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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-17
THOSE AUTOMOBILE SCANDALS"

The automobile is not merely Thing that puffs like
dragon down pedestrians and contamnaes the air with
bad smells.
II has developed a love for scandal.
Recently number Of have plunged down banks
taken headers from bridges Seattle
Tacoma evidently with the deliberate intention OF seandaz-
ing lot OF men and women.
The fact that the injured in these accidents have in
number Of given assumed hasn't helped them
little bit The enterprising newspaper reporters have
followed up John Smith and Peter Jones' and made things
awfuiIy unpleasant in cold type
The automobile is to be depended upon by married
who take young ladies for evening spins to George
town Tacoma It has trick Of turning from the straight
and way for autos to travel and thus getting
everybody into trouble
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Xxx YYIENG

plained, ia wanted for littin' a ring
al WeinberRHs
I struggled 20 my feet ana
elutched the table.
1t II impossible that Il. there
must be some mistake" | flouns
dered. and then appealed 60 mi
ladya eyes Ia them there Was an
answering question and 3 look of
challenge. With the dignity OF .
queen the outraged eyes blazing
with inHnlted ruapeetsbliity. hhs
rnae 90 her full height
MY husband" she flashed with
a peculiar emphasis. and there was
not even a qaiyeriBg of an eyelld
as ahe said II. will discuss this
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-17

The young widow Saa trying 70
make = favorable Impression
Don't you think. AIR. uldbach. !"
she said. that of late years people
are growing more aud more Intel.
ilgrntf-
II do. replied oidhaeh. 7 notice
among other things there has been
a great falling off IN the number
of marriages
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-17

matter sith sou alone. cannot
stay here 60 be insaited. and she
swept ike a duchess into she Ia.
dies waiting room.
Well. the policemen we're just
"a much impressed IA I was. All
three Of IA warr silent for the frae.
ton Of minute. aud then mechan.
ically pulled out my card case.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-17
one Coed Result.

First hnardsF. That Merry
Widow hat craze ID a good thing
Second Doarduf. Ia what way.
old mani
First HoaFdsrs The landlady has
begun 70 dlsh up Merry Mido~
flapIaeka.
Ia June a wise man wili ride on
the ice wagon Ia preferences 10 the
band wagon.
The BOY for the Job.
Empioyer-Are you truthful
Young Applicant-rep; bat ANT
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-17

Get your fishing tackle al Piper
a Tafta. the sporting goods
store" 90.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-17

Il Il too late nov. 81 course. but
n would have been nice Il the cal
endaf could have been arfasged TO
give us two Junes IN leap years.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-17

ecan I teli you something in con.
fifrncef-
Yes. provided you'li agree not
70 fofcataii me BY also telling Il
10 all OF my friends
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-17

The indestruetibllity Of matter IL
the one thing that saves the uni.
verse from wreck at the hands of
the small boy Puck.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-17
STAR DUST
BY JOSH
BY JOSH

so darn truthful as 10 spoil yo,e
busineaa Judge.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-17
plqus

Miss broadway They say he
married her because Of her flg.
IRE.
Mr. Madison Well. that was
quite natural
"oh. no. Indeed. Il wasn't -
Life.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-17
Lloht subIseiss

Light subIee,a@
Cyrus Reuben got Sunkocd.
aiiaa INV aog"
Cyrus WIN, he read the sdyer
tiaemsnt of a firm that stated II
hn would send a dollar thesd send
elm SOME liEht roafiut
elias And did they send Il
Cyrus Yes. they sent him two
hooks entities rse Age of tse Ar.
tans $50 lfoN 60 Wake s'ssdssa' =
W. sever YET knees as gssr.saut
who wouldn't have beaten the rec
ord n something hadn't happened r.
Ohio State Journal
Nor any Que elae. for that mat.
ter.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-17
AN ADVENTURE OF Die" AND DOC"

ehutsthsehuss BUT the Pup
Publishes All the Excitement
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-06-17

