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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-21
IN THE EDITORS MAIL
Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 20

Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 20,
The Tacoma Times
AS so much of the public mon
ey seems unwisely spent it seems
no more than fair and right that
tax payers and the general public
should receive any benefits that
may not be utilized in the ex-
pense of public works. Several
thousand dollars of expensive cut
tings and plants are thrown in the
waste heap every year at Point
Defiance park. There is enough
thrown away to make beautiful
every home in Tacoma. Why is
not the public invited 20 come
and help themselves. 1t is a
public waste and the people
should have the benefit of them.
Some one else please white on the
subject. MRS. OSHER.
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Don't you think we ought tt
have cow" 1t was Mrs. Wickle
bridge making this suggestion. She
had just been reading an agri
cultural paper which painted the
pleasure and profit to be obtained
from such a domestic animal, tt
say nothing of nice, rich milk.
"Why a cow" inquired hel
husband. "Why COW? Why
not a giraffe or a wart hog? II
we're going to start a zoo, let's dc
it right"
eff we had COW it would solve
the milk question:" asserted the
wife. you know we consume two
quarts a day. OF course she
would give much more, but we
could sell the surplus"
ooh, / see. I'm to be the future
milk magnate. Guess I'd soon be
written up in the magazines:
What One City Man Did With
$38-Started on One Terra Gotta
Cow and Now Supplies Metropo-
lis With Lacteal Fluid-It's All
in Knowing How, Says Dairy King
Wicklebridge, Who Tells of His
Early Struggles in the Barn"
ooh, dear, no, Lemuel, 1 do not
intimate that you should go into
the venture wholesale" reminded
Mrs. w. I'VE would only have one
COW and she might become a sort
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-21
Course Of Gold is on Society"
Writes This Noted Rlue-Blood
Startling and Ominous Analysis of
the American 400" Is Written
by Frederick Townsend Martin.

NEW YORK, Jan. 21-The
curse of gold is on American soci-
ETY., says Frederick Townsend Mar
tin-"the same poison that blight
ed the glory of Athens, that
ruined the splendor of Rome. that
brought upon Bourbon France the
terror of the revolution"
Townsend isn't a professional
muckraker, sensationalist, or an
outsider looking with envious eyes
upon thise within the charmed
circle. He Is a blue-blood of the
bluest hue, social leader, a Beau
Brummel, an arbiter of social
proprieties. He knows American
and European society through and
through, has been the most of roy
atty, the associated of aristrcrats.
He writes upon "The Idle Rich"
from an intimate, personal knowl-
edge and his startling analysis is
ominous in its clarity and por-
tent. 1t appears in the February
Everybo6t's.
ut is a melancholy fact that the
impetus toward extravaganza, ex-
cess, idleness, debauchery, and
shamelessness came to us from the
underworld. The manners, the
morals, and the practices of this
social class crept into even that
small section of society which calls
itself the upper Glass; The young
men-and unhappily the young
women-of the finest families in
our great cities began to copy the
vices and initiate the manners of
this other class, and to plunge into
the same excesses that marked its
manner OF life.
1T was the magic of gold; it
was the poison of idle wealth. 1t
came at first like little spot up
oFi the body of man. Quickly it
spread from limb to limb. and part
to part, until. in the fullness of
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that would now be esteemed more
or less unusual, not to say i'm
proper, but in those days and in
the realm of royalty it was the
approved fashion. Fortunately,
however, Marie Antoinette was
permitted to meet the man before
she actually married him, which
was not until the following May.
The French insurgents celebrated
the twenty-third anniversary of
the wedding ring incident by
choppig the head off her royal
husband, Louis XVI, with the
guillotine.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-21

