The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1910, Page 4

Member of United Press. Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Entered at Sea stoffice as second-class matter, 0, Wash,» BALLENGERITES AND COMMENTS BY BYSTANDERS AND OTHERS Being in Part the Secretary's Report for the Year Ending June 30, 1910, nting defects In the general mining laws, they have accom plished their purpose in causing the mineral resources to be de veloped and have thus contributed enormously to the wealth of the nation “You bet! Hurrah!"—The Guggenheim Gang. The federal government should not undertake or a the entire burden of the constrvation of the natural resources of the atates in which the public lands are situated, for it has been dem i onstrated that the states are capable of taking care of these ques i 5 tions in a large measure | Let the states do it."—The Amalgamated Grabbing Clan i Transfer the Cunningham claims in Alaska from my depart i ment to the court of appeals of the District of Columbia , “Can it be that the retary hag decided that the people do not Ike the idea of the attorney for the defense also acting as judge of the court?"—The Innocent Bystander. Unknown and unexplored lands I would have open to explora t tion and location. This: would give a reward to the diligent pros { pector. { “And me such a dandy little diligent prospector! "—Standard Oil. | It would seem a direct and effective method of control woul ; be to trustee the water sites (1,450,000 acres) to the states. i “it's easier breaking each stick separately than the whole bunch tied together.”"—Western Power Trust. been undertaken since March ts have No new reclamat proje 4, 1909, but prior to t time 3 primary pro, * had been under aken { On, March 4, 1909, R. Achilles Ballinger moved into the interior 1 department. The large national parks should the convenience and comfort of tourists and ‘ careful preserva of their natural features i “Fine! f gradually ned lor campers and for be ope up Great idea! Go to it!"—Grand chorus of Everybody in America. The scenery and natural wonders found in other cour s fre. qQuented by our people are insignificant compared with that of any of our great na al parks and the mounta rang in which they are found This “parks for the people” matter was placed last in the re port, but it alone pays one for wading through what may be the farewell message of Richard A. Ballinger, secretary of the interior, hers, possibly A strange, triumphant life was more than that of any other woman, not a hereditary queen, who « ‘ The test of her works !s still to come. A poet of the day re marks Stone cit But footste a Mrs. Eddy’s influence reared of stone, but thease are nothing compared to the schoc and the spiritual at mosphere she spread th Mark Twain predic a hundred years two would divide the world between them—the Roman Catholic ' Christian Science. If that prediction is fulfilled, the name Baker Eddy will live long in human history THE STRUGGLE FOR AIR Chicago proposes to limit the stories, and thus to protect public rights in air and sunshine. England has her “law of ancient lights,” which pr landlords from shutting off the daylight from thelr ne height of skyscrapers to 15 wdy It Is well to have a similar movement in Americ the light goes wholly out of our m olitan skies, and in Yentive genius interests some trust magnate in a proposition to bot We the air and sell it by the quart. The United States’ populat more than 20 per ¢ 10 yea But this ceeded all the way to ten times In certain The biggest grow est of the 100th meridian the country in twain treme Northwest, the now takes its way. A begun to grow. Th h. The Southwest there the star of en big sections of the republic have only are the lands of tomorrow OBSERVATIONS DON’T sass the girl behind the counter till after Christmas e. 6% ’ A PIKE ST. dealer in tombstones Christmas rush in his line. says he doesn't notice any 6.0 DARE to do! Wellman and Dr. Cook got two bits a word for telling how they failed to do tes “PARTY lines no longer exist,” says Jim Hill. And if Jim can see It everybody else ought to. ae | « NEGRO porter slash & customer in a