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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-12-08
SEASONABLE STORY.
Pennsylvania Tells About
Remarkable Crow.

Remarkable Grow.
when I was living at the foot OF
Pinxster Peak had a tame crow that
was worth considerab to ME" said
Loyalsock man. The way came to
get the crow was a little singular.
One OF my boys was flying Ills kite
early in the summer, and when it had
sailed high up over a piece OF woods
on my place the string broke and the
Kite lodged in the top OF |. hemlocll
tree. The boy bawled about the loss
OF his kite and had to climb the tree
and get it for him. A crow flew off
her nest near the top OF the tree while
was climbing up, and when ! rea ch.
ed the nest found one ec. in it. Al
ter had unloosened the kite and let
II drop placed the crows egg in my
| mouth and kept it there until | had
backed down the tree. and then ran
TO the barn and put the egg under a
hen that had been setting a day or
| so. The Old hen offered no objections.
and several days before she came off
With her chickens she Matched out the
iVcIiest itt!. crow 7 ever saw. We
began to raise the baby crow in the
house; when he was biz enough
TO run around on the floor named
HIM Kite. IL. learned TO say good
many words Ivy the time he was a
year Old. and one morning that sum
mer heard him yelling down the I'M.
used chimney at a lot OF swallows
that We're nesting in it. The swallows
were making & great racket, and Kite
was singing out: Hold your tongue.
as loud rs he could veil
Kite could tell the time OF dav bv
the clock, and when the weather was
cloudy | used to send him to thehouse
rom the field to see what time it was
Instead OF asking my wife the crow
would look at the clock without say
ing word to her, and then sal back
to the lot and sing it out to me
| When the sky WAS clear could tell by
the sun within ten minutes what timt
| - 49,, 'NAANA CliC WIN SOG 81 liltlt lit
could guess almost as close as ! could
One snnshiny afternoon l told Kit,
to fly to the house and bring ME thu
time. The crow cooked his head tc
one side, glanced up at thesun andsaid
Its five minutes to IL john ! told
him it WIS later than chat, and II,
flew to the house and back an(
said, Its two minutes to IL" ant
he was right.
The crow got feeble the winter att
er he was years old. He couldn''
stand the cold and kept him in {
box hall full OF shavings behind til,
stove. He lost his appetite soon aft
er New Years, and one night. when
had got readyto 60 to bed he called N
to him and said: John, kite'll he deat
in the morning Ifussed over him ant
told him lie was good for another
year, but couldn't make him believ
it. My bed was near the stoye, an,
In the night the crow crawled out o
his box and asked me to take him tt
bed with ME. Kites almost Cone.'
he whispered. and when awoke h.
| lay dead on nv breast
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-12-08

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internal inflammation and ulcera-
ton, weak back, leucorrhea, and all
kindred ailments, it's positive spe-
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case, the money paid for it is re-
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The great, gripping, old-fashioned
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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-12-08
a Slave to Fashion.

Dude A.-WelI, suppose must 90
and get shaved.
Dude B.--GoinS to the bahbah
shop eh?
Dude A.-No. I'm going ovah to the
hattHh's 20 buy Il five dollah der
beh
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-12-08

watched with as much interest in
Spain as the training OF a Corbett or
Il Sullivan in America. \ bull fighters
education lasts through many years,
during which he first learns all the
tricks with the cape to provoke and
avoid a charge. \ bull with padded
hornes is used for this purpose: and a
harvest of bruises, varied by being
tossed in the air occasionally, is his
reward for the first years OF training
He then ventures into the arena to
play the part OF "capeador." If he
is ambitious and aspires to become q
"banderillear" that is, to handle
darts-he has to endure another long
and far more dangerous apprentice
ship. Here he generally stops, for the
"espada," like the poet, "is born, not
made" and no amount OF experience
or familiarity with bul-ighting will
produce ''n,atador'" ii the pupil is
not naturally adapted to is.
The intended espada must be
an expert in every degree
in his art, and he practices daily up
on cattle the numberless varieties Of
stabs and blows with which he ex-
poets to dispatch his foe in the arena,
and scores Of bulls with blunted horns
are killed by him during his training
before he is pronounced ready for the
great event.
The recent exhibition OF bull fight
ing was one OF the most brilliant
witnessed in Madrid. 1t was % lovely
Sunday afternoon. The people, i'll
HOLIDAY att ire crowded in pIaZa, de-
Toros; nothing can exceed the gayety
and sparkle OF q Spanish public going
to a bull fight. All streets or o''"n
spaces near the outside OF the IL
are animated beyond descript
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-12-08
Fire Transformed to Air and Air tc
Water,

