The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 3, 1913, Page 4

MEMBER OF (THE SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUM OP NEWSPAPERS Telegraph News Bervice of the United Press Association, Ratered at the postoffics, Senttia, Wash. as second @lase matter hed by The Star Publishing Company every evening except Sunday Now comes Jack Frost, to play his pranks And exercise his jolly whima— He makes the ladies hide their shanks And makes the trees expose their limbs. —Judge. A City’s Fight for Water N A determined effort to avert a threatened water famine, the city of San Francisco will come before congress this to secure an everlasting month with a plea for permission municipal supply drawn from the Hetch Hetchy valley, part of a national park in the high Sierras The city’s Hetch Hetchy bill, the permit, passed the house at the special session, but was Stalled in the senate, where Special Privilege could have its i whispered say. | While the so-called “nature lovers” have waged an open battle against the city, the real opposition is that of the Power Trust While the city is bringing from the mountains the pure granting necessary , | water supply, there will be developed enough hydro electric power to operate San Francisco's municipal railway system, | to light the city and all the other cities about the bay, | enough still remaining to sell at cost to the farmers for their | irrigation pumps and other uses. ! The Power Trust is not alarmed at the municipal | water system; nor is it worrying seriously about the “beauties of nature.” The vast amount of electricity to be developed by the city will deprive the trust of millions of dollars in future revenue, and this is the reason for its determined opposition to the Hetch Hetchy bill, The “nature lovers,” especially in the East, mistake ‘Hetch Hetchy for the Yosemite valley. Between the "25 miles of mountains, some 10,000 feet high, intervene, and} the two are separate watersheds. At present less than 200 —. per year enter Hetch Hetchy valley. When San francisco is allowed to develop the water supply, she will be fequired to construct r »ads, in accordance with her agree Ment with the government, which will open up the valley to ‘all who desire to enjoy its beauties. San Francisco is not attempting to destroy a natural . She is seeking badly-needed water for her people and people of nearby cities. If you believe that she is en- fitled to this, and that the Power Trust should be kept out of the halls of congress, write to your congressman or “genator in behalf of San Francisco’s Hetch Hetchy bill. nade two, LOTS OF holiday sunshine for Cleveland, O. Evelyn Thaw, Gaby | lys, Or. Cook, Elbert Hubbard and Billy Sulzer are billed to appear) Vote for the Vashon Ferry Y ALL MEANS, let us be sure to give a favorable vote for the establishment of the Vashon ferry by the district. " The issue comes up for an advisory vote in the Satur- election. Vashon Island, containing approximately 25,000 acres the best agricultural and horticultural land in the state, suffered because of its isolation from the rest of King inty, and it is a measure productive of common good to ish it with adequate transportation facilities. This ferry will serve a community of about 30,000, in- Vashon and other territory, and will be a logical ion with the Lake Burien & Highland Park line, ich the city will operate next year. _ It will facilitate the transportation of berries and vege- , and eggs, and other products for which the Vashon (| @buntry is famous, and will not be without its share in a feducing the cost of living right here in Seattle. Be sure to vote for Proposition One on the port ballot. Blow Below the Belt 2 A TERRIBLE blow has been struck at the foundation 2 ‘ of the boarding house! We've eaten lemon meringue pie made out of coal tar, ice cream made of aged eggs and sed paint, or candy colored with furniture polish. Or maybe we've quietly passed them up on the plea that we were too full for utterance. But there’s one thing we always felt | wwe could fall back on with safety—prunes. And now they've | started to adulterate prunes. A man in Philadelphia has | been indicted for selling prunes that were not true to mature. : 4 When poor, helpless, dried-up plums—the very bulwark | 4 of the boarding house table—are tampered with, it is time} to call a halt. Adulterated noodles, chickens, root beer or fruit syrups are bad enough, but prunes—that is indeed the last piece of hay. | 3 ONLY ABOUT 30 cents of the conaumer’s dollar ri Clearly, the boys hes the farm | e leaving the farm to find the other 70 cents. | af | How to Detect the Alum Baking Powder ; “Which are the alum baking powders; | how can | avoid them unless they are named?” 