TORCHY,' TIMES NOVEL NEXT WEEK IS A PIPPIN. D'YOU GET USThe first book |>rlnt«d on ilio \in<ri< an

rontinent his dune in M< \i... City in l.i:lil.In Seville, Hpoln, Jules OoiiiberKer lih<l aprinting <>« ibllshment, and lie rtrtided Itwould be a profitable veuturv to move i<> t !»•-new world, so he sent over v prOMi in fbargeof Juan Pablo*.

IN THE TIMES EVERY NIGHT

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oat. Free with every copy of tb«Time. All the I-AIK WWfcliM-iytiiinu absolutely incorrect.)

OKTtINO NKAR.(By A. I.< num.)

LOTUS, Brazil, May 29.~0.irlittle party Is alone in the jungle.]Our natives have Mil left us, andwe four white men face the ter-rors of the tropics. Our provi-sions have given out, but we areliving well. Roast jaguar andmonkey stew are our favoritedishes. With the milk-tree handy,coffee berries within reach andBiigar cane sticking un the earth,we have something to drink. Butnot a real drink, of course.

Bull Conner Bays we are quitenear the mouth of the Duvidariver and within the next twoor nineteen days will be upon it.

• • •I"KHHO\ALS.

J. W. Seldon ha.l the axe outlast night, but not to cut off any-one's head.

Homer Bone is going to get atrip to Chehalls, but he doenu tget a chance to npuak, so what'stlie use?

Mark Davis certainly has oneor two of the most, sparkling i

suits we have had the pleasure of Iseeing.

Frank Leslie thinks he is anawful tough guy, but he's not.

Police Clerk McAlferty is pro-testing because wo liave been ne-glecting to mention him again.

• • •IN MKMOItIAM.

llj r<'ill'Siil|l.;i Solilis.His typewriter sits idly on its

desk. Dust is settling over hi'?chair. No more is his gentlevoice heard, nor does he writevitrolic nflists about some of ourworthy citizens.

Edward A. Peters, our esteem-ed collaborator on the Times,

For Tacoma and vicL ity: Fa irtonight and Saturday.

has panned over to the big ma-jority.

No, no, he is not dead.Pete has just got married.

• • •WKATHKIITODAY.

The blue triangular flag hasnot yet been observed wavingover the Central school.

• • •POLITICAL STUFF.

The progressives may be will-ing to join the republicans, butthey are probably not half sowilling as the republicans are tojoin them.

• • •GRAMKVILLK OUFF.

Marthy Mogsk'booth is themost popular girl in town. Sheain't handsome, but she can makeswell pie.

Local talent gave a theatricalperformance last night. Theypresented either "East Lynne" or"Uncle Tom's Cabi'i." It was im-possible to tell which.

Si Spotts is goin*r to Tacomato make his fortune. Tacoma peo-ple are warned.

Bill Cutts, the village barber,worked overtime last night. OldJudge Longlocks got his second\alrcut since the war.

• • •OlTt DAITA' ESSAY.

I«w Cream.Ice cream is very good and

healthy. To deal with co'afacts, ice cream is one of tkoplainest and richest of foods. Itis made up of Ice and cream,which mixed together in a frenss-er makes It cold and gives it aflavor. The best way to serve itis with cake. —Louie F.

• • •SYMPATHY'S LETTERS.Q. —How do you vi.ike love?—

Sweet Sixteen.A.—Come down to the office

and get this answered personally.Q.-—What is a mole with ex-

ternal eyes.A.—Something they have ir.

Puyallup.

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LINE-UP FORTODAY'S GAMEThe lineups of the Tacoma md

Victoria teams today, accordingto Managers Delmas and McGin-nity, will be as Tollowb, althoughthe Tiger lineup Is apt to be shift-ed entirely about utte:1 practice:

Victoria. TaromaNye, 2b. West, lb.

Kelly, rf. Million, If.Dris. ..11. cf. MoMuIMn, 2b.Wilholt, If. Neighbors, rf.Lamb, 3b. Abbott, cf.Brooks, lb. Miller, 3b.Delmas, ss. I'.utler, SB.Hoffman, c. Harris, c.Narveson, p. Jones, p.

