The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 11, 1904, Page 5

FOOTE re THE SEATTLE STAR BY OTAN PUBLIEHING CO OFTICRE-1N7 and ed Beventh Avenue EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY TELE Th Business Depa. tment eet dont Lae Rditorial Doparcne ry off Chicas viva Wo HL Portertiol d AQUNOCY kat Ballard + Rea 1 To MATT, AUDA ene en» eubmoription expires ie © Lhe asta. adel of ee inte « : scr ts paid " Frou “the list “Aad he gave it for his opinion that whoever could maka two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a apot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and of do more essential service to his country than the whole politicians put together.”—Jonathan Swift = = - oes HOW DOES YOUR CONGRESSMAN STAND ? Tn one of he poctuding cha pte ween the history of the Standard OU com And what are we going te do about ft? for it is our busin We, ub whatever is wrong rative of\the growth of the Standard O1) Oo..” ¥ Miss Ida Tarbell wr! tes people of the United Sta tes, and nobody else, must cure © the industrial situation, typified by this nar And then she add ‘Our first task is to seoure free and equal transportation priv tomes by rail, pipe and waterway, That is evident.” But she con fesses this wit difficult Why diffien.:? It ought not to be difficult 1f we, the people of the United States, are determined to remedy the wrong, We, the people, are the government, and the corporations have no power save that we put into their hand Blackstone says there ng without Its legal remedy. The plain remedy for rates by which great corporations take advantage of thelr weaker competitors to ruin them is by the proper enforcement of the Inter state commerce laws We, the people of the United States, have an interstate com merce commission whose business it is to regulate railroad rates Unfortunately for us, our supreme court has decided that, without further legislation, this commission has no power to enforce its own findings In the last congress a bill—the Cooper bill-—was tntroduced. fonferring upon the interst mmission the power (permitting a court review) to enforce tts decisions by injunction and by a fine of the offenders. And yet there are members of congress posing as the guardians of the people's interest, who have been able to keep this bill In com mittee and secretly smother ft. The remedy? Elect congressmen who will rf epresent you rather than the rail Toad corporations. Find out where your congressman stands on this vital question and vote ace ordingly Tht STUPID PUBLIC Charles F. Kelly, ex-speaker of the house of delegates of St. Louis, bas made a written confession concerning the “boodle” biny tory of that body. In this confession occur this words “The public is stupid. It does not appreciate good service on the part of officiate. It tolerates corruption for years withont murmar. . No one knows these things better than this man Kelly, who has conformed that the municipal council over which he presided was systematically organized for corrupt practices. The organization ‘was composed of men of both political parties and the combine had @ fixed schedule of prices guage d by the value of the privileges it granted. Nearly everybody in St. Louis knew there was corrupti and that public franchises were bought and sold. But— The public is stupid. ‘ Similar corrpution is being practiced in many other cities—only there ts no Folk to rwn it down and send the boodlers to the pent- tentiary. Every once in a while there is 4 great explosion. Day be- fore yesterday it was fn St. Louis; yesterday in Minneapolis; today riminating and inequitable railroad ommerce ¢ The public ts stupid. ' As Keliy says, it does not appreciate the services of good offi- cials. Folk fought the batt! of clean government in St. Louts al- most alone. And Keily's confession tells how the boodlers stopped only @ little short of assassination of the brave prosecutor. The public is stupid. “So long as my business is not interfered with why should f tn- terfere?” is the mental attitude of the average citizen. And unfor- tunately, the average official set for the prosecution of grafting and boodling is not strong enowgh to resist the same selfish rea- soning. 