The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1912, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR ———— Foner Private Bohan Wt ot elty, Se liy by The Star Publishing Ge, Phone: Exchange Main 9400. BY GILSON GARDNER WASHINGTON, Deo, 2 The last man on earth to roar about the civil service policy | benefit them? should be William Howard Taft. Congress, in dealing with rence ct de tee ae cae Taft's cleventh-hour appointments, and President Wilson, in poing ae Rai Saree making room for democrats, should put ‘Taft's recommenda- | Po. touch, cutting out com between them ‘No president has ever surpassed William Howard Taft in as experience tea people kicked worthless or purchased servants out of office, sary chan om vic the ne only to have them promptly replaced in the public service, | re ne eea ee nw often in more responsible and better paid positions, by Taft.) “Te you live in a elty from which and the banal influences which have run Taft for four years. start rural routes, or on such a Look over the list of “lame ducks.” The stronger the/route, you are almost sure to bone- fit at once by parcel post, The new What /ean the clty man and the farmer In REFORM THAT REORMS tho district wear a city do with thia pareel post? How can they get together to use it? And will it The new parcel post is primarily in lon thons and advice at the very bottom of the list for considera-/men and other profit-taking folks Only time and thorough teats ov. . ; ; ; vc cneae | @r¥Where can ‘tell how beneficial impudent regardlessness of public opinion, or in shamelessness| this first attempt at parcel post in the matter of appointments. Time and time again have the| wilt be, It’s bound to be changed “ Many of can be made low rate, companies do ry and 86 cents up to 11 pounda, be wly developed business. people repudiated them, the softer the snaps they got, and | niches up etery city with Hts! products, properly packed, their ducklings with them. It should be one of Woodrow Wil-| rural routes gon’s first labors as president to go over that list and wring/GOOD RATES ON “a . ke" the peo! -|RURAL ROUTE GOODS the official neck of every “lame duck” on it. The people be-| MUTE AO Te tin atch a rural Heve in civil service reform. Taking popular interests out of] inde Sh oly (or vice voren) try sending farm products by par the hands of fellows who have been repudiated by the people] gee a much lower rite than the/|cel post. ‘The farmer ought to try is reform, It will be up to the new president to compel atone-| general rate for the “first xone’—| putting little advertisements in the the 50-mile circle around your post- ment for the insults and wrongs perpetrated on the people by be Hn the element that is now shouting loudest for clear-cut civil service policy. = LET THE U. S. SUPREME DO IT! Judge Lovett is perhaps right in stating that there can be no “unscrambling” of those railroad merger ¢KgS SAV) pinions asking Cotterill to be under the plan adopted in the cases of Standard Oil and To-| ome a candidate are circulated. ONE YEAR AGO. trusts. It also seems sensible that the unscrambling” fae os vt f tides should be passed up to the United States supreme court,) Miss Adeline Powell marries A. which deed it, rather than be left to that little Utah court wee ey ce diccomed = year seo We will anxiously await the plans and specifications of : scare the United States supreme court. If it <> ete : u w. Pobiman, Seattle labor which the Standard and Tobacco have “dissolved” and plucked |leader, was second witness to us worse than ever, we will surely know what the Sherman a ae Los Angeles grand law is worth in respect of high-up railroad criminality. If it declares for a receiver and sale of the stock at public sale, we FIVE YEARS AGO. will see other things, mighty strenuous things, perhaps. Moore theater formally opened. Fire destroys receiving home of Washington Children's Home Find- coma interurban line, burning two infants to death. HOW DO THEY FIGURE IT? Behold the workings of the legal and judicial mind. The PAD i FE er sarap on mere laymen should not hope to understand it. — want, fatally tajating motorman. Mrs. Elizabeth Bell was killed in a car accident on the Seattle, Renton & Southern. Jury gave her heirs $10,000 serene workers for a “city beau. . " 2 are cipally enga, ® verdict. Case was appealed, and the supreme court today aoawtea a os ae oe announces that $10,000 was too much. ; se kee But by some extraordinary process of reasoning, the! Saffragist fe synonymous with judges decided