davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-03-15
AMUNDSEN's REPORT.
SAYS He Will Submit Charts and Al
Information.

Christiania, Norway. - The No
wegian flag has been planted at tn
South Pole by Roald Amundsen, tn
intrepid Antarctic explorer, and ther
is great rejoicing throughout Norwa,
King Haakon has received TIL
cablegram from Hobart, Tasmania:
Pole attained 14th-17th Decembe
1911. All we'll.
(Signed) ROALD AMUNDSEN.
All doubts are now removed as
Amundsen reaching the Pole, but d
Captain Scott, the British explore
has not been heard from, he may AID
have reached the goal.
The Captain denies having cabled ar|
message regarding Captain Scott \
the British expedition.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-03-15
FOUR KILLED, ONE INJURED.
They Were Victims OF the Explosion
Of a Boiler.

Scranton, Pa.-Four employees of the
Gilpin tool handle factory, at Green
town, Pike county, Pa, were killed
and one fatally injured by the explo-
sion of a boiler. The victims are:
George Kraft, Edward Hay, Thomas
Blass and James Roshe, who were lit
orally blown to atoms. The injured
man is William Biller. The damage
to the mill amounted to $4,000.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-03-15
VOTE FOR KENTUCKY WOMEN.
Bill Granting Suffrage In School Elec
tions Passes.

Frankfort, Ky.-Suffrage for Ken
lucky women in school elections is
provided in the bill which passed the
State Senate and, having passed the
House, goes to Governor McCreary
for his signature. Qualifications are
the same as those demanded of men
voters in such elections, except that
the woman voter must be able to read
and write.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-03-15
TO HONOR MAINE DEAD.
Public Funeral To Be Held In WASH
inaton, March %.

Washington-Public funeral honors
in charge of the Navy Department,
will be accorded the last of the Maine
dead, in this city, on March %, ac-
cording to tentative program just
made public. The program will be
dependent upon the freeing of the
hulk of the wrecked battleship from
the cofferdam in Havana harbor on
March Is, as is now planned
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-03-15
parrow's Trial In May.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Clarence S. d
row, former chief counsel for the A
Namara brothers, will be placed
trial May Ii on the charge of havi
bribed jurors in the case of the c.
fessed dynamiter. James B. n
Namara, now serving a life term
San Quentin prison,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-03-15
STUDENT cHoKEs TO DEATH.
Was Star Tackle On College Football
Team.

Collegeville, Pa.-Robert Thompson,
of Pittsburgh, and for four years
star tackle on the Urisinus College
football team, straRgled to death while
eating dinner in the dining-hall of that
institution. His throat was in a weak
condition from the effects of a recent
attack of diphtheria, and it is believed
the muscles of his throat contracted
on a piece of meat.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-03-15
SHE ATTAINs CENTURY.
Mrs. OFT Has 341 Living Descs
ants.

Waynesburg, Pa. = Mrs. Harl
Wildman OFT, oldest resident
Greene county, celebrated her one b
dredth birthday Friday. She is
mother of II children, s of whom
living. She has 20 grandchildren,
REORGANIZATION, SO great-grl
grandchildren and one great-gr|
great grandchild
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-03-15
COST OF LIVING INQUIRY.
Bill In Senate Proposes An Interna.
tonal investigation.

Washington.-An international in
quiry into the high cost of living was
proposed in a bill introduced in the
Senate by Senator Crawford. of South
Dakota The bill would appropriate
$4,000 to enable the President to ex-
tend invitations to other nations to
participate in a general conference.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-03-15
SEVEN KILLED IN MINE.
Eight Others Probably Dead AS Re-
suit OF Explosion.

Merritt, B. C.-Seyen bodies were
taken from the Diamond Vale Col
lieries. The rescuers brought news to
the surface that there was every rea-
son to believe that eight other men
were entombed, and in all probability
dead. The force of the explosion was
terrific. Alexander Paterson was
hurled from the main slip 80 yards to
the engine house and fan weighing
more than a ton was blown out.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-03-15
Aanned For Burning His Wife.

