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ped, not grained, generous but pale in goodness.— } T, Browne. UCH is LIF BY “Modern man ts given to excessive Q@bbreviation.” remarks a scholarly Bent who registers a kick against shortening of words “it te, Jiowever,” he admits, “a thing to be ‘expected from a race that has for gotten how to walk and must run” When, as you. may or may not , Cortes knocked at the| Of Mexico he was much peeved | une of the long worts he con ly tripped over, What he took | whole conversation was mere By one word. Often the brave Braniart would stop his Astoc | @rator in the middle of a word (after he had been working on it all after. Boon) with the request to save the Fest for another day. Tt is related by a chrontcler of Lite fas it Was in Max five centuries ago Phat a Spanish conqueror was anx to get a letter to Cortes, and in \ dicated his desire to a native. “ru get you the amatiacouflolit | quitcatiaxiahuitit,” the Aztec replied Tneaning he'd call up the Aztec mes genger service and get a Ind to carry measage. Try calling up the W and ask for an amatletc. Another neat Aztec way of apend. day in conversation was to mention af the notlazomahuls tzin, Unat is, the priest. About all the type in the font were up when King . Axaincatsin his daughter, Chachtuhnenetain marriage to a young lad named) ualpit, Tater on, Nezaete. sued for di naming two co-respondents, uhcoatl and Hypttzilitain. Both young men were convicted neverely punished by cutting out | | | to announce— ixochti now Ddatting for Hult "And when Mericattsinco and Hutt co were playing the world many a jaw was put out of chimhing 0 over the names B the batting order. An Letter to Mr. Harding and Mr. Cox BY DR. FRANK CRANE ght, 1924 by Frank Crane of you fs going to be elected t of the United States. No matter which is the one, he ts to face a tremendous practical It is this: ‘With 32 senators to be elected on 2, 32 republican and 31 cratic senators whose terms are ity of the senate necessary to the tresty-making power vest- im the senate under the constitu. ‘of the Verzailies treaty and our rance into the league of nations, fs equally trae that the democrats have the power to prevent the Rew “association of nations.” will perceive that “it is a con- that confronts us, not a to wltimate ideals for which the people are not yet ready. “Nor is it time for that “foolish con- sistency which is the hobgoblin of lit- tle minds.” It is your duty, Mr. Next Prest- “Gent, to get the people of this coun- try together. To this end you must be the presi- _@ent of ALL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, and not the leader of a the league of nations ought never to have been made a party issue. You know that, and have said it. If you want to have a successful administration, therefore, and win ‘the enthusiastic applause of all ‘claunes— FORM A COALITION GOVERN- MENT. Get men of both parties in your ‘as cabinet, " +We've had enough fighting. Let's pet together! Lioyd George said: “Every belliger- ent country, with the exception of America, has been driven to a coalition, to nave the state.” He also said: “When there ts a storm it is all hands on deck.” The business men of the United States are sick and tired of party | squabbling. The workers are sick of It ‘The women are sick of it. Everybody, except the political ‘wrestlers, is #ick of it. | Can you not, once you are elected, help this torn, bleeding and dingust- ed people to get together? | Only so will we have peace and) Prosperity. q | Men of influence tn the party op- Posed to yours will flock to your| support. Will you do this? It is your amazing opportunity. FINESSE Scot-—-“How muckle are thas cok lars, ma mannie?”" Shop Assistant—“Two for half-a- erown, sir.” Beot-—“Anf how muckle does ane) @ them cost?” Shop Assistant—“One and wix.” Beot—‘Then ah’ll hae the other yinl’—Passing show $4.00 for € mont fs no time for blind, stubborn | The Seattle Sta @ months, 09.76: rear. eae The per LY By carrier, city, Ide per week. 800 per month: § montha, of Washington. Outaide or 09.00 per year, The campaign has been called a “quiet campaign.” would have difficulty realizing America is in the throes of a change of gov- ernment, for whether Cox or Harding is elected, it will be a change. ann x| America takes its throes painlessly, Persons lightly dip-}|campaign orators are to be believed, the fate of the in\{nation is in the balance, the average American is honesty, .are}|going to his daily job, or attending to her cooking Puntished Datty by The Mar Publientng Oe, Phone Mate eo Painless Politics A visitor from abroad Altho, if the and baking, just as if the nation will continue to \flourish long after the issues of the 1920 campaign jare forgotten. Tomorrow about 30'000,000 American men and women will go to the polls, make marks on their ballots and by nightfall