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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-08-31

Half acre rich soil good build
ings, partly furnished or unfur-
nished. Cheap to right tenant. 1852
Yakima av. Main 1909.
Look what a bargain. 10 level
lots 25x120 for the small sum Of
$i75 cash. Madison 753.
For sale without interest AR.
bungalow near Lincoln high school.
Price $500, $40 down, $40 or $12
month. Madison 1853.
For sale cheap. 5-r. modern bun
galow, partly furnished, l block to
car and paved street, In South End.
Price 1880, on your own terms.
Madison 753.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-08-31

WANTED TO BUY-Small cottaEe
on car line. Must be easy terms.
Add. o., Times.
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WANTED TO RUY--AIi kinds Of
| second hand furniture. 1914
Commerce. Main 1927.
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SMALL house with 8 to lots near
car line; must be bargain and on
very easy terms. Box We, Times.
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RENT-HOUSES
MOVING
Taccma-Seattle Moving

Long or short distance. City Trans
fer & Storage Co. Main 461.
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WANTED TO BUY--Two lots, must
be cheap, no agents. va, Times.
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HOUSEK'P'G ROOMS

HOUSEKEEPING and single rooms
$3.50 week up. Michigan Hotel
Main 5926. 2305h Pacific av.
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SWAPS

SS~~~>~~~~~~~e ~~s~~>~~~~~~~~
20 ACRES land to trade for launch
or cruiser In good condition
Box VS.. Times.
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WANTED-TO BORROW

WANTED-$4O0 loan from private
party for two years on lots and
house, close In. Add. T-6. Times.
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WE can save you money Mclean
the contract mover. Main 1860.
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\ C00m MVE%TMnEMT1 TACOMA REAL ESTATEg
y Cam
the Rent Money. Daily You Find A,
LEGAL NOTICES.

Of Blk. Prin- Inter Adv. &
cipal. est. Penalty. Total
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-08-31
HELP--MALE

WANTED-A young. reliable man
to drive grocery wagon, some ex-
perience and good reference. Swed-
ish preferable. Apply J. T. john
son, 900 So. Seth
ATTENTION-Men. free coffee and
cake with rooms. 15c, zoe and Use.
The Henry George, 104 So. 18th st.
New management.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25

p. Carries In the Experiment Station
Record shows. practically no good
effect results from the large amount
of ptiosphates administered medici-
nally. The natural way to absorb 1t
Is through proper food. which cannot
be supplanted by an artificial method.
Authorities declare that the excess
stye use OF meat common In civilized
countries, by producing acid state of
body. leads to loss. of mineral phos-
pilates. InsufAciency results from
the liberal use OF meat. cane sugar.
butter and flne~ Hour bread. Phos-
phate Of. lime and other salts are
lacking in meat, for the reason that
these. compounds are. found in the
bones of the animals. The soft parts
OF an OK contain one two hundredth
part of the lime In the body. taken
as a whole. the bones containing one
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
How the ELECTROSCOPE
Played DETECTIVE and Won

the wagon containing the sweepings
had not. left the institution and It was
detained for examination. After con-
sultation. a scientist from the univer-
sity was called in. who suggested that
an electroscope be applied! to the
refuse in the wagon. The instrument.
a half million times moro delicate
than the spectroscope, instantly indi-
Gated the presence of the radium.
BuckelfuI after bucketful was re-
moved. each being submitted to the
test OF the instrument and the mis-
sing vial was dnally found in the 18th.
This, however. is in no sense a test OF
the capacity OF the electroscope. which
is an instrument of such surprising
delicacy that it detects the heliuna
atom. a particle 80 small that accord
ing to Professor Rutherford. single
grain OF radium gives of thfrty-six
billions of them every second.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
4 MACHINE That CAPTURES and HOLDS WIRELESS TALK

