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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03
1t Pays to Be Good to a Dog-He'iI Stand
By You When Everybody Else Quits

w NAHUM LOW T.
He was Just tramp dos and no.
body cared.
SO he starved
When he was a pup folks thought
he Was cute. and he was patted and
fed. bat one day they moved aud
q WAS a bother 10 take him. so they
lott him
lie was only dos
For days he hung around the
place. 4 dog was mana earliest
companion. Away back In pre-
historic times the barbaric man and
the Wild doc hunted their food and
shared t. Their bones are found
together in the caves near the
kitchen'middenH.
Dog 10 Faithful.
IT'S a long time that the dog has
been faithful 70 man. and he
doesn't get over the habit You
can't teach any dog the new trick
OF uniaithfulaess.
So old hum hung around There
wasn't anything 30 eat. bat he WAS
too lonesome and homcslck 20 care
at first Finally. the panga og hun.
ger drove him out. For days he
royrd the streets.
Miss May krusger, secretary al
the Humane Society. met him STAG.
gerlng on the street lie WAS a
sorTy. looking dog His ribs stuck
out through the dry. harsh hide
she picked him un and laid him on
the platform OF a street car and
took him home
She called In a veterinary sur.
guon Poor BUNS tongue had dried
IN his throat from starvation For
a week be had 90 DO doegGrsd be-.
fore he could eat. and he lay and
moaned out hts misery
Got a Good Home
But be got well ami then siias
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

bone. Aud all the time was
u .wishin' somebody'd like me. Then
you came along
There are lots of dogs la Beat
tie like me, Maybe. II folks knew
how Il hurts they'd be little kind.
err II ain't our fault. you know.
We can't help IL because we're
dogs and homeless. Five cents
worth OF sausage would mean y lot
TO dog sometimes. and people
wouldn't miss the nickel
IL this will help a doggone bit,
I'll be glad.
Here's sending you a wag OF my
tail
WHITE HOUND"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

The aeroplane was stranded In
the top Of the apple tree.
Help Help" shouted the air
pilot Can't you aes I an up here
in the top % your apple tree ?"
The old farmer blew q quid Of
tobacco az a vide eyed grasahop
per and chuckled softly.
Il eea ysGu. hub." he drawicd
AN was just wondering
Wondering whatT"
'iia0w much Yeou would charge
TO pick them thar apples. being a.
Ycon are 80 cloas TO them. The
hired man has the rheumatism an
can't rlimb n ladder
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03
A Serenade.

Look out upon the stars. my
love,
And shame them with thine
eyes.
ON which. than on the lights
above,
There hang MORE deatinies
Nights beauty Is the harmony
or blending shades and
light.
Then. lady. up--iook out. and
be-
A sister 10 the night
Edward C0aie pinkney.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03
IN LITTLE old new YORK

NEW YORK. Sept STAMP
dealers row in Gard st. exhibits
new postage stamps just issued b.
Western Australia bearing the
familiar head Of Queen Victoria.
Being asked about Il. a Londoner
explained that the accession Of
King George made it possible to re-
issue government stamps with
Queen vlctorias head II such
stamps had been issued In King
Edwards reign II would have been
an affront. according TO court ettl-
qnette. as Queen Victoria vas his
immediate predecessor This does
not apply to King George. and
thrifty Western Australia saves
sopsS money by reusing old printing
plates that had TO be discarded
ssgveral years ago while Edward
was king
Widows day at fire headquarters
in usually productive Of painful
memories The city has provided
a fund and once a month more than
900 women go TO headquarters 10
get their allowances. which are ap-
portioned to length OF service.
grade OF the fireman and manner
Of death. Where the fireman lost
his life at a fire the widows allow.
ance is largest The annual stipend
ranges from SIS to 700. There
are only seven women who get the
latter amount Most OF them re-
ceiye $500 a year The total for
the year In Manhattan il Si26. 1000
ITS a spur 10 heroism for a fire
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03


