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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31
RAILROADS
TOO GALLANT.
Railroad Officials Put Damper OF
Washers Antics.

The Great Northern road has the
name of being accommodating, but it
draws the line at keeping men on the
pay roll for the express purpose of
furnishing entertainment for the lady
passengers who patronize it's trains.
Train auditors who were evidently of
the opinion that "mashing" was to be a
part of their duties have been called
to time, and an order has been issued
prohibiting them centerlng their at
tention upon any one member OF the
gentler sex while drawing salary ON
the company's time.
Recently the Great Northern placed
a number of ticket auditors ON trains
to assist the conductors. The reason
for this, as given out, was that the
conductors have all the work they can
attend to looking after the operation
of the train, without having time to
devote, to the wants and comforts of
the individual passengers. Besides
helping in the collection Of tickets the
auditor was supposed to do all lie
could to gain for the road the lasting
friendship of the patrons. new and old
alike. y
On its face, this appeared to be a
good idea. The auditors appointed set
about their work with energy and in
terest. They figured that they had q
snap, and-some of them at Least
that they would be abba to get q little
pleasure as we'll as money out OF their
work.
Their instructions said nothing
about who their attentions wer to be
lavished upon, and those of them who
We're young and good looking and un-
married, and, sad to relate, Il few of
the others, also, found it much more
pleasant to pick out some attractive
lady passenger who was travelling
alone, and who appeared to be lone
some and in. need of masculine com
pany and assistance, and t. put prac-
tically all OF their time in looking aft
er her comfort and entertainment,
than to scatter their attentions broad
cast among the general run of passen
gers.
1t seems that many of the auditors
followed out their desires in this mat
ter, and the practice of neglecting the
majority became SO general, IL ia said.
that news of 1t reache the head off,
Gals, and a stop order wis issued.
One clause of the orde' is understood
to read as follows:
Train auditors vii! under no con-
ditions be allowed to occupy seats with
lady passengers
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31

A Frenchman has written a sort of
ready speechmaker for the comfort
and guidance of the man who cannot
think on his feet.
Immediate success" says M. Amet,
lis the first object of the modern ora
tor" and thereupon he plunges
promptly into list of remarks with
which speeches may be begun. First
of all win the good will of your au-
dience," he says Standing. as I do,
before SO many minds Of undoubted
distinction" or, If need be, Il fear that
may wound fe wsusceptibilities,"
or again, and perhaps this is the best
beginning of them all Il have but
a few words to say"
But these examples are merely the
hors d'oeuvres. The banquet has been
arranged for us alphabetically: "Ad-
,Yersary: To hear our adversary
talk" "If we listen to our adver-
saries take refuge in violence" and
80 on. devotion: After a long ca
reer Of devotion to my country" etc.
There are 10000 catch phrases Of this
kind In M. Amet's little book, and he
says that no speaker, when he has
studied 1t for a few moments, need
step on a platform ,inprepared. IN. Y.
Tribune.
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er. In, fact, down In the valley here,
where there ID lots 9of humus, they
find sometimes that It halds too much
moisture Humus Is of value in other
ways in the soil, but the part 1t plays
to the soil water is a very important
one, from the standpoint of the dry
land farmer. Indeed, its Importance
cannot be emphasized top much for
with the present methods of farming
In this state, the presence Of humus
means a possible success, while it's
absence means failure, or at least
a bare living. &
In this connection 1t might be we'll
to mention the advantages of a fer
tile soil in dry country over a SINH
lar soil In a wet country, or rather
In a country subject to heavy rain
falls. AS the humus and other parts
of the soil rot year by year, certain
portions of the soil become soluble
In water. With a heavy rainfall these
soluble particles of the soil, or plant,
foods which they generally are, are
washed away into the rivers and
creeks and become lost to the plant
and to the SOIL There are large areas
of soil in the south that have become
almost valueless after the forests
nave UCCl ICulONOu. HIS HAS U0cu
brought about, In large part, by the,
teaching caused by heavy rainfall,
Within certain limits, a dry-land farm
retains more of it's fertility than a
farm in a moist country. But from
this 1t cannot be inferred that a dry
land farm will stand more abuse than
one having a. greater rainfall. The
original fertility may be greater in
the dry-land farm, but when once
lost Is regained with more difficulty.
rotation Methods.
4 One Of the important questions that
farmer must decide at some stage
of his career, is, whether his meth
dds shall be intensive or extensive.
By extensive methods we understand
that the maximum crop is to be OBJ
tanned from the maximum acreage of
land, while with an intensive method
i. the farmer seeks to obtain the maxi
mum crop from the minimum acre
age of land. The former method is
generally practiced in new and spars-
ly settled communities. Land is
cheap and abundant and the cream of
the land Is removed IN the first few
years. Afterwards, either the method
or the yield undergoes a decided
change. In the humid regions,sit can
not be denied that the best farmers,
thise that leave their land in prac-
tically as good shape In the fall as 1t
was in the spring, follow intensive
methods Of farming. The point that
interests US is, do the best farmers
follow intensive methods in dry-land
regions?
What are the evil effects Of ex-
tensive methods? The experience of
the farmers in the early history of
this state, and especially in this val
ley. seemed to indicate that the fer
tility Of the land was. really mex
haustible. Their motto seemed to
be, always take of and never put
back" It is, impossible for this theory
to work with any soil. The method
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31
BUYING CANADIAN WHEAT.

