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;^::;;v,v:::,;: ;..:;:- jm SEATTLE STAR EDITORIAL AND MAGAZINE PAGE &s?Kg2*s*
An Editorial by a Burglar
A young man named Vincent Decker, about to be released
from the Ohio penitentiary, learned that officers from Indiana
would be at the gates when they swung ••!•• » fen lum« to arrc!tt
him i,,, violating his parole from the Indiana state reformatory.
Decker is finishing a ten-year sentence in the Ohio pen for
burglary.
That he has been a "trusty" and a model prisoner seems to
Indicate that it prison can ever reform a man, it has done so in
his case. Yet the officers of another state are to take this thor
oughly punished (if not reformed) man and reform him some
more.
With a fragment of his youth remaining, Decker says he
wants to start now on a decent life. If he doesn't start now he
doesn't sec how be can ever get a fair start. So he has penned
and made public the following plea, which is pretty much of an
cditon.i!
"I was a minor when I received my parole from the Indiana
reformatory. The parole is a contract not to leave the state. I
broke it, but can a minor make a legal contract?
"The judge who sentenced me to ten years for burglary
knew my past and gave me the stiff sentence, he said, with the
hope "that it would reform me. If that object has been accom
plished, what can Indiana or any other state do la make my
reformation greater? 1 must be given a chance before any one
can judge. If my welfare is to be considered, society should
al!ow me a trial freedom. To recommit a man for childhood
offenses savors of persecution, or at least of over-industry on the
part of those who earn their bread at the expense of those less
Intonate than h f*.
"If ten years does not reform me, nothing on God's earth
ever will. If we revert to the old Mosaic law of an eye for an
eye, society can justify itself in anything, but if we are to reform
men, we will have to follow divine instruction and the golden
rule.
"I have earned a chance and I want it."
Looks like trouble with Japan!
We cannot have trouble over the general proposition that
the Japs in this country arc worse than the Chinese and whol
ly undesirable. No: they're here posing as our equals, lower
ing wages, ruining western garden lands, running small Ameri
can dealers into bankruptcy and spreading unmentionable
vices and all the Oriental contagions.. These things are calam
itous only to the poor. We have to put up with them in the
name of diplomacy.
Some of us got hot over the association of the licentious
Japs with our school girls. The big stick of diplomacy whack
ed us into a state of submission. Most of us patrons of public
schools are poor people, or of moderate means, and diplomacy
preferred contamination of our daughters to interference with
mercantile designs on the open door" in China, to which Japan
holds the key.
But now it really looks as if we might have trouble with
Japan. Dollars are concerned, instead of daughters. The
great American trusts are feeling hurt, and government must
get busy right away. The Steel Trust has set up a plant in
Manchuria, and the door has got to be kept open for those
millionaires even though we lo»e every battleship and every
man of army age between San Francisco and Kangor lays
down his life.
Japan runs the Manchurian railruad and fMfdl it with an
army. Coatroiliag trtntportatioa, Japan can dictate to the
Steel Trust management ci that (»!;int in Shai»i pruvime, Man
churia. It must not be. Taft. K<«* ami the new minister to
China. Crane, lately relieved, are already roaring belligerently,
In private.
War! War! War, in behalf of the Steel Trutt! Of
course, the American gardeners, artisans and storekeepers who
have been squelched by Jap competition, and the fathers of
school children forced to immediate association with the Japs,
will do the bleeding and dying in the war. But, war, anyhow!
Freedom may have shrieked when Kosciusko fell, but she must
yell her level best for the first time, now that our beloved
Trusts aren't being treated right.
The divorce season among the
"400" has opened roost aaipldouslv,
with Mm. John Jacob asking for a
private chnnk of the Astor millions.
'.'.As a matter of humanity. th«
court at least should give the Inter
urban ex-patron* erflt for injured
feelings.
MR. SKYGACK, FROM MARS
i<« V.«lt« the Earth »• a ftna..ial Corre«pondent and Make* Wlr«
let ObMrvatlona In Hit Notebook.
J/)H r*o **i.t ti9JfT/*-&efHQ3 //VSV»«V.O
in CO/fSTfiOeT/OH or SO/9* /wv£H7fo/i
q#e*rf* f*oftrto/* <v» r/»t
#OWt*t» t WAS CM* OVKJt TO /*t/CSf
r/)tK-~~— ivffie PAOB/tDIY COM 9*3'
tRi/vtj SJtsr Atrr/</oi>3 ro puwor
/* co»Pifn*<r S/9/n /A-Kf/vrxav,
To Arms
When the Denting sea gets down
!to business. It can show the Gulf
of Mexico some new frill* In the
I ha»oc-wreaking business.
