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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15
BEGINNING AT THE BOTTOM.

In tests recently made. twenty nine
out Of one hundred graduates OF
C%leveland's high schools and the col
lege for women could not tell the To-
cation Of a single one of the city's ten
most prominent buildings, which
stand within a block or two Of the
city's central public square. while for
ty-ive could not identify a potato
vine. and eighty-one couldn't recog-
nize a sugar beet.
According to the reports from
Cleveland. the directors Of the school
board are greatly agitated over the
result Of the tests. and feel that some
thing is radically wrong With their
educational system. The ignorance
among high school and college grad
yates on fundamental matters Is not
peculiar to Cleveland. however. 1t is
characteristic Of the educational sys-
TEN throughout the United States.
There has been freuent complaint
because the national government Is
extending its functions into the do
main formerly occupied exclusively
by the states. but IL there is any field
in which the government should be
active 1t is in the educational field,
States and cities. progressive in most
other ways. have been decidedly re-
dictionary in the matter Of public
education. The schools may have
progressed to the extent Of adding
algebra and geometry to their curri'
cula. but they have never eve made
an attempt to. impart book knowledge
in its relation to life.
What, children need is the knowl'
edge that will enable them to live
useful and happy lives. At present
they obtain their first real knowledge
Of life, in most cases. after they leave
school. The states a and ought tt
bring about an Improvement in the
educational system. and the fedora!
government can aid materially with
out going outside Of its rightfu
sphere.
The trouble with most reformers is
that they want TO begin at the top anc
reform downward. What is needed /.
an educational reform that will begir
at the bottom-in the public schools
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15
bed on her back, dead. Further in
vestigation showed that she had been

bed on her back, dead. Further in
vestigation showed that she had been
stabbed through the heart.
A single terrific blow had been dealt
with a long-bladed' knife. or sword,
the force used being so great that the
weapon had gone clean through the
unfortunate girls body, and had pen
etrated the mattress upon which she
was lying to a depth of three or four
inches.
Death, said the doctors. must have
been instantaneous. Suicide vas out
Of the question. Not even the strong
est lar could have inflicted such q
wound upon himself. and Rose Della
court was but a frail woman.
1t followed, therefore, that she had
been murdered, But how? And by
whom?
The door of her fiat had not only
been locked on the inside, but bolted
as well, and the police had the great
est difficulty in effecting an entrance.
The window was also securely
fastened on the inside. and outside
there was a drop of sixty feet sheer to
the pavement below. 5
No weapon was found in the dead
girls room, and there were no signs
Of a struggle. Her jewelry and money
were untouched.
Finally the landlady swore most
positively that Rose was alone when
she retired the night before, and that
no visitor could possibly have OBJ
tanned access to her afterward with.
out her knowledge.
From the first Paris took a keen in
terest in the affair, and all sorts of
extraordinary theories were put for
ward. One was that a monkey, armed
with a knife. had climbed from the
roof down the chimney into the room,
and. after stabbing the girl in an ac-
cess of animal frenzy, had escaped by
the way 1t came.
This theory was elaborated by Poe
in his fictitious Murder in the Rue
Morgue." one of the stories founded
on he occurrence. AS regards the ac-
tual murder of Rose Relacourt, how
ever, it was proved that the chimney
leading to her room was much too
narrow to have admitted of the pass
age Of an ape big enough to have done
the deed. Besides, there were no SCOT
marks anywhere in the room.
Another suggestion was that the IN
known assassin had used powerful
magnates outside the door to turf the
police experimental with magnets of
all sorts and sizes, and found that the
thing could not be done.
Other theories, az, for instance. that
a panel Of the door had been cut out
and scientifically replaced, that a win
dow pane had been similarly served,
that access had been obtained from
an adjoining nat by crawling under
the flooring. and then pushing up a
plank, were proved to be equally un-
tenable.
Nevertheless, the fact remained that
murder had been done, and that the
murderer had got clear away after
achieving the apparently impossible
task of locking and boiling his VIC
TINS door on the inside. The police
gave 1t up. It seemed to them a
problem impossible Of solution.
1et obviously q solution there must
be. II only one could hit upon it.
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popular

