We are closing out a large assortment of choice
Souvenir Jewelry
at less than Cost Price
See as for guaranteed Watch Work
MENDHAM’S
Pioneer Jeweler of the Noi^th
phone 23 a. Established 1887 phone 28 a.
The Old Sums
Then
If six men use nine thousand bricks
To pave a city street,
How many hours must they work
If they should use concrete ?
That was the kind of sums we did
Back when I was a little kid,
If a cart wheel with eleven spokes
Is thirteen feet around,
JIow quickly must a bulldog run
To overtake a hound ?
When teacher used to tell us to,
Those were the sums we had to do.
How
Jf beef has gone up fourteen cents
While salaries stand pat, *
JIow shall I manage to contrive
To buy Ftiend Wife a hat ?
The chief of all my prgsent ills
Is how to solve my monthly bills.
It food and rent, and coal and ice.
And kiddies’ clothes cost more,
How can I make a dollar do
The work it did before?
Compared to this—-my present rack—
I’d rather have the old sums back.
How They Get Rich
Writing in Everybody’s Magazine in.
1910, Ciias, Edward Russell showed
that the New York street-railways mer
ger was capitalized at £505 millions. Of
this amount only property 'worth $25i
million was turned in when the merger
was formed. The difference between $25
millions and $500 millions is what the
franchises are valued at. The corpor
ations of New York got their franchises
much about the same way that the local
telephone company got theirs—by put
ting their men into public offices.
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We have have heard much of a secret
session of the council. It begins telook
as if there might have been some truth
in the rumor.
The opposition of Callahan which we
have heard so much about seems to be a
myth.
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Terrible Conditions
On The Coast
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Council requesting work at anything
and received most bountiful sympathy
sweetened with assurances that nothing
could be don e for them. One of their
number made a little speech in which
he said he had been a voter in Seattle
for ten years, had never been up in
court, that his family was near want,
and that he proposed to feed them, laws
or no laws. Forwith the papers discov
ered that there is much local distress
and began a Christmas campaign for re
lief. Many schemes have been set un
der way such as cleaning up vacant lets,
assembling wayward garbage, etc.
UNEMPLOYED DETACHED WOKEN
Our civilization is not a nice one and
I yield to no desire to discuss it in a
nice way. Unemployed working women
and girls find their situation aggravated
in that prostitution, ceasing to be pro
fitable, women of that ancient profession
turn to seek work. A stage-hand friend
j of mine recently told me there were no
I less than five hundred girl hobces in
the neighborhood of Pike street alone
who might be had for a “feed” cr a
bed. Working women make room for
them as best they cni. No one else will
A number of them are reported to be
sleeping under sidewalks. A hundred or
more unemployed women workers in
November challenged the Christian bluff
in great form by marching npon the
palatial club rooms of the Young Wo
men’s Christian Association, holding a
meeting outside and demanding shelter.
They were referred to the Charities So
ciety, but something had to be done for
the sak e of the newspapers, arid so a
few cots were arranged in the building
which kindly act was afforded due pub
licity.
The statement of Gordon at the coun
cil meeting on Monday night that “this
is the best franchise the council ever
gave’’ reminds us of the words of the
robber who after taking his victim’s
purse said: “See! last time I robbed, you
I took ail you had. This time I am
leaving you a uickle. Am I not a great
benefactor to you ? you should thank
me for allowing you to live!”
POWERS OF INCORPORATED
TOWrNS IN ALASKA
‘‘Incorporated towns in Alaska
have only suck powers of govern
ment as are expressly granted to
them by Congress and such implied
powers as are necessary to carry in
to effect those that are specifically
granted. Xo powers can be implied
except such as are essential to the
objects and purposes of the corpor
ation as created and established.”
“Incorporated towns in Alaska
have power ‘to provide for the loc
ation, construction, and mainten
ance of the necessary wharfs’ and
‘to provide for . . . kei.d, that this
grant did not empower the town
council to grant a franchise to in
dividuals to build wharfs on the
public streets and navigable waters
abutting thereon, and to collect tolis
from the public for using the
same. ”
Our good city council will tax a poor
apple peddler who is trying to eke out a
precarious existence, but they hand out
franchises to the corporations.
It appears as though the progressive
party is dead. The men of the progress
ive party divorced themselves from the
Republican party, and now, the pro
gressives are crawling back to “stand
pat” Republicanism.
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Selling goods now!
2$ to $3.50 Sweaters
and
Sweater Coats
$1.00 each
$35 Fur Coats
$19
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$1.50 to $3.50 Geett & Son
SHIRTS
Wool Underwear-Odd lines
worth more than double.
$1.00 each
Simson Bros.
The Home of Hart Schaffner- aud Marx Gothes.
The Phantom Marshal
D. T. Erwin, is a name much discuss
ed these davs. Some of his friends have
it that he is dead; others have him over
in Europe fighting in the war; while
there are still others who claim that he
Isas onlv been asked to resign a n d will
Ire back here attending to his duties at
an early date. Of course, those who
make this last prediction are Demo
crats.
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The war was being discussed from all
angles at th e regular Saturday night
meeting of the Gin and Possum Colored
Gentlemen’s Social Chib.
‘‘Yas, suh!” announced Pomp Daw
son, with a wise look in his rolling
eyes. “Dem Guhmans has get guns
dat’li shoot, an* slipot luh kill, at
twenty-fi' miles.”
“Huh?” asked Brother Jackson,
cocking his head.
“Yas, suh!” went on Pomp. ‘‘Deynot
on’y shoot twenty-fi’ miles, but cley kill
at twenty-fi' miles. ” > v
‘‘Great Lawd!” gasped Jackson.
‘‘Nigger‘d run all day an’ git killed a
bont suppertime, wouldn't ht?‘‘
For the Next 5 Days Only
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