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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22
MAYOR CAMPBELL WANTS
BETTER PAVED STREETS
Tacomas Chief Executive Discusses Pavng-St Helens
Avenue in Urgent Need of Repair

The St. Helens avenue pavement, laid
less than a year ago, is fast wearing out.
The original smooth surface has crumbled
and worn. Urgent need of repairs on the
street is even now felt.
The paving was laid about eight or nine
months ago, said Mayor Campbell this
morning, "and was strongly recommend
cd by citizens at the time. The same
kind of pavement was laid on the south
end oil Pacific avenue and it, too, has not
stood the wear that it should.
The company that laid the pavement
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22
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ance so won the hearts of the students
that they outspanned the horses of her
carriage and dragged her round the town
in triumph. Similar successes have been
achieved by her in numerous parts of the
continent. Nine. Chop-Groenevelt has
been described by a German critic as the
greatest musician ever produced by Amer
lea, and i fshe has achieved astounding
successes in the past, she has an unprece-
dented future before her.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22
INTERURBAN
IS DELAYED
Burnt out Fuse Stops Train
For 20 Minutes on
Pacific Avenue

A burnt-out fuse on an Interurban mo-
tor caused a delay Of 20 minutes at Pa
clhc avenue and Seventh street at II
O'Clock this morning. The train stuck on
the curve and for time it looked as if
something serious had happened. After
the burnt fuse was discovered the trouble
was soon over.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22

knopf was tried before Judge Griffin this
morning. Alairs claimed that Knopf had
a wheel which had been stolen from Ills
place Of business and sold. Knopf was
ordered by the court to return the wheel
OF the value Of it and the court costs,
amounting to about S25.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22

the famous Edward Groenvelt. At the
age of 3 years she astonished her parents,
who We're both musical geniuses, by her
performances on the piano, and at the age
years she made her first public appear
ance in New Orleans as a musical infant
prodigy. Subsequently she studied music
at the Scharwenka eonservatorium in New
York with Leschetitzky in Vienna and
with Moskowsk in Paris. In 1900 the
pianist married Max Chop, the well-known
German composer, one of the foremost
contemporary German musicians. Nine.
Chop Groenevelt's first triumphs were
gained in Berlin, where the critics are
harder to please than in any other city
in the world, and the reputation won in
the German capital was fully maintained
in other cities of Europe where music is
cultivated. During a recent visit to Goett-
ingen, Nine. Chop-Groenevelt's perform
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22
GOLD FROM KOREA

With 2,227 bags Of gold concentrates
from L. S. j. Hunts mines in Korea the
steamer T. q. Reed arrived in port yes
terday. The Reed brought the concen-
trates from a japanese liner now at Sc
attic. They are valued al. Sl6,S05 and con-
signed to the smelter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22

and the guarantee company have been
communicated with, looking to am adjust.
ment OF the matter.
Tins question should be settled be.
fore any more pavements are put down.
Inc pavement that is on st. HeleDs ave-
nue. should be as good as the day it was
laIo. Why not hereafter use a pavement
that has proven To be success in our
city, as that which is laid on North
Fourth street and Tacoma avenue! The
iatICr has been in use about eleven years
and is as good as the day it was laid"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22
MAY BUY GREYHOUND

There is a well-confrmed rumor on
the waterfront that Captain Fred Wilson
Of the Olympia-Tacoma-Seattle steamer
Multnomah is trying to buy the steamer
Grey hound, formerly of the Seattle-kver
EFT route.
Ii such is the case the Greyhound would
80 on the Olympia-Seattle run in opposi.
lion TO the Mcdonald line of steamers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22
AMERICAN PIANIST
CAPTURES GERMANY

BERLIN, Dec. 22.-One of the chief
events of the musical season in Berlin
this winter will be the concert given by
Nine. Celeste Chop Groenvelt, the Amer
lean pianist Nine. Chop Groenvelt comes
from New Orleans, and is a daughter of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22

valuable cargo OF ore to the Tacoma
smesteI.
The steamship Olympia, of the Northern
Pacific line, is due in port Thursday.
The British ship Crown of Scotland.
Captain Jenkins, made port last night
She will load lumber at the Old la
coma mill.
The steamship Shawmut viii get away
Christmas morning for the Orient. The
big ship has general cargo out this
time.
The Steamship Centennial arrived last
night from San Francisco. She was load
I'd down with Sound freight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22
YUM YUM
YOU KNOW
MISTLErOEl


