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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

Come and win a prize at the
B. r.. G. of A. MASK BALL,
Eagles hall, Sat-, Feb. IA.
Advertisement"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

pay as health officer for five
months and there is 1925 in
warrants coming to him at
the city hall now. Yet he
complained last summer that
his pay was not adequate and
got the council to raise his
salary.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11
PREACHER HELD

ROANOKE, Va, Feb. IL
Rev. B. F. Lands was held under
the Mann white slave act by the
federal grand jury yesterday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

Richard Edgewood, clerk
at the Oasis hotel at Tenino,
disappeared Sunday night
with S145 entrusted to him.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

LEAVENWORTH, Kas., Feb.
11.-Uncle Sam has announced
that free legal aid will be furnish
ed federal prisoners who want to
get out of prison on habeas cor
pus.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

Swanson-The funeral of Gus
Swanson will be held from the
Lynn company's chapel Friday at
. O'Clock, Rev. II. G. BloomquIst
officiating Interment, Tacoma.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11
placed on the market.

j. Il. Voice at Ellensburg
died January IA and his wife
with whom he lived 80 years
followed him Tuesday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

For constipation, our health
bread. Duenwald's, 313 nth.
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Yakima Indians will meet at
Wapato and discuss whether they
want to cease being wards of
Uncle Sam and own their own
land and paddle their own canoes,
today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

Everett police captured
Mike DonnelIy, escaped
WalIA WaIIa convict who was
In for life for killing J. J.
Stevens, finding him walking
along Hewitt avenue armed
with three revolvers, . knife
and with $3.50 In gold ON HE
person.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

Valentines of flowers, Him.,
florist, South 7th and X.
Advertisement"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

Seattle registration Is 74,112
1t was 74,629 in 1912.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

Rummage Sale. st. Luke's
church, Friday and Saturday,
Feb. 1914, corner 18th and Pa
cific av. Advertisement"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

Yakima treasurer has also
refused the check Of the N.
p. for taxes because II was
not big enough.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11
GIVES 100000

NEW YORK, Feb. 11-Andrew
Carnegie gave $2,000,000 yester-
day to union to be formed Of
leading churchmen to promote in
ternational peace.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

Ohehalis is going in strong
for street paving this sumo
per.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

Chester A. Congdon, Duluth
millionaire who owns q big fruit
ranch In Yakima valley, has start
ed work on the erection of q
100000 residence on the land.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11
BOY HUSBAND IS
READY To WORK

OAKLAND, Feb. 11.-Walter
Kad, 10, who was In jail for nom
support, was released when he
agreed to 60 to work.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE Lon
don smart set" is holding its
breath these days awaiting the
scandal that is said will attend
the divorce suit of the Leslie
Mevilles in which the Earl of
Fitswilliam Is named as CORE
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11

Agricultural Commissioner Per-
kins wants Yakima business men
to put up $4,000 to cover any de-
ficit there may be II they want
the state fair this year.
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This last trait was emphasized re-
Gently when she appeared at the
famous Pantomime ball In the
diaphanous robes of Sleeping
Beauty" 1t was soon after the
ball that her husband filed suit
for divorce.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-02-11
CONTRACT
GOES TO PORTLAND

PORTLAND, Feb. 1.-THE o. &
w. lumber contract for 10000
900 feet of lumber for construc-
tion was awarded to Duncan Lum-
Der company of Portland.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-10-31
THE LIMIT CAFE

Cieanest ar hes; place % eai. TT
The Limit. &c Taylor.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1914-10-31

Try @ paiI} Sow Want Al
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-19
EASY WAYS Of Testing the Wholesomeness of FISH, ME-