During the past fall several hundred
thousand bushels of wheat from west
ern Canada were taken to the United
States, either to be ground by the
mills in bond, or purchased outright,
paying Is per cent. duty. Northern
states farmers ask for the privilege of
importing it as seed. 1t has been
learned that Canadian wheat is
much superior article, and the fact
is becoming apparent to Americans
that it will only be short time be-
fore the United States will cease to be
a wheat-exporting country. The
thinking farmer in the United States
now realizes that he must become one
of those who will produce this wheat.
Canada has the land and the climate
to produce thirty or forty fold the
60,000,000l crop Of 1904. I'll
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BASKETBALL THIS WEEK.
Some Fast Games to Be Played There
Next Week.

Fargo Forum: This week will be
busy one In basketball circles. The
Redmen of Red Wing, VIM, will be
here for two games, Jan. 81 and Feb.
l, with the agricultural college and
Fargo Athletics respectively. Satur-
day, Feb. 8, the A. C. will play the
strong st. Johns university team at
COllegeville, MINI.
The Red Wing team is conceded to
be the best basketball team in the west
and has not suffered a defeat this
year. Their men have all played to-
gether for years, and consequently
their work is fast and snappy with
team work developed to high degree.
Undoubtedly the Redmen will show
more high class basketball than has
ever before been seen in Fargo.
The game Wednesday night, Jan. 81,
between the Redmen and the A. C.
team will certainly be fast and furious.
While it is true that the A. c. boys are
not veteran team and their team
work is not very highly developed,
they are nevertheless playing a fast
game and they expect to make things
interesting for the Rev Wing boys.
On the same night before the big
game takes place, the Fargo hign
SSAool SLID anu Tie "A. ". SlrlS Will
play their first game The high school
are as yet an unknown quantity, but
they have been practicing regularly at
the A. c. armory, and are expected to
play fast game.
The following is clipping from
Milwaukee paper in regard to game
between the Milwaukee A. C. and the
Redmen:
The basketball team Of the Milwaa-
kee Athletic club was outclassed by
the players from Red Wing, Mimi.
representing the Redmen lodge at the
Broadway armory last night, the final
score being 80 to Is in favor of the
visitors. The victory for the Redmen
last night was the tenth consecutive
OF the season and they have not once
met defeat this year.
In last nights contest the superior.
ity of the winners was shown at
nearly every stage Of the game. and
the team work was OF q high order.
The Milwaukee players were as e0od
individually as their opponents. int
the passing and blocking Of the Red
men was too much for the locals. Tue
defensive work of Red Wing was
especially strong and showed that re
visiting players had had much experi-
ence and had played together for more
than one season.
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~ 800 sc sIsees1sss.,
DEE LAND FARMING. +
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tsupt. Dickinson Sub station:

G
The following interesting paper, on, on I;
Dry Land Farming. was read before
the Grain Growers conyenti0il hy
Supt. Z. r. Waldron Of the Dickinson
experiment sub-station, and should
be full Of interest to Missouri slope
farmers: .Ssg "
The region Of dry land farming Has
advanced steadily westward In the
last forty years from Iowa and south.
lern Minnesota until, at the present
time, the Outposts OF the drought king
are being successfully: attacked In
western North Dakota, South Dakota.
Kansas and Nebraska The question
ts often asked regarding the condi-
ions which make possible this west
ward movement of farming into re-
gtons hitherto supposed tone At only
f0r grazing. In a modest way, we
think, many Of the farmers have laid
the causes Of any such change to the
weather. They say the climate is
changing the rainfall increasing
Others hold that In new country,
the farmer must change his methods
OF farming to suit the local climate
conditions which are supposed to be
rathen stable.
The breaking up of large areas of
virgin prairie undoubtedly does have
an eject upon the rain that falls by
allowing more moisture to soak into
the ground. It Is not by any means
certain that the rainfall is thus In
creased by any appreciable amount.
Whether the rainfall is actually in
creasing can only be decided by OBJ
servattons extending over a period OF
years. The careful farmer will prob
ably adjust his methods of farming to
meet the conditions that have existed
In his locality for SO many years.
What can be done to bring about sue
cessful results?
In selecting a farm in dry coun-
try, 1t is more essential that one
having fertile and loamy soil be
obtained than 1t would were the Sc
lection to be made in humid elm
ate. The most important reason for
this Is, that the fertile soil, the one
the larger water holding capacity
than a soil of the opposite character.
In selecting such soil our choice
will naturally fall upon one having
line soil particles, that is clayey or
clay-lOam soil. The water-holding
capacity of a. soil depends In large
part upon the size of the soil par
ticles. Each particle is surrounded
by film of water and the smaller
the particles the greater the total sur
face area of the particles. In the
same way 1t takes more fencing for
several small fields than 1t does for
one large field, of equal area. A clay
coil not only contains more moisture
than a sandy soil, but 1t is more
backward in parting with its mois-
ture.
The humus Of soil is that portion
which has been derived from the rot
ting of Its vegetable matter; roots,
leaves, sticks, etc. Largely to the
humus may be ascribed the black
color of our rich North Dakota soils.
The humus that forms in sandy soil
lis apt to leach away as fast as 1t
is formed. Especially is this true II
the subsoil Is also sandy. But in a
slay soil, the humus is much more
apt to Stick" The finer soil particles
prevent it's being washed away.
OF what value is the humus? It
holds the soil moisture In much the
same manner as a sponge holds wat
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31

The English mails bring the new.
London daily, the Tribune. q goodlv
pennyworth, for it Is the only Iberal
sheet of that price in the British.
metropolis, It follows the conserya-
tive English style ia its nnake-uD. ana.
according to that style. 1t Is IS hand-
some sheet. It starts on promisinkly
IN reading matter and Advertisements.
indeed, the paper begins under 8
snappy augury, with the liberal party
Just restored to power. The editor =
SAID 20 have fitted up = sort Of liberal
club IN connection with the TribunA'a
sanctum. The New York Tribune
wishes its London namesake .Rreet
prosperity and influence. New, York
Tribune. 8 s.s
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fertility of the present. Let us take
counsel Of the prudent, and not be
prodigal Of the wealth that nature has
placed In our soils, that "Once de-
parted may return no more"
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Great Northern Surveyors.

