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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-11-10
about Silver.

The most generally diifused metal IN
tha world is silver The waters OF tlie
ocean hold ii. in bulk not at all 10 oe
c,n,D.ra., with that of the sea, ana YET
IN those waters are ten thousand MIL
l;,n IONS If silver. Since the discovery
Of the New World. the two Americas
have Welded seven billion dollars worth
of the metal. Il peculiarly OF silver Is
that j, is never found in free state,
but always in combination with other
metals. \ striking example OF TINS IS
the Weld of the famous Comstock lode,
of Nevada. three hundred ana h1ty
millions, nearly one half of which was
gold found in the silver ore. STAND
ard" silver. as used in the arts. IS I'M
derstood to have ops parts of pnre Sill
yer to - parts Of alloy. AS silver
producing state. Colorado claims the
palm. and the way to reach it (as well
as all other of the greatWestern states)
is via the Burlington route. From the
north. east or soute this is the line to
Lincoln. Denver, Cheyenne. Dead
wood. St. Paul OF Minneapolis. ASK
your home agent to ticket you by this
route. or write to W. J. c. Kenyon,
Gen. Pass. Agent, st. Paul, MINI.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-11-10
Escaped Convict.

Wednesday night Deputy Sheriff
Chas. Edwards WAS wired by the au-
thorities at Winnipeg to arrest one F.
NJ. Shoults, an escaped convict from
the Manitoba penitentiary, as it was
believed that he was in this commun-
ity. Mr.. Edwards soon located his
man AS being in the employ OF j. W..
Marsden, three miles west of town, and
in company with Marshall Mcdonald,
he repaired to Mr.. Marsden's place at
about IL O'Clock Wednesday night and
made good the arrest of the fugitive
while in bed. Shouts is young man
of fair complexion, small stature and
about &c years old. He was tried and
convicted about year ago of burglar
izing a jewelers. safe at Calgary, and
received the severe sentence of ten
years at hard labor in the provincial
penitentiary. While in Jail at Calgary
he affected his escape but was recap
tured in three days. While at work in
the yard of the penitentiary about five
weeks ago he eluded the guards and
made good his escape before his disap-
pearance was discovered. He started
south across the line and brought up at
Bowesmont about four weeks ago, and
where he took the train and came tC
Drayton, hiring out to MI. Marsden tc
work upon the farm. Deputy Sheriff
Edwards has his prisoner safely lodged
in the town cooler and will deliver him
over to the Manitoba officials soon as
eXtraditiOn papers are perfected
Drayton Echo.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-11-10
OUT OF FUNDS.
Homestead Strikers Deny Having Largo
Amounts from Outside Cities.

Amounts from Outside Cities.
PrrTsBuRe, Nov,5.-The Homestead
strikers are shor, of funds which looks
bad for a continuation Of the struggle.
Samuel Grier, Of Pittsburg, who owns
q number of houses, went to Homestead
to collect three months back rent from
the strikers. lie has been waiting I'M
til he was sure that there was plenty of
money Oh hand. When he heard of
$4,000 or $50, 900 being raised last week
in Chicago he thought the time had
come for him to strike. The advisory
committee reluctantly told him there
was no money in the treasury, lie de-
handed to know what was being done
with the thousands of dollars coming
in every week and specially asked about
the big Chicago contribution. In re-
gard to the latter The strikers said they
had not received Il dollar from Chicago
Not one-half of the money supposed to
have been sent to Homestead, they
claim, has been received. St. Louis is
supposed to have sent a lot of money,
but it evidently did not materialize to
any very great extent. With the win
ter coming OR the outlook, it is said, is
very poor.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-11-10
Winter Evenings.

