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The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
HAD HIGH OPINION OF TURKS
Gen. Miles In Euloey of the Fighting Force Put In the Field by
 suItan's Empire.

During the spring of 1897 the war between Turkey and Greece broke out and Gen. Nelson A Miles was ordered to Europe to observe the military op- erations His opinion of the Turkish army he gives in his book, Serving the Republic:" "The Turkish army, which we hear less about than any other, is a well organized, disciplined army, numbering at that time 100000 effective men. It is trained to look upon the sultan as the spiritual head of their religion on earth This has the effect on the mind of the Turk of inspiring the belief that in serving his sultan he is serving his God There is certainly one advantage in their re- ligion, in that it maintains absolute SO briety. The use of liquor is abhorrent to the Mohammedan. and results in their army being an absolutely tenn perate organization The personnel of their army is made up of strong men. and their military establishment Is conducted with great economy.
 q had an audience with the sultan and was cordially received by the high OIuCldlS Ol tue y. 1u0 manner of his assuming sovereign power, the fact of his keeping his el- der brother a prisoner in palace just above Constantinople on the Bosporus for over twenty years. had prejudiced me somewhat before meeting him. On seing him found a man of small sta ture, keen, sharp face, cold, black. cruel eyes, black hair and full beard. In conversation found him thorough ly familiar with military affairs and deeply interested in the condition of his army.
 Great reverses occur in political as well as in other walks of life. and 1t is somewhat remarkable that. after thir- ty years, the man then occupying such an autocratic position is now prison CT practically in the same condition as his brother was at the time. and his brother enjoys the liberty and author ity which he had been deprived of for so many years"
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
GAVE HER BABY TO STRANGER
Poverty and Sickness Drives Woman to Part With One of Her
 Children.

St. Louis.-Worsted in her battle against poverty and sickness for her self and her two children, Mrs. Frances Jesse, twenty-five years old. a widow, has given away her two-months-old baby, Frank. An East St. Louis wom- an, whose name Is unknown to the mother. took the child.
 To make it impossible for mother love to cause her to interfere in the future with the rearing of her child Mrs. Jesse refused to take the name and address of the woman to whom she intrusted Frank. She does not know where the child is, and perhaps he has gone completely out of her life.
 Mrs Jesse still has Michael two years old. She can leave him with neighbors, she said. while she looks for work to support herself and Michael When Frank was born. three months after his fathers death, Mrs. Jesse found 1t impossible, she said, to keep her family together.
 Weak from the lack of proper food and driven frantic by the cries of her hungry children. Mrs. Jesse told neighbor, it was said. that she would end it all by jumping from the Eads bridge with the two boys. The man was unable to help her, but took her to police headquarters, where she told her story. The police told her she could find a good home for the baby if she would let 1t be known that she wouId mart with him
 Mrs. Jess consented and newspa- pers told of the two-months-old baby who could be had for the asking. The East St. Louis woman called for Frank and carried him away.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
KEEP TRIBAL CUSTOMS
sARcEE INDIANs DISREGARD
 MARCH OF TIME.
History, Intended for PosterIty, stiIl To Recorded In Crude Fashion on the Hides Of steers-old Men
 Tell of Adventures.

Within twelve miles of Calgary, a city of 60,00O people, and with tele- phone communication with that city, tho Sarcee Indians pursue their lives and observe exactly as their forefa- therr did the ancient habits and GUS toms O. thei tribe, says the Toronto Globe.
 Two years ago there was a great festival at which seven of the oldest chiefs related the stories of their ex- ploits, which the painter of the tribe preserved for posterity on two i'm mense steer hides. These hides are now carefully preserved at the office of the agent on the Sarcee reserve.
 Tn Indian lad relies for his history on campfire stories and well-tanned steer hide covered with queer char acters, painted crudely with sort of ink made of the juices of plants.
 These records are not haphazard, but they are not altogether regular. When several chiefs and medicine men of the tribe are growing old an assembly is arranged where the fa- nous Indian interpreter and painter meets the aged men. One by one the old men stand forth before the people and recount the stories of their lives.
 They tell thrilling tales of the bat ties in which they have fought, of the scalps taken, and the horses they have stolen. These three achieve ments are regarded as the three most honorable and valorous exploits of the great men. Compared with these the white mans election to parlia- ment, his appointment to high office, and his great commercial achieve ments are as nothing.
 Sometimes their meetings last sew eral days. The old men are enthusi- astic in their descriptions of by gone days; thep recite rapidly and gesticulate much. The members of the tribe, sitting about them, listen eagerly, storing the details to be told over and over again to their son's sons, until they are tribal traditions of the long past. As they talk the painter sits upon the ground with his steer hide spread before him and paints with his rude dyes pictures to Illustrate the incidents.
 A circle represents a barricade or encampment; awkwardly drawn pie lures of animals stand for the horses he has stolen; a galloping horse, with 8 man on his back, suggests the story of a wild flight across the prairie be- fore pursuing enemies; flag may mean a bloody battle won; tadpole- like mark, a scalped Indian. The figures are very crude, the drawings no better than those a four-year-old child makes on it's slate. But some in- genuity is exercised in the grouping, and each sketch is, in a way, a key to the thrilling tales which in time become history.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
purauIno Woman.

