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THE EVENING TIMES
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REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
Congressmen—
A. J. GRONNA. of Nelson.
T. F. MARSHALL, of Dickey.
Governor—
E. Y. SARLES, of Traill.
Lieutenant Governor—
R. S. LEWIS, of Cass. 4
Secretary of State—
ALFRED BLAISDELL. of Ward.
Treasurer—
A. PETERSON, of Sargent
Auditor—
H. L. HOLMES, of Pembina.
Supt. of Public Instruction—
W. L. STOCKWELL, of Walsh.
Insurance Commissioner—
E. C. COOPER, of Grand Forks.
Attorney General—
T. F. M'CUE, of Foster.
Supreme Court Justices—
D. E. MORGAN, of Ramsey.
JOHN KNAUF, of Stutsman.
Commissioner of Agriculture—
W. C. G1LBREATH, of Morton.
Railroad Commissioners—
C. S. DlESEM, of LaMoure.
ERICK STAFNE. of Richland.
SIMON WESTBY, of Pierce.
Seattmeat to he IinlcMd.
"Let reverence of law be breathed by
every mother to the lisping babe that
prattles in her lap let It be taught in
the schools, seminaries and colleges
let It be written in primers, spelling
books and almanacs let it be preached
from pulpits and proclaimed in legis
lative halls and enforced in courts of
Justice in. short, let it become the
political religion of the nation.'
—Abraham Lincoln.
LABOR DAY.
It is rather to be regretted that the
legislature of this state has not set
apart Labor day as a state holiday.
But it has not. The fault is probably
an oversight in the wording of the
statute rather than an intention of
disregarding the principles which are
involved in an observance of the day.
It is true that we as a nation are ac
cepting too many days as vacations,
yet every one of them is an annual
lesson in some problem which has
been solved for the betterment of man
kind.
Great as he was as a man we do not
celebrate the birthday of him who was
"first in war, first in peace and first
in the hearts of his countrymen,"
merely because of the individual.
is because of the pure patriotism and
lofty purpose of the man, and these
are the things which are set before
the people when the day is celebrated.
It is the same with the first martyred
president. Lincoln as a man would
have passed from the memory of men
ere this except for the great principles
which were embodied in him. True,
they were a part of the man, and are
what made him great above other men.
And it is these which make him today
the beloved of a nation.
So is Labor day. It does not com
memorate the birth of any man, but
it does serve to instill in the minds
of mankind the great and noble princi
ples which are involved in the problems
of the body politic. Labor in this age
does not mean slavery neither does
it mean degradation. On the contrary
it is the most honorable of all mean*
of acquiring wealth- It has come up
from practical serfdom to be recog
nized as a calling. Like liberty and
free government it has not reached
this position without a struggle. Some
times the methods used have been rad
ical and setomingly harsh. But the star
of hope has always been in the zenith
of the world's hope/
Labor occupies a place todaiy which
is distinctively its own. It has se
cured a permanent place in the in
dustrial world, and while!the battle
between itself and capital .is not en
tirely over, the disturbance is only the
mutterings. of the last guns in the
distance. It has won this place upon
its merits as an issue and will hold
it because of its importance in the
progress of the world. Equal rights
for all men has been its watchword,
and its principle—old as civilization—
has been that the laborer is worthy of
his hire.
It would be meet that we as a na
tion pause in the battle for gold for a
few hours and pay homage to these
principles.
IIIS PARAMOlNTt'Y.
"Bryans speech forces Roosevelt's
nomination" is the conclusion reached
by several leading newspapers and
by a number of men of prominence.
The Evening Times t'orsaw this re
sult several months ago and declared
for Roosevelt as his own successor.
1
No one familiar with the mental make
up of the paramount Nebraskan doubt
ed that when opportunity afforded
I'iBryan would make a spectacular dis
play of his leadership of the democracy
V.npl (Wlare for a policy of judicialism
,that would divide his own party and
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make his defeat in 1908 inevitable. In
his New York speech he fulfilled every
expectation in this respect.
