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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-09
Il. r. & p
WILL RUN.
CAR LINE.

Manager Bean of the T. r. q
p. Co. agreed Tuesday to operate
the city's new tideflats car line on
conditions named by the city
council.
Details Of the contract for
operation will be worked out later
in the week.
The city will furnish street cars
and all equipment. Bean will
provide motormen and conduc-
tors, and will keep the track and
cars In repair.
All money and tickets collected
on the city line will be turned
over to the city treasurer, and a
monthly bill for actual operating
expense will be given by the street
railway company to the city.
Communication tickets will be is
sued by the city on which pass
enger can ride any place outside
the city limits for 6 cents. Trans
fers will be issued between the
city and T. r. & p. linese.
A person not using commute
tion tickets must play 10 cents
for a ride extending outside the
city limits.
Transfers will be issued be-
tween the two lines on basis Of
cents to the city and 3 cents to
the company.
In his letter of acceptance Bean
said altho he believed his former
offer of a split of 1 Y cents to
az cents was fair one, his COM
pany was willing to make con-
cession because 1t was to the in
terest of new industries In Ia
coma and to the workmen on the
flats that transfers be granted.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-09
MISS ABBOTT IN FACTORY

l tried her way. The long, even
strokes were great improvement +;
but / was taller that she, and
when / laid my work flat l had
to stoop too much, so / stood II
up again.
| began to feel at home. My
bench had apparently been used
a long, long time. 1t was of wood,
but varnish or glue or something
like that had covered It with a
thick, stone-like deposit, in which
some Of my predecessors had
carved initials. l wondered who
III. p" was, and ~. r." They
must have been men. GIRLS
DON'T CARVE INITIALS IN
SPARE TIME. l DON'T KNOW
WHY.
Uses Varnish Gun
The hum that filled the room
came, l found, from the far cor
ner, where q girl in a print dress
and apron with an automobile bon
net covering her hair, was WELD
ing something that looked like a
big revolver.
1t was connected with a hose,
and when she pulled the trigger,
a fine white spray shot out with a
hiss. A table stood on a small
platform before her, and she was
aiming the spray at 1t. Wherever
it touched, the CLEAN of fresh var
nish spread over the surface.
Another girl, in a big blue
apron, was applying varnish with
a brush to an endless number of
little pieces Of wood, all exactly
alike.
The girl in overalls went back
and forth, collecting the sanded
articles from the benches and
taking them to the sprayer, dust
ing the sand from them with q
brush, ready for the varnish, and
carrying the sprayed pieces away.
"Only three of these" I
heard her say to the sprayer,
as she brushed an installment
of my output. My ears burn
ed. / certainly was slow!
The girl In overalls was slim
little thing, but she seemed to
managed the work easily enough.
When she had heavy piece to
carry, she balanced It against her
knee, taking short steps that con-
trasted queerly with the stride Of
the men. The girl at the spray
machine, on the other hand, turn
ed and lifted even the heavy arti-
cles without apparent effort. l
think she was at least as strong
as the average man.
Whistle Blows
] began to wonder what time Il
was. / have been thinking for
some time of the lunch in the pa
per bag tucked under my hat and
coat.
The pileo table legs wag al
most gone, but / had not even be-
gun on the. other things. My
arm was tired and my fingers
were beginning to cramp. l chang
ed my position and rubbed on.
AND JUST THEN THE WHIS-
TIE BLEW! And instinctively l
did the thing have always smiled
q little contemporary at left
my piece Of work unfinished just
where the stroke OF noon found 1t,
and made for my lunch nab!
And l will do IL again. any
day I am sandpaperfng fur
niture.
We ate our lunch In the cor
|ner. The girl In the pink apron
land ! sat on the bench.
The spray-girl and the girl in
loyeralls sat on the window-sill.
land the girl In the blue apron sat
on q pile Of unfinished work. W.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-09

