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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-03-20

ILLINOIS boy publishing amateur magazine o
Taft $3.50 to write article golf. Bright boy!
advertising, whether he gets the article or not.
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SPEAKING of automobiles
U.
$216,66o,000. No. haven't but they're
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COLD STORAGE A DANGER TO PUBLIC
HEALTH, WRITES DIR. WILEY
AND HE TELLS WHY.

Great Benefit Mankind, Storage
Only During Shipping Foods. t4s
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A contented spirit Is the sweet
est of existence.-Dickens,
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Hardwood Floors

When building your new
home, or your carpets get worn
out, don't go anywhere else, but
to the Tacoma Parquct Floor
Co. and have them give you sn
estimate on a first class hard
wood floor. TEA St. Helens av.
Main 67b6. Eve. Main 9232
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likely a Lllputians
Say doc, you
York;?
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FIRE losses in the U. S. average $4,000 for every
for minute sic for every tick of the clock
1t would almost to have freproof buildings,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-03-20

ICKENS 10 cents per-" And down In New Orleans they
nge incubator which has 6,000-egg capacity.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-03-20

sEARCHLiGHT of 10000 candepowe visible for IL miles
in Montevideo still
think that South America uneiyilized Wilderness
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WRITER now proves that many of the sayings at
laugh were presented in similar form to the ancient
Latins and tickled 'em immensely.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-09
Will Be No Civil War.

During my visit to President Yuan
told him very frankly my ideas upon
many important matters that We're
! then to the fore. We discussed at
length the six power loan, as it had
been called, and the terms upon which
1t should be made and accepted. We
3hlso went into the matter Of the relief
Pf distress, the organization of polit-
'fal parties, the teaching of civil sci
Eence to the people, the disposal Of gov
|ernment mines and lands, the project
bf opening vast tracts of agricultural
/ ands for settlement and other mat
9ers Of import.
"At that time President Yuan gave
put very complete statement of his
Views on many Of these questions, and
while his expressed opinions were his
bwn they embodied very largely my
bwn views on the various topics.
II wish to 60 on record once and
For all as saying that in spite of the
Efforts, past or future, Of the enemies
4 sDf the Chinese republic there will be
. no civil war in our country. China
has been credited with having been
sleeping nation for centuries, and in
b certain sense-in many senses, in
&act-the phrase has been correctly
applied. But our enemies must not
count too confidently upon China being
'lsleep today. Her leaders are awake
10 the needs Of her people, to the call
. bf the twentieth century, to the hopes
and ambitions Of the present
1--WE understand too well that there
ire certain men Of pOwer-not to in
ude for the present certain nations
no would view with n greater or
lesser satisfaction an internal rupture
n the new republic. They would wei
*ome as a move toward the accom-
3blishment Of their own ends and de-
signs a civil war between the provinces
+ bf the north and the south, just as,
Iifty years ago, there was applause in
secret lin certain quarters) over the
terrible civil strife in the United States
Americans of today who were alive
those dark days Of the great repub-
+ ic will remember the feelings in the
hearts of the people-the bitter and
4 painful thoughts that arose from the
knowledge that foreigners were hoping
md praying for the destruction of the
american Union.
Had the war been successful from
he south's standpoint, and had two
separate republics been established, is
t not likely that perhaps half dozen
,r more weak nations would have even
ually been established? believe that
uch would have been the result. And
further believe that with the one
great nation divided politically and
commercially outsiders would have
|teDDed in sooner or later and made Of
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-09
LONDON TO INDIA AIR RACE.
Journey of 4,soo Miles Planned Across
Europe and Asia.

