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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26
ADJUSTMENTS
Beatty Brothers.

The Beatty Brothers are known from
coast to coast for their square deal
to the public and their clean enter
tainments. They have the experience
OF ~ years devoted to entertaining pa
irons in all parts of the country, hav-
ing started in the amusement field
with stereoptican, a very rude affair
compared with the present great NOV
ing picture machine now used by them.
They know the picture business from
A to z and without doubt they have
the most perfect and best equipped
picture show on the face of the globe
Besides they have surrounded them
selves with number of talented yo-
cal1sts and comedy sketch artists,
making one of the most interesting
entertainments on record and so ar
ranged as to please and amuse all
classes OF intelligent people. The
newspapers allove the country speak
most highly of their performance.
This show will be at the Metropoli-
tan theater all this week giving a COM
plete change of program every per-
Torrance and the prices are so reason
able that good business is assured for
the entire engagement.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26

lie law, regardless of consequences.
In their minds the failure of the SEN
ate to respond Immediately to any
clamor which they as self-constitut-
ed jury may regard as public opinion
is an unmistakable sign of senatorial
hostility to public interests.
The senate needs no defence. 1t is
abundantly able to bear all the light
which these amateur eXposers may
turn on it. 1t has stood too many
times between the public and the re-
suits of hasty and ill-advised legis-
lation to need either defence or apol-
ogy. There are in Washington many.
men who in personal integrity and
honest patriotism are at least the
peers of this band of exposers of cor
ruption in the nations capital. They
have a personal knowledge of and ac-
quaintance with our Legislators which
is closed than is at all possible for
the newly arrived seekers of evil.
They are not sparing of criticism when
criticism is really called for, but they
never degenerate into professional
vilifiers.
The raid on the national congress
and the assaults on individual men,
bers of that body will run their
course as all diseases do. In some
minds faith in the integrity and wis
dom of legislation and in the public
spirit of legislators may be shaken.
In SO far as that is the result OF their
labors the "evil busters" are evil
makers, dangerous to society and to
our political institutions. For any real
evils that may exist there is q remedy
and it lies in the hands of the peo-
pie. To deny this is to assert that
the created is greater than it's creator.
1t is to declare the failure of the prin-
ciples of republican government. 1t
might almost be inferred that this is
the ambition of these amateur crime
seekers at the national capital.
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a. &C., ~
THIS DATE IN HISTORY

1266-Batle of Benvento.
1553-Four English nobleman execu-
ted as accomplices of the Duke of Som
erset.
1665-Sir Nicholas Crispe died.
1736-Kouli Khar proclaimed King
of Peisra.
17S6-Francois J. d. Arago, philos-
pher, born.
1S02-Victor Hugo, French noelist,
born. Died 1885.
1S15-Napoleon escaped from Elba.
1S23-John Philip Kemdle, actor,
died. Born Feb. 1, 1857.
1S33-Compromise tariff passed the
House of Representatives.
1850--Sir William Allen, r. A. died.
1S52-Thomas Moore, poet, died.
Born 1879
1861-New Constitution of Austrian
monarchy published.
1S62-Formal surrender of Nashville
Tenn. to Gen. Bull.
1S71-Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne
died in London.
1S73-Alexander H. Stevens elected
to Congress from Georgia.
1SS0-Ferdinand De Lesseps recei-
vedby the American Society of En-
gineers.
1SS5-F. A. Warren appointed Gov
ernor of Wyoming.
1851. ]. Finley appointed United
States Senator from Florida.
1SS9-Confession by Richard Pigott
that he forged the Parnell letters.
1S90-Pan-American Congress voted
for an international railway.
1903-R. ]. Calling, inventor of the
Calling gun. died.
19O4-Panama Canal treaty ratified
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26
A Good and Sufficient Reason.

