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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-29

dictionary says a bird is q "feath-
cred vertebrate animal of the
class AYES, frequently included
with reptiles in a larger class, but
distinguished by having warm
blood, covering of feathers and
the forelegs modified in the shape
Of wings"
This bird, the Apteryx, of New
Zealand, called by the natives the
"kiwi-kiwi" bird, rarely misses be-
ing no bird at all. Its blood is
warm. II is a feathered we're
brate, just by the skin of its teeth,
for its feathers look counterfeit.
And it has no wings-so far as
you can see.
II looks for all the world like a
man with both arms severed at
the shoulders. There are many
birds, of course, that cannot fly,
but only a few have no wings,
found on the ordinary bird, the
body of this strange creature is
covered with a close growth OF
smooth, hair-like feathers.
But science has decided that
once, in the far away past of the
earth, the Apteryx had wings just
like other birds, and this admits
the "kiwi-kiwi" to the bird union.
In the process of evolution, how
ever, 1t lost the wings because 1t
didn't need any.
The bird lives on the ground
and hunts worms by night. It has,
therefore, no need of wings to
seek its food, and II does not need
wings to escape from its enemies,
because in New Zealand there are
no native mammals except bats.
As II lives in thiekets, wings
would prove hindrance rather
than a help to this bird.
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TWO U.S..
BOARDS
FILLED
Omitted. Press Leased wire.,

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 20.
President Wilson today filled
vacancies on the interstate COM
merce commission and the ship
ping board.
For the interstate commerce
commission:
Robert W. wooley, Virginia,
for the term ending Dec. 81,
1920; Clyde B. Atchison, Oregon,
for the term ending December
81, 1921, George w. Anderson,
Boston, Mass, for the term end
ing December 81, 1922.
To be member of the United
States shipping board:
Charles r. Page, California;
vice Theodore Brent, resigned.
Woolley directed the advertis-
ing work for President Wilson's
last campaign, and also was in
charge of the publicity for the
first Liberty loan. He. was for
merly director of the mint and an
Original Wilson man."
Clyde Bruce Aichison, republi-
can, of Portland, Ore, has for
more than a year bee min Wash
ington as solicitor for the valua-
ton committee of the National
Association of State Railroad
Commissioners.
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Disloyalty
THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES;
Under the heading, Insult to
Flag" a letter signed by T. Curry
in speaking of the. German lam
guage | nour schools says, I'VE
want no traitorous ideas taught
in this land of liberty"
| wonder If he has ever read
States Sovereignty" by Neal.
which book l am told is at the
Lincoln high school, or at least
was last year.
An GRAFTON delivered by Neal
to the survivors of the Eighth vir-
ginia Confederate regiment on the
battlefield of Manassa July 16,
1910, is in pa tras follows: From
Appomatax to this minute North
ern nations have fleeced the
Southern nations as no other peo-
pie of the world have ever been
fleeced. Today your hearths are
in danger as they never were In
danger in 1851.
Equal pensions should have
been granted Southern soldiers
and to their, wives and children as
we're eiven to the Northern SOL
diers from Appomatox to the
present day. Soldiers of the
Eighth Virginia regiment. again l
say the war Is not over. Here on
the battle-ground followed by the
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5 MORE
JURYMEN
EXCUSED

With one challenge for each
side remaining at noon, the sci 90
ton of the second jury In the
Camp Lewis condemnation suit
still dragged Saturday noon, but
was expecte dto be completed be-
fore night.
Five of the new panel of jurors
summoned were excused by Judge
Clifford during the morning ses-
sion. Frank Pitman was dis
charged because he said he
couldn't believe one of the county
witnesses under oath.
]. w. Knox raised storm of
protest fro mattorneys for the de-
PENDANTS during his examination
when he said he didn't think he
was qualified to serve because lie
believed the land in question
wasn't worth much"
The statement was made in the
presence Of the chosen jurors, but
Judge Clifford said there was no
way to remedy 1t.
John Wannicott, aitho he said
he was "75 years young" and
could stand the strain of the long
jury trial, was excused. Coleman
McDonough was excused on the
ground that he had formed an
opinion on the value of the land.
The test case on the legality Of
the two-jury system was heard
tefore the sl:rreme court Friday,
Special Attorney ]. T. S. Lyle ap-
pearing' for the county.
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Anti-Police
EDITOR THE TIM

