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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-11
DIVORCED AT is YEARS.
Syrian Girl at La Crosse Was a Bride
When but ~

La Crosse, Wis, Nov. 11.-Sold into
matrimonial slavery at the age of II
years, according to her story, Mrs.
Adelia Asfour, Syrian woman. aged
Is years, was granted a decree Of dl-
vorce by Judge Higbee from Abram
Asfour. ..
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-11
NEW DEVICE FOR AIRsHIPs.
curtiss Satisfactorily Tries out "Land
inc Runner to Break Shock.

Hammondsport, N. Y, Nov. IL
Glenn II. Curtiss, the aeroplanist, made
short flight here yesterday to test a
new device upon which he has been
working for some time. The improve
ment is landing runner which
hangs between the wheels OF the ma
chine and is dropped into place when
the machine is about to descend. 1t is
intended to take up the jar and shock
of sudden landing. The device work.
ed satisfactorily. ..
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-11
ZOE sala.

Leading candy ana zee cream bust
ness swell location. Ample room and
fine opening for restaurant or cafe.
Five .'ears' lease; $4,000 will swing
deal Address
9. w. Torrance,
Fargo. N. d.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-11

Its good sign If its made by the
Fargo Decorating Co, sign painters.
lew location, 21s Broadway.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31

Throughout the entire history
of merchandising 1t has been an
established fact that the price at
which an article Is sold depends
to a great extent on the expense
incurred in making the sale-for
instance, should the housewife
ask the grocer the price of canned
corn, he would tell her 10 cents
can or he would sell cans for
25 cents, and IL dozen cans were
taken a still greater reduction
would be made. Why does he do
this? 1t takes no more of his
time to sell two cans t. the GUS
toner than 1t would one; his
store rent costs no more and his
clerk hire is no greater. II he
can make this saving in expense
1t naturally follows that he can
make the same saving to his GUS
toner without loss of profit to
himself. This being true of other
lines of goods, why should 1t not
be equally true in the selling of
pianos? To be sure very few who
buy pianos would have use for
more than one, but why not a
number get together and buy their
instruments at the same time,
which would be equivalent to one
person buying the lot? Think OF
the great possibilities in the way
of savings should 500 people adopt
this method of purchasing their
instruments! To make such a
thing possible is the reason for the
formation of the Johnston Piano
Clubs. Five hundred pianos have
been reserved for club members
and will be delivered to them at
the same great reductions as
would be made possible II the en-
tire number were sold to one per-
son.
Thousands of pianos have been
sold in the East on this plan and
1t has been estimated that the ag-
gregate saving effected thereby in
Philadelphia alone amounted to
near one hundred thousand dol
liars.
These piano clubs are in effect
the application of the wholesale
principle to the retail department
It is based on COMMUNICATIVE
terest buying. It's just as though
you got five hundred people to
join you and then sent one man to
the factory to do the buying.
Naturally, there would be a tre-
mendous saving between purchas-
ing five hundred pianos in one lot
and buying singly.
But, individuals can't buy that
way-so we step In and do It for
them. And. by joining one OF our
four clubs (Which are limited as
to membership you are placed in
exactly the same position and en-
joy the same advantages possessed
by the largest retail dealers.
Join whichever club best suits
your convenience. Make your in
itial payment. receive your piano
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
PAYNE'S BOOSTED TARIFF TAXES
FLOOD OF MAIL TO CONGRESSMEN

And did you know that there is
a duty which prohibits importa-
ton of hooks and eyes? The
Payne bill has not revised this
tariff downward. 1t remains as
before.
The announced reduction in the
sugar tariff has become a stand
ing joke. One-twentieth of one
per cent pound Is the amount
of this reduction. "A blow be-
tween the eyes to the sugar trust"
is what a more or less disingenu-
Gus member of the ways and
means committee labeled it.
The amount of sugar eaten an
nually by each individual in the
country is exactly 80 pounds. Ac-
cordingly, in order to save up S
cents on this reduction in the
price of sugar (presuming the
reduction should appear in the re-
tail price, it would be necessary,
as Champ Clark points out, to eat
sugar at the maximum speed for
10 months.
Careful study of the Payne bill
shows beyond any possible ques-
ton that it's total consequences
are a revision of the tariff up
ward, not downward.
There is no reason to believe or
hope that the senate will make
the bill any better in this re-
spect. 1t has been the practice
in past years for the senate to
really write the final tariff act,
but in both the Wilson and Ding
ley bills the amendments added
by the senate were all in the d.
rection of greater favor to the
trusts and heavier taxes on the
people. When Mr.. Aldrich gets
his hands on the Payne bill he
will show what he can do in the
way of further revision upward.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
TO PROSECUTE
DRUGGIST

