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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
INDIANS KNOW TURKISH.
Tribesmen Of the East Indies Who
Speak in the Oriental
Tongue.

The Chinese puzzle of anthropologists
and philologists is Turkish puzzle. 1t
was recently shown that the language OF
the pygmies is the language of the Aus
tralian aborigines and that both come
from the early Egyptian. Students of
the University of Campeche have dis
covered that there are tribes of East In
dams in the interior Of that state the
members Of which can speak the Turk
ish language or one so similar that q
Hindu and q Turk can readily carry on
conversation. A Turk who did
not know word of the Spanish or In
dian languages recently landed at Cam
peche. He had the address of a country
man who lived in the interior and pro-
ceeded to that locality. To investigate
the reports that the Indians could un-
derstand the Turkish language the man
was accompanied by several students Of
the university. They found that the
newly-arrived immigrant had no trouble
in conversing with the tribesmen and
the students have now undertaken to es.
tablish the relationship between the In
dians of the tropical state and the
Turks.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
Bad Manners in Japan.


Perhaps you are tired of hearing that
the Japanese boy is the most polite
youth in the world. No wonder! You
have had this fact drummed into your
ears until the least suggestion of such
thing makes you say or to think:
"Fudge!" Perhaps you can endure just
one more allusion to this pleasing trait
Of the young Japanese. II one does
chance to forget his manners-a most
uncommon conference.-the offense is
not only punished, but apologized for. A
case is told where child on the street
called traveller q Foreign Devil" This
is 9 common epithet In China and all
through the old world. People use this
expression as you would call a China
man Heather Chinee." In the case
Of this child of Japan he was reproved,
q policeman was sent for. who visited the
insulted elady. and an apology was ten
dered her for the rudeness Of this child.
All this politeness and courtesy has not
made the Japanese Sissy" You know
what magnificent fighters they have
proven themselves in their late war with
Russia i
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

E II = L
them" sighed the clerk. shall We re-
turn you the money!
II don't want the money" stormeti
the pale faced woman. II want, the
pictures. It took me two hours TO ana
clerk who had time to wait ON me
and another hour to pick out those
pictures. want those pictures"
They seem to lose their temper oc-
casionally," remarked the woman OF
the flowers as the pale faced woman
rushed away. The complaint clerk
nodded assent and beckoned with his
long lead pencil.
I'VE have traced those flowers of
yours, madam" said he with q win
ming SMILE, I'VE have found that they
were never sent out or received. The
girl at the desk must have forgotten
them"
The woman's face flushed. "You
mean to say" she cried, that she took
my order and my card and my money
and then didn't send them?"
II am afraid SO, madam"
DO you mean to say" stormed the
woman, that all the other presents
went to my other friends and this, to
the best friend ] have In the world,
you neglected to send, and she must
have known all the rest got presents
and she got none?"
II am afraid SO, madam"
You have lost me the very best
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
he WAS A BOY ALL RIGHT.
Didn't Like to Work, But the
Promise Of Having Fun
Caught Him,

Hall Caine was praising the Ameri.
can autumn, relates the Washington
Post. Il visited in October" he said,
the country house of New York
man. It was in New England, on a
mountainside. and the splendid colors
Of the foliage-the scarlets and colds
and innumerable famelike tints-gave
to the still forests an indescribable
magnificence. ,
"And the leaves fell In rain of
color through the transparent air. In
the garden, one afternoon. heard a
gardener say to his little son:
81 wish you would rake up these
dead leaves in q pile
!" oh. I don't feel like it, whined the
boy. My backs sore ana I've got
cramp in my wrist, and there's grow
ing pains in my Leg
AFTER you get 'em raked up went
on the gardener, calmly, you can make
q nice bonfire out of them, and jump
over it, IL
The boy began to whoop and leap.
'Hurrah!' he shouted. Where's the
rake?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
THE EVENING HINES, GRAND FORKS, N. D.
Xneouzaeine Hallway Help. .

