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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-02

Rations for Fattening Cattle.
Alfalfa 25 lbs.
Barley and bran 3 to lbs.
Wild hay 25 lbs.
Chopped wheat 8 to s lbs.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-02
Letter from Mrs. j. A. Thompson,


Vegetable
when
speak good word for it endMrs JOHN THOMPSON Box
Newport Center
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-02

Nine times in ten when the liver is
right the stomach and bowels are right
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-02

Color more goods brighter and faster colors tn
I've any garment without ripping apart. W
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-02

Oats and barley IL lbs.
Draft team, 1,400 lbs. up.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1912-02-02
Letter from Miss Grace Dodds. Bethlehem, NJ

Bethlehem Nh working hard, washing,
lifting baskets of Clothes
sick in bed mont
This last Spring mother Lydia Pinkham Vegetable
already feel
friends what the meMss
30 NH
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
GOODBYE, GERM-LADEN
ROLLER TOWEL

Adieu the roller towel!
The hospital and health COM
Inittee of the board of supervisors
of San Francisco, California, re-
cnetly recommended for passage
an ordinance forbidding the use OF
this singularly-smudged cloth of
the populace.
The ordinance forbids the hang
ing of a common towel anywhere
and everywhere-hotels, restaur-
ants, cafes, saloons, public build
ings and all other public places.
The ordinance was drafted, by
Supervisor A. H. Giannini, physi-
clan, who believes that the COM
mon towel Is conservator OF
germs and baccili.
The maintenance of the common
towel will be considered a misde-
meanor hereafter in San Francisco
to be followed by prosecution and
punishment. ~
Others cities kindly take note.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

A Woodworking housewife never
gets a greater treat than sitting
down to a meal she didn't have to
cook herself. Big horsified wom-
en- are bound to act kittenish, but
there are some who can get away
with it. The feminine letter usu-
ally starts by mentioning that you
still owe the writer a letter. Why
must all the windy crossings In
town be where the men congre-
gate? When there's a divorce suit
filed people who know the couple
have to pretend to be very much
surprised. A big wedding is for
the woman but big funeral If
always for the man. A womnal
isn't afraid mouse will bite
she is afraid II will tickle. III
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
Reducing the Retailer

municipalities land establishing city
with the ordinary retailer and mid
face to face 1t means
delivers himself
undoubtedly possibility of reduction in
o. living thereby.
to retailers points In the
revoutionng their business by going
with their delivery rigs and lowering
sell at much lower prices and
profits.
experiment of retailers VIII tend
instances The credit
whole lot to do with boosting
things she wouldn't get II
is to the
would along without If
had o them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
JUDGE GOT PARKER's GOAT

WASHINGTON, d. c., May T.
Justice Lurton of the supreme
court has Judge Alton Parker's
goat" and the former democrat
ic presidential nominee admits
the indictment.
Judge Parker appeared in de-
Tense of the negro Knights of
Pythias of Georgia, against the
Lilly White" Knights, in the dis
pute over the negroes right to
use the fraternal insignia.
But what l want to know" in
terrupted Justice Lurton to Judge
Parker, without cracking smile
''do these lodges use the same
goat?"
The outburst of merriment
which followed disrupted the
courts dignity and temporarily
wrecked Judge Parker's dignified
argument.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

sea. He was marooned on the
beach here in 1861. landed from
an unknown ship that beat into
the harbor and sent dory ashore,
then put promptly to sea again.
A few hours later, in a seques-
tered inlet, fishemen found an
unconscious man on the beach,
lying just above the tide line. A
bottle of water and few ships
biscuits We're found by his side.
The mans legs had been cut off
apparently only a short time be-
fore. The flesh of the stumps was
still raw.
To all questions the stranger
was silent till old Rudier Comeau
asked him his name in Italian.
"Gerome," was the reply.
Then the castaway lapsed into
silence. From that day till he
died half a century later he spoke
but once, and then only to ejacu-
late Trieste" when someone sur
prised him with the question
Where did you come from?"
He accepted gratefully the food
and shelter that the Comeau FAM
lily gave him. He chopped wood
for the household, welding the ak
powerfully and with skill.
Though he came from the sea
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