whatever the law of man may at tempt or achieve in the way of re forming the harmless, necessary bachelor, there is a higher natural law of quest and capture which-in the opinion of expert feminologists- the predatory woman rather than the comparatively timid and quiescent man fulflls. Nowadays woman is the pursuer, man is the pursued. The luckless wight who hopes to escape the mantraps and springs of matrt mony has need of all his cunning; there is no safety but in retreat; he is no match for the devious cunning of the huntress who has marked the game for her own. MT. Man may take refuge in splenetic lyrics about The Female of the Species, or The Yam pire, but that is his sole satisfaction. The woman spins her web and smiles and is demure; she knows that he may fling his caustic epigram about The Serpent's Tongue, but-clever arachnoid that she is-she will have him at the last She can afford to bide her time and be patient, for whether it be leap year or some other year, her net will enmesh him and he will grant whatever she desires, even to the extent of letting her vote or go to congress or be president-Phila- delphia Ledger.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
P's and O,s

Bishop Logan Herbert Roots of Hankow." said New York clergyman, must be profoundly interested in the Chinese revolution. Bishop Roots stands very high with the Hankow Chinese.
 ''He once told me that when he first went to China he had a good deal of difficulty in remembering faces. He mentioned this difficulty to a manda- rin. He said:
 "T'm getting over it now; but in the beginning here in Hankow you al' looked as like as two peas
 Two peas? said the intelligent mandarin, smiling. 'Bu. why not say two queues?'"
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
soMETHINe OF A NUISANCE
AR Fatherly Comes to the Front With some Remarks About
 Mamma's New FootstooI.

The only Christmas gift whose presence in the house regret" said MT. Fatherly, Ifs footstool which our girls gave to mamma.
 Mother is not an old lady, but the girls thought it would be nice for her to have something to put her feet up on and then I think that as sort of subsidiary idea they had fancy that 1t would look well in the house.
 'T am not familiar with footstool architecture and so I don't know of just what design this one is, whether it's a Louis XIV. or Louis V. or what; but I know it's built of mahogany, is -oblong in shape, upholstered in green, has carved legs with claw feet and that for it's size it is pretty solid piece of furniture.
 ''On Christmas night when the girls put that footstool under manma's feet Isn't that lovely? they said, and mamma said it was perfectly beautiful and she sat with her feet on 1t for the rest of that evening. But she has never used it since; she isn't foot stool lady yet.
 'Then the girls began setting that footstool around in our parlor or in our library, where they thought 1t would appear to advantage and where 1t would, by it's presence, enhance the attraetiveness of our outfit. It has been during this time, while the girls were placing the footstool around here and there to see how 1t would look, that l have become best ac- quainted with it by stubbing my toes against it.
 For, you see, 1t was new to me. and then, with the girls forever shift ing it around, really 1t seemed as if ] couldn't go anywhere in those two rooms without falling over that foot stool.
 Just now the girls have got that footstool under the piano bench; they are trying to see how it looks there. The bench is of mahogany and 1t has curved legs and claw feet, like the footstool's, and in a way the two pieces of furniture do harmonize. hope that this harmony will appeal ts the girls strongly. and that there un- der the piano bench, for a long time they will let this curiously, one might almost say indignantly, obstructive footstool remain"
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
parIsians Evidently Honest.

