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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11
Life is but thought; SO think will
That youth and l are housemates still
---Coleridge.
The Growth Of Habits

A PHILADELPHIA EMBEZZLER says that he
can remember the time in his life when the owing
of So worried him. But owing money may, like
many other things become habit and scar the con-
science. He acquired the habit and in late years
felt no uneasiness in borrowing all the money he
could get his hands on, without waiting for the
owners consent
How use doth breed habit in man."
Habit lies at the basis of all ordinary action.
Everything that we do repeatedly becomes easy
and habtual
David Hume declared that the habit OF seeing the
bright side of things is worth more than thousand
pounds year.
Diligence, economy and perseverance are habits
that carry life as steadily to success as fayoring
winds carry ship at sea-
Depravity is not an inheritance, but character
formed by persistent habits And rectitude is only
the confirmed habit of doing what is right.
The truth is not simply that we MAY form habits;
we MUST form habits.
We cannot do or say or think or feel anything
without leaving definite mark on the nervous or
ganish which more or less affects all succeeding
action or speech or thought or feeling.
Could the young but realize how soon they will
become mere walking bundles of habits, they would
take care to have these habits helpful instead of
harmful.
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Lay It On the Hen
RTMENT OF AGRICULTURE calls at

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE calls at
tenton to the heavy loss in eggs in the handling and
advises Encourage the production of large eggs. !"
Drat Jim Wilson anyhow for telling us henmen
what to do and not how to do it! That old grand
daddy head of the agricultural department. is surely
the cuckoo of Bill Taft's cabinet and don't care
how soon he's bull-moosed
Now, how in thunder should fellow proceed to
encourage his hens to lay large eggsg For If large
egg won't break ably or spoil as early a small
egg, of course are for larger eggs
Can a snail hen be provoked or fooled or pleased
into laying large eggsg Can large hen be persuad-
ed that she's longer pullet, and thus be induced
to lay according to her sizea
But he needn't come forward with his ordinary
propositions for influencing the hen We've cur
ried her, mancured her, brushed her teeth figura-
lively speaking, nested her in leaves, and had
the photograph play Caso Sc records at her by the
hour and she sat there with eyes partly closed COO
ing comfortably to herself, and still no eggs.
1t is one thing to sit up at the head Of that de-
partment at Washington and say: "Make the her
do it, It is quite another to personally look that
calm, contrary, insoent bird in the eye and argue
her into doing anything that she thinks she really
don't have to do.
Jim knew how to hold on to job but he seems
to know little about the hens jobs.
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ID BY JUNIOR OFFICE BOY Q
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n. ", Sept. 11.-once in a while
one of them playwrite guys cer-
tenlv does call the turn on this
stuff they call human natchure
I never saw 1t done no better
than In a littel play seen the
luther mite
the name Of the play is ready
money, and the guy that wrote 1t
had the dope. beleave me
there is a poor slob that had a
bunch of dough and invested 1t
all In gold mine out in arizona
the only trouble with the mine
was that they couldent find no
gold in 1t, otherwise it was a
perfekly good mine
well, this poor gink gets to the
end of his rope. he has had to
give a morgidge on the mine, and
| It is going to be foreclosed II he
don't raise 900 In "a hours
all he has got is 25 cents, and
1t looks like a bum break for him
he has got lots of welthy
trends, but not one of them will
inves a cent in his mine, they
give him the laff when he trys to
make them think maby It has
got some gold In 1t, II he only
goes deeper
then along comes a counter
feiter, and he slips this poor guy
10000 dollers on counterfeit
money
you don't need to pass none OF
It. he says, just let your friends
see 1t
they VIII think you have
struck gold and sold a lot of
lstock, and they will want to buy
stock too
you sell 1t to them, work the
mine, and give me one-half your
profits
so they make the bargin and
pritty soon when one of this fell
ler's ritch trends wants check
cashed, he pulls the roll of 1000
doller bills
say, them fellers certellly do
fall for 1t, without this gus say
ing a word they make up their
minds he has struck 1t ritch
they beg him to let them in on
the ground flore, and they shove
their checks into his hands, and
telegraf all their trends to send
him money
pretty soon he has 10000 dol
lers, and the counterfeiter says
ha, ha, what did l tell you
the Teller doesn't wan tc take
the money, because he is afraid
maby the mine amt got no gold
in it, but Just then here comes a
telegram from the supt. IF the
mine saying they struck gold
SO he pays the morgidgc, and
the counterfeiter tears up the
bum money and becomes his
pardner
some play, al rite
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The Times Daily Short Story

