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The Calumet news., 1911-12-02
GREAT EPOCH OF
ACHIEVEMENT over
RADICAL uTTERANcEs OF ENG
LlSH DIVINE CREATES WIDE
SPREAD CONTROVERSY
IN BRITAIN.

London, Dec. .. .4e"Democracy is
perhaps the silentcst of all fetishes
seriously worshippcd among us"
This utterance of Dr. Inge. Dean of
St Paul's before an audience of women
at Zion College has started a wide
spread controversy in the pulpit and
press of England The statement was
made during the first of a series of lee
lures on 'The Coo operation of the
Church With the Spirit of the Age"
DR.. Inge, after referring To the great
achievements Of the nineteenth CEN
tury. said that that great epoch was
now over, and civilization was sitting
pensively in the midst of her accumu-
lations like the figure of Melancholia.
The speaker declared that the era of
scientific discoveries was happily not
closed. but i'm all other fields signs of
exhaustion were very apparent.
For the man in the street, said the
speaker the tottering of the great in
dustrial fabric of the nineteenth CEN
tury dominated all other issues. A pop-
ulation Of forty-eight millions had been
massed on two small islands. while
Englishmen were making England the
workshop Of the world" He then exx-
planned that the natural advantages
which had made Great Britain master
of the commercial world had -either
passed or were passing and that Amer
lea had now become the natural center
of commerce.
I'm this country" he continued "the
twentieth century Is the spendthrift
heir of the nineteenth century. The
working man seems to have resolved
to make himself comfortable by taxing
capital,-in plain terms, by looting the
accumulations of Queen Victoria's
reign and living on the rates and tax
cs. He would have a short life and
merry one. An even worse fate will
probably overtake Australia, a nearly
empty continent within easy reach of
the industrially far more efficient yell |
low races, guarded gratis by the Brit |
ish Fleet for mere handful OF inhab- |
itants. For these reasons / cannot ioin |
in the chorus of lay and clerical adyo- |
''N''f Nh's Nii'I lUtl tel us 10 CO. |
operate with the spirit of the age real |
ly mean that we should cooperate with
the labor movement and the spirit of
Socialism. Socialism or almost any
other experiment might answer i'm New
Zealand till the British Fleet ceased to
patrol the ring-fence. after which the
Yellow Man would make short work of
the pampered trade unionist. but i'm
England the conditions. fear. are ide-
ally unfavorable for those who hope TO
see a dense population with high
wages and short hours. our soil will
not support them. When we cease "a
outwork and undersell other nations
The working classes must emigratc or
starve"
DIR. Inge said that the belief that the
ballot box decided questions wisely
vas only the old superstition OF the di-
vine right Of kings standing on its
head. He also decried what he de-
'iared to be the soft and flabby side OF
modern humanitarianism. The present
The Calumet news., 1911-12-02

old Miss Rolls of Santa Paula uses as
q cradle was raised by c. c. league,
manager Of the Blanchard ranch. and
is particularly wonderful from the fac
that on the same vine were twelve 9TH
ers, weighing an average of $50 pounds
each. AS this weighs 23O pounds.
little figuring shows that there was
over ton of pumpkin on one vine
1880 pounds, to be exact. 1t received
no fertilizer or special cultivation. This
measures seven feet eight
inches around the waist" stands three
feet nine inches high. and measures in
lengthwise ten feet eight
inches.-Strand Magazine.
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ment just made by the managers of the
play adapted from Ben Hur." They
have paid $25O,OOO I'm royalties TO the
state of its author and expect to pay
much more before the public tires of it,
The book itself has had a sale of over
million copies, never in cheap form.
and has probably earned another quar-
ter of million for the author. Mrs.
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch" a little
book of only 10000 words, has paid to
its author as book and play about SO
a word, and David Harum" produced
a fortune for the heirs of the man who
wrote it. Aside from the glory of sat
isfaction, every novelist, whether man
or woman, Is expecting to create some
day a "Ben Hur" or David Harum. -
New York World.
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the average total for these months was
.5,1S5.

