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4 Thoughtless Youth.

Little David had always been re-
garded by his father and mother as
being particularly smart and clever
for a child of tender years. One day,
while he was playing in front of his
home, a rough looking tramp appeared
and asked very sharply where his
father kept his money. He replied
that it was all in his vest in the
kitchen.
A few minutes later the tramp came
through the doorway in hurry, very
much battered up and looking sad,
muttering:
Smart kid, that. Never said a word
about his old man being in the vest"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
THE GAS QUESTION.

In the news columns we publish
correspondence between Mr.. Corliss
and the city attorney. Mr.. Corliss
needs no introduction to the people
of our city nor does he need any
encomiums from The Evening Times.
He was the first chief justice of the
state, and his opinions written while
upon the bench were both brilliant
and exhaustive.
Judge Corliss' letter should be read
by every citizen with care. 1t pre-
sents the matter from standpoint not
yet taken by any one concerning the
matter as we'll as from the legal view
point in which he fully sustains the
opinion of the city attorney that the
council is without power to enact an
ordinance. regulating the price of gas
10 private consumers.
Among other things Judge Corliss
says: Another consideration why it
should not readily be presumed that
there was a purpose to vest such a
power in the governing body of city
IL that such governing body is amen
able to public sentiment, and, indeed,
may be elected and placed in power
upon the single issue of regulation
Of gas rates. The constituents who
elect such body are, as gas con-
sumers, directly interested in the
question of rate regulation. There
fore, the vesting of. the power to
regulate gas charges in the governing
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.

The misconduct of three United
States senators, which has been
brought to light within the past few
years, has been made the text for dia-
tribes against the senate as body.
There is no more reason or Justice
in this than there would have been
1000 years ago, in treating the per-
fidy of Judas Iscariot as evidence of
the bad character of theSeleven other
disciples. The senate consists of 80
members, and the fact that three Of
them have offended against the laws
is no justification whatever for the tor
rent of obloquy which is being directed
against the 81 other members of the
body. 1t is the duty of the press to
give publicity to official misconduct
wherever found, but it is equally the
duty OF the press to treat the peoples
representatives with justice and to
VI Soie lLCIli WILL llOuSSI llltullOUS
less the contrary can be shown. Libel
as well as grating" is a crime, and
is equally injurious to the well-being
of society There is not a sinful side
to every question which congress has
to consider. On the contrary, very
good men will be found on each side
OF nearly all measures.
Considering the struggles through
which representative governments
have been established in the world, the
tendency of fippant writer's to speak
disparagingly of congress and the
state legislatures is an exhibition of
petty-mindedness. There has never
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
Phenomenon Explained.

1t was matter of record that in all
the years Paddy had kept the saloon
he had never treated, and he had
never been known to accept an in
vitation to drink. He was consistent
in that respect at least. So when
Jackson told the coterie that night
that early in the day he had seen Pad
dy stand treat not once, but several
times, there was an outbreak of in
credulous shouts.
Its true, just the same" said
Jackson, with twinkle in his eyes.
Il saw it myself I happened to be in
the place and was watching Paddy
trying to figure out how he could tap
telephone wire and get enough cleo
tricity to run that slot machine which
he had picked up at bargain sale.
when the iceman came in with big
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20