TODAY'S CLEARINGS.Clearings $279,194.27Balances 36,383.50Transactions 819,030.41

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Terrifying Experiences

The prnfi-vl m of onion peeling I* not oaeIJtat obtain* murh n..n.«-. yet ther* mm atleant fIT« h iiidred won*en in the «a«s end ofIjonilon earning Ihelr living by niuovliig th«khluii of opl iiik. W lih iMHili< << they cm*

nukUf 4 ahiU Ing* or A »lillllug!i a day.

SEA HORRORBY H. P. BURTON

(Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper EnterpriseAssociation.)

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, May 29.—"You can seethe scars on my body," said Hubert Tiere, "but youcan't see the SCARS ON MY SOUL!"

He was lying there, peacefully enough now,against very flat white pillows in a sunny room inthe Victoria General hospital, this 22-year-old slip ofa boy who, for 13% days, commanded like some IronDuke, on the wide, lost waters of the Atlantic, a'boatload of hungry, sinister men—MEN DYING OFSTARVATION AND MAD WITH SALT WATERMADNESS.

] was the first person to be al-lowed actually to hear the tragicstory of this third boatload of thehurned Columbian's survivors,from Robert 'Here's own lipsnlnce he told It, in disconnectedbits, to Captain JohiuUown, of theSeneca, while that rescue shipwas racing to Halifax harbor aft-er picking up that final four, whohad watched 11 companions per-ish at their feet within a singleweek.PHANTOM OF MXRDKRHOOK IN THAT BOAT

"The real story of our adven-ture," paid Robert Tiere to me,•\u25a0was the things that didn't hap-pen, but they were the MOSTTERRIBLE THINGS OF ALL.

"Starvation and madness andutter despair and death all rodeit that, litle boat with us, but doyou know that all the time some-thing far more terrible rode withus--and, though all of ub knewit, none of us even admitted it?

"Well, that thing was thephantom of murder."

Robert Tiere lay back on hispillow and drew his hand acrosshis eyes to shut out the sight ofwhat still burns in his brain -a boatload of men «i buy, fallingdead all about him for lack offood and drink, while lie SAT(U'AKD ON THK WATKH VJUOtAM) FOOD it \i:i{lI . doling out

•\u25a0»< h day only enough to makeeach of liin enemies—"for ene-mies hunger and thirst drovethem to be," said Robert Tiere—crazy for more.

"You see at first we were posi-tively gay. It was Just past Sun-day midnight—Monday, May 4th,at 12:30 a. m., to be exact—whenwe left the burning Columbian inour little lifeboat, the 15 of us,and we expected to be rescued thenext day sure by some passingboat. We had given the S. O. S.before the Columbian's wirelesswaa smothered, and we figuredthat would bring many a steamerour way. So we established ftwatch and turned in.SAW SALVATION ANDTHKN IT FADED

"Early that morning, throughthe light fog that dripped over us,the watch saw a great blaze oflight coming, not three-quartersof a mile away. He roused us alland we cheered, so happy we wereover an early rescue. We rowedtowards the oncoming steamer,shouting as we rowed and wav-ing our flag, A TARPAULINFASTENED TO THE BLADi- OFAN OAR. But the Olympic didn'tseem to notice us, so we decidedto light a Bignal. We got outour matches; THEY WERE WETAND WOULDN'T LIGHT; wewaved our flag; we shouted our-selves hoarse; but the greatOlympic, in her blaze of happylights, swept by.

"By this time the storm, whichhad been continuously sweepingus into the wallow of waves andslopping our boat with brine, be-gan to quiet, so we rigged up asea-anchor with our oars and can-vas and kept the boat riding thecrest of the waters. Fixed thisway we passed another night.ONE PINT OF WATKIt ANDONK BISCUIT FOR A MKAIj

"The next day I noticed shad-ows, just faint ones, flickering onsome of 14 faces that looked atme; and I myself, indeed, for thatmatter, began to wonder how seri-ous this thing was going to turnout to be. So I decided to take

the bull by the horns first Insteadof last, and 1 established rations.J allowed each man one pint ofwater a day and one biscuit foreach meal.