there was nothing about him to
mark him certainly as a sailor.
The Acadians believed him to be
an Italian, but they did no know.
Always his eyes were bent sea-
ward. Day after day he watched
the horizon. And when a strange
vessel hove In sight a faint flicker
of interest was kindled in his in
scrutible eyes.
But a strange sail was the only
thing under heaven that held any
interest for him. If he had any
hope in life 1t was the sea that
yelled 1t.
And when at last he came to
die he passed as grimly as he had
lived. Not even in death was his
tongue loosed to tell anything
about the strange prank that fate
had played with his destiny.
There only remains questions
questions that inevitably arise,
and as inevitably go unanswered.
Who was "Gerome?" Some po-
litical refugee? The captain of a
mutinous crew? A pirate chief,
deposed and cast out by more
powerful rival? Or merely a
common sailor, accidentally Grip
pied and cruelty marooned to get
him out of the way?
In 1851 the American civil war
was beginning; the war of Carl
baldi was in progress in Italy and
the islands; the Austrians, the
Italians and the French were
quarreling over the Italian states.
Did these events have any bearing
on the strange fate of the legless
man?
Is there today in the port Of
Trieste, on the Austrian Riviera,
somebody, aged wife or son or
daughter, who looks out over the
Adriatic, hoping against hope for
the return of 'Gerome"?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
The Complete Life?

the Chicago millionaire who has Just
giving his complete life
wealth at 80 of
the distribution of his million dollars in ways that
him promise the most good
Old Robin Hood must have enjoyed the complete fe too
Hood backed would
the
although already possessing
would him
that seemed to him to
good
Ill of aught to discourages miionaires
OF million dollars but
help wondering there yet in which
tut vast either justice salvation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
Judicial Timber

defeated candidate for nomination to the
supreme filed his statement of his campaign
age laughed at by the Indiana politicians
pretty native born natuazed indanian
But we going We don't know Mr. Harris but
25 that he should have
those instances OF the
exhibition poit
bbng caroung stamping promising all heaven and
the sacred judicial ermine Ev
the bench he would have ascended
shape to render
rather than campaign boss or
contributing corporation wanted him it,
Mr.. Harris ascent policy 1t is possible
that prohibiting candidate for Judge to spend
bench, folks would
have fewer judges whose
brand ling are shamefully conspicuous
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

will be much
greater than II
now is. has or
ganized a con-
servation associ-
alton and ap-
pointed as chiel
forester, Clyde
Leavitt, who for
many years was
connected with
the u. s. for.
estry service.
. =
Judge RentouI
of London re
fused to sen
fQnca a woman
for a minor of
Tense, because
> he said.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
M5t AYthipb

JIMMY SAYS:
I've swatted the flies and cut
the grass and plucked the weeds
from the garden sass. And mother
says: "You may play now,
James," But it's too darned late
for any games.
To sleep in church is not
spiritual repose.
A little boy who will take
castor oil for penny has a
mighty poor idea of the value Of
money.
Where Is He?
The old fashioned man who
used to put his spectables in the
bible and not find them for three
months?
"a skindicate, says. Lew
Fields to Joe Weber, sis small
body of men entirely surrounded
by money"
Misers never rest until they are
put to bed with shovel
Sturgeon.
One Of the penalties of being
president is that he must watch
the Washington team play ball.
~ was always poor at figures,
said Cleopatra as she reached for
header.
The weather bureau is living on
the reputation that was made In
Noah's time.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

something more
than a maneu-
yer. Then 1000
Mexicans had
crossed the Rio
Grande and TAX.
en- possession OF
the town. Uncle
Sam sent Gen
Zachary Taylor
to clear them
out, which he
did by dint OF
superior artil-
lery marksman-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
Observations

will keep fresh for Is days.
BERLIN ironworker named Wleck got week In jail for
laughing a fat policeman chase roter.
New York city, Her authorities refuse to
disaster
W. be in 1t,
annually her
foreign born insane patients.
before police judge charged with
stealing chickens pleaded guilty and received when the
lift those chickens right under
the window the house when there dog the yard
span dis
like would git
hide chickens nuther. Eff
beeh stick bench whar
familiar.
PARIS thinking enthusiastically of investing lots
within of Nice
quick to bust the landlords trust. or other
EvOLUTON that Uncle didn't fire off in his
with will be experimental with to If isn't good
tlizer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

