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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-22

So ia per cent of. on all trimmed
hats at Holderman's millinery. begin
ming Monday, April "a.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-22

Beautifl.: tine or gleamet turbans, en-
pire bonnets, large hats Holderman's.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-22

Hansen, 400 NJ. r. avenue.
For the most np-to-date photos s.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-22

Miss Ida Paulson and Arne Mosbey
We're united in marriage at the home
OF Rev. and Mrs. Aarthun, OF Milton,
on Saturday, April Is. After the cere-
mony the bridal guests drove to the
home of the brides parents near
Mountain, where an elaborate wedding
dinner was awaiting them The bride
is a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Meckal
Paulson. They will make their home
with the brides parents for the
present.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-22

On Wednesday, at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. John Running, occurred the
marriage of their daughter Hanna to
Harold Hougeland. About eighty rela-
tives and friends Of the couple were
present and a pleasant evening was
spent. Games and music composed the
amusement for the evening and a
bountiful repast was enjoyed by all.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-22

Wednesday afternoon at the farm
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hob,
near Ypsilanti, occurred the marriage
Of their daughter, Frances to Emil
Steege, also Of that vicinity. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. Mr.. Hess
of the German Lutheran church. After
the wedding bountiful supper was
served and reception and celebra-
ton held In the evening.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-22
STATE WEDDINGS.

Tuesday Father HiItner united in
marriage James F. Campagna of Bis
marck and Miss Emma Boucher Of St.
Louis, Canada. The bridegroom is
ane of the prosperous young farmers
residing south of Bismarck.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-04-22

A pretty affair of this afternoon will
be the box party given by the Misses
Bessie and Ivy Conant at the Orpheum.
About ten young maids and matrons
from the Maids and Matrons club will
make UP the party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06
Wool and Reciprocity

The entire summer in Congress is to be devoted to a tariff fight, and June and July will probably be warm months in that respect. The House will be engaged all through June in discussing the wool schedule, and the tiresome Senate will discuss the reel procity agreement until perhaps the cows come home.
 Senator Penrose, who now wears the Aldrich mantle as the master and boss of the Senate, expects to report the reciprocity agreement to the Sen ate on Thursday. It has taken two months to get report on the bill and even at the end of that time there will be no recommendation. The bill, it is said, will simply go to the Sen ate as it came from the House. Such a result at the end of two months is absurd. It is politics. The repub bli- cans will let no opportunity go unim- proved to gather in a great campaign fund from tariff beneficiaries next year.
 In the end, however, the reciprocity bill will be passed. This will take place about August 1, and then, what? It is hard to say. The Sen ate cannot, however, adjourn the ses- sion without the consent of the House, and the House also has an eye on 1912-a different eye, and it is difficult to say what the houses will be able to agree upon in August when the summer is well spent and the chautauqua dates all filled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06

the reciprocity agreement. "It does not seem to me-" says Governor Will son, that there is any abandonment of principle in the Underwood revis- ion of Schedule K. It looks to me as though the democratic principles had been reasserted. Of course, I am in. favor of free raw materials, including free raw wool, but every democratic platform has declared for gradual tariff reduction"
 One more cut as large as that made by the revisers of today would give us free raw wool, and if the people put the democratic party in power it will come. Mr. Underwood and his associates have made good start in the right direction, and Woodrow Wilson presents sensible view of the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06
James J. Hills Railway Merger

In the days of Jay Gould railroad bond Notation of $10,000,0 ,000 was con- sidered notable James J. Hill brings forward in these days a Notation of $500, ,000, ,000 without creating a ripple of surprise anywhere.
 In 1901 the effort to combine the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington was upset by the supreme court, the Burlington and the Northern Pacific being competing lines. The Northern Pacific is to let go of it's half of the Burlington stock and the Great Northern is to acquire it, and the Burlington and the North ern Pacific will then become one great railroad system. About half of the new bond issue will be used to take over the Burlington and the oth- CT half will be used for betterments and extensions between Chicago and Vancouver Bay in the next twenty years.
 This bond issue of 0,000, ,000 is the largest one ever attempted by an American railroad-by any railroad for that matter, and it will no doubt long stand as a record achievement. The placing of the bonds is we'll as- sured.
 The issue comes at time when great deal of idle money is seeking investment, and it will serve to show that MT. Hill and investors have faith in the future of the country MT. Hill has long been obsessed ob pessim- ism, but the new loan shows that it was but skin deep.
 In this connection it should be stated that the Northern Pacific will continue to be Hill road-a "separ- ate" Hill road. The truth is, our trans-c continental lines are pretty fully monopolized by the Hartman estate and James J. Hill The Santa Fe is, however, a competitor and up in Can ada there is competing line and there will soon be two there. No ab- solute monopoly of trans-contincntal transportation exists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06
Water Transportation Delayed