CONTINUED From Page One.)
up and down the wood several
times and handed 1t to me.
That's ALL" he said.
1t looked so easy / was sure q
hadn't caught the whole idea, but
he had already turned away, and
l was ashamed to ask for more
instructions.
They're Table Legs
/ tried 1t. It as seemed easy
as 1t looked. The roughness van
ished with only a little effort. !
rubbed first all four sides of one
of the posts, the the connecting
bar at the bottom, and then all
four sides of the other post. The
bar at the top was plainly not in
tended to be finished.
1t was rather interesting. Where
the bottom bar was set into the
posts, there were little angles on
each side, and worked into each
of these carefully with the edge
of my sandpaper and one finger.
A girl came up with several of
the things on each arm.
She too, wore overalls. Soft
wisps of hair struggled out from
under her workman's cap.
What are these2" asked.
Table legs" she told me, with a
friendly smile. There's plenty
of them"
Brings Heaps of EN-
There did seem to be plenty.
She piled them at the end OF my
bench till they almost blocked the
passageway. Then she brought
things that looked loke the
boards from extension tables, and
long rails like the sides of bed
steads, and leaned them against
the wall behind me, till l was sur
rounded by work.
fell to with energy. l finish
ed pair of table legs and attack
ed another. 1t went more quickly
than the first, and was Just set
ting 1t down, when a lucky turn
showed me that I had forgotten
one side Of the bottom bar. My
heart skipped beat as I jerked it
back. What would have happened
If hadn't noticed it and 1t had
gone thru that way?
The foreman came past and
stopped.
Think you're going to make a
pretty good sander?" he asked,
kindly.
Not So Easy
II don't know" l answered,
wishing and yet fearing he would
inspect my work. 81 think maybe
I'm rubbing too hard"
He picked up the first piece and
slid his fingers over 1t. / waited
anxiously.
That's all right" he said, and
passed on.
was pleased-only rather
wished he had said / needn't rub
quite 80 hard.
The sandpaper was hot under
my hand as worked, and my fin
gers we're getting little tired.
put the paper under the flat OF my
hand and rubbed that way little.
Then l tried my knuckles, but that
hurt.
Gets Pointers
From behind me / had been
hearing the sound of somebody
else sanding" looked around.
A girl in a pink apron. with q
muslin cap gathered close around
her face. was rubbing down q
dayenport-end. She was WORKING
with long, even strokes. Mine were
short and hurried. Also, she had
her work lying flat on her bench,
while had mine standing up, and
steadied II with my left hand.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-09

James M. Nelson, who IS
charged with having stolen a saw
mill from l.. F. Arndt of McMil-
Ian, was arraigned In Justice
Linck's court Monday and bound
over to the superior court. Con-
stable ]. A. Mitchell brought
Arndt and the sawmill both to
Tacoma, the mill being small,
portable affair.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-10-09
CORMAN GETS
FEDERAL JOB

Joseph German, former sanitary
inspector and fumigation officer
for the city health department,
was Tuesday appointed sanitary
inspector in the federal health
service, under DR.. G. M. Magruder.
German will have charge of in
spection of sanitation and proven
tion of disease in the five-mile
area surrounding Camp Lewis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
NEW SLOGAN-SAVE THE SOWS|

Selling a brood SOW at this time, ac- cording to the United States department of agriculture, is like killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
 When pork is selling at IS cents or more a pound on the hoof, the hog breeder may be tempted to turn into cash all that he can sell; yet it is pointed out that the value of a brood SOW which will produce such high-priced offsprings is proportion- ately increased and she should be Kept as the source of further and future prof it's.
 Since the beginning of the war the num- Der of swine in all countries has decreased and the decrease has been marked in some of the belligerent countries. In France, for example, in the three years just before January l. 1917 the number of swine decreased 3S.12 per cent; during 1916 the number in Germany decreased 31. AT per cent
 Breeding stocks are being depleted and the situation is already critical and threatens to become very serious if the country continues to be drained of it's meats. Hogs furnish meat more quickly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
POISON FOR THE HORNWORM

