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The Washington times., 1911-04-06
Her Friends Call Her the
Ida M. Tarbell of the Con-
gressional Set.
HAS WIDE KNOWLEDGE
OF THE REVENUE LAWS
Knows All About lockers" and
"MaXimums and
MinimumS."
By SELENE ARMSTRONG.

: II you honestly do not know the diff
ference between the wooden schedule
and the Joker in structural steel, take
courage. There is woman in Wash
inGton who can tell you. She can not
only make these awful subjects a
simple matter: she can illuminate them
until they become positively picturesque.
For Mrs. Henry T. Rainey, wife of the
Democratic member of the tremendously
important Ways and Means Committee
OF the House, is the Ida NJ. TarbelI OF
the Congressional set. Like Miss Tar
bell, she looks at you in her gentle and
direct way as IL she were going to talk
willow plumes or cold creams, and then
talks tariff with a familiarity that par
alyzes you. Like Miss Tarbell, too. she
possesses a brain. which. in its mascu-
line grasp of politics, craftsmanship,
and public questions, is one of the best
arguments l know of in behalf Of
Woman's suffrage, yet she is not a suf-
fragist
Not even the fact that as a small girl
she often lay in the arms of her moth
er's friend. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and
heard her elders prophesy a great fu-
ture for the cause, has sufficed to make
her one. She believes that woman as
a psychic and spiritual force can direct
world destinies, but that she will cur
tail both her rights and her powers
when she enters the political arena
Yet Mrs. Rainey knows enough about
the tariff to make her eligible to a
seat on the floor OF the House
Shall ] go back to 1872 or 1851 - she
laughed, when | asked her to tell me
how much of II she had really studied
Then II dawned upon her that her inter
viewer was probably as innocent OF any
real knowledge of the tariff as OF Sans
crit, for she CONSIDERABLY suggested:
why not ask me about bridge. or
arts and crafts, or delinquent boys?
Are you quite sure you want to brave
the terrors of the tariff?
That is why | came to see you,'
said like a Stole. The tariff II shall
be. How much do vOu know about II -
The Washington times., 1911-04-06

The movement TO reclaim the Ana
costa fats is taking shape. If this
keeps on the Potomac will have only 4
trundle bed left.
The Washington times., 1911-04-06

Senator Dillingham;. who has again Of
fered his sidewalk cleaning bill, must be
relncarnaticn of the youth who bore
mid snow and ice.
The Washington times., 1911-04-06

Every Washington school teacher and
every Washington parent should give
the heartiest support to the movement,
inaugurated today, TO prevent the de-
The Washington times., 1911-04-06

The character of weather we've had
recently gave the oldest inhabitants a
rne opportunity for a lively discussion
At their session last evening.
The Washington times., 1911-04-06

Celebrate the return Of the ProdigaI
sun by letting its warmth and it's
brightness, its sweetness and its cheer.
INTO the musty corners of your soul.
The Washington times., 1911-04-06

The Oldest Inha abitants' Association
has brought itself up to the minute by
electing ten-year old Fred stafford as
its mascot, after he had made a speech
and contributed 81 TO the building fund
The Washington times., 1911-04-06

The Health Department makes a par
tial defense of the climate by pointing
out that the recent increase in the num-
bcr Of cases of pneumonia is in some
measure due to wrong methods of liv-
ing
The Washington times., 1911-04-06

Senator Cullom seems to be unusually
vary concerning the Government clerk
'urd. But then there's an Indian be-
0,nd every bush at the Capitol these
i've
The Washington times., 1911-04-06

There was some little enthusiasm
when the new Congress opened, but it
was tame and commonplace compared
with what will happen when the fans
get in action next Wednesday.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-26
"A Wild Blizzard Raging

S!lngs danger. suffering-often
usa!n-to thousands, who take
solos, coughs and lagrippe, that
81 OF winter and spring
as danger signals are stuffed up
cI: Ss!'ls' lower part of nose sore,
ha '',s ana fever, pain in back of
w. su, ana throat-gripping cough
v ""eI -. GRIP attacks, as you value
K kun me- :; don't delay getting DR..
S h,ngs New Discovery. Zone
NIUE NIUE cured me-" writes A. l..
,sr rnn' OF Pine Valley, Miss, af-
Will "; oelng laid up three weeks
Es, m Grip" For sore lungs,
Wh,llorrhages, Coughs, Colds
th, mooplne Cough, Bronchitis, AS
Cua' us supreme. SOC. s1.OO
aS'nteed by H. S. Elwood.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-26
UNIONS OF STATE
~ ELECT OFFICERS

