The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 31, 1913, Page 4

a 'THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1913. NORTHWEST MEMBER OF Vi Telegraph News LHAGUB OF NEWSPAPERS. Bervice of the United Prese A THR scRrrs Fntered at the pe class matior Company every Ing except Su GARY, IND., goes the world a few better by eatecting @ married , ; rtmente. jeleney for head of the police and fire depa words that she be able to ellde down those poles from the room above at the fire stations, Not = ° The CURRENCY BILL, MY BOs — HUMPH - WH i's -ER,-ER-A isu FOOL! ‘ Little, but Oh, My! as just sught joy into the e of Mr.) BABY h j brow jo) t he hom ARY i oe thy F % ing of Beloit, and Mra. Fred Craven 3, This little mite is one of the tiniest mites that ever came) into our curious world—a baby girl, in wind and limb, yet weighing POUNDS. i A tot you could easily carr ie with a napkin ring. Not as big as the average dk “ But nevertheless the abode of a human soul, and liable, to become, with good luck, as fine and} as if started in the race of | | perfectly formed, sound | at birth ONLY ahs. y in your pocket or enc ircle | the doctors say, sturdy and handsome a woman life with five times her initial ave Surely, this baby business ts a mystery, al But don’t make any mistake about one thing rirdupois. I right | little Miss| i ! Cravening is welcime. ; 4 : * Pa can hardly tend to business, he’s so tickled; while ma, weak as she is and pain-weary, smiles the loveliest eoulel that ever a human face was wreathed with as daughter gives, its plaintive signal, and cuddles it to her bosom with a ten-| derness part divine They say Jacques Loeb has found a way to generate birth by chemicals. Let him have progeny of love. Telegrams 10 Cents or 35 Cents? E S, we know it is reported that Atty. Gen. McReynolds | is “stréngly opposed” to government ownership; and) that he thinks the come-down of the wire trust with a} promise to be good means putting off government owner- ship of telegraphs and telephones perhaps a dozen years. That is, that instead of your getting a 10-word message | carried for, say, 10 cents, you will have to continue to pay 35 cents, the difference going to pay dividends on Western} Union water. | Far be it from us to make light of an opinion of the at-| toney general of the United States. But, after all, he is only your servant; it isn’t what he thinks; it is what YOU think, what the great mass of the plain folks back home think, which should determine policies at Washington. So if you want congress to pass the Lewis bill to take over the trunk line telephones and use them science; give us the the offspring of THAT WAS SOME ‘JOB, BY GEORGE, BUT I PUT ‘em OvT, Ac RIGHTS AN ING Ps as rate reducers; if you want 10-cent telegrams in- | I Don's KNow stead of 35-cent telegrams, sit right down now while | State te aan bee 2b tae the subject is up and drop a line of advice to your | — ene OPPICE DURING BUSINESS ‘essma ‘onkers woman has sued her ag ‘a husband for. divorce because he P HOURS AND ROOST THERE For A visit! I'm TIRED OF IT! | tled a towel around her mouth to | prevent her talking. We are curt ous to know—did it work? eee Winter Baseball Gossip Charley Fulletton’s right arm !s jin fine condition. He pitched two full games night before last and Isn’t It Too Bad? ONDON.—While Mr. and Mrs. Sayre, daughter and son-in- L law of President Wilson, were returning from the theatre with Miss Page, daughter of the American ambassador, last night, they were met by a cub reporter outside the American embassy. By the dim light Mr. Sayre perceived the countenance could have pitched a third if it had of the cub reporter, who said he was to be discharged unless he been necessary After the two interviewed Mrs. Sayre. games his right arm was feeling fresh and strong Hal Chase is tn town, taking lee sons from Charlie Brooks, Dug dale's new first baseman Connie Mack has offered Collins and Barry Ina trade for James. Dug offers to trade for Collins, Barry and Baker. Cadman this year will be better than Kling was at bis beat. one “What did the