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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-04-06
SHE'LL GROW GRAPE FRUIT

CHICAGO, April 8.-Mre. Potter
Palmer is going into the wholesale
fruit growing business. Sheahas
purchased a mile-square tract on
the Florida coast and will make a
specially of grapefruit.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-04-06

Pool and Cigars. A. J. Innis. .
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State News

(By United Press Leased Wire
NORTH YAKIMA, April g.
The city council has passed an
ordinance absolutely prohibiting
the sale of firecrackers and all
Fourth of July explosives and this
city will have sane Fourth" this
year.
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oh Yes, Uncle Joe, Things
Are Somewhat Different

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
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Box Tapped Singer mchs, $5sand
$3.50; drop head White SIS. 1113
So. G. *s*
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Our $1O0 Eye Glasses Make Your Eyes See Feel Right
faction back Mail filled promptly
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If You Have a Kick.

Tell Il to the Times. The
Times stands for the peoples
rights, and isn't afraid to fight
for them.
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JAYHAWKER JOTS

Deacon Palmer insists that no wo-
man is Independent and self-reliant
enough to vote until she can button
her own dress.
Says the Ottawa Herald: A vacation
for some men is a time and oppor-
tunity to go away from home and get
good and tired.
little over month from now.
says the Hutchinson News, and lot
of energetic men will return from
their vacations to rest.
It's been figured out by the Atcni-
son Champion that there is entirely
too much 'honl-' and not enough gaso :
line in lot Of mems lives.
There is always a perceptible flut-
ter among the women st a wedding,
points out the Concordia Blade, when
the word obey is left out.
The coronation of King George cost
over million dollars, says the Salina
Journal, but you can see it all for a
dime, ten cents, at the picture shows
before the close of the summer.
I'm a walking cemetery" said a
Manhattan man to the Republic there
recently. II idled away a few min
utes on the grass out in the country
Sunday, and today the chigger graves
are thicker on my hide than tho
mounds in Sunset Hill cemetery
As the Emporia Gazette says: The
man who works in a pleasant room
with an electric fan grinding out
balmy breezes for him usually does
more groaning about the hot weather
than the sturdy yeoman who pushes
a team of mules up and down corn
field.
If the scientists. says the Abilene
Reflector, who a few years ago elab-
GRATED a theory that the climate Of
Kansas is changing and becoming
permanently moister will correspond
Abilene, they will learn something to
their advantage.
AS related by the Alma Signal: Two
men were riding on a train when a
holdup man appeared. "What shall
we do?" asked one. Duck" replied
the other. Both slid down between
the seats. One of them noticed the
robber was getting everything in and
out of sight, and said to his companion,
Likely, here is that $50 owe you"
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison GIobe. ]

TFrom the Atchison Globe.l
A poor rain is a good rain II it fol-
lows a drouth.
Every man expects too much to
come in the mail
There are times when it is easier to
be imposed upon than it is to fight.
More men are willing to try to inter-
est capital than they are to earn it.
If he is a customer, never refer to
him. no matter how lovingly, as "old
man."
No doubt John D. Rockefeller gives
advice every day which is never ac-
cepted.
If a man likes coffee, he usually has
a weH-developed contempt for a tea
drinker.
If one is always afraid there won't
be enough to eat, it is sign that he
eats too much.
one trouble of coming to work in an
automobile is that it gets one there SO
quickly.
Some people make more money in
dry years than they do when there is
plenty of rain.
Those beneath the king find some
satisfaction in thinking he is a Disco
lutte Devil, whether he is or not.
Every young lady smagines her
steadyr would be a duke if he had
happened to have been horn in Eng
land.
One can't always tell; a man may
develop calouses on his hands by
welding a fshpole, or rowing boat.
Horses on beer wagon always look
pretty well, as busy as those vehicles
are kept by a thirsty populace.
One can't tell all about an optimist,
but It Is safe to assume that neither he
nor his corn crop is facing hot wind.
A reputation for influence is fire.
quently acquired by bawling loudly
for the things many people are known
to favor.
One rarely has occasion to exhaust
his fund of sympathy on a thief who
stole to feed his sick wife and hungry
children
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a CoMFoRTING rHouGHr.