Arsenate of lead is much more ef fective poison than, Paris green for to- bacco hornworms and it is only trifle more expensive. After several years of tests by entomologists of the United States department of agriculture, and planters, the bureau of entomology rec ommendS arsenate of lead in preference to Paris green. When properly applied in good weather this poison may be ex- pected to kill 95 per cent of the worms. It is effective against the worms for longer period than Paris green-about 10 dayS-adhereS better, is less likely to burn the plants and is also much less irri- tating to the skin of workmen using it.
 In Farmers Bulletin S67, Tobacco Hornworm Insecticide," A. C. Morgan, a specialist in the bureau of entomology, discusses various comparative experi- ments with arsenate of lead and Paris green and tells how to use the arsenical poison to control worms in the Black Patch' tobacco country in Kentucky and Tennessee.
 Under usual conditions in this section at least two applications of arsenate of lead should be made The first should be made when worms become too numer- ous to be kept off the tobacco easily by the manipulating which usually is done While hoeing, suckering or topping If the worms are small and the tobacco is not more than halt grown, three and one-haf pounds of the poison to the acre will be sufficient. This may be followed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
Tick Eradication Booming

With active work for tick eradication proceeding in 332,251 square miles of southern teNitory, the United States and state officials are decidedly hopeful that their cooperative goal. "A south entirely free from the cattle fever ticks in 1921," will be attained. Twenty thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dipping vats were in commission in August, and during that month 522,54l different herds, comprising 4,3l9,554 cattle, were being dipped regu- larly every two weeks. A force of 1901 federal. state and county inspectors were actively employed in the work of getting rid of the cattle pest. When the terri tory now being worked is entirely rid of ticks tirere will remain only com paratively small quaratniend territory in the entire south.
 Mississippi led with 1S7,330 herds and l. 37S,952 cattle dipped regularly in 65S3 vats. This work it is believed shortly will clean out the tick from 5,176 square miles of territory and free the entire state from quarantine this year. Louisiana was sec ond in number of cattle dipped and Ala bama third, each dipping over 660000 anil nais. Arkansas was close fourth with 6lS,o00 animals.
 Texas where dipping recently has be- come active, is handling 295, ,592 cattle but leads all the states in area handled, with over 65o1 square miles being worked Flor ida, where cattle are not so numerous, is second in area covered, with 53 Ill square miles. One of the most hopeful signs is that the state legislatures of Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas have made dipping of cat tie to eradicate ticks compulsory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
SAVE SKIM MILK

Although skim milk is recognized as having great value in feeding animals, the United States department of agricui- ture points out that it's value as human food should be kept in mind. By supsti- tuting grain, green feed. buttermilk and whey in animal feeding, much skim milk may be left for human use as a beverage, in cooking, condensing, or for making cottage cheese. Only the surplus of this valuable human food should be fed to stock
 While skim milk is good for stock, the fact remains that it's highest efficiency cannot be had through turning it into meat Skim milk is used most econom- ically in animal production when fed to hogs. yet it takes 20 pounds when fed alone to produce one pound of pork. The same quantity will make three pounds of cottage cheese. In addition, cottage cheese contains one and one half times as much protein and one-third as much energy as pork, so that the skim milk in the cheese form gives quite as much energy and four and one-half times as much protein as it would if converted into ham or bacon.
 Even at the highest prices recently paid for hogs, skim milk fed to them is worth not more than cent pound. Yet 1 cent a pound or approximately cent a pint is very cheap for any human food, and par ticularly for food so high in nutritive value as skim milk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04

