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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1886-11-04

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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1886-11-04

OF President Lincoln,
and continued under the
authority of his son, the
Hon. Robt. T. Lincoln,
is the only full and au-
thoritative record of the
life ofAbraham Lincoln.
Its authors were friends
of Lincoln before his
presidency; they were
most intimately asso-
ciated with him as pri-
vate secretaries through
out his term of Office,
ond to them were trans.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1886-11-04
GREAT ENTERPRISE.
THE LIFE OF LINCOLN,

HIS CONFIDENTIAL 9EcAETARlC1, JOHN
a. N COL. JOHN HAY.
THE orsot xuorL hAr,,p with fh~ s.pct;or
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09

A HISTORIC spot. noteworthy in the
early life of medi@yal Germany, is
doomed to appear beyond recognition.
Ingelhaim was favoriate residence of
Charlemagne, where he built a great
palace and monastery, and laid out
pleasure grounds. From the hill where
he had liked his own dwelling he remark
ed the early disappearance of the winter
snow from the Johannisberg and the
slopes of Rudeshiem, and he had vines
brought from Italy and planted in these
places, which instinct told him would
produce good wine. This was the first
introduction of the wine into Germany
Few remains of the building now exist.
What their extent must have been may
be inferred from the fact that from the
Ingelheim hill to the Rhine is fully two
miles, and yet the river is said, in all
accounts, to have washed the palace
walls. 1t is this hill and immediate
neighborhood which is known among
the people by the name of "Charlemagne's
Hail. Some pillars were standing in
the last century; but they have been
long since scattered. One of them is pre-
served at Nayence. A great champagne
grower, NJ. de Barry, purchased the prop
erty some years since. But be died and
it has passed into the hands of limited
liability company, who have had the
place surveyed, and propose letting it
out in small peasant holdings.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09
Fun Among English Aristocrats.

The gayety at dinner sometimes rises into
hilarity. On a hot night in June not many
years ago l was dining with a young earl
The party was composed exclusively of men,
all of high rank, friends and associates Of
royalty, members of the Marlborough club,
where at that time you were expected always
to be in evening dress after O'Clock, as you
might meet the Prince of Wales. The house
was Scotch one, and after We rose the piper
was brought in. He had already passed three
times around the table during dinner playing
bis bagpipes, but now it was proposed to have
a dance, and two young noblenen were pitted
against each other in Highland fling. The
rivals took of their coats and waistcoats and
their evening shoes, and began capering with
all the fervor of the stage Hishman-leaping,
brandishing their arms, whooping and shout
ing like Florence or Barney Williams in a
favorite role. The others joined in, or took
their turn, while the screech of the bagpipe
accompanied and excited the performers
Once or twice the young host came to me in
the corner where l sat watching this extraor-
binary scene in London drawing room and
asked me if 1 thought they were savages.
But was delighted to study the manners Of
the inhabitants, and begged them to go on
And they did
At the center of the long room the young
ariStocrats now heaped up in mass al the
movable furniture, sofas, ottomans and
chairs. Then nearly every man Of the COM
pany in turn started from the head of the
room to leap over the pile. Some stumbled,
one or two fell, but most of them cleared the
barrier. No one was hurt, but clothes were
torn, trousers burst, and every noble acrobat
was bathed in perspiration. The sport was
kept up till nearly midnight, and then it was
time to dress again, for they were all going
to a ball at the Duchess of Buccleughs.
So the party broke up, and an hour or two
later met them again, renewed in appear
ance and attire, and as subdued in man
ner as the ordinary undemonstrative English
man.
These young fellows had not drank any
great quantity of wine; their exhilarstion
was simply natural spirit, the result Of high
health, youth and intimate company, and a
feeling that whatever they did, their doing it
made it appropriate. They were rollicking
set, but there was no vulgarity in their mirth,
no coarseneSs even in their boiSterousnesS
But they broke some very precious porcelain
in their performances.-Adam Badeau's
Letter
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09

The academic and impractical charac-
ter of the methods of the Democratic
tariff tinkers is well shown by the treat
ment to which Hewitt's bill has been
subjected. This bill simply corrects
some defects in the existing laws to bet
ter their administration, and the Treas
ury Department time and again has ap
pealed for the proposed relief. The ne
cessity for the passage of the bill is gen.
orally admitted to Congress and it does
not meet with opposition, but the bill
cannot be gotten at because the tariff
tinkers will not allow it to come before
the House except as an appeDdage to
their scheme. The bill is therefore kill,
ed by being hung up in committee.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09
Grains of Gold.
Be courteous TO all.