If all your efforts to straighten out
your crooked stick of a child prove IN
availing, console yourself with the re-
Election that humanity owes q. heavy
debt to its eccentrics, writes Francis Z.
Leupp in the July Atlantic. Every out
ward swing of the pendulum Of pro-
gress takes its impulse from the hand
Of some one who is not afraid of being
adjudged lunatic. When he succeeds,
we cannot speak too well of him; but,
long before that, he will probably have
been marked as peculiar, and with an
unflattering characterization. Linnaeus
wore out his fathers patience by his
contempt for the conventional studies
of his day. At Audubon, as a lad.
friends wagged their heads to think
what a fool he was. Young Darwin
was so absent-minded that on one of
his lonely tramps he walked off an en-
bankment and narrowly escaped being
crippled. Watts was scolded for his in
difference to the books and sports
which interested other boys, and the
fascination he found in his aunt's
steaming kettle. Trollope, who gave to
literature its best portraits of English
social life in his era, was at school so
destitute Of the social gift that he was
everybody's butt and nobody's com
panion. Moses and Demosthenes were
stammerers, Caesar and Napoleon
epileptics, Goldsmith was a sloven.
Thoreau a crank, Emerson a mystic
dreamer. These men overcame their
handicaps of physique or temperament
as Lincoln, Burritt, Dickens, and Car
negie surmounted the barriers with
which poverty had threatened to hem
them in.
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ployees. That is. there is no part of
his plant that is not supplied during
each day with its full quota of en-
ployees, regardless of the fact that
some Of them are also attending
school.
OF course such student workers get
regular pay commensurate with their
labor and the hours&hey devote to it.
In this way they become wage-earners
without having their educ alton stopped
at a very time when they most need
instruction and the influences that the
school room throws around them.
There are a large number of diversi-
fed manufacturing plants in Topeka.
And it is likely that the proprietors of
most Of them will be eager to CO.
operate in every possible way with the
educational authorities in the estab-
lishment Of one or more trade schools,
which would be a great boon to the
youngsters. The more Intelligent the
workman at any trade the more skill
full he becomes. So the manufactur-
ers have considerable to gain in help
ing these schools on their way.
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QUAKER MEDTTATIONs.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record
The early worm fills the bill.
Remorse is poor bedfelIow to
wake up with.
Some people never even pay a. com
pIiment without asking for a receipt
Many a man who throws bououats
at the dead throws brick at the living.
A boil on the neck isn't the onIy
thing that makes a man hot under the
collar.
Honesty is the best policy, but if
you don't keep your premium paid up
it viii lapse.
The pangs of a broken heart don't
seem to affect the average girls appo-
tite for ice cream soda.
A man gets almost as much excite
ment out of poker game as his wife
gets out OF bargain sale.
It's no fun for a girl to firt with a.
man unless she knows she Is makfu,
some other girl feel weepy.
Right makes might" quoted the
Wise Guy. yes, but it's one Of those
poor rules that won't work both WAYS. -
added the Simple Mug.
1t was in the restaurant. what
will Mary have2" asked the host. who
was giving the order "A little lamb. .
replied Mary. Needless to say she was
a girl who lived up to the traditions.
Singleton: "How true it is that there
IS nothing new Under the SUM-" wed
leight: "Huhl guess you've never
been married, or You would know
there are new styles in woraen's hats
about once a month"
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rimore would not come near enough to
be caught in the powerful arms that
would have crushed him into helpless
ness.
At last, the opportunity came. Car
digan's breath came thick and fast; he
was nearly spent IN body yet uncon-
quered in his purpose to crush the
man who had stayed him in his desire
for vengeance upon the woman who
had stood by him through many sim
liar brutalities. Larrimore's length of
arm came into play. He did not avoid
Cardigan now, indeed, he rather court
ed the attack. His arms worked like
the drivsng-rods of an engine, batter
ing Cardigan down upon his knees. The
liquor had lost its effect and Cardigan
was sober now. He rose to his feet,
however, the light Of battle in his
bruised eyes. only to be borne down
again
Have you had enough ?" asked Lar
rimore as his opponent fell back, pros
trate upon the ground.
Eyes, SIR" returned Cardigan meek
ly. Tell the old woman I'm sober
now and ask her to help me-"
you shall not go away tomorrow,
Amos" declared Mrs. Mervin, bandag-
ing Larrimore's hands few minutes
later. He did not decide for moment
but glanced about him. His gaze met
that of Helen Waters, and something
in her dark blue eyes told him to stay.
-(Copyright, 1911, by the Associated
Literary Press
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TRADE SCHOOLS

