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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-06
Deaths.

Deaths.
Frogner-Mrs. Caroline Frog
ner, age 81, wife of Louis Frog
ner, died at home, West Meridian,
yesterday. Leaves husband, faith
er in Norway three sisters and a
brother. Funeral Monday, p.
M, c. o. Lynn company's chapel,
Rev. I. Tollefson officiating. In
tement, lakewood cemetery.
Funerals.
Walker-Funeral of Mrs. Nam
cy M. Walker, Sunday, 2 p. M,
from Christian church, Puyallup
Interment, Woodbine cemetery. T.
b. Osborne company Puyallup.
Peterson-FuneraI of Mrs. Ella
Peterson, 5000 South Ferry ST.,
Monday $3.50 p. M, C. G. Mellin-
ger company's residence, w. A..
Moore officiating. Interment, Ia
coma cemetery.
Lukish-Funeral of Rade Luz
kish held today from c. c. Mellin-
ger company's residence, Rev. F.
T. Webb officiating. Interment,
Tacoma cemetery.
Marriage Licenses.
F. o. Chezum and Helen B.
Carson, Tacoma: G. HI. Sharp, Ia
coma, and Berrilla Walter, Paola,
Kas.
Salt Rising Bread Saturdays.
Duenwald's, 313 18th, near G.
Advertisement"
Six weeks winter school at
Pullman college for farmers
will open January 3.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 6.-Mrs.
Salisbury, wife of Commodore
George r. Salisbury got a divorce
because. Of neglect.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. @.
The bull moose state CEN
trail committeeman who con.
troll the republican organiza-
ton formerly disorganized
the republican party and re.
organized as the progressive
party.
Because citizens in Zabern,
Alsace, engaged In riot with SOL
diers the kaiser has withdrawn
the soldiers, thereby depriving
merchants of much revenue.
NEW YORK Dec Al
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-06

Mortality statistics for Tacoma
are received daily from the FOL.
lowing funeral directors:
Hoska-Buckley-King Co.. 73e
st. Helens.
c. c. Mellinger Co. SO Ia
coma av.
c. o. Lynn Co.. s1o-13 Taco
ma av.
Geo. w. Piper. 5433 Union AZ.
:. South Tacoma Directors. boSS
Union av.
L. N. Gaffney. 1910 Tacoma Az.
Cassidy q Allen, lilo 18th st
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Artistic decorations. Watson'A
"Advertisement :"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-06
You'll Find II Here

fred Hunter admitted he had Z
swindled Wall street out of
100000 ON bogus stock GER
tificates and will be sentenc-
ed to Sing Sing.
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The fire which destroyed $780,
600 worth of property for the
Tacoma Paper & Stationery COM
pany did not stop business as the
company is going right ahead.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-06

Open Sunday morning and even.
ing. Duenwald's Delikatessen.
Advertisement
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-06

Two false fire alarms wero
sent in to the fire depart
ment Friday evening.
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MEXICO CITY, Dec. q. -
Captured rebel soldier was
executed by blowing him up
with dynamite.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-06

Wind is blowing 40 miles ar
hour at Tatoosh.
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Don't forget! One-half on all
ferns. Only a few more days.
Hinz, Florist, South 7th and X SITS.
Advertisement"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-06

Because citizens in Zabern
Alsace, engaged In riot with SOL
diers the kaiser has withdrawn
the soldiers, thereby deprivine
merchants of much revenue.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-06
100 DIE in WRECK

BUCHAREST Dec. GA hum
bred are either killed or seriously
injured in a collision of passen-
ger and freight train near
Coleshti, Roumania, today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-06

Sleep, Dreams and Visions
How to Utilize the Sleep Power
for Health and Spiritual Attain
ment." Sermon by Rev. Victor
Morgan, editor of New Thought
Educator, in Park Universalist
Sunday morning at IL. All
welcome. Advertisement"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-12-06