EDiIOR The TIMES:
suppose the Tacoma police de-
partment will be busy with En-
plantations after the letter from Q
soldier in your Saturdays issue.
You published two of my let
tiers short time ago, so take this
opportunity to write another as I
consider Tacoma people needT
rude awakening to realities.
A long article appeared We'd
nesday in the Tribune concerning
the degrading conditions prevail-l
ing in the female department of
the city Jail and that same night
the police made raid and grab
bed five unfortunate girls.
The inhuman treatment melted
out to soldiers should convince
any self-respecting man that the
members of the force and particu-
larly the. detective department,
are incapable of catching a good
thief or burglar and vent their
rage and spleen on girls, DRINKS
and soldiers, and In that r\pect
they are on a par with the kaiser,
and should be thrown out of Of
flee. If such treatment were az
corded me while under arrest 4
would perforate the whole bunch
of them with 40 automatic II 10
took me life time to accomplish
1t. PRIVATE,
Camp Lewis.
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RAID ON
TEMPLE
DRUGCO.

After evidence had been obtain
ed, the police say, that alcohol and
whisky were being sold at the
Temple drug store, 18th and
Broadway. without physicians
prescriptions, raiding squad
headed by Police Chief Smith and
Sheriff Longmire, pounced down
upon the store Friday evening and
stripped-it Of all its intoxicants.
A barrel of alcohol, another
barrel of whisky, five cases Of
whisky, q half barrel Of beer, and
a large number OF pint bottles al
ready filled with alcohol and la
beled For Mechanical Purposes, v
we're taken to Jail.
Nick Kent, prescriptionist,
and Sam Cassimir, proprietor,
were arrested and later released
on cash bail of $500 each. They
are charged with having illegal
amounts of liquor, and selling it
illegally.
Bottle Unlabelled.
The raid was staged after men,
bers of tn edry squad had search
ed a man emerging from the store
and found a quart of alcohol in
his pocket without label of any
kind.
The man admitted that he had
just purchased the alcohol in the
Temple drug store, the police say.
Officers entered, and arrested
the prescr'ntionist, Kent. Going
to the rea room, they say that
they found Cassimir in the act Of
selling a quart Of whisky to an
other customer. The whisky had
no label on it, and the customer
had no prescription, the police
say. Cassimir was likewise ar
rested.
In Trouble Before.
Search warrants were obtained,
and the sheriff and chief Of police,
with several officers, ransacked
the entire store. A check of the
liquors is being made to determine
whether or not the druggists had
more liquor on hand than they
were legally entitled to purchase.
Cassimir opened teh drug store
less than month ago. He is the
man whom the government arrest
ed this spring on charges Of ship
ping whisky to Tacoma in skid
grease barrels. Cassimir was
fined $500 by the government for
this offense.
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Second Brute Attack
On Young Girl Here

Attacked by two strange
men at noon Friday, i'm an
almost identical manner to
the attack which she suffer-
ed a year ago, Miss Irene
CARMEL, pretty East Side girl,
Is confined to her bed Satur-
day while police detectives
arc making a study of the
case.
Miss Carmel is employed at the
Carstens Packing Co.
Feeling III Friday noon, she OBJ.
tanned permission to go home, and
was walking up a path thru a
gulch near, her home. 2034 East
S4th street, when she says two
strange men accosted her.
Beaten Over Head.
One held revolver, and aimed
1t at her head while the other,
selling short stick, began beat
ing her over the head and shout
ders, the girl declares.
When she was beaten until she
could scarcely stand, the man
picked up length of rusty bail
ing wire and tied her hands be-
hind her. Then the first man
produced a short piece of gunny
sacking from his pocket and tied
1t over the girls mouth.
Miss Carmel says that she
swooned at this moment, and did
not see the men depart. She was
found lying beside the path four
hours later by her brother, as
he was returning from work.
Gag Still In Place.
The gag was still in place and
her hands were held firmly be-
hind her back by the rusty wire.
The girl had not been criminally
assaulted, and nothing had been
stolen, so far as the police can
learn. The scene of the attack
was about three blocks from the
girls home.
Detectives Modahl, Mondeau
and Wiley are investigating the
case. Physicians who were called
Friday night to the girls bedside
notified the police that her tenn
perature and respiration were nor
NAL.
No marks of the attack were
found upon her body, altho her
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wrists bore marks from the wire
The girl could only describe the
men as dark young men, proba-
bly, foreigners.
The attack Is similar to q pre-
vious experience, which mystified
the police a year ago. On that
occasion the girl had gone alone
into the gulch, a mile from her
home and was sitting on a log
reading a magazine, when q
strange man approached from be-
hind.
The man beat her with q club,
gagged her, tied her hands to-
gether with rope, and then robbed
her of a small sum of money and
some jewelry. She did not see
the man and could give no descrip-
tion of him.
Asked 1t he Dropped.
After detectives had investigat-
ed the previous assault for several
days and had questioned the girl
at length, her parents asked the
police to desist from the investi-
cation, claiming that Miss Car
mell's high-strung, hysterical ma
ture could not undergo the strain.
ut is the most unusual case we
have had In long time" declared
Detective Capt. Strickland Satur-
day.
There seems to be no motive
for the attacks. Why anyone
should wait In a gulch to commit
an attack, and then single out the
same girl on two occasions, is a
mystery. The entire affair seems
peculiar, but the girl is emphatic
in her story, and we are doins
everything we can to get her as
sailants."
No Lovers Quarrel.
Miss CARMEL denied intimations
by detectives that she had expert
enced any lovers quarrel" or
that she had told anything but the
truth concerning the attacks.
She is keeping company" with
nice young man, she said. She
declared that she had never before
seen either of the men who at
tackled her, and that she was so
startled by the shock of the affair
that she could obtain no descrip-
ton of them.
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By Cynthia Grey.

