The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 23, 1912, Page 4

Shooting? | The warden of the state penitentiary of Nevada sat with his head in his hands. He was puezled. The law called upon him to exeeute a murderer, Andriji Mirkovich, in a few days, and allowed the condemned to choose between shooting and ng. Pee ovich chose shooting—and no man could be found willing to stand up before a defenseless man and kill him. So the warden could not carry out the sentence, He would not do the killing himself, He was trying to find a man with a soul $0 seared that he was ready to do this thing for money. And then he would, of course, let the soul-seared one go free among the people! The evening papers came to the wa: that seven men had been killed by the warden of Sin New York, that day. The law provided for these kit! The seven were murderers, But the warden at Sing Sing sent through their bodies a current of electricity which burned up the nerves, stopped the hearts and ‘liberated the souls of the murderers. The warden of Sing Sing is not reported as being at all barrassed by this seven-fold slaughter. Yet, in all rden and gave the news g Sing, 8, too, | tae | Wifey ence between direct indirect taxation? Hubby—Why, the difference be- tween your asking me for money | Meary, what ts the differ taxation and robability, he, too, would refuse to be one of five men to stand sb ae a prisoner and shoot a bullet into him. - Seemingly, it is not the killing which revolts men, but the sight of it. Perhaps that is why employers kill employes so cheerfully by bad labor conditions They do not see the vic- There is hope in the Reno incident. The time is coming when capital punishment will be abandoned for lack of a sup- ply of men degraded enough to take an office which carries La A it the duty of becoming an executioner. There will be no supply of legalized murderers. People will see that it is just as bad to shoot people with electricity out of sight, as with bul- lets in plain view. And the horrid rites of “justice” will slip into the past with cannibalism. Going Fishing “Tain't no use to sit an’ whine, kase de fish ain't on your line; bait your hook an’ keep a-tryin’. Keep a-goin’” One seems to know, just from reading, or remembering, those lines that Stanton wanted (as is the case with so many of the rest of us right now) to go a-fishing and couldn't. There's @ hint in it of the patience of dim-wooded places, the peace of still pools and the courageous, forward march spirit thee a trout stream always inspires you with. For it’s no use talking, the something within us that fairly howls to be let go a-fishing every year vs fishing time comes is the last link between us and childhood and when we go we re-establish residence in a lost, kingdom of happiness. o" is But the sport you haye, and the sixteen trout broiled on the stones or over the coals that you had for lunch, and the com- radeship, for comrades never reveal their real worth as on such a tripy and the breath of the open road, the piney woods, the Stars at night, are only part, after all, of the joy a fisherman knows. You bring back from such an excursion a something that broadens your outlook on life, awakens your perception in the fact that shine and shadow are properly proportioned, 4n inclination to belief in your fellow men, a larger tolerance, an ability to discern some good in most folks and hope you're mistaken about the few who appear utterly bad, and a patience _ enables you to endure the little torments of every-day ex- ence. ‘A really truly sport can always sec that life is a bully big game, even if he’s a loser, and your really, truly fisherman mever comes up to a hazard in life that he doesn’t get around “Bome way. He's like the fellow who said: “If you don’t know how to holler ‘nuff, you can’t be licked.” THE first fog and the first gentle falling of yellow-tinged eaves are nature’s quiet hint that the autumn season is almost re again. DR. R. E. DOOLITTLE is Dr. Harvey Wiley’s successor as chief pure food expert. Doc DOOLITTLE must DOO- BIUCH to keep up Wiley’s pace. THE new mikado will be able now to keep his socks up in trim shape when wearing his robes of state. King George has _ conferred upon him the Order of the Garter, SECRETARY OF STATE KNOX last night refused to discuss Taft's chances for re-election. Knox evidently won't! talk about the dead until the mikado’s funeral ig on. “PUT-THE-CLAMPS-ON” HAY is the putty governor who asked the legislature to vest in him the power to appoint every official in the state, including judges of the supreme court, for 12-year terms. The only exception he made was lieutenant governor. SENATOR PENROSE is adding insult to his attempts to injure Col. Roosevelt when he asserts that Teddy had to get large contributions from big trusts in order to beat that icicle and trust representative, Alton B. Parker. THERE'S something elastic about these public utility fran- chises. A few days ago the telephone monopoly appealed from the council's decision to forfeit the franchise of the Independent company. Now the same company, without giving up its claims, insists that the franchise ought not to be subject to taxes, because it was forfeited. Gold Medal, London, 1 Largest Sale HIGH-GRADE Tea in World Cooling asa Sea Breeze is the effect of a glass of Ridgways 5 O'Clock"Iced Tea. To make Properly, pour the hot brewed tea into a glass of cracked ice with a slice of lemon, adding sugar to taste. Sealed air-tight, pound, half pound and ‘quarter : pound packages only Ridgways Popular Grade “5 © 'Clock,"® 