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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31

the Isles Of the Sirens; or in the full
May moonlight the oranges of Sorreno
shone across it great and golden, per-
And from the Sorrento, where Tasso
was born, it looked across to pleasant
Posilippo, where Virgil is buried and
to stately Ischia. The palm of Capri
saw all that was fairest n most ia
nous in the Bay of Naples. :.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
PREJUDICE.

He pricked his finger on a rose
And then went forth to. warn
His ~neighbors of the bush that grows
A sharp and dangerous thorn.
Beware" he cried, that little tree;
1t is an ugly thing, 1
For once it sorely wounded me, :
And you twill surely sting"
And so he went along his way
Proclaiming loud his woes, !
Advising everyone to stay
In terror of the rose. =.
And there are men who walk about,
With logic just as sound,
or other fellows pointing out
The faults that they have found.
They bid us heed their cry Of "thorn,'
And fail the rose to scan;
And they would blind us with their
scorn
To what is good in man.
Edgar A. Guest in Detroit Free
Press.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31

o.. ESii.

The most tremendous aerial drama
will be staged in 1915 when the sig
nal is given for the 22,000-mi1e
Panama-Paciic International Avia-
eon race around the world for prizes
Nf 100000 or more. Aeronauts from
MI civilized nations with every de-
gGEip6on Of air craft driven by
motors win participate. The event
win compare with the crossing Of
the Atlantic by Columbus and the
circumnavigation of the, globe by
Magellan IN 1872. Arnold Kruck-
man, chief of the 2Anama-PsciAe en-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
Whv knnck.

st. Louis Mirror: Mrs. Ellsworth
had a new colored maid. One morning
as the maid came downstairs the mis-
tress* said: Emma, did you knock; at
Miss Flora's door when ! sent you up
with her breakfast?'
mo, ma'am," replied the maid with
p~reternatural gravity. What was de
use of a-knockin' at her do when /
knowed TO- sure she was in dar?"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
The Palm Tree of Capri.

George William Curtis: I knew a
palm tree upon Capri. It stood in Sc
lect society Of shining fig leaves and
tustrous oleanders; 1t 'oVerhung the
balcony and so looked, for: overlean-
Ing, down upon the. blue Mediter-
ranean Through the dream mists of
southern Italian Moons it looked up the
broad Bay of Naples and saw vague
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
Knew His Own Snssd.

Lippincotts: A retail dealer in
leather goods, doing business in Bal
timore, wrote to a firm in southern
Massachusetts orderingsca carload OF
the merchandise. The firm wired him:
Cannot ship your order until the
last consignment is paid for" ~.
UNABLE to wait SO long," tele-
graphed the leather merchant, Cam
eel the order"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
THESE GIRLS, CAN THROW.
Vassar Students Prove Old Joke Oh
Women Is a Libel.

Poughkeepsie Cor. New York World:
Two records were broken by Vassar
girls in the annual indoor track meet.
Miss Elizabeth Harding threw the
basket seventy-ive feet, eclipsing the
Smith, ~, was second; Miss E. Goss,
is, third.
Miss Harding also was one Of three
who smashed the swinging broad jump
record. The three who went the great
est distance in this event were: Miss
A. Swan, class Of IT. nine feet and a
half inch; Miss e. Harding, '16, eight
feet and half inch, and Miss e.. Lester,
rs, eight feet six and a half inches. The
former record was eight feet one inch.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
Grain RSCeipfN.

