Here Is a Suggestion: Purchase An Inexpensive Scrap-Book, Clip the ' Pictures of the Life of Christ From the Times and Preserve Them TIIK TIMIS FIKST RKADKH O, see the Doctor. Where is lie; (Joins? lie: Is going to tilt up a Man's lii Miles. Why does he Do thin? He Need* the Ma/.uma. lias the Man got liny Mu/.uma? Yes, but he Will not Have it l/>ii!{. Would you Like to be a Doctor, Hollo? VOL. IX. NO. 309. PROGRESSIVE PARTY WILL STAND FIRM UGLIEST BRIDE KILLS WOMAN WHO LIED ABOUT HER Loveless, Soul-Sick Girl, a Drudge All Her Life, Wins Love at Last; Then Neighbor Woman Gos sips, and Cinderella's Romance Turns to Black est Tragedy. BY E. C. KODGKHS. IiOGANRI*OKT, Ind., Dec. 10. —Mrs. Elizabeth Clark Lung, a mere slip of a woman, 24 years old, Ik a murderess BKrAUSK Kill-: IS CGLYI Mr-. Juriic May Couple, aged 20, the mother of two little babies, lies in her grave, the victim of a niurdci-ess' bullet, BHCAUBB SHE HAD A SKKPKNT TON«1 TK!" The "ugly duckling" slaved at drudgery through all her child ish years, dreaming her "prince" would come along and claim her, just as Cinderella's did of old. The prince came at last, they were wedded and within 24 hours after that happy moment a great tragedy shattered this romance of common life. Mrs. Lang shot and killed Mrs. Copple. In the jail cell she told the story, between sobs. "She talked awful about me to my husband the very morning after we were mur rled, mid I xliot her. She lold my husband right aft er the first breakfast I bad rooked for him, right after he had kissed me goodby Mid gone to work, thut his bride wax 'lower'n dirt, ami uglier than sin!' That's why I killed her." "Oh, how I wanted to have somebody like me," she cried. "Even my own father hated me. He made me work, work, work, and when I wanted to go out, told me that no one wanted to see my ugly face. Night after night, for years I lay in my bed and cried because God had made me so different from other girls who had beaux and friends. "When I began to think no body ever would love me, Joe Lang came along. He never seemed to notice my homeliness, or the stories people told about me, end was so nice and kind to me. He was the only person In the world who had told me that I was 'pretty enough for him.' He proposed, and on PREACHERPOET CAUSES SHOCK (By United Press Leased Wire.) COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 10.—A. Diramitt, a Methodist preacher, created a sensation in this city by a sermon directed against modern dress now popular with women. A special portion of the sermon was the quotation from the pulpit of the following lines: "Little girl, you look so small; Doc't you wear no clothes at all? Don't you wear chemise or bhirt? Don't you wear a pretty skirt? Just your corset and your hose? Are these all your underclothes?" The poet ended with a predic tion that: "After a while, I do believe, You will dress like Mother Eve." REVOLT NO. 0000 (By United Press I/eased Wire.) PARIS, Dec. 10. —That Cipri ano Castro, former president of Venezuela, is about to launch an other revolution in that country, is the statement of Le Temps, a French newspaper here, today. CONSULT US If you wish to borrow money on real estate mortgage, buy a home or home site, rent a home or insure your property against (Ire loss. Calvin Philips &Co. til California Bid* Mala tl THE TACOMA TIMES Dec. 2, five weeks from the day 1 met him, we were married. I worked all that day making the wedding supper. "Next morning Joe kissed me geodby and went to work. Carrie Zimmerman came in to use our phone. She told me of the awful things Mrs. Copplc had said about me that very morning. "Why, that woman, with her Polhoii tongue, had stopped my husband as he was going by her home and told him that she couldn't see how anybody but a blind man could marry me. She said I was uglier than sin, and lower'n dirt. "My God! She told htm that I was so crazy to marry that I would give myself to any follow who came along, hoping to force him to marry me. And she told him that he was a fool to marry me when he could have had nic without that much bother. "Oh, it WM awful! I didn't know hlhii I was dome, until I found myself in front of Mrs. Coptic's house. I < all.-.I her out, ami she culled me the vilest names—nnd I shot—twice. I didn't even notice her two chil dren lutiiuiiiit to her apron. I only saw the woman who killed my happiness." The bride's father is held as an accessory, because ho was pres ent at the shooting and didn't try to stop it. Joe Lans, a hard-working young man, the husband of "the ugliest bride," stoutly refuses to believe that his wife of a day is guilty of murder. "She was crazy when she did it. The way folks talked about her was enough to drive anybody insane. Hut Prosecutor If. L. Fansler and Police Chief Morris are quite sure they can convict "the ugly duckling whom nobody but Joe Lang wanted, of first degree murder. That means a life term or death on the gallows. MILLIONS TO TESTIFY TODAY (By United Iff 1,<:.5.