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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-14
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Ierwise engaged at the dime

erwise engaged at the time.
The eating Of raw apples 10
said to he a cure for the drink
habit.
Mr.. Griffkin." stammered tbs
young man, II have er-come to
ask you for the hand OF your
(which one?" answered the
stern father. you know she has
two"
The British glycerin trust sas
boosted the price Of glycerin from
$11.45 per cwt. to $27.25.
so You are from Pokeyllie."
said the inquirer; IL suppose that
Is the dsadest town In the coun-
try
mo, indeed.H said the nalivss
"deader than that
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-14
CYNTHIA CReYS
CORRESPONDENTS

Dear Miss Grey: Please tell me
an effective means of getting rid
of ants.
TROUBLED HOUSEKEEPER.
A.-Use a sewing machine oil
can, and inject kerosene into the
|crevices where they come in; also
try borax.
Dear Miss Grey: "a Is cream
Injurious to the skin? (2) What
can / do to stop the teasing Of my
sister? s3) Is 1t well to wash the
hair often?
ANXIOUS READER.
A.-(1) It is liable to cause a
growth of hair. (2) Pay no atten-
ton to 1t, and she will soon stop.
(3) Once a month is often enough
when the hair is in good condi-
ton. 4
fsdtl'
Dear Miss Grey: % My white
net dress has rust spots on it. How
can I take them out? (2) How
can / clean the dress without
shrinking 1t? A FRIEND
A.-(D Chloride of lime sofia
tfon. (2) Better send to a dry
cleaner IL the dress is worth it, If
not. try cleaning it with white
Icorrmeal. -
Dear Miss Grey: Cd What win
take fingermarks on piano? I'D
What is the best kind of CLOTH to
dust pianos with? (3) How should
Ia girl dress for her grade school
commencement? az Whiek is the
best way to ride, sidewise or
astride7 BEATRICE.
A.-(1) Wash in clean. luke
warm, soapy water in which you
have put a few drops kerosene.
Use clean, soft cloth OF linen.
Rinse and polish dry with another
cloth. ca Old linen cloth. ca
Simple white dress OF thin mate
rial, white slippers and hose. Wear
the hair in a girlish, becoming
style. (4) AstrIde.
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tbyMz
!: SAYS:

eth best alarm clock rs n good
appetite fer breakfast"
"fss, now that he has been
convicted. everybody has found
him out" said the Gossip.
.And from now on they win
find him in" added the Sage.
Many German savings banks
accept deposits as small as 2M
centa.
Mother: WHY did you not cry
out when Harry kissed your
Daughter; NY mouth was 9TH
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-14

This is the man who owns Beth
lehem Steel Co. stock. The Aid
rich tariff bill-the one Mr.. Taft
says is the "best ever'-has boom
ed the stock and boosted the divi-
dends, and now the stakeholder
wants MORE in asking a SHIP
SUBSIDY bill. And the water in
the stock would float battleship.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-14

This is the laborer (2628 of him)
who is regularly required to work
SEVEN days a week. Besides
this, there are 4725 employees whose
positions require TWELVE or
MORE hours of labor a DAY. And
this means such labor as handling
steel ingots, wheeling Stag, moving
molten metal, and every task that
is arduous. Many of the men have
to work amid intolerable heat,
stripped to the waist.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-14

14.-(BULLETIN)-So bass beer Watching
dot comet dot hat hat to put binders
Before dit i'd he said distortet He said
hat abberance dachshund
i'd ISIS Adolfs vision
I'D ISIS nod hiss visiop Id ISIS hiss facts.
But he NIT hiss he hass
use of looking eff i'd aind so?
Won effegt of he
quit hiss Dot sleeping
AS fatal day
begun Gift hiss belongings
simply gate a half pount
of brit Seed und tolt to change ids
More vet
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our up-to-dats hats are away down
IN price. as we wish to close out our
trimmed stock. Hats dyed, cleaned
and reblocked. Plumes dyed, clean
az S Msss ssn IIiasr ana Psr,eT
Bldg, Paoifio ava
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The Best Bill Ever!

