The Seattle star., September 22, 1909, Home Edition, Page 4, Image 4

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DUKES OP PRIVILEGE OWN AMERICA
In Rag-tend about 2,500 persons own half the land. Here's
• lint of eight of the bigger owners:
Duke of Sutherland 1,358/00 acres
Duke of Devonshire 156.000 acres
Puke of Westminster aW,«X> '•"*
Duke of Richmond 286,500 acres
Duke of Portland IM.OOO acres
Duke .-I Montrose 115,000 acres
Duke of Ma.tchcstcr^sl?SW?. 70.000 acres
Marquis i.l Bute 117,000 acres
Eight persons owning over 2,.*.00,000 ''•- of land through
the divine right of birth! Is it any wonder that tens of
thousands .11. at the-starvation point in London, * that Eng
land is losing her prestige .i- a maritime power, .m.I gaining
pre-eminence as .i consumer of intoxicants, and that even her
women arc fighting with tin* idea that they fan improve con
ditions?
What would become of our own country should 2,500 out
of our 80,000.000 people secure ownership of half our land?
.Why, millions ami millions of us would become nine peons,
wouldn't we? The masts of «a would finally become mere
hired gardeners to the Thaws of eight or MR rich families,
wouldn't wn
* But, wait a moment! Aren't we headed straight toward
that condition, in spite of our ballot and hatred of titles Bad
domination?
Is a duke of Sutherland, with his 1,358,600 acres, more to
be dreaded than a railroad king who. through railroad control,
lords it over the produce of 20.000,000 acres or more? Can a
duke of Westminster, with 600 acres in the very heart of Lon
don, be a worse calamity than "captains of industry" like Mor
gan, Rockefeller. Vanderbilt. and Frick, who control the
finances, fuel and light of our 130.000,000?
Merc acres are .valueless. I .and is valuable only when
held in connection with thing* that make it productive and
its product remunerative through shipment. A secretary of
our government who permits corporation or other thieves to
Steal a hundred acres covering sources of irrigation or power,
helps to steal, not one hundred seres, but thousands and
thousands of acres, for those .sources are the real value of
those; thousands.
-? Forsooth, if we think of it in this light, don't less than
2,500 persons already possess (control) over half of our own
land?
The * people of England think they see solution of their
trouble in taxation of the "unearned increment"; that is, in
taxation of the increased value of the ducal and other lands
•'.' not due to any exertion of the landlord. It will reach but
. a little way It is but taxation of what Cod and other people
than the landlords have done.
The demand of the masses is for division!
If your land is made more valuable by the enterprise and
labor of others, pay I
If you sre born to riches, pay!
If your purse has grown dangerously fat and powerful
through enjoyment of special and uncommon privilege, pay!
■ The vegetarian who gats . his
calorics out of peanut sandwich*-*
! doesn't get seasick - *v*ry time he
* thinks of "freesum."
, -. Merchants who do a his lemon
ad* business on on* lemon are also
entitled *to some official rec-ogn!*
ttea.
There can't be any question but
that all the folks were glad to see
Cook back
MR. SKYGACK, FROM MARS
He Visits th* Earth as a Sneua I Correspondent and Makes Wire.
lets Observation* in Hi* Notebook.
HEARD ON THE STREETS
A mother, called as a witness in
a police court ca«* recently, brought
h*r young hopeful with her . lie
wouldn't behsve In court, though
sha repeatedly -hided him. At last
ah* turned him over her knei and
began spanking him soundly. The
youngster Ml up such a shout of
dismay that Court Ottlcer Tip Win
cha.il came on the run.
"Hare," he said, you cau't spank
that child In this court."
"Can't IT Well. I'm doing It,
ain't I?" answered the woman.
Tor that Winched put her and
her mo out into the corridor. Then*
sbs continued the spanking.
THE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE
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After s lons period of depression [
the Jewish maaaarr* business hss
been revived for the winter season
at Kief.