-.| Wire.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 10. —The New York stock exchange was put on the grill today by the house money trust investigating committee. When today's hearing began., bankers representing many millions of dollars were ready to testify. Because of the interest in the committee proceedings, the hear ings were transferred today to a large room in the large office building. THEFT $10,000 (By United Press Leased Wire.) VANCOUVTR, B. C, Dec. 10.— Instead of $300 an was reported. It is declared that $10,000 was taken from the passengers on the Imperial limited, which was held up here Saturday night by a sol itary man armed with a long bar reled Colt revolver. News Items From the Hicktown Bee The chef at the Palace Hotel Is us in' the hoi use vacume cleaner on ihe Tuoaday eve. hoiih with si,ll ilin' success. People who owe the Bee for subscriptions needn't hurry about paying up. The editor has a vast private fortune of $3.25 and believes In art for art's sake. (Sarcasm.) The feller that gets tanked on cocktails by 4 p. in. and still holds down a good Job Is a g-»od feller-well-met, says Lafe Watertower, whilst the horny handed toller who gets $12 a week and soused on Saturday night Is a hopeless sot. MONKEYING WITH jj*^ THE PHONE THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA In Mad Hatred This Woman Murders a Poison Tongue MRS. EIJZARKTH CLARK IiAXU; from photographs taken (he morning after the arrest for shooting ln-r detractor. lS v'3><2><3> ♦ « <& SANE ANSWERS TO <£ ' . FOOLISH QUESTION'S Q^^®®®® <.•><&■s> &■ I have freckles, a mole on my left eyelid, a wart on my chin, a boll on my right cheek, a pug; nose and superfluous hair on my upper lip. What kind of a veil should I wear?— Miss M. L.. Either sheet iron or reinforced concrete. Please tell me how to make an apple tart.—Mrs. O. \V. T. Pour vinegar on the apple. How ran I romove spots from a polka-dut waist?— Miss Nettle Dolly. Soak the waist in one gallon of water containing one pound of lye and bang in the sun to dry. How should a broom be held when not In use?— Mrs. E. ft. Don't hold it. Hang it up. Why do the Sixth ay. oars run three-quarters of a block beyond 11th St. when a fellow wants to got off at 13th. STRAPHANGER. Because the motorman doesn't turn off the juice. My little buy has found a little green snake. Do they bite? ANXIOUS MOTHER. Dear Madame: Green snakes may be every bit as dangerous as the ripe ones. I asked you what I should do with a dress that Is bo long It drags on Ihe sidewalk and gets dirty.. Satur day you answered, "Clean It." Do you mean the dress? PUZZLED PAULINE. No, the sidewalk. Please give me the recipe for a good face powder. GEUTRUDE. Mix a quart of ground clam shells with a pound of graphite, boil for 20 minutes, add a tea gpoonful of essence of corn husks, stir until thoroughly evaporated, and seal airtight In a gallon jar. TACOMA, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1912. WOMAN JUROR RECEIVES THREAT ■CLAHM SHF. IS ON VERGES OF MENTAL COMiAPMB BK CAUVfI OK KKCKIVIXO THREATENING MKSSAGES THROUGH THK MAILS. Mrs. Amanda Taylor is confined to her bed today and Mrs. Hattie Figina is on the verge of a men tal collapse because of threaten ing messages sent them shortly after they filed affidavits alleging they were coerced by jurymen to give a verdict of "guilty" in the arson case against Cris Farrell last week. Mrs. Taylor, who was drawn as a juror in the damage suit against former Commissioner of Public Safety Pettit and other members of the Tacoma police force, was unable to appear this morning. A. J. Lay cock was selected as a juror in her place. The messages were sent first to Mrs Figina advising her and Mrs. Taylor to say no more of what went on during the deliberations of the Farrell jury lest they be thrown into jail and otherwise persecuted. CARD HEARS DAMAGE SUIT 'Suspicion," the charge by which the police of every city in the country may hold a man when nothing more tangible is found against him, was today protected against all attempts at expose in the Pettlt alleged false arrest ease in Judge Card's court. After Adam Whiley, formeny night captain of detectives, had testified that he led a raid upon a room occupied by T. H. Cop pock and Charles Parklmrst in the Berkshire hotel on January 1G and arrested the two occu pants, Attorney Frank Kelley put the question: "On what charge was