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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-11
Vaudeville.

The efforts of the management Of
the Metropolitan bid fair to make
Wednesday, April Is, "a veritable way
mark in the successful history of the
theater. The entire program will be
features and headlines In the Vaude-
vile business and will include Mr.. and
Mrs. Danny Mann in their clever COM
edy which is commonly called the isis
Hopkins" of the Vaudeville stage.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-11
Uncle Toms Cabin.

Leo W. Washburn, with stetson's
Uncle Toms Cabin" company begins
an engagement at the Metropolitan
theater on Tuesday, April II, when the
patrons of that popular house will see
this time-hpnored play in all Its SUI.
perior attractiveness uncle Tom,"
the hero of this purposeful story is
portrayed by Fred Bennett, Stetson,s
original Uncle Tom," probably the
best known fmpersonater of this cele-
bfated character ii the world. There
will be two Topsies. two Marks in the
great double. cast. The work Of COM
petent players ID further enhanced by
beautiful stage settings and new cleo
trical devices. Col. sSawyer's celer
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-11
ADJUSTMENTS
The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast.

1.-THE Sleeping Beauty and the Beast"
the biggest spectacular pantomine
ever presented in this country will
be the attraction at the Metropolitan
theater Saturday evening. Its success
at the Drury Lane theater, London,
and later at the Broadway theater,
New York city was phenomenal, and
since it's metropolitan run, the same
story Of continued prosperity is re-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-11

brated pack Of blood hounds 10 one
of the features with this company.
New and novel novel specialties are
introduced by the Lone Star Quar-
tet." The parade will be worth going
to see.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-11
<v6!5 6 \ lIfEzsMSED
>sSzNS fGSSs,As
Sentiment to lie Inculcated.

Sentiment to he Inculcated.
let reverence of law be breathed by
every mother to the lisping babe that
prattles in her lap; let 1t be taught in
the schools. seminaries and colleges:
let 1t be written in primers. spelling
books and almanacs: let 1t be preached
from pulpits and proclaimed in legis-
lative halls and enforced in courts OF
Justice; in short. let 1t become the
political religion of the nation
Abraham Lincoln.
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should receive attention Immediately,
not only in this city but In every other
where the dangerous and unsanitary
conditions exist,
Cañon City record., 1906-08-16
HOW suoNrs WON HIS WIFE.

That Mr.. Shonts has habit of ac-
complishing to the queens taste what he
sets out to do, is illustrated by two Incl
dents furnished by his career.
As young men will do, there came a
time when he fell in love with young
lady. She was the daughter Of General
Francis NJ Drake afterwards Governor
Of Iowa) and musical. enthusiast.
Somehow, Shonts got it into his head
,ha, to win her he would have to become
proficient in music, and, nothing daunted
by the circumstance that from his earliest
boyhood he had never been able to carry
a tune or distinguish ono note from an
other, he set resolutely to work to master
the art It was hard work. but he kept
at it, and before long he was being COM
plimented by Miss Drake on his unsus-
pccted accomplishment Still later he
was rewarded for all his trouble by gain
ing from the young lady's lips the word
" longed most to hear. To this day
music is one of Mr.. Shonts' hobbies. He
has only two-the other is work.
The second incident occurred in Chi
caRo, the Shonts' home town. A rail-
road contractor who harbored a'sriev'
Cañon City record., 1906-08-16

THEODORE P. SHoNTS, chairmaa
and executive head OF the lsthmi1n
Canal Commission, soon received
this word from Mr.. Roosevelt, and he,
in turn, lost no time in passing il on
to John r. Stevens. chief engineer of the
Commission and his vish,-hsnd man.
'Ater many weary months of preparation
Ind of waiting for Congress to deter
mine the type of canal. these two men
now have well under way the actual con-
s;ruetion work connected with the biggest
engineering job ever undertaken by man.
and along the whole length Of the canal
TS>p,e the dirt is flying with characteristic
American energy.
!, is a peculiar fact that until both Mr..
Shon,s and Mr.. Stevens were selected
for their present work, their existence
was undreamed of by the great Ameri-
can public, which now has their names
on its lips daily.
When the President determined to re-
organize the Canal Commission he nat
urally looked about for the proper man
to head it, Elihu Root refused the task;
he was welded to the law. Henry c.
Frick did not want it; he had already
done his work. One day Paul Morton,
then in the cabinet as Secretary Of the
Navy. suggested the name of Theodore
P. Shonts, friend of his.
As the good old expression has it, the
President took TO Mr.. Shonts at once,
and when the latter frankly stated that
he would no. consider taking the posi-
iion unless he could have full authority,
and his judgment would be final in all
matters wherein there was a difference
Of opinion, that settled it. Mr.. Shon.s
Mas straightway offered the position ur-
der this condition. and as promptly ac-
cepted. thus leaping from obscurity, as
president of third-ratc railroad. to in
ternational prominence, as executive head
>pf the worlds greatest engineering un-
sNrtaking.
Cañon City record., 1906-08-16

