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air so to speak. At such times only the saving vote of the bystander-the weigher and halancer, l may say-the political physician, notes the drift of the malady and casts his dissenting note.
 To say T am a democrat because no man named Bealle within my ken has ever voted anything but the straight democratic ticket" or the party that was good enough for my forbears is good enough for me- is no more preg- nant with common sense than to say Being New Englander. and because my ancestors believed in witches, I too believe in witches Nor does if necessa- rily follow that because in the year 1874 your great grandfather had an epileptic fit after eating a large ripe quince, you should live in mortal dread of quinces?
 Even as the dyed 1.-the wool demo- crat or republican keeps his party In militant formation, the unloyal one, or rather. the uninstructed bystander. fixes the majorities: with his variable fran chise finds rottenness in Maine under a republican regime and sends a democrat
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to the ground These gentlemen for days past have made the air heavy with pro. fane conversation. have been constan. patrons of the bar and encouragers of in- temperance, nay, more, the night which should be devoted to rest has been ded- icated to the horrid vices of gambling, profanity and drunkenness"
 And" continued Mir. Milburn, with the solemnity of a man who spoke as If by inspira tion, there is but one chance of salvation for these great sinners in high places and that is to humbly repent of their sins, call on the Savior for forgive ness and reform their lives'
 The effect was startling. The audience separated and the young preacher scarce ly p years of age returned to his state room to think over what he had said. Conscious that he had only done his duty, he determined to maintain his position and abide by the results and he did not know what they would be. While he was thus meditating a rap was heard on lis door. gentleman entered and stated that he came with q message from the mem- bers of Congress that they desired him to accetp 2 purse of money they had
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Had Father Ryan subjected his thought to the lapidary finish of the professional poet, it is doubtful if it would now be so popular. He wrote as he was moved, the fervid thought seizing the first words within reach as vehicle, and thus they fall on the ear of the world.
 Simple songs his poems are, generally melancholy. meditative, pensive. the chief quality of them being that they touch the heart. His thoughts seem to move in popular orbits in search of ob- iects invested with the plaintive. It is not the weirdness so often met with in Poe that one encounters in the poetry of Ryan, but the touch of moaning, the sadness of a burdened heart yearning and burning for that which it has not, but hopes for and looks for in other realms yet unrevealed. Resounding carridors of gloom, dimy-lighted vestibules, process ions of mourners moving till lost in darkness. the chimes of melancholy airs heard by mystic ears, the untitled foot fall in mysterious darkness. the touch of vanished hands. the outreach of timorous arms through the gloom for kindred touch, the signing of a soul for its in- heritance-these are the elements which resound his verses through.
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such melody that one wishes the re- served force of the soul whence they come might have fuller and freer expression, that the slight thrill experienced might rise to rhapsody.
 Most rare are many of the pithy pas sages to be met with in his productions. Did space permit. 1t would be a delight to enumerate many of these gems which glitter along his pages but only one or two may here be indicated. On the oc- casion of a visit to Rome he penned a fragment on After Seeing Plus K" The first four lines are quoted to illus trate the power of the poet derived from mere glimse of a mans face, and in the last two of the lines quoted. resides power in metaphor rarely met with. Says the poet;
 q saw his face today; he looks chief
 Who fears nor human rage, nor human
 guile;
 Upon his cheeks the twilight of a grief.
 But in that grief the starlight of a
 smile"
 The transference of the idea of the | twilight and the gentle star meekls
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TT occurred to me just now that the
 final umpires of a nations destinies ! are the men without any particular political beliefs l do not refer to the wishy-washy mugwump, or even tho purchasable voter, whom we are accus- toned to name synonymously with thief, liar. traitor, devil, and so forth-but to that silent unpledged army of bystan1- ers without a political standard, which yet religiously votes from year to year in sort of selective fashion. choosing first this party then that, without re gard to political faith or creed. Almost | may say the true protector of a nation Is the man without party, in the dog matics sense.
 And for that matter, serious students Of government are rarely political par tizans; nor can they be, seeing as they do that no matter how sound and well grounded a party may be in precepts that make for a peoples betterment, there come years of political alteration which sweep that party off it's feet times when that party goes up in the
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N illustrious example of the tri-
 "A umphs of genius over blindness 4 \ is found in William H. Milburn whose name is a household world in thou sands of homes in these United States He was born in Philadelphia September 26. 1893. At the age of years his slsnt was seriously injured; one eye was left and the other greatly impaired. The par tial sight of one eye was great blessing to him for a. few years until it was lost. In an address he was invited to deliver before the publishers Festival in New York city in 1855. he gave the following account of his early struggle Tor kho"i- edge. He said:
 The time was when after fashion l could read, but never with the hashins glance which instantly transfers Word' a line, sentence from the page to the mind. It was the perpetuation Of the child's process. a letter at a time. always spelling, never reading truly. Thus Tor more than 20 years. with the shade upon the brow the hand upon the cheek. the finger beneath the eye to make an arriii- cial pupil. with beaded sweat joining with
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is an ugly picture.

