The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 29, 1912, Page 4

LE STAR SU aa NRWaFAPETE view of the United six mon. 01.80 rr vee Me ; White imaux--Our Cousins A lost tribe of white people! ; The very words are startling, We think of romance at once, The dreary novels of adventure of these days, about one a Season, start out, or wind up, with a lost tribe of = ple. But when the explorers, Steffansson and Anderson, tel us of a tribe of white savages in the Arctic wilderness be- tween Hudson's Bay and the MacKenzie River we feel a thrill of interest which the fiction writer fails to evoke, For this story is true! Steffansson was the first white man, other than their own people, who had ever come within their ken. They are an ethnic island in a sea of red and yellow peoples e They are true savages. They have no modern implements of any kind, and no firearms. They hunt with a crude bow, and spear fish through holes in the ice. They make fire by striking two flint stones together, and cook their food, They have no religion, and no ceremony of marriage They have no idols, and no aspirations. They simply exist They are without history, records, or legends, and their lan guage, so far as it has been studied, throws-no light on their origin. : ; In appearance they are typical white men, with eyes and light hair. Their features, instead of being of the longolian cast, like those of the Esquimaux, are of the Cau casian type. Some one suggests that they are descended from the sur- vivors of the Sir John Franklin expedition of 1840, but that theory is absurd. “The favorite theory is that they are. the descendants of the Icelanders, who visited the shores of North America a thousand years ago, But even in this case, in spite of the lapse of time, the language should show Scandinavian characteristics. ; What is the lesson? It is this: These white savages have simply been cut off trom the currents of life which make for progress. What they ARE, we WERE when we separated from the main body of the white race. We have not civilized ourselves. We have been re- deemed from swagery by life with our fellow men, under warm skies and on fruitful soil. For us the whole world has labored to build up civilization. These poor people have only what they could do for themselves. “It is HE that hath made us, and not we ourselves." blue A Punch for Sobriety ‘A railroad company, in rules issued for its employes, for- bids men in its employ to visit saloons or resorts where is sold. The company makes no pretense of carrying on a moral @rusade. It simply strives to live up to business which depend upon the competengy and reliability of its men “The things prohibited,” says the general passenger agent, “either tend or might tend permanently or temporarily to impair a man’s mental and physical powers.” This puts the question of temperance and steady habits a basis where even the most benighted morally can dks understand it and see that there is but one practical side of it. The man who will not hearken to moral appeal is apt to lay great stress upon his regard for the “practical.” He ‘t care for sentiment—gush, he calls it. He must have hard facts. Well, here he gets just what he wants. The hard fact is that he must be, sober and steady, or give up a job where eobriety and steadiness are essential qualities. And most ew same hard fact him in the face. In all lines of pay- ing employment sobriety and steadiness are becoming more and more rigidly required. With the value of reliability reduced to plain dollars and cents, even the dullest, who can’t comprehend the simplest ethical principle, can casily grasp its meaning. It is not a matter of sentiment. It is not a question of abstract morality. It is a matter of business. Observations PRESIDENT TAFT says} WALLA WALLA school he’s not going to run in,1916.| superintendent proposes to Did he in 1912? | kill ragtime by introducing the phonograph in schoolrooms. EVERY vote in King| . Some phonographs can pretty county cost something over 36) pearly kill anything cents, according to the county| , auditor's figures. It was a| PULLING teeth, under dead loss, too, from the stand-|some circumstances, cannot even make the wife of a den- — of some of the candi- tist happy. Purity in food, lower cost of living— these are the demands of the day. Pure food is health, and health is economy itself. We can- not have health without healthful food. The most healthful foods are the quickly raised flour foods— biscuit, cake, muffins, crusts and other pastry when perfectly made from wholesome ingredients. Dr. PRICE’S baking powder makes these foods attractive, so | the coldest inhabtted pl rinciples | ¢ he turns nowadays he finds that) appetizing and wholesome form, and for both economic and hygienic reasons, such foods should be more largely substituted for meat in the daily diet. But bear in mind that alum, or unwholesome baking powder, can never make pure, wholesome food. Most