The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-01-18

tally solicited for free publication, also.
But advance notices of all meetings where
an admission fee is charged. and all cards
OF thanks will he charged for at 25 cents
for each 10 lines or less.
Whenever you can look at your
self and be satisfied, you should
begin to suspect yourself of NOR
al blindness.
Do not be disappointed if the
Bureau of Ethnology cannot an
swer your request for 1.-The In
dian word" for this or that. In
a recent report il says that Their"
are, or have been, bully five hun
red distinct Indian languages Oil
this continent north of the Rio
Grande, and almost twice that
number in the whole of the New
World.
The wheat belt is looking
forward to bumper crop in 1917.
The fall months were exceptional
w. favorable for farm work, ami
the acreage of winter wheat is
far greater than usual. All the
wheat that America can raise this
year will be needed, for it is Ger
tain that none will be left over
from the short crop of 1916, and
probable shat the European har-
vests will again be short.
Canada is rapidly gaining pos
session of the greater part of
Niagara Falls. The American
Falls now carry less than a invent
ieth of the entire flow. For two
hundred years or more the centre
of Horseshoe Falls has been re-
ceeding by erosion at the rate Of
about five feet a year. The edge
of the American Fall: drop back
toward Lake Erie, they receive a
larger aud larger volume of water
To the father who admitted
in court that he did not know how
his son, then under arrest had
been spending his evenings or
what he had been doing the judge
put some questions that other
fathers might we'll ask tllcmselv-
es.: 'Do you keep a horse?"
Eyes, Your Honor "Where is
it now?'' I'm the barn. "You
know where it is every night,
don't you?" You lock the barn
door to- keep The horse safe, and
you feed it and care for it don't
you?' Yes, sir (Which do
you think the most of. the horse
or the boy?" "'l'hc hoy of course
''Then see that you treat him as
we'll as you treat the horse
The world little notes what
happens on the ancient throne of
Abyssinia, where traditions has it
that the Qecn of Shcba once rulcu.
yet an interesting change has just
taken place there. Before Meme
Xix. the reputed dcsccndent of
King Solomon. died. Il few years
ago, he selected his grandson,
Lii Yasu. as his successor. 1t
was an unpopular choice. and
the young man has been forced to
step aside i'm favor of ZcOditu. Il
daughter of MenrIik. The En-
press Zeoditu. who is forty years
of age, hates all foreigners and Is
likely to attempt absolutely to
close Abyssinia to them
The revival of plans for a tun-
mel under the English Channel
brings out the Interesting and
litle-known fact that IL substau-
tial beginning on the tunnel was
made a generation ago. In 1874
a Freuch company sank Il shaft a..
Sangtte nd drove il gallery ii mile
and half under the Channel to-
ward England. In 1881 an Eng
lish railway company sank ii 100
foot shaft near Dover and drove
a 7-fOot tunnel more than mile
under the Channel toward France.
Then the cautions statesmen in
terfered and stopped work. Both
tunnels remain virtually mtac...
Engineers have found that at a
depth under the Channel ranging
from 80 to 200 feet is stratum
of gray chalk that is the easiest
possible material to cut through.
1t took seven weeks to complete
the Official returns of the popular
vote cast in the recent president
ial election. Mr.. Wilson rcceiv-
ed 9.i16,296 votes, almost three
million more than he got in 1912,
and a million and half more
than any previous candidate re-
ceived. Mr.. Hughes. too. had
more than any previous candidate
and nearly million more than
Taft and Roosevelt together D H.
ed four years ago. His total was
s.5l7.l74. Mr.. Hanly. the Pro-
hibition candidate, got 25,lOi
which is 10000 more than his
party received in 1917: but NJ
Benson. the Socialist. who polleG
100000 votes, got 100000 les: