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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-04-03
GEORGE TOWN

GE0RGETOWN. April AT the
meeting 81 The city council last
might letter from Council Commits
sinner Dan AbfAm. stating that "
the city of G~orKetown would 90
ahead and improve Charleston av.
which Is q county road from rs
ieiis 81 20 the county bridge. that
the county would stand half the eH-
pence The proposition was ae-
eepted.
The Puget sound El@rtrie com
pauy sent a petition 90 the city
council asking that they I've permit
tod 20 run a spur track and switch
across Rainier az. wesi % Bogus u
20 the Seattle Eieetric company's
proposed car shops The petition
Vas granted
The petition asking Tor the i'm
pruVsnsnt ~ Batemen a. xest 81
Ferry n was laid over for one week
for consideration.
A petition signed by 20 OF proper
~ ouuera Who own mos; Of the
pruperty east % the Northern Pa
cifie tracks and. weai ~ spraKle's
addition. and north 10 the city i'm
tts vas sent Ia ASKING that the pe.o-
pie Of the hin be represented In a
business way and that ths cows. n
permitted o. run At large al all. be
permitted 90 run all over the town
instead Of iuHi on the hill
The plata Of Central and Cald-
we'll additions Nere approved By the
city engineer and accepted BY the
council.
A resolution was passed 20 pro
hihit the Georgetown Water con-
pany from laying any more water
mains uaiess by order OF the city
council
The question Of = speed limit for
street cars. locomotives and trains
was brought un but was laid over
Tor one vcrk. with the unfinished
business Councilman DOYLE nated
thai be saw 40 use of wasting the
money and time 81 the city In pans.
ing ordinances that would NOT be
enforced lie stated that the
Georgetown marshal had orders to
arrest all chanffeura who run their
machines above the speed limit.
which occurs every day. bat 10 far
the ordinance has no, ben enforced.
The Georgetown Water company
asked the city council for permission
60 run q two-inch water main along
Ferry a. The council referred the
same to tho fire and water commit
toe
Conncilmen oHnurka and Har,
were appointed 20 Join the move
mont Of the South Park south seat
lie and Georgetown improvement
clubs in the work OF trying 10 ob.
tain a five minute ear service from
the Seattle Electric company. and
have double track from King 81
In the southern part OF Seattle 20
the city limits Of Georgetown.
RfVERTON. April Several
families living here viii go 20 the
mountains and the tall timber 10
spend tho summer months
FOSTER. April Sixty people
attended The dance given BY Walter
Lambert AZ his home saturdas uiEht
and danced until morning
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-04-03

The second reading and final pas
sage nf the franchise asked BY the
Seattle Electric company comes be-
fore the council tonight hlda Will
be opened FOR sewers ON nay a.
from Main "a Spring. ON Chestnut
near iat ay, 60 connect With the snd
av sewer. on Polk between snd and
Ard ava
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-04-03

Building permits granted WI,
liam Wagner. house. lla Mary avs
500. William Wagner. house. los
Mary av.. $500, " II Osborn. house,
1874 sth 81 $3.50. nerEerAel. house.
sea state &C.. faaa
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-04-03

Smith claims that. with partner.
he located and owned the 0iadneas
mine. and sold Il 10 the NoFthland
company FOR t3-koe lie SAYS that
a DEED 20 the property was given by
him 70 Mr. Arthur % be put In
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-04-03

Asking for the foreclosure % a
mortgage on the 'GlAdnesa" mine.
In Dry gulch. pufrnplne Greek d.s
triet. Alaska. Joseph W Smith has
brought suii against IN. Nnrthland
MiaiHE and Development company.
and ia attorney. John Arthur. OF
this city Incidental 10 hla claim
Smith makea the serious charge
that Mr.. Arthur. whom be SAYS vas
his attorney. neglected his Interests
10 further those Of The Northland
COMPANY
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-04-03

A bis delegation Of Ballard YOUNG
people viii attend the nesting ~
the Anti Saloon league TO be held at
Westminster church In Seattle to-
morrow evening
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-04-03
CLUB LACKS
INDIGNATION

home at the department barn.
The fifih party Of the Elk Whia,
series was held last night
& NJ Williams started today
audi tag the citya books Tie en-.
poets % complete tho work within
a month.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-04-03

