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ad-e aiter. xX month Six montha $1.70 Dissolving Reasonably VU. 8. supreme court ordered Rockefeller to dissolve within 60 days, and John got busy In looking around to see where he could make business changes that would not mean heavy loss, John discovered that he'd been pay fag too much in taxes on personal property to the city of Cleveland, | » county of Cuyahoga and state of Ohto, Last year he returned $5,000 of personal property. Being required, by U. 8. supreme court deciston, to issolve, John has dissolved this neat yum to $1,000, and his tax i $10, As to how John doos it ts a great lesson in “business efficiency the new fad. We will add that John's present list is minus, amongst Other things, the following which appeared in his last year's returns; Six fine horses—valued at $25 each. Two beautiful first-aid-to-the-hungry cows: Bight carriages—-valued at $200 each. Two planos—valued at $150 each. It was probably easy for John to give up his two $150 pianos, Most @ny sane man could tear a $150 piano, or two of them, out of his heart Without going into deep mourning, and it is possible that John can buy By the pint, or half-pint, better milk than any cow on four legs / Would give, But compassion fills our soul over the thought that the i , cruel law compels the dear old man to quit tearing around in b carriages, handling the reins over his flery $25 steeds. Gee! bat tough. Still, John may fill the aching void by blowing himself for a $15 automobile. Let's hope for the best. Anyhow, he’s won a tre Biendous victory over an oppressive court by saving $41 on his taxes, Down Goes the Pie Trust 4 ‘Another monopoly is busted, and who do you think “done it"? No Jess an insurgent than Senator Murray Crane, of Massachusetts, hith > erto lined up with the reactionaries. It was this way : Wasbfhgton has a New England Pie Club, composed of secretaries of senators and representatives. This club decided to buy its ples at Wholesale, instead of continuing to be exploited for ail profits, But senate restaurant, which has a monopoly of ple in that neighbor , said Yo, you don’t! You pay the full retail price, by gum, or You don't get no pie—seet” The New England Pie Club, valued at $25 each, irginia has a new dressmaker; * | }what do you think of the fit of her new gown?” 1 shouldn't call it a fit it a contortion “1 showld THE GAME BEGINS. a with the blood of Bunker Hill coursing through its veins, showed fight You're a monopoly in restraint of trade,” it shouted. “And an unreasonable monopoly, too.” That's where Senator Crane came in, He knows a monopoly when he sees it—-got « few himself: d, besides, he is chairman of the cou Maittee on rules and overlord of the senate restaurant. But he has no Personal interest in pies except that he comes from New England and an't live without ‘em. His decision? “The pie monopoly maintained by the senate restaurant {s an un Feasonabie restraint of trade » New England Pie Club must here ‘after get its pies at wholesale rates. ‘ wn went the ple trust! Fellow-citizens, let us take hope. We May yet cet the beef trust and the rest of the gang. What we need ts ‘More Bunker Hill spunk. “And what do you know about} Homer Lots, Didn't Duck Dunn and homers in| lot down} How to Live 100 Years Mary M. Scriggens, of Brockton, Mass., signalized her 97 y by announcing a few simple rules to enable any one to live to be 100. Here they are “Lots of hard work—15 hours a day are none too much. “Abstain from idle gossiping about your neighbors. “Never flirt, for it Is a useless waste of energy (oe “Do not read novels, for it destroys the disposition, and women get | Wrinkles worrying about the troubles of their heroes, re “If you have vanity of dress, destroy It. “Keep away from dances and moving pictur Probah!y you know all about it, Mrs. Seriggens, but if you insist on eutting out all the fun, we don't believe we care to live 100 years. We €an live longer in considerably less time Patsy Sanks make thr lde very last game on de de street.” NEIGHBORLY. | Observations “THE modern world,” says Woodrow Wilson, “is, of course, a bust 5 Bess world.” But not all business, not all business, Woodrow "2 o ° o ELEVEN DAYS in every year grown-ups over in Denmark go to Don't get enough of tfe fun that's in it when they are kiddies. | ae aS WHO wouldn't be a boy scout in New England? They are going to fl up the picturesque coast in an olf Gloucester schooner this summe F oe ° o MISSOURI'S democratic legislature refused an appropriation to up the immigration propaganda. Said too blamed many republic- : Were settling In the state. © * * . * * * * \* * * “How much better Dickinson's lawn looks than yours.” | “I don't know why it should. He| borrows my lawn mower and 1 borrow his hose, and we both use} Bronson's roller | HIS MEASURE. } ee Fe GEORGE W. PERKINS, formerly with J. P. Morgan, writes an arti on “Business, a Moral Question.” He is strong for publicity, which all right, as far as it goes. o 0 © KING GEORGE'S autamobile ran down a woman in