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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-22
Planters duel
over A WOMAN

Loreauville, La, Nov. 2l.-The
eloe duello was revived here tolay an.
as a result Henry Sivard was killed
by Louis Guval. The men, wealthy
planters, ,q%uarreled over a woman.
They went to a corn field, chose their
weapons from a paid of old-fashioned
dueling pistols, took their positions
and fired. Sivard dropped and Guval
had disappeared when the authorities
sought to arrest him.
TO OBSERVE NATIONAL SHELL.
FISH DAY.
Baltimore, Md, Nov. 21.-Neither
the California raisin nor she Oregon
apple is to have anything on the hum
BILE oyster or clam, If the National
association of Shellfish commissioners
is successful in carrying out it's plans.
The association has asked the people
of the entire country to observe to-
morrow an national shell-fish day.
1t is suggested that shell fish be Civ;
en- the most conspicuous place on the
menu prepared for the day in hotels,
restaurants, dining scars and. private
homes.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-22
Seer READS
JUDGES palm

St. Louise, Mo, Nov. 21.-John A.
B%enninghoff, a fortune teller until a
week ago at 40 North Eleventh street,
who was sentenced by Police Zudge
Kimmel last Monday to the workhouse
for telling fortunes, read the judges
hand today. 1T; worked" and he was
ordered released on parole on condi-
ton that he leave the city.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-22

for sale at auction today in order to
close the estate Of the late Adolph
Sutro. '1he baths included the larg-
est salt water n%atatorium in the world
and had Accommodations for $4,000
visitors.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-22

large sum, but still sufficient to pro-
vide a comfortable living-had brought
much hardship to the editors widow
A woman Of marked literary ability
she has been writing In order . add
to the scanty capital at her command.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-11-22
WASHINGTON ROAD BUILDERS
MEET.

North Yakima, Wash, Nov. IL
North Yakima is entertaining for two
days the annual convention of the
Washington Good Roads association.
Delegations from Oregon a well as
all sections of Washington are in at
tendance. The scheduled speakers in
clude Governor Lister, State Highway
Commissioner w. j. Roberts, and a
number Of we'll known good roads ex-
perts.
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deemed such formalities to be "aristO-
cratic foppery," and, laying aside the
order of precedence. he ruled that all
persons should be regarded as equal when
brought together i'm society, and that his
guests should take their places in the order
of their arrival at the White House. He
held only two receptions q year, one on
New Year day and the other on the
Fourth of July To these everybody was
admitted. and many high officials, denied
preference in line, absented themselves.
Dolly Madison. who had served as official
hostess for Jefferson, was, during her
husbands administration. more than
willing to revive the order of precedence
obtaining under Washington and John
Adams. Thus was order brought out of
chaos at our republican court, and the
old CODE with the order of precedence. was
respected until the advent Of Andrew
Jackson.
Even before his Inauguration jackson
became involved in a social squabble with
high government officials. Arriving in
Washington for that ceremony, he re-
fused to pay President Quincy adams the
formal call which, according to another
paragraph of the code, a President-elect
should always pay upon the President
Immediately upon reaching the capital.
This resulted in Quincy Adams absenting
himself from the inaugural, after which
Jackson, proclaiming that the White
House belonged to the people. was fol-
lowed thither from the Capitol by mob
of shouting citizens whom he invited to
a sumptuOus spread in the east room.
which was well nigh wrecked by the
willing army of guests, who Splashed the
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draperies with liquid refreshments.
smeared the carpet with jellies and stood
with muddy boots upon the damask-
covered furniture that they might get a
better view OF the new President. AT one
Of Jackson's New Year receptions similar
riot and destruction ensued, the disorder
reaching climax when greedy guests.
struggling for the viands, beat one an
other over the head with hams and other
articles of food
Lack of fOrmality also characterized
"Old Hickory's" state dinners, at one of
which he sang "Auld Lang Syne." much
to the merriment of his guests. After he
had left the White House the old code
was again revived. but the Old-time cere-
mony of Washington. the Adamses. Mad
ison and Monroe was never entirely re-
vived. Respect for the code grew cool
until Buchanans administration, when
his niece, Miss Harrie: Lane, revived
more picturesque formally than had been
seen since the disguised departure of
Quincy Adams The necessary efunda-
mentals Of the code were respected by
Lincoln, but he ignored many of the cere
monies revived by Buchanan.
That President and Mrs. Wilson aim to
be orthodox, socially, is made evident to
many by the fact that they have engaged
Mrs. Roosevelt's former social secretary.
Miss Isabel Hagner. to serve In the same
capacity for Mrs. Wilson during the COM
ing regime. Miss Hagner, personal
friend of Mrs. Roosevelt in the days when
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Probably Assumed.

