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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Editor Times;
Some time ago I noticed In the
columns of the Times a statement
urging Tacoma to fight for dollar
gas.
Why not fight for s0-cent gas
at once as we'll as later?
The gas company will put up
the cry that a reduction of the
present reduction of the present
price is confiscatory and will no
doubt produce whole lot of
juggled figures to prove it. But
how much more so will they pro-
test when you try to get the 9TH
er. 20-cent reduction which is sure
Ito come?
The citizens, I think, might
profit by the experience of older
cities and look back to the great
battle waged for 80-cent gas in
New York.
During the investigation then
1t was proven that gas could be
produced and the plant maintain.
ed at the cost of something like
$50 cents per thousand and that
80-cent gas would allow a goot
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

profit.
The New York gas companies
have to buy coal Just as the COM
pany here does, except there they
use anthracite coal, which is dear
er than soft coal.
IL you are now paying S1.25
for gas and you get a reduction
to only 81, count up what you
might save In five years If your
gas was reduced to 80 cents
Multiply this by the thousands
who use the same amount as you
do, and you will realize why the
|. gas company will put up such q
fight.
You will also see that now the
company is not so strong as il
will be few years hence.
If you keep on paying the pres
ent price or even the 81, in 6
few years the company will b.
able to put up a fight three times
as hard as 1t can now.
I think 1t would be a grea
deal better IL Tacoma owned 1t.
own public utilities.
AN OBSERVER.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
In Little Old New York

the vicktim of this outraje was
mister charles murfy, CRATE
statesman
mister murfy owns tammeny
hall, the demacratick party of n
y. state and the state legislacher
so you can see he is sum states.
man, all rite
evrywheres mister murfy goes
pepel take off their hats and pay
him CRATE respeckt becos he is
|sutch important man
goodness me, don't no wot
would happen II mister murfy was
to die, there wouldent be nobody
to run the state of new york nor
the sitty of new york except the
govner and the mayor, and them
poor ginks cant appoint a dog
ketcher or buy a bottel of ink
without they ask mister murfy is
1t o. k.
well, mister murfy, he was COM
ing to n. Y. frum his beutifull
home out on long ilend when this
terrabel thing occurred
ne rode to the trane In his oto-
mobeel, and when he got into the
trane there wasent no seats in the
parler car at all
can you imajin sutch a thing, a
crate man like mister murfy on
the trane, going to n. y, and no
seat in the parler car
mister murfy's seekertarey was
=
duckter, cant you put sumboddy
out, mister murfy must have a
miserbel creecher with no idea of
wot his dooty should be, he would
emit make nobody git out so mis-
ter murfy could have seat
and wot do you think, mister
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
Laurier Camp Blown Up By Presidential Bombshell
BY VIM. ROCHE.

QUEBEC, Can, Sept. 5.-One
of the most effective weapons used
by Canadian opponents of reci-
procity was furnished by Presi-
dent Taft.
Congress having approved the
reciprocity pact, the Canadian lib
eral can't understand why the
president should, in advance oil
the Canadian election, make pub
lie statement that the benefit OF
the pact will enure to the farmer
of the United States and not to
the farmer of Canada.
The conservatives and other OPP
ponents of reciprocity are placard-
ing and flrst-paging in every sec
ton of Canada the declaration of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Get put your glass underneath and
you have your drink. You awake
at night in summer, dry as an al
manac.- It's after midnight and
every saloonsexcept some is closed.
But what care we, Karl? We have
our beer faucet in the bedroom.
We fill the glass, and, mayhap, we
fill two of them. Life is becom-
ing more worth while living every
year.
OF course, in the cellar, next to
the gas meter, there is another
one working-the beer meter. The
brewery that has beer franchises
on our city streets charges a min
imum rate per day of 10 cents and
sends a man around every month
to discover how much in excess of
that you have consumed.
Wer Lat Das Gelt.
But jetzt kommt Der Herr H.
Bauer, Braumeister der Klotter
Brauerei. and throws cold water
into our piped beer. He declares
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
Editorial PAGE Of Che Cacoma Cimes
Drive Out Employment Sharks

agencies fall woringmen get their
back and asks that all
limiting something but not
against him.
In the meantime pgeonhoe the city largest
asking agencies be
city bring job together Free
And why not?
rights right to life
Then all which they maintain life
that should have to
anybody for chance to work and his living
that he
read In the first place it is inefficient The man who has no
the private for job cannot get job Ii ne had
of the former he
system shuts him out of conder
of graft an Ohio Legislature.
recently told of 1s who had been de-
by local work where there
the the railway took
and when they back they stranded And the thing
worked they recovered a cent
attorneys bothered with such
every employment shark to
fleece the almost hopeless and often foreign that few
ployment agencies pretend to a straight business.
regulate the evils failed.
system protect
Ten thousand workngmen petionn for the abolition pr
a municipal
lent basis ought inspire enthusiasm the of the
Mr. 100000 taken from the work
sn by se o o @ ss could we coa
kept the workngmen pockets buy the necessities of life
Pacific
municipal building erected thereon with comfort stations great
The location ideal for this anything
Tacoma and the proposition of site will be solved at least
that will command respect
commission ought
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
Chuck That Old Bucket by the Kitchen Sink;
Why Not Have Beer Pipe in Your Home?