avoid ash gray, muddy white greenish gills.
fresh fish full scaled the scales firm easily de-
tachable rubbed off and with bright and glisening
appearance FISH deficient in scales that easily
rubbed off or of duh color and dry in condition
such fish is getting to be OF the kind Dogberry had In
mind when he observed that comparisons odorous.
The flesh Of fresh FISH is firm and elastic TO the
touch decomposition is present the fish will be soft
fabby and will pit deeply under finger pressure If
good condition the flesh is easily stripped from the
backbone neither does il come away clean when
it has commenced TO decompose. The dealer should
comply with request TO strip the fish for demon
straon of its freshness. Another test is to hold the
fish between thumb and finger. eXcrting moderate
pressure: If flesh parts readily IL must be consd.
cred unsound
With FISH. with all foods, the nose is usually
good detective. And yet the absence OF any putrd
smell is not a safe guide, for Ash kept ice
smell we'll enough and yet change very rapidly after
removal from the ice.
Also, the frequent vashings dealers give FISH
brighten them up and tend keep down the offensive
smell It is hard to decide when the fish IS half way
between fresh and putrd; in of doubt don't buy
the FISH.
fresh healthy. live lobster is dark green quick in
movements, heavy for its size; and when lifted
the will spring back under it, tail that springs
back when pulled indicates fresh lobster pass by a
limp tailed specimen. You simply have to hold your
in the presence Of a stale lobster.
Feel UNI. the large claws OF crab, being careful to
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produced. 1t is further stated that by saving
many people by medical treatment who
would otherwise succumb we preserve a feeble
class and thereby bring about gradual phys
ical deterioration of the population.
To this theory | have Two strong answers,
to mention others. The first is that it is
not humane moral 10 neglect the Sick help
less and suffering. | will not go into this point
1T length, the theory I am answering pro
fesses 10 be purely scientific:
My second answer is that there is no person
who is known to be immune from this disease
and no known way OF producing immunity. In
my experience / have seen men who ap
parenty the strongest and heathiest had ever
succumb rapidly 10 the disease. On the
other hand. have seen men who had apparent.
~ incurable cases recover completely and lead
many years OF useful life. There is some scien.
tifc ground for believing that the disease
takes a stronger hold perfectly healthy
man than on some types OF sickly men.
If. then, We allowed tuberculosis TO take ts
course unhindered should lose. first of all.
the healthiest and strongest members of the
community We should not develop i'm.
mune population for no one can show that tbs
prevalence OF the disease produces immunity
in any enc We should not have a stronger
population. hut a weaker one. for some of the
healthest members OF it would have been
moved.
firmly believe that if tuberculosis were left
unchecked by medical and hygienic measures
it would destroy the whole population of the
City OF New York, where conditions SO
favorable to its spread. Everybody. then.
should take an interest in checking it. for not
even the healthiest. most prosperous and most
happily situated man is free from its menace.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-19

The only known kind of immunity is an edu
cationa immunity resulting from knowledge
OF the OF the disease and how 1t i3
cured. Those who have been through our in
sttution usually acquire habits OF health that
last through life. The rules they are taught
TO avoid all kinds OF alcohol. TO keep in the
open air much possible and to sleep with
open windows and to be clean. know that our
people after leaving have most valuable
influence in teaching habits OF health to
others
Last year u913) over $1,000 persons lost
their lives a direct result Of tubercu-
loss. The of the sick cost the city
s17,000,000 There over $4,000 positive
dangerous cases of the disease in the city. and
how many there may be in an incipient stage
it is. of course, impossible TO say, but it is GER
tainly enormous. There over $4,000 women
earning head of the family has been taken by
tuberculosis.
The first family received into our nstitu.
ton will illustrate the tragedies have to
deal with. A good fellow who had been taken
to the city hospital a. Otisville told me his
story After a rather dissipated youth he mar
ried girl whose love completely won him
away from his bad habits. They had five
children and he prospered, earning as much as
$4,000 year. They very happy Then
tuberculosis attacked him and he gave up his
work and spent all his money in his early
struggles with the disease. Finally he had to
go TO the hospital.
While I am dying my wife and family have
got to starve,' he said to me. II should kill
myself if did not know that it would add to
my wife's sorrows"
took the wife and children to our farm. In
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left without breadwinner. Unless helping
hand is given to them al this point the chances
are that they Will become consumptives and
add TO the truly appalling prevalence Of the
disease that is now burdening New York.
Near Otsville and two miles away from our
farm is the great city hospital for consump-
tves There are on the average $50 patients
there was first convinced OF the great neces.
sity OF our institution by the scenes saw al
the hosp!ta! in the course of my work as q
chaplain OF the Health Department. Imagine
a work!ng-nan with wife and five children
taken away TO the hospital after long, costly
and unsuccessful struggle to cope with the
disease AZ home. The mother and one or two
OF the older children spend the last OF their
money in paying farewell visit 10 the father
the hospital.
There they part forever in this world. the
father 10 die rapidly, his family 10 return to
life OF misery and starvation that Will probably
knowledge that man is leaving wife and
family in this miserable condition has a most
important influence in Fastening the progress
of tuberculosis Our institution relieves him
from this burden for il takes the family, keeps
them in ideal surroundings until they can oe
properly provided for and permits the father
10 see them occa sonally under medically ap
proved conditions. AS a result, the father
cured and able TO return 10 work, is often re-
united to a happy and healthy family.
My attention has been called 10 a scientific
theory that society makes mistake in its very
costly and elaborate campaign TO cure and con.
quer tuberculosis. These ruthless theorists
argue that it would be better to allow the dis
ease 10 take its course. so that the susceptible
might be eliminated and immune population
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-19
Chesterton Depoe the agistera Habit Of Lectmng Prisoners

