The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 21, 1905, Page 5

THE SEATTLE STAR BY STAR PUB LING CO. a 2 OFFICHS-lez and 19 Seventh Avenue VERY APPEAN OGn woe suNDAY LE PRLEPHONES Bstvens Nepartmant synset, Main 106% Independent 1138 BALLARD STAR AGENCY. 2% Hallerd Ave, Sunset. Red 14. or week, oF twenty-five cents per month, the da aper, When th hae ont Gina been Haid in advance, ye OP Hike, on the wddrens tadel is 8 ree Cee oe ee Se eae ae |g when your subsoription jewrn te ¢ arrives, If your mutes te tole Beem tre Mi mmatton, Nb AVO © Hae recently Deen opened ventent to leave want ada, ee mopnnyit Co st at p a q Star end feave news itema The phone num Soxin BNO. Ladenendene 168 8 , w ¥ Rep ® Tribune Bullding. —— - RAAAA AA RARE AAA R RRR Re at = THE STAR'S PLATFORM, rs * The Lest mews firs 2 = Alt that’s fit to print * * All the news without fear er faver, bad - Honesty in official and private tite * * Municipal ownership of public utilities, a . The business district for reputatie business enterprises, = A Gross earnings tax upon al! public service franchises, * * An up-to-date public achoe! system, * 7 Equal rights for alli «i I privileges for none. . r forcement of just, and repeal of unjust awa 7 * RRR ER EE ms “ ¥ a ’ |) ae See Se) ee See See a If you want to see a » 1t exemplifiea—tf you i j > ND want to see upwards : of 200 students— 4 above the average ° A Dead Superstition Tm the olf days, yellow fever was a mysterious terror. Its mere name throughout al! the infected districts caused man’s Very soul to shudder. Tt was spoken only in low whispers, as though sound fteelf Might attract the dreadful death It was that most helpless of all terrors What reason failed to grasp imagt Mon inft dreame Ay or in the old days seared asunder all but the Very strongest ties of affection and kinship. ‘The dying were forsaken to di Human nature was, as it cast Into a fiery crucible and re- solved into its fundamental brutal elements Beasts could not be more beastly in thelr cowardice than human beings were in the old yellow fever days Tt was, hindmost,” ehild F There were marvelous instances of sacrifice and heroism, but they were exceptional. They only emphasized the fact that super- Stition makes cowards and fools of nearly all of us. The dead, deserted by friends and kindred, were by Ployes thrown into r boxes or w There we terror of the unknown. ation supplied, and imagina- ar creates tortures of which demons never amed by ¢ tly llow fever alone, and the dead deserted. we literally, “every man for himself, and the devil take the even though the hindmost might be stricken wife or public em- ets and carted off apped in sh arners following to the ght Brave; no prayers graveyard was a place of horror and the roads to it were a * Such was th e of old-time erstition Such was tire w Mature. Today we know that yellow fever is not contagious, not even in- fectious, but comes throu The stricken and the dead may be attended with absolute immunity from the disease. The terror which men have bliin’ deserted their fort their families to escape may be shut out by a little netting ukness, the cowardice, the degredation of human gh mosquitoes and | Upon such little things do the destinies of humanity hang. | The terror of the old day fed itself—by fear the epidemic was immeasurably increased. Desertion of the stricken and the dead left toes that imb ands. them prey to mosq. pw spread it among # What a forcible illustration here the plagues, the disasters, the afflictions @ue to man’s ignorance and superstit from them, the poison of the world-old truth that all the sorrows of mankind are us fears. The Pyrotechnics of William What will E William @o next? The: t show that he who would hav ting mn it. His past pe . i. Of all me is the one gardiess of the of birth. a ances He ts as full of tnitiat! taln degree as was Alexander the | Great. He has ent to th me of modern diplomacy with a | gest that indicate ply revels in it. “Modern diplomacy” we have come to style omacy which goes out and does things in | the