will be simply tremendous, and} United States bureau of mines, says fn its effects it will be simply blessed. Let's see how the Dei tak een acne thee ren set coming new administration tackles it. wasted. Of the coal consumed, Her Badge of Servi foct through fanlty methods. ler Badge of Service cee ee A, MISS EMILY EWING, a beautiful New York girl, who} You ae clean, you aed polish was terribly disfigured for life in rescuing some children gan de bo ge Bin REE: from a fire, says she will not mind the disfigurement, that it is An old bonnet still, her badge of service done to humanity, her medal, and that she wil! now find something to think about besides merely ing pretty. ‘n all great souls we must note this power of escape from the calamities that overtake and crush lesser spirits. They hanged Nathan Hale, but his spirit eluded them; on the scaffold his spirit found refuge in high emotions, pa- triotism, and he was happier than any British officer around him as he exclaimed: “My only regret is that I have but that so long. Russia by % a 4 of cent. Every foreign dealer refused) ing to $65,000,000, for the relief of They May Not Mean It. one life to give for my country. to buy at the advanced prices, periodic distress in agricultural] Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Cone wish to Sickness, failure, treachery, bereavement, slander and - districts. sincerely thank all the kind friends Experiments with thousands of subjects show the average man at tains his greatest strength im his Sist year. death, like wolves, are after us from the cradle to the grave. We cannot only rise above them, one and all, if we will, bat turn them into blessings. Emily Ewing, losing her beauty, learned the joy of use- restaurant: cents. Oyster stew, 26 cents.” fulness. Natlian Hale, dying, became immortal. What has become of the old-fash- A Hartford, Conn. millionaire!/ future. —— Hartford, Mich, Day q Out of mad, say the Orientals, spring the lotus foyer) | Ss Sst =mosececce | Spring. out of clay come gold and diamonds; out of diseased oysters, ' pearls; brightest silks are spun from a worm; from a dry stick is born flame; and from the jungle comes honey. And the sweetest, rarest, most precious joys of life come only to the soul that has been crushed. Observations ACCORDING to the riotous; sand cases of cholera reported ti-war demonstrations atjin and about Constantinople , Paris, Berlin, Rome | daily, the whole world is really nd Milan, the powers had| vitally interested in that war. better let their diplomats fight} Will the thousands of Amer- out those Balkan issues. ican residents who have gone ‘ over to that war bring back PORTLAND'S vice probe, both victory and cholera? so-called, has landed two doc- tors in jail. Gee! if she's to probing doctors, let Se probe ‘em deep! IN his message to progres- Sives, Mr. Roosevelt says that what his party has done is “literally unparalleled in his- tory.” Correct, Teddy! Yours is the first party to bust the republican party of Lincoln, Grant, Garfield and McKinley up the back and down the middle. WITHOUT much money, says Teddy, the progressive|neys are liable to do, party has done wonders. Won- der what Teddy's size-up of that word “much” is? > turned down Jakey the WITH more than a thou-! Furth. (Qe CHINESE POLITENESS. Etiquette requires in Chinese conversation that each should com- pliment the other and deprecate himself and all his belongings. A missionary who has just returned heard the following conversation: “What is your honorable name?” “My insignificant appellation is Ying Su.” on THAT was a corking speech Cousin Bill Taft made at the Lotus club. We may yet all learn to love Bill—as a private citizen. TURKEY may be wiped off the map. Maybe the cranberry crop is on the blink, too. But who cares as long as we still have our Thanksgiving day football games. EVEN bankers can’t bank any more on what some those pesky prosecuting attor- AND the supreme court is etting rather gay, too. Actual- ey OM TT wii “I have five vile, worthless brats.” y wife enjoying good health?” “The old hen is pretty well."