DIES MINES. Ia.-After being
locked two weeks the SO saloons
here reopened by order of the
supreme court.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6.-AI-
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KANSAS CITY, Dec. 6.-Mrs.
Salisbury, wife of Commodore
George r. Salisbury got divorce
because of neglect,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-17

mated for masNor ! shall expect every
man nominated for the city council.
who remains on the ticket, to pledge
himself unequivocally TIC support TINS
program of law enforcement
During my late sickness many of
my friends said it was caused by the
campaign for mayor last year. This
was not the fact, but l wish to say
now that if nominated on this plat
form, whether | get 100 or 1000 votes.
there will be no i'll results for me.
Il shall take no steps to secure the
nomination and shall not attend the
caucus. My friends must
nominate me if they want me nominal
ed, without any effort on my part. The
above platform is right and ought to
be enforced by whoever is elected
mayor, and it is broad enough, think,
for both my progressive and stand-pat
friends to support
February Il, 1919
WILBUR C. OLIVER.
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The Romantic Pyrenees.

There is more romance in any dozen
square miles of the Pyrenees than IL
the whole range of Alpine territory;
that, in word, should be the Keynote
of their attraction to latter-day trav-
ellers. II was not always so. of course;
time was when comparison could
have been drawn between the rival
groups on this score and on that of
general picturesqueness alike. The
Swiss Alps at all events, however, ara
now given over lock, stock, and barrel,
to commercialism. State railways bring
vast hordes of tourists to the very
lines or funiculars carry them UP to
the SUBMITS; palatial hotels swarm in
almost every valley, and beggars line
every frequented road. Save for the
funiculars and the big hotels, the beau
Ety of the landscape is still upspoiled
and unspoilable; but all is readily APP
proachable and familiar and the halo
of romance has been dispelled Only
on the great passes is it any longer
possible to attain more or less seques-
tered spots; by the ordinary tourist,
who confines himself for the most part
to the railway, these are generally
avoided, While those roads which no
railway adjoins are mostly barred to
motorists.
AS for the French, Australian, and
italian Alps, though they are less tour
,ist-haunted than the Swiss, they at
least possess no longer their romantic
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-17
Fire at the Bank of ENGLAND.

An alarm of fire at the Bank of Eng
land recently sent thrill through
every fire station in the city. of London.
a few minutes after the alarm was re-
ceived, which was about ten O'Clock i'll
the evening, three fire engines and four
salvage wagons were in Threldneedie
street. AS the firemeE leaped from
their seats and rushed through tho
open doors of the bank, the soldiers
who are on duty at the bank every
night marched out with fixed bayon-
cts and formed a line ON each side of
the street in front of the building.
Although the vicinity OF the bank
was practically deserted at this time of
the night. omnibus passengers and pc
destrians from every direction hurried
to the scene when they heard that the
famous bank was on fire. In few
moments an excited crowd had collect
ed, but the soldiers and the police kept
the mob at safe distance from the
doors of the bank. Soon fireman
came rushing out of the building and
shouted that the fire was not Il serious
ore. This information was quickly
passed around, but the unusual sight
of the fire engines and soldiers outside
OF the bank, and the iiremen rushing
through its doors, kept the crowd from
dispensing. The officer in command of
the soldiers strobe anxiously up and
down the street as the excitement con-
tinued. In twenty minutes, however,
the fire had been put out. but the
crowd did not begin to leave the scene
until midnight. The fire, which had
burned part of the floor of the clerks
room was probably caused by the over
beating of Il steam radiator, and was
pxtinguished by the banks own fire
apparatus.
The Bank of England has been under
military protection every night since
the Gordon riots of 1850, when metal
wristbands were melted into bullets and
used in defense of the bank.-Popular
Mechanics.
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A New Species of Man.

An archaeological discovery, rivaIl-
ing IN Importance the discovery of Pi-
thecanthropus erectus in Java by DIR.
Du Bols twenty years ago. was COM
inun,cated to the London Geological
society last month by Mr.. Charles
Dawson and DR.. A. S. Woodward, the
keeper OF the geological department OF
the British Museum. 1t appears that
some four years ago Mr. Dawson mo-
tlced that road had been recently
mended by peculiar flints, and on trac-
ing them to their source. he found that
the iaborers had dug out an object
looking like cocoanut. which they
hau thrown on a rubbish heap This
proved TO be part of human skull,
ana excavations OF the undisturbed
gfaVei where it was found discovered
part of the jaw bone. A somewhat abb
surd cablegram was sent the newspa-
pers IN this country reporting the dis
coVefy OF 2 fossil man who could rea-
son before he could speak. But it is
the case, that the Uranium is on the
whole human in its characteristics,
Whiie the jaw tends to be sinnian. DIR.
woodward regards the remains as be-
longing not only to hitherto unknown
species bnt has erected for it a new
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Throuqh Midair over the Alps.