2 asks a housekeeper. Here is one way: take the can of a low- priced powder in your hand and read the ingredient clause upon the back label. The law requires that if the powder contains alum that fact must be there stated. If you find one of the ingredients named alum, or sul- phate of aluminum, you have found an alum baking powder, There is another and a better way. You don’t have to know the names ef the alum powders. Use Royal Baking Powder only; that assures you a cream of tartar powder, { and the purest and most healthful baking powder beyond question. | % ee eee | Work, says a Chicago citizen, le a cure for crime, Forgetting that the men engaged In crime are gen erally our very bustest Itt resl- dents, . “Say, paw, what's a love tap?” “That, my son, is when your mother hits me for $10. eee The man at the top boosts, n n ° An Obliging Nurse MALE NURSE—WH take any disease Phone 2404. —Advertisement tn Windsor (Out) Record ONLY AN AMATEUR Shes it me you want, or fs It my money? He (amateur champion, hundred yards)—-You know very well that I'm an amateur athlete. She—What's that got to do with it? He—A great deal. It debars me from taking part in any event for money. ee Sign in @ First av. store win- dow— “Wanted—A live wire sales man.” Some ticklish job, that, eee Truly, we're glad Jessie Wilson ‘© been trembling levery day for fear the newspapers would call her Princess Jeuste. * oe Our Own Encyclopedia It is estimated that if the matches used in Seattle in one day were placed end to end they would reach from Pioneer Square to the Snohomish courthouse, but so far as we know nobody ever has tried to see if it's really true ore A Fast Temperature The highest temperature yesterday was 46 and the lowest 42 mperature & year ago 8 hour from the south ra! In Editor’s Mail System of Paying Wages. Editor The Star: In reading The Star | have observed the bold and fearless stand you have taken in championing the cause of the labor ing man and all else that is for the g004 of the public at large. I there- fore am taking the liberty to call the attention of your readers to one great injustice being done the labor: ing masses employed by the con- tractors It is the method of paying the wages. There are a few contractors who give out the pay envelopes (once a week, which is good and falr. There are others who pay the wages twice a month, and stil) more who pay only once a month, It is of the latter that I am writing. Getting paid only once a month is a great handicap to the laborer He is obliged to use his credit, which is greatly to his disadvan tage in buying and addy materially | to the high cost of living Hy a weekly payment of wages the laboring man can pay cash at all times, and therefore can buy when and where he purchases the cheapest goods. Merchants will sell cheaper to him if he pays cash, There should be a uniform ays tom of weekly payment of wages to all wage earners. A WORKING MAN. George W. Dilling—Feb. 6, 1911, Editor The Star; Will you please publish in your columns the name of the mayor who succeeded Hi Gill Also the date of the election. Thank- ing you in advance. A STAR READER. |THE OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE A rich old gentioman and his pretty young bride ere soon parte ee A lot of men who wouldn't think enlisting aro in favor of a war with Mexico, . ' There are men who discuss the outrage of 60-cent egxs with a man |icurist while they're having their nails dolled up. ‘ee The fashion authorities, as they call themaclves, say that to be tp }good form a man must wear a lfoather tn his hat | Be a Spug, madam. Give your hus band a feather for a Christmas eift, ae | What hee become of the old! fashioned man who gave each of his employes a turkey or a dollar? see What has become of the old. fashioned turkey you could buy for a dollar? SHOES $10,000.00 STOCK SLAUGHTERED $3.50 to $5.00 Men's Vici, Gunmetal and Calf Shoes 2 9§ . $3.00 to $4.50 Mien’s Vici, Gunmetal and Calf Shoes at tox at Russian $1.98 $2.00 pair Boys’ Shoes, in patent leather, vici and satin calf. Sizes 24% to 7. Regular price from $2.50 to $3.00. Sale $3.50 to $4.00 Ladies’ Black and Brown Suede, patent calf and Russian calf Shoes All sizes. Spe- cially priced $3.00 Turned $3.50 and Welt Ladies’ le, to Vici Shoes, 300 pairs, all sizes. This > id an $2.49 and Brown Velvet, Black and Brown Vici and Patent Leather, cloth top, all good sizes, $2.49 at yun metal and Vici Button, also Vici Lace, all sizes $1.49 At this $3.00 Growing Jockey Girls’ leather and gunmetal price eae $1.25 to $1.50 Children’s Black and ‘Tan Shoes. There are just 200 pairs of these. hoe RE, 38 $1.00 to $1.25 Child's Vici, light and heavy sole All sizes from 5% to & Sale price .. 79c sale ‘ to $3.50 and Ladies’ patent Sale at | [at any drug store CLOSE TO LIMIT City Comptrolier Carroll, in a ft nancial statement, shows how close | Bunday, December 7, will be the fourth annual national tuberculosis day, and will be observed generally throughout the country. Seattio| Sttle ts to the limit of her bond joffictals of the Ant!