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Member of United Press, Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. The Real Lesson The real lesson of labor conditions in Los Angeles, cent events, is the who sell and those sharply accentuated as they have been by essential barbarism of strife between thc who buy human labor, . The present system is war, and “war is hell There are nati devise a way of abolishing strikes, lockouts, and all the bitter ness that gues with these things There is no reason to doubt that if we gave the same thought and unselfishness to a solution of the labor problem that we give to tarrif and trusts we should discover that we are Jingering far behind the spirit of the age in abiding by The ancient rule, the good old plan That he shall take who has the power And he shall Ke who can "y he past. OBSERVATIONS "RAH FOR Arizona's {nsurgent constitutional convention! ° ° ° 1F Taft and Roosevelt are both simon-pure republicans, what fs a Bimon-pure republican? 000 JUDGING BY Charley Taft's sclasory looks tn his firat pants, papa’s r fit Charley. pants will ve ° ° ° WALTER WELLMAN Is another who will attract attention ac Berding to his ability to “come back.” Ps ae Le THE FATE of the photogr @ould doubtless be a thrilling story o o 0 18 “ALSO AN UNDESIRABLE” going to have an atto the council investigating commit ° , ° EVEN IF “God Hates a Coward,” the republican congressional com Bilttee is 1 good for a $10,000 touch. ee 6 GEE! What a vaudeville trio Manuel, Mile, Gaby and Uncle Joe (Would make, with Joe doing the singing! WILL “the best police chief Seattt Pmitation of arresting a few strong-arm hold-ups? 000 BRITISH EDITORS cal! Teddy “the Pecause Teddy, early tn life, was in the bu rushes. HE WHO makes two names blossom on the recall petition where there was but one before is a benefactor to humanity. €: )4:.-6 SKELETONS of horned men dug up in © Hiram Johnson's turning out more of ‘em every sp 6. 6 80 FAR “Crooked Finger Tom Ryan has been magnanimous | mation of charac @gough not to sue anybody for defi r SEATTLE is going to find it hard to save her face as long as the rest of the world can see Hi Gill in the mayor's offic ee @ ROOT helping Taft select United Sta Well! Root knows what the corporations wa e @ 8 PITTSBURG Jury 5 ted a 13-yearold girl who killed her be r. Another terrible blow to the “noble scions” of Pittsburg’s h-up families. as well as the next man o oO , IT'S very sweet of Taft to invite them to come in of the kitchen to sit down at the first table, but those lean insurgents better go slow r@B fatted calf diet. © © MAYBE, TOO, there's something in Ald Island democratic nominee for governor is peign 2s an “insurgent. # bad health. ng a whir “WOMEN have two souls,” says Dr. G. 8. Hall hew profiteth it, dad, with all her souls centered Wotable angel in the cradle? ike enough. But noist, noisy, HAVE YOU heard it? EB Its Own.” Naw! It lan't Teddy 3 the new song craze for the crazie ° °o THE National League of Republican Clubs again if by electing John Hays Hammond president. But sists largely of its president. o0 00 JAPANESE scientist told the American fisheries commission that @he could educate oysters. And those fish fellows ought to try It, too, Mf that Saratoga platform cuts any swath in instruction ng that Saratoga business NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—The police; car. Herman Hastefski got aboard fipally caught Kitty Powers. And | With the pail of cellar lintng when they cavght Kitty, they referred to. Be caret ul with th Céught a bad girl with a good name. toned = Chase. Kitty was a burglar’s helper, and : Many was the flat robbery that she put for Belped along in her cute and kit a he grumpy Mr. Hastot- tenish way ski. “You collect your nickels The scheme was for Kitty| At Park av. Mr. Hastofski and her gent pal to obtain en re Pha aoa He sf trance into an apartment house, in| C7Mductor, but was carric gay way they could, and get into a “ional blocks. After ge ‘ flat whose occupants were out, by car he threw the whitewash means of skeleton keys. While the i on board. Mesars. Chase and Man worked at the lock Downey 8 ne it stood by, bareheaded, prettily somebody two ad gowned, with a filmy seart over, “THEN IT HAPPENED” | her shoulders, as though just r terned from the theatre. As peo fa New York apartment houses know each other by si passing in the hall w he two were tenants enter ing their rooma. Cne Mrs. Julia Sherman visited the police station and identified Kitty. She would have liked to demolish Kitty, if the police been willing. Coming home on evening, she saw Kitty in her hall Entering her apartment, she found @ burglar Dashing out, Mrs, Sher ™jan ran into the arms of Miss Powers, who clung affectionately to her. The burglar ran several blocks before Mra. § an could tear herself loose M while Kitty kept saying: “My dear, let us talk this thing over. It ts | are mistaken about the gentleman being a burglar. It would be a ter rible mistake to call the police he is not. Do calm yourself, | beg you you A peevish man and a bucket Whitewash form a dangerous com great Oshkosh-to-Oconomo. bination, according to the unhappy » fight was just about to} experience of Fred Chase, street car The aviators were in