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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
Copyright, 1918, by Herbert
Quick.)

QuicK.)
War, pestilence and famine
these three are essential to the
keeping in check of the multiple
cation of all plants and animals.
War with the plants and animals
which struggle with them for
food and space and which prey
upon them-for there are
plants that prey on other plants,
and even on animals. Pestilence
which is merely the inroads or
other plants and animals too
small to be seen, and or weak
nesses of constitution and their
efforts. Famine-which is the
failure of part of the species to
set food.
These three check all organ
isms in their conquering march to
possess the earth. They must in
the nature of things. For If war
fail, and pestilence withhold it's
stroke, the myriads will grow so
great that famine will come as a
matter of course.
1t is a law of nature. 1t ap-
plies to all living things, unless
man be the solitary exception.
There have been those, like
Nautilus, Spencer and their school
who have insisted upon war, pes
thence and famine among men as
part of the natural order ow-
ing to the tendency of human be-
ings to multiply beyond the re-
sources of the earth to afford
them means of living.
There are many others who,
lacking the fortitude to look the
predicament of Man squarely IN
the face, have said, ooh! There's
way, and always will be a way
for all men to live. Why, the
state of Texas would support the
entire population of the world, II
1t had to! Let's be optimistic!
Others there have been, and OF
these HenlE George Is the best
example, who, looking the case
fairly in the face, have denied the
tendency of the human race 20
multiply beyond the limits OF
subsistence, and Mr.. George has
even suggested that it does no,
increase in numbers in the long
run at all. He denies that den
sity of population has ever In the
world up to this time necessarily
produced poverty. And until It
does SO produce poverty he re-
fuses to admit the Inneren, IN
evitablity of the sweeping off or
Redundant population by either
war or pestilence.
Men of the George school have
made the strongest case which
has been made against the argu-
ment that man, an animal, like
all other living beings, tends to
multiply, If given a chance, to the
limits of subsistence. And their
appeal to Divine justice, and their
defense of God against His aIIeg-
ed detractors, have been perhaps
the most impressive of their ap-
peals to the world.
Has God," they say, more
inhuman than the cruellest ship
owner, placed on the Ship Earth
a potential population which the
supplies are inadequate to feed I?
Has He so arranged matters that
II these human beings escape pes
thence, and in obedience to the
precepts of love refrain from kill
ing each other, they must die of
want? No blachguard on the
waterfront would do such a thing!
God has not done it!''
In spite of the tremendous
force of this argument, let us look
at 1t. For there is tremendous
force In the principle of muItipli-
cation, too. Let us first ask our
selves, Does the race tend to in
crease? And does it actually In
crease?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
DAN SALT HERE

Dan Salt, the Seattle promoter.
was in Tacoma yesterday con-
ferring with Joe Bonds. Ar
rangements have already been
made to have two Tacoma boys
appear in Seattle next Friday, the
18th. Harry Bishop is billed to
meet Danny O'Brien, and Frank
koepkey is due to meet Ed Hagen.
Salt announces that he has eight
four-round goes on his card, and
that he expects a large crowd
from Tacoma. The fans in this
city are hungry for boxing of
the real sort and turn out In
goodly numbers for the Seattle
smokers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08

Twenty-eight years of age, 13
years in the fight game, some
thing like 165 battles all told,
wife and baby girl and an income
of $3.50 a month from the six
houses he owns in Brooklyn,
N. Y.
That's the story of Harlem
Tommy Murphy in a NUTSHELL
sort of thumb-nail sketch of a
scrapper who has always been a
credit to the game, even IL he
isn't champion and is a remark
able piece Of machinery consider
ing how long he has been identi-
fled wittpthe sport.
For these many years they
have labeled Tommy Murphy as
an old man at the game, a vet
eran who must be beaten, but
just about the time that he
seems tagged for the discard he
hobs up with a good showing and
rejuvenates himself.
What is there remarkable about
T. Murphy, you ask?
Nothing less than the way he
has been able to keep pegging
away when fighters who are far
younger than himself have been
dropping by the wayside all
through.
Murphy also sounds a warning
that ought to be interesting. He
says the average person thinks
that fighter must keep on ex
ercising even when he has nc
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
By
Herbert
Quick