-Tuberculosis|04 indebtedness, According to his |league of King county are urging a Kreater local support of the national |movement against the white plague figures, there is little more than a |million dollars left for water, light, and sewers. The general fund is | Mints * will have something tojin bette: condition, as in that jeay of the worth of the movement. | $2,777 avatiable. The The purchase of Red Cross seals |total tax levy for 1914 will be 43.87 [will be one way of alding In the great work for humanity milla, compared with 34.67 mills for the present year, [BREATHE FREELY! OPEN NOSTRILS _ AND STUFFED HEAD—END CATARRH Instant Relief When Nose and:rant balm dissolves by the heat of | Head Are Clogged From a Cold. the nostril; penet and heals Stop y Caterrhal Discharges.|the tnflamed, swollen membrane Dull Headache Vanishes. which lines the nose, head and throat; clears the air passages; Try “Ely’s Cream Balm.” Get a small bottle anyway, just to try it-—Apply a little tn the nos trils and Instantly your clogged nose and stopped-up alr passages of the head will open; you will breat freely; dullness and headache dis appear. By morning! the catarrh, cold-in-head or eatarrhal sore throat will be gone End such misery now! | stops nasty discharges and a feeling of cleansing, soothing relief comes | Immediately. Don't He awake tonight strug- sling for breath, with head stuffed: nostrils closed, hawking and blow- ing. Catarrh or a cold, with its running nose, foul mucous dropping into the throat, and raw dryness is distressing but truly needless Put your faith—-just once—in ‘« Cream im” and your cold or catarrh will surely disappear, Get the small bottle of “Ely’s Cream Balm” This sweet, fra BANKRUPT SALE F THE STARR-MacPHERSON COMPANY STOCK THURSDAY, DEC. 4th, 9 A. M. Entire stock to be closed out to satisfy creditors. Staple, seasonable merchandise at fraction of cost. Every article in the store at bankrupt prices. LADIES’ AND MISSES’ READY-TO-WEAR HALF PRICE AND LESS A large line of Lad’ Cloaks and Suits, best quality matertal, latest designs and styles. The | prices we are making on these garments are absolutely aston- ishing. THEY MUST GO, | Men’s and Boys’ Furnishings ALMOST GIVEN AWAY $1.25 Men's Pleated Bosom Golf and Soft Cuff Shirts. Sizes from 14 to 17M, at of Ladies’ Serge and Mixture Skirts, in navy, brown, blue and black; One assortment regular values up to 2 98 $6.50, at . ‘ One lot sorted Skirta, includ ing Volles, Panamas and Serges, in black, blue, brown, gray and plaids; values up to $2.60. 98c Baie price ........ sees $1.00 Ladies’ Percale House Dresses, high neck and long sleeves, low neck short sleeves 75e Men's Colored Dress Shirts, all sizes, 49c 65e and 75¢ Boys’ Colored and = Golf Shirts, all sizes, Sale price Work Dress $1.75 Lot Ladies’ Dresses, of fine quality gingham; high and low pio =e and short 98c $1.79 nd $3.00 Ladies’ ngham House Dresses. $2.00 to $3.00 Children’s Eider down Bathrobes, in sizes from 8 to 8 years. Salo orice we. $1.48 and Children’s Men's Natural Gray and Eeru Shirts and Drawers, heavy ribbed, __ fleeced, all sizes, . 39e Ladie: $1.00 and $1.25 Men's Out- ing Night Gowns, fancy Underwear stripes, extra full One lot Infants’ and Small Chil- | cut, at lecde ais. ae 8 Heavy, Fleece-Lined Un wear; separate gar- 5e ments, at .. + uv One lot Australian Wool Under wear, for children; regular 4c and 50c, This sale ; c '59c eS cee eer Tbe Ladies’ Fleece ¢ Ladies’ Cotton Fleece-Lined sts and $3.00-$3.50 Boys’ Suits, several different styles and patterns. $1 98 Sale price Boys’ Balbriggan Un- derwear, separate garments, Union Suits, at’. 50e Vv 5c 25¢ all siz Thi sale ny rae bt eit ae Batural color, Tbe Children's Out white and colors $8e Ladies’ White wns; all alzes Outing 5c ® 980 $1.48 Ladies’ White Outin Gowns, all sizes .. ee By Condo] lw Main 9100, Private exchan) Beoting with ail deyartmer PHONES RATES 2 ticmes., By carrier, in Herbert Quick S. '| ‘What's the Constitution When It} | Stands in the Way of Govern- | - mental Efficiency?” | (Copyrighted, 1913, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) The house of representatives #ite twiddiing it# var thomba | while the senate discusses the currency Dill. This being the ness before it, the house put the bill behind it and quit The senate had as much time to study the currency question as the house, but O'Gorman Hitcheock and a few of the very deliberate minds still need light, they ray What were these gen tlemen doing while the house was becoming inforn ed in the premises? What have they all been doin all these years since the Aldrich commission put the whole matter before the country? The senate in theoretically ignorant of all that took place in the house, When the senate passes its bill the house will be constructively ignorant of what | the senate has