7 Chicago. March 31.-Whest 90 cars;
Scontract II cars; estimated 20 cars;
E1ast year holiday; corn 212 cars; con-
ktract 10 cars; estimated 211 cars; last
wear holiday; oats 143 cars; contract %
bears; estimated 143 cars; last year holi.
Frday.
| Minneapolis-Wheat 277 cars; last
Eyesr 1911 cars; flax 13 cars; last year
HIT cars; stocks wheat decrease $4,000
kbushels; pats decrease 100 900 bushels
Fin 3 days
yDuluth-Wheat As cars; last year As
Fears.
Winnipeg-Wheat 4O2 cars; last year
Eg49 cars.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
Matrimonial shonnina.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: It is said
Queen Mary is looking for a wife for
her second son.
her that. a lot of those princely wives
OF, continental Europe might welcome
Ia transfer.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
sonoe4h;rr s. Il ook Forward 10.

sydney Bulletin: The Curate-Now,
my deah children, I want you allato
join me in singing that bee-utiful
hymn. which I hope and trust We will
sing together in the Great Beyond,
s"Heah We Suffer Grief and Pain.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31

Sufficient material FOR several a
having been found by Russian geolog-
lists, a cement factory with a yearly
production Of not less than 100000
barrels will be established in the Cau-
casuss
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
At aFanny's First Play.

Boston Transcript: He (after sec
ond act)-This play contains a great
deal of food for reflection.
She--I suppose the reason yot1 are
going out lis to get something to wash
lit down.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
The Exact Snot.

Baltimore American:. did the man
who attacked YOU hit you between re-
mo, he didn't. He hit me between
the eyes
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
~ paka. Ri,,M

Dallas News: Mrs. Peavish says
that iR it were to do over again no
man need ever ask for her hand until
ne had shown his.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
Ernarf cnuan&nr.

washington Post: One difficulty in
the way Of buying. Huerta off is that
he's already collecting at the source.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
a plausible Theory.

Houston Post: why do you sup
pose that Englishrnan gave $4,000 for
"a flea"
Perhaps he thought that his. wife
needed exercise"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31

with the idea of eventually produc-
ing a perfect human race. an English
scientist has as a nucleus six children
9Sfs al many nationalities and will add
sffyea more to his colony.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
The Markets
MARKET
Wheat.

,Chaa. e. Lewis & Co.. Grain and stock
Brokers. Morton Block, Fargo.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
ADDITIONAL SPORTS.
A ONE GAME EACH.

In the Employed boys bowling lea
que last evening the Harley-Davidson
and the EXcelsiors won one game each;
both being very close. The score is as
follows.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
Stronger Scholastic Equipment.

The urpose Is to build up a Statc
corps of rural teachers with stronger
scholastic equipment than has been the
average heretofore. The high school
board Is not prepared to predict a fur
Their raising Of admission requirements
to the stage of a full four-year high
school education. because that Is the
standard for admission in the state
normal schools, and such a step would
bring the teacher training departments
of the high schools into competition
with the regular normal schools.
This is considered undesirable, as it
is reasoned that, with admission re-
quirements the same. students would
choose the regular normal and the high
school departments would languish.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
IMPROVING QUALITY OF
RURAL SCHOOL TEACHERS

With n view TO improving the quality
Of teachers Of rural schools, the state
high school board has raised the en-
trance requirements for students Of
normal departments in high schools.
These departments are conducted, un-
der special state aid, wholly to train
teachers for rural work.
The new regulation Is that, begin
ming with the fall of 1915 candidates
for work in normal departments must
have at least two years of regular high
school, or the equivalent; and, begin
ming the fall Of 1916, a minimum Of
three years of high school work
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-31
Flax

Jan. July Sept
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The Detroit times., 1914-08-18
AWfM Carnage of Franco German
Battles Pictured BIZ Witness

