The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1912, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR _ “All the money in Christendom and all the banks in Christendom could not control money, There could be "—J. P. Morgan. One of those dear persons who want us to be more our meals writes; “Lettuce leaves should not be cut with the knife, but folded up with the fork and then carried to the mouth.” We're going to try that on the lettuce, f plings, pie and other articles that we've been the knife before carrying to the mouth, Folding up the piece of pie, for instance, and mowing it away before the children can ask for a part of it, has: evident advantages, but what attracts our thought in these special social instructions as to the lettuce is that the knife seems to be becoming obsolete Why is it that one cannot be socially refined and per- form so few gastronomic feats with the knife? The knife is an honorable and ancient tool. Man could fork things with his fingers, but he couldn't cut them with his fingers, and so he made himself a knife, probably ages be fore he thought of forks. Nowadays you are unrefined if you do not taboo the knife and cut things with a fork, which was not made for cutting. Don’t shovel your food iti with your knife! is universally a social dictum, but the same authorities will order you to fold up your victuals and carry*them inside on a fork, cultured at neakes, dum with carving always THE STAR—WEDNES 72 INCHES , COMBINED LENGTH AND GIRTH OF PACKAGE MUST NOT EXCEED 72 INCHES. MEASURE FROM TIP TO TIP THE ORDINARY sTanios no LONG WAY— THEN AROUND THE wate SHORT WAY AND ADD. posT PACKAGES 4 The new parcel post, ef Christmas presents, for pa) fective Jan, 1, is a8 SIMPLE stance. It has THREE impoft- and EASY as mailing a letter ant new features at the postoffice. 1, The POSTAGE you payy Forget the fussy talk about DEPENDS ON the DISTANCE; “gone system Take your your package goes, instead of package to the postoffice and ask the man behind the window “How much? He can figure it out In a moment, Lick the stamps, stick them on and de posit your package. the present Mat rate for evedy- where. EXCEPTION — Packages weighing four ounces of leas are so amail that they will be sent at the old flat Uniess you send packages rate of 1 cent an ounce frequently and a postoffice or EVERYWHERE, Distance substation t# inconvenient for makes no difference with you, that’s all there is to It. them. Parcel post is just a new 2 You can now send pack- of sending packages, like ages weighing come: = ee uw wo il Nothing Serious Y, DECEM3ER 25, 1912. POUNDS, {nstead of only four pounds, as at present 3. You must use a NEW kind ot STAMP for parcels, Ovdt nary letter stamps are not good on these packages, and the new parcel post stamps are aot good on other mail matte The “sone syste in ecany to understand, Just remember that wherever may be, YOU are the © ER of the whole system! Draw around yourself a umber of imaging ary circles, the first one 60 miles away from you In every direction, the second one 160 miles away, the third 300 miles away, the fourth 600 miles, the fifth 1,000 miles, the sixth 1,400 miles and the seventh 1,800 miles, The cost of sending a pack- age depends on two thing®-tts WEIGHT by pounds, and the DISTANCE It goes. Parcels over four ounces are assumed to weigh a pound; if they weigh a little over one pound they are assumed to weigh (wo pounds, aad s0 on, Within the first circle you drew, including all places for 60 miles in every direction, ROVER FINDS AN UMBRELLA SAME RATE EVERYWHERE REGARDLESS OF DISTANCE -14¢ANOZ. there are two rates, one for LOCAL or RURAL DELIVERY and the other for packages sent BETWEEN TWO TOWNS. If you live io a elty you can mail packages to someone in the sante city, or to someone on 4a rural route starting out of your city, at a local rate of 6 cents for a one-pound package, 6 cents for 2 wads, 7 cents for 3 pounds and #o on up to 16 cents for 11 pounds. This rate also applies to people liv ing on a rural route who mall pack to other persons along the same route, or to per- sous in the elty from which the route starts, or to persons on some other route starting from the same city Now, me the package ts not to be delivered within the elty or on a rural route, but ts to go to some place within the SOtmile radius of the first rone. RATE Are You Puzzling Over This New Parcel Post? Here You Are, Then! All Explained So Simply Any Can Understand POUND By ZONES APPLIES pounds, 14 cents, and so on up to 11 pounds, 35 cents Now, suppose your fs going further away the 150-mile circle, but inside