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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20
Cement SOLVES THE
BUILDING PROBLEM
North Dakota Mines Bid Fair to Become Famous Throuoh
out the Country Owing to Their Large Deposits and
Great Capacity-Portland Cement Co.'S Plant Near Mil
ton Money Maker-How Cement Is supplanting Lum-
Der and Structural Steel

Unless all signs fail, one of the
greatest problems of the age has been
solved, that is, what will be the build
ing material of the future. The ans
wer is cement.
But for cement many large building
operations would now be at standstill,
for wood has become too expensive
to be used in house construction, and
the enforced waits for all kinds of
structural steel virtually eliminates
that material where quick work is de-
sired.
Almost everything can be done with
cement, and with incredible swiftness
and cheapness Of price. The new pro-
cess. the mixing of cement, sand and
gravel with cinders or broken stone,
flooded with water from hose, is be-
ing used to build houses, raise giant
hotels, build the piers and bridges for
railroads. erect barns. lay sidewalks,
fix a girder or fashion chimney way.
Almost anything is possible to the
new material.
Probably the best instance of work.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20

need was never more clearly demon
strtated than at the present time when
the small crop yields must curtail the
volume Of business for this section
Of country. 1t need not be understood
that the crops are a failure, for they
are not. But the average yield will be
much below what 1t might have been.
and the difference in the two will
indicate the difference in business.
The prosperity of any city depends
upon the amount of business which
Is done. This of course includes the
merchants, both wholesale and retail,
the bankers and all the allied lines
OF the two. 1t is a trite observation
that when there are large quantities
of goods passing over the counters
of the merchants there is prosperity
in the community.
If Grand Forks had few industries
employing thousand men the bust
ness which they would bring to the
city would offset any depression
caused by the crop shortage and give
the community two sources of pros
perity instead of one.
There is but one way to secure
these community industries and that
is to go out and get them. The loca-
ton of new enterprises is largely a
matter of effort on the part of the cit
les which secure them. True, some of
them are located with reference to
the raw material used and shipping
facilities for the finished product. But
the vast majority of them are located
because the cities securing them have
offered some inducements and made
sufficient efforts to secure them to
show their interest in the enterprise.
That is just what must be done in
this city if anything of the kind is ever
secured. There must be united eff
fort of the people to the desired end.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20

ing against time with cement as a
medium is shown in the experience of
an Atlantic City hotel company. They
wanted structure four hundred feet
long, 1875 feet wide and 1874 feet high.
1t was to be elaborate, and to have
a capacity for 1000 guests Bids were
asked for steel building, and not only
were the prices lofty, but the delay in
getting the Orders and other structur-
al parts made it certainty that
couple OF years must pass before the
new hotel could be ready for guests.
In this predicament the proprietors
had recourse to the new process of
reinforced cement. In eight months
and three days, without the loss of q
life. the new hotel was completed. 1t
is a work of genuine architectural
beauty, the pride of the City-by-the-
Sea, and as great an expert as Thomas
Ava Edison, after going over the en-
tire structure from cellar to the Moor
ish dome, said that it was the first
perfect building he had ever seen, and
that it was built of a material destined
to be the great staple of the future.
The concrete building solves the
question of fire insurance. The un-
derwriters who examined Atlantic
City's new model hotel were SO we'll
pleased that they made price three
per cent lower than for other hotels
of the same class.
The farmer or suburbanite, who con-
templates building a home, always
looks at the fire question thoughtfuliy.
for in outlying districts there is little
facility for fighting flames, and once
they get hold, an inflammable building
is likely to be destroyed. But home
built of cement cannot burn, for the
reason that there is nothing to be
consumed, except the interior furnish
ing. and enough insurance to cover
the cost of these decorations and fur
nishfngs is really about all that is
needed in such cases.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20

When the Herald feels itself called
upon to explain its failure to support
the republican ticket-and this failure
happens about every two years-it be-
gins by repeating some threadbare
falsehoods about how Senator Hans
brough or some other prominent party
leader bolted the regular ticket. The
Herald's explanations are invariably
predicated upon the plea that some
body else did the same thing. 1t was
so when Winship was caught looting
the state treasury through the process
of the printing combine contract
somebody else had done it; why there
fore was it wrong for him to do it?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20

1t is now stated that in order to Sc
cure peace President Palma will re-
sign. That gives some color to the
claim of the insurgent leaders that
he secured his election by unfair
means. 1t may be good peace policy
to use such methods in securing what
is practically political harmony, but
it will certainly encourage similar
uprisings whenever any considerable
number of the restless population of
Cuba becomes dissatisfied with the re-
suit of popular election.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20
PULLING TOGETHER.

