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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23
Talks With Men of
National
At Washington. ID. @.
Germany has n triile more thar
d. 600 miles of railMa

Germany has a triile more than
$1,000 miles of railway.
In a single week $1,000 Chinese
cut off their pigtails in Hong Kong.
In the last forty years the popula-
ton of France has only increased by
three and a half millions.
In some of the cities of Europe the
proprietors of moving picture estab-
lishments are compelled to exhibit
the portraits of persons who are being
sought ly the police.
BY next "a the Suez canal will
have a depth of t~hirty-six feet and
vessels with Il draft OF thirty-one and
one-half feet will be allowed to pass
through. The Panama canal. forty
five feet deep. Will accommodate ships
drawing forty feet.
Every German city of CONSEQUENCE
has u number of palatial cafes, which
are nothing else than huge club hous-
IS without membership fornlality. In
any one of these cafes are hundreds
of thousands of patrons glancing over
domestic and foreign newspapers and
magazines.
An old blue law has been invoked
in the state of Massachusetts to pre-
vent the repairing of automobiles and
tiie Sdie ol NlOloI SuppllcS OH SuHQaN
Unless the permissive bill introduced
by Representative Charles HaisiS Is
passed hv the present legislature =
car operated on Sunday may run IL
OF gasoline or not, or have a break
down. n unless the occupants can
repair il they VIII have to leave the
car by the roadside and trudge.
h changing fashion In London
locomotion was perhaps never better
eNemplitied Than on the occasion of
the recent division on the home rule
bill. At II o'clock When members
we're trooping through the Hobbies
there We're probably not less than tft.-
or sixty motors-for the most part
private c~arriages-in Palace ward. and
not a single hanson cab or fourwheel-
er. The last Of the latter were i'm all
probability those p]atronized hy the
late Niscount Wolverhampton and Sit
Arthur Bignold. Now the horsed We
hlcle is practically extinct within the
parliamentary precincts. Pail Mall
Gazette.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23
THE COST OF CAMPAIGNS.

If any surprise has been caused by
the testimony before the senate COM
mittee investigating campaign con-
trihutions and expenditures. it is due
to the disclosure that the war chests
of past years We're smaller than the
general public was led to believe.
According To the testimony of Post
master General Hitchcock. chairman
of the republican national committee
in 1908, the total amount of the re-
publican fund that year was $685.
61S.2I. In the same campaign. ac-
cording TO the statement of the demo-
cratic chairman. the democratic party
had less than $1,000. 900. And in
1904. according to William f. Shee-
han of New York. who was the chair
man that year. the fund was just
81, 900, 900.
Apparently the funds of the two
parties have not aggregated as much
as $4,000, 900 any year, if the full
truth is being old to the senate COM
mittee. There has beer a general i'm
preston that campaign managers col
1ected three, four or five million dol
lars.
When it is considered that in a ma
tional campaign the entire country
must be covered with speakers, whose
expenses must be paid. and with lit
erature, the preparation and mailing
of which is Very expensive, and that
halls and bands and other "incident-
ais" all add to the total, the wonder
is that the campaign committees are
able to show such records for econ
omy.
OF course. there are additional con-
tributions that are made Il state,
county n local organizations, many
OF which bear the expense in their
own territory. II is to such organi-
cations that some nf the "juciest'
contributions are made. 1t is impos-
sible for the enaAe committee TO
delve into this phase of the matter,
and the result of the present inquiry,
therefore, is certain to be incomplete.
II is gratifying 10 learn. however,
that neither party made a speciality
OF accepting contributions from cor
porationS, n the evidence so far adj
can political game is not quite as bad
MS has been pictured. Probably if the
reform primaries We're investigated II
would be found that the contributions
tenn are greater tina under the Did.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23
FEET OF CLAY.

