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The Washington times., 1911-07-08
Reddy Smith On
Making a Call

Wished I wus married, JimmieI
Why, II I had uh wife like de senaz
tur's son-say ia do anything fur
hur!
Sure I wus out dere, Jimmie. !
spicks up in me moo SCOT yestedy an
beats it out tn de address she give
me. When I gifts out dere, dere wus
uh little street wild porch frunt
houses all In uh row.
/ hears som wun slngin' es [ rings de
bell an when de door opens, dere
stands me loidy in black. wearfn'
uh white dress an uh little lace apron
on de front
why. Reddy," she sez, hur face all
done up wild smiles, you're ah early
boy, aren't yoo?"
Sure" sez !, IT didn't want tn miss
supper" Den she laufs an sticks out
hur han. an yu might have thot /
WIS some swell frien' she wus re-
ceivin'. Say, mebbe she wasn't great!
Den she gives me uh Look an goes
out tn git supper.
l hadn't been dere long for I hears
uh brisk walk. an me loidy in black
GUMS runnin' thru to de door. Den
she lsufs an in Gums de senator's
son. an grabs hur to him Gee, but
I'm glad tn git home" he sez, an !
had tn look de udder way tn keep
frum blushin'. Well. Jimmie, he
treats me great, an we sits down tn
supper.
An dat supper-why she had Aunt
Tillie beat to uh frazzle fur cookin'.
an fmus' uh ate like uh hog.
Aw say, Jimmie, mebbe IT wasn't
great! I wished l wus married!
The Washington times., 1911-07-08

telling me she'd take in The Pur-
pie Dream" with me last night. The
press agent had announced in the
paper that, in spite of its label, The
Purple Dream" was a summer show
to take your sister or sweetheart to,
and I'm that trusting 1 always be-
lieve the press agent
l blew in three bones for seats.
They put us right up front where we
couldn't miss a word, and say, speak
ing OF words, if Anthony Comstock
had been in the house he'd have got
up and beat ii out OF the state with
out even taking time to kick to the
police. Take your mother or your
sweetheart! Oh, yeh!
Good night" carols Juliet, and
races up the aisle before I could grab
my hat I couldn't find her outside
and this morning she let me explain,
but don't 'hink she believes me-
The Washington times., 1911-07-08

"I see the Friars and the Lambs are
at 1t again." said the stage-struck
youth.
You see too dern much" said the
stage doorkeeper. The best thing
for you to see Is the bulletin board
tellin who's got a chance to under
study. Say, when I was your age
didn't worry about a Catholic or
ganization and live stock, no matter
what their troubles were."
Aw, Take Tumble
Jaw, take a tumble" said the s. S.
Y. i was talkin' about them two
actor clubs in New York. You know
they're squabhlin' about the gambols
and the frolics."
81 get you, kid. in fact I got you
before you started to speak and was
only tryin' you out to see how far
your education had progressed.
know all them boys that are gettin'
into the dispatches, and, believe me,
If IL wasn't for the busy little press
agents that have a hard time thinkin'
up things to write the squab bible would
have finished before 1t started. Here's
an old organization made up of the
stars of the flock. Then somebody
gets sore and starts another one.
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
SHE HOLDS IT UP TO THE
LADY TICKET SELLER
Loretta's Looking Glass

toners. He buys. You have the drop
son him.
Then you descend upon the family
doctor. Here you are more subtle.
You run pink ribbons in your con-
versation.
You appeal to his kind heart. He
knows it's a manner of indirect ad-
dress to his pocketbook that will af-
feet the size of his bill II he fails to
hear and heed. He senses the fact
that he owes his enjoyment of the
chance to cure the family indisposi-
tions to your predisposition toward
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
Like a Burning Beacon

Into your grocer's store you rush
with five dollars worth of tickets
brandished like burning beacon in
your hand.
IF you do not buy these tickets,
Mr.. Grocer, I won't buy another can
of tomatoes from you for a year. And
Mrs. Dash will not. Or Mrs. Dotl
None OF usl We are bound to make
this the biggest church beneflt of the
winter. and you must patronize US for
the good Of the cause"
Mr.. Grocer sees clearly that It is a
hold-up. He must buy--for the sake
of the cause. For the sake of his
own cause. he reflects, for you have
waved before him, along with your
five dollars worth Of tickets, the pros
pect OF losing several Of his best Gus
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
Drawn for The Washington Times.

