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PAGE POUE. MKMIIKII OK THE SCRIPPS MlllilllVKsr I.BA<iI i: OK NEWBPAPKItS. T.'l«-Kii"l>lil.- New* Srrrlw of the Halted PrcM A»»orlmluu by direct I c—d Wire. Kmtrred at the pomt»llirr, Taromn, 1v«»li., ■■ uniad-rlaai matter. I'ubliaked by the Tiimiiu Tines rut. Co. Uverr Uvenloit l£xeept .lauduj. THE CHOLERA The cholera army is marching against the Turks now. . The cholera army is never defeated iv times of war. The cholera army is non-partisan. When it has attacked and defeated one army, it attacks and defeats the army of the other side, then it rushes to the rear—to the homes—and rends both nations hip and thigh. The purpose of this greatest of conquering armies is to conquer and de stroy all the world and today the world is arming itself against the enemy which the petty little quarrelers of southeastern Europe have aroused as from a sleep. Even the United States, separated though it is by 3000 miles of ocean, is arming to fight the cholera army—fight it with science and the art of prevention. AVliile it would not bo surprising if cholera made its grand tour again in 1913, there is no need of vi United States folks getting scared. Lot us re mind ourselves that cholera yields to the forces of higher 1 civilization and that for that reason alone this country is reasonably sate against epidemic. At the same time wo should prepare ourselves so that we may assist the forces of civilization. We should know what cholera is and what to do when it comes, if it dot's come. Cholera is one of the "filth diseases," and resembles typhoid fever, though it is (juickei and more deadly. It is caused by a germ entering the stom ach in contaminated food or water, and multiplying in the intestines with tre mendous rapidity. The victim often dies in a lev? hours. One ease out of two is futal. The disease <lr;iins the body of water, turning the blood to a thick, slug gish mass which the heart can no longer pump through the arteries and veins. So quick is this action that sometimes the patient seems to wither away before one's eyes. A physician who has had experience in five cholera epidemics gives these rules for those who are exposed: Keep the house thoroughly clean. Carefully ventilate and disinfect. Bathe every morning in tepid water. Take plenty of exercise in the fresh air. Wear flannel shirts night and day. Abstain from eating uncooked fruit. Use the very best stimulants in moderation. Keep spirits of camphor and camphor pills for use in the event of cholera symptoms showing themselves. Wear a camphor bag. Trust in Providence, and sweep out, your drains. If you want to be almost absolutely sure against infection, never eA,t or drink anything from another person's hands if you can help it. Take food di rect from the stove yourself. If it is cold food, put it through strong heat again. Brink recently boiled water from a dish you yourself have rinsed in boiling water. WISHES ARE WINGS Wishes are wings, Upon them we mount to what heights we will. h The hoy who longs for the sea and whose heart leaps at the roar of the breakers and thrills at sight of.a sail is building his own ship. . The youth who sits spellbound by the words of the orator and makes the solitude eloquent with his own declamations is erecting hid own rostrum or pulpit. The child Napoleon playing ceaselessly with his wooden soldiers was making a new map of a continent. . Opportunity It is generated within himself. 1 Environment? Soul purpose goes through that as a flame goes through a sHeet of tissue. N< i But the wish must bo genuine, soul-deep. The artist cannot by mere wishing have the colors arrange themselves up on his canvas. The wish must bo virile chough to be a source of ceaseless effort and consummate skill. • -—* We become what we wish to become and we do what we wish to do, not through wishes that arc shallow and fleeting fancies, but earnest, constant (^earning of the soul. The scientific theory regarding the evolution of the eagle is suggestive. The dream of flight was there before the wings. Through generations of cease less longing, slow but sure development and adaptation went on until at last the eagle