WV YHEN one contemplates the
NX marvel of sculptured sound on
Wv a graphophonic record, and
realizes that from the cold vorticity
of line there may magtcally spring
the golden Tilt of the greatest song
voice that the world has ever heard,
says Mark Telfair. then comes the
conviction that we are living really
In the days of White Magic"
This Is simply by way of introduc-
tfon OF greater marvel yet-a mar
vel of marvels. so to speak, regarding
the reproduction of sound. 1t is the
application OF the Poulsen telegra-
phone to the writing and the record
ing OF wireless messages. And as the
voice is now being sent over consid-
cradle distances by way of the ether,
1t has to do. in its logical extension.
with the human voice.
Contradictory as it may seem, this
new method of writing and recording
wireless communication uses record
less records-that is, they cannot be
seen and read by any of sciences aids
to the eyes. A wire is the only thing
an observer may see.
The Poulsen invention, you may
probably know, is magnetic phono-
graph which records sound vibra-
lions, not by actual needle marking
on a plastic disc, but by variations of
MAGNETISM In steel disc. You can
note the concentric lines made by the
needle on familiar musical record,
but the steel wire used by Poulsen
looks precisely the same after song
or a sentence has been stored up in 1t.
Imagine dead piece Of metal, with
no visual indication of how it is -
cohnpIished. holding human speech
prisoned in its cold confines and mu-
sic and sound vital to the progress
ana enlightenment of the world!
THE VOICE IS STORED IN MOLE
CULES OF METAL. And here is a
batting mystery In this storage. Pre-
cisely what the nature of 1t is man
shall not know, we are told by au-
thority, until the mystery of mag
netism Is fully solved.
The wizard responsible for the new
and wonderful discovery is named
posne, and Lucien Fourier. in de-
scribing his, achievement, naturally
eneaks first OF Poulsen's earliest
model. It was then constituted by
hobbin of steel wire which was made
to turn under receiving coil. The
wira records speech magnetically and
A. fs reproduced in telephone re-
ceiyer when the coil that has been
Influenced passes a second time under.
tflis receiver. =.
The device used by Mr.. Dosne dit
Sera from this early model by replac-
ing the steel wire with a steel DISK
fnrning under light soft-iron needle
Sorming part Of the electromagnetic
receiver OF the apparatus,
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A N interesting demonstration OF
~ the usefulness Of the electro
9 scope was recently furnished In
Liverpool at the city infirnary- This
institution is the possessor of little
vial of radium valued at something
like $4,000. Not long ago this radium
was used upon the face OF patient.
being left there all night.
The attending physician. who came
in the morning. discovered that the
vial was gone. It was not to be
found In the bedding. An examine
ton with x-rays revealed the fact
that the patient had not swallowed it.
But one hypothesis remained and
that was that the Vial had fallen on
the floor and been swept up when
the ward was cleaned. Fortunately
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25

EGIIS dtminutive owl is az little
as It is wise; and this does not
mean that 1t is only little
wise. Indeed. its intelligence' COM
pares with that OF any member
OF this nocturnal family dozen
times it's size. A natural his
tory expert says we, can only
remotely approximate the dignity and
the omniscient poise OF this mite OF
spotted owl. famed as the smallest
owl in all the world.
When. it. was added, to, the London
Zoo 1t attracted eyen. more attention
than most of the animals; for, with
all of its natural dignity. It was COM
icai in manner simply because big
manners do not sit well on q little
object.
It was christened Pearl. and for q
season was the leading lady Of the
show. receiving the lions share Of at
tention. much to the lofty disgust OF
that regal beast. You can get q fair
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25

This apparatus moves from fao
edge to the centre of the disk during
the inscription. so that the record is
spiral, like that on graphophone
disk.
The Poulsen device cannot be USED
for recording wireless signals; the
coil connected with the needle planned
for use as a telephone record
needs modification for adaptation TO
the new kind of work required OF II.
Mr. Dosne has taken account of this
necessity. and has conceived the IN
genious idea of powdering the steel
disk with a finely divided magnetic
substance-iron reduced by means OF
hydrogen-in the hope that TINS POW
der would collect along the magnet
lied traces left by the soft-iron stylus.
In these conditions. although at
first the reinforcement appeared
scarcely sensible, 1t was possible 70
nroye that it existed, in very origi-
nal manner, at the wireless laDora-
tory of the Eiffel. During the expert
ment signals from CIeethorpe and
from Clifden were heard. but the
disk recorded only the first, which
were the, loudest. But after the en-
nloyment of the powdered iron the
CIifden signals were recorded.
Orr diagram shows Mr.. Dosnes
plant. 1t includes a wireless re-
eeiver with a crystal detector; the
telephone has been removed and re-
placed by a re-enforcer.
Finally the Poulsen telegraphone IS
connected, In the place of the loud
snaakfng telephone, to the re-en-
forcer.
In these conditions it suffices, to
record message received at an Or
binary wireless station. TO start the
steel disk rotating in order that the
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
Scientists Say Soldiers Stampede Not from didua
Cowardiee but from Crowd Fear"