the 200-mile cirole. It goes Into the second zone, and takes the rate of one pound for 6 cents, two pounds, 10 cents, three pounds, 14 cents; four pounds, 18 cents, and #0 on up to IL pounds, 46 cents. if the place to which you wish to send the parce! falls into the third zone, or the fourth or fifth or other, it takes the rate printed for that zone. package outside The onepound rate for the third zone is 7 cents; for the fourth zone, 8 cents; for the fifth zone, 9 cents; for the sixth zone, 10 cents; for the seventh zone, 11 cents, and for the eighth zone, 12 cents, The rate on 11 pounds in the eighth zone in $1.22, the highest rate | LIMIT OF WEIGHT (NOTHING HEAVIER CAN BE MAILED) fice will hang | United States marked in red ink cire } postoffice where the sep will be the center of these ein cles, On a hook beneath the map will hang ® pareet post guide with an alphabetical ‘Nat, | of all postoffices in the Unites States | If you want to send a age to Washington, D. C, your postoffice, you will loo up Washington im the and will find a number beside it—No, 1071 on the 4 map of You will then look map, which is divided into little numbered squares, and will see that square No. 1071 is in ouch and-such @ zone from your post office, That gives you the rate of postage. You cap buy one of these guides and do your figuring at home if you want ta, (Other interesting phases like the storing of hay in a barn loft. Storing away food ea Its rate is one pound for & ay aoe includes Hawail of the new parcel post will 7 Sage. ge ee Pe ee Li 1 if cents, two pounds, § cents; and the Hippine islands. be discussed in another with one’s fingers is objectionable for sanitary reasons, and Wy p Yy ff Wi three pounds 11 cents; four On the wall in every postof ticle tomorrow.) 4 looks bad, even to semi-barbarians, but the fork is but al ym] Liane —=—- a“ momen substitute for fingers, and it is difficult to perceive why| 2 saa, eS IT ALL DEPENDS pitchforking things into one’s face should be less objection- able than shoveling them in : Heathen and other ignorant animals would laugh to gee us cutting things with an edgeless fork, with a knife at OM GEORGE LooK AT THAT MOMeeT wien dffa Dor band. But we risk the heathen’s ridicule and sometimes a 7. dec ee a aint verry often jahe went to court with the dress oo : : : . you see «a judge la! rite out injon that be had x de | sacrifice Sense and justice for what is called propriety's sake court when she took "ott her cloke, the but judge appleton he bad to laff judge laffed, and th clerk laffed However, the edict is issued. Fold your lettuce up on aaa . : , . til he boll . | and th ecktate the bias, in neat packages, and carry it in on your fork. |¥#*###eeeeee eee ee B!) There's nothing will last longer! When an actor complains that he 4 age whea he seen the and ail the specktaters . ; ? le # {than a love letier that a fellow | isn’t gutting a fair show, it may belli nkiosele made for) everybody laffed except mrs.} You'll get past the lettuce quicker, anyhow, and they haven't! ONE YEAR AGO #|shouldn't have written In the firat| because he isn't giving one. ae raat ieoinks Sg or ae ar eee - Beng ores ; i / ents e had a bid to! + nklestein is a stout lady yet forbidden you to saw at your meat, if any, with your|* ® | place FO ae a wedding, and wanted a swell tall ern he ned t 3 ’ ) SkeRRHRRARERARRERE par a Be We deve Mett E nte¢ quite tall, and mr. stern had framed knife. behaliad Geiteen sak te pcm ll _.|line of scenery to hang on herself |up a garment that would probly fit ‘ fieeteehsiih cgviate Daltinere San. rene so whe went to @ store and |her little geri verry nicely, if she the police Christmas. I ” pe ao some very nice goods, and had a little gerl be - * ms then she took it to mr. sters,| she was bustin out of it all over. STOP OF IT hedieg much “joy water” in most JOSH Wise hee a which clames to be a tallor, and|and the bottom of it was about & ALL tonttte. totih hiabe Wenesing over SAY No; Te @ witew tor the pee told bim to get busy and build her |inehes off the fore ; Christmas bifls. “Th station: ont” a frock that would make mrs. astor / i cant breethe, judge, she hollers, look like a rag picker | just look at me agent at Becieys Investigation of the charge that the directors of the| eg ewewseseakhieee fattenin’ | Now they're talking about an]. stern be said that was his} { am lookin’ at you, says the | New York Stock Exchange dominate the fortunes of the} * fer th’ }nontzing the speaker of the F mae me speshelty, and when mrs, finkle [Juda and i cant breethe neether nk = z * FIVE YEARS AGO * market on ric®| house