America’s quadrennial “revolution” will have been accomplished. The next day the loser will congratulate the winner and everything will be over, including the, shouting. National politics is not as thrilling as it used to be. bitter and so, perhaps, not as It was a recognized means of recreation in times when there was no baseball, nor movies, nor golf to provide diversion. In 1884 the militia was called out to guard New York during the campaign riots when banks and business houses were threatened. In those times political hates survived long after cam- paigns. American politics isn't as what it has lost in color, it that glorifies America as it ephetieg as it was, but for as gained in that orderliness attends to the important busi- ness of electing a new president. No Test Freedom of thought has never been welcome. Gallico was exiled and persecuted until publish the heliocentric theory. he retrneted the “heresy of the movement of the earth.” of Truth Copernicus dared not Roger Bacon was imprisoned for many years on account of his theortes regarding physical phenomena, and Bruno was murdered for his scientific heresies. Servetus was convicted because be place and not to have him burned, one of the he believed in the antipodes—the opposite side of the earth. “flowing with milk and honey.” asserted that Jerusalem was a barren When Calvin decided grounds of his conviction was that physical existence of people on the Three hundred years ago an opinion on theology that would not be considered orthodox subjected the conasctentious person to unlimited physt eal torture at the hands of devout theologians, Two hundred years ago/| in the United States the belief that people are “ponseased of the devil,” and the justice of witeh burning, wore prevalent, A hundrd and fifty years ago it was necessary for a gentieman to defend his boner by dueling. thru the streets of Boston with a the abolition of slavery. A bundred years ago William Lieyd Garrison was dragred rope around his waist for advocating In every case the theories or opinions then untvernalty held to be right are now universally held to be wrong and the opposite right. Is it not well, therefore, when opinions and theories are held by people today, unorthodox and perhaps unpleasant to remember that a hundred or three hundred years from now the opinion which mont men today condemn may turn out to have been right? Orthodoxy is no test of truth. If mother ts fussy, peevish or nervous Don't criticise hert Maybe she has “embroidery nerves. Dr. Louls R. Welzmutller, physical director of the New York West Bide Y. W. C A. predicts that the new dinease is about to announce itself. And why? Becanse, as Wr. Welzmuller explains, the mother of today, and even the danghter, @ whirtwind with the knitting needies. They fy im the train, at the theatre, on the front porch and everywhere else where mother has a chance to sit Not like the down. days when grandma took her own eweet time on Her movements were rhythmical Those seen today are super Mz Snot. te katt te belied the they are now, ating tn, um if Welzmuller has the right hunch, the “embroMtery nerves’ will get mother if she doesn’t watch out. the Bag A noted English physician, who has specialized in the treatment of Nervous diseases, believes Uberal bag would do good. kicking the cat eye, or breaking out a few teeth. your nerves, punch the bag. the wife; punch the bag. health of the family. and frequent doses of the punching ‘This wise doctor advises nervous patients to get rid of temper by hitting the bag, rather than beating up the wife, slapping the child, or It is @ fine idea! atmosphere, and does more toward the building up of appetite and physical strength than the old-fashioned method of blackening another's Makes for more pleasant home If the dinner ts not done on time, or underdone, or overdone, don't “jaw” at the cook; punch the bag. If house bills are too high, don’t blame Install a portable punching bag home. Then, when the family notes the first rise of temper they may -| roll the punching apparatus into the room and leave you alone with it. Tt i, ax the doctor asserts, splendid for the health—especially the If Willie's nose gets the better of in the Apples and Savings ing being of all persons. So widespread is the demand for apples world. Apple Week should be an event of marked mportance to the people of Seattle. For here in the center of this great apple orchard the finest specimens of this fruit may be obtained Open Saturday Evenings 6 to 8 o’Clock Combined resources Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank and Dexter Horton National Bank exceed . $24,000,000.0 PPLES are one of Nature’s choicest roducts—stored with health-giv- lements—essential for the well- of the Pacific Northwest that the fame of this district is known around the | THf sEAT TLE STAR The Ferry of Unfulfillment