Will You Help the Times Send That Auto Load of Food and Clothing to the Lessings Wednesday? If You've Never Helped Others, Here's Good Place to Begin THE PRIMER. O, see I In- Man walking Along so I ;isl. Is he Kunning to a Fire? No, Helene, but his Wife told him to Got a AViggle on with His Christmas shopping and lie Dassen't forget. VOL. IX. NO. 308. THE LESSINGS WILL SURELY BELIEVE IN SANTA CLAUS The Times on Saturday printed the story of John Leasing and his fam ily of four—their destitution and needs —and the Times said then that it would send an auto-load of food, clothing and other necessities to the Les sings by Wednesday— IF— The readers of the Times eared whether the Lessingfl had a cold, cheer less shack and a hare larder; grim things lor the holiday season. The Times was rißlit; there will lie an auto-load of clothing and food and a little purse of money, too, for beginning early this morning, folks began to bring these much-needed things to the Times office for the Lessings. Many things are still needed; non-perishable provisions and groceries, clothing for John I-.es slng and his wife and for his little girl (Sj, the little boy (C), and the baby, who is only two years old. And while you are planning on what you are going to have Santa Claus bring to your wife and youngsters—don't forget John Leasing and his family of four. The Lessings have been in Tacoma five weeks; they have been playing in almighty hard luck. Lesstng has been too ill to find work, and since Tuesday, when they were thrown out of lodging rooms for which they could no longer pay, have been living in a small cottage at Lakeview gen erously turned o^er to them by an utter stranger. The Lessings have been accustomed to better things than sheer destitution. But when every avenue of relief seemed closed, they applied to "the county" for help; but the law is the law. "The "county" cannot help the Lessings even though they might be perishing for want of a crust because they haven't lived within the county for six months. That's the law! So far as the authorities are conceriuMl, then, the Lessinns may starve to death between now nnd Christinas; the county will bury Ihem, for there is M law against that. The Times believes that Tacoma people with warm hearts in their breasts will not mind very much that the Lessings have not lived in the county for six months; and these people who are willing to help the Leßsings with clothing or foo 1 or a little money are invited to send their con tributions to the Times office, Ninth and Commer o, not later than Wednesday morning. On Wednesday the Times will send whateve" gifts may come to the Lessings in an automobile. So, whilst you are planning what Santa Clnu • will bring to your little Johnnie aiu] your little Mary, don't forget that there are three little youn .' ters in that bare cottage at Ijakevicw watching and waiting. They believe that there is a Santa ( I.in-, too! TAGOHI GETS BLACK HAND LETTER Bearing the sinister imprint of a black hand, a letter addressed to O. Oeitelgoerte, the proprietor of the Wakefield hotel, 1218 1-2 South Tacoma avenue, had tlie effect of throwing Oeitelgoerie into a panic of fear today, and he sent in a hurry call for the police. The le/ter simply demanded that Oeitelgoerte give up $2,000 to "the black hand" or he would have cause to regret it. The police are investigating the affair, although it is believed that Oeitelgoerte is the victim of •• practical jokers. AH, HERE'S PANSY (By United Press Leased Wire.) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 9.—Mrs. Pansy Lesh, acquitted in Sedalia, „, Mo., of murder following a sen sational confession here of two crimes, will return to Los Ange les, according to word received today by her husband, Warren C. Lesh. #><$ v<£«'<&<3>@> .♦ ■ • & SANK ANSAVRItS TO <$> • FOOLISH QUESTIONS ♦ <$> <§. < §> Please tell me how to take the wrinkles out of a washboard.—C. B. Place the washboard in a tub ■ of hot suds. Massage the board vigorously with a piece of wen soaped cloth and eventually the ■wrinkles will wear out, or you will. When on the street, should a gentleman walk on the Inside of a lady or on her outside?—J. D. B. s>3>3>s>.s> c. <»> ♦ rarer POLICE AUTO. <$■ • <$> ♦ The city council this <•> ♦ morning authorized Commis- ♦ ♦ sioner Mills to call for bids ♦ ♦ for a five passenger grey- <£■ ♦ hound for the police depart- ♦ ♦ ment. # •$• 'si"s>^>"s><^vs> SI'IT OVKII WATKIt, Charging that the water siipply afforded through the mains of the city Is filthy and unfit for use, the city of Chehalis today filed suit against the Washington-Ore- gon corporation which supplies (he water Chehalis Js to estab lish a municipal water system now. MUSLIMS OFFER rHAYI;It CALCUTTA, Dec. 9.