The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 26, 1909, Page 4

Momber of the Unt " dally by T 4 Press, Pob- Star Publ Why Is a Cat’s Tail? Tt is said—maybe we said it ourselves—that when wonderful 11-year-old Sidus boy, who is already prepared to/ enter Harvard college, asked a question, no matter how trivial, + J | he was never given a false or slovenly answer; that when he| asked why the house cat had a tail, a truthful, careful answer was given, etc., etc. Come to think about it, what did they tell him when he asked that tail question? Why has the cat a tail? We don’t in Darwin, Maybe some of our readers can that find the answer give it. WHY HAS A CAT A TAIL? If a cat's tail was put on for beauty, why didn’t they put it on a pig, a goat or a rabbit? | A cat doesn’t catch mice with her tail, but does catch burrs and fleas, which are calamities A cat's tail isn’t a weapon of offense or defense, for she} could make a darned sight better fight on the back fence were she as tailless as an egg. It doesn't assist her in travel. would have got through the hole in the fence in time if that tail hadn’t been trailing along behind for the dog The cat’s tail hasn’t got into stylish millinery yet, and it You can't It doesn't seem to get anywhere save where it's not wanted, but is We've seen many a cat that isn’t used to garnish roast duck or enliven bouquets. make whistles of it, and it’s too bony for breakfast sausage apparently just tail, put on because most other critters were given tails. And there are some kinds of cats without tails, The wild cat of Australasia has no tail. Hence the question really is as to why the domesticated cat has a tail. It must be for some do mestic purpose. We haven't been able to see any domestic use | for the domestic cat's tail since dad shingled us for crocheting a couple of such tails over a clothes line years and years ago, and hanged if this cat's tail issue hasn't got us stuck to a standstill What did they really tell that dear, good, over-stuffed little Massachusetts infant when he asked: WHY IS A CAT'S TAIL? Jailing Patriots in United States De Lara, the Mexican editor who was jailed and held} “incommtnicado” just before Taft reached Los Angeles, wants to know why the United States government assists Diaz in his political persecutions. The answer is casy. In the first place, a number of rich Americans have got min- ing or other interests in Mexico, under “concession” from Diaz, | which means letting some of Diaz's uncles, cousins or aunts in| on the ground floor, and it won't do to let De Lara or any one | else preach workingmen's rights in Mexico. Secondly, the Wall st. gang that runs American panics and prosperity fixes the worth of Mexican money. The first thing you have to do in the morning, in Mexico, is to run over to some bank to learn how much Wall st. says Mexican dollars shall be worth that day. Thirdly, De Lara is the man who accompanied John Ken- meth Turner through Mexico, and Turner is showing, in the! American Magazine, that the Mexican republic is a striking} farce, and old King Leopold, mutilator of women and children in the Airican rubber forests, is a saint compared to Diaz in the latter's dealings with the native Mexicans. Diaz and Taft cannot yet put “incommunicado” American editors who unmask hypocrisy and denounce human slavery and official brutality, and the next best thing is to jump on the De Laras. Lastly, “when good fellows get together,” as the president of the glorious United States republic and the president of the inglorious Mexican republic were about to do, no opportunity should be left open for squealing of the common herd, be they Mexican or American. There are amenities. boom Aldrich or boost a central bank scheme, but to jail with obstreperous folks who think they are oppressed and think they have rights! It is reassuring to note that Mr. extreme versatility that Uncle Joe Griffith had presence of mind|Cannon occasionally quotes the enough to be there when the com-| Bible. mittee came looking for bim. Music will have to get out all of its charms if it is going to soothe the savage society breast this winter. | Lara will be worse than a lectur tour by Emma Goldman. The popular form of patriotism in Korea appears to be murder in By seattering diamonds along the/the first degree. right of way Mr. Chilberg has set @ new pace for lavish traveling. Probably it is just to show his THE ARTLESS A The American lamb crop must be short when Wall st. is going to China for wool, NATUR HOW CAME You TO DRAW A PENSION? 7 amg’ © ner e REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. moon is maybe it will go under a | cloud and make it darker The way to make anything doubt-| The people who most hate to be- ful 1s to bet on it for a sure thing.| gin an argument most hate to end It's lucky for the dressmakers| it when they get into tt and hat makers who fix styles up| Whether a man tella his wife the the way they do that women have | truth or not has nothing to do with no sense of humor. |whether she believes him; it's One reason a girl likes sitting in| whether she wants to.