The Evening Times has repeatedly
pointed out the advantages to this city
in having few enterprises located
here which would employ a large num-
Der of men who would not necessarily
be dependent upon the result. of the
crops for the money they earn. This
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20
GROWING FRUIT AT HOME.

1t is slowly dawning on the people OF
North Dakota that they can, by little
care and industry, have many of the
fruit Injuries which are so much
appreciated and which have not been
obtainable because of the supposed
rigors of the climate.
Among these are fruits of various
kinds which have been regarded large
ly as luxuries by our people because
they must be obtained from abroad.
The success which is attending the
growth of apples in different portions
of the state proves that with care and
the proper attention to the adaptation
of the tree to the climatic conditions
this luscious fruit can be produced in
abundance for local consumption.
When efforts were first made to grow
peaches in George numberless fail
ures were the result The trees were
killed by the scorching sun, and it was
said this fruit could never be produced
in that climate. An old German, whose
name has not been recorded very
deliberately on the pages of history,
planted a small orchard and, before
the production of frn;: began II tax
the vitality of the trees, so trimmed
them that their own shade protected
them from the suns rays. His trees
grew and bore aboundant fruit, and
the trouble which former grower; had
experienced was solved. The Method
became universal and today it is an
easy matter to stand on the ground and
pick the entire crop from the trees of
an orchard covering thousand acres.
There was nothing in the plan Of the
German except protection against
climatic conditions. The same is true
of fruit-growing in this state. The
trees need acclimation. 1t is absurd
tc attempt to plant the nursery stock
from the warmer climates and expect it
10 Withstand our winters. The trees
must be grown in a climate as cold
as our own and they will, by the
peculiar laws Of nature, adapt them
selves to their climatic environment.
Once the trees are made hardy by
this process of acclimation it becomes
an easy matter to protect them from
the ravages of our winters, the pun
riple danger being from the heat of
the summer, and with proper trimming
which has been adopted by some of
the pioneer growers Of the state-theh'e
is no reason why there should not be
an orchard on every farm sufficient
to produce the fruit needed by the
family.
Soil capable of producing such
wonderful timber growth as that of
North Dakota should be fully capable
of producing fruit tree with sufficient
vitality to yield a handsome crop,
and our long days of sunshine should
be sufficient to produce fruit which
would be the peer of any grown out
side the specially adapted regions.
Moreover it would supply the only
thing actually needed to make this the
greatest home state in the union
where the golden opportunities of
rapid wealth would be blended with the
exquisite pleasures of life's delicacies
and Injuries.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20
MAKING THE CRIMINALS WORK.

