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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-02

Probably three more clerks will
have to be put on in the Grand Forks
postofice If the Riley cight-hour bill
becomes a law. This proposed law
has been adopted by the house and its
chances for passing tho senate arc said,
TO be very good.
This bill provides for an eight-hour
day within q period of ten hours. Be-
cause Of the present train schedule af-
footing Grand Forks the period of
work in the postoflice here is neces-
sari!y thirteen or fourteen hours or
from z o'clock in the morning until
10 o'clock at night. In order to re-
arrange the work of the carriers and
clerks to comply with the new law. 1t
ma he necessary to make the last COL
lection 0f the day at 1 o'clock in the
afternoon instead Of 5 O'clock. Bring
Ing the mail in an hour earlier in the
afternoon will mean an Increased rush
ia the p%ostoffice in order to get the
clerks through with their work in the
period of time provided in the law
aad this will necessitate the addition
81 help.
Sunday Closing Law. 49,
Tho bill now in congress also. rec
nrnIlends IN amendment TO the Sun
day closing law which, If adopted, will
mean tho closing of all first and sec
GHd class postoffices all day on Sun
day for delivering mail to the public
eIcnpt in the case of special delivery
letters.
While this proposed amendment is
welcomed by all postoffice employees
over the country. it is not meeting
with particular favor with the travel
ihg public who will be forced to get
along over Sunday without their mail.
In the case of travelling men and show
H.coplc this regulation would be, con
EGsicrable of an inconvenience.
Bad for Travellers.
Should this regulation 60 into effect
rostotiices in the big. towns where
",~ver-sunday business at. the hotels is
heavy would probably adopt the rule
of opening an hour earlier Monday
morning for the convenience of the
travellers who have to get out OH the
first trains. However, this system
would hardly make up for the delay
caused by the Sunday closing. accord
ing to travelling men who do much
Weekend.
should the postoiiices of tho first
and second classes: close. all DAY Sun
day. OF course the. business of tho
telegraph and telephone. companies
would I've largely increased and these
concerns are no doubt much in favor
OF the passage of the proposed amend
nlcnt to the closing law.
Grand Forks Good.
The Grand Forks %postoffice is open
one hour each Sunday morning. That
is. the general delivery window is open
for transfents only and the mail is dis
tributed to the boxes. When this rule
was first adopted residents used to
crowd up to the window for their mail.
They were informed not to call again.
however. and today there is practical
Il. M call for mail on Sunday oyceOt
by transients. The residents have a
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-02
COMMISSION PLAN
THEME FOR
DEBATE
AID Altiora Wins by Uphold
ing Affirmative Side
of Question.

The observation-disclosures debate
Letween the AID Altiora aud Hesperia
Literary societies last night resulted in
Il > to ] victory for the Ad Altiora
team. The debate was held in the
auditorium of teachers college at the
university. A large crowd was in at
tendance.
The question debated was: Re
solved. that the commission plan of
city government should be adopted in
Grand Forks Ad Altiora had the
affirmative side of tho question and
was represented by Howard Huston.
Hiolmer Swenson and Clyde Common.
The Hesporian debaters were William
Dresser. Edgar Gustafson and John
Stounon and these men argued
against tho system.
The .Ad Altiora men had the best OF
the argument hut their opponents
tory was not an easy one as indicated
by the decision. This debate is an
annual event between the W. socie-
ties n the contest last night was a
fine example of the work that is being
done by literary societies along dcbat-
ing lines.
The affirmative showed the evils of
the present form of city government
and maintained that the plan proposed
would remedy these evils. The atfir-
NATIVE claimed that the plan has been
successful wherever tried and that it
would work in Grand Forks.
The negative speakers tried to show
that the present system of city gov
eminent is satisfactory in Grand
Forks and that the present evils would
not lie remcdied by adopting the pro-
posed plan. They further GAINED
that the plan is wrong i'm theory and
il, ,,;,.;.l. 80, ,l,,t -. l.,. ,,Dt 49,,
body democratic principles. The neg
ativc also tried to show that eve if
the plan is correct generally the North
Dakota law is inadequate and faulty
and therefore the plan would not
work satisfactorily in Grand Forks.
The judges OF contest were Judge G.
+. Templeton. Rev. III. j. Glenn and
IN, NIn\-nr Il.n1,sfnip
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-02
H0RSEMEN
PLEASED WITH
NEW PLAN
From Several States
at Grand Forks County
Fair.

