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

_ a little way. Member Pap ae THE STAR-—-WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1909. Mehed dally by The tng Co. Ditah~ — - — DUKES OF PRIVILEGE OWN AMERICA Tn England about 2,500 persons own half the land Here's @ list of cight of the bigger owners Duke of Sutherland sees. 1,358,600 acres Duke of DevonShire sees 186,000 acres Duke of Westminster . 30,000 acres Duke of Richmond . + 286,500 acres Duke of Portland ..... . 183,000 acres Duke of Montrose .... eeseseeces 115,000 acres Duke of Manchester .......se0eeeeee+ 70,000 acres Marquis of Bute ....cecereeee «++ 117,000 acres Eight persons owning over 2,300,000 acres of land through the divine right of birth! Is it any wonder that tens of thousands are®at the starvation point in London, that Eng land is losing her prestige as a maritime power and gaining | pre-eminence as a consumer of intoxicants, and that even her women are fighting with the idea that they can improve con ditions? What would become of our own country should 2,500 out of our 80,000,000 people secure ownership of half our land? Why, millions and millions of us would become mere peons, wouldn't we? The mass of us would finally become mere hired gardeners to the Thaws of eight or more rich families, wouldn't we? But, wait a moment! Aren't we headed straight toward that condition, in spite of our ballot and hatred of titles and domination? Is a duke of Sutherland, with his 1,358,600 acres, more to be dreaded than a railroad king who, through railroad control, lords it over the produce of 20,000,000 acres or more? Can a duke of Westminster, with 600 acres in the very heart of Lon- don, be a worse calamity than “captains of industry” like Mor- gan, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and Frick, who control the finances, fuel and light of our 80,000,000? Mere acres are valueless. Land is valuable only when held in connection with things that make it productive and its products remunerative through shipment. A secretary of our government who permits corporation or other thieves to steal a hundred acres covering sources of irrigation or power, helps to steal, not one hundred acres, but thousands and thousands of acres, for those sources are the real value of those thousands. Forsooth, if we think of it in this light, don’t less than 2,500 persons already possess (control) over half of our own land? The people of England think they see solution of their trouble in taxation of the “unearned increment”; that is, in taxation of the increased value of the ducal and other lands not due to any exertion of the landlord. It will reach but It is but taxation of what God and other people than the landlords have done. The demand of the masses is for division! If your land is made more valuable by the enterprise and If you are born to riches, pay! If your purse has grown dangerously fat and powerful Lnslih anbigiiaak’ al sgerlél endl wnctammsen petvilige, yay! ‘The vegetarian who gets his ealorics out of peanut sandwiches After a long period of depression the Jewish massacre business has been revived for the winter season at Kiet. Peary evidently wants to be sure that there will be no hiow back from any receptions or banquets. And Mr, Trimble accepted that alley tke @ man who was not un- used to that sort of a thing. rancor MR. SKYGACK, FROM MA ite Visits the Earth as a Snecial Correspondent lecs Observations in His Notebook. and Makes Wire- & ~ " 1 HEARD ON THE STREETS A mother, called as a witness in, He was a little fellow, not quite & police court case recently, brought | three years old. His father had ber young hopeful with her, He | '0!4 him that ho wouldn't grow to wouldn't behave in court, though be a big man until he had learned @ repeatediy chided him. At last |‘? Gress himself. she turned him over her knee and| He was just big enough to long began spenking him soundly. The | to be a man, so he started In like a youngster set ap such @ shout of little major. All went well till he dismay that Court Officer Tip Win-| #0t to his shoes. And then he got che)l came on the run. | the left shoe on the right foot and wntiare.” he said, “you can’t spank | the right shoe on the loft foot. ¢ in this court. “You're doing fine, son, but “Can't I? Well, I'm doing it,| you've got your shoes on the wrong ain't 1?” answered the woman, | feet,” sald the proud father. For that Winchell put her and | “Well, papa, those are the only her son out {nto the corridor. There | feet I've got,” replied the little she continued the spanking. fellow. THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE the “evil eye of