The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1910, Page 4

Member of United Press, Published Daily by The Star Publishing Co. Botored at Seattle, Waah., po stotfice as second-clasa matter Four lawyer friends of Abe Ruef, who legally style them selves “friends of the court,” in order to file a brief for rehear ing of the convicted graiter’s appeal, assert: “It is important that the guilty be punished but also important that they be Then they proceed to punch holes in the i legally convicted. lower court record to show that no matter how guilty Ruef was an unparliamentary proceeding his conviction clearly through technical legal errors Legally convicted! The whole tendency of this San Francisco court, as of many | others throughout the land, h the main fact of guilt or innocence of the big crooks, as shown by the evidence, but into the technicalities of procedure to see} if the conviction was “legal.” Now J. W. Bartnett, of the wrecked California Safe De- posit and Trust Co., is given his freedom because his conviction that he was wasn't “legal.” It appears that it was not proven assisted in the looting of certain funds in the capacity of trustee of those funds, as was charged, although a jury was convinced that he did assist in looting those funds in some capacity There are several other cases which might be pointed out Maybe it is the law which throws so many safeguards about an accused man that his conviction is practically im- possible, if he has enough money to hire high priced lawyers and put up a technical defense. But it looks very much to com- mon folks, not versed in the intricacies of the law, that the courts are more interested, like Ruef’s friends, in “legal con- wictions” rather than punishment of guilty men. MUSTN'T THINGS—BY A POOR, DOWN- TRODDEN BOY ‘Most evrything a poor kid wants ts somethin’ a poor kid can't have. Ev'rything GOOD is MUSTN'T. Ey'rything @ kid likes to do is somethin’ a kid must not do. An’ grown folks woncer why we gets bad! If ery blessed thing grown folks think they oughter have somethin’ grown folks couldn't have, there'd be a big lot of ty mad grown folks, Take it from me! 4 1 know, for I studies grown folks all the time to find out if ‘ there ain't somethin’ I'd like to have that I really can have. Once in a great while I see somethin’ that's “good for me,” an’ wich of course I don’t want, but I gen’r'ly pertends I want it, mebbe ‘cause it’s good for me, but most prob'ly ‘cause I know if 1 wishes for somethin’ that’s “good for me,” I may just poe gibly get that somethin’ I really wants afterwards. : It's tuf, that’s all. 4 Now candy’s good. But it's on the mustn't list 1: Shoes fs on the other list, an’ w'en a feller really needs ‘om some grown up'll get ‘em for ‘im—w'ich proves that grownups are all right after all. Autermobiles oughter be on the mustn't list for grown-ups that can’t afford ‘em. But you try to say to a grownup that has the benzine buasy fever, an’ see where you'll get off at! At the same time, kids ii posed to be perfectly sat'sfied if & gtownup tells ‘em that chew'a gum is bad for kids. Did you ever see the beat of such reasonin’—or unreasonin'? An’ by the grown-ups, too, w'en they’re so much more knowin’ than just kids—-if you ask THEM. So, fellers, just wait an’ watch an’ grow an’ learn, an’ w'en we're grown-ups p'raps we'll know more’n the grown-ups we're "quainted with now Police Re | Ethel Clifton, at the Other End | torview written yet? as seemed to be to probe, not into}! haven't written it yor jaway, and | bad an important en }gagement last night, and he wants) the story right now, and—can't [| interview you over the t phone Miss Clifton—I don't just under. yiand what you're talking about.) live just gotten up | performance lasts till 11 }in a couple of hours studying on WHAT CAN STOCKHOLDERS DO? | The Pittsburg Survey disclosed terrible housing conditions for the employes of one of the most prosperous of her big enterprises. ‘A stockholder read about it and wrote to the president. He said 3 “If it is true, I wit sell my stock.” The official didn’t Itke that ; and the evils were remedied. “A stockholder in a traction company was called upon by its President for help to put through a scheme to acquire another line unfairly. And the president was surprised by @ refusal, coapled with a statement: “For profits honestly made you are entitled to my thanks, but you are not employed to imcrease them by lar “One of the best day’s sport I ever had,” said the renowned Three of us, each with a rod, lawyer, “was off the Florida coast. 1 pulled {n fish as fast as we could get our lines in the water. forget now what kind of fish they were.” “Whales, perhaps,” suggested one of the party. “Whales? Why, man, we baited with whales!"