The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 11, 1913, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR SIDELIGHTS ON SEATTLE HOME LIFE Main B400. | Hamilton—A Menace * Recent developments must make it clear even to so | fF obtuse a body as the recent grand jury that County Com { missioner Hamilton is a real menace to the welfare of the taxpayers and the general interests of King county Flying into the very face of the law enacted especially to curb his unchecked expenditures, Hamilton has again depleted the funds in two road districts, while more than five months still remain in the year What earthly excuse was there for Hamilton to bring % about a situation where the most urgent need in the way Sof repairs on roads or bridges in these districts cannot now = be legally satisfied? The law, as passed, is a meritorious one. It ainred to curb abus: County Commissioner Hamilton has, in the past, as have commissioners in other counties, recklessly piled up debts exceeding the tax levy This could only be met with a higher tax the next year To put an end to such abuses in office, the law limited the fommissioners to the spending of but 80 per ‘¢ of the total tax levy in any road district. The sole exc that when all of the taxes in any district are c¢ in the hands of the county treasurer, the remain cent may also be spent In neither the Kent nor the Vashon road districts does H such a 100 per cent perfect condition of tax collection exist. | SAnd Commissioner Hamilton knows that well oro we arene Ob Oe ewe 8 erm Se oe Sede Rewedses reas “tered by Commissioner Hamilton and upon which he thrives, a system condemned in its wishy-washy manner by the grand , while it lacked the backbone to point a straight accusing © at Hamilton, the latter has sole control and dictation of the road affairs in both the Vashon and the Kent districts. | * HAMILTON IS DIRECTLY TO BLAME FOR THE) * PATHETIC CONDITION OF THE ROAD FUNDS IN} VASHON AND KENT, AND THE SITUATION BUT) EMPHASIZES THE EXPEDIENCY ON THE PART = OF COMMISSIONER KNUDSEN OF THE NORTH DIS- | STRICT TO BREAK AWAY FROM THE_ILL-CON-| {CEIVED COMBINATION WITH HAMILTON, WHICH} PERMITS SUCH “EXPENSIVE WASTE.” | wearswees Is Civilized Man in the Wilderness Superior to the Savage? ' Imagine yourself in a strange country, deep in a wilder- yp ness without ‘a trail, days away from any human soul, with : food, without matches, without firearms, without any | ‘Sof the tools.or conveniences of modern life. Would you lose nerve, wander aimlessly till exhausted and then lic and die? Or, like our ancestors, the cave men, would rise superior to the situation by weaving clothes of bark| Fee’ find food in roots, leaves, herbs and berries, make a Ffire by the friction of rubbed sticks and thence forge tools a complete the mastery over circumstances? ag In other words, is the human product of centuries of Tt eivilization abler to cope with nature in the raw by reason| kof what civilization has done to his faculties than the un-| ‘tutored savage, or is all his boasted learning mese waste and | + hindrance he gets out of the environment in Week! Tit fits? This is the interesting question which Joseph Knowles, al ) | Boston artist, raises by his announcement of a plan to make | a summer time test in the wilds of New Brunswick. Unless | he takes a press agent with him, we shall have no means of | “sknowing how closely this artist will have stuck to his plan “when he shall have emerged into civilization on or before Soin’ 1 next. We shall have to take his word for it. No| doubt that is good. te 4% Still, if you should incline to question it, there is nothing to prevent your trying the same experiment yourself, | Since Woodrow Wilson became president, wa "etreet organ, there’s been a billion dollar shrinkage in stocks. | : This is good, if true. It would be an awful calamity to all mankind if, when you kicked a stave out of a barrel of ‘water, none of the water ran out. Sudden suspension of the matural law would be disastrous, if not fatal, in any case % The captains of finance have got the opinion that, under change represented somewhat by the election of Woodrow ; son, it is not gaing to be so easy as formerly to make the le pay dividends on stocks that represent only the fact tt they're printed and