It was not supposed, however, that
he would go so far as to make his
own nomination problematical. And
yet this is precisely what he has done.
Whatever hope the democratic man
agement may have had that the re
publican majority in the next house
of representatives might be reduced
at this fall's election will be abandon
ed as soon as Mr. Bryan's speech is
fully understood by the country.
The Evening Times has no quarrel
with Mr. Bryan or with the democracy
as such. He is a man of great ability
and on this account all the more dan
gerous when that ability is exercised
in the wrong direction. His generali
ties as to the trusts are interesting
but they are not new. The republican
national administration, recognizing
the truth in what he says, and which is
mere repititlon of what has been so
often said, has been and is now mov
ing vigorously but intelligently against
these hurtful organizations and with
results that have mfet the approval of
thoughtful and conservative people
everywhere regardless of politics.
AN ILL ADVISED MOVEMENT.
It is something of a regrettable fact
that the women of the south have de
cided to erect a monument to the
memory of Wirz, the infamous com
mander who had charge of Anderson
ville prison during the dark days of
the rebellion, and who was personally
responsible for much of the sufferings
and tortures of that literal heli,
which thousands of men died like
beasts and where living was worn
than death.
The people of the south, while in
tense in their hatred of the north and
ready to die in defense of what they
believed to be right, were not inhuman.
Their chivalry and kindness never left
them even in the bitter struggle for
victory, and it would be unjust to
charge them with the inhumanity
which marked the treatment of prison^'
ers at Andersonville. j.
It is difficult to see what the real/1
object of a monument to Wirz is in-f
tended to typify. He made no great'
sacrifices for the south, nor did hiA
genius or ability have anything to df
with the success or failure of thef
cause. A monument to Lee or Jack'
son or any one of a hundred othe
leaders Who shed luster on the sou
by their fidelity to principle and de
votion to duty, would be applauded*
by the men who wore the blue, anf*
they could and would stand in the
presence of such with uncovered hew
because it typified something whifn
was honorable and noble and griknd
whether found in friend or foe.
A few days ago the famous Ringgold
cavalry of Pennsylvania, which iriet
on a hundred fields the equally famous
McNeil rangers in a contest for jhe
possession of the mountain gaps wfcftch
were the pathway across Mason [and
Dixon's line, met ta joint reunion on
Pennsylvania soil. The event was1 not
new, however, for the two organiza
tions have met on alternate soil for
their annual reunion for years, and
the stars and bars which the defeated
veterans have carried at the head of
their marching columns has been as
freely cheered as even the stars and
stripes, not because it typified disunion
and rebellion, but because those who
defended it on the field of battle were
men, conscious in their belief and
consistent in their purpose.
Such isthe feeling which exists be
tween those who have left to the ar
bitrament of war the destines of the
two sections whose industrial inter
ests were so widely divergent. Matters
which once divided the nation ha\v
ceased to exist, and the hand which
entwines the laurel is the same hand
which entwines the willow. How re
grettable then that the spirit which
prompted the great victor to insist
that the men in the surrendered ranks
should keep their horses for use in the
employments of peace,and.who declined
to accept the arms of his respected
though fallen foe should be defied by
an attempt to perpetuate in marble
the one man whose actions were a
stain upon the fair escutcheon of the
south.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
It is fortunate that Mr. Bryan came
out for government ownership of rail
roads two years in advance of the
meeting of his party's convention to
nominate a candidate for the presi
dency. The people will have ample
time to think the matter over, and
when they do so The Evening Times
has no doubts as to what their de
cision will be.
Meantime the republican national
invention will have met, adopted
platform and nominated its candidates.
The platform will declare for govern
ment supervision of railroads and all
other interstate corporations. This
is the policy that Is being pursued at
present under the new rate law and
under the anti-trust law.
