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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17
Future of the Newspaper

One who cannot follow the London publisher all
tho way in his estimate Of the future field and innu'
enoe Of the newspaper must still be Impressed With
the belief that the worE Of that agency can scarcely
he realized as yet. lie holds that fne day Is soon
coming when the weekly and monthly will be discon-
tinued, and the work which they are doing Will be
taken up by the newspaper and done better by it.
He points to the fact that the great newspapers are
already publishing scientific articles and literary
works of great value, and he believes that before long
all this work will be done by the dailies. "|
, Perhaps he is going too far. We believe that he
is. 1t is to be noted that in this country the growth
and development of the newspaper business has gone
on at the same tine that the best OF the weekly ana
monthly masazins were likewise increasing in circusa-
ton, value and influence. The two seem to go TO-
gethor. There is a class Of matter which is fitted Tor
he use OF the daily newspaper, and another class that
is fitted better for the weekly and monthly periodical.
Some of the monthly magazines have shown a DISPOSE
tion to invade the field of the newspaper, and when
ever this has been attempted it has been at the sac
rifce Of the standing of the publication that essayed
it. The newspaper and the magazine will remain
with us, each performing the work that it is best
fitted to do.
On the other hand, we need not expect ever to see
the printed newspaper superseded by the telephone.
as is often predicted. 1t is true that news is occa-
sionally sent out to patrons by telephone, but there
are a few so-called telephone newspapers" But the
work Of disseminating the news of the day will be
dependent on the printing press. The reader would
not be satisfied were he Obliged to listen at a tele-
phone for the news, and to- hear a lot of announce.
ments in which he had no interest going over the
wire. He wants a printed sheet which he can take
and use at his convenience, turning at will to those
parts of the paper which are Of present interest to
him, and there is no method possible which will
enable the telephone to take the place of this.-Grand
Forks Herald.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17
The Trouble With Tennessee

Prohibition, the kind that declines to permit licens-
ed saloons to a community which desires drinks and
which gets them through unlicensed saloons, is haV.
ing a merry time in Tennessee, according to the st.
Paul Dispatch. A few days ago the news columns OF
the papers described the scenes Of riot and tumult
with which the Tennessee legislature ended its SEES
sion without passing the enforcement laws recon-
mended by Governor Patterson. Now the governor
has called a special session and insists that the laws
shall be enacted. He does not believe the laws will
do any good and he says so. He says they will not
solve the trouble and their good results will be only
Temporary but still he wants them as a protest
of decency against the continuance of the infamous
practices now haunting and ramp mt
This is a new and interesting theory OF law, a sort
of Tennessee theory, as it were. II admits that pro-
,ehihiions in. Tennessee is a failure III spite of law, yet
would put new law on the statute books to enforce
laws already there. Though the votes of the people
gave Tennessee prohibition, it is conceded that the
people do not want it, or at least DO not want the
kind of prohibition they have been giveny and therein
lie arguments for both sides of the question. The
opportunity is left open to the prohioitionists to in
sist that real prohibition would bring the satisfaction
which is impossible with "insolent defiance and re.
beflion against the law. +~a@
But there is the old question, two old questions,
in fact. Law is no stronger than the sentiment be-
hind it, and there seems a strong absence in Tennes-
see, especially in the cities, OF sentiment in favor OF
prohibition. The record Of N"sfv.ne for example,
show a striking increase CT crime ard disorder. a fact
employed by both sides to the controversy. one as
sorting it as the direct result o trying to ~legislate
morality and the other as the inevitable effect Of dis
regard of law. But when a community insists upon
re-electing officers who openly declare they will not
enforce the antisa!oon laws, it may be taken as all
unmistakable evidence of community sentiment or a
peculiar domination by a minority sentiment. Pro
hibition never yet has totally prohibited and it pro
hibits not at all when it is attempted among people
who oppose it or even favor it in a halfhearted
way. That is what seems to be the trouble with
Tennessee.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

