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The Washington herald., 1909-07-11
WAYS OF PlJKPOCKETS.
'Lov Grade Dips" Work in Pairs
Some OF the Tricks.

Some OF the Tricks.
As a usual thing plckpockets vary their
methods to suit circumstances. Only
the lower grade dips work in pairs. These
are the men who operate on street cars,
elevated station platforms. and similar
places where they viii and crowds OF
pushing people and have opportunity 70
escape If detected.
One OF the pssr shoulders a victim
roughly while the other does the work
and makes a getaway Arrests are fire.
qu6nt. but convictions rare. because the
man captured seldom has the loot.
The higher grade dips also work IN
such places. The difference. according
10 the Bohemian. Is that they work in
groups and choose times when prosperous
passengers will be In the majority Dur
Ing the fashionable shopping hours and
after the theater az night are considered
harvest times.
Last winter three dips worked a clever
method IN Chicago Garbing themselves
IN evening clothes they mingled IN fash
ionable crowds IN big cafes, theater exits
and railway stations one OF the party
was always hoDelessly drunk and the
others. apparently acting the part OF
Samaritans. were hard put trying 70
keep him on his feet.
With all their care, however. he would
stumble occasionally and feh into groups
OF ladies and gentlemen Invariably the
sober companions had apologized and
taken the charge away before any one
discovered the loss Of valuables.
The Washington herald., 1909-07-11

to eat. n H" Who u. H Is other IL
brary patrons never VIII know, but Ter
advice has probably borne fruit, for X Is
courageous housekeeper indeed who
D'ill mix e cake that she knows before
hand win not raise"
Philosophical trearises and nnetaphys-
iCal essays are illustrated with Occasfo
zigzag lines. which are no doubt prez-
nant with meaning 10 the initiated.
Works OF this nature. however. are too
abstruse. 10 be judged readily. The stu
dent IS their most faithful reader and he
tackles them with pencil and notebook,
wherein hts opinions are duly recorded
IN a small library uptown the poems of
Thomas Hood are productive oC an al
tack % lead pencil mania. De Quincey's
Confessions bear this explicit marginal
note: That's all right He knows what
he is talking about I've been there ny
self
Varieties in Annexation.
IN library books many Ot the sentences
marked arouse the wonder o. later read
ers. IN not a few Instances the passage
thus emphasized is 10 al appearances de-
void OF special significance, az least TO
the general public, and It IS interesting 20
speculate on the emotions Il aroused in
the breast Of the impulsive lead-pencn
hend. In examining scores Of popular
books picked up az random several gen
eral trUisns were noted. IN the frst
place Il was demonstrated that patrons OF
public library are given 70 expressing
themselves most freely on topics relating
% love and matrimony. Take a page. for
instance, where the charms Of a pretty
girl are portrayed or the hero's method Of
popping the question Is described IN de-
tail. and you are sure 70 find no end OF
brackets. parentheses. and "Oh. mys"'
Meditations on life. death, and immortal
ity touch soft chords In the public breast.
anG it Is hard 70 find a line pertaining 10
suicide that does not show traces OF a
sympathetic pencil Occasionally these
comments decry self-desrruction, but as q
rule they uphold il, al Ct which might be
taken 20 Indicate that many OF the people
y no gain their mental nutriment from the
public library are given 20 morbid rehec-
tiOns. and are likely 20 take themselves
out OF the way On short notice. Facts
however, would not sustain this hypothe-
sis, for the majority OF the men and wou-
en- who spend their days IN the Libraries
are keeping firm grip on life
The Washington herald., 1909-07-11
Jones Made a sacrince.


