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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
Hers If She Wants 1t

Miss Mary Wood of New York, one of the bril-
liant lights at the General Federation of Women,s
clubs, says that 'the first thing to do is to work
not for minimum wage, as many women believe,
but to work day and night for equal pay for equal
work"
The point made by Miss Wood is bound to re-
ceve thorough discussion because it is one that has
ratified or positively stuck friends of women who
propose to regulate wages by legislation. Does
woman want minimum wage fixed by law at a
figure lower than the legal wages of men? Almost
every measure seriously proposed for regulating
wages makes such discrimination. Or, does she
want to trust to long drawn battle for equal pay
for equal work, unsupported by legislation?
Some of the best friends of womens cause are OPP
posed to any movement for "equal pay for equal
work.. They claim that in the vast majority of
cases women are employed instead of men simply
because they are cheaper and that if wages are
equalized by either law or custom, women will be
driven out of employment; that in nearly all voca-
tions, wages being equal, there are physiological,
social and other reasons to influence employers to
pick the man rather than the woman every time.
If this be so, it behooves woman to know just
what she wants before she starts much of eco
nomic upheaval.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

Most of them were suggested by
the ub-contractors- the cement
worker, the mason, the plasterer,
the tile man, the hardware man,
the electrician, the painter and
the plumber. And the house
needed them too, because some
how hadn't thought Of every
thing when l was drawing the
plans. After which / also had to
have a fence built and a lawn
made.
/ came near being flattered
about the house, though. A
wealthy looking gentleman. in an
automobile stopped and stared at
the house hard as can be. Seeing
me come out he politely asked
Pardon my curiosity, Miss, but
who is the architect Of that
structure?" OF course was steo
modest to say the design was a.
my own, and said that the draw
ings had been given US by a
friend. "Well," he said, what /
wanted to know is, what style of
architecture Is that--Coptic or
Igorrote?"
I always thought It was some
style of architecture but I hadn't
guessed either of those two. Odd,
isn't It?
Continued
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

Just at present a look into our
home at the family around the
evening lamp reminds you of a
called meeting of bank directors
just before the bank is going to
fail.
We are trying to figure out
whether we can pay for our new
house without mortgaging the
furniture in our old. The new
place is nearly ready and we have
already been congratulated in
the local paper on our "palatial
dwelling on Chow Chow street,
which will be soon ready for oc-
cupancy by the owner. Mr.. Briney
Diilpickles, the weli-known iron
molder. and his interesting and
popular family" Outwardly we
may be cheerful and the envy OF
all, but in our bosoms we know
1t is going to be half rations un-
til we make up for the "extras"
on the house. The extras are the
things you-didn't think of before
the builder set his price. They
are punched under the head OF
"Addenda" on the specifications
While the shack was building
put on enough Addenda to have
made a palace ON the Rhine eli
gibls for an apartment house
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

NEW YORK. July e.-Four
people, evidently from out-of-
town. were riding up Riverside
drive on the top of q Fifth av.
stage. Reaching that part of the
drive between 1i6th st. and
Grants tomb, In which are the
most modern, expensive and
magnificent of New York's apart
ment houses, they gasped at the
splendors revealed as one after
another of the stone and marble
palaces was passed.
They saw coutr yards adorned
with statuary and tropical plants.
They saw gorgeously-clad fun
keys lounging about the gate
ways. In the distance they saw
beautifully furnished entrance
Hobbies, with bronze hanging
lamps, and objects of art whose
cost must run into thousands of
dollars.
AS they viewed one after an
other, the visitors cried, "Oh.
my, look at that one! Look at
THAT one! See that staircase!
Oh. look at THIS one!"
And so on, until there burst
from the lips of the lone man in
the party the exclamation:
why, there's no end to them!
Where DO the people get the
money to live in all these
places?"
It's the unanswerable question
in New York. 1t puzzles not only
visitors, but people who live in
the city, and think they know
something about its people.
A young man from a Western
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
Less Men For the Guns

France is exceedingly gloomy the figures
which show that her population decreased by 34,S69
during the past year, while that of her enemy, Ger
many, greatly increased. Considering men merely
as meat for powder, frances figures may well
startle her. for the decrease in population in 1911
very likely means decrease of dozen regiments
20 years hence when the boys born in 1911 would be
ripe for slaughter.
But God reigns, and it is possible that by 1881
civilized chrstianized will have abolished
Maybe the civilized, christianzed of France
are already refusing to bear children for army pur
poses
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
New 1oRk LETTER xs as

