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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-27
Will ANALYzE
SOILS OF N. D.
West Missouri River Dry
Land to Be Investigated
by Experts

Washington, d. c., May 26.-Sec-
rotary Wilson has notified Senator
Hansbrough, chairman Of the COM
mittee on agriculture: that an all
lotment of $4,000 has been made
from the appropriation for the bu-
reau of soil for the Investigations Of
soil in the dry lands west Of the
Missouri river. OF this amount $751;
900 is to be spent in the norther1y
states and the remainder in the
south. In few weeks surveying
parties are to be sent into western
North Dakota and eastern Montana
in vicinity Of the hundredth degree
of longitude to start work. They
will begin at the Canadian line and
work south. Following the soil sur
vey, experiments will be made with
hardy cereals and grasses to deter
mine how this land can be utilized
with view to making it productive.
Professor Hansen Of the South Da-
kota agricultural college will be dis
patched to Russia to secure supply
of hard wheat, variety of clover
and several varieties of alfalfa to be
tried on dry lands about to be sur
veyed.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-27
TRINITY
River Still on Rampage, Puts
Fort Worth Out Of
Business

Fort Worth, Texas, May 26.-In the
grip of the most remarkable flood
which ever swept down Trinity river
at this point, in Northeast and West
Fort Worth not railroad wheel is
moving, nor is any effort being made
Every energy of every official is be
ing bent toward saving the tracks and
bridges in the vicinity of Fort
Worth
Trinity river sweeps in great arc
around Fort Worth, surrounding the
town on trhee sides. Across it there
are dozens of railroad bridges, and to
day none of them are considered safe
for traffic The waters show no dis.
position to recede, and every hour
piles up damage. Hundreds of cot
t'tages are floating down stream
There was no loss of life today.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-27
EVELYN IHAW
! WITHDRAVS SUIT
Her Lawyer Says ThaW's
Family Forced the Sep.
dfatiOn Scheme
Mrs. Vim. ThaW Denies This
| and Says Evelyn Will
Be Cared For

New York, May 26.-EVelyn Nesbit
Thaw, through counsel, today with
drew the suit which she instituted
some time ago for the annulment of
her marriage to Harry x. Thaw. Her
motion for withdrawal was sanctioned
by Referee Dayo, who had been ap-
pointed by the court to take testimony
in the proceeding, and the case was
declared discontinued without cost to
either party.
Immediately following the dismissal
of the action, Daniel O'Reilly, person
al counsel for Mrs. Thaw, issued
statement in which he declared that
Mrs. Thaw had been an unwilling
party to the proceedings from the
first 1t was only because of pressure
on the part of her husbands relatives
that she had any part in such proceed
4 ing, said Mr.. O'Reilly, and that she
withdrew the action because she be-
lieves her husbands present position
demands her loyalty.
| Mr.. O'Reil1y was quoted as saying
today that there had been no recon
Citation between Thaw and his wife.
i and that Mrs. Evelyn Thaw wanted
/ none. He added that Mrs. Thaw
i thought she had right to some finan-
cial recompense for the sacrifice she
had made in Thaw's behalf. Mr..
! O'Reilly said that some step of that
kind might be taken, but he would
not indicate what form the movement
would take.
I Mrs. VIM. ThaW Denies.
| New York, May 26.-Franklin Bart
lett, counsel for Mrs. VIM. Thaw,
made denial tonight of Lawyer
1 O'Reilly's statement that Mrs. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw had made application for
an annulment of her marriage in re-
Spouse to pressure brought by rela-
tiyes. Mr. aBrtlett said:
"As counsel for Mrs. VIM. Thaw,
desire to say that, so far as she is
concerned, and any other relative
! with whom 1 am acquainted, know
of no pressure Deihg bfseagh BY reesla
tives of Mrs. Evelyn Thaw's husband
to bring about an annulment of her
, marriage.
) THE position of the family in re-
gard to this young woman is very sim
nle and very lust Mrs Wm ThaW
desires that this young woman shall
be treated not only fairly, but gener-
ously, and she is now being paid
81 900 per month
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-27
QUICK ACTION
Commissioners Of Mckenzie
County Hustle New Court
House in Hurry