Bring ms a plain steak" order.
ed the new patron IN the lunch.
room.
Yes. sir" responded the pretty
waitress
And come plain potatoes"
\ have your order. STR"
And some plain bread"
Gracious, sir. you must think
40 keep everything palm In here 3"
Yes. everything IL plain but the
waitress
And when the boss was not look.
ing ahe slipped him two wedges Of
apple pie gratis.
Women are now allowed 10 vote
IN kraln, a province Of Austria.
Sunny jim" Ia said 10 be a
gloomy eues since he read Taft's
letter.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

man 70 know that the city will take
care Of the missua and the little
ones II he loses bis life In the dis.
charge 81 duty. explained a head.
quarters officer.
%
The procession % carriages
which was a feature OF the East
Side Italian wedding ls gradually
disappearing When there is a
wedding In an uptodate Italian
family nov tRxicabs are hired n
is a common sight to see the large
wedding party crowded into four
or five brilliant taxis whlriiug from
the brides home 10 the church
90
But you said you had done the
cooking for a whole family" ex.
claimed the e1asperated house
wife when the new arrival told her
that she was quite ignorant Of che
mysteries OF broiling a steak and
could not have roasted a chicken II
her life depended on n. How IN
the world could you have done that
when you seem to know nothing
about IT."
The new incumbent smiled
blanely 4 ala cook for a family
Of four" she protested. But they
called themselves vegetables. and
all We had 20 eat used 10 be nuts
and boiled potatoes. aud / always
boiled the potatoes"
- have" said Nick Lonu~orth,
after seeing Taft, "a genuine affeo-
ton for Mr.. Cannon" Then he hit
Uncle Joe below the belt four
times and kicked him twice in the
kidneys. Real Ohio love tokensi
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03
Thought Il Wac a Tad.

Ihouaht u was Tax.
You have had your pie and
coffee" said the lunch wagon man.
anything else. SIR"
Yes" murmured the drowsy
customer. as the midnight bells
chimed forth. be a good fellow and
drive me home"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

Myrtle. returning from bridge
party Well. mother. captured the
BOBBY
Mother. thinking 81 Charley Sap
he'd Why, my dear. didn't know
you were after HIM
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

Korea 10 rapidly becoming civil.
izeo. IL bought over 1000. 600 bot
ties Of beer Of Japan In 1909.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

a pasteboard cat has been Invent.
ed. n IL covered with phosphoru.
90 that Il shIres az night and
friahtens rats and mice away.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

They charged like demons.
said the retired general. excitediy
Where wsH that. general7" be
was asked. at GettysburgG"
"Oh. MOI At Manage Fails
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

THE only man who never made
mistake II the fellow who never ald
anything.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03
Auto suooestlon.

Birds nests sell In Hongkong at
SIS TO SIS per pound.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

There are about " dozen eggs
per capita per annun for the Unit.
ed States.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

Some Of the sharks Of the indian
ocean attain a length Of 50 feet.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

i've Just bought a Rembrandt
4 Amt never heard OF that car
said Mrs. Newrich but ! shall have
Henry look into 1t.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03
IoaLi WISE aAYat

~ boy would like Sunday better
~ he didn't have ter be all dressed
up"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

It's distance lends enchantment 10
the view.
And robes the mountain In It's azure
hue.
Campbell.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

Ieuo aaothef aclTess who has los ot
diamonds"
mo; millionaire fitted
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

In Chicago last year e.2e3.eoo
hogs were packed and marketed.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

Bertha took a walk In the woods
with the other children. and they
Witnessed some men using a cross
cut saw On her return home khs
described II as follows:
An then We came TO a placs
where there was two men cutun' a
tree with a see-Eaw. an they was
maxim insides for doll babies"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03
HICKORY GROVE WHISPER

HICKORY GROVE WHISPER
INGGO
It's getting 30 you can't go home
with jug u vinegar any more but
what it's the talk OF this Grove
you've took to drink awful
Grocer Mieklewitz painted the
dry goods boxes in front of hts
store The boys are roostinE on
the steps OF the NJ Il, church until
the paint dries
Miss Dorcaa Conway went shop.
ping to the city yesterday. Did you
see herr
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