The earth travel in it's orbit round
the sun nineteen miles a second The
sun itself like all the other stars. has
It's own proper motion through space.
Some authorities have calculated ifs
speed at twelve miles second.
few stars move more slowly than this.
others much more rapidly, Arcturus
maintains a speed OF not less than 100
miles a second. and the star called
"Groombridge 1880" travels $50 miles
in the same brief instant. But the
speeds Of the heavenly bodies are slow
compared with the motions Of the
tiniest known particles of matter The
sun would seem To stand still could we
compare its velocity With that of ra-
dlum rays" These radiations are
produced by successive explosions Of
''nv groups Of the tiny atoms of ra-
dium. The alpha rays" being them
selves inhnitesimal fragments of mat
ter, are thrown out with a velocity Of
perhaps 10000 miles a second. The
beta rays" travel still faster. In the
omanations 4of this wonderful radium
we find the highest known speed of
matter i'm motion. The highest meas
ured speed, however. is not the speed
of matter but the speed of that cleo
trio vibration which we call light
Light travels at the rate Of 1866 600
miles a second
The Calumet news., 1911-12-02

Surrounded by flowers and the conA
gratulatory messages of official and
personal friends. United states SEN
atir Shelby NJ. Cullom at Washington
last week celebrated the eighty second
anniversary of his birth In his study
letters of public men and clippings of
newspapers commenting upon his re-
Gently published book, Fifty Years of
Public Service" Among them was a
note of appreciation from Theodore
Roosevelt whom. in the preface Mr..
Cullom likens to Andrew Jackson i'm
spite of the fact that the colonel has
expressed little respect for "Old Hicll-
ory."
The Calumet news., 1911-12-02

That is the state with which an
most familiar When a commissioner
was first put into office there, his
hands were tied and his usefulness
crippled But for the last two years
he has been allowed some money FOR
advertising and has informed people
all over the middle west what the lands
Of his state are good FOR. The result
has been an increase in the value Of
land.
The same thing would apply In
Michigan, only more so, for this is
away from the east and investors
would not hesitate TO such an extent
before putting their money into land
development The western states
where land is SO high. are right at
hand. and 1t win be an easy matter TO
bring capital and men from them to
work the vast areas of upper Michigan.
"Out in Oregon land that is not yet
irrigated brings $500 an acre: and it is
not as good as Michigan land which
does not need irrigation and can be
bought for little more than the yearly
expense of irigating a similar area.
Surprises were encountered all
along the line. To me. the condition OF
Michigan lands was the greatest favor
able surprise, while l was disappoint-
ed in the widely advertised west. APP
pie lands demand big prices there sim
ply because they have been doomed
while whole counties of naturally bet
ter soil lie neglected in this state |
What is wanted for the hardy fruits is
cold. steady weather, the same as FOR |
wheat. Freezing and thawing knock |
)ut the trees. New York is a better
'ruit state than Pennsylvania, because
Is climate is more even. Michigan has
IN even better fruit climate. The snow
Keeps the fields and orchards covered
and when spring comes, it
.omes in hurry and comes to stay.
The soil and climate are also
he most favorable to wheat, hay
md for dairying, and l think those
branches will also be taken up to
Teat extent as soon as the land is
leared and the people get busy.
Il know that the people of the east
ma the remainder Of the country, who
re looking for a place to go into the
ruit raising business, don't know that
here are thousands OF acres of land
Which are now sold as low as 81 an
ere.
Il confess that have been disap-
ointed in the far west, but this state
ppealed to me as by far the best of
he thirty-one visited, for cultivation
( hardy fruits. wheat and hay.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-02

Trollope was a great smoker and
made no attempt TO conceal the store
of cigars in his library. one wall of the
room was devoted to a row OF separate
cupboards. or bins, each with a sep
arate glass door and filled with cigars
stacked across each other like tim
Der, so as to allow free circulation of
air. on wet days the doors were kept
closed, and on fine days were left open
\ pointed stud was stuck into the
wood above the door of the bin in use.
AS soon rs bin was emptied the stud
was moved To above the next door, and
tn empty receptacle refilled from the
hi" chests of cigars which TralIope OBJ
tanned direct from Havana.-London
Chronicle.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-02

Nineteen states are doing their
Christmas shopping early this year,
and i'm the opinion of Mrs. Florence
Kelley, of New York, secretary of the
National Consumers league, the other
tNenty-nine will be in line within the
next decade. During it's thirteen years
of life the league has converted the
American merchant to its creed and
large proportion of the shopping
public, Mrs. Kelley says. The mer-
chant has become convicted. Mrs. Kel-
ley says, that early shopping is good
for him and, given time, would alone
convince the public that it is good for
them also.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-02

