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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-03
CORN

Prices for corn have held fairly
steady. but in the past few days there
has been considerable liquidation and
short selling caused by weakness in
wheat and slightly better growing
weather throughout the corn belt.
While there has been vast amount of
corn sold. the greater part of it has
gone into strong hands.
Cash houses, elevators. shippers and
the glucose companies have been the
best buyers. The country has not
Joined in the selling movement to any
great extent and country acceptances
OF bids show but slight increase. Cash
demand has been very good and does
not show any such declines as appear
in the future markets.
Receipts are much lighter than those
of year ago while shipments are con-
siderable over those of year ago
now.
Liverpool and the continental mar
kets do not follow our declines and
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The vagabond.

In the dew and the sunshine Of morn
ing. in the glow of the fresh dawn
I'm footing it over the meadows, the
A blotch on the skylines crimson. you
can see the black smoke Of the
freight
That dumped me off here while a-roll-
ing along at twenty mile gait
You may call me a tramp and you're
welcome, the name doesn't matter
For the world seems glorious at pres
ent: whatever the finish may be;
l have borne the burden of toiling. but
And I'm tasting the joys of free .iving.
the endless delights of the road.
In patches of white in the hedges the
blossoms Of hawthorn CLEAN,
And the buttercup. jonOuil and crOcus.
Respondent in gold and in green.
Arc nod noddng their heads heads to o, the primo
While the scent laden breezes of April
are lifting tune as they pass.
Forgotten the crime and the squalOr.
the noise of the streets and the
town.
Out here where all Nature rejoces
with the sun and the sky smiling
On the countryside neaceful and verdi
ant. the past and it's miseries seem
Hilt a vague vagrant trick OF the menu
o"y. the shadow of some evil
dream.
1 have broken the chains of NV bond
age. / care not for the hearthstone
or home.
The world is my heritage splendid, a
gypsy unfettered 1 roam.
And my pulses are throbbing and dan
cling to the notes that the mating
birds sing.
For I'm quit Of the curse of the city
and freed by the call of the spring.
. George r. Pardy.
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FLAX

The market for fax seed has been
fairly active for the past week and
prices show some little decline. The
most prominent feature OF the trading
has been the changing over of July
to September and October delivery and
this has tended to keep prices fairly
steady. There has also been some
accumulation by foreign houses on the
dips. This buying with little short
covering has been about the only sup
port the market has been accorded.
Receipts of the seed continue to be
enormous and stocks are piling up at
receiving centers rapidly.
Crushers claim they are unable to
sell their products, even at greatly
reduced quotations. Linseed oil men
say the domestic demand is practically
dead, consumers holding off waiting
for decided drop in prices owing to
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NOT ALL BAD.

In these days of the omnipresent
and over-busy muck-rake, it is gen
uine pleasure to encounter here and
there viewpoint with sufficient
breadth to concede the average, scat
tered flaws and loudly proclaim the
overwhelming good.
The Philadelphia North American
puts the matter in very picturesque
fashion when it thus commends the
mental sanity and moral cleanliness
Of the American people:
The thermometer of American NOR
ais is legion. It is set up ON the
peaceful shores of thousand rivers;
1t fringes the wayside of numberless
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-03
WHEAT

