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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-20

In the st. Paul fire fifteen or twenty
firemen were injured by gas explosions
which blew out the windows and parts
of the walls. It has since been dis
covered that there was no shut-offs in
the gas mains which supplied the gas
except those located inside the build
ing. AS a result the flames were fed
by constant stream of gas which
added to their fury, materially increas-
ing the damage done as we'll as
augmenting the danger to life.
The state fire marshall has started
an investigation and will recommend
to the legislature the enactment of
law requiring all gas mains to have
shut-offs located outside the buildings
so that in case of fire the gas could be
cut off, and thereby be prevent from
feeding the flames.
The trouble with most cities is that
they delay the remedying of these
matters until some disaster overtakes
them and then it is found that a small
protection would have saved thousands
of dollars.
If there are no means of protecting
this city from a danger like that which
st. Paul has just experienced it would
be we'll for the municipal authorities
to take steps looking to the remedy
ing of the defect. 1t does not require
an expert to see that If there is no
means of shutting off the gas, that
once the mains become broken in case
of fire the escaping gas will add to
the flames and to some extent make
them impossible to control.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-20
A NEEDED TRIBUTE.

A movement has been started, says
the New York Tribune. to mark with
an appropriate memorial the grave Of
General John Charles Fremont. At
the golden jubilee of the republican
party, which begins today in Philadel-
phia, a plea will be made for the
erection of a monument BETTING his
name and fame. The appeal is ex-
pected to come from the Fremont Old
Guard of New York. which on In
vestigation found the burial place Of
"The Pathfinder" to be in sad state
of neglect. Only a small iron grand
army of the republic star and three
flags Of common bunting. placed there
by school children. show where his
body was laid to rest. \
To call to public attention the fact
that the ashes Of General Fremont lie,
in a neglected grave is at this time
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-20
II You Were a Bow.

If you were boy this morning.
1 wonder what you would do?
Was ever day more perfect.
Was ever the sky more blue?
I'm speaking to you, grave senior.
noticed you as you went,
Hot-footing 1t into the city,
To add to your cent per cent.
! noticed your sober manner, d.
The school boy with his books.
I saw-and you saw-where the river
Sweeps down to the "swimmin' hole"
Another boy playing "hookey"-
A boy with fishing pole.
If you were boy this morning.
wonder what you would do?
I saw you STOPPING to whisper
A word to the boy with you.
1t seemed to me then you told him
That the truant boy was q fool.
That nothing ripens manhood
Like the moments spent In school.
With the fresh blue sky above you
And the green fields under 1t,
How dare you utter such nonsense?
o! liar and hypocrite!
If you were a boy this morning,
A boy with a heart and soul,
You'd be- in spite Of a licking,
The boy with the fishing pole.
IT. A. Daily.
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They are degenerates who have lost
the last semblence of humanity if they
ever possessed it, and have become a
danger to society. 1t is serious
crime for one man to steal the prop
erty of another, and for such men as
these these should be little sympathy,
when the crime is pursued as bust
ness. But criminals engaged in that
character of work and far above those
who would take possession of child
in order that he might wiring money
from the parents agony
Such man is SO depraved that he
falls far below the brute creation, and
is lost to all the nobler instincts. Yet
it must have caused some realization
of the enormity of his crime to dawn
on his perverted intellect when within
a few hours after he had been caught
while seeking his accursed blood
money, he heard the sentence of the
law that he serve twenty years in the
penitentiary. No human sympathy
could be expected for such as he. and
the look of appreciation which must
have greeted him as he passed from
the criminal dock to the carriage which
started him on his journey to living
tomb must have impressed him even
in his depraved mental condition. with
the estimate which his fellowmen
placed upon his crime
A few such examples as he set be-
fore the kidnappers of the world. they
will strike terror to those who pursue
the crime as a means of livelihood.
and it must be remembered that terror
is the only restraining power over
such brutes.
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especially painful. Just fifty years ago
today the first national convention of
the republican party met which NOM
mated him for the presidency. In the
very hall where republicans were re-
Gently celebrating the victories of their
party in the last half century "The
Pathfinder" was chosen for the highest
Office in the land His renown was
great. His explorations in the west.
through mountain gorges and across
deserts which to the popular mind of
that time teemed with unknown
terrors. his military exploits. his con-
f1icts with Indians and Mexicans. and,
withal, his unusual personal charms.
appealed powerfully to public senti-
ment. Yet at the present time the
mortal part of the explorer who found
his way through untracked wastes is
all but lost beneath the rankly grow
ing grass of a rural cemetery within
few miles of this city.
1t is to be hoped that the grave of
Fremont will be marked in a fitting
manner. 1t is situated where monu-
ment might be made especially impos-
ing. On the third plateau of the Rock
land cemetery. on the brink of the
Palisades, almost directly opposite
Tarrytown, stone only fifty feet high
would tower above the Hudson as far
as does the Washington Monument
above the streets of the national cap
ital. And no time could be more ap-
propriate than the semi-centennial of
the Fremont campaign for this long
delayed homage to "the Pathfinder
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Too Many Books.