most frank way Hay and of Roose to the desired end. It is the diplomacy of John and, somewhat, of the Japanese. It is being feebly imitated by the sh and the French. Take into consideration his visit to Moroceo and outspoken de- mand for the “open r.” Rash as it appeared at the moment, It turns out to have upeet the labored, old-fashioned diplomacy of France and Great Britain. While still stunned from it and engaged in a clumsy, obsolete “entente cordiaie” performance with all the accom- paniments of their jackies (who hate each other like sin) fraterniz- ing at Bhest, they see William bob up in the Baltic in heart-to-heart talks with King Oscar and the czar of Russia. What does he want? What will he do? Nothing except what will be worse for the other fellow. And the galling part of the other fellow kr and cannot help it One beauty of th seldom been fouad striking at random. of his moves. When he was younger lately—not. Had William become a citizen of New York city It would have had a German bow instead of a Croker, and a more brilliant one. ——- s it emperor's enterprise is that he has There are braina in the most mistakes, but rutonic he made some The Japs are hemming up Linevitch in Manchuria, and sewing up Witte in Portsmouth, the Czar is getting a few “stitches”—in the side—in St. Petersburg, and Oyawa isn't letting things “rip” in the far east, either. —_ ‘We might have known that Porto Rico would take advantage ©f | Bilt Taft's absence. ———! It is to be hoped that Paul Morton will suffer no privation with bis salary reduced to $90,000 per. ——__— Judging from his face, the Jap envoy ts doing all the worrying. OC Maybe it is for the best If we are boyeotted by the yellow peril. That inarticulate, muftied sound is Korea domanding freedom. ents—at thelr work—preparing for the battle of lite— Wisino? ) MODERN BUSINESS COLLEGE oes Rm motes sate etod You should go right wn to the Collins Bidg, James and Second, top floor, and visit the day or even- ing classes of Both Phones RRP RR RH THE DEVIL'S DUE PAINE. * * ~ ” « t BY RF. 7 © PERRET John 1D, Rock How fashionable it has to throw a stone at efelior! Magazir aad color th ome that it pays to display dents of btw vm writers, at ents a line, find really extraordinary and interesting inc roor, Mditors show their high courage before the masses by pelting him with opproblous ey Stadents of economics and soclology find in his enormous fortune a most reliable seareerow, and, if the minister him would pound the devil half as hard as they do John D go percentage of us would be seared into heaven, sure enous To attempt a d » of Rockefeller would be as uselem, if not as obnoxious, a8 an attempted defense of the Satan of Dante and Milton himself, but since we have got this material and tangible devil “in our midst,” in this century of enlightemment and progress, which devil 1 erushing and destroying and threatening all of us, to the great alarm of press and pulpit, isn't it a wise thing to calmly consider what sort of a devil he is and how he works his evil to our immediate or pros pective undoing? Is he really a devil, or is he only just one of us grown inordinately successful and powerful? Ls he really @ devil, or is the real devil merely the envy of him that’s in our own hearts? John D. Rockefeller started in life as poor as the poorest laborer Rockefellers parks and palaces and says to himself that one man should have so much and another noth who today pas that it fs wron ing Rockefeller w omical, provident, persevering and progress ive, W » all teaching these traits to our boys, aren't we? He developed extraordinary business talent and through business success became a billionaire, We all want our boys to be talented and to succeed, don't wet But tt is charged that Rockefeller’s busines methods were wrong that the Standard Ol Co. mercilessly crushed competition, corrapted legistation, purchased monopoly; that concentration of such vast fi nancial power as Rockefeller’s is of deadly danger to our most cher ished {netituttons, ete otc Who permitted these