Prices for wheat are now at about
the lowest figure OF the year. This
big drop in values has been caused
wholly by the fine promise of the
northwest crop. The bears in the mar
ket contend that America is going to
raise very large crop probably So
100000 to 75.00O,000 bushels more than
last year. That is conceded and we
believe fully discounted by the late
break in prices. There is one thing
that does not appear in the bear argu-
ments and that is the estimates of
several of Europe's most efficient
statisticians, who all agree that Europe
will have to look to America for from
l15.O00.O0O to 275.0O.O0O bushels of
wheat this year either as wheat or in
the shape of -four.
Russia. the greatest wheat produc-
ing country in Europe by far. has
suffered from very heavy rains just
at the time and in the territory where
her most bountiful harvests come
from. The reports of the damage done
vary. from 10 to 80 per cent are the
most general estimates. it is pretty
safe to say that Is per cent would
be safe figure to place 1t at. Now
just at the time when they get ready
to gather this already badly damaged
crop, great peasant strike is de-
clared and harvesters and laborers
of all kinds walk out in great strike
against the oppression of tyrant land
lord. This, no doubt, will cause the
loss of great deal more good wheat
from the inability of the producers to
gather it.
The Mediterranean countries which
usually buy their wheat from Russia
naturally turned to Argentine, but
here too, they found the stocks nearly
depleted. The holders of wheat in that
country being anxious to take ad-
vantage of the small SURPRISES in
England, Germany and Holland and
the high prices ruling for wheat in
those countries, sold their entire crop
to those countries. They having re-
fused to buy any more than enough
of last years high priced wheat than
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TURN on THE LIGHT.

The republican party stands for the
protection of home industry, but it
does not stand for any form of loot
ing. When the legislature passed
the law providing that all pub
lie printing should be done within the
state, it did not intend to lay the basis
upon which constituencies trust
might be built up, but that is prac-
tcally what has happened.
Now, The Evening Times believes
In the policy of protection. and is will
ing that it should be applied to home
industry in North Dakota as we'll as
to home industry in the nation; yet
1t does not propose that the protec.
tive principle shall be used anywhere,
especially in North Dakota, as the in
strument of grafters and looters, with
out first reserving the right, and then
exercising it, to protest in the strong
est terms at its command.
The state printing law was enacted
In the best of faith, with the intention
of promoting the welfare of our home
printers. 1t has been shamefully mis-
used by very small number of the
printers themselves, to the detriment
of all the other printers and all the tax
payers. Four or five printing firms in
the state at once combined, and in a
way so as to make it impossible for
the state officials having control of
the printing to detect them, to loot the
state treasury, and they succeeded
even beyond their own expectations.
The officials are not printers and
could not know personally anything
about the fntricacies of the business.
The looting of the treasury would
have gone on Indefinitely but for the
intervention of The Evening Times,
which discovered and made public the
malodorous combine contract.
We have the assurance of the off,
Gals, now that they have been made
familiar with the grating game, that
the combine will be thwarted, and that
hereafter there must be "a square
deal" and that the interests Of the
public shall be protected.
The reform will be extended as we'll
to county and city printing. Standard
Oil methods, which are Just now re-
ceiving the attention of President
Roosevelt, will no longer be tolerated
In North Dakota in the matter of pub
lie printing. The people, for whom
some of the chief grafters here have
professed much concern, will be
protected hereafter, unless we are en-
tirely mistaken about it, and we do not |
think that we are mistaken in the
least.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-03
FRIDAY. EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1906.

country roads: it is surrounded by
ripening fields and bearing orchards
and its shelter is the farm house and
the village home. These have their
share of shame, but it is the normal
share of normal humanity and not the
abnormal excess of state approach
ing SodOm. 1t is not a puritanical
people we view when the gaze is cast
forth over the hills and prairies. 1t is
decent people, whose dominant de-
sire is domestic cleanliness and whose
natural inclination is toward the good
and right
The North American draws a very
deft and accurate distinction as be-
tween puritanism and decency. 1T
is not puritanical people We view
when the gaze is cast over the hills
and prairies. 1t is decent people
whose dominant desire is domestic
cleanliness and whose natural inclin-
alton is toward the good and the
right"
The Constitution is in full accord
with the doctrine of our Philadelphia
contemporary. We have ever viewed
the shifting kaleidoscope of local and
national events from such an angle
The shocking revelations through
which the country has passed during
recent years bred a certain coterie of
chronic pessimists who would take
only the most morbid view of the en-
tire situation and who, whether from
narrowness or prediction, were in
| clined to attribute to the whole body
a disease referrable only to scattered
and transient symptoms. We have
steadily refused to occupy the ground
that the morals of the American peo-
ple-from political, an ethical, a So
cial or commercial sense-haye
swerved from the steadfast pole o!
honesty and decency. Nor, because il
is the fashion to denounce widely and
in unspecific terms, have we seen the
necessity of joining in such foolish
and improbable crusade.
The habit of scolding and calamity
bowling is fatally easy of acquisition
1t always attracts certain following
But where it is based on error or ex-
aggeration, deliberate or unpremedi-
tated.it not only engenders widespread
and damaging lack of confidence; it
acts, as we'll, as boomerang upon its
instigators.-Atlanta Constitution.
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Stories of the Hour
Too Much Of a Good Thing.

