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The Seattle Star Ry matt, out of city, & ys @ montha, 92,71 in the SH aig The per month ite per © 0 per month; B months, $f of Washingt Outside of for € montha or $9.00 per year, My carrier, city, know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so fectual as their strict construction.—Grant. | United | “Consider” the Consider,” advises Anatole hor, “the n equality of the that says t and to poor, al steal bread nor p under bridges! * Frank Williamson adulterated alcohol by adding red pepper and a quantum of ginger and he wold it for whinky. Those who purchased of Williamson's stock wanted whisky, to be sure, but over and above—they wanted the cause of intoxleation, be it whisky or kerosene ot Olt anes, famous French law—the same ©, “Thou shalt is going to be Ruler or Great Britain? fa an important question today in importance day by day, for t thinkers in governments that the world is upon the ajoutic It rich the at threshold law going sine of Retford, of Standard Of, told trade convention, at San Francisco, “We last seeing what the British have recognized country Which controls the petroleum sup control the trade of the world ® Auckland Geddes, the new British ambassador | believes Great Britain plays but a small of the world, In a speech in New York, he said striving to et monopolistic of ol). Her companies are active, Fair ition is no crime, and it all the Met every one if we have free competition in with this important, this vital sub Your fense, T law maid a Chicago fudge, “ts a serioun of and he sent Williamson to jafl for a year rn now to another court and another case—aame fm the oll fickis the “Pilgrims” d is not The Armour Grain Co, must pay to the government $1,050 because it adulterated—not aleohol—but oata. The oajs, 35 carloads, were shipped to France, consign ed to od the horses of Ameri at war. te * mid another Chicago judge, “ia a serious offense,” and fined the company $1,050 A man and a company, then. bridge and one was sent to jail and one was fined less than the profit it would have made hed tts sleeping net been discovered. But-—one sold bad whisky to bad mon and the other sold bad oats for good horses, and therein la$ the dif. ference in offense and the careful difference in the Judgment. « . ube for wit t “ ” called attention to the fact that “seventy % of the present oll production of the world from the United States, sixteen per cent from that, American capital controls inthis. gaid Great Britain, from the whole British ire, only gets er cent of the world’s. sup American cap controls §2 per cent. he was speaking of developed oil fields, wells, The point to be driven home to however, is this ts going to control the off fields of the future, now undeveloped, which the drill bas not but which will, some day, abound in wealth commercedriving, navy floating, gushers When those, now undeveloped, fields come fence, it is probable that the: present Ameri will be “dry.” true, as Geddes says, America wears ‘frown today. But, isn't it also true that rer of the crown years hence will be Row branching into new fields, where stores of ofl flow concealed p earth's surface? 2\a ——— 4 A Hungarian woman predicts that our next president will be bald. Weill, in this country we have no heir apparent. Badges of Success A recent writer In the Atlantic Monthly comments | on the fact that boys and girls in school work for funny Httle things called “marks.” How about the men and women who work for funny bits of paper 4 dollars? ‘There is habit in motives as in everything else, and people who have sought marks or dollars for the things that go with them may come to seek them for | themselves. But originally and normally the marks and the dollars are sought only as means to ends or badges of succeas; and the teacher or employer who forgets what gives them value is bound to make mix takes. ‘There are four great ends that a person will natural work for 1—For the mere fun of doing—of being a caune and proving one's power, whether he makes mud pies and bonfires or books and fortunes. This is the motiv back of play and it gives zest to work. 2—To satinty his needs and cravings for such things as food and warmth and shelter and sleep. 3~—To gain and maintain a mate and a family. 4—For the good of the larger group that longs to and an honorable place within it. These ends may not be clearly conscious, but the urge of them Ie there; and, tho one may be merificed for another, one’s satisfaction with his work in life de pends on the degree to which it tends to satisfy them all far be y a man is broke, he thinks he is hard When he has a lot of dollars that won't anything, he thinks he is rich, ~ RulesforSwimmers Robinson, veteran swimming coach, presehts fules for swimmers: | at least an hour after eating before swim: | | @ not go in tathing alone. he be ‘There is safety in | pt an invitation to ride in a canoe if } cannot ‘swim. | ‘entering the water keep the hands under so step into a hole you can immediately start dearning to swim move toward tha shore; swim away from the beach. out of rough water if you are subject to trouble. ewim until exhausted. Don't “show off.” in theu ndertow, try at once to float, ‘these rules by heart. mber them when you come near the bathing The Left Wing them tn mind, boys, when you visit the of " hole. The man who gets 40 cents for his cotton thinks the sugar grower and the wheat grower are profiteers. There ia no reason for getting excited because « few radical leaders in the ranks of organized labor are trying to stampede the American workingmen. Every labor movement thruout the world has its left wing of discontent Nature abhors unanimity of pinion. In Great Britain, where the labor party ts polit!