An aeroplane fight from England to
India is now under consideration, and
there is every prospect of the project
taking definite shape before the end OF
the year The distance along the pro
posed route is 4,SOO miles, and it is
estimated that each days stage could
be set at 400 miles, so that the great
Journey could be completed in twelve
days, weather and other circum-
stances permitting.
In India the proposal is being sup
ported by number of native princes,
including the maharajahs of JodhOur
and Bekanlr, who have intimated their
willingness to give prizes of 5000 ru-
pees $4,000 and 400 rupees ($12S re-
spectively. The begun of Bhopal also
has offered n prize of 5000 rupees.
The Royal Geographical society has
rendered every possible assistance in
the selection of a suitable route, which
has been laid out as follows: London
to Calais, to Brussels, to Cologne, along
the Rhine to Frankfort, to Ratisbon,
along the north bank of the Danube,
to COnstantinOple, to Konieh (Asia
Minor, to Cllicia, to Adana, to Alex
andretta, to Meskene, along the Eu-
pirates, to Bagdad, along the Tigris to
Basra, across the Persian gulf to
Bushire, along the coast to Karachi.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-09
OCEANS TO BE JOINED
IN TWELVE MONTHS.
Plan 10 Have Naval Vessel Go Through
Canal Oct. 10, 1918.

In just thirteen months a vessel will
go from the Atlantic to the Pacific
ocean through the Panama canal, ac-
cording to revised estimates made pub
lie by the Panama canal commission.
Oct. Is, 1913. is the tentative date set
for the passage of the first vessel
through the canal. A naval vessel will
be selected for the initial trip.
The formal opening of the canal will
occur on Jan. 1, 1915, it is announced.
Commercial vessels will have its un-
restricted use in December, 1914.
That the canal will be completed far
below the estimated cost of S40O. .OO0,-
600 is reported by Colonel Goethals,
1t may run as low as 1915. 100000.
About another $1.OO0,OO0 will be saved
in bond interest charges.
The total amount of excavation work
as estimated was about 242, ,134000
yards. A recent increase Of more than
100000 yards in the estimates was
caused by big slides in the Obispo di-
vision. The amount of excavation up
to Sept. Is was 21S,00000O cubic yards,
leaving approximately 24,OOO,OOO yards
still to be dug The average rate Of
excavation per month is now about
100000 cubic yards, and all the dig
ging should be finished before Sept.
10. 1913
The big dam. locks and spillways are
in various stages of completion, from
70 to 50 per cent. 1t is estimated that
the Gatun locks will require about
100000 cubic yards of concrete work
The concrete work Of the Pedro Miguel
locks is nearly 95 per cent completed
and that Of the Mira Flores locks over
% per cent. The Gatun spillway will
probably be finished within another
month. Other engineering features
show an equally advanced stage
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-09
TABLETS FROM THE MAINE.
Government Will Give Out About 1,2oc
When They Are Cast.

Acting Secretary of the Navy Win
thrOp has written to half a dozen
sculptors in New York asking them to
submit suggestions as to the design Of
memorial tablets to be cast from metal
taken from the wreck of the battle
ship Maine.
All the material taken from the
Maine which was suitable for relics
having been disposed of, there remain
several thousand pounds of metal, in
Guiding large quantities of brass and
bronze. 1t is intended to melt this up
together and from the mass cast the
tablets. 1t is estimated that there is
metal enough for about / 200 such tab
let's, which will probably be about
eighteen or twenty inches long and
ten or twelve inches wide. They will
be given out 10 applicants in the order
In which requests are received, the re-
ceivers Of the tablets paying the cost
Of making the plates. 1t is believed
this cost will be very small, probably
less than $5.
The tablets will have inscribed on
them the chief facts in the history Of
the Maine and the statement that they
are composed Of metal from the ship.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-09
HEARTBEATS BY WIRE.
Harvard Physicians Test a Device Fo
Electrical Record of Pulse.

A device to enable physicians to keep
in touch with patients pulse though
he be miles away is on trial at the
Harvard Medical school. A similar
device has been employed in the Lon
don Medical college.
After electrical connections have
been made the patients hand is placed
in a solution of warm salt water and
electric currents from the hand are
carried by wires to an instrument
which records the heartbeats.
at is now possible" says DR.. Percy
Il. Brown, Y ray expert Of Harvard
"for a physician to note the heartbeat
of a patient who may be hundreds Of
miles away. In fact, he can study the
heart action Of man on the other side
Of the world. BY this electrical device
can be recorded every movement Of
the heart and the muscles about the
heart at any distance, through a sys-
tenn OF relays similar to that used in
telegraphy."
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-09
GHOST STORY FROM AUSTIN
Spook Appeared About a Year Be
fore Big Dam Broke on Septem-
her 30 Last.