Something of encouraging progress
is being made toward the establish
ment of trade schools in conjunction
with the public educational system of
Topeka. Mr.. L. D. Whittemore. who
is soon to retire as superintendent of
the city schools. is busily at work
along right lines on this proposition.
AS chairman of a subcommittee of the
educational committee of the CONNER
cial club, he is getting in communi-
cation with the manufacturers of the
city to ascertain if they will cooper
ate with the educational authorities in
bringing about the creation of trade
schools, or making such schools. if
they are put in operation, as efficient
as possible.
Such cooperation from the manu-
facturers Will be needed if these
schools are to be made (. success.
That's the only way they have been
made successful wherever they have
been tried. The plan is for graduates
Of the grammar schools % select a
trade they wish to follow. Positions
are secured for them with a manu-
facturer who employs that kind OF
trade. They put in part of their time
in the manufacturing plant or shop in
getting the practical training for their
labor. The other part Of their time
IS put in at the trade school where
suitable book instruction is given
them. In Chicago a big trade school
is successfully conducted by the pu-
pits working in teams of t o. While
one Of the team is in school the other
is at the mandatory and vice versa
This gives the manufacture a full
days work from this class Of en-
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Hot weather also has a tendency to
stimulate hot tempers.
When it'comes to making sacrifices,
it's generally expected of others.
Any number of people are cool in
peril and emergencies but only as to
their feet.
y
There's this to the credit of the
would-be poet: He doesn't make q
noise while practicing his art.
A good many folk go on vacations
merely so that they can do things
which they wouldn't dare to do at
home.
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Hint for WASHINGTON.

A record for brevity was established
bv George A. Soper of New York, pres
ident OF the metropolitan Sewerage
commission, who was scheduled TO
read a paper on tCIean Streets" be-
fore the New England Conference OF
Street Cleaning "Unavoldaply ee-
tanned am wiring address," tele-
GRAINED President Soper- Mr.. Soper' 8
address contained sixteen words, as
follows:
Experience teaches for clean
streets. We must organize, system
atize. deputize, energize, supervise
economic and philosophers"
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wHIPPING-Posrs NEEDED

Local police officials report that they
are receiving an unusual number of
complaints these days Of wife-beating.
Similar conditions appear to prevail in
other cities of Kansas and in other sec
lions Of the country. 1t is also prob
ably true that there are many in
stances Of wife beating which do not
reach the ears of the peace authorities.
Many women prefer to suffer in silence
this sort of cruel and inhuman treat
ment because of the hurniliating noto-
riety that attaches to public complaint
against it.
1t is the contention Of experienced
policemen that this boom in wife-beat-
ing is due to the excessively hot wealth
er that has been putting on a continu-
Gus performance. There may be some
grounds for such contention, but that
does not condone the despicab1e prac-
tice in the slightest. And the wife
beaters should be treated to a decidedly
more rigorous punishment than is now
melted out to them.
Nothing less severe, than a whipping
post is the proper medicine for wife
heaters. It may SAVIOR Of being a relic
of a more or less barbarous past. But
it is the only kind Of punishment for
the man who seeks to punish his wife
with blows. Under the laws of a few
of the states, whipping-posts have their
place in every community. Maryland
is one such state. There the lash is
applied in hearty and vigorous fashion,
as it should be, to the every man ar
rested for beating his wife.
..--.-
are not brought into use often. There's
not much wife-beating in that state.
And that's the great beauty of having
whipping-posts for the wife-beaters.
They are a great deterrent to this sort
Of brutality. The lashes on the back
Of man who has beaten his wife do
not hurt him nearly as much as does
the realization that he has been pub
licly whipped. And even the bruates who
are of a mind to beat their wives OF
little or large provocation stay their
hands and hesitate when they know
that a session at the whipping-post is
Il store for them.
Incidentally it might be well to call
attention to the fact that man and the
bulldog are the only species in the ami
NAL kingdom that viii attack their op-
posite sex. Nor is this a showing for
man to be proud of. You couldn't ex-
pect ouch else of a bulldog.
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prominent New York financial man is
involved He paid a couple of customs
inspectors 800 for each trunk they
passed in perfunctory manner. These
trunks contained precious stones, jew
eiry and other rare articles of an ag-
gregate value Of $1,000. 900. and on which
not a cent Of duty was collected This
IS only some additional evidence that
most Of the smuggling crimes are per-
petrateo by the rich and powerful. A
fine commentary. isn't it. on their con-
duct?
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.