RtVERTON. April s--soyerai
families nying here viii go 20 the
mountains and the tall timber 10
spend tho summer months
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-04-03

FOSTER. April a-sigty people
attended the dance given BY Walter
Lambert ~ his home saturdas uiEht
and danced until morning.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-04-03

The GeorEetown Water company
asked the city council for permission
60 run = tWo.inch water main along
Ferry IT. The council referred the
same TO tho fire and water commit
tee
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-04-03

A resolution was passed 10 pro
hihit the GcorKctoxu Water com
pany from laying any more water
mains uaiess by order OF the city
council
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-04-03

The plata Of Central and Cald-
we'll additions ~sre approved by the
city engineer and accepted BY the
council
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1906-04-03

The petition asking FOR the i'm
pruFansnt ~ Batemen a. xest 81
Ferry n was laid over for one week
FOR consideration
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New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

asked wonderingly and staring fxedly at him.
Nothing" he said. Don't be alarmed, am
merely here by chance"
But why have you followed me?"
No. l have not followed you; assure you of
that. did not know that you were here even. L
beg YOU not to be alarmed. "
Why then, are you here?" she persisted.
This is public cemetery you know. / came
TO grave, just you have.
This grave?"
How can you possibly guess that" he asked,
"since you have never before seen me, and do not
know who / am7"
You stopped here, did you not?" she asked.
"You stopped and looked strangely at me-"
Certainly. looked at you" admitted Harcourt:
Il did not realize that | looked strangely
However, let me he frank. | did come to see your
sisters grave
MY sister!" said she, shrinking, as from the
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JULY IS, l9oo

touch of a wound How do you know9 What inter
est can you have strong enough TO bring yous
Not such very strong interest ne answered..
at am merely here to fill an idle hour and because
| happen to be occupying the fiat in which your
sister died There is that link between her and me;
she has moved in the same little home, looked from
the same windows, slept in the same room, as l.
poor grl!''
She suddenly looked up from the ground, saying,
MAY ask how long you have been theref" -
This is only the second day" he answered. -
"Your interest in her has been sudden.
But her crayOn portrait is there over my dining
room rnantelpiece and it is an interesting one.
The moment / saw you l understood that you were
her sister
'You must have known that she had sister.
why, yes, / knew"
"Who told you that, pray?
Her manner had now changed from one of alarm
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

20 one of resentment. of mistrust- Her questions
leaped from her as from judge eager TO condemn
said "Ihe agent happened to mention it in speak
ing 70 me of the late tenant. as agents do"
'Ah no doubt, she said half to herself. You
are all ready enough with explanations Wise as
serpents If not harmless as doves.
The last words we're spoken with break in her
voice and a look that went to HarcOurt's heart
He understood that he was IN the presence here Of
the strange, of mind touched to wildness by a
mOnstrOus grief, and needing delicate handling
What have told you is only the truth, he said
know the history of the fiat before you went into
it,"
why, yes"
"Yet YOU went What then, was your motive1n
"Ah now, come" said he. Il can see that Won
Continued On page ~
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TIL NOD e r N II E r Q S Nj

Of a divine appearance
among men.
Believe as firmly As
we Will IN the rrsI VIC
tory Of the right The
unvanquishable trend
of goodness. there IS
something the ical
and chilly IN su-a "a
tiOnal religion II aiss-
es the warmth and color
of the older cul- and
while it may be aore
authentic, Is -dlv
more vital thar ,hev
were. Thehumar mind.
so long accustoued TO
rely on some trad tl0nal
authority for the sanc-
tiOns of conduct ieels
lost and abandoued IN
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