You can't always tell a peach
by Its complexion.
Clingstones are often smooth of
skin and delicately tinted but fit
only for picking.
For centuries the peach has
been esteemed the world around
% the loveliest of all the fruits,
nevertheless, there is something
enigmatical about all the peach
tribe.
Whether the peach belongs to
the plum.family along with the APP
ficot, almond and cherry is q
puzzle. Some scientists claim the
beach Is an evolutionized almond,
others hold 1t to be a distinct
genus of Chinese origin.
PEACH SOUFFIIE
Peel fine ripe peaches and rub
them thru sieve. Mix with one
cupful powdered sugar and beaten
folks Of 3 eggs, and beat hard for
B minutes. Into this mixture fold
Bhe beaten whites of eggs, turn
Nnto souffle dish, sprinkle with
sugar, and bake in a brisk oven
3 minutes. Serve at once.
PEACH SALAD
Peaches make a fine salad II
served with bananas, or celery
and walnuts, or with chopped ap-
Dles or pears. Arrange on lettuce
hearts, and serve with a sibple
French dressing. :
BAKED PEACHES
Pare the fruit but do not ro-
move the stones. Arrange in an
earthen baking dish and sprinkle
with sugar. Dot with bits of but
ter and add enough water to
noisten the sugar. Sprinkle with
chopped nuts and bake until ten
der. Serve cold. Bake In custard
cups and serve in same garn!shed
with whipped cream,
DUTCH MOONS
Use q sweetened shortcake bat
ter or biscuit dough. Cut in cir
eles with a cookie cutter and on
each circle drop spoonful OF
chopped fresh peaches or OF peach
Jam or mamalade. Fold the cir
cles, pinch the edges together,
Rnd shape into half moons. Bake
In a moderate oven. Especially
nice for lunch baskets. Any fruit
may be substituted for peaches.
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INDICTED
MOBILES
GET

NUmted fress Leased w1re.b
CHICAGO, Sept. 29.--The in
ternational headquarters of the
]. w. w. here was planted" with
"small fry" in anticipation of
yesterdays raid, with the result
that many of the more important
men indicted by the federal grand
Jury escaped.
That was the declaration this
afternoon of q federal official
who aided in presenting the cases
TO the grand jury and engineer
ing the resultant arrests.
Search for the men who eluded
the police and United States mar
shals has been carried into other
cities, he said.
Otto Christensen, the attorney
who defended Is 1. w. w. men,
bers in murder trials at Mescoba
Range, Mimi, last year, today
asked U. 8. District Attorney
.Clyne to furnish him with the
names of men arrested in yester-
days raids, SO bail can be pro-
vided. Clyne refused to do this
until all the indicted men are in
custody.
A report was received here that
G. F. Vandeveer, who defended
~ l. w. WIS in murder cases at
Everett, Wash, recently, is en-
route here from Seattle with a
staff of assistants to defend the
men arrested here.
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Deen a uarkeu Improvement IN
the moral atmosphere of the
American camp since the Y. M.
G. A. got under full steam, yet the
soldiers themselves wouldn't be
able to explain 1t.
Feed En- First.
The other day word came that
a contingent from America would
arrive and couple of Y. M. G. A.
secretaries were dispatched to
meet the ship.
One. the older, had recently left
the ministry for army Y. NJ. C., A.
work. The other was former
Wyoming cow-puncher who got
religion a year or two ago.
They stood on the dock waiting
for the Americans.
Now the first thing" said the
preacher, lis to organize our Bible
classes and get our prayer meet
ings going"
mix on that stuff, parson,"
replied the cOw-puncher.
1.-THE first thing we've got TO
do with this crowd of HE
soldiers is to fill their bellies
with candy and decOy them
into our circus tent to write
letters to their mothers and
sweethearts.
Get the monographs gO-
ing and the soft drinks flow
ing and your Bible classes
will follow"
The cow-puncher represents the
spirit of the Y. M. c. A. in France.
The prime objects are to bene-
fit young men in MIND, BODY,
and SOUL.
Huts Are damned.
You can't get a soldiers soul
until you have done something for
his mind and body.
Practically all American army
athletic activities are in charge of
the Y. M. G. A. secretaries. While
not encouraging Sunday sports,
they do not oppose them. With
diplomacy they have arranged
that practically all the Sunday
sports come in the afternoon.
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SWEAR BY, NOT
AT, YIN. C. in
PERSHINC LAND

