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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25
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II you had a little plot
In the middle of the woods.
And you owned tiny cot
For to hold your worldly goodh
And you never saw a face,
Never heard a human tone
As you wandered round the place
BY yourself and all alone;
II you lived that sort Of life
OF all letters you'd be free;
Far away from madding strife.
Independent you would be.
You could always have your way
Like a gay untrammeled elf,
Free to sa yyour little say.
Pleasing on one but yourself.
Buff you prefer to dwell
Round about where others do
You will find it just as we'll
To concede a thing or two.
Life is largely give and take;
Lay your ego on the shelf,
Otherwise you merely make
Pain and trouble for yourself.
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SOCIETY

Homesteaders' lodge No. $40
will entertain at cards and dane
ing Tuesday evening, January %.
at Eagles hall, 18th and e
streets.
Ladies' auxiliary, A. o. H., will
entertain and serve refreshments
at st. Leo's hall, Wednesday,
January 20, honoring st. Bridget.
Miss Ida Snodgrass of Van
couver Is visiting her sister, Mrs.
@. K Winter, North 9th street.
st. Patrick's church women
will entertain Thursday evening
1T a card party planned for the
benefit of needy Pensioners.
Mrs. III. j. Kinds will be hostess
Monday afternoon for the Alpha
club. at her home, 4Sa4 South M
street.
Tacoma Euterpeon society Will
hold Its 18th musicale next Fri
day evening at 8 o'clock.
Women OF the Emmanuel Pres
byterian church will serve supper
Monday evening in the church
banquet rarlors.
The Harmony club win meet
u the home of Mrs. Mary Kline,
l016 East G street, Wednesday.
w. Il. 4. club will give a dance
and card party Monday evening
II st. I.eo's hail.. South 18th and
Yakima avenue.
Mary Ball chapter, ID. A. r., is
holding It's January meeting to-
day at the home of Mrs. J. @.
Mason. 1901 North Washington
avenue.
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LAD OF IL PUTS NORTH
DAKOTA In THE CORN BELT

FARGO, N. D., Jan. a.
North Dakota is in the corn belt,
say the agricultural experts of
the country, and to a 12-year-old
boy they give the credit for dem
onstrating the fact. The boy is
Harper Brush of Lisbon, N. d.,
who won the first prize in corn
growing contest participated In
by 500 farmers.
Harper is the son of a large
North Dakota land owner. He
has already chosen his profess
sion. He will be q farmer, but a
farmer who works under modern
methods and who uses the latest
discoveries of agricultural sci
ence.
Still a pupil in the grades,
Harper looks forward to a course
in a manual training high school.
to be followed by study at some
agricultural college. After that
he will begin his career.
Last spring when the North
Dakota Better Farming associa-
ton offered a prize of $50 in
gold to the farmer who could Sc
cure the greatest yield of mature
corn to an acre, Harper Brush
was one of the first to enter his
name. The contest was meant
| for experienced farmers, but the
boy was not frightened at the
prospect of competing with 500
grown-ups. He went into the
| work with all his energy.
Harper selected four-acre
plat on his fathers Ransom coun-
| ty farm. He also selected a hardy
grade of corn seed and planted
it as instructed in the booklets
sent out by the Better Farming
association and the State Agri-
cultural college.
Because he had no farm i'm
plements and no horses, the boy
worked for his father and for
neighboring farmers in return
for the use of the necessary i'm
plements and horses.
The corn ON that four-acre
plat soon outstripped In growth
the other fields in the neighbor-
hood.
AS summer changed into fall
it was evident that Harper's corn
field was the finest in the coun-
try. Then came the judges sent
out by the Better Farming asso-
citation, and after the corn had
been husked, shelled and weighed
1t was found to average TIT
bushels to the acre of hard, ma
ture corn. The nearest competi-
tor in the state fell nearly five
bushels short of that.
At the annual state corn show
In Fargo this month, Harper
Brush will be awarded the first
prize of $50. He has already won
similar prize in his county con-
test and has been able to dispose
of his 2S7 bushels of corn at one
dollar per bushel. The four-acre
plat has returned the young
farmer nearly $500 for his sum-
mer's work.
1t has always been said that
North Dakota is no good for
raising corn. But as result of
this boys showing, the corn
acreage will be three times as
large in 1913 as in 1912.
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Is 1t Proper? Is 1t Right?

