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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-26
Church Topics
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Makes a Nation Greaa," by
Rev. Edwin N. Askey.
Trinity Methodist - Morning,
special music; evening, THE
Abatement of Poverty" by Rev. ].
C. Dorwin.
st. Luke's Memorial-Mornin
Bishop Keator will administer rite
of confirmation.
st. Andrews Episcopal-Even-
ing, Bishop Keator will admins
ter rite of confirmation.
st. Paul's MISUNDERSTANDING.
Confessional by Rev. r. c. Ave-
Lallemont.
First Norwegian Lutheran
South Tacoma - Morning,
PentecOstal services by Rev.
o. HagOes.
Emmanuel Lutheran - Evening.
Pentecostal services by Rev. o.
Hagoes.
O O o
First Methodist - Morning.
what Jesus Thought of a Mans
Wealth." evening, THE Touch
of a Master of Masters both Nhy
Rev. Brumley of Spokane.
o O o
First Swedish Lutheran-Morn-
ing, THE Joy There Is in the Love
of Christi" evening, Eternity
the Life After This" by Rev. e. Q.
Bloomquist.
Park Avenue Congregational
Evening, Pictures of Real Life"
by Mrs. L. w. Owens.
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ssUNDER TWO FLAGS"
I'd. n..sA~ Next Bug"
Next week, ''The Gold Bug" by
Edgar Allen Poe.

| the Army OF Africa loved as the
voice of their Little One. And the
cry came too late; the volley was
fired.
But beyond the smoke-cloud he
staggered slightly, and then stood
erect still, almost unframed, graz
ed only by some few of the balls.
The flash of fire was not SO fleet
as the swiftness of her love; and
on his breast she threw herself,
az the bills pierced her bosom,
and broke her limbs. and were
turned away by that shield OF
warm young life from him.
He caught her as she dropped
to his feet.
20 my child! they have killed
you'll"
She laughed.
"Chut! 1t is the powder and ball
of Francel But waitl Here Is the
Marshal's order. He suspends your
sentence; l have told him all. You
are safe!-do you hear?-you are
safe! No-not out of my hand till
the General sees It. Fetch him,
some of you-fetch him TO me-"
Great Heaven! You have given
your life for mine!"
She smiled up in his eyes.
"a life! Tiensi what Is 1t to
give? We hold 1t in our hands
every hour, we soldiers. Lay me
down on the ground-at your
feet-so! l shall live longest that
way. Mes soldats, do not make
that grief over me. They are sorry
they fired; that is foolish. They
were only doing their duty, and
they could not hear me In time"
But the brave words could not
console those who had killed the
Child of the TricoIor; they beat
their breasts, they CURSED them
selves, maddened with remorse.
ooh, my child. my childl'
Cecil moaned. What am I worth
that you should perish for me?
Better a thousand times have left
me to may fate! Such nobility
such sacrifice, such Lowell"
1 The hot color flushed her face
once more; she was strong to the
last TO conceal that passion fol
which she was still content to per
ish in her youth.
"Chut! We are comrades, ant
lyou are a brave man. | would d.
the same for any OF my Spahis
They will tell you how I did it
have not time. The Marshal CAV,
his word you shall be saved; Their,
is no fear. You will go back t.
Iyour land-you will live amonS
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light. He had known that voice IN
an instant, though for many years
his ear had never thrilled 1t; For
est King had never forgotten.
With his arm over the horses
neck, the exile, who had returned
to his birthright, stood silent a
while, gazing out over the land on
which his eyes never wearied of
resting: Royallieu. Then his glance
came back and dwelt upon the face
beside him. the proud and splendid
woman's face that had learned It's
softness and its passion from
him alone.
1T was worth Punishment to re-
turn" he murmured to her. "It
was worth the trials that l bore
to learn the love that l have
known"
Venetia, looking upward at him
with those deep eyes that had first
met his own In the glare of the
African noon, passed her hand
over his lips.
"Ah, hush! when l think of
what her love was, how worthless
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-26
New Talking
Machine Will
Be Sold Here

A new photograph that will
play records of any make with
out adding attachments to the ma
chine, is the boast of Mcmillan
Brothers, druggists, who operate
the Broadway and the Fidelity
drug stores.
The photograph is the player
phone" for which Mcmillan Bros.
have obtained the exclusive
agency for Tacoma. The Broad
way store has been remodeled,
with a balcony added, devoted en-
tirely to the photograph depart
ment.
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By Ouida

