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A Great Christinas Gift
The great white plague is doomed.
Second in importance only to an announcement of the discovery of the
fountain of perpetual youth, The Times today brings to its readers the story
that at last science has triumphed in its world contest with tuberculosis.
Consumption, that wasting, withering blight that has hung like a pall
over the nations is about to be destroyed—is being destroyed in fact, as fast as
the victims can come in contact with the great source of healing.
The marvelous story of -Mr. Shepherd, specif representatives of The
Times, who went to Europe and made special and painstaking investigation of
the rumors concerning Dr. Friedman's discovery, will come like a beacon of
hope to million! in this country as in the rest of the world. After weeks of pa
tient investigation to make sure that there could be no trick about it all, that
the apparent results of Dr. Frtendman were not mere evidences of quackery,
Mr. Shepherd finally was forced to a realization that the news which he hail
felt was too good and too big almost to be true was in fact a reality and he
cabled the story to The Times from Berlin.
Coming just at this Christmas time it almost appears like a special dispen
sation of providence. The story itself is almost supernatural in its character
istics. Certain it is that the supreme mind of the universe seems to be using
the small things of earth to confound the mighty when to a mere youth only re
cently From college is biven the insight to take from the crawling and igno
minious turtle the serum that means the supreme blessing to humanity that
must come from a destruction of tuberculosis.
Like a fairy story in interest the facts presented to Tacoma readers by
The Times today furnish the most joyous circumstance that humanity has
known for years.
For less than $1.00 Dr. Friedman says the worst case of tuherculosis in
the world can be completely cured with the new serum.
It is almost equal to the raising of the dead.
Sentimental Lie Nailed
"Uncle Joe Cannon leaves the house with the love .and respect of friend
and foe alike."
This is the report that is going the rounds of the sentimental organs, it
is a lie, a lie that should be nailed.
This man Cannon, ex-speaker, was, for many years, the willing, powerful
tool by which gross wrongs was perpetrated upon the people. He held almost
supreme power and used it to put through congress laws that enabled the ras
cally rich to rob the poor and to appress the whole country. He was a leading
party in the political vilencss that has recently been repudiated by the nation
and, particularly, by the honest people of his own party. He has been repu
diated by the nation, by the congress and finally by the people of his own dis
trict, justly, decisively and, we hope, eternally. To say that he is an object of
universal love and respect is a lie.
No matter how rich he has become, no matter how greatly he has enjoyed
the power that he has held, no matter what high-up friends he has made, this
man Cannon has failed to win the love and respect of the people. These are
the real prizes of public service. With thousands of new and hungry officials
soon to take part in the administering of government, there should be no agree
ment with the proposition that to follow in Joe Cannon's footsteps moans pop
ular love and respect.
Who and What?
The report of the Taft campaign committee of New York state contains
one feature that appears novel to us, and we hope that some down-east patriot
will dig up the particulars. The committee says it has a balance of $10,625
with which to meet, among other liabilities, four loans aggregating $74,850.
Who made the loans? What, if any, was the security for their payment?
Was anything mortgaged in Mr. Taft's behalf? Was any agreement en
tered into under which the lenders were to receive any advantage ! We can
imagine donations made without a consideration, or security, but loans—well,
we'd like the particulars.
It Might Shock Them
Canton, Ohio, the home of the late President McKinley, now has a social
ist mayor. A socialist mayor—think of that? What a marker that is to indi
cate the actual revolutionary change of political sentiment in this country
during the past ten years. What comment would the major and his friend,
Mark Ifanna, make on the subject if they were alive today !
In the fact of such a change who is today radical enough and reckless
enough to correctly predict what will come about in the next twenty years 1
Do your Christmas shopping now—
and in our own good old town!
Having happily disposed of the grue
some lal>or of giving away all but 25,
--000,000 worth of his estate, Carnegie
feels prepared to die a pauper.
The verdict in that Lawrence murder
trial is not remarkable. What is re
markable is that there should have been
such a trial.
