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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-20

told us he'd got place where he could disappear at
shall never forget how found out its existence"
Walter went to Australia for ten years.
Yes, and Blanche kept the secret all that time.
You can read about it on page 7. It's the story
the gentleman burglar" stories can tell
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-05-20
FOOT TROUBLE

ST. LOUIS May 2O.--A few days after mar
rage, Walter Il. Barth, q Northport, Mich.
farmer, met a fascinating widow, Rugged her,
and gave her his wife's engagement ring And
that wasn't all, says Mrs. Lille L.. Barth I'm her
took joint "foot BATH" she SAYS. -,
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
Life and Livelihood.

Richmond has embarked upon a new expert
ment In vocational training, which may be
watched with interest may all such expert
ments, which involve the fundamentals of edu-
cation. The Virginia city has commissioned a
tional survey TO get Information regarding the
principal occupations. especially those employ
ing young people, a means OF formulating
plans for fitting youth for these particular
vocations.
II Richmond is not very careful she may make
the mistake OF fatally narrowing the basis OF the
education of her young people, by fitting them
more for the earning of some sort of a livel-
hood than for life. itself In fact, as we view it,
this Is the thing against which the whole sys-
tenn OF vocational training has to guard. Edu-
cation, after ALL Is only one method of prepara-
tion for the whole Of life, and the work that one
engages In is only one means OF living. To be
sure, ones occupation is not to be put upon the
low plane OF merely a means of livelihood, for
through II he should give to the world much OF
the service he renders.
Yet. all this considered, together with the i'm
portance of raising each unit Of the population to
its highest efficiency, we still have to avoid mar
rowing the scope of educational training. While
specialization certainly has its virtues. It like
wise has its faults One OF these faults is the
tendency toward one-sidsd development To u.s.
It seems TO get back to this, that vocational
training can best be afforded where a broad,
general training has been laid as the founda-
ton. There are exceptions to all rules, but the
rule must not be lost sight OF because OF its ex-
ceptions.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
A Turning Point in American History

In his address before the Palimpsest club, DR..
Mark Wenley OF Michigan university reafflrmed
the view that our American civilization had its
real birthday on May 10, 1859, the day on which
the last spike was driven in the completion of
the Union Pacific railroad; that then America
began to build civilization truly its own" The
country began to realize something. not only of
its great resources, but of it's destiny as world
power. Having built band OF steel that united
the two oceans and brought the people OF the
continent into closer contact as a great nation,
by the same means we linked the occident with
the orient and took our place In the arena of
world affairs.
All this should be peculiarly interesting to the
people of our own city and state. AS the starting
point and eastern terminus and official home of
this first transcontnental railroad leading out to
other lands Omaha occupies position OF unique
Importance. 1t cannot be separated from the
history of the Union Pacific nor denied its place
In this larger chapter of the history OF American
civilization. Thus made the Gate City to the
west, therefore the far east its position becomes
more and more strategic in the world OF bust
ness about US with the development OF COM
merce and country. 1t is up to the people OF
Omaha and Nebraska to see that the most is
made OF these natural advantages, for no I'M
usual faith In the future is required to see that
this city is really now at the threshold OF its
growth and advancement calling for brains and
Drawn. open minds and steady hands.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
MUSINGS OF A CYN1C.

A man may be slow but sure. but his
watch can't be.
One thing about Ice is that It never
sells like hot cakes.
Many a rich man has his own way until
his will is probated.
Thou shalt not oovet thy neighbor's feet
with which to do thy kicking.
Strange as 1t may seem, high living has
put many a man on his uppers
It's a good plan to use your head II
you would get there with both feet.
There are times when It takes a mighty
strong-minded woman to hold her tongue.
An egotist is a man who is so wrapped
up in himself that he pays no attention
to u.s.
Many a man who believes nothing will
expect sNwife to believe everything he
tells her.
A debt defes all the laws OF nature
The more debts are contracted the more
they expand.
The fellow who tells girl her voice has
the flexibility OF a violin may be limiting
to be her beau.
Lots Of people are criticised because
tney oon loNo Ineir ueiBhooTs as lne
neighbors love them
1t is quite possible for man to simply
spread himself without really having any
broadening influence.
1t isn't every man who can fall into a
fortune without sustaining compound
fracture OF the morals.
There's plenty of gossip in a boarding
house, but the landlady never cares to
entertain an idle roomer.
Some people will be surprised when
they get to heaven to find that the free
list is absolutely suspended during this
engagement.-New York Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
AROUND THE CITIES.