When tho United States senate, . snort
time before the Adjournment iof Com
gress. unexpectedly voted for = lock
canal across the Isthmus of Panama,
thus coneurrink with the House, tho
President said,
- AZ soon Ne receive onicial notice Of
the action of Congress, IN tell shonts
to cut loose"
Cañon City record., 1906-08-16

world he was chief engineer and secund
vice-president of the Chicago, Rock Is
land and Pacific.
His greatest engineering feat was ac-
complished while he was in the employ
of the Great Northern, James ]. HlPs
road. AT the same time he had his most
thrilling adventure, or, rather, series of
adventures
It was in 1890, the year that he went
with the Great Northern as principal as
sistant engineer, that he undertook to
get the road across the Cascade Noun
tains and Washington State. To find a
pass in the mountains through which the
road could be run, and to locate the line,
Engineer Stevens disappeared one day in
the wilderness with two Indian guides
and a pack mule. There befell adventure
sufficient il, scrambling up mountains,
skirting yawning precipices, treading vir-
gin territory; but on top of all this the
guides turned deserters and the pack
mule lay down and gave up the ghost
Imagine yourself in an untamed coun-
try under such circumstances. Would
you push on intrepidly? That is Just
what John F. Stevens did, and he not
only discovered Stevens Pass (named
after him by grateful employer), but
in addition located the line so admirably
that it remains unchanged to this day.e
This bit OF strenuous endeavor made
Mr.. Stevens chief engineer of the road
FIVE years after going with it, and some
time later he became its general manager.
As such he did much to make the road
the wonderful property it is to-day. From
the Great Northern he went to the Rock
Island, as chief engineer and fourth vice
, president.
I'LL STICK" SAYS STEVENS.
Mr.. Stevens was born down East fifty
three years ago. To be exact, his birth
place is West Gardiner, Me- He is three
years older than Mr.. Shonts, who was
born in Crawford County, Pa, but was
raised in Iowa. Mr.. Stevens did not go
west until he had given upf teaching
school for engineering, being I'D to take
the step largely because he haf an uncle
who was famous engineer fin his day.
Il am going to stick MIR. Stevens
announced, when it became 1lews that he
was to succeed John F. Wallace as chief
engineer of the canal.
The mans dogged determi( patton ap1
his ability to preserve a cheerfA Ai face s0d
crack smile in the face of YasSefently
! insuperable difficulties. are leading cnar.
aeteristics. They have done ot to win
him the devotion of the mi.n who work
under him, as well as ato pun him
triumphantly through u--merous tight
places.
Cañon City record., 1906-08-16
THE RECORD BUILDER OF RAILROADS.

Ahh hhSthp bSlAbek VI kAILROAnS-
An equally restless and hard worker
is Mr., s'd F. He is every bit as true
friend and good hater. He also is
able to inspire the enthusiasm of men
under him. He. too, knows railroadins
from top to bottom, is of the Middle
West, and accepted the Presidents offer
largely because of his love of doing
things that look hard.
In the twenty years that he was
connected with railroads in sc..nc engi-
neering capacity Mr.. Stevens managed to
construct more miles of railroad than
any other man in the world down to date.
He began to build track in '76sas engi-
neer and superintendent of surveys of
the Sabine Pass and Northwestern Rail-
way. Two years previously he had begun
his engineering career as assistant city
engineer of Minneapolis. He was then
twenty-one. When he left the railroad
Cañon City record., 1906-08-16