Are there too many books in the
world? Is the average we'll read man
more vigorous thinker than was the
ancestor who had only two or three
books, and those great ones. and who
hungrily pored over them until he
knew them almost by heart? These
are questions which never lose their
interest for those who have to do with
the Sitting of books. The overpopula-
ton of the world by books was, it is
said, an anxious problem in the mind
OF Mr.. Gladstone. He thought that the
key OF the question lay in the hands
of the United Kingdom and the
United States:
They. with their vast range of in
habited territory and their unity of
tongue, are masters of fhe world.
When Britons and Americans are fused
into one book market, when artificial
letters are relaxed, and printers, pub
fishers and authors obtain the reward
which well regulated commerce would
AFFORD them, then let floors beware
lest they crack, and walls lest they
bulge and burst from the weight Of
books they will have to carry and
confine. e
One expedient the English states
man suggested was the burial of the
books of no value-and 1t must be adj
mitted that it would not be difficult
to collect volumes for which such dis
posal would be appropriate. If the
development of authorship as a BUSH
ness continues, what library will be
spacious enough to contain the in
creasing army of books? The destina-
ton OF the inevitable overflow Ia wortt,
considering. .s. b
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Optimism.

You may. reap your harvest of wheat
and tares,
You may gather your cookie and bar
You may husband a harvest of joys
and cares,
!. Laboring late and early;
The grain of gold
And the poppy bold
But the fullest ears Of the seven fat
Will be s1 Cleaned by the CLEANER next
morning.
You may draw your nets, you may draw
al, Find silvery fish sin plenty;
You may angle for honor. hook titles
And of T Rlsess FISH and 81 P %sEht l twenty;
Swallows up your bait,
Your lures and your wiles not scorning;
But the lustiest trout, there's no man
Will be caught by the fisher next
morning.
You may think out thoughts that are
witty and wise,
You may think some deep. some shall
You may store ,y your brain with truth
You may let your brain lie fallow;
Thought is good,
Be it understood;
born in,
That the latest thought that man
,,,, kind can be taught,
Will be thought by some thinker next
morning.
You may cling to this world of time
and sense,
You may think of another rarely;
You may sigh, all, whittier? and ask,
all, whence?
And find life puzzling, fairly,
Yet life is sweet,
We will repeat,
On this dear old earth we were born
Good bettered to best changed into
When we wake to Gods cloudless next
morning.
-Blackwood's Magazine.
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called to serve his country. The times
demanded man like Roosevelt and
he came But he is more than the man
of the times. He is making presidents
for those who come after him. which
will have force in the shaping of
the nations destiny in the years to
come. There has been no specific de-
mand for any of the things which he
has done. Yet they are important and
have saved the trouble of meeting
them when they arise later in our
national life. The greatest of these is
the example of president who does
not fear to do things.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-20
FOR BETTER SIDE WALKS.

