The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-07-31

Observations )
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A st. Louis Judge says he finds
newspaper men as honest as law
yers. These judges can be pretty
mean sometimes.
"Stringer a Lorimer Witness"
reads newspaper headline. From
the varied testimonies, IL Is appar-
ent that there have been a num-
Der of 'stringers" on the wit
ness stand.
The Methodists at the annual
camp meeting now in session in
Chicago have about decided that
Job was a myth. But the lesson
was not.
Pensacola, Fla, refuses Car
negie's money for a public library
on the ground that it is tainted.
Still, Andy got an advertisement,
which is some satisfaction.
Looks more squally i'm Mexico
every day.
Pittsburg expects to be a whole
Hot better under the commission
form of government. It's a COM
fort to reflect that she can't pos
sibly be worse.
New York ratifies the federal
income tax, making 81 states now
in line.
Admiral Togo on leaving home
told his wife not to write him any
letters as they would distract his
mind on his round-the-world trip.
Togo's going to be the fashion in
this country pretty soon, fellers.
Judge and prosecutor in the
Boss Cox case at Cincinnati have
got to the point of throwing each
other out of the room. Dignity
of the law is really not so very far
behind dignity of the bar room.
"Dear Observations: My face
| is a mass of most distressing PIN
pies and smarts terribly every
time | expectorate tobacco juice.
What should l do with it,
George H." Run it through one
of these machines in which they
prepare meat for Hamburger
steak, George. Dye think we're
running q bubonic plague
column?
Judge Bordwell decides that
the fraud by which Mcnamara
was got to Los Angeles has no
effect upon the principle in
volved." Certainly not! 1t isn't
Sound law unless there's some
sort of fraud in it, nowadays.
Not that she needed ii, but Just
to show her class, San Diego had
"a nice rain, Monday.
When your employer finds you
are studying his business, says
Success, he will keep his eyes on
you. Like enough, and maybe
he'll soon ask you to go to some
nice surety company and put
yourself under bond, at your own
expense. Much depends on the
employer.
Wickersham recommending that
DR.. Wiley be permitted to resign
for hiring extra help ought to set
Washington to roaring, hot as II
is.
kubelik says the standard of
violin playing is going up
| steadily.
If Canada insists on a referen-
dunn for reciprocity, and votes II
down, what a joke on Taft! But
probably she won't.
| Oklahoma man sues for divorce
because when he told her it was
bad to smoke and drink in public
she replied: "The public be
damned" and when she went to
bed she clattered her pistol on the
floor. There are still fellows in
Oklahoma who expect to get per-
feet angels when they marry.
John f. Goodwin, New Yorker,
aged %. is coming to California
to see If Nat Goodwin isn't his
long lost father. Heaven pity the
rich in California, Even when
they get all their wives recorded,
they have to fight the unrecorded
children evil.
Francis Masul, 24-year-old JAP
anese, has entered the Jesuit or
der of the Catholic church at Los
Gatos, Cal. He is said to be the
| first japanese in America to do IL
Spokane's to have the largest
reinforced concrete span in the
world-281 feet long and will
carry a street across Spokane