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The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-12-24

home already has been purchased. 1t
probably will be rehabilitated and pres
ented later.
Believing despite the war the anni-
versary should not pass unobserved in
the United States, number of widely
known citizens of this country who are
interested in the movement tonight
issued communication asking that
the day be remembered and celebrated
at specified dates beginning Feb, IL
The communication follows:
"One hundred years ago today there
was signed at Client in Flanders the
treaty of peace between Great Britain
C.ontin,ied on Pare Nine.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-12-24
Hesyy German Defeat Reported at Warsaw
Thrilling Account of the Battle OF LODI
Merry Christmas

in the rush of the merry morning,
When the red burns through the gray
And the wintry. world lies waiting
For the glory Of the day;
Their we hear a fitful rdshing
just without upon the stair,
See two white phantons coming,
Catch the gleam Of sunny hair.
Are they Christmas fairies stealing
Rows Of little socks to fill?
Are they angels floating hither
With their message OF goodwill?
What sweet spell are these elves weav"
ing, Il,
As like larI<s they ehirp and sins1
Are these palms of peace from HEAVIER
That these lovely spirits hrins2
Z Rosy feet upon the threshold,
Eager faces peeping through, \
With the first red ray Of sunshine, J
Chanting cheruhs come in view;
MistIetoe and cleaning holly,
Symbols of blessed day,
In their chubby hands they carry,
: Streaming all along the way.
Well we know them, never weary
OF this innocent surprise;
Waiting, watching, listening always
With full hearts and tender eyes,
While our little household angels,
White and golden in the SUM-
Greet US with the sweet old welcome
"Merry Christmas, every one!"
a.. IL. Selected.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-12-24
ARIZONA
GOES DRY
ON JAN. |

prohibition law viii go into effect Jan.
"a, The special federal tribunal frs~Fn
which injuctions were sought, to pre- y
vent the enforcement, refused the in
functions.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-12-24
French Battleship
Was Torpedoed by
Austrian Submarine
With Little Damage

london Dec An official statement Paris late
gay that an austrian torpedoed French baehp
No killed The Gulf Of oanto at
southern Of italy.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-12-24
OFFICIAL GERMAN STATEMENT.

Berlin, Dec 24.-The official communication issued from
German headquarters part: The enemy did
his attacks in the neghborhood of Newport yesterday
AT Bixschoote we took 23O prisoners Dec %.
The again active yesterday i'll the neighbor-
hood of Chaons Infantry attacks followed fierce artillery
attacks made by the enemy
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-12-24
Laconic Statement
From Petrograd Says
Russians Have Won
Important Victory
PETRoGRAD DEC. ga HEAVY GERMAN DE-
FEAT rs REPORTED NEAR WARSAW.

Although accounts vary to the present status OF mill
tary affairs in Poland it is evident that the of heaviest
fighting has shifted southwark from Sochacozew, town
the Bzura river thirty miles from Warsaw toward which
the Germans for several days have directed their principal
efforts
Austro forces operating from Cracow base are
attempting push northward into Poland In this effort
however, they meeting with determined resistance from
the Russians official statement from Petrograd
that the Russians Gaca continue and that
the Carpahians the Ausrans have been thrown back.
Another sorte by the garrison at Przemys which has
long been under attack by the Russians said to have
suited disastrously for the Austrians.
Heavy fighting continues in France and Belgium, but
thus far the renewed activities have accomplished little Meth
side being able drive the other from the strongly or
fled positions held long.
Now that the French government has returned Paris
venturesome German has attempted prove that
the capital yet within the by flying it. He
brought down by French aeroplane, however, at a
point nineteen miles from the city of Paris
London Dec A-Christmas eve finds little change In
the underground warfare being conducted in the
theatre where General Jore, commandern-chief
of the French army still appears be cautiously feeling for
opening in the strongly enrenched German line,
France and Belgium E#
$780, In the the supreme GernaE effort continues be
made before Warsaw where the of the
and of the Russians seeking to check them, back and
forth along the banks of the rivers barring the way the
Polish capital. "... e,
The Russians claim in the latest encounters but
during the last days the Germans advanced appreci
ably and is said they bringing up their 42centi
metre guns preparatory to siege operations
In Galcia the Austro German forces have made
further In the north the reported
to have pushed the invaders further back into East Prussia
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w Il A II III Il n.

