The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1916, Page 4

STAR—TUESDAY, DEC. 26, 1916. PAGE 4 the & month The Seattle Star Entered at Beattia Wash, Pestoftics us second-class matter BY mail, out of city, one year, $1.00; ¢ montha 91.90; 880 Per month up te ¢ mos Published Daly By The mr Mar MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES SOLD DAILY Dethrone the Meat Dictators! The Great American Meat Mystery has been solved. The articles by H. P. Burton in The Star on the meat situation show indisputably that the livestock farmer is not rolling in wealth, in spite of the high price of livestock. If he makes a lucky sale while the packers are boosting the market so as to bait in heavy. shipments he does well; otherwise he makes smaller profits than he could make in less risky forms of agricultural production. There is a food dictator in France, and Lloyd-George is ready to set one up in England. All the food of Germany of the warring countries. in the hands of a dictator. So it probably is in every one The food of America is in the hands of dictators, too; but they are not public officials. They are cold-storage men, grain magnates and packing-house kings. There in Washi for the local market. How sha!! these dictators be dethroned? & movement in congress to set the good example The proposition there is to establish A MU- NICIPAL PACKING-HOUSE, in which cattle will be killed This will make the farmers for many miles around Washington independent of the beef trust. The same plan has been in operation in Pari . Texas, for years. In that little city 35 beeves may be killed a day, and all their by-products utilized, just as in the big pack- ing-houses. The farmers receive a fair price for their cattle and hogs, and the people get their meats at a fair price. only costs $1.25 in that slaughter house to kill a beef. Logan Billingsley spent Christmas in jail because 3 he couldn’t get his bond arranged. That's one trouble with the bootleggers; they're careless about their bonds— even on whiskey. Charches to Conserve Human Life ed almost staggering to realize that 3,000,000 people in the United States are seriously if at any one time. Of these, 500,000 are consumptives, and 150,000 of the latter die AND CONSUMPTION IS A PREVENTABLI | | | } COLYuUM It THE SMOKING JACKET The smoking jacket is a running __ every year. __DISEASF! team-mate with « pair of slippers for the first hunch a woman «ets at Christmas time as a present for ber Every year 30,000 people are killed in industry, and 300,- ~ 000 are seriously injured. y Ip 25 years about 240,000 people in this country were d and injured merely because they were walking on rail- d tracks or “flipping” on cars. The 30,000,000 wage-carners in this country lose an aver- re of nine days apiece every year, on account of illness, the ‘wages lost amounting to $500,000,000, the medical treatment costing $180,000,0M more. It’s a source of real satisfaction that the federal coun- | dil of the churches of Christ in America—representing 140,- - 000 different churches, having 18,000,000 members—is about | $e set up a campaign for the conservation of human life. bserving the laws of health and common sense. If, as a | gesult of the efforts of the federal council, the average life in this country is extended only one year, IT WILL MEAN | ‘THE EQUIVALENT OF 2,000,000 COMPLETE LIVES SAVED IN EACH GENERATION! There’s every reason why the church should engage in Buch a campaign. Jesus spent much of his time healing the sick—why shouldn’t his followers do likewise? But it’s a ' lot better to PREVENT sickness than to HEAL it! 4 A strong advisory committee has been appointed by the federal council to work out the details of this campaign, ' among the members being Gifford Pinchot, conservationist ; | Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale university; Haven Emerson, health commissioner of New York; Julia C. Lathrop of the children’s ' bureau of the United States Labor department; William F » Cochran, millionaire socialist, and friend of labor, of Balti- Experts tell us human life may be extended 15 years by|| friend, sweet theart or “battered half” (how do you like that last one, George? Pretty good, huh?) It is called a “smoking jacket” be cause | ing. hae watchman on Into a freigh’ dozen eggs. dozen at a ‘EM LIFE! Men are or when he's chairs or floors. Or if there’s a dog in the house, said