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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-05-05

Geo. Gates, Corinth, Miss. writes:
Il consider your August Flower the
best remedy i'll the world for Dys-
pepsia. l was almost dead with
that disease, but used several bottles
Of August Flower. and now con-
slider myself we'll man. l sincerely
recommend this medicine to suffer
ing humanity the world over o
G. G. GREEN, Sole Manufacturer,
y Woodbury., New Jersey, U. S. A.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-05-05

Ed. Bergeron, General Dealer,
Lanzoli, Lewis, Quebec, writes: Il
have used August Flower with the
best possible results for Dyspepsia. "
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-05-05
SOCIETY IN THE ouLcH.
Jim Couldn't Go Because He Was
Short on Ornaments.

Jim Couldn't Go Because He Was
Short on Ornaments.
There was to be a dance that night
in the gulch. and all her beauty and
her chivalry were to be on hand, says
New York Truth.
Upon the mountain side a light
fickered from the window of Dandy
Jim's cabin.
The revealers observed it as they
went in groups to the ball and won
dered.
Jim was always the very first at all
festive occasions and the last to
leave.
An hour after the latest arrivals
had made their appearance Jim had
not come.
Wonders gave place to alarm then
and committee ofthree were appoint
ed to go to Jlm's cabin and investi-
gate.
The light from the window streamed
down the path and the visitors found
no difficulty in reaching the cabin
though the night was dark.
In response to their knock they were
invited to enter and within they found
Dandy Jim seated in tnecorner in he
deepest detection.
Hello, Jim," greeted the spokes-
man, cheerily, "why amt Yer at the
shindig?"
Can't boys. I can't come" and
Jinn's lips quivered.
"What's the row? Got news from
the East? Is yer mother dead or yer
wife liyin'? We've been sent up to find
out"
"Wusn't that, boys. I amt got
nuthin' to wear. Both my revolvers
are out OF order and Winchester is
sucii-bad form, besides bein' awk.
ward to dance in"
jim hastily brushed his eyes and
the visitors looked mourniully at
each other.
They knew that on such a night
there were no spare garments in the
gulch that would fit Dandy Jim.
Not so Easy.
Gus De Smith, was in g saloon.
Gilhooly-What were you doing
there?
Il was trying to borrow five dollars
from Nose Shaumberg.'
And that took you from two to
five o'clock"
"Just YOU 90 and trv to borrow
five dollars from Nose Shaumberg"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-05-05
The Only One Ever Printed

1he PurltanS were not Spectators, and
yet they frequently invested in stocks.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-05-05

HOODS PILLS act easily. yet promptly
and efficiently on the liver and bowels cure head.
ache.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16

barity and depravity. But still the SUBJ
ject is not fully disposed by such a
comment. There is an old and rather
persistent idea that the main purpose of
endowed educational institutions like
Harvard was, if not to cure, to at least
mitigate the foolishness of its undergrad
yates. But the disclaimer of any such
function by the faculty of Harvard is
made somewhat complete with the asser-
ton that the college undertakes no such
work. There is pessimistic suggestion
in this avowal that the foolishness of
Harvard students is beyond remedy,
which, while it may have some foundation
in fact, leaves the value OF that richly
endowed institution to be symbolized by
(which, as Mr.. John Mildmay peril
nently points out, is always an unknown
quantity.
The sum total of the defense of Harvard
thus presented by the joint efforts OF the
faculty and its journalistic friends seems
to be that if parents wish their sons taught
to be something better than fools, and
educated in the difference between
morality and depravity, they should care
fully select some other institution than
Harvard.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
LEGITIMATE, BUT NOT PRESSING.

