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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-27

Mrs. Hillyer and children left for Ell
gin, ILL.,, last Friday evening to visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. Smith, parents, OF
Mrs. Hillyer, until after the holidays.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-27

ST. Louis Post Dispatch: II an the
S26,14s,940 worth Of shoes made In st.
Louis last year were on shoe, the St
Louis breweries made beer enough to
I'LL 1t. Statistics are most interesting.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-27
Alfalfa, Trials on Demonstration Farms

AIfafa ErEaIs on Uenfonstration Farms
This work was begun by the United
States department Of agriculture in the
spring Of 1908 at Larimore, Flaxton.
Granville, Beach, New Salem, Bis
marck. Sanborn, and Bathgate. These
farms were supplied with three pounds
of seed OF five different varieties
among which were Grimm, Montana
and Turkessan. When seeded this
amount Of seed covered an acre Of
ground. The land In each case was
well prepared and the alfalfa was
seeded without q nurse crop. On ali
these farms the seed terminated and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
President EliOt's Visit

Today this city will welcome and honor Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard university. He is Americas foremost educator, and for that very reason he is Americas first citizen. He was graduated at Harvard in 1853, and in 1854 he became tutor in that institution; and right there his long life work has been conducted, barring 2 short period spent in a professor ship in the Institute of Technology, another Boston school. He has there fore been an educator 56 years. He has been president of Harvard 40 years, and in that time he developed the then modest institution into the leading university of the country-a university that matriculates every year vast body of young men and women.
 Where is the American whose work in his lifetime exceeds this recordi Possibly Englishmen can point to the work accomplished in lifetime by Gen. William Booth, but no American can point to an American who has ac- ,omplished more in his own lifetime than Charles w. Eliot, for it was he who devised the elective system and ,ho put the curriculum of American
 olleges on a broader and more lib-
 Nal basis. His work will be his best
 aonument.
 He will be warmly welcomed here,
 nd our people will in honoring their
 uest of today honor themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
Crop Outlook In March

Because the rainfall in Alabama is ample 1t should not be assumed that it has also been abundant in all other parts of the cotton belt In the parts of Texas that produce the earliest cot ton drouth prevails, and in all the rest of the cotton belt west of the Mis- lssippi river the winters rainfall has 8ten deficient. A deficient winter rain ee1l is followed as rule by deficient )tton crop. Possibly great rainfall lay speedily come, but it must be re- smbered that time is pressing in Mxas,
 The crop of this cotton year may go
 t3,500 900 bales, but consumption Is
 a basis of 1s,0oo,0oO bales. There
 I not be great supply left over to
 ke good possible deficiencies in the mp to be grown this year.
 xFhether the crop west of the river garge or small 1t will be grown in all = 4 states of the cotton belt under un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
ANTIQUITY OF THE BISCUIT.

From the London Globe
 Is it not possible that the modern ex- pression, taking the biscuit" or taking the cake" has (writes correspondent from Harrow) a much higher origin than the man in the street who frequently uses it supposes? The foregoing is sug- gested by note in Paris contemporary on the relative antiquity of bread and biscuit. No date is fixed for the intro- duction of fermentation in baking. but. says our contemporary, it is certain that cakes were made of flour and water in the earliest times-that is, without fer mentation, the constituents of the biscuit. Traces of such cakes have been found in the bottom of some Swiss lakes, and the learned have had no difficulty in assign ing such to the neolithic period. This is the first indication of the biscuit, and the modern biscuit is return to the most rudimentary form of bread.
 Most of the ancient peoples ate bis- cults on special occasions-in war and on great maritime voyages or inland ex- petitions. The Greeks named such bread "arton dipuron"-that is to say, bread put twice through the oven, and the Romans called theirs "panis nauticus.' .'' The double baking is thing of the past, but the original form double baked' (biscuiD is still retained. We ought not to omit mention of the confarreatio among the Romans.
 Confarreatio among the Romans was the most solemn form of marriage, but in later times it fell into disuse. The name is said to have originated in the bride and bridegroom sharing a cake of salt wheaton bread ("far" or "panis far reus") in the presence of the "pontifex maximum" or "flamen dialis," who per formed the ceremony. This form of mar riage could only be dissolved by another equally solemn ceremony. which was called "disfarreatio." The names of patrimi and matrimi were applied to children sprung from this kind of mar riage. Here at all events was an in stance of taking the cake"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
Activity In Iron PrOduGtlnn

In a month of 2S days the production of pig iron was 1,703,5S5 tons, as against 1,797, ,56O tons in the 31 days of January. Not since November, 1907, had the production been larger. Not a few were surprised at the figures for February, because the steel ruction had thrown the metals markets into confusion. Manifestly production, prices and wages are problems of the future.
 In this district the production in February was 1S5,374 tons. as against 149,2S0 tons in January. If we add the average production of three days we find that there was no material change in the rate. One furnace in Sheffield was banked in February, leaving % in blast on March 1. This district con- tinues to lead New York, but the gap between the two is growing less. It will soon be nip and tuck if Buffalo continues to put stacks in operation. It has at present four idle stacks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
THE VOICELESS.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes. We count the broken Tyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slum-
 Der. But O CT their silent sisters breast The wild flowers who will stoop to num-
 Der?
 A few can touch the magic string And noisy Fame is proud to win them Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts sad
 story Weep for the voiceless who have known The cross without the crown of gloryi Not where Leucadian breezes sweep Ger Sapphos memory haunted pillow, But where the glistening night-dews
 weep
 On nameless sorrows churchyard pillow. o hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses, Till Death pours out his longed-for wine Slow-dropped from Mlsery's crushing
 presses If singing breath or echoing chord To every hidden pang> were given, What endless melodies were poured, As sad as earth. as sweet as heavenl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
"DREAM FOOD" OF. THE GREEKS. From fba Montreal Standard

From the Montreal standard.
 Hashish, that strange drug which has given our language it's word "as- sassin"-a man so frenzied by the drug that he accomplishes murder-is used by the Persian, TurkSand Egypt ians in manner akin to the use of uct of a plant grown in large quanti- ties in the Peloponnesus (Southern Greece), in the district about Tripo- litza. The plant grows to a height of about four feet, and its branches are thickly covered with small leaves and studded with tiny seeds. The en- tire plant, stalk and branches, is cut within a few inches of the root and laid out in the sun to dry. The branches are then rubbed to separate the seeds, and these in turn are ground into a fine powder, which constitutes the drug. The drug has the power of inducing sleep and producing pleasant and fan tastic dreams. Continued use of hashish renders it's devotees wild and reckless and results in a complete wreck of their mental and physical constitution
 For this reason the Egyptian govern ment has prohibited the importation of the drug, and recently entered into a convention with Greece to prevent its exportation from there to Egypt, where the consumers of hashish are very nu- merous. The drug is practically never used in Greece, but Is now exported to various ports in England. Austria, France and Italy, and from there much no doubt ultimately finds its way to Egypt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
PRESIDENT WRITES AUTOGRAPHS
Has Faced Cameras 37ooo Times and
 Signed 5000 Photoaraphs.

From the New York Herald.
 Washington.-A visitor to the White House Saturday found President Roose- velt wriggling the fingers of his right hand as if in pain. The ordinarily neat plotting pad on his fiat topped mahogany desk was ink bespattered. Another mes sage to Congress" was the expression that sprang instantly from the callers lips.
 No, remarked the President: 'noth- ing of that kind. I am merely autograph ing a few photographs for few friends
 The door leading to MT. Loeb's room opened and MT. Forster, an assistant sec retary, entered noiselessly and reverently laid upon the desk a presidential likeness three feet long and two wide.
 The President consulted the card and then wrote bravely, ITO MT. John Smith. with the sincere regards of Theodore Roosevelt"
 MT. Latta, another secretary. laid a neat stack of photographs on the desk and the presidential pen scratched wearily over the rough card surface.
 The most photographed man in the world is winding up his administration as the busiest autograph writer that ever walked out on March 4 The tables in MT. Loeb's office are stacked high with photographs that high and low buy at the nearest photographers and send over to be suitably inscribed. Then there Is a. large supply of pictures in the White house offices which the President nanqs out voluntarily to his friends.
 More than two years ago the President remarked one day while facing a camera battery that he had been photographed about 2loOO times and easily 10000 times have probably been added since. Wherever he goes on important public business several photographers go too ana are most diligent in addition to the amateurs and professionals who gather along the way. It can be stated with some de- gree of confidence that he has written his autograph on no less than 5000 photo- graphs and his signature has been repro duced on others times beyond calcula- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
Congress Should Keep At Work