getting even with him. AS soon as
Mr.. Shonts became aware of the con-
tractors intentions he, sprang to the door.
locked it, and fifteen minutes later. when
the door was unlocked. the caller sneaked
through it, as badly thrashed as any
man that ever walked in shoe leather. In
telling of the encounter, Mark Morton,
brother Of Paul, said: The chairs were
broken. and the room looked as if
typhoon had swept through it" In other
words, Mr. Shonts had simply wiped up
the floor with his man.
Prominent railroad men arc authority
for the statement that probably no man
is .-.orc accurately informed on all the
details of railroading than is Mr.. Shonts.
Acquisition Of right of way, construction,
the handling and choosing of men, opera
ton, traffic, finances, the relation ofa rail-
road to the public-all Of these problems,
among others, have been wrestled with
by him at some time or other since the
day he gave up his newly begun law prac-
tice, at the solicitation of his father-in-
law, and joined him in the work OF
building the Iowa Central.
Mr.. Shonts does not need the salary
that Uncle Sam pays him. His income
from his private fortune exceeds hum
dred thousand dollars year. He likes
to do things. II is passion with him,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-18
BLooMF FIELD.

Bloomfield, Dec. 14.-The funeral
services of Edmond Carlisle Russell
were held at the Milton Russell resi-
dence Friday morning and the body
was inferred in the South cemetery.
The services were conducted by Elder
M. Downing, assisted by Rev. F. D.
Ferrall, pastor of the Christian church.
The sermon was q beautiful discourse
on the Twenty third Psalm. The music
was furnished by the choir of the
Christian church and the pail bearers
were Floyd Hutton, John Ellenberger
Otis Rector, Argus Spurgeon, George
Dunlavev and Arthur Hartzler.
Mrs. j. H. Leon spent Thursday In
Ottumwa as guest at the home OF
Mrs. G. R. Atwood.
Mrs. W. w. Power returned Friday
from Pulaski, where she has been
spending some time on the Power farm
Mr.. and Mrs. e. L. Scott of Ottum-
wa, Mr. and Mrs. Fessler of Chari-
ton and Mrs. Minnie Mattick of Moul-
ton were guests at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. A. Lorenz Thursday.
W. M. Campbell of Milton was a
business visitor In the city Friday.
Mrs. James McGowen and children
will return next week from Loveland
Colorado, where they have been spend
ing month or more with Mrs. Nc
Gowan's sister, Mrs. Nellie Benson.
The trip was made for the benefit of
Mrs. McGowan's little daughter, Mar
garet, who had been in i'll health for
some time.
Clarence Stafford Of Cloquet, Mimi
arrived Saturday to spend few days
with his parents, Rev. and Mrs G. L.
Stafford.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-18
INCREASE OF SALARIES.

1t was comparatively easy for the
house of representatives to pass leg
islation raising the salary of the speak
er of the house, the vice president
and the members of the cabinet 10
$4,000 per year, but when 1t came
to the amendment raising the salary
of members of the senate and house
to $500 the congressman were more
backward.
Champ Clark of Missouri said he
would vote against bill increasing
the salary of congressman for the
reason once given by John Allen. 81
know that the salary of congressman
is too SMALL" said Mr.. Allen, "but it
is better than nothing" 1t is infer
red from this that the famous salary
grab" is still fresh in the minds Of
the present congressman, and that
while the increase at that time was
not out of proportion with the de-
mands made upon the congressman, 4
little later there we're quite a num-
Der of them who would have been
glad to take the old schedule as "bet-
ter than nothing" There were those
who not only realized little from the
"grab," but they lost their jobs as
well in the hurricane of public opin-
ion that followed. Even men who
voted against the bill, but drew the
additional salary Under it, we're cut
DOWN politically.
SO, while the congressman ale of
the opinion that their salary is not
measured in accoriance with the
heavy demands upon their resources,
the lesson of long ago is one that they
find hard to effectively pass from them
The step they have taken in reference
to the speaker of the house Of repre-
sentatives, the vice president Of the
United States and the members of the
Presidents cabinet may be one that
will ultimately result in successful
les of congressman.
1t is well known that none of the
men in elective positions or cabinet
receive money enough to make both
ends meet If they are compelled to
depend upon their salaries alone to
pay their expenses, especially If they
remove their families to the capital.
The president of the American base
bail league this week had his salary
raised from $4,000 to $4,000, now
receiving three times as much as a
senator and almost twice as much as a
cabinet officer. Men of much ability
are compelled to make sacrifices when
they enter life at Washington, for
there is much more to be made by
them by selling their services to pri-
vate interests as a private citizen than
by giving their time to the public at
the public's price.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-18

