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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-15

Johnny and pulled Johnny's little short
tail hard. How it did frighten
Johnny Chuck! He Jumped right
straight up in the air and when he
came down he was the maddest little
Woodchuck that ever lived in the
Green Meadows.
Reddy Fox had thought that Johnny
would run, and then Reddy meant to
run after him and pull his tail and
tease him all the way home. Now.
Johnny had had when Reddy pulled
his tail. Johnny didn't stop to think
that Reddy Fox was twice as big as
he, but. with his eyes swapping and
chatterlng as only q little Chuck can
chatter, with every little hair on his
little body standing right up on end.
so that he seemed twice as big as he
It surprised Reddy Fox SO that he
didn't know what to do. and he simply
ran. Johnny Chuck ran after him..
nipping Reddy's heels every minute or
two. Peter Rabbit Just happened to
be down that way. He was sitting up
very straight looking to see what mis-
chief he could get into when he caught
sight of Reddy Fox running as hard
as ever he could. 1T must be that
Bowser. the hound, is after Reddy
Fox" said Peter Rabbit to himself. II
must watch out that he doesn't find
me-"
Just then he caught sight Of Johnny
Chuck with every little hair standing
up on end and running after Reddy
Fox as fast as his short legs could
60.
"Ho! no! ho!" shouted Peter Rabbit.
Freddy. Fox afraid Of Johnny Chuck!
Then Peter Rabbit scampered away
to find Jimmy Skunk and Bobby Coon
and Happy Jack Squirrel to tell them
all about how Reddy Fox had u
away from Johnny Chuck, for you see
they were all q little afraid of Reddy
Fox.
Straight home ran Reddy Fox as
fast as he could go, and going home
he passed the house Of Johnny Chuck.
Now Johnny couldn't run SO fast as
Reddy Fox and he was putting and
blowing as only a fat little woodchuck
can puff and blow when he has to run
hard. Moreover, he had lost his i'll
temper now and he thought 1t was
the best Joke ever was to think that
ne had actually frightened Reddy Fox.
When he came to his own house he
stopped and sat up on his hind legs
once more. Then he shrilled out after
Reddy Fox, freddy Fox is a 'fraid-cat.
'fraid-cat! Reddy Fox is a 'fraid-cat!"
And all the Merry Little Breezes Of
old Mother West Wind, who were PLAY
Ing on h Green Meadows, shouted:
Freddy Fox Is a ~'fraid-cat, 'fraid-
cat!"
And MS Is the way that Reddy Fox
was surprised and that Johnny Chuck
found his way home.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-15

Translated from the French of Nine. la Comtssse de
49, Segur by Rachel H. Sta~nnard-Drawings
by F. Strothnann

word. She tried to wait patiently, but
the Tortoise seemed to 60 more and
more slowly instead Of faster. She
took fifteen days-and they seemed to
Blondine fifteen centuries-to go up the
avenue. Blondine did not take her
eyes of the castle gate. The castle It.
self appeared deserted. No one was
seen and no noise was heard there.
Finally. after one hundred and eighty
days Of travel. the Tortoise stopped and
said to Blondine, ''Now, Blondine. get
down. You have earned, by your BRAY
cry and obedience, the reward which
I promised you. Enter the little gate
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ma some clover-just the sweetest
clover that grew in the Green Mead
ows. Johnny Chuck ate and ate and
ate. and then what do you think he
did? Why. he curled right up In the
nice sweet clover and went fast
asleep.
Great round. red MI. Sun kept climb
ing higher and higher up in the sky.
then by and by he began to go down
on the other eide. and long shadows
began to creep out across the Green
Meadows. Johnny Chuck didn't know
anything about them: he was fast
asleep.
By and by one Of the Merry Little
Breezes found Johnny Chuck all curled
up In a funny round ball.
Wake up. Johnny Chuck! Wake
up!' shouted the Merry Little Breeze,
Johnny Chuck opened his eyes. Then
he a up and rubbed them. For Just
a few. few minutes he couldn't re-
member where he was at all.
BY and by he sat up very straight
to look over the grass and see where
he a But he was 80 far from home
that he didn't see a single thing which
looked at all like the things he was
used to-. The trees were all different,
The bushes were all different. Every
thing was different. Johnny Chuck was
lost.
Now, when Johnny sat up. Reddy
Fox happened to be looking over the
Green Meadows and he saw Johnny's
head when it popped above the grass.
"Aha" said Reddy Fox. "IIl scare
Johnny Chuck so he'll wish he'd never
put his nose out Of his house."
Then Reddy dropped down behind
the long grass and crept softly, oh,
ever so softly. through little paths of
his own, until he was right behind
Johnny Chuck. Johnny Chuck had
been so intent looking for home that
he didn't see anything else.
Reddy Fox stole right up behind
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-15
HOW D FOX
WAS
By THORNTON ". BURGESS