Word comes from Traverse City that a substantial
sum has been pledged toward a fund for the erection
of q monument to Fl. S. Earle of Detroit, formerly
state highways commissioner. IT is to be erected at
Cass City, at the beginning OF the first mile of state
reawrd road constructed in Michigan. The last legis--
lature decided to encourage good roads by pledging
various stated amounts per mile for the building OF
state highways, the sum in each case being graded
according to the class of road. Mr.. Earle is greatly
interested in the work of the Lincoln Highway associ-
alton in it's endeavor to obtain a transcontinental
highway from New York to San Francisco.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

If the high cost of living does not come down it
is rot President Wilson's fault, of course. He says
he SHOT it in a vital spot, and if it continues to perch
in the tall treetop instead Of tumbling to the Gr,und
it will be a plain violation of the rules of the game,
that's all.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

Sit tight until these tariff changes adjust them
selves. Suppose Canada does show a disposition to
pay the duty and send volumes of wheat here. Some
body in this country will reap the correspondent ben.
eft. where the treasure is, there will the heart be
also" The larger the American market for Canada.
the more Canada will buy of America.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

The files of the state papers of Minnesota indicate
that the desire Of the people Of the state for a new
union depot at st. Paul is second only to the desire Of
st. Paul people. The desire will be gratified before
long, because it must be. ,. ...
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

. Before starting en- his South American trip Colonel
Roosevelt declared he would never desert the prin-
cip!es of the progressive party From which t a..
pears that the Colonel expects the principles, wat
ever they are, to outlast the party.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

The reluctance shown by many Americans about
leaving Mexico should cause some concern about the
spread Of the manana habit on this continent.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

The president denies that he said any democrat
who does no. support him is a, rebel. Maybe the
proper term is merely persona non grata.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

The present period of democratic control strikes
big figures when the decline in the price of stocks
and government 2 per cents is footed up.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

The currency question was not an issue in the last
campaign and the attempt to make it a party matter
is criticized through the country. D.,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

a great step was taken for the protection of Amer
lean literature when New England editors were de.
p lived Of passes on the New Haven road.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

The Hettinger Newlyweds who travelled during
the day in order to enjoy the scenery" certainly con.
ceived a happy idea.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

The low estimates of the number of taxable in
comes may suggest to the suspicious that the lodging
has begun already.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

DR.. Harvey Wiley is reported as expressing the
opinion that Eve was created before Adam. This is
not nearly so important a matter as the fact that the
fruit she served was not provided with a pure food
label.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

An automobile manufacturing firm has declared a
dividend of $1,000 900. An investigation of the high
cost Of motoring might not be without economic in
terest.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

Not the least OF the achievements of the young
ster, Joe Bush, was his accumulation OF so much &C
curate information at second hand as to the strength
and weaknesses of New York battcrs.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

There will be less danger of a deficient food sup
ply if agriculture is as enthusiastically %practiced as
it is written about.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

Louisiana is pre- pairing to go on record with an
enormous corn crop. And yet a great many people
were almost CONVINCED that Louisiana could not hope
TO do any business except witllNsugar.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

All that is needed for swift and perpetual victory
ever any fee is a navy that can smash battleships as
easily as Secretary Daniels purposes to smash tradi-
tons.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

The next time T%ammany turns loose a candidate
it should provide him with some kind Of a cash reg
istering machine.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

The report that Huerta is losing his eyesight may
have arisen from his difficulty in seeing anybody else
as president.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

Experience shows that it is just as difficult to get
out the woman vote as it has always been to get out
the man vote.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-17

Electricity is being introduced into agriculture. 1t
ought to be successful in shocking.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-20
How cold Pens Are Made.

