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Member of the Mabed daily by ©e. Vaited Pres The Star a" Wave of Musketry and End of Game parts of While deer are becoming 1 rous in some New t to the law-bound farmer the end of € Water fowl ¢ of game once believed sure to persist, but now growing scarcer The buffal He was too easily killed, too big like a cow with no owner. England that they are a pe ms at hand | | of every hunter as the type} had to go. The prairie chicken could not out-| Agriculture and repeating arms} ] on the ains. last the grass spelled the extermination of both grouse and bison. But the ducks and geese came out of the great mysterious northland in the fall and went back to it in the spring; and it| seemed.as if their migrations must always furnish us that whole- some sport which marks the coming and going of the snow. | Sad delusion! The honkers are almost gone, and the ducks are doomed. Hunting, which is a tradition of American life, and | was its first great industry, will soon become the amusement | of the very few, and many of its formerly prosperous branches | will go the way of wolf-hunting in England. We have become too numerous for the ducks. Within the | memory of most of us there were great open lanes through} which they could pass from the silences of the north to the) marshy fastnesses of the south. But now the forests have been] cut off, the last arable lands from the Alleghanies to the Rockies | have been occupied, and the harassed fowls run a gauntlet of breech-loaders and pump-guns, which make their survival in) i marvel And far beyond the Rockies the} teeming population establishes its coast-to-coast cordon of} such numbers a shooters. In the Salt Lake valley in Utah this year there is} said to be “two guns for every duck,” and thousands and thou- < PS 1 sands of the birds were killed the first day of free shooting. | Sg ‘And everywhere it is the Same. The day the “law is off” there starts in a huge wave of musketry at the Canadian line—a eneeneteemasennenn pmaneemnenemeeeeD wave which sweeps slowly south, clear to the gulf, dies out, | STAR DUST but recedes with the turn of the season, and rumbles off into Last” alk Weabus, atiall Canada again in the spring. And at every discharge thousands ae las Sedo: Both Standard and Amberel | of ducks fall. Records. The poor ducks! Even in their old inviolate homes on Here is posit ; ty the rroatest the northern wilds they are harried and hunted. Western Can-| Jbrand new, latest style, genuine | ada is going through the same process which has destroyed the Eaioon with : hig Pus gpoeat om angst eas tique oak cabinet cover to hunting in Iowa and Illinois. Farmers are growing wheat, | LOOKING AT THE WEATHER THROUGH A TELESCORE— “Charity not| match. Parts finished in binck | from the Hudson Bay forests above Prince Albert clear across |it’s TRAINED ON A 8OX-KITE 15,000 FEET IN THE AIR. A’ &, egine at and gilt “ amel, large maroo antl the narrowed continent to the mountains north of Edmonton. | THE MT. WEATHER OBSERVATORY. AT THE RIGHT, WEATH- a cual canvanienes tx baaiibia, anoneel Jas. J. Hill says that the United States will soon import food.|ER MAN SENDING UP A CRATE OF INSTRUMENTS TO by nickelplated swinging crane ons ‘ Milli f g|OUT WHAT THE WEATHER IS ABOVE THE CLOUDS. Has new stylo Model K reproducer | If so, she will import it from Canada. illions of acres of | equipped with two sapphire points | wheat grew there this season and every year millions more will | BY WALDON FAWCETT. jors m ac ree, six years ys it fe of ‘aime’ nt om. tr Btandar io FY | NGTON, D. C,, No 1.