The working agreement between the Frisco and Santa Fe railroads is to result in a new steamship line be- tween New Orleans and the eastern cities. The Cunard Steamship com pany is to furnish the boats, and the first sailing is to take place about November 1.
 This is all right so far as it goes, but it does not go far enough to help this district. Nothing can help this district materially in the matter of transportation until means can be found to prod contractors into a con- pletion of Locks and 8 in the Tom bigbee river. These locks are be- tween Demopolis and McGrew's Shoals. The competitor of these locks have been delayed beyond all reason already, and the contractors are said to be demanding two years more in which to complete them. If work of that nature had been applied at Pan- ana the canal would not be opened in century. Some way should be devised at Mobile or in Washington to make the contractors at Locks 2 and 3 complete their jobs.
 The locks at Squaw Shoals are pro- gressing favorably. Until Locks and are completed this district can not secure the advantages of water transportation the year round. Two small contracts stand between this district and water transportation, and apparently the two contractors have more pull than this entire district has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06
The sweetest lady that ever I looked ,n, Much Ado About Nothing.
June Weddings Becoming Less

The pre-eminence of June as the month of weddings is passing, and man, at any rate, rejoices that he is no longer to be in that month the victim of dampness in high temper ature. He must no longer don plug hat and frock coat to set in crowd ed church while the temperature ca vorts around 95 and the humidity goes still higher.
 One speaks advisedly when he says the June wedding is passing. Twenty years ago 21 per cent of all the we'd dings in the United States took place in June. The percentage has steadi- ly fallen until it has got down to 14.2, and the hope is that it will disappear altogether.
 But this is not to say that we'd dings are decreasing. Not for a minute The weddings that once oc- cured in June now occur in October and November, both of which are ris- ing months in that respect. In last October 10.S per cent of all the we'd dings of the year took place, and in November 12.3 per cent. These are notable gains, and October and No vember bid fair together to become the chief wedding months of the year.
 This is as it Should be. The June wedding suggests precipitation alto gether too freely to be disagreeable After the late fall wedding the new lyweds can spend a vacation in the south, and this is certainly better than spending one at Niagara Falls. Niagara needs a rest and the south will welcome all the newlyweds in the land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06
WHEN RABELAIS DIED

Whipple: "The Ludicrous Side of Life,"
 in Literature and Life.
 From the stories told of Rabelais, he must have been in life the same strange, wise and mirthful imp. which he appears in his writings. He seems even to have looked death in the face with grin of his own. As his friends were weeping around his bed, he exclaimed, "Ah! If were to die 10 times over, I should never make you cry half so much as l have made you laugh" As he was dying page entered from the Cardinal Du Bellay, to inquire after his health. The old humor- ist muttered in reply: "Tell my lord in what circumstance you found me; I am just going to leap into the dark. He is up in cock loft; bid him stay where he is. As for thee: thou'llt always be a fool. Let down the curtain; the farce is done'' Immediately after his death his relations seized upon a sealed paper, purporting to be his last will and testa- ment. which on being opened. was found to contain three pithy articles-"T owe much; I have nothing; I leave the rest to the poor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Impression. of pirmIngham

N. B. Marble of Columbus. Ohio, and Arthur E. Crockett of Pittsburg spent yesterday in Birmingham as guests of W. A. Chenoweth. Mir Crockett Is sec retary and general manager of the Standard Chain company. This was his first visit to Birmingham. Both MT. Crockett and MT. Marble expressed them selves with enthusiasm about the attrac- tiveness of the city.
 We went out to Ensley and Corey'' said MT. Crockett. "The Tennessee com pany's steel plant makes a splendid ap- pearance, and it is said to be the most modern in this country. Corey, moaei industrial city. is way ahead of any thing we have ever seen or heard or. It combines the utilitarian and the beau tiful, and is sure 10 be an unfailing ad- vertsement for Birmingham. After re- turning from Corey we took spin on Highland avenue. and wound up at. Mountain Terrace
 "The landscape effects of Birmingham are enchanting. Few cities have sucn beautiful scenery Birmingham IS cer-s tainly favored above all other. manu1ac-. turing centers in its topography, lend ing itself readily as it does to land- scape treatment and at the same tune embracing a wide valley for the business and industrial districts"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06
 AN AUTOMOBILE VACATION