That Grand Forks will sec some
great harness racing at the county
fair this summer is indicated in the
large number of inquiries that come
TO Secretary Bachelor regarding the
four new plan purses that give free
entry to all horses going three heats
or more and take nothing from mon
ey winners.
Within the past day or two Mr..
Bachelor has received letters from
owners of strings in Minnesota. Wis
constr and Montana. In all these
letters the writer's have expressed
appreciation of the new racing
plan and requested more information
concerning it. saying that they hoped
to include Grand Forks in their
summer bookings.
The Wisconsin fair dates are ear
lier than the Grand Forks dates and
this may prevent some strings from
the Badger state coming here. How
some good horses will no doubt
appear in the races from that sec
ton.
Montana has some good harness
horses, some of which will no doubt
he seen on the Grand Forks track.
This state is strong on running
horses. but that game will not hay.
81 PldNC w 'u' itNiliS IIpSIhili i'it
tall Ven being for harness entries.
Minnesota is expected tn hc we'll
represented ut the Grand Forks fair
this Year. There arc amy number nf
good strings i'm that state and sew
eral of these are expected To make
the llickcrtail circuit.
The money offered i'll the Grand
Forks plan "f harness racing that
will prevail in the meeting this sum
m"r nets the winners as much as Il
$500 purse under tn" usual plan. the
$500 purse being split as follows:
fourth. $40.
This plan is already making q hit
with the horsemen who have been
in the habit of making the country
racing for their own moneN
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-02

c!se We must take artificial means to
move tho excess bile and waste mat.
ter on and out Of the system.
The safest. most harmless and. efYec-
tive stomach. liver and bowel cleanser
and regulator for men. ONE and
children-is delicious Syrup Of Figs,
which doesn't - lrrftate. grippe or
weaken. Its effect is, the effect OF
luscious tlgs.. SIENNA and aromatics.
Don't think you are drugging your
self. Syrup of Figs ran betconstantly
used without harm. =
Ask your druggist for Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of Sena." and see
on the label, that 1t is, prepared. by
The California Fig Syrup T. Company.
This Is, the only. genuine-the Old
reliable. Refuse. with contempt, the
so-called: FtE SXIMp4 limitations. some
times offered to deceive you.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-02
Of Figs FOR INDIGESTION;
; BL|0uSNESS AND CONSTIPATION
Better than Castor" Oil, calomsl or Catharticcs t., Cleanse
Your Stomach. Liver and 80 Feet ( Of Bowels. Harm Harm
less Laxative for Men. Women: and Children. "

Primitive folks did not need laxa-
tiyes. They lived outdoors. ate plenty
Q. fruit, and all OF their food was
coa1Se. We modern people arc diff
fsrent. We exercise too little, eat
little fruit. ana our food 10 too fine-
too rich.
We simply can't havo our ten yards
Of bowels cloggcd up. liver choked
with sour bile and stomach, full. Of
foul cfKeto matter and feel well. It
tained in the stomach and thirty feet
OF bowels ferments-d0eays, The de-
gay creates pois0ns. EAses and acids.
E,nd those poisons are sucked into the
blood through tho very duct intended
TO suck in the nutriment. Then we
have sick headache. become dull.
Giiious. tongris coated. nervous, essaln
DON'T diyost. and VIC feel miserable all
ove.. SO, We: maxt Alts Asa9Vrs choice.
We must 1.-Two Ike primitive folks.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-02

the clothes might be mended; but
then it would not be natural.
Once just once did a little Ger
man band essay anything classical,
and once was enough. 1t was no go
and when the leader went around 20
collect he got about as much as might
be expected from a charivari Of a
Scotchman. Now it is the marches
that hold sway. and now and then
that old familiar Zach Du Lieber Au-
g%ustine" m floating on the spring
wind. just to complete the touch.
Scientists have tried for. ages to
find out where the birds go to o n
their annual migration trips, but
whether anyone Yer tried to find out
where the members of the Little
German Band" hibernate is unknown.
This morning it cost one Of the
Times reporters a two bit piece to
learn from n Of the members of the
musical seNtette.i that u.
Well, ich weis NIGHT. where das
onderer men in dem band, kom from.
We gets. togeder bein in Minneapolis,
pnds We :trayels-Ach! Ich. weis NIGHT,
but We: travel%und spell Some. times
.Ne make muck mo~ney.%.again We. make
noding. aber We have asgute-tinae. und
sdas list genug. Ach yea" !,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-02
q, 1903, WAS
WARMEST DAY
ON RECORD
Thermometer Registered 80
Degrees-That Year Had
Coolest Day Too