on mighty pinions soared triumphantly aloft toward the sun. There is hardly any obstacle, hardly any limitation, that mind cannot over come, v -. Soul will find its own, as surely and as irresistibly as the homing dove finds its cote, the bee the clover, and the seed-shoot the light it seeks. COLD STORAGE PLANT Tacoma's next campaign will probably be on the proposition of the munici . pal cold storage plant. * . / Superintendent Hall of the municipal dock is simply being smothered with business he cannot take care of because of lack of cold storage at the munici pal docks. Those posted say Tacoma can bring thousands of dollars worth of business here that does not now come and keep thousands here that goes away by providing a municipal cold storage plant. Friends of the idea also point ■ out that it might help to lessen the high cost of living in some instances. •:-;;i But when the city gets ready to launch this project, there will probably; be a wail from certain sources. .' pK i Like the statistics brought forth by private dock managers to prove that ,* Taeoma .would go broke on a municipal dock, cold storage men will come out and prove that a municipal cold storage plant will simply put Tacoma on the _skid@ that lead to . the bow-wows of financial ruin. I Bn-t Tacoma has learned not to take too seriously these bear stories of those "who are in the business and ought to know". \;. The city is now getting ready to include a cold storage plant in the new ■J municipal dock • so:citizens may as well get ready for a flood of reports and statistics and arguments emanating from those who have axes to grind to show that it cannot be done. . \ .*■ V {£v But indications are the city wilL go right ahead and do it and make a big- ''■ ger success even than has already been made with the municipal dock, which, by the way, will be going some^;i; ,ii; ■■ . %%&$ Gditorial Pa^e of Cfte Cacoma €imes THE TACOMA TIMES. WHO PUT THE Wilson's Bcnoai ieac»«4", who predicted he would some day be elected president has been discov ered. He lives in Manhattan, 111. First call for the school teacher who thra3hed little Woody Wil son. The state of Illinois had 022 fires with a lost* of $1,100,723 in October. The lows is almost as largo us Germany's for a year. A monkey talk dictionary lias been issued by n Frenchman. He must lie getting things ready for a political campaign, > I More misdirected energy— Collecting 10,000,000 postage stamps. Their Kepiitntlon at Stuke. "Why is it that Blank, the shirtmaker, and Irons, the laun drynian, do not speak when they meet?" "Well, you know, Blank adver tised a new, indestructible shirt. "Yes." "And Irons immediately In stalled more powerful machinery in his laundry." Why She Didn't Vote. First Suffragette—Did you vote tlie progressive ticket? Second Suffragette—l didn't vote at all. First Suffragette—Why not? You registered, didn't you? Second Suffragette—Yes, I was afraid someone would chal lenge my vote. You see, when they asked my age I was so flut tered I gave them my bust meas ure instead. How He Captured Her. Here is a copy of a communi cation sent by a young man in Cincinnati recently to a young lady at Dallas, Texas. It was typewritten, and it resulted in a wedding shortly afterwards: 2 lovers sat beneath the shade. And 1 un 2 the other said: "How 14 8 that you, be 9, Have smiled upon this suit of mine. If 5 a heart it palps for you; Your voice is mv 6 melody; 'Tis sweet to be your loved 1 2. Say, O nymph, wilt marry me?" She, lhipinK. said, "V, 131y." The Accepted Time. "De choir am now about to vociferate," said good old Parson Bagster during a recent Sabbath morning's service in Ebenezor chapel, "and uh-whilst dey am a-doln' of it I solemnly suggest dat de mothers of dem sassy child'en dat has been uh-'sturbin' de congregation take dis occasion to spank em. Dis special song will rise loud and high, muh sis taha, and so uh-whilst yo' do yo' duty dess do it wid zeal and lib erality. Spar' do spank and spile de child —give it to do lit tle varmints hot and heavy, and de Lawd will bless yo', and de rest of us will owe yo' a vote o' thanks. De choir will now po' foth delr hobanners.' <$> SOME OIL. <$> «> ——— "" J ♦ <3> BERLIN, Nov.. —In ♦ <£• connection with the cam- '■$> •*> patgn for and against a ■§> <$> private oil monopoly in G«r- «■ + many under government <?