Some of Mayor Gaynor's critics are
inclined to throw at him the implica-
ton that he obtained his office if not
exactly under false pretenses at least
by i%nvoluntarily misleading the pub
lie. 1t will be recalled that his cam
didacy was popularized by his cham
pionship of a Brooklyn youth who had
been arrested and rogues-galleried by
the police. but against whom nothing
specific could he proved. The result
ing controversy between Police Com
missioner Bingham and the then Jus
1ice Gaynor was an effective card in
the m~ayoralty campaign and no doubt
greatly enhanced the judges chances
of election. Recently Rineham's suit
against the mayor arising out of that
affair was settled by the mayor apollo
giving to the commissioner.
Meanwhile the youth who was the
cause of h rumpus was once more
arrested. but discharged amid com
plants of police persecution. Now he
has been arrested again. this time in
the act of wrecking a Brooklyn gro
Gerry and attacking the proprietor af-
ter a half-drunken row in which the
mayors former injured innocent tried
to terrorize n street.
Out of this incident the mayor af-
ter his election declared that he in
tended to put the police of New York
on a human basis, SO that the inno-
cent would not suffer. The result was
what will inevitably follow the loos-
entng of the reins. A few days ago a
gambler who had peached on the po-
lice n charged, on what seems to
he the best of evidence. thai the po-
lice We're hand in glove with the
gamblers, was shot down in cold
blood. and the evidence points un-
erringly to the fact that the murder
was i%nstigated and carried out by the
police who sought by this method to
close his mouth. The police con-
spiracy went so far that the street
where the diabolical Iced was to be
executed was kept clear of traffic so
that the hired assassins might the
better escape after the commission of
their crime, in a waiting automobile.
They have sent the murderers out of
the city quietly and have thus
thwarted the law they are supposed
to uphold.
Such is the result of an alleged re-
form for which Mayor Gaynor stood
sponsor. 1t is foolish to talk about
lessening the mailed hand of the law
until human nature becomes so
changed that crime will not exist in
the hearts of men. That time is far
in the dim future. The policy Of silk
gloves for crime has reacted by the
development Of a system of the low
est criminal type in the police force
of the city of New York.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23
Chicago News.)

Many young men are seen with
gray hair before their time, and some
Of them can tell interesting expert
ences that caused their hair to change
color. Here is the story. told by al
old miner now retired and living in
Chicago. Of how his hair turned from
a deep brown to almost white in a
night. 1t happened when he was a
young man and working in a silver
shaft:
Barney Doyle and l worked the
two shifts of the small holding of the
company Town in western Mexico
the narrative begins, Barney being
foreman of one and 1 of the other
Neither Of us had ever been in the
shaft worked by the other. and we
We're unfamiliar with the workings
except for what we would tell each
other as the days passed and we
drilled deeper and deeper into the
ground.
Zone evening just about time for us
to quit work, Doyle fell from the
mouth of the crater he had worked
800 feet to the bottom. ] had jus,
come to the surface when the acct
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23
@A0R PALES 0N SINGLE NIGHT
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE AT BOTTOM OF MINE RELATED BY
PROSPECTOR.

dent happened. There was a crowd
OF at the mouth of the Dit and
they were gesticulating wildly and
shouting at n another as though
the whole pack had suddenly gone
crazy and deaf. / thought then and
still do that one of those cas- had
Hoped Doyle into the hole, for none
OF US was any too popular with them,
but they all insisted tina the poor
fellow had simply fallen in.
None of my men or of Barney's
either would attempt to go down the
shaft in the bucket arrangement we
had, for they We're the most super
stitious lot of men 1 ever have heard
of. They have the southern states
negro beaten to a FRAGILE.
FINALLY the manager of the COM
pany, having heard the rumpus, came
to h pit and he and I agreed to de-
scend into the pit after Barney's re-
mains.
THE boss saw to 1t that the lift
was manned by men we could trust
and We were slowly settled down into
the black. black depths. The buckets
' were Of the trap bottom type. so we
halted the cage just before we
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23
KISS AND WoRkHorsE