National woman's suffrage associa
tion demands an equal standard of mor
als for man and woman. It is a matter
that lies almost wholly in the hands of
the women of the nation.
"What is one to do," writes George
Y. Pearsone, "when a lady proposes to
you in this leap year?" Tell her it's too
sodden; that she'll have to wait till next
leap year. Or, call in your ma and the
police, Georgie.
Gditorial Pasc of €lv Cacoma Cimes
Eat onions and live long, says Hetty
Green. May be the thing, Hetty, when
the family is unanimous.
The Turks fell back on their rear rap
idly and in disorder, cables a Balkan
war correspondent. Ha! now we see the
reason for those nice big soldierly
skirts.
To humiliate a man start a story that
his wife whips liiin, advises Ed. Howe.
All right, maybe, Ed. But suppose his
wife hears of it and concludes to dem
onstrate on the starter of that story.
Eat eggshells and be healthy and
happy, says Prof. Lowe. Oh, hang it
all! make it diamonds, rubies or some
thing else we can get!
By the way Bill Taft is now howling
for a workman's compensation act we
judge that Bill is thinking of getting
down to work for wages, fees or some
thing like that.
THE TACDMA TIMES.
NOTHING SERIOUS
IN THE GOOD OLD CHESTNUT TIME
By the Junior Office Boy
n. y., dec. 2. —got to have
your eye open for all kinds of
funny games in this burg
feller from omaha that come
here a few days ago found that
out
It pretty near cost him his car
fare home, also his sundial and
stickpin and all the other bricka
brack lie hud hangiu on him
he was stoppin at a swell ho(el
and one evening after seeing a
show he went out for a little
■trail
walkin through a cross .Btreet,
he Been a yung lady tryin a koy
in a door
it dident seem to unlock, and
just as he came along, she says
oh, dear
of course that made him stop
for just a minute, to see what was
the mat'rr, and she says, pleas?,
sir, will you see if you can open
the door for me
ive be< n trying ever so long,
and my key dont seem to fit
so being real obliging, Just like
any other gentleman from omaha,
he took the key and he tried to
unlock the door
the yung lady stood quite clos"
to him, and tried to help him
The Weiner Quartet a Howling Success
Misdirected energy—
Eating spaghetti with a fork.
Calling restaurant pies by dif
ferent names.
(Jiving a college yell.
Hunting rabbits.
Trying to find a clothes-hook
on which some of your wife's
clothes are not hanging.
Telling your husband not to
drop cigar ashes on the floor.
Only 82 sailing vessels were
built in the United States last
year, and their total tonnage was
only 10.092 tons, showing most
of them were small boats.
The United States produced
$96,233,528 worth of gold last
year, a decrease of $3 6,576 com
pared with 1910, and an in
crease of $17,062,528 com
pared with 1900.
A province of Chile has two
floating schools for the benefit
of island residents.
i
Our Idea of Henry Eyebrows.
Judge Mulqueen raised his eye
brows and read the order. —New
York World.
Buenos Aires Is preparing to
build a $17,000,000 reservoir for
storage of" city water.
In many German cities of con
siderable size the soda fountain is
unknown.
Seat sale tomorrow for "The
Romance of the Underworld."
Taconia theater.
"Advertisement."
once he felt her hand on his
arm, and it dident feel a bit bad
binieby the door come open, all
of a sudden
the yung lady thanked the kind
hartod man, giving him a very
lovely smile, and she was just
saying good night when two large
husky guys some dashing up the
steps
they grabbed the gerl, and the
gent from oinaha was just going
to swing on them when one of
them flushed a police badge
we was watching from across
the street, yung feller, he says,
just look yourself over and see If
youve lost anything
so the poor boob did, and by
golly he had lost everything ex
cept what was buttoned on him
i got to hand it to you, mamie,
says one of the bulls, you sure are
;i quirk worker
so mamie had to go with the
cops, and her frend went along
and got his stuff back at the sta
tion
and he will see all the beauti
ful 1 y.u-ng ladys in new york freeze
to deth on their doorsteps before
ho will ever help anuther one
johny
THE IKTUKPIIETKK
I never saw yon arching skies
Until 1 saw them in your eyes.
