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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-01
WAS GREATEST OF ALL FAKERS
cAGLIOsTRo WAS THE MOST PERFECT scoUNDREL IN All,
HISTORY

as the %discoverer of a miraculous Lilo.
uor, which he called Wine of Egypt"
and which he claimed would prolone
life and restore youth. Pointing to his
lovely young wife, he related thai she
hao recently been n withered old
crone OF so. and that he himself and
lived for 1000 years by constantly
drinking this wine.
In a coach-and-four these impost.
ers rolled through Europe, found ac-
cess to the highest society, and mys.
tertously dispensed potions. washes,
charms and love philters. People lis
tened greedily to C~agliostro's absurd
lies. and through the sale of his wine
Of Egypt" he grew fabulously rich.
one another to do him honor, and he
speedily became one of the foremost
men in Europe.
Apart from his wine and other
equity marvellous drugs Cagliostro be-
came famous as a founder Of a sort
OF Masonic cult. and secured thous-
ands of converts. He even instituted
Masonic lodges for one He claim
ed to be Of almost divine origin, said
he could make himself invisible. and
that he could transmute baser metals
into gold.
/. Cardinal de Rohan. bishop Of stras-
bourg. eagerly took up Cagliostro, and
for five years followed the impostor
blindly and believed every word he
said, and in those few years he gave
the faker more than 100000.
From Strasbourg he went to Paris,
where his vast charities made him
popular, and his boundless wealth
backed his assertions that he could
make gold. In this blaze of prosperity
destruction was near. De Rohan, the
dupe in that mysterious and famous
business Of the diamond necklace,
which he sold or imagined he sold to
Marie Antoinette. was thrown into the
bastile. and with him his friends, the
Cagliostros. After an Imprisonment
OF nine months they were released, but
ordered to leave Paris.
They went to England, then back on
the continent. and were driven from
place to place for the authorities
everywhere had become convinced of
their being impostors. At the end Of
1888 they were seized in Rome, and
the pope condemned them to life i'm
prisonment as an enemy Of the Chris.
tan religion. Cagliostro was for a
time confined in the castle of San
angel. and died in the Fortress of st.
Leo on August 2s. 1895. after having
for years duped the whole world.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-01
OUR PIONEER AB0lOTl0NDsT
LIES OM FORGOTTEN GRAVE

In a primitive Quaker cemetery,
near Granville, in Putnam county, ILL.,
no1s. lies the almost forgotten grave
of Benjamin Lundy, the man who was
the frst to begin the agitation against
slavery. A pitifullv small slab of
Drown sandstone. stained with age, is
covered with moss and ivy. and bears
the simple marking: Benjamin Lun-
dy. Died 1889" There have been
several movements to raise funds for
the erection OF n fitting monument.
but all have failed.
BenJamtn Lundy was born in Hard
Wich' n. j., in 1889. of Quaker par
ents. He was a%pprenticed as a sad
While in Wheeling. Va. a few
years previous. he saw slaves enroute
to the southern market. His SYM
pathy. and indignation were aroused,
and he considered his trade chiefly
as a method of procuring money with
which to combat slavery through the
press: At Mount Pleasant. Ohio, he
esta olshed a paper. which he termed
me Genius of Universal Emancipa-
ton. and it's first issue appeared in
ls2l. He later transferred the paper
to Baltimore, and in 1928 was nearly
murdered in the public street by the
chief slave dealer of the city, whose
business he had denounced in the pub
lication.
In 1929 he engaged William Lloyd
Garrison as c%o-editor. but the latter
was thrown into Jail for criminal
libel in declaring the slave traffic
piratical. This dissolved the part
nership. and the paper was removed
to another city. 1t was in 1896 that
Lundy founded the National ENQUIRER.
editing 1t for a year. He then went
to central Illinois. his health failing.
and made his home with his son-in-
law. Isaac Griffith. where he resided
until his death. in 1889.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-01
HIS MIND imprisoned
YOUTH, BEREFT OF SIGHT, SPEECH, HEARING AND TOUCH, IS
LEARNING RAPIDLY