Strawberries-Los Angeles,
e1.65 a crate; Florin, $1.75 a
crate.
Lemons-$46
oranges-$2 3.25.
California Grape Fruit--$3.t0
@4.50.
Asparagus - California, $3.50
box: Washington, 90c@$1.
Potatoes-S25 a "a ton.
Lettuce-$1.10 LIS.
Turnips-$1 sack.
Beef-11 % lie.
Pork-12M q 161kc
Celery-90c doz.; $3.50 a
crate.
Beets-$i sack.
Onions Nc lib.
Sweet potatoes-4he lb.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
The Markets

such demand o Strawberries and yes
that dealers short There
Eggs and butter remain unchanged.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

g II, IlY !ll
u Berton Brals y
IL you cannot stand
A good-natured Jest,
At either yourself or the thing
you love best,
If 1t makes you sore
When somebody laughs at you
Or chuckles and chaffs at you,
Then-You're a bore!
For there isn't thing
In this world we make money in,
This world we are gloomy or
CHEEKY and sunny in,
That you can't, IL you try,
Find something that's funny in.
Folks are born, live, and die,
And the wise never doubt it,
The whole world has something
that's funny about it.
So take IL from me
I'm a wise man, you know,
The way is to see
Where the joke is, and SO
To laugh back again,
With mirth In your eyes,
At the whole world of men
Are you wise?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

Duip. Efth "
this day the Mexicans show con-
siderable car about staying on the
south side Of the Rio Grande.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

"Our local telephone exchange
girl. Miss Pandora Zwieback, has
went to a sanitarium ter recuper-
ate from tn load on her mind OF
all what she found out about tn
subscribers"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

Agriculture is finarlly gettin
down ter a payin' system. IN
keerful farmer kin now manager
ter have tn young pigs quit nedin
tn skim milk in time fer tn sIi.-f'
mer boarder season"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

Are you reading the Times
Pink Edition2 It's first ON the
street. first with news and feat
ures.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
Josh
Wise
Says:

you can't beat It irter a
spring poets noodle that telegram
nodes is a heap more familiar ter
everybody than Maypoles.'
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
TODAY IN HISTORY

May 8, 1916. there was bat
tie at Palo Alto, Tex, that was
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
About People

Canada, looking forward to the
time when her needs for timber
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

MEMBER OF THH SCRIPTS NoRTHwEsT
LEAGUE OF NEWSPAPERS. TeIeEruphfc News
Service Of the United Press Association ~ direct
Leased wire.
Entered at the postoffice, Tacoma, WASH,
seeond-eIass matter. Published by the Tacomn
Times Pub Co. Every Evening Except sunday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
Editorial Pace che cacoma Cimes PHONES homes rs !!

??OUESTIONS??

Was he a political refugee from
the Garibaldi Wars? Was he a
traitor from our own civil war?
Was he a pirate chief or merely
sailor, accidentally crippled and
cast away?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

Fifty Years Ago q Legless Man
Was MaroOned on the Coast of
Nova Scotia by Mysterious
Ship For Fifty Years the
Man Spoke But Two Words
s* And These Two Words are
the Only Glue to a Riddle of
Fat That Is as Battling as the
Enigma of the Man In tho Iron
Mask.
DIGBY, Nova Scotia, May s.
Acadia's legless man of mystery
died here the other day and with
his passing, Death sealed mys-
terry as hopeless of solution as the
mystery of the Man in the Iron
Mask.
Two slender clues were all that
might help to solve this mystery.
Two words:
"GEROME;" TRIESTE"
For over so years the only pos
sible source of other clues was the
legless man who uttered those
words, the first in August, 1861
the second some years later.
For over so years that man kept
his silence. Saving these two
proper names, no rsOrd passed his
lips in all those years.
The legless man came from the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

