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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06

very last to arrive were Bobby Coon
and Prickly Perky, the porcupine,
who were neighbors and came togeth-
er. When Jimmy Skunk had counted
noses and made sure that there were
no more to come he climbed up on
an old log and made a speech. 1t waf
a very short speech, but 1t was enough
He told all about how Unc' Billy Pos
sum had been caught by Farmer
oner in a wire.covered box in Farmer
Browns dooryard. and everybody
looked at his nearest neighbor and
said. TOO bad! Too bad!" You see,
everybody. or nearly everybody, likes
Unc' Billy Possume.
Reddy Fox alone lookedapleased and
he tried to hide a, smile of satisfaL-
ton behind one hand. You see, once
upon a time Unc' Billy Postum made
Reddy Fox look very foolish in the
eyes Of all the other little meadow
and forest people. So Reddy was glad
that Unc' Billy was in trouble now,
for Reddy Fox never forgets or for
gives. s.
Now concluded Jimmy Skunk,
I've called this meeting to see IL be-
to help get Unc' Billy Postum and
the baby Chuck Free
Docs the wire go all over the box?'
inquired Happy Jack Squirrel.
NO." replied Jimmy Skunk, cit on.
~ covers the top"
III 1t was only safe I might go up
there in daytime and snaw q hole
through the box said Happy Jack,
thoughttully. but ! Wouldn't dare 70
up there by day. for ! would surely
be seen. and you know I can't see very
well at night. Besides. It would take
inc q long time to gnaw q hole big
enough for Unc' Billy to crawl
through"
Up spoke little Danny Meadow
Mouse. There's the fellow to do the
job" Il s,e1s44 u; @s =
At the sound q Dsanny's squeaky
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06

With or without chemisette. with
long or three-quarter sleeves. with
tab that can be worm v or under
the belt, with high or natural waist
line.
TUNES are to be much worn this
season and this one is unusually pref
ty. The side edges are o%verlapped in
place of being scanned. to give a very
charming effect. and the tunic is join
ed to an over-blouse. This over
blouse is worn over a plain blouse in
which the sleeves are inserted. In the
illustration one material is used
throughout. but something more Of a
'guimpe effect can be obtained by
making the sleeves of lace. net or
other thin material. If the round
neck is liked, the little chemisette can
be omitted and the sleeves made
shorter though long one are smart.
The blouse is closed at the front. the
overwaist slightly at the left, and the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06

little voice everybody turned to look.
He was pointing straight at-whom
do you think? Why. Prickly Perky,
the %porcupine.
"Certainly. certainly; I'm just the
fellow" said Prickly Perky. I'll be
glad to do something for Unc' Billy
Possum." You know Prickly Perky
is as slow in his thinking as he is in
his movements. and he never. never
would have thought himself of "a way
to help inc Billy out.
Next story: Rcddy Fox Plans Trou-
bic.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06
General Aid Meeting,
I
SOCIETY


Mrs. Charles Murphy who has been
spending the past few days visiting in
Minneapolis and st. Paul, will arrive
home tomorrow morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Rosenthal and
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles l.. Bang came
over from Crookston yesterday to at
tend the opening ball game. They
made the trip by auto.
MIR. and Mrs. Robert Swanlaw and
children of Milton. who have been
visiting for the past several days at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. Widman,
left this morning for their home in
Milton,
Mrs. John Downs left last evening
for Fargo, where she will spend a few
days visiting friends.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06

Some. perhaps most Of the young
women selected to pose in the tableau
at the Metropolitan Opera House in
New York t o represent. the advance
The managers Of the woman suffrage
party, who made the selections, picked
out some of the most beautiful they
could find. Particularly were they
successful in the case Of Pauline Fred
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06
IT CURES WHILE you WALK