} b feet above ava level aver Amberol records as* powerful | be added. About the ponds in Alberta, Saskatchewan and) Yam gang sd ooo yd a * the Shenandoah vallgy from |motor, can be wound while run-| Manitoba, where our mallards, teal, widgeon, canvas backs and ss . erent rasburg to Harper's Ferry. The ning; all gears interchangeable. | i . : dg - ‘ +, |auguration last March 4, whet scenes of the battle of Bull Rag and rate k of it! This instrament, to | red heads have nested in quiet and peace, the twine binder iS | everybody was wondering whether|of Joho Brown's raid are in full] the prisener complained of the! gether with xix records, three | reappearing in the nesting season, and the automatic shotgun goloshes and fur overcoats were or |! | titerature that the prison angel gave| Standard and three Amberol (the | hangs on the hooks awaiting the time when the downy duck-| were not in order the next day, the The study of the upper af 16 | him to read a ha| BW fourminute record), for only if be quired an a of high wind Sele Nutt’n but continued stories.” he lings are ready for the grid. weather bureau prophesied in lity. Every boy who has flown aj grumbled. “An’ I'm to be hung next | Bei h S the id fi h . . 4 special forecast that the weather we that when he @it) hia| "Merday Everybody's | 4 55 jeing the granary of the world is a fine thing for Canada| youid be fine. hat boys call the third] Ps e —but it plays the dickens with our ducks. A sparse flight will] And the next day it snowed | didn't negd to worry | _ Speltbind atlomen., R. a carl seuss: tone Gollan 6: oak persist for a long time. Laws will help much. But the world] ),.0".na pea oon gs stg Saat te ak we ieee] WAL bei | Headquarters for Talking Ma is trading the spring and fall shooting for a miserable two or) Dr. Willis be Moore, ohiet of the “ a Ser ee ce cee Te Records. . segs P oa "Se bureau, was plainiy Muster f he @ two big olectric reels! Hrookiyn Life five hundred millions of bushels of wheat and a few millions) was ail Washington. So flustered 9 ar tae <i can of prosperous people. And the hunter will say with Omar,| were the congressmen and the offt mut plano wire for the box Kites] 4. ieee the contention ts this “O, the sorry trade!” jclals who hold Unelo Sam's purse ns. Two of th DIE} nat if Dr. Cook did not discover Mt j , Y ‘ strings that more than $)50,000 has ki | pull eo bard that « toam] sckKintoy he did not climb the North |been «pent so that it may never|o reson would be dragged along] Poi | |bappen again mt Successor we James T. Jennings, who yester-; The prosecuting attorney says As a result of this expenditare have been flown at Mount js : © a sa D. &. Jonnston Co. day lath Che service of the Seattio|he hasn't time to prosecute people Mount Weather now has been put at the remark height] That Crane dinner Gid not take! ous tausic Building, Electric company after a service of arrested for selling the “makings.” =. Stes ithe gfe Beat widow sg . as h eat hina stde to-| Third and University. 20 years as conductor, during which From a purely legal standpoint we | Virginia, 47 miles from bh Captive balloons are sent up nearly time he never received a repri-|might be impelled to criticise this| Uncle Sam owns the whole place. jevery week to heights of sev fi mand, Is to be provided with a new | action, but from a common sense | be — it — be the piace miles, where the rare air would kitl . where © Weather comer from. @ map and easier berth with the street | standpoint we are inclined to agree)" prot David Tod recently had a} The copes country around ttt car company. Which fact indicates | with him. theory that there were mines of Weather ts ideal for taking obser that somewhere in this corporation |knowledge up in the air that ought vations from great height A box @ soul exists. The efforts of the Post-Intelli-|to be explored. Uncle Sam has of valuable tnatruaments ia fastened gencer and some local politicians turaed Sir-eaplorer asa ult of to a kite or balloon, and then will lto find something with which to| Mount Weather. He will “mine” | be sent up ae high as possible. The That distinguished-looking gM) cok” Bob Hi wd ves popes the alr with « shaft thousands of temperature, velocity of the wind jodge are east feet high, and is already tunneling humidity and barometric essure rs jay 8 ee ise rubbed | , using through the oxone with big captive bs peeteded | matomationls bows you this morning, was — [balloons and box kites. the box tn rece 1 ie there because the bar of his cin} It looks as though Frank Gotch he weather house that Unele weather for was closed and he had to go else-| was going to have a lot of troubie|Sam built is on the ruins of one (a ere 8a safe bet where for his toddy. breaking away from that toe hold.