I never knew the word "rejoice"
Until I heard your magic voice.
I never found where there was
1)1 IBS
Until I knew it at your kiss.
All things that are, to be, and
were
You give me, sweet interpreter.
—IDAH M'GLONE GIBSON.
Russia leads the world In
wheat production, this country
second. The two combined pro
duce more than one-third of the
world's 3,600,0'J0.000 bushels of
wheat. Russia produces nearly
thirteen times as much rye as
the United States.
"If steak Is too high, eat a
plate of beans," said a doctor at
the homemakers' conference In
Chicago. "Imagine they're steak
and you won't know the differ
ence." The doctor apparently
has an idea that nobody knows
beans.
The, United Kingdom consumed
4:39 pounds of tea per capita
last year; Australia, 6.83; Can
ada, 4.34; the United States,
1.06; Russia, .90; France, .07.
Sign In a Pacific aye. window:
"Our Shoes Are Made to Wear."
Good. That'll head off anybody
who might want to play marbles
with 'em.
The Editor Escaped.
The peaceful quiet and trmi
mility of our beautiful little city
mis ruthlessly disturbed this
"limit; when the Klitteiing; bar
■cl of n HH-ciilihrM- Smith & Wes
-on advance agent of death in the
'lands of a frenzied citizen of the
Capital city, who was suffering
from a slight mental aberration
lue (<> the excessive use of in
;o\icatiuj; liquors, was seen to
.lash brilliantly in the bright
lays of the warm sun near the
•nit i invest corner of Ihe square.
—Newton (la.) News.
Oil was struck" recently at a
'.epth of 15,000 feet in on« of the
business sections of London.
From Arnold Bennett's "A
dVMI Man"—"She won l.\O<H)
:riuics in as many niinulcs." Xo
tops for lunch?
John .T. Oallagher, a 4 1-year
jld niiin living in Norrlatown,
Pa., boasts ttiat h« never has
kissed a woman or beon kissed
by one. Why shouldn't tho
Vionien have a vote?
Keverse Knglish, by (\ Milanl.
Mesa Ranch, Jan. 3, 1912.
Mr. B. Vanoin, R. D., Somis:
With the present I declare
that I never or never intended
or heard of your stealing things
belonging to Mr. J. Ferro, nor of
anyone else. I do not believe
you able to do a thing like that
or that you have believed I sus
pected it of you. Ab for your
tranquility and peauefulness, I
give you my regards with honor.
C. MILANI.
—Oxnard (Cal.) Courier.
Sign on a delivery wagon—
"Independent Oysters."
"After tr.vin' thirteen years
i.r sell his r:uin, I .nl I '.-It !)<•< .1
finally found a buyer. Now his
lieurt is nearly broke hpruz he
doesn't know what ter do with
111' money but buy another farm."
It is estimated that $100,000,
--000 is invested In the moving
picture business in the United
States.
West Virginia Is the greatest
of the gas producing states, pro
ducing 1CG,435,092 cubic feet
last year. Pennsylvania was sec
ond, 1-7,697,104; Kansas third,
75,074,416; Ohio fourth, 53,222,-
Gl9. Pennsylvania's brought
the most money, $21,639,102;
Ohio'B next, $18,884,312.
Words of famous Women.
Mrs. Marcus Junius Brutus —
'Marc, do you think it's right to
leave me at home alone every
night whll# you chase around
with that fellow Casaius?"
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Idontay, uecemDer z, tnx,
r|TI/\^Tr"f* Business Office Main 13.
rHI Inlr N Circulation Depr. Main IJ.
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OFFICET7O-778 COMMERCE ST.
