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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05
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! SSopSIlSnt 1910, Dy w. Werner.l
In her shabby. rented o Nancy
Ferry sat sewing on a white satin
dress.
It wal a golden May morning. SUM-
light streamed in across the worn
mating. the poor furniture. There
was a group Of jonquils in a cheap
vase on the sewing table. hooking
the sunshine with their glory. Be
hind the room and over It were the
sounds of a woman's noisy early
morning warfare with disorder. Doors
slammed, dishes ratified , heavy steps
pounded back and forth. Mrs. Couse
%casionally she urged herself on with
song.
"oh. you beautiful lady; I raise
my eyes"
As the strong. not unmelodious
voice brought in the words Nancy
sighed. She was making the satin
dress for a very beautiful lady. and
she w took a stitch upon It with
out a mental picture Of the way that
lady would look in the dress when
1t was done. It must be wonderful
hair and a skin as pink as the dawn.
But. on. far. far more wonderful must
it be to have q true lover-one who
raised his eyes. whose heart few to
ones heart as the waltz song had
1t. Nancy's beautiful lady had such
a lover. and. as IL God were not con
tent with that M most perfect gift,
He had showered her with others
riches. many friends. beauty. and the
dress Nancy was making was a we'd
ding dress, and the wedding was very
near at hand.
Sometimes Nancy dreamed dreams
about herself. which were like tran
eient reflections Of something bright
and good that had been long ago in
her own life. For Nancy Ferry. little.
pale, workworn. sober Nancy Ferry,
with her red hair fading at her blue
temples and her t%hreadbare black
frock, and her needle pricked fingers
fire Of young romance. One had come
into her life and gone: had come with
awakening Joy and hope and promise.
and had gone. leaving the ashes Of
these things behind him. It had all
amounted to SO little, a hand clasp or
two. a few conscious smiles and
glances. a kiss, a vow to return. Then
the long. long waiting. at first hap
PLY. then hopefully then despairing-
was never to see him again. Had he
forgotten or had he not loved her
enough. or had there been some other
woman? She did not know. She only
knew that he had taken her heart and
the best Of her life away with him
and had not brought them back.
A long time had passed. Nancy
came to be alone. She was very poor.
and she had had to work IL she would
eat. There was nj thing she could
do-she could sew. She hired Mrs.
Couse's front room to work in and q
smaller room behind It TO steep IN,
and announced herself ready to make
dresses. But in the old. Indifferent,
Questionable town womenfolk wore
their clothes a long time. and most Of
these they made themselves. Nancy
did not have many dresses to make.
But the dresses she did make were
exquisite. There was such merit in
them that one day the great Miss
Ten Brock stopped Mrs. U. ]. Grams
bury. who was wearing a .foulard
fresh from Nancy's hands, and asked
~graciously who her seamstress was.
Nancy Ferry! Nancy Ferry" re-
peated Mis- Ten Brock. laughing. 81
like the sound Of that odd little name.
And I very much like the looks Of
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05

the New York Graphic. Browne
wrote Kearney's speeches. He was
Jailed al often al Kearney.
As Kearney's manager. he accept
ed General Benjamin Buffers invita-
ton and took Kearney to Boston in
retreat he spoke from the Capitol
steps at Washington. That caused
the passage Of John sherman's act,
under which he was arrested on the
same steps sixteen years later. In
Chicago he became a chum Of Albert
Parsons, later hanged as the leader
of the Haymarket bomb-throwers.
Parsons wal a dreamer. and en-
thusiast," said Browne. but never a
dynamiter."
BY 1892 he had taken part in every
political movement that finds record.
lgnattus Donnelly-the man who Ba-
conized Shakespeare and found" the
lost continent Of Atlantis-read the
resolutions Of the silver convention
held at Chicago that year.. Browne
was a silver delegate. but he forgot"
Wrong" he shouted from the
floor. 1.-The basis Of all value is
land"
Worsted In repartee. Donnelly had
the convention adjourned. Jacob
sleicher Coxey and Cyclone Davis and
gerry ana annie DlSgS ana
q host Of other odd notables were
there. The next year Browne led the
FIRST parade Of the unemployed"
through Chicago's streets ana was or
dered out by Mayor Harrison. Union
labor took his part and he stayed in
town.
Then he suggested a petition in
boots" to Coxey, and after forty days
labor. convinced the Ohio man that
the idea was good. Browne was chief
marshal Of the winter march across
country from Massillon to Washing
ton. He drafted Coxey's Good
Roads" bill, although 1t was Coxey's
own idea. That bill is still kept alive
Present address, Commonwealth
Castle. Napa. Cal. Present occupa-
ton. Admiral Columbus Of the Aerial
Ocean. Present funds, none.
Truly, "a full. life"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05

One Of the things which apears to
be quite necessary in connection with
the new banking bill il that it shall
be fairly satisfactory to tho national
banks whose operations 1t is to gov
ern. 1t is well enough to say that all
national banks shall comply with the
conditions of the law, including that
which requires the deposit of reserves
in a particular manner and under par
ticuiar conditions. provided those con-
ditions are such that sound bankers
will see some desriability in the pro-
posed conditions. But, IL the condi-
tons r so oppressive that the banks
will not feel that it is safe or prac-
ticable for them to operate under
them, the government cannot force the
system upon them. for national banks
can surrender their national charters
and become state hanks. and thus re-
lieve themselves Of all obligations un-
der the national banking laws. wheth-
er or not this course is likely to be
followed by many banks We do not
know. Clearly. II it were rather gem
orally followed it would disorganize
the whole banking bushes.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05
The Evening Story
THE ID GOWN.

house. she should come out in April
and ask Nancy to make her wedding
dress.
"I've loads and loads Of things
coming from New York. lingerie and
wraps and ordinary gowns. but I
want you to make the dress I'm mar
ried in. 1t may be only a sentimental
fancy. but I feel that you will weave
a charm with every stitch you take
a charm against unhappiness and q
guarantee OF Joy. You understand.
Nancy? You r 80 pure. 70 true. SO
downright good that surely your very
touch must hallow my wedding gown
and make its wearer. proof against
SORROW"
Never had anybody said 90 beauti-
ful a thing to Nancy Ferry in all
her lifetime! She had felt when
she received the parcel Of satin - II
she was taking q sacred trust.
And now the wonderful dress was
finished, save for the few last in
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05

One congressman wants the bank
ing bill fixed so that 1t will operate
more in the interest Of the debtor. on
the principle, of course. that it is al
ways noble to sympathize with the un-
der dog. If the gentleman means
that he hopes to see arrangements
made whereby money al more easily
be borrowed by those who have no
assets, and who do % intend to pay
it back, We fear that he will have to
take it out in making speeches.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05
TWO SIDES RIGHT AND WRONG.

g. writer in the September Atlantic
directs needed attention to a state
ment that is made as many times by
q many people. perhaps. as any other.
and always with the trust in its wis
dom so undeserved as to be truly pa
thetic, says the New York Times. Two
persons get into a discussion on some
subject, and, after a while, the chances
are that the n Of them with the
weaker cause or the less ability to
support it will try to close the argu-
ment by saying, 'Oh, well, there are
two sides to every question" Then
the other, if ne happens to be tired Of
the debate. or to hold its subject Of no
vital importance. will admit the asser-
ton, with more or less Of courtesy,
and they part with nothing settled.
Now 1t is not true that there are
" sides to every ~question-not true.
that is. except in the never-intended
sense that there is every question a
wrong side and a right side. A few
have one or two more, possibly. but
to the a majority Of them there is
but n side worthy Of the name, for,
Of course. the wrong side is not a
side at ali, as the word in this usage
u invariably understood.
This is not to declare that truth is
absolute, or that it is necessary to ar
cue every difference of opinion to an
agreement more or less bitter on the
n ham n more or less cruelty tri-
umphant on h other; it is simply the
declaration that from properly defined
md clearly understood premises only
, single conclusion can properly be
drawn, and to admit or to proclaim
the propriety of any other is to sin
against logic. This sin is usually COM
mitted in the supposed interests Of
peace. but the peace thus secured is a
poor. precarious thing, and whoever
listens at the cracks in 1t is almost
sure to hear the fierce growlings and
the short, sharp barks Of the moon
Einced.
The agreement to disagree" so Oft
IN praised. simply shuts OFT a certain
part Of " minds or personalities
iron, each other. and thst. repeated
otter enough, will me Ike strangers OF
me closest friends. ard hostile tranR-
bra, zoo. The humiliation Of acknowl-
Ddzed defeat in argument, on the con-
lraTy. soon dissipates, and the end is
} f1rSrer alliance. primarily. but not
wholly or always. against all who
sill hold TO the abandoned view.
Won:ca--wirh a good deal OF ex-
lusc. the validity Of which men should
20 the last to deny-probabiy make,
pr hitherto have made. the false and
1cmoraiizing concession as TO the
two sides" oftener than DO their more
p~usnacious. because physically strong
u. mates. That nowadays the oln
Ihow q stronger liking for. and deter
Mination to get. settlements thai set
Ee = . most encouraging sign Of the
knaek
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05
THINKS CHUBBY" LOVES AN.
OTHER.

Bowman, n. D., Sept. 5.-Having
a monomania that her husband was
in love with other women. Mrs. MUIR
ray Irish was taken into custody on
complaint OF neighbors who feared in
Jury from the excited woman In or.
der to try the efficacy Of new scenes
Mi. Irish has sold his farm and will
return to Minnesota with tho woman
She appears entirely rational on ali
other subjects.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05
DIsIOCATEs KNEE.

Enderlin, n. D., Sept. ED. Had
dican met with a serious accident. As
he was leaving the bakery he fell in
to a sewer excavation which was not
properly covered and hurt his knee.
The knee began paining him 20 se.
verely that . doctor was called and
on examination found the knee dis
located. z.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05

The original plan in connection with
the income tax was to exempt all in
ome OF less than $4,000. Then the
exemption was cut down to $4,000.
Now Senator Root wants it cut down
to $1,000. II this thing keeps on a
lot Of people will think congress is
getting personal.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05
DIV John IN. car.vA

(By John w. Carey.)
Who used to be the Invest wire
IN Washington. D. c.. nor failed
70 make n title page with regu-
iarity! VINO nowhere went with
out his fork (sAe.Puck and judge
and Life) and always had a an
ger in the fireworks and strife,
Who poured the verbal hot shot
with delight on luckless foe ana
now and then upon the floor
would stage a two-round 20?
(Here pass ten years-as piay-
wrights say-a chronologic ran.
IN which we have no evidence our
hero's on the map. Who's back
upon page one once more with
erudite review-"Ye Rise ana
Fall Of Frying Chicks?" Zen
Tiliman, ESQ.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05
Jul HAVE RAISED CAIN
HAD HE GONE INTO FOOTBALL

Ty Cobb may be . pretty nifty little
baseball player; admits Dan McGugin.
famous Michigan football star Of other
days and now coach at. Vanderbilt, but
oh! he would have. been q hum.dinger
on the football field. :. +.
McGugtn has. held asuly to: this
opinion evsr since that time ~ was
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05

at Nashville. 1t. seems that he was
given the privilege Of practicing one
week with the Vanderbilt team. He
was a Joke at first. says McGugin.
but he didn't remain such very long.
He kept plugging away, observing
what the others were doing and pro6t.
Ing BY mistakes. In -FOUR 'dayS h4 d..
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05

veloped into the best drop-kicker on
the squad. BY the end Of the week
there was n o q man on his team
whom McGugin would not have traded
for Cobb.
Hard work and brains have made
the Georgian the greatest baseball
player, says McGugin, and the same
Qualities would have made him one
OF the best little old football stars
that ever booted the pig-skin.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05

POINTED


POINTED PARAGRAPHS. =
Alas. that the flower Of the family
may go to seed!
It makes some girls weary to do
anything but visit.
You probably seem as cranky to
others az they seem to you. - !.
Fools and children tell the truth
at the wrong time.
1t is no task for a clever woman "a
manage a young man-durinE court-
ship.
How difficult to draw the line be-
tween genius and insanity!
The honeymoon is over when the
pride discovers she might have done
better. ~
The amateur poet is going some
when he earns enough money with his
pen to pay for the ink.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05

How difficult to draw the line be-
tween genius and insanity!
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05

anything but visit.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05

Alas. that the flower Of the famil,
may 90 to seed!
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05

You probably seem as cranky to
others az they seem to you = :.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-09-05