Is it the light haired or the dark
haired person who is likeliest to dis
play marked power of intellect? Does
straight or spiral hair point most often
to capacity? Do soft and stiff hair
speak the same or a varying message
as to the character and mental endow-
ments of the wner?
Upon this phase Of the subject the
decisive testimony must come from
the pages Of biography. Nothing less
than a test of the question by the facts
Of life may fairly make a claim upon
our. time and attention. True it is
that biographers have not always pre-
served for us these details Of ply
siognomy. nor do biographers Of the
same individual always agree as to the
points Of figure and feature: yet
enough exists that is authentic to
serve as a basis for a few modest gen.
Civilizations.
Seeing the predominance Of blue
and gray and bluish-gray eyes among
persons of distinction. as determined
in the discussion of physiognomy as
related to genius 1t might have seemed
just to expect that the hair color of
eminent men would be fair. In real
ity. however. the case is otherwise.
The hair color Of celebrated person.
vestigations may Justify us in speak
Ing. has usually been dark.
Classed as Ozark" W. find the hair
of Broning, Rufus Choate. Alexander
Dumas the lder. William Hazlitt( an
other authority says black). Washing
ton Irving (other authorities say
Chestnut brown"). Landor. Francis
Parkman. Rosettf. r. L. Stevenson.
Martin Van Buren,, Tennyson and
Mendelssohn. the hair Of the last be-
ing almost black.
As possessed of black hair we have
the am Of Matthew Arnold, s. +.
Coleridge. Stephen A. Douglas, Sir
Thomas Moore (black shot with yell
low). William Hazlitt .(another u
thority says dark), Leigh Hunt (shin-
ing black). Ibsen, Paul Jones, Charles
ston, Daniel Webster. J. G. Whittier
and Sir Arthur Sullivan.
Given as brown we have the hair of
william Cullen Bryant Ozark brown),
Charles XII Of Sweden Ozark brown,
Captain Cook Ozark brown. Crom-
we'll. Defoe Ozark brown. L%ongfellow.
Farragut becoming In middle life al
brown, Eugene Field !cross between
brown and dove color!), Gladstone
drown. later black. Gordon, u. S.
Grant .(reddish brown, though an
other authority says chestnut brown,
Keats (gold brown). Sidney Lanier
tlight brown. Napoleon Ozark
brown. Washington Irving (chest-
nut), John Milton Oight brown),
George Ripley. Robespierre. John Rus
kin. Shelley, Southey. Charles Sumner
(nut brown. Bayard Taylor Ozark
brown, Thoreau. General Thomas
Digit brown, though another author.
ity says dark brown). N. P. Willis
(light brown).
The remainder of the names In our
list aside from the case Of Thackeray,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

portations regardless Of the revenue.
The democratic party is not in ia
vor Of protection on farm products
except to get votes. That question Is
what confronts the people Of this
state in this election. The Times be-
lieves 1t is too vital a question to he
confused with other issues or con-
founded by other discussions. A
vote for Wilson is a vote for free
trade.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15
: FLIES NOT

1t is really worthy Of note that with
all the swatting of flies. which was a
sort Of midsummer poem. tragic as it
might have been for the flies. the flies
continue to ny. The fly census results
in no enumeration that indicates a de.
crease in numbers. and the fellow
who swipes his rose to separate It
from the tickling fly continues to
swipe. ,
This is a serious problem. The doc
tors have agreed to at least one thing,
the fly is n Of the most pernicious
purveyors Of disease. The epicurean
appetite Of the ny delights in the
odorous and malodorous. and after
dining to completeness seeks the COM
pany of the supreme human and has
an artists pleasure in the composition
of the human nose.
Let us stop and consider this fly
question. It is almost past for this
year. but there are other years-next
year, for instance. AS the autumn
falls the fly will cunningly disappear.
1t will seem that there Is to be no
more Of 1t. The frost paralyzes and
apparently kills forever. But mere
men and women forget that there il
no such conditions as death. even for
a fly. and 1t is a physical fact that
when the fly ID supposed to succumb
as the victim Of the frosts it is merely
preparing for new birth and new on
slaught on what is called the dornin-
ant race, while the fly insists that it Is
the dominant rae
In these days Of this year Of grace.
1912. when there is the odor Of frost
in the air. 1t is due to study the con-
ditions which produce and distribute
the all-pervading fly. In these mo-
ments of progressive thought and
amazing development Of science we
have all become profound students of
sanitation. Now that We know the
fly can't be swatted by snapshots
Of boys. let us do the swatting in an
adaptation by abolishing tho things
that breed the fly. Let us prepare
with the passing Of this year for the
passing Of the fly next year. Let US
with our vast machinery for SANTA
ton prevent the breeding places for
this purveyor Of infection. That is the
sensible agitation. Prevention is bet
ter than swatting. Really the only
fly that has been successfully swatted
is the fy Of the aviator.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

