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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-10-10
WICKEDNESS TN
VARIOUS CITIES

NEW YORK. Oct. i0.-~Heven oul
Of about every 100000 New York
ers are murdered. according TO fig
1res gathered By an Insurance jour
nal here. The rate OF homioidos
per 100. 900 Of population for some
Of the other cities In ~ follows:
Washington. 81: Chicago. 81:
San Francisco. iot. ~. Louis
1b.G. Nashville. 353: Savannah,
as: Charleston. 8. C.. ga. Mem
phis. Tenn. s3<.
In England and Wales. In 1909.
with = population OF $3.50. 600. the
percentage OF homloides was
only 0.S.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-10-10

at the hips and are rolled half way
TO the knees, giving the wearer the
appearance of having legs about
one-fourth as long as his body. will
not be tolerated.
Along with the ridiculous peg
tops will depart the coat that
reaches half way TO the knees. The
dark gray Prince Albert, with black
velvet edge, also comes in for re-
vival this season.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-10-10

Comes now the first touch Of fall
weather. and with II. most certain.
iy. the pre-winter outbreak of burg.
larien and hold-ups In Seattle.
You can help Chief nannick's
men a lot in burglar battling n you
will follow the advice given below
Now. most burglars are amateurs
at the business: lots Of them have
little real burglaring experience.
and they are easily outwitted. Nat.
uraily, II is much moro pleasant to
keep a burglar out OF the house
than TO put him out when once be
has loaded his swag In . bag. Abo
u Is far more conducive 10 hcs1ih
and longevity, for most Aburglots
will shoot when thcy'roe traprsd
with their loot.
A good way to fas,en Yindoes
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-10-10

HAvERHiLL. Mass. Oct 10
Only one man had reason 10 regret
that Joseph Saymalis. a HAserhiii
barber. inherited $4,000. Naymalis
was shaving Jerry Waite whom =
postman brought him q special de-
livery letter telling OF his rood for.
tune.
Naymalis tossed his razor out OF
the window. threw his BARRIERS coat
into q waste basket. and left his
customer half shaved. He didn't
even say goodbye" The money
was left him by an uncle. Nay
malls Immediately packed his va
lise and left for indiana. where he
hopes TO enter the state university.
And Jerry Waite had to 30 TO an.
other shop 70 have the other side
OF his face shaved.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-10-10
PERIOD or srAcNArloN.

How II II that you aren't run
ming for congress again this year.
judgef"
why. my boy. It's an off year
in poiitles-"
Since when In this an off year In
politics. iudgcy"
"Ahem-- since I wasn't renom.
mated"
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-10-10
MOTHER or MANY

MODERN elegantly furnished
rooms at lowest rates at Hotel vir.
Ginus. Eighth and Virginia. near
Weatiake. Elliott 500. go
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-10-10

The following are the average
prices paid by local commission NOR
chants TO the producers and prices
paid BY the retailer TO the commits
sioners. The prices paid the farmers
come under buying price," and the
sum paid BY the retailer under sell
Ing price" Prices In all cases are
subj ect to variation. according 20
freshness aud general excellence, but
these prices, unless otherwise indi-
Gated. are for strictly first grades
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-10-10

The Difference.
Patient-How badly am hurt?
Doctor-Depends on whether II
was in football game or on a rail-
road. New York Sun.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-10-10

Ewes Secret.
Eve--There II one thing. Adam.
Adam--What II IT,?
Eve--Never tell anybody the date
you lost your rib.--New York Times.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-10-10
LADIES
Have Lovely Hair

II you want to make your hair so
beautifully lustrous that people can
not help but exclalm "Oh what
lovely hairl" get fifty-cent bottle
of PARTISAN SAGE today.
Evening star., 1912-07-14
Value of Passport.

