The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 8, 1910, Page 4

THE STAR—THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1010. Member. of United Press Published aa Member of, United Press. Published THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE = @ Jv." ott sie?*iatro ai Swearing Off on Unclejoes Who Is Joe Smith? Story of Man Who'd STAR DUST = Sos tt sepia OK, ies OS eee ees Rather Fight Graft Than Clip Coupons)... yoocwors “My brother Bud wuz left -t | & fon tune tune th’ very day he died o'chronig rheumatism, an’ th’ doctors had time ter change it ter one the death certificate.” But now his eyes are quite unsealed; his sottishness is all QW MARION Lowe. revealed. He mounts the platform, teary-eyed, and wipes his] whé ts Joe smith? eyes and cans his pride, and says, “Dear friends, at last I see] 1 had seen him around Tho Star's the awful thing I used to be, | used to guzzle unclejoes from | editorial office and marked him for dewy morn to hour of close! I'd drink one, then call for two, | « “ebaracter.” “Who ts Joe Smith?” and then I'd not care what I'd do! jl asked the men on the staff. A “Last session I got ninety-three of those arrangements into | pipe, good humor and old clothes me! This is no time for mirth and laughter—the cold, gray | seemed to be hia distinguishing fea dawn of the morning after! ree apparently men reckoned " . with him “You who have led sequestered lives, and stayed at honte |" sjey waleuen:”. antd ane:-68).tn with babes and wives, don’t know the devil's wiles and tricks }men, “He's worth $40,000, which to snare us boys in politics, Once T was pure as snow, but led|he made himself, but he'd rather I fell! And from that fatal] monkey around a newspaper than to look on Joe when he was 4 r i > |d0 anything else. He doesn’t care date, in vote, committee and debate, | watlowed in the gutter’s| shout money or what it'll buy, He'll ooze the wreck you see, from Cannon booze! go down town to the swellost cafe “But now, henceforth, along with Taft, Longworth, Me re me ity where overvaety K e of othe ry epentants a ym sin }oressed up, mon smoking four-b! Kinlay and a raft of other saved repentants, turning from sin cigara, and Joe will fill his old pipe like brands plucked from the burning, I pledge the word of an{and draw diagrams on the table ex-sot to taste not ch not, handle not! I will not vote f@r| cloth, It isn't inverted snobbish | Uncle Joe—for who hath sorrow, who hath woe; who hath the} sess with him, ether. He Just | dread insurgent ban on? ‘The man who lingers long with Can- | 4°e#n't care for display and never exclaimed the pres. dent of the insurance company ip hin wife ‘Our fortune is The legislature has passed that te surance legislation Honestly?” erled his wife, ovep joyed The president frowned, “Nowe he said, “what's that got to @ with it? Jas, Patten, king of wheat ang cotton, has a fortune, in spite of recent losses, of between ten and fifteen million dollars. Editor ‘Most Anything: I seq the papers that “Kiss Not” ha peen started in the interest health, Nearly two years ago I the misfortune to be kissed by <= B a E 2 ' | thinks about it man whore lip was not entirely freq non : He's got a kink on principles for from germ-fostering halr. Up to the The Cannon cocktail—deadly drink !—is mild and harm-| “Last session IT got ninety-three of those arrangements | the public good. If you were staty present time I have experienced gp il] effects, but I should like to make |further research. I am willing t jtake the risk in the cause of sctenog, |should opp ent itself, Jays of yore, we} into me—but (cat Is and sneers) jing to death on Joe's doorstep he “This is no time for mirth and laughter—the cold, gray | @!'sht not care a darn about you, | th y gic but if 200 voters were cheated out idawn of the morning after f their rights Joe would go crazy less—I don't think! There was a time, in swilled them down and called for more; but now, each saved, feformed M. C. knows just how vile he used to be, when there, ortunity p Wmse SS : ; MESES | He's the kind that would die for MABEL, a gs aA " ’ 7 bis country or burn at the stake a ee Score One for Labor | Everett True’s Vacation Sor 8 prigcioon Gagne \é a amen | - “ Joo Smith ts runsing for the leg | stained glass windows for the peace 4 jeeiocenianninpeeiitvesigie | inlature from the Forty seventh dis | Palace at The Hague. ? c trlet In the latest war between or ganized labor and organized capital Me \c - Pacific coast te bo: 4 those | — A hewepaper man running for r—After we cast our bread now raging up and down the Pacific coast states, labor and ¢ — oni? runn Soren, : who sympathize with its cause have scored the first victory R j onus GET OUT G We way — a J hey 1 "4 nah t CR aS i ee 5 upon the waters, what do we have, ‘ This initial battle in the campaign was won in the city of Spo- | , Ww You DON'T wany | the owners of papers did tha’ i James