xIOU are not corralled behind the
i architectural and paint-dec-
GRATED barrier OF the boxoffice.
No cleaning arabesques Of gliding
meander over the cage that shuts you
in. You are not SHUT IN. That is
the trouble. Free as the wind, wild
as a cyclone, obnoxious as gritty sand
between pain-seared eyelids. you run
loose. And all of your mad attacks
on men and time you excuse in the
name of charity!
You are selling tickets for. the
church fair. And you make of the
experience an orgy. You glory in the
opportunity 1t gives you to hunt the
men you know to their very secret
lairs of private office and counting
room. You practice every feminine
vile in the name of the church bene-
fit You dress in your best and make
q nuisance of yourself-a nuisance
which cannot be removed by force or
polite maneuver.
The Washington times., 1911-07-08

within past such have laid
of the police and the
who left her pretty home
pfuly all es yearsdanced about the lights
before the of she declared had
deserted her
Visions of Apparent Happiness
Then story the girl who left school
living for herself and her mother but who caught
visions of the apparent happiness which other girls found
circle of the Pickering
too Joined the merfu shadows death,
which blacke of which
the lights.
other girls WE'LL of whom crept home
begging forgiveness and winning although would
the charge of having another
and clipping with him. because they
in the glare of the lights"
1t all tragic isn't t' And there make the
shadows beyond the circle unless
the lights themselves eliminate temptation for the little moths
and that does probable possible
do all of make girls and
girls know, happy possible home We it
for them let them and have wide
friends make their youth sunlight
fallen the earth will dim
The Washington times., 1911-07-08

him. So he also bows to the inevi-
table He buys.
Your dry goods merchant-whose
trading stamps you assiduously collect
also pays a premium on the priv
i1ege of selling you dress lengths and
whale bone
You canvass everybody.
And you accept the chorus Of con-
graduation that rises from the other
ticket sellers as you proclaim the
number you have sold as tribute.
You preen and puff with gratified
pride in your achievement. When
some modest little lady says she just
can't ask people to buy" you toss
your victorious head and say you
don't mind it at all when it's for char
ity. And every one is so nice about
it"
A Recalcitrant Mule
Oh! If you only knew! There's an
other chorus that is being sung. Could
its intricate and tempestuous inhar-
monies be set to music and impris-
oned in words, no Wagnerian Gre
scendo of voluminous crashes could
tensest popularity applied to the
idiosyncrasies OF a recalcitrant mule
could express the sense. And the
singers are men. the victims of your
extortion.
You have had high carnival. With
your excuse of charity, you have gone
where you otherwise hesitate to pene-
trate. You have levied duty on
men who consider it unjust. You have
abused your own dignity and lowered
1t in the eyes of men. You have skir-
mished with smiles, contended with
threats, stolen time, and presumed
upon the rights and privileges Of your
positions and your sex. And you think
YOU are smart! Heaven help your
blindness! Nothing else CAN!
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
Our Grocery Clerk
SAYS Hard Lines

Tho beautiful cashier forgot her
night when the Ferris wheel got ner-
vous and refused to stop, and made
muh young heart beat fawster by
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
Add a Note

Add a Note
why the limp?"
Asked Papa Plunks for his daugh-
ter. Wrote out the request in my
hest style and handed 1t to him."
''well?"
He read, It over.
And them
And then he handed 1t back with
a foot note"
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
S'Long, Crool Woild!
Or, Nay, Rash Maiden

I'm tired Of II ALL! she cried,
passionately. I'm going to end II
aIlT
Not daring to deny the overwhelm-
ing logic of desiring to end II all,
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
A Dubious Saving

- buDiOuS OaJihS
He-They say that the face ia an
index of the mind.
She-I don't know. It doesn't fol-
low because a woman's face Is made
up that her mind Is.
The Washington times., 1911-07-08

tryin' o educate the
Bill and took a movin show las night show
weren't any bettern anybody else
ought to take oftene" says Bill The movn
institution If wasn't for the movn pictures
we'd without KNOWN how
hide their friends closets when the maid
rushes in and tells em their husbans comm the stairs
Something Everybody Ought to Know
The pictures Belle by
howin EN- the best method obbn bank broad daylight
amt till night 1t policy
wait till all the dePosiors have left and the old cashier ounn
$4,000 bills That's inside the
and hit him exactly the top of his head with sandbag
Then if all did pictures, old
cashier you yourself $4,000
the There's
break neck but think the robbery
the nstructin.
Just think Belle how people would "a had the slight
rob bank broad daylight if they hadn't
l wouldn't, that
thing know
goin for little ready But think
they forgot to show where buy the sandbag.
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
Old Habits

Old Habits
'I understand you hired a magazine
man to run your newspaper"
IT did"
How is he getting along?"
He has quit. He couldn't wait un-
til Christmas to issue the Christmas
number"
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
Was This a Warning?

