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4ICH WEDDING PRESENTS.
GIFTS TO PRESIDENTS PACGH-
TER THE MOST MAGNIFICENT
EYER PRESENTER.
Valued at Hundreds of Thousands OF
Dollaf s-kare Tapestries, Silk,
Jeweiry and other Ornaments from
Every Country.

Valued at Hundreds of Thousands oi
Dollaf s-kare Tapestries, Silk
Jeweiry and other Ornaments from
Every Country.
No other American girl has received
wedding presents SO numerous. valu
able or interesting as those which
have been showered upon President
Roosevelts Oldest daughter. Nelly
Grant who, next to Alice Roosevelt
had the most brilliant White House
wedding received many costly gifts
from all parts Of the world but he1
trophies pale by comparison with those
of the first White House bride of tie
present century. For one thing there
were only two hundred guests at th>
marriage of Nelly Grant and Algernon
Sartoris whereas nearly one thousand
persons were invited to the White
House wedding of 1906 and of course
the number of presents in the latter
case outnumbers those in the former
instance in the same proportion.
Recognized as Great World Power.
Then too, Uncle Sam was not near
ly so much of a World Power in the
days of President Grant as he has
been since the Spanish-American
War and consequently it is small won
der If the various rulers of the world
have manifested greater interest in the
nuptials of the daughter of the pres
ent Chief Magistrate than they u.i
in the similar event a quarter Of a Gen.
tury ago.
However, it should be explained
just here that President Roosevelt's
daughter has received very few pre-
sents from foreign governments-al-
most all of the gifts having come from
the sovereigns or other rulers as in
dividuals. That the governments
should not send tokens was the express
wish of President and Mrs. Roosevelt
and was clearly indicated to the
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NESSACES UNDERGROUND.
n Jesuit OF Pennsylvania the Invent.
or Of . New Wireless Telegraph
Syatcm.

Father Joseph Murgas of Wilkes
Barre. Pennsylvania, expects, within
the next month or two to be able to
send wireless messages TO Europe by
means OF bis new system which Is
now In practical operation.
since the completion OF the aerial
wireless system and Its development
to its present stage OF perfection
Father MurEas has been experiment
Ing with an underground service
which he believes will be more valu-
able than the aerial system. His ex.
periments so far have been limited
TO short distances with moderate elec,
trical power and shallow holes. But
he II now completing underground
stations in Wilkes Barre and Scran.
ton and will conduct the experiments
On q larger acale.
30 far ns he has proceeded with
this work. 30 successfully has his
theory OF underground wireless tel
cgraph worked out that recently he
announced he had no doubt OF hir
ability TO send an underground mess.
ara TO Europe and that tho expert.
ment viii shortly be made. despite
tho fact that II II estimated II will
cost 10000.
To accomplish this. he says. = shaft
1000 f.et deep must be sunk in this
country. and ono OF similar depth IN
Europe. Each Of these will have to be
concreteh to render II impervious to
dampness. which would destroy the
efficiency 0f the wires with which the
sendink and receiving apparatus will
bs oonnsotsd With tho surface. A
Grsa4 dsAl y power viii also b ~.
quirel
Tho GhAfss Il Wlikss-Darre and
0ssantoa aso 800 fest desp and the
distance b slshtssa mica The sha1t
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at the former city was completed ana
partly concreted when 1t filed with
water and another one will have to be
bored. The Scranton shaft is now
nearly completed.
Father Murgas wireless system diff
fers from all others by dispensing with
the Morse system and substituting
musical tones--each tone represent
ing letter or code word or group
OF words. SO that u speed about ten
times as great as the fastest Morse
code can be attained.
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designed as a gift either for royalty or
for some distinguished son of France
and even such honor has been paid
but rarely.
1t was the wish of the French people
and officials to present to the White
House bride the most exquisite and
precious thing that could be selected
and quite naturally they selected q
special product Of their best workshop.
This Gobelin tapestry.-the only one
Of the kind ever sent to this country.
has as its design reproduction Of
4 painting made by Ehrman Of Stras-
burg, a famous Alsatian painter.
The tapestry is two feet wide and
four feet long and the predominating
colors are blue, green and yellow. 1t
was made fully fifty years ago and the
subject is allegorical in character. re-
presenting a woman of the Middle
Ages dressed in long flowing robes Of
blue and yellow ana standing before
a lectern making illuminations upon
a scroll. The figure is almost in pro
file and the dark hair Is curled about
the head in classic style. Around the
main picture is a border wider at
each end and narrower on the sides
in which wreaths. leaves and medal
lions appear at intervals. This tap
estry, small as it is. is said to be worth
from $4,000 to $4,000
JewcIed Necklace from Cuba.
For the new Republics gift to the
daughter of President Roosevelt the
Cuban government appropriated the
sum of $4,000 and the Cuban Minis.
ter at Paris was entrusted with the
task of purchasing the handsomest
jeweled necklace that could be obtain
ed with this sum. The White House
bride, by the way, has received sever
al pearls and diamond necklaces.
Most OF them have come, however,
from relatives Of the bride and
wealthy New York friends
The German Emperor did not take
the world into his confidence with re-
ference to the present sent to tn
young lady who christened his yacht
but it proved to be jewelel bracelet
for which the Emperor and Empress
selected and matched the
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REWARDED BY CARNEGIE.
Miss Maud Titus Presented With a
Medal and an EduSalion.