Seattle barber shop Saturday night. Moral: Use a safety razor Re THAT New Yorker who voted for Rockefeller for U. S. supreme judge maybe believed in taking the short cut, as he saw ft. ara Wale’ OWNERS lost $50,000 on the Johnson-Jeffries fight pictures Simply made a mistake as to the public love of high art ee eae GOVERNOR HADLEY of Missouri has cate of “back to the soll.” Now he ing 100 acres of fruit. His orchard speeches. . “hk ee IN ENGLAND suffragettes get jail sentences and in Washing ton they get the ballot. Come west, English women, up with the country! an ardent advo back himself, plant as eloquent as his has gone will be you and grow ° ° really wants t Mies Elkins and {f the duke wants Mise Elkins, why in thunder don't and give the rest of us a change of thought? aT Nae LARGE country! Big snow storm, Monday last, New Yorkers to the hospital, and at went down to 15 cent box > ° ° San Diego fresh strawb per LA FOLLETTE advises ev ody to read ernment ownership of railroads in the United § 4. Say, what does Bob take us for socialista? ¥ GENERAL FRED GRANT says every ma a x» os merely for the moral uplift of m scipline. Yes, t 12 all afford the luxury at $13 pe > STOPPED for not paying taxes, Tacoma street railway cor panies got an Injunction from a federal judge, and i ' ness, tax-dodging being included in “business 4 | SEATTLE grocers will not raise the price of sugar, ¢ , the refineries advanced the p er obs ‘- rounds. Howe k goes up ac ad MR. WALL, fathe el, aged §, « ‘ ‘ short hair, Court dect 1-16th negro blood made Isabel ne gro. Wall asks why 15 it dent take her Write DICK WAITS, Mountain View, Cal He’s suing for divorce, t and | harged with de is to resign, go's to give » en in i Here are a few “wet” sta Be The fic ocean water weighs 9 iF water in the Atlantic about 7 Ree § third a ch To 1W away th contents of the Pacific it would be a mile . eve e day for Pacific oon Ga ¢ 119 Yesler 60,000,006 ; iM Home of the Famous W. L. Douglas Shoes Opposite Seattle Hotel Christmas. ® boy a g Postmasters May Come and Postmasters May Go THE STAR—-MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1910. THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE But They All Keep Wm. J. Colkett as Assistant | | Present Deputy Has Been on | Job Since He Graduated From College Some 30 Years | Ago | Postinasters may come and post masters may go, but you're sure to} find William John on the | job as assistant n there for more than %0 years, and it's| all the more remarkable an achieve mont when one learns that it was ho! null Decemt 1 of this yoar that he was first protected — by jeivil ervicee rule } But W. J. (hi dom calls him: self by his full name) has other! claims for distinction besides thin postoffice Job. He was the first }man to graduate from the Univer jaity of Washington, and put it in| your think cap right now that any-| jone who could at any tim i Ba} | Meany, now professor of history at| said institution, that he was a freckled-faced freshman Is some im | portant bug | And there fs still another reason | }for putting W. J. in the hall of} fa Half of the class of 1880 of | Washington, | the University of which consisted of four members, | ' at his said half being Mra, W. J nee Clara Ei Lombard, and W. J. himself. Ea jpassant, it might be noted that Just | 30 years after and Mere Col} kett got their sheer Marion | FE. Colkett, their only daughter, graduated in a clans of 130 | W. 4. COLKETT. Colkett started work in the a apis after Op Mee Rennes Aaya ag was born, which important event 18, 1867, exactly #3 years to ; = satotant. and he tok place in Chairville, N. J, a after Paul Revere made ANd Searething frets muking que | (named after a chair factory) on famous ride In moonlight money ordora to cleaning the win dows received the munificent This his sal a month at first gradually raised until ary now amounts to $23,000 a y and he has a large, well-appol office all for himeeif, wit nice any furniture, and a nog | to take care of his corre nee. little change from the life of stant postmaster as it used » once upon a yw 231 clerk ® wpecial delivery * and eight laborers, 437 altogether. Col kett