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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11
FOREST Fires III
UP s1l.000,00l III
THE NORTHWEST
Rainy River Must Care 1or ~
charred Bodies Of Victims whe
Perishsd IN Flames That Have
Laid Vast Area n Ashas.
Relief Trains Are sRuahing Into Tiro-
Swept Section Exact Numbes
Of Dead b Hot Known.

WARROAD. MINI, Oct. 11.-Throa
hundred charred bodies Of Victims oe
the forest nres. which have rago6
about here for the past four dayu.
must be taken care Of ct Rainy River. !
according to private message r.
ceived here today by the Minnsoota
4 International railway.
Conditions within the flre zone are
critical today. Thousand OF surviv.
ors fill the towns and are bsfng cared
Tor as well as possible. but other
towns are being threatened by the Ares
and help will be rushed to those points.
RAINIER. q village near Internat1cnnl
rails. wired the governor for help. o6y-
ing the town was surrounded "
names. Big fires are elao ranu1tod
near RhgIey and Clear Brook.
Relief trains are rushing into DC
IRE section today from st. paul. Kin
neapolis. Duluth and Bemid1i. Vhflo'
throughout the state the Red CroGu
society 10 preparing to send nursoo
and supplies to the nre-swept district.
Early today the loss resulting from
the fires was estimated at el0,OOo. 600.
30 scattered are the bodies 20 fsr NJ
covered that Il Ia impossible 70 even
estimate the number of known dead.
Five hundred miles of nearly vir-
gin timber has been laid waste and
thousands Of settlers made hoholess.
Gov. Eberhardt. OF Minnesota. today
cancelled all Of his speaking engage
ments so that he might accompany the
- -
district. Special water trains are bur
rying toward Warroad and dozen
other points have started loaded with
food and clothing for the refugees.
State troops and physicians arrived
at the site Of Beaudette late yester-
day and at once set to work to pre-
vent the spread Of disease among the
fire refugees. There were 100 cases
Of typhoid In the Beoudette hospital
when the IRE swept the town. The
patients narrowly escaped death IN
the flres but It Is feared many will
die from exposure.
The entire burned district y prac-
tically under martial law today. Or
ders have been issued to shoot down
anyone caught looting, or robbing
bodies of the dead. Reports brought
in my bany OF the fugitives lead the
authorities to believe that vandals
have been at work in many OF the
stricken towns.
The reports from the homesteaders
In the country districts are still lack
ing and their fate Ia not known. Tho
town OF Kelliher has been temporarily
saved, but the flames are still threat
ening.
warroad Is today out OF danger.
Aided by two steamers and dremen
from Winnipeg. water was poured on
the flames In the dry brush about the
town all day yesterday and throughout
the night, driving the flames back.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11
HEMANs AT LAPEER.
Talks on Alleged Extravaoanes ct
state Administrator.

LAPEER, Mich, Oct. 11.-Lawton
r. Hemans, the Democratic candidate
for governor. spoke at the cout house
last night.
There il no more accurate barom-
eter of the efficiency Of the govern
ment than economy" he said. AT
the close of Michigan's first so years,
with John T. Rich as governor, over
$40, 600. geo was expended In huild-
ing public structures. How much has
been expended during the past 10
years? There isn't a twelvemcnth
goes that there isn't q half million
spent of which no account 10 given.
Why do we still have kerosene in
spection? Because 1t furnishes jobs
for "a inspectors at $1,000 year
each. Michigan may need house-
cleaning, but II will never get II by
allowing the men to remain who have
allowed 1t to become SO dirty. When
the people will say. so far and no
further then We will have q change.
Remember. when you vote you do one
OF two things, you either protest
or commend
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11
NEARING HIS NINETIETH
YEAR, is STILL A TEACHER
IL Is Estimated That About 10000
Boys Have Been Under the In
struction of Prof. Hopper.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 11.-With
the opening of the fall session Prof.
Zephaniah Hopper entered upon his
sixty-eight years work as a school
teacher For So years he has been
a member Of the Central high school
faculty. His S7th birthday annivers-
airy was celebrated at the school, and
he was the recipient of many congrat-
ulatory messages from present and
former pupils. He Is In excellent
health and enjoys his work SO much
that he has no thought of quitting.
Prof. Hopper attributes his health
and vigor Of mind to plenty OF out
door exercise. He lives at No. 1925
North Twelfth-st., and while many OF
his boys living even nearer TO the nigh
school ride TO and from 1t, their ven-
cradle professor walks.
He was a member OF the first grad
uating class OF the Central high
school. Very soon after graduation
he began to teach, and 1t Is estimated
that nearly 10000 boys have been
under his instruction.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11
BY CAROLINE THUMMEL.
-. g.. L.. M.