One Of the things much needed in
this cityis better side walks. In many
of the well improved residence streets
there are nothing better than
dilapidated board walks. with the board
broken and loose, while the decayed
condition of large number of the
boards gives the pedestrian the sensa-
ton Of walking on springs.
Taxation when It is made heavy is
a burdensome matter, and to require
many Of the people to construct walks
OF cement or paving blocks would be
2 decided burden. However. there II
no reason Why the present walks could
not be kept IN : fairly good condition.
80 that Walking would not become y
danger to limb.
A city's progrsasS 80 largely Indicated
BY the appearances Of tt sidewalks, and
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-20

Associated Press Cable to The Evening
Times.
Tondhjem, Norway, June 2O.-The
French armored cruiser Admiral Aube,
carrying the special French embassy
to the coronation of King Haakon ar
rived here this morning Immediately
after she reached the anchorage specl-
ally selected for the vessel, her guns
awakened the echoes of ford with a
salute. She then dressed ship" and
then the Norwegian men of war and
shore batteries answered her salute.
A spanking breeze swept the har-
Dor, causing flags and bunting to f1ut-
ter in lively fashion and raising
sea in which launches and cutters
were tossed about like corks. Despite
the breeze dense fog prevailed near
the entrance of the ford and delayed
the arrival Of other war ships and
steamers, including the British royal
yacht Victoria and Albert, having on
board the prince and princess of
Wales, and conveyed by the cruisers
Juno and Talbot. These vessels are
anchored outside of the ford but will
not arrive at Tondhjem until after
noon.
Members of the French embassy
landed at II o'clock this morning.
King Haakon received the embassy
and thanked them and their nation for
their presence here. Leading men,
bers of the Norwegian cabinet, headed
by Premier Nicholson, will leave
Christiania today for Trondhjem
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-20
THE MAN WHO DOES THINGS.

AS time passes it becomes more
evident that the president Is a man
who does things. In other words he is
man of action. and action means
aggressive policies and constructive
administration.
He was placed in authority by men
who feared to oppose his aggressive
policies, and who hoped that his SEEM
ing impetuosity would cause him to
blunder to their advantage. They be-
lieved he was too radical for the
American public. But in this they
learned that men could be radical
without being sensational. if by
radicalism is meant the attempts to
direct the policies of the government
with vigor and energy.
The winning trait of Roosevelt is
honesty and coupled with this is his
wonderful frankness with the people
who never are left in doubt as to where
he stands on any public question. 1t
Is this frankness which has made him
SO much an idol of the masses of the
people irrespective of party.
He is absolutely fearless and no
man is too great to be made to feel
the power of his hand if justice de-
mands it. He has fearlessly insisted
upon a rate regulation law and in
spite of the carping of men who are
not worthy to unlace his shoe latchets,
he has secured just what he wanted
and what the country needed His
work coupled with the magnificent
support given his policies by both
houses of congress has given the coun-
try the most comprehensive investi-
cation of the meat business ever at
tempted.
He is remarkable success largely
because he has filled high position
differently than any other man has
ever attempted to fill it. He is bold
and aggressive, and these two char
acteristics have caused him to be
called radical. Yet he is by no means
a radical. That term implies a polit-
ical revolutionist, and one who acts
hastily. Roosevelt does not. He is
possessed of wonderfully alert judg-
ment, SO much so that it partakes of
the appearance of intuition. But when
this characteristic is analysed it is
found to be only the we'll developed
power to see the material point of an
issue and to reach 1t without the mean
derings of ordinary logic.
1t is tie same faculty which made
Lincoln The greatest expounder of gov
ernmental principles that the world
ever knew. 1t is action instead of
red tape and energy instead of delay
and expediency. 1t is constructive
craftsmanship rather than political
daliying. He is the leader rather than
the led.
Open to reason and advice at all
times he Is able to Immediately sift
the wheat from the char and to read
between the lines for any attempt to
thwart HIS purpose.
This country has had great states
men N the past. each one seemingly
fitted for the times In which he was
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-20

