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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

sinecure was evidently first pro-
pounded by a doddering old wild
over trying to marry a debu-
tante. 1t is a misleading guide
to go by. The rich old man is
willing to dress his pretty young
wife up like a fine doll and show
her off before his friends. but be-
yond her millinery no one need
envy the old mans darling her
luck.
Old people are almost invaria-
bly, tyrannical. and set in their
ways, and narrow, and selfish.
and opinionated, and to these I'M
amiable qualities the old husband
invariably and justifably adds
Jealousy. The young wife Of an
old man earns all she gets by
putting up with the crabbedness
of age, by having all Of her ac-
tons spied upon, and by having
to nurse the rheumatism and the
govt when she would like to be
enjoying the pleasures that be-
long to her age.
Look at the young wives Of old
men that you know, the girls who
have married for money. Is there
one happy looking one among
them all? Did you ever see wear
Ter, more bored looking faces?
They do not look alert and alive
as working women look. They
have not the smiling contented
faces that the wives of so many
poor men have
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
The Song of the Toilers
By RALPH BACON.

n H. sing underworld, GRIM
~ Where children toll the red hot
places
sing the Of the who die mighty mills
Oh backs strong
But your are ong
And lick up your lint;
a day. gray
Though your
children live
When the toys you
Are the overweight machines?
When children dead
How will be fed
you what the
spindle and spool spun
/ c0rkerS life is done
Then another child a mother
mills, Of the mills,
~ sing song OF underworld lean grim
~
your
the die wake
Oh, backs
But your hours long,
And breathe deadly
Your careless haste
Has choked with
should us pass
So we're bottled in
a a
While weeping widows wait
At the black holes rim
he sun goes
Shat from light Of -
4 iCorke"s life done
put another father brother.
mines the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

fies and champagne and bare toll
erance?
Take the young man, girls. the
poor young man and love, rather
than the old man without love.
although every hair on your eld-
erly suitor's head be strung with
diamonds. Marriage, at best, Is
no picnic. 1t IL a strenuous I'M
dertaking full OF trials and tribu-
lations and troubles, and the only
thing on earth that can gid its
letters and make 1t endurable is
love.
You never know how cranky a
human being can be, and how
many Of the flfty-seven different
varieties of frailties and weak
nesses he or she can possess until
you are married to the said i'm
perfect party. and nothing but
seeing this individual enveloped
in a halo Of tenderness keeps you
out OF the divorce court. Mar
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
Better Love in a Cottage
Than Riches and an
Empty Life.

You see these women have
found out what a terrible thing
it is to have nothing but money,
and how little money really buys.
1t doesn't take you long to get all
you can eat and wear, and then
the purchasing power of money
stops. 1t won't buy you love, nor
a single solitary thrill. nor
brighten by one degree the
dreary, soggy, endless evenings
that you spend tete-a tete with a
husband whose society bores you
to extinction.
Marry the man you love, girls,
the man who interests you, the
man with whom you have every
thought and sympathy in COM
mon, though he be as poor as a
church mouse. Youth calls to
youth, you must match enthu-
siasm with enthusiasm, hope
with hope You must enjoy the
same things, like to do the same
things. to have any comradeship,
and comradeship between hus-
band and wife makes the only
enduring tie. 1t is the only thing
that brings happiness.
Better is a dinner of herbs that
two happy young hearts can
laugh over than a dinner at the
finest restaurant with an old
gourmet whose jaded palate moth
ing can tickle. Better a suburb
an cottage with love than a city
palace and an empty heart and
an empty life.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

YIN at Alilo pANNuANt blilos
II shows a maiden trying to
solve the problem that con-
fronts many Of you--the problem
of whether It is better to be an
old mans darling or a young
mans slave.
All the worldly wise old wom-
en-, with hard faces and keen eyes,
say to the girls:
Take the old man. What does
It matter If he is fat and bald
headed, and has a figure built aft
er the similitude Of a bay win
dow. and If the touch Of his hand
makes your flesh creep, and the
heavy tramp Of his feet coming
toward you makes you want to
take to the tall timbers? What If
his conversation makes you yawn
yourself to death?
''He can give you automobiles,
and fine house, and imported
clothes, and trips to Europe, and
everything to make life easy and
soft. Love? Pooh! Nice to read
about in books and to see in plays
on the stage, but It won't pay
bills, my dear, nor keep you from
being shabby and poor. Romance2
You leave that at the altar, any
way, SO why pay an, extravagant
price for It? Believe me. my
child, that all husbands are alike
as soon as the honeymoon wanes,
and then a woman's happiness in
life depends on what sort OF an
establishment she has got"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
Relief for the Farmer Is Even
More Needed Than the Tariff
Continued From First Column.

