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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-09-25
LOGGED OFF LAND

IN Southwest Washington to set
tiers only $500 per acre and up.
wEyE Kilt E E1 gFy TiMRF.3 az c Ss0
Tacoma Bldg. Tacoma. Wash
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FURNISHED HOUSE,
KEEPING ROOMS

FINE housekeeping rooms at 1904
Pacific av.
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ALASKA JUNK Cod hand goods
all kinds junk. 1919 Mkt. NJ. 1858
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LADY wants work by hour or sby
the day. Call Main 5052.
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WANTED TO BUY

fresh young cow CIV
ing i6 or more quarts daily.
Madison 1874
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PUGET SOUND JUNK co. buys all
kinds of junk and second hand
goods. Main 1899: after & p. m.
call Main GOAT.
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LOST
SITUATION FEMALE

OFFICE work by young lady, long
experience billing, typewriting,
bookkeeping, good reference. Box
U-16. Times.
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JUNK DEALERS
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BATHS for rheuma-
ant. 7th and Pacific. Main 1884.
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FOR SALE 5-acrc tract, good
house, within city limits. Call
1909 So. 18th. Phone Proctor coo.
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WANTED-Experie operator on
buttonhole or button machines. APP
ply Liberty Manufacturing Co.,
1901 jefferson ave.
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HELP-FFMALE

MARKERS and sortsrs wanted, ex-
perience not necessary; good
wages steady work. Apply Army
Post Laundry, Camp Lewis.
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nPce AS Rents Go Upn Fact tee Prices
Raised Properties Withdrawn From the Mkethe Wise
WELL DIGGER

WELL DIGGER. b. T. Birch. Park
land. Wash.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-26
CONGRESS ADJUSTING
THE POSTAL RATES

A measure to reduce letter postage
to one cent, and to raise the cost
of mailing newspapers is likely to be
adopted in the present congress.
Last year the postal service made
a profit Of $75,000,000 carrying let
ters and lost about an equal amount
carrying newspapers and periodicals
at the cent-a-pound rate. The new
measure provides for zone system
for carrying newspapers at rates
varying from one cent to eight cents
according to the distance they have
to go. By the time the newspapers
of the country are taxed an addition
al $75, 100000 a year in addition to
the paramount burden" of the paper
famine, the effect WIFI be to thin out
the newspapers till only those re-
main that have well defined rea-
son for existence Papers that cir
culate over many states will be hit
hardest by the new postal rate based
upon the, zone system.
Catalogs that are now carried at
the rate of two cents a pound to any
part of the country, even where the
freight rate is ten cents a pound,
will pay eight cents a pound under
the new law.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-26
HOUSE DEBATES THE
NEW POSTAGE RATES

In the house of representatives
where the post office. appropriation
bill is up for consideration, a pro
posal to rearrange postal rates into
zones so that second class mail mat
ter may be carried at increasing
rates per pound according to increas-
ing distance carried has been receiv-
ing sharp going over. 1t means
that the big eastern publications will
pay quite tariff to get their matter
to western readers, while the local
free-in-county circulation continues
as provided by law. Mr.. Ricketts,,
of Ohio, in opposing the measure
thinks it would be harsh restriction
on national magazines and papers
whose educational value would also
be a great loss to western readers.
He says:
THE rider is seemingly worked out,
either thru design or ignorance, to
destroy all national magazines, farm
journals, and marketing newspapers,
and to hand over the patronage now
enjoyed by these publications to the
local daily papers. Under the rider
publications will enjoy the present
rate of 1 cent per pound with radi.
us of 800 miles. This takes very
nice care of all daily papers, because
none of them has percentage or cir
culation outside of the 300-mile limit
that is worth while. Daily news
papers are not only local in circula-
ton but local in interest, aim, and
object when it comes to the cover
ing of news. The blow calculated as
a Knockout punch, which is aimed
at all publications having nation
wide circulation, appears in the pro-
posed measure fixing the following
second-class rates beyond tho 800
mile radius:
From 800 to 600 miles, 2 cents per
pound.
From 900 to 1000 miles, 8 cents
per pound.
From 1000 to 1,4O0 miles, 4 cents
per pound.
From 1900 to 1900 miles, s cents
over 1900 miles, cents per
pound.
The excuse for this proposed
change in rates is given as the cost
of handling the mail. 1t is very
plain to be seen, however, that If
mail matter can be
handled within radius Of 800 miles
Of the publishing point for 1 cent a
pound, then the rates beyond the
8 00-mile radius. as proposed, are ex-
cessive, and are calculated to dis
against the publication
with national circulation"
Germany has supplied potash to
fertilize American farms, but in face
Of the difficulty of shipment during
the war it has been proposed in
congress to start a home industry |
In producing potash, utilizing kelp
On the Pacific coast. In the course
Of argument Representative Moss
said that it will always be easier
TO get the fertilizer from Germany,
cheaper that is, than from the Pacific
coast, and that the question is simply
! competition between the cost of
bringing it from Germany and pro-
lucing it here, with the advantage
on the other side of the
ocean. He said further that there
ire very few farmers using potash
or our big staple crops. !
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-26