Macon, Ga.-William B. Walker,
well-to-do farmer, convicted of havi
poured gasoline over his wife a.
burning her to death, was hang
here. He protested his innocence.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-12
Ringing Brothers testers
OF Wide Reputation

Fifty of the worlds best and merri-
est clowns are largely responsible for
the attractiveness of the program
which Ringing Brothers worlds
greatest shows are offering this year.
There is not a moment during the
three hours the doors are open that
the audience is not laughing at some
droll stunt or funny antic of the great
army Of comedians.
Most of these gay sky-larkers are
from Europe. They are from the
comic opera companies Of Paris and
Berlin, the Pantomimes of famur DrV-
~ Lane. from the courts of eastern
potentates and from our W vaude-
Vile and musical comedy stages. This
is the circus that for a quarter of a
century has originated the best there
is in Glowing. 1t is funnier than v
er this year. The man who attends
one of its performances and does not
come away with a more hopeful focus
on life had better see an undertaken.
At all times the arena is the scene
Of merry action. There are satires on
public and political happenings, farces
the richest of vaudeville sketches, dia-
lect acts and clever tom-foolery. The
c~oarseness that c~haracterizes the
clowns of other shows is missing. The
compound ssence of wholesome and
innocent fun il ever on tap. The audi
ence drinks large draughts of it with
beneficial results to health and mind.
Foremost among the comedians 10
AL Miaco. He was the original Hump
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-12

arose both in pronunciation as we'll
as in the construction of the language,
so that the Yiddish spoken by Jews
of n district was often understood by
Jews of another district only with
difficulty. The stock of the language,
however, always remained the same
the German of the pre-Latin period
with a liberal admixture Of Hebrew
terms and phrases.
In this city there are at least a
half dozen different kinds of Yiddish
spoken by persons who have come
from different sections of Europe. In
addition to many expressions from the
Hebrew. which best expressed the
ideas for which they stood, there have
been absorbed into the Yiddish Ian
guage many English expressions that
are used frequently in daily CONVEX
sation, and the number of which is
constantly increasing. One of the
chief characteristics of Yiddish
throughout the ages has been to alb
sorb as much as possible from what
ever environment it found itself in.
The precise proportions of the diff
ferent linguistic elements that thus go
to make up the complex sum total of
1lddish must thus remain a matter
of estimate and speculation. A few
years ago a doctoral dissertation deal
ing with Yiddish grammar was pre-
pared at Columbia university. There
In the investigator came to the con-
clusion that the three main elements
of Yiddish were found in these pro-
portions: German, 80 per cent; He
brew, 10 per cent; Slavic expressions,
8 per cent.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-12

ty-Dumpty. Though nearly 60 years
old he is still the leader of ali the
"orid's pantomist and harlequins. His
name is that of an illustrous family
OF comedians. There is also Jules
Turnour. the best Of all French MINI
les. Jules is the subject Of an intense
ly interesting biographical story writ
ties by Isaac F. Marcosson, the maya
zine editor and author. He has clown
ed in every civilized country. on earth.
Kings and queens, diplomats and pro-
fessors lave laughed at him. He is
the delight of the children. George
Hartzell is another Of the clowns. The
magazines all over the country have
devoted pages to his clever work. Still
another Is James Spriggs, the clown
policeman. He is what is known as a
Tree lance working independently
OF the others. Laughter follows his
train wherever he goes.
Among the trained animal features
will be found many acts that entertain
and amuse, particularly Capt. Huling's
Two troupes of trained seals, and three
new herds of elephants. A company
OF performing horses from the Schu-
man German circus do many astonish-
Ing things. The acrobats. gymnasts,
aerialists n riders are the picked
talent of the world. The morning pa
rade Is completely new throughout and
n menagerie has had many wonder
full additions.
The show will be seen. in this city
Friday. July 10.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-12
II ORIGIN OF 1IHRISH. 4
New York "Times.)

