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500 a month, or $500 year; and to
clean them once q week at 10 cents q
window would cost annually $4,000.
Az a matter Of fact, the expense is
much less than that. but still the actual
cost of the work, done partly by con-
tract and partly by the hotels own
labor, amounts to a sum that may a
man would be glad to have for a
salary, or to have added to his an
nual income.
The cleaning of the windows of this
great hotel from the ground floor
up to and including the parlor floor,
is done by contract, by window
cleaning concern. On the 20 floors
above the parlor floor, the window
cleaning is done by men employed on
the several floors, man on each look
Ing after the windows on the floor.
For It's part Of the work the window
cleaning concern sends eight men, and
the number of men employed by the
hotel that work on the windows on
the higher floors is 20. Thus it takes
considerable part of the time of %
men to keep the windows of the big
hotel In order; and the annual cost
OF the work of this one simple item
OF window cleaning is here about &c.
5(0 W.
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effort to keep pace with the rush for
success and recognition in the great
world of business.
He hasn't much time for writing
tender billet deaux on scented paper.
No, he does not write we'll or often.
Again. he does not worry if he
cannot see her daily" as the eastern
writer alleges. He does not worry,
for the reason that he has faith in
her loyalty and love. faith born of his
affection for her and he has no fear of
being "cut out" by the POLITICALLY in
clined simperer who has plenty of
time to make love according to sys-
TEN. But should such thing occur
and he be supplanted by the artist
in the game of love, as it too frequent
ly the case, something is apt to drop
If he finds an unfair advantage has
been taken of him. The modern lover
brooks no interference in his love af-
fairs. He goes at things to win and
he usually wins his point.
The Lord pity the poetic fop who
can make love properly" but can't
defend himself when he arouses the
ire of the lover of today.
The Man is inclined to favor the
modern lover. He recognizes him to-
day as second edition of the sort of
lover the world likes, the sort like
John Alden, who held the yarn for
pretty Priscilla while she spun in the
old days of romance and simplicity.
Alden did not talk much, but he
held the yarn gladly and would still
be doing so had pretty Priscilla so
willed it.
Under the rugged exterior of the
modern young man of today, under
all the impetuous, reckless. merry-go-
lucky personality lies the true, loyal
heart of the fellow who. though lack
ing in his vocabulary of fine nothings
and unbecomingly abrupt at times, is
the possessor of those things which
modern girls are apt to prize, loyalty,
manhood and true worth.
That woman wants her way, gen.
orally speaking, and that she most
always has it in the long run was
demonstrated at the Great Northern
depot this morning when an elderly
lady, accompanied by a young man.
her son. stepped from No. and hur-
riedly crossed the platform to where
0hSCi AAouh VI luc lOCdl IOrCe
was standing.
The lady in question hailed from
Indiana and together with her son was
enroute to Cando, this state.
Bustling up to the policeman men
toned she began a tale of trouble
which almost took that usually calm
and self-possessed officer off his feet
for the time being.
That conductor has stolen our
tickets. MIR. Policeman" she uttered
In shrill voice. her cheeks fairly
quivering with excitement and rage
at the alleged vandalism of the con-
ductor. He took them from us and
ne hasn't given 'em back nuther,"
added the young man to mas story
The officer made inquiry and found
that the portion of the tickets reading
to Grand Forks had been detached
properly by the conductor, but the old
lady and her son would not listen
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-20
EDWARD AND HIS CLOTHES.
Averages Two Suits Week, Not In.
Guiding His Uniforms.