OLYMPIA, Jan. 20.-The state
Federation of Labor today elected
these officers: President, Charles
r. Case, Seattle; secretary, Charles
Perry Taylor, Tacoma; organizer,
c. O. Young, Tacoma; first vice
president, Fred Hudson, Belling-
ham; second vice president, Will
lam J. Coates, Spokane; third vice
president, w. II. Clark, Walla
Walla; fourth vice president, H.A.
Livermore, Hoquiam; fifth vice
president, John Mulligan, CleElum
sixth vice president, 7. Harry Boil
ton, Seattle; seventh vice president
J. 7. Campbell, Everett; Peder
Henretty, Gle Elum, was chosen
as delegate to the national conven-
ton. w. J. Bradford of Tacoma,
was selected as delegate to the
Oregon state convention.
Spokane was unanimously made
the choice for the meeting place
next year.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-26
Engraved Stationery.

Engraved stationery, as we'll as
engraved cards, can be furnished
from The Dawn Office and the
prices charged are the same as those
obtained in Seattle. The work is
done by the best engraving firm
OH the north coast and the quality
Is not discounted.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-26

consider venereal disease, a disease
more dreadful and deadly than
others.
In addition to it's awful direct
ravages, it is. the cause of 90 per
cent of locomotor ataxia; IS per
cent of the cases of general paralsis
and 80 per cent of the case of gen
eral nervous prostratiOn. In adj
dition to this, to it is attributed
many fatalities from heart, lnngs
and kidney affections.
From its contagious character
there are now $4,000 walking the
aisles of this country in perpetual
darkness. In a Hebrew Orphan
age Asylum, New York, in 1896,
IS cases of venereal disease came
from one patient.
In all Indian High School 10
cases were traced to one pupil. 1t
has been my lot in city where l
was pastor. to be called, to preach
the funeral of a girl not more than
Is summers of life, whose youth
and brightness faded away, as the
awful veneral diseased claimed her
as its victim. The physician knew
it, the nurse knew it and l knew it.
Beyond this l know not that others
knew or even suspicioned the truth.
l suppose today, that the parents
are yet in ignorance.
Place a large red card on the
house where scarlet fever reigns.
Forbid any to enter. Quarantine
for six weeks all who are within.
This is right. But place the red
light" sign over the homes that are
known to be hot beds for the propa-
CATION of veneral disease. Compel
the inmates thereof to secure a GER
tifcate of health-freedom- from dis
ease. in order to remove the fear of
contagion, so that men may the
more readily run the risk.
At the same time, know that
such certificates, as declared by
leading authorities. are worthless.
Remove all restraint commonly i'm
posed upon saloons, and let the in
mates inf1ame the passion of the
men with liquor on Sunday as we'll
as Monday. Let the citizens of
onr town. thus infamed, thus en-.
dangered, and thus corrupted, be
bled of their hard earned money so
that the city may receive the usual
monthly revenue, and that the
homes of our city may be protected
from evil. And this under the oath
so help me Cod"
Some have said to me elsewhere,
Grim, do not speak so plainly. you
will offend refined ears. Perhaps l
will, but l can not be true to my
duty as reason and God have given
me to see it, and not warn the peo-
pie of the dangers, and the certain.
ty that we gather as we sow.
This curse walks about the city
under disguise, it leaves it's blight
ing germ wherever the people gath
er. 1t knows no respect for the
innocent child nor for the pure life.
The kiss prompted by baby's smile
or by that of true affection may
bring afresh the sowing of the past
and the innocent be the greater suf-
ferer.
Not until right shall cease to be
right, or wrong cease to be wrong,
can we sanction prostitution with
out reaping OF the sin thereof
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-26

The quicker a cold is gotten rid
of the less danger from pnelnon ia
and other serious diseases. Mr. &.
B. w. l.. Hall, of Waverly, Va,
saws: Il firmly believe Chamber
lain s Cough Remedy to be abso-
lutelv the best preparation on the
market for colds. | have recon-
mended it to my friends and they
all agree with me. For sale BIZ
Owl Drug Store.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-26
Making Life Safer.

