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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-05
PERSONS
WHO DESIRE
TO OWN A HOME
AND HAVE BUT LITTLE MONEY

should see this cosy 3-room home
which can be bought for $780, Q
level lots 25xt10 It. each. good. clay
soil; electric lights. city water, IS
Terms $25 down and $40 a month.
e. T.. GREGORY CO., INC, End Floor
National Realty Bldg. Evenings call
M. 9139.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-05
A SNAP

A 4O-room hotel, located on Pa
cific ave. Well furnished and doing
a good business. The owner wish s
to go east of the mountains and
will sacrifice this place. Will trade
for unincumbered property. Come
I'm and let us tell you more about it.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-05
T.R. BEFORE
THE STEEL
PROBERS

office" Roosevelt continued. AT
torney General Bonaparte was In
Baltimore. | called In Secretary
Root. and together We talked
things over. | dictated note to
the attorney general setting forth
what had told the gentlemen and
what they had told me-"
Roosevelt then read letter.
made public some time ago. In
which he told Bonaparte that in
view of conditions he would In
terpose no objection to the alb
sorption of the Tennessee COM
pany by the steel trust.
II wish II distinctly UNDER
stood" said the ex-president,
that acted solely on my own in
itiative and that | wish to accept
all responsibility connected there
with. The panic was due to un-
reasonable fear, and the only way
to stop II was to restore public
confidence.
The result Justified my
action"
NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-Former
President Theodore Roosevelt to-
day agreed to go Immediately be-
fore the Stanley house committee
investigating the steel trust to
tell what he knows about the alb
sorption of the Tennessee Coal q
Iron company.
The committee and Charles M.
Schwab agreed that Roosevelt
should be given first chance to
tell his story of how Gary and
Frick of the steel trust secured
his consent to their gobbling of
he Tennessee Coal & Iron COM
pany.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-05
FINE ROOMING HOUSE

with 40 rooms, with restaurant in
connee tion, $500. Will exchange
for improved city property.
BERTEI.SON G. co.
1862 Pacific ave.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-05
ONE MORE GOOD ONE

Close in on e ST., 9-room furnish
ed, including piano; rent only $35;
ers, in fact, an ideal home; only
$3.50. Good terms. or will trade.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-05
Railway Employees
Demand MorePay

y Leased wire Members of the federation sal
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-08-05
TAKE THIS CHANCE

Seventy-fiv acres. IL under cul-
tivation; 60 bearing fruit trees, ~
stands of bees, 2 fine horses, Q colts,
2 fine cows, 80 ducks and 200 chick
ems. all farm tools including new
stump puller: fine Groom modern
house, including furniture and house
tent There is also store building
and stock which goes with this place.
ings. The price is right. Not far
from Tacoma Will trade for part
in city property. No cash required.
List your property with us for
quick results. We can trade your
property for what you want, or
where you want it.
McCOLLEY, McLAUGH-
LIN & DUFF
1223-24-25 Fidelity Bldg. M. 1904
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1911-11-14

but the shore seemed so far away
and he was nearly exhausted. He
did the best he could and when he
got out of mid=channel, he found
the river suddenly grow shallow
and he could touch bottom. Wal
ter could have shouted, he felt so
relieved, and happy.
He pushed along through the.
water and was but few feet from
the bank, when he stepped into a
quick-sand. This was the worst
dilemma yet. The more he strug-
gled to free himself, the further
in he sunk, Higher and higher
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1911-11-14

The man dipped his sponge in
to the stream, ran to the canal,
squeezed the water out of the
sponge and sauntered, back. He
repeated this ridiculous operation
over. and over, while the sand
crept up Walters legs. and the
water crept- toward ibis snostrils.
It..reached his neck, I'm COM
ing," said the man with the
sponge.
The water reached. his chin
Right away said, the; man.
The water passed Walter nos
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1911-11-14

the sand crept. 1t was horrible.
Then he saw man come down
to the shore, with sponge in his
hand. I'm in a quick-sand. Help!
run quick! get a rope to pull me
out! hurry.R''
wait a minute" said the man.
Give got to sop up this river and
squeezeit into the canal Soon as
the canal is full, I'll help you!''
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1911-11-14
@Tho StDfY Ctnb g
: l ey Edmund Vahco o99ae
WALTER WAIT-A-MINUTE the sand crept It horrible
FER WAIT-A-MINUTE

The fisherman tossed his match
away and picked up, his oars.
"Wait ana1nute. I've got, 4 let
ter to deliver to a steamship
which sailed yesterday. Soon as.
that's done, I'll help you out.
Take it easy" :.s.( 81
Walter could swim pretty well
The Republican journal., 1911-03-09
TO MAKE A PAYING REPUTATION.

