The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1916, Page 4

Member of the weet Learns of Newspapers so from the reports of Uncle Sam’s agricultural The potato is by long odds the most important important item in the people’s diet. Everybody uses it; every farm garden in Alaska has a portion devoted to potatoes; and with proper care it can be grown all over the territory. And potato growing pays. Uncle Sam has proved this on his own farm at Fairbanks on the Tanana river. This situation has grown potatoes for the market for several years past, with the ob- ject of demonstrating that good potatoes could be grown in the interior. The farmers in. the Tanana valley (which, by the way, contains over 15,000 square miles of land available for agriculture) have taken the hint, and nearly all of them now have a consider- able acreage of potatoes. Last season, one farmer near Fairbanks esti- mated his crop at 50 tons, which, selling at four cents per pound, or $80 a ton, the LOWEST of $4,000. northern of the stations), in latitude 65 degrees 30 mi were well suited to the climate and did well. Two years ago, Prof. C. C. Georgeson, special ment of agriculture, was told by the keeper of the he visit to the Fairbanks station that the hotel was usi in the dining room and that they were better than pe ask for the native varieties in preference. bottom price of four cents a pound. the Arctic Circle, “F. J & Wife”. matter & Wife.” It’s a new idea, and a thundering Take Strittmatter’s honey advertisement, for in Again, when wife is a business partner, carryi thing? UPON HIS wife's entreaties, Congressman “Cyclone” Davis of Texas has bought a collar and shirt to wear in Washington. “Cyclone” registers in the Congressional Directory as “a collar democrat,” but that shirt must be simply mortification of good Texas spirit. CYNTHIA GRE Q.—I am engaged to a beautiful; snared in the philosophical net and young lady. | have just discovered harnessed down by a code of ethics. from one of her frie that my That the girl loves you and upon} fiancee is one-eighth negro. | have that love depends her life's happt-| what to do. Both of the girl's par then the ethical side bobs up again ents are deceased and she was —what about the children that raised by very well-to-do white might come of such a marriage’! folks. | am too proud of my own The love that blinds a person to family to take any chances on hav- the welfare of little children is a ing a black baby. |! have heard selfish love. Yes, THE CHILDREN that such might happen, even after MUST BE CONSIDERED. several generations. If you do marry the girl, there 1 hesitate to wound this girl's is one chance in 16 that should feelings, as we are deeply in love children come from the marriage,| with each other. She might com- they would have some of the char- mit suicide if | turn her down, as acteristics of the Ethiopian race, she is of a very sensitive nature such as a flat nose or thick lips or and proud. Shall | marry her and kinky hair; but ft ts barely poss! take chances on my children being ble that any of them would be) white? {| am 23 and she Is 20. black. I advise you to go to your Please let me know soon 0 what family physician or to some physi. course | ought to pursue. | am clan you know to be well advanced nearly worried to death and love in the medical world, and tell him the girl to distraction, but fee! that your predicament. He can tell you she should have told me about her some things that | cannot well Parentage. DOUBTFUL, print. Then decide this question A.—The farther this old world) for yourself, according to your own plunges into science the more de-| heart and conscience. Your future plorable is the fact that love cannot; depends upon that decision and be governed by ethics. 1 very| you should never place that in the much fear that Cupid will never bel hands of another person. PTET ECU ti tT htt ttt eC eee | QMO i : A single bottle will convince you Sloan’s [ff Liniment far LINIMENT Arrests Inflammation. Prevents severe compli- cations. Just put a few drops on the painful spot and the pain dis- appears. a Wiis PAIN zc] THE SEATTLE STAR Bntered at Beattie Wash. Postoffice as escond-cines matter By mall, out of otty, ene year, $4.00) € um onthe, $1.98) She per month wp te mos My carrier, elty, tee month Growing Potatoes Around the Arctic Circle OT Ireland, but Alaska, we learn is the real home of the Irish potato. At any rate, it would seem experiment stations in Alaska. vegetable grown in Alaska, It constitutes a very price at which potatoes have ever been sold up to the present time, brought him in the nice little sum Potatoes are grown at all four of the government farms in Alaska, and four years ago special tests of different varieties with different fertilizers were made at the station at Rampart, Alaska (the most Merchants who have handled both the native grown and the shipped potatoes say their customers Uncle Sam’s farm at Fairbanks has always made a handsome profit off its potato crop, even at the Potatoes have been