a willingness to learn and made rapid
progress. In a few weeks he had
learned to spell several words and to
associate the action, in the case Of
verbs.
He took great pleasure in instruct
ing his brother playmates in this won.
derful new sign language that he had
fully pushing Of the boys to the
moor, at the amt time spelling the
word fall" He showed great inter-
est IN the various. articles of furnt.
ture in the rooms and vas wont to
run about touching 10Y a table, now
a chair, and spelling out the word.
When he ran across something new
out its name.
The only thing that he did not take
to was the lessons in articulation. He
worked as industrtously as at the 9th.
er tasks assigned him. but the prog
ress was so slow and the discourage
ments so many that he could not find
much pleasure in It.. For a half hour
or more he would work v a single
word. In many cases only to fail Units
pronunciation. Persistence. however.
won out in the end. so that he
can be readily understood. after one
hears him talk for a short time.
When once the door to his mind
had been opened there came a great
thirst for knowledge of the world
about him. and eve today he is con-
tinually asking all sorts Of questions
of his visitors. When the Globe mar
was introduced to him, he shook
hands with a pleasant smile. "How do
you do" he said. Then he started
in questioning.
Can the man see far: "can he
hear"" Where does he work."
when does he work?" when does
he sleep?" and Did he ever see the
Bad Man?" were only a few of the
interogations. His ideas about many
things are undoubtedly distorted, but,
nevertheless, he has a really wonder
full idea Of life for n who has been
tor only five years under instruction
and who labors under the difficulties
that he does.
He has a good idea of American
history. CLEANED from the many VOL
umes of Braille that he has read.
Stories of Lincoln and Washington
seem to be extremely popular with
him, rs are also tales Of animals and
the farm.
He talks readily. and is ever ready
to tell about his work . Digging about
in his desk, ne produced a copy of a
composition he had written a short
time before Christmas telling the
presents he had made. II have been
making a hatrack and plant stand
in the sloyd ROOM" it read. "They
are for my mother. knitted slip
pers for my sister Jeanne. They are
made Of brown wool and they have
nice. soft soles. I knitted a RATHER
for my baby Viviane. 1t is red. yell
low. blue. green and AL I knitted
a holder for my mother. I wove a
red and gold mat for the parlor table.
and a calendar for my sister,"
This gives n q fair idea of Louis
Yott's capabilities in the line Of man
ual labor; and It should be said here
that only once in the past season has
he made a mistake in spelling q. word.
He has a wonderful memory and
when once he understands a thing it
remains with him. When a new word
comes to his notice he will not rest
until he is perfectly sure Of it's mean
ing. and then he Immediately puts
that word into his active vocabulary.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-01
PENAL COLONIES PROVE
.....0 BLESSING TO AusTRAll IA

The position which the Australasian
colonies are gaining in the world. par
ticularly since their federation on the
plan Of the United States. has attract
ed the attention of the world to them
and recalled the singular and striking
fact that great penal colonies, where
at one time disorder and crime pre-
vailed. have become orderly and strict
~ self-governing communities.
The story Of the penal settlements
Of Australia and Tasmania and tho
carnival Of cruelty and Of crime that
attended the sconvict system Is most
remarkable in the light Of subsequent
events. Tho crimes for which con-
yicts were sent from England to
Botany Bay and Van Diemens land
were in great part abominable. and
the expiation was certainly terrible.
The convicts were put at work in
the broiling Australian sun. Often
they worked in chains. and the chains
were not counted Al diminishing their
capacity for hard labor. Even the
best conducted of them were let out
to farmers and the proprietors Of
sheep ranges. II these farmers hap.
pened ito he humane. the convict
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-01
Detroit Free Press.A

History presents no better example
of a great imposter than is embodied
In Cagliostro. In many respects he
was the greatest Of all takers who,
from time to time. have successfully
carried out their nefarious schemes OF
fraud through their skill at deception.
Thomas Carlyle pronounced him 1.-THE
most perfect scoundrel that in these
later ages has marked the worlds his
tory; by profession a healer Of dis
eases, abolisher of wrinkles, friend OF
the poor and impotent. spirit-sum.
moner. gold-cook, grand coptha,
prophet. moralist and swindler; really
a liar Of the first magnitude, thor.
ough-paced in all provinces Of lying;
what n may call him is the king Of
liars.
C~agliostro seems to have been a
marvellous man, for he was able not
only to impose along certain lines, but
he was the master Of hundreds of bril-
liant fakes. sven his hish-soundins
name being an example. He was real.
poor ~shopkeeper of Palermo, born in
l743. AS a mere child he seems to
have acquired a devilish penchant for
taking. Being expelled from a charity
school for mischief. he was placed IN
a monastery and. being set a readine
The Lives of the Saints" to the monks
whilst they ate their meals. he was de-
tected in futher misdemeanors, and
he was literally clicked out
But having got work in the monks
apothecary shop, he showed a posi-
tive genius for medicine, and soon
knew more about chemistry and the
use of drugs than did any one else in
the whole brotherhood. He was also
clever enough to learn that people
trust physicians as they trust no one
else. and that a large percentage OF
the public is really fooled by any non.
sense that is clever enough to attract
them.
After he was expelled from the
monastery he forged theater tickets,
robbed an uncle, cheated a goldsmith
into buying from him, at a large price,
the secret Of a treasure cave. and be-
ing accused of murder he was com
PEELED to flee Sicily and started on a
wandering tour through Europe and
the orient. p%erfecting himself in the
best r Of all the takers he met on
the way and swindling every simple
minded traveller. Then. with a glori-
ously beautiful girl. whom he had
married in Rome. he launched forth
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-01
Curious CONVERSATIONS
(Taksn from Exchanges.)