- cally very strong, it is not socialistic. consequently, has developed, known as the Independ ent Labor party. Its program is the establishment of & socialistic society. In Germany, where the soctaliets are tn power, a left wing also has developed. It in called the Inde lexico’s provisional president is “consid- @ remarkable tenor singer,” and he used to be teller in a bank. This familiarity notes will be useful to him when he be- to correspond with Mr. Wilson.—Chi- Tribune. | | | man who is following a plow wonders in thunder Wilhelm raised such a row slept under the same} A left wing, | THE SEATT SA SUCH 18 LIFE By 0. B, Joyful The war of the canaries ts gotng on in San Francisca, | Mr ‘errie Johnson had a Minter Canary who couldn't warble a penny’s worth “Misw Mona Hambly had a Mra, Canary, and a fine whistier she was) and in | So Mrs, Johnson borrowed Mins |Hambly’s canary to teach her own |bird how to warble |} But Mra. € ry could do more jthan whist laid some emer. and hatched ‘em, all the while giving Mr. Canary singing lessons, When Miss Hambly concluded her bind had been giving enough singing liexsons she went for Mra. Canary, land found a happy bird family in the ane. } | Then the debate bean, Mit Hambly insisted the baby birds should go back home with | their mother. Mrs. Johnson argued they should remain with Mr. Canary, being aa) how they were born right in his joure | The canary owners took the case | to the police court, and Judge Oppen- helm took it under consideration. | | “I don’t know,” he suid, “whether a Papa Canary or a Mamma Canary | is better able to bring up a Baby Canary; I'll have to read some bird |books before I decite.” o- The cometed dog has made ht ap. | pearance on the fashionable Place Vendome, Paris eee Mra. Jonette A. Singleton of st! Paul, Minn. asks for diverce because her husband “played the sweetest strains on his violin for the enter: | ainment of other women.” bapes-enype sectcensug fPanalioaal porineray he will be shown that the only way o insure the defeat of Cox will be for him to throw his influence tof, Paimer, just an he did for Wilson at! Baltimore. ® While there are lots of men Bryan | would rather see nominated than jPulmer, he is pot in the commoner’s YEA, ‘TIS ODD, THAT It's truly wonderful how Nature! maintains untvermal adjustment We! have with us prohibition, and Na. jture, responding joyously, brings us }a bumper crop of dandelions. “Never ‘need no many and never seed #0 much demand fer ‘em before,” says! Squire Harpington | see SMILE AWHILE By Lee Hingston At one time In the days that were 1 knew a certain character who all |ealied Roozer Brown; hin ruddy faced | was round and fat, he always wore a} | white plug hat about our little town For Brown the days were never! j dull, he used to keep three-quarters | full and merry was bin eye; no evil in old Boorer lurked; but if he ever really worked, he did # on the sly. Hijn voice waa soft, bis manner }mild, he was the friend of every child; he'd always find a dime to! buy a little lad a top, to fix a broken toy he'd stop, he was not preased for time. I don’t suppoee be ever went to jeburch, but he would pay the rent of some old friendiess crone who, all good having come to doubt, could always find the latch-string out! i where Rooner lived alone. | At length he died and from afar leame strangers in @& private car to |bear old Brown away. They blushed at his suggestive name and mur. | mured of his people's shame; we chil- dren kneit to pray. | Now I don't know what Boozer |did in that dim, unknown past he bid or what his sad renown, but when bin kin died full of years, I wonder if such heartfelt tears fell | }an for Boozer Brown, LE STAR Ir’s Too BAD HB—etAa Doesn't st REN GTHEN THE INTELL EC For ir fe DOID, HEL Wou_D CGASE TING OF ONIONS T, tao, INDULG Gnce A& AN INDOOR SPORT WHO'S TO BLAME FOR HIGH PRICKS? It in hard to sympathize an we feel We are expected to sympathize with the chorus that curses the profiteers For the reason that it is hard keep thinking that mont to blame for high prices ix not) to from the man the man who asks them, but the man that pays the Caveat emptor—let ware-—-for it is he that ls the of the trouble When Mr. Mainzer orders a cooked ham at Mr. Reuben’s delicatensen and waxes wroth when Mr sends him a@ bill for $: be and th public arise and call Keuben hard names. Mr, Mainzer refuses to 4 more than $14, and a jury takes © ten minutes to O. K. hin a Hut the thought obtrudes t Mainzer and others simply w put themselves in a pos asked such prices, the sellers would quit asking them, for no storekeeper can go on asking what he never gets Mr, Haskell, vice president of the International r company, also complaing because he was charged the buyer be ause a |$1.36 for four pig's feet at a Broad 4 Way shop out ty LET THE WORLD KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE WORTH SELLING THAT'S HOW DOU GLAS DID IT by B. C, Forbes, Editor Forbes’ Magazine wk Douglas has demonstrated | shoes whore maker was not ashamed that the trick one follows is of leas | to stamp with his own portrait importance than the diligence and en terprise with which it is followed. With what results? The 20260foot onestory factory Refore bis day no American had ever | which was started on leas than $1,000 become a millionaire making fhoes Shoemakers were usually poor men, doing business on a puny scale, Dougiag, at the age of 31, after capital, with five employes and an developed into onn of the manufac turing and mercantile wonders of the having been bruined and buffeted On| present time. Its capital in not $1,000, the atormy sea of experience, wet out | but $3,500,000; it occupies not one to become “the greatest shoemaker in| room, but a group of spacious build: the world.” ‘ He did a revolutionary thing. 1883 he began to advertise mystemat leally, persistently, extennivety In| output ts not a few pairs a ingn covering 200,000 square feet, Its day, but over 5,000,000 a year (17,000 pairs vertixing, however, was not always | force of five workers bas multiplied taken seriously by the public. ‘The first rewulta were discouraging. i into an army of 4,000 workers. The leather consumed is hot transported Douglas paid out more money than) under the arm of the owner, for it the increase in returns Justified, But| comprises the hides of 1, W. L. Douglas was not one of that) mals yearty. Nor does the proprietor large army who expect strong, | personally sell the whole output, for healthy plants to shoot up the mo-| It would fill every car of @ train six Ment seed is sown In the ground. He} and a half miles in length. The “ac was pot building for today, but for | comsories” called for annually include tomorrow, for the time when his por over 1,000,000 yards of cloth and 1 trait and name on a pair of shoes | 000 miles of flax thread. A monu- would recommend thene shoes to men | ment over £00 miles in height could and women thruowt the world. He be raised were a year’s output of could stand the scoffing of thowe tg-| shoes stacked one on top of another. norant of his ambition of hin vision. Hin confidence never weakened, his perseverance never wavered. He adhered to his well con sidered course, spending $2 and barren 000 and city. “Chicago in one of the cleane: cities morally in the United States,” announces the chief of police of that A fine opinion he must have more annually on advertising the of the rest of the cities. | | | an jhe could buy four pig's feet at Wash Ad. | per day), worth over $20,000,000. The|nests. The public. by Columbia univer wity, and afterwards found out that ington Market for Loud wails are likewise going up ere and there over the fact that tajlors are raising the price of #ults from $60 to $100, shoes that once cost $3 are now sold for $12, and socks that once retailed for 35 cents & pair are now $1.50. Our first and unreasonable impulse | ie to rush upon the seller and stone! him, But wait a minute. There is only one dominant reason why the haberdasher axks $25 for al silk shirt that erst was $7. And that| im, because he can get it—he knows | the boobs will pay it | Get back to that underlying univer: | mal law, and put your feet upon it.| and you will not make foolish mis-| takes. That law ts, that the seller! will ask for his goods all the buyer ie willing to pay. | It is not the profiteers, it is the| profitees, that are raising the dick-| ons with everything. All classes are | cents, jamas and servant girls sealskin | coats. And no long as blooming idiots | will pay $7 for a 25-cent lunch at a rilded restaurant or highbinder ho- tel, $7 will continue to be the price. ‘The only remedy is to quit buying, luxprious stuff, wear your old clothes, do not patronize the robbers’ | if they had a mind, could easily bring the pirates) to time. Bring home some of Boldt's Lunch Pastry and Hard Rolls. HOOKWORM DISEASE Hookworm dinease has been previ lent in the southern states wince the brought over from Af- of the south sull quite slaves were rica, In many sections hookworm Infection is prevalent Hookworm dinease in contracted thru the skin, and is usually due to walking barefooted in soll that has been polluted with human filth, The first symptoms of the disease are what is known as “ground itch.” Lae ter on the patient becomes very anaemic and weak thru the constant ons of blood, and appears to be lazy Insenitary privies and espectally the lack of privies are the agencies thru which bookworm disease is A. licokworms are small worms that ary from one-eighth to one-half inch in length and are about the size of No. 6 sewing thread. These worma, ufter gaining access to the body thru the skin, find their way to the intes tines, where they attach themselves and draw about a drop of blood @ day, inject a smajl amount of poisona® and lay eggs. The life of a hook worm Varies from § to 15 years. Hookworm disease can*be prevent ed by the following means 1, The use of shoes tn rainy weather, thus preventing the damp soll from sticking to the feet of chil- dren who may be barefooted. 