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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-03-18

BOTTOM REAL ESTATE
Have you any property IN Boston or
vicinity that you wish cared for or
disposed OF
+. ~ WHITTIER. 22i fremont BLDG.
Boston
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ALL ON QUEEN ANNE.
H. for - acres.
9 ~ for s-room house and beautiful
has
&ben for broom house. modern
II you are not prepared to paw the
fhil amount ~ cash. We can take
nare - u for you
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FQR REET-5-acre garden tracts BE-
tWsen besttls and Tacoma on car
Nnr. Also lf-acre improved poultry
anS fruit ruuch near Anaadrfes
n y. NEW ELL, lie Marion ST Is
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AmB Wsafh and 6saatg. m4ffIaf#
directory FREQ. pay when married
Address 70 a Horton UsHI 49,
TekuuHhn. Mich u
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FLINT a PETERSON.
Federal Hotel Bldg. la Third Ave
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acres. salt water front. all cleared.
fenced and improved. orchard house.
barn, Implements stock furniture
and bunt. Will trade for Seattle I'M
proved or vacant lot Owners only
need apply. Room A ga Columbia
St Ne
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25
REAL GEMS ARE DEposED.
Excellent limitations Of the Finest
Jewels Are at Present in Very
General Use.

Following the London fad for dis
carding gems in favor of the semi
precious stones Paris has taken to
the combination of gold and silver
with horn, ivory and precious woods.
Some rarely beautiful creations
have been produced by the leading
jewelers. in these unusual combina.
tions, and it begins to look as
though the value of modern jewelry
would lie in its workmanship rather
than in the intrinsic worth Of the
materials of which it is composed.
One of the reasons for the change In
to be found in the almost universal
adoption of the excellent limitations OF
gems which are now so common, and,
since diamonds and pearls may be SO
closely initiated, the really smart
have taken to the new fad as a. means
whereby their ornaments may be
raised above suspicion.
AS an example of the new idea may
be cited a tiara recently turned out
from one of the most famous shops of
the French capital. 1t was an ex-
quisitely carved ivory circlet, cut to
represent orchids, and only a single
diamond blazed in the center.
Combinations of ivory and enamel
are popular. and one would scarcely
realize what can be done with horn
until shown specimens o; this new.
est art.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25

navy. He has studied the recent war
between Russia and Japan with view
to learning lessons that can be applied
to the United States navy, and he
maintains that the first lesson OF this
conflict is the dominance of the big
battleship in naval encounter. He
declares that the United States must
keep abreast of all the great navies OF
the world, and as Great Britain mas
now laid down an 18,000-ton battleship
it behooves this country to initiate her
example and build vessel of equal
size.
Admiral Dewey believes that the de-
fensive and offensive alliance between
Great Britain and Japan makes it nee
'essary for the United States to main
tain a navy Of the first grade. This
alliance gives Great Britain and Japan
virtual control of the seacoast from
the Mediterranean to the northeast
ernmost point of the Asiatic caast.
The United States must have a Eavv
that will command respect in order to
maintain the Philippines and protect
her commercial interests in the Ori-
ent. The admiral's views will be spread
before congress at the coming session
when the question Of q big battleship
is discussed.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25
ABOUT ELECTRO MAGNETS.
Interesting Facts Concerning the
Workingssof the Electrical
q C5rTent.

The familiar horseshoe magnet is
made Of highly tempered steel and
magnetizet $50 that one end is north
pole. the other south, or perhaps
more roHsrnuI known as a negative
and posi- Once magnetized i: is
alway4 Vic unless the power is
drawn 1It by exposure to intense
heat, wrll EJoseph H. Adams, in THE
Practical Boy in ST. Nicholas. An
elctro-magnet, however, can be made
from any scrap of soft iron. from a
piece of ordinary telegraph wire to q
gigantic iron shaft. When a current
Of electricity passes through an insul.
ated wire coiled about a soft iron OBJ
ject such as a nail, bolt, or rod
that object becomes magnet as lone
as current of electricity is passing
through the coils of wire or helix. A
coil OF wire in the form of a spiral
spring has a stronger field than q
straight wire carrying the same cur
rent, for each turn or convolution adds
its magnetic field to that of the other
turns; and by having the center OF the
coil of iron, which is magnetic body,
the strength of the magnetism is great.
ly increased.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25
~ -
The Train for
'Opkinsville
BEG your pardon" said the stout
By 8. f.. n1sER