! oHNNY CHUCK and Reddy Fox
lived very q together on the
~ edge Of the Green Meadows.
Johnny Chuck was fat and roly-
poly. Reddy Fox was slim and wore
IL bright red coat. Reddy Fox used to
like to frighten Johnny Chuck by sud-
denly popping out from behind a tree
and making believe that he was going
to eat Johnny Chuck all up.
Chuck was out hooking for a good
breakfast of nice tender clover. He
had wandered quite a long way from
his snug little house in the long mead
ow grass. although his mother had told
him ave to go out Of sight Of the
door. But Johnny was like some little
boys I know. and forgot all he had
been told.
He walked and walked and walked.
Every few minutes Johnny Chuck saw
something farther on that looked like
q patch Of nice fresh clover. And every
time when he reached it Johnny Chuck
found that he had made a mistake.
So Johnny Chuck walked and walked
and walked.
Old Mother West Wind, coming
across the Green Meadows, saw Johnny
Chuck and asked him where he was
going. Johnny Chuck pretended not to
hear and just walked faster.
One Of the Merry Little Breezes
danced along in front Of him.
Look out. Johnny Chuck: you will
get lost" cried the Merry Little Breeze,
then pulled Johnny's whiskers and ran
away
Higher and higher up in the sky
climbed round. red Mr.. Sun. Every
time Johnny Chuck looked up at him
Mr.. Sun winked.
$50 long as I a see great, round,
red Mr.. Sun and he winks at me
can't be lost" thought Johnny Chuck,
and trotted on looking for clover.
BY and by Johnny Chuck really did
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CHAPTER ~v11.--concluded.

Blondine got upon the T~ortoise's
back.
Nov, silence" said the latter. "Not
a word till we get there and till I
speak to you first"
Blondine's ride lasted six months. an
the Tortoise had said; It was three
months before she was out Of the for
est; she then found herself in an arid
plain which it took six weeks to cross.
After that she could see q chateau
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the Fairy wished to return home, but
the Prince and Blondine were SO UNI
willing to be separated, that the King
agreed with the Fairy that they should
all remain together. The King mar
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-15
which reminded her Of the one where
she had lived with the White Deer and

she had lived with the White Deer and
the White Cat.
It was a whole month before they
reached the entrance to the chateau.
and Blondine was burning with impa-
thence. Was 1t there that she would
find out what had become Of her
friends? She did not dare ask. in
spite Of the impatience and curiosity
which she felt. II she could only get
of the Tortoise's back, she could walk
I to the chateau in ten minutes: but the
remembered that she had been forbid
den to get down or to say a single
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ried the Fairy and Blondiue married
ing companion Of the Lilac Forest.
As for Blondine. she never had a
moments trouble again, and as time
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-15

went on she had daughters who grew
to be like her. and son who were like
their father. Everyone loved them, and
everyone in their kingdom was happy.
CHE END.)
The Detroit times., 1911-04-03
HEAVY VOTE Is
ELECTION OUTLOOK
Keen Contests in City and County
Bringing Many To Polls-Cinch
For Phelan.

Fine weather Monday morning pres
ages large vote in the city, county
and state election, and the indication
was substantiated by groups of people
at the door of almost every polling
place waiting for the ballots to be un-
packed.
The principal contest In the city,
outside OF the school inspectorship
fights, Is for police Justice Former
Justice Albert +. Sellers will probably
give. Justice K. j. Jeffries a close race
Judge Phelan seems to be getting a
nearly unanimous vote for reelection
and his popularity Is helping the other
candidates on the city judicial ticket
Judge Connolly is running somewhat
ahead of Thomas Hislop for associate
recorder, but the Fourth ward man is
going TO keep him working all day
long.
Interest in the school inspector
fights Is keen In wards where there is
any contest.
Hugh Shepherd, the newcomer In
the circuit Judge race will receive a
large complimentary vote. Nearly
every Republican Is splitting his tick
ct to vote for Judges Hosmer, Murphy
and p. j. NJ. Hally Codd is receiving
tho benefit OF his political machine
but is being cut In other quarters.
The Detroit times., 1911-04-03
ADVERTISING TALKS
WRITTEN By
WILLIAM c. FREEMAN.
No. 699.

