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H m Sb?| We ship eveiything for building complete—lumber, sash. M| excitement over the Krupp !§nl doors, shingles, millwork, .p. fm* JLJL I 1 .***», hardware and paint* scandal is not due alone to the rarity Mvdlliv Jl H'4J? Cl B Mail coupon today for catalog and priem list of graft cases in that country, or to the fact that it touches her in her most sea- partly GERMANY’SVv\ sitive place —the army. It is due Far the best oftheirkind. Quick- HEWITT-LEA-FUNCK to the fact that the Krupp establishment j|j CO. JM detachable, with special iron 9 4ii Cr.ry Bldg.. Seattle has come to be looked upon as a nation- wash. or hoop Kindly send the al institution, and that every German CrOSS—bar connection. j#a following, quotir.e price, delivered my .ration. ( ) Cataloe of lumber and miliworlc The Steel door bars form solid §H ' £5 has been immensely proud of it as one ' ° ,older SFSFSD ladder from which hoops can be tight- H Spccial sil of the glories of the Fatherland. ened —the result of a new invention. M Name And now to discover that this great industry You need a silo. Don’t miss this Addres. to of —a fact ad- has stooped the bribing officials to get a good one at mitted by the Krupp firm, after the charge had been made in the reichstag —and that it had been I arn plannine to build as follows i supplying French newspapers with material for war-scare articles, so as to induce the German government to buy more armament from the Unique Suicide. A safe BOILED EGGS BETRAY THEM Krupps, is more to Germany than a scandal. It was used by a man nam- years is a catastrophe. ed Jacob Rabinowitz, fifty-four Nationality of Diners Is Shown in old, of Philadelphia, Penn., to com- The charges were made in the reichstag by Dr. Their Various Method of mit suicide, a few days ago. Frst he Liebknecht, the Socialist deputy, and in the col- Eating. jacked up an 800 pound safe with a umns of Vorwaerts, Socialist newspaper. the the block of wood. Placing his head be- is it newspaper Sherlock Holmes might have figured It a coincidence that was that neath it he drew a strap as tightly as which ten years ago another scandalous this out, but he did not! printed he could around his neck. Then he story about Krupps, caused the The average Englishman will al- the which death knocked the block from under the of the then head works, Friedrich Alfred ways demand his egg boiled just of the safe and the heavy weight fell upon Krupp. three minutes, then he places it in an his head. He was found by his wife, egg cup, enough to have It was impossible to refute him, because the just large but died before a physician arrived. the egg fit it, taps the top of the minister of war, Gen. von Heeringen, was obliged He had been despondent for several and removes the broken shell to admit then and there that an inquiry was going shell, weeks because he lost a lawsuit. egg is a on which had already revealed that “one of the with his fingers. The eaten spoonful at a Krupp officials” had bribed officers to reveal cer- time. A Frenchman, like the Eng- tain information. day Krupps BODY much The following the ECZEMA ALL OVER his of three min- Issued a statement in which they admitted that, lishman, likes eggs utes, exactly. Ha then “peels” them, their representatives in Berlin had maintained 175 East St., San Francisco, Cal.—“I in a stirs and “friendly relations” with their former “comrades" used the Cuticura Remedies while in places them glass, mixes well together with salt, pepper of the war department for the purpose of obtain- business in San Francisco before the butter. He makes a practice of ing “business information,” and had bestowed earthquake and fire. I was a terrible and dipping mixture, small present “on certain under officials.” sufferer from eczema for several years. bread into the and eating it along with the eggs. I had it all over my body except my It was on Friday that Liebknecht exploded his A Spaniard wouldn’t think letting hands, neck and face, my legs and of bomb and forced von Heeringen to reveal that boil one minute, arms being the worst. I had to put his egg more than Gccrst ixsji'iry on Sstardsy Krupps ' ihst tbc rle breaks auu n made their admission of bribery. On Sunday the ityc&rrPFovrscr stockings on my hands at night to uien u, lets me CV Bertha Krupp, his daughter, who married Dr. kles to my knees there wasn’t a estimation when it has been placed publish a statement that France intended to dou- lowed with contracts for large quantities of new von Behlen und von Halbach, holds all but four ticle of skin on them, and the flesh it- in cold water, and removed just as ble her orders for machine guns. The object was weapons. shares of this company. She is not only Ger- self turned perfectly blue and raw, the water beings to boil. He then to get the German government to order machine While the Essen works were designed for gen- many’s wealthiest woman, but its wealthiest sub- continually throwing off a moisture, breaks it, pours it on a plate, and guns from the Deutsche Munitions und Waffen- eral foundry work, the for many years has ject and greatest taxpayer. and I had to keep them wrapped in output proceeds to sop it up wfith bread. fabrik. entirely heavy guns; it Queen of Es- oiled silk cloth to keep my under, consisted almost of but Hence she has been called “the The German, like the Italian, de- was until 20 years after his father’s Cannon,” and other clothes from sticking fast to my limbs. On Tuesday the popular indignation had risen not 1846, sen,” and “Our Lady of the mands his eggs as near the liquid and 36 years of firm, names. age of eighteen there “I tried all kinds of ointments, , so high that Gen. von Heeringen’s plea for a sus- death after the founding the romantic At the his eggs • , and a others, and took state as possible. He breaks pension of judgment until his private inquiry had that Alfred Krupp began gunmaking. His first