ct NTIL you go broke in a foreign
~ country you never can realize just
what a useful thing a passport is said
the returned traveller. 1T not only en-
ables you to get into a country, 1t also
helps you to get out, sometimes In a
most unexpected way. Everybody abroad
thinks well of a passport, but nobody
sets quite so high a value on it as a
pawnbroker. Owing to delayed remit
tance 1 had occasion to visit one of those
men in Paris. The article | offered for
security was worth many times the loan
requested, but he refused an advance on
account Of satisfactory references. My
temporary address in Paris and my per-
manent address in Washington were not
sufficient guarantee of my honesty. Just
as the case assumed desperate COM
plexion the broker suggested a solution
Of the difficulty.
Have you a passport" he asked.
81 had at the hotel.
".Fetch it, he said. If that looks all
right I'll let you have the money
'Up to that time my passport had been
a useless piece of luggage; then blessed
the foresight that had hidden me secure
It." ,..-4a
Evening star., 1912-07-14

for Sc. There Is no sale for them today
in the city. Here's muslin 4S cents a
yard. You can buy muslin in the stores
now for cents.
I'VE now turn to the year Of 1873, and
here's the item of sugar. 1t was 121a
cents a pound. 1t is about 51a now. And
IT it should go up to the old price you
city chaps would holler until you got
black in the face, and you'd be writing
long pieces to the newspapers. Bacon was
II cents. You can buy good fatback
bacon today for about that price. Flour
was cents a pound. 1t Is no higher
now. Hay was $1.5O a hundred pounds
and beef cow cost about $25. You can
buy the same things today at these
prices. In 1873 potatoes sold for a dollar
a bushel. barrel Of turnips cost a dol
lar and a barrel of salt fish cost S. 80
You can buy barrel Of salt fish today
for $3.50. Manufactured tobacco was 20
cents a pound. You need not pay over
A. cents today. Coal oil was 25 cents a
gallon. It Is now 10 cents.
"And so on through nearly the whole
list. Meats are generally higher, but you
have concentrated the demand on choice
cuts If we could raise steers that were
all porterhouse, I'd be rich enough to buy
a place in the city. have a box at the ball
park for every game, go to the theater
every night and ride around In an auto
mobile"
Evening star., 1912-07-14
Testing Tea by Burning 1t.

M BOUGHT tea the other day at a Jap
anese store,' said the young house,
keeper. THE proprietor saw that
had doubts about the quality, SO he DART
ed back to the rear of the store. ex-
pected him to return with cup OF steam
ing tea, but he brought a small ash tray
and match. He threw pinch of tea into
the tray, touched 1t with lighted match
and watched it burn. Then he applied the
same test to another brand of tea that
had claimed my half-hearted allegiance.
The first sample showed only a small
flake Of ash, the second three times al
much.
Which shows. said he. that the first
tea is the best. That is an infallible test.
The better the tea the fewer the ashes.
1 invite all my customers to test tea
that way before buying
1T took the ashless tea of course. Since
then / have wondered what the average
American grocer would say IL his GUS
toners should apply a lighted match to
their tea canister before giving an or.
der"
Evening star., 1912-07-14

comes out of the indoor gallery he knows
something about his shooting iron.
The next step in the education of the
future expert is to put him on the 200
the 80 caliber Springfield with its full
charge cartridge. When he makes q
score of 12O shots out OF possible 15O
at 200. 800 and 500 yards he is allowed
to proceed to the 600 yard distance and
SO on through the course. including skir-
mish and rapid fire.
Maj. King Is now taking additional
steps to improve the rif1eman's efficiency
by arranging with the War Department to
install at the Congress Heights range one
Of the new electric self-registering tar
gets, which have been favorably reported
by the school Of musketry at Monterey.
This innovation will be put in use some
time this summer.
The War Department authorities are
putting in this device for the reason that
they have expressed themselves as wish
ing the local range to be representative
in every way. Quite frequently National
Guard officers from various states visit
the War Department, bent on securing
information about rife range construc-
ton, systems of handling, etc, and the
department desires to have a model
range to show them. Naturally, this de-
SiIc cAdClly COluClOcS Will Tic PIdllS VI
Gen. Harries and Maj. King, with the
result that the District range has been
brought to a state OF physical efficiency
commensurate with the skill OF those
trained upon It, So 1t Is that the local
range, like the local experts, ranks with
the best in the land, and has an impor-
tant moral effect on building up rife
practice everywhere.
Another adjunct which has been high
ly developed under Maj. Kings manage
ment is the card index system Of records,
which tells instantly local guardsman' s
rifle shooting experience and standing in
every particular from the time of his en-
listment to date Experts point out that
the knowledge that both blunders and
good work are to be recorded permanent
ly and impartially. together with the ap-
probation of the fact that the work can
be scientifically compared to that OF any
brother rifle1nan. keeps every shooter "up
on his toes all the time to make his
very best efforts.
Once Maj. King has developed his raw
material into expert rifemen. further en-
couragement Is given them to continue
practice by holding out the opportunity
Of making the company, the regimental
and finally brigade teams, on the last of
which they can compete in national
Evening star., 1912-07-14
E COUNTRY STOREKEEPER ON THE HIGH COST OF LIVING