"We caught a little rain in astorm on Thursdary in tarpaulins,but it wasn't much, and on Satur-day- the sixth day—the men,having seen so little water duringthe week, grew very thirsty, andvery hungry they had grown, too.Then they began begging forfood and water, but especially wa-ter. But 1 had to lie firm. It wasat this time that little Prieve,who had been our cabin boy,spoke up.

' 'That water and those bis-cuits have got to last, anotherwhole week, fellows,' he said, 'soyou'd better be careful of 'emand not tease for 'em.'

"Then Prieve TOLD THEDREAM HE HAD before he leftAntwerp.

"'I dreamed,' he Mild, 'that Iwas in an o|M*n Inmi 11 dnys be-fore we were rescued, and so Iknow we'll he rescued on thefourteenth day.'

"The first Sunday we spent Inthe boat, the Beventh day out, wasthe beginning of a reign of terrorfor me—the beginning of thetime when the self-control start-ed to slip off from some of thosebig, strong, primitive men in thatboat and to reduce them to cave-men. They became mad for wa-ter; they felt that alone couldkeep death from them.

"Hull, an oiler, was the first tobreak. But his true nature wasmore or less gentle and he be-gan only to DANCE AND SIN(JIN HIS MADNESS, and then toscoop up and drink great dippersof the salty sea water.

" 'I don't care if It does killme.' he cried. 'Anyway, I wantto die if I can't go ashore.' Thesalt water meant only one thing.HE DIED IN AWFUL AGONY.

"I --.in) what I could rememberof the service for those buried ntmh and we dropped his body overthe side.

"Then the TERRIBLE THIRSTbegan to affect them all, and theybegan eyeing me.HI ». \\ TO STEAL WATERAND FOOD

"Well, they even tried to stealwater nnd biccnits—and they didget some of the biscuits.

"They seemed to have lost allhonor. Hut coidd you blamethem?'.' When our engineer diedand some of the others, too, weFOINI) Till li: POOKKTSvi m u:\mmiii WITH ms-Cl ITS. Rut those Ms. nits Ntolenin the dead of night, killed them.Their (ttomacliH, nearly empty forso long, could not stand themklilim in-in > intake nf food underHi.- frightful strain their bodiessuffered.

"After that I HID THE TWOAXES in the boat. I knew I wasno longer dealing with normalmen of the 20th century, but withmen who had practically becomesavages with only one instinct —'Get food and drink.'

"And the looks that I got—-wasalways getting! And how I feltmyself! I was no hero, either.It waa as though the DEVILKEPT COMING TO ME and say-ing: 'You are guardian of theseprovisions; you can sneak a littlewhen no one Is looking and saveyourself.'

"But I put it away. It was an

lawful fight, but I MADE MYSELFWIN.

"But one by one they died un-til six of us rode In the boat.Each went tho same way-—triedto get water and food by a secretforage and then, getting thedipper, started to swill that ter-rible salt sea water that splashedall around us. When he wentmad we would fasten him down,and when death came, heave thebody over the side.

"About 6 o'clock Friday night(this was the second Friday and'we had not seen a ship for tendays), Belanger woke me up.

" 'Fritz Jakob has gone crazy,'he ;ii'l

"And I felt then that thatphantom of murder was surelyupon us,

".Iftkob was n giant of a Rus-sian and we had been afraid Inthe first of what he might do tous in a fight at the finish. HevvaH lilk fininull to nun ili i all forthe i""<l supply lie knew could liehis at the prlcf of our blood.

''I KB going ashore for adrink.' he yelled. I will; by God,J will,' he shrieked.

" 'Why do you keep my moneyaway from me?' he hissed as hecame at me.

"Hut I coaxed the ax awayfrom him and got him to liedown, taking away everythingelse I figured he could use as aweapon.

"No sooner, though, had I gotto sleep, than he got a boat-Btretcher, THRKATKNING TOKILL US ALL and be master ofthe boat. With such a giant itwas all Belanger, Kendal, Lud-wlgsen and 1 could do to over-power him, but we finally suc-oeedd in TYING HIM TO THEHOTTOM OF THE BOAT.