neoSxAe tn9 Hallway Help.
The initial number Of . publication
entitled The North Western Bul-
letin," Just issued BY the Chicago &
Northwestern railway in the interests
Of Its employees. ID 1 most commend.
able move on the part Of the company
In the direction Of improved condi-
lions and worthy Of emulation by rail-
way companies the world over. On
the various divisions of the road the
agents have organized local agents
associations, one for each division,
and at their monthly meetings various
problems that confront the local agent
In the performance of his daily duties
are discussed. experiences recited and
new methods suggested for the better
ment Of the service. These discus
slons result in much practical good to
all concerned. The interest manifest
ed by the management Of the North
western line In these agents meetings
and the value placed on their express
sions. is indicated by the opening
paragraph OF the Bulletin: 1.-The pa
pers which have been read from time
!. to time at the meetings of the sta
ton agents associations on the vari-
GUS divisions Of the Chicago & North
western railway have indicated care
full thought and q keen appreciation of
conditions. They have been of such
interest and inspiration to the officials
of the road that it is deemed advis.
able to secure wider distribution for
as many Of them as possible" When
the management of corporation free
ly declares that the views of their To-
cal subordinates "have been Of such
interest and inspiration" as to call
for the trouble and expense of CIV
ing them wider distribution among Of.
fcers and fellow employees, it is obvious
to all that existing industrial prob
lens are in a fair way to meet q sor,l.
ton along the most satisfactory lines
to all concerned. The employees of
the Chicago & Northwestern railway,
it seems, are to be congratulated upon
this movement which serves to bring
them into closer touch with their SUI
periors, many of whom have grown
up with the growth of the road and
advanced to places of responsibility
from the lowest ranks. Much of the
strength of our railways to-day is due
to this training, selection and pro.
motion, by which the most humble
member of the working staff is encour-
aged to climb the steps of the official
ladder by right of individual merit
and hard work, and the modest sheet
referred to will go long way toward
establishing an increased confidence
and good feeling that means much for
employees.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
Crickets All yiolinists,'

violinist Of the fields a poet christened
the grasshopper, whose musical appa-
ratus demonstrates the scientific 1T
ness Of its name. Both crickets and
grasshoppers use a rudimentary violin.
The crickets have Q fiddle. the abdomen
being partially endowed with small
bridgeiike edges or ridges. against which
the wings are rubbed In order to produce
the strident chirp. All such insects are
tenors; deep bass voices are unknown.
although It iss the male. not the female
insect that ID the musician. Some In
sects. like the locust. have veritable
violin homes. covered with fine ridges
and attached to the wings by two button.
like growths. Others have cavities COW
cred over with q fine membrane. which.
serves the purpose 81 a resonator; In al.
most, all insects Of this type there is a
parchmentltke part Of the abdomen
watch acts @ Z kind 81 sound BE- board.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

II, in the course of human events,
universal peace is agreed upon by the
nations of the earth, as is now prom
Used, what would be more natural, says
the Baltimore Herald, than that the
powers SHOULD enter into an ironclad
compact placing the administration of
the affairs of this dear old oblate
spheroid under one central movement
and bringing into being a grand United
States of the world? The economical
advantage of such contamination
must be apparent to the dullest novice
Picture the combined armies and
navies of this great land going forth
to do battle with the forces of other
globes, seeking, like Alexander, new
worlds to conquer. Picture the inter-
state commerce commission disentan-
Cling problem presented by the ship
ment at reduced rates of crate of
peaches from the state of Siam to the
state of Honduras.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
I FEATHERS pvEb 1R oNzE.
Peculiar Penchant for Certain plu-
mage Among Paris FASH N
iouablee. 81

The feathers that Paris 70 using
now add their quota to the singular
tty Of appearance the hats. Of the
French elegantes present. A peculiar
penchant for dragged plumes Il 4
Characteristic Of the vogue Of the mo-
ment, but 1t il not the ostrich feather
alone that provides, the wherewithal
for its indulgence, Bays the London
Mail.
Peacock tail feathers are dyed dull
bronze brown then rufied lisconsolate-
" % II to symbolic the birds chagrin
at the liberty taken with his lovely
plumage, and attached by the handful
to the outer side Of the brim, always
on the left side. In accordance with the
sunwritten law Of millinery tactics
that relegates height to that side Of
the head. ~
Another feather Is mingling Of
many fronds. including marabout and
ostrich, chosen for their general fluff
ness Of texture. allied to q specially
vertebrate spine, which enables the
plume to be reared on high with q
strangely menacing air, the more un-
premeditated in appearance the better.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
The Abdominal Brain.