up the road were getting on street cars
instead OF walking. Hundreds of auto
mobiles were shmming along as though
their drivers were in an almighty hurry.
Hundreds OF people riding in these things
couldn't afford to be doing 1t, and, be-
sides. they were neglecting their business,
II they had any. Each of these gentle
men would probably tell you that they
because OF the high cost of living 1 know
city people who drink UP and smoke up
enough money in a day TO pay their
board for week. They Will not wear
mer's suit of cfothes, and they would
scorn to wear half-soled pair Of shoes.
-
"All the city ladies tell Of how hard
1t is to get good servant. Why didn't
those girls learn how to bake their
own bread, churn their own butter
and put up their own preserves? How
many of the ladies going up and down
F street in the afternoon would know
how to milk a cow or set the hens ?
Do you city people expect living to be
cheap that you can eat, sleep and play
without Doing useful work?
III you want to live on a scale to
which your position in life dictates that
y0u SAouAu AAse' you cdH iisc cheaper
now than at any time before I have
the books and records to prove It,
Wages are extraordinarily high. II a
man had received the wages commonly
paid today to men Of Indifferent ca
pacity, when / was boy, he would
have been a plutocrat. With your in
creased prosperity you city people
have allowed appetite and taste for
luxury and style to outstrip your judg-
ment. You confuse your wants with
your needs.
Your city ladies. wives of clerks
and other types of dependent men,
sit In a reception hall in an easy chair
OF mahogany and leather, dressed in a
morning gown. take up the telephone,
Evening star., 1912-07-14

matches, with the further prospect of
being picked for the All-America aggre-
cations that pit their skill against that Of
the world.
X 4.
In addition to this the annual matches
in July give an opportunity to win prizes
in every form. This year these annual
matches come off next week-July "a and
25. There are no less than eighteen
matches. with several chances in each
to win distinction, and with 1t a trophy
or other substantial prize. OF these eight
cen matches the honorariums for twelve
are supplied privately by local support
ers of rife shooting practice, while six
are contributed by the National Guard.
The Evening Star match is open to COM
missioned officers and enlisted men OF
the District National Guard who have
not previously won it. The distances are
300 300 500 and 600 yards, and the num-
ber of shots allowed for each distance is
five. The prize is a gold medal, together
with second prize of s.. five prizes OF
81 and five prizes of 81 AS a further
award for proficiency in this important
contest the scores made in this match
over the 200, 300 and 800 yard distances
determine the winners of the National
Rite Association medals held by the 1st
Another interesting contest is provided
for by Mrs. Russell NJ. McLennan. This
match is open to teams of two from any
organization OF the National Guard in the
District. One man on each team must
never have qualified as marksman or bet
ter. This condition operates in a novel
but very effective way to induce many
new men to take up rifle shooting who
possibly might never get interested in
it otherwise, with the result that the
number of crack shots in the District is
being constantly recruited with vigorous
competitors. whose healthy rivalry keeps
one another, as. well as the more expe-
rienced experts, constantly keyed up to
the highest possible point Of efficiency.
The shooting distance in the McLennan
match is 500 yards and the number of
shots Is ten. The prizes are trophy to
be competed for annually and a medal to
each man Of the winning team.
Other matches provided for privately
are the Mosher, the Berry & Whitmore
team skirmish. the Harries long range,
the Brett re-entry revolver, the Judd &
Detweiler regimental team, the Carmody
Evening star., 1912-07-14

