The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 4, 1910, Page 4

cateotteeen dianensca tht laekon tsps : | | Published Co. Press Publishing United The Star Member of Daily by > Refore stect rails,had tied the Atlantle and Pacific together the; Pinchot braved the epad agent Pony Express was an ‘institution on the Western plains, A packet of| when he warned us that letters {in a leathern pouch were handed to a horseman and he set! and ¢ upting ite courts and leginta out at a gatlop. Plunging forward, loaving behind the last scant fringe | Folk and Lindsey and Henry of civilization, he headed toward the setting sun For a year past La Follette, Cum passed the pouch from hand to hand every thicket was an ambush. So presently, at a ast into the Horse flesh could not long stand the pace, and relay station, the rider flung himself from his spent be saddle of a fresh one and dashed on. permitted ROOSEVELT RODE R AND But sometimes a horse: failed fell into the hands of the des) the rider was party went but most No matter how many horses were used, the packet must go on, | ‘ul No matter how many men fainted under the test, fresh men were! ready and the packet went on and always on through the dawn and the blazing noon; on through the black night; on through storm and heat. Often a rider raced with hostile Indians or white desperadoes. | Often it was a ti for a life and a sixshooter cleared the way—but the package went on. rider the road; sometime Then a searching or lynch the faithless one, placing It in the hands of of breeding, and more often Sometimes the messenger was , and sometimes he was a boy Sometimes the steed was a beast he was the tough pony of the plains. a@ grinzied ve an, riding for the w proved worthy rider's courage and skill stood the seeking adventure. But who the rider was or what horse he rode dealer They used to buy the re-| cantante little as long as the flight of the poate ea Pen But if ejther falied he was discarded, If the horse showed yellow | jj ciouy subjoots that are the world’s When an express pony began to falter he was no longer fit; when |h@ could be shot; if the rider sought to turn the pouch over to the | preatest works of art. Now they @ rider lost the narrow trail, or quatled at « or hidden dangers, he Waa no longer fit. Each man and each horse could compass but a} i" ~ - THAT small part of that weary journey, but the pouch went clear through Ee, gp Bagg Hh Rt cou * At the end none knew how or by whom the relays were made nor) Wie ermen HE WE ‘ through what perils—the packet was the thing. lw ENT ON i“ So it is with the progress of the common good. It is a precious , ' pouch and it is being borne forward by many hands. Sometimes by the scholar, sometimes by the soldier, sometimes by the church, some times by the p ting wom: Sometimes the packet seems lost forever, and, as a lone rider passes we do not recognize ble burden and his mission, and we jeer him or stone him—but it is @ precious pouch and it is going on. the quag of compromise, shall we fee OLD JOHN BROWN RODE ONE OF THE ROUGHEST BITS | not. it is not watching the rider or OF ROAD, IN THE DARK, AND DEATH ON THE GALLOWS WAS | will carry it forward HIS PORTION. BUT THE POUCH WENT ON SOMETIMES IT MAY BE SUT LINCOLN’S GREAT HANDS CARRIED IT FORWARD THROUGH | AND BORNE BY SORRY STEED THE HELL OF WAR TO DEATH. BUT THE POUCH WENT ON.) THAT IS REALLY ALL WE NEED What difference who the rider may be—a thousand others stand | PROGRESS Teady if he faints or fails or is afraid. What difference what his mount/ EDUCATION OR RED WAK OF ¢ it may the abolition party, the whig, the populist, the republican, the | So never mind the spent rider democratic, the socialist, the insurgent, or what not—so long the | Look rather for the hand that will g Message goes on without a halt i lost for a time in the darkness a Bryan rode well when be first sounded the warning that will rise again, and out of the mor Were getting the upper hand of men in this country, He had will always be seen the pouch, bor the pouch from the failing hands of the sturdy old y in | with the red or the white outiaws, TRODE, destinations of tts various letters brought light and hope and cheer t of society, You ing—a little dollars aught pulists of Kansas ~ Pacific Coast, Attention! The time for the Pacific coast to DEMAND ad tary protection is at HAND. The report of the secretary of war fntroduced by Representative Mca for an oficial statement as to the prepar government to offer military protection to thi war is completed and will be submitted to congress as soon a: that body convenes. The report will set forth st 1g facts, that is, “startling” fo the American people, but facts which have been known to the world at large for years It will frankly state that NO PROVISIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PACIFIC COAST STATES, IN CASE OF WAR ON THE PACIFIC, HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. “MIKE”—THEY in reply to the res tution | lan of California, calling] of the vast in case of | federal ness A belated plan correcting this intolerable folly will be sub mitted with the report, and congress will be asked to enact legislation which will speedily make the Pacific coast line secure against attack. The pr ry recommendation will be the estab lishment of large garrisons at the strategic centers of the several | coast states, « vasion It is certain that no battleship fl Pacific waters until aft { sufficient strength to prevent any attempted in t will be of the Pa Even if the fleet was stationed on the Pacific, a prope line would be necessary to enable the fleet ¢ an unrestricted offensive against an enemy The responsibility for the present defenseless condition of | this coast lies with the people. At intervals weak protests have | entered at Washington, but no determined demand has ever | been made on the federal authorities for the military protection | to which this coast is entitled. The dominancy of the Eastern | States has been complacently accepted, and the Atlantic sea- board, facing an adjusted-ocean, has been allowed to grab prac- tically the entire naval and military strength of the nation. The Pacific Coast states, facing a turbulent and dangerous zone, has been neglected and are today helpless against Asiatic attack. It matters not whether war is imminent or remote. The states of Washington, Oregon and California pay premiums on national insurance, and it is about time we were seeing some more assuring policy than undermanned coast guns, depleted re mobile troops and ships recommended for speed, OT for fighting. Let each state instruct its senators and repre go to Washington this winter prepared to f ght not promises. The report of the war department opens the way Let congress know that we are going to have a secured peace on this coast, EVEN IF WE HAVE TO FIGHT FOR IT. OBSERVATIONS ROBBING the mail sacks appears to be the @iversion between here and Alaska. °o 0 © Vol. 1, No, 10 Toda MAYOR GILL ought to remember that none of the meetings aboard the Rainier were open to the public. o ° o IMAGINE JIM CONWAY going to the bottom of d staying there? protected coast sander to take] entatives to for protection ANY popular maritime CAN'T YOU the graft investigation each took his turn ridden far or not, as his strength and courage mes And what of the horses left behind « it helped forward the bandits, he might, for a thme, escape being lynched by casting his lot |), : Rely. | pleture used to be alnowt a re MART ) a ch y 80 LONG AS THAT POUCH Big Change In Taste In 10 years there has been such 4 up of ite contents as the) ® change In the taste of the buying And all the way along the pouch ytel were and they brought civilization and kept light here at this outpost and another at that one. So, if any rider, however popular, gets off the trail and mired in WHETHER IT BE final goal of liberty and equality and humanity. MOST Percy The Thing is FIRST PICTURE OF GREAT HISTORIC EVENT | «sa, rm STAR—TUBSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1910. THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE The Pony Express and the Common Good _ |The Only Pictures That People Buy Nowadays, | Say Art Dealers, Are Posters and Gibson Girls and well treasures of privilege and rode far 1 nation’s tures. BY MARION LOWE When somebody writes a history of the taste of the American people jas expressed in art, thin will be called the “Age of Degenerac That is the opinion of an art ning, Poindexter and othats Mave and kept it going forward; though has done his part and has and the perils of the each HE RODE FAST dealer in Seattle between stations; sometimes the | perad sometines they missed| Without nieaning to be Irrever false to his trust ent, the poster girl has put the Madonna on the shelf, and the er kids have chased cherubs out of the out to succor the luckless rider of all, to secure the packet, and, et it forward on ite way riders? If the horse | next precious pouch, and if the test he remained a rider Kataenje th Bisth house People do not buy the pletures they did 10 years ago, says thin art comies and tilustrations, A public t almost reached. And etters t the dealer carries an lone men on the firing tine} entirely different st the flame burn-| Formerly he kept the world’s mas jterpleces in all prices, so that re thone productions re av » al! | that the cause is lost? Certainly | mont any pocketbook, The humble | steed that matters. Other hands | home could and did have copies of | great plotur Now the percentage LIED BY UNWORTHY HANDS | ef such purchasers ts very small BUT IT WILL GO ON. AND [and is restr 1 to the educated TO CARE | few THROUGH INSURGENCY OR Classic pletures express worship. HMISTIANITY, WILL GO ON religion, divinity, The modern ple or the reeking, staggering steed, | ‘re tells e ry. The present day | ap the pouch. And if the message “" wants a ¢ m girl or a! nd storm, remember that the sun ‘ ty man or a scene or al 1 po women always buy religious pictures, says this art dealer “1 don't think it is a superstition,” he says. “Pe haps it brings back memorie Bometimes they get blue, and they wke to think of the days when it was different They take some comfort, and perhaps some hope, in remembering | Of course, such women who buy | the high class pletures are ed- ning somewhere, somehow, there | Ms picture | ne on and always on toward the Immoras LOVE HIM SO ucated, ana with the loss of their finer moral sense they have not lost their cultivated taste in other things.” Doran't this prove that ning anomaly | morality ts not a| jmatter of education? And that in-| togrity is a deeper thing than art TOR YW LOVE OF MIKE or culture? In ho small degree t © of the people ts pictured In this THROW OvY SOME | doaler'a experi me Vulgarity Craze. | BALLAST * Five years ago there was a ernze | jfor vulg he says. “People | lwould buy anything, and wanted | | # that were rinqe Tt swept | countr Now there is prac no demand for them, and/ not shown tn stores. The suggestive post card has taken the |place of the vulgar picture, and it jis astonishing the tons of such} jeards that are sold | “What we observe in the plot ltrade ia true in the theatre and/ Vaudovilie is taking the of the legitimate drama, rag} and the pop ig have} drowned out good music and comics | taken f | e and fiippant life | “1 think in time the children who | are now in school will bring about ac nee Art and muele are| |atudied in the schools as they did/ not used to be. Art exhibits in- atruct children and cultivate [their taste. It will take time, but | it will have its influence.” Chance for Reform. There ts hope, then, that we are place art in ple i of frivolous INQUISITIVE zz Insurgent y. Price 3% Beans maw What now, Edwin? More yur interminable questions?” 