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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27

was reaping the rewards of his in
dustry was improved in the same pro-
portion.
The family took Il higher position
in life. They bought more, they had
more opportunity to cultivate their
minds. they surrounded themselves
with comforts and Injuries.
Instead of a few rich families and
hundreds of poor ones, all became
comfortably well to do.
Men inspired with the realization of
their usefulness and Importance in
life changed from cringing servants
to an independent manhood.
The south learned when too late
for the planters that it could not be
a great country on hired help. The
same is true in an intensified form in
this state. The hired man is too often
working for his wages with no thought
of the employers interests. There
are some exceptions, but the rule is
as stated before.
In this country the hired man comes
and goes. He pays no taxes, builds
no houses, does nothing to develop the
country.
If the man owned part of the big
farms their labor is necessary to cul-
tivate. they would become part of
the population and would assist in
ings would be spent at home, and their
labor would be seasoned with the
spice of ownership.
Such would be the advantages Of
smaller farms and more farmers.
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D ELLA w ON
THE RACE
Fast Little Mare Beat the Field in
Race on River This Afternoon
Mixer Second.

e.. o. . d . 4
The ice races on the Red River
course are being held as The Evening
Times goes to press and crowd of
onlookers lines the bridge, while many
rigs line the sides of the course,
watching the sport. :.
The purse is $3.50 and there is con-
siderable money up on the side, Della
Downey, Mixer and Buster, owned re-
spectively by larry Downey, M. ].
Lynch and C. s. Reid of Grand Forks
being the entries.
There are number of out-of-tOwn
horsemen, present and the interest is
keen. The race Is for one-half mile,
best three in five heats.
The first heat was finished as fol-
lows: 4ae
: Della Downey, first; Buster, second;
The second heat was finished as fol-
lows:
Della Downey, first by two lengths;
Mixer, second; Buster, third.
The third heat was finished as fol-,
lows, Mixer wunning the race:
Della Downey, first by half dozen
lengths; Buster, second; Mixer, third
The judges were: G. johnson. M.
Rood of MARVEL. Dick Archer. Starter,
Sheriff Turner
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Worth Many Millions.