The warmest April day in the his
tory of North Dakota i'll the past
tWentA-cight Years was April ii, 1908.
according To the reports of the United
States weather bureau. Grand Forks
station, University of North Dakota.
TN fix" other April days in tho past
twenty Wears the thermometer exceed
cd so degrees.
The coolest April day on record WAS
April >. 1905. when the temperature
dropped to 3 degrees.
The month just past had eighteen
clear days.
The raini"st April was in 1894. when
ii rain"d sixteen days.
April I "f this year Will 60 down on
record as h"iM. unscasonahly Warnl.
This warmth MAS not prolonged. how
ever. and Vegetation WAS not given an
over early start. There is only one
April day ON record rs warm as this
g" carly in the month and this il
April :. 1910.
.April's record in North Dako,, for
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-02
SOCIETY OF FRlENDLEss MEETS.
Annual Meeting of State Organization
Takes Place In bismarck.


Bismarck. \. D.. May 1.-The annu.
al meeting of the North Dakota Socie.
ty for the Friendless will he held in
this city tomorrow afternoon and eve
ming. Rev. E. A. Fredehagen, of Kan.
sas City. Mo. representative of the
national organization. will be the prin-
cipal speaker during the evening ses-
sion. ne afternoon meeting is given
over largely to preliminary business.
+. +. Packard, vice president OF tho
North Dakota society. will presid.
over the night session. and among tn.
speakers will he Governor John
Burke. Warden +. O. Hellstrom OF tho
North Dakota pcnitentiary. Father
Clemens. chaplain at the North Duko.
ia prison, and DIR. Fredenhagen.
Neither is Joy riding entirely safe On
ocean liners.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-02
y y y y u = = q \ + y "a
ENROLMENT BOOKS
HAVE BEEN RECEIVED

Fifty books for use in register
ing the women voters of the couu-
ty were received today by the
county auditor and notices were
sent out to the township assessors
telling them to come in and get
tho books.
The work on registering the
women in the city was started to-
day and the deputy assessors are
now back on the job again.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-02
WIFE v HIM
WHEN
N MOVES IN

Is there anything significant in
the Gift of a bathroi,e when it
comes the day after the health
department inspector moves into
the block?
This is the question that is
puzzling Emil Burgess. manager
of the Dairy Lunch.
The other day Health Inspec-
tor Lynch moved into our neigh
borhood." said Emil this morn
ing. The next day was my birth
day and my wife gave me u bath
robe. Now I don't know what to
make of this. Something tells me
it's a Joke"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-02
SHOWERS ABOUT THE STATE

Practically All Sections Visited by
Nice Warm Itains-Just What
Farmers Were Looking For.
The showers of Tuesday, Wednes-
day and today are reported to have
been very general about the state.
While seeding Inc blowing started in
many sections for Il short time. the
additional moisture is said to be Just
what the farmers are looking for. The
rainfall is reported as follows:
Grand Forks. is: Devils Lake. Sc;
Moorhead, SO; Williston: .0:; Bis.
marck. 20; Winnipeg. .3s.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-02
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FESTIVAL ASSURED 81

The spring festival OF music Of
TIL. oratorio society is nov as
surod. At = meeting of the di-
: Electorate of the society at the =
Hotel Dacotah This noon. it was
found that the committee having :
= the campaign of associate NOM '
horships in charge had secured +.
. moro than III" loo new mcmbcv-
; ships sci out In obtain. This will B..
: max" the total number of ASSOC .
citt" memberships 900. it was
' voted L" limit the number to 400. =
' After this number is reached F..
: persons not holding associate 3
y membership cards Will have Ia /.
secure season tickets. ON Sat .
' urdaN the special committed r
; started out to bring in the 100 &
: new anne =
=
Evening star., 1912-09-29