Partly cloudy tonight and Friday;
not much change in temperature.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-31

If any body of men had attempted to pull off event
at Riverbank without asking Judge Wnnerton to recte
Ozark the field and the bugles SILENT and had
locked the doors to keep him out he would have climbed
in through window and after preliminary @Ah, Cen
emen, this is entirely unexpected, but if my memory
will serve me will attempt to deliver few poetic lines
written by dying soldier during the late unpleasant
ness. Then he would have recited "Dark the field
and the buges silent And, to tell the TRUTH he
would have done it we'll As recitatonist Judge Win
merton is the equal of any gentleman of his weight age,
and height west of the Mississippi and east of the
Missouri. He may be said to hold the heavyweight
recitation championship of Iowa. and to hold it with
dark field and silent buges and nothing else 1t is his
3pece." But what piece!
"Now, them says the committee, who'll get to
make few remarks after the Judge recites?'
The answer-athough they don't know it vets
the Rev. Ferdinand Cotter.
"You do that, Neddie,7 says member to the
chairman. "You do that well anyone
AThat's right! Put Neddie down for the remarks"
"Now, Boys! Now hold on! Don't run away with
yourselves, says the chairman. II can't make speech
You know that well as l do. All right, then,
if you going to act that way, III say won't make
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-31

him. Old Bill Higgins put pedestal in this
way.
Riverbank has neither many banquets many
celebrities New York. but it makes the of what
it has Every few years there of of the
regiments that went through the Civil War; and there
is campfire part of it. Once in awhile there is
Old Settlers Reunion, with dinner And every year
the Chamber of Commerce has its annual banquet at
the Mercantile Hotel The routine of the committee
entertainment for each of these about the
same.
well get Barker to make the opening speech" they
say joyuly, if giving birth to idea of tremendous
brliance. AS matter of fact, Barker always asked
to make the opening address, whenever anything is
going anywhere in Rverbank County He is a
lawyer erect with curly black hair and frock coat
between buttons of which he insert fingers
of his right hand while waiting for the applause die
when he has been introduced And speake Bless your
old star-spangledbann ship-ofstate from Maine
Oregon, and-long- may-she-wave oratory! 1t never
fails. @That's right says the committee well have
Barker. He's always good You can always depend
Barker"
"Well, then, that's Barker. Now, what about having
a rotation
Every member of the committee creases his brow.
After few minutes of painful thought slaps
his hand on his knee and says:
"Say How about getting Judge Winnerton to recite
Dark the field and the bugles silent? ~
"Bully! Just the thing the committee exclaims and
it jots down Judge Wnnertons if thinking of
the Judge had been of the ucest bits of chance
that ever happened. The that thought of him is
congratulated warmly just if there had been
banquet, campfire old settlers meeting, since
the Civil War, at which Judge Winnerton had not
rected Dark the field and the buges silent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-31

Boss and all the Lord High things of the Ancient Order
of Kazoozus members of the Chamber of Commerce,
and is the Mayor, and the Chief of Police, and
all the county officials and we'll get them all after
Bill Higgins Why, he can't refuse Now, all of you
make it point to Bill Higgins tomorrow. Tell him
he's the only bright spot We'll have. Explain to him
that we've got to sit through half mile of that usual
Barker spread-eage business, and absorb about ten
tons of the sort of pater Rev Cotter ladies out and
grit teeth and hear old Judge Wnnerton spout that
Dark the field and the bugles silent thing
until fall asleep, and that must have him to tell
his Grandmother's' mule story If he DON'T the thing
will be as gloomy wet washday."
FAR be it from me-" as Lawyer Barker was accus-
toned to say in his speeches, tell Bill Higgins
Grandmother mule" story As far as am concerned,
that story is Bill Higgins story, and not going to
put it in print that everyone in Rverbank clip it
out and carry around inside pocket and learn to
recite it by heart. Familiarity still breeds contempt,
and when the time that everyone in Riverbank
is telling Bill Higgins story the story will longer
please. A thing-no matter how good-can be too
Familiarity known. rst-cass we'll -weahered humor-
story be told the group of men regularly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-31