When Miss Maud Titus of Newark.
N. j., rescued her friend Laura Reif-
snyder from drowning in yachting
accident In Casco Bay. Nova Scotia,
July so, 1904, she did not know that
her act placed her under the watchful
eye Of Andrew Carnegie, the Steel
King. Miss Titus and her unfortunate
friend were out yachting on that fate
full day when sudden squall upset
their yacht. Miss Titus Is an expert
swimmer. while Miss Reifsnyder un.
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chusetts and Pennsylvania children h
the second class are placed in country
families and their board paid BY the
state.
viding homes for its charges, the
Children's Aid Society of New York
City has had 23,5eS children legally
adopted and secured homes In tha
country for 21.537 others who receivs
wages. At present It II placing IN
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HOMES FOR CITY WAITS.
NUMBERLESS ORPHANS IN GREAT
CITIES.-A4NY DELiBkRATE.
LY DESERTED.
Eight Million Dollars Ia Charity Last
Var in NV York AiOnc-&.unAry y
Homes Provided In Cases where
Prac tic able.

At one of the vacation Bible classes
last summer, some tenement children
were taught n word-guessing game.
One OF the words ceiected was
"home." The little girl whose turn it
was to guess failed to get clue, and \
boy trying to help her, said, Think OF
something that smells awful and you
want to get away from quick" The
chiid guessed "house." The dirt aad
foul atmosphere of his home IL dis
gusting to even the tenement child
himself yet home Is the child great
est necessity Authorities on the sub
Ject strongly advoca.s NtA private
fortunes Of philanthroplsts as weN as
state and municipal funds be devoted,
not to building Institutions for depen-
dent children, bu. to penaioning wild
ows with families and finding foster
parents for orphans.
OF the 100000 children under II
years OF age who form 1S per cent Of
the population of New York City, 2S,-
600 are homeless waits. About half Of
these forlorn little ones are babies be-
tween the ages OF two and four.
The causes that operate to bring
about this pitiable condition are those
that fill the warehouses; and prisons
death of one or both parents. injury
through accident, consumption, vice,
crime, inability to obtain work and In
competence, desertion, juvenile d.
pravity.
Many Half Orphans.
Comnlete orphanaee Is less frequent
than is generally supposed. In most
cases TINT come under the attention OF
the charities associations. the children
are half orphans. However when the
father IL the surviving parent, the re-
suit as far as t"e treaking up of the
home Is concerned is the same. A
man rarely succeeds In keeping his
children together. If they are very
young a woman's care Is imperative.
and where poverty prevents the hiring
OF nurses, the charitable institution
is the alternative. II widow is left
with Il family the childr,L i stand q
better chance, 'or not only Is 1t motor
iors fact that mother will work
harder and more effectively than a
father to keep the brood together, but
the charities commissioners recogniz-
ing the value of even the poorest kind
OF home to the child, win give sub
stantial, If limited, aid to that end.
The Great White Plague.
Consumption carries of 1-S the met
ropoitan population. The lingering
illness In tubercular cases Is more dis-
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A Past Crssnhouse.