Fools and children tell the truth
ut the wrong time.
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Foreign Representatives-Carpenter
Scheerer Special Agency, Peoples Gas
Building, Chicago: Fifth Avenue Build
ing. New York.
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Entered at second class matter at the
post office at Grand Forks. North Da-
kota.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-11-07
FREQ SCOTT

Fred Scott, one of the early
settlers of this county, died at the
Boiling hospital about II o'clock
Friday forenoon of n complication
of diseases. When he first struck
Elko it was a city of tents and he
pitched his where the Engler Com.
pany's store now stands.
He afterwards moved to Mound
Valley, where he continuously re.
sided until he came to Elko for
medical treatment.
Mr.. Scott was born in Denmark
in 1886. He came to this state
when but u young man and has
seen il grow and develop into q
wealthy and prosperous common
wealth. He did his part toward
developing the resources uf Mound
Valley, where he made his home
for so many years.
His funeral will take place from
the Undertaking parlors Sunday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends
and acquaintances are respectively
requested to attend.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-11-07
END OF DISPUTE
OVER BULLION TAX

Judgements we're entered yes.
tcrday in two suits in favor of rs.
mcralda county in Judge Somer's
courts, one against the Goldfeld
Consolidated Mines company for
S17I7L82 and one against the
Pittsburg Silver Peak Gold Mining
company for SS39l9. These were
the amounts which had been pre-.
yiouslv ascertaincd to be due the
county by the Board of County
Commissioners on the basis recent
iy Il lcd by the State tax commits.
sion for the taxation of the net
proceeds of mines. The amounts
of the judgement we're Immediate
Iy paid by the respective companies
and satisfaction entered of record.
--Goldfeld Tribune.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-11-07
VOTES FOR WOMEN
IN CALIFORNIA NOT
Az ExTRAVAGANCE

In answer to the attack recently
made on equal suffrage in Califor-
mia by Miss Alice Hill Chittendon
of New York, John Francis Ney-
Ian, Chairman Of the state Board
Of Control. has drawn up a state
ment of the cost of the state of the
humanitarian laws passed by the
California legislature in 1918 and
deplored by Miss Chittendon. The
legislature created six commissions,
four of which we're unsalaried. The
money appropriated for all six of
them totals only little over one
hundred thousand dollars. Miss
Chittendon claims that the legisla-
ture created thirty-une commissions
which would cost the state one mil
lion year. Miss Chittendon claim
ed also that there bad been too
many useless investigations. Mr..
Neylans answer is that there have
been nineteen Investigations in all,
sixteen made by the State Board
of Control. In each of the six
teen cases the official investigated
confessed his guilt and was forced
to refund his stealings. Mr.. Ney-
Ian sums up the situation by saying
that the expenditures of California
since 1911, when women were en-
franchised has been less than for
anv previous biennial period in Cal
ifornia history. Miss Chittendon
said that the state funds were so
depleted that California probably
could not make an appropriation
for the Panama-P Exposition.
The State has made an appropria.
tion of $5. .000, 900 for this purpose.
Mr.. Neylan states that there ha
b:en in California of late marked
increase in economy and a driving
out of corruption and graft. He
says in conclusion:-''I am confiG-
ent that these changes could never
have beer accomplished in the
three years if it had not been for
the influence of women upon the
politics of California.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-11-07
NEEDS A GOOD LESSON

Sunday night H. S. Menagh
created disturbance at the Owl
saloon and was put out. His con-
duct was of the hoodlm order and
his language was about the worst
the writer ever heard. He tried to
force young nan to drink with
him and called names that are
unprintable and almost unthink-
able.
After being put out of the sa-
loon, he continued to use vile Ian
guage and tried to get back. Con-
stable Fernald happened along and
told him TO cut il out and go away.
Instead Of taking the kind advice,
he pulled off his coat and used
more vile language. He was then
arrested and landed in Jail.
This forenoon he plead not gull.
ty before Judge Castle and was
tried and convicted of the charge
Of disturbing the peace. At s
o'clock this afternoon Judge Castle
will pass sentence and il Menagh
gets what he justly deserves he will
he taught good lesson. He needs
il badly.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-11-07
An IMPORTANT CASE