TT is an ugly picture.
 A wealthy citizen of New YorK J was suing another wealthy citizen for alienating the affections of his wife The wife was put on the witness stahu. This is part of her testimony:
 Describing some of the lively times with "gentlemen friends she toid or one luncheon at certain care tooh the silver sugar bowl, and the gentle man gave me two knives and forks and two spoons. l hid them under my cloak"
 Continuing. she said, "one of the men tried to take the brass lamp, but it was fastened,'' whereat the woman smiled and said, q always took things for souvenirs wherever we ate." She also remarksd:
 We all had more than the .usual amount of champagne"
 Questioned concerning her life with her husband, the woman testified:
 My husband made me drink. He al- ways got drunk at dinner. We used to make him comfortable on two chairs He was cruel to me and called me a she devil"
 And this:
 He associated with a low woman. I used to joke him about her and his taste"
 Asked concerning her divorce pro- ceedings, she admitted she had gone west where she and gentleman" ac- quaintance lived al hotel as brother and sister.
 Now:
 This is not story from Balzac with change of date and place.
 It is the printed testimony in a New York court of record.
 Ugly?
 It is to say the least. 'impressionis- tie" But it is true. And 1t is typical. On the same page of the newspaper is another revelation in high life fully as nauseous.
 Vice in velvet.
 To ftly characterize the picture-ft companion piece to the Hogarthian pie
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sF 1saHs 's@..'.r'y 1,ss ss',s. '' wa, he Ala. ].
 4 bamas sweet singer. He was a born poet and sang because le could not help it. Emanating from the heart, his paintive strains go straight to the head. Yet he wrote only at in tervals. Moved by the afflatus which only a poet feels, he would now and then take up his poetic pen and give voice to the ministrels of his soul. His verse is merely fugitive snatches of song springing from an imagination essentially poetic. and heart subdued by religious emotion. In no' sense was poetry a pro- fession with this charming wrist. for he himself tells us that his verses were written at random-off and on, here, there, any where-just when the mood came, with little of study and less of art and always in a hurry"
 Leaping warm from the heart and talk ing the wings of poesy. his thought throbs with virility, and makes an appeal to the heart of another with a force that is irresistible, visions of matchless beauty rose continually before his im- perial imagination and sought vent in song. . ssH5aH
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