Any new county, fully organized &C.
eording to law prior to the holding Of
aid convention, will be allowed two
delegates at large.
The delagates present from each
county at said convention are author
i1ed to fill vacancies occurring in the
delegation to which such county may
bs entitled, from residents of such
The attention of republican county
central committees and electors is call
tAe selection Of delegates to the state
The state committee will pass upon
he rights of those entitled to partici-
gate in the preliminary organization,
ana Will meet for that purpose, at 10
o'clock in the forenoon Of the day pre-
sious to the date Of the convention, at
me place Of holding said convention, to
eeaf all contests. The credentials oil all
delegates and notices of contest must
= aled with the chairman Of this COM
natod herein for the meeting of the
committee to pass upon the rights Of
delegates. and notices Of contests must
- accompanied by written statement
% the grounds for contest. Preference
N the order OF hearing and determining
contests will be given by the commit
20. In accordance with the dates of the
AIae OF such notices and statements
With the chairman.
p order Of the Republican State Cen
r. committee, at meeting held in the
Il B. HANNA
IN H Jewell.
Secretary,
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The Devil and Colds.

An editorial written on the Memphis
Commercial Appeal can find no other
reason for having bad cold SO he lays
the blame on "Old Nick" himself, and
says:
We do not believe that any dis
passionate observer who will consider
the evidence can arrive at any other
conclusion than that the Devil is the
father of all colds. No scientific ex-
PLANTATION of this diabolic infection has
ever been convincing.
You get chilled and you take cold,
You get overheated and you take
cold.
You get neither one nor the other.
yet you take a cold.
You keep on your heavy underwear
and take cold.
You pull it off and you take a cold.
You stand around all day on the
streets in winter, and you may take
cold.
You go out on winters day and get
your feet wet and chilled, and you
don't take cold.
You sit down In a warm room with
your feet to the fire, and next MORN
ing you may have bark on you that
would irritate the dead. 15
You can take a cold in a we'll
heated room, in an under-heated room
and In normally-heated room.
You can go to bed feeling as At as
middle, be covered up comfortably, and
be at peace with the world. But dur
ing the night the Devil perches on your
chest, drops little seed into your
mouth and the next morning you feel
as If you had a rivet just below your
Adams apple. Z
You go to a closed theater in sum-
mer-time and take cold with the
house. 4
You 60 to an al fresco theater and
take cold at your own expense.
You may take q cold from q friend,
and involuntarily you pass 1t around
among your acquaintances. Xii.
You can take cold at the North
Pole or In the Land Of Fire, in the hills
or In the bottoms, by the sad sea waves
or in the inland rivers, and the chances
are that you will never be able to ex.
plain it to your friends. Y
You sleep in draft one night and
get cold; you sleep In q draft another,
and you don't. l
WhSA yOu 0l0 AcCllu6 VbTuCulATlysl
unhappy in the possession of one Of
these internal assets, you may derive
some consolation from the fact that
you are perhaps part and parcel OF a.
cold" wave. that the Devil has sent
over the land. You will find that there:
are hundreds Of others who are bound
to YOU with the same tie OF amction,
and that after a time the wave rolls ON
and disappears as mysteriously as It
came. { II 32s
The cuneiform inscriptions Of the.
east and the hier0glyphics of Egypt
show that several thousand years ago
the medicine men had prescription for
colds, but from that day this, the doctor
has never been born who could cure
one Of thsm. Dante saw farther than
science and theology when he inyented
HIS frozen hell; and We wish to correct
the popular impression that his
Santanic majesty deyotes all his labor
and ingenuity to his heating apparatus. \
We are reliably Informed TINT no has /
large cold storage interests. and tint
he 10 the father .of the indnenSa !. the ]
bronchitis. the, "Trip, and the plain,
cussed ordinary day cold Of
commerce.. u 81 81 q 3S I. Il 4
r. Having gotten this out Of 1
our systsm. ~ ase already telling
better. q Il "a.
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A PUBLIC NEED.

The burning of the Ryan annex at
ST. Paul few days ago disclosed a
condition of affairs in Minnesota cities
using gas that demands immediate
legislative remedying. The same con-
dition may be found in other cities
than those of Minnesota.
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IN II. Jewell,
Secretary.
Sentiment to be rucu1cated.

