The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1911, Page 4

THE SEATTLE STAR Phones Private Exchange Main 9400 and Independent 441 ““Sismaber of Wuited Press. Published Dally by The Mtar Publishing Co. ~~~ Bntered at Seattle, Wash, ond-claws matter Re agit, gue of city, 39 cents per month up to six months, Six nn Two Men, a Stenographer and a Gun Tt was all about the stenographer, Benjamin Maban—irish, as his name suggests—-loved his stenos rapher. He was unmarried, so nobody has any right to complain. He meant to marry ber, All the world, for Ben Mahan, revolved about her whose supple hands and alluring smiles had first made his pulses throb while she took his letters and transcribed her notes In his office, Rut Ben Mahan could not always stay in Roseburg—the City of Roses—where this twain lived. He was called away for @ long time, and during this absence Roy McClellan sought the lady's favor, He paid her many and marked attentions. This would have been quite within the rights of MoClelian had It not been for the fact that he was married and Mahan belleved that she had been foully taken from him by one whose act at once robbed him and smirched his loved one’s reputation So, one evening, when McClellan and the fair subject of the quarrel —for it had become a quarrel—were coming out of a theatre in com: pany, Mahan was seen approaching the couple, MoClellan drew a Fevolver and shot Mahan dead. He was arrested and tried. The community was in a fever of ‘anger against McClellan, He was a married man who had stolen away the sweetheart of another man, and when that man had pmed to threaten him, had killed him r morselessly But McClellan was not lynched—he was indicted for murder, and tried. There is an old British maxim that the judge Is always of coun- sel for the prisoner; and in this case, McClellan, frowned on by the Angry mob, found in the court a defender, Judge Coke—an honored ame among the judges of the Anglo-Saxon “race—-was apparently on the side of the man who shot Mahan. He exciuded evidence that the community thought ought to have gone in against McClellan. He acted in a contemptuous way toward the state and its evidence. He did as a judge can when he tries—he threw his wel on one sid and this time the side of the accused. When McClellan was acquitted, as he was, the community was on fire with indignation against Judge Coke. They believed him responsible for the acquittal, ow, you say, if this had been in Oregon, under the recall—but It was! It was at Roseburg, Or, And the “mob” was excited. And It ealled for the recall of the judge. And, of course, he was recalled? Not by any means, They tried to Bet up a recall petition, and they couldn't get half the number of sign- @rs required for a recall election. The people said that Judge Coke hadn't been on the bench long, that while he was wrong in this case, he really was a good man, that his failure to let the opinion of the community influence him showed him to have a wil! of his own, and probably if allowed to stay on the Dench he would be a really fine judge! So the effort to recall a judge collapsed on the rock of the public's confidence in the man when he did what it thought was wrong. ‘This proves that the people are able to make distinctions, and that they will not recall judges, so Jong as judges are competent and honest It shows that only the judge who is useless or corrupt has need to fear the recall. At last accounts Coke was still on the bench, McClellan still free and Mahan still dead. tottfce as A Railroad Sermon T IT'S A GOOD SERMON FOR ALL OF US Courtesy leaves a fine Mavor—discourtesy a bitter taste, Courtesy makes friends, and friends make business. If you must fight with some one, join the army, The railroad serv fce Is not a training school for combativeness ‘The men at the top are uniformly courteous. Are you headed that way? Courtesy is not a veneer covering a bad disposition. It must be genuine and penetrate to the heart to be effective. Good temper is an asset to a railroad, as witness the following ad Every time you lose your temper, you do two things: You lose a patron for the company and you-injure your digestion. One ls as nec essary to the company as the other is to you Complaints cost more and multiply correspondence—correspond. ence means postage, and postage costs money. We have to haul a ton of freight two miles and a half in order to pay for one 2-cent postage stamp. The only things railroads have to offer in exchange for business are service and personality. Personality In this conn on means cour teous treatment and affability. Courtesy always pays dividends. These dividends may not come back to you in the form of dollars and cents, but they most certainly inure to your and the