has just been sighted by Halley's comet, the sky astronomers at the Harvard obser: | vatory and is bearing down on the rate of several thou Its tall in} millions of miles long and the comet itself is bigger han the sun earth at the sand miles a second Once tn every 16 years this hobo jof the heavens wanders into the earth's leaving & meteor shower in Its wake. It gots its name from the Eng- lishman who discovered it In 1682. orbit, Its appearance always has been a» sociated some big event In world history, and now it makes good its reputation by coming Just after the North Pole ia discovered. The comet will be visible with g004 telescopes from all over the United Statos for several months Astronomers’ present theories about comets make old beliefs seem funny. People used to shudder| when they dreamed of the earth | nitting a rlying comet. | Halley's comet ought to be more with rous than the others, because dai it ts so big and goes r out of our whole system of planets. But the comet ia as harmless as an incandescent electric light | Comets are composed of gas, a kind | of gas that shines where there ts no air, just like the electric Light's shining thread does. The Harvard astronomers not only will look at the comet with their telescopes, but clear through it, They will even see stars on tee other side of the comet. Halley's comet is so harmless that if a person could travel in an alrahip and go where it is whizzing around, he could steer through it THE ARTLESS ANSWER COMET IS HURTLING TOWARD EARTH: IT'S HARMLESS AS FINNEGAN’S GOAT By mall 0 6 thee Here 6 Halley's comet, biggest a thie way, It can be seen now for ¢ pietures were taken in 1836-6, at ite comet hae been visible one month, without danger—except perhaps of asphyxiation, It sputters and throws off little just Uke the X-ray tube spattors when it is full of X-rays in fact, the comet ts a kind of giant X-ray, with the vacuum aroand the planeta like the vacugm in the glasa tube. Many times thie comet has ap peared just before some important event in the history of the world. From what all the ancient star gazers have written scientists be- lieve that Halley's comet was the bright light (hat shone as the a#tar of Bethlehem. In 1835 the comet last appeared. Poople were frightened when they when the civil war followed, many associated the comet and the war, Halley, who gave the comet ite te s The water pageant of the Hud- son Pulton celebration is going to be one of the greatest spectacies ever unfolded to the eye of man Ht ia figured that it will be wit neased by at least 4,000,000 people, of whom a favored few will ha a fine view while comfortably seat ed in the reviewing standa, In their yachts, and In automobiles along Riverside drive. But the great throng, composed of Mr. C. People and family, will have to stand) wherever it can find standing room and fight for places of van-| tage. The Hudson-Fulton Celebra- tion Commission, as one of its members explained, has only to stage the show. It is not concern-| ed with the matter of how people | are to see it. Of course, most of the mob will stand along Riverside drive, and already Park Commissioner Smith | in worrying over what will happen | to the famous parkway when the celebration crowd surges over it He fears damage will be done in a day that ft will take years to re-| pair. To protect the stone which marks the place where Gen, Grant's body lay for a time, just north of his tomb, and the two trees planted there by Li Hung Chang, Commis sioner Smith will build a fence of | | seven-foot iron palings. But as to| | how to save the trees of the park from destruction by the men who | will climb into them, breaking off limbs or bearing them to the earth, | the commissioner is in despatr. “The only way to aave the trees,” he said, “would be for the ern ment to detail a soldier with a loaded gun to each tree during the celebration.” The Atlantic ocean is surely get ting to be just a ferry. Here's the Lusitania I@ving Liverpool at o'clock on a Saturday afternoon and landing her passengers in New York at 6 o'@ock the following | ThuAday afternoon. And when the Cunarders get to using the new Welsh ianding stage, Fishguard, one Will be able to leave Desbrosses at, w York, for instance at 10 o'clock on a Wednesday morning and alight at Paddington station, London, from a train at 6 p, m. the following Monday. Then, by hur rying, one could catch the 9 o'clock and breakfast in Paris day That is getting about quite expedi ously, even for these days | } On Sept. 1 a new law went into effect in New York making it a felony to take an automobile out for a spin without the owner # con gent. A “joy