BEG your PARDON, SAID the StOUt
gentleman with the muttonckop
whiskers, "can you tell me 'ow long it
will be before the next train goes to
'Opkinsville?
Twenty minutes to eight" replied
the station agent, as he closed the tick
ct window. 5,
The traveller sat down on bench on
the platform and began reading q
newspaper. It was then about three in
the afternoon, but the gentleman with
the muttonchops evidently had time to
kill, and the station agent, who had
business at the freight house up the
track, passed him without making any
further comment concerning things in
general than that it was fine day.
A through freight rumbled past after
the man on the station platform had
several times looked at his watch. but
there was no sign of the train for Hop
kinsville
The man with the muttonchops be-
gan to get fidgety after he had waited
25 minutes. He took several turns up
and down the platform and said Dear
me" out loud.
Presently three men passed on q
handcar and the man who wished to
go to Hopkinsville looked wistfully aft
er them. Having consulted his watch
again. he sat down and began to read
his paper. Everything was quiet
around the station. There was no bus
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25

gallant officers in the revolutionary
war. TIE continental congress, 129
years ago, passed a resolution for the
erection of a monument to this officer,
but it is only now that this purpose is
to be carried out, provision having
been made by the last congress for the
erection of statue Of Gen. Mercer at
Fredericksburg, Va. A prominent
sculptor has been given the contract
for the memorial, and 1t will be fin
ished within year and appropriate
dedicatory services will be held.
Gen. Mercer was a native Of Scot
land, and in the early days before the
revolution, in fact, before the French
and Indian war, he came to America
and settled at Fredericksburg, w1ere
he became known as one of the ablest
lawyers in that part of the country.
He formed friendship with George
Washington when the latter was an of
ficer in the colonial service, and en-
gagged, with him in the ill-fated Brad
dock expedition of 1855. He vas se-
verely wounded at Braddock's fields.
near Fort Duquesne, and travelled on
foot in that condition to Fort Cumber-
land, 160 miles east.
On the breaking out Of the revolu-
ton, he was again associated -vith
Washington, and was conspicuous for
his gallantry in many an engagement
particularly in the battles of Trenton
and Princeton. In the latter engage
ment he received his death wound.
The continental congress, in its en-
thusiasm over Gen. Mercer's galiantry.
upon receiving news OF his death in
battle. passed resolution for me-
mortal, but the necessary funds we're
not set aside to erect one. That over
sight of more than century ago has
been remedied, and now the gallant
Scotchman who gave his life for the
United States will be honored fJl all
time by memorial fitting In senti.
ment and workmanship.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25

of action he is likely to follow whe1 ho
enters the senate The fact that the
railway rate question will be a top
liner in the senatorial program this
winter has led to the supposition that
Senator La Toilette will jump TO the
front in sort of continuous perform
ance on that subject. His views regard
ing the regulation of railway rates are
very well understood, and they nave
given rise to the belief that the little
fighter from Wisconsin will take
very active part in advocating radical
legislation.
One of the old members of the SEN
ate. in discussing Bob La Follette's
probable course. said the other day: Il
don't believe that Mr.. La Toilette will
attempt to run the senate. or un:luly
occupy it's time. He served three
terms in the house of representatives,,
and has very accurate knowledge OF
what the senate customs are.
'It is very we'll known that a new
member of the senate is expected to
keep in the background for the irst
year or so. know that that was the
way with me, and / had had previous
experience in the mouse OF representa-
tives. The senate has quiet, compla-
cent way Of extinguishing genius that
is too persistent and calculated to Of
fend the traditions of the body. A sem
ator who really wants to be useful to
his state will wisely feel his way
for the first year or two. After he mas
got his bearings and established foot
ing, II he is man Of ability, there ID
no place that his genius will count for
so much as in the United States sem
ate" s
Those who know La F'olletta best
say that he is not likely to adopt any
sensational course in the senate, but
that he will work along recognized
lines in that body and devote his ener-
gies in committee to advancing the
theories that he holds regarding the
control Of railways.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25
Street Car Manners