—Public meetings are being held by Mos lems throughout India at which prayers of intercession for the integrity of the Turkish empire and the safety of the sultan are o!fe>-ed up. A ROMANCE OF SAWDUST HEARTS, WITH AN APPEAL TO HUMAN HEARTS BY FRED L. BOALT. On the day of which the tale tells, which was a week before Christmas, Peter, the boy doll, got up very early, as usual, and, whis tling to Rover, started for the farthest corner of the nursery to tend the flock of woolly baa-lambs which were grazing on the fringe of the rug. Peter and Rover had been on the job but a little while when Clarabelle Montgomery of Prospect Hill came tripping along, bound for Table-legs Forest. Clarabelle was very pretty, and Peter was secretly in love with her, but he did not dare tell her so, for Clara belle's father was awful rich, and they lived in a big house, while Peter lived in a hovel with his widowed mother and Rover. "You'd better not go into Table-legs Forest," warned Peter "There's a Teddy Bear there." But Clarabelle only turned up her nose and passed on. Now, to get the straight of this story, you must remember that the dolls' day begins when the children's has ended, and they are in bed and fast asleep. Along about 8 or 9 o'clock in the evening the toys, which have been asleep all , the time the children were playing with them, wake up and begin having fun on their own account. So it. must have been as early in the morning as 9 o'clock In the evening that Clarabelle slipped away from home and caught tho interurban choo-choo train for Rug Station. The engine the kind that winds up with a spring—made good time. At Rug Station CUrabcllp found a wooden policeman, who told her how to get to Table-legs Forest. It was a few minutes later that she passed l'et.T and Rover. For a long time Peter sat dreaming of Clarabelle and won dering why it was he could not make a hit with her. It must be admitted that at times Peter wus a rude boy doll. On one occasion, when Clarabelle wag giving a party to which Peter had not been SUFFERING, HE ASKS 10 BE KILLED (Ily United Press Leased Wire.) NEW YOIJK, Deo. o.—Unmis takably sane and well aware of what lie was saying, the earnest cane of John McAllister, .V> yeurs ines iv the Padded Poets which we Rive away at Christmas time, but no bright, uplifting thoughts of the Fog would come. "Write me a comic ditty about the Fog," -„<■< l the Kditor, turning with fine scorn from tlie Police Reporter to the Court House Reporter. The Court House Reporter mnde twenty-seven attempts ami vtith a shrill scream of agony fled through the back door und ran nindly up the Ninth street bill. "Write me a comic ditty about the Fog," snid the Kditor, of the man at the Fifth Deck. This man bus it veranda-like brow and his hair is gray at the temples; he is ti scholar. He pored studiously o'er the thirty volumes of the F.ncyc. ltrittanica, skipped through the pitges of the Old l'aiin ers' Almanac and emptied his waste-basket—but not a line on the Fog. "Darn it all," said the Kditor savagely. "Can't you men Write anything about the Fog? Well, I'll do il myself." Ami after wrestling with the weighty subject for an hour 'and ten minutes the Chief evolved the following scintillating ■feeni: "PKF.TTV FOGGY, ISN'T IT?" ROOSEVELT IN CHICAGO READY FOR CONFERENCE CHICAGO, Dec. 9. —Theodore Roosevelt, former president, and 200 New York and Ntw England progressive leaders arrived here at 1:00 o'clock this afternoon for the national conference of tho new party, which is to be held to morrow. More than 500 adherents wel comed Col, Roosevelt and tils par- PRETTY WIDOW CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER (By I'/iited Press Lcjiscd Wire.) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9. — Mrs. Frances Vivien Lyons, In whos«; apartment! here last week Robert .1. Widney, a wealthy Los Angeles real estate man, was shot, was formally charged today with assault with intent to com mit murder. Widney, who has been in tlie FOGGY SEATTLE SKATTLE, Dec. 9. —Seattle is beginning to see daylight today, after being enveloped in the heaviest fog in years all yester day afternoon and last night. No accidents were reported, but nav igation on iuget Sound was mote or less impeded. ty at the Twelfth street station and cheered their leader vocifer ously. Prior to Colonel Roosevelt's Urlval, Chairman Perkins wished to call a meeting of the national progressive executive committee bat us no quorum was obtainable the session was postponed until later in (he day. Morton hospital since the shoot ing, is better and probably will ret-over. Mrs. Lyons has been held here in detinue since the shoot ing. The action in charging Mrs. Lyons with attempted murder, the woman and John Rutlidge, her attorney, say meets their wisiies exactly. MILT. GET! VKHDKT. The jury in the case of the Menzer mill against the North ern Pacific and Harriman rail ways for burning their shingle mil] at South Tacoma, this morn ing returned a verdict in federal court for $2,000 against the rail ways jointly. Invited, he had stuck his tongue out at her and called: Smarty, smarty, gave a party; Nobody came but a big, fat darky. Peter was pondering this incident and wishing he hadn't be haved bo badly when a shrill scream rang out upon the chill air Quick as Peter was, Rover was quicker, and when Prter had en tered the edge of the forest he saw a ferocious Teddy Hear chas ing Clarabelle, while Rover was on the heels of the bear: By and by Rover caught up and gave the bear a good nip. The bear turned with a savage growl and reared on his haunches and plucky Rover attacked him with