by second application of three and one half to four pounds when small worms begin to appear again in numbers. If the worms are large at the time of the first application, four to four and one- half pounds of poison to the acre should be used, and if the tobacco is large five pounds.
 The powdered arsenate of lead may be applied with a dust gun having fan diameter of about 10 inches. If such an instrument has special device to pre- vent clogging, the poison need not be mixed with carrier such as dry wood ashes The application should be made early in the morning or late in the aft ernoon when the air is still or when there is only a slight breeze. Thorough ness and evenness of application can not be emphasized too strongly, the special ists point out, for an uneven applica- tion made in strong breeze will leave enough live worms to damage the O. bacco seriously.
 By clubbing together farmers may find it possible to buy arsenate of lead some- what cheaper direct from the factory. Prices for the grade of poison recom- mended for treating tobacco ranged from 20 cents to 20 cents pound in retail lots last year. Only such brands as are guaranteed to contain at least 30 per cent of arsenic oxide, of which not more than l per cent is free, or water soluble should be used. Any commercial form of arsenate of lead not meeting these re- quirements may burn the plants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04

and cheaply than other stock can; the meat shortage, therefore. can most read fly be met by swine production. It has been calculated that the possible increase from one SOW is 1902 pigs in four years, on the supposition that all filters con- sist of six pigs, that all live, that half are females and that each gilt should farrow at one year and every six months thereafter
 Another cause of the depletion of breed ing stocks is probably in the high cost of feeds. While concentrated feeds have gone up, the department says that some of the expense of carrying breeding stocks may be cut down by the use of green fall forage crops, pasture, alfalfa or clover hay. Brood sows may be main tained in fair condition at comparatively little expense by the use of such feeds. By sowing in the corn or as a cover crop on land which is likely to wash, sowing rape, or planting root crop, the cost of wintering sows may be reduced. Tn brief the department strongly recom- mends a campaign to save the sows as one means of helping to meet the threat ened meat shortage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
AGE OF FOWLS

Strictly speaking, there is no positive test for the age of poultry. However, close guess can be made under cer- tain conditions. For instance, the size of the spurs generally distinguishes 2 year-old bird; yet young birds some times develop spurs that would do credit to older birds. To some extent the tex ture of the leg is a guide, and so is the delicacy and freshness of the skin of the face and comb. Yet there will be oc- casional hens that have a youthful ap- pearance to a remarkable degree.
 Probably a better test is the skin of the body, that of the older fowl being coarser and drier in appearance.
 February matched outlets. or those brought out in early March. are near their laying age. The former, however are apt to go into mott about now, which will give them a temporary setback in their laying.
 Some hens are now entering into their mott, which cuts down the supply of eggs considerably. They are able to lay a few eggs in the early stage of molting, but when the task of growing the new coat comes it will require all the food and energy possible to do the work prop erly and no material will be left to man. ufacture eggs.
 While molting. hens should have food of nitrogenous, rather than carbona- ceous nature. Oats and sunflower seed should be fed, and a good rich mash is also helpful. In feeding sunflower seed give about one-sixth the quantity of the other grains used
 Ducks should be turned into a new run, and the old one sown to rye. This
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
Ordinary Nuxated Iron Will Make Del icate, Nervous, Rundown People 100 Per Cent Stronger in Two Weeks
 Time in Many Cases

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Most people fool- ishly seem to think they are going to get renewed health and strength from some stimulating medicine. secret nos trum or narcotic drug, said Dr. E. Sauer, a Boston physician, who has studied widely both in this country and in great European medical institutions when. as a matter of fact, real and true strength can only come from the food YOU eat.~But people often fail to get the strength out of their food because they haven't enough iron in their blood to enable it to change food into living matter. From their weakened, nervous condition they know something is wrong, but they can't tell what, so they generally commence doctoring for stom- ach, liver or kidney trouble or symp- toms of some other ailment caused by lack of .iron in the blood. This thing may 20 son for years. while the patient suffers untold agony. If you are not strong or well. you owe it to yourself to make the following test: See how long you can work or how far you can walk without becoming tired. Next take two five-grain tablets or ordinary nux- ated iron three times per day after meals for two weeks. Then test your
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
Children Cry
 FOR FLETCHER'S C A s T o RIA
Iron Es Greatest Of All Strength
 Builders, Says Doctor Secret of the Great Endurance and Powers of Athletes