rider” violating this law may receive a ten ar sen tence, During the first 24 hours that the new law was In effect not | & complaint of Joy-riding was made | [IN LITTLE OLD NEW YORK BY NORMAN. to the police. A penitentiary sen- tence looks quite different from a fine. The day of the ferryboat, as a Passenger conveyance, i drawing to a close in New York. The end ts far off, but it Is certain. Since the opening of the McAdoo tunnels to Jersey, passenger traffic on the Pennsylvania ferries has fallen off so much that the railroad plans to open up the entire lower deck of each of its ferryboata to vehic carrying people only om the upp decks The next generation of New Jer sey dwellers will not dally see the skyscraper skyline of he city as it comes to work every morning Neither will it be laid up in the river, in fear of ite Iife, when fog hangs heav! OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE nd rarest of comets, now headed he firet time in 76 years. These last appearance, At the left the at the right three months. | name, prophesied that it would ap | Pear in 1758. People said he was eraay, but he left in bin will a re quest that if it appeared when he jsald, he wanted the scoffers to re j member be was right | True to hie word, the comet came j within sight on Christmas eve, | 1788. | ‘There will be great sights in the| sky this winter, for the meteors | that follow the comet are more | numerous than those of any other jaky hobo. The meteors are repelled | by the #un, consequently the tall of | the comet always curves away from the sun, Halley's comet will cross | the earth ahead of our orbit, going | toward the sun. So when the earth [saw the great light In the aky, and | catches up with the comet's traf! there will be more meteors in our) jaky than theres are clams on the | seashore. MAJOR BYERS INTENDER “Ah,” sighed the major: have that exquisjtely beautiful son fet again.” Minas Euphrosyne looked glowing- ly at the candid critic, then read the sonnet through, dwelling on each sounding rhyme. When she had finished, she looked inquiringly at Major Stanton. That gentleman ‘had risen to hin foot. “I wish to remark,” he said, |the sonnet just read marks « new | era in the world’s poetic annals. | makes Shakespeare look like a | piker and puts Milton on the biinky- {Ditnk. It is xweet, sonorous, rip- pling, musical, rhythmic, Nquid and }seothing. It has the tones of na- ture, the fragrance of the forests, | | lets, all in ove. In short, Misa Ku- | phrosyne, your poem ts ach, & j Masterpince, & lulu and lasnic.” | “Ob, dear, dear major!” sighed oald “about that question?” “I think we'd better be married in June,” sighed Miss Buphbrosyne. | And the pinkish hydrangea balls nodded over at the fragrant, all-wise Hlaes, | the major, / | POINTED PARAGRAPHS. | Selfishness is the seed and sin ts the harvest Self-adulation is one thing and self-respect is quite another The elevatdr is a boon for men who are in a hurry to reach the top. Most people wish a newly mar ried couple. happiness as if they meant it. _ Somehow, when a man gets Into 4 crowd, he thinks he is the only one in a hurry There is no hope for the old bachelor who can't induce en a widow to* marry = hith.—-Chicago News. Lect lovingly | that | It} | the tints of autumn, the carol of| | spring and the part of hidden brook: |% ‘ | | | | ‘Tomorrow we repeat today’s very succe modes in exclusive millinery, The unanimouse expre ions of praise ang nd light are a most pleasing confirmation of our judgment ; the skill of oyp f signers in placing before you the highest types and patterns of the fo makers. visitor Come today will be treated to a most plea ing demonstratig our French Suit rooms. Just a word about a few of our extremely modish 2 and 3-piece Suits the finest chiffon broadcloths and kindred weaves. Bronze, chickory, tard, bisquet, pearl gray, sealing wax, as well as many of the darker represented. Newest Parisian models, finished with that “touch” that them so distinctively different One is a three-piece Bayadere Broadcloth in a deep “peach blow,” stripe is used very effectively in the princess, giving panel back and with diagonal sides. Yoke and cuffs are of hand embroidered Panne Vb vet, with just a touch of heavy embroidery net, for small yoke and ki collar. Slightly trained and is body lined with self-colored Peau de@ Very long French back coat with deep shawl collar and rolling , which is laid a collar and cuff of the hand embroidered Panne Velvet, tons of Panne Velvet with embroidered centers. Price.. A Pistache Green Chiffon Broadcloth Suit is shown in a perfectly in. coat, single breasted, with notched collar of moire