A party Of g. n. surveyors consist
ing of w. NJ. Shannon, Con Evans and
Henry Holemboe went to Crookston
yesterday. They make Crookston and
Grand Forks their main headquarters
while working in this section. They
are working on old lines and report
that they have not been ordered to
lay out any new work as yet.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31

Perhaps he readiness OF Attorney
General. Hadley to be satisfied with
the progress of his case against the
oil magnates is due to the fact that
1t is the best he can make.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-31

LOsT-Two HOGS BELONGING TO A.
9: Mcintyre, while unloading q car
ton last Thursday night. II anyone
knowing of the whereabouts Of the
two missing animals will phone 325,
ally rewarded. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19

by mere man. She explained to the door
keeper that she was going to wear her hat.
He, on his side. explained to her that she
was not; they were both bit short with
one another. I took the opportunity to
turn aside and buy program. The fewer
people there are mixed up in an argument.
/ always think. the better. My companion
exclaimed quite frankly to the door porter
that 1t did not matter what he said. she
was not going to take any notice of him.
He did not look talkative man at any
time, and maybe this announcement further
discouraged him. In any case he made no
attempt to answer. All he did was to stand
in the center of the doorway with a far
away look in his Yes. The doorway was
some four feet wide; he was about three
feet six inches and weighed about twenty
stone. AS 1 explained. I was busy buying
a program, and when I returned my friend
had her hat in her hand and was digging
pins into it. I think she was trying to
make believe 1t was the heart Of the door
keeper. She did not want to listen to the
opera, she wanted to talk about that door
keeper, but they would not even let her do
that. She has spent three winters in Ger
many since then. Now when she feels like
passing through a door that Is standing
wide open just in front Of her and which
leads to just the place she wants to get to.
and an official shakes his head at her and
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occurred in a neighboring town some
| months before. The policeman suggested
searching him for bombs. Fortunately, the
agent of a tourist firm, returning with a
party, arrived upon the scene and took 1t
| upon himself to explain in delicate language
| that my friend was a bit Of an ass. and
could not tell first class from second class.
| 1t was the red cushions that had deceived
my friend. He thought it was first class;
as matter Of fact. it was second class.
Everybody breathed again The confess
sion was torn UP amid universal joy. and
then the fool Of ticket collector wanted
to know what about the lady-who must
have travelled in a second class compart-
ment with a first class ticket. 1t looked as
II bad time was in store for her on her
return to the station. But the admirable
personal conductor was again equal to the
occasion. He explained that my friend was
also q bit of liar. When he said he had
travelled with this lady he was merely
boasting. He would have liked to have
travelled with her. that was all he meant,
only his German was shaky: Joy once more
entered upon the scene. My friends char
acter appeared to be re-established. He
was not the abandoned wretch for whom
wandering idiot. Such a one the German
official could respect. At the expense of
such one the German official even con-
sented to drink beer.
Not only the foreign man, woman and
child, but the foreign dog Is born good.
In England, If you happen to be the pos
SCISSOR Of dog, much of your time is
taken up dragging him out Of fights. quar-
reling with the possessor of the other dog
as to which began it, explaining to irate
elderly ladies that he did not kill the cat,
and that the cat must have died of heart
disease while running across the road. as
surfing disbelieving gamekeepers that he is
not your dog, that you have not the faint
est notion whose dog he is. With the for
eign dog life is a peaceful proceeding
When the foreign dog sees a row, tears
spring to his eyes. he hastens on and tries
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one Of those men who pride themselves
upon being honest I believe he takes q
positive pleasure in being honest He had
purchased second class ticket for a sta
ton up a mountain. but meeting by chance
on the platform a lady acquaintance had
ment. On arriving at the journeys end he
explained to the collector what he had
done. and, with his purse In his hand, de-
manded to know the difference. They took
him into a room and locked the door. They
wrote out his confession and read 1t over
to him and made him sign 1t, and then they
sent for policeman. The policeman cross
examined him for about quarter of an