Schafer, Mckenzie county, has a
court house. The decision of Judge
Templeton of Grand Forks, handed
down couple of weeks since, al
lowing the county commissioners to
proceed with the purchase of grounds
and the erection of court house,
was. taken advantage of, and today
there is full fledged court house in
the victorious city.
The work was done up in short
time so that the rival city, Alexander,
might not have an opportunity of
interfering with the operation. A
building was purchased instead of
erected, however, and the lots for
the site were donated. An effort was
made to get word of the action to
Alexander people, but for some rea-
son the telephone wires refused to
work and by the time advices of the
affair were received in the rival city,
the work was completed and the
county commissioners had signed a
warrant for the payment of the build
ing.
The fight between Alexander and
Schafer is of long standing and has
been in the courts of the state many
times.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-27
PROHIBITION
Carried in North Carolina
by an Overwhelming
Majority

Raleigh, N. c., May 26.-North
Carolina was carried for state pro-
hibition today by a majority that is
estimated at from forty thousand to
forty-two thousand. The prohibition
ticket was carried rs out of SO coun-
ties by majorities approximating
4S,4OO. The anti-prohibition ticket
has twenty counties by majorities APP
proximating 5000. This calculation
is partly based on estimates and
prohibition leaders say that it is pos
sible for the prohibition majority to
reeeh 81 900.
election passed off quietly, no
disturbance Of any moment being re-
ported. The total votes cast was
about 175, 900.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-27
rotary of the board of education,
Freedman's Aid and Sunday schools,

rotary Of the board of education,
Freedman's Aid and Sunday schools,
54S.
j. L. Neulson, professor in Mast
Theological Seminary, Berea, Ohio,
$40.
w. A. Quale, pastor of st. James
church, Chicago, SIC.
Chas. w. Smith. editor of the Pitts
burg Christian Advocate, 515.
Wilson S. Lewis, president of
Morningside College. Sioux City, Ia,
524.
Edwin H. Hughes, president Of
DePauw university, Greencastle, Ind,
ell.
Robert Mcintyre, pastor Of the
First church, Los Angeles, Cal.
514.
Frank M. Bristol, pastor Of the
Metropolitan church; Washington
d. c., 493.
The bishops elected will be conse
Grated at a special service Sunda.
afternoon, at the Lyric.
The committee on episcopacy tic
night decided to reconsider portion
Of its intended recommendation rels
tive to episcopal residences. 1t ha
now been determined to recommen
that AN episcopal residence be esta1
lisAed in st. Paul and that Detroit b
omitted from the list of episcopa
cities.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-27
DIE
in BIG FLOOD
Took Refuge on Island But
Flood Covers IT,.
Other Deaths

Oklahoma City, Okla, May ga
special from Colbert, Okla, near the
Texas line, says fourteen persons
who had taken refuge on an island
formed between the new and old
channels Of the Red river are re-
ported to have been drowned late
today. The report lacks verifcation.
Three children Of H. Roberts,
the ferryman, were carried to their
death when the river swept them
away in the tree in which they had
taken refuge south Of Lawton. Will
and Newton stidham were drowned
near Henrietta today while attempt
ing to leave their home in skiff.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-27