The revival of interest in the canal
question and the growth of favor for
schemes of internal water transpor-
tation are illustrated by meeting in New
York the other day. Some three years ago
THE DISPATCH led off in pointing out the
importance of this much neglected sub
iect. Its ideas were received with general
criticism and nowhere more unfavcrably
than in New York, the center of railway
capital and influence. When that dis
favor has been overcome sufficiently for
favorable hearing to project to connect
New York harbor with the Delaware and
Chesapeake bays, the progress of the idea
is very manifest.
The project which Prof. Lewis NJ.
Haupt presented IN New York is for a
twenty-foot ship canal, which by the use
of rivers would require only SO miles of
actual digging, at a cost of So, 10000
The cost Of canal through the compara-
tivey level State of New Jersey would be
less than between the Ohio river and Lake
Erie, but this is more than Offset by the
greater depth Of the canal, so that the
estimate of cost is greater in proportion to
mileage than the Ohio river and Lake Erie
canal The project is alluded to in the
Eastern press as zone of the most i'm
portant and least costly" but the fact is
that it is less important and more costly in
proportion to its commercial and industrial
effects than the project Of this section.
The supporters of q comprehensive
scheme of internal water navigation will
not antagonize project of this sort. We
believe that it should be recognized as
part Of the general plan to give the coun-
try an adequate system of water COM
munication. But in giving it that recog-
milton it should be clearly understood that
it is one of the parts that come last instead
of first. The work first to be done is that
which serves the greatest and most import
ant needs. The New York and Delaware
project only gives shorter water route to
vessels which can already pass from one
point to the other by q voyage OF day or
two longer. The Ohio river and Lake
Erie project and the Hennepin Canal will
open up water routes for traffic of i'm
mense magnitude in both cases which now
have no outlet except costly and limited
railway transportation.
Let us accept projects like Prof. Haupt's
as integral portions of the grand system
of water transportation toward which we
are working; but let it be equally under
stood that the first step in realizing that
system is to connect the rivers with the
lakes, and the next to connect the lakes
and rivers with the ocean.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
= BLOT ON THE tssCU1cHEoN.

Like all the leading dignit&ries of his
Church, Cardinal Gibbons has the courage
of his convictions. The severe structures
on the Louisiana Lottery in his letter to
General George d. Johnston are grand in
their outspokenness. The lottery is in
deed scandalous business, its ramifca-
tions do in very truth cover the whole
country, aud the continuance Of the
system under sanction of the law would
undoubtedly be national disgrace.
Let ''every upright citizen and earnest
Christian" take the Cardinals words to
heart, and give evidence of his convictions
in his speech and actions, that this black
blot on the country may be erased from
The records of the present and exist only
as warning in the PAGES of the past. The
lottery draws its income from the most
ignorant of the people-from those who
are mentally incapable of weighing the
immense odds against them, from those
whose poverty is their greatest temptation
while it should be their strongest induce
ment to thrift. If ever prohibitory legis-
lation were justiiable, as a measure of
protection for those who are weak and
easily misguided, it is demanded here. If
the strong and enlightened are called upon
to protect the feeble and ignorant, even
against their wishes. then this call of duty
is unmistakable and should be willingly
and implicitly 0beyed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
1t Has Very Narrow Scope.

F1ttsourg Post.1
The prosecutions aimed ut the Sunday
papers are not likely to have any effect
further than the possible filming of some of
their agents for Sunday selling. But the
efforts of the Litigation and Disorderly So
ciety in so faras they rise above the prose-
secut.on of a few poor women in the alleys
and byways of the city for selling tobacco
and candies are to be commended. 1t was
quaint remark of the late Robert NJ. Gibson
that such spasms of moral reform as are
represented by these Sabbatarian move
ments generally culmirate and collapse in
the collection of a good deal of money from
saints, and professions of superior righteous
some lone widow Or one-eyed darkey for
selling peanuts or stogies. If the Sabbata-
rians will strike for higher game, and nut
the mass OF the people to some inconven-
ience, or endanger the privileges asserted by
great employers of Sunday labor, corpora
tion and otherwise, they may create a fuller
sentiment that will demand and secure
revision OF the Sunday laws. General Grant
told lis the best way to get rid of a bad law
was to enforce it. We believe in Sunday
+ laws for the protection of the worltingman's
day OF rest. But they should be laws adapted
to the conditions of life, society, travel and
industry that exist in $780, and not the crude
condition of 1870. Forcing people to-day
back to the ways of 100 years ago is as foolish
as an attempt to force a halfbushel into
peck measure. 1t cannot be DONE The
puerile prosecutions of petty offenders TAX
ing carenot 20 molest those who are wealthy
and powerful show the littleneSs, meanness
and narrow scope of this entire Sabbatarian
business.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
MUGWUMPIAN MURNURS.

