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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09

noon decided 10 bold up action on
the proposed Doods Dudley Subway
franchise. pending an investigation
BY the applicants Of a auhaiituts
franchise ordinance proposed BY
Superintendent Of Public Utilities
Bouill0u.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09
BEGINS SEARCHING FOR AN
ALLEGED MURDERER

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. Sly
u. r. Believing that Dwight b.
Clough numbered hls mining part.
ner. jefferson d Etter. In ElonduF-
a.. three years ago. Miles Wallace.
former district attorney Of Fresno.
Cal. Is prosecuting search fur
Cough on the Pacific coast.
fugitive Is now hiding Ia Portland
Oregon. and the authorities Ia that
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09
NORTH YAKIMA WILL
Hr ntNfafGH pgIHT

NORTH YAKIMA. Jan D. -ny g.
= e. North Yakima viii be division
point ~ the North Coast road.
Yards holding ~ trucks vii be- ea-
tahliHhed hore rUuudhuuaeH built
aad other uccognoricn added witch
wlli make North yakima the chief
division point 81 the road east ~
iho CHHcndpH
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09
rARRElL sriLL on HARsoR.

Aberdeen. Jan. Hy 4. p
vtce President FARRELL of th9 uniau
Pacific rumrany ard other officials
are Htiii here nssoliaiiuN vita The
mili owners along tina PROPOSED
right ~ way uu the hnrftNr rtu@t
The Officials hold daiiy conferences
aith tire property owners Interested
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09

ABERDEEN. lau. by 4. p
Several ~ the largest mills on the
barber wsFe closed to-day ca &C.
caunf 81 The eni1 affecting water
and steam pipes
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09

May investigate Substitute.
The corporations committee Of
the city council yesterday after.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09

Built honest upright and economical Life Insurance pn
pes Prudential has revoutonzed ell popular methods of
Life Insurance and saving has thrown its protection around
million homes 1t policy free from technical
tiles and absolutely guaranteed Its popularity evidenced by
and onehalf million policies in force.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-09

4 am prepared for the frost" she
told me yesterday n Il is very
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-10

i There are probably othsr eiemsnts in the crowd as we'll but they cannot be discovered. For all these people have gathered here to dance. and only to dance. There may be nixtations of course, but all In all absolute pro- priety rules supreme. So much 60, that many burgher takss wife and daughter occasionally .to see the sishts"-by way of a treat.
 Money does not flow too freely in this place. Every shifling Is turned over; the young clerk. the middle aged small business man--they all spend only as much as is absolutely necessary if they wish to stay and dance. .
 Again the taxicab Is on the way. 1t is o'clock now and our young men have become hungry. There is place Unter den Linden. where all the world dimes at this hour. Not Q seat ts to be found anywhere in the overcrowded place. A heavy tip to the walter. and a small table is placed in the middle of a gansway. If the police saw 1t there would be trouble. for it 10 against the regulations. Perfume, cigarette smoke the smell of wine end food everywhere In miniature club chairs close around the tables elegance crowds. The scene, throws from lock
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the appellant showed that the building was built and used by the complaining witness as a building within which to keep his chickens. All of this might have been true and yet at the time of the breaking and entering. the building might have beap without contents and entirely empty. The breaking and entering q building. though it be generally used as . chicken house and built for that purpose. would not com stitute burglary, unless at the particular time 1t contained goods, wares or mcrohah- dise or other valuable things The pre- judicial commissions from this direction to the jury were not supplied by any other instructions. The judgment of the court below will be reversed and a new trial ordered" To the mind it appears a bit illogical to req son that a chicken house from which four hens valued at $3 were taken. was empty or was not building. but, of course
 i4 is not for a mere layman to contend against the wisdom of a Supreme Court.
 In the case of the State of North Dakota against Crawford it was charged that tho defendant during the night time bored three holes through the wall of . granaPy and Into e rnass of wheat stored therein. The weight of the wheat forced several bushels of wheat to pass out of the aperture eaussd by the augur, which wheat was taken away
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riculturs in North Carolina. and in consequence there has been trernend" oug increase in production per acre and In the value of farm lands.
 Formerly the yielS of cotton was about one-third of Q bale to the acre. that being considered c fine average. Now it is said that by the intensive method employed the sagne lands pro- duce from two to four bales to the acre.
 Because of intelligent restoration of the soil, more thorough rfeparat atton and cultivation. more intelligent fertliixa~ ton and rotation of ereps, the lands which were at one time supposed to be practically worn out now produce far better than ever before. and the farmers have never been so prosperous yet cotton constitutes but Q small part of North CArolinas agriculture. The Raleigh News and Observer corrobo. rates the statements of The Star. and adds:
 More improvement has been made in farming in North Carolina thaa in any other line of effort. The farmers lead the procession. Wake has a farmer who expects to get 200 bushels of corn On one gore and another farmer who expects four bales of cotton to the acre. These are great expectations, but they are not impoesibls. fntensivs farming is the profitable farr1lnE"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-10
New York Society from the Beginning

