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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-13
Daddy Bedtime
How Little
Tottie Enjoyed
The Party

70 IGHT o'clock was Jack and Evelyns bedtime. Usually they were ready
3 to go, but it happened when daddy came in they were grumbnng.
- The folks next door were having a party, and they wanted to. have q
peep att
when I'm grown up I'm always going to ask the chnden to my parties
with grown people" Evelyn declared stouty. o
Weed" daddy replied thoughfuny, "f that is going to be the style a
lot of changes will have to be made In grown peoples parties to make them
suit the small folks. And I'm not sure. but it would be q good thing, for in
stance. for foks to get home a little earlier than they do instead OF dancing
all night" f. T. w "r ##..# .#a
II shouldn't mind staying up all night" Jack remarked.
Him." smiled daddy; ~ think the sandman would have something to say
about that He generally calls quite regularly on you and Evelyn.
"Totde talked just like you. When ToHhe heard her grandma and grandpa
were to have a lovely party because they had been married twenty-five years
Tot1e was greatly pleased. All the children and grandchildren were to come
to the party. . ..
"Tothes bedtime was Z O'Clock, and the party did not begin THIS Tothe
lived just round the corner from grandma and grandpa, and S o she did not
have far to go 10 reach the house. She had taken a little nap in the after
noon sc that she might not feel sleepy in the evening, g..
"she had a nice present to give to her grandparents. 1t was a pretty little
silver dish, and she had gone to the store with her mamma to buy it.
"Totte wore her little white dress and her pink sash, which was the color
party. She kissed grandma and grandpa and gave them the present Then
she went and sat down and watched the people come in. They kept coming
and coming, and the talk began to sound like the PARKWAY buzztng of bees
nodding
Little Totde had a lovely dream. She was still 1t grandma and grandpas
party, but she vas eating ice cream and cake and playing games with a LOT O.
dream children who looked like her auntes and uncles. At the end of IT
grandma and grandpa turned into little children also and Joined merrly in the
game with the others. - .,-, -. .
"rot1e never Weakened until the next morning in her own little bed ia
which her daddy carried her when she went off to play at the sandmans party
And his was a much nicer partyfo a little girl than the real one"
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MARKET DAY
At PANAMA
SOME NEW AND UNUSUAL
SPECIES OF THE VEGETABLE
AND ANIMAL KINGDOMS Of
FERED BY VENDORS.