1 ‘The public is stupid. It cgres everything for its private affairs and little for its public Sffairs. Civic pride will not move the average citizen from his pri- vate Interests to look after the business of the public. He has elect- ed men for that purpose. Let them look to It. The public is stupid. ’ Once in a while some inquiring newspaper reporter will discov- er a clew to corruption (and most crimes againat the public are dia- covered in that way) and for a time the peop will be jolted from their stupidity. But it doesn’t last long, for, as Kelly well says The public is stupi ee ‘The Hearst afternoon paper says every few days across the top of its front page, “If you don't get the Times, you don't get the News-Pictures.” Last night the Times printed a picture of the crown prince of Germany—the famous picture which the kaiser has ordered suppressed. This identical picture appeared in the Seattle Star, Monday, October 3, one week before the Times had it. You get the News-Pictures in the Hearst paper if you wait long enough. CAN YOU BREATHE THROUGH YOUR NOSE ? Hf not. why not? We can tell you. EXAMINATION FR SEATTLE EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT INFIRMARY 4-5 Haller Block, Corner Seeond and Columbia, “Green Acres” Overlooking Lake Washington FOR SALE CHEAP TheThompsonCo 224 Pike Street. dohn 3121 The QUAKER DRUG (0, 1053-1015 FIRST AVE Both Phones 1240. 2676. ~~ | attention to me How did you | ber 2 | Teason The The Pittsburg Press offers to give » $6,000 home to the man who ean tell who will be the next prosident Ketter give it to the defeated can lidate, broth In Butte, Mont., they a olling new $1 bills for 90 cents moth lik two-months in the face Blectric fans will be kept during the engagement o Conquerers.” In apite of th play te apt to produce a warm wave all over town In the Seattle len't this weather simply Octob And it also begins to look like an open winter Ladies, ladies, ladies, are you Mo ing to wear BURNT ORANG means A WORD FROM JOSH W matter whether he's in a cornfield er a ek yacraper If a few more boodlers in Missoart | confess, it won't be necessary to! you believe it or not | count the vc The supply of pennies in London ts said to be short on account of} } | the slot machines. However, the! Paw, who is Harry Leber? | slot machine owners are not com-| “Harry I fiarry Lee? Why plaining of a shortage. | let me see, that name sowbds du A Uthassa priest sald a prayer when one of the British generals! paper told a jot of foolish’ things | left the city on his way k to India. The Tibetans may not be a highly civilized people, but they must at least read the papers. They're a jong time in opeaing the New York subway, What's the matter with Bishop Potter? “I don't understand how you auc-| ceeded tn inducing the police to close that saloon on Sunday,” said the reformer, “I wrote letter after | letter to the mayor and t | of police, and | begged and beaged | the policeman on the beat to arrest the proprietor, but nobody paid it “Oh, 1 simply had four or five ¢ thie fall? Remember, if you don’t you | won't be de riguer, whatever that} A tool's a fool, no jname? Ih lent ways.”—F. E. D. }long on Russian orthoepy, but | hat chief 3 hm be % STAR DUST fellow | Ihontee the 5 CLOSING THE SHASON The Cork—Have you quit sprint | ing? The Bung: Yes, | ean’t stand for those bung starters, Are you play ing ball yet? The Cork: Yeu, I'm still a short | stop. | MUST BE WILD HORSES. Ire Gooch will from now on take | charge of his #table, and has put in & new stock of horses and bug gies, also coffins.-Navasota (‘Tex.) Examiner } Still, the money q Jas important to th stion fe sunt | itician tm was this campaign as it eve | “Don't pay any attention to that | fellow He's flighty | | “I don't believe it.” He is, just the same, whether | | Jood thing for him, them, fe | told me he'd invented a d@irigttle | patloon | | miliar, Where did you hear it? | “EL saw ft in @ newspapel. ‘The he'd done. ‘Oh, yes, of course, He's onmot those professors at the Ungversity Of Chicago. | CAN ANYBODY HELP USt How does that Russian com mander now at Muké spell bis e aceon it three differ- The Star Dost Man is not very judging from telegraphic dispatches, The Celibacy of a Man | ~ epee it under lock ar 4 to unlock, the Hy that you m 1 road that le destruction and the jewel: “C-r-a-w--ieh” in right |» If the Russian army were as slow | an the Baltic sea fleet, Karopatkie would mot have such @ great repu- | tation as a retreater But the Port Arthur feet len't so |xlow after it gets star tor a neutral port “Lhok amt, loole aut. cried the excited paggenger. “That woman on | the sidewalk intend@ to cron the | What of it?" calmly asked the! | thee | “Why, don't you Se ani you never | ean tell Jost what a woman's going | to do when she cosine a street | | “Oh. yew, I do. | know just ox actly what she's going to do. She's going to stop right In front of this fiachine and be knocked down and | run oved and probably killed, unless 1 can pam the crossing before she | stops off the sidewalk ” y | And he increased the speed to 67 | miles an hour, thus saving another \" life. The accompanying cut shows nine potatoes, of the Barly Rose variety | grown in the garden of Mr. George Cornwall, 414 Lynn street, this city Th dug from on hit Sunday, Septem Two of the largest weigh 9% pounds, and two others weigh 3 pounds. The largest one is 9% inches long and 4 inches in diameter This is believed to be a record yleld for one hill, and for that will allow tte aub selbers to enter a eoytest, the terms of which are as follow Can you guess the date these po- tatoes were plant The Star wili make a #pectal rate by mat! for this contest only, of two months for each 26 cents sent in. Send The Seattle Star 25 centa weigh 26 pounds, and were for which The Star will be Bail 4 for two months to any addr ott side Seattle, whether you af the winning guesser or not The person gnessing nearest the date th atoes were planted will | recelwe 4 Star for one year free. | The second nearest person will re ceive The Star nine months free, and the third nearest person will re Tho Star vix months free. The contest closes October One guees will be allowed each subscriber for each 26 cents sent In Send as many guesses as you lle Of course The Star cannot be delivered by mall within the city of Seatt Have The Star sent to anyone in the United States or | Canada for two months for 26} cents, and send in a guess on the! potatoe ' ae eae ; HERALD, TAILOR, 1329 2ad, *** THE MAN GOT A MIRROR TO GO WITH THE BRUS magical anything? on my aunt? Or are you gone ‘We have no time for Arabian Nights in these days, and never fully recovered * came back to then pot It down aga! can't smoke end Sau ltenty not check! See eeETt |: ENTHUSIASTIC Over the lame and beautiful line of we that we have the owing at this time. in the selection of ma! reputation for genu and the mention of such 9 & Sons, Ho [names as Chicke bart M. Cable, Kimball, 1 well known for their many | superior qualities that they at once ire confidence in appeal to and i intending purchase | trouble to inve: majority do. who take the we have frequently some very strong assertions our line of instruments, wrongness. You surely must see that . We figure that if sy for you to and if we are right it is worth your while to know it, Among you are sure to find we are wrong it the many thin here are correct pric | courteous treatment and gild-e | Guarantees, D.S. JOHNSTON CO 903 Second Avenue. Burke Building. gin or Waltham HOUGHTON & HUNTER JEWELERS. 704 First Avenue, Seattle. Ther A n once whowe fath hin I'm goinge start you In busin n the wala \ evil w Mer man,” ¢ ntinued and went out to} ni \ th rehase, Hin salary adr of few coats, and it seemed selfiah to bay one whiet ply give pleasure to himself Didn't he drew imply and to the point, Tis wardrobe tained no duplicates He had, however, sufficient cloth i How in thunder could he ind Bob There are lots of things to 1 AD » COMB. do when you engaged besides dressing. There are florists to pay, and confectioners to pay and And the devil to pay, if you for fet the other gentlemen,” finished Sydney “But maybe she wasn't used to naive tributes. Perchance she the landlady’s daughter.” “No, she was the daughter of a lady and not a landlady. The words ple and boarder were altke unknown to her, She called for the usual | treatment, and he gave it to her.| He took to watking briskly to his place of business, Instead of riding rapidly, aa hitherto. He got out of the habit of smoking certain brands of cigars and acquired the habit o smoking certain other brands. In this way he supplied her with vio lets, fresh and candied. Bat, un- like Cleopatra, ‘age can wither flowers, and eustom or something else stale candy, and the man began to yearn with his whole soul to kive ber some lens ephemeral token of hin love Which brings us to the peril and adventure,” interposed Sydney. *Kieptomania ?* “No; unlimited meditation, the result of which that he omit t buying a dress suit. and bought & gold-backed brush and comb.” “He might have gotten silver protented Bob, “then he could have bought new trousers, anyhow The young lady seemed much pleased, so much so that a week later she gave the man a@ present, a gold p knife. The man never read, unless the pages were already cut. so he put the knife away ox that he was, he ought to have kept on forgetting all about it.” “What did he do whe member He took It out and looked at it and wondered how much it cost Then he looked at {t some more and wished he had th her something with. Then “You dontmean to say he sold it?” eald Bob, incredulously. It depends on what you mean by wold it! He dida’t hand it ever to the jeweler and gét a roll of