Peary evidently wants to has sure
that there will he ao blow back
from any reeeptlona or banquet*
And Mr. Trimble accepted that
alley like a maa who was not un
used to that sort of s thing
He was a little fallow, not unite
three years old. Ills father had
told hlm that ho wouldn't grow to
lie a big man until In* had learned
to dress himself.
He was Just big onougti to long
to bo a man, an he started In like a
little major. All went well till he
****. in his shoe*. And then he got
the left shoe on the right foot and
the right shoe on the lift root.
"You're doing fine, son, but
you've got your shoes on the wrong
feet." said th* proud father -
"Well, papa, those are the only
rest I've got," replied the little
fallow.
COMET IS HURTLING TOWARD EARTH;
IT'S HARMLESS AS F^EGAN'S GOAT
11 .alley's romet, Hi.- "evil eye ot
the ska, has Just been alghtml by
I att>. an.. lit at llif Harvard olmer
vstory iii.il i. bearing down on Ih.'|
earth at. tlie rata or several thou- j
sand lull. . ii second. Its tall Is J
millions nt miles Inns trnti "'" '
comet itiat'ir la bigger than thn sun.
line . ill every 'i<l years this hobo
nf tin heavens wanders Into Illl!
••anhit orbit, leaving a meteor
shower In Ita wake.
It gets It* name from the Eng
lishman who discovered It In 1683
lis appearance* always bss been as 1
sociated v.. li soma big event. till
world history, .illtl now it make*,
Kirn Its reputation by coming just I
utter tho North Polo la ill*, tira-rsd I
Tho einna-t will Ita tlailile tellh
good telescopes from all over It,.
United Htatea for savers! months
Astronomers' present theories
about comets make old belief* seem
funny. People uaed to shudder
when' they dreamed of the earth
nitting a ilylng comet.
Holla "a- a comet ought to I"* mora
liana, than thai others, because
It la SO big and (iwa c I ear out of
our whole system nf planets.
Hut the comot la aa harmteaa aa
an incandescent elan trie light
Comets are composed uf Mas a allied
if gar, that shines where there latin
air. Just Ilk* tbe electric light's
ahliiin,*. thread dim*.
, The Harvard , astronomers not
only will 100 a at th* comet with
their telercopea, but clear through
It. .They will even see stars on (fee
other aade of th* comet.
Hallcy'a comet Is so harmless
that If a person eeuld travel In sn
airship and go where it .a whirring
around, he could steer through it
THE ARTLESS ANSWER
IN LITTLE OLD NEW YORK
BY NORMAN.
The water pageant of the llud-i
son Pulton celebration l- going to j
bas one of the greatest spectacles
ever tin folded to the eye of man.
It Is figured that It will be wit.
nessattl by at least 4,000.000 people,
of whom a favored few will have
a fine view while comfortably seat
ed in the reviewing stands, it their
yachts, sad In automobiles along
Riverside drive. Hut the area!
throng, composed of Mr. C. People;
and family, wilt have to aland
wherever It ran find standing
room and fight for places of van
tag*. The Hudson-Pulton f-l.'.r*
Hon Commission, as on* of..' Its
members explained, haa only to
atage the show, It is not concern
ed with the matter of how people
are to see It.
Of course, most of th* mob will
stand along Riverside drive, and
already Park Commissioner Smith
Is worrying over what wilt happen
to i lie famous parkway when the
celebration crowd surges over 11.