smoking jacket may be found out under the sink, with aforesaid] plied the Ghost. dog imitating a policeman or night it's never used Just as society women speak |ot “afternoon teas,” but they don't to them to drink tea, you know. Smoking jackets are worn when & fellow takes care of the furnace painting screens, |’ it ee We seo where two while amok- HOW YO KEEP THE BEEK WARM ON A COLD DAY- boys broke t car and stole 30 Let's see now, 30 dollar aplece—GIVE see funny ducks. They leather from beef’s skin. more, and Graham Taylor of Chicago Commons. Let Sharks Beware! S$. BUREAU OF FISHERIES tries to rescue us from * barefootedness that’s staring us in the face. covers that leather from sharks’ skin is a good substitute for It advises everybody to save the | hides of the sharks they catch and is furnishing lightships and beach men with shark-fishing tackle. The enterprise is a blessed one, but it has been given a A feminine fad for shark leather should be pro- _ Robbery in the Name of Trade OS ANGELES is moving for a municipal fish market and, all up and down the Pacific coast, the reactionary press is yelling with horror. ism, vicious government interference with trade. are the facts in regard to fish at Los Angeles, or at any other fish port? Mm © “all the traffic will bear.” The middleman is a brutal tyrant who catches the fish what he pleases and charges the retailer When the fisher makes a big haul and ought to make money and prices to the consumer ought to be low, fish are dumped back into the water by the ton Fish, one of the best, most plentiful and most neglected blow their cold fingers to make ‘em warm, then blow hot soup to make it cold. eee APPEARANCES DECEPTIVE The aunt of a little boy was amazed at the appetite exhibited by him during a recent stay in her household. Mercy!” she exclaimed one day But you certainly eat a terrible lot, Willie, for such a little fellow!” Willie, however, was not at all upset by this. “I expect,” he rejoined, “that I It dis- ee start. A ain't 0 little as I look fi the moted, first thing. In every large city, put on the streets two] Suteide,” # 1 look from the wearing nifty shark skin shoes, and you'll have a see ishing industry coaxing sharks out of their habitat; and) HARD LENES it will make mighty little difference whether or not a good gia hat are you crying for, substitute has been discovered, at that I've been agoin’ to both the (ecm ncaniaarT ad Methodist and the Presbyterian Sunday schools for six weeks, and they had thelr Christmas trees on the same night Life. Z STOPS ANY COLD ‘IN A FEW HOURS “Pape’s Cold Compound” Opens Clogged Nose and Head and Ends Grippe. It would be socialism, paternal- 3ut what He gives the fellow Relief comes instantly, It would of foods, ought to be one of the cheapest of foods. A dose taken every two hours be, were not a cinch permitted in the rketing of it. Propo untfl ture doses are taken will end sition for a municipal fish market fet rected with editorial HN At Mle break up: ¢ oe: ridicule. It isn’t anywhere near as ridiculous as to stand} pody or limbs. me Phelps. . “IT think I'd rather not,” gate uy the new book.—Austin ness, feverlshness, sore throat,|. ‘i . Wear the old coat and buy i sneezing, sorencss and stiftness, "| 5°TooKe Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit] “Without their visits,” said the! blowing and snuffiing! Kase your|Ghost, “you cannot hope to shun the | Now will the H. C. of L. kindly make some peace proposals? We're in favor of a separate piece of the Christmas , turkey . quiet, eyes wide open and an idiotic leer on your face, while | a middleman robs you in the holy name of trade. It promptly opens clogged-up nos. trils and air passages in the head, stops nasty discharge or nose run- ning, relieves sick headache, dull throbbing head! the world gives such prompt relief las “Pape's Cold Compound,” which 9:5 2 |costs only 25 centa at any drug store. It acts without assistance tastes n causes no inconve: \ence, He gure you get the genuine, Nothing else in| Entansteseergrgnneny egetstesaessenaers eereenitmTttysTTTTETE ptttgyreretttanteteeennesnsetr enter rtan anette etait ate Next Week 8 CHARLES HY do you doubt your senses” | Hecaune, said Jorooge, “a little thing affects them |A slight Cleorder of the stomach | makes them cheats, You may be an} | undigested bit of beer, a blot of mus tard, a crumb of cheese, a frag ment of an