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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-08
SPIRIT GAVE HIM RHEUMATISM.
coIored Pastor 9Iames Murderer's
Ghost for His Affilction.

To being haunted by the spirit of
Isaac Winder, the negro murderer, who
was hanged at Towson last March, and
whose spiritual adviser he was at the
time, Rev. ]. B. Amis, pastor of st.
Matthew's Colored Baptist church,
ascribes his failing health. The clergy.
man called on Marshal Farnan to oh.
tain a permit for Sunday school
parade. While in the marshal's Office
he asked permission to examine
number of photographs of criminals
and the scenes of their crimes which
adorned the walls. This was granted,
and as Amis caught sight of picture
OF Winder he literally exploded.
70 de lans sakes, doan' femme
look at dish year pixture! It's dat Ike
Winder, an he's de: cause ub NAH rheu.
matfz. Dat yer Ike Winder done ha'nt
me ever since dey hung him at Tow.
son. Lemme git outer hyah!" and the
pastor hobbled on his crutches to the
other side of the room.
DISH yer rheumatic done caused by
Hinder," he explained. "He done come
TO me at night an run his coli hands
over nah face, an hears him breath.
IN hard, jes' as he did dat day at Tow
son. One night he come and run his
hands over nah face, en- it feel jes'
IKE spidah webs, only co'ser, an den
ne rech down and pull every stitch ub
Deo CLOS often me. How did know
twas Ike Winder? Huh! amt bin
sludyln' de Scriptures TO- nothin'."-
baltimore Correspondent of the Phila.
delph:a Record.
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Bachelor British Officers.

An interesting discussion is going
on in the Indian press on the subject
Of the growing disinclination of young
officers to undertake the responsible.
ties of matrimony, and the controversy
has raised the question as to whether
the married or the bachelor officer is
the better. On one side it is urged
that young married man is keener,
steadier and more reliable than his
less fortunate unmarried comrades,
yet many commanding officers have
strong objection to their subalterns
marrying, their contention being that
it detracts from the efficiency of reg.
iment If many Junior officers are mar.
ried.
The commander-in-chief in India is
one of those who object to young off.
GERS marrying, and in accordance with
this principle his two aides-de.
camp who are about to enter the
welded state will be obliged to
leave his service. The married
officer does not support the mess,
but his expenses in other ways
are about three times as much
as when he was single. The item of
clothes for himself and wife is, it is
urged. more than three times as large
as when he had only to provide for
himself.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-08
All Honor to the AppIe.

The apple is splendid fruit, al
though particular specimens of it are
bum. The different varieties have a
pronounced individuality. The per.
sonal equation is prominent The diff
ference between the Porter and the
baldwin-each genealogical star of
the first magnitude-is as marked as
the difference between a Connecticut
bank clerk and a Kentucky colonel.
The man who invented or discovered
the Baldwin conferred on humanity
a boon and he did more to tickle the
palate than has ever been realized.
OF many uses is the apple capable.
Whether it is eaten raw or converted
into sauce or made the basic element
of pie or subjected to other forms Of
artistic treatment by the American
housewife it serves a useful and i'm.
portan: purpose.
History has never done adequate
justice to the apple. Poets have never
adequately celebrated in song the vir-
tues of the fruit. Political econom.
lists have never fully recognized the
full part that the apple plays in the
affairs of men. But apple day is here
at last.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-08
Woodcocks Roost with Hen..

Francis Marks of 1881 East Thirty.
seventh street, Flatbush, in visiting
his hennery Friday night, observed
what he supposed was small chicken
nesting on the perch between two
large white hens, says the New York
World. Calling to his wife, he asked
her If she had been adding to her
flock. Mrs. Marks said she had not.
"Well, there is a stranger in the
hennery." Mr.. Marks said. Come out
and see It."
Procuring candle he and his wife
went out to see the little invader. Ex-
aiming it closely it was found that it
had a long beak similar to that of a
snipe. It was notified on the wings,
and about the size of thrush.
The bird was taken into the house
and placed in cage. Food was fur.
nished, of which it ate ravenously. Mr..
Marks subsequently learned that the
bird was woodcock, but where 1t
came from or how it got into his hen.
house is mystery. Yesterday morn.
Ing when he went to feed his new pet
he found it lying dead on the bottom
Of the cage.
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DESERVES A REWARD.