There are two very strong phases IN
the farmers life-the summer and the
winter, linked together by the two in
termediate periods of spring and au-
tumn, both Of uncertain length. But
seed time and harvest come with I'M
erring certainty, varying but little as
to date. The active outdoor season is
followed by a comparatively inactive
indoor season, which permits of con-
siderable leisure and social intercourse
especially during the long evenings.
Aside from the common farm duties,
how can this season of comparative
leisure and social enjoyment be most
profitably and satisfactorily spent:
This is Il subject worthy OF little fore
thought. Shall it be modestly spent in
the family circle Oh shall it be devoted
to &; series Of neighborhood meetings
and entertainments? In either case.
how can the tire be most protitably
spent? Mere entertainments do not
end in any special advancement in
knowledge, though there may be good
development of social and neigLborly
feeling, almost as valuable as the ac-
QUESTION of useful knowledge; but il
amusement and social entertainment
can be combined with the acquisition
of knowledge and intellectual advance.
meut. there is a double gain that will
prove OF great value in coming years.
1t is net necessary that the gatherings
should be large but that they should
be frequent and active. There are
many ways Of spending the time. In
the family circle may be readings. re-
citations. compositions Oh selected OF
current topics, games, etc. all Of which
should have improvement as well as
entertainment as their object. The
same are available for small neighbour
hood gatherings. For larger meetings,
at the district school house or village
church, the delivery of speeches. read
ing OF papers, discussions of topics of
interest and various other things which
may suggest themselves, are available
as exercises. If musical talent is pos
sessed this source of entertainment
should not be neglected in any case.
Thus. by little reflection and arrang-
ing of forces, country people need not
suffer much, in comparison with the
city. for any of the best elements Of
social and intellectual Development
Mirror and Farmer.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-11-10
Excused in That Case,

The delightfully."- shrewd answer of
the good wife OF Prof. Robson. who
disliked the cent expressions of the
religious tongue Of that day. She had
invited . gentleman to dinner and he
had accepted With the reservation, n
I am spared"
"Weel weel" said Mrs. Robson.
~ ySrS dead Phi dA expsH -"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-11-10
Delinquent Tax List.
STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA 49,

STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA CO
County of Cavalier. %
Notice is hereby given that the fol-
lowing described real estate in Cava-
lier County, State of North Dakota, on
which the taxes for the years herein
after specified remain unpaid, will be
sold at the auditors Office, in the court
house in Cavalier county North Dakota,
on Tuesday, the 9th day of December,
A. D., 1892, commencing at the hour OF
8 o'clock a. m.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-11-10
al ORTHERN
VPAClFHC K. r.
THE
GREAT TRANSC0NTINENTAJ, R0TTTE
PULLMAN SLEEPING CAR ROUTE,

Pullman service daily between Chicago, St.
Paul. Montana and the Pacific Northwest; and
between St. Paul Minneapolis and Minncso to
North Dakota and Manitoba points.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
Republican Misrepresentation

The editor of the Paxton Register re-
ceived a letter from Taylorville last
week asking about "a Harrison club of
thirty-seven Democrats who have
changed and which has twelve other
applications of the same sort, none but
Democrats being allowed in the club, F"
which club was claimed to be at Rob
erts. The Paxton Register says there is
no truth whatever in the report. An
Altgeld club of that number of Republi-
cans could be formed at that place, how
ever. The Illinois Republicans in one
part of the state will hatch up lie and
publish it in another part of the state,
trusting the lie cannot be run down I'M
til after the election. Another favorite
scheme is to print false extracts from
foreign papers, especially the English
journals. We advise our Republican
readers to write to some of the papers
from which such extr acts are alleged
to have been quoted. They will find
that there is no such paper, or that the
extract is garbled or most likely for
gerry. A party that will support sys-
tenn of robbery under the guise of pro-
lection will not hesitate to employ false
hood and forgery to bolster it up
Champaign Times.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
Jefferson and Free Trade.

Both MIR. Blaine and President Hsrri-
son in their recent letters claimed
Thomas Jefferson as a protectionist. In
his report on the state Of Commerce
and Navigation" sent to congress in Feb
ruary. 1892. Mr.. Jefferson proclaimed
the following radical free trade senti~
ments:
"Instead of embarrassing commerce
under piles OF regulating laws. duties and
prohibition, could it be relieved from all
its shsckles in all parts of the world,
could every country be employed in pro-
ducing that which nature has best fitted
to produce, and each be free to ex~
change with others mutual surpluses
for mutual wants, the greatest mass pos
sible would then be produced OF those
things which contribute to human life
and human happiness; the numbers OF
mankind would be increased. and their
condition bettered
would even single nation begin
with the United States this system Of
free commerce, it would be advisable to
begin it with that nation: since it is one
by one only that it can be extended to
all. When the circumstances of either
party render it expedient to levy q reve-
nue. by way of impost on commerce, its
freedom might be modified in that par
ttcular. by mutual and equivalent meas
ures, preserving it entire In all others.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
Domestic Tari6 Law.