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. QUIDDITIES CAUGHT ON THE FLY. do the motor boats scare the sea horses?” “Don't cheapen yourself, my dear; men don’t care for bargains.” “Changeable? Why she’s so changeable she never wears the same 3 i eomplexion twice. MARK’S SPONTANEOUS FUN “The only things I dislike about Rogers are his looks, his actions Mark Twain's spontaneous fun was Irresistible. When a find his talk.” joke of his had fallen flat and had been received In silence by an “Going fast? Why he was going faster than a ton of soft coal,” audience, he remarked: “A crowd like this can make a good {He's such a bore that if he was buried alive he'd worm his way deal of silence when they combine,” It was Twain who said: “Reader, suppose you were an idiot, And suppose you were & member of congress. But I repeat myself, * * *” When he waa ill, hundreds of quacks wrote to him, advising him to take their medicines, To all of them he sent the follow- ing circular: “Dear Sir: I try every remedy sent to me. I am now on No. 7. Yours is 2653, I am looking forward to its bene- ficial results.” Twain, however, had his moments of melancholy. “The man who is not a pessimist is a fool,” he once wrote, “I never greatly envied any one but the dead; I alwaya envy the And when urged by his friends to leave the “eternal ‘d” of the city and go to his country home for a rest, he re- plied, “The country home I need ts a cemetery.” “You needn't think you're the whole department store b You've a few notions in your head.” ? pacing: “No, ma'am,” said the grocer to an applicant for credit, “I wouldn't even trust my own feelings.”—-Boaton Transcript. —— Phone Kenwood 208, NORTH SHATTLE LUMBER CO. “The Green 1 Yard and Office, 6214 B. Green 1 Lumber, Lath and ate 7 We make inishing Lumb: ke Yara” vd, of High Grade Bi ity AN ahd RE RA AM SIRT Sea STAR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS RSSSSESSESS SEES EEE ESE ee a 2 2 2 2 2 a 2a THE STAR—SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1912. srious foned man who wore a trolley rope hat to keep it from blowing Germany is getting ready to kick Not that we expect Germany to follow our ad-)A™merioan chewing gum habit, bi ver kick the 8. O, um-|t has finally animale. The trailed Dun Fridemush four miles when a bot ink broke in hie coat) 1609. Some of the Chicago hotels have followed the action of the New York hotels and are charging for bread) What puzzles us is how) the hotels in either city overlooked a fund, now amount On a bill of fare in a down town “Plain oyster stew, 20 SESH ESEESESEEES SESE ED DPA’S SEAT. Exceptional Groom. telephone operator an married his And now she never will Japanese have no word) him. equivalent to baptize, eo when the Biblo was translated, the Japanese the} Council Had Fine Mooting—Res-/ asked. How A, F. Baptist, translated literally, is John | ignation of A. F. Palmer Accepted aud Mr. EB. T. Neptune Elected.—| wonderingly. Headlines in Bethseda, O. Nowe, Burope has al cronved the ocean, fs growing mos! many, which laughed loudest. kidney pili almanac: Balboa, Vaseo Munes de (1476. who took forma! | Pacific ocean tp 1615. remembered by the battle of Ticon July 6, 1777. discovered the Hudson river Murillo, Bartolome Esteban (1618. 1682)—-Spanish pajnter, ru. Dan (1823-1900)-—American, pig as the chief attraction. ~~English mystory words. and jose all interest in living. a cemetery 30 miles long. It is es timated 100 generations are buried there. Owns an auto, Misdirected energy— Rolling clgareta. Trying to Induce a man to quit rolling cigarets. Smoking “forward in the car.” One man in every 26 tn the Ger man army is left-handed. There is only one jade mine tn this country. country left San Francisco the oth- cut and polished. pound in the row nut. We shall never ask that de- partment to classify a ball fan, A baby is born in New York overy three minutes. “Are you in favor of a minimum wage?” “fT am not. That's what drawing now.” Japan's latest battleship is 740 feet long and 92 feet beam. 6 77 9 — Tt te whee I is cooling, that it is most auapers Don't sit around after exercising to cool off, change your moist un- der-clothing at once, Don't stop on the street corner to talk with a friend, keep mov- ing. Don't fail to throw a wrap jaround your shoulders after dano- ing, use care, Don't fail to keep “Seventy- seven” handy and take a dose at the first chill or shiver—follow [these suggestic 1s and you will sel- {dom have a Cold, A small vial of pleasant pellets, fits “the vest’ pocket. At your Druggist 25¢. or mailed. Humphreys’ Homeo. Medicine Co, 166 William St., New York—Adver- tisement, The bride was prettily attired) was sad, for she was a little cripple. with dress of pink satin messaline,|She had not walked since she was while the groom looked every tnch|4 yoars old. Now she was 13 Asia has fewer large cataracte|the man.