Tom Lawson might be termed the
political mosquito, whose motto: ad-
vance, buzz, sting, retreat.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-01-26
Foods for Children

The essentials of the diet of all
normal children are, Of course, the
same-namely, an abundance of
simple foods carefully prepared and
Of sufficitnt variety to provide for
activity, which in healthy children
is almost ceaseless during waking
hours, and for development into
healthy manhood and womanhood.
For this reason the general subject
of food for children will be discussed
before the special problems Of the
school lunch.
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CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D DIN G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

German raider reported off Atlantic
coast.
Cuba declares war on Germany and
seizes ships.
President Wilson issued war procla-
nation Friday.
Interned German ship at Guam is
blown up by crew.
French make notable gain on six
mile front near St. Quentin.
Republic of Panama resolves to as
sist the United States in war.
Army and navy being pushed to in
creased efficiency and numbers.
Government orders arrest of sixty
alleged German plot ringleaders.
Germans again lombard Rheims.
dropping $500 shells within the city.
In operations near Ronsscy, ten
miles north of st. Quentin, Field Mar
shall Haig's men have captured Lem
pire.
German positions in the region of
Lombartzyde, Belgium, were penetrat-
ed at two points, the Paris war office
announces.
Under blue Easter sky, British avi-
ators by the hundreds continued their
work of reestablishing their suprem-
acy in the air.
French violently lombard German
lines at st. Quentin and to the south.
Attempts to recover lost trenches fail,
according to Berlin.
British troops report gains made
near St. Quentin, between Selencya
and Jeancourt. Seventeen successful
raids carried out against enemy air
dromes.
The German successes at the To.
boly bridgehead on the Stokhod in
Volhynia are reported by Berlin 10
have resulted in the capture of 130
Russian officers and $500 men.
Sinking without warning of the un.
armed American steamer Missourian,
which left Genoa, April 4, with thirty
two Americans among her crew OF
fifty-three, was reported to the State
Department by Consul General Wilbur
at Genoa.
Aerial fighting of unusual intensity
reported on French and British fronts
in France. Total of rs aeroplanes shot
down In series of engagements and 10
German war balloons destroyed Lon
don says 1,700 photographs were
taken behind the German lines, re
vealing troop positions and artillery
emplacements.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
SPORT.
as an ally

The stakes which will be raced for
during the 1917 season in Austria and
Hungary will aggregate $2,OO0,0O0.
Buck Sterzer, who pitched fo1
Denver Club of the Western League
last year and the year before, is j
free agent. He was handed his un
conditional release by 'Hughie" Jones
owner.
The board of stewards of the Inter
collegiate Rowing Association, by a
telegraphic vote, declared off the in
tercollegiate regatta set for Pough
keepsie Thursday, June 81, on account
of the war.
Northwestern University won the
440-yard intercollegiate swimming
race in the tanks of the Chicago Ath
letic Association. Only Northwestern
swimmers participated in the event
The time was 1858 4-5, said to be 8
new intercollegiate record, the former
record, 4:02 3-5, being held by Yale.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
WESTERN.