II was riding on submarine car"
Suburban, you mean
''No; submarine. That means under
water, and I'd like to know if this car
system isn't operated under millions OF
dollars worth of water"
Get him more handkerchiefs.
BANG!
al Bunker's dollar watch blew up in
church last Sunday and Preacher finch
ard got so mixed up that he delivered part
Of his night sermon before he knew what
he was dom .--Puyallup Exhumer.
LITTLE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS
YOU WILL GIVE AWAY,
THEN YOU'LL START TO SAVE
FOR THAT RAINY DAY.
HE HAD AN AK TO GRIND.
SUCH QUEERNESS.
The Cinnamon are foolish folk;
They have funny way
OF paying all the debts they owe
On every New Years Day.
Admiral Schlev refused, point blank to
be president. The admiral seems to be
borrowing trouble.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22
DROWN THAT
THIRST
BY JANUARY
FIRST.

THE MOST UNKINDEST.
Dear All Sorts; Please tell me how to
become a doggerelist, like yourself.
MARY + NJ
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22
An
Charles r.. BarneE


GIFTS.
/.
A fellow never seems to know
What gifts to buy his friends,
And through the gladstone holidays
His worry never ends
But, tho the gifts for Aunty Nell,
For cousins and the rest
Psrnlex him some, he knows just what
Win suit his mother best.
He broods about the matter till
His head is in whirl,
For what on earth do you suppose
Is fit to give the Girl!
And as for Dad and Sister Grace
They vex him all the while
But, then, he knows the very thing
To make his mother smile.
III.
lie knows that she win feel thrill
OF love and pride and JOY
When Christmas comes and she receives
The present from her boy;
Whate'er he gives her she will keep
Forever and day
anu. tHcn. no litaANSi Ahttt II 10
She'll like it any way.
Get him more handkerehiefs.
o................,. .................'. %
GET THIS ONEy
They told her to be good and she'd
be happy
That goodness only happiness can !;
bring
But she rebelled against the precept, !:
oNot me. Pm only happy when I !;
sing"
o........-.-....'.'' .''''''.'''''''''''o
The foorwalker stood in the aisle
He stood for an awful long whaisle--
Said he, II would sit,
But my boss told me nit,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22
MARINE GLIMPSES

The Canadian steamer Cascade arrived
las. night from Ladysmith She brought
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22
DING. DONG!

Wen, old Crimp is here sure. Doc SKIN
ner has got on his arctic overshoes and
the buckles tinkle like sleigh bells as he
goes around from house to house visitin'
the sick.-Spokane Sun.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22
And so I just stand it and smaisle, /"
UNCLE HENRY SAYS:

while yer brag-
GIN but bein' a hon
est man, think wot
ye'd do eff somebody
offered We a real nice
lookin' temptation
an We needed tn
money"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22

The four vice-presidents who preceded
Roosevelt were not reelected. Is there not
JOY in that thought, Uncle Mark?
How de do, Mime. Patti, and likewise
au revoir.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22

Get him more handkerchiefs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22
Get him more handkerehiefs.

The aoorwalker stood in the aisle
He stood for an awful long whaisle--
Said he, II would sit,
But my boss told me nit,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1903-12-22

Admiral Schlev refused point blank to
be president The admiral seems to be
borrowing trouble.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-04-15
SWINE NOTES.

The business of a brood SOW is to
produce good-sized filters of strong,
healthy pigs and nourish them liber-
ally until weaned. So far as any brood
SOW fails to come up to this standard
of excellence, so far she fails in the
work for which she is kept. In Sc
lecting a brood SOW much attention
should be paid to the qualities that
are to be transmitted to the progeny
The old adage, Like produces like"
is never more forcibly applied than
when selecting breeding stock of any
kind. A brood SOW, to insure herself
to be a profitable pig producer, should
be we'll bred No matter what the
breed may be-, it is individual merits
that you know has no ancestors of
the breeding you wish the animal you
are selecting to comprise. In making
such a selection you are laying your
self open to trouble and disappoint
ment. Seldom, if ever, an animal
transmits better qualities than their
own. Never hesitate on account of
color when selecting brood SOW. The
eminent Shorthorn breeder, Amos
Cruickshank, once said, Color is only
in deep, and will never pay land
rent" Just how much truth there is
in his expression is fully demonstrate
ed in the life work of this great cat
tie breeder. 1t was individual merits
that brought his cattle to the front
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-04-15