In New York City there are S,sS6,sS5
jewellers in apartment and tenement
houses and only l.O7e.s4S In private dwell
lings.
The heart of Baltimore IL now grid
ironed with smooth streets and cob
blestones are relegated to the back dis
tricts
Seattle bought the Seattle, Renton and
Southern Suburban road from the re-
ceivers for $1.6oO,000 and annexed it to
the city stock of industries.
Cleveland is peacefully disposed but it
would give a prize purse for few short
range shots from a German Jack John
son" directed at its union depot.
Gamblers in a Kansas City hotel were
warned the other day of the approach OF
the police by the strains of Yankee
Doodle" played on a piano in the hotel
parlor,
Elizabeth, N. j., has garnered some
municipal wisdom from its $50 years ex-
perience. Adjoining villages. which call
for It's fire department. are required to
pay $50 an hour
San Jose. Cal. has no explanation or
apology to offer for its unique distinction
of having ratio OF three bachelor maids
TO one manageable man. San Jose IL
equally handsome in other ways.
Chicago will launch a municipal dance
hall next month Heads OF women's clubs
and of civic organizations will be asked
TO direct the feet OF dancers along paths
OF righteousness" or steps to that eff
feet
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

Washington Post: The archdeacon OF
Ely believes It would be dangerous TO
apply the golden rule to the business OF
government Has he found that the iron
rule works better?
Brooklyn Eagle: II must make Bap-
fist deacon feel like saying something
piping hot TO have Prof. Matthews Of the
University Of Chicago call him moral
thermos bottle" or a "fireless cooker.
II the deacons have retained the heat OF
Prof Matthews sermons for long time
he may be sure that they will do quite as
we'll in holding the icy fluid Of his attack.
Washington star The Methodist move
ment for provision for the superannu-
ated clergymen is designed TO relieve in
dividual churches OF the burden which
falls upon them in 50 many cases for
the care OF retired pastors, creating
general UNCONVENTIONAL fund upon which
all who are formally relieved Of duty will
draw under liberal pension system. It
is a business-like plan, though prompted
by the highest considerations of hu-
manity, and q denomination 30 extensive
and enterprising should be able to finance
it and thus establish standard for other
denominations TO adopt In turn.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
The Ex-Conviot.

AL Jennings. former bandit and late demo-
cratic candidate for governor Of Oklahoma,
author Of magazine stories and moving picture
hero, complains Of the general lot Of the ex-
convict. protesting that he does not get as fair
a chance from society as he deserves. After a
man has paid his debt and the law has been
indicated by his punishment" says Jennings.
"he should have a chance in the world"
While many folks will doubtless incline to
the belief that for one, Mr.. Jennings is being
given a rather fair chance, there is seriously no
denying the truth OF what he says as to the
treatment OF ex-convicts in general Society,
a whole. betrays a wrong and grossly I'M
fair attitude toward the man who has COM
piled with the laws demands in expiatng his
crime. Society is about as far wrong in this
as is the system OF government and manage
ment of the average penitentiary, archaic to the
last degree.
The law presumes every man accused Of
crime and arralgned for trial innocent until
proven guilty but after the man is convicted,
serves his sentence and returns to take up his
place again in the world, he usually finds that
society has reversed this legal presumption and
holds him at arms length until he can manage,
under desperate odds. to rise again. And only
the very fittest RISE or survive the test. II So
ciety is right in this attitude, then its whole
theory OF penal correction is worse than wrong
and should be abolished. But, as we have init
mated, this theory is lived up TO only in excep-
tional cases, which affords ground for the COM
mon charge that many men emerge from the
prisons worse characters than when they went
into them. The state is supposed to take Its
brand OF felony off the unfortunate when he
leaves the prison and society has no right to
keep putting II back on law-abiding citizen.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
No Farm Shut Down by the War.