Coppock held?' "On 'suspicion,' " replied Wiley. "Will you explain what crime it is that you liook as "suspi cion'?" asked the attorney. An objection was raised and sustained by the court and Wiley was not permitted to answer. Coppock alleges he was arrest ed and held without a charge in the city jail during the time F. H. Pettit was commissioner of public safety. He is suing Pottit former Chief of Police Fraser and Detectives Darnell, Wiley, Royal and Albertson for $15,0 00. VICTIM IMPKOVKB SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10 Robert J. Widney, the Los Ange les realty broker, shot here in the apartments of Mrs. Vivien Lyons, who is held on a charge of at tempted murder, has passed the crisis, and physicians at Morton hospital declared today that his recovery is almost assured. CASH IS SHOKT NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—With the banks refusing- to lend except on gilt edged securities, leading bulls and bears joined in a sen sational raid on the Htock market today ami the entire trading list crumbled. For Tacoma and vicinity: Generally tonight and Wednes day. For Washington: Generally fair to night and Wednes day. DAREDEVILS OF ELEVENTH ST. BRIDGE WHO DAILY RISK THEIR LIVES AND SMILE —■ m .j- .. ■. ' a.',V4.-,>a.. 1 Crist Clirlstcnson and "lied ' Newton, steel workers on the new Kleventli street bridge, snap ped by Times photographer. Two hundred feet in the air they are perched on the wire tables that \ (•pan tlio steel towers. , # rift), these men are not Diablo brothers of ItiiiKimugh's World I mums shows. Xiir is there a Ki'Oiit net spread under them to hold them safe should they lose their grasp on those thin steel strings. Down underneath is a skeleton of steel beams, ami still further down, 200 feet, lire the cold suit waters of Commencement bay. These men are "Hed" Xewton, "the dare-devil of the new Klev entli street bridge." and his lei low workman, Christ Cristenson. Their parch is the ruble brae inn on tiu* viaduct that spans the lii.v at 11 tli wtreel. They are only two of 7T> steel Wofkeri and other mechanics who are building Tacoma's big bridge. Tliore is Pat Twohy, who Stands aloft on a floor beam di recting this daily aerial perform ance, watching the placing of every lieam and girder as the big skeleton rears itself into the air. . There are Happy Harry Thomp son and Charley Walters, hoist engineers; Ick Matthews and A. E. Johnson. No one of these has made a bobble since the brldgo began, and a blunder would have meant a workman plunged into 20(1 feet of sheer air—perhaps death. There Is an army of rivetters composed of two "gunmen," Ridy:e Uidgeway and S. Peterson; Dusty Williams, who heats the bolts and hurls them red and whistling to Whitey Connoway and Charley Peterson, who In turn pluck them from the air by means of buckets. One by one they are driven into place, the rivetting "guns" sending them home, clutching together the whole framework. There's "Peg," the utility man, who lost one limb in a fall years ago. "Peg" can walk a string, they say, without a tremor, rlglit out over the 200 feet of nothing ,n£ss. sin: WAS A GAME GIRL. (By United Tress Leased Wire.) ... SEATTLE, Dec. 10.—Miss Anna E. Lang has a bandaged arm today to show for her game defense against a burglar who attempted to relieve her of a watch pinned on her waist last night. ■ t. The burglar seized the girl from behind as she entered her room. She.dragged herself to a dresser, grabbed a re volver and ordered the stranger out. He refused and In (he scuffle which ensued she fired two shots, one hitting her own arm. There is the pile driving gang —Fred Dickson, Fred Keniston, Casey Jones, Bud Dickson, Andy Mortenson and Shorty Hector. They sunk the long shafts into the mud and rock upon which the great buttresses rest. Down on the big scow hooking the steel to the long lines are Moose Ritter and the "Bear Dancer." The "Bear Dancer's" other name is Ed Clark. He earned his name last winter when REFUSES DIVORCE TO PEOPLE WITH CHILDREN (Hy T'nltort Press Loused Wire.) SAX FRANCISCO, DM. 10.