0 0 oO IF MR. HENEY isn't working, will he please come to Seattle | and look us over—in open session, of course? PERHAPS MR. HILLMAN will now sue the fe for thirty miliion dollars libel--and perhaps not _ ecg 9 ie Py San. MR. HILLMAN can take those six indictments for a joy ride oWGS canal in his electric runabout, if his touring car is busy (i Ne ae hecuted ROBBING THE UNITED STATES mails isn’t so easy that | L everybody can succeed at it. There are failures in every ness aera se siege at's °o 0 0 OFFERING A HALF A MILLION dollars Angeles outrage is wrong. There would hang a regiment for that sum Was hat belated, ta was taken shortly before the wards for the Los though sor severa batt orreapondent ( but has been dela b where S¢ Two-Minute Vaudeville BY FRED SCHAEFFER. INSURGENT ISSUE | INVADES PODUNKLE THUD: 1 hear you ran for alderman? PODUNKLE CORNEE 4 SLAP: Yes, I had a good record for hor but I got on the The entire community ¢ ticket, anyhow. Then I made a whirlwind campaig i ational figh THUD: How was that? SLAP: Why, in the daytime I went from house to house with ome out @ vacunm cleaner, and at night I stood under an electric fan in a |‘ footed ¢ Kent plat saloon. { soon won the respect of the community, because the | form. "t nid Hara fellow I was running a t d at home and selfishly devoted are sick an himself to his wife and family fice of THUD: I suppose the returns showed you w usily el 4? | ed In the la SLAP: Yes, they showed I was ea cted up to tim n elec ther no more the ward began voting for the other mar ne t nd. We THUD: Well, voters always were ungrateful re essing upwards, The up. SLAP: Uh-huh; that’s what the fellow sald who got elected ft is now t ng. Six feet is — “ d enough to bury any body Hiram Mige n the stalwart wndidate, sald I deserve a vin dication at the polls in recognition past ser and {n order tha t work al dy begun may be f ried out, Say for ut I stand pat on a platform ay PRED SCHAEFER pasteurized imilk, denatured alcohol and pink lemonade | | FAMOUS LOONS OF HISTORY. Bob Chanler I voult tolt you a segret, Adolf, but I can’d trust " Porter ( ton ‘You a ish me, Osgar Do you dink I voult K ° al lings Panta ava: es pais a ; | George Ul | A omedingsa The Mad Mullah. | a I allent ou, Vot dit I efer bretray? | King Ludwig 1 ! yrance.” Hamlet Then why t cleaner? don't they call it a Does it clean vi | “What is that thing you bought | today ? | That {s a vacuum cleaner.” | | “What it made out of—vac-} | uum? | No: It is made out of metal and nore j wood. It ts used to clean carpets | Vacuums do not get vacuum cleans the What { ngton g the Delaware,.al » for the first time, It | a Vacuum, maw | an empty space.” | ¢ of Princeton by the Daily Thing A vacuum ed a couple of hundred yearmin | “Oh, you clean a carpet full of Some ieee uae ot dirt with an empty space? What t ome of the vacuum after the OVER THE TEACUPS. ol seen’ ata Hibs el Nothing becomes of the vac an indefinite vacation, James Taw Why? new, the Yaak of ike Ganane brath Because a vacuum ts nothing.” s, ts camping up Salt Creek with| “Well, if you can clean a carpet 1 z Hes 4 Wat with nothing, what's the use of buy mmys Hemenway ar atson & something to do it with Uncle Joey Cannon, our joldest Edwin, | have no time to answer ather prophet, predicts a regular |@0ything more until I read this seca Kiana ae : 1k that: Women's Work Is Nev : ne ward 1@ first of No Done, Because They Are Always ember, Anybody need a good shy-| | ew Things to Do It r | Bobbie Chanler ‘announces that tw, how does the vacuum he won't be candidate for ely sia chial Shan al nomination as sheriff of Loony| ,./t exha res Diop } “Huh, 1 should think that if the Theo, Roosevelt has been in| ting te canausted It would be too Saratoga on busine Haupt oth dae dan Bill 7 our popular drumme a for that Edwin had to be indayed in Cincinnati, Look out | COntent with ng . budding for or them gold brick fellers, Bill dati fed with air currents, Measdame Ida von Claussen and Aunt Marta are o ng a Roose Play pool at Ortental Pool Room Shoat 1 third term, | tonlght. $10 cash prizes daily. 1413 rd av, between Pike and Union WHO'S LOONY NOW? ' eee In New York--Who's de kid wid = le cracked dome n ATE , In Beaton Wheat tedividual exif 4 OMIVATE LEQSONG ibits symptoms that indicate men " ‘ antec te tal aberration at the present time f vy In Milwaukee—Wo ‘ Babel ia Milwau t mit der BOF, STRVRN, auy, already, yab Fourth and Pine In Kentucky—Whar ts th’ gen ¢ new halls ad « tleman who at th’ present thme.d o._ Reoern Wed wholly lacking in th’ possession of ming faculties, sub | By Mail, out of elty-—1 yenr, $2; 6 monthg, month, 26c. Entered at 1 $505 4 { feattle, Wash. Postoffice, as secon Vclnnn matter Here is another story on —ielgner who accompliahes gov twists with the king's Rigel A woman came up tog .; office to remonstrate with. | earding a lien he ung gf jfeme property of hera, tractor who ‘ld the Joly failed to vome bills, she objected because she ctor in fall, | mtractor was not @ the lien out against her | “Now,” sald the jhadn't cut down ¢ ja minimum price, he to pay these t have had this always pay to be so no.” quickly He told me the I didn't hesitate to Stop to pape =o Fo |. “Classical, artistic Venus 3 j lost her established position justice court in this elty, Billy Levine in @ 7 mood over strange ings rooms. 4 it bappened like this: A | tricate question of law anal | thin young fellow got | Your honor,’ said on t court It Is immaterial, | | le and tnadmi | Polnt cannot be ralsed thermore, | make a 4 ch of Venus.’ Pictures to the value Jecadent™ period. b was reflected the taste of an |000 sold at a recent art degeneracy there fs @, educated people London: rm, Perhaps we are ‘“ oil react again, the next time again become normal, and in every) NEW YORK, Aug, 27.~ » better history of American taste in oe |Millan, a reporter on an afternoon of the opinion the arta, which i# to be written, may me aa paper, {s THAT HOBBLE SKIRT joes not pay, in a strictly financial 4 3 Ge rd that in 1920, or thereabouts, H. BE. Me-, by “finding” « set of false his soup; who caused a that it|!n uniform to spill «@ diamonds” in front of s jsense, to be @ hero Jewelry store, almost McMillan was standing close to/ riot Mayor Gaynor when the mayor was| Five years ago the shot. He jumped for Gattagher,| commission discovered thet the assailant, and while “Big Bill”| were 10 rooms in the Edwards knelt on Gallagher's chest | Market Court building for McMillan wrested the pistol from|the city had no use. Me the would-be slayer’s hand. bobbed up at one of the But a few short weeks ago the|sion’s meetings and said hemi newap man had invested $15 in OOS offs | a beautiful Panama hat. It fell |b 5 a month Thal from his head in the scuffle. Gal-| mission gratefully setup lagher’s bat also fell off. After Gal-| offer lagher had been set on his feet and| Just recently the was being led away some excited |learned that ever person picked up the Panama hat,| leased the rooms he which was lying on the deck, and | let em for $99 clapped it on the prisoner's head, | lease was canceled ai thinking ft his jing a few Gallagher still bas the hat. It|merry gentleman is tent much use to him, in the Ho-|on an investment of no boken jail, but McMillan doesn't | things this “Joke” one of want it back. He has invested §1/ he has ever played. L. in @ cut-price straw bonnet and | charged the other $14 up to “hero-| ism account.” Brian G. Hughes Plug hats and Tuxedo been a Broadway horror | seasons past. This most practical| ty is committed by joker of the age, is in the public! as if they really ought eye again | ter, too. Now comes an “Twas Hughes who won a blue| affront to all dictates of im ribbon at a cat show with a back-| tan shoes with the dim yard feline; who came near dupli-| eral such combinations cating the trick at a horse show! in the restaurant last e with a horse car plug; who upset| next—red neckties with the proprietor of a lobster palace | dress? Is this how it originated? Will bring to your home immediately any one of a sand articles at our store. You get the benefit of a credit plan and experience thorough satisfaction. $1 Now $1 Weekly A Week of Special Sideboard Values | Every Sideboard in the house | will be sold at much less than | | | | $14.50 Craft - Rocker $9 $1 Now $1 Weekly A charming Rocker, in design and representing the regular price this week At $13.75 $17.50 Sideboard made of ash and en, fitted with We offer a finished gold French $1 now will beveled place a Buck's oo MS | acme of comfort. 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