The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 22, 1909, Page 4

ae) Sema _ THE SEATTLE BY STAR PUBLISHING CO. a i EVIRY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Qe Bovered at the Postottion wt Beattie Washington. as secon (Stemmons a i SCOOPED BY A BOY This is an editorial addressed to the newspaper men Tt won't hart other people and may both interest and be of value to them. A boy fresh from college has scooped us all—by “us” is! meant the newspaper fraternity, The youngster’s name is Shelden, He is just out of Har vard, and six months after being graduated he had written the play which Mrs, Fiske is using this year, The play is called “Salvation Nell.” Ever since there were newspapers and police courts and policemen, there have been police reporters. These are often “cubs” of the staff, There are a set of conventions and rules and standard of value that govern police reporters just as there are others governing lawyers and doctors and brick- layers and playwrights. Of all people in the world, newspaper men and doctors should be the least bound by tradition. For it is the trade of} each to diagnose his fellow man, The doctor studies the pa- tient's physical symptoms and says what is the cause and cure. The newspaper man must study the deeds of his fellow man and diagnose his mental symptoms, his motives, his purposes. Years ago M. Quad made the Detroit Free Press famous by his funny stories of police court proceedings. Police courts were funnier in those days—when there were no really big cities in America—than they are now. And so it came to be a tradition of the police reporter to be “funny.” It was tra- dition to see comedy in rags and humor in whisky-fuddled hu- manity. It was tradition to put fictitious jests in the mouths Of police magistrates, It was tradition to believe a man guilty until he was proven innocent (this tradition modified some- what by libel laws), It was tradition to overlook the fact that men and women were being sent to jails and workhouses by the thousands without a trial by jury; without the advice of a lawyer; without being able to call witnesses, Tt was tradition to regard the city prosecutor as lawyer against the prisoner instead (if he is a public officer), being attorney, as well, for the accused to the extent of seeing that has a fair trial and am- ple opportunity to present his own side of the case. Young Shelden, fresh from college, had every reason to | === see the slums and the pavements through the eye of tradition. But he did not. Tradition says the people of the slums are tough, or they wouldn't live there. Shelden says the people of the slums are hard because they were born there or have been driven there. In his first act he shows the interior of a “tough” saloon in full blast, crowded with its grist; boys and men-—reeling re- cruits and sodden veterans—with its pitiful painted girls of the street, brave in the vitality of youth, and its pitiful “Old Mary,” sotted below the level of the beast. It is a squalid, sodid scene. The well-dressed, well-fed audience says, “Ugh—how can people go to such places?” The last act shows the street in the slums—the canyon in the man-made mountains where modern cliff-dwellers live in almost primitive savagery. It shows the mixture of race, re- ligion and tongue. It shows the brawling men, the unfaithful husband, the misery-marked wife. It shows the babies suckled ‘on the doorstep and the little girls and boys playing on the threshold of the groggery. And it shows the saloon, the only brightly lighted, well- warmed place in the stfeet—except one—the Salvation Army barracks. 4 And here Sheld ws us how the people in the first act “ate possible. How environment and lack of opportunity stunt the litle human plants. Stunt them for lack of human comfort and sympathy and charity (not alms); pinched by want and : dulled by the brute struggle for mere existence. How these human plants are sicklied over with the unhealthy pallor vice before they ever reach an age when they can choose the tor wrong. And in seeing these things Shelden has written a great story. He scooped the police reporters. They have it all every day, but the tradition of the trade has distorted ‘The lesson of it all? Nothing except that from the open door of the Salvation Army barracks poured a steady light that competed with the sparkle of the saloon and the crimson beacon of the brothe!