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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-06-07
GENTLE LADY OF SKIBO--THE
LAIRD'S MOST WONDERFUL WOMAN

A woman whose first thought In
always OF hor husband and child; n
sweet. quiet. motherly woman; a
home lover, unapoiled by fabulous
Riches
Such woman In Mrs. Andrew
Carnegie. lauded by her husband
aa the wife ideal.
Able Co wear the most gorgeous
gowns tho world can afford. she
dresses simply. able 20 mingio In
the highest society In America. and
with royalty In Europe. she cllngn
to her homo and few frlonds.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-06-07
DOESN'T LIKE BEDS

SANTA MONICA, Cal. juno G.
The police are searching for a man
who has an Unborn grudgc against
beds. Six feathery couches In
Clark's lodging house were set on
fire within an hour last night.
Clark can't explain.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-06-07
HE GOT DIVORCE

SAN FRANCISCO. June I'D
have got him. but my wife has just
stabbed me in the eye with a table
knife, and couldn't see right"
said Elmo Cope. telling OF how his
father-in-law thrashed him. lie got
his divorce.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-06-07
HAVE MOTHER SLICE

SAN FRANCIbCO, june I.--Thc
first watermelons of the season
are here today. but they are not
popular with the average citizen.
The price is from $3.50 10 $3.50
per melon. They come from La
Paz. Mexico.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-06-07
YELL WITH HANDS

VANCOUVER. wash. June H.
Deaf aud dumb pupils OF the state
school for the deaf will hold com
mcueement exercises ut which
there viii be songs. Rotations. es-
says. sohooi yells. all given in the
fign Language.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-06-07
TRIES TO WIN
BET. DROWNED

BUTTE, June Trying to win
A $40 bet that he could swim with
4 f0-pound bell tied to each ankle.
A. KaalBon was drowned In Lake
Avoca last night The winner was
nnId the 40.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-06-07

500 pairs of Mems Oxfords
and High Shoes, stamped and
branded $3.50 and $500. Choice
$i.o8, at the bia closing out sale
az 5th and Pike.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-06-07

Fesfer's Union - thu greatest
seller In union made cigars In tho
world. &c. 80.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20
By DOROTHY DIX
By HAL COLEMAN.

goes from our house after that hour.
We are highly respectable and al
low no nonsense in our home.
Il have just found out that my
daughter is keeping company with
some man. l can not tell how, or
where, as she is always home before
10. / do not know how to keep her
from him. she used to tell me
everything, but as l put a stop to
all of her other men acquaintance
she is hiding this from me, and 1
am much worried. I do not even
know If the man is a married man
or not, and do not believe any re-
spectacle man would have ANYTHING
to do with girl who can not open
ly receive him in her own home.
Please tell me how to gain my
daughters confidence, and also how
to stop this affair before it has
gone too far"
Doesn't 1t seem incredible that
there could be two human beings
In the world with little enough
knowledge of life and youth to act
as this father and mother are do
ing? Undoubtedly they love their
daughter, and desire her good, and
Vet the most malevolent enemy in
the world couldn't have devised any
better plan for running her life.
TO begin with, they are so in
credibly selfish that 10 prevent
themselves from being disturbed
and their provincial little pleas
ures broken into, they cut their
daughters out OF all of the JOYS
and pleasures of their girlhood.
Youth has a right 10 laugh, to have
company. to dance, to make merry
and to go to theaters and places
of amusement, and for girls par
ents to keep her from enjoying
these innocent pleasures is to de-
fraud her out of her birthright.
The home, according to the moth
ers own statement Of il. is worse
than any Jail, and that the girl
doesn't run away and leave it, as
she would be perfectly justified in
doing at % years of age, shows that
she is young woman with an ex-
traordinarily high sense Of duty.
If she had been of a more pleasure
loving disposition and weak fibre.
she would have skipped out long
ago and Joined the ranks of the
chorus-or worse. Many a girl is
driven into the primrose path by
her parents making her own home
So dreary and unattractive that it
seemed better 70 take any risk than
TO stay i'm il.
As for refusing to let girl have
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20
Was First Improvement.

