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Member of the Sortpps Northwest League of News) Published Dally by The Star Publishing Oo. Ph THE CITY’S DOLLAR-HUNTING LAWYERS C ORPORATION COUNSEL! laboring under an impression that some po BRADFORD is litical interest opposed to him has inspired The Star to attack the syster among his deputies. There is absolutely The Star intrigue of this sort. For the most part, the highest praise for Mr tion counsel, Perso cellent official. It is interesting to ¢ is not a n of private law practice nothing to it. party to any political The Star has nothing but . Bradford’s work as cor- nally, Bradtord an ex is sbserve that Mr. Bradford offers no excuse for private law practice among his deputies beyond asserting that it has always been tolerated. Precedent, if wrong , is not of itself any ex- cuse, and a progressive of the type of Corporation ought Counsel Bradt to realize it he Star is guided by no other motive in show- ing up what it believes i S$ a wrong practice in the g corporation counsel’s office except a desire to ele- vate city service. Firemen, policemen and others are not. per- mitted to pursue gainful occupations, even after work hours, and the same rule should apply to the city’s attorneys. ALITTLE ABOUT TWO EDITOR STAR—How does Berlin When was Berlin founded? point of size and population? you give a brief outline of its history? London in Can rank with CARL G Berlin is the fifth largest city in the world in point of population; London is the second. In 1910, { Outbursts of Everett True] Ger Some NEw Records} DON'T Tack ABOUT YOURSELF ALL THe Time!!! A LITTLE BIT OF MOST ANYTHING | | THEY NEVER SAID IT “If all Americans held Bryan's peace-at-any-price ideals, we would never be in danger of foreign in- vasion.”—T. R. Roosevelt. “lam mighty glad Fishman came to Seattle. I heartily concur with his opinions.”"—Robt. T. Hodge “The German government was ‘absolutely right in sinking the Lus ‘tanta.”"—President Wilson. “Commissioner Carrigan is my ‘closest friend."—Sheriff Hodge ‘ “This season has been a tremen ‘dous financial success. I hope we| shave many like it."—D. E. Dugdale. | ~ “Hereafter I ask that all loyal citizens of Tacoma refer to the} “mountain as Rainier.”"—Mayor Faw Scett of Tacoma. . soe = A definite step in Mexico ts Dpromised by the administration «Heretofore steps have been of hes- “tation variety FRECKLES Hide The: With a Veil; Remove Them With The Othine Prescription This prescription for the removal | =Don't 5 Zot freckles was written by a promi. | spent physician and is usually so Qeuccessful in removing freckles and | eiving a clear, beautiful complexion that it is sold by druggists under Querantee to refund the money if it Satis = Don't bide your freckles under a| Svell; n ounce of othine and re- Smove them. Even the firstfew ap. splications should show a wonderful | improvement, some of the lighter Tireckles vanishing entirely | » Be sure to ask the druggist for Sthe double-strength othine; it is Sthis that is sold on the money-back “guarantee, | SPEAKING OF NOTES: Berlin had a population of 2,071,695; London's population in 1911 was 4,522,961, Berlin traces its authentic history back to the early 12th century, tho traditions of the fishing vil- lage on the river Spree that later became the Ger man capital run back to the 10th century, In the 13th century the city acquired municipal rights, and since the 15th century it has been the residence of royalty. It’s now the residence of the emperor ind the seat of German government. It's considered the cleanest and healthiest capital in Europe. Its civic improvements have been studied by students of city welfare the world over. AS SHERLOCK HOLMES WOULD PLOT has been disclosed by the Salt Lake police, to abduct Joseph F,. Smith, head of the Mor- mon church, and to hold him for ransom. It's all right to spring the ransom gag on the public, but if we were on the job of “detecting” in Salt Lake, we would have a little confidential chat with Joe's wives. WHERE ARE HIS RIGHTS? r’S SIMPLY awful the way man is having his rights taken away A judge in California has granted a woman a divorce because, when she came in late one cold night, and crawling into bed placed her icy feetlets in the middle of her hus- band’s nice, warm back, he pushed her out of bed and made her sleep on the floor. WHISKY HAVING been stri 1 off nsist of the drug list tore now will « soda water, a cir WONDER IF THE ‘A WELL Come ON, LETS Ste WATER 1S COLD Bad MEW BATHING SUIT OUVE BEEN RAVING Stella and Gertie GERY, §M THROUGH. THERES ENOUGH MOSQUITOES AROUND HERE TO wip THE ALLIES M GOIN’ ‘T. YAP our N' TO BAW. THE AW, GK TO THE WORLD DO MOVE Cun R how things jump along in the old J world. Within the memory of living men these things have happened: lhe telegraph was invented and is one of our great business enterprises. Over the telephone wire we do business and gossip. We travel by the engineless, horseless trolley Car, That murderer, the submarine, is terrorizing world. We have guns that shoot 25 mile the bullseye. That wonder, the aeroplane peaceful lands and_ battlefields. Great dirigible balloons soar in the We telegraph without wires, and s¢ talk long distances that wa) The automobile whizzes fine convenience and useful, so persons guide it. Our great West ha leveloped We have learned that Alaska is no unin- habitable country, but will prove a great mining, industrial and farming district. Soon the Philippines will become a republic. Women vote! China, sleeping these past become a republic. Japan, modernized, is become almost as wicked and grasping as the rest of “civilization.” Cuba a democracy. Mexico trying to swim out of the whirlpool of trouble into still waters. the ind smash buzzes over on will there, a sensible here and long a been d 5,000 years, has WHER® Do You Tuink YOU ARE, IN THE BATHTUB? Religious liberty almost Many. thinke think that the present will result finally in a lon I establishment of the RIGHT ( MEN The world fight ind ps, | great vard in the COMMON and arg I 1es, chokes and gasps, it it DO MOVI : mile SHORT AGE OF LABORERS I LINOIS superintendent reports a shortage of ‘common 1] “I look for a ituation in the within a few We sure mel] mei agencies and says; r market t,”” be. 1use it ot dren, | comm able war common men. A shortage in the “ means hi for track hands, harvesters, etc., and this should result in better conditions for uncommon labor. Maybe that w f g¢ to knock the unemployment prob. lem right out { it may fit glad that the miser. intage to ommon labor market” common labor, ditchers, of our midst. COTTON CARGOES are attention in the rot t East, pr ably be 1 the r of 1 cotton. SOME WRITERS have the power to make much out me ¢ has written a two. of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, thing for instance ime history of the life GEN. VON KLUCK ap; as the Hon. ¢ Mack; ur nd if he wins ver ears to be in the same fix less he battle a day the fan nnie By Allman WHAT ARE You RUBBERING AT ? 1 AINT GOT ONE — THEM MUST BELONG To mE }o4Y ON TH it [FARM IMEX j NARY [SUSIE THE SHOW GIRL—(OR, SKIRTING THE ABYSS!)—A MOVIE IN TWO PARTS. From the magazine sections of| Sunday newspapers we gather that continental actresses are playing a large role in all theatres of war. eee Naturally “I see one of your steamships is fast in the mud.” “Yes.” “Well, a ship that is fast in the mud ought to break all records on the water.” see There {s no truth in the report that President Wilson has writ er’s cramp. | Notes written by Lansing and Wilson are not music in the kaiser's ears | In our day, school kids were severely punished for exchang ing notes, but maybe Wilson and William ‘Hollenzollern are im mune. eos It begins to look as if the state of Washington was in for a dry spell # ve His Error “Your health is great, I'm glad to state,” Confided Doctor Herman Blotch |Your pulse Is sound, your fat and round—and- “Wait, doctor—that's watch!" eee my wrist - | W. J. Bryan told from a church pulpit what he thought about Theodore Roosevelt, but T. R. would not be permitted to say what he thinks about” ryan from the same place. eee Many of our busy shouters for criminal reform, land reform, edu. | cational reform. morals reform King county jail reform, need a little chloroform, SUE IS