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Will Lurton Be Safety Device? Adam M, Sel He lived in a small ilemmer was a brakeman town in Pennsylvania, supporting a wife and family on the wages earned by cou ears for the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway company. One Sunday night he failed to get the co xy into the hole where it should have gone, and his head was mashed to a jelly. Since then Schlemmer has become a United States supreme lemmer tried to couple was defective, It atic ¢ r which the law passed by con € such cars to have. Schlemmer’s 1, setting out this fact and asking dam The poration-owned courts of Pennsylvania threw Schlemr ner out of court, The judg a was careless, They have k said that a careful man werd pt his head out of the way b careful, he t of the car-bumpers, Or, if he had been still more would have resigned his job. Inasimu n ge mpensation nmer’s case got to the United States supreme ta those learned court it pr among gen tlemen najority of the court held Mr, Justice Holmes and a that Schlemmer was probably not intent on committing suicide, and that his head from being mashe t was fair to assume that he did all he could to keep} Mr, Justice Brewer took the other view, j It was shown that the coupling had to be directed into a three-inch slot get it into the slot would result in the inevitable smashing of the man who failed; that the night was dark, and that the space be-| tween the cars was very narrow Mr. Justice Brewer thinks Schlemmer’s job was easy. He said in his opinion: “Before the deceased went under the car he was twice noti- fied to be careful and keep his head down; and yet, without any Necessity therefor being shown, he lifted his head and it was crushed between the cars. All that he had to do was to guide the free end of the drawbar into the slot.” That was all Schlemmer had to do; just to keep his head out of the place where it would be smashed. Just keep it down, and guide the drawbar into the three-inch slot The familiarity of Mr. Justice Brewer with drawbars and coupling slots was sufficient to cause him to decide that the job ‘was an easy one. Frequently, no doubt, Mr. Justice Brewer has, | of a Sunday night, in a dark railway yard, with a lantern in his hand, crouched between the ends of two approaching cars, cer-| tain that the coupling would be made or his head would be the| penalty. | Perhaps Schlemmer was sleepy. of the minister's sermon. est prank of the baby Mr. Justice Brewer's public speeches and was wondering at the Maybe he was thinking Perhaps he was meditating on the lat Who can say that he had not read one of ease with which a judge can make his twelve thousand per an- num, while a brakeman has to get out at 9 p. m. and “hustle/ for the grub”? Anyhow, Schlemmer did not get the drawbar to the opening, and the penalty he paid for his “negligence” was death The moral of the tale is this: Mr. Justice Brewer and} Judge Horace H. Lurton (nominated by President Taft for the| United States supreme court) hold identical views as to the} “negligence” of Schlemmer. Is Judge Lurton the best kind of judge to put on this court in-these days when employers’ liability acts, coupler acts and} similar laws are coming to this court for their final testing? Justice Holmes carried the spirit of the “safety device” for the benefit of the brakemen clear up to and through the supreme | court. Can Lurton be expected to do likewise? Tt is, of course, assumed that the Smithsonian institute gave three Cheers and the zoological yell when # was learned that Kermit killed a sitatungsa. fing, also increases the ehances of living. This i» the iast night of the year all right, but there's no reason to suppose that there won't be any bartenders working in 1910. President Taft may try to settle the switchmen's strike—of course with one eye always on “the solid- arity of the Republican party.” Among the other much-to-be de. sired innovations is the safe and sane New Year's eve. So far it has not been reported “ i that any enthusiastic admirer has’ Of all sad words of tongue or sent “Wnele Joe” a new cuss word pen, the saddest of these are for Christmas. Never Again Cutting down the police force at! Maybe Mr. Ballinger means the this tame decreases the cost of liv © {conservation of his vindications. THE OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE THIS 18 THE TIME OF YEAR WHEN 7% Cus-( | TOMARY