company’s credit. (The above is an address by the Rock Island railroad to its em- ‘ployes.) LET father do your Christmas shopping early, if he gets to chin- ming about the way you're hanging back o 0 0o A GORGEOUS welcome to King George in India. gatives didn’t attend. They were too busy starving. But millions of OS, ee IF CONGRESS continues til! after the national conyention, what & lot of remaking of laws the U. S. supreme court will have on hand! o 4 6 PRESIDENT MADERO announces the Reyes counter-revolution “nipped in the bud,” but he isn’t hanging up his nipper in the coal shed, we notice. e. O50 GEORGE HUNT, progressive nominee for governor of Arizona, has the right principles, and a bald head so smooth and rosy that strong men are tempted to kiss him on it. eae ere HIRAM JOHNSON is taking the placing of official advertising Into his own hands, and the organs of “the interests” in Callfornia are howl ing so that you can't hear the four-legged coyotes. ee MR. CHAMPION WOLGAST announces from his hospital that he'll return to the arena as good as ever. punches Ad where his appendix ought to be. Then we'll see, ee. s MRS. HOLDEN FRIBERG, of the Martha Washington hotel, distinguished as the only woman night clerk directs them to their rooms. that. feels Takes their keys and Huh! there's a whole lot of women can do C ks. Pie DURING Sultan Hamid'’s busy time, one of his rich pashas sent ten of his harem women to London for safety. Now the te strike and won't obey his recall. It must certainly be awful ten wives, none of whom will obey. ° have o °o LORD CURZON says that for England to give the ballot to young men “of the lower class” means revolution. If we remember Curzon Tight, he was weaned from a cut-glass bottle and went right to the public udder, where he got fat and aristocratic wearing medals. ee = a = GARVIN’S CORNER BY REV. JOSEPH L. GARVIN, B. D., M. A. Pastor of the First Christian Church, Seattle. THE TELEPHO NE SITUATION THE TELEPHONE is an irritat-, The ing indispensable necessity. We are | composed of three men, appointed now facing higher rates, poorer |during the last legislature, none of service, and a big chance to lose| whom reside in Seattle, upon rep 20,000 long-distance phone calls a| resentation of the conditions as pre month and a municipal plant, We |sented by the present need the city phone, too. TWELVE YEARS AGO we had only one phone here—the Bell. Service became #0 obnoxious that pubic indignation meetings were held. A business man opened his mind to me this week and told me about it. THE INDEPENDENT company sought and was given a franchise for 25 years, but has yet 14 to run The city hailed this company as a friend, All this time the regions outside of King county were cut off from the city. THE NEW COMPANY at once encouraged the building of local in dependent companies in Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom, Kitsap and coun ties lying south of King. On the strengtlt of this 25-year franchise |¥ citizens of these rural districts INVESTED THEIR MONEY in these small companies. Today |toye much te there are about 10,000 phones in|°** Much business use connected with Seattle, and| |! BELIEVE IN fair play and trom 15,000 to 20,000 long distance | square dealing. I wish we bad more calls a month, bringing business to | space for this story. Investigate for the city. yourself. Ag 1 understand it, the ALL THIS WAS DONE on the |? phone system does not mean promise that connection would be| Cheaper rates, and it does mean kept with the city during the life |Killing off outside support, hinder- of the franchive, The situation ig |!98 the proposed munietpal plant critical. The stock of the Independ. | #04 adding to our irritations, oot company is held by people| ACT SLOWLY, stand for the two friendly to the phones until the city counell speaks BELL (SUNSET) COMPANY. to the contrary, 6 33 public service commission INDEPENDENT STOCK HOLD. ERS has d the rates of the In depende pany, th Y arous ing much criticism and protest. On the other hand, the city council is being implored to annul the fran chise of this Independent company “WILL YOU WALK into my par jlor?” said the spider to the fly. | That is the way this phone program looks to me. What will happen when the Bell company gets con trol? Have you forgotten 12 years ago? had it then | | | STUDY THE EXPERIENCE |Kansas City, The main line serv ice there, under the Bell one-phone lsystem, it was told me, is now 50 a month, Do away with Independent company, and we faith with the companies outside of King county, and will But just walt till some opponent} of} LOGICAL in knowl “You can’t be a c ventor without a thorough edge of the laws of physics. “You're wrong there. knows no law, and ts also