their| conductor rank Downey, de | ™ and the motors tecti ve whir eady for the word “Go! Downey was riding on Chase's| ve ty crowded out on the - 1 to Ket a close view of the start, | sharp propeller bi } bert mi plane w yer S ominous blur close to the ground, Zip! It was a g Sarsaparilla enya The One—Did I understand jto say that you hunted ¢ | mountains last winter? Temperance |i! The One—Have any luck? The Other | every guide I almed at. ns in the world which have the genius to the medico who allow when a man pase chloroform, ought to have t plans for the future slic interest is the supreme interest. The public has the right to demand that peace shall prevail. It is to be hoped that when we shall have established the new institution of direct legislation, the people will take the matter into their own hands, and relegate this pitiful warfare to the limbo of the has other claims to distinction, how ever, than bis age not go Into the statistical part of tt Ho himself did back into the legitimate with a play that will be to the Homestead” has been to Now Englanders, There are probably a few theatre goers In Seattle today who saw Mo Kee Rankin when he first came to s 26 years ago pl ber of others of those old plays in which he excelled. j ls Old School Actor. type of the old school actor ard for the tradt * of the sock and buskin, ia Mo Kee Rankin idon to being an immensely is also one of n Gaby Deatys ney before in devel ever had” please give us an | ago tean Moses." Probably | of Mise O'Neill to- O'Nell parted from her te [day as the greatest trage jeompany and allied herself with God-Given Talent. ria, And Uncle QOutburst of Everett True iN THE CRADLE OF THe | LAY ME DOWN-N-N-N-N IN PEACE YO SLEE-EE-EEP or idges? “) ROCKED Movement Has a Meaning / HURRY OVER aled the a off ur square editorial the middie of the first big nafl-head h 0,000 King county for cheaper wharfage, more visits of more ships, more railway better values for all kinds of invest enues for King county veded improvements, and in short, | the county and Indeed th Seattle, Wash., Oct To the Editor |have recently jtence passed upon a self-confessed ¢ by Judge Kav The murder was @ brutal| one, and was preceded of the meanest type known to man| that of forcing a woman into al life of shame tn order that he might | be supported by her earnings there-| So there was nothing exten. uating, as related to the man sen. The newspapers nqu ve dog ran between J f le to where the amem: | Now, os to the words and actions of Judge Kavanaugh in the matter, He is reported to have said uu committed a ter r in the| “Welcome, y The Othe o r—"Yes, that's what 1) 1 'bo more terrible still unreasoning|a@ torturer had he lived in the da jeadid. 1 missed) ..'s severe punishment |is mot correct. You are now to re ping Rather a generous attitude for Mr. Rankin when one considers that after thelr long associations Mixs here David Helasco. Perhaps hors was a wise move perhaps not. In any event, she is now simply one of Relasco’s leading women, whereas she was — recog ni star until she accepted the tithe role in “The Lily.” which car ried critical New York by storm a year ago. TO EVERETT TRUE'S RESIDENCR —MAN HURT!" In the Editor’s Mail | Short letters from Star readers will be printed in this column when they are of sufficient genera anything or anybody so long as personal malice is mot your interest. You may write about ner punishment uur victim died but ones. You will dle a hundred times; you will suffer more the day you put on your prison clothes than she did in her death. After that there will be only the hopeless, painful years from day to day, from month to month, stretching out forever and in agony } “In four or five years the etermat solitude and atience will be to crush {in upon you like an tron| weight You hear that str car bell, ringing in the street as it passes now? You will remember it in after years as the most ex quisite music. It will mean hurry ing crowds that go where they like and do as they pte the greatest of all pleasures—free dom. You can only dream of tt by day and by nigh will be upspeakable.” It ian’t the fatent of the law to} visit vengeance upon malefactors, but only to protect se them. If a man kills, and it is deemed wise to kill him in order that he may not kill others, let him pay the penalty of his crime; but with as little cruelty im the doing) as possible, To torture in revengp evidences what we are pleased call the nature of the brutes—angl | yet the brutes do not do it. It & only the human animal whe resorts to tortureand, thank God, there are but few of tham who now do it I had supposed the bench was frap from that type of man Judge Kavanaigh was born sey. eral hundred years too late. Hp would have attained high rank of the Inquisition W. W. CATLIN, 1714 B. Highland Drive SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 McKEE RANKIN, aay Me Koo ~ nnn | Waved the hand, and clapped—oh, ankin has three daugh|i¢ was a grand pleasure ters. All have won laurels on their own account on the stage. Phyllis A Friend indeed. Rankin, the wife of Harry Daven-| Hiss Hitts—Mre. Knox had the port, the com Westchester county, N. Y She has retired temporarily from the| Miss Overton—Indeed! And what stage and ts making oodie