used to do the work « al in 1880 democra won and lost ant pe cans pops standpat He w e is only now During all thie time C has f manifested a deep, though not os | ¥ an interest In the welfare h ty } saw rapidly growtng ved for two Under hia sup aix years achoolboa years an presi rviaion, abs 0 schoolrooms were it iiidren of bis, all born ir have since made liberal use of some of these. All in all, Colkett ‘# quite a famous man. Even the elements conspired to make him so when he FUR Our Liberal Credit Sy these desirable pieces on t $ Tastily well cons English able gift DEL Stoves $1 Weekly Set of 6 eather Weekly $1 Secone HOLIDAY SPE Magazine Rack signed ang | Desirable Desk, like } iMustration; of quar tructed of oak, | tered onk finished golder 4 with finished golden or Early | draws wood knobs GOODS HELD FOR CHRISTMAS DESIRED, $3.50 Dining Chair, “wn nctive C r juare Top ¥ r urter awed iz: EATTLE’S in the Editor’s Mail Short letters from Star readers will be printed in thie column when they are of sufficient general interest. You may write about anything or anybody so long as personal malice is not your motive On your) cope with the better educated class a are of childrer thelr old age sand sweat) Ch n Id be thought of lem- and planned for instead of being my cast into the world ignorant and but | helpless idea to| | am sure that an article in your paper on th greatly & Kener to occasionally better the F. BRESLIN or 6s Star The committee ts Pittsburg evangelist going to thont st carry the Gospel hundreds of feet hey a be w the urface of the earth to tantly educated to go the miners working in the grimy orld and earn « decent dueky depths. Also open alr meet emaolves, instead of ings will be held at the noon hours the mercy of aweatshop and fe Now, that is all very well for the ory taskmasters? No benefit of Ub miners, The parents of the t of thene and It alec for the * are ignorant, having peace of the fat pocketbooks of the F and val trust, but it will not help the tinmedt starved minds and 5 jon of the after cbild. miners, nor will it be of muct je to support result ts | co tion to the starved and factories ted wives and children in those «rim, cheerlens pwned houses, and fed NITURE Co Ave ST WEEN PIKE & Parek CIALS stem extends you the privilege of selecting any of erms of $1 Now and $1 Weekly. 4.50 | $10.50 Ladies’ Desk | $7.75 and lar ed wr | ment. well arrang % compart A most desir / $18.00 Library or Den Set IVERY 1F $1 NOW—$1 WEEKLY Handsome Arts and t Table Chair and =—- Electric Lamp; solid oak, Karly An ex English finish. ceptional eo ad D> value =P} ; ~~ | $16.00 | Dining ed Table txcellent = hair full | “l POPULAR HOW iE-FURNISHERS so By Mall, out of city cents for two months, Twenty-five cents per for thee months or 20 cents for one month, 76 cents for three monte month when subscripts more sata from high-priced company stores. | AN INSPIRE Why don't these enthustastl evangellata firat carry the Gospel mennage to the office trust and demand an deal for the miners and the jearry the moseage to the state leg D REPLY, true of th honest public inlature and congress, and demand honest laws; carry that message to the governor and the presiden and demand an honest enforeemen of such laws; and finally carry the message to our courts and demand an honest hearing? When these evangelists do thene things, the miners will have con fide in thelr efforts, but until then It will look to them much as | though the evangelists were hire » of the 4 trust, working tn interest, not for pace On . Kood will to man,” but for pence under the earth and good will toward the coal trust, which would be much cheaper than| ~ strikes and lockouts o A FRIEND. Bremerton, Waef. STAR DUST There's a gift in each closet, | And mystery reigna | The coal-bin ts loaded with ; Toys, dolis and canes. Cop—Hey, what ® you doin g? Suspicious Char Er—I'm just doing my Christa while before Christmas ying early each one is wise | =e ey To the present that’s for him. When iil 2 ke an we the next feller ie ane If your grouch ars to bel Washington, D. C., D of the agricultural department, one that won't come off; if you feel|,, Dear