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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-19
KAISER WILLIAM
GOING BROKE

BERLIN. Dec 10 Emperor VIII.
lam and every member OF the i'm.
petlal family must practice most
rigid economy from now on aud
indefinitely
william II finds hia revenue so
exhausted by his eNtrayagances that
be- Is Ia desperate need OF cash This
although hts annual income IL es
timated conservaiiyely at $4,000,
O00.
This fact may explain rightly why
thu erOwn princess. merclfully wish
Ing 90 help those widowed and of
phaned hy the recent mining dlsas
tor az Hamm. had 20 sell below tn
cost diamond tiara worth $40 coo
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-19
S 1o0,000 TO STUDY
CHILD SCIENCE

NEW YORK. nre ie-Dr Leon
Elhert Lanaanr. dirertor u applied
scteaeea aud art a. los Angeles
Cal. announced today that there
had been piaced IA his hands ~ a
y ealthy Citizen ~ NrW York the
sum ~ ttea. zoe "a b. aa~d AZ tire
rate - siaoS0 . year fe gather ~.
ports % thag phase - school wuFk
whiah fosters sxeeutits abiAty n
phildfsn rather tlAa fiiis shatr heads
with tur0rsficni knpwtrHEe
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is RUN DOWN AND
KILLED BY AUTO


KANSAS CITY. Dec 80 A. the
result 0f being run down by tho
motor car ~ VIM ~ HidEoicy for
mer comptroller Of the currency and
untll recently president ~ the Ma
tlnnal Bank ~ Commerce here Mrs.
Byrd Greer of this city died yenter
day Mrs Greer Was struck by Mr.
Hidgtley'a machine on Nov ~ Mr.
RldRoiey was not ~ the car az tho
time ~ the accident
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-19
ACTRESS DYING FROM
A BULLET WOUND

CHICAGO. Dec ts Margaret
W1nheii. an actress. whose stage
maine II Peggy Perry. Il DYING AZ
hospital herr today FROM a bullet
Wvnnd IN the abdomen. which. Il
IL believed. VAS olfinflletsd The
young woman told the pnllee that
With Miss Elizaheth Jahan OF Cold
field. she vas examining a revolver
and that the wospon Was accident
aus dinrhafHnd
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-19
CURB BROKER is
FATALLY SHOT

NEW YORK Dec lg--Harry y.
Huydam. curb broker living at
piaiunold, r. j.. was fatally shot
today by a man giving the name OF
John G. lumaden. who says he Is
an inventor The police have not
been able 10 ascertain the motive
Lunsdon has refused 10 make any
statement to the authorities
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no PEACE I'M
BASEBALL WAR

SAN FRANCISCO. nee IL
Despite rumurs 70 the effect that
the state leAgusra would make
their peace with the representa-.
lives u organized baseball AZ 10
uighta conference with the nAiion.
al commissioners. HARRY Pnlusnl
aud Ban Johnson. and fepressntA.
lives % the Pacific Coast league.
Frank Herman. president 81 the
outlaw organization. declared pos
itively toaAy that his attitude. "a
we'll a. that ~ bis cenfarrra n
unchanged
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-19
PLEADS GUILTY TO
KILLING MOTORMAN

TACOMA. Dee 10 James Kcely.
~ NoAra of axe. has pleaded guilty
before Judge w III Smell DO the
superior court Cd murder Ina the
sccnad deEree fer the kniius of Mo-
tornan Frederick L. Brown on Au-
guat
The youth. upon entering Ma plea.
rcceivcd "a suutvuVe uf from 10 years
GO lite Imprisonment, ana returned
tn the lRii hehfw without "a word.
unavoidable
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= UTCH TO
HELP THE
REBELS
fey Unl,sd press,)

THE HAGUE. Dec ~ The war
ahiPs of Holland are plying the
Venezuelan waters rchdy 90 aid the
ruNnluti0ni#tH who have risen
against President Castro. whenever
tho movement promises SUCCESS. acv
cnrdins 10 an official announcement
whdo at the foreign office today
The tirHt Important movement on
we part ~ The rpvolutloniHtH viii
hrinR 90 their aid the men OF The
butch ships. who are awaiting a
pretgkt ~ land upon Venezuelan soil
and insure tho overthrow of the die.
atar.
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.free-Art fxhibit-free

Every SUNDAY. until further no
tice. ladies' are invited % call and
inspect the beAetffsd oii paintinKa
AZ the J. > Kelley Art Palace. ist5
FIRST av. from 2 20 D. m. I'm
trance through Family storr go
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The Unitarian Recreation club
will hold ia pext meeting Monday
evening al o'clock IN the ASSEM-
hly room II the church AZ Boyision
aud olive
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When carrying her Young. a hat
! oftsn eomDeilsd % sustain near.
! 4onble her own weight In flight
s proportion. the BARS strength f.
liable that OF an eagle or condor.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-19

WHY aia you give up your Dob
a. CONDUCTOR
I Efe~ 80 Ueat l conidn't
knock dUwn a nlckel~
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-19
DEATH ANSWERS
CHELD'S LETTER
TO HER MOTHER
q Love You. Mamma,
She Writes and Dies
Within Hour.


