The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 13, 1912, Page 1

Women The Star's page for them Look at oday and don’t miss the - the best anywhere, ; page S¢ letters. DOES THE COA MAKE THE MAN?! FOR DARHOW VOL. 14—NO. THE EXPERIMENT St PF) BUM KELLY. BY FRED L. BOALT. Kelly was willing. fer science,” he said. 0 the experiment was tried. : out you shall know Peruse this narrative to the Wiea true story. B hogan with the germ of an Mee. A philosopher, visiting police i for the first time, was sur- to note that the features of Of /the prisoners were good, pBe mien intelligent. if decently and clean snaven—? Philosopher mused: the coat make the man? doesn’t it? ‘These men are job- Do good coats beget good Are they ragged because ate jobless? Or are they job- they are ragged? This is a big question. ” Kelly listened politely to amazing proposition. in'?” he inquired Aesired that the proposition was made, “Pum” said Bet yuh. Mebby yer nutty, an’ W yer wise—but yer on, pal, on!” he Su eer j This Is Kelly. conversation took place in front saloon not far from Way. Kelly is well known the front. He is a tug fire- & stevedore, a janitor, and Other things, but mostly He has been “on the bum” time. He's picturesq fellow, stocky and well set ‘ he hitches his shoulders rks bis elbow when he i He talks “tough” out of the he nat ved mouth. Perhaps you ind. Eilere were two clauses in the sition the philosopher made to The first fsk for work at every store east side of Second avenue Yesler way and Madison fortified himself and start Was gone half a day. Re- blo report progress, the first sald was His First Report. so dry I'm blowing py days! Haaaa!l Y days! an’ me wit’ me heart - near broke. Wat chanst has a fella t’ git a job wit’ rags on? Eh? None at all. “Bum” shivered. “It's a crool world fer one tha’ been on the bum. It's your gam "bo, an’ I ain't kickin’, mind. But lissen while I tell yuh “I goes inta the first store comes ta, and I asks ta see |boss. Th’ flooryalker he bores inta me wit’ his eyes, like gimlets, an \'a like ta know, he says, wat for |I'd like ta see th’ boss. “Per a job, I says, puttin’ up a front. “Laffe a Crool Laff.” “The dude looks me over, an’ laffs a croot laff, An’ all th’ pritty wimmen clerks giggle, lookin’ fer a stand-in, mebby, wit’ th’ floor- _walke An’ there | wus, feelin’ like a barge wit’ a lot of pleasure |, lyachts, an’ wishin’ | wus back on th’ front. “Swell skirts carryin’ wus crowdin’ past me heir clo’s aside fer jtoueh me. “The’ floorwalker he kept his eye on me fer a minit er more, an’ then packidges an’ pullin’ fear they'd tol’ me ta take th’ elevator t' th’| fourt’ floor—that I'd find th’ boss there. Nuttin’ fer youse, |man,’ says th’ boss. | “Pm a good, handy man,’ T says, bat I didn't git no furder 'n that, fer the boss, he says, ‘Isn't that lenongh?’ an’ begins lookin’ round fer th’ house fly bull “Honest, Pal, It Was Fierce.” “| goes inta th’ next store, an’ th’ next, an’ the next. Honest, pal, it wus fierce. They turns up their |noses an’ side-steps, and say’ Nut- |tin’ fer youse, me good man,’ short an’ scornful. They begins at me me good was that he|head, an’ kept on down to me feet, | continued, “I want you to ask for an’ when they come to me big toe ckin’ out uy me shoe, back they'd go to the alfalfa on phiz, and |they'd say: ‘Nuttin’ fer youse.’ | “I had to keep me fists in me |pockets ta keep from bein’ took fer a shoplifter. _ “An’ so it's a ‘regret ta report I'm handin’ yuh, Mr. Philosopher, lfer it's th’ devil a job I got fer me mornin’s work, An’ St wus th’ o 1 | cheek 141, lo MADE Horace Appel Attacks Ford in Defense of Dar- row—‘No Man Can Be Convicted on Suspicion.” (My United Press Leased Wh LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13.