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The Dickinson press., 1917-12-15

Note the result Of six months of mir
tary training. Compare lines A-A m
BIB in cut.
ate and manly. His awkwardness q
disappeared. The change was wonder
full and It was all to the good. Here.
Is a photograph showing before y
after taking andsI am no patent
medicine advertisement could beat It.
"Well, mother and / were delighted
That was ten years ago, and oval
says the year he spent at the military
academy was the hest year of his life.
Now" said Uncle Dan, with great
earnestness. aaW nrh trimming does
SO much good. re- Ser citizens and
at the same non I defend
The Dickinson press., 1917-12-15
THE IDEAL PRESENT

When one is far away, he is keenly
interested in the most commonplace
incidents back home, writes an Amer!-
can soldier now at the front. lnslgnl,
fcant humorous experiences WILL
brighten whole dull days in the trench
es. Give us all the news you can;
tell US about the neighborhood gossip,
the doing of our friends, the progress
of the garden, the new shows thai
have come to town. Anything n
everything will interest us, for it Will
strengthen the illusion that home
seems not so far away as it really is:
Show us YOU are striving hard and
chcerfully in the duties we left for
YOU to fill; in this way your example
will be constantly before us. When
YOU touch upon the war, do not hlnt
Of it as something horrible, tragic,
but let us see how proud you are OF Us
and how much you expect OF us. ~
not restrict your correspondence TO
the members of your family or your
immediate relatives. There may have
been a neighbours boy whose mother
died last fall and whose fatner Is
neglectful. Write him.. Send MN
those newsy, cheerful, inspiring Ier-
tiers as frequently as you can. Ihey
will make a different soldier out OF
him.
Sometimes we are too hurried to
write when we should. In that case,
see that the soldier boy or the absent
one receives regularly The Press. II
will prove an ideal Christmas present
and will reach him regularly, fifty-two
times a year, serving as a constant
reminder of home by telling every
thing that is happening there.
The Dickinson press., 1917-12-15
NOW IN SERVICE

1t. Val. Koch, who has been spend
ing a brief time here with his family
since receiving his commission at Fort
Smelling, left Thursday for Camp
Crook, where he will be stationed tenn
porarily.
The Dickinson press., 1917-12-15

C. E. Musgrove, new manager OF
the Mckenzie hotel at Alexander is
now on the job. Woody Morse ex-
p cts to move to Goshen, Ind, and
rcs+ Warrke has not decided as to
future.
The Dickinson press., 1917-12-15
BELFIELD BOYS ENLIST

Postmaster Lish enlisted Norman
Chandler, B. O. Gill, Leore Barton,
William Norton, William Blair and
John Nuwkop, all of Belield. The
boys will enter the engineers branch
of the service.
The Dickinson press., 1917-12-15
Some New
"|.gt E,.!H --
Year Customs

Tm sole record Of the observance
Of the New Year by the pilgrims
in the new world, named New,
England, was most prosaic, most brief.
1--WE went to work betimes," said Alice
Morse Earle, the famous investigator
of old-time American customs. Many
Of the good Puritan ministers thought
the celebration or eve notice of the
day in any way savored Of improper
and unchristian reverence for the
heather god Janus. Yet they came
from q land where New Year was sec
ond in Importance and in domestic OBJ
only to Christmas. Through
out every English county New Years
eve was always celebrated. In many
It was called by the pretty name Of
Singing Fen, from the custom which
obtained Of singing the last Of the
Christmas carols at that time.
In Scotland the last day Of the year
was called by the uglier name Of Hog
manay, a name Of unknown and In
explicable derivation, and in Scotland
it was regarded as the most popular
Of all the "draft. days." as the Christ
mas holidays were termed. Scotch
children Of the poorer class In small
towns still ask on that day from door
te door at the house Of wealthier fami-
lies for a dole Of oat bread, calling out
aHoggmanay, or some Of the local rimes
which are given in Chambers sPopu,
lar Rimes Of Scotland" such as:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-18
US. RAILROAD OWNERSHIP
BROUGHT A STEP CLOSER