done and said. In gr surprise it | will say, “Amendments! Bless our hearts, have the senators amended our bill And the matter will all “go to conference.” | It seems to me that the house, instead of twid- dling its thumbs, might well be employed in taking part in the deliberations of the senate. In fact, it seems to me that it would be better if all our impor | bills were considered in joint session of the two houses, so that wh the dreary debate ts over all that would be necessary would be a fer ballots in each house to get the separate view of each body. If | house and senate had met together all this time, so that each woul | have listened to the views of the members of the other wen might have been ready to vote almost as soon as the house had pi the bill. The spectacle of one solemn body debating a measure which another solemn body under the same roof is Interested, with any communication between them until one is through, and the sole taking up afresh of the same thing by the other, ts to my mind, very expensive and timehaliowed absurdity. In joint session there are about 500 of these gentlemen. think they should orate, interrogate, debate, contemplate and jucubt together. I think their committees should have joint sessions, too. the preliminary work being thus disposed of, all the buncom | wisdom made a part of the Record, and ail the steering arran, |{n committee, I am in favor of the two holding separate sessions a voy can be had if we must have two houses. Phen | am tn favor of the vote being taken by a push-button systel Joperated by electricity. The busirfess of the nation suffers beca lof the time spent in calling the roll. Any good electrician could p in a system by which a vote could be taken in two minutes, even the house, which is three times as large as any deliberativ should be : The house and senate have too long been checks on each othem: The time h when they should help each other and pull togeth ‘The present system is about as sensible as the arrangement woul be if a newspaper had two sets of reporters, a first and second chamber, the business of one being to take the MSS. of the other and carefully rewrite them on typewriters, being careful, for the most part, to put the paper in so that the same type would hit in the same spot as formert -—while the first writers sat and twiddled their thumbs. Such an organization would be just about as efficient as congresa, The constitution? What's the constitution when {t stands in the way of governmental efficiency k aS JUST LIKE DIAMONDS | SWATS HIGH EGG PRICES HUNTINGTON, Va. — Charles | OCEANSIDE, L. L—Ralph Mow Thumel must spend a year in prison |ton'’s White Orpington hen has wak for having stolen two eggs while he |loped the high cost of living by lay- | working in & meat market. It|ing an egg 7% by 5% inches, and was his second offense. having two shells. mt seee Phy ke Oe Piece Goods & Bedding CUT TO THE QUICK Sheets; regular 69e, at --40G Notions, Laces Embroideries Fancy Goods, Etc. REGARDLESS OF COST 72x90 in. Sheets, good quality; regular 60c, $1x99 In. Sheets, regular value $1.00, at ... 45x36 {n. Pequot Pillow Cases, regular 22c, at 42x36 in. Pillow Case, regular price 15c, sale 2.00 Comforters, full sized, silk- oline covered and cot- $1 69 15¢ to 25c ton filled. Sale price ..@ Ue $1.50 Comforters, double-bea Laces for 9c size; good quality, $1 19 1 lot of Cluny, Torchon at. am 30 and Valenciennes Lace, $1.39 Comforters, full size, sale price bed Edgings, Bands and In- 98c 1 lot AllkWoo! Bla tm ail sertion. Regular values colors and fancy plaids; ‘regular to 25c, Sale price, $3.50 to $12.50, on sale at ...... 1 eS, Sea eaeny He C oa saendaeee .. HALF PRICE é ‘ $3.26 Cotton Blanket, extra 20c Laces, heavy, Sale ward ‘ 5c ————$—$—$—— | 1 lot of Corset Cover Em- broidery. - Values 19 C up to 50c for ... 54-In. All-Wool Coatings, in fancy plaids and stripes; regular $2.00 value. Sale $1 ' 1 3 at rges, in all doi- 44-in. All-Wool Sei ors and black and white; regular value $1.25. Sale G8c 1 lot of Embroidery, ete. URS Reiter vale Values up 36.1. Serges, in black, biue, red, | | to 35c ........- tan and green; regular 60. Bale price... SOC , ; $1.25 Boulevard Velvet, in black, | 1 lot Embroidery, — ete. light blue, red and navy, Values up a ee aS 69s to 25¢ ae aweore C Wash Goods 20-in, Aprong Gingham, in shepherd checks, plaids and stripes; regular 10¢. Sale price Linen Lace Linen 9c ———<$—$ $2-in. Dress Ginghama, tn plaids, stripes and plain color 8 ate spas f colors; regular 12i¢. Sale price ..OC hii aien. te idery 10¢ Double-Fold Percale, in d itot “Allover: Embroideeys light and dark colors, 5c Values up 49c 36-in. Percale, in all staple col- | to $1.25 ........ eee ee ors—red, blue, gray and Nght, with stripe; regular 12%c Be | GREATEST WRIOO RE oasis esahestucecs [ siemens" Bg | || OPPORTUNITY Single: visy ul down, in all colors at .