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The SeattleStar | raje of a Raind d Goat Island! y The Star Por ewepaper Enterprise 1807, Bere rop--an Witch's Night us owned d generate the American the bill for th month, TWtat i ivately wheel 00 years ago, he WATEARLY : IN pishly ce stitutions, ¢ | ns of | % brid $43 per as much light And which spans v yw th and house fa on the American side made by the Half the br drops of water on the Private com from the " ‘panie heels pay five tin a Half the : lighted by much as the factories and the from the tores and the householders over little on the Canadian side And it all depends on which side of Goat island, north or south, the folks who use the juice live, All ve folks in the United States are outh of Goat island, That is why five times as much for the the natural re that given us. ik connecting i g ago. No longer do we actual but ee the and store 1olders who use the juice : factorie auding demons we are factor gine we do ‘o our ancient ancestors, the witches and demons a marauding ogres were very real. The shadows of tho arbaric days falls over us on Halloween. Study the c toms of this “night of michief” and you are transports yack to the time which, while barbaric, was romantic an adventurous in the extreme. We have lost a lot of the joys of life by being disillusioned as to the reality of such mystic characters as witches. Progress is many things, including dull. once a year Niagara Fal racked and run bine water other litth tremen juice The de on r germing energy in the middle of abo falls, i ame 1 thru the ther wheels are ¢ the American by priva to the right If the American thru t yoes to the electric droy machinery the Canadian Canada and ate Bal But wned by vheel power PEPE, PAF E Goat are F aH ater interest water ide, that it rop goes »p of we pay use of God ha Furnace Danger BOUT time to start the furnace. Insurance peopl \ us to pass this word along: Eighteen million d of property is destroyed every fall in America by fi + resulting from defective flues and clogged chimneys. Two things can be done. The best is to hire an expert to clean the vents. Second best bet is to burn a piece of zinc in the furnace. It helps clean out the soot. So does an occasional tin can or potato peelings. Love? ve id if the enerates 1 nav ource \ f } sk fair b ask juice gather rour that come to pas you'll look ‘What Other States Have’ pew srr | Done in Limiting Taxes | Oss of Uhina BY WM. PHILIP SIMMS These article {he's new power behind ENDER caresses and fervent vows of courtship day ’ throse in Polis ii do not always lead to the expected. bill that come voters Tuesday, tell what other state Chr Genera” In Paris, jail doors are installed between the rooms i are doing in the way of taa This s where husbands and wives wait until their divorce ef ticles, by leaders for and against the bill, are printed that are called by the judge. The steel bars are found neces- Star readers may acquaint themselves with BOTH side sary to prevent the ex-lovers from getting at each other . with claw and nail. The most important decision in life is marriage. “Marry in haste, repent at leisure.” Maybe Cal Repents HE Coolidge pamphlet, “‘The Betrayal of California,” denouncing La Follette for not voting on the Jap exclusion bill, is pretty near the limit, but it will catch blind suckers only. When the Jap matter was before congress, La Follette was so sick in bed with pneumonia that, at times, his life was despaired of. But Coolidge and his secretary, Hughes, were on the job and did all in their power to wreck the | ‘r'* measure. Tricks of Fake Mediums | Reads Unseen Writing VE tried these magic, mystic way Of finding love that’s true, it fate, it seems, just taunts « There's just one thing to do. elf a pumpkin, just s can be. will scare her into Se FREEREAW BBERES nd plays; —-—/ The Yu oddest ~ fifth of a series of siz on the 40-mill taz DIUM WATCHES TOP OF PENCIL s before Feng limitation ries of ar- or the n China ¥ The Star) ersonally and regulart rayer meetings among Japs Seeking Business Treaty With Germany BY C. P. STEWART WAsxinoto BY FRANK C, JACKSON Secretary 406-Mill Tax Committee U hi ax ARTHUR L. MARSH Secretary Washington Educational Association I* order to gain votes for their bill, the real estate specul back © maying t He Grills his men to the t f “Onward, Christian Soldier He imports Y. M. C. A. Jectur Chinese-speak mis. sionaries to entertain struct hin followers. ne strongest argumer tiative No. the woud and Umit, is found in the who are lative No. not of much importance with her, that whe 6 other states 6 provides x u provi hem with have sin aws, This effectively vu - bal rasta Sh - lL d insists th Ast: CWO GRACE, Che make himself master of one trad dent of other states, over fe have ation to ke wh ex and Ohio, have a matter of transact mer ¢ had favored under a awn b ny resem BY