TO GRAB HOLD OF THE WIGH ur RESOLVE, REFORM, TURN OVER A NEW jie LEAF, SWEAR OFF, AND THAT SORT OF THING, SO THAT'S JUST WHAT I'M | fh GOING TO DO RIGHT Now —~ NOT. Vd ncn er et —— — z 4, a that the coupling was heavy; that a failure to} FROM DIANA’S DIARY Miss Dillpiokles Beoom } feuse by Neo an Auto y and a BY FRED | Cop Had Scratohed the Vv no Finish Tt te flerce! Of course I wound up in police court after I ran down the bicycle cop with the Jariess, “The Car That Are.” There wasn't any charge against Mra. Speedway-Nero, al though she was among thone prosent when the thing happened. But she took a lively interest in the case, seoing that it was her car. She telephoned to the hoepital to warn how the oop was getting along, and said she hoped {t would teach those minions of the law not to tnfringe upon the rights of automobile own ere, and hereafter atick close to the gutter The cop wasn't badly hurt, thank goodness, and was able to appear in court against me today. Mrs, Speedway-Nero was in court too. She waa there to apeak in my defense, She said the bicycle cop mens “JUST BY T. 8. | “Aw, wots de use, Mame OSGAR TELLS DER LIDOLE FOLKS HOW A BOY'S BES BUT ONLY IN A FAIRY STORY, | | | } By Fred Schaefer. Et you don'd belief vot I am go- jing to tolt you, chiltren, blease jon'd ask me inadion again, Von dime der hat a sissage mi und a pussycat. Von day ven pital noss wass dull he died und left all his proberty to hiss dree sons. He gafe der oldest der sissage mill, be ‘o# id wase losing money. To der secont son he gafe der chackass, be cous dey voult make a goot team To der liddlest son he gafe der pussycat, so id voult nod get into ler sissage mill by mistake You may dink dot der Mddle feller to sprain my imateh ass amiller. He und @ chackasa wase stung like der reat of dem, but diss wass no cheap, curbstone pus cat, but a etchucatet pussycat mit nine brains inetead of nine lifes De fairest ding vich she did wass to get a palr of gum shoes so she coult sneak rount und steal milk boddics off j her master. Diss wass only commence mend of dor stard. Der pussycat began a gumshoe campalgnings to make her master solft mit der king. | She vent to der king und tolt him she was der pussyoat of der Count }yon Kokomo. Der king hat nets |heard of der Count von Kokomo, ibut he wass too foolish to disbhlay [hiss ignorance, Hesltes, der king | dit nod become too inqulazietife be | cosa der pussycat brought him efery | day @ dead fish or some odder dell catesson, eubboned to be diregt from Kokomo. Dise graft mate a great hit mit der king. By der dime der king began to dink der Count von Kokomo muat der front porches for der EE “Ain't you goin’ ter save me, Willie? FRENT 18S HISS MALTESE—) Enthusiast by Proxy. Daredevil by SCHAEFER Aleo a Chauf Demand, “Mra. Bpeedway-Nero Spoke in My Defense. She Said the Bicycle on the Limousine Body.” had scratched the plano finish [the Hmousine body of the Jarlens| Six while getting run over, and should be punished for malicious de struction of property This made « great impression on | the judge. Several times he wiped | away the toare that blinded his eyes. | 1 dont know how much the fine would have been if it hadn't been for my employer, but they marked ldown $80 against me, not counting the doctor’s bill Mra, Speedway Nero paid it, or | would have gone to the workhouse. She sald it was an outrages, and it was coming to 6 pretty pass when traffic policemen had to be added to the upkeep of an automobile. Hervawtter, Dillpickles, structed me, “do not stop when you ran ovah «ne of the canaiile.” | (Continued) i j KIDS” ALLEN 1 ain't a marryin’ man!” ALL ABOUID PUSSYCAT-MIT-DER-CUMSHOES a be @ fine liddle scout, der pussycat | hat id fixed #o dot der boy shoult be svimming tn der reservoir ven der king passed on hiss royal ret velozipede. “Dere {ss my master!” cried der pussycat; “he tas difing for some more pickled herring for your matchesty.” Ad diss der king took off his sweater und gafe id to der boy und lot bim rite back to der palace on der hantle bars, Den der cat tolt eferbody who wass painting @ house or tearing up a street or shofing a push cart dot id belonged to der Count of Koko mo ef anypody asked dom.) Of course, ven dey wase requestat by @ pussyoat vearing gum shoos, dey wass only too villings to say) #0, becose dey tot dey hat been trinking too much buttermilk und to say id vyoult only sount natchural from anypody