W. A. Bell, a eelf-con fessed
"bootlegger," was arrested for the
third time yesterday afternoon by
Detectives Huckaba and Fackler,
and is now in a cell at the city
jail without access to bail. Bell
was arrested Sunday, charged with
peddling bottled whisky to friends
on the streets. A prominent
druggist bailed him out, but the
was later re-arrested SO that the
police would have evidence
against the druggist, who furnish
ed him with the liquor. Monday
afternoon, however, he escaped
from Jail, and went to Seattle, be-
ing subsequently arrested the
third time.
The city attorneys are making
arrangements to prosecute the
drug dealer who sold the whisky
to Bell.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
CRAZY SNAKE WILL
FIGHT TOLAST

comrades in Jail. The total num-
Der of prisoners to date are "a.
Ask Snake to Quit.
PIERCE, Okla, March 81
Friendly Indians have been sent to
Crazy Snake to beg him to sur
render and cease lighting, but the
chief is not disposed to end his
insurrection in such tame man.
ner. He has rallied his braves
about him and proposes to fight
to finish.
Fifty heavily armed negroes left
Faulkner last night, supposedly TO
wait in ambush at the bridge on
the Checotah river. A hundred
and thirty soldiers and fifty depu
ties are now engaged in the pur
suit of the redskins.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
BOOSTING TACOMA,

The Milwaukee railway is issu-
ing a fine art book ON the North
west which gives Tacoma splendid
recognition, much to the gratifica-
tfon of Tacoma boosters who have
been in the habit of seeing this
city Disseminated against in
every possible way by other rail-
ways coming to this section in ad-
vertising matter.
u The book presents several beau
tiful pictures of Tacoma and her
surroundings and several pages of
descriptive matter depicting this
as the great home and manufac-
tNring city of the Northwest with
Scenery rivadng the beauties of
Switzerland.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
ron PImPlfs, TOO
New Discovery Cures Ecserna and
Eradacatss Minor Skin Trou-
bles Overnisht.

~" OAScSvory cures Ecxezno an
Erad1catss Minor Skin Trou-
blss Overnisht.
A few months ago the disuen.
esrs OF poslan, the new discover
for the cure Of scsema. decided "a
allow the druggists Of tAs com.
try to handle It. Previous to thai
time It could only be obtained al.
rect from the laboratories. is
Since this change In the meth.
% OF distribution. poslam has met
with the most phenomenal sue
cess Of anything introduced 10 the
drug trade in the last 80 years,
All leading druggists, Including
Victor H. Malstrom and Ryner r,
Malstrom. in Tacoma, are now
carrying the special 50-cent size
recently adopted. also the 81 jar.
This great success n not SUR
prising when It 10 remembered
that In eczema cases, poslam stops
the itching with first application.
proceeds to heal Immediately. and
cures chronic cases in few
weeks. In minor skin troubles.
such as pimples. blackheads, acne.
herpes, blotches, rash, etc.. re-
suits show after an overnight an
plication. Experimental samples
% poslam are sent to anyone by
mall free Of charge, by the
1mergency Laboratories. 81 West
axeno-hftA otxeets Neu York
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
BY ellison Gardner.