the upper ciassss and seem to have been conducted with as little thought of the good of the people. and with as much self -sssaking, as 1t has been ever since.
 Aitogsther 1t wss . rich. free living. jolly little society, and the young men and maidsns sportsd. quarreled and made love much e they do now. while the older people preferred backward. as always, to some golden age when youth was obsdient, industrious and sober.
 Tn an artistic way these people were moro picturesque than are their de- scendants. A young Dc Lancey. or Van Court1and, or Livingston. arrayed, for example, In wins-cclorsd velvet coat and hreeches, with gold buttons. white silk stockinHs and buclled pumps, pow der in his hair and dress sword at his side, was . far finer bird to contem- plate than is his descendant when ar rayed like . restaurant walter.
 Of course, the other sax were always aA gay as purses or credit would per- init, and, In fact. they were never so gorgeous a now. probably from the fact that the men, by dint of feminine persistence in dress expenditure. have been gradually forced to eschew fine clothes.
 Apart from these few differences. tho Colonial society man or woman was much like his descendant, and this lat ter, if translated back ward, would have
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The Puritan influence had little effect on the New York ofsthat century. In fact the average New Yorker ioathed the Puritan. The merchant of the pe- riod. being much hampered by legisla- tion. developed great ingenuity In evadihg the law. He trafficked with privateersmen and pirates. He smug- gied whenever he could, and he made. considering the period, . great deal of money, which he spent in . free way in trying to advance his wife socially and to marry his daughter to . redcoat or old country gentleman.
 The manor lord for his part. kept open house. He shot hunted and raced. for very early in the eighteenth century there were race courses on Long Island, in New Jersey and at westchester. and good many blooded horses had come over. Also this gen. tleman, like everybody else of position. drank great deal of wine, for madeira and sherry. owing to the trade In oak slaves, which were paid for in wine, ruled at very low prices. often being cheaper than rum.
 Manners were more punctilious, but at tho same time coarser than now. Men swore freely, and even, some of the stately Stomachered and brocaded danes of the period--un1ess tradition lies terrfbly-could admonish an im- pertinent slave very effectively. Poli- tics. with the very limited suffrage ex- tent was essentially the business of
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land and more provincial than in an older day.
 The practice of educating well born young men abroad had ceased A man who had crossed the ocean was looked upon as late as 1925 as . curiosity. and the connection with the old World. due to the royal officers. had been broken; hence the more provincial tone
 Still there existed during these ysars. and until steam came to be the motor and electricity the communicator. . decorous, weil-bred and well living so- cisty, the leaders of which had power and place in municipal politics. and who, far more than did the men Of the Colonial epoch, took account of litera- ture and science. What this life as In its pleasant. little, weli-fed New York of 1S36, can be read in Phillip Hone's Diary" It was prejudiced and provincial. but it was respectable, and 1t had not lost touch with public af- fairs.
 The Erie canal. steam, electricity, and the genius of the bold men who ssised upon these factors of the for- tune making problem. gradually trans formed the old life and produced the present aristocracy of money, In which tho manor lord is succeeded by the railway baron, with the simple differ- ence that political power and political interest have. naturally enough. de- parted from him.
 Through the varied layers of these
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-10

Ask anyone in London which city he considers to be the gayest in the world, and he will certainly answer Paris Put the same question to a citizen of Berlin and h9 will give the same reply. In fact 1t is the general opinion that the gayest city fin all crea- tion must be Paris. says a writer.'
 In the daytime this may be true The grand boulevards. with their crowds of laughing. happy people, are. no doubt peculiar to Paris. But is this really what one connects with the epithet "gayest"7 Does one really think of the daytime, bolevard when one speaks of "gay Paris"? think not: at any rate. rarely. It is Paris at night one really smeans. In that case. however. it Is a mistake to award the palm to the capital of France. Even the German himself has not as yet fully realized the never theless undeniabie fact thatl Berlin after eleven o'clock at night Is the liveIiest place in Europe.
 Plays in London and Berlin finish at about the same hours of the even- ing. Then in London there is rush of people round Piccadily and it's neighborhood; a few minutes of dan ger to life and limb in the shape of motor cars and carriages moving at
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-10

