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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-02
l Asked a Mother
The Boy or Girl Who Does Not Have Some Chance
at Music Is Robbed of It's Birthright

I asked a mother--a middle-aged woman who is
supremely happy with an almost model family
woman whose sons are young gentlemen and whose
daughters are true gentlewomen-I asked her if mu-
sic had been an aid in of the trials incident to
rearing large family She said:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-02
BOYS AUNT IS
IN A CRITICAL.
CONDITION

At 11:15 O'Clock this
morning Mrs. MoDOnough,
who was shot accidentally by
her nephew last Friday, was
taken from the operating
table at st. JOseph's hospi-
tai, the bullet having been To-
Gated and removed by Drs.
A. E. Braden and j. ID. Nc
Nerthney.
Ii was stated at that time
that her condition was good,
although it was impossible
to say definitely whether she
would live. Another opera
ton may be found necessary.
Sometime before the end of an
other day surgeons will know
whether Mrs. Fred McDonough,
who was accidentally shot Friday
by her little nephew, is to live OF
die. Today she is at st. Joseph's
hospital undergoing an operation
to remove the bullet which pene-
trated her abdomen.
While Mrs. McDonough was
making a bed at her summer
home at Springfield beach, hel
nephew, Stewart Carol, l2-year
old so;: of Attorney Frank Caro-
of Tacoma, was playing with {
22-caliber rifle which he though
was not loaded.
The gun was discharged ant
the bullet struck his aunt jus
above the hip lodging near the
pelvis. Mrs. McDonough was hur
ried to Springfield in a launch
She suffered several hemmor
rhages and was unconscious mos
of the afternoon. That evening
she was removed to Tacoma.
Mrs. McDonough Is the wife o
Fred McDonough, cleaner and
dyer, of Tacoma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-02

The Pierce county commission
ers have completed arrangements
for the state primary election Sep
TENDER 10, and designated polling
places in each precinct.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-02

Frank l.. Sweet of South Prairie
for representatives.
The county committee will now
arrange the polling places and Sc
cure judges and clerks and 1t lis
expected to have everything ready
for the primary election next Sat-
| urday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-02
FARM HAND, 80,
y WANTS A JOB

81 MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. e.
Fired of doing chores on a farm
In Wisconsin, for his board and
keep, John Olson, 90 years old.
told Judge w. C. Leary in muni-
cipal court that he left his home
in search of work pitching wheat
in the harvest fields.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-02

Tacoma socialists are arrang-
ing a big picnic for Menlo park on
the old Steilaeoom line for next
Sunday. Arrangements will be
made to have some rousing ora
tors for the occasion.
The Norwegian-American Pro-
gressive league NETS tonight to
adopt a constitution and bylaws
and all members are expected to
be present. The league expects
to have 500 members in a short
time.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-02

The prohibitionists will hold a
meeting at headquarters, $40
South Ninth street, tomorrow
night to make final arrangements
for the county convention Sep
tenn Der 10.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-02

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-19
.JAYHAWKER JOTS

Bill Slivsrs is quoted by the Toronto
Republican as having remarked. AS I
figure it out, the thing called diploma
cy in public service and tact in society
is The same thing we Old-fashiOned folk
used to call soft soap.
An experience in editing telegraph
for her husbands paper, the Cherry
vale Journal has brought forth the fol-
lowing from Mrs. r. y. Moffett: This
editing telegraph is a liberal educa-
ton. 1t requires more than a 5-foot
shelf to hold the reference books nee
cssary to edit telegraph inerroneously
and intellisently- You must have an
up-to-date cookbook. Atlas of the
World and Oklahoma, the Bible, list
Of authorizations, Encyclopedia Britain
Mica, map OF China, Lost in the Jungle
for Durbar things, the Outlook, very
necessary list Of pOStOfficeS. Hell OF
the border, (for reviewing crimes COM
mitted) a morgue of all prominent men
and criminals and Pickings from Puck
Even then you find occasionally you
haven't the reference book you need.
Sunday morning, now you all remem-
Der Sunday morning, a prominent gen
tIeman on North Main street was rash
enough to take bath. relates the
Pratt Union. Anyone should fix the
date of his annual bath at some other
time than January, as you will all
agree That, however, has nothing to
do with what happened. He wore a
light bath robe and an earnest express
sion. He stepped out on the back porch
to empty a pan of water and the door,
with a night latch. swung shut be-
hind him. He tried to open it, but it
would not bulge, he could not kick it
open for his poor feet were bare, he
was not arrayed in proper costume to
go to his neighbors calling and as he
stood on the porch and shivered he said
to himself. said he. MY God. how am
ever to get that door open2" He
shivered and planned, then planned and
shivered and just as he was about TO
the freezing point where the agony
ceases and he was ready to float away
in dreams like others who had frozen
before his time. the superintendent of
the city waterworIxs came by carry
ing a spade. and with the spade the
door was battered down and the man
from the bath was hung over a red hot
stove till he was thawed out. He has
decided that if he ever concludes to
take another bath that he will smash
all the spring locks in the house before
he begins hostilities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-19
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

