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La Junta tribune., 1912-03-09

Governor Hoch will give Ms an
interesting Message from Kansas"
at the Presbyterian church next Fri
day evening william Allen White
says that no man In Kansas can
make better speech than Governor
Hoch. and press notices from all over
the couptry are equally fla,tering. II
Is evident that the people OF La
Jun,a have a great treat In store. II
will be- especially 10 for the stand
pat brigade" hcrcabouts. As Governor
Hoch is reported to b. = great nd.
mircr of Taft In his lecture In
Grand Junction last Monday night
Governor Hoch characterized Prcsi-
dent Tafts administration ~ one
Of the greatest In history. and v~-
hementiy ass-ryaicd that Taft 10 the
greatest progressive II them all-not
cxc~pting Teddy. lie 10 evidently
afraid Of Roosevelt. and says he IL
very much opposed tn Mcxicanisins
the United states presidency. u
seems strange that In this cniisht.
sned age there are people who really
believe that Roosevelt is posseased
with an ambittOn To become Theodore
the First Of the unit~d States Of
America. rherr arr such. however.
and Il looks - though Governor Hoct
vas ONE of EN-. Even George Wash.
inston. the father Of his cosntry. and
likewise alleged father Of the ANTI.
third term idea." sald that he could
s~e no impropr.ssy In pr~ciudins our.
selves from The services os any man
who on souse great emergency shall
b. deemed snivcr ally most capable
a ssrsias The public" Il secns to
b. the uaiversal seatimemt through.
OIL the country that the great emes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07
STANDPATTERS
dying BREATH

That the stand-pat crowd Is
gaping its last breath in fruit
less fight to put Stand-pat Hay on
the job again was indicated in a
story created in Seattle recently
to the effect that a progressive
club had been formed in Seattle,
and stated that it would support
Roosevelt and johnson but that
it would knife Hodge for COVER
nor. sts
The story is absolutely false.
w. G. Snyder, state chairman
of the progressive party, wired To-
cal headquarters the following to-
day:
Statement published broadcast
that the Roosevelt-Johnson club
would not support Hodge for gov
ernor is false. The club is an
organization of business men or
ganized for the purpose of sup
porting the entire progressive
ticket as headed by the national
electors. The story is simply an
effort of the stand-patters to avoid
the coming storm.
"W. c. SNYDER"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07

Comes the first touch of fall
weather, a little GOODNESS in the
air. and comes also, most GER
tainly, the annual pre-winter out
break of burglaries and holdups.
A good way to fasten windows
is to run screws through the up
right frames, connecting both
upper and lower sash. II the
windows are to be tightly closed,
have screws at top of lower and
bottom of upper frame; if win
dows are to be opened a little
way for ventilation, the screws
should be farther down on the
lower frame and further up on
the top frame. No burglar can
work screw driver backwards;
and he Will have to take the
whole window pane out of he
wants to make his entry that
way.
Locks on doors can be easily
opened from the outside; bolts
are more secure, but IL the bolt
is placed as usual, with the bolt
running along the door and the
socket ON the frame, any burglar
can cut through the door and
move the bolt. Reverse the bolt,
placing 1t on the casing, with the
catch or socket ON the door and
you've foiled the man on the out
side.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07
The Times Daily Short Story

, her. The pencil reposed squarely
in the center of a large plotting
pad. Its tip was pointed diagon-
ally across the pad to a pile of
books, and the other end had
been cut in such a way as to re-
semble the feathers on an arrow.
Undoubtedly the pencil was de-
signed to direct someone's atten-
ton to those books. Della looked
the books over quickly. A letter
sticking from one of them attract
ed her attention. 1t was directed
to her, in red, and opening it she
read the following, also written
in red:
Dear Della: I'm crazy about
you. On the 18th of this month
l hope to propose to you, but
thought it only fair to give you
little warning. I've told your
mother of my plans" (Here
Della paused. That's why my
mother smiled" she said to her.
self, "and she thinks its the best
way."O think it over, and if
any time before the 18th you feel
you can accept me wear a red rose
in your hair. If you can't take
me, wear a white. l suppose it
will take you all of the 13 days
to make up your mind; but please,
please try to make it up sooner.
Erred"
Della smiled to herself as she
Rugged the letter to her heart"
Thirteen days!" she laughed;
then rushed through the house to
the garden, where she plucked a
red rose, and, her cheeks match
ing the rose in color, placed it
Immediately in her bair.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07


