The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 12, 1911, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR Weiner ot United Frees Pablicned Wally he The Afar Publishing a ao Bacred ri By mai. out of city, 9 conte per month up to HK monthe Sty moatha BTA Ores enee. Simplicity of the Trust Let us, as working people, investigate this Steel Trust mat > ter a bit for otirselves. j Ten years ago, four groups of financiers an, Carne Rockefeller and Moore—organized this trust, ‘They capital ‘ at about $1,400,000,000, taking $62,500,000 for their trouble in doing the financiering Uncle Sam's Bureau of Corporations now reports that the fair market value of the tangible property was _$700,000,000, Please note, then, that the “water” put in was $700,000,000 We would surely all be willing that that $700,000,000 worth of mills, factories, stores and'so forth should make a fair profit But the profits on the other $700,000,000, which is only printed paper, are also taken out of us consumers of steel and iron, In other words, we pay heavily because certain men have power to Print certificates of paper representing their ability to make profit out of us and valuable only because of that ability It is a very simple study thus far, but we have to ask our Me selves why these men have that power. The answer is that it is in the men themselves, At least two of these men started ig business comparatively poor men, They had the brains to te this condition and Carnegie sh ns by brute force, we would call acquire this power, to c If Morgan, Rockefeller er to pluck us ninety mil f tyranny and we would not stand it for a minute, because, such 1 seize while they may have the most brains, we ninety millions have © the most hearts to feel and bodies to suffer Naturally, the next question is Why should we ninety ions put up with brain tyranny ) any more than with physical tyranny? — : a Study this question thoroughly. You can bet all you velf © got that Morgan, Rockefeller and Carnegie are studying it hard A thorough investigation of the way coast steamers are being run wouldn’t do any harm. There have been too People should be able to board a steamer with ar ir they wil! reach their destination without accident. But it's true! the railroads have “nothing on” the steamship tines in the matter ef accidents. The Court “Disturbs Basiness”’ The more the decision of the supreme court in the trust cases) Ge studied the tess satisfactory tt appears, even to bankers and bush men. How ts avybody to know fn advance of a court deciaton ‘any particular contract he wants to make is “reasonable” tn the! that he may enter Into it and keep out of jail? The idea of the antitrust law was that ANY contract in restraint | ‘was contrary to public Micy and unlawful. But when the | court writes “reasonable” into the law it produces an en differen: situation. It makes “confusion worse confounded.” wisest leaders of the business world clearly percetve that “day of competition in all the great trade channels i» over; that) simplf outgrown that phrase by the process of evolution, inexorable. They now invite “regulation.” Probably we shall If that fails, but two courses will remain open let the trusts own the country; or, let the country own the trusts, the meantime, patience! And the unfaltering faith that a descended from the sixners of the Declaration of Independence met, in the end, consent to the surrender of its liberties. A marriage license was issued yesterday to a negro and a white ‘The state of Washington has no law against mixed marriages, @ bill was introduced at the last session of the legislature. It came to a vote. Oregon has such a law; so has California. The Average Man’s Money New York periodical publishes a department, “The Average Money: «2 Page for Investors.” The truth ts that “the average has an income of less than $600 a year, and that $560 a year is estimated cost of a decent living. And not so blamed either. Much does he have for “investments,” by which ts chiefly the securities of public utilities and tndustrial corporations? at all! average man” is interested in good service. good goods, good good government, and in the cheapest prices consistent there | ‘Tt makes us weary to the point of nervous