HOWARD THURSTON rica's Master Magician them to knit so id make their own WM ASSSSPTE*S8 .S REESE. ever he goes things he does is to orn. one ¢ the ot treaty. $ VISION actory so long ined practically the commercial wever, that Ja pees, or believes she sees, the ome back,” larize her re means of a n understanding nt, which’ is will be per. a sense, in that it ries | wi no actually new con- | it has a great deal of very general ever i as indicating the trend of world opinion concern ing the prospects of a German t in the near future. in © lah no prac [write the first name ¢ we had the Ok men everyw and every rook must memorize the state of oeivens oe . t A “fay to Godliness.” nd with m he The me would have Germans « the great tra in s that | makes mercial conc outa ua) ex ctor paper In hia o similar to the medium re n N stately his » tha 2 ol His face resembles certain The Real Loss of War lithe. “api Latin of Greek types and what 'AJ.-GEN. MERRITTE W. IRELAND, surgeon-general | the n ne : there is of the Orient ab: of the army, was called on to dedicate a tablet | watching te t — 7 “ a Pestagpind ot i. rather s Ja Fitzsimmons, a fallen soldier of the world war. General | ;,0, ; probably in the neighborhood or | ws Treland, among other things, said: must 60. | “In offering up his life, Lieutenant Fitzsimmons set a self-sacrificing and patriotic example that was only the forerunner of the loss of many thousands of the most use- ful lives of our young manhood, for whom the nation now mourns.” “The loss of many thousands of the most useful lives of our young manhood!” Can any words known to the tongue be more bitterly denunciatory of war than that? Could any result be more grossly and criminally unfair, not only to young manhood, but to young manhood’s country, than that? It is an unwise, cruel country and an unfit civilization that demand such sacrifice, that voluntarily move to such a stupendous and shameful loss. The hearts of men never will be right and civilization will know no adequate success until such things are impossible in this world. x has the build of an ath to ii ry these same ec nts tore more ply \ 7 _ t “nitter” nt “, unt i a ren’ expenses, until 1 property r p debt has ing 0 A business m ng who const nereased ot practically ponsens ¢ im t x But by hundreds of ra or by & remarkable profi the medium successful every 1 the state S RSPSes8esz. me FeeRU BEES ATE. limitation, ssaaed hat thes nid not las ments tween of any ext practical! importance constitutional provision other pro- ne people, placed | A Thought } -- —— I have learned, in whatsoever pinged anibery wees sate T am, therewith to be content. | teehee’ words Phil, tv:11, | eae a eae achoo H® is happy whose circumstances sult his temper; but he is more ness disorga who can suit his temper! t t greement. umstance.—Hume 3 ¢ n” treaty, his assets for ord " nin but thie is unt 2 voted by expenses, si what ¢ the fr is #0 Ia imitation on the tax rate, leay to th to p enue jo in doing, varibly gislature or rily as between powers opp to one er. Those terminated thus | have not all been renewed. | jermany, est an the public 1 kes a large to te other sow (Another article will appear to morrow. ed Questions * Answered * aa Opa and state after state, with. ation or exception, nably provided f nat to opern- Ohio {s to have a regular syt reception on its larger ‘ess trains between Ber- mburg carry such appari service will be extended among others, was ne, left by the world struggle in such 4 the same war with 4 you know mark ed experts x of its excell el amittee reporting to the nee of the ation, GREAT NORTHERN VALUATION SHOWS NO “WATER” In response to assertions that railroad stocks were watered and that the investments recorded in the companies’ books were inflated, Congress, in 1913, by the La Follette Act, directed the Interstate Commerce Commission to determine, among other things, the cost of reproduction an ymond C. university oft wrote a of Its pro- exper nowledge of the He 1 study Ohio's book gives hin conc made a |by a prize crew? A. The British to recover the ve supreme court 4 Why We Are So Bad pores a PEAKING before the Southwest clinical conference in | turned over to them Missouri, Maj. Edgar King, U.S. A., told his interested he hearers that of “the 10,000 cases of mental disorders of ese ee, Be Coral, Cenee e criminals in my observation, only 5 per cent can be classed | '"*" the 48 states of the L experience, and about it. In that book he usions about the government sued , and the U. 8 ided for the Brit- 1 was finally “Your committee s favo: device of lim | gain directs ble attentic ng by public public debts and The limitation should be u to your Ohio Inw as follows “After a deca mism of stands in thy tunl It was hailed expenditures, jo’n_ experience, tax rates: the of ve fathers of the ferably ange contrast the in 1911 as a pon the incres net the