The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 7, 1908, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR | BY STAR PUBLISHING co, 1307-1309 Seventh Ave EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, PHONES ox These are exchanges, and connect with all de partments-—ask for partment of name ef person you want. BALLARD #8 AGRNOY — S400 Maliera « Beneet, “Wallard mee BVERETT STAR AGENCY —Horrett Bron, 2106 Nookafeller A\ youn, One cont y ain conta per week, oF twenty-five conte per month De od by mall or No free coptes, Rotered at the Postotfice at Geattia Washington, as secon’ carrier gate when pour eabeeription oupizes le, om a wnen tha our subscription Non ‘ana te'tahien trom the fist, A cheawe pt mn deen pald in the address label is a Fr OTICR FO KURSCRIMERS—should me My e evlock say evenine, pleare the fev up our main office, y rain seed; tad Wal, between sand 138 selec, and we will send you Ve you Ahould mise It more thaw ence, please telephone us every * SY eunbband tay carne iy way. fall to reaeh @ eopy at onoe WANTED A LOCAL PHONE COMPANY The telephone situation in Seattle has become a perplex ing one and calls for careful handling. The people, as usual, are getting the worst end of the deal Two phones ARE a nuisance and the community are pay ing double price for a duplicate service which might better be } | | | OUR FAN GALLERY THE AUTO ASSASSIN ‘SROUTE NNER TCTT ERT ETE CET NET CTT TE MRR RR NTT TS VR EE RE TOES TS NES NRE REE C, handled by one concern The single advantage which the users of these systems | has secured is a better service than the Sunset ever gave, be-| fore it had competition, Recently there have been reports to the effect that the In-| dependent company is dissatisfied with the terms of its fran chise, finding the same too onerous for profit-making. Fur- ther reports have stated that this company was considering} the advisability of selling its plant to the Sunset and leaving the latter once more in full contro! of the local field Such a sale would be a calamity to the city, Nobody who ever suffered under the domination of the Sunset in days gone} by, wants a repetition of its miserable autocratic rule, with ex-| changes operated on miserly lines and its service execrable The Star does not know whether the Independent com-} pany is too heavily burdened by restrictions, or not know that the company is complaining bitterly. It claims that its receipts from phone rents are too small | to make business profitable, although it has many thousands of phones in operation. It has more business phones than the Sunset. The fair thing to do would be for the city to institute a} thorough investigation into the merits of the Independent com-_ pany's complaints, and if the franchise is found to be imprac-| tical, then it should be modified just enough to make conditions tolerable. Nobody wants the Independent people to lose money, any more than they would be willing for the company to make ex- cessive profits. | No steps whatever should be taken in this matter without | @ thorough investigation which would satisfy the entire com- munity that modifications of the Independent franchise were} absolutely necessary. The Star believes that the Independent company should be given a fair deal, and no more. It has an undoubted right to make a fair and reasonable profit on its investment in this city. But there is a better plan, which this newspaper betieves could perha, « be carried into effect, and that is to organize a ¢ompany of Seattle men to buy out BOTH of the old com- Panies and operate one phone system under exclusively local control. This plan would at once do away with the burden of two phone rentals on the people and would at the same time prob- ably insure a better administration than could possibly be se- cured from any’ foreign corporation owning the phone services. Experience has shown that outside capital is never willing} to do as much for the comfort and convenience of patrons of |» public service corporations as local capital will do. Let the people of Seattle decide that they have had enough of the present duplicate phone system and then take! some steps towards forming a new company to buy out the old) ones. Stock could be