been president in this country who
could so we'll be trusted with the maxi
ing Of laws as the congress to which
that work is intrusted by the consti-
tuition. Congress, like all other hui
man institutions, is fallible, but tits
the best source of authority we have,
and the best We can get. 1t comes
from the people; it represents their
average virtue. intelligence, patriotism
and wisdom, as we'll as their possess
sion of the opposites of these quail
ties The fountain cannot rise above
its source. Every man in this repub-
lie Of legal age and residence is en-
titled to vote. He votes as he pleases
or not at all. To sell vote is crime,
but, like many other crimes, it is often
committed and escapes detection and
punishment. Hundreds of thousands of
legal voters neglect their duty of vot-
ing, and every one of them thereby au-
thorizes those who do vote to control
the government. Sometimes good men
vote for bad candidates, not knowing
their character. Bad men often vote
for good men, because none Of their
own kind present themselves for their
suffrages. When we consider the diff
ficulties which attend the conduct of
human affairs, the inattention of men
to their own business, and the insult
ficiency of the supply of wisdom and
integrity in the world, the measure
able success of self-government, rs
shown by the fifteen millions of votes
cast in our great national elections,
ought to encourage us In its continu-
ance rather than to pine for the only
other alternative-the despotism of
one-man power
Notwithstanding all the denuncia-
lions of congress and more particu-
larly of the senate, which are now
prevalent, it would be difficult for any
well-informed man to name any period
within the last fifty years when con-
gress was freer from well-grounded
suspicion of bad conduct among its
members than at this time. Let who
ever is inclined to dispute this take
list of senators and members and
count the number that by any stretch
of imagination can be said to be faint
ed by any evidence whatever Of cor
ruption.
Let the newly recruited reformers
who, in their excessive zeal to find
subjects for reform, attack the peoples
representatives in general, turn their
attention to exhorting the people them
selves to be more attentive to their
political duties and to try to know
something about the men for whose
election they are responsible.-Wash-
ington Post.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
Fraternal Love.

If every man to every man would give
brothers heart;
If every man by every man would do a
brothers part;
If every man could sign his name Fra
ternally thine own"
Not half the strife we have today would
ever then be known.
If every man to every man helping
hand would give;
If every man would help all men n
happy life to live;
II every man would treat all men rs he
would treated be,
This world would be O paradise-a
grand fraternity.
Then IL this world an order was, of
brothers Joined in love.
All prison doors would open wide and
God would smile above
On fearless faces, sighless hearts and
consciences less fear,
And like unto the promised land
'There'd be no sorrow here"
Will Fields.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
NOTE AND COMMENT

Fargo has had reunion. Brewers
appendix has been preserved in alco-
hol.
After a man is named he finds there
are things besides money that talk.
A patent on an adjustable wedding
ring would mean a fortune to the in
ventor
One trouble with marriage is that
fire and gunpowder are often brought
together.
The man who promises to halve his
last dollar with you, always keeps
more than one.
One advantage OF getting drunk is
that you can see two things where
there is but one.
Marriage often begins with Mendels-
sohn's wedding march and ends with
the Dead March in Saul.
The small boy who is required to
take medicine is an easy convert to
the faith cure
The best thing that every happened
to some men was to have their in
dividuality crushed.
The average girls get mad if you
kiss her; also if you don't.
Men admit your are most when you
agree with them.
A St. Louis physician says hand
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
THIS DATE IN HISTORY

1413-Henry ". of England died.
1516-Baptist Spagnoli, general Of
the Camalites, died.
1549-Thomas Seymour, Lord High
Admiral of England, beheaded.
1564-Bishop Thomas Morton born.
1643-John Kirchman, a learned
German, died at Lubbock.
1687-Rev Samuel Parker died.
1727-Sir Isaac Newton, philosopher,
died. Born, December 25, 1912.
1744-France declared war against
England.
1750-Frederick Prince of Wales,
father of George Ill, died, age As.
1756-Gilbert West, classical schol-
ar. died.
1776-Washington's triumphal entry
into Boston.
17S6-Pitt's sinking fund establish
ed.
1793-Lord Chief Justice, Earl of
Mansfield, died.
18O0-Battle of Heliopolis
1804-Neal Dow, apostle of prohibi-
ton, born. Died, October 2, 1897.
1814-Battle of Tarbes.
REHABILITATION of Sturbide.
1831-Insurrection of slaves in is
land of Antigua.
1839-Anti-Cor Law League form
ed.
1S47-Mlle. Mars. celebrated French
comic actress, died.
1854-Two earthquake shocks felt at
Macon, Ga.
1s67-Labor riots renewed in
France.
1S71-French assembly removed
from Bordeaux to Versailles.
1S73-Murder of Charles Goodrich
in Brooklyn.
1S75-Destructive tornado in Geor-
gia.
187S-Paul Boynton swan the
straits of Gibralter in five hours and
five minutes.
18S5-Arabs defeated at Hasheen.
18S9-Chief Justice Fuller's daugh-
ter eloped with Matt Aubrey
1890-General Crook died in Chica.
go.
1S91-Prince Napoleon buried al
Turin.
1894-Louis Kossuth died.
1895-Sixty miners killed by ex-
plosion at Evanston, Wyo.
19O5-Fifty-eigh persons killed by
boiler explosion at Brockton, Mass.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
Providing Home Comforts.

