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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-17
TIME TO E BUSY

We'll, Mayor Seymour, now that you're back from
your vacation, a lot of people would like to see you
get busy the first thing on that weights and measures
ordinance.
The revelations in the Times as to loaves of bread
which weighed a trifle over eight ounces, as to pack
age goods which are from 25 to so per cent short
weight, of short measure in wood, and so on, CAM be
ignored.
These things come straight home to the families
that pay the bills. The people are aroused over the
matter.
Tive ordinances are being prepared, the people are
told. They are watching those ordinances mighty
closely. There must be no jokers in them.
The ordinances must provide for full weight bread.
For full measure wood and coal. For full weights
and measures, in short, in every necessity of life.
The honest dealers of Tacoma will join with the
consumers to see that this ordinance goes through
RIGHT. For they lose too by the dishonesty of
others.
The testing Of scales must be well taken care of.
Tacoma consumers still remember the striking dis
closures of federal inspectors.
WHY NOT A JAIL SENTENCE, MR.. MAYOR.
o THE DEALERS WHO CHEAT THE PEG
PIE BY GIVING SHORT WEIGHTS AND MEAS
URES?
Every dealer who cheats his customers makes the
cost OF living that much higher-makes the problem
OF living that much harder. 1t is a crime against the
people, and should be severely punished.
WALL STREET organ says Standard oil and tobacco trust,
dissolved by order of the court, announce that they are out for bust
ness In the old, competitive, cutthroat way" It is Interesting IN
know that, though dissolved" they are out for business; also. to
have it intimated that there may be a few threats left to cut.
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SHORT SHAVING

Just what will she get when
she sends a list to the store is
ever a glorious gamble to the
housewife who has her groceries
delivered. OF course, you may ar
que that she ought to get the gro
lceries herself and thus make It
that much less expensive to MAIN
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-17

TecumSeh Sher-
man dlscourag-
ing the latter in
his plan for a
march from At
lanta through
Georgia to the
sea. II Sherman
had paid any at
tention to the
letter. the nation
might have lost
IN a + C h 1 &
T b r o u g h
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-17

and probably is
having much fun
watching his big
tobacco trust dis
solve into three
separate corpora
tions. 1t must re-
mind him of the
old pea and three
shell games. 1t
will be just like
this: When Uncle
Sam picks one of
the companies as
an offending and
unreaso n a b | @
monopoly T. For
tune may deftly
switch the pea
over under an
other company'S
namn ~n-unino
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-17
Real Estate Catechisms

value OF New York real estate increased 81 80, o0o, 900 last year
Who made the increase?
The new population that went there to live and labor
Who gets it?
About five per cent of the inhabitants, who own the property.
Who pays 1t?
About 30 per cent Of the inhabitants, who rent the property
Who pays the taxes or the increased valuation?
The tenants, who 1T the ultimate consumers"
II the city gets bigger and bigger, the property and more
valuable, the rents and taxes higher and higher, the five pr cent
richer and richer. the 95 per cent poorer and poorer-what then
We'll. 1t is to be hoped that the plain people will get wiser and
wiser. It's that or bust"
PORTUGALs already moving to amend her constitution, Wants
q little provision to cut off Manuels head If she gets hold ~ n am
to put the quietus on all monarchial invaders.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-17
| A PUBLISHERS ADVICE

The Author-Would you advise
me to get out a small edition?
The Publisher-Yes, the small
er the better. The more scarce a
book is at the end of four or five
centuries, the more money you
realize from it.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-17
WHAT DID SHE MEAN?

II see that the widow of a sub
urbanite who was killed in a rail-
road wreck got 100000 dam
ages"
And yet city folks say people
r foolish to live in the suburbs"
Philadelphia Bulletin.
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THE ORIGINAL

VERY clever, isn't it,"
Eyes"
I'm told that his three older
brothers are mentally weak"
Eyes; he's the original sane
fourth. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-17

No more will the motheress pig pine and perish. A farmer Of
Northwood, Pa, has come to the rescue of all orphans of the tribe
of Sus with a wonderful mother-machine that offers the hungry
squealers a nice row of rubber nipples that serve very well a a
substitute for the mammary apparatus of a real SOW. Above is a
picture of this mechanical SOW. with its foster litter busy at the
fountain getting breakfast.
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Entered at the postofffas at Tacope. wash. ~
second class matter. TELEGRAPH1C SERVICE
OF UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.
PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUN
DAY ny THE TACOMA TIMES PUBLISHING
COMPANY.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-17
OUR DAILY BIRTH.
DAY PARTY.