Washington, d. c., May 26.-The
senate and house conferees on the
currency bills held three meetings
today and reached tentative agree
ment on which was based COM
promise which Republican members
of the conference hope to reach at
an adjourned meeting tomorrow
forenoon. At the conclusion Of the
final meeting this afternoon the prob
ability Of reporting compromise
bill to the two houses Of congress
was much stronger than at any prev
ious time, indeed, 1t was considered
certainty.
The following are the main points
Of understanding reached: The re-
serve provisions in the Vreeland bill
calling for the retention Of 25 per
cent in other reserve cities, Is re-
duced to straight ten per cent reserve
without reference to the classifica-
ton of cities.
A higher rating Is given to state
and municipal bonds than to other
securities upon which emergency
currency may be taken out. Taft is
to say, county, state and municipal
bonds will be valued at not to exceed
80 per cent of their market value,
and all other bonds at not to exceed
70 per cent Of their market value,
both without regard to whether they
are offered as security for additional
circulation under the national clear
ing house plan or under the individ-
ual bank bonds securely plan.
The amount of circulation issua
BILE upon commercial paper basis is
limited at 40 per cent and the cap,
ital of the applicant bank instead Of
100 per cent as provided in the
Vreeland bill. The redemption fund
requirement Of five per cent of the
present law is increased to ten pei
cent for all emergency currency is
suable is confined within $500, 900,
900, as provided by the Aldrich bill
A time limit OF three years is plac
ed upon the life Of the bill.
In this preliminary welding of thu
Aldrich and Vreeland bills into |
modified measure comprising TIN
principal features of each and max
ing it possible to obtain emergenc,
currency under two distinct and rad
ically different forms of application
and security. Several Of the mino
details are not vet settled. The
will be disposed Of when it has be
come settled fact that the bill is t
be reported by the conferees. Mean
time the working draft Of the CON
promise bill will be printed tonigh
so that the Republican conferee
may have the text before them whe
they meet tomorrow morning to d.
y eide upon the attitude they will TAX
in full conference to be held. In
mediately afterwards.
II a bill is reported out of confer
ence tomorrow 1t will be passed b
the house tomorrow. Notices weI
sent out tonight by order Of Speake
Cannon for every Republican men
Der to be in his seat at II O'Clock
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-27
new BISHOPS
The MethOdists Succeed in
Electing Eight Men for
EpiscOpacy

& Baltimore, Md, May 26.-The
Episcopal election of the Methodist
Episcopal conference Of 1908, is now
a matter of history and when the
announcement was made late today
of the selection of the eighth and
last bishop many Of the delegates
heayed signs of relief.
The new bishops in the order of
their election and number of votes
each received on the electing ballot
follows:
Nv. II. Anderson of New York, sec
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-27
WEST VIRGINIA FOR BRYAN

Wheeling, w. Va, May 26.--In five
congressional districts of West yir-
ginia the Democrats today held con-
yentions and elected delegates to the
convention at Denver. AT all the con-
ventions the delegates were instruct
ed for Bryan.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-27
MORE LANDS TO
BE1HROWNOPEN
Bill Passed TO Open TO Settle.
ment Lands at Stand
ing Rock

Washington, D. c.. May 26.-The
house today passed The senate bill
authorizing the sale OF a portion Of
tie surplus and unalotted lands in
the Cheyenne river and Standing
Rock Indian reservation in North
Dakota and South Dakota. The res
ergafSsn will open to settlement large
tracts Of land in the two states.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JUNE FL. 1908

cessful effort, and other climber is quite much
the center of his eventual victory. The author that
writes popular book it extolled here and there
in the newspapers the painter that exhibits at
tractlve picture wins occasional mention of his
canvas; the dramatist has night of triumph and
one hatterng call before the curtain.
But the fortunate player hears the music of ap-
plause dozen times every evening, and two dozen
times matinee days. He struts about his mimic
world the observed of all Observers conscious of the
strained attention of the hundreds who have paid
to him The newspapers are full of his praise and
his photographs recording his slightest doing, and
giving to his expressed opinions importance
scarcely less than might be allowed those of the
President of the United States. In the of
time he beg to arrogate to himself the heroic
virtues of the characters he impersonates. 1t is
sweet to ones the of novel, sweet
to scrawl ones autograph in the lower left hand
ner of PICTURE but oh how doubly and treb1y
sweet to meet ones image Autographed under
laudatory line and posted between advertisements
for the breakfast food and the latest vecent
cigar
The temptation is but the stronger, the rewards
more numerous, if the aspirant happens to be
woman The weaker may not have greater
vanity than the stronger but it takes greater delight
in commentator and it has keener appreciation of
luxury. If the much mentioned society belle
longs for the glitter and gaud supposed to exist
behind the footlights who blame the daughter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
HABIT