BY Willis J. Abbot, author of
Panama and the Canal in Picture and
Prose. Copyright, 1913, Syndicate
Publishing Co., New York. All rights
reserved: The sun, rising red out of
the Pacific ocean a geological
phenomenon that EVE fails to inter-
est and perplex tourists-is. barred by
the slender lines, or gashed by the
broad sails of innumerable cayucoS
beating down to Panama with strange
exotic products for che market. Every
day is market day. at Panama, but
the crowded little open-air mart is
seen at its best on a Saturday, or
Sunday in early morning. All night
long the native boats, mostly cayucos
hewn out of a single log, sometimes Of
mahogany, and often as much as
thirty-five feet long, and with a scho-
oner rig have been drifting in, pro-
PEELED by the never failing trade wind.
They ON from the Bayano river
country, from Chorrera, from Taboga
and the Isles Of Pearls, from the Bay
of San Miguel and from the land of
the San Bias Indians. Great sailors
these latter, veritable vikings of the
tropics, driving their cayucoS through
shrieking gales when the ocean
steamers find it prudent to stay in
port.
The market opens at dawn, and
buyers are there almost as soon as the
sellers, for early rising is the rule in
the tropics. Along the sidewalks, on
the curbs, in the muddy roadway even,
the diverse fruits and. food products
of the country are spread forth to
tempt the robust appetities Of those
gathered about. Here is an Indian
woman, the color of a cocoanut and
crinkled as to skin like a piece OF
Chinese crepe. Before her is spread
out her stock, diverse and in some
items curious. Green peppers, toma-
toes a little larger that a small plum
a cheese made Of goats milk and
packed to about the consistency OF
Brie; a few yams, peas, lines and a
papaya or two are the more familiar
edibles. Something shaped like a
banana and wrapped in corn. husks
arouses my curiosity.
What is it?" Five cents" No
no! I mean what it is? What's il
made OFF" Ell centavo!"
In despair over my lack of Indo-
Spanish patois, I buy it and find q
little native sugar, verytmoist and very
dark, made UP like a sausage, or a
tamale in corn husks. Other mysteri-
Gus objects turn out to be ginseng
winch appears 10 lle resident C~ElneSe,
the mamei, a curious pulpy, fruit the
size Of a large peach, with a skin like
chamois and a fleshy looking pit about
twice the size .of a peach-stone: the
| sapodilla, a plum-colored fruit. with &
mushy interior, which, when cut trans.
| verSely, shows a star-like marking ant
is sometimes called the star apple. Il
is. eaten with Sa}spoon and is palatable
The mamei. however, like the mango
| requires a specially trained taste.
Like most people. of a low order OF
intelligence, the mongrel native o.
Panama is without the slightest sense
of humanity to dumb animals. He
| does not seem to be Intentionally
cruel-indeed he is too indolent to Elk.
ert himself unless something Is to b,
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States senator, across his
daughter in a brethel.
OF course, the managers who pro-
duce these fetid and horrible plays are
deserving the deepest censure, and
they are getting it from such respect
able journals as the Herald, World,
and Sun. The police have taken a
been summoned to appear in court
and explain why they should be per-
mitted to continue in their vileness.
New York will stand for many
things that what are called "the prov
inces" will not permit for even a mo-
ment. Therein the "provinces"-the
smaller cities-are to be congratulate
ed. The cosmopolitan character Of
the metropolitan population is respon-
sible in large degree for this tolera-
ton, for it focks to p~layhouses where
the prurient is featured, and as the
box office is always the first consid-
Grafton Of a manager, it will take
smething stronger than arrests to cure
the evil. Putting the manager in Jail
while the Objectionable play is allowed
to continue won't do much good. Pro-
hibit the play and enforce the prohibi-
ton is the only sure method Of curing
an evil that will bear awful fruit in
the degradation of the young if not
stamped out at it's first appearance.
There is little hope that a city
which permits Tammany to rule it
will balk at such a thing as an i'm
modest play. The balance Of the coun-
try, however, can prevent the cancer
from spreading, and having been fore
warned should put the managers on
notice that no such contamination will
be allowed. The. provinces have
some sense Of shame if the metropolis
has not
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-13
LISTEN MOTHER
DO Be CAREFUL
If Child 10 Cross, censtipated, Sick
Give california Syrup
III of Figs"

Don't scold your f~retful, peevish
child. See if tongue is coated; this is
a sure sign it's little stomach, liver and
bowels are clogged with sour waste.
When l~istless, pale, feverish, full of
cold, breath bad, throat sore. doesn't
eat, sleep or act naturally, a stom-
G h-ache, indigestion, d%iarrhoea, give
a teaspoonful of California Syrup Of
Figs" and in a few hours all the foul
waste, the sour bile and fermenting food
passes out of the bowels and you have
a well and playful. child again. Chill
dren love this harmless fruit laxa-
tive,' and mothers. can rest easy after
giving it, because it never fails to
make their little 'insides' clean and
sweet.
Keep 1t handy. Mother! "A little given
today saves a sick child tomorrow, but
get the genuine. Ask your druggist
for a 50-cent bottle of California
Syrup of Figs" which has directions
for babies, children of all ages and for
grown ups plainly on the bottle. Re-
member there are counterfeits sold
here, SO surely look and see that yours
is made by the california Fig SYRUP
Company" Hand back with contempt
any other fig syrup.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-13