Red river valley lands will be worth
800 an acre if properly drained, ac-
cording to President Hill of the Great
Northern and Mr.. Hill is competent
judge. 1t will take a million dollars
or more to drain the Red river valley
properly, and the general government
will be appealed to for the lending
of million dollars from the irriga-
ton fund, or, more properly speaking,
the reclamation fund. Whether or not
it will be loaned will probably depend
upon the construction of the law, and
whether, under the reclamation law,
moneys can be used for drainage as
we'll as irrigation. 1t will be neces-
sary, however, as in the construction
of irrigation works, for owners of land
to cooperate with the reclamation
service and pledge their lands for the
repayment of their proportion of the
funds expended. This. may prove a
tedious operation, but if the govern
ment will help, it will be worth while
for land owners to pledge the repay
ment of the funds expended. Definite
water conditions in the Red river val
ley would be worth many millions 10
farmers.
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as human food when mixed with any,
chemical or chemical compound or
preservative Injurious to public health;
the commissioner advised Lea q Per-
rims and that they assured him that
they had discontinued the use Of that
acid, having found something equally
efficient and not injurious to health.
This leaves it for the commissioner
to ascertain IL the new preservative
is chemical or chemical compound
injurious to health or not.
We know of no preservative that is
not injurious to health. Salt, the COM
monest of all, is such and SO are all
the preservatives that have been in
common family use for generations.
Whether or not any preservatves,
salfcylic acid, formaldehyde, boracic
acid ,Or bOrax, when used to preserve
from decay articles of food, are injur-
ious to health, Is not question to be
determined off-hand by chemist or a
food commissioner We thought that
point was settled in the Minneapolis
sausage cases, where boraX or bOracic
acid was used. There the court held
in substance that whether preserva-
tive was hurtful or not depended upon
the quantity used for the purpose
used. And that is as true of salt as
of salicylic acid or boracic acid or any
other preventative
The test. is one which can be made
only by medical men. Dr. Wiley has
experimental on borax and his young
men received no injury. The quantity
used for the purpose, was not suf-
ficient to produce hurtful results.
While society is interested in protec-
ton against injury from its food, and
the food commissioner is justified in
finding whether or not injurious in
gradients enter into it, he is clearly
not qualified to pass on the question
whether the quantity used for the pur-
pose used is hurtful. There should
be collaboration between his depart
ment and that of public health, and
the opinion of the latter taken in all
cases where analysis shows preserva-
tives in food products. If the health
department is of the opinion that the
preservative is used in quantities, that
when and as used in food will injure
health, then the commissioner would
be warranted in barring the article
from our markets.
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vided he puts these prices before his
probable customers.
Two things have added largely to
the trade of the merchant in the small
town.. One Of these is the extension
of the rural telephone. and the other
is the rural mail delivery.
Farmers, as rule, are decidedly
loyal to their home merchants, all
things being equal But they are as
careful in their business methods as
is the merchant. They are watching
for the lowest price on the articles
they are compelled to purchase.
There are then two reasons why the
mail order house gets their business
when it does. They get better prices,
and they have the things they need
presented to them through attractive
advertising.
Just now the farm journals have
their pages filled to overlooking with
the goods the farmer will need for
next season. The local merchant may
not deem it worth while to bother
with such a small matter, and the
order goes to the house which asked
for it.
Now il the local merchant would tell
the people what he has and make his
prices as low as those for the same
grade of goods from the catalogue
houses, the farmer would drop his or
der in his mail box and have the goods
sent out by neighbor, rather than
wait for letter TO reach the city,
the goods to come back by slow
freight, the trouble of going to the
freight Office and paying freight after
making special trip to town to do
so.
Rural free delivery is not hurting
the local merchant half so much as
the lack of pushing the sale of his
goods through advertising.
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ID S E + / GUS
CHARGE
Henry Lindass Before Jadge Church
on Complaint 81 John stevens Who
Claims He Was Robbed Of go. Il

ilZs1 q 49, No. Il. ~ = =
This afternoon Henry Lindaas, q
son of Ole Lindaas living at 420 First
avenue was arraigned In the Justice
court before Judge Church to answer
to the charge of stealing $50 from
F John Stevens. night clerk at the Park
hotel. II
: The accused boy is but 10 years old
and Is the son of well-to-d0 parents
who recently bought the Prouty farm
on the other side of the river but
moved to Grand Forks to give the
children q chance to 60 to school.
The boy Henry has been more or less
unruiy and has been seriously ad-
monished by. Chief Lowe. z
Thursday night he went to the Park
house and staid all night. He was put
in the room of the night clerk John
Stevens who had SIS concealed in the
room. Stevens alleges that the boy
found the money and took only $50.
Young Lindaas admits that he took
the money but says he only borrowed
$50 and intended to pay it back. He
says he did not take the other $25 be-
cause he feared he could not pay 1t
back AS The Evening Times goes to
press, Lindaas is having his prelin-
mary hearing.
The defendant waived a preliminary
hearing and was bound over to the
district court in the penalty of $300A
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ADJUSTMENTS
The College widow.

