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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
A Child's Value

The supreme of New Jersey has decided that in that
state no Jury shall stand for than $1,000 in favor
OF parents whose chds life has been lost by the negligence or
fault corporation 1t explained that as rule children
objects OF income but objects OF expense
The reasoning in this decision is rotten and the sentiment
The precious possessions Of all of not the things
that bring money. but that take it away.
Our friendships, loves very lives themselves dc
and flourish and not from what get out OF
them, but from what put into them.
The home matter OF income but OF expense yet 1t
is the cherished institution earth
The best things may be estimated in but u does
follow that they not worth money and more.
The child possesses possibilities that cannot be calculated
The tiny hands that clasp and cling everything tender within
their reach have the beginnings OF undesirable for good
i'll.
The babes heart and mind and soul like the SOFT strong
tends Of the cling only the saunch passions and
and impulses that endure and in cingng cultivate in
those passions and emotions that better than all the
money in the world.
And when the worlds mad rush after money child is
down and manged and its life tide GIBBS and the little
breath becomes feeble and the tiny pulse slips away and at last
the precious still and dead and the silence Of the
home broken with agonng cries then burned
into the heart that lapse OF time soften eace.
The treasured possession-ones real tina, is
priceless and be sold norgaged given awayis
little grave.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
This Is America. Not Russia

The New York World printing Senator La Foletes aeeu.
saon that postoce department had opened and perused
his private mail makes the charge without qualification that
private mail regularly opened by some person or per
in the postoifee service when was having ITS ianana
canal .
II charges without qualification that when the Periodical
Publishers Association committee to Washington sew.
era ago argue the question OF postal second
class matter the mail OF the committee Systematically tam
pered with.
preudcial habit OF the posoitee depart
Incnt OF the United States" says the World
Complete indifference be the attitude oil Officials
toward these charges OF La Toilette and the World.
Ii La Toilette the World wrong. this attitude IS all
very we'll
III there grain Of truth in the charges made by La
Toilette the World there ought to be such elamor IN TINS
country would penetrate the tkest wall or the eKest
head in Washington
Russian governmental tactics quite as much out oil
place national capital they in Lawrence Mass
a cotton mill
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
IN THE EDITORS MAIL

Editor The Star--I see by the
daily papers that the harbor termi.
mails have been assured by private
corporation. Thus a monopoly OF
the docks and traffic OF this har.
Dor by private concern is launched
that In 30 years will be worth hun.
dreds OF millions, and the profit
that ought 20 come to the city OF
Seattle and its people, goes into
the pockets OF a private concern.
The daily papers OF this city, OK
eept The Star, has favored this priv.
ate institution from tho start. II
was sprung like a flash OF lightning
from the clouds. unknown and I'M
heraided TO the morning breeze or
the setting sun, when we we're ask.
90 10 welcome this great rel.< to
this city at b cost Of 500. 600 900
Why this strenuous effort to secure
THIS contfactY Because OF the great
profit that ssedn 1t and the inn
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
/ Y.

".
Those two travellers from France
who blew Into our little country
boarding house are proving the
main attraction OF Idylwild. ! even
suggested TO ma that we give them
special rates so they'd stay as long
as possible, but ma says wait and
find out how the other boarders
pungle up after they get money
from home. We're stiil carrying
them on credit. you see. because
they we're robbed on the way here.
Some OF the boarders are brag.
glng TO the foreigners how they
saved their diamonds from the
highwaymen by concealing them.
but diamonds aren't cash. Most OF
them will get their remittances
from the city tomorrow. however.
Ma talked to the foreigners quite
a while today. She asked NJ. Hors
de Laioi--she calls him Mr.. Horse
If he was any relation to Hors du
Combat.
He Ia my brother" he answered.
and cousin of mine is Gaby
Deslys."
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

