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STAR—TUESDAY, JANUARY 5. PAGE 4 ' ——Why Is a ‘a Supreme Court? Read This ‘and Ponder—— Ponder—— At times the supreme court of Washington bridge bond issues invalid because the original only did the council have to pass upon the ordi- similar circumstances. And numerous laws have |i) exhibits a ray of intelligence that is positively as- page had been introduced in the council by a in its completed form, but the people also been passed and enforced under the — pe we : : title only. passed upon it. tions. Nobody has had the ridiculous hope that coew wt wren ict oe mae 8 00 Introduction of bills by title is a most com- So well did the people understand the propo- ° the cugioania oot would ever fall for such a ingly a eon, mon procedure both in the council of this and sition submitted to them by the ordinance, that they _ technicality. And then, as if ashamed of themselves for other citiés, and in the state legislature. rejected all the bond issues but the two at Fre- BUT IT HAS. IT MAY ONLY BE A CO- acting like sensible folks, the judges quickly pad- A certain object is to be attained. A bill is mont and at Ballard. INCIDENCE THAT THIS RIDICULOUS DE- die back a couple of centuries and deliver them- introduced by title, outlining, in a general way, its Yet, after the people have gone to the polls CISCION WAS RENDERED IN THE CASE selves, amid the atmosphere of musty precedent purpose. In the discussions that follow, the de- and voted for what they wanted, along comes the © BLOCKING THE BUILDING OF THE BALLARD or rusty ning, of a decision that would make tails are worked out and embodied in the bill. In supreme court and says there is a flaw in the bond BRIDGE, WHICH ADVOCATES OF MUNICIPAL Schoo! re “gree SEO aR Rene Bereta the completed form, it is then voted upon. That is issues because at the time the bill was inteoduced, OWNERSHIP ARE ESPECIALLY ANXIOUS TO oa 100! co eo be Dew y % : what is meant by the introduction of bills by title the details had not been completed. SEE BUILT SO THAT THE MUNICIPAL RAIL- Nobody home.” ‘ only. ‘ , It’s a curious thing that this point has never WAY MAY BE EXTENDED FROM DIVISION The supreme court rendered that kind of a _. The procedure in the Ballard and Fremont been raised before. A INTO A TERRITORY THAT WILL WEL- decision when it declared the Ballard and Fremont bridge bonds was painstaking and thorough. Not Yet bonds have been sold and held legal under COME IT AND SUPPORT IT HEARTILY. ‘ HAVE YOU MET BOALT ANYWHERE ABOUT TOWN DURING THE LAST THREE WEEKS? By Fred L. Boalt “TEAGUE oF News HER MINATURE PAINTER BEAU United Freee Assoctation > Silene It has come to my notice that a certain likabl y : - t » my notie ertain likable fellow has been Geoond-Class Matte masquerading about town as “Boalt of The Star.” Indeed, the n has himself come to me, voluntarily, and con By mail, out of elt elty, 8c per month up to a 2 erter, city 3% “LOOK, PAPA AND MAMA, HERE'S 4 CUNNING fessed that he has passed himself off repeatedly, in saloons, cafes LITTLE PORTRAIT OF M® DONS ON and theatres, as “Boalt of The Star ory $ \Sn'T tT Dowty Now, I would be flattered by this if it were not that my‘ imitator AND FRAGILE {" has been drunk for three weeks. It Was only when he realized that he might ha ¢ done my none-too-cood reputation an injury that he ‘essed, and apologized. We parted good friends » thing that worries me,” he said, “is that I can’t remember all tt * 1 sald and did. I had a il of a time when they ask ed me about Mexico, because I've never been th in my life. 1 met a sporting editor, and he sald: ‘Fred, you've put on 20 pounds since the last time I saw you er I gave a theatre party—had a box at the Moore © Morn.’ Th were ladies in the party, but I'm not sure where I met them. Later we went somewhere—Tate's, perhaps “I would never have thought of doing it myself, but a walter in Grant's cafe mistook me for you, and asked me how I liked sharks’ fins. Then I tumbled, because I'd read your story about a Chinese , and it appealed to my befuddled sense of humor to tell every- 1 was you When I came to my senses I was sorry, and, if there's anything I can do to square myself, you have only to name it The matter is of no possible importance to anybody {n the world except myself. While 1 have forgiven the masquerader, I would have it under- stood that I will accept blame for nobody's mad, alcoholic acts but my own F the late Adolphus Busch had