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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-07
LITERATURE.

1t is entirely permissible for Amer
leans generally to pay homage to Will
lam Dean Howells upon the occasion
of his seNenty-ffth birthday anniver-
sary without going TO the extreme Of
hailing him as our most illustrious
living writer. That he is a credit and
honor to letters is not to be denied,
but he is far from meriting such OK
travagant eulogtes as have been pro-
nounced upon him. The author of
some seventy volumes of novels, es-
says. and criticisms. it is nevertheless
true thai there Is not in all Of this
tremendous output. gagged by bulk,
anything having a universal element.
but the maj in the street, the average
citizen. knows him not, and it is
doubtful IL any one OF his books will
live, outside a small. restricted circle,
save only "A Boys Town. and this,
doubtless he u as among the
least of his achievements. Mr.. How
ellis essays and criticisms are schol-
arly. but he is by no means a. Poe:
as for his novels. there is no red
blood. no human nature in them.
they are cold and artificial, and few
persons can he found who will cross
their hearts and say that they read
them for pleasure.
Mr. Howells' title. bestowed upon
him by his coterie of worshippers, as
the dean of American literature" Is
empty enough at best. He is not en-
titled to such a rating; and simply
because he is a lovable figure in our
literary life, II has been a success
full magazine editor and odi+or;ai u.ri+-
err. Is no reason why we should blind
ourselves to the facts. The plain
truth is that this country has no re-
ally great author. Mr.. Howells is the
dean OF a school of m~ediocrity. Where
are the American writer's who meas
ure up to Arnold Bennett, Thomas
Hardy, Rudyard Kipling. H. G. Wells,
w. j. Locke. Maurice Hewlett. Mrs
Humphry Ward or g. X. Chesteron ?
Mr.. Howells occupies a nice, quiet,
respectable armchair by the smolder.
ing fireside of American literature, but
he has never stirred up a blaze.
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THE Sentimental SIDE
OF THE BUSINESS CURL

riage between a man and a woman
with sense enough to judge fairly we'll
for themselves he as certain Of hap
piness as my other, or more GER
tain?"
II verify believe that IL we could go
into families Of every description and
take a careful census. with full knoWl-
ed business marriages would prove to
end happily in far larger proportion
than those which are brought about
by what is called love or romance.
Nine times out Of ten the love and
romance soon wear threadbare and
then with the lover and romancer it
becomes a matter Of business to make
life as prosperous and happy as pos
sible by mutual thrift and economy.
ned by the butcher and baker is never
a happy family. When dunning comes
in at the door love and romance fly
out at the window.
Business and Common Sense.
"She who is called a business girl
is usually a sensible girl. She knows
something Of business. If she has lit
tie Of the domestic phase Of 1t before
marriage she is in superior position to
promptly pick up all the threads of
household economies. She will learn
the proper price OF things at once IT
she does not already know it. and she
will pay no more than the proper
price. whether the purchase be made
by her or by an employe. Most wom-
en- are naturally closer dealers than
most men.
at Is a history Of a mass of unhap-
Ply marriages that the wife was from
the beginning constantly impressed
that she was dependent on the hus-
band. There must be interdependence
and kindly mutual independence. Yet
I have known man, a girl to marry a
man who could give her a comfortable
home for that reason largely: but she
also had respect and regard for the
man and the man for her. The hap
piest marriages are those which are
made by sensible mating and not for
the foolish emotion called love. But
it's a long story. and I am not hus-
handwriting. Let me add the opin-
ion of a notable woma writer and So
worker which declares that il we
would adopt more Of the French idea.
Of business matches we would have a
better domestic life. This writer de-
idiotic sentimentalism and is
rejoiced that mel and women are now
using their brains more than their
hearts in the making of marriages."
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THE ROOSEVELT SUPPORT.
New York Mail