of commons. stein climbed into the dreas he| then mr. stern he yells, judge members, and that “it is impossible to secure a seat on thele *| thrown at weddin’ | would make for her she wouldn’t/your honor, in three minutes 1! i jknow herself So Perfectly Clever. This father stever’ Witle thought and sure enough, she dident }looks like {t came from paris We anotured am thin wien that's what the lawsuit is about | well you wont do it here, says) after the dress was made, and |the judge, i have suffered enough | couples in th’ jcould alter that dress already so it RRA waitin’ room.” | exchange unless the financial powers consent,” as proposed by -Pujo, will in itself arouse but little popular interest, for the general public, including Mike, and Pat, and Bill, Eighty were made Christmas. arrests, mostly drunks, Sig |A pretty girl is called a belle, | i || . | 4 } : 5 , Master batt nen Senauce.ab ‘i “ mrs. finklestein tried it on, she let} mrs, finklestein dident have no| : and Jim, and a lot of the rest of us, who don't care a hoot|open shop Granune te -wortter o- yp aa out a screech and told mr. stern| witnesses to her xetting walloped P how much those stock exchange animals chew themselves |feetly in Seattle today. "eg Precise. ime Mind of & taller Che Checght ion Ge sess, co, Oe sangeet te i Pete Monohan, the discoverer of “TEACHING THE YOUNG The proofreader was 2 woman of |" 4* }iet mr. stern go, and be got away #0 be hit her on the nose about 3 jumps ahead of mrs. fink! up. What we-all want to find out is a way to make them 1OEA" IN MONTPELIER) great precision and extreme propri pay on Valdes creek, 76 miles from ftop chewing up the rest of us. Valdez, Alaska, arrives in Seattle | This ls the “Behool” news In the |oty. One day a reporter succeaded| ‘hen she had him pinched, and {stein | Montpelier (0.) Lender 5 tn getting into type an item about) === nee os.sstananes Lawson says the stock exchange, one way or another,|"'™ 90? '2 sold dust, ‘The M. H. &. basketball teams,| “Ww 3 3 5 ’ . : - a 2 A , | Willie Brown, the boy who was HE WAS SOME NABBER. ORCHARD COMPANY Life wanta to know whether it In| both boys and girls, are expecting cheaper to get married or to buy an |'O £9 to Edgerton to play Friday The hottest contested basketball burned in the west end by a live 4 wire.” On the following day the reporter Is taking from us no less than $5,000,000,000 a year. Even when we did not know the figures we felt sore, but now The London police authorities had been looking for a certain G. Benninghausen, appointed tem- anto, Well, for marriage, it ean be} . “ we do know them, we holler “ouch!” and we want to|sald that the model never changes. |kame of tho season wil! be played | found on his desk a frigid note ask-| thief, of whom they possessed six photographs taken in different | porary receiver of the Wenatchee A mene | Friday evening, Nov. 22, when the|ing, “Which is the west end of a| Dositions, on the occasions of previous convictions, These photo- | Heights Orchard Co. by Judge King have it stopped right away of sooner. ELBERT 18 IMPROVING local team will meet the Angola,) boy? graphs were sent to all the towns in the country |Dykeman, took charge Christmas Bibert Hubbard says: “Parties |!nd.. team |. 1 took only an instant to reply, After some time the detective department received from the |day, after filing a bond for $10,000, who want milk should not seat| The girls’ high school baskepial *The end the son sets on, of| Police commissary of « small town the following letter Judge Dykeman made the ap themselves on a stool in the middie | team was the victor in a fast Pocarse al “Sir—1 have duly received the photos of the accused persons | poimtment on the allegation that JUSTICE ON THE L‘ ’ GEA™ lof the fieid in the hope that the | Played in Wauseon lant Friday, —. you are seeking. 1 have already arrested five of them, and the /the orchard company had. been leow will back up to them.” Bit by| The M. H. S&S. boys basketball A SURPRISE. sixth has been traced by) my officers, who hope in a short time to (stripped of its assets by a conspir 2 bit, as he travels, Elbert adds to|team lost a close but well-played? capture him.” acy among certain of its officers. BS Harriman, the man who, contrary to law, combined |hs store of knowledg LP sengpotathyarmee et 6 Wl sect ee ee eS ee aan Fe Tot spe mi dad Si ee the score standing o 26. 