strength again and see for yourself how much you have gained. I have. seen dozens of nervous, rundown people who were ailing all the while, double their strength and endurance and entirely get rid of all symptoms of dyspepsia. liver
 and other troubles in from ten to four teen days time simply by taking iron
 in the proper form. And this after they had in some cases been doctoring for months without obtaining any benefit.
 But don't take the old forms of reduced
 iron, iron acetate or tincture of iron simply to save few cents. You must ,hsorhed and assimilated fERe nuxated iron if you want it to do you any good, otherwise it may prove worse than use- | 'ass Many athlete or prize fighter
 has won the day simply because he knew the secret of great strength and endurance and filled his blood with iron before he went into the affray, while many another has gone down to ing1orious defeat simply for the lack of iron.
 NOTE-Nuxated Iron recommended above by Dr. F. Sauer. is of the organic iron compounds
 Unlike tho older inorganic iron products it Is easily assmilated. does not injuro the teeth make them black upset the stomach the contrary. it is
 most potent remedy in nearly all forms of indigestion
 as we'll for nervous. rundown conditions Tho
 Iron that they oerj forfeit $1oo00 to any charit-
 able institution if they cannot take any wom-
 under GO who lacks iron and increase their strength
 100 cent in four weeks time provided they
 have serious organic trnuhle They also offer ts
 refund your money if 1t does at least double your
 strength and endurance in ten days time It is dis pensed in this city by all good druggists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
SOY BEANS BEST

Soy beans yield more seed per acre and are more cheaply harvested than any other variety of bean.
 The large commercial use of the soy bean for oil and for stock feed and the increased use of this bean for human food have resulted in an enormous in crease in the acreage.
 Soy beans for seed can be harvested with various farm implements, including the corn knife, the mower, the self reaper, the seif-binder, and the bean har- vester, besides specially patented ma chimes which harvest and thresh the seed at the same time
 Soy beans are easily cracked or split in threshing. The best way to avoid this with the ordinary threshing machine is to remove some of the concaves and re- duce the speed of the cylinder one-half.
 Machines constructed especially sor Tn any community where there is a con- siderable acreage of soy beans the pur- chase of one of these machines for com munity use will be found profitable.
 Where only a small acrea of soy beans is grown the seed may be satisfactorily threshed by failing.
 Soy bean straw. after the seed has been threshed, is 8 valuable feed. Tn some sections this is baled and sold on .he market.
 < The seed should be thoroughly dry De- fore being stored Only under excep- tional conditions are soy bean seeds at tackled by weevils.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04
HOMELY WRINKLES

The rubber rings that you put on a preserving jar helps you to stretch your income
 Dip cloth in melted paraffin and rub it over the cooling stove This is cleaner, quicker and cheaper than backing, and leaves the stove in better condition.
 common tin shoe horn makes ex- cellent pot scraper, being long enough to handle easily and having hole in the end by which it can be hung up when rot in use.
 T don't see how cows ever learn to eat grass,' said one city child to another. 'Oh I suppose it's like this When they're young their mothers keep saying to them, If you don't eat grass you shan't have any pie
 A new way to darn the knees of chill dren's stockings is to run the threads from side to side of the hole, then begin at the top and hain-stitch down, catch ing the stitch in each tross thread. When the hole is mended it will look like the knitted part of the stocking
 Saw the legs off an ordinary kitchen chair to make it half the regular height Mother can sit on this low chair while washing and dressing the children and , combing their hair She can also lift them on to her lap more easily than If she were sitting on chair of regular height.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04

will act as a disinfectant to the soil and the rye will serve as a green crop for their winter feeding.
 Young turkeys that have survived un til now should be in good condition; they have passed the critical age common to turkeys. As a rule very few turkeys die from disease in the fall of the year.
 There is no better time than now for a general cleaning up of houses and runs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-04

As a result of her extensive sugar and tobacco production, Cuba is re- ported to be the most prosperous of all Latin-A American republics.
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