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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-09
MORE RECREATION
Lieutenant Governor o'Hara Of mi.
nois Makes Number Of Suggestions.


nois Makes Number Of Suggestions.
Boston. Aug. 9.-The better housing
conditions. better wages for city girls
and more recreation for the young wo-
men Of the country in their homes
were suggested to Offset any tendency
to various listing. by Lieutenant Gov
ernor Barratt O'Hara Of Chicago, in
a paper read at the convention OF the
Forward-to-the-land league today.
Mr.. O'Hara was not able to be pres
ent.
IT am strongly in favor Of the gar
den city PLAN" said the lieutenant gov
ernor, land I hope the day will come
when we shall see garden cities in ev-
cry state Of the union"
DR.. Lillian w. johnson. member
from Tennessee Of the American farm
commission described the work Of
that organisation. Howard p. Cross
of Chicago contended that farming.
the biggest business in the world.
was done carelessly.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-09
II f. BAR II
Grand Forks Attorneys. Will PARTED,
pate in Associations Session.

0tUIIU TUT NHeUoI -. VIII uaC1-
pate in Associations Session.
Several Grand Forks attorneys will
the annual meeting. Of the
Bar association which is to
held at Montreal September l., 2
and 8. -.,-..
Among those who will make the
trip from this city are Judge A. A.
Bruce, j. B. Wineman, city attorney.
and L.. e. Birdzell OF the state tax
commission and formerly connected
with the law school here.
This will be the first meeting Of the
association v held outside Of the
boundaries Of; the, United. States.
Among the distinguished visitors who
will attend. are William. H. Taft. for
mer president of the United States,
and 'Viscount Haldane of Cloan chan
cellor Of Great Britain.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-09
CuRTIss SELLS p T.

Hampden. n. D.. Aug. 81. G. Cur
tiss has sold the Hampden Guardian
to. e. C. Taylor, the latter having beer
employed in the shop for some time.
Mr.. Curtiss has taken q position with
the Great Northern railroad.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-09
exam FOR PROFESSIONALS
Another Teachers Event Takes Place
in Grand Forks September 4 an 5

Those who desire to possess pro-
fessional teachers certificates will
have an opportunity to secure them
September 4 and 5. when state exam
nations will be held at Grand Forks,
Fargo and Bismarck. There are two
grades of these certificates.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-09

Some experts" do nothing but dig
up the mistakes of their predecessor.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-08-09

Gas service of the same kind,
quality and price is rendered
to the family with a big in
come as to the family with a
small income. 1t is cheap for
either.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17
HUMoR IN BATTLE.
A Laugh That Snapped the Tension
and Saved the Day.

ana odNcu tno LAY.
Many time has that sense of humor
which is the heritage Of the sons of
Uncle Sam been as sheet anchor to
them. Danger deadly enough to make
the bravest pause has lost its terror
when touched by this saving grace.
Il remember well how a timely little
pleasantly In moment of deadly peril
turned utter defeat into victory for us
at Port Republic, considered by Stone
wall Jackson the most desperate Of all
his desperate battles" said an old vet
eran Of the "Stonewall" brigade of the
Confederate army.
General Shields line Of battle, COM
posed Of the flower of the Union troops
then in the Shenandoah valley, stood
with its right flank resting on the
Shenandoah river and its left clutch
ing firmly to the steep shoulder of the
Blue Ridge mountains; stood there like
the mountain ridge itself, not to be
moved, not to be flalked. High on the
slope above and In front Of the left
wing well posted battery of eight
powerful field guns poured destruction
into the Confederate lines
"Stonewall Jackson must have those
guns. Not only was this necessary to
victory, but also to save himself from
complete defeat, for to attempt to with
draw his men In the face of that dead
ly shell fire meant rout Already two
Georgia regiments had hurled them
selves against the battery and then
reeled. crushed, to the rear General
Taylor's Texans, veterans Of San ia
cinto in the Mexican war, had twice
stormed up the steep slope to the muz.
zles of the guns, only to stagger back.
leaving half Of their officers on the
field.
TO us, lying in reserve. In full view
of that bloody mountain side, there
galloped up an aid from General Jack
son.
Charge that battery and take itg
he shouted to our commanding officers,
PN'Htihb " thS DiiSbiluS guns. Geue1-
al Jackson says he must have those
guns-he must have themr
"A murmur ran down our line. None,
neither friend nor foe, ever accused
the Stonewall brigade OF being afraid
But when we looked up ut those grisly
guns, yawning, black mouthed, beneath
their smoke canopy; when our eyes
swept up that fatal slope, now gray
with southern dead, we came about as
near knowing fear as ever soldier
wishes.
And just then there came from a
lank and ragged private In the front
ranks the drawing words:
Say, boys, let's WEALTH. chip in
an buy them air guns for Ole Jackr
"A roar of laughter rolled rioting
down the line, swapping the tension.
The commanding officers, seizing the
opportune instant, started the charge.
The gray lines, close on their heels.
swept up the slope. laughing, shouting.
falling. yelling, dying-to victory!
"A little timely humor had saved the
day for the Confederate armyg-New
York Times.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17
OLD BROAD CREEK CHURCH.
Il Ip, In Ruins Now.vYet Washington
Once Worshiped There.