offered both in place of cash, with the dis- tinct understanding, written into every line of the deal, that the new Seattle company should forever control the property and regulate its expenditures. The city could impose all nec- essary restrictions upon the management, so that patrons would not suffer? The Star offers this plan as a solution of the present tele- ‘phone muddle. Washington, Oregon and California are going to pull together to gat things out to the Pacific coast. Once they are out here It will be time enowgh to have sisterly scraps over the division. _——— The typhoon whieh struck Manila fs said to have been a blessing, but it was entirely too effectively disguised to be recognized until it Was necessary to make the best of the situation. Maxine Biliot looked “exotically imposing” as Salome, according to press agent wirelexs. Honestly, as man to man, can you blame Nat for beating her to the decree? Every young woman contemplating matrimony with a man 75 years old should make « thorough investigation to determine if he fs peevish with firearms. So far as known neither party has received any contributions from the rising young financier Mr. Couls, but we expect to hear the any time worst RFE TPS RR BR ge | Mr. R. A. Ballinger is making tracks in the prosent campaign of the general shape and six sizes o than the late Mark Hanna. We suppose that if the truth were known the Chinese 900 years | ago tried to get seats on the street care and found it a faliure | } Isn't there some way in which the outcome of the Amertean league pennant race can be blamed on Taft or Bryan? Now we know what was missing frow | this interchange of gen teel jetters—J. Ham Lewis sp FADS THAT WERE got ready to dress all he had to do as to give a coupl quick yanks as and his ahoes we a couple of dexteroux jerks took them off] just as readily | There was only one fault about he congress gatter, and that was] the rubber If it was of good stuff # usually too strong, and would vind the instep and ankle tighter} than a miner's mitt, and if the qual ity was poor it would soon turn & dull brown and wrinkle up like a | buneh of withered lettuce. Then it | would stretch and the feet would | slosh around like @ pumpkin seed | inside gourd But as « time saver, the congres: THE CONGRESS GAITER. The congress galter wae distinct ly a lazy man's shoe. It had no! gaiter wan a great graft buttons, no buckles, no laces —noth Let's see. Congress—qreat graft Jag but rubber in the sides to hold) Maybe that's where it got its name the uppers together. Whes a man! A. N. OLDGIGH It does} lane, th’ cael rote.” Timety Teil. Of course, In blk eloquence I }One finds many gems that are | quotable, Bat we shall not see Till November 3 Just whether or not they are) | to kidnap you?” |a rumpus, A cop joined in the chase | drope from the He exists in a whirl and a whies, To run over things te his bis "Mid our faint dying squeseka, “Let her out!” he still shricke— He's a regular nuisance, be ta, STAR DUST BY JOSH A WORD FROM JOSH WISE. and ma and the cook always Bave| something pew in the way of aj comedy sketch.” So “Th longer tw | votable. “ALL THE WORLO'S A STAGE” Tf some men bad as much indus ; Father's Gift. try as they have polities tt wouldn't| ‘“Puther's birthday comes next be long before they were enjoying | week.” the privileges and emoluments of “Ab. we never forget father's! *® predatory trust. | birthday. _ “Shall we get bim « cabinet for Exceptions to Al! Rules. sheet music or that dining-room “You can't bay champagne on 4) rug?” beer income,” declared the party of | the first part. “You can if you happen to own @ rewery,” responded the other half) of the sketch. Incorrigibte. Stella—ts she a souvenir fend? Retla—Dreadtul. The iast dinner uhe attended she carried away the “1 cam alw ment honre,” “As t how?" jean think it fen't ber fautt when “Pa dows a continuous monologue her husband eats himself rings upreasonable BY FRED & CHAEFER. “Oh, ma, 1 seen the fuantes onejes he had to run through @ flor today!” fat's hot bed, he broke a mil: Jimmy Joggles’ face was flushed. ha) 9-3 eK Excitement thrilled in every fiber.