Abba, Dec. 15.-Mrs. Eva Ames of
Thomas, Oklahoma, is visiting her
daughters, Mrs. Clark and Miss Eta
Terhune
Mrs Rosentall Of ST. Joseph, Mo-, is
visiting her friend, Mrs. George Car
man.
Mrs. B. P. Cashier entertained the
Grand Whist club Thursday evening.
Mrs. Massey Is very i'll with pneu-
monia.
Mrs. e. j. Cooper is enjoying a visit
from her mother, Mrs. Coffman
Mrs. Proudf1t of Clarinda has moved
to Abba to make her home with Mrs
Anna Vanschoiach.
Mrs. Ann Protheroe. mother of j. T
Clarkson of this city, died at the home
Of her daughter in Hiteman and was
buried yesterday.
Mrs. H. H. Hammond has shipped her
household goods and will leave fol
Centralia, ILL.,, to join her husband
who has good business location there
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Rizer will leave
Monday for Carlsbad, New Mexico tc
spend the winter
The case of the State of Iowa VS.
Rev G. S. Cooper was opened today
and a motion for continuance was
overruled. Attorneys Dave Bates and
j. G. Mabry were disqualified from APP
pearing as counsel for the prosecution
because of their being connected with
civil case that had bearing on this
one
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-18
TYRONE.

Tyrone, Dec. 15.-W. d. Shehan de-
livered poultry in Melrose today
Peter O'Connor is visiting in Mt.
Pleasant at this time.
William Griffith visited with friends
in Charlton a few days last week
Mrs. M. Greene was a Melrose visitor
on business Wednesday.
Jerry Doyle was transacting bust
ness with Melrose people one day this
week.
F. L. Mercer of Abba was interviews
ing the fur trade here one day this
week
The frescoers who are doing the work
on the Catholic church building Of
Georgetown for the last three weeks,
have completed their labors. The
building will be ready for occupancy
about Christmas
J. T. F. McGrath was representing
the plaintiff in the case Of James Nc
Donough VS.. the Anchor Fire Insurance
Co., in the court of Justice John 8.
Quinn one day this week. This was a
case where the plaintiff sued to recover
for a horse which was killed by light
ming August 16. A judgment was rem
dered for $75 and costs in favor Of Nc
Donough
James o'Neill was Melrose visitor
one business one day this week.
John p Judge and wife transacted
business in Abba Monday
A telephone has been placed in the
depot at this place to be used in con-
junction with the block system in
handling trains.
]. p. Feehan visited with friends at
Abba Monday.
Bart Feehan was transacting busl-
ness in Hiteman one day this week.
w. H. Murray visited in Melrose on
Tuesday on a mission of business.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-18
HEARsr,s HoMEsrAkE MINE

With the breaking out of labor trou-
bles In the Homestake mine, the ma
jority of the stock in which Is held
by the Hearst estate, something
Of the attitude Of the great champion
of labor's cause when it affects him
self is revealed.
There has been trouble at the mines.
1t has been more serious, apparently,
than 1t is now. for there is a report
that concessions have been made and
the men do not have to work twelve
hours any more. The laborers are
mostly Italians, Finlanders and other
foreign elements that can be secured
at lower wages with longer hours than
the native American can be induced
to labor for.
1t is said that the reason non-union
laborers are hired is because the mine
could not be made to pay if the high
scales demanded by the union men
were adopted.
Business is at standstill in Lead
and Deadwood, the towns in the vi
entity Of which the Hearst mine is To-
Gated, and all are anxiously awaiting
an adjustment of the differences be-
tween the owners and the laborers.
Nothing has been seen in the Hearst
journals thus far about the oppression
Of the laboring men in the Hearst
mine; there have been no cartoons
picturing the Hearst interests" as an
ugly octopus monopolizing the water
supply to the towns in that locality,
nor as huge being, half man and half
animal, depressing the laborers by
working them twelve hours day at
less wages than are paid to the union
miners.
If the Hearst interests act in time
he may not have to, for with few
concessions these foreign laborers will
go back into the mines and a strike
will be avoided.
Little has been said about the Home
stake, or Hearst mine, and there was
an ignorance on the part of the public
of the conditions and the monopoly
there until it was exposed by Secretary
Shaw in the recent campaign. Hearst
has been able to fool many people into
the belief that he could do no wrong
to the laboring man, and kept their at
tention directed to other peoples af.
fairs with such noise that the labor.
ing men never thought of looking at
Hearst's own affairs.
This has been bad year for men of
the Hearst type, the men who have
been living and growing fat by dema-
gogic methods. There has been sort
of reaction as people have become in
formed as to their true character as
| it differed from the pretended charac-
ter Such men have their day, and
people become agitated over and by
them for a time and then the world
moves on.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-18
WOMEN ON THE FARM.