get rid of it. He pack his suitcase and flee to
Europe, and someone will pop up dinner and say,
3A1r. Smith. will you not oblige by telling the
Colonel, dis am story?' The that certain
tells certain story cannot be killed Once he tells
it and makes diner laugh he has to tell it until he
sick of it that he the day Tor night he first told it.
In short while the storytellers are tagged with the
of their stories. The sight of the unfortunate
storyteler Immediately suggests the story and he may
beg and plead and shed in his efforts be per-
mitted to tell some other story but in vain 1t works
automatically, just pulling trigger drops the ham,
of pistol. If Will Irwin shows his head in a crowd
says 4Tell the Sunday-school- orange tree
grafter-upthere" story and he has to tell it. He is not
allowed to tell any other Stories matter how he may
be prined for them, until he has told that one Old
lrv Cobb has for tried to escape telling Gt hung
Niger, git hung' but he can't do it. When story
teller dies half the people that his funeral
to bury the well known story rather than bury the
we'll known man.
IN this respect Riverbank is like New York When it
finds man who can tell story it sets him pedes-
tai and adrnires him. but it insists that he stand
far enough to allow his favorte story stand beside
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-31
By ELLIS PARKER BUTLER

speech! No, I'm not mad and l appreciate what you
mean but don't want to spoil the whole affair. The
question is, who will get to make few remarks
"The question is who can we get, someone amends.
@Charley Murdock?' someone suggests.
Zine! Charley speak Put him down for the
remarks"
@Now that's settled. Charley Murdoch for the
say, you don't suppose he'll say anything make Judge
Wnnerton angry, do you? The way Charley speaks
out sometimes
That's And Murdoch just would hit the Judge
somehow. He wouldn't miss the chance. We could
leave the Judge off the program"
"And who would you get to recite then?'
"Humi Well-we can't have Murdoch, that's sure"
Then they scratch around among the male inhab-
tants of Rverbank, turning and discussing
available material until someone says
4You know, Rev. Ferdy Cotter made whacking
good speech at the Old Settlers meeting last June"
He did SOL heard him, and he made dandy. He
always does make dandy speech. He's the best hand
at a speech we have in town, if he is dominic
So they have the Rev. Ferdinand Cotter just as they
always have him. and just they will continue to have
him until he dies away. But when it comes to
choosing to tell funny story there never any
hesitation.
@And we'll have old Billy Higgins tell his Grand
mothers mule story someone says.
1f get him to tell it. says another. @He hates
to tell that story He says he'd rather take licking
than tell it. When tried to get him tell it the
Knights of the Imperial Robe banquet last month he
up and down he going tell that story
again. He he wouldn't tell it for u.s. We had the
Grand Mogu and the Grand High Keeper of the Robe,
and the Grand Magnificent High Wielder of the Pen,
and me- and Jimmy Rogers all after him. We kept after
him three weeks"
@But you got him, didn't you?"
"You bet we did"
@Well we've got four weeks to get after him. and your
Grand Mogul and Grand everything else are members
of the Chamber of Commerce. And the Lord High
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People insist that he l have crowd of
men revile Hy Mayer and almost mob him because he
would not tell the telephone story they had heard
twenty times. 1t made difference that he told half
a dozen brand stories, each good the
telephone story better: they had to have that
When has heard story four or five times, and
has laughed at it each time he feels safe. He knows
where the laugh in, and he hungers to hear
again. He would rather hear that story than any
Der of ones because he knows the old funny
1t is like an old frend-always welcome. He knows
its tricks and its When the POSTMASTER says
"Our distinguished fellow member, Mr.. Hopkinson
Smith, will now tell story every face
an air of anxiety and deep Everyone knows it
will be funny story but knows what it will be,
nor where the laugh in, and the pleasure of the
moment destroyed by the necessity of concentrating
the attention But when the POSTMASTER says "Mr.
Hopknson Smith has kindly consented to tell us the
Colonel dis de crisis OBJ yo life story, the whole
crowd settles back its chairs look of bssfu salts
faction spreads its faces and it welcomes its old
friend with loud cheers the cheers from the table in the
far corner of the being especially wild and pro-
longed.
No one magines that Hopkinson Smith likes to tell
that story, although he air of willingness,
to hurt the feelings of the crowd. As matter of
fact, he has unnumbered stores many of which he
siders better than the Colonel dis am" story; but
he has been harried and coaxed and budozed by the
POSTMASTER and others until he has reluc-
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Drawings by Rollin Mcneil crompton