having to depend so wholly on its own initiat and
COmmendatiOn The strain and difficulty OF Et-
great and the event for each one OF ncer-
tain success may attend us defeat IN far are
equality with the earlier generations II men.
At the time there IS laid upon this later
impediment of spiritual uncertainty; not oaIv the
ordinary burdens Of existence are ours bur the
weight of an almost ineXtinguishable doubt well
We must follow the finty path of endeavor by a
light of devising, and come TO the las- con-
fines of mortality without any Certitude, such as
Cheered men formerly, as TO what NAV lie tevOnd
Our belief may be more pure and reasOnahlc than
theirs but IS less attainable, less full OF cofort
and consolation
All this calls for courage, for new herois-l less
evident, but not less actual than the old Doubt
less it required daring TO sail with the Argonauts
TO fight with beasts IN the Coliseum 10 pass the
exCruciating tests of the Inqusition even under the
support of positive and TenuneTative creed But
to-day the very thought of life we see It offered
TO us, a problem without solution, a task with no
other compensation than can wiring from OBJ
durate destiny must be enough TO fiIl all but the
stOutest souls with trepidatiOn- Our lifelong
labOriOuS ambitions familiar relations our
dearest hopes, our friendships, and our loves-are
all these to cease utterly with latest breath and
be no more anywhere IN the universe for Us orever
And must still, IN spite of this be unrernittIng
vigiant sedulOus, and stout Of heart9
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xZOU will sometimes
I hear it spoken of
- 90 - 1,,r,orO1,

N/OU VIII sometimes
hear it spoken of
as an unherOic
time, and we are always
in danger of missing the
glamour of the days
that are our own.
We sigh for the splen-
doris of barbarism or
the magnificence of the
Middle Ages, and think
ourselves defrauded of
opportunity. Could we
have marched with
Alexander, or sailed
with Drake, or risen for
the Pretender, or borne
part in any of the
thousand enterprises
that fill the sounding
pages of history, how
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

thousand enterprises 6s&Sn1 (4l3}MV5
that fill the sounding kHNl8
nObly would have played the camel We
should have been found among the laggards.
Our SweetheartS and families would have had no
cause for shame account. Craven or pol
troon names never could have been called.
We would have endured with fOrtitude, and striven
with desperation turned back defeat from the last
rampant, and carried victory home with triumphant
psalm, if only the opportunity had been ours.
We were born for greater things; there can be no
mistake about that. 1t is only the times that
all wrong, only the conditions and circumstances
that need to be changed. In a romantic age-in
any age but this-we would have been masters of
fortune and captains OF destiny. We would have
surely gathered the wealth of the world in hands,
and walked the earth peers of demgOdS and kings.
1t is the COmmOnest of delusiOns. Every man
carries in his breast this capacity for decevng him
self, and may at any unguarded moment fnd him.
self issuing patents of nobility in his for
deeds done in his imagination. He lifts his
chest with pride to receive the welldeserved deco
ratiOnS from his hands, and coins hOneyed
phrases of laudatiOn for these actions of his fancy
actions as a matter of fact which he would not be
capable of performing in hundred incarnatiOns.
Meanwhile the world goes by, opportunity escapes,
and never brave hands turn is done to tighten the
burden of the days.
The truth is here is life before us to be dealt with
much the same it in the reign of Raneses or
Nero or the impetuOus Elizabeth, just large just
as undetermined and maleable, lust as full of
potential triumphs, joys and spendors, passionate
darings and unaSsuageable regrets. 1t only awaits
the hero, it has always awaited him. to yield the
IL
bestow its goods upon the needy for nothing, no
matter how great their passive virtue may be.
Benefits must be wrung from it by masterful means.
Authority of Strong Man
THE strong man exercises over events the authority
of purposeful command. The course of affairs
Is subject to his will. He will not be frustrated by
complications, nor arrested by any diSheartenment.
His spirit is alert and unamazed as he goes forward
on the trail of his happiness Difficulties are dis
solved before him. and way opens out he pro-
CeedS. He IS not OveranXiOus about what he cannot
see. The present and the actual give him all the
trouble he wishes to confront. He does not allow
his mind to rest too long upon the bewilderng
glories of the past, does he permit it to be
diverted by the glitterng promises of an unstable
future. The comfortable drift of the things of to-
day is sufficient to absorb all his energies and bring
all his capacity into play.
Have not strong men always been Just such con-
trollers of whatever affairs immediately about
them' Have they not always fought or built or
painted or gone upon adventure simply with the
means at hand? Since they had courage and
Promptitude and understanding. they needed little
other equipment Had they waited until every
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
Should Be Gay. Generous. and Tender