WASHINGTON, d. c., March
S1.--The increased tariff taxes
provided by the Payne bill appear
I, to have stirred up opposition in
every nook and corner of the
country. Not in years has there
been such opposition to any meas
ure. Every mail is flooded with
communications to senators and
members of the house, some OF
them so warm that asbestos en-
velopes would be the only prop
er covering.
1.-THE cost of living for the av-
erage man is increased; the ad-
vantage of wealth and power is
also increased"
In these words Representative
Champ Clark, leader of the
minority in the house of repre-
sentatives, and spokesman of the
minority members of the ways and
means committee, has accurately
summed up the provisions of the
Payne bill. He adds:
"Heavy taxes are laid on cof-
fee, tea and substitutes for cof-
fee, which, with cocoa, butter,
mustard, pepper, cinnamon and
all sorts of flavors for foods, are
declared to be Injuries. While
figs, lemons, ETC., are raised In
price without hope of increasing
the revenue, barley is reduced Is
cents and barley malt 20 cents,
the reason for which it would be
interesting to know"
The reason for the decrease in
the duty on barely is the brewing
trust. 1t Is the same reason
which moved certain democrats to
vote for Cannon and the old rules.
A living, moving personification
of the reason was G. J. Vopicka
of Chicago, of the brewers organ
ization. He lived and moved
among the members of the house
during the insurgent fight. The
brewers and the whisky interests
upheld the rule of Speaker Can
non. They received their "quid
pro quo." Here is part of it in the
cheaper malt.
The increased tax on stockings,
eAoNOoJ SottOh 6oOoo, hot pihos
millinery, feathers, soap, perfumes
and ether articles of the toilet
have stirred the women. Most of
these things are regarded as me-
cessities. The ordinary cotton
stocking certainly is such. As
the average child or woman re-
quires about Is pairs a year, the
increased tax on stockings is no
slight addition to the cost of
clothing. Hat pins may be looked
upon as luxuries, but they are a
luxury which has become quite
general among young women not
belonging to the class of million
aires. The same is true of artifi-
cial hair, of feathers on hats and
even of perfumery. Mr.. Payne
regards gloves as Injuries, but the
average woman says they are ne
cessities. She does not like to be
taxed additionally on these Incl
dents of her wardrobe.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
BIDS ON WOOD
THROWN OUT

Commissioner McGregor does
not think the city should pay
$3.50 a cord for slahwood for the
pumping station. He has thrown
out the bids received a few days
ago and today readvertised for
figures.
Unless lower prices are given 1t
is probable the commissioner will
see what he can do toward start
ing a wood business for the city.
The chain-gang could be put to
work gathering the old wood in
the logged-off land In the suburbs
of the city and saving it up and
it is believed thousands of cords
now going to waste could be Sc
cured at small cost.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
PRINCESS MAY
SUE FOR A
DIVORCE

(By United Press Leased Wire. }
CHICAGO, March 31.-"Prin-
cess Engalitcheff will commence
proceedings for divorce from
Prince Engalitcheff." This anony-
nous missive, which has been cir
oulated among the friends of the
former Mrs. Evelyn p. Clayton and
has been Identified by her father,
Charles w. Partridge, as in her
handwriting, is believed to herald
the next international marriage
failure and a possible scandal of
interest to two continents.
The princess is due to arrive in
New York today from Nice where
she has been passing the winter
and where she was supposed to
have written the mysterious let
tiers announcing the divorce suit.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
JAIL FOR KEEPING
GIRLS OUT LATE

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
SEATTLE, March 31.-Robert
Gregg, who says he is salesman.
was arrested early yesterday at
West Seattle, and charged with
disorderly conduct. Behind that
charge is a story of the predica-
ment of three Seattle girls, a
chase by a steamboat after a
launch in which the girls were
prisoners and the escape Of two
of the men who were their cap
tors.
Gregg is held in jail in default
who were the men with him. The
who were the men withhim. The
young women who were In the
launch were Elsie Smith, Laura
Hoard and Christina Drugoness.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31

at once. mat ID Ill JneVe ID 10
no extras, no red tape, no dues
mo waiting.
AMERICAS FINEST PIANOS
INCLUDED
Do not imagine because th&
payments are to be very small and
because the prices are SO aston
ishingly low that these instru}
ments are not the very finest.
The five hundred pianos req
Istruments of the very highest orr
der. Every one is strictly brand
new and OF the very latest style
fully warranted for long term ol
years.
Many styles of the world-roy
lnowned Kimball, the artistic Ho{
bart M. Cable, the popular Schu}
bert, the famous Lester, the sweet
toned Schumann, the well known
Marshall & Wendell, Story g
Clark, Hallett & Davis, Clarendon|
Johnston and many other equally
we'll known makes are included ID
the Johnston Piano Clubs.
PAYMENTS ARE EASY
Payments will be as follows:
Members joining Club "A" will
obtain choice of fine new plano
upon payment of Sc down and
weekly payments Of $1.26 a
$3.50.
Members of Club "B" pay $1Q
Ito SIS down and then at the rate
|of $1.75 to 50 per week.
Club "C'' members pay SIS I'd
$40 down and the balance In pay
ments of $2.25 to $3.50 weekly.
Members of Club ID" are RI
CURED to pay $40 to 925 down and
$2.75 to $3.50 a week.
Note-Payments may be arrang
ed on a monthly, quarterly Oh
semi-annual basis. II desired.
HERE ARE CLUB SALE PRICE0.
The regular $3.50, $500 and
$3.50 styles go to club memberf
for $165, $212 and 3258.
The regular $37b, $500 and
$425 styles go to club memberl
for $271, 1888 and 1904.
The regular $3.50. $475 and
$500 styles go to club member1
for 1920, 1897 and $500.
The regular $3.50, 5000 and
$3.50 styles go to club member&
for 1895, $428 and $462.
JOIN AT ONCE
It will be decidedly to your ada
vantage to join right away. The
sooner you call the more assured
|you are of choosing from . comb
|plete assortment, and the quickeI1
you get your piano. Remember{
too, that each of the four clubs II
limited as to membership. and
when the required number joinl
The clubs will be closed.
Old pianos and organs will be-
accepted from club members AZ
fair values toward payment Of ami
new piano desired. Drop in the
first thing in the morning d. n
Johnston Co., 943-45 @ st.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
~ United Press Leased Wire }