II you can't bolt the door, slip
wedge beneath it, having the
big end of the wedge fastened to
the floor by a nail or any sharp
pointed tool, such as an awl.
A double pointed nail with one
Fend resting against the door, the
other against the floor, will make
it impossible for any one to open
the door form the outside, for
the more one would push the
farther the nail would be damned
into both door and floor. 49,
Another good way to protect
doors is to pile some kitchen pans
on table with the broom ex-
tending from the pans to the
door,. When Mister Burglar
opens the door he pushes against
the broom and the broom throws
the pans on the floor. Result: a.
great noise, and burglar runs for
his life.
If there is anything burglars
don't like, it's noise. Tie weight
to a cord, rum the cord across the
door near the top, fastening 1t on
the other side. When the door
is opened 1t presses against the
cord, breaking it and sending the
weight down with a great crash.
One man who was bothered
with intruders coming into his
summer kitchen and making away
with feed from the refrigerator
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07
LET HER HUM

YOUR LITTLE GIRL is hunched up on the floor
world of grownups. She is happy and, being happy,
she huns. Perhaps you are trying to read some ex-
position of the tariff or some other intricate sub
ject, analysed in speech reported in your paper.
Perhaps the little girl dstracts your attention.
Bullet her hum!
Don't for all the world disturb her. She is enjoy
ing that which she will never enjoy again
dom from care.
After bit she will be merry school girl, but
there will always be in the distance the worry about
tomorrow's lessons. She will in time be blushing
high school graduate, but marring her perfect joy
will be the wonder about what life is to hold for her
She will be happy bride, but there will steal in
the chilling thought of what sorrows may come.
She will be a contented mother, rocking her babe
to rest but visions will arise of diseases that may
strike down her dearest
Always, as one grows, new responsibilities, new
tasks, worries So let your little girl hum now
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07

and what does it mean?" Della
asked.
Mrs. Price examined the mark
critically, but to Della's observ-
ant eye it seemed as though q
smile lowered around the corners
of her mothers mouth as she
looked.
Mother" Della cried. 81 be-
Tieve you know what it is. Tel
me all about it,"
But Mrs. Price merely smiled
in reply and shook her head. Dc
what she would, Della could not
make her mother say anything
about the mysterious mark. Ma
turally this state OF affairs made
Della more determined than ever
to get at the bottom of the affair
She snatched up another calendar
lying on her desk, a little, sepa-
rate day affair, and found that II
also had the 18th marked like the
larger one.
Della considered the matter in
all its phases. Evidently some
one must have had a red pencil
to make such a mark. To hel
knowledge no one in the house
possessed such an article. Con
sequently, if the person who made
the ring and left the pencil about
the house, it might lead to the
discover of the PERSONS identity.
Upon reaching this conclusion,
Della instituted a search for the
pencil. Almost Immediately her
effort was rewarded. On. the big
table in the center of the living
room she found a red pencil.
When just on the point of pick
ing up the article, it's peculiar
position and appearance arrested
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07
"STOP! LOOK! LIsTEN!" BEFORE
YOU CHEER

The present patriotic work of Myron Il. Herrick,
United States ambassador to France, is an nvestga-
ton of the French and German rural banking plan
ostensiby in the interest of the American farmers
LOOK OUT!
HerTick's plan when finally formulated may be all
standpoint of the farmers best interests. 1t may
turn out to be simply the Aldrch central bank
scheme in disguise, or Wal-st substitute for the
discredited Aldrich scheme.
The great feature of the European rural banking
plans is that they keep the money of the small Cities
towns and farmers. AWAY FROM the stock ex-
changes it can be used in legitimate commercial,
manufacturing and agricultural enterprises.
The great feature of any banking plan which can
get Wall-st support must be to get much of the
money of the country as possible INTO New York
to be used by stock gamblers
Once more we say Herrick's plan may prove to be
all right, but when it is sprung, 'STOP, LOOK AND
LISTEN BEFORE YOU CHEER.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07