Is 1t Proper? Is 1t Right?
Dear Miss Grey: You
give such good advice to
others we want you to help
us too.
l.. We are two girls Of
10 and II and would like to
know IL it is proper to let
nice young men take us to
dances, parties and theaters?
2. is it right to let them
Kiss us good night, as they
have always treated us with
the greatest respect?
B. Is o man % years old
too old to go with a girl Of
IT?
A. Miss Grey, this man
has always treated me the
very best and I love him
very dearly and he loves me
and. asked me to marry him
and / refused him, did 1 do
wrong?
Is 1t proper for one boy
to take two girls I'm the
evening?
A. How should we comb
our hair?
Dear Miss Grey, please an
swer us soon and don't think
we are silly as we are In
earnest.
TWO OF A KIND.
Al. Once In a great Will,
It Is all right, providing you hav,
your parents consent and do no
stay late. and come straigh
home.
Q. Most emphatically NO.
3. It all depends on the cir
AS rule a girl o.
IL is too young to go with any
one.
4. No, cannot say you die
II Is much better to wal
until you are old enough to know
you really love hin
very dearly"
s, Perfectly proper.
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Requested Recipes,
TOnales.


Use chicken, veal or beef. Cook
until tender, cut in small pieces
Make a sauce as for enchiladas
only thicker. Drain all water
from meat and add above sauce
Take corn meal, add water to
make thick dough, add salt and
spread thick on corn husks. Add
a spoonful of the mixture; rap
another shuck around and tie
more thicknesses of shucks
around. AS many as wanted can
be added. The Mexicans add
only one. Clean white cloth may
be used. Steam for two hours.
Enchiladas Sauce.
Three Mexican peppers, the
seeds and insides removed. Boil
until tender and put through
sieve or grinder; 1 cup fresh
water; add peppers, salt, butter
and thicken with flour.
White Nut Cake.
"a CUP butter. IL CUBS sugar
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25

" cup milk, 21a cups flour,
whites s eggs, " teaspoon cream
tartar. 3 teaspoons baking pow
der, l cup walnut meat cut in
pieces. s-tti
Have everything measured
ready for use; also baking pan
creased we'll. Mix the dry ingre-
dients and sift three times. Cream
the butter, and the sugar and
cream again. Add milk and
then dry ingredients. Add the
nut meat dredged in flour. Last
Iy, fold in the whites Of the eggs
which have been we'll beaten.
Bake In a moderate even.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25
The Unborn Trait.

The Unborn Trait.
Sweet Nell, whose age Is two
times two,
One day upon my knee will coo
Love words, hold up her lips 20
kiss,
Next day she is a frigid miss.
Girls must be born men to per-
pick
And tease and tantalize and vex,
Because Nell's grown-up sister
May,
Doth also treat me that same way.
Judge.
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good name in our homo
town, but / went with her.
While there, several boys
winked at me, and after the
rink one of them asked to
take me home. L refused;
but he took me to the car.
Later he dropped me a card
and asked me to come again.
Should 1 go, and should I
still go with my chum?
Please answer as soon as
possible, as she has asked
me to go again. BELL.
A.-To pick up chance &C.
quaintances among the boys is q
very bad habit to fall into and in.
leads you to harm. Dc
not go again unless your mother
or an older friend accompanies
you.
Speak nicely to your chum and
tell her If she does not do better
you will have to give her up.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25

The city commission seems to have
settled down to the point where they
are going to know what Lawson is
spending on the light and water plants
and what it is going for.
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much ABOUT the
way W o m e n
dressed until I
b e g an TO get
these letters on
what kind or a
girl ia like 10
m a r r " One
man says:
81 understand
from what you
have said about
c | o I h e S be-
speaking I h Q
ban that many
innocent persons
ar Q annually
'stung.' Clothes
are very neces-
sary and desir-
able things, OF
"a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25

Senator Jones now wants to take
Alaska coal cases from the department
which is heading off the coal grabbers
and give the corporation judges of the
federal courts power to settle all claims,
which certainly would be fine for the
coal thieves.
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Some Reason.