Joseph Bosch. of Lake Linden, head
of the Bosch Brewing Co, has sent a
check for $1,000 to the Catholic or
.phanage at Assinins. with instructions
that the money be used to give the
children a happy Christmas and what
ever clothing they may need. II is a
gift which will bring much joy to the
little folks, and we imagine Mr.. Bosch
Will get fully as much. IL not more.
pleasure out Of it himself for there is
genuine satisfaction in giving that
makes others happy.
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HERE AND THERE.
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out Of 1S1 freshmen co-eds I'm the
University of Michigan this year thir-
ty-seven are found to have curvatures
OF the spine to some extent or this
number twentythree will be cured by
the corrective treatment given by the
physical director Of Barbour gymna-
sium, for all cO-eds in their first year
must take gymnasium work The 9TH
er fourteen are beyond curing, although
exercises will be given them to keep
their affliction from growing worse.
-Four girls have heart trouble of so Sc
rious nature that they cannot take
gymnasium work. while seven are tu-
bercular.
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horror of taking life. he said. seemed
unnatural and was probably only tenn
porary. The state OF the future he
believed, would Kill more mercifuly,
but more freely
DIR. Inge deprecates the storm which
a lecture delivered before a modest or
of women has aroused. but
he is standing by his guns. although
fellow churchmen have denounced his
statements regarding democracy in un-
terms.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-02
THE MCNAMARA CONFESSIONS.

It is as ridiculous to condemn union
labor for the blowing mp Of the Times
building and the destruction Of the
LIeweIIyn Iron Works at Los Angeles
as it is to condemn al great Industrial
corporations simply because some
among them have extorted money from
the public by unlawful monopoly.
The average union labor man greatly
dcplores the crimes confessed by the
Mcnamara brothers. The confessions
are a great shock TO union labor. 1t
is a keen. personal disappointment that
these men, in whose innocence they
firmly believed are guilty. for the
union man is essentially a law abiding
citizen. one who believes i'm fair play
and wants no more than is his due
The labor unions believed in the in
noceuce OF the McNamaras because
these organizations do not countenance
violence at any time. Even in the heat
Of strike the counseling Of the leaders
are against violent methods, and vlo-
Ionce if done. is usually the work of
non-menbers or sympathizers.
The average union labor man has
the utmost confidence in his fellow
members, organization and the men
who direct IT'S affairs And this conf
dence is not often misplaced as it un-
fortunately was In the case Of the
McNamaras. But IT was this faith
in each other. the guiding principle Of
reason and respect for the law that led
union labor generally 10 believe the
McNamaras not guilty of the dastardIy |
crimes with which they were charged |
No one connected with these organiza-
tions outside the immediate Mcnamara
clique for moment dreamt such
charges could be substantiated, for it
is realized that by lawful means only
can the cause Of labor be advanced.
The labor unions whose membership
for rIe most part is made up Of intel
ligeut reasonable men, bound together
in mutual bonds Of sympathy for the
protection of their rights, viii not suf-
fer because Of the guilt Of the Nc.
Namaras Union labor men will be as
eager as others 10 see the guilty men
punished as they deserve; and will
show by their attitude that they dis
courage such acts as the Los Angeles
The sentiment OF union labor may
be briefly summed up ia the comment
Of President Gompcrs Of the American
Federation Of Labor. who said, when
he heard Of the Mcnamara confes-
sion:
I'VE have discouraged acts Ike
these. We are patriotic and peace
loving men and We have only
wish to call out the best elements
in human nature. Those two men
must have been crazy. II is an
act that I condemn with all the
force that is i'm me"
The Calumet news., 1911-12-02

which the courts We're called to pass
upon under the employers liability act
of 1850. Each year since the work.
mems compensation act became opera
tive there has been a lessened inclina-
ton to resort to the employers liabil-
ity act.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-02

Tn order TO stimulate the culture Of
tobacco in the German colonies, Herr
Oldmayer, Of Bremen, has offered
prize Of S1,360 to the producer of the
first five tons Of German colonial to-
bacco suitable for cigar wrappers. and
which would find a good sale on the
German market
The Calumet news., 1911-12-02

Montreal, Canada, has adopted by
laws by which such building as thea
ters' orphanages. schools with dormi-
tories hotels, asylums. hospitals. and
department stores must i'm future he
constructed Of freproof materials.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-02

hartholomew Columbus, brother of
Ip'''Httpswned discoverer. introduced
Rxngland In 1889.
The Calumet news., 1911-12-02