descended upon her the greatest industrial in- thousand kinds of internal medicine, hut in an unsightly cup, and scoops the done its work was forgotten. The budget commit- results were pieces of small caliber. As he be- heritance the world has yet known. She was six- all with no Then I bathed my body liquid out as if it were soup. tee of the reichstag voted to appoint a parliamen- came interested in the science, and as his dis- teen when her father died, and attained her ma- relief. Soap kept it The American is about the only one tary commission of inquiry into the scandal. This coveries in steel casting developed, the size and jority in 1904. with Cuticura and anoint- ed with Ointment and my who prefers his eggs boiled hard. commission, however, despite the protests of the weight of the cannon he was able to construct Essen is a city now of 150,000 population, and Cuticura now as smooth as a baby’s. When they are served up to him, he Socialists, was not vested with power to send for increased steadily until these war monsters, which it owes its existence as a city to the Krupp works. skin is cured me (Signed) knifes them in half, removes the con- persons and papers. have become world-famous, became common oc- But there is hardly a city in the world which is They completely.” Harry A. Jones, Feb. 10, 1912. tents into a glass, after which he Although the Krupp works date 1810, when currences in the Essen works. governed more in the communistic spirit than from Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold adds a plentiful supply of pepper, but- Krupp established his forge at Essen, it The Krupp field gun is the basis of the mobile this. It is one of the very earliest places in Friedrich throughout the world. Sample of each ter and salt. He then minces the was his son, Alfred Krupp, who was the real artillery of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Rus- which co-operative stores were established. They the free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address eggs fine, mixing them well with founder of the industry. Friedrich died practical- sia, and Turkey. Under the administration of have been in existence there for over 50 years. post-card “Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.” spices, and eats them with his toast. ly bankrupt in 1826, leaving little more than the Friedrich A. Krupp, Essen turned out the great “Bertha Krupp,” says one writer, “may be the pieces which guard Germany’s fortresses and are ‘queen’ of Essen, but her workmen conduct their Adv. secret of his cast-steel process to his son, and it Solicitous. 30 were mounted in her coast defenses. Krupp answered own affairs without molestation. She limits her was years before any striking results England’s Oldest Bowling Green. He—l wish I had money. I’dtravel. Krupp from the emplacements of Port Arthur ‘interference’ to gifts of money, by which institu- achieved. Which is our oldest recreation? you — against the siege batteries of Japan. *nd side tions of mutual workmen may be She —How much do need? It was in 1810 that Friedrich Krupp purchased good to the There are not wanting archeoligists side the instruments of Essen placed Judge. a small forge in Essen, where he devoted himself by with war established.” who profess to be able to trace refer- a thousand and one steel products, illustrating to the problem of manufacturing cast steel, but From the three men wr hom Friedrich Krupp ences to football and baseball on Alfred Krupp’s first and chief maxim: “No good though the article was put on the market by him employed, the 122 whom Alfred Krupp had in his Egyptain moral tablets. However, steel without good iron,” used in today’s tools, ma- in 1815 it commanded but little sale, and the firm employ 20 years after he took charge, the force when it comes to actual records, the chinery, railroads, and ships. was anything but prosperous. He employed only working for the Krupps had grown to 50,000 at fine old English game of bowls would world. three workmen. Krupp ordnance has roared all over the the death of Friedrich A. Krupp in 1902. The appear to be as old as any. Please the Alfred Krupp was born April 26, 1812, and at Some of the guns that fired at Dewey’s squadron establishment now comprises 60,000 workmen and Southampton, Eng., has records used the time of his father’s death wr as only fourteen at Manila came from Essen. The siege guns 6,750 engineers and clerks. showing that one of the local bowling years old. His mother carried on the works until in the Franco-German war and in use at the The works comprise five separate groups, the greens was in existence in 1299. Home Folks Alfred reached his majority, so that twice in the bombardment of Paris were from this factory, first of which is the Essen Steel wr orks, with prov- Many interesting customs are asso- history of the works have they been managed by and the Parisians’ terror of them was not dimin- ing grounds at Meppen, Tanger-Hutte, and Essen. ciated with the game on this historic By serving women. The present head of the industry is ished by the memory of one of the Krupp master- This group includes the Milhofener-Hutte, with green. Every summer a “fire jack” Bertha Krupp, the granddaughter of the woman pieces which had been exhibited in their city in its four blast furnaces; the Herman-Hutte, with competition is held, and an order of and made away who became its manager in 1823. 