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

_ THE SEAT Thre SCRIPES ar © paper having full leas ed at Seattle, Wash. pow! Ser woe. UP 4 Dally by The Star Publiant Private Wxet TLE STAR _ nee Maln 0400. iT LP wire mews PRS we Valted od ¥ jottice aa wocond-claaw joetter Pr to ix moe, Bx mos $1.80; your $5.26, ng Co, Phone: Kachange Main 0400. Don’t Forget to Vote Today It's your duty to go to t progressive school director. In this day and age Sea’ its board of education for the direct for social centers, for public d who would frown on ht polls today and vote for a ttle should have no place on kind of school buildings old, reactionary opening the school iscussions; who would throttle freedom of thought, if he could, both in the growing gen eration and the people generally There are five candidates for school director HERMON CRAVEN, who is a candidate to succeed himself, is a thorough progressive. He has made good in his 22 years of residence here, fearlessly championing the progressive cause, year in and year out He never ran for a public office before. The present office gives him no re muneration. There is no salary attached to it, But he has given it willing and faithful service, and Seattle's school buildings today are public buildings in a greater sense than they have ever been before, Seattle's school work, accord ing to the latest statistics, ta in the country This splendid work of the Hermon Craven has greatly contributed, turbed kes equal rank with the best " present school board, to which should not be dis- Put your cat in the safe! her in a hot campaign to wipe h is going to be “Swat the Cat!” Some More Swatting The Biological Survey is after Tt until you'll believe that swat er off the face of the earth ting the fly was mere recreation. Pussy is charged with beir birds and young poultry and a and rats ng a destroyer of useful wild fraud as a destroyer of mice They also allege that she loves places but not per- gons, and, as a circulator of diseases among children, she's a perfect caravansary, THE STAR—SATURDAY, DECEMBER AND WAVED PARCHMENT WHEN HALTED BY OTHER TO BE COMFORTED, BUT OF A/S BURDEN Nothing S| SKYGACK FROM MARS OBSERVED SMALL EDITION OF EARTH ~ BEING FRANTICALLY RUNNING AMUCK ——~~— EMITTED SCREAM-SCREEHES AT THEM AND SPEB ON. LEAVES HUMANS, HE REFUSED WILDLY DASHED PART Real Gold Fish—-Just received a lot of nice, healthy, bright-col ored fish, 6 to 26 conta. —Advertiae | Smoothing Mra. Oaks. Th your account of the closing jexereises of the school in your paper | noticed Inst night you Far be it from us to advise a combat with the Biological] ment in Youngstown, O., Vindicat-| failed to give the name of my little Survey in behalf of cats. Our tats is largely confined to the of her is that she will destroy fres' tel of press ink about once a r thing to kick when the proof re: knowledge and intimacy with. fice cat, and all we know about h paste, will fall into the bar- month, and that she is a good ader is too big for it But we @ubmit, however, that what the Biologics! Survey charges @gainst the cat is in large part ther than this, we leave the defense of this familiar domestic creature to housewives who hav On your cat, anyway, because several cities have begun active war to reduce her number. Observations TAFT'S sincerity was never questioned, says Br'er Henri Watterson. Nope! Neither was Don Quixote’s. BY THE way Bill Tait is now howling for a workmen's compensation act we judge that Bill is thinking of getting down to work for wages, fees or something like that. HAVING happily disposed of the gruesome labor of giv- ing away all but $25,000,000 worth of his estate, Carnegie feels prepared to die a pau- per. NATIONAL woman's suf- frage association demands an equal standard of morals for man and woman. It is a mat- ter that lies almost wholly in the hands of the women of the nation. EAT beans, imagine it’s steak and you'll never know the difference, says a Chi- cago doctor. But you don't have so much fun picking your teeth, Doc. aoe ON his 77th birthday Mr.! Carnegie was in a particularly | happy mood about women. | “Women,” he said, “have! almost attained a height of} angelic altitude.” Now is the time, girls; now is the time.