(NEWS ITEM: After an investigation of condi-
lions at the mammoth plant of the Bethlehem Steel
Co. (the plate and ship building trust) re-
port has been made to the United States senate by
the United States bureau of commerce and labor
showing the circumstances under which the 9104
persons on the January pay roll labored)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-14
COMETS TAM rs PRETTY SOFT srUFF

comets formidable chemical
position It's length 10000e0o to 12eOO0000
isa1 one suppose The air breathe
d comparison with the diaphanons hinness Of comets tail
nnke nile be packed In snuff That
ny aosphers Of the earth win be apprecaby a
fsatsa May -.
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ALL AROUND
THE HOrR
BY CYNTHIA GK1zl =
BY CynthIa Grey

An old-fashioned remedy for
chilblains Is potato water. Boil
potatoes without salt. Save wa
ter. Let cool. put feet in and
leave until the singing pain is
gone.
Gasoline Is the best of cleaners
for wash bowls and bathtubs that
have become stained.
A good way to brighten colors
in a carpet is to wipe 1t with a
flannel cloth wrung out of warm
water containing a little ammo
mia.
If a kettle burns dry take Il
from the stove, place at once In
cold water and the fod will not
taste burned.
UaWoI Hairy Ire Tiraa.m nnth
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-14

Royal Dairy Ice Cream. Both
phones. ~. 9B. A21eE. see
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-05-14

The Tacoma Camera club held
a meeting last evening in the
Of the Y. NJ. @. A..
Two hundred and difty photo
graphs Of historic spots IN Eng
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
WINS IN REPUBLICAN FORT.
E. N. Foss First Democrat to Carry
18th Massachusetts District.

Eugene n. Foss of Boston the other
day was elected to Congress from the
Fourteenth District of Massachusetts.
Running on the Democratic ticket in
district which in 1908 gave the late
William c. Lowering. Republican, a
plurality of 1926, Mr.. Foss defeated
William r. Buchanan of Brockton, the
Republican nominee by 5,617 votes.
The victor in this election is a brother
of Congressman George Edmund Foss
of Chicago. Mr. Foss was adopted as
the favorite son of the old colony dis
trict by the decisive action of Repub-
licans and Democrats, who gave major
tiles to him in thirty-three of the for
ty-four towns and in the two cities in
the district. The Democratic candi-
date invaded Brockton, the home of
his opponent, and secured the major
portion of the votes, winning in that
city by plurality of III. This show
ing in the Fourteenth District is ag-
gressively and demonstratively insur-
gent. 1t turned a majority of $4,000
for Republican into an excess of o.
CIT for Democrat of comparatively
recent conversion
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
TWELVE PERSONS DIE
IN BAD CHICAGO FIRE
Flames i'm Fish & Co.'S Building
Surround Victims and Hinder
the Firemen.
YOUNG WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH
Ecroisln of Men in Attempting to
Save Girls Trapped on Top
Floor in Vain.

The lives of twelve men and women
were lost in a fire in the L. Fish G.
Co. furniture store, Chicago. Eleven
o. them were burned to death on the
sixth floor of the building. They had
been trapped on the top floor, nearly
100 feet from the ground, with no pos
sible chance of escape, and the flames
roaring so furiously about them that
the firemen could not raise ladders to
go to their rescue The twelfth vic
tim, a girl 10 years of age, jumped TO
escape the flames, but was so badly in
jured when she struck a glass awning
that she died. Miner w. Bell, one of
the department managers of the COM
pany, and II. Nj. Mitchell, auditor OF
the firm, and brother-in-law of Isaac
Fish, were burned to death. They
gave their lives to save the girls who
were trapped by the names.
The fire is said to have started from
an explosion of an alcohol cigar light
er which was being filled on the 4th
floor of the building. With the excep-
ton of that on the intake water tun-
mel it was the most disastrous since
the Iroquois theater horror. 1t swept
upward through the structure with
such rapidity that the men and wom-
en- in the general Offices on the sixth
floor hao little chance of escape. There
is no fire escape on the front of the
building. 1t was fire of horror and
thrills, marked by tragic death and
wonderful escapes. There were forty
or fifty employees in the building when
the report of the explosion was heard
The furniture fed the hungry flames
and in an incredibly short time tie
scorching tongues had burned their
way through the fifth floor. Soon this
section was an inferno like the fourth,
and then the fire crept to the sixth,
cutting off all escape for the girls and
men who were at work in that Sec
ton. The financial loss is estimated
at s250,000. The contents of the build
ing practically were destroyed by fire
and water. The bodies were recov-
cred.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
RAIN Of AETNA LAVA
BURIES SICILY HOMES
Four New Craters Disgorge Fiery
Streams, but Crisis Is Be-
lieVed Past.
PEASANTS FLEE FROM HOMES
Vineyards and Fields for Miles
Around Devastated by Eruption
and Accompanying Quake.