King Edwards tailors have stand
ing order to provide him with about
100 suits year, exclusive of military
uniforms and court costumes.
These suits cost between $50 and
500 each, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. The king selects cloth and
patterns and is said to make his Sc
lections so rapidly that in 10 minutes
he will choose $1,000 worth of clothes.
When the king has selected certain
cloth the tailor uses it for no other
customer. His hour for seance with
the tailor is II a. M, and he is said to
be marvel of punctuality. He is also
pretty good lightning change artist
for mere monarch. He gets out of
and into his clothes with extreme dis
patch.
There is only one other man in the
world, William the second to none,
who possesses more uniforms than
King Edward. The Kaiser's outfit, It
is said, includes 1000 of them. But
the Kaiser delights in DOMINIC gor-
geOus costumes.
King Edward wears them only when
the exigencies of the king business de-
mand that he jlould make a show of
himself. He is, however, most partic-
ular about what might be called the
official part of his outfit.
He has an inventory made once a
month of his uniforms in stock ac-
companied by careful prepared state
ment of their condition. They are
never allowed to get shabby. The
slightest blemish on a uniform con-
demns 1t and it becomes the perquisite
of the superintendent of the wardrobe
or one Of his assistants. OF these there
are four, two of them being expert
tailors.
The room which is called the royal
wardrobe at Buckingham palace is 80
feet long by SO wide, and with it's ac-
emulation of coats, overcoats, waist
coats, trousers, shirts, underwear, ties.
boots, shoes, socks, stockings, hats in
great variety, ETC., 1t looks much like
the stockroom of ready-made out
fitting establishment. The apartment
devoted to the kings official clothes
is still larger.
When there are big functions on
hand the king sometimes is obliged to
make a dozen changes a day, and he
never puts on fewer than three differ
ent suits daily.
The statement made that he never
wears the same suit twice is erron-
eous. He does make 1t rule never
to wear the same suit twice on con-
secutive days.
AS are most stout men. he is hard
est on his trousers. Because he will
not tolerate the suggestion of a wrin-
kle in his neither garments, he rarely
wears pair Of trousers more than
three or four times. In this way he
gets through quite 100 pairs in the
course of year.
He is particularly extravagant with
regard to overcoats. He INDUCES In a
great variety of headgear, and his ex-
periments in hats and caps from time
to time have resulted in popularizing
no less than seven distinct varieties.
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swer to my query, and I'll bet dough-
nut he has those eggs picked for us
right now. The gasoline, however, is
a complete loss. When think of how
rich John D. Is and how poor am, the
memory of that gasoline gives me bad
dreams. We see now our actions in
this particular was a mistake. We
should have saved the eggs and let the
train go. We would have had twelve
hours to walk with dignity to the depot
and no one would have suspected that
my old side partner, now Sheriff Billy
Hunt, was after us.
Let me see, what else is there. Oh,
yes, that we forgot the baby. Some
body probably said that in josh. You
see our baby is years old and half
old and has some form of nervous par
alysis. He is too heavy to be carried
by his mother. One of the hopes we
had in coming east this summer was
that we could have him treated Mrs.
Allyn's uncle is a physician and my
sister nurse in Cleveland, o. and nat
urally we went there for counsel. The
little fellow has been operated upon al
ready and is now recovering from the
operation, but the surgeon fears that
he will always be a cripple. This is
our great trouble and grief, for our
little one is as bright as a new gold
dollar. We won't forget him my dear
friends. We would mortgage our
souls to straighten his little body and
give him fair show.
In conclusion let me say that 1 am
getting short of money, and will be re-
turning to North Dakota soon with my
little show and will expect all my
readers to buy ticket at the door. l
am getting the whiskers trimmed on
my old jokes, and getting some new
ones. If you think you will not be
there when get around, send your
money now. was looking at my purse
yesterday before dinner, and could
hardly eat thinking of its condition.
My address, by the way. is Fargo N. D.
RUDE Allyn.
N. B-I might Just add a word to
say that all the rest of the story is a
damn lie. r. A.
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to reason. Part of her tickets had
been appropriated she thought and
she had blood in her eye. Busting
over to Officer Benson she told the
same story. her voice rising in excite
ment and anger, and Benson, too, was
put down and out by the irate woman.
Agent st. Clair was appealed to, but
all assurances from him that the
tickets were o. k. were of no avail.
The woman from Indiana held the
fort and she told these two policemen
and the depot agent several pointed
things about railroad conductors, DO
licemen and in fact men in general,
which will not look we'll in print.
All efforts to have her take the
train for Cando were of no avail and
the last seen of her she was making
for downtown, with her son in tow,
breathing dire vengeance upon the
whole Great Northern system, local
policemen and depot agents in parti-
cular.
Beats anything l ever saw" were
the words Of the depot agent. "Too
much for me-" said Benson and Koan,
like the district school fathers allow
ed, Them are my sentiments, tew." =.
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CALLS IT A LIE
Rube Allyn, Well Known North
Dakota Humorist, Denies
He Has Too Many Wives.