gained. But he never lets any con-
s~ideration for the sufferings of an
animal affect his method of treat
ing it. The iguana, ugliest Of lizards,
which he eats with avidity, is one of
his chief victims. This animal is
usually taken alive by hunters in order
that he may undergo a preliminary
fattening process before being COM
mitted to the pot. In captivity his
C ndition is not pleasant to contem-
plate. Here at the market are eight
or ten, living, palpitating, looking out
on the strange world with eyes OF
wistful misery. Their short legs are
roughly twisted so as to cross above
their backs, and the sharp claws or
one foot are thrust through the f1eshy
part of the other SO as to hold them
together without other fasterings. A
hve-foot iguana is fully three feet tail
and of that caudal yard at least two
feet of its tapering length is useless
Tor food, so the native calmly chops
1t or with his machete, exposing the
mutilated but living animal for sale
Fish is apparently the great staple
OF the Panama market, as beseems a
place which is practically an island
and n very name Of which signifies
many fishes" Yet at the time I was
LheFe tne variety exposed for sale was
not great. The .corbina, apparently
about as stable and certainaa crop as
our northern cod; the red snapper
mullet and a fiat fish resembling oul
fresh water sunfish, were all that were
exposed. There were a few West
Indian Holsters too, about as large as
u average sized a%ntennae, perhaps
eighteen inches long, instead. Shrimps
and small molluscs were plentifully
displayed.
In one notable. respect this Panams
market differs from most open-air at
fairs of the sort. The vendors make
no personal effort to sell their goods
There is no appeal to passing buyers
no crying Of. wares, no "ballyhoo," tc
employ the language of Coney island
What chatter there is, is chiefly amone
the buyers; the sellers sit silent BIZ
their wares and are more apt to re-
ceive a prospective customer sulkily
than with alert eagerness.
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SATURDAY, SEPT. 10, 1918.
NO LIFE TENURE.

In his address to the American Bar
association at Montreal, former Presi-
lent Taft appeals for appointed judges
to serve for life. This sentiment will
not be generally approved in this
country. The Brooklyn Times, COM
menting on this feature of Mr.. Taft's
address. said:
Mr.. Taft perhaps forgets the amaze
ment that swept over the country
when a Manhattan newspaper printed
the correspondence between one of the
monster ruSts of the country and the
executives of various states, urging
the election of judges who were motor
1ously the agents and servants or
great corporate interests.
The excellent citizen who made such
a wretChcd fight before the people for
the presidency last fall has become
more and more distrustful of popular
action. His notion that a bureaucratic
judiciary, solemn, still and rigid,
STEPPED in that worst of all legal hal
Iucinatlons, the mere pride of prece-
dent, would give more ~subtantial JUS
tice than judges elected by the people
for a definite term finds no warrant
in American history.
For it must be remembered that in
no system of jurisprudence in the
WOild nave the JudlClary SuCh absolute
powers as they have with us. The
courts construe the laws that the leg
islature passes. They can be invoked
to nullify the activities of the state
executive, but the power Of reversal
OF legal decisions is given only to the
courts themselves in their g%radations
of power.
Consequently what the people want
is not the strengthening of what looks
like the legal absolutism of the courts,
but a more elastic play Of the ballot
on the judiciary with a view to MAX
ing the courts more responsive to the
popular will.
The Forum heartily agrees with
this sentiment. If there is one phase
Of American life that needs reform, it
is the courts. The whole system needs
reforming but one of the first things
that should be done is to repeal the
law which gives federal judges a seat
for life, and to make all judges sub
ject to the will of the people at all
times, n not Independent of that
will. If the people cannot be trusted
to be the highest court, then popular
government is a farce.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-13
GOING THE LIMIT,