Mr.. A. Hilton, general passen-
ger agent of the FRISCO RAIL
ROAD, is a great believer in
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING.
His road has used big space in
newspapers throughout the
country to advertise the Texas
Gulf Coast country, and the ad-
vertising has been very success
full.
Mr.. Hilton states that in four
years FORTY-TWO THOU
SAND PEOPLE have located in
the section between Houston and
Brownsville, Texas, on the st.
Louis, Brownsville & Mexico
railway, as DIRECT RESULT
OF THE ADVERTISING.
That, of itself, is a TREMEN-
tCentipued on PAGE TeaJ
The Detroit times., 1911-04-03

the nearest market, on whichever side
OF the line IL happens TO be. Many
oranges are passing resolutions to that
effect
The workers. too. the big majority
In every city. favor reciprocity, where
they take any stand at all. Trades
and labor bodies are passing resolu'
tions indorsing IL. There is talk here
in Canada, too, OF bondage TO privi-
ledged interests" If it's bad for them,
IL must be good for US. is growing
sentiment. There is feeling among
the workers that money taken from
the people by protection Is being used
TO prevent reciprocity.
The fear in some quarters that reci-
procity meant restricted American in
vestment, and the closing down or
many branch factories operating In
Canada has subsided following posi-
tive denials OF many big American
Arms. The present agreement can
have no such effect. for Ii hardly
touches manufactured products.
Tomorrow wen visit the dominion
lawmakers in parliament, assembled at
Ottawa.
The Detroit times., 1911-04-03
Ry n. B. &. BRIGGS.


TORONTO, Can. April 3.-Canada
is away ahead of us in some things
For instance, up here they always
send crooked bank officials TO the pen
But Canada is twenty or thirty years
Younger than the United States on two
points:
Loyalty TO Party Tags.
Tariff Protection of Manufactures.
A decade ago we Americans were
black Republicans" or "hide-oound
Democrats. The typical Canadian oil
today is exactly the same-either no
eral or conservative 10 the core. No
half way about him. There are men
ike our own ''mugwumps." OF course.
and men who leave their party for
strictly personal, selfish reasons. But
Canada has nothing like our great
! ody or independent thinkers and
roters-nor has she our newspaper In
dependence. A newspaper up here
supports its party through thick and
hin. jabs and jeers at the opposition
in every issue. rams home the true
doctrine all the year round.
That's why one largely attended
meeting in almost every Canadian
town has enthusiastically indorsed
reciprocity while another equally in
huential gathering OF citizens" in each
same town has denounced IT as next
thing 10 traitorism. One was liberal,
the other conservative-thats all
That's why the conservative fears
annexation" and the liberal scouts
such talk as "debasing But both
think we're hankering TO gobble up
Canada, just the same.
Likewise. because Canada and her
politics are young, her protective
tariff Is also. Her infant industries
big, fat,-heuncing babies they are
have gorged on the national subsidy
10 lust about the extent ours had 20
or 30 years ago. And they want more,
lust as ours did-and do.
But Canada's break from party ties
probably will come faster than our
own. because OF our example-just as
that example may save her from
painful duplicate of our Payne-Alo'
rich law.
Reciprocity has hastened the break.
IT'S much more vital and talKeu'
about question up here than II Is III
the United states. It's big issue
Aside from the small body or fright
ened capitalists and manufacturers,
the majority Of the people In eastern
Canada favor reciprocity.
The lure of larger market anects
some. A genuine desire TOT more
friendly commercial relations anects
others. Some fishermen, some iruit
growers-like those of the Niagara
peninsula-some farmers here ahu
there, are against reciprocity. BUT
the big majority want the opportunity
TO send their fruits, butter. eggs
poultry. barley and other products 10
The Detroit times., 1911-04-03
CHAMPION FAT
man WEIGHS 538
World Has Insisted That Charles H.
Johnson, of Brockton. Laugh
and Be Happy.
BY w. G. SHEPHERD.