why are all the sofas and chairs
il the cloak rooms upholstered in
leather?" asked Representative Tyn-
dali, the Ozark mountain member, of
Representative Champ Clark.
Dunno" answered Clark. But
suppose it's fashionable and don't
wear out like black hair cloth"
"Oh, that's it, is it," Representa-
tive Tyndall said. "Shartel told me
it was SO that we could sharpen our
knives without hacking up our boots"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
KEEPING THE CHILDREN FROM
SCHOOL.

DeSlnlng OF spring work on the farm
there is a tendency on the part of
parents living in the rural school dis
tricts to take the children from school
to assist in the work on the farm.
This is one of the most serious
things that can be done to the children.
There is but one time in life in which
to secure an education, and that is
during childhood.
1t takes nine months of each year of
the ten or eleven school years to
secure the education that will be re-
quired in the everyday adult life of
the children now in school.
Taking from them a part of the op-
rortunities thus offered is stinting them
in that which makes their intellect
ual life in manhood and womanhood.
This age is too far advanced to argue
the proposition of whittier or not the
full advantages of the present school
system are more than will be needed
whether the children when grown to
maturity will have use for all the in
tellectual equipment that the present
educational system can give them.
The child who does not have the
qualifications SO afforded will not only
be unable to hold his place intellect
ually with his more fortunate fellow,
but will be sadly locking in the mental
training necessary to enable him to
compete in the race of life.
Every day taken from the school life,
therefore, is just so much injury done
to the educational work of the pupil.
Practically it ruins much more than
the time SO lost. The average child
is ambitious and is possessed of a
pride that is often more sensitive
than that of an adult. When he drops
out of school for a few weeks or
! months, his classmates proceed and
when he returns at the beginning Of the
next term, he is behind his classmates,
and must either lose a link in the
chain and thus weaken his mental
power-trying to do that for which
no foundation has been laid-or he
drops into the class behind, and the
next year has the same experience
finally becoming discouraged, his pride
wounded, he quits school in disgust.
The Evening Times does not believe
that there is a serious call for more
men and women in the professions. In
fact there are men trying to practice
now who should be welding iron, and
perchance there are preachers who
should be following the pillow. But
there will be in the next half century
q demand for more and better educated
men in the common walks of life.
| Civilization is going forward by
leaps and bounds. Every year we are
| getting farther and farther away from
the habits and customs of the savage.
In fact, he has been civilized out of
existance. The present pace is an
intellectual one and those not intel
lectually qualified to maintain it must
| of necessity fall by the wayside.
No parent desires to rob his child
| of that which will make his life less
useful or less happy, but that is just
what he is doing when he deprives
him of the opportunities of an educa-
ton by keeping him out of school to
assist in small way with the labor
en- the farm
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
PULSE OF THE PRESS
A Wise View Of the Situation.

LlSDOn free FreSS.J
1t is doubtful whether the personal
attacks upon Alex Mckenzie by the
insurgents, and upon ex-Congressman
B. F. Spalding by what is known as
the machine" subserve any useful
purpose or will affect the political re-
suits to any appreciable extent. The
American people love fair play and
unless fraud and peculation can be
shown they will not take much stock
in the bitter denunciations on either
side, of the others important leaders.
The name boss or machine to sensible
men has lost its terrors. A machine
may be prostituted to improper uses
and thus suffer defeat, but the electors
are like the Missourian-they have to
be shown. Simply the froth and fury
of expression will not take the place
of conviction and conclusive argument.
The gentlemen named have been in
the public eye for long time and they
have a right to indulge different views
en- public questions and the manage
ment of the republican party in the
state, and to do political battle man.
fully for the cause each espouses-
without having to be the subjects of
bitter personal attacks-unless there
is real genuine cause for the same,
not indicated by any present revela-
tons. Isn't it time to be sensible in
our criticism of public men and es-
chew these bitter personal attacks?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20