—— "And the Salvation Army is merely the incarnation of the duty that lies in us all—police reporters and all the rest of us. ‘The duty to see that more men drink because they are miser- able than are miserable because they drink. “To judge the con- duct of others not by our standards and our environment, but by theirs. For we—police reporters and all—should be able to under- STAR |POOR MAN jane mation A poor man fighting to pay hie! representing two large corporations, taxes, a rich corporation fighting to | the Seattle Blectric company and |the Seattle-Tacoma Power com get out of paying them, is « little | any, who appeared before the serlo-comique enacted in the county | state tax commission in the office court house recently, In the ordia-| of County Assessor Thomas A. Par ary course of events ft would ap | ish for an “adjustment” of the cor pear that the rich man should be) ‘tion's taxes. Mr, Howe, on be the one to be fighting to pay hie If of the publie service corpors taxes, and the poor man squirming, | tions, wished to have a ltth rather than vice versa, J of coin knocked off the corp But it te @ fect, just the same,|the big tax levy against the rail that the poor man is the one who | roads. “comes through” quicker, according} And during all the time the oor to the records of County Treasurer | porations wore scheming and out Matt Gormiey. Up until March 16; lining a plan whereby the county any time of the day after the treas-| could be bulldored tnto lowering urer's office was open for business their taxes, the working man, or the you could see hundreds of people in| working man’s wife, with her child moderate circumstances standing | ren gathered about her, was wait for hours fn line that they might doj ing patiently, but determinedly, to their rightfal duty by the state, | the big crowd before the counter tn The Big Tax Dodger, | the treasurer's office On the other hand, tast Wednes| These people even brought their day there was Attorney J. B. Howe, | dinner, and It was po uncommon oe PARABLES OF JACO And It came to pass after the rulers bad received th from Jacob and his henchmen, they were exceedingly anxio obey his commands. And it came to pass that a competing cartage system Me certain rights from the city, and the rulers, in accordance wit! lawe of the city, offered the franchise to the highest bidder And when the rulers had recetved the bids, it was found th: the new company was the beat bidder, and entitled under the law recelve the grant, and when Jacob abd bis henchmen hearg 0) news they were exceedingly dismayed } hose of the rulerd to lay NO. 3 ent the And Jacob called together his henchmen and t who were loyal to his commands and straightway plans to evade the law - And when Jacob and his henchmen and the loyal rulers agteed to a plan of action, Jacob called forth his servants tn night and commanded them to take by force the rights which. been granted by law to the competing cartage «ystems. And when the people saw what Jacob had done, they were ex- ceedingly angry, but the rulers fell do and worshiped him, gay- ing “Ia not Jacod all-wise and all-powerful ™ OSGAR UND ADOLE “OFISS SICKERS” ‘Told In the Worde of BY FREDO SCHAEF VABSHINGTON, Today are here, myseluf und Adolf. We came via der Baltimore Oriole, Dere wass many beodle in der depoo, but disgueesed as hamap beings we mate our way drough der crowt mitould being recognissed as such. CHEM OF VISDOM: Der man who voult be in demant must fairet make himseluf scarce. “Bhell we go right to see Mr, Toft, or shell we go ad vonce to der Way- farers’ Rest und retebister?” sald Adolf. “Pool,” I said, “we must fing ould come to @ Sartch fonce mit a yart around id.” “Yes, yeas.” “Und on der odder site of der yart iss @ lawn.” stand the cry of the submerged as voiced by Salvation Nell Mansa E teeneneeee ~yust a when she says: lawn,” “All right; tell us more.” “In der lawn tse a tool house.” “A tool house?’ “Or radder a carriage house—der | bretzidend’s son somedimes tools in 4 dog cart.” “Ina dere alzo a dog howe?” “Dummbeit! No, but dere iss a green house. Der green houwe its « sign dot you haf fount der Vite House.” We vent up dere, but Adolf’ tas color biint und coult nod sée der “Fer God's sake, Jim, let's be straight and give our kid a chanct, fer me an’ you never had no chanct—we never knowed until it wuz too late!” While we have every confidence in Capt. Baldwin's aeronantic abiit- ties, for show purposes re glad “that he is going to start from Se attie, rather than finish here. The steel gentlemen are #0 | Hekled over the new tariff that they gleefully chopped off 10 per cent of the wages of all hands, Los Angeles will never know ‘iiiesceonetseae hat rea! municipal trouble ts until Vite House mitould a pair of wenty years in a good, substan-| * o + Rati ought to bring|*he becomes involved in a fire] o packed, Klasses. Se he tot a stoke gs in the| #arm system squabble, iy saw we wane on Benusylfania, for|20use Was der Vite House, und about some radical changes in the) aggross der street I coult see Wilk's heget we got in der hen house; iden corenameneation Coopers’ conception of what con- bar. We vent into Wilk's bar und | ¥ left before we voult got into dor Pat Crowe's indignation over the} vaah house. stitutes gentiemanly conduct. “ primped in der mirror. 4 Whitia kidnaping sounds tke the! GHEM OF VISDOM: He | gichtM OF VISDOM: Some. ron t wh pee wtay Rasch nathtes Solera sn of a man who somehow 10 voult be seen ad hiss beet house ven he ought to be In-b erlooked a bet. must begin by making him- workhous Ig merely s sufld intimation tha seluf visible. For der night we vent to der sta- Den we wass ready to make our Even in Indians it is considered | yisttation on Mr. Teft. We stopped slightly uitra for school children to| der falrst man who looked like he | jhang each other up by the coult 0 tant us. | pok | until death, | muzele of « bratwurst fn hi ®, ie und Adolf strangled him mit a pret °, zoel, We soon submittet him to re Now that the Girl Question ts #0 | duction, after vich he wass as putty | | near settlement, let's all go out and|on our hants, We demandet him to look over the back yard, make us der diregtton to der Vite House. CHEM OF VISDOM: Der best vay to get infirmadion iss to know der anewer. “Vell,” he sald, “you yust go der lutreed up a Hddet blece until you dion house und any person who goes snooping after him is going to be shot as full of holes as last week's hosiery. left our Hoa bh Biome of the democrats in the! house mumble as if they would| ‘also prefer that Champ Clark con-| wider himself merely a constitu tional monarchy ‘The steamer captain who ran his vessel ashore while trying to rescue & brush fire needs a Carnegie medal, for he certainly is going to M. Simyan appears to stand about | waist high (tube style) with the! | French telegraphers. Things certainly looked mighty in Ladier Drews Jose his job. black for the coal man yesterday, prrived: all nine, inaags | for safe kipping, 80 dey voult be jaafer, we stayed mit dem. We hope Mr. Teft vill nod be im patience tll he sees us. (Anon more.) —— As soon as he pays over the $10, 000 ransom, the private detectives will stop watching Mr. Whitla and | ¢ “Do autred ow love your @ man of lofty anwwered Dustin Stax ‘t exactly love ‘em, But T appre My biggest profite have concentrate their attention on the| been derived from people who start ed in to fight me fashington MARTIN & CO. Do you want to borrow mone tldnapers. star | Opposite savey Hotet See who loans it, on page 6. nD RUNS TAXES TO P THE CORPORATION RUNS AWAY a RN Y; wight to see the members of a whole family, with the exception of the father, who was away earning hi daily bread, eating their dinner on | & bench, or sitting In the damp. ened corridor, so they would no mins a chance to settle tax claims againet their property. These peo- ple crowded {nto the treasurer's of- flee before March 15, vo they could save 3 per cent, but they were there just the same, and today their taxes The 3 per cont rebate does not look big enough to the cor are paid porations On Wednesday the proposition of Mr. Howe 4id not meet the approve: of the tax commissioners nor Coun | ty Assensor Pariah. Mr. Howe there. upon withdrew his tition, yesterday made an offer more fav lorable to the county, which will be | settled by a mail referendum cirew lated among the different officials for their approval eS A.