The pretty college Widow" with
her following of fetching girls and
rOllfcking students will be seen at the
metropolitan Wednesday, January 81,
under all the favorable circumstances
that made her'xogue so pronounced in
New York and Chicago. George AIDES
clever and original comedy, accen-
tuated by the painstaking and liberal
producing policy of. Henry. w. Savage,
is declared to be the most altogether
pleasing entertainment presented to
the American public in years. Its run
of forty weeks in New York left no
doubt of its future, for it was not
merely success but rather a posi-
tive furore. The Garden theatre was
sold out for months ahead at times.
and it is estimated that the people
turned away unable to obtain seats
were as many in numbers as those
who saw the production. Chicago was
equally responsive to "the Widows"
wiles and the run there could have
continued indefinitely had others book
ed at the Studebaker theatre not in
sisted on filling the time allotted. One
by one the other important cities Of
the country are captivating to AIDES
charming widow" and there is no
reason to doubt that this city will be
added to the list. Within story, adj
mirable in combining the elements of
simplicity and contained interest, Mr..
AIDE in ''The College Widow" has
sketched a score or more of amusing
American character types, irresistible
because of their absolute fidelity to
nature. There is the multi-millionaire
who does 1.-The Rockefeller stunt" for
an inland university; the learned coll
lege president who deplores the stu
dent tendency to athletics, but who
finds himself carried with it against
his will; the busy undergraduate who
owes for his last years board; the
bucOlic freshman who soon becomes
"a real SPORT; the foundryman who
is brought to college for special
course in art" for the purpose of adj
ding weight to the team; the new town
marshal who grows gray in month
pursuing his laudable intention of
preserving order in the town; the in
genuous tutor, whose highest ambi-
ton is reached when he is elected an
honorary member of an anthropologi-
cal society; the former pugilist who
is training the football team-all these
appeal strongly.
And then there are the girls, all Of
them to be met in a college town.
''The Widow" is the delightful daugh-
ter of the college president, who I'LL
timately meets her fate when she
wins the son of the multi-millionaire,
a famous football player, to play on
the team that is the hated rival of his
fathers Alma Mater. The athletic
girl; the kodak girl; the boarding
house keepers daughter, whose prin-
cipal occupation is in dunning the
students; the professional chaperone
all are in the picture, with coterie
of charming co-eds.
Included in the cast that will APP
pear in The College Widow" are Dor
othy Tenant, Adeline Dunlap. Kath-
crime Nugent, Ida Mcmillan, Elsa
Payne, Mildred st. Pierre, Frederick
Truesdell, Neil Moran, Walter Walker,
Daniel Baker, George Ober, Raymond
Chase, Edgar Halstead, Lawrence
Wheat, Hale Norcross, Otis. Turner,
Ernest B. Carr and score of others.
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THE MAIL ORDER BUSINESS.

Retails merchants in many places
are opposed to the extension of rural
free delivery, claiming that by this
means the catalogue houses are en-
abled to reach larger number of
rural customers.
There is not much in the idea to
cause. the local merchant trouble. It
= something more than the means Of
communication with the mail order
house that r. giving him the trouble
Il he can meet the prices Of the
catalogue houses there need be no
fear Of orders leaving his town, pro-,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27

Open the door, let in the air;
The winds are sweet and the flowers
are fair.
JOY is abroad in the world today;
II our door is wide it may come this
Open the door!
Open the door. let in the sun:
He hath q smile for every one.
He hath made of the raindropS gold
and gems.
He may change your tears to diadems.
Open the door!
Open the door of the soul; let in
Strong. pure thoughts which shall ban
ish sin.
They will grow and bloom with grace
divine,
And their fruit shall be swecter than
that of the vine.
Open the door!
Open the door of the heart; let in
sympathy sweet for stranger and kin.
1t will make the halls Of the heart so
fair
That angels may enter unaware.
Open the door!
British Weekly.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27
SMALL FARMS, MORE FARMERS,

Much has been said pro and con about
big farms, and at this time the tell
dency is toward the small, we'll titled
homestead rather than the bonanza
farm.
The latter might be we'll for those
who are anxious to build up a semi
feudal system like that in the south
prior to the freeing of the slaves in
which the master could spend his
time riding over the plantation and
looking after things in a cursory man
ner, and the young man could spend
his days playing dude and making
love-
The south starved on that policy,
however. Deprived Of the cheap slave
labor, the cost of production soon be-
came more than the value OF the crop,
especially as the large plantations
were not half titled.
A change came, and the large plan
tatiOns were divided into small farms
and sold-many of them at foreclos-
ure sales.
Many of these small holdings were
purchased by men who had worked
on the larger plantation at fifty cents
per day.
They began farming on an intense
scale. The land was cultivated, proper
seed beds were made, rotation of
crops was adopted, clover and other
crops were plowed int othe land, and
one acre was soon producing as much
as three of the old plantation did.
But the change in the condition of
people was more marked than that of
the crops produced.
i Under the old plantation system,
which was the same in many particu-
lars as the bonanza farming of the
northwest. there had been one owner
and a large number of dependent
~poah white trash" who eked out an
existence by day labor and we're paid
in corn meal and side bacon.
What would have been the profits
on their labors were consumed in the
waste OF the plantation methods.
But when they became landowners
conditions changed. Land that under
the old system would have produced
enough u keep half-starved PIC.
nov produced enough 70 keep three or
fpnr. Where ten bushels Of corn for
snsrly grew thsre was now thirty and
forty. .s
ThS home that had been q mere
|hpysl forl The laborer now that he.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-27
INSURING BANK DEPOSITS.

