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, 1918-12-26
CHIPS FROM THE RIME BLOCK.

Well, Angel of the Record Book, turn
over n more leaf, and jot down my
resolutions. I shall try to make them
brief. But, come to think about 1t,
what will all the angels say when
they see my resolutions, same as every
New Years day? I suspect they'll
say: "That duffer has dragged out the
same old set, and he'll smash 'em all
by Monday, or by Tuesday night, I'll
bet! 1 wish We angels had a harp for
each and every time he has made that
resolution to quit writing silly rhyme"
Poor Angel of the Record Booki
You've got a man-sized job, writing
down the resolutions for the New
Years morning mob! / would sug-
gest you save your strength and over
head expense, by making up some rub
Der stamps for ten or twenty pence.
Just save the stamps this evening,
and file them all away. Youth need
them in a e a from now, another New
Years dayl
, 1918-12-26
KIDNEY TROUBLE NOT
EASILY RECOGNIZED
Applicants for Insurance Often
Rejected

An examining physician for one of the
prominent life insurance companies, in an
interview Of the subject, made the as
tonishing statement that one reason why
80 many applicants for insurance are re-
jected is because kidney trouble is SO COM
mon to the American people, and the large
majority of those whose applications are
declined do not even suspect that they
have the disease.
Judging from reports from druggists
who are constantly in direct touch with
the public, there is one preparation that
has been very successful in overcoming
these conditions. The mild and healing
influence of DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is
soon realized. 1t stands the highest for
its remarkable record of success.
We find that Swamp-Root is strictly
IN herbal compound and we would ad-
wise our readers who feel in need of svch a
remedy to give it a trial. 1t is on sale
at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes,
medium and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for q
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
, 1918-12-26
Get New Kidneys !

The kidneys are the most overworked
organs of the human body, and when they
fail in their work of ~fltering out and
throwing off the poisons developed In the
system, things begin to happen.
One of the first warnings. is pain or stiff
ness in the lower part of the back. highly
colored urine; loss of appetite; indiges-
ton; irritation, or even stone in the blad-
der. These symptoms indicate q condition
that may lead to that dreaded. and fatal
malady, Bright's disease. for which there
is said to be no cure.
Do not delay a minute. At the first in
dication Of trouble in the kidney, liver,
bladder or urinary organs start. taking
Gold Medal HARLEM Oil Capsules, and
save yourself before it is too. late. Instant
treatment is necessary in kidney and blad-
der troubles. A delay is often fatal.
You can almost certainly find immediate
relief in Gold Medal HARLEM Oil Capsules.
For more than 200 years this famous. prep
aration has been IN unfailing remedy for
all kidney, bladder and urinary troubles.
It is the pure, original HARLEM Oil your
9reat-grandmother used. About two cap
sules each day will keep you toned up and
feeling fine. Get it at any drug store, and
if it does not give you almost immediate
relief, your money will be refunded. Be
sure you get the GOLD MEDAL brand.
None other genuine. In boxes, three
Sizes.-Adv.
, 1918-12-26

street, and the house here, lopsided,
paint all faxed off and the lot Uttered
up with old wagon wheels and other
rubbish, they shake their heads. You're
behind the times-worse than that, you
delight in playing the 'don't-care old
hayseed,' who doesn't appeal to an up
to-date neighbor. 1 should think, with
Mary, the thrifty Mary, always neat
as a pin and living in this old wreck
when she could grace a palace, you
would turn v e a new leaf. By the
way, the good time to start it will soon
be here-January L. Think it over. 1t
means happiness for Mary, who de-
serves 1t, and profit for you, who have
let the golden chances slip by unheed-
ed all these years."
Robert Adams did not resent the
straightforward talk of his visitor. He
was just In a frame of mind where the
suggestions implanted might take root.
He nodded a thoughtful adieu to his
relative and sat down alone to cogi-
tate. The postman appeared with a
letter from Mary and a small bundle.
The former expressed the delight her
iohS NiSil hdu DfouSut u
her people. The package, opened, re-
vealed Mary's Christmas gift to him
half a dozen handkerchiefs and two
neckties. All of them bore initials
or some ornamental needlework, and
his face softened as he realized how
many plodding hours his wife had de-
voted to the task to give him pleasure.
Then he smiled grimly. AS he fixed
his eyes on a framed portrait of his
helpmeet his eyes grew tender. Then
they took to their depths a dreamy
tinge. Before his mental vision passed
a series of pictures born of the vivid
suggestions of the day.
"Why, not?' he cried abruptly, COM
ing briskly to his feet. January first
is a good time to begin!"
, 1918-12-26
CANADAS new
DEVELOPMENT
after the War a Period of Pros.
perity.