do SO by word or act shall be pun
ished with death.
The provisions OF law, however, are
of no avail to arrest psychological
crowd that has been panic-stricken.
In such case Sartorius thinks that
the best remedy is to oppose another
peril to that which menaces the flee
ing troops. Thus did Massena, when,
at wagram, he destroyed the only
bridge over which the fugitives could
pass. and fired on them with artillery.
OF all the emotions when aroused.
fear is, perhaps, the most difficult to
control, says Professor Pycraft In the
beginning of his thesis: though. so
long as it can be kept within bounds.
it is an Indispensable goad to self
preservation. And this is as true In
the case Of a man as in the lower
animals. It may be described as an
instructive emotion capable of being
reused into activity only after expert
ence. That is to say. it is an inherent.
lffe-savins response to danger, COM
mon to all the higher animals because
all the individuals in which 1t was
not developed have long since been
eliminated, and with them all possi-
bility of descendants inheriting the
defect.
A hyper-sensitivene to fear makes
towards. What we all need is that
sufficiency thereof which begets pru-
dence. In its milder form we are adj
rnonished to look before we leap. ana
to determine deliberately on our
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
SCIENCES Study Why Away and Of What GROUPS Do 70 the
INDIVIDUAL

out there were many disastrous ins
stances OF this-as. for example. &c
Talana hili. when the whole OF the
transport and artilIery horses stana-
peded and dashed through the infan-
try; and the same thing occurred
again at Modder Spruit and Dundee
At Waterfall Drift It was tho
oxen that broke LOOSE and stampeded
The terrlfied animals made straignt
for the Boer lines. and the contagton
OF fear speedily extended to the native
drivers, Who after one, or two inef-
fectual efforts to stay the torrent.
gave up the attempt and themselves
bolted. over 1900 oxen were lost on
this occasion.
R,1t the most terrible and costly OF
these stampedes was that of the mules
81 nricholson's Mex. What exactly
happened will probably never be
known. But it seems that few AMI
mails took the alarm and broke from
their inexperienced drivers and stam-
NEEDED into the mules OF the battery.
Immediately. every mule in the COLI
umn caught the Infection. and rushed
madiy to the rear. and, charging
through and through the man. tore
down the. valley into the darlkness.
where their further progress could be
followed by the splintering OF the am
munition boxes against the rocks
This appalling disaster. which hap
penedt to the Gioucesters. Ieft tnem
without either guns or arnrnuntttop.
and hence surrender was; inepitahie'
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wv YHY do some soldiers run
w away7 Once they get started.
as has been demonstrated
from time to time IN the present war.
there is no stemming the tide If they
are not reinforced. And so battling
a thing Is human nature that the
whole of a fleeing host may. In the
main. be Hon-hearted heroes. ordi-
nariIy firm az rock; but at certain
psychic moment turn and fee like
stampeded cattle The French saw
ant. LIE Bon. who has made exhaus-
tive studies In crowd psychology"
throws an interesting light upon It.
He tells. how It exists. but cannot
tell absolutely why it is so. w. P.
Pycraft, curator of the British Mu-
scum, recently has made some highly
Instructive observations regarding
both. men and animals For In the
study. man and the beast show little
points OF difference.
A soldier In battle. however. rarely
runs away because Of Individual per-
sona1 cowardice. He and his COM
panions may retreat together before
a pursuing foe. as military neces--
sfty. But when body Of troops
casts aside its arms and accoutre-
n1ents. and gives itself up to a Wild
flight. the act Is not that OF single
persons. but OF a crowd as group.
The cowardice is that Of connected
body. and has features. entirely diff
ferent from that OF an individual
soldier.
It is. IN fact, phenomenon Of
crowd psychology A crowd of
people has mind of it's own. which
is not simply the sum OF its COM
ponents' minds. It is in some respects
moro primitive and uncivilized than
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25