Think of a scenic railway over two
miles long, shooting the chutes. as IL
were, from mountain peak to noun
tain peak, at a height, at times, OF
nearly a mile. A few years ago, re-
marks writer in an exchange. any
one who would have talked about
! building such a line would have been
considered fit subject for mad
house Today some Swiss Engineers
and Italian contractors have not only
declared such a road feasible. but have
raised s., 200,0 eco to build the line. In
/ fact, work has already been begun on
il,
The extraordinary railroad is to run
from Chamonix, in France, up the All
guile du Midi, a precipitous needle
rising 1908 feet. Its object is to show
tourists the unmatched glories of Mont
Blanc and its chain of peaks and gla-
eiers. Instead of running on terra
firma, however. like most of the Swiss
mountain railroads, it is to go through
the air on pylons and cables, swinging
from peak to peak far above the eter-
nal SHOWS and glaciers,
The starting station of the line is
situated down in the Valley of Cha
monk. To reach the power station
above. where the traction cables are
set In motion by 75-horse-p power cleo
tric motors. passengers must ride in
suspended cars with a seating capacity
of twenty persons over mile and a
quarter of cable suspended on tweney-
seven pylons or towers. Another ca
Bile, suspended on twenty-four pylons.
IL, l;cton OF ri a mile will
take one to the third station, just I'M
der the shadow of the needlelike
mountain. From now on the cars will
swing through the air.
The cars used on this last section.
which are little more than a basket,
will accommodate only sixteen per-
sons, When the signal is given the
car will start on a single span of un-
supported cable 2l30 feet long, sway
ing 500 feet above the Glacier Rond.
The engineering feat in this case has
been to anchor the two ends of the
long cable, for on the lower end the
engineers have been hampered with
loose muraines. and have had TO de-
scend considerably to get a firm grip.
The fourth station is little more than
a relay, for the object point is the Col
du Midi, 11,647 feet above the sea. To
swing from the fourth station to the
summit of the Col is impossible in one
swoop, so half way. on a projecting
pinnacle of granite, the engineers are
placing a tension pylon to relieve the
strain. To this tension pylon, how
ever, is an unbroken swoop of half
mile-27SS feet, to be exact-and from
the tension pylon to the summit an
other shoot of 1897 feet The angle
which the line takes varies from fif-
teen to forty-eight degrees.
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BIease Ravina Again.

Since the world first heard of him,
outside of his own little bailiwick down
in South Carolina there has scarce
been a moment when that chief of
plug uglies, Governor Cole l.. Blease,
has not been fouling the atmosphere
with his rancous anathemas and
threats of humiliation of all who OPP
pose him. Just now he is reported as
hot under the collar" at those in
Washington, who have the arrange
ment for the Wilson inaugural parade
on March 4, in charge. And what do
you suppose is the cause of this latest
outbreak? Why it is because, accord
ing to the parade regulations. South
Carolina troops have to march behind
negro troops from Maryland. The
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph tells of
the predicament and has this to say:
This is an awful dilemma for the
parade authorities. They cannot pla-
cate Blease by forbidding the colored
soldiers to march in the parade, for
that would be a violation of the States
rights idea which still prevails to a
large degree in Dixieland. They cam
not tell the South Carolina troops to
stay at home if they do not like the
arrangements, for that would be a
deadly insult to State that always
goes Democratic. They cannot put the
South Carolina whites ahead of the
Maryland blacks, for Maryland is en-
titled to precedence because it ratified
the Constitution before South Carolina
did. Truly, it is "a puzzling and dis
tressing situation.
There is one way out of the trouble,
of course and that is to call off the
inaugural parade, as was done with
the inaugural ball, but that would
raise Cain among all the States that
are not involved in the controversy,
and that have about completed their
plans for the great event. Republi-
cans, however, are neither tearing
their hair nor shedding tears over the
tangle brought about by the clustering
of Blease; it is family fight, and one
that the Democrats must settle for
themselves, just as they will have to
settle, or attempt to settle, many more
that are bound TO come during the
Wilson Administration.
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Farthest North Americans.