Within eight miles from the national
capitol at Washington is an old church
which was built In 1904. Its parish
was founded even before that. Very
few people have ever heard of this old
church, for the simple reason that for
the past fifty years the place has been
falling to rack and ruin
1t Is famous church. and in the
early days 1t was well known parish
for 1t was the first that was founded
near the city Of Washington or hate
years the old families have all moved
away, and their children have had In
terests elsewhere. They have all for.
gotten the little old church where their
ancestors worshlped
1t was this church OF st. Johns that
George Washington attended on his
frequent visits to its side of the river,
A few years back those old parishion-
ers who could remember their fathers
stories Of having seen Washington row.
ed by his slaves over from Mount Yer
non to service there, put on Washing
toms pew in the old church silver
plate as memorial to him.
The old graveyard is oyergrown with
honeysuckle. but beneath the masses
of vine there are many famous old
Maryland people buried.
The church itself is curious old
structure, 1t is nearly square and the
bricks, which are of exceptional size,
were imported from England. The
hardware was also imported.
There Is no chancel at all In the
church. There is a place where the
altar should be that is set apart from
the church by a small rail. At one
time there was a great high pulpit, but
this was taken out by some rector who
thought that 1t was Unnecessary
Living Church,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17
LONDON "PEA SOUP.'
hasts and Foss So Thick That They
Turn Day Into Night.

TURN Day Into Night.
London and Londoners have been the
butt of many a good joke. but perhaps
the oldest subject Of the humorist is
the London fog The mist, which is
commonly called pea soup" dates
back to the seventeenth century. There
are records as far back as that which
indicate that the city suffered even IN
those days from mists as intense as
any of those of today.
In November. 1880 John Evelyn
made note in his diary to the effect
that there was so thick mist and
fog that people lost their way in the
streets. 1t being so intense that no
light of candle or torches yielded any
direction. Robberies are committed
between the very lights which are fix
ed between London and Kensington on
both sides and while coaches and pas
sengers were passing. 1t began about
4 in the afternoon and was gone by
night. At the Thames they beat
drums to direct the watermen to make
the shore"
Visitors to London In those days
were In the habit of making fun of
the fog just as the visitors of today.
Condomara. Spanish ambassador in
Queen Elizabeth's time, said to friend
who was returning to Spain, MY com
pliments to the sun. whom have not
seen since | came to England"
In Elizabeth's time the burning Of
coal was prohibited while parliament
was in session. So dense were the
fogs during the years Of 1918 and, 1914
that when the prince regent tried to
make his way to Hatfield the home Of
Lord Salisbury, he could not find his
way and was compelled to forego the
trip and return to Carlton House,
which he reached after a succession OF
accidents.--New York Sun.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17
A WIZARD IN MEMORY.
Scott Could Retain In His Mind Any
thing He Heard Once.