Fargo, N. D., July 20.-To The For
UNI: see by the edition of Friday,
July 10, that am currently reported
to be pretty bad customer. don't
believe word of it. If l have any
more wives than the law allows, some
body must have captured me when
was in a trance. No matter who is ac-
cused of murder, it is surprising how
circumstantial evidence will go to
prove it. For instance, I quote par
agraph from the article in question:
"Neighbors are now telling some pc
culiar facts concerning the hurried de-
parture of the family. Several wagon
loads of furniture were left in the
house and SO anxious were the Allyns
apparently to leave that the gas stove
was left burning with pot full of
eggs on the stove. The baby was al
SO left behind, but at the last moment
the absence of the little one was dis
covered and Rube hurried back to the
house and returned to the depot with
the infant in time to catch the train"
Isn't this awful? Now, we have
nice neighbors in Fargo, and they
wouldn't say things like that. We like
them and they like us. They told us,
and shed the sympathetic tear and
cheered us on our journey. In the first
place we haven't left Fargo. 1t is still
our home. We didn't leave several
loads of furniture in the house. How
ever, Mr.. Young, who has our furni-
ture in storage while we are away
agreed to call for the last load and
take good care of everything, thus en-
abling us to remain in the house over
night with the children and save the
expense Of going to hotel. We felt 1t
necessary to practice this small econ
Omy because we were too proud to go
to a cheap hotel and too poor to afford
high priced one. We see now it was
i, a great mistake. Getting three child
',ren ready for the morning train is no
small job. hustled over to the depot
to get the baggage checked. Others
were there first. The depot is just
two blocks from our home. It looked
as though we might miss the train.
Mrs. A. got notion that we ought to
have some hard boiled eggs for the
youngsters but found she would miss
the train II she waited for results. 1
told her to let the eggs go to thunder
as rushed back from the depot and
grabbed the youngster and yelled to
Jake Shoeninger, my landlord, who
lives next door, to look after things in
the house. Jake had just got out of
bed and only the upper part of his body
appeared through the glass door. He
was struggling with something below,
the visible part. think it must have
have been his pants. Anyhow, he is
as fine fellow as ever lived, and mo-
toned that he would help us in min
ute, and nodded his smiling face in an
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-20
WORK IN PHILIPPINES.

The annual report of the work of
the American Bible Society in the
Philippine Islands, made public re-
Gently, covers the conclusion of the
labors of its first agent there, the
Rev. Jay G. Goodrich, who has with
drawn for reasons OF health and ac-
cepted a pastorate in this country.
The report states that there are UNI
mlstakable indications that the COM
mercial, social and religious life of
the Filipinos is to receive large i'm
pulses and make rapid progress
toward new order of national ex-
istence.
Many of the notorious leaders of the
ladrone bands have been killed or
captured, and their followers have sur
rendered themselves and their arms
to the authorities. Fields long de-
vastated by war, brigandage and lack
of workers have again been brought
under cultivation, and the increase of
crops this year has been the most
gratifying known since the American
occupation. All over the islands there
is new interest in agriculture that
promises to revolutionize the life of the
natives in the next four years.
Another year of public schools has
further extended free education, and
the school enrolment has increased
from 100000 to 1000 in single year.
Accompanying this is great Increase
of interest in Western ideals and civili-
cation on the part of the common peo-
pie, will find men and women every
where looking for the bible and asking
to be shown the way of life more per-
fectly.-
The Protestant churches maintain
ing missionary work in the islands
have had the best year of their his
tory. The statistical reports, it is
stated, will show "a large numerical
increase In membership, new territory
has been opened, and training schools
for native pastors and teachers have
shown largely increased attendance.
The Presbyterians and the Methodists
have opened theological seminaries in
Manila. The number of native evan
gelists working under the supervision
of the different mission boards has in
creased over last year.
The report concludes:
The curse of Babel rests heavily on
the Philippines, and has greatly in
creased the difficulties of the task of
giving the Scriptures to the people.
The larger language areas have now
been supplied with preliminary trans
lations, and the total circulation has
been remarkable, but the work of
reaching the common people has only
begun. The Independent Catholic
church is strong in Mindanao, and its
growth is usually accompanied by a
desire on the part of the people to
read the Scriptures for themselves.
The Independent Catholic church of
Panay is very friendly to the open BIZ
BILE, and is anxious to put the book in
to the hands of the common people.
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WINDOW CLEANING BILLS.
Expense That Mounts Up in the Case
Of Big Buildings.