issued. The shrinkage is shrinkage their opinion. There’s been no shrinkage of tangible values, | fetual, physical values, you might say. A | * The new deal decided upon by the American people has) simply kicked a hole in the barrel of water, and, naturally, | ome water has run out. If our statistics are correct, there's} $till room in the barrel for 25 to 30 billions of shrinkage. | Sleeps for six days. The recipe for that cocktail ought to be} aorth a fortune, sergeant | Tolt woman sues engineer and Great Northern for $1,990 Because the former kissed her. It's always best to inquire as Yo the quotation on osculation before sampling | = o~ *. WEDDING GUESTS were resentful] when, Instead of a ceremony,| certificate was read to them setting forth that an Alton, IIL, couple been married in advance. Whereupon the bridegroom advertised | persons who didn’t like it could get their wedding presents back ‘application | M —_———— | * BACHELORS LEAD married men in crime by three to one, statis | Bs show. Women may paste this in thelr bonnets, after cutting off Pay Less Dress Better Men's Suits *ssursrart $15, $18, $20 AND $25 Through the “pork barrel” and “log rolling” system, ton} @his additional oddity: Three married men to one unmarried attempt | FATRER PLAYS WURSE GIRL WHILE MOTHER. SHOPS, THE STAR—FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1913. In Editor’s | | { Rape Water Department. | Editor The Star: 1 want to say }"Amen” to the letter from B. P |Axe in The Star, relative to the} gouging tactics of our bonsted water department | I own a Ittle house and had tt rented for several months, the SON THERE DONT Seem To BE ENOUGH PINS, 1 Guess {Mm not AS te t to p the bill He HANDY AT THIS DIDY fail eo. Atter lettion It re) BUSINESS AS YOUR for thre onthe and w ut not! fying 1 the wat jepartment MOTHER turned off the wa for nonpay ment of bill. The tenant turned tt on again and after about a month moved away from the city, leaving the bill unpald | I secured another tenant and he jfound that the bill for water was | |three or four months tn arrears, and that the water department had | | | put a “fine” of $2.00 against me} for “unlawfully turning on the) } | water.” That was the first | knew of the water bille ng in arrears but I was com to pay the | other man’s water bill and that “fine” of $2.00 before my tenant | could get water | Later the house was vacant and | to save the charge of 26 ¢ them to rem another petty sum, | reading’: then charged 600 | mum bill for the month,” although |there was only two days between “regular” reading and the “ex * reading, and the meter showed t consumed; then on they charged me $1.00 (1 think it was) for wetting the meter again when the house wns |oceupted again, three months later. Can you beat it? A WIDOW THE JAPANESE QUESTION, FAltor The Sta When a person foes something for the common g004, and that “something” affects h {| [ORF pocketbook, we defend our to- teresta In the name of “patriotism | — and honor” This is the position | taken by a majority toward the) ——= | "Jap Invasion. | dren are beyond my understanding I found a child weeping and en deavored to offer it a stick of striped candy, you know. But It persisted in its grief unt!! a larger girl se'zod my candy and addressed it thuswise “Aw, chase the sob number, Fe telline. Nix on the map sf r Make a face like a tooth powder ad and give your molars alr to grow In Come on, quit polis your lamps and take your kn t your eyelids. Dip this fake tall in your windpipe! Mister, you're a 5 5 but wh don’t you talk My word! at Signal sergeant at Fort Worden drinks a cocktail and HE CAN'T GIVE UP THAT when the sahiect ie SHORT-WEIGHT HABIT. “yes! ‘OLD FELLOW \\veu SEE! \ foU'VE GOTTEN) DON'T Paerry THN [WEIGH AS ‘ MUCH AS | DID asia wane 4 DRESS UP, STEVE JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., July 11, —"Clothes don't make the man,” but J. T. Stephenson of Antlers, Okla., can’t be convinced of that. If he had been better dressed he POTLATCH SPECIALS | would have been a happy bride. |groom now, with a pretty Missourt WHITE SUITS WHITE SOCKS POTLATCH NECKWEAR | POTLATCH HATS POTLATCH SHIRTS Tailored Ready Co. | Pike and Fourth—Two Stores—Yesler and Third | girl for a bride. Stephenson had been courting Miss Maggie Treon of Olean, Miller