New York. July 2~3.-Joseph Miller.
aged %, was arraigned in court today
on the complaint of Mrs. Ella Wilkin,
- years old Mrs. Wilkin said that
Miller had tried to kiss her. and when
she objected, choked her.
Il was at home" she said, when
the bell rang. I went TO the door and
Mr.. Miller called me out in the hall.
l went out and he said: Don't you
love me any more? told him did
not. and he tried to kiss me. ] slap
ped his face and he grabbed me by
the throat
Miller explained that he kept COM
rany with Mrs. Wilkin before she
married.
She used to love me, and I don't
think h loves her husband as much
as she does me- he said.
You do not" said the court. Well.
she married him, didn't she, and turn
ed you down? When a married wo-
man cannot be free of the attentions
and the insults of former suitors
things have come to a pretty pass.
Fifteen days in the workhouse for
YOU"
Blu ! love her. Judge" sobed Mil
Ter.
Cant help that said Magistrate
Herman,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23
BUGS CAUSE G

Aneta. Ind. July Coalitions of
lightning bugs caused terror among
workmen employed in the powder
mills here at night, after a thunder
storm. The little insects, driven from
the aknkakee marshes by the storm,
settled down in a tank containing sew
eral tons Of nitroglycerine.
The employees SOW the brilliantly
illuminated bugs nea the great tank
and Immediately scattered. running
terror-stricken in all directions. in fear
that the tank would explode. 1t re-
quired foremen of the mills nearly an
hour to dispel the e of the employ
es and induce them to return to work.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23
GoT THREE YEARS.

Los Angeles, July 23.-Gorham
Tufts, Jr.. the Oriental mystic and cult
leader. convicted of having fraudu-
lently obtained more than $780, 600
from his wife. formerly the wealthy
Mrs. Roe of Fort Worth, Texas. was
sentenced today to three years in San
Quentin prison. The sentence was i'm
posed after Tufts pleaded for proba-
ton.
Tufts was convicted at his second
trial. He was accused by his wife of
having used a worthless power Of at
torney to obtain funds from her es-
tate to promote various enterprises.
Mrs. Tufts charges were filed after
h husband had brought into her
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23
BUYS WIFE's LINGERIE.

Los Angeles. July 23.-Strange allie
cations Of cruelty are made by Mrs.
Paul Won Neindorff. young wife Of a
wealthy Hollywood man. many years
her senior, and declared to be a direct
descendant Of German nobility, in a
these is that he thought he had better
taste han she for fnery. and insisted
on the selection and buying of all her
lingerie and practically all her outer
apparel. She also alleges that he
would not let her go away from the
house without his permission.
Won Neindorff denies all of these
charges except to admit that he
bought much clothing for his wife.
He says h was not restrained from
buying anything additional she desir-
ed.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

new trial is denied for the following
reasons: First, the verdict in this case
represents the essential principles Of
justice and righteousness. and such a
verdict ought to prevail as against
niggling, puerile, fingle-fangle assev-
erations of ~heteroclite error.
ut is practically impossible that a
cause SO replete with amorphous con-
ditions should not exhibit some excep-
tional phosphorescense. 1 am, how
ver, satisfied that the grounds alleg-
ed have no substantial foundations and
that law and equity will be subserved
by a denial of this notion"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23
SOME JAWBREAKERs.

Ann Arbor, Mich, July 23.-Circuit
Judge Kline has handed down a de-
cision refusing a new trial in the case
of Leo Feist Of New York against
Frank NJ. Root Of this city. This is an
offshoot of the sensational Root d.
vorce case, in which both sides intro
duced the famous Ten Command
ments" revised and brought down to
date.
The judges opinion refusing the re-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

home a love slave" Charles Parnell,
who was a witness in his defense.
This love slavery" feature of Tufts
life was Of the factors which is
said to have decided the probation
officers to recommend no clemency
for him.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

Being a congressman from Taft's
w city and the son-in-law of
Roosevelt at the same time must give
Nick Longworth a good many trouble
some dreams.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