IS A UTOMOB1LE FOOT is new dis
ease for which DR.. Alexander
Block OF St. Louis stands sponsor. Au-
tomobile foot. due to lack of pedestrian
exercise among automobilists. is a weak
ness that changes the walk into an ugly
hobble.
1.-The automobile habit is so wide
spread said DIR. Block the other day.
that our ignorance of walking threat
ems to equal the brokers' ignorance. real
or assumed, of farm life.
"A broker spent the Christmas hoi-
idays on Georgia farm. The farmer
said to him, as he came back one morn
ing from a. before-breakfast stroll:
Been out to hear the haycocks crow,
I suppose?'
Yes answered the broker-.and to
tie knot in q cord Of wood and watch
the hired man milk the milkweed.'"
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FORTUNES WAITING FOR
FOLK IN AMERICA"
lal Correspondence OF The Star.

LONDON, January 4, 1913
ONCE more. today. nearly half a
column in the Times is filled with
the names of the missing heirs who were
advertised for in the year just past. and
as usual, the phrase last heard of in
the United States is frequent one I'm
this LIST. which is compiled annually by
an English next-to-kin agent.
Both money and estates in this coun-
try are waiting for these folk, or for
their nearest relatives. If they are no
longer in the land of the living. Among
them is Harry E. Heard. who left Eng
land for America in 1s93 and now is
urgently sought to his advantage:
James Boothby. who is said to have
adopted an assumed name and died in
the United States; John w Lascelles,
formerly of Plymouth, and last heard
of in San Francisco: the heirs of Andrew
and Norah Gallivan, who left Ireland
for Baltimore in 1882. and those Of
Robert Cooke. a coachman. Of Manches-
ter. who emisrated to Milwaukee in 1873.
Once more, too. the representatives are
sought of shareholders in the West New
kersey Society, on whose stock no divi-
dends have been paid since 1892.
They literally are ''all sorts" and con-
ditions of men these heirs who are adj
vertised for in the agony" columns OF
the English papers. One of them is
James Tagg tgentleman), originally OF
Reading and afterward of Melbourne
while his neishborS in the next-to-kin-
mans list are Elizabeth Collett, 'who
was married to a blind boot repairer'
and Joseph Harker. believed to have
driven an omnibus in London" Inquiry
is made too, for Joseph Roberts, who in
1SS? went to assist the Black sea Rus
sian fleet" as well as for James Ed
wards. formerly OF the Hongkong police
force" and for the heirs at law of Mary
Roberts of Bedford, who though she died
in a workhouse. lett an estate worth
nearly $4,000.
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60C"A

Lepus there always follows the brilliant
Dog Star, which
Behind him . ever speeds as in pursuit,
and rises after,
And eyes him as he sets.
Below Lepus is the pretty little group
of Columbia, or Noah's Dove. a modern
constellation. and to the left of this are
the numerous faint stars which form the
constellation of the Larger Dog. or these
Sirius that great sun four times as large
as our own sun, Is, Of course. by far the
largest. and is the only one familiar to
most observers. Yet there is much else
point c. almost midway between the stars
A and b, there is magnificent cluster Of
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GROWING FLA15T5-
for WH1TE HOUSE FuRc r1o1zs