—New York & hammock with a man under the! Press, | also to the first named for It’s proper to) A star chamber hearing for De| | THE STAR—TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1909. JOHN 0.5 COUSIN WRITES. EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENT——What the public thinks of Jobn D. Rockefeller is well known, What his own flesh and blood think of him never has found expression in a public eulogium un til now The recent Rockefeller family reunion at Baaton, Pa wee marked by the reading of a remarkable tribute to the world's riot est man by his relative, BF. Ro: fellow Like many other de acendants of the old Rockefeller family, he spelis his name differ ently from that of the oll king, though thelr relationship ta vouched for by the trust founder's private family archives. His great grandfather John, who served in the war as lieutenant, was a brother of John D. Rocke grandfather, William. Mr. Rockafellow t# a welltodo fruit and traveled thousands of miles to voloe guished third cousin The Star Is able today to print portions of Mr. Rookafellow's paper, which is entitied, “A Business Man's Views of John Davidson Rockefeller.”"—-EKaditor Revolutionary olier's great aleer of Canon City, Cot, his opinion of hin distin BY B. F,. ROCKAFELLOW. | shown by his regular atterfance at In summing up as a business | divine service and interest In Sun man what John Davidson Rocke | day school work, has never for fellor did, in accomplishing the |*&ken him through all the trials and great results the world knows of, | SUCCesses of & most hazardous bust discouragements he met with, the | Hess life. obstacles he overcame during years| The devotion he gives to the of necessary application to details,|church led to benefactions of and finally in his own magnant. | S#tounding proportions to churches mous “Reminiscences,” yielding to 04 tha caune of education, exceed ethers the palms of credit, himself |!96 $60,000,000, a» enduring as the claiming no especial credit for the |/PY#mids, and will be the wondor kreat success the world appreciates, aaa if the snarling knockers do not, ts} too great @ task for a short paper. We owe John Davidson Rocke feller and his brother William a debt of gratitude for commissioning the able and enthusiastic expert geneniogiat, Dr. Aaron R. Lewta, who traced the ancestry of Rockefeller family from A. D. in France, acroas the border into Germany, and found their coatof|Rainior Valley Re a of 1050 and 1210, as also) family coins of 1500, and establish ed close relations between the families of Europe and Amoriea; recting a beautiful and costly monument im the cemetery at Lartsons Corner, N. J., at the grave of Johann Peter Rockefeller, one of our first Amert ean ancestors It ts unalioyed pleasure to look down from my Rocky mountais home and contemplate the un ostentatious John Davidson Rocke feller enjoying the pleasures of his Pocantico Hills home, while seated on the pinnacle of the greatest wealth ever amassed by one man. and be able to say: “He is a Rockefeller.” PINNED HIS FAITH TO THE CHURCH AND OIL. Think of the Standard Oil army of about 60,000, distributed through the world, ALMOST EQUALING THAT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY on a peace footing; #0 gene rously managed, treated and pald that no strikes of any moment have | been known during all the seasons ms of unrest. Systematic methods, | 20d trial. and these years spent In fair and just treatment and thought. | ‘P° ag ag gee a os ful consideration are manifestly at | °° the bottom nny “i known, my childhood not éxcepted. 1 know the foture has nothing to | “PANIC LORO-MADE:” loffer me that will bring the joy and OIL KING'S BAG OF SAND. |content that I have In this, my first Tee Gay we met two years ago | home: Yet I am but one among the Lord's panic burst upon the | ousands to whom ihe joy Of paw ro ae rand cyclone of dis | nainter valley. Por all about me Dente tata tha Cleeetne howae sro. | were other men and thelr families janes Beg Poa Bee ae bas ag | stroRKtinR to build the first home; an pe | the loud call sand thrown into a break in @ levee | “Y'.1 od to check a Mississippi river flood. |° ” T think we ail feel favored in itv-| Of misty trees, and the song of jing tn just this age, and that John be heard on every side. Davidson Rockefeller had “an abid ne Valk ing faith in the Baptist chureh and Love the Valley. oti,” and that his son and daughters Is it & marvel that we have learn- partake of the same characteristics, |td to love this valley of homes? Is it an unnatural thing that we should It is a source of pride thet his in born devotion to sacred things, as demand for thia portion of the clty wo mencan adnan Star—Dear Str “What Do the Now?” the rd (a pap Editor Seattle Under the caption, People Think About Renton & Southern Railway) pub lishes an editorial which attempts to justify their holdup game as practiced in the Rainier valley, by comparing ft with the ratee in rates by the Seattle Electric In the Duwamish; and asl am ope of the four men to whom they put the }question personally, I wish to an swer through your columns. A little over five years I bought an aere of land in Rater valley, making a small payment down and paying off the balance at #0 much per month the most of that acre with a grub- hoe and an ax My own hands helped to build the house that now shelters my wife and children, This is the first home we have ever owned, and as | worked about the place, wife and I, we surely fely the same joy that came to thoag plo neers who blared