Use Aliens F'oot-Ease, the antiseptic
powder to be shaker into the shoes.
1t instantly takes the sting out of
corns. itching feet. improving nails.
is "ars9' Of the , : sre A,1en!s coF Poor.
Ease max tight or new shoes fee.
easy. Ladies can wear shoes one size
smaller after using. 1t is a certain re-
lief for sweating, callous and swollen.
tender. aching feet. Try it today.
Sold everywhere, Fac. Trial package
FREE: Address. Allen S. Olmsted, LIZ
Roy, n. Y.
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ericks. who represents woman. and
Mrs. Sybilla Pope and Mrs. May Belle
Morgan, who were among the osna-
ments Of the show, dressed in Greek
costumes.
days before the show. II am going to
appear in a Greek costume. and to live
up to the part l am going to be bare
footed, just like the Greeks in .festi.
walls and the boys in the spring time"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06

looses Ny hair causs out " tie ootnbful.
/ had saGseed bstWsen Two end three years
and tstsd everything / hard Of but nothing
did axy GOD untl I read one Of tho adver-
~tisssnsltS fos c1tacufG s0A1 ind Ointment.
!. bought . Ito3 ~ Cutocars ointmsut and
CuHcaaa 1eap and shappoosd my head and
rubbsd svsry lpot With Cutjcurs Ointment.
AZ ths end q three wedlD ! was entirely
cured. Now ! hAvs xaors and njcer hair
than I svse ~ n ~ HE. fsCutlcura Soap
I'D oAAmaaA permanently relieved ny
tsoubas." tsignsd) 1lfAs4w. x. RhoAds.
May n. 1919.
OuNsnkA, 1osD. snd otntmsnt 10 - much
~ pinpo1s. taAc1hsads. rcd. rough tattns,
is11ins, scaly soaips. daAdfuf, dty. sa1n am
falling hait. eiApped hands and shspsless
nails, thAs 81 y aln6st cstainal NOT %
uss thssa. soad ~ druesists aad dealers
throu6hout the VOID. Liberal 5tAmple a
each nsaisdftss. With 82-p. skin Book. Al.
drenpoee-1asd .'CutSsnfa. DSpt. 4. Dostun."
1TaAsg.tAesdmsn mould M Cuticuss
sosp shaytl6 ~. ~. eaApas. ~. NJ
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06
CLEFT N w S
THE MUSE,

TO A ROLL TOP DESK.
Hail, roll top desk! To thee I sing.
Mausoleuf1 OF my past!
What hopes and fears of earlier yearz
eleep~in thy caverns vast!
NY thoughts within thy records lie;
Blind memories dig like moles
Amid the fixed sarcoghagi
OF thy stuffed pigeonholes.
The plans that might have made me
great,
Scenarios. of success,
There in thy tombs and dusty glooms
Conceal their deep distress
With many another paper hope
They share their dreary lot;
These led ME up life's sunny slope,
But now they are forgot.
Some day. when Gabriel honks his
horn
And great thoughts come to life,
Thy caverns dread shall ent their
dead,
And wonders will be rife.
The noble hope and dream and plan,
Long since consigned to thee.
Shall rise to bless each moral nan
But how does that help me?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06

Mr.. and Mrs. N. B. Black returned
last, evening from an extended eastern
trip. They were away three weeks,
and visited in Port Hope, Ont. Roch-
ester, New York city. Chicago, Mil
wuakee and Minneapolis. .
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06

Weathering big storms is what
makes big men.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06
leave for Endcrlin,

To Leave for Endcrlin.
Mrs. l.. Klein VanAlstine will leave
Wednesday morning for Enderlin to
join hcr husband who has the contract
for putting In q waterworks system
at that place.
General Aid Meeting.
The general aid meeting of the
Methodist church will be held Wed.
nesday afternoon at 8 o'clock in the
church. Mrs. Francis NJ. Mccoy will
give a talk on Ceramics" and all
members Of the aid and their friends
are cordially invited. The program
will. be followed by a social session
and refreshments will be served. The
hostesses will be the ladies of district
No. S.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Entertained.

Mr., and Mrs. Gordon Entertained.
Valley City Times-Record: Mr.. and
Mrs. james Grady and Mr.. and Mrs.
w. ID. Jeffrey have issued invitations
to a company Of ladies and gentlemen
for a card party to be given on Mon
day evening at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jeffrey on Tracy avenue. The
guests Of honor will be Mr.. and Mrs.
w. A. Gordon. This will be the. first
of u series Of parties that will be
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06
Leaves for Pe,nbina.