| Strike him for a million. A| million? Strike him for ten| millions! NEW electrical device splits kindling wood. jut they haven't yet got up a device that'll lie about the quantity split on Saturday morning when fishing’s good. ELECTIONS being over, of course this short session of| congress will not be so inter-| esting as the sessions when| we were all guessing whether the Prof. or the Col. would next sign the vetoes, but still; this session has its good points. For instance, there is the impeachment of Judge Archbald, of the Commerce Court. hat is a particularly good point. Los Angeles, on his 62d “wed- ding anniversary: “It's un- mecessary to keep your wife supplied with the latest styles.” Huh! With a wife like that any fellow could cel- ebrate his 62d. WILLIE HEARST an- nounces that he permits Wil- ton to put Bryan in his cab- inet. Such generosity almost entitles Willie to a place in the cabinet himself. Hearst | for brooms, chargeable against man. Fur- ¢ the cat habit. Keep an eye and Bryan on opposite sides of a cabinet table would make} a picture that would make} “Washington at Valley Forge” look warm. ON cushioned feet he stole in through the parlor door She lay motionless, with ber beautiful features turned up toward the candelabra. He} tip-toed to her side not stir. He bent over her sweet lips. She remained/| motionless He went out through the parlor window She had been reading Hettie| Green's baked onion recipe for the pangs of old age. THANKSGIVING for God's} blessings being over with,| there'll be no more important prize fights until slong in the hallowed Christmas season. PRESIDENT KAI decirles that Chinese wearing queues may also vote How long would the American voter stand for having a president regulate his hair? CHICAGO man paid a con- jurer $25 for a black cat's ear that would make him invis- ible, and was run over by an auto. Ear was orking Chauffeur testifies he didn’t see him. The first broomcorn brooms were made by Levi Dickinson of Hadley, Conn., in 1786. People had been using husk, splinter, bristle and hair brooms, and they laughed at him when he planted the seed corn and told them the crop was WHAT HE WAS THERE FOR. Window Dresser—If you'll SAYS William Barnhill, of}me finer quailty of goods 1 can give make a fine display. Proprietor—If 1 had fine goods I could display ‘em myself. I'm pay- ing you to make a fine display with cheap goods, Telephone operators in Egypt are required to speak English, French, Italian and Greek. Over here it's or. miles of other Arkansas has navigable rivers state in the Union. more than any More stories you never seo in the newspapers Yeu.” sald Superintendent Kempster, “our cars are slow, slower than necessary. They can make much better time.” The automobile was traveling not more than 15 miles an hoar whes it overturned. The British army is experiment ing with an aeroplane motor that is so quiet it cannot be heard more than 60 yards. The New Zealand government ts Teplacing wooden telegraph poles and letter box posts with reinfore ed concrete ones. In France more than 3,330,000 women are engaged in agricultural labor; in Germany, 2,400,000 restaurant because they don't know eat It at bome because know what it's made of. they do She did} There is a good demand in Eng land for California seeds, especially lettuce seed. There are 672 volcanoes on the globe, 270 of which are active What has become of the old fashioned man who carried 4 goid toothpick? Godesburg. Prussia, te building a municipal slaughter house to cost $1,000,000, —— Old sam cl a n. y., dec. 7.—old sam clifford is sertenly a wonder at keeping mar ried. sam is 82 years old, he got into the habit of being married away back when abraham linkon was presadent and beeckstake was 8 cents a pound, his first 2 wives lasted him 60 years, and when the 24 one died a few days ago sam was pretty sad she had been a good wife, and he dident like to lose her, and also it looked like it might not be so easy to get anuther as it was when sam was 50 or 60 years yunger after the funerel sam come home feeling pretty dismel he has a nice little place of his own out In brooklyn, and he dident like the idea of living alone in it worth a cent well, he was walking up and down on the curbstone and fell into the all over, when he stubbed his toe in the curbstone and fell into the gutter the poor old feller got a pretty bad jolt, and he was groaning about his tough luck when he felt hisself being lifted up by a pair of arms they was