|preme court, and when the COM
mission does function 1t more Of
ten than not comes through with
something like the five per cent
rate increase order.
1t apears to be dominated by
Daniels and Hall, who were forced
on the commission before the five
per cent hearing was held. The
policy of the commission has ceas-
ed to be that of Clements, Prouty
and Lane, and has become one of
subservience to the banking and
stock jobbing interests.
The Importance of the Daniels
confirmation is to be found, how
ever, not merely in what Daniels
contributes in five per cent rate
increases.
The commission is soon to be
called on to pass on the work of
the board which is making a valua-
ton of the railroads of the United
States, and it is of great import
ance to the people of the country
that the valuation, as finally ap-
proved, be an honest physical
valuation and not a dishonest
tumble of stock jobbing values.
When the people take over the
railway properties, as eventually
they must, it is important that
they take them over at their ac-
tual physical value and not at an
inflated and stock watered value;
and, in the meantime, when rates
are made on the basis of value,
1t is important that these rates be
based on actual and not specula-
tive value.
In all these matters Daniels Is
wrong.
In his speech on Daniels in ex-
ecutive session, Senator Cummins
said:
II believe that our system of the
control and regulation of common
carriers is on final trial, and If
the commission is to be made up
of men of Mr.. Daniels trend of
mind the system must be aban-
doned. For one, | have no hesita-
ton in declaring that IL his views
are to prevail | am for absolute
and immediate government own
ership and operation of our trans
portation facilities"
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is derived from an overshot wheel
built in the bed of a mountain
torrent.
Well, Ask Her!
Oh yes, the palace. 1t is perch
ed on the slope of a cleared hill.
side, just above where Broadway
inlet merges into the sea. 1t is
constructed of coral blocks with
burnt sea shells for mortar. Flow
ering tropical shrubbery all but
buries 1t.
The queen of Balabac says she
Is not lonely. Work fills her
days up. Also, she is philosophi-
cal. as royalty needs to be. One
can mold ones environment, she
says, to such an extent that 1t is
possible to imagine one feels the
presence of companions even tho
all friends be many miles away.
For that reason, she insists, she
does not mind her self imposed
exile from New York.
All the same, she has just come
! back to Manhattan. Her object?
Well, she says she is here to get
a secretary for herself, a teacher
for her school of native children.
a genuine bookkeeper to supplant
the present Chinese incumbents,
land-well-and? Oh, any other
people she thinks she can find
places for.
She is the queen of Balabac, you
know, and as has been mentioned,
there is no king in Balabac just
now. Which is all the better or
all the worse for romance, accord
ing to the way you look at the
situation.
Will the queen take king back
with her? Ask-the queen?
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Former Stenographer Is Now South
Sea Island Queen Without q Kine

lOveralls and shirt are the proper
thing in Balabao now.
And there are schools in Bala-
bac, too. Two hours of each day
the princess gives to the children.
She cannot teach them the bible,
for they are fervent followers of
Mohammed. But she teaches
them little English, little arith-
metic and little writing. They
make very good pupils, so their
ruler says.
The queen of Balabac is the
owner and manager now of IL
large pearling schooners. They
are motor driven and manned by
Japanese divers, whom she has
found the most successful and hon.
est undersea workers. Her in
come from pearl shell alone is
very considerable.
And there are pearls, too, and
once in every three months she
sends trusted agent to the island
)of Jolo to make marketing ar
arrangements with the French pearl
buyers there. o.
Has Modern Palace.
The queen of Balabac lives in
style. There was an electrical
expert from "the states" who had
gone fantee-which means native.
From Manila he drifted on one of
his sporadic sprees to Balabac.
The fair ruler had him install
her electric light plant. There
are incandescents in all the rooms
of her palanca and miniature
ice plant is set we'll back from the
house in a group of pepper trese.
Without these touches of modern
ity, the queen says, she would feel
quite lost. The power for them
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-18
BY ellison Gardner.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jan. liz.
step toward government
ownership of railways was taken
when the appointment of Win
throp M. Daniels was confirmed
by the senate, against the protest
of Senator Cummins and IA other
senator's.
1t is men like Daniels on the
commission that makes regulation
by commission a failure, and
leaves government ownership OF
railroads as the only recourse.
1t practically every way the IN
terstate commerce commission is
breaking down.
1t Is neither efficient nor faith
full to the public interest.
The business of hearing COM
plants is as far behind as the
calendar of the United States SUI
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vagance in Christmas shopping.
But beginning with the
new year, the scene of Uncle
Sans extracagance has shift
ed to broadway, and sums
unprecedented the history
of night life i'm Manhattan are
being spent every evening
there for food, drinks and
theatrical amusement.
The nightly Broadway bulge
has been estimated at more thar
$200,000l This sum represents
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-18
A raw, SORE THROAT
Eases Quickly When You Apply
a Little Musterole