BROCKTON. Mass, April 3.-Do
you know VIII yfat men always laugh?
It's because the world insists that
bear TO see a fat man In trouble. He's
got to laugh.
Now, here's Charles II. Johnson. in
Brockton.
He told me all about how the world
has fiat-footedly insisted that he laugh
and be happy. He's extra fat. He
weighs 539 pounds.
1T just seems as II folk couldn't
bear to see a quarter-of-a-ton man in
trouble" he told me. 1T was like
this:
When | was 81 years old l weighed
176 pounds. | used to work hard
every day and / loved TO dance every
evening. But when married mother
here"-pointing toward q mite OF a
woman who was sitting at a machine.
sewing had to stay AT home even
ings. Then | got a Job In the brass
furnishing factory. where l got less
exercise than before. And during the
first year we were married l gained
SO pounds. After that never stopped
| two years ago had to stop work.
couldn't carry around quarter OF a
ton OF flesh and work, too. You
haven't any idea what a hard job IL
is | was just the same az an invalid,
as far as work was concerned.
Mother did her best to keep things
going. All that she and had TO live
one came from her work. Ii was more
than tight squeeze. lots OF the time.
always felt all right. but l couldn't
get around. And mother kept getting
thinner and more tired looking.
Things were getting pretty dark
about a month ago. Then one day a
solicitor for a newspaper happened
out our way and he asked US II We
didn't want to take his newspaper.
We didn't We didn't hace the money.
But as soon as he saw me he quit so
liciting for that day and hustled right
back to his newspaper office to tell
the editors about me. Then folk be-
gan coming out to see me. / had
some photographs made OF myself and
sold them. Mother didn't like 1t very
well, but 1 told her that was going
to help her all could.
Some prominent business men in
Boston, who are ofacers Of the New
England Fat Mems club. asked me to
join IT'S a famous club, with $500
Imembeip. anu aItogetherS tnsy weigh
400 tons They discovered by looking
over their data regarding the fat men
that 1 awsthe champion. The fattest
man they ever had weighed only 469
pounds and he died some time ago.
Mother and ! are beginning to see
our way through the woods now,
What want to do is to go to Boston
next summer when the fat men hold
their annual threeday meeting and
hear them all laugh. tell you fat
men are jolly. Folk just plumb make
EN- be-"
The Detroit times., 1911-04-03
AMERICAN ARTISTS BUSY
WITH CHSEL AND BRUSH
Alexzndsr Harrison Returns to the
Nude and Rld9way Knight Has
Three More Peasant Girls.

PARIS, April S.--M. L'Hermitt,
member of the Institute; has finished
four great pictures for the Salon, all
OF which are secured for America by
Knoedler's. These are THE Four
Seasons" "Ploughing in storm,
"On the Borders of the Marne" and
The Railroad Men"
Harrison has returned to his first
love and has painted four nude pic
lures OF Boys Playing by the Sea-
shore" and these will be in this
years Salon. A quarter OF century
ago some Philadelphia women made
bitter attack upon Harrison because
of the nudity of his pictures. As a
result he left out all his nudes and
confined himself to various kinds OF
seascapes. Now he has reverted to
his first manner.
Pope Howard, though born in Wash.
ington, can hardly be considered an
American, for he is a son of the late
Sir Henry Howard, a former secretary
Of the British Embassy at Washing.
ton. but he paints Americans. His
best two for this years Salon are Mrs.
Marcelyn Senger and Princess Eris.
toff.
One of Walter Gays exhibition pic
lures will be an interior OF the Bar
baro Palace, Venice, which he has
painted for the Boston Museum. Az
present this is on exhibition at the
Exposition OF Painting and Sculpture
presided over by Rodin Gay, whose
birthplace is bingham, Mass lie
has won more medals than any Amer
lean artist in Paris.
Ridgway knight will exhibit three
pictures OF Peasant Girls In a Flow
er Garden in the Month of July" He
has painted these kind OF pictures
year ia and year out for the past 40
years. The story goes that in his cal
low youth he fell In love with a pret-
ty peasant girl In a garden by the
banks OF the Seine and has gone on
painting her ever since. His pictures
sell better than those of any other
American artist.
A remarkable bust OF our only
American Duke will be exhibited in
this years Salon. The bust Is by
Puech, and our only Duke is Joseph
Florimund. Duke de Loubat.
Born in New York eighty years ago,
his title, like that OF the Colonnss
and the Rospiglios, is a papal one,
having been conferred by Leo XIII as
mark Of appreciation OF a generous
gift which NJ. Loubat made TO the
Catholic University OF Washington, ID.
The Detroit times., 1911-04-03
HIDDEN LURE FOR BERWICK
BACHELORS IS REvEALxI
Once Within the Maeistrom's Gd0o
No Unattached Man Can Es-
cape Marriage.