—De ploring the fact that Clarence 8. Darrow ever came to trial at all, Horace Appel, associate counsel! for the defense in the Darrow bribery trial today, opened the defens argument to the jury. “What a shame it is," began Ap- 1, “that Clarence Darrow, whose name is inscribed in the heart of every laboring man in the country, should, when he has reached the highlands of life and is now on his pathway to the lowla: be pointed at asa perjurer and a criminal What a shame it is that he, be cause the prosecution can point at him and say, ‘that looks suspicious and ‘this loo! should risk going down the road to the dark penitentiary, to a grave with! & headstone inscribed, ‘he died in disgr “Can you convict on suspicion only? No 1 cannot conyiet thi man unless you can put your hand on your heart and ask your soul, ie he gv * Speaking of Detective Franklin, Appel decla: “You must view the testimony of an accomplice with suspicion, be- cause an accomplice is a convicted felon, in the eyes of God and man, when he goes on the witness stand.” suspicious, Hert His voice breaking with emotion, Appel appealed to the jurors “Judas lecariot was a better man than Franklin or John R. Marring- ton. He was a gentieman and hanged himself after betraying his master. “Who else besides Franklin has told you Franklin got the bribe money from Darrow? Not a living soul. Who else hes said Darrow |told Franklin to bribe Lockwood? | Not a living soul. Franklin has not been corroborated. Where is the evidence? “Against Franklin stands the word of Darrow and Job Harriman How are you to convict Darrow? |it Darrow had given Franklin the money, and I had seen him do it, |and I was on this jury, I would ac- quit Darrow, because the evidence has not shown him guilty. We have thé unsupported word of Bert | Franklin, and Franklin, by his own acts, is shown to be a monster, a monster, gentlemen. Think of it | Appel mopped his brow and said, lin a low tone of disgust | “Yet we have seen his testimony jadmitted here to prejudice you jagainst this defendant Ear! Rogers is expected to end the argument for Darrow late this afternoon. PERHAPS HE’LL KNOW NEXT TIME Sam Allen came in from Bothell] {Saturday night with a pay check |The money was about all gone by |last night, but he had enough to get drunk on. W ander the exhilar ating effects, remembered that he was nearly at the point of finan-| cial dissolution, The only way out f it, he thought, was to write He did so—he wrote two or three. When he tried to get them| cashed there was trouble, and th policeman on the beat gathered him in. He told Judge Gordon this morn ing that he didn't exactly know jwhat he was doing. The judge let him off with $100 and 30 days. he SERRE * | WEATHER FORECAST *% Fair tonight and Wednes # day; light variable winds. * Temperature at noon, * * ed * * * * *} -nlbaeont in dated dice dhagelbethetled So's that did ut—th’ vad, sad rags| an’ th’ whiskers on me chin,” The philosopher chuckled. It is la fine thing to prove oneself In the right. And the philosopher's case was half made. “Come with me,” he said The Experiment. Together they went to a ready- |towear clothing establishment, a] |haberdaghery and a barber shop, land when they came out’of the bar-| ber shop you wouldn't have recog. nized “Bum” Kelly in the dapper young man who accompanied thé |philosopher to a cafe, where they |planned to carry out the second clause in the proposition “Bum, said the philosopher, “you're looking fine | “Kelly complacently sipped a dry martini and said nothing. “This afternoon,” the philosopher work at every store on the west side of Second avenue.” “wit’ these glad rags,” said “Bum,” ‘gittin’ a Job oughto be a |cinch. Mebby they'll make me pres- ident of a bank If you are curious to know how “Bum” Kelly fared inthe after- | Mrs. noon, and what became of the phil- osop| ‘9 thought germ, you'll have to wait until tomorrow. THIRD PARTY TICKET SURE | VE A REAL MAN FOR GOVERNOR? (Snapshot picture showing Bob Hodge in action) We have had stool pigeons for govenors, and cripples—mental, moral, phys- ical. We have had “me-too” governors, political apologists, nifty players of the game, BUT we haven't had