The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 23, 1909, Page 4

Press, Pub- shed Star Pubtian~ President Taft is the president of the Unite Of all of Oklahor In referring to speech, as mind you—including Oklahoma, in a public he has not injured Oklahoma. | them, i the | By J. H. MeKEEVER, ADERDEPE 8. D, Oct, 2 zoological garden of cranks much | When 200,000 le He has, if anything, want a cha injured himself by an utterance to win homes in a free land draw the office he occupies. below the level of He, may dislike the constitution of Oklahoma; but the people of that state seem to like it. The people of New Mex ico may well make their constitution as they like it, than as recommended by any president or ex-president Or tle ps rh tray gtigee the president-to-be, They will have to live under it. The great) i.» 7 men who dislike the Oklahoma document will not. We people of ting where 20,000 can be satiafied, somebody in bound to lose, Th rather |to register during the past week anxious Hundreds come on every train, |train east, As a The constitution of the United States will not al ah gyi tage ty . 1 ere muc oo We would like to have an income tax The | citisens 8 constitution of the United States must be amended first, they Cesk iy Geliadinn Walke tell us. We are The The t ‘or | how constitution of the lay—f pos consequence senators. among the low us to do so. running a fine reclamation service United which proprietors of two big toe vacant for winter business, may whitewash by the barrel States stop it any is probably uncc uld like to do, but cannot, and | accommodate the lodgers which he supposed were coming at many more which we do not even consider, night. A swimming pool proprie |tor emptied out the water and ituti i hem, stitution of the United States forbids t Wied up the tank's béttom with And for the life of us we can't change the constitu cote. Tee women of the Bastern me tax amendment, proposed Star lodge made a dormitory out paregh gate, [Of the Masonic temple Mr. t recommended, is almost sure to fail, by the failure | iow ther are al aevey.. Ben to act or the adverse action of the little, pocket b srough, con-| though the streets In Aberdeen are crowded all day, the scene Is made - 12 +rmane : Any 12 states can permanently | yy an evershifting array of strange has beaten i tio 1 it is run under a law nstitutional There are many things we sh because the con when we want to. The ince servative and corrupt states. stand in the way of action by the rest of the nation, though | faces Kn eg train 7 the cot a nifle. they be the smallest, the most unprogressive, or the rottenest/ “fy short, Aberdeen, which ¢x | pected a big wave of proaperity to : : ,| follow the land hunters, is “stung.” We yield to no one in respect for the constitution, or the) “But there is something doing work it has done, or the great men who drew it, away back/every minute he these days. es excitement in the air, the stolid Sioux, whose old of this nation in the face heating grounds are te Be ripped 7 z sar jopen soon by the settlers plow, Now, down in Oklahoma the people, by a majority vote,| iow it as they hunch themselves may change their constitution at any time. They are never re . the streets, drawing their sewed up by the “fathers” who made their fundamental law. | ; mnnete close about then’ 8 9eC tection from the chilly winds. Their laws are in their own hands. They furnish the moat pathetic 4 Bt part of the big land show which True, their constitution is long, and will grow longer. | Uncle Sam ts staging here and at a loesn’ ake so ve ifference, when they | Mo>ridge, Pierre, Le Beau, Lem But that d vesn't_ make so very much di nce, . mon and Bismarck have it under their thumb at all times. The people are in em re, with = passing of the ere, ar un their constitution. Théy feel competent | Standing Rock and Cheyenne river saddle there id run the n wd ra ’ j!ands goes the last stand of the In- to run it as well as could the spirits of the fathers of any past je fs the great northwest ry you can mention. Is there anything terrible about that? here once the rifles of Ratndn century y¢ ; ic of nae ; . - ft | Be Face and Sitting Bull cracked, Neither Taft, nor Roosevelt, nor any other of the good) fields of waving grain soon will men who have jumped on the constitution of Oklahoma, scem | TW on 20,000 farms to grasp the idea of just what it is. It is a code of laws, enact- indian Brides. ed by the people, out of the power of their representatives to These red men show their native es 0 in 1787. But we are stating hard facts that stare the people | even shrewdness in the selection of the change. It is a body of laws over which the people of the state | land the government gives them. have written to legislature and courts the inhibition to add to cae suet tae een we ee or take from it one jot or tittle aquaw bride of a redskin gets only IT IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR OKLAHOMA. IT IS|or imuriauecile ane are ie gt THE EMBODIMENT OF HER PEOPLE. MANY eemmge nn oe oo of « life STATES WOULD BE BETTER IF THEY HAD IT IN). saan an ae PLACE OF THE INFLEXIBLE CONSTITUTIONAL STRAIT-JACKETS THEY HAVE. IT OUGHT TO BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR MR. TAFT. | Dr. Cook wants to meet Barrill.