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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-03

Mrs uGtieHah When the count
proposed 10 YOUR daughter weren't
you IN sostaHisH7
Mrs anddef@i cant quite reipem
her Tie name of ihs place Those
towns In Europe have such funny
HamnH don't you know Spokane
Chronicle
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-03
sauoolaRs SENTENCED.

CHICAGO. july Robert "
Stephenson. " " CLARK aud John
hallzeil, the three railway brake
men Who pleaded guilty 10 the GOV.
ufnmeata charges 81 conspiracy to
violate the immigration and chi.
nesc exclusion laws were sentenced
To serve six months each In the
hrldeweil prison tddav
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-03
E!ks' EXCURSION, Los Angeles

July CTS. Rate 1880 Return
limit twenty nine days Apply to
Northern Pacific agent for tickets
va Southern Pacific Shasta route
y E, Ellis. General Agent $ r
Co. 80
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-03
TORPEDO BOATS ARE
SAFELY IN HARB0R

The torpedo boat destroyer Hall
arrived In tbs harbor at noon yes.
terday and Joined the rest Of the
fio,illa with whom she originally
started She was forced TO put
back to san Francisco because u
the bursting Of a boiler tube, which
injured several men.
The wuntost Yankioa. the mother
ship Of the torpedo fleet. Is expect
ed Ia the harbor saue time TODAY
The torpedo boats nos IA the
hartor are the Perry, Paul Jones.
Whinple and Truxton AL. inelnd.
Ing the destroyer. are open 10 pub.
Dc Inspection all day long except
az meal time
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-03

-, ne perfofmaucs laaih Nt ~
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m Ferris Hartman srasau
=, .,r.nf opera house will be
n ! saccessful close. fa=
nlsht Will eome the iifst
y. ~ 80 5eilen u "A Chinese Hon
~ |. he nrst lime that this
!. been seen in SEATTLE At
tisn two-dciiaf prices Nj
- Ma tesn provided in the
samusi Pineapple with a
f,sm rhlth he extracts tie
-, .aaent VI comedy and H.
\. y N xrta,sst saccesses- Miss
t..,sts Norton. the new rfi1ta
-. IN sresaf - Ms Pineapple
u esTss a. splsudit contrast let
%,.n.sa. Tie rest u the com.
- 40 al ccusenial paFia tnd
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r.. Ertrice HUNT ard beauty
go IN " seen ta the greatest
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-03

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sat. X W vii carry the fire.
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-03

Sell DID you ever soc such thin
airif
BELLE nsred did Trey aaF In
stead 81 going 20 q drrsamakFf shu
has hsf clothes made - on aRhal-
gferer
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-03

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~ nam Charles Hammond
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-03

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= AR q The Fatal Gard
~ iauhls lifs led b. George
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49,. palms 10 with evil COM
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a,,tsftd 60 hiri a. kleiss star
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-03

r. Ennx nantinK finishes tae
NJ .asIxtt 81 The seattle theatra
/ ~ Y9in-foy GIRL
A mi RIars will BE- the PLAY
,sin1s I'D ali next week Al the
Nj fasaifs. and It VII intfoiuce
- f41.a HnntinE and tie other
raAsit u her company De- q lat Of
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-03
A. the star

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cuts awaY In his parachute.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-07-03

t06 Cherry ST., Ground Floor.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-29
PARIS RAGPICKERS.
An Occupation That Is Passed Along
From Father to Son.