Too Much Talk.
Pretty Maid Lots ~ cOileRa
girls are athletes these days Quits
a few Of them can chin the bar.
Cruhty Bachelor Hint I'd
rather see some that could bar the
chin
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03
STAR DUST

Spain 10 said 10 nave the wors.
rosda for motoring Of any country
In Europe.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

Dance at Dreamiand tonight.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

Women are now allowed 20 vote
In kraln, a province Of Austria.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1910-09-03

ny Mail. out Of city year. ~. months. $50,
month. CSC. Entered NJ
seatue. Wash. Poatoffice. as sec0ndcla matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18
Keeping Down Tire Expcnse.

From Iiarper's Weekly
 wear can be n,..imized by careful driv- lng and avoidance of bad roads. The worst possible condition for the tires is a worn road peppered with loose. snorp stones. These stones may have been picked oEt from the substance of the road sur lace, or they may have been spread over II py way of repair and not properly roiied ln Worn macadam, even if free rom loose stones is very destruotiva of tires because it's surface, though fairly smooth to the casual glance, is in reality simply an aggregation of irregular stones nigh and low. which support the tire only al few points instead of over a fairly large surface. AS the supporting area is small, the contact pressure per square
 inch Is high, and the irregularity of the surfaces causes the tire to slip and iump
 Tn manner that abrades it's surfaces almost as effectively as a file. There ar. thousands of miles of roads like this in the neighborhood of the large towns all over the country. and it is safe to say that, if half the cost of the tires they needlessly destroy were spent in main taining the roads themselves, the whole community would be the gainer.
 Harsh use of clutch and brakes turning corners on two wheels. and similar need less ''stunts'' are the marks of the hare brained beginner. The experienced driver shows his skill rather in the "sweetness,' of his driving and his ability to get much in the way of mileage and speed with lt- tie wear and tear on his car As for sprung aXles and distorted steering ms- chanism, both are too obviously things calling of instant shop attention to bs more than mentioned here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18
Artistic Match BOxea

From the London Telegraph.
 Without promising to make match es cheaper in France, N. Coclrery, the en- terprising minister of finance, has de- cided to supply the public with artistic boxes Perhaps this genial initiative on his part will diminish the complaints with which all are familiar. The idea of the minister is that match boxes might be adorned with pictures of the great at-masterpieces preserved in the museums of France. A beginning is to be made with the most famous paint iners of the Louvre, and as the entente cordiale now plays leading part in French life, the minister also contem- plates including some of the most cele- brated pictures In the National Gallery in London. The first of these is to be a copy of the "Windmills" of Hobbema, kept in London, and several paintings of Drouais and Boucher in the Louvre. When buying forty matches for a penny travellers hereafter will no longer have right to growl as they have been doing in the past. They will get an artistic souvenir each time, and return home with trunks full of miniature Bouchers, Frag<nards and Raphaeis. Perhaps they will also be induced to buy. more matches than they need and help to swell the exchequer, which is M Cocherys principal concern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18

Calvin, or, for that matter, any very great man whose name has lived as bene- factor to the race The cash value os sanding out against that terrible force, the world, is not swiftly forthcoming. It is then encouraging to see at this time how many people in the world honored Tolstoi, and how many loved him, al- though the number of those VI ho under stood his life agreed with his protests are perhaps hardly more than a dozen or two the world over.
 Perhaps the most interest," lg parts of Tolstois doctrine are his dealings with personal happiness. He had the mystic 8 realization of the unity of life, and like all the mystics before and since he has denied the possibility of one mans happi- ness until the very last mans S happiness be secured
 His investigations into the nature O. love. effort, death are slngularly search ing and uncompromising. He leaves but few discples-the late Ernest Crosby In this country was one and Edward Car penter in England is another.
 Exactly what would become Of the world should any large mass of men un- dertake to live the Gospel as uncompro- misingly as Tolstoi 1t is difficult to pre- dict. We have spoken here chiefly of Tol- stoi's work as a prophet His work as an artist was supremely great, but he him self was the first to repudiate it and to desire to be known amongst men as one who had a gospel of life to offer This gospel he offered in his books called My Confession. My Religion, Life, the Gospel in Brier What is Art? What is to be Done? Family Happiness" and in his biographical work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18
"Darlsneaa of Cnunseiv