2. The construction and use of |sanitary privies, thus preventing pol lution of the soil with hookworm. 3. Treatment and cure of all sus ted or known cases, Hookworm disease is one of the eamiest diseanes known to cure. Any physician can administer the proper medication. If you value your watch, let Haynes repair ft, Next to Liberty Theatre, Seattle’s Leading Dentist I am now devoting my entire time to my dental practice. I make all examinations and diagnose each case as. well as do all extract- putput of 48 pairs of shors a day, has/guilty, Workmen are buying sili pa-|{ng between the houre of 9 a m. and & p. m My offices have beer established for mor: than a quarter of ¢ century, and under m) personal management since July 15, 1901. I do not compete with cheap, transient, advertising ay Aste. My prices are the lowest, con- sistent with fi lass work. EDWIN J. BROWN, D. D. & 's Leading Dentist Confidence More than 13,000 women and 22,000 men make up the list of the owners of Swift & Company. Every state in the Union is pendent Socialist party. It wants to establish soviet government. In Russia, where the poviets rule, there ts still a left wing. It is the Anarchist party. It ts constantly working to overturn the Bolsheviki and to substitute government which is the absence of government. i If an anarchist government is ever established anywhere, it will undoubtedly have a left wing of its own, No new phenomenon, therefore, has been crented by America's left wing labor leaders. very country has the like, Paris Papers Please Copy lenaant Bunday afternoon haa been . where @ place in the sun. represented, Of this great enrollment more than 10,000 are employes of Swift & Company who own shares in the business. An additional 13,000 employes are buying shares on deferred ou can pict y He men and women have confidence in the company’s poli- eg pe rm a Save cis, its integrity and purposes Tinie tor tates | That is why they invest their oes, but was | savings in shares, ult of high prices paid for raw | om Swift & Company has been paying dividends regularly for 34 years. Thepresentrateis 8 per cent. Swift & Company shares are bought and sold on the Chicago and Boston stock exchanges, The company itself has no shares for sale, The shares represent actual, tangible values. There is no water. Anybody — livestock man, retailer, or consumer—may buy them and thus become a part owner of Swift & Company. No one man, no one family, owns as much as half of the stock. When you find out how much Sugar { unselfish politician is the living image | great gewhikis. There is no such H asa great gewhikis. is need of a league to enforce peace thos ¢ who argue about a league, Hunt Beer lives in Greenville, N. Y cee “I have just returned from Mexi- co, where I have been for five A Se ae f years.” postcards H. A.D. “And as The trouble is that people with an itch to|! walk around the streets I can only | reform the world always start on the other) ***!!™ %% the poet did, "Water, way fellow ter, soda water o wherer" . ae 's theory is that a Good Samaritan has something up his sleeve, ly has no coal mines, but while there is . io there is hope. J i The H. C. of L. problem is a matter of dol- lars and sense.—North Virginian-Pilot. {7 A 8 clared | This | pri jthe The Boys in the Next Car ie read tn the papers that the | fallroads will increase wages and to | raise the money they will increase |freight rates. The public pays both { Louis shoe company has de Mezican leader is of feud days. eee the freight and the fare. HE'S Gor ALL THE MaRKs HE LOoKs 1) On& OF THOS Bievs wHo MAKeEs HIS a a Beer A CITIZEN OF CIRCOM STANCE ~ “Police at Coney Island,” says a New York dispatch, “have been or-| dered to stop shimmying.” Good. Who wants to see policemen shimmy, anyway? SYRUP in your cooking —you'll be surprised! This advertisement is for the purpose of acquainting you with the fact that Swift & Company is not a “close cor- poration,” and that any one may participate in the profits—and share the riske and responsibilities — by becoming a shareholder, ome Mu mu HA ani DR. J. BR. BDINVYON Free Examination BEST $2.50 Guasses on Earth We are one of the few optical Stores in the Northweat that really grind lenses from start to finish, and we are the only one in ska" c—~ON FIRST AVE, Examination free, by graduate o} tometrist. Glasses not preseri unless absolutely necessary. BINYON OPTICAL CO. 1116 FIRST AV! motwese, Sp Swift & Company, U.S. A. Seattle Local Branch, 201-11 Jackson St, Jj. L. 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