Metallic iridium, used so extensively
for the points of gold pens, is made
from the powder obtained in the wet
way from platinum ore by heating to
high heat in sand crucibIe and then
adding stick phosphorus. The iridium,
which cannot be melted alone, is thus
fused In the form. of an iridium phos
phide- To remove the phosphorus the
phosphate is heated with lime, and the
iridium is left in the form of a hard
white mass. It is now so hard that It
cannot be fled or cut and Is broken up
into small pieces for soldering TO the
points of gold pens. These small pieces
are ground TO the right size on copper
disk wheel with emery or carborun-
dun. It is said that an ounce of trid-
ium viii make from 5000 to 10000
pen points. It has also been found
that the iridium thus prepared is prac-
tically as hard as the ruby. No steel
tools can make any impression upon it.
At one time much less expensive than
platinum, iridium now is worth more
on account of the demand for hard plat
mum, in which the iridium is the
hardening agent.-New York Press
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-20
CARLOAD OF FROZEN
ORANGES ARE PUT
UNDER HEALTH BAN
INSPECTOR LYNCH DISCOVERS
TAINTED FRUIT ON SALE IN
LOCAL STORE-ORDERS TT AS
SORTED.

Frozen and 'fsweated'' fruit have in
almost all larger cities come under the
ban of the Boards of Health, as it has
been found by careful experiment that
they are unfit for human consumption
and the cause of much sickness.
Rigid inspection is made in most
cities upon the arrival of large guam
titles but occasionally such fruit will
be offered for sale before noticed by
the authorities.
Inquiry made at the instance of
Health Commissioner William J. Nc
Laugh1in, at last nights meeting of
the Board may tend to explain how
oranges are som etimes sold in the
larger stores for II cents per dozen.
Question by DIR. Mclaughlin: s'I
want to inquire from the Health In
spector if there is any truth to the
rumors that frozen fruit is being sold
in Bridgeport" Answer by Inspec-
tor David w. Lynch: cit is true that
some was sold here; in fact a full car
load of fruit was received some of
which was frozen
Commissioner Mclaughlin: 1.-THE
point I wish to ascertain is, has
for fruits which have been condemned
in other cities, such as New York
Waterbury and New Haven, and ship
ped here for sale ?'
Inspector Lynch: 81 have not been
able to ascertain that fact, but know
that one of the stores in Bridgeport,
having branches in other cities receiv-
ed a carload of fruit, some of which
was frozen. 1t was put upon sale and
I compelled those in charge to re-
move the stock to the basement of the
store where it is now being sorted I
do not think it was brought here
knowingly in a. bad condition
Further discussion by the board as
to means of preventing such foisting
of impure food upon the public and
ways of distinguishing it, resulted in
a tacit understanding that a very rigid
inspection of all fruits now offered for
sale will be maintained 1t was not
indicated that the sweated fruit re-
Gently condemned in New York had
entered Bridgeport.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-20
Furniture Casters.

Many furniture casters are made Of
leather, disks Of the required size being
cut out and cemented and compressed
to form the wheel. The wheel is then
put into lathe and turned rounding
on its face. Disks of metal are clamped
on each side Of the wheel 10 serve as
bearings for the axle that runs through
the wheel Such casters are made for
use on hardwood floors. Casters of
compressed felt are also designed for
this purpose. Among other styles of
casters may be mentioned those Of
glass, designed to serve for purposes of
insulation, and ball bearing casters,
one style showing no wheel, but in
stead a ball which, when the furniture
is moved, revolves on circle of small
er balls within the caster fitting Then,
too, there are caster wheels made Of
porcelain and of rubber, Of hgnum
vitae and other hard woods. Great
numbers of casters are of iron and
brasA-Exchange
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-20
CLOSE GARBAGE
PLANT, is EDICT
OF HEALTH BOARD
COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER IN
STRUGGLED TO TAKE NECES-
SARY STEPS-ANNUAL ELEC-
TION HELD.
CHEAP LODGING HOUSES TO UN-
DERGO THOROUGH FUNIGA-
TION-SOME MAY BE ORDERED
CLOSED.