The following comment on the tariff
by The st. Louis Times contains some
logic which The Forum is glad to
present to it's readers:
From every reasonable standpoint
there may be seen one decidedly hope
full fact in connection with the SEN
ate's action yesterday relative to the
democratic tariff revision bill.
The course that is being pursued by
those who at present are in charge of
the government machinery in ~unequiV-
ocal, pronounced, straightforward.
Half measures, which are sometimes
worse than no measure at all, are be-
ing avoided. The experiment Of great
ly reducing the government income,
now raised by the process of placing
arbitrary taxes upon a large class of
commodities, is to be given a genuine
and complete test. And this is pre-
cisely where previous low tariff
measures have failed. Their farmers
have fallen between the two stools of
abstract theorizing on the one hand,
and fear Of powerful argume and
influence on the other.
1t was no less an authority than
Former President Taft who declared,
not very long ago, that he was in
v Of a trial of. the scheme of a
tariff lacking protective features. His
opinion was based not upon a distrust
of a protective tariff, but upon his be-
lief that an experiment is the best way
of! determining any question upon
which there is persistent and honest
disagreement.
Perhaps all those. terms which are
associated with tariff discussion have
acquired an undue and sinister signif-
1cance a too many individuals
have been taught to regard the word
as the symbol of a political faith.
Voters who nave never taken any
pains to understand the subject have
employed 1t as a rallying point from
which to defend republicianism and TO
attack democracy-or vice versa.
The tariff, of course, has only to do
with a question of policy in
ing the affairs of a great CORPORATION,
a great business concern-the govern
ment. 1t means money, or an absence
OF money, in the pockets of those who
do the country's work. 1t isn't a prin-
ciple, but rather a business policy. It
is rooted in questions of economics
which are far too abstruse for any save
experts to comprehend.
The one thing that stands out plain
lyAis that an honest experiment need
not hurt anybody for a very long time.
4tSis best to know the truth about
questions Of public policy. That is
why it is best to know the truth about
the practical operation of a govern
ment business policy which has been
defended and recommended by a very
large percentage Of the American peo-
pleffor many years.
Low tariff schedules can be altered
if they prove to be injurious to the
nation as a whole. In the meantime.
if we are to experiment with the plan
9 filow tariff rates at all, it is we'll thai
the experiment is to be made in a
thorough and conclusive fashion.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-13
THE "RED-LIGHT" DRAMA.

The newspapers of New York are
unanimous in condemnation Of two
plays produced there last week, both
of which deal with life in the under
world in a manner to shock the decen-
cfes in outrageous fashion. A young
woman who witnessed one of them
grew deathly sick when she got out.
side the theatre, and other happenings
show that the limit of what the
atriusenent-loving people will submit
to has apparently been overstepped.
One of these plays is by an author
who has won fame and high com
mendation because OF his earle,
works, and It is hard to understand
how ma could CD Or degrade his
talents rs to tur af a drama il
whicsa one Of the chsssasers. a United
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-13
The CORN CROP
SITUATION
&C. .. --a . N III ID A IN IN II III kN

The following report for Northwest
Farmstead was prepared by The Or
ange Judd crop reporting bureau, B..
w. Snow, chief statistician:
Immediately following the date of
Northwest Farmstead's special report
On corn, published two. weeks since,
there was some breaking Of the dsouth
in a limited portion of the badly
stricken territory, and as a conse-
quence, there was either some inn
provement in corn in these districts,
or, at least, there was an Improvement
in the general feeling Of correspond
ents and observers. Unfortunately,
however, the amount of rainfall re-
ceived was very light, and 1t was so
distributed that the districts which
have been most severely stricken this
year received no relief whatever and
as a consequence there has been fur
Their loss OF corn prospect, even from
teh sensationally poor figures that
We're shown by the special report.
Some rain was received in Nebraska
north OF the Platte, in central and
northern Iowa, in portions of north
western Missouri and a. considerable
amount of moisture was experienced in
north central Illinois. There was no
relief whatever in Kansas, although a
few scattered showers were reported;
Nebraska, south Of the Platte, got no
rain; the greater part of Missouri re-
manned without help, while the south
third Of, Illinois continues as dry as
ever.
Returns from our county correspond
ents at the end Of August make an av-
erage condition OF corn of as, against
a condition Of 75.1 reported on Aug. /,
and 66.7 reported in our special in
vestigation, the middle OF August.
This further Decline; even from the
very low figures of the special report,
shows that the relief to the drouth-
stricken areas was but limited and
generally too late to be of material
help to corn. The d has now ad-
vanced to a point where the crop is
made, and no weather conditions here
after a add to or take away from
the sum total of the crop, Early corn
over a large part of the belt is denied,
a considerable part of it matured and
some has been cut and shocked, fully
ripe. The late corn is drying up rap
have no effect Upon it other than to
perhaps render it a little less chaffy,
thereby improving the quality. The
present returns may be taken as very
closely f~orecasting the final result,
and they do not indicate a crop much,
il any, in excess Of 2,350,000,0o0 bush
els.
During the past two weeks I have
made a systematic personal exarnina-
tion.of typical fields in representative
sections Of all the corn states. MY
conclusion Is that when time of husk-
ing is reached there is likely to be
further serious disappointment In rates
OF yield, particularly in late corn. 1t
appears that the last period Of very
high temperatures and hot winds
caught the late corn just as 1T was
coming into tassel. As a result, over
very large part OF the territory, in
Guiding the south half OF Illinois, all
of Missouri, a considerable part of Ne
braska north of the Platte, and south
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-13
MRS. WOLF TO SPEAK
Mother of Local Y. M. c. A. Worker
! Will Speak Sunday
" Afternoon