army is composed of individuals. diff
ferent in origin. education. and
habits, but fused into n homosene-
GUS mass by the effects OF military
discipline and training.
How does a panic arise and
spread?
Certain individuals, endowed with
exceptional impressibility. are unex-
pectedly seized with fear. and show
1t, involuntarily, in gesture and voice.
Others feel the contagion, and the
mass resists no longer: it is under
this sole dominion of emotion; fancy
unrestrained by the intellect. acquires
a hypnotic force.
1t is difficult to ascertain the ma
ture of the group of individuals IN
which the panic originates.
None of the fugitives can give pre-
else information on this point The
phenomenon must not be confounded
with the fight of defeated army
before the victors.
Always in the cases OF panic de-
scribed in. history we find common
element: the troops that are panic
STRICKEN are always In physical and
mental condition favorable to the
phenomenon. We find stories OF
eieht due to panic in the military
annals of all peoples.
By what remedies may 1t be
averted?
The italian military penal code pro-
yides that whoever. during battle.
runs away or incites his comrades to
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
Where WOMEN PRAY for BEAUTIFUL HAIR

w YHO is the patron goddess OF
NM the long. 1ustrously beautiful
hair2 Or is there a patron
saint that presides over '.woman's
browning glory? Modern science. so-
cial usage and commercial arrange
ment have combined patron saint and
goddess in the suave, deft woman
who conducts the ''hairdressing
salon." The furnishings and the con-
ventions observed in the salon"
make the term no misnomer and,
though the adept might learnsdly
discuss the historical ladies who were
gowned hirsutely-not emitting Lady
Godiva and the Queen of Sheba-it is
a safe wager. she makes no mention
of Mother nfanephie. who. though
unheralded to the great outside,
world. is nevertheless one of the most
potent of guardians of the hair.
Trans-Volgan peasants have erected
shrine to her. IS,
Mother Manephie died IN Rfimovo
about is years ago. In the memory
of the people among whom she lived
no woman ever had hair to equal
hers In length. lustre. fineness of tex
ture and the magical way In which
1t Imprisoned the nght-not only the
radiance OF the sun. but the moon
light and the diamond-like glitter OF
the, starsl And her length of hair
measured with her length OF wisdom
and it's beauty matched her kindness
of heart.
Even when she lived the supersti-
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
The Hiahly important FOOD VALUE Of BRAN

hundred and ninety-nine two-hun-
dredths of the lime content. Cane
sugar contains no lime. and in fine
-four bread lime is almost wholly
lacking. because the wheat is sepa-
rated from the bran. Butter cons
tains only traces OF lime.
Phosphates of animal origin. such
as powdered bones, are beneficial: but
wheat bran is found superior to ami
NAL phosphntes as a food source.
Recognition of this is causing rap
idly increasing demand for bran and
food products containing bran.
Sterilized bran is manufactures
and sold in considerable quantities
It is useful not only as a source OF
phosphate, but as q means of giving
to our Intestinal contents the bulk
necessary to stimulate normal ac-
tiyity.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
Why Men Are BETTl
and WORSE in a
CROWD Than They
Are When ALONE.

the Individual mind and 10 more sub
1ect to unreasoning panic.
When a number OF persons are
seized with a common idea. the minds
of the separate individuals coalesce
and form, as LIE Bon says "a collec-
tive mind which. though transitory.
has a definite character. Such a psy-
Geological group constitutes unit
that obeys the laws of mental unity
OF crowds" Individual differences
are annulled; feeling is vivi1ed; the
crowd feels and acts in an absolutely
different manner from the single In
dtvidual.
In his momentary coalescence with
O psychological crowd, man descends
several grades in the scale of civiliz-
alton; he assumes the spontaneity,
the vehemence. the ferocity. but also
the enthusiasm and heroism. of prfn-
tive man, and mot intefligence,"
says LIE Bon, but stolidity is the
characteristic OF a crowd"
A crowd is stronger than the sum
Of the strengths of its component
individuals; and 1t has no sense of
responsibility; it accofnplisnes easily
and lightly acts of enormous gravity.
Another force that acts to, form
psychological crowds is imitation.
The spirit OF imitation is powerful
over men as over animals. In crowd
1t reaches its maximum. because 1t
Is communicated from one individual
to another in the form OF mental
contagion or suggestion. Such sug-
gestions may assume vast proper.
tons; the Crusades. and specially
that of 1912. the professions of Flag
Giants, the risings of the Anabap-
fists, were the effects of true and
actual collective suggestion.
We have been speaking Of psyche
logical crowds that are more or less
heterogeneous In military camp
we have a homogeneous crowd; an,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
Counting Drug 1eAddiets,'