Many persons suffer from headache.
dizziness, confusion of thought, or sim
liar unpleasant symptoms, after meals.
These, says the editor of Good Health,
are evidences Of indigestion. We have
two brains-the cranial and. the alb
aominal brain. The abdominal brain,
which is called the solar plexus, has
charge of the work of digestion, and
the cranial brain has charge of the in
tellectual operations and a general
supervision over the body as a whole.
When one whose stomach is in an irri-
table condition takes meal, his solar
plexus may become overexcited, and
through its connection with the brain,
the brain also become excited. The
abdominal brain has charge of the
heart; it controls the circulation of
the blood. When the abdominal brain
is .overexcited from indigestion or any
cause, it may excite the heart. You
will always find the pulse little
quicker after dinner than it was be-
tore. Palpitation of the heart some
times results from overexcitation of
the abdominal brain by indigestion. 1t
Is very common thing to find per-
sons whose brains are Influenced by
their eating. Many business men have
observed that after heavy dinner
they cannot think clearly and connect
sdly. This is the most common cause
Of the after-dinner cigar, which mud
dies the brain little more, SO they
do not know that they are muddled.
When the cigar fails to produce ap-
parently the desired effect, they take
a glass of whisky, which confuses the
Drain still more. This condition of
mental obscurity and sluggishness is
usually the result of errors in diet, and
the only way to obtain permanent re-
lief is to reform the dietetic habits.
Whisky and cigars give only the SEN
sation of relief, while in reality they
increase the trouble. Many so-called
nerve tonics have the same effect
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
Timber Famine.


The woodmen spared not the trees
whose ghosts now return to threaten
us with timber famine. Whereas ten
years ago only the soundest ties were
used by the railroads, seconds and
thirds are now accepted by the pur.
chasing agents. Red oak, black oak,
beech, gums, pines and other soft
woods which once were considered
worthless are now treated with creo-
sote and other preservatives for ties,
crossarms and poles. This treatment
quadruples the life of soft wood tie
and will meet the demand for some
years. But shortage is in sight and
must be met by plantations. Maude
Adams is said to have planted upon
her Long Island property 100000 10.
Gust trees which will make the best
and most lasting telegraph poles and
railroad ties. A catalpa plantation in
Kansas owned by a railroad shows an
annual net profit Of $12.65 per acre.
The annual tie consumption OF single
railroad is about 3.s50.000 ties, the
yield of 1880 acres. The total annual
consumption of railroad ties is 12O,-
100000, or fully one-sixth of the total
cut of timber. Besides this are the
vast draips upon the forest for tele.
graph and telephone poles, crossarns,
and other uses. At the present rate
of consumption the United States will
be bare of marketable timber in 40
years. The government forest serv.
ice offers substantial help to planters.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
Man-psysloper.

1an-Dsvslopsr.
The struggle to get away from DOW
erty has been . great man developer.
Had every human being been born
with Q silver spoon In his mouth-had
there been no necessity put upon him
TO work-the race would still be in Its
infancy. Had everybody in this coun-
try been born wealthy, ours would be
one OF the dark ages, says Owen SWEET
Marsden, In Success Magazine. The
vast resources Of our land would still
be undeveloped, the gold would still
be In the mines, and our great cities
would still be In the forest and the
quarry. Civilization owes more to the
perpetual struggle Of man to get away
from poverty than to anything else.
1t is not poverty itself, but ,ne effort
to get away from it, that makes the
man. We are SO constituted that we
make our greatest efforts and do our
best work while struggling to attain
that which the heart longs for. 1t is
FASSsASSAy AmFOoolUlC lOI mOSI pcOpl0
to make their utmost exertions with
out imperative necessity for it. 1t is
the constant necessity to improve his
condition that has urged man onward
and developed the stamina and sterling
character of the whole race. A youth
born and bred in the midst of luxury,
who has always leaned upon others,
who has never been obliged to fight his
way up to his own loaf, and who has
been coddled from his infancy, rarely
develops great stamina or staying pow
er. He is like the weak sapling in the
forest compared with the giant oak
which has fought every inch of its way
up from the acorn by struggling with
storms and tempests Power is the re-
suit of force overcome. The giant is
made strong in wrestling with diff
culties. 1t is impossible for one who
does not have to struggle and to night
obstacles to develop fiber or stamina.
ITO live without trial Is to die but
half man." Strength of character is
thing which must be wrung out of
obstacles overcome.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
Terrorized BRIDEGROOM.