in a leather book 1t is fin the book because 1t Is law. Punishment for sin is not true because it Is in the Bible; 1t s in the Bible because fl is true.
 Thou shalt not" means what 1t says.
 It Is not written for old fogies'' alone. but for foolish, perverse young women and men as we'll
 In the big office building 1t Is yet dark save for the lights left all night in the long corridors.
 The elevator stops to let off a scrub woman. She wears an old black dress a diminutive hat covered with black veil heavy shoes.
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fering. I have learned the wages Of sin is death. It's worse than death it's hell on earth"
 That was the utterance of Louise Suydam Noble. who eloped from her husband, a millionaire of New York, with Frederick Noble. a plumber, and afterward, being divorced, married Noble.
 The sequel.
 Noble and his new wife committed suicide by lying down together be- fore gas range and turning on all the jets.
 over, the newspaper notoriety at an end. the final divorce papers granted. Three weeks before the suicide Noble
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and Mrs. Suydam were married. and the life of the runaway settled down
 into humdrum, monotonous living.
 It was then Mrs. Noble uttered the truthful words about law and religion and sin and death and hell.
 Poor woman,
 There was added to her suffering 2 "sorrows crown of sorrows-remem bering happier things" She admitted the man from whom she ran away was the only man she had ever loved or ever could love. I've never loved any other man but Walter, but to put myself right be- fore the world I feel l should marry Fred :"
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lures of the crude wickedness of the slums-is difficult. How shall we label It? Suppose we put under the realistic and forbidding representation of high life the familiar words of Goldsmith: III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey.
 Where wealth accumulates and men (and women) decay. My friends, you may laugh some times at old things like the law and religion when they say Thou shalt not You and I may think that was written
 for old fogies. but what they say we shall not do we cannot do without su1-
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For her 1t was hell on earth.
 And for Noble little less.
 There was no newness to find in the other. All the interest each had dis covered had been exhausted by clan destine meetings. She had cut herself off from the only one she loved. And now that he had won her Noble did not love her.
 It was worse than death for both.
 When will men and women ever learn that two and two are four and cannot by the very nature of things be three or five? When will they learn that "sin and punishment grow on the same stem?"
 Law is not law because 1t is bound
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and lack. But this day can arrive only when we haply conclude that no polit- ical faith our parties may hold--nor, for that matter, any religious faith our churches may hold-is saereder than hu- man need This Is the New Word-the New Politics.
 Just now the practicality of heaven is being seriously considered. And not the socialists alone are bandying this new word about in their idealistic fashion. All democrats. republicans, socialists. laborites or what not, of the more thoughtful, unselfish type are beginning to see there are vaster issues at stake than the mere getting of the reins of government in hand. It may be present. ly seen that the success of any party at the polls is a small and lnconsiderable thing If in its ensuing regime it fails to uplft the least of It's units iuto more tolerable living. If you can get any bigger concept than this out of all your politics, I suspect you will find yourself in a state of some exhaustion at the days end.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-02
CITY DOCK IS
WINNER FOR
TACOMA
RECEIPTS FOR JULY SHOW
PROFITS AMOUNTING TO
ABOUT $1,000 REVENUES
WILL BE DOUBLED LATER.

The Municipal dock is a win
ner for Tacoma.
In July the profit amounted to
nearly $1,000 and would have
run over that amount had it not
been for some unusual exendi-
lures to the city itself.
Under the new adjustment of
water and light accounts as or
dered by the public accountants
the docks paid back light and
water bills to the city water ana
light departments for two months
during this month amounting to
1855. If 1t had not been for
this the profits shown from the
docks would have been about ST.
1875.
The Municipal docks have been
clearing nearly $1,000 profit for
the city right along monthly. AS
soon as the bridge Is out of the
way SO they can be extended the
revenues can be nearly doubled
and the real advantage Of num-
cipal ownership will then begin
to be apparent.
Much business has to be turn
ed down now for lack OF space 10
take care of 1t.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-02

and cleaner race, is the theory or
DR.. Gurli G. Melenthin, graduate
of the Central Institute of Stock
holm, Sweden, who Is telling the
public her ideas from the plat
form, In a series of lectures on
scientific eugenics.
eve are working on definite
problem, the making of wise laws
to take the place of the present
-ridiculously wicked laws that
regulate the marriage relation"
says DR.. Hellenthin.
"To do this wisely we must be-
gin by putting into the minds OF
the children of the race the right
idea of the origin of life. Our
present educational system so far
as sex is concerned is based on
lies,
II favor a law that will abso-
Iutely forbid the marriage of
either men or women under "a,
which will greatly reduce the
problem of dependent children as
well as the divorces that so COM
monty follow marriages.
rThe problem of eugenies is
one of the most vital and serious
that confronts society; and there
Is world of work to be done
before the lawmakers can be
brought to understand II or So
ciety to demand adequate laws on
the subject"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-02