There are needs of reforms in bank
ing. In this state occasionally a bank
becomes unable to meet it's demands
and goes to the wall. receiver adj
ministers on the corpse and the de-
pOsitors accept their pro rata share
of what the guilty officers have gen
erously left
1t is we'll known that a persistent
rush on Il solvent bank would close
its doors. 1t might have sufficient as
sets to meet all obligations, but they
could not be converted into cash in
a few hours. Yet sensational report
that a bank may fail will send every
depositor for his money quicker than
a fire alarm will empty church.
If there were some means devised
by which depositors in National banks
would be guaranteed against loss by
the general government, there would
probably be no run on the banks and
in times of panics there would be far
fewer failures
The same reason would apply to the
misappropriation of the funds by de-
faulting officers.
The government in a sense ought
to guarantee the character of the men
placed in charge of the institutions
which handle the public's money.
Banker Sydney Clark of this city
in a recent discussion of this matter
suggested that as the losses sustained
by depOsitOrs in national banks was
less than One-twentieth OF one per
cent, it would be a good plan for the
government to levy an assessment up
on the banks, and out of the fund thus
created to pay to depositors what they
would otherwise lose.
The percentage of loss is compare
lively small, but when it does fall the
loss to the individual is heavy and
often ruinous
The working out OF the scheme
would be intricate, but the govern
ment could do it,
There Is another side to this mat
ter though. 1t might lead to a null
tiplicity of dishonest bank officials.
Heavy bonding and the material in
crease of the minimum penalty for
defalcation would probably keep
many of them honest
A sentence with one year in the pen
itentiary for every five hundred dol
lars stolen would keep down the
amount when there is a reasonable
certainty that the crime will be found
out.
1t does the depositors little good,
however, to know that the man who
robbed. them is doing time in prison
stripes. There may be certain
amount of satisfaction in the knowl-
edge, but store accounts cannot be
paid and farms purchased with that
alone.
What they want is the money re-
turned which they placed in the keep
ing Of the officials.
While this article is merely a dis
cussion and not a conclusion, it would
seem that there is considerable merit
in the ideas advanced by Mr.. Clark.
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AN ATHLETIC LEAGUE.
Plan Considered to Form o. sBig
FOuro In West.

Chicago, Ill, Jan. 27.-A movement.
to form a "big four western athletic
club league was. launched today at a.
conference held at the New Illinois
Athletic club. The proposed organi-
zation is to comprise the Milwaukee
Athletic club, the Missouri Athletic
club of st. Louis, and the Chicago a..
G. and New Illinois A. G. Of Chicago.
The league will be for the purpose of
promoting inter-club track, boxing,
swimming, billiard and possibly asso-
citation football contests. It is also
suggested to hold a big championship
at one of the clubs each winter at
which the western indoor club cham
pionships in the different lines Of
sport may be determined.
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He never was mentioned for office;
He never brought scandals to court;
He never conversed with reporters
He never had troubles, domestic,
He never once asked decree:
He never drank wine with the chorus,
He never was summoned as witness,
He never juggled his trust;
He never was charged with II shortage.
He never caused bankers to bust;
He never posed as reformer--
He never did these things. Egad
He ne'er even stood for his picture
In q patent medicine ad!
And this was writ on his tombstone
In truth, no words could be truer:
Here lies
George Washington Dumblcy,
He passed away wholly
obscure"
John d, Wells
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NOTE AND COMMENT
Blind pigs are ticket Offices on the
Damnation route.