these limitations. be proportioned as far
as possible, to represent 10 per cent of
the estimated amount which his suSges-
ton or invention will save the govern
ment in one year.
Thus, if his fertile brain conceives
device for saving his Uncle Samuel $10,-
900 or more a year during the process of
making cartridges, his prize will be the
maximum one, of 81 coo. If, however, the
economy effected amounts to only 800
year, he will get $40.
His prize will be given in a fiat sum. 1t
will not be continuous That is to say,
while the economy continues, after the
year of the award has elapsed, the award
will not be repeated. No prize will be
paid until the winner has signed an agree
ment that his suggestion or invention will
never form the basis of a claim against
the United States. He must also teStif
patent on the device in question The law
further states that Ito obtain this reward
the winning suggestion must be one that
viii clearly effect a material economy in
production increase efficiency or en-
hance the quality of the product in COM
parison with its cost
Five thousand men will be in line for
these prizes in the ordnance department
Most of them are machinists. toolmen,
craftsmen and foremen. but the roll in
cludeS mechanics OF nearly all classes
And Gen. CroZier had the mechanical en-
ploye primarily in mind when he con-
Evening star., 1912-09-29
Land of the Alias.

A ]. DRENEL BIDDLE. entertaining 6
"A. at luncheon at LansdOwne ZOO
members of the great Drexel Biddle
Bible class. said to reporter:
This movement embraces some of the
best people in our land; the vast ma
jority OF our members are people of
eminent respectability; but at the same
time there Is no down -and-outer whom
we would reject.
Ne n fact, would do for the down
and-outer' what Buenos Aires does
and YOU know now many wrecks and
crooks and criminals Buehos Aires has
made over.
.'Theres a travellers tale illustrative
of this:
"A young man got in row in a fash
ionable BuenoS Aires club and was
roughly elected. Rising from the mud,
he rushed back into the club and shout
ed eXcitedly:
"'Do We know why they call me
Jameson here in Buenos Aires?'
1.-The club members looked at one an
other in puzzled fashion. and the young
man continued:
because it's my name"
"And with a taunting laugh he was
gone.
Evening star., 1912-09-29

distant that the light with which we view
it started on its journey to us twenty.
eight years ago. This sun pourS out
nearly POO times as much light as our own.
and it is moving away from us at
speed of thirty miles Il second. In the
southeast at NJ. Figure |. the observer
should also note the remarkable variable
star Mira which is now only of about
the fourth magnitude. while due south
the royal star Fomalhaut has now reach
ed it's highest position i'm the sky.
The Eagle, the Dolphin and the beau
tfu Northern Cross shine out high in
the northwest. while east OF these the
great square of Pegasus now forms the
most conspicuous figure i'm the southern
sky The reader should not fail to eX-
anime the wonderful nebula of Androm
eda at n, Figure L. concerning which and
other similar nebulas the question Is
Evening star., 1912-09-29

est distance until November 10. 1t can
be seen with difficulty toward the close
of the month very near the ground in
the southwest for short time after SUM-
set.
Venus is steadily moving outward from
the suns rays, setting slightly more than
one hour after sunset October /. which
time is increased to l hour and II min
utes by October 81. October IL Venus and
Mercury will be close together in the
sky, the former anet being north OF
the latter at a distance only one-third as
great as the distance across the moon.
They may be seen near the ground in
the southwest shining out in the sunset
glow before the bright stars Of the sky
become visible.
Mars, is too near the sun to be observed
this month. 1t passes to the west of the
sun and becomes a morning star Novem-
ber 1.
Jupiter is also steadily sinking in the
southwest. The observer will notice that
Venus is drawing nearer to Jupiter. and
that by the end of the month the first
planet sets only ten minutes after the
second. They will not reach their point
of closest approach, however. until No
vember T.
Saturn throughout the month will be
Evening star., 1912-09-29