A secret isn't a secret II a woman
hesitates in telling it.
A tombstone usually has a good
word for a man when he is down.
The figures in the ballet are calcu-
lated to make some expert accountants
dizzy.
If man can keep out of politics
ashamed of him.
The average man is as proud Of his
opinions as he Is of his honor, his
honesty, or even his pedigree.
Adversely furnishes a man weapons
with which to fight back, but prosper
ity often disarms him.
After a man has taken a few "eye
openers'' it is almost impossible for
him to keep his mouth shut
The man who gives up before he is
licked is twice -onouered-once by
himself and once by the other fellow
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FROM OTHER PENS
INVESTIGATION AND MYSTERIES.

INVESTIGATION AND MYSTERIES.
Persons who are prof1ting by recent
commercial changes, and persons who
are temporarily opposed to any inter-
ference with whatever has the support
of large financial interests, regard the
investigation of the trusts and any past
or prospective legislation aimed at
them as hysterical. denagogical and
socialistic. Some of these persons are
found in public life, some of them con-
troll newspapers, some of them teach
the youth or write for the periodicals.
They are proud of the despised muck
rakers; they are alarmed at the tenn
per of the people, and they fear that
capital will get scared ard run away
and the bottom will drop out Of the
country's prosperity.
When a student of history like
Brooks Adams and the head of the
greatest of Industrial combinations,
like Mr.. Gary, agree that The era Of
competition is over, and that the gov
eminent has got to regulate prices, it
is silly for anyone to speak of opposi-
ton to trusts as hysterical. We do not
suppose for moment that the case
for or against the trusts is concluded.
In a longer experience they may justi-
fly themselves, or without proving their
advantage to the commur ity they may
be inevitable. But in the present stage
of their history they are assrredly fair
subj of discussion, criticism, inves-
tigation and even Of restrictive legisla-
tion.-Philadelphia Record.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
EFrom the New York Press.l

IFrom the New HOrk RreSS.1
A girl seems to be crazy to have red
hair, unless she has it.
Theory can start a man, but he'd
better finish en- horse sense
A man doesn't call it. deceiving his
wife if his excuse works.
There's not enough rncney to make
all people millionaires, so most Of
them have none at all.
A man wants to spend big money on
having a good time off somewhere, es-
pecially if he could have a better at
home for nothing.
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PURGATToN % LAWSUITS.