Leaves for Pembina.
Miss Nellie Burke who has been
visiting her parents in this city for
the past few days, has returned to
Pembina., Miss Burke attended the
teachers convention which was held
in Grafton last week.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06
Bed Time Stories
THE MEETING AT THE sMIL.
ING pool.
Said Jimmy Skunk sNslto himself
Whats to be doqieIs worth; doing

And straightway did his very best
His plan to. every one to tell.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06

dog!
farme-What breed?
Tramp-1M steal any breed you
want, mister.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-05-06
1flnot ElIs EntertAin.

: Ladies Of st. Pahl's Guild will hold
Y social at the parish hall Wednesday
afternoon, May Z, from 8 to $40
O'clock. Short business session will
also be held. The hSstessess Will be
ments Including sandwiches. potato
salad, cake and coffee will be served
during the hours. A very cordial IN.
ivitation IL extended to all men. worn~
;en. and children. Al silver collection
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-26
his That and the Other This Biz Old World of Ours

~ EVEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED
AND EIGHTY-ONE persons were i'm
- prisoned for debt in England and
Wales during the year 1911
Seventy-two out Of every hundred Spanish
Inhabitants cannot read or write.
The heart of the vegetarian is said to beat
on an average of fifty-eight beats to the min
ute, while that of the meat eater averages
ssventy-two. difference of 10000 beats in
twsnty-four hours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-26

The extent to which prisoners are made by
circumstances, instead of going into crime by
their own choice, is shown by students on
the subject in the United States, England
and India. In a neighboring state. Wise IN.
sin, study Of g the criminal physique" was
made of 1,521 prisoners in the state ison
Rock Seyster, noted student of criminoI-
ogy. He finds that all prisoners are as
class detectives. The average prisoner at
Waupun, DR.. Sleyster finds, is 1.S inches
below the average American in height. The
average prisoner, he says, +" is physically most
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-26

200 miles in eighty-four years just walking
about his house and place of business.
One swallow will eat at least 5000 flies
day.
Germany is the greatest beer drinking coun-
try in the world. OF $1,000 brewers in. the
world 25.000 are found in Germany alone.
A thousand tons of SCOT settle monthly
within the 11S square miles of London
Young snakes are born with fangs and poi
son glands in full perfection and are dan
gerous even before tasting food.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-26

France makes nearly 26,000000 pairs of
gloves yearly, and of these 1s,00O,000 pairs
are exported.
Spain has more sunshine than sany other
country in Europe. The yearly average is
5000 hours. In England it is 1,400.
The average depth of the sands in the des-
erts of Africa is from thirty to forty feet.
The longest plant in the world is said to be
species of subtropical seaw:.'r which grows
sometimes 600 feet in length.
During the year 1911 there were 17,139
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-26
DR.. Coring Blanes Society.

more boys than girls born in England and
Wales.
In all the world there are less than three
times as many miles of railroad as there are
in the United States alone.
Extraordinary qualities are possessed by
the River Tinto in Spain. 1t hardens and
petrifies the sand of it's bed, and if stone
falls in the stream and alights upon another,
in few months the two join and become one
stone. Fish cannot live in its waters.
In Russia people must marry before reach
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-26

In Switzerland a milkmaid gets better
wages if she is gifted with good voice, be-
cause it has been discovered that q COW will
yield one-ffth more milk than ordinarily 'if
soothad by melody during milking.
Women sailors are employed in Denmark,
Norway, and Finland, ard they are often,
found to be most excellent mariners
An eminent doctor says he has found sai
cyclists pulse to beat as high as 250 times a
minute Immediately after making fast mile
This illustrates the danger Of scorching il
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the homicide not CLASSY, cold, and ixed.o
Crime does not reveal itself in the outward
visage of man.
DIR. Goring then goes heaping up evil
dence which tends to make society responsi-
BILE for crime. He proves that crime is often
the result of conditions, economic, social, and
industrial. The English convict, he says is
defective in physical strength, weight, stat
ure, and mental capacity" His head meas-
urements, DIR. Goring asserts, on the other
hand, differ little from the measurements
of the Oxford or Cambridge undergraduates
DIR. Goring likewise explodes the oft repeated
theory that low forehead connotes crin,-
inality, while high forehead connotes in
teigence
1t is generation old poverty, according to
DIR. Goring, that is responsible for crime.
Fathers reared in poverty are defective to a
certain extent. The children they rear in
poverty are defective a little more than the
parents. When they come to take their
places on the industrial market they are
showed aside by the stronger, ADLER men. EN-
ployers when they hire men are on the look
out for their own interests, not the interests
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-26