Rev. Bernard Sphinx, who has lust
been appointed vicar Of st. Stephens.
East Twickenham, once had an anus.
ing experience at wedding ceremony
He put the usual question to the
bridegroom, who, instead of the ex-
pected yes, answered no" Mr..
Sphinx invited the man to follow him
into The yestry, at the same time per-
suadi9g the lady to remain in the
church. In the vestry the man ex-
planned that he had been constrained
by sheer fright to consent to the mar
rage. but had no desire whatever to
be united to that or any other bride.
Mr.. Sphinx. opened the door leading into
the street, and told him that he had
just three minutes In which to make
good his escape. The terrorized bride
groom fed, just II time. for the lady
rushed into the yestry In search Of
him, shouting: Where is the scoun-
drel L0ndon M. "A. p. I Al
"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

At Manitou, Col, at the base of the
Pike Peaks range, there is an cleo
trio power station which is operated
by head of 2,10O feet. The press.
ure is greater than that at almost any
other station in the world. It is
calculated to be 913 pounds to the
square inch where the water is util-
lied to drive turbine wheels, and at
the nozzle Of the long pipe employed
the stream gushes out at the velocity
Of $50 miles an hour.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

H. "A. Kramer, Of Chicago. has been
paying visit to his parents in Fidelity,
I'LL, where family reunion was held re,
Gently. Mr.. Kramer has five sisters and
two brothers, the combined weight Of
the eight children being 2.043 pounds.
After the total avoirdupois had been flg-
ured up. the other day the Chicago man
said: s Father, il every couple raised a
ton Of children like you and mother
have there is no foreign enemy on earth
who would not avoid America in q
scrap. d
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
CITY HAS GOOD HUSBANDS
New York Shows Fewer Divorces to
Population Than Any Other
Big Burg.

More divorces are applied for and
more are granted in the city Of New
York than in any other large city Of the
country. butthe number Of divorced men
residing Id New York is relatively much
smaller than in any other very large
American city.
There were, by the last enumeration,
fewer than 1900 divorced men here, of
whom $50 we're in Brooklyn, while in
Chicago the number was nearly 1000,
and in indianapolis, which has less
population than the borough of Queens.
600. There were only IS in Queens.
San Francisco. which has almost ex-
actly ane-tenth OF the population Of
New York, had by the last census 800 d.
vorced men. equivalent in the same ratio
to 10000 in New York. where actually
the number is only 1000.
st. Louis and Washington are two
other cities which have an unusually
large number Of divorced men in pro-
portion to their whole population.
Portland, Ore.,a city, of 1OO, 900. has half
as many as Philadelphia, city OF
1,250,00O. Spokane has $4,000 inhabit-
ants: Troy, N. Y, has 65. 600 Spokane
has 200 divorced men among its inhab.
itants; Troy has IL. &,
Newark has 10000 fewer inhabitants
than has Milwaukee, which has three
times as many divorced men.
Various explanations OF these dis,
PARTIES are given. the most natural one
~ NH To- ho< ~.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
KinR 81 the Hellenss.