When a corporation goes into the
hands of a receiver it cannot be sued
without the consent of the court which
has taken control Of the corporation.
This means that the court will examine
the proposed cause of action to see If
it has enough merit to support a suit.
In that practice is a demonstration
that it is practicable for court COM
mission to give or withhold standing
to every proposed lawsuit in any court.
That procedure has been frequently
urged. If all lawyers and all intending
litigants knew that a claim of right
had to pass inspection by board of
competent and impartial investigators
there would be a great falling away
of merely vexations or sandbagging
litigation. There would consequently
be more time for meritorious lawsuits.
The dockets of the trial and the ap-
peIlate courts would be less burdened.
In all regards better administration
of justice would result.-Kansas City
Times
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Ar EVENING

The lonely lake lies sad and pale
Beneath a Swallowed moon,
No ripple laughs along the shales
No mating bird gives tune
The trees in garb of black, on me
Cast n1ournful, plying glance;
Even the youngest asDen-tree
Fcrbids its leaves to dance.
We kissed at morning meath theiE
boughs,
We loved and kissed today
They sigh, the trees that heard our vows
To-day is dead,r they say
-CornelIa Kane Rathbone, in Harper 8
Weekly.
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HIGH HEELS.

High heels are as heathenish as
rings in the nose or tattooing,' declar-
ed a supreme court justice to the
graduating nurses of an eastern town.
Such Shoes said the justice, ARE as
barbarous, as torturing and as de-
structive of health as the Chinese
wooden shoes. Both breed ungainly
and deformed feet China is proud Of
one kind of deformed feet; we Of the
other. Each kind results only in walk
ing monstrosities-
will you not advocate normal feet,
such feet, as God gave? Have you the
courage to speak out against this silly
fashion, fashion as destructive as
rum, as deadly as opium-or are you
to be counted among its devotees?'
Wonder what chance the future girl
is going to have. anyway? One mo-
ment a 'falI' is taken out of her hat,
the next assault is made on her skirts;
now comes the tackle of the heels.
The poor girl hasn't got a chance; she S
assailed from crown to sole, and yet
we tell her we love her, buy her gum
and criticise her dress. Still Eve is
supreme.-New Orleans Picayune.
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Billy Sunday the baseball evange-
list. will have to use polite language.
and nothing else, when he disports at
wheeling, w. Va. a few weeks hence.
For the particular purpose Of curbin5
Biny's tongue, the common council at
that place has passed an ordinance i'm
posing a hne on any person who. in a
public address shall use vile or vul-
gar language. Good for the city faith
ers Of Wheeling, W. Val
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In such a hesitating and intermittent
fashion has the much needed rain
been coming on its way, that when 1t
actually gets down to business 1t will
likely assume the proportions of a
dsluge. with attendant floods. But such
is Kansas. And that's why Kansans
are so active and successful They're
kept On their toes all the time prepar-
ing for and meeting all sorts of emer-
nancies
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HOME VIEWS WHITE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the state journal
away from home during the summer
may have tho paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate OF
ten rents n week or thirty rents
month (bv mail only). Address
changed rs often as desired. While
ont OF town the state journal win be
to Won like a daily letter from home.
Advance Daymeht Is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
hony-Iraerlfnq expenses.
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If several Of the United States sena-
tors would get back to the simple life
and hold a few skeins Of yarn for their
wives to roll into balls, maybe they
would be able to avoid the tangles into
which they are continually getting.
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Remembering Connecticut's famous
output Of wooden nutmegs, most -peo-
pie win probably be skeptics concerning
the report that a valuable vein Of cop
per and silver has been unearthed in
that state.
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Uncle Sam will have surplus in his
leans Of S25,OOO,OOO when the govern
rnent's fiscal year ends on Saturday.
In all probability the old gentleman
thinks pretty well Of the stewardship
OF President Taft.
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Rock Island has done handsomely by
Kansas during the railroad fiscal year
which ends today. In that period this
company has expended no less than ST.
100000 for improvement in the Sunhow-
er state.
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Railroad ticket offices in these parts
will probably be flooded with inquiries
as to the price Of a ticket to Couderay,
wis. On Wednesday last the ground in
that section was covered with frost
and during the day ice formed on water
A small receptacles. All aboard for
Cauderayl
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Hetty Green's son is going to travel
5000 miles in the next few days for the
purpose Of devoting a few hours time
to the annual meeting of the board Of
directors Of a Texas railroad of which
he is president. But inasmuch as he
win travel on passes. his mother, the
richest woman in the world, probably
won't worry much over the expenses of
this trip.