employment production and greatly
of living. Consumers will hardly feel it.
The banking currency does many things
important than tariff revision It curbs the Wall
speculations by about $50
MILLION DOLLARShe of the 1873 national banks
in all parts of the country provides elastic currency
that will make stable interest for merchants and
manufacturers. Both objects commendable BUT THE
BILL DOES NOTHING FOR THE FARMER.
short the tariff and the currency measure which
have monopozed all the energies of President Wilson and of
Congress many months quite untouched the
gent problem before the country.
That problem how provide the average farmer with
increase the productivity of his land how to lift for all
the people burden the steadily increasing cost of food
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
By DR.. CHARLES F. AKED
Written for The Atlanta Georgian.

disposed to my fellow men IL this
lasted. felt myself growing con-
temptuous
At the close of a service in the
Fifth Avenue Church persons
would implore me to introduce
them to Mr.. Rockefeller, or put
this or that appeal before him.
II friend did not mercifully give
me a ride home in his machine
somebody would follow me across
to Madison avenue, get into the
street car with me, and open fire.
Sturdy beggars took to sending
me their appeals by registered
letters, and as each registered
letter requires a signature, and
each signature means an inter-
ruption of my work ana time
wasted, I notified the postoffice
that l would not receive regis
tered stuff. So I lost my bank
book which had been sent to the
bank to be made Uphill the
Aston Trust Company demanded
why had | refused to receive nv
own pass book!
Some of the letters were very,
very sad, breathing a real need
which l was powerless to relieve.
1t was heart breaking to know
of the distress and to be able to
do nothing. Some Of them were
disgusting.
1t was the piety Of the letters
which made my gorge rise. the
sentimental. hypocriticaI plety of
them! l was always the hvpo-
critics dear brother in Christ"
came to hate the phrase. And
nineteen times out Of twenty the
wretch had been directed to me
by the good Lord" in answer To
prayer Here is a specimen of the
sort Of thing that made me sick.
A Specimen
A man has lost $165, 900 bv ILL
judged speculation. 1t was not
his to lose; but that is a tritie.
His wife and wife's sister to
whom It belonged, have not been
told the loss. His wife is sick
and the news will kill her His
own speculations have gone
wrong, too.
And the letter maunders on:
DAY and night l have prayed
and trusted for the return of our
fortune. My wife does not know
for the news would kill her. I
have carried the burden alone.
sustained by the belief that
through prayer the money might
yet be restored. The pressure of
1t is agony; but this morning
thought of the promise that If two
or three are agreed touching a
matter the Lord will hear their
prayer. May l not come to your
home to see you? And let US
kneel and ask the Lord to work
a miracle for US. We will pray
Him in the name of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ and for
His glory to restore this money,
Dear man of Cod
q have been called many things
in my time, but this, in such a
connection, really hurts.)
Dear man of God. will you
pray for me, and yourself speak
to Mr., Rockefeller for my suffer-
ing wife?"
And for pages the pious piffie
drips along.
I have less contempt for a
brazen-faced offer of bribe than
1 have for the shameless cadgers
who think to impose upon my
gullibility by the use of pious
phrases and sacred names.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
After Church

am not exaggerating, not
using a figure Of speech, when I
say that this sort OF thing made
my life a burden to me, 1t did
more. 1t made me shut my door
with a bang when it should have
stood Hospitality open. And l felt
that I was in the way of shutting
my heart up, too. 1t was time I
came away, If was to save my
soul alive. I had other reasons
for leaving the Fifth Avenue
Church, of course. But that which
first and most powerfully put me
into disgruntled mood, in which
was willing TO discuss with my
self the wisdom of leaving, was
the realization that I could not
remain sweet-natured and kindly
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27
DR.. Charles F. Aked
Sturdy Beggars

81 have less contempt for a
brazen-faced offer of a bride
than have for the shameless
cadgers who think to impose
upon my gullibility by the
use of the pious phrases and
sacred Names" he says.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-27