excuse that he was sick, he went
home. He packed up his baggage.
1t was mid-afternoon when he
returned, heavy-footed and heavy
hearted, to the office to resign.
Before him stretched only the old,
|objectless life of wandering over
the face Of the earth with no one
to care for him and no one for
him to care for.
I'm quitting, Mr.. Glover" he
said to the proprietor in the Of
flee.
The proprietor was loath to let
him go, for he had proven him
self a most competent man.
Quitting, Geary?" he asked In
surprise. "Why, what's wrong?
1 might give you a raise. You're
due for 1t anyway. Stay with
u.s."
''No, must be going. Guess I've
got the wanderlust."
John tried to put some cheer
in his voice, but 1t wasn't great
success. Just them the door burst
open, and Boggs, putting and
red-faced, rushed in.
"Stop the press!" he shouted.
"That shrimp of Tompkins put
up a job on me this morning.
Gave me a story about Miss Nor
ton going to marry Caleb Squires.
Nothing in it. All a lie. Stop
the press!"
The office was all hustle and
confusion in moment. Noise of
loosening up the form mingled
with dire threats against Tomp-
kins. When the space occupied
by the item had been replaced by
a patent medicine ad, the propri-
etor returned to his desk.
I'm very sorry you're leaving,
Geary--" he began.
"Give me piece of copy" said
John Geary as he pulled off his
coat. I've decided to stay"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11

ago William Wood was shaving in
a wool factory in New Bedford,
Mass. He was only fifteen years
old, and to make a bare living he
had to work over a loom some
thing like fifteen hours day.
What has caused William
Woods change of heart?
He has graduated from the
ranks of capitalism, and the
touch of money made him forget
the evils of long hours, biightfng
toll and poor pay.
How has Wood built granite
hard trust on the foundation of a
wobbly wooden concern? by pay
ing the maximum for his mechan-
ical equipment and the mininnni
for his human equipment. In 9TH
er words, by depriving all the 9TH
err little William Woods of their
heritage.
Walk through the wool trust
town of Lawrence. Little boy
and-girl-faces are pinched; man
and-woman faces are pinched;
the bodies of all are cramped and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11
STILL In TOWN.
BY A. II. GrOh.

John Geary whistled as he came
back to his case in the rear of the
Evening Clarion office with a
fresh sheet of copy. A patch of
afternoon sunshine came through
the dirty window and lay on the
dusty floor of the composing room
But John Geary saw neither the
dirt on the window nor the dust
on the floor. He saw only the
sunshine. This was typical of his
state of mind at the time.
Has she named the day yet?''
1t was Jeffries, the big red
headed pressman who put the
question in mock seriousness but
entire good humor as John pass
ed. John smiled indulgently.
mot yet, Billy" he said.
When John Geary's eyes had
rested on Sally Morton, clerk al
the Bon Ton store, soon after his
arrival in the town, they fingered
upon her pretty face longer than
they had ever fingered on q
woman's face before. His first Wis
1t to her home convinced him that
he had found the one of whom he
had dreamed. He began saving
his money. He had an object in
life. And he never felt anything
but pride when his companions
"jollied" him bit about Sally.
John was still smiling as he
mounted his high stool and laid
the copy down at the top of the
case with slug for a weight. He
took his stick and looked at the
first words. They were written
in the odd, cramped hand of ole
Boggs, veteran reporter of the
Clarion, who knew every man,
woman, child and dog In town.
The smile faded from Johns face
as he read:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11
THE SMILE FADED FROM
JOHNS FACE AS HE READ

Cupid has been busy again
and this time he has shot one
of his arrows through the
heart of Miss Sallie Morton,
the well-known and popular
young saleslady in the Bon
Ton store. The lucky man
is Mr.. Caleb Squires, our
prosperous and gentlemanly
grocer. The young folks are
trying to keep the engage
ment a secret, but the news
leaked out, and now congrat-
ulations will be in order"
John found himself stupidity
holding the stick in his hand
The first stunning blow had
passed. His mind was made VI
quickly. He could never set vi
that fatal paragraph. With al
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11