things? The monthly magazines, the dally prey, the Sunday pulpits, the people! ISN°T THIS SO? Verily, we've got this devil “in our midst” by sallowing bim, carelessly and in ig norance as misguided ing robins swallow wasps. Let's look a little closer into thie crushing of pollution of legislation, this institution of monepoly. is there a mer chant in thie city who wouldn't wipe out his competition, if he could? And would he always rely jely upon the superiority of bis goode Is there a newspaper or magazine in all the land that isn't trying to competition, this wipe out its competitors, by hook or by crook’ Is there & preacher who takes a “call” to a higher salary who hesitates long because of the effect upon the man whom he supplants Is there a bricklayer ® nome other fellow bas jt at $3? 18 powers to crush compet! who refuses a job at $4 per day becau We have given Rockefeller tromend tion, It is only a matter of degree All life is a contention of forces, crushing of competitive influences and causes, In Rockefeller's case the apples were merely a little greener than we thought when We awallowed them and w little louder with the bellygche. re roaring @ We are all fighting to get abead—crowding, crushing, hanging on to those in front and pushing back on those behind We're all doviliah, like Rockefeller. The difference is in degree only, aad the degr pportunity and capacity », Does he swear? No. Does he obey Yes. Is he @ good neighbor is very largely based on Does Rockefeller drink? the laws? Yes. Does he pay his debta? Yes, Does he go to church and lead @ moral life? Yea. Has he raised &@ family of children who are good citixens? Yeu. In addition, gives approximately 10 per cent of his wealth to libraries, cherches and institutions for care of the poor, Not one in one hundred of fas who throw stones at him give that Then, strip John D. Rockefeller of his Dillion and of the idee thht t rich by wrong methods, and he w f at the sprt of sen that we would all admire, wouldn't he? ere all trying to met riches. There's no guaranty Visible Io hu action thal any of us would stop at a half million and never b for or go to crushing and monopolizing for the billion, An we great Ameri can people, a are responsible for the methods through which Rockefelier piled up more than any of wuld. We are to blame for the “tal s. We workingmen have voted in prejudice business and employers have fought over little 2-cent tariff schedules, und most of us publishers have slept with the at eternal Vigilance my eternal vigila: fk measly party's share of spoils. Meanwhile, t b Standard Oil Co. has polluted, corrupte centrated, until we suddenly wake up ove a giant devil among us, let In through our own fe who wouldn't be such a bad sort of devil had he not, with our ow mnaent, pow sessed himeelf so abnormally of the things we all are after * STAR DUST fTAR HUGGED DANDY TO HER HEART. She bent forward ax she walked; her skirt was short, to “git quit o° o mud her cowhide boots, their ther laces tied in a clumay bow ot at the top of each, showed! | plainly beneath the short skirt, and | }her faded shaw!, whose ends enfoid-| ed the shivering lamb, was drawn| tightly around a thin, weather-beat en fa H husband, on out of the barn and sesing jarnb | Jixappeared, cast an af ok | | “There she be a wastin’ her | time over that there half-dead lamb, which ain't © Q While sha at }the tas , jtendernes in her eyes, murm | He be gettin’ harder an’ har every day. ° ° If I bad only | Silas Marner, He'd a bad a kind] | heart And a sigh for the lover she! | had ted years bet pr | ke f in Wi | She kes with the } to the houne, ar aid it y upon | a plece of « rpet placed behind | j the t wor tov whe the beat | | Would fall gener upon = its num body | When Jake, who had been out to After a few hours of warmth dict administers mt lamb was per es on the w the on its feet. Tw considered { we thre ned to o But, strange to rela mat }nal instincts of th med ave taken bt re and} 7. and actually day MONDAY, AUG JANE BENDER'S the “sugar bush” visiting the sap