(By United Press Leased Wire
NEW YORK, Aug. 2.-Charg-
ed with being one of the four
assassins who slew Gambler Her.
man Rosenthal in front of the
new Metropole hotel here on the
morning of July 10, Whitley Lew
is, whose real name is Frank
Siedenshue, is being sweated by
Deputy Police Commissioner
Dougherty as to his knowledge of
the crime which has convulsed
New York.
Lewis" is the second of the
alleged assassins captured.
"Dago Frank" Cirofici was
first. Lefty Louie" (Louis Ros-
eneweig) and "Gy the Blood"
(Harry Horrowitz), the other two
who are alleged to have killed
Rosenthal at the command of Po-
lice Lieut.. Charles Becker, are
still at large.
The police declare both of
whom were with Lewis" near
Fleishman, N. Y, where he was
captured last night, and that
they are sure soon to be taken.
Stirred by the widespread crit
icism of the police since the Ros-
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Cain Makes Address.

Cain Makes Address.
But in the afternoon the length
to which the association officers
wanted to go was given a new
turn when Oscar Cain, U. s. dis
trict attorney at Spokane, tried
to ridicule out of existence all
laws for the protection of public
morals.
He sneered at the attempts of
the states to make people good
by law" and denounced by sar-
casm everything from pure food
legislation to prohibition, much
to the glee of the audience.
1t Happened.
Then after Judge G. H. Han
ford, discredited federal Judge
who had to resign under impeach-
ment charges against him, had
been called to the floor to report
on federal legislation, an attempt
was made to give a vote Of thanks
TO all speakers-and 1t happened.
A. E. Joab of Tacoma Jumped
up and protested. He did not
believe in thanking speakers for
the kind of speeches they had
been getting. He started to de-
nounce bitterly the speech OF
Jesse B. Roote, who by the way
was former legal adviser for SEN
ator Clark, who bought his seat
for the senatorship in Montana,
and got so warm that the corpor-
alton crowd wanted to expunge
his remarks from the record.
Robertson Returns Fire.
This brought Fred c. Robert
son to his feet and he scathingly
assailed the officers of the asso-
citation for their one-sided pro-
gram in which all progressive
thought had been eliminated.
Robertson did not mince mat
ters at all and he made the lead
ers of the bar association vince
Will G. Shaeffer, secretary,
tried to excuse them by saying
they could not get Governor Hi
ram johnson to come and speak,
but 1t was evident that no great
effort was made to get progress
sive speakers.
The reactionaries had beer
found for every place on the pro-
gram.
Robertson finally agreed tc
give a vote of thanks to the
speakers with the understanding
that 1t should not carry any com
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-02

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 2.
If the human race is to Inn
prove instead of degenerate, the
children must be taught the or
igin of life.-
Laws must be passed prohibit
ing marriage under "a years or
age.
Both parties must be made to
produce health certificates before
the marriage license is Issued,
1t must be compulsory for the
prospective husband to have ssnf-
ficient income to support wife
and possible children
Pass laws compelling these re-
forms and the divorce problem
will be at least partially solved,
and the result will be a better
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-02
(By United Press Leased Wire

(By United Press Leased Wire
HALL OF RECORDS, LOS AN
GELES, Cal, Aug. 2.-Charges
of trickery and malicious misrep-
resentation were hurled at Assist
ant District Attorney Ford by
counsel for Clarence Darrow while
the prosecutor was plying the
defendant-witness with searching
questions during his cross-exami-
nation of the accused labor law
yer today.
The best point brought out was
that Darrow sent a telegram to
William ]. Turner, a former in
vestigater for him in the Hay
od-Moyer-Pettibone trial, tell
ing him to make the best arrange
ments he could with party who
was leaving Chicago soon for Los
Angeles with important matters, "
presumably Guy Biddinger, a
Burns operative, who was bring
ing Mcnamara exhibits to Los
Angeles.
The state endeavored to show
that the Turner kilograms bear
out Biddinger's testimony of an
agreement between himself and
Darrow to some extent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-02