Beware, We standpatters, you beware,
There's trouble and battle and in the air,
The thunder is rumbling all the sky
Oh. fly for your lives while there's still fly
Old Mother Earths restless there's tumult above her,
The Bull Moose has broken from cover!
Oh, cruel those hoofs II you get beneath
And cruel the shine of those ivory teeth
Rampageously snorting and stamping the ground,
The mighty Bull Moose rushes madly around.
This this is place for the placid peace-lover-
hTe Bull Moose has broken from cover!
No popguns will scare him, no shouting will bar,
He's marked with the magical brand of ct RI
And whatever the that he looks your viewing,
Wherever he is there is something dongl'
And only the valiant about him can hover
The Bull Moose has broken from cover
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11

Peaches-40 q SOC.
oranges-$2.75@ $50.
California Grape Fruit-ss.So
04.75.
Potatoes-$13@15 ton.
Lettuce-31.10 q crate; zoo
CSC a doz. heads.
Turnfps-s1 sack.
Beef-11h Q12hc.
Pork-13@ 1910.
Beets---$1 sack.
Ouions-75c a sack.
Lemons-e6. 5e@6.75.
Watermelons-%c lib.
Cantaloupes-5Oc@ Sits.
Blaekberries--75c@$i.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11

BOSTON, Sept. 11.-William
M. Wood is strange character.
Head Of the Ubiquitous wool
trust, he has long been an ex-
ponent of labor-oppressing capt.
talism. He has recently been in
dicted for alleged conspiracy to
place" dynamite in Lawrence
during the textile strike.
And yet William M. Wood him
self sprang from the same class
that he has so bitterly oppressed.
Little more than twenty years
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11
THE SUPERFOOL

We know the man who cannot swim
A stroke, but loves to float
Upon the summer sea, and thinks
1t smart to rock the boat.
Though over his untimely grave,
Beneath the pillows cool,
We drop the tribute of tear,
We class him fool.
But now that we have learned at last
The trick of how to fly,
And soar above the fleecy clouds
And navigate the sky,
When far below spreads the sweep
OF valley, hill and plain,
What shall we call the passenger
Who rocks the aeroplane? New York 81
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Observations
$4,000 people isn't half bad for Roosevelt {

$4,000 people isn't half bad for Roosevelt audi
ence.
EVEN if they didn't bring back that skin we will
have to believe that those two Tacoma school teach
ers really did kill bear.
CLARENCE BARROW speaks in Moose Hall to-
night He is featuring for worthy cause and you
must hear him.
WHEN Bob Hodge appeared on the scene at the
progressive convention in Seattle yesterday, they
say the delegates almost shook the roof down And
Bob is going to shake mighty bigger roof when
November comes along.
HAYS nomination yesterday at the primaries
viii be about as far as he will ever get to Olympia
y B. said last night that he wasn't against the big
Yellow because he wanted to be against him He
was opposed to him because he was sscrooked,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11
THE VALUE OF MONEY

he matron, a point OF
our poke his
change-fifys
him money? He
his little with
him to beat
filming him having killed
body with his automobile Yes insist his paving for luxurt
mis- allowance We buy his automobiles but the fines ne hA
to Ike care o fv
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11
NAUGHTY! NAUGHTY! HE WON'T SAY "MAMMA"

youngsters
New his wife had Sonny Char
clothes hanger when she insisted his calling her
wife; Is
6 Sonny Charlie only boy of 49, He got the crazy idea
sepmother
wife didn't like idea of him calling
a n affectionate title.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11

EXONERATING
Yes SIR averred the New York my house robbed
Looted in broad daylight"
Where the police?"
Now hold don't the police mixed In IT,"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11

William Nj. Wood leaving Bos-
ton court house, after indictment.
Below, fisherman's hut in Ed
gartown, where Wood was born.
Above, house i'm New Bedford,
where he lived while working in
textile mill.
stopped. Everyone in Lawrence
looks as If he had never drawn q
full breath and never had time to
look up at the sky.
Has William Wood really for
gotten those days at New Bed
ford?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11
That Artist FeIler Breaks Into Print
QUICK, WATSON. THE NEEDl.Ei