September 80 was the first ami
versary of the Austin flood, which
destroyed the Potter county town
and drowned many of it's inhabi-
tants," says the Clinton County
Times. 1T is known that the peo-
pie of Austin had a scare early in the
spring when the high water and
pressure moved the dam a few in
ches from it's foundation, and the
residents took to the Mills where
they remained all night and part of
the next day until the water receded
But it is not generally known that
the residents had another scare
shortly before this when a ghost ap-
peared that frightened some of the
people and was the talk of the town.
While the people were on the
hillside a young man came to Lock
Haven to report the situation to his
sister, who, with her family, were
much unstrung and worried because
all kinds of Tumors were heard. One
rumor afloat had it that the dam had
broken with horrible results. The
young man called on the writer be-
fore returning to Austin and told
about his and the other folks who
were on the hill in the chilly rain
expecting the big dam to break at
any moment and the rushing water
to carry away their houses, stores
and other buildings before their eyes.
Before leaving he mentioned the
ghost and related a few words of the
ghostly tales that were the talk of
the town until the threatening con-
dition of the dam seemingly scared
away the ghost and the talk
In the railroad and on and off
the cars were the places the ghost
haunted and frightened the railroad
ers with it's queer and spooky ac-
tions. 1t was a very tall man ghost,
dressed in black that would appear
and disappear mysteriously, and no
questions asked, for those who saw
it did not care to ask questions or its
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-09

business. The railroad men natur-
ally felt uneasy or scared with
ghost riding their cars and none of
them attempted to put it off when
they saw it crawling between and
running over the cars.
About year after the arrival of
the ghost the huge dam broke, with
the awful result that will always be
remembered by those who witnessed
the horrible scenes. In their great
misfortune, following the flood, the
Austin people who fortunately es-
capped with nothing valuable but
their lives, forgot about little thing
like a ghost; and the ghost must
have been scared out by the dam
talk or lost its life in the flood.
The gentleman who brought the
tales about the apparition to Lock
Haven, when the giant dressed in
black was doing the ghost walk at
Austin, figured prominently in the
stories of the food, as he was one
of the many heroes of the disaster.
He was newspaper man, and by
good luck happened to be at home
when the dam broke, and sent out
the first news of the catastrophe,
which was well written, considering
the situation and the fearful story to
tell the outside world. Immediately
the newspapers and magazines had
their best writer's and photographers
on the way to Austin. The profess
sional writer's and news gatherers
not told of the ghost because the
survivors of the food were stunned
and for that reason failed to recall
what happened before the rising Of
the water and breaking of the dam,
with all its indescribable effects.
Everybody wno escaped death in
the flood had a sad tale to tell the
correspondents, but none mentioned
the ghost. If they did, one of the
clever fellows might have begun his
story of the flood with a ghost com
ing to Austin, and being a spirit
from the other side of life that came
to warn the people of their danger
and what was to follow; and that
nobody cared to quiz the spook The
writer might have started his big
news story truthfully. Who
knows?"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-09
DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE.

Estate OF Fletcher Gilpin, NJ. D., late
of Sterling, deceased.
All persons indebted to said estate
are notified to make immediate pay
ment to the undersigned, and those
having claims against the said es-
tate are notified to present the-
duly attested for settlement.
Mrs. Libbie Gilpin, executrix of the
estate Of Fletcher Gilpin, NJ. D., by
Friend B. Gilpin, attorney.
11S North Ave, West, Crawford,
N. j., Aug. 2S. 1912. 70eoi6.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-09
sun YAT sen TELLS THE
TRUTH ABOUT CHINA
China VIII Remain a Repub-
lie at whatever Cost
or Sacrifice"

America their own. l do not believe
that | am stating this too forcibly. If
so, ! have not read history nor studied
men and nations intelligently.
"And l feel that we have just such
enemies abroad as the American re
public had and that at certain capitals
the most welcome announcement that
could be made would be that of re-
bellion in China against the constitut-
ed authorities
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-09
A Unit For the Republic.