Advertising is the subject of very little
thought by the average farmer; he stands
back and takes what comes without com
planning or asking for better He gets
the small plums which fall into his lap,
while his city brother picks the large
fruit from the tree. Dwellers in rural
districts do not value sufficiently the
character their town acquires, while
Indifference, if it does not hurt their
pride, at least clips off a large percent
age of their profits. A duty you owe
yourself is to let your light shine to your
advantage; not let others illuminate your
deficiencies.
Every town has reputation. You
will be labeled; why not make your own
label? Cities and States have long seen
the advantage of showing themselves to
the world in the best aspect, and the
practice has SO grown in favor that an
important element in the advertising
field is matter Of this description. The
cities are drawing the best of our country
towns, and it is time that quick remedy
was applied to check the movement.
Every spot in New England has some
attraction peculiarly its own. Your town
has a place in the economy of modern
civilization. Study to find out just what
industry it is naturally adapted for; every
spot has some useful purpose for which
there are many standing ready to pay
the price. But don't make the mistake
of trying to force what the conditions
are not there to meet. In many towns
the natural conditions exist for some de-
sirable industry which would attract a
good class of people to fill up the empty
houses and build more. The lack is the
right man to organize, or the necessary
capital to put the matter through. This
condition can often be remedied by set
ting forth the proposition in the right
manner and in the right place and often
at very little expense or trouble.
could point to small town where a
farm sold to poultryman was made an
object lesson to hissneighbors and COM
pletely changed the character of the
place, a collection of shiftless farmers
becoming well-known center for fancy
stock In another town a dilapidated
house, with less than quarter of an
acre of land, was converted into sum-
mer boarding house and widely adver-
tised, resulting in the prosperity of more
than a dozen households through the
medium of money bringing vacationists.
Do not wait like Macawber for some
thing to turn up, but get together, and
make careful plans for the betterment
of your own town. The right man to fill
the place that is needed to complete the
plans for the upbuilding of your village
is waiting somewhere. It is your mission
to find him.. F. Perry, in The Ameri-
| can Cultiyator,
The Republican journal., 1911-03-09
MAINE NEWS ITEMS.

Tho Maine Central railroads total
transportation revenues TOT January,
1911. were s672, DIG, an incrase of Sal, 325
over the same month in 19lO.
A Gardiner woman claims record
bake of pies from one pumpkin. Mrs.
George E. Huntington, asslsteo ny Mrs.
E. A. Huntington, made II large-sized
pies from one pumpkin purchased of
Isaiah Smith of Farmingdale.
| Fire broke out at about 7;3O a. M,
March End, in Hotel Maine, Winthrop,
and the building is badly Quilted. The
| fire started in the basement OF Smith s
hardware store and worked through the
| partitions and under the stores. 1t was
very blind, and hard fire to light. Both
the hotel and hardware store are we'll in
sured.
Piscataquis potato-growers are con-
sidering the matter OF sending man
through the Middle West and other po-
tato-g growing sections this spring to get
a line on how large acreage the growers
in these outside regions plan to raise.
This move is suggested as plan which
would go far toward preventing glut-
ting of the market as it has been this
season.
Mrs. Alice A. Adams OF South Auburn
has a piece of wood from the frame of
the old frigate Constitution which she
values very highly. 1t was taken by her
grandfather, John Quincy Adams, from
the old war ship more than 60 years ago.
He was ship carpenter and helped to
repair the ship in the navy yard at
Charlestown. The piece of wood came out
of her oak ribs.
Mr.. ]. B. Packard of Monmouth made
about $120 from single acre of sweet
corn last season and is now telling the
farmers how to turn the trick. He be-
leves that there is more money in sweet
corn than any other product of the farm.
He also says there are fewer cows in
Maine than five years ago. This he at
tributes to the tuberculosis scare and
killing many of the cows after being
tested.
What is supposed to be the largest tree
cut in the State of Maine this winter,
was cut by John Tuell's crew at Dennys-
vile. 1t was an old growth pine. 1t took
four horses to haul it to the landing. The
butt log was Is feet long, 81 inches at
the top and scaled 1880 feet. The tor
was scaled in two logs; first part, Is feet
long, % inches and scaled 739 feet; second
part, 10 feet long, 81 inches at top anc
scaled 399 feet. The total length of log
was 62 feet and scaled 1881 feet. The
tree was perfectly sound except a few
scars where it was spotted about 40 years
ago.
At meeting of the trustees of the
State School for Boys, held March 1st in
Augusta, Charles Dunn of Portland, was
unanimously elected superintendent of
the school to fill the vacancy occasionec
by the resignation of E. P. Wentworth,
the present superintendent, which resig-
nation is to take effect on April LIST.
There were several candidates for this
position from various parts of the State,
but the compliment was paid to the Port
land man, without regard to party affilia-
tons of the trustees, of giving to him
an unanimous vote.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-09
PlTTSFiELD PERSONALS.