An astute rogue who hoped to make his fortune by speculating on the petty dishonesty sometimes latent in otherwise respectable people has had an upprofitable experience in Paris. The swindler haunted the streets in the neighborhood of the opera, which swarm with work-girls during the luncheon hour, and dropped here and there envelopes bearing an Orleans address. In each envelope was a note asking a friend" to redeem for $4.60 at an address he gave a gold purse value S6s. Instead of the expected haul the swindler found to his disgust that almost all the letters were sent on to him by the finders. while none had attempted to obtain the purAA
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
As a Counter Irritant.

Doctor, is modern medical science really making any advance in treating rheumatism?
 Yes; it has discovered what is be- Heved to be an absolute specific" Whats the name of it?"
 "Acetylmethlenedisalicylic acid" 'What?"
 T won't say it again; I'll write it p How do you take it?"
 'I don't suppose you take it at aIl- You practice learning to pronounce it, and that makes you forget your rheu- matism."
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
Absorb Water Through the eEin.

AD8oTD WdteT HTOuHH LTI0 oENIH'
 Experiments have been made with frogs which tend to show that those animals rapidly absorb water through the pores of the skin. Emphasis is laid by certain authorities upon the fact that frogs never take water by the mouth. On being exposed for sev- eral hours to dry air some frogs ex- perimented with lost IA per cent of their weight, but this was nearly all regained within 24 hours when they were placed in dish containing wa far only one centimete- 'p deDth-
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
HaIr Lenutha Are Mooted.

Munich.-The question is being rais- ed here as to what is good length of hair. There is sudden revival of the story of the young lady in the fairy tale who, imprisoned in the tower, enabled her lover to climb up to the window of her cell by letting down her wonderful locks. According to the Munich News. although the young ladies of the present day can not hope to parallel in real life this poetic invention, there is actually . record of a head of hair ten and . half feet long. Strange to relate. this did not belong to a lady, but to an Indian chief.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
Beautv HInt.

/ Red elbows, says the Evening Newss bro happily a thorn which may be re- moved. Saw on the red elbows. soak Them in a bleaching mixture of un- slaked lime, steep them in carbolic acid, and they will never trouble you again. Cold feet may be treated sim Aarly.
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
Heard h 2 Newspaper ofHce.

Honesty Is the best policy"
 T wish I could believe it, but I have in mind the woman who sent in an advertisement reading like this: 'Wanted-A husband with money; ob- ject alimony.' Did she get an an- swer to her advertisement Not one.'
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05
Sheep In woIFs cIothIno,

T didn't know you owned car. Smith"
 'T don't"
 "Then why in the world are guu wearing that auto rig7"
 "To keep fool motorists from run ming over me. They think I'm one o1 asm.S
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05

Book Agent-Is Mrs. Peck at homer
 MT. Peck-No. sir. She's at her club delivering her celebrated lecture on "The True Solution of the Servant Question"
The Holbrook news., 1912-04-05

MIKE many of the arts and crafts of the American Indian. the work of the Navajo silver smith and other artisans is showing DO deterioration. In
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-01

and poorly; false
Dirty Dollars chucked these spread.
more than determined find the Wolf and also bring the
Flock realization of the of its danger He among
the Sheep and said:
You Bell Sheep his
before leave the subble
ALL Time again against the Bell
Sheep and his master, the Wolf But have not listened
At this the Bell Sheep all his followers pretended
Indignation, Dirty Dollars had told them to do.
works"
How the Bell Sheep and his "smirch
fair pasture? Are prosperous? Are envy OF
all other flocks? world will find
What will the other Fock think of
they learn that Shepherd Dog have magned
so?"
at true the Sheep
said, abundant,
chance the Shepherd Dog
that there Wolf Sleeps clothing for
number have been destroyed
There the Shepherd Dog and Dirty Dollars
the Shepherd liked the fit of Dirty
Dollars
What kind of sheep you demanded the Shepherd Dog
"a perfectly respectable Sheep Dirty Dollars replied Il
member the Chamber of Commerce in the best circles
and to church Sunday"
You a ar" said the Shepherd Dog 'You Wolf
and is Dirty Dollars"
There a grim, the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-01