1t seems to me, says writer in the
World OF Science, that the most won
derlul discovery OF the close OF this
century is that OF the liuueiaction OF
oxygen. The fact demonstrated is
that liquid oxygen is SO cold that it
burns. May this not mean that when
cold reaches a certain degree it be-
comes liquid fire? That some degrees
higher it is liquid oxygen, or liquid
fire becomes magnetic oxygen gas,
which, when in combination with by
drogen, ETC., becomes the air we
breathe and water; some degrees high
er, when mixed with gross matter,
common fire; when by itself in it's first
degree, electricity-the degrees made
by the proportionate mixture with
other matters. In its first degree the
corona, or electrical envelope OF the
sun,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-12-08
BULL FIGHTS IN SPAIN.'
BRUTAL SPORT OF THE CASTl-
LlANS.
Passion Of the Populace to Witness
the Inhuman Contests...The
Fighters Are the Heroes OF
the Fair Sex...SceneS in
the Arena.

+ the nunberless
anusenlents which
marked the cele-
bration of the Col
umbus festivities in
Spain none attract
ed more interest or
enthusiasm til an
the bull fights. The
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-12-08
4 NOVEL SCENE.

1t is a bewildering spectacle to a
stranger to see this tremendous audi
ence OF over eighteen thousand peo
pie, packing every nook and Granny
OF this vast amphi-theater from the
floor to the loftlest gallery.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-12-08

Every day / am asked by dozens Of
men. young and middle-;teed, if there
is not some way OF furnishing them a
wheel at figure that will be within
their means. They say they cannot
a bicycle, although they feel that it
would be very convenient thing for
them to have. Bicycles are held at a
high figure on account of the patents
upon them, Just the same as sewing
machines were some years ago. L re-
member very well then when as good
q ewing machine as is sold to-day
for $50 could not be purchased for
less than 500. The prices OF wheels
are being reduced every year, and
five years hence the best make OF them
can be had for S2o or less.
Some Effects of Absence of Light.
Some OF the effects OF the absence of
light upon animal life were strikingly
revealed, not long ago, on the re-
opening OF an old mine near Bangor,
Cal. In a dry slope connecting two
shafts, one OF the explorers was as
tonished and startled to find a number
OF flies that were perfectly white, ex-
cept the eyes, which We're red, and dir
Getty afterward he killed a pure white
| rattlc-snake The animals had lived
in the dry passages, where they had
| been supplied with air, but not with
| light. 1t is supposed that the flies
were otfsprings OF some that had been
imprisoned by the partial filling OF
| the mine with water about 30 years
ago, and that the snake, when quite
young, had been washed down in a
rain. \ few OF the flies were exposed
to light in a glass case, and resumed
the colors OF ordinary house flies with
in q week.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07
POLICE FORCE IN CITIES.
A Paper Read Before tic National Prison
Congress.