Thomas Fortune Ryan cele-I
brates his sixtieth birthday today,
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NEXT!

NEAII
The South / street philosopher
came home the other night. Hi
face was smooth as satin and ht
looked just out of sight. The
dainty scent of lilacs hung AROUND
him like a cloud; his bald spo'
was a-shining and he looked al
mighty proud.
His wife was in the hallway ant
she kissed him as of yore, but he1
sniff II breathed suspicion as hi
passed her through the door. ooh
don't worry, DEAR" he chuckled
81 have been in no bar DON and
it's not to hide the whisky thai
I'm scented with perfume"
And his wife said: ooh, I know
It," as she plucked a golden hail
from the lapel of his raincoa'
which he laid upon a chair. Eyes
I know you we're not drinking fol
you walked 50 straight, Of course
but you'll quit those lady barber!
or I'll II for a divorce.
When you strike out with the
bases full, nobody praises the
pitcher-you get all the commen'
that's made.
An underground electric rail
way Is being considered for Rome
A well-thumbed cookbook
doesn't mean the best meal.
They are advocating the remov
al of all bright electric signs from
Broadway. Why not make pedes
TRANS wear smoked glasses?
Superintendent Charles M. Me
dairy of the United States EXPIRES!
company at Allentown, Pa, no
ticed some Of his drivers wert
wearing silk stockings.
so
He dedmced that something wa!
wrong and made his drivers con
fess they had Tifled packages o
silk stockings.
SUCH
Keen observation of hosiery
And SO unusual in a mani! w,
wonder what Mrs. Medary had t,
say about 1t.
THE LITTLE WHITE HOUSE.
There's a little white house on tn
edpa of the town
It's broken and battered and mos
tumbled down,
But the 1ckety porch Is all tan
gled with vines
And the birds sing all day an,
the golden sun shines
Through the chinks In the wal
and the windows and doors,
And drifts with a glory Of dream
on the floors;
And the dandelions sleep on tn,
lap of the grass,
And the winds stop to whisper il
Joy as they pass.
o, the little white house, all S,
tattered and torn,
With the winds and the rains o
the years, that have worn
All its glory and pride to the dust
wears a grace
Such as Love flames at night o.
an old Mother face.
For the years that have smitte.
have mellowed 1t SO
There's tenderness touches tn
shadows that go
Like a whisper of death DER It
memoried bloom.
THAT still fills the air with an old
time perfume.
10, the little white house-ther
are hearts far a-room
That turn in their dreaming t
longing for Home
And they run down a pathwa
that sobs through the nigf
For a glimpse of a Kitchen an
childhood's delight,
} And the little old house wears tn
sun on the floor
And waits for the sound of a ste
at the door
Then bushes to silence as soft as
prayer
At the thought of a Mother who's
Face Is not Therel
Dry farming is more popuIa
than dry dairying.
&aEl-~
sd
/ A<3
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ABOUT THE SIZE OF 1T

ABOUT THE SIZE OF 1T
why is IT," queried the youth, that so many people fail to
mind their own business2"
There may be one of two reasons, n both" answered the
homegrown philosopher. "They may have no mind or no business
Philadelphia Press.
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CHEERED UP

"And what did DR.. Frank say about my case, Pat9"
Faith, he ser to kape you in cheerful speerts, but he couldn't
tel. fist what ais ye till ahher tn post mortum, sir"
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editorial PAGE Of Che Cacoma Cimes
TODAY IN HISTORY