THE French were beaten In that
battle simply because they could not
BUTCHER any more Germans. Their
ammunition had given out!"
The words are those OF G. T. Robin
son, skilled war correspondent with
the French troops on the German
frontier. They were written forty
four years ago!
Robinson was correspondent In the
beleaguered city OF Metz, In whose
neighborhood the very scenes he de-
scribes are now being repeated.
The Rrussian idea of attaining SIC
cess was By sheer force of numbers"
he writes. Take for example the
bloody engagement OF st. Privat. The
Prussians pushed up the slope enorm-
GUS masses Of men. Our batteries on
the heights moved them down at 1.200
to 1.4O0 yards, in long black rows. The
more we killed the more there were
to kill. The Prussians knew that after
a time II would be physically fmpos'
sible for us to keep on killing them
Men and ammunition would be alike
exhausted.
After the fearful battle of Grave.
lotte, Robinson went onto the field
with the surgeons.
1.-THE ashes Of the French camp fires
were still red. But where were the
French? Alas, climbing to the crest
we found them! A long even line OF
their dead. three deep, laid out with
military regularity! Craning their
necks to peer over the crest. they had
been caught by a sheet OF bullets from
the enemy. Most had fallen forward
The Detroit times., 1914-08-18
European War VIII Keep
CONGRESS In Session
Germany would come near to ending

Germany would come near to ending
It. ~
To consider all these matters con-
gress must stand by. Besides. there
10 the work OF passing the trust bills;
Tor president Wilson has not relented
In the slightest degree In his deter
mination to have this legislation be-
fore the fall campaigns. Members
nave been notified that quorum
must be maintained and the sergeant
alarms OF the senate and OF the house
VIII issue warrants and arrest mem
bers II they do not attend.
The federal government II we'll In
trenched In the matter OF money. In
the treasury Offices there are at the
present time In gold coin S80,S45.-
926.05; In standard silver there are
$22.395.111.97. This Ia In addition to
the gold reserve OF 3150.000. 900 re.
served against the United States notes
and the treasury notes OF 1890. These
together aggregate approximately
$34S.000,000. The Aldrfch- Vreeland
emergency currency now being issued
TO meet the strained bank credits IL
not redeemable In gold. II IL payable
IN currency. In point of fact II will
be redeemed In gold. Gold can be
had for 1t on presentation at any
bank or suh-treasury or at the treas
ury In Washington. but II differs from
the gold certificates and treasury
notes which on their face require re-
demption In gold coin.
Charles A. Conant. Of the Morton
Trust Co., In New York, has suggest
ed to the secretary Of the treasury
that the government should make
difference between bank notes and
Aldrfch currency, declining to make
them interchangeable lest an effort be
made to use the Aldrich currency to
gather In the notes and certificates
which In turn might be used to raid
the gold reserve. The secretary Of
the treasury feels. however, that In
the present condition Of credit there
Is no occasion to worry about the gold
reserve.
II congress finds II necessary to
provide new revenues TO replace the
interrupted tariff revenues. several
plans will be considered. An increase
In the percentage levied on incomes,
particularly the greater incomes.
would be an easy way to add to fed.
eral revenues. The internal revenue
duties might be increased. particu-
larly those on beer, as during the
Spanish-American war Some OF the
stamp duties might be revived, such
as those on kilograms and bank
checks.
The Detroit times., 1914-08-18
Perpetuating the Balance