Mr. Bryan would have state owner
ship for "local" railroads, or what are
known here as branch lines. By Jan
uary first next there will be 2,500 miles
of branch lines in North Dakota, it
is reasonable to suppose that should
the state conclude to purchase these
lines it would pay in the neighborhood
of $25,000 per mile therefor, or |C2,
500,000 for the entire lot. The state
may make such a purchase now if it
chooses to do so, but it must first
change its constitution with respect
to debt limit and then authorize a
loan to cover the cost of the invest
ment. After that it must operate the
roads independently of the operation
of the trunk lines, v.-liich Mr. Bryan
would have owned and operated by
the federal government.
It is a very simple proposition and
looks easy—to Mr. Bryan. But is it
a wise policy? The Evening Times
does not think it is.
It is true that a large emigration
has taken place from this state during
the last few years, the destination of
which has been the great Canadian
Northwest. But it has been the people
who has made fortunes in this state
by investing in lands while they were
cheap and selling them after they had
advanced to a higher point, and the
tide of emigration does not indicate
that North Dakota is any the less
prosperous.
The business colleges of the land
are adopting to a large extent the plan
of requiring a fair general education
of the pupils who seek admission to
them. They have found out that a
business education built upon super
ficial general one must not only prove
worthless to the student, but his in
ability to perform the work which
necessarily conies to Mm. reflects upon
the school which sends him out.
The last of the state fairs for the
present year will soon be a matter
of history so far as the events them
selves are concerned. But the influence
which they had in developing the
iirosperity of the great commonwealth
of the northwest will remain like the
foundations upon which a granite
shaft have been erected.
It is reported that the Normande.
of this city is supporting the demo
cratic ticket, although one of its own
ers is running for office as a republi
can. Will someone familiar with the
facts tell us what the Normanden's
support cost? Perhaps it is contin
gent, like Sorley's fee in the Walsh
will «ase.
Henry Watterson says the purchase
of the "local railroads" as per the
Bryan plan would cost the states $500,
000,000. Your figures are a little low,
Henry. The branch lines in North
Dakota alone would cost between sixty
and seventy millions.
Judge Parker would reach the trusts
and combinations through the common
law. Bryan would have the country
buy them. Thus does the good old
democratic party get together.
The large sale of school and insti
tution lands throughout the state last
year was the cause of many good
farms being opened and converted into
tax paying propositions.
It will hardly be necessary for the
democratic party to hold a national
convention in 1908. The choice has al
ready been made—if the Bryan man
agers are to be believed.
Between the new Bryanism and the
complete demolition of the state and
county printing trust The Evening
Times is likely to be quite busy for
some time to come.
Bryan'says we need more laws and
Parker says we need fewer. The state
ments are in harmony with the ability
of the two gentlemen to talk.
The Baseball Style.
He used to be a student In a noted var
sity.
He chose the course In English and he
took the first degree
Of him his old professor said, "Im sure
some day I'll smile
To read about the fame he's won by his
didactic style."
His diction was as pure as gold, his
sentences were terse
He wrote some rhymlni? epigrams, but
couldn't sell a verse
He had to have a place to sleep, he also
had to dine.
And so lie penned some sprightly stuff
about the baseball nine.
One day his old professor chanced to
scan the sporting page.
And there he saw the name of him he
thought a coming saj?e.
He read the spicy article and dropped a
solemn tear
The causes for his mourning were I he
words that follow here
"Then Mugsy doubled up and pushed a
peach across tho plate,
But Slat McCarthy seemed to say, 'It's
up to me to wait.'
It was a spit-ball Mugsy tossed it
came so bloomin' damp
It caromed on the atmosphere and
closed McCarthy's lamp."
"Oh, shades of Waldo Emerson!" the
old professor sighed
"I wonder what it's all about to solve
It I have tried.
It makes me sad to think I've rfilssed
the fact," he strove to smile.