And shall we not need to save
the phosphorus and potash and
nitrogen of the soil, and haul on
all We can find, and save the
washing of the soil, and conserve
the forests, and loox after the
nitrates and the coal?
Does it not look as if the Mai
thusians and Spencerians are
right? Are not war, pestilence
and famine necessary? II they DO
not check this multiplication,
what will?
After all, is not God Knocked?
These things demand further
consideration.
See tOmOrrow's Times for an
nouncement of the next article
in this great series.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
ARMORY BOYS
PLAN TOURNY

The directors of the Armory
A. A. will meet Monday night
to discuss plans for the annual
boxing tournament to be held by
the Armory athletes. The date
has not been announced as vet.
but 1t Is generally understood
that the meet will be held on the
4th of March. The tournament
last year was held while WoIgast
was a visitor in Tacoma and the
former champion was an interest
ed spectator.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08

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Tommy started boxing in 1895,
when he was % years old. First
of all he was born in Harlem
hence the name. He liked the
game so much that he used to
box in the street, and someone
pointed out that he was wasting
his time; that he could get as
much as a dollar fight for the
same sort of work.
He opened his career as an
amateur and semi-professional be-
fore the Polo club in New York.
The purses ranged all the way
from 81 to SO, depending upon
the Importance of the bout.
AS late as 1900 he was still
mixing boxing with work. At
that time he had a night job in a
glass manufacturing plant techni-
cally known to the profess" as
carry in and stacking" In
short, he carried in the e'oe- -
the furnace for the second heat
ing. That netted him 90 Gene. d
night, or 1884 week. After
that the bouts came so fast that
he decided he wouldn't be a glass
worker, but boxer, and he has
stuck to his self-appointed task.
His professional record dates
from 1908, but judging from the
book, he has been a busy boy.
Since the book fails to show all
of his battles, he estimates the
grand total at close to ITO. In
1904 he was meeting frankie Neil
in Philadelphia for the bantam
weight title. Afterward he pick
ed up in his weight, and for the
last few years has been in the
lightweight division.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
M'QUARRY SIGNS

Leo McQuarry,, the big young
ster who used to pitch for the
high school team here and later
worked for Moose Jaw in the
Canadian Twilight league, has
signed with Mike Lynch. Mike
Is working overtime signing
players for the victorians, and
from present indications will
have to be contended with in the
finals. McQuarry has the maxi
ings of a wonderful pitcher IL he
can be induced to take proper
care of himself.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
u. P. S. WINS

The University of Puget Sound
basketball team last night de-
feated the Falkland Athletic
club team by score of "a to 81.
The game was fast and furious
and looked as though the club
athletes would win until an &C
cident forced the removal of
Smoke" Larson, the star, from
the game. The result of this
game upsets all dope" that had
been figured out as to who would
win the championship of the
county. The Falkland team de-
feated the high school, and the
high school defeated the U. p. s.,
then to cap It all the U. p. s. de-
feated Falkland. Now where do
we stand?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
AID STARTS
TRAINING
FOR BOUT
'(By United Press Leased wire.,

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
PORTLAND, Ore. Feb. s.
Ad Wolgast today began light
training for his fight with Har-
lem Tommy Murphy at San
Francisco Feb. %, doing some
bag-punchfng and light gym"
work at the Policemen's Athletic
club. He also cut out the seduc-
tive weed and will take long
hikes through the hills to i'm
prove his wind.
February % will be the third
anniversary of his defeat of Bat
Ting Nelson for the lightweight
championship at Richmond. Cal.
Wolgast has summoned his
manager. Tom Jones, from Chi
cage, and will await his arrival
before going to San Francisco,
which will probably be the latter
part of next week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08

