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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07
Pals Of the President.

Colonel Harry Hall. the orator and
writer, was in London, riding on top
of bus.
He asked the driver several ques-
tons and then the driver said: You
hare not one OF hus, sir?"
No." Hall replied, Il am an Ameri-
can"
''Hamerica is fine place, SIR" con-
tinued the driver. Hi lived there
once"
"Whereo" asked Hall.
Why, sir, Hi lived in Washington.
Hi was coachman for Sir Frederick
w. Bruce, when e was minister there
sir. We was most familiar with the
hold Grant, SIR"
How was that?" inquired the aston
ished Hall.
Why, sir, my marster was is per-
ticker friend, most pertickler. Many's
the night have driven i'm to the
White house and sat there, i'm on the
hinside an me hon the houtside, for
ours at q time"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

Canned meats are not as popular for
picnic parties as heretofore. When
people know what they are eating they
are often as particular as when they
don't know-and more SO.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

A bull moose walked into Duluth
Sunday for morning visit and was
not afraid Of even Zenith City copper
but made itself at home, looking about
the court house grounds and viewing
from the boulevard the beautiful PAN
Drama spread before its view off Park
Point way. For moose and bear stories
Duluth takes the ribbon.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

Engineer Ellison of the Cooperstown
electric light plant came near dying
as the result of being overcome by gas.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

1t rained frogs down in Alton, ILL.,,
the other day. Frogs would have been
preferable to the cannon balls shot at
Grand Forks about year ago when
they called it hail storm.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

Hunter BARRIERS have increased the
cost Of shaving. ten cents for July
Fourth.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

The safe in Killer Bros. store at
Richardtone was blown open and 5000
In cash secured.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

Mrs. e. R. Strome and daughter,
of Mimic, are spending their summer
vacation in Alaska; thereby begin
ming the work of making a summer
resort out of that land Of ;8Oad and
cold,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

Some of the papers of the western
counties of the state are advocating
Frank B. Chapman as speaker of the
next house.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

Edward McF'adden of Rolla, 50 years
old, has the best garden in Roulette
county, and does all the work of plant
Ing and cultivating it himself.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07
Bate on Debates.

The late Senator William B. Bate of
Tennessee. was major-general III the
Confederate army and never quite
reconciled himself to the defeat of the
south, although he was an able and
efficient senator.
Soon after he came to the senate he
formulated set Of rules which he
called RULES for NV Proper Legisla-
tive Guidance" Whenever propo-
sition came up about which he was un-
decided. he would take the printed slip
containing these rules from his pocket
aud study it carefully.
Bate" said colleague one day.
what is that slip Of paper to which
YOU refer so frequently"
That" replied Senator Bates. lis
little reminder Of my beliefs on con-
stitutional questions"
Where did you get it? Think it out
Yourself"
mo. subj" replied Bate with much
dignitys Il found most of those inn
mortal truths in the Constitution of
the Confederate States of America"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07
Stories of the Hour
The Main Point.

Mayor Guthrie Of Pittsburg, said Of
certain voting lists:
These lists are too favorable. They
compare with the truth as the Sunday
school attendance at this time of the
year compares with the average Sum
day school attendance.
You know how 1t is in our Sunday
schools on toward the Fourth?
In one school. ON 4 bright Sunday
afternoon at the end OF June, the
superintendent arose. tapped the bell
for silence, waited till the hum Of talk
ceased, and the said:
81 am glad to see SO many new
faces here with us today--so many
bright, eager faces. full OF promise.
full Of enthusiasm, rejoicing to be here.
l am sure you have all enjoyed the
beautiful lesson, and now. before we
close our service, and while the secre-
tary is preparing his report, will
wait moment to see If there are any
little points that have been overlooked.
Has any one question to ask"
There was a pause. and new hoy
OF IL or Is years arose.
Well, my young friend?' said the
superintendent.
I'D like to know said the boy, If
there's goin' to be Il school picnic this
Fourth?'"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

jamestown is preparing to give the
republican state convention royalty
good time.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

Hatton is to have it's streets graded
and covered with sand.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

Ben Stavsvick, Steiner strande and
Benjamin Tuffte of Cooperstown have
formed partnership for the purpose
of conducting a clothing business at
Devils Lake
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

Adams will have crawling bee in
the near future for the purpose of
hauling sand to fill up the main street
of that thriving town.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

Some Foster county farmers are try
ing to interest enough wheat growers
to build a terminal elevator.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

A two-legged. colt was born on the
farm OF John Lane, near Hatton. The
animal was unable to get up and was
killed by Mr.. Lane.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

A moose has been wandering at.
large through the northern part of
Pembina county.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