mother of invention.” ewnity the THE STAR—SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1911 WHY NOT SMILE AWHILE? | QM AN OBLIGING DAUGHTER JOSH WISE SAY: UGGLING Pouret Now brooder has die * kivered fer a insomnia. cure n consists in tryin’ ter sit up with a sick person.” No matter how you train a child To “run when he is called find The average child retains a # Of balance (n his Httle mind. For when you lunch” Me runs untt) his face {i , call “Come “This thing has got to stop. You keep me putting my hand in my pocket all the time.” “AM right, papa. I'll reat of my purchases charged.” red, bis xamining the candidates for Well, that depends.” “Depends on whatt” “On the defendant “Fine,” replied Farn summer board money to keep us in the hull winter.” “I guess he did. ton Herald. NOT TO BE man should attend strictly “How about eating a dish of spaghetti?” HIS PET NAME She-—Now that we are engaged, kins, and even Sebastian seems | [short pet name? | He—Well-—er | Pace.” the fellows at IT DEPENDED “Do you believe in capital punishment?’ asked the lawyer who. If she is that good-looking young woman who alts at your left, { don't.”-—-Chicago Reocord-Herald, FARM PROFITS “How has the old place been paying this Corntanael shed.” Christmas the jury re nse in to But, oh, what snaillike steps are When father calls “Come to the ontinues to approach Did you ever see an apple ple that was big enough? Nothing has ever carried the load that ts shouldered on to the let ter L It is sad that one gets too old to write letters to Santy Claus. “Me and Mandy got enough condensed milk an’ canned meat for Washington Star. LITERARY HIT “Did Algy make a hit at the iterary club? He pronounced way, and then alluded to it as Victor Herbert's masterpiece, By the way, people who spell It “Banta” are reprehensible aa folks who spell punkin “pump in & brand-new |!” —Washing- Les Miserables’ Allowing for “wear and toar” means also to consider that there are barbwire fenc in the world. TE-HE-HE! Newport News man died of ap- pendicitin on Nov. 27, The 28th wan to have been bis wedding day Funny column of the Hades Ga wette. SEPARATED to one thing at a time.” Washington Star. , of course, I can't call you Mr, Wil jong and formal, Haven't you any In a spelling bee somebody al. Pie! ways gote stung. college used to—er—call m “HIS FALL VISIT” \ Bunko—Do you really want to buy a gold brick? Fare If I kin git one reason tue summer boarders were appointed because I didn't have one. I don't want to make this mis take another year “There is a ploneure in poetic pains.” But the poet's wife doesn't think #0, CATERING TO THE PUBLIC Talking about words, indeed a mysterious the word “Sassafras.” there soothing Who ts holding up the municipal car line? This seems to be a much mooted question just now, But it's easy. The trolley trust, to be sure, If race suicide keeps up what will we do some day when we want to go to the circus. The old excuse of “Just came to take the chil dren” will be laid away for re pairs Professional mourners are neces sary if some folks are going to get any tears on their bier. You can't reform a pig by any purely aesthetic criticism of wal lowing And, by George, we are wighty wind of it \ Manager—-See here, youll have to cut out these old jokes. Actor—But what am I to use in jtheir place? Manager--Substitute some older ones, The public likes a change ‘once ip a while. And we thought we would get a Christmas present in the shape of THE NEW started down the feild with it. neck. What was the cause of death?" dent A fink Plain Dealer. She you like to know how he did it? | He—Not particularly; but I wo London Opinion. ALREAD The editor of the we ing edit this?" he snorted, as he held up a p fool woman wants to know how to make a lemon tart; just as though a |lemon wasn't tart enough already.” UNHAPPY JANE “Poor Jane fs in despair.” “What's the matter with Jane?” 3 | “Why, she has just begun to realize that she's too fat for an actress are 00! and not fat enough for a prima douna. CAUSE OF Just now the quarrel ts whether jor American plan.—Philadelphia Te SHY ON First Walter—This paper saya | palm five and the fingers fourteen | Second Waiter | Statesman. PRETTY SHORT | “Grue is a little fellow.” “Yes, he is so small that a head- ache powd affects his feet.” SHE Miss Gertrude Hillott and Miss ing elevator, which 2 Ninth “Sixth,” said Miss Elliott On the way back Miss Hillott sa “Why didn't you stop at the si the ninth.” “I know that,” sald the elevator —Chicago Evening Post, Johnny—~Huh! bring anything.—Answers. Look how long BADINAGE Agnes Am | the first and only Frost Yep; the rest have all b an's page was on his vacation, and the sport had jumped into the breach. Well, I never found five bones in my palm.