nrents at her dinners. He is one of the
become fixtures I'm the government serv-
ice and whose reappointnent is practi-
cally assured from administration to ad-
miniStration.
Next in Importance. socially. to the
Wilson regime will be the master of cere-
monies. whom the new President will
appoint as soon as he commences his adj
miniStration. He Will be some officer of
the Engineer Corps OF the army and his
assignment will carry the rank and pay
of a colonel. He will have direct charge
of all official functions at the White
House and from his station at the blue
par.or door will introduce guests to the
President during state receptions. At the
same time he will be the official cuSto-
dian Of the White House. and of all of
its furniture. plate. glassware and articles
of virtu. Whenever the new President
desires any repairs. refurnishing or redec-
Grafton he will order them through the
master of ceremonies. whose duties will
also include the superintendent of the
governments public grounds and public
buildings other than the Executive Man
sion.
x
At the White House he has the
same function as the lord chamberlain
fulfills at the palace of king. The Off
Ger who has performed this important
duty for President Taft is Col. Spencer
Cosby. while Col Charles S. Bromwell
Roosevelt; Col. Theodore A. Bingham
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In Blizzard Weather.

A PROPOS of winter charity. ]. @.
= Phelps Stokes the New York capital
list. told story at the recent convention
of College Socialists.
Two shivering urchins," he said. stood
on a bitter January morning before a
picture shop. An Alma Tadema was in
the shop window and one of the urchins,
studying 1t. said:
WHO was this Nero. Tommy? Wasn't
he Teller that was allus cold. like us?'
NO said Tommy. That was Zero,
another Teller altogether"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-26
BY Prof. Eric Doolittle of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.

vt is on the early evenings of Febru-
airy that We see the wonderful win
Il ter sky in its greatest brilliancy. The
Il magnificent Orion. the great Taurus.
the bright Twin stars. and the very
brilliant Dog Stars are all high in the
south and these, together with the bright
CapelIa overhead, and the group Leo.
which has now mounted high in the east,
unite to make the February evening
heavens the brightest of the entire year.
With the aid OF Figure /, the observer
viii have difficulty in tracing out these
brighter groups of the sky, and having
found these he may next become familiar
with the many remaining groups, which.
though so much fainter. are no less in
teresting.
This is the most favorable time of the
year in which to, examine the two little
groups, Lepus and COLUMBIA, which both
lie directly below the bright Orion The
former has been known as the Hare from
the earliest times, and the reason why so
tin!d an animal should have been placed
at the feet o. the mighty Hunter has
been much discussed.
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time it will begin to draw apparently
nearer the sun, and will rapidly assume
the crescent shape; but as it is also NOV
ing rapidly nOrthward among the stars
it's time of setting will be but very little
altered. Throughout the entire month 1t
will remain visible each evening until
nearly four hours after sunset, and the
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EY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.

ILL Woodrow Will
son revise the code
Of etiquette which
long has governed
our IT q p u b l lean
court?''
Offici aldom is
wondering as to
this-is specializing
as to whether our
n e xt democratic
resi- q ent will
knock the code"
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lie BRU AIRY Evening
L Heavens Brightest of the
Entire Year-February 10 the
Moon Passes Between the
Earth and Venus, Hiding the
Planet From VieW-Mercury
Enters Evening Sky Febru-
airy II.
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observation, as it shines out just below
the Pleiades in the southwest. The rings
now show nearly their maximum width
and the whole wonderful system forms a
most beautiful object for study with
small telescope.
The other bright planets are now all
morning stars
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A WHITE. House DINNER
IN ENLARGEpS STATE DINlNG RO0r