Russia Ia said to have the fewest
physicians Of any civilized country.
Official figures show that New Zeal
and has nearly twenty-five million
sheep.
Engineers have figured that one wa.
terfall In Iceland can be made to Yield
$4,000 horse power and another So.
900.
There are palm trees growing on
the banks Of the Amazon whose leave.
are from ten to twelve feet broad and
from thirty to fifty feet long.
In northern Chile there has been
discovered an extensive deposit OF
high-grade tungsten ore.
Caradoc Roberts. on whom Oxford
recently conferred the degree of doc
tor OF music for an oratoriO, worked
at a carpenters bench only a few
years ago.
An Indiana woman has invented a
Kitchen able which. among many
conveniences. has a mirror set in one
leaf. which can be turned up against
a wall to convert the table into a side.
board.
|. The patrons of the Orpheum Music
hall in Sacramento have voted to cut
out smoking. There were $500 votes
in favor of extending the permission
TO smoke and $3.50 against a continue
ance Of the practice.
On the analogy Of tine houseboat, q
Manchester inventor has devised 4
flying machine that can be converted
into a two-story cottage and made to
serve the uses of a home for the ayi-
ator.
A suit growing out of a fre set in
a patch OF heather and involving dam.
ages fixed by one Judge at Ave shfl-
lings. has been fought through Six
courts in England. finally reaching
the court Of appeal.
The number Of motor vehicles regis
tered in the United Kingdom il now
26S.26s Of which London has $500.
The 106,366 motorcycles included in
the total indicate a development
abroad which has no parallel in this
country.
Something queer about hens and
even chicks turning cannibals and eat
ing each other UP alive. Tho best ex
PLANTATION so far is that birds that do
this need more meat to cat. A bit OF
a scratch comes on some hen, and
the rest see the red spot or the drou
Of blood. and out Of curiosity pick Il
off. That gives them a taste OF the
blood and at 1t they 60 to devour The
poor creature. II plenty OF meal
scraps Is given the chances are thai
you never will have any trouble OF
this kind.
Sometimes a man waves the OLE
flag so he can get into Office ant
dance on 1t.
A fat nan doesn't feel so funn,
about 1t when he gets too much 50 tt
! take out life insurance.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-01
GEN1us.

Genius is the most curious psyche
logical phenomenon with which the
mind of ma has ever grappled. Mo-
body knows what 1t Is: nobody has
ever explained the causes OF 1t. A
great crisis arises in a nations his
tory and the Moses who leads it out
Of the wilderness energies from the
%nbscurity of a kentucky log cabin and
takes his place among the immortals.
The nation tries one after another of
its greatest generals and meets defeat
upon tho battlefield, until there comes
from the counter of a country store a
plain man who had graduated at the
bottom OF his class at West Point. and
had until then been a failure in the
army as we'll as elsewhere. The king
selects from among the poets of the
empire a bard TO take the place Of
Tennyson. and he produces nothing
hut drivcl, while along comes an UNI
assuming little Angio-Indian and
writes the epics for a race. Genius
can neither be forced nor stimulated.
1t either is, or 1t isn't. and that's all
there is to it. All the prize contests
in tho world can't produce a Shakes
peare. but neither starvation nor mis-
cry can choke one Who has a massage
to deliver.
Dcwn in Missouri some months ago
they offered a prize Of $500 for a
state song. All the highbrow COM
posers got busy with their fountain
pens and pinafortes. and guaranteed
to turn out another Dixie" Songs
were submitted from every state in
the union until the Judges were in
despair. but somehow Orpheus wasn't
on the job. and not a tune turned in
measured up to the plans and speci-
fications. And then all Of a sudden
Uncle Dave Ball. fresh from Pike
county. dropped into Jefferson City
n day whistling a ditty from the
ozarks touchin' on and appertainin'
to the subject of "houn' dawgs," and
in r week all Missouri was het I'D
about it. Now the contagion has
spread so far abroad from Maine to
California who doesn't know how
they've been kickin' that dawg aroun,'
and who isn't convinced that it has
gotta" stop. Meanwhile. no doubt,
they've given up trying to award that
prize down in Missouri; but they've
got the state song they wanted, and 1t
hasn't cost them a cent.
No. you can't make a genius to or
der. 1t simply can't be done.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-01
(Boston Globe.)