LONDON, Aug. 2e.--can you
make your ghost waikiki
This question 10 not asked IN q
spirit OF ievlty. q, 10 suggested by
sn Interview With Sir oliver Lodge.
whose psychic experiments have
convinced him that living persons
can make their spirits appear 10
other persona regardless of die
lance. And Sir oliver ls not . hare
Drained vssienary. but a hsrd-heso-
ed scientist ard msshensstielan.
In proof Of his contention that II
n possible to MAKO others see
vislons Of Va. appearing Ike ghosts
or phantasms, Sir Oliver ciias the
case OF g. II. H."
Thia young man. one night before
be vent TO sleep. after reading OF
this mysterious power Of the human
uili. determined with the whole
force OF his mind 10 DO present In
spirit in the room OF two women
friends. They know nothing Of his
determination.
At : O'Clock In the morning both
women were awakened by the feel
ing that there was somebody In tho
room Both were awake and saw
shc sppsrisior. or splrit--thc ghost
% their friend, dressed In an even
ing suit. walking about tbs room.
The ghost Did not speak 70 them.
and seemed 70 fade away through a
closed and locked door.
Meeting tho man q few DAYS
later. the young women spoke Of
seeing him that night They had
been terribly frightened.
Several times after that he tried
8, again. never telling them the
time when no would mako bis
ghost walk through their room. and
never giving them n clue in his
questioning afterwards. but always
they told him Of the time they saw
him In his ghosily form.
lie could not make his ghost ap.
parent 90 others. nor could he mp.
pear before those two women dur.
Ing his working hours. Seldom
was the effort tried. for each time
II left the women frightened and
prostrated. Each time the man
would go 10 sl0ep willing his spirit
20 appear before the women az a
designated time.
In his own words. this is how he
made his ghost walk"
Besides exercising my will pow.
er very strongly, put forth an ef-
fort which ! cannot find words 10
describe. was conscious OF
mysterious Influence Of some sort
permeatlnp my body. and had dis
tlnct Impression that | was esercls-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

mense traffic II will control, for
personal gain, is the moving and
only cause that can explain the
situation. The Star has helped
this city In many things, help It
now--let the people protest and let
the citizens show their regard for
things OF their own and their abil.
ity TO manage their own affairs.
without outside interference. Let
US stop this unjust and Illegal tran.
saction.
l assert as lawyer, that tho
contract cannot be enforced IL we
oppose II. The city has no right
to barter away tho rights OF the
people Of this city by tying I'D it's
business affairs with other con.
Germs for 30 years or for any other
time. Let US stop II now and make
the city council obey our wishes or
turn them out OF office.
r. p. CARROLL.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

Her and King Manuel didn1
make a match of II. did thsyy -
says.
mo, the scoundrel," replies on
guest, he went and lost his thronA
OF course then the house Of d
Laloi could not countenancs him
| challenged him TO duel In ~
Champ ELIAS. We met under ~
Arc do Triomphe, but be escaped
my sword in the darkness.
How was that?' ma gasped.
why. something got wrong .
the power house and the Arc Hent
out" sighed NJ. De Laioi.
"Oh. well. my dear de Lalol' san
NJ. Gihler de Potenee. consollnpy.
you would have lowered yourself
fighting him after he was no longer
OF royal rank"
thought Il was real noble o.
Mr.. Glblet, as ma calls him. to ~
that.
hate 70 think what would nav
happened to the bandits II the
two fire-eating Frenchmen had been
in the stage along with the otn6
guests.
Continued
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

Ing some force with which had
been hitherto unacqualnted, but
which ! can now AZ certain times
set In motion AZ will"
This experimental production
of ghost Is particularly In
siructiyo care" says Sir Oliver,
adding. "and many ghostly appear.
hnces belong 10 living people, who
are usually unconscious that they
are producing any such effect
There appears to be no reason
why an apparftion should always
DO OF a deceased person. But
whether every appariiion Is Of this
unsubstantihi and purely subjective
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
THE WAYS OF AUTHORS

the conversation turned to the various meth
Ono cited that
wide his the
thought word
obedeny crawl bed and make
10
a inspiration him he
saying up thought
The listened with amazement when suddenly witty
girl remarked
Well If should replied: dear
YOURSELF thought word New York
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
NO CHANCE FOR HIM

"Therol" said the ambitious
Young man when he had finished
hts great epic. that's done. Now
all that Is necessary is TO lind a
publisher and cause the public 10
become Interested In me. Con-
found itl ! have no friend whose
wife would DO willing 10 cause a
by clipping with me-"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
the supEaFooL.