BERWICK, Pa, April 3.-The Ber~
wick Widows association. now In -
fourth year, has, II Is asserted. a NOR
serious purpose, In view than mero
frivolity. The real and hitherto con
cealed plan, II is now alleged, 10 %
find suitable second, third or fourt4
husbands for its members.
Every member on joining was fore
ed to take secrecy pladge" In whicn
she agreed not to divulge the real reo<
son for the formation of the associa<
ton. But recently real mean IL
dividual came across the minute book
In which were recorded the "doingsr
OF every meeting.
According to the minutes OF the last
meeting IL was unanimously decided
TO hold the annual picnic OF the a.
sociation this year on the same date
and at the same place at which the
Berwick Bachelors club" will hoi0
it's annual meeting. Following this
entry Is the naive remark that 1T ~
the consensus OF opinion among the
members OF the association that Ber-
wick bachelors make better husbands
than do imported masculines."
Mrs. Ella Walker Is the president
or the association and has been since
its formation. The members meet
weekly at the home of one OF them
and report progress on their matri-
monial ventures. The next meeting
will soon be held at the home OF Mrs
Gertrude Gibbons. At that time fur
ther arrangements will be made for
the summer picnic and for the win
ming members OF the Berwick Bach
elors' club
Rrsusa.n fru.~
The Detroit times., 1911-04-03
WHERE Tor
Query To Railroads In Economic Drift
Says James schermerhorn.


Says James Scherrerhorn.
where To?" The question you
put to the traveller and the shipper
through your little window Is also the
query you must be addressing to the
economic drift" said James Scher-
merhorn to the Transportation club
at their first meeting at the Wayne
Gardens, Saturday noon, In reply TO
the statements of ex-Gov. Black and
President Baer to the Pittsburg Traf-
fic club a few days ago.
MIR. Schermerhorn said he might
not have the right answer. but TO him
the ultimate destination looked like
public ownership and operation. There
was no doubt at all that the roadDed
Of conviction had been running In
that direction for several years past.
TOhe fault is not with the men
below who operate, but with those
above who manipulate. Wrecklng
and looting will be lost arts when the
government gets a Arm grip on the
situation: so there will be nothing
enticing in the prospect for the mas
ter minds, who have no taste for mere
fetching and carrying for the dear
peoples sake.
The speaker congratulated Joseph
8. Hall on his deserved promotion
pointing out that men Of his type who
do their duty intelligently and con
scientiously, never bring anathema
upon private ownership. They are the
glad hand and the busy hand OF the
seryice-not the grabbing hand Of q
Hartman or the despoiling hand OF
Huntington.
The Detroit times., 1911-04-03
MRS. YERKES DEAD.
Widow Of Traction Masnate Had Been
In Failing Health Some Time.

NEW YORK, April 3.-Mrs. Mary
Adelaide Yerkes. widow OF Charles I.
Yerkes, died at her home In this city
late last night. She had been in fair
ing health since last November, when
she suffered an attack OF grip. She
seemed to be unable to regain her
strength and Ave weeks ago took To
her bed, with her heart affected.
Her sister and William LAurs,
whom 1t was reported at one time
she was engaged to marry, were al
her bedside.
1t was about "a years ago that she,
as Mary Adelaide Moore, the da1igh'
ter OF Philadelphia druggist, was
married to Charles T. Yerkes, a mul-
ti-millionaire railroad operator OF Chi
cago. 1t was ten years later that the
couple separated and for the next de-
cade she lived what she termed the
life OF a hermit" in her Fifth avenue
mansion.
The Detroit times., 1911-04-03
Aid. Heating offers Suggestion.

Aid. Heating has proposed as q
resolution OF the question of paving
Michigan.ave., from Woodward 10
First, which item was cut out OF the
budget by the committee on streets,
that Commissioner Haarer take the
funds out of his unexpended balances
at the end OF the season. AT the
meeting OF the Michigan-ave. I'm
provement association, Friday, com
mittee was appointed 10 take the mat
ter up with Corporation Counsel Hal
To-