Something occurred one day 10 indicate
the feeling OF the new head OF the house
toward the retiring member Il was TOO
plain 70 be misunderstood. Inquiry into
the case OF Jones showed eonclusively
that the new head Of the house deliber-
ately was sacrificing Jones simply be-
cause he thought his predecessor was IN
clined 20 favor the young man.
II is nothing new IN the everyday his
tory OF everyday business. Thousands OF
men. young and old. are suffering such
injustices because OF just such trivial re-
sentiments aroused in the hearts OF mar
now men. This man would wreck the
whole career OF a promising young fel-
low merely 10 show his resentment and
spite. The commOnness OF the situation
is the hopelessness OF II. For just here
I would ask OF the critic quoted at the
head OF this article:
What would you do in such a circum-
stance? What could you DO?
In having the power 10 DO something
the possibility OF doing that thing is lost
70 you You can't exercise the power
without destroying discipline and involv-
ing untold frictiOns within the Organiza.
ton.
The whole point is that IN accepting
business responsibilities IN an institution
employing large forces OF men the head
OF the establishment also assumes obliga-
tons. Jealousies that are aroused be-
tween managing heads extend all the way
down 20 the least important Of employees
A show OF favOrt5ism always is resented
The suspicion OF Il Is as bad. II Is a two
edged sword. as likely 10 inJure the one
IN whose behalf Il is raised as if IS 70
shield him.
Many Advocates of S1edgehnmmer.
I recall. as a boy, ehe time that work
men pulled down an old brick church
which had been swallowed Up by the
march Of the business section Of the small
city where I grew up. recall that par
ticular afternoon when. looking on at the
work OF the laborers carefully pryIng
loose the bricks one by one and loading
them into wheelbarrows. one OF the old.
hard-headed. "bulging" type Of business
men OF the town stopped for a moment
also 10 look on
Say" he called 20 the foreman Of the
work. II had that Job I'd go at Il with
sledgehammers and I'd have those walls
down before you'd know It."
But the walls stin wouldn't have been
cleared away. And the salvage from the
preserved bricks would have been lost
Thousands OF times since I've thought
OF the critic IN general who Is so quick to
offer his opinion on something other than
his own work.
The man most disposed 70 sledgehann-
mer work is the man least acquainted
with the uses OF the tool But II is singu-
lar how many advocates there are OF the
sledgehammer means 20 an end, every
where and IN anything.
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FIRST OF THE sWIFTS.
The Refrigerator Car the Invention
of a Cnpe Cod Yankee.

OF OApo OOu 1Ankee.
From the Cosmopolitan.
Gustavus Franklin Swift. the first Of
this commercial dynasty. was a Cape Cod
Yankee, who bought a steer now and
then and peddled the meat from the back
Of a certain go-cart which has since be-
come famous.
He moved to Albany and went deeper
into meats. discarding one after another
partners who had not the foresight and
daring which he possessed He located
IN Chicago at the beginning Of those days
OF great possibilities in bringing into
touch the 1ew West and the older East.
It was he who invented the first re-
frigerator cars. This was the one revoiu-
tionary act which put his sons and a few
other sons IN very fair control OF half
Of the meat Of America
He saw the market for dressed beef
extended only after the hardest OF fights.
All great revolutions are fought against.
All the East, all England. all Europe,
fought the idea OF dressed beef and then
accepted It. doubt II we could do with
out it-now.
The Washington herald., 1909-07-11

In Berlin the Office Of the American
Embassy is housed in a fiat over book
store, for which the rent paid is SIS
q month. AS the business premises OF
the American Embassy-or "chanceIlery,"
as the place has been called for dignity's
sake-Unter den Linden So, one flight
up. has sheltered United States diplo-
mats for more than ten years. II is
without exception the shabbiest establish
ment OF its kind. maintained not only
by any OF the so-called great powers.
but even by second rate nations Ike
Spain, Holland and Turkey. At the cor
ner Of an insignificant side street lead
Ing on the north side Of Inter den Lin
den, it occupies the second floor Of an
ordinary fOur-storied business house.
which was imposing when il was built
in the COS, but IS now outcIassed by its
modern neighbors OH all sides Barring
the corner room which the ambassador
occupies for his private Office. the en-
bassy has the doubtful honor Of being
one CT the darkest and dlngest apart
ments = all Berlin. The rooms occupied
By the first and second secretaries are
The Washington herald., 1909-07-11
If Properly Brought Up.