9Th village cut
ups a tame proper.
atltlon in a crowd o.
college students.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-19

The strange spectacle Of lion play
Ing with child is reported 10 have
been witnessed at Yryheid. a Dutch
farmer, accompanied by his wife and
little boy. was out shooting game. Sud
denly the attention of the parents was
drawn TO the child, who had toddled a
short distance away TO gather wild
flowers. Growing with delight, the lit
tie fellow was pulling the hair OF a full
grown lion. and the animal appeared
to be enjoying the operation. Spell
bound, the farmer and his wife stood
gazing at the scene. The farmer, even
If his gun had contained a shot. could
not have fred because of the child.
The lion skipped sportively round the
boy until, startled by loud shouts
from the parents, it walked quietly
away, followed by lioness, which up
to then had lain concealed in the long
grass A hunt was afterward organ
lied, but the lions had disappeared into
the thick bush.-East Rand Express.
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Loading Fright BY Cards.

Il don't know whether the practice
is stiIl kept up in the far south. but
remember how tickled was ST seeing
the method used in loading goods into
freight cars down in Mississippi some
while ago said railroad man Of S.
Louis.
a lot OF strapping black fellows viii
be on the job under the supervision OF
8 white man. who VIII be issuing or
ders with great volubiIity. Put this
aboard the king OF diamonds: take this
10 the ace OF hearts; load this on the
ten OF spades; this 70 the jack Of clubs
and So on. and then you'll notice each
one OF the long line Of freight cars has
tackled on it some one OF the ffty-two
cards composing 8 full deck. The SEN
egambian lOafers for the most part
were ignorant Of letters and figures,
but every man Of them knew the paste
board emblems which he had often
handled in games OF seven up. That
next to craps IS the chief diversion Of
the colored sports OF Dixie --Balti-
more American
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The beam md the Mote

Little Dick, the village bad boy,
was wadlng through a shallow swamp
catching frogs with a small landing net.
TWAS slowwork. for the frogs were MIN
Bile and exceedingly shy, but whenever
he succeeded in capturing one he made
sure that 1t did not get away by put
ting 1t in a tin bucket that had a per-
forated lid. He had just caught u fine
specimen and transferred 1t to his buck
ct, when young lady, who was out for
walk, happened along.
Little boy" she said, don't you
know it's cruel to catch those poor little
froggIes?"
Dick Strengthened up and looked at
her. She wore gorgeous creation" on
her head, and something in its trim.
mfngs attracted his attention.
Il want 'em to wear on my hat" he
said.
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Israel Zangwill, the British novelist
has added a novel problem to the WON
an suffrage question. Mrs. Humphrey
Ward opposes votes for women. Mr.
Zangwill finds that the reason for this
is that as novelist she has discovered
and analysed the weakness OF her sex,
and he replies that as male novelist
he has learned the ''boundless vanity,
selfshness, and hysterical emotional
ISM of men. He concludes that his sex
is utterly untitled to be trusted with
power question is raised here which
readers of novels may answer for them
selves. Do male writer's idealize wom-
en-, and do women fctionlsts idealize
men? Did not Thackeray expound the
vanity Of woman as well as worship his
saints in muslin? And did not George
Eliot make Maggie Tulliver more OF a
hero than Tom?
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bers te visit cities which they might
otherwise never see The local pride OF
those who act as hosts insures a full
appreciation OF whatever is of interest
In the surroundings; and the inter
change of hospitality draws people from
the different sections more closely to-
gether, and gives them an opportunity
to broaden their outlook and get new
points Of view. In smaller way, hun
dreds of trade associations and frater-
nal orders are doing the same thing for
their members. The influence Of It Is
probably greater than any one can see.
1t has demonstrated the fact that hos
pitality Is not the exclusive possession
of any one section; that communities
which differ widely In their views on
many matters may each have good rea-
sons for the faith that Is In them and
In the end 1t will greatly help to form
and foster a feeling Of national solidar-
ity. Even the gain In mere geographic
cal knowledge is something. Il have
seen wonderful crops Of corn and wheat
In my country" said recent Western
visitor to the New England coast, but
this is the first time / have ever seen
rocks growing out Of the water"
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LIFE IN THE MINING TOWNS.
Though Minus Good Many Conn
forts It Has Its Attractions.