/ city stopped over here on his va
cation. He was told that rents
were considerably higher here
than in Chicago. Having paid
rent In. Chicago, he doubled II. He
was walking with friend in seth
ST., between Amsterdam and Co
lumbus av., when the discussion
took place-by. no means an aris-
tocratic neighborhood. They were
passing a new apartment house.
Let's just go In and inquire
about rents here" said the young
man. They did.
"The lowest we have" said
the janitor, ''is three-room
suite at $3.50 a year"
The young man from the west
rushed out for air.
He was told that there are
miles of apartments along liver
side drive, Central Park, West
End av., in which rents are from
$500 up. There are scores of
huge apartment houses where no
suite can be had under $4,000.
There is one, on Seventh av., a
few blocks south of Central park,
In which rents are from $1,000
up: This is in an ordinary neigh
borhood, and of course, prices
are higher than this in many of
the magnificent buildings on the
park and the drive.
And all these great buildings
are filled with tenants. There are
not hundreds nor thousands, but
tens of thousands of families in
New York city who pay from 5000
to $4,000 a month rent for apart
ments.
Where DO they all get 1t?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

CHARLESTON, w. Va, July
Rev. ]. II. Gray, evangelist.
could drive the devil out of the
stolidest, cussedest mountaineer
but he couldn't do a thing with
j. II. Graham, the horse thief.
Graham was Rev. Gray's pri-
vate, unframed devil. Graham
was to Gray what Hyde was to
Jekyll-his other self. But the
team of Jekyll and Hyde had
nothing at all on the dual per.
sonality partnership of Graham
and Gray.
James H. Gray was a most de-
vout man, who knew the Bible by
heart and wore side-whiskers and
Prince Albert suit.
But every once in while
James H. Gray would disappear
and somewhere in the West Vir-
ginia mountains James H. Ora
ham would bob up and somebody
would miss a horse.
James H. Graham, the horse
thief-unkempt, ragged and with
whiskers like Stubble-didn' t
look just like James H. Gray, the
preacher CLook at the pictures)
But James H. Graham, horse
thief, and James Gray, preacher
were the same.
Gray would arouse the country.
side to religious ecstacy, and ther
as Graham he would steal q horse
and skip the country.
He just couldn't keep the
Graham in him down.
Gray would build a church In
churchless place, and then al
Graham, the shabby night prowl
er, would make off with the ole
roam of one of his flock.
A whole country would ride t.
the courthouse square to heal
Gray preach, and a. few day.
later the same folks would b,
chasing him, as Graham, tn.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
BY the Junior Office Boy

n. y, jooly 6-this is the
CRATE old time of we're for no.
boldly to be satisfide
the boob that don't git no va
kashin puts up an awful rore
because he don't git none
and the guy that does git one
goes and blows in all the dough
he has been savin up for the last
we're. gifts hisself all tired out
trying to have a good time, and
by the time he gifts back on his
Job he wants to kill the gink that
Invented vakashins.
one of the worst things about
vakashins is having to go back
to work agen, gee but its feerce
russian exile on his way to
siberia with a chane around his
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
A Hero in a Lighthouse

For years ]. s. DOnahue, So.
Haven. Mich, a civil war captain,
as lighthouse keeper, averted
awful wrecks. but a queer fact is.
he might have been a wreck, him.
self, IL Electric Bitters had not
prevented. "They cured me of
kidney trouble and chills," he
writes, after l had taken other
so called cures for years, without
benefit and they also improved
my sight. Now, at seventy, I am
feeling fine. For dyspepsia, in
digestion, all stomach, liver and
kidney troubles, they're without
equal. Try them. Only so cts. at
Ryner Malstrom Drug Co., s3S
Pacific av.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
Observations