slip off his the Sheep and say them At
robbed Lambs Lambs Of their moth
fling of head, OF his powerful
he would the throat wide thrust his yellow
still quvering flesh.
Bell Sheep kept STILL lest his bell should
waken Dollars had said he would
stand for monkey business
Flock bitterly
another that though this is
a fertile pasture, nothing for subbe?"
many said Shepherd who
Wolf in Sleeps clothing
And Putty whom chosen to lead is a
traitor. but the Wolf"
THE NATURE OF THE SHEEP TO BE PATIENT
AND LONG-SUFFERING.
said the Flock, went nibbing
the ubb while the Bell Sheep the atened lush
Wolf" said the Shepherd because
the manged Sheep"
Shepherd searched the and
1.-THE Shepherd o trouble. a
melting the Flock discomfort We must
settle this presumptuous fellow"
sateltes-sycOphants a-takng their
orders Dirty Dollars false throughout
They do say babbled the andaImongers- there are
FlOckthey who
killed last night filled the belly not of Wolf the Shepherd
Dog would believe, the Shepherd Dog himself"
They whispered that he lazy
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-01

Flock, that the of IL ID worth
recording. Tuesday November 8, 1912
Between Dirty Dollars and the Shepherd Dog there this
The Shepherd fought his honor
and the safety the Flock while Dirty Dollars at heart thief
when then
would not fight fair.
Also Wolf Dollars than
Shepherd Dog he had which the Shepherd Dog
might have matched If he had been less honest.
the Shepherd this least his favor that he
fighting fight Dog than Wolf,
The Shepherd Dog knew he could from Dirty
Dollars He would get quarter he would give 1t
that this should be battle to the death Either the
Wolf the Dog must die.
Once twice. the Shepherd Dog leapt the Wolf who
evaded vicious
shoulder. little higher would reached throat
time--
rushed again, before the quite
They the shock
tumbng wrthng the Wolf
above, the Dog below.
teeth buried the Wofs throat, he
held grimly bindy knowing that this the only thing left
him do-to hold while life lasted
And the Wolf in his coward heart knew he must kill or be
fight had fight before. He
and cash and tear until the vseke grip of those jaws his throat
murderous
instinct of the Wolf kill
He the flesh crunch
the until these brave
hear of his enemy is still be
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-01
BY FRED L. BOALT

The that certain pasture known to the
The Sheep
this pasture fatter than most Sheep until
At which the tells there pasture
Wolf in Sleeps clothing whose Dirty Dollars and who
dwell in smiling land Dollars
greedy cowardy
There the influence Dirty Dollars Sheep who
what
Sheep think This Sheep and weak
selfish He to the Flock
putty Dirty Dollars known the fact that he
Wolf Whereupon Putty faMued crnged after the manner
OF snobs, and paid him compliments.
BELL Sheep, eh?" said Dirty Dollars "why?'
Putty" dignity
portance added, perquises?"
"Humph!" grunted Dollars showing his yellow ang in
a leerng what these perquises?"
Sheep explained leads the Flock and
to the talest, sweetest grass"
"If make the Bell Sheep of the Flock what them?
growed Dirty Dollars. -
YOU loyalty faithfully" said "Puty -I
If should anything done
command u.s.
"Good!" said the Bell Sheep
But for monkey business
of Dirty Dollars became
abundanty before
Flock when the Bell Sheep
Bell Sheep and his
that the flesh wasted
scarcely had strength to
night when the Fock eeping Dirty Dollars would
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-01
WON''
SAYS T. R.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1--we
have already won. Whatever is
the balloting next Tuesday, the
progressive party has been found
ed and put on a lasting basis"
This was the statement here to-
day Of Colonel Roosevelt, the pro-
gressive nominee for president,
who is in New York to attend the
progressive rally at Madison
Square Garden tonight at which
Oscar Straus, progressive nominee
for governor of New York, will
be the principal speaker.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-01
HODGE GIVEN
BIG OVATION

