The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 12, 1914, Page 1

RRR nnn nnn on t ° 2 1 Ramee FOLKS, DID YOU KNOW YOU'VE TAIL-WAGGING MUSCLES? UARDING SEATILES MILK SUPPLY! MADAM !! BUT IT 1S # IMPOSSIBL! Ancestors Used to Wiggle ! Their Ears, Too By Fred L. Boalt Professor E. Victor Smith introduced me last night at Hall, University of Washington, to an ancestor of of whom I had never heard. The professor was lectur- on “The Origin and Antiquity of Man.” _ My ancestor was a large, muscular, hairy man, who lashed {Mis tail when angry and flapped his ears when pleased Always he kept his third eye peeled—he kept it on top pot his head—for the flying beasts—not birds; beasts—which | Wtre as large as houses and which were very ferocious __ I was very glad to make my ancestor’s acquaintance and pte thank him for the legacy which he has handed down to me. Ididn't know anything about the legacy until last night, and Tdon't know what to do with it now I’ve got it pit consists of muscles for flapping ears, other muscles i for wagging a tail, and a third eye. My ear-flapping muscles We gone unused so long they won’t work. The tail-wagging Muscles may be in working order, I don’t know whether they ator not, but my ancestors neglected to send the tail along As for my third eye, in the He got off some merry quips at abtence of flying beasts, the the expense of my ancestor which embers of my family have sent us highbrows off into roars of had no use for it for 90 Jong | laughter. the aperture or socket In Doesn’t Incline to our skulle has grown over . 4nd our poor third eye dwells |The Adam and Eve Version He said the human race was much older than most of us mag. ined. He would not quarrel, he said, with the good people who be- Heved in the theory of Creation I could tell from the way he said w any moral this—such as mental ob- y dra yOu please from boneheads and Seurity, | Professor Smith is not only a D' learned man, but he has a twit. ' (Continued on Page Four.) anyway. 1 GOING READ THIS ' \P | LOSE MY EVE SIGHT 3 A renewed offer on modified terms for the sale to the city of [the Seattle, Renton & Southern railway was council In committee of the whole | the road's recetvers. |ular meeting of the counell, onday. | The essential points in which the offer differs from the last one is that that former maximum the elty was to pay—$1,400,000—1s re. duced to $1,300,000, whfle the clause is eliminated which pro- vided that in the event of 20% of the gross earnings not paying the |full amount of the Interest on $1,400,000-—now $1,300,000—the def. felt was to be added to the prin | cipal, and would bear 5% toterest lowing ecriticlam by a major- next |ity of the councilmen, Counctiman | Dale's résolution asking the corpo-| ration counsel to petition the court |that the S., R. & S. be placed on sale, that somebody capable of re. habilitating {t, purchase {t, was re Iterred to the corporation counsel, for an opinion as to the advisability lof such action | It was the general opinion that |the court might regard such action |as disrespectful on the city’s part; also that he would pay no atten tion to it. But {t finally was de. cided there was no harm trying, SAY HELEN ITS GETTMG LATE - ARE "You NEARLY VOLUME 16. O, 224. SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, NOV. 12, 1914. Seattle Star(=| THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS ON TRAINS AND NEWS BTANDS. Se ONE CENT Girl Must Blacken Name ENGLISH of Dead Husband or Send Her Father to Death Chair By Nixola Greeley-Smith. NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—"My husband is dead and bring him back to me—but | can protect his memory. “But if | do that | have to send my father to the electric chair! Gene nothing can filed with the city | | Thursday, by Scott Calhoun, one ot} It will be introduced at the reg-| him that we were married. “And now they say that only my testimony can save father from a shameful death. Ob, | hope I am not called to testify at the trial For even to defend my dead hus- band I can’t send my father to the chair.” So over and ove! ain little Anna Maria Cleary Newman states her terrible problem. Girlbride of a week, she was made « widow last July by a bullet] fired by her father, William C Cleary, town clerk and political boss of Haverstraw, N. Y. Young Newman had gone to an nounce his marriage to his newly made father-in-law Cleary shot him after asking him to take a chatr. Saye She W. trayed The defense he offered at the time of bis arrest was that New- man had betrayed the girl he aft erwards married. The case, which is soon to be tried, wilt test the value of the) unwritten law as a defense in New York state. Friends of Cleary assert that! young Newman was an idler and that he would have made the gir! he married very unhappy | The young widow is a slender) girl, with big, wide blue eyes that today are blue pools of sorrow She was a year older than the man she married, and he was 18 when he died FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE FATA ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 12—Dr. Victor C. Vaughn of the University of Michi- given his approval to the warning issued by the Chicago Medical society designed to prevent the spread of the “foot and mouth” disease to huma Struggles Between Doubt “T can't allow my father to die! Yet I can’t blacken my husband's memory to save him,” she exclaim: ed. “I have never regretted that) I tharried Gene “Don't ask me if TI have sorivial my father. “I have not seen him since the! LISTEN TO THIS MAN OF GOD| A man of God is Mayor J. W. Hindley of Spokane, who sings the praises of the lowly Nazerene, who told all men to love thelr neighbors. Before dabbling in politics, the mayor was a minister of the gospel. | He will return to the pulpit when his term is up, {t is announced. Mayor Hindley