kane. The fight was over the issue of the anti-picketing law which oa -- : had been passed ¢ the protest of labor in Los Angeles, and which organized capital is trying to put on the statutes of every big city é Well, they tried it in the capital of the great Inland Empire of the a Northwest, and the proposed ordinance was turned down hard and } cold. Just as soon as the scheme was sprung by certain big business futerests and introduced before the counctl, it was expe by labor and the Spokane press, and the evil of the proposed law restricting the right of union labor to protect Its own Interests was shown up #0 thoroughly that when the ordinance came up for consideration It was killed unanimously But the struggle in Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma, in Portland San Francisco and Los Angeles and throughout the West, has only degun. Capital will fight and remain undismayed as long as it has special interests to foster. And labor must fight on and on, for it le | struggle to foster and protect something greater than capital— human life. But it's goo! to think that one city has been enlightened @nough to kill the anti-picketing proposition, anyway. ' Yo @fY Bumped! Joe | take many women 25 years to learn az | Smnith knows more about politices|to vote, While they're learning -, j and the needs of the state than any | they'll be a conservative force, but ae r candidate today. He'll be the | Whey they learn they'll learn like wire in the house if he's|the women of Colorado, and they'll cted emash the system with an ax.” Joe Sraith in a newspaper man, They tell me Smith is the best he went on—“yes, But he doesn't | informed man, politically, in the Jconfine himself to writing things. | state of Washington. “Ob, what J He ts the father of the initiative| know about you,” written by Joe land referendum and the recall in| Smith, would fill an alcove in a Seattle's city charter today, He| library. He first got newspaper hin job to station himself at| notoriety in the “Story of 1% » registration bureau, made 4,000 | Trai an expose of 13 mon lectures on good goverument, and| bo were bought up in the sena fot 2,100 signatures to the petition, | torial contest in 1902-3, when Har And he and Paul Mobr, a labor man, |Old Preston of Seattle was candi | Rot 2,600 signatures to the direct |date for the United States » om amendment | This was followed in 1907 by ix Joo Smith?” 1 asked | Crooked Trail of Politics,” a story Joo Smith bimecl? of big business corruption and fran. Cut out this hero business,” he | Cbise grabbing in Seattle, which ran Let me tell you one thing,” said | amount to much for a while, It will “T HEN APP’ id Jimmy—Bread pudding ithe Man WhoSat. Next-To Me } IT H. ENED” (Our Datiy Discontinued Story.) French airmen hi selected No |tre Dame de Platin as their patron saint. A chapel has been built te her in the Platin district of Garonne, Hurrah! Here it ts at Inet! 4p Bellevue, O. a common female@y ran over G. R. Moore's auto,thes turned and kicked it into kindling wood. Come Bossy, come Bossyl Come out this way. I gained a quarter of a pound while taking Dr. Dope M. Curallg World-Famed Tonic.” “But what did Dr, Curall gaia? | According to a statistician, twa years of iliness are endured during a lifetime. | Caw’T BR AY EVERY BATHING i n for 30 days in The Star, and inci 4 1 eee 9 sald, knocking his pipe out on his : * Most men prefer girl bables—ep EES Sea a sO dN PREACH IN THe UNITED STATES Aq | | bee! Tots ee te ee pecially after they bave grown ap Students of the occult and of psychical phenomena, who believe, ES ks, ‘ ONCE, BUY 1 GOING TO BREAK UP But I'm going to toll about him, | (housands for the paper in that to be Baby Giris. Or at least do not deny, that there can be communication after ~ va \ THE PRACTICE OF CUTTING UP WITH anyhow, He spends ots time tell stata j <a ae thacmah a time of great excitement 4 \\ BOATS AMONG THE BATHERS ay ing about other men, so it's only| This is Joe Smith. With a Wal | @rene Widows worth: '¢ ‘d Ce tai Damroach face, the daredevil i alo has died tei + air. a © sojo t Newport. Whit 4 ao een ecatiaes ae cond Prone tye THIS ONE, PL TELL YOu THAT Joe Smith Ix the son of a rich| of a freeater, the fighting blood of 4 sheer > relage Sg) os serpeat Which be promised Be would send to them from the spirit world If farmer and banker in Eastern /an insurgent and the devotion of hasn't shown hide or hair shout Se: found commentention possible, so his passing ts regarded as real- Washington lore he was 21 he/® martyr—this is the man who has that resort this season. Widow 3 ‘ " yate had spent five years riding the|the dope on political corruption, 4 n i ly @ journey to the undiscovered country to solve the mystery of the Fang where be Get 8 commie ex jana Who Expects 0 po to Che texte poe SF that boodle draw wall x The late Dr. Richard Hodgson and Prof. James had essayed bullets In him. He also found