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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
Tacoma Food Dealers Say They Don't Crow Over
Having Rich Customers; Like Working Folks Best

II you, Mrs. Tacoma Housewife,
or you, Mr.. Tacoma Husband, go
to the public market pretty reg
ularly, what sort of a figure do
you cut in the eyes of the men and
women who preside over vege-
tables and truck?
Doubtless you have formed your
own ideas (although. perhaps, In a
subconscious way of the dealers.
Possibly you would like to know
what sort of an idea the dealers
have formed of you. Well. any
way, here are a few samples of
opinions expressed at the public
market:
The first man interviewed said
he hadn't much use for the rich
customers, and by the same token
he rejoices most at sight of the
people with not much money in
their jeans-or purses, as the
case may be.
He says the rich want the best
in the market for the smallest
price, and haggle over sums that
a washerwoman wouldn't think
twice about paying. He acknowl-
edges that there are many gener-
GUS rich folks, BUT he would
rather deal with other kinds.
Il have always found women OF
the comfortable working class
more generous than the wealthy"
said one woman to the Times man.
"The fact that their husbands
work for living makes them ap-
preciate the value of money, but
1t also opens their eyes to the fact
that farmers work for living
Just as we'll. These women un-
derstand that we cannot sell our
produce for a few cents more than
1t costs us to raise it. With the
wealthy woman 1t Is different.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
Editor Times:

Editor Times:
A word anent our public-spirit-
ed citizen, Mr.. Il. G.. Griggs, trying
to save the city a large sum of
money on lumber used for the
pipe line. I fail to see where the
saving comes in at this stage, for
If Gull lumber is just as good Gas
he contends) why were not the
specifications made out to that
effect in the first place and the
extra price saved on the other
|two-thirds of 1t?
But anyone with any knowledge
of lumber knows that sap, pitch,
black knots and coarse-grained
lumber does not last nearly as
long as close-grained clear general
ly used for pipe slaves, and one
defective piece will destroy the
pipe just as effectively as If 1t
was all of the same material.
Mol l am afraid any saving
will be for Mr.. Griggs' company
alone, but as sidelight 1t shows
independence and faithfulness on
the part of the inspectors.
A LUMBER INSPECTOR.
Not connected with any city work.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
Editor Times:

Editor Times:
From reading your paper
judge you to be an upholder of
square deal to all and that you
think that the eight-hour law fol
women should be enforced.
Why is it that a certain hotel
man in Tacoma breaks that law
OF course, If asked to explain
he would say he works the tive
girls in his dining-room eight
hours. This Is not 30. He says
he lets them have half an hour
for meals. But he does not. The
girls eat on their own time.
II they eat during their Eight
and a half hours ON the premises, u
1t is no more than to snatch a few
mouthfuls and that occupies
about five minutes. Therefore
this man works two girls from ten
to twenty minutes over eight
hours every day.
What good is the eight-houT
law to those girls?
A BELIEVER IN THE EIGHT
HOUR LAW.
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editorial PAGE OF Che Cacoma Cimes
nRsnMEC Business 0fnce Main y3S, A11s5
UUVNlS Circulation Dept. Maia 7sa, A17ss
Editorial Dept. Main IDA A173s
OFFICE--7es COMMERCE. ST.
THE LAND

is good the thoughts people everywhere turning
thing bi
good kindly mother earth! the material o
all comforts, onl
satisfying physical pent
1t. be thankful for that!
In the west there vast states that comparatively speaking
Bolton Hall calculated
population of the entire globe might live Texas
The possibilities of really intense cultivation beyond huma
only countries that the land is capabl
millions millions families the Oldest
multiplied hundred thousand fold
And scientist proddng will
o newly-discovered knowledge
civilization the places will
North America but in island and continent
And wantony held of altogether IL
growing necessities
a apple-when 1t is ripe! And
ripening in the sunshine of
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
THE WASP
Published Weekly
Subscriptions Now Due.
Advertising Rates on Request.

From the way some old mar
ried couples act 1t Is hard to be-
lieve that they were ever in love
with each other.
Constable Dock Mingo has a new
silver badge as big as a backing
box. Doc thinks it makes him
look more important.
Speaking about titles. there
doesn't seem to be any wild
scramble among most men to get
20. X" after their names.
While making cider Wednesday
Ansel Pogram cut one of his fin
gers. II bled some into the cider
but Anse said it wouldn't make
any difference after the stuff was
bottled and had a French label
put on 1t.
What has become of the tai
fellow who wore goatee and
spent most of his time whiting
with a Barlow knife?
When Bud Hawser kissed
Lovey Boyce Sunday evening one
of the neighbors said the smack
sounded like hitting ceiling
with wet dish rag.
One advantage a man has il
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