—Sandwich, N, than any other continent, In spite) porter, of the fact that it bas so many high Re er} lance up and stopped suddenly, ex- * laughed at the|Plained the story of ut | Crutches t rapidly tm Ger- ‘as the Spanish explorer Burgoyne, John (1722-93)—Is beat | deroga, driving out the Americans, Hudson, Henry (died 1611)-—-Re| Dear supplied Madonnas for convents in Mexico) been taking fan away from home and #et up as a traveling showman with a learned Tennyson, Lord Alfred (1809-1892) Was past master of who worked so bard to save our reperty from destruction by fire Thursday at our house, and hope to be able to return the favor to each and every one in the near Eat more rice and cut the cost of | living, la the word sent out by the Texas rice growers. Eat more rice Just outside of Canton, China, is Every tenth family in Nebraska Trying to make passengers move Tt is in Alaska. The first shipment ever made from this er day for China, where it will be It is worth $20 a The department of agriculture has ruled that the peanut is not a The Big Turkey contest bas end od, The lucky girl Is Hilda Swan- son, living at 137 Hast 64th st. In the Thanksgiving contest, over 200 boys and girls competed for the) 10-pound turkey cle Jack is pleased to an. nounce that 81 namen will be found on the honor roll, which ts printed elsewhere in the Circle corner. The three judges in the big conte atarted to work on the large pile| of letters at % o'clock yesterday af ternoon, and it ‘ook until 6 o'clock to decide the winner, It was a dif-| |fieult proposition, the judges tackled, when {t came to the final lawarding of the bird. The Thankagiving contest Is one! of the moat successful contests ever run off by Uncle Jack, and te finds 27 new boy and girl memb: |Almoat every town of any size the state had a contributor to this contest, Even jlacier, Wash. THE PRIZE STORY (To Hilda Gwaneon: Please call - Uncle Jack Monday morning. | ‘his is important.-Uncle Jack.) THANKSGIVING Muriel was sitting on the porch, looking very sad, and indeed she Her te were always too poor to ave her cured. A man came walking rapidly down the «treet. He happened to “My heave He hes minute then went up to “What is your name?” he “Murtel Skinner,” she answered Mre. Skinner, came out, It hearing voices, was she who ex- the little One month later, day, Muriel w around. She had man, who w noted doctor, of | hig Mttle daughter who waa dead. | Me had been tempted to stop, and became interested in her case and performed the necessary operation. It certainly was a thankful family that gathered on the porch that Thankegiving eve, They did not forget to be th il—Hilde Swanson, 137 EF. 64th ot MONROE MEMBER Uncle Jack: Will Thanksgiving ble to walk) reminded thix| | you la} please send me a membership card, as I would like very much to join your circle? I am 13 years old, and in the seevnth grade. We have the Seattle Star for one year and a half, and every Sat- urday I have looked for the Circle. Mable Olson, Monroe, Wash. A CENTRALIA GIRL JOINS THE CIRCLE! Dear Uncle Jack: 1 want to join! your club. I read The Star Circle every Saturday, I am 9 ire old) jand in the Fifth grade. | live in |Centralia and I go to the Edison jsehool, I didn’t see any girls or | boys that had written from Centra. Ma, so 1 thought I would.—Your| | niece, Bessie Cantrell, Centralia, Wash. HERE’S A POINTER Dear Uncle Jack: Although 1) have been a member of the Circle,/ 1 have never asked for a member, ship card. Will you please send me one? I think all children that have & chance to join the Cirele every! week should do it, I, for one, not the chance to write every week, as I have much work to do. Lily) Hempel, 4315 W. Holgate st., West Seattle, | / | ener Editor The Star: In your latest report of the Mother Jones matter, you informed us that the deed gives | her the house and lot for her life.) time, and that when she no longer! has use for it, some other old lady | similarly situated may have it as a home. A wise provision, I agree. This matter of “other deserving) women” (yea, there are thousands | of them, who have fought the good fight through years of wretched- ness and poverty, and yet have no place they may call “hom many who have no job) j for Mother Jones, Smith or Brown to die in order to get a home —) & job, is a pathetic commentary on | our conduct of the affairs of this} government, that permits the am-| ple product of nature, alded by the! machines of man’s invention, to so miscarry In the distribution that we make millionaires of a few and thousands of wretchedly poor of the rest. Some one of the latter Is now as- sured of a home, but she must wait for Mother Jones to die before she can have it. Dwell a moment with this harsh thought, In order that some day some may have a home of their own, others must first die. The majority of the others have no/ | j hope of ever owning a home. Harsh, isn't it? But in the very brutal harshness of it must we find our hope. i] U. 8. statistics show that only 13 per cent of the people in the coun- try own their homes, The vast ma- jority of us, however, are obsessed with the delusion that we may yet, by frugality, speculation or the ald of Providence, own a home, This 13 per cent must continue to shrink until we realize the futility and the) hopelessness of longer striving to own homes individually. As a united body we acquired this vast domain, For generations | any one dissatisfied with wages or working conditions could hie away to the unoceupied fertile acres of the West and work out his own gal- vation, But now, even in the ex- treme West, we have been over- taken by the same conditions that drove the first emigrants from Bu- pe. When the 13 per cent is reduced low enough to make us think and understand, as a united body, we! will, perhaps, change the system, | and, through the governing power representing us all, take over the means of production and distribu. tion and furnish each aceording to his needs, | which ts in the Carca | photos. 