collapse to read his “investments” in Wall st. stocks and bonds! Speaking of danger of shipwreck on steamers these days, the boats ‘one advantage for travelers, anyway: There isn't much chance of by pirates. And that you can’t say of trains, with bandits weeks. ‘em up every few Observations CANADA gained $82,000,000 in exports and imports last year. @ comin’ down the read, that Canada. ° ° ° ___ “WHAT is champagne?” asks the writer of a ‘Well, they say it’s something fierce the morning after } o 0 o _ -McLEAN. $100,000,000 baby goes to Bar Harbor this summer, sur- Founded by detectives. Being such a baby can't be much fun. = oC 25m .. OUT of 737.797 persons who died in Greater New York in the last years, 66,177 were buried in the potter's field—about 9 per cent o 0 06 he’s article on wine. frown from the bare lues, which is o 9 o _. GOV. TOM MARSHALL of Indiana say: @f laziness if the devil waan't 20 hot after us would Tom have us do—go to the devil? : o 0 0 __ IN 1909 Uncle Sam produced beer enough to fill a 100-acre tank 60 z deep and took the championship away from Germany. But it would! i@ a German longer to drown in that tank than any American on) “Some of us would die i the time.” But what o 0 o «PROF. GATES of Amherst college says he has produced a stingless bee that has three times the usual honey-making power. That's the| je with these blamed modern professors—aiways after the honey ‘and cutting out the fun. ° 0 o + THOUGH Alaskans of today burn Gifford Pinchot In effigy, it i# Nkely that a r generation of Alaskans will uncover their before his monument. At any rate, no one has charged him with jpting to betray his country in the interest of the Guggenheims. NOT GUILTY began Hungry Higgins, “I'd thank yer for a meal— “Not exactly, lady, or I wouldn't be so hungry. I ain't got so, | Mitich as a chestnut about me."—Catholle Standard and Times. TURNING NIGHT INTO DAY | z When the doors opened in the little Indiana theatre a farmer wandered in and looked around i “Picket, please,” said the doorkeeper. “The only thing I've got agin these here op'rys,” said the Hoosier, = he walked away, “is that they don't begin till bedtime.”—Success ECONOMY Tt was at a reception, and the lady, who had been reading up on health culture, mistook Lawyer Williams for his brother, the doctor. “It it better,” she asked confidentially, “to lie on the right side or the Jef?” “Madam,” replied the lawyer, “if one is on the right side it often fen't necessary to lie at all, Success Magazine. MODIFIED ANGUISH Two women, evidently of rural origin, recently entered a millinery establishment in Chicago and the elder of the two gave this novel order to the saleswoman: “I want a mourning hat, as I am in mourning. But my daughter here,” waving her hand in the direction of her companion, “is a wid- of two years’ standing, and she is in light distress. You might her @ hat with some red feathers on it.”—Harper’s Weekly. That fellow Wombat is something of a Talk about Napoleon! wrecks recently. |! onable certainty | SONNETS BY KENNETT HARRIS Its over now; they're Kone and we can rent From all the turmol) that for months has reigned, The fuss of whieh I bitterly complained; ve sped the last departing wedding guest, Thank Heaven! ‘That young fellow was a peat I the precious son-in-law we've gained, Oh, a good boy enough! But he has strained My patience aadly, It must be confessed Litke him, but*when morning, night and noon I stumbled over him Lt had my fill If they had ploked some special place to spoon And stayed there—but young people never Well, they have gone, and now | have the | I sighed for; but, good God! the house seems still! Now, when we're weary we can go to bed; We will not writhe at the eternal din Of the plano and the mandolin We'll have n nwd at midnight to be fe We're done with patterns, spools of basting thread, And dressmakers to press and pat and pin, 4 fit all day will life that years ago we That was not a sigh you heard. n't pat my shoulders, no, my dear, feel relieved, upon my word. if anything, | feel din i to cheer. Look at you? Nonsense! Women are absurd. That's—Oh, well, anyway, it's not a tear New York Amertean "MIGHT CHANGE Wise. WNL “I know I'm not half good enough for you, darling.” “Well, I'll