Above all the military turmoil abroad and all
the Industrial disturbance at home, one thing
stands out strong and plain, yet calls for re-
newed emphass-that no American farm has
been shut down. and no American farmer is out
OF work because OF the war in Europe.
Disease may infest the CATTLE OF the hens may
refuse TO lay. or the farmer may have his other
troubles. but they are Insignificant beside the
great central fact that the productivity OF the
farm remains unimpaired through and mora
forums. and that the product OF the farm is con-
vertible in the markets every day in the year
into gold or into any article OF commerce the
farmer may desire.
In an agricultural state like Nebraska, the
center Of the richest corn and wheat belt in the
world, this salient truth deserves more than q
passing thought. II is the tower OF strength
that gives the people OF this territory, whether
in the city or on the farm the right TO selfconf-
dence and complete reinsurance.
No farm shut down, no farmer out OF work,
no market for farm products closed no collapse
In prices which our farm products command
this is what gives America its impregnable
vantage point right now which It will hold long
after world peace is restored
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
Survival Of the Fittest.

Mechanically, modern warfare reverses the
Darwinian theory Of the survival Of the fittest,
which rests on the tenet that the great number
Of persons killed are, on the whole, lower than
the average OF those who survive. But Darwin,
OF course, was reckoning with wars of averages,
not Of so-called civilized men
And yet IL this theory is to apply in the larg
est sense to races and nations as we'll as to in
dividuals, then why may it not be considered In
relation to the sum total of what is now going
on in Europe? Come what may, why is IL not
reasonable to believe that the ultimate net re-
suit OF this hideous human slaughter will be
new Europe representing the triumph of the best
OF the old as embodied in those ideals which de-
mand higher arbitrament than that of force?
Let us turn deaf ear to the janging voices
Of the contending powers raised in defense of
this or that culture" or civilization and await
results. This we know, that no civilization is
the right one, the highest one or enduring that
yields to brute strength in the determination of
its destiny. The world cannot advocate the
cause Of ultimate universal peace with any con-
sistency 80 long II holds to the old delusion of
the necessity OF war. The only civilization, the
only culture worth while, is that that sheaths
the sword and submits all controversy to honest
and honorable adjustment.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
Politics and Principles.

1T is the grAvest weakness OF this country
at present 20 ignore certain fundamental things,
that life IL not saved by politics. but by prin-
ciplss and that principles are not taught by
votes and legislation, but by precept and prac-
tice," says Miss Ida Tarbell. getting down very
close to the tap-root OF first principles.
Pursue the thought and It suggests the fall
laolous tendency Of trying to force men TO do
what their better judgment does not prompt
them TO do. At the foot OF Mount Sinai the
principle was first enunciated. The law given
70 Moses was divided into three parts. the
moral law for individual conduct, the spiritual
law for the eeremonlals. the civil law for the
state. Manifestly Il was not intended that one
should be made TO supplant the other. The
moral law can no more be made to govern
the state than can the spiritual law, and yet on
many hands we find the attempt to substitute
the moral for the civil law and make 1t do what
le was not intended to do.
Folks generally admit the shortcomings of
home influence in our day. one of the aaddest
and most tragic OF human failures. The family
Antedated the state In the development OF So
eiety and still exists, or should. as the unit Of
society. II cannot shift its own functions and
responsibilities onto the state without disas-
trous results to both, Why do we not see that
and cease trying to reverse the experience of
history as well as the principles OF life2 Miss
Tarbell is eminently correct-llfe is saved by
principles and not politics. Let the proper
stress be laid on that. let the moral law be
kept in it's place and the civil law left free to
do its part in the government OF the state. and
perhaps in time We shall have less occasion for
trying to provide legislative makeshift as a
panacea for all our human faults Such a thins
never has been possible, because. as We see, Il
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
ODD BITS OF LIFE.