The ragpickers Of Paris are born TO
their work, the occupation being pass
ed from father to son for generations.
Each ragpicker family has its own dis.
trict which is inherited by the chii-
dren and grandchildren.
In spite Of all the progress made IN
modern and elegant Paris barrels OF
waste are piled up on the streets in
front of many buildings on beautiful
boulevards in the early morning hours
and It is the privilege and In fact the
mission Of the ragpickers to examine
this refuse.
They have use for everything. and
but little is left after they have passed,
their thoroughness being one reason
why the system Is still allowed Ev-
cry scrap Of paper has its market;
rags are gathered for paper manufac-
turers; shoes go back to leather deal
-ers.
Old sardiDe and preserved meat tins
are used for making playthings. old
bones produce gelatin and glue. lem
ons and orange peels are greatly
sought after and sold at the rate of a
cent a pound TO perfume and strip
manufacturers. old metals are highly
priced. cigar stubs go to tobacco fac
tories, and even stale vegetables are
carted away.
The quarters OF the ragpickers Of
Paris are just outside the confines Of
the city-sections carefully avoided by
most people who do not belong TO the
guild. Every member of the family.
from the Oldest to the three-year-old,
takes part in the sorting Of the spoils,
and it often happens that members Of
family die either from poisoning
from stale food or from a cut from
one of the tins.-Popular Mechanics.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-29

glamour of such an influence, but even
Gladstone was human. In SO pro-
longed a career it Is nothing to point
to reversals of opinion, but to swear
that yesterdays wrong is today's right
and to oppose great causes until the
eleventh hour and then turn about
and become their enthusiastic convert
champion were among some of his
acrobatic feats which sorely puzzled
his followers TO interpret. Illustra-
lions of this follow in another section.
1t was never difficult TO make parallel
passages from his speeches in which
the argument of each proved the fall
lacy of the other, like the Jew and
the Catholic who discussed their re-
hgfous convictions with such irresisti-
weeks the Jew became Catholic and
the Catholic Jew.
Gladstone's voice was an instrument
of pure music, farreaching as to space
and our inmost chamber of delight
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy says In his ever
welcome History of Our Own Times
the first oratorical qualification was
Gladstone'S exquisite voice. Such a
voice would make commonplace seem
interesting and lend something of fas-
cfnation to dizziness itself. 1t was sin
gularly pure, resonant and sweet, not
loud or of great volume, but strong,
vibrating and silvery. Somebody once
said that he was the only man in par
lament who could talk in italics He
could, by the slightest incubation of
his voice, give all the emphasis Of
italics of small print or large or any
other effect he might desire
Mr. Bryce enIarges on this voice and
must be quoted in part lest the writer
be suspected of exaggerating the rela-
tive Importance of mere vocalism In
estimating Gladstone's oratory. He
says:
The vehemence of his feeling found ex-
resistless strength OF his words. His ut
terance did not grow swifter nor the key
of his voice rise as passion raises and
sharpens 1t IN most men. But the meas
Ured force with which every sentence was
launched. the concentrated intensity of
his look he defed antagonists in front
and swept his glance over the ranks OF
his supporters around and behind him,
had startling and thrilling power which
no other Englishnan could exert. The
whole proud bold. ardent nature of the
man seemed to flash out. and one almost
forgot what the lips said in admiration of
the towering personality.
Before noting the little discount
this very distinguished associate of
Gladstone ventures to take of this
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-29

one. put many m one, many contradict
DRY units in enigmatical whole
A few weeks later was published
the mastery monograph. William
Ewart Gladstone-His characteristics
as Man and Statesman" by the Right
Hon. James Bryce, author Of 1.-THE
American Commonwealth" and now
British ambassador at Washington
He served in Gladstone's cabinet and
was president of the board of trade in
Lord Rosebery's ministry. These are
his opening sentences:
No man has lived in our times of whom
It Is SO hard to speak in a concise and
summary fashion as Mr. Gladstone His
activity spreads itself out over many
fields No account OF him could be
complete without reviewing his actions
and estimating the results of his work in
all these directions. But the difficulty of
describing and judging him goes deeper.
His was a singularly complex nature
character hard to unravel. 4" His was
an individuality so far from being self
consistent as sometimes to seem q bundle
Of opposite qualities capriciously united
in a single person He might with equal
truth be called, and he has been called,
conservative and revolutionary. He
was dangerously impulsive and had fire.
Quently to suffer from his impulsfveness,
yet he also not merely wary and
cautious, but SO astute as to have been
accused on craft and Discrimination. So
great his respect for authority and
tradition that he chung to views regard
ing the unity of Homer and the historical
claims OF Christian sacredotalism which
the majority of competent specialists
have now rejected. Yet SO bold was he in
practical matters that he transformed the
British constitution, changed the course
of English policy in the orient, destroyed
an established church in one part of tho
United Kingdom and committed himself
to the destruction of two established
churches in two other parts. He came
near TO being a Roman Catholic IN his
religious opinions, yet was for twenty
years the darling leader of the English
Protestant nonconformists and the Scotch
Presbyterians- He was at different times
the defender and the assailant OF the
same institutions, yet he scarcely seemed
inconsistent IN doing opposite things, be-
cause his methods and arguments pre-
served the same type and color through
out.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-29
"a Nine DAYS Wonder"