Miss Annie Wingate has returned
from Troy, where she had been for sew
eral months on account Of the illness and
death of her mother.
The last assembly of the dancing class
which has been conducted in this village
during the winter by Mr.. F. G. Spinney
of Belfast was held at Perkins Hall last
evening. The classes have proved to be
very successful under Mr.. Spinney's in
struction and it is hoped by those inter-
ested that they will be continued another
season. On Friday evening, March oath,
the close of the assemblies will be cele-
brated by a grand ball at Union Hall, to
be given under the auspices of the mem
bers of the class. Some very fine music
will be secured for this ball and it prom
ises to be the social event OF the season
for Pittsfeld Pittsfield Advertiser.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-09
MR.. BOCCS SEES ROME.

John Kendrick Bangs contributes an
other of his amusing ''Table d'Hote
Talks" to the current issue of Harper
Weekly. Mr.. Boggs is now in Rome, and
discourses upon the Catacombs. He
wants to start subterranean airline.
"How could you have a subterranean
line and an airline at the same timer
demanded the Fat Little Englishman,
coldly. "By running it through the sub
terranean air, dear sir, replied Boggs,
amiably. But when he found electric
lights in his hotel room one of the ideals
of his life was dissipated. 'What did
you expect-gas?" asked the Fat Little
Englishman. NO." said Boggs, "but
| really did want to see how these sons
OF eternity managed to 60 to bed with a
Roman CANDLE"
The Republican journal., 1911-03-09
r. lEVOUS
lsEI1ns El.al'IY
This Illinois School Teacher Was
Almost Frustrated but Was
Cured by DIR. Williams
Pink Pills.

When the nerves are unstrunr it
means that the blood is not supplying
the nervous system with the proper ele-
ments in sufficient quantity to replace
the waste caused by work requiring
nerve force.
This is a frequent occurrence with
teachers and other brain workers and
the remedy is shown by the experience
OF Mrs, Fay Hubbell, a school teacher,
OF Iorkville, Ill, who says:
Several years ago was so nervous
that it seemed that | was losing my
mind. i had suffered from nervousness
for several years but it had never been
SO serious, The nervous spells would
come on with such pains in the top of
my head that I was forced to scream
and cry out. Hearing any one talk or
visiting around me would make me
frantic. | had no appetite, there were
pains in the pit of my stomach and gas
constantly formed Food distressed me
and caused nausea. My back and legs
panied great deal and my kidneys
were affected. 1 lost weight and became
very weak.
81 was treated by doctors for a long
time but their medicine did not cure me-
My husband had read of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills and decided to have me try
them. A few boxes relieved me so
much that 1 gave them a thorough
trial and was entirely cured 1 think
very highly of DR.. Williams Pink Pills
and am very glad to recommend them"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are the most
direct cure for nervous troubles because
they remove the cause of these diseases
by building up and purifying the blood.
The pure blood which they make fur
nishes the nerves with needed elements
until they are restored to their normal
strength. The pills have made so many
remarkable cures in nervous disorders
that no sufferer can afford to neglect
giving them trial.
They can be obtained at any drug store
or direct from the DR.. Williams Medi-
cine Co., Schenectady, N. Y, at SO
cents per box; six boxes for $3.50.
While so promptly effective, DR.. Will
liams' Pink Pills contain no harmful
stimulants or opiates. They are per-
fectly safe and create no drug habit.
Write for free copy OF our new book
let, Diseases Of the Nervous System"
The booklet describes symptoms and
gives much useful information. It will
be sent free on postal card request.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-09
LIQUOR MEASURES HEARD.