Blind pigs are ticket Offices on the
DamnatiOn route.
\ trust usually means money not
owned by the person using it.
One cook in the kitchen is worth
ten who promised to come and didn't.
Many men would not propose if
they thought they would be accepted
The man with an AK to grind has
usually failed at every other calling.
There have been instances where
men had dollars without having sense.
Some people object to cold, and yet
spend their lives travelling towards
fire.
A southern lynching bee was post
poned because of the absence of the
victim.
Remarrying of divorced people
would indicate case of love at sec
ond sight
In newspaper stories, gems are
usually personal ornaments worth
about $1.75.
Most departing cooks give the lady
no notice. They think them below
such an act.
When woman used wuz for was
it is evidence that she has read the
latest literature
An exchange says one hundred
people faced death. We thought
everybody did that.
An exclusive set might be defined
as one which excludes Indians not
taxed and convicts.
The man who can influence a
church because of his money seldom
has much influence in heaven.
If Russia keeps up her present pace
of killing, there will be a need of
adopting the Rooseveltan policy.
A pretty girl is any unmarried fe-
male under thirty-f1ve who succeeds
in getting her, name in the paper.
Congressman Sulzer has turned his
oratory upon Russia. AS If that coun-
try did not have troubles enough al
ready.
Mayor Bush of Mount Vernon has
blood poisoning from hand shaking.
That will probably dampen the ardor
Of political aspirants.
William Randolph Hearst having
twisted the tail Of the Tammany tiger,
10 now feeding It bon mots in order
to keep IN It's good graces.
Senator Depew - suffering from q
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OVER CONTROL OF PAPER.

Atlanta, Ca, Jan. 27.-The injunc-
ton suit of John Temple Graves to
prevent any change in the status or
ownership of the Atlanta News, Of
which paper he is editor, came up for
hearing today. Mr.. Graves alleges that
an illegal transaction contrary to the
bylaws of the company has been en-
tered into between Charles Daniel,
business manager and secretary of the
Atlanta News Publishing company,
and Samuel Spencer, president of the
Southern railway. by which control
ling interest of the Daily News has
been secured for the Southern railway
and the Central of Georgia Railway
company.
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He Made III Go Some.

An Irishman travelling bought his
ticket and ran into the depot and
asked an official how long the train
would be before it started. The Off
cial said. why, you are too late.
That's the train that has just left the
depot" which was yet in sight.
The freshman jumped down on the
track and started to run after it. He
was gone awhile and then came walk
ing back into the depot. The people
laughed at him and said, well, Pat,
did you catch the t-ain?"
mo, beg0rra." said Pat, "but 1 made
the divil pun s.i53 q
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ANOTHER FOR HAzING 6;
Bloebaum Of Missouri Dismissed for
Actions, - :

Washington, Jan. 27.-The secre-.
tary of the navy has directed the dis
missal Of Midshipman Chester "A. j.
Bloebaum Of Missouri In execution Of
the sentence imposed by the court
martial at Annapolis on conviction Oss
hazing. The cases of Midshipmen
Meriwether and Miller are under con-
siderattOn at the navy department
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Not His Lead.

The regular Thursday evening
prayer meeting OF Rev. Blacks church
was being held. After song or two,
the minister announced: Deacon
Todd will lead US in prayer"
But the good deason was fast asleep
and blissfully unconscious of the min
ister's request.
Again the minister said: Deacon
Todd will lead" By this time kind
ly neighbor, after vigorous punches in
the unfortunate deason's ribs, had sue
ceeded in awakening him, just as the
minister Numbered Todd will lead"
"Oh, no." drowsily murmured the
deacon. II don't lead; Just dealt"
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The Lesser Of Two Evils.

A veteran Of the Civil war used 10
tell this story Of war times: A young
Irishman named Thomas Smith was
In his company. They had been sew,
eral days without sighting the enemy.
but one morning the rebels surprised
them. and the bullets were flying thick
and fast & Fl,
Tom turned and started to run as fast
as his legs could carry him. The cap
tain Of his company shouted: Halt,
or 1 viii shoot" 5s
Shoot and; be ID, 2 cried Tom:
whats one bullet to q basketful.'