lived’ half a century later, Pasadena, Cal., would have had to look elsewhere for her | © famous “sunken gardens” or Adolphus would have been com-| P pelled to evolve some other way to mgke his millions, for, according to the hest information obtainable, the brewery » business is today about the worst ever, next to cotton growing The American Contractor, a journal devoted to the build ) ing trade, in x recent issue, announces that whereas, in 1906, | the breweries of the country spent in buildings and extensions $14,578,000, in 1913 they spent less than $3,000,000. But.the amazing part of the story is that whereas, in 906, the CHURCHES of the country spent $5,632,000 in lilding operations, in 1913 they had changed places with the cries and had spent $14,870,506! Think of the churches #of this country spending five times as much for buildings as) the great breweries! And for the first four months of 1914 the record was even Q amazing, for in this period the breweries spent only $429,000, while the churches spent $4,389,986, or over ten times MR. WINSOR N@wTow Did IT He's ¥ D Y ? much. ‘ 5 ING OF MY GEAUS—— THe CEL@aRATED / ‘Oo ou Cc. Oo e ‘The thing seems incredible until one stops to think of the MINIATURE PRINTOR. THAT'S HE $ ing Guard Against It when he saw the last brewery built and the last church N THE PARLORS The theory that strictly uniform for : ‘aking Chances O say that “votes for women” is a state issue, not a na- tional issue, is to utter a half truth Tt is a state issue, of course, and 12 states have recorded ir belief in it. Tt is a national issue, as well, and for the party in power try to dodge the national aspect is not progressive; is ly intelligent. } re Two years from now that party will be needing every pro-| fessive vote it can get. It cannot hope to win a new lease Mf power by simply holding the reactionary strength which it acquired by inherited habit. It must draw new support go under. _ A number of millions of Americans have been educated recent years to believe in progressive policies, among them suffrage. They will seek a party fellowship which s to push those policies along. Their number is fnough to make a balance of power as the old parties now stand. The party which attracts them will carry the next idential election. The party which repels or ignores them it doesn’t seem so queer. temperatures are beneficial is a false one. The exercise given the circula- In winter months the question |tory system by varying temper. of temperature is of greater im-|atures {s healthful. The temper- portance in the|ature variations of day and night, dwelling than in|of summer and winter, are health- the spring or au-;ful and should be imitated in ar- tumn. ranging indoor temperatures. Y During cold weather the im- portance of the with the amount of moist-| function of organs during sleep. & ure in the air Sleeping in a strained position | looms big. Cold Strains the muscles of the side and alr will not hold as much moisture | back and places abnormal pressure In Hie Line 7 | ta mere ais, Therenen seen 10 Se eetac cas ae Mra, Timilon was taking her son) A SQUEAK FROM JOHNNY? ee en ee S| uncomfo ie position while sleep- to school for the first time, and MOUSE jing. after impressing the schoolmaster oo ~ . The result is that during the win. | wah tho aaneanis GF tae tae A ter we breathe air which has but a saying And be sure he learns This dryness of the air causes irri- | Latin | tation of the mucous membrane of | : But, my dear madam,” said the i the nose and throat, and makes) At § o'clock Monday night the tin | lan. | those breathing it more susceptible|£*? in the Duwamish river dike or ng mn + Sone Pe to colds. It will be found also that| Surrounding. the Oxbow addition, | TEMPERATURE SOME FELLOWS SEEN To THINK THAT OPPORTUMTY ANIMES YER HEAO QUARTERS “VY THE BAR Reowa We marvel that the leaders of the democracy are not conscious of this fact. They seem to be taking needless es. ‘a die say een era “ | the dry air, heated to 72, 74, or Just west of Georgetown, was com- 4 All right. sald Mre. Timkins; | ry i “he 80 deg hrenheit, will be lese| Dietely closed, and, it is not likely Handcuff the Greedy Shippers | “hel want It. He's going to be an |Connfentable and will appear mere|there will be’ any. more danger Sp PasDENT WILSON’S protest to England in behalf| re | hilly than a temperature of 66 or 68| fom floods or overflows. : Poe A Gentie Hint | degrees when there is a greater de- hema = sth