and horn butt Lining of self-colored Peau de Chine. The skirt plaited panels tailored stitched. match perfectly. New Riding Habits The new Fall Models in Riding Habits, in cross saddle designs, come fe perior Broadcloths, serges and coverts, man tailored. One in BlackB ob cloth has a 50-in. coat lined with an excellent grade of satin; the coat is cut rather full and falls almost to the boot when on the skirt is the regilation divided and closes down front with the panel walking, giving the appearance of a regulation two-piece suit. Price. A very smart covert Riding Suit in a single breasted 36-in. Jacket, fi ir teglation styles Prices) 553). PPE a's oii des danke Black and navy serge Riding Habits, regulation styles. Price....... - 5 to ride only When we finally er ce the car we had a headed Woman after all the dust , I kept looking out Pa ag her Mae to see which track under no bushel.” the right hand track the left hand track The conductor put your head out ihe said I waited, and thes again to see ther: ing up grade or tilted. Again the cont to me and sald head out of the This made me shouldn't I put my] window?” I said: “Well,” he said, the train. Only put his head out of the we had to go get it for him.” I noticed trying to raise ® went over to “Madam,” 1 The Man at the Table—Say, watt- or, that lobster is without one claw. How's that? Watter—You see, sir, they're so fresh, Unene lobsters, they fight with each other tn the pantry. The Man at the Table—Well, that one away and bring -me or of the gwinners.—-Cassell’s Saturday Fourna®” This thing of traveling by rail is improving all the time. It used to be that there were a hundred roads you could get hurt on, But safeguard after safeguard has been thrown round it till now There's a heap owed to a good man in the next world for what New York never gets in thts. sen your w njoy roughing ur Does she? Say, you should see| you can’t get hart on near so many her in a bargain rush. Detroit | m™ window, but I'll Sl pwr They've nearly all been com- put your head out” Three and a goose Pe a, “Why not?" she salt, Another thing. You used to get }on the train and just give the con- ductor your fare. Now all that both er has been done away with. You! simply get to the depot an hour ae ahead of train time and buy 16 dif- Propmaition, Me wat anape | forent kinds of tickets and Couyons “i to go on the warpath} and wait till the man goes through I idn't offer him a clxar-|a course of bookkeeping on your “Because, madam, |have red bair and the @ | think they've lit the She didn't put her the window. There ougbt to on the train, but @ complained to the here,” I said, “I can't a market an Did you succeed tn getting that Indian to smoke the pipe of peace with your the agent to a friendly Washington Star. bs ashing ar |pasteboards, and then you board empty stomach, i Aw many servants, so’ many mas-| Your train if somebody has been! “But you are,” hea tera,-—Seneca. |thoughtful enough to hold it for|a tramp riding on thet | You. Neither do you have to take your life in your hands after you get on car who hasn't wee Tt was Charles Reade, wasn't it who wrote, ‘Nothing is so terrible | as a fool’? a hat sor” 1 sald hoxt door to a nowlpe-marriea couli’| You simply give it to the porter,|we'd been riding | tf Chartes could see them he would | 40d he returns it to you when you| I told my wife at on admit that two fools are|wake up in the morning. |a hobo riding eree erg terrible.”—Chicago Ree-| 1 took my family on a trip Inst | beam,” | sald week, There are #o many of us| “If you had ‘ Where they eat your meat let|that we traveled in two sections. | that,” she sald, as jthem pick your bones.—spanish, We are all very fond of the cars After that I yet He (just rejected)~-T shattOnever| WhY, Our youngest was born in «| ing compartment Me marry 7 sleeper. For that reason we named | porter had made? ee che it oar man! ie gatt A jher Bertha. Isn't that cute? folks thought I will?—Roston Transoripy. “"®| T bought a half-fare ticket for| board, for whem L whole family wal #0" my oldest boy and he began crying! deat husbang and a blind wife always a hay couple.—French. He is a mechantoal sort of freak.” ow in that?’ on his wife steps on his foot he sabuta his mouth.”—-Houston Post There are some things of beauty who are jawy forever.—Dallas News. Grandpa, what 0.” mean? (easing at his torn die tlonary) ell, my boy, Ite just what you're going to ‘do now Comic Cuts. Knell of the Seaside Yacht. “How feel you today, Oagar?” Voice through 1 pho Now, “t haf a small backache.” then, come along; th ; Fe <p and back for a shilling. Seraps. “Vell, diss ache iss in der small of MF