II- fears damage will In* done In a
day that It will take years to re
pair. To protect tin stone which
marks the place where Gen. Grant's
te.ul>- lay for a time, Juat north ot
his tomb, and the two trcea planted
there by 1.1 Hung Chang, Commis
sioner Hmlth will build a fence of
seven-foot Iron palings. Rul as to
how to nova, the tree* or the park
from deatructlon by the men who
will climb Into them, breaking off
limbs or hearing them to the earth,
the commissioner Is In despair
"The only way to save tho trees,"
he said, "would In* tor thn govern
ment to detail a soldier with a
loaded gun to each tree during thai
celebration
——
The Atlantlo ocean la surely git
ling to In* Just a furry. Here's the
l.iiHltiitilii living Liverpool at fi
o'clock on a Saturday union and
landing her passengers In New
York at 6 o'Cnek the rollowlng
ThaAds) afternoon. And when the
Cunarders get to using the new
Welsh landing stage, Fishguard,
one will be able to leave Oesbrosses
St., New York, for Instance at 10
o'clock on a Wednesday morning
and alight at Paddlngton station,
London I nun a train at I p. m the
following Monday. Then, by hur
rying, one could catch thi 9 o'clock
and breakfast In Paris Tuesday.
That Ik getting about unite expedi
tiously, even for these days.
On Hi*|il I a new law wont Into
etroct in New York making It a
felony to take au automobile out
tor a spin without tlie owner h con
sent. A "Joy rider" violating this
law may receive a ton-year son
teiii-i*. During tho first 24 hours
that 111- now law was 111 crroct lint
a complaint of joy-riding was mads
THE STAR- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 1900.
Here a Halley*s comet, biggeat a nd rarest of comets, now headed
this way. It can ba seen new for the first time In 76 yeses. These
picture a were taken In 113*5-4, st Ita last appearance. At the left the
comet ha* boon visible ons month, at the right throe months.
without danger—except perhaps of
asphyxiation.
It sputters snd throws uff little
■ mil. la. Just like the X-ray toll.'
sputters wben It is full of X-rays.
In fact, the comet It a kind ot giant j
X-rar. tai'h •'.. vacuum aronnd tin*
planet* Ilk U_e vacuum in the glass
tube.
Many times this comet ha* **>•
pea nil Just before some Important
event In the history of the world.
From what sit the ancient star*
(raters have written scientists bas
lie* a. that Hallt.y a • timet , waa the
bright light that shuae as the star
of Bethlehem
I In !>3& the cornet laat appeared
I'ltij.le were frightened when tbey
saw the (i- .it light iii the sky. and
wben the civil war followed, many
■Ma* tst-*d ibe comet and th* war
11 alley, what sate that e*mm>* ***
to the police. A penitentiary sen
tence looks nulla* dtfl^crrar•nt Rom is
fine.
The day of the ferryboat, as a
Itstswßger conveyance, la drawing
to a close In Now York. Tbs end Is
far ofr. but it Is certain Since tbe
opening of th. McAdoo Inane!* to
Jersey, passenger traffic on tin*
Pennsylvania ferries has fallen otf
so much that th* railroad plans to
open up the entire lower deck or
each of Its ferry boats to vehicles,
carry people only oa the upper
decks.
The net! generation of New Jer
sey dwellers will not dally see the
skyscraper skyline of ha* city at
It comes to work every morning.
Neither will It be laid op In the
river, In fear or Its lire, when fog
hangs heavly
OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE
a 11, mail, .Ml .» eitr—l fear. tt, A
P e.a.,..1ha »I **> I I aaai-alh. %*•*■ I
, I .tarsal _il a..i11.. Wash, *#.-•<- I
..file., .a aeeei.el -el.as Mailer, J
...._. BBS O**
nam*. prut-healed thai It would aji
pear In 1761. People said In* was
entry, hut li>* Ml la his will a re
quest that II 11 appeared when he
aald. tie wanted the a. iffer* to re
member 1,, was right.
True to his word, the comet came
within sight on Christmas eve,
1/SS.
Them will be great sights In the
sky this winter, for the meteors
that tallow that comet am more
numerous than those ot any other
aVy hobo. The meteors are repelled
by the sun, -amutaiilly tb* tall nt
the comet always curves away from
the sun. Ilslley's comet will cross
th* earth ahead of our orbit, gailiaa
toward th.- sun. So when the earth
catches up with the comet's trail
there will ire more meteora tv our
sky than there* ate- • lama on the
MAJOR BYERS
INTEHDER
"Ah." sighed the major; "let's
hare that esqutsjtei,. beaatlful sob
net Main."