AUGUSTA, March 2. Rep. Oliver Otis
Automatic liquor law and the bill in
troduced by Sen. Milliken, which is the
same as the Hastings bill vetoed by Gov.
Fernald, two years ago, both came up
before the temperance committee
Wednesday afternoon. Rev. Wilbur F.
Berry of the civic league watched the
proceedings closely and just before the
committee went into executive session
he had one or two words to say.
Sen, Milliken's bill, as was the one
offered by Sen. Hastings in 1909, is de-
signed to take the ''joker" out of the
prohibitory law. Section l of chapter
136 of the Revised Statutes, provides
penalties where no penalties are other
wise provided in the statutes. 1t pro-
vides that liquor sellers be punished by
Imprisonment and fine or by imprison-
ment or by fine and in addition thereto
Imprisonment. The offender may con-
seouently be sentenced to either or both.
This gives to the judge sitting on the
case power to exercise his discretion in
imposing sentences under the statutes in
liquor cases. Sen. Miliken's bill is de-
signed to make the matter entirely
clear. Besides himself it was supported
by Rev. Mr.. Berry and by Rev. c. E.
Owen.
Rep. Otis went into the merits of his
LIQUOR bill at great length. 1t would
greatly simplify the selling of booze, for
purely legal purposes, he said. When
Mr. Otis had finished Sen. Boynton, the
chairman of the committee, thanked him
warmly.
otis been a very interesting talk, -
he observed with twinkle in his eye.
Rev. Mr.. Berry then came modestly
forward to say that if every county was
as fortunate as Somerset in having a
sheriff who, like Sheriff Mooers, would
honestly enforce the prohibitory law,
there would be no need of any other
LIQUOR statute. No one opposed the bill.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-09
To End the Potash Dispute.

WASHINGTON, March 2. AS means
of permitting the United States to pro-
tect American investors in the potash
industry in Germany, Senator Curtis s
bill, amending the pure food law so as to
authorize retaliatory duties against
countries practising such discrimination
as is alleged Germany is doing, was ia
vorably reported today from the Senate
Committee on Finance. The proposed
law is general in scope and might be in
voked in many directions but its imme-
date purpose is avowedly the correction
of the potash situation.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-09
PICTURES OF FIFTY YEARS AGO

In the week of 1861 corresnora;nr =,
me u one that opened Sunday, Feb. 18th
tnere were in Washington some scona.
that invite the efforts of a histor;cai
painter Ct genius. One was the inauo1,-
ration OF Abraham Lincoln. ut whfch
Stepnen A. Douglas sat near the first
republican President holding his hat az
tne memorable inaugural address was
aeilvered. Lincoln and Douglas. though
IN striking contrast physically. were men
whose presence would be impressive in
any assemblage, and many there were
prominent at the time or were to Gain 10
nown in the years of prodigy at hand
lew months earlier Lincoln had defeated
douglas for the presidency. Though the
electoral votes for Douglas were few. he
was second among the four candidates
ana MS popular vote was more than two,
thirds as large as that received by Lin
coin. But the silent part that Douglas
TOOK at the Inauguration was of mo-
mentous nature. 1t placed the lover of
the Union before the partisan and con-
veyed to l, 300, 900 Douglas men through
out the country the idea that the new
PRESIDENT should have the sympathetic
al ald OF every citizen loyal to the nation.
Inc multitude of Democrats who respond
ed to the calls of President Lincoln, and
We're always honored by him for their
patriotism and heroism were influenced
at the start by the noble example of
douglas, who passed away untimelv be-
fore the end of the year.
The day the inaugural was delivered
clerk In leather store at Galena was
one OF the millions who read it and was
struck by the exalted plea for the preser-
Walton OF The Union without regard to
any other issue of the time. A painter
would lind this unpretentious clerk, who
mad not been one of fortunes favorites
except IN undiscovered qualities, a dra-
matte subject. In less than a year he
had received the surrender of a large
army, and in little more than two years
the Surrender of an army still larger
with greater and decisive event of the
same kind to follow at the end of four
years. In eight years the unnoted clerk
was President of the United States, and
at the head of a Union made firm for the
ages. Hundreds of thousands of farm
ers, artisans and clerks had formed vast
armies and fought the most desperate
battles of modern times to conclusion.
They agreed with Douglas that the Union
must be preserved and that the home
spun President from the West was a
leader worth listening to and supporting.
Among the young men of that moment
was John Hay, also of Illinois, who was
Lincoln private secretary, and destined
to rise high in diplomacy and statesman
ship, as we'll as literature st Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-09
A COMPETITOR FOR THE "BEEF
TRUST"