One day of the Wapello County
Farmers Institute was given to the
women, and the time was devoted TO
their department Of the farm work
for the farming industry is divided
into departments the same as other
industries The proceedings of the
day showed that there are many
things that the women of the farm
can get together and talk over with
profit in the same manner that the
men do.
Years ago it was necessary that ex-
IRENE economy be practiced In the
farm home in order that a small pro-
fit might be laid aside whe nthe stock
and crop we're marketed. Today 1T is
not as necessary that the home shall
be deprived of comforts or that the
farmers family shall forego the pleas
ure and education, but economy plays
an important part in the possibilities
of the possession of these things most
to be desired.
The women on the farm today are
enabled to enjoy the comforts and con-
veniences and many of the pleasures
that had previously been only for the
women who lived in town. Many OF
them have had the privileges of high
school or college education. They dc
not have to undergo the hardships
that were thrust upon their mothers.
While their work may be hard, AM:
especially so a certain seasons ct
| the year, the farm homes now are
much pleasanter workshops than they
| were years ago.
Before a good roads meeting in Ok
| lahoma there was a woman, who had
made study of the subject, pleading
| for good roads for the benefit Of the
| farmers wives. She had the figures
showing that the larger proportion
OF the women in the insane hospitals
came from the farms, having become
demented, afflicted with melancholia
because of their isolation from the rest
can not be disputed, and 1t is just as
probable that her conclusions were
correct. The brightest home is none
too good for the farmers wife and
family. When roads are bad the men
have to go to town about so often
anyhow, but the women await more
desirable time. The result is thai
weeks roll by without permitting the
woman Of the house to enjoy the as
sociation of any person or thing that
is not a daily sight.
What their tendency is today is
signified in the meetings during the
institute. They are demanding better
lawns, more beautiful surrounding
and other things that in times past
would have been considered useless
on the farm The women will have
them too, for they have been making
wonderful progress in the home, the
same as the farmer has been doing il
| the field
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-18
YOUTH THE INSTRUCTOR.

Chicago Notwithstanding this is
the era Of young men. They dominate
the situation in business and politics
and literature. They bear the palm
while the older men wear the cypress.
This, perhaps, accounts for the cir
cumstance that most of our contempor-
airy reformers are young men-very
young men. The general idea to push
the young man to the front in every
thing else has naturally resulted in
according him leadership in reform
movements also. So that nowadays
graybears sit at the feet of young wis
dom with the down upon his lip and
are instructed.
Professor Smaller Mathews apparent
ly questions the entire wisdom and de-
STABILITY Of this elevation of Adde'S
cence to the chair of judgment. He
speaks words of heresy and even Of
contumacy. Immature reformers,"
says he, "are the most dangerous
forces in molding public opinion. In
fiated with visions of Utopias and airy
dreams, they carry the world to heights
of great danger"
Professor Mathews seeks to save
himself from the consequences of his
heresy by adding that Eve must admit
that indiscriminate demands for re.
form are better than self-complacency
and apathy" but this will not absolve
him from the pains and penalties
which he has incurred To talk of ''im-
maturity" in this epoch of precocious
genius is to commit lese majestic
against the reigning monarch youth.
1t Is idle to quarrel with realities.
1t is true that twenty-five years ago
youthful wisdom found 1t hard to get
a hearing and the hearing, when OBJ
tanned, was not always a reverant one.
But nowadays the sole qualification for
a great instructor is that he shall have
been in frocks while his auditors were
actively engaged in the worlds acti-
vities. The young man imparts in
struction to the old man. Times have
changed and we have changed them.
Perhaps 1t would be better to say
that the older man has changed, while
the young one has merely begun to
assert his dominance, hitherto ques-
toned or denied him. He has come
into his own and exercises his birth
right of directing the physical and in
tellectusl progress Of humanity. He is