BALTIMORE, MD., Dec. Cat the ses-
sion Of the National Prison Congress to-
day Major II. W. McClaughey, superin-
tendent of police OF Chicago, read the
report of the committee on "Police
Force in Chicago" The subject was
divided into three parts.
/. What bus been accomplished in or
ganizing of police forces and the i'm
proyement OF police methods to this
date.
2. What obstacles or difficulties pre-
sent themselves to further improve
ment
and what is demanded Of tho public in
regard to police systems and manage
ment.
Among the recent Improvements in
the police system the report laid par
ticuiar stress upon tho more accurate
distribution OF the squads, tho intro
ductiou OF the covered patrol wagon
and the adoption OF the telephone and
telegraph as ameans Of quick communl-
cation.
Tho obstacles toretorm were three
number, namely:
/. Political interference in appoint
ments.
.. Lack OF proper classification Of the
different grades OF criminality; and
3. Allowing fees to magistrates for re-
celving bail.
mo problems OF municipal govern
ment," said the report, "can be more
important in years TO come than those
which arc connected intimately with
the organization and direction Of the
police systems OF our great cities. The
rapidly approaching centralization of
the population in great cities behooves
patriotic Americans to look to it
0t once that our police departments are
not made tools OF designing politicians,
nor managed in the interests of those
whose action is governed by solely mer-
cenary motives, with the additional
duties laid upon them almost daily,
duties which have to do with their
dearest concerns OF business and
social and family life. No effort
should be spared 10 bring about the day
when the police forces Of our cities
shall be composed of the best material,
physically, intellectually and morally,
that the cities can produce. Drunkards
and incompetents must not be per-
mitted to remain in tho ranks because
OF their political pull"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. Gin
marked contrast with the bustling
soene Of yesterday was the meetinS Of
tho house to-day. There wero few per-
sons in the galleries and upon the floor
the members seemed to have settled in
to tho old routine. In feeling manner
and amid the deVout attention OF all the
members, who remained standing the
chaplain alluded to the recent atilictions
which tho President had suffered and
invoked>the divine protection upon the
bereaved ones.
Mr.. Raynor, OF Maryland, introduced
n bill for the better protection OF com
merce and TO establish national quar-
antine. Referred.
At 1915 Mr.. Pruden, one OF the
Presidents secretaries was announced
and presented the annual message
which Clerk Kerr Immediately began
Dread.
The reading OF the message met with
little attention. Many OF the members
left tho hall, preferring to study the
recommendations OF the President at
their leisure at home. Those who re-
mained entered into conversation, or
devoted themselves to perusal OF the
newspapers.
An hour and hall was consumed in
the reading OF the message, which was
then, on motion of Mr.. McNllllin, OF
Tennessee, referred to the committee OF
the whole.
Mr.. Cultivate, OF Ohio, announced
he death OF Representative John j.
Warwick, and inrespect to the memory
OF the deceased the house adjourned.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs.

The body OF the late Jay Gould was
deposited in the Gould tomb yesterday.
A Berlin dispatch says that Prince
Albrecht has resigned the regency OF
Brunswick.
The President yesterday sent to tho
senate large number OF appointments
made during the recess.
It is officially announced that there
will be no social events Of any kind at
the executive mansion during the pres
ent winter,
A disastrous gale is reported as pre-.
vailing in the province OF Catanzaro,
Italy, Three vessels in the harbor OF
Santa Venara were wrecked yesterday,
and ten persons were drowned.
"a bill to protect American working.
men," is the title OF measure intro
duced in the house by Representative
Chapman, OF Michigan, According to
its provisions no alieRwho is non-resi.
dent Of the United States shall work at
any mechanical trade or in any manual
labor within the borders Of the United
States.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07
FOR FREE TRADE.
Tho Man Who Wrote the Democratic
Turifr-PIank Says that the Election


Tho Man Who Wrote the Democratic
TariG- Plank Says that the Election
Mems Protection Must be Abolished,
CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 6.-Tho Young
Mems Democratic club, OF Canton, O.,
tonight celebrated the Democratic vic
pry with banquet. Speeches we're
aolivered by local orators, but letters
OF regret from dozen prominent
Democrats were read. Among them
were letters from Congressman Breck:.
inridge, of Kentucky, and Wilson, Of
West Virginia; Governor Boles, OF
Iowa, and Governor Russell, OF Massa-
chusetts, and Lawrence 4. Neal, who
drew the tariff plank OF the Chicago
platform. In his letter Mr.. Neal says
the Democratic victory was q glorious
one, and it has established the princi-
plo OF tariff for revenue only. Inc
party, he says, could not have won had
it ignored principle. he adds:
1--WE stand then as party unaltera-
bly, committed to the overthrow OF Nc
Kiuleyism in every shape and form.
Nothing short OF this will fulfill the in
structions and requirements OF the peo'
pie. Their support for our party was
obtained by our bold denunciation OF
"Republican protection as fraud, q
robbery of the great majority Of the
American people for tho few" and by
our courage in tho denunciatIon and ad'
vocacy OF the principle Of tariff Tor
revenue; and we must see to 1t that the
expressed will OF the people shall not be
stihed or defeated by a failure OF our
senators and representatives in Con-
gress to enact such laws as will forever
expunge the foul blot OF protection from
the fair escutcheon Of our grand and
mighty republic"
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07