that $7,000 was exactly the measure of dam-|suffering In the district between both hands holding the plate. weal ra ages sustained. But $10,000? Never. Too excessive. New York city and Aibeay, Not long ago the supreme court helped cut an original] phitadelphia Presbyterian clerg: verdict of $15,000 to $2,500. Again the jury gave too much./men say they don't want Billy Su And do you remember our wise old supreme court fixing | ¢#y to start tn that city one of his the value of a man’s love at $15,000, but couldn't see SOF lots Gane mane an cotaaee it would be worth $35,000? Excessive verdict in that case.) which one? sae. oer 2 But did you ever hear the supreme court find that a jury gave too small a verdict? Did you ever hear of our silk- for = judges raising the amount of a verdict? No, the ee ne OAT how 7 RIMOLT PERFECTIV. LOVELY [accepe my are the judges of facts, the court says, and will not inter- oF wou! . with their verdict. : BUT IF THE JURORS ARE JUDGES OF FACTS IN SMALL VERDICTS, WHY ARE THEY NOT EQUAL- LY SO IN BIG VERDICTS? é THAT'S WHERE THE LAYMAN’S MIND CAN'T GRASP IT AT ALL. The truth will out. It is definitely established now that Hay’s board of re- gents ned to make the Northern Pacific a gift of a strip of quunaeienanee ee "TWAS A LOVELY CAMPAIGN. t the campus, as charged by Ole Hanson and] * 3) iiees . Thomas F. Murphine during the campaign, and as exposed oonnee gp rds Ma 4 ty y ont ‘by The Star months. ‘The deal was blocked. Now the N. P.’s claim of title to| 41146 4 year arven Capt. Jones the varsity land is to be tested out in courts. Does it own) o¢tne Holland. . any land there or not? That's the question to be settled. | tonian, which mono eee « The present ey have already decided in the rail-|phia from Rotierdam, suffered sea foad’s favor. Can they conscientiously pose as the people's} *ickness for the first time, fepréesentative in such a suit’? , 2 Not only the $250,000 tract on the campus is involved, Sau) of tare ty @ alien dee ome but Bites millions of dollars of school land in various parts/ you can't understand. it is gener. of the state. The regents who voted to make the N. P. a/#ly some form of hash with of a strip through the campus have disqualified them-|8™"7 9 Selves in this important litigation, and it is their duty to re-| Eggs are coming down rapidly. sign at ee Pe that the people's interests in the suit now|Let her rain! ed may be protected by regents not already prejudiced wi io favor of the railroad’s claim. Tho unemployed will meet in St. toe Hay 4 , just about in time GOLD braid will bejmight have been hurt se-|make tu 0. 'P. pommasiors: te frowned on at the inaugural riously, : ; S nme Mabel—Accept it. If you have » ceremonies of Governor-elect fall-out and he demands it back, ‘ ELEVEN-MONTHS-OLD Henry|tell hi Lister. To be strictly de} sittson of Fort Worth, Tex. has im you lost the pawn check. figeur, wear hickory shirts. |seven living grandparents. They| Whoever is the . are prouder of it than he is, Gen. Sickles, alt right bat Hi BALLARD man_ thrashed Y about time to ring in a change of . ‘ RESIDENT venu etht, holdup who tried to rob him, naan vote toma to the ota a and then held him until the| farm and make a profession of ag-|_, William Castlebury of Bartles § This i riculture. ville, Okia., age 90, is celebrating police came. 1s 18 an out- |the birth of a baby daughter. Mrs. y i Castl wage. We demand an ordi-| pransan sTOCK brokers navel Oy mance limiting the powers of| gone on strike and the exchanges Where It's Gone. be i owt . . are c . Som e8 be: I. wi havi Oo citizens. The poor holdup jcont, ie Mriken are. beget) shen “ageued the Corunna burntown Cor. Hicksville News me rae aye eat <= How to Pack Farm Stuff for Parcel Post. Shipments to Your Customers in City REMEMBER THIS: “Local delivery” and “local rate” apply to packages mailed in any city for delivery in that city or on any rural route atarting from that city, AND ALSO to parcels matied on a rural route for delivery along the same route, or in the city from which that route starts, or on any other rural route starting from the same city. ALL packages must be securely wrapped, so that they will do damage to other mail matter, nor to men handling them. All [ sais ire prone = ng i articles and those contai; a must “PRAGILE.” Pi new Inarkod “PRISHATL ‘erishable articles BUTTER, , fresh MEATS, dressed FOWLS, VEGETABLES, FRUITS, berries and other articles liable to quick decay will be Recepted for local delivery (as abpve defined) when wrapped to ent damage