underdone potato. There's. more of gravy than of arave about you, Humbug, I tel! you! Humbug!” At this the aptrit ratued « fright: | ful ery, and shook {ts chain with | wich & dismal and appalling noine, | that Scrooge held on tight to his chair, to gave himself from falling | in & swoon | | “Mercy!” he sald. “Dreadful ap- parition, why do you trouble me?” | “Man of the worldly mind!” re | “WW piled the Ghost, “do you belleve in me or not?” ‘lL do,” sald Scrooge, “I must Nut why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?” “It 1s required of every man,” the Ghost returned, “that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and trave! far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is con demned to do #o after death. It is doomed to wander thru the world oh, woe is me!—and witness what it cannot ebare, but might have shared on earth, and turned to hap piness!” Again the specter rained a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy ands “You are fettered,” said Scrooge, trembling. “Tell me why?" 1 wear the chain I forged in | life.” replied the Ghost. “I made} it link by link, and yard by yard | {I girded it on of my own free wi! id of my own free will I wore it. | | 1s ite pattern strange to you? Scrooge trembled more and} more. | Or would you know,” pursued the Ghost, “the weight and length of the strong coll you bear your self? It waa full as heavy and as long as this seven Christmas Eves ago. You have labored on it since. It ts a ponderous chain!” Scrooge glanced about “Jacob,” he said, {mploringly ‘Old Jacob Marley, tell me more Speak comfort to me, Jacob! “I have none to give,” the Ghost replied. “It comes from other re sions, Ebenezer Scrooge, and is conveyed by other ministers to oth or kinds of men. My spirit never walked beyond our counting-house ~mark me!—in life my spirit nev- er roved beyond the narrow limits of our money-changing hole; and weary journeys lie before me! It was @ habit with Scrooge, whenever he became thoughtful, to! put his hands in his breeches pock ots He did so now “You must ve been very slow about ft, Jacob,” Berooge observed, in a businesslike manner, tho with humility and deference. “Slow!” the Ghost repeated. “Seven years dead,” mused Scrooge. “And traveling all the time!” “The whole time,” said the Ghost No rest, no peace, Incessant tor- ture of remorse.” “You travel fast?” said . “On the wings of the wind,” re- him “You might have got over a great intity of Kround in seven years,” id Scrooge. The Ghost, on hearing this, set }up another cry, and clanked its |chain so hideously in the dead sj lence of the night, that the Ward | would have been justified tn indict- ing it for a nuisance. “Ob! captive, bound, and double ironed,” 1 the phantom, “not to | know that ages of incessant labor |by immortal creatures for this earth must pasa into eternity be fore the good of which ft {s sus- ceptible ts all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find tts mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness, Not to know that no space of regret can make} jamends for one life's opportunity | misused! Yet such was I! Oh! Such was I!" “But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,” faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. “Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again, “Mankind was my business, The common welfare was my business; charity, | mercy, forbearance, and benevo |lence, were all my business. The| dealings of my trade were but a drop of water !n the comprehensive ocean of my business! “At this time of the rolling year,” |the specter said, “I suffer most. | |Why did I walk thru crowds of fel- |low-beings with my eyes turned \down, and never raise them to that| |blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode! Were there ;2o poor homes to which its light would have conducted me?” Scrooge was very much dismay. ed to hear the specter going on at this rate, and began to quake ex-| coedingly. “Hear me!" cried the Ghost. “My time is nearly gone.” “1 will,” said Scrooge, “But don't be hard upon me! Don't be flowery, Jacob! Pray!” | “How it ts that 1 appear before you in a shape that you can see, I} |may not tell. I have sat invielbie} jbeside you many and many a day.” it was not an agreeable idea |Scrooge shivered, and wiped the perspiration from his brow “That is no light part of my per ance,” pursued the Ghost. “I a