9, and thonght it very Interesting, mountains, | Ves had a boy who compeied in the| 1 per Hall, Sindonte Pyle y, Alberta Kung, Chatles contest Corrine Peterson, a Van| Martuerite Police k, Grace Assolt girl, gave Hilda Swanson,| Agnes Miller, Lillian Monat the winner, a hard run. Besides|old Smith, Ronald gm a herself, both Corrine’s sisters con d, Ruth Pinkbam, Reha? tributed. The following ts a list Myrtle Peterson, ‘alma Pe of those boys and girls who de-|r m, Alice Olmstead, Ber. serve & worhy mention Pyncheon, Pattle Sehwartg, Mario Scholz, Wate Aut Harold Steele, Bery! Brewer, Juli Elizabeth Smith, Alle en Schyoth, ment Vaughan, Lois Thompson i», Agnes Holmes, Robertson, Lola Fiage, Carrie|Adams, Ellen Stewart, Edna Sanders, Gladys Sanders, Beryl |derson, Gladys Thorntons, Johnson, Lillian Verbrugge, Filda », Grace Seliman, Colvin, Ethel John, Homer Allen , Alvin B Hether Solibakke, Elzey Skinner Mabel Schacter, Ollie Denny, Clara Reed. John . Vera West, Grant, Eleie Brosche, Olga John arl Brown, Ethel on, Helen Coyroy, Bbutrice Clark, . Lol Regia, William Osborn, Miskel Ault — nica Conroy, Marjorie Moc \ “ Gilmore, Lily Hempel GEE, BUT THIS Is Wilkes, Flora Burley, Oscar AN EASY | Every boy and girl cap picture of a house, so that's the son Uncle Jack has selected kind of @ contest for big nieces and nephews for ‘next week, It's 80 easy that lots of INTRODUCING MISS PATTIE SCHWARTZ You'd first draw a big box, the top run a couple of angle towards each other, ing them with a straight line, A few windows, a door, not forgetting the chimney, look like & house, we'd run a couple of house, simply for effect, easy’? But if they are not lots of boys and girls are spoil their chances by mot real black ink and drawing The prize ts $1.00. The contest closes | afternoon, at 3 o'clock!” Ag drawings to Uncle The Star office. BIG INCREASE:IN © CIRCLE ME! The big turkey contest 4 the membership ha ‘last two weeks, and 27 boye) jgirls have writien to 0 The pretty girl in the photograph | for a membership ¢ 2 is Miss Pattle Schwartz, an en- cards have been mailed to thusiastic member of The Star/ Write to Uncle Jack, i Circle. Miss Schwartz became |The Star office, fora member of the Circle very recent-/The following are the ly. She is 10 years old and lives and girls who have at 116 18th av. Star's fast-growing circle: The Circle wants to get pletures| Gladys Thornton, 1787 W, ‘ Gladys Burley, 7323 Flora Burtey, 7323 se an of as many members as possible. if you have a photo, send it to Gladys Wliky, Albert return all Port Townsend. Unele Jack, in care of The Star of- fice. Unele Jack will | Lity Hempel, 4315 W. a | Sam Parker, 4314 THOUGHT CIRCLE | INTERESTING | Marjorie Moon, George Denny, 6721 Dear Uncle Jack: 1 read about! your Star Circle in The Star Nov Bill Osborn, 1008 W. - Alice Everson, Colby, R. F. Virg so will you please send me a mem- bership card? [am a girl 11 years! yw, of age. | go to the Salmon Bay school, and am in the fifth grade. ¥ " 2 Mildred Smith, 1417 N. ‘: ~Chace Bad, 1 Des Julia Pike, Wah OPAL IS ALSO A MEMBER) fijcn stewart, t Dear Uncle Jack: WIHll you! Norine Nelson, Mt please send me a n.embership card,|Wash.; Box 373. e so that I can become a member of| Ernest Tarter, 4732 your Circle? I like it very much, 8. W. I used to write essays and draw-; Harold Steele, 144 E. Gan) ings, ete., but I did not get a cana: Lena Oletzky, I am 12 years old and am in the! Esther Salter, Sixth A. Opal Fox is in my class. | Wash. 1 bave one sister. She is 6 years! Ellen Johnson, Ri old. I have just written an essay. R. F. D. 1, Box 29. Gladys Wilkes, 208 Albert and E) Ametia ats., Port Townsend, Wash. iWash,; R. F. BD. 4, In the meantime, keep up the|close a dollar to help wi good work, Make some Mother | needed. Jon present each year. I in-| cerns the whole family, and undet modern methods and convenience? 18 taking part in it. “These biscuits are delicious; this re excellent,” says'the father. ‘I made them, says the daughter, and both father am daughter beam with pleasure. It is a crime, with our modem agene helps and facilities, to have soggy biscuit, wooden cake, or leaden pastry. Royal Baking Powder has made home baking a success, a pleasure and a profit, the best cooking today the world ovef 3 done with its aid,