Little Girl wonder why poor
people have SO many babies,
while rich people have SO few.
l suppose the reason poor people
are poor is because they buy so
many.-Newark News.
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Jinlny's View.

Teacher-Why, Jimmy, Jim
my! Have you forgot your PEN
ellis again? What would you
think of soldier going to war
without gun?
Jimmy-I'd think he was an
officer.-Boston Record.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25

Uncle Sam is paying the expenses of
three men to take three prisoners from
McNeils island to Atlanta, Georgia, be-
cause the local prison is overcrowded,
when the money spent for the transfer
would build enough space additional at
the prison here to keep all three men.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25

It looks as if the engineers on the
power plant job had it built in the last
stages about as they pleased without
reference to the plans and specifica-
lions.
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SartoriaI Note,

do you think that women
will adopt the trouser-skirt?
"Not likely; they have learned
that even hobble-skirts bag at the
knees. Buffalo Express.
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One Drawback.

1t is impossible for a~man to
make his family understand how
bad business is when he keeps
getting fatter and fatter.-New
York Press.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25
Painful.

Banks-I don't mind the In
fluenza itself SO much as the aft
er effects.
Rivers-The after effects are
what all me, too. I'm still dodg-
ing doctor for $25.
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D. some sensible way tnat De
comes you.
Dear Miss Grey: Your
letters are so very sound
and right that 1 come to you
for your opinion.
Three years ago 1 met q
girl of "a with such endear-
ing qualities that we be-
came engaged. She Is the
only child. The last few
months we quarreled through
jealousy on my part, and Of
which she was innocent Of
the cause. Later 1 apollo
gized humbly, but she replied
that while she loves me sim
cerely she will not accept
me until her parents change
their opinion of me. / back
ed off the boards then, as L
think she shoNld have given
me the preference. Do you
not agree with me, Miss
Grey.
MIR. RIGHT OR WRONG?
A.-No, / do not think she
should have given you the prefer
ence; but should have relied Oh
her own good judgment. While
/ do not think she should be in
by her people in thii
matter, at the same time I can
not blame her for looking before
she leaps. Jealousy is a very bad
failing and can utterly ruin al
otherwise happy home. If 1 were
you / would correct this fault
and prove to the young lady yot
have done SO.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25

Spokane isn't satisfied with her tele-
phone situation either. Looks as if the
only salution to the telephone problem
is for Uncle Sam to take it all over and
combine it with the postoffice.
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With Uncle Sam creating a 9

W11II O1ICIO koss1Ir u UU11r5 " 5ISeec
army station south of American lake
and the new electric railway coming
from Portland to Tacoma on the Lake
City side, things promise to be lively
around this prairie beauty spot.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25

The persistent attempt of the state
health board to discredit Tacoma
Green river water supply before the
world would get more respect in Taco
ma if it did not emanate from Seattle
men.
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my daughter is such a COM
fort to me-"
mine tries to be, but she plays
a very poor game Of bridge.
Kansas City Journal.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25
Why does Governor Lister want tc

bring back. those parole jumpers for
Washington taxpayers to feed when
they are being kept in prison in Utah
and Oregon?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25

It looks as if capital punishment and
the grating employment agencies will
have to go.
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Explained.

Explained.
"Pa, why is a fool and his
money soon parted?"
so that a wise guy can live
without working, my son."-De-
troit Free Press.
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"should 1 Go AGAIN."

Dear Miss Grey: VIII you
please advise me, as 1 don't
know what to do.
i am 10 and one day a girl
friend asked me to go to the
skating rink with her. Miss
Grey, this girl has not a very
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25

Talk about lobbying at Olympia,
wait until the Tacoma city commission
goes down next week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-01-25

mDuBnR Or THE sCnrPs NOHTHWEsT
LBa0UE or NEWSPAPERS. TslegraDhic News
Dsev5ss q the unitee Press Assseiatiss ~ direct
LonDoA Wire.
EaforeS AZ the pestefflce, Tacoma, wash,
seeona-elass matter Published BY the Tacoma
T1mea Fuk. Co. EVERY Eveafn9 DxceDt Sunday.
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RN Ixz1S5 $2zS51
Chase for q Husband.