CONTINUED From Our Last Issue.
He made a gesture of consent
he would have signed away hif
soul, II he could, in the stupor Of
remorse which had seized him
She brought him pens and paper
from the Turks store, and dis
tated what he wrote:
II hereby affirm that the
person serving in the Chas-
seurs dAfriqne under the
name Of Louis Victor Is my
elder brother, BERTHE Cecil,
lawfully, by inheritance. the
viscount Royallieu, Peer of
England. 1 hereby also
acknowledge that I have sue
ceeded to and borne the title
Illegally, under the suppo-
sition of his death.
(SignedD
'BERKELEY CECIL"
"What is 1t you will do?" he
asked her.
1.-The best that shall lie in my
power. Do you the same"
"Can his life be saved?"
His honor may - his honor
shall"
Then, swiftly as a swallow dart.
she quilted him and flew on hel
headlong way.
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Under the green, springtide
LEAKAGE of English woodland, an
old horse stood at pasture. Sleep
lng-yet not SO surely but at one
voice he started. and gave a muir
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CHAPTER X.

In the Midst of Her Army
There was a line of light in the
eastern sky.
He stood tranquil beside the
coffin within which his shot
pierced corpse would soon be
laid forever.
1T is best thus" he thought,
IF only she never knows"
Over the slope there came at the
very moment that the ramrods
were drawn out with a shrfll,
sharp ring from the carbine bar
rels, single figure.
Cecil never saw it; he was look
ing at the east, at the deepening
of the morning flush that was the
signal of his slaughter.
The leveled carbines covered
him; he stood erect with his face
full toward the sun. Ere they
could fire, a shrill cry pierced the
air.
"Waiti in the name of France
Dismounted, breathless, stag.
gering. with her arms flung up
ward, and her face bloodless with
fear, Cigarette appeared upon the
ridge of rising ground.
The cry of command pealed out
upon the silence in the voice that
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PATRIOTISM,
POLITICS,
AND PIETY


POLITICS,
AND PIETY
Hear this address by DIR.
Weyer Sunday night. Ii is n
vital theme in this day Of war
and slackers.
Hear 1900 people sing 1.-THE
Star Spangled Banner"
Organ Recital begins 7:15.
Stirring song service where
everybody sings, 7:3O.
Come early. The house is
always full.
"IF JESUS CAME TODAY"
DIR. Meyer will discuss this
theme at the 1890 a. IN. SER
vice.
A large class of new members
will he welcomed into member
ship at this service.
All seats free. Our welcome Is
hearty to all. Come and see.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
South 10th and g.
Facing Courthouse Tower.
Mems Sunday Night Club.)
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jFrom Last Nights Pink Edition.)
THE
KIND WORDS
CLUB

H. Roy Harrison secretary OF
He talk visitor in the
debris accumulated his desk
from the day before.
Tacoma,
all right buOheH never
forgive dressing him a marines uniform.
healthy and makes high class adVer-
tsement the
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Chief Electrician Wyman, navy recruter in Tacoma sa
ONE ON THE PARTY.

(From the Weaatchee Wash. WORLDLY
dishes thinking
a "a North street, No ques
will be asked
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QUICK RETURNS


He v believe n life insurance?
husbands debut personally prefer ali
mony-Judge.
Evening star., 1917-04-08

roads. The farmers of the Black Mud
Belt responded with roar of protest that
made the chandelier of the Executive
Mansion jingle. They observed that the
cost of such highway would be ten or
twelve thousand dollars mile, and that
anybody who tried to saddle them with
that expense would be mighty unpopular.
Then B. f. Harris called a good roads
picnic. He said:
"Let everybody come and talk right
out in meeting. We're going to have the
best speakers on both sides, and the lid
will be off. Well have a lot of fun and
learn something besides"
Well, they did. The proposition to
authorize 81 5000 bonds for a system
of hard roads is before the people of that
county now To-day even politician is
not afraid to talk good roads in the Black
Mud Belt about Champaign.
Largely as a result of his persistent
work along this line, the Tice Bill became
a law in Illinois. This gives State aid to
the cause of good roads in his own COM
monwealth.
Evening star., 1917-04-08
He Reduced the Gas Bill