katie is washing her face with
the beer" cried little Conrad, az
he dashed upstairs to the attic
where Mrs. Eulenspiegel was
hanging the wash.
"Oh, them children" exclaimed
Mrs. Eulenspiegel. "and the beer
meter running so fast, tool"
Oh, golden days! Hoch der
Gambrinus! It's arrived - the
day when by merely turning the
faucet in the kitchen of ones
home, or, IL more convenient, in
the parlor or bedroom, one can
get his beer straight from the watts
In the brewery. Buy beer like you
buy gas or water-by meter and
through underground pipes.
The first beneficiary of this
plan is a New Jersey town, but 1t
looks as If Tacoma is doomed to
the primitive tin bucket for some
time to come, because Tacoma
brewers haven't yet taken to the
idea, declaring that while 1t is
possible to pipe beer through the
streets into homes, it will cost too
much to do 1t. And the brewers
admit that they aren't philanthro-
pists enough to do that, although
they ever and anon contribute to
legislative funds.
Grand, NIGHT Wahr?
That the thing is possible has
been proven, and is hailed every
where as an achievement ranking
with the discovery of the North
Pole, the flight of Atwood and
the Panama canal.
Aren't you glad, Kunie, that you
are here now and have lived to see
these wonderful things? And, aoh,
Oscar, mein drawer, we're lucky
men to be alive in this year, 1911.
Think of it-just turn the fau-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Sherman had behaved in an ~un-
couth and unmilitary manner in
Smelling Atlanta without notice to
women, children and other nom
combatants to seek shelter. Sher-
man replied: 81 was not bound
by the laws of war to give notice
of the Smelling of Atlanta, for
titled town, with magazines, ar
|senals. foundries and public
stores; you were bound to take
notice. See the books" The last
sentence was the one that burned
Hood I'D.
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that while it may be possible to
pipe beer from brewery to all
sections of a city, 1t would be
financially prohibitive.
'It would not only be necessary
to lay pipes for beer, but to in
sulate them against the hoat and
cold" says Herr Bauer. You
can readily see the enormous eX-
pense which that would entail. I
don't see how the New Jersey
peoDle can do it."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

murfy had to ride in day coach
and set in seat with a fat wom-
an and kids witch had candy in
their mitts and wiped it on his col
Ter and talked to him like he was
just a common man
mister murfy' discretionary al
most dide of greet and shame be-
fore n. y. was reached, but his
boss showed all the fortytade of Q
CRATE mind, and suffered in ST
Tents
He is not even going to have the
charter Of the raierode revoked,
all honor to mister murfy
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
TheGenhc Liar -
ByBertorb ,eJey aAsf

There liars who cruel there liars who kind
But the latter the subjects of
They making people happy and truly cannot find
That such gentle unveraciousness Is
liar whispers what dearly love to hear
skinny he will tell fat
n he 1t certainly clear
shu
broke abbergasd show it in face
Then the gentle liar bubbles
looking like winner in the
With the others clear behind and out of view!"
When sick better and he laughs
Entertaining with his most men0acous chat
And although happy his veracity's astray
wouldn't him
tells he likes better small
tells the people they fair
He has a fairy tale to fit em and all
he scatters gentle falsehoods everywhere.
Our faus-he makes them smaller virtues magnifies,
surely could take offense therat)
For his overlooking with kindly of lies
wouldn't shut him
-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
BY NORMAN.

(The Junior Office Boy Tells OF
Fearful Indignity Suffered by a
Great Man,
new york, fridy-i don't no wot
this country is coming to, the aw-
full things that is happening evry
day
one Of the awfulest happened
over on long ilend the uther aft
ernoon, it seams like sumboddy
should ought to be made to suf-
fer for it, but there amt no cul-
prit been put behind the bars yet
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Then she placed a laurel wreath
upon the dogs brow in "Our De-
voted Friend, the Dog" In her
account of her early years, Mrs.
Bolton says that she spent two
years in Europe finding out what
employers were doing to help
their workmen. That made her
the first American to muck-rake
our cousins on the other side of
the big water.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

her arrival at
the ripe age of
three score and
ten years. Per-
haps Mrs. Boil
ton is our lead
ing hero wor-
shipper In that
so many of her
earlier works
told of the lives
or successful
and famous men
and women. No
class of individ-
uals escaped her
admiring pen.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