THE term "Mugwump'' has gone out OF use
in the South. That kind OF q political nui-
sance is termed feather-head there
Pomona Ne,0S.
The proposal to form q uarty OF Mug
wumps sounds paradoxical. The instant
Mugwump enters into party he loses ms
identity and ceases to be Il Mugwump.-CTdi-
cogo Ne,cs.
THE New York Muswumps say they VIII
have IL candidate of their own Tor President
If Blaine and Hill are pitsed against each
other. Where will they get signatures to
their nomination papers?-BoaoH Traveller.
THE Mugwupps have helped Hill by their
hostility and the announcements that they
will vote against him if he gets the fresl-
dental nomination may give him boom in
the conyeutlon.-St. Louis Globe Den,oerdt.
THE New York Mugwumps are said to be
growing sick of the Democrats, and want to
boom Cleveland independently. Just what
a Mugwump can be termed is hard to con-
ceiye, but some one may be able to invent
name for hiIn.-Bosto1 Ne1cs.
THE Mugwump journals continue to
decorate Senator Hill with their abuse.
Casting their eyes back over the past seven
years, can the Mugwumpians truly say that
they think this slangwhanging pays them or
hurts him?-Nep York Forid.
WHEN the Massachusetts Mugwumps get
party of their own it Will show how many
Mugwumps there are i'll Massachusetts,. And
it is likely that the Massachusetts Demo
Gratis Will be willing to swap the Mugwump
vote for this information without asking
any other boot than that of being rid of
Mugwump bulldozing.-S. Losss Republic.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
PASSION TOO BLIND.

The news from Oxford, o., that the un-
usually law-abiding and peaceful commu-
nifty has lynched a colored man for a
brutal murder is another example of the
extent to which passion still sways the
actions of mankind in this age of civiliza-
tion. There seems to have been no ex-
pectation that the man, if legally tried,
would have escaped the due punishment
Of the law, and this aggravates the evil of
the action taken by the offenders against
constituted authority. Lynching by the
inhabitants of district under properly
organized government, where there is no
fear that justice is too weak to accomplish
its ends, is disgraceful retrograde move
ment to the customs of society in its bar
barrie infancy, and as such it should be
severely condemned
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
AN ILLUSTRATION OF SOCIALISM.

A striking assertion of Mr.. Beattie, the
recent New York street cleaning commits
sioner, with regard to two systems of
cleaning streets, throws an immense light
on their relative merits Of doing business
He declares that if he had been allowed to
receive bids for contracts for cleaning the
streets of that city he could have had them
kept cleaner than for years at total of
S750,0O0 a year. Under the system of
work by gangs paid by the city the annual
appropriation for that purpose has been
50 900, 900 and the streets have not been
cleaned.
These two methods represent two oppos-
ing schools OF economies. The system of
doing work by private contract under
competitive bids is that of giving the
fullest play to private enterprise, and
keeping up the influence of competition.
Tile system Of doing it by city gangs
directed by public officials is the socialist
idea of concentrating public work under
the control of governmental agencies.
Of course, ,Beattie's estimate OF the cost of
doing the work by private contract sup
poses the competition of contractors to be
genuine and not of the set-up kind, which
is the usual basis of municipal frauds
When he states that the work done that
way would cost 371! per cent of what it
costs when done by municipal govern
ment, he tells the whole story as to the
relative merits of the competitive and
socialistic theories. City work is con-
Quoted not with view to economy and
efficiency, but with view to votes for city
officials. The commissioner has got to
select inspectors and foremen not for their
ability to handle workmen skillfully and
do the work thoroughly, but for their
ability to control primaries and carry
elections. The foremen selected on the
latter basis employ men not for their
activity and fidelity, but for their votes.
If these principles of selection were not
observed the next street cleaning appro-
priation would be a minus quantity.
So long as the nature of politicians re-
mains what it is, this will be the result of
concentrating industry under the control
of government When the millennial era
arrives socialism may be tried with
prospect of success. But then it will not
be needed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
PITTsBURG. SATURDAY. JANUARY Is.
TWELVE PAGES
TIE COST OF FAvoRITISsI.