| It looks as if Alfonso the Probably in some nice, quiet place Thirteenth was about to ive up to where there will be nobody around the significance of his number. interested in keeping the peace. ompinnee Los Angeles, Oct Dear Dad: Oh, joy! 1909. Perhaps the Georgetown brewery We are fe Policemen who enjoy watching holdaps in their nightly toll are not |** Sms away to start life anew | the land of fruit! where nobody knows it. says, in light opera, oh, joy! oh, good guardians after dark. x! We are! We are! You can With Mr. Jeffries back there Is a| ‘The butchers and the pawn-| Go, °Y looking from the car win notable return of confidence in cer brokers evidently belong to the! Those long, straight rows of trees, tain Caucasian circies. same In Bad Club. with bare dirt between, mean fruit. That's how you tell, Or you read the guide book, or thi advertising folder all about plucking oranges from the dark green trees the year around— oranges from the same tree on which the flowers bloom”—and all that But that's the only way. The price of grape fruit on the break fast menu is still 20 cents; orange ate ditto; apples, 25 cents for three! }Oh, yest Oh, Joy! It's #0 nice to be in this wondrous Jand of fruit! eee Yes! ( And such @ grape fruit! In Chicago or New York they | would have to tack @ label on it to! MG [keep it from the garbage can! rae . Esteemed Mr. True: My hus, Mr, E. True—Dear Sir: In ae’ Here's a hunch for Mr. Me’ band usually shows his temper by opinion, is there any efficacy in the | He, I believe, ia passenger agent using profane language, whether | mind cure? CHAUNCEY K. [for the 8. P. railroad. Certainly we have company or not. I would jhe is the man who grabbed the Weleome any suggestion for curb ANSWER Hiast bunch of newspaper corre: fag or curing him of this weakness. lspondente who wandered here Respectfully, MRS. K NOT IF from Washington, D, C.—grabb adic } and fed and wined them to give ANSWER | YOUR = good impression of “the west.” S SHAPED My dear McFee, why wouldn't LET HIM | | E THIS - be a good expenditure of 5. wt HEAR LIK ‘| money to put cheap fruit on. the few dott S. P. dining cars? Just as an ll HOW ad” for the tourist trade? A big, <p e Dear Trne: My wife Instate on| cold, delicious grape fruit, properly =. IT SOUNDS ‘changing the furniture all around | prepared, for S cents! My! The bout. every When I go|man who gives up $7 a day for his stairs in the dark, I'm al | hotel room would go back and brag ost certain to crack my shins on|on that Scent grape frult to his ings. People with whom I'm thrown chair standing n unaceus ing day! It's human nature! Oh, into contact are uncongenial, and tomed place Does a dea oceur re welcome! No charge. my environment {s thoroughly de-|to you whereby I might clreamvent | mS eh pressing. What can I do to coun- this painful element in our home?) At Huntley, Mont., I saw 900 teract this condition? As ever, J. A.D. |eantaloupes spotling on the ground PAUL PEEVE. om |All the why from Billings to Los ANSWER | Angeles cantaloupes were selling ng sold by the farmer in whole lota—at cent to a cent and a half apiece. Yet at no place—-on CARRY ‘ lace—on | and an order was generally | order py a melon. Now, why? eo « hel 80 ofter Dear Friend True I am oughly disgusted with my surround. ™ ANSWER: CHANGE YOUR Mr. True: Out of all the masa of| ,84" Francisco rebuilt will be one Do you think | Arctic controversy, what im the im-|0f the most attractive cities in the abolished? pression. you gaia ¢ rning Cook's |World. In its new business section T. DOVE and Peary's claims? A READER it 4 ady suggests Paris, Much | white is used in the reconstruction, }and the big department store Is giv ling way to the good sm shop. There is no longer any question as to San Francisco's future. The city |has recovered. It ts on its feet ‘ ig |e vigorous, hop vent Ase | Over President Taft's head when he addressed 8,000 people in Berke- 7 \ley, the audience read in Ke green letters, graven in a huge white tab Everett True, sq ‘war will ever be ANSWER ANSWER } j NCT WHILE ——— 1 Livel ee - POINTED PARAGRAPHS, |some men they put up a bluff of behets ows let: yin thont| THE GREEK THEATRE, Een A GIFT OF nm WM. RANDOLPH HEARST. Some women just can't help refer. | | | ‘The theatre, ayeproduction of the |ring to a dollar boat excursion as a| open-air amphitheatre at Athens, te yachting party, © lone of the most beautiful things on pect at other victims of the} ‘There are too many men in this|the Pacifie coast, and may well. be > agg world who are not content with|appreciated by the University of If a