chunk for the ice chest He was just
going out when Paddy hailed him.
"'Will We have a drink?' he says.
and nearly tainted with surprise.
"The iceman looked dazed for
moment, then lined up at the bar.
Paddy handed out slug Of that 40.
rod whisky that would feaze an alder
man and opened up line Of talk.
Fretty soon the iceman had three big
hookers under his belt.
Wouldn't your driver like drink?'
says Paddy gently. The horses will
stand all right
1.-THE iceman went to the door and
called the driver. l was watching
pretty close and just as the driver
came in | saw Paddy throw a wink to
the big niger that plays the banjo in
the back room at night. Well, when
Paddy got through feeding that pair
with booze the iceman had, to be
dumped in the back of his wagon, and
the driver didn't know whether he had
a brace of lines in his hands or q bag
of peanuts.
while this was going on took a
peep out of the side door. Say, thar
niger had opened the grating over
the cellar and shot about a ton of ice
down the steps. If the weather keeps
cool Paddy will have enough ice to
last him month or two. oh, Paddy's
slick one!"-New York Press.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
"Well," said the vestryman, 1--WE
have failed to get the money honestly;
so l suppose we'll now have to see
what church fair will do for u.s."
The Canny Scot.

New York Sun: President Wilson
of Princeton told this story at dinner
the other night An Englishmen met
Scot driving COW to the annual fair.
"How much do you expect to get
for the cow" asked the Englishman.
"A wee matter of two pund."
why don't you take her to Lon
don? You could get $40 for her there"
Eyes, and had 1. Loeb Lomond in
hell, could not ket tu'pence the glass
for it,"
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kercheifs are disease spreaders. Must
we go back to childhood habits?
Any old cigar lasts good to the man
who is trying to quit smoking.
The better part of a woman's life
begins when she refers to men as
brutes.
Most people are willing to give
sympathy because it does not cost
them anything.
Talk about prosecuting the male sex!
Did you ever see scare crow built
on the female plan?
Lynching mobs in the south are
never color blind.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
Like. The Evening Times OUTFIT.

tHatton Free Press.l
Through the courtesy of the man.
agement of the Grand Forks Evening
Times. we editor was shown through
that institution Tuesday morning
while enroute home from Hillsboro.
The plant is up-to-date and has plenty
of material with which to turn out
any amount or any kind of work. The
institution is only located in their
present quarters temporarily, and as
soon as the ground is in condition
they will begin the construction of a
new building of their own. When
this is done they will have as neat a
printing office as can be found in the
country.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
STORIES OF THE HOUR |.
Then a Church! Fair.

The pastor of church in Virginia
made an urgent appeal to his congre-
cation for funds necessary to pay for
repairs. The result of this appeal was
disappointing, for notrmore than half
the money needed was given.
The next day at a meeting of the
vestrymen the pastor referred to the
discouraging returns and asked adj
vice in the matter Of securing, funds.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
A Timely Rebuke.
lHanShara Pionaar ]

1t is a noticeable fact that the
Eapers who think it too much trouble
to get up the local news are generally
the ones whose editors fill up the
space, which should be devoted to the
upbuilding of the state and commun-
ity, with such rot as the "Looting of
Alaska" or in venting their spleen on
some individual over some petty griev-
ance.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
Proposals w.nt.a

of S Srana i hereby given that the city
ed proposals until O'clock r n =, I seai-
hnfe ne March 81. 1905, on N N bidS; Hu
P Piaass TO- to be furnished by the city en-
bridge bent on the west bank ~ {h a
4 hed River OF the North ,accordinr re-
e cae,d proposal and the plans and specifi0
city engineer. 9 once OF the
the BIDS eisv to be delivered at the ONCE OF
y. ]. Smith,
II. n iSos at Grand Forks. N. B.. March
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A Good LOCKER.
tLakota Observer.1

The Grand Forks new daily, The
Evening Times, has secured the SER,
vices of cartoonist, giving the paper
quite a metropolitan appearance. The
Times is one of the best appearing
papers geographically that comes to
our exchange table.
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Sentiment to BE Inculcated.

Sentiment to BE Incu1cated.
LET reverence of law be breathed by
every mother to the lisping babe that
Hfattles in her lap; let 1t be taught in
lot 1t be written in primers, spelling
books and almanacs; let it be preached
from pulpits and proclaimed in legis-
lattve halls and enforced in courts of
Justice in short, let it become the
political religion of the nation"
Abraham Lincoln.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-03-20
CITY TICKET.
Republican.