Doyle's camp, where he VIII box
daily with Eddie Campi. gHe9aL
ready is In first-class condition,
although he has taken on much
weight since returning from New
York, where he defeated heach
Cross. Brown is expected III Jar
rive here late today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
RIVERS STARTS WORK
FOR FIGHT WITH BROWN

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
LOS ANGELES, Feb. S.-Joe
Rivers did his first light work to-
day in preparation for his sched-
uled 20-round bout with Knock
out Brown at Vernon, Feb. Is.
Rivers has taken quarters at
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
MAC AFTER CHICAGO

PORTLAND. Ore, Feb. s.
Manager McCredie of the Port
land Beavers has closed today
negotiations with the Chicago
White Sox for three games to be
played in California during the
training season.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
CALLED OFF

tBy Unfted Press Leased WIre.J
CHICAGO, Feb. 8.-Because
the police threatened to arrest
managers and principals IL they
staged the affair here, the bout
between Pal Moore of Philadel-
phia and Charlie White OF Chi
cago has been called off today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
HE WOULD

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8. ,
Repudiating his statement (
after the Palzer fight in I
Los Angeles, that he would (
never box a negro" Luz (
Their McCarty has announced (
today his willingness to I
fight Jack Johnson in Paris I
for $4,000. 4
a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
JOE HILL HERE

Joe Hill, who was a star per-
former of the Old Tacoma Ath-
letic club. arrived in town yes
terday from Canada. Joe looks
to be in the best of condition,
and announced that he intended
to cut into the boxing game In
Seattle. Joe is accompanied by
his wife, and will probably stay in
Tacoma to train for his Seattle
encounters.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08

FILES CURED IN Q TO IL DAYS
Your druggist Will refund money II Paxe
D1ntmeut falls to cure Itching. Blind, BIZ ed
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08

Inc work on the new grand
stand at the ball park will start
with a rush Monday.
Jack Fourier will leave for the
South soon to join the Chicago
Americans training camp. Four
nier made a creditable showing
last season and it is expected that
he will be the regular first base
man this year.
The st. Leo's basketball team
last night defeated the U. P. S.
second team by a score of II TO
IL. The game was we'll played,
Pierson of U. P. s. starring.
The Falkland team lost their
first game of the season last
night. How is this for hard luck,
Ruth?
Prof. I'D, who claims to be
everything from champion box
er to an expert trainer and back
again. says he would 7ike to ham
die koepkey. If Koepxey is wise
he will stay far away from Reed.
link" Loberg announces that
he has retired from the profess
sional ring. Loberg should have
retired before he started.
Al Palzer has left for England.
Palzer is anxious to meet Johnson
in Paris and may get the chance
II Johnson escapes the U. S. au-
thorities.
Buzukos is poor sport. Be-
cause he wrestled about an hour.
and paid sundry expenses prepar-
atory to the match and then
'howled" because he did not get
a red" he is branded as such by
those who were interested in the
promotion of the match.
Can Frank Gotch come back ?
He seems to think so and will try
soon.
AL Seaton, the philadelphia
pitcher, Is holding out for a bet
ter contract this year. Seaton IS
brother-in-law of Jack Four
nier and lives in Tacoma In the
winter.
Mother smoker in Seattle on
the 18th of this month.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
HE RECOyERs

SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. s.
Recovering from the effects of a
smashing haymaker in the first
round that put him down and
almost out, Red Watson, the
Los Angeles lightweight, as
sumed the lead in the last two
rounds of his four round bout
with Tommy Mcfarland at the
pavilion here and earned a draw.
Fletcher Heights half price.
Closing op.- See adj, page z.
Advertisement"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
GoTcH would.
(United Press I,eased Wi

Q Omitted Press Leased Wire.)
. CHICAGO, Feb. S.-"If /,
2 there is a public demand for !
? me to wrestle, I'll come /,
. back"
. This statement from /,
. Worlds Champion Frank
. Gotch is talk of wrestling ,
. fans all over the city today. ,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08

And He Isn't Even a Near Cham
piOn--Started Fighting at 13
Never Smoked and Rarely
Drinks - Has Fought 165
Battles.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08