, Selling, liquor to minor Ctrl* Is
Just about as profitable as putting
freezum In meat, and vice versa.
POLITICAL MUSEUM FREAK FEATURE
OF NEW YORK KILKENNY CAMPAIGN
TAMMANY WAX FIQURE CARTOON, CNTITLEO "THAT EARLY
MORNING NOMINATION."
GREAT WATERWAYS PROBLEMS
THAT AMERICANS MUST SOLVE
■V HERBERT QUICK
Author ami Enptrt Wrtttr on Amancan Watarwayt.
leans could takr> up la it><« Impend
lux breakdown of I'm railroad com
panies under the Increasing com
ra«re* of good lltnem, and th« ll«
--r.-unity for the development of
•alar highway* on th« Mlatourt.
MUalaalppl. Ohio and Tt nn»«a>t
ri«i'i> to r«illev« coo(Mi<»'i rallwai'
liii«-» and fr<li!ht jrarda.
Thin la th« lil« pb)r(tca), mutt-
D.-M wide f.-»i>ir«. With II r>'«-«
«lu< taenair; cunncrtlon IM-t»«<n
(he aOMUBOTM <<( tha (lr«at IjUiM
and the camm«tf« of tb« o(f»n
throusb American torrttory ■ '» 'h«
lakea to-UM |uM de«p watrrway.
Cenuni h»« voted 155.000,004 to
■U«-tK'ti the KI«-1 ship run ill to 29
f«-«-t. Wn tlioul't not iM>«ru<!g«
1500.000.000. If nee«««arr. to i>lnt9
at on an equality with Canada « n .l Great Ilrtuln on th- Uk«* .
Canada ha* already mor» <*tnracrc« tbnMtsh hrr 800 canal than
•' <>*v" «hr,»irh ours. When ah» ha« comjdetMl Ih* O«»«l»i! buy
•hip canal, she will dmitroy American ronim*rr« from th« lak»« m
tho i«. and th« death knell of o«r merchant martoo on the lakes
will have tnx-n •••Kinilc.l
HERBERT QUICK.
Another topic „r enormous Interest I. the necessity for taw* to
prerent railways from driving commerce from „,i r waterway*.
European rations have long »it><> enactod lawn to protect waterway
commerce. The waterways convention ran do no greater work
than to bring this Idea home to tb« people, and to sound the slogan.
"Protect the throat of th.- waterway commerce from the knife of
the rail*ays."
A third topic of equal Importance I* the absolute necessity of
public terminal*, public dock* «nd public wharves. if • waterway
commerce, free from private monopoly, la to be <}«•*• I. The
convection should examine New Orleans' aystrtn of public wharves
without freight handling machinery, (in warehouse* and it. b«lt
line of rallwaya, encircling the city, and all publicly owned.
All over the country the canals, rivers, lake* and harbor* are
owned by railway* or private dock companies or other land own
er*. Unless the cltle*. town* and states of this country have pub-
He spirit enough to acquire public terminals, the government should
refuse to spend public money In trying to develop « waterway
commerce. Privately owned terminals means prlvatoly owned
waterways commerce. The shipping interest* between Chicago and
Buffalo are controlled by the railways, which own or dominate the
harbor front of th««« two great title*. For th« United Bute* to
Improve the harbor* of Chicago and Buffalo, leaving the wbArves
and docks In the hands of the railways. Is equivalent to building a
waterway and making the rallwsys a present of It
Hr bringing these few great problems prominently before the
people of the United States, tbe waterway* convention at New
Orleans will do more effective good than by scattering Its fire In
a fruitless bombardment of many of th* fortress**, and which must
be battered down. These are the big "noises" which *•■ have a
right to expect we shall bear from New Orleans,
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
And a little klndm>«» I* a char
itable thing.
Women ruin the waves of the
matrimonial sea.
The arguments of most men are
sound— that* all
The amateur gardener raises
more blisters than v«g«Ubl«ta,
It's easier to nay disagreeable
thing* than It la to HÄ» th'-m
There » hardly anything- morn uni
tes* than a raatrbless matchboic.
Often th« winner Is In a position
to sympathize with the loser.
I'eople who never rhanxa their
minds have no minds worth men
tioning.—Prom the Chicago News.
OPEN TILL TEN
| N ORDER to accommo
date our many friends
and patrons who are anx
ious to secure Exposition
pianos at this sale, our store
will remain open till 10 p.
m. every night this week.