money in real estate, | Mine Hitts Two-Minute Vaudeville it will mean | and your torture | jety from | Newe Union § THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE = @_ pos. satin IMcKee Raniin, the Old School Actot, Could Take Out a Show and Have No Actors But His Relatives The Genius Who Made Nance O'Neil a Great Tragedienne Is Making Plans for Future Work—Not Oslerized Yet. STROLLERS COLUMN Last evening a young business man bere in Seattle called up his best girl tello, Mary,” he sald, “in that! your" “Yeu, George, dear,” camo the reply “What are you doing?” “I'm all alone this evening.” “Gee, | wish I waa there.” “I wish #0, too,” “It | were there, do you know what I would do?” “What would you do, George?” Just then the wires became crossed in some way, and thin is what Mary heard “Well, I'd pall her ears back until she opened ber mouth, and then I'd put a lump of mud im it. If that didn't answer I'd give her @ sound thrashing.” “Doe” Yandell says that any fool who would advise him to cure a balky horse by putting his arms! around the animal's neck and whine poring words of love in its ears ought to be strung up to the near eat lamp post We print this with the hope of squaring George with Mary. After the concert the other even- | ing Scotti, the famous tenor, feased before kings and queens—bat} when I found myself in the middle x slaw , 1 was, what you call it'—seared; yes, | very nervous. I tremble so that in the first song it was difficile to find my voice “Afterwards | have no trouble, the people were so enthusiasteck And when I sing the popular song in the dialect Neopolitan, my com patriots up high laughed, and/ tian, is now living in| wudactty to inelnuate that your tooth were not your own. 0,000,000 annually. chickens are alwa fh up that @ Seattle audience had | sn al | prsactrmee a g © Hehting amg hash Pres a Fi Minister's Daughter: Papa's sub-| “Wall, I ain't nt shore,” 4 Jeet tonight is “Love One Another.” | awered the old fa r, “but T low amiled the noted Italian | Shall we go? mebby It alr ‘cause we feed ‘em I haf sung in pubdleek everywhaire | cy By Matl, out of clty—1 year, 1 a8 second-clinn mattag, JOSH WIBE SAYS: 1 wo had better stay at ho “Triplets wuz born In Besleysport| practice what your father pu last week, an’ th’ Chamber o' Com ee: merce mandin' that they be in-| October was the eighth cluded in th’ last census.” | until 713 B.C ¢ month What are you kicking about? Think of the poor chap who was the means of having his rich uncle committed to the insane asylum, and then finds after the uncle dics that the money has been left to him and then have to prove the old man Waste marsh lands are was really sane r all | claimed in Bermuda by being ty - | celery ng Argentina has a climate so mild) that the stock can live all y pasturage. p water?” _won't be « ertme gy will be ® miragle” si THERE FOR KEEpg, © | There was a y (man from | Who walled quite oft row “I'm afraid you won't do sky cavalry recruiting officer.“Wewant| One day a spark missed, heavy men who can ride straight) And his p wave a t over anything, if necessary Once more ho in soaring on “That's 1 right, sir,” said the applicant, “I used to drive taxt-| About 60,000 buildings any cab,” stroyed in this country by fire evan 7 year. * Australia has over 87,000,000) —— sheep. It's an 1) wind that blows owt your last match. Most people who cast their bread | - upon the water use it for bait | “Why is it,” q | boarder who was affileted with the Germany's toy trade aggregates) silly question habit, “that your Her Fiance: No, dear, 1 think] scraps, by gra NOTHING TO FEAR serene of} did you say? Oh, I sald | was sure Another daughter Is the wife of| they were, for you always paid spot Sydaey Drew, John Drew's brother, | cash for everything. d Dorta, who plays the unbappy | in “The White Slaver” so A Gate Offer. didiy, a the wife of Lionel His Wife-—-Daring our courtship more, who shares honors with | you often sald that you would be Mr. Rankin in the sketch at the Or- | willing to go to the ond of the earth pheum this w i | for me.” And Dorts'’s husband ts the) Her Husband--Well? nephew of her sister's husband, His Wife-—I've just been reading Sidney Drew a ma } Quite « family mix-up. zine article to the effect th the earth le round and has no ends. Ee Saad BY FRED SCHAEFFER. | | BY FREDO SCHAEFER, Thud—i head you are paying $10 4 week to learn how to repair and drive an automobile, Have you a car? Slap—No; | haven't the price of a car. Thud—-But I know a lot of x the price of one Siap-—-Well, then, how {# it they got the car? Thod—Why, they gave the price for tt Slap—Well, | may never have a car, at that, but I ike to ride. It's great fun Thad—Did you ever ride in a cart? Stap--Yea, indeed. A total stranger picked me up once and let me ride as far as the emergency hospital Thud—Are you eure he was a total stranger? Siap—Quite sure. He'd just run across me for the first time in his Hife. . Thud-—Did you ever try to érive a car? Slap—Yes; that's how I know I can drive one. I tried to drive one out of my front yard the other night. It was wedged in be tween my oleander bush and the bay window of the dining room. Thud—Left there by the owner, I presume? 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