Jimmy Garfield has Just returned
to Cleveland from a trip through
Mexico and expresses the profound,
conviction that there Is nothing in
the insurgent situation in the United
States to warrant Intervention by the
Madero government.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15
County Candidates.

county O6uulONVcSs
Treasurer-Holt A. Shaw.
County Judge-L. K. Hassell.
superintendent Of Schools-M. Be-
atrice Johnstone.
Register Of Deeds-A. NJ. Lodmell.
States Attorney-O. B. Burtness.
Auditor-G. p. johnson.
Sherin-John p. johnson.
legislative Candidates.
Representative. Fifth District
John Kyllo.
Representative. Sixth District
John T. Freeman.
State Senator. Seventh District-H.
A Bronson.
State Senator. Fifth District-O. O.
Trageton.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

After reading the dispatches from
Nicaragua. those Mexican bandits
must wonder what IN earth they will
he required to do before Uncle Sam
will intervene in Mexico.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15
Ecls Darken,T6wna

AS the result Of a remarkable run
Of cells in the Sawkllls the towns of
Red Hook. Tlvoli and Madalin, N. Y,
are thrown IN darkness nearly. every
night. The cells cannot be kept out
of the machinery in the lighting COM
pany's plant. The company has three
intake pipes laid out into the stream
and into the pipes the cells glide in
droves. The clogging Of the machin-
cry puts the three villages in dark
ness.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15
Porto Rico's Wealth Grovv..

fOfUO focO'S wealth Grows.
john 3. Orme, a sugar planter Of
Porto Rico. and a representative of
the type OF young American who is
making that new possession blossom
as the rose. tells Of the ma.vels that
are being performed.
w are just beginning to wake
them up back in the states to what Il
pretty prize Uncle Sam drew when he
got Porto Rico" said Mr.. Orme. I'm
q decade we have doubled two or three
times the sugar crop Of the island.
1t Is coming to be recognized that
there is not a more perfect soil in the
world for the production Of sugar.
There is much of 1t that Is barren
Tor lack Of water. but a governmental
irrigation plant, to ost 1000, 600, is
nearing completion, and will add ma
terially to h sugar possibilities.
"Then there Is the coffee. Porto
Rtcan coffee long had a reputation in
Europe that caused 1t to sell for more
money than the choicest product Of
Brazil: Practically all the went
to France. The United States, the
greatest coffee-drinking nation in the
word. knew nothing Of this coffee. A
decade & Porto Rico lost her French
market, and the coffee people were
In despair. A bit Of advertising in the
states turned the trick, and the coffee
n planter has climbed from ~
TO IL cents. and everybody IL making
money.
ut is not generally known that I'm.
Gle Sam has this first class coffee
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

But probably Mr.. Becker's counsel
may be able to overturn a verdict. IL
against them. on the ground that Jus
tice Golf did not give them time to
select a Jury that would acquit.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

Philadelphia high school boys went
on strike because they disliked the
colors selected for the school. There
are times when the wisdom Of abolish
ing spanking must be gravely doubt
ed.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15
Out OF the Ordinary
OUT OF THE ORDINARY.
Army Service for Girls?

Compulsory military service for
German girls is advocated by Prof.
Witzel of Dusseldorf. An army OF
women should. in his opinion, follow
each army of male contestants not
only to care for the wounded but to
act as cooks and seanstresses.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

BY putting 3e.o3s f%ourth-class post
masterships on the classified list. TAX
ing them out Of politics. President
Taft put about $4,000 democratic
wheel horses on the crouch list.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15
TUESDAY. OCTOBER IS. 1912.
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.