MORE than that, we must be gay. debonair. un-
daunted, generous, and tender-as never before
II 1t IS true that IS periouS uncertain
and our tenure OF opportunity brief Is II not only
the more incumbent upon to insure the highest
attainment and win the finest culture now If to-
morrow we die, let eat and drink indeed but let
us also secure the greater boon of Justice o under
standing, OF love, since these Will yield the fuller
happiness If heavenly futurity Is more than
doubtful, would It not be merely comm sense
TO strive 70 bring about beatihc state IN he pres
ent: The brevity of life Is not Sugges- n 70 do
Ill but to do wellto do the best, even from selfish
motives.
Incentives to piety and effort VIII never h lckng
We shall dlStIl drafts of spiritual stimuli from
whatever new knowledge may come o. -S But
we shall always need courage for the en-e---iSe for
courage IS one OF the prime virtues OF ,e spirit
the sister OF taIthfulneSS and love We ---i il not
only at moments OF extremity. bur evcr- hour IN
the long, eXhausting struggle againS- sla-nness.
StOdItv. trICkery ShIftleSSneSS and greed - others
and IN ourselves. We need II as rluc1 f1r the
kindly occupations of peace as our fa-t needed
It tor the blaring clash of war There Is a dav.
hardiy moment, when we may not WEI =-rlInOn
al the herolSrn we possess, 70 fOrtify mortal
hearts against a multitude OF failures ami The IN
Vulnerable companies Of sorrow and de~-
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Continued on page !
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-18
The Awakening of China.

Momentous events are transporting IN
China, of which the growth Of anti
foreign feeling reported IN The Her
AIDS news columns is but a part. II
is to be hoped. indeed, that the anti
foreign sentiment is not as serious as
represented, for the ferment in China is
at bottom not so much due 10 hatred Of
foreigners as it is TO the rapid develop
ment of national feeling, and Of patriotic
ambition 10 preserve the integrity Of the
Celestial Empire. Naturally this feeling
has taken the form Of resentment against
those foreigners who seek to exploit the
natural resources of the country. and to
divide It up. into spheres of influence"
Taking a lesson from Japan, whose
Statesmen discovered after the Chino
Japanese war that military power gains
the respect of civilized nations where
other means fail, the Chinese are train
ing an army fit to cope with what they
regard as dangers threatening them from
without Probably they have in view the
Russians, who are becoming increasingly
aggressive on the Tibetan and Mcngolian
frontiers. That the Chinese make splen-
did soldiers, when properly disciplined and
Differed, Is the universal opinion Of mil
itary men. With a modern army, and an
alliance with Japan, thus gaining naval
protection for her seaeoast, China would
be practically inviHcible.
Whether such an alliance is brought
about or not, we are bound soon to wit
ness the rise Of a second great military
power in the far East. To be on terms
OF amity with this rising power would
seem to be the correct policy Of Western
governments, especially Of the United
States. which has, through half a century
of fair dealing with the yellow races,
gained an enviable prestige in the Orient
While the army is undergoing a trans
formation, the imperial government al
Picking is considering the report Of the
commission appointed TO consider govern
mental reforms. This commission. after
visiting many foreign countries has rec
commended the establishment OF a system
Of constitutional government resembling
IN some particulars that of Japan. Ii
proposes the substitution OF cabinet for
the present State council, and the estab-
lishment of elective parliameuts, based
on an educational franchise. in each Of
the eighteen provinces. No provision is
made for . central parliament as in
Japan, but each of the provincial parlia-
ments is 10 be given the right TO nomi-
nate member of the cabinet. \ portion
of this scheme, that proposing a reorgani-
cation of the State council is said 10
have the support Of the powerful viceroy
of Chilli Yuan Chi Kai
The recommendations Of the commits
sion proposing as they DO a revolution IF
the existing system Of government, con-
stitutc remarkable evidence of the avak-
ening Of Chinese people. Their accept
2nce obviously depends on the further
spread Of public opinion and national
feeling, which have hitherto been so con-
spicuously wanting among the vast
masses Of the popuIa ton. but which seem
To be arising out Of the agitation and
ferment now giving Western nations much
concern.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-18
GOSSIP ABOUT
NOTABLE PEOPLE,