Rhubarb-Home grown, 21z C
ID.
Carrots-$1 sack.
Cabbage-3q 3k lib.
Spinach-90c.
Chicken-14@ Ice lb.
Oysters-$7.50 per sack.
Clams-s1.9 sack.
Crabs-s1.50@ doz.
Butter.
Washington Creamery - ESQ
Csc.
Eggs
Washington Ranch-22 o. 3c.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
Feed.
Hay, $1,000 ton: oats, $4z
ton; wheat, s36@37; shorts,
$3.50 ton; bran. s26.50 ton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

COSTS New York state $4,000 600 annually to CT
foreign born insane patients.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

TALLY for New York city! Her authorities
moving of the Titanic disaster be shown
would be barrels of money in 1t, too.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

BERLIN ironworker named Willeck got a week In
laughing a fat policeman chase rioter.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-11
Local Topics

Household goods at public sale Satur
day afternoon at Main and Market SITS.
Chance for bargains. Adv.
Peter buckley was called to Ottoville,
Wednesday by the death of his grand
father.
Mrs. ]. J. Kriegel and daughter were
called to Payne the first of the week by
the death of relative
Councilman and Mrs. Henry Winkel-
iohan are the proud parents of a baby
girl born Wednesday morning.
Editor Joseph Rauh, of the Putnam
County Demokrat, at Ottawa, is visiting
his brother, George Rauh, residing near
St. Anthony.
Tohn A. Wickersham was arrested by
Marshal Pumphrey Wednesday morning,
on an affidavit filed by his wife, charging
malicious destruction of property. He
plead not guilty in Mayor Miller's court
and after hearing was discharged.
Rev. Chas. Bennett, pastor of the M.
E. Church in this city, who last wesk
was transferred to Napoleon, was given
a deed to pretty lot in the Short & DON
OVan dQu1LlO0, III lHe west Gnu, do Il IG-
membrance of his successful pastorate in
Celina Attorney Frank V. Short was
the donor.
Gender Laudahn has accepted posi-
ton as bookkeeeper at the uptown Office
of the Palmer & Miller grain firm, fill.
ing the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of Miss Edith Bennett, who goes to
Napoleon with her brother, Rev. Chas.
Bennett and family.
Edward Barnbrugge, an eight-year-old
base ball fan. narrowly escaped serious
injury last Sunday afternoon, when line
drive down the left foul line hit him in
the right side. 1t was feared a couple of
ribs were broken, but an examination by
DR.. Avert proved them to be uninjured.
A vehicle driven by Frank Kruger,
of Center township, was badly damaged
and the occupants thrown into ditch
last Sunday, when their horse scared att
motorcycle. Luckily no one was hurt.
The occupants of the carriage were Frank
and Harry Kruger, and Paul and Harry
Thomas.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-11

lately wanted to know of him what would
happen to the country if Taft was not ell
ected, and under the circumstances would
it not be wise if they withdrew their
money from his bank and buried it, mas
much as the defeat of Taft seemed prob
able at that time. Hinch Immediately
got into the explanation stakes and was
to busy to give much attention to the
Taft Club. He says he is permantly out
of politics. Bob Reynolds, the president
of the Taft Citizens Club, shortly after
ward was caught with the goods, and av-
aunted to Honduras, where he still is.
This leaves Geier as the only exper-
fenced man in political organization inter
ested in Taft's forlorn cause, but Geier in
the last four years has developed such
reputation as a labor union buster and
beneficiary of judicial injunction decisions
and the fraudulent tariff of 80 per cent on
machine tools, that his usefulness is not
apparent; however the new Taft Business
Mems Climb of 1912 will likely be inter
esting and we predict, amusing
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-11
Working the Old Thread
Scheme