-Y.-P.E. MYSTIC EMBLEM You can find not a few letters in the above mystic A.-¥.-P. emblem without any great diffieuity. tences. for the lucky solvers of this pursie. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHHLOR. ‘* just human pature for the lee in to think ¢ cal man is a fool r x, when you fall off. Neat i rd. & certain type ik the kind of a te the surest sign man could ever qe ¥ tO aupport his family in all want it would just hie Inek her to support A pUPtOL ‘The young theological student who bad been supplying the Rushby pul- pit two Sundays looked wistfully at Mra Kingmsn, his hostess for the time being. (Did you ike the sermon ornaln, r oye « may ask?” be in- “Vou dons real well with the ma t ‘, 4 Mra. Kin ech cordiaiity. “As I on the way home, I'y oF more serinon that text, and this the firat one ver do me realize how difficult ‘twas hat to expt at "et THE wonsT, “Doctor,” the patient hegeed, “tet fat Koow the worst. 1 insist ‘upon Well, it pose 1 in my optni you will have tt as well tell you. that you will have to expiain to your it happened t Setomobdiie with 27 miles from how morning aid 1 sup is live to wife how you were in an trie in th Mer make you sorry me! hat will you dot 1 suppose? Vi bring mother he you ATTRACTIONS. That's the question, pe ae “It's simple enough,” dectarea Un a will y yhn, do you love me? oa” 0 ays love m Comie Cute Sponges and Wash Cloths. Sponges have almost been discarded from the modern bathroom on ac- count of the difficulty of keeping them ia @ sanitary condition, When they are used should not be satisfied with giving them an occasional wash- ing even in warm water, but they to which has been added a te: ful of C ringed waters. n- 1d Dust washing powder and hrough several clear warm oughly rinsed, sunned and ironed. desirable than heavy ones, and There are still other letters contained in it, however, that are not seen at the he Star hes & surprise oh oshall Hemiloc “Pat an aut ° be ouschold track the medder, a ball park in 7 PIB ag ape the corn tteld and continuous vaude. | ces te corm fet ag Has patent spo “Say, look >, WOMAN, Ww | Albany Times-Union. Muddy Rhodes—Ho you have bee: to London? ‘Did you find the strects payed with gold Bandy Bam-—-Not exactly; but 1 found ‘em paved with “coppers” should be boiled once a week in water | Wash cloths should also be | cutting off, otc boiled in Gold Dust suds and thor-| Those of thin linen crash are more A wives an he and buy Oey ac Momt « can support # for us have.”-—Houston Post 4 sometimes when opportunity Ke at a man's door he fa #0 busy his Iittle hammer on | hie * that he doown't hear it dreadful sow.” we invite peo they're luncheon coming Friendship te the wine of life Young en raed Florida Times nion Mra A in youth : (playing the peacemaker) 00d friends Well and be Mise Vil forgive, but I i «! Why, t « things Ive for Transoript A flatterer's mouth worketh ruin. Binie What 40 you think that land him. but my intent eto Detroit Free aia Mr your length. “How tong his arm about ‘The full Chronlete Filpper have waist, Jane?” ma.” —Bpokane The Ste her—My employer ia brutal te | The Frien Mercy! Doos he} Grink? | The Stenographer—No—he oats andy. And he 4 while bh dictating to me The corruption of the best be comes the wo . Bacon Bo he bh ceased to be her Meal?” “He hy What disagreeable thing aid he aor Married another girl.”"—-Loulaville Comrier-Jour ower Denver Consideration ts the most ful link in the chain of love.— Times. Comctustve Evidener. Dolly—Do you think long hair makes a mpn look intellectual? Torey tot when bis wife finds it on his coat, it makes him look fool- teh.—Londen Chip She-the'a B k's better half, ant she He—No; I rather think she's the whole thing.—Brookiyn Eagle. “Goodness me! You don't say! “ite « gospel. I heard tt from Mra. Jones, and her cook's fellow Myes next doer to | their washerwoman, #0, you see, I get it direct.” Woman's . Husban4—Your friend, Frau Win- ther, bas a ful unbecoming bat, but your » times ry mevite. Won't it make Frau Win- ther furious!