mountain refuses to come to| wasting their own time [Cuittornia; but why it should be tw He's a poor dentist who is unal to get at the root of the matter man can't be as wise all the is some of the The only noticeable thing ome men is that they are un of notice. When a man fails in love he quit great Inrush of home seekers here | the United States would like to elect our | register, then depart on the next} conta | THE STAR—SATURDAY j | | and rented cots by the carload to! | | | | | IN THE REGISTRATION L Young men, sons of eastern and! sight on the street as a rubber tired middie wt farmers, are seen everywhere. Other youths, too, are lin the crowds which tramp up and jdown Main ast the registry office at the Dakota Na tlonal bank. They come from the cities and are going to trade thetr salaried jobs for a big plece of free land—4f they are lucky The clatter of horses’ hoofs over three the only guests at the place. | , OCTOBER 23, 1909, mame ome Ry mall 4 month INE AT ABERDEEN, &. D. bugsy in the cities farther east. Girle in the Rush. The first lodgers in the Masonic | plain Nora. and crowd around 0’ i> temple's temporary hotel bb Ore | carmmer { might as well start farm Boelter and Bess Richmond, | {ng now.” young EstBer Man all of Cedar Rapids, Ia. My! Miss Babcock, wiris; ntered at THE SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE iii. Soho. 88 MISS NORA BROWN AND HER “G@HACK;” SHE EXPECTS TO WIN A FARM AND RIDE STRAIGHT TO IT. ——$—$—$$—$——$———— rns land colonizers from the start. They must live in sod shanties through storms, live on a pancake diet and coax crops out of the soll for at least 14 months before Uncle Sam will give them a title to their farms. One of the pluckiest young wom ep is Miss Eleanor Brown, a Texas schoolma’am. When she registered here and was asked her name, she told the clerk: “Put it down just The folks named me nor, but If I'm going to be @ She bought a fine saddle horse Ien’t it lonely here?” said | and built a shack at the border of as she found the| the Cheyenne reservation “| just know 1 can't lose,” sald | peter streets {sas likely to be made “But I suppose we will have to get | she, “and so I'm going to be ready |by women riders as cowboys, The | Women here are great riders, and a [pretty Aberdeen belle mounted astride at full Wit is ax common a L j beled a “Greek theatre” or tagged in Hearst headlines as “a gift of” As the chorus | is beyond my abliity to understand. | FY +e San Francisco boasts an organiza | ton known as the Soctety for the | Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. used to being lonely, if we're go to make good farmers.” She was right will bump into new experiences a STAR DUST thet are own level.” Its members are permitted by the, city police to violate the city ordi, nance against carrying concealed weapons. The principal business of the members of this organization ts to be present daily at the Heney |@raft trials and to laugh uproar }lously at the “jokes” and “hits” of the counsel for P. Calhoun, Thus police protection is afforded for a | pack of armed thugs, whose notort | ous object is to influence juries and terrorize all persons on the side of | law and order. } eee Rudolph Spreckels (Heney's back- er) has jost all faith fn President Taft. He puts ft thie way: “Taft spends half his time building up the power and prestige of that element in congress opposed to what reform. Then he spends the other |half promising the people to ree ommend reform indorses Aldrich, and then says he will recommend Roosevelt policies |to the Aldrich congress. He com mends Tawney and says he will suggest to Tawney the passage of Roosevelt legislation. He bullds up Cannon, and then tells the public that he favors all the policies that |Cannon most detests. He says he knows the Roosevelt polictes and # of them, and then he takes | wedy refuge behind the need for cau really give substantial proof of |his fidelity to the course pure by his predecessor, All of whic! shows—to me—inatncerity The Roosevelt policted meant dppost tion to the ements in congress which serve the system and betray the people. Taft cannot indorce Aldrich, Cannon, whey) et) al and sincerely be for Roosevelt poll cles.” “ee The most attractive and complete book shop I have found in the Unit ed States is in San Francisco. S's Yes, The west is fine are the people, Sincerely, RATA, THE RETORT CRUSHING. And so swe a5 He-~Can I sea you across the street, miss? She—Perhaps you can, Stay right to congress. He/ jcongressional legislation before. he | Minteter We has » to seane When a trot” taike Chinese quit A itis evident! dodge around a corner wh j® petitieta n it meet ‘Te there any truth in the report | that sines your prohibition it is possible to get an driak one wanta at any drug store? aska the visitor “Age you thirsty or are you work ing for a magazine?’ asks the na hee Chicago Port \ Be Say. minter, would yous fetier a dime ter sav | Stranger fan undertaker.