HERE is great deal more banqueting and
dining in New York than in Riverbank,
Iowa, and by the time one of us hayseeds
from the West has had twenty years or
so of it he comes to know the stories fairly
we'll, and he knows that the reason man
tells the same story over and over is not
because he likes to, but because he has to-
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POSTMASTER and Others until he has reluc
family consented to tell Colonel dis am"
for the thousandth time. That is one of the
saddest features of great mans life Once
let him tell story in public he can never
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-27
GEORGE F. BAER
TAKEN BY DEATH
Head of Reading Railroad Sys-
tenn Succumbs to Seizure
Incurred in Street.

Philadelphia, Pa, April 27.-George
F. Baer, president OF the Philadelphia
and Reading railway, and active in the
organization and management of many
coal, iron and transportation compan
les, died at his home here yesterday.
He was stricken in the street Satur-
day while walking to his Office, and
never recovered consciousness. AL
though nearly 70 years old. Mr.. Baer
had been unusually active and his a.
sociates considered him in the best OF
health.
His wife, who is nearly 20 years old,
remained at his bedside during the "a
hours he lay i'll.
Others in the sick room at the time
of the death were his five daughters,
Mrs. william Griscom Coke of Will
mington, Mrs. William N. Appel of
Lancaster Mrs. Hebel Smith,
Mrs. Isaac Peister, and Mrs. Frank l..
Connard of Reading; his sons-inlaw,
four physicians, and Walter Douglas,
who has been employed by him as a
Coachlnan for 80 years.
Gastric troubles, supplemented by a
kidney disorder, is believed by the ply
sicians to have been responsible for
Mr. Baer's sudden illness. He ap-
peared to be in good health when he
left his home Saturday morning.
George F. Baer became prominent
in the reorganization of the Philadel-
phia and Reading railway in 1898, and
was elected president Of that company
and the coal company and also of the
New Jersey Central roalroad in 1901.
Mr.. Baer was born near Lavansville,
Somerset county, Pennsylvania, Sept
26, 1912. He was descended from a
long line of German ancestry. In his
boyhood he got little academic train
ing. his education, apart from the
country schools, consisting of brief
course at Franklin and Marshall col
lege, Lancaster, Pa.
His greater training came from con-
tact with life in his experiences as
printers devil, editor, amateur survey
or. and in an active military career.
beginning as captain of a volunteer
in the civil war and terminal
ing with his discharge as adjutant gen.
eral of the Second brigade. Army of
the Potomac. This was followed by
MS taking up law.
In 1868 he removed to Reading, and
IN 1870 was counsel for the Reading
company. in which capacity he had
charge of much important litigation.
he was elected a director of the COM
,any In the sos. but resigned under
he Mcleod administration.
Mr.. Baer was Interested in literature
nd historical research. and was au-
hor OF papers on the early history or
he Pennsylvania Germans Several
ears ago he gave $5o.00o to Frankiir
nd Marshall college
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-27
PROSPECT
SENDS STOCKS UP
New York Traders Who Had
Sold Short Bid Excitedly
for Securities.

New York, April 27.-The prospects
of peace with Mexico caused an ex-
cited rush upward of stocks today.
Prospects of a long war with Mexico
led to heavy speculative selling last
week at steadily falling prices. The
proposal of mediation and its reported
acceptance by Huerta sent up prices
with a rush at the opening today.
Traders who had sold short bid excit-
edly for stocks to cover, and for the
first half hour there was a lively scene
on the floor.
Mexican petroleum stock, which was
especially heavy last week, jumped
been witnessed on the exchange for
several years. Bears, in a panic.
pushed up prices 10 points on the first
transaction, and thereafter a point at
a time. After the excitement had-died
down quotations slipped back until IL
points of advance was lost. American
Smelling. which also was particularly
heavy last week, owing to extensive
interests in Mexico. jumped four
points on the first sale. Elsewhere
gains ranged from l to points.
Despite big gain in early trading, the
market closed with heavy realizing
and professional selling reduced the
gains and the whole market weakened
when Mexican petroleum, Cauadian
Pacific and Colorado fuel began to
break. Mexican petroleum reacted to
more than a full point under Satur-
days close.
Chicago, ILL.,, April 27.-Peace pros
poets had bearish effect today on the
wheat market
London, Eng, April 27.-There was
smart recovery on the stock exchange
today on news that Huerta had ac-
,epted proffered mediation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-27
U. S. POPULATION
NOW 109,000,00O
Estimates Based on the 18th
Census Made Public by
Director Harris.