"He lived six hours, screamingall that while at the top of hisvoice. At the last when he be-came exhausted we forced a littlefresh water between his lips, butit was no use. At 1 o'clock Sat-urday morning we dropped himinto the sea.

"And then on the fourteenthday, little 14-year-old Prieve died.He was bo young and he LOVEDHIS MOTHER SO, and as J Bawhim die, all my Christianity cameback to me, and I Raid to myself:'I wish I could have died in hislilare,' and I felt then as thoughTHE DEVIL COULD NEVEREVEX TEMPT ME AGAIN TOTRY TO TAKE BISCUIT OR WA-TER BEYOND MY SHARE.THK\ CAME THK n<>i;i:ii:i.r

THOUGHT OF CAWIBAIJHM"There were now Just four of

us in the boat."For a week we had been eat-

ing litle pieces of shoe leathercut from dead men's shoes,pounded up with fresh water Intopaste and mixed with biscuitcrumbs.

"But now all the biscuit crumbswere gone. Prleve's dream, too,was not coming true, for it wasthe fourteenth day and he wasn'trescued.

"There he lay dead in the bot-tom of the boat. And now camethe horrible thing of It. Men inour condition had fought out theBame problem before.

"Should we eat the dead body?That was the awful question weactually discussed now.

"But not little Prieve's. Wecouldn't do that —he was soyoung and so brave.

"Well, whose body would it bethen ? That flashed upon üb, too.

"And if two of us died andthere were only two left and justenough water for one day, whatmight happen then?

"And who would the last twobe of Belanger, Kendal, Ludwlg-sen and myself?

"But the Seneca came in sight,and though we could not believeIt, she headed for us.

"And so what might have hap-pened there at the end, I shallnever know, thank God!

"Draw up that blind, willyou?" hitid Bobby Tiere, first of-ficer, as I went out. "1 want tolook at the gre«n grann. Springis beautiful on land, isn't It? Doyou think Ithelps take the s< \usOUT OF A MAN'S SOUL?"

DESERTED 5 DAYS AFTERWEDDING; ASKS $150,000

WHS. I'KAUI, B. ÜBVI.

SAN P'RANCISCO, May 29. -Pearl K. Levi, who was secretlyilia tried to Milton .1. Levi at InuV-peinl»nce, Cal., recently, filed ruitagainst Fannie and Herman Levlfor $ I fill,olid damages, allegi'iuthat they alienate! the affection*ol H«f>r wealthy yt^mg husband.

Fannie Levl Is the mother andH'Tinan Levi the uncle of MiltonLevl, who is the junior memberof the private banking firm of H.Levi * Co, Tile plaintiff was for-merly pearl BubMki of this city.

the complaint filed by Mrs.Pearl Levl yesterday recites thatMilton Levi deserted her Just 1 '<days after their marriage beeau^of the persistent importuning ofKannv and Herman Levl, who, shesays, did "willfullyentice and al>-

DOCTOR TELLSWHY HE KILLEDWIFE'S LOVER

duct her husband from her."Youhr l,evi, the complaint re-

cites, is the owner of considerable,Htod< iti Hie H. Lev! company, andIhe deserted luide declares tint tthe defendant » threnti'iied to destroy the value 'if Milton's hold-ings in the hai.kins concern If hodid not leave her. It Is furtheralleged that Fanny nnd He.rmi'iLevl told tho young husband thatunless he hud nothing more to dowith his wife, lie would be dis-inherited by the family.

At the time of filing this ac-tion, Pearl Levl filed anothersuit against her lius.ind, Milton,for maintenance pnnling the out-come of the trial of the aliena-tion suit. In the Intter, nhe asksfor $.r.oo a moilth.

tell me if it was tine he h.idpromised to furnish h flat for herIn Chicago and told her he wouldmarry her as soon m his wire,who is a frail woman, was dead.

"My voice was pitched a litUehigh, and 1 was blinking my fing-er at him. Then he suddenlyarose, looked me in the eye andsaid, 'Well, what do you wantme to do? Do you want me toconfess intimacy wirh her? If Idid 1 probably would not be thefirst man anyway."