And Musterole won't blister like
the old-fashioned mustard plaster.
Just spread it on with your fingers.
1t penetrates to the sore spot with a
gentle Jingle, loosens the congestion
and draws out the soreness and pain.
Musterole is clean, white ointment
made with oil of mustard. 1t is fine
for quick relief for sore throat, bron-
chitis, tonsilitis, stiff neck, asthma,
neuralgia, headache, congestion, pleu-
risy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains and
aches of the back or joints, sprains,
sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frost
ed feet, colds on the chest Git often
prevents pneumonia). Nothing like
Musterole for croupy children.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-Ten
years ago she was expert stenog-
rapher in New York, perched above
the frenzied financiers who throng
/, the Curb. And a tiny hall bed
room was home to her. She was
Miss Emma Gertrude Given then.
Today she is mistress of an is
land in the Sulu sea, down south
from Manila.
She is the only white resident
on the island, competent manager
Of fleet of pearling schooners,
director of the cutting and saving
of the valuable timber with which
her domain is laden.
Her bank account, they say,
must be pushing close to the half
million dollar mark. She is the
queen of Balabac.
But Has No King.
All the better-or all the
worse, according to your views of
romance-there is, at present, no
king in Balabac.
Miss Given was stenographer
in New York. Her brother, Rob-
ert, was In government service in
Manila, and later became connect
ed with a Singapore trading firm
roaming the South Seas in their
interest.
He came across Balbabac island,
a dot on the reef dotted surface
of the Sulu sea. Balbabac was
some five miles long and, maybe,
two miles wide. In the interior
it was hilly, ready made for cof-
fee growing. Along the gentle
sloping beach it was planted hap
hazard with groves of cocoa palms
loaded with nuts for the making
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according to one hotel man. sim
ply what the Broadway crowd on
an ordinary night in the week
digs out of it's pocket just for
wines, grub, taxis and show tick
cts.
Add to this colossal expenditure
the value of the jewels and gowns
the autos and furs, that fill the
district nightly, and you might
we'll have ground for changing the
name of the gay white way to Mi
das street.
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of Manhattan have already been
the scene of a national extrava-
gance spree which revealed in an
astonishing way the extent of the
new wealth that floods this coun-
try.
First il was Wall street, and
the gambling rampage there. Then
came Fifth avenue, with its still
recent orgy of unbridled extra
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-01-18

of copra. And in the waters about
it there were pearls.
Balabac island looked good to
Robert Given. He bought the
greater part OF it. Then he sent
for his sister, threw up his posi-
tion with the Singapore traders.
and the pair of them went to Bal
abac in a 200-ton schooner they
had bought.
Brother Dies.
Business grew and prospered
with them. Four years ago plans
had been perfected for opening up
the pearl fisheries and market
had been obtained for the hard
wood timber. Then Robert Given
died.
Emma Gertrude Given, the only
white person in Balabac. and the
only white woman In many hun
dreds of miles, took up the work
where he had dropped 1t. Ever
since she has been managing her
business and ruling her people,
which comprise one tribe of rest
less Moros, number of Chinese
and various motley Filipinos.
Educating the Natives.
Eight years ago, when she first
went to Balabac, her present SUBJ
jects were living in stilted houses
that seemed to be wading into the
salt marshes, or stood along the
edge of the estuary on tall bam-
boo poles. Their clothes were
only the bodily adornments nature
gave them.
Today they live in bamboo wat
tied, pandanus palm matched huts,
set back from the beach, and their
dress, while not elaborate, is much
more noticeable than 1t used to be.
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Newspaper Enterprise Associationl
NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.--Broad-
way has suddenly been buried in
= blizzard of goldl
A dazzling storm of money
spending has hit the GAY WHITE
WAY and almost overwhelmed
the theaterss hotels and cabarets
de 1uxei
Two other gold paved streets
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Yesterdays Late Neus
LASSEN HAS BIG ERUPTION
Omitted Press Leased Wire,)

respects the most violent eruption of Mount CALIFORNIA;
volcano 1t began its active
afternoon after having continued for three hours.
When the dense smoke which
tan driven by the wind
sunlight this deep
summit to the Underline
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THIRTEEN INDICTMENTS RETURNED
UNITED Press Leased Wrel

SEATTLE Jan. 17.-Whle thirteen
late today by the federal
voived charges other than those
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HANG INDIAN MURDERER
limited Press I,aasad XVireA

