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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
Undermines the
Grant Tomb

(By United Press. Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, May 8.--Frequent
cracking of pavement around the
half-million-dollar tomb of Gen.
eral U. S. Grant has led to the
belief that the edifice is being I'M
dermined
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
Ohio Women Open
Fight For Votes

CLEVELAND, O., May g.
Ohio will be the Storm center of
the suffrage movement for the
next few months beginning with q
mass meeting here today, led by
Rev. Anna Shaw.
Suffrage will be voted on at a
special election in July.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

SAN FRANCISCO-A squad of
police secured the city for a week
for two men alleged to have kid
naped Yomargaret Meyer and
robbed her of $3.50. Then the
child confessed she had invented
the story because she was afraid
to tell her mother she had lost the
money.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
MONITOR MEN ALIVE.

Senator Poindexter reports to
the local Memorial day committee
that but three of the crew of the
Monitor, which saved the day by
the destruction of the Merrimac,
are now living. They are Daniel
c. Logue, Brooklyn; Anton Bast-
ing, Jersey City, and John Dris-
coll, Bath, N. Y.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

LOS ANGELES-Forty annual
passes on various railroads, lost
by r. G. Huston, Great Northern
official, are blowing about Los
Angeles today. Huston has of
fered a reward.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

SAN FRANCISCO-The price
of a woman's hair is $10,027.50,
according to Miss Agnes Rose,
who is suing Melanie Block, a
hair dresser, for that sum. The
dresser ruined her hair and burn
ed her scalp, she says.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

OAKLAND, Cal.-Police here
are searching for a literary bur-
glar" who stole 112 pounds of
books from Oscar Kenyon. The
loot included 2S-volume encyclo-
pedia, valued at $3.50.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

insanity experts. Epilepsy will be
the next defense, according to his
attorney.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

LOS ANGELES-Ray Nette's
claim that a loose mental cog
caused his habit of holding up
street cars was exploded today by
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
Not Exactly.

NOt IIAUCCIys
"Did the doctor reduce the
swelling?"
"Well, not exactly"
"What do you mean by that?'
"He took it out of my face, but
he put il back in the bill."-
Baltimore American.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

LOS Hatless and
coatless, suspenders streaming be-
hind, Shrine parade celebrant
fled from the man who rescued
his discarded vest and the $3.50
watch it contained. He escaped.
Watch awaits claimant at police
headquarters.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08

Prospecting Babies.
Promoters Little Daughter
Mamma, think they'll send us a
baby now that we've moved over
on this new street.
Mamma-HOw SO, dear?
Promoters Little Daughter
Well, I've prOspected the terri
tory and they've struck babies on
all sides of us.--San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
The First Person.

The First Person.
They had been quarreling, and,
although hubby was willing to
take the blame upon himself and
make peace, size was still snippy
and Indifferent.
'Come over here, Bessie. Aren't
you curious to know what is in
this package?"
"Oh, not very! I can stand the
strain" she replied, belligerently,
"WeIl, it's something for the
one 1 love best in all the world
he said, coaxingly.
''Oh, is that SO? I suppose,
then, it's those suspenders you
said you needed."-Judge.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-05-08
You'll Find
1t Here |

PORTLAND, Ore.--Patrolman
Taylor was much surprised to
see an ostrich feather projecting
out Of the coat pocket of o. e.
TAFT. He pulled 1t out and a
woman's hat came with 1t. TAFT
now is charged with burglarizing
a millinery establishment.
The Washington herald., 1912-10-14
A Novel Fire Problem.