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«> Tells Why He Killed Her. <?><$> "I told him 1 loved ray <•># wife. I urged him to tell ••\u25a0

3> \l it was true he promised <«.'v to furnish a Hat for her in •$§> Chicago. He suddenly arose. \u25a0>\u25a0

<$• 'Do you want Me to confess «># Intimacy with your wife?' \u25a0«.

4bt Mid. If I dUi I probably <*<" would not be the first man #

<\u00a3\u25a0 anyway. He grasped me by |# the throat. I kn« w I was no *# match for him. I drew my <S>•$> revolver to stare him. •$»> Whether It was the push 1 <J>

<\u00a3> 'gave him or what it was, but '**igentlemen-—the Run went •><$> off and that's all there is to •$># It." <$>

.j. $> <$> <> \u25a0$> <$> $> <$> <s> $> '$, §, <$•KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 29.—

With the court room in wrapt at-tention, Dr. W. T. Elam, physi-cian, described, with intense dra-niHiii interest, the events that ledhim to shoot and hill W. PutnuinCramer, Chicago advertising soli-citor, alleged affinity of Mra.KJam.

WAR IS OVERWASHINGTON, D. C, May J9.

-Secretary Bryan today statedfor the first time officially thatthe mediation conference at N'l-agara cannot rail to settle theMexican trouble He made thestatement at the ciihlnet meeting.The danger of recourse to armsIb passed, he declared.

He told of his wite'B confea-'alon, and of the fatal conversa-tion lie held with Cramer on thedrfy of the uhootiug.

It was at Cramer's suggestion,he said, that ili".v went to theformer's room in a hotel. ThereCfamer locked the door. Therowfre present Detective Olynn an<]Mi.uih 1 Rosseau. $

'He told me thfct friendshipwitt my wife was purely pla-tonic," the physician testified. "1told him I loved my wife anawanted to effect a reconciliation

LINER RAMMED:SINKS IN 19

MINUTESTACOMA Cißl AMONG WRECKED

Mlbh Kva SeuiU', formerly employed In lhi> i'eoplea storeBin! who lived lit :i I :\u25a0 South X h(., wum unintiK tho |iuHßPiißerß ofthe BapreßH of Ircliunl, It wub Htntml at the local office ofthe Cunudlun I'aclflc railwuy. Hhf purelMMd lifi- tlckot undbooked iiaKsaKc In TH'oiiia. She wan M her way to her formerhome at BrifbtOtt, Kngliiud. to vlull her mother. She is 3Kyeurx old and a nathe of Kuklhikl.

Mlbh Searle w^ a member of the choir of the TrinityR|ilHio]ial church. She Is the Hlßter of Harold Searle, who Iht'liiploypd In the office of the Bupeiiiiteiuli'tit of tho NorthernPacific ruilway.

QUEBEC, May 29.—According to the best obtain-able estimates, «>7H persons perished iliis morningwhen the Canadian I'm-ifie liner, bhnpreu of Ireland,foundered on Father-Point, Gulf of St. Lawrence,after it was rammed in the dense fog by the collierBtontadl The BntfnfeM of Ireland was one day outof port and was commanded by Lieut. Kendall, H. N.H. Many notable persons, [Deluding a large party otthe Salvation Army on their way to London, wen;

aboard.The iteanen Eureka and Evelyn which hastened

to the scene of disaster, rescued MM persons, andlater brought them here. The collier Ntorstadt res-cued :{(i()persons, and it is believed that the remain*der of the 1+.'57 persons aboard the impress \ver>

drowned or killed.The search for survivors has not been abandoned,

but it is not believed that any others willbo saved.The death list is now placed at l>7B.

Kllslt to KeM lie

Tlits Storntadt not its boalHover the Hide promptly. The Em-press aIHD succeeded in n«»tlliik offseveral of ktt nmnll craft andlifeboats. All these were heav-ily loaded, it in said. I.lent. Ken-dall is reported to have beensaved from his brldKe as the shipwent down under him. It Ih sup-poHed that moat of the survivorswere picked up by the Storstadt'sboats. The government boatsEureka and l.ady Evelyn speededto the scene of the disaster andgathered up the survivors fromthe boats and life rafts and car-ried them to KlmoiiHki.

sin I,- In II) Mi nun-.The Ktorstadt, with its bow

badly smashed, passed Father-Point about dawn, on Its way upthe river. It reported by wire-less that it was carrying surviv-ors and corpses to port, tts com-mander also stated that the Em-press sank 1!) minutes after thecollision.

many7rom b. c.VANCOUVER, B. C, May 29.