NEW WESTMINSTER B. O., 17.-In the o. q
fog Frank Jones' the silent Popeum Indian
killing of Gus Hail. single
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MOOSE AUTO STAGE

MOOSE AUTO STAGE
Stand--Croft Hotel. 1910 Pacific av.
Tacoma and Yelm, Lakeview, Hill
hurst. Greendale, Roy, McKenna.
NJ. Il. Miles.
Lv. Tacoma-10:s0 a. m. and d.
mi Sunday a. m. and $50 .. m.
Lv. Yelm-7:30 a. m. and D. m. !;
SATURDAY. night 1890 and Sunday
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KILL RAILROAD MEN
(United Press Leased Wire.l

CHEYENNE, Wyo Jan. 17-Ccero Allen Sidney Neb
Otto Jones of Cheyenne conductor brakeman
Clio freight train shot and killed Kmba Neb today
two men they caught stealing ride and attempted eject the
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
TACOMA AUTO STAGE
l1th St. 0nnnAife Raafnfflca

Lv. Eatonville daily 5 a. M; / D. m,
$3.50 p. m Sunday. s a. m, and
p. m.
Lv. Tacoma DAILY a. m. D. m,
p. m. Sunday s a. M, 4 and 9:16
p. m.
Saturday Evening Special-Leays
Eatonvi'1e 7 p. m; leave Tacoma,
9:15 d. m.
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WON'T CALL TT SUICIDE
Omitted Press Leased Wire.)

VlSlIA Cal JAM 1.-THE Tulare
declined to aequiesce in the that Krub
Wash state ancher death by accident
ruins OF cabinet that burned here
that the manner of death is unknown
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Stages for Roy. Yelm. Kapowsin
Graham, Orting.
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DUPON1-TACOMA

Lv. Facoma-6:oo. 1000. 1880 a. m. /;
800, 4:30, 1910 p. m.
Lv. Dupont-s:oo. 800. 1000. 11:oo a
M; 1890, Bis, 6:45 p. m.
Sunday Sjecial-9:00. 1000, 11:00 q
m. and 1900 m.
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Lv. Tacoma 10 a. m: $3.50, D. m.
Lv. Buckley 5 a. m; 1890, p. m.
Saturday and Sunday-Lv. Tacoma
10 a. M; $3.50. 1870 p. m.
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MINERAL-TACO
Elbe, Alder, La Grande
Lv. Mineral q. m.
Lv. Tacoma 3 d. m.
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MORTON-TACOMA

Lv. Ashford-8 a. m. and 2:45 p. m.
Lv. Tacoma--S a. m. and d, m.
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Lv. Tacoma--S:00 q. m.
Lv. Morton-1:45 D. m.
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CENTRAL.
BUS STATION

I1b SO. 10TH ST. TEL. MAIN 28l
Lunch Room In Connection
Schedule Auto Stage a. Freight
Service. Baggage Checked.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ll1Ra m Ii AL Gn.aA
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NORTHEAST TACOMA
HylebOs Creek and Hague Bog

/, 2:15, 4, and 1916 p. m.
Lv. N. e. Tac.-7. IL a. m; 1880. $50
p. m.
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ORTING-TACoMA
AsHFORD-TACOMA

Lv. Tacoma-7:So. 800. 1900 a. m.
100. $3.50 p. m.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-03
REV. B. f. PARKER To
SUCCEED DR.. EDWARDS
As Pastor of the Methodist
Church Here-IS Brilliant
Preacher.

Rev. 3. f. Parker, pastor Of the
Methodist church at Marion, Ind,
has been appointed TO succeed Rev.
DR.. L. NJ. Edwards as pastor of the
Methodist Memorial church at
Mishawaka. The Appointment was
made at the conference in Hunting
ton yesterday.
Mr.. Parker is a graduate Of Du
Paw university and is considered
most brilliant preacher in the con-
ference. He is SO years old. married,
and has two children. His wife is an
active church worker. He was for
merly pastor Of the church at Hart
ford City. after which he was trans
ferred 10 the First church at Rich
mOnd, Ind. He is now pastor of the
Marion church with which he has
been connected for the past two
years. The Methodist church at Fort
Wayne offered him a larger salary
TO take up his duties in that city
but the bishop thought il better he
should follow DIR. Edwards in the
local church. The salary paid here
is $4,000 Mr.. Parker was born in
Lagrange.
1t is understood he will take up
his new duties very shortly.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-03
,ClTYS PATRIOTISM
Is BEING STIRRED