A LETTER which 1 received
~ just before leaving home
has carried me back to
Fifth avenue more rapidly than
the Pacific Limited can do it.
Hast thou found me, o mine
enemy?" I sighed when l read 1t.
am to get Mr.. John D. Rookie
Teller to cancel a debt of 9100
which an old man in England
owes to a subsidiary company of
the Standard oil concern. He has
fallen behind with his payments,
and he writes me in great faith"
that "the Lord will direct the
result"
Begging Letters.
If this letter were the only one!
But men and women hunt me up,
on the Pacific slope, on the edge
Of civilization. And they all want
a slice of Mr.. Rockefeller's mil
lions. Not so long since a man
came to see me. He sent in his
card. and 1t bore the magic abbre-
Walton Rev" He was no more
a parson than I am a journalist.
He had invented some remarkable
process for extracting sunshine
from cucumbers or for using
lightning bugs as automobile
headlights. or something of the
kind. forget exactly what 1t
was. And would ! write to Mr..
Rockefeller or see him the next
time / went to New York and
get him to finance the scheme?
l tried to look savage. but proha-
blv failed. And l said, "One Of my
chief reasons for leaving New
York was the desire to get away
from men like you. Please go, and
leave me in peace" And he went.
For the men and women who
tried to get at Mr.. Rockefeller
through me made my life bur
den to me. In the first two weeks
after coming to this country
received three thousand begging
letters. Within the next two
months l received one thousand
more. Then the stream began to
run less swiftly; but II ran stead
lily. received about twenty beg
ging letters a week, or say, one
thousand a year, during the re-
mainder OF my residence in New
York. And the letters viii come;
and from all over the world.
l could do nothing then. can
do nothing now. I was not once
consulted by Mr.. Rockefeller
about his gifts. I did not once
offer suggestion to him with re-
gard to his gifts I could no more
influence his giving than the man
in the moon.
A "a - PNT-y
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-24
april 81 to May 3, Inc.)
Notice 10 Construct Sidewalks.

To each of the owners and occu-
pants of the respective premises here
matter described:
Whereas, the City Council of the
City of Fargo deem 1t necessary to
| construct a sidewalk in front Of, or
along, each of the following described
premises as herein set forth, to-wit:
In Keeney & Devitt's End Addition,
City of Fargo:
Along the West side of Lots $40
and %. Block 80.
In Erskine's Addition, City of Far
go:
Along the East side of Lots 2 to 9.
inclusive, Block ~.
Along the East side Of Lots Q to ID,
inclusive, Block III.
Along the East side of Lots 2 to 13,
inclusive, Block "OO".
And have directed the City Auditor
to notify you, and each of you, as pro-
vided by law, to construct such Side
walk in front of or along said premis-
es which are owned or occupied by
you respectively, at your own ex-
pense;
Now, therefore, you and each of you
are hereby notified and required to
construct such Sidewalk in front of or
along, as above set forth, the premises
h~ereinbefore described, which are
owned by you, subject to the approval
of the street Commissioner, and in
strict accordance with specifications
for the same set forth in an ordinance
entitled, An Ordinance Prescribing
the Kind and Quality of Materials OF
which, and the Manner in which,
Sidewalks Shall be Constructor. APP
proved April 5, 1911, at your own ex-
pense, within thirty days after the
date of this notice; and II you fail to
SO construct the same, such sidewalk
will be constructed by the contractor
employed by the City for that purpose,
and the expense thereof will be as
sessed against said premises.
You are required by said ordinance,
before commencing work on such
Sidewalk, to make application to the
City engineer for line and grade OF
walk and for a permit to construct
the. same.
Dated, Fargo, N. d., Apr. I6, 1918.
"A. r. WATKINS,
City Auditor, City Of Fargo, N. D.
(Apr. IL q "a. 1879
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-24
some GREAT BOWLING
Worlds Tournament Record Broken Mt
the Recent Rochester, N. Y.
National Meeting.

