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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24

1 venture to entertain some doubt
whether to grant a woman a d.
vorce from her husband on ac-
count of some incidental infidelity
would really meet with the ap-
proval of women themselves. 1t
seems to me that it is a woman's
question. If woman insists that
she should have exactly the same
treatment as her husband in this
matter, think her wishes should
be met. ] think women like to
shut their eyes In these cases, II
they can, assuming the husband
Is good in every other respect"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24
CLAIMS SHARE Of
WESTERN ESTATE
(By United Press Leased Wirc:)

By United Press Leased Wirc:)
PITTSBURG, Aug. 24.-Too
poor to pay for lodging but claim
ing to be an heir to an estate val
ued at 100000 with ranch i'm
California and property in Los
Angeles, San Diego and Lasoaden
Park, Carl Fechner of Sheboygan,
Wis, spent the might in police
station here. Fechner has en-
gagged attorneys to fight for his
share of the estate, which he
claims was left by his sister, Laura
White, who was found dead at
Lawrenceville last January.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24

hent horsefesh that plod UP the
hills with sand and gravel.
Mayor Fawcett will be,president
of the day and over so of the most
prominent citizens in Tacoma are
working to make the parade sue
cess.
Medals and other prizes have
been provided for those who show
they are treating the horse as he
should be treated.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24
Horse Parade Entries
Close Tomorrow

There are AZ separate classes I'm
which entries may be made for
the big Labor day workhorse par
AIDE in Tacoma this year. The en-
tries close tomorrow and the list is
expected to be large enough to
make one of the finest showings
ever seen i'm the Northwest.
The classification includes ev-
erythimg in the equine line from
ponies to those bug ,hulks of pa
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24
CORTES WET

ANACORTES, Aug. 24.-Ana-
cortes went wet at the local OPP
tion election today by fifty-four
votes. Out of a total registration
of SCI, 756 ballots were cast. The
Second and Third wards voted
dry, but were overcome by a
heavy wet vote in the First.
The decision of the electorate
affects seven saloons and one
hotel
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24
PITCHED TENTS ONLY ROOF OF $4,000
COAL STRIKERS, ARE EVEN RAIDED THERE

rent was Sc. A notice came to get
out, for there wasn't any money
to pay after the strike came"
Doesn't anyone saver" l asked.
Mrs. Duffy shrugged her Shout
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24
TACOMA THEATER

A1ASS1If1 IIDka L EIG
Two Nights, Starting Friday, Aug. 20
Edward J. Bowes Presents
MARGARET ELLINGTON
In the First Production on ANY
Stage of tho Great French PLAY
"UNTIL ETERNITY"
Adapted by Edward Elsner
PfiCES-S2, $3.50, 81. 75c, soc.
Seats Now Selling.
weeks, starting sunday, Aug. %
THE ALLEN STOCK co.
Headed by Verna FELTON,
First week, with matinees Wednes-
day and Saturday
"ZAZAn
Prices-1Oc, zoe, Boo.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24
20 PER CENT OFF

20 FER GENT 0FF A.
Plume work. Old plumes made
new for little money. For the ney.
10 days we will allow special
discount of 90 per cent on all plume
work. Old hats rebIocked and
cleaned; 90 per cent discount on all
trimmed hats -,
MODEL MILLINERY PARLORs
1922 Provident Bldg. Patt ave
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24
By Dorothy Dale.

GREENSBURG, Pa, Aug. "a.
The long, desperate struggle of
$4,000 miners in the Irwin and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24

II you are sick
and discouraged,
try the new and
4 q doctor able to
!. Best equipped.
lictne free, CONSUL
|. Macy, offices.
y, 1146M Pacific
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24

Drs. Thomas. Fidelity Bldg. .*s
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24
WI Z. N

reliable methods O
handle your case
lowest prices, med
tation free. DIR
Rooms 5, 6, z and
ave-, near 18th st,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24

Weather permitting, the
North Veranda VIII be reserved
for Parties DESTROYS of dining
"Al Fresco."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-08-24

MUSIC BY THE HOTEL Or
CHEsTRA from $50 to 8 and
from 10 to IL.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
TOBACCO TRIBUTE