The Farthest North American Indi-
ans are the Eskimos of northwestern
Greenland In fact, they are the most
northern inhabitants of the world. and
it is these people and dogs and sleds
upon whom the many seekers OF the
North Pole depended for assistance in
transportation. Their clothing is made
from the skin of seals, reindeer and
dogs. their houses are often built of
snow and their various activities re-
late always solely to the mere struggle
for existence.
A notable group of figures represents
ing a family of these remarkable peo-
pie has been placed on exhibition in
the great National Museum at Wash
ington. 1t shows a family moving IN
the spring time across the icy helds.
The young man has succeeded in club
bling a small seal, and having sum-
moned the sledge party to haul 1t home
is laughed at by the older man VINO
tells him that he should have carried
it on his back. This scene has been
chosen with the view of illustrating
the noteworthy fact that these Earth
est North people are exceptionally
cheerful in disposition, snotwithstand-
ing the rigors of the climate and the
hardships of their lives. Tho woman
who carries a babe in her hood Is
about to help attach the seal to the
sledge. and the girl and the little boy
are all interested in the episode,
Another group portrays q collection
OF dwellings in process of construction,
these being Eskimos who live some
what farther TO the south. This winter
houses are built Of large blacks OF
compact snow, laid up in a spiral man
ner forming dome The main cham
Der of the house varies from five to
twelve feet in height and from seven
to fifteen feet in diameter. Over the
entrance a square is cut and covered
with the intestines of the seal to serve
as window. The main domed cham
Der is connected by passageways with
one or more subordinate chambers
which serve as storeroonns. To these
Eskimos unlike their more northern
neighbors, summer brings open water
and they fish from their skin kayaks,
or canoes, but in winter seal are cap
tured by cutting holes in the ice
Technical Word Magazine.
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The Venus Fly Trap.

Now that the annual ily-swattiass
season is upon us, 1t is time to learn
more @bout that wonderful invention
of Dame Nature known as the Venus
fly trap, or, as scientists call it. the
dionoea, which in this country finds
its home mainly in the swamrs near
Wilmington, y. c. A specimen trans
planted into moss and rich earth Will
thrive in the house If kept very moist
and it makes the best kind of fly trap.
for it is always on duty and locks after,
itself. AS the Older traps lose their VI
tally fresh shoots appear and new
traps are developed.
The Venus fly trap is regarded as one
of the greatest wonders of the plant
world, fer it seems 10 exercise dis
elimination Of taste that is more than
human. II is provided with three deli
cate hair triggers and it exudes sort
of honey dew that attracts the fiies.
Woe to the ty, however, that touches
one of the triggers for quick as flash
the two heavy leaves of the trap close
upon the victim and brushes it, much
the same as an ordinary steel trap
acts. There is no escape for the fly
when he is once in. The plant then set
ties down to digest its meal of fresh
meat--this being one of the very few
vegetables that take to a meat diet A
species of gastric Juice is secreted by
the closed trap and the BODY of the fly
undergoes q process OF real digestion,
so that the nutriment is absorbed by
the plant. Then when the fly mas been
sucked dry the trap opens and dis
gorges the indigestible remains. Now.
the most wonderful thing about the
Venus fly trap is that it knows the
difference between a nice juicy, fresh
fly and either a dead or injured fly or
any foreign substance, such as a stick.
Touch the triggers with a lead pencil
and the trap will respond very slowly.
Partly crush a fly so that it is not very
lively and give it to the plant and it
will still respond with very little show
of appetite But let lively fly touch
the triggers and snap go the jaws of
the trap together. imprisoning it. Thus
the plant prefers its meat perfectly
fresh and also prefers to do its own
killing. You have to be very yatehful
in order to see the fly trap in the actu-
al act of closing, for the process is all
most INSTRUMENTATION the Tech
nical World.
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Youngest Is Now the Most Famous.