are proving that (Which no man born OF woman
could ever doubt. and you are, if anything.
disproving all the other things you want TO
prove. You are. II anything, disprovng that
women citizens. or be candidates for
political authority. am not maintaining that
but l say that you are | know you
serious; | have tried to be serious and SYM
pathetic also; and | ask you to do what you
would do for any private friend--I ask you to
go away and think ii over"
would say that. | would have her
ried out of the room by policeman. l would
do nothing between the two.
For there only two things In human
politics. and they are Power and Persuasion.
The proof OF practical politician is that he
knows which is which. You convict man
or else you convince him. You convince him
Of sin-or you convict him of crime But no
good has been done from the foundations OF
the world by men merely nagging at men
and still less by men nageng at women. And
think either of the two speeches I have suG.
gested above would be an Improvement the
average magistrates speech to a Suffra gette.
4 magistrate is magistrate; and therefore
It is his duty to punish. A magistrate is
man; and therefore it is his duty to pardon.
| can understand either principle predomin-
ating; but cannot understand how the mags-
trate inlagines that his prisoner could be moved
one way the other by his swollen-headed
and weak-minded soemnty. These women
seem TO have no sense OF the responsibility
they incur by breaking large quantities of
valuable pate.glass and causing a considerable
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-19

watch out for its biting propenslties.
II the claws feel sticky the crab Is
far from fresh. II the main joints
are stiff when bent the crab is fresh.
a faded appearance, with discolored
apron" which on being lifted. Is
malodorous, means cruStacean too
far gone for human use. The best
bargains in crabs are when they re
heavy for their size.
Oysters and clans. when not per
iectly fresh. are liable TO be very
poisonous All oysters must be alive
when opened. and should DE eaten as
soon as possible after being opened.
The shell of healthy oyster is
tightly closed. If the she'll Is found
slightly open and does not close at
once when touched it is dead oys-
ter If the shell is very hard to open
it Is good sign Oysters in the
shell, on beginning to weaken, Will
rattle like the breaking Of chinaHare
when moved about, and when opened
will be ropy and Shiny and will have
mud in the gills. Good oysters, when
first opened. should have clear cut
shape, Of creamy color and round. IL
stale oysters are found in lot the
whole should be condemned, as the
conta mination OF a bad one will pene-
trate to O. lers.
1t is hard to tell. except By tasting
When an ovster AS been fattened
artlf!cially by ...lng soaked in fresh
water 10 make 1t appear plump. The
taste will tell az once; an oyster so
treated is fat and stale.
Chickens, when -resh. show prom!-
nent and bright eyes. limp. moist and
pliable feet. The wings and legs ap-
pear stiff. The flesh should DE neither
faoby nor stiff. but should give
evenly and gently when pressed By
ne Anger. The skin should be clean
and white. A dark color may indicate
improper bleeding.
Decomposition is announced by an
odor. The flesh becomes dark and
greenish and. as decomposition ad-
vances. fla boy loose and easily de.
tached. while the crop and abdomen
will be greenish. The feet will be
hard. stiff and dry the eyes sunk
en- and dull. Broken wings and legs
show black discoloration. In muggy.
hot weather bluishgreen tinre and
an unpleasant odor may be noticed on
he neck, crop and abdomen.
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vancing an inch in proving anything else. You
often talks in the judgment seat as II ne wers
talking II his smoking groom armchair.
think it is the Judges who generally indulge IN
contempt of court.
1t sometimes does people good to punish
them II often. probably more often, does them
good TO pardon them. 1t more often does them
good to understand them, and so absove
them with serious spiritual authority.
can imagine occasions when it might DO people
good to shoot them-or at any rate. when II
would do me good to shoot them. But whoever
heard OF. anyone doing people any good ny
lecturing them? Kill the sinner, or KISS the
sinner. or curse him with the curse OF Judas,
or crown him with the halo OF NJ gdalen, but
do not imagine that sort OF weak promposlty
will make him feel inferior 10 you.
The art OF rhetoric is one which | specially
enjoy. though I scarcely think our modern
magistrates shine in it. But even ii they
did, the prisoner in the dock would still have
the advantage. For he is the highest OF the
arts: he is the tragedy. The agistrate IS
bad lecturer, and ought 20 be restricted from
giving lectures for perfectly practical reason
that he is not lecturing his own subject.
The subject is the other mantle man in
the dock. And the other man knows very
much more about 1t.
will take In sense against myself.
| mean the case of the Suffra gettes to whom
magistrates so persistently preach sermons.
sermon is no good in such cases; what Is
wanted IS 4 curse absolution. | recur
to the mad imagination of myself as magis.
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am really not surprised that, after great
deal OF that, even refined lady OF the middle
classes may find herself putting her tongue out
or trying to dance in the dock 1t she were
quite sincere, she would admit that she was
by means clear In her own mind about her
objects. but at least her mind was clearer
than the magistrates. And she would be right
There is no reason why that sort OF mags.
terial speech should do any good either way,
There is nothing in that speech that could punish
a criminal There is nothing in that speech that
could soften a sinner. The person listening to
such "rebukes from the Bench" cannot be e1
pected to anything except someone slightly
inferior who is pretending to be superior.
only be that he is supported by right reason.
and by human society. In other words. his real
dignity (Which l do not envy himl consists in
the fact that. as was said in the old joke,
when he says You be hanged!' you are hanged.
II ever had to say such a thing, which God
avert, l would certainly say nothing else. To
sit and play monotonous variations on the
theme of you be bowed" is itself nothing bur
wind
know there are many ma gistrates to whom
this does not apply; but l do seriously think
the past crisis OF the Suffragettes has been
monstrously mishandled One side Is in the
most humilating condition in which the con.
queror can find himself. 1t has prohted only
by the accidents OF the enemy. Not one OF
the rules or raids against the Sufra settes has
contributed in the least TO their failure. Their
failure is their own.
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By G.. K. CHESTERTON.