NSN
Nothing the matter with the Roose-
welt support. Judging from the way
the people have expressed their SYM
pathy in the ways regularly open TO
them. From the first days OF the re-
public no candidate for president has
ever received such overwhelming ma
~iorities as President Roosevelt receiN-
ed in 1904. and commanded, in Taft's
behalf, in 1908. Lincoln, Grant. Gar
Held, Mckinley Washington himself,
never received so large a proportion
OF the votes Of the people.
Glance at the figures a moment.
Roosevelt's popular plurality for pres
ldent in 1904 was ~2,545,515. This
staggering preponderance was 1.27?.-
I'll greater than Taft's plurality in
1908, although Taft's plurality of L.
$3.50 was greater than n other
president but Roosevelt ever had re-
ceived.
President Taft's magnificent vote
I'm 1908 was given. and intended. by
the people as a tribute to Roosevelt.
What the effect was of taking Roose-
VOLT away from all consideration. we
may see in the signal defeat OF the
Republican party In the congressional
election in 1910.
We can see the continued support
nf Colonel Roosevelt. or the peoples
part. in every public appearance that
the man makes. There has never
l,e"n any qualification of it. In Kan
sas and elsewhere in the west in 1910
and 1911. in Ohio on the occasion
at the Columbus address. and in Mas.
s%arhusetts today. the story of this
spontaneous affection and confidence
has been continued without a break.
There is absolutely no question
about the size, enthusiasm n per
sistence Of the Roosevelt support
1t surpasses any political phenome-
non Of the kind eve noted or sug-
gested in this or any other country.
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these animals when swimming and has
often enabled them to elude pursuit.
And this is very important-beaver
tail Is esteemed the greatest delicacy
IN the mountains. An old trapper
seven distinct 1avors to the meat on a
beavers tail. namely: Frog legs. pork
tenderloin sausage. mallard duck.
prairie chicken. plover, lobster and
turtle. You take the tail, as broad
as your hand and ten inches long,
throw 1t into a bed Of Goals. turn over
crack the hide off with a hammer.
Then 1t is ready for the stew pan. A
good sized tail will weigh three or
-FOUR pounds and the beaver himself
from forty to fifty pounds. This weight
serves to make them clumsy enough
when walking. although they manage
TO cover a good deal of ground. a
beaver track alongside a creek will
be taken by the novice for the track
OF a duck or goose.
Well, the beginning of winter that
year, 1910. saw Mr.. and Mrs. Beaver
and al! the little beavers quite at home
IN their new surroundings. The dam
had been built. there was a plentiful
supply OF water, with SUFFICIENT depth
In the pond. n its bottom had been
covered with cottonwood twigs and
OA jill kllS OOIIOln.
Wood. you know. floats, vet these
canny creatures place 1t on the bottom
OF the creek. where it is removed from
the danger of becoming ice bound.
n where It will be available for
breakfast. or supper. in weather that
does not permit foraging. How do
they do it? And why Should a colony
iorsake comfortable and roomy quar-
tiers that had served them for years,
In addition to this other knowledge
the beaver is weather wise. He knew
Isio mad been a very dry season, and
rightly apprehended that the
tho smaller ones-wouId peter ont
curing the winter. so he moved his
belongings to a never-failing suppiy.
put the new home wal occupied oniv
curing that winter. The following
spring was wet. the summer brought
neaVy rains. and my friends are asai,,
occupying the old quarters not twenty
rods from the ranch house.
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tBy Florence Muriel Bromley.)