Mother smoker in Seattle on
the 18th of this month.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08

Al Seaton, the philadelphia
pitcher. Is holding out for a bet
ter contract this year. Seaton Is
a brother-in-law of Jack Four
nier and lives in Tacoma In the
winter.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08

Ink" Loberg announces that
he has retired from the profess
sional ring. Loberg should have
retired before he started.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08

AL Palzer has left for England.
Palzer is anxious to meet Johnson
in Paris and may get the chance
II johnson escapes the U. S. au-
thorities.
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Prof. 'Od, who claims to be
everything from a champion box
er to an expert trainer and back
again. says he would 7ike to han
die Koepkey. If Koepaey is wise
he will stay far away from Reed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08

The Falkland team lost their
first game of the season last
night. How is this for hard luck,
Ruth?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08

Can Frank Gotch come back :
He seems to think so and will try
soon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08
Short Sport

The work on the new grand
stand at the ball park will start
with a rush Monday
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-08

The st. Leo's basketball team
last night defeated the U. P. S.
second team by a score of II TO
IL. The game was we'll played,
Pierson of U. P. s. starring.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-07-11

which it would otherwise lack. Even
the much-abused power houses down
the gorge are not unpictorial in GER
tain lights. They rise against the sky
on the cliff summit like fantastic mod
ern renderings of medieval fortress
es of barons' burgs on the Rhine:t
capitalistic robbers castles, as may
be some indignant critic would name
them, enthroned to plumber both ma
ture and man.
Nobody, conceive. can screw up
much admiration for the trippery and
parasitic portion of the town Of Nj
agara Falls itself. The odor of its too
blatantly hospitable restaurants,
greeting the newcomer on his emery
ence from the railway station exit, the
rag-time of it's gramophones and 9TH
Unable; but these offenses are kept at
Q proper distance by the park reser-
walton which surrounds the actual wa
terfall. One the platform which!
overhangs the American fall one can
be alone; and, indeed, I imagined that
the most sociable soul would here de-
sire solitude. For, without wishing
to indulge in any false rhetoric. one
cannot but describe this spot. with all
due reverence. as a place Of worship.
The view which the eye encounters is
overwhelmingly impressive. and the
roar which beats upon the ear contrib
utes superbly to that impressiveness-
Outspread before the spectator is the
sumptuous panorama of crushing
liquid. f1inging itself in a kind of ag-
ony of struggle to the brink. and then
by contrast, almost serenely-sink-
ing sheet, upon sheet. down the drop
into the cauldron whose depths ara
concealed by veering. billowing steam.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-07-11
SYNOPSIS.

Agatha Redmond. opera singer. starting
for an auto drive in New York. hnds q
stranger sent as her chauffeur: Lea 'ing
the car, she goes into the park to read
the will of an old friend OF her mother
who has left her property. There she Is
70 the auto. climbs in and chior9fso H1n
her. James Hambleton of Lynn. Mass.
witnesses the abduction Of Agatha req
mond. Hambleton sees Agatha forclO!y
taken aboard a yacht. He secures Jug
and when near the yacht drops over
board. Aleck Van Camp. friend OF HAM am.
bleton. had an appointment with him. MOI
meeting Hambleton. he makes cal upon
friends, Madame and Miss Melanie Key
nier He proposes to the latter ana IS re.
fused. Melanie explains that she y OF
high birth in a German principally. IRON
which she had fed to escape an unwishs;o
marriage. The three arrange coast TIP
Hambieton Wakes up on board the Jeanne
Dare the yacht on which Is Agatnaa
Redmond His clothes and money peit
have been taken from him. He meets
man who introduces himself as Monsieur
Chatelard. who Is Agatha's abductor:
They fight, but are interrupted by the
threatened sinking Of the vessel. me
boat sinks Jimmy and Agatha are ootn
abandoned by the crew. who take to tne
boats. Jimmy dives into the sea ana
reaches Agatha
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-07-11
NIAGARA IS GRAND
Nothing Can Mar Grandeur Of
This Natural Wonder.
Regardless Of Hotels and Refresh.
ment Rooms the Falls Retain Their
Wonderful lmpasslveness and
Charm to the eeholder.