For Congress.
First District-H. T. Helgesen.
Second District-Geo. NJ. Young.
Third District-P. D. Norton.
For State Offices.
Governor-L. B. Hanna.
Lieutenant Governor-A. T. Kraa-
sol.
q Auditor-Carl Jorgenson.
Treasurer-Gunder Olson.
Attorney General-Andrew Miller.
Commissioner % 1nsurance-W. G.
Taylor.
Commissioner Of Agriculture and
Labor-W. G .Gilbreath.
Superintendent Of Public 1nstruc-
tion-E. J. Taylor.
Railroad Commissioners-W. H.
stutsman. o. P. N. Anderson. W. H.
Mann.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

However ardent an advocate Of the
recall Governor Hunt Of Arizona may
be. 1t does not follow that he will
enjoy being made the most eminent
target for its practice,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

The old fashionec farmer who used
to spend his time suing the railroads
for his cow is now collecting tnsur-
ancc on his smashed-up automobile.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

1t is interesting to learn from the
Philadelphia Press that they have
a new complaint in st. Louis called
'coryza.'" and that "almost any
where else it could be diagnosed as a
cold" I1asmuch as it has been the
recognized term for cold in the head
for a long time and has a frm stand
ing in the dictionaries our contem-
porary's conception Of novelty is the
most novel thing about the matter,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

Nicholas of Montenegro has gone
I. the front. thus running a great
risk Of FORGETTING his card in the Eu-
ropean kings union.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

Bill Finn may have sold Quay Il
gold brick but at least 1t must be adj
mitted' that this wasn't an everyday
occurrence in Mats life.
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wild Dogs rod Farm.

A pack Of twenty wild dogs. led by
a huge collie. Is, with increasing bold
ness. making daily raids on farms
near Thermalito. Cal. The dogs hunt
with great cunning. and efforts to ex-
terminate them have resulted in the
killing Of one. Hogs. chickens, rab-
bits and turkeys are their victims. The
Hoods of 1907, when the Feather river
reached the highest stage ever record
ed, Is responsible for the marauders,
whose forebears we're a few tame
logs which were marooned on an isl
and of driftwood. When the water
receded the dogs burrowed into the
debris and refused to return to domes.
ticity.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

Yet. II that Balkan trouble has no
moro effect than to shut on our sun.
PLY OF Attsr OF roses. We may msnage.
to get along. 80. :,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

Chicago Methodists have come out
against Sunday funerals: but can't
they do a little something to prevent
folks from dying on that day?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

An applicant for naturalization pa
pers said the other day hat he had
never heard OF Roosevelt: hut now
that he has a vote he will.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

Mayor Whitlock has come u 10
Wilson. Another Brand from tn
burning!
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

Since those Americans were shot bv
drunken Nicaraguans. will 1t not be
up to us to enforce a prohibition law
down there?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

Sarah Bernhard says that the way
to remain young and lovable Is te
drive the black butterflies from the
soul. Get the net!
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

The latest New York theatrical Of.
fering is 1.-THE Brute" from the name
of which we judge that the hero Is a
married man.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15
Man and Wife EYeht Duel.

An extraordinary duel between a
man and wife armed with hatchets is
reported from Volosca, Austria. The
pair. named Pilevitch, locked them
selves in their kitchen. The woman
severely wounded her husband in the
head. He chopped off his wife's arm
and finally shattering her skull. kill
ing her. Crawling to a window. he
told passersby what happened and
then died:
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15
Dreaming of War. Shot Man

The sound Of music and revelry
coming to his ears. while dreaming,
thus bringing to his mind the thought
tina h was already in battle. was CIV
en- as the reason by. Emil Nevalainen,
q Greek, for shooting and killing John
steifel, his neighbour. at Cincinnati.
Tie claimed he shot while still asleep.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

At the same time. we hazard a
guess that Manager Mckinley keeps
books on those street railways Of his.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

The new Zeppelin dirigible is equip
pd with a kitchen. but the average
aviator doesn't need one to cook his
goose.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15