Dad: Forty-six years ago, in wcing her salary to $900 a your ¢ universe bas {ce on | the little town of Winchester, Va.,|1 the matter up, and found ; if existence scoms profitless | ‘here were two sisters, daughters | th + Wilson, son of the see stale and every man of a Southern gentleman, the prom. reta of agriculture, wanted acy against you, go make some poor ind wealthy resident of the place for some friend of his, f» little kid py this Christmas, If OW. The two sisters were beautt he took it. The little Southerm lady you don't feel better then drop a| ful, of sweet, retiring natures, px had no powerful friend. She hed ton of cyanide of potassium into |/# and with ev wish gratified gray hair. That was all, lyour coffee and END IT ALL that ence ~ry te "#8 oor world look It was a new and almost What do you intend to do sing. But one dark tional sho the 60 cents you'll save on ac ia were awakened by dein b the reduction of the Pul itler, and were told that rth-rate? General Sheridan was in possession of the town, and’ that the 186 Skinney A. Nuff, the Village [Dicom ‘Aken as 8 temporary Cutaway. Chairman Knapp should have com In the morning they went dow: uously absented bimself from he wounded | n r rings during all this presen and in the Ay 3 overn™ If it is of any interest to the pub N THe BnREEN eginn 4 2 WRITING was ic, that patient composite may fo sea r and the make ready its mind for the an- » war was | Dounce it that the railroads will he two sleters were glad to | De granted thelr increase of rates, ept the assistance of an old fam ‘Il not say that “the cards are end, who ac It wi sufficiently ex- plain to say that & majority of the commission bave what has bees d them cle cal naa ad apa i termed “the railway mind” Sin oth, and rendered aid Cerely, RATH. South who than she. §& rt in the diabu You'd better keep still or some thing will happen to you,” said the o, and the long « of ex. tired mother to inquisitive Réwin, ence were by promo. “Curiosity killed a cat, you keow tions, w brought her Edwin was so impressed by tie that he kept silent for two minute, Then: “Say, ma, what was it tat was protected by t r though he was not so very | Cat wanted to know?” long ago, te from the departs femoting” her| Wall st. had president's mesmge from her place the disbursing/ several days before C. P. But whe office to a clerkship in the If der is C. ninco Gilt That Keeps on Giving Did you ever stop to think that if you gave your your mother, your son, daughter, sister, fiancee, godson or any one who is close to you, a Saving Book with $100 entered in it, you would be giving them not merely the $100 of NOW, but the $4.00 interest that the $100 would earn in each of the succeeding years? In other words, YOU give them a Holiday Present THIS year, and that same Holiday Present will give them an additional Holiday Present NEXT year and the year after, and so on through ALL the years that follow They may spend this interest each year for other little gifts that they will remember you by, as each new Holiday Season comes around, or they may let it accumulate and even add to it from time to time with rift but of his gift in such a practical a permanent the form appreciation not only of the had made givet Isn’t it, after 1? We firmly be of it the better you will he recipient of the gift is certain to like it. lieve that like it the mor you th It applies, in proportion, of course, to a book with $10 or $1,000. Whatever ord for a gift, this suggestion is worthy of your care um you can afte ul thought. Alaska 1 Joundinay Jing, Home of the American Bank ad tmas Eve or Such a gift can easily be sent to { yiks far away> so timed that it will reach them on Chi Chri we will be ple Mail course, no char deed, to ent tmas vou live far away, f Banking is, of morning. Likewise, ised to have « yur by handle the here are glad, in- matter er into the spirit of \ccount ypened from $1 Scandinavian American Bank RESOURCES, $11,000,000.00 CHILBERG 4 £ President 1 upwards T. B. MINAHAN J, F, LANE Vice Pres. Cashier wm ALASKA BUILDING, SEATTLE, U. S. A. momen CHILBERG Vice Pres. = Se LURE ARUP SRE EL. UFESEL ws VSrEts [ESVEste _ , oe