Be courteous TO all.
Beware of small temptations.
Truth outlives pain, as the soul does
life.
Patience may be bitter, but tie fruit
will be sweet.
Never let an opportunity TO do kind
act pass by you.
Think of heaven with hearty purpose
and strong hope to get there.
Examine into your own shortcomings
rather than those of others.
With some folks what you wear counts
for more that what you are.
Love is sunshine, hate is shadow; life
is checkered shade and sunshine.
Good thoughts are no better than good
dreams unless they are executed.
We attract hearts by the qualities we
display; we retain them by the qualities
we possess.
Many youth has ruined himself by
forgetting his identity and trying to be
somebody else.
Inclination never wants an excuse, ,and
duQ IL Ouo WOu uO InOIO dIO q uOACh
others soon to be found.
The life of true man cannot be a
life of mere pleasure; it must be, above
all things, life of duty.
Make the best of what you have rath-
er than make your life miserable by
wishing for what you have not.
Virtue will catch as well as vice by
contact, aud the public stock of honest,
manly principle will daily accumulate.
Sobriety and tranquility tUnd to self
command and that genuine self-respect
which has in it nothing of self-worship.
No man is born wise, but wisdom and
virtue require tutor, though We can
easily learn to be vicious without a
master.
Only where the love of truth reigns
and the desire to discover it is supreme
is the mind free to search for it and ac>
cept it.
He that sympathizes in all the happi
ness of others enjoys the safest happi+
ness, and that IS warned by the folly of
others has attained the soundest wis
dom.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09
GRANDPA'S PET.

A bundle of sweetness rolled up in blue
A round, curly head that was golden,
Two wee chubby hands that came peep
ing through,
And neer one thing could be holden;
Such a lump of fun as eyes never met,
And the whole went by the name of
Grandpa's pet.
He's up in the morning when daylight
breaks,
And every Que knows all about it,
The day begins just when Roger awakes,
And none are so hardy as doubt it.
An autOcrat be, whose wish must be met,
All must bow to the reign OF Grand
pas pet.
Does he want crown? He'll have
Grandpa's hat
The coal scuttle serves him to fish in !;
When be chooses to ride, he'll ride the
cat,
And pussy must bend in submission !;
He cannot do wrOng-he never did yet
Why, the whole world was made just
for Grandpa's pet.
When he makes a crows nest of grand
pas wig,
Then the old man is ready to kiss him !;
He draws his snuff-b about for a gig,
And the worst word that's said is,
God bless him!
All clocks in the house to his time are
set
Well, there's nobody there but Grand
pas pet.
What pity we cannot always be young,
And rule like a king in his glory;
What pity tLat Time, with his iron
tongue,
Must change the sweet tone of life's
story.
Alas! that we lose in furry and fret
The dream of the time we were Grand
pas pet. WIN. Lyle.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09
THE DERWsHEs OF PERSIA.

