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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-24

alongXthe coast have come nobly 10 'he
aid of their destitute brothers.
Oakland's Chinatown will spread ana
tend to the same menace to this CITY as
Chinatown was to San Francisco unless
measures are taken promptly to check u
from doing so. Already the swarms OF
Chinese who nave sought refuge in OAK
land have reestablished themselves In
the same mode of life to which they were
accustomed across the bay, and they olo
fair to STAY here with all their vice INC
filth.
Attempts are being made by them to
open their gambling Joints and opium
smoking dens, and with the authorities
engaged to the limit of their ability in moro
serious matters little is being done to
check them.
The limits Of the Oakland Chinatown
have already beencAtended by he Celestlais
On Ninth street they have crossed Frank
lin street toward Broadway, and are now
very near to the main highways of the city
In the other direction they have gone al
most as far as Harrison street On Eighth
and Seventh streets, east and west they oc-
cupy buildings that were free from them
until after the fire drove them to this side
of the bay.
The Chinese are taking good care of their
own unfortunates. At Franklin and Ninth
street j. established a rice and soup dis
pensary. Every Celestial who comes along
is welcome to take a bow and dip it into
a steaming tub of rice or broth. Tea il also
served. The various missions are also
taking care of some, but the Chinese food
dispensary il by far the most popular
Weddings in great number have resulted
from the recant disaster. Women driven
out of their homes and left destitute have
appealed to the men TO whom they were
engag ed and Immediately marriages have
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-24

at A motor bicycle is
al not an automobile.
A dictionary is not an en-
cyclopedia. A tabulating
attachment to a regular CYL
inder typewriter does not
make Of it a Billing Machine.
If anybody shows you a
typewriter with some extra
contraptions attached, and
calls it a Billing Machine,
look wise and-wink.
Just inquire.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-24
PEOPLE STANDING IN LINE.

Out in jefferson Park. a block away,
there are camped thousands Of people of
every class in life. On the western edge
of this park ia the old Scott house, where
Mrs. Mckinley lay sick for two weeks in
1901. Three times a day the people all
stand in line before the provision wagons
for their little handouts. Yesterday ! saw,
in order before the wagons, a Iascar sailor
in his turban, about as low a Chinatown
bum as I ever set eyes on, a woman oil re-
fined appearance, a barefooted child, two
Cinnamon and a pretty girl. They we're
squeezed up together by the line, which ex-
tended for a quarter of a mile. 1t is civiliza-
ton in the bare bones.
The great and rich are on a level With
the poor in the struggle for bare existence,
and over them all i, the perfect, unbroken
discipline of the soldiery. They came into
the city and took charge on an hours notice,
they saved the city from itself in the three
DAYS of hell, and hut for them the city,
even with enough provisions to feed them
in the stores and warehouses, must have
gone hungry for lack of d~istributive or
G~anization.
While the day lasts, the surface of things
has a holiday appearance. With night
comes terror. After dark not Il street
lamp burns. The soldiers are everywhere
in the darkness, hating you if you try to
move. shooting you if you disobey, and
in the shadows are the looters and criminals
lodging the soldiers, risking their lives
for a chance at deserted houses or piles
of household goods. Below. the last fires
. Of the city are dying-they give a pale,
ha2y light from that direction. If you
have a hill vista of the city you can see
them glowing through fragments of walls
If you can forget what it means this sight
is really beautiful.
There comes a rattle at the door. Out
! of the crowd Of twenty men and women
souatting on the floor, talking in the dark
ness to keep up their spirits, the head Of
the house rises with his revolver in his
hand.
who's there?" No answer, but the
! sound of footsteps, stealthy, creeping
Some house looter who hoped that the
place was abandoned. There comes the
whip of a Krag from down the street. Some
soldier is shooting at a thicf-perhaps our
visitor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-24
CHINESE HELP THEIR Own.
Soup Houses Opened In Oakland, Whose
Chinatown Has Grown Immensely.

OAKLAND, April 23.-The Chinese Six
Companies has arranged to care for 80, 900
refugee Chinese, a large part Of whom
have gone to Oakland penniless and home
less.
W. II. Sawtell of the Chinese Six Com
panies said this morning that branches
of the company along the cast were hurry
ing cars of provisions to this city to aid
the su fIerinG Mongolians. The Chinese
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28
ITALIAN SAVINGS.
Their Banks Described by Our Consul
Mt Rome.


Mt Rome.
Consul-General Hector de Castro
writes from Rome that it is figured
the total savings of the people in
Italy now represent not less than one
thousand million dollars. His state
ments about the savings banks OF that
Kingdom will therefore prove interest
ing.
Since the year 1922 there have been
founded in Italy 222 savings banks. of
which 1874 are still inexistence. There
are two kinds. The first, especially
numerous in Tuscany and in the Ro-
man provinces, are generally incor-
porated as stock companies, and
wholly Independent fro mother insti-
tutions. while the others. very COM
mon in the northern districts, are gen.
orally founded by and dependent upon
government authorities. In the south
ern provinces. most of the savings
banks were originally loan institutions
on grain, depending upon their respec-
tive communes. Somewhat of SINH
lar nature are few savings BANKS
established by provincial councils and
some by labor unions. There are. be-
sides, five banks. the origin and man
agement of which is quite distinct.
These are the Milan savings banks.
whose officers are appointed by the
city council, the Province of Lom-
hardy, and the government: the Pal
ermo and Carrara savings banks, I'M
der government control, and. lastly.
those of Naples and Siena depending.
respectively. from the National bank
of Naples and the Monte del Paschi."
The aggregate sum deposited in the
1872 savings banks existing at the end
of 1904 came to 1855 100000. which
sum was guaranteed by reserve fund
of s56.400,000, making a total of $411.-
100000. This shows a substantial
growth from 1880, when the deposits
were $1,260,000. and from 1870, when
they aggregated $69,540,00O The saw
ings bank of Milan represents about
one-half of the total deposits, having
at the end of 1905 deposits of about
s153,400,0O0 and a reserve fund of
over $20,000.000. To the above sum of
1886 100000 must be added s19S, SOC, 900
deposited in the postal savings banks,
making an aggregate amount of $780,
100000 These figures do not repre-
sent the total savings of the King
dom, for a great deal of money is de-
posted in other financial institutions
and peoples banks.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28
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HEARST on POLITICS..
He Says Rank and File Should
Leave Both Machines.

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Chicago, Aug. 2S.-In an interview
published here in THE Record Her.
aid" William r. Hearst, speaking of
the political situation, sad
find the political situation exceed
ingly serious. 1t is one typical of the
times and characteristics of the coun-
try. The machines of both parties are
in the hands of men who make of
politics profitable business, and these
men always nominate candidates who,
if successful, will be useful to them in
their business.
The situation here is similar to the
one that existed in New York last fall,
and is similar to other conditions in
other cities throughout the nation, for
1t has become an accepted principle in
the business of graft that boodlers of
both parties shall join hands against
the honest rank and file in both
parties.
There seems to be but one thing for
the rank and file to do, and that is to
step out from under the shadow of
these machines and make common
cause against the boodlers, their enc
mics.
Mr.. Hearst, when asked what he
thought of McClellan's opinion that
public ownership in European coun-
tries was failure and on the decline,
said:
The continued popularity and con-
tinual extension of public ownership
in Europe, is not any longer a question
of anybOdy's opinion. 1t is a recog-
nized and recorded fact. The railroads
in Europe are coming more and more
into the hands of the government each
day.
Switzerland has lately taken over
partly all of her railway system and
has promptly improved the service and
reduced the fares and freight rates.
| Nearly all the railroad franchises were
granted with the provision that they
should revert to the nation.
The telegraph and telephones are al
ready owned by most of the European
governments. In places where private
ownership still prevails efforts are be-
ing made to place the utilities under
government control and operation
Everywhere there are parcels posts
postal savings banks and general ex.
tension of postal system.
If Mcclellan should come home and
say that the Alps are no longer In
Europe" everyone would know thai
he was either fraud or fool, and he
is Just as much Of fool or fraud tt
say that there is no longer a public
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28
THOSE CLEVER KANSAS GIRLS.
When Elbow Mitts Are High Priced
They Do a Little Scheming.