Tho atmosphsrs Of ths earth acta
very much IA ths same vay - doss
the glass Of Z sresnhouss-it allows
the rays Of the sun 10 pass through.
but saprieons the heat. Thus II =
colder on the top Of . mountain has
At the sea level. because. though tAs
mountain-tsp 10 siiGhtiy nearer ~
sun, the atmosphere - NJ nusA Ssss
dsnsa
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Size Of Brains.

A large brain doH not nscessarily
indicate intellect. The brain Of en-
iIfterats psr~on has BEN found 70
welsh more than Of the most cs,ebrat.
ID socialists. posts, and philosophers
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-04
MAKING ARTIFICIAL PRICES.

1t Is regrettable fact that the price
of North Dakota wheat is largely
fixed by the boards OF trade at the
principal grain terminals.
This price is not regulated by the
law of actual supply and demand, but
is largely made by buying on margins
and in turn these margins are largely
the results of crop prospects.
The enormous effects of crop esti-
mates. especially when they have a
tinge Of reliability. was shown last
year when the government statistics
on the cotton crop leaked out.
The first thing upon which the wheat
crop is estimated is the acreage s9wn.
Under nominal conditions. every acre
in a specific locality should produce
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by this institution far exceeds its ex-,
pense--and the business is going to
grow if persistent effort, good work
manship, prompt service and a square
deal for all in prices will accomplish
anything-and the institution will
grow with the increased business
employing more people and thus
helping in a substantial way to build
up Grand Forks. Think this over.
The other reason for the establish
ment of this paper was to give to the
republican party champion at all
times. 1t has not nor will it dictate
to republicans whom they shall choose
as standard bearers. but after the
party has chosen its nominees it will
give them loyal support. This paper
will not be conducted to please the
democratic party, nor will it give
covert aid or soothing comfort to the
democracy Of the city. state or nation
at any time. We will bow to the de-
cision of the majority of republicans
as expressed at the primaries or at
the conventions whether that decision
is pleasing to the publishers or not.
And above all The Evening Times is
here to stay-Tracy Bangs, the
staunch democrat-Mr. Sorley, who
betrayed his party when he voted for
Il democrat for United States senator
Mr.. Murphy, who was a democrat,
then republican, and is now demo-
crat again-and all other assistant
democrats to the contrary notwith-
standing. >.
."lf this be treason, make the most
OF it,
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PLAY AND PHYSICAL DEVELOP.
MENT.