mit too much buttermilk laboard, Id make der king fel ifun THE STAR—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909 THE SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE household duties [honest living if it weren't such hard \densed milk can mit a can o} By matt, ont of ettyt yen 1.50) 1 month, @ eatile, Wash. ponte necond-claam mniter BUYS “WRITEUPS” IN THE NEWSPAPERS AND THUS DISQUALIFIES HIMBELF FROM BECOM ING UNITED STATES SENATOR (From Tacoma Dally Times.) Robert L. MeCormick, lumber trust candidate for the United States senate, ls a lawbreaker, and ig dinqualified from holding the office to which he aspires Mr. MeCormick, in hie desire te break into the senate to bolster up the waning cause of plutooracy, le not only trying to buy his way in, but is breaking the law and attempting sbeo lute deception on the people of this state. The direct primary law absolutely pr oftice from buytng the favor of newspapers hibite candidates for and paying for editorial comment to boom them for offlee Observe the following Amerion boasts no titled aristocracy, Her nobility are self made mon, whose careers blazon the pathway to success; whose achiovementa are stimulus to incentive, and ¢ tion of whom ia sesame to fortune, Scores of nar are Mt 7 sehtngton’s seroll of fame, but none i bett ited to the di m than Robert Latrd MeCormick. No re one after whom the way pattern with better profit to character and fortune, The live such nm are object lessons for future generations, and thelr char ncters are idols of the American aation giowing tribute was wot writtes by a paid biographer Ra it in the honest conviction of a man who has studied hits ubject well, analyzed him from every angle in his makeup, and who haa then given expression to « ment held t loyal Ta coman aud scores of men ranked high in the political and Industrial ere of the nation Robert Lb. MeCormick paid for that with coin of the realm, in violation of law This is & wample of one of the lone two-column screeds of fut some Matiory that he ls bribing news publish ts violation of law throw the be paid for at a good Ing By actual mendacity he purposes to hoodwink the people and deceive them into supporting him for the senate “This glowing tribute wae not written by a paid blographe says the article, adding bald-faced falsehood to the crime of vio lating the direct primary law. That glowing tribute was paid for by Robert L. McCormick, Me paid for the writing of it and he paid for the printing of it in several little weekly newepapers, in knowing violation of law. Wil the people of the state stand for this sort of downright cor ruption? Will they be hoodwinked Into sending # man to the senate o to support Aldrich and Cannon because hie barre! is big enough and because he is unprincipied enough ‘to practice this most dangerous form of deception? STAR DUST \DIPLOMAT LEAVES ‘3 ge} hunts fer trouble De mot stubborn feot ane it he were otherw pers Weekly biame the ans Viettor— mat quite th tn 3 ae Hubble--Fat men are thick wher - . ver vo fied u Boston Tran HENRY LANE WILSON, . From the country of King Albert + m I, to the country of President Diaz he efficac 2 of the old-fashioned lis the step taken by Henry Lane Wilson, ambassador whose appointment by President Taft bas just been confirmed. He has been minister to Belgium since March 6, 1 His post in the City means of phy hinted sical Aevulopment to | Mexico, at by thie bit trom sw Physieal tectiy lovely sinate ta per exclaimed an enthu Young mine just home from x develop the + git & Sie tee ORS On4 | of Mexico will be fraught with % great delicacy for the next few e Weil, well exctaimed her) months, due to the troubles in Nic Cover nents Te chee bod tenee, aie: |aragua, in which Mexico and. this at the other end, you'd be sweep-| Country are interested. | few |. Also, the press of Mexico has} a * | been stirred to white heat against | aoe Trey, Unmntor Kaews. | the United States on account of at hat it iy skit! when he wine l tacks of € ° eo by | That it is lvek—or bad tuck acks on the rament made by when he loses at everything Is a samble. only difference being in the f hat he would rather make | John Kenneth Turner in the Ameri jean Magazine Mr He the re] is & brother of former Senator work | John L. Wilson of Seattle That it tf alw enay fo the winner to find fr Justification for gambling. —Li STORIES A Wie You The teacher of Be " primary se nuy giving A BOUT Which would you rather have, dollar or two half-dollare?’ she sponded that he would preter two halvea, Why? Be wae asked. Be ‘a oc if you loee one} “ oo" Mther.” As intuitive There fs a friend of mine down jin New York,” said William H Crane yesterday at his dressing room at the Moore, “a very charm ing young waman, who told me a jstory last fall about this game of bridge. } “She bad grown up in a small town where they play a mild game of bridge, with tea and cookies to follow Then she married a well }todo New York man. One of his |friends invited her to a luncheon one day, Bridge, of course, fo |lowed the luncheon | “As my friend was leaving, hostess said, in her sw }‘l am so glad |ternoon, dear 1 $75." the all your Roston Tra id prevept ae in one ript the st tones, you enjoyed the af and owe me you ‘or what? asked |friend, with a gasp Why,’ remarked smiling exquisitely }ioss at bridge ‘Ob,’ murmured the unfortu taintly, ‘I did not understand I have not the money with me I will send it to you.’ “"The young woman home and sobbingly told her husband her lexperience, Without a word he |drew a check and handed it to her. But, dear said, between xobs, ‘my lows was only $75, and check {ts for $80. Yes, 1 know,’ replied the hus band drily Send Mrs, Blank a jnote and tell her that the extra $6 is to pay for your luncheon.’ " my young the that hostess. was your and but went | her thi ny alzo to hear dot der Count von Kokomo owned eferdings in town | vich he tot he owned himseluf, und | an he said be yoult half to quit butter milk himseluf of id affectet him dot vay. Or wase id dor fish? Diss wass nod all applicant for divorce torney for the opposite side knew this, and sought to gain a point by asking: Der pussycat) “You and your wife got along Bumahood to der office building of| pretty well together now, don't & ochre, or monster who Iifed on |you?* ‘ human lamb chops. Diss ochre der| “Wal, she purty nigh called me pussycat bypnotizzed to belief him-| honey (‘oth r day,” replied the wit soluf a pipt of condensed milk. So}; soon as diss happened she drank | remarked tho him 2 und licked her vit#kers,| attorney, nodding toward the court und ghfo all hiss real estate to der |with an important air. “Tell the Count von Kokomo, Den der wase urt all about it,” he ordered, noddings loft for der king to do but| “Wal,” replied the witness, set sito dor count hiss daughter to ved. | ting hack in his chair and gasing Und der pussycatin-gumehoes, |at the cetling with a twinkle {n his she hat stomach schmerzen efor |eye, “I wuz cuttin’ the kindlin’ {n after from eating dot oohre—becoss | the back yard when she opened the der Hddle fool hat svallered him|back door and shouted ‘ef ye mitould remofing him from dgr ogn-| want any breakfast, old becswax, ye ond! better come in,'” That #0, that so?” Wilson's home is in Spokane. | It wasn’t his first appearance as} The at-| Let us wish you Three Hundred and Sixty. Five Days of unalloyed Happiness and Prog. perity, May your burdens be lightened May your cares be banished May your comforts be unlimited. ! Let this be one of your re itions for the | ant the newegg: ther Men's ofa Women's Apparel, USE OUR EASY PAY. MENT PLAN coming year, that when you w hest in ¢ styles and hig qualit Store Closed Saturday Eastern Outfitting Co., Inc. 1332-34 Second Av. 209 Union $4, “Seattle's Reliable Credit House” ‘M.A.GOTTSTEIN | go FURNITURE COs SECOND AVE, BETWEEN PIKE & PINE. . A HAPPY NEW YEAR Seattle’s Popular “Happy New Year” ALL NIGHT DANCE A DREAMLAND . 7th and Union Big Confett! Battle. Souvenirs Given to All Admission 25 Cente, Including & Dance Tickets LADIES FREE Surplus and undivided profits > . an Ii) Wied That MBiows Ne Good | We believe that dignity conservatiam are not enhanced by hiding # good thing under a bushel. That is why we keep on saying a few things which we think are sensible—which: may set you to thinking saving a portion of your | EDWIN 2 7 Pivet A: Open event Jun! pi i WALL PAPER, PAINTS BRUSHES AND | Semi-Annually, Are being sold at the Federal at} | the lowest prices ever quoted. It . — a Food Mme to buy those neces: if |, wes D. HOGE, Presiiene N. B. SOLNER, Cashier. DIRECTORS: Ferdinand Schmitt, 7 ewes RG steCormick. 1 x. B Boiner. CORNER SECOND | and CHERRY anc Dallerd, or Branches sad Reston: them Federal Paint & Wall Paper Co. 1814 Pirm Av H. LL. 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