years ago.. In Lewis garden he
saw the calamondin growing. He
sent slips of it to the Florida
station. There it grew, forgot
ten, until a year ago, when some
Of the stations workmen discov-
cred the little oranges perpetual
motion proclivities. Now the de-
partment is boosting the. calamon-
din.
The tree is quite hardy, flour
ishing clear to the northern limits
of the orange belt.
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tive GO down and meet the 2:30
railer, so-and-so will get off tail
ing to lights" he means to go
and meet the train and follow So
and so to his hotel. If a gang
are working together and some
thing goes wrong one will say
"Sneeze it's a swamp" which in
dicates it is time to bolt.
One of these distinguished
gentlemen if he makes up his
mind to come to town would not
quite say it in that way. He
would say he was going to
light" If he fans you," lit
means he has located your money
pocket and if he gets it from you
he will pass it to a confederate
so as not to be caught with the
Leather. A pickpocket work
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Slams, Jabs, Boosts and
MOST
ANYTHING
VAT OUTSIDERS SAY

OFF TACOMA.
The Seattleite: What a cute
Little country town.
The Bellinghamite: The quiet
est town on the coast.
The Puallupan: The slowest
kind of a burg.
The Chicagoan: A town full
of life, and interesting people.
The New Yorker: A really
progressive city.
The Bostonian: A city with
the most modern and up to date
ideas.
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Mighty Cold Storage

When pile keep
having them until they artificial
coin abnormal profits
mighty cold that
When they hold such things butter and and poultry for
MORTAL YEARS, then them
eat them, that is also cold sorage-mghty cold.
And when the prolific earth
products and they sell they
broke Enthusiastically, that's cold a
That's about what is coming Well, let er
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time, it was leprosy."
The writer cites many instances
of erratic, spectacular senseless ex-
travagance from the social records
of few years. But, ominous as is
the outlook, he thinks that Ameri-
can society, with all its faults, and
all the hideous abnormalities graft
ed upon it in these late years, is
"a cleaner, saner and more normal
society than that of any other
highly civilized nation in the
world"
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The pickpock-
cts are the "gun
mob, a ring is
a "hook, a
watch is a 'block
a pistol is called
a rod" and a
pair of pants are
designated 'stri-
des." Ii the
chief of @lpolice
says to a detec-
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The Hasty Word.

The pompous business man
told the applicant for clerkship,
I'VE need brains in this business,
sair." 81 know it, l know it, -
the young fellow FASTENED to say.
Your business shows it."
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for Chi and they
took him upstairs
to mug him and
perhaps send him
to do his bit
with the stir"
To the average
man who would
hear anyone talk
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like the above it would seem that
the person so talking was not
right in his head, but it is per-
fectly Ineligible to a prominent
class of the community, viz
the underworld. Roughly trans
lated, the foregoing means, "a
railroad policeman caught a pick
pocket making his way to Chica-
go and took him to the station
to question him and perhaps send
him to jail to do a little hard
labor" Pretty simple isn't it,
when explained"
Some More of IL.
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fices, or commits
siOns, or ranks,
or whatever they
call 'em in the
army.
Thomas Near
thur Anderson
got mixed up in
the civil war at
the opening gun.
To start with he
was just a pri-
vate in Co. A.
Sixth Ohio in
fantry. After a
year or two they
handed him an
honorable d i s.
charge, but he
Il S t s inr p ly
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The odor of musk comes from
the walls of a ConstantinopIe
mosque. The perfume was mix
ed with the mortar 1000 years
lago.
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Cupid's WiIes.

Handsome young man
roper training,
Meets beautiful maid
And it's raining;
Dan Cupid near by
Has umbrella that's dry
The two now together are
sailing.
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royal, received a
wedding ring by
special messen-
ger from a man
she had never
met. In some
circles of society
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Entered at the postoffice at Tacoma, Wash, as
second class matter. TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE
OF UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.
PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUM-
DAY ny THE TACOMA TINES PUBLISHING
COMPANY.
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ing alone will
perhaps carry an
overcoat on his
arm to cover his
movements o T
while he is max
ing the rifle"
These are but
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q = = 2
Humphreys Seventy-Seven Breaks
Up Colds and
G r \ ID
nox.ya w.t.
Don't Wait.