Mrs. Peck-Hot water, this paper
says, will dissolve almost anything.
Peck-Yes; it's even been known to
dissolve marriages.
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
WHEN NOAH WAS A BOY

He used to like to lie under the
tree and snooze. But 1t was horrible
when some one would come around
and give the tree a fresh coat of
paint The green off Of the foliage
used to drip all over, him.
The Washington times., 1911-07-08

being tired of it all. still, they sought
to dissuade her. They did not want
her to end it all.
Don't end it aIlr' they besought
Better things are coming"
Empty chattahr' she told them
II am going to end 1t ALL" Slowly
she raised her hand.
1T is true" they whispered she
is going to end 1t ALL
Her hand was still raised.
This Is the last!" she breathed
And slowly, deliberately, she
trumped her partner ace.
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
THE MOTH AND THE FLAME
And Their Usual
h7variabIe Outcome
BY PEGGY VAN BRAAM

OVERING always just beyond the circle flung by
the great lights of the city lie the shadows. dark
and full Of unseen dangers but the lure of the
glamour of the things which marks the white
lights" fades and the darkness closes round the
victims who fall like the moths that beat their
wings desperately against the arc lamps globe.
Scores and of the girls whose pitiful
wings of youth and gaiety scorched in the heat
OF the light, fall unnoticed, but sometimes ray
of that other damp-notoriety-shows up some bit
of the history that ought to make other girl-moths
pause and draw away from the fare of the lights.
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
Between the Lines
Lie Many Smokers
FRIsKED FROM THE FRENCH

Overheard at the duel: Isn't 1t re-
markable that there are not more ac-
cidents?'-Ie Rire.
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
ENGLISH JOKE FOR TODAY

Eight million eggs, weighing $4,000
tons, are yearly consumed in London,
the eaters paying four million pounds
for Liverpool Evening Express
Breakfast is getting a very expensive
meal.-Punch.
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
NJ A ME TELLS BELLE
The Masses Must
Be Educated snJ
THE MOVIES ARE INSTRUCTIVE.

HERE'S doubt about it, Belle the movin' pictures
cert'ny educatin' the masses. And it's good
thing too, because whatever else happens the
masses have simply got to be educated And after
they know much anybody else, they won't be
that the difference between the masses and the
classes is ony matter of education.
Then America'll be the on'y country in the
world without any masses, which will be great
thing accordin' the socialists, although persnly
l couldn't much fun in belongin' to the classes
if there wasn't any classes to compare myself to-
AnYhoW the movies are almost splittin' their films
The Washington times., 1911-07-08
Accommodating

Accommodating
Borrower-Could you let me ha' .
IS If bring IT TO you tomorrow?
Brown-Certainly! Bring me the
IS tomorrow and I'll let you have Il.
Arizona republican., 1911-06-29
BIDS FOR PUMPING
 PLANT AT PARKER
Work on Plant is Expected to Begin
 Not Later Than September i.

Superintendent P. T. Lonergan of the Colorado river reservation ar rived in Parker last Monday even ing from Los Angeles, where he went to be present at the opening of the machinery bids for the new pumping plant which the government is to construct there. The bids were open ed at the office of Chief Engineer Code of the Indian reclamation service, and as soon as they are properly classi fled the rewards will be announced.
 Francis R. Schanck, an engineer in MT. Codes office, accompanied MT Lonergan to Parker, and has been engaged for several days past in compiling additional data relative to the construction of the pumping plant, such as selecting reservoir sites and making final tests of the water for silt percentage.
 Superintendent LOnergan said that the work on the new plant will start about September l, The necessary surveys will be made within the next few weeks.
Arizona republican., 1911-06-29
GROSS, SICK CH|LDREH
 WILL TAKE 'CASCARETS'
1t is Cruel and Needless to Force a Feverish, Irritable Child to Take
 nauseating Dose of Oil.