|‘>*' was burned before ft had pro-|there never will be anotl« t tn ail = rr greased very far, The government |the weather prophesy line like there bought Mount Weather MEDICAL ADVICE AMENDED. - which cov. | was ton early t ear Doctor—You must be careful and not overeat. living? Patient—At Mrs. De Hashe's select boarding house. Doctor (hastily)—Oh, well, on second thought, it won't hurt if yon slip out occasionally and take some light nourishment. MR. SKYGACK. He Visits the Earth as a Special Correspondent and Makes Wir Observations in His Notebook. Where are you FROM MARS Or FRED SCHASFER, “Do you know, Adolf, tried for lucidity? “Why, Osgar? Don'd you din« I am cloded in my right mind?” “You may be cloded in your right mind, but your frents jas talking of hafing you "| SAW SELF-SATISFIED. MALE EARTH BLING SLATED PROUDLY ON id bags ad der ad WOBBLY ONE-WNREL VENICLE, THE knees.” pL || SANE BEING PROPELLED FORWARD iDU\\ ar sap-sed scave anomer \\>———— SENN aa Ss q 0 EXAMPLE OF EARTH (NE QUALITY. 0 if Zz | “Today's ‘Styles Today | Rubberized Rain-Capes These Excellent Rubberized Capes are very serviceable and appropriate for They can be rainy days. worn over outer apparel with They | are 54 inches long, affording ample protection | comfort, being light and convenient against rain and dampness, and are teed for one year Special .... guaran eM Miia, $10.50 Use Your Credit Don't put off buying necessary apparel on account of limited means. That is why our ablished buying as easily as possible, credit system was © to assist fn You may just as well buy on easy payments for there is no extra charge whatever, | about as much fun as getting what) caaivye you don’t want many| Hunt for the trouble and sooner | red to|or later you will find where it land-| {| Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Matrimony {® catching an ex-bachelor has disco his sorrow. A 3 |ed—on your neck woman says that parting may! When a man meets a woman bi i be sweet sorrow if the alimony is| acquaintance on the street. he | 1332-34 Second Ave. 209 Union St. satisfactory. Wanting what you can't get 1s} should be polite enough to stop and lusten. “Seattle's Reliable Credit House’’ THE STAR—THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1909 THE SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE UNCLE SAM NOW HAS FINE WEATHER FACTORY AT MT. WEATHER--HE MINES THE ATMOSPHERE ome in Tha would have nome time neo. sald the “What we want favor,"—Life. iffraget who promises that when women rule, the men will have a four-hour workday, 80 they'll have time to rt, has a funny idea of what a man does when not working Noah chortied “Anyay, not y can dispute that 1 got to the top of Mt, Ararat,” he orled. Herewtth he defied future ox plorers to adopt his methods,Sun were hot in the over the respective claims of and Cook, Today only Peary and Cook are hot in the collar A month ago we These may be the lean years, but we haven't that kind of a president $24.55 With Six Records The Las Sale of PRINCE EES. (Beha CITY To Wage-Rarners A splendid opportunity ts of HW by buying Inside Business Lots at Prince Rupert, B. C. The famous terminus of the INSIDE BUSINESS LOTS FROM $150 TO $300 EACH TERMS Balance $ position per month attle tment is speciall This in man or w For a payment of $2 $5.00 destined to be an you ean become an THE GREAT SEAPORT CITY OF THE PACIFIC DELAY. You cannot afford to The Railroad Realty Syndicate 804 Third Avenue Prince Rupert Has A population of over 4,000 (since June, 1909). More public works arranged for than any other city in Canada, Secured the construction of a More territory and resources coast Already established a world's The greatest transcontinental supporting it ‘The finest harbor in the world WATCHING PRIN No interest. 