the tral fo the blessed shores of Puget sould Life of Hardship. My life, like the lives of all those who grow up among the common people, has been one of hardship ¢ SPONDENCE Mr. Everett True Can you tell Dear Mr. True I's impossible me what to do for a man that is|for me to get my wife out of bed almost crazed about me? I cannot|in the morning, and while I am at sp him away. He tells me he|the grocery store the coffee bolls loves me. M.D. F, |over, and she ts always Ia my breakfast. What would suggest? Yours truly A WORKINGMAN Answer: you TELL His WIFE | Anawer Dear Mr. E. True: When I ride| | home from my work the street cars | | are 80 crowded that I have to stand | while a lot of selfish men remain | slued to the seats. I am very stout and heavy, and it hurts my feet to| the stand so much, Is there no help? pretty nearly all night. As a.result MINNIE F, |1 can't sleep, I want to know what I should do. Respectfull D. MEN’ Dear Sir We live and the people who. gecupy upstairs have a baby that eries DONT » STAND - ED. 1) Answer: yyw sane Honored Sir; My son goes to Mr. Everett True: We have al high school and he tneists on wear. man that insists on standing on|ing bis trousers turned way up the bar rail. Please give remedy | above his shoe tops, What will for stopping him, and oblige cure him of it? Respectfully, H.W MRS, H Hu | Answer: Answer Ne aye (GS BUNG- a STARTER, ON WHAT A FINE FELLOW JOWN D, {0 WITH STAR READERS owned or controlled by the Seattle, | I have cleared | = with | in a double | ‘einan matter. ARTICLE and admiration of the enlightened of all future agen It ie cheering that one of the fore most business men of the times John Davidson Rockefeller, upon jretiring from the active direction of the Standard Oil ¢ af | fairs, sought comfort and enjoyment for himself and th nearest him in raral pursults, hort | culture and landscape gardening at his homestead among the Pocantico hills Here, among such charming sur roundings, he ts evolving plans for the elevation of mankind which happily he has the means as well 48 hopeful disposition to carry out May he live long and enjoy it! The Lord saw that the prosper | ity we were enjoying was turning our heads from Hberty, justice and equal rights, Both capital and ta bor were aggressive and oppres jsive, The stroke of a pen from | autocrats of either was able to par alyze the commerce of the nation The Lord grant that this day may usher into the hearts of our people l old-time, consetentious stability of jeharacter, and regard for each | other! | ‘Then, ax a nation, we will hence | forth enjoy peace and prosperity that we have built with our own hands the same rights and privt loges that all other sections of the city enjoy? For we have developed our section of the city not because of the Seattle, Renton & Southern, but tn spite of it, Ite policy has} always been one of niggardly avar |lelousness, and Its management has jbeen one of marked Incompetency Tt ts no far-fe 4 argument to tay that were the valley without) transportation of any kind what/| soever, and a franchise were about |to be granted to @ line that would | guarantee transfers and a fourcent |fare to the city Mmits bulk of our property would be a! |least as valuable as it is today | | Crowded into Cars. | Crowded into those cars to a point that is positilvely tn-| |decent, denied the transfer privi-| lege, held up and forced to pay an jextra fare at what are termed fones, yet the natural advantages of | the valley and the lure of cheap/| jland on which to bulld homes have | continue to attract people, until |today 25,000 live along this line |They are the ones who pay the | dividends on Ha stock; they are the ones who made it possible for the present management to borrow a million dollars on the road. Yet none of these 25,000 poople except |the employes of the road, a few) cheap politicians, and the privilege od friends of the management, be eve we are getting a square deal Competition is Wanted. The present management is ad dicted to the habit of speaking of the Seattle, Renton & Southern as a competing line. I would like to ask wherein does the competition Het Is it possible that there Is a contest on between the 8 E. and the 8. R. & &. to determine the best method for packing the most people in a single car, or has a prize been offered to the ine which can extract the greatest number of fares from a pase con tinuous trip inst elty Umitat If this ts #0, yield both jpalms to the me & 8 But the &, R. @ 8. will have competition, and I shall continue to jwork for it until it fs an aceom- | plished fact, for while the 8. E. may hot be an unmitigated blessing, it} | will at least be competition, and it) jiu be competition that will assure us transfers and a four-cent fare to the city mits. We will then forget to curse the management of the |R. & 8, for we will no longer | compelled to look to them for the} same privileges the rest of the city | jenjoys. And my opinion of “the |zone system of the 8. R. & 8, in-/ | side the city limits is that ft fie jast| jas rotten a deal now as it was be-| fore the 8. E. raised its rates out aide the city limits is that it fs just management of the &, R. & 8. must be hard pressed for an excuse when they attempt to hide behind |the akirts of the 8. E | R. T. 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