Chase Tor o HuSUanu.
"He offered me a rlatonfc
friendship"
"Take it," advised her girl
chum, until something better
comes along. "-Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal.
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Wonder if Seattle taxpayers won't
get tired putting up costs for trying
Peter Miller pretty soon.
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BILLIE BURKE
BY BILLIE BURKE.

"Oh! oh, my!! / never had
any idea that men thought SO
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Vt torgL Ts &c Gh 7at g Grcx

6. Some sensible way that be-
comes you.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-10-09
By Maurice Leblar
The Latest, Most Fascinating Adventures
ofFiction Great Thief Genius, a French
man as Famous in His Own Way as His
English Antithesis, Sherlock Holmes.

this secret outlet
We'll. what do YOU think Of Baron
Rcpstein'' cried Lupin. after giving
mo all tho details Of that tragic night.
What q dirty scoundrci! And how II
teaches one to distrust appeafanoo0l
swear to YOU. the fellow looked . thor
oushly honest man.
But what about the miilionsr I
asked. The princess's jeweisr'
They were In tho safe. I rsmsm-
Der seeing the parcel"
'Well?"
They are there still"
One more question: I said. Tue
word that opened the safe!'
1T was contained In the revelations
teicgr aphed by that poor iav~noux."
What"
Just think. my dear chap. the mis-
takes In spelling, . E"
The mistakes In epeiilng7"
why OF course They were dsls6sf-
ate. Surely. You don't imagine that
the agent. the private secretary OF the
baron--who was n company promotes,
mind you. and n racing man-did not
know English better than to speM
necessary with an e. attack with one
- cnnemy' with two MS and 'pru-
dance with an al. The thing struck
me At once. I put tho four lettss
together and got 'Etna, tire name OF
the famous horse"
And was that one word enough?"
'Df course II was enough to start
with. to put me on the scent OF tho Rep
stein case. of which all the papers were
full. and. next. TO make me Hueaa that
u wal the key-word OF the Lafe. be-
cause. on tho one hand. IAvernoux knew
the Gruesome contents OF the safe and.
on the other. he WAS denouncing the
baron. And II was In the same way
that I was led TO suppose that LAYER.
noux had . friend In the street. that
they both freQuentcd tho same cafe, this
they amused themselves by working GU
tho problems and crypto9rams In thu
illustrated papers, and that they ha.'
contrivcd . way OF exchanging tele
grams from window to window"
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mother GOrismy 10 not very
fond Of children. Now that
she has cent for you 70 come
and So her. you must snow Der what
sensible little boy you arA"
As soon ~ she @ae AtooA Hvonne
d'Origny walked 20 the window 70 eaton
. glimpse Of her soa - he isft the
house. lie Wa out IN ths strsst IN .
moment raised his head and blew her .
Then tho govsrness took his hand with.
a. Yvonne remarked to her surprisfn .
movement OF unusual violsncA Two 70
lsAned furthAr out Of the window aid.
when tho boy reached the corner OF the
boulevard. shs suddAnly saw . nsen
step out Of notor-car end % - b
him.
The man. IN wAcm she ssooen1sse
barnard. her hubband's confidential eer.
want. tooak the child ~ the arm. ma1o
both him ana che Governsse 81 int The
car. and ordered the chauffeur - Asevo
on. ''
The whole incident ala not taas -
seconds
Yvonns. In her trepidation. ran - ~
bedroom. seixed . wrap and went q ~
door The door WAS looked: and UAoo
was no key IN the lock.
0hs hurried hack 20 the houdoer. ~
door Of tho bouaoir also was jooto6.
Then. suddenly. the Image a her ~
Hand appeared before her. that S3oe01
face which no smile ever III Up. eAo0e
pitiis0 eyes IN which. for ysasA -
Aal felt - much haired ana malice
TIE he - SIS hs!" me ~ -
harssif. Tie has taken the child. 80
on. it's horrfbie!"
She beat against the 6ooP WIN ~
AAts. with her feet then FEW . Sho
mantsspdecs and pressed the bell 0sgosey.
The shriil sound rang through ~
Ao0se from top TO bottom. The 0eyv001D
would b ssire to come PsffraOs . goW0
would gather In the street. And. imDel-
% BY u sort OF despairing hope. aho ~
her finger on the button.
4 key turned In tho lock- - 3AA
door was nunG wide open. The c0uue
appeared on the threshold of the boudoir.
And the oppression Of his face was -
terrible ;a.: yvo""s began 80 ..s::.s.a
He entered the room Five or nix steps
separated him from her. With q su-
preme effort abe tried to stir. but all
movement was impossible md. when
she attempted TO speak she could only
fiutter her lips and emit incohareut
sounds. she fslt herself lost. ne
thought Of death unhlnged ..her. Her
knees gave way beneath her ana ne
sank into q huddled heap. with . mean.
The count rushed At her ana oG1Dod
her BY the throat.
Go BE ContinusO
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atc effort. he overpowered the baron
and clutched him by the throat. We
torious at last and omnpotcut
you ass" he cried. IL you hadn't
shown your cards, / might have thrown
up the game! You have such look
" the honest man about you! Bit what
a biCeps my lord | thought for
a moment But it's all ovet.
now. Come. my friend. hand us
the pin and look cheerful. No.
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lie Confessions of Arsene Lupin 5y 34@ss leblanc