Copyright, (920, by Doubleday, Page & Co.; published by special ar- rangement with the Wheeler Byn dicate, Ine, At the street corner, as old as granite tn the “rusth-hour” tide of humanity, stood the Man from Nome The Arctic winds and sun had stain ed him berry-brown, eye atill held the azure glint of glaciers Ile wae as ana fox, a9 tough and as broad urora borealin, He stood sprayed by a Niagara of sound the crash of the elevated trains, clanging cars, pounding of rubber leas tires and the antiphony of the cab and truck drivers indulging in searifying repartes, And so, with his gold dust cashed in to the merry alr of hundred thousand, and with the cakes and ale of one week in Gotham turning bitter on his tongue, the Man from Nome sighed to set footeagain in Chilkoot, the exit from the land of treet noises and Dead Sea apple ple Up Sixth avenue, with the trip ping, geurrying, chattering, bright eyed, homing tide came the Girl from | Sieber: Mason's The Man from Nome looked and saw, first, that she was supremely beautiful after his own neeption of beauty; and next, that she moved with exactly the steady grace of a dog sled on a level crust of snow. His third sensation was an instantaneous conviction that he de sired her greatly for his own. Thus quiskly do men from Nome make up their minds Besides, he was going back to the North in a short time, and to act quickly was no leas neces wary. A thousand girls from the great department store of Sieber Mason Nowed /along the sidewalk, making navigation dangerous to men whose feminine field of vision for three| years has been chiefly limited to Siwash and Chilkat squaws, Hut the Man fromm Nome, loyal to her who had resurrect#d his long cached heart, plunged into the stream of pulchritude and followed her. Down Twenty-third street she glided swiftly, looking to netther side. no more flirtatious than the bronse Diana above the Garden. Her fine brown halr was oeatly braided; feat waist and unwrinkled oyster try of the West Bide Whole sale Fish Dealers’ Aanistants Social | Club No 2. thus reducing her. usual Ume of sleep to only three houra And the day had been uncommonty troublous, Customers had been In ordinately trying; the buyer tn her department had scolded her roundly for letting her stock run down, her best friend, Mamie Tuthill, had snubbed her by going to lunch with that Dockery «trl. The Girl from Bieber Mason's was in that relaxed, softened mood that often comes to the Independent fem inine wage-earner. It Is a mood moat propitious for the man who would woo her, Then she has yearnings to be set in some home and heart; to be comforted, and to hide bebind some strong arm and rest, rest. Iut Mine Claribel Colby was also very aleepy, ‘There came to her aide « strong man, browned and dressed carelessly Int the beat of clothes, with his hat in his hand. “Lady,” sald the Man from Nome, rempectfully, “excuse me for mpeak T tave done IN ANSWER TO touR AD. FOR AN OF MCE MAN. ECOMMGNDPATION FROM MY LETTER OF FoRmMere eMPLU— THiS 13 I NEVER LOOK AT LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION — THEY ARG SCRAPS OF PAPER, TF keeP A MAN IT'S NOT BECAUSG HE CAN ing to you, but I--l—I saw you on the street, and—and—* ‘Oh, gee!” remarked the Girl from Sieber Mason's, glancing up with the most capable coolness, “Ain't there jany way to ever get rid of you mash ere? I've tried everything from eat ing onions to using hatpins. Be on your way, Freddie.” “I'm not one of that kind, lady,” said the Man from Nome-—"honest, I'm not. Aa I say, I saw you on the street, and I wanted to know you I was afraid I wouldn't ever see you Jagnin in this big town unless I apoke; and that's why I done so.” Mins Colby looked once shrewdly |at him in the dim light on the ferry |boat. No; he did pot have the per | fidious smirk or the brazen swagger of the lady-killer, Sincerity and mod esty shone thru his boreal tan. It seemed to her that it might be good |to hear @ little of what he had to | may. | “You may sit down,” she said, lay ipg ber hand over a yawn with on tentatious politeness; “and—mind- don't get fresh or I'll call the steward.” The Man from Nome eat by her side Me admired ber greatly. He i more than admired her, She had ex |actly the looks he had tried #0 long in vain to find In @ woman. Could lahe ever come to like him? Well, |that was to be seen. He must do all jin his power to stake his claim, any skirt were eloquent of the double | how. virtues-taste and economy. Ten yards behind followed the Paitten Man from Nome, Mise Clartbel Colby, the Girl trom Sleber-Mason's, belonggd to that sad company of mariners known aa Jer. sey commuters She walked into the walting-room of the ferry, and up the stairs, and by a marvelous swift, Vttle run, caught the ferry-boat that was Just going out, The Man from Nome closed up his ten yards in three jymps and gained the deck clone beside her. Mins