"Be game and do your duty" is Sen
ator Stones advice to constituents in
Missouri.
Panic hit the Board of Trade Satur-
day when May wheat went whirling
aloft to So. 14A.
Fire destroyed the camp of field am
bulance Company A of the United
States Army near Fort Bliss, Texas.
Government agents reported to
Washington that word has been re-
ceived of President Carranza's i'm
prisonment in the palace at Mexico
City.
Five men were drowned and an
other is believed to be dying as the
result of the capsizing of a boat IN
the floodwaters of the Missouri river
at Bismarck, N. D.
Acting under instructions from
Washington, government officers took
into custody at San Francisco Lieut.
Wilhelm Won Brincken, aid to Franz
Bopp, former German consul general
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
FALLING HAIR means
DANDRUFF is ACTIVE
Save Your Hair! Get a IS Cent Bottle
of Danderine Right NoW-Also
Stops Itching Scalp.

Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy
hair is mute evidence Of a neglected
scalp; of dandruff-that awful scurf.
There is nothing so destructive to
the hair as dandruff. 1t robs the hair
of it's luster, it's strength and it's very
life; eventually producing a feverish-
ness and itching of the scalp, which
if not remedied causes the hair roots
to shrink, loosen and die-then the
hair falls out fast. A little Danderine
tonight-now-an time-will surely
save your hair.
Get 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine from any store, and after
the first application your hair will
take on that life, luster and luXuriance
which is so beautiful. 1t will become
wavy and fluffy and have the appear
ance of abundance; an Incompatible
gloss and softness, but what will
please you most will be after just a
few weeks use, when you will actual
ly see a lot of fine, downy hair-new
hair-growing all over the scalp Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
Old Looks?
(BY DIR. L. q. SMITH)

Persons suffering from too mach uric
acid in the system frequently: look older
than they should. They age faster and
the appearance of gray hair or baldhead
in early years is, indeed, often a sign of
uric acid. The face appears lean and
haggard, lines and wrinkles appearing in
young men or women.
The best way to combat this prema-
ture age and the obstruction to the
arteries and faulty circulation is of the
simplest: Drink copiously of pure water
between meals. This will not make you
fat, as it is only the water taken with
the meals that fattens. Obtain at any
drug store small package of Anuric,
which is to be taken before meals, in
order to expel the uric acid from the
system. The painful effects of backache,
lumbago, rheumatism, gout, due to uric
acid in the blood should quickly disappear
after treatment with Anuric.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
GEN e ERAL.

A gift of 100000 has been contrib
the commission for relief in Belgium.
Consul Lorrie reported to the State
Department the unwarned sinking of
the Portuguese bark Argo, New Or
leans to London.
Efforts of American farmers to
bring this years winter wheat crop to
record production for war time needs
apparently have been defeated by Sc
we're weather conditions and crop of
only 430,O0O,OOO bushels is now ex-
pected.
Capt. Alfred A. Fritzen pleaded
guilty in United States District Court
in New York to having conspired with
Capt. Hans Tauscher to blow up the
Welland canal and was sentenced to
eighteen months in the federal prison
at Atlanta, Ga.
A cablegram received in New York
by the Belgian relief commission stat
ed that the commissions steamship,
Anna Fostenes, which left New York
March 3, via Halifax, with $350,000
cargo of foodstuffs, for Rotterdam,
had been sunk
Pro-American sentiment is spread
ing rapidly in Mexico and Gen. Car
rama is reported to be considering
routing all Germans out of the Mexi-
can army, according to information
sent to Washington by United States
Consul Johnson in Matamoros.
United States armed forces seized
all German ships in all American
ports Friday-ninety-on vessels. It
was Americas first act of war.
A Columbia, Tenn, dispatch says
Andrew J. Armstrong, a negro, is in
custody upon the charge of rebellion
and treason in default of $4,000
bond.
The engagement was announced in
Boston of Miss Grace Lockwood, only
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas st.
John Lockwood of that city, to Archi-
bald Roosevelt. third son of Theodore
Roosevelt.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
BILIOUS, HEADACHY,
SICK ''CASCARETS''
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get a 10-cent box.