| SNo'm, not much. But they was| He had just burst into the room) t close on him, and he beat where his mother was. | it across @ road and a automobile | Paneed over him, and “What has happened, my son?” “Oh, don't tell me that. Did JE “Oh, | seen @ tramp in a a - | ant him? Child, why do you look “Dear me, dear me} Did he try! at auch things?” “It only cut off one of his arm, No, ma, he was trying to steal) bat he put the ple in his shirt bom a ple jom and picked it up—i mean the Goodness, what a shock you) arm—and run on, and”——— gave me. Well?’ “Boy, you are romanciug! og? got it all right, and then — - % “Honest gospel, ma. Next be cathe are no te |, Mish windmill” / “T am sure there wing 1 she mills about here. Where - took) The tramp grabs one of the | wines and it whirls bim wp into air, The cop fires at him and but it raised | bullet knocks his hat off. ‘Thea windmill into @ t run” Whose ple was it? “I dunno the lady's name run, bat the Indy saw him, and was a big fat lady, and she after him with a broom” _ How was she dressed?” “I forgot, ma, Gee, 4 lots of other people They | pit |chased him through a park | What park? Jimmy, you are losing your reae} Can't tell you, ma. And he|%B. What i} Ec epegaricnty Sy iw yA And the ra they attacktet through it, swimmin’, and spiash- | '!™, but he threw them his arm to how passerfy ‘em, and climbs up on their T've told you time and agata to pole where nobody could bother | come right home if you are near! MH, and eats the ple, and gives ‘em! where anything happens. I've OH the laugh. Ob, ma, youse juss mind to ,ort to have seen it | ek: aie, “Mey. Meated: ttn. oak Where in the name of common » vo | sense DID this happen, ft ask you? Mrs. Dr. Geo. W. Miracte, chil In & moving picture show, ma dren's diseases, 410 Hinekley block, | Can | go again tonight? | oak M 7 ae | BEGARDEN TRACTS am . 2% acre tracts, $100 an @/ Great Bargain sore; easy terms; loss, @& All Hold Teather Shoe aad Ox. | J car line and lake; level, clear fords sell out at prices 16 te $6 od; fine for chickens and ber ren National Land Inv. Co., | 917 First ay cant below tactory price FREDLUND, HORNBERO On, Gale ry Ine. * | eleetion | ctgars, of it par bey THE STAR—WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1908. WHAT IT ALL MEANS Tabloid History of the Prohibition Party. Third of a series of non-partisan articles written for First Voters, recently Naturalized Citizens, Busy Folk who have not followed political events closely, and our Boy and Girl readers. BY GILSON GARDNER. The national 1869, Five representing Prohibition was organized in Chicago Bept hundred 19 ataten, party |mom gambling and the delegates, | met at) social view jnow under federal protection ‘| To abolish saloons from military jand Indian reservations, including jnational parks, soldiers’ homes and Farwell hall and adopted a plat jait other government property form and party organization. candidate wae named. The call for this convention was} | To enforce the liquor law in the | District of Cotumbla and drive the [Ulett saloons from Washington To demand a «trict observance lesued by a committee chosen by |of the canteen law and enforce its the grand lodge of the Good T plars at Oswego, N. Y., that year As & movement prohibition had | attorneys those citizens iteelf felt as early at prohibtiton was passed in Maine. It was grow in other states; greater interest in the slavery agi presently en however antiasioon feeling was «stirred such an oxtent that the brewers holding @ convention tn made when the first ing, too, tation and the gulfed it, In resolved to the party progress People Interested in exterminat m took up the gauntlet and ‘Sanization of a p 4 on Feb mal nominating conventior mbied at Columbus mination of Jas for preatdent ing fallo te finance hing labor, war 1867, of on education this 0°. ivil suffrage and immigration the votes, The Prohibition party, aa at pres dows ty other issues in tta platform. tt com contrates ite energies or out managed, traffic. root and branch, ject of the party. president What a “UA BY HAROLD CARTER Payant was a good fellow after thought King, as be sat im In hix studio | his whisky and smoking All the more so because Payont had been deaperately | love with Caroline Hadley | [had been the first to congratulate [him on thetr engagemmer | at the And a genius, thore w One of those odd, | lows who are likely to etir the wortd someday, and always pass through periods of probationary misfortune, and are invariobly crossed in love. O44, that Caroline shogid have ac him and throw, whore to be bent tm whoo party polled slowly sipping ing, when Caroline came. venlng. he anked Fayant, “fl show you soon, 8? he shall ace rives, and I'll put the bottle away King drank again, while Fayant/ Wwatebed him through narrowing eyelids. The sculptors words seem-/ ed now nothing but a jumble ot| he strove to wake—and sound, them— He could not recollect what had happened. He could not stir hant ery out or open his eyes He felt as if inclowed in a coffin and the air that be drew, through |, a small tube in bis mouth, was al- moat moat stifling. Only be or foot, To Bet a i What You Can Do j introduce our methods, we offer to the public | this remarkable soale of prices for the next 30 days: of Teeth, me otto ot YALE DENTISTS OND AND Yost per Crowes, 22k, extra & tooth, DEPENDS UPON What You Are HOUKS—0 A ™ Tro wr would in May of but the Chicago, “use all means to stay fanatical onal 187 party and the Binck as candi The platform in ed other thing» than the liquor nervice woman's At that inetade|in the campaign of 1884 they Jump the Hquor/that the partioularly To wipe out this traffic, /enst in New York resulted in. the; in the avowed ob-| defeat of Jan one of bis Yet he no dowbt | ratte fel Payant over Meled “Pan” had won soch extravagant praise at the exhibition of fine arta, and Taseball Piteber™ be unvelled in the studio that even was to It was drowsy, that bot summer “Where is the ‘Hasebali Pitcher? trying to shake off the sleep that oppressed him. Payant traits of 4 woman is the way she laughed. “Yoa, it's here tn this room, though you can't see it. What tine will Miss Hadley be here? it when she ar Come, take ayother drink painiess waren *. ™ and | hibitionists was that of 1892, could do, if by chance a Prohibition | they polled a8 480 candidate should be elected, is set forth as follows To close every dram shop tn the Philippines and other insular pos his own reasons for asking for your Seasions and to remine to a mint’ Oi 7 every proviston senals and | States army To appoint as judges and district nly who |by sobriety and faithfulness to their oath of office will enforee the liquor laws and bring violators to Justice The prohibition party agrees, 0 ite candidates also make up a majority congres to do many more things gram would be to do away with the | internal revenue system, with interstate traffic in liquor, and ft nally with the manufacture of | liquor tn any form except by the government, which would become the sole vendor under regulations similar to those which apply to poisons. Ever since party bas held {te national conven tions ones every four years, and has put a py jal ticket in the The ate thin year ts Bugene Wilder fin, with A. 8 Watkins candidate for vice prest dent Up to 1880 the probibition party polled less than 19,000 yotea. That year it was about this number; but in all camps of the forts, ar Unite 1872 the prohibition ed to 160,000, and It is their claim large rote G. Blaine | The largest vote cast by the pro will de and give artivie the Man,” | (Tomorrow's. sertbe “Chafin, support scious that he stood half spright, his right arm thrown over bis head Presently as if from a long distance be heard the voice of Fayant “My dear King ' ITN a MIGHT Crop mLore 1 Ma tor, “I perceive from a slight move ment of the left hand, ich I must prevent, by another coating, that! you are conse! Perhaps you) | wonder where you are. You have no doubt heard of curare, a drug) its vietime of all power of speech | and generally of movement, while) D > 1 only the best. | "sin U in} In general the pro! said the seulp- | uned by vivisectors, which deprives | ae ie inake || | Lots of nelly Checks, -Plaida, Mise < Woolen Dress Goods for School and Knock-About Wear, at 50c, 60c and 65¢ a Yard at the Good, Old - Baillargeon’s Meee : In a new store with new goods and fine fixtures, bie the same old every-day ~~. es you're used to. 36 to 40-inch Small Checks, Fine Checks, Medi i b : . Vi ait Broken Checks, Plaids, Tweed Mixtures, Cheval