/ that he can wear a hat four
years old without attracting any
particular attention.
Mrs. Amanda Pickerell re-
marked at the sewing circle
Thursday afternoon that some
men seem to think they have done
their whole duty for the day
when they have built a fire and
brought in bucket of water.
Perhaps you have noticed that
it's always the neighbors' chill
dren that do all the meanness
and deviltry.
Polk Dodson came out In the
Bedbury Banner last week with
a double-header editorial advocat-
ing the reelection OF Taft and
higher prices for turnips.
AND MITTENs.
The frost is on the pumpkin,
The briars and the rocks;
It's time to wear your overcoat
And put on heavier socks.
Once in a while you will come
across a person who believes that
when roosters crow in the middle
of the night there is going to be
a change in the weather.
Prof. A. Tanning Mills, who
moved from Boston to the Salt
marsh farm last month, has
named his span of bay mules Me-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
What's Wrong With the Navy?

William H. Daley sailor, told in the Times
Thursday Friday startling of conditions in the
dispassionaey Much of 1t is corobor
by evidence which has passed through
secretary
Daley officials could have punished
him for perjury.
Ism n consid
officers
doesn't sound rghtnor American The needs sound
healthy should them like
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

A congressman is far more apt
to have heard of ball player than
ball player is to have heard Of a
congressman.
Palmistry was practiced by the
ancient Greeks.
And the modern clairvoyant
bunk hasn't much on the Delphic
oracle.
The colon % and the semi
colon O. have been used In Eng
lish literature since 1900.
A popular physician says: Let
me prescribe the diet of a nation
and / care not who makes its
songs" Now If he could only pre-
scribe the drinks of a nation he
could make its songs at the same
time.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

Ilion and Perhilion. The profess
sor's hired man is already kick
ing about the names.
Did you ever know a little old
woman who acted all the time
like she was afraid of her hus-
band?
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Tyler
Knott, a daughter. It's a girl and
weighs eight pounds.
Somehow a man always looks
out of place at a millinery open
ing.
Leander Mallet's wife nearly
had a fit yesterday morning be-
cause Leander asked her to not
slice the ham as thick as a shoe
sole.
There's hardly anything so
awkward as a short, fat woman
trying to keep up with a tall
man who wants to walk fast.
Lamson Scollard, who teaches
at Plum Center, came near swal-
lowing a blatta orientalis yester-
day, but got choked on the second
syllable. Tybald Newcomb says
the thing wouldn't have bothered
Lamson If he'd called 1t cock
roach.
The real pleasures in life are
those which have no day after.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
- MEMORY !
NA2s ,.s<(- e1aT0" enAL"

The train went into the open switch
And the cars were piled in the yawning ditch
There are ten new graves in the church yard plot
The Switchman forgot"
The ship smashed a rocky shoal,
And many drowned where the breakers roll
And is where 1t once was not
The Captain forgot"
Fire broke out in the tenement
And score of people to death sent,
And the reason2 Simple enough, l wot-
The Waterman forgot"
There is moral-or none to show
The tragedies happened-and all know
Is just this much of the ugly lot
Someone forgot"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
The Self-Reliant

One of the written
Every young and woman ought to read regularly
a Here is sample
believe thought believe
private heart, all men-that is genius"
Most follow n
n
But the women--those paths
can conceive then fight for it.
They afraid themselves.
TORONTO has S0-year-old and
abe the only employed incompetent
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

The homely girls married just
powder her
low n collar.
s write
young walks paor
then stops buy good cigar
The o'clock crowd to work like had ocomotor ataxa
that through his pockets
complains that she found anything them valuable
for him miss.
that would rather
will hang all bar underwear the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
Making a Million Honestly

Mr. discussed the question: Can make
million dollars honesy?" His YES $5O0,000
600, society,""
named number who his opinion had the latter
figure them Jefferson Lincoln Carlyle Beethoven,
others
he said, actually
actually busy collecting
1t that they had time it,
And that's the that of the multi
milonares Bryans list could their bills
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

ID. Rock efeller
than anyone else
in the country.
She has made
almost a life
study of the in
famous combine
and it's guiding
spirit, and sew
aral times she's
showed t h Q m
where to head in.
Her biography
of John D. is the
real thing. Also,
she's the author
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

was assigned to
the command of
the Shenandoah
valley district,
embracing the
northern part of
the area between
the Alleghenies
and the B | u e
Ridge. This was
the beginning of
evil days for the
beautiful n q
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
CAUSE FOR GRIEF

CAUSE
Col Falsom reading morning paper, when
claimed:
What a terrible
What is it-Somebody marred?" wifi
NO" but newmarket a rage, a
Zee pot at her husband His shveed
OF them cutting his usu vein he died the
the the unfortunate
She frantic with made
Poor with sigh THE broken
to her chi SET
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