"A UVVu ehhW oulhVlCub 1tCNSUus
Thomas w. Lawson, at dinner in
Boston, SAID of certain financier that
the man condemned himself out of his,
own mouth
"All his life," said Mr.. Lawson, che
has played the hypocrite. But unsuc-
cessfully. Continually he himself
overturns the wall of discrimination
and guide built about his affair.
ut is so, l fancy, with all hypo-
critics. They are not exposed. They
give themselves away.
This man began life as a manufac-
turer. He pretended to be friend 10
profit sharing and all such philan-
tropic schemes, but as matter of
fact, he paid starvation, wages. He
ground his hands nearly to death.
And this fact he was continually
exposing.
One day he sent for detective.
81 want YOU he said to shadow
my bookkeeper. I suspect him Of dis
honesty
Suspect young Harry Chalmers of
dishonesty?' he cried. Why, l can
hardly believe it. No one lives more
frugally, though it is true he has re-
Gently married"
"'That's the point said the other.
With the salary l pay him, he could
not possibly marry
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26
The Unpopular Man.

Give me for friend the man whose
friends are few,
Who, though his heart be clean and
Stancn and good,
Though every fiber Of his soul be true
Is tactless, blunt and seldom UNDER
stood.
In such drift God oft conceals a lode
Whose richness makes Golconda's
wealth seem naught;
On such u one he oftimes has bestowed
Large worth so hid it must be
shrewdly sought.
So, while the rabblc fawns on him
whose friends
Are as the sands that rim the oceans
blue,
choose the best OF all that heaven
sends
Give me for friends the man whose
friends are few.
Strickland w. Gillian
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THE EVENING TIMES GRAND FORKS, n, >.

!. +. : Is : Las
amined my young friend shamefully.
He roared at him, shook his fist at
him, raved at him.
"'And at what hour did all this hap
pen?' the lawyer sneeringly asked to-
ward the end of the examination.
81 think my friend began, but
he was at once Interrupted.
1--WE don't care anything here about
what you Think said the lawyer with
a snort Of contempt
Don't you want to hear what IL
Think said my young friend mildly.
Certainly not the lawyer roared.
Them said my friend, 4 may as
well step down from the box. I'm not
lawyer l can't talk without think
ing"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26
Lacked the Prime Reouisite.

Lacked the Prime Requisite.
Sir Henry Irving was once the guest
of honor at lawyers banquet in New
York. In the course of a graceful adj
dress he said:
you, gentlemen, have given me the
most helpful advice on the art of act
ing-will you permit me to give you
In return pieces of advice regarding
your profession?
my advice, then, is that you make
your cross-examinations less rigorous.
less harsh. What is the good of treat
ing an honest and sensitive witness ia
the witness stand as though he were q
sneak thief?
Il confess that am not in sympa-
thy with harshness in ross-examina-
ton, and whenever ! hear of d witness
turning on an overbearing lawyer, my
heart rejoices.
my heart rejoiced last week. A
young man in my company was wit
ness in a case Of robbery. He had seen
a thief snatch q young girls pocket
book and make of. is,
Wells the thiers lawyer cross-ex-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26
A Foxy Lawmaker.

Senator Murray Crane is coming o
be known as the best mixer" in the
senate, although he has served but 4
short time. He is never in his seat,
but sleuths around from side to side.
talking with everybody and especially
the new members, shaking hands and
getting acquainted One of his friends
is Senator Piles of Washington. Piles
is a newmember, too. A day or two
ago Crane heard that Piles intended
to make set speech. He gum-shoed
up to Piles desk, which is on the rear
row in the republican side.
piles, I hear Senator Flint is going
to make speech. Now, you and Flint
are from the Pacific coast, the same
part of the country. you know. You SO
to Flint and tell him it will be folly
for him to begin talking SO soon. Tell
him he wants to observe the unwritten
law and sit quietly until he gets warm
in his chair. OF course, l know he
will agree with me that it is better
for him to refrain for a time, and you
can tell him with the untmost pro-
priety."
Piles got red and bit his lips, but
he didn't make a speech.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26
ADDS MORAL TONE.