France proposese to levy an income
tax on visiting foreigners. An addi-
tion to the tax already levied by hotel
keepers and merchants might easily
kill the goose that lays the golden
eggs.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

There is some talk of the democrats
nominating Willis A. Joy of this city
for governor
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

At Bathgate, might parties are hunt
ing for wolves, which have been de-
stroying lambs.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07

Work on the construction of the
sewer and water works system for
Dickinson has commenced.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-07
and swimming in the wagon tracks of


Editor and Mrs Rishoff of the Milton
Globe, are spending a few weeks in
Minnesota. where the editor is re-
cuperating from the effects of his
strenuous work in behalf Of the dis
ruptionists and the rank decision of
the umpire in the Olga baseball game.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-25

over the world. He went from washington u
Florence, and thereafter served at nearly all
the European capitals waiting for some little
time before receiving salary, but steadily earn
ing promotion by his application and good sense
Wherever he went he made friends, and wrote
letters to others at home or elsewhere The
charm of the correspondence printed by his
daughter lies in the fresh and vivid sense II
gives us of a sympathetic observer recording ms
impressions with light touch. Everything in
tCrested him. life and literature, human beings
and works of art. When he was not sketching
European notabties for his friends he was
discussing poetry with them. At one moment
you find him narrating, with humOr an episode
of purely political significance, and at another
you behold him in the PradO in raptureS over
Velasquez and saying things about the great
painter anticipating the critics of a much later
day. LyttOn began early to make notes of what
he saw, and to reflect upon his subjects. He had
the courage of his opinions, as is shown by his
writing In 1860 to Mrs. Browning of all people
in the world, In this vein:
cannot realize, adopt with satisfaction. your
picture Of Louis Napoleon any more than can
New-York tribune., 1906-11-25

had his years of peculiarly visible Importance, as
Vioeroy of India and Ambassador to France,
yet the impression left by his bographer is not
so much one of specifically brilliant achievements
as it is one of broad devotion and success
through forty fifty years. 1t is not a
great that Lady Betty Balfour portrays
her father but as a man clever, versatile. ade-
quate to all his tasks, and, into the bargain,
winning, lovabe personality.
His start in life overshadowed by the do
mestic troubles OF his parents The bitterness
between those two could not but tinge his boy
hood, and time went on it played an even
more painful part in his life. For example, he
was in his early twentes when his father hav-
ing taken steps bearing upon the question of
Lady Lyttons sanity. was confronted by the
possibility OF a public trial. which at the mo-
ment would have been more than ordinarily
embarrassing. Young Lytton thereupon per-
suaded his mother to go abroad with him. but
before six months had passed he found him
self in uncomfortable situation. He left her
at LuChon, and being at the time almost de-
void of cash, he worked his way a travelling
artist in company with another painter" We
have no desire to pursue the dreary subject of
the elder Lyttons matrimonial infelcity but
glance at it to show the curious character
of the atmosphere in which his son was first
brought up. Fortunately. father and son be-
came friends and it is delightful to observe the
growth of an affection between them that was
source of profound happiness to them both
Lytton was, on his own confession. idle lad
at Harrow. but he had sweet and fairly docile
nature, and from the very beginning he seems
not only to have admired his father but to have
been charmingly susceptible to the latter's infiu-
The sympathy they had for one another
in no Iatta
in these volumes.
Lytton eighteen when his uncle, Sir
Henry Bulwer. then Minister to the United
States. asked him to come to Washington as an
unpaid attache The boy accepted the invitation
and thus entered upon diplomatic career which
lasted. with but slight interruption. until his
death. The present narrative carries him all
New-York tribune., 1906-11-25