TIME federal government having
slightly increased the internal
l. revenue tax on tobacco, the to-
bacco trust has promptly served notice
that the price of it's commodity to the
consumer is to be increased by cutting
down the size of packages-very slight
ly. to be sure, to the individual buyer
but amounting to vast sum in the
aggregate of sale.
This trust already has to it's credit
cut of the same kind made when the
extra war tax was put on in 1898 and
never taken off when that tax was
lifted, although the excuse for it was
the extra burden borne by "the weed"
to pay for our Spanish-American tiff.
And in view of the greed characteristic
of this and kindred trusts it is probable
that were the entire tax removed it
would never occur to the combine to
cut prices or enlarge packages 1t is
quite safe to say that the new cut by
the tobacco trust not only meets but
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
YOUR PETS

TT was good of the theatrical people
to give of their talents at the
4 Belasco theater the other night at
a benefit to swell the funds of the So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, which needs all the money it
can get to properly enforce the laws
against the neglect and mistreatment
of our dumb friends.
But one way suggests itself in when
many people can help the cause. 1t Is
unfortunately a common thing for
lot of otherwise good persons to go
away to the seashore and other vaca-
ton points at this time of the year and
leave their cats behind to exc out by
forage or luck an existence until their
return. 1t is, of course, impossible for
many to take their pets with them, but
it should not be difficult to provide
some means of shelter and subsistence
that would obviate the suffering of
largely helpless animals left to their
own resources,
Having voluntarily made yourself re-
sponsible for pets and enjoyed the
pleasant domesticity they give to your
home. don't go off and leave them to
suffer and perhaps die of starvation in
the streets.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03

exceeds the extra revenue tax and nets
a handsome profit.
Does not the power of the American
Tobacco company to do absolutely as it
pleases in passing along every increase
and a little pore to the consumer af-
ford a striking example of the iniquity
of the Aldrich tariff, which insures it
against outside competition by a duty
of from $1.S5 to $3.50 on every pound of
tobacco? Even our own wards, the
Filipinos, whom we are in honor bound
to prosper, are limited in the amount of
tobacco that they may ship into our
ports, and that amount so small that
it cuts no figure in consumption.
The fiction of the tariff is that it pro-
tects American labor. The fact is that
it enables such as the tobacco trust to
levy enormous tribute from labor (for
workingmen are the largest consumers
of tobacco at will, in far greater
amount than is paid out to give en-
ploynent to the hands that prepare its
commodity.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
BAD DOCTRINE

TN AN address before the Republi-
can county committee at Spokane
Il the other day Governor NJ. e. Hay
of Washington said: II hope to see
the next legislature pass a bill es-
beaters" If it does the bill should be
entitled "a measure to flog the last
spark of self-respect out of a man and
make him a criminal"
For it is a fact that wherever the
whipping post has been in use it has
not only dsgraced the state that used
it, but utterly failed to accomplish any
good purpose. The warden of the Del
aware prison told in a report how it
worked in that state. At the time of
his report he had lashed the backs Of
461 convicts. OF these fifty-four We're
whipped a second time, fourteen a third
time, four fourth time and one a
fifth. Men who have been whip
ped" he says, "are never as good
prisoners as before"
When this report was made Della
ware had used the whip thirteen years.
In that time its prison population 'in-
creased in higher ratio than that of
the whole country" Thus in Della
ware one person in every 725 was in
prison, while in the country at large,
including the great cities, there was
one to every $50.
You can't cure wife beating by max
ing the state more brutal than the wife
beater. Every enlightened community
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
THE VICIOUS CIRCLE