a lady's arms the lady helped old sam up onto his front porch, and asked him was he all rite he said yes, he was all rite, ex- cept he dident have no wife never @ sure thing that the; speak English, Sign in a window of a bullding being erected on Third av.: “When completed, John Smith will oecupy this store.” Lat's hope John t# completed soon then the lady begun to sniff, and Do You LOVE HIS wor’ Some men never eat hash In-a) what it's made of and they won't, ifford sure does says the junior ofis boy VEG daughter as a prize winner, My daughter, Florence Oaks, received the premium book for the highest average in her grade, and unless |the omission is supplied in your next issue, I will quit taking the lpaper at once. Respectfully, Mrs. |Herm Oaks —Columbus, In@, Re | publican 1 | She Was Willing. “He told ber that he wuld glad ly die for her.” “The same old bluff. Did it catch bert” “No. She told him she would taladly let him."—Answers, Lon | don. Did You Ever Hear Anybody Say— “You must come and see us Come any time “wWoen I ike a man I like him.” “How can I get around? I haven't an automobile.” “Ien't it perfectly awful the way things are going up2” The Japanese lead the world in diacoveries in the study of sels- mology. rious was made in in 1610 that A statement house of parliament the coal mines of Neweastle would be productive for at |b 21 years. A charity conference delegate de clares this country f# rhythm mad. sing coon songet A Boston organ grinder has ro- tired with a fortune of $60,000, Oh, yes, he grew tired of the steady grind And he knew his business from the ground up. Looking for a Fighter. What has become of the old fashioned man who used to snore in chureh? The laws governing Panama traffic are going to provide that ships owned by railways suall not pass through the canal te this in your hat and keep it there tll the supreme court knocks out the law. What has beco: of the old- fashioned man who used to way: ‘That takes the cake. ‘There are no files on me. He is—1 don’t think This country exported $19, worth of electrical appara 1911 536 lo On nearly all German railways the rails are welded with thermite, a substance formed by the unton of pulverized aluminum and oxygen When this mixture is ignited, the heat developed | great as that of the electric are. A church at Hingham, Mass, torn down recently, was built in 1680, but its timbers showed no sign of wear and tear. Indigo is one of the few natural dyes that have not been driven out |by artifielal coloring substances: But there is an artificial indigo that has a heavy sale Gladstone received 30 cents «a word from an American magazine in 1889. This wae much larger than any English magazine ever paid, and was considered fabulous, but would attract no attent'on now |The Man of the Hour” pald George Broadhurst more than $10 a word, land “The Music Master” paid Charles Kiein at least that much The large number of Chinese neon in the streets of Paris bas be come a matter of comment in Freach papers. What has become of the old fashioned man who never had nervous prostration? ad thrive on matrimony, ARE — ive she said she could simpathize with him, because she dident have no husband, him having died also so they both sniffed, and bimp- by old same asked her who she “™ she told him, and she wap a specktable widder that lived Not far away, and they had a nice Jittle talk . next morning they was loakitls for a minister i there is more ministers In brogk lyn than anything else, so it waa ent long before sam was back jn double harness and trotting along fine well, there's an old saying, what's one man's meat is another man's pizen, some folke dont thrive on matrimony, but sam sure dos. Jobuy No country is better off than Switzerland in the matter of Wal power, and vast resources of force are still unutilized. It is now pro. posed to electrify all the state rail- ways, and to supply the energy needed from the numerous water powers not yet developed. Already most of the funicular railways em ploy electricity, An Amsterdam electrician has put the market an electric lamp for a bicycle. The electricity is generated by the turning of the bicycle wheels r| Without Did You Ever Hear Anybody &: “Now that you know where we live you must come often.” “Sbe is not a very pretty girl, but she has such nice ways.” “I don't care if I do—but only one,-mind you.” i, I'm peculiar about such things.” “Ob, yes, every Sunday. pleases my wife.” Ward Hamm, who, as his name indicates, is a resident of Chicago, has sued for divorce because his wife refused to cook e¢g*. Hamm without eggs, it goes without say- ing, is of no great importance. it Runs in the Family. Mrs. Fanny Angle of near Peru spent few days last week with ber sister, Mrs. Lulu Pisher.