Look back at your childhood days. Remember the physic that mother in- sisted on once in a while-castOr oil. salts or catharticS. How you hated them. How you fought against talk ing them. How you dreaded their after-effects. That was all wrong. but then nobody knew better.
 With our children it's different. They belong to the day of the gentle in medicine. The day of harsh physics is over. We don't force the bowels now; we coax them. We have no dreaded after effects And the dose is a candy tablet.
 Mothers who cling to the old form of physic simply don't know what they do. The children's revolt is well-founded. Their tender bowels are harmed by them. The modern way is to give a gentle laxative, and to give it more frequently. To keep the bowels always active. The best method is Cascarets. One-half a tab let, as often as needed, does more than anything else to keep a child well. Keep a 10 cent box at home always. They are best for mamma and daddy, too.
Arizona republican., 1911-06-29

rival sites nominated rival county tickets. For sheriff East Phoenix nominated a man named Jim Favor choice of the West Phoenicians. The campaign waXed bitter and towards it's close Chenowith killed Favorite during a quarrel Chenowith was acquitted, but retired. East Phoenix put up John Moore, and West PhOe- nix Tom Barnum, who became the first elected sheriff of Maricopa county.
 They were genuine Hassayampans, everyone of the fifteen who gathered yesterday. They were chuck full of solid facts about the thrilling days of forty years ago, but it was star ting to note the difference between the individual facts. Most of them came to Phoenix when there was not railroad within 500 miles of the town. While Dr. MahOney enjoyed the prestige of being the earliest Phoenix resident, Neri Osborn pre- ceded him in the territory two years, reaching Prescott in 1864, before single county government had been formed. He was a page in the first legislature. and has, more or less, dominated every session of the terri tOrial legislature since.
 Everyone of the fifteen present had some startling distinction in the pio- neer days which has made him a marked man among the oldtimers to the present day. Lincoln Fowler. first white settler in the TontO basin, soaked Dave Goldberg fifty cents an ounce for apples in the late seventies.
 Dr. Mahoney, in addition to being the oldest bona fide white resident of Phoenix. shares with Dave Gold berg the honor of being one of the two among the fifteen who ever voted for a president of the United States pr. Mahoney's last presiden- tial vote was for Breckenbridge in
Arizona republican., 1911-06-29
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 he BOstOn Cooking School IHagazine
 The Cooks Book has been pre- pared at a cost of many thousands of dollars, in the interest of better and healthier cooking. It shows the way to reduce the cost of liv- ing, containing as 1t does over 90 thoroughly tested, tried and proven recipes that will be succeSguLe0ery time, if the few simple directions are followed.
 This Is truly a wonderful book, showing as it does i'll hundreds of ways how to tighten the good housewife's burdens and solving bake-day problems successfully. It really must be seen to be ap- preciated, for the recipes are illus trated in natural colors. Those who have seen 1t, immediately say:
 It's the best Cook Book l Ve ever seen"-and you will too.
 You can secure copy of this valuable book dbSOiatciy free by attaching the colored certificate packed i'll 25-cent cans of K C Baking Powder to this ad- vertisement, sending both to the JAQUEs MFG. Co.,, Chicago, III. Write your name and addgess plainly. a7
Arizona republican., 1911-06-29

Arkansas. in 1860. Goldberg maintain ed his official residence in San Der nardinO, California, until 1SSS when he sneaked over the line to throw his vote away on Grover Cleveland for a second term.
 John II. Isaac is distinguished by the fact that he took breakfast in California, lunch in Nevada and sup per in Arizona. all on that certain day in May, 1876. when he became a citizen by arrival in the great new state soon to be.
 Host Alexander told of his arrival in Phoenix on the top of a Concord coach, June 2S, 1881 He stopped at the Bank Exchange Hotel. then kept by Emil Gang and located at the city hall on what is now the site of the Popular Dry Goods house. Alex ander extended a cordial invitation for every man present to be his guest at another reunion to be held in 1921.
 T trust you will one and all be present" he said. T appoint Colonel McClintock, the youngest in years of all those here today, historian of the occasion. Some of us are plentifully sprinkled with grey, but our hearts I am sure are as golden as they were in the palmiest of the early days which have been so vividly re- called today"
 Looking around that group of pio- neers, cheery, self reliant, mellowed by experiences such as have been the great privilege only of the wes tern state builders to enjoy. these lines, spoken by Oliver Wendell Holmes at the fiftieth anniversary of his Harvard graduating class, come to mind:
 Yes, we're boys; always playing
 with tongue or with pen,
 And I sometimes have asked, shall
 we ever be men?
 Shall We always be happy, and
 laughing and gay,
 Till the last dear companion goes
 smiling away? Then here's to our boyhood, it's
 gold and it's grey;
 The stars of it's winter, the dews
 of it's May, And when we are done with those
 life lasting toys, Dear Father, take care of thy chill
 dren, the boys"
Arizona republican., 1911-06-29
RAPID FIRE.