Repetition resulting in nuts.
The unconscious action that from training
Automaism placing free will.
Hereditary tendency Of acts reproduce their kind.
The living impetus Of dead deeds.
Nature paying dividends past efforts.
Yesterday achievements taking the sting from to-day toll.
Running trains of thought on rails of routine.
The perpetual motion of course Of action.
Natures instalmen plan for acquiring good or evil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
JUSTICE
Jordan

Truth converted into action.
The cornerstone of all the virtues.
The atmosphere of God on earth.
The eternal principle of the revelation Of
The rarest virtue In human life
The angel with the scales, not blind, but all seeing.
The real cure for all social wrongs
The right of each, to the detriment of none.
Consecrated wisdom sitting in the seat Of judgmen
The lamp of truth in the hand of charity.
The conscience Of omnscience.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21

of poverty and squaor that makes up the rank and
file of the professon"? James Forbes has en-
bodied the minds of these girls in his Patricia Bren
in The Chorus Lady" What wonder that they try
to escape the sordid commonplace of their poor
lives for the glory of the theater, and to the very
end delight to strut their brief hour in a palace,
even if that palace be of and scantlng? The
prospect of diamonds and automobiles cannot exert
a stronger appeal to the men and women that dwell
in dreary drudgery than does the hope of becoming
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
GREAT WORDS DEFINED IN EPIGRAM
By William George Jordan
VANITY

Posing for publicity.
Self concet without its confidence
Abnormal appetite for admiration and applause
Doing big business in self appreciation on a small capital
Constantly collecting vouchers of approval from others stick
the file Of self appreciation.
Showing ones weakness by parading ones strength.
Living for the empty praise Of others.
Self satisfaction seeking support.
Caring more for semblance than for reality.
A gold scabbard a TIN sword
EGOTISM
Morbid self absorption.
A chronic disease of the l.
Making self the and circumference of every thought
A goldfish thinking its globe the ocean,
Magndymg microbes Of personal mammoths Of
public Importance
Baromenc sensitveness o criticism.
delighted audience Of one. listening to soiloques.
False mental perspective due a narrow horzon.
Living under the imeight Of self appreciation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21

Society has contributed to the ranks of the
chorus men, whose caste is far below that Of their
Delighted sisters. When Mabee Gilman opened
her metropolitan season in The Mockng Bird, a
male ensemble singer whose weekly stipend
eighteen dollars, electrified the management by pur
chasing nine boxes. This Croesus of the chorus
proved to be Deacon" Moore a Cornell graduate
and son of one of the biggest mine owners of the
West.
The germ of stage fever frequently is as slow to
get out of the system it is quick to it.
Douglas Fairbanks is a clever comedian who had
important role in The Pit" and another in The
Man of the Hour" Mr.. Fairbanks fell in love with
the daughter of Daniel ]. Sully, and, according
report, given the parental permission to marry
her if he would abandon his profession. He retired
from the stage, and out of the cast of The
Man of the Hour" for trife less than two
months
Margaret Fuller to town few years ago with
ambition to star She enlisted the help of we'll
known manager, who told her that he would give
her a chance to play Camille if she could get rid of
twenty pounds of supertluous flesh Miss Fuller
presented Camille at a special matinee, and that
ended the possibility of her being launched star
She is still in the theatrical profession, however,
tent with minor roles, but clinging tenaciously to
her aVOCatIOn.
There are hundreds of women haunting the agencies
in New York, promenading that graveyard of buried
hopes, the Great White Way, who mi ht be enjoy
ing the comfort of luxurious homes and the atfec-
tomato solicitude of doting relatives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
Ambition in High Places