——La- fayette, Ind., Journal. What has become of the old- fashioned man who used to carry a buckeye in his pocket? Speaking of memories, there's a boy in Southern Ohio who can name all the vice presidents of the United States. Marconi announces wireless mes- sages can be sent across the Sah masts, COP FATALLY HURT BY BALKY CHUGBIKE PORTLAND, Or., Dec, 7.—Vainly endeavoring to get a speeding mo- torcyele under control today, Patrol- man H,. 6. Taft collided with a street-Car, sustaining injurles from which he is expected to die. The patrolman was rounding a corner and tried to turn from the way of the street car when his machine be- came unmanageable, Tacoma—Floating in mid channel between Fox island and Titlow beach in an open boat without oars lor oarlocks, the dead body of Geo. awrence, 65, was found at 11 o'clock this morning. the But what, wise man, leads them to LITTLE WILLIE’S WASH DRAWING =. & SHE WON CIRCLE’S TURKEY FoR Prize >! FOR BEST _FUNNY STORY | CONTEST ENDS The poetry contest ended yester day, a decided success, Sixty-five E WANTED—A hoy who has hadiboys and gir! ntributed to the x , ; experience with paperhanger contest. Alice Olmstead, an Au oe know & funny story? vertisement in Buffalo, N.Y, News./purn, Wash, girl, was awarded the a vere boy: ie 4 girt in the dollar prize for the best short w ome kind of & finmny tale, Did you ever say to the phone|poem, Six Seattle girls and one st the reason Unde girl, “Main, one-—naught—naught— Centralia girl were mentioned on : o @ “Panny “ naught—naught, please,” and have |the honor roll, The following are | _ many an * her come back at you with, “You/the giria and boy whose letters j contest of tie moan Math, one—-0t-ot—ot—0t,| were worthy of an honorable men-| Pde! fone pn sir) reader ‘9 don't you?” tion: Clara Bankert, 306 24th N.; aoe food chance at withing a i Bessie Day, 6567 First av. N. W.; | ; , Kditor Nothing Serious’ 1 a%/ Beanie Cantrell, Contealia, Wash.; | to a Nie the artist, has promos Bus told that Capitol bill woman cham-|Chester Bankert, 305 24th N.; Vera eer ay a picture, OF bar ts plon bridge whist player remarked,| West; Beatrice Smith, 4467) Whit- fesirting the poles Sia , the other day Thank heaven, @) {man av.; Elileen Kinsey. be * on Thursday afternoon week's work is finished.” She had) The winning poem, contributed | ty A “: on Priday, just wound the eight-day clock-|py At Olmstead, the Auburn | in Circle contests at aa * 8, 0. girl, follows jin Circle contests, all letters simalg ’ E ’ jbe written in ink. Write gulp on Speaking of a fat man-—who one Ba of oe paper. In last # loves an ice man? v ® contest several boys and - girls negli to write their names 2 jon the which spoil jning the ot thetr thelr chances of When f ond Grandpa likes to kiss wee Sallie, rize + Bhe says no note asking for membersht; =: Says his whiskers, thick and to write your full nate aad ae s busby, * on the botte of that also, OO ag ge funny stories inust aot contaiges, (ea andpa’s head ts smooth and 150 words and should, be original, % shiny The prize is one dollar, 5 On the top, Where the hair began to thin and Would not stop. THIS BOY CLIMBS — Grandpa kisses; Sallle ques MOUNTAINS tions Dear Uncle Jack: 1 Ive ia So ‘tis swid, the Cascade mountains, u “Grandpa, ray st put your papa takes The Star, saw whiskers ircle, and it is #0 interesting “On your head?” want fo join ‘ sib I am 15 years old and im The above photograph is that of]. > the THIRTEEN MORE COME |iniigs ‘Swanson, age 9, winner Tonys aagpeat am a guide in the NTI CLE the 10-pound turkey offered by the Bh Boru 8 great I O STAR CIR Circle in the Thanksgiving contest,|™&9Y people up and down the The «following boys which ended two weeks ago. Hilda|ountalns.