• <?> control in order to break the .<s> ■•> grip of the Standard Oil :<» ■» trust, It Is shown that *er- "®> <•* many imported last ! year <?> ■S> 9,950,000 tons of oil with *'">♦' • value of $16,000,000. \'<3> <$> c*4 EASY TO STAND ON YOUR HAT BUT—I IN GRANDPA'S SEAT. Prof. Nuttie Missed the Butterfly After All. "Ah, a lepidopterous insect of remarkable color!" "I must follow it." "Xow I have it.' "Gone again." "It's gone for sure, now, but was I crawling over or under or through this fence?" "It's rare that one of the yonng women of today knows how to knit," says one of the chiefs of the agricultural department. And there aren't many who know how to ran a spinning wheel, and there are v lot of men who could not write very well with a quill He i:\plnins "These doughnuts," began the man. "What's the matter of them?" demanded the Vere de Vcre be hind the lunch counter. "I think their inner tubes are punctured."—lJoston Kdvei'tiser. Only Thing To Do They wore motoring indolently through the park. Twilight had sat down upon the land. The sud don roaring of wild beasts from the distant zoo caused the fair one to start. "Oh, Jack!" she cried, nestling closer and closer, "where"would you go if you saw a dozen lions boiuulning along after us?" "If I saw a dozen lions bound ing after me," grinned the heart less wretch, "I'd go to a sanitar ium." —Judge. Involution. "Of course, you believe in evo lution?" "Yes," replied Mr. Cumrox. "My own recollection of curly (lays in tlie West remind mo that many .1 sivty-liorso-powei- limou sine can (race its financial an cestry lmck to a prairie schooner." —AVashingCon Slur. Andrew Carnegie's pprsonal taxes have been canceled by New York officials because he owes $8,400,000. Anybody who can owe that much money ought to pay double taxes just out of gratl ture. An 82-year-old man in Brook lyn has taken his fourth wife, Home folks may be disposed to criticise the old gentleman harsh ly. Itut not we. A man living in Itrooklyn is justified in doing anything for excitement. T. Ros*vvolt, the ex-president, says he lias adopted a policy of silence. You can't get ahead of T. It.. He's always thinking up some now policy. India has laws regulating the operation of areoplanes. The New York policemen's as sociation has written a letter to Muyor (Jaynor thanking him for his encouragement. Wo haven't heard of the association Rending a letter of thanks to the Decker jury. "Town Marshal Hickory Elud geon admits that a big tin star is a heap o' protection to th' chest when there's a cold wind a-blow in'." On the Altar of Fnslilon Football Athlete (in a towering rage)— What's become of my iiiisli-sKiii pants? His Mother — Now, Kverard, there'- no use of your raising a fuss. We had to cut them up to imikr a jacket for your sister.— Chicago Tribune. In New York City there Is a baby born every six minutes, a new building erected every 50 minutes, and a new business in corporated every 40 minutes. The wife of I)r. Pnrkhurot of New York, sold 10,000,000 post age stamps the other day, after spending years in collecting them. We're hegiiming to see why Dr. Parkhurst is a reformer. The New York subway carried 302,973,856 passengers in the past 12 months. Increase of 26, --269,060; daily average of 891,099 increase of 77,262. The subway was designed to carry 400,000 passengers a day. PHONES I f/sftafia I Il\/IlElk* uept . Main 794. OFFICE— 77O-778 JMMERCE ST. HK WlXfl THK EIHTOR'S ADVICE "Tacoraa, Nov. 18. "Dear Editor: "I am a young man 22 years old and have a rich uncle who offers me $13,000 provided 1 am married by Jan. 1 next. There are four young ladies who pretend or really do love me, but I cannot say that I love any of them. One of them said if I throw her down she will commit suicide; one the others said that if I don't marry her she will kill me. Please give me your advice. WORRIED YOUNG MAN." ANSWER —Why. you shouldn't be worried, young man. Think of all the zest that life holds out to you. There are many worthy young men in Tacoma who have