to Gen. j. B.
Hood, C. 8. A.,
that was rather
pointed than po-
lite. Hood, 1t
must be admit
ted, had ruffled
Sherman by a
previous letter
in which he in
timatad 4 n a 4
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

tanning a (which imeliest interest:
oULEBRA, CANAL ZONE make this suggestion. Briefly
utilize the equipment that the
isthmus Alaskan coal field
believe the efficient working organization
that the The Canal has done
accomplished with both
employed housing feeding
employees could be adopted herethe organization
this construction job would in Alaska.
of afforded training
thousand Americans the job No other construction
work The includes class of construction
drill runners track foremen and all classes OF
the job today OF
elimination
past three The of the is sight and
this personnel would welcome opportunity
The commission has assembled isthmus plant which
could hope duplicate 1t is
branch of construction
well in good condition Some of
the will be retired within
year and the bulk years. 1t
railroad There hand shop tools shops
rolling railroad after is completed
alwater haul Panama Bay Controller Bay and
portation charges would be small
plan feasible government does the
utilities this personnel and plant it solve the Alaskan
Well saidi Feasbe9 Certainly Necessary? necessary
charge of opening the Alaska coal
himself building Of the Pam
canatha people of the United States going
of this territory which they bought with
On the other hand, bought
let the Morgans and Guggenheims go to It'll
BAILEY says Loud
plausei
sEoY WILSON honorary presidency
Christian Endeavores after
NOTICE it? Seattle council temporarily
charter by tie vote.
IN England past years ~
cost of living 49,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
NOT GUILTY

"You are charged with nom
support of your wife. What
have you to say for your
. self"
We'll, jedge, l done got
her three more washings a
week than any other cullud
lady in the block"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
HE'S ExCUsABIiE.

Claude Lyons of Greensboro,
KY, went insane when he held
two aces IN poker game and got
the other two in the draw.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
In fbe Editors Mail

Everybody I'm Pierce county reads this column. Short
Times readers general without
malice will printed Write about anything
body wish but have malice motive Many
letters printed because they long, Keep em
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

If reciprocity is defeated by the
Canadian farmer-and Canada is
a country Of farmers-a large
part of the responsibility will be
Taft's.
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nos
ANYTHING

The wanderer went his weary way
Across the lonely night,
With one white shining constant
star
To guide his feet Alright.
But presently the clouds arose
And shut the star from view.
The traveller sat him down and
And cried, what shall I dot"
But while he wept, above his head
The skies turned clear and blue.
The Star said II was never lost
l still shone on. Did you?" .
There's lots of good things go
ing to be here tomorrow. But
they started today.
New York has forbidden people
to carry firearms. Pretty soon
citizens will have nothing on them
burglar can appropriate.
Some optimists see benign I'm
tent of nature in the fact that
good liquor will not freeze. -
The wise gopher does not rely
on the entrance hole for an exit.
Don't be a poke, be a poker!
1t takes mighty chilly nature
to maintain q perpetual pose.
Even the ice cream can't do it.
The world doesn't get quite a
square deal. Most of the blows It
receives are below the equator.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

The side-stepping politician is
the performer who goes too fast
for the moving-picture men.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

More than III, 900 children are
helping the American Humane
dissertation protect animals
Doesn't that sound good?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Hutchinson, Minnesota, boasts
that it has two bands. You re-
member the little boy who, having
no other possession, Dragged that
there was a skunk under the barn.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
HAD EARNED SOMETHING

HAD EARNED SOMETHING
Lady Customer-Am l on our
pay roll?
Store Manager-I-er-I don't
under stand. madam.
Lady Customer-Well, IL I'm
not on the payroll I ought to be.
I've been waiting on" that clerk
for an hour.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Did you know that an interna-
tionai chess tournament Is on at
Carlsbad? Well. It's. At p. m.
Monday, Rubinstein put his hand
on his bishops pawn. At p. m.
he took his hand off the pawn.
seeing he was about to endanger
it. Geel but 1t was exciting!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
OUR DAILY BIRTH.
DAY PARTY.

Mrs. Sarah X. Bolton, the noted
Cleveland author, today celebrates
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
TODAY IN HISTORY

Sept. IA, 1884, Gen. w. T.
Sherman, U. S. A., wrote a letter
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

mobilizng her frontier France in
month and William reviewing the Ger
Enough the dove off her perch
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Haytien private soldier gets 22
hire an army of 10000 men for
$1,000 per month the revolution
business ought to be good.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Judges better be satisfied when
they are hanged in effigy. There
are other methods of hanging.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
Employ a Times Want
To Get Employment

Many positions in and
around Tacoma are secur-
ed by using the Situation
Wanted" columns of The
Times.
Most of the employers
in this community read
The Times want" ads
when In search of help.
Your advertisement there
will be seen. If you pre-
sent your case we'll you
will attract the attention
of an employer.
The cost is insignificant
compared with one days
pay. Call at The Times
office.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