They Are a Lot of Conscienceless, Sensu-
alistic Frauds-Higher Grades
Among the religious institutions of Persia
the dervish deserves mention. From among
their ranks the noblest thinkers, teachers and
poets sprang in the days of old, but this is
long past. To-day the dervishes are lot of
conscienceless, unscrupulous ragamufins, beg
gars, intriguers, fanatics, atheists, sensualists
and cynics by turns They are all hasheesh
smokers (bhenghD, and lead a dissolute life,
using religion as cloak to cover all their
sins and passions, and nearly always in league
with the lutis and robbers and thieves. Many
of them are Hindoos, and among their num-
Der may be found people of all degrees, even
some of the wealthiest and highest.
The common beggar dervish is fellow Of
pronounced depravity. His appearance is
bad enough. He wears rags, begrimed and
filthy beyond belief His beard and hair are
left growing, and are unkempt and full Of
vermin- His voice is cracked and his eye is
lustreless from the constant use of the soul
benumbing bheng hasheesh) He carries a
stick, the handle of which is carried so as to
describe the Persian characters for "Yah
Ali" and besides that he exhibits the kashkull
(coacoanut shell to receive aims in) and often
D
and the horn of an argati mountain Sheep,
to produce the horrible noise with which he
understands with such perfection to make
nuisance Of himself. He sits down at some
shady street corner and howls at every
passer-by his "Yah hakk" (Oh, eternal truth,
without ever taking the trouble to rise when
soliciting aims. He will receive money from
anybody, even unbelieving Ferenghis, but
will send curses and strong vituperation after
people if they have not given him as much as
he expected Many of them viii feign insan-
ity, the better to beguile the unwary Sheeite,
who, like the Turk, has feeling Of tender
pity and reverence for the demented.
The higher grade dervishes style themselves
Able azaad, free people,, and are generally
men of some education, but are, like the
other kind, arrant vagabonds, and worse if
the opportunity is favorable. They wear
cleaner clothes and part their hair in the
middle, but smoke bheng, too, and generally
have women companions the lowest of their
sex, along with them While the lower kind
of dervishes are too ignorant to know any
thing, this latter species of the genus are con-
frmed atheists, while at the same time lead
ing life of idleness and vice on the strength
Of their pretended claim to holiness and
piety. A few, very few, Of them, are
still, however, men of learning and austerity,
and have pupils and followers.-Cor. New
York Times.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09
The Appointees as Good as the Party.

=
The policy and practice of the Repub-
lican administrations was TO send as
representatives of the government to
foreign countries cultivated and self-re>
5pectiDg gentlemen, who could be re-
lied upon to conduct themselves with
propriety under all circumstances. That
is the very least that could be demanded
of our representatives abroad. 1t may
be argued that it was very easy for Re-
publican Presidents to make such selec-
tions, owing to the superior character of
the applicants for diplomatic positions
during the twenty-four years the Bepub-
lican party was in power, and there is a
good deal of force in the suggestion.
But, judging the Democratic party by
the performances of a considerable
number of the recent appointees to posi-
tiops of that kind, the conclusion is inev-
liable that the choice of Democatic
Preaident is largely confined to disputa-
BILE bummers. or person of such repul-
sive characteristics in other respects
that no gentleman would care to asso-
ciate with them. When it became
desirable to send competent and dis+
Greet special agent to Mexico to invest
tigate the cutting business, Sedgwick
was elected for the delicate duty. Sedg-
wick may have preserved the appearance
OF decency at home, but he showed his
natural inclinationS the moment he
arrived in the City of Mexico. by getting
uproariously drunk and making tour
of the disreputable houses of the city,
whereby this government and people
were brought into great scandal and
disrepute. Mr.. Manning, the newly APT
pointed Minister to Mexico, was hnrried
off to counteract the evil effects of Sedg-
wick's missbehavior. Manning had not
been in the city three days before he
got crazy drunk. and kept up the de-
bauch for nearly week. Hubbard,
the new Minister to japan, scandalized
the country before he got to his post by
trying to bully the steamship captain
into supplying him with Unlimited
champagne free of charge. The new
Minister to Chilli turned out to be a
deadbeat of the most contemplate ohar-
acter. Kelley. for reasons entirely differ
ent, but amply sufficient, was refused
recognition by two European courts.
And SO the story goes. every week devel-
oping some new case of scandalous
conduct by Democratic appointees to
positions of trust and responsibility in
in the consular or other service. The
truth is that the present administration
is surrounded and beset by such an
army of hungry and thirsty whiskey
seakers, and these disreputables are so
thoroughly representative of the char
acter of the principal part of the Democ-
racy. that is not to be wondered at that
the country is disgraced by the conduct
of Democratic appointees to eflice.-
Cleveland Leader.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09