DR.. W. K. Robinson, formerly a
prominent and popular Baltimorean,
but for the past three years a resident
Of Goldfeld, New, is guest at the Rem
merit, says the Baltimore American DR..
Robinson, who has prospered greatly
through his ownership CT paying mines,
tuld some interesting facts about his
adopted home.
Compared with Baltimore" said he,
''the mining towns Of Nevada are very
shy of the comforts and pleasures Of
existence, but they have an attraction
Of their own, and l really enjoy living
out there Goldfeld is a place of at
least 1900 people. 1t is a wide-Open
town. Gambling goes on day and night
and the saloons are never closed This
does not mean that it is given up. to
disorder and violence. On the contrary,
serious crime is rare, and what racket
is kicked up is the work of young east
ern chaps, who think they must cayort
and raise Cain TO make the native re-
gard them with respect.
while the cost OF living Is pretty
high, there has been a great decline
since the earliest days Of the camp.
One can now rent a very comfortable
house for S75 to S1Oo month. No Chi
namen or Japs are allowed in Goldfeld,
and a strong Irishwoman who can do
all the cooking and other family work
can often get 500 a month We. sigh
for the soft-sheIl crabs of the Chesa-
peake and the other glorious sea food,
but our beef and vegetables brought in
from California are just as good as you
can get in Baltimore.
"Goldfeld is to-day in better shape
thar it ever was. Everything is on
solid basis Speculation in wildcat
property has ceased. Labor, like smelter
charges and railroad rates, has dropped
to a figure where the mine owners can
pay and get their profits Some of the
biggest mines are not in operation, but
that is only a temporary condition. The
treasury shipments of ore out OF Gold
field are not less than STJO, COCOA month.
Inside of two years l believe the camp
will show an annual output Of not less
than S25,OO0,OOo."
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CHAPTER VIII

/ Breen was rot wholly unconscious OF
I danger when the large bundle OF New
/ York papers was brought with the mails
[ into the library. The ladies had busted
I themselves over joint epistie from Mr..
/ Stsnsbury, and were scanning the front
pages Of the journals. when sudden
] exclamation from Mrs. Stansbury inti-
mated the ugly truth. Breen was chang
ed from guest to outlaw Miss Stans5lry
followed her mother upstairs, the former
bearing the paper with her. A second
account of the demoralizing incident was
not difficult TO ind. Breen read the fol
lowing hastily;
The Madame de Stael, Mr.. Peter Con
stables splendid private yacht. cleared for
West Indian ports this morning. having
on board The young uillionaire-owuer
and. it is alleged. Nicholas Stembridze.
the notorious revolutioniSt. adYenturer.
and swindling promoter.
The purpose in common Of the CAPT
talist ard fortune hunter cannot be told.
Mr.. Constable has figured in the public
prints on several occasions. but chiefly
through his eccentric ideas Of practical
philanthropy. So far as is known. he hss
never before allowed himself to De sub
iected TO the attention OF the police. 1t
IS feared thar he viii lose al both ends
as a result OF his present affiliations
Mr.. Constabls's friends aver that the
young millionaire could not have under
stood the character OF his companion for
the voyage. and point out that Nicholas
Stembridge. ar his best. IS man Of faSci-
mating manners snd IRE personal accom-
plishments. Ii has been added also that
Mr.. Constable is of a most impulsiye tenn
permanent, and apt TO choose his compsn-
ions from queer arteries Of society The |
young mans innocent intent. however.
might more readily De accepted. were II /
not for the important fact that Nicholas 4
Stembridge. who is known TO have been 4
in hiding for several days in New York. 4
was seen on board the de Stsel shortly /
before she sailed; positively recognized. i
It I, said, BY an sstute and reliable mem
Der OF the local detective force"
A spirited description OF the episode on
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CHAPTER vII-fContin,.6.,