\
out and planters are replanting
with Cuban slips.
American Medicine says that the
supply of housewives is falling off
and young men delay marriage
because of the decreasing purchas-
ing power of the dollar. But we
know a lot of fellows who never
knew what the purchasing power
of dollar was until they married.
DIR. w. f. Ficke has returned
from Italy with 10000 eggs of a
small wasp that'll make gypsy
moths look like punctured nom
puncturable tires.
Taft will have a good friend and
counsellor at his elbow during his
western trip, says a dispatch from
Beverly. We suppose it's going
to be Wickersham. He's small
enough to get behind Bill's elbow
If trouble breaks out.
Josephine Goudon has chal-
lenged two Paris editors to a duel
with pistols and scores of Paris
lsuffragettes are taking fencing
lessons. We guess those Paris
editors had better be mighty care
full about what they say about
equal rights. A French woman
with a pistol would be sure to hit
somebody.
U. S. coal mines produced more
than half a billion short tons last
year, which is record, and prices
were higher. Do you get it?
Captain of the steamboat Slo-
cum, which burned with the loss
of 1000 lives, is paroled after
three years and a half in prison.
He was the one punished by the
courts. The owners weren't re-
sponsible for the fire. They new
er are.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

The new milking-machine is
hailed as a wonderful invention.
But politicians discovered 1t ages
ago.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

A Washington girl has stirred
lup small war because a con-
gresham asked her to keep COM
pany with him. The American
lgirl is not wholly without pride.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Igives a man some chance of being
thankful.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

1t takes a mighty chilly nature
to maintain a perpetual pose.
Even the ice cream can't do 1t.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

The world doesn't get quite a
square deal. Most of the blows It
receives are below the equator.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Being thankful for small faYors
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Florida pineapples have petered
out and planters are replanting
with Cuban slips.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
Presidents Daughter Coming
To Play on American Stage

United States-to give 1.-THE Thief"
1he Whirlwind" and "The Lady
of Dreams" under the manage
nieit of Liebler & Co.
Nine. Simone is the daughter
in-law of ex-rresident Casimir-
Perier of France; the originator
of the leading roles in all Henri
Bernstein's plays and the particu-
lar friend of Sarah Bernhard.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
Eyes Examined,
Glasses Fitted

Those cases. that puzzle the
average optician our speciality.
Open day and evening. Tel. 474S.
CASWELL OPTICAL co.
734 st. Helens. Masonic Temple.
Merit Wins With Us.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Entered at the postoffice at Tacoma, Wash- -
second class matter. TELEoRAPHIc SERVICE
OF UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION,
PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING E&CEPT sun
DAY By THE TACOMA TIMES PUBLISHING
COMPANY.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Faith Is fine thing. But while
waiting for the sun TO shine IL
don't hurt any to wear rubber
boots. ~
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Then back It up with sweat
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14
THE GOOD WAY

There's one old rule of living
That never failed us yet;
Kneel and pray to begin eacf
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NOTICE it? Seattle council temporarily defeated
tax charter by tie vote.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Talking about puzzle-games-
who are the members of the tariff
commission?
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BAILEY says he'll not run for the senate next year.
plausei
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Let Uncle Sans Crew At
Panama Open Up Alaska

army officer written following
ming a suggestion (which is of the tmeliest interest:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Even after you cut your wisdom
teeth you still have to learn tic
bite with them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

When mans dignity begins
getting in the way of his best i'm
pulses he better trade it off for a
secondhand book on how to wig
gle the ears.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

IN England past years per
living 49,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

The wise gopher does not rely
on the entrance hole for an exit.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

Don't be a poke. be a poker'
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

SECY WILSON had better shake That honorary presi
Brewers association since the Christian Endeavorers
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-09-14

U. S. coal mines produced more
than half a billion short tons last
year, which is a record, and prices
were higher. Do you get 1t?
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-26
Baked Sweet Peppers.

Cut off a thin slice from the tops of
six sweet green peppers, and with a
Pour boiling water over the cups. and
after they are we'll scalded drain them
dry. Mix one cup of fine boiled hominy,
or my breakfast cereal, cooked quite
stiff. with one cup of cold cooked meat,
chopped very fine; season it with one
tablespoon of fine chopped onion. one
fourth cup of fine chopped celery, and
moisten 1t with ,stewed tomatoes, using
enough to make 1t quite moist. Add
salt to taste, and a bit of sugar will
improve the mixture for some palates.
FIJI the peppers with the mixture. nut
them IN q granite baking pan with wa
ter to half the cups, sprinkle the
surface with buttered cracker crumbs
and bake them in a moderate oven
about an hour, or until the peppers are
tender. Basic the sides frequently as
the water boils away. Dish on to a
hot platter and serve as an entree or
luncheon dish.