So loud and constant have been the
lamentations and objurgations herea-
bouts concerning what are termed our
want Of manners in street car travel
that it fs high time, says the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat, to come to the de-
fense Of the great, inarticulate public
which cannot speak for itself, which is
dum1 when the shadows murmlr.
Everywhere in the street cars Of this
country there is to be met cheerful
and uncomplaining submission to al
most intolerable conditions Of discom-
fort through overcrowding, which is of
the finest essence OF true politeness.
We laugh with those who laugh at US
to the point of forgetting what is due
ourselves as people in the conscious
ness that Americans are among tha
politest people in the world in every
tr.ing situation where real politeness
is best illustrated. Because such sit
uations are constantly arising in the
street cars of great cities, and because
we meet and deal with them in the
broad and generous spirit which is a
part Of the constraint of good man
ners, those who lecture us about trifies
are shooting wide Of the mark.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25
PUBLISHED wEEKLY.
Business Qualities.

Anere are many qualities necessary
= success in modern business life;
oue tnere isenone of more importance
. man holding position of respon-
slolilty than the power to make a
plain, straightforward, business-like
slatement, either by speech or in writ
ing. The quality of fluency is not SO
much what is required as the qualities
~ accuracy and cleal ness, definite
ness and brevity, tact aud judgment,
writes Prof. w. Ripper, in Technics
\ We are not clear and precise it is
certain that those who listen to us
wiz be no more clear, when We have
nnished, than we are ourselves-pTob-
ably much less SO. We must have no
vague and misty ideas about the sub
1ect, but they must be crystallized and
dennite. These qualities of our
tnought and speech, however, cannot
oe left to chance. They are attended
Is the result OF effort, OF careful and
independent thought on the subject for
ourselves, Of looking at it from many
points OF view, and thus satisfying
ourselves and those who listen to us
that We thoroughly understand what
We are talking about. 1t clears ones
own mind In thinking out subject to
talk 1t over with a colleague, or to
write out statement of it, or to die
tate 1t to shorthand writer. Having
decided what to say, and having prop
erly arranged it, the last point is how
TO say It. The first essential is to speak
distinctly, then to be natural, straight
forward, lucid; neither to strive after
effect nor to exaggerate. but to give
the impression that we are ourselves
convinced Of the cogency and force OF
our own contention.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25

pointed to the general staff. but there
was no place for him there, SO
he will be assigned to command
of division with headquarters
at st. Louis. Secretary Taft is
not altogether in favor of the policy
of putting men of Weston's age into
the line, and, with the kindliest feel
ings for the veteran, he contested with
the president over such an assignment
When the promotion was decided upon
the secretary said to Weston:
General, the president has been try
ing to make you major general and
have been trying to prevent it. The
president has won out, and I guess he
is right about it,
That's all right responded Gen.
"Jack." 81 understand my age is in
the way. but am a pretty lively colt" !"
Anyone to look at the active, rosy
checked Kentuckian. and who is ac-
quainted with his record for hard
work, can easily understand how the
president persuaded Secretary Taf. to
waive the policy Of not appointing old
men to the line in Weston's case
/ Gen. Weston is known as the
Charles O'Malley" of the army, oe he
ills the bill of Levers Irish soldier
hero in most particulars. He is jolly.
light-hearted, energetic, brave officer,
and has years of usefulness before him.
Only two years ago the army doctors
concluded that he was very sick
man, and they thought they had dis
covered something wrong with his
heart They put him in the soldiers
home hospital and told him, he I1ust
not take any violent exercise. Weston
did not believe that there was any
thing the matter with his heart. and
one day, when his attendants were at
dinner, he jumped up, ran across a
meadow and back at full speed and
found to his satisfaction that there
was not the slightest fiutter OF his
heart. He went to his room, packed
his grip and came back to his desk in
the war department.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25
coRPsEs HELD IN PAWN.
Agitation Against Practics That
Has Been Prevalent in
England.