1 contract holdres, who began " a the om Agee or Southern Pacific corporations, died| ‘The billiard championship of the i paises? bile t an ess te bn have ee ember 9, 1909. ‘he supreme court of the Unit: States| World is making its annual effort to e oldest existing repu Ld jamounting to $26,000 a! Sept Pp om f nited States get away from Willie Hoppe, but|Anforra, the Pyrences respectively, tha twill be due the company on contracts for Chelan county orchard lands. | _ It ts charged that offfctals of the company sold a large *part of was able to reach that case and pass upon it December 2, 1912. Thus there was a lapse of 3 years, 2 with just as much success an it never had since Willie copped It If this signature looks very wobbly, don't blame dear old J. W. Riley, for he did the best he could. He had to write it months and 23 since before 806 A. D. GET YOU, STEVE! days, at least, between the offense and the judicial ruling] go that their relatives and/ | i without on the offense. friends won't have to wear black; Amos Augsburger has been ai! with his left hand, because his right arm jcompany’s water rights, for them, many hunters are now/ing with aclatica for over a week i» paralyzed now, and it’s rather late in Ife which the lands are practically | Worthless. ao al NOW GOVERNOR IS HIS RELATIVE By United Presse Leased Wire. SALEM, Or., Dec. 26.—Bem W. Oleott, y of state, today claims the relationship of brother fn-la wto Gov. West, oe |for a tired wife—his own wife—is ce nagphe emg wold ee ae seme husband. | girl, and sister of Mrs. West. Rev. | "I gave my wife a real surprise The women are wearing every-|for Christmas.” . 2 5. Rat, ho wert ae thing tighter—with the exception That so? What did you give | Mra. West, officated. of the bonds of matrimony her? re ard acted : " a gs A UNT@L )s. to atart training his left The signature is almost the same in form as the one that is known to thou- sands, but, of course, the beautiful, dell- cate penmanship that made all of Riley's hand-writing look like a copper-plate en- graving is missing. The poet wrote his name, slowly and painfully, as a contribution to the Red Cros# tuberculosis fund at Indianapolis, the other day, in the Christmas seals cam- palgn. The autograph was sold at auc ton by Mayor Shaak. Tt does seem at times as though justice—that is, judicial Justice—really preferred to go along on the low gear. Dr. Bixel, of Pandora, has been the — attending physician. At Inst re F — wanna NEW YEAR SPIRIT ports he was improving again.— 4 Pandora Times. “While the law may not be able to enforce competition, it can reach combinations which render competition practicable,” declares the supreme court of the United States. Fairly translated, that means to say to big corporations : “We can prevent you from combining, but we cannot com- pel you to compete.” SS ey FRESNO girl stood on a has busted the contracts made street corner all one evening|by the wearing red coats and red caps. Many a young fellow sows his wild oats in the vain hope that |there is going to be # crop fatlure THE (DEAL? A man who will “do the dishes" im- As you may have noticed again ie Wi pa mamma Wittie—I1! tell ye | | this winter, the young lady with the] Pittsburg claims to consume | a= | sensible and get something practi railroad-owned coal most costly fur boa still shows the} more coal than any city im the q to prove that there’s no such | compani “ largest expanse of, as nature made| world. And has more “leavings.” that will be most appreciated. Weill Pine se sunevance by sash: is aes. andthe” “Indes her, in the region of the Adam's rim nner ace | take $10 from our savings bak Sat — ¥ pendents,” but we don’t en- apple. =| from Dr. munds, in 5 building, and stop those d Main 6518.) jeadaches and _ nervousness. *** | will make them happy alt next yea! es STRIPED SUITS THROWN OUT OF Wanted—Furntture. ers. Proved it, too. But two Modern Furniture Co goat herders tried to tie their large our coal bin until we see the railroad lawyers’ next Parisian Sage Imitations of This Great Pittsburg woman beat her hus- band because supper was not ready bronchos to her, and a consta-| move when she arrived home. One would OREGON PRISONS , . » : . Are } room oy meee % q ble started to turn in a fire a ie wor e cin ve ay fey ging oom vecauleaaabae Hair Invigorator sas th Rap sha | . Be lar by twisting her nose,| WOULDN'T it be funny] Zee % send # Plone Abroad in the Land—|"".(¥54."5" ite" eon f Correctly Tailored Mash a Fresno girl! What| Should little old Greece eat up|, “I ought to. That's about allt] | May Irwin's Pet Joke. Look for the Girl With} aie of siriped penitentiary suits,|\ ammmasuesmaicsscecsteoussameumencus for? the turkey while the ottiers he re Belle * 9 eens the Auburn Hair on i or . ses hp Do pear ed . ? 