Nothing more foolish has been. pro- posed than that one house should loaf while the other works on the tariff and revenue bills. Both should be kept at work, for important bills can thus be adequately discussed and considered. The date of inauguration should be changed; a census bill is to be passed; Arizona and New Mexico should be granted statehood; a parcels post is widely desired, and conservation plans can be amply considered.
 There will be long waits in either house, and those waits can be utilized to the advantage of the country, and they should be. In the regular ses- sion the appropriation bills and gen. eral business render the full considera- tion of some measures of general i'm portance impossible, and the Sixty first Congress can get a good start in such matters by turning to account it's waiting periods in the special session. At any rate the loafng proposition will not be well received by the general puDlic that desires legislation on one measure or another. Let both houses keep at work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
NOVELIST WILL RETIRE

one person for the flood of historical novels in the '90s, wfach in this counvry took the form mainly of gentlemen of France strayed into the colonies
 It is likely that his creative impulse would not have spent itself even with 70 years of hard work if his themes .ad been of a more varied sort and his meth ods more elastic. In romances of ad- venture a certain sameness is inevitaoIe. Trilling as are the things that may nap pen for instance to a messenger with important dispatches or to a trave.er stopping at an inn of evil reputation, the number of turns that can be given to a certain situation or incident are liml- ted and tke details of peril, of pursuit. or of fighting against odds are apt to have family resemblance. It is no reproacn to the romancer that he is more apt to run out of fresh material than the realist who is content to draw life in its infinite variety and will never lack material, however short of inspiration ne may at times find himself. Neither the commences nor the scarcity of a given sort of material proves anything 10 its true value.
 For the novelist. however. 1t is well to consider that, however unlimited the supply of plots and incidents may seem when he embarks upon his career, the
 will have to be eked out unless he is number of those which can serve his pur- pose is limited and that mere invention to become a mere echo of himself or oth- CTS, with fresh observation and study of books and men. And just there is one of the unfortunate aspects of present-day bookmalxing. The writer who wins fa- vor finds his services in such demand that he has no time for profitable idle ness He is lucky if when he has said what he has to say he can stop short m mid-career as MT. Weyman has had the superfluous on the stage, their ideas and their inspiration gone, but the necessity of producing cruelty remaining. This IS a possibility that ought to be kept in view from the beginning. A book year Is enough for the most fecund mind; it would be better for most men to ai.ow their brains to lie fallow for year ss- tween books, resting, studying, collect ing material, planning for the future. On those terms there need be no decline of power while health and vitality re- main But perhaps such self-restraInt is too much to ask of popular writer who can make his own terms with the publishers while his vogue lasts. Tnat may be the part of worldly wisdom 1t does not lead to a worthy literary ca- reer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
BERNHARDT TO PLAY "CYRANO
 DE BERGERAC."
From Paris Letter to the New York American

From Paris Letter to the New York
 American.
 In consequence of the refusal of the directors of the Comedie Franchise to per init M. Leoargy to play in M. f-os- tands "ChantioIer,' for which he was 10 get salary of s575 a week. M. Lebargy purposes to leave the organization.
 Sarah Bernhardt has announced that she will appear in the title role of M Ros- tands "Cyrano de Bergerac." She was very much disappointed at not being se- lected by M. Rostand to replace the late Coauelin Aine in the leading role of "Chanticler.'' This was impossible on ac- count of her sex.
 By leaving the House of Moiere M. Le- bargy will forfeit several valuable privr- leges There will be no pension Of Slzo0 for him when he is superannuated and no gift of $30,000 when he gets too old to act Also he may be fined $20o oo0 for summarily leaving the Franchise, of which for many years he has been ''so- cietaire."
 But the actor Is so anxious to play this part in Rostand's drama, which the whole theatrical world has been waiting for and discussing for three years or more that he really may leave the national theatre without the formahty of resigning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
Presidents as Church coers

All the Presidents since can remem- Der nave been churchgoers, said man "ho formerly lived in Washington
 President Cleveland during bis Ave. term never missed the morning serv,ca at the old Presbyterian church os r,h,o,, Dr. sunderland was then paston Presi- oent Harrison was an elder in the Pres- pyterian church and in Washington at- tended both services on Sundays +ba same as he did when at home in Indian apols.
 Presldent Mckinley was a communi cant in the Methodist denomination and attended the Metropolitan M. E. church. President Roosevelt attended the Dutch Reform church as a rule. but freouent- ly accompanied his wife to the Epis- copal church. He was not only a mem Der of the Dutch Reform church but once or twice preached from the pulpit of the little house of worship in Wash ington.
 President Taft is a Unitarian and will be a regular attendant st the services of that denomination in Washington By the way, it was a singular fact that a
 
 tartan creed opposed MT. Taft's election because he belonged to the Unitarian de- nomination. John Adams and John Quincy Adams were. according to a table appearing in the World Almanac, Con gregationalists, but they belonged to the Unitarian branch of the Congregational communion. In the early days of the Protestant religion Congregationalism stood for Calvinsm and was therefore strongly Trinitarian; but in course of time there came to be a Unitarian drift and one could be a Congregationalist and an orthodox Trinitarian or liberal Uni taran-either one pleased. I do not know what proportion of Congregationalism is Unitarian today but it is considerable.
 "In view of the facts the opposition to MT. Taft on account of his creed was certainly inconsistent and unreasonably in this free country of ours, to say the least"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
FAMOUS UNMARRIED MEN.
From Tid Bits.