The cost of having house or apart
ment windows of ordinary size clean
ed by professional window cleaners is
about 10 cents a window. So a man
living, say, in an apartment having
10 windows, would pay$1 for having
his windows cleaned; If he had them
cleaned twice month 81, and, II once
a week, 81 a month. not a matter of a
very serious moment, says the New
York Sun.
But when it comes to big buildings,
with many windows, the window clean
ing question may easily be very diff
ferent proposition. The most recently
opened of the city's great modern
hotels has about $500 windows. OBJ
viously If it cost 10 cents each to have
these windows cleaned the cost Of
a single cleaning of them would be
$3.50.
If they were cleaned twice a month
at that cost the expense would be
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Refuses to Follow Further.

Alderman Westberg is reported as
having said that he was through with
the crowd who has been trying to ac-
complish certain ends in the city, and
have simply piled up mountain of
school boy blunders to their credit.
The remark was with reference to the
injunction served on the city council
in the Jarvis case. He said he was
tired of being made monkey of and
so far as he was concerned he was
through. Westberg is a man of con-
siderable judgment, and while he was
willing to investigate the matter If
the council had the right to do so, he
was compelled to rely upon the legal
advice of those who were making the
fight. 1t is the failure in this particu-
lar to get anything which can stand
the test in the courts which has dis
gusted him as it has many other
thinking men.
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A Good Story.

A good story is being told in refer
ence to the over-zealousness of the kid
who has furnished the imaginary evil
dence In the contest case. After the
Injunction was served on the council
the other night he is said to have told
President Barlow to proceed with the
contest, as 1t was nothing but bluff.
But Barlow was not taking kid ad-
vice just then-he had been hit before
with legal brickbats-and the kid
wilted like a sailed dandelion. 1t was
a Dathetic scene
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No Prison Irvine.

The entire output of the state prison
Irvine plant for this season has been
sold, and all orders received since last
Saturday morning have been returned
to the farmers.
The amount of Irvine manufactured
this year was 13,50O,OOO pounds, the
largest ever manufactured there. The
plant could easily have disposed of
two or three million pounds more.
The factory is running three hours
a day overtime and will continue to
do SO until the end of the season.
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planned of. crowded far to the rear
when it comes to effusiveness and
gallery play. He may send jerky,
slangy messages" to his sweetheart,
for the modern lover is usually busy
sort of chap, delving away in an
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entirely out of "the line of thought"
usually followed by the Man.
1t is a difficult proposition, but the
person who made the request for an
opinion is friend. and evidently
wanted the cold blooded, unbiased
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-20
NCUBATED INFANTS.
Children Who Owe Lives to Mechanical
Mothers to Meet at Coney Island.