marty you if you'll promise to maintain that same atti tude after we're married.” A QUESTION FOR POSTERITY. You expect your apartment houses to last for several tions, don't you?” sald a man with a row of children at bis side. “They are built to stay,” repiled the agent proudly “And you think It would be a gued thing for everybody to live in apartments? Most pleasant and convenient mode of existence possible.” “Well, what | want to know te this i persuade everybody to ocenpy apartments and then deny homes to people who have ebil dren, how do you expect your heirs to find tenants for your buildings? Washington Star. Dows your show his authority No. 1 gave him to understand from the firet that I fully recog nized it with genera COWARDLY. “When I arose to speak,” related the martyred statesman one threw a base, cowardly exm at me. “And what kind of an egg might “some that be?” asked an attentive | listener A base, cowardly eas.” explained the statesman, “is one that bits you and then runs."--St. Paul Pioneer Press. TROUBLE COMING. aa ow | 1 Ay “My husband has been out every evening this week, attending im-! portant club meetings,” | Walter-—That man's table man “Yes, so has mine—they belong | ners are about the limit to the same dub, you know.” | Head Waiter—Seh! He ts a mil “Why, how queer! My husband | Ilonaire. says he hasn't seen your husband| Waiter—Oh! for months.” ‘ contrteity. OWEN WISTER HAD HOPES. Owen Wister, in addition to being an author, has acquired some celebrity as a wit, says the Philadelphia Times, He was being shaved in 4 St. Louis hotel, while returning from a trip to the West some time ago, and the barber who was attending to his needs apparently had been out the night before. His hand was very shaky and several times the author winced. Will you have anything on your face when I get through?” the barber inquired, when the ordeal was almost over. 1 can't tell yet,” mumbled Wister, “but | hope to have part of my 1 see—it's just co FULL TIME. GONE FOR GOOD. “{ think {t's just horrid “Now, Johnny, how good will you! that you won't advanc be if I give you a quarter?’ About a quarter's worth, I guess.” of you $10 on my next week's house money. Well, I tell you I'm not making any permanent investments,” EASY MONEY. Veering trotted blithely to business. He had arisen before daylight and worked two hours at clearing up the yard around his house. The thought of the pleasant surprise awaiting his wife brought forth a chuckle. At luncheon Mrs. remarkably well.” “W-what man?” gasped Veering. 1 “The man you engaged to clear away the rubbish In the yard." was just finishing when I came down this morning and I gave him dollar.”"—-Metropoiitan Magazine, Veering remarked: “That man did his work - strategist himself.” TAs to how?" *Got his salary raised six months ago, and his wife haw't f tt out yet.’"—Washington Herald. snip egy A Solution, ° _ “After all, there's only wun way| DY puttin’ down the sale ov drink.” “Wot's that?” “Wye, gi’ it away dun. The New Excuse. Farmer (to tramp)—What are ou doing up there in my cherry | tree? ‘Tramp—t fell down here from an | airship —Filegende Blatter, —Sketch, Lon. A REASON “They say that writers, as a rule, live to a good age.” “Some of them have to, in order to get their money in payment from publication magazines."—Chicago News. THE LIMIT “You look worried, dear. What's the matter?” “My husband is iil," *Too bad! Is his condition critical?” . “Worse-—it's abustve.”—Toledo Blade, tern _ |thetr game ter, Then three ch Browns. We'll call that une For that is worse than pone. ‘ Ah, The But nary a eh Thowgd owner Why cheer for Howe, Who ¢ What they eodle Capt. Inanc B mo seltzer king, bh Repeat the dose. vidi man's daughter.” “The “Hard Post. labor of his time brary at Memph them They called | ting stronger Scientific t owatted a fly | And a flea then spotted the swat-| fortune MOST ANYTHING HOT WEATHER YARN, Frank Sparlin of . reports that apples om his fa roasted as they Brockport, m hung on the FLEA-FLY-FLO-FLUM, Would the fly ewatter flee | As the flea flew night | Or would the fleaflyattheswatter? | hy The Nine of Least Resistance. New York Mall | With seventeen games won; team the poor Bx eland Press. ¢, Fogel! for the Phillies