King Georges title Of king Of the
Hellenes is due to the fact that when
he was elected to the throne he was
acclaimed BY the nation as king, not
OF Greece. but Of the Creeks. The
great powers admitted the title Of king
Of Jhs Greeks, but, ont Of considera.
ton for the susceptibilities Of the sui
tan, they adopted for soficial purposes
the title Of king Of the Hellenes, as dis
tingnished from the Greeks still under
Turkish rule. Il III IN III h:
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17
Which 0arAeldP

The news Of President Garfield's cleo
ton did not reach the town Of Lee, in
Massachusetts, until the day after the
count. It happened that in the town
there was man named Garfield whb
ran 8 mill, and he had q SON named
Henry When the news arrived some
one yelled to the crowd that was hang
Ing around the general loaiing place.!
Garfield is elected president and Inn
mediately an old man called back to
him: Which one, Hen or the old man!"
Boston Herald.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

BRIDGES ARE UasiotsTtY.


az ~ ~ Tue lng6il0C{u0l7 ana pfO1e98l03.
u habit Of the engineer, says Mont.
gomery Schuyler, in the ArchitecturalS
Record Magazine. to view his problem
% purely one Of mechanics and not at
. al % one Of esthetics, to regard
bridge, % one Of the leaders OF the
profession put IT, q merely - tool o.
trafac," and 20 supply the tool that is
least costly both In money and In
trouble to It's designer. This way Of
looking ct things Is really forced upon
the engineer, and It would be both
futile end unjust to libel him for It.
His principal employers, the railroads,
would think him . fool II he took
more trouble about the designs Of his
railroad bridges than was necessary
to insure their stability, and . lunatic
II he proposed to them to spend more
money on . bridge than the irreduc.
ible minimum Of its practical require
ments demanded, by way Of Improving
its appearance.
Hence, such insults to nature and
travesties upon art as the cantilever
that spans the Niagara or the other
9cantilever that spans the. Hudson.
Aud vet the very Gradgrinds who take
this view Of one class Of structures do
not apply 1t with regard to any other.
They require that their stations shall
have q palatial aspect in large cities,
and picturesque aspect in rural re-
gions. an aspect in either case con.
gruous with their surroundings, and
they are willing to spend their stock
holders' money to this end. and ex-
pect their architects to. take all the
trouble that may be necessary to pro-
duce the required result, for which
trouble also they are willing to pay.
Yet the other class Of structures.
the bridges, have. upon the average,
quite as great an effect upon the as
poets Of the surrounding nature or art
as the stations, and In some instances
q great deal more. No station upon
the line of the road which crossed
Niagara by means of the cantilever,
nor Of that which spanned the Hud.s
son by q like continuance, was any
thing like SO conspicuous and domi-
nant feature In the landscape, Of
none was it 80 Important that 1t
should be congruous and presentable,
as was the case with eithe- Of these
gaunt attenuations standing stark
against the sky. Evidently the ap.
plication of so widely different stand
ards to the two classes of structures
has no foundation In fact or reason.
The nature Of things does not furnish
any excuse for assigning the design
of station to q designer who Is only
an artist and the design Of 9 bridge
to q designer who is only q scientist.
It is true that the demand for archi-
tecturaI stations is comparatively re-
cent and by no means universally
recognized even yet. Pretty much all
the stations 20 or 80 years o. age were
designed by the engineers Of the sew
eral roads with no more thought Of
their appearance than was then or is
now given to the designing Of the
bridges.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

Couldn't Wait to Find Out.
Dashaway-I saw her in the con-
seryatory with you. How Is 1t. old
chap9 Did she accept your
StufferI don't know. Just % 4 /
asked her supper was announced.
Stray Stories. 81
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

Consul General Listoe, of Rotter.
dam, reports that he has received
numerous inquiries for the names and
addresses Of American manufacturers
Of paper milk bottles. It appears that
these bottles have recently been no
ticed at considerable length and very
favorably commented upon by the
Netherlands press.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-01-17

Boston people are accustomed to hear
Of all kinds Of gatherings in historic
Faneuil hall. but none has been more
curious than those conducted by q re-
ligious organization the members Of
which call themselves Jumpers Of the
Burning Bush" The antics OF the IA.
natics have aroused some talk as to the
propriety Of permitting the enactment
of such scenes In the cradle Of liberty.