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Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1914-10-29

DiNMuDs "A town "a Yves, rian.
dcrs, belgium. In the fertile distrirt
called Freyciand. Il miles south -,
Sstenc ana q miles north ~ yprcs.
W " User nsef q = . tyriea, old
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1914-10-29

2 uonuiann ~ nrookshrc ia a
visitor Ia the c,,y the. guest 30 his
pNrrnts, Mr. and Mrs v NJ Don.
lgan.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-18

Eight years ago. 16 persons lost their lives within
the limits of Chicago because of automobile acct
dents
Six years ago, IS; five years ago, %; four years
ago, SO; three years ago, 75 two years ago. 49, last
year, 1876.
In four years the number of non-fata automobile
accidents in Chicago increased from 99S, in 1910, to
2029 last year.
This is larger toll of life and suffering that was
exacted the railroads in that city in that period.
Is the same ratio true of the entire country?
Wouldn't it be worth while to know!
Oughtn't there to be as careful of the mis-
haps from the gas engine as we now have of acct
dents in ocomotion by steam?
OF course these figures aren't anything against
the automobile, any more than the interstate COM
cerce commissions statistics of railroad accidents
are against continuing to ride by rail.
But if we cared to compile and study them care
fully we might learn more quickly how to secure
safety first.
You notice how these deaths are increasing.
Some day they'll be many that folks will get
scared.
Common folks, we mean, the folks who are run
over.
What will happen then we wonder?
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berries, Island, SO; Kennewick.
1926; gooseberries, h., 596c.
Cherries, box, 81.
Vegetables-Green onions, zoe
dozen; Texas Crystal wax, box,
$2.75. Lettuce: Leaf, 81 box;
head, $2.25 Gratis. Spinach, Id, SC.
Turnips, 81. Carrots, $3.50; ro-
tail, 3 lib. Use. Potatoes: Melted
Gem, $22@25; White River,
$16@17; New Garnets. 8 1ac Id.
Cucumbers: Island, dozen, soc,
75c and 81. Cabbage: Win
ningstadt, S2.z5; Cauliflower,
California, S2.35. Parsnips,
$1.25 per Pack. Bell Pep
pers: 10 cents lab. Tomatoes,
fla, $3.50; Mex, $3.50. Rutaba-
gas, SIX, $40. Hops. 1913 crop.
prime and choice. 1701Sc;
Rhubarb, h., 2@2hc. Tele-
phone peas. H., 8. Aspara-
gus, local per h., 8 cents.
Mint, bunch, I0c. Radishes,
doz. bu., 25c. Florida eggplant,
each 25 q Acc. Wax beans. lb.,
Il -1-2c. Rect, 81. Parsley, doz.
bu., Csc. Green beans, lie.
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DEAR DUST.

Customer--My watch won't
go.
Jeweler Examining it)--My.
My! Have you been in a railway
collision?
Customer (surprised) -Why,
no.
Jeweler (solemnly) - When
you undress you should not throw
your vest down ON the floor when
your watch Is in the pocket.
Customer (thoughtfuly) - |
never do. l have been exceed
ingly careful with that watch.
Don't know how it got hurt. How
long will 1t take you to repair it =?
Jeweler latter another exam
ination)-You'd better leave 1t
here at least a week; but IL you
can get along without 1t l would
advise two weeks.
Customer-Very we'll. Do II
properly. Good day!
Jeweler Ito assistant will
lam, blow that speck of dust off
this wheel. and charge up 81 for
repairs.
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the total liquor revenue.
DOES 1T PAY?
MRS MATTE REYNOLDS.
1874 So. Ainsworth av.
Tacoma, Wash,
May IA, 1914.

wet and Dry" Editor, Ia
coma Times, Tacoma, Wn.
Dear Sir: Prohibition Ii
bigger than the liquor ques-
ton, and the people must be
made to realize that the en-
tering wedge of the liquor
question demoralizes pub
lie thought on all aspects Of
the rights of men. Prohibit
tion is a social and not a po-
litical question, and among
liberty loving people; those
who drink and those who do
not. 1t is the greatest issue
to be fought out since the
Civil war. Prohibition OF
liquor would be only an
opening to wholesale invas-
ion on the liberty OF the in
dividual. Suppose, instead
of a law prohibition liquor.
we we're to try and pass and
enforce one obliging all to
drink. We would hear some
personal liberty speeches
then and rightly so.
Prohibitionists have often
stated how much territory
they have won over to their
side in the United States,
and | want to say this: IL
you will show me a city or a
state where prohibition ex-
lists, I will show you, with
few exceptions, a city or state
where wages are low and
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Wholesale
Quotations