"That our good language Is enriched bv
•uch a graphic style."
—William G. Rose, in Exchange.
THE EVENING TIMES, GRAND FORKS, N. D.
Stories of the Hour
Chock Fill of Fun.
A capital story is tolil of a university
man who was the stroke oar of his
crew and an invincible athlete on the
football-fleld.
He entered the ministry, and spent
years in missionary labor in the far
West. Walking one day through a
frontier town a cowboy stepped up to
him and said:
"Parson, you don't have enough fun.
Take a drink!"
The minister declined.
"Well, parson," he said, "you must
have some fun. Here's a card saloon.
Take a hand in a game."
The minister declined.
"Parson," says the cowboy, "you'll
die if you don't have some fun."
And he knocked the parson's hat
off his head, and hit. him on the ear.
The old athlete's spirit rose the
science which had been learned in
earlier days and forgotten for a quart
er of a century was aroused, and a
blow on the jaw of that cowboy sent
him sprawling in the street.
The parson walked over him as if
he had been a door-nr picked him
up. and dusted the side of the house
with him, and then threw him in the
road.
As the ambulance was earring the
cowboy off, he raised his head feebly,
and said:
"Parson, what did you fool me for?
You are chock full of fun."
Appearance Was DecletfuL
Mr. .lames Gordon Bennett, pro
prietor of the New York Herald, most
ly lives in Paris, but periodically visits
New York to inspect his newspaper
plant in all its details, and careful
preparations are everywhere made in
anticipation of his arrival.
On one of these momentous days one
of the printers turned up in a semi
tipsy condition, to the horror of his
fellow workers but he managed to
evade the foreman until Mr. Bennett
in person discovered him. The man
had previously slipped and fallen
against an ink-roller, with the re
sult that his face was covered, with
a thick black smudge of ink. Dur
ing the inspection he kept silent, and
Mr. Bennett, saying nothing, left, and
called the foreman after him. The
result of the conference was anxiously
awaited.
Presently the foreman returned, and,
shaking his fist in the Ink-smudged
face of the man, furiously shouted:
"Say, you wash up an' go home, and
come back to-morrow when you're
sober."
"To get my wages?" stammered the.
offender. "Am I sacked?"
"No," growled the foreman, in dis
gust "The boss saw all the ink on
your face, and said to me that you
looked like the only man in the shop
that works, and he's raised your wages
five dollors a week!"
A Farewell Utterance.
George R. Pock, general, counsel for
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
road, came east a few days ago with
Representative Philip Campbell of
Kansas. Peck, used to live in Kansas
himself, and he and Campbell talked
together a good deal.
Campbell is responsible, in a meas
ure, for the government's Standard Oil
investigation, and particularly for the
Kansas end of it. He likes to talk
about it, and he bored Peck stiff with
observations oh monopoly, and es
pecially oil monopoly.
"By the way,'Peck," he said, "I wish
you would read'my last speech on that
subject," Peck replied.
"It would give me great pleasure to
read your last speech on that sub
ject," Peck replied.
And for two hours thereafter noth
ing was heard but the chug-chug of
the wheels as they passed over the
breaks In the rails.
In Allen New York.
Former Delegate B. S. Rodey of New
Mexico, who has been appointed a
judge by the president, was one of the
most ardent advocates of statehood for
New Mexico.
He fought long and well. A few
days before he left congress, he was
bewailing his sad fate.
"It seems to me," he said,' that the
American people, or half of them, do
not care anything about New Mexico,
with her marvelous resources, and that
the other half do not know where the
territory is.
"A friend of mine went to New York
to buy some goods. He entered a big
wholesale house and said he wanted
to get some stuff for shipment to New
Mexico.
"Without looking up from his desk,
the man he accosted said:
"'Export department on the second
floor.'"
Amusements
The Maid and the Mummy.