The memorable reign of Lady Jane
Grey is said to have given rise TO the
phrase "A nine days wonder" Lady
Jane was proclaimed queen of Eng
land July 10. 1853. four days after the
death of Edward vi. After the lapse
of a period Of nine days, on July 10,
she relinquished her title TO the crown,
thus terminating her reign in the short
space of q week and half. A noted
English historian says. Thus we come
TO the end of the diary of that short
and troubled reign that from its
length IS said to have given rise to the
now Q62O popular phrase, "A nine
days wonder"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-29


in a fright but THE BELL.
he patted the wig Of the biggest girl
carefully pulled the bell till he heard
it ring, then stalked away, happy in
thinking he had performed an act of
mercy.
His friend and secretary, Sir Ed
ward Hamilton, tells how the liberated
gladiator would indulge his gluttony
for reading when at Hawarden. He
read everything slowly and never skip
ped line. He had a system of mar
ginal marks that fixed values in his
mind which came near to being ON
niscient. This and his native facility
in mastering details account for the
national enthusiasm over his annual
budgets when chancellor of the ex-
chequer. For five hours at a stretch
he used to make the endless tables of
statistics as charming to hear as n
love story. Gladstone, like his foeman
the Earl of Derby, was a lover Of
Homer and wrote much about the
Homeric poems, but he has not been
accepted as an authority. Homer" he
used to say, was poetry making, relI-
gion making and nation making all
combined" Next to the Bible, he con-
sidered them 1.-THE greatest works ever
composed" Homer, Dante and Shake
speare were the greatest of all poets.
Theological study, says Hamilton,
was a still greater attraction to him,
Bishop Butler being his favor1te church
writer He held SCOTS Bride of
Lammermoor' and "Kenilworth'' TO
be works of such genius that no other
man than Aeschylus could have writ
ten the first and only Shakespeare the
second. The recreations of Gladstone
were few and simple, excepting his
tree telling exploits. which were turn
ed against him as emblematical of
his hewing down venerable institu,
lions. Cards he detested from his hor-
ror of their gambling tendency. He
enjoyed the theater, loved music, used
to be a good singer and violinist and
was always ready for a game of old
fashioned backgammon. His piety.
was innate and strongly impressed all
who knew him intimately.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-29

to talk of law or liberty or religion or
civilization if these gentlemen are to
carry through the chaotic schemes
they have devised" In Jail they were
kept for five months without trial
BY and by Parnell and his party held
the balance of power between Tories
and Liberals. Gladstone had made a
characteristic utterance when in oppo-
sition. anticipating this dilemma, in
which he discloses the working of
what may be styled politicianism: 81
tell you seriously and solemnly that,
although believe the Liberal party to
be honorable, patriotic. sound and
trustworthy, yet it would be in such
position as that it would not be trust
worthy"
1t came true. When he realized that
the Irish party did hold the balance Of
power Gladstone amazed the country
by declaring himself a convert to
home rule. How that step ruptured
his party, severed lifelong friendships,
isolated him from his principal asso-
ciates, alienated the sympathy of those
he sought to win, split the nation into
factions more imbittered than over
any question IN half a century and led
to his own withdrawal from public
life under a cloud without the spec
tacular farewell which parliament, the
crown and the people would in hap
pier circumstance have taken of their
Grand Old Man needs no further elab-,
grafton here.
OF other memorable policies and
above all, his foreign policies we are
clad NOT 70 expound With the excen-
ton of his brave and honorable with
drawal from the Boer war in 1881, the
record Of his foreign policies is in the
main a chapter of bIunders. He OPP
posed the purchase of the Suez canal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-29