This has been a great season for the
makers and sellers of mitts with long
Sleeves-sleeves that reach clear to
the elbows. says the Chanute (Kan.)
Tribune. Fashion has decreed that
these are the proper thing for all
members of the gentler sex, and what
Dame Fashion says always goes. AS
a result the arms which last summer
were left bare to blush prettily be-
meath the ardent kisses of the sun
and the familiar caresses of the Kan
sas breeZes are now encased in long,
tight-fitting mitts. white. black and
colored. some Of them plain, some of
them ornate with filigree work, or
whatever it is that has the peek-a-boo
places in it.
The demand for accessories OF this
sort has been so widespread and spon-
taneous that the manufacturers of
such goods have kept their establish
ments running night and day to sup
ply the demand, and are still away
behind with their orders. Dealers
complain because they can't get mitts,
and the makers say the dealers don't
give them time to keep up, no matter
how hard they try.
1t should not be thought, however,
that this has worked any hardship on
the fair sex in Chanute Not in the
least. The Chanute girl has had her
elbow mitts-has them now-wears
them every day. She makes her own.
Here is how she does it:
A pretty 16-year-o!d girl-there is
really no reason for saying that she
vas pretty. though; all 16-year-old
Chanute girls are pretty-well, at any
rate, 16-year-old girl walked into a
Chanute store the other day and said:
Il want to get pair of elbow mitfs."
Certainly" said the saleswoman,
and she got down stack OF long,
vine colored boxes. Here's some
thing real nice" showing pair.
How much are they?" asked the
girl, picking one up and stretching
1t along her arm.
Two dollars"
Il believe I'll look around little
more before l buy" she said after
some dickerlng, and started away.
only to turn back suddenly as II she
had just thought of something that
was so immaterial that 1t had ESCAPED
her memory. 81 believe I do want a
pair" The saleswoman took down
oCI vi UOhCS IUdJ COuLdlneO
other long. black. webby things. But
they weren't mitts.
The girl bought pair and went On
her way.
That's another" said the sales
woman.
Another what?" inquired mere
man who was standing near.
Another girl who is going to make
her own mitts," replied the sales
woman. "Cut of the feet, put in slit
for the thumb. and there you are"
But I should think they'd be 100
how will she keep them from wrink-
ling?" the man stammered He was
getting out Of his depths.
"Of course the'd wrinkle II she nut
them on as they are. for her arms are
not as big as her-others," the woman
uttered the last word triumphantly.
1t came in very handy and she was
proud Of 1t. She'll cut them of and
take them up. It'll make a seam, but
that doesn't count. Lots OF the swell
mitts have seams, and It's hard to tell
the difference"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28

ownership sentiment in Europe.
However, the whole matter is not
question of what Is being done
abroad. but what ought to be done
here at home.
Are the people satisfied with the
kind of public service they get from
private corporations, or do they want
that service improved?
Are they satisfied to be baled into
street cars like so much hay and
dumped out like so much coal?
Are they satisfied with gas that does
not illuminate. but does asphyxiate?
Are they satisfied to pay double
prices for half service in everything.
and are they anxious to help a crowd
of corruptionists to buy more mayors
like Mcclellan and take them abroad
in their pockets along with their loose
changeo ),
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28
OF Interest to Women

superseded the basket in some house.
holds. 1t may be made as pretty as
desired with padded sachets and lace
trimmed ruffles and pockets. and
when not in use it Is slipped back in
to its place. where all the dainty
articles are hidden away from dust
and germs.
Beautiful articles. such as photo
graph frames, small book racks, shirt
waist boxes, ETC., are made from the
heart of red cedar, which takes a high
degree of polish under skilful treat
ment The grain and the knots in
the wood add much to the artistic
beauty of these lovely pieces.
Canned red peppers are chopped and
mixed with cream cheese for an appe-
thing filling for sandwiches. Cut in
slender rings or spirals they are
tasty garnish for various dishes, as
they retain their bright color for sew
eral months.
The mania for f1uttering wells. which
has run every year, revived this
season with surprising strength. and
there is no expectation of a falling
off in this becoming fashion as cooler
autumn days approach.
One of the new rain coat designs for
fall shows loose back. the fullness
of which is arranged in deep box
plat held in place by the rounded
lower edge OF the yoke.
The centerpiece of rich dark red
burnt leather with bold conventional
design is an unusually attractive Or
nament for the table of the library or
den finished in weathered oak or the
soft green stained woods.
Germinol is a dentifrice of whose
cleansing qualities one is never doubt
full. The more one uses it the more
she is convinced she could never do
without it,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28
SNAKE THE FRIEND OF MAN.
He Helps to Keep Down Pests That
Destroys Grain and Crops.