It is claimed that Richard Carle,
author of "The Maid and the Mummy,"
"The Tenderfoot," "The Mayor of
Tokio" and "The Hurdy-Gurdy Girl,"
has furnished more vaudeville and
burlesque performers with their jokes
than any other man alive. All his
musical plays abound in good jokes
and puns, and the less witty and re
sourceful actors are always stealing
i'r. Carie's thunder. His manager al
ways maintains a close watch for men
with pen and paper and, whenever
one is found in the audience he is
quickly and unceremoniously ejected
from the theatre. Many of Mr. Carle'3
brightest lines were written for "The
Maid and the Mummy," which appears
here for one night only, on the 8th
of September.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
4j, G, a, s?, &
Nella Bergen is to be the prima
donna in "The Free Lance Company"
this season.
Maurice Campbell has deferred the
production of "Pilgrim's Progress"
until next spring.
Margaret Anglin opens her season
in William Vaughan Moody's play,
"The Great Divide."
Robert la to be seen this
season in a play of New York life,
entitled "The Turn of the Tide."
Margaret Dale, who has been lead
ing woman with John Drew, is the
leading lady In W. H, Crane's new play,
"The Prince of Money," just produced
in New York
Ernest Stallard, an English actor,
has been engaged to support Henrietta
Crosman in "AII-of-a-8udden Peggy."
IRRIGATION.
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fices and sleeping quarters for1 work
men, have been erected by the Recla
mation Service, and about an equal
number by the contractors. Over lo,
000 men and about 5.000' horses are at
present employed.
The period of general surveys and
examinations for projects is past. Ef
fort Is now concentrated in getting
the water upon a sufficient area of ir
rigable land in each project to put it
on a revenue producing basis. To bring
all the projects to this point will re
quire upwards of $40,000,000, which
amount, it is estimated, will be avail
able from the receipts from the dis
posal of public lands for the years
1901-1908.
We may well congratulate ourselves
upon the rapid progress already made,
and rejoice that the infancy of the
work has been safely passed. But we
must not forget that there are dangers
and difficulties .still ahead, and that
only unbroken vigilance, efficiency, in
tegrity. and good sense will suffice tv
prevent disaster. There is now no
question as to where the work shall
be done, how it shall be done, or the
precise way in which the expenditures
shall be made. All that is settled.
There remains, however, the critical
question of how best to utilize the re
claimed lands by putting them into
the hands of actual cultivators ana
home makers, who will return the
original outlay In annual installments
paid back into the reclamation fund
the question of seeing that the lands
are used for homes, and not for pur
poses of speculation or for the build
ing up of large fortunes.
This question is by no means simple.
It is easy to make plans and spend
money. During the time when the
government is making a great invest
ment like this, the men in charge are
praised and the rapid progress Is com
mended. But when the time comes for
the government to demand the refund
of the investment under the terms of
the law, then the law Itself will be
put to the test, and the quality of its
administration will appear.
The pressing danger just now
springs from the desire of nearly every
man tot get and hold as much land as
he cah, whether he can -handle it
profitably or not, and whether or not
It is for the interest of the community
that he should have it The prosperity
of the present irrigated areas came
from the subdivision of the land and
the consequent Intensive cultivation.
With an adequate Bupply of water, a
farm of 5 acres in some parts of the
arid West, or of 40 acres elsewhere,
is as large as may be successfully
tilled by one family. When, therefore,
a man attempts to hold 160 acres of
land completely irrigated by, govern
ment work, he is preventing others
from acquiring a home, and is actually
keeping down the population of the
state.
Speculation in lands reclaimed by
the government must be checked at
whatever cost. The object of the Re-r
clamation Act is not to make money,
but to
%make
homes. Therefore, the
requirement of the Reclamation Act
that the size of the-farm unit shall be
limited in each region to the area
which will comfortably support one
family, must be enforced in letter and
in spirit This does not mean that
the farm unit shall be sufficient for
the present famljy with Us future
grown children and grandchildren, but
luther than during the ten years of
payment the area assigned for each
family shall be sufficient to support
It. When once the farms have been
fully tilled by freeholders, little dan
ger of land monopoly will remain.