= eparling Mama ! love YOU q
s,A tell Santa CLAUS to bring =
I. - a dolly aud some candy =
/. sed nuts aud new drcss I =
!. ~ a. lonoly here mama, and =
i want you 90 hold me and KISS =
/. NJ The other girls teld me I
: santa was eclug TO hrlas them =
. h,ta 81 niee things. hut | know
: ~ Won't lofgot me, SO yon be q
/. W,ra and lell him. I low You. :
= mama, ~ th
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-19

The agricultural resources OF this land de-
serve The attention Of every person desiring 10
make themselves a home and by their own
efforts reach point OF independence.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-12-19
Washington

THE HOME OF THE EARLY FRUIT.
WHERE IRRIGATION IS CARRIED ON
AS NATURE INTENDED, GRAVITY
FLOW
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der baby mind trimming with
49, and Yulctlde thoughts, Ruth
wsayer an S.yearold student AZ
- Mount Carmei Mission. 1853
"a Av. =. penned the foroguing
iArstmas note 10 her mother last
Feugsday forenoon,
L. hour later the lonesome child
- stricken With congestion ~
- hrain. and before medical aid
ses,a be- Summoned. the little heart
- aehea for the mother love was
ulned Eosever
nether az Tacoma.
sll,le Rath was enrolled At the
wsnos two months ago from Taco
"A whsre her mother. Mrs. Emma
Weaver. resides
The little tot. beautiful ia face.
xsasnn,e and possessed Of a sweet
Asnnsltien, was q great favorite
a accordance with a custom al
- uissson. the children who were
- 10 spend the holidays az home
esfe Instructed e. write a Christ.
mss letter 60 their parenta
Il was on last Thursday morning
Ia tho sisters ~ charge 81 the
pAocl told the children to pen
Aslr Christmas notes
TITLE R0ih. not helnE able %
pef correctly. stood Aloof while Tia
slser children we're busy writing
4 shose they lowed Tears wellea
i Ser eyes "a her thoaghts turned
o Der Holher.
piaymates f4elp Her.
lfer pnght vas discovered by
aAFmaies who volunteered 10 help
*. Whon little Ruth had poured
hr4h kAg love and longiags abe
pau very happy and TALKED Of
Rata Claus and her mother and
Asw sho pfurd 90 70 home
Nearly an hour later. while
nzrehing 20 the dlning room fog
hsneh. Ruth reeied ard exclaimed
Sister. Oh kistar. I'm so diary
Then she iost CONSEQUENCES 20
Re a physician arrived the iittis
nai which ionged for mama had
passed 20 the great beyond.
he body Was removed 70 the an
.sFtakins establishment q Collins
Fgos No Arrangements for tbs
tasral have been made.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-05-02

II have a good story on one OF WASH
ington's best known oculists," said a
prominent clubman, addressing some
friends in the billiard room of the Met
ropolitan club. "My eyes had trou'
bled me for some months, and finally
went to see the doctor about them.
"After a thorough examination be
said that the muscles were badl!
and then he gave me pre-
scription for drops to be used in my
eyes three times day. When left
he gave me an appointment for that
day week, as he said he could not e1
anime my eyes for glasses until they
were in their normal condition.
"Well, mislaid that blessed pre-
scription, and as I was particularly
busy that week, l had no time to get
another copy. So in some Precipitation
I kept my second appointment.
"As the doctor examined my eyes !
hesitated a moment about telling him
had not used the drops, when he took
the words out Of my mouth and the
breath out Of my body by remarklns
with pleased emphasis:
"'YOur eyes are very much I'LL
proved. That medicine which I gave
you is certainly wonderful. 1t always
has such prompt and satisfactory re-
suits
"It was all I could do to keep 81
lent" concluded the speaker, Laughing
"But wasn't quite sure how he woula
take the joke. You see, he may no'
have a sense of humor."- Washington
Star.
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AstOr's Wealth in Land.