Successor to D. 8. JOHNSTON CO.
Ellere Mum Bldg.,
Third and University.
THi: STAR -WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 27, 1000
Thi- iitKpi-nt feator* which the
water* a)» convention at Nrw Or
REFLECTIONS OP A BACHELOR.
You ran lick moat anything Into
a boy but a»n»«.
Tb« i>a«y thine* to b*U*v« ar«
BMM that arc unbearable.
Th- nin»t that a cirl lik-« about
(ruing rnicaKPd U bow «otn« mmn
old rat aald ah« n.-r-r could.
Mont tu»n who ar» born rich act
a* If they wf r* amarter to Inherit a
fortune than tn«lr fathara were to
maka it
-A woman ran r«t>nrll» hnr*r>lf to
1.-"ln« on» man make lot* to li«-r
wh<-n It on«hi ta ii« another by
thinklnc how Indignant abo routd
act If th- rl«bt on. know.—New
York I'ruaa.
NEW roiuc, Oct. 27.—A kraal
now iHiiiilrni foaturo li Imliik <■»
plotted iii iii. hot mayoralty cam
paign now raaii lutrv. Tha utiv
.ll y l« lull, .t E*oilU< si Mumums."
Iha rcpubllratia itartad tha new
Kama by renting « *U>re room on
' iiion square and placing In tin
window ■ full m1k««I itfftKy of n cow.
The animal I* aupponi'd to t>o mi
Inn from » nijiiiK-r, »nd n hlkm on
tho cartoon read*: "Hit« U wli<r<
you propprty hold<<ra '■■••■! Urn oow."
Another «lKn mi Urn sow ting
read*: ."More If wboru Tammany
milks It."
Tills cow Mm waa elaborated
upon until now (he atom room la
fllN-.l with nkiktu, utirb a* p«»«t
•ft, tolling how recklrmly Tam
many apends city fund*; photo-
Krapba of Tammany dim who have
—■m ■— ■'" '. BAILLARGEON'S >, . M , < --- — ._
Extraordinary Cut Glass Specials
From Our Newly-Stocked Basement Section. An Event of Great Importance to Lovers of Fine Cut Glass.
We want every lady m Seattle and vicinity to become better acquainted with our wonderfully attractive' Basement
Section, snxked today with choice product! of China, Silverware, Cut Glass, Hammered Brass, Marble Uric-a I'r
Trunk*, Valises, Toys, DoIU and Tourists' Supplies, which we sell at from 10 to 25 per cent less than elsewhere. Our C '
crn late trip has »cc tired for us tremendous Cut Ghss specials for your attention at almost half regular prices 7--^
• """••»' an<l I*'»««; si *s '°°-" Cut Glass Klectrie Lamp, complete *•*'
W 1<"ly s<jlll •"$; ';5 ly $8.50.
M.7.% f ••r Cm Class f«.OO prr 1).,/. „ ]-, ir i,,. „- Tumblers k#«,u,i
10 inch Bowl. ,r. ■...,!- O per dozen K«P>l«ly
"^wv**^ . $6.95. 910.00 per Dozen— For Cut Glass Tuai
s3.7s-For Cut Glass 7-inch Compote. ._,,.., I«, £1"*;. Rcul«ly $16.00 per dozen. «*3>
Regularly $5.95. CTCTWSfey f. 1 ' I** I'OT. slu;icc.5 lu; icc. of Cut Class 2-pint VLj»
95.50 per Do*cn-For Cut Class Water HBQggf JSf i"* °™? h J^ te6 t Compote, 8-inch Mj [.
«5£ : fT f":i ?S2iHE€ nd,A
$3.7*>—l'or Cut Glass 14-inch Carnation 1 Sugar and Cream Set. Keularlv S'7s to lhfUW<
\'as<-. Regularly $5.00. HI $3.50. RUiar'> ♦-'5 t0 tw^rwfl*
?,-~i;° r Cut ?'r" Water 8? tlles-, ffl 91.85-For 8-inch VCut'Glass Howl, whirl- Wj" 1&
*3..».. lor pint Cut Glass Claret Jug. wind and star cutting. Regularly $3.25 rtlHSir
92 .3 5 -For SfSWk. Jug. ■ egu^y^7s. fl- '■"rCui;;:;::. lX'r,n^ 3'h^"™1-
»2.15 l-.r Cut Class 10-inch Celery Dill Regularly *_^ Keguiarly Hl.OO_For Cot
25f-For Cut Glans Salt S?7c^c'r SlX^^aft^lass f^MRS/^"2
50^-For 6-inch Cut'cblTvas?.' 10^ >%>. ;^'jHP I*'ls^ 1 andled or Uhin"
I Of -For Cut Class Kn.fe Rest. f e. d Nappies. *?£>/
- _______ - ________ - _______________^ larly $I.dU and 51./ a.