AT this time the gas business of the
country was decidedly sick, 1t was
staggering from the first blow dealt by
the new feather-weight champion, electric
light. Gas had, however, one bright ray
of hope in the form of the Welsbach light.
Because this worked a positive economy
in gas lighting, the attitude of the gas
companies generally was to hold the use
of these lights to as low a point as pos
sible. Here again the young business
executive saw that the gas meter could be
made to crowd the kerosene lamp out of
scores of town homes if such change
were made clearly economical to the con-
sumer. So he went after the gas business
of Champaign and Urbana, and got it.
This put him in possession of the whole
street railway, electric lighting, and gas
interests of the twin towns. 1t looked like
cinch. and onlookers waited to see how
much tribute the young monopolist
would exact. But he reduced the price of
gas from 50 to $l.5O, and astonished the
housewives by showing them how they
could cut their gas bill and get more light
by using Welsbachs. He brought one of
the most celebrated cooking experts of the
country to demonstrate what comfort and
economy could be secured from the use of
gas stoves.
Naturally, this kind of performance
soon landed the young business-maker in
Evening star., 1917-04-08

crease his enjoyments
and his influence. And
it is quite certain that a
fortune of several million
dollars would berequired
to give him the same
relative standing in the
city, in a financial way,
that he now enjoys in
the country. Appar-
entity there is no luxury
that a reasonable human
being could desire that
this country banker does
not have.
About the time when
Mr.. Harris was president
of the Chamber of Com
merce, the Governor of
Illinois sent a commits
sion to Champaign to
talk permanent hard
Evening star., 1917-04-08
Raising Hothouse Lambs

AS chairman of the Agricultural Com
mittee of the American Bankers Asso-
citation Mr.. Harris has made these matters
all intimately related to country life
the corner-stones of nationwide work,
with the result that he has powerfully in
fuenced in a very direct way, State and
national legislation that has lately been
enacted along these lines.
Since retiring from that chairmanship,
he has pushed the interests of the Ma
tional Foreign Trade Council, of which
he is "a member. In urging a big publica-
ton to give greater attention to this SUBJ
ject, he used this characteristic expressions:
American industries and agriculture must
find a wider market if we are to have our
natural growth and keep our labor and capi-
tai employed, and further develop and
increase our capacity and efficiency. The war
situation is helping to make us think inter
nationdHy-as we shoud-and take us out
of ourselves. We are going to be forced into
foreign trade, foreign banking, and mer-
cl. mt marine, with a big navy for protection.
A surprising characteristic of this ir-
repressible country banker is the ease
with which he works. He seems to have
plenty of time for everything. The close
personal supervision of twenty-five
hundred acre farm is apparently mere
pastime to him-though farm that turns
out about three thousand hogs a year,
some sixteen hundred hothouse lambs
and beef cattle, and other things on the
same scale looks to most folks like a regu-
lar mans job, instead of an outdoor sport
for banker.
He has deprived himself of city ad-
vantages. 1t would be hard to name
man who has wider personal acquaint-
ance with the big men of the country.
And this acquaintance is neither super
fetal nor confined to leaders in finance.
In the world of art, music, literature, the
drama and painting, this Corn Belt banker
is as much at home as if he inhabited
Fifth Avenue the year round. In word,
he is distinctly a cosmopolitan in the
truest and broadest sense
Evening star., 1917-04-08

wv stay in the country and find
w full scope for his abilities, just
naturally think of a certain country
banker down in Central Illinois, who has
stuck to his country job and yet has made
his name known across the continent.
There has never been an instant of
doubt of the fact that Frank Harris be-
longs wholly to the country. For genera
tions the family background has been
farms. In fact, he was born on the same
farm where his father first saw the light
of day and where five generations of Har-
rises have foregathered. This farm he
now owns and operates. 1t has been
under Harris cultivation ever since the
Indians surrendered its possession.
If Frank" Harris was ever tempted to
strike out for the big city, on the theory
that the country town couldn't give him
swing enough, he has never confessed it.
He came straight from Columbia, in 1892
to Champaign, Illinois, and had hardly
been home week before he started some
thing that betrayed the bent of his whole
career, the keynote of his character-an
irrepressible faith in the possibilities of
doing things in the country.
He found one of the first electric street
railways in America, and took hold of it
in spite of the fact that it was a mere
shel-a single line connecting Champaign
and Urbana, operated by one generator
and small engine housed in an aban-
doned factory.
Almost everybody advised him to play
with something less expensive, and in
sisted that he was taking a short cut to
parting with a large part of the Harris
money Then he handed his critics jolt
that made them gasp. He bought the
most beautiful wooded tract that he
could find, and built line of electric road
out to it. Possibly few electric roads in
the East may have tried this artificial
means of increasing travel; but, at any
rate, the precedent of success had not
permeated to the West, and young Harris
was breaking new ground The absurdity
of building an electric road without hav-
ing good town at each end of it was
instantly proclaimed by the wise ones.
However, Harris had a coed university
to draw travellers from, and his amuse-
ment park proved to be a very nimble and
persistent nickel-puller.
Evening star., 1917-04-08