! III HE vicious circle created by high
| tariffs like the Dingley and Aid
Il rich laws has swung around to
a curiously odd result. 1t is that those
who have profited most by the high
protection are finding themselves in
turn the victims of a false and harm
full economic policy. Even the trusts
that have fattened on the high tariff
at the expense of the common people
are now finding that they have created
| a Frankenstein and that the monster
threatens to plague them for many a
| day.
Witness the complaint of the railroad
trust that 1t must raise rates because
| it is being squeezed by the lumber
trust, the freight car trust, the rubber
trust, the steel trust and the foundry
trust. Rails sold abroad for SIS are
sold to the railroads here for S2S; and
| this we'll illustrates the way in which
the brother trusts are preying upon the
railroad branch of the predatory fra
| ternity. Really, it has its humorous
aspect, hasn't it?
For twenty years the exorbitant pro-
lection granted under the Mckinley
Dingley and Aldrich tariffs has been
making possible the formation and en-
richment of these great trusts. So
| prices have been soaring and vast for
tunes have been piling up, while the
industries of the land have been con-
centrating in a few hands and the
man on small salary or wage has found
| it increasingly hard to make ends meet
and lay by something for the future.
And all the time, instead of inform
| ing himself, he has been blindly
standing by the party and feeding
the hoppers Of the trusts. That would
| be humorous, too if it were not be-
coming so grave a matter
But the spectacle of the trusts them
selves now crying out against the in
| EQUITIES of the system under which they
have fattened because the jacking up
| inevitable under that system has be-
gun to affect them and the government
has stepped In to regulate and pro-
! hibit, as in the case of the railroads,
is a new one, and the best argument in
many a day against an economic pol
Icy that returns to plague even those
who profit most Immediately from it.
Is not the situation revealed by the
railroad plant we'll described by Swift's
! famous lines:
| So, naturalsts observe, a flea
Has smaller feas that him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed. ad infnltum.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
Mark Twain as an Orator
(July Forum)

"Our ambassador has spoken of the
Fourth of July and the noise it makes.
We have a double Fourth of July IN
America. We honor 1t all through the
daylight hours and when the night
comes we dishonor it. Just at this
hour the pandemonium would be about
to begin More than the noise, there
would be people crippled and killed,
all through the permission which we
give to irresponsible boys to play with
firearms and firecrackers. Really we
destroy more property on the night of
the Fourth of July than the whole of
the United States was worth hum
dred and twenty-five years ago, and
to thousands it is turned into day of
mourning.
Il have suffered ir. that way myself.
l had an uncle in Chicago-as good an
uncle as ever 1 had, and I have had a
lot of them. He opened his mouth TO
express his patriotism and rocket
went down his throat. And before
that man could ask for a drink of
water to ouench the thing 1t had scat
tered him all over the forty-five states.
Really this is true. Twenty-four hours
after that it was sort of raining but
tons on the Atlantic seaboard. A man
cannot have a disease like that and be
entirely cheerful during the rest of his
life. These things grieve me, but don't
let them make you sad"
when I arrived in England-in
London-I saw a newsman going
round with a great, red, highly-dis-
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
California and the Parcels Post

York Globe)
semitic valley, it was my good fortune
to fall in with Mr.. Sears, whose name
heads firm doing a large mail order
business. His lengthy and extensive
experience confirms the view taken ty
the league in every particular. So FIR
from an up-to-date parcels post beirg
urged by the mail order houses, he al
sured me that neither his firm nor hb
rivals are at all anxious for such |
parcels post. They prefer the present
system, which induces the purchaserl
to make UP their orders to the full 100
pounds. He says that their house finds
small orders source of loss rather
than profit, and they do not want them
Not to be prolix, commend to all
country merchants this direct express
sion of the feeling of the leading houses
in the mail order line as opposed to the
widely circulated garbled nonsense set
forth by those express companies in
terested in fooling the people so as to
maintain their extortionate charges.
But ''you can't fool all the people all
the time" EDWARD BERWICK,
President Postal Progressive League Of
California,
Pacific Grove. Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03

played placard bearing two sentences,
some minds might have conveyed
wrong impression. They were: Mark
Twain arrive Ascot cup stolen 1t
was rather unkind, and my character
has suffered from it.
II have never stolen anything-in
England-except hat some years ago.
But that did not amount to anything.
However, it was good hat-a clergy
mans hat. 1t occurred at a party at
which Archdeacon Wilberforce was
present. He was then canon SERVING
in the Westminster battery. After
ward the archdeacon wrote and said
that when he was going home in that
hat-the other hat-my hat--all his
gravities, his solemnities, his deep
thoughts, his eloquent remarks, were
snatched up by the people he met and
mistaken for brilliant witticisms. A
man who can exaggerate in that grace
full way ought to be a bishop.
well, 1 was passing down a certain
street when 1 realized that my hat
the hat 1 had appropriated-neede
ironing. l went to big shop and
gave them the contract They were
even courtly to me, and after a little
while they brought back the hat.
How much?' / asked. Oh was the
reply, We don't charge the clergy 1
have long cherished the delight OF that
moment. Yet the other day had my
hat ironed at the same shop, and when
l inquired the consequences / was told
quite cofdly: 'Ninepence.'
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
July 4 in Canadian Eyes
Toronto STAR