Whatever makes Muldoon LOOK 30
happy-some one left him q legacy!"
"No, but he's solved one of the most
important questions of the day."
Whats that, an easy way of meas.
uring the fourth dlmension?"
mo, something far more vital and
useful than that"
What, then?"
"Why, it's been his birthday and his
wife has again presented him with
box of cigars, beastly things with gor-
geous colored paper rings round
them"
"And he has had them drop upon the
fire accidentally"
mo. he's transferred the paper
rings on to real good smokes and drop.
ped the cabbage leavesdown the drain,
and now it doesn't torture him when
the missis insists upon him enjoying
himself by sampling the box of cigars
that she bought him."
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-08
RUNS A WIND WAGON
{ Makes 80 Miles an Hour and Blows
the Leaves OF tho Trees.

A wind wagon is what g. H. Curtiss,
of Hammondsport, N. Y, calls weird
looking vehicle in which he occasional.
ly takes spin.
The frame is of wood and the
wheels are of ordinary bicycle type.
1t is three-wheeler, steering being
accomplished by the forward wheel.
The motor is two-cylinder, air.
cooled gasolene Of the v type, such as
has been generally used in airship
work, and is placed below the propell.
er shaft and as near to it as possible.
The engine belts to driving wheel
On the propeller shaft, which reduces
the revolutions of the propeller to $50
per minute.
"This machine" says Mr.. CurtIss in
Popular Mechanics. although of no
commercial value. is thoroughly prac.
teal and will easily run 30 miles per
hour. The propeller is six feet in di.
ameter and has pitch Of about SIX
feet.
1T is needless to say that the rig
Is great horse scarer, and blows up
great cloud of dust when passing
along the road, and will even pull the
leaves from the trees where the
branches are low"
The machine complete weighs 300
pounds. There is no patent on the
Idea and anyone with his small gaso.
lene motor can build his own craft.
An icebOat can also he driven IN the
same manner.
The idea has just been utilized in
France, where M. Archdeacon of Arch.
eres applied the propeller to motor.
cycle. In his case the propeller was
carried in front, which had the effect
Of pulling instead of pushing. The en-
tire outfit weighs 100 pounds and
made a speed Of 49h miles per hour
over short distances.
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Prison of the Tree Toad.

Mrs. Rebekah Baker, the widow Of
civil war veteran, keeps several
large sea shells as ornaments on the
front piazza of her home on Foster
avenue, Sayville, L. I. The shells are
close at the feet of the old woman
when she sits in her armchair on the
piazza, as she does the greater part of
each day.
Mrs. Baker and a neighbor were
chatting together on the piazza. Pres.
emily the neighbor remarked:
Listen! There's a tree toad"
"No," said Mrs. Baker, 1--WE heard
that noise all summer; it's inside one
of those shells. It must be cricket"
The caller turned up one of the big
shells which had been lying opening
downward on the piazza all summer
and out hoped tree toad. 1t was
mere skin and bones, but alive. II
evidently had been imprisoned in the
shell for the three months the shells
had lain in one place on the piazza
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-08
Congress Not Too Large.

The congress of the United State,
is much smaller, in proportion to the
population Of the country which II
serves than the central legislative
body Of almost every other civilized
nation. In numbers it falls below
the parliament of Great Britain, the
national assembly of France, the reich.
stag of Austria and the parliaments Of
Hungary. Italy. Japan and Spain.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-08
TRICKS OF MEMORY
STRANGE PHENOMENA THAT
PUZZLE SCIENTISTS.
Accounted for by Some on the Basis
Of Transmigration Of souls-sec.
ond Explanation Is a Phys.
ical One.