president's daughter think about conditions at Kieff? What about woman suffrage? Wages?” Mr. and Mrs. Sayre were disposed to consider the Incident lightly, but Ambassador Page was deeply incensed, as he recog- nized the ruse of the cub reporter an old trick of American reporters, and he did not rel it bel used on his gue: Besides, Mr. Page does not Intend to have Mrs. Sayre or Mise Page annoyed—Cable Item. him Deah! Deah! Wasn't it a howid thing of that repotah?) Such a deuced common fellow, yeah know. Writing stuff | for the low plebeians in America to read | Our Own Encyclopedia 1 The constitution of t United So that the ambassador might have been made happy|states now contains 24 articles Snstead of incensed, isn’t it too bad that the fellow who|originals and amendments, of ; wasn’t a dook or a lordy-| which the average citizen can re topped his guests on the street wasn’t a dook or a lordy cite from memory all but about 24 lord, or at least a Sir Somebody? nory all Pretty nearly time for Page to blossom out in knee pants| one of the chief operators (a and a sword! telephone company has from 20 to | a gross of chief operators) {n a De troft exchange saya one reason the service is bad is that the men are Dollars Versus Men Airia, We'd like tormeet the oper Fate > ° tor who called ua to the phor NOTHER trust has been busted O'clock the other morning when | President Wilson considers that his administration has|the man on the line said, “Sorry wrong number.” We'd like to flirt | pices soins uns ai ics ‘4 in won a tremendous victory over predatory wealth with her, t y y agreed to s Wester © 28 Paiglianay en has agreed to sell the n The, goons that ni the otter To whom will they sell? 1913, Will the rates on telegrams be lowered? THEY WILL NOT. er of Missour! advis Will telephone rates be reduced? THEY WILL NOT. | {Pair pend Pt lingl? Giger wrist Will the employes of the Western their because eee The stant labor commission of Washington, D. C Jen not te carry mom Union have NO. wages increased by this “great victory stockings. Something seems to be Will the employes of the telephone company have|the matter with the geography Seattle Logical Point sult. Yours very truly, : Rist dani ie Pea ates The men in Washington must be] payor The Star: The queation RENJ. B, BELLOWS their wages raised as a result of this “victory”? NO. \the ones from Missourt. PP re opaaa $s a ; 1258 Eastlake av. . { the proper location of the re ynal reserve banks 1s most strict y ® question of business There are two main which*the authorities will consid distance or time in transportatt and volume of business or com mercial exchange. Will the working conditions of the people employed by either the Western Union, the Postal or the Bell companies | Le improved? DECIDEDLY NOT. Who has won a “great victory,” Mr. President? NOT FORCED UPON HIM Thanke From the Army conditions| Editor The Star—Allow me to r, thank you for your most generous », and practical sympathy and co operation connected with our Christ work, MEMPHIS, TENN., has troubics besides the price of eggs. The cows are eating wild onions, and now they'll have to have onlonnogs, instead of egg-nogs on New Year's day. DR. AUSTIN PETERS, of Harvard, says that a hog, If given half a chance, would be a gentleman. Who wante a gentlemanly porker, anyhow? 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Respectfully yours, T. W. SCOT, Lieutenant Colonel —_—_——_______. THINGS THE PRESS AGENTS PROMISE William Morris the Moore for four with a matinee Alice Lloyd, F will present at days startin w Year's d and's irost cele brated comedienne, and a company of 76 artists. Miss Lloyd will be seen In a new offering full of star tiers. Frank Fogarty, “The Dublin Minstrel,” will be among the 20 ensational features that are offer ed in-the big show POLICE LEARN LESSON CHICAGO. Remembering the terrible tale Henry Spencer, th police simply booted Herman Bier into the murky atmosphere when he confessed to murders. SPRINGIIFLD, ing the Boys’ club hi t recommended Mass — Address. ex-President nking N.Y for the] bill, which y PHON: (Ney Was Cheated Out of a Family If the Peerless Ono badn't made} | such vielous, If only verblou the Crows of Gold back in 1896 the natural assumption would be that several and divers and sundry | events would not bave writ them: | selves into Mstory me of our good democrats wouldn't have gone off in a huff werted the party, and they | w be enjoying the fruit of | the political plum tree, and W. F. B. could be doubling up on his Chautauqua stunt, and no one would care ® bean | Might Have Been Hubby Also, what is more to the point our own Col. Joseph M. Hawthorne might have been at this very mo ment, and possibly several years, sooner, enjoying connubtal bliss. But Bryan made that speech and was nominsted for president, you will recollect. Hawthorne beard him And Hawthorne was He was roused. | moved | Thereafter Hawthorne, albett he | in of somewhat ponderous propor tions from the top of his bald dome down, was the first to hop onto the bandwagon, head the torehlight pa: enthnsed, Ho was greatly rades, and lead the shouting for the Nebraskan | How It All Happened When Hawthorne enthuses, Col. J. M. Hawtherne no half way affair, He effer Hawthorne was living in St.| he {# ebullient. He exuberates, He Paul then, where Gov. Johnson tag-| exhilar on. |ged him with a colonel’s title, and, | Guo oi 7 DESPOTISM MAY Cannot Climb| BE WIPED OUT BY THE RECALL The Griezly Bear is an American DENVER, Dee. 31— Next to the Polar Bear is the larg est of the bear family. The Grizzly Forty thousand members of organ- |1zed labor in the state of Colorado is the only American species that have risen to demand the recall of does not climb trees, man is safe from {t “up a tree. Only a few species of bear are able to climb trees; all live on the| the governor of the state, Elias M. ground Ammons | They charge that he has replaced | .| civil law in the coal strike counties | of Huerfano and Las Animas, where 10,000 miners are battling t to organize, with a and all omnivorous deer, large buffalo, cats often elephants, attack thetr|for the r keepers it bears that have been military despotism properly reared in captivity seldom| They charge that Ammons bas do #0. | allowed General John Chase to sub- In thetr natural state bears hi- bernate all winter; during this time most of their bodily functions are entirely suspended and life ts sustained by the fat accumulated in summer. | The old story of the newly awak- ened bear being dangerous ts quite fabulous; it eats very «paringly and | infrequently tmmediately after its long p. In captivity the bear rarely, if ever, hibernates, and the same ts true of bears in tropical countries Gov. E. M. Ammons stitute his own will for the law of the land and to indiscriminately imprison citizens of the state In the filthy jails of the strike dis-| NEBRASKA cam- Citizens are ing to secure free wagon | trict | across the Missouri river|. They charge that imprisoned cit- near Omaha water works intake, | ‘zens have been starved and tor-/| Omaha: Chas, Turner, who died | tured in an effort to make them recently, left his $1,000,000 estate| Confess to crimes they never coun-| to brothers and sisters and thetr | mitt | children ey charge that women have | eee ted by the soldiers; one le was forced to dig hia own| | OHIO jgrave, while jeerin militiamen \ @| stood about and mocked his sut- | Toledo: Two plans to sterilize| fering; homes have been plander sewage that pours in Swan creek|ed, and mails have been held up and Ten Mile creek are under con-|and the tters of union men sideration.-Capt. Wm. Beck, pio-| opened and read by the officers |neer captain of fire company 7,| The state federation of labor! first professional ball player here,| called a special convention to con | is dead jsider the out s complained of Columbus: w giving state; by the coal miners. | commission authority to supervise Ammons ‘s the first governor distribution of aid to needy blind| elected since the recall was adopt-| has been held constitutional ed in Colorado, and the people| Mayor Karb was recently reported| were quick to decide on the use of | }dead. “The report is greatly exag-| thelr constitutional power when gerated,” sald he, in response to in-| they became convinced that he was | | quiries. being unfair to them, | | see _ _ —— | if PENNSYLVANIA CAN’T GETIT OUT |e —_—__@ Sharon: J. H. Elliot, a lawyer — | was fined $100 a few days ago for| ST. charging $25 fee for securing a pension for veteran; law limits fee| to $10 Wilkesbarre: Geo. Borman, for LOUIS, Dee. 31.