March 1 at 1,O5O,6OO,OOO bushels, or
41.6 per cent. of last years crop, as
compared with 1872 per cent. on hand
on the 1st of March last year. The
amount of oats in the hands of Ameri-
can farmers on March 1 was placed
at 365,OOO,OOO bushels, or 36.9 per cent.
of the crop, as against 30.6 per cent.
on hand same date last year. These
figures indicate that the Americans
have any amount of foodstuffs on hand
still, and this abundance of feed will
have a depressing effect on the price
of cattle for a while longer time than
expected"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-04-15
RAPE AS A FORAGE CROP.

Prof. A. S. Hitchcock, of the Bureau
of Plant Industry, United States De-
partment of Agriculture, in Farmers
bulletin No. 16, treats of Rape as
Forage Crop" The following advice
as to seeding and cultivation is timely,
Tor the spring is now here:
Throughout the Northern states gen.
orally seeding may take place from
the first week in May to the middle
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-04-15
STOCK FOOD PLENTIFUL.

The Winnipeg Tribune summarizes
the livestock situation in the United
States as follows: "The United States
Crop Reporter estimates the corn in
TIE hands of American farmers M
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-04-15

oOON'
may be sown in September or early
in October Under favorable condi-
tons two to three pounds of seed per
acre will be sufficient, and it will
never be necessary to use more than
five pounds per acre. The seed should
be planted in drills far enough apart
to allow cultivation. In practice the
distance varies, but it is seldom less
than twenty inches nor more than
thirty-two; twenty-four to twenty
eight being perhaps the most salts
factory, all things considered. For
planting small fields any of the COM
mon garden drills will be found quite
satisfactory, but for large fields a
grain drill, with some of the feed hop
pers closed, may be used. When the
ground is clean and in proper cultiva-
ton otherwise, good results may be
obtained by using the grain drill with
all feed hoppers open, and giving no
after cultivation. AS rule, however,
it will be best to plant in wide drills
and give sufficient shallow cultivation
dition and destroy weeds.
With favorable soil and climatic
conditions, good crops of rape may be
obtained from broadcast seeding; but
whenever there is any danger OF the
surface soil becoming very dry during
the time the seed is terminating or
when land is at all foul, drilling will
give much better results. When sown
broadcast, four or five pounds OF seed
may be needed, but it is not advisable
to SOW too thickly as the plants do
not make so vigorous a growth.
Drilling in rows has many advan-
tages. The cultivation increases the
yield, conserves the moisture, and
keeps down the weeds. Furthermore,
if the crop is to be pastured there is
in rows, as the animals are inclined
to follow between the rows rather
than crossing them and trampling on
the plants. Some advocate drilling
the seed on ridges. This may be an
advantage where there is an excess
Oh moisture, DIS Tic plduIo nave UOCCOl
draining and the animals while feed
ing a~e less likely to crowd the rows.
On ta other hand, the crop will not
withstand drought so well as when
given level culture.
Rape resists drought fairly well,
but in regions subject to a summer
drought the sowing should take place
early enough to get the plants well
started before this period or it should
be delayed until after the drought.
During a prolonged dry period the
plants are often attached by kind
of plant louise which causes them to
wilt and become valueless as forage.
Where rape is depended upon as a
chief crop, it is advisable to make sew
eral successive growings. If a par
ticular crop comes on too early, it
may be cut and thus make the second
growth available later.
If the seed has been drilled, the crop
should receive at least three or four
civilizations during it's early growth
This should commence as soon as the
plants are large enough, and be con-
tinued until the plants have spread
so much as to prevent further pas
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-04-15
BREED UP.