(By Florence Muriel Bromley.)
1t is a pretty general expression in
these days." said a member of a Pitts
burg girls club to a reporter for The
Dispatch yesterday. that the business
GIRL the girl who gets out and does
something for herself, is to an extent
unified for marriage as compared
with the class of girls who sit at home
and on the piano and read nov
els and go into society," and wait for
marriage as the be-all and the end-all
Of life in this world.
ut Is asserted that girls who go in
for business on their own hook. or in
the employ of business men and wom-
en-, eliminate the romance and higher
their sensibilities. become calculat-
ing. become all business in fact, so
that they look out for a business mar
riage instead Of a marriage which en-
lists at least a big share Of the softer
affections.
Now we have discussed this mat
ter exclusively both inside and out
side u club, and it is our almost un-
animous opinion that the business girl
ance and sentiment knocked out of
her by learning to do for herself, but
that she is better fitted to select a
husband, or to mate with the man
win whom she will be happy and help
to make happy. than those girls who
learn the ways Of the world only by
what they see of that which is called
society," which means the society on
~ Of their w circles. The girl who
goes in for business, if she has n
good sense, will be apt to read books
more improving than the girl who
reads merely to be entertained, mere-
ly to pass away the time, and she be-
comes a keen judge Of humanity.
Concerning Marriage.
MANY assume that the business girl
will naturally look out for a business
marriage. Let me tell you that a
numerous element among them are
not looking out for marriage at all.
She is in a position to wait for the
right man. and rot to accept with an
eager yes the proposal of the first
man who thinks he would like to mar.
~ her. The girls who feels that she
is independent. no matter whether the
independence come by way Of her &C.
cupation or fortunate p%ecuninary con-
dition. is a thousand times more like
ly to make a wise choice, a wise ac-
ceptance, than the mass who depend
on marriage as the arbiter Of their
future.
why should not a business mar.
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Ward County Reporter)

Theodore Roosevelt is a candidate
for the Republican nomination for
president OF the United States. In q
statement issued Monday he declares
that he will accept the nomination if
it is rendered him and he will stick
to this decision until the convention
has expressed its preference. The In
dependent predicts that Roosevelt will
be nominated and elected. His clos
est opponent will no doubt be Taft.
LaFollette Is no doubt more popular
with tho masses than Taft. but the
southern delegations will he fairly we'll
divided between Taft and Roosevelt.
LaFollette hopes to he nominated by
receiving the support of either the
Taft or the Roosevelt delegates in case
that neither Of those candidates have
enough to nominate. 1t has been re.
ported that Taft will look to I.aFolette
for support owing to the bitter fight
that Is being wagcd between Roosevelt
and LaFollette. The North Dakota
presidential primaries will he held on
March 10 and a big vote will be rolled
up for Roosevelt. While the North
Dakota progressives have endorsed La
Toilette. Roosevelt is so exceedingly
popular in the state that he will re-
ceive support from all factions.
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Curious CONVERSATIONS
tTaken from Exchanses..)

h English author who is most
read in Russia next to Shakespeare is
Jerome Is. Jerome.
Paris is now in direct telephone
communication with Madrid, one
thousand miles away,
Dust collected from numerous va
cuum cleaners has proved to be a
valuable fertilizer, and its sale be-
comes a regular business in Paris.
During the year 1901 2S 5000 new
motor cars We're registered in the Uni
ted Kingdom. of which eighteen thou
sand were of British manufacture,
During 1911. 1.071.743 tons Of new
shipping were launched in the Uni
ted Kingdom. Of which the shipbuild-
ing works on the Tyne contributed
436.4G6 tons.
New Zealand's postal revenue is
larger in proportion to population
than that of any other ountry II
exceeded $4,000. 900 last year. or Sc
for every inhabitant.
AT the labor exchanges in GERMANY
3,l0S.OOO men and women operatives
offered their services for sale In 1909.
EMPLOYERS made 2,20S,o0 applica-
tons for employees.
The Rev. James Cameron Lees. at
the age OF -. last year. walked 1864
hAN ouN "tltIe IL I1IIIEJoT ar NJ
Giles, Edinburgh. walked a distance
greater than the circumference Of the
globe.
Tibet. the land of the lama. now
has an issue of postage stamps.
Among other states which for the first
time issued postage stamps during
the last year were the former Siamese
states OF Trenanu and kelantan and
the Gilbert and Ellice islands protec-
Dickens saw the humorous posi-
bilities of dummy books" and for the
m~ake-belteves which he had painted
on the door and part OF the wall of
his study at Gads Hill he invented
some quaint titles: Rants Eminent
liumbugs.' ten volumes: Drowsey's
"Recollections of Nothing" Lady
Godiva on Her Horse" evidences OF
Christianity" by Henry VIII; Han
sard's Guide to Refreshing Sleep"
STRUTS Walks" Swallows ION Emf
Rration;" Cats Lives" nine volumes;
"Malthus' Nursery Songs" nineteen
Volumes. and A. Carpenters '.Bench
OF Bishops"
PROFESSOR Elmer Gates performs
we're" interesting experiment by i'm
mersing his hands and arms to the
elbows in separate vessels filed with
water just to the point of overlooking. |
BY Withdrawing his thought absolute
ly from one hand and concentratinR
1t on the other he so expands the
blood vessels in the latter by sending
an extra supply Of blood to It that the
water in the vessel in which It Is ov-
erfows quite -erceptibly. To further
prove this power Of thought con-
centration he transfers the thought
from n hand to the other without
changing their positions until the 9TH
er vessel overfiows.
II one were to gauge a woman's
happiness by the number Of decora-
tiOns that adorn the corsage Of her
dinner dress or hall gown no one
shout dbe more entire'v content with
life than Nine. Bakhmetie1. the
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v