rise ws 2 British press | At a cafe in this town one of the pao of moisture in the alr of nes! which suffering under restrictions © news censor. patrons was much annoyed by the | + Here, at last, is something that London editors can print | Vulgar manner tn which his neigh Moderate temperatures, slightly nd hai hi bor at table ate. He tried to take Inclined to coolness, promote mental comment upon, and we may expect every hair on the to bation of hb Mak Sha ona but ( and bodily activity, and Increase re- | D lion to stand erect. after watching him pick a bone in sistance to bodily diseases. High| But the matter is really neither serious nor urgent. American shippers have been concealing contraband ar- ticles under cargoes of apparently non-contraband goods and the — have caught them at it. } uch shippers have justified the British in searching and ALL American vessels bound for ports with which y may have communication of some sort. It is another of the innocent suffering with the guilty. ¥ The remedy lies in our hands—we should severely punish | guilty shippers. While Uncle Sam and John Bull can dis- this feature of war like gentlemen, Uncle Sam really @ppears to be the doctor. He has the medicine for a cure. While all of us, British, Germans, Russians, French and an extremely primitiv hion, he | temperatures influence bodily lassi could not control his ings any a | ture and mental duline ! cm | Many diseases are falsely sup- FAMILY CRAZY Pardon me, but don’t you n me, but don’t you think) — wt |poxed to result from temperature longer, and, leaning ove ald more comfortable if you| conditions which are not in the | Paeeachcdatae yor 4 Fay | " ] Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 24, 1914 | even anc | Logical Question nis. body, and soon the WHOLE tons posure to successive cold, FAMILY was in the same condition A witness, in describing a certain | rarely causes diseases which begin aby t, waid with a chill, The chill is not the| pbrapeer ty we rmgl ing sei onrnis “The person I saw at the head of | result of lowering the body temper-| trouble burned and itched so that it | the stairs wa r 7 a ature. On the contrary, airs was a man with one eye ntrary, the tem-| would nearly drive one cray. It war named Wilkins perature of the body rises during 2 , always worse at night, so we cc | HOU ] “NINE What was the name of the other| the visitation of a chill not sleep. We all had this tsbaule ie jeve?” spitefully asked the opposing As fi catching cold,” persons . +, about two or three years, and during "MINIATURE PAINTER! WHY, SAY, HE'S BUILT AIC GNOVCH To PAINT | counsel who begin to snuffle and cough|that time tried many remedie Austrians of the United States are giving a demonstration) GAS TANKS tf Son't dan saeaambatet die | after exposure to low temperatures, | prescriptions, with so renee We _ of neutrality fit for a glorious place in the world’s history, it) Quit blowing and snouffiing! A Grossly Exaggerated Sooner ee tee aenen ether, |tried Resinol Ointment and Resinol would be too bad to permit a few speculating, greedy ship-| dose of “Pape's Cold Compound”| Mother—And what was daddy do-| Soa been reduced by living | ony, and tt RELIEVED A‘ ONGS taken every two hours until three |ing while the barber was cutting doses are taken will end grippe | your hair, darling? yor temp . lmisery and break pp a severe cold| Little Paul—Oh, he was holding| "8" indoor temperatures pletely cured. It has been four either in the head, chest, body or|hands with a nice lady at a little}, Cool air, that shouldbe a stimu-|months since we were cured, anf limbs. table! lant to them, becomes, in their re-| there are no traces of the trouble, and before the third jar of ointment under the depressing influence of| had been used, we were all com pers to risk plunging the country into the general conflict} ‘abroad. Put the handcuffs on them, Uncle Sam! you down asked the maiden. hess, sore throat, sneezing, sore | 7, FATT nite passed and yer the) Neather outdoors, must be some: | treg write to Dept. 1-R, Resinol, Bal ness and stiffness 4 what variable weather | timore. | “Pape's Cold Compound” ts the | Mn ant in boar end ‘ i te quickest, surest relief known and dn’t you hear my question 17 WILL be a hard winter for the awyers if there's to be no more| It promptly opens clogged-up nos: | * ele jduced condition, a shock, and, be-| (Signed) MRS. S. A. CLARKSON, le } trils and alr, passages; stops nasty | Misunderstood fore they