Still, even II We cannot approve
Montenegro's judgment we must adj
miro it's pluck. Its hesitating allies
may hereafter be known AS the Balky
states.
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plantation at his front door. Porto
Rico Is. in fact. the caterer that should
serve the American his breakfast
With coffee and sugar and pineapples
and mangoes he should need little
else.
Porto Rico aspires to he the pleas
ure resort Of the Atlantic. Governor
Cotton has just succeeded in getting
for San Juan Il $1.50O.O 900 hotel. The
island already has the most ideal
roads in the world for automobiling.
The climate is beyond criticism h
year through, and the scenery unsur.
passed. The pleasure lovers will he
going to Porto Rico some day. instead
Of to the Mediterranean"
Ho0sier Workn,cn for the Colonel.
The extent OF the bull moose move
ment In Indiana is astonishing" said
Ludlow Of indianapolis. ut 10
evident that the progressive move
ment IL taking a deeper hold on h
Hoosier Imagination than the poll.
tictans OF either OF the old parties are
willing to admit. Particularly. is this
true OF h working classes In the
cities. When one talks Of ground
swells 1t is we'll enough to ask II he
knows Of specific cases Of political
conversion. i found concrete exaln-
Piles of changes to Justify such a pre-
dictton. AS a straw that shows how
the wind blows. I may cite a succes-
sion OF flip-aops In my " family.
which is typically Hoosier. l have
law who vote. Two never voted any
but the democratic ticket and the
other two have been regular last-d ditch
republicans. All four are nov en-
thusiastic bull moose supporters.
Just what all this means no one
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-10-15
Talks With Men of
National Prominence
At Washington. d. q.

What has the future for Australia.
should Great Britain break with Japan
or engage in war with Germany"
This question, spoken m~editatively
by Arthur Richard, a prominent bank
er and real estate operator of Sydney.
Australia, conveyed a suggestion OF
ominous import.
said MI. Richard. 1.-THE surface Of the
country hardly has been scratched.
We are making progress, steadily and
surely. The country is prospering
m~arvelously. We are building a navy,
we are laying the foundation for an
army; we are soon. to begin the con-
struction Of a federal. capitol at a
point between Sydney and Melbourne
"a structure that may take ten years
to complete, and about which will be
built q new city. All these things are
hangs over W that menace that If by
any situation Japan should descend
upon Australia it would not be war,
but murder. ! am not an alarmist. I
do not think such a situation could
arise, but there is a possibility.
Some Australians have thought
have thought, myself-that Australia
was going ahead too fast in the laying
down of a navy. but we must provide
some means of national defense. A
naval officer once said to me
to hold territory it is unable to ex-
plot. That remark suggests what
thoughts may fill the minds Of the
Japanese. The Japs doubtless are re-
sentful that Australians insist that
their nation shall be a white mans
country and that they are excluded.
What better. would Germany want
than an opportunity to take Australia,
with Germany's crying need for an
outlet for her crowding population?
OF course. these thoughts are not seri-
thoughts. merely suggestions of
what might arise.
There Is no country in the world
more prosperous than Australia. We
have had nine years Of marvellous
prosperity. abundant crops, and con-
current high prices. Generally big
crops mean low prices, but this is not
so in Australia. Labor is scarce and
high. Carpenters are paid from SO
a day upward, bricklayers 81 and IS
tractors are overriding one another
for this labor.
Real estate values are increasing
in the large cities and the rural Sec
tions. Australia has been one of the
cheapest countries in the world in
which to live, but We are showing
symptoms Of climbing to a higher
standard of food prices. just like the
rest OF the world. 1t would be posi-
BILE. however. I am told by the pro-
ducers Of mutton and the packers of
Australia. to send mutton and beef
to the United States and sell it cheaper
than the American meats are sold at
home. The best u t of mutton can
be purchased in Australian cities for
from IL to 16 cents a pound and beef
from Is cents for the choice cuts.
Australia is on an export basis in
Ats trade in meats. wool and wheat.
We are buying a large amount of
goods from the United States, princi.
pally agricultural implements. hard
ware, and the like.
Sydney is. a fast-growing popula-
ton. We have upward Of 100, 900
people. and last year made a gain OF
10000. We expect to reach the mil
lion mark in less than a decade"
Mr.. Richard has been making a tour
~ H. r~,~.