suaded, is James Whitcomb Riley in America.
In each their first friends and first audiences
composed of the plain people Burns simple
love songs Beranger's ballads about home folk,
Riley's melodies about little children and Hoosier
farms, went straight to the heart of the people who
ordinarily do not for poetry, because it is above
their heads After ALL most of us feel emotions more
rapidly than we think thoughts We cry or we laugh
readily than we ponder cloudy metaphysics.
And that is the reason we hail as brothers GER
tain singers long before the critical pundits awake
to the astonishing fact that these men have pro-
duced literature!
Riley, the .discoverer of Little Orphant Annie v
and many another quaint lad and lass will live in
American literature just as surely our Long
fellows and Poes. And that is why it is fitting
that we should all celebrate his birthday today.
He has been peculiarly kind of man--one Of us,
living our kind of fe thinking our kind of thoughts,
sharing our sorrows and our joys
So here is to Jim Reypoet laureate of the plain
people, long may he sing for our delight!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07
THE RINGED DATE.
BY Frank H. Williams.

Languidly Della Price tore the
October sheet from the calendar.
For a moment she started idly at
the November sheet thus ex-
posed. and then her attention was
suddenly riveted ON spot near
the edge of the paper. Saturday
the 18th, was circled with a red
pencil mark!
Della leaned close to the calen-
dar and investigated the mark
infinitely. 1t was evidently not
printed on the paper. Someone
had drawn the ring there, and re-
Gently, too. She remembered hav-
ing looked at the November sheet
two days before to ascertain the
date.
Mother" Della called, "come
here a minute, will your" She
pointed out to her mother the
mark on the sheet. "Now, who
do you suppose put that there,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07

A negro woman in Savan-
ah was preparing to get mar
ried. For four weeks be-
fore the ceremony she saved
up her wages, and immedi-
ately after the wedding she
hunted up her mistress and
asked her to take charge of
the fund.
I'm take it, of course"
said the puzzled lady; "but.
Mandy, won't you be needing
your money to spend on your
honeymoon"
Miss May" said the bride,
docs you think Use goin' to
trust myself wild a strange
niger and all dat money on
me?" - Saturday Evening
Post,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07
1T LOOKS LIKE A CRINIE

to separate a boy from a box Of
Bucklen's Arnica Sa1ve. His pini-
pies, boils, scratches, knocks,
sprains and bruises demand IT,
and its quick relief for burns,
scalds, or cuts is his right. Keep
1t handy for boys. also girls. Heals
everything healable and does lit
quick. Unequaled for piles. Only
20 cents at Ryner Malstrom Drug
Co., s3S Pacific avenue.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07
DON'T BE AN OLD MAN HUS-
BAND BECAUSE OF GREY
HAIR


Don't look sixty when your wife
looks only twenty. Don't be the
object of comment among your
friends and neighbors. Don't be
that grey-haired passe looking
fellow who's too old looking for
this and for that.
There's no excuse for it, duty to
yourself and particularly your
own desire to BE YOUNG look
young, to do the active energetic
things and keep up with the
YOUNGER GENERATION should
convince you that you ought to
GET RID of those GREY
HAIRS"-ought to keep them out.
Nature never intended they
should be in young head. Help
her along
USE HAYS HAIR HEALTH
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07
OBSERVATIONS

LOCAL socialists are in the position of one faction
having the candidates and the other the party or
ganization.
THE city commissioners are satisfied that the
greatest need of the day is for to invent
system of running municipality without levyiig
taxes.
THE annual contest is now on to see which can
kill the most--football or careless hunters.
CIGARETTE smoking is only matter of
taste and opinion.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07
RILEY'S BIRTHDAY

Occasionally some man has
sprung from the plain people
who sings because he must. He
was not trained to do it. He
had no expensive college educa-
ton which made him think of
making literature. He simply
had melodies that crooned in his
brain and love for his kind that
abode in his heart, and the re-
suit was true song.
Such a one was Burns of Scot
land; such another was Beranger
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07
I KING sung

$1.OO and SOC at Drug stores or
direct upon receipt of price and
Dealers name. Send 10c for trial
bottle.-Philo Hay Specialties Co.,
Newark, N. j.
FOR SALE AND RECOMMEND
ED BY VIRGES DRUG co.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07