This great meeting of practical irri
gators should give particular atten
tion to this problem and others of
the same kind. You should, and
doubt not that you will, give your
effectual support to the officers of the
government in making the Reclama
tion law successful in 'all respects,
and particularly in getting back the
original Investment, so that the money
may be. used again and again in the
completion of other projects, and thus
in the general extension of prosperity
in the West. Until it has been proved
that this great investment of $40,
000,000 in irrigation made by the gov
ernment' will be returning-, to .the
Treasury, It is useless to expect that
the people of the country- will con
sider direct appropriations for the
work. Let us give the Reclamation
Service a chance to utilize tlie present
investment a second time before dis
cussing such increases. I look for
ward with great confidence to the re
sult.
By the side of the Reclamation Ser
vice there has grawn up another ser
vice of not less interest and value to
you of the West This is the Forest
Service, which was created when the
charge of the forest reserves was
transferred from the Interior Depart
ment to the Department of Agricul
ture. The forest policy of the Admin
istration, which the Forest Service is
engaged in carrying out, is based, as
1 have often said, on the vigorous pur
pose to make every resource of the
forest reserves contribute in the high
est degree to the permanent prosperity
of the people, who depend upon them.
If ever the time should come when the
western forests are .destroyed, there
will disappear with them the prosper
ity of the stockman, the miner, the
lumberman, and the railroads, and,
most important of all, the small ranch
man whocultivates his own land. I
know that you are with irie in the In
tention to preserve the timber, the
water, and the grass by using them
fully, but wisely and conservatively.
We propose to do this through the
freest and most cordial cooperatlo,
between the government and every
man who is in sympathy with ths*
policy, the wisdom of which no nvin
who knows the facts can for a mom
ent doubt.
It Is now less than two years since
the Forest Service was established.
It had a great task before it—to create
or reorganize the service on a hun
dred forest reserves and to ascertain
and meet the very different local con
ditions and local needs all over the
West. This task Is not finished, and
of course it could not have been fin
ished in so short a time. But the work
has been carried forward with energy
and intelligence ind enough has been
done to show how our forest policy Is
working out
The result of first importance to
you as irrigators is this The Forest
Service has proved that forest fires
can be controlled, by controlling them.
Only one-tenth of one per cent of the
area of the forest reserves was burn
ed over in 1905. This achievement was
due both to the Forest Service and to
the effective assistance of settlers and
others In and near the reserves. Ev
erything the government has ever
spent upon Its forest work Is a small
price to pay for the knowledge that
the streams which make your pros
perity can be and are bring freed
from the ever present threat of forest
fires.
The long-standing and formerly bit
ter differences between t.n stockmen
and the forest officers a nearly all
settled. Those which rvnwii ar»» in
process of settlement. Heirty cooper
ation exists almoBt every There be
tween the officers of the Forest Ser
vice and the local association* of
stockmen, who are appointing advisory
committees which are systematically
consulted by the Forest Ser.'ba on a'l
questions in which they are concern
ed. This most satlsta .torv condition
of mutual help will le ac wo'coiao ro
you as It is to the Administration and
to the stockmen. To the stockmen it
means more, and more certain, grass
to you, because of the better protec
tion and wiser use of the range, it
means steadier stream flow and more
water.
The sales of forest reserve timber
to settlers, miners, lumbermen, and
other users, are Increasing very rap
Idly, and in that way also the reserves
are successfully meeting a growing
need.
Lands in the forest reserves that
for forest purposes are being opened
to settlement and entry as fast as their
agricultural character can be ascei
tained. There is therefore no longer
excuse for saying the reserves retaru
the legitimate settlement and devel
opment of the country. On the con
trary, they promote and sustain that
development and they will do so in
no way more powerfully than through
their direct contributions to the
schools and roads. Ten per cent of all
the money received from the forest
reserves goes to the States for the use
of the counties in which the reserves
lie, to be used for schools and roads.