LURED BY THE FOOTLIGHTS ! SHE BEATS 17 fas For THE BiG Town ! A Family Affair marry a buttonhook Mrs. Budd—John, if you think oe I'm going to press your trousers Well you are greatly mistaken! When Jitney Driver you married me you didn't marry alyour house in the suburbs flat tron! perary"? Pudd—Yes, my dear, and ububse—Because it's such a ‘ou married me you didn’t long, long way out there! Named “Tip SUGGESTED DISHES — ~ "GREENS" KNUT SHELLS [WHY CAN'T WARRING NATIONS "DRAW THE LINE INTHEIR SLAVEHTER oF HUMAN BEINGS?5] (o ANSWERS —_—_— BERTHA'~ THE NEXT TIME HE SAYS You LOOk DELICIOUS ENOUGH To EAT, TELL HIM Yo TAKE You To A SWELL PHOTO GALLERY AND GET YOUR FACE ONA PLATE! MABEL!— PERHAPS WHEN HE SAID YOUR GOWN WAS A DREAM, HE MEANT THAT HE WAS TIRED WALKING THE FLOOR AT NIGHT TRYIN To FIGURE OUT WANS AND MEANS “TO PAY FoR (T, Why do you call! get my wife a job. CURSES! FLL Follow! From Vaudeville. | (Brnest Moore) Ww boarding house I've been all over town trying to| their board I've never seen so many married women out of work. If things don't improve soon I'll have to take a job myself My regular occupation is milking sea cows, but just now I'm work ing in a domino factory. Yes, I put on the « But today they're making blanks, so I got a day off Before Ok, THUNDER I! Y SEE, THE PARSON pn GITS 1M TH PULPIT AN Says: "NOW MY BRETHREN. WeLL, ONE LEDDY SHE iTS sore| AN SAYS TOTIM: “WHy the boss me he asked me been in my last ‘Seven years, were you doing? years.” There was one man in jail, a barber, waiting to be hanged. On| the night before his execution the} warden said to him: “Have you any request to make before you | die?” “Yos,” said the barber; "I wish to have a chance to shave the district attorney.” I never would have got Into trouble. I married a new woman and then the old one showed up. Life is full of trials—and occasion. | al convictions The other day I went into a drug store and that drug clerk was the sassiest fellow I ever met. One lady said to him: “My hair ts fall-| pandas ing out, Can you recommend any. You ST thing to keep it in?” He satd,| " “Here's a hice cardboard box.” oe would engage how long 1 had place. I said, He said, “What I sald, “Seven ee < WELL, DE PARSON SAYS: | MY DEAR LEDDY, ONE | EMBRACES THE OTHER, “BUT HOT IN DE CHURCH, SAYS DE Leooy' There's a lot of bad fruit on some family trees! owe | War |e hard on society wom- | en. They are kept up such | late hours attending Red Cross balla! eee Always the Way (From the Waterloo, Ia., Courier) TED—Man and wife for! Wife to work for! DON'T You SAY AW SISTERS) |at the home of his mother | occas | seemed in good spirits early in the! BOY, THIRTEEN, KILLS HIMSELF | AS F ATHER DI ;OHIO METHOD DENTISTRY z his life in the exact way! Missing teeth are replaced 0? Harry Duerden, did six! The Ohio Method by artificial test Arthur Duerden, 13,/that are natural as your hursday night drank carbolic acid) teeth, Examinations are now Mrs.| conducted without charge, and eth , a) mates are furnished in all casee ‘oved| WE STAND BACK OF OUR WORK him for smoking, almost} FOR 12 YEARS’ GUARAN' instantly. He had suffered from| s nal fits of melancholia, but | 15 Set.of Teeth, juaranteed ... $10 Set of Teeth, | Guaranteed |$10 Solid Gold or | Porcelain Crown $10 Gold or Porcelain $4 Bridge Work : John ¢ few hours Hall ¢ Terry after she had He died 182 evening BLOWS OUT HIS BRAINS MT. VERNON, July 30.—Re proved by his mother for quarrel ing with his younger Charlie Baxter, 12, ended his life here yes ; terday afternoon by blowing his| ¢ > brains out with his father's re-| Solid Gold Fillings --$1_Up volver. Leaving his mother, the| Other Fillings boy went upstairs and found the gun, The shot rang out shortly| Office Hours, 8:30 to 6. Su afterward. When his mother 9 to 12, reached the bedroom, the boy was joc artichoke Is a variety , OHI Deatists thistle and grows wild along the 207 UNIVERSITY se African coast of the Mediterranes ND AV! n coast of th litertanean CORNER SECO BULL BROS. Jusi Printeré |1013 THIRD exAIN 1048 sister, SELBOT DANCING PARTIES HIPPODROME Fifth and University Clean Amusement Bui 10-PIRCE UNION ORCHESTRA Com: Teachers