The recent recognition of the valid
ity of a Dakota divorce by the courts
of England should serve to stop the
silly discussion of the laxity of morals
In the Dakotas on this matter by a
certain class Of over developed senti-
mentalists, who get fresh impetus
whenever judge with more freakish-
ness than brains proceeds to set aside
the decree of the court of a sister
state and decide Dakota divorce void.
The courts of England are noted for
the profound learning and judicial
wisdom of those who sit on the WOOL
sack. Since the days of Jeffries they
have been less swayed by prejudice
than any tribunal in the world.
They have calmly considered the
question and hold the DEGREES of our
courts valid. Why should they not?
There has never been anything in
the divorce statutes of either of the
Dakotas that was not in the statutes
of score of other states except the
short residence.
The effete east has never been able
to grasp the fact that this was like
everything else in the progressive
west.
There when man wants position
he must trace his ancestry back half
dozen generations, and if he can
find blue blood he is accepted. He
hardly dares affiliate with a religious
denomination until he has become an
old timer.
The people do not understand that
in the west with it's open hospitality
and ever new population; it is not
necessary to spend half a lifetime ac-
quiring residence.
The older states have made the
divorce laws subject of criticism be-
cause of their supposed laxity. but it
will be found that they give as much
publicity to the matter as any state
and more than many of them.
People who have taken advantage of
the divorce laws have done so more
because the people are too much en-
crossed with their own business to
mind that Of other people, and for this
very reason they have been charged
with Indifference to the condition that
exists in what these self-created crit
les term the divorce colonies.
Occasionally judge disregarding
the great principle of state comfy, has
held the DEGREES of the courts in
valid, and has elaborated upon the
moral indifference of the people to
the conditions which exist.
The decision lately rendered in
England should hush the silly criti-
cism, and estop those critics from
making the divorce laws of the Dako-
tas seeming laughing stock.
Washington Star: What makes you
think our. friend believes in reincarna-
tionw
He says he expects to see the Pan
anna canal completed"
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"Mfght HaYe!"

j have lived my life, and I face the end,
But the Otner life L might have led
Where lay the road, and who was its
friend;
And what was the goal, when the
years were fed?
Where lay the road? Did 1 miss the
turn?
The friend unknown? Our greetings
unSaid?
And the goal unsought Shall I never
learn
AS the, springs last look, for one dear
day
From skies autumnal on earth may
bend,
So lures me that other life-but, nay!
have lived my life, and face the
end. ANON
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26
~EVIL BUSTERSn AT THE NATION.
AL CAPITAL.

If it were possible to attribute to
genuine and earnest patriotism or to
really intelligent public spirit the eff
forts of the little band of "revealers"
and "enlighteners" now engaged in
exposing to the public the alleged
crimes and fOllies of our national
legislators, their productions might be
worthy of respectful attention; but
most of the illusions of which the
patient public is now the victim are
only poorly disguised sensationalism,
pertinently remarks the New York
Sun.
That many read and doubtless be-
leve the tales of these "exposers" is
as true as it is unfortunate. In a
world in which there are always those
who have unsupplied wants and un-
gratified desires there is always
hearing for faultfinders who discover
scapegoat. Just now band of kin
dred spirits in the faultfinding bust
ness is actively engaged in an effort
to convince the American people that
the United States senate, as a body,
is hostile to their interests, the tool
of corrupt if not criminal aggregations
of capital. 1t is singular that Exposer
Steffens and Revealer Phillips and
Enlightened Crosby and others of their
kin dare carrying on their campaign
of words at time when the individ-
ual wealth of a few is no more than
an inevitable incident to the unprece-
'lented prosperity of the many. Never
before in the history of this or any
other land has there been time when
prosperity was SO widely diffused as
it is today among the American peo-
pie. This stands true in spite of Rob-
ert Hunters ten millions who live
constantly at or below the bare mar
gin of normal existence" Sound rea-
1oAo SAAot AoA SAC pOSClty VI lllOSL VI
these, and their number would be little
or not at all reduced If every multi
millionaire in the land could be
stripped of his wealth by a confiscat-
ing federal law.
These expounders of financial and
political truth catch their readers by
parading themselves as seekers of
facts. whereas they really seek only
arguments to support preconceived
individual opinion or tales which will
draw public attention to their pub
locations and themselves. They start
with the presumption that If there is
or II they can create public clamor
for free silver, an income tax, federal
regulation Of railway rates and con-
troll Of corporations, federal owner
ship or anything else for which an I'M
stable public may display temporary
enthusiasm. our legislators should at
once convert this more or less
irresponsible public opinion into pub
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26