Livestock-Cows, 6Mc; calves.
5000; hogs, 8h @9c; wethers.
&c; lambs. &c; ewes, 4hc.
Butter and Eggs-Ranch but
ter. 20 q Csc; strictly fresh ranch
eggs, 10000.
Poultry Hens. 16017c;
broilers, 25@27c; ducks, lao
i sc SQUADS s2'6p; rabbits SO
Jobbing Quotations.
The following prices are fur.
nished the Times daily by leading
firms engaged in the various
lines 70 fruit, produce, meats. pro-
visions. etc. These prices are paid
by the retailers to the commits
sion men:
Cheese = Wash. zoe: Tilla.
nook. tic.
Frseh rancn eggs, 81 @22c.
Washington creamery.
26027c; Oregon. rs q zee; Call
fornia, 26c.
Fresh Meats-steer. IAN q
13hc; cows. 12hc; heifers,
12kc; hogs, trimmed sides,
17kc; do, combination, tic;
whole, 13kc; small veal, 100
lie; heavy veal, 10@12c;
ewes, l1hc; mutton, wethers,
lie; lamb, lac; Alaska rein
deer, tic, ex. warehouse.
Fruits-Apples: Winesap, 81
@2.50; Yellow Newtowns, $40
$50. Oranges: Naval, $2.76 d
2.85. Bananas: 4hc ID. Gran
Fruit, Florida, $4,000 $50; Cal
$3.50. Pineapples: &c lib. Straw
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Tacoma. Wash.
Nav IA 1914

May IA. 1914.
To the wet and Dry" Ed
itor:
When l read the argu-
ments for a wet" or dry"
state In the Tacoma Times,
wonder IL the people are
SO blind to the question
that they only see dollars
and cents in 1t.
Is there no moral side to
this question? Is there no
right or wrong to 1t?
I'll say II 1t Is right to
have the saloon and IL 1t is
for the good of the people,
why do we ristrict 1t? Why
such a high license If IL is
a benefit to us? Then let
us have IL free and unre-
stricted. But II It is a wrong
do not figure out how many
men will be out of employ
ment or how much the city
will lose in license and to
us.
When Lincoln issued his
proclamation of the temanci-
patton of the slaves, ,he did
not sit down to figure up
how much of loss it would
be to the nation, or what
the slaves were going to do
after they became free.
No! II was a moral wrong
to Mr.. Lincoln, not dollars
and cents.
When the time comes to
vote on this question, then
ask in your own heart, rs 1t
Gods will, and will His
kingdom come with or with
out the Saloons" Then, ac-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-18

To the wet and Dry" Ed
itor:
Does prohibition stop
drinking?-
Just before I came to this
state in February, 1889, l
went to Iowa on a visit,
which at that time was a
prohibition state. Some towns
were wet, some had saloons
as in Tacoma. Some towns
were dry, but had blind
pigs and drug stores where
they sold beer and bad whis-
key. Macquoketa and Lyons
had open saloons, and did
not see one man under the
influence of liquor during
the IL days | was there.
Delmar Junction and Clin-
ton were dry, but l saw more
drunken men there than 1
ever saw In Seattle or Taco
ma, even ON 4th of July. At
the depot at Delma | saw at
least 20 drunken men going
home. They must have got
the whiskey somewhere. 1
believe in well conducted sa-
looms. but not in dives. IL
this state should go dry, we
would have the DRINKS and
some outside state would get
the money. Vote against
prohibition and let us have
we'll conducted saloons, but
insist on your city fathers
giving only responsible men
the right to sell liquor.
FRANZ BRAUN.
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hours are long. Yes, and
where even worse condi-
lions exist.
T. s. JENSEN.
1921 SO. X st.
wet and Dry" Editor:
Dear Sir: Prohibition Is a
fraud. II forms the basis
for agitation and blinds the
eyes of a certain class of peo-
pie to real social and eco
nomic evils. How many pro-
hibition agitators ever
sought to improve the con-
ditions of the laboring man?
Did John ID. Rockefeller ever
do anything TO promote the
real welfare of the people OF
this country? And yet we
find Mr.. Rockefeller using
his great wealth, squeezed
from the American people, to
advance the prohibition
movement. Why? The an
swer is not hard to find.
Maine has had prohibition
for sixty years, and still the
question overshadows every
other issue in that state.
Mr.. Rockefeller believes
In keeping the agitators busy.
He wants to be let alone to
carry out affairs like the
present one in Colorado.
Prohibition in the state Of
Washington would mean that
thousands of men would be
thrown out of work. Do the
prohibitionists offer any new
field of employment to these
men?
JOSEPH III. WILSON.
lib 1-2 Tacoma av.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-18

