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New-York tribune., 1909-01-10

The Spanish and Portuguese were of brighter.
ivelier type thar the Russians. and. after their
fret period of seasickness ever, divided their
waking hours pretty evenly between dancing and
fighting Ali Of the men and many of the women
well carried knives, and considering the fre-
quency Of their affrays. I have never been able to
understand how more than single lone fatality
from the OF that weapon occurred on the
voyage. The principal reason for this lucky snow
ing fancy. the fact that the denseness OF
the crowds that always gathered TO the fighting
quickly made 1t impossible for those on whom 1t
focused to hand foot because of the jam
1t never the aim of crowd to stop fight for
every always voiced the keenest dsa ppointment
when the combatants were smothcred; the phenom-
enon was, therefore rather in the form Of an auto
matte regulator, which completely defeated the
ends of both principals and spectators as to i'm
press one almost the light of Intervention of
Providence. The blow which caused the fatality
have mentioned was struck In thick jam that
the man who delivered it was never discovered.
What eleven hundred persons means in the for
ward one-fourth Of medium sized steamer
must see for himself to appreciate. When these
were all scattered evenly among the four decks
to which they had access there just to
move about without showing; but when the weather
was fine every one very naturally tried to get out
on one of the two upper decks, while rain Just a
naturally caused them to force their way below
again. AS it never either pleasant rainy
many hours at stretch there continuous
succession of jams and stampedes.
New-York tribune., 1909-01-10

Feeding was on the main deck the passengers
filing in line past the Portuguese stewards. who
gave each a hunk of bread and flied his pannktn
with ladle of thick, greasy soup. This the
Il a m. dinner and p. m supper menu: a. m.
breakfast coffee and bread Every other day
cupful of vinegary red wine dealt out. and
Sundays the contents of several sacks CT dried
figs scattered broadcast for the passengers
to scramble for. The Russians never drank their
wine but always drew their share. nevertheless.
and kept it to trade to the Latins. A cup brought
In exchange a pannikn of soup a handful of
figs
The dances of the Latas the rhythmic,
swaying, two-by-two affairs of old Spain. and they
danced them deck and tween decks and up and
down the passages. Sometimes they danced to the
music OF Il guitar. sometimes 10 that of an accor-
dion and sometimes tC otncr accompaniment than
that OF their vo.ces. The Russians occasion
ally broke into song-deep toned chants, appar-
entity OF a religious naturA-but nothing of so friv-
olous nature dancing was ever attempted by
them Neither did they seem to derive tie pleas
1Ire from fighting that the Latins did their efforts
along that line being practically limited to dealing
an occasional ponderous buffet young
Portuguese Spaniard who made bold to en-
brace one OF their wcmen. A Polish girl called
Polly was an exception 10 this rule. however, her
repeated belligerencies being responsible for her
spending nearly half OF the voyage in success
sion OF short term sentences in the jail One
day 1t for nearly gousing out the eye Of an
arrogant Spanish beauty with the heel OF her
shoe, another IL was Tor laAliB Two uStIutS u
hair from placid countrywoman who CHANGED to
step upon her toe in the companionway. and an
other day II was for running amuck with fork
because young Turco playfuily dabbled his toe
in her soup. On the latter occasion she stood at
bay among the steam winciies on the forecasue
head and. was only captured after being smoth-
ere3 under half hundred more seaweed mat
tresses thrown after her on account OF the hue
and cry" started by her fellow passengers.
Poilv's final escapadc raised a riot which
oured the hot water hose and half the officers Of
the ship TO quell. The girl in manner came
into possession OF a box of sardines belonging to
Portuguese woman who occupied an adjoining
berth This she added 10 a loaf OF bread and 6
cur, of cIaret given her by a goodnat steward,
and sat down on a bench in the upper steerage
for quiet afternoon luncheon. She had just cut
off hunk of bread with a big family butcher
knife and was in the act of raising the cup OF
caret to her lips. when the owner Of the sardInes
New-York tribune., 1909-01-10

poet, apostrophisins Light, plays on the Latin
name in well known lines
Thee I revisit safe.
And feel. thy SOY reign vital lamp; but thou
Hevisit'st not these eyes that roll in vain
TO find thy piercing ray. and find no dawn:
Or dim suffusion vcil'd
According to Others among whom was his late
biographer Leslie Stephen. Milton's complete loss
of eyesight due to glaucoma. To judge from
the passage above quoted the poet himself was
not entirely convinced Cf the nature of his disease
though he gloried In the fact that ne had incurred
1t in the service OF his country The lines seem to
express alternative etiologies. The darkness fell
upon him soon after HIS completion of the De
fenso Populi Anslicani," in 1864 Paradise Lost"
therefore. the magnum OPUS OF a blind man
Now, though such aflictiOn complete loss OF
the of might be supposed to initiate
against the highest kind of achievement In art, It
IS a question whether in Miltons such loss
did net enhance his performance. According to
Jonathan Richardson, who wrote when Mlltonic
tradition still quite fresh. the poet dictated his
poem in suatches between 1853 and 1662-ten lines
to chance caller twenty lines to his daughter
Anne, whom he would wake up in his grim pateTna
fashion to act as has amanuensis during the hours
of a seepless night.
According TO a tradition traced to the third Mrs
Milton the poet dictated his poem. in patches oil
some three hundred lines time. after rising
il the early morning. These patches COM
posed during night vigils. Whichever tradition
accept, the fact remains THAI Millions great epic
was recited and dictated; IL the work OF u
trouvere of supreme genius: II owed nothing in the
first instance To the restraining influences of the
pen. Hence the Miitonc harmonies. the stresses
cEsuras, crowded sylables, pauses, which lend the
poem its peculiar majesty and charm. Blindness
for once may be said have been benefcent when
we consider the manner in which Paradise Lost
was composed Millions insomnia deserves a word
in passing He was with memories when
he began the composition OF his poem at the axe
of nifty years. and these with his gout and his
active mind may well have kept him awake or
awakened him in the small hours. But his regi-
men was a starvelins one. his dinner often con-
sisting of olives And he went to bed or 9 like a
man of great aga--The Lancet
New-York tribune., 1909-01-10
TOOK VAUDEVILLE TROOP ALONG.

Another great land owner OF Pampa Central. a
Bachelor, not a straw what kind Of state
he has so long as he is properly entertained
voyage To this end therefore, he never falls
20 travel without the company OF half dozen or
more Of the isst vaudeville artists that have
chanced tickle his fancy These he provides
With first class passage and liberal supply Of
spending money. requiring nothing from them in
return but few lively turns in smoking
or saloon afternoons and evenings. His last COM
pagnons de viaje were team Of Swiss tunblers,
the leading of which requited the old estan-
osero's kn6ness by eloping at Lisbon with his
adopted daughter, and, when found, refusing to
give her up unfit q $4,000 plaster applied to
the wound inflicted by the cruel separation
The amusemeuts the mail boats 10 South
America are Of a somewhat mixed nature. ac-
count the nixel nature OF the passengers, these
being about equally made up OF English and
l-atizs. The former play cricket and drink stout
and brandy and soda: the latter Sleep hirt and
drink ausinthe and wine and water with sugar
In il Sometimes the two get together for a con-
cert. On which occasion they mix drinks and tai
ents and raise glasses and voices together in an
endeavor 10 give the affair appearance Of So
oiability
Cricket is by far the biggest item in .he sport
line and from American point Of viSw makes
q far more credtable showing at sea than on land
IN ordinary cricket any hour chosen at random
from the play Of three days match of no mat
ter how high grade acts about Ike a dose Of
ehlorcforr upon a person used TO the snap and
dash and excitement OF baseball and football.
This is not the with cricket shipboard.
where the restricted space and the comparative
rsrrowness Of the bat used eliminate the tresome-
ness incident Of heavy scoring. and allow a full
two-Inning game TO be played out in three hours.
where it might be unfinished in as many days on
shore.
The game is usually contested of the
broad promenade decks that Il really amounts
so playing IN a long tunnel. the bottom. roof and
one side OF which CT wood and the remain
ing side the seaHerd one, OF netting Bowling
Is confined 10 end, and the score reckoned by
the number times the ball is batted past chalk
lines drawn regular intervals across the deck
The ball Is usually made Of rope yarn wound
around q hunk OF coal tar, and beid IN place by
covering Of rnarline twfne and net stitch. II is
hard and fast enough for the close quarters in
which II is used. The stuTnps are set in a weight
ed piece Of wood 10 keep them upright, and conse-
Cusntiy have 10 stand fall together: out
batter is adjudged out If a bail touches any part
cfs tha 1Ennisn sraldarS
New-York tribune., 1909-01-10
NOT ENOUGH ROOM IN sTEERAGE.

We carried eleven hundred In the steerage. -Four
hundred Of these Were Russians. equal number
Spaniards, and three hundred came from Portugal
The Russians were mostly Polish Jews, going out
10 Of Baron Hirsch's colonies in Argentina
They had shipped from Odessa, on the Black Sea
TO Southampton. from whore the steamship com
pany in order TO evade the British laws in the
matter Of victualling and berthng. shipped them in
Of its tenders across to Cherbourg. where they
maintained at the conpany's expense until
steamer picked them up its outward voyage
This a rather costly manneuvre, but apparent
ly more than justified. from the company's point
OF view. by the fact that the engrants. having
been taken on at an English port could be treated
as the company pleased for the remainder of the
voyage. These Russians were typical OF their class
dirty. duh. stolid and intensely suspicious. None
Of them spoke word OF English. and when the In
terpreter-au irresponsible renegade picked up in
the East End OF London-commtted suicide the
third day out. in fit OF dependency their dealing
with the officers of the ship resolved Immediately
into tangle that grew increasingly more hopeless
all the way TO Argentina
New-York tribune., 1909-01-10
CRICKET IN FANCY DRESS.

Daily games made up between such combna-
lions Married Single" Bound to Brazil
rs- Bound 70 Argentina Fat vs. Lean etc.
while special games are played between the best
team that can be picked from the passengers and
combination selected from the officers OF the
steenseF
The fancy dress cricket match is always the
feature O. the voyage. In this game which is
scheduled q week ahead 10 give time for prepara-
don the men, handicapped by being allowed only
the use Of their left hands in batting and fielding,
plsv against the women. In game / recall on
The krason the women were everything from 30
Peeps and rnslkrnaids to ArnaZons and EsquiTnau
cueeus One Of them, a French-ATgentine girl.
went IN her fancy hall costume, that Of double
asppered mermaid This fish skin al covered with
sps-iiy spangles IN place OF scales, was dream
of ioreliness. but 1t came 10 grief early in the
game when its occupant knocked of its near flip
psr IN trying to -'stonewaIr' ball her leg
stump
IN Argentine gentleman. chosen more because OF
bis popularity than his cricket, came out resplen-
dent IN the complete rig Of one of the jockeys he
vas taxing to Buenos Ayres 10 ride his horses in
she sprarsg meet Being from two TO six inches
larger Ia every dimension than the lad for whom
the clothes were made he was less surprised than
embarrassed when. the delivery Of the first ball
Of Els first over-he trying &c bowl-the whole
rig parted down the back and allowed good part
OF the overdose OF ed!pose 10 which IL had been
subjected escape valet in waiting with a
ioatfarobe caught the worst OF the overflow, which
the second edition Of the souvenir programme the
following entry: '-Sehor x; Costume. Jockey
cum knight of the Bath"
The second class also had its fancy dress cricket
match, and bang-up affair II was. too. The best
costume that CT q who swathed himself
with bCriap and went q Lump 5f Luggage"
hsE dozen pillows, well disposed about his ngure
gave the proper shape end bulk while various and
sundry labels prominent among which was
z,ouncing that the contents Fragile and
another the effect that they were Not Wanted
OF Voyage completed The effect
Ia this match, q in the case Of tn, double-hip-
psred mermaid lady 81 OURS the vanity of one Of
fhs xerrsie players led 20 lamentabe results. The
sicfsn ~ss q young French ballet dancer on her
way 20 Ruenos Ay-es fulfil engagement IN
onx Of the variety theatres, and because her
ep~ur1l,ere dxnseuee' zig had been the success OF
the evening az the second saloon" fancy ball. she
saw No ressen why IL should not win her another
triumph at the cricket match This costume, the
ssgulsalon thing CT its kind consisted OF pair Of
New-York tribune., 1909-01-10
NEW zgALANps eLuTToNous CUCKOO

Professor Drummoud. the well Sn0Nn - r,rthrr
land naturalist has been computing sossst. az ths
notes with regard TO the voraeieGSS as recsrts
iorg-tniled cuckoo OF Maoriiand- re rts,tiie =
received q photograph taken oy - bad hai-
Auckland Os a g-tatled eucSo, IA been nsas,
swallowed fairly large Hzsf1 ~ =, sot down besse
first ht its fore limbs prevented tls s,-k 10 re
Ing In the whole body. and the TepS4 Bl,sds tosA
cUckoo's bill until II was rescueS- ,',-5 In IS o'
a photograph OF the bird With the Sasa reunovs
and another after the lizaTe ~ - - &c and -
appoIntment is very strongly mark" els the pss
OF West Oxford North CantsFoai s,,,iisd CUCKOO "a
fessor that In the crop of long 80 lizards -
found two young goldhnches, two srs al ssdged ~ ~
several beetles The goldrnenSSss .Ss BAD haoss.o-
bad heen swaIIowed whole Inese sfrongIy ~. ~.
sa tSs crnoo saws Mr. Drunnaond are rs ana otsss
robated by more decent bros; NE NE bush wssa''-
thsy sst the chance.-Dundee AaSs'
New-York tribune., 1909-01-10
TIGHTS NOT SUN PROOF.

Silk tights have their uses, but one Of these is
certainly not In the nature OF a protector or the
skin against couple OF hours of good. business
like tropical sunshine of which fact poor Mile
Frisette became painfully aware that evening
when she first turned lobster coloTed and then
slowly dissolved and disappeared inside of a big
water blister The doctor told me that there were
several spots her anatony-he did not specify
which where but 1 suspect that the soles of her
feet were among them-that were not too erdently
sun kissed and these, he said were most useful TO
prop pillows against prevent the blister in its
ensemble from getting pJInuelled when the ship
rolled. Before reached Buenos Ayres Mile.
Frisette's epider1nls had soaked up al! the cold
cream that could be bought, begged or borrowed
in the first and second saloons. only reQuite the
attention showered upon IT by peeling off in great
strips and patches
Generally speaking. the second classers these
steamers get more pleasure out Of their voyagtng
than do those who travel saloon. Class tends to
classiness and a railway clerk and a nurse girl
will have their chairs moored alongside each other
behind rfeboat on the poop the first night out.
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stir soled slippers two ribbons over the shoulders
frill Of fluffy chiffon around the waist. and SILK
tights 1t was designed but for one purpose. that
OF setting Mile Fisette OF to best advantage In the
glare OF the calcium, and, Ike racing yacn' was
quite useless for any other purpose than the one
II was bilti
New-York tribune., 1909-01-10
MILTON;S BLINDNESS.
Called Benefcent Because 1t Forced
Dictati0n of PARADISE Lost"

John Milton is generally supposed to have
suffered from amaurosis, of which the old name
was gutta serena. In the great photographed
opening 70 III, of Paradise Lost the blind
New-York tribune., 1909-01-10

She Ia little sentiraentaljI think the moral of the
play is very true, Real happiness consists In the
i,rsit the desired object, and ca tchin1 il
IIe-ilubbishi What attle tf~ runs for
the train-and misses it?-ll!ustrated Bits
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-08-12
ADDITIONAL LOCAL

Mrs. A.sMcKnight is being visited this
week by her brother, MIR. A. Meyers and
his wife who stop over here for a visit on
their return home to Everette, Mich,
from a trip to the big fair at Seattle.
Adolph Langevin was a business
visitor from Olga yesterday, where he
has recently opened up a first, class
billiard and pool room where he hopes
his old friends from over the county will
call and see him when in Olga.
Langdon's ball team disbanded this
week. Its last game for the season was
the tie game played with Hampden
during the tournament at the county
fair last week. In all the team has
played nineteen games, and since the
slump at the sta1t-off when the first
seven games were lost, has been playing
good ball, having lost but two other
games. With proper organization
earlier in the season the record at the
close would have been fully equal to
that of last year.
Clyde's baseball team, when it dis
banded last week, had played % games,
winning "a games. OF the four games
lost two we're played early in the season
with Edmore and Hampden. The other
two games were lost to the Pickets and
York. The Pickets were afterwards
defeated by Clyde twice. The York
game was played at Killarney, when
Clyde claims its pitcher, Jarnigan, got
sore and lay down on them. CLYDE
made a state wide reputation for itself
with its all star ball team this season.
At Walhalla during the recently held
gathering of Old Settlers, the initial
move was made that promises to bring
to an early completion an effort to place
a monument in Walhalla's historical
cemetery to mark the last resting place
Of the late Rev. John Scott, whose
pioneer work as a missionary of the
gospel dates back into the early '7O's
all through the Red River Valley, both
in North Dakota and Manitoba. There
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-08-12
Death of josephine H0ffeIe.

DlED-On August 4th, 1909, at the st.
MichaelS Hospital, Grand Forks, after
q long and painful illness, Miss Jose
phine Hotfele, aged 30 years.
The deceased was born in Bruce
county, Ontario, coming to Cavalier
county. North Dakota, in 1895, she hav-
ing made her home in this county until
her death. She is survived by five sis
tiers: Mrs. A. II. koehmstedt, Wales. N
d.: Mrs. Frank Trip, Buffalo. n. y;
Mrs, John thinner, Mrs. Peter Denting-
err and Miss Mary Hotfele of Ontario:
two brothers: John j and f. X. Hotfele
of Ontario The funeral took place from
st. Michael's church, Wales, and was at
tended by a large number of sorrowing
friends and relatives.
The relatives of the deceased desire to
express their sincere thanks to the Sis
tiers of st. Michael for their care of and
attention to the deceased during her
illness, as also to the kinG friends and
neiehbors who SO kindly assisted at the
last sad rites.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-08-12

keV. >. Currle, a prominent Episcopal
divine from Park River, who has a fine
herd of Jerseys and other fancy bred
stock, was at the fair taking in the
exhibits.
Judge Dorval made the trip to Nov
bray, by the auto route Monday, accom-
panied by Miss Marie Beau :hamp, a
cousin of Mrs. Dorval, whose home is at
St. Boniface, Man.
Archie Siller, Jr., the handsome
Calvin bachelor banker, was an en-
thusiastic fair visitor and being nova
days a sidewalk farmer enjoyed every
thing be saw.
"Riverside" the we'll known PAGER of
j. f. Ramage was among the horses
that got results. Jack is a thorough
horseman and has his grey driver back
into good form this season.
John Hays is a stock farmer we'll
known through the western part Of the
county and the horses and live stock he
brought down to the fair got a lot of the
right colored tags put on them.
James Austin worked as hard as any
one. He had a carload of exhibits from
his stock farm at Hannah. Everything
from a Percheron horse to a Scotch
coolie shepherds dog-it was a veritable
Noah's ark.
The free distributor of appeal to
Reason" was an active canvasser both
eff and on the fair grounds, but the
editorial stunts of that paper are most
of the time too long-halred to suit most
political readers.
Nekoma's band of thirty-two pieces
was here the second day to furnish part
of the music. The boys are all right,
looked fine in their new uniforms, had
lots of good music and, we hope, had
the time of their lives.
Editor o. 7. Rishoff, of the Milton
Globe came to the fair accom- anied by
his wife. "Rish' was one of the attrac-
tions, but found time to greeta number
of friends. He said that the village at
the south end of the county was prac-
tically deserted.
The fair had all the attractions adver-
tised-no disappointments for the
crowd. The balloon was here, but the
attempted ascension on the first day re-
suited in it being destroyed by fire, the
owner being badly burned IN trying to
save it. His loss is about $500.
DAMP. Mcdonald, living east of town,
is a Cavalier county farmer Who thinks
the fair all to the good. His three year
old black Percheron stallion was award
cd the blue ribbon over a horse that got
the first prize at the state fair at Grand
Forks. The owner OF Dan Patch didn't
ever feel any prouder than MI. Melon.
aid did when the parade of winners
passed the grand stand Thursday after.
noon.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1909-08-12


Somebody in the grand stend was
heard to say "All Milton is here
Did you see Big Edna or the mud
eating wild girl from the Philippine
Islands in the side shows:
After the parade the Cavalier Co.
immigration Association had Photogra-
pher Opie take pictures of all the prize
win ming horses and live stock. Pretty
up-to-date idea! Wasn't it?
Wilson Cox, who used to live at Mil
ton and is now living at Walhalla, was a
sight seer. He said it would take some
thing bigger than a cyclone to head him
Oft from seeing our county fair.