William II. sewall, Of Bath, Me-. dug up
a potato with glass handle. The handle
came from a glass mug which had been,
lost in the field.
Steve Bedare OF Joliet, ILL.,, traded his
wife to Aleck Wadas for 81, When he
called to take possession, Mrs. Bedare
grabbed a rollingpin and chased Aleck
to Jail.
Mrs. ophelia Arnold. the mother Of
Mortimer e. Arnold of,Sparta, Wis. had
the unusual pleasure OF attending her
sons golden wedding. She is now in her
one hundredth year and still retains all
her faculties
Two brothers, one a sergeant in the
Royal garrison artillery and the other
a sergeant in the Royal field artillery,
both British detachments, met on the
Cambria battlefield, not having seen each
other for nine years.
The high school girls basket ball team
Of Skowhegan, Me-, has offered to rent
the Jail of the town, since it's citizens are
so good that it Is unoecupied. They need
place in which to practice. and the jail
would just suit their needs
During a thunderstorm Tax Collector
nearest shelter. a covered wagon. When
in it he discovered that It belonged to a
delinquent taxpayer, drove the wagon off
to the town hall, and requested the owner
to call for It and pay his bill.
The controller of the city of New York
recently received an AK, with a note ex-
planning that It had been stolen from the
city ten years previously. but had never
been used, and was now returned because
of painful conscience.
A mendicant who was recently SEN
fenced to five days in the workhouse. in
New York City for street begging was. it
was discovered. the owner Of the large
and wel-furnished apartment house in
which he lived. 1t was apparently the
pure Joy of taking that led him to choose
a life of mendicancy.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
SIGNPosTs OF PROGRESS.

A typewriter has been built with tho
$50 charaeters OF the Bengal alphabet.
Harnessed water power in the United
States represents an annual saving OF
more than 100000 tons OF coal.
1t is estimated that three-fourths OF
the money spent on modern battleahIp
Is distributed in the shape OF wages.
In it's experiments with the production
OF steel by electric methods the United
States Steel corporation has expended
more than $4,000.
Government chemists In the Philip
pines are investigating the soapmaking
possibilities OF the new species OF oil
bearing nut that has been discovered.
Fern picking has become an important
industry In the vicinity OF jamaica, VT
From September 10 October 10 one man
bought l,SSs,Ooo ferns, for which he paid
ss22.
Guns that automatically load them
selves with aeetylene gas and discharge
themselves to sound fog signals have
been invented by q Scotchman. the
mechanism being set In operation by
wireless waves from central station,
George r. Howe of Norway. Me-, Is
planning TO build on a hill In that town a
fireprOof house. entirely OF artificial
stone, steel and glass. The floors and
stairways will be OF solid glass, while
electricity will be used u a great extent
70 eliminate possibility OF fire
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
MUFFLED KNOCKS.

An orator is a lad who will say: Need
less 70 say" and then takes a half hour
saying Il.
The golden calf used TO get a lot OF
worship that is now devoted 70 the
sllken calf
Isn't IL funny that the things we like
20 do most are the things we are told we
shouldn't do7
Any old time you see a man eating
with his knife you can bet that he IL
boss in his house and that what he says
goes.
II always jars a man when he discovers
how much corn beef and cabbage the
ethereal and spiritual little thing he mar
ried can stow away.
When a man gets his first fun dress
suit he has an awful battle with himself
70 keep from wearing it down town in
the daytime so people can see It.
A single man imaaines that It is easy
TO fool a woman. But later on no learns
that the only time he ever fooled his
wife was when he married her.
The old-fashioned woman who poured
coal oil on the fire In the kitchen stove
now has q daughter who tries TO crank
an automobile with the clutch I'm.
A plain ordinary man finds II hard to
laugh at the way the women primp when
he recolleots that some of his own sex
sleep with their mustaches put up in kid
curriers'.
1t is hard for a pretty girl to be nice
70 a married man in public. She knows
what she would do II she was married
and caught pretty girl being nice to her
husband.
The old-fashioned woman who used 10
have dress that she put away because
II was too good to wear" now has a
daughter who kicks because she can't
find anything good enough to wear.
There was a time when a wonan's
clothes were great mystery to a man.
But nowadays, with the store windows
and the newspapers filled with bargains
In undergarments, he knows just what
each item is and how much II Is worth.
Cincinnati Enquirer
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
THE WATER THAT HAS PASSED
Author unknown.