1867. It weighed 15,000 kilograms, three blast furnaces, and the Sayner-Hutte, with knighthood is conferred on the win- Krupps it The had so little money that Alfred, on with SBOO worth of powder and iron eyery time coal and iron mines. ner, who kneels in the center of the his death, compelled to was fired. that war the Krupps refused to father’s was leave school After The second group is the Friedrich-Alfred Iron green while the other players gather to assist his mother. He displayed a phenomenal make cannon for France. Post works in Rheinhausen; the third, the Annen Steel round him and the master touches aptitude for the foundry business, and the works were As the business grew collateral industries works; the fourth, the Gruson Machine works, at him with a sword and dubs him “sir.” developed with increasing rapidity after his in- tiny vil- developed, and Essen, which had been a Magdeburg-Buckau, and the fifth, the Germania fluence was felt in their management. By 1848 to town of over 100,000 inhabi- lage, expanded a shipyards, at Kiel. New New Postoffice. firm had expanded so that 122 workmen were dependent the Krupp industries. Coal York's the tants, all on post- Toasties The Essen Steel works alone comprise some New York’s new $6,000,000 employed. mines, coke ovens, iron mines, steamships, rail- sixty-odd departments, covering an area of about office building, a massive pile of pink As late as 1848, the year in which his mother roads, and blast furnaces were bought. In 1872 They are among the 500 acres, and housing 7,200 machine tools, 17 granite five stories in height and t\yo relinquished the sole management of the works Alfred Krupp owned 414 iron ore diggings, and to eat, but not roll trains, 187 hammers, 81 hydraulic presses, blocks long, facing the rear of the good things Into his hands, he melted the family plate to pay when his son Friedrich died he owned over 500. 397 steam boilers, and 569 steam engines, more ‘Pennsylvania station, is the greatest in the cook book, because his workmen. Today the mighty industry fur- Upon Alfred’s death, July 14, 1887, Friedrich A. than 2,200 electric motors, and 900 cranes. building of its kind in the world. From nishes employment to a majority of the workmen Krupp became the head of the establishment. It they require no cooking. the curb to the topmost piece of of three cities and a dozen coal and iron mining said of him that he devoted himself to Almost in the center of the Essen works stands has been granite is 101 feet There are 165,- towns. The ships built from it, equipped with the financial rather than the technical side of the the original Krupp factory and a family house, Toasties are always crisp 000 cubic feet of granite, 18,000 tons — Its steel, and armed with its cannon, are on all business, but in 1902, at the annual meeting in maintained intact, in accordance with the direc- ready to of 7,000,000 bricks and 200,000 and appetizing the seas, and wherever steel is used the name of London of the Iron and Steel institute, the Besse- tions of Alfred Krupp. It bears this inscription: steel, square feet of glass in the building. eat direct from the pack- Krupp is known. The capital of the firm now is mer gold medal for scientific research was award- “Fifty years ago this cottage was the home of The main corridor, corresponding in save heaps of about $60,000,000. ed to him. This is one of the highest honors that my parents. May none of our workmen have to age. You length to the outside colonnade, is a It was in 1847 that Krupp scored his first real can be paid to any man in the iron trade. It was go through the struggle which the building un o»f and avoid hot work of marble, white time success, when he made a three-pounder muzzle- given to him for his discoveries in the manufac- these works has cost us. The success which now combination buff two stories high, 29 in the kitchen. loading gun of cast steel. At the great London turer of plate. The son was thus following so splendidly has rewarded our faith, our anxiety, plaster and glass, armor long. There exhibition of 1851 he exhibited a solid flawless in the footsteps of his father. and our efforts, was doubtful during twenty-five feet wide and 280 feet 400,000 feet of working Some rich cream —sugar ingot of cast steel weighing two tons, thus estab- Both Alfred and Friedrich A. Krupp declined long years. are square space within the building.—Popular you want —or fruit lishing the fact that an important firm existed in titles. One was offered to the father by Kins “Let this example serve as an encouragement if it cool Mechanics. Germany capable of turning out samples of excel- William, afterward Emperor William 1., in 1864. to others in difficulties. May it increase the re- juice, with these fluffy bits lent workmanship. The Essen works were e ery- and William’s son, the present emperor, renewed spect for the many small houses and the great a r for an Argument. of corn and you have where spoken of, and the output watched with the offer to Krupp’s son. Neither would accept. sorrows which often dwell in them. No Chance 1 know that isn’t that is fascinating for the closest interest. The manufacture of weldless At the time of his death he was by far the rich- “The object of work must be mutual •welfare; “Waiter, how do dish horse meat instead of beef?” steel tires for railway vehicles was another in- est man in Germany, and was called “the German the work is blessed, then work is prayer. May any meal of the day. “You probably don’t, sir; all kinds j vention which followed soon after. Morgan.” The imperial income tax returns all, from the highest to the lowest amongst us, ' . of come here to eat.” The making of heavy ordnance, which has made showed that in the year before his death he had wrnrk with the same earnestness to found and people the name of these works famous the world over, a yearly income of between 20,000,000 marks ($4,- secure his own future success. That's my great- Toasties are sold by was not then a prominent part of the business. 760,000) and 21,000,000 marks. The second est wish. The man who depends entirely on | . grocers everywhere. One of the first large orders be got for firearms wealthiest man in the empire had an Income of “Essen, February, 1873, twenty-five years after the push of those who are back of him •ame four years after the London exhibition, when only 5,000,000 marks. my assuming charge. ALFRED KRUPP." will seldom get to the front.