From the St. Louis Star.
II girls were properly brought up and
Kept on the streets by their parents. they
would. not be so easily kidnapped and
go away with young men to have a good
time.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-07-23
JUDGES CAN APPOINT
WATER COMMISSIONER

Olympia, July 19.-The state SUI
preme court has refused to issue an IN
junction to prohibit the superior court
of Okanogan county naming a water
commissioner, as asked for by the fed
eral reclamation service under a 1907
state law
The court finds that under the laws
the superior judges may perform a
number of duties which are not judi
cial, such, for instance, as solemnizing
marriage, and Ly inference finds judges
may properly make this appointment,
but declines at this time to pass upon
whether or not the state law is consti-
tutional. That question probably will
be determined after the water commits
sioner has been appointed, should any
person then decide to bring suit in
volving the right of this commissioner
to act. -
The federal reclamation service seeks
the appointment of the commissioner
preliminary to it's intention to use the
bed of Salmon creek, Okanogan county,
as storage reseroir. Owners of ripa-
rian rights along that stream asked for
the writ to protect their rights.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-07-23
RAILROADS WANT SHARE
OF KOOTENAI COAL BUSINESS

Spokane, July I'D. G. Corbin,
Spokane's veteran railroad builder, is
planning to construct line through
the rich coal. oil and mining fields of
Southwest Kootenai, in British Col
umbia. The new railway will be As
miles in length, and will extend from
Corbin, in East Kootenai, through the
Flathead valley to the international
boundary line.
Mr.. Corbin last year completed a
railroad from the town of Gilvray, on
the Grows Nest Pass branch of the
Canadian Pacific, to Corbin, fifteen
miles. The new line will furnish an
outlet to the south from the immense
coal mines owned by Mr.. Corbin, To-
Gated at the town which bears his
name.
Surveyors for the Milwaukee and
Great Northern companies have re-
Gently been in the Southwest Kootenai
district, and officials of these railroads
are planning to build branch lines to
the coal fields.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-07-23
$4,000 SEEKERS OF LAND
REGISTER IN THREE DAYS

Spokane, July 1.-THE number of
day was somewhat smaller than on
the preceding days, not only here, but
in Occur d'Alene and .Missoula, while
kalispell reported an increase. In
Spokane about $500 applications were
filed; in Occur d'Alene, $500; in Mis-
soula, 1890, and in Kalispell 1900.
The total for three days in Spokane
and Occur d'Alene is a little more
than $4,000 each.
The crowds at the hotels are easing
OFF, and it appears that many persons
who have come West to file are pass
ing through to Seattle to see the ex-
position and are planning to apply on
their way back.
At Occur d'Alene, where serious
trouble among the notaries was
threatened, an agreement has been
reached whereby all will get together,
Danish competition and pool receipts.
Notarles here say that about one
out OF every ten applicants is wo-
man, IN almost all cases from the
East. seeking a home in the West
Many OF the men who apply look upon
II as a huge gamble. The women,
however, are in earnest Wisconsin,
minnesota, Illinois and Iowa are the
outside states most largely represent
ed though Oregon and Washington
Iead' The grand total for three days
Vi registration is about $4,000.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-07-23
MANY SPECIALS ENGAGED
FOR IRRIGATION MEETING

Spokane, July, 15.-Twenty-seven
special trains have been engaged by
commercial organizations in various
parts of the country to bring their
delegations to the seventeenth session
of the National Irrigation Congress in
Spokane, August 9 to IA, and it is like
ly that several will be added to the
list by points south of the Ohio river
and east of the Missouri river.
Worcester, Mass, where the board
of trade will send it's glee club and
the Continentals, has the distinction
so far of being the most distant East
ern city to be represented. Its party
will make the trip of more than 5000
miles in a special train, arriving in
Spokane on August 10. Roches ter, N.
Y, Chicago, st. Louis, San Francisco,
Pueblo, Colo, and Charleston, S. c.,
which cities are candidates for the
1910 sessions, will each send special
trains, the one from Columbia, S. c.,
carrying the South Carolina, North
Carolina and Florida delegations. In
dications are that Kansas will join
the Colorado delegates in an effort to
land the next congress for Pueblo.
Delegates from Ell PasO and points
in New Mexico and Garden City, Kan,
Omaha and points in Nebraska and
Iowa will also come to Spokane in
special trains, and it is expected that
Salt Lake City, Ogden and other cities
in Utah will be represented by dele
gates warranting the running of spe-
cia1 train
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-07-23
PERsIAN CATS.
How They Are ClassiAed-Points -
Q Fine Animal.