W7HEN we asked you some L
w make good in big way in a c
of B. f. Harris of Champaign, Hill
story. Another article by Mr..
Store" will appear in an early issu
the chair of president of the Chamber of
Commerce. He was told that it was up
to him to start something that would
bring in some live industries. This was
not an easy JOHN view of the fact that
there was no water power to attract fac
tories. But this did not hinder young
Harris from tacklng the job. Once more
he attacked his task in a way that was
different. A tract of eighty acres, on
the edge of the town, was bought, sub
divided, and sold for residence purposes,
with the result that the organization had
a working fund of about $S0,O0O. While
the drag-net for industries brought in
some dead Ones" the percentage was
small, and those remaining from the haul,
and now doing prosperous business, rep
resent an investment of about $780, 900.
Meantime he was growing into his real
iob-that of hitching the banker and the
farmer together with a hyphen.
Probably more than any other one man,
he deserves credit for putting the County
Soil Improvement Association" on the
map of the United States. AS The
Anndlist once put it:
Thanks to the amazing mental and
nj ir1l nf rUl ha
b. f. Harris, of Champaign, Illinois, the
Agricultural Commission of the American
Bankers Association is doing work that
can not be undone. 1t is instructing the
farmer in sound finance and the banker i'll
good agriculture, both at the same time.
1t is doing more than that, 1t is bringing
farmers and bankers together on plane of
economic understanding.
| doubt if there is another layman in
the United States who has eXerted more
influence than b. f. Harris on the four
big pieces of recent federal legislation
bearing on the national system of farm
demonstration work, of consolidated rural
schools, of good roads. and of rural or tits.
dts about time for us to take interest
In the farmers as well as from them,
was the slogan with which he went after
his fellow bankers.
He established magazine called The
Bankcr-Frmcr, and wrote most of the
copy for it. 1t wasn't much to look at
but after the second issue was out country
editors city editors, financial editors,
farm journal editors, and magazine editors
began to look for it and to find copy in it.
There was not an advertisement in it
but SO many bankers bought it and gave
it to customers and friends that it was
financial success almost from the start.
There was a freshness. a sincerity, and an
honest punch in the little magazine, made
by country banker down in the Corn
Belt, that carried conviction and inter
ested almost everybody, from the tenant
farmer to the big Wall Street fnancier.
The most remarkable thing about this
modest publication, however, was the
fact that it put the banker in new light
before the people: it interpreted him to
the public as a human being who was alert
Evening star., 1917-04-08