here tonight to warn you that yc have yet a chance and hope of « caping my fate. A chance and hc of my procuring, Ebenezer.” "You were always a good fric to me,” said @erooge Thank'ee | “You will be haunted,” re |the Ghost, “by Three Spirits.” | Scrooge's countenance fell “Ie that the chance and hop you mentioned, Jacob?” he de manded, in a faltering voice, “Tt 19." path I tread, Expect the first tow morrow, when the bell tolls One.” “Couldn't I take ‘em all at once, and have it over, Jacob?” hinted Scrooge. “Expect the second on the next night at the same hour, The third “The Green Seal” 66 y &. WALK Christmas Carol” teens: 3 pepeeverevererr DROA AWwAart Drow | THIS DANCING AND HUGGING PAR ENOUGH MATCH HAS GONG LETS HAvVe A Few ROUNDS OF BATTLING THAT YOU ADVERTISED Ml -— upon the next night when the last! Stroke of Twelve has ceaned to ¥ brate, Look to see me no more and look that, for your own sake, you remember what has passed be tween us! When it said these words, the spectre walked kward from him; and at every step it took the Window raised itself a little, so that when the spectre reached it, it was wide open. Marley jhost faded into mint, Scrooge Closed the window and tried to say “Humbug!” but stopped at tho first syllable. And being much tn need of repose, he went straight to bed, without un- dressing, and fell asleep upon the instant, CHAPTER Tl. The First of the Three Spirite When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark that, looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the trans. parent window from the opaque walle of his chamber. He was en- deavoring to pierce the darkness with bis ferret eyes, when the chimes of a neighboring church struck the three-quarters, So he Matened for the hour. Marley's Ghost bothered him ex- ceedingly. Every time he resolved within himself, after mature in- quiry, that ft was all a dream, hie mind flew back again, like a strong spring released, to its first position, and presented the same problem to be worked all thru, “Was ft a dream or not?” Scrooge lay in this state until he remembered, on a sudden, that the Ghost had warned him of a visita- tion when the bell tolled One. At length it broke upon bis listening ear. “Ding, dong!” “The hour itself,” sald Scrooge, triumphantly, “and nothing else!” He spoke before the hour bell sounded, which it now did with a deep, dull, hollow, melancholy One. Light flashed up {n the room upon the instant, and the curtains of his bed w drawn. The curtains of his bed were drawn aside, I tell you, by a hand And Scrooge, starting up into a half recumbent attitude, found himself face to face with the unearthly vist. tor who drew them. It was a strange figure—like a child; yet not so like a child as like| an old man, viewed thru some supernatural medium. Its hair which hung down ita back, was white as if with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle tn it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin, The arms were very long and muscular; the hands the same, as ff its hold were of uncommon strength. It held a branch of fresh green holly in its hand; and, in singular contradiction of that wintry emblem, had its dress trimmed with summer flowers. But BARGAIN MAT, WEDNESDAY Meet Senta 81.00 town appeared in the distance, with | {ts bridge, {ts church and winding | MOORE THEATRE [if '.,)" 00 ()0voy and winding) | TONIGHT and ALL W were seen trotting toward them with boys upon their backs, who} Wien Fie called to other boys in country gigs . Saari Cad and carts, driven by farmers, All and hese boys were in great spirits, Rresent THE MOST ind shouted to each other, until the | bg LAY prond fields were so full'of merry 7 Monthe in Chicago mas, as they parted at cross-roads 10 BIG SCENES and bye-ways, for their several COMPANY OF @2. 110! eat W hat wan Merry Christ. to Scrooge? Out upon Merry SauTy fie tee Youth, “christmas! What good had it ever emptationg done to him? | | “The school is not quite desert: | Nights, 500 to $2.00 ed.” said the Ghost. “A solitary + Mat, B06 to 81.50 child, ected by his friends, is left there still.” 