It is evident that the Government Of
me Dominion in its programme of re-
construction and development is un-
~dertaking a work of tremendous i'm
portance. There will be available the
labor for work that has been silent
since 1914, and the rehabilitation of
this labor will entail the thought and
energy of most capable heads. The
transition period from war to peace
will be rapid and thorough, and, in
stead of Canada sinking into a state
Of lethargy, there will be a continued
period of wakefulness that will give
employment to the unemployed, and
render to the capitalist and producer
ample return for his money, effort
and enterprise.
The agricultural potentialities of
the great Canadian West possess Him
table acres of the best of soil, capable
of producing millions of bushels of
the best of grain. The cost of grow
ing this is lower thar any place on
the continent. There will be a greater
demand than ever for these lands, the
consequent production will be heavier
and the profits attractive. Cattle
industry will be one of the chief de-
velopments, and the encouragement of
1t will lie in the continued high prices
that beef products will bring. Euro
pean countries have been depleted of
cattle, and the demand for beef, cattle
and dairy products will tax the efforts
Of the producer for years to come.
Western Canada offers unequaled
opportunities for development in this
line.
In the Canadian West plans are be-
ing laid for the development of cleo
trical power which can be produced
cheaply. There is an abundance of
coal and water power that could be
used in developing this useful energy.
What cheap power produced in this
way will mean to the farmer and de-
velopment Of industrial enterprises
cannot be estimated in figures.
More extensive development of the
water power at Niagara, on the st.
Lawrence and at waterfalls all over
the country, is ready to be launched.
Peace will see new mine fields
opened up and 1t is equally certain
that shipbuilding, railway equipment,
steel production, and many of the in
dustries will go forward with a
bound.
Canadian industries will be required
in the reconstruction of Europe, and
already the Canadian Government has
sent across the eas a commission for
the purpose Of securing orders. Can
ada took an early and prominent part
IN the war, and in the days Of peace
will be found equally active. She feels
that by the valor and loyalty Of her
people she has earned a large share
of the business and prosperity that
will follow the war period, and she
proposes to get it.-Advertisement.
, 1918-12-26
His Face softened.

fng look around the neat, clean little
sitting room. 81 say, Robert, I had a
bid today on some of your property
here"
That's good" responded Robert,
pricking up his ears, ever keen for
business.
"The towns growing and getting
crowded, and a client is thinking of
buying some street frontage and build
ing a half dozen bungalows as a
speculation. / wondered If your va
cam corner beyond here mightn't suit
him. What are you asking for it an
acre?"
IAN acrel' fairly shouted Robert.
"Humphi that's cooll Why. the land
is fully a quarter of a mile nearer
town than the new subdivision of Jem
Lane. He charges lot prices, and so
shall l."
The brother-in-law hunched his
shoulders and looked dubious. "See
here, Robert" he said. I'm going to
be plain with you. I've brought half a
dozen customers here who want to
build, and lost all of them. The ioca-
ton isn't so bad. it's a direct street
and the widest in town, but the minute
they see those rickety sheds facing the
, 1918-12-26
.~@Nsg2~A
TAKE TIME TO LIVE RIGHT.

The season for good resolutions is
approaching. Thousands are resolv-
ing to begin the New Year by COM
mencing some effort at self-improve-
ment.
Most people suffer from poor health
because they say they haven't time
to take care of themselves"
The business man knows he needs
exercise, but denies himself because
he hasn't time.
Most people run their lives in such
a slipshod fashion that they haven't
time to eat properly, to think proper
ly, and to rest properly.
And the result is that they die ahead
of time because they haven't had time
to live properly.
, 1918-12-26