total amount with tho this may p law companied by ca results of , Lotus. as insane; another 5 per cent are feeble-minded, and the 55 great majority of the remaining 90 per cent owe their criminal careers to lack of proper home and school training.” It took more than the beauties of the language to make wheat soar % | tle r You can get an any question of fact or in- | formation by wri x The Seat- Questior itor, 1322 Washington, D. dapted limitations upon Initiative No. what should namely, 50 does exactly this rts be done, committee re limita ution of the taxation problem, yet It not only falled to reform the general property tax, but it crippled the revenue system which it aimed to repair, In- deed, the outcome was nothing short of disastrous.” new, cost of reproduction less depreciation, and the value of the various railroads in the United States, The corporate asset of the Great Northern Company consist of two cla One ts the physical property used for transportation purposes and locate tho other consists of investments in stocks and bonds of other located in Canada, and other miscellaneous property es of property: d in the United States; companies, including lines sed for non-carrier purposes. The Inter: eg FREKES. L } York a C., and inclosing 2 the tax mits the levy for total state levy, and te, county, school purpose: state Commerce Commission recently has completed its tentative valuation of the first of these, that fs, the physical property used for transportation purposes and located in the United States. It has not valued the second class of property because not required to do so by the terms of the Act, Tho value as found by the Commission for Great Northern properties used for transporta- tion purposes and located in the United States as of June 30, 1915, was as follows: instead of sore. sin loose stamps for reply. No medical, | legal or marital advice. Per- | sonal replies, confidential. All ters must be signed. (The Last Article Tomorrow) tax levies for particular purposes.”* | | | | — SCIENCE { GERM-EATERS )) | eect | of predictions by the cational association of notwithstanding their forebodings and unfounded fears, of more than forty st in the Union which limitation, not a has abandoned the protec tion to real and personal prop. and to the taxpayers of the which limitation invariably provides. Just Suppose IX large women’s organizations are going to meet in Washington next January to determine the cause and cure of war. The women have allowed themselves three days in which to decide upon the fundamental causes of war and three more for determining a certain remedy. After that the delegates will return to their various home and Bohemia the groups and proceed to do whatever they have decided upon. | Garmisch is a town in Bavaria. Men from the heights of their experience and wisdom will bee uipt, laugh indulgently at the modest program for the confer- Gi What, does | the nd reduce your taxes jexistence has been demonstrated by ence, and then go on their ways thinking no more about bey Be ‘Bottomles sca.” (hs RAR Article Tomortow). | Genie x Saclarphieee| it all. : ae a disanter, ss usta S Total owned Total , OF germ: that cause | » are themselves Hable to infection and death thru an agency unknown until recently | Dr. F. d'Herelle has the existence of organisms too small |to be seen with the highest powers of the microscope. They are so small that they will pass thru a| {filter so fine as to stop germs. Thetr | oa . oe seeeeeee ++ $3! 40,302.00 used . cas r - 395,358,655.00 In arriving at these figures, the Interstate Commerce Commission deducted $65,140, from tho cost of reproduction new on account of assumed depreciation. The Company, of course, contends that the depreciation of certain parts of the properties, such” as the ageing of its roadbed, ® more than offset by the appreciation of the property as a whole, as it is well known that a railroad property in use for several years is better and worth more for trans: portation purposes than a newly bullt property. Q. What and where are Rottvell, en Erzebirge, Garmisch? | A. Rottveil ts a town in Wurttem | burg, Germany; Ersebdirge (ore; mountains) i# a mountain chain | bounding Saxony the southeast have used single discovered | Vee FRSEEEE, on northwest. tat Vote son Initiative No. 60 Included in the second class of. property and not valued by the Commission is: 604 miles of railroad in Canada Nearly 49 per cent of the Stock of Railroad, One-half of the stock of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway. Also the stocks of some oth majier railway companies, and the atocks of coal, lumber, land and other subsidiary corporations. word Bodensee these the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy of ‘The investment in securities not valued by the Other property not used for tra ation purposes Commission's value on the first class of