The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-15
Short Cuts

wagon are beginning to occur and the
new year is not 30 days old.
At the same time 1t is rather mean
of some of those metropolitan papers
to keep on referring to La Toilette as
the kid senator"
Miss Alice Roosevelt is busily en-.
gagged in the selection of her wedding
trosseau and the feminine mind will
anxiously await details.
AS few women like to tell their age
after a certain milestone 1t is going
to be difficult task for the manage
ment to pick out the "girls'
An eastern publisher wants 1000 in
ches of advertising in exchange for
400 copies of his magazine. Nothing
like self appreciation, at any event.
A Montana man got intoxicated and
confessed to a murder which goes to
show that man in his cup gives up
much which might better be left un-
said.
The Kansas City Journal suggests
that III President Roosevelt has any
thing further to say about the rail-
roads he had better say it now before
Senator La Toilette begins"
1t does look rather small to pay the
hard working chorus girl only SIS per
week while the pampered star receives
from ten to fifty times that amount for
her work of single evening.
1t looks as If Chauncey Depew's
future after dinner talks will have less
of personal experiences in them by
the time he ia through with the insur-
ance episode and state legislature.
For every baby born to an Iowa
family the father of the husband gives
the family $1,000. There are now IL
children in the family. Here is new
encouragement for the Roosevelt idea.
Carrie Nation is to be arrested and
tried for lunacy. At last the only
sensible plan to give the incorrigible
Carrie her just dues has been decided
upon. 1t should not take Jury long
to render verdict.
Mr.. Marshall Field, the we'll known
Chicago millionaire merchant prince,
is seriously i'll at New York The
death of Mr.. Field would be distinct
loss to the city of Chicago, as we'll as
to the entire nation.
The weather man seems to be hold
ing down the lid in beautiful shape, to
the delight of an admiring and appre-
ciative public. but he evidently took a
nap and let it loosen, judging from
the article furnished yesterday.
The fact that million women have
signed the petition asking for expul-
sion of Senator Smoot proves two
things--the industry of those who cir
culated the petition and the ease with
which signatures to petitions can be
obtained.
The murder of the wife of a prom
inent Chicago business man by a brute
who first assaulted her and then
strangled her to death by twisting
copper wire about her neck, is another
convincing token of the progress of
fiendish criminality in the land.
The management of the Y. M. C. A.
at Philadelphia have concluded that a
"girl' of IS has outlived any tendency
to be giddy and can take care of her
self out in the naughty world. In
order to relieve the congestion at the
Association Home there will be weed
ing out process. and the old girls"
must go.
An exchange tells of a retired farm
err who promised to contribute 81 to
the preachers salary as soon as he
could sell a calf, but failed to keep
his word. He went to church few
nights ago and the choir sang that
beautiful hymn, 1.-THE Half has Never
Yet Been Told" He went home in
rage of madness and told his wife the
choir had insulted him by singing,
The Calf Has Never Yet Been Sold
Andrew Carnegie has expressed the
wish that he might be boy again.
This is not peculiar wish and
Carnegie has no claim to monopoly
of it. Most of us would go back to the
dear old days when we cared little If
our trousers were out at the seat face
and hands dirty and pockets empty
so long as the swimming hole at the
bend in the river was there and bull
heads took the worm from the hook
with avidity.