The University OF Berlin is cele-
brated Institution of learning in Bel
lin. Germany 1t is, with the exception
of Bonn, the youngest of the German
universities. but probably is the most
famous of them all. 1t was founded in
1910, when the Napoleonic victories
had left Prussia apparently crushed,
and had even transferred her great
University of Halle to the newly FORM
ed Kingdom of Wesphalia.
Wilhelm Won Humboldt was minister
of education at the time, and PRUSSIA $
debt to him for organizing her national
school system, with the University Oh
Berlin at it's head, during that PERIOD
OF national defeat and disaster Is Ger
tainly very great. 1t should be borne IN
mind, too, that Humboldt was ANY
seconded by Fitche and Schlelermach :
err The first rector of the University
was schinalz; the first deans OF lts lae-
ulties were Schleiermacher. Biener,
Hufeland and F'itche: and before II was
+ ten years old it had for it's professors
such men as Neibuhr, Wolr, Bockn'
Becker and Hegel.
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Oippinq the EIau.

The salutation given when a vessel
lowers or dips" its flag is one of the
very Oldest and most honorable of all
forms of marine greeting.
This form of salute has always been
demanded by Englsh-speaking seamen,
and it's exaction has burned the hearts
and the powder of generations of naval
commanders. In the old days for a for
eign ship, whether merchant or naval to
enter an English port without yelling top
sail or dipping its national flag was to
run the risk of war. although the pro-
foundest peace existed. Without warn
ing or argument the shore defenses or a
man-of-war would send round shot
across the bows or between the masts of
the foreigner, and if the offending flag
did not instantly come down the insolent
intruder was brought to her senses by
being raked through and through. such
vas the reception accorded by Sir John
Hawkins in the 18th century to the
spanish admiral who, In time of peace,
sailed into Portsmouth sound without
Yelling his topsais or lowering his flag
Salutes are essential matters of naval
etiquette and are exchanged on a nela-
borate code fixed by the maritime pow
ers. The number of guns to be fired un-
der all circumstances is infinitely stipu-
lated.-Harper's Weekly.
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Don't Overfeed Goldfish.

Don't feed goldfish to death is the
warning aquarium dealers should give
all purchasers of goldfish. Perhaps it
is good business to omit this warning,
but, in any event, the average person
has an idea their goldfish are starving
to death when, as a matter of fact,
they are being ''fed to death
There are four months in the year
when goldfish should not be given any
food, three months when they should
be seantily fed and five months when
they are always ready for food and
need il.
November, December, January, and
February are the alternating months,
and during this season food is unnat-
ural. The fish are not very active and
food IS not needed. A quantity of food
during these months will cause the
fish to grow spotted and then give up
their piscatoriaI souls in the unequal
struggle against mankind, who knows
SO little of their needs.
Do not feed them with crumbs of
bread or cake. 1t is apt to contain
tannin, which win kill the fish, Give
them waters, ant eggs, flies, yolks of
hard boiled eggs, water cress, and a
bit of corn meal. Feed them every
three days. not oftener, during the
feeding season. In March, April, and
May once a week is often enough for
feeding,
One fish TO one quart of water is the
right proportion and do not change the
source of water. That is, if you have
been getting Well water, do not by
any chance give them rain water.
Change the water daily in summer and
weekly in winter. Keep the fish in a
deep bowl, not shallow, and keep them
gu. of the bright sunlight.
Goldfish given this care have been
known to live from eight to ten years.
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side, save in the districts to which
the railway has not penetrated. Moth
ing, of course. could exceed the beauty
of Tyrol, with its many fine, new
mountain roads which the Austrians
have built in preference to laying lines
of rails; and here especially, rs | have
shown in 1.-The High Roads of the
Alps" there is an ample field of glori-
ous exploration for the motorist and
the motorist alone. Viewed as class
however, the Alps may certainly be de-
scriGed as destitute of the element or
romance From The Pyrenees
Route" by O. L. Preston, ia Serib-
ner's Magazine.