larger profit than scrub or low grade
animals. Many farmers who have
drifted along in the methods of their
ancestors find themselves at the foot
of the procession of up-to-date agri-
culturists. Many stockmen would
like to breed better live stock, but
have not the capital to start a thor
oughbred herd. If a farmer has ten
scrub or low grade COWS it would pay
him a handsome profit to place a
thoroughbred bull at the head OF his
herd. If he is producing milk for the
creamery or for city consumption he
should select a thoroughbred sire OF
some of the approved dairy breeds.
Admittedly Jersey, Alderny, Ayrshire,
Holstein and Guernsey breeds are far
superior to the native scrubs. In Sc
lecting a bull to head dairy indus
try a sire should be secured whose
dam excelled in milking qualities. II
the bull has an inheritance of several
generations of an unbroken success
sion of great dams his prepOtency to
transmit great milk-producing capac-
ity to his progeny will be augmented.
The buyer should know his own neces-
stiles and judiciously provide for
them. 1t is not only thoroughbred
bull that dairymen need to head their
herds. but they want sires that trace
to great milk-prOducing inheritance.
The breeder must not expect bull
because he is a thoroughbred to trans
mediate ancestors excelled in those
characteristics. The bull out of fine
milk-producing dam ought to prove
prepotent in transmitting superior
producing capacity to his prog
eny. For the dairyman to select his
bull at random without investigating
the characteristics of his ancestors is
sure of disappointment. In the urg-
ency of the present demand breeders
are tempted to keep for breeding pur-
poses sires of Indifferent inheritance
of the qualities in which the partlcu-
lar breed is expected to excel
Having selected bull with the de.
sirable inheritance, all the helfer prog
eny out of the best COWS OF the herd
should be reserved to augment the
herd. They should prove superior to
their dams in milking ability. In turn,
the first herd bull, after the full ca
pacity of the farm had been attained
with his female descendants, should
be disposed of and another bull or
the same dairy breed selected to fur
Their improve the milking capacity OF
the herd.
If this system is methodically fol-
lowed for few generations the farm
err will find himself in possession or
nearly a full-blooded dairy OF prob
ably almost twice the producing ca
pacity of the original scrub or low
grade herd, while the commercial
value of the animals will be more than
doubled. Thus at minimum ex-
pense easily within the ability OF any
farmer or renter he can nearly double
the income of his herd and greatly
augment it's market value.-Drovers'
Journal
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1903-04-15

To
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APOLIS, CHICAGO.
And points east
Two trains daily; fast time.
New equipment throughout, day coaches,
palace and tourist sleepers, dining and buff
fet smoking library cars
For tickets, rates, folders and full in
formation, call on or address
C w. MELDRUM, C. p. & A. Il.
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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-07-03
An Ingenious Suicide.

That was peculiar case of suicide
a self guillotining. The average sui
eide shoots or cuts or swallows POISON
recklessly, frequently botching the job
fearfully. But this fellow? Listen:
After sharpening the edge of spade
he fastened the implement, blade down.
ward, to the end Of a carpenters bench,
which he weighted heavily. He then
placed block of wood under the same
end of the bench In such manner that
1t could be easily removed, and 80 let
the bench fall, together with the sharp
ened blade. When these preparations
were completed he lay down, placed his
neck across thick piece of wood d.
rectly under the spade. knocked away
the support and was Immediately and
completely decapltated. = New York
Press.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-07-03

steward is nothing more or less
than a combination waiter and cham.
bermald. Ills duties begin an hour be.
fore breakfast, by all rights, inasmuch
as II should take him that time to brush
up his blue or black uniform, shave
make his hands neat and shine his
shoes. lie Is supposed to wear Il spot
less and expansive bosom to his shirt
clean collar and black or white tie. l
do not think l ever saw but two stew
ards who had shirts; all the others used
q dickey for the sake of economy.
Waiting on the passengers at table
the care Of the tables, the care of the
silverware and certain amount OF
dishwashing and pantry work make
up the stewards dining room duties
The other half is work in the state
rooms, making the beds, Strengthening
up the rooms and doing the general
work of a chambermaid, as well as CIV
Ing certain amount of attendance to
the occupants of the rooms.
The pay is very poor, and the princi
pal dependence Of the steward is on the
tips he receives. They are really the
poorest paid class that go to sea in one
way, and yet l have known men to
make f40 in tips on six weeks voy'
age.-Leslie's Monthly
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-07-03
The Horse In Mythology.