Everywhere life is being made
more safe through the work of DR..
Kings New Life Pills in constipa-
ton, Biliousness, Dyspepsia. Indi-
gestion, Liver troubles Kidney
diseases and Bowel Disorders.
They re easy, but sure, and per-
fcctly build up the health. CSC at
II. s. Elwood s.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-26

When buying a cough medicine
for children bear III mind that
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy IS
most effectual for colds, Group and
whooping cough and that it con
tains no harmful drug. For sale
bv Owl Drng Store.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-26

J. !. Nuill OF Tacoma, who spent
several days i'll the city with his
brother, Alex Yuill, has returned
homo.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-01-26

Do you know that fully nine out
OF every ten cases of rheumatism
are simply rheumatism of the mus
cles due to cold or damp, or chron-
ic rheumatism, and require no in
ternal treatment whatever? Apply
Chamberlain I.iniment freely and
sec how quickly it gives relief. For
sale by Owl Drug Store.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-29
Unchivalrous Tax

A furious controversy has been raging
in Oldenburg Germany, over the project
to tax all unmarried persons The pro-
ject. which has been before a committee
of the Landtag, is to impose a supplement
tary income tax on incomes of the unmar-
ried which exceed e220 year. Only per
sons between 80 and 50 years old will be
subject to the tax.
Hitherto all such taxes have been i'm
posed in men alone, but the unchivalrous
oldenburg legislature proposed not to spare
the women. This IL tho main cause of the
opposition. Opponents OF the tax declare
that women are usually not themselves
responsible for their unmarried blessed
ness and they ask how can a government
decide whether a woman has done her best
to get married or not
DR.. Mittler, q fierce enemy Of the pro-
| tect, declares that II the law passes the
government will have itself to act as q
marriage agency. In the interests Of justice
IT will be obliged to give every woman
a chance OF refusing a husband before II
takes her for obduracy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-29

Though poverty is not necessarily synony-
nous with slovenliness in Germany, as It
seems to be in some other countries, still
the government finds 1t expedient TO bring
up it's future subjects with a due apprecia-
ton of the benefits Of soap and water,
says the New York Sun. Hence the cur
ricula OF the new grade schools include a
semi-weekly bath. This is administered
to groups OF twenty boys or girls at a
time. Each is provided with a one-piece
bathing suit, a towel and piece Of soap,
which are kept In individual lockers.
Around the walls OF the bathing hall are
twenty tiny dressing booths, curtained off
with twenty rubber curtains. A space
twelve feet square in the center OF the
floor is marked off by surrounding ditch
a foot wide and a foot deep. When this
is filled with nice warm water twenty
pairs Of feet, five on a side go splashing
into It and twenty little bodies get a thor
oUgh lathering and good scrub. When
the teacher in charge thinks the cleaning
process complete-and often supervision is
very necessary-ths water is drained from
the ditch and the bathers take their places
on the central platform, where they are
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-29
Nubs of knowledge

Plating of straw for hats and bonnets
commenced about 1900.
Banks for the deposit Of money were in
in existence in the year 80,
Indigo for dyeing was introduced into
Italy in the eleventh century.
The rock on which Gibraltar stands
rises 1ES9 feet from the see.
English professional crickateers receive
800 for playing in test matches.
The German mile Is more than four
times as long as the English.
Ether as an Rnaesthetic was used by DIT.
Jackson for the first time in 1896
Pawnbroking began in England about
1900. during the reign of Richard 1. Occur
de Lion.
Trial by jury began to supercede other
modes OF prosecution late in the fourteenth
century.
Women enjoy equal suffrage with men
in Colorado, Wyoming. Utah and Idaho.
They have been voting in Wyoming sinca
1869. In a number of other states they
enjoy suffrage on a limited scale
The property loss in the United States
from fire during 1910 was estimated TO be
t21o.O00,oOo The total property loss in the
country from fire in the last thIrty-thrsS
years has been 1896 954.124. The greatest
loss in any one year was In 1906, the time
OF the San Francisco earthquake The
total loss for the country then was S5lA.-
! GIL 800.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-29
Mexican Maidens