Shenandoah valley, be-
cause Jackson was hard fighter,
and it took long time to whip
him, and by the time the fight
was over there was not much left
in the Shenandoah valley that you
could either eat, steal or set
afire.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

Still, l have some good GUS
toners among the wealthy. Some
Of 'em know just what they want,
and how they want 1t.
Are the rich generous buyers?
Well, should say not. The only
Iredeeming point about their GUS
tom is that they buy in large
quantities. Give me the average
DeOpIe every time"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

She doesn't have to work herself.
and so just can't fully realize
what it means to others.
Eyes. that's right" said another
feminine market dealer, breaking
into the conversation, there is
one wealthy woman who | couldn
not bear to see come near my
stand. She is not living here now.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

She would finger over the vege-
tables, spread corn out on the
pavement, want to pick out the
peppers herself, and then try to
beat me down In price. Once,
she ordered 100 pounds of pota-
toes. She had them weighed and
when the machine showed one
pound underweight, she left with
out taking the spuds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
In the Editors Mail
erybody in Pierce county reads

Everybody in Pierce county reads this column. Short
letters from Times of without
malice, Write anything
body wish, have malice your
letters printed because they long, Keep 'em
short
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

For nice quiet job we recon-
mend that of the man who rubs
the fly specks off the grand opera
music.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

Science, with all its necromancy
can't make a cabbage taste like
anything but a cabbage.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
UPLIFT STUFF

Weil1doing is like well-digging:
1t has to get through the hard
rock before it gets easy.
II no one is better off than you
are. be thankful for yourself. II
no one Is worse off than you are.
be thankful for the world.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

tSJ OA Inv SeAA ~
and a lot more things. Her birth
day is tomorrow and her name is
Ida Tarbell.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
Was Your "Want AID"
In the Times

If not the want" may still be
untitled for the very person
WHOM you are looking for may be
reading only The Times.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
TODAY IN HISTORY

Just so years ago today, Nov.
|, 1861, Gen. StoneWall Jackson
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
OUR DAILY BIRTH.
DAY PARTY.

Herc's a woman who knows
more about the Standard Oil Co.
and about John
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

A man may acquire fame, but a
name like Hoke Smith must al.
ways be the gist of fortune.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

Dean Swift said: mo wise man
ever wished to be younger" Got
that twisted. He should have
said: mo young man ever wishes
to be WISER
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

A Minnesota doctor says that II
folks didn't breathe they would
never get sick. Neither would
their neighbors find out that they
had been eating onions.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04
MOST
ANYTHING
JOSH WISE
SAYSi
9Th man who
smokes a pipe
allus catches tn
same street car
each mornin' an
believes In one
brand of ter
hacker"
JOSH WISE
CAVE.

GOLDSMITH'S BUNK
Man wants but little. here below
Nor wants that little longs
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

Miller Conn of Meridianville
Ala, has taken his seven daugh-
tiers to a hospital, all sick with
typhoid fever. His wife died OF
typhoid three weeks ago.-Funny
Column He'll Howler (B. Elzebub
Publisher.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

"The kind of stuff the bards of old
Put over in their song.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

MEDICAL NOTES.
A draught is small and inef-
fectual column of pure air almost
surrounded by foul air.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

But, for that matter, neithe
would they have a chance to ca
onions.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

The frost is on the pumpkin
And the corn is in the shock
And the question of the hour 1,
how
TO get the benny out of hook.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

Beri-beri is caused by the use
of rice that has been milled till
the phosphorus is removed from
the grain.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

If a thin girl is the apple of 6
fellows eye, is a fat girl an apple
dumping?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

There may be sermons in stones,
as the poet says, but few men care
to attend to the rock-pile.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-11-04

Palmistry was practiced by the
ancient Greeks.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-24
court APPOINTS
WOOD RECEIVER

Phnadelphis., Pa. June 2s.-Judge
Healland. In the United States Circuit
Court. to-day appointed Elmer p. Wood
ancillary receiver for the Biuefields
Steamship Company. Mr.. Wood, II is
said. was the original receiver for the
company, appointed about year ago
in Louisiana.
According to the bin OF complaint re-
Gently filed by Frederick NJ Steele. a
minority stakeholder. the purpose of
the receivership is to bring suit against
the United Fruit Company. under the
Sherman antitrust act, for $4,000, 900
damages. 1t is alleged in the bill that
the fruit company obtained control ot
the steamship company. thereby stining
competition in the sale of bananas in
this country. causing a loss to the
stockholders
In contesting the application for the
receiver. counsel for the company de-
clared that new board of directors
is about to be elected, and the receiv-
ership in Louisiana will probably be
vacated
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-24
South Richmond Bureau.
The Times Dispatch.
1920 Hull Street,
South