Rev. H. Pitt, the vicar Of st. Mary's.
Southwark, has started an agitation
against the practice of undertakers Of
holding corpses in pawn. He was
moved to do this, says London re-
port, because of being compelled to
seek magisterial advice owing to the
TACT that mans body had remained
unburied for ten days because OF dis
pute.
1T seems almost incredible" OBJ
served Mr.. Pitt, that body should be
seized and held as security for ex-
penses entailed by the deceased's rela-
tiyes in connection with the funeral
that had not then taken place. Never
.heless, the following case. which re-
Gently came under my notice, Is not,
am afraid, of an uncommon nature:
"A man died, and the agent OF tho
Office in which he was insured In.
formed neighboring undertaken OF the
fact-a business which insurance
agents carry on for commission paid to
them by the undertakers. It 30 hap
pened, however, that the policy had
lapsed, and the mans widow was en-
titled to receive only quarer benefit.
amounting to about $12.
'This fact proved no bar to business.
The undertaken supplied the comm; but
once the corpse had been placed in
the coffin the undertaken refused to
carry out the funeral until he had re.
ceived the full amount. Finally, after
trouble with the neighbors, who com.
planned, the undertaken, as q favor
removed the body to his stable. Thus
the corpse was in pawn for number
Of days. Eventually the widow bor-
rowed the necessary money a: ruinous
interest"
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25

A stray dog walked out urpn one end
| Of the platform and then stopped to
look half suspiciously, half coaxingly,
at the Englishman, who, without any
show Of friendliness, said:
"Pfst! Get out!"
The dog turned disconsolately, and
after trotting little way stopped to
! look back, as If he were not sure that
the mans unfriendly remarks ought to
be taken in earnest
go away, you brute!" the English
man said, rising and stamping a foot
The dog scampered of, convinced that
he had failed to make favorable i'm.
preston.
At six o'clock the agent returned to
light the station lamps.
"See ere. my man." said the impa-
tient loiterer, "'ow long is it to be
before ca,' get that train to 'Opkins-
ville?"
Twenty minutes to eight" replied
the agent.
But that's what you told me three
hours ago."
| well, there amt been any change in
| the schedule since then that I've heard
Of"
"see ere. don't you try any rummy
| nonsense with me! want to go to
| 'Opkinsville.. When will the next train
be along?"
i Twenty minutes to eight, If she's
on time," the agent said, as he put ur
lamp.
"If she's on time? 1 say, come now!
'Ow can she be on time when she
ought to have been ere, three hours
ago." @
"Who said she ought to have been
here three hours ago?'
''You did. You told me I'd ave 20
minutes to wait when asked you the
first time, and I've been
The agent put down a lamp and be-
gan to act as if something had sudden
ly happened to make him forget that
he was the custodian of grave respon-
sibilities.
After he had clinched and unclinched
his fist several times and assumed an
apoplectic appearance the Englishman
exclaimed:
''Now sir, il you will be good enough
to tell me 'ow you are troubled, p'raps
I can 'elp you. shall report this to
the general hoffice. sir. jolly rum, isn't
now? But l fancy l shall"
"Say, old man. excuse me, but
never told you that you'd have 20 min
utes to wait I said the train left for
Hopkinsville at 20 minutes to eight
e-i-g-h-t-7:40 you understand?
It'll be along in an hour and % min
| utes."
Il wonder" the gentleman with the
muttonchops mused after the. agent
had finished lighting up and gone
away, what that rum 'un was lawfing
at?"-Chicago Record-Herald.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25
souAR1Na THE ACCOUNT.

I cannot make the thing come out,
Though have thought and thought an
thought,
And tried to make a careful note
OF everything that have bought.
The more think and think and think
The more in vain my brain fernents.
Confound the pesky cash account!
Where did l spend that thirty cents?
Ten cents for car fares-that's all right;
Three dollars for new straw hat;
For luncheon, fifty; shoeshire, five
Oh, hang it! Yes, I've got all that!
Considering the scant supply,
The treasury has too many vents.
It's outgo, outgo all the time
Where did l spend Inat thirty cents?
Ciga =, four-fifty: grape juice, ten
Il think it had sone foam on tops;
Bleachers and peanuts, thirty-five,
And ten cents more for ginger pop.
But still that haunting deficit
My deep perDlexity augments.
What was it for?-Oh. well, here goes!
For foreign missions, thirty cents!"
Louisville CourieT-.Tournal.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25
MISUSE OF THE TELEPHONE
Abominable Small outrages That
Are Committed by Wire
Every Day.