Regarding some Of the customs Of the
Mexican girl" said a man from FL Paso.
Tex, there are current many mistaken
notions
For example, she 10 popularity supposed
to play the guitar, to wear a mantila and
to smoke cigarettes. AS a matter OF fact
the guitar lie almost an unknown instru-
ment among the women OF the upper
classes, the becoming mantra IL rarely
seen in the streets save on Good Friday.
having been discarded in favor Of hats
in atrocious taste. and the senorita never
smokes. Neither does she make q habit
OF attending bull fights"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-29
Tabloid History Of the Presidents

In the list OF presidents. James Abram
Garfield, the twentieth. was born in
Orange. o.. on November 10. 1881, and died
at Elberton. N. j., on September 10, 1881.
His father, AbraJn Garfield, a man OF ex-
cebent New England ancestry, took his
{aApily from New York TO the wilderness
in 1880, and after a brave beginning. died
at the age Of 81, leaving a widow and four
small children, of whom the future presi-
dent was the youngest.
drought up in log cabin, Injured to the
privations of frontier life, the boy acquired
an early passion for learning and become
an omnivorous. reader at the age Of 10.
For some months he drove q boat on the
Ohio canal He attended a seminary at
Chester and after the first term gained
enough during the vacations by harvesting,
carpentering and teaching to- support him
self and pay for hts education.
He graduated from williams college In
1856 with the highest hopors by means OF
PERSISTENT and conscientious work and
study During the next six years his phe-
nomenal activity made him a college presi-
dent n state senator, major general IN
the national army and a representative
elect OF the national congress.
He entered congress at Sc When Blaine
. left the house OF representatives for the
Senate In 1877 Garfield became the republi-
can leader in the house. He was elected
to the presidency on the republican ticket
on November 2, 1880 with General Winfield
Scott Hancock as his competitor. He was
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-29

There are several styles in which you
may convey your acid connections. But no
one Of them is quite 80 wen suited to the
revolving draught as the unsigned letter.
woman who had been a girl in a Ger
tain town went back to visit. She had
worked with brain and hand and aching
heart and had achieved some distinction
and a good living.
Why such inoffenslve accomplishment
should inspire you with a desire to serve
her with vinegar punch is unfathonable.
But you prepared the dose.
You wrote her a letter. She need not
feel smart. She had not done so much
Then you inserted the characteristically
catty bIackslap that women like you al
ways administer You said she was old
enough to have grown children. nluminat-
ingly, you suggested that she would bt
far better employed If she married and
settled down TO mind her own business like
other women. It was the height OF sill
ness, you informed her, for her to go L
dances as II she did not know she haC
crows feet and was getting fat. Then YOU
returned to the age question-which Scent
such a significant one to the woman whC
have done so little to justify the length o.
life with which the birth record credits
them. You said that the boys who wer'
escortins her around were old enough t
be her sons. You fairly jumped up and
down in a malignant linguistic effort TO hi
her in weak spot or scratch her in al
open wound. You shot every known ir
ritant, every villainous ingredient into
your punch and mixed It with are rage
strong hand Of an Infatuated woman.
Why? Can you tell? Can you define
what makes you eager to wound and scour.
age and anger another woman? 1t must bt
jealousy. She has qualities which you
know you lack. Or It is envy. You over
estimte her kind Of success. and want It.
She could tell you that her small fame has
been earned 50 hard that it has lost its
glamour. She could tell you. too, that she
would rather be in your place. a mother, q
homekeeper. But not you. No. no. not
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-29
Popular Fallacies

That all the so-called Havana cigars
come from Havana.
That the chorus girl dimes regularly in
the gastronomic palaces
That the only way to teach youth TO
siwm Is to throw him overheard in deep
water.
That an actor can make love In real
life as Economically as he does on the
stage.
That to turn bread upside down on the
table indicates you'n figure in a ship
wreck.
That the meat prices will conform with
the scientific fact that what goes up must
come down.
That IL you count ten after an enemy
swats yon on the nose you can contro
your anger.
That a beacon light on a mans nOs'
indicates an unlimited round battle with
John Barleycorn.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-29
Gentle Cynicisn1s