"A Pittsburg clergyman has recently
notified his flock that henceforth he is
going to marry no couples who cannot
give probable evidence Of an annual in
come OF at least two thousand dollars"
quote that interesting item from a
contemporary publication.
What do you think of it?
I'll tell You gladly what I think.
think it Is of the worst examples that
| have yet seen of the foolish and harm
Lul tendency prevalent just now-the ten
dency to advise young people to delay
marriage until all material difficulties are
SmoOthed away by plenty of money and
material possessions.
wonder if that minister realizes that
the average American wage is about 5000.
/ wonder if he realizes that 81 per cent
OF American men do not get more than
81, 900 year.
What, pray, would he do with these men
and the women they would naturally take
to wife?
Would he condemn them to eternal sin
gleness and keep their womens arms
eternally empty and hungry, because
their lovers could not give probable evil
dence of an annual income of at least two
thousand dollars?'
I believe that the tremendously high
standard of material possessions necessary
as a preliminary to marriage, which we
are encouraging our children to raise, is
doing vastly more harm than good.
The idea is good enough if we didn't
carry it to such ridiculous excess. Every
one knows that when the wolf is cOntin-
ually bowling and scratching at the door,
and even peering glumly in the windows,
there isn't apt to be much billing and COO
ing going on inside the home
But, does it take two thousand a year to
keep the wolf away from young married
couples home?
Indeed it doesn't. Or. at any rate,
shouldn't.
Nor-wen, I started to say not half that,
but 1 suppose ought not to be quite so
definite. Circumstances alter cases. and
whereas there are couples that might get
along very comfortably on seven or eight
hundred a year, there are others who
quire more than that. But / don't believe
that any two people would starve on
twelve hundred year
And anyhow, it seems to me that rea-
sOnable amount saved up for a rainy day
and good prospects for advancement,
count for more than large income to
start with.
If all the harm that is done by long
drawn out engagements and by the adj
vanced age for marrying among men
could be known, think perhaps we
should say less about having just so much
to start with, and more about getting
married at the time when nature wants
men and women to marry
longing of bachelorhood to the age of
thirty and thirtyfive has with the social
evil?
OF course, no one can know that exact
" but I'm sure of this-that If I had a
son I'd rather see him marry at the age
of twenty-five or three, on thousand
a year than wait until he was thirty for
two or three thousand.
Perhaps, Mr.. Pittsburg minister, you
were misQuoted in your sweeping ex-
clusion of all folks who couldn't qualify
in the two thousand class from the state
of matrimony-
For the honor of your cloth. I hope so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-19

delighted-Ferdy and his mother and
II thought your mother was" re-
marked Lawson.
You did %
Yes, I did; Van sluyck hasn't any
why, EdWy!'' There was an injured
look in her dewy eyes.
And so are you delighted.' he charged,
harshly. HE can give you a flock of
automobiles, and forty-room house
Ban, money. money, money! It's the
only thing that counts, nowadays"
She bridled. You shouldn't talk so.
Mr.. Lawson I have a perfect right to
you haven't Edwy's voice was
sharp with misery THAT marriage must
be annulled.''
Must be annuIled-why?
Because 1 want you myself-and I'm
going to have YOU
He gathered her hands to his breast and
kissed the pink palms.
Jean swayed toward him. ION, Edwy,
she whispered, II was afraid you were
never going to say itI''
After awhile, some minutes-or maybe
hours-later, Jean remarked demurely: Il
really don't think annulment IS
asked me If I'd love, honor and obey
Ferdy, didn't say Yes. -
You didn't?' cried Edwy, excitedly.
said, NO, never, I wouldn't promise
to obey any man. "
Affectionate mirthfulness dubbed up in
Edwy's eyes. You little sea lawyer.
youl That really does put the whole
thing in the catalogue of Jokes But -
he continued, shrewdly, why didn't you
tell me that in the office this afternoon"
Her burrowing movement fixed a few
more grains of rice powder i'll the Shout
tell you-herel' she wfispered.-(Copy-
Tighted, 1912, by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-19
QUAKER NIEDITATToNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.
Patience Is a virtue, when Il isn't mere
laziness.
It isn't everyone who can AFFORD the
price of popularity
It's the things we don't do that often
bring us the most happiness
The hand that rocks the cradle is sell
dom the hand that rules the mothers
meeting
Some people will even quarrel over the
question Of which one is the more amia-
bic.
You can take some things apart to sec
how they are made. but a fortune isn't
one of them
Some people can drop a quarter In the
collection plate in such q way that IL
will make more noise than a s. gold
piece.
Tommy (studying his Sunday school
lesson)-"Pop, who was Il that said All
men are lars?' Tommy's Pop-'Roose-
welt. my SON."
'Matrimony Is an important STEM re-
marked the bachelor. a step2" retorted
the married man. It's a whole flight OF
stairs"
You can reach a mans heart through
his stomach" quoted the Wise Cs1iv
well, I'd hate TO be a missionary ana
have to reach a cannibars that way
murmured the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-19
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.I
Empty heads are easily ratified.
Some people regard it as a poor rule I'M
less it works five or six ways.
Laughter is the gift of the gods. but
happy lives never make history
The chronic borrower says he believes
in owing a good thing when he sees it.
You can blind some people by throwing
dust in their eyes, especially If its gold
dust
Why should dog be blamed for
growing over his food? He may merely
be initiating his master
glance at the thermometer will dem
onstrate that there is plenty of room at
the top just now
The social climber should be ultra-re-
ligious having in mind where all the best
people go when they die
There are various grades of success.
Even the man with the wheelbarrow may
feel that he is in the push
Blobbs-'.The beauty about lending
money to Harduppe is that he is really
grateful Slobbs-stYes. 1 let him have
IS last week, and he was so grateful that
he has been around three times to Dor
row more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-19
GLOBE SIGHTS
az ZEE ATcHIsoN GLoBE