According to the Chicago Tribune. a
girl in that city went in search of work.
The manager of an establishment man.
ufacturing ladies' gowns offered her s.
week. The shop was on the fifth
floor of a modern loft building. The
girl looked out of the window into
the street below, and declined the offer.
She went to work in dingy shop
sewing overalls for s. a week The
overall shop was located on the first
floor In declining the better job pay
ing s. a week the girl was influenced
by what she had read about a fire in
a shirtwaist factory in New York,
where IE girls. fleeing the flames,
jumped from the ninth floor to their
death in the street below. She would
work for s. and be nearer the earth
and safety.
Thus new fire problems have arisen
Not property. but the lives of men and
women are the primary considerations.
Industry is concentrating in height.
Loft buildings are going up and fac
tories and shops are filling these loft
buildings
But you cannot conveniently locate
lumber and iron works. higher up in
the air. 1t is different. however. with
articles of wear They can be man.
ufactured there. They can be hauled
up and down with ease.
Fire in one Of these shops in the
upper stories of loft building means
certain death from panic, if not from
flames. unless the greatest precautions
for FIRE prevention are taken.
The Washington herald., 1912-10-14
Lord Roberts of Kandahar.

Lord Roberts OF Kandahar, Great
Britain's veteran field marshal, the
other day completed his eightieth year
in the best of health. There is not
another octogenarian living more alert
in body and mind. Lord Roberts
career for variety of achievements is
not surpassed by that of any living SOL
dier. Supreme gifts of generalship.
great personal courage, elevation of
soul. strength of character which en-
abled him to meet the buffetinss as we'll
as the smiles of fate with equanimity-
these are the qualities that shine forth
in the record of this devoted and heroic
life.
1t was a cruel blow that bereft Lord
Roberts of his only son, the gallant
youth who died at Colenso. but the
anguish that wrung the fathers heart
did not prevent him from fastening to
the field of battle. For his grief he
found the best solace in his country's
service We may not agree with his
opinions, we may think that for an
island country like Great Britain it is
a supreme navy that matters. not a con-
scribed army; but it is impossible not
to admire the energy and the high pub
lie spirit which the veteran field mar
shall exhibits in his sustained attack on
our insular complacency
The Washington herald., 1912-10-14
The Nations Business,
From the Chicago Record Herald


That new organization. the Chamber
OF Commerce of the United States has
decided to publish a periodical for the
purpose Of furnishing to all interested.
including newspaper editors. a survey
or the constructive and progressive news
Of the country in the Industrial and COM
mercial spheres The departments Of ac-
tivfty to be covered are agricultural.
manufacturing. mining. transportation.
distribution and finance. Statistics. Of
fcfal and other. will be given. as we'll
as information concerning consular and
other governmental aids in fostering
commerce.
The periodical. to be called The Ma
tons Business. will be valuable to news
papers and even more valuable to busy
men Of affairs. 1t will tell the business
community of one State or section what
the business interests of other sections
are thinking. planning. achieving. IT
will thus link all parts Of the nation and
further help them to think impartially.
1t is needless to say that the period
ical will not deal with politics. partisan
or general. but will ccnfine itself to pro-
gressivism in the sense in which all in
teliigent men and women understand the
term when applied to business and en-
|terprise
The Washington herald., 1912-10-14
The Very Latest Trust.

The charge was made by Gov. John
son, the Bull Moose candidate for Vice
President, in his speech at Philadelphia,
that Col. Roosevelt has been made the
object of unparalleled vituperation. In
one of his speeches up the State the
Governor is quoted as saying:
We have, in this land of trusts, a
new trust, the trust which has in it
Democrats, Socialists, and Republicans.
1t is the trust of abuses of Theodore
Roosevelt.
Ii is unden;able that tie opponents of
Colonel Roosevelt are not handling him
with kid gloves. But why should hey !?
Out of his own boundless vocabulary
of objurgation he has taught them
many new tricks of phrase and innuen-
do, and perhaps they are only paying
him that tribute of admiration which
imitation is said to be- No man in the
public life of America ever has in
dulged in such violence OF denuncia-
ton of his opponents as Mr.. Roosevelt.
He has no right to complain If they
reply in kind.
Besides, of all men such an objection
comes with the least grace from Gov.
Johnson. He it was who stirred tine
indignation of all fair-rninded mrn BY
referring to President Taft as the mos:
pitiful spectacle in the political his
tory of the United States" Malicious
untruthfulness could not go farther
Let the colonel and the Governor lock
to their own glass houses before they
throw stones at their adversaries
The Washington herald., 1912-10-14
WILLIAM PENN
- GEORGE vIfCH.
Asshss ~ "At 0esA OlA Siwash."