Let reverence of law be breathed by
every mother to the lisping babe that
the schools, seminaries and colleges:
let It be written in primers. spelling
books and almanacs; let it be preached
latiye halls and enforced in courts of
JUSTICE, in short, let it become the
political religion Of the nation"
Abraham Lincoln
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xnPuBL1CAN STATE CONVENTION.

70 tho Republican Electors OF the State
Of North Dakota:
In accordance with the instructions
4 the Republican State Central com.
representatives of the republican party
.a1 this state will be held this year at
be ns% SRMsra house in the CITY OF 'ApEs-
Thursday. July II,
It IL o'clock in the forenoon, for the
purpose Of nominating candidates to be
supported at the next general election,
~nd for the transaction of such other
che candidates to be nominated are:
Two members of congress.
One Judge of the supreme court.
Lieutenant Governor.
Secretary of State.
State Auditor.
superintendent Of Public Instruction.
Attorney General.
OF Of Agrisature and
labor.
Three Commissioners Of Railroads.
Average number Of votes cast for the
-sspectively the highest and lowest vote
each county in the state s At the last
he Supreme Court), giving two dele
Gates at large to each organized county,
ind one delegate for each 1875 republic
an votes, or major fraction Of 125
votes. cast tor the above officers in said
election.
Delegates to said convention from
Zach county will be chosen as provided
znder the Primary Election Law; pass
Iides that Elections shall, be held in
The various regularly established pre-
:incts in each county, on Tuesday.
70 p. M" The different eounties In the
state will. under the superintendent
asrein provided, be entitled to repre-
sanitation as follows:
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VALE, WINSBIP!
with Apologies to the Chicago Record Herald

with Apologies to the Chicago Record-H erald.]
He sits in sore defeat alone,
His wrecked machine before him lies;
Discredited and overthrown,
A lonesome look is in his eyes;
No henchmen listen for commands,
No hireling hurries to obey;
The strings he pulled with eager hands,
All broken, have been tossed away.
He sits defeated and undone,
Without the solace they may claim
Who being beaten, still have won
The right to rise absolved from blame
The hope he harbored long is wrecked
And Decency, in triumph, leaves
Him where, deprived of self-respect,
He sits in loneliness and grieves.
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It won't do to tell every man he
has big feet. and you shouldn't say
it to any woman. s]} NJ
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visitors who walk out over this city
to look at its improvements would be
Influenced against 1t by the ones they
would be compelled to use.
OF course it is impossible to improve
all the city at once or even to keep
up its rapid expansion with modern
improvements. But the matter should
be taken up at once and as much as
possible done so that next year in
stead of the burden becoming heavier
it would be lighter and in few years
the improvements would catch up with
the growth.
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rendered French Embassy to
Coronation of King Haakon
on Arrival Today Flags and
streamers Wave, Guns Boom
A HEAVY SEA
RAISED BY BREEZE
Prevents Many Vessels Landing
King Expresses Thanks to En-
bassy for Their Presence.

Associated Pres. Cable to The Evening
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-26

Seated upon an fec boulder and placid
 lv smoking z long corEoob ptpc.
 unexpectedly in the ears of the cast aways. Standing back from the edge. they had not only looked over the top masts of this welcome neighbor. but they had themselves been invisible from her decks. Now the discovery was mutual. as was shown by a cho- rus of shouts and cries from beneath them.
 But the three did not wait an In- stant Sliding and scramblIng down tine slippery incline. they rushed. shout ing. through the crack and Into the cave. where their comrades had just been startled by the busIc call while in the middle of their checrless break fast. A few hurried words and the leaky lonsboat had been launched. their few possessions had been bun dled In and they were afioat once more. Pulling round promontory of the berg. they found themselves under the stern of a fine corvet. the sides of which were lined with friendly faces. while from tLe pcsk there drooped . huge white banner motfied over with tho golden lilies Of Fr7nce- Tn q yery few minutes their boat h.d been haul ed up. and they found themselves on board of the st Chrissophe. msn-of- war. conveying Marquis de Deno1- vile. the governor general of Csnada. to take over his new duties.