Emerson ws married again That's what ft says on the bottle Ad In the big league towns is heard. the name of the nominal In Germany means a bird But * hapless Red me from over the Rhine? need ts a thread and For a stiteh in time saves nine. the bro LIFE SENTENCE, “There seems to be a penalty pro- for everything but stealing aj Houston Press, % @ penalty for that, too.” “I'd like to know what it ie.” for tit King Osymandyas of the twelfth He founded the first NIX ON TABLE EDGE. |" wish Thad long earrings, too,” Gays Sue to Marybeil “Then | could stick my gum on To reat my jaws a spell.” Woilgast s show that a per fon will develop his muscles faster if he watches while exercising. elr movements THE WRONG CUE. How did you get the black eye?” It happened in a bf 1 forgot an Washington Hera id. ard parlor I wasn't on the bleachers criticised a man's poor play THE YANKEE TWiST. man,” said th “You can always tell an English Briton proudly ‘ you can,” replied the Yankee, “but it doesn't do any | Kood.""—Philudeiphia Times. EXACTLY. Marketer Aren't you wasting a good deal of that steak in trimming tt Butcher—No, ma‘am: I weighed| io Blade.” Hit firat.—Tole THE LECTURE SYSTEM. “I expect to make a grea hit with my new lecture.” “What fs it about? “I am going to lecture about the central part of China.” But look hei re you've never been In the central part of China.” “Neither have the people 1 pect to lecture Plain Dealer. to."—Cleveland WHERE WAS JOHNNIE? When the pitcher nt to in Ts Jobnn mie of the sister knock Course, ‘don't you se —Success Magazi crowd of ball, was missing. ontigate, at home?” asked Jim assembled for Johnnie, the Jimmie was who answered his answered his shirt on the Hine?” ne. the sister; HOW IT WAS DONE And you made out of poultry? “E did pa & small fortune Where do you keep your chick 1 haven't any on how to raise ‘¢ Star Tough luck teigh “What's the we inquire young Sophteig! people say he Is. The doctors say he has brain| trouble.” I publish books Washington Vain Search. about sald the man on the car. tter with him?"| solicitously, | young Soph We like . even if he ts what} Can't he find any eure for it?” Not yet The physician says It would be easy enough to get rid of the disease, but it is impossible to jocate the brain.”-—Cleveland Plain Dealer. | | The Tender Reason, | Jones (seeing friend oft)—My young cousin Babs told me partieu-| larly to tell you to be sure and write her from every port |. Friend T am delighted, |carea— Did she really, old chap? I didn't think she | Jones—Ob, it-isn’tthat.’ Sho is | gollecting foreign stamps, you |know.—-M, A. P., London, Davis—How can you call a }young elephant of a canine like jthat one a lap doy and hear him eat “2 Smith—Come around some time Chicago News, | the }eheese champion, and sow he's get-| he made good in later built a ¢ many c these wer eral ratlroads, several tall bi add substantially to line and a bulky in cash, The latter aoblevement brought many tunities with it, PASS IT ON, of courte. One of | Then give ee cheers for the|these opportunt- Roate am! tes brought the | Hooray for Ita ¢ “nee, hero of this essay |For, nation famed, it should bej into the limelight named 4 few months ago He established a loan offlee where | sharktim ra more for Hedges’ | jnown pe * * * * . * o N you. ter. BUILDING FOR FUN. youngsters at the school in Norwich, Vermont, were thinking of the |dummer vacation and so on, Horace Chapin Henry dreamed of bullding difference to the lad what he built, just so he was buay planning to build something, While other And of ¢ years and thing amoug nev: of hiet pieces Idings that Beattle’s sky- # and oppor ia un The loan + SellalialelaDelelalaletehelohel WELL QUALIFIED. ‘Tuttle was o1 stand, and to he answered “Then what?” “The judge told the sherttt #| toast, plain boiled beef, ete * to put him on a jury 60 Journal COMING TO THEM aid that impetuous people have black eyes.” if they them, they are apt to get them.”— Yes; and ew York Mall, REVEN “Johnny, | have What that?’ it “1 think it serves her right.”— WHY NOT? Tm going to an employ Mrs. X —Houston| ment agency this afternoon annoying? 