to other mail matter. They will be accepted for very ANYWHERE within the firat zone (the 650-méle radius), when inclosed in an inner cover and a strong outer cover of wood, metal, heavy corrugated pasteboard or other suitable material, and ar that carer can escape, © are mallal for LOCAL DELIVERY when #0 packed 4n a basket or other container as to prevent damage to other mail It would not surprise many peo- ple to find it definitely proved by investigation that J. P. Morgan is at the head of the banking bust- ness of this country. | pecans What's the Substitute. German distillers produced near- ly four million gallons of pure al- cohol during the nine months end- jing with June, the smallest quan- \tity for several years, | women from smoking cigarets, {woman jury, all suffragettes, found | ite first prisoner, & man, gulity. Koos may be sent, REGARDLESS OF DISTANCE, if each “separately and surrounded with gheln hg ootton, te suitable material, and all are packed in a container made of corrugated pastel board, metal, wood or other suitable ma- terial, and so wrapped that nothing can escape. Such parcels must be 4 SALTED MBATS, dried, smoked or otherwise cured ts and other meat ucts may be shipped ANYWHERE, ae iH MEATS may be shipped only within the FIRST ZONE. is the harmless, vegetable remedy ing association at Mortimer, on Ta-| ‘have happened to them. WE'RE COMING TO MASSACHUSETTS leginlator has prepared a bill probibiting CLAY COUNTY, Miasourt’s first Woman’s Best Help | to the good health which comes | from regular action of the organs of digestion and elimination—to freedom from pain and suffering— to physical grace and beauty— UP TO CONSUMER TO GET ACQUAINTED farmers do in the London papers; The rural routes average about and the city man with something to} eutienatait bo you KNOW that Palzer will lose the cham-| | plonship fight in Los Angeles on New Year's day if McCarty wins? that a resident of Seattle spent a week in Tacoma one day last summer? that the police force of Hel- |lingham were in a recent parade, jand he wore a beautiful new uni- form? DYJEVER NOTICE? While waiting tn the anteroom for ‘most any Seattle doctor you can while away the time reading |magazines all the way from ax | months to a year stale? } Better begin practicing writing that "13 now Jingte, Jingle. jingle! Wear tiettealn Xmas bell— Papa's pock ethoo lan't feeling very well When Daughter has High Drow | company for supper, Pather is sure }to start up the performance with an exhibition of soupinhaling with be will introduce his sword. | lowing stunt and wind up by 4 | ing his coffee out of the saucer, |__f all the children are well, Mother can always find consota- |tion in worrying over what might IT, S “\ . “Did you ever read Longfellow's Bridge’?” “No. Is his game different from the one we play?” Day's Best Story. “1 see,” said Mra, De Jones, while Mrs. Van Tyle was calling, “that you bave a Chinese chauf- feur. “Do you find him satisfac: tory?” “He's perfectly fine,” said Mra, | doesn’t show any spots, and then | when T am out in my limousine I Harper's Weekly. Threw Herself at Him, “She says he is not such 4, good catch, after all,” have dropped her,” 20 miles In distance, This means that for about 20 miles out tn the | country around such a elty tte poo ple may secure farm products at a The rate for goods coming Into the city t# Called the “local rate"-— ‘not the first zone rate, but the LO- | CAL rate, This is 5 cents for the | firet pound, and | cent for every additional pound up to 11 pounds, king 11 pounds 15 cents, This ja mitth better than the express similar din j tances, ‘The expresa rate would be | 25 cents for anything up to 6 pounds As a matter of fact, this will be mostly business which the express companies bave never bad, It will © regulations permit the oar tying of cag, butter, vegetables, dressed fowl, fruit and similar It is up fo the city consumer and the farmer to get acquainted, and *ONE-MINUTE VAUDEVILLE, “Do you sing?” “Yea, a little to kill time.” "You certalnly have a powerful city newspapers, as the English “Are you # good salesman?” “Well, the last firm | worked for jeaid | was the best salesman the: ever turned out.” | OF THIG LIGHTNING but | they oall me ‘Hillard Cue.” Why do they call you that?” “Because I work better with a *Yea; you have probably heard | clement weather sote in; and vice ‘Couple ‘a Bears | ries to the Cirele, and several of }them will be printed. There are | many ways boys and girls celebrat- | ed the rest from school studies, and