An Atchison Tight Wad hates to smile
for fear the exposure may wear out the
gold in his teeth.
A dead man has this advantage: live
man is expected to pay for most of the
bouquets he gets.
There are plenty of savages who don't
wear nose rings and scalping knives for
evening clothes.
You will wear out your friends quicker
than your shoes. il you walk on your
friends regularly.
Your back must ache a thousand times
for every thousand dollars saved by the
sweat of your brow.
One can't always tell; some men are
ruined because they can't get credit. and
others because they can.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-19
ADVER Using TALKS
By WILLIAM c. FREEMAN

Advertising pays-therefore all mer-
chants should advertise. That is sim
pie business equation
The CraddocIz. Terry Co. of Lynchburg.
Va, advertised in spots through the
south for less than year when the re-
suits commenced to pile up.
In one spot. Atlanta, they sold one or
der amounting to $4,000 and there have
been repeat orders since. The percent
age of cost of the advertising, based on
the gross business done, was so small
employed advertising as salesman
sooner.
pany printed a series of Short Talks on
Constructive Service with the result
that the people had a better understand
ing of the purposes of the company.
It never pays a corporation to be ex-
elusive and secretive. But it always pays
to come out in the open with frank news
paper publicity
The Rochester IN. W Railway & Light
Co. started an advertising campaign with
fine results. At the head of their adver-
tisements was the following-'The Bet
ter the Service the Better the Home;
the Better the Home, the Better is Ro
chester''-and then asked this question
rs our Service Satisfactory"
They explained why they wanted 10
know Their frankness won them the
friendship and confidence Of the people
Dovvn in Columbia. s. c. Van Metres
furniture store gets close to its custom
ers by printing advertisements like the
following.
advertisements that continually prom
ise merchandise below cost are not be-
Heved.
4aThe expense of doing business must be
provided for out of the profits-nowhere
discovery one knows this who stops to
think.
profits come from merchandise prop
erlv bought. stores economically man
aged-then sales
STRAIGHTFORWARD advertising is force
everywhere in establishing a successful
business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-19
says UNCLE CAV

He who pirates overmuch of his con-
science is like. him who boasts of his
brains-he has none worth speaking
of. Brains entitled to the name are
willing to be judged by their works
and know a thing or two about the
value of modesty. The conscience that
can be trusted vaunteth not itself and
is not pulled up
Real goodness, like real capabiIity,
is no braggart. It has the quiet dig
nifty of all true worth and if not OBJ
viously humble is secretly so. 1T
speaks with the logic of the flower,
which neither exaggerates nor decries
it's beauty, but only blooms. It has no
more tongue than the mountain, whise
peaks, dumb and majestic by their
more silent existence challenge the
world of lesser, noisier things.
Let him who is proud of his vir-
tues abase himself, for he thinks as
fool. It is the property of virtue
that it cannot live in air tainted with
the subject of boast, virture gives way
to self-worshiping pride and its erst-
while possessor never knows of its
departure.
Good folk are sadly afflicted by
scamps and tricksters and all man
ner of arrant rogues, but the most
dangerous of all men is he that boasts
is dead though he knows it not and
restrained by the remorse which
plaques the sorriest of outright rOgues,
he robs his neighbor with one hand
and with the other strives to reach
the region of his shoulder-bla that
he may bestow upon himself the pat
of approbation.-(Co Copyright, 1912 by
w. z. WHliams.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-19
BALLAD OF ExTRENrE OLD AGE.