her husband was assistant secretary of
the navy, became clerk I'm the War De-
partment, whence she was transferred to
the White House when the colonel be-
came President. After his retirement she
was transferred to the State Department
where she receives 81 800 year. Accord
ing to custom, Mr.. Wilson may permit
her to serve at the White House while
still carried upon the State Department
rolls. Having been in society since she
made her own debut and having had
charge of Mrs. Roosevelt's elaborate So
cial functions and correspondence for
seven years Miss Hagner is an expert in
her line and knows the social register by
heart. She was the first social secretary
ever assigned to a Presidents wife. Be
fore her appointment 1t had been an
nOunced that Miss Mary Bayliss, Gin
cinnati actress, would act in the same
capacity.
If it comes to revision Of the code
Mr.. Wilson would doubtless consult the
governments expert on social usageS,
high functionary often called 1.-The ETH
quette tutor of the Presidents" This gen.
t.eman is Alvey Augustus Adee, a veteran
diplomatist who has been assistant sec
rotary of state for over thirty years,
having served in that capacity under
two democratic administrations. When
ever any disputes over precedence occur
in official circles 1t is Mr.. Adee who ar
bitrates them, and many a hostess con-
suits him about the seating arrange
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stars l. and II, there is also an interest
ing cluster, which in a small telescope ap-
pears merely as a fa1ntly SHINING, neDu-
lOus cloud.
To the left of the Greater Dog we may
see few of the uppermost stars of the
great constellation Argo which covers a
large space in the southern heavens. In
this constellation is wonderful variable
star, noted as one of the most striking
objects in the heavens even among the
very earliest people from whom records
have come down to us. This remarkable
object varies from the first to the seventh
magnitudes in very irregular manner.
Its light Is now slowly increasing.
Here too. is the wonderfully bright Cano-
pus. which by many observers is thought
to equal or even to exceed Sirius in bril-
liancy. And 1t is a most remarkable fac.
that the wonderful brightness Of this star
is not caused by it's nearness to u.s. The
most refined observations fail to show
any displacement Of it's position in the
heavens due to our own motion around
the sun, and thus We know that although
it appears to US to about equal our near
neighbor Sirius. 1t must in reality be al
most inconceivably brighter
Unfortunately this beautiful object lies
so far below the celestial equator that it
cannot be seen from points on the earth
of higher north latitude than 81 degrees.
by observers III tHlS LATITUDE IL Will De
seen to just rise above the south horizon
at 8 o'clock in the evening of February G..
while throughout Texas. Lower Califor-
MIA, Arizona and the gulf states it will
this month be a conspicuous object
Above Argo there will seen the
Lesser Dog. the Crab. with its remarkable
cluster at p. the Lynx, and the Giraffe.
all of which interesting faint groups may
be well traced out during the early even
ings of the present month.
No one who during the past month has
looked at the sky at all can have failed
to notice how the very brilliant Venus
has been mounting upward in the south
west and how it has continually increased
in brightness until now 1t is more than
seven times brighter than even the Dog
Star ITSELF The very favorable position
of this beautiful object is. in fact, the
most striking characteristic of the pres
ent month. We will have to wait until
September. 1914. before we will again see
our sister world shine SO brightly as an
evening star.
Venus, will reach its farthest distance
east IF the sun February II, at which
time 1t will appear exactly halt full il
viewed in small telescope. From this
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F CLOUD -' ' IN

During the moonless evenings which
occur at the end of this month and the
beginning of March the observer should
not fail to look for this faint but most in
teresting object. He should 60 out of
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TIE B1uE Room. THRONE Roor1
or OUR REPU eLIcAN Court