Little A B., at the close Of Sun
days dinner, sat at the table with his
face suffused with tears. His mother
was greatly troubled. With a sweet
smile and with gentle information, she
put one arm around her little baby boy
and asked:
What is it mama's little darling
wants?"
But "mama's little darling" con-
tinued to cry
Mama made another effort to find
out the trouble
Does mama's baby boy want some
more cake?" she asked.
"No'm," said the child, while the
tears still continued to come.
Does he want another orange?" she
further inquired.
"No'm," he further replied.
Well" said the mother, making
last effort to reach his ease, tell ma
ma what baby wants."
The little boy managed to say be-
tween sobs, 81 want some OF this out
I've got in"
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the fine promise of the growing crop.
Argentine reports say that great
many farmers are sowing their last
years wheat land to fax seed this
year. The exports OF the seed from
that country are increasing and last
week ran considerable over the same
week In the previous year.
India advices are to the effect that
that country will be able to export a
great deal more seed this year than
last year.
Canadian crop reports say that the
stands in that country could not be
better and that their yield will be very
heavy.
The outlook for the crop in North
Dakota. South Dakota and Minnesota
the principal fax producing states in
this country is excellent and the best
posted authorities say that the flax
crop of 1906 will be a bumper.
In view of the fine crop outlook,
poor demand for linseed oil and the
continued heavy receipts would ad-
wise sales on all bulges for a material
decline.
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there Is good demand from these
countries for our cash corn. There
are large lots being worked daily to
go abroad, clearances daily show i'm
provement. Berlin being particularly
active In our market and taking sew
eral cargoes in the past week.
The crop reports come very mixed.
some telling of fine prospects while
others claim that corn will not be half
a crop in their locality. The best
authorities are agreed that the crop
will be little short of last year by
several million bushels.
Corn is being put to SO many new
uses that with the present very large
demands for feed and commercial pur-
poses we believe that it would be easy
to put prices up; anywhere from to
10 cents and advise its purchase on
any little break of moment.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-03
WHAT OF THE FAIRl

A fair such as this city has had this
week is more than a passing show. 1t
is an educational institution, and the
value should become doubly SO as the
institution grows older.
1t is primarialy an agricultural mat
ter The purpose is to bring the far
mers together to inspect the work Of
their neighbors in the several lines
and to learn from the articles which
they have on exhibition the develop
ment as we'll as the possibilities of the
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-03
Pulse of the Press
No Cause For Alarm.
Est. Thomas Times.J

AS We go to press the democratic
state convention is in session at Minot.
a number of the more enthusiastic
members of the party claim to see
chances of victory this fall for a part
of their ticket-especially for the nom
inees for governor and supreme Judge.
These rainbow chasers base their
hopes on the anti-convention cam
paign within the republican party, and
are deluding themselves in the belief
that large number of republicans
will vote against Sarles and Knauf.
With a republican majority larger
than the total democratic vote, the
Times can see no great cause for
alarm on the part of republican cam
paign managers.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-03
Real Business Spirit.

Some partners" said DR.. r. A. Tor
rey, in New York, remind me of one
Ut the women managers at fashion,
able bazaar. They do very well for
themselves, but not quite so well for
the firm. This woman manager. the
day before the bazaar opened, was en-
gagged, along with another woman, in
putting the prices on the goods.
In due course the busy pair came to
superb Oriental rug.
A Khazak rug said one woman.
On the ticket the cost price is nut
at $125. What shall we mark 1t to be
sold at?'
oh, what beauty cried the
other. I've been wanting one for my
library for the longest time. Just
mark it $50. and I'll buy it myself"
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Probably Removed Him.