The Grecians placed in the sun the
god of their wisdom and intelligence
and gave him a chariot and four fiery
horses-the chariot to symbolic doc
trine and the horses intelligences. So
with their god of the sea. Neptune
was drawn in his sea chariot by horses
the sea to symbolic all scientific
knowledge in general, the chariot to
symbolic doctrine or science and the
horses intelligences. They mytholog-
ically described the birth Of the sciences
by the flying horse Pegasus, which
with Its hoofs burst open a fountain
out of the hard rock at the moment of
his rising from earth to heaven, ut
which fountain were seven virgins
who were the seven sciences.
The flying horse symbolizes an intel
ligence directed heayenward; the hard
rock represents hard matter of fact or
sensual knowledge; the fountain spring
ing therefrom represents pure truth,
where the virgin sciences delight to
dwell
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-07-03
NO STYLE ABOUT JACKSON.
His Cook wss Called rs Interpreter to
the French Diplomatist.

Although old Hickory was a blunt
reached his purposes by the straight
est road said an old newspaper man.
"still he was courteous In an eminent
degree and had high respect for the
forms of social Intercourse While
president Of the United States his re-
ception of foreign ministers and emf
nent citizens was distinguished by
courtly etiquette and noble bearing. II
Is related that on one occasion for
eign minister Just arrived had day
and an hour appointed by Mr. McLane,
then Secretary of State, to be present
ed to the President, and, mlsunder-
standing the premler's French and
perfectly at fault by the apparent sim
plicity of republican manners, the min
lister at the appointed time proceeded
to the White House alone and rang the
bell.
'Je suis yenu volr Monsieur lie
President" said the plenipotentiary to
the Irish servant.
AN what the dlyll does that mean?"
muttered Pat, and continued, He
says President, though, an s'pose
he wishes to see the general"
"Oul, oui," said the minister, bow
ing.
Without further ceremony the gen.
tleman was ushered into the green
room, where the General sat compla-
Gently smoking his corn-cob pipe. and
on the instant he commenced cere-
monlous harangue In French, of which
"Old Hickory" did not understand one
word.
what does the man want, Patrick?"
asked the General, without concealing
his surprise at what he witnessed.
ITS French that he's spakin' In,
an with your lave I'll sind for the
cook to find out what the glntlema n
wants"
In due time the presiding officer of
the kitchen arrived; the mystery was
explained, and to the astonshment of
the cook, the servant and the old Gen
eral an accredited minister from n
foreign government was developed.
Fortunately at the Instant the Secre-
tary came in, ceremonious introduc-
tion took place and all parties were
soon at Washington Star.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1903-07-03
FEARS CONDUCTORS PUNCH
Messenger Boy Who "FIips" Street
Cars Is Getting Wary.

The street-car conductors punch is
becoming the nemesis of the messen-
ger boys who Zip" the cars. The
sage carriers head, punches a hole
In the visor, and the work Is done.
That little hole In the bill of the cap
is tell-tale mark, and when the en-
ployers see 1t they know the boy has
been hitching on to the street cars.
The use of the punch for tagging
the clippers" has made the young
sters deadly enemies of the street
railway men, and has incidentally en-
riched the curbstone vernacular by two
picturesque names. One Is nickel
snatcher,' name given to the con-
ductor, and the other is wire biter,"
as the messengers have dubbed the
grlpman.
The other night three clippers"
were "hitching on to North Clark
street cable car. While one of the
boys was watching the conductor the
gripman reached out his long arm
and lifted the boys cap from his head.
He handed the cap to the conductor,
saying: Put your mark on it"
Nav, gimme It," yelled the boy.
"Doncher punch 1t. You want to get
me fired? ! amt done nuthin'."
The conductor set the jaws of the
punch over the visor. and the mes
senger set up a wall. He knuckled his
eyes and cried like n baby.
The conductor placed the boys cap
back on his head. took him by the
coat collar, and set him down In the
street When he was safely out of the
clutches of the nickel snatcher," as
he called the conductor, he lifted his
cap off his head and carefully exam
ing it to see If the punch had taken
out bite. When he saw it was all
right he clapped it back on his head
and "hitched on" to the rear end of the
last car, yelling "wire bitter" and
nickel sna atcher" at the grpman and
conductor.-Chcago Inter Ocean.