Any false condition under which
We live today Is the natural heritage
from our barbarous ancestors, who
ruled by brute force alone, recognize
ing neither moral nor intellectual
rights.
After the first step toward civiliza-
ton was taken, and the woman had
the privilege of refusing an offer of
marriage, she also, incidentally, ac-
Quired the power of subtly attracting
Il might say extracting-proposal
from even unsuspecting men. With
the right OF rejection comes the right
of choice.
There are numberless men-would
they but confess it-who cannot salts
factorily answer to themselves the
question: why did ! do it?"
The woman attracted him to pro-
pose to her-unfit though he was
for two reasons, both OF which can be
directly traced TO the unequal, un-
reasonable and unnatural position of
the sexes In the social and Industrial
world.
First, women, as late as the last
generation, have always been taught
that they must marry at any cost.
Second, they were taught that they
must stay at home and wait until
chosen.
Consequently the. number of men
upon whom they were privileged to
practice their little arts and wiles
we're limited to the number of men
who called upon them and they were
frequently reduced to a choice be-
tween evils. II the girl had but one
beau" she needs must marry him,
and she did.
When woman has equal opportuni-
ties with man In the industrial world
she will have larger circle from
which to choose and will do SO with
more particularly.
II. instead of teaching the girl to
marry at any cost, she were instruct
ed to remain. single at any cost until
she could marry her mental, moral
and physical equal, our census num-
bers might not mount SO high, but
the quality of our citizens would more
than make up for any lack in guam.
tity. The question should not be:
How many children have your" but
How good are they? Are they the
material that Will make for the good
Of the nation?"
The girls of former generations.
moreover, were taught that they must
be independent" The only position
which girl was allowed to consider
was life situation without pay. All
she possessed passed to her lord and
master. And all this ever since
"knighthood" has been in flower. In
the name Of justice. let "knighthoood"
wither and die. II has been lin flow
er" long enough without bearing
fruit
Things have improved some along
these lines, but absolute justice will
not be done until women enter into
their rightful place industrially and
commercially, which can only be ac-
CO mplished through the establishment
OF equal rights. Social conditions al
ways adjust themselves to the indus
trial.
The most heinous crime that has
ever been committed by man is that
of giving his children an inferior or
dishonest mother. and good but un-
thinking men have been doing that
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11
THIS WOMAN HAS
DIVORCE REMEDY
St. Louis Lawyer, in Scholarly Ser.
mon, Urges Girls to Select Proper
Mates or Remain Single.

Miss Caroline Thummel. who dis
sects the divorce problem in the fol-
lowing statement. IL young woman
who has attire cted considerable atten-
ton by her talented handling of legal
cases In the Missouri state and federal
courts. This article Is In explanation
OF her recent statement that woman
should make mans proposals easy, but
shouldn't draw him on" with the re-
suit that there would be fewer d.
yorces)
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11
SUPREME COURT.

LANSING. Mich. Oct 1.-THE SUI
preme court yesterday heard the fol-
lowing cases.
Attorney-general ex REL; Graves
vs.. common council OF Adrian;
Knights of Modern Maccabees vs..
Sharp; Putnam VS.. Detroit United
Railway; Conley VS.. Sinclair: Shep-
ard VS.. Schrutt; Fisher vs. Burroughs
Adding Machine Co.; People vs.. G.
II. Little Co.; Webb vs. Granite State
Fire Insurance Co.; Hulan vs.. Shan
hon.
Rehearing was denied in Kaiser vs..
Hosmer.
Call for Tuesday: 80, 80 and the
municipal ownership case.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11