But, after that, few generations
sutficed to bring in the automo-
bile which needs no rails to run
on. This will probably prove to be
the greatest step in locomotion that
has been taken since the invention
of the wheel-greater in many ways
than the locomotive engine itself.
II has certainly had the swiftest
progress, for half a generation has
seen its almost complete develop
ment.
CHANGING over the colored photo
graphs in the current number of
the monthly magazine called Mo-
TOR Ca quaint specimen of typog-
raphy which is full of symbolism),
one obtains an astonishing sense
Of the mastery that is in the
motor car. 1t must be a revelation
to many who use such cars in a
half-timid way, not really compre-
hending the power that they pos
sess. Look at the picture of a pow
erful automobile easily blowing it's
way through a snow choked road,
in which a horse drawn vehicle
would be hopelessly moored fast.
And then turn to the photographs
OF automobiles winding round
mountain roads, skirting profound
chasms, and, without loss of breath,
carrying their passengers to eleva-
tions and viewpoints that could not
otherwise be attained without great
eXertions on the part Of horse and
man, and at the cost of immense
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20
Cholera Scourges of Other Times

TINE terrible ravages cholera is
making at the present time
in Turkey remind one Of
many previous occasions when cpl
denies have carried off thousands
at a time
AS early as 767 r. c. we read Of
a plague, and again in 453 B. C.
Rome suffered terribly. Athens
was attacked by a pestilence in 43O
3. c. which was believed to have
been caused by their enemies poi
soning the water supplies.
As many as 10000 people a day
fell victims to the plague at Rome
in A. d. so. SO many people were
killed during the epidemic which
occurred in Britain during the fifth
century that there were hardly suf-
icient persons left to bury the
dead. In 772 Chichester lost $4,000
people, and in 954 Scotland lost
10000, London was visited in the
tenth and eleventh centuries. and
Ireland suffered severely in 1904.
The Oriental plague occurred be-
tween 134S and 1882. 1t was known
as the BLACK Plague" on account
Of the black spots which appeared
on the skin at death. 1t started in
China in 1888, and the deaths num-
bered 100000. and $4,000 600 sue
cumbed in the rest Of Asia. It an
peared in Norway and Sweden in
1919 and 1882 About 100000 fell
victims to the Black Plague in Eng
land. Of which $4,000 occurred in
London alone.
The sweating sickness appeared
in England four times during the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
the first time in 1885, and lasted
one month, in which 10000 people
died in London alone. II also Wis
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20

tied Holland, Germany. Denmark,
Sweden, Poland and Russia be-
tween 1925 and 1880.
In the seventeenth century q
pestilence broke out In London and
carried off 10000 people In Ly-
ons $4,000 died during 1882
through a scourge which swept
over France. Italy lost 100000 in
six months in 1855.
In the seventeenth century Hoi-
land was visited by a plague In
Leyden 1900 died Of it, and the
following year 1927 died IN Am
sterdam. 1t was brought to London
in bales of cotton by some Dutch
merchants. This was the plague Of
London, and, as every one knows.
about 100000 persons died In one
year.
Persia lost $4,000 from pesti-
lence in 1913, and Egypt 100000
during 1890. Epidemics OF cholera
appeared in France several times
during the nineteenth century, IN
which $4,000 people died in Paris
between March and August lS3-'
1t appeared in England in 1S4S ano
lS49, carrying off 1851 persons
and 5000 persons were carried OF
in London in 1866 in fifteen weeks
During recent years India has
been heavily visited by plagues-in
Bombay, Northwest Presidency anu
Punjab and in a less degree id
Burma and other parts Of India
In January, 1905, there was week
ly mortality OF 10000 reaching b\
steady increase a total OF o.
702. BY April 1 it had droppe-
to 1000 weekly. but again reached
5000 by the end of June. Two
years after the number Of victims
amounted 10 as many as 100000
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20
Reciprocity Must Go With
Tariff Revision