New York Sun: Many stories
are told OF black snakes that
have attacked human beings and
full grown speciment might con-
ceivably injure weak. small child
Even at its greatest development this
snake is incapable of doing more than
cause an unpleasant construction of
the muscles of grown person. and the
tales of its attacks on men and women
ending in serious consequences to any
thing except itself may be put down
as imaginary.
The copperhead is venomous. 1t be-
longs to the rattlesnake family, Is
sluggish in its movements. principally
nocturnal in its habits. seeking by day
to avoid notice. 1t will not bite I'M
less greatly alarmed or provoked and
the popular theory that it lies in wait
to strike human beings from behind is
entirely without foundation.
Recently New Jersey man boast
fully attempted to charm" copper
head and was stung by it. Usually its
victims are those who Internationally
disturb it while they are handling
brush or stones in the woods or while
clearing swamp land.
Each of these snakes performs a
valuable service to man in destroying
small pests, such as moles and mice
The blacksnake eats the gartersnake
and the copperhead and rattlesnake,
following their trails by scent, avoid
them to DEATH 1t is also a famous
birds nests. The blacksnake may be
tanned. The copperhead also eats the
gartersnake. which is the prey of many
birds and mammals.
The garterSnake is among the most
courageous OF serpents. Notwith-
standing its diminutive size, it shows
small fear of man. though incapable of
injuring him, and its strength and
agility make Il frequently victorious
opponent of many animals greatly eX-
ceeding it in bulk. 1t is nest prolific.
single female producing from TWEEN
ty-five to seventyfive young at time.
While the fostering of even the
small and nonpoisOnous serpents is
not likely to become popular. they are
of great value to the farmer in keep
ing down harmful animals to combat
which on large scale no cheap and
effective means has been found.
The harm they do is limited to the
destruction of birds, but in the war;
fare for existence that continues
throughout the life of all animals the
birds are not without means of offense
and defense Were snakes the only
enemies the winged tribes had to fear
there would be no need of passing laws
for their protection.
A study of life in the fields and
forests will show that, however, strong
and instructive dislike of man for his
serpent fellow-beings is. they are his
friends and allies rather than his en-
emies
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY.
August q.

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1565-Spaniards. under Gov. Men
en1oz, landed at st. Augustine.
1595-English force under Drake
and Hawkins sailed on expedition
against Spanish settlements in the
West Indies.
16O9-Hu1sOn discovered Delaware
bay.
1sl4-Bonibardment of Fort Erie
continued by the British
1S1G-Trcaty signed by AIgiers and
England, by which Christian slavery
was to be abolished.
1S2s-Count Leo Tolstoy born.
1s54-Maria Christina. queen moth
err OF Spain, fled from Madrid to es-
cape the wrath of the people.
1S6l-B0mbardment and capture of
Forts Hatteras and Clark. n. C.
1S96-British bombarded palace of
sultan of Zanzibar.
l903-.Joseph Haworth. American
actor. died. Born 1855.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28

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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28

Red hair is at premium in Iowa
just now, for the county fairs all over
the state have decided to regard au-
burn tresses as an open sesame to
their precincts. The state fair man
agement is talking of taking similar
action, so by the time the fairs are
all over it was thought that the num-
Der of red-haired women in the ninety
nine counties will be fairly we'll es-
tablished. There is great rivalry be-
tween the towns of Monroe and Shen-
andoah in the matter. Monroe claim
ing to have ninety-seven red-haired
maids and matrons out of population
of 973, while Shenandoah has under
taken to produce twice that number.
A drawer fitted with the various ar
ticles needed for the baby's booth has
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28
q sTHIS IS MY 18TH BIRTHDAY" o
q Leo TOlstOy. o

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Count Leo Tolstoy. the most prom
inent Of the Russian novelists and also
renowned as social refOrmer. was
born at Yasnaya Poliana, Aug. %,
1928. His great ancestor was Peter
Tolstoy, the friend of Peter the Great.
AS a youth Tolstoy attended the Uni
versity Of kazan. and at the age of 20
he entered the army and went with his
brother to the Caucasus. He fought
In the Crimean war, and at its close
resigned his commission and devoted
himself to literature. One of his
earliest works, "War and Peace" is
most appraised by Russians Since he
brought out Anna Karenina" in 1876
Tolstoy has given himself up to social
problems. with the hope of supplying
mankind with better moral and reli,
gious philosophy than that which now
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28
As II Is Done.

If a book of department were print
ed nowadays, clever woman sug-
gests that its fundamental law should
be a sop to custom in the following
words: when dining, the more in
evidence the elbow the better. Always
rest it on the cloth. except occasion
ally, when it should be allowed to
joggle its owners neighbor.
do not sit up straight at the table.
but rest partly on it.
always turn your back to your
neighbor on one side or the other.
and devote your entire attention to one
person.
Occasionally give little shrieks Of
delight over the deliciousness OF a
dish.
"In short. act like savage just
from the wilds in all but one thing
no gentleman is permitted to eat with
his knife now, though we may come
to it later. Ladies ditto"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28

obtains in the world. "Kreutzer Son
alta" appeared in 1890, presenting
certain theory of morals which so
shocked some eminent Christians in
America that it was traded" by the
authorities Tolstoy's views regard
ing political reform have brought him
into collision with the Russian author
tiles on several occasions,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28

The Swiss are the hotelkeepers of
Europe. Various Swiss syndicates are
running civilized hotels in all the
places where the multitude go.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-28

News received at the Vatican from
Jerusalem reports conflict on the
Mount of Olives between the Francis
can friars and Greek monks. leaving
the Latins masters of the field. The
quarrel, which 10 of old standing,
relates to the right of celebrating d.
vine service on the mountain.