There are three sources of physical
development and vigor-work, play,
and athletics, taken together, and gym.
nastics, says the Washington Post.
For the early years of childhood play
is almost the sole source. Work has
no place before the ages of ten or
twelve, and up to the ages of fifteen
or sixteen it has, at present, only Il
very minor place. Forty years ago,
when every child had his work to do,
it played a much more important part;
but now the work Of the city boy has
almost entirely disappeared, and even
in the country children are doing less
and less on the farm. But even if a
very large part of the child's time is
given to manual labor, the develop
ment acquired thereby is not very sat
isfactory. The postures involved are
often bad and give stopped and round
shoulders. While it often produces
strong muscles, it does little to de.
velop the heart and lungs, and this is
the prime essential.
Gymnastics have been taking a
larger and larger part in the training
of the body in late years, but in no
school system in the country are there
hours enough given to gymnastics in
the elementary schools, so that they
can be regarded as an important fac
tor in training. One or two hours
week is not more than enough to
straighten out the cramped muscles
and relieve the bad attitudes assumed
in the schools. Every healthy child
requires two or three hours exercise
a day, and one or two hours given to
given to play, become negligible
quantity. Even if there were many
more hours for gymnastics, it would
still be very unsatisfactory system
of training, because they offer very
little relief to the mental strain, and
because their prime function is the
building of muscles, while the prime
need of modern life is not for burly
muscles, but for health and strong
heart and lungs and good digestion,
on which this is dependent.
The only means of physical culture
which is left is play and athletics.
Not only do the other two forms of
exercise receive too little time to be
a considerable, element in> develop
ment, but they have fundamental
faults, in that the culture which they
give is not the culture which is re-
quired by modern life. What we want
are strong heart, lungs, and digestion,
and these are developed directly by
vigorous play in the open air, and on
ly to much less extent by other forms
of exercise. The practical conclusion
from these reflections seems to be
that the only way there is to secure
strong and vigorous children is to give
them abundant opportunity for active
play in the open air.
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an approximately fixed quantity. II
the acreage be large, it is easy to fig
ure how much greater than the de-
mand will be the supply. and there
fore the probable price. If the acre
age be small by the same process it
can be determined how much the sup
ply will be below the demand, and
what effect this will have on the
price.
While these estimates are liable to
be shattered in day by drouth or
by the blight, nevertheless, large future
sales have been made on these pros
poets and these must be carried out if
possible.
1t is from these conditions that the
farmers often receive low price fol-
Il poor crop when according to the
basic law of trade the price should
be high.
Occasionally this works the other
way, and good prices are received
from large crops.
But it must be apparent that the
prices for wheat are largely artificial;
that the producer has no voice in
their making; and that they are not
regulated by the law of supply and
demand
There seems to be little if any hope
for immediate relief from these condi-
lions except the cornering of the
product by the producers.
When the wheat growers become
sufficiently strong financially to carry
their crops over from one year to an.
other, or for more than one year il
necessary, and when they have become
sufficiently united in their interests to
act in conjunction, they will be able
to control the actual supply and by
doing this in a large measure fix the
price.
With a strong available supply held
in store by the grain growers, it would
be dangerous to attempt to speculate
in the commodity, for the moment
that prices advanced to an abnormal
point, the market would be flooded
and the operators ultimately ruined
1t may be Ethiopian to consider this
reasonable.
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INJUSTICE CANNOT LONG ENDURE.

A political faction whose fortunes
depend upon the ability of it's ambi-
tious and INSCRIPTIONS leaders to be-
fog and prejudice the public mind will
not make much progress.
The absence of a great national is
sue between organized parties enables
pestilent mud singers who belong to
no particular party, except for pur-
poses of graft and other forms of
aggrandizement, to ply their vocation.
At the present moment North Da-
kota Is afflicted with about half a
dozen of these political harpies, and
they are leaving nothing undone or
unsaid to accomplish their selfish ends.
There is no SANDER to be found in the
scarlet magazines of the day that is
too vile for their use if il will in any
way assist them in their nefarious
work, and whoever appears to their
atrophied eyes to be in the way of
their progress towards power and pelf
must be destroyed.
The president is reported to have re-
Gently borrowed from Bunyan's Pill
grim's Progress the expression muck
rake" and to have applied it in suit
able form to the gentry of politicians
we have In mind.
They are indeed ''muck-rake"
brigade.
The president had previously gone
to Shakespeare for the term "scandle-
monger" with which to appropriately
designate them.
District Attorney Jerome, whose
superb work in New York against
crooks and corruptionists has chal-
lenged the admiration of the nation,
has openly avowed his regret and sor-
row that the public mind should so
readily yield to the influence of the
promiscuous and unwarranted de-
nunciation that is now being INDUCED
in by reckless space-writers. He
called it hysteria, and pointed out its
dangerous tendencies.
Observing men everywhere are be-
coming interested, and it requires no
prophet to forsee the early subsistence
of the prevailing storm of abuse and
Misrepresentation.
The American people are imbued
with strong sense of justice. They
have never been known to yield per-
manently to passions of the hour or
resign the institutions of their coun-
try to the domination OF the dema-
gogue.
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old man set out again in quest of the
lost umbrella. He was unlucky at
first. The seventh shop he visited was
the one wherein his umbrella turned
up.
"'Well,' he said, after thanking the
shopman, as he started out with the
recovered umbrella under his arm, L
must say you are more honest here
than they were at those other shops"
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DEVELOPING AN INDUSTRY.