thing He Heard Once.
To his rare good fellowship and his
powers Of endurance Scott added one
other quality, without which his vigor-
GUS search for literary materiul might
have been Of little use-namely. a most
extraordinary memory. which enabled
him to retain what he heard and use 1t
many years nfterward. James Hogg,
the eccentric Ettrick Shepherd, gives
fine instance Of this power One night
Scott, with his friends Hogg and
Skene, was out on fishing expedition.
while we three sat down on the
brink of river" says Hogg Scott
desired me to sing them my ballad Of
'Gilman's Clough Now he II remem-
bered that this ballad had never been
printed had merely romposed it by
rote and on finishing it three years be-
fore had sung 1t over Onre TO Sir Wal.
ter. began 1t at his request. but at
the eighth or nlnth stnnza ! stuck IN 1t
and could not get on with another
verse. on which he began 1t again and
recited it every word from beginning
to end
1T being a very long ballad, consist
ing Of eighty.eight stnnzas. | testified
my ustonishment, knowing that he had
never heard 1t but once and even then
did not appear to be paying particular
attention. He said be had been out
with a pleasure party as fur AS the
opening Of the Firth OF Forth and to
amuse the company he had recited
that ballad and one Of Southeys cThe
Abbot of Aberbrothok'I. both OF which
ballads he had heard only once from
their respective authors. and he be-
lieyed he recited them both without
misplacing word."-From Charles S.
olcott's "The Country OF Sir Walter
Scott"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17
LIFE IN ICELAND.
Il 10 Not the Crude Existence That
Many People Imagine.


Most people think of the Icelanders
as being like Eskimos, crude, unen-
lightened people. looking more like
animals than people and living In
snow huts, dressed in furs, whereas
the Icelanders are handsome, cultured
people, highly educated, with fair faces
and brilliant eyes and very dainty
fashion of dressing They live in neat,
charming houses, have beautiful flower
gardens and never wear furs, for the
reason that 1t is never bitterly cold in
Iceland on account of the gulf stream
washing its shores.
AS to their diet, 1t is somewhat
wanting in variety on account of the
lack of many food staples, but all their
dishes have a certain odd richness that
is very delicious to a stranger 1t is
largely because of the amount Of oil
they use They cook many things In
Ola clear, sweet fish oil, though sub
stituting olive oil makes the dishes
quite as tempting. They try to use
their native products, as everything
else has to come so far and the steam
ers call only once In ten days from
England and Denmark, and the import
ed goods are expensive for Icelanders,
who are not very well off, though new
er poor.
Their own products are fish in vast
quantities; lamb. the chief meat; eggs,
wild ducks, sleeps milk, cheese and
butter; turnips, of which they raise
and eat more than of any other vege-
table; potatoes, onions and beets.
beans and occasionally peas; spinach,
cabbage and Brussels sprouts; no fruit
to speak of and rarely any beef-it is
imported from Denmark and Scotland.
Pork is rarely eaten and then In the
form of imported bacon.
But out Of this meager list Of staples
they evolve some truly delicious dish
es, for the island people are all good
cooks and have native knack that is
like the French. They can make any.
thing they cook taste good, no matter
what the ingredients may be.--London
Family Herald.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17
Asparagus Analysed.

Asparagus belongs to the family OF
plants--liliacae-that includes onions
leeks and garlic Each Of those vege-
tables contains o small quantity Of sui
phur in the form Of an oil. The pres
ence Of the sulphur is more noticeable
in onions than in asparagus. but If
shoots Of asparagus are left In water
for few days the odor Of onion de-
velops and becomes quite strong. The
food value Of asparagus Is slight, and
much Of 1t is lost in the process Of boil
ing. The London Lancet declares that
after boiling for twenty minutes as
paragus has virtually no food value.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

Perpetual motion Is very old
dream. For this purpose machines
have been constructed from time i'm
memorial, hut nothing has every come
Of It. Men have gone mad on the sub
ject but without any practical results.
II was demonstrated long ago by Sir
Isaac Newton and De Ia Hire that per-
petual motion is impossible Of attain
ment. Even the solar system. the
most wonderful machine Of which we
have any knowledge. will run down In
the course Of time, some say In about
ll0o0,0O0 Of years from now.-New
York American.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

The Rev. s. E Keble tells good
"precept and practice" story. The sue.
cessor TO the living Of Charles kings
ley told him that although Kingsley
went all over the country preaching
sanitation, his own rectory was found
TO be In an unlnhabltable condition.
owing to the chnrchyard draining be
meath the drawing room. The succeed
ing rector had therefore to build new
rectory and lost faith In social reform.
ers.-Pall Mall Gazette.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

Politics was at the boiling point in
the negro ward. and the lemon colored
henchman undertook 10 air his supe.
rlor knowledge In the argument with
the ebon hued brother Yes. sub" be
declared. speaking Of n candldate. "he
just n neophyte In politics, Just q neo
phyte"
why, dat man done tole ouah club
las night he wuz strong Publlcanl"
excitedly declared the other. when
dat new pahty start upT"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17
Rough ON the Plumbers.

Are there any plumbers in heaven,
dad?' asked small boy
The gentleman addressed had Just
received "smal" bill from one Of the
plumbing fraternity as he answered,
promptly and emphatlcally;
"No. my boy Certainly uotl But
what made you nsk?F
81 thought there couldn't be. because
the sky leaks such lot" London
Tatler.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17
chanaIna Load to cold.

Professor Soddy makes the assertion
boldly that 1t is only question of ap.
pllcation to change lead into gold. He
says that while now we can only work
with electricity at 100000 volts It Is
only matter OF perfecting the method
TO be able to work at ten times that
voltage when the baser metals can be
changed into the more precious, In
other words, electricity. when brought
60 It's highest efficiency and application,
is the real philosophers stone for
which the alchemlsts Of the middle
ages searched 50 long.-New York
World.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

With many others, have complain.
ed Of the ignorance Of the bookshop as
sistants They are apparently so bust.
ed in distributing literature that they
have no time to read It. The other day
| went into my usual "bookseller's and
news agents" with "A usual demand
and the extra one. for | had mislaid
my copy OF the "Apocrypha," a volume
always hard to obtain. And have you
tho Apocrypha. peaseT The cour.
teous young lady thought, glanced
round. Let me see." she said. is 1t
a weekly or monthly yT-London
Chronicle.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

That curious people, the Yezidis Of
Turkey, live sometimes In huts, but
more commonly IN black tents like
those OF the Arabs OF the plalns or
OIL the peculiar peoples OF Turkey they
ure the most peculiar or the least un.
derstood Il Ia said that they worship
the devil Instead Of God They re-
spect Satan as deity whose power
for good or evil In very great, and
therefore they Will never mention his
name. Christian Herald.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17
NITROGEN is A LoAFER.
This Gas Is Too Lazy to Do Thing
Except "Being Around"

This Gas ls Too Lazy to Do a Thing
Except Being Around"
Nitrogen in its normal condltion-as
1t occurs In the air we breathe, Of
which 1t forms over 70 per cent-is a
singularly lazy member Of the family
of elements. The average human loaf
er is ambitious by contrast He will
at least whittle stick by way of oc-
cupation and scramble up. with some
alacrlty II asked to "have something"
Nitrogen gas just puts in its time
being around" And It doesn't do
anything else. No ordinary stimulus
can stir 1t to action. We breathe in
gallons OF 1t every day, but we breathe
1t all out again absolutely unchanged
except that it is little warmer And
this despite the fact that the body has
to have regular supply Of nitrogen
and that we spend much money on ex-
pensive food to get It.
In the outer world, too. elements of
all sorts go wandering by. and nitro
gen sits like dummy uninterested
and quite unresponslve to any ad-
vances they may make. To be sure,
a few years ago the Industrial chem
lists succeeded, by using powerful cleo
trio currents in waking up the atmos-
pheric nitrogen. and now there are
several large factories in which nitro
gen activated In this way is being
turned into explosives and fertilizers.
But In the laboratory and on the street
1t has continued to be the inert ele-
ment par excellence
In view of the very important part
that nitrogen combined plays in the
world, chemists, with the necessary
idealism to make them great, have
long suspected that II just the right
conditions could be provided this In
difference Of nitrogen to its fellow ele-
ments would disappear.-New York
Post.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

The daughter Of southern congress
man had recently been bridesmaid al
the marriage Of college chum. On
her return home she was telling the
family, including the old colored nam
my, OF the ceremony. And Just think,
Aunt Comfort" she finished, the bride
wore the lace veil that had belonged
to her great-grandmotherg'
LAW, Miss Sidney. chle!" exclaim-
ed nanny in tones Of horror "That
sholy am one saving famblyw-Judge,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

Murphy was assistant cook on board
a trooper ship bound for India. The
Hrst morning he forgot to wash the
boiler out after breakfast Conse-
quently there were tea leaves on the
surface Of the soup when dinner was
served To clear himself Of blame he
went to the respective mcsses and said:
"If yez foind any tay laves In the
soup you'll know It's mlnt"-London
Globe.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17
Neatly Msnaaed.