October IT, 1864, Gen. George
II. Thomas wrote to Gen. William
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When the last long letter is written,
And the last bad debtor is billed;
When the last lead pencil Is bitten,
And the last n otebook has been filled,
l shall rest my ears and my fingers
While the undertaker's dread tread
In Tommy-cat ~softness fingers
All around my pallid white bed.
I'll begin that final vacation
When my digits can be kept clean,
When I'll have no more dictation
To grind out through that old machine.
And the bores who reiterated
Every musty old phrase and clause,
And the male fiends who tabulated
Those dull figures will have to pause.
.
Yet 1 know, as slow the procession -
Creaks along with me at it's head,
There will come this lively DEPRESSION, Il
Oh, no matter how dead I'm dead: q
My old boss runs up, hot and hurried,
And his words are sure to be these:
"Oh, before you quit to be buried,
Miss Stenog, write this one note, please"
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UNCLE SIS PHILOSOPHY

SIS ftflLOSOPHH
Il dunno" says tho Ottawa Re-
public's Uncle ST, "but the council
ought to abolish street corners.
They seem to breed loafers."
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MOST
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Graft

Russian fur dealers have asked
for a two years closed season to
save the sable from extinction.
According
To them. it's not fur to the end Of
the sable.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-17
UP SOCIALLY

UP SOCIALLY
do you and your husband
belong to any clubs?"
"Oh, yes; he is a member
of the Always Neat Press
ing club, and l belong to three
premium societies. Globe.
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GOV. HAY thinks we need a second dose of Taft. The COVER
nors stomach is a good one.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-17

You dond know my brudder Emil, don'd you. Osgar?"
Ferry veil indeet| nefer wass acquainted NIT him. Iss Emil
der Won vih hass a face like a fish?"
"Yess. dot ISIS der Won. Veil, 1 want to tell you aboudt him
he looked ad me drough a plate glass window der udder day, und
took him for a aquarium"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-10-17
EASILY REPAIRED

EASILY REPAIRED
Shortly after the return from their honey moon a young
couple undertook housekeeping, the bride being especially de-
sirous to put into practice the lessons she had taken in cook
ing. Returning home one evening the husband found his wife
in tears. Between sobs he managed to learn from her that some
thing terrible had happened. |
"Dearie," she gulped, cit does seem too awful that the very
first meat pie l should bake for you should be eaten by the catl"
"Thats all right, my love" said the husband, patting her
on the shoulder. "In get you another cat right away"-Har-
per's Weekly.
ABLE TO RECALL IT
The young man in the third row of seats looked bored. He
wasn't having a good time. He cared nothing for the Shakespearean
drama.
Whats the greatest play you ever saw2" the young woman
asked, observing his abstraction.
Instantly he frightened.
Thinker touching a man out between second and third and get
ting the ball over to Chance in time to nab the runner to first he
said-Chicago Tribune.
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DAnUEC Business Office Main 788, A1TsS
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WALL STREET

WALL STREET organ says Standard oil and tobacco trust
dissolved by order of the court, announce that they are out for bust
nes In n old, competitive, cutthroat way" 1t is interesting t
Know that. though dissolved" they are out for business; also, t
nave 1t lntlmated that there may be a few Threats left to cut.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-31
BEET SUGAR EXPERIMENTS.

One Of the principal lines OF coop.
erative work now being carried on at
the South Dakota Experiment Station
10 the growing Of sugar beets. The
object of this experiment is to pro-,
mote the establishment Of the beet
sugar industry in South Dakota, to de.
velop new varieties of beets OF high
sugar content, and greater productive.
ness. and to grow. seed on an expert.
mental scale. The bureau Of plant
industry furnishes the necessary seeds
and roots, and pays for the labor in.
volved In growing the beets and In 81.
loing them for seed. It also details
Q specialist In plant breeding to have
oversight Of the investigation. The
experiment station furnishes the land,
tools and horses for cultivating and
harvesting the beeSs The chemistry
department Of the station makes the
analyses Of the beets. Some good fe.
suits are expected from this co-opera.
tive experiment. In fact, several ".
fieties Of bsets have already shown UP
well, II the farmers o9 South Da.
kota can raise sugar beet seed d indi.
cations now point. It promises % DO &
valuable addition to the systems Of
farming now ptacticed. Prot. Pritch-
ard, OF the Bureau OF Plant Industry,
Washington, d. c.. Il C tAD 6ta4s'
cellSSs looking astse this VSek !.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-31