The question of what Yiddish really
is has often interested persons o.
Jewish and ~non-Jewish faith alike anG
been answered with considerable un.
certainty in most instances. The
general tendency has been TO class
1iddish not as a language at all, but
as a jargon-a classification that has
on the other hand. been disputed by
some, in view of the fact that Yid.
dish boasts a growing literature. and
efforts have at times been made Ii
demonstrate that it has more or less
regular grammar as we'll. Those in
favor of the latter view point to the
fact that English itself is the product
OF an odd amalgam of tongues and
has a grammar none too rigid, but is
nevertheless not classed as a jargon
on that account.
According to Prof. julius H. Green
stone of Philadelphia in a recent in
terVleW, 1iddish is essentially a Ian
suage of the Jews in exile" a con-
Gltlon in which orthodox Judaism con-
slders all Jews to be. While speak
everywhere the language of the land
in which they dwelt after their dis
persal among the nations, the Jews,
according to this view, developed al
he same time a dialect of their own,
which best met their peculiar needs
linus llieIe are To-Day, among others
a Spanish Yiddish, a Greek Yiddish
q Persian Yiddish. and a German Yid-
dish. the last of which is now spoken
by the majority of Jews in the world
This German Yiddish. according to
Prof. Greensboro, had its origin in the
Jewish quarters of Germany in the
middle ages. and assumed its individu.
atty and peculiar nature among the
Jews of Poland. The segregation OF
the Jews in separate quarters, the
enforced and voluntary separation
from the peoples among whom they
lived, gave the Jews the freedom tc
develop a vernacular of their own
based upon the German. spoken A,
the time; and this ~vernacular they
preserved even after they were forced
to fee from Germany and to settle
in other lands. When in contast with
other languages. Yiddish naturally
absorbed foreign words and expires.
sions, so that the Yiddish spoken ir
Germany differs from the Yiddisf
spoken in England and America in 4
number Of phrases.
Not having had a very extensive
literature of its own, provincialism.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-12
N

Grafton, N. D., July 12.-Miss Ella
Hughes, arrived last week from Mon
tana to visit with her sister, Mrs. Dan
Upham.
Mrs. F. H. Tharalson of Minne-
apolis visited relatives here last week.
P. F. Campbell of Park River spent
Wednesday and Thursday in the city.
I, Amos Naismith and Norman Doug
las arrived Tuesday evening from
Rosetown, Sask. They started the trip
by auto but had to leave the car near
Moosejaw because of the bad roads
n maxi the trip by train.
Several small social parties have
been enjoyed this week. Mrs. G.. M.
Baer entertained Monday evening for
her sister. Mrs. Ries of Chicago: Mrs.
w. w. Reyleck entertained Tuesday
afternoon for Mrs. Refs and on We'd
nesday afternoon, Mrs. A. R. T. Wylie
Mrs. Massey of Mortified.
w. ". Reyleck returned wednes-
day evening from Crookston.
Thursday was circus day and there
also a ball game in the evening be-
tween Park River and Drayton.
Mrs. H. G. Sprague left Thursday
for Winnipeg where she will visit with
friends.
Leonard sprague and his guest,
Walter HALEY, spent Tuesday evening
at Park River.
Rev. and Mrs. Glenn left Monday
for Bemidji where they will spend a
few weeks with friends.
Miss Fitzmaurice and Mr.. Richard
Rathburn of Crystal were married on
Wednesday at the home Of Father
Turcotte.
Misses Lilah and Beulah McGlinch
Of Mimic visited on Wednesday with
Mrs. Herb DePuy.
The Ladies' Aid Of the Methodist
church were entertained on Wednes-
day afternoon at the home Of Mrs.
met at the home Of Mrs. Larson and
drove u to the farm.
Mrs. C. M. Hewitt returned Monday
evening to Albert Lea having visited
several weeks with her daughter, Mrs,
F. H. Sprague.
Mrs. Protius. who has been at the
institution for some time. took i'll sud-
denly the latter part Of last week and
died on Monday afternoon. Her
brother, w. Begg Of Grand Forks ar
rived Tuesday and the funeral took
place Wednesday afternoon from his
home In Grand Forks. Mrs. Protius
had a many friends here during
the different times she has been here.
Mr.. and Mrs. st. Elmo Smith and
children Of Alexandria. Mimi. are Wis
iting here with Mr.. and Mrs. Cairni-
cross.
Mrs. Jack Mclean Of klamath
Falls. Oregon, is visiting in the city
with Mr. and Mrs, Alex Mclean.
Rev. MacCullough Of Scranton. Pa,
who conducted the services in the
Baptist church last Sunday. will have
charge Of the services here indefinite.
ly.
o. w. sundahl Of Winnipeg visited
friends and transacted business here
the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs: E.. A. Taft Of Grand
Forks arrived Monday and will make
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-12
HUGH r. RYAN.