BALTIMORE, Dec. CIT may be stated
upon the authority OF close friends OF
Cardinal Gibbons that he aud Mgr.
satolli have a perfect understanding
about tho duties to be performed by the
latter in this country. The impression
prevails in clerical circles that Cardinal
Gibbons requested the pope to send
Mgr, Satolli to America to investigate
the troubles resulting from Cahensly-
ism and the dispute between Arch
bishop Corrigan and DIR. McGlynn.
The cardinal is diplomat, not an auto
crat. He had quietly investi-
gated the matters OF contest and
arrived at the conclusion that the only
way to prevent an open rupture, which
might even lead to division in the
American church, was TO have the dis
putes arbitrated or adjudicated by
special emissary from the vatican,
whose recommendations or decisions
could not be construed as showing par
tialitv TO either side. Mgr Satolli will
take no action without first consulting
the cardinal and reporting to the pope.
Mgr satolli, as he himself says, has
been empowered by the pope to invests
gate and decide without appeal the eX-
listing controversies; but it was on Car
dinal Gibbons advice that he was vost-
ed with this power, and whatever dis
position is made OF the cases OF DIR. Nc
GIynn and Father Corrigan, the cardi-
nai's opinion will not be overlooked.
At q recent conference between Cardl-
nal Gibbons and Mgr. satolli in this
city the former explained the whole sit:
uation to tho latter and the plan of
trial and settlement OF the troubles was
agreed upon.
The above is the view taken OF tho
matter in the inner circleI OF the
church. Cardinal Gibbons wants it to
be understood that Mgr, Satolll's power
in the matter is supreme. There Is u
perfectly satisfactory understanding be-
tween the pope and the primate Of tho
American hierarchy.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07
rrrlI,b Oninlons of the AIessngc.

LONDON, Dec, Accommodating on
President HRrrison's message, the Morn
ina Post says: "a perusal OF Mr.. Harri-
sons message suggests rather the
dopged courage OF gladiator
then the foresight Of statesman, 1t
Is singularly characteristic OF his coun-
try that the retiring President finds it
consistent with his position to indulge
in flourish OF impotent menace
against Canada"
The Daiiy Mews says that much atten-
ton need not be paid to President Har'
rison's reference TO Canada.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07

BERLIN, Dec. 6.-The members OF tho
Centre party in the reichstag have held
three conferences to decide upon tho
course the party would follow regarding
loved that a split would occur in the
marty over the measure, and that
thirty.four OF tho southern members
would vote with the opposition and tho
seyenty-six others with the govern
ment. The result OF the conferences
proves that this belief was unfounded.
At the last meeting it was decided
that the party would vote for the first
reading Of the bill. The dissenting
minority was found to consist, not Of
thirty-four members, but OF the south
ern ultramontanes, who WELD small in.
fluence. The army bill will not cause n
split in the party,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07