This leaves the mornings free
for religious activities In the nus
merous Y. Nj. c. A. "huts, az
they are jammed.
II is not unusual for the Catho-
lie, Protestant and Jewish SER
vices to follow in quick success
sion In the same hut.
Irregular Fellows"
The secretaries are regular
fellows" They have made their
huts popular clubhouse. AS long
as soldier Is at the Y. M. c. A.
he isn't out filling up on cheap
wine, which flows like water over
here.
In these huts are music, games,
writing tables with plenty of free
stationery, soft drinks of all
kinds, candy, cigars and cigarets.
Yes, cigarets. Don't be shock
ed. Exactly SO per cent of all
soldiers I'm France use tobacco,
mostly cigarets. When they can't
get good cigarets they buy bad
ones.
The Y. M. C. AS cigarets are
the best to be had and they sell
them cheaper than anybody else.
A young Y. M. c. A. secretary
the other day wrote his chief:
"The crowd here kidded me
along until had to put on the
boxing gloves with the regimental
champion or lose my standing az
an athlete, and you know !
couldn't sacrifice that.
"As / stepped into the ring he
hung one on my jaw which made
the one lone pine tree nearby look
like dense forest. / managed TO
remain vertical for two-minute
round, but never aagin. | agreed
with General Sherman that box
ing is very unsecretarial.
No wonder the soldiers
are warming up to such fel-
lows as this young secretary.
He'll have 'em all reading
out of their Bibles before
Christmas.
The Y. M. c. A. is teaching the
soldiers how to entertain them
selves. stunt nights" are great
stuff at the huts, when the fellow
that can entertain goes on for 81
turn" "
Recently a call went out for
soldiers to write secretaries what
they could do. One mule skinner
wrote
100 Cents on Dollar.
81 have been a lion tanner and
a bear trainer. Listen to what
have to say. have proved TO the
world today that / am the only
Fire Eater there is. No trick
about it, sir, plain fire, and ! can
prove 1t to anyone
People in America who have
contributed millions for American
army Y. NJ. G. A. work in Franco
can rest assured a hundred cents
worth of good is resulting from
every dollar.
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mitchell WILL
BE CANDIDATE.
Omitted Press Leased wire.)

NO"hseu FTcss leuBe0 WlEesb
NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-All op-
position by Mayor Mitchell to the
candidacy of William M. Bennett,
on the republican mayoralty tick
ct, was dropped today when
Mitchell agreed to appear before
Justice Goff In supreme court and
asked that Bennett be certified as
the nominee.
Mitchell said he would take no
further steps to claim the repub-
lican nomination in the primary
election.
Attorneys representing Mitchell
In this action were expected to ap-
pear before Justice Golf early this
afternoon.
1t was announced that Mitchell
will run as fusion candidate. In
statement issued today ne said
he would run ito keep the city
out of the grip of Murphy and
Tammany Hall and clean of enemy
influences
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In the
Editors Mail

ashes of your fallen comrades, ]
again ask you to take up the arms
you laid down at Appomatox ana
fight without ceasing until the
Southerners again enjoy the rights
so Iong denied them, you and yosr-
poor children must not die slaves"
If Mr.. Curry can find anything
more traitorous in the German
text books than in this book,
States Sovereignty" which Is al
lowed in the library Of the Lincoln
high school, why l am with him
In regards to prohibiting the
teaching of the German language.
but while we are sweeping the
room why-not dig out the corners
too"
LYNNE b. QUEVER-, :,
2117 No. 26th st.
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Tho American
Y. NJ. c. A. over
here is a mighty
helpful organi-
zation. A | S o
mighty human.
The boys in
khaki all swear
by it-not at 1t.
The Y. NJ. c..
A. is dominated
by young, red
blooded Ameri-
cans who know
how to get next
to soldiers and
stay next.
There h q S
innnnnal nHannnf In
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More Sammies
Die In France