One wonders why so many novels
are written. Yet consider the state
The Calumet news., 1911-12-02

That William J. Burns is a great de.
tective will not now be denied.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-17
Big Eight Season Down
to Championship Games

the use of the simple forward passes
in the Marshall field game. and, APP
parently. will be able to get away with
the passes against Illinois with an
other six days of training. Illinois
undoubtedly will have a strong de-
Tense for the passes. however. and
Chicago cannot hope to count on the
feature too heavily.
The elimination Of Purdue puts the
Boilermakers in Indiana's class as
championship outsiders. and leaves
Wisconsin. Minnesota. Northwestern
and Iowa with Chicago and Illinois as
unbeaten teams. Northwestern's 10
to 0 score against Illinois Wesleyan,
Wisconsin's 20 to 0 score against Ri
pom, and Iowa's IL to S victory over
Morningside were the leading big
eight" events. while Michigan's Is to
3 total against the Michigan aggies
notch exhibition.
Wisconsin will take on Colorado col
lege for another long distance affair
and Northwestern and Indiana will
meet at Evanston.
Today's practice at Marshall field
will mark an important change In the
Maroon training. Coach Stage spec
ialized largely with simple plays last
week to prepare the team for Purdue.
but the latest thrillers will be on the
bill from on. The repertory for
next Saturday will be tricky. and re-
hearsals Of strictly new complications
will he ordered every day.
Coach Stage was displeased with
the Maroon tackling and blocking In
the Purdue game and will spend a
part of today's session On primer foot
ball as a result. He also intends to
experiment with the ends In the hope
Of getting more speed.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-17
DEVILS LAKE AND
M|N0T HEDGING
Lakers Cancel Game For
Saturday and Minot Is
Raising a Rumpus

Minot and Devils seem to he fighting
shy of a chance to play the Grand
Forks high school football team this
season. The Devils Lakers had a
game scheduled with the locals about
six weeks ago for the coming Satur-
day. but after thinking things over
they came to the conclusion that they
had better not risk defeat according
to the local faculty manager, Mr..
from the Satanic city aggregation stat
ing that they felt Obliged to cancel
the game for Saturday in the city by
old Satan's pond. because they feared
that they would be unable to pay the
expenses.
Manager Baarman of the high
school team states hat he would not
care SO much about the game being
cancelled if it did not leave him but
four days to Secur another team for
Saturday. Just what may have caus-
ed the Lakers to change their minds
about the game with the Grand Forks
high school is unknown: however it
is probable that some arrangements
may be made before the end of the
week. which will allow the two elev-
m to get together. 1t is said that
the Lakers are somewhat frightened
at the prospects of meeting the team
which tied the university.
Minot is also making a noise about
the Grand Forks game. They We're
given the option of playing here on
October II or on November IL. They
hedged on the early date and the To-
Gals III daethe Duluth trip instead.
Now the Minot bunch want to play
here on November 4. which would 20
all right if it did not interfere with
the Grand Folks schedule. From the
present outlook the only game that is
scheduled which the Grand Forks
boys are certain to play is with tho
Fargo high school.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-17
When the Earth Stands Still
In About 1920 Years One Side of the World Will Be
A Burning Desert

complications will ensue, and the
days. weeks and months will become
hopclessly mixed. Scientists agree
that the lunar month will lengthen as
the day lengthens. though the day
will increase h more rapidly; Ae.
of Haverford college. who has given
special attention to this subject, there
will come a time when the month
and the day will both be of the same
duration of about 1900 hours, or
ffty-ffve rf u present days.
AS the eartn's days get longer and
longer. the time will come when a day
is Il year long. Then there will be no
more days and nights. nc weeks and
have n side to the moon. and the
two will turn around the sun once a
year as if fixed on a rigid bar. There
will be no more seasons of the earth
no spring. summer, autumn or vim
ter. The weather of the several sea-
sons can be experienced only by trav-
cling to and fro between the hot and
petually hot. dry and parched: the
other will be like the polar regions
during the long Arctic night.
1t is clear that property values in
more than half the planet will be
wiped out. Cities and farms through
out the dark half of the globe will be
buried under perpetual glaciers. Cor
rcspondingly values will rise enorm-
ously in real estate on the inhabited
strip that lies just on the cool edge
OF the hot hemisphere. No one knows,
no one can calculate at this time. what
part of the earth will be included in
this hahitablc strip or belt any more
than they can predict which half OF
the earth will he hot and which cold.
All that science can forecas is that
men will migrate to that rim.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-17
Chicago. Oct. 17.-"Big eight" foot
,au passed out of the preliminary per-