time latave with ne ol vive ond old In his gayer moods Wilfred Butt-| Ratha ee 4 many tests of communication beyond the grave, and each had given 3 a mend SOAERY, OF 8 SCNT ee aad pena | encican tae ineky was just too cutuppish for! ireland’s highest apple produdt ; “the other a message, unknown to any one else on earth, which the ee Mice ae ink ona ees rele anything, . does not exceed 50,000 barrels @ B first to die was to communicate to the other, if he found communica. Ni ater sadly | Mabel and Maud went with him year, . tion possible. as a private and came out with a If there are any crooked poli-|to the z00. Nothing else was need- = If this message was received by the living one it was to be re- commission and more bullet holes, | ticians and interests who are not| ed to make Wilfred ebullient. Ebul-! 4 gossip is a person who tele b garded as indisputable evidence that communication from the spirit Once he captured a small Philip-| against me,” says Joo, “I want to/lient means fresh when used to de-|tnings before we have a chanes aa pend. Wen an acteality pine navy with a land force. know them and add them to my| scribe Wilfred. tell them ourselves. \ i After the death of Dr. Hodgson, Prof. James anxiously awalted ; € z - — cap business,” says | list “Watch me pick up a rattlesnake saan the message agreed upon, but I was never received joe, bu elps the story. a | ees aimee od by the tall,” chirped Wilfred. A New York man claimed that he has talked with Hodgson His is a suffragist. “And| FOR NEW, modern furnished| Although it bit Wilfred, tee} looas ereanen peor = avcosead through a medium, but this did not seem reasonable, because Prof are you?” I asked. Pe rooms at low prices, call at The} snake was pulled through with si gem eee James was the person to whom Hodgson had promised to communl- | Yeo on principle,” he an-| Virginus, 804 Virginia st, near| prompt remedies. | Dance at Dreamiand tonight. cate if It were possibl awered don't think it will| Westlake ay . (The End.) | oo = In the Editor’s Mail Short letters from Star readers will be printed in this column when they are of sufficient general interest. You may write about anything or anybody so tong as personal malice is not your motive. THE GREATEST EXCURSION Editor Seattle Star—There is ajover my paper last night [ noticed constant how! going up from the| Mrs. C. Crosby's story of how she wax buncoed by Hillman Standpat press about the necessity When 1 came to this town of Ev of “developing” the coal fields of srett, in October, 1969, 1 became in Pianos Player-Pianos ‘ Alaska, and the main reason given terested in r state. I was told % fs the need of coal for the navy in| by my many friends not to go ne OF TH EM the Pacific the Hillman | Your paper NEw, SECOND HAND A I I If there is such a crying need for|deing a great deal of good to the coal for Uncle Sam's ships, why do public in giving them this tnforma not some of our patriotic standpat| tion, as they may not h r statesmen in congress urge the use| to advise them as to wha r @ of a small part of the “pork barrei"| shark they are doing buair for the construction of a road to the! The Everett offi coal fields of Alaska, and thus re-is a trap, and I have passed lieve the situation? | place many a time and have seen It If a farmer bas a coal mine in|full of old women i this one corner of his farm and his wife, where they play their ga AND SLIGHTLY USED THROUGH THE BEAUTIFUL SAN JUAN ISLANDS TO AST SOUND ‘There are still some very fine instruments to be had at eptionally low prices and terms needed fuel for the kitchen stove,| Hillman ought to be put in the 1 doubt me very much that he bay, and t quicker the ter would give the mine to the hired) The Hillman shark will be TO THE PURCHASER WHO HAS man and then buy his cos of great interest to me every night Pa ely LAS EN Ere Respectfully, TH as well as the rest of the pe ‘ou have experienced - Keep up the good work, and you pad baitey: Coit $k wk Saas ROUND ROUND: Everett, Wash., 1910. | have my best wishes in your und Gikak Maldia eek meaeiaiag Us ND ve “ark Wass Serle the homes of your friends! TRIP TRIP No doubt you haye noticed this at your own table. ONLY $1 Children Un. TODAY'S STYLES TODAY Styles That Please e will make a proposition of which he cannot afford not to take advantage Get after the cook and Invest! gate what kind of shortening she is using. In the past two weeks we have disposed of over thirty $1 Children Um md-hand instruments, in addition to consers dre hasers taking der Five der Five Riseinn : ; Years Free. advanta t pportunity of getting two-dollar value for Ww Between veer ae ; eal Between 4 and hs Five and vive aan a wing are the t td eos I balance of this week we will depart from our Twelve Years Twelve Youre ‘s ‘ ‘ Half Fare Half Fare leshinnabie usual custom and ¢ to the cash buyer an additional reduc r. 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