0 state Ber were haggling about how to}. A Girl'e idea about a thritting| “Not very.” Every Package. visi Of the wenieene pap nding Suits ’ U. s. SUPREME COURT ‘carve it? football game is if she had some o * amen are now going about n gray suits, Good clothes to wear at it, Consolation. and it is predicted that stripes will eo / —— SS Se si rela. ac MOYeTA! Irishmen applied for Jobs SE ate is reat wnat [never be worn here again. | _ an emerald ring—An Irish-|at the stre 5 4 ent)" | TAMED BY A THREA BCR An een the stent Slnaing department | Sreuor ang andre cee. |qgeaytimeyeee ek act wees and Coats On Gon Th” ee eiaimed—"h wil not tive with. you another | | “We don't need you,” said the This te © plo|iit che prisoners found guilty ‘of sin ring the run of the drama| supe ease ture of the carton nor te " og me, will you?” he calmly asked. “Disraeli” in New York a YOdaa emeeeie ores one witht that ie whieh each bot Woat om ivan the a. sharin * od ‘es, I will, or fn ¢ Liebler for 1 r | ‘? at Nb “When?” nae Lotia Parker, the ra pet . 50 le per Gace Sy Ue of PARISIAN of abolishing the remaining stripes Liberal Credit ‘Now—thie minutet” thor, in the lobby. Desiring to be| “That's all roight,” answered one Ae at Pore (tm j= : eS wouldn't, if | were you, sociable, the young man said: |of the Irishmen, “but begorra it SAGE will banist} CHRISTMAS DRUNK | “But I will, and I defy you to stop me!” “Oh, I shan’t try to stop you,” he quietly replied, simply report to the police that my wife has “There's a big man in the audience | can't vote.” toniebt, Mr, Parker,” “Who?” asked Mr, Parker, When you see the extraordimary values displayed in handsome Suits and Coats you'll agree there's dandraff, stos falling hair and itching scalp, and “L will mysteriously disap- smallest (and ON WOOD ALCOHOL The rottenest) peared. They'll want your deseription, and I will give it You ert Hubbard.” kingdom in the world Is Monaco— Ry United Press Leased W e anshi wear No. 8 shoes; you have an extra large mouth; your nose turns | “Who's Elbert Hubbard?” Mie wtkein asee ands oentil promote a new) RRAINERD, “Minn, Dec, 26.—| ing lacking in Style, Workmanaele up yd end; eyes rather on the glint; voice like a “Why, he's a big man, He/to every block, a growth oe abr b Getting drank on wood alcohol, | ~ _ gun age oe a me ib a reeteh, you wouldn't dare do that?" she screamed. doesn't believe in God.” is g the bos Hight ; {lumber Jacks camped in the viein a pretty Hawi br pate areal to Te ie is dash tues ¢ ‘Too bad. ‘That settles God,| Many @ good wife is firmly con eas sa wag {ity of Bemidji turned Christmas | suit the purchaser . ain peey, flared at each other for a moment in silence. ‘Then it |doesn't it? vineed that her husband doesn't gar containg no pol | Bt & massacre, agcording to a Sais pl e 10 was the victor, oe monize with anything in the hase pntaing nO POl! message received here today. (QEe me ER NOTHING COMING TO HIM — |except the nutmeg grater, py yg Pop: ot| Crazed with the liquor, the men HELENA TROO a ie —e By Jove, I left my purse under aun — reir attacked one another with axes. a fom pogo} Lavion, my pillow When a fellow goes along. the ain attaat boaw.| After the carnage there were 14 ary posts of the| “Oh, well, yi house girl 1s \streets sizing himself up in the plate put radiant beaw | dead from wounds and the alcohol ty into dull, faded, i hair, and as a dainty hair iressing women it cannot be ny hed, Get #,50-cent bottle of PARISIAN JAGH today, If it doesn't give omplete satisfaction, your money vill be returned, Sold by Bartell’s fores and dealers everywhere. interior, it is understood, are to} honest, isn’t she COME TO SEATTLE hall be abandoned, and the different| “That's just it, ‘A6 one of the first governmental |commands assembled y near _ moves in the reorganization or the| seacoast citien | |” OF Rear |my wife. = iB ary, recommended by the! The 14th, Col. Wilson command-| Do Ni department and approved by| ing, probably will arrive in Seattle early. ppieaid President a hee ee early in January, after Col, Ken- eury|non's troops have departed for th mn, meer Helena, has been or-| Philippines. 4 % Bap ip oh og Sor Mag ide glass windows, it’s a sign he's goten new hat or he's in love—and likely | it's both TUGS RESCUE CREW NEW YORK, Dec, 26.—Tugs to- day brought here part of the crew of the steamer Turrbalba, which went ashore at Keg Harbor, just north of Atlantic City, last Satur. day. It is expected the vessel will be refloated before night. She'll take it to Year's resolving “Who can describe a caterpillar?” asked the teacher 7 “{ ean, teacher,” shouted Tommy. ‘ommy, what ig it?” holstered worm.”