Chicago. Oct. 17.-"Big eight" foot
ball passed out of the preliminary per-
lod with Saturdays grist of games and
left the stage set for contests of
championship Importance for the
Test Of the season. Chicago's II to
} victory over Purdue and Illinois 9
10 0 score against st. Louis university
closed the early period In both camps
and put the next burning conference
Ho-Illinois contest at Marshall field.
when one of the 1911 contenders must
drop out Of the race. -.
All gridiron signs point to a whirl.
wind game between h Maroons and
illini. The fact that Illinois defeated
the Midway eleven last year and has
che shade in veteran material and In
iiividual stars gives the DOWNSTAIRS
The call, but Chicago's fast games
Indiana and Purdue assure the Ur-
bana team Of worthy opposition. That
this weeks practice will tell the tale
Is the word from the two camps.
Penn states s to 0 score against
Cornell in the East vas the only jolt
in either section. Yelled tactics were
the rule in all of the leading games.
although an increased use of the for
ward pass opned up the play and
gave the battles more of a strategic
appearance than the earlier mixups.
illinois did not display its full
mrength against st. Louis. as is shown
by the fact that Captain Roberts.
Syringe and Merrlman were not In
the game. The new plays were kept
strictly under cover. and the rooters
were still In the dark as to the ma
ture Of the inventions intended for
Chicago. The same uncertainty pre-
wallis in the Maroon headquarters.
The Maroons showed eXpertness in
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-17
A FEW INTERESTING FACTS
ABOUT ATHLETIC PLAYERS

American league, Detroit, American
league.
LAPP. JOHN WALKER: born Frazer.
Pa: Sept. ,. 1854; catcher: joined
club in 1909: right hand thrower:
right hand batsman: formerly play
ed with Portsmouth, Va; Chester,
n. V; Syracuse. y. V; Allentown.
Pa. and Newark, n. j.
COoMBS. JOHN W.; born Portland.
Ne. 1855: pitcher: joined club in
1906: right hand thrower; right
hand batsman: formerly played
with Colby college II Montpelier,
VT.
MURPHY. DANIEL: born Philadel-
phia. Pa. 1876: o%uttielder; Joined
club in 1902; right hand thrower:
ed with Worcester, Mass: Norwich.
Conn. and New York National
league.
LORD. BRISCOE; born Upland. Pa,
Sept. p, 1883: %outfelder: Joined
club in 1905: right hand thrower:
right hand batsman: formerly play
ed with Upland semi-pro club, Lam
caster. Pa: Coatsville. Pa, and
Cleveland American league.
MORGAN. LARRY RICHARD: horn
Martins Ferry. o., Nov. 10. 1878:
pltcEeI. JolIleU Clup III 1919, right
hand thrower: right hand bats
man: formerly played with Fall
River. Mass: St. Louis American
league: Minneapolis. Mimi: st.
Paul. Mimi: Indianapolis. Ind:
Boston. Mass. and Montreal, Que
bee.
LIVINGSTONE. PATRICK j.: born
Cleveland. Ohio. 1882: catcher:
Joined club in 1900; right hand
thrower: right hand batsman:
formerly played with Wheeling. w.
Va: Cincinnati. Ohio and Indian
apolis. Ind.
KRAUsE, HARRY, w: born San
Francisco. Cal. 1889; pitcher: join
ed club in 1909: left hand thrower:
left hand batter: formerly played
with st. Mary's college. California.
MARTIN. HAROLD w. born Boston.
Mass. 1887: pitcher: Joined club in
1911: right hand thrower; right
hand batsman: formerly played
with Beverly. Mass.
DANFORTH. DAN: born Baylor. Tex.
1891: pitcher: joined club in 1911:
left hand thrower: left hand bats
man: formerly played with Baylor
college and Baylor semi-pro club.
STRUNK. AMOS: horn Philadelphia.
Pa. 1859: outfielder: joined club in
1910: left hand thrower: right hand
batsman: formerly played with
milwaukee,. Wis.