- --"Xo people who have children are going to be given a divorce in my court before Christmas." This is the edict today of Supe rior .Judge Graham, and couples with conjugal difficulties must bury them until after the reign Yes, Old Santa Claus Will Make a Special Trip To the Little Cottage In Lakeview Tomorrow Morning Santa Clans isn't due around these parts, in the ordinary run of things, till midnight, December 24th. But Santa Claus—he's the same good old scout to day as he was fifty years ago—is equal to emergen cies. So tomorrow the jolly old chap will make a special visit to the family of John Leasing, and it would do your heart good to see what a big automobile-load Santa Claus will drop down the chimney of the little cottage in Lakeview. Times readers have been quick to respond to the ap- Mil TIMKB Mil-. I HKADKIt Jjook Archibald, at the funny l.ilfli' num. Is he Admiring a new Hat? No, lie in DlgKinK up an Old I i.l that lie Hought in '»2 and he will Wear it Thlh Winter. Ain't the Poor man on the framework, reminded them of a hear. And no the bridge glows, d»y hy day.. On January I it will he ready for traffic, mid when the throng; passes <>ver its paved ROOT few of them will think of the dare-devils who risked their lives every day they worked—and ] smiled. of Santa Claus. "Divorce is bad enough at any season," Mid the judge, "liut the IdCfl of little children waiting up Christmas morning with nothing but the memory that their par ents have just been MpSTftted forever is too sad to bo endur able." peal made for John Leasing, his wife and the three youngsters. The larder is no longer bare, for Time* readers have provided plenty of • good, wholesome food; John Less ing and his little brood n.«<■ cold, for Times render*) have been generous with their gifts of mm clothing. The Times automobile will deliver the gifts tomor row, and - the Lessings have the opportunity to begin a new lease of life. John l.f'ssinn walked into the Times office yesterday from Lakeview, and carried back a big hamper of good things to eat. There was a bountiful supper in the Ift tle home last night, where there had been scant fare the night before. And the wholo Leasing family par took with hearts full of thanksgiving and gratitude to the readers of this news paper who hesitated not an hour in coming to the front. Ho, Santa Claiift will imiko Ills Npecinl visit to the Ijcwilnfr home tomorruw nioruing. What go**! would the old COLONEL SAYS NO PARTY MERGER (Isy United I'rcss I/eased Wire.) CHICAGO, Dec. 10. — Speaking lit-loif I lie bull MOM conference hero today Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, by inference only, rliin iii.ii'd himself us the real leader of the new i>roj>i' party. He insisted that the party had collie to stay and pleaded for its rep resentatives in RMgltM and stato legislatures to Work haul to carry a proKi-fKhiv" legislative program especially for leK'^lalion which provides fur federal supervision of trusts. Hundreds of delegates wedged i In when the doors to the confer- j enco rooms at the I.;i>:illc hotel were opened. Col, noo.sevplt, Oscar Str.Tusa and St'iiator Dlsoß were greeted with cheers. The delegates rose en manse when .lane Addanis of Chicago entered. Col. Hoosevelt shook her hands. Senator Dlxoa called the meeting to order at 10:05 a. in. Roosevelt Biiid In part: "We have fought a great fight. We RCMMBplMied more In 00 day* than any other purtv in history ha,s accomplished in such a lim ited time. We forced all the otn er parties and candidates to at least gl\e Up service to progre*» ■ slve principle*/' Roosevelt denounced popular contributions to campaign funds, and said: "I am willing that the party should take, large contribution* if honestly offered In exactly ott the same terms and exactly the same .spirit ,'lh when offered by the Kinall contributions. The test of the gift is the motive and not the size. "Kvcry law proponed in the so rial and Industrial planks or our platform," he said, "should be pressed. Our people should ex pound our policies in the school houses and before grugM as well as in the great industrial cen ters." "No party which denies to the people the rlßht to secure justice, ittCh as the procraMlTM propose, has tho right to claim credit for sincerity in any effort or work for social and Industrial Justice. "In the matter of leadership both local and national, no man should come into the party with the idea that he can establish a claim, iio must be content with the opportunity It offers for ser vice and sacrifice. 11 fellow be If In canes like this he was 100 proud or too busy to make speviul visit*? Ah, not ..1,1 shim.,—he isn't built on theme lines! MAYOR GAYNOR SUED FOR LIBEL NEW YORK. Dec. 10.—Declar ing that Me told only the truth In assorting that certain aldermen extorted graft from news stand 11 --oenMa, Mayor Gaynor haß filed an swer here today to the $100,000 damage suit Instituted against him for libel by Alderman Henry Cur ran. NEAR BURGLARY Patrolman Noose heard the sound of breaking glass as he was passing the plant of the Hill Cer eal Co. at 1905 Jeffereon ay. early today. He Investigated and found a broken window; also two Indis tinct figures vanished into the fog as the cop came on the scene. Nothing missing. WANT to sell Your Home? A TIMES WANT AD WILL DO IT!