Mitchell. s. d.. March s.-Resolu-
tions today were adopted by the news
paper reporters Of the Roosevelt pres
idential candidate in session here. n
dorsing the principles Of the repubii-
can party as expressed by the former
president. licensing Of corporations
doing interstate business by the gov
eminent. n asking a clearer defni-
ton of the Sherman antt.trust Law.
A committee of nine men were an
pointed to select ten delegates and
ten ~alternates to the national n
ltcan convention at Chicago who favor
Roosevelt. The committee was given
power then to call a mass meeting
to endorse the candidates.
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FOLLOWING CAVALIERS EN-.
AMPLE.

a couple of days ago the Roosevelt
Republicans in Cavalier county held
a meeting at Langdon and laid plans
for getting out the Roosevelt strength
in tina county March Ia. The plan
is a commendable n that could be
followed with profit by Roosevelt Re-
puhlicans in other counties. 1t is the
method by which the state can be
carried for the hope of the Republic
can party. Two things should be kept
in mind by the Roosevelt voter-to
vote for Roosevelt for president so
as to make the presidential choice,
and then vote for the list OF candi-
dates whose names appear at the head
of this column, for delegates and
presidential electors. In fact the vot-
err can clip that list and mako out his
ballot accordingly and he will have
done all that he possibly can do for
the Roosevelt cause.
The Times urges every Roosevelt
Republican who reads this editorial
to become at once a Roosevelt work
er. We have suggested this before
and scores OF letters nave beer re-
ceived endorsing the plan and declar-
ing the writer's were already at work.
Cpou SuSkt itC uoSS tuC oVNttsbS VI
the Roosevelt movement depend and
to them will belong the credit il their
efforts bear fruit. Let every Roose-
welt supporter who reads this clip the
list of Roosevelt delegates and give
them to some other supporter who
is not a reader Of the Times. Butt
II the Roosevelt men in each county
would get together and form an or
---f---- -,,I . -A -
county. It would be the best scheme
possible.
The Times knows that Roosevelt
has a majority in this state. II 1t
does not endorse him. it will be he
cause those who are for him do not
go to the polls and vote. But it
must not be understood that the
Roosevelt adherents can lie down and
count the battle o President Taft
has every officeholder the admins
tration can influence at work in this
state. There are some who refuse
to be tied in that way. But others
do not. The plan of the Taft man.
ayers is to take advantage Of the eff
forts of the LaFollette following to
secure votes for the Wisconsin man.
The administration believes that by
dividing its opposition into two camps
Taft may be able to secure a majority.
We want to state clearly. however.
that we do not believe the story that
is being circulated in some states to
the effect that the LaFollette cam
paign under the conditions we have
cited is in h interests of Taft. He
may profit 30 much by the division of
his opposition that he may cary this
state. But We repeat that we do not
believe there is an understanding to
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-07
that effect between Taft and LaFol-