'NSey a. - . ih
Robert Adams visited a carpenter
shop, the town paint store and othel
places early the next morning. He
went to the hardware store and ex.
amined the latest in house trimmings
He spent two hours going over wall
consulted one uniform question: "Can
you get the work all finished by New
Years ever"
He amazed the village tailor by Or
dering his first suit In five years. He
was q profitable customer for the bar
Der, who not only worked in a shave
and a hair trim, but a shampoo and
half a dozen special unguents.
The renovated husband Of Mary Adj
ans dallied long at the mirror ere he
went out and took Dobbin out of the
o'clock, but it was New Years eve,
travel was heavy and all trains de-
layed, and 1t was well on toward mid
night when he craned his neck from
the sleigh and eagerly watched the
passengers alight.
An utterance Of disappointment
escaped his lips as passenger after
passenger left the platform. Then he
stared fixedly at a feminine form ar
rayed in a neat velvet hat and a pretty
plush coat. She had turned her face
toward the station light.
"Maryl" he cried, but un~believingly,
as he viewed her strange attire.
"Oh, Robert !" she replied, and has
tened eagerly toward him, but halt
ed with a quick shock. Old Dobbin
looked ten years younger than when
she had last seen him. The sleigh glis-
tened like a newly Furnished chariot.
this apparent subject Of the fountain
of youth.
IL didn't know you," she STAN
mered.
"Nor I you" said Robert-"all dolled
up in new toys"
"Oh, Uncle Ephraim made sister and
me a famous Christmas present and
insisted on seeing it spent on our own
selves" explained Mary.
I've invested a trile in the same
line myself" Wanted Robert, with a
spice of pride. "Get in, Mary. Yes,
new robes. Don't think me reckless
I did 1t all for you"
Again-"Oh, RobertI |" In rapt tones,
as they came In sight of home. loom
ing up like a mansion in a new robe
of white trimmed with dark green.
"Wait till you see the rooms-new pa
pered from top to bottom" and Mary
was In q daze as she was ushered
into the house. Then she put her arms
around his neck and kissed him.
what does this wonderful magic
mean?" she fluttered.
'It means-harkl there go the bells,
Ginning out the old year.. 1t means
Happy New YearI" and he placed his
arm about her waist-'the newest
New Year Of u lives, for we are go
ing to begin to enjoy the beet the world
can give all owe againl"
, 1918-12-26
Uncle John Told Her.

Little Dot-I know something my
teacher doesn't know.
Mamma-Indeed! What is that?
81 know when the world is coming
to an end and she doesn't. l asked her
and she said she didn't know
"Oh, well, who told your?
"Uncle John. He said the world
would come to end when children
stopped asking questions hat nobody
could answer"
, 1918-12-26
More Than FIGURE Of Speech.

New Jersey reports the scientific
discovery that insanity is sometimes
traceable to unsound teeth. "Going
crazy with the t%oothache" may turn
out to be more than n figure of speech
after all.-Norfolk virgininn-Pilot.
, 1918-12-26
Reform Comes Gradually.

A fashion note says that the new
skirts will completely ove the
ankles, but we hardly expect anything
as radical as that at once and shall
be satisfied If cotton tops again be-
come practicable. = Grand Rapids
Press.
, 1918-12-26
His Position.

81 see the motorist has not run
away from the consequences of this
smashup. That proves he is above
suspicion"
Certainly he is, because he's IN
der the auto"
, 1918-12-26
Not Natural.

Nell-"What would vol give to have
such hair as mlne?" Belief don't
know-what did o giver-London
Tit-Bits.
, 1918-12-26

The wise man takes a back seat
and watches the fool butt into danger.
, 1918-12-26
The Amount.

did that stingy old fellow lea,
much behind him2"
~ believe he left all he had"
, 1918-12-26