cred sufficiently and dreams of a long
journey through iceclad fields of the
frigid zone. The brain cerfters have in
terfered and have interpolated the wish
for warmth, but the two psychic cur
rents, pulling this way and that, trans
late the dream after their own fashion.
But the wish for warmth is there.
DR.. Freud says that every dream can
be taken to pieces for investigation.
The dream is not really continuous. 1t
consists of a series of groups centering
about what he terms knots" and by
investigating the association of these
dream-knots with ones normal life he
will learn that the dream was based on
a wish or on wishes, some of which
may be SO vague that he was hardly
aware of them.
Evening star., 1912-07-14
IT AN reading some newspaper talk

about the high price Of living"
said a country gentleman who has
kept a country general store q few miles
below Washington for something like half
a century. As he made this observation
he looked up from his country weekly.
Then he continued:
It's not high prices but high living that
lis caustng you city chaps SO much trouble.
You don't show any sense In the way you
spend your money, you think too much
Of having a good time. you let yourselves
want a great deal moro than you need
and the result Is that you can't afford to
buy enough to eat. Most OF you city
folks have to come out to your country
kin 10 get square meal. Look at that
riding whip-crop, you call II. Made in
England, and cost every bit Of 30 cents.
l used to cut switch in the woods to
ride my horse. And look at your boots
and riding breeches You could get along
just as well with q pair of long pants
and good. strong. two-dollar pair of
shoes. and yet you talk OF the high cost
OF living.
II was up to the city last month.
have to go there on business now and
then. else I wouldn't. l heard store
clerk say he had bought a ticket for q
base ball game and paid a dollar for IL.
Great Jupiter. A man TO pay . dollar to
See base ball game! The same fellow
was smoking a f1ve-cent cigar. l went
into a quick Lunch, though don't like to
eat away from home, and the young lady
who waited on me said she had been to
the theater the night before. was going
on an excursion next day and went to
the moving pictures two or three times a
week She wore silk stockings. II had
l. ~har oh hax S<~lJ
me a hard-luck story about the high cost
of living.
.'Out on the Avenue men and women
who did not live moro than . milo or %
Evening star., 1912-07-14

call the grocery, tell the groceryman
what you want and expect it to be de-
lfvered by a stylish horse and wagon,
or an automobile, and brought up on
an elevator to your fiat by a boy in
livery. You want your cereals. a few
ounces at. time, in gilt packages with
art pictures on the boxes. You want q
half pound Of crackers wrapped up in
package that costs more than the crack
ers. You want an ounce Of cheese in
porcelain jar. You want few stalks OF
asparagus or ripe tomatoes out of season,
the first price of which has been increased
many times by express charges, packing
house charges, drayage. commissions and
profits to half q dozen middlemen. You
demand the choicest cuts of the heaviest
beef steers. You would not think OF
making a beef stew out Of the chuck,
rump or flank Of dairy COW. What
would the neighbOrs think? They would
call such sensible economy miserable par
simony. downright meanness and all such
and would put on superior airs.
You buy things in such small quanti-
ties and in fancy packages, boxes and jars,
because you have no place to keep proper
1t because you live In little rooms in a
crowded tenement which you proudly call
an apartment house. You do this because
1t Is more convenient and takes less house.
work than to keep UP a place In the
country. You are always looking for
something easy. You insist on living in
a city, and usually In q congested quarter
OF city. because you can go to bed
later and sleep later in the morning and
And when you get there the work bores
you and you are in hurry to get away.
You are too fond Of idleness and not fond
enough OF work.
Evening star., 1912-07-14
Their CheapenInq Effect.