We denounce Republican protection
as fraud, taxing the labor of the great
majority of the people for the benefit of
the few We declare it to be funda-
mental principle of the Democratic party
that the federal government has no
power to impose and collect tariff duties
except for the purpose of revenue only,
and we demand that the collection of
such taxes shall be limited to the neces-
stiles of the government when honestly
and economically enthusiastically
tional Democratic Pla torn.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
A Demonstration.

The local merchants can and will
demonstrate over their counters that
the tariff is tax from now until No
vember s. An actual advance in the
wholesale price OF staple goods which
are sold by all merchants on close mar
gins. go direct to consumers and no
amount of equivocation or fine falsifica-
ton by the partisan press and public
speakers can befogg the minds of ordi-
nary people enough to obscure it. On
goods not strictly staple, merchants are
supposed to realize greater profits, and
as rule do not mark goods up or down
to meet the fluctuations of the markets,
controlled by the combinations of man
manufacturers. If retail merchant is
making barely 1 cent yard on prints,
domestics, ETC., and the manufacturers
suddenly combine SO as to advance the
price of these goods / cent a yard, as
has been done recently, he must advance
the retail price or do business at a loss.
Register.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
fHE TARIFF AND WAGES
CONGRESSMAN SCOTS SPEECH IN
THE HOUSE.

The Small Share of the Wage Farmers In
the Profits of the Protective Tariff
How the Wages Have Been Cut Down
Since the Mckinley Law Went Into
Effect.
clearly shown by Congressman Owen
Scott in a speech in the house of repre-
sentatives March Is. He says that
wage-earners do not share in tariff
bounties The increase of duties and
consequent higher or stationary prices
are not followed by increase of wages.
This is abundantly and conclusively
shown by the Mckinley bill. AL
though the great increase of duties was
justified to laboring men by liberal
promises of increase in wages, not one
instance has been found where the adj
ditional bounty to the mill-owner has
been divided with his men. On the con-
trary, every demand made by working
men for increase has been refused.
More than 800 establishments have cut
down wages since the Mckinley law
went into effect. Strikes and labor
troubles have increased.
Rev. Father Ducey of st. Leo's church,
New York, in his Lenten sermon thus
fifty describes the serious condition of
labor in many places: He says:
In all the walks of life bitter cry
is going up. You heard it the other day
in Inter den Linden. The multitude
feel that they are being fooled by empty
promises and false appearances by
grasping employers. Have we not a
condition of individual slavery even
worse than the slavery of the colored
people few years ago.?
The Illinois state Federation of Labor
recently said that
1.-The year 1891, with its bountiful
harvests, witnessed increased dizziness
in many callings and an increased army
of unemployed wage-earners."
In the same connection this organiza-
ton of honest toilers says that
''Unscrupulous employers scour Eu.
rope and import, in violation of law,
the victims of ignorance and misrule of
the centuries.
The thousands in Pennsylvania, Ala
bama and other parts of the country,
asking for better chance to live, have
the hypocracy of the claim
that the increase of taxes was to benefit
labor. The many millions of profits per
annum in single great institutions like
Mr.. Carnegie's Edgar Thomson works
could easily be divided more equitably
among the thousands of workmen who
make possible such colossal annual for
tunes. The refusal to increase wages
and the increase of taxes really reduce
wages by making the amount received
buy less of the necessaries of life. The
is more concerned with the
power of his money than the
quantity received. a man gets So a
day and can buy hat for 81 and other
things in proportion. Next year he gets
So. so per day and for the same hat must
pay So and for other necessaries pays in
this proportion. He gets less for his
toll than the year before.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
Protection for Robbery.