—Philadelphia Times. OBSERVATIONS GO IT, CARNEGIE! Go it, Rockefeller! honest yet! You may be poor but 0 2 ¢@ THEY CAN’T FIND one single thing to warrant charging that New York explosion to organized labor. o 6 “2 “BIG BEN,” the ape in a Los Angeles show, escaped and joined the Christmas shoppers. Escaped them, byt a street car got him fatally ° ° o GIFFORD PINCHOT and T. R. are ag good friends aa ever, which is not saying taat they look at public questions In just the same way. They don't. ae CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE has a bully lower jaw. Hope he poijits it the right way. Why, it’s b 4 and deep enough to serve as a bulwark of popular liberty “0 @ HAVING FINISHED his gift of $25,000,000 to Chicago univer. iit and let the university do its sity, Rockefeller says he'll now own begging or growing, as it were COUNT DE LESSEPS is to break ground for the San Diego exposition April 8, 1911. He gets the job as the hetr of a great name. His father built Suez and projected Panama YOU'LL RECOGNIZE the ar by It one-eyed Goddess of Liberty te should have put an eye in Lit MRS. EDDY’S heirs now promise to make a fight against burial in Mt. Auburn cemetery, Boston rat thing those he know they'll find themselves to be exceedingly unpopular SEVERAL PACIFIC COAST CITIES to, atop the speed craze by putting “bump gutters” in th at the cross walks. Ought to make ‘em deep enough for near victims to dive into. ete ROME CORRESPONDENTS say that Abruzzi is “crazy to fly to the North Pole.” The duke the first fellow who has felt that way just before © wedding. Even the North Pole ian't far enough for some of ‘em, either SIXTEEN AMERICAN battleships sall from Mngland Decem ber 31 to surprise the Unite ta , and a fleet of cruisers and scout ships sail eastward at the same time to intercept ‘em, Our guess is the battleships don’t get ac without being discovered If they do, it will make the Atlantic coast a bit nervous In Fireproof Storage Warehouse for furniture, planos, trunks, ete. BEKINGS MOVING & STORAGE CO., Ino. Madison at Twelfth East 414; Cedar 414 Buy or Sell Real Estate. Business Chances, Ses Classified Page. 7 a | | | | | TODAY’S GOOD SHORT ONE | | of the Line, Says She Likes Seattle and Isn't Homesick on Christmas Week for Broadway. (8Y THE POLICE REPORTER.) City Editor—Got that Cliften in- Police Reporter—Why-—why, no; ©, B--Write it right away, I want to use It today P. R—-Oh, you want it right away? ©, B--Sure, | want tt now, P. R.—-Gimme L 4378, quick, L 4738? Central P. R.--Ne Central Voice P. R.—Give apartments (Wait of two minutes.) Another Volce—- Hello. P. R~Ia this Mise Clifton? Same Volce—Yos, what ts itt P. R—Say Miss Clifton, the elty editor told me to get an interview! with you. T had one last week with | Fle ¢ Roberta, so he told me to get another one with you and I didn't know he was in any hurry] about it, and now be wants it right} me Misa Clifton’s You know our and I put next week's part last night, so I'm} not exactly awake yet. What le it your city editor wants to know? P. R-—Why an interview, you know—what you eat and think, and do you Mke the bobble skirt and) how are you spending Christmas! week—you know—an interview. == | M. O.—Well, walt Un I get my} dressing gown on. (Another wait.) j Centralb—They don't answer, | P. R.—Hey, wait a minute, cen-| tral, I've got ‘om. I've just been! talking to them. I'm connected. Did you cut us off? j Central—What numder do you want? | (Another walt while central com | nects again. Explanations to Misa A porter F THE STAR—TI MISS ETH IURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1910, inds an Easy Way Out--He Interviews Fair Actress Over the Telephone | Leading Woman Baker Stock Company at th EL CLIFTON, R.—But, aren't there any ape cla! stunts for Chrintmas week? M. O.—Let's see—Mr. Galbraith he's our leading man, you know— gave a Christmas party at his home to the company and had # tree and presents for everyone. P. R.—But, doesn't an a homesick Christmas week? M. ©.-—Bless you, I baven’t any My home is where my trunk ctor get | HR —But, where fs your real Clifton.) M. C-—My business address te Miss Cliftos—-Anl right now. Fire | Broadway, New York away P. R—-You're not homesick for P. R—What are you doing Christ-| Broadway, are you? mas week? | M. C--Well, I like Seattle, of M. C.—Ohb, the same as every oth-/ Course, We've been here long week in the year—studying.| ron , resting. That's about is to it when you're playing Learning next week's part, remembering this woek's and for gotting Inst week's. IN THE PUBLIC EYE, GEN. STEWART L. WOODFORD. | The report that A ciath Justice | Hughes may leave the supreme} ter the Hat of repub-| ential possibilities in as “a las must be a very comforting r nor In t vicina. | ity of the best-kept burnsides in America; said facial foliage being that possessed by Gen. Woodford, | founder and first president of the nation which, by the w infaney at the Ch in 1908 The r r general of the civil war is now in his seventy and sti mixing pol and law, with no little suc > bimeelt. » Span » Amer rid court. clared political activities nfined to the effort of Hughe eat ate was ¢ The interior of the ambling hell at Monte Carto | ited an interestip t Fo full de ription read any novel that takes th reader in th mad wirl of aclety life on the continent Maxillia J Maltrave had | layed adily and lo: Ruin tared him in the fac Vith a hrug of the shoulders he placed his last sou on the double-O in the pea-green I must win,” he mu te i bitterly, “or 0 back to my Job as a waiter The ivory ball spun and then with a click fell | (THE BND.) Keystone Pants Packard Shoes Douglas Shoes jenough to feel at home 1-4 to 1-3 OFF ore, you! know. They seem to like our shows. That holpa, if you know your work is appreciated P RH any last word for Seattle girls, Mise Cliften—any ad- view? M. C.