Sick headache, biliousness, dizzi.
ness, coated tongue, foul taste and foul
breath-always trace them to torpid
liver; delayed, fermenting food in the
bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the in
testines, instead of being cast out
of the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes con-
gestion and that dull, throbbing, sick
ening headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a 1O-cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14

country where he can buy land from
$1,000 to $4,000 an acre, which will
produce as big or bigger crops as those
he has been accustomed to from lands
at $4,000 an acre. He wants this
land where social conditions will be
attractive to himself and his family,
and where he can look forward with
confidence to being in a few years in
dependent, and well started on the
road to financial success.
All these conditions he will find in
Western Canada, and nowhere else.
The provinces of Alberta, Saskatche-
wan and Manitoba, commonly called
western Canada," provide the one
and only answer to the land-hungry.
The land is here; it is the kind of
land he wants; the conditions are as
nearly ideal as is possible, and the
prices and terms are such that the
man of moderate capital has an op-
portunity not available to him else
where.-Advertisem
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
PROVEN SWAMP ROOT
AIDS WEAK KIDNEYS

The symptoms of kidney and bladder
troubles are often very distressing and
leave the system in rundown condition.
The kidneys seem to suffer most, as az
most every victim complains of lame back
and urinary troubles which should not be
neglected, as these danger signals often
lead to dangerous kidney troubles.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root which soon
heals and strengthens the kidneys is a
splendid kidney, liver and bladder rem
edy, and, being an herbal compound, has
gentle healing effect on the kidneys,
which is almost Immediately noticed in
most caseG by those who use it.
A trial will convince anyone who may
be in need of it. Better get bottle from
your nearest drug store, and start treat
ment at once.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to- Dr..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. ~, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
FOREIGN.

Conditions in Spain have become
normal again.
Thirty-four are killed in explosion
of mine in British Columbia.
United States finds cause worthy of
her traditions declares Lloyd-George.
Kaiser orders that drafts of proposed
constitutional reforms be submitted to
him.
The Lafayette Flying Corps, COM
posed OF American aviatOrs, has shot
down thirty German airplanes, accord
ing to a semi-official Paris communi-
cation.
The complete text of President Will
sons message arriv ved in Berlin by
wireless. After a careful study the
foreign office declared that there will
be no official reply.
President Wilson's message align
ing the United States with the nations
fighting against Germany was warmly
welcomed and unanimously acclaimed
by the British people.
The French Cabinet at a meeting
presided over by President Poincare,
decided to have President Wilson's
war message to Congress posted on all
public billboards in France.
A Vienna telegram says that it is Of
ficially announced that 6,234,610,00O
kronen have been raised as result OF
the fifth Austrian war loan. The new
money is said to be 4,464, 900 kro
nen.
The Norwegian steamer Camilla
with cargo of corn for the Belgian
relief commission, according to Reu
ter dispatch from Copenhagen, has
been sunk without warning, with the
loss of two lives.
Minister of Justice Kerensky said ir
an interview at Petrograd that if the
German people would follow the Rus
sian example and dethrone their EN-
peror, 1--WE offer the possibility of pre-
| liminary negotiations.
A herd of nine American buffaloes
| obtained from Hagenbeck in Ham
burg, has just been taken to Sweden
through the efforts of Prof. G. V. Hart
man of the ethnographic department
| of the royal museum.
President Wilson'S appeal for dem
ocracy in Germany seemingly has ere
ated much apprehension in conserva
Give circles in Germany, judging by
the energy with which the Nationalist
and reactionary newspapers are cam
paigning against it.
France and America shook hands
across the sea. In every school il
the French republic teachers read tt
their pupils two historic speeches
that of President Wilson to Congress
and that made by Premier Ribot il
Parliament, greeting the United States
as an ally.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14

BEoils Carbu9nces, 9 M a Enlarged CO; Glands, %is,
eases, from common blotch or eruption
to scrofula, are benefited by it.
In building up needed flesh and
strength of pale, puny, scrofulous child
rem, nothing can equal it. In liquid or
tablet form.
FOR GOOD HEALTH AND LONG LIFE
Do not eat meat more than once day.
Drink plenty of pure water, exercise out
doors, and take pleasant laxative at
least once week. Such one is made
of May-apple, root of jalap, juice of
aloes, sugar coated, and first made up
and sold as DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
nearly fifty years ago.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
WASHINGTON.