fA"DltlOn IN I11gn races
THE most astonishing feature of stage fever how
ever, is that its ravages not confined to the
ranks of people that would be bettered by in
their chosen profession. My wealthiest friend, silk
importer, who owns charming home on Central Park
West, dimes alone while his wife stands in the wings
of dirty little theater in Paris where their only
daughter earns sixty francs week by dancing. A
successful literary man of my acquaintance, who
would cheerfully devote his entire income something
than fifteen thousand year, to making his
young wife happy at home, yields perforce to her
wish to appear in vaudeville. The most valuable
member of the staff of out of town newspaper,
recipient of big salary, suddenly threw up his
position two years ago and to New York, since
when he has been employed seven weeks, and that
seven weeks in an organization presenting Nellie,
the Beautiful Cloak Model
A. L. Wilbur, at the time when he conducted the
well known Wilbur Opera Company, printed in the
program of his performances an advertisement for
chorus girls. Successful applicants paid twelve
dollars week; yet recruits came by the dozen
from the best families in the territory through which
the aggregation touring. Scores of the young
day we'll born and bred victims of the infection.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21

Somebody" of enjoying even temporary illumina-
ton of their obscurity
Charles Dickens wildly explained the psychology
of this longing for prominence in his chapter on
Private Theaters' in Sketches by Boz" In his
day there were scores OF such institutions IN London
each the center of little stage struck neighbor
hood In every green room hung pacard
quoting the price for which willing amateurs might
Gloucester in Richard III" cost two pounds the
role being we'll worth that amount because the
Duke must wear real sword, and what is better
STILL he must draw it several times in the of
the piece. We have no such private theaters on
this side of the water; but there nearly hun
dred amateur dramatic clubs in Brooklyn while
other communities possess these organizations in
proportion to their size.
Three Roads the Stage
THERE are three we'll trod roads to the stage One
wanders through membership in a society like
those mentioned; another and straghter is by way of
the dramatic schools; while the third and most fire.
quented, goes direct from the home to the office of
agent manager. Of dramatic schools the number
is legion; but only those conducted by dishonest
adventures promise employment It, to the enrolled
student. BE actor for ST. is the alluring
caption of advertisement carried weekly by
number of periodicals. but the innocents that make
it profitable for that institution to go on advertising
schools which the useful technicaties of the art
are carefully taught, and their managers keep in
close touch with the producing of the
try. While they guarantee nothing they frequently
able to place graduates in small parts. Grace
George, Margaret Ellington, and other we'll known
stars have come out of these academies.
The direct path to which reference has been made
is numbered with difficulties and obstacles. Agencies
are established with the purpose of helping COM
munication between managers and the actors most
in demand They busy places, with little time to
devote to the novice, and the average mpresario
not nearly inaccessible than their executive
heads Every year the producing manager is less
inclined to see applicants or to make opportunities
for people of whom he knows nothing 1t is all very
we'll to be recommended by some acquaintance of
the man that presents; but friendship is only
fri nobody will die he
of presentation that has thousands of dollars
merely to please associate
The current method of selecting a company is
quick and simple. copy of the plays cast of char
acters is sent to the manager, who writes opposite
each character the of the whom he thinks
most likely to interpret that role to advantage.
Then the Managers secretary sends for the fortunate
Thespian This system is undeniablv hard and per-
haps unjust to the beginner but such sentiment
gets into the theater comes in manuscripts, and in
these days of critical judgment, the investor
in drama has the fullest right to minimize his risk.
One in Ten Gets a Living
nut of every hundred nOViceS who come q town
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
Vanity Is the Reason

IN nine cases.out of ten the mania to go on the
stage is prompted by pure vanity. Love of excite
ment and the falacious notion that the profession
is of comparative and luxury may be
aOying factors but the of the virus vanity
No other field offers the quick approval of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21

man when do you expect to be in town again.?
Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday." re-
piled the woud-be actor. I'm brakeman on the
New York Central"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-21
One in Ten Gets a Living

nUT of every hundred novices who come to town
~ IN search OF an engagement ten may secure the
coveted prize and not than out of that ten
makes decent living from his or her adopted work
1t is too much to say that asprant in thousand
achieves real The average salary in the
chorus is eighteen dollars week, and for speaking
parts in dramatic performances 1t cannot be more
than forty dollars. Nobody is paid during the
period devoted to rehearsal and fairly long season
lasts somewhere between thirty and thrty-five
weeks. The sane way of computing wages in the
theatrical business, therefore, is to multiply by
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