Measure 100 th Seconds With
This New Timing Machine
TIMING AX AUTOMOBILE RACE WITH THE HOUOGRAPH
A remarkable device for timing
aeroplanes and automobiles has
been invented by a Bt'loit (Wis.)
muu and was used with sroat
success at the recent contests for
the Gordon Bennett and Vander
bilt cups at Chicago and Milwau
kee, respectively. He calls it the
holograph.
The need of a device that will
register very small fractions of a
second becomes apparent when it
Is remembered that in such races
the aeroplanes or automobiles are
started seperately and that often
the elapsed time between the
start and finish of two machines
i« extremely close, making the or
dinary stop watch methods of
timing inadequate.
It has been found that when a
half-dozen exi>erienced observers
hold stop watches each will give
a different report on the time
made by the HUBS aeroplane or
automobile. The brief period re
quired to convey the impuls
from the ey.j which saw the ma
chine pass to the hand holding
the watch is too great and varies
too much, according to the tem
perament of the different Indi
viduals, to make such records re
liable.
The hOfOfrtpb is operated l>y
electricity in connection with
IN THE EDITORS MAIL
Everybody in Pierre county reads this column. Short
letters from Times readers, of general Intercut mid without
personal malice, will be printed. Write about anything or any
body you wish, hut do not have nuilii cas your motive. Many
letters are not printed because they are too long. Keep Vim short.
November 30, 1912.
Editor of the Timos: .
My attention has, on several
occasions, been called to the fact
that certain interested parties
have been circulating the report
that I am standing for member
ship on the board of education
as the candidate of a certain in
dividual, it being further report
ed that that individual has al
ways heretofore had a candidate
in the field when a vacancy was
to be filled on the board. The
petitions that were filed for my
nomination should be a sufficient
answer to that report. Hut all
Traveler
„.„. .B&R.TON PEALBT
Don't be a clam when you travel,
Don't sit like a mute in your seat; ' j
■> There's a lot you can learn \
If you'll pleasantly turn ... !
And talk to the folks you will meet; i
There's a heap of good tales will unravel .
If you'll merely be cordial and kind,
For a wise man can gain
From his talks on the train
A whole bunch of food for his mind.
Some people could travel forever ' . : .
' And never be wiser at all
Though they covered the map,
While the sociable chap
Will gain by a journey that's small.
It's well to make every endeavor
To let down the conventional bars, ,
For you'll benefit, if . , ' ■.
You don't act like a stiff
With the folks that you meet on the cars. ■ " - ■
"Electric Portables, Irons & Toasters"
"Ideal Christmas Gifts."
WM. A. MULLINS ELECTRIC CO., 1014 A St.
Turn to the Hl^T* Want Ads
electro-magnets, and is almost as
quick In action as the. electric
flash itself. It indicates the
elapsed time of an aeroplane or
automobile to tho hundredth part
of a second and prints a perma
nent record of this time in plain
figures on a paper ribbon. It has
given a printed record of the
time of each of two cars travel
ing at a speed of eighty miles an
hour when the front wheels of
MM car were overlapping the renr
wheels of the car in front.
The horograph consists essen
tially of (four typa wliee'3
mounted on a sensitively gov
erned shaft driven by an electric
motor. The first wheel indicates
hours, the second minutes, tho
third seconds and the fourth hun
dredths of a second. A printing
hammer, operated by magnets,
prints the time record M the
paper ribbon.
In use, wires aro stretched
across the race track at start and
finish and one-mile lines. TheM
are connected with the instru
ment by throwing a small switch
when a car Is seen to be approach
ing. As the car crosses the wire
it gives an impulse to an electric
relay which causes the printing
hammer to strike, giving the pre
cise time.
may not have read the names
signed to niy petitions. And I
believe it necessary, because of a
natural feeling of gratitude to
those who petitioned for my
nomination, and in justice to
them, to publicly announce that
1 am not the candidate of any
individual, any club, any associ
ation or any faction. I consider
myself, by reason of the names
of my petitioners, tho candidate
of the every-day people of thla
city, and as their candidate, if
elected, I will see that ALL get
a square deal.
EDWIN F. MASTERSOX.