that drawn by Victor Hugo. Both views Of the
me pushed INTO those extremes which lie Beyond
the exact truth-so far as one may guess at the
come near to. | regard Louis Napoleon man of
co1str,ctor % anu @ eIiluGStIohSiy = ~ { as . go
out France. If he has gagged the Press, and 81
fenced speech he has also freed capital. and called
into existence material prosperity that speaks for
,tselfnand for him And it may be justly said Of
France to make France the mistress of Europe 1
less adventurer who has p,a9ed onble % or n,Sif
with Fortune. For L credit him only with a
and honest conviction that it is the best destiny
of Tor France He has large views and generous en-
selfish because / see his means to be unscrupuOus
No scrupuiOus man could have done what he has
bad man.
French people and things often enter into this
correspondence. Lytton could criticise the coun-
try, but he seems always to have been happy
there, or at least interested and amused. One
OF his early letters to his father gives charm
ing picture of u visit paid to Lamartine. who
reminded him, "both in appearance and what
Dickens calls department, of old Clay, the
American statesman" He had no illusions about
Victor Hugo. Speaking of the Waterloo part of
LES Miserables," he says that it is like "a great
cathedral organ playing Strauss's waItzes" and
then goes on to quote what Browning once said
to him of the Frenchman-"His fault is that he
sometimes mistakes the pan forte Ga highly
spiced gingerbread common in ItaIy) for the
sacramental bread" Lytton knew de Musset
He met the poet a few months before his death
and found him reading the Memories of George
Sand. He talked much of her with intense Bit
terness." the note adds. One of the best of
Lytton's French stories he borrows from a letter
written by Odo Russell to his Wife, and sends
to John Morley. 1t relates to affairs at Yer
sailles in war time, and runs as follows:
Favre. on the occasion of his second visit then
brought with him General Beaufort and three stair
oihCerS TO arrange the military details of the
C;iptHlatlon- Some hot punch given them at
lhG outpoSts which the empty StOmachS of the poor
fellows generously passed on to their empty heads
Ihey We're received by Colonel SteinfeIdt who
marked 10 General Beaufort that the negotiafinrs
would lead to peace, The general turned to his
ohlcerS and said "NOus entendeZ. c'est Ia paix
Said officers Immediately TO and danced th,
cancan. whilst the French general rapturousIy
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kissed and hugged the Prussian cooneiLmucdh 70 20
bismarck for their emotion. being the effect of
Prussan punch upon Partisan IN huHse .e he'd 70 ee,
sober and fit for business as soon as Hsient o. o.
three years bismarck thinks ne saw him sur
reptitiously pop beefseak into his pocket u '@Ae
home to his wife!
Lord Lytton was a deeply interested witness
of the trial of Bazaine. and in a letter 10 john
Forster gives a lively impression of the affair
II am bound to say he writes. though clearly
establishing his guilt from the military ana
professional point of view the trial has estao-
Iished against him no charges of treason, IN the
general and common sense of the word Madame
NacNahon told me a few days ago that II the
wretched man were condemned her husoand'
the President would certainly grdcter him. anu
remit the penalty of death But every one here
says that marshal of France cannot survive
military degradation. and that Bazaine, If a
man of honor is bound to blow out his
brains or whatever substitute for brains he
may have" Turning to things American. We
encounter an interesting note Motley. whom
Lytton met at Vienna when our war was pro-
ceeding Motley was sure that whatever the
result of the present struggle, whether fatal To
the Union or otherwise" war between England
and America was bound to be declared within
fifty years, owing to "the intense resentment
existing against England in the North Of Amer
lea" There is a good portrait of Daniel Web
ster in this book. too long TO be quoted intact,
but we must give these few lines from it:
Webster I think the whole. the greatest
speaker, rather the greatest orator, ever heaar
His delivery very slow and pOnderOuS-y0U
could almost count the seconds between each word
but it marvellously audible and distinct.
without ever being loud And the whole effect
much OF It due TO the particular presence OF @ IIe
man, effect OF sight quite as uuch as or near
ing-impreSSei you with extraordinary sense OF
power, and power in restraint Brlght'S speaking
has of this quality than that OF any other
English speaker of time. but Bright often talks
rubbish. while Webster did. And, in adGi-
finer presence Webster had tricks of oratory which
exceedingly effective and must / suspect.
have been the survval5 of an age of oratory new
before the Flood
The long account. in the second of these vol
umes, of Lord Lytton's Indian administration is
long to be tedious. and it is especially re-
grettable in view OF the fact that his daughter
has exhaustively dealt with the subject In a
previous publication But even here the anirna-
ton in the letters to reconcile the reader
and when the thread of lighter. more miScel-
laneous topics is resumed at home and on the
Continent. the charm of the man is revived. and
end. began, in a mood Of the friend
liest interest. Lytton enjoyed life, that is made
abundantly clear by his letters and his zest for
experience and for the things OF the mind makes
him, in this book, singularly companionabIe.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-25

According to a writer in the London Book
man" it is probably only the critics who object
TO the "lntroductions" that are given in most
reprints Of the classics. He notes that while
the fashion waned a few years ago and pub-
fishers WED with another in Offering the
pure text, and nothing but the text the Intro
ductlon is just now threatening to flourish
more luXuriantly than ever before AS a matter
OF fact there are introductions and introduc
tons. Criticism has never been directed against
the idea of preffxing an essay of the right sort
to classical reprint. The objection has been
TO the publication of SO many pages of introduc-
tory matter for their own sake and for the sake
OF tackIng a modern name to an old master
piece. The essay Of the right sort is the ESSAY
IN which an editor of ability has something
frohtaDie to say, and says it in charming
manner. The essay that bOres the critic is the
one contributed to some popular reprint for no
other reason than that the publisher has fam
cicd it to be necessary and has commissioned
the nearest hack to write 1t. Occasionally too
Ii is announced with considerable flourish of
trumpetS that such and such writers have been
engaged TO produce the intrOductiOns for
series OF reprints, and it is perfectly obvious
That their miniStrationS have been arranged for
only in order to help the series to sell. The
Epokman' need not worry over the captio,ls-
ness Of the critics. They will respect the intro
bH,hon and show their appreciation of it
whenever the introduction justifies its existence
Du serious grounds
New-York tribune., 1906-11-25