Il guess that's right, too 50 you had
70 lock up StembriJgeT
Yes, found IT advisable one day at
ter be had tried to steal the ship-whiIe
was ashore in San JUAN Constable
explained ingenious1y, I'm glad you
came, because it will save me from takFns
him back. That is. unless you decide
that I'll have TO go back, too did piay
pretty rough with you, bar your man
had me going strong about that time
You've got TO acknowledge that he's an
artist. Let's get out Of this What do
you plan to do:'
go out and get Stembridge, and settle
with you"
THE word settle usually refers to
dollars up in the States Constable said
delicately.
ut doesn't pay to buck the detective
bureau, Constable, and Unauthorized
. take cash for your part-this time
How much:D
Five thousand dollars and expenses"
''It costs money to keep you Of ones
ship
I'm Crusoe Of the detective bureau.
and l usually go where I please was
the dulcet answer.
-I'll have TO go out to the ship to get
SO much money" Constable declared re
signedly.
I'm have to go out to the ship to get
Stembridge," said Crusoe- Wen go to-
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Vodka" bottles in Russia carry the
imperial eagle on the labels-the "vod-
ka" trade is a government monopoly
but a commission of the Duma, ap-
pointed TO consider the drink evil, has
lately recommended that the eagle be
removed from the label and a skull
and crossbones be put in Its place, with
appropriate warnings against the use
of the poison.
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According to a New York literar,
| who has always had a fair number o.
first-rate and successful novels on hii
! lists of new books has this year decided
| to exclude fiction altogether from hi:
plans for the coming season. He hold,
| that as an art fiction is nearing ex
| haustion and death, and that not only
the discriminating public but the nov
elists themselves are conscious of this
remarkable fact. The publisher is
quoted as saying that the trouble is not
as some have thought, with the mate
rial available. Life is rich and full Oh
possible plots, and, as a matter of fact
novelists never had as much to say as
they have just now. Only, ''they have
never said it so duly" and inartistical-
ly, and, therefore, readers will weary
or sociological treatises in the form of
novels, OF psychological analysis, OF
clinical realism and minute description,
and give up the modern novel entirely.
In other words, fiction as an art form"
Is in decadent state and doomed to
extinction. This agrees with an equally
gloomy and. semi-phIlosophical, '.eyolu-
tional view which a French critic put
forward some time ago. No art form,
he said, was permanent. The essay is
practically dead, although futile at
tempts are occasionally made to revive
it; the sonnet is dead the poetic drama
is dead. What reason is there, then,
for assuming that fiction is eternal?
For his own part, he did not hesitate
to predict its early disappearance. He
contends that method. restraint, form,
beauty, respect for tradition have been
discarded by the novelists, and that
their work, with few exceptions, Is cha
otto and nondescript, containing a little
Of everything but hardly anything that
can be called art. In such pessimistic
and sweeping talk much depends on the
definition Of art or form" We have
heard that modern music is not art,
and 1t Is not strange to hear that pOIit-
ical, social, psychological, analytical
AONS4S art hui art But is not the
conception of fiction, of art in fiction.
undergoing a change? Was not Shake
speare called a barbarian by the strict
artists of his day? Was not Ibsen told
that his poetry was not really poetry?
If novelists claim greater freedom. are
they not. justified by the worlds inter
est In their treatment of the questions
that earlier novelists considered alien
TO art? As to the alleged dullness Of
modern fiction, what will the admirers
OF Mrs. Ward. of Mrs. Wharton. of
James, Of Howells, of Conrad. of Hew-
lett, Of Miss Sinclair, of a score of 9th
ers, say of the change? The general
reader finds plenty of charm, of inter-
est, of stimulation in the higher branch
es of contemporary fiction, and is not
be the court of last resort? 1t is a
safe guess that a generation hence fc- |
ton viii be as vital and popular as it
now is-which is saying a good deal.
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From the days of Herodotus and
Marco Polo, travel has been recognized
as an educatlye and civilizlng expert
ence. A year on the Continent Of Eu-
rope is considered the best possible
"fnlshing' course for English and
American youth whose parents can af-
ford it; but 1t is not so commonly per-
ceived that a great and valuable adj
vance is steadily going on in this coun-
fry by virtue of the interchange of WIS.,
itors between North and South and
East and West. 1t is commonplace
that the United States presents great
diversity. of climate, ard that II has
been peopled from many different ma
tions, of widely varying habits OF life
snd thought Such a diversity of ele-
ments united in one national entity
would be a great source of weakness
were it not for the constant travel for
which Americans are noted. Much Of
this is due TO the annual conventions
Of national organizations. The Chris
tian Eudeavor Society, the National
educational Association, the Grand
ARMY. and many other bodies meet once
a year. each time in a new place; and
special railroad rates induce large num-
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has kept many house plant from be
coming tree.
The Lord employs no hired help
1t Is waste Of soap to wash a pig.
Only the worshiper can ask as God
wants to give.
There are days when Hold the Fort,
is the right song to sing
Characters are not built by accident
any more than houses are
Better be blind than see nothing but
the shortcomings Of others.
Fill the mind with good thoughts and
bad ones viii be crowded out
Faithfulness In the day OF small
things is what makes the true man
The man who goes into Gods bust
ness goes into business that never
fails.
The religion that makes no change
in a mans life has made none In his
heart
man may never utter an oath, and
yet swear ike a pirate with bis face or
his fist.
The real size of the man always de-
ponds upon whether he is growing or
shrinking.
You can not always tell how hard a
man has been digging by what he brings
home ia his basket
You have to explain coal oil lamp
but no breath need be wasted in telling
about the power of the sun The
springtime will do that
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-19