Mlaa I'uphrraayne looked glowing*
!y at the , ahdhl critic, then r«ad the
sonnet through, dwelling lovingly
on each sounding rhrtn*. Whan aha
had finished, aba Itanfctad Inquiringly
at Major Stanton. That gentlemen
had risen to bta fate*.
"I wish to remark," he said, that
tb* sonnet Ju*i read marks a new
era In ihe world's poetic annals. It
j make* Shake* pt-arn look Ilka a
; piker and pot* Milton on lb* blinky*
' blink It la sweet, sonorous, rip
pling, musical, rhythmlr. liquid and
soothing. It has the tones of na
ture, ilia* fragrance of the foreata,,
th» tint* of autumn, th* carol of
spring and toe pari of bidden brook
let*, all la DBS In abort, Mlaa Ku
pbroeyne, your poem is a peach, a
masterpiece, a lulu and a classic." *
"Ob.,dear, dear major!" sighed
Mlaa ■ Ruphrnsytie.
. "And now," ' said lha major,
"about that quest loo?"
' - "I think we'd better be married In
June," sighed Visa Kuphratayne
I And the pinkish hydrangea balls
nodded mar st tho fragrant, all-wise
Ilia, a t^sjnag«Mlt___
* POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
•->•::, - -
Selfishness Is the set d and sin Is
the ■ harvest.
Keif adulation I* one thing and
self-respoct Is quite another.
The elevator 1* a boon for men
who ar.- In a hurry to reach the
top.
Moat people with a newly. mar
tied conpto. happiness as If they
ma-ant it
Somehow, whim a man gets Into
a crowd, tie thinks to* is the only
one in a hurry.
There I* no Imp.- for the old
bachelor who can't Induce even a
widow to * marry him.—Chicago
News.
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STAR DUST
'eat. "'" ...a. '
at||'« ' lb* real,
tee.air .1 '«•■•*
..in. »a a ~ a e'a.'h
k.atari te.l va at.
hide. , her Haiti
Waaler a ee.alae-l "
Tlie Man at the Table—flay, wait*
er, that lobster Is without on* claw.
lUtw'e thatt * '■-'
Walter—You sa... sir. they're so
fr-.ee. these Inhaler*, they right with
each other In the pantry
The Man at 11.. Table.—Welt, lake
that one away and In lug -ma on.
tit lbs **l_**is all** Saturday
Journal.
There's a heap owed to a good
woman In th* next world for what
she - tar gats In this—New York
I Teas.
•lines your wife enjoy roughing
ur
' lines *h*T flay, you should sea
her In a bargain rush."—liein.it
rr*e I»resa.
Three women arid a goose make
a market —Herman. JeßSssßntdflißMS
"Hid you succeed In getting thai
Indian to sat**** the pipe of peace
with your'
•'No," answered the agent. "We
were Just gelttna to a friendly un
deratsndlng when I made the pip*
nf peace proposition, ll* gut angry
snd wanted tn go on the warpath
because I tlldn't offer him a cigar
ette."—Washington Btar.
As many servsnts, so* many maa
lers.—Heneia.
**tt was I'lnn lea Iteada, wasn't It.
who wrote, 'Nothing I* so terrible
as a foolT'
"Yes; but ha wias wrong. I lit.,
next door l" a newly-married couple
If Charles could see them he would
at once admit thst two fools are
even more lerrlbla."—Chicago Heo
nt .1 Herald.
Where they eat your meal let
them pi. your bonea.—Hpantah.
II- ' dial rejected)— I 5ha110),,,..,.,
marry now.
eiha—r.iitlish man! Why not?
He—tf you won't have in*, who
Will- Huston Transcript.
A clear luisbiii, A and a blind wife
are always a hai>f y couple.—French.
"He I* a mechanical sort of freak."
"11. la thatr
"Whin Ids wife steps on lii foot
li* shuts 111. mouth."—Houston rest.