How They Are ClassiAed-Points -
Q Fine Animal.
Long haired Persian cats may be
classified as blacks, blues, whites, sill
vers, oranges, cream or fawn, tortoise
shell, tortoise shell and white, brown
Tables, any other color.
The silvers are subdivided into minor
classes as follows: chinchillas, shaded
silvers, silver tabbies, masked silvers,
smoke.
The coat of the long haired Persian
cat should be long and thick, its tex
ture fine and soft. There should be
tufts Of hair projecting from the In
side Of the ears, also around the jaws.
There should be frill of long hair
around the throat, extending back to
the shoulders and down the chest to
where the front legs join the body.
There should be tufts of hair growing
upward from between the toes.
The head should be massive but
sound, with great width of skull be-
tween the ears, says Country Life in
America; the ears should be small and
set low. From the forehead to the
nose the line should be slightly con-
cave, the nose itself being short.
The back should be broad and level
but not too short, legs short, paws
round, brush Of tail of medium length,
wide and carried low. The eyes should
be large, round luminous and set level.
The expression of the face, taken as a
whole, should be gentle and sweet The
general appearance Of the animal
should be COLBY and it's movements
easy and graceful.
In disposition the Persian cat is nat
urally inclined to be loving and gentle,
but as they are very high strung it is
an easy matter to spoil their DISPOSE
ton entirely by rough or unkind treat
ment.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-07-23
Warden Makes Good as Drummer

Nalla :Walla, July,19.-All the grain
SACKS that can be made at the prison
ny August 8 have been sold to farm
us, according to Warden Reed Two
anu half million of the jute bags
nave been sold this year, and all on
nsnd have been shipped out as result
VI the house-to. house canvass made to
sell the bags. Warden Reed and Clerk
McCallum this spring went out on the
road as travelling men. and succeeded
II, placing large number of the sacks.
:. Ine sacks were sold at a lower figure
!. .,ah quoted by tie sack trust, and
.Le farmers, as soon as they heard it,
were eager to get the benefit.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-07-23
Old Fauorites


Sally salter and the Preacher.
Sally Salter, she was young teacher
who taught,
And her friend, Charley Church, was q
preacher who praught,
Though his enemies called him screech.
er who scraught.
His heart, when he saw her, kept sink.
ing and sunk,
And his eye, meeting hers, began winkina
and wunk;
While she in her turn kept thinking and
thunk.
He fastened to WOO her, and sweetly he
wooed,
For his love grew until mountain II
grewed,
And what he was longing to do then he
doed.
In secret he wanted to speak, and he
spoke,
To seek with his lips what his heart
long had soke;
So he managed to let the truth leak, and
1t loke.
He asked her to ride to church, and they
rode;
They so sweetly did glide that they both
thought they glode,
And then came to the place to be tied
and were toed.
Then homeward," he said, "let us drive
and they drove,
And as soon as they wished to arrive,
they arrove,
For whatever he couldn't contrive she
cOntrove.
The kiss he was dying to steal then he
stole;
At her feet where he wanted to kneel,
then he knole;
And he said, Il feel better than ever
fole."
So they to each other kept clinging and
chung,
While time his swift circuit was ringing
and wrung;
And this was the thing he was bringing
and brung:
The man Sally wanted to catch, and had
caught;
That she wanted from others to snatch
and had snaught,
Was the one that she now likes to
scratch and she scraught.
And Charley's warm love began freezing
and froze,
While he took to teasing and cruelty
The girl he had wished to be squeezing
and squoze.
wretch !" he cried, when she threatened
to leave him, and left.
How could you deceive me, as you hav'
deceft?"
And she answered, II promised to cleave
and I've cleft"
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-07-23
NOT LIKE OTHER EXPOSITIONS
SAYS GEN. J. FRANKLIN BELL

81 would deem it a favor to be per-
mitted to express my appreciation of
the ska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition"
said Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, chief
of staff of the United States army af-
ter a visit to the fair recently.
4 frankly acknowledge that didn't
come to see the Exposition and didn't
expect to take the time to visit the
grounds, but now that 1 have seen
them, 1 feel 1 wouldn't have missed
them for anything.
Il have seen all the expositions in
the United States in recent years,
with the exception of the one at Port
land. In my judgment none surpassed
this in beauty or attractiveness,
though some were larger. This, to
my mind, is by far the most attract
i've. The flowers make it especially
beautiful. It's exhibits are exceedingly
interesting and it's landscape and ar
chitectural effects could not be more
effective.
''In saying this I am not inspired by
a mere desire to be amiable or polite,
but by a genuine enthusiasm aroused
by the observation-disclosures it is clean
and fresh and pretty and the flowers
impart a perfume to the atmosphere
that is perfectly delightful. The cool
weather has contributed to my pleas
ure, as my keenest recollection of 9TH
er expositions is of the dirt and dust
and discomfort due to sitting heat.
Altogether, the exposition has been
a most astounding and agreeable dis
appointment to me. Where I had ex-
pected to see the usual thing, I have
found something so charming that I
shall never forget it."
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-07-23

Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin has COM
pleted a new story, which will be pub
Iished next season.
There Is an interesting rumOr that
Mrs. Humphry Ward has written new
novel which she will call Robert Els
mere 1wentythree Years After" 1t
will not be published until the autumn.
THE Biography Of Silver Fox" Err
nest Thompson Seton's story, will be
published in book form at once. In it
the author seeks to portray the rO-
nance Of an ideal life union Of two
noble animals.
1.-THE Story of an African Farm" was
book which in it's day caused much
talk. Its author, Miss Olive Schreiner,
has produced nothing SO effective since.
She is now about to bring out in
"Chser Union for South Africa" q
volume dealing with politics.
| "Pam"-the ever daring and delight
ful--to whom Bettina Won Hutton In
troduced us some four years ago, ap-
pears again in Baroness Won Hutten's
new story Of "Kingsmead." There is
little pam" in this story and lot Of
the people interesting to know who
spend their Christmas holidays at Lord
Kingsmead's fine old English country
place.
This Is a remarkable centennial year.
In 1909 Lord Byron was writing
"Childe Harold" Sir Walter Scott was
composing "The Lady Of the Lake"
Goethe. had finished the first part Of
Faust" and was experimenting with
fiction, Cuvier and Humboldt were
making their contributions to science,
and Hegel and Fichte were working out
their philosophical ideas.
"The Empire Builders and Other
Poems" is the significant title Of col
lection of timely verse from the pen Of
Robert ]. C. Stead, true son Of the
West, who has realized the poetry and
pathos Of life on the prairie, and ex-
pressed 1t with vigor and sincerity In
tho short, swinging poems, twenty-five
10 number, included in the present vol
ame The keynote of the authors pur-
pose is sounded in the dedication, from
which we quote the concluding lines:
"Where'er Endeavor bares her arm
And grapples with the Things To Be,
At desk or counter, forge or farm,
And men press onward, undismayed,
On veldt or prairie, land or sea,
The Empire Builder plies his trade"
Mr.. Stead sings with no uncertain
sound of the life that he knows, and
his work will, no doubt, appeal strong
" tC those who have shared his ex-
pericnces as pioneer in the last great
west. A breezy wholesomeness and di-
rcctness pervade the pages Of his book,
In refreshing contrast to the ultra-re-
fined and subtly suggestive character Of
the usual brand Of poetry served to US
In the magazines and other publications
Of our day.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-07-23
To Ask Bond Issue

washington, July 19.-At a confer
e M between President Taft, Senator
oss Chairman Payne and treasury
olliclals, 1t has been decided to ask
.ohgress to authorize bond issue to
'lle extent of the latest estimate of the
G is o1the Panama canal, the proposed
lSsue TO bear per cent interest. The
uoeehals estimate of 1897, 900, 600 as
.lle cost OF the canal will be used as q
b basis ,or the issve. The existing canal
s sond In limit its $3.50, 600, 900, of which
so6, 900, 900 is out.