Are you sure yonr husband will
stay nwuke aud look after the babyT'
nsked one woman.
"Oh, yes" replied the other. II gave
him Welsh rabbit for dinner that
won't let him sleep u wink Washing
ton Star.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17
EXPENSIVE DINING.


u
Prices Soar Sky High at the Hotel dss
Roehes Noires.
TSouville is In the season one OF the
most expensive spots in Europe. 1t
contains what Is assuredly one Of the
most expensive hotels in Europe, The
individual who takes his wife and fam
lily to the Hotel des Roches Noires for,
say, a month in the high season and
does them really well-that is. gives
them the best which the house has to
offer-when he comes away--if he has
paid his bill-has left a small fortune
behind him.
The Idea that an Englshman be-
cause he is being charged a high price
10 being cheated is absurd Nowadays
whatever 1t used to be once upon a
time-an Englishman In really smart
hotel In France Is looked at askance.
French people on pleasure bent are
much more extravagant than we are.
They do not seem to care what they
spend.
remember dining once at Trouvllle
when basket Of nectarines was offer
ed by the head waiter. They were
quite nice nectarines, but that head
waiter wanted 25 francs apiece Five
dollars for two or three mouthfuls
seemed to me too much, but those nee
,tarines all went There was scarcely
a Frenchman in the room who did not
treat himself to one. At the next table
to mine was man with his wife and
bis daughter. They had three apiece.
$45 for dessert as windup 10 an ex-
tremely expensive dinnerl = Richard
Marsh In Strand Magazine
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

Some Of you who think you are well
up In spelling Just try TO spell the
words In this little sentence:
ut is agreeable to witness the un.
parnlleled ecstasy Of two hnrassed ped
dlers endeavorlng to gauge the sym
metry Of two peeled pears"
Read II over TO your friends and see
how many Of them can spell every
word correctly. The sentence contains
some OF the real puzzlers Of the spell.
Ing book.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

81 hope you watch your teacher,
Johnnie. and remember what she
shows you"
"Nnw. ! don't"
what do you do?"
u watch the clock. ~ Cleveland Plain
Dealer
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17
Ever Faithful.

Henry, believe you are like all the
men. When ! give you letters to mail
you think it's a good joke to carry
them for days and days in your pock.
et."
abigail. give you my word mail
every one OF them-eventually."-
cago Tribune.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

Grandpa Macpherson How many
do two and two make. Donald? Don.
ald--slx. Grandpa-- whut are you tnlk.
Ing ubout7 Two and two make four
Donald Yes, | know, but thought
you'd beat me down" Bit London
Punch.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

Bill-oh. yes. know old Jackson
he was good sort He did a very
kind action once for me when the
clouds we're dark and threatening and
the world looked so black. Sid What
did he dog Bill he lent me an UNI
brella. London Mail
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

kloseman-sorry to refuse you. old
man. but my money likes company
BorrowS- What do you meanl KlOse.
man II rant bear to be lOan."-Bos.
ton Transcript
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

Few Of US get credit for our effort"
True ! spent most OF yesterday AFT
ernoon IN an effort 20 get credit for .
months supply Of grcceriea.'--Bu Buffalo
Express.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

According 20 n French law pnssed In
the eighteenth century. any woman
growing beard has, lpso facto. III,
right TO dress like man,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

A man believes be Is hero II he
amuses a baby for three minutes. But
he never gives a mother credlI ryr
amusing II twenty-four hours a day.
Cincinnati Enquirer
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

LADY, wish you would paint mo
storm at sen. Marine Painter-Impos.
sible. madam! "But other artists paint
storms az sea" "Yes. but rye seen
one"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

young Muchcnsh must think that
time has more lives than a cat"
"How SOP
~He kills II regularly every day.
IudQe
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

Diligence IA the mother Of good luck
and God gives all things to industry
Benjamin Franklin.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

II you want to be missed by your
friends ba uneful.-Robsrt y. Lee
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-11-17

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