-Chicago News | hat pin? “they may be aft right in som peop! en Exactly. But we don't them in ours. urter-Journal wan’ | Robbers who tried to rob a Min |nesota bank were driven burglar alarms, — “Oh bella!” hear | Friends of liberty world are pullin | monarch whfall—tut tt t a vain hope, in Spantsh ability to in al the face o make good. It is mighty difficult to ge oneself interested In Mt. MeKinie again, yet it seems almost obliga tory “Did Opportunity knock at you j | | | but the cook always mat that It wasn't her place Puck } er it.” After all cuse for (thrat Diaw there was ver meeting of little ex If aman t* at heart |e far is he God the mm enter Into that man wit omerson Kinig of Greece also in hot water baths in Europe One of the France actress, Eyide un sion that the name forty immortals” o: wed a r thg delu makes hi so. Mrs. Brooke in Hfe insur Mrs, Lynne indeed: T've reat Judge Swedish eaucator suspe fillation with bomb thrower, mitted suicide In London, He have had himself expeditiously sho! by merely removing to Spain A woman can guess n can reason, straighte kissed against her will ts it ten't Most of the nonsensical things we our way of doing them ty. woman can talk about how hy taflor Keeps putting up his prices, here while I go over. New York Press, “Th trouble te! separation due to a@ he my Are quarrel. ehi est w dows not state has pied I abould say not. Im } ‘ “What in your opinion of the long away by| all over the “ for the Spaniah Tatt and juat, then fn sifety of God. Seems to be the season for thermal young Have you any faith {zed $100,000 from two husbands, and they weren't very good ones, either.” REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR, from how smart we think ito ride Into the reservation and pick my farm as soon as my name in For the women | called.” wd Some Big Prizes at Stake. These land prizes are worth all the trouble they cause. First choice in the big drawing will be worth at) No farm of 160 acres) least $20,000. in the reservations but what will be worth at least $16 an acre. So it means something to be a winner In the land lottery Friends long apart have been re-| through the registration | untied Geo, R. Graham, of Cleveland, here |met Miss Elizabeth Wilson, of De-| troit, at a booth, after a five-year sweethearts’ They will be married next week. P. Axter, of Cedar Rapids, Ia., and Henry Axter, of Lincotn, Neb. brothers who had not met for 25 lyears, found each other in the same way Young and Old Apply. The oldest woman to apply for a home was 78 years old. There have been many aged only 21 to register. Despite the frost that fell on the }ice house man and the swimming ;j|tank proprietor, there {*# one man |who is happy. That t* Sol Braun, |who sells souvenir picture post cards. Ag a resnlt of Sol’s prosper. y | ity the postoffies has had to put on |two extra clerks _| When, on October 22, the rogis -| tration closes, one of the biggest distributions Uncle Sam ever under | took will have been started. It will ‘¢| Mean success in life for some, utter failure for others, for many a man » come up take a chance.” here and fy If a dealer juggles with the prices | of his pianos, offering $50, $75 and $100 “off” the regular (?) prices— you want to be careful. r Some people believe in old P. T. | Barnum’s adage—they want to be To them it may ap- pear that they are actually saving $50, $75 or $100 on the piano they buy, never considering a moment that if the prices were right in the "{ humbugged. h first place, the dealer ¢ made by a reputable If the prices are jacked up high enough, a dealer can easily give you Whether such reduc- a “reduction.” tions are called by the are disguised in various schemes— The reason a girl wants to be J 1406 Second makes all her own GARVIN’S CORNER BY THE REVEREND JOSEPH L. GARVIN PASTOR OF FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH SMOKY 1 rH ovr ¥ place, Of fi and Invint ‘that naner wae bit by a pitched ba ike one dead on, t os tearm the tesaon * » The ™. ot : ing men ont ee ng out there to ‘eed bride whe or. plane’ tog } y OED ‘ remains for ms te r t of life ang king clty to invite “6 nb) ford to throw off big amounts from the honest selling price of a piano, Amateur Nimrod—Are there any spotx? white rabbits with | ide-—Of course not! 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Our prices are the lowest at the beginning, and remain so= always the same to everybody. No juggling, no “reductions,” 00 schemes of any kind, no “bonds,” 80 “coupons”—no false representations whatsoever! You don’t buy a piano as often # clothing or furniture, therefore you ought to be careful what you buy and where you buy it. Our honest business methods, and our honest prices have been known to the pub- Ic for almost half a century. will é YOU give us YOUR patronage, OF be a disciple of P. T. Barnum? could not af- manufacturer. right name or Avenue Near Unton Street, Seattle.