Washington, d. c.. April 27.-The
United States is a country OF 100000
900 people, according TO the bulletin
containing the estimates OF population
for the years subsequent to the 18th
census, soon to be published by Di-
rector William j. Harris OF the bureau
of the census, Department OF Com
merce. II was prepared under the
supervision of c. S. Sloane, geogra-
pher.
AS stated the estimated population
NJ the Uuited States for July 1, 1914.
will be O9.O2I ,992. The population OF
the United States and its possessions
in 1910 was 1OI, ,74S,269 so there will
have been an estimated gain OF over
7 900, 900 persons in a little more
than four years. The corresponding
estimated population OF continental
United States for July !. 1914 Is 49,
7s1 324, as compared with the popula-
ton of 81 .s72. .266. as returned by the
April Is. 1910
Estimates OF population are required
nrimariIy for use in the census bureau
In calculating death rates and per cap
Ita averages for years other than the
census year. The so-called arithmet-
IcaI method was adopted for comput-
ing these estimates. 1t is the Lfmplest
and IL has been shown by experience
IN come nearer in accuracy in the ma
Iortty of cases than any other formula
!, rests on the assumption that the
increase in population each year since
he enumeration is equal TO the annual
ncraase from 1900 TO 1910.
The population OF the state OF Ill
nois is placed at 5.9s6.7s1. against
), ,36s. .691 in 1910.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-27
BUTTER COMBINE
BROUGHT TO END
Directors and Members of Elgin
Board Acquiese in Terms
of Federal Decree.

Chicago. Ill. April 27.-The govern
ment's decree in the antitrust case
against the Elgin Board of Trade was
entered today before Federal Judge
lands. In accepting the decree Lam
dis declared the action in which mem
bers OF the Elgin board directorate
acquiesced. marked the end of color
alton of butter prices" BY the terms
of the decree directors of the Elgin
hoard and members are permanently
entoined and restrained from further
in a combination OF conspir-
acy such as charged in the bill OF
complaint
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-27
John D.. Says All Family
Colorado Interests Are
Held BY His Son.
SCORES OF LIVES LOST
Situation in Coal Fields De-
Scribed Worse Than Mexico
by Cabinet Member.

Washington, D. c.. April 27.-Presi-
dent Wilson mas made a personal ap-
peal to John d. Rockefeller TO bring
about a settlement of the Colorado coal
strike and attendant violence which
already has cost a score of lives and
large property loss.
Rockefeller, who owns a large part
of the mines affected by the strike,
in response to a telegram from the
president, declared he had turned over
his interests in Colorado to his son,
John d. Rockefeller. Jr.. whom he
would ask TO cooperate with Chairman
Foster of the house committee on
mines and mining. The president sent
Foster to New York today to talk with
young Rockefeller.
Upon the outcome of the conference
depends whether federal troops asked
for on all sides of the controversy will
be sent 10 the strike zone. Recently
young Rockefeller, at the hearing of
the house committee, said the mine
owners would fight to the end, even
though they lost all they have invested
in Colorado
''Nothin gthat has happened in Mex
ico." said a cabinet official today, 'is
compared with the awful things that
have occurred in Colorado"
Foster Mission Fails.
New York. April 27.-Chairman
Foster of the house committee on
mines. after a conference here with
young Rockefeller, said: Nothing
accomplished" He will return to
Washington
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-04-27
men IN OIL FIELD
ASK FOR GUARD.
Navy Department Receives Re-
quest Through Owners of
Wells South of Tampico.

Washington. d. c., April 27.-The
navy department has received re-
quest from oil interests in New York
that an American force be sent to res
cue 100 employees about seventy-fiva
miles southwest of Tampioo. The re
quest stated the men are well armed.
but are unable to get to American
ships because OF fighting between the
constitutionalists and federal troopa
about Tampico.