The publication by the Auditor Gen.
erals department OF a statement showing
the cost of the extra session of the Senate
II have been S50.000. indicates a dis
position On the part Of that agency of the
State 10 give the pubic necessary informa-
ton about its own affairs When the de-
partment eyineeS an equal promptitude in
informing the public On more important
subjects, sucL, for instance, as what it
cost the State TO leave Its money in John
Bardsley's hands contrary to law, it will
have made complete and commendable
departure frGm the usual practice of keep
ING the Id on.
Evfn if The discrimination is pract ticed
OF publishing only this item and keep
ing other information under lock and key
the statement is not without public value.
il SHOWS The amount of money wasted, be-
cause The Senate refused to do its duty
and make a stand for honesty and
efficiency in managing the affairs of the
State. If the Senate had done its duty in
investigating and Furnishing the acts of
faToritism and negligence-to take the
most charitable view Of 1.-THE
State would have got better return
for this S50,GO0 than for any other money
that has been spent for it these many
years. But when, having the evidence of
negligence and favoritism fully before il,
together with a very strong. intimation
that the head of the Auditor Generals
department was guilty of worse tha n that,
it deliberately waited until after election
and then lodged the issue, it established
another example of wasting the public
funds rather than expose the abuses of
party management
We are not aware that the present Aud
itoT General intended by this publication
to keep alive the scandals attaching to his
predecessors administration; but he has
done so, and also called attention to the
fact that the Senate will do anything
rather than expose and correct the evils
perpetrated in office by its party friends.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
The Fight Goes On.

Pittsburg Press,l
The Law and Order Society is pushing its
work of causing the arrest of people con-
nected with the sale of Sunday newspapers.
1t is the evident intention to find out how
far the law of 1874 will go in inter 'ering with
Sunday newspapers and this intention is in
direct accordance with tho desires Of SUM-
day newspaper people. The cases must be
tried on their merits, and the courts will
have to give their decisions plainly on the
open evidence presented. Since the cru
SADIE has begun, 1t must be carried to the
end, and whether rewsboys, business office
attaches, carriers or editors are arrested,
there will not be any hiding OF the facts of
the case under bushel. The newsboys and
the carriers who met and adopted resolu-
tions yesterday, were enthusiastic and
earnest. They are backed by the moral
sentiment of the better part OF the conmu-
nifty. There were delegates at both meet
ings from the Amalgamated Association and
Knights o.Labor, and the understanding is
that these organizations will give their sup
port to the paper sellers. This is ercoura2-
ing to those deserving classes of boys and
men who make honest livings for them
selves their families and their mothers, sis
ters and brothers, by distributing the pa
pers. Bat in any event the cases will be
appealed to the highest Court for n decision
on what constitutes necessary Sunday labor
The sooner it is settled, the better for the
community
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
HUSBAND MANAGEMENT.