Governor Wilson's eyes fell upon striking objecesson
reciprocity he stood the dock Hamilton, Bermuda the
other day watched the Landing that of Argentine
cattle that reduced the OF living o the island
The lesson should be applied in this country only
the little British island but in the whole United States
market prices cut to the basis of
by freer with countries that have the things
and wear and that the things
This is the of the Democratic party to continued power
popularity and the opposite way leads dscredt
Chairman Underwoods initial conference
direcness along this line The principle of reciprocity should
the guiding principle of tariff revision
It is necessary for the Democratic congress
incoming majority of March The majority
ample for the work. and broad national policy the
procy principle has been Endorsed every Republican national
convention for the last twenty and by Mckinley Roosevelt
and Taft
Republican presidents congresses much
toward putting the principle into practical effect But the
of the party have always recognized
Republican like the voters believe
the kind of tariff laws THAT WILL EXPAND OUR MARKETS
DELIVER THE GOODS.
THAT is RECIPROCITY.
Rightly considered, it is not party question all
should be lifted out of the of party controversy
The gt Of reciprocity is free as free
trade profitable and maintain protection
industries far they need protection
The Americans practical Of people with pract-
cal eye for realities and results easily carried
wordwars between protectons and ravng eerad
Every sensible American understands that
great volume of going the ends of the world
must produce goods large scale They know that
should make trade absolutely Free it would many
dustres and destroy much of productive They know
the other hand that if should impossible
of protection would restrict foreign to the
rowest limits and destroy much of power
1t is absurd to expand by methods that de-
etroy industries 1t equally absurd build up world
supplying industries by methods that destroy foreign
Thus is clear to all but rap Missionaries and the
headed that reciprocity is the only reasonable tariff policy
COMBINES WHAT is SOUND IN PROTECTION WITH WHAT
rs SANE IN FREE TRADE
Every nation in Continental Europe has lived under a
consistent system of reciprocity for the last half century
United States has been struggling establish system
more than thirty We have been baked hwared in
this struggle by the rival fanatcm docrnare and by
solid phalanx Of selfish vested interests.
II was Senator Adrich who knocked life ont of the
reciprocity plans made by James Blaine Mckinley
bill of 1900 Adrch and the sinister which he repre-
scented were the chief enemies of every other reciprocity plan
twenty years
These powers Of obstruction have lost their footing
1he United States senate And the time has
thoroughly what the nation has long accomplish
Now is the time to plan for expansion of foreign
trade through the establishment of orderly
tenn of reciprocity
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20
By GARRETT ?. SERVISS.

"A TAN'S greatest invention is
vi the wheel. 1t solved the
problem of swift and easy
locomotion for him and rendered all
his engines possible. In the wheel
human ingenuity has departed fur
thest from natures models.
The wheel is a circular leg with
an endless foot. 1t was one of the
earliest products Of pure brain
work.
We may imagine that on a fiat
surfaced planet, such as Mars APP
pears to be, nature may possibly
have furnished animals with
wheels. But here man had to think
of that improvement for himself.
Nature gave him only spokes; he
added the rim, and locomotion was
revolutionized. When you walk
you bring the ends of the spokes
one after the other upon the ground
with a great loss of time, effort and
speed. The endless foot only be-
comes effective on an even surface,
and man, almost at the beginning
of his career, had the good sense to
provide himself, first with smooth
roads, and then with trimmed legs,
or wheels.
His progress at first was slow,
but it has now become rapid. He
had the bullock cart for thousands
of years before he invented the To-
connective engine and the railroad
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20
Have Opposed Progress.

Foolish workmen have smashed,
or tried to smash, at the beginning
almost every new machine designed
to do better and more quickly the
work Of human hands. but IN the
end they have always found that
those same machines were the
means of their own emancipation.
The automobile has quickened
the pulses Of the planet 1t has
given us a clearer idea of the value
of time. 1t has freed the horse
from slavery and us from depend
ence upon enslaved muscles It is
showing US how far behind we have
been lingering in the development
of speed and comfort, and it fore
tells a yet brighter era when the
world will move still faster, and, in
moving faster, will live more.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20

a beau at home, are there any par
ents so dun as not to be able to fig
ure out what the result of that is
bound to be? If the girl is very
homely and the father and mother
lucky, it dooms her to be an old
maid. If the girl is good looking
and attractive, it means that she
will meet men on the street and
pick up chance acquaintance, and
that some day she will elope with
some stranger of whom her people
never heard. and who is more
likely than not to be just the man
she shouldn't have married.
To What They Doom Her.
Instead of driving young men
away from their home, every father
and mother of daughters should not
only welcome their daughters male
acquaintance, but should use every
means to get personally acquainted
with the young men and find out
everything possible about them. for
only in that way can they guard
their daughters and prevent them
from making disastrous marriages.
This mother complains that her
daughter doesn't confide in her.
Why should she? How could the
mother expect it when she puts her
foot down on every plan the girl
has and forbids her every pleasure?
Such woman is not a mother.
She's nothing but a grinding ty-
rant and she had as we'll realize
that her daughter looks upon her
as despot and not a sympathetic
friend.
The mother asks my advice. 1t is
this: Turn over a new leaf. Wake
up to the fact that a girl of % isn't
baby She is a woman grown.
with a woman's rights Give her
some pleasure at home if you want
her 10 stay there. Let her invite in
all of her friends, and make as
many parties as she wants to. Sus-
pend your 10 o'clock rule, for It's
lot better that you and your equity
husband should lose a little sleep
than ii is for your daughter to be
meeting strange men on the street.
Just remember if YOU want to
keep your children at home you've
got TO make your home an agree
able place to stay in. If you want
your chiidren's love, you must be
loyabIe, and if you desire your
daughters confidence, you must lis
ten to her with understanding. sym
pathy and helpfulness. Nobody.
not even a daughter, loves a jailer.
or conddes in wet blanket
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20
The Rights of Daughters

INREQUENTLY l get letters
from girls complaining that
their parents will not permit
them to have any friends, of either
sex visit them in their homes, and
that no jailer could be more cruel
or more tyrannical to them than
their fathers and mothers.
1 confess that have given scant
credence to these charges. for it
did not seem possible to me that in
this enlightened day any father or
mother could have little enough
sense, to say nothing of little
enough affection, to do the one
thing that was surest to drive a
young girl away from home, and
into the very dangers that beset
youth and beauty in a great city.
thought that the narrow, igno-
rant, selfish, opinionated, mean lit
tie despof of the home existed only
in melodrama on Fourteenth street,
where the stern parent still sur
wives, and turns his daughter out Of
house and home. But it seems that
I was mistaken, as the following
letter shows. And it's a real, gen
uine. bona fde letter written by q
woman wko signs herself "One in
Trouble"
She writes: u am the mother OF
two daughters who are both work
ing, but ! think l have the right to
control their actions in every way
and expect their implicit obedience.
have no trouble with my younger
daughter, who is delicate, and al
ways obeys me in everything. but
the older girl, who is Is years old
and a millinef, gives me great an
noyance
The Worst Enemies.
IL think a girls place is at home
after her days work is over But
my daughter wants to go out. She
prefers other peoples company to
ours, and likes to go out TO the the
alter. do not give her permission
TO SO, nor does she go as she knows
her father would disown her if she
did. and she gets very mopy, and
this is disagreeable for us
1--WE do not object to her getting
married 10 "a good man. but where
is one who will be to her what we
have BEEN am constantly telling
her this, but she rebels and says
that she would like to have young
men call at the house Now, my
husband has govt and we can not
he annoyed with men calling. Be
sides we an retire at 10 o'clock
every evening and nc one comes or
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20

VI TIE auto stare at you from The
mouths Of canyons, and its broad.
padded wheels take safe hold on the
edges of precipices where even the
sure-footed broncho would not in
spire confidence.
The statistics of the automobile
are amazingly interesting reading.
If you neglect to inform yourself
about them you miss one OF the
most significant things Of our era.
At the last census we had about
90,000,00 inhabitants in this coun-
try. On October l last there were
almost 100000 motor cars regis
tered in the United States-nearIy
one for 80 human beings.
A Prerogative of the Rich.
California has one for every %
of its inhabitants; New York for
every rs.
OF course, many Of these cars
are used for business purposes and
for public conveyance and think
how vastly they have promoted eff
ficiency and rapidity in the carry
ing of goods and passengers. The
possession of private cars is still
prerogative Of comparative wealth.
But the cost will inevitably come
down. The time is surely coming
when any man who could formerly
afford to own q horse and buggy
can have an automobile for his
family and for the transaction of
his affairs. At present many man
ufacturers cater only to the rich
but in little while they viii all
cater to the whole people.
The time when the sight Of all
automobile awakens feelings Of
envy and prejudice is fast passing.
The world can not afford to stand
in its own light. To do so Is TO
hold back the era Of mind, All these
things are the product of brain
and mans only hope for the future
on this planet Is in his brain
Every invention has met with op-
position at the outset. They stoned
railway cars when they were first
introduced in England
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-20
Garrett P. Serviss
Writes on
The Automobile

1t Will Probably Prove To Be
the Greatest Step in Locomo-
tion-One Million Cars Regis
tered in the United States, or
Nearly One for Every Ninety
Human Beings.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-21
AFFECTS LIKE A DE6AUCH.

Overshoes and every other article in
which vulcanized rubber is used menace
the health of the workers in their pro-
duction. The colorless volatile liquid with
the disagreeable odor called by the chem
lists bisulphide OF carbon is used In the
process OF vulcanizatton. The inhalation
OF It's vapor is dangerous. 1t may cause
a paralysis of the arms and legs that VIII
require months for a recovery. Young
women employed in dipping In bath or
this liquid children's balloons, tobacco
pouches, toys, etc, on their way home In
the evening after their days work are
sometimes attacked In their lower eX-
tremities and stagger along like an in
toxicated person. The following day they
feel shaky and tremulous. as IL they had
been on a debauch. Sometimes the inhal-
alton causes acute hysteria. and In the
more chronic form, weakening of the
memory, difficulty OF speech. and loss OF
muscular power and of sensation In the
arms and legs. Occasionally acute de-
lirium accompanied by decisions may re-
suit.
Quick drying paints used on hurry"
jobs aboard ship are dangerous, for they
are mixed with methylated or petroleum
spirit. or with benzine. The inhalation
OF the vapor causes illness and the paint
Is extremely infiammable. Men coating
the interior OF a ships hunks with this
kind of paint frequently become uncon-
scious and can be removed only by means
OF ropes.
"Dry cleaning" In which benzine or
naphtha is used is not free from danger
to the workers, for the odor OF these
liquids may cause hysteria and headache,
and in the severer forms of poisoning by
bensine women have suffered from blind
ness multiple neuritia difficulty of
speech, loss of power in the limbs, an
alteration OF the gait called "steppage,"
and mental depression or Authorizations.
Recovery may be incomplete, for memory
is often impaired.
The dangers of working under COM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-21

Occupational Ailments Assail Painter, Plumber,
Pottery and Cutlery Worker, Glass Polisher,
Dry Cleaner and Dyer, to Instance Only
Few; and Gases, Vapors and High
Temperatures May Be Fatal

by lead than by any other metal partly
because no other metal enters so largely
into the arts and industries and partly
because Of the silent but insidious man
ner I'm which the poison works. The use
of lead pipes for conveying drinking water
through a community may slowly, out
nevertheless surely, poison the whole
neighborhood, without the cause being de-
tected. From the smelling of the lead
ore through all the later processes the
worker is in danger And IL he escapes
with his life, he may be incapactated for
periods of six months or more.
Then comes the painting of the house
If the painter mixes his colors dry ne
may inhaie the dust. or II he has blem-
ishes in the woodwork to fill with white
lead, he may hold the lead in his bare
hand and thus, If his hands be cracked
absorb enough 10 poison him. SAND
papering the paint after 1t has been laid
on may also cause poisoning. The dan
gers from fresh paint are Indicated by
experiments with guinea pags which nave
shown that these animals will die within
eighteen hours IL placed IN a large Jar
the air Of which has been passed over
freshly prepared paint. Only recently
report was made TO the New York State
Factory Investigating Commission Of the
danger to painters working between the
double bottoms OF battleships at the
Brooklyn navy yard. At least a score OF
men engaged in painting between the bot
toms have suffered from lead poisoning.
Some Of the walls OF the house are to
be papered. Care must be exercised in
selecting hangings free from arsenic.
Wall papers sometimes are impregnatcd
with arsenic in the process Of manufact-
urc. thus endangerlng the health of the
workers. Rooms thus papered have
proved 10 be injurious TO the health OF
their occupants Glass will be needed