gregation. He did very we'll in the
matter of prayers and sermons. and
when carried away with his subject,
spoke with! undeniable eloquence. for
getting his hearers and thinking only
of the message which he sought to de-
liver.
Announcements were his short suit
and he always dreaded to tackle then.
However, they had to be made and he
had to make them. but he often fell
down. One tumble was as follow:
Brethren, there will be service II,
the East End church next Sabbath
morning and service at the West End
church in the evening. Children will
be baptized at both ends"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26
STORIES OF THE HOUR
Slightly Ambiguous.

The News-Tribune vouches for the
truth of the following: A Duluth par
son who held forth in two churches
one of which is located in the West
End and another in the East End of
the city. where he was formerly pas
tor At that time he was young and
somewhat nervous person mad had not
acquired the sauye self possession
which endears him to his Duluth con-,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26
senti.aeot to he I.c.icated,

Let reverence Of law be breathed by
prattles in her lap; let It be taught in
the schools, seminaries and colleges;
let 1t be written in primers, spelling
from pulpits and proclaimed In legis-
!ative halls and enforced in courts of
5ustice;. In short. let it become the
political religion of the nation"
Abraham Lincoln.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26
TOURIST shEErERs TO CHICAGO.

An Innovation in Sleeping Car Ser
vice.
The Great Northern Railway COM
pany has met the demand for through
sleeping car service to and from Chi.
cago.
The Oriental Limited, the new Great
Northern train, is now equipped with
a new tourist sleeping car, operating
between Seattle and Chicago and i'll
termediate points. The rates on these
cars are about one-half of the stand
ard sleeping car rates and no change
of cars is necessary between points ON
the main line in North Dakota and
Montana and Chicago in either direc-
ton.
Ask your local agent for further in
formation, or apply to, F. 1. Whitney,
Passenger Traffic Manager, st. Paul,
MINI.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26
Didn't Like Its Spirit.

New York Sun: Mark Twain, talk
ing to some of his friends at New
York club the other day, said that
he had received recently some verses
which the writer had sent him be-
cause he thought the verses applied"
pretty we'll to the humorist. Here was
the poem"
The lighting bug is brilliant.
But 1t hasn't any mind.
It scrambles through existence
With its headlight on behind.
Good poetry" SAID the numorist,
"but don't like the spirit of it."
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26

When Falkenstein struck out ON
the right of men to worship as they
Llease, there was a dull thud that told
of few broken short ribs.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26

If Mrs. Longworth has as many diff
ferent appearances as she is pic
tured, Nick must have deal of time
remembering who his wife is.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26

A man stole quantity of candy
from the Congress Candy company.
That's not the only case of stolen
sweets in the city.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26
NOTE AND COMMENT

One touch of nature makes the
whole world kin; one taste of booze
makes fools of men.
A jack pot is an accumulation of
uncertainties
Pecks of trouble are sometimes sold
in pint bottles.
Lent-a time to eat no meat so as
to gorge on oysters.
Mccall died poor, having sold his
property to repay his CRAFTS.
The libel law ought to be applied
to the rocky mountain tea party.
After all, the opinion men have of
women is based upon the clothes they
wear.
Many lawyers draw literally on
their religion to sustain them in the
hour of trial
The Flickertail Flicker and an
other metropolitan journal are push
ing piano contests.
Several state papers are clamoring
for candidates for Office in one column
and roasting the office-seeker in an
other.
According to the jury argument of
the average lawyer there are only two
honest man in the world-himself and
client.
A Chicago bigamist has been found
who has four wives each with nine
children. He is trying to prevent race
suicide
A man stole a quantity of candy
from the Congress Candy company.
That's not the only case of stolen
sweets in the CITY,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26

Several state papers are clamoring
for candidates for Office in one column
and roasting the office-seeker in an
other
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Washington Star: What makes you
think our friend believes in reincarna-
tionw
HE says he expects to see the Pan
anna canal completed"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26

A Chicago bigamist has been found
who has four wives each with nine
children. He is trying to prevent race
suicide.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26

According to the jury argument of
the average lawyer there are only two
honest man in the world-himself and
client
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26

The Flickertail Flicker and an
other metropolitan journal are push
ing piano contests.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26

Many lawyers draw literally on
their religion to sustain them in the
hour of trial
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-02-26

After all, the opinion men have of
women is based upon the clothes they
wear.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-25
To Study the Sun.