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept. 20.
Two more deaths in the Ameri-
can e2peditionary forces under
Gen. Pershing weer announced
by the war department today.
The casualty list included:
Private w. c. Sullivan, infan-
try, died Sept. "a of spinal men
nights. No emergency address
given.
Benjamin Hayward, stevedore,
died Sept. "a of heart disease
His next of kin is James Hayward,
Savannah, Ga.
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very promising"
Most of the men are from Sc
attic and Tacoma.
They are: C. r. Ayres, l.. Cas-
sidy, Jesse Devendorf, ]. NJ. Simp-
son, Martin Kitner, Clarence
Salmonson, B. w. Dunbar, j. !.
st. John, c. F. Andrews, ]. M.
Booth, r. r. Gustafson, J. r. At
kinson, w. p. Goldsworthy, Pietro
J. Carraba, Ambert M. Wallick,
Walter L. Brobeck, VIM. J. Or
land, Leo Ernest, ]. F. Conrad,
G. J. Pritchard, by Kosterhuis, c.
A. Fullerton, II. ]. Dieringer, A.
Corbelia, Ed Stockman, Yosef
klarizo, Edison H. Shreve, s. Ka-
dim, f. Jones, II. g. Smith. f. o.
Dewey, e. Johnson, Wilson and
Eckmarck.
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r. Charlie Chaplin has resumed
work on his last Mutual picture,
THE Adventure" and it soon will
be ready for the public. In M
subject the comedy king is a con.
Wet, chased by sheriffs, who just
miss him.
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BY Cynthia Grey.

women In the grand army OF
Gamers ought to see not single
peach is wasted this year.
Peaches can be canned with
much less labor than is required
for putting up most fruits. They
will keep without sugar, If prop
erly sterilizzed; they may be dried
by the electric fan or over the
kitchen range; or by the sun.
To be in the best condition for
canning, peaches should be ripe
but moderately firm. The fruit
should be graded according to size
and softness before pared: Set
aside the soft, wormy or inferior
fruit for "pie fruit" or marmalade
or leather"
Peaches should be pared with
silver knife to prevent discolora-
ton. Or they may be scalded and
the skin rubbed or scraped off.
With the clingstone varieties, the
product is probably finer If the
fruit is halved before pairing.
CANNED PEACHES
Peaches should be rinsed In cold
water, packed into hot jars and
covered with syrup Immediately
after pairing. Otherwise the sur
face turns dark. Hot syrup prev
iously prepared should be poured
over the fruit al once. Before
packing a second jar, place rub
bers and caps in position, but do
not tighten the covers. Set jars
In water-bath or cold-pack
twash-boiler) outfit Sterilize 18
minutes, take from boiler, tighten
covers, invert to cool Wrap in
paper to prevent bleaching before
storing.
DRIED PEACHES
Peel and slice ripe peaches,
string and hang in the sun, pro-
tected from insects. Or spread on
clean boards and dry in the oven
or with an electric fan; or use a
commercial evaporation. "Condi-
ton" the fruit, tnat is turn it and
mix it several times during the
drying process so the product may
We uHlloIul. OtOIt III buldll qudH-
titles in paper bags or boxes.
PEACH LEATHER
Peel and crush very ripe
peaches, spread the pulp on plat
tiers and dry in the oven. When
thoroly dried, the pulp should be
as tough as leather. Roll it up
and seal In bags. When needed
for use, soak over plight and stew
with sugar.
PEACH MARMALADE
For each pound of vared and
sliced fruit allow "a pound of
sugar. Mash the fruit, add the
sugar and mix we'll. Turn into n
crock, cover, and bake In the oven
for several hours. Stir occasional
ly. Turn into small jars and
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BY F. M. Kerby

NE WYORK, Sept. 20. = All
ready now for our class In natural
history.
What Is a bird?
A bird is an animal with
feathers and wings.
But the animal in this picture
has no wings, and its feathers are
smooth and almost like fur.
Nevertheless II is a bird. The
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-29

Peggy o'Neill. creator of tho
title role In Peg o. My Heart. Il
to play the lead in . picture called
The Penny Philapthropist."
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By G. G. LYON.

tReporter for The Times.
WITH THE A nj Il r c A N
TROOPS IN FRANCE, Sept. e.