THE majority of husbands would rather be
henpecked by being petted and coaxed than
by being caressed with the broom stick or
mop handle. Isn't Sorosis giving away some
of the secrets of the sisters?- Cincinnati
ISmeg-Stdr.
IT seems to be almost invariA bly, the case
that the woman who has reinforced herself
with houseful of children has her husband
in q minority, in which he is virtually DOW
erless to resist her rightful authority.-&.
Louis Republic.
"How to Manage Husbands" is debated by
Sorosis, and Sundry futile suggestions are
offered, such as "Hold your own tongue"
"rell him your secrets" and such like.
George Du Maurier, in Punch, gives one
recipe worth the whole batch of them: "Feed
the brute."-S. Joseph NeaOs
THE best suggestion came from Lily Dew
ereaux Blake, who proposed, as the best rule
for marital happiness that the wife should
not always ask the husband where he was
going when ne went away, and where he had
been when he came back. Lily is darling
st. Joseph Gazette.
THE noted female society of New York
called Sorosis met the other day to discuss
the question, "How to Manage Husband"
As most of the members of Sorosis are
spinsters on the shady side they are sup
posed to know all about managin husbands
of other women.-Ldfdyette Journal
NAscITUR non fit as applied to husbands
having been repudiated by this woman's
conclave, how to make them good was con-
sidered An ancient maiden lady gave the
recipe that was finally adopted: Treat them
with loving consideration and undertaking
kindness; nevercross them in their purpose
and humor all their whims. Let us .ave
branch of that Sorosis started in Colorado
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
The Movement Not Merited.

MchetsporL -NenSsI
The movement made by the Law and Order
Society of Pittsburg toward suppressing the
publication and sale OF Sunday newspapers
is certainly not merited in a community that
is OF such q distincbively industrial char
acter as Pittsburg and vicinity, where a
greater part of the population are engaged
during the week at most laborious employ
ment which SO tires the body and exhausts
the brain that there is but little desire or
opportunity for reading during the week.
Sunday is the only day the working men
have for rest, recreation and instruction
The newspaper furnishes the exclusive
literature for great portion of the people
OF the world. 1t is their only liberty and
source OF instruction and as class news
papers are elevating in their tone and exert
an influence in the proper direction. This is
true of the Sunday papers which aside from
the current news of the day always present
many pages filled with the choicest matter to
be secured from the best writer's of the day.
The Law and Order Society and its methods
is greater disgrace and blot on the COM
munity than any other organization or class
we know of in Allegheny county at present
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
FAVORITES OF FORTUNE.

WHEN boy, Tennyson fell into the
habit of writing poetry while staying home
from church.
NEAL Dow is still living in a house he
built in Portland, Me-, nearly 65 years ago.
He is now 81 years Old.
MRS. PETER, the Kansas Senator's
wife, is described as a "plain little home
body, with fund OF good sense and mother
ly reserve"
GOVERNOR BROWN. the new chief execu-
tive Of Maryland, is not himself 8, very rich
man, but his wife has fortune that is reck-
oned at sl,O00GOO.
BISHOP HARE, of South Dakota, at the
request of the Episcopal House of Bishops,
has started on another trip to Japan, to be
absent about three months.
DIR. EDWARD BEDLoE, American Consul
at Annoy, China, has returned TO this country
on temporary leave, and is now among his
old friends in Philadelphia.
THE Eprettiest royal girl in Eastern Europe
is said to be the Princess Helene Of Mon
tenegro, who it is reported is the chosen
bride of the heir apparent to the Russian
throne.
THE Duke of Cambridge, who is cousin
of Queen Victoria and Generals simo of the
BRUSH army, mas the reputation OF using the
most violent language of any body in the En-
glish army.
PRESIDENT SENIOR Don JORGE MoNTT,
who is declared to be mot painfully brill
liant man." endeared himself to the Chileans
by the bravery he displayed while COM
mandant of the sloop of war O'Higgins.
ONE of the Confederate soldiers who
crossed over into Mexico at the conclusion
of the Civil War was General Il. NJ Green
wood, OF Louisiana. He is now engaged in
business in the City OF Mexico, where he
has accumulated fortune.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-16
HARvARD's NEGATIVE FUNCTION.

The bombshell which William Lloyd
Garrison recently pitched at the faculty
of Harvard, concerning the semi-barbar-
Gus practices of the D. K. E. Society, pro-
duces wide variety of comment. One
of the most inclusive and summary
dispositions of the subject we have seen
is the remark of an Eastern cotemporary
that Mr. Garrison displays an unreason-
able and ignorant view of the subject in
supposing the sophomores will be any,
thing but fools.
That may be granted for the sake of
the argument, even to the extent of as
suming that the foolishness of the sopho-
mores will proceed to the extent of bar