Don't wait till your bones begin
to ache, take "Seventy-seven" at
the first feeling of Grip, which
this year is Sore Throat, and break
up the attack at once.
After the development of Influ-
enza, Catarrh, Pains and Soreness
IN the Head and Chest, Cough,
General Prostitution and Fever. the
cure takes longer. At Drug Stores
Zoe or mailed.
Humphreys Homeo. Medicine
Co-. Cor William and Ann Streets.
New York n 8
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j
ldn't stay discharged. He got
ed up in the war again, ana
ire 1865 he had gobbled up
the commissions between pri-
vate and major. He emerged a
brigadier general from the UNI
pleasantness with Spain in 1913,
and there being no more commits
sions to 'tglom" onto he went on
the retired list. He didn't really
quit. He just got a new hold.
Now at the age of seventy-five
(thi5 is his birthday he is
climbing up in the farming pro-
fession in Washington state.
Before he finally quits he will
probably me brigadier general of
the corn raisers.
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Bernard Shaw to shame. For
instance the "chief of the elbow
gang" is the Captain of Detec-
tives, a train is a RATHER, a
boat is "pusher. If one of
the fraternity says 81 touched the
pit and got the leather" he indi-
Gates that he has relieved some
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-21

Before knocking foreigners,
let's find out how long since our
grandfathers emigrated.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-21

Lame ducks sympathize deeply
with Lorimer, which is natural
and patriotic.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-21

Why not make the duke of the
Abruzzi prince of West Virginia
and let him marry Kate?
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Onward, onward marches the
Bold King. He is above the
courts, law, congress, people-at
present.
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Today's Good Short One

Bernard Shaw, presiding at called
ouce sir Edward Lyon. who confines his diet to nuts.
"And now" said Mr. Shaw, II
he OF the earth, earthly of the nuy!Lades
Journal
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-21

a few of the main expressions
that are common to the under
world and surely indicate that
there are tricks in every trade.
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David said "All men are liars.''
Therefore David was liar. Whom
shall we believe anyhow
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-21

The underworld
has no published
dictionary but
at the same time
it has a variety
of words and
phrases that for
their ingenuity
and originality
would put G.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-21

Editor Joseph Pulitzer of the
New York World was admitted to
the Missouri bar when a young
man.
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A Biography.

n OSFHpIfys ~
"What shall We say about Sen
ator Aldrich +" asked the bio
grapher of the publisher.
Just say that he was faithful
to his trust" -
(Which trust " queried the
faithful scribe.
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AS personal press agent, Mar
Garden has T. r. tied.
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OUR DAILY BIRTH
DAY PARTY.

Here's fighter from way back.
He's spent his life fighting and
pinhhlinP IN hf-
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SO Tacoma women pajamas during the
Pajamas would
wear and tear of sufraget dongs Tacoma
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Babies are fairies brough b,
storks to brighten homes. ~
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SCOTS Studio, Fidelity Bldg.


You can make money II you cali
Main 733 or A 1913. between Z
and 1880. Ask for Perkins. So
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OBSERVATIONS

IN addition
for recall of Engineer Raleigh
voters had a chance at Torger Peterson?
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WOE be unto that
teal bridge stays in the
Tacomans are hustng to beat the boss the office.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-21
TODAY IN HISTORY

Jan. 81. 1870, Marie Antoinette
a princess of the Austrian blood
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ESKIMO MEME tn at neither Peay
the AS testimony
ing Walter Welman and the cat into the Arctic grows.
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NaA
More of His Intimate Writings
to dad" From WASH
ington.
WASHINGTON, D. c.,
January 16, 1911.