Out OF the lane OF darkness and
absolute silence, came Louis Yott
deaf. dumb. blind. That was five
years ago. yet today he is eagerly
tied as 1t is. and to learn something
Of the world about him. which he car
neither see nor know by sound.
Thus was Helen Keller when first
she came to public notice, and so. too
was Laura Bridgman in the days
when h was under the guidance
of DR.. Samuel G. Howe Mt the institu-
ton at South Boston. Louis Yott in
the earliest days Of his education was
deprived Of yet another making
1t doubly hard for his little imprison-
ed mind and soul to find freedom.
For disease. the dread ichthyosis o.
fsh-skin trouble, had so covered his
fingers as partially to rob him Of a
fourth sense of touch.
He was born seeing. with all the
five senses Of a normal child, but
when not a year old the disease came
taking from him the power Of speech
before he had learned to form a word;
hearing, before he had grasped the
purport OF sound. and sight. before
his infant mind could know the U
pose of the wonderful things that the
flower or two from the garden his
eyes told about.
Ills parents. MI. and Mrs. Alexan.
der Yott. of North Adams. and his
eight brothers and. sisters, are all
quite normal. Mr.. Yott is a mill
worker. a wcaver by trade. and we'll
known and highly respected among
the French-Canadian residents Of the
city: Louis was born February ~.
1898. INT from that very day until
the time he entered the kinderEaeten
for the blind at Jamaica Plain, Octo.
Der 80 1906. he was unable to hold
intercourse with n person. His
wants were siniple-food and drink
and these he could express only az
does a baby. His mind was sleeping.
Thus he came to the Kindergarten.
There was no room in the hospitals
Tor the little sufferer. so the teachers
at the school took the case in hand,
LOT oeiore any progress could he
made this sense of touch must be re-
stored.
For months he lay swathed in band
ages. now hugging tightly the rag
~ on which he lavished so much
a1recfton. now smiling in grateful an
probation Of the friendly pats be-
slowed on him by his nurses. A 1iow.
er or W from the gardens were his
greatest joys. and he would sit quiet
~ by tho hour inhaling their delic-
ious fragrance.
During the year 1867 his condi-
tion improved greatly, and he was
allowed to move freely about with the
house. and to familiarize himself with
the surroundings. In November the
first regular work in the classroom
was begun. Mrs. Gordon Sugar. a
young EnElishwon1an. who had re-
cefved her training at a school for the
dear: IN England. was appointed his
special teacher. and remained with
MIN until the summc of 1910, when
MISS Ethel D. Evans was placed in
charge of the work.
At first considerable difficulty was
experienced. for he could not under
stand why his fingers should be nisc.
ed in such an odd manner to FORM
the letters Of the finger alphabet. or
why the position of the tongue should
be so often altered in the introduce
ton OF articulation. But he showed
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-01
Semi Made Dresses
would appear infantile in England, arc
too hard

There remains one obvious hypothe-
SIS; that h parents may be the causc
OF this tnferiority and. on the whole,
his appeals to me more plausible than
the others. When / blame the par
ants I mean the utterly silly parents
SO common among the riches classes;
the father who has brains enough to
amass d fortune, but not even the rudi-
mentary glimmerings of the respon-
sibility of fatherhood. the still more
ridiculous mother whose one idea of
rearing her children is to give them
everything they ask for. 1t is she and
her easily led husband who block
sehool discipline by opposing their
own insane views on education
against the expert judgment of the
teacher and SO lower the morale of the
whole school. Against such obstacles
as these, the finest boyhood. the abb
est pedagogues and the best planned
curricula are powerless. Is this the
true explanation? Is there no one
who knows and has the honesty and
courage to tell?
Henry A. Perkins.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-01
PINCHoT'S COMING AND WHAT TT
MEANS.