A love match has burned many a fell
lows fingers.
The principal objection to the spring poet
is that he Is all write
Many a man leads such fast life that
he dies of old age before he Is 20.
The only advice worth taking is the
kind we give ourselves
Don't go out looking for trouble. Most
of 1t is homemade, anyhow.
Too much money has been the undoinR
Of more men than too little.
Many a man clsmors for justice who
wouldn't like II II he should get it.
1t takes nerve TO allow a dentist to kin
one
The rock OF adversely generally has
little rye on the side.
Marriage is a partnership. generally with
one silent partner.
The more faults man has. the more
he believes in heredity.-Boston Herald.
Some men seek foreign shores for
rest and some to avoid arrest
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-29

what you are in your black heart and
senseless head. ,ssTt~'~e'.
You have no place in the public eye.
that you have a place which should be in
finitely better, you choose to regard her
as a mote in that eye. You constitute your
self the surgeon for her removal You
want to make the operation just as painful
as possible, too. You taunt her homeless
ness, her childlessness.
Not, you respisable coward, because you
value those blessings but just to brag about
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-29

what you have, that you may make her
possessions seem little You narrow-m minded
female pigmy, you cannot even guess how
deeply you wound. You have not the
comprehension to understand your own
success at hurting her.
You contemplate backbiter! The original
snake was condemned to singing the heel
Of women. But you have improved on
ancient privilege. With devilish ambition,
you have mounted higher. If your dearest
purpose could be achieved, you would bite
into the very heart Of the woman who
moves you to envy.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-29
Epigrams of All Periods

A promise Is a debt.
Peace feeds; war wastes.
The one-eyed are kings in the iand of the
5Olind. a'
4 True eioquence does not consist in mere
speech. nsa s..~
A lean compromise il better than a fat
lawsuit
The good seaman is known in bad
weather.
-s.F
} More people are slain by shoppers than by
the sword.
Take care OF your geese when the fox
breaches.
one hand must wash the other, or both
will be dirty.
:, one bird is the dish Is better than hun
dred In the air.
Virtue is so amiable that even the
vicious admire II.
wedlock rides in the saddle and repen-
tance on the cruper
woman laughs when she can and weeps
when she pleases.
...- tN...s5s D., ---
Some people take more pains TO be
damned than to be saved.
Mules make a great fuss about their an
cestors having been horses.
The Weekly Post Boy OF New York City
recorded the fact on February Is. E5l, that
"a creature called q Japanese is being ex-
hibited at Edward Willet's at White Hall. p
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-29

inaugurated on March l. 1881.
Everything about his administration
seemed aspicious when, on July 2, 1881. as
he was passing through the railroad sta
ton at Washington, setting out on a trip
through New England. he was shot by a
disappointed office seeker.
He was seyerly wounded and fingered
between life and death for ten weeks.
During the summer he was removed to
EIberon on the Jersey coast on special
train and bore the Journey well. At first
he rallied, but died on September 10. after
a few hours OF unconsciousness.
Copyright, 1911, by the N. Y. Herald Col
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-29

Lay Of the Hotel Lobbyist

\ so Or. Wiley has been asked to define
,ince pit, T." remarked the Chair Warmer.
Well. as long as he hasn't been asked
-, eat IT," answered the Hotel Lobbyist
ITS funny what lot OF things the Doc
has been asked to define that we always
though were perfectly simple. First it was
whisky. Everybody thought they knew
what that was. especially the man who
said he could take it or leave it alone and
then took Il. II seemed the eminent chap
crone Of the poison squad didn't know
after all. for when II came to a show down
the president tried to define It and then
passed It to- the attorney, general, that be
ing one OF the odd legal jobs.
Il suppose when DR.. Wiley has been re-
versed on his minoe pie finding or findings
that's the leather odds and ends-that the
president will turn the case over TO the
secretary OF the Interior that being the
department most affected by mince pie.
Otherwise he will have to leave the defini-
ton TO Aunt Della, the expert pie maker.
- One thing, you'll never hear Of the su-
preme court handing down a decision that
mince pie Is an illegal combination in re-
straint of savory tastes and odors and
order II dissolved into it's CONSTITUENT COM
ponents Of pastry, apples, raisins, ginger,
suet. more spice, meat. very hard cider
and trade secrets,
Spring isn't exactly the time to discuss
mince pie. when the Strawberries are on
Nthe straw and restaurant shortcake tastes
just like the oIdfashoned article did not.
Nevertheless with the. long and hungry
perspective Of time stretching betwixt
hence and next Thanksgiving. one can con-
jure up a very pleasant vision OF that gol-
den brown pie. just reeking like spice
shop and a drug store IN a prohibition state.
THE memory scents that ailuring Whit
as the first v IL exeavated, opening a trap