Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-07-09

LANGDUN CUURlEk-DBmUCRA
KoEHMsrnpT & MCLEAN, Proprietors
LANGDON, NORTH DAKOTA
Bishop Stanley admonishes forei 8
born people to teach their children thei,
catechism in the English language,
and says that hereafter unless child
presented for confirmation is proficient
in English he will not be confirmed.
This being the language of his adopted
country it is necessary for them in Or
der to defend their religion.
At the graduation exercises of the
normal class from the University of
North Dakota at Grand Forks last week
Mr.. Roach, president of the board of
regents. created something of sensa.
ton by declaring that the normal grad
mates of the university were shut out
from positions as teachers in the public
schools of that city. The question that
suggests itself to outside people is, why
is such the case? One or two conclu-
sions must be accepted: either the
Grand Forks board OF education is pre-
JUDGED against the university normals,
or the board does not consider the work
of the normals up to the standard.
People are getting more or less ex-
cited over the cattle and sheep business.
There is good deal of money to be
made by the wide-awake man who has q
little money to put into beef and NUT
ton on the hoof. Two years ago Messrs.
Stoughton and Keogh of Hebron bought
175 head of young stock, paying So a
head for them. They have just sold the
entire bunch for $40 head, spot cash,
net. This is 500 per cent. profit on the
money invested in two years, or in other
words, $50 per cent. per annum. One
can find any number of people who say
they have made from so to 100 per cent.
per annum on sheep, but this cattle deal
beats therecord.
Apparently the Kansas Farmers Al
lance has become convinced that there
is no hope of carrying out nationally
the ''Subtreasury" scheme of the Ocala
platform. and the members of the order
in that state have resolved on trying
something like it among themselves.
They propose to establish in each
county bank and an elevator. The
bank is to issue checks to the value of
80 per cent of the wheat in the elevator,
and these checks are to circulate as
money" among people who are willing
to take them in exchange for goods OF
in payment of Indebtedness. It is not
stated that any capital is supposed to
be necessary to establish and run these
banks and elevators, or that the farmers
would deposit their grain without some
such security as is furnished by the
knowledge that sufficiency of capital
is behind the note-issuers.
Although the vote upon the amend
ment to the Constitution of Louisiana
upon which depends the continued ex-
istenoe of the lottery swindle will not
be taken until April next, the anti-lot-
terry men already have forced the fight
IN holding their first campaign meeting
in New Orleans. The resolute policy of
the anti-lottery men is foreshadowed by
the following vigorous declaration of one
of the leading speakers:
If the lottery cannot be stamped out
by the usual means, it will have to be
crushed by revolution. Unless the state
is redeemed by it's own acts the appeal
must be made to the virtue and intelli-
gence Of the whole country, for it is not
competent for an isolated community to
live as the moral convicts of the world.
The sentiment of the country stamped
out slavery, and the rest of the world
has already Invested itself of the lottery
curse. If the curse is inflicted upon
Louisiana she must become the lost
plead in the sisterhood of states, and
go forth an outcast pariah with the
scarlet letter of shame branded forever
upon her forehead.
Whatever else may be said of the mar
riage of Mr.. Parnell to Mrs. O'Shea, nee
Wood, it was an honorable and courage
GUS act, though the relations of the two
were such that no other course re-
manned open to high. minded man.
She had sacrificed herself for him, and
he has sacrificed much for her. As they
were partners in distress it is we'll for
then to face the world together, and if
there be any matral comfort left for
them. to share it together. Mrs. O'Shea
stands infinitely higher than her late
husband and comes of better family,
as social standing is measured in that
country. At the time of their divorce it
was said that he had not lived with her
on the average month in year. The
rest of his time he spent among the
designations of the clubs and pursuing
pleasure on the continent. Under such