thsrs
WILLIE HEARST might-oh kicking a
fellow when buried?
THAT is celebrating when the flag the city hall
Pale h burned she floats.
modern political convention
EVEN the willing admit the is better for
1ourth celebrations
please suggest
- held ut New Orleans beginning Aug. Is.
WINGFIELD of
without tarnish his high reputation a cowboy.
d. SPRECKELS was surprised to more
beautiful would surprise
= thsy just came and look
cooking with
electricity idea Get the city
~ lightning and could people with
pitchforks
TACOoIAS decorations little
blow with first Of the
Monsmara Feso shown in its embellishments
respective conventions with not glory.
CONTEMPORARY applied
Sss
"6TICK to principle and
That's what the
hey out Of powder More powder Bob more powder.
BRYAN reminds Of picture Is hold
scrubs his certainly
x66x - chance to clean ITSELF
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

sad, 1t wou be yet sadder If he
could take O look at the place
where hel left the said heart,
and see some luther guy playin
football with 1t
o you summer gerls
they sertenly can shake a
sucker down for his small change
bid him a damp fairwell, and
then slip him a fadeaway tickit in
the mails
this teaches the book a CRATE
lesson
the CRATE lessin is that he
must of picked the rong dame,
and that II he amt quite so care
less the next we're, he can cop a
real one
well, you know the anser, IL
fellers had to depend on them
seaside kiddoes for sumthing to
marry, nat goodwin would still
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

horsethief, racing away on Dea-
con Smiths mare.
Gray was caught three times
and sent to the penitentiary-as
Graham. And he never stole
anything but horses-this man
Graham.
After each release from prison
Gray went back to preaching, de-
termined to suppress Graham.
And the Graham part of him
would just wait and wait until
Rev. Gray had become a regular
hero in the community, when the
housewives were making their
best pies for him and mothers
were washing their Johnnies'
faces because the preacher was
about to make call, and then
why, Graham would suddenly
break loose and~drag the Rev. Mr..
Gray back to horse stealing.
There is law In West Virgin-
ia under which an habitual GRIM
inal may be sent to the peniten-
tiary for life, so recently Graham
was given a life-term as habit
ual horse thief.
Gray-Graham went before the
Supreme Court of the United
States and asked that the SEN
tence be annulled on the ground
that the law was unconstitution-
al.
The supreme court has decided
that the law Is constitutional,
and therefore the strange psy-
Geological partnership of preach
er and horse thief will have to
stay in prison. unless a pardon
intervenes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

neck Is u Cheer
full lookin OBJ
jock compared
with a Teller
that is just
stackin up
agenst the toll
stuff agen after
friskin around
with a bunch of
skirts at a sum-
mer hotel for a
cuppel of weeks
maybe he has
left his heart be-
hind him too
4hta l.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

Of books and magazeens
put on the slippers, fill the hot
water bottel with ice water, lay
down flat sumwhares, put, the
bottel under the back of your
neck, and read your head off
don't go out of the house unless
1t ketches fire
you will have a nice, cumfert-
able time, save money and not
get into no trubbel
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
BEST WAY TO GET IN,

"Now that the national conven-
ton Is ancient history, would you
mind tipping off how you got in
every day without a ticket?"
"It was easy. I simply hid In
the steam roller"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
/ Hfifnrial Pane no CTR Carona Cinles PHONES 80

II man can write better book, preach
better sermon, or make better mouse-trap,
than his neighbor, though he builds his house
in the woods, the world will make beaten path
to his d0or--Emerson.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
By the Junior Office Bow

be a old bachelor
now wish to offer free of
charge ressipe for a paneless
vakashin
provide 1 pair of slipper, 1 hot
water, bottel, bushel baskit full
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

Most Anything: I think Miss
de Vere's poem a grand, a WON
derful creation Of poesy, filled to
overlooking with beautiful rhyme
and heart-throbbing sentiment
Miss A. H.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
NEXT TO A POETEss

Most Anything: The main idea
In Miss Hyacinth de Vere's poem
recently printed in your column,
was to get her name in print.
I'm next to those amateur poets
and poetesses.-G. p.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
Also Contributed.