Verkhoyanst, Siberia, 1a probably ve in the world, Ita average annual temper ature is three degrees. It has had a minimum of 86 degrees below sero, Mindirected energy Carrying your handkerchief tn your sleeve Perfuming your stationery, Trying to carve a turkey with a dull knife. Abstaining from moat to reduce the price. Having clgareta made to order, Great Brttain was the world's st coal producing country up 9, since which time the United States has been, In 1911 the world’s production of coal was 1,300,000,000 tons, of which the United St produced 38.1 pér cent, or 4% 522 tons, only 66,621,522 tor than the production of ain and Germany comb! Hetty Green celebrated her sev- enty-elghth birthday anniversary by nibbling a baked onion, Hetty says baked onions have kept her well and strong. Be that aa tt may, but anybody who can nibble a, baked onion is well and strotg. JOSH WISE vote in favor of newer bonds is new explained. cutup, hid a ] Pp at under @ street owlvert.” Before the wa ith Italy began Turkey's 4 70,000,000, or $28.50 per b # debt was $5¢ per capita, Greece's $65, Bul- waria’s $24, before the allies de clared war. France bas 4 por capita debt of $156, the United States $11 The man who said, “It's all over but the shouting,” forgot all about California. Nevertheless, we are still betting on Wilson, Carnegie offers a $25,000 a year penaton to ex-presidents. The offer is all right. He has owed ft to most of ‘em. Misdirected energy— Buying « @rink for a bartender Asking ®@ grocer If the eggs are fresh. Asking the theater ticket seller If it's & “good show.” Asking a waiter if anything i Counting the vote In California, dullet’s Question Answered, Phil Romeo, the clarinetist, can now be found at the Curtie works. Hammondsport (N. ¥.) Herald, The czar of Russia's telegraph bill averages $25,000 a year. What has become of the old-fash- foned man who wore « horse bair wateh charm? Emperor William nas a clock with & phonograph attached that speaks the time. the Correct Way to Measure Buck- wheat. Uriah G. Henderson has a fine Patch of buckwheat which he esti- |mates at $3 cakes.—Carrollton (O.) Republican. The agricultural department es- fimates the average annual lone from forest fires in this country to be $25,000,000, | Elghty per cent of the people tiv- jing in Siberia are illiterate, in specially THE 'STAR—FRIDAY! EDWARD NOVEMBER 29, 1912. 8. CURTIB Edward 8. Curtis wanted. some;original plucker himself, from P. 1. a money, Mh ts us have experien But Curtis really od, no doubt, it, doesn’t hit us as particularly up usual, either. But Curtis got the money different. Plucked a big fat pile ARR RR from the to produce. The average pictare ts 400 to 20 minutes to see. then leased by the exe! There are about 20, States alone The salary of a movi from a few dollars a week star. ‘ Joseph Jefferson was one pose for the “movies.” Walsh, recently rehearsed “Shylock”; and many others, Seteeeeeeeeteeteeenees ae keke eheeen eae ded a good! alized wad. Which, come to think of ing how That's ordinary newspaper reporter SOME FACTS ABOUT MOVING PICTURES The dally moving picture audience ia about 6,000,000 people. jeture conte all the way from a few hundred to $50,000 Films are sold by mawiifacturers {to film exchanges and to the exhibitors. Roving ploture theatres in the United picture*actor ranges all the way Since then there have been Manche bo did Tolstoy's “Resurrection”; © several of | U. Plucker of Pluckersville—trom J, | Plerp. Morgan. Curtis bad spent some years learn. to gargle Stwash and Chinook and other Indian dialects. Ed Meany, who used to be just an be- jfore he beeame professor of his itory at the University of Washing 2 een eer en nn ne to 1,000 feet long and takes 16 & “saps” to $10,000 a year for a of the first legitimate actors to Nat C. Goodwin, who Bershardt, Rejane, Jane Hading ean2tteeneaenenane eT The largest bowlder of copper) Michigan for many years and war in the world ts in the Smithsonian) S0Ush from them im 1840. The witheot any cont It weighs three tons. The bowlder has been! 22 feet wide, and 8 fost thick, and| «erence behind which is (he name of Institute in Washington in the possession of Chippewa Ip dians es SKYGACK FROM MARS largest mass over found was in Minnesota. It was 45 feet long, contained 420 tons of 90 per cent en the Ontonagon river to pure copper. SSS oy STROLLED THROUGH PARK-WO00D~—— SAW FREAK EARTH BLING CLINGING 70 DASHING EARTH-ORUTE FREAK WORE C/RCLE OF CRYSTAL W PACE OF OPT ORGAN ‘The Ediitor’s Mail Editor The Star: 1 thigl the lady who thinks are unnecessary in was obliged to stand on it e ni re thie” tin rode down in the early -morting and worked in the steam-heat laundries or factories, Ags other men and women do, and Catne out @eaming with perspiration, com- pelled to sit and shiver in a dtaft, while some freshair fipnd tide home with his head out of” the window, she would change her mind about steam heat being “whneces- sary. 1 would