The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 31, 1911, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR Baan: _ Tetras tp yy oll elf The a Publishing Co. Se raiared ai Beaitin, Wai er ity, 38 Not more than 10 per cent of the industrial wage _ workers of the United States earn over $1,000 a year. of them make less than $500 a year. Hardly one woman in the industries earns $1,000 , only 2 cent as much as $750 a year, and thice fourths of all women so employed make less than Ti i e more highly-paid trades, it is found eS Een than $15 a week. Of jewelers, 47 per cent exceed that income; workers, 42 per cent; foundrymen and ma- per cent; paper makers, 18 per cent; fur- hands, 17 per cent; leather makers, 16 per cent. percentages earn less than $2.50 a day, than $780 a year. And those are skilled trades. figures are from the new book, “Wages in States,” by Prof. Scott Nearing of the Uni- of Pennsylvania. His curiosity was aroused conclusion reached by the government labor effect that $900 is the least amount for which an American wage earner can maintain his iency under the present cost of living. The vast proportion of our wage earners are not etting the $900. They cannot, therefore, maintain their efficiency. To put it bluntly, they get less than _ enough to defray the cost of decent food, shelter and ing, and a reasonable amount of mental and phys- ion. And this is the richest country, of the richest age, |» _ in all the history of the world! : Doesn't it make you thoughtful? The Fame of Parnell Dublin has dedicated the St. Gaudens monument the of Charles Stewart Parnell. It is a i shaft of red Galway granite, terminat- a bronze tripod. The statue is of bronze, and, shaft, are an Irish harp and Parnell’s man has a right to fix the boundary to nation. parenrien <0 Setarits serviine ts he liberty is reassuring to those who are to follow the cynic’s view that but success. i standards, Parnell’s career even in humiliation, 20 years ago. his cause defeated, and his besmirched, he went to an untime- we under the load. Truly, his sun set in cloud ze es $ Fe i rt rl i E [ i i f F i already the t jument rises in the cap- ST ie oars Parnell is not for- for then; he suffered for their sake. And that token he lives, immortal, while the trucklers Pulitzer is dead. Totally blind since 1888, this wizard of the newspaper business, | this genius of American journalism, stayed at the helm of his great pa-| the Ni York World and the St. Louis Post-Dispateh, and with} unseeing eyes but farsecing brain he was a mighty factor in the) affairs of the nation. In 1847 the poor Hungarian boy named Pulitzer "He kecame a New York street “gamin.” took care of mules for the commissary department. After that he @ reporter for a St. Louis paper. Then he borrowed enough money take over the old, run-down Dispatch. He made it a big success. He) Sew York and bought the World. There he showed the people journaliem.” He was its originator, And with the “yellow” | me to the “land In the civil war took up big anf successful fights for better tenements, better | ¥°7 better living conditions, better polities for the masses World became a national figure. « , blind and suffering, has been a powerful force in direct- national polictes. He is dead now, but the work of really big men never dies. of the Observations FOUR American cardinals! Pragty strong demonstration of the Smportance of the United States and growth of population. te ae GOOD EVENING! We hears in other parts of the country, a lot about Seattle's rain. But what's theematter with this fall season? Wouldn't do any harm to write the “folks back home” about the clear, ool, sparkling days enjoyed qn the shores of Puget sound! SAVE those gateposts tonight, you Halloweeners! It may save a bill of costs later. And remember, oh, you grown-ups! that once upon @ time, it red blood flowed in your veins, you were just as full of the devil on Halloween as the youngsters of today, . o o ° SOUTHERN PACIFIC railroad pickles thousands of ties in the Great Salt lake every year. Some of them have been in use for 40 years. They can't be used where the block signal system is employed, how- ever, as they “ground” the electric current. o ~ oO CHICAGO has been selected for and his court. They shouldn't hast Progressive headquarters and has| ily conclude that it isn't a blessing Biready begun to let out a loud La|—that f, if there's a real muck Pollette roar. over there that needs raking. oo°o 000 ETEF highest for two years at! HARVARD of Harvard is the lat- Chicago. But who cares for beef,| est sensation at the ancient college. anyhow? Pate de fol gras isa whole He's a destendant of the founder Jot better. and came from England as a matter 00° | of sentiment, MAGAZINE writer declares “it! ° 1s possible to make a million hon-| CAN a woman collect alimony estly.” Perhaps, but not by writ-| from two divorced husbands at the ing magazine articles. |same time? It’s up to a New Yoi o 0 9 