In the period Immediately following
the Revolution it was natural that the
event should be represented as the re-
suit of a violent quarrel. England felt
that she had suffered loss and that
great empire had been severed. The
revolving Americans rejoiced in their
triumph over a powerful nation. Much
was made of the grievances OF the
colonists, and they were taught to be-
lieve that they had freed themselves
from the grip of tyrant. The Fourth
of July was an occasion for heated
rhetoric, for fiery denunciations OF
George III and his ministers.
But now the event is viewed in
different light. The American colo
nists received not worse, but far bet
ter treatment than the colonists of any
other nation. They enjoyed more sub
stantial freedom than the people of
England itself. The commercial re-
strictions to which they were subject
ed were che natural products of an age
of restriction. The attempt to tax the
colonies was not an act of cruel OPP
preston, but a piece of pedantry and
parish politics.
But the birth of nation, and espe-
cially the birth of republic, was
great event in the worlds history
worthy of being nobly remembered.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
THE LEMON RULING

T HE victory of the citrus fruit
growers of California over the
- railroads, with its sure benefits
to great industry, is not the only
good that will come of the interstate
commerce commissions decision re-
ducing the freight rate on lemons from
$115 to 81 per hundred pounds.
By convicting the railroads of extor-
tion (Which is the judgment of the
commission in polite terms) the de-
cision puts the whole country on its
guard against the wall of the railroads
that they must have more millions out
of the pockets of shippers to prosper
We already knew that many of them
have been increasing their dividend
rates during the past year or so, and
could not reconcile this evidence of in
creasing profits with their cry of pow
erty, but the sense of fairness is strong
among Americans and it was feared
that Justice perchance might not be
done If the proposed increase which
President Taft temporarily stopped
were permanently prevented.
But this decision, made by experts
after careful investigation, shows that
the railroads wanted all the benefits of
the increased tariff on lemons. In plain
words, they wanted to hog It, expecting
or hoping that the growers would not
fight. But they did fight. and shippers
all over the country must be grateful
to them for showing up the organized
greed. There remains to come a de-
cision on the refrigerating charges.
To many who read the testimony as 1t
appeared in the papers there seemed to
be a plain case OF extortion in that
respect also.
What a beautiful object lesson it all
is of the actual working of the tariff
as protector of American industry or
labor. 1t happens that in this case
because of the expensive fight made
the industry will at last get a benefit,
but probably in hundreds of other in
stances in which the trusts appropriate
to themselves all the benefits there will
be no battle because shippers and small
dealers are not so we'll organized as
our growers of fruit, and the increased
profits will come out of the general
public and go into already overfull
pockets.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
WHAT SHALL | DO TODAY
DEAR LORD?
BY LILLIAN BARKER BEEDE

BY LILLIAN BARKER BEEDE
stood on the hills in the morning light
And watched the dawn of a newborn day,
saw how the sunbeams dancing wings
Chased dusky shadows OF night away;
And thought how good deeds from a heart of
love
Could drive away the impure untrue;
said as l turned from the glory heights:
"Oh, what today wilt thou have me do?
Oh, what shall do today, dear Lord?
oh, what shall do today?
This day begun on the hills with the sun,
Oh, what ere 1t pass awayT
Then into my heart flew a song Of love,
An echo falling from angel choirs;
Not mine was the song, but the dear Lord said,
"a spark can knde my altar fires,
strain that may fall from seraphs song.
An earth-strung harp on its thrilling strings
May catch and repeat, by the grace l give,
And sing the song that an angel sings"
I sang with a prayer all the livelong day,
The song that echoed within my heart,
And when on the hilltops again 1 stood
To watch the westerlng day depart,
The valley lifted the song to me,
One who had found the dear Lord that day,
Within the song that sank for him,
And joins in my prayer when humbly say:
"Oh, what shall 1 do today, dear Lord?
on what shall do today?
This day begun the hills with the sun,
oh, what It pass awayT
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
Comment on California Affairs