Please, Miss de We're, the mex
time
You want to dabble. In rhyme
Kindly print It in a book
And hide 1t In q shady nook.
A Mere Man.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
WOULD BE TERRIBLE

THE doctors going to operate on her.
Whats wrong
Something stomach, understand"
they She'd get Owe
that kansas City journal
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
NERVE

told him right here in
WI
II that took him down a two"
didn't started right find them and
money''-Houston Post.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

Mr. Struckit RichOur waiter is student He Is working
his college. 81
Struckft tell Well, the colleges
would only few good walters I'd have respect
for of learnn--Puck.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
The Markets

Lemons-s4m5.50.
Carrots-s2 a sack.
Cabbage-1h 03kc.
Spinach-g0e a box.
Chfckens--14 q 22c a ID.
oysters-s7.50 per sack.
Clams-$1.e0 sack.
crabs-ei.5O Oils don.
Butf-r.
Washington Creamery-zs@
soc.
Eggs
Washington Ranch-2sc.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
Feed
Hay. s124 30 ton: oats. sac
1880 ton; brnns fz7.t0 tou.
E 81. f1
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

The Plump have promiuent part IN the oo
Short comedianFst always plays prominent part In oleo
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

Look here. Ezra, do you
know, anythin erbout tn Board of
Trader"
Sure. l do. Tee-hee, I used
ter board there"
well, here's question I want
ter ask ye-what's meant by
spot wheat?"
why, spot wheat, Caleb, is
one o. them varieties that
speckle-late. MISUNDERSTANDING
hot"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
HIS GOOD EXCUSE

GOOD
would you help poor gent what amt able to work."
why. you look strong. What keeps
ME blooming PRIDE sir"-Stray Stories.
Did you have a fine speeding
1T wasn't much a
NOT BUNIONS
II notice Rounder Is walking
= - " - - N1o
"Ryes NOR IikeIv"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
THE CHARM OF NAME
A RAP Ar COLLECE

why did You call your boat Rumor?"
Because want her to keep afloat."-Baimore Ameri
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
ABOUT THE SAME
sContinued.)


81 dreamed last night that Syx
different
Comic the Helen
Dido Cleopatra Sappho Madame
billed tet"-Louisyfle Courier-Journa-
PARADOXES
muttered into the
bank. possbties.
Baltimore American 500
COURSE
a selfmade told"
moher-inaw insists making
teralions"
CHARM NAME sst
"Why did call boat Rumor?"
because her to afIoa"Baltimore American
RAP AT COLLEGE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

CALIFORNIA; Ieaders--Johnson and Bell-return Fl
sspecve conventions covered with gore. not glory.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06
IT'S PARADOxEs
OF COURSE

self-made man, am told
true, but his mother-in-aw insists making some all
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

REALLY there's of title "The Peerless
Ihich CONTEMPORARY applied Bryan Not
be leader who cannot be led aray and loser who
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-07-06

ssTICK to principle keep powder dry,"
- IaDliette That's what the patriots did
Of powder. Moro powder, Bob. powder!
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-07-26
LAND OWNERSHIP SUIT.
Valuable Trip County Homestead .
Matter of Dispute.

Sioux Falls.-The officers of the dis
trlct United States land office have
concluded the work of taking the tes-
tmony in al interesting case involv-
ing the ownership Of a valuable home
stead in Trip county. The defendant
in the action is Christian Nelson, the
plaintiff being Martin M. Johnson.
sensational charges are made by the
plaintiff, who filed the original home
stead entry on the farm. He alleges
that While he was a patient in a hos
pltal, recovering from typhoid fever,
he was under duress induced to re-
llnquIsh his right to the homestead by
Nelson and to take as a consideration
Tor DONG so an S0-acre tract of farm
land in Lyman county, which is al
legged to be heavily m~ortgaged and
worthless. 1t is alleged that at the
time of executing the REIMBURSEMENT
the plaintiff was mentally incompetent
by reason of his illness. to transact
business. The plaintiff seeks to have
the accomplishment set aside so his
original homestead entry will be in
tact. 1t is expected the case will be
appealed from the district land office.
When a decision is rendered, and that
it will be carried to the commissioner
of the general land office at Wash
lngton, and ultimately to the secretary
of the interior.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-07-26
A WINNING START
A Perfectly Dlgested Breakfast Makes
Nerve Force for the Day.