''They were caught in sudden storm, their
canoe was upset and neither could SWIM
So reads part of near drowning on a lake be-
side great university. You will something like
it in print every Monday for months to come.
These two, so typical OF many-a strapplng young
man and fair '.co-ed''-were far from home, at
much expense, getting an education s
An education in what?
In Greek and Latin, in the higher mathematics, In
learned and misty lore, the clutter of antiquity.
But not in LIFE-the most important thing i'll
the world.
No. indeed, not in life.
Our colleges don't teach life
They teach the things that remote from life
the things that in life you rarely, II ever, have to
deal with.
Otherwise. you wouldn't read of two persons at
tending great university and allowed without
keepers to adventure on a body OF water in fra
canoe that
"NEITHER COULD SWIM
Though not on the program, the chances are how
ever that this duckng will be the most educational
experience this couple will have during their four
years at college.
For now they'll want to learn at least one thing
worth while.
''It is my duty says Huerta, ''to fight to the
death"
Don't let us interrupt you, old scout; go to it!
Auto accidents are increasing It might be worth
served. few jail sentences wouldn't hurt.
Commissioner Mills would certainly confer favor
on the public i'll general if he threw up his job just
like little man. ..s
Start reading "The Thousandth Woman" by
Ernest w. Homung, author of ''Raffles'' on page
seven today.
The season for the fellow who rocks the boat is now
open.
Elk mayor Seymour just can't keep his hands off
of city affairs. He is critcizng Mayor Fawcet for
wanting to reduce Judge Stiles salary.
American soldiers in Vera Cruz played an all star
aggregation of baseball players yesterday and won
by the score of 4 to 0. Why not conquer Mexico
with baseball? 1t isn't impossible.
Don't you think it would be pretty good plan to
give municipal bureau of efficiency fair trial?
Yesterday was day Of days Gee, let's pray for
more.
| VIM. A. Mullins Electric Co.
i fn1A Gil
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-18

Better telephone Main IL
and order the Times to
come to your home regu-
larly. You'll get four high
class novels complete, with
the Times, each month
hereafter. A novel will
start each Monday and
finish each Saturday. No
long waiting. You get a
complete novel each week.
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cording to your hearts.

W
swer.
Your for righteous men,
p. b. STONE,
51st and Portland av., City.
To the "Wet and Dry" Ed
itOr:
1 write as one who has
lived all his life In a dry
state and can say that l do
not remember of ever seeing
an open saloon until l came
to Washington one year ago,
and l am now twenty-one
years of age. While in a
dry state 1 was inclined to
think as many here now
think, why not have open
saloons, aa we have drunk
ards Just the same?" but I
must confess | did not know
what a truly wet state was
until my arrival in this
state, and l now see the diff
ference.
Ii is true we have a few
drunkards there, and when
we do, the "wets" use them
as a by-word in their argu-
ment against prohibition.
Truly, the 'sot" has his
liquor and always will have
It; but thank God. the young
err generation is coming up
without the curse.
There seems to be but
two questions brought up
by the "wets" in their de-
Tense: Does prohibition pro-
hibit? answered above),
and whence the revenue?
As to the latter, surely there
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-18
"WHAT INDEED?"

What does a school master
know about war;" asked the con-
versationalists. What does a col
lege professor know about martial
affairs?" We h. no b. for the
Wilson policy-not for any war
policy, for that matter-but what
did George Washington. a survey
or, know about war? What did
Abraham Lincoln, an uneducated
rail-splitter, know about war?
What does Christy Mathewson, q
checker-player, know about pitch.
ing?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-18
ON HIS DIGNITY.