BALLAD OF EXTREME OLD AGE.
The world sweeps past me now. and 9TH
er wars
Set men af1an1e,
The fights we fought forgot, the sacred
cause
No more the sarnei
The passwords of our day are dead and
gone,
Or only found
Craven upon the tombs that mark moss
grown
Our burial ground.
Where those we fought and those who
fought for US
Together lie
Neglected, vanauished and Victorious
And none come nigh!
judge not. nor condemn. How can 1
judge
This allen age
With other thoughts and hopes? Why
should grudge
Their lot rage?
One prayer alone I make-a humble one
Ye powersl dispense
That may sit little in the sun
Ere go hence.
Pail Mall Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-19
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Most Of the extremely affabIe people
are that way for Interior purposes.
y X
Consistency may be a jewel but it s
not of the kind that politicians con-
slider worth having.
y
If the jokesmiths are to be believed
ed, everybody is carrying some one
else's umbrella.
X = y
Nearly every man will refuse to ad-
nit a mistake is his if there's any
chance to blame it on another
y "
Nor is the mercury in the thermom-
eter the only thing that has gone up
these days. The spirits of the people
have followed it rejoicing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-19
RY TIE WAY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

T. B. Armstrong, employee of the
Stubbs Detective agency, objects TO
having things printed about his liquor
capacity and his work He puts the
accent on work 1t may be work for
him to drink a large collection of poor
whisky per diem, but to his fellow
worker, Rev, Norris, it seems to be a
mere recreation.
Mr.. Armstrong should take a cores
pondence course in drinking pr1ne-
juice, prussie acid and wood alcohol
before posing as an a number one
spotter.
Dick Hopkins is for Roosevelt. Up to
this time the Morning Squash, which
had collected the state vote for the
Candidate who Refused to Run, has
held the letter in cold storage. Now
It may as well seal it and mail to
Oyster Bay.
9Tarse Henry Watterson opines that
Woodrow Wilson is a school teachsf
rather than a statesman OF th~ Tilden
type In other words. Marse Henry
holds that Woodrow can use a switch
better than he can use pitchfork.
Many of the so-called ''black hand"
letters are written by poor simps who
are up against it and can think of no
better way to induce the bloated pluto
Gratis to divide. IT is lack of brains
that is responsible for a majority OF
these letters. Why doesn't the poor
boob break into politics and threaten
some ruling against Business?
The county attorneys office recently
dismissed cases against two negroes
who were arrested on a grand larceny
charge after the stolen groceries were
found on their premises; the next case
of Importance to come before the same
office was that of two negroes charged
with selling booze. Defendants were
stuck for a number of counts each. Tt
appears that the system is faulty. and
that spoilers should be hired to eat
groceries on the premises before lar
ceny charges are preferred.
But regardless of this explanation.
there are evil minded persons in this
ference is the result of the 25-bone fee
which follows each liquor prosecution,
Plans are being made to put a popu-
lar summer evening sport on the fritz;
Stotts says he is going to fill Gage
tions are being made to provide a spe-
cial night cop for Central Park.
Eve left her man shy a rib: the mod
ern woman leaves her man short one
perfectly good back bone.
Gaby Des Lvs has broken into a.
newspaper syndicate Of course she
furnishes nothing but a few poses of
her almost shape and receipts for
the cash but respectable women like
: mt Lii Russell are justifiable in get
ting out of the syndicate string if they
have to get married to do it
It is but natural that the 'beanpole
building a New York structure 10 feet
wide and 20 stories high. will be occu-
pied by lawyers. They may not all be
narrow, but they will all come high.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.l


Motto Of the miser-never give up
And many man regards his wife as a
poor relation.
Push some men forward and they win
go back on you.
Some cheerful givers make a specially,
Of handing out lemons
A tough mans idea Of being well dress
ed is to wear loud neckue.
It is the easiest thing in the world fo,
a man to believe as he hopes.
Much that passes for pure cuaeedncau,,
IS nothing more than human nature
He is a patient man who listens n a..
talk of a woman who has nothing 10 eav
When man has occasion 10 annos,.
before a police magistrate he IS ant 20
forget bis own name.
We are told that IL Is the unexpected
should learn tc expect il.
It is very apt to make a young vvidoo,
inolsnant II a man doesn't pretend 10
kiss her. y