Suppose that, In the beginning,
our Father Adam was q brilliant In
tellect, our Mother Eve a fool. Then
Adams daughters would have inner
tied his brain power, while Ewes fool
ishness must have been transmitted
to her sons.
For the daughter is the intellect.
ual heir Of the father; the son the
legatee Of his mothers brain.
Thus God sustains his perpetual
balance between the sexes. Thus Ma
ture laughs at mans supposed mo-
nopoly Of creative intellect"
Thus writes Nixola Greeley-Smith.
Where the lady gamers her statistics
on the transmission of intellect Is
unknown but, in long career OF
reading. we've never yet seen a
writer draw Adam and Eva as an
object lesson without getting be-
fuddled and befuddling US.
In that Eden story, It was clearly
Adam who was the fool. II was Eve
who went hunting for wisdom. Ii
was Adam who avoided the Tree OF
knowledge and started the record OF
masculine folly by eating OF the fruit
and thereby sacrificing his happiness.
just because he was asked to.
But how can one claim that Eve
passed her intellectually to her sons
when we find her first born commit.
ting the highest OF crimes, well-know.
ing that he would be convinced owing
TO the limited population?
Again. suppose that Adam had the
brilliant intellect. and passed 1t on
to his daughters in sustaining the
perpetual balance" II couldn't have
been so brilliant an intellect, for we
hear nothing Of the daughters, and
so important q narrative would hardly
have omitted their doings had there
been anything In them indicative OF
inheritage of brilliant intellect.
Maybe Adam and Eve started q
balance between the sexes that IL
perpetuated till today. 1t Is hard to
pick out any intellectual superiority
among the sexes OF that old time
Eden. and certain It Is that the mod
ern Adam can be got to perpetrate
any folly. intellectual or otherwise.
that his Eve offers. often enough and
fiercely enough, to his intellectually.
However, the theory that the son
inherits mothers brain and the
daughter fathers intellect, explains
some families. Nature may be en-
titled to q laugh at mans supposed
monopoly Of intellect but man often
has the laugh on her over the tre-
mendous distance she travels to ar
rive at a balance between the sexes.
The Detroit times., 1914-08-18
By OLSON GARDNER.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18S.-Congress
will be obliged to remain In session
to meet emergencies which are likely
to arise In consequence OF the Euro.
pean war. One OF the most certain
II not pressing OF these emergencies
will be the re-establishment of gov.
eminent revenues. Tariff duties fur.
nish the greater part OF the money on
which the federal government does
business. But tariff duties depend ON
imports. Stop imports and the tarifi
revenues stop. These receipts at the
over million dollars a day. On the
first OF August they were y1,191.
593.60. Almost as much revenue Ia
added by the internal taxes. namely
those on tobacco, snuff. brews and
liquors. These amount to over q mil
lion dollars a day and on the first OF
August were $1.400, 1896. These will
go on despite the war. Supplement-
ing these two sources OF revenue are
the corporation and income tax, pro
ducing about $35.000.000 OF $4,000, 00C
year. and few miscellaneous rev
enues. The governments yearly In
come and outgo is now approximately
a billion dollars.
Should the war last several months
or promise TO last year as II Ii
quite possible 1t may do, the federal
government would find II necessary
to pass legislation providing new
sources OF revenue. Temporary emer
gencies can be met by the sale ol
Panama canal bonds already author
ICED by congress. The present Law
permits this issue to the amount oi
63l $50. Thus the secretary Of the
government has issued to date S134,
631,9S0. Thus the secretar yof the
treasury has II within his power to
raise $240. 469. 900 by the sale OF Pan
anna canal bonds. This would sup
plement the revenues for seven OF
eight months.
Congress might see at also to au
thorize a temporary issue of four OF
Ave per cent bonds for the specific
purpose Of meeting the expenses OF
the government during the emergency
period This would be regarded al
justiiable on the very reasonable as
sumption that customs revenues vii
be restored In even greater volume as
soon as the fighting ends. This may
happen even before generally expect
ed. The war may be over In 60 days
or 80 days. A decisive naval en-
gagement between Great Britain and
The Detroit times., 1914-08-18

further suspicious. ED Spivens,"
she exclaimed. that's a package Of
dynamite.
well what II It is" said Ed. with
damage unless 1t explodes."
Ed Spivens," shrilled the woman.
IF you think am going to ride six
miles In a buggy with you with 80
pounds Of dynamite at my feet you
are bigger fool than I thought you
were! You have that man take that
stun right out and put 1t In the back
part OF the buggy, under the seat
Indianapolis News.
The Detroit times., 1914-08-18
Precaution