If ever the phase "fat Of the land"
meant anything, it does so in the case
of the Astor family. Land! That is
the keynote Of this wealthy organiza-
ton, the solidest aggregation of self
increasing wealth in America, says the
New Broadway Magazine. The Aston
millions, invested in New York real
estate, are absolutely, intact and i'm
pregnable. By the most insidious
methods of leasing, subleasing, pur-
chasing, renting (but rarely ever i'm
proving property themselves) the AS
tor heirs, ensconced in a plain. stout
little two-story brick building just of
Madison square, are gradually pick
ing up acre after acre of priceless land
on Manhattan island.
There are more than fifty heirs,
many in the fourth generation, to the
Astor millions, but upon the shoulders
of William Vincent Astor, lad Of 16,
will probably fall the management Of
the bulk of this enormous estate. At
st. Paul's school and Elton, England,
he showed himself to be a good student
with a bent for mechanics. Young
Waldorf Astor is a level-headed man
of q, who recently married Mrs. Nam
ME Langhorne Shaw, one Of the three
beautiful Langhorne sisters of Vir-
ginia. He and his brother, John ia
cob. nephews Of Col. John Jacob AS
tor, are sons of William Waldorf AS
tor, the expatriated American. They
have never renowned their American
citizenship, and should they return,
may divide the management of the es-
tate in this country with William Vim
cent. John Jacob, second of the name
living, is unmarried, and lives with
his father at historic Cliveden, one Of
the finest estates in England.
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Old Fayorites



Miss Edith Helps Things Alon.
my sister'll be down in a mimi.
says you're to wait, if you ,le. aaa
And says I might stay till she CAM !:
I'd promise her never to tease
Nor speak till you spoke to me 6rst
that's nonsense; for how vo "u
you know ua
What she told me to say if d;a...
Don't you really and truly th;. :
SO? 'u'
And then you'd feel strange here .,o,
and you wouldn't know just wbs,,
to sit; e''
For that chair isn't strong on its H..
and we never use it bit: ''
We keep 1t to match with the sofa h,,
Jack says it would be like Won '''
To dop yourself right down upon if ~,
knock out the very last screw,
Suppose you try! I won't tell. You,,.
afraid to! Oh, you're afraid tbor
would think it mean!
Well, then, there's the album; that's n,o.
ty, If you're sure that your finger
are clean.
For sister says sometimes l daub it. bu,
she only says that when sbs,
That's her picture. You know it? n,
like her, but she amt SO good
looking, of course.
This IL me. It's the best of 'em All
Now, tell me, you'd never bavs
thought
That once was little as that? It's ths
only one that could be bought.
For that was the message to pa from thu
photograph man where l sat
That he wouldn't print off any more tin
he first got his money for that.
What? Maybe you're tired of waiting
Why, often she's longer than this
There's all her back hair to do up, and
all her front curls to friz.
But it's nice to be sitting here talking
like grown people, just you and
me!
Do you think you'll be coming here often!
Oh do! But don't come like Tom
tom Lee, her last beau. Why, my good.
ness! he used to be here day and
night,
Till the folks thought he'd be her husband,
and Jack says that gave him
fright.
You won't run away, then, as he did? for
you're not rich man, they say.
Pa says you're as poor as church mouse
Now, are you? and how poor are
they?
"Ain't you glad that you met me? Well
l am, for know now your hair
isn't red;
But what there is left of it's mousey
and not what that naughty Jack
said.
But there, must go; sisters coming
But I wish could wait, just to
If she ran up to you mad kissed you IN
the way that she used to kiss Lee
Bret Harte.
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INDIANS STARVED ON A ROCK.

Tlliuois Farmer Tells Of . Legend
Relating to His Home County.
"You never heard Of Deer Park In
Illinois? Then let me tell you some
thing about the town."
Robert s. Brown, farmer, was tell
ing of his home town at the Midland
hotel the other day. He has lived IN
the county of La Sale, in Illinois, says
the Kansas City Star.
Deer Park, although it's only VII
lage. is near enough to the historic
Starved Rock to be Of considerable I'M
portance to those who visit the rock.
Starved Rock you know. Is the I'M
mense rocky bluff standing above the
Illinois river a few miles above Its
junction with the Vermilion river. On
this rock a small surviving band OF In
dams were driven by a larger tribe ana
kept there until they starved. But
that is another story.
Deer Park is no larger now than 1t
was twenty or thirty years ago. 1t Is
too far away from commerce to grow.
But it's one Of the prettiest little vii
lagos in that State, or any other, SO far
as I know. 1t is away up on beau
tiful hill, and down below it Is the can
yon from which the village got Its
name.
EARLY settlers tell of the Indians
driving herds Of frightened deer down
this ravine and Staying them at short
range in the Canyons basin, where they
could not escape. That Is the way Deer
Park got Its name"
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STAMP MAPS.
How One May Study Geography from
Postage Stamps.

