The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-23

The Waiting Place. look around on this world
so gray. and size up it's stock of sorrow: there's moth
ing worth while in sight today, nor promise of good
tomorrow. make IA howl that would raise the dead.
and Weep till the world is wc,ter. and all of the GAL
Ions of tears shed don't seem to make things much
better. This life's an expensive thing, sigh. free rein
to my anguish giving; and when man makes up his
mind to die, it costs a lot more than living. Aud
hro"dins Ger mournful things like these has made
me a chronic wceper: hut all the gallons of brine
squeeze don't seem to make things much cheaper. ]
look around on my busy friends who toll with their
spades and axes. and weep for them; when their labor
ends their bundles will 8" for taxes. m"isten we'll
with my scalding brine the path of tho smith and
sowor; but all my stunts in the weeping limo don't
seem to make taxes lower. stand aghast whom the
suns in sight. and groan when the rain is pouring.
and have had dreams both by day and night. and spend
all my time dcploring; am chief Crouch at the Vail
ing Place. tho boss and the peerless kicker; and all tho
rivers that streak my face don't secm to make things
run slicker.-Walt Mason.
Insinuations-"t is not always necessary to make
a direct accusation" said the lawyer who was asking
damages because insinuations had been made against
his clients good name. "You may have heard of the
woman who called to tho hired girl. Mary. Mary. come
here and take the parrot down s'airs-my husband has
dropped his collar button"
Spoke To" Soon--The London Advertiser said a
few days ago: ".As i, looks at this distance. Taft has
the grandstand and Roosevelt tho blcachrr." If that
is seriously meant as a Joke. it is too opaque for our
penetration. II looks like the Advertiser spoke too
soon.
The Power nj Radi"m.-suppose that tho energy
Of A ton of radium could he utilized in thirty wears,
instead of being evolved at its invariahle slow rate Of
1.7s" years for half disintcsration. it would suffice TO
propel a ship of $4,000 tons. with engines Of $4,000
horsepower. at the rate of Is knots an hour for thirty
years-practically the lifetime of tho ship. To do this
actually requires l !. million tons Of coal-New York
World.
That may or might he al, right. but at the presen,
price quoted on the Grand Forks market. there isn't
money enough ahoat to buy a ton of the hloonin' stuff.
'Jay' Walkers-Kansas City has decided that a.
a city grows it is very evident that all traffic on foot as
we'll as nm wheels must be controlled. 1t believes that
the lay walker" is a menace to traffic in a busy city
and will not permit him to stray all over a street on
which the movement of vehicles is strictly regulated
and so increase the danger of accidents, nor will it all
low him to cut corners.
A Yale student has deserted the forestry class to
marry an actress. Actresses draw a great MANY Of
them from the woods and as a rule cause mos, os
them to return tn their old haunts quite hastily after
the novelty wears aff-or the money fades.
Someone has said that drink is the worst evil with
which We have to cope. and We some times think there