Ladies' Suits $25.00 Special Sale of
•?ZZ,:;.X;z;'L^t::,;';::^l:V^ 27'inc^ Embroidery Flouncing,
the demand (the last two lots of over 300 Suits being ab- A Baillargeon Embroidery Offering Far and Above the
curbed in about two days). These arc the beat values we Ordinary rf
have yet offered, our buyer having induced the manufac- 1.200 yards of 27-inch Hand Loom Embroidery Flouncing*;,
turer to st.ll improve upon Ins output in consideration of -Sample Strips" brought over by importers, secured by£
the large quant.t.es we were u.inß All the popular cloths at a fraction of their worth; clean. Serfect goods on finei
are rcpresented-Hro.dcloths Scotch Tweeds. Wide and nainsook, and Swisses; quali.es ranging at $2.00, $3.00 and
Smooth-W ale Serges Novelty Su.ting* and Mixtures, in to $500 per yard. On sale by the strip- *-*****» ana :
brown, catawba, artichoke, taupe, raisin, navy and black; M 1 -, 3»'P—
mostly strictly tailored designs. Semi-fitting long coats. 4 1-2 Yard Strips for $3.85
tailored cuffs and pockets; skirts with plaits. Every size, c n(ll .. , tut . . n . r?* y*"r*'
14. 16. 18 years, and busts 34 to 46. Trice *or- /»/» r1^ 1*1 Offering of Bands to match the above choice Em-
Special..... $25.00 bro'dwy. per yard 35^
1.d,..' Mom* Journal TlZyVI^ ATTIf 71 XT* f* V fWTs&S /A> f~Wr7k?ni7ll«J<HJ
P..-.0..V. »o. P Cou- eJr\i\r\l I iiiAfrJt IV A M G3^ (Q A ent. for Old •-"
pon» Redeemed at Our t£j£^*i, J£iL Wl\M^i^iK)t^<4rUyM4\\//J^ tea Chln"« D™***
Toil*! Article Section {?&>// ' «. *' '« - -X^==J % Trunk* and Whitt'i
I \gf OtCONOAvt.Ci 3prin»st. 1 Bag*. I
—— Today's Stylet Today _ : > Jmils'lMt
SPLENDID VALUES IN *&^T
Chiffon Broadcloth Coats /ff/fev
We arc very forlnnata In obtaining th««» '■Aiioß/^
beautiful ('<>«(», im lln< demand fur Hi. hi ha* //Si'tJ//
greatly exceeded ' •"' aupply. Th>'. aitt thor '/ItT'/
oiiKhly mil m:u!>\ of rtilffun broadcloth, 6* kj P rJ|
Inrhn* long, full SklniKi'N aatln lining;, Kimr 4, n MBP
antp*>d for (wo y'Hru in..l utrlctljr hand tal- <%._^j I
lined In Hi'ini and perfectly fitting IIHkIhIk j* \\\ ,i
An apprnprtato and attrartlve |MMI for f /■ js j,";:
all i'uklhiim and pronoiinord very itiylUh by /■'!' I' I •■*'
faihlon'a crtllca. //ill'ji ' ! '
l*rlcp» H»lr<'iiifly modoratP at — IrahV' " '
*.to (Ml. $32.50 and $. #15.«0 /j'lj |l '?
Bux the Easy Way lifel
II In the popular ■yatnm of hundr-ili. of r or '-^W^Amm
lie I ilr<'K«i«MH In 1" iiiihi' of Its Rlmpllclty, rim- >a»^
v«Mil«-iifi« and without extra chAri* a null
down and a llttl" at a time In nil that la iht- |_ IVBB^i^aaa . < _ ala
omtary. Other* üb« It—why not youT Try It
—WE will TREAT YOU right.
■', ■ .
Eastern Outfitting' Co., Inc.,
1332-34 Second Ay. 209 Union St.
[" Seattle's Reliable Credit House'] !
Bake Oven Treatment
for I, art I*-■ m nil I. mi ' NMti
Mcitigf null <millu« lloani I ii< Ii)i*«l la TnitMal. . .
■ \\ * SalleK Tear I'm runngf.
SLk -TOURIST BATHS- „?i~
b«on convicted o( thOft; picture!
of deadly tonomtmU and rtrtnui
other 1 hi i("in» exposing Tanmaa) '■
«»V II III! llllllU.