From the North American Review.
 Wordsworth advised the critics to spend on original work the time spent in writ Ing critiques. arguing that, whereas a malicious criticism may do much harm, a stupid invention is harmless and useful In helping the critic to find his own level. Indeed. 1t is doubtful whether any one incapable himself of creation is fitted to crticise the work of others. It may be that only he who has known through what travail thought is born in words
 who has subjected himself to the ..4sci- pline of art, the eonstraint of form, the lorna rlgfda severa," can appreciate. through knowledge of difficulties over come, the value and meaning of any ar tistic production. The man who knows from his own failures how inadequatey thought can be packed into narrow phrase can read again into the written word of another the power that eluded and escaped the snare of language. 1t is just as difficult for the uninitiated to feel the significance of the fine points of a craft. as for a foreigner to learn all the nuances of a foreign diom. We may learnedly announce that Horaces verse
 Is made up of three ascepiads and a cataletic trochaic tetrapody called a gli- conic, but the knowledge cannot make us feel the fluent suavity of that verse as it is felt by the Italian poets who have adopted it's metre and applied the ancient form to the expression of modern ideas. The criticism of such men as Horace, Roileau, Dryden, Johnson. Nnltaire
 Goethe Heine. Carducci. have always been as invaluable as their .distinctivey creative work. We listen and rejoice when Browning writes of Shelley when Swinburne writes of Meredith. Who can doubt that Carducci, to whom Virgrs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18
Balzac's Revfsions

l ETOIu tllt DOOhlfldIl
 | Some writers apply the gospel of infin- 1 ite pains from the first moment of their conception of plot down to the last re- | vision of the page proofs. Balzac was | one of these. His cratic and laboured | methods of revision, as recorded by | Theophile Gautier in his Portraits Con- 1 temporains," are such an interesting ob- | ject lesson of the extent to which the | fever for revision may be carried that l 1t seems worth while to quote him here | rather extensively:
 His method of proceeding was as | follows: When he had long borne and | lived 0 subject, he wrote, in rapid, un- | even, blotted almost hieroglyphic writing | 6 species of outline on several pages. | These pages went to the printing office. | from which they were returned in plac- ards; that is to say, in detached columns | in the center of large sheets. He read these proofs attentively, for they already gave to his embryo work that 'imper- sonal character which manuscript never possesses; and he applied to this first | sketch the great critical faculty with which he was gifted, precisely as though | he were judging of another mans work Then he began operations: approving or disappearing, he maintained or cor rected, but above all he added. {. After some hours the paper might have | been taken for drawing of fireworks by
 child Rockets, darting from the origi- | nal text, exploded on all sides. Then there were crosses-simple crosses, crosses recrossed, like those of a blazon, stars, suns, Arabic figures, letters. Greek, | Roman or French, all imaginable signs, mingled with erasures. Strips of paper, | fastened on by wafers or pins, were add ed to the insufficient margins, and were rayed with lines of writing, very fine to | save room, and full themselves of eras- ures; for a correction was hardly made before that again was corrected. The following day the proofs came back the bulk, of course. doubled. Balzac set to work again, always am- plifying.
 Often this tremendous labor ended with
 an intensity of attention. a clearness of perception of which he alone was cap able. He would see that the thought was
 warped by the execution, that an epi- sode predominated; that figure which
 he meant should be secondary for the general effect was projecting out of it's | plan. Then, with one stroke of his pen, he bravely annihlated the result of four
 or five nights of labor. He was heroic at such times
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18
GERMANY IS APPROACHING
 GREAT POLITICAL BATTLE