william Penn. the stubbornest and
most peaceabIe man In history. was born
October H. 1ssl. In London He was the
son Of Admiral Penn and could with
his wealth and social pull have easily
become the James Hasen Hyde Of Great
BSteain. Instead. he fell In with a trav-
cling preacher at Oxford and became a
Quaker at the age Of eighteen.
At that time Quakers were very lit
tie more popular in England than nerv-
Gus dogs are In July in this country.
Quakerism was treated a. . disease and
the patients were forged. imprisoned
and trimmed about the ears until they
recovered or died. which was held to be
just a. desirable. When the proud ad-
mirai saw his talented son returning
home with two acre hat and plain
clothes he wasted no time In mourning.
but kicked him out Of the house and
called up the pound master by telephone.
From that time on young William
spent much Of his time In jail and be-
came . connoisseur on straw beds and
stale bread. He continued being a
Quaker with great zeal and while in
prison always write enough to keep him
busy preaching until his next sentence.
In his twenty-eighth year he wooed and
won Maria Springett and fingered at her
side with great devotion. leaving her
only occasionally to serve a workhouse
sentence for advocating peace. friend
ship. toleration. honesty and other here
sizes
Having married. however, Penn found
that his prison sentences were interfer-
ring with the household work. Maria fire.
Quently having to wait supper for three
months for him. He. therefore. accept
ed q grant Of land in America from his
friends In court who loved him particu-
larly at . distance and founded the COL
ony OF Pennsylvania He was absolute
The Washington herald., 1912-10-14
CANAL BOAT POPULATION.
Picturesque Floating Residence
Growing Fewer in England.

Growing Fewer in England.
From the Boston Transcript.
A mode OF life that. while every one
realizes it exists. few have very much IN
mind has been brought out rather promi-
nently by DR.. w. H. Symons. medical off,
Ger Of health. Bath. England. is that of
the canal boat population. The English
act is an old one which provides that
every sanitary authority within whose
district there is any canal shall have the
duty of enforcing the prescribed health
regulations. The report gives an insight
into this curious and interesting life on
continually moving residences.
. The number Of boats registered in Bath
which has q population Of 1000. is fifty
six. there having been no new boats or
any cancellation of certificates during the
year 1911. This number Is in excess Of
those used for dwellings. because in some
cases the cabins have been removed and
the boats are now only used for tows. and
others have been wrecked or broken up
without mention Of II in any record. In
fact. 1t IL exceedingly difficult to trace the
fate Of such vessels. for the strict regula-
tions that pertain to ships on sea are not
deemed necessary. and there Is no pen
atty provided for failure to give notice Of
loss or change. The number seems to be
getting gradually smaller. for besides in
voluntary losses boats may be filled with
earth and sunk in order to strengthen the
canal or river banks. Suggestions are on
foot, however. for reviving the declining
industry Of canal boating by providing a
commission which shall look to the mat
ter with definite plans and try to link the
main lines Of communication.
The work Of the Bath Board Of Health
has been Of much the same nature as in
tenements on land. Dirty cabins were
cleaned and repainted. the existence Of
the licenses was looked after. and In the
boats. in addition to the ordinary land
requirements. there were inspections TO
discover leaks and inefficient humps.
comparable perhaps to the fire escape re-
Quirements Of houses. As to the geuer-
atty cS cabins they we're rsssooehly
The Washington herald., 1912-10-14