and are being grown successfully as far north as Coldfood, 60 miles north of DVERTISING the sale of honey, a man at Edensburg, Pa., signs his advertisements, “F. J. Stritt- good one. Many a man’s business partner is his wife, but you'd never know by his store sign or advertisement. You see “John Smith & Bro.” and “John Smith & Son,” never “John Smith & Wife” or “John Smith & Daughter,” and yet a firm’s goods may have a peculiar attraction from the very fact that a woman has to do with the handling of them. handled and pure because of Mrs Strittmatter’s having an active part in the firm. Same thing as to all other foods. Woman is given credit for greater activity in fighting flies and dirt than is man. _#isn’t it only fair to acknowledge to the world that she is part of the firm? Why not proclaim a good since verified the truth of the re- nes#, in itself, seems like a mighty | Q—A very intelligent friend of Q—My father married in Ameri port, and am in a quandary as to good excuse for her silence; but| mine tells me that if a person ca, but is not a citizen. | am 23. |! am counting upon your reply to The Home Doctor | | STAR—WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9, 1916. PAGE 4. Pupitened Datty ‘The Star Irish Cobbler potatoes grown at Rampart Experiment Station, Alaska. Note size of them as shown by the foot rule at the left of picture. nutes north. It was found that a number of varieties agent in charge of the Alaska work for the depart- tel at Fairbanks where he lodged on his regular ng potatoes from the experiment station at Fairbanks ytatoes shipped in from the outside. | nstance. You get an idea that that honey is cleanly ng part of the worry load, doing part of the work, EX-GOV. JOHN A. DIX of New York is in Cali- fornia, with a proposition putting annexation up to a vote of the Mexican people, which shows that Mr. Dix knows little about Mexican elections. We would like a movie picture of Carranza counting votes that would take his de facto presidency away from him. | Y’S LETTERS AND ANSWERS | I will be interested to know how/to the refreshment room and leave you decide. Will you write and riy. Your invitation should state tell me? whether there is to be dancing. should weigh just previous to eat- Must | take out naturalization pa Ing a hearty meal, and again im- pers in order to vote? FJ mediately after eating said meal,| A.—If you were born in the the scales would show no increase United States, you are a citizen of in weight, even tho the food eaten this country and entitled to vote should weigh several pounds, | without naturallza can’t believe this. This seems very absurd to me and set my friend right. F. P. A.—Your friend 1s wrong. It would be almost a phyaical imposst How to Cure Rheumatism bility for a person to eat a meal! frere is @ prescription for rhew which would weigh several pounds.|matiam (easily mixed at home) used It would take a very large meal to/4!) pv*r the U. & for many years an: | welgh even a pound, and an or tralizes the acid dinary meal weighs only the min-|« r r | utest fraction of a pound and would ° (Clip out and save) In the blood and be barely noticeable on the sca t 1) r which, } er, would record the ¢ | increase in weight heh fen) as me | % c ts y drug store | |Genuine Torts coi only in one | Q—6ome time ago there appear-| ounce nenled yellow packages |ed In your paper answers from| Surest for Coughs and Colds |yourself and the public to a girl Don't experiment on a bad cough who signed herself “Rebecca.” | or cold, it is very risky. The follow |Some told her to walt, others to go|'"«, formula easily mixed at home |with other men and forget. co Alen” obtainable, often I went with a young man for six rat cough n'a day months. He always was everything ine is as old as the | ia beat form. Half ja girl could ask when in my com: o.,, ¢ Pine Compound (Cor pany. He wasn’t one of those centrated Pine) and two ounces of mushy, sentimental fools, Well, 1 erine; mix these in half pint of "AE a teaspoonful fre |learned to think a good deal of him, ~ as and | think he did of me, One Sunday he sald he wouldn’t|® |be over in the afternoon, so | went out for a walk. Whom should I|screw-top case. | meet but him and his wife—oh, the Corns, Sweaty and Aching Feet dearest wife and little child imag Don't endure foot agony Here ts nable, What did | do? | What|® Lesa eee pekeet mieatie would you have done? | greeted| lespoonfuls of him with @ stare and a cold “How In rm foot do you do?” 1! have never seen ut relied for och him since. i peeled right off. 1 wonder if, when married men Spe’ de these things, they ever give a Pine), put up only tn ttles, each enclosed in ¢ for sore buntons, | thought to the feelings of the girl|n: Om Stor as afterwards? Surely, they do not ve in published by the Medical Formula Laboratories, Day 1 don't wish this man any bad luck | How could |, loving him as | do?