a straight, honest, masculine person on the job for some periods. FATHE R GO T TORAMATIC PLEA WHY NOT HA ES TO FIND HIS ONE CENT GIRL, FINDS-HER DROWNED Pleased with her success at fish- ing on the day before, Mise Eva Birdie Ent, 33, daughter of Mr. and Joseph B. Ent, got up this morning at 6 o'clock, telling her mother that she was going down to| the lake to catch some fish for breakfast. At 7:30 thesfamily sat down to breakfast and she had not come back. Mr. Ent went down to investigate and found the body of his daughter | floating 1n the water near the| shore, Greenlake boulevard, neat| the Ent home, is being graded ‘om the edge of the road to the water's edge is a straight drop of 50 or 60 feet. The appearance of COST OF LIVING (o DUSTY—Why so ead? RUSTY—Dis paper sex th’ price o’ di‘monds has went up again. the biuff near the point af 4 like showed that something had girl was down into the lake. Miss Ent was subject to dizziness and fainting opinion any p lotte ona tomobile Miss Hunt had been a teacher in the W years. la WINGS AGAIN (By United Prow 1 PARIS, the hero the Bnglish plane, after three years’ retirem Ho has forwarded ip to fly his ors, or breakfast, Mount Hunt, Seattle school, aeroplane the new Friendly Society of Aviat- of it Seattle She came from Davenport, , Aug. 13. of the fi chan again for airmen's whieh fishing rolled ly to be that the} eaten Miss Char- was seized Her body school for two ased Wire.) Louis Bleriot, flight across in an aero t a rat nel membership in BIG LIN union, declaring be expects to resume his wings in the fall, ~The Seattle Star ‘SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1912. | mamase, HOME SEW STANDS Be | Bull Moose convention at Chi- Romeo He is “some character,” but one actor likes better to be a “red- neck” EDITION See page 4. METHOD OF HOW TO MAKE NOMINATIONS NOW BEING DISCUSSED Returning Delegates From Bull Moose Convention Help Decide Progressives to Organize Through- out the State—Three Plans Being Considered. who then and con- nake the nominations, Preference Primary Plan third proposition is to choose to conventions by mass who shall be instructed inate on September 10 those progressives who have received the highest votes at the primaries. In case preference primaries are agreed upon, all progressive candi- dates will be expected to withdraw their candidacies from the regular epublican and democratic pri- maries, and thus a compleite sepa ration of progressives and stand patters can at once be made. It will also cause greater interest, it \is generally admitted, in the third ugly in favor of | party primaries than in the regular © preferential pri-| primaries because more people September 10, The | would participate in them. which must be 1b | At @ third party conference yes jaw, can then ratify jterday at the Butler it was agreed nor BO made. |to postpone action until this after- A second suggestion is to hold a|noon, so that the Bull Moose dele mass meeting which would me ates could. be 3000 PEOPLE PASSED OVER | OPLE ; TAFT’S VETO KILLED WASHINGTON, Aug. 13, — By | grace of a ruling made by Speaker BERLIN, Aug. 13—Three thou. Clark the house today passed the sand persons are known to have wees tari’ revision bill over Presi- been killed in an earthquake which | 2°t Taft's veto by a vote of 174 rocked Southeastern Turkey, ac- °° my Pe Sc Lay cording to a message just received 9°Nts voted with the democrats. here by the Tagebiatt, from its cor. by the eee: 8 gsiemens oe Constantinople. surgent alliance apparently had failed to pass the bill by two votes. Ten members who had paired with absentees voted as present. Clark ruled that it took only two would A full state and county third- county party ticket. This is absolutely assured to- day with the return of the Washington delegates at 5 o'clock this morning from the cago. The delegation was unanimous in declaring for a full ticket. The only question now to be decided is the meth- od of choosing the candidates for the new party, and a con- ference now being held prob- ably will finally determine the ways and means. Sentiment ts stro holding rate maries by convention, mder t ire thi crater is also reported to have ap- ER HITS ICEBERG; | REPORTED SAFE| (my 0 Press Lensed Wire) MONTREAL, Aug. 13.