78e="a pound, All High-Class Grocers Order Trial Package’ TO-DAY1 Gm Schwahachee Bros. & Co.. Inc.. Distributors. and going through while I'm asleep. “Jones has Invented an airship.” “Then it's bound to be a success.” Why so?” “All his other schemes have goue up. The players should « For each stole fourteen bases! They murdered, too, But no one cared ai The sheriff just applauded when They up and killed the ball. eee eeeee eee WHEN YOU CAN'T “T understand you refused to Sam?" “Yes, sah; T did, aah!” “Yea, sah; and ls ob de opt eeeeteeeeee ee ed PROBABLY NO EXCEPTION ay és JUST A WORKOUT The convicts pifyed @ baseball came, While atmiles enwrapped thelr faces; “You looked upon it as charity, I suppose, Sam? accept charity when his wife's got work, sah!” DOMESTIC SCIENCE a “My father pets & course in domestic “And how do you course?” “Well, it looks lke kitchen work to mo. If my sue picions are confirmed I shall drop like the a $60 hat.” DON'T LIBEL IT hay Not all. The p ia ain't bay.” Nothing Serious First odd this ordinary Becond chap? First Briton-—Why, to keep tn it my trousers | the course and make father buy me you must be continually going out, jdon't yor “What “De | miaforte 0 down to fame, —Cincinnal Eaquirer, those wicked men, it all, —Milwaukee Sentinel. Pe ACCEPT CHARITY accept a gift from my daugbtor, nion dat no man has a right to teen et eae THE FIRST STEP “What is the first step toward remedying the discontent of the masses?” “The first step,” replied the ener make speeches to prove to them bow discontented they ton Star. getic campaigner, “t CAUSES OF THINGS Reverend Gentleman clay pipes? Son of Toll—And do you know, Guv'nor, that ‘alf of the black eyes | Do you know, thy friend, that half the cases of cancer are caused by people's smoking those foul, dirty, short, black | are caused by folks not mindin’ thetr own business?—Ladies’ Home Journal From Diana’s Diary Miss Dilipickles Hoists the Biack Fi lag and* Will Board City People in the Country—But Some Guests Are Pirates Themscives. BY FREO SCHAEFER Thay don’t get much from ma, but it 1. Our summer hotel is off to a bad start, The first bunch of boarders have arrived at Idylwild pronounce. ing it even more wild and skittish than they anticipated. While joy ously driving there through the woods from the station ‘they were stuck up by two regular masked bandits. In consequence the whole party came here and began their stay al ready trimmed, My opinion of those highwaymen is that they're certainly careless about their ob- servance of professional ethics. Ma was with the crowd, person ally conducting them to Idylwild The robbers didn’t get much from the boarders, none of whom had paid in advance. WI peeved her that they want itbugh ma, but it peeved her that they went through the boarders before they paid something down on thetr board. Some of the tionists were for turning right back and go. ing home, saying that if this was a sample of the hospitality affgrded at Idylwild there wasn’t much us of going all the way. But ma talked them out of it, She was so afraid they'd escape, that she told them their credit was good at Idyl wild until they ot money from home, Ma has too much enterprise to be daunted by mere competition 80 here they are, eating us out of house and home, and no telling when we will be able to collect (Continued,) gr aeeseeeeeee had te heifer.” She | He term { quirer. i * * ® plate , Sie. * Londo’ & that * atone * thik them? there'd b Hello, been?” ‘Oh! “Chilb! Dealer. “Yo 80 nic wear Stee ee EEK eee She. tons,” OSW\n/ISE. CAP Pee eee eee 2 * WHY THEY DO IT “Why did you ® ancient * that it fs my mission to prove ® Evening Star. Aunt Dorothy mandments are there, Johnny? Johnny (glibly) Aunt Dorothy pose you Jobnny THE MODE IN 1912 now?" “Life is getting such a deuce of a rush nowadays, my dear eve in any of his HAWI HAW! Briton—1 being in soctety. Briton—How #0, a know, is the most curiousest “Say, Hiram, this terbacker ts all | (hing about a fool?’ ay he'll holler and git mad aper it's Wrapped if you don't let him show off his ne.” Most 19 “Jest before th’ judges wuz goin’ to award th’ biue ribbon to Bas prize punkin, Van Fride- ate it. So th "jedges pin th’ blue ribbon on th’ IN A WAY is he a cultured man? Well, he t! what you might! agricultured. Cincinnat! Bn. break that glass window?” am battling error,” replied suffragist. “I * * * * 6 against * the * n feel * * a woman can throw a * straight.”—Washington * * * * kkk h hhh hhnk UNAVOIDABLE How many com Ten, And, now, to break sup were one of (tentatively) — Then © nine.——Christian Register Bingley, where you Camping.” Without any sunburn? What have you got to show for it?’ | lains.” Cleveland Plain RRR Re ee! SAVING TIME uw used to part your hair ely, Reggie. Why do you {t without a parting must save time some- —London Opinion, Seeeeeeeeee eee eee AN IMPROVEMENT Why don't you control over your face? keep more You give everything away by your expres: | sion, Now, I make it a rule never | to change countenance Hef you can change it, my| lear, I wish you would,—Baltimore | American. | SUCH DISCOURTESY say that eminent dramatic d you with se J i the om read my play,” author, “He didn't . “What makes you so sure of that?" “None of {ts. plot has appeared subsequent produc Washington Star, nay, it's douced old Greatest Talking Machine Offer Ever Made! Seattle people are to have an tunity to get not only one of the new Peerless Talking Machines, but at the same time they are to get a Library of Famous Voices. 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