j Orleans have learned that the ma
jority of the people of the country
don't approve of wideopen towns and
law violation, and that they don't ia
vor the holding of the Panama expo
sition in city which boosts that 1t Is
a wideopen community.-Wich Ea-
GLE
If neither San Francisco or New Or
leans can agree on the worlds fair,
perhaps st. Louis might be persuaded
to consider it--a remote perhaps.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
That Brigham City man, who went
to California to get q wife and got
robbed of all his money, as well as
losing the girl, should give up the idea
of getting married, II he can't find
girl In Zion. Besides, If he can't take
better care of his money than that, he
had better not get married at all.-Salt
Lake Tribune.
When he thinks of all the first floor
front prices he Is not going to get for
his back rooms. the San Francisco
hotel keeper is to be excused for har-
boring an ingrowing grouch.-Okla-
homa Times.
San Francisco hates to be good un-
der compulsion. Also her goodness is
not rampant when there is no compul-
sion. Taking it in the ensemble the
Pacific coasts chance of goodness con-
sists mainly in the presence of some
strenuous office holder on the outside
with a legal big stick. AS to Nevada,
1t reached the conclusion some time ago
that goodness doesn't pay,-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
Efforts are being made to extract
$50 900 in gems from water pipes In
San Francisco. That's job worthy
the plumbers tools.-Philadelphia In
quirer.
The first piano brought to California
has been given a place of honor in the
Park museum. 1t is not looked upon
with reverence by crusty old bachelors
who have sweet young neighbors just
beginning to play the scales.-San
Francisco Post.
The hotel men of California are rails
ing a great howl. They say Governor
Gillett led them to believe that he
would let the big fight go on and now
since he's stopped it they say it's
plain double-cross. They spent thou
sands of dollars in advertising and that
money is gone forever.-Oklahoma
Times.
The San Francisco actor who has
turned saloonkeeper probably has be-
come tired of taking part in these stage
drinking bouts, where one drinks out of
empty goblets.-Denver Republican.
Daily Fight Bulletin-Governor Gill
lett has the troops ready to move at
moments notice. Fighters moving
without any further notice.-Des
Moines News.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03


America could not have been long gov
erned from England. It's population
was destined soon to exceed that of
England. Communication was slow; 1t
was many years before the age of
steamboats, and telegraphs. The work.
ing out of scheme of imperial fedora
ton would therefore have been ex-
ceedingly difficult. It must be remem-
bered that the idea of colonial self
government, combined with imperial
unity, was not developed until seventy
years after the revolution, and that in
the case of Canada many British
statesmen declared that the two things
were incompatible.
In course of time we may see the
American revolution commemorated
not as an act of destructive violence,
but as a creation; not as the outcome
of a quarrel, but as a stage in the
evolution of free institutions. All hui
manty is the gamer because the ex-
pertinent of republican government has
been worked out upon vast scale, and
it's faults as we'll as it's merits dis
played The advocates of sane Fourth
of July should not content themselves
with denouncing firecrackers. They
should strive to make the commemora-
tion worthy of an event of worldwide
Importance.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03

(Letter IN NeN
Editor of the Globe: Sir-Almost the
sole semblance of the shadow of an ar
gument against the institution by the
United States government of an up-to-
date parcels post has been the conteh-
ton that it would rob the country mer-
chant to enrich the eastern mail order
houses. The Post Progress league OF
California has for long time atfirmed
the very opposite, that for lack or an
up-to-date parcels post much addltlonal
business was thrown to these eastern
houses.
The minimum freight charge or the
railroads being for 100 pounds, man
order buyer, wanting an article or eleV-
en- pounds weight, was tempted 10 ex-
pand that order with additional goods
until it reached somewhere near the
1OO-pound limit, on which frelgnt
charges had to be paid. In case TINS
buyer could think of nothing more that
ne wanted, neighbors would be invited
to Join in making up the 100 pounds
minimum. Thus the local merchant.
instead of losing eleven pounds OF
trade, lost nearly 100 pounds,
Travelling the last few days In 70"