great vigor. Peter, who happened to be armed with a stout cudgel, execut ed a neat flank movement and hit the bear, who was too busy fighting Rover to notice, a very severe wallop on the bean. Then, when the l>ear was dead, Peter stood with his foot on the brute's neck, while Rover, stood by, wagging his tail. They made an imposing picture. By this time Clarabelle had recovered from her fright, and she approached Peter and cried, "My hero!" and Peter replied: "My darling!" and they indulged In other kinds of mushy talk which people use when they get engaged to be married. • • • About this time two middle-aged humans In another part of the house were talking sleepily and yawning. By and by one of them—the one in trousers—who had been reading the Times, got up, stretched, and said: "Me for the hay." "Bfflore you go, dear," said the one in petticoats, "how about the chliritvin'a Christmas" '"Ciav'B wour problem, not mine," growled the one in trousers. "But, ' Complained petticoats, "they have so many toys now. And most cf them are perfectly good. My goodness, the nursery is all cluttered up with them, aa it is. And what we'll do with a lot more I'm sure I don't know." THE riltMKlt. O, why does the Office Boy smile? O, that in Ih-i'iiiim- He Is So oblig ing iind anxious to Itiin your l.r ruiMls for You. Has the Child Rone daffy? No, Itollo, but Christmas is coming- HOME EDITION DOCTOR PLEADS FOR SON TO CURE HIM OF DISEASE Little Stanley Edwards Has bom with the genii of the deadly "white platilie" in his spine. That (CM eight years ii^ii. Today Ills lather, Or. Charles It. Kd wards of i:ilensliiii i;. li pleading; ; that I lie superior court of I'ierce county give him back his hoy from his divorced wile loRR enough to enable a cure to be el fect cd. | "I can save my eon from be coming a poor twisted cripple," says Dr. Edwards. "It will take me four years, but I can do it if ! the court will set aside the order i giving my former wife his sole j custody for that length of lime. "When 1 have made my boy straight he may go back to his mother." And that is why .Indue Clifford I today issued an order demanding j <£• <£■ <$> <$> €> G> 'i> ■& •'» *i> •$■ « <• <» <%> -£' -i ••- ?><•><«>■§><»• 4 <» <♦> GOOD DEED «O YEARS .AGO REMEMBERED. <>• ♦ . <■#. ■>> PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 9. — Because he befriended a ■♦• if man 30 years ago, Dr. Nealon, a blind physician here, is today ♦• <•> $30,000 richer by a sum bequeathed him by Frederick Sherl- •* ♦ dan of California, who died four weeks ago. ♦ Dr. Neaion declares he will give half the legacy for the ■•■ building of a hospital for Hie blind where patients may ob- <» ■■•> tain the services of skilled masseurs. * ♦ <$>■ '»• <$> <•' •*> •*■ '?■*s>•s>'?>?■ $> •?< &> WANTS CASH Nellie Storle, with a $4 0,000 judgment against Fred Hogan for a breach of promise, does not propose to let the matter drop until she gets the money. This morning Ralph Woods filed an af fidavit in federal court staling its believed Nora Maolny had prop erty belonging to Hognn and the court ordered her to come In within 20 days and make a show ing of such possessions. HUBS FOR FINGER. N. E. Holniberg Is asking $1, --06n from the rity of Tacoma in Judge Clifford's court today for one stiff finger. He claims the city, due to a defective sidewalk on South C street, caused the stiffness of the member. 30 CENTS A MONTH. of Mrs. Eva A. Edwards that she appear before him and show canst* why the child should not be turn ed over to hi.s father. The Edwards were divorced by Judge Clifford to June, 1912. Attorney J. Matthew Murray waft Mrs. Edwards' counsel. in his petition for the setting aside of the former order of court Dr. Edwards has .said his son eanio into the world inheriting the tubercular germ, a peculiar form of the disease, in fact, known a» "Potts" disease, "f'otts" disease affects the spine. The father says nil son is now a helpless cripple, with his spine bent sadly. He declares neither himself nor his wife are able financially to stand the expense of procuring a. physician other than himself to attend the child. CITY PLANS PAY RAISE A new salary ordinance will be introduced in the council next Wednesday for city employes. I'olioe and firemen are to get a salary raise next year. Commis sioner I,awson is also figuring on raising .his men in the light and water department. Whether the rest of the council will agree with ' him or not will be Been when he brings in his recommen dations. MOB LYNCHES THREE NEGROES (Hy United Press loused Wlre.> MOBILK. Ala., Dec. 9.--Tele granis from Ohoctaw county brine (he newg that an enraged mot> hanged three negroes there early today for assaults on white girls. Six negroes \vt;re rescued by of ficials and are en route here tor safe keeping. I News Items From I the Hicktown Bee i , Owing to a leak In the ljcl lera of the orpin at the M. K. church yesterday, the music wan all vocal. Quite a lot of fencer nround .Hicktown ix being whitewash ed Just now. ■ A collection agency can't do. much good In a amall . town, ■ay* Lafe Watertower, 'rauno everybody belongs to the Rama lodge. ■ w_: WANT to sell Your Home? A TIMES WANT AD WILL DO IT!