—Yonkers HAD THE LAST wi said one of the men, once the car fairly started The car sped by the sixth floor and halted at the ninth | NOT CONVINCED Tommy—I don't think auntie will stay; she didn’t bring any luggage. seeing that city car line started! FATALITY The player seized the ball as it rolled away from the halfback and Just as he crossed the goal line he stumbled and fell and broke bis " they asked the coroner, “An acci ." replied the official as he made a note of it.—Cleveland WHAT HE WANTED TO KNOW My father made his fortun ¢ when he was ® young man, Would uld like to know if be still has it. Y DONE ae HE Looked LiKE THE WORK OF A SEVLPTOR ASHE SAT THERE GAZING INTOSPACE. FINALIN HE WAS HEARD To MURMUR," THE PUGSLIST LIVES ON SCRAPS BUT {DON'T BELIEVE THE GARBAGE CAN! - al MINGTY MINE BOTTLES ON A DEAD MANS CHEST Yo-Ho-No-Ho, “Well, what do you think of perfumed communication, “Here's a Life. Cleveland Plain Dealer. TROUBLE China shal! be run on the Buropean legraph. BONES the wrist contains eight bones, the Some men are so careless they can’t fall off a rail fence without hitting the mud-side. When you are looking for a thing, oh, how many, many places there are in which you didn’t paihidilintiitiaastiaad place it. SURE THING Poca and Did you ever see porter look plea: ger who has been three hours on the train without ordering? a dining-car CELEBRATED JOHNS Of Patmos. Of Barneveldt Smith Sprat Drew Doe. Thero are still a few ioned people who wear mutts ears frozen But trom. old would than have you can fash- rather thelr count SHOCKING EXPOSURE! Merry groups of gentlemen and ladies, suftably attired for the evening, the ladies beautiful in their halfimpatient anticipation, “What's the best cure for in-|rowded the foyers.-eLodge Paper. you know of?” “Sleep.” in The Giraffe is more apt to win by a neck than the Hippopotamus. Promotion. “Well, Tommy,” said the father jof a six-year-old youngster, “how are you getting along at sch “hs Bully!” rejoined Tommy the teacher is going to mo" “What makes you think so?” “She said today that If I kept on at the rate T was going I'd soon be in the criminal class,” explained Tommy.—Pittsburg Chronicle. ORD Suzanne Sheldon were th an ascend passengers. G id: promote xth floor? Tho sixth is lower than boy. “But the man said ninth first,” | Mrs. De Style—Marie, take one of the children t with me. The Maid—Yos'm. Mrs, De Style—Which one will |go best with my new purple gown? —Boston Transcript I shall the baby has stayed, and he didn't church girl you ever loved? been married women Bo: tly at a passen-| Upper picture shows a group of peons, just over the bridge from Juarez, held up by U. 8 immigration officials. Lower picture shows them awaiting the railroad agents. EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 5.—A tor-|borer to come to the United States rent of poleon ts flowing into the, But a million Mexican peons have nited States to fatten the divi- been brought into the United States donds of the Southern Pacific, the |for these railroads. Santa Fe and the Rock Island ratl-| Each raflroad worked through an roads. employment agency, One of the re The poison is peon labor. wards of these agencies was the The alien contract labor law pro-|feeding and clothing of the peons vides a $1,000 fine for any employ-|—condueting the commissaries of er who encourages a foreign ta-|the railroads. AND GIRLS The Star What do you think about Sant: Claus?” 1 you, Circle nieceh and te nephews, thought this topic over | carefully before sending in your contribution? The subject needs careful consideration and it isn’t an easy matter to make up your mind what you think of St. Nick's day. Perhaps some children who have always been remembered by Santa have a good impression of him while other poor children have suffered great disappointment at being overlooked by St. Nick. Draw- jings must be written in black ink, Verses must be original and the stories must be neatly written on one side of the paper, They are limited to 150 words. Contributions|* ** * * * keke eee will not be received later than| . Re P Thursday, Dec. 21, and the winnera| Dear Uncle Jack: I had these will be announced the Saturday be. |Pletures taken some time ago and fore Christmas | thought I would Two Sides to Stories send you one.. I The letters received in the Cir am 12 years old cle’s big contest so far show two and am in the sides to the subject. One little seventh grade. girl's letter started right off, aay- Do you remem- ing that “Santa is a dandy fellow ber that poem I and he has come to see me for wrote for the ele years.” Another letter Circle, saying T dealt pessimistically with St. Nick, wish IT had a sis- and the writer said he bad learned ter? Now I