candidate for Parliament from Chester.
His wife was formerly ArG Ashetoa.
Smith, weil-known and popular In soei-
sty.
All the valuabies were destroyed. amons
oil paintings 1.-TWO by Hoppner). furri-
turs of the Napoleonic and earlier perl
DDS. costly miniatures. plate. &c. Mrs..
Holdsworth and Lady Worsley had their
Jewels destroyed. and In addition Col.
Holdsworth lost his Indian big game
trophies. which were stored In the hall.
An IRON safe containing Mrs. Holds
worth's Jewels was hauled from the
ashes and debris by hremen. The safe
was intact. but the door having been
unfortunately left open by Mrs. Holds-
pluck the valuables from the flames. the
remains Of superb necklaces and other
jewels were found mingled in q black
ened and powdered mass The gold had
melted. but some diamonds. pearls. and
rubies, in a blackened condition, were
gathered up and preserved.
Prince Arthur OF Connaught has twice
been the guest Of Col. and Mrs. Holds
worth At Garden Park. and King George.
when Prince Of Wales. drove there when
staying at Eaton about four years ago.
Mr. Leche. the heir to the Leche estate.
Ia with the Twelfth Lancers In South
Africa.
In the civil war Garden Hall was
p'undered by Cromwell's troops and the
Leche Of that day was taken As . pris-
oner to Nsntwich.
Col. Holdsworth. who married Mrs.
Asheton-Smith. OF vaynol. North Wales.
heir to the Leche estate, il with the
Twelfth Lancers In South Africa. Lady
Worsley. who probably saved the lives
Of the members OF the household. 10 the
wife Of Lord worsley. eldest son and
heir OF Lord Marlborough PIANEUR.
Copyright. 1917 by Court Gossip syndicate.)
The Washington herald., 1912-10-14

lesser groups. in families and in indi.
viduals
Evolutionary changes have not pro-
gressed and do not progress regularly
in mankind as whole nor even in any
Of its divisions Such changes may be
thought Of as a slowly augmenting COM
plex Of zigzags. with localized forward
leaps. temporary haltings. retrogres-
sions, and possibly with even occasional
complete cessations. Thus IL would not
be reasonable to expect that at any
given date in the past or present all
the branches or members Of the human
or pro-human family would be Of abso-
lutely uniform type. At all periods
some individuals. and even groups,
were doubtless more advanced than 9TH
ers from the ancestral and nearer the
present human type. Nevertheless, the
morphologic status Of the man in each
geological period had. unquestionably
its boundaries, and there is no evidence
or probability that two human beings.
a geological period or more apart. could
be so closely related in form that their
crania or skeletons would show strictly
one and the same type.
Once Hanged from Tree.
The antiquity. therefore. OF any hu-
man skeletal remains which do not pre-
sent marked differences from those OF
modern man may be regarded on NOR
phologic grounds. as only insignificant
geologically. not reaching in time in all
probability beyond the modern. still I'M
finished geologic formations. Should
ether claims be made in any case. the
burden Of definite proof would rest heav-
lily on those advancing them.
"Other considerations bearing on this
point have been brought forth in the
writer's report relating to ancient man
in North America
THE essence of the subject Is that the
expectation Of important form differ
ences between human skeletal remains
Of geologic antiquity and those Of the
present era is justified: that the differ
ences presented by the older remains
SHOULD point in the direction of geologic
inferiority. and that where important
structural differences pointing TO an
earlier evolutionary stage are not found
in the human skeletal remains which are
the subject OF study. and especially
where the given crania and bones show
close analogies with those of modern or
even Of the actual native race Of the
same region. the geologic antiquity of
such remains may well be regarded as
imperfectly supported-in fact, as i'm
probable.
DR.. Hrdlicka was disappointed IN wha,
he found in South America, but he is
certain that man came from a monkey.
The Washington herald., 1912-10-14