came to Seattle to attend the conference of the | League of Northwest Municipalities. He made an address. He sald ‘The two platoon system for firemen m a luxury. The extra 75,000 which it costs Spokane annually Is greater than the worth of the benefits derived. So Spokane abolished it last week.” A LUXURY! What a sermon one could preach, Rev. Hindley! A LUXURY to give husbands an opportunity to see their wives and visit with thelr children every day! A LUXURY to cut down the hours of the firemen from 21 hours a day to an average of 12 hours! A LUXURY to give firemen as nearly as possible the same opportunity at the domestic fireside as policemen and teamsters and lawyers and | mayors and ministers of the gospel have! What a theme for the Golden Rule! “It was a beautiful but misguided sentiment that gave Spokane the double pla stem, for the fir already had three hours each | day at home, ys the reverned mayor. | THREE HOURS A DAY TO SPEND WITH ONE'S FAMILY. ' OH, WHAT A SINFUL LUXURY! mes a mild form, but In children it is often fatal.” WHEN A MAN’S MARRIED NOW AND AS “My father killed my husband, shot him as my poor started to draw our marriage certificate from his pocket to 1 hook Just As You bo show This is the girl-widow | who may have to send} her father to the death | FFICIALS TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO Milk Inspectors of the health department Thursday, under direction of Health Com- ner McBride, started on a of the district from which Seattle draws her milk to Instruct all pro- how to detect symp- of the foot and mouth e which Is infesting cat- a to Maine, n them to take pre- net Its spreading, once detected, by killing the Infected cow. 1M READY | Guuss ~ FUNNY * Tal Q “7 COMBAT DISEASE The department's three vet- erinaries are Ing the city’s meat supply. No symptoms of the disease have been found as yet in the state, and medical authorities are hoping the rigid precautions taken against it will keep it out Waiting for Symptoms “About all we can do now {s walt for symptoms to bob up some- where—and hope they don't,” says | Dr. McBride, “There is no use say- ling it won't appear in this state, | though we hope it won't. It has spread rapidly through. the coun- try, in a way largely unaccount- able, for it has taken no definite course, as a mad dog might do. “It appears to have come from j Serum for hog cholera, sent to dif- | ferent sections of the country “The disease {s an old one, but the epidemic is new. It is serfous because nobody has been able yet to fsolate the germ, and discover an effective serum.” There {s no occasion for undue alarm in Seattle, thinks Dr. Me- Bride, who says the best thing for the city to do ts to go about tak- And this, he thinks, is being done as much as possible Agents of all railroads and steamship companies operating Dr. Jens Madsen, local inspector of the U. 8. burean of animal indus: try, that the secretary of agricul. ture has forbidden further im- portations into this state of cattle, sheep, swine or other ruminants, The companies are notified to ‘post notices to this effect in con- spicuous places. ing precautions sanely and wisely. | {nto Seattle have been notified by | CRUISER ISSUNK LONDON, Nov. 12.— England was fairly frantic with rage today at the tor- pedoing by a German sub- marine of the British gun- boat Niger, less than a mile off the port of Deal and only eight miles from the great naval base of Dover. Something like 100 vessels were anchored in the Downs, in the Niger’s vicinity. The gunboat was sunk In full view of crowds of people on shore. The explosion when the ves- sel was struck brought thou- sands with a rush to the pier, whence they first saw a thick puff of smoke arise from the stricken craft, then watched the boat list heavily, settle down by the bow with its stern rising higher and higher above the water, until 20 minutes aft- in the meantime. Members of the Niger's crew were rescued with the exception of three who were still missing today and undoubtedly per- ished. Four others were injured by the explosion. Lieut, Commander Muir, the gun- boat's commander, was the last man saved, jumping from his bridge into the sea as the vessel went down. Mulr was authority for the state- ment that the oncoming torpedo was seen from the Niger's deck, but the attack was so sudden, he explained, that the crew was pow- erless to do anything to save the craft. Submarine Is Sighted The submarine which fired the deadly missile was also briefly vis- ible at the surface just after the explosion. Admiralty offictals admitted they were suspicious of a small cruiser flying the Dutch flag which an- chored close to the Niger several days ago and left shortly before the latter was sunk. They were of the opinion that this ship really was German and that its mission was to cover the movements of the submarine which did the actual torpedoing. WRITEUS ALETTER! Pretty soft for Star readers! One of them is going to have $25 handed him, just for writing a short letter. And all because The Star editors and writers wish to find out how Star readers like the things in The Star. We want to know if The Star pleases or displeases you. In one way it’s a hazardous thing, being a newspaperman, You have to guess at what the people want, but you seldom know —because they seldom tell you—if you've guessed right, \f except by watching the ebb |] and flow of the paper's cir- |] culation Already a dozen or more letters are here. Some of them we shall publish to- morrow. | WEATHER FORECAST — To- night and Foday partially cloudy; probably rain. SUNSHINE! Commerce Department estimates our export balance for October at 44 millions More than the September record. Trade off your grunt for a cheer! A dollar is the greatest of cowards. It will run away at sight of a sour face. Say ‘hard times’ and it will dodge into its hole