Mrs. J. G, Wolf of Marion, Ind, will
speak at the mems meeting at the Y.
M. G. A. at 4 o'clock Sunday afteenoon,
subject, THE Sacrifice of the Prodi-
gal" Mrs. Wolf is the mother of Sec
rotary Ralph Wolf, whom she has been
visiting for the last several weeks. .
Mrs. Wolf is one of the state officers
of the Indiana Woman's Christian
Temperance union M was for some
time president of the leading W. c.. T.
U. in the state of Indiana, and in her
work has done much platform speak
ing. Miss Fern Crothers is to render
| special music It this meeting. The
meeting is open to men only.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-13

.ern Iowa, the tassel was dead and
there was not sufficient pollen for the
proper fertilization Of late ears. An
examination OF this class of corn in
dicates that while the stalk appears
green and vigorous and the husks are
longer and better appearing than on
early corn, there has been a marked
failure to form grains upon the cob.
II this forecast shall be proved correct
total corn crop this year may fall ma
terially below the figure which has
been indicated as a probable maximum
production.
The following statement shows the
condition of corn al reported by our
correspondents on Sept. i, the figures
for Aug. 1 of this year and for Sept. 1
of last yes also being presented for
purpose of comparison:
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-13
CAUGHT a Bad Cold.

Last winter my son caught a very
bad cold and the wav he coughed was
something dreadful" writes Mrs.
Sarah E. Duncan, of Upton, Ia. 1--WE
thought sure he was going into con-
sumption. We bought just one bottle
Of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and
that one bottle stopped and cured his
cold completely" For sale by all
dealers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-13
Mexican Patriotism.

Houston Post: Associated Press
dispatches say a great wave Of
pc triotism seems to be sweeping over
Mexico. 1t should be a tidal wave, SO
long has it been delayed. Patriotism,
in sufficient quantity, is about all
that will a V the Mexican republics.
Internal dissension and the world,
General Grant is quoted as forecasting
the doom of Latin-American republics.
Internal dissention and the lack Of
patriotism is attributed as the causes
for the decline and, ultimate oblivion
of these governments. In the rebelIious
republic across the Rio Grande evil
dence galore has been given that
patiotism isn't n of the virtues of
the Mexican people.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-13
VOLUME XxxVI, NO. 255.

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EDITORIAL COMMENT
Views of

Savannah Georgia News: The hear
ing that has been accorded to bankers
on the currency bill shouldn't be pro-
longed, but it should be long enough
to permit them to make a full show
ing in behalf of their contention. If
it should appear that what they want
is wholly in their own interest Of the
public, their demands should be re-
jected, but if, on the contrary, they
make out a good case, their demands
should nave the same consideration
as is given to the demands of farmers
or manufacturers or any other class
interested in the bill.