sons therefore or of an ultimatum with
conditional declaration Of war.
Montenegro has made no serious ef-
fort to obtain the good Offices Of any
friendly power for the composing Of
her differences with Turkey. 1t acted
just as nations were accustomed to act
before The Hague conferences. Her
lneighbors and the powers do not seem
to regard that step with indignation.
Yet among the signatories were Mon
tenegro, Servia. Greece. Bulgaria Rou-
mania, Austria Hungary, Russia, Great
Britain, France. Italy, Germany, and
Turkey.
The Journal des Debates, of Paris,
warns France against weakening her
military strength at home by sending
troops to Morocco and other colonies
The war, it argues. will engulf the en-
tire Balkan peninsula, because it was
decided upon not only by the Balkan
states, but also by several great pow
ers." Whether the Balkan states win or
lose, the situation is perilous for Eu-
rope. II they win, nothing can stop
the allies from seizing the territorial
spoils of war: if they lose. Russia
never could abandon her Slav brothers
of the South. In any case the peace of
Europe is endangered.
When block of buildings is afro
fremen from everywhere in the vicinity
seek to prevent the flames from spread
ing by flooding the walls with water,
yet their effort often are Intellectual
1t is question if Europe will be able
to flood Turkey sufficiently" to keep
the fire from becoming general!
The Washington herald., 1912-10-14
Business Annoyances.
The Day We Celebrate.
New York World

From the New York World.
Christopher Columbus. the famous sea
faring person who stood up an egg on it,
tip. arrived in town just 80 years ago
this morning on board the Santa Maria.
vessel that was notoriously lacking In
proper life-saving equipment.
Mr. Columbus was met at the pier BY
ship news reporters. who sought to in
terview him on his trip. politics. the
tariff. the Rosenthal case. and what he
thought of the United States He merely
smiled and remarked:
Il have nothing to say"
The fact of Mr.. Columbus arrival was
recalled a few years ago by big Tim"
Sullivan. who had a bill passed in the
Legislature crediting the sailor with the
discovery Of this part Of the world. 70
that Theodore Roosevelt couldn't claim
II. and also had 1t fixed that this day
should be holiday.
The Washington herald., 1912-10-14
Sure that Man
Once Was a Monkey
Places Us All in the Ourang- Outang Class,
but We Lost Tails En- Route

Man cannot have arisen except from
some more theroid (animal-like) form
zoologically.' it is declared in Early
Man in South America Just issued
from the Government Printing ONCE.
Ales Hrdlicka. curator of the division
Of physical anthropology of the Nation
al Museum. is the author OF the publi-
cation. which is known as House Of
Representatives Document. No. 4s1.''
''On the basis Of what is positively
known to-day In regard to early man.
and with the present scientific views re-
garding mans evolution" Mr.. Hrdlicka
says in his report, the anthropologist
has a right to expect human bones, par
ticularly crania. exceeding a few thous-
and years in age. and more especially
those Of geologic antiquity. shall present
marked morphologic differences. and that
these differences shall point in the d.
rection of more primitive forms.
NO conclusion can be more firmly
founded than that man is a product of
an extraordinary progressive differen-
tiation from some anthropomogenic
stock. which developed somewhere in
the later tertiary among the primates
He began then as a organism that in
brain and body was less than man. that
was an anthropoid. From this stage he
day. though in some stages OF his evolu-
tion he may have advanced by leaps. or
at least more rapidly than in others
He must have developed successfully
morphologic notifications called for by
his advance toward the present man.
and have lost gradually those features
that interfered with his advance or be-
came unless-progress which is still un-
finished"
Tail Lost En- Route.
Among other things that man lost on
his way from monkey to man is a long
and hairy tail. Mr.. Hrdlicka does not
say so. but he indicates It.
I'VE know these TO be facts" Mr.
HrdIicka continues. I'D because all or
ganc form is essentially unstable. plas
tic. reactive to changing influences, and
to this law mans complex and relative
ly delicate organism can form no excep-
ton; ~ because the best authenticated
Skeletal remains OF early man show
without exception a more or less close
approximation to more primitive primate
forms: (0 because these older human
forms show. in general. more theroid
features in proportions to their geologic
antiquity: and (p because morphologic
differences which have occurred in num-
erous historic groups of mankind within
relatively recent times are very appar-
ent to-day in the various races of men.
and are constantly arising in tribes, in