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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-27

Chicago, Sept. 27.-The discovery Of
. double of Mrs. Evelyn Romadka,
now in the Joliet penitentiary. whose
downfall was due to addiction to CO.
cafne, has been reported to the Cur
rier commission for the investigation
Of drug addict1ons, from Milwaukee
which was also the former home of
Mrs. Romadka. Mrs. Bessie Kloeger,
the present alias Of the unfortunate
double Of Mrs. Romadka, is the widow
Of once prominent physician of the
west end. Cocaine writes her story
also.
This is another case that will be
submitted to congress next winter
when the bill comes up to put the
regulation Of habit forming drugs un-
der the governments internal revenue
offcers.
Beautiful, intellectual anu refined.
the insidiousness of dope has drag
ged Mrs. Kloeger down from her
once high position to the lowest
slums. She has become the consort
Of negroes, the leader Of wild de-
bauches and of orgies that would
make q French roue tremble. Prom
ise after promise has Bessie Kloeger
given the various Milwaukee judges,
before whom repeatedly she has been
brought to trial, that she will reform.
Her aged and respectable parents,
who are still living in Negaunee,
Mich.,c send, their daughter money
each week to pay her room rent. It
r. to the home of this fond old father
and mother, who are ignorant of their
daughters depravity, that Bessie
Kloeger will return.
Il don't dare let her 60 free now
commented the Judge at the close Of
the trial. ...If she, goes free now, she
will doubtless be either drunk or
cfazed with the drug when more mon
ey arrives"
Country Free
Reports of the use Of habit forming
drugs In the granger states are being
rapidly filed with the .Currier COM
mission showing that in thrifty rural
communities where the towns and vii
lages are not spaced too far apart
there is comparatively small use of
the drug. Few coke Aends" are seen
there save the tramps and the va
grants who drif< In from the cities
Their pleadings for "jes one dose
Doc" made. before rural physicians
Is pitiable. and the feverish hysterical
gratitude they pour out. and the
ayidity with which they seize the
drug, II they are able to procure any
Of It, is frightful.
Iowa Is the latest state to report
The Independent state hospital Of
Iowa shows that the insane inmases
Of that institution who were habituee
OF cocaine and whose present condi-
tioh may be attributed to the drug
have doubled In number during the
pasts twelve. months. w. p. Crum.
hacker. superintendent Of the insti.
tuition formerly headed; : hospital fol
the insane 10 West Virgins, and also
another IA Ohio. In his report he
remarks that undoubtedly moro ol
tie pati6nts admitted to, those fnsti.
s i, =
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-27
NATION AND
STATE TO AID
Sufferers From Hurricane Are
Destitute and Now Demand
Attention

New Orleans, Sept. 27.-Although
additional bodies of those who perish
ed in last weeks hurricane along the
Louisiana and Mississippi coasts will
probably be found, concern for the
living sufferers is now paramount.
Hundreds are homeless and destitute.
In addition to the aid given by the
state, help will be obtained from the
federal government.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-27
School Wrecked.

Jersey City, Sept. 27.-An explosion
occurred today at Anthony's Polish
parochial school, corner Monmouth
and Sixth streets. The building was
partially wrecked and four children
were reported dead. Ambulances have
been sent from every hospital in the
city.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-27
An IMMENSE sun
SPOT DISCOVERED
Believed to be Cause of Elec.
trical Disturbances of the
Last Few Days

Milwaukee. Wis.,. Sept. 27.-Father
McGeary, professor of astronomy at
Marquette university today announced
the discovery Saturday of a great sun
spot which his observation showed
to, be about 10000 miles in diameter
and to which he ascribes the strange
electrical disturbances Saturday aft
ernoon which disabled telegraph sys-
TENS In America and Europe. =
Prof. McGeary was stud ing the
sun with q class of students when he
noted the new spot. He believes that
this sun spot instead of the aurora
boreaIis was responsible for the elec-
trical disturbance Saturday and
thinks that the combination of the
big sun spot, the fact that Mars ID
closer. than for many years past, COM
ibins with the northern lights to dis
]afb.All electrical currents. .
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-27
Dozen PERISH
WHILE At SEA
Such Is the Report Brought ia
Baltimore by the Six : :, ,
:4 Survivors :.IaE !

Baltimore, Sept. 27.-six survivors
out of crowd of eighteen are aboard
winter quarter iightship. the remain
ing twelve men having perished. 90
cording to report made by Captain.
Delano Of the steamer Porto Rico
which arrived hero today from lgsw.
York.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-27
wide Range

! st. Louis. Sept. ga slight earth
quake, which was felt through south
eastern Missouri and southern and
central Illinois and Indiana and Ten
lfssee, occurred early today. In st.
Houis the tremor came at 3:47 O'clock.
So far as has been learned, no dam
age resulted. The general direction
of the shock was west to east and It
was felt more clearly in the thinly
settled district. The settling of the
earth's crust with the seat of disturb
ance many miles distant is the general
cause of the quake. The probability
of q renewal OF the ehock is negativ-
"a by the local scientists.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-27
RA|S|N WINE J
MUST PAY DUTY
This Is Decision Rendered by
the Government Revenue
Agents Notified :.

Washington, Sept. 27.-That raisin
wine is taxable is the decision rend-
cred today by Commissioner Cabel.
The tax will take effect October /. All
internal revenue agents were notified
by telegraph.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-27
Hanes Rocked and Ureaked
and Pictures on the Walls
swayed ''sE: ssss:.,
RUnbunG THUnDERlIKE NOISE
ACCOMPANIED THE DISTURBANCE
People Were Awakened From Their
Beds BY: the Shock the Movements Of
which Seemed to be From the South.
east to Northwest

Evansville. Ind. Sept. 27.-An
earthquake at 1886 this morning
shocked Evansville. Houses rocked
and creaked and pictures on the walls
swayed. Many people were awakened
BY the shock. A rumbling noise like
distant thunder accompanied the dis
turbance. The movements seemed to
be from the southeast to the north
west.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-27

tutions were guilty Of drug habis
than stands confessed. Out Of four
teen women tnebriates, patients In
the Mt. Pleasant hospital, three wers
cocaine aends, before their incarcera-
ton, two were addicted to both CO.
caine and morphine. three to NOR
prime alone, one to morphine. cocaine
and alcohol, one to alcohol and mar
cotics. three to morphine and alcohol,
and only one to alcohol alone. This
hospital - the only one in the state
Of Iowa which received inebriate
women committed under the Iowa
law. which provides for. the involun-
tary commitment Of 1nebriates for
treatment In hospitals, 30 the signif-
cameo Of this report 10 a1arming BY
lie very brexity:
g Dope Flends
Ten - Of the A4S males con-
fined ins a.. penitentiary at Ft.
Madison ~ eex ny the statement
Of the prison so we're addict
ed to the use ofs Hfteen per-
cent to- opium and, ids, and
eighty per cent TO into> lg liquor.
Also. the majority Of the ope" users
drank. s. ....sl.
The comparatively small actual
showing Of insane patients confined In
state institutions whose affliction is
directly traceable to drug addictions
is held by alienists and other expert
authorities as Inadequate and incom-
petent. This because by far the ma
jority of drug habitues and persons
afflicted with disorders arising from
the constant abuse Of the use Of drugs
are confined or sent for treatment to
private sanatoria, when they are not
kept at home by their relatives and
friends, and cared for in the privacy
of the home.
Max e. Witte, superintendent Of the
Clarinda, Iowa, state hospital, with
over Thousand patients, reports that
from his observations Of over thirty
years. experience In handlin gsuch at
fflicted people, no commensurate cal
culation of the mentally diseased
whose perversions have emanated
from addiction to- the various drugs
and narcotics is possible because of
this tendency to keep such disgrace
sheltered under the family wing.
The rural districts defend them
selves from the growth Of the habit by
stating that in those institutions where
a large percentage of the patients
come from large cities. the registers
disclose q constantly increasing use
of all narcotic drugs, and especially
of cocaine.
Cocaine debauchery is an expensive
form or orgy compared to either an
alcohol, or morphine intoxication.
More insidious, it's elemental danger
lies In it's almost unbreakable ten
tacles coupled with it's tendency to
attract the middle classes and the
masses rather than the more exclus-
i've classes, which generally turn to
80 use of alcoholics. or Of morphine,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-27
Visited Relative.

Anaconda. Mont. Sept. 27.-After a
flying trip through the famous
Washeo smelters of the Amalgated
Copper company on the hills below
Anaconda. President Taft came by
automobile into this city at $3.50 this
morning and made a brief address in
the central square. Senator Carter
met the president at Silver Bow
Junction little after o'clock this
morning. Senator Dixon and POST
master General Hitchcock Joined the
party when it arrived in Anaconda.
While here the president visited his
cousin, DR.. Samuel Lorrey orton for
few minutes. DR.. Orton's mother
and President Taft's mother were SIS
ters. In the address which the presi-
dent made. he says 1t is the first time
that he has ever been in this city.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-27
Naval Courtesy

Rear Admiral seaton Schroeder ia
outranked by both Admiral con Koes-
ter Of the German imperial navy ana
Admiral Sir Edward Seymour Of the
British royal navy. A movement to
petition the president to place Admir-
al Dewey in command was promptly
halted by Admiral Dewey himself,
who said that. his health and age
would not permit him to UNDERTAKE
eight days Of full-dress duty and ban
quoting. The appointment of Admir-
al Seymour to these waters is regard
ed as another evidence of Kind Ed
wards tact. Admiral Seymour was
in command Of the British fleet IA
Manila bay on the day when Commo-
dore George Dewey annihilated the
Spanish feet and the rejoinder Of his
captain, Sir Edward Chichester, to the
German commander who inquired be-
fore Dewey went into action and
while the attitude Of the German feet,
then at anchor In the same waters,
was still q matter OF anxiety, what
action the English proposed to take,
won him instant popularity in this
country and passed into history, crys-
TALKED In the aphorisms Of Mr.. Doc
ley: 5s
That" said Sir Edward with sig
.nincant ambiguity. - . matter
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-27
Butte, Anaconda and Helena
Paid Homage to the Ma \,
tion's Chief II
APPREHENSION At BUTTE
BECAUSE OF LABOR TROUBLE
Extra Precautions Taken to s.feru.ra
the President and Visit to Mines and
Smelteers Changed to Anaconda
Visited State Fair at Helena, =

Butte, Mont. Sept. 27.-When Puesi-
dent Taft arrived in Butte this morn.
Ing he found the city eager to vel.
come him. the streets gay with hunt.
ing and nothing In sight to mar HID
reception. He was welcomed at tho
depot by a big reception committee.
Automobiles took him and his partv
over the line of the parade mapped
out several days ago and after =
speech by him on North Montana
street opposite the court house, hs
was whisked away to his train and
started on the journey to Helena when
he was welcomed by thousands Of
people at the state fair grounds. Az
in other cities. the school children
all carried flags and saluted the chief
executive as he passed in his motor
The troubles between the Western
Federation of Miners and the organic
zation of engineers in the mfnes
caused a change in the original pro-
gram. 1t had been planned for Taft
to spend some time in the mines and
smelters here but when the labor trou.
bles became acute last week, the COM
mittee changed the ARRANGEMENTS an
that part of the time was spent at
Anaconda, where the smelters were
visited and examined. The president
took a lively interest in all and
seemed to be much impressed with
the extent Of the industry at Anaconda
and Butte.
The labor troubles which was
caused by the engineers withdrawing
from the federation and forming an
Independent organization, gave the
police officers some apprehension and
extra precautions were taken to safe
guard the president. Both the sheriff
and the chief of police added men to
their regular forces. However, the
labor troubles had practically been
adjusted and hundreds of men who
were idle are expected to be back to
work tonight.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-27

ss - = . q , sgs . SO : s
= s.ss4. THE WEATHER @ss
North Dakota Fair tonight ana !.
Z Tuesday. a :
= ei 9S0aoaeSe . . . ! . 4 =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-03

judgment packer and debt snagger right behind me
breathed into my just as | was stepping through
the store room door
Il didn't exchange any airy pershage with him,
but just went out deck and shook hands with
the folks who were going up on the steamer, and
then | lummoxed down the gangwav and to
my quarters and to bed and strove again with the
problem of how to detach myself from the Land of
the Always.
7 CAME to the next morning with what looked to
= me an idea worth its weight in uranium wabbng
around in my puzzled and baff1ed top wheels.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-03

1.-The L. S. cruiser Philadelphia had been in the
harbor of Honolulu for several months and she was
getting ready to back to the Mare Island Navy
yard, San Francisco, to go into drydock to
have her bottom scraped
why not return to San Francisco with her as a
man-o-war's man?
Il knew the engineers woman of the Philadel-
phia, who was that very morning weighing coal for
the cruiser down the Honolulu waterfront.
hustled into my clothes and went right down to
have a heart to heart with him.
He good people; but he hated to take a
chance, and there wasn't of course any chance of
my wanting him to take chance. All | wanted
him to do was to fetch me bluejackets uniform
the next time he came OFF to the beach from the ship.
| would do the rest That easy, he said, and
wouldn't involve him. Presently he quit his coal
weighing job go off to the Philadelphia join the
engineers gangs for dinner, and after he d
finished his dinner he secuted around among the
fremen below and dug up one of them who had
spare blue Jacket uniform. He wrapped it up in
unsuspclous looking parcel, and handed it to
THE Philadelphia to up anchor for the up
voyage early the following morning, and my only
chance to do anything with my frane-up to
get aboard of her somehow that night. With an
officer of the deck watch, and corporal or two
of the marine guard at the gangwav, and a couple
of BOYS of the anchor watch wide awake and swap
ping yarns, it s about easy to get aboard man
o'war even in the middle of the night, as it is to
get out of Sing Sng-unless YOU go the for ard
anchor chains
That's how l made it. / rugged out in the blue
jackets blouse and bell bottoms a little while before
midnight, strolled nonchalantly down Beretania-st
without anybody recognizing me in that outfit
hailed a sampan, told the sampan man I'd been
absent without leave for week and wanted to get
aboard the Philadelphia without reporting at the
stick SOS to have good sleep in my hammock in
stead of being chucked into the brig for breaking
liberty; and he it. That sampan man could
pull softly the Ysaye can pull on the
E string of his fiddle when he puts the mute on the
bridge, and cat the to'gallant fo'csle couldn't
have heard ripple he pulled alongside the for ard
anchor chains. l went up the chains hand over
hand without making sound, gained the gallant
fo'c'se, slipped through lot of bluejackets who
corked off on that deck account of the heat
of the night and slid down to the starboard alley
of the berth deck, where, discovered by nobody, l
Topped down to wait for morning.
When all hands turned to at five o'clock, l
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-03
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right for shelter and food for from the first I'd been
living with San Franciscan and his family who
old friends. He only in small way of
business in Honolulu and, that, he offered to sort
of pass the hat around in Honolulu among his bust
ness friends get shed of my creditors But
YOU can see me doing anything like that.
'The first stab l made for a sail-out when
night, in bum makeup that I'd picked up
went aboard lime jucer bark, loading sugar for
the States and asked the bucko British skipper to
ship extra hand for the up to San Fran
cisco He blinled and bloodied his beedv eyes all
over of course. when | maced him for the job the
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-27
EngIand'S foremost Orator
Few Orators Are Read Aser They Pass Away But Canning's
Oratons Live With Lovers of The Best Orafory.
BY DR.. I. 3. K~INGSBURY.

! travagances of the day in taste and
sentiment-the maWkish sensibility Of
the Della Cruscan school, the incon-
| gruous mixtures Of virtue and vice
In the new German rama" In deal
ing with the so-called Reformers, he
was very happy and original. It was
in the line of both taste and genius
to ridicule and expose his ~pretentiOus
opponents, and it was in happy ac-
cord with his tastes and gifts hat
he should achieve very great means in
the manifestations Of his varied pow
ers in such exercises DR.. Goodrich
say we'll of Ca%nning's great gifts in
their exercise "of ingenuity in which
he always delighted'; that he mani
tested 1.-The keenest wit. the most
dextrous travesty and the happiest ex-
hibitions of the laughable and bur-
~lesque.' He mentions particularly
the once very famous "Knife-Grinder'
and the Loves Of Mary P~ottinger."
He prophesies that these amusing
burlesques will be known and read
and enjoyed when the Anti-JacObin
political diatribes are forgotten. I
remember that [ had read and re1ished
the 'Knife-Grinder'' when a school
boy in my teens. I wish l had space
for the reproduction of this entire
specimen of Mr.. Canning's fun and
frolic with his versatile pen.
He married in 1900, the sister of
the Duchess Of Portland. She had a
fine fortune of her own, more thai
a half million dollars. He was in
power for several years and served
as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and
had a duel with Lord Catlereagh. He
remained in Parliament for years but
was not a regular attendant. One of
his greatest speeches was on the
Bullion Question" 1t has been de-
scribed as lone of the most powerful
and mastery specimens on record of
chaste and reasoning e~loquence.' In
1872, he defeated Lord Brougham for
Parliament from Liverpool. He was
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-27

elected for three or four times, and
made some of his greatest speeches
to his constituents on several Occa-
SiOnS. Two of these most remarkable
speeches are regarded as some of the
best specimens of his elOquence. He
served as ambassador Extraordinary
to Lisbon, and was President of the
Board of Indian Control. He was ap-
pointed Governor General Of India in
1922. l do not undertake to enter
with any fullness upon his public
career so full of distinction. He filled
many places Of public trust, and was
really a marvellous man-Dure. rea-
sonable, brave, true to convictions and
with but few equals in his time. He
was a great master Of diction and
Of vast as an orator. and
was thought to surpass even William
Pitt as to elevation of language and
brightness Of Illustration and high
and noble ~eloquence. The celebrated
Sir James Macintosh said Of him, that
he was "the best model among our
orators of the adjoining style" He
also said of him hat if che had been
q dry and meager speaker, Mr.. Can
ming would have been universally al
lowed to have been one of the greatest
masters Of argument; but his hearers
were so dazzled by the sp1endor of
his diction that they did not perceive
the a~cuteness and the occasional re-
hnement Of his Once
more I call upon Sir James. He says:
mo English speaker used the keen
and brilliant weapon of wit SO long,
so often or so effectively as Mr.. Can
ming. He gained more triumphs, and
incurred more enmity by it than by
any other" But onc more let Sir
James be heard: HE possessed in a
high degree, the outward advantages
of an orator. His expressive coun-
tenance varied with the changes of
his eloquence. His voice, lexible and
articulate, had as much compass as
his mode Of speaking required. In
the calm part OF his speeches, his at
titude and gesture might have been
selected by a painter to represent
grace rising toward dignity. In So
cia1 intercourse Mr.. CANNING was de-
lightful." He was full of charm, full
OF of delightful companion
and Wide interest. He was enc
tl the MOST agreeable. engaging men.
E1 WA %ot perfect, but he was Won
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-07-27
DR.. EIiot's New Religion
Will Not Be Accepted
NO LOVE IN NEW GREED
is Less Atheism Among Enoi;sb
Speaking People Than Ever ana
Aggressive Christianity More Domi-
nant-The Rock Upon Which If
Rests is h Divinity of the Savior.

I do not doubt thai many of orr
"hOme-bred' Christians were shocked
by the publication of DR.. Elliot's view
to the effect that the Christian relf-
gion is passing away to be replaced
by a ult based on materialism.
Without question some progress has
been made in hat direction in New
England and possibly at the West.
Perhaps similar conditions exist IN
western Europe. But there is. reIa-
lively, as much aggressive Christian
religion among the English-speaking
people today as in the time Of Queen
Anne and the early Georges. In this
country there is probably less atheism
relatively than at the period of the
formation OF our Federal Constitution
Although there is, now, a clearly
defined drift from the acceptance OF
the Divinity Of the Savior, yet tina
current of thought is largely in the
region of DIR. Elliot's residence. H.
lives in it's atmosphere, and sees it
more clearly than others; but he prob
ably attributes to it a greater force
it possesses. There has always
been a tendency towards rejecting the
prevailing religion. Socrates died for
rejecting the old Greek religion. Cicero
and the men Of his day rejected the
old Roman cult.
= Many famous men have rejected the
Divinity Of Christ. But our creator
has endowed us with several human
attributes-memory, capacity to love.
etc, and among these attributes is the
religious sentiment. A human being
without the religious sentiment is an
person., similar to one with
out a capacity to lOve-Or to
feel pain. DR.. Elliot does not predict
the humiliation Of religion, but an
alteration in our Christian system, the
installation Of materialism and the re
lection Of the supernatural. [ do not
share his view. 1t seems to me that
the human race will never reject the
supernatural. Some persons have al
ways done so: some do now; and
others hereafter will. BIZ
great bulk of the race are by tho
natural endOwmerts so CONSTITUTED
the supernatural will ever be az
copied by them. AS long as the my
terry of life remains-and there is "a
hundred times more mystery in our
and living han in death, po"-
pie will stand in the presence of the
supernatural and VIII g the
fact. Religion can never be wholly
from the supernatural
religion is a law of human life.