Artist Fder Breaks Into Print.
QUICK WATSON, NEED1Ei
portrait of mother-n-law should always be SPEAK
likeness
young should painted in OIL, while older
will up better If done In CHALK.
portrait a pugst very STRIKING it will surely
make HIT.
A prohbionist's portrait should painted WATER
colors.
bull should get into ACTION picture.
vaudeville star should always be STRETCHED.
And the end should always be done in CHARCOAL.
An painting good he likes the
in the right hand side OF check
better.
Any woman's portrait always FLATTERs when
enemy gmpses it, but doesn't DO HER JUSTICE when her
Teller eyefu1 of 1t.
could all with this nutty stuff but
gotta touch that portrait for two.
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Carrots-s1 a sack.
Cabbage u @1hc.
Spinach--9oc a box.
Chiokens--11 q zoe lab.
Oysters--s7.50 per sack.
Clans--31.90 sack.
Crabs--s1.B0 OTIS doc.
Butter.
Washington Creamery - $50
sac.
Eggs
Washington Ranch-34c.
WHOLESALE PRICEs.
Feed.
Hay, 5000 ton; oats, $S2@
"a; wheat. $3.50 @S0: shorts.
$3.50 ton; bran, s22.50 ton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-09-11
BOTH HIGH

oogy yuh doctah fie hypercritcaly carped Mr. Fagg
who had recently Illness dds yuh bill yon
mighty high, peahs like"
1T might look datuh sight," replied
Dr. Sasher But eyah mighty high gavitates muf
calm ponderosy maady; lofer fevah
de sab Pucl
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THE HUNGRY ARTIST

regular
the thing hurredy
when a old lady
the chop the butcher took 1t downwe
self how embarrassing 1t
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night. He is featuring for a worthy eau
must hear him.
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HAYS nomination yesterday at the pr
will be about as far as he will ever get to Olym
The evening world., 1912-09-09
MAKE POLICING A PROFESSION.
OLIVER CROMWELL

TECHNICAL COURSE in tho science Of policing has been
established by Lepne the famous Chief Of Paris Police
Police engaged in detecting and pursuing criminals
have thorough training in the principles and methods that
proved most successful Hitherto police methods handed
along hit miss fashion by observation and word of
These methods be carefully collected systemaed and
put into form where they may be Of practical service.
Police recruits will thus have the advantage Of the scd and
coded experience their predecessors the police wisdom
Of other countries Each department of theft
forgery murder etc. well special divisions jewel thefts
scientific bugares and the ereceve separate treatment in tho
light Of how policemen detectives should proceed In each ase n
the greatest possible degree Of precision saving time and
concentration Of effort Candidates who complete the course with
credit receive diplomas and decorations and become eligible for ad
vanced positions.
The idea is excellent because tends put into the
poceman work elements of intelligence dignity and progress that
to prove attractive to increasingly better class
n the New York police have been put shape again this
plan Of course in Scientific Policing well worth considering
Anything that lift the poiceman job out of the
graft class and make appeal honest intelligent young men
interesting progressive with it's own will work
miracle good for the honor and efficiency Of the force
The evening world., 1912-09-09
Learning English in Lond on )
% Be "Swank" One Must Not Only Drop
3ne's RS, but One Must Have An Accent

your side he isn't 'swank unless he gets
your American accent
OF course, could not get 1t AN In one
lesson. but was assured II I Just
watched the professor and listened
closely tho accent would go home with
me. and not a cent o. duty mead pay
on Il, which was indeed an incentive.
since my trunk was already "too full for
utterancs." All the time I kept think
Ing "If mother could hear me nowr'
But to go on with the lesson: The
professor suggested that I read out OF
a newspaper quite slowly and he would
correct me a. went along. picked
out a column that seemed interesting
and hoped 10 kill two birds with one
stone thereby. but take note. my fellow
sufferers from America. only read one
paragraph Of that whole column. be-
cause the profsssor's ear was pitched
In the key of c sharp. and ne did see
every movement Of my lips and heard
every syllable. And. my world mover
know there were 20 many syilsbles In
one paragraph!
A. read tho frst sentence the Pro.
fessor remarked: Don't sing itr'
At my look of modification b CON
soled me by saying you can't help that,
All Americans do It. Il goes with the
language. But get Il out Of your nose!"
he cautioned. when you como herr
you must get Il In the throat"
The evening world., 1912-09-09
On Wednesday.