We know the man who cannot swim
A stroke. but loves to float
Upon tho summer sea. and thinks
II smart 10 rock the boat.
Though over his untimoly grave.
Beneath the pillows cool.
We drop tho tribute Of tear
We class him as a fool.
Bu, now that We have learned a,
last
The trick OF how 10 fly,
And soar above the fieecy clouds
And navigate the sky,
While far below ua spreads tho
sweep
OF valley. Hill and plain.
What shall wo call tho passenger
Who rocks the aeroplaneg
New York Sun.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
DRAWING TIE LINE

From this poiiH." said the man
In the front seat Of the automobile.
bringing the machine TO n stop,
you get a good view OF Pittsburg
proper"
I'm sure" spoke up tho prim
matron in the back seat. that's the
only part OF pittsburg wo wish TO
eel"-ChlcAgo Tribune.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
KISMET

vizer asked his the sui
tan or permission % depart for smyrna
"But sudden
uroy~
Of
death the onE before throne and ho looked iong
and strangely that he must have come for me-
Go then Go onco the sultan said and after the vrsers d
heckoncd the death him and asked:
did y grand yiElarf"
wason why
Kill him ths afternoon smyrna
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
nERE.s WAY TO 90 III

4 Just before you go 70 sleep
. At night. make up your mind
4 that you win have your ghost"
= appear 90 certain person. ia
4 a certain place.
= You must concentrate your
= mind. and exert all tho Will
a power you have.
\ Then rnaybo-your ghost. ,
4 or spirit. or suDconscious !
= mind. OF astral body. or what ,
= ever Il IL. viii 10 forth and
\ appear an you want II 70. Or ,
. else the other person win I'm ,
4 eKins he sees your ghost
\ which. for practical purposes. !
= II tho Same an II he really
= DID see H. ,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
a BEGINNING

"Have you spare cigar about
you, old ehap7"
Certainly. But I thought you
we're going to stop smokine9"
80 am, but not too abruptly. I've
already quit smoking my own
cigars. Transcript.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
ALWAYS USE INK

old chap in this gentle
allow his into
worth remembering friend
him which
ma asked II he might $3.50
IL can't enddt said the other II
ABR And who marked these
oh boyi You shouldn't make penciod comments Dor
IN
III know i'll"
Tho might ink
pass your wisdom alongl"- Dealer
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

On Skates.

h Teacher (in lesson on Hol- 4
\ land)--Why, While, don't you 4
\ know which country the geog- 4
\ raphy lesson IS about? Think 4
\ hard. Who were tho people 4
4 who made war on skates? 4
\ Willie - Do Anti Saloon 4
\ Leaguo.--Judge. 1
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
According to the latest con.

\ According TO the latest CEN 4
4 sus figures tdata collected 4
4 April is, 1870. the total mum. 4
\ Der OF women OF voting age in 4
4 the six states where women u
4 have full voting franchise is 4
4 l,346,925. There Is no record 4
4 OF those who have come OF 4
4 age during the past two years. 4
4 nor do these figures take &C. 4
4 count OF those who have. or 4
4 have not become naturalized. 4
4 They are distributed as fol- 4
4 lows: California GIL 1856. Colo. 4
4 RADIO 2iS,425. Idaho 69,Sis, \
4 Utah S5,729. Washington 2T7.- 4
4 72s, Wyoming 2s,S40. 4
II n n N ~ aAs - \ =.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
THE PROGRESSIVE MrLKMAN

Competition milkmon Evanston few
a m
residences her
a her and call her By nams IA
I'm tho mkman he explained Il heard that oemns
today Let grpa~
Rn her trAhe.-ChlcAKo Tribune.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
TALENTED

Mrs. Deyere Jones--Why, Mrs.
Tootson, your daughter plays more
brilliantly than ever
Mrs. Tootson--My daughters out
of town. That's the piano tuner
YOU hear."--I.oudon Opinion.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
A Lucky Woman

4 Wife--Thore arc 80 very !
X few really good men in the 4
4 world. !
4 Hub-Yos, you wore mighty 4
y lucky 10 get one.--Boston !
4 Transcript. I
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
About Ali.