One anewer to the loquiry as to what becomes of the old autos is that some of them are dispersed among the surrounding scenery by Se ]/ during the vacation, others prob- egy gem gy ge |home, but it would take too big « }limt to tell of all the things they i this contest ta 150. Manuscripts Northampton, | must be written neatly In ink and bave adopted a system of mileage charges like the tax URE’S YOU LIVE! (OUR erockin® Speaking of pets, here's a little Union City girl that has two real live bears to play with. She wrote to the Circle for a membership cer- tifleate for herself and two broth- era, but neglected bame and address | The little girl has one of the bears in her arms and the ot is in care of her brother o As one of the little fel- lows is minus a bear, it is apparent | that there were not enough of them to go around cleite didn't forget to put in the letter, which fs nine. is in the fifth grade, states that she In all probability when Union City miss sees h in this corner today she her identity to U hoping, anyhow. to attach her T.| Stare daily. | am 11 years old and petiam in the seventh grade of the her) Cascade school.—Jay McKean, 122 | Broadway North. would-be Cir. GENERALLY THE WAY. “I thought you and your wife were going to move thie falit” “We were. But she changed our cle Jack. Here’ A small boy's idea of resisting | 5 mptation is not to throw stones | tS SS Sesser eee eens After That the Barber Didn’t Have to Coax Him % sent to a lunatic asylum, Jim? J. P. Greenwood has just opened! & woodyard in Woodaville, N. IN GOLF John D. Rockefelier is not a strong driver, Rarber—Poor Jim has bee Victim (in chair)—-Who's “Jim ts my twin brother, sir. Jim has long been broodin’ os, an’ I suppose he finally got crazy.” His best play: approaching and on the long. over the hard tim “Ia that so?” “Yes, he and me has workede side by side for years, and we tell each other apart. We both brood- |, money in this business now.” were so alike we couldn't ed a good deal, too, No “What's the reason? “Prices too low. pay to-shave or hair-cut, customer's throat because the poor fellow locked up. 1 didn't let bim slash reason. Shampoo, sir?’ “YES.” customer takes a shampoo It doesn't Poor Jim, I caught him trying to cut a he refused a shampoo, so I had to have Makes mo sad. Sometimes I feel sorry he wanted to. It might have saved bis Music Taught Free ; —|How the New Parcel Post Is Going to Get Farmer and City - Man Closer Together and Smash the High Cost of Livin sell ought to try advertising in the country paper and farm journal | In England you may pick up any | newspaper and find little advertise | mente offering for eale through par | eet post fish, chickens, apples ap. | ple products, milk, cream, butter, | new-laid eggs, country hens, bacon, | roots, bulbs, flowers, cider, oysters, | asparagus, vegetables and fruit | Big cities ke Ot gO # h | York have no rural routes. living in such cities will bave to get their farm stuff at the “first ene” rate, which begins at 6 cents for the first pound and increases 3 cents n pound, up to 36 cents for 11 pounds, On 10 pounds of butter the rate would be ents. c. 0. D. SYSTEM | Wie BE NEXT THING As a matter of fact, there are # of most larte jen patches whict | could use the city delivery for send ing produce to city customers un der the lowest or “local | Eventually the depar nt will da OtnCuce QUICK ACTION. BIG STORY CONTEST “How i Spent the Christmas Va- cation.” / | That's the subject of next week's | Circle contest. Such a contest is! going to bring many Interesting sto- it is certain they all have good times. Lots of boys and girla work ably visit relatives, others stay at must have done. The word-limit to must be written on only one side| afternoon at 3 o'clock. Watches for Circle Dear Uncle Jack: I have been! watching The Star Circle for a jong time and would be very thankful if you would send me a) membership card. 1 used to whole- sale for the Star at Boren and Howell, I now sell at the 8. B.! Co., taking out from forty to fifty Brilliant Circleite Dear Uncle Jack: I have been t age|watching the Star Circle nearly Shelevery Saturday night for a long She also time. I would like to join, Will) you send me a membership please the}card? I am 12 years old and am er pleture in the sixth grade. I am sending will reveal a drawing, as I like to draw very * much.