Irving Grinnel, treasurer of the
church temperance society of New
York. told at temperance meeting
dramatic story.
"A woman entered barroom," he
said. land advanced quietly to her hus-
band, who sat drinking with three
other men.
"She placed a covered dish on the
table and said:
Thinkin' ye'd be to busy to come
home to supper, Jack, I've fetched it
to you here
And she departed.
1.-The man laughed awkwardly. He
invited his friends to share the meal
with him. Then he removed the cover
from the dish.
1.-THE dish was empty. 1t contained
only slip of paper that said:
81 hope you will enjoy your supper.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-03

country. 1t should not therefore be
forgotten in a day.
1t is the concensus OF opinion that
the fair at this city this week so far
as the quality of the exhibits is con-
cerned, is the very best ever held in
the northwest. That means that the
products OF this and neighboring
states are better than any which have
ever been gathered together before.
From the pastures come the finest
cattle and horses and sheep and hogs.
From the fields have been brought the
best grains and grasses and vegetables
that the soil so far in the history of
the state as recorded in these gather
ings. has ever produced
Visitors who have seen these things
are too willing to admire and forget
The story remains for few days only
to be recalled when another annual
fair is held. But while the matter
still retains strong hold upon the
minds of those who have witnessed
the present fair, an earnest resolve
should be made to improve the condi-
lions next year.
Those who have exhibits this year
should have better one next, and
those who have been content to let
their neighbors have monopoly of
the matter this year should conclude
to divide honors with them next year.
The fair should represent the nor
NAL results of the farm. 1t is an easy
matter to occasionally get something
which is extraordinary, but that is an
exception rather than sample Of ac-
tual conditions. Moreover it is i'm
portant that the displays at the fair
should be more numerous and more
general. AS the fair closes this year
it would be splendid idea to select
something which is to be grown and
entered next year, and to lay the foun-
dalton now while the fever so to speak
is on.
The Bismarck Tribune refers to our
Mr.. Duis as the mayor of Valley
City" Such is fame!
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REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.

REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
e~>@9@s 9 . . . . . . 9
. Congressman .
. A. j. GRONNA. of Nelson. .
. T. F. MARSHALL, of Dickey. .
Governor =
. E. Y. SARLES, of Trail. =
. lieutenant Governor 8
Q r. S. LEWIS. of Cass. =
. Treasurer .
. A. PETERSON. OF Sargent. 9
. Auditor .
. H. l.. HOLMES. OF Pembina. $
Secretary OF State .
ALFRED BLAlSDELL. of Ward. .
. Supt of Public Instruction :
. W. L. STOCKWELL, of Walsh. .
. Insurance Commissioner =
. E. C. COOPER, of Grand Forks. .
. Attorney General =
. T. F. M'CUE. of Foster. 8
. Supreme Court Justices Z
. D. E. MORGAN, of Ramsey. Z
. JOHN KNAUF, of Stutsman. 4
. Commissioner Of Agriculture 4
. w. C. GILBREATH, of Morton.
. Railroad Commissioners
= G. 8. DIESEM, of LaMoure.
= ERICK STAFNE, of Richland. 4
. SIMON WESLEY, of Pierce. 4
1>&>>%%&$@ 8 . 8 q o o q
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Amusen1ents
"Kooligan's Troubles.