William Frost in Lesies
 For the motorist who has never tried it. an automobile vacation without plans as to twhere to go and how to get there will almost certainly prove a most unex- pected and astonishing success Let him start out without any definite destination in his mind and drive his car over roads he has never before frequented Let him determine before he starts not to hurry, but to drive slowly and easily and really look at the country as he passes through it. If he sees a pleasant prospect up some crossroad not frequented by his fellows to whom speed and distance are deties, let him drive off along that road. This method of making plans and selecting routes is surely the direct opposite of the general way of going on an automobile trip, and for this very reason is advo- eated, because it assures a change from the usual hurry and hustle attendant upon automobiling. It is quite likely that for the first time in his experience as a mo- torist he will realize the delights he has been thoughtlessly foregoing in his former 'get there and get back motoring days
 Fears of bad roads ned not deter our vacation motorist from making his trip on such plan, for. unless he makes his trip in very wet weather, he will have little or no trouble with the roads. Amer ican motor cars are we'll and stanchly built and will carry him over any kinds of roads he encounters, always provided he takes things easily and does not set out to make or break records from town to town or city to city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06
Woodrow Wilson and Raw Wool

New Jersey is now so virtuous that she "docked" Gov. Woodrow Wilson $500 on account of absence in the far west. This is. right, for the modern governor is not engaged in matching political schemes. He is an office man who has problems touching a million or so of people to consider and dispose of The modern gov ernor is fuller of business than his old-time predecessors and far less full of schemes. He should therefore earn his salary. It does not appear that Governor Wilson objected to the cut of $500 in his salary. He may, in fact, have originated it.
 There is one thing that is certain he got back just in time to line up with Chairman Underwood in favor of the new revision of Schedule K and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06
KuNGsLEY's LIBRARY

From the New York Post.
 Part of the library of Charles Kings ley, author of "Westward Ho" and Wal ter Babies" who was for years canon of Westminster Abbey, and chaplain to Queen Victoria, is to be sold at auction, The library is part of the estate of Mau- rice Kingsley, who died in New Rochelle last November. He was the authors eldest son.
 About 700 volumes, containing Kings ley's autograph and book plate. and. in many cases, the autographs of other dis tinguished Englishmen of half a century ago, are included. Kingsley was private tutor to the Prince of Wales, who became King Edward VII. Some of the books to be sold were presented to the povelist by Queen victoria and contain her auto graph Others were gifts from Thomas Carlyle. J. S. Mill, Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley and Queen Emma of the Sandwich Islands. The date of the sale. at 70 Liberty street, has not been fixed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06
GILBERT, LIBRETTIsT

From the Chicago Record-Heralo'
 A very large number of the middle aged generation will feel deep and un- affected sorrow over the death of Sir William s. Gilbert, co-laborer with Sir Arthur Sullivan in the light opera field of eeding period was not such as to de- serve high commendation. while the faults of the "musical comedy" which has af- ficted the present generation are known to all. Between these two wastes came the oasis which yielded "Pinafore," Pa tience" and ''The Mikado"-a genre in which form, fitness, finish, point, pro- warrant for the most favorable opinions of the most cultivated patrons.
 It is understood that the Gilbert and Sullivan" operas were wrought out in in- innate cooperation; yet however vital and charming the music which went into them, it must be acknowledged that es- sentally these creations sprang from the fertile mind and whimsical nature of Gill bert. A Bunthorne or a Pooh-Bah far transcends any merely musical origin. With the death of Gilbert the English speaking world loses it's one conspicuously literary librettist-a man with full and ready flow of ideas and capable of giv- ing them an adequate and finished ex- pression His peculiar employment of sat ire and his verbal mannerisms were abused as imitators, yet his texts will en- dure as protests against the slipshod, pointless and formless products with W yhch the English-speaking stage, in its lighter aspects is cumbered at the pres ent time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06

From the New York Herald
 Women on this side of the big pond were greatly interested yesterday on learning from the, Herald that their sisters in Paris were wearing shoes made from humming bird feathers, the ridiculousy low price of $500 a pair placing the fluff | fy footwear within the reach of all. Real
 zing that it was only a question of a few weeks before the very latest fad in
 tootsie trappings would reach this city, and being aware of the fact that hum ming birds were none too plentiful, the young and old girls began figuring out how many of the gorgeous mites wonld have to be sacrificed to cover their spokes.
 l Married men read the article until they came to the line which told about the price of the new plumage, and then they dropped in their tracks. When they re- gained consciousness they equipped their wallet pockets with burglar alarms ana hired detectives to watch their trousers while they slept. Many of them, unable to see ray of hope, went straight to the bankruptcy court and gave themselves up. More than one happy home was rent with discord by the announcement. Wom- en who had the temerity to ask their husbands how many humming birds would be necessary in their case were generally told that 8 whole aviary would not make them a pair of shoestrings.
 It was only natural that there should be to fha od tion of the new fad by Chicago women. Tn view of the fact that it takes the whole southwest side of a COW to make one of them a pair of slippers 1t was generally agreed that one Chicago order would put the hummng bird family out of business.
 "I'm willing that my wife should have everything within reason" said a man
 whose cut glass display indicated that ho
 was not lodging any creditors, ''but I
 draw the line at $2500 a pair for shoes.
 Just think of it. Shoes that cost s125O
 a foot. She cried and called me a tight
 wad when I refused to grant her the appropriation, but I told her she would have to stick to the leather kind or get another cash register
 i've got a wife and seven daughters, - said another man, "and when I went home to lunch they pulled this hummng bird l thing on me. Every one of them has feet like founders, and when they insisted on being fin style I turned over my bank books and reserved a place for myself in the bread line. I asked them to wait un- | til there should be bargain sale, when I might get them for s245O a pair, but they refused I understand that they don't wear any length of time, and that it costs sl100 to have them half soled and | heeled"
 'It would take a flock of ostriches to make shoes for my old woman,' volun- teered traffic policeman. "She told me she thought that humming bird shoes would be very becoming to her. but l threatened to arrest her and turn her | over to the Audubon society. She has bright cerlse hair, and when I told her that she would be shot for robin be- fore she went three blocks, she calmed down and we compromised on pair Of congress slippers"
 | But all the women are going to wear | them." he was informed.
 1 T know one that ain't" he replied
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06
OLD AGE PENSIONS IN FRANCE