3 For HayOr-
3 John Dinnie.
8 For Magistrate
3 ]. X. Church.
& City Justice
p. Mclaughlin.
. For City Treasurer
T. j. Hagen.
FOR ALDERMEN.
Is Second Ward-C. II. Howard.
Third Ward-R. A. Sprague.
q Fourth Ward-O. KnudsOn.
Fifth Ward--(Two years. w. A.
Hill; Zone Year, Geo. w. Buck.
3 ingham.
Sixth Ward-M. c. People.
The Dickinson press., 1906-12-22
spaldina's Candidacy.

The following from the Bismarck
large majority of the people in Western
North Dakota:
Burleigh +; Spalding Of the Fargo bar
supreme bench in the place of Judge
Engerud, who is to resign Gov
ernor Burke will probably have the nam
ing of Judge Engerud's successor.
Divested of all prejudiced feelings
growing out of the factional fights and
bitter partizanship, and considering the
candidacy for a place on the supreme
bench solely from the standpoint of fit
ness and availability, Mr.. Spalding stands
prominently qualified for the place.
Mr.. Spalding, while not possessing the
warm, magnetic attributes of personal
popularity, has, through indefatigable
energy, pluck and unquestioned ability,
occupied a prominent place in the coun-
sells of those who have had to do with
the up-building and development of
North Dakota. He was prominent in
territorial days and has been an active
force since statehood. He was a men,
Der of the capitol commission that re.
moved the territorial capitol from Yank-
ton to Bismarck. He has been chairman
of the republican state central committee
in several campaigns and in more than
n convention. Mr.. Spalding's cool,
deliberate judgment and masterful abil-
ity to effect combinations has had much
to do with the success and perpetuity of
that element in the state known as the
"old guard" He was Sent to congress
and but for his insistence in foisting
upon the ticket a candidate for governor
obnoxious to the majority of the dele
gates to the convention, would probably
still have held his seat in congress.
Mr.. Spalding has always been promi-
nent in all political gatherings in this
state-either with or against what the
insurgents are pleased to call the ina
chine'-more often with than against.
He hits back when he is hit and there is
a sort of fair play in his makeup that
commands admiration. He is both re-
%sourceful and cunning. He is method.
ical and deliberate. He is a "digger" in
books for %precedents and decisions tc
sustain his position. He is a good citi.
zen, clear headed, conservative and hon.
est. He is a good lawyer and would
make a still better judge. His tempera.
AlCAl-lA llNClC 10 suSll d thIHS DIS JuulCldl
temperament-is of the right sort for the
bench.
An honest bench, free from prejudice
and bias, and decisions uninluenced by
temporary conditions and environments
but based upon equity and law, is the
ideal that every good citizen of North
Dakota approves of, and no matter wha'
character in the latest political drama ir
North Dakota MIR. Spalding may have
assumed, political friends and enemie!
will admit his fitness for the supreme
bench.
The Dickinson press., 1906-12-22

Department Of the interior, United States
land Office at Dickinson, N. D., Nov. q,
1906.
Asuficient contest affidavit having been fled
In this Office. by Mamie CLARK. contestsnt,
against Homestead entry No: $40,
mad October II. 1904, for the east half of the
southwest Qnarter and lots three aud four
(sh swA and lots 3 and ~ Of sec. 10, twp. 1872,
r. 90, by edward Tcske. contested, in which it
IL alleged that said entrymnn has failed to
establish and maintain q residence on said
cultivated or improved the same, bnt has
totally abandoned said land for more than six
months asst past; all Of which delinqusncies
still exist; and that said alleged absence from
the said land was not due to his employment in
the army, navy or marine corps Of the United
States; said parties are hereby notified to ap-
pear. respond and offer evidence touching said
allegation at 10 o'clock a. m. on Jan. 8,
1901; before the +. gisssr and Receiver ct the
The said contestant having in a proper afa.
davit, fled Nov. p, 1898, set forth facts which
show that after due diligence personal service
Of this notice cannot he made, it is hereby
ordered and directed that such notice be given
BY due and proper publication.
II. 2+5t .. NJ. Ferris, Register.