Dear Dad: Robert F. Johnson
has drawn a cartoon in the Phila-
Gelphia North American which is
an excellent illustration of the
present political status. 1t repre-
sents a rat hunt. Mr.. Common
People is out with his club and
the terrier dog insurgency" and
they are very intent ON waiting
for a rat to emerge from a pole
la beled "The Republican arty.'
Back of Mr.. Common People is
another hole labeled Democratic
arty," and out of this hole is
seen emerging rat labeled
Especial Privilege
The application of the picture
will be found in the various sena-
torial situations where democratic
legislatures have been chosen.
The most hopeful note for pro-
gressive things is that struck by
Louis Post in a review of recent
happenings in this country and
abroad:
"All over the world" says he,
there have been signs of a demo-
cratic awakening these five years
past or more. And not only are
the signs growing in number, but
their promise is Deing fulfilled.
Great Britain has had two ell
ections in which the right of the
people to their land, the right OF
the Irish to govern themselves
and therefore the right of the
Welsh and the Scot and of the
English and all the rest, and the
freedom of the common people
from lordly dictation, have been
involved and in which democracy
has won.
Look anywhere in the world
and the quickening of democracy
Is evident. Turkey and Persia
have felt 1t, Japan and China are
throbbing with it, Russia sees II
with blood in the eye of her oil
garchy, Italy and Germany are
responding to it. A new cycle
did indeed begin with the new
century. The besotted plutocracy
of the old century has not yet
gone out, but rejuvenated demo-
cracy is here. Let the political
mariner take his latitude"
Sincerely, RATH.
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Crook Language--Maybe Not
DELEGATE But It's Original

"a railroad fly cop made a
pinch of dip hitting the grit
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ENGINEERS to that she wal
internal explosion.
that, twelve
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PIsOF CASTLE geological sharp
kinds
cent profit this and we're going
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CACHE of burglars loot has been found in Rockeflers
Cleveland We
feIer
police will this loot
times right successful restoration
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Glory for Grandpa Diaz! His army Guerro with
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-01-21

THE CALAMONDIN AS COM
PARED WITH A MERIUM-SIZED
NAVEL ORANGE.
Uncle Sans Latest Find is Lit
tie, but Fine for Cool Drinks
and Great When Turned Into
Marmalade.
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taking conspicuous
part politics at Picking We don't poll
tics but those Chinese
start GUESSING Minister Wal WI Pu until
he's statesman horse thief.
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made a on of his poke book.
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MILITARY aid in publishing monarchst new
Soldiers off the republican
de think opinion that win flatter exings not
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Mrs. ACKNOWLEDGMENT, ma
dam, that does not impress me.
MY husband belongs to the An
cient and Honorable Artillery Co.
The Nevada County picayune., 1911-08-25
Falling Off of Crop Since July 25 Is 10 Per Cent, Says
 Commissioner Sloan.
SEED ROTTED IN THE GROUND
However, the Crop Will Probably Be Equal to That of Last Year
 in Many Respects.

Little Rock. - Commissioner Clay Sloan states that from all accounts he has received, the cotton crop in the past month or two, owing 10 the rains. has deteriorated fully 10 per cent He received the following telegram from Senator James P. Clarke:
 'In connection with the action on the resolution now pending in the senate, it becomes important to know what deterioration, if any, has taken place in the crop in Arkansas since July 9. What is present prospective yield of the crop this year compared with that of last year?"
 To this telegram MT. Sloan sent the following reply:
 Cotton crop has suffered some de preciation since July 25, caused by rain falling into the white bloom. In ferior fruitage and lateness of plant will not give us a crop exceeding last year, notwithstanding the fine appear ance of the stalk at this time"
 In explanation of the telegram, MT. Sloan said that for several reasons there is a deterioration in crop condi- tions lately. Speaking of the causes of this, he said:
 Rains followed the planting in 1910 and many stands were lost by seed rottinG in the ground. Remembering their experience last year, the farm CTS this season planted seed near the surface, many seed below being visi- ble behind the planters. Following the planting, from April 25 to May 10. there was a dearth of rain from six to eight weeks and much seed did not germinale until in June In the mid ing in height from four to fourteen inches and a farmer hardly knew whether to use blow for the large or the small stalk.
 Cotton that germinated in June will most probably be killed by the frost before maturity, although of course, we do have seasons when a killing frost will be delayed until the June planting natures, but it is the exception and not the rule.
 All these things together have pro- duced a decline in crop conditions from July 25 of at least 10 per cent, and so reduced the prospects that the production of crop equal in every way to that of 1910 is the best that .oresee'
The Nevada County picayune., 1911-08-25
STA1EH0USE NOTES
DECLARES THAT THE ARKANSAS REVENUE BILL Is ALREADY
 A LAW.
II ax Commission Decides to Take Le. gal Steps to Prevent Laws Submis-
 sion to Popular Vote.