1t looks like Mayor Gaynor of New
York had something more to do thar
be a tentative candidate for the demo.
cratic nomination for president.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

The senate committee which Is hav-
Ing the names of so many of the large
contributors to past campaign funds
published is probably doing it as a
hunch to the collectors Of those funds
this year.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

We Very much doubt if any pape
will Civ William Jennings Bryan
$1,000 n day TO cover the third party
convention. That's what he got out
of the other two.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

1t was probably only a %coincident
that a heavy frost occurred in YER
mont on the morning after Taft
headquarters were opened in that
state.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

What We consider dangerous CON
versation is to have a widow tell ar
old bachelor that she was never really
happy in her married life.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

What's the use of digging out those
campaign expenses of the past when
the mill will never grind with the
water that has passed."
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

1t must be said in defense of the
degenerate. Nathan Swartz, who COM
mitted suicide at his fathers sugges-
ton. that he obeyed his parents.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

Colorado Springs. COL. July a.
Five hundred lawyers from all parts
Of the United States and Canada will
meet here Tuesday at the eighteenth
annual convention Of the Commercial
Law League of America.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

The man who boasts of being rich
in experience is often unable to raise
the price of a square meal.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

A woman always has two favorite
topics of conversation-herself and
some other
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

Probably the reason why there arc
so few women aNiators is because the.
do not have to die to be angels.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

The devil turks beside the straight
and narrow path to throw on the
thOrnS and tacks.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

Somehow We always believe that
r~etrihution will always overtake the
other fellow.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

A Lost Article "stays Lost"

A Lost Article 'Stays Lost"
Unless the loser advertises-usual-
ly. The finder should advertise. OF
course. The loser surely should. Then
II the finder is honest-at a large ma
1ority OF people are-the recovery is
sure. "
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

These rugs are 9x12 feet or 8-3x1O-6
in size. The color combinations are
very desirable and the wearing quality
is hard to duplicate. The supply at these
reductions are limited so come early and,
get first choice.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23

reached the bottom, and, slipping the
catch on the bucket. dropped to the
floor. We had to depend for light in
the mines then on candles and we
used them in connection with he
queer, sticky clay that is found in that
sort of a mine. We could take a
handful of the mass, slap it On the
wall or a girder and stick a candle
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-12
Stock Gambling And The Coprer Corner

Evidence  o Tue pass eerday the eRec in of the  o he  ob 
  O two gamblers scanacq a O value vhc they haveno worked be din Is rnpos to eneve other and artR the piceo
   
  me of, and O ryvages to hem andth
  In a
  md .s
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-12
GOV. WILSON'S EXAMPLE.
tFrorn the Boston Gqobe.)

(From the Boston G4obe.)
 Mr. Wilson announces again, in de- cfining MT Taft's thoughtful proposal of a Panama trip. his purpose to stick to the Governorship of New Jer- sey.
 Mir. Wilson was elected Governor in 1910 to serve four years. He was able to do a good many things with the aid of the Legislature elected at the same time. But the election in 1911 took away from the Democrats the control of the Senate, and this seriously interfered with the Cover nor's program.
 A Legislature, Democratic in both houses. is about to come in. and the Governor intends to go to work at Trenton ase if nothing had happened to him on November 5. He is now writing his message, and when the Legislature meets after New. Year. 8 measures that failed last year. That done. he will relinquish his office to the president of the Senate and turn to the tasks at Washington.
 This is an admirable example. Too often our public men are in such haste for promotion that they do not stop long enough to finish any job. They are elected to do certain things but run off and leave the things undone
 The people themselves are more or less to blame If they find an of something that they like. often they will not wait until he has done it, but with a hunwa.h elect him to do something else. District Attorney Whitman of New York, having in dicted Becker and the gunmen there was q strong disposition to nominate him for Governor before he had time to convict them.
 Gov. Wilson in sticking to the job until 1t is finished will be doing a use- ful service not only for New Jersey but for the country Few Presidents elect could do@it. They would be SC distracted by the new honor awaiting them that they could not keep their minds on the simpler duties of a GovernorShip. They would be toe much taken up with their new dignity to sit down at the old desk and the old tasks.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-12