Mishawaka's patriotic spirit as
serted itself Tuesday to an extent
worth while. Flags were every
where in evidence, the drygOods
store of A. S. Haslanger being decked
from stem TO stern. Many other
business establishments displayed
the American emblem as did all the
big factories. There was a patriotic
demonstration at the high school
when tho scholars were addressed
by the Rev. G. w. Titus and Wallace
futile, a singing evangelist, at pres
ent taking part in a religious cam
paign at the Christian church. The
scholars sang several patriotic num-
bers. Tonight Rev. Mr.. Titus will
conduct a patriotic meeting in the
above church. A mass meeting is
being arranged TO take place in the
Century theater next week when
several notable speakers will take
part. Mayor Gaylor is consider
ing the ACCESSIBILITY of issuing an
address to the citizens in similar
strain to that issued by Mayor
Keller of South Bend.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-03
GIRL BURNS TO DEATH
IN RESIDENCE BLAZE
Fire at R0SebrOOk Home
Early Thursday Morning
Due to Explosion.

One Of the most tragic fires that
has visited AIishawaka for a num-
Der Of years occurred Tuesday
morning shortly before s O'Clock in
the home OF Frank ROsebrOOk on y.
Merrifield road, two and a quarter
niles from the city limits. resulting
in the complete destruction of the
no Ise the burning TO death Of Eve
I'm. e. six-year-old daughter. and the
probable fatal burning of Mr.. Rose
brook who is not expected TO live
through the day.
The FIRE department was notified
Of the fire by neighbor of the
RosebrOOk family who telephOned
20 the central station at sos a. m.
The department responded as quick
IS as possible but when they reach
I'd a point within two blocks of the
burning house the apparatus mired
ia the soft sand in Merrifeld road
and hey we're unable 10 proceed
further win any Of the vehicles
What chemicals that could be car
ried were taken on TO the scene by
the fremen. but by the time they
arrived the house was i'm ruins.
M. and Mrs RosebrOOk their
year-old son. Darwin. and an eight
yeSr-Old nephew named Armstrong
succeeded i'm getting out Of the
mouse. "A one story frame structure
before the flames shut off their
exit. but the fire had gained such
Roadway by that time that no one
had an opportunity to rescue Eve
lyn, who was asleep i'm another
part Of the house from where the
fire started. The fire had practical
" burned itself ont before the body
OF the child burned beyond any
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-03
MLSE1AWAKA GENERAL NEWS
NewsThne Office Way West

sem blance Of recognition. could be
taken from the ruins. Chief Buysse
Of the fire department summoned
the Finch e. Sprague ambulance
and the little crisp body was re-
moved 10 the firms undertaking
parlors and will be held there pend
ing the outcome OF the injuries Of
the father. who is at st. JOsephs
hospital. where he was removed in
the am bulance after his injuries had
been dressed by DR.. Wyman who
was also called TO the scene and
whose automobile stalled in the
deep sand Of the roadway as the
fire apparatus had done.
The family. excepting Evelyn and
the Armstrong boy, who had spent
the night with the family, had just
gotten up and were preparing to
have breakfast. Mr.. ROsebrook
picked up a can supposed TO have
kerosene in il. but which proved TO
be gasoline. and threw some OF the
contents into q stove. Some hot
Goals in the stove ignited the oil
with a roar, the flames leaping out
and catching onto the clothing Of
the man and Igniting the can of
fluid still held in his hand. An eX-
plosion followed and the room was
soon in flames. Mrs. Rose brook
ran 10 the assistance Of her husband
and in attempting 10 eXtinguish the
flames in his clothing suffered burns
TO her hands and arms. Screaming
i'm agony the man tore his trousers
off and threw them into the yard.
The garment burned, destroying
several dollars in currency that were
in the pockets. BY that time the
home was almost entirely a mass OF
flames. and it was with difficulty
that the four got TO safety, no time
being given them TO rescue Evelyn,
who was cremated in her bed.
The frantic and suffering wife and
baby were taken TO the home of
Bert Jules, "A brother-in-law of Mrs
RCsebrook on Marion St, and will
be cared for there indefinitely.
The home was built several
months ago and Mr.. Rosebrook had
almost completely paid for it. The
house was covered by insurance,
with none on the contents. Mr.
| Rosebrook was a shoemaker at the
Wooden company factory.