ing the age of so or not at ALL None is al
lowed to marry more than five times.
Owing to the cold, dry atmosphere in
Greenland not a single infectious disease is
known on that island.
Lions and tigers are too weak in lung
power to run more than half mile at a time.
man between 20 and 30 loses on ar aver
age of only five and half days year from
illness, but between so and 60 he loses about
twenty days annually
A reasonably active man walks about 297,-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-26

lem, comes from DR.. Goring, the medical Off
Ger Of the Parkhurst prisons in England.
Years of study Of the criminal including all
sorts Of physical measurements, leads DIR.
Goring to the unqualified challenge of Lom-
broso's theory that criminals are a race
apart.
:" As individuals" DR.. Goring says in
monograph published recently, criminals
which are not shared by all people. The
only difference is that of degree" The nose
of the thief, says Dr. Goring, is not, as Lom-
broso taught, "short and large" the eye Of
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absurd 10 Speak Of Born Criminal.

absurd 10 Speak of Born Criminal
Later researches, carried on by newer
scholars, challenged the theories of Lom-
broso. 1t is absurd, modern investigators de-
clare, to speak of a born criminal. The
characteristics which Lombroso took to be
specific Of the criminal, they say, are in
reality characteristics of detectives. That
detectives become criminals, students of
criminology assert, is largely a matter of
circumstances. The defective, underszed
youth, for instance, cannot find employment
as easily as healthier, STRONGER boy can.
Sometimes he cannot find work at all. He
is forced to steal in order to live.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-26
inferior to the average American

markedly inferior to the average American
citizen"
Examination by the British Association
for the Advancement of Science of 5000
criminals revealed them to be about two
inches shorter and seventeen pounds lighter
than the average Englishman. The same
results were uncovered by researches in Ger
many, FRANCE, and Italy.
II
DR.. Coring Blames Society.
The strongest plea for discarding the Lom-
broso aheory, that criminals born. not
made, the sanest treatment of the prob
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Altitude of Public Changed.

t<fuituuc VI 4 uOuJ AHuUSCd.
This putting OF the criminal under the
searchlight of science and psychology has
worked wonderful change not alone in the
construction and management of prisons and
in the treatment of prisoners in them; iti is
also working a great change in the attitude
of the public toward the convict. The honor
system, thing unknown few years ago,
is now in vogue in most prisons in the middle
and far west On Sept. 1, 62S convicts from
the Joliet prison were put to work building
roads in Illinois. The men are laboring with
out guards, with only their own word to re-
strain them from running away. They camp
outside just as free laborers do, and there lis
but single guard 10 watch the camp.
The parole system is now widely used.
There are thousands of men in Illinois who
been paroled from the different penal in
stitutions
The same liberal attitude taken by au-
thorities toward the prisoner is also taken
by employers. According to DR.. r. Emory
Lyon, superintendent of the Central Howard
association, employers are more and more
becoming interested in the reclamation Of
prisoners. First offenders especially are,
given every chance Large employers 'of'
men, he said, are at all times willing to CO.
tion in the matter of getting as many de-
serving prisoners out ON parole as possible
by assuring them jobs for at least one year.
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of the community at large. The defectivss|
who are refused jobs must live. Being I'M
able to earn an honest livelihood, they areI
forced to become criminals. This is espe
surroundings under which these poor, weak
children of the masses have to live.
A still holder challenge of the Lombroso
theory is made by H. Fielding-H Hall, who was
for years the head of one of the largest
prisons in India, at Rangoon. On the bassl
of his studies Of criminals and crime waves3
Mr.. Fielding Hall unhesitatingly- traces crime
to social and economic conditions rather titan
to biologic causes" as did Lombroso.
Crime, he says, is caused by external
causes
Thus during a famine in India thefts dou.
bled and other crimes increased, he says
People who were good citizens all their lives
had their constitutions weakened and THEN
will power destroyed by the months of suf
fcring and hunger They were too weak to
resist the temptation to steal. Similarly. the
annexation Of number of provinces at an \
other period resulted in wave of unrest
which fouil1 expression in an increase in
crime.
There is no use," says this writer " try
ing TO exonerate society by saying that crint
inals are horn. not made. They are made,
and they are made by society, by its care
lessness and cruelty
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Punishment Cell Abandoned.