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N@RKa170
AMWK7
IElfiziza1b@aflff &C. g
Lafyon :
I'D ENG alone over Christ
@AlA mas isn't so bad, but a
a%9I whole week after that,
N&~ too! I'm lonely now;
HSe2sM what will it be for ten
lEW days. for Mary won't be
LSl home until New Years
MS~1 day?"
SIW For the first time dur
ing twenty years of mar
ried life Robert Adams helpmeet had
taken a vacation, or rather had gone
on a visit to an invalid sister, and her
husband had begun to miss her Woe
fully. So smoothly had life gone, so
many burdens had Mary lifted from
his shoulders in her patient, ~plodding
way, that he missed her guiding, help
full presence dreadfully. She had left
everything in trim order. The house
was neat as a pin, everything provided
for comfort to his hand, but the irk-
someness of the intense solitude was
beginning to get on his nerves.
II reckon I never knew her value
till just now" he muttered. "She
shames me with the contrast between
the inside neatness and the outside
disorder, and as he glanced from the
window he had to confess that he was
a careless, slovenly man. The front
fence had two out of every five pick
cts broken or missing. The barn was
an Anticipated ruin. The porch wobbled
and the clapboards of the house were
bent and storm-blistered for the lack
Of paint.
He glanced into a mirror as he
passed it, his neglected beard tousled
and awry. He looked down at the
grimed and %threadbare suit he wore
and flushed. He had just come from
the sleeping room upstairs, and, rum
maging a bureau for some papers, had
happened across a stored-away me-
mento cherished by Mary, a photo
graph Of himself In his early counting
days. 1t showed a neatly dressed,
arrow-straight young man, scarcely
comparing with the careless, shabby
looking individual he presented now.
The front gate gave out a rasring
sound. 1t did not click, for one shat
tered hinge alone supported it. The
crack-toned house bell issued q hollow,
growing sound, and Robert went to
the door to greet his brother-in-law,
local real estate agent, who held the
bell knob in his hand, as 1t had come
loose, trailing half a foot of rusted
wire with 1t.
81 nearly broke my neck stumbling
over that sidewalk of yours" he OBJ
served. mot much like Mary's domain
here, eh?" and he bestowed an approx
, 1918-12-26

Only the man who understands
women admits that he doesn't.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-11-02
don't waste III

MENT. Circulation. Etc, Requred by the Act
Weekly, published weekly at Seattle, Wash, for
Before me. notary public, in and for the State
and county aforesaid personally appeared Horace
cordng to law deposes and says that he is the ed
tor of Caytens Weekly and that a, the foowng u.s.
ment of the ownership, management (and if a daily
paper the circuaton), etc. of the aforesaid publ
quired by the Act of August "a, 1912, embodied in
section 49, Postal Laws Laws and Regulations printed on
1. That the names and addresses of the publish
er, editor, managing editor, and business managers
manager Horace Roscoe cayten Seattle WASH
2. That the owners are: Horace Roscoe Clayton,
g. That the known bondholders, mortgages, and
other security holders owning or holding per cent
4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving
hoIders if any, contain not only the list of stock
holders and security holders as they appear upon
the stockhoder or security holder appears upon the
books of the company trustee or in any other
poration for such trustee is acting is given;
also the said two Raragraphs contain statements
the circumstances and conditions which stock
holders security holders who do not appear up
and Securities in capacity other than that of
bona fde owner; and this affiant has no reason to
b bdg ha tha any or in
stock, bonds other securities than as so stated
by him: uo ,,,ou f ios 90 oh
issue of this publication sold or distributed through
the six months preceding the date shown above is
500. ,o,,,o, ,osco1, c,vroN
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Srd day
of october, 1913 E0vvApD ppADv
residing at Seattle. (Notarial SeaD
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-11-02

OF the important DECISIONS He wrote the
decision in case Of State v. Rossman, knock
ing out the grating employment agencies.
lie approved the decision of Larson v. Rice,
IN which it was contended that because Of
a contract with a young lady she was not
entitled to the minimum wage fixed by the
Industrial Welfare Commission but the
court held the Industrial Welfare Commits
sion governed.
This is not the time in our history for ex-
perlments or for the advancement of poll
ticians or demagogues. We must have strong
principled men for our offices and especially
our judiciary. It is better that we have hon.
est men who are sometimes mistaken than
to have politicians or demagogues who are
as liable to turn against us as to be for us.
l know that anybody who is opposed to
Judge Mount is not acquainted with him.
l have known him for many years and I
know him to be honest fearless, upright,
klndly-hearted, sincere and true and
friend Of the laboring man and all common
people.
Respectfully,
GEORGE MUELLER.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-11-02