WEDGE OR DOUBLE-POINT-
ED NAIL TO KEEP DOOR
FROM OPENING.
for the day. don't pull down all
the window shades and close the
windows. That tells a burglar
looking for "jobs" that the house
is not occupied, and he may try
to enter either then or that
night. Leave some of the
blinds up, raise (and fasten)
some of the windows.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07
Perfidious George.

sPerfidious
Wfe-What would left wfdower?
Hub-Oh, suppose the would If left
a widow. <sHE
Wife-You you could
anybody
Older Fashion. fl..
fashions
lady caller. =
Ibid husband fond of those cnglng
10"
Yes he likes to cling to for about three
Lippncott's n .,f1.
o
mo" said Packham, boiled at
=; -
Why Ascum thought you very Of
$50 but wife's dog won't it at all"-Deyo
Free = It I
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07

hit upon this plan, there being
reasons why he couldn't bolt the
door. He filled a bucket of water,
tied it over the door with just a
couple of inches of bucket ex-
tending down over the door.
When the door was opened the
bucket was overturned, drench-
ing the man below. That burg
lar never found out how he got
his ducking, but he never got over
the threshold.
If you are going away even
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-10-07

SCREWS TO MAKE WINDOW
SHADES BURGLAR PROOF.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-01-18
Pennsylvania Railroad Is Planning fol
For Eighty-ton Gondolas-To
Use Heavier Wheels.

Chicag o.-Plans which provide for
a tTem endOus increase in the capacity
of steel freight cars have been for
mulated by the engineers of the Penn
sylvania railroad. The new gondolas
and hOppers are to be 50 feet long
over all and so feet 2 inches inside,
The hoppers will have a capacity of
carrying $4,000 pounds of coke, against
$4,000 pounds, the capacity of the
largest cars now in use. These cars
viii have a rated capacity of 100000
pounds, but will be sufficiently strong
to safely carry 10000 pounds or so
tons of material
This great increase in carrying ca
pacity will necessitate the strengthen
ing of all of the material entering into
steel car construction, the Iron Trade
Review says. 1t viii probably mean
the entire elimination of the cast iron
car wheels for freight service and the
substitution therefor of solid steel
wheels.
Recently the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie Railroad company placed in serv-
ice 46-foot freight cars, which are the
largest now in use. In addition to
the strengthening Of all car parts, in
Guiding not only the wheels and axles,
but also all forgings and castings en-
tering into car construction, the re
enforcement of many bridges to with
stand the increased loads of these
heavy trains will follow. Anticipating
an increase in steel car carrying ca
Pacity. the Pennsylvania railroad has
been Strengthening all of its bridges
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-01-18
Made Happy BY American Cash

there had been any, when he counted
up the ducats.
Did those first lectures bring you
in more money than you had hoped
for?' asked.
Much more-much MORE was the
delighted response. Before I read in
the United States it was the weekly or
the monthly check from my publishers
which paid my bills and for the care
of my daughters Now, that sort of
thing is good, but it is precarious, and.
thank heaven, it is past Why, do you
know, l am going back to England
the happiest man in the world, l think,
because have been able to tuck away
about twenty thousand pounds hun
dTed thousand dollars of your money
and have put good deal of it into
your own securities, of which I have
been well advised, so that / can say
to my little girls when | get home:
There's a thousand pounds a year
for you no matter what happens "
Then, too, the possession of this cap
ital, this surety of a steady income,
will leave me wholly free to under
take some new novels, to devote my
entire time to planning and writing
them
"a little while later Thackeray left
the office, happy as a clam at high
tide. Going to my desk, l discovered
that he had left behind the bit of pa
per which he had been marking up.
examined it and found that he had
drawn free-hand sketch for a cover
for Putnan's Magazine. On one side
was a cornstaIk, very tai; on the
other side, cotton plant Under the
cornstalk was written the word Long
fellow under the cotton plant was
the word Curtis, italicized to indicate
that the Latin word for short was
meant Longfellow and George Will
liam Curtis were at that time two
conspicuous contributors to the maya
zine.
81 showed the sketch to Curtis. who
was on the magazines editorial staff,
when he came in. We decided to frame
and keep it in the editorial Offices.
But it disappeared. Somebody COW
eted and took it. and for the past fifty
years l have been expecting any day
that this particular Thackeray draw
ing will turn up somewhere in the
United States"
Copyright. 1911, by-E. J. Edwards All
Rights ReservedJ
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-01-18
Slams Amazon Guard.