Have we ever lived before?" is a
question which is interesting many
correspondents Of British newspapers.
DR.. Andrew Wilson analyses the
strange phenomena Of memory given
by the contributors in part as follows:
The doctrine of metempsychosis or
TRANSPORTATION of souls represents a
very ancient belief. Not merely did
It credit the possibility that the soul
after death could be transferred from
one human being to another, but II
also held that the human soul might
take up its abode in another form of
life and be transferred from the purely
human to the lower animal domain
The theory asserts that as each stage
10 ended and new era begun the
soul sheds most of the features it H.
Illustrated in the life it left, retaining
now and then, however, vague memo
ries Of some of its antecedent states.
Such memories, forcibly projected
Into the foreground of our existence
today, 1t is held, should convince us
that we have lived before
or otherwise appreciated through the
agency of our sense organs-every
Impression, every sensations really
stored up within those brain cells
which exercise the memory function.
True, we may not be able to recall all
of them at will; many are doubtless
beyond the reach of the power that
revives and prints off for us positives
from our stored-up mental negatives
But 1t Is none the less significant that
on occasion we can disinter memories
of events whose date lies very far
back in our lives-recollections, these,
perhaps, we have never realized after
their reception, but lying latent, and
only waiting the requisite and proper
stimulus to awaken them and to bring
them to the surface of our life.
This expresses briefly what we
mean by 'subliminal consciousness
It is that under-layer of stored-up i'm
pressions and memories which is only
fully awakened in certain brain states
and of which, in our ordinary life, we
only receive the faintest and most
occasional reminders of its existence.
We do not recognize the source of
every bit of ancient news the subli.
minal consciousness may bring to
light and SO we treat its resurrections
as If they were reflections from some
previous phase Of existence. But often
the clew is supplied us and the ap
parent mysterious awakening of past
life apears merely as a recollection
the origin of which we did not at first
recognize.
Gwen the idea that sometimes
strikes US on entering strange place
hitherto unknown to us, that we have
been there BEFORE is capable of ra
tional explanation. Our brain is built
on the double principle, and acts in
approaching our surroundings through
the simultaneous work of its two in
tellectual centers. If there exists
slight discrepancy in this simultan
eous work, so that one half of oul
brain appreciates the scene a little
before the other half, we are presented
with the false memory of having seer
the place before"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-08
RUNNING FARM WITHOUT WORK.
Not Quite That, But a Creek Doe,
Many Things by Electricity.

A progressive farmer in New York
state heralds the era of kid glove
farming, according to the Technical
World Magazine He has made lazi.
ness a success, and can ncx do his
farm work without a backache.
There Is little creek running
through his farm. This he has har.
messed and forced to run a dynamo,
which in turn gives light and heat
TOR the house and outbuildings.
But Mr. Miner was not satisfied with
his accomplishment The hardest task
about the farm the one which every.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-08
CITY OF Conventions |
OVER HUNDRED GATHERINGS
HELD IN CHICAGO DURING YEAR
Nearly Every Industry and Profession
Represented In the Meetlngs-ln.
dueements That Other
Places Lack.

Chicago-Chicago this year is the
convention city Of the world. One
hundred and seven organizations, re.
presenting almost every industry and
profession in the United States, have
met here during the last few months,
bringing, It Is estimated, almost $4,000
visitors, who filed the hotels to over.
flowing and made the bonifaces many
thousands Of dollars richer. Almost
every business and profession was re.
presented, from undertakers and
tombstone cutters to butcher and sur
geons.
There was hardly q hotel of
any pretensions that did not have it's
lobby filled with ribboned and badge
decorated delegates to at least half
dozen conventions, league meetings or
association gatherings.
While the majority of the conven.
tons were held in the hotels at which
tho delegates stopped, others met in
halls and churches in different parts
Of the city.
Credit for making Chicago the con.
vention city must be given to ths
Chicago Commercial association,
which carried on vigorous campaign
for several. Every organization in the
country that meets in convention was
communicated with.
All the advantages Of the city were
laid before them. The association
exerted every influence to secure low
rates from the RAILROADS and succeed
ed In securing reduced fares for all the
conventions, coming from east, west
and south.
Most Of the conventions we're held
during July. August and September.
During those months every one of the
hotels had Z convention ION" each
week. Fer October there were also
many scheduled, while several are yet
to be held in November.
To educational societies and or.
CARNATIONS Chicago offers advantages
equaled by no other city in the west.
The public library, Art institute and
Field museum offer opportunities for
research only equaled by the Smith
sonian museum and Congressional Ii.
brary at Washington.
Another almost natural advantage
Chicago possesses, which is the most
important feature of convention city,
is its vast capacity to house and feed
thousands Of visitors at a moments
notice.
Although every one of the down.
town hotels be filed there are scores
Of high.class hotels throughout the
city that can with ease handle the
overflow.
When these are crowded there re-
mains the many apartment houses
that accommodate transients, and If
these ever become congested the
thousands Of boarding and rooming
houses can always find room for un.
told numbers.
Among the most notable of the con-
ventions held were those of the Ma.
tional Dressmakers' association, the
League of American Municipalities,
National Purity league, National I'm.
dertakers' association, International
Railway Blacksmiths' association, the
National Theosophists' society, post
masters Of the fourth class, American
Newsdealers' association, National
Spiritualists' association, the Newton
society, National Travelling Engineers
association besides the various or.
CARNATIONS and declarations of wo-
mems clubs.
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Our LANGUAGE.