=
The stockholders of the ''beef trust''
may not be SO sure of large dividends
in the future if all the so-called s'meat
years are adopted by the people. The
latest ''meat substitute spoken of is
porpoise meat.
DR.. w. T. Tuck, who is in charge of
the New York office of the Bureau of
Animal Industry of the Department of
Agriculture, during recent visit in
Washington spoke of the uses of por-
poise meat. ''Porpoise meat" he said,
sis not at all bad. have tasted it and
found it rather palatable. The porpoise,
being mammal, has firm, red flesh, and
there is only faint suggestion OF fshy
taste: Porpoises are caught in nets off
the North Carolina coast and are then
slaughtered, like other animals.
81 have never tested the nutritive
value of the flesh, but l see no reason
why it should not be fairly satisfactory
as food. AS to sausages made from it,
if they are placed on the market the reg
ulations require that they shall be label
ed as consisting Of half beef and half
porpoise.
'"There are restaurants in Boston, the
the very home of the sacred cod, which
are advertising porpoise substitute for
sirloin. Porpoise could be eaten with
relish by persons who would run mile
to>get away from halibut or mackerel.
Their top layer may be used for shoes
and satchels, and hundreds of women of
fashion wearing belts Of porpoise hide
think they are far more stylish than
suede. Soup bones do not grow on por-
poises, but they have f1ippers from which
a delectable soup is made, known as
'potage fin de steele The bones are
good for buttons and the meat is good to
eat, and it may also be converted into
frankfurters which need no muzzles.''
The statement of DR.. Tuck that the
outer layer of the porpoise may be made
into leather novelties may give clue to
the cause for the tough steaks often
served on boarding house tables. Per-
haps, after all, the housekeeper is not
patronizing the beef trust, but instead is
serving porpoise meat to the unsuspect-
ing boarders.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-09
STOP THE BUNCO GAME!

1t is an old and almost played-out trick
for some of the gold-brick operators in
mining, oil, plantation and other securi-
ties in the questionable class to get up a
little newspaper Of their own, with a
pretentious title, in which they can print
anything they please about their propo-
sitions and from which they can con-
veniently clip whenever they want to
strengthen their circulars by quoting
favorable notices from the press. In
other days it was sufficient to get up
we'll printed, copiously-illustrated circu-
lars and booklets in the shape of pros
pectuses. These deceived the public for
a time, because they had all the appear
ances of honesty. But SO many went
into the business that new line of
effort had to be created, and thus the
newspaper suggested itself to the dis
pensers Of gold bricks" But even
these are no longer deceiving thoughtful
people who read the exposures constant
ly printed by wide awake newspapers.
The authorities at Washington, who
are just waking up to the fact that the
bunco-steerers are doing great deal
more harm than all the railways and in
dustrial corporations which the trust
busters have been attacking, are closing
the postoffice to the circulators of fraudu-
lent literature and warning the public
against their devices. One bankrupt
land company, claiming paid-up capital
of $500, 900, was found recently to have
cents in bank. The latest crop of get
rich quick stocks is in the insurance field.
Wonderful stories are told about the
enormous profits of the fire and life in
surance companies, and the public are
invited to step in and make their ever
lasting fortune. The superintendent of
insurance of New York, the wide-awake
Mr.. Hotchkiss, has been exposing the
true character of a lot of the new in
surance companies. Exchange.