lois, to prove it. Here is Harris's
Crissey, called speeding Up the
c.
to do more for his community than the
community was willing to do for itself.
While this periodical was opening the eyes
of the people to see the representative
banker in new light, it was also opening
the mental pores of many bankers to an
extent to which they had never been
extended before.
Learning Things at First Hand
VERY likely lot of the startling and ag-
gressive things said by this young coun-
try banker in his speeches, his magazine,
his newspaper articles, and his personal
letters would have fallen fiat if he had not
early formed the habit of basing his doe
trines on personal experience, of finding
out things at first hand, Of living his pro-
gressive ideas first and preaching them
afterward. Before he began to talk the
benefits of modern agricultural methods,
of diversified farming and scientific crop
rotation, of developing the dormant
reserve" of the soil and building and pro-
tecting its fertility, of draining and re-
claiming lowlands, of paving feed-yards
instead of throwing sixty cent. of corn
into the mud, of raising two litters of pigs
a year instead of one, and of arranging
farm buildings and fields to save labor
instead of wasting it-before he attempted
to urge these advanced ideas upon his
Champaign County neighbors, he tried
them out on a farm of his own.
When he began his experiment he could
have bought the farm across the road,
which was practically identical with his
in character, for S13O an acre. Its average
corn yield was from thirty-fve to forty
bushels an acre. In seven years, by fer
tility-building methods, he pushed his
own production up to eighty bushels an
acre. and made his farm salable at more
than $500 an acre.
He had proved his theories good: his
reward came in the opportunity to help
in writing the federal bill that makes the
soil Improvement expert direct repre-
sentative of the government There are
about three hundred and seventy of these
country agents in thirty-three Northern
States. Their cost last year was about
Sl 100000. The Smith-Lever Bill gives
the agricultural agents of the whole
United States $2,060,O0 for 1867. OF
this ST ,254 ,S96 goes to Northern States.
Perhaps no man in America is more re-
sponsible for this fact than B. f. Harris,
the country banker, the man who has con-
sstently declined alluring offers to go to
the big city, embrace metropolitan oppor-
tunity, and make something of himself.
Possibly B. F. Harris might have made
more money in big city. That must re-
main a matter of conjecture. His fortune
is probably not great, as big fortunes are
measured to-day. But it is altogether
likely that much more money than he
now has would curtai rather than in
Evening star., 1917-04-08
MAGAZINE SECTION for April s, 1917

VV7HENEVER | hear anybody
w I argue that big man can not
wv stay in the country and find
w full scope for his abilities, | just
Evening star., 1917-04-08

WHEN asked you some months whether man could
w make good big country town. sent us the
of B. f. Harris of Champaign, Illinois, it, Here is Hass
story Another article by Mr. Csy called Speeding Up the
Store" will appear in early ISSUE
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-19
CHAPLIN SIGNS 4
FINE CONTRACT

The Saenger Amusement Company
made announcement that they had be-
come affiliated with the First Ma
tional Exhibitors Circuit, an organiza-
ton of theater men throughout the
United States whose purpose it was
to secure big productions and dis
tribute them through the agency of
their affiliated members.
The first release of this company
was "On Trial." the photo dramatiza-
ton of the famous stage success, and
the announcement that Charlie Chap
lin has signed with them seems to in
dictate that this company means bust
ness.
E. V. Richards, Jr., when he made
the announcement that Chaplin had
been signed by the First National Cir
cult, said that further acquisitions
would be made. from time to time and
that his company would have the
first runs of these films and would
exploit them in this territory.
Under his contract, Chaplin is to
receive $1,000,000 salary and $4,000
bonus for signing the contract. This
is the highest salary paid any actor
in history, and is probably the highest
paid anybody in the world. Under
his mutual cSS=act Chaplin receives
S670,000 a year for twelve pictcSSs.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-19
preliminary IN
THE SOLDERING CASE

A preliminary hearing in the case
of N. Goldring, who is charged with
conspiring to violate the Webb-Ken-
yon law, VIII be held before United
States Commissioner J. J. Sullivan
this afternoon.
THIS case is an outcome of the act
of the sheriff and deputies in Selling
and confiscating a car billed only as
shingles, but which was later ascer-
tanned to have contained about $50
cases of liquor, an invoice of which
did not appear in the billing. Soon
after it was reported to the federal
officials that such seizure had been
made by the sheriff, United States
Marshal Pergins later confiscated the
liquor and it is now in custody of the
United States, awaiting disposition of
the case, which is the one coming Up
on preliminary this afternoon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-07-19
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

John Baine and wife to H. F. Bra
zil-Lot 1 and the south II feet lot
2. block 81, East King Tract, Belmont
Numbering-S100.
James Wilson, single, to H. F. Bra
zil-Lot II in block 80 of the Bel
mont Tract.-$75.
James S. Heron to Frances E.
Herron-Lots Is to 10 in block A
Belmont Tract; lot 8. block AZ, West
King Tract; one-third interest in lots
l and 4, section 16; /, 2, 7 and in
section %; and in section "a, all
in township 2, range 81 south and
west; undivided interest in Zazanave
Grants A. and B.: one-third interest
lots 2 to 8 in section 80, Levy Coun-
ty, Fla Also all personal property
lots II to 10 IN block 20. Belmont
Tract; lots 20 to "a in block 20, Bel
mont Tract; lots Is, IA, Is and east
IL 16 and all of II in block 5, Old
City.-S10,109.5