shares. By buying them Lord Beacons-
field made not only brilliant trading
profit, but by giving England a sure
footing In Egypt indirectly rescued it
from financial and other ruin and es-
tablished Britain's power where it
tells with envied force. Gladstone
was always the friend of Russia and
other foes of his country. Although
he roundly denounced the sultan over
the Bulgarian and other atrocities -
he candidly declared, II for one am
still DESTROYS to see the territorial in
tegrity of Turkey upheld" AS a free
trader he went joyously out of his
way to hasten the commercial suprem-
acy of the United States, his country's
powerful rival. 1.-THE United States
can and probably will wrest from us
our commercial prosperity. 1
have no inclination to murmur at the
prospect. America is passing us by
in canter" He also wrote that Eng
land has no interest in India except
the we'll being of the natives, and IL
some enemy destroys our short cut to
India by the Suez canal we shall be
the greatest losers, but IT is a Ques-
ton of loss, and loss only The ex-
preston is, however, somewhat vague.
We have perhaps sufficiently indi-
Gated the main features of GIadstone's
character in sketching his public acts
and words. In the stormy debates
over his home rule somersault he heard
the voices of candid friends at an age,
seventy-six, when man counts loving
~ on tributes of affection. His own
ablest minister and biographer, John
(nOw Lord Morley. was constrained to
publicly utter the stinging criticism,
"Mr. Gladstone's mind is a mint of log
zeal counterfeits. The Right Hon.
w. e. Forster, his secretary for
Ireland, said before him in the house
of commons, He has the great ad-
vantage of being able to convince his
friends of most things and himself of
anything" Earl Russell. the Lord
John Russell of the 1882 reform bill.
protested that "by his foreign policy
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-29
ATOP THE FREIGHT TRAIN.
Walking the Cars Hair Raising Elk
perisnce For Novice.

Walking the Cars a Hair Raising Elk
perisnce For a Novice.
There came over me as 1 sat in the
caboose that evening a wild desire to
ride with the engineer in the cab
Planning to slip ahead along the half
mile or so of train at the first stop.
made known my desire to our con-
ductor over that part of the run.
They'll be glad TO see you" he told
me. You won't have any trouble get
tin there. It's mild evenin'." He
swung open the window of the lookout
and called to his rear brakeman. 'Jiln-
ME, run along with this here party"
Jimmie pulled me through the window
of the lookout before l clearly realized
the entire plan.
1t was a slippery path over the roofs
of sixty cars to the big engine that
was pulling us. and the wind that
swept in from the shores of the ice
bound lake. along which the tracks ran
for many miles. snapped sharply over
those car roofs. Jimmie hung on TO
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-29

Passing now from this necessary
preamble, we view the man in his
habit as he lived. No player on the
world stage IN our century stirred M
audience of nations with equal mag
netsm or trod the courts of kingship
with truer majesty. There were
phases of popular enthusiasm when
he was not only adored, but almost
'godded," his name, William Ewart
Gladstone, being tacitly regarded as
a human expression for the divine
gin. If his country still lacked some
" the projections of ideal rule they
prayed heaven TO vouchsafe, it was
only because Gladstone had not yet
gone I'D to send them down Tory
TO finish. The American speakers
way of introducing a funny story
would be frowned down by a British
audience bent on enjoying a continuous
piece of serious pleading by experts
primed with facts and figures used as
battering rams. The speaker may
flavor these with wit and humor If he
has these natural endowments, but
borrowed fun is not an acceptable
substitute. Gladstone had little OF
either gift, and when CLEAN of hui
NOR struck MIN he served Ii out in
homeopathic doses.
If this is a faithful account of Glad
stone as orator you will ask how the
oratorical garland got place on his
brow. Here is the answer: The secret
of his greatness was his personality,
apart from his work, and the secret
Of his reputation as orator was his per-
sonality. His spoken utterances owed
all their power to his noble self, to the
grace of his form. to the play of his
marvelously eloquent and beautiful
countenancc and the fire of zeal that
blazed in his eyes. Friend and foe
fell alike under the witchery of that |
impressive personality glowing through |
and above all that he said. To the /
hearer came the feeling that such a
face, form and voice must be the /
abiding place of all the virtues, and !
the all compelling fervor that animal
ed every fiber OF his body attested the
Inspiration Of a lofty soul. And this
epslY to dim tbs
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-29