Ohio's Attorney General, the Hon. Wade
Hampton Ellis who IS now enacting the
role of st. George against the Standard
Oil dragon. has an unusual record. as
such things 90 in Buckeye politics. and
especially the Republican variety. Mr.
Ellis is not a native Ohioan, but a Ken
tuckian bred and born, and has lived IN
Ohio less than a dozen years AS the
first part OF his name indicates, his pro-
genitors were intensely Southern in
sympathy when sectionslism was ram
pant in the country, and bestowed upon
their son a name that represents more OF
the chivalry and uncompromising attach
ment to the institutions and manners Of
the Old South than any other. Mr Ellis
graduated from a newspaper desk In Gin
cinnait into law only few years ago
He was a stanch Democrat until that
party's craft Wondered on the free silver
shoals in 1896 a year or two after his
conversion 10 Repubhcanism he was made
assistant city councillor Of Cincinnati
and in that position made a reputation
for watchfulness Of the public interests.
What is known as the Cox crowd" nom
mated him for attorney general on the
HeTTick ticket three years ago. and he
was renOminated without opposition a
year ago when the State elected a Demo-
cratic governor. His majority was the
largest received in the landslide. His sup
pOTteTs are now grooming him for the
next Republican gubernatoriaI ncmina-
ton
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-18
The Laws Delays.

The indianapolis Star points with pride,
If that phrase be permissible in this in
stance to the prompt arrest, trial, con-
viction, and sentence Of a negro murderer
Of a white policeman in that city as
record and an example TO be commended
to other communities. The Star justly re-
marks that speedy processes Of justice
demonstrate the strength and efficacy OF
organized society TO deal with its donles-
tic enemies" offering a Tebuke 10 mu0
violence and allaying discomfort with the
the laws delay.
Whether the color Of the murdsrers
skin may not have had something 10 do
with the promptitude with which justice
was administered in his case is a fair
question, but It does not alter the force
Of the Stars plea for speedier process CT
law in dealing with criminals. Criminals,
Of all sorts are much too leniently dealt
with in this country. Occasionally. 1nder
the stress of public sentiment and 10
avert mob law. a criminal is put promptly
on trial and quickly convicted But such
cases are exceptional. Usually months
intervene between arrest and trial, and
months stretch into years before the. dc
PENDANT faces punishment, Il, indeed
through some technical construction Of
the law. he does not escape il altogether
New York City. with its prisons crowded
with murderers awaiting trial, while It's
prosecuting officers and trial Judges are
playing politics, Is a horrible example 10
the country. but there is scarcely a l1rEe
city in the land where the conditions are
not relatively as bad
The slack administration Of criminal
justice and the nOn-enforcement Of law.
in fact, are twin national scandals Of long
standing Over twenty years ago the
people Of Cincinnati tried mob law 20 rid
themselves OF a jailful Of unconvictsd
criminals, with terrible consequences TO
life and property. The incident and is
lesson were too soon forgotten. Within
a few weeks Atlanta has been through a
somewhat similar experience, only 10 fad
that a vigorous enforcement OF the Jaw
would have averted riot and bloodsheI J.
Instances of this sort might easily be
multiplied. They show that the protec-
ton of society devolves d heavy respon-
sibtlity upon police and law officers and
upon the courts, and that reform in our
criminal codes looking to the expedition
of criminal prosecutions is badly needed.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-18
Banks and Trust Companies.

Faith in the efficacy of government Su-
pervision is not confined to the common
people, for among the bankers assembled
at St Louis the way most talked of to
make banks safer is TO give the govern
ment more power over them by means OF
more stringent regulations for the conduct
Of the business Of banking, whether done
by banks or trust companies. The de-
mand for state regulation Of trust com
pan.eS is one that has become more in
sistent yearly, as those companies have
grown in popularity and increased the
volume Of their business. The recent
Philadelphia failure has impressed bank
ers with the desirability Of placing trust
companies on the same footing with state
banks, and requiring them TO submit 10
official examination and to make public
reports at stated intervals.
Whether state supervision would have
ayerted the Philadelphia failure is open
to question. Theoretically il would have
done so, but in practice it has been found
that banks affairs may be conducted
recklessly and even dishonesty right un-
der the noses Of the bank examiners. The
Philadelphia failure revealed a most
culpable ignorance Of the trust company's
affairs on the part of its directors, who
were easily led TO believe that all was
going well at the very moment the con-
Germ was being looted It would seem
useless TO expect government examiners
to step into the places which ought to be
occupied by bank officers and to save
them from the consequences of their own
negligence. A bank examiner may be
deceived as readily as a bank director,
and he may be open to various influences