troughs, came in he cast a con temptuous Jook at the lamb behind | That there thing ain't good fer} nothin’; | oughter know er to Bre mh taat by trlemeh fm war! ‘ nothing loth, br | 4 ae t | the house, and, despite the constant Tie Just the of f Bil Taft's tine protest and scarn of Jake, continued | ot bunk her dally ministration to ite wants. | A WORD FROM JOSH WISE. aa Wane, oes tee’ eon wl | Jane christened it “Dandy | not having succeeded in} ping his wife in her work of} nercy and love, and hating to be} thwarted, then threatened to kill] All's unfair in love on sae GE rm afl eyed et. | bringing a high price in the market Jane, aghast at the proposition, | an’ war, for the lamb had now become # sal 3 ; pet, and fearing lest her husband UP TO DATE would carry his threat into execu- on oe m some morning bb he was ne eee hunted out an old padlock, fast-| aig mg J with it the door of the small ot Th Tageart div c we | Nothing str at that Jersey | indicate that there are not man City han being left $20,000 by his} of those dull days in army life. uncle aw hose cat he save from death. Twenty thou. is not an ex FROM THE VAUDEVILLE At the censive rewa “Hello, Frits, wass Ise der new | dias mornings? BREE RE RE RRB! “Thal yust ween id in der Schten Retirem t ‘This Is the month % | a sharp falling off in der markets’ * er *| “Ah, I guess id dot was him wie Ss I * Jway comes & | I saw going py in der ambulances a e * face of tan; | “Oxblain myselut; who vent py | * ven #0 # | der ambulances?” “er * He don’t come far *| “Why, der sharp vich fell off t po area de re 3B ao * At Coney he ® | der market. Id must haf hurted r o 2 Fee's ean ot bons high grade clothing at * *| “You should make more silence ee ae Ae RRR AR Re HR HH) When you spik. Dot reminds me likt Bal as wivin: Satin tor - a foolishness. ‘asta ‘feaneicis “9 HISTORICAL FRAGMENT. | “Nod so. Bud here iss a smard| ‘ 00 Benj. Franklin wag walking| yun. Why iss a flour barrels like a} wee ean OF Cite Ton through the streets of Philadelphia g book?" goods that we have lee for the first time and munching his I can nod see der difference Ste only 05 ANG U4, fo & penn‘orth of bread. | Why is a flour barrels like a sor ro Yer seal eae “T had better put my roll out of | book?” this will be your chance aight,” he mused, “before the trac-| vuse It Ise full oof stay t to get something good tion gang takes it away from me | ha, hat” snout for nothing at the As he had to live thereafter, they] (Rim! Biff!) ee called him “Poor Richard.” H. LEWIS & CO. Policeman who killed a dog made | COR 1ST AND CHERRY. “LE wonder if the people next door! his report under the caption, “Shot will call?” said the lady who moved in the basem t. r ably this ia into a new neighborhood why it took two shots to kill the | 1 presume #0," said her husband, 4 ' 1905 tired seat in the ground An . caretul,’ dnd munched the bread-|, Should your sony owe ae land-butter Alfiry ga her, with|% feach you by pe +) omg ' some of he? own homer fe ch ning, please os . sada » call And while was eating, the kind} UP ¢ ain office (Bunset, Mais ~ hersipengiionitn holghbor, when attending to his own| 1050; Independent a Wi ae Spend ¢ inal Fo Dan and 7:30 o'clock, and we will wend Jake Sald Tt Was “No Good,” Buttpen in which Dandy was kept, and] On the fateful pr Jane kept|%OU & copy at once. If you a Jane and the Lamb Fooled carried the key on a plece of twine] eiogg beside Dandy’s pen until fn ethagloyptatet apr ralcigaa Seen lg Hin. suspended around her neck judges, bedecked with badges, fu a -s avery time c , ~ { summer, by happ land important, made the , bl raging! 