jcourt. So far she hasn't been atie WHEW! Those Copenhagen fel-|to make a go of It. lows must be plutocrats. ‘They | 000 threw eggs and apples at Dr. Cook! _ HALSEY CORWIN of New York, when he showed ‘em a picture of | Raving spent an $800,000 fortune in the north pole. | short order, now has a job at $12 “Never so happy in my he oo ° BERLIN'S newspaper to stir up the emperor | tions! Hothrau Spend this evening at the Hofbrau. “Min- gle with the care-free crowd.” Go Where the 8” are good—where the crowd is jolly the entertainers pleasing. The price moderate at the Hofbrau, of course. says, Congratula First, Ave. & Madison} voL.1 The Wasp Published Weekly Subscriptions Now Due Advertising Rates on Request From the way some old married couples act it ts hard to believe that they wore ever in love with each other, . . Constable Doe Mingo has a new silver badge as big as @ blacking box Doe thinks it makes him THE STAR—TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 191f of his time whittling with a Barlow knife? see When Bud Hawser kiased Lovey Boyce Sun day evening one of the neighbors sald the smack sounded like hitting a celling with a wet dish rag. eee Ono advantage a man has is that he ean wear a hat four years without attracting any particular attention, e Mrs, Amanda Pickerell remarked at the Sewing -_ « frost in on the rocks; It's time to wear your overcoat little old woman who acted all the time like she was afraid of her husband? eee Norn, to Mr. and Mra, Tyler Knott, a daughter, It's « girl and weighs 8 pounds, . . Somehow a man al ways looks out of place at a millinery opening. see Leander Mallet’s wife nearly had a fit yester- day morning because Le ander asked her not to slice the ham as thick ple. Clrele noon look more ft portant eee Speaking about titles, there doesn't seem to be any wild scramble among most men to get “O, K.” after their names. oe While making dider Wednesday, Ansel Pog ram cut one of hia fin gers. It bled some into the cider, but Anse sald it wouldn't make any difference after the stuff was bottled and had a French label put on ft. ee for the have water, do all t Polk in the What has become of the tall fettow wi wore @ goatee and spent most header “De Short says hunting because taken for “Gee, he wouldn't be mistaken for anything bigger than a gnat.” he doesn't he might be min that soom to think they have done thofr built brought in a bucket of Perhaps you have no teed that it's always the neighbor's children that deviltry last week with a double reelection of Taft higher prices for turnips. wo And pat on socks. . after men ‘Thursday e- whole day when a fire duty they and a ee there is going Pre A. Milla, sor he meanness and farm — Inet “ee Dodson came out Kedbury Banner mules Metion helion. The p hired man is kicking about t “* Did you ever advocating the aod DISTANCE. “How far down the Rhine did you gor" “Twenty postcards.” “When you see three or four haif-grown boys slouch down an alley it is not a sign that they are going gage in works.” Prof. Clapp of Harvard anys rag time is all right, but he says it this “It ia utter nonsense to sup that syncopation in harmon bas an immc pose jnatio Ot which proves there are still} some lovely words left in our dic- onary ‘The fodtball team at leant never depletes the literary soctettes. It is easier to believe in fairies than to buy suppers for one. A Quincy, Masa, man as he feached the aitar found he had a} mar: | Heense and not He must have taken hunter's riage license. her for a dear. Uplift Stuff. Don't forget your failures; they're the best tips you'll ever get. Leave today's troubles with to day—it deserves them There's ng glue so good for mending a busted heart as a little service done for others. Wo Ist? By the way, what has become of the Camorra trial? and Speaking of the past, do you re member those golf capes the la dies used to wear? In St. Clond, Minn., there is this sign: John Schumacher & Son Footw Also thi Isadore J. lok, HELPING HIM OUT. , ‘I've got to have something to get cobwebs out of me brain, you know.” “Tried a vaeuum cleaner?” The song you sing as you trudge And on the morrow come back to ¥: you i Crowned with a sad heart's dream, come true. One union suit will not accomo date twing. The dictionary ‘« running over with lovely unused words. Our modern songs are commonplace because their language is so trite. | Let's get some erudition into our lyrics, For in instead of singing “When the moon is dark | love to spark,” -| Let's sing it wa though we know something, thus When the orb of night Is Infuscate rly love to coruscate,” ipa = || Ae IF & BG SWALLOW CAN OWA | | TWEE as mucH AS A sma SWALLOW CAN SWALLOW, HOW LONG Wikt (T TAKE A BIG SWALLOW “TO SWALLOW THE AMOUNT THAT A SMALL SwlALLow CAM SWALLOW ¢ SEND YOUR ANSWERS TO W, J. BRYAN NoT LATER THAN NEXT THURSDAY, Anyhow, A fortune teller can tell you where some of your money is go ing. House Furnishing Goods. Twenty-five coeds are ¢bing housework