And one of the great South
African liners was steaming into
Southampton harbor grimp
doal-lighter floated Immediately
IN front of 1t. An officer on
hoard the vessel, observing this,
Shouted
Clear out of the way with
that barge!"
The lighterman, a native of
the Emerald Isle, shouted In re-
ply:
Are We the captain of that
vessel?"
NO" answered the officer.
Then spake to yer aiquals, -
said Pat; I'm the captain OF
this."i
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-18

Editor wet and Dry"
In the arguments submit
ted by the "wets" against
prohibition, the dominant
note Is always MONEY. To
meet them solely on their
own ground, allow me to
present this fact and / chal-
lenge them to prove other
wise:
Crime, disease, insanity
and delinquency, attributed
to alcohol, in 1913, cost
Washington $676.509 (six
hundred and seventy-six
thousand. five hundred and
nine dollars.) More than
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Then Silence

The talk In the smoke-room
had turned upon personal risks,
and the big man with the loud
voice had just related some verac-
ious adventures and hairbreadth
escapes which had happened in
the course of Ills career.
Suddenly the quiet little man
who was sitting in a corner spoke
up:
"Only this morning." he re-
marked, "as | was engaged in the
ordinary course of my business, a
boiler, weighing several tons,
came hurting through the air
within few feet of my head"
There were many ordinations
of horror, and the big man turn
ed to the speaker with increased
respect.
You are engaged in the engi-
neering profession, l presume?"
he inquired.
No." said the little man. 81
am engaged as a ticket-collector,
and the incident | refer to occur
red when l was standing on the
platform Of our station and the
express went through"
And in the silence which fol-
lowed the big man let his cigar
go out.
THE EDITOR IMPRESSION.
The editor, looking over the
poem, asked the youth who had
submitted 1t:
did you write this poem your
self?"
Yes, sir. Do you like it?" the
youth asked.
Il think it is magnificent" said
the editor. did you compose it
unaided?"
II certainly did," said the
young man firmly. Il wrote every
line of it out of my own head. .
The editor rose and said:
Then, Lord Byron, | am very
glad to meet you. But | was un.
der the impression that you had
died at Missolonghi a good many
years ago."
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Cowboy--Yes, m'boy, a buckin'
bronco is the hardest thing in The
world to stay on.
Remittance Man-Say, did you
ever try to stick on the water
wagon, though?
AN EXPERT.
what experience have you had
operating typewriter" asked
the prospective employer.
a." replied the applicant, run
ming skilled fingers lovingly over
the keyboard, was pugilist for
10 years"
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are other means of revenue
that that of taking a poor
mans last cent which he
hands to the saloon man
for just one . more glass.
Taxes. as high as they are.
exempt a few of the necessi-
ties, and do not render a
man poverty-stricken. Oh,
taxpayer, have a heart,
Let us capture this rob-
Der who is crying. not
Money or your life," but
Money and your life."
T.. II. CURRY.
2510 So. G st.
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Tacoma Times DRY and
Wet" Editor:
What will become of John
Barleycorn?
Raise more hogs and less
hell.
B. s. HAWKINS,
1928 So. G ST., City.
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Don't you think it would be pretty good
give a municipal bureau of efficiency fair tt
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-22

assumes a position which makes II
look like the fruit itself So close Is
the resemblance that their enemies,
the hawks. occasionally fy by tree
on which dozen or more or these
birds are sitting, apparently unaware
OF their presence. Another remark
able tree is the 'Arbol de DYNAMITE
dynamite tree-whose fruit. II kept Ia
a warm place, bursts with consid-
cradle force and loud report. scat
tering its nat seeds 10 a surprising
distance. One OF the most interesting
fruits in Mexico is known as the
melon zapote, or papaya. II contains
considerable pepsin, which reacts
against both acid and alkaline condi-
tions of the stomach, and II Is saiu
that a diet which includes papaya
precludes dyspepsia. Both the fruit
and the leaves possess the singular
property OF rendering tough meat
tender. When the pulp OF the fruit Is
rubbed over piece OF tough meat the
! Juice attacks the fibre and softens H.
mo other country south OF the MO
Grande is so we'll supplied with rail-
roads. Prior to the Madero revolu-
ton il had 10000 miles OF up-to'date
| American railroad, which carried IL
900, 900 passengers annually and han
died about 100000 tons OF freight.
Their total revenues amounted TO
about $40,000000. The government
owns controlling interest in the
major portion of the mileage OF the
I RAILROADS..
Mexico produces one-third OF the
worlds silver, a considerable percent
! age OF its gold, one-ninth OF its lead
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-22