(Dy United Press Leased Wire.)
PIERCE, Okla, March 81
Crazy Snake, whose surrender
was Incorrectly reported this
morning, Is still defying the SOL
diers who are searching for him
and trying to dislodge the band of
braves now hiding in the Tiger
mountains. Crazy Snake Is des-
perately wounded in the thigh and
1t is believed to be only a matter
of few hours before he is a
prisoner.
The troops have imprisoned
captured Indians at Muskogee and
Checotah and the residents of the
latter place are now fearful that a
band of redskins will swoop on
their settlement to rescue their
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
frdnkDrdper

who Is travelling under auspices of
Brooklyn Tabernacle" Brooklyn, N.
Y, will lecture In Temple of Music.
945h c ST.. April list at 7:3o p m.
His subject win be Who Is the Rich
What Hell Is He In? VIII He Ever
1et Out2"
No thoughtful Christian can ar
ford to miss this Instructive lecture.
On subject over which thinking
turtles.
The lecture Is undenomfnational.
Eeats are free and no collections will
- taken. All are cordially invited,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
FIRST FISH STORY.

One OF the largest catches of
Dolly Warden trout reported this
season was brought In yesterday
afternoon by J. Want, 2815 South
G street. There were Is fish in
all, the longest measuring % in
ches and the smallest IA inches.
The fish were on exhibition down
town yesterday afternoon. They
were caught near the mouth of
the Puyallup river.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31

fuses to accompany them. His
house is taken. He resists to the
last with an old blunderbuss which
he has contrived to load. He, is
taken captive and shot instantly
on his own lawn for fighting with
out uniform.
The women come in for their
criticism in the play. A physician
in the party calls to two of the
women guests to assist in caring
for the wounded. They are uttbE-
ly helpless, do not know even hbW
to bind up a wound. They are
courageous, but useless.
This is the play. 1t doesA Z
preach a moral. But it points one
which the English was quick to
see-and quicker to feel.
Women of the nobility and Of
ficers of the present hospital corps
are active in the campaign for re-
cruits. Sergeant Major Katie An
drews of the London corps has
been walking the streets in full
uniform urging girl and women to
join the movement. Men officers
are just as active.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
,eesseesesssess

. Mike H. Conlon, q reser- I
. walton dairyman, approached I
. Judge yesterday In court I
. yesterday, hat in hand. look
. ing the picture of detection
D and despair.
. 81 want to quit the liquor,
D judge" said Mike. 'I've had
D enough OF 1t and I want to &
D plead guilty to being an hab- Z
. itual drunkard and be posted {
D all over the county so can q
D quit. / just got over a bad q
D drunk and spent a lot of q
D money / should have given q
D the misses. / tried to get q
D her to complain against me, q
, but she wouldn't do 1t, so q
D had to do 1t myself" q
D Judge yesterday put him q
D on the list and 1t is unlawful q
, for anyone to sell or give q
, Conlon liquor in the future. q
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
MEMORIAL SERVICE.