To nff«.t ttiin. Tammany net up
n itiiiiii'iiin next door. A goat wad
pill In Urn window with it hl|/li,
"Wti'vo K«t I'ilolmll ■ Knit! " A Itnnr]
In nuw him !..i,'-.| nt tin. i ntiftiiri-,
unit a barknr on * Stool CftMl
"•'"till' In; Hit fro*; and bn aura to
1 ••ml Dm paper wrapped around your
••unity."
At Hi'- door pretty Ktrl* band out
molaaaM taffy wrapped in political
Iliii In
A real llv<> elephant him ih<- belt
Job In thn pla<M Abova him I* ii
nlffn, "Thn republican elephant
witnla to in! Hi-' public hay; that'a
why II want* to get Into office."
The Hcphfint hM to eat rontlnu
imniy. and nobody has cauKht htm
thlrklng *<> far.
I In- i lili-f ilh>me of lh« poaters
that 111,.- thn walla of this exhibit la
that It la a mean thing to throw
mud at N«w York.
Knur wax flicur«s In a tableau In
Mi r«-ar of the hall an- aupiioiu^d
in Illuiiratn the Morjr that Otto
tlnnnard. republican candidate, »■»
«i-lit(im| for th« honor by Timothy
Woodruff and if. rborl Parsons,
whlla thoy w»r« RpendlriK thn i-n n
liik and early mornlnK at Ihi v h, an
Mil iilkM onfn In th« Tondtirloln.
Tbounanda of x'nm vUlt th«
two inu < 'mm dally.
STAR DUST
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Th* lii.i.|..-i,.|ihi air*| ,iki|n ami
Hi' truat head* vot t>.K«iii<-r at a
tmnqusl »ml |i»»a<"l l>ou>|u«t» «i ouch
other. I'oor Mr, Ultimata Con
nurnorl
!•<»-■ p»lla«r» that corn ■!I••■«•«■
mm.lff.nl lta«ir »ri.i ii,. mm la .11.
H11..1' Th* O-be-Joyful club would
like to knuw.
In quit* common thin** tnueh d«
tionda on i in.i. <■ unit dalcrmlnktlon,
but Hi" xl,*at wlilcb (alia to our
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American Cafe
-^^T^v. Fourth and Ptfce, on th«
gm'* j^^T * *W^*^ TOOTHBOME MORSELt ;
'^t^HT vmf V^y-Vl I">r>' *i*"iti<i »tr«k». chops, TtlJ
(nnPJ»-.(L_V,^^O jk Ai. cull<-u- .-.....■!- . .irr - ■*»
A T^\t^^snrT SVkel;} f»ct Just what you litf. Mi 7<« ;
yV^Sl^^^^/U r/A "•«'' »"<! »>ak--wime »t th»
■: *i ' V^^^SfV^^lß V\i% butchur «hop. but lar«»ly d«P«>*
I VIAK^WMM jf'fi "1 on tho knack of broiling*
$ '•K^'A'iw^m^'V w"». •- »>«»• th» knack. Try
■ Ki^rr^A-rS.V JWSTH for y«»ri.^lf »nd either bl»mt W
fl^9Hprj^9R^^ O^mS9vT~~^ Muilc Every Evening from •■'"
j <^~=^ to 12:30, Including Sunday.
THE BOULEVARD "Where They Lunch"
I 4ih & pike Q U 7!:fc.^ l oc. ooki
Chicago Cafe i>o%ou uuS2 R?n cl'oodt ' rmb , ,
216 Spring St. , nd c ,, m , w)n p,^,, lh » to«>th •»'i
Nettling l.lKc It In Seattle. tickle the paiata of Mil "i''" n\ cl .<.
| The Newport I
(AM & GRILL
FIRST AND MADISON.
lot «v.m»« . from no »•. ■. "
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irrltl., m.,kM no ?","- lhi"y «,«?
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Or ju.t an • ml.ulaneaT
well. If. mi In th* aiWl*^M,
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' v-" .tick to hi* (100. l"«li»
Tli» annlvrriiary of tka ..' ;>
mlllury K*f.U»man ti* ri'?" "*» I
wan l>ni>«..»a«ir unfortunVl. i»wi? I
clioko o( a nam«. """«• la tb,
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lion*. D.11v.i.-,! hi your pJ»e» «d
hualiiM* without Mtr« co»«. i«
JSo rack. ■'■.'* tut i
Rln« up A l«!l or M*ln >»"
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