What the drama needs is action"
 Whats the use? All human action looks slow since the moving pictures came in"
Rock Island Argus., 1911-09-26

as 90 Reliability Only six adjustments were
II made, three to carbureeors and three to
spark plugs.
Think what this nleano Unparalleled re-
duction in the cost Of transportation, and
liberty to go where and when you VIII, al the
lowest expense rate ever recorded. You recall
our claims made il previous advertisements
that you can operate Lberty-Brush for one
cent-a mile. How modest were these state
ments has been proved in this actual contest.
WE were SO confident thatth $3.50 Liberty
w Brush can carry two passengers for less
Rock Island Argus., 1911-09-26

ERE gre records established ii the
- most remarkable economy cOntesteVe
= Z held-109 Brush cars in 109 cities on
the day 100 miles in competition,
with official observers to determine the cost at
which automobile could be operated. Under
various road conditions they averaged a cost
of SIS e/1o cents for 100 miles, while-the winner
made the phenomenal record of 80 cents for
the distance. IT a Brush car driven by
Y. R. Del Vale of Los Angeles, California,
and carried passenger besides the driver.
1t ran over Southern California roads and
used 2l/l6 gallons of gasolene and one pint Of
oil. This is an average of 49, miles per GAL
Ion of gasolene and 500 miles per gallon OF OIL
1t had no tire or mechanical trouble. At the
predetermined cost standards for the contest
IS cents per gallon of gasoiene and SO cents
per gallon of Oil-it cost less than IS OF cent
per mile per passenger-an astonishingly low
figure.
THE second car cost 48 cents-using 25/l6
L gallons of gasolene, quart more than
the winner, and the same amount of oil. 1t had
no tire trouble. The third car cost 81 cents
making the best oil consumption record-1OO
miles on gill, an average of 5000 miles per
gallOn-a performance eQualed, however, by
another Brush contestant.
The average cost of 65oho cents for the
100 competing Brush cars represented the
consumption Of less than four gallons of gaso-
lene and Hs pints of OIL The average mile
age of 25s/lO miles per gallon of gasolene and
609 miles per gallon of oil has never been
approached by any made.
90 cars made the 100 miles for cost of
10 less than one dollar. Note the won
derful consistency
Here is the poorest record-that you may
know all sides: 1t averaged 1888 miles per
gallon of gasolene and 200 miles per gallon of
Oil. How many cars can equal even thise
Rock Island Argus., 1911-09-26

side-chain drive, expanding brakes, pneumatic
tires, and other points equally as uP-to-date.
You recognize it a real automobiles
highly developed, on its small scale, as the
HnoSt expensive lai &c car nab,
EOR pleasure and business the Liberty
L Brush sideal-itca be used for either or for
both. 1t will you time and money, will
lessen travelling delays and discomforts will give
recreation to Your family, and it will tighten
many business task. Physicians, Farmers,
r. T. D. Carriers, Contractors, Statesmen, and
scores of other professions and businesses are
represented among those wide-awake men who
have given up the horse for the Liberty.
Brush. t
Consider it in your own easel You can go
three times far with Liberty Brush with
horse-in the same time. Thus you can do
three times as much work. How much more
money could you earn in the time you saver
You must answer that yourself. Now, about
Cost-it has been shown conclusively that the
Liberty Brush costs less for fuel, maintenance,
and wear, than any other car, and the expense
is small in proportion to that of keeping
horse that there is no comparison. For the
17Tst time, moreover, you now have motor car
for the same initial cost as that of good horse,
carriage and harness.
THE Liberty-Brush carries the full guaran.
= tee of the United States Motor Company,
with IS branches and 1900 dealers who will
''care for your wherever you are" Finally,
sum this up for YOURSELF Here is real auto
mobile at price within your meansl Evidence
galore of It's reliability and economy Substan-
tiated proof Of its ability TO save you time and
money-enabling you TO do more work in a
better way In less timel A car warranted by
the greatest automobile concern in the worldl
How can you refute this? Your answer must
be, ~ can no longer afford to be without
motor car"
Rock Island Argus., 1911-09-26

than a cent-a-nile that we proposed the most
remarkable trial ever conducted for one make
of automobile. 1t was held on July Fourth
the day which marked the final freeing of the
horse and a new era in transportation. The
result ustifes our belief and must deeply i'm
press you-a thinking man woman.
Our assurance was based on the perform
ance of thousands of Brush runabouts-the
mechanical fore-runner of the $3.50 Liberty
IS are selling fast and we are filling orde
your nearest Brush dealer. We will
may be able to secure it. Do not delay