The amount of this contribution is
nearly $70,000 for the first year. It
will grow steadily larger, and will
form a certain and permenent source
of income, which would not have been
the case with the taxes whose place is
taken.
Finally, a body of intelligent, prac
tical, well-trained men, citizens of the
West, is being built up by men in
whose hands the public interests, in
cluding your own, are and will be
safe.
All these results are good but they
have not been achieved by the Forest
Service alone. On the contrary, they
represent also the needs and'sugges
tions of the people of the whole West.
They embody constant changes and
adjustments to meet these suggestions
and needs. The forest policy of the
government in the West has now be
come what the West desired it to be.
It Is a National policy—wider than the
boundaries of any state, and larger
than the interests of any single in
dustry. Of course it cannot give any
set of men exactly what they would
choose. Undoubtedly the irrigator
would often like to have less stock on
his watersheds, while the stockman
wants more. The lumberman would
like to cut more timber, the settler
and the miner would often like to have
him cut less. The county authorities
want to see more money coming in
for schools and roads while the lum
berman and stockman object to the
rise in value of timber and grass. But
the Interests of the people as a whole
are, I repeat, safe in the hands of the
Forest Service.
By keeping the public forests in the
public hands our forest policy sub
stitutes the good of th ewhole people
for the profits of the privileged few.
With that result none will quarrel
except the men who are losing the
chance of personal profit at the public
expense.
Our western forest policy is based
upon meeting the wishes of the b&t
public sentiment of the whole West.
It proposes .to create new reserves
wherever foreBt lands still vacant are
found in the public domain and to give
the reserves already made the highest
possible usefulness to all the people.
So far our promises to the people in
regard to it have all been made good
and I have faith that this policy will
b^ carried to successful completion,
because I believe that the people of the
West are behind it.
Sincerely yours
Theodore Roosevelt.
Man A
tout Town
According to a certain young man
who has been a successful student at
a local educational institution the past
year "and who fras spent his summer
vacation in farm work near Manvel—
ducks are pretty thick down that way.
The young man. in question tells a
story of a recent experience there
which, unless he is mistaken, should
take a crowd of hunters in that dir
ection post haste.
It seems that the young man has
been in the habit of repairing to a
pond near Manvel of an evening after
the toils of the day were over and re
moving his clothlftg, proceeded to .lathe
his manly limbs in the limpid waters
of the pond. Here, away from the
sight of man and surrounded by a
friendly clump of small timber grow
ing close to the pond, he: splashed
about, diving and turning "watersets"
in the pond, refreshing himself in &
happy manner after the' weary moil
of the long and sultry day.
Not long ago, so he states, he was
enjoying one of these frequent ablu
tions when he noted that he had com
paions in his sport in the shape of
merlods of wild ducks which swam
about the pond, paying little heed to
his presence or the splashing made by
him in his swimming exercises. These
ducks were so tame, he states, that
they swam but a few feet ahead of
him and his outstreched hand could
almost catch them by the legs as they
sailed majesticly upon the surface of
the pond. The ducks are very tame,
and some hunter who discovers this
wonderful pond will find a magiflcent
place to hunt, with ample reward for
his efforts. Some one unkindly sug
gests that the fellow companions of
the young student in his swimming
stunt were mud hens, but he says no,
and says it emphatically.
"Tom from Japan," king of the bell
hops at the Dacotah, is an enthusias
tic hunter, that is to hear him tell it,
and he has anticipated the opening of
the chicken season with all of the de
light and enthusiasm natural to the
thoroughbred sportsman.