How One May study Geography from
Postage Stamps.
According to story now going the
rounds postmaster in rural New
York town found among his mail a
package bearing an odd little sticker
with which he was not familiar.
That's no stamp" said he, tossing
the package to his clerk, that's map.
Stick 1O-cent due stamp on that, Jim,
and collect for 1t when 1t is called
for"
As matter Of fact it was a map.
but nevertheless a stamp, and one is
sued by Uncle Sam, too, not later than
four years ago. 1t was the 1O-cent de-
nomination Of the Louisiana purchase
issue gotten out in honor Of the big
exposition held at st: Louis in 1904,
and instead of presenting the portrait
Of some of the nations celebrities 1t
showed a map Of the country with the
territory included in the Louisiana pur-
chase sharply defined by heavy lines.
The list Of map stamp issues Is not
Insignificant. Nearly everyone has seen
the Canadian stamp Of 1898 that bore
on its face chart of the entire world,
oceans and all. Besides being rather
pretty, 1t possessed several interesting
characteristics that commended 1t to
consideration. 1t was issued in COM
memoratlon Of the granting of reduced
postal rates to the colonies of Britain.
The Panama map stamps form an in
teresting study. The first of these
stamps was issued by the Colombian
republic in 1887, of which Panama then
formed a state or department. The
eyes of the world had been for years
on the narrow isthmus that connects
the two American continents, and the
stamp was probably intended as much
as anything else to attract wide atten-
ton to the possibilities that lay in the
opening up of canal throughout that
strip of land.
But Colombia, as all now know, was
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| nor" said the smartest of the two, with .
grin at Yeames.
"Out with it. my man, at once, said L.
well, sir, and gentleman ali, it was
| like this here-me and my mate was going
| along with a rope to do bit of hauling
| for Squire Long when we tumbled again
Mr.. Yeames. My mate had suthing to
say about shooting. Suddenly Mr..
Yeames, who hadn't been listening like,
said he'd give us a pound if we'd play
lark on you, Mr.. Keene@
Sir" said l to Sir Roland. seeing
| Yeames, his mother and Bax edging to-
wards the door. ION this evidence l ask
you to commit Lynn Yeames for conspir-
acy."
AYE, I'll commit the whole batch. and
| you, Mrs. Bates. as we'll. Send for my
clerk, and the papers"
But we could not detain any one of the
batch while the commitments were being
procured and so Lynn. his mother and
Bax got clear off. And we have neither
seen nor heard anything of them since
which is the best thing that could have
happened for them and for u.s.
What is there to add? Nothing but
| what should conclude tale of struggle
between right and wrong. DR.. Audrey
| married Gertrude. and lost no time over
it believe as he took her hand in his.
| when his innocence was proved, and they
looked into each others eyes dimmed
with the tear of joy. it was understood
between them that hand and heart were
joined forever.
They live with Laure in the pretty cot
tage on the hill. Awdrey gave up his
practice and went heart and soul into
farming. and when he found the land
could be worked to pecuniary advantage
he bought it out. divided it into portions.
and let it to the men who labor upon it
thus making them Independent. l fear
ed the scheme would not pay. but 1t has
to marvellous extent. thanks to Awdrey's
wise and practical counsel to his tenants.
Yet, though he has given up practice.
there's not a day in the week but some
one calls to benefit by his skill in medi-
cine.
Laure is now verging on womanhood,
and good many young fellows in Coney-
ford wedge themselves into the circle Of
acquaintance with which DIR. Audrey
and his wife are surrounded for her sake.
1 have my eye on one who | think may
be found worthy of her hand. Laure pre-
tends. with blush. that she does not
want to marry, and would rather stay for
ever with Gertrude and her children. One
fine day she will pretend that her heart
will break if she cannot marry. The
Awdreys have three boys, and fine, sturdy
fellows they are.
"They make me feel that l am getting
Older" said Gertrude.
'And so much the happier" l replied.
1t seems TO me that Awdrey himself is
positively younger for the lapse of time.
l never knew a man more cheerful and
bright. 1t is treat to see him with his
boys in the shed he has fitted up as a car
penter's workshop. Whether he intends
putting them to profession one of these
days, don't know; but it is certain that
every one of them will be a good carpen-
ter, which is something. But what most
pleases me is to see him with his wife.
Sure no young lover, no knight OF old,
could be more chivalrous; no gentleman
of to-day more generous!
(THE END.)
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pline to which young people were sub.