On Wednesday.
10 the Editor Of The Evening World:
On what day did Aug. 1. 1855. faii'
c, r.
To the Borough President.
70 the Editor Of The Evening World,
Kindly inform me 10 whom ] have
20 write regarding the bad condit ion
Of the sidewalks IN my neighborhood :
ii. NJ. Schulz.
Read Pension Statistics In World
Almanac.
TO the Editor Of The Evening woridi
What entities "A soldier TO a PEN
sion7 Just having served in the war,
or must he have been woundedy
v. VI. s.
Apply to the CiviI Service Com
mission.
70 the Bditor OF The Evening World,
How can ] obtain a city position. I
en- at present employed. but would pre-
fer to work for the city.
SAMUEL NELSON.
Walk 10 Texas.
10 the Editor Of The Evenlng World
Gould you please inform me the near
est way to reach Galveston. Tex? Ais
please state all towns I have to pas
through. I intend TO walk from New
York Cay or Albany. ". y. T.. IL
Victim of Asthma.
IL the Editor Of The Eysning World:
Please let me know what climate &
most desirable for a person about 4
years old, being affected with asthma
and bronchitis? Would suburb soutl
OF Philadelphia, Pa. be better tina
one IN Westchester County?
CONSTANT EvG. WORLD READER
The Green Bush.
TO the Editor VI Tie EVENING World
The green bush that Mrs X. speak
The evening world., 1912-09-09

or seeing upon rural buildings 10 q very
old custom. and It 10 placed upon the
ridgepole or highest peak to announced
the fact that the frame OF the build
ing 10 complete. O. BBLLWOOD.
burglar Alarms for JaiIs,
To the Editor Of The Evening woridi
AFTER reading the account Of Rey-
mold Fonsbrcy and George witsonu
escape OF July last ] think ! have
hit upon u very simple method of con-
ming prisoners In the Tombs, city
jails or. II necessary. In wooden
shacks.
In my estimation substantial burg
lar alarm system would do away with
all chance OF escape. Jewellers, silk.
feather--in fact. all merchants having
articles OF value (out OF the ordinary
on their premises install a burglar
alarm 10 keep out thieves. Therefore
why not use the same system &c keen
them In once the police get them.
AN ELECTRICIAN.
Doctors Best Prescription.
To the E.toE Of The Evening World;
In regard to the recsst letter written
by the Brooklyn doctor. he surely hit,
the nail on the head when he tells us "a
i've outdoors and walk all we possibly
can. ! have walked Ia and from busi,
ness ON an average OF six miles a day
hve days week for one year. covering
about 400 miles. ana It certainly pu
me In hne Physical condition. II invig
CRATES the system and Is a wonderful
energy builder. Try II as q tonic fo
the blues.
We surely appreciate his timely an,
beneficial suggestions. and hope he will
keep us posted for our future heaitl
and Improvement.
y GEORGE W, sNAcxENsDRo.
The evening world., 1912-09-09
WHO'D BE A KING?

IGNIFCANT mpruden wholly characteristic is the Coonel
rort to hose who would have that he wants to be king
- 81 always feel inclined TO answer Mr.. Roosevelt is
ported said in the West Chat the people who make this
don't know kings else they would not put down
nv ambition be They don't know kings do Other
things might like be- but not king The constitutional
Of present time being between
peua and the leader Of tho Four Hundred than
thing else know"
Thus does the Great Progressive with singular naivete
aside the charge that he would like to be king showing puan
suggestion that he could be anything tame
restrained limited Also he lets slip word of pitying for
the constitutional ruler bound by safeguards Of law and national
precedent to curb his personal will and caprice
The Colonel should have thought before letting his
uberance confession "Other things might like to be-"
Gar Emperor Supreme Dictator First Consuany robe free Of
constitutional hobbies that would drive Strong Man
like Me to distraction.
The people think Mr. Roosevelt would like to be king may
kings But they know Mr. Roosevelt and they know what
they They that the Coonels incorge esene
Of will his extravaganza his impaence Of restraint his frequently
displayed intolerance Of any law tradition that inereres with
progress he have convinced thinking that empera
mentally and in all Of his masterfu mind this ambitious
prone his destiny dictator Of adorng people
head of constitutional democracy Of intelligent repon
sible electors.
Does he disprove it?