"Weeders and mutton Makers"

from the wild, and now in full fruit
has been gone over. The best has been
selected from each generation from
which TO raise seedlings for the sue
ceeding one. The present dry season is
. good test of their relative produc-
tiveness and size The old Houghton
has been greatly surpassed in size
and the best of the $50 plants select
ed In this large plantation compare
favorably with the Downing, Josselyn
and Pearl, which all lack In hardness
Of plant. These wild South Dakota
gooseberries are black, smooth with
dull bloom, and vary In shape from
round to oval. The ideal gooseberry
has not yet arrived for our conditions,
but q decided advance has been made
this present season. People interest.
ed IN gooseberries In various parts Of
the state are invited to send Prof. N.
&. Hansen. State College, Brookings,
8. D.. specimens Of the largest wild
sooseberry found In their vicinity and
mark the bushes.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-31
SHOULD GROW A ROTATION
The Practical Reason for Rotating
Crops is TO Have Bigger Y,esds /.
and Make More Money.
BY A. N. HUME,

Prosesser Of Aoronomy, state College.
The practical reason for raising q
rotation OF crops instead Of pursuing
q single crop system Is to raise bigger
crops and make more money.
1t might seem as though that ended
the matter and that there would be
no further advantage in discussing
the subject at all. It must be allowed
that most farmers in the United
States already pursue some kind OF
rotation Of crops as part Of their
cropping system. The fact remains.
however, that almost throughout the
United States our cropping systems
are too narrow to secure the best re-
suits. The scientific reasons why q
given crop cannot be practically raised
too often on the same ground are
known in part. One may go over the
list Of crops which grow successfully
in any given community and even
from the knowledge already at hand
give good and sufficient reason why
such q crop caRnot be we'll grown
on land continuously.
Take. for instance, corn. Is Is prac-
ticable to grow crop after crop In
definitely even on corn belt land? Is
there any land SO rich that It will per-
petually produce maximum crops Of
the great American cereal? This
question may be answered In part by
the simple statement that among the
highest yielding plots Of corn at
the Illinois Experiment Station with
which the writer Is acquainted, is one
which has been continuously In corn
for more than fifteen years, but It
must be further specified that said
plots were treated with abundance Of
plant food. SO much, so good! One
might conclude from this that provid-
ing ample amounts OF plant food were
supplied for corn crop. the corn
crop might be continuously grown.
There ls further factor, however,
that largely prevents. This factor
consists mainly In the ravages Of the
corn root aphis. Where corn follows
corn continuously. the corn root aphiS
grows worse year after year, and this
apparently In spite Of plant food applt
cations.
The corn root aphis attacks the
roots and makes the corn fall down,
% there is reason why from the
standpoint Of the practical farmer
corn should not bs continuously
grown. but should be raised In rota-
tioh. The general fact which Is true
OF corn 10 true Of fax. for land which
has been put into fax for some years
IN succA3ston becomes ''hax sick" Il
hsa beta definitely proved that Asx
sicAnsss 10 due TO . dennits fungus
ard thak broad rotations. are of srsat
Aelp n ehscking the ravaees Of the
969f& TS1y lsx1p uDkv6e. 4 n =
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-31
FORWARD TO THE FARM
$pdent Pioneers Return to Apply School Paso>
Children and Chickens the Two Nest important Pro.
ducts and 1911 Promises Bumper Crops.