and make him take a sip of her egg
and sherry out of the wide mouthed
bottle she cherished for the sake of
that precious voice. Sweethearts in
the good old fashion, turtledoves from
the day she brought him the famous
Hawarden home until hand in hand
they went down to rest at the foot of
the hill they had climbed and descend
ed with the spirit of sweet childhood
to the end.
What, now, Of the message apart
from the oracle? Mr.. Bryce con-
hnues:
People who read next day the report in
the newspapers of a speech delivered on
such an occasion could not comprehend
the impression IL had made on the listen
ers- What was there in II so to stiq
your" they asked They had not seen the
glance and gestures. They had not heard
the vibrating voice rise to an organ peal
of triumph Of sink to. whisper of en-
treaty Yet one must not forget that
with him. as with some other famous
the impression made by a
speech was in measure due to the ad-
miring curiosity and wonder which his
personality inspired.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-29

{ foes and Conservative scoffers might
chill the morning air with Icy criti-
cisms as they read the reported speech,
but once we got them within the walls
and under the spell Of the speaker
their cold storage philosophy melted
into sympathetic something which
by and by giowed into fiery rapture.
Let us watt ourselves across seas and
years and hear him in his prime
There is crisis in national affairs
A general election is probable. The
party In power is to be driven out
by the more advanced apostles of
progress. or change. which often
passes for progress. 1t matters moth
ing to our present purpose whether
we are going to hear Gladstone in at
tack or defense. Mr.. Bryce puts it
neatly. His methods and arguments
preserve the same type and color" A
skillfuller debater there never was or
is likely to be. Every rule, art, trick.
comes into play in the very nick of
time, usually impromptu. We shall
weary, despite our enthusiasm and
the contagious excitement Of a vast,
packed crowd, Of the speakers very
frequent lapses into long winded SEN
LeuCSSy IUO, even more Cnan ZOU
long, the harder to grasp because he
speaks In Latinized and not in the
plain speech which was and ought to
be the glory OF our language. Some
times his sentences will be so involved
that he loses his thread and forgets
of published article, on which hangs
an interesting coincidence:
OF most public characters 1t is possible
to take summary view which shall be /
fairly comprehensive and impartial. This (
is literally impossible in the case of Mr.. I
Gladstone for these reasons: His unexan1-
pied multifariousness demands considera-
ton in detail If q just estimate is de- |
sired His unique mentality must be I'M
derstood before the results OF it's proc
esses can be rightly seen and judged and
these together utterly fail to portray the
Gladstone of history unless we study
them as Influenced by the mighty up
heavals economic, social political ren-
OF, oF,6doin international relations. that
1905 10 Second AN S.s---gthe most
Rock Island. 70
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-12-29

purpose of this. faithful study Of the
last OF Engiand's nineteenth century
giants is to put the reader in the posi-
ton Of both jury and judge and spread
before his judicial eye the moving pan
Drama OF a character and career of
equal fascination and perplexity.
The writer was born and trained
In Gladstone's county of Lancashire
and during a quarter OF a century
missed no chance of hearing him on
ordinary and great occasions in the
small house of commons and when he
stirred in and out door thrOngs num-
bering up to $4,000.
The day after the death Of the IA
nous Victorian Liberal leader this pen
wrote the following opening sentences