—All efforts by coast wireless stations today to get in touch with the Allan line engers, bound for Liverpool, which iceberg © yesterday east of Belle isle, near New Found-| land, so far have failed. A message from Captain Cook of the Corsican, | in reporting the accident to Allan| line officials, said: | BOSTON, Aug. 13 neral Man- ager Bryce Allan of the Allan 8, 8, line, stated today that the com pany’s Canadian office had heard| nothing farther from the Corsican, | which collided at sea with an ice-| berg yesterday, but that he felt cer tain the passengers and the steamer | were safe. OUR PRECISE ARTIST peared on the Asiatic side of the Sea of | ere | thirds of the members voting “aye” PILES FIGHTING ("27 """ TACOMA, Aug. 13,—Attacking| the sufficiency of the indictments, | ex-Senator 8.°H. Piles put in all) vod yasactay afternoon and is tak-| ing afternoon today again try-| that none of his church members ing to free Charles Houston, of] sionid see one of Suderman’s plays Seattle, and John H. Bullock, of 4 | which he had preached against ds Portland, from the indictment al-| “{mmoral,” a priest in the town of leging conspiracy to defraud the | government by collusive coal bids | Pusher Stood im front of the, these Se | who refused to heed his warning If Judge CusKiman upholds the in- a @ictment the case will be set for pocu ar he expects to place w pga September 17. them. The pleas of the theatre ap manager to the prease to leave were unheeded, FIREWORKS KILL “STRIKE PICKET” VIENNA, Aug. 12.-—Determined Americans Threatened WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—That American lives and property are threatened by the firing across the international boundary of Mexican rebels concentrated at Juarez, was the message recetved heré today by the state department from Col. Steever, commanding the United States troops at El Paso. N. Y., Aug. 13—Five death here today when stored in a cellar in prep- aration for celebrating the Catholic | feast of the Assumption premature- exploded ROOSEVELT ON A HIKE OYSTER BAY, Aug. 13.—Col. Roosevelt and his son Archie started today on a walking expedition A gunmaker here wished to present Col. Roosevelt this morning with a costly hand-made shotgun of Krupp steel, with a Circassian walnut stock. The colonel fondled the weapon for a few minutes and then reluctantly declined the offer. ‘First Class Lumber Marker Wanted 500 Rhode Island Red Pullets, $1 Each ells, and it is the | steamer Corsican, carrying 200 pas-| her parents Walking around in the sun, with no| struck an hat on and without having brought on a faint ing spell that resulted in her being thrown into the lake. TEACHER FALLS ~ FROM MOUNTAIN PEAK TO DEATH| TACOMA, Aug. 13,—After having decended to the summit of Pinnacle k, Rainier, a teacher in the West and a member of the Tacoma Y. M. C. A. party which left last Tuesday for an excursion into Paradise valley, with an attack of dizziness yester- day and fell 800 feet. was found in the valley and taken litter of alpenstocks to the eamp, and thence to Tacoma by au Delivery Team and Wagon—Sale or Trade Read The Star classified columns and you will find many items of in- terest to you. The above three ads are in this evening. Tomorrow there will be others equally as inter- esting. Tell your own wants to over 40,000 families who read The Star every evening. No matter what you may have for sale or trade, a classi- fied ad in The Star will find a cus- tomer. No matter what you may want to buy at a bargain, some one of the over 40,000 familics who read The Star classified ads every evening will have what you want. 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