Allen A. M. e. church, 1411
South Yakima avenue, will hold
a memorial service in honor of
the late Governor Cosgrove to-
night. Rev. F. L. Donohoo, the
pastor, Rev. ]. M. Webb, Mr.. H..
P. Lawhorn and others will take
part in the program
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31


failed, and addresses from the
crown, and fiery editorials and
magazine articles, and military
recommendations, and patriotic
appeals have left people cold, a
single play in a fortnight has sue
ceeded.
In what? In arousing the stur-
dy Briton to the necessity of re-
cruiting his army or strengthening
his coast defenses, of teaching his
young men to the use of the re-
volver and the manual of arms, of
teaching his daughters to care for
the sick and wounded.
The play-"An Englishman's
Home"-written by Maj. Guy du
Maurier, an army officer and son
Of the author of "Trilby," por-
trays the effect on the unprepared
nation which foreign invasion
would have. The result-the most
of any dramatic pro-
ductiou in decades.
Record breaking crowds are at
tending every night and afternoon
performance in half a dozen Lon
don theaters. Other companies
are being rehearsed rapidly to pro-
duce the play in every part Of the
The government and
are aiding the produc-
lions.
But that isn't all. A great wave
Of patriotic enthusiasm has swept
the island. Men are hurrying to
the recruiting stations to join
the volunteer and regular regi-
ments. Women are enlisting in
the hospital and nursing corps.
England has become a vast re-
cruiting station.
The falling off in the defensive
strength of the nation had long
alarmed publicists and statesmen.
Men wouldn't enlist. Or enlisting.
wouldn't re-enlist. Bounties, more
comfortable quarters, all kinds of
arguments, and
left the English people
apathetfc. CONSUMPTION was all
but decided on by the government.
Then this play came along, and
men and women saw wildly por-
trayed exactly what would happen.
1t was charged with the grim WV
illness of reality. Unprepared
England they saw crushed and
helpless before their eyes.
Between acts men stood around
tense and stirred by what they
had seen and what it suggested to
them. Some made excuses, more
resolutions. Women cried-then
the next day hurried to offer
their services to an army hospital
corps. England is small .coun-
try territorially. Few parts of 1t
are much more than a days march
from the seacoast-from the land
ing point of hostile army. Men
have swum across the channel
which separates 1t from Europe.
On a clear day one can see from
Calais to the chalk-covered hills
of Dover.
The play Is conferred about a
typical British family on the Dover
coast. The people In it-Mr.
Browns family-play cricket,
football, and laugh at
the volunteers. They were the
kind of people Kipling had grilled
a few years before when he utter
ed rhythmical invectives about
"muddled OATS and >flanneled
FOOLS"
Suddenly Russian force lands
on the coast. near the house of
Mr.. Brown, while a house party
was In session. Volunteer SOL
diers hastily assemble and begin
to barricade the house. Brown or
ders them out of the house. The
inexpert, unframed.
are still courageous.
The guests at the party laugh at
them, and make jests. Then the
firing begins. and two of the lead
Or of the testers and two OF the
volunteers fall dead or dying.
An adjutant OF the English reg
llar army arrives at the house and
orders the volunteers to fall hack.
- n a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31

Bormoldo Petta, 68 years old,
died last night at the family resi-
dence, 1852 South e street. He
leaves two sons and two daugh-
tiers, and has lived in Tacoma for
Fl years. Funeral arrangements
are pending.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
NEAR DEATH IN BIG POND

1t was a thrilling experience to
years a severe lung trouble gave me
intense suffering" she writes, land
several times nearly caused my
death. All remedies failed and doc
tors said 1 was fncurable. Then
DR.. Kings New Discovery brought
quick relief and a cure so perman-
ent that I have not been troubled
in twelve years" Mrs. Soper lives
in Big Pond. Pa. 1t works wonders
Hemorrhages, LaGrippe, Asthma,
Group, Whooping Cough and all
Bronchial affections. SOC and s100.
Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all
druggists.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Marriage licenses have been Is
sued to B. D. Phillips and Mrs.
Mary Bryant, and to Charles j.
Dalberg and Sophia Udd.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31

Fine trout streams along the
Tacoma Eastern r. r. Phone 1898
for rates. sss
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31

For fishing tackle go to e. e.
Peterson, 924 Tacoma av. $50
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31

Schlitz Beer on draft at the
Royal. ss'
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
THE TACOMA TINES
ALL ENGLAND AROUSED TO FRENZY
Of PATRIOTISM BY A PLAY

IAN Englishman's Home" Brings
Great Rush of Men to Enlist In
Army and Volunteers and Wom-
en- Recruits to the Hospital
COrps-The Play Saves the
Country From Hated Conscrip-
ton.
LONDON, Eng, March 29.-
Where innumerable sermons had
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-03-31
MORE ABOUT THE PIANO CLUBS
Unique Plan Saves Thous ands of Dollars to Piano|
Buyers Wholesale rinciples in Retail
Department

at once. That IL all there Is to II
no extras, no red tape, no dues
no waiting.
AMERICA,S FINEST PIANOS