ject In that earlier day.
Several of the great jurist's nieces
were in the habit of visiting him, and
as they were young and attractive the
house became q rendezvous for the
leading young men Of the city during
the afternoons. Judge MarshalPs black
major domo, old Uncle Joseph, held 1
tight rein upon these visitors. Every
day at o'clock he would appear at
the door ofs the drawing room in spot
less livery and with a profound bow
would announce:
Ladies, his honor the chief justice
has retired to his room to prepare for
dinner.
Gentlemen, dinner will be served at
half past o'clock. 1t is now 4. His
honor will be pleased If you will re-
main, and covers have been laid for
you at the table. If you cannot re-
main, will you permit the young ladies
to retire to prepare for the meal?"
The gentlemen usually took their
leave, and the ladies retired In an Ill
humor, but any remonstrance with Jo-
seph was only answered by: 1T is the
rule Of the house. Young folks must
be kept within bounds"
In Virginia houses of the better class,
notwithstanding their almost bound
less hospitality, the calls of young men
In that day were strictly held within
limit. No one was received as visitor
to an unmarried girl unless his ante
cedents and character were well known
to her parents.
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Were used to odd questions" salo
the skipper Of river steamer az %
stood on the wharf in the center OF ;
crowd Of querying passengers, "ana
when I get this bunch aboard ~
breathe easier and tell you the --latest
All aboard7 Very good. This is II:
The other day as we left the pier aD'
swung into the stream a woman ap
preached with her two children.
saw l was 1t and waited. Where's ID
fire escapey she demanded. My hus
band told me never to travel withoa
finding out where the IRE escape was
Il knew 1t would never do to tell haI
we had no IRE escape, but / had
study bit for an answer. Finally
pointed to the rigging ladder runnls
up our solitary and never used mas
There it Is told her, and If "
breaks out you just run up that =
appeared quite satisfied, but / bop
she'll never be aboard ship when "
breaks out. II she ID and runs up
mast there'll be trouble sure. PILL
/ delphia Record.
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not destined to reap the benefits in
volved in the disposal of the isthmus
for canal purposes, though her shipping
will, of course, be largely benef1ted
through the use of the waterway. when
completed.
Another contribution to the Panama
map stamps followed in the form OF
one gotten out by the new republic on
it's own account. This in turn was fol-
lowed by the well-knOwn Canal Zone"
stamps, which are merely the Panama
map stamps, overprinted with the
words, "Canal Zone" and Issued Tor
use in the strip Of territory paralleling
the canal route and coded to the United
States by Panama. Nicaragua has
also had a map stamp, and this was
probably issued with the same intent
to advertise the suggested Nicaraguan
route for an isthmian canal that anil
mated Colombia to stamp advertise
Panama. Venezuela issued map stamp
in 1896. and it is said that this was
for the purpose of impressing upon the
world in general, and upon Great Brit
ain in particular, the Venezuelan
claims to the boundary between the re-
public and British Guiana.
Upon the occasion of the meeting of
the third Pan-American congress In
1905 Brazil issued stamp showing al
legorical figures representing the
Americas gathered about large chart
of the Western hemisphere. A map
of the island that it shares with Hayu
was shown on a stamp Issued by the
Dominican republic in 1900. New South
Wales celebrated its one hundredth. an
niversary in 1888 by issuing a stamp
bearing a map of the whole Of Aus
tralia and the adjacent waters
Globe charts of the world are shown
on one Of the stamps Of the 1894 issue
Of Portugal, which was In commemora-
ton of the deeds Of discovery Of Prince
Henry the Navigator, who opened up
the East to civilization much as Cofum-
bus opened up the West. and at about
the same period OF history.
One OF the curious map stamps ID
that of the treaty port Of Ichang, Chi
ma. issued In 1895. The map, or dia-
gram, represents the little settflement
Of Ichang, and IL the only stamp map
of city-f Ichang with It's nifty Eu-
ropean residents and q handful Of Chi
nese can be dignifed with the title Of
city"
The \"city" lies on the left bank Of
the liver Yang-tse, which stream here
flows In southeasterly direction. In
the Tchang map stamp the river Is Ia
beled IN Chinese characters Chang
chiang." which il equivalent to Long
River" another Of the names given to
It by the natives. On the river front
IL the ''Halkuan," or custom house, and
back Of the settlement Il 4 detached
plot Inscribed in tiny characters .sYInx
shu." which Is nothing more nor les