The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-24

tanning to your calling and those of 4
general literary character Buy good
books-collect a library. Get acquaint-
ed with your family, talk with them,
read with them, study with them, play
with them. A farmer or rancher and
his wife and children should be rs
we'll informed, as cultivated, as refined
as gentle as the city man and his fam
lily. Get a scrap book and cut out and
raste in all items of interest and val
ue. Start a literary society; discuss
questions of interest and Importance
Make yourself an all round mana
citizen to be proud of, a husband and
father worthy OF the love of a noble
woman and beautiful children.-Simon
Peterson, in Dakota Farmer.
Stay at home. Water and feed your
stock yourself, or personally superin-
tend the work. Milk half dozen good
COWS and keep your hens laying Fix
up harnesses and machinery. Use
some of your time making things
handy around the house, barns and
bins. Get on visiting terms with your
neighbors and swap ideas. Read up on
your line of farming, and on farming
in general. Recreate little. Plan
the coming seasons work. Spend
day, or two or three of them, seeing
how the children are taking hold Of
their school work. Clean your seed
grain and be all ready to start your
teams the first day of the season.
You'll be money ahead January 1,
1907.-H. 1. Hughes In Dakota Farmer.
Affection In the Home.
If there is any place affection should
be manifested 1t is in the home. Let
the children hear but kind words, and
see but kind, pure actions from par.
ents at all times. l remember one
home where l never heard an unkind
or important word or action, and the
little girl, there was one child, was as
gentle as a flower yet bright, and
pure. Let us, as parents be firm, and
careful to correct any fault in our
dear children. but always be gentle
and kind. Oh! just think of the mum.
Der of children in the Woodmen ranks.
Bright, intelligent, and beautiful, MANY
OF them driven away from all that is
good by unkindness. Fathers, be care
full lest you drive that dear boy by an
unkind disposition. Mothers, hold
tender children interested to you for
awhile by the cords of love. Keep them
close to your heart and make home
the dearest place on earth, and seek
to point them to Home above" by
your daily life.-A Woodlands Wife, in
Modern Woodman.
The Greatest Study of Mankind is Man,
One of the latest additions to the
list of books recommended by the Sup
erintendent of public instruction, MI.
w. L. Stockwell, is "The Great Ameri-
cans of History" This set consists
OF IL volumes, listed at $1,000, but fur
nished to the schools of North Dakota,
by Geo. w. Colborn Supply Co., Grand
Forks, at $3.50 per set, F. o. B., Grand
Forks.
The work represents the genius o.
the greatest historical writer's of the
present time, and is written in that
delightful style which translates his
torical facts into the romance of a
nation
The series contain the biographies
of George Washington, Abraham Lin
coin, Benjamin franklin. Thomas jeff
ersona and eight others" who have
helped to make the nation what it is
In
reading.
Every school should have this set if
not already supplied with something
of similar nature, as it makes the
study of history interesting and, in
fact, fascinating.
Vol. VII. contains program for
Washington afternoon and program
for Washington evening, Washington's
will and many other features not
found in our school histories. Vol.
XII. contains program for Lincoln
entertainment and an alternate pro-
gram.
Each volume deals with the bioe-
raphy of some single individual, Civ
ing his part in making the nation, to-
gether with personal matter of much
interest.
Ebert Hubbard.
Having read some of Mr.. Hubbard's
Little Journeys to Homes of Great
Lovers" we wrote Mr.. Hubbard for a
definition of the word-love, to which
he replied: You bring up a very in
teresting subject; and certainly you
scone one on me when you call nv
attention to the fact that make great
use OF a word which l have never de-
fined"
Book Opportunities.
We have just received list of IL
popular titles, ranging in price from
QUO to 1918, that we will furnish read
ers OF this paper at Csc to soc each,
+. o. B., Chicago. List price of whole
$5l.1O, will be furnished for $500.
Send for the list If interested
Literary Notes.
A. c. McClurg & Co. has re-issued
Ground Arms" the Uncle Toms
Cabin" of the peace propaganda which
won the Nobel Peace prize for 1905,
($4O,0o0) Have you read it?
The Ghost of Hamlet and Other
Essays in Comparative literature, is
the forthcoming book of Maurice Fran
els Egan, one of the most accomplish
ed literary men Of America and close
friend of President Roosevelt, who de-
clared that Mr.. Egan is one of the few
real poets of America.
We have the assurance of some con-
tributions from the able pen of Hon