around the judiciary. The Washington Bar associi
alton demonstrated it concusively.
Every speaker from the time the Honorable :
W. T. Dovell opened the convention with declara-
tion against rule by the majority until it was closed
with Cornelius H. Hanford discredted and con-
demned federal urist valedictoran, bristled with
denunciation for every progressive movement and
demanded the continuance of corporation con-
trolled judiciary.
The keynote of the convention sounded by the
Honorable Dovel opposing rule by majority and
denouncing suavely the supreme court for upholdng
the workmens compensation law, clearly pointed
the program of the elements that have controlled in
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-02
G BUSINESS" THROUGH BAR ASSOCIATION SHOWS HAND

the past and now find power slipping from them.
The people shall not rule.
. The courts must do the bidding of the dollar.
: The Bar association is to be thanked for the
speakers it selected.
They were men whom the people could not mis-
take. Dovell who delivered the stolen delegates OF
Washington to Taft Roote legal adviser for the no
torious Senator Clark of Montana; Brown, attorney
for the Great Northern CAIN district attorney under
Taft Bristol, corporation apologist of Portland;
Hanford, the unspeakable and discredited corpora
tion judge.
There is no question they speak with authority.
1t is the voice of the corporations. Special
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-02
TO
DISAPPEAR SURE

CINCINNATI, Aug. Q. The
ballot in the hands of American
women Is going to sound the
death knell of the too-tight skirt,
the too-low dutch neck" the
peeka-boo waist and the too
gauzy silk hose now worn by
women, according to Miss Mar
garet Foley of Boston. organizer
of the Massachusetts, Suffrage as
ISOLATION, who Is In Cincinnati
aiding local suffrage campaign
ers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-02
ASKS $35,OO0 FOR
GREEN RIVER JOB

Contractor p. e. McHugh asked
the city commission this morning
to pay him $4,000 on his Green
river job. He finished his work
in April, but Lawson held him up.
Then Lawson got Rydstrom to in
vestigate the whole proposition
and he now refuses to settle.
The other commissioners this
morning favored paying McHugh
what is due him and the matter
will be threshed out Monday.
McHugh gave notice he will sue
the city If settlement is not made
at once. He is willing to settle
for $4,000, but IL he has to sue
he says he will sue for $4,000,
and that he is certain he can col
lect it.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-02
WATCH THOSE
KODAK PICTURES

Watch for the prize VIM
ners in the Times vacation
kodak picture contest i'm to-
morrow's Times.
During the week the Times
has received some of the best
pictures submitted i'm the
contest. Tomorrow they will
be reproduced and the winner
of the box at the Empress or
Pantages theater announced.
Keep sending in your pic
tlires as fast as you snap
them. Remember that Sep
tember 15 the contest will
close and the Times will give
to the one sending in the
best series of pictures the
folding kodak on display at
the store of the Shaw Sup
ply Co. on Pacific av.-
Come ON with the pictures.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-02
10000 COPS SEEKING THE
ASSASSIN OF ROSENTHAL

euthal murder and by the declar-
alton of District Attorney Whit
man that If he wishes to rehablli-
tate the credit of the force he VIII
catch the Rosenthal slayer, Com
missioner Rhinelander Waldo
sent out a general order today TO
his 10000 men and specifically
to his inspectors, that Horrowitz
and Rosenzeweig must be caught
at once.
Failure, he threatened, would
result in clean sweep of the de-
tective bureau and the instaila-
ton of new men, "who will get
results"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-02
Laborer at Deaths
Door Hit by Train

Roy Gleason. aged %, labor
er employed by Frank McHugh
ON county road work. lies at the
county hospital hovering between
life and death as result OF hav-
ing been run down some time
early this morning or last night
by Northern Pacific train in
Dead Mans cut southeast OF Ta-
coma.
His skull is fractured. one foot
Is crushed and one arm is broken
in two places. Just how the acci-
dent happened is not known. The
injured man was found this
morning by a crew of an inbound
freight train.
Gleasons parents live at 4f14
East -