There Is a run1Or current that in
terests allied to the Great Northern
railway have decided to push mining
operations in Missouri and Arkansas
for the purpose of putting coal on the
market to overcome the scarcity that
is likely to result from a continuation
of the strike. ..... ..
The only objection to this plan is
the location of the fields which are to
be developed.
There is no reason why the Ignite
fields of North Dakota should not be
developed and made to supply large
portion of the fuel market.
There has always been an unfound-
ed jealousy against this product, but
actual tests are refuting the stories
and gradually the fuel is finding
market.
The theory that before the fuel
could be utilized it must be briquetted
is gradually losing ground, and now
those who are giving the matter clos
est attention are convinced that this
is not necessary.
1t may be true that some process
will be found by which much of the
hn tod
bustible elements in The same manner
that coke is made from certain soft
Goals.
It must be admitted that the bulk is
a serious drawback This is especial
ly true where long shipments are
necessary. But against this extra
bulk is the extra long shipping dis
lance from the Pennsylvania fields.
AS to the qualities of the fuel it.
self, it is true it does not possess all
the advantage of anthracite coal, but
it has many advantages over the BIZ
luminous. 1t does not produce the
smoke and SCOT, and with properly
constructed stoves it will produce as
much heat ton for ton as the soft
coal. and with much less care and
trouble.
AS has been suggested in these col.
umns heretofore, the development of
the Ignite coal of the northwest would
be a strong factor in preventing the
biennial coal strike.
The use of this fuel is not inter-
changeable with the use of any other,
and therefore the hard coal operators
would be fearful of taking chances on
losing market which if once taken
by another fuel, could not be recov-
cred without heavy expenses to the
consumer in the way of having a diff
ferent character of burner.
1t is evident that if customer were
compelled to discard a hard coal fur
mace and install one for Ignite, be-
cause strike prevented him from
procuring a supply of anthracite coal,
he would not return to the use of this
latter article merely to please an oper-
ator who had forced him to the
former expense.
The hard and soft coal operators are
differently related because their pro-
ducts can be used with small disad-
vantage INTERCHANGEABLE, and in case
Of a strike in either field neither is
fearful of entirely losing the trade.
But If an interchangeable rival ap-
peared. there would be considerable
hesitancy before jeopardizing a trade
that II once lost, would probably never
be recovered.
1t is to be regretted for these rea-
sons, II for no other. that capitalists
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Conclusive Evidence.

Despite the fact that northern New
England is q stronghold of temper
ance, If not of prohibition, temperance
lecturers sometimes go there and en-
courage the faithful. One such, speak.
ing in Keene, N. H., reminded his
hearers Of the story of Dives and La
zarus. The lecturer pointed out how
when Dives was in Hades he did not
ask for beer or wine or liquor. but for
one drop of water.
"Now, my friends" said the lectur-
er, what does that show us?"
A voice from the back of the hall
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have not turned their attention to our
almost unlimited and virgin fields, and
made of them an industry that in
few years would rival in Importance
the great coal interests of Pennsyl-
vania, rather than those of the Mis-
souri, regions where there will be no
natural competition for the combina-
ton of coal barons of the east.
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Illogical.

Poultney Bigelow was arguing with
local New York man about the Pan
anna canal.
You are not very logical" Mr.. Bige-
low said at length. Indeed, you are
as illogical as an old man 1 used to
know in Berlin.
This old man, umbrella in hand,
set out one morning on shopping
tour. He visited the shoemaker's for
shoes, the hatter's for hat, the
grocer's for groceries, and SO on; and
when he got back home in the evening
he found that he had left his umbrella
behind him somewhere.
Accordingly. the next morning, the