Children Who Owe Lives to Mechapicar
Mothers to Meet at Coney Island.
The first International reunion of in
FAINT incubator graduates will greet.
their alma mater at the Infant In
cubator Institution in Dreamland.
coney Island. on Sunday, July 20.
This will be the first meeting of the
kind and promises to be notable. The
convention will have delegates not
only from Brooklyn, Manhattan and
Inc Bronx, but also from Paris. Berlin
and London, where this life saving in
stltutiOn was first demonstrated. At
iantic City, Chicago, Cleveland, Pitts
burg, Indianapolis, Minneapolis. Bos-
ton, Buffalo, Omaha, Portland, Ore.
and Montreal, Canada, will also be-
represented.
FOLLOWING the introduction of infant
life savers In Berlin in 1896, in Lon
don at the time of Queen Victoria's
diamond jubilee, in 1897; in Paris in
1900, in Omaha in 1898 and in Buff
falo in 1901, the physicians in charge
came to this country and established
the incubators In all the large cities.
1t Is estimated that since 1896 there
have been received and cared for in
the infant incubators under the dir
ection Of DR.. Couney and his assoc
ciates more than six hundred prema-
turely born and sickly infants, and OF
this number the greater part of the
living graduates are expected to be
present at the reunion. ARRANGEMENTS
have been made for the generous en-
tertainment of the graduates. their
parents and guardians.
Speaking in Toxic recently the Rev.
DR.. Weldon, an English school prin-
cipal. said that in England CORPORAL
punishment was comingt o be a priv-
ilege of aristocracy. The governing
class of England, he said, felt that the
humiliation was really only in the
wrongdoing, mott the fogging.
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A Good Trading Point.

That this city is a decidedly good
trading point is evidenced by the enor-
nous crowds which do their purchase
ing at the city stores. This is es-
pecially true of the Arneson Mercan-
tile company, whose mammoth store
Is crowded every day, and Brandts
hardware emporium. These places do
business equal to that of similar
stores in the large cities.
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Afraid to Go Home.

IA story is being told that the city
recorder is afraid to go home after
nightfall now lest some of the blood
thirsty people who have been having
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"The modern lover does not excite
himself much. One would like to i'm
part little more enthusiasm to the
young man of the period. He sends
Jerky, slangy messages to his lady
love, he does not greatly worry if he
does not see her daily, he would not
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!, DISREPUTABLE HOUSES.
viii Be Closed BY Sheriff Quigley and
Inmates Driven From CITY.

Sheriff Quigley has declared his in.
tention of driving the dissolute
women from the city and closing the
houses which are allowed to flourish
In the heart of the residence part of
the city. The move has been con-
templated for some time, but as the
present city administration was elect
ed as a reform movement, it was
thought best to let it take up the
work. 1t will be remembered some
time ago when Alderman Craig raised
the question in council of repairing
the old bridge across the Red lake
river that the mayor opposed the ac-
ton on the ground that II that bridge
was opened 1t would compel the chill
dren from a large part of the city to
pass by the disreputable houses,
where the conduct of the inmates was
actually repulsive-the actual re-
marks of the mayor being too strong
to appear in print. He also pointed
out that ladies attending church would
be compelled to pass through the same
disreputable quarter The remarks of
the mayor, which we're the truth, set
the people who believe in decency to
thinking, and they have quietly ar
ranged to drive the curse from be-
meath the noses of decent citizens. It
is said that more than fifty women
now live in this section. And not
content with that, they have spread
among the suburban residence Sec
lions in other parts of the city until
they have become intolerable. No ef-
fort having been made by the proper
city oficials to abate the nuisance, the
people have asked Sheriff Quigley to
take up the matter and he has been
quietly at work for some time gather
ing evidence, and when the raids begin
there will be no loop holes out OF
which the criminals will be able to
crawl
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Great Opportunities Offered the Lond Side of the
Market From Supply and Demand Standpoint
CORN AND OATS HOLD STEADY
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After Norris.

Sheriff Gonyea left yesterday to
). bring to this state Morris, the man
wanted for robbery in this city, who
has been fighting extradition for the
past few months. 80
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Visited Father.

MRS. Saseen of Dashburn has been
spending some time at the home of
her father, w. c. Nash, in this city.
She went from here to Winnipeg to
Visit sister.
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forego a golf match on her behalf if
he could possibly avoid it. He never
appears to be radiantly happy"
The above clipping from an eastern
paper was handed the Man today, and
his opinion asked. This is subject