THE Republican District Attorney
Stone, Pittsburgh, Pa, thought that.
as the greater includes the less in geom-
etry and logic, the Presidents letter,
which had accepted Mr.. Benten's expla
nation for general speech-making
campaign. would cover his case, which
was that of making but two speeches at
neighboriDg towns, which he went to
after Office and court hours and returned
from the same night, and during which
two days he was in attendance on the
court through tie sessions.
These particulars brought his case
within the first conditions laid down by
the President in defining "pernicious
activity" namely, that it docs not con-
demn the making of political speech
by federal official to his neigi oors and
friends if the speech was decent and
fair" But Mr. Cleveland's letter in an
sWer to Mr.. Stones shows that his is u
horse of different color. Mr.. Cleve-
land had magnanimously supposed
THAT whatever offensive partnership he
had deemed justititable in other circum-
stance. he would, during his continuance
in Office under an administration oppos-
ed to him in political creed and policy,
consent himself with quiet and nnob-
trusive enjoyment of his political
privaleges.'
The President, Furthermore. had Ger
tainly supposed that bis sense of pro-
priety would cause him to refrain from
pursuring each partisan course as
would offend and iTritate the friends Uf
the administration" Yet his Republi-
can speeches could not but irritate the
Democrats who regarded his retention
in Office as a maddening affense. And
the President goes on to show that the
continuance of Mr.. Stone in Office under
his administration imposed on him an
obligation of allegiance to the Preslnent
and his party, which Mr.. Stone had bro
ken by his tive speeches.
He says: This obligation involved
certain good faith aud fidelity" and
that this duty of allegiance to the Presi-
dent, gave him this enjoyment of polit-
ical privileges" should restrain him
from "active participation in purely par
tlsan demonstrations of pronounced
type, conducted upon the avowed theory
that the administration of the govern
ment Was not entitled to the confidence
and respect of the people"
By this it appears that the once gilt
tering declaration that public Office is
public trust" comes out at the same
idea that it is "the enjoyment of pelit-
ical privilege" which Secretary Marcy
expressed in the more honest phrase.
ITO the victor belong the spoils;" and
that the civil service is that ofice-hold'
ers shall support the President, who
bestow their bread and butter.-Cin.
Com. Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09
crsa, E.tate. Ken, For sboo,,np.

Scotch hunting is gentleman's occupation.
The poor dare not shoot the game which
runs all about them, and the rabbits are as
tame as kittens Great estates are kept here
for nothing else but shooting They are not
farmed and are often Of thousands Of acres.
Sometimes these estates are let by the year or
season to gentlemen who wish to shoot, and
it has been estimated that the average cost of
hunting deer in this way was $500 per stag
killed 1t is the great grouse season and the
region of TroSSachs are full Of them. They
are found upon the moors and hunted with
dogs.
These Scottish moors had always supposed
to be something like the American swamp or
marsh. was surprised to find that they are
mountainous lands covered with grass and
the low bushes known as heather. These
bushes look like little sprigs Of pine set into
the ground and they have little blue blossoms
on them They make the landscape Of the
Scottish highlands peculiarly beautiful, and I
can compare it to nothing but great hills
crowned with beautiful dark green plants,
with here and there a patch of rich dark
olive brown There is velvety tint to the
grass here, which we don't get in America,
and the great moisture Of the air keeps the
grass green here the year round--Frank q.
Carpenter in Cleveland Leader.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09
A Sample of Texes Politics.

Some of our readers will doubtless re-
member that a report was recently sent
out from Washington county, Texas, to
the effect that the white inhabitants
were in great fear of a negro rising and
were making preparations to defend
themselves against the terrible colored
men. The trouble was stated to have
had its origin in the activity of "carpet>
bsggers" and "agitators" who were Incl
ting" the colored population to distur0+
auces of the public peace. S. A. Hack
worth, native of the county. man
whose father was q Texas soldier, has
sent to the North circular which
throws flood of light upon this case.
1t appears that Washington county,
having large majority of eolored citi+
zens, is naturally Republican by 1900 Or
more majority. The early accounts of
the trouble, coming from Democratic
sources, admitted that the county was
formerly Republican, but asserted that
the negroes had lately taken LESS inter
est in politics" To overcome this Re-
publican majority armed bands visited
all Republican meetings during the late
campaign and demanded division of
time for Democratic speakers. This they
always obtained. Mr.. Hack Orth main
tains, however, that the Republican
ticket carried the county easily. To
save their candidates the Democratic
officials thereupon destroyed the ballot
b xes in Republican precincts and
threw out enough Republican votes in
other precincts to accomplish the count
in of the Bourbon ticket. On November
5 they held meeting at Brennan, the
county seat, at which armed men gath
cred in large numbers, and Judge Kirk,
a Democratic leader, offered a resolution
expelling J. l.. Moore, A. W. Glider, Ed
Lockett. and S. A Hackworth from the
county in "a hours, under penalty of
death. The Republican candidates
have been warned that if they contest
the counting in of their opponents they
will all be killed, together with o. B.
Potter, J. L. Moore, and S. A. Hack
worth, three of their leaders. Well does
Mr. Hackworth ask whether or not gev-
eminent exists to protect every citizen
in his legal rights. If Texas politics are
to be run in this way there will be no
reason why the State should not give
100000 Democratic majority instead of
$4,000. The Washington county scare
of the white Democrats becomes per-
fectly Ineligible as the result of fear
fully guilty conscience, and it will be
taken for what it is worth by those who
understand the facts of the case.-CleYe.
Eeader.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09