and one twentieth or It's copper The
countrys mineral production, ex'
elusive OF iron, coal and petroleum.
amounted TO sl5s. 100000 in 1910. The
famous iron mountain at Durango is
estimated 10 contain 600 100000 tons
OF iron ore. which is worth seven
times the value OF all the gold ana
silver mined In Mexico IN two cen
turtles. The Santa Maria graphite
mines are the largest and most Inn
portant In the western world.
The region around the Gulf OF
Mexico is very rich I'm petroleum.
One company az Poteri del ALAMO
struck a gusher which flowed 100000
barrels or oil a day.
THE drawn-work OF the Mexican
Indian is justly famed throughout
the world and deserves TO rank with
the finest of Spanish and Italian
laces. The Indians make all sorts OF
small objects TO attract the centavos
OF the tourist. The little dolls OF
Cuernavaca. a halfinch tall and
dressed In finely embroidered raj
ment, are the admiration of every
one who sees them. The small clay
animals, perfectly fashioned and
ranging from the peaceful dog TO the
charging bull and the bucking mule
would do credit TO the genius OF many
sculptor whose name figures in the
/ art publications OF the world. But
perhaps the most wonderful OF al
fare NE tiny dressed feas which may
be bought in Mexico City. Another
wonderful work Of the Indians is the
making OF feather pictures from the
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-22
lnuas,iaate upper AIr.

At the instance OF the Royal So
ciety. the meteorological service OF
India Is about to embark on a cam
paign OF Investigations OF the upper
air which is expected TO extend over
q neriod OF 10 years. The headquar-
ters OF this work will be at Agra,
where sounding balloons carrying reg
istering apparatus will be sent up
about twice week 10 the greatest
heights attainable. There VIII prop
ably also be four or five suDstations'
from which similar balloons VIII be
sent up to moderate heights, say
about 10000 feet
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-22

ignorant. With a hospital founded
before jamestown was even dreamed
OF, Il is one OF the most backward re-
glons OF the earth In medical way.
With natural riches greater thah
those OF a thousand Midases' It's
masses are as poor as the poorest.
With a constitution as perfect as any
organic laW>in the civilized Woriu, II
Is nation whose rulers always nave
been law unto themselves.
Here you will see a Mexican mar
breed, barefOoted. wearing dollar
pair OF trousers. a 50cent SHIRT anu
a lO.dollar sombrerO. There, at
single glance and within The length
OF single city block. you may see
an Indian cargadOr, a donkey, an OK
cart a carriage, railroad train, a
street car and an automobile-alInost
every type OF locomotion since Adam.
You may tread the burning sands Oh
a tropical desert with the wet or the
perpetual snow OF towering noun
tains still upon your shoes. You may
take single railway Journey OF
80 hours in which the people you
see at the railroad station VIII Do
dressed In four different weights OF
clothing Everywhere you turn there
is contrast, high lights and deep
shadows.
Mexico probably has greater
range Of remarkable vegetation than
any other country in the world. The
parrot.fruit tree produces an ODD
-snaUBu FRUIT, D5HrTHg Close resem'
blance TO green parakeets. When the
parakeet is frightened IL makes q
dash for the parrot tree, where IL
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-22
whItaere's Career.

Congressman John J. Whitacre' OF
Ohio. who recently caused consider
able comment throughout the country
oy the statement that congress IL no
place for man who is intellectually
honest began his career as a student
In law school. taking care OF the
Office OF a justice OF the peace TOT
minimum wage at the same time Ia
time he became a successful lawyer
but finally engaged in the manuiactur
ing business and i'm this he has risen
70 fortune. He owns a large bulldlns
tile plant and has paid little afternoon
to law as q profession for years. IN
congress he seldom makes a speech.
II is said OF him that he is one OF the
greatest readers in the house.