Again are we moved to express saw
age animosity against the exemplars
of brutal selfshness who, when they
wish to "get" somebody on the tele-
phone, have an underling call that
somebody from that somebody's busi-
ness, only to tell him to wait a mo-
ment" while the man who wants to
talk takes his time in going to the
transmitter. This, declares the New
York Times, is one of the most abom-
Unable of small outrages, and yet it is
committed thousand and thousands OF
times day in this city alone, and how
often the thing happens in. the whole
country nobody could count. Yet We
never heard even a single defense Of
the practice-never knew of man
who did,not foam with rage when him
self the victim of it. The telephone
necessarily, or at least habitually, gives
so many and such extraordinary privi-
leges in the way of securing attention
that those who want and obtain it,
often from men into whose Offices they
would have great difficulty in gaining
access in person, might at least have
the common decency to make the trOu-
BILE they cause as small as possible and
to use up no needless amount of the
other mans time. Probably the only
way to cure this evil is to refuse to
talk to anybody for whose convenience
the insOlent request to wait a mo-
ment" has been made. That might in
terfere with business, somewhat for
awhile. but the lesson would soon be
learned. and after that the telephone
would be freed from what is unques-
tionably the most irritating ,conse-
quence of it's invention.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-11-25

from the town, three-quarters OF mile
away, and nobody had thought it
worth while to come down to see the
Hopkinsville train pull in.
The stout gentleman was walking
nervously up and down the platform
when the station agent returned from
the freight house.
Il beg your pardon" said the trav-
eler, when did you say the next train
left for 'Opkinsyille?"
Twenty minutes to eight" the sta
ton agent answered, as he unlocked
the door of the express Office.
The foreigner looked at his watch
and sat down. He had read nearly
everything in his paper, but he began
on it again.
Ten or Is minutes later q drayman
backed his wagon up to the platform,
and the Englishman's face frightened.
The outlook seemed promising.
Hello, Pat" said the station agent,
emerging from the express Office,
what do you want, Browns trunk?"
Pat said that was what he had come
for, and five minutes later he drove
away.
The Englishman looked after him
rather reproachfully. He seemed, some
how, to regard it as an Irish trick that
was wholly devoid OF any humorous
turn. ~
It was 4:3G by the clock in the wait
ing room when an express train rushed
through from the west, leaving cloud
hind it, The Englishman watched it
fade from view far down the long.
straight stretch of track, and then he
went inside to look for the agent The
ticket Office was closed and he knocked
without getting response. He COM
pared his watch with the clock that
was slowly ticking above the window,
after which he studied the maps in the
waiting room without apparently gain
ing any satisfaction. At length bare
footed boy looked in, yelled boo" and
then scampered away.
"BIess my SOUL" said the man with
the muttonchops, as he stood on the
platform and watched the boy running
I'D the road He had seated himself
egain and was examining timetable
when there came to his ears a shrill
toot from around the bend just west Of
the station. He jumped up with an
expression of satisfaction and rushed
inside to get his ticket, but the window
was still closed and the agent was no
where in sight.
BLESS my soul" exclaimed the Eng
lishman, rappi1g anxiously on the
glass panel. ''tl,ts is . jolly rum way to
operate q railroad. Hullo, there!
say! Agent! Agent"
But the ageLt was dead. sleeping or
absent.
Another toot caused the traveller to
pick up his satchel and hurry to the
platform, where he was able to see q
freight train coming round the bend.
Al 1t passed he took OF his hat and
wearily wiped his brow.
After the freight train had ratified
through he sat down. There was hard
look ON the round. red face. It was
the look Of, . man who found little to
commend In the general conduct OF
earthly things, and he even cast re-
proachful look at the sun. which was
disappearing beyond the freight house.