BEN PERLEY Poor, listening to the
talk about the Blaine Edmunds incident
fishes this old story out of his scrap
book: Frank Pierce, when President,
was so provoked one day by allusion to
him in speech made in the senate by
John P Hale, of New Hampshire, that
when ,ne Senator and lis wife present.
ed themselves at a reception that night
at the White House, President Pierce
cordially shook hands with Mrs. Hale,
but took no notice of tie Senator's out
stretched hand and turning squarely on
his heel gave the cut direct"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09

IT is said whenever an eruption of
of the Bromo Volcano, Japan, takes
place. the natives, as soon as the fire
(the molten lava no doubt is meant)
comes down the mountain, kindle al it
the wood they use as fuel for cooking
They keey in the fire thus made for
years. and whenever it goes out, through
neglect or for any other reason, they
never kindle it anew from matches, but
they get light from their nearest
neighbors. whose are was originally OBJ
tanned from the volcano. The fires in
use, up to the latest outbursts. in the
native cooking places were all obtained
from the Brom0 eruption of 1882.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09
Church Directory.

DRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-Rev. r.
Il Alexander, pastor. Public worship every
Sabbath; morning service, IL; evening
service, Z. Sabbath School, 800 am. Young
mems prayer meeting: Tuesday pm; gen.
eral prayer meeting: Wednesday pm.
Strangers welcome to all services.
M ETBODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
u1Rev. W. Ii. Haskell, pastor. Sabbath
preaching: II am; 7p.m- Sabbath School:
2:3O pm. Young mems meeting; Friday 7
pm; general prayer meeting: Thursday 7 m.
Strangers are cordially invited to all our
services.
II United PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
~ Rev. Thomas Bslph, pastor. Sabbath
School. 10 am. Public worship: II am.
Weekly prayer meeting: Friday pm.
Monthly prayer meeting: Last Saturday of
each month, pm Woman's Missionary
Society: Last Saturday each month, pm.
District prayer meetings: First Tuesdays,
Wednesdays Thursdays and Saturdays each
month, pm. Young women's prayer meet
ing: Second Saturday each month at the
Parsonage, pm.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09

A New HAMPSHIRE woman, aged 80
years, when asked recently how she had
kept herself 50 vigorous and healthy, re-
piled: "By never allowing myself to
fret over things 1 cannot help. by taking
a nap and sometimes two every day of
my life, by never taking my washing,
ironing and baking to bed with me, and
by oiling all the various W heels of long
life with an implicit faith that there is
brain and heart to this great uni
verse and that 1 could trust them both"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09

Two YEARS ago Cleveland had an am
bition to be President of the whole peo-
ple" The Stone letter shows that his
only hope now is to be President of the
Democratic party. His ambition has
been reduced one-half in two years and
will be snuffed out entirely before the
end of bis term.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-09

THE Boston Globe publishes letters
from the prominent Democratic editors
of the country in answer to the question:
What should President Cleveland do
during the next two years in order that
Democratic success may be assumed in
1SSS?' A few of the letters say he
should do as he has been doing. Many
say that he should take course exactly
opposite, and others say he should in>
troduce improvements. AS all of these
seem necessary, the outlook for Demo
cratic success is evidently promiscuous.