county, by mati, and had said he was a batiker. “You don't look to me Iike a benker,” Mise Treon declared when Stephenson stepped up to the train to moet her, and that was where romance went on the rocks. She went to a hotel to wale for a train to take her home. Stephen- fon sought several interviews and was repuleed. The city of Seattie has a right to levy a iicense tax for vehicles which hire ont, according to an jopinion which ‘has been handed down by the supreme court in the case of Arthur King, who appenled his conviction for violation of the low, | I say, even the American chit It is natural to have an antago- | er race—~and our nature and But if A | The Deceived Dachshund | She’s Gone Now. would ove: ns and Japanese their racial dislike, and {f Ar All of @ sudden Schneider's dog, oe With pain, began to how! Japanese with the same freed. 2 With | . they do the aliens from Europe, a He'd bolted down what he thought valuable addition would be made | tripe, t —_ But ‘twas a Turkish towel wt Ali present conglomeration of | oe et Tho 3 | What's the matter with placing! 2 Lament scale ad lateltigens: akties tener a beef steer In the Woodland soo? Tt would be as rare and valuable an jaro n entists, artiste, philosophers | acquisition an can be imagined. and merchants, and would make it took a Toledo policeman two “porte citizens arom any point sig of vie T © people of Califor ey? nia hay thelr national honor, To the nurse sald Willie's pa. jthelr pocketbooks, to uphold, and Willie beard it, too, all right, | % 18 our Ignorance, must uphold Then he went and told his ma = | ‘*e™ W.BG. | Mr. Muthall dosen't seem to have | Something happened then to pa, | TREAT HORSES HUMANELY. | a bit of trouble getting admitted to a oe ange few trom Editor The Star: While tt might | the very best society, aither, ht. work a hardah!p on some people to | eee eee give thetr horses a vacation, !t You're an angel, so you are,” hours to catch a one-legged negro jthief. The fugitive was taken fin | lally when he stopped to rest ee 2 If eome of the women who write | wow! req rive: free muste rells eur pia: Base Suggestion. for the papers have all the trouble | ee wa wan ional oI Fg Hangs Banal an Nip fhe mp Ay asks we The game of polo is one that|With men they say they do, what/ drivers who start their horses with eell them on monthly payments than any wore Society indorses would they find interesting to write|« jash of the whip instead of speak: | ty Ce) ome rag! te you tm very way that this the Let us hope that ft does not lead |sbout if they didn’t ing to them, and ft ts no uncommon To base I played with horses. Dance at D i Investigate |big, heary loads, and should be ¢ an {ncreasing popula-| VENI [treated with consideration. I know tion, we're growing at a tremendous | ICE of one corporation that told all driv- _ On Bainbridge teland Jers that they would be disminsed fh taemAy) Albe: ff seon with a whip on their Editor Nothing Serious: Why Ie rt B. Lord | wagons. The horses must have ap-| it that when a person has the least Northern Bank Bldg. prectated the change. E. J.B to say he has the most to talk) about? GAB see Hi Bar says Yapereport Is going to put cans of off and packages of cotton batting along th’ water front so that if anyone falla in th’ creek and gets scalded there'll be relief right at hand . ee I to be found tn an old-fashioned man who can hold a ¢ f tobaceo his mouth while he drinks ee And ther jthe rural distr And once In a while In the coun. even now, one can find « gourd or but It's hanging tn the it Half-Price | | When a man reads on the wom. an's page how a w ight to treat band he's generally loud tn as & clam e other way around ASK YOUR DEALER FOR FLOOR PAIN BEEN CUT IN TWO. 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Va Hoffman’s = Sale Is Now On This sale will move the entire mid-summer stock quickly. This semi-annual event will go on record as one of the biggest bargain‘events HEEL, PROOF Hoffman has given the Seattle public. The already established low PRICES HAVE Gaberdines and Slipons peer ni $25 Ladies’ and Misses’ S\ip- pro)... 912,50 ee $10 Miscellaneous Waste so sccseeve 2000 Wee ecu $1.75 Waiste 50c $20 latest sporty Polo cloth Cloak, hip lertgth in white “syhgearretge y |Hoffman Cloak & Suit Co. a Price 3