00 and a regular owner OWNS A CITY LOT AND HAVE A LIVE INTEREST IN t Week’s RUPERT LOTS {fered you to become Independent Grand Trunk Pacific railway $25 CASH Lots in the same rela at from $12,000 to $25,000. ve diay y commended to every working monthly payment of of in What is real estate Call at once at the offices of ff Central Building | $1,500,000 dry dock. than any other,city on the Pacific record for quick growth, railway on the American continent CE RUPERT GROW, ney to the reporters, “Ia Justice What I want,” said t Hent to the attorney, “in a@ ve t in my] A Genuine Edison pm——| BAILLARGEON’S | Underwear % For Fall and Winte, We Outfit the Entire Family _, We are always pleased to dalp tie have trie CATENSIVE expe, “Makes” that ap thorow arment critically niorm to the tj form in cut, fing ally treated, ‘<a und non-shrinkable, We Children’s 4 Underwear any size “Minoor” UNDERWEAR Women’s Underwear . Children’s Gray Specials 3, "= | grade, made and Hand-Finished White Cotton | *!zes Medium Heavy Vests and Pants, regular 65c values; all | Boye’ sizes; now, per garment..50¢ | Balbriggan % Wool Medium Weight White | ere (maa Style); ages § Vents and Tights; our $1.00 | 1 years: all sireg 00) quality, at sos | Medium Weight Cotton Union | Suits, hand trimmed; very ¥ fine; white $1.25 | Children’s : Ladies’ Union Suits, % wool, | Ol, In gray; shirteaunanl white or gray; good weight: | sizes to fit 2 to 10 youre extra value $1.50 | Pmall quantity to eles Medium Weight Hand ee tens than f 4 % Wool Union Suits; | "° white only $1.75 | ,254, 30¢, We have just lot of Underwear, Ladies Vests and Tights; Silk and Wool Mixed’ white $1.25 | all sizes for all ages: Ladies’ 90 per cent Wool goods made rn White Vests and Tights; Vests | general Pe : * any style, Tights knée and | according to seem 0 4 rex Po arts $1.25 | 50¢ % 81.95 .* y i Ladies’ Separate $5.00 1) 830,00 Skirts that will please every taste and meet quirément. All new models, made from bro amas, serges, wide-wales, voiles, taffetas aim black, navy, browns, reds and fancy tunics and plaits are the favorite modes. Wee ~~Misses’, 30 to 37-inch lengths; little sizes and extra waists, 30 to 36 inches. Prieeda $5.00, $6.75, $7.00, $8.50, $10.00, $13.75 and to $30.00 Full Assortments of the A Wide Rai | es | $25.00 Suit Special II in Suits at $37 sh stineincibiledigiteadseticsnanidll wine $5.00 Beaver Hats and § Ladies, Misses and re The millinery opportunity of the season, @ article in millinery stores at the present mo ful qualities, and in all colors, including gi blues and blacks. Every one the latest shapes, just from the manufacturer. Priced at $5.00E Boy's Wearing Apparel | : Ata Positive Savin of 25 Per | A G ent } 50 pieces New Dres Bring in your boy and let us 3 : 5 ft Mim with one of our suit | ‘ams, in So Specials With our superior small, neat cheeks, factiities for buying, we are | ang plaids. 106 | able to save oO i from $1.50 to $5.00 on eacu | at .....+6 «sa0e I to '17 yeare, Yin serviceable | GINGHAM APR i} suits, In a wide range of pat Mother Hubbard 93.50, 50 and $7.50 | Gingham Aprons, veBreasted or, Norfoik, | (rom thé: Res ginghams; extra and extra well made, or Russian Blouse styles; | i superior in every way, at | $7.50 to 815.00 | Overcoats, 2 to 17 years $1.50 to $10.00 Kntexerbocker Pants, at UMBRELLAS, poet: SES ane S175 | VALUE, ys ate, from | $1.00 (0 $5.00 | Ovcextn Negligee “Blouses or Shirts— | ‘Taffeta, fancy and 506 Everything in Neckwear, | wood handles, selts, Collars, etc., ete ornaments; eight ribs, the “Columbia Frame? best one made. OUR i 8 With fancy gold and # ver handles; plain wood handles, military tassels. A Kid Glove Bargain G5¢ Per Pair for Friday and | Saturday | We seldom use the word “bar gain,” its meaning having been | so twisted and perverted, but in its widest sense it fits the Kid Glove opportunity here for Friday and Saturday. Genuine Kid Gh 2 and 3 lasp, in quatities ranging from $1.00, $1.50 to $2.00 per pair, in blacks, browns, Oxfords, grays, greens and blues. Friday and Saturday, per pair .. » 65¢ Extra Specials in Haviland & Co.'s White China | Cups and Saucers, per Children’s fh 3 is a Bapenenl Section 88,00—For 100-piece Somi-Porcelain Dinnet 88 der pattera, wild flower dozen atatine $2.50 | tion; service for f Regularly $4.00. | Regularly $! | 3-Piece Carving $5.60—For Cut Glass Sugars ee H and Creamers, Regularly $8.50. e Carving Bets, $4.45—For 8inch Cut Glass Lon Bowls, Regularly $7.50. Gem Shears Secono Ave & SprinoSt