Mammoth loan to allies is plan OF
administration.
Committee of Congress hears war
plans from Secretary Baker.
The Senate military affairs commit
tee decided to recommend the immedi-
ate passage of the $278,OO0,O0O army
appropriation bill
The War Department Cancelled the
schedule under which civilian training
camps were to be established this
summer throughout the country
Herbert G. Hoover will be asked by
the Council of National Defense to
head a national committee on food
supply and prices, to stimulate pro-
duction and to prevent speculative
prices.
German brutality and vandalism
among women and children, young and
old, in their retreat through northern
France, were arraigned in scathing
terms by Ambassador Sharp at Paris
in dispatch to the State Department.
A great, nationwide supply system,
with central depots and warehouses in
all the principal cities of the United
States, has been organized by the
American Red Cross to forward and
distribute all gifts and comforts for
American troops and military hosDi-
tails.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
BOSCHEE'S GERMAN SYRUP

Why take ordinary cough remedies
when Boschee's German Syrup has
been used for fifty-one years in all
towns in the United States, Canada,
Australia, and other countries, for
coughs, bronchitis, colds settled in the
throat, especially lung trouble. It
gives the patient good nights rest,
free from coughing, with easy expec-
toration in the morning, giving nature
a chance to soothe the infamed parts,
throw off the disease, helping the pa
tient to regain his health, assisted by
pure air and sunshine when possible.
Trial size 25c, and 75c family size.
Sold in all towns in the United States,
Canada, Australia, and other coun'
tries.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14

son and lmpurlty
Of your blood,
by DIR. Pierce's
Golden Medical
d i 8 ov cry.
Then there's q
clear skin and
a clean system.
TIE t ter, Salt
rheum, Eczema,
E ~xxCf fN41o q
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
The Soy Bean.

In 1915 the United States imported
more than 3,S37,OOO pounds of soy
beans, valued at approximately
$4,000; nearly 100000 pounds of
cake, valued at $4,000; and over
100000 pounds of oil valued at
nearly 100000.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
LADIES CAN WEAR SHOES

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot.Ease
the antiseptic powder for the feet. Shaken into
the shoes and sprinkled in the foot-bath, Aliens
Foot.Ease makes tight shoes feel easy and gives
instant relief to corns and bunons Try ii today
Sold everywhere, 25c. For FREE trial package
address, Allen S. Olmsted LIE Roy, N. Y.-Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14

There is more power in kindness
than there is in dynamite, but it takes
longer to develop it.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
Small Ones.

"This writer does his best work in
the small hours"
"Those kind of hours wCuld suit
me-"
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14

1t might be well to remember that
the lenthening of the days doesn't
prolong the reckoning of thirty
days obligation.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14

Humanity is unequally divided be-
tween those who can't stand prosper
ity and those who can't get any to
stand.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
Their Aruument.

Mary-I spend as much as you do.
Alice-Perhaps but have less to
show for the money.-Life.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14

Anuric cures Backache, Lumbago,
Rheumatism. Send 10c. DR.. V. M. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y, for large trial package
Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14

"Glad to meet you," is what one man
usually says when introduced to an
Other-but is he?
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14

1t is sometimes difficult to distin-
guish between a sympathetic person
and a curious one.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14

Be happy. Use Red Cross Bag Blue;
much better than liquid blue. Delights
the laundress. All grocers. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
The Usual WaV,

He-How did this fire 60 out?
She-I guess it went out by the fire
escape.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14

Concurrent Opinions.
isn't that girl peach?"
Indeed, she is; she is just sweet
enough to eat"
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14

Ten smiles for nickel. Always buy Red
Cross Bag Blue; have beautiful, clear
white clothes. Adv.
The Benson signal., 1917-04-14
Suitable Excitement.

Suitable Excitement.
Current events are lively"
eyes; sending electric thrills
through people,"