with small exceptions, was owned by small group of families, whosss ances- tors, sometimes men of known Dutch or English aristocratic orf8in. had by various devices become possessed or great tracts of land. the tenants on which they governed under feudai charters of the most rigorous sort These manor" grants contained every provision whereby the tenant could be kept in subjection. and naturally the manor lord was . great parsonage and lived in great, If somewhat rude. state.
 HIS social habits were those of the England of his day. just as ours are largely those of the England of our day. When he traveled he drove in a coach and six or called in his own yacht He was proud and punctiliSus. intrigued and quarreled about patron age and precsdencs. and, in short, much resemblsd the English squire of the period.
 Furnishing the lighter and more or- namental element of this society were the of1cers of the royal army and navy on the station. whose commissions gave them full entree and whose suc- cess in picking up colonial heiresses was very marked. Tn lower but still marked social precedence came the merchants and professional people. es- pccial1y the gentlemen of the bar. who were apt to be younger sons of manor lords on the lookout for preferment.
 These people lived a very. gay life.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-10

their way to one of those marvellous
 dancing halls where the wine-card
 shows figures to make one stare and
 champagne is the only recognized drink for q gentleman--'caovalle
 they say in Berlin. Let us step in.
 The porter is in white and red: the large hall and small gallery boxes surrounding 1t are fit for palace the very night of luxury. The en- trance is a bit confusing; for while the visitor never feels sure whether he is walking on his head or his feet. for there. are looking glasses even on the ceiling. We come early. and the place Is only haif-lighted as yet A few graceful women have the floor now: they dance with each other. and now and again with a guest. Their faces seem pale and haggard. '
 Then, suddenly. a sea of light. Elec- tric garlands, in all colors. on the ceiling, the walls, the galleries-in ev- cry corner of that rococo hall. A net of roses criss-crossing everywhere through the air. The music and the dance become suddenly livelier. And just as suddenly the place Is full of guests. as if they had arisen out of the very ground on which they dance. silk. glittering embroideries, nodding headdress--elegance and lux
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social formations the sanae contrasts have always existed as now. In tho oldest dsys of the city there were peo- pie who drove in coaches. and thsre were people who went on foot. and there was always . substratum cf per- sons who found 1t dinicuIt, for variour reasons, personai or impersonal. to keep body and soul together There al ( ways were too. many kindly people who gave wisely or unvisely nf their substAncs, and there always has been certain spirit of envy and malice ex- istinS by those who have against those who have not
 Whatever other changes there havs been are very slight. People of cer- tain position have always rather cIung together to c great extent.
 improved methods of police and eov- sTnment have certainly ms&s the city more orderly than 1t was a generation ago. Better water and sanitation have to . great extent. kept out the yellow fever which used to pay a friendly visit yearly. and generally experiences has taught men to solve some problems which troubled their precedents.
 But stiii people are arranged In groups according to their power as ex- pressed iu dollars. Still, Dives playa his part and Lazarus his. and the soli- darity and brotherhood of mankind does not seem much nearer than 1t was when Hudson visited the shores Of New York three hundred years ago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-10
The Gayest City in Europe

the reverse. And. of course. according to the place the crowds vary.
 A good deal has been said about the German. who does not know when and how to wear his dress-suit. Prob ably some do not do so in the even ing. He certainly does in certain quarters of Berlin at night. But that Is the man one rarely sees in the evening at all. and never before about II o'clock, because before that time he is asleep. Then, however. he ap- pears upon the scene. clean-shaven. faultlessly dressed, monocle in eye, king of all he surveys. He will make his appearance suddenly; "pop up" at the corner of Unter den Linden and Friedrichstrasse, in part of the cos mopolitan Cafe Bauer. There he is now, with three young fellows of his kindl Let us follow the quartette.
 Turning the corner they walk down the Friedrichstrasse and lose them selves in the crowds. Now and again they raise their hats to some friends behind the big plate-glass windows of the innumerable caes they are pass ing. The strains of gipsy music-good music--reach the ear from all sides. For Ave minutes they walk like that.
 Their route Is the same night after night, night after night. They are on
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ury, everywhere. all flooded by hazy rosy. light--a wonderfully pretty pic- ture. And a hundred champagne
 glasses. high in air, beat time to the fiery music.
 It is o'clock and the quartet has had enough of dancing of this kind. Out again. to the Friedrichstrasse; but this time they do not try to walk: 1t Is too crowded for that now. Stonp- ing one of the taxicabs that are passing in never-ending chain. they give an k address. up north" The chauffeur mods his head. he knows. And soon the scene changes. Between Up north" in Berlin and Down east" in London there Is but one difference; there are no slums in Berlin. Again 1t Is ball room the young men enter They look completely out of place with their dress suits now, but nobody pays attention. Wine is nowhere to be seen but beer everywhere. The "grande dame" is missing and in place of the elegant toilette we see only pretty. inexpensive frocks. But in manners the girls in the place com- pete with those in the other hall.
 Here Is the little shop girl, the mid inette" of Berlin She will be at her work again at o'clock In the morning Heaven only knows how she does it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-10
Lewis 0. Morrison. in New York Am