Our Language.
They were watching the antics OF
their firstborn, who was performing
some lovable inane evolutions on the
floor.
Mamma said: "Now, Just tell me
he isn't cute!"
Papa said: Don't ever tell me he
isn't cute!"
Which goes to show that reverse
English" is not necessarily a billiard
term.-Life.
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Comparison Of Life.

Life is like getting telephone
number from the information bureau"
said the woman. when you have
waited and waited till you are 80 tired
you don't know what to do and don't
care much whether you get It or not,
they call you up and give 1t to you"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-08
Broad-Minded Views.

One bit in Robert Louis Stevenson's
Vailima prayers is good advice:
Purge out Of every heart the lurking
grudge," he says; give us strength to
forbear and to persevere. Offenders
ourselves, give us grace to forgive
Offenses. Forgetful, help US to bear
with the forgetfulness Of Others"
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Diagnosed.

Henry" asked the Sunday school
teacher, what is the conscience?"
1.-The conscience" answered little
Henry, lis what you have after you
have been eating cake and jam and
things out of the pantry, and then you
have to take castor oil, and that cures
the conscience."-Judge.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-08

Diplomacy.
my son, let me teach you a proverb
that it will be we'll for you to remem.
Der always. It is from the Bohemian,
and runs this way: DO the hard
thing first"
THAT amt any good. II I'd a made
that proverb I'd "a said: Get some.
body else to do the hard thing by
tellin' him you'll bet he can't.'"-Chi.
cago Record-Herald.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-08
British TELEPHONE Service.

The English post Office telephone
system now publishes every Monday
in the daily papers list of the new
subscribers added during the previ.
GUS week. This adds to supplemental
directories, which are published much
more frequently than is the case here.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-08
Patriotism.

Patriotism.
"Can you tell me who was the great.
baseball fan.
"The greatest pitcher that ever
lived was woman" replied the old
historian with smile.
"a woman! Absurd"
"Not at ALL"
"Then who was she?"
"Why, Molly Pitcher."-Chicago
Daily News.
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DIFFICULT TO STEER A SHIP.
Man at the Helm Works with the Cur.
tains Tightly Drawn.

The work of steering a great ship,
even with the aid of all the machinery,
Is much more delicate than one would
imagine The larger and faster the
ship the greater is the difficulty. 1t is
not enough to hold the wheel in the
same position to keep the ship on her
course, for the wind and waves and
the currents Of the ocean tend con-
stantly to knock the ship off her
course. The great wall of steel-for
the hull may be 700 feet long and 60
feet high-offers a broad target for
the wind and waves.
The art of steering is to humor the
ship to these forces and when she is
detected to bring her back quickly to
her course. If you could watch the
pinnacle, especially in bad weather,
you would see the needle of the com.
pass constantly shifting from side to
side, which means that the great
steel Prov is not going forward in
perfectly straight line.
The most astonishing thing about
the bridge is to find the wheelhouse
with all its curtains tightly drawn,
as often happens, and the man at the
helm steering the boat without see,
Ing ahead at all. At night or even,
by day, if the light of the pinnacle
Is confusing, the wheelhouse is often
completely shut in. The man at the
wheel, it is explained, does not need
to look ahead. The lookout high up
In the crows nest" and the officer
on watch on the bridge will keep him
Informed If any object is sighted. The
duty of the man at the wheel is to
keep the ship on her course. Through.
out his watch Of four hours he must
keep his eyes on the compass and no.
where else.-St. Nicholas.
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euncoed bv sneIllno.