The speaking tour Of Clifford Pinch
ut in this state next week ought to he
a real campaign OF education. He
was among the most ardent as we'll
as most sincere advocates of Senator
LaFollette until he realized. with his
comprehensive knowledge of the
whole country. that the senator was
doomed to defeat in the convention.
He is certainly not prejudiced against
Senator LaI'ollette personally and his
whole public service has been an eff
fart to accomplish the same things
politically that LaFollette has stood
for. Moreover, he can not by the
rankest stretch of the most prejudiced
Imagination be classed as a stalwart
by those who persist in maintaining
this classification. He is in conse-
qucnce in n position to discuss the
Roosevelt movement from an unbias-
ed standpoint.
The Times urges the Republicans
Of all shades Of party faith to hear
Mr.. Pinchot. If there are not weight
Ter reasons for supporting Roosevelt
in this campaign than any other can
didate. he should not be supported.
We use the word reasons advisedly,
n do not include in that expression
the absurd talk about the Roosevelt
movement being In the interests of
President Taft, nor the equally alb
surd N that 1t is a stalwart move.
ment either in this state or elsewhere.
We believe that the masses of the Re-
publican party are honest and sincere,
n that II the reasons for the can
didacy Of Roosevelt are presented to
them. they will vot for him in the
primary. There Is no danger to the
movement In having the public know,
understand and apply the facts. Mr..
Pinchot Is in a position to furnish
those facts and to back them up with
unanswerable logic. He should have
a rousing crowd at every speaking
point.
incidentally it might he said that
MT. Pinchot has not sought to follow
a lost cause to his own r~uination. 1t
IL true that many Of those who are
standing out for Senator LaFollette
Ito the last ditch are doing SO against
their W judgment. Some Of them
confess it. They admit that LaFol-
lette has not the ghost Of a show to
he nominated and many Of them
doubt his ability to be elected il NOM
mated. Yet they insist on urging Re-
publicans to support him and thus
contribute to the nomination Of Presi-
dent Taft. Mr.. Pinchot having been
Il LaFollette supporter 80 long as
there was any hope. IL in position to
enlighten those who really desire to
have the truth presented.
Their is another feature of the on
position to Roosevelt answered by Mr.,
Pinchot's campaign in this state. Some
Of the leaders who in the language of
F.. Smith Peterson, having hitched
their political wagons to the LaFollet-
tie boom. have frsntically declared that
the Roosevelt movement was n side
campaign in the interests Of Taft's
candidacy. They have waved the dan
ger flag Of stalwartism persistently.
They had a right to do SO. 1t is part
Of the political game il they care to
play 1t that way. They could use this
argument with some effect until Roos-
cvelt's announcement, and now that
the war 10 openly or between the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-01

Roosevelt and Taft forces with no
quarter asked Dr. given, the side Is.
sue for Taft argument falls fiat, and
ought to make those who used It care
full. II not ashamed. OF putting up an.
other one TO be knocked down like that
one. Mr.. Pinchot is a progressive OF
the most pronounced type. Certainly
his speeches in this state ought to put
forever at rest the talk Of Roose-
velt's candidacy being in the interests
OF President Taft.
There is plenty Of evidence in this
state to corroborate this position. Men
whose loyalty to the progressive ideas
can not be questioned-E. Smith-Pe-
terson who has led the progressive
forces in more than one battle; A.
NJ. Christianson. the brilliant leader
Of the same policy; John w. Scott,
amor h original progressives and
still ono within tho party; T.. c. Ols-
gard OF Nelson county. Henry Hale Of
Ramsey county. Frank B. Feetham Of
this city. and dozens of others equally
as prominent in politics and as we'll
known and honorcd in private life.
These men ~corroborate the denial of
stalwartism as the motive power in
Roosevelt movement made by Mr..
Pinchot.
Now II LaFollette not be nomi-
mated. II the Roosevelt movement Ia
not in the interests Of President Taft
and il 1t is not a stalwart scheme,
what argument is left for continuing
to support him. Nothing except the
prejudice OF not having first cspoused
the candidacy Of Roosevelt and tho
foolish fear that some other faction
or one other candidate will profit by
the collapse OF the LaFollette boom
that the motive power of the
"hitched-on" Age will stop. Mr..
Pinchot may not be able to dispel
these illusions either by precept or ex-
ample. but we believe he can clear
away all opposition except what rests
on these two elements II he is given
a fair and impartial hearing.