have in his life, after two bitter disap- one, and I don’t pointments, that Santa's failure to | think you could pick out a girl in visit him was because there was |the state of Washington as happy no Santa Claus. ee ee ee ed +s RULES OF THE CONTEST Subject — “What | think about Santa Claus.” Prizes—First prize, 8-pound turkey; second prize, 6-pound turkey. Rules—Drawings must be in black ink and must be orig- inal. Verses must be original and the manuscript must not contain over 150 words and must be written neatly on one side of paper. Closes—Thursday, Dé. 21. Winners will be announced in the Circle Saturday of that week. Have eee eee eee eee : fOR Te THE MAGIC BASKET |than the basket slowly rolled out It was a queer little grass-and-|from under her head. She opened reed basket, made by an old Indian | her veg and her pete! a dwarf, |p ng out,of the basket! woman, and it hung just —— Hot’ Ho! Sto!” be chuckled, “this the open flap of the tepee. used to be my home before some- “Wandering Bird,” the daughter, often carried the with her when she set forest for berries or n else dared touch the ‘twas said that when th lehed its light over the jbasket was Inclined to tricks. This day “Wan LRT TEN + EXCL Os basket to th ket throug! No one | Listen sket, for| “Wandering Bird” listened and new moon| such wondrous music as she heard forest the|from the basket! do queer| “You have no tepee to sleep in ish for one!” he commanded. ering Bird” had| The Indian girl did as she was been out gathering nuts in the bas-|bid and over her ket and night had come on,|changed into a beautiful tepee while she still a long way] She slept soundly in it all night curled up under a/and whe » with the basket for/ing the tepee was gone and the [basket was in its place under her closed head. The wind used to sing them on the marsh t lw! as tree a pillov No sooner eyes had her RAISING THE WIND There ain't a dollar in the town treasury,” » to the town n “and you Never believe it, mobiles headed this way. Just make out speed limit, an’ leave the rest to me!” There are the fines for exceedin’ Atlanta Constitution USES OF TIME saved ten minutes a day at lunch for twenty years.” “What of it?” “Oh, it was well that I saved all this time, for now I spend two hours daily in the anteroom of a dyspepsia spectalist."—Post-Intelli- gencer the “T have all the respect in th man, “but ” ‘ 1, go ahead and finish your kick.” “L can't help thinking that what this country needs is fewer crimin- ologists and more good policemen.”—Washington Star. STORAGE AND TRANSF2 WAGGAGE STORED FIVE world for science,” said the patient Wa Main 383 Stornge Vault rrom All ae Auto Delivery Co. Ine Ind, 028—PHONKS— Main 8005, y Messenger & Transfer Co. Dollvery Wagons, Baggage, Express wud Furniture Moved and St Quick Service, Ci SOCSEEEEE EE EEE EEE EH head the basket) she awoke in the morn-; | Hundreds of thousands of poons |flocked to Juarez. |_ Penniiess and bewlldered, they were then literally attacked at the |Juarez railroad station by a pack of railroad “rustlers,” fighting for the best specimens of physical | strength. | That was allen contract surely violating the labor law. Where |was Uncle Sam? When all the |truth comes out some of Uncle harbor facilities. He stated that Rio Grande may go to jail. And, if |there are any government officials brave enough, It isn't too late to |send some of these employers of railroad laborers to jail, either. | The peons crossed the river tm great crowds, sometimes 900 a day. In the red brick immigration build- ing the U. 8. officials went through the farce of admitting them as tran- sients! The evil ts spreading eastward. Rock Island agent reported t took 18 peons to work in Ohio. And lately the railroads have be gun to demand only peons with families, A peon with a family to support on $1.00 a day is a help less, humble, hopeless slave. growing and is In October a he (Circle Members Receive Big Contest Enthusiastically Here we have Dail Butler, age 11. Dail is one of the Circ) many nieces and a bright one at that, She attends the Sartori school and is at the head of the class. Dail sent a fine piece of poetry in for he Thanksgiving contest. lf You Nave Sign to Dr Jackson, and mail this coupon todi Van Vleck Co., Dept. LK Mich. Name Address chief's |body broke these reeds for a bas-| Return, mail ‘wiil ‘bring \f Van Vieck’s Regular $1.0 |] Absorption Remedy, as explained TO TRY FREE Cut off Above coupon will bring you pre | id (in plain wrapper) Mi n't Great 3-fold Absorption Remedy for Piles, Ulcer, Fissure, Tumors, Fle | tnla, Consti- pation, ota, ich te ringin prompt rellt hundreds ousands. |] below. satisfied h the bene Every Package.” Dollar. 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