to earn their way through the University of sourl. One girl goes out waghing. If you want a sure thing. on the sunrise, -bet' Alimony {4 the reviving sprinkled on regret. water CONSOLING. “My only inheritance. is brains.” And not the best brand at that,” Once in a while you will come acroks a per son who believes when roosters crow the middie of the night change in the weather. . who moved from Boston to the Saltmarsh month, has named his span of bay he names. * doine| As a shoe HK heavier “ee There's hardly any- thing awkward a short, fat woman trying to keep up with a tall man who wants to walk fast. that tn see Lamson Seoilard, who teaches at Plum Center, to be a Fanning | blatta orientalis yester- day, but got choked on the wecond syllable, Ty- bald Neweomb pays the thing wouldn't have bothered Lamson if he'd called It « cockroach ve. The real pleasures in life are thove which have mo day after, nd Perl wor's already know @ BUT THEY AREN'T. Fasting la a great healer. If fasting would do all its advo- cates claim, we boarding house in would be the happiest on Pt AA ARR RRR GIVES IT AWAY “What & loud-looking wom- # * an!” * “It would be much better if # % she could be persuaded to use & & noiseless powder!” Balti * |# more American, * RRR Rhee SYMPATHY “What did you do when you met |the train robber face to face?" | “I explained that I had been in |terviewed by the ticket seller, the ugkage carrier, the dining room jwalters and the sleeping car por ters, and borrowed a dollar from bim."--Washington Star, Egae are twenty cents aplece at tuayamnas, Mexico, because moxt of the hens were drowned in the | recent foods. Pauline Wayne, the White House cow, has retarmed home with more medals than Taft got on his tour. Not Fair to the Scotch. | Kansas farmers have asked Lu {ther Burbank to take the spine out of the thistle. Tact means looking the other way when a man hits his thumb with a hammer, THE TWIG WAS ALREADY BENT There's a dear, wee, pink, I'l baby on this train. A few minutes ago an elderly man stopped to peek-a- boo at it, | “A fine youngster,” he said to its demure mother. bring him up to be an upright, com. scientious man.” | “Yes,” amfles the young mamma | “but I'm afraid it will be a bit diff cult.” “Pahaw!" says he, “‘as a twig is bent, so ia the tree inclined.’ ” | “I know it," agreed mamma, “but | this twig ts bent on being a girl, and we are inclined to that Portland Oregonian. AFRAID OF HI8 PAST “Where are you going to kc your law office—in Winterville i No.” Why not?" “I sang @ tenor solo with our col I'm afraid they haven't forgotten me,.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer, WANTED THE LONDON cur. But, my deah boy, o to this beastly chi ‘One of my chap. My tatlah made my slothes fit so uncommonly well that I covidn’t look English to save my soul, why do you came near swallowing 4]. S| Fottette will, © “I hope you will) t it go at} lege glee club in Winterville, and| Like Cincinnatus of Old, “Bob” Bridges Came i "Back; His Slogan Is “Public Ownership” ; enceinnamesaati Sometimes they do come back. Cincinnatus of old, after taking Enoch Arden came And so, too, “Bob” Bridges came back Many, many years ago, Bridges was in the limelight of the Back in the early was elected commissioner of pub- Hic lands. He remained in public office for four yéars, and then be came a farmer, And for a dozen years or #o be cleared land and ploughed and sowed, and began to grow everything on two big fi in the White river valley—except whiskers, That was the only thing he balked at in the farming bus! nena. a And then Bridges “came back.” | When the Seattle Port commission | was elected, Bob Bridges, after a) political retirement of 15 years, came in a winner, He established @ new record in xing county. Here's His History. Bridges was born in Ayrshire, ROBERT BRIDGES. jand, in 1861, about 30 miles |. —_ — nas the pH that “Dave” McKen- birthplace. Like fob” Hodge, zie and “Bob” Hodge claim as their|"Bob” Bridges worked in the coal Wall Street Prepares to Ditch Taft, Declares William Allen White BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Author of “What's the Matter With Kansas?” and Other ‘The fortnight passing has disclosed some curious politic It Is evident that behind the scenes of big politics the stage getting up the canvas for a big set —a kind of transformation scene. The big, Dbedizened newspapers maintained baldly for the guilty joy of bigh finance are preparing to ditch President Taft. The New York Sun, which shines in the reflected glory of Morgan, has been telling the truth about the funereal character of the Taft meet- ings, and editorially the Sun and other organs of its class have been clawing the president politely yet victously The recent interview with Vice President Shorman, in which he is quoted as saying that the California election indicates how far Taft is out of sympathy with the people, Is interesting. It Ix the follow-up cir- cular of the Wall