The sentiment of Kidding the state
of the lawless element which infests
so many of the counties is gaining
ground so rapidly that it seems posi-
BILE some concerted action will be
taken to accomplish this end. In
number of the towns the cry is to run
the criminals out. This is good for
the immediate locality, but it does not
reach the vital spot in Kidding the
state. 1t merely shifts the burden to
some other community-some other
town or county.
Being infested with this lawless ele-
ment is unfortunately condition
from which the northwest must suffer
for several years-until the farmers
devise some means of harvesting and
threshing their crops without relying
so much on imported labor For it is
simply impossible to separate the
worthy from the worthless before the
test is made in the harvest fields. And
even then it is no easy task for the
worst criminals often appear as work
men for the purpose of locating the
best places for the operation of their
criminal plans.
A rigid vagrancy law would have
reaching the undesirable class. 1t
could be so constructed that when an
individual was found without visible
means of support and refused to work
when an opportunity was offered, he
could be arrested as a vagrant and
compelled to work on the public roads
or on the streets of the city as would
be determined by the place where he
was arrested.
This would serve two purposes. 1t
would give some return to the tax
payers for the money they are COM
PEELED to pay out in preventing the
commission of crimes by these people
and in Furnishing them after the crimes
have been committed, and it would
make the state SO obnoxious to that
class of people that they would shun
it as an Irishman would a snake.
The thugs and villains who infest
the northwest during the harvest and
threshing season deserve no mercy
and no consideration. They are here
to take life if need be to accomplish
their dastardly ends. They have placed
themselves outside the pale of mercy.
and the only treatment which would
have any effect upon them is that of
criminal punishment. They would
stab their benefactor with as little
compunction of conscience as they
would their bitterest enemy. They
have done it in number of instances
within the last few weeks.
The time to catch them is before
they commit the crimes. The expert
ence of Valley City shows that even
when the most heinous crimes have
been committed it is almost an i'm
possibility to catch the culprit. A
vagrancy law would reach them al
most so soon as they landed. 1t would
permit those who were here for honest
and honorable purposes to secure
work without being molested, but those
who came to prosper by the commits
sion of crime would be rounded up and
made to pay the penalty by doing work
on public enterprises
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20

The Spaniards are in all probability
having hearty laugh over the Cuban
situation and imagining the trouble
this country will have in crushing the
rebellion. But there is decided diff
ference between Spain and the United
States. The latter can accomplish more
with frown than the former could
with all her armies.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20
County.
Sentiment to he Inculcated.

Let reverence of law be breathed by
prattles in her lap; let it be taught in
the schools, seminaries and colleges;
let it be written in primers, spelling
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.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20

The crop has been gathered with
less damage from the rain this year
than has been the case for several
years. 1t has offset to large extent
the injury to the wheat by the hot
winds, the grade not being lowered
since the grain went into the shock.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20

And now the Minneapolis Journal,
whose opinion on the subject is cop
led approvingly by the Herald, is dis
satisfied with the primary law. Is
there anything that will please the
Journal and it's echo the Herald?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20

The president is now engaged in
bigger enterprises than spelling re-
forms, but it is doubtful if the Cuban
rebellion is much more serious than
the grasping of the phonetic spelling
by the fellows who learned under the
old master, Noah Webster
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20

AS time passes it becomes more APP
parent that the democratic cause in
this state is failing woefully to
arouse any very notable enthusiasm.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
CONGREGATIONAL

oDhASsA-S
Congregational.
Members of Congress
A. j. GRONNA, of Nelson.
T. +. MARSHALL. of Dickey.
T.. Y. SARLES. of Trail.
Lieutenant Governor
r. s. LEWIS. of Cass.
Secretary of State
ALFRED BLAISDELL. of Ward.
Treasurer
a: PETERSON, of Sargent.
AI II. =. HOLMES. of Pembina.
Supt of Public Instruction
w. L. STOCKWELL, Of Walsh.
Insurance Commissioner
E. z. COOPER. of Grand Forks.
Attorney General-
7. +. MCUE, Of Foster.
Supreme Court Justices
D. +. MORGAN, of Ramsey.
JOHN KNAUF. of Stutsman.
Commissioner of Agriculture
w. c. GILBREATH, of Morton.
Railroad Commissioners
&. s. DIESEM. Of LaMoure.
ERICk STAFNE, of Richland.
SIMON WESLEY. of Pierce.
Legislative.
State Senator Sixth District
H. +. RYAN.
House Of Representatives..
Fifth District
ED. CHURCH.
THOMAS H. PuGH.
II. +. TUFTE.
Sixth District
9. G. SKULASON.
NJ. INVERSION.
Savarfh liSfri.f-
JOHN A. SORLEY.
w. $. DEAN.
ARNE =. HAUGEE.
County.
Auditor-Charles Allen
Register of Deeds-Henry Han
Clerk of court-M W. spaulding.
States Attorney-J. g. Wineman.
Treasurer-Don Mcdonald.
Sheriff-O. G. Hanson.
County JUDGE. X. Hassell.
Coroner-A. P. Rounsvell.
Surveyor-Thomas Lawson.
Supt. of SchoOls-W. L. a. Calder.
County Justices-D. N. Mauk, p.
NJ. Mclaughlin.
County Constables-John Austin,
P. w. Hennessy, Peter Johnson,
Jas. Mahon.
County Commissioners
First District. r. Poupore.
Third District-James Murphy,
Fourth District-P N. Korsmo.
Fifth District-Robert Haddow.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20

State Senator Sixth District
H. Z. RYAN.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-20

Members of Congress
T. +. MARSHALL. of Dickey.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16
CHAPTER XII.
Woman,s WiIfuIness.