Questions long dormant before the
Board of Health were resurrected at
a meeting last night and determined
action recorded In one of the most
interesting gatherings held for some
months. In fact the questions were
so unlocked for as to prove almost
startling in their effective disposition.
Principal among these was the un-
animous decision of the board in
stTucting County Health Officer Geo.
r. Hill to take the long delayed step
of closing the garbage reduction
plant maintained by Charles S. Fisch-
CT, until such time the odor null
sance is abated.
A tour of inspection of the Iodg-
ing house district in Bridgeport was
reported to have revealed conditions
described by President D. NJ. Trecar-
tin as most horrible and in particular
instances far worse than the garbage
nuisance The Health officer was in
strUcted to have the district properly
fumigated at the first opportunity and
a committee of the board will visit
the various houses with a view to-
wards determining whether some of
the worst should not be closed entire
1y-
While Miss Elizabeth Donegan was
elected first school nurse, DR. Flor
ence Sherman, Medical Inspector for
terio1ogist, Mrs. Bessie NJ Ba-thole-
NEW was elected to fill the position
of nurse held for two yeSrs past by
Mrs Elizabeth CoughIin, who had in
timated her intention of resisning at
an early date.
Action on the garbage odors was
given initial fmpetus by President
Trecartin who arose to say that the
garbage plant was the cause of con-
slant complaint and that as sufficient
time had elapsed for its remedy, posi-
tive action was warranted to protect
citizens from increasing smells in the
summer time. Commissioners Ives
and Schwerdtle reported a visit to
the plant on ST Patrick's day and
were convinced that complaints had
been well founded. Comm issioner Nc
Laugh1in suggested a return to the
old method of burying the refuse.
Commissioners Ives reported that Con-
tractor Fischer had recently advised
him Of the arrival of six "digesters''
which were now being installed in
conjunction with alright rooms and
condensers, but as there were more
or less experimental, their actual
value could not be anticipated
DR.. Trecartin argued that the peo-
pie had withstood the nuisance for
three years, one of which had been
devoted to promises of remedy that
had not been fulfilled. The city was
unless. immediate action was taken to
put the matter directly up to the
County Health officer the city would
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-20

Home brewed beer has Of late years.
says Harold Simpson IN his sRauubles
In Norway" largely displaced spirits
IS the national drink OF the EOrWegie
ans. 1t is so popular that # iz used
even at breakfast to wash down tie
stock dfsh-fried pork smOthered im
onions. The first sight Of a Eorwegfau
breakfast table, adds the author, is apr
to astound one. 1t is covered with
small dishes, principally 6sh-frssh
fish, smoked fish, fish In tins, fsh en-
miniature barrels. There are also cold
meats and an endless variety 81
cheeses, of which the Norwegfans are
very fond.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-20

AS one climbs up to the uountafn
top the danger from lightning fncreaseE
rapidly, and, as a rule, the obserVa<
tories located on the mountain toua
are rather uncomfortable places q
residence, as discovered By the sciene
tific gentlemen who have had the exc
perience of a winter on a mountafu
top. It is evident that ordinary light
ming rods are entirely inadequate To
carry or the enormous dfscharees q
the mountain tflundeytorms. There
are several observatories On Mons
Blanc and at one of them that -
Jansen, there have been a numbeE Of
bombardments, during which the IN
terror of the place was filed with NIB
bonIike sheets of electricity and balls
of fire which moved silently from point
to point-Exchange
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-20