WASHINGTON, D. G., Dec. Gas soon
as the secretary OF tho senate finished
the reading Of the journal OF yesterday,
Mr.. Pruden, one OF the Presidents sec.
retaries, appeared at the main door and
delivered the Presidents annual mes
sage which was thereupon laid before
the senate and read by Secretary Nc
Cook.
The commercial and business statis-
tics given in the first part of the mes
sage and the sarcastic paragraphs as TO
the supposed effects Of tariff for reVs-
nue. seemed to meet generaIapproyal on
the Republican side of the chamber,
while they attracted little attention on
the other side. During the reading
Democratic senators were for the most
part chatting listlessly with each other
or at$ynding TO their correspondence,
whY Tho Republican senators, on the
contrary, paid the President the com
pliment Of giving to his message their
undivided attention. The various other
subjects discussed in the message, how
ever, seemed to have very little interest
for senators on either side. Tho Demo-
Gratis made no pretense OF listening and
the attention OF Republicans showed u
marked falling off Seats in the diplo-
matte gallery were occupied throughout
the reading Of the message by the Spau-
ish minister and by tho first secretaries
OF the German aud Russian legations.
Several bills were introduced and re-
ierred, among them the following:
BY Mr.. Bate, to repeal the statutes re.
lating to supervisors OF elections and
special deputies.
BY Mr.. Chandler, for the suspension
OF Immigration for oua year.
Mr.. Vest offered u resolution reciting
allegations in the public press charging
gross misconduct on tho part OF census
employees, especially oil enumerators, in
the state OF Missouri, who are said to
have taken lists OF voters for partisan
use; and also charging that certain
clerks of the census bureau had been
semitic the state OF New York during
the recent election to perform partisan
service, and directing an investigation
OF such charges by the senate committee
on the eleventh census,
Mr.. Hale, chairman OF the census
committee, said that he presumed there
would be no objection to the proposed
investigation. The great census bureau
had done immense work with but very
little political business.
Mr.. Vest referred to the arrest OF
census Official in Albany, N. Y, for an
attempt to induce thlrty-tlve Democrats
to 90 down the river on an excursion
and thus 10 keep them away from the
polls.
MIR. Mitchell the senator think
that the result OF the voting in New
Yorkshowed that Democrats had been
kept from the polls?
Mr.. Vest-,The result in New York
has nothing to do with what | am say
ing, because the attempt was unsuc-
cessful. The man was arrested and put
in jail, He gave an assumed name, and
am credibly informed that he has
been rewarded by being promoted and
put in n higher and more lucrative DO
aition on account OF his pernlcious ac-
tiYity in the late canvass.
The resolution went over without
action till tomorrow
Mr.. Hale introduced bill to increase
tho naval establishment, and it was
reierred.
After ten minutes executive session
the senate adjourned.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07
THE PROSPERITY Or THB NATION.
dent Harrgons Fourth Message to Congress eFo
and Busness-1dke Document
7pG MOST PROSPEROUS PERIOD OF The HISTORY OF The UNION

the Pas. Four Complete Review of the Work oil tho
How tho Nation Has Prospercd Under Republican Tariff
That storyThe President throws h'
Responsibility for Change Consequences "ha'e'' ~
No an en-. cnoross Chosen the Calamity CFyrcS
piproye Democratic Campaign Claims Regarding tho 0ona0 "
Wage Workers Prosperous WorkngmGn IN tho
WorId-.Industra Progress and CommeFoi"t '' W. -
~ -, Th, v RopeaI of the Democrats Are Pledged to
Do wou1d be crme.our RoaonsWoFk OF the Depart
mont of o00'a
of an Honest Administration,
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NEVER NATURALIZED

But Has Been Voting the nnmoerRtic
Ticket and Holding oGlcs.
Special Dispa'ch to he IRte'liqoncar
HUNTINGDON, W. Va, Dec. GA pe-
tition was presented to the county
court to-day asking the removal Of P.
B. Gobhardt from tho Office Of road
commissioner in tho Union district.
Gebhardt is native OF Germany and
has been voting the Democratic ticlot
and holding Office OF various kinds for
eight years. Now it transpirea that he
has never beon naturalized.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-07
po11r1cA1 AssEssMENTs
Discussed by the Civil Service commIs
sion In It's Report.

Discussed by the Civil bBrvico NommiS-
sion In It's Report.
WAsnNdroN, D. G., Dec, G,--The civil
service commissioners today made pub
lie the ninth report to the president.
OF political assessments the report
says: "This is the first time the civil
service commission has, in the midst OF
n presidential campaign, actively inter
fered to prevent the collection OF these
assessments, and it believes its action
had most beneficial effect, and that
there was much less assessing done than
ever before, although it cannot be
doubted that, as it was, altogether too
much took place. In the opinion OF
the commission this practice will not
be wholly broken up until it is made a
penal ottonse for any person whatso'
ever to solicit political contribution
from government employe III any
place whatsoever
The commission calls attention to the
systematic attempts made in various
states to collect assessments from gov
ernment employees. In all tho cases it
promptly published the facts in full
and handed the testimony over to the
attorney general.
The commission declares that the
classified service should be extended
rs rapidly as practicable. The Ma
tional Letter Carriers Association, in
its capacity rs a branch OF the Knights
Of Labor, have recommended that all
free delivery Offices be classified. The
letter carriers are just like other Amer
ican citizens; they want to know that
when they do tho work of tho public
honestly, zeaously and intelllgontly,
they should not be made the spoil OF
local political bosses,