However. foreign i'll wishers may
as well understand first and last-per-
haps better now-that the men who
are at the forefront of Chinese affairs
are Il unit for the republic as estab-
lished aud cannot he brought, individ-
ually or in factions. to oppose the on
ward march of the Chinese nation.
Neither fattery, fear, Intrigue nor gold
has power TO make the leaders of the
new China. nor any one of them. turn
back the hopes, wishes and aspirations
of our people.
II believe ] am voicing the senti-
ment of a united and unanimous peo-
pie when l warn trouble makers at
home or abroad, that the Chinese ma
ton has joined the great family of re-
publics, to remain a member thereof
at whatever cost or sacrifice.
Let not one word which | have ut
tered be construed as being even re-
motely a hint that the China of the
new order is opposed to foreigners or
to legitimate outside interest in the
cOuntry's welfare. The very opposite
IS JDe CdSe, IOr we WelCOIle IDe HIS
sionaries. the men Of trade and the
capitalists and scientists of the other
nations.
In proof of this it may be cited that
President Yuan Shih Kai has already
selected three eminent foreigners to
aid him in his work. one a jurist, the
second journalist the other college
professor. Another eminent man, an
American diplomat and one of China's
foremost friends, is desired for a high
post at the capital, and a formal re-
quest has already been made both to
the United States government and to
the gentleman concerned.
"Why are these men desired? Sim
ply because they are men of wisdom,
who have shown in the past that un-
selishly they have the interests of
China Mt heart.
mo man because of his nativity or
creed will be barred from service under
the republic. Now, above all times,
my country needs the assistance of the
worlds best brains. But enemies to
the state will not be tolerated, and
upon this point the Chinese people,
high and low, are q unit.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-09
China's Need of Finances.

perhaps ii is almost Supertluous for
me TO say that the most pressing need
of China today is her establishment
upon a sound financial basis. The
country is in need Of a large sum in
order that the wheels of government
machinery may revOlve without fric-
ton. Alarmists have said because the
proposed loan has not been quickly
negotiated that the republic was in dire
danger of collapse. There is not
shadow Of reason for this assertion.
1t Is but a question Of time-six or
eight years perhaps-that, even with
out a great national loan, the affairs
of the country will be upon satisfac-
tory financial basis.
"It must he remembered that while
China has millions of very poor peo-
pie land hundreds Of thousands who
are constantly but few days removed
from possible starvatiOn) there are
also millions of people capable of pay
ing taxes In amounts greater or less,
and that when the new system of tax
alton is put into operation in all parts
of the country the various govern
ments, city, provincial and national,
will be well supported.
"Now that the country is again at
peace, excepting in certain remote and
unimportant districts, l look for a big
Increase In commerce, domestic and
foreign, with consequent well being in
agriculture, manufacturing and the va
rious other industries. With the peo-
pie everywhere working, with peace at
north, south east and west, the coun-
try is bound to be prosperous and the
government stable and substantial.
at should be remembered also that
China, in spite Of her reputation for
poverty and famine, is really very
rich country in natural resources.
Tradition, belief and superstition
through the centuries have conserved
the minerals Of the country, the great
quarries of granite, marble and onyx
and the vast forests of valuable woods
in the south and southwest. Experts
have made reports and have told me
personally that the coal lands still un-
touched are Of a value quite unfigura-
BILE, while the iron, copper and zinc
hills are pronounced by French experts
to be the most promising ever operated
anywhere
"When It is understood that all these
properties, as we'll as over a hundred
millions Of acres Of fertile agricultural
lands are the unquestioned property of
the government, 1t can readily be seen
that, except for immediate and tran
silent needs, the country is far from
beinR In a state OF insolvency
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-09
Gives It In the Form Of an
Address to the American
People,