can rally, infection seizes | ny discharge or nose running; relieves “What would you do if 1 turned| "0" them | Every druggist sells Resinol Oini IF MIGHT help the Waverly family some if Margie were to have sick headache, dullness, feverish Good weather indoors, like good|ment and Resinol Soa) a baby. NAPOLEON'S GHOST must find the confinement awful trying! dead costs only 25 cents at drug stores, | She asked | |It acts without assistance, tastes | ‘I thought you were talking to the in n j n 's ecia ga CAREFUL you don’t try to skate on the icy water wagon. nice, and causes no intonventence. ay he responded, fitfully Don't accept a substitute eee | 10¢ Dover Egg Beater .... Only one to a customer, $2.00 No. 55 26-In, Atkins Silver. Stee! Saw ... +990 The president of E c, Atkins Co. says it is the best saw in the —— Thinking of His Wife ‘Acid Stomachs ire A colored man engaged in a short! Job in a Capitol Hill home, the other Dangerous day expressed himself quite force fully to the man of the house, the “somesopy TRYING to corner New South Wales wheat, the gov. _ €fnment seized the entire crop. It resernbles government by the gov- _ ernment very clorely. | PASS THE fruit cake to that Bingham, Utah, bank cashier who Siways carried a screw driver, released himself when locked in the L* 2 Fé ’ | subject being the outlook Com) Senn ice by a Distin~ k an in : Big Boye Eee 0nd caught the robber! ommon Guished Specialiat | crease in emigration from Europe to @ World We believe it, It will do ee Acid” stomachs are dangerous be-|this country, perhaps this year, as|@ More Work, last longer and re- IT'S REALLY none of our business, but we advise that New York se a - a ieee |cause actd irritates and Inflames the | a consequence of the great war quire less filing t any saw board of education to adopt that recommendation for giving public — CARRIES DEATH found him by following the dog. to lining of the stomach. thus!" “I'm opposed,” sald. the colored || We ever used. Only one to a _ school teachers leave of absence for child birth. He was carried } + By hy {ng Lp | Age customer. hom@ where he|" of the stor ‘and leading |Man, “to all this mess of people | NOTE FROM MASTER |!" 22" ot te seats, Sifters | ae, o_o FUGITIV Cte utter, ‘Ordinary medicines ‘ana|, “Why so? ‘This country ought to " » medicinal treatments are useless in| be open to all the world, to every ARS, Ark, Jan, 6,—While uch cases, for they leave th arce | body who wants to Improve his con place, Ivan Magning, farmer, ac 15c Large Size Granite Dipper 5c Many uses every day in the kitchen for one, Only one to a customer. $1.00 No, 0 3'-In. Cut German. I don't think sono, sir. I don't reve haa pc es must ite forma. | town Broad or Bench Hatchet eldentally — discharg Me. 800.1 nes Bowes Cha. ouee tion y best thing | lke to see all these foreigners com 65c . | wot h " wwe n_encaped f . oontul o ne 4 : j wounding bimestt atally. He was|hig guard Monday while (a route for this urneee [So seeeys ae of! tng in here, taking work away from The Selsor Rustless patent, best forged steel and second. rowths a coWine “The Food rink for all Scion 5 I sa \linew be ccc not tire to Seattle, wae captured by Mur|taxen ina ilttie warm orcold water | our Wives hickory handle; strictly high class, Only one to a customac n> z ce heeied mitations “He tore his collar from his neck |sUal, MacCumber of Auburn two] after cating, witch not only neutral: | "a Giddy 0 Little CgesCrencent. Chainieie Siaeale $16. hates tenet ‘ Saegpgy and, dipping a émall stick in bin} egurs, iat Bowers had shaven| fermentation, from which acidity Dad's Giddy Costume New tires and Al shape, Always clean, You have no eh se The Vir Staats Wants Sie ‘Kitchen own blood, wrote a message to hin| ot, ™% three-week growth of beard sped. Moods w narily| The b entered the drawing [i wet dirty 10 chain to lodern. 5 8 0; Apres fiaeently’ furniohed roma, with the sae family. He then ted the collar|arrastad eons ** & farmer when eee oer igh im: | room on the arm of her father, who : in cleaniiness, comfort an4 courtesy around his dog's neck and told t a louvered + . be jown oO} ie charmeuse the Jeaat money, | Tranciont, toete My Privileges t0gb heme.” Vive hours lever the Kelp plant at Bellinah at obtained fromnny druggtat, (Satin, trimmed in Venetian iace, | Ss 1415-1417 taal wife and son of the wounded man! completion li seit and ahould always be kept handy—/ And with vell of the same—Cherry | Fourth Ay, ‘ ‘dvertisemen |