Colby chose a rather lonely seat on the outside of the upper: cable, The night was not cold, and whe desired to be away from the curious eyes and tedious voices of the passengers. Besides, she was ex: tremely weary and drooping from lack of sleep, On the previous night she had graced the annual ball and’ “Shall T “My name's Blayden,” nid he— “Henry Mlayden.” “Are you real sure It ain't Jones?” wo Complete Shows TUESDAY NIGHT 7:30 and 10 P. M. “Yea, I reckon so. I reckon you could keep anything I've got I reckon I'm what you would call a rough man, but I could be awful 00d to anybody I liked I've had a rough time of it up yonder, but I beat the game, Nearly 5,000 ounces of dust “vas what I cleaned up while .joant you give me a chance? ance Sateen aE SST eee AOAY SRS I was there.” “Goodness!” exclaimed Miss Colby, obliginely sympathetic. “It must be an awful dirty place, wherever it is” And then her eyes closed. The! volce of the Man from Nome had @ monotony in its Very earnestness Resides, What dull talk was this of brooms and sweeping the dust? She leaned her head back against the wall “Mies.” mid the Man from Nome, with deeper earnestness and monot ony, “I never saw anybody I liked as well ag I do you. I know you can't think that way of me right yet; but Won't WR you let me know you, and seg if I can't make you like me?” The head of the Girl from Sleber- | Mason's alld over gently and rested upon his shoulder, Sweet sleep had won her, and she was drearfiing rap- turousty of the Wholesale Fish Deal ers’ Assistants’ ball. The gentleman from Nome kept | his arms to himself. He did not sus | pect sleep, and yet he was too wise! to attribute the movement to sur. lrender. He was greatly and biiss- fully thrilled, but he ended by re- garding the head upon his shoulder as an encow ng preliminary, mere- ly advanced ab a harbinger of his success, and not to be taken advant- age of. One small speck of alloy discounted the gold of his satisfaction. Had he spoken too freely of his wealth? He | wanted to be liked for himself, | “I want to say, Mins,” he said, “that you can coynt on mé@. They know me in the Klondike from IG too much. (An Interchangeable Song) * in advance. ; but an imperfect kindly retain The pirat A brighter day t* at ite dawn | bears the palm from | Aw Harding | yields the field to urnaliatic quill pen, Peopie’e WIN nt codoectl), | He arops the « n | Now Hight Is seated on the throne, | Now Wrong is prisoned in the stocks; Now comes our hero to his own. bows the knee to Yor Harding Con overmasters iow tte binat, timbrel piay! re overcnat; 4 is past, G | Our hero wine the day His voice is like the lion's roar, Hie vival tet tten Ox, | And millions from shore to shore. | licks the feet of As Harding Coxt | knocks the block off 920, N. B A.) | Juneau to Circle City and down the whole length of the Yukon. Many | night I've laid in the now wp there where I worked like a slave for three | years, and wondered if I'd ever have |anybody to, like me, I didn't want |ail that Gust just myself. I th I'd meet just the right one ~ |time, and I done it today. Money's \a mighty good thing to have, but to |Have the love of the one you like best is better still. If you was ever to marry a man, Miss, which would you rather he'd have?” “Cash?” |_ The word came sharply and loudly | from Miss Colby's Ups, giving evi- dence that In her dreams she was now behind her counter in the great department store of Sieber Mason. Her head suddenly bobbed over sideways. She awoke, sat atraight, and rubbed her eyes, The Man from Nome was gone. “Geel I believe I've been asicep,” said Miss Colby. “Wonder what came of the White Wingst’ NOT WORKING BUT TIRED OUT ‘When one feels always tired with- |out working, or suffers from Wick- ache, lumbago, rheumathe $ I sore muscles or stiff joints, it ts |not always easy to jocate, the |source of trouble, bet fre quently it can be noes worked, weakened or neys Mrs. L. Gibson, 22th Edison st., La Junta, Colo, “My kidneys were giving me great deal of trouble for some I took Foley Kidney Pills and lbelped me right away.” * 4 i Seats on Sale for Both Election Returns Received by Private Wire. All the News as Fast as It Happens This Bill Twice Daily All Week Norman J. Theiss Presents “THE SPIRIT OF MARDI GRAS” A Musical Revue Ex Featuring the Mardi Gras Sextette NATE LEIPZIG Celebrated International Card Expert SABBOTT & BROOKS A Terpsichorean Cocktail With » flash of Mirth WEADICK & LADUE In “Ropin’ and Gab” CLAUDE & MARION “With Their Argument Still Unsettled* WILLIE HALE & BRO. In “Bits of Vaudeville” BERT BAKER _ AND COMPANY “PREVARICATION” Kinograms | Topics of the Day | Concert Orchestra Eat less—chew it WRIGLEYS after every meal—aids digestion, cleanses the mouth and teeth and sweetens breath. COSTS LITTLE BENEFITS MUCA Still 5° Everywhere WRIGLEY'S JUICY FRUIT THE FLAVOR LASTS" ory ae THE