I'm the midst of life We are in
death" Like many other sayings from
the ancients. the meaning of this sem
tence has often seemed vague n UNI
certain. Yet when suddenly in the
life of an Individual, the angel of
death passes to find the lintels of the
doors unsprikled n takes from the
activities of life one who had every
promise of long life and health. the
real significance of the opening sem
tence strikes home. 1t seems almost
impossible that within a few weeks.
even a few days. a man in the prime
of life should be laid low in death.
Yet it is so.
1t is not our purpose to speak of
either the public acts or the private
life of the deceased in detail. Mr..
Ryan served the state in the law
making body with credit. and in the
more restricted field of the city gov
he has been active in the in
terest of what he believed was for the
best of his constituents.
In his private life he was modest
and unassuming. He worked rather
than talked. and while his intimate
ITltIiQS were nol numerous tleS "tiS
loyal and sincere. Industry. good
business Judgment and enterprise have
rewarded him with n liberal share of
the worlds wealth. but these things
were more a part of his life than a
reaching out for sordid gain.
The twilight shadows of the night
of eternity fell while life had much
for him tina was desirable. In the
prime of manhood and the years of
life's mellow autumn yet before him.
he was marked for the pale horse and
his rider. Already the soul has sought
the mysterious unknown that lies
hidden behind the Veil of death. and
the deeds done in the body will be the
measure of his worth in life. They
can neither be added to nor taken
from by word or act of the living, and
so we can only pause beside the bier
where lies the crumbling tenement of
life, and forget and forgive if these
be necessary. and praise and remem
Der the things hat made him a
man trusted by his fellows, loved by
his friends and respected by all.
The community in which his life
was largely spent mourns for its dead
and while it bows to the will of the
Maker of life and death. u sorrows for
n who to mortal ken seemed so
untimely called.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-12
NJ
(NeW Work Times.

-NS 1oAh iiitSS.J
Notifying the candidates of their
nominations by their respective con-
ventions may take place at any time
There is nc rule about it. Generally
1t occurs within thirty days after the
conventions. The permanent chair
man of a convention is usually chair
ma of the notification committee. The
first presidential nominee to get the
notification as it is now made was
Henry Clay in 1881. The committee
consisted of one delegate from each
Of the notification committee has, in
the estimation of the committeeman,
added luster to his name.
Before the plan now in vogue, nom-
inees were notified by mail. That Gus
tom caused one nominee some chag
rim The chairman of the convention
notified him by letter. In those days
the recipient of a letter paid the post
age when the letter vas delivered. In
the case of the nomination of Gen.
Taylor by the Wing convention the
chairman. Coz. Morehead, wrote the
notification. After several weeks of
silence Gov. Morehead became uneasy.
Old Gen. Taylor's mail was unusually
heavy. and he gave orders that all
mail to his address should be returned
to the dead letter Office unless the
postage was prepaid. The chairman
Of the wing convention had failed to
prepay on his letter of notification,
and back it Went to the dead heap in
Washington. Thereupon the chairman
wrote another letter of notification.
put on the stamps, and hurried it to
the waiting nominee in Louisiana.
Gen. TAYLOR replied to that at length.
The nominee is notified at his place
of residence unless some other ar
rangement is made. If the officer of
the day at Governors Island had not
understood his business. a laughable
incident might have occurred when
Gen. Hancock, then in command of
the eastern department. was waited
upon by the notification committee
from the Cincinnati convention, which
nominated Gen. Hancock for presi-
dent. A Missouri editor. who was one
of the committee. broke away from
the main body as it approached the
veranda of the house of the command
ant and ~endeavored to persuade the
officer in charge of such matters that
he must have the guns roar out the
presidential salute. 1t is said that the
Missourian used his perfervid o~ratory
in trying to have the officer under
stand that he (the Missourian) had a
verbal order for what he asked. II
is not known what reply the officer
made. but the guns didn't roar and
the story never got out.
1t is remembered by a few Of the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-12
OUR ATHLETES At STOCKHOLM