London, where ‘pon he jumped out, took the woman in his arms, placed her in the ‘tonneau and rushed her to a bospital—a true kingly act. o 0 o THAT Unitarian association which proposed to kick Senator “Fletcher out of its vice presidency because he upheld Lorimer, came Pretty near setting an example that would raise the old Ned. ° 0 0° NOT Forybody in Great Britain is busted yet. Some 10,200 paid! © tmcome tax on $650,001,000 last year. But we have single individuals » tm America who could pay income tax on more than that, only they don't. a °o © oO 4 CALIFORNIA W. C. T. U. rather soaked it to old Busch. Declared | Bis magnificent Pasadena place stood tor proceeds from selling crime, Fuin, prostitution, etc., in his beer. Now watch Adolph get busy adver- _ tising that there's nothing in it. ? Ore Nx! : NEW YORK has a big west side, which is largely taken up with “the New York Central's railroad tracks and yards. Now they're talk- | tng of building a roof over the yards and letting the people use it for a Water front park. These are certainly the aerial days. - ; tn the Editor’s Mail EGi.+ the Star-—"If you give the; tion of a court. Injustice to a cor-| “Don't be a fool.” “Then how could | associate with you?” | THAT RUG. i | People the right to recall the judges the mob will rule our courts. The\the people's will the corporation courts have an- inherent power| likewise gets justice. There is no Sbove the limitations of statutory | conflict between the two such as to aw. We must use this sanctified| make justice for both impossible. power to overawe the inflamed But the corporations are afraid tc sions of the mob. We must protect] tet the people be heard find make secure investments of our! constantly seeking the ear Captains of industry. The people are| court, and in many cases the voice Rot capable to pass judgment on the| of the people is lost in the noise of| fitness of a judge to hold his office.|the electric motors, steam whistles What legal training have the vast | and telephone bells. majority of citizens so as to enable Teus do you wonder the people! them {0 decide that question? They|are disgruntied and dissatisfied?) | possess none, and therefore it is|They are not, never have been and| better that they attend to the affairs| never will be tyrants over their] Of their everyday concern and not| servants. But in fact they are over méddie with things of which they|indulgent with their officials. know naught.” Mankind is more disposed to suf. Reads like a note from Rockefel-|fer while evils are sufferable than ler's diary. Sounds like a conversa-|to right themselves by abolishing tion over the phone between Andy|the forms to which they are aceus Carnegie and J. Pierpont Morgan. |tomed, But when a long train of And yet with such an array of |abuses, pursuing the people, is about mighty men, with their uncounted | to juce them to a despotism it is millions, The Star will take issue. | their right and their duty to throw| poration is wrong, but in abiding by Why, sir, The Star must be crazy.|off the yoke of tyranny under the | This mighty power of men-of-mil-|cloak of a sanctified court. The | Hons might turn on The Star and | judg are only human-—at ‘east . 4 y | put it out of business. What right | some of them are—and if the people a pred aageelay ore ae has The Star to criticise our courts | avail themselves of the right to re-|' ‘the galeaman—-Certatnty Ad judges? Is it not destroying the | call the judge he will not only hear! phe Tittle Girl Hadne yoo ae Fespect our people have for our| the noise of commercialism but Willltgr tell him te be an Gear he sanctuaries of justi have both ‘The Star says “No. We are simply | the people. tearing off the mask of hypocrisy.| Any well Informed person who Our criticism is a sacrilege in the! holds honesty and justice as virtues eyes of those who want to keep the| will not deny the righteous stand courts far from the people. It is 2| taken by The Star nor condemn its heresy to the creed of all who use| utterances on our courts and judges the courts to plunder the people, of| Keep up the good work who put money above human Very truly yours, rights and who can see only ducats THOMAS J, CASEY. a the inspiration in human life. w York Block Such people have their ‘good reasons’ for opposing the recall of THE BRUTE. | judges, but their ‘good reasons’! “John,” said Mra. Spenders, “I've spring from an intellect corroded | got lots of things I want to talk to ¥ith corporation lucre or blinded|you about by. ignoranc “Glad The people elect the judges. They | husband sually you want to ereate the office. And who will deny | talk to me about lots of things you that the creator is superior to the | baven't got.”