bank notes for it. He did hand it over to the jeweler and get a—a fan for it’ ‘or hor? Well, I'll be hanged!” » took his cigaret out of his moutlr and whistled That beats the Jows,” sald Syd hey. “A gallant from the Ghetto wouldn't treat his fiance out of her own pocketbook, Gad! it wasn such a bad idea, though.” “It was the worst idea he ever got into his head, He knew it, too, and he felt like a eur when he took the fan to the girl, But when she kissed him he felt such a d—d nice cur that, when, on his birthday, she sent bim a chain thing to hang his shaving ball on, he didn't even take {t ont of the box. Neither did the Joweler, He Just called up the floor walker, who sald it was all right and the,man got a mirror to go with the brush and comb, It didn't come out even, though. They gave him b roses and gent them up to the girl re rice to buy na f forgot all about {t-for a time. Foot | k $2.65, so he got some! ; Wut he felt badly about i,” when whe told him that night aii he ‘ought to } " th h \ . had fint upon the table In an ecata énjoymen I hope that’s what meas, 144 #o awfully fann thought Wh anybod It's the funniest thing I ever He didn’t fel like « eur any i aid he? Yes, he did, But he felt ax it| ter time than other fe laughed heart curs had a dags and peop ily all day about it. He wanted to tell everybody he saw, but he could aw the girl, He saw not, till he | ber that night.” | “Was he going to tell he | “He was. He tho eboay ought to share the joke, and he knew she'd laugh over and blush over it, and maybe ery a little over it. And then he'd tell her bow im-/ was while his charac-| and she'd call | pecuntons ter was betug foun him ‘a brave boy,’ and say it | "took all © allowance to dress | properly and they would love each lother and believe in each other without aay horrid presents.” So he | told her. She said she didn't under- | stand; #0 he told her over again | going into detail, and describing bis ings at certain points and hint * at certain other points. he finished, she excus herself and left the room. She re- torned In a moment, with ber hands fall of things. It seemed to the man | that she was carrying dozens of combs and brushes and mirrors and fans, bot it turned out she only had one of each. She gave them to him. one by one, naming them, which |aeomed to him quite unnecessary. jas she did so, She said she | sorry the handle of the fan was broken, as he probably would not j» able to realize much from the | } | } sale of it--and the man remembered | now what he had forgotten in the very day of his merriment, that he) | had known the fan was damaged Then she gave him the ring, and said if be hadn't sold it she would like to have her picture returned. | He also tried to laugh. But both girl and the laugh eloded bim | No cur fn the United States or Can- ada ever felt as he did said Ne could explain, but ghe went upstairs while be was talking “Then he went to the jewele He didn’t tell the floor walker that | he had ruined a man's life and made it necessary for bim to carry one engagement outfit through the | treets without any paper around | } it. He merely asked for a descrip. | tion of the female party who had | | been exchanging things. and when he learned that she wore spectacles and a cape, he thanked the floor walked and left. The girl wore | neither. Rob and Sydney were laughing | quietly. together when Groves | | got up and walked over to the man- | tel “She's very pretty,” he said, stop- | ping to look at the picture | im a gold frame. “I've often | her. Is she why you never mar- ried?” | “Why the man never married Rob.” corrected Sydney. | Groves said nothing. Tragedy Averted. J. “Just in the nick of t boy was 2’ Watkins, of Preumonta besides he our j | Jwas a sound, ani well.” ght to know it's the only su for Coughs, Colds a Lung diseases. ¢ anteed by G. 0. Guy, Inc. Second| and Yesier. Price Sbc and $1.00, ROTAL ROACH POWDER PSC mn ae HARMLESS TO PETS 50c and | $1. 00 Cans iE sav PIKE STREET PHARMACY 419 PIKE STREET. nt her ‘The man tried to take her band. | mn. He} stopped speaking, but he didn’t | neem to notice it. Presently Bob | sad havoc | — 1 him, but] y. At length] i . ' : ‘ ; iN . \ and permits the drawin aN N N ‘ . : ‘ \ ik HA FLESH FOOD THE GREAT ihe BEAUTIFIER TRED NEW YOR CUTLERY FVFRY BLADE WARRANTED Tam Oshanters The $1.00 and $1.50 values being closed out at 1306 Second ave. at and 5c Beautiful shapes in WALKING HATS and Patterns being closed out at less than cost. Hats at 50c, The, $1.00, $1.50, ete, at H. & H, Chesbro’s, 1206 Second Gwbee, 4305 Second Ave. _ “phe ks =ue kage NEW ORK | . 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