~ but | hope he goes thru just one half of the anguish | have, and he SALLOW SKIN will have been punished sufficient. ly, 1 hope you will print this, and is one of the greatest foes of that In so doing It will wake some| womanly beauty. It is quickly barrie iien Ue ae are probably | cleared by correcting the cause gust me, |7Sluggish liver- with the aid of the gently stimulating, safe | Q—How shall | drers when at- and dependable remedy— |tending an evening reception to an | nounce an engagement? BEECH bd | A GIRL. A.—The occasion calls for your ing receptions the guests are ¢ pected to remove hats and remain Largest Sale of Any Medicine in the World, |for dancing. On more formal oc 8 erywhere. In boxes, 10¢., 25, ions guests pass down the recety-| Ing Ine, greeting each one, go on| / Star Want Ads cover the sora | west. «|muscles, causing stiffness, sore. MA, I JUST SAW THE MINISTER AT THE CORNER - IGUESS HE*S HERE { ‘ SAY PA, | MADE ‘ MISTAKE - THAT WASN’T THE MINISTER q FOOD SOURING IN STOMACH CAUSES INDIGESTION, GAS ‘Pape's Diapepsin” Ends All Stomach Distress in Five Minutes. wart i! nder what upset your at mach | h portion of the food did the! famage—do you? Well, don’t both er. If your stomach fs in a revolt; | if sour, gassy and upset, and what you just ate has fermented tsto| stubborn lumps; head dizzy and * belch gases and acids and ctate undigested food; breath t tongue coated—just take a lit. tle Pape’s Diapepsih and in five! minutes you wonder what became of the indigestion and distress, Millions of men and women to- Jay know that {t is needless to nave a bad stomach, A little Dia In occasionally keeps this dell organ regulated and they eat r favorite foods without fear, If your stomach doesn't take are of your liberal limit without rebellion; if your food is a damage natead of @ help; remember, the quickest, surest, most harmless re. jet is Pape's Diapepsin, which ‘oats only fifty cents for a large se at drug stores s truly won. rful-it digests food and sets gs straight, #0 tly and eas that {ft {s really astonishing. , for your sake, don’t go on and on with a weak, disordered tomach;: it's so unnecessary. DRESS WARM AND KEEP FEET DRY Tells Rheumatism Sufferers to Take Saite and Get Rid of Uric Acid Rheumatism ts no respecter of | age, sex, color or rank, If not the| most dangerous of human affiic tions, it is one of the most painful Those subject to rheumatism | should eat less meat, dress as| warmly as possible, avoid any un-| Jue exposure and, above all, drink ts of pure water Rheumatism is caused by urle acid, which is generated In the bow els and absorbed into the blood. It s the function of the kidneys to filter this acid from the blood and | cast It out in the urine; the pores of the skin are also a means of freeing the blood of this impurity In damp and chilly, cold weather the skin pores are closed, thus forcing the kidneys to do double work, they become weak and slug gish and fail to eliminate this uric acid which keeps accumulating and cirenlating through the system, eventually settling in the joints and ac thi ness and pain called rheumatism. At the firat twinge of rheuma- tism, get from any pharmacy about four ounces of Jad Salts; put a tablespoonful in a glass of water and drink before breakfast each morning for a week. This ts said to eliminate uric actd by stimulat- tng the kidneys to normal action, thus ridding the blood of these tm: purities Jad Salts 18 Inexpensive, harm less and is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with Iithia and is used with excel lent results by thousands of folks who are subject to rheumatiam Here you have a pleasant, efferves cent Hthla-wat drink which over. comes urte acid and ts benefictal to your kidneys as well. NUXATED IRON FORFEIT Bioneers pear in this paper Ask your doctor or ow people 200 per cent in ten days in Instances 00 usgist about tt, memorial it has been the 1 Re ‘of th cislators in city, state, and nation, to spill an abundance of | place the Prussian hymn, “Heil Dir Drug Co, Bartell Drug Co. and Swifts Pharmacy always carry it in stock. THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME PUT THOSE CARDS AND | THAT CIGAR AWAY ~THE MINISTER WILL ee ERE I A Minute! CANDIDATES Aaron Fislerman Should Aaron Fislerman be elect- ed to the council, words ought nev er to fail him. Not that the aver age councilman lacks words, Far | be {it from such. From time im language. And few, if any, have failed to take advantage of that) ang privilege | Yet we make bold here to say that few of our councilmen or counctimanic candidates have been, or are, so Well equipped to sprinkle language in the legislative cham- bers as Aaron Fislerman. He speaks six languages. And he and ort ing Ww not | usin land in t the eye straight to the mark, or rather, straight to the Marxian target, for he is a soctalist, first, last, and all the time, Voice Built for Use Fislerman’s voice was built for use, When he tsn’t busy with one of the six languages, he employs it in song, for he’s an accomplished musician, too, He has partic in many concerts here, having be-| longed to tho People’s Chorus, the| When You're Well KEEP WELL o—__——_- Another Article