As he went about his work at the big
hotel last week, he whistled as he
tolled and hlB leisure hours were spent
in polishing the bran new gun he had
recently purchased and trying on the
natty hunting,.jacket and boots which
went along with it, admiring himself in
the glass and displaying his equip
ments for the chase to an admiring and
envious gathering of fellow bell hops.
Nightly, his dreams were fraught
with visions of great coveys of fat
chickens as they arose from the stub
ble before him only to fall to earth,
dead or dying from shot sent by his
unerring aim. Yes, Indeed, the open
ing of the hunting Ifeason was looked
forward to with the keenest anticipa
tion by "Tom from Japan."
did outfit Tom hadready for the chase.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1906,
did outfit Tom had realjr for the chase
H* needed a dog and be began to
make inquiries. At last Tom found
one he thought would eclipse any other
canine In the hunting business, at least
he expected him to do so, for be put
up the tidy sum of $15.00 for "Skip,"
and on the morning of September 1st..
A. D. 1906, Tom, armed cap a pie, was
seen passing down Third street out
country-ward and a brave appearance
he made. "Skip" was made certain of
being a party to the prospective slaugh
ter of birds by means of a strong rope
tied securely about his neck, and,
though the dog lead reluctantly, pulling
back on the rope and sliding along in
the dust behind his determined master,.
Tom brooked no delay or interference
other than this little Idyosyncracy up
on the part of his dog. Bravely he
strode country-ward and the chickens
muBt have hid their heads in fear and
trembling at his approach.
Out about three miles, a covey of
chickens was started, but the evidence
does not go to show that the new $15.00
dog had anything to do with this part
of the operations. Tom pulled his new
gun to his shoulder and, bang! bang!
bang! sounded over the valley. Not
a chicken dropped. Tom turned to
give his faithful dog the word to pro
ceed, when his face took on a puzzled
expression for "Skip" was not at his
side. At the first sound of the gun,.
"Skip" had taken stage fright and the
way that dog mad$ for town would put
to everlasting shame Art Turner's fast
grayhound in a sprinting match.
"HI Skip, Hi Skip, Hi Skip," called
Tom, but Skip was—skipping—the
high places only being hit by him in
his mad race to get beyond the sound
of fire arms, and the sight of Japanese
bell boys In general.
Back to town'wended Tom, for that
dog must be located and the discour
aged Jap almost forgot his new gun
in his eagerness to overtake the
frightened animal. Up to this writing,
"Skip" has not been located, and Tom
is ready to conclude that he bought
a package with that $15.00, not a hunt-?
ingdog.
Cupid and two disappointed hearts
returned to a village up the line, a»
the results of the law's stern decree
and the launching of a partnership
bark on the matrimonial sea Will
delayed for the same reason.
A young gentleman, anxious to as
sume the responsibilities of a bene
dict and a coy maiden equally will
ing to give her unbiased endorsement,
of the "love, honor and obey" clause
in the civic code, wended their way
hitherward Saturday evening. They re
side In a neighboring county and the
law, which does not laugh at lockr
smith's or anyone else, requires the
marriage license to be issued from
the resident county of the parties.
A local pastor was secured to per
form the ceremony, and the pros
pective groom repaired to the court
house in happy anticipation of se
curing the coveted permit and later
being made happy (or miserable as
the case might be) for evermore..
The license was refused on the
grounds stated, and this morning
Love delayed found egress from Grand
Forks in the persons of the young
people. A license will be procured
at the proper place and the anticipated
event take place later.
Wlneman Returns Tomorrow.
States Attorney and Mrs. Wlneman
are expected home from Sf Paul to
morrow evening where they have been
attending the fair.
Louis James opened his season this
week, playing "The Merry Wives of
Windsor." His season will carry him
to the Pacific coast.
TO THOSE WHOM IT MAT
CONCERN
Everyone who jiwns a phonograph
and reports their name at Getts' music
house will hear of something to their
advantage.
MSSSSSs
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to sell you your
COAL
this year. Now
is the time to put
it in—before the
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