Joan rode on, silent, furlong be-
fore all her men,. Behind her sulked
Maurice Won Lynar Had any been
there to note, their faces were now
strangely alike in feature, and yet
more curiously unlike in expression.
Joan gazed forward into the distance
like soul dead and about to be re-
born, planning a new life. Maurice
Won Lynar looked more like a naughty
schoolboy whom some tyrant Fate,
rod-wielding, has compelled to obey
against his will.
Soon Castle Kernsberg foated up
like cloud before them above the
blue and misty plain. But no word
spoke Joan till that purple shadow
had taken shape as stately stone and
lime, and she could discern her own
red lion flying abreast of the banner
of Louis of CORTLAND upon the top
most pinnacle of the round tower.
Then on little mound without the
town she halted and faced about.
Men of Hohenstein." said the
Duchess, in a clear, far-reaching alto,
you have followed me, asking no
word of why or wherefore. | have
told you nothing. yet is an explana-
ton due to you"
ut is the will of Joan of the
Sword Handl 1t is enough" repeat
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16
Jorian, being Of the rotund and com

JOrlan, being or the rOtund and com
plaisant faction, acquiesced In the pro-
posal that he should do the writing
But as he never got beyond. ITO our
honored Lord and Lady Hugo and
Helene, these there needs not 10
be any particularly as to his manner
of acting the scribe.
Then he remembered that he knew
/ where secretary was I'M waiting. He
would go and borrow him. Jorian re-
entered their bedroom with a beam
ing smile, and the secretary held by
the sleeve to prevent his escape. Both
felt that the report was as good as
written. II began thus:
With great assiduity "a word sug-
gested by the secretary your ENJOYS
remembered your Highnesses prince
~ advice and command that we should
involve ourselves in no warfare or
other local disagreement So when
we heard that Hohenstein was to be
invaded by the troops of the Prince of
CORTLAND, we were deeply grieyed.
Nevertheless, judging it to be for
the good of our country that we should
have a near view of the fighting, we
left our arms and armor behind us,
and went out to make observations
in the interest of your Highnesses'
armies.
I'VE found the soldiers of the Ouch
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16
JOAN + sH SWORD HAND
81 S.RROCFETT. l4u6Har Of 'zEeRnoaEToc
Copyright. 1898, 1900, by s. r c--ckett.)
CHAPTER xl.ncontlnued.

The Prince of CORTLAND turned an
angry countenahce upon his friend,
but the keen-witted Muscovite looked
so kindly and yet so sadly upon him
that after a while the severity of his
face relaxed as it had been against
bis will, and with a quick gesture he
added, 81 believe you love me, Ivan,
though indeed your words are no bet
ter than red-hot pincers in my heart.
Love you, LOUISE" cried Prince
Ivan. 81 love you better than any
brother have, though they viii never
live to thwart me as yours thwarts
you-better even than my father, for
you do not keep me out of my inherit
ance!"
Then in a gayer tone he went on:
81 love you so much that | will
pledge my fathers whole army to help
you, first to win your wife, next to
take Hohenstein, Kernsberg and Ma
rienfeld. And after that. if you are
still ambitious, why-to Plassenburg
Executioner's Son holds. That would
make. noble kingdom TO oner a talr
and wilful queen"
''And for this you ASK"
only your love. Louis-only your
lovel And, ifsit please you, the alli-
ance with that Prince of your honor
able house. of which we SPOKE just
nowi"
my sister Margaret, you mean?
will do what I can, Ivan, but she also
is wilful. You know she is wilful! l
cannot compel her Lowell"
The Prince Ivan laughed.
81 am not so complaisant as you,
Louis, nor yet SO modest. Give me
my bride on the day Joan of the
Sword Hand sleeps in the palace of
CORTLAND as its princess, and | will
take my chance of winning our Mar
garet's Lowell"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16
A BUSY Woman.