An Official report upon volcanic dis
turbances in the Mount Etna district
confirms reports that the situation is
grave, but holds out the hope that the
worst is over. The craters that prop
eTly may be described as new appear
to be only four in number These
have opened at the foot of Mount Cas-
tellazzo, four miles in the air line from
the summit of Mount Etna The fou-
streams emitted from these craters
have united at the foot of Mount Cas-
tellazzo and formed a great river of
lava that is bringing death and des-
olation into the invaded districts.
chards have been destroyed by the
consuming food The lava river has
extended nearly fifteen miles from its
source.
In the path of the advancing flood
the people are in great terror and
thousands abandoned their homes. The
roaring of Mount Etna continues with
cut interruption and rain of cinders
fell for miles around. Several houses
OF peasants already have been de-
stroyed and it is feared that if the
flow does not cease soon the flood will
enter Borrelo. Caravans of peasants
carrying all their household goods and
all of their transportable possessions
are moving TO places of safety. In
their distress they present a pathetic
sight. At many homes the molten mass
has entered the cisterns and caused de-
structive explosions.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Five hundred men in the Busby
Chain mines at Wilburton, Okla,
struck. They say the operators de-
manded that they purchase all their
black powder and dynamite from the
company stores.
An amendment granting equal suf-
frage at all municipal elections and the
privilege for women of running for f.
flee is the demand by clubwomen of
Los Angeles upon the committee in
charge of the city charter revision
Robert Mathcr, chairman of the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufac-
turing Company, authorized a denial of
the Pittsburg report that negotiations
are under way for combination of the
Westinghouse and General Electric
Companies.
An experimental potato farm has
been established near Greeley, Colo.
on ten acres 100 varieties of potatoes
will be planted, including seed from
every foreign country where they have
been grown with success. The farm
will be maintained by State appropria-
ton of $4,000 a year.
The famous Drum Lummon mine
and other claims near Helena, Mont,
were sold for $4,000 by the United
States marshal to satisfy a judgment
i'm favor of the st. Louis Mining and
Milling Company against the Montana
Mining Company, limited, composed of
London capitalists.
Rev. ]. Wesley Hill. of New York,
who has been waging pulpit warfare
against Socialism, has been authorized
by his congregation to call a national
anti-socialistic convention, for the
purpose of inaugurating a nation wide
campaign against socialistic doctrines,
through the churches. DIR. Hill VIII
take personal charge of the campaign.
Prof. w. f. Castle, of Harvard, an
nounced to the Boston Scientific So
cietv that he expects that soon the
breeding of the human species can be
ACCOMPLISHED along scientific lines id
that characteristics may be determined
in advance
Rev ]. A. Sascianelli, ID. D., of the
italian Catholic Church OF Canton,
ohio has been appointed by tho pope
IN make an investigation of the Italian
situation in the United States, with a
view to ascertain the extent of black
hand crime among Italians. The re-
port to the pope is to contain sugges-
ton for the remedy from religious
standpoint.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
FIX UP TARIFF TROUBLES.
Taft and Canada's Representatives
to Announce Terms at Once.

There is to be no tariff war with
Canada. Peace terms have been agreed
upon, and the PRONUNCIATION thereof
will be made simultaneously from OF
tawa and Washington, the day before
the maximum tariff of the United
States would go into effect automati-
cally against Canada in the event of
no proclamation to the contrary by
President Taft
Details regarding the successful
termination of the negotiations be-
tween the United States and Canadian
officials are being carefully guarded,
but il is known that Canada grants
its intermediate rates on a small list
of articles that do not seriously come
into competition with Canadian man
ufacture. Full details are known as
yet only to President Taft and Secre-
tary Knox on this side of the line and
= Minister of Finance w. S. Fielding
AID Minister of Railways George p
Graham and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the
rGminion premier, on the other.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
NEW YORK.

