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The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16
One More.

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The man who is always prying into
the private concerns Of other people
h would be an unqualified nuisance, but
the fact that he is sometimes amusing
\ and lends himself readily to caricature,
as in this sketch from the Chicago
Tribune.
Coin fur, mister?"
The question was asked by a long.
nosed, thin Tipped man with pointed
chin -Whiskers, a slouch hat and a hun
cry expression of countenance. He
was resting his elbows on the seat in
front Of him, which seat was occupied
BY 9 passenger in gray check suit.
The passenger addressed turned
\ partly around, took look at hia
questioner, and replied: ~: z.,
Yes, am going to Nashville, down
in Tennessee. My business there is to
] sell four shares Of bank stock, dispose
OF my interest in farm of eighty
acres ten miles from the city, and in
vest the proceeds in a clothing estab-
lishment on North Cherry Street.
am from Beardstown, Cass County,
Illinois. @ .m -.. H.. -,
Z 81 got on the train there at 9.35
this morning Il was forty-fve min
utes behind time. Ny ticket cost me
eleven dollars and sixty-fve cents.
shall take the sleeper when the sun
goes down. Had my dinner about an
hour ago. Paid seventy-fve cents for
it. This cigar cost me ten cents.
have been a smoker for about thirteen
1 years.
my name is Chauncey Mcconnell.
. ! am thirty-nine years old, have a wife
and fourchildren, came originally from
Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and am a
member of the Congregational Church.
Twas formerly a druggist, but sold
out to man named Treadway, and
I am not in any business now. / am
worth perhaps ten thousand dollars.
My father was q cooper, and my
grandfather was a sea-captain.
*tsMy Wife's name was Carr before ]
married her. Her father was a sur
veyor. That's all I know abour her
family. We live in a two-story frame
house, and the children have all had
the mumps, chicken-pox and measles.
When I reach Nashville I expect to
stop at the Maxwell House." .
He Hestopped. The long -nosed man 70.
garded him q moment with interest,
and then asked, in a querulous, dis
satisfied way:
"What did yer great-grandfather do
fpr livin'?"
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16

Vile cod-liver oil has lost
It's vileness in SCOTS Ernul-
sion and gained a goodf deal
in efficiency.
1t is broken up into tiny
drops which are covered with
glycerine, just as quinine in
pills is coated with sugar
or gelatine. You do not get
the taste at all.
The hypophosphites of
lime and soda add their tonic
effect to that of the half-di-
gested cod-liver oil.
Let us send you a book on
CAREFUL L1v1NG-free.
SCOTT 8. BOVINE. Chemists, r,a South 9Th Avenue.
New York.
Your druggist keeps Scotts Emulsion Of eod-liver
oil-au druggists everywhere do. IL.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16
The Savages Of Civilization.

Asto va ~S0SSS VI O'S'se&sAS''
Supposing, after having vented our
Indignation against the red men, who
are so often reported as committing
"unheard-of atrocities" on our border,
we look at home. We have Bibles,
pastors, churches, Sunday Schools.
We call ourselves Christian commu-
nifty The aborigines have none Of
these things. They are heather; yet
we can beat them at "atrocities" and
give them odds. They may knock a
squaw or two on the head now and
then, for wife-murder is not an in
sitution among them, but we have
never yet heard of two North American
Indians pounding each other to a jelly
for money, with other Indians looking
on for amusement.
To be sure, the savages sometimes
torture their prisoners, but that is
part of their system of retributive
Justice; and as they have never beer
taught better, as we have, some
allowance must be made for them
Besides, thousands of Christians have
been tortured by Christians in 6
manner quite as barbarous as if thu
tormentors had been barbarians.-
New York Ledger.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16
PREVENTING FLOODS.
How Floods May be Successfully
Opposed. s4a (.

Floods may be successfully opposed
or escaped. Railways and wagon
roads may and must be laid on river
flood plains; but the embankments,
and trestles, and bridges should be
raised not only above the great nat
ural flood mark found in the plain it.
self, and the reciprocal effects of en-
bankments and other structures on
future freshets should be cautiously
reckoned. Farms may and ought to
be located on fertile bottom lands en-
riched by annual or decennial over
flow; but the farmer should dig deep
for his foundations and build his
superstructures strong and high. On
every food plain of eastern America
he should provide for the loss of crop
and fences once in three, or five, or
ten years; and both common human
ity and economic policy urge that
dumb beasts should be pastured and
fed on the uplands, so that the fertile
river bottoms may be devoted to their
best use, namely, the production Of
plant crops. Cities and towns ought
not to be built on the f1ood-ridden
and miasmatic lowlands; yet they
have been in the past and will be in
the future, so the townsman, like the
farmer, should build high and strong
and hold himself ready to remove
his dear ones and carry his goods to
upper stories. And the flood-swept
bottom lands of the American rivers
afford a business opportunity, curious
ly neglected in the past, though des-
tined to be successfully grasped at no
distant day; namely, insurance
against floods. ..-
The great desideratum is general rec
ognition of the facts-which are de-
monstrated by the observations of
thousands and gainsaid by none,
though ignored by multitudes-that
rivers bear their own flood marks in
the alluvial plains by which they are
skirted, and that men occupy these
plains at their peril.-Forum.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16
False in One,
False in All.

THE ENGLISH OF LATIN PRovERB APPLIED TO
A CONCERN WHICH IS NOW IN BUSINESS.
Business started upon shams must resort shams
retire. -------
The Royal Baking Powder Company garbled Official
documents to give it standing. #%
For this it was publicly branded. - f.
The Food and Dairy Commissioner of Ohio caught tho
Royal Baking Powder Company the of isquotng his
report to make its goods appear unaduterated. " Is ~
The same Company stole the livery Of the Board of
Health the NewYork and dress paradein
3 the garment
The Board exposed this When the apparel removed
Of course the deformity was left alone.
Then the Royal Baking Powder Company resorted r.
constructing speaking machine.
Il called this machine "A Government Chemist" When
Il mouthed order Royal Company quoted
same passed These represented
Royal Baking Powder pure etc
Government" is stately word Like everything good,
4 i abused BY unscrupulous tricksters.
MAKE. a NOTE.
There is such Office that Of Government Chemist
a THOUGHT.
garbles official papers, isquoes Boards
II Hsalth Creates Official Mouth pieces its pur
! poses, what viii il DO il adulterating its goodsl
Dr, Price stands foe to impure goods and tricky
methods Of advertising
Dr Prices Cream Baking Powder IS the only Pure
csaam Tartar Baking Powder now 70 be Obtained, and
- thinking public are finding 4 one
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16

= A writer in Boston paper recommends
women to study their countenances by aid
oi their mirrors. Good enoughl But then
II they do not cure their colds with Dr.
Bulls Cough Syrup they run the risk of
breaking their refectors and destroying
valuable property.
\, There's not joy