—Wasp. creature? The judge holds his| office by virtue of the people's act | | on election day. He is, therefore,| Tom—Did you ever such a their servant. ‘Their will is his! pretty girl? How on earth can we duty. He should be impartial and meet her? fair alike to the corporations and Dick—I've an idea. You push her People. Kut the people's will should off the pier and I'll dive in and save At ull times be the first considera- her life. 7 Business Bringers. Star classifi sell real estate, Fs open to the voice Of lihere on time mamma? You we give the party tomorrow know night hear it,” snapped her A GOOD SCHEME. | funny, old “Suggest something dads. Buy or |man, fou do, old man, you do.” aeeeeeeeeee eee REE Ee EASILY REPAIRED Shortly after the return from their honeymoon a young couple of Cleveland undertook housekeeping, the bride betng expecially desirous to put into practice the lessons she had taken in cook ing, Returning b one evening the husband found bis wife in tears, Between sobs he managed to learn from her that some- thing terrible had happened. “Dearie,” she guiped, “it does seem too awful that the very first meat ple I should bake for you should t ten by the cat!” “That's all right, my love,” said the husband, patting her on the shoulder “Tl get you another cat right away.”—Harp Weekly, * Rok RTO Rk kk kk tk tok ABLE TO RECALL IT The young man in the third row of seats looked bored. He w: having a good time, He cared nothing for the Shakespearean dr “What's the gr it play you ever saw?” the young woman observing his abstraction. Instantly he brightened, “Tinker touching a man out etween Chicago Tribune, A that at the papers say well represented soclety the ceremony the collection plate is passed But there tsn't any plate pass at a wedding unttl later, when they ing the dishes at each The bridal party ¢ church in a seagoing hack know why they call it a » | hack, unless boca it rode after walting for the tled ¢ bride and groom and brides maid and best man and of both famtiles a friends rode begin throw other. the inside, but they ride on the seat with th man. That was some comfort. Coachman tried t As much as he cot The reason I've got on a white to cheer wp, that mi es weren't shirt ts that my daughter got mar taken seriously any more ried last month, and I'm trying to At the house there w a rece got all the wear out of it before sending it to the laundry tion for the » at invited guest ont et in afte The marriage threw my wife Into h inapect hysterics, She Iaughed and she! ing the groom's new hor I had cried. It was when she saw the a hard time getting in myxelf. You man that Carrie picked that she see, we had detectives guarding the laughed, and it was when she real-| hired presents, and they thought xed it couldn't be helped that she! was a cried onsta to levy on them Of course, they bad a large wed-| The festivities were J up to ding. My daughter invited every-|a late hour; also the neighbors body she hated, so they could see, Alt rit wax a glaring success, how happy she was. But nobody th ighbors doing most of the that came could # t way glaring. And have to show There was a regu awh at the | for it ie one rnecked son-in wedding, and some of the people; law whom we don't care particular stood up in the pews This made! ly to show Seeee ee eee ee ee ee Tough Luck When a Real Insurgent Has to Rah Rah and Point With Pride to Fairbanks ; It's hard lin real progressive, to one’s dear old alma compelled to glory in names like | Hithu Root and Charles W, Pair-| banks. Fairbanks, you may recall,| used to be vice-president of the U8 | That's what ©. J ent president of league, is up against. He must give! the rah rah yell everytime Hamil ton college ix mentioned. Now when one has spent four years || learning the proper eadenzas and|| fortivaimos in that yell, he ts per foree obliged to regard some cer-|| when one is a|-—~ ~ look back to mater and be France, insure: || the Muntetpal || cond and third and getting the bail over to Chance In time te nab the runner to first,” he sald.— I think these are the very same peo ple who hide under the pews when ml A plate isn’t passed ‘uve up to the I don't agoing relatives id a few intimate ¢ | chort! the sent by the caterer RHR TODAY'S GOOD SHORT ONE. A motorist was brought be fore the Justice of the peace who had fined him before. You been out with that machine again, have you?” demanded the justice, “Fright ening horses again, eh? don't you get a flying if you want to beat time and be eccentric? It-would be no good,” wear. ily replied the prisoner, “You would arrest me for frighten ing the birds.”"—Royal Maga zine * «! * *! ao How Reactionaries Who Were Ri tired by the People Have Given Soft Piaee: One of the President Taft progressives of his party * * have sins is charged by * * * | reactionary have be is public « * . + | lame ducks.” * «| * * *! Rett ht hehe ee! * * * . A CALLDOWN Mre. Gabbley—! really don’t know one good thing about that Jones woman, do you? Mrs. Cutting—Yes; but you wouldn't enjoy hearing it.—Boston Transcript. THE ORIGINAL. Very clever, isn't he? os ‘m told that his three older brothers are mentally weak.” “Yes; he's the ortginal sane fourth.