hour. They did not believe the story about
the lady. Where was the lady? He did not
know. They searched the neighborhood for
her, but could not find her. He suggested
what turned out to be the truth-that tired
of lettering about the station. she had gone
up the mountain. An anarchist outrage had
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reins. Then I will never marry you" she
said. II will never marry you If you keep
things from me-
IT never will keep things from you that
you ought to know. dear"
II ought to know this!"
James remained silent. Clemency had
brought the horse to full stop. Won't you
ever tell meF' she asked.
mo. never! dear"
Then let me get out. This is Annie LIP
toms street. am going to see her. have
not seen her for long time. will walk
home. 1t is safe enough now. You can tell
me that much?'
Yes. 1t is: but Ciemency. dear"
Il am not Clemency. dear. am not going
to marry YOU. You say you wrote your
father and mother last night that We were
write AGAIN. and tell them we are not. No.
you need not try to stop me. I will get out.
Goodbye! I shall not be home to luncheon.
shall stay with Annie. like her very
much better than like you.'
With that Clemency had slipped out Of the
buggy and hurried up a street without look
Ing back. James drove on. He felt dis
turbed. but not seriously SO. It was impos-
thing It was 30 whimsical and childish.
He had counted UPON his long morning with
her, but he went on with little smiio on
his face.
. He was half inclined to think, so slightly
did he estimate Clemency's anger, that che
would not keep her word. and would be
home for luncheon. But when he returned
she was not there. and she had not come
when the bell rang.
why, where Is Clemency?' Gordon said,
when they entered the dining room.
"She insisted upon stopping to see her
friend Miss Lipton," said James. She said
that she might not be home to lunch"
Emma gave one Of her sharp, baff1ed
chances at him. then. having served the
two men. she tossed her head and went out.
Nobody knew how much she wished TO
listen at the kitchen door, but she was
above such course.
"Clemency and I had a bit of a tiff."
James explained to Gordon. ''She seemed
vexed because I would not tell her what
you told me last night. She is curious to
know more about-that man."
"She must not know" Gordon said quick
ly. Never mind II she does seem a little
vexed. She will get over it. I know Glenn
ency. She Is like her mother. The power
of sustained indignation against one she
loves is not in the child. and she must not
know It would be q dreadful thing for
her to know. I myself cannot have it. 1t Is
enough of q horror as It Is. but to have
that child look at me, and think" Gordon
broke of abruptly.
"She will never know through me-"
James said, land think with you that
her resentment will not last"
She will be home this afternoon" said
Gordon. land the walk viii do her good"
But the two returned from their after
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explains that she must not, but must go up
two flights Of stairs and along corridor
and down another flight of stairs and so
get to her place that way. she apologies
for her error and trots off looking ashamed
of herself. Continental governments have
trained their citizens to perfection. Obedt-
ence Is the continents first law. The story
that Is told OF Spanish king who was
nearly drowned because the particular off,
ajal whose duty 1t is to-tlive in after Span
ish kings when they tumble out Of boats
happened to be dead and his successor had
not yet been appointed I can quite believe.
On the continental railways If you ride sec
ond class with q first class ticket you rem
der yourself liable to Imprisonment. What
the penalty Is for riding first with a second
class ticket cannot say-probably death,
though an American friend of mine came
All would have gone well with him If he
had not been so 'darned' honest He was
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lower levels, takes on an acerbity and con-
tentiousness that are directly prOportioned
to the lack Of rules to regulate it.
Some day, perhaps. President will arise
with sufficient rasnness to attempt pro-
tocol of his own. Meanwhile the visitor
is very conscious that the tendency OF
Washington life, of official life especially.
is toward a stricter observance Of forms
and ceremonies. The change in this respect
that has been wrought by the last ten years
IL every bit as great as between the ap-
pointments and arrangements o, the White
House as they are today and as they were
in Mr. McKinley's time. America at leisure
for that is what Washington society
amounts to-must have something to amuse
itself with; and 1t has played with the
problems Of a republican court to such
good effect that a new book on Washington
etiquette, 80 am told, has had to be writ
ten. But where there Is no authority there
cannot, in such matters. be any f1nality.
SYDNEY BROOKS.