property, erty, which the Commission did not value, amounts to $643, 14, Since the valuation date, June 30, 1915, thore $104,881,141.26 which brings the total value of Great Northern property to July 1, 1924, up to The total par value of stocks and bonds of the Great Northern as of July 1924, was $563,258,165.16 showing an excess of $184,755, of value above the total capitalization. The following table makes these statements clear PROPERTY Commission amounts to $227,076,312.83. amounts to $24,315,418.31, so that the plus the value of the second class of prop- was one has been added The prince wasn't fair. He permitted only Canada to see him fall off a horse, | |] Thomsen & Clark Timber j Co., Ltd. | Guaranteed First Mortgage 7% Sinking Fund ij Gold Bonds seouniry - 1. A First, Mort@@re on Renal ® s, Timber, Rallrond and cing Equipment 2 400 in property ch $1,000 bo: Security steadily thra the Sinking Fund GUATIAN UNCOND Ihy Mr, Mority Mr. ©. MQlark of CAPITALIZATION Portion of owned property val ued by the Commission as of June 30, 1915 +$391,740,302.00 Stocks, bonds and other prop- s erties not valued by Commis. sion as of Juno 30, 1915 Otehr property as of June 3 1916 Property 1915 2s Great Northern Stock..........$249,477,150,00 Great Northern Bonds,......., 313,781,015,16 27,076,312.83 24,315,418.91 EXCE ov ON OF PROPERTY 3R CAPITALIZ. JULY 1,1 OU'RE a wee little thing, but wiat cheer you can bring as you're arabe te creepingjand crawlin’ around. Your folks, as you're growin’, are con stantly knowin’ a bundle of love has been found. had The thrill in your cooing and funny agooing in something naught elxe| cun create. That wee little smile that you h all in a cheerful-lke state, We wonder who tinted your cheeks blushy pink and then touched your peepers with brown. We won der, and yet we are tempted to think that a master of arts sent you down, Why, e'en when you whimper and teardrops are flowing, there's some. thing about it we like. We sort of regret it on seeing you growing, you sweet little wonderful tyke. In years yet to be we will look back and seo gurgle and coo, And then, when you're old, told how we all made a fuss over you, (Copyright, 1924, tor The Star) back of 30, + 104,881,141.26 Increasing ration of the Jench step up Thru the operatic ing fund on the p operations, it ia the entire tsaue before maturity. the sink t acale mated be retired § Jactentific name ts “bacteriophages,” | a ae [fo a ete ner | OF @uina-On teres. 70hS Opt f th It is ridiculous, of course, for several thousand women to Q. Which city is the darger, Dub-/ lexlinaata is ravcoeited the | think they can meet together and sclve in six days the |!in or Belfast, Ireland airs Sez Dumbell Dud: lowing manner problem that has confronted the world for thousands of | 44972 ti age son? Now watch || Infectious matter trom a typhoid | ages. | $09,2 vee the bright ||Ptent has tts germs filtered out | And yet— Q. Has there been a new national lights, if you ti Midas TREE Coe _ It was fidiculous for David to-try to kill Goliath. Fool- Labs gpa tae, Mac want to know unseen germs may grow. ishness for Columbus to try sailing around the earth. | 13) yee ere eee one en awe what the ast || Wen fresh typhold germs are then | Nonsense for the W right brothers to dream they could fly. |at warren, Pa is going to do \\\\" ye Beda WaT eee. Suppose they hadn’t tried! with the day-|\expected to ald in conquering the light it saved. ||remaining germ enemies of man. | J ‘kind, iH FABLES ON HEALTH 7 MORE FOOT EXERCISES eee) —$_____J HERE are any number of good Jercise, particularly for the toes. Sit exercises for the feet, as Mr. jon the bed with feet paralleling, Mann learned from his physical in-| Stretch out toes and then pull them tructor Jin, as tho they were clutching at In @@dition to those that previous. | somethin aie, ly had been given here were a few| Rising to feet, start walking about SRaPLAO 74a bia me to try In the morning directly |the room, gripping at the floor with ) ENS % eee ee ufter rising: 3e careful not to grip x Bit on the ede of the bed with |with the foot upon whieh the weiste This furnishes a most conclusive answer to the charge of watered stock. logs cronsed, Let foot hang loosely |of the body rests, The Gr . . ” ver wi | : ‘ock WEA thery beklo eoae tie eR eee eee ee eg kar he Great Northern never didjhave and never will have a dollar of watered st the foot Do this first with right /along with other setting-up exer. and then with left foot isos, strongthen®@ foot muscles will pping Ygunothor good ex: ! result within a short time, at will Dated Feb. 1, Due Feb, 1, 1924, 1994. PRICH PAR TO YIELD 7% Geo. H. Burr, Conrad & Broom 707 Second Ave. Vhone or Talk No. 152. October 1924, all the days when you'd Board you will laugh when you're Chairman of the ato 1 for clreulaen National Apple Week, October 31 10 November 6, : Eat Wenatchee Apples!