—Dorfharbier Real Thing. Do you approve of thi shion of having no hi lack--#ure. A poor fellow so iMkely to wet stock on «4 © shape —Puck “one is @ hundr Delty— prysent a" anid Ch rt house potentate. a hole right thr — the be earth, what would we fin " snt@ Angus. the wide? in know, who te a little a oth ns ¥ “se Pee Yee Campbell Togmatic, 1 (Ga Organising Season. Fanning—-The air ts teeming with daseball Gxgitement now Punner—You bet. Even the boys are teaming with it.—Kansas City Times. While in re Sandusky ed the waiter what b bh.” the word on "Tept, to mean «ot me, pal.” walter, "A guy would tix train if he had to stop that word up in bis dict oning Denver Id replied | nk my nephew landed here with It n' ain't be'n able tow ten day —Roston Heral atart ft once. $1—VANCOUVER, B. C—$1 “Princess Royal,” from Pier “A,” 10 p. m. except Tuesday; tnoom- |parably the best on the route. Phones 209. ose 25c Bottle 3-in-1 Oil 13c These prices show ou that-we are 4o- ine Our part to merit your oll trade, Sale ends March 37th. You are sure to find your a l0e bottle 3-in-1 Ott Se t screws on flat arry In chest and ding to use bottle Big 4 On 106 tha t ibe bottle Big 4 O11 Te ttle 6 Ol can Nyotl We have been t ® Value nly oll that satisg te wowing raphe, Teel bett shon Th it beautifion, a wet big dividen: | froma’ emalt investment. | 10¢ bottle Nyail | Indian ON, xperp | Uebht of, heavy off Ne oll, hard ‘ont rd oll, thread In quantities to sult |Fred M. Spinning 1310 2nd Ave. man ought to haye am many Harper's “L see that & Hand han Just ot his high-toned eight-day clook From that big Chicage er says that clock will rum eight days without winding “How jong wilt it rum if it's wound h'—Judge Homa men never live long enough to uniearn the unwise things they Come, now, make it up with Jack uld Cleveland Leader. | te! wants. | it in the best | yours man's intentions are, my dear I think he intends to get away, | ae | j Gift Bric-a-Brac at Marked ¥ Concessions A Sale of $5.00 to $35.00 Values for $3.00 to $18.50 We're offering in this sale an importation of three hundred pieces at a price even less than the usual wholesale one. Jar, Vase and Jug shapes, comprehended under the general term “Amphora,” predominate, though Candlesticks, Figure Pieces, Flower Holders, ete., are fre- These are all excellent for gift purposes sand Wedding Pres- @@ quent ~especially as Card Prize ents, Though values range from $5.00 to $35.00, prices are fixed at $3.00 to $18.50, witha wide variety under $5.00. Inexpensive Hats for Young Girls At $5.50 and less we've a wide assortment of smart styled Hats, with a dash that is partic- ularly pleasing and becoming to young girls. For instance: A coral braid burnt straw, with wide crushed band and side bow of Ribbon, in blue, green, etce., showing large extracted polka dots. A mushroom in a soft rose shade of Neapolitan braid, with rose satin facing and Persian band trimming, satin edged. At side are two willowy quills and a braid rosette. Price Exceptionally Pretty Challies at 50c, 60c, and 65¢ a Yard In Pure Wool, 28-inch-wide Challies our showing comprises‘ numerous attractive patterns, suitable for children’s wear, house gowns, kimonos, etc. Pin-head dots, hair-lined stripes, Persian designs, fancy effects, etc.; both light and dark grounds, at, a yard BOe, 60¢ and ee ES US J.A. Baillargeoné& Co Second and Spring St. +s #4497742 <%326 “tT The Easiest Way to purchase your Easter Outfit is to take advantage of our Liberal Credit Plan and pay a little down and a little at a time for the new clothes you need. Finest Showing of Ladies’, Misses’ and Men's Wearing Apparel in the city. Prices right—no extra charge for credit accommo- dation. Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc. 1332-34 Second Av. 209 Union St. "Seattle's Reliable Credit House" DOWNING, HOPKINS & RYER, inc SecRhr~ ore ww, Blocks Beth Pee Ortcie Executed for Inv setment or on fre" if you shoes to fit 7; | cit MONEY f8an ing RAINIER © 1104 H. L. 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