The Tweed ring, says the Indianapolis
Sentinel, took about s32 600. 900 Of the
public money for the improvement OF
the city of New York, paid about $685.
OOO, 600 in wages for honest work. and
stole Sc. 1913. $50.
The sugar trust in 1890 took $45. 000,-
600 of the public's money, paid less than
81, 600. 600 in wages and Gifted $40. 900,
600.
The sugar trust will this year take
from the people over SIS. 900. 900. pay
90, 600 600 in wages, and lift" $12, 900. =
600.
No one defended the thefts OF the
Tweed ring on the ground that 80 per
cent was to pay wages; every republic
can in the land defends both the old and
the new "liftings" of the sugar trust as
proper and moral because 80 per cent
goes to the workmen-and small per-
centage to the republican campaign
fund.
There are $50 public and private tariff
trusts, rings and combinations. all
modelled after the Tweed ring. but all
protected by republican president and
senate from prosecution or even invests
CATION, because they supply the soap
or "fst" for buying elections. Protection
is for robbery and is robbery.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
Who Is to Blame?

The Chicago News Record a thorough
ly Independent and non-partisan news
paper, has torn the mask of hypocrisy
from the face of the Republican pretend
ers who are forever falling at the feet
of organized labor. In its issue of Aug
ust II the journal named published a
sensational article headed, ''Coopers are
Starving-Shut Out by Convict Labor"
The article shows that a committee
representing all the journeymen coopers
have formally appealed to the users of
cooperage against what they term THE
Illegal and monstrous competition of
convict labor against a body of people
who have every claim on society for Il
fair opportunity to make an honest liv-
ing and support their families in con-
formity with the uses of civilized life"
The coopers assert, and there is no
partisianism in the assertion, that the
Republican state government, of whom
the responsible head is Governor Fifer,
has artfully and purposely nullitied the
constitutional provision adopted in 1886
prohibiting the contracting of convict
labor. And it is understood that the
cooperage business is only one phase of
the violation.
The people of the state of Illinois voted
in favor of adopting the constitutional
amendment prohibiting the contracting
of convict labor, wholly because the
product came in competition with free
labor outside the penitentiary, working
a great injustice to honest men. 1t was
supposed that the state officials would
honestly administer the law upon the
subject, but instead of that they had set
to work and defeated it.
OF what value are the promises which
Governor Fifer may make as to what
he will do hereafter and what he has
done heretofore, clearly shows that he
is not only careless of his promises, but
willing to defeat the laws made for the
protection of wage workers.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
Whore Doe. Fifer stand, Anyway

Governor Fifer is between the devil
and the deep sea. He is trying to be a
German Lutheran and Catholic and at
the same time appease the unlimited de-
mand of the modern Knownothing or
CARNATIONS of the Republican party.
1t is unfortunate for the German Luth-
Grams that they cannot read and under
stand what the governor says to his
Knownothing audiences. The News
Record of Chicago in its issue of August
10 printed an article of nearly column
and anti-foreign organizations in Hi
nois. 1t appears from this article that
there are 81, 900 of the different orders.
The News-Record says concerning
Governor Fifer: THE governors
course in promising much to all the
foreign orders, and especially the Ger
man Lutherans, has rendered their sup
port of him very luke warm. Altgeld
is bitterly opposed. He is disliked per-
sonally by them and would be an object
of aggressive attack, but from the fact
that they cannot afford to stamp with
approval the course of Governor Fifer."
And adds this: 1T is only on the
ground that he does not mean all he
says to the German Lutherans that the
members of the Knownothing orders are
reconciled to him."
In other words the members of the
Knownothing orders believe that Gov
ernor Fifer is playing confidence game
upon the German Lutherans.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
A Mute Receivers Speech.

Alphonse Hemphling. of Summit town
ship. Butler Co. /, Penn. made an affidavit
that his 12-year>old son, who had
had st. Vitus dance for twelve years. lost
his speech. was completely cured after
using three bottles of DR.. Miles Restora-
tive Nervine, and and also recovered his
speech. Thousands testify to wonderful
cures from using it for nervous diseases.
dyspepsia, nervous debility. dullness. con
fusion of mind, headache. etc. Four
doses of this Nervine cured Mrs. w. E..
Burns, South Bend, Ind, who had been
suffering with constant headache for
three months. Trial bottle and elegant
book free at Hartz & Bshnsen's.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14