methods vhsoh ~ have studied
while h ecbooi They have laasnsd
bow to study and hov 70 work and
bow % do both together. They are
scattered now over the greet agr.ouh
tura state of South Dakota
They win not stop studying be.
cause they have finished their cossas
in the. School OF Agriculture Theis
purpose is TO make Q hfe study d
their calling, their community ana
their country.
What better plan can be evolved
than to teach and train The young
folks OF the farm for the now asrscuh
tNre. Tor rural advancement and genn
inc American oftisenshlp7
Prlde and Prophecy
! am proud loday. In the graduating
Of this Pioneer Class aud thetr enlist.
mens IN progressive snrm.ng and homo
making 20 hare 1ea2&sSl yhg hccotn,
'ptfshmsnt ot one OF my 1ondest amb.
tons.
f%enty.three years ago was pen
suaded to leave the farm and take uo
the reaching OF agriculture. For near
~ . quarter Of century I have been
struggling and battling for eenusne
agricultural education The odds and
obstacles have sometimes seemed
overwhelming. There have been many
difficulties and discoarageznents, but
now tho way IL open for the educating
OF the young for the Nfe Of the farm
and the farm home. The great move.
ment for "school agriculture" is on,
all over the land The advancement
OF agriculture and the enlargement
Of rural life are assured. Much, very
much, remains TO be dono Ia working
out the details Of the plans Tor the
proper education and culture OF ooun,
try childron, but the way Is opon and
1t will not again be closed.
There should be q School Of ARri.
culture eventually In every one OF the
counties Of South Dakota. Agricul.
ture, Domestic Science, Manual Train.
ing and Nature Study should have
parts In the Instruction Of every rural
school,
our very government, our continued
existence as q live. progressive ma.
ton depends upon an educated and
enlightened ysomanry WOO shall own
and manage their own farms and
make and keep their own farm homes.
The possibilities of development os
Improvement, OF culture, OF advance.
ment in the worthy things Of the
country are uumeasured. Lot tho
good work 90 on and On.
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-31

ioa!y recognized fact In the agricuk
tvral recognized the older countries Of
Europe that clover not only cannot be
grown continuously for many years ON
the same land. but that 1t cannot b
successfully resseded very freouentay.
Among the earliest rotations tried Ia
Germany. was established by Al,
brecht Thaer. IN the latter part Of
the eighteenth century Il correspond.
cd very closely 70 that which is known
as the Norfolk rotation" and includ,
ed clover every four years. Even dur.
Ing the life Of Thaer 1t was found that
the too frequent growing Of clover ON
land caused 1t TO become Glover
SICK" and that Il was necessary To
substitute some other kind Of crop or
better to broaden the rotation. ga
on the farms Of older countries. as for
instance. Germany, one finds instead
OF continuous cropping systems OF
even short three or four year rota.
tions, large entire rotations OF six.
nine and twelve years.
The matter Of insects or OF f,ngns
diseases is not the only ono which
makes It desirable 70 employ broad
rotations. Different crops take plant
food from different strata OF the sur
face soil and subsoil. for the reason
that they send their roots to varying
depths. So when farm crops may best
utilize the available plant food IN the
soil. crops should be changed from
year to year. The fact that in order
to maintain the supplies Of nitrogen
In soils one is almost forced to add
legumes to the rotation az another
reason for changing crops from yea,
to year.
In previous short article the writer
alluded to the fact that a certain corn
crop grown as a part Of q good rota.
tion system In Illinois had Yielded
four times a. much per acre as tho
corn on a very narrow and unde esirable
rotation system. The difference In
the soil under the two rotation sys.
tems was not only of mineral content.
for both rotations were supplied with
abundant minerals. The difference
was IA rotation. In the amount OF hu.
mus left BY the crop residues thereof.
and The difference was further that
the corn On tho sensible, practical.
scientific rotation was ten times A
profitable as the other. The WORKING
out Of profitable crop rotations Is one
OF the most serious propositions of
every farm. The choosing Of tho
money crop and tho ability 70 group
other crops around the money crop IN
a rotation which will at once Weld
profitable returns and contribute ia.
ward maintaining the nitrogen supply
Of soils Is very Fundamental nart
Of Tho business of farming on any
farm ii any stakN
Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-31
WAKING UP.
Wyoming Business Men Plan Build
;.o Nl>,..

Wyoming Business Men Plan Build
ing New Roads.
The people of Wyoming and espe-
daily the business men are awaking
TO the advantages OF building good au-
tomobile roads across the state. The
large influx Of tourists in automobiles
this year has brought the good roads
question forcibly to the attention Of
Wyoming people, and state wide
movement looking to the building Of
new roads and the betterment Of old
ones IL bein:, inaugurated
The people Of Evanston, IN ne
southwest corner OF the state, have
Joined with Utah In improving the
road between Evanston and Ogden.
and as soon as this worl. Is completed
the work will be continued eastward
TO the boundary line between Cinta
and Sweetwater counties.