the same kind of a trip. Nobody can tell how bad an influence the publfca- ton of the narrative about NIT: sn@r- Walker, of a New Britain bank; or the gentleman who helped himself to funds in a Mertden bank; or of the windham bank, and similar, yellow romances, has exerted upon the pub lie. There is a lot of news which could be suppressed, but unfortun- the line, unless the derelict happens to be a leading citizen. The story of the escapade of young Judson, the Chicago broker, in New York, ought really an entertaining, jolly and bril- liant young man. Because the spider ca tches the fly is no reason why all the dry bones in her parlor should ly the Judson story would not have filled columns of the New York press if he had not sprtnted down central park west, in better time than was
 As the Herald, of New Britain, says: Where would be the dividing line z? That depends upon whom the fellow is. If a Paul Morton is found dead Field of Chicago, is brought home dead in an express wagon, draw the line If a great New York editor is found dead in the hallway of his of the United States is seen drunk in public, draw the line If the daughter of a cabinet minister com
 nits suicide, draw the line. But if any of the common herd of mankind. the plain people do anything out of the way. rope them all in. That IS the only safe and sane policy for modern journalists. By all means suppress accounts of all suicides and especially of divorces and assassina- tions. They are too suggestive.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-12
HIGH FUTURE
 OF JOURNALISM
WILLIAMS PREDICTS TT WILL SOON RANK WITH LAW MUST EXPRESS THE PUBLIC, NOT HIMSELF.

New Haven, Dec. 12.-Taicott Will Hams, director of the school of jour nalism at Columbia University, in the
 second of the Bromley lectures on Journalism as a Calling at ale Monday night, said:
 Journalism and literature are closely connected in the public mind. Both use the written word. Much lit erature was once journalism. Much journalism could without change be literature. But literature and jour nalism, if they use the same means, have different and contrasted ends. The author writes to express himself. The journalist writes to express the public. One acts in a personal ca pacity The other acts in a represen- tative capacity. The authors work has weight because of the man who writes. The newspaper has its chief weight, but not its full influence, be- cause of the thousands who read.
 "As society grows more complex journalism grows more complicated and calls for special a training as law or medicine. Mere aptitude was enough in mere partisan Journalism. l. Wider social duties call for professi on- al education. This has at last come with adequate endowment and it has been accompanied by a larger demand for trained men and an enlarging com- pensation. If this be still inadanua+e
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-12
TO-DAY MAY BE
 WRITTEN 12-12-12

Time thrifty persons who date their letters with Arabic numerals will rev el in g rare treat today. for this is the twelfth day of the twelfth month of the twelfth year of the century, and communications may thus be com rnenced: 12-12-12.
 Incidentally this is the last day in the present century when such a com bination of triples may be used. Then tenth Of October, 1910, and the eleventh of November, 1911, afforded similar opportunities. but there will be no re- time, as Mark Twain, said, i've shall all be dead, hope"
 It is a noteworthy that since the beginning of the Christian era the years ending in '.12'' have been us- ual1y marked by terrible wars, and this year has. been no exception. Ira jan's successful warfare against the enemies of Rome made the year 11z historic Ferocious battles between the Romans and the Allemanni red Constantine became the ruler of the western world at a terrible sacrifice of human lives. A century later, ir 412 the Visigoths sacked Rome and SIP there were petty wars all over Europe Chosroes II of Persia car rie sword and flame into Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor in SIP. The trfun- phant Saracens invaded Spain in 712 and put an end to the long rule o1 Europe on the point of a spear In al2 as again this year. the ruler oi Bulgaria menaced Constantnople. IT s12 the Saracens completed their con quest of Spain. and the year marked the beginning of a century Of blood. shed The Danish ruler conquered England in 1012 Germany was the scene of warfare in 1112 and again II