kKISS LILLIAN Lorraine was dis
AVA cussing the remarkable limitations
Of pearls and rubies that are now sold IN
sumptuous shops in the Rue de la Paix
in Paris, Bond street in London and
Fifth avenue in New York.
Wonderful as these limitations are"
she said II am sorry they have appear
ed. Their effect is cheapening.
II know q woman who entered q shop
one day and said:
~ want a large pearl scarfpin, please
"'Yes. madam said the salesman.
Something at about dollar and .
Evening star., 1912-07-14
GEo.WFEK,

squadded competition, the r. Harris &
Co., the Neumeyer, the Gerstenberg and
the Smiley individual skirmish. In ad-
dition the District National Guard pro-
novice re-entry revolver, the enlisted
mems, the company team. the battalion
team, the novice and the brigade rife
team skirrnish.
Aside from these matches. an important
shooting event is provided for by twen-
ty-one senator's. who have presented a
trophy for competition by the whole Ma
tional Guard of the District. The high
man wins the trophy for year, and the
first eighteen in the competition form
the brigade team. thereby taking the
rank of the best rife shots in the Dis
trict for a twelvemonth, when they must
again defend their title to the honor in
another competition. On this basis. the
this year. in order of rank, are: Private
j. r. Fehr, Sergt. A. G. Schmidt, both
Company X. 1st Regiment; Private r.
H. Clouser, Company B. 1st Regiment:
X, 1st Regiment; First Lieut.. r. Alder
man. ordnance department.; First Sergt.
F. R. MacFadyen. Company B. 1st Regi-
ment; First Lieut. T. F. MacAnally,
Groome. Company E; I'd Regiment: First
Lieut.. r. Powers, 1st Regiment; Capt.
F. w. Holt, First Lieut.. H. C. Caldwell,
both ordnance department.: Private j. w.
Payne. Company NJ, "a Regiment; Pr1-
vate II. F. Richardson, Company X, I'd
Regiment; Capt E. H: Brian. I'd Regi-
ment; Sergt. j. D. Shriver, Company X,
1st Regiment; Private F. J. Kahrs. Com
pany K. 1st Regiment; Musician E. H.
Gerber. Company F. 1st Regiment; Pri-
vate E. H. Burton, Company G, ID Regi-
ment. To these also should be added
Lieut.. Col. Glendie B. Young, 1st In
fantry. and Capt. F. H. Heidenreich,
Ordnance Department
This is the team which, with Lieut. Col.
Young as captain, will represent Wash
ington at Seagirt in September to try
for places on the national rifle team that
will compete with Canada at Ottawa for
the historic Palma trophy next September
Ia.
In addition to the National Guard there
are number Of other agencies which
have done much toward making Wash
ington, in the opinion of small arms
authorities, one of the countrys great
centers for rifle practice. One of these
Is the National Rifle Association, with
Evening star., 1912-07-14

prove that the things needed to live on
are not SO high. Here's an old account
book and we will open 1t at random. The
year on this page is 1855. First-class but
ter was 45 cents a pound: Poor people
did not eat this kind Of butter. They ate
homemade butter or they used molasses
on their bread. The poorest of you city
people talk OF oppression If you don't
Here is meal. In 1866 peck of meal
cost 81 cents. Country stores sell it at
80 cents today. But you city people don't
know what to do with meal Some Of
your cooking school recipes tell you 1t is
a substance only to be used in connec-
ton with fresh buffers, fresh eggs, etc.
In 1856 eggs were 25 cents q Dozen That s
fair average for eggs now.
Here are fourteen yards Of silk at So
a yard. can sell better silk today for
81 a yard. Here's pair of gloves for
$3.50 You can get pair of good kid
gloves today at half that price. Here is
calico, 37h cents a yard. 1 sell it today
at 6 cents yard. Here Is a sale of eight
cen yards of alpaca at 80 cents a yard.
Nobody wants alpaca now at any price.
Here is a set OF hoops for So. Ladies
dress much narrower these days. Here's
ten yards Of Grape movert; ladies now do
not know what that is. and to tell the
TRUTH don't Here's a pair of corsets
for $3.50. l suppose you can buy them
today for less than that, only probably
the ladies do not. Here Is sale Of one
dozen glass Jars for $3.50. You can buy
them today for 50 cents q dozen.
Here Is unbleached cotton at S71s cents
a yard. The average price Of this cotton
today is 8 cents. Cambria was then 25
cents a yard; it Is now cents; dozen
pens cost II cents; anybody will give you
pens today. A lead pencil cost cents;
you can now borrow one and keep 1t. A
backing brush was 60 cents: you can buy
a better one now for a quarter. Here's
the sale Of q bottle OF toothwash, 81. It's
much cheaper today. Here's q balmoral