Those who read the illustrated Sun
day supplements of the newspapers
have long been familiar with an ind;-
vidual named 'Hooligan' who has can
tivated the fun loving public by his
ability to continuously absorb trouble
and yet present smiling counten-
ance. 'Hooligan's Troubles" has been
dramatized. although the plot would
not injure the brain pabric of a mos
quito, but the troubles are strongly i'm
evidence and for those who like to
laugh "Hooligan" will distort himself
on the stage at the Metropolitan to-
night and Saturday. The poor tramps
troubles are so ludicrous that there
is ripple of laughter almost from the
rise to the fall of the curtain in each
act. In addition, bright music, SPLEEN
ala dancing, catchy songs and merry
complications add to the charm and
fun of the entertainment.
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Good Argument.

A small hopeful of one of our cit
liens coaxel to go to the Sunday ball
game and his mother didn't want him
at the base ball games on the Sabbath
but Johnny said that he didn't see any
difference in going to ball game and
attending Sunday school. His mother
was shocked to hear him make the
statement and demonstrated with him
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-03

He Knew the Doctor.
A we'll known physician in Reading
had occasion one day to perform an
operation upon miner who had been
hurt in coal mine. The patient was
placed under the influence of a now
erful anesthetic and the operation was
successfully performed. When the ef-
fects of the drug had died away the
miner, looking wildly around the room,
exclaimed, where am II"
The doctor replied: "Oh. you are all
right.
But" insisted the man, ut may he
all right, but where am IL"
The doctor answered. jocularly, I'm
heaven"
The patient responded: eff that's so,
ia like to know what you are doing
here"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-03

Lot reverence Of law be breathed by
lrattles in her lap; let It be taught in
Ne schools, seminaries and colleges;
1st It be written in primers. spelling
from pulpits and proclaimed in legis-
lative halls and enforced in courts of
Justice; in short, let 1t become the
Ool1tical religion OF the nation"
Abraham Lincoln.
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Uncle Josh Perkins.

The tremendous and undisputed
success OF the new comedy drama
Uncle Josh Perkins" which is to be
seen at the Metropolitan next Wednes-
day. August is sal dto be due to
more than one reason. In the first
place Uncle Josh Perkins" has what
nine out Of ten latter day so-called
productions cannot lay claim to an alb
solutely original plot, good dialogue
and fourteen different and distinct
types of characters. A scenic produc
ton complete to the most minute de-
tail-the brilliancy of its collection of
interpreters-with all these features
and an added list of high class spec
ialties In Its favor, there Is no other
lot but that of unbounded success due
Uncle Josh Perkins" and all indica-
tons point towards its local reception
being one of the most successful OF the
present season.
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Not Hard to Answer.

Jefferson Thompson, chairman of the
racing board of the Automobile asso-
citation. was praising the French as
automobilists.
THE French are remarkable and
odd people" he said. "In fencing and
in motoring they excel. In football.
in racing and, above all, in shooting
they are nowhere.
Three French sportsmen were once
out after robins and cuckoos. A robin
appeared overhead, they fired SIM
uitaneously, but the robin escaped.
Then they asked all together:
Who missed that timer"
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RemOrse.

KemOfSe.
'Remorse," said Mayor Wells of st.
Louis, is an excellent thing when deep
enough.
The trouble with most wrong doors,
when remorse Overtakes them, is that
the emotion is feeble and shallow.
The average type of remorse was
that OF pfckpocket who sent last year
TINS note to man whom he had
robbed of 500:
Dear sir: stole your money
Remorse gnaws my conscience. and
return herewith $780,"
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Wisconsin G ;3!:!!j!!?:. s Stock Go.

asking why he talked so. He said:
Why mamma, there isn't any differ
ence. In Sunday school they tell me
TO stand up for Jesus, and at base
ball game they say, for Christs sake
sit down"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-08-03

Miss Jane M. Smith. teacher of piano.
organ and theory, may be found at
room 72, Security building, Thursday
mornings.
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Cause for Wonder.
Vr-.,

The Grand Forks fair being again
beset by stormy weather some are
wondering If the Herald is really the
hoodoo or-23 at the recent state con-
vention.
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He Knew the Doctor.

1t is the same your wife and children
have at home.'"
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The Bismarck Tribune refers to our
Mr.. Duis as the mayor of Valley
City" Such is fame!