--You know how people gon- orally regard advice. You have to! work ‘things out for yourself, gen- erally, All I can aay te that the! stage in a good Hite it you love It.! If you feet that you just have to go on tho stage, and if you really have talent and are strong enough to stand the strain of the work and all, go ahead, Rut txn't this about enough? I'm getting cold, P. R—Yea. Thank you very mueb ' | } } } for men Su LARGEST CLOTHIERS ON THE COAST First and Yesler SPECIAL "$12.35 STAR DUST Lives of many folke remind us That in this short earthly mill, Where there are mismated couples, If God won't part them, Reno will Misw Holen Taft fe to be painted hy a Waxhington artist. Secretary Norton does the kalsomining for her pa. “Thy will be done” calla for ep operation as well as resignation, Boll turned up hy ants in some parts of Central America ts mixed with water and made into bricks The husband met his wife and baby at the station He clasped hia wife tightly with one arm while he held the baby under the other arm, That's happiness! Love you will find no ry joke; it keeps your heart and pock ot broke “I hear she's to be a New Year bride, Who's the happy man? “Her father. GREAT RETURNS. Doc Cook's. With thanks (for US authors). Election Boome & Joe Cannon to gress. From Bib The val of foreign fukes and counts Ix ining #o rapidly that! s00n most any poor girl can afford one A l4ntory skyscraper planned for Milan will be the highest busi ness bullding in southern Europe. WE ARAB HALL Naas a Cube Nia SKINNEY A. NOUGH, THE ViL- LAGE CUTAWAY THE ONE BIG CLOTHING EVENT OF THE YEAR GENERAL CLEARANCE SALE REDUCTIONS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS And now comes the Big Annual Clearance Sa great reductions in every department mark this as the one - Big Event of the year when Savings are considered worth while. All Clothing, all Furnishings and the entire Shoe Department are ered at reductions which + Come in tomorrow and Saturday for the pick of the ba ange from One ste its In tra $18.00 All- Wool, Heavy Black Al Weight Blue Serge Suits, in all Cravenette Presto Coll Two Entrances From the be materials ck at these prices 8.65, $10.75, $12.35, $14.75, $18 $8.65, $10.75, $12.35, $14.75, $18 Our entire stock of Cravenettes, in waterproof materials, ex $8.65, $10.75, $12.35, $14.75, $18 All Departments Have Been Marked to 1-4 and 1-3 Reduction SPECIAL $10.75 By Mall, out of city-.20 cents for one me cents for two months, 76 cents for three Twenty-five cents per month when sub for three months or more. DIANA’S DIARY — Mise Dilipickies Goes to Hunt Up a Neglected Relative and incidenta, ly to Mave @ Corking Good Time BY FRED SCHAEFER nei P | “Driver, to the Deppo,” commanded Carrye. “No laundry life for muh” v. | was stringing along for?” shesaort. This is the day it happened. Weed, with a cold storage giggh. found Aunt Blanche's. “This looks like the jungle, Go vis. At the hotel we pinned on violets | iting in that dump? Newer, Dek to make a swell front before my| ver, to the deppo,” commanded Gay rich Aunt Blanche, Then we hired/rye. “No laundry life for muk” a “eoup” and told the driver to take|Then she vamped, leaving me te us to the address. | go alone into the lace curtain Iam The driver took us there. jdry to meet my “rich Aut He kept golng and going and soon | Blanche.” we were pretty glad we didn't try) Well, it was up to me to take to hunt the place at night. The lo-! gaff, and I wouldn't welch eality he took us to loeked like the! grabbed my sult case and went {place where they don't eat Some to Aunt Blanche. My = basheesh ' body's Rolled Oats, He drove up a! dream was over. side street, where the kids were! (CONTIN VED) kicking tin cans along the rond and sighted us a crippled shack with a sign on it: “Lace Curtain Laundry.”| Speaking of monotony, an Engiish “That's the place, lady,” he said. three-week parliament election has Carrye Caracul showed her colors six or seven chunks less of Leap right then and there, She give me/and Grip than bicycle the glassy optic. “Is ‘this what I race. le at the great store 1-4 to 1-3 OFF Suits in all sizes and in all The entire yurth to One-Third. rgains. st makers in the land ll weights and colors, in all seasonable materials and im { the best manufacturers, offered at— sizes ; examples long lengths if desired, with Presto collars, offered at— |-Wool Waterproof the with new ars, special at 1 ——e ' e ' _ Shoes at Clearance Prices Phe reductions include every pair of Shoes in the de partment, including such makes as Pach ; ard, Gotzian and a dozen other reliable lines ; , ONE-FOURTH TO ONE-THIRD OFF ‘ Furnishings at Ci i . i ingsa earance Prices , ve One Opportunity of the ye: o take advantage of real savings . s g “ve thing in this vast de sn nt ha he me! ehteciad pgp cut we te ee ee THIRD OFF ; ' Green Trading Stamps With Every Purchase First and Yesler