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 It is evident that the French gov ernment, which after prolonged delay recently secured the. enactment of an old age pension law. will either have to place the payment of old age pensions on different basis or confess itself unable to meet the wishes of those whom it sought to satisfy. It adopted q plan fashioned after that of Germany, where pensions are paid from fund proportionately contributed by the em- ployed. the employer and the state. But it seems that a great majority of the French proletariat are disappointed and displeased with this arrangement. They are unwilling that any such deductions should be made from their wages as the scheme involves. Their idea is that in France, as In the United Kingdom, the whole burden of the projected pen sion system should be borne by the state. and they are extensively boycott ting the proposition which the govern ment has advanced.
 Application blanks were distributed troadcast and, as it was supposed that there would be great rush for enron- ment, a date was set at which the lists were to be closed. Since then the time limit has been extended and the whole force of an administrative machine, un- euualed anywhere for its comprehen- siveness and efficiency, has been em- ployed to overcome the unexpected and dfsconcerting opposition which the pen sion plan has encountered; but all to no purpose. The men to whom the ap- peal Is addressed obstinately refuse to respond. In Paris 37.000 application blanks have been filled up and filed, which seems a good many. As a matter of fact. however. it is only about one- tenth the number entitled to registra- ton, and elsewhere the figures are scarcely more encouraging. In some places a higher percentage of enroll monts has been recorded) while in oth- CTS the apathy exceeds even that of Paris.
 For instance, at Orleans there have been only 37 registrations out of pos sible 10000. At Moulins, where 5000 blanks were distributed, only 100 were returned filled in. Dijon did better With 5000 applications out of possible 2o,- COG, and in some other towns an equally high percentage is recorded, but upon the whole the rejection of the law by those whom it was meant to benefit is overwhelming. At Treigny 50 workmen marched to the marie and burned the blanks as an expression of their dis gust, and at a meeting of the Union of Syndicates a resolution was adopted
 in which 1900 persons protested 'en- ergetically against the assessments laid upon their pay, already insufficient"
 The socialistic propaganda has taugh, millions of French people to believe that it Is the duty of the state to take care of them and they are insist ing that it shall do so. It is hard to see how it is all going to end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06

him in those days. He was beloved by Catholics and Protestants alike. and there was scarcely poor day-laborer in his diocese whom he did not know by name. His ecclesiastical preferment was rapid. and when he received the cardinals hat some of his friends and admirers said that they would not be surprised to see him pope. Of course. those familiar with vatican traditions and politics felt that the time had not come when an Amer lean might be elevated to the papal throne yet it was a most rare compli- ment indeed for influential papers in France, and even in Italy. to discuss him favorably as a candidate for the papacy Just before the last conclave"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-06
Onen-Air Music

faThe concert given by the Italian paho of Ensley in Capitol park Sunday after noon afforded great pleasure 10 iais crowd made up of swetering men, women and children" said well known citizen who was in the throng. T nope we will have concerts in the park two or three nights in the week and sunday afternoons during the summer months' It is much to be regretted that the com mission government did not feel that the city was able to make an approprla- fion to the music fund this year. Last year the city gave $500 towards this good cause. and those who are interested III getting up the money to pay for paho were counting somewhat on an appro- nriation of 5000 for this season.
 Most cities as large as Birmingham appropriate s20eo or s5OO0 for park music, and that. is what this city will do' doubtless, when it's finances are in bet ter shane. Next summer l think we may safely count on the city acting iioer- ally in this matter. Ninety-five per cent of the population of large cities belong to the Cant Get Away club and they should have some means of Innocent diversion such as music affords. All though music is in a certain sense luxury. free band concerts for the gen eral public might be said to come unoer the head of a necessity