—Many homes in Vancouver to-day were grief-stricken whennews of the sinking of thesteamship Empress of Irelandwas received here. No less than20 Vancouver people lost theirlives, including a big contingentof local Salvation Army officerson their way to Kngland. Mostprominent among the Vancouverpassengers was Mrs. li. T. Hailey,mother of Captain A. .J. Hailey,commander of the steamship Em-press of India, a Bister ship ofthe stricken Empress of Ireland.

WHAT IS HOMEWITHOUT BABY?

In oaae I wronged her. I ur^.'dhim to tell me of their meetings.I produced the statement Mrs.Blum had given me of her rai 1

Uoub with him. 1 urged him to

"We had a Iml.y Unit died of|iiiiMiiin«nijitwo years ago," hiHfs

one woman who has applh'd tothe Times for the privilege of be-coming little Him id's mother.

Of ail the trugediea of life,that one wbliiht fell* a tragedythan which there is none mute

IKiignant.This woman who wants DavM,

20 months old, whom tho Timespromised to find a real home withfond parents and loving heart),]ileadß earnestly and feelingly forthe chance to adopt him.

But the Times must go slow.80 we're going to hold on to

David for a few duys more, andIn the meantime If you wantDavid, write to the editor, tellwhat sort of home you can givehim, and every application willbe thoroughly couaidered.

CROWDS MOURNLONDON, March 29—Crowds

besieged the Canadian Pacific'soffices here today, clamoring fornews of the lost Hteamshlp Km-pi-pun of Ireland. Moot of thevessel'e officers and seamen wereEnglish and their relatives werehalf crazed with anxiety concern-Ing them. There wan also anavalanche of inquiries concern-Ing passengers. The CanadianPacific's officials hud little infor-mation.

BRISTOL, Eng., May 29.—Thosteamer Royal Edward arrivedhere a day overdue. She hit aniceberg in the same locality wherethe Titanic Hank. She carried800.

ONLY 12 WOMENMONTREAL, May 29.—0n1y 12

wonuMi were saved among themeon board the Empress of Ireland,according to a dispatch receivedhere this afternoon. It Is ad ledthat moßt of the survivors weremembers of the crew. There wasa report that many of the pns-seriKors were killed In their berthswhen the Ktorstadt's bow crashedthrough the Empress' side. An-other report was that 20 of thesurvivors had died from expoK-ure. The number of rescued atlateßt advices was "AST.

JUST "SHIP GONE"QUEBEC, May 29. — "Ship

gone," was the laconic finalsage flashed by Captain Kendallfrom the Empress of Ireland'swlreleis just as the big liner «i>«going down In the Quit of St.Lawrence uarly today.

Following his "8. O. 8." .all,Captain Kendall briefly explainedthe situation by wireless. The)Bpeed with which the vessel wentdown, however, was Indicated bythe abruptness of his closing sen-tence.

CAPTURED CRPPENQURBKC, May 2 9.—-Capt. Kan-

dall, commander of the wrckoilsteamer, attained considerablecelebrity a few yearg ago when iecaptained the Hm-t Montrose aii'ldiscovered Ur. Crlnpen among t hopHHsengers. He notified the mi-thorltleg by wireless and turnc Ithe wife-murderer over to tbopolice.

Responding to a wireless ap-peal, the tug Strathcona hitsbeen dispatched to assist theStorstadt, which collided with MiaKm press of Ireland.

BECKERTODIENEW YORK, May J». —Justice

Seabury today condemned Charll <iBecker, former lieutenant of ;>o-Ht f, to die In the electric chair atSing Sing some lime during th*week of July 6. Decker was l\\ i aconvicted of the murder of Her-man RoMnthal.