THE Union is already working itself
up over ]. b. Mulligan's candidacy for
the legislature, and is particularly We
hement because Mr.. Mulligan represents
the toiline classes, is "a railroad man. "as
the morning paper puts it. Mr.. Mulliean
will not attempt to disguise his occups-
ton to please the Union or anybody else.
He has no reason to be ashamed OF his
calling. for he has won his way to po-
sition of responsibility by the sweat OF
his brow.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14

can recommend Ely's Cream Balm 10
all sufferers from dry catarrh from per-
sonal experience. Michael Herr, Phar-
macist, Denver.
had catarrh of the head and throat for
FIVE years. 1 used Ely's Cream Balm, and
from the first application | WAS relieved.
The sense Of smell. which had been lost.
WIS restored after using one bottle. 1
have found the Balm tie only satisfactory
remedy for catsrrh, and it has effected a
cure in my case.-H. L. Myer, Waverly,
N Y
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
DiSeaSeandCure
Medical knowledge Applied.

Disease is q weakness or loss of vital
force in some part of the body.
The success of the treatment is due to
the fact that the physician applies his
knowledge in his practice and employs
such remedies only as sire ngthec the
body in all i,s parts and at the same time
fortities and conserves the vital forces.
In disease some part of the body is not
performing its work.
In catsrrh the physicians of the Scott
Medical institute find fault Of the mu-
cous membranes OF the nose. and at the
same time a fault of some other part of
the body. These associated complicate
catarrh.
In order to cure, the physicians OF the
Scott Medical Institute apply such treat
ment to the nose as tends to restore the
parts to a normal condition, and at the
same time they give such remedies as
will correct the other accompanying
troubles.
They do this by regular medical treat
ment. They have no specifics. no elec-
trical spplisn6 es no magnetic healing
system, and no charms or fetish.
They assert no other power than spec
ial knowledge of a special subject.
This explains their successful catarrhal
cases such as the following:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
A PROTECTED LAMeNS.
By TOM NJ. MORGAN.

In 'Se protection speakers
And hungry office seekers
Came out among us farmers with q horrid
tale of woe;
Said the party then in power
Was striving every hour
To down the poor laborer to keep it on
the go.
They told us that protection
Was the only legal section
In the statutes that promised the laborer
job;
They said they'd protect us
And never would neglect us,
If we'd help them down the Democrats
and anti-tarif mob.
They said the time would come
When right here at home
We'd have a ready market for everything
to sell;
That money would be plenty,
The five, ten and twenty
Would rattle in our pockets and our bank
accounts would swell.
So they trotted out their Ben
And we helped 'em put him in,
Expecting of course the good times would
come;
And money would be plenty
In the palace and the shanty,
And the prices would be higher in our
market here at home.
But rather think the times
When the dollars and the dimes
Were to crowd in our pockets till they
made 'em strut and crack,
Have been lost in the shuttle,
Or the high tariff scuff1e
A-fxing up fences to send Bonnie back.
Tunes are hard in Minnesota,
Not easy in Dakota,
Men are out of work in Kansas, California
and Maine;
This high protection-duty
Is losing all its duty
When we fail to find a market for our cat
tie and our grain.
Paris Ill
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
Western investments.

Orchard State bank, of Orchard, Me-
braska, makes investments in real estate
securities; 2 per cent interest net to in
yestors. No loans made except upon
the personal inspection of the officers
E. w Dart. president; 8. Dart. cashier
References-Mitchell & Lynde. bank
ers; j. F. Robinson, cashier Rock Island
National bank; Q. G. Carter, M. d.
Henry Darts Sons, wholesale grocers
Correspndence solicited.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
COUNTY.

AN Abilene (Kan) man keeps himself
supplied with newspapers by writing a
postal card every week asking sample
copy of some big paper. He gets two OF
three papers some weeks. and it only
costs SO cents q year.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
A schoolboy,. speech.

It is reported that Governor Mckinley
will take few weeks off and prepare q
new tariff speech. It is not in the ma
jor. His speech was born in a crossroad
school house and will last him until he
dies or is placed on the retired list
Detroit Free Press.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-09-14
He Will Hook Them.

Many of the Republican subsidized
press gleefully state that Mr.. Cleveland's
usual fishing excursions have been in
terrupted. Not a bit of it; the popular
candidate for the presidency is fishing
for votes, and his bait will hook them
with bonds of steel-Syracuse News.