Public and popular refutation
Of the lies of the slanderbund
against Bob Hodge was given at
Seattle last night when the great
est political meeting in the his
tory of the city was held in the
Coliseum. Over 1000 people
jammed into the hall and at least
1000 were turned away simply
unable to wedge into the building
at all.
There were 100 from Black
Diamond on the stage, a dramatic
protest against the ISLANDERS ut
tered against their old neighbor,
Bob Hodge.
When Hodge and his four boys
walked on the stage a tornado of
enthusiasm broke loose, the like
OF which had never been seen be-
fore at a political gathering here.
The meeting was opened by Ole
Hanson in a ringing denial of the
stories that he had turned Bob
Hodge down. He showed up the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-01

lying Hay sheets who have been
telling of his desertion. When
Ole got through there was a
grease spot left of the Bob Hodge
maligners and everybody UNDER
stood that the whole program OF
the Hay gang is to try to deceive
the people.
When Hodge got up to speak
the audience went wild. The
crowd stood up on chairs as. the
big bull moose stood before them
waiting to begin his speech.
At the conclusion of the meet
ing hundreds of women flocked
to the stage to shake hands with
Hodge, and with tears in their
eyes pledged their support to the
man who had been lied against
by the slanderbund. Cheering
crowds accompanied Bob through
the streets to progressive head
quarters.
1t was the greatest political
gathering of the campaign.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-01
Loan Shark Preyed
On R. R. Employees

only professional sharks frankly
traffic dirty dollars in Tacoma but there probably
salOonkeeers boarding hotel
prorietors who take notes and of
for patry charging usurous rates Of interest
In Justice Evans yesterday John p Hermson admitted
that he charged 12O PER CENT YEAR INTEREST
that he had made E. b. employe Chicago
waukee and Puget Sound railroad.
Hermson conducts his shark side a
also the Raymond saloon 1928 Pacific
This amateur" loan shark testified
he loaned $40 to Brooks the K of Gleason who
employed by the railroad tmekeeper
understood that Gleason would $495O
Officials the
Gleason found himself unable
Hermson. Incidentally Gleason timekeeper.
Yesterday Hermson repre-
sented the principal, it
giving the judgment Justice called
the state usur law which provides that either
indirectly
than IL cent he only principal
interest he
compelled to the of the action
the meantime,
sona" loan sharks still job, meaning,
ID. H. TOLMAN, notorious local office i'm
building
D. D. DRAKE another of the "bg
puous avaricOus Office
''STATE SECURITY co." (Glen e. Dickens mahager)
specaizes
building
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-01
SIG MADE
ON RACES

That those who had charge of
the gates and ticket selling at
the automobile races last summer
are not only not guilty of having
caused a $4,000 shortage, but
in fact have shown $26 over-bal-
ance, Is the finding of the Pink
erton detective agency, which was
assisted by the police and sheriff
in complete investigation of the
case.
In a report to the guarantors
of the racing association the Pink
ertons say the cry of fraud raised
against these men is ridiculous
and preposterous," and wholly
uncalled for.
Those who employed the detec-
tives are Arthur G. Prichard and
George B. Burke, trustees of the
auto racing fund, and A. B. Howe,
president of the Carnival associa-
tion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-01
CITY TO WAR ON LOAN SHARKS

The city of Tacoma has a loan
shark problem of its own and 1t
may start a city bank to get away
from it. If not, the city employees
who insist on patronizing the
loan sharks are likely to be drop
ped from the payroll.
The city has been bothered for
years by large number of city
employees selling their time to
spectators outside who take out
about three per cent a month,
which amounts to SO per cent a
year.
One loan man comes up every
month with from 20 to so as
signments.
This practice is a nuisance and
the subject was referred to Com
missioner Freeland. Today the
mayor, aroused by the Times on
the loan shark proposition, asked
Freeland for a report. Freeland
said it was a difficult problem to
handle, that while most of the
liO ulopooCu VI thCii lihN
deserved no consideration, occa-
sionally a man was forced by ad-
versity to do it.
He suggested that the city
might take care of such cases by
borrowing money from the banks
and loaning it to employees in
such cases, each case to be passed
on by a board before it was done.
The mayor was inclined to IA
vor the idea. If this plan is at
tempted probably the mayor, COM
missioner of finance and city clerk
will comprise the board on loans.
There are some men, even
clerks i'm the water and light Of
flee, it is said, who have not
drawn their own pay for four
years.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-11-01
ME-"
SAYS WILSON

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-Greatly
pleased at the reception accorded
him here at Madison Square Gar
den, Governor Woodrow Wilson,
democratic nominee for president,
left today for Rochester. Wilson
confessed that for the first time
in his life he was ratified" last
night. The 81 minutes of cheer
ing so affected him that he for
got his prepared speech and de-
livered another one. Governor
Wilson will return here tomor-
row to review the democratic
parade scheduled for the after
noon.