5 Months in Boston | the agest thing about it was. t from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of which all this was visible you the Spirit ir, whose coming wa i to me? asked Scrooge. | “lam! ] The voice was soft and gentle “Who and what are you?" Scrooge demanded “Lam the Ghost of Christmas Past.” Long past?” inquired Scrooge, observant of its dwarfish stature. “No, Your past.” Scrooge then made bold to in- quire what business brought him there. “Your welfare aid the Ghost. Tt put ont ite strong hand as it spoke, and clasped him gently by the arm. “Rise! and walk with me!" It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian purposes; that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing gown and night-cap; and that he had a cold upon him at that time. Tho grasp, tho gentle as a woman's hand, was not to be re- sisted. He rose; but finding that the Spirit made toward the window, clasped his robe in supplication. “lam a mortal,” Scrooge remon. strated, “and Hable to fall.” “Bear but a touch of my hand there,” said the Spirit, upon his heart, “and you upheld in more than this As the words were spoken they passed thru the wall, and stood upon an open country road, with fields on elther hand, The city had entirely vanished. The darkness and the mist had vanished with it | “Good Heave: said Scrooge, clasping his hands together, as he looked about him. “I was bred in this place. I was a boy here!” The Spirit gazed upon him mildly Its gentle touch, tho ft had been Nght and instantaneous, appeared | still present to the old man’s sense |of feeling. He was conscious of a | thousand odors floating in the air, each one connected with a thou | sand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares long, long, forgotten! | our lip is trembling,” said the ‘ost. “And what fs that upon your cheek?" Scrooge muttered, with an un- | Usual catching in his voice, that it |was a pimple, and begged the Ghost to lead him where he would “You recollect the way?" inquired the Spirit. “Remember with fervor; fold.” “Strange to have forgotten it for | it!" cried Scrooge “I could walk it blind so many years!” observed the Ghost. “Let us go on!” They walked along the road, Scrooge recognizing every gate, and| | Post, and tree; until a liftie market | music that the crisp air laughed to hear it! nse are but shadows of the that havo been,” said the “They have no consctous: of us.” | » jocund travelers came on; and as they came, Scrooge knew Jand named them every or Why {was he rejoiced "beyond ail bounds to see them? up a filled with gladness when he heard {them give each other Merry Christ- Scrooge said he knew it, And Why did his| 9 Months in New York (01 eye glisten, and his heart leap) they went past? Why was he| SSISEETLISSLSS STESLETESOT MMS SESE Ss he sobbed | | They left the high road, by a | Wellremembered lane, and soon approached a mansion of dull red brick It was a large house, but Jone of fallen fortunes, windows | n and gates decayed | ent, the Ghost and » acrous the bh to a door | at the back of the house. It opened | vefore them, and disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room, made barer ull by lines of plain deal forms jand desks, At one of these a lone | jly boy was reading near a feeble} fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a | form, and wept to see bis poor for, gotten self as he used to be | The Spirit touched him on the arn and poloted to his youn r self, Intent upon his reading Jenly a man, in foreign garments | Wonderfully real and distinct to| look at, stood outside the window, | with an ax stuck in his belt, and| leading by the bridle an aes laden | with wood “Why, it's All Baba!” Scrooge exclaimed in ecstacy. “It's dear old honest All Baba! Yes, yer, I |know! One Christmas time, when |yonder solitary child was left here all alone, he did come, for the first time, just like that boy!" To hear Scrooge expending all the | earnestness of his nature on such j Subjects, in a most extraordinary jvolce between Jaughing and ery- |ing, and to see his heightened and | exelted face, would have been a surprise to his bysiness friends in ee city, indeed. Poor “There's the Parrot!” cried | Scrooge. “Green body and yellow tail, with a thing like a lettuce | krowing out of the top of his head there he is! Poor Robin Crusoe, {he called him, when he came home y Ssssesassaaeatetaasaaey | steer Taeeaeesatgaeetttesttesstssestesst ppeesteeteetete: Charles Dickens By A Novel A Week BSststerstptiscsticg SS SSSTUSTETESTS again after sailing r ne island, Poor It Crusoe, wh have y et Robin Crusoe” The man thought he was dreaming, but usn't the Parrot, you T Friday, run- ning for > e little creek! Halloa! Hoop! 