Is the sun growing colder7 Is its
heat diminishingi Is it to be expected
that, at some remote day, the vivifying
warmth which now sustains abundant
life upon the earth will die out and that
black. icy, silence and death will settle
down over the terrestrial ballf
For the express purpose of answering
these questions-of such profound and
vital Importance TO the future Of the
human race-a great and unique OBJ
scrvatory has been established on the
summit Of Mt. Wilson in California,
writes Paul +. Foster in Technical
World Magazine. The funds for the
building and maintenance of this great
observatory, with its new and tremen-
dously powerful instruments, have been
furnished by the Carnegie Institution
at Washington, D. G.,
While the sun is 100000 times nearer
the earth than any other known star,
our knowledge Of il is menger and ONLY
one Of the twenty-five large refracting
telescopes at the older observatories has
attempted to make any systematic
study of 1t. Solar research under the
ideal conditions which prevail at Mt
Wilson should result in marked in
crease Of our knowledge of the past,
present and future of tho sun, and
should throw light on the problems of
the evolution OF the stars, from nebu1ae
through successive stages TO that of
red star, which our sun will ultimately
become.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-25
ENGLISH CRITICS OBJECT.
Do Not Favor Presidents ATTEMPT to
Reform Spelling

LONDON; Aug, 25.-President Rooss-
velt, decision TO adopt the reformed spelling
in his messages and executive correspondence
is commented on by the newspapers of Lon.
don this morning is anything but sympa-
thetic spirit Tho Standard bluntly declares
that tho President overrates his powers add.
ing Tint it declines to believe that scholarly
and cultivated Americans will sacrifice the
history and meaning of the language by
adopting the Carnegie jargon Other
newspapers deal with the matter in n hn.
Inorous vein. The Daily News points out
that II American publishers wish to invade
the British market they should be conserva,
tive in their own orthography. The Cbron
icle. which has more sympathy with some Of
the changes. snys:
Whether we like the new spelling or not
it probably will be forced upon us because
the United States is coming moro and more
into IN control Of the printing presscs Of the
Roosevelt can establish uniformity in Amer,
ica on the lines ho prescribes. the now spell.
ing will bo likely to become dominant In
Great Britain, but as he is strong, he might
have been merciful and summoned an Anglo.
American congress TO endeavor TO arrive at
an agreement on common mode of spelling,
Kings English should be the same
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-25
TIT for Tat.

He rejoiced in the not very humor.
Gus name, Of Wood, and he prided him
self on HIS jokes and smart repartee.
Few Of his friends had escaped the lash
Of his tongue, and he had victnrized
many by his practical jokes-in fact,
he never lost an opportunity of being
funny. One day he met friend whose
name was Stone, and naturally a name
like that was too good chance to miss
.sGood morning Mr.. Stone,' he said
gaily; "and how is Mrs. Stone and all
the little pebbles9'
the reply. Glow S Mrs. Wood and ali
the little splintera. STRAY Stories.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-25
The Artist IN the Cemetery.

AT the present moment there is TAX
ing place in Germany an exposition
which has come into existence mainly
to promote Improvement in the art Of
mortunry sculpture, held under the au-
spices of the Wiesbaden Society Of
Arts. 1t is, with much justice, held
that the statuary and sculpture of the
graveyard should keep pace with the
progress which is shown in other
branches of the sculptor g craft Our
grandfnthers showed much more fertil-
ity in invention and much more re-
sourcefulness in execution in their me-
mortal monuments. The exemplars
upon are Still copied With tedious fidei, s
ity by their grandsons, and up till 1880
no new ideas can be said to have been
generally adopted. To call the gen
orally prevailing style of today ono
barren of ideas and without soulful
ness is to describe it with leniency-
The Craftsman