vide the northern hallway from the adj
jacent corridor, her eye was not interrupt
ed i'm its view through the depth OF the
house from the front door to that re-
modelled state apartment-the oval blue
room, where for century all Presidents
have received their officials guests. and
which is to the White House what the
throne room Is To royal palace, save
that our rulers, while stationed there i'm
state, have not afforded themselves even
SO much chair to rest i'm.
And passing into the state dining room
Mrs. Cleveland must have exclaimed in
surprise. when she beheld that great
banquet hall. built to accommodate 100
guests instead of the modest room OF her
time. intended for only forty diners. And
she may have reflected that. especially in
these days of the higher cost OF living.
her husbands official salary of SJo.0D
would have scarcely covered the cost OF
the Inequalities which were introduced
at the White House when President
Roosevelt enlarged the mansion.
Being a man with original ideas. Mr..
Wilson is expected to inaugurate quite
many social changes as have his pred
ecessors. Thus, President Taft instituted
the custom of serving a buffet luncheon
to each guest at even his receptions. lie
did not wish any departing guest TO cross
his threshold hungry. and this hospital
ity has cost him annually large share
of his extra salary allowance of Sc5,Vo.
He also banished from his front door the
there admitted guests in former years.
Thus have Presidents from time to time
revised the old social procedure handed
down by George Washington, and some
of their ideas have become fixed prece-
dents. as when Dolly Madison ruled that
the mistress of the White House need
return no calls, while others have been
but ephemeral, as when Mrs. Hayes de-
creed that water should flow like wine
at state banquetS.
Down near the Potomac Mrs. Wilson
will find group of greenhouses whose
sole purpose is to maintain her official
home as bower of sweet blossoms. For
each of her husbands state receptions
these Conservatives will deliver some
5000 plants. which If procured from r
commercial florist would cost $500. And
the music for all of these state affairs
will be furnished without cost to Mr.
Wilson by the Marine Band, which dur
ing the Roosevelt regime was given spe-
cial full dress uniforms to be used at
White House functions only. But the
Wilson's will probably be surprised by the
expense to which they will be put for
viands, especially If they continue the
Taft scale of hospitality. 1t has become
tradition that only the best that the
markets afford is good enough for the
new and vastly expanded state dining
room table when the nations guests are
to be fed. For example. a whole roast
of lamb now suffices for only five guests
and as a hundred are often entertained
at one time, this means that twenty
roasts are needed for the lamb course
alone. And bear in mind that President
Wilson must pay for all viands and
wines consumed, even at his official func-
tions.
Copyright, 1918. by John Elfrcth watkimD
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But as the Hare has been associated
with the moon from the very earliest
times-possbly because the dimly out
lined figure on the nearly full moon
strongly resembles this animal. and as
the Hunter was Solar type. their close
association in the sky was to have been
expected. y short distance to the left of
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.. An invitation to dine with the Presi-
dent is a command. canceling all pre-
vious engagements, and which may be
declined only upon grounds of illness or
mourning.
This last rule, affecting our Presidents.
is as well known in the courts of Eu-
rope as In Washington and it may be re-
called that the young Prince de Joinville.
upon returning to France, after he had
declined an invitation from President
Tyler. was not permitted to land on
French soil. but was ordered by Louis
Philippe to return and atone for his
faux pas which he did by humbly asking
permission to accept our Presidents in
vitation. The only American ever known
to have committed such breach was
Edward Murphy. United States senator
from New York. who. while entangled in
Tammany's bitter fight with President
Cleveland. declined a dinner invitation
from that executive.
0. The President receives official guests
in the order of precedence. the Vice
President being entitled to entree ahead
of all other officers.
The basis of the etiquette code fashion
ed to bind subsequent Presidents was
adopted by Washington after he had
carefully consulted Hamilton, John
Adams. Madison and Jay. Hamilton's adj
vice prevailing. The elder Adams OBJ
served the code adopted by his illustrious
predecessor.
But the succeeding President. Jefferson.
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chief magistrate from being beholden to
the representative of any foreign prince
or pOtentate. Arthur is said to have
been the first President to- disregard it.
as did Roosevelt. when he visited his
intimate friend. Baron Won Sternburg. the
ne dined with the French ambassador
during the first year of his administra-
ton.
>. The President and his wife do not
return calls. They frequently accept
hospitality i'm the homes of intimate
friends. but never enter home in the
spirit of returning visit.
T. The President does not meet any
guest at the railway station. even royalty
paying an official visit to the nation.
Thus Cleveland met at the station Meth
er his bride-elect when she came to the
White House to marry him. nor the In
fanta Eulalia, when she arrived in
neither Roosevelt nor Taft went to the
train to greet Prince Henry or. the Duke
of Connaught. In this respect our code
is much more strict than those of Euro
pean monarchs! where royalty goes per-
sOnally to the railway station to greet
or bid adieu visiting ruler.
Z. The President accepts no gifts what
ever from officials or employees In the
executive departments. nor from any
foreign ruler or his representatives, and
no gifts of value from private persons
unless intimate friends. His receipt of
gifts from foreign officials or from his
interiors in Office, at home, is forbidden
by statute. All Presidents receiving gifts
from foreign rulers or governments have
accepted them on behalf of the nation
and upon retiring to private life have
left them in Washington, either at the
W..ite House, the National Museum or
the Geological Park.