The valuable cambridge street prop
erty purchased Il month or six weeks
ago In the name of James T. Estes. was
nade over by him yesterday TO the
Larus Bros. Tobacco Company for $40
and other valuabl considerations.
The deed of bargain and sale filed In
the clerks office OF the Hastings Court.
Part 2, makes the big tobacco company
the acknowledged owner of this fac
tory site, Instead of owning II throue h
an agent.
The plot bought first by Mr.. Estes
and now by the Larus Bros Company,
occupies the whole block on cambridge
Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets
and extends back toward Hull Street
almost two-thirds of the block 1t is
one of the most advantageous factory
sites In the new ward or is thought
TO be such. and was obtained for what
Is considered a remarks bly, reasona BILE
figure 1. n
The sum named in the deed by
which Mr.. Estes acquired the property
some time ago was about $4,000 net.
the gross figure being almost $4,000.
The various lots that form the big plot
are occupied by dwelling houses at
present but these are to be demol-
ished at some future date to make
way Tor a tobacco factory.
according to a statement given out
some time ago the Larus Compa v
VIII not build on this property until
the lease on its present plant expires,
which Is not for number OF Years.
sent on TO Grand Jury.
Walter Bobbitt colored, charged
with maliciously cutting Raymond Ell
us. Swansboro youth. was arraigned
before Magistrate Cheatham, in the
OAK Grove Court yesterday morning.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-24
MEDICAL LEAGUE .
ATTACKED BYOWEN

Washington. y. c.. June 33.-An at
tack on the League for Medical Free
dom as an organization that had been
r'misled by the agents of the patent
medicine interests" In opposing the
establishment OF n government depart
ment of health, was made in the Senate
to-day by Senator Owen. author OF a
bill now pending to establish such a
department.
Senator Owen said his bill had been
drawn SO as to give no school of med
icine an advantage over other schools.
The rights of private citizens. he said
were fully guarded by the measure. the
chief purpose of which was to estaH-
lish general preca utions against infec-
ton and disease and to educate the
public in sanitary safeguards and in
the dangers OF contagion. ifl
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-24

Cedar Camp at the corner OF Twelfth
and Hull Streets to morrow afternoon
at 3:15. from which place tho two
camps Will march to the cemetery.
Personal and General. M
The women OF the Clopton Street
Baptist Church gave one OF the most
successful lawn parties OF tho season
lats night on the vacant lot near the
corner of Hull and Cloptcn Streets.
The warm night brought out a crowd
tnat brought JOY to the hearts OF the
girers OF the entertainment and money
into the Golfers OF the church. The
UNIQUE apron and tie" feature was
the greatest success
The members of Maple Camp. No. 100,
Woodmen of the World. met last night
ut 5 o'clock In Fraternity Hail. In
addition TO regular business. arrange
ments for attending the unwilling of
the Taylor monument Tomorrow were
The Rev. D. G. Lancaster viii preach
twice Tomorrow in the Oak Grove
Baptist Church. Morning subject:
Cities OF Refuge" There will be spe-
cial music at both services.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-24

TRAIN PROPOSED


Washington, D. c.. June 23.-Plans
have been formulated to conduct an ag-
tricultural train through the sixteen
States comprising the territory OF the
Southern Commercial Congress. ac-
cording to an announcement made to-
day BY DIT. Clarence j. Owens. commits
nioner OF the bureau of agriculture of
the congress. The railroads of the
South and the United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture will cooperate In
the effort. 1t is sought BY this enter
prise TO Interpret the agricultural re-
sources of the Southern States through
papers prepared by experts and to en-
plot the pre- emnence OF the section
in the number OF growing hours in
average rainfall per year aud I'M the
character and variety OF soils. An eff
fort will also be made to show the re-
llation OF education to the agricultural
life OF the South and to define the atti-
tude OF the South toward immigration
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-24
COMES A TIME
When Coffee Shows What It Has
Been Doing.

"Oflate years coffee has disagreed with
me-" writes matron from Rome, N. Y.
:" It's lightest punishment being to make
me 'logy' and dizzy, and it seemed to
itbicken up my blood.
1.-THE heaviest was when it upset my
stomach completely, destroying my appe-
tite and making ME nervous and irrta BILE,
and sent me to my bed. After one Of these
attacks. in which nearly lost my life,
concluded to quit the coffee and try
Postum.
NE Invent right to the spot! I found it
not only most palatablc and refreshing
beverage, but a food as well.
All my ailments, the loginess' and
dizziness, the unsatisfactory condition Of
my blood, my nervousness and irritability
disappeared in short order and my soreiy
afflicted stomach began quickly to re-
Eover. began to rebuild and have
steadily continued until now Have a
good appetite and am rejoicing in sound
health which owe to the use OF Postum =
Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
Read the little book, "The Road to
MELVILLE, = in pkgs. "There's arcason,' =
Ever read the above letter. a new
Dne appears from time to time. They
pre- Genuine, true and full of human
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