more advantage by waiting until an hour
later. If he then turns a little way
toward the north of the east point MS
notice will at once be arrested by the
delicate, flmy dipper-shaped little group
of blush stars which form the Plelades.
while below this he will see the V-shaped
Hyades, with the great reddish Aide
baran at its lower end. To the eye the
Pleiades may seem to consist of but six
stars, though if the night is very clear
two or three more may be detected, but
in Il pair OF opera glasses a quite dense
and most interesting cluster is at once
revealed
AS he looks at this most interesting
star group, every member of which is
sun. he may consider that this is al
most the very earliest object about which
human records have come down to us. 1t
was watched and written of in China
400 years ago; the earliest sacred books
of Egypt tell of the time when the YER
nal equinox was at these stars, and that
year was known as the great year OF
the PleiadeS. In all the centuries which
have passed since this time of the very
dawn of history the steady westward mo-
tiOn of the equinox has now only car
ried il to the point V Oh Figure !. 1t will
not complete the circuit of the heavens
until o6oou years have passed away.
Numberless legends are associated with
this beautiful little group. the peoples OF
almost all nations connecting them with
the affairs of earth for either good or
ern discovery that the stars of the Plei-
ades are actually associated together as
they seem to be, forming little group
in the depths of space. And delicate pho
tographs show that throughout the group
there exist vast clouds of family shining
nebuIous matter. WHICH not on.y sur
round some of the larger stars, but span
with faint straight lines the inconceiva-
bly, great distances from star to star,
Either we are witnessing here the last
stages of the formation of a cluster OF
great suns from original nebula, all
of which has not yet been absorbed, or
else these suns are ejecting radiant mat
ter, just as matter is driven away from
sun to form its corona, but on an
inconceivably vaster scale We do not
know whether what We see is dissipa-
ton of matter or a building up of new
worlds. But now, at the time of the
earliest dawn of history. the Pleiades at
tract US as one of the most wonderful
of all the objects in the heavens
The reddish star, Aldebaran, is SO far
Evening star., 1912-09-29
Hall Game Shakespeare.

ttI MET Hall Caine at 81 Mofliz III Tue
Engadine. said Phlladeipliah.
He goes to ST. MoritZ every year, ana
every year he gets 10 look more ike
Shakespeare.
AT a dinner at his hotel there l con-
graduated him on his resemblance to the
Bard of Avon and he said that once, III
Philadelphia, he ran by chance across
Isnatius Donnelly. the Bacon Shakespeare
controyersialiSt,
"Donnelly gazing reVerently upon Hall
gaines broad white brow, pointed face,
thin beard and flashing eye, removed his
hat and said:
Il ord RacOn I presume
Evening star., 1912-09-29
A Sheer.

A PROPOS of the dictum of certain
actress that New York men are
worthless, a New York actor said at the
Lambs Club:
It's all in the point Of view. you know.
This actress in question is going to
marry westerner. Now. If she were
going to marry a New Yorker
Yes, it's all in the point Of view. A
girl said to a bachelor:
Woman is indeed like the ivy on
yonder ruin. The more dilapidated you
become the closer woman clings to you.
Yes the bachelor sneered, and the
closer she clings to you the more dilapi-
dated you become a"
Evening star., 1912-09-29
NnecdoteS Gomez e1hinQ
Wen-knOWn PEOPLE.
The Reporters Task.

A WELL known newSpa per man was
4 talking about the difficulties of a
reporters life.
"A kind of intuition. a kind of mind
reading" he said, lis essential to sue
Cessful reporting.
Two business men were talking at
club.
Did you tell that reporter not 10
announce that you were candidate
for the shrieEaltY? said the first
The other looked up from his Journal
gloomily.
Yes he answered and the durn
fool never put il in his paper.
Evening star., 1912-09-29

ceived the prize system. He expects the
money to go not so much for the design
of new products as for improvements in
methods of production.
One of his civilian employees who sug-
gested an automatic device for vanishing
ammunition a d who thereby saved the
army $1,000 a year, would have been de-
serving of neutrality-suspicious. prize had
the new law been in effect at the time
Another who suggested a cartridge-trim-
mer now saving $1,000 a year, would have
been entitled to an award of $3.50.
Some time ago another of these civil
employees of the ordnance bureau sug
gested "a change in machinery used for
roaming the bore of small arms. His i'm
provement effected an economy of be-
tween 90 and - cents per rifle barrel, and
for barrels made since the adoption of
the suggestion the saving has been at
least $2OO,G0o. Other suggestions by the
ordnance department civilian employees
and the resulting savings per annum are:
A cupping de for cartridge cases, $3.50;
varnish drier for cartridge cases, $1,000;
canteen cover. $500; substitution of low
steel for tool steel in the shanks of large
drills, $3.50 high pressure testing device
for shrapnel eases, $3.50; ad unstable ar
Dor for milling machines. $500; improved
ballet assembling machine, 5000; slug