suggest that first we have heated cars, and then put By- erett True on as bouncer to gently toss those freshair fiends out of the window. ANOTHER WOMAN. Editor The Sta I see In The Star that Mr. “Redman” got a job at $4.50 per day. Now, how many do you think have to work for leas than that? Lots of men have big families and have to work for $2.50 a day, or less, and they don't fig taking polson on account of hard life. There are thou sands, of these people, who bave al- ways been poor, and yet I never heard any one pity them. Was it because “Redman's” wife had come from a rich home that they were considered very hard up? It is very nice of The Star to help such people out, but 4 vwant My all day and part of the pight, 01 mins to tell you that there are lots of mes when the poor man is up against it, He may have been working for $3 a day and lost his Job, and then have to take a job for $2 a day, And he don’t figure to take his own and his family's lives because he oesn’t get as much as he used to get. This is what I want to come to Why should there be so much said about one, when there are so many families suffering? They try to ket work for whatever they can get, and there are no $4.60 jobs waiting for them, So, why doesn't our paper come out and tell the | truth? Why doesn’t it say any: jthing about them? Is it because they have always heen poor that there ig no kick coming? I don't want to hear that any one should have to be told to take his own life on account of poverty, but we have some people so “high” that if they see that they have to go and do some cheap jobs, they would rather kill themselves, The average workingman has to have | courage ugh not to do such things. We get people so inde pendent among us that if they | don’t get a job that they are used | to, or the same pay, it is for them to kill themselves, but when an or- |dinary workingman with a big fam- iy ig out of a Job and his dear ones are suffering, he has to work, jif he doesn’t get more than $1.60. A READER OF THE STAR. Seeeeeeeeeeeeee eee eeee ton, got Md Curtis started in that|to talk Indian as well on kind of Indian sport. Meany. Why couldn't he ED CURTIG BTARTS books aa well an the prof.? OUT ON HI6 OWN HOOK Curtis revolved The Idea In his! a Ed Curtis used to take the pico-| mind quite thoroughly, There was tures and Kd Meany used to do the| left but the one objeson—he need talking, Curtis being some photog | ed money rapher, by the way. PICKS OFF J. PIERP. Pretty soon Ed Meany didn’t have) FOR GOOOLY LUMP so much time to spend with the; That's when Curtis strack J s and farmill Indians, He began writing the his-|Plerp. He bad read somewhere with every detail tm tories of Vancouver and Capt. Ral) that Morgan bad oodles of money. About 20 states and nier and other folks. Somewhere he had also read that be represented, ang So Ka Curtis hiked out without! King Pierp. was bugs on art etuff) tribes pictured and Ed Meany. He learned a few In Just how fat a cheek Curtis with own dialect, of dian signs. Pretty soon he could|hasled away from J. Pierp. he seribed hold as long pow-wows as Prof.) doesn't say. But the forthcoming Meany could, And that's «0 historical compilation, entitled ‘The some, for the prof is some ta North American Indian,” which will in any language be one of the most remarkable ac it was about that time that The} complishments in American history Idea hit tin, will aggregate a cost of some Hoe was getting together the best | $1,500,000 collection of Indian pictures in this| There will be only 600 sets sold state, Why not get up the best|J, Plerp. will have one, undoubtediy,) one in the whole country? Eh, why|-—— - not? Bome Indian rT wouldn't let you photograph them’ Weil, that’s easy, Ed Curtis would) just go back to his pad and penctl.| For before he attained the heights of photography, Curtis was an artist Of course, a collection so preten-| tious would need a historical review | of the American Indian. Bat Cur tie was not dismayed, He learned Prof.;and so will Ra G write| Meany will, too, ‘Thep be 497 more, #0 @ sont 80 each nat history wilt monk the indians, Janguage, show some of hig tropolitam th picture opera, an,” which he year at the Hudson and ij theatres in New York, Red If It’s Correct, Cheasty Has It, Pp : DENTISTRY good they are and. “ they will please you Special line of odd Trousers, $3.50 up. rat Cheasty’s Haberdashery Second Av. at Spring St indow. di of London See window. display of €ross ( ) Leather z Bren if your yeu may come thet it wi be © advice onty. the aaeurance readily = and MOST IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER I give you « written guarantee — « ore imparted ul nitet whe 44 your work * my individual persenal atten each patient. I am ne dental company, t® Bo combine, employ ho transient help, but @e my own work and am personally responsible for same DE. 1. D. GRANT, 26-8 Liberty Putiting Cer. 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