4 tage BY ADELINE M, THAKKY the prize list of Canada’s in- lan and then she at ny t . pray 7 a aad Balerprios Atiocialion. lang Sus wan himlenaly sep cw gg gies regi THE STAR PUBLISHING CO. That there thing ain't good fer} through it when her eye nothir growled Jake Bender, giv-/on the following entry Beat Ram) “it they don't give Dandy the ing & prod with his hoavy ot at} Lamb, fifteen dollars.” | prize I'll not take him back to t the apparently lifeless bedy of @ At once she neaived the idea Of | tary b whispered to he lamb stretched on the hailf-froven | taking Dandy to the fair Jake will have him killed for HOB ground As the day of the fair drew near,|and he'll never let me hear the last POLISH The remark was addressed to bis] 7, one evening when he was at alof it neither e wife, Jane, She made no response, | neighbor's house, heard a whisper| After what seemed to her an REGULAR but as her husband disappeared into of what hie wife inten dotn al-lconscionable delay but wae i} , the barn “shooting” the reluctant}though Jane had breathed it to no-|reality only a few minutes, th 10 CENTS; old mother sheep ahead of him, she }hody gave one woman “in a secret.” | judges passed on, and the moment ‘ aught up the forlorn little body in won't do {t when the time|they had disappeared, Jane, with QUAKER her strong arms, wrapped her shab-| ome” he id positively, after al white set face, quivering lips and PRICK shawl tenderly about it, and set od = meditation, addreeving | beating heart, darted out of her con _" for the farm house. snake fence” which divided his | coalment fields from the highway. “She's too| Oh! the ineffable fey of It! Wha keery. She never went anywhere| mattered all her silent, patient en y hereelf in her life durance of Ja rude ridicule, her he ain't a-goln’ to come it over| harrowing dread that he would put j cution his threat of convert into ing the beloved Dandy into meat fo lamb is good fer for all that for nothin’ me that that there ennythin’. I sald onet there lamb ain't good an’ I oughter know It was with no The QUAKER DRUG (0. 1053-1015 FIRST AVE Both Phones 1240. the market? For there, pendant to the vine ribbon, and showing brave mainet the snowy f Hight quaking of | ly cart that Jane Bender began to|the big blue ticket which sigilf make preparations to take the lamb | Srst prize. | to the fair he yet she was| Jane Bender was not » woman o buoyed up all the time by the de-| the school who takes pride in a syn termination to let Joke een that |leal suppression of emotion. She) BOSTON DENTAL Dandy was good for something 4id not care a jot who might see Dandy was occasionally a lttle|her and be moved to laughter, as PARLORS obstreperous, as all pet animals of | With amazing agility for her years Twelve-year guarantee the male sex are apt to be, and al-|#he clambered into the pen, and Lady atiendemta though a kind neighbor offered to| dropping on her kn hug Houre—#:%@ to 6; Sundays, * take him along with his sheep, Jane|Dandy to her heart, her thin te 12, Both phones. was obliged to go herself, and lead| locks loosened by the sudden him by a cord, for not a step would | ton, falling over bis shapely he budge for anyone else, And so it|/@# she murmured proudly came about that on the afternoon of| “I allus knowed it, Dandy.” the last day of entry she had the} The following day there arrived at high satisfaction of seeing bim,|the Mapleton postoffice a post card| proud and haughty, standing within |the writing upon which plainly in one of the pens on the fair ground.|dieated @ pathetic unfamiliarity! He was certainly a beauty, and|With the use of the pen. This was} she did not see how the judges could | the me 6 it bore fail to realize it. She had washed | Minster Jacob Bender him to almost spotless whiteness, Dandy’s tuk the first prize and tied a blue ribbon around bis “JANE BENDER.” neck —_—+ He was © saucy, petted fellow, and Tourists’ Excursion had a trick of holding up his head rt trip for tourist and looking fearlessly at the peopl navy yard and batt! that gave him quite an air of su-|shipa. The Puget Bound navy yard periority over the other sheep, look-|is the largest on the Pacific coast. ing frightened and drooping. Fast steamers leave F at 9 and Jane spent wry day on the fair 10 m m.; 1:15, 2:30 and 4:30 p. m grounds, wt of the time looking Fare, round trip, Sdc. oo WE DRESS YOU WELL FOR $1. 00 A WEEK Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc. Avenue. 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