IF ! were magistrate-well, l suppose I
should resign. That is the only quite
practical course I conceive OF il "ere
a magistrate. But it, by some frantic hHity IN
the circumstances. if forced by fate and heughty
Juno's unrelenting hate, I we're magistrate
should try to teach M felow-magistrates
little common.sense. At present. ! think, taey
make what is. perhaps, the biggest human
biunder that can be made-they manage to be
dignfed and undigniied at the same time.
l do not blame a Judge for assuming
black cap when it is part OF the terrible task
he has TO perform in the law court. do not
blame Judge for assuming a black face II
it is part OF joke he Is having with his
own friends at a fancy-dress ball. But If he
sat on the Bench and wore the black cap and
the black face together. l Should venture to
call it indecent.
] would always be In favour of treating courts
of justice with respect; it seems to me- as a
friend of public freedom, the only ground on
which can expect them to be respectable
If they are courts Of justice. we ought to
accept their solution within the limits OF sanity.
And if they are not courts of justice, We ought
not to accept it at all.
AS things are. should say that the people
who most frequently forget the very existence
OF court of justice the Justices A proIix
and not necessarily unpleasant old gentleman
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Importance of GIVING Children OF Consunpves Chance

seven months the man was cured and ape 10
go back to work. To-day he and his family
are reunited, happy, healthy and prosperous
But for the intervention of our society this
man. even if he had recovered. might have
gone back to a family stricken with tubercu'
losis.
The society occupies ITO acres OF ground In
the beautiful Shawangunk Mountains. near
Otsville, Orange County, n. Y. Upon the
grounds we grow most OF the vegetables needed
in Summer by boarders. The work they
do in raising this truck relieves them from any
reproach OF pauperism. Our people are lodged
in ngeniously constructed shacks, which give
all the advantages OF living in the open air,
while furnishing shelter for dressing and other
purposes The centre OF the shack contains
private compartments where our boarders can
dress and keep their property. The outer part
of the structure is open to the air and serves
for living and sleeping quarters Glass part-
from wind and rain when necessary. During
the Summer months put many people as
possible into tents.
Since the foundation OF society have
cared for 1900 women and children DR..
Thomas Darlington, the former Health Commits
soner OF New York. the first who
subscribed toward starting the society, and he
is now director
We must raise 100000 within year to re-
lieve the suffering that immeda tely calls for
our help. That will enable us to build fifty
shacks and 10 for 1000 instead of 500
people as at present. Subscriptions may be
sent the office of the Urania Preventoriurn
Society, at No. Ill Broadway, New York. We
shall always be pleased to show visitors our
quarters at Otisville.
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disturbance, as we'll WOW. WOW. WOW. etc,
etc. ETC.
trate If one of the ordinary hot-headed and
hazy-minded schoolgirls who appear, fercer and
fercer (but fewer and fewer) came before my
court, | should instantly adopt one of two
definite courses.
That is. should say of two things;
and I should say nothing between the two.
should either say something like this The
court is busy to-day. and your opinions have
nothing to do with plateglass. ! am the mag
istrate of this court, and you convicted
prisoner. The officers will take yof away"
But if did not say that. If we're tempted
to say word more than that, | should say
something like this: "My dear girl, do not
misunderstood l know a cause is a glorious
thing; ! know in youth especially it is as
glorious a love affair | know there Is a
fair case for your cause, for many others
pursued myself when l was young. But
also know that men and women may waste
their youth over causes which they find in
few years are not to be reconciled to the
realities of life. And YOU may find something
yet more horrible; that the cause was right
after all. but that you have ruined it. think
you have nearly ruined it For this reason
that you have made the one huge mistake OF
boring your audience.
You are proving and proving and proving
again something that in his wits ever
doubted--the courage of women. The mere
bodily existence of US all in this room proves
that should think. Why drag in Velasquez?
You proving that. and you are not ad.
y