The State Back & Trust cases
will come nm bcforc the supreme
,.,,.....o,Cor Cor
49,,
SUI anu O''''''' "''''
leaves this morning to be present
and argue before the court. The
decision of the court in this case
wiu ho tho most important it has
,,ba.o ~ fro fail
~ ''','
u'o oi '"e N''"'' '"''''''''"
the appointment OF a receiver
Receiver Wlldcs took an appeal
from an order Of the district court
II .,,icb rho money deposited By
,,,r ,,,. ..it u,o borL nc q
''''' u '"e .,...
separate iu"" ''' '''' 'o"'
declared to be Sp'cia' ocp"''' an. al"
'"e'ei"'' 49,, L.;ot
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-11-07
JOYS OF MINING
IN DEATH VALLEY

A mining engineer who recently
visited the camp of Carbolite in
Death Valley, where the Chafey.
SaIsbery mine is situated, has sent
the following description to the
Fonopah Miner:
The property is situated in Cal
ltornia in the foothills about 400
icet above the floor Of Death V. L.
ley, which at that point is 235 feet
below the sea level according ia
the United States geological bench
mark at the wall where the wagon
road starts from the bed of tue val.
ley, four miles from the mine and
Is reached by way of Zebriski. a
station on tie Tonupah e. Tidewater
railroad, % miles south Of the old
camp Of Greenwater and four miles
north of Iecape.
III is unnecessary for me to
make any comment on the climate
ot Death valley further than to say
that | saw enough to convince me
that Hades would be considered
a summer resort when compared
with this climate in August and
September.
AT the mine, Mr.. Bruce, the
superintendent, who is well known
in Tonopah and Goldfeld, informed
me that he put the thermometer
out in the sun one day, but it ran
up so fast that he was afraid to
leave it out long, fearing that the
mercury would break the glass in
its haste to reach the top. 1t had
reached l64 degrees before he
took it into the tunnel, aid this is
at an elevation of about 1900 feet
above sea level. For this reason,
the men employed at the mine
live and sleep in tunnels, ard the
kitchen and boarding house is alsu
in one OF the tunnels"
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-11-07
new SAFETY DEVICE

The railroads whose hcadquart-
ers are in this city have been in
formed by the Pullman company
that it is using a new device in the
construction of its cars which has
proved highly effective in tests for
preserving the lives of passengers
in train collisions. The railroad
men have received this information
with information and qualification.
In recent collisions, notably on the
Nav haven road at Walling ford,
Pullman cars have been so COM
pletely demolished that many peo-
pie come to consider them unsafe
for travel.
Pullman cars are mostly Of wood
en- frame. Recently the company
has turned to steel construction TO
avoid the telescOping and demolish-
ment which have made wooden
cars so unsafe. But in collisions
where the speed If the colliding
train has been high, even steel
cars have not proved to be wholly
safe, buCkling and being battered
in. That is because rivets have to
be used for joining the steel wall
to the underframes and these riv-
cts are sheared or wrenched off in
collisions and the car walls then
battered down. Any passenger
sitting near the end of a car are
consequently exposed to great dan
ger.
The Pullman Company's new de-
vice is to prevent the shearing of
rivets and resulting battering
down of the car walls. 1t consists
OF two heavy steel beams, each
bent in the form of u. These
steel Us are placed back of the
vestibule of the car, one on each
side of the rear door of the vesti-
bulc, and they form cushions pow
ertUl cncrGh 10 resist the heaviest
impact, and thus to preserve the
cars walls from emolishment.-
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1913-11-07
GETTING BACK At THE
TAX COLLECTOR

Several taxpayers Of Hopcwcll
borough in Pennsylvania, the small
est borough in the State, paid 12,-
900 pennies to Samuel Russell,
borough tax collector, because he
refused TO accept checks.
1t is said that thousands more
pennies will follow. Russell was
chosen recently as collector. He
read the law and found that the tax
must be paid in currency. When
several checks were sent he rcfus-
ed to accept them. Several persons
sent Tor pennies and took them to
kusseIPs home. james Bunting,
Jr' was the first to arrive. He car
ried a II pound flour sack. Soon
after Granville Coates, brought
n's IN bran bag; Ralph Conoly
followed with "a milk pail partly
hIIed with pennies and James Sloan
carried his in a coal scuttle.