Rochester. N. Y, April PA worlds
tournament record for individual
bowling was established here the last
day of the National Bowling associa =
TONS seventh tournament, when
George Kumpen of Buffalo, rolling in
next to the final squad, spilled 712 pins.
His games were 224, 234 and 254.
This figure beats both the National
Bowling association and the American
Bowling congress mark of 705. Rolling
in the American Bowling congress
tournament in Detroit in 1910, Tom
Hale of Detroit. toppled 705 pins and
in the National Bowling association
tournament in Baltimore the same
year, Tony Prior of Brooklyn register
ed 7O5.
The tournament came to an end to-
night with an open sweepstakes. The
official standings will be issued to-
morrow night. One change in doubles
occurred this afternoon Plumb and Fox
of Indianapolis rolled 125 and went in
to fifth place.
Smith n l lell of New York will
carry off first prize in doubles, $145,
with their score of 1853, and kumpf
leads the individuals. Kumpf's scores
in doubles and in the team match were
ordinary. so that Jimmy Smith of New
York is a likely a~ll-events leader.
Kumpf did not use a loaded ball In
establishing his record.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-24
EXHIBITION OF
ATHLETIC WORK
CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
WILL BE SEEN IN PHYSICAL
TRAINING EXHIBIT, MAY PRO-
GRAMME WILL SHOW ALL THE
WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE.

On Friday May 2 at 1880 p. m. at the
Agassiz gym the children of the public
schools of Fargo will present their
first physical training exhibit. This
will probably be the first physical
training exhibition held in the city in
which the girls nave had an equal part
with the boys.
The programme will bring together
all of the work that has been done in
the department during the past winter.
There will be drills, folk dances,
wrestling, tumbling-b bar work, feats of
balancing and pyramids. Every school
will be represented n several hundred
children will take part ranging in size
from the little tots in the first grade
to seniors III the high school.
The high school orchestra, directed
by Professor Smith, will furnish the
music,
Mclean who has charge of the physical
training classes of all the grade
| schools Of the city, started out to give
the same grades of the city the same
On May 2, the people of Fargo
will have a chance to see all the
championship grades of the city in
action. The Hawthorne school will
have the largest representation at the
entertainment of any school, as the
have three firsts and are tied with the
| Central school in the sixth grade. The
different grades and their respective
| schools are as follows:
First grade won by Hawthorne.
Second grade, tie between Roosevelt
and Lincoln.
Third grade, Hawthorne.
Fourth grade, Lincoln.
The first four grades did drill work
| and these are the schools hat won the
respective places.
The upper four grades did wand work
| and were won by the following:
Fifth -grade.. Hawthorne.
Sixth grade. Central and Hawthorne
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-24
BASEBALL
NORTHERN LEAGUE
SEASON OPENS

Winona, Mimi, April "a. - Winona
was easy for Frank Lohr's Grand
Forks team in the opening game of
the Northern league yesterday after
noon. The visiting batters pounded
Corbett, a Winona boy. off the hill in
the fifth inning with a bombardment
of singles in that inning which decided
the game.
Jarnigan singled, Altman singled,
and on a fielder's choice off Dietrich.
J~arnigan was forced at third. Chase
walked, filling the bags. Foster was
passed, forcing In Altman. Brandt
doubled, bringing in two. Grogan was
safe on an error, scoring another run.
Lyman famed and on a wild pitch
another run was scored. and when
Gerlack slapped out a single the sixth
run OF the inning was registered.
Jarnigan, batting for the second
time in the inning, famed, retiring
the side. Snow succeeded Corbett in
the seventh and pitched fair ball.
Winona added several players to
the team only today and showed the
lack of harmony in the machine.
Jarnigan, the visiting moundsman,
worked splendidly and pulled out of a
number of tight places.
The usual festivities preceded the
opening. The mayor pitched the first
ball and President Barton of the
league addressed the fans. The
weather was threatening but there was
no rain.
The Grand Forks team worked to-
double plays, in both of which Dietrich
ABB npA Va Hn~ns
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-24
MCDONALD =
MAKES STATEMENT

