The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-26

carryau Col. Roosevelt found the road too tOrtuoI1s

DTUIuET OT OaTUIWdI a cure for the turkey trot,' grizzly bear' and similar dances, whf h If put into general practice he thinks VIII dampen the ardor of their devotees His panacea Is nothing less than | turning the hose on them and thus i coo ing the blood of the dancers by artificial draught. So much of row has of late been excited by the wide i spread popularity of the turkey trot' in local society, that the views of the 1 priest, who is here studying condl- ] tions in this country have done much to fan the flames of protest aga nst { It sweeping over the city. The cle~- gyman's suz gestion anent the hose was made before an immense auS~~1ce as sembled to hear him in the Academy | of Music on "The True Measure of l Greatness
 1 He said the. true measure of great ness in a Christian community is not wealth and feasting, but in the terms | of service. This brought him to the dances now in vogue in fashionable bathrooms, and he condemned them
 If proper dancing is al the world | over a recognized and exhilara 1T ray pastime,' he said, improper dancing, on the contrary, is a practice that is i tracised from every decent vaudeville and still more from every private drawing-room-
 ITO anyone with even the most ele-
 
 | is apparent that the movements in the so-called dances of the Apache character can result in nothing mak- l ing for righteousness or even decency Men and women do not happen to be ] icicles or sleigbs; nor are they au- ] tomata or gramophones. Not even are they oysters or ,Jel yf1sh- They are human beings and, unlike ashes toS. are very suscept ble to fire.
 ''The so-caIled dances bearing very suspicious names are forces calcu at ! 1T -U-fr FHN set youth on fire, and it is quite i'm possible to consider what sort of patent fire eneine could extin'suish such enkindled flames either in this not be a bad Jan to have the hose ready to play on people who dare to defy the public conscience by indulg- ing in vicious movements whose ten dencies are recognized to be so in- juriousi to civic morality. that those responsible for the decency and we fare of our great cities have felt themselves compelled to inhibit such criminal practices in halls Ii CT sed for dancing. Let not so much az the names of these figures be heard any more among us. Kill them outright and bury them out of sight far beyond the city's bonnds.''
 That the late P. T. Barnum's aphor- ism that a new sucker Is born every minute Is still applicable, was strik ingly illustrated here this week. With his pockets laden, with go d and his enthusiasm on edge, Peter Olson, an land, Ore. was intercepted the o her day on hs way to Spain, where in guileless innocence he, proposed fall ing'' for the antique but still effective SPanish prison story. It was all his son, student at Ann Harbor, Mioh., and two detectives cou do to keep him from boarding French liner on which he had booked to sal.
 f-N1 T,1 ,1 Nn Ia dr-f6 and rescue the bea utiful- maiden from tn e convent and also redeem the trunk with 450.0O0 pesos in a secret com partment, the whereabouts of which would be revealed to him by the good priest who was to meet him and rec ognize him by the passage of se- cret sign. rf we prove to you at Police Headquarters that this is an sands of times, will you go ashore" asked one of the three men.
 Reluctantly, the old gentleman con- sented 10 be convinced. He gave up his ticket and went to Police Head kuarters where he was satisfied that he was being used only as come 'leman admitted that he was Charles H. Olsen, sixty-five years old, of No. 2SS Pine Street, Portland, Ore, and wealthy. The young man was his son, Charles Olsen, jr.. student in the University of Michigan, at Ann Ar bor. On Dec. Il -ast, MT. Olsen re- .eived a long typewritten letter post marked Madrid; Madrid Spain; and signed He1 forth that the writer was in prison for a political offense and had man aged to hide 450,000 pesos in a trunk, against which the. Government of Srafn had a claim of F DO pesos. Al Victor Dupont wanted MT. Olsen to do was to journey to Madrid, pay the 15, 900 pesos to certain good priest, get possession of the trunk, take 150,- OF hidden fOT- him. self and then return to his home in Portland, escorting, as protector and guide, the beautiful ffteen-year-old daughter of the unfortunate prisoner, ~~'1 daughter to he cared for by MT. Olsen as one of his own.
 Out in Port and MT. Olsen has rep- utation of being hard-headed busi- ness man. Nevertheless, he cabled to an address furnished by the writer of the letter and got reply that prompt ed him to draw a large sum of money Members of his family had an ink ling of his errand and attempted to oissuade him, but he gave them the slip and was rot overtaken until he was boarding the ship.
 Fearful that the so-called Money Trust would seek to tare out of the hide of his ia thful subordinates that which 1t wou take out of his-if it cou,d-Cakleigh Thorne, President Of the Trust Company of America, has just spent half a million dollars in the purchase of the Corporation Trust Co.,, of New Jersey. Consid era ble of the stress, storm, piffle and palave- connected with the panic of 1907 cen tered arou MT. Thorne and the Trust Company of America, wIich occupies an imposing building in Wall Street a few dooys away from J. Pierpont Morgan & Go. At the time of the panic a large amount of Tennessee Goa and Iron ock-nore than the fT0l 0f that rival of the Steel Trust was on deposit with the flank as collateral Tor loars Or in it's vaults It's individual proDerty. This fac+, backed by The desire of the Steel Trust to Fobtle up it's rich competi- tor has since Teen charged ny MT. I,horrs with insniring Gsorgs " Per