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF
Washington for King County.
Florence Brice vs. Dwight Brice, Defendant-No.
...-.-....... Summons by Publication.
The State of Washingt-- to the said Dwight Brice,
Defendant:
You hereby summoned to appear within sixty
days after the date Of the first publication of this
summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 18th
day of September 1913 and defend the above entitled
action in the above entitled court, and the
complaint of the plaintiff, and copy of your
answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff
ure to do judgment will be rendered against you
according to the demand of the complaint which
has been filed with the clerk Of said court.
The object Of the above entitled action is to OBJ
tain decree of divorce from the defendant by the
plaintiff on the grounds of deserton
ANDREW R. BLACK,
Attorney for Plaintiff
p o. Address, BIG Pacific Block, Seattle. Wash
Sept 13-Nov. l. 1918.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-11-02

Judge Wallace Mount has been on the
bench Of the Supreme Court of the State of
Washington eighteen years and is now seek
ing reelection, being one Of six candidates
for the three places to be filled for six year
terms. TO know Judge Mount intimately is
to be an advocate Of his reelection have
heard there was some opposition to Judge
Mount because of certain decision of the
Supreme Court which he wrote relative to
picketing | am a member Of the Carpenters
and Joiners Union, Local 1148, Olympia,
WASH. and delegate to the Labor and
Trades Council of Olympia and [ put my
Union above everything else but my Ameri-
cansm. AS an American believe in Amer
lean institutions and that courts are to de-
clare what the law is and not to make the
law. regret that the court found the law
as it did in the above decision but being an
American and believing in American institu-
tons and the court having said that was the
law to me then it is the law until changed
in the regular legislative way. The Supreme
Court Of the state Of Washington may have
been wrong in finding the law as it did,
but we want human judges and they would
not be human unless they made some mis-
takes. The most excellent record of the
Supreme Court of Washington is proof Of
the fact that on the whole it has been very
sympathetic with labor and with the common
people. Judge Mount, himself was a poor
boy and made his own way in the world.
His own sons, who are now in the service
Of their country having enlisted at the very
outset of the war, have always spent their
summer vacations working at manual labor
on the highways or in the sawmills or log
ging camps, to earn what funds they could
to help themselves through school, The Su-
preme Court of Washington has upheld the
law prohibiting blacklisting; the law re-
curing street car companies to put vesti-
bules on their cars for motormen the mi
tiative and referendum, and the eight hour
law for women and all other eight-hour laws,
and all the laws relating to the safe guard
ing of miners and laborers in mines, fac
tories and mills, and the first court in the
United States to hold good the compulsory
Industrial Insurance Law. In practically
all Of these cases the parties attacking these
laws were large corporations. It has been
charged that seventy-fve per cent of the
courts decisions were in favor of corpora
tons. | am only layman but any layman
can easily investigate and satisfy himself
that such statement is absolutely false. In
fact the very reverse is the truth.
Judge Mount himself has written many
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-11-02

If Seattle decides to purchase the street
car system now being operated within her
gates then we would like to have her 60
step further and likewise take over the tele-
phone system. If she can improve the
street car conditions she can improve the
telephone system In fact municipal own
ership is the desideratum for our aches and
ills at present.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-11-02

A weekly paper is published these war
times under difficulties. If you prepare
your copy two days before going to press
the stuff in the paper makes you appear
more the Rip Van Wrinkle than the man of
the hour, what he should be.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-11-02

If the friends of E. Hester Guie will rally
strong to his support and give him a record
breaking vote he will have little or no trouble
in landing the speakership job when the
next legislature convenes. He is a parli-
menterian of the highest type and if elected
speaker will cause the legislature to dispatch
more business while in the chair than it has
done the three past legislatures combined,
and this is not said with the view of being
over critical of others who have occupied
that exalted legislative position. The Re-
publican legislative candidates in King
county are not centering on any candidate
and as result they are liable to wake up
one of these rainy mornings and learn to
their political chagrin that some outside
candidate has votes enough outside of King
to put him over the ropes. Be loyal to your
self and give Glue the votes
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-11-02

years a member Of the senate, and his rec
ord is clear. If he ever did anything as
representative that did not seem in accord
with public sentiment he Immediately re-
versed himself and endeavored to represent
the sentiment of the people irrespective of
his own. Cayton's Weekly does not hest
tate to say William Wray is far superior to
A. E. Fagg and it truly hopes that every
one of it's readers in that district, and they
are many, will vote for him in preference
to his Democratic opponent, who has been
an unsuccessful candidate for some kind of
an office at every election held in Seattle
for the past twenty-five years.