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THE SEATTLE STAR HE SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUD OF NEWSPAVERS ving full leased wire mewe service of the United tile, Wash, postoffice as second-class matter, BUY SEATTLE MADE GOODS, .THAT'S A GOOD INVESTMENT To Be Tested Some Yet Jing to the South- | 1 ago, | Heluiz Chandler, | ie long ™_—\S —— awe RIAL-MARRIAGE is a success, accore ern California test. Doubtless, you will remember Carleton Washburne, of Pasadena, daughter of a literary woman of Philadelphia, startled society and provoked nation-wide discussion, by announcing their marriage by contract, under which either one of them could scut away from the other at will and both were to be bound wholly by their feeling toward each other These young people contended that the compulsory feat- ures of married life were sinful and that periect freedom “meant permanent affection. Ministers roasted them, society sgiared at them and friends turned shocked faces away that months and TO) PRAINS Wie \\ Xi a X\ \\ \\ WN E “Our marriage has been Now, Mrs, Washburne says: ‘one continuous honeymoon.” ; Says Mr. Washburne: “Yes, we are very happy Free- "dom is the answer to the divorce problem reedom before oF Smarriage in secking the one perfect ideal and freedom to fe “change when a mistake has been made i The reporter, who interviewed the young couple said MH they appeared to be superlatively happy and that the only “thorn that seemed to threaten Mr. Washburne’s rose of to name the baby, “all-around freedom was the necessity “some time next month, or month after. ——— NS k Both Anti and Pro? ILY fools never change their minds Bryan is no fool.| He is entitled to a change. In his new proposition con cerning Nicaragua he evidently has made a complete change, | —__—— from overcoat down to purple socks, and so forth | The great anti-imperialist of a few years ago would now | have Uncle Sam guarantee Nicaragua’s independence, man- THE STAR—FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1913, ONE STYLE THAT NEVER CHANGES! 10ST ANYTHING =) The Day’s Best Stories ¢ —> “Oh, captain,” came a disconso Inte groan from a seasick passen wer, half reeling in a deck chair, “how far are we off Innd?” No answer came to this remark, which had been reiterated several that day, ain, RECKONED t ° do answer me- “Mile and a half,” came the gruff reply “Thank heaven! tion, captain?” A twinkle came for a moment in the eye of the br old sea dog “Straight down!” he grunted, ee The ceremony being ended, a newly-married couple were recety- ing some advice as to how they were to conduct themsely “You must never both at once; It is the husb to protect his wife whe casion arises and a wife must lov }and honor and obey her husband and follow him wherever he goes Hut, air pleaded the young bride. “I haven't finished yet,” remark ed the clergyman. “She must—" “Hut, please, sir’—in desperation —“ean't you alter that last part? My husband {# a postman.” eee In what direo- “MUST FOLLOW t A negro woman in Savannah was preparing to get married. For four weeks before the ceremony she saved her wages and immed! ately after the wedding she hunted up her mistress snd asked her to take charge of the fund “T'll take {t, of course,” sald the puzzled woman, “but, Mandy, won't) you need money to spend on your | JOSH WISE SAYS: age her custom houses and say how much money she could borrow. a ‘ When we went after the Philippines we did it with | force of arms. The difference between this sort of imperial~ ism and that which runs a country’s custom houses is largely in style of address, only The one smells of powder and the other of taxes, that’s all. Maybe this difference is enough to satisfy Mr. Bryan in being anti yesterday and pro today Still, it looks like a large change in the peerless leader at this distance. : eR | ‘Anyhow, turn over to us a fellow’s income and his right to borrow, and we'll tell you right quickly who holds the imperial end of the arrangement. | The Trust’s Idea of Uplift SLT.URRAH for the Steel Trust! A Vet's Tale “Soy Bean, our village cutup and young-man about- town, has Invent ed a new dance, | called ‘The An | gleworm An guish.’ When he tried to Introduce | at th’ cancin’ he got th’ Improbable Stories in: An agent for a life It is true that 50,000 of its 200,000 employes af¢/ ompany, de nz to Araba took me prisoner they stole working 12 hours a day for wages which experts declare Smith some tn called & all my clothe | will not support a family. It is ¢ that, because of this, pt ~ di Mr. Smith's 8 Weren't you cold with the trust has paid dividends of $25,400,000 on common stock | | yr veer i, w w . Oh, nol Yod one, her! originally “water”—the past year ‘ : }o! 1a, documents or | ¢® y covered me with thelr| But, hurrah for the Steel Trust! It is decidedly for|papers of any kind whatsoever, rt asked, “Pardon me, Mr. Smith, but ae e uplift! "1 “4 The ‘Trust’s finance committee has investigated condi- tions and reports that, while the 12-hour day cannot be re- duced, prizes of $5 and $10 will be given for the best gardens maintained by workmen in their back yards. Let joy be unconfined! We begin to taste the fruits of investigation under the Sherman law. : : Wages? Bah! What the workman needs is a nice back garden, full of long blue grass or alfalfa. — They'll get him to that, too, if he doesn’t object too hard. WOODROW’S BUSTED another precedent do you carry any life insurance?” “No, I do not,” replied the gen- tleman addressed, “and what is more, I do not intend to carry any, | I do not believe tn life tna oo,” | “Thank you, str; good da; said! the agent, and Mr, Smith nevor saw him again. . presidents. battleship Pres . jent Taft? . A man may view with equa- nimity his factory or his home go up In smoke and down In ashes, but if the papers next day don’t put the estimates of laccused of obtaining $6,400,000 jfalae + tenaes, He and Mrs. Wilson seen holding hands, Society is alarmed. It ts even suspect-| | ea thas the Wilsons like each other. But we're glad, glad. When she's) loss high enough he will be be | ee holding your hands, she can't be holding your wallet. ‘Rah for the) cide himeel? with rage. The terrible | silence which ‘ae Pe SECOND AVENUE AND PIKE STREE ' ema’ 3 from the Grand Can- con joo Elite’ Wilson styles | Peter Pan Did Fairly Well That Day! yon since T. R. disappeared 1 Butiding. AND, TALKING about reducing taxes—the bee pe might edopt a} W r Johnson retur today| therein Is almost unbearable. 7 = qule to save $25,000 or so by cutting out the employment of expert engi-|from Lakeside, where he and hi What can have happened? * = teers to make a report on the report of other expert engineers. wife we Friday. Mr. Je eee b i went to Putdn-Bay Saturday to wit-| An Indiana man died from the * NO, WE don't get any more band music in the parks next summer |ness the motorboat racing, which | fects of wearing green socks. Yhan wo had this year. Maybe not as much. was held there each day week.| wonder of it Is that he wasn't ‘ Peter Pan won Saturday's race by | lynched * & FRIEND or two to keep one young,” says Unele John Rocke-| £oing milea fn one hour.-Ash- eoee A Bostonian has written 7,109 Jelier. But we can't all have Dr. Biggars to snuggle up to, John. land (O.) Times-Gazette idoigiins words on a postal card. A passenger train wreck in England? $0 they're begin- ning to adopt that smashing service which they complained : BY THE WAY, has any” one yet discovered the “long negro and Bhort Jap?” CABINET MEMBERS come and go in Seattle, but Judge Humphries chalk. . . Paris women are beginning Js always with us. of when McLoughlin played |«moke pipes, and ff we wait a little ~t tennis. |while they'll probably be chawing ~ IT 18 quite natural to expect Councilman Peirce to buck municipal 0: Bie a plug. But there's one thing, pwnership. Some New York man suggests they'll never be able to do. They} lthat when the names of all the|never can carry dt in the hip AND NOW some souvenir hunter ts swaggering around with Jack | states have been used, the govern-| pocket London's appendix! | me ———_—— THINGS DO HAPPEN} To prevent spooning, park benches in Huntington, W. Va., will be eovered with luminous paint. . oeee Statistics show that the United States is the greatest meat-eating Hation in the world. a on Mexico Dr. Strong Writ Pa ee a | Under the law of the jungle, a thieving monkey's arm was broken| Editor The Star: The Star’s| “ial chair in Mextoo by a baboon in the Centrai park zoo. “greeting” to Felix Diaz, on bis| There ts but one way to deal with | bs AE Billed arrival, Saturday, in Seattle, was }® threatening situation Itke that) ’ , . voming up on our southern bor- the only redeeming feature to off set the indirect insult and dis-| grace our great and clean American | °3 Srey had to endure, more of 100s, DY|Cotiincs Soy tine Oo ice having this undesirable Mexican (force oe m there. and partner of Huerta, the murder-| ou ly, I A gaat cb heuer, enieaded, 4[ (SOL Ree a am willing to believe, on to certain of our Seattle bankers by |financial interests in San Fran of the “blood money” brand, Faltor Star: Furthermore, these sordid San| fully Monday evening an article Francisco interests Wild deer invade berry patches around Verona, N. J., In search of water. . Government in Washington is cutting down on mint expens refers to the coinage of money, not the famous patch on thi House grounds. Buy Your Boy's School Suit Now AND SAVE ONE - FOURTH* Ages 2% to 18 years. Styles—Russian, Sailor, Nirfolk and Double-Breasted. ers, namely, by substituting an This! shite | ncisco Himeelf Jout of their way to recognize and|of this article "ionize" financially the partner of} The writer |the blood-stained Huerta, espectal- ly at the very moment when our| states he has 600 of the feather aayn, most worthy ently and patriotically refusing to| 400 on the other, and there is recognize politically the aforesaid | sleep after 3:30 a, m, I would | assassin of Madero and Suarez, reg-| to ask the ularly elected president and vice| many 40-foot lots president of Mexico. they have many fowls. truly, lin our midst, 1s on his way to Ja pan to conspire with the powerful war party there to obtain, by might lor by right, a coaling port on or |near our borders, which station, so }permanentty. sought by Japan, plain ly proves, 1 @m sorry to say, that the Japanese, in spite of their lfriendly protests, have for a long time had hostile intentions toward us. * ¥% off on all Boys’ Wash Suits and Straw Hats. Complete lines of Furnishings for Boys. HEEL ‘PROOF FLOOR PAINT MADE BY SEATTLE PAINT CO, THIRD AVE.S0. 6 JACKSON ST. SEATTLE. it is another reason why, |most pow@rful « back up the bra ed Mexican const ranza, In such an ¢ |not only the murderer, Huerta, but ‘his co-partner in murder, Diaz, is! J. Redelsheimer « & Co Teri First Av. ba « & Columbin my lad, when the ment name battleships after the n't you imagine the When anybody sourty says that silhouette skirts are im modest, the girt with bow legs gives three cheers and a tiger. eee A Frenchman who promoted a com |pany to manufacture aeroplane ts Another of those things they do better in Europe. Not Boston words though, by a long jeliminated also from the presiden- ergetic grape-shot policy in Mexico 1006 E. Thomas Bt. rtain| evidently R. R. L. Raises Chickens Having noted care- should have) titied “Chicken Nuisance,” T wi had the good taste not to thus go! like to briefly express my canine “chicken ranches on a 40-foot lot,” and then president is consist-| beauties on one aide of him and Jers of The Star how served in the city that contain that $4.00, off... | $8.50, % off Add to this that Diaz owes his 1 $3.00 $ 1» 36.40 very life eB unfortunate Ma.| I would also Jike to ask the writ- eae do ow p RS" dero, in whose assassination he|¢r why he did not $5.00, % off... | $9.00, % off... participated, morally, if not direct-|sance of all malsasoak MUNe’ dae arodenrs aes Ao eis $6.75 wy. Tals political villain ot the worst Cat: ia 7 rmitted ie gaze at the nost brutal Mexican type,| moon, spend $6.00, 1 off... | $10.00, 1% off.. Jwho unnocessarily tarried in sour, {n unearthly grouse, mh oF ’ oliag, FO" Malai taeda lelty to paratle his brazen Insolence | course, a dog 18 a necessity, Very RR, L. to ce” en- red no ike ob- Democrats In a Kentucky county nomtnated a dead man. WOMEN’S MEN’S $11.95 PUMPS OXFORDS via the BUTTON AND OXFORDS PRICES at once we have cut the price in half and less, Don't miss this opportunity. BOSTON SAMPLE SHOE SHOP honeymoon?" “Mine May,” sald the bride, “does you think I'se goin’ to trust myself wid a strange nigesh an’ all dat money on me?"-—Jones’ Magazine. A Thrilling Glimpse of the Real Old Wild West Low Round Trip Fare Seattle to Pendleton and Return It wouldn't " us at all {f he were elected. ris AND LACE 0-W. RK. &N TICKETS ON SALE SEPTEMBER 10, 11, AND 12, 1918 FINAL RETURN LIMIT SEPTEMBER 16, 1913 COWBOYS AND COWGIRLS fal ea WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST Broncho Busting, Steer Roping, Bulldogging, Relay Races for Cowgirls, Indians; Stage Coach Races, Cow Pony Races, Parades and War Dances; Bucking Buffaloes, Steers and Cows; i and Trick Roping and many wonderful stunts that only the peony | the range can perform. i FOUR FINE TRAINS DAILY For further information as to schedules and rates, call on or aera” J. W. O'NEILL, District Passenger ee 716 Gecond Ave, A ToL Male Om DON’T MISS crose $1.00 Rices $1.45 PAIR These are short Ines from our regular stock, and to close out HOLLYV Take Elevator. Open Saturday Evening Until 10 Co. Inc. WORTH SAV MR. MAN: You will agree that $10.00 or $15.00 is worth saving on a SUIT or OVERCOAT; then why not call and let us show you merchandise that elsewhere will $35.00, OUR PRICE e will cost you $30.00 or OVERCOAT 5 GUARANTEED A Few Special Character Fabrics it $18 a $20 How can we sell SUITS and OVERCOATS at thi | wook ens in such large quantities we receive a very low pn tog ei psy ape rvecrs pp dbow in all the Principal Cities in the United States, and the volume of business is what we depend upon. SUIT SATISFACTION Smali Profits and Quick Sales Our Motto Our stock is not limited—we h one of these will strike your fini. noe eee SOS Renn Fe ane ey ae a We invite you to call and look them over—no trouble to show you through. Twvs ENGLISH WOOLEN MILLS 3,4. ® STORES 704 ist AV.