1 ha masseur Mra. Q-—Why don't you run di | own car? | am going to marry your sis- do you think about {nce office is for poor folks who need money. And all poor folks need money at one time or anc the loan office has thrive A nominal per interest Is charged and the borrower is safe. So his collateral Horace Chapin Henry was born in Benningtor rmont, in 1844. He was a poor boy and te “self in every respect. He bas all kinds of mone and nearly all of it is invested in Seattle properti« mwich Military nt things, It didn’t make much Chief among his achievements was the financing of the White and Henry buildings. Henry has lived in Seattle 20 years, He came hern Pacific out from the Kast to help bulld the Nor road's extension and bas helped a whole jot tr development of the town. He wan president of the Rainier club from 1894 ill 1900 and for eight yr was president of the Seattle Golf and Count In addition to these he has a right to walk Athletic, Arctic, University and Metropoll by merely nodding to the doorkeeper. He is also president of t King County Tuberculosin league For fads, Henry indulges golf. the strange set of side whiskers. EXPERT ADVICE The prison tuenkey found the two cellmates deeply ngrossed. One pored over the market reports « newspaper and figured on the margin with a peu His celimate sat expectant. “pil,” said the mathematictan. make $24 a night stealin’ hogs Magazine. ENJOYED THE DIET Ant His only vice is at Inst in you co lowa Buccess NOTE HIS ONLY VICE %| Dr. Harold, president of the New Jersey bourd of health, tells of . & young friend who recently gradua’ + a physician, says the Argo the witness # Ot One of the young doctor's first clients was a fat girl. Her fat Me onion | news weighed upon her, and she wanted to get rid of some of It don't know.” #/"°"" rhe young doctor drew up & careful diet; she was to eat dry and to return in a month to report reduc Chica. #| Hon * At the ¢ &|tor's doorway 4 of the month she could hardly get through the doc He was aghast Yid you eat what I told you?” be Re tt tt wsked Religtously.” Hix brow wrinkled Itself, |thing else?” he asked. “Only my ordinary meals.” COULDN'T ANSWER “Ry ginger!” roared Blithers, wrathfully, when his son informed him that he bad flunked at college. “I'm blest if I know what to jany. I-—" I sympathize with you, da it was with me whe Harper's We Suddenly he had an inspiration. “Any- don't have GEO. at news for) said Biithers, Jr., feelingly. “That's they asked those blasted questions | just the w at examination! "- ly HE HAD READ ROMEO She was very literary, and he was not He bad «pent a harrowing evening discussing authors of whom he knew nothing, and their books, of which he knew les Isn't Presently the maiden asked archly: “Of course, you've read ‘Romeo ve to get a new | and Juliet? He floundered helplessly for a moment, and then, having a bril- Mant thought, blurted out, happily | | The Kind In oyr advertising of this sale we do not offer brag instead of bargains or frenzied claims instead of sober fact tancéof this movtment than by making simple but honest comparisons of our regular and siife prices, the furniture we offer being identical with that which we carry in regular stock, We show English and golden, polished or dull finish. don't delay, but make your selection before the best are chosen. SOLID A remarkably lid Oak Dr shown in picture, golden fin ish; just the thing for your camp or sumn ular price $14 Very Low Prices on All Odd Pieces of Dining Room Furniture Mid-Summer Stock-Adjusting Sale Splendid Values in Library Tables if .- reg. | Unttous posts, box seat con- | medi ig’ : el ner home; reg- | struction, shaped saddie | Cum High back, well 50. Special seat; regular price $3.25. braced throughout; regular cucive $7.75 | Special .. +++ $1.95 | price $5.00. Special .83.2 Seattle’s Largest = Housefurnishing Store . aus Our Entire Pay Later Line of “Tve—T read Romeo!"—Philadelphia Times. of Furniture That Most People Want—Taken Straight From Our Regular Line We know of no better way to impress you with the impor- very substantial reductions in solid arly ak Library Tables, in the fumed, E. Many of the best values are samples only, so $19.50 Golden Oak Library Table .. -$9.75 Table $16.00 Waxed Oak Library Table ... $20.00 Waxed Oak Library Table ... 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