The weeks developments have been
generally favorable. Chief among these
have been the advent OF warm spring
weather, which, coupled with the near
approach of Easter. has stimulated re-
tail trade at all markets, allowed of
expansion in the building trades. the
preparation of the ground in the North
fer planting, the beginning of seeding
of grain and cotton at the South and
of oats and vegetables in the middle
regions of the country. The industrial
situation, too. has materially i'm
proved in the collapse of the sympa-
thetic strike at Philadelphia, the re-
turn to work of many thousands of
idle hands there. and the submitting
of the Western railroad mems demands
to arbitration.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending March "a
were 231, as against 20S last week,
226 in the like week of 1909, 2s6 in
1908. 166 in 1907 and 169 in 1906
Bradstreet's.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
TO RAISE MAINE HULK.
Opportunity May Be Afforded to
Study How Vessel Was Destroyed.

The National House of Representa-
tives has passed bill providing for
the raising of the hulk of the Inflated
battle ship Maine, which was sunk in
the harbor of Havana in 1898. If the
Senate approves the bill the opportun-
ity will be afforded to recover the bod
les of any of the dead sailors that
may be within the wreck and also fur
nish way for an examination to de-
termine If possible the manner in
which the vessel was destroyed.
The bodies of sailors that might be
recovered would be inferred in Airing
ton Cemetery on the Virginia shore.
opposite Washington. The mast of the
Maine would be erected in the GENE
terry near the graves of the Maine
dead.
AS passed by the House the bill was
changed in its general terms, SO as to
authorize the work to be done under
the direction Of the engineer corps OF
the army, with the consent of the re-
public of Cuba BY the insistance of
Mr.. Sulzer of New York, the bill was
worded to require the raising as well
as the removal of the wreck, so that
an examination could be made of the
hulk to determine the manner of the
vessels destruction.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
GUN BURSTS ON U. s. CRUISER.
Eight Men Reported Victims of Acci-
dent on Charleston.

Eight Men Reported Victims of Acct
dent ON Charleston.
An unofficial report has been re-
ceived at Manila that a great gun
aboard the United States protected
cruiser Charleston exploded while the
crew was engaged at target practice
near Olongapo. 1t is said that eight
men were killed or wounded in the
accident. The cruiser now is on its
way to Manila, supposedly for the pur-
pose of bringing the victims of the
disaster to the marine hospital in Man.
lila. No details of the accident have
been reported to the officials. so far
as can be learned. and it is expected
that none will be given out until the
vessel comes to- port. The Charleston
is the flagship of Rear Admiral John
Hubbard, commander in chief of the
Asiatic fleet The commanding officer
of the vessel is Commander John II.
Gibbons.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
pk|lTICS%ak
0PLITIelANyS

Another radical move on the part of
the suffrage advocates which is receiv-
ing much attention in the eastern part
of the country is an organization OF
college women at Wellesley, Smith,
Vassar, Bryn Mawr. Radcliffe and 9TH
er colleges for women, the members of
which promise not TO get married I'M
til she shall have won over TO the
cause at least 500 men.
Il have nothing to conceal in con-
nection with my activities in behalf
of legislation providing for the pay
ment of subsidies for the upbuilding
of the American merchant marine"
said James T. McCleary of Minnesota.
in commenting upon the report that
the committee on the judiciary might
subpoena him as a witness in an eff
fort to uphold the charge that unusual
methods were followed in an effort TO
press this legislation through Con-
gress.
Some of the aggressive women of
Chicago have now formed an organiza-
ton the slogan of which is mo vote,
no tax" and when certain women
property owners appeared in line at
the city collectors office the other day
members of this new league picketed
the line and prevailed upon the wom-
en- to go home and leave their taxes
unpaid The pickets distributed cards
containing the following sentiment: IF
you can't be persons and citizens at
voting time, don't be persons and citi-
zens at taxpaying time"
Gilbert NJ. Hitchcock, editor OF the
William J. Bryan had given his word
that he would keep out OF the next
race for a Nebraska seat in the United
States Senate. Hitchcock, who has
been three terms a member of Con-
gress will now run for the Senate
That definite plans are now being
made for a battle To prevent the re-
nomination of Senator Robert NJ La
Toilette was shown when William d
Conner. former State chairman. who
managed Senator La Follettes first
successful campaign, made a state
ment declaring ne might manage the
campaign against Senator La Toilette
The action of the Canadian govern
ment in giving to France a reduction
in duties of "a per cent. which action
Is automatically extended to twelve
other nations under the most favor
ed nation rule, has brought the Uni
ted States squarely up against the
prospect of trade war with our
neighbor to the north. Special Com
missioners Pepper and Emery recent
ly went over the whole subject with
the officials at ottawa, but the latter
believing that the American tariff
was uaduly severe on Canadian trade
would make no concessions. President
Taft has been giving much attention to
this question.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
GIVE UP HEREDITARY SEATS.
Lords Vote to Accept Principle of
Roseberry Resolution.