n MANY loose statements having
M been. made regarding the
number OF persons in the
States addicted to the drug habit.
Lucius p. Brown. food and drug com-
missioner of Tennessee. has gathered
data. on which to base a more OF less
accurate estimate. From figures de-
rived from the operation of the food
and drug laws OF Tennessee. Commits
sioner Brown estimates that there
are approximately 5000 drug addicts
In that state
AS Tennessee comprises about 1-s
per cent. Of Uncle SANS entire pop
uiation. this would indicate that
there are about 225.ooo drug addiets
in the United states. But" says Mr..
Brown. Tennessee being IN agricul-
tural state and therefore decidedly
more free from such addicts than
those states where pressure OF. mod
ern life is harder. we should. add. 10
per cent. at least to this number. on
the assumption that; the drug addicts
throughout the country will average
10 per cent. higher than In Tennes-
see. giving In round numbers 2AI ,ooo
drug victims for the entire country.
He concludes that 100000 is a maxi
mum estimate and that the nddicts
annually use about $6,500,000- worth
OF drugs unnecessarily.
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s, It should be noted that the speed
Of recording a message may be modi-
fed for repetition. In fact, the disk
NAV be made to turn at greatly re-
duced speed il one is not well trained
in sound-reading; but in this case tne
signals lose in intensity. On the
other hand, If the speed OF reception
is greater than that OF record. the
signals gain in. power.
The same disk may serve inden-
nitely IL it is not desired to preserve
the record.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25

course Of action In such-and-such
eventualities. But when these pre-
monitory signs give place to the
throbbing heart, blenched face, cold
sweat. and the failing alike of the
voice and knees. the danger zone has
been reached.
Presently. AFFECT terror may throw
Its victim covering to the ground. or
may spur him on to precipitate flight
during which men have achieved
most astounding feats OF both run
ming and 1eaping.
Though most men like to believe
themselves strangers to fear. this is
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
by q Crowd.

actually true of very few" says Dr.
Pycraft, land 1t is we'll that it is SO.
for the opposite of fearfulness is fool
hardness. which is equally bad for
the Individual and the race. In the
moment before battle fear must
stand at the elbow of many: but with
our. countrymen, as these terrible
days of trial have abundantly shown.
fear has done no more than temper
courage"
The lower animals, as might be
supposed. are far more liable TO at
tacks of panic and stampeding. Dur
ing the Boer war. DR.. Pycraft points
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25

fluctuations Of the current. passing
through the combined telephones and
microphones of the re.enforcer, may
determine in the coil OF the Poulsen
apparatus a variable magnetic field,
Of which the little soft-iron needle
constituting the core of the coil forms
a part.
The message is read by placing the
ear at one of the telephones OF the
Poulsen apparatus. which, after the
registration, behave like simple re-
ceivers and repeat tho message.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25

TT Is estimated by those who In
vestigate food values that more
than half of the people OF the.
United states are suffering from lime
starvation. because their food does
not contain a sufficient amount Of
phosphates OF lime deemed necessary
for the human system. A paper by
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
The LTTTLEST OWL in the World

idea of the size OF Pearl by conapar-
ing her with the left forehnger OF q
nnap,s hand upon which she perched.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25

tious peasants invested her with
superna tural powers. The shrine
was a natural complement. There it
is that women and children who de-.
sire beautiful hair pray for 1t. But
never a man. And. IL local testimony
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25
wireless Messages.

Recoin andPr Messages
K1 Adjustable
ncoLes
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25

goes for anything, the holy woman,"
in favoring many auppliants. has per-
formed many prodigies, A story is
told Of, a woman. bald through Ill.
ness, to whom was given a new and
wondrous crown of hair.