Buffalo, N. Y.-Niagafa has been
described thousand times. Dickens
did it In mastery fashion. "The first
effect" he says, In the course Of an
eloquent passage, "and the enduring
one-instant and lasting-of the ire
mendous spectacle was peace" 9th
er writer's, visiting this celebrated
pilgrimage-place at later dates, when
hotels and refreshment rooms had al
ready begun to batten upon its fame.
have brought away recollections far
from peaceful. The falls, they de-
clare, are spoiled. deflled, not only by
the catering for trippers and honey
mooners, but by the electric power
houses and factories which have
grown up around the gorge. Wheth-
er these severely unitarian, but none
the less interesting, erections are q
defilement or not is debatable; one
thing Is certain, Niagara can never
be spoiled" It is one Of the tEo'
supremely majestic natural wondefk
Of the world. one OF the few show
sights which must always justify their
reputation. Perch cheap eating
house on the very brim Of the falls,
and the falls would remain magnifi-
cent. Probably the clearinghouse.
yelled in drifting spray. overhung by
frail rainbows and shaken by the
thunder of the cataract, would have
its banality turned into some strange
effect of subtle loneliness. Even If its
ugliness were unassailable. it could
not, by its presence. make the falls
ugly.
A short distance below the falls an
iron bridge leaps the gulf from Amer
lea to Canada. For myself, happen
to think the bridge an object ex-
hibiting real beauty, in its curve and
in its pattern; but apart from such
personal prejudices, no one can deny
that the falls, weaving a tremendous
gauze Of vapor athwart the rigid spi-
ier's web Of metal, do indeed beautify
t and throw round it's arch glamour
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-07-11
CHAPTER TX.
IRE Camp on the Beach.


Sunset OF the day that had dawned
SO strangely and wonderfully for
those two wayfarers Of earth. James
and Agatha, fell on a little camp
near the spit of coast-land toward
which they had struggled. The point
lifted itself abruptly into a rocky
bank which curved in and out, yield
ing to the besieging waves. Just
here had been formed little sandy
cove partly protected by the beetling
cliff. At the top was verdure in abun-
dance. Vines hung down over the
face Of the wall. coarse grasses and
underbrush grew to its very edge. and
sharppointed fir trees etched them
selves against the clear blue Of the
rky. Below, the white sand formed
sickle-shaped beach, bordered by
the rocky wall, with its sharp point
dipping far out to sea. High up on
the sand a small rowboat was beach
ed. There was no path visible up
from the single. but It was eviAsnt
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-07-11
When EIoquenee Didn't Work.

There is such thing as being too
eager, as witness the following re.
mark:
YES" said the statesman, II de-
feated myself by my own elo-
Quence once"
How was thatr'
II was q candidate for the nomina.
ton to congress, and l got up and
made a speech to the convention, in
which just naturally flung Old Glory,
with a capital o and capital G. to
the breeze in SO enthusiastic a man.
ner that ] took the house by storm
dilated on the greatness of our
country and on the responsibilities Of
the man who should be called to
make its laws, till one old fellow from
a back county got up and said that
had convinced him that it was too
big job for so young a man as I was
to tackle, so he moved that the con.
vention nominate q man of moro ex-
perience; and. by gee. they did it"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-07-11
Twins an Evil Omen.

Igorote women have strange sup
erstition about twins. They say that
Anfto. an evil spirit. Is always pres
emit in one of the babes when twins
are born. Napeek. twins are called.
and their advent II looked On ~ N
evil omen. Even wild buffalo-caSa-
bao-have but one calf. say the super.
stitious Igorotes. so they take one Of
the twins, usually the larger. ana
quietly dispose q jk-ChrastiaA
Herald
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-07-11

Wants Wedding Presents Returned. /
Blairstown. N. 1.-THE will of MIRA.
W. e. Burt fled here requests that all
the presents received by her at heE
marriage be returned to the donors.