uncles who wouldn't give 'pm two-bits on a bet; yea, they have relatives who would contribute fifteen rents only for rat poison to be used as a gargle. And to think that you have four beautiful gels who are crazy about you. Don't worry, young man. Maybe your uncle will invest all his money in an oil well before the New Year Rnd won't have a bean to give you; maybe the poor little gel who would commit suicide will marry a inotormau on the 1 lth street car line; maybe the other sloo-eyed beaut who would mangle your oadavar will join the Greeks and go off to Turkey to bat tle with the nioslem dawgs. Cberr tip. young man, the world is not bo dark as you paint it. —EDITOR. When I^|=ilis% v 3 When I have time, amid my myriad duties, 1 shall go forth and breathe the country air, I shall drink deep of nature's many beatifies, And 1 shall smile ou mortals everywhere. When I have time I shall give leash to pity And succor those amid the grit and grime, I shall briuK joy to sad folk of the city When I have time. When I have time and life Is not so harried I shiill be pleasant to each soul I meet. No little tiiinn shall pot my temper flurried, 1 shall be patient, tender, calm and Bweet. Now by a thousand duties I am haltered, Itjr frown is BHm, my anger prone to climb. But all this ugliness will soon be altered When I have time. When I have time to snatch away from lnbor I shall give thought to other tilings than pelf, I shall deal squarely, kindly, with my neighbor And treat him as I'd have him treat my self. When 1 have time iwhat visions I am seeing Of life that shall be lovely as a rhyme) I'm busy NOW—l*ll be a Human lieint', When I have time. Mothers, Wives, Sweethearts Hunt Beloved On Battlefield ALEXAVDER. THE MONTENFGRTN WHOSE MOTHER AND SWEETHEART PORE HIM PROM THE BATTLEFIELD. PODGORIZA, MoaUnegro, Nov. 21.—The women in Podgorltza waited throughout one long day, hearing the firing that sent its echoes over the mountains. Then a messenger came running into the city, Bhoutine that the Montenegrins had taken Tuzi, the Turkish fort, a few miles over the hills. The women, by scores, left tho town and tramped to the battle field, mothers, wives and sweethearts, seeking their dead or wound ed men. There was no weeping, or walling. TRo women, using carts, horses and sometimes their own shoul ders, carried their loved ones, or their corpses, back to Podgoritza, along the roads which a few hours before the soldiers had paced so bravely. That night scene, along the mountain roads with the flickering lanterns, the ramshackle carts, the struggling forms of men, and the plodding women, is, perhaps, one of the strangest in the history of warfare. I am sending a photograph of Alexander, a Montenegrin soldier, whose mother and sweetheart, clinging together like Ruth and Na omi, went out onto the battlefield and found him lying with his side torn open and his scalp torn partly away. There were no ambulances, nor Red Cross nurses The two women carried him not with tears, hut proudly, back to Podgoritza. tn.n 'm P S™", WaS tßken by Cai>t- E- de Kriglestein, an Aus trian military attache. It shows the women, and Alexander, at the end of their terrible journey. His face is twisted in pain but, ou their faces are expressions of satisfaction aud pride, more than sor- • t J! loTe tle? rly than in any other war in recent history you can see in this war the fact that a nation's fighting ability depends on the kind of men its women produce. h~ o * \JI *ft 1 a centur > r and more these Montenegrin have been talking planning and hoping for a war with Turkey. Women who were girls 50 years ago were trained to believe that the sona who «TJ^ l n, t0 thenl would some day tear the hated Turks into bits. \Vlwr, their sons were really born, they passed this belief to them. To kill on Turk, to kill a score or a hundred Turks has long been the dream of every Montenegrin youth and man * o Ti 1iV hel, c InZ1 nZ gootl huntl "B he'e?" an EnglUh sportsman asked a small band of Montenegrin boys, in the mountains „„ fB " rtepen2 Sv' th°l anß»'ered ' "o«» what you want to hunt. There are few deer, but we have had pretty good luck lately with TurU" Thurscl' ,*j»?^ / /j&V^