In The | o [gradually at first, showing some| slight turning inward in one eye,| at times, until finally something occurs to bring on a final attack, | Frequently a convulsion or an| attack of coughing. especially dur-| irritation to the general nervous | system brings on the attack, and, fs considered by the child's, mother |{oSaud 2.) wes to be the cause, This is incorrect ance, the child unconsciously stops LAST COLUM EVERETT TRUE'S SISTER SA “ws A honeymoon Z xplanatory, LITERARY NOTES | Wm. lL. Book runs @ grocery af Seventh and Madison James H. Page is a cabinet make Eloise leaf is a carpenter Ct | 4108 John D, Penman is a tailor rigl across the street from The § h ave. 8 | amaze 4 Min | | office Elbert BE. Penn can be found the Canadian Pacific railway offi A. M. Relter, a car man, lives man ave. E, B. Novell 1s a bookkeeper 117 Bell st F ANSWERS rs aiseemenstepeesiticatidiiclatiaiyastini | Annie Root—No, Hector Bir. |brush is not connected wit! j Horseradish corporation any | with the government at McNeBs. | Edna McBiscuit—Sidney |druff, before going in the moviga, | worked in a fish store, hence fis! | wonderful facial expressions. oe ae May Blatz—Olaf Exg took the |part of the doormat in “The |Kitchen Mechanic's Tenth Wed- |ding.” He prefers celluloid col- jlars. Write to the police journal Lad his photo. No trouble at all, F. Coldsiaw—So you want me to tell Ida Rope to comb her halr? No, Eddie Coughdrop has dropp lout of pictures. He was knocked) }out in the Rhinoceros scene in thi Rajah’s Wishbone Tobey Ashtray No, Stel Spongecake of the Outafocus Fil hasn't fo her pet Hui jgarian herring yet. Yes, the scen CROSS-EYES jin “Afloat on the Amazon” wel taken in Alaska. . « Star's Health Campaign | Being Conducted With Co- | operation of American | Medical Association : 4 annoying conditions that m occur tn the eyes of a young child is squint, or what is commonly “cross- Oscar—Julius Thirdrail pla: the part of the hall tree in “ occurs chief. ly between the ages of 2 and 6 and comes on the eye turns In to a greater #5 degree and remains so. whooping cough or some lik hen the eye ts turned it will) Bolled Shirt.” I'd like to heai look directly at the object at| from you again, dearie. which the other eye is looking, and “ee doubling of the vision is the re THUMP, THUMP! sul » — aekek te escape this annoy-| (From Carthage, lll, Republican) John Miller had the misfor- tune to fall on the ice Friday and break his wooden limb. This will lay Mr. Miller up for some time, as the dimb will have to be sent away for repairs or perhaps ne- cessitate buying an entirely new Hygiene is humanity's hope. | jeg. vans 4 « the eye that {s turned in, this in time leads to changes he nerve tissues, which make child's sight defective in that WITH ST. JACOBS OIL” wwate/ RUD Lumbago, Pain and Soreness from You Suuitie chords, the Socialist chorus} Lame Back--Instant Relief! Doesn't Blister--- and other musical organizations vehtron Fislerman | was born 32! Get a Small Trial Bottle--Wonderful Liniment sided in Seattle 13 years. Before coming to America, he was employ largest banks of his native coun- try He is a diligent student of eco nomics, sociology, and labor ques-| Get has tions, Jest At present he is county secre: | stor f the socialist party and {is aj rub of organized labor and} and ederal union sore He has contributed many im-|— portant articles to socialist news. papers and periodicals. ad Here's His Platform Fislerman proposes the public ownership of the following: Street railways, gas plant, telephones, coal bunkers, . slaughter houses, markets and dairies, banks, lodg ing houses. He advocates the es. tablishment of a free genéral mu nicipal hospital and a clinic He favors old age pensions, ra tional civil service rules with the right of appeal to an independent | board selected by the employes He is opposed to the age limit, | and is in favor of the right of 1a:| bor to work at any age, whether | for private employers or the city KAISER WRITES SONG. GENEVA, via London, Feb, 9.- According to the Vossiche Zeitung, | a copy of which reached here today, Katser Wilhelm ts seeking to re im Siegerkranz,” which is sung to the same tune as the English na tional anthem, with one of his own composing. He has asked Richard Strauss to compose the music, pness and lameness is gone. | use for over sixty ed as bookkeeper in one of the| When yer back is sore and lame) Don't stay crippled! This sooth- or lumbag | , sciatica or rheumatism |!ng, penetrating liniment needs to be used only once. It takes thé you stiffened up, don't suffer! | ain right out and ends the misext & small trial bottle of old, hon-!]t is magical, yet absolutely HA St. Jacobs Oil” at any drug|less and doesn’t burn the skin e, pour a little in your hand and| Nothing else stops lumbago, sel it right on your aching back, |atica, backache or rheumatism so by the time you count fffty, the| promptly. It never disappoints! In rs CONTINUOUS fimpress Tess Features EACH WEEK! 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