WN answer to the food of misrepre
sentations concerning the Chinese
republic, DR.. Sun Vat Sen, the
man who really founded the re-
public and who was it's first provisional
president, recently gave out an address
to the American people through the
columns of the New York Sun DR..
Sun said in part:
"While officially I am not compelled
to speak of Chinese affairs and can
in no direct sense be a mouthpiece for
the government of the republic. l feel
that it is my bounden duty to speak
quite fully regarding matters in which
am deeply concerned to the end that
certain misunderstanding preiudicial
to the interests of my country may be
cleared.
Perhaps ! would not feel this justi-
|fcation were it not for the fact that
with my own eyes | have read in
American and British journals many
|misstatements Of fact, particularly re-
head and heads Of the Chinese govern
ment and of certain factions of my
"The relations between President
Yuan and myself are personally very
cordial. 1t is true that we do not agree
|upon all matters of public policy. but
Iour differences are those which the
7world expects to find among its public
|men.
81 believe ! can safely say that upon
1One matter Of first Importance all the
leaders in China are of one mind-the
best good Of the country. AS to how
his may be attained is quite another
matter, but we are all striving and
working for the one meritorious and
noble end.
"No one thinks of n civil war in the
United States simply because Mr.. Taft,
|A1r. Wilson and Mr.. Roosevelt do not
Ihgree upon matters of public policy.
Each of these gentlemen is certainly
b true American and a patriot of a
'rery high order Yet there are-if my
knowledge of American affairs is
3vorthy-many great and vital issues
Ipon which they disagree totally
"May it not be so in China?
81 have but within few hours re-
turned from a visit to the capital, the
Pity which, If foreign journals are to
be credited. l hardly dared visit be-
Pause of the personal danger l would
run. 1t is too bad; it is wicked, indeed,
lhat such ideas should be published
broadcast. Great injury is thus done
pur country and the cause for which
= I'VE have so long striven. Both are
given a setback in the eyes of the
knrnrll
The daily Alaskan., 1912-09-20
GHOSTS OF THE LIVING.
q csss TAst Th-s~s lisht en ths
 presls-. et Aeearitieea


 It Is not at al necessary to resort to the supernatural ss the cuiy sufficient explanation of sppsritiens. In truth. there is one lnsurrncnntsble obstacle to regarding them as supernatural manifestations. and that Is the simple circumstance that the ghosts wear clothes. It Is quite conceivable that there really may he ghosts of persons. but nobody who gave the matter sec end thought would contend for mo rnent thst there can be ghosts of clothes. Nevertheless Arpsritions are always clothed and sonetim.s in gar- meuts of such modern cut that they were unknown st the time the person seen as s phantom lived on earth.
 Aside from thls. there Is the Inter esting and hy 10 means unimportsnt ca-,umStsnce that houses are some times haunted by spparitlons not of the dead. but os the living. know as one case In which gentleman sn. tering a irswlng room at { in the afternoon saw seated on the sofs young lady with reddish gold hair, uho sprearaa to he reading book. Tsere were two other persons in the room. one seated beside her on the sofa. snd the visitor was surprised to snd that they did not offer to intro duce him to the young lsdy-dd not, in fsct. seem to see Der. Later a guest at a week end party saw the same sp- rarition ia the same house. and it was seen a third time hy one of the serv- ants
 Nc hrht vss thrown on the strange affair until. a year sfterwsrd. the wife es the son of the family arrived from Australia Co psy s first visit Co her husbands relatives snd wss immedl- stely Identified by the servant as the asure she hsd seen. The two visitors who slse had seen the srparitScn sub sccpenfly usaae the same identiAca. ton.
 Since R ts lncredible to suppose that : person csn he iu two places st the same tiule-sc that lady csR he both in Australia sud iu a house thousands ,s rnIles from ApstrsIis--it Is 6 legitl- ruste lnferNnce that phsutssms, wheth. CT or the living or of the desd, are de void eS objective reslty, gre. inst Is ne say. always snd culy Authorizations. -Nesrorositsn Magazine