To save his losing cause, President
Taft's managers are attempting to fright
en- business men away from the Demo-
cratic ticket with panic scarecrow, but
as the prospects for Democratic victory
grow, prosperity and business confidence
expand throughout the country. Never
were the business men so fourishing or
so optimistic about the future as they are
in these days when they see that a Re-
publican president is about to bereplaced
by Democratic on.
While nationwide newspaper polls
predict an overwhelming Democratic
victory and each succeeding day of the
presidential campaign makes that
triumph more certain, Dun's Review,
one of the most accurate barometers of
business conditions, tells of the conf
dence that prospect of a Democratic
victory inspires in business men:
Many years have passed since
there has been such unaninity of
testimony as to the widening of bust
ness activity. Even some of the
lines which have been tagging are
now developing the same progressive
spirit which for some time has exist
ed in the iron and steel industry and
is making that trade break all pre-
vious records"
While the Taft forces are attempting
to stem the swollen current of public
sentiment rushing into the Democratic
ticket by forcing business men into Rep
ublican clubs with hard times arguments,
business is leaping forward as it never
did before, and new avenues of CONNER
cial activity are opening to swell the
volumne of business. According to Dun
Some lines which Jagged throughout
the Taft administration have, since a
Democratic victory became a certain
ty, shown great activity and are
breaking all trade records.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-11
Some History, Past
and Present
[Cincinnati Southwest I

Phillip Geier has according to a Wash
ington dispatch, promised the President
that he would go back home and organ
ize Business Mems Taft Club on a pat
tern of the Taft Citizens Club organized
here by Geier, Hinch, Reynolds, ct al,
four years ago.
The Taft Citizens Club Of four years
ago, was part of the countrywide plan OF
the Republican National Committee to
iutimidate and coerce workingmen into
voting for Taft. The Democrats had
made winning campaign, and drastic
action was necessary to prevent Taft de-
feat.
Hinch, one of the promoters of the
club, probably directed by New York con-
nections, showed how it was to be done.
He told the employers, who were largely
represented at the first meeting of the
Tafts Citizens Club, to tell their en-
ployees what would happen to the coun-
try if the Democratic ticket was elected
The members took the cue from this
speech, and promptly told their working
men that they would close up their fact
ories if Taft was not elected, but would
run full tilt if he was.
Hinch was a banker, and had not guard
ed his own rear. His banks customers
and smaller corresponding banks immed-
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-11
Notice of Election

Notice is hereby given that the Marion
Mutual Fire Insurance Association will
hold its annual election on Monday, Oc-
tober 2S, 1912, from 9 am. to 3 pm, al
its Office at St. Rosa, Mercer County, o.,
to elect three directors for the term OF
three years. The. candidates are as fol-
lows:
Marion District (two directors to elect)
Henry Moellers, V. F. Lochtefeld
Aug. Rentz, Hy. Hartings, Math. Bertke
and Fred Stucke.
Granville District Cone to elect)-P. II.
Hemmelgarn, John Fiely, Hy Lange.
Members are requested to attend and
participate in this election, as it is OF
interest to all and will have tendency
to build up and add much to the associa-
toms standing among those who desire
cheap and safe insurance.
HFNRY GoTTIsMoLLER, Prest.
HENRY MoELLERS, Sec'y.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-11

Former Congressman Dawes. of Mari
eta, a staunch Republican, is one of many
prominent men in his party who is pub
licly predicting the election of Congress
man James M. Cox, of Dayton, by large
majority When asked by Cincinnati
Enquirer representative about the govern
orship election in Ohio while in New
York recently, Mr.. Dawes replied:
4 would not be bit surprised to see
Congressman Cox win out about on even
terms with Wilson in our state. 1 figure
Mr.. Cox's plurality at between 100000
and $50, 900. There is no question in my
mind about the big vote that will be given
Cox. Personally like him very much. "
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-11
"eooD WORK FOR TIM"
Big Newspaper Places o. X. on
Democratic Attorney
General.

"Tim' Hogan, as he Is known
all over the state, has been In
office two years. He ls one Of the
hardest workers at the state
house, has given personal atten-
ton to the important matters at
issue, and has handled his office
without political bias. He has
made an excellent record and
was euloeized at the state con-
vention by his party for the good
work he had done. He gave his
peekonaA serSiees to the graft
trials of indicted senators, and
contributed largely to the sue
cessfui prosecution Of the cases.
He will perform the same serV-
Ice4 ID the cases yet to be tried"
Cleveland PLAIN Dealer, Sept.
%, 1912.