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. UNCLE SI'S PHILOSOPHY. } T dunno,” says the Ottawa Re-| public's Uncle Si, “but the councll | ought to abolish street corners. | They seem to breed loafers FRANK P. FLINT, former sen |ator from California, |the Ballinger-Pinchot jand upholder of Ballinger, an as sistant to Aldrich, A PUBLISHER'S ADVICE. The Author—Would you advise me to get out a small edition? The Publish Yes, the smatier the better, The more scarce a book is at the end of four or five cen turies, the more money you reall from it.—Cleveland Plain Dealer thet * *) tariff bill, finally the cataclysm or Gov, Johnson ina fornia, rewarded jon the monetary | $7,500 a year with no duties eform gurated in Call NEW MOTHER GOOSE. *» BACK TO THE iL. # | Cock-a-doodie-do, * “Gardening has pone «| dame has found a shoe, * young Weakling to health. #|."TWill be Exhibit A in court *® Great thing, gardening.” #| When she begins to sue * “It was dening that #| ; # knocked him out in the first # | Cock-a-doodle-do, *® place. # | She was quite wise to you % = “That's strange. What kind?” #| The night you stayed to “fix the * Root * books, * #| She knew it wasn't true. et tk tk kk tk tt tot tok A BOSTON JOK®. The board of education of Kansas has ordered that ali school houses hereafter built in the state shall be provided with cyclone cellars, This precaution against great winds looks as if the board antieipa revival of Populism.—Boston 1 script PRIDE OF BIRTH, Rooster—-That Miss Pullet s awfully stuck up. Biddy—Yes; sho claims descent from one of the highest-priced tn ecubators on the market.—Boston Transeript. Cock-a-doodle-do, The chorus lady knew ‘The jeweled souvenir swiped Next morning you would rue, WHAT DID SHE MEAN? “1 see that the widow of a subur- banite who was killed in a railroad wreck got $100,000 damages.” “And yet city folks say people are foolish to live in the suburbs Philadelphia Bulletin, Cock-a-doodle-do, They've got the laugh on you, out, That's where she found UP SOCIALLY. GOOD ADVICE. Do you and your husband belong any clubs? day. She—You'd better swear off. to “Ob, yes; he {8 a member of the Always at’ Presaing Club, and I belong to three soap premium so] |_WHY COOKS LEAVE HOME, cleties.”—Globe, Where Is the cook?" She's in the kitchen pr PERSEVERING, supper for the doctor Patient—Say! that isn’t the tooth| for the doctor 4 1 want pulled athdents.”—Fliegende Blaetter Dentist—Never mind, I'm com ing to it The Important Dimension. Boston ‘Pranseript —- Detective-Inspector HE KNEW, Miss Sweet—We all consider Wil-| How tall was he? lie the flower of the family, Business Man—Heaven Mr. Spooner—Yes, he's a bloom-|but he is $26,000 short!—London ing nuisance.—Boston Transcript. | Opinion, Lame Duck Club with which the the use of federal patronage to reward tain names as the pride of the in atitut Harvard has Roosevelt, | Wisconsin hax La Follette, And Hamilton, up York state, has Root || and Fairbanks, And ee, in snrgent though he 1s, must point! with pride to them It's almost enough to make doubt his simon-pure inaurg And the fact that he was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, does not} clear the stand-pat atmoaphe en-| For was it not ex-Sena | r Burrows, he who dead and wounded was among the in the political tornado of 1910, who united with a stove company to| give Kalamazoo its first newspaper | notices? } On top of that, too, if you should| happen to know that France used to help out the legal firm employed | by the Seattle Electric Co. and lator had offices with a partner « R. Achilles Ballinger, could you be blamed for failing to understand the whereof the insurgency of the aforesaid C. J, Franc We put the question to | France, || Which of itself t#|] commented on. For an omnipresent smile,'| peaceful smile for all oc-|| and he smiled nothing to be France has a placid casions might This time, however, we say, it grew into an audible a lawye You only know me s nd it and then ed |He never makes the chandeliers and we were convin servants who 2 repudiated by the people. w#{The latter are generally called member of committee, Southern Pa cific representative, voting for the overthrown by which by appointment commission at he # ingt learned that ‘rance is also a doc sce studied law at nights at|tremble when he speaks e dows tor—a Ph. D. He got the title at itimore Law school, while not fuss and orate on all occasions y Clark university Massachusetts,| took charge during the day of the he does not ring the welkin over- % for post gradu work tn hi scientific department at Tome insti-| time. He remains calm, peaceful, be and soctolog tute, one of the richest sectarian | pacific, and rises only on stated 4 re Look at your history students,”| schools in the country After casions to make a few remarks in th Franc 1 are not they eticing law in Baltimore for well balanced way, and they be © aly Look at your stude three years, he came to Seattle in usually mean something. ah wf sociology The studies induce | 1907. That's why, perhaps, he was Z progressive ideas, There is He Usually Says Something [chosen president of the Municipal Woodrow Wilson, and there I» whi his environment had no/league for a second term. 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