ike II.
when I learned that Prince Dol
gorouki had broken up Bob Chambers
home, every instinct In me cried for
revenge, not for my brother, for he Is
no brother of mine-I have changed
my name and renounced my entire
family-but because this polished,
strutting, perfumed Russian lady killer
dared to bring disgrace upon my IA
Tiers name.
How was |, at this distance, to
secure q revenge that would reach
.t5 mark? No ordinary American re-
tort would be appreciated by Dol
gorouki's Partisan mind
"It was simply matchmaking In q
different form, mbatching my wits
against San enemy's planning a cam
paign as Napoleon might plan. l fire.
quently ask myself what Napoleon
would do In my place.
81 thought about II for three days
and nights, getting but seven hours
sleep. Then suddenly the very thing
occurred TO me-to give Prince Dol
gorouki's name to one of q litter Of
prize Berkshire pigs.
THAT was an inspiration. 1t would
create an American laugh. But It
would be calling the prince In left
handed fashion the deadliest epithet-
an insult that no one OF his blood can
possibly forget. I should like to have
seen his grinding rage when he read
about my pig In the cable dispatches.
have branded him forever with my
boar Dolgorouki. III
ssTho nrfnca Ia N gnod hafar ua
will have his revenge II he can.
Should I ever visit Europe again I
would expect to be challenged. IL may
be he will challenge me an0how. I
can't tell now whether the pleasure
of shooting him would be worth the
trip to Europe or not"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11
pErRoITER UNDER KNIFE.

ANN ARBOR. Mich, Oct. 11.-Leo
Shack, of Detroit, travelling sales
man for the Calkins Dental Supply
company. Is In private hospital In
this city. very low because Of an OPP
Grafton for appendicitis.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11
PIG Shakes Down Its Own Apples.

NEW CASTLE, Del. Oct. 11.--John
Cafhether, farmer, has a pig that
ought to be In circus. To obtain
apples the pig. starting some distance
from a tree, runs, jumps into the air
and. catching limb In his mouth,
hangs on and shakes down the fruit.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11
Andrew Mellon Sues For Divorce.

PITTSBURG. Oct. 11.-Andrew w.
Mellon, head OF the Mellon National
bank and the innumerable Mellon In
terests, fled a libel in divorce In
common pleas court yesterday against
his wife, Nora Mary McMullen Mel
lon. The petition charges misconduct
and names one Alfred George Cur
phey. Of London. England. An abb
solute divorce Is asked.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11

More than twothlrds Of the nativoo
Of China are agr1cunUr1sts, 49,
methods csntufies ole.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11

81 and ~ We'd; Third TIms rsssh.

MARION, o.. Oct. l1.-Mrs. mary
Reach AGED ~. has welded John L.
Wheeler Al. = civil war veteran. ~
sni,e ~ the opposition Of his chtk
dren. Both had married twice oskoFS>
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11
Not Buncoed-LlshtnIns Shows, Gold

,WEBBP CITY. Mo-, Oct. n.--Witnin
q few days after J. w. Aylor had MED
a suit for Ss7 1000 against q man VINO
had sold him 7,000-acre farm In Tex
a., alleging he had been buncoed, ne
received word that lightning had
struck a ledge On the property and
exposed gold ore Of such purity that
he would probably be made indepen-
IDENTIFY wealthy.
Ayier has withdrawn his suit
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11
VESSEL PASSAGES.
y Detroit.

DETROIT, Oct. Ill, p. Rsiss. 10 q.
m. Monday: Zillah and barges Peshitgo
and Delaware. lao y. m; NJ. II. Green.
1896: J. ID. Marshall, 4; j. T. Hutchin-
son, $50; DeGraff, g.
Down Milwaukee. 1920 y. m. Mon
day; Kenora. 12:40; A. K. stewart.
1880: Verona, 1; Hemlock. 1876; Pork
and barge Abyssinia, 1:40: Odanah.
2:2O: Codorus, 3; Iron King, Iron Queen.
4:20: Queen City. $50: G. L. Hutchin-
son, $40: Beaverton. q; Norton. steam
er Lily, $40; Alpena, Corsica, 7:20: I.
NJ. Stephenson. s:ie; Flags, g. ID. War
riner. $40
sAULT STE. MARIE. Oct. LIP.
Rosemount, ID. X. Hanna. Fulton. noon
Monday: Presque Isle. 1870 y. m. Hop
kins, King. Morgan, Northern Wave.
Meaford. Snyder. 1870; Edenborn. 1:soi
Zimmerman. Briton, Jenney. Linn. Ball
Bros. Joliet. David Mills, Anderson.
Normapia, 8: Samuel Il. b. Morse. 8;
Robert Holland. Nellie Holland. Fes-
Eric a% Fritn. &: Henry Hswsood, J.
Down: stadacona. Wainwright; Col
iingwood. p IN. Monday: Manit9oes
Myron, Page, Qoshawk, Langham f3s-
lock, 1880; Portland. Shenango. .Nlck-
wire. 4: Reed. Onoko, Maricopa. kruRys
g: Barlow, Siemens. Marsala. =. Lyco
ing, Emma Hutchinson. s:s0.
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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11