A New York waiter has refused a
liberal tip on the ground that he did
not need the money. His fellow wait
ers threaten to expel him from his local
for unethical conduct He might have
given the money to charity or started
fund for an old walters home.
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just Like the Rich Folks.

Marshall Field, Jay Gould and Pot
ter Palmer hsbitually carried only
small amounts in their pockets" said
the man who has taste for the odd.
well" responded his friend, when
am gone you can truthfully say the
same about me."-Washington Herald
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-19

The rule forbidding tourists in the
Yellowstone Park the right to carry
weapons ought to be broadened and ex-
tended so that it shall apply to band
ira
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-19

Richard Harding Davis has started
campaign to keep waste paper from
littering up the streets. Which shows
that some authors, at least, have a
proper sense of their responsibility to
the public.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-19

4 was sitting in a crowded ear to-
day when Mrs. Nabor got on.
did she thank you for your sestT'
Emo
That's funny, She has such rep
utatiou for being polite; wonder why
she didn't
"She didn't set it.~-Houston Post
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had inst touched the pi4r ar the Suz,r
landing. The tan 691re Of CooSabJ.
.epned forth and bssfen.d 70 the car
the morna. Rreen smiled because II IA.
easier for him 10 smile than 70 cry for
mercy. Constable vas being driven swift
Iv to the pIantation ho,Isa who're h.
xould snd the u0Ex xorl- rbst had bss1
done There Ms S+anzbrrv Womb nat
hoard a shin thar had been a thief,
refure
Rue de Rivoli vas white and EMMY
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locked and the little ro.1na window DARK
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rfn- tbe door auickIv n kasn o.f RI.
hot. poisoned air OF the street. The dark
shon was as eurntv az humans as m.
thorourbfare. hut 4 ouick sen sounded N
the rear Pare Rsb4aur entered from ths
ssb-ouiIted eourt
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London shop girl crossed the Allan
tic, remained In New York thirty min
utes and then hurried back to London.
Probably she did not like TO keep the
customer waiting any longer for the
change
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1908-11-19

Mrs. Jack Gardner surely is old
enough to know that the makers Of
rare old tapestries in this country
should be protected from the ruinous
competition of old world artisans.