0! Then, with a rapidity of transl tion very foreign to bis usual char. acter, he said ty for his for- mer self, “Poor bo: and cried The Ghost smiled thoughtfully, and ts ha ing aw it did #0, another Christ ma r self grew larg- er ¢ words, and the room be came a iiitle darker and more The panels shrunk, the win- cracked; fragments of plas fell out of the ceiling, and the naked Jaths were shown instead but how all this was brought about, Scrooge kn no more than you do. He only knew that it was quite correct; that everything had happened so; that there he was, alone again, when all the other boys had gone home for the jolly holidays. He was not reading now, but walking up and down despairingly, towards the door. It opened; and a little girl, much younger than the boy, came dart- ing in, and putting her arms about his neck, and often kissing him, addressed him es her “Dear, dear brother.” 1 ye come to bring you home, dear brother!” sald the child, clap- ping her tiny hands, and bending down to laugh "To bring you home, home, home! “Home, little Fan returned the boy (Continued in Our Next Issue) Editor’s Mail 1 | _RANCHER'S TROUBLES =| | Editor of Star A word to the| high cost of living soctety I helped to build Seattle from $0,000 to 300,000 (being a builder by trade), but am now living in the Sunnyside valley. 1 get provisions cheaper. I am at present helping a neighbor take out a fine apple 9 years old. He says he t perfect apples on the nts per box. An r man has 500 boxes of apples jin his cellar which he is selling at 26 cents per box—they have an oc- casional worm sting, but are de Helous, He can not ship them be ‘cause they will not pass a strict inspection. You would be pleased | to hav them. I cannot ship a sack of carrots with a car of spuds because a mixed car raises the freight rate, therefore would cost more than wi could get for them. When some of the folderol of the R. R. and a fow other things are regulated, the H. C. of L. will be fessened and not until then. You folks think the | rancher is the money maker, but | let me tell you about all he gets | i ough to eat and taxes. ONE WHO HAS HAD EXPERI-) ENCE, BOTH IN CITY AND RANCHING. HEATED CARS A JOKE! Mr. Editor: This talk about heated cars is getting to be quite a joke, Once every little while there appear some yarns about |the cars that are being heated for |the benefit of the public. Well, | | our experience on the Fort Lawton | line is that if we ride once or twice to town and back every day, we are apt to strike a heated car once lin one or two weeks travel. I will be truthful about this. Perhaps there are more than one heated car in two weeks on an av Jerage, but I am sure I don't hit one per week, on average. But we have very accommodating conductors on our line. I get on at 36th W. and before we have gone over half a dozen blocks, the conductor will go thru the car and open the most of the windows over- head. Perhaps he thinks that what we are short of in heat he will let us have in air, A. P. D, LINGERING GUEST IS NABBED BY POLICE It was after the Christmas ner, at 2239 Fairview ave. All the guests but one had de- parted. He remained—with a half gallon jug of whisky. When police officers reached the seene at the request of neighbors, they arrested W. C. Carlisle for violating the dry law He's the din- former waiter at the Thalia cafe, arrested Noy, 21 for selling booze, Home-Making Woman’s Business, Says This Asst. Attorney General The first woman in the United States to be an assistant attorney general is Miss Clara Ruth Mozzer appointed by Leslie Hubbard, in appreciation of wom- of Denver, an’s part in Colorado politics. Altho in politics, Miss Mozzer says woman's ultimate aim should be the making of a home, “I expect to make one some day,” she says. Miss Mozzer got her law degree She | is also a graduate of the University at the University of Colorado. of Denver. should use it for Always tow directions TO BE SAFE FROM ACCIDENTS, Use Benctol instead of bolic acid, bichlo mercury tablets, todine, etc... whicl are inn! Poarone. Benetol does all sal chetr wor! rdinary salt, For Sale At All on Genuine in RED BEST $2.50 | GLASSES ON EARTH We are one of the |f few optical stores ix the Northwest that really grind lenses from s the only one in Seattle on scribed unless absolutely free, by graduate optometrist. Dr. J. R. 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