boots, and talks with English manner
isms. He Is entering middle age. pow
erfully built. with big twisted features
and heavy lines In his face. He Is an
engaging conversationalist, well liked
by his neighbors.
He screwed a monocle into his left
eye and leaned over the pigpen, study
ing his prize Berkshire boar.
Il am by instinct man hunter"
he said. "Other kinds of hunting pail
upon me. Once I organized a party to
hunt Mexican bigands. We met them,
but they saw our guns and let us
pass without molesting us. We
couldn't shoot them I'm cold blood.
II ought to have lived In the time
Of Caesar Nowadays We must pur-
sue peace SO I direct my instinct to
exposing frauds. The higher in society
the fraud is, or the richer. the more
dangerous the sport and the better l
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-11

csm.sres.i crssss Go. assassN
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rAxIcAB-mAtN oR Crrr m.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30

"eolors seen by candlelight' looking
ns the until tricks t haas
shadows and sunlight play. In the
past he had shaved for hours at night
and gone home delighted with his mas
morning and stand aghast at the to-
tally different appearance Of the win
dow when outside looking in
This man prefers to work in the pastel
that window most artistic which has no
startling note, but just a soothing, well
ordered ensemble,
people will give one glance at loud,
f1ashy design, and hurry on" he said,
where a window of soft grays and sill
vers or an odd drapery of undecided tint,
and a gown not to be at once classified
belonging to one of the primary col
ors, will keep them debating.
He finds china the most difficult of all
things to handle with happy result, and
dress goods the easiest Dozens and doZ-
ems of handkerchiefs are used in such
displays and lend themselves to all sorts
of arrangement. Who has not been en-
Unused over ship ladders and cannon.
sailor boy collars and dining room furni-
ture fashioned of handkerchiefs cleverly
handled? These represent many hours of
firing work. But the artist counts 1t time
well spent. Where the streets are mar
rover and the crowds thicker there are
several stores whose dreSsers are handi-
capped by the quantity of articles 20 be
daily displayed in their windows They
appear to have the knack however, of
putting almost barbaric assortments OF
reds and blues and gorgeous yellows and
screaming pinks of Everything ready to
wear within the same Enclosure Of glass
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30

how she would go about trimming a
window effectively, the caller wIted
1T takes years" said the florist, ito
learn grace in the grouping of plants.
Many a florist never acquires it,
From such bits Of daintiness to the
methodical, mechanical and solid window
displays of grocery stores seems a long
jump. Given gross OF tomato, corn and
fruit cans, a couple of barrels Of raw
vegetables and a lot of apples and pota-
toes, the average person would probably
make either a great mess wonderful
salad. But the grocery clerk who knows
how evolves the most artistic monuments
and pyramids and hexagons and various
other geometricaI designs quite as re-
markable as any the manipulation of sat
ms or bonbons achieves, and certainly
with more physical labor.
Everywhere, at the druggists, the MILL
ners, the tailor's. the butchers. the
bakers, the candlestick Makers" there
is the same effort to be at once artistic
and successful.
No matter what their individual meth
DDS, all are agreed that first in Importance
come fixtures, next designs, then a thor
ough knowledge of colorings and how to
place them; that true artist is his own
most severe critic and that he must ex-
pect advanced ideas to be received this
season with criticism by the very gazers-
in who will next year APPLAUD them as
having been decidedly clever. And also
that no extra hours must be thought too
long, or work too difficult. IL 1t means a
momentary smile of appreciation from the
great tickle, faded, inperious. hard-to-
please passing throng. For herein lies
the vast difference between the artist
window dresser and his associates who
merely slave for coin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30

an American, who lives here at Shanghai.
He tells me the Chinese are a nation OF
tobacco smokers, and that they have been
raising and using tobacco for over 300
years. The weed was introduced from
Manila less than fifty years after CO.
lumbus discovered America, ana it has
been in use ever since, although many of
the Chinese emperors have repeatedly
tried to wipe it out. Much. tobacco is
still smoked in pipes, two kinds Of which
are in use everywhere. One Of these is a
dry pipe, which may be Of bamboo or
clay or wood. Its bowl is small and sell
dom holds more than a pinch of tobacco.
The other pipe is a metal box filled with
water, through which the smoke is drawn
before it enters the mouth. It has a tube
about foot long, and this bends over at
the mouthpiece. This pipe is usually
made of copper and silver, or an alloy Of
copper. zinc, nickel and iron. It Is used
by both men and women.
The natives make cigarettes Of corn
husks and bamboo leaves. They also roll
tobacco up in brown paper. OF late years.
however, the rice paper cigarette has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30

in lesser prominence, various OBJECTS 10
please the eye when it has become sati-
ated of that principal magnet. Others
consider refinement of grouping above all
else. Again, unique arrangement is
thought of primal Importance while yet
others strive to obtain an artistic effect
with the fewest number of objects posi-
BILE
To blend the most astounding shades
and achieve harmony rather than clash
ing discord is the motif of professional
window dresSers-nen who must in them
selves unite the usually warning qualities
of business practicaoility and hustle with
artistic temperament and an appreciation
of the beautiful.
Given these two qualities, anybody can
become a good window dresser announc-
ed the first master of the art who was in
terviewed.
According to this oracle-a very clean
shaver, -aprea ring oracle by the
way, with the most immaculate of clothes
and head SO barbered that any strug-
Cling student of the Latin Quarter would
have despaired of finding art within
nothing in the way of artistic decoration
is impossible to the window dresser. True
he is not allowed much of a yearly margin
for extravaganza, and goods ruined by
the sun are generally charged up to his
department. He is given inexperienced
boys to work with him and be trained
into artists as good as he himself; and if
he dresses window and does it wrong
he has either the choice of sitting up to
the wee sma' hours to dress it over
again, and reporting at the usual time
next morning, or going home and know
ing that half the people in town will pass
and comment on the ''trashy-looking
windows So-and-So have these days,
But these are mere details.
He should be so in love with his pro-
fession that obstacles only spur him on
to greater endeavor. The other employees
of a store have their duties laid down
for them: all they have to do is see that
their cash books balance and be off for
their evenings recreation. But the win
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30

prettiness.
In a certain large show window there
is. at this writing. a display of soft,
diaphanous silks arrayed In that half
draped, half-folded style known only to
professionals. Each bolt is skillfully
placed far enough away from it's fellows
TO insure conspicuousness. and yet in that
one space are salmon pinks, pale pinks,
light green's, resedas, lavenders taupes-
which means tannish gray-old roses,
browns and blues; none of them clash,
and anybody looking in would scarcely
perceive the range of coorngs thus
grouped. At the back of the window are
the usual dark wood fixtures and for dec
Grafton, alternate bolts of very wide
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30

i'll Washington BY night he becomes
head window dresser and is responsible
for the exquisite effects that have given
this store a reputation for such attractive
displays.
Where do you get your ideas?' he
was asked.
Where do you get yours?" was the
subtle retort, and the visitor felt proper
y sluelched. From the people, things T,
the incidents and scenery of daily life.
don't you? Well, SO do |. So does every
artist We can but reproduce that which
we either see or imagine
And all this from a window dresser.
popularity recognized as the man who ap-
pears in the glare of a broad window
struggling under the weight of per-
fectly proportional lady figure. thereby
shocking the orthodox gazers into spasms
of merriment!
incidentally. these wax figures are "go-
ing out Scarcely any of the most ex-
elusive shops will continue to use them
much longer because-hut tell 1t not in
Gath-the feminine form divine changes
its outlines two or three times year
and each dummy costs at least sixty
or seventy dollars The figures change
SO rapidly that the headless sort are now
de riguer. These wholesale for about IS
quite a saving.
Besides as the young manager said,
"often a dresser has a lot of gowns and
hats to display simultaneously which will
be most alluring away from one an
other, but would cause howl of protest
If put into proximity. So the forms are
clothed and. on separate pedestals the
hats can be SO arranged that their beau
ty is enjoyed without being overshadOwed
by the costumes
Many are the pleasing effects the win
dow dresser in question presents for the
public gaze. Not infrequently fairy
wand seems to have been waved over a
show window between twilight and sum
rise To begin with, he is nature lover.
Frequently on Sundays he takes long
walks into the country, and with him go
two boys whom he is training to- be win