(Lewis c. Morrison. in New York Am
 erican.)
 Even before the settlers had finished fighting Indians there was society" in America. In New York. using the word In its narrower sense as meaning . comparatively small group of persons who by reason of being especially fa- vored by fortune, either expressed in terms of rank, distinction or money. naturally tend to aggregate themselves from the mass of the community and associate chiefly with one another, 1t had three distinct periods of develop ment since it's Beginning.
 Each of these societies" so to speak, has had different tone and has recognized leaders of a different sort, although in each of them what diff ference in habfts has existed can be traced more to change of environment than to change of personal character
 Tn the first, or Colonial period, the leader of all things social was the royal governor. This person might be an upright magistrate like Bello- mont or Nicolis. or he might be . scamp like Cornbury. but in either event he reflected the light of the sun of royalty and his example set the fashion. Next in succession to the governor came the aristocracy of the colony, and at this period New York was dominated by real landed aris- tocracy of the feudal landlord variety.
 The whole valley of the Hudson,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-10

! very good time in the New York of i75o.
 The revolution changed this pleasan; world materially. The Loyal" or Tory" manor lords wsrs in exile and under eonnscation. The whigs were successful at the cost usually of all their propertiss except the baro lana The merchants were generally ruined, unless they had been contractors of some sort for the Kings army. iu which case, like the original "Lenox, of Mir. Commissary Loring. whose wife Sir William Howe delighted to honor (by the way. he came from Boston,. were either in . position to make an American fortune. as did Lenox. or to go to England and be knishted and sit in Parliament. as did Loring.
 But society" for the time was dead. When 1t revived. 1t revived on slightly different lines. A growing commerce. dating from 17S9 and helped by the wars of the French Revolution. made money. and the merchants had the benefit of 1t. The surviving landlords and their set and the new men of the ''yitriolic" type. as contracted with the "maderia" politics of the Colonial times or the milk and water ones of this year of grace. and over them fought virulently with voice. pen and pistol. Meantime the merchants, most ly of the shipping sort, began to tell more and more in social life. and the tone of society became more New Eng
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almost top speed; and then night--in the fullest sense of the word-settles over the capital of the British Empire. Here or there in the West End per- haps little play or smoke at the club; in the East End perhaps some Chinese tan-tan gambling, secretly be- hind closed doors. For the rest, Nor phens reigns supreme.
 At precisely the same hour Berlin awakes to a new life. which is at its night at one in the morning. the hour at which Paris also is ready to fall asleep. At 1880, when London is prac- tically dead" and the bouievards of Paris are almost so, the crowds in the Inter der Lindon quarter of Berlin are so dense that one is not infre- quently forced to abandon the pave- ment and take refuge in the middle of the street.
 The stranger who does not know Berlin is apt to walk up and down these streets marveling at the crowds and wondering where they all come from and go to. They seem to be continually promenading. This. how ever, is not so. Actually they are only on the way from one place of amuse ment to the other. And. according to the neighborhood, these places vary from the most elegant to the-well, to
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was without the consent of either of thsTn."
 Kansas also produced the case of George Lswis who owing to peculiar circumstances found himself in the penitsntiary as s re- suit Of being arrested on a charge of bare- tary. although not convicted of the charge. Hs had bean placed in jAil On the burglary charge and escaped before coming to trial He was reeaptursd and proved his inno- eenee of the burglary charge. His final com viotion was on the grounds that he had been guilty of escaping from jaii ''befoso ocnvic- ton" The statute on which this apparently peradSxieai conviction was based Is as fol- tows:
 sss. Iss. If any person unlawfaliy im- pFisonsd or detained in any county jail or ether place of Imprisonment or ia the custody of any officer upon any criminal charge. before conviction shall break such prison or custody and shall escape thsFsS from ha shali upon conviction be punAshsa by confinement and hard labor for . term not exceeding two years or in a county jass nos less than six months.
 In an appeal the Supreme Court upheld the Lewis decision
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-10

and sold by she defendant. The trial judge directed the jury to aoauit upon the ground that the evidence failed to show m entry into the RTanary The State appealed and the Supreme Court held thet the ruling was an error. holding "that the intent to steai within the 6ranarv is sufficiently shown by the fact that the wheat which was stored inside of the granary was by the defendant's agency transferred from she Ineide Go the outside of the grrnary. N is true that the law of grayitation cooper ated with the defendant in removing the wheat; but the defendant by his own act set the law in motion upon shs inside of the building and thereby accomplished his criminal purpose
 The average layman will agree with the Supreme Court in It's decision but what do you think of the reasoning of the trial judgs7 There are times that huSnor appears to have as secure place in the law as in the writing craft.
 Tn Texas John Young escaped serving e term for burglary because the Supreme Court hsid that 'An indictment alleging kho burgsasfous entry Of e house belonging to two persona with intent to steal there from Che property Of the owners e either of them, without their consent. is insuffI- eisnt. in that it does not sIisgS that h