1 tention of the whole world on Rus- | sia.
 Seldom has the civilized world wit messed a more ridiculous sight than
 when the high bishops of the official Russian church on their knees begged
 to be admitted to the presence of the dying man to implore him to enter the church that had banished and excom- municated him; and still more ridic-
 ulous did the same church appear when | 1t forbade its priests to say masses | for the repose of the dead giants soul. | Once more Russia has shown how hopelessly far 1t is behind the rest of | the civilized world
 With Christmas rapidly approaching 1t is with a sense of great relief Eu- rope observes that things are nearly quiet fin the Balkans. In the Island of Crete that national assembly was re- gently opened in the name of the King
 of Greece. Turkey protested, fumed and | fretted, but that was all. and every thing seemed to show that 1910 will end in peace even in Europe's 'HelPs | Kitchen" In Greece political struggles | are the order of the day, but the out l look is reassuring and Venizelos Is more than ever the popular hero and savior of his country.
 A most 1ncreulDle case or SuperStl- ton Is reported from Rihal, near Cross warden, Hungary
 The place has never hitherto expe- rienced an earthquake, but the other day a series of violent shocks startled the neiglborhood. The earth tremors were so violent as to set the church bells ringing.
 The villagers were greatly alarmed. and consulted an old woman of the lo ba oh olx were the shiverings of the devil suf-
 fering from cold and hunger. There upon the peasants threw a number of calves and goats into a chasm outside the village to appease the devils hun ger and set fire to the bishops forest
 fin the neighborhood to provide him with heat.
 The old woman and several peasants have been arrested.
 Although the Kaiser has frequently given expression to his strong desire that the youth of Germany, especially the University students should devote less time to beer drinking and more time to the pursuit of healthy athletic pastime, the development of sport in Germany has suffered more than ono setback at the hands of the police au- thorities.
 A few weeks ago the Berlin police saw fit to prohibit public wrestling matches on the ground that they ex- ercised an injurious influence upon the public morals and now the ban has been extended to boxing matches.
 There exists In Berlin small CO., terie of English and American sports men, who, for some time past, have been endeavorlng to popularize Anglo Saxson sports In the Fatherland They founded the Anglo American Boxing club in Berlin and thus introduced box
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18

ing into Germany. For time the club
 prospered Many young Germans be- came members and learned the ele-
 ments of boxing, and all went well. The club successfully organized two or three boxing carnivals, and then
 made arrangements for bigger match, | In which a north American ex-cham- pion was to meet the champion heavy weight of Denmark.
 | But at the last moment on the very | day of the match, the guardian angel | of Berlins morals, in the form of Herr Von Jagow, the president of the po- lice, descended upon the club and pro- hibited any further boxing. The os- tensible reason for the prohibition was that the boxing matches, instead of being those of private club, had as sumed the character of public displays, | but this Is a statement which Is dis puted by the club managers, who are preparing to enter a protest.
 | A disagreeable affair, which will probably assume greater dimensions, is causing much discussion in Buda Pesth. | A lady's hairdresser named Vigyazo has | been conducting an organized campaign tof blackmail against ladies of the ar l fstocracy and pultocracy, which ap- pears to have been long planned. Wig lyazo q strinkingly handsome man of elegant appearance ana pOllSneQ man. ners, selected the business of a hair dresser for the sole reason that it
 would bring him into close connection with those circles in which he hoped to find victims By degrees he became acquainted with the intimate secrets of his patronesses. Thus finding himself
 in possession of sufficient material, ne forwarded many various blackmailing letters, in one declaring that he had entire knowledge of a ladys meetings with her chauffeur, in another giving
 exact details of the lady's interviews
 with an officer of hussars, while other
 letters of the same character contained
 thinly yelled threats. The price which
 he required for his silence varied from
 5000 to 5000 kronen, or more.
 An energetic lady wife of a million
 aire, to whom the blacEmailer had writ
 ten to in erro, informed the author
 ities, who arrested the man. It was
 soon known that he had communicated
 to the police a number of compromis-
 ing stories and it would also be expect
 ed that in the case of trial he would
 give the names of those ladies who had
 yielded to his demands for money. To-
 day vigyazo committed suicide by
 hanging himself in his cell He be-
 fonged to a respectable family which
 had formerly owned a considerable
 amount of property He lived at one
 time in Vienna, moving in very good
 circles