American prowess in the arena of
athletics. so far from being Slapped by
indulgences and tendencies accom-
panying quick accumulation Of the
wherewithal and the eXtravagances
of student life. still continues to be
phenomenally successful in rivalry
with the best talent which the more
abstemious foreign countries bring to
the tape. We should be encouraged
to think. too. that the notable exploit
of the Indian boy from Carlisle col
lege indicates that the American en-
vironment is a shade more conducive
to athletic performance than could be
said of any other country that partici-
pates in international meets. That
being true, our boys must go anliss
indeed if it Yer happen hat they fin
ish in the ruck. So far as can be fore
seen. the hardy races Of northern Eu-
rope will continue to be our closest
competitors for the honors. more
game and consistent, as they are, than
the best the softer southern chimes
seem able to produce.
1t is debatable whether it is SUI
perior strength and speed or sheer
pluck that sends Americans TO the fore
at tIlt Ci uCldl SldSe. Lie UtliOoS le-
nacity" of the British is something TO
he reckoned with, as all authorities
agree. and if given the advantage of
their own ground, they hold the
American closer than any others do,
but on the whole our men show more
of that something in reserve" that
battles analysis thar their rivals are
able to summon up at the moment
victory hangs in the balance. Pitted
against all corners on their own
grounds, the Americans are well-nigh
invincible.
Change of climate impairs the ply
sique of the high-strung gladiator.
and ofttimes causes loss Of spirits no
less calculated to take the edge off.
Thus it happens that the American
team at Stockholm, according to re-
port, is not in much better shape than
OF landing. having failed to acclima-
tie as readily a. had been hoped.
This probably accounts for the uneven
showing of the men, but it would APP
pear that enough Of them are at con-
cert pitch to vouchsafe the prediction
that they will come off handsomely.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-12

" CALLED DOWN" WASHINGTON

(ReV. Thomas Gregory in New York
American.)
~ was l22 years ago-June %. 1890
--.that congress authorized President
Washington to select a federal terri
tory, not exceeding ten miles square,
on the river Potomac, at some place
between the mouths of the eastern
oranch and the Conogocheooue, for
the permanent seat of the government
Of the United States"
The Father of His Country took his
lime about the matter, making haste
slowly. and with Characteristic caution
and prudence finally closed the bar
gain that gave to the nation the land
upon which its capital city was to
rise.
The site of the now splendid capital
was purchased from four planters.
named Young, Carroll, Davidson and
Burns. A thrifty, hard-headed and
thoroughly plain-spoken Scotchman,
Burns was not willing to part with his
land for the price that was offered,
and when Washington. in rather
lstralsht-out language, demonstrated
with him for holding out. the old
iScotchman said to him: Il suppose,
Mr. Washington, vol think tina PEG.
pie are going to take every grist that
comes from YOU as pure grain, but
who would you have been if YOU had
not married the widow Gusts"
1T was a terrible thrust. and we are
Informed that the great man never
allowed David Burns to speak to him
again.
The city. being laid out. the corne
stone OF the capitol was laid by Wash
ington on the 18th day of September
1898, with Masonic honors and an ad-
dress by the Father Of His Country,
l strange m cav tho ,,rocilar<,c alAroe.
was lost. and We can only guess as to
what the speaker said.
he really said we do not know
hut we do know that he could not
possibly have had anything like a full
realization of what a center of power
and influence among mankind that
capitol was destined to become.
When Washington laid the corner
stone the United States of America
was a third-rate power. The first EN-
sus had just been taken. and its popu-
lation was only 1000, 600. The peo-
pie were thinly scattered Throughout,
the thirteen states. between the At
lantic and the Alleghanies. and over
the mountain a handful of hardy
pioneers We're making the humble he
ginnings Of Kentucky. Ohio and Ten
nesSee.
There were hardly any roads in the
op'itA iildllS "CIc pI dCllCdllN ull-
known. and manufacturers were few
and far between. Practically the en-
tire wealth of the country lay in its
crude agriculture, and politically the
nation had scarcely begun to exist.
That there was a United States OF
America was a fact that was but dim
ly perceived among the cabinets OF
Europe.
How changed all things are today,
after the comparatively brief period of
1870 years?
1t is hard for us to realize that our
is the greatest and most powerful ma
ton that history knows anything
about, a nation compared with which
the Roman empire. when 1T the
height of glory, was a pygmy; a nation
whose power reaches around the
world. and whose influence dominates
all the councils of all the nations on
earth. Greater far than V the
Roman forum was is that capitol by
the Potomac. the cornerstone of which
Washington laid in 1893.