—James N. Sligh, 16, have written to Un membership cards. Unele has run out of certificates and is having some more printed. Those | who have falled to receive their) cards will get them in about a Stach, 4830 W. Hanford. ford. Glacier, Wash. SHE WAS BUSY Dear Uncle Jack: I have not sent anything into the Circle for several weeks became. we ve been busy moving We came from Mabton not very long ago and have decided to stay th Se attle for awhile MAGGIE ERICKSON, 1920 Sth ay GREATLY INTERESTED Dear Uncle Jack I have been reading your lives at 137 Bast 64th st. LOOKS FOR CIRCLE WHEN STAR ARRIVES Dear Uncle Jack: We have tak-} en The Star for a long time and like it fine. Every Saturday night | just a8 soon as I get the paper I look at The Star Circle and enjoy it. And now lam writing for a membership card. —Gladys Thorn ton, 1757 W. 63rd. REDMOND GIRL IS A CIRCLE MEMBER Thoda Gould, 5130 Trinity place. Robert Haring, 5229 36th 8. W. Miriam Weetin, 3923 Meridian. Kelly Shannon, Enumciaw, Wn. Vanessa Egen, Cedar Falls, Wn. Bessie Cantrell, Centratia, R. 0, 1. John Holland, 426 28th Cor Ellis, 4915 14th N. E. Dear Uncle Jack Wit you} for a long time aed am in ate Tene, gy med ee 8. | please send me x membership card?| terested in them. 1am 11 jes | © Annie Thompson, Custer, . I have been Interested in the Circle} old, in the fifth grade, and go to ‘tf 0 for a long me. I am i2 years old|the Oak Lake school. 1 live os a \THIS GIRL WANTS TO | ind'am in the seventh grade 'I'go|3ird st. near Woodlawn Park ar broth |to the Happy Valley school.-Kate|! have three sisters and one s GET A CIRCLE CARD Norman, Redmond er. Please send me one of your r Dear Uncle Jack a 4 reading the letters in he Star \Circlo and like them very much.) STARTUP GIRL JOINS Would you please send me a mem-| 1 would like very much to join bership ecard, for I would like to| your Circle. I think it is very in ljoin it? I am 10 years ol@ and Ij teresting and would like to have « Jam in the high fourth. I go to the| membership card, I am 15 years | West Seattle school.—Ella Stach,|old and in the first year high 4830 W. Hanford. school ADA CRUMP, Startup, Wash. membership cards MATILDE DYMENT, R. F. D. No. 2, Box 338, Seattle, Dear Uncle Jack: és ae reading The Star every in Saturday I always look HERE’S A LETTER Star Circie. I enjoy it very: FROM WEST SEATTLE Dear Uncle Jack: 1 will be very glad if you will please send me a membership card, for I wish to join The "star Circle, 1 am 12 conts aplece and sheep $2 years old, and I am in the sixth grade. | am a student in the West Seattle school.—Olga Stach, 4830 W. Hanford HAS HEARD MUCH ABOUT THE CORNER Dear Uncle Jack: IT have heard much about your Cirele, and would like to have a membership card. I am 12 years old and am going to the Immaculate Conception school for three years.—John Holland, 426 28th av, S,, City Out of 401 members in the Japan. ese house of representatives only|and notice that one of my 49 are lawyers. mates has joined. Please in Manchuria eggs cost 50 cents) a membership a hundred, chickens and ducks 8|my friends I ha Larson, Seabold, Wash. | Peace at Any Pric Mra. Jennie White, proprietor of a restaurant at Kelso, hit Justice of the Peace Holtz over the head with a plece of timber when he refused to stop fighting in her place.-L4e Angeles (Cal) Times. WHY DODGE LEFT. Absolutely Pure [From a series of elaborate chemical tests.] Comparative digestibility of food made with different baking powders: An equal quantity of bread (biscuit) was made with each of three differ- ent kinds of baking powder—cream of tartar, phosphate, and alum—and submitted separately to the action of the digestive fluid, each for the same length of time. The percentage of the food digested is shown as follows: Bread made with Royal Cream of Tartar Powder: Bread made with phosphate powder: Bread made with alum powder: Royal Baking powder raised food t “So Dodge has lost his job, eh? Didn't he know enough to hold it down?" “Yes; that yas the trouble. knew too much.” He Canton, China, has many tem. ples to gods about whom little is known, The temples have been used only once or twice a year, so the new government is converting them into school houses, Russia has state forest reserves covering 937,000,000 acres. The Philippines import nearly all thelr meat from Australia Js He Running for Office? The citizens of Walnut are : quiet and unassuming. The prest is shown to.be of greatly superior dent of the bank there walked i! digestibility and healthfulness. across the street in his shirt sleeves with the writer.—Brie, Kas, Rec ord,