lette.
The facts that LaFollette has o
one chance in a thousand to be NOM
mated and that supporting him is
helping to defeat the very things for
which his former followers stand. II
presented to the average voter, will
80 appeal to his intelligence that he
will be convinced. These are the
things to preach. These are the
things which will effect the result In
this state on March Ia. They are the
fundamental truths of the fight in
this state.
III. perchance. some LaF'ollette adj
herents suggest that the success Of
Roosevelt in this state will be advan-
tageous to any particular candidate
before h June primaries. ask him to
explain in all fairness how a voter.
who votes for Roosevelt in March
places himself under any obligation to
vote for a candidate in June who AL
80 supported Roosevelt in March. That
Is one of the arguments being used
to hold votes to I.aFollette and it is
a pretty fimsy me-. too. We have
said before and it will bear repetition,
that the only way the March pri-
naaries can effect the June nomIna-
tons will be that by dividing the an
ti-Taft vote it gives the state to Taft,
or that by endorsing LaFoliette and
taking the votes from the dangerous
Taft opposition in the convention al
lowing Taft's nomination, the voters
In indignation may vote against can
didates whose friends used poor poll
tical Judgment. This argument, so far
as we are concerned. is neither a
threat nor a prediction, but it is one of
the results hat the man looking
ahead can foresee. II North Dakota
endorses Roosevelt the Times Is conf
dent the primary in June will be
fought out on the merits of the can
didates then presenting themselves,
and that no n will profit or suffer
by the Roosevelt esult in March.
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Sample Rugs at $1.48 Each

accept the place at the head of the
ticket. has gone far towards clearing
up the situation as far as the Repub-
lican nomination is concerned.
With all due respect to President
Taft and Senator LaFollette and the
desire of the first for a second term
and Of the latter for a trial at the
presidential butts. the fact remains
that Mr.. Roosevelt has more wide
spread popularity and is much moro
able to anncal the factions Of the par
ty. than either of the others.
The talk of the Taft and LaFollette
wings of the party combining against
Roosevelt in the national convention
Is no more than political bubble.
What the country today needs is a
man in whom all the people have con-
1dence. a man capable of meeting the
changing conditions of the times. a
man under whose guidance things can
be done with the least possible disar-
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lWillow City Easlel

Agreeable to his promise of last
week to make known his decision on
Monday regarding his position towards
the great demand that he become a
candidate for president. Theodore
Roosevelt. the strenuous, announced
that he felt in duty bound to accept
the nomination and make the effort to
be elected If the national convention
sees fit to nominate him. To the anti
Roosevelt papers throughout the state
and nation this will be hailed as a
God-given opportunity to swat the coll
one between the yves with the mythi-
cal claim that he is thus breaking his
pledge that he would not seek the
presidency again. But to this reply
might be made that the presidency has
sought him and not he it. What other
reply was possible for him under the
circumstances? What else could he
do but accept the nomination II ten
dered him by the people and make the
effort to be elected if he accepted ?
Funny ideas some "insurgent" CO edi-
tors have.
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praise OF the production and inasmuch
as 1t comes here under the personal
direction of John c. Fisher, the noted
producer Of '~Florodora" and THE
Silver Slipper" we have every reason
to expect a performance Of the highest
class. Harry B. and Robert b. Smith
are responsible for the book and lyrics
the musical score is by Robert Hood
Bowers and the production has been
staged by r. H. Burnside, the cele.
brated director of the New York Hip
podrome. The three acts are laid in
Paris and its environs and depicts the
spirited and picturesque student life
OF the French capital. No more pre-.
tentious musical comedy has been pre-
sented on the American boards in the
past three years and no mor carefully
drilled chorus has been seen here. The
cast includes many notable people.
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American born wife Of the new
plenipotentiary of the czar at WASH
tngton. 1t Is certain that no one else
has ever come to the United States in
the role Of ambassadress OF q foreign
power who possesses so many Of these
tokens from the rulers Of the old
world. Many OF them and certainly
those which Mime. Bakhmetieff VAL
ues most highly, were bestowed upon
her in recognition of he rwork in re-
lieving the suffering among the Mace
DOMAIN refugees in Bulgaria when her
husband was representing the car at
Sofia some seven years ago.