lose. DR.. Mclaughlin explained for
the benefit Of the board how it had
previously been agreed to proceed
against the plant and close it perma-
nently, but that through the city at
torney's office an extension had been
given Fischer that the defects might
be remedied. This had not been done
and as the system was not proven
practical in other cities, he would
move that Health Officer Hill be in
structed to take the necessary ac-
ton to ,abate the nuisance. 1t was
unanino usly voted SO to do.
A communication from NJ. A. Ken
ny, presenting a bill for $1O.O2 premi-
uTns on insurance of the tuberculosis
pavilion, was referred to the Char
tiles board for payment A dispute
as to the actual date of transfer of
title, and the holding of the bill in
the office Of the Board of Contract
and Supply until March 13 is said to
be responsible for non-payment-o Of the
item. 1t is not thought likely that
after declaring the intent of the Char
tiles Board to deed the property as a
gift to the Health board from the date
of it's January meeting, as expressed
in a letter read last night, that the
Charities department will accept re-
sponsibilfty for the payment, and the
bill may be sent to the Board of Con-
tract & supply for settlement as it is
alleged to have been incurred through
their failure to return it to the Health
or Charity Boards.
Health officer Edward A McLeI-
Ian reported that the Aston Hotel had
been thoroughly fumigated and was
now in sanitary condition
At the request Of Commissioner
Ives, the monthly bulletin report sent
to the various cities in the United
States as a means of boosting Bridge
port will be brought up to date with
reference to school, telephone, and
other statistics of a general nature.
Endorsement of the legislation to
restrict the sale of habit forming
drugs as outlined in Tuesday nights
meeting of the Bridgeport Medical So
ciety by President J. A. Leverty, of
the State Pharmaceutical association
was unanimously voted upon motion
of Commissioner Mclaughlin.
Steps towards having the Board OF
Contract and Supply secure bids for
removal of the old tuberculosis paw
lion at I.akeview Home to it's position
as addition to the isolation ward at
Bridgeport hospital were taken. Au-
thorization was given Health officer
Mcclellan to hire additional assistance
in the kitchen of the ward in view of
the threatened resignation of the
present caretaker of that building
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-20
Corrected In Rima.

Thackeray was much pestered by the
autograph hunter, says Holder in his
'Recollecttons.'' He disl1ked above all
things TO write in an autograph album
and often refused those who asked him
to do so, sometimes rather brusquely.
On one occasion the owner of an al
bum, young lady, was fortunate.
Tha ckeray. took her book to his room
in order to@look it over. Written on a
page he found these lines:
Mount Blanc is the monarch of noun
tains.
They crowned him long ago,
But who they got to put 1t
Nobody seems to know.
ALBERT SMITH.
Under these lines Mr.. Thackeray
wrotes
A HUMBLE SUGGESTION.
I know that Albert wrote in hurry
To criticise I scarce presume
But yet methinks that Lindley Murray
Instead of who" had written whom. -
w. NJ THACKERAY.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-20
ParnelFa ApoIoay.

Mr.. ParneIl, on April 10, 1873, char
acterlzed a statement made by Henry
James as "a legal bubble" worthy of
the honorable and learned member
from whom 1t proceeded.
ST must inform the honorable MEM
her," said the speaker, ''that an ex-
preston of that kind is unwarrantabIe
and must be withdrawn"
Mr.. Parnell apologized for having
used the expression. ST will say he
added, that the statement was more
worthy of the ingenuity of a petty SEES
sions attorney than of a lawyer of the
ability of the honorable and learned
gentleman"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-20

dressmaker's bill, and when I came
down to the Office was mad enough to
chew spikes. Then I sat down at my
desk and wrote little poem on Help
the EEring Brother With Single Kind
~ Word And, say, those verses, born
in bitterness and nourished by anger,
have been copied in the leading news
papers all over the country. How's
that?''
Fine. Why don't you improve on
the idea %
"HowT
why, get mad enough to beat up
your wife, set fire to the house, shoot
a policeman and then write an epic
that will go laundering down theag@.''
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-03-20
UNKNOWN MAN
FOUND STARVING
IN BOILER is DEAD
Body Unclaimed Is Sent to
MOrgue to Await Iden-
tificatiOn

Death came as an end to the suffer-
ings which the unknown man found
in a starving and partly frozen condi-
ton in an abandoned boiler on Housa-
tonic avenue yesterday morning, I'M
derwent before he was discovered and
sent to St. Vincent's hospital. AL
though every effort was made to re-
vive the patient, he steadily sank I'M
til the end came at about 9 O'Clock
last night.
AS none has yet identified the body
it will undoubtedly be sent to the Gull
Imam & Mullins morgue for public in
spection after an autopsy.