—Brilliant Keeton, Edmonds, Wash. Home Instruction GLAD IT WAS THE LAST Special Offer to Readers of The Star In order to advertise and Intro duce thelr home study music les- in every locality the Inter national Institute of Music of New York will give free to our readers a complete course of instruction for either Piano, Organ, Violin, Mando- lin, Guitar, Cornet, Banjo, Cello or In return they sim- ply ask that you recommend their Inatitute to your friends after you jlearn to play. You may not know one note from another; yet, by their wonderfully simple and thorough method, you can soon learn to play. an advanced player you ceive special instruction. The leasons are sent weekly. They are #o simple and easy that they are recommended to any person of little child who can read English. Photographs and drawings make ev- erything plain, Under the Institute's free tuition offer you will be asked to pay only a very small amount (averaging 14 cents cover postage and the necessary Van Tyle. “To begin with, his yellow complexion is such that at the end of a long, dusty ride he jhave his pigtail stuck through «| Ssht Singing. | little hole in the plate glass win- dow and I use it as a sort of bell rope to tell him where to stop.”— “Come up to show you the proofs of my last my den and I'll “Never mind the proofs, I'll take your word for it.” SENTENCES FAKER Judge Howard sentenced A. B. Turner, shingle years’ imprisonment declaring there would be a heavier sentence in the next case, on Account of the big}Hugo Kelly inducements held out to fakers by|the bi tke ciatie tsi rotherhood, brought the suits, | Turner was surrendered to the federal authorities u tow days ago, land Welly, Soe tan ee htman charged with using the mails promote a fraudulent scheme for] cessiv He was sentenced reformatory last sum- charged with forging bills of}new mayor had a man locked up No, one should overlook this won- derful offer. Tell your friends about show this article to them, The International successfully taught others and can successfully teach you, even if you know absolutely nothing whatever about muste, everything clear. Write today for the free booklet, which explains everything. convince you and cost you nothing. Address your letter or postal card to International Institute of Must 98 Fitth Ave, Dept. 251 B, New rp Institute has >| posed new rates are unjust and ex- selling shingle: “She says that, eh? He must YOUNG WOMAN'S _ THROAT CUT BY. GLASS SPLINTER By United Press Leased Wire LOS ANGELES, Dec, 28.— Mrs. Ortance Koetsche, a young widow, is dead today, her throat being pierced by a splin- ter of glass from a door-win- dow in her home, against which she fell while she was sur- rounded by several guests. The window had been broken during a friendly scuffle between two young men, Mrs. Koetsche slipped while passing between two rooms, striking her throat on the pro jJecting glass. One splinter penetrated her neck, appearing again behind her ear, She died almost instantly, | LODGE IS ENJOINED _— | The Fraternal Brotherhood was | yesterday enjoined by Judge Ever-| ett Smith from raising its assess- ment rates in January. Offifcers of | the order may show cause on Janu-| ary 8 why the order should not be made permanent. F. B, Uhiman and} two policy holders in| ‘The disposition of their cases will) and Kelly complain that the pro CUBA I8 progressing. Havana's who challenged him to a duel, nd his poduet ra ea Jones, RF, DL Mg ee y Man could drop Mr. Parmer, saying: ly & cents, Perhaps: to the chickens nrough the eg KEMEMBER, the ¢ 9, not yet worked gt, Big Contest Closes DRAWN BY RITA MEYER, Fifty boys and girle o of the paper. The prize is $1 in|this week's Circle cash. Sontest closes next Friday| prize was awarded aft drawing of a dog. Rita Meyer, it ing at 217 23d ay., was the of the prize. The jand girls sent in drawings of a mention: Herman Meyer, Ruth Hauck, $28 2ist Leon Metcalf, Marysville; Edmonds, Wi wood, 301 15th av, | Peter Robertson, Buckley, Wash Dear Uncle Jack: You Star Cirele, as abe is several 7 I am baving my at school.—Your niece, Olga Laat land, Oak Harbor, Wash. RRR REE ae Thanks as Uncle Jack wishes to e press his sincere those many Cireleites: sent Christmas and Year's greetings to wishes all the 4 and girls a very peeeeeeee tt) Tooms at lowest i sinus, Eighth and | Westlake. Eliott 808 THE cov TauNpaY ¢ increasing thelr quipment in order them to do better work better service. and beat establi company in town. Why not fit yourself ! of the good positions corporations? electricity you can started on the opportunities and tive work that any ‘ectrical course make the start, Costs : Telephone @. A mn, Seattle Engineering First Av, W, and.