Thar* are se.tne things nf beauty
who are Jawy forever.—Dallas News
i ...... Tommy over
Little Tommy—Grandpa, what
doea "P. T. O." meant
flrandps (gaslng at hi* tern die-
I binary I -Well, my boy, It's lust
what you're going to da. now.—
t'omlo Cuts.
, Knell at Ike Seaside Yacht
Villi's through megaphone— Now
then. com* along: th* Flying Fish
now sailing, 10 miles Benin** the sea
and back for a shilling.—Scraps. .
AHItwCPAZYLOC.
AJLIATQ-JED BY FRED SCHA§Bi
--. "' UTik **TO
This thing of traveling by rail la
Improving all the time
It used to be that there were a
hundred ', roads you could , get hurt
on. Hut safeguard after safeguard
has been thrown round It till now
you can't get hurt on near so many
roads. They've nearly all been com
bined.
******** thing. You used to get
on the train and Just give the con
due-tor your fare. Now all that both
er has linen done away with. You
j simply got to tin depot an hour
ahead of train time and buy IS dlf
liferent kinds of tickets snd coupons
and wait till the man K „., M through
ii course of bookkeeping on your
pasteboards, and then you board
your train If somebody lias been
thoughtful enough to hold it tor
you.
Neither do you hate to lake your
lire In your hands tifl.'t you get on.
Yoit simply give it to Hi.' porter,
snd he returns it to miii when you
wnko up in the morning. -,*?*■,; i,
I took my family on a trip Inst
week. Th. i. ar* so many of us
that we traveled lii two sections.
We are all very fond of the i ars
Why, our young. a/gg born In a
sle-epei For that rags we named
her l'"'t Hm. Isn't that cute?
I bought a half fare ticket for
my oldest boy and lie began era ing
ssV ._?*- rieso -*tc.-!.*jr**'SJm: '***** Zt>M
"How feel you today, o«gar*?" w '*'" '.\.d •* '* [ •&
"1 bar a small backache." _„.... |1
"I tot a backache «»■ hit toll . |;.:
"Veil, diss ache tss lv d*r small of my hack.,-t^***,. I|
because he thought s» *•:
to rid* only half way. WA
When we finally got m*:
the car we had a pretty I***
after all the dost got s*«M
".. I kept looking out of *•**
to see which track •*«••"
the right hand track psota'
the left hand track taSsfaW
Th** conductor caaes Aj9
pot your head out of tat**
he said.
I waited, and thee toe** l
again to see whether
Ing up grade or the laid** 1
lilted Again the u**A*m*i
to me and Raid: "Dust I**
head out of the wtadot.**
This . made ; M I »** !
shouldn't I put myhesaiS
window*" 1 said. S3WJ
"Well." he said. "11 ■**
the train. Only J*******!
put hts head out of the •***
we had to go back lesSS*
get It for hlm.'A'?"*'***
I noticed a tady sott***'
trying to raise i wis** *
went over to help bet-, _
"Madam.'' I ssid. s>.-rt _m
window, but I'll advls**"'
put your head out.",
"Why not*" she "**r,
"Because, madam." « •*
have red hair ud th* mt***,
think they've lit lb* rear *■»
She didn't put her *****
the window. ■__„*
There ought to bar* *****
on the train. but that* *_*
complained to th* c**_ m _m_\
here." I said."l ..n't nt****
empty stoniach." ■ V •* j ',*.
•'Rut you are.' fee ****_.^
a tramp riding ©nth* t^,
car who hasn't had * ***„
week." . m .oltl
Thai so" ■**■•■?**:»
we'd been riding ««lt*_ mm
I told my wit* about S*R
a hot... tiling rrr-a on -*
beam," 1 aald. ._»__•
If tun had sen** *****L.
that." she said. ■'1"*,,7"i < l
Aft*-! that I »*•»* -WIJJ,
log compartment """"'J,*
porter had mad" "1* »«gj)
folk* thought 1 I**, ,**_^
board, for:when*til>^ f
whole family-.*** » *»