To. the voters: In making the an
nouncement of my candidacy for city
Commissioner, 1 am doing go with the
knowledge that the same will hardly
meet with a unanimous approval Of
our citizens. No man who has taken
an active interest in public affairs
through three stormy years of the
greatest improvements that our city
has seen, as / have done, can expect to
please all our people. He Is bound to
make enemies If he is alive to the stu
alton at all times, and does his sworn
duty, and 1 have been no exception to
this rule.
However, / have at all times done
what in my judgment was for the best
Interests for the city as a whole.
/ have been in the city council the
past three years, during which time
i have given support to such improve
ments as the white way, the repaving
Of the Third, Fourth and Fifth wards, a
public market, and our water purifica-
Etion plant. # J-
! Many of you know that I have been.
for the past three years, closely ident-
flied with the selection and completion
OF u filtration plant, two years of
which I Yves chairman Of the commit
tee, and the results of Dur work can
best be shown by quoting the publish
ed statements of the experts who con
Quoted the official test on the plant in
January, 1918. 81.
1.-THE most complete and up-to-date
filtration plant in the United States"
The best water supply in the north
west"
In the face of bitter opposition and
twelve years Of failure, this committee
succeeded In giving this city a, pure
water supply.
/ am familiar with the municipal
conditions Of the city.
! am particularly familiar with the
needs Of the water department and
know what will be necessary in that
department, to keep up the high
standard Of purity of the water now
being supplied the city.
I have studied the systems of water
Ipurifcation and as chairman Of the
COMMITTEES which investigated the diff
lferent methods Of purifying water, ]
recommended the present mechanical
type for the city OF Fargo.
The plant Is a greater success than
1--we looked for.
I have the time to devote to this
work and I believe that I can give the
city better service than any new mar
who would necessarily have 1t all to
learn.
Considering health and as a bust
ness proposition, would 1t not be well
to have one man on the commission
iwho started this work and who knows
1T? Up to the present the water has
been good. Dou you want to place II
in other hands? Think this ove be-
fore casting u vote for city com
missioners.
Sam Mcdonald, candidate for city
commissioner.-Advt,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-24
CAPITALS TOOK
ALL Three GAMES
GREAT BIG SCORES WAS THE
ORDER OF THE EVENING IN THE
FAST CITY BOWLING LEAGUE ON
THE NEsTOR ALLEYS BEFORE
BIG CROWD.

Great big scores were the order of
the evening last night at the Nestor
alleys in the City Bowling league. and
there was a very large crowd present.
The work of J. Peterson and Benarfa
for the Capitals and of DeFoe for the
Nationals was of the gilt edge type
and they were given great applause.
Peterson vas the star performer, get
ting the highest score, PSI in the first
game and finishing the three games
with an average of 222 n a total of
667. DeFoe of the Nationals had 224
with a total of 213 Ia and Benarfa
was also in the 200 and better class
The Capitals took all three games, but
it was a mighty fine battle. The
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-24
MURPHY WANTS
GO With Richie
THE CoNaUERoR OF AID wOLGAST
is NOW ANXIOUS TO HANG UP
FOR A FINISH BATTLE WITH THE
LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPION AT
o ANGELES.

Friends of Harlem Tommy Murphy.
who decisively defeated AID Wolgast in
New York last Saturday night are loud
in their demands that the New York
title. At the same time a we'll defined
rumor was going the rounds that the
mex man to fight Willie Richie will be
Johnny Kilbane, present featherweight
champion. who is reported to have as
also.
Murphy. according to the opinion Of
many ringside sports, has the best
claim to q match with Richie. 1t is
pointed out that the Harlemite was
victorious over Ad before the latter
defeated Nelson. Reports from the
west say that Jimmy COffroth will
stage a tMurphy-Ritchie fight at his
arena July 4, but Manager Billy Glib
son of the Garden A. C., is already
making plans for a meeting between
the two,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-04-24
Proposals for Publishing as Official
.s..P aper. .

The City Auditor Of the City Of
Fargo, North Dakota, will receive. I'M
til the hour of five O'clock P. M. on
May 9Th, 1913,
Sealed proposals for the publication
of all Ordinances, Notices and other
matter required by law to be publish
ed, by any newspaper of General Cir
culation published in the City of Far
go, having a bona fide paying sub
scription list and circulation among
the inhabitants of the City of Fargo.
Each bid shall state the least rate
per hundred words for each insertion,
the party bidding will, during the year,
print the, said matter in the newspa-
per of which the said bidder is the
proprietor or manager.
The successful bidder will be requir-
ed to enter into contract and shall
give a good and sufficient bond in the
sum of Five Hundred Dollars condi-
ton upon the faithful performance Of
such contract, and upon being SO des-
ignated, shall be known as the Official
Newspaper of the City of Fargo, while
such contract nay exist.
Dated April 81, 1913.
A. r. WATKINS,
r. ... d. City Auditor.
(April Fl to Nav 8, Incl