Most prisons in the United States have
dropped the practice of clothing prisoners
in striped suits. The lock step" is also
a thing of the past in many penal institu-
tions. And so is the cropped hair. But
what is even more gratifying. is the gradual
abolition of the punishment cell,' the cham
ber Of horrors of most older prisons
few years ago the punishment cell was
abandoned in the prison at Mansfield, o.
1t was given substitute in meditation
cell" The unruly prisoner was put in that
cell -" TO think it 'over.'' 1t was soon found
that the process of thinking it over did much
more to reform the prisoner than punish
ment ever did. From the punishment cell
the prisoner came out after day or a week
of torture with murder in his heart. From
the meditation cell, it was found, he came
out much more humane and manageable
The example of the Mansfield o., prison is
now being followed in many other prisons
throughout the country.
What has brought about this change in
prisons? What has changed the attitude
of society toward the criminal? The answer
is science and quickened social conscience
generation ago Cesare Lombroso, the
great Italian scholar, thrilled the world WI
his investigations, which showed the Grim
inal to be =" of race apart" as it were.
Lombroso, on the basis of his measurements
of the limbs and brains of prisoners, on the
basis of psychologist study, showed that
criminals could be recognized by certain char
acteristics which were theirs by birth.
criminal, according to the Italian savant
was born, not made. He traced all criminal
acts to biological causes. On the basis of
his researches Lombroso concluded that the
criminal stands midway. between the lunatic
and the savage.
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r. HE prisons of the world are being
turned into laboratories. The "eye
for an eye, tooth for tooth policy
is being abandoned. The prisoner is
no longer a subject for cruel, wanton, and
revengeful treatment. Instead he is studied
His body, his brain, and his soul are exam
ined, searched, and pried open in an effort
to ascertain what caused him to forfeit his
freedom by choosing a career of crime.
Prison reform!" is the cry in the United
States. 1t is the cry in Great Britain, in
Europe, in India in Japan The man with
the whip, the tormentor, the executioner,
who in years past earned his livelihood by
toranenting the human dereicts behind jail
doors is fast being wiped off all prison rec
ords His place is being taken by the ply
sician and the psychologist.
Not revengeful punishment, but reforma-
ton, is the aim Of most prisons today. Prls-
on heads no longer look upon the convict as
man for whom all hope is left behind
man whose sins against society admit only
of revenge and punishment. Instead, they
seek to reform the prisoner and restore him
TO the world once more as useful member
First in this prison reform movement went
the old type of jails and penitentiaries. The
prisons of today are no longer dismal dun
geons which exclude all light and air. They
are built with a view to sanitation. Con-
fnement alone is considered sufficient pun
ishment The sun at least is not barred
from the prisoner, nor the air and light.
Prisoners are no longer exposed to consump-
tion they were only generation past and
as they still are in an ever decreasing num-
Der of prisons in this and in other countries.
Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1913-08-22

charged with no crime, the New York
authorities have caused warrant to
be sworn out at PoughAeepsie. The
conspiracy according to the district
attorney of Duchess county. constitutes
an extraditabh offense. Close assoc
ates of the family indicated tonight
tho ground work of q legal fight in
Pennsylvania is already laid.
Thaw left behind him only cloud Of
dust. Rumors of his passage, DDS
cription of the black automobile, tales
of yacht boardings on Long Island
Sound, speckled the days news. The
yacht Endymion, Of George Lauder NJ
q distant relative of Thaw by marriage
found mention in the crop Of rumors.
The yacht is reported cruising some
where in the sound, possibly not fas
/ south Of Norwalls, Connecticut, repeat
cdlv mentioned as the objective point
for Thaw had he cared to take to the
SEQ While there is nothing in support
of the theory that Thaw has taken tt
the seas it seems. the most likely
course.