Church-Well. this is the limit!
Here they have gone and printed eggs
on this menu card with one g."
Gotham-That's the new spelling
system. They evidently want to lead
US to believe that there is something
new about the eggs.-Yonkers States.
man,
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Charitable,

Charitable.
Mrs. Bacon-so your husband went
to church with you?
Mrs. Egbert-Yes.
What was the minister's subiect."
Charity toward ALL"
And did your husband derive any
benefit from the discourse?"
Il think SO, for when the minister
asked him how he liked the sermon
he refrained from replying."-Yonkers
Statesman.
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7|ilkSS;kE g. !!
Just Because.
When your head is lead and your heels
are light
And the sidewalk heaves in the turgtd
night;
When your pegs are weak and your
breath Is strong
And you laugh like time at some foolish
song
You're drunk. my boy. you're drunk!
But why? Do you love the saloon.
keeper better than your wife? And
haven't you noticed that his wife is
always better dressed than yours?
Let US put down the demon rum"
Is everybody's war cry-but, unfor.
tunately, the majority seems to be in
favor of not only putting down rum,
but OF putting enough on top to hold
1t there. Some men never drink but
twice day-before and after break.
East.
Are you one of these strong, stall
wart, brave men who can take drink
and leave 1t alone? know hundreds
Of big, brainy. selfconfident fellows
Just like you. Some of them still can
boast and others have such "still"
On they cannot speak above slobber.
The man never lived that could beat
John Barleycorn at his own game!
And suppose he could, you know
there are thousands and thousands OF
weak. vacillating fellows who have
not the strength to hold out long
against strong drink. Wouldn't 1t be
better to deny yourself little and by
example help those who go to the
grass every time they get into
catch-as-catch-can bout with Mr.. Man.
haitian and his ilk!
used to think the temperance
apostle with his total abstinence
pledge was freak. Sometimes he
was-but l have since observed that
1t Is better to be sober freak than
drunken good fellow. Have you
aoticed how many accidents and how
mueh suffering are directly traceable
to indulgence in strong drink? Ever
read of an automobile wreck that sug.
gested a mixture Of liquor and young
blood? One of the best conglomera.
lions extant is man about town, ten
or eleven drinks of whisky and an
automobile!
You can tell them every time! The
morning newspaper prints the story,
but 1t seldom says anything about
how many tummies were filled with
arewater and why wobbly chauffeur
ran into car full of women and
MANNED and killed the entire party!
It wouldn't be popular to discuss
that-and besides it would be q dis
grace.
Yes. I know it's time to ring of.
This isn't popular subject. We like
to disregard it and for my part, I'm
willing. I'm no temperance crank
With long hair and celluloid collar
but sometimes cannot help musing
on how free this world would be from
suffering. and woe and tears If liquor
we're dispensed with eatirely. I
wonder how many women would cry
themselves to sleep for Joy tonight
II this were possible?
I wonder how many men would find
their salaries raised and their chill
dren better provided for, and how
many bad citizens would become good
ones, and how many thugs would have
to hunt new rendezvous. and how
many painted women would have 10
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How It Impressed Him.

How II Impressed Him.
This" exclaimed the guide, al
they stood at last on the summit OF
the majestic Himalayas, lis the root
Of the world"
1T is. hey?" painted the American
traveller. "Well, it's blamed rough
job of shinglin'."-Chicago Tribune.
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porous waters" says an exchange.
What about the slipper that has pad.
died the captain into keeping the right
course?
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Source Of Information.

Mrs. Smith-Mrs. Brown seems to
be an unusually well.informed woman.
Mrs. Jones-No wonder; her cook
has lived with all the other fomilies
In the MISUNDERSTANDING Daily
News.
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But, as said, this isn't a popular
subject, and anyhow this is as far as
my car goes tonight, so good-by.