From Ild B1I6.
 Bacon says that certainly the best works and those of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from un married or childless men" Schopen- hauer, the German philosopher, ap- pears to be of the same opinion; For men of higher intellectual avocation, for poets, philosophers, for all those in general who devote themselves to science and art, celibacy is preferable to married life, because the conjugal yoke prevents them from creating great works.
 Moore has expressed the same be- lief, asserting that in looking back through the lives of the most illus trious poets 1t Is evident that they have been, with scarcely any exception, restless and solitary spirits, with minds wrapped up, like silkworms, in their own tasks, either strangers or rebels to the domestic tie"
 Dante, Milton, Shakespeare and Dry den are instances of the saddening ef- feet of married life upon poets. Dante went through life away from his wife and children, nursing his mind in the immortal dream of Beatrice. There is that ofttold jest of Dryden, which suf- f1ciently exhibits his views of the sub ject; when his wife told him that she wished she were a book In order that she might have more of her husbands companionship, he sair, Be an alma mac, my love, so that I can change you every year"
 Scott's remark about Dryden was, that Ion no occasion when a sarcasm against matrimony would be introduced has he failed to season 1t with such bitterness spoke of an inward con- sciousness of domestic misery" But the same is. true of other artists as well-of musicians and painters as we'll as poets.
 Wagner when young man, married an actress, pretty as a picture" but she appears to have had but little sym pathy with his aims and he lived apart from her. He afterward married a daughter of Liszt, who did appreciate his genius, and with her he was very happy.
 The girl whom Haydn married turned out shrew. Berlioz wrote, 70 that I could find her, the Juliet, the Ophelia that my heart calls to, that I could drink in the intoxication of mingled Joy and sadness that only true love knows. Could I but rest in her arms one autumn evening, rocked by the north wind on some wild heath, and sleeping my last sad sleep"
 We are told that a few years after these effusions were written he ar ranged an amicable separation from his wife, his former divinity, and he left her to die in misery and solitude.
 Handel was never in love and had an aversion to marriage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
Accidents on Street Cars

President Ford Is publishing from inday to Sunday illustrations of the amer in which accidents occur on
 'eet car lines. When we consider It over 1000 personal damage claims
 SC year, or about three day, the
 clusion is unavoidable that care
 ;ness on the part of the individual "a large factor in this number of iims. If individual carelessness and luughtlessness could be wholly elimi- ! tied the number of claims would, no ,ubt, be cut in two. And this would, 10 doubt, prove a conservative estl- mate.
 Every reader of The Age-Herald lould study the illustrations that
 ssident Ford is presenting in the inday morning editions. Each is seful lesson in itself, and each one nould be needed. As population in- reases the need of more caution in the streets and on the street car lines becomes imperative. and the street car company is furthering the interests not only of its stockholders but also of humanity when 1t prints illustrations If everyday accidents. These acci- ,nts are avoidable, and the object of 6 illustrations is to induce people to
 their part. It is not the object of
 company to transfer their own lortcomings, but-simply to persuaoe people not to unload their own care lessness. on a company that is doing -:.b best to lessen the number of acci-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09
ROOSEVELT AT 50,

''The Interpreter" in the American
 Ma agazine for March.
 Roosevelt is the youngest man of 50 I have ever seen. The half century hasn't slowed him down since I first saw him, 2s years ago, in the national convention with his lighting face" turned suddenly toward a delegate from the District of Columbia who had had the temerity to dispute him. He is young himself and he likes young men or middle aged men with steam in them, around him. It is a safe bet that he had rather spend an evening with lot of boys in an athletic club discussing the relative merits of the straight left and the right swing. than chatting with somebody from the Smith sonian institution on the paleon- tological evidences of evolution. And funny thing about it. he does both.
 I think he goes out of office with mixed feelings. It is not all regret, nor all elation. But 1t Is largely regret. In his own phrase. he has had a good time in the White House. But it hasn't all been pleasant. It hasn't been easy to attack in messages and sue in the courts men with whom he had been brought up as boy in New York.
 But on the whole he has had fun, and certainly he has made fun for most of us, and whole lot of nervous ex- citement for the rest. I don't want to Jakeriis him, but I feel that he will be missed and I am quite sure that when he takes his gun in his hand and dives into the forest there will be an almost universal shout of: Goodbye, Teddy, take keer of yourself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-09

favorable circumstances. All supplies are high-priced, and merchants are not advancing freely. The outlook for the growing of big crop this year is not therefore favorable, and what is grown will be at high cost per bale. This is the situation as it stands today, and nothing can well change it unless great rainfalls come speedily in all the states west of the river.