Author unknown.
Listen to the water mill.
Through the livelong day.
How the clanking of the wheels
Wears the hours away.
Languidly the autumn wind
Stirs the greenwood leaves:
From the fields the reapers sing.
Binding up the sheaves;
And proyerb haunts my mind
AS spell is cast:
The mill Will never grind
With the water that has passed
Take the lesson to myself.
Living heart and true:
Golden years are fleeting by,
Youth is passing. too;
Learn to make the most OF life.
TINES hSse VIII hH H meHsr q prinr thee back
Chances swept away,
Leave no tender word unsaid.
Love while life shall last
1.-THE mill will never grind
With the water that has passed"
Work while yet the daylight shines
Man Of strength and will;
Never does the streamlet glide
Useless by the mill.
Wait not till tomorrows sun
Beams upon the way;
All that thou canet call thine own
Lies in thy today:
Power, intellect and health
May not. can not last;
THE mill will never grind
With the water that has passed"
oh. the wasted hours OF life
That have drifted by;
oh. the good we might have done,
Lost without sigh;
BY single word:
Thoughts conceived; but never psnned.
Perishing unheard-
Take the proverb to thine heart
Take! Oh. hold II fasti-
THE mill will never grind
With the water that has passed"
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
Wars Irony.

1t Is certainly the irony of war that the first
real victory for the allies should be scored by
the little brown Japs" over IN the far corner
of China. Whether or not the capture of Using
Tau exerts any appreciate influence upon the
conflict in the European war arena, It signalzes
the completion Of the task that was allotted to
the japanese to dislodge the Germans from their
position in the orient. Japan has intimated its
purpose to restore the captured territory to
China although how it can be held to such a
pledge is not clear Should the original pro-
gram be carried out Japan will also be giving
us a notable example OF International good faith
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
People and Events

General shrapnel appears to be the
big noise OF the row in Europe.
Statistics Of the November tonnage on
Salt river will not be available for some
time For the moment It sufhoes to
know that It is "hefty," and let It go
at that
Owing TO the rush Of other absorbing
duties. proper recognition Of the high
grade Of Indian summer in the corn belt
has been overlooked for a week. Hats
off to the weather maker!
Sir Ernest Shackleton is starting for
the south pole again. He is one English
man who presently will have ample
facilities for keeping cool while the rest
of his countrymen are having rot time.
A Brooklyn man ate a twelve-pound
turkey with ample trimmings on q
wager, and then "beefed" because the
bettor spent the money in paying for
the feast. All the porkers in the land
do not so to the packing houses,
II the censors OF war news would re-
lax sufficiently TO tell whether the
modern armies in Flanders valiantly sus-
tanned the smearing reputation OF their
predecessors, the news would afford pro-
found relief for admirers of profane pre-
cedents.
Some statistics are dry reading, others
radiate mental cheer. In the latter class
are the export returns for october, which
show trade balance of sT2,OoO0OO in our
favor. The army of peace Is steadily
progressing up the heights of prosperity
with no regrets to report.
Although Uncle Sam is pledged to re-
main a neutral regardless of the increas-
ing numbers of gunner abroad in the
world, he is getting into a state Of pre-
paredness for the question, What part
of the. Turk do you prefer2" This Is
strictly for home consumption.
Arrangements are about completed 30
that the Christmas ship and Mr.. Rookie
feller's relief ship will reach Belgium
about the same time and give the UNI
fortunates internal as well as external
merriment The glad hand with the
goods in it radiates Joy for giver and
receiver.
The county clerk Of Cook county
Illinois, which means Chicago, puts out
tabulation on divorces, showing that
IS per cent of the matrimonial misfits
gravitate to the courts during the first
year OF married life. Wherefrom he
concludes that hasty marriages are the
root Of the divorce evil
The esteemed Abdul Hamid, staring
from the grated windows of his crib in
Asia Minor, isn't as much concerned
about holy war as he was in the hey
day of his glory What intereats hin,
nightly is whether the allies guns can
shoot hole in his guarded Kiosk large
enough for him to embrace Liberty. On
Liberty's eide the caress would be wholly
involuntary.
Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-08
Ridiculous.

The Lincoln Star breaks loose with fervid
outburst demanding the immediate resignation
OF Regents COPELAND and Halter because campus
removal, which they favored. failed to carry in
the election. This strikes us as the most ride
ulous play of the downtown campus people yet.
Suppose consolidation had won out, would any
one be insisting on the immediate designations
OF the other four regentsH Congressman Ma
guire has Just been beaten in the Lincoln dis
trict by young Mr.. Reavis. and on the same
theory he would have to yield his seat without
waiting for the expiration of his term. Let the
campus extenslonists take their victory more
calmly.