—Experts | here worked all night in a fruitless | attempt to open a safe containing $100,000 in cash and_ securities, which was sent to St. Louls from | many years saloonkeeper at Nanti-|the Union Bank at Novinger, Mo. coke, has burned his license and de-| The safe was superheated in a stroyed stock of liquor, quitting the|fire which destroyed the bank business building, and, in the fire, the cas. | Gettysburg: ing and breaching became sweated | | Sentence has been suspended in case of Wm. Byrd|together, The cashier was un- | Hen of Philadelphia, charged} able to open the safe, as also was with stabbing nine men; all of the} an expert who came from St men he stabbed Joined in request| Louis, The safe, which weighs | | for clemency 4,500 pounds, was then shipped to | Ae a safe and lock company in St le ————-@ | Louls. | MICHIGAN _ - ~ | bar —~o Union City: Mrs, Ella Yulz is|YUSTICE 1S SLOW Jone of five heirs to a New estate valued at $2,000,000. Bay City: Herd of | Marston farm found infe tuberculosis has been ordered de stroyed Kalamazoo: — Suit damages by Chas against Representative C. A enfeller has been dropped, following agree. NEW YORK,—Offic: steamship here said that when a| negro was sentenced to hang in| Rermuda, the hangman was declar- ed to be too old, Then a rope was lacking, but when this was furnish ed the execution was postponed ua til spring. York rs oof al for Lewly $25,000 RATES "2201; 28117. 00% women 4 |came t Main 9100. Private ore necting with ail departmese™ 51.80; one Wy enerier, In’ etty, 15) (5) by Bill Bryan {n the course of the cam Bryan, accompanied b br — by Mrs. Bryam, Was Col. Hawthorne to meet them You betcher Did Col. Hawth Bryan's election? Not that you o Do you know, | am fident you're going to te oe next president,” spoke up Haw. thorne, “that I'm going to post. pone all thought of Getting married until you're in the White House, and then there’ at the depot be a honeymoon tri looking for?” iss Just like that! Bryan ten't in the White yet But Hawthorne { ing to his idol. He cherished eng hopes and saw visions of a wet ding hi rty in 1900, and he bummed th endelssoh 1908 nm tune again fe Now he's organizing for 1916 He Loves to Organize Hawthorne lo to organize, He loves to preside over meetings, and to spill the flowery lingo, He's great hand with the bouquet stuf, ® been a bachelor these years, you know, and ha considerabl experience, ae Hawthorne ts a lawyer—wi prize for his thesis at Wiscomne untversity back in 1886—4 made his money tn taken? — He got into the game Drior to his university days, when the bering was going great in the De kotas and thereabouts, and tn 16 moved to Seattle. Organization's His Mi But neither law nor ra holds the greatest claim on the colonel, and, of course, mat doesn't elther, considering how Bryan has thrown him down, Hawthorne's hobby, alm, pap time, work, and play is to organize —not corporations or trusts of banks, or anything like that, but men and women, to get them t» meetings, to talk things over, tp discuss current affairs, When he took hold of the King County Democratic club, in Oem ber, 1911, it was @ pretty dilapidsp ed_ concern. You couldn't make the ordinary person believe there were any democrats in Seattle then. Pretty soon, we began hean Ing more or less of those caf. eteria dinners every Saturday noon, and, before long, the membership roll advanced inte pace figures, and now It tela ir. The Lion | Oyster Hou: 714 FIRST AVE. Seattie’s most modern beautifully appointed palace. A revelation of the utmost ia perfect sanitation. Individual] cuisine features which rank with the world’s finest. 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