Many years ago visitor to the
home of the Hit family at Mount
Morris. ILL.,, found Mrs Hit quite busy.
She was holding child in her lap.
she was rocking the baby in the
cradle, she was knitting. and she was
reading a newspaper folded over the
hack of chair Tie visitor remarked
that the sons of such a woman ought
to have a good record. The late
Robert r. Hit. the congressman from
Illinois, was one of the boys
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16
Crows Hidden Treasures.

well-known naturalist speaks OF a
wild crow which made collection OF
bits OF broken china and similar odds
and ends. and hid them in nettle
patch. One day the naturalist STUN
bled on the bird standing in the mid
die of his treasures and arranging
them. Next day they we're all gone.
The crow, aware that his secret hiding
place was known, had moved every
thing to some new spot
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16
Worship a Deux.

When Dean Swift was called to the
living of Loracor he inaugurated the
custom of reading prayers on Wednes-
day and Friday At the first Wednes-
day service he waited in vain for any
one to appear except his clerk Roger.
At length he began, Dearly beloved
Roger, the Scriptures moveth you and
me in sundry places" and so proceed
ed to the end of the service.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16
New Idea in Stationery.

There is growing fad for having
ones stationery monogrammed with a
facsimile signature. the initial letters
of the name only being used. The
stamping is usually done on the
fourth page. the monogram running
across the left-hand corner and the
address die balancing it straight to
the right
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16

1t looks as though spelling reform
were really arriving. France proposes
to make certain changes compulsory
in all its schools Thus IS" is TO
be substituted for *" in plurals-
"chevaus' for chevaux The III
is TO be dropped in certain words,
giving us retorique" and '.teatre."
And the French hen viii henceforth
do its clucking over an "euf.p
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16
Barrel oraan in English Church

The parish church at Tobbing, Eng
land which dates back to the thir.
teenth century, and was recently re-
stored, possesses a remarkable an.
cient instrument. barrel organ which
has three barrels and can play 80
tunes by the usual handle.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16

ed the four hundred lances, like a
class that learns lesson by rote.
A lump rose in Joan's throat as she
tried to shape into words the thoughts
that surged within her. She felt
strangely weak. Her pride was not
the same as of old, for the heart of a
woman had grown up within her-a
heart of flesh Surely that could not
be a tear in her eye? No; the wind
blew shrewdly out of the west, to
viii tbey were riding.
ct 1aank you, noble gentlemen"
said Joan. Now, as yoksay, let us
ride into Kernsberg.'
"And pull down that fiagl" cried
Maurice. pointing to the black Court
land Eagle which few so steadily be-
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16
Jewels from Lands of Gar.

A Paris jeweler has bought large
number of stones which have been
found in mines on the czar's private
property Every year stones from
these mines are offered for sale by
tender. in the same way as the for
est lands and mines belonging to
the car are occasionally sold by the
imperial cabinet.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16
Ghost is considerate Of chiIdren.

A ghost which is fond of children
has taken possession of farm in the
Potchefstroom district of the Trans.
vaal. according to dispatches from
there. 1t throws about the furniture,
shakes and pinches the adult members
of the family and visitors, and fright
ems the animals. but it never molests
the children
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16
Superseded.

AS the car of Juggernaut, its wheels
wet and red. Numbered on its bloody
way, it met 90-horsepower automo-
bile. The two great machines con.
fronted one another for an instant
Then, humbled and ashamed. the car
OF Juggernaut turned and skunk back
to its antiquated garage.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-11-16
Oyster Nipped Mans Thumb.

John Prizer, saloon keeper at Boy
eryille, Pa, was nipped on the
thumb by an oyster while he was in
the act of drowning the bivalve in
a soup. Prizer's thumb was put out
of commission. and surgeons had to
give it a good deal of attention.