According to statement issued by the Arkansas state tax commission, legal efforts will be made to prevent the submission of the Turner-Jacob. son revenue bill, passed by the last legislature. Chairman D. A. Gates stated that the bill is already a law and not subject to referendum amend. ment to the state constitution.
 The Turner-Jacobson revenue bill was signed on the next day to the last day Of the twenty-five limit given the chief executive in which to approve or disapproye of measures after the adjournment of the legislature The enabling act for the initiative and referendum was signed on the last of this limit
 As the enabling act putting the Initiative and referendum into effect was not law at the time the Turner. Jacobson bill was approved, the com mission is of the opinion that the referendum does not apply to the revenue measure" said MT. Gates.
 inc initiative and referendum could not be effective until made so by an enabling act, and this took place sub- sequent to the approval of the revenue law. In our opinion the revenue measure is now a law"
 Tax Commissioner F. Epps Brown is also of the opinion that an emer- gency existed from tEe very nature of the financial situation which would justify the immediate application of the law and would in effect supply the emergency clause to the act.
 These statements from the tax com missioner will be read with interest, as over 200 petitions are in cireula- tion over the state Geeking to have the act submitted at the next general election.
The Nevada County picayune., 1911-08-25
Whale Strands Schooner.

Fritz Landing. - Partly submerged owing to the weight of a mammoth whale on board, the schooner Olga is on the shoals near here hopelessly stuck in Mississippi mud and sand unless rise in the river occurs, or a powerful tug can be secured to rescue schooner and whale. The whale was washed ashore near Port Arthur, Tex. some time ago. It is 7S feet long and the bone taken from its head is said to have weighed two tons. The whale was being lowed to Memphis for ex hibition.
The Nevada County picayune., 1911-08-25
Railroad Protests Payment.

State Treasurer Crockett received $4,749 from the Kansas City Southern Railway Company in payment of the franchise tax assessed against that road this year. Accompanying this remittance was statement by Tax Commissioner Ward of the Kansas City Southern that the payment is made under protest and that the com pany reserves the right to recover from the state in any subsequent ac- tion, should it be ultimately determin- ed that the franchise law is unconsti. tutional. The road claims that the tax is unjust and negotiable and that payment is made under duress. The reason for paying the tax at all, 1t states, is in order to avoid the fines and penalties that might attach in the meantime under the operation of the law. The Cotton Belt is now the only large railroad system that has not paid the franchise tax. Up to date the collections under the new fran chise tax law amount to s97,000, with many corporations yet to hear from. It is possible that the total revenue from this source may reach s120.000.
The Nevada County picayune., 1911-08-25
Faith In Their Cause.

If they are thrice armed who have their quarrel just. then ladies' tailors must be the most righteous persons who ever invited a lawsuit, for they have confidence enough in their own cause to employ women lawyers At a meeting of law school graduates who have worked up a lucrative prac- tice, four women declared that their first clients were tailors.
 "A ladies' tailor who does good work prefers a woman lawyer" said one. She has a knowledge of clothes that no mere man can ever hope to ac- quire, and if the gown fought over is halfway decent piece of workman ship she will be able to convince q judge and jury of its merits every time. Then. there is something to be gained in the advertising line, always provided, of course, that the tailor is worthy of patronage, for the lawyer will give him an order for her own suit and recommend him to friends"