All-Wool Albatross, Alil-Wool Panama s, All Wot Some of the Novelties are in deep-toned colorings, good, serviceable goods, and but 50c, Ox yard Underwear for the Children ‘ow Priced, but Good 25c, 30c and 35c Garment Henrietta, ete., ete and 65 For boys or girls 2 to 16 age, a ribbed weight, cotton, with a fleece lining cars of 4 soft That J doesn’t say much, but when we say | not one store in 20 can sell as good heavy toP eee Le cme en “we're shouting,” and that’s exe! a y at we do say. 50c to 75¢ oi" ribbed thres four rths wool 8 ig comfortable garments, # or boys’ tl ree joortaia ‘weak, plain © a Garment gray extra strong underwear; both - : t these are real good underwear, re than this a8 most stores count values ‘Our good old Australian Wool Underwear costs 50¢ to $1.25. It’s all woot and we've sold it for 20 years. Interested at All in Wool Yarns? We Are Agents for the Celebrated Sir Brand But Here's the News: We exhibit the various processeg (16 in all) through which wool! goes, from the time leaves the sheep till it is placed before you on counters as the finished product in our window Also exhibit many articles made from wool yt such as we carry, and which we sell as follows: German Knitting, 3 skeins , Pompadour Wool, 25 § for $1.00. skein ‘ Germantown, 20¢ a skein. | Persian Lamb, 40c : Saxony, 10c a skein. | Fairy Floss, 18 a kein . Shetland Floss, 10¢ a/ me Eiderdown, 40 skein ball. Spanish, 18¢ a skein. | Ice Wool, 12%4e a ball, Zephyr, Sc a skein Angora, 10¢ a ball. We have Wood Pins and Hooks, Bone Hooks, St Needles, etc., ete. J. A. Baillargeon & Co —=—====+ Spring . ed dea ove: and at bis his the His ing, CLOTHES don't make a man, but they help mightily, and our popular Liberal Credit Pian makes the BUYING of new clothes s0 easy, no mat ter how limited your income, that really no excuse whatever for anyone who goes around sbabbily dressed You can open an account and pay a little down and a little at a time, for anything netec from our immense showing of Fall Apparel for M , Women and Children y it and see if you don't "EASY Eastern Outfitting Company 1332-34 Seeond Av. “Seattle's 209 Union St. Credit DOWNING, HOPKINS & RYER, Inc. 7) BROK BRS. Seth paseve sre, OP "BSihaanes tess ee caes-200 alee Orders Beecuted for Investment or on Margins permitting them the full use of! | thelr reasoning faculties. You ask- he heard voices again. piteber, cast in plaster of paria and now rapidly week, when a bronze cast has been taken from you, you will electrify New York by your fidelity to life. “You cur!” Now you ahall suffer, shall see her come here tonight and admire you and you shall be to ber nothing but a statue. King.” be added, ably lifelike. Allow me to fix that straw #o that you can breathe 9— jMttle longer.” ; Payant bad balancad the body of that, placed in position against a prop, it exactly resembled that of a thrower in the act of pitching the ball. imprisoned man suffered able agony. through the openings in the plaster ears. Victor Talkin ht was cons and eons after for the ‘Baseball Pitcher.” My “Where is Mr. King?” he r friend, you are the baseball a woman's voice exclaim. if he isn't here | oughtn’t to “One moment, Miss said Fayant. “This is the And he drew the cloth fro the pitcher. “Why, it looks like Mr, hardening, and next he shouted, his anger rpowering him. “Do you know I have suffered seeing you, ‘aroline making sheeps' eyes one another in my presence? too; you My dear “you are remark-— Suddenly he scream. She was look! directly, her eyes turned full) his own. And, all thought seulptor forgotten, she out her arms, just as a from King’s throat and he & away. “My dear boy, wake Fayant, shaking him by “You'll get a stiff neck” with your head over the victim with such Tiendish skill As the plaster hardened, the intoler- He strained with all power to open his eyes, but plaster weighed them down. only sense was that of hear supptied, as he calculated, medium of minute HARRY LAUDER The great Scotch Comedian, makes three new for the . § Car Gri and wor ‘i a wer of a Victor machine should have wu Sha S8001—The Wedding of Sandy McNab. ey 52008—Tobermary We $2009-—K illiecrankie Sherman, Clay & Co., Pacific Coast Distributors, 1406 Second Ave.