street hewspaper campaign Wall street sees that Taft cannot win, Big business will dump him mercilensly. Jt seemm to fear that Taft's weakness means the success of La Follette unless something ts done to outplay the La Follette sen- WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. timent What the play ia, no one this side of the curtain kn But the scene shifters are busy. Perbaps a new candidate will appear—some fine, unimpeachable, dignified candidate like Seth Low, President Butler of Columbia, Senator Lodge or Senator Burton of Ohio. Big business could steal the South from Taft and Hitehcock. Getting South- ern convention delegates from Hitchcock through the Southern rail- roads owned by the men who are jabbing the president in their news |papers, will be like taking candy from a blind child | With the South gone, Taft's renomination will be impoxstbi arry the West. Nothing can stop that, Wall street knows it. Wall street's feet are so cold that tts toes CLINK! That's | why it is dumping Taft and preparing for some new political maneuver. |La Follette sentiment is growing. The Taft trip has proved that he cannot regain the people's confidence—that he cannot know their lan |kuage, that he cannot bold their allegiance. Something must be done }to stop La Follette’s rise as Taft sinks, Something will be done. The scurrying of feet of the stage hands behind the curtain foretell com- ing events. The people will watch the rising curtain on the next act with tn- terest and deep concern. For it is the drama of popular rights T {act closing is a most lamentable comedy. The nest act will reveal | the plot. Good Things al events. hands are SS nthe Editor’s Mail Editor Seattle Star: 1 quote from a sermon of a Seattle minister: “Tam a lover of the old paths, because the men who traveled them were men whose lives were squared by the moral law, their charac- ters fashioned by the Sermou on the Mount, and they rendered the best service to humanity the world has Altering the same, my thoughts are as follows: I am a lover of the new paths, because the men who travel them are men whose lives are squared by the woral jaw, their characters fashioned by the Ser: mon on the Mount, and they are rendering as good service to humanity as the worl] has ever seen. Most of our troubles are caused by our attempts to go forward while we are looking backward, The light.of truth is eternal, but it blinds one to look too much at its origin and note only how it ts ap plied to conditions immediately surrounding it. The best way to use | the light of truth is to face away from its source and allow it to come over your shoulder and illumine the path in front of ¥ To be = | i | | it takes the truly great and courageous leader to lead his people around the pitfalls that may be hidden in that shadow, which is sometimes lighter and sometimes darker, but which is always immediately ahead of us. , PHRODORE TEEPE. Seattle, Wash. ‘ hditor Star: With hundreds of others, 1 pyotest through your pa- per, which always upholds the right, against the closed doors at the Gipsy Smith meetings, resulting in many peogle being needlessly crushed. Why not tarow the doors open early and set the people In as ently and in order? . B 8. Soattle, Oct You Know the Signs f biliousness—the out feeling, headache, dull eyes, lizainess, bad taste, sallow skin, sick stomach. Get rid of these 2s soon as they show and you will be happier and feel all the better. You do this easily and prevent return of the troubles, BEECHAM’S PILLS fre a natural, Bos safe and reliable corrective. A few small doses of am's Pills will prove their valuo to you—they will tone up your system, remove the signs of biliousness, help you out of stomach and liver disorders, keep your kidneys active and your bowels regular. Tried and always effective, Boecham's Pills are the family remedy which alway Should be on Hand The dir rain every hex are very valuable. Boxes 10c. and 28e, —SUBSCRIBE FOR— The Seattle Daily Star Delivered at Your Home To show my apprectation of the fair and square policy of The | Seattle Datly Star, I herewith subscribe to The Star for a period of one month, and thereafter until ordered stopped, to be delivered to the following addr at the rate of 260 th ti | 80¢.per month by mail, ve ee | NAME | | Cut out and mail to The Star, Seattle, Wash. Phone No.... sure, there will be a shadow before you, but the future ta bright nat mines of Biack Diamond when he first came here, in 1887. He had been a mine worker since he was nine years old, He the handieap of meager schooling by aking wy of study for | himself, and he soon won sufficient | recognition to get the appointment | of annistant street nuperintendent ot Henttlc in 1893. He acquired a gute ficient engineering education that enabled bim later to superintend the butiding of the tron’ a n Den ny way His views are summed in these words “1 favor public ownership. 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