Siam is one of the few countries
which boast of a corps of woman po-
lice. The members of this Amazon
Guard are all old and ugly. They
wear uniform though they are not
armed. Their chief duty is to act as
gatekeepers of the inner or Women's
Palace at Bangkok.
They follow any stranger who en-
ten the palace and remain with him
until he takes his departure. They
see that there is no mischief made and
that no one makes love to the royal
wives and concubines. Men who have
business inside the palace-doctors
architects, carpenters, electric light
filters, etc.-enter tae palace freely,
but are always accompanied by some
of the Amazon Guard. The palace has
some difficulty in recruitin. these
guards, as the work is hard and the
pay poor, and the quNlidcatiou-un.
mplimentary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-01-18
Manager, Deserted Suddenly by Laura
keene, Learned That Mrs. John
Hoey Had Determined to Re-
turn to the STAGE.

The late John Hoey, who made a
fortune in the development Of one of
the great express companies of the
United States, bought in the early
fifties of the last century a large tract
OF land at what is now Long Branch.
y. J., aus erected in the center of it
the most expensive country home
Wh3cn had, up to that time, been built
-pon the Jersey coast. Indeed, John
aoey's place at Long Branch became
one Of the show places of the United
States, SO far as country homes were
concerned. Many thousands of dollars
were expended in landscape garden
ing; Hoey's entertainments there were
lavish, and he numbered among his
guests many times some of the coun-
try's leading men, both in finance and
in business, as well as in the profes-
sions.
And yet, after all, the greatest at
traction of John Hoey's place was
Mrs. John Hoey. She was a very
brilliant woman, very handsome, of
large, but perfect figure and she num-
oered among her friends nearly all
OF those who had gained fame in the
United States as writer's and many of
The leading lawyers and bankers of the
east. Before she married John Hoey.
as Mrs. Russell, she was esteemed the
post brilliant and attractive of Ameri-
can actresses of her time She was
what is sometimes called the bright
particular star of the stock company
established by William E. Burton at
8urton's Theater in New York
John Hoey, according to common re-
ports, having visited the theater one
evening and witnessed the acting of
Mrs. Russell in a play in which she
Aad gained high reputation, fell in
stantly in love with her. Through a
TREND he secured an introduction,
and it was announced after a while
that the charming actress was to mar
ry the rich John Hoey and to retire
TO private life. A few years later it
was announced that Mrs. John Hoey
was to return to the stage; and ap-
pear upon it she did, as a member of
the Wallack Stock Company, regain
Ing her former triumphs.
On the authority OF the late A NJ
Palmer, to whom Lester Wallack told
the anecdote when Palmer was begin
ming his career as a theatrical man
ager, the manner in which Mrs. John
Hoey returned to the stage can now
be told
ct seems" said Mr.. Palmer to me,
that for some reason Laura Keene,
who was a member of Wallack's Stock
Company in the early fifties, departed
one day without notice. She simply
disappeared and left Lester Wallack
SO to speak, in the air Later, Mr.
Wallack learned that she went to Bal
timore, having received a tempting of
fer to share in the management of the
Baltimore theater.
Lester Wallack did not know for a
day or two where to turn for a sub
stitute for Laura Keene. 1t occurred
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-01-18
Ancient Jerusalem,

Since 1909 archaeologists have been
busy in excavating the eastern slope
OF Mount Ophel, in Jerusalem. The
explorers, who have been in search of
the tombs Of David and Solomon, have
cleared out and carefully investigated
the so-called Virgins Well and the
tunnel that runs from it to the Pool
Of Sloan. One of the most interest
ing discoveries was an Israelitist lamp
found near the bottom of the Virgins
Well. The lamp, which is in excel
lent condition, is believed to date from
the eleventh century, B. c.; that is to
say, from the time Of King David.
The excavators have definitely ascer-
tanned the site of DaVid's Jerusalem
and of the Jebusite city that proceed
ed it, and have obtained evidence Of
Jebusite occupation for 1000 years be-
fore DaVid's conquest.-Youths Com
panion.