that's what call pulling q face.
I'm holding, you too tight, per-
haps' My lords at his last gasp
That's II. just wee bit OF
string around The wrists do you allow
me? why. you and ! are agrees
Ing Ike two brothers It's touching'
- At heart. you know. I'm rather
fond Of you And now. my bon
ME lad, mind yourself! And . thou
sand apologies!
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Darons knees, seized him By both legs
aud brought him to the ground. The
baron freed himself with an EFFORT.
The two enemies rolled over In each
others grip. ami a stubborn. crafty.
brutal savage struggle followed.
Suddenly, Lupin felt pain at his
chest
you william" he yelled That's your
Lavernoux trick: the tie-pin!'
Stffening his muscles with n desper-
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a
aid stan the Sphinx killed herself There
Egyptian wingss lion with head The photograph
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we'll those who
their mythology. the Sketch ancient Greek
This
which three feet
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CHAPTER II.
The Weddjng-Rin0.

vONNE D'ORICNY kissed her
y oon and told him TO Be good:
You know your grand
mother d'Orimy 10 not very
fond Of children. Now that
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\ CHAPTER I.
(Continued
TrO Hundred thousand
Francs Relr0rd! 49,

OtRDERED--and probably
OOA that same evening
LAVA II tell you again. you
AAv are mad, How can tho
Baroness have been muir
hnn mil a
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-27
THE PETTY GRATING.

It was stated in the spat between
Senators Bristow Of Kansas and AS
hurst of Arizona, on the one hand. that
Bnstow had written a letter desiring
TO be appointed to sinecure which
would yield him much money for small
service, and on the other that Ashurst
had been sending private kilograms and
tapning the Senate contingent fund to
pay for their transmission,
Bristow made no denial of the charge
against him. Ashurst, however, under
took to explain that what he did was
no offense. lie admits that at one
time he sent over seven hundred let
tiers and over one hundred kilograms
in one day; that he telegraphed to ev-
cry newspaper in Arizona, about fifty
five in all, Hasking their assistance in
trying to bring about an advisory cleo
ton to ascertain the peoples choice for
U. S. Judge of Arizona
Senator Bristow claimed that this
was personal political affair on the
part Of AshurSt, and that the kilograms
ought not to have been paid for from
public money, as they were, The tele-
grams were sent last April, and were
designed, as stated, to prevent the ap.
pointment of man as United States
Judge to whom Ashurst was opposed.
This candidate was Charles Sloane, for.
mer Governor of the Territory, and
once resident of Ohio.
It seems clear case that the tele-
grams were in pursuance of personal
political grudge or purpose of Ashurst,
and while Senator Bristow stands CON
victed of n desire TO draw public