From some OF the small town drug
stores In the stone quarry district
Of Indiana you can buy anything from
talcum powder to blasting gelatine.
Not long ago small quarry operator
drove up to one OF these stores. The
man was In buggy and was accom-
panied by his wife. Calling to the
proprietor OF the store. he said: "Jim.
bring me that box bought a while
ago"
The package was placed in the
buggy at the feet OF the man and his
wife. The latter eyed the box sus-
piicously.
whats In that packageT she
asked, with some fervor.
Now, never mind" said the hus,
band. That's not going to hurt
you"
The evasion excited the woman's
The Detroit times., 1914-08-18

arms outstretched. fingers still on the
unpulled trigger.
There was one who had reeled
over backwards, his face half shot
away. Surely, that mangled body
moved! Good God, the man was still
alive.
That was Just one horror in the
nine-mile line Of shambles that mark
ed the glorious battle line Of Grave
lotte.
I'VE went out to the held with Jolt.
Ing unhung carts to convey the wound
ed. AS We raised them, torturing their
wounds, for the first time we heard
cries.
"The groans OF the dying and
shrieks OF the wounded are not known
In battle. But far more dreadful than
they would be IN the awful silence Of
the battlefield at night. There is only
a low, Quivering moan floating over IT,
a sound almost too deep for utterance.
II thrills the listener through with In
describable horror It Is the true, and
horrible, song of war;"
The Detroit times., 1914-08-18
Into the Woods for Comfort
r. thIs morning a man said

In he ca a
I'm fne m
to
new Europe S
fellow
I q houd
take the woodst untroubed
True.e each Ii when
eieme In ange Nowhere
But
now and then,a q water Ia he
Uyoug GO fol
the Of
/
foliage hiding
pet
The Detroit times., 1914-08-18
From Another Point of VieW

These orders to shoot to kill In
Amherstburg are hard to understand,
unless some fellow who has to live
In Amherstburg has requested it.
At time like this the part OF
strategy suggests that German war
ships do not stick together.
There is one thing residents In the
war zone have to be thankful for;
they don't have to listen to other peo-
pie eating corn on the cob.
The Detroit times., 1914-08-18
French Frontier
String of Huge Forts.
BY w. n. PoRTERFiELD,
Who Recently Returned from a Lon,
OF europe.


Tour OF Europe.
We We're riding In a rubber-neck
touring wagon near Nancy. where the
great forestry school is located.
asked the guide where the great for
tifications were located. He pointed
to the French frontier and said:
I'VE cannot go any closer. as we
are now only eight miles away"
We then took the field glasses and
picked out miles and miles of low
turf-covered hills which our guide as
sured US were merely the coverings
OF vast concrete bomb-proof forts
housing great guns with disappearing
carriages.
These forts command the country
for 80 miles about Nancy, and this Is
but a sample Of the entire French
frontier.
All these forts must be passed be
fore the German army can ever get a
chance TO encounter the French
troops beyond.
The Detroit times., 1914-08-18
Cupid Wounded

CHICAGO, Aug. I'D. Cupid.
wounded, is the first American war
victim. Gustav Bour Is French. His
bride of three months came from Ber-
lin. A two-days battle followed the
war declaration. The divorce court
Is acting as Red Cross nurse.
The Detroit times., 1914-08-18

With action hardly suited to the
word In q down river alteration, we
note, one Of the principals called the
other "tack-head." but hit II with
mallet.
II baseball wants to get back into
the publics attention, II looks as H.
somebody will have to throw some.
more sand on Jack Sheridan.
Mayor Marx IL making no reference
TO John Mcvicar, his opponent, In his
speeches, and probably wishes he
could say az much for John.
II Chase Osborn can keep those
newspaper enemies against him for
Just another week, there seems to be
no doubt about his landing the nomi-
nation.
Jack Johnson hasn't gone to war yet
There may be a hitch over the divi-
sion Of the gate receipts.
Cleveland reports a shortage In the
honey crop. This has been a tough
season on the Cleveland small boy.
We have just received news from
an old friend that he was married last
week. We have written him we hope
he and his wife are still living to-
gether.
The Detroit times., 1914-08-18
The Way.

Hemmandhaw-Is there any way to
make the women dress decently?
Mrs. Hemmendhaw-Certainly there
Is.
well, what Is it?"
XIII OF the men,"