By a vote of 175 to IL the House of
Lords in London renounced the heredi-
tary right to legislate which has been
the cardinal element of the British up
per house for centuries. The occasion
of the fateful division was Lord Rose
berys third resolution dealing with
the reform of the house.
The house agreed the previous day
that reform and reconstruction was
necessary. The complementary reso-
luton was passed was that a neces-
sary preliminary to such reform and
reconstruction is acceptance of the
principle that possession of peerage
should no longer of itself give the right
to sit and vote in the House of Lords"
1t is significant that fewer than 200
of the GIG members of the house
shared in the fateful division. Many
Of the absentees were reluctant to
sanction the EXTINCTION of the heredi-
tary principle. Nevertheless, they so
far recognized its expediency as not to
oppose it.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
GIRL IS BURNED ALIVE.
Ruth Wheeler Not Dead When Put
in Fireplace, Says Physician.


in Fireplace. Says Physician.
That Ruth Amos Wheeler, the 16-
year-old stenographer who went seek
ing employment the other day, and
whose charred body was found on
fire escape at 224 East 18th street,
NeV York. was burned to death by the
slayer, was the statement made by Dr.
O'Hanlon. coroner's physician. This
assertion came after an autopsy had
been made. DIR. O'Hanlon found the
lungs congested and deep mark on
the right side of the neck, evidently
made by a rope when the murderer
sought to strangle his victim. DR..
O'Hanlon said: "Over the right nos
tril and on part of the face | found
the remnant of a square of linen. /
believe the girl was smothered, and
while still alive but unconscious was
put into the fireplace and the body
incinerated."
Katchen Muller, or Kate Miller, as
she was better known, who was re-
garded as the wife of Walter Wolters,
who is now in the Tombs charged with
the murder of the Wheeler girl, was
taken into custody. She denied all
knowledge of the murder, and the po-
lice declared they were inclined to
believe her story. Captain Carey spent
most of the night with Wolters in his
cell, but could not get him to admit
any knowledge of the crime
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-03-31
GRAFT BILLS SNARE FORTY.
Barely Quorum Left When Accused
Men Plead Guilty and Resign.

An embarrassing situation has de-
veloped in Pittsburg's councilmanic
bodies, through the enforced resigna-
tons Of a number of members because
OF confessions of guilt in connection
with the bribery conspiracy and 9TH
ers that are expected to be demanded
by reason of the indictments found
against forty present and former mem
bers by the grand jury. 1t is not
known IL there are enough members
left TO form a quorum. 1t is consid-
cred fortunate in official circles that
the budget was passed before the storm
broke. as there might have been diff
Guilty in arranging special meetings to
pass the bills which had become laws
before taxes could be collected. The
penalty to which the guilty councilmen
are liable under the law is a fine not
exceeding $4,000, Imprisonment not
exceeding five years, and to be forever
debarred from holding any place of
profit or trust in the commonwealth.
Capt" John Klein, who started the
municipal uproar by his confession, is
guarded by two detectives at down
town hotel. His meals are being
served in his rooms and his every
want satisfied. Judge Frazer of the
Criminal Court sat as committing
magistrate to hear pleas Of council
men who wish to come forward" and
receive suspended sentences. Anxious
to receive the immunity bath. three
former members of the Common Coun-
ell appeared and pleaded mo defense"
TO charges of having received money
for their votes in the passage of bank
and street vacation ordinances. Two of
the men who appeared were not even
under indictment. All were given sus-
pended sentences.