Everything goes wrong If the break
fast lies in your stomach like a mud
pie. What you eat does harm II you
can't digest tit turns to poison.
A bright lady teacher found this to
be true, even Of an ordinary light
breakfast Of eggs and toast. She
says:
Two years agoI contracted a very
annoying form Of indigestion. My stom-
ach was in such condition that a sim.
pie breakfast Of fruit, toast and egg
gave me great distress.
II al slow to believe that trouble
could come from such a simple diet,
but finally had to give it up, and found
a great change upon a cup Of hot
Postum and Grape-Nuts with cream.
for my morning meal. For more than
a year l have held to this course and
have not suffered except when injudi-
ciously varying my diet.
Il have been a teacher for several
years and find that my easily digest.
ed breakfast lei a saving OF nerv-
Gus force for the entire day. MY gain
Of ten pounds in weight also causes
me to want to testify to the value OF
Grape-Nuts.
"Grape-Nuts holds first rank at our
table"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason" Read the little
book, 1.-THE Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letterf A new
. appears fem time to time. They
are genuine, true and full Of human
interest.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-07-26
Conservation of BiIIer.

Sioux Transformations are being
completed for what without doubt will
be the greatest gathering of bishops
and other prominent members of the
Episcopal church ever held in the
northwest outside of the larger cities.
The occasion will be the conservation
OF Rev. George Biller, Jr., as bishop of
he Episcopal church Of South Dako-
ia, to which he was elected by the
house of bishops several months ago.
The conservation Will take place in
Calvary cathedral in Sioux Falls on
September is, and will draw to the
city leading c@hurchmen Of the denom-
ination from different parts of the
United States. The consecrators will
be Or. Daniel S. futile, bishop Of
Missouri and presiding bishop; DR.. L.
r. Brewer, bishop of Montana; Dr..
Cameron Mann, bishop Of North Da-
kOta. The ~presenters viii be DR.. e.
S. Lines, bishop of Newark, n. Y. and
DIR. Frederick Foote Johnson. bishop
cOadjutor Of Missouri. The ~consecra-
ton sermon will be preached by DR..
f. X. Brooke. bishop Of Oklahoma.
The attendant presbyters will be DR.,
William NJ, Groseynor, dean of the
cathedral of New York City, and Rev.
p. M. Kerridge, of New London, Conn.
Rev. Dir. f. Ashley, of Cheyenne In
dian agency, S. D., will be master Of
ceremonies.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-07-26
Voice of Conscience,

A western Kentucky negro was in
jail awaiting trial for stealing a calf.
His wife called to see him. On her
way out the %jailer, whose name was
Grady, halted her.
Mandy" he inquired, have you
got a lawyer for Jim?"
mo, sah,' said his wife. EFF Jim
was guilty I'd git him a lawyer right
away; but he tells me he amt guilty,
and so, of co'se, l amt amin to hire
none"
Mr.. Grady" came a voice from the
cells above, you tell dat niger WON
an down thar to git a lawyer-and
git a dam good one, too!"-Saturday
Evening Post.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-07-26
To Propose Legal Reforms.

Pierre.-The committee of the State
Bar association, which has been at
work on proposed legal reforms here
for the last two days, will, among 9th
err things. .eCommend to the legisla-
ture amendments simplifying the ap-
peal laws, the enactment of uniform
negotiable instrument and bill of lad
ing laws and the enactment of a law
similar to the Kansas (blue sky law
in regard to transfer of stocks Of cor
porations.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-07-26
Excellent Plan,

Il see,' said Mrs. De Jones, while
Mrs. Van lyle was calling, that you
have a Chinese chauffeur. Do you
find him satisfactory"
He's perfectly fine" said Mrs. Van
lyle. ITO begin with, his yellow com
plexion is such that at the end of a
long, dusty ride he doesn't show any
spots, and then when | am out in my
Limousine | have his pigtail stuck
through a little hole in the plate-glass
window, and | use it as a sort OF bell
rope to tell him where to stop
Harper's Weekly.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1912-07-26
To Tax Pank Funds.

Rapid City.-By a vote of five to
three the board Of commissioners Of
Pennington county voted at its last
meeting to subject the undivided prof
its OF the four local banks to taxa
ton. This decision Of the board viii
bring about $4,000 into the grand
list. being divided among the four
banks. The First National and Pen
nineton County banks having the larg-
er amount of funds thus held in re-
serve. 1t is the intention Of the off
cials of the banks to pay the tax and
appeal the case to the state board Of
equalization. Rapid City is said to be
the only city in the state of South
Dakota where funds of this character
are taxed.