tratiOuS by the author and COttinstOn TaIlor
Svo. PIP 255- John Lane Company
Few people know that an ancient and little
used artificial waterway,-it was begun by
Charle1nagne-caIIed Ludwig's Canal. lies or
rather has been raised up. in Bavaria across the
Jura Mountains. connecting the AItuuhI. which
falls into the Danube. with the River Regnitz.
which flows into the Main near Bamberg- It
was only necessary for Mr. Donald Maxwell TO
learn of the existence of this continuous aqueous
link between the North Sea and the Black Sea-
to become possessed of an unconquerabIe desire
to make the unusual inland voyage, thus ren-
dered possible TO the Near East. He found his
friend. Mr. Cottington Taylor. the companion Of
his exciting Alpine cruise recorded in his book
THE Log of the Griffin. ready TO ship again as
mate for the adventure The loss of his Swiss
built craft in the stormy waters OF the Channel
compelled the author to secure another bOat II
was found in diminutive Dutch lib and main
sail boat. with tiny cabin. built like the bicy-
Gle in the song. for two" Remaining il the
Walrus. and fitting out at Flushing the two
artists set forth on their mountainous voyage in
the early sprinstime, just as the ice was break
ing up in the Rhine.
AS sailing against the swift current Of the
swollen river was impossible the WaIrus was
at first content to "cut behind" d great barge
that was being towed to Duisburg Thence
through the Rhine gorge by one and another
vicarious aids to navigation the little sloop pro-
ceeded to Frankfurt. where il avaiIed itself OF
the noisy assistance of kettle boat which
pulled itself and fleet of other vessels along
by means of a chain cable laid in the bed of the
Main At Wurzburg it necessary to have
recourse TO man power. and captain and crew
relieved each other in acting as a human mule
upon the towpath, which was more frequently
than not under water The same means OF pro-
SresSiOn. though with less effort took then,
through the canal. and then it WAS merely 4
matter of rapid drifting down the fast flowing
Altmuhl and the faster racing Danube Through
the vast Hungarian plains. through the rocky
country of the southern Carpathians. past Ser
Via. between Rumania and Bulgaria in sight of
New-York tribune., 1906-11-25
LORD LYT'TON.
THE Life Of q Diplomatist and Man
of Letters.

PERSONAL AND LITERARY LETTERS OF
ROBERT. FIRST Earl. OF LYTToN Ed
tied by Lady Betty HalfOUr. In two volumes
illustrated; Svo, PIP. xiii, 3fS; ix f& Longmans'
Green q Co.
Lady Betty Balfour has produced n memoir
Of her father, which, if a trihe excessive in
length. after the fashion of such official pub
lications, is nevertheless a welcome record of
distinguished career. The late Lord Lytton
was one of those numerous Englishmen who
from youth accustomed to concern them
selves with public affairs and to serve their
country with judgment and dignity: not always
figuring with dramatic conspicuity before the
world at large. but doing their duty. no matter
what the circumstances. steadfastly. and
often effectively. though they held the
centre of the stage. The hero of these volumes
New-York tribune., 1906-11-25
Az OPAL SONG.
BY OLIVE DOUGLAS.

BY OLIVE DOUGLAS.
Shy and wild shy and wild
To my lovers | have been.
Frank and Wayward as a child.
Strange and secret as "A queen;
Fain of love. and love beguiled,
Yet afraid of love. | Ween!
False and true false and true
Is the wOman's heart in me
Fair lost faces that ! rue,
Golden friends l laugh to see.
Changing. ! come back to you,
Never doubt my loyalty!
New-York tribune., 1906-11-25
M1RINE MOUNTAINEERS.
Log of a Fresh Udter TOyage from
Holland to Turk6y.

A CRUISE ACROSS EUROPE Notes on a Fresh
Water Voyage from Holland 70 the Black Sea
By Donald Maxwell. With hundred illus
tratious by the author and COttingtOn Tay Ior-
SVO, PIP % John Lane Company.
Decorah-posten og ved arnen., 1906-11-16
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