Mother--What do you think you
VIII mako out OF my daughters
talent7
Professor (absent mindedly)--
dollars q lesson II tho piano holds
out
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

Cautious.

Hobson--T understand that you
patronize Ships the tailor. Does
he suit you?
Harduppe-Not unless I pay him
something In advance.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

OVER at Collins park tonight Seattle kids viii pull oil
Potlatch carnival all their From all indications, Will
be quite an affair speaks well for the enterprise and ability
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

Officer - WAat's the trouble
here?
Mrs. Rooney-iThero's no trouble.
Me ould man started in to try and
make some, but he found out he
could not do III
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
AN ODD NUMBER.

awards In Floral Hall AZ an
Becleysport Fair has been delayed
beeus IN judges can't tell whether
a certain prsxe~innsr 10 q log cabin
quilt or rag carpet"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION has

educed freight rates excelsior Is this another victory
he breakfast-food rust?-CleveIand Plain Dealer.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

THERE may be just little consolation for the Taft Grove
in the TACT that while British newspapers like America
ccsng the president English citizens vote agains
him in the coming campaign.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

IN ORDER TO determine whether "a Beasco drama is
adapted from the work Of another popular paywrer falls
New York just to sit through production Of both plays
Rebuon appears be visiting itself upon the benc-Por
land Oregonian.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

Cats are very sensitive ami.
mails"
Il suppose that is why they are
always taking fence. "--Baltimore
American.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

FOR THE average youngster every hour this week i
golden, and they fly by like birds through the For
Tuesday is THE first day Of school,"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

1T MAY be pay Lormer for his expenses in get
ting out Of the but yet has proposed
him for his expenses in getting inSpringed Republican
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

LORD MERSEY'S Titanic inquiry commission seems TO
ut most OF the blame the cebergOmaha World Herald
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
CHARLIE SCHWAB, steel king lost 5000 he had under

his pillow sleeper Saturday night Here's lesson to
you folks DON'T leave several thousand dollars lying
loose when you go to sleep
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

VOTERS waiting trfle mpacntly for the first dis
play Of real fireworks in the presidential campaign BE patient
JUST WAIT UNTIL. COLONEL. TEDDY GETS TO THE
COAST
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

TWO MILITIA armies are fighting for New York 1t
hardly worth while.Philadelphia North American
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

1T LOOKS as If the Detroit aldermen will be compelled
to hold their meetings the county a-Cleveland
Dealer.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26

THE PLURAL OF bull is longer the question.
What viii the plurality be.-Boston Journal.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-08-26
From Diana's Diary
BY FRED scHAEFER

plplekss Hois;s Flag VIII City People
in the Countryside Some Guests Are Pirates Themselves
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-02-01
Oklahoma City In
Bad Condition

The boom in Oklahoma City has
died away and now hundreds of work
ing people are walking the streets or
have left town in search Of work,
leaving behind them the homes that
they had started to buy on the INSTALL
ment play. The public schools are
collecting old clothes to give to the
shivering children of working people
parents. Labor is establishing soup
houses and has appealed for donations
to be sent to secretary-treasurer D.
Cobb, 1O1 Clegion St, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma.
All this is made clear in a Labor
Bulletin issued by the central labor
body, the recreant labor" paper
there, the Labor Unit" having re-
fused to publish the facts. The Bull
letin was printed in Guthrie. as not
even a printing Office could be found
in Oklahoma City that would even
print the truth for pay.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-02-01

convention 1t is estimated that the
washington office alone costs over a
thousand dollars a week.
Now, of course. Insurgents win tell
you about Bob La Follette's honesty.
etc. They may say that the four gem
tlemen mentioned above are financing
La FolIette's campaign. Granting that
this is true, why should they do this?
What do they expect in return3
But political Washington doesn't
believe that Spreckels, Pinchot Nc
Cormick and Bourne are putting up
half the cash that is being used to
capture the nomination for the Insur-
gent leader. The way al Follette's
machine is running, the politicians
here are convinced that Honest Bob"E
has some very good friends with I'M
limited resources in the citadel OF
capitalism-Wall Street.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-02-01

OF death.
Money cannot build as much as a
wigwam. It cannot chop down tree
nor turn over a stone.
Labor goes into the forest, feIls the
imber. saws it into boards, laths and
shingles, planes it into sidings, mold
ings and finishing strips.
Labor draws the plans and prepares
the foundation, lays the stone and
brick, mawes the steel and iron
framework, cuts and polishes the
granite, laths and plasters, paints and
decorates.
Labor makes thief urniture and the
instruments of music, curtains and
carpets, stoves and furnaces.
/ Ten million dollars could not build
corn crib without labor.
Labor makes possible intelligence.
Dollars and checks cannot write
books or build Libraries. Stocks and
bonds cannot teach school or run
universities.
Labor brings about experience and
writes books, delves into science and
the arts, probes into the mysteries Of
life.
Labor prints and preserves our lit
erature, builds our libraries and
school houses, teaches our children
and develops the young folks.
without labor there would not be
one single school. not one newspaper
or magazine, not a chemistry or
miology, not doctor nor an architect,
not a painter nor a sculptor.
Labor makes it possible for free
dom.
The time required to get the mater
ial necessities of life is the period Of
our enslavement
Labor, % its inventive genius and
its ability to harness nature and
make her do most of our work, has
virtually become the giver of liberty.
Labor can in two or three hours
each day provide the material necessi-
ties for the whole race. Our period
of enslavement can be reduced still
further, and will finally be eliminated
altogether.
Labor thus makes it possible for
the race to be free from anxiety and
worry, and to square such mental,
moral and social qualities as only
union men can picture.-The Advo-
cate. a
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-02-01
NO COMPULSORY ARBITRATION.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 24-Rev.
Pereira-Mendez of New York, presi.
dent of the union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of the United States
and Canada, recently wrote to Presi-
dent Taft suggesting that the time
was ripe to commence agitation for
compulsory arbitration. The Ameri-
can Labor movement has expressed
itself as opposed to compulsory arbi-
tration, and it is not likely that any
change will take place to modify its
views. President Taft, in answer to
the letter of the reverend gentleman.
is reported to have replied: "Compul-
sorry arbitration in. industrial contro-
versies is one which would have to
be dealt with primarily by the states
rather than the federal government.
The principle field in which the fed
eral government could act would be
that of controversies between rail-
roads and their employees, and a step
has already been taken there by pro-
viding a mechanism for voluntary ar
bitration. It is doubtful whether any
proposition for compulsory arbitra-
ton of these disputes would at this
time meet with sufficient favor to
bring such procedure within the
realm of present possibilities"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-02-01
DIRECT ELECTION OF SENATORS

Washington, Jan. 24.-It is quite
likely that compromise may be eff
fected whereby Congress will submit
to the people an amendment to the
federal constitution providing for
direct election of United States sena-
tors by the people. Senator Clark OF
Wyoming, who heads the senate con-
ferees, has submitted to the members
Of the conference a compromise,
which is as follows: 1.-THE senate of
the United States shall be composed
of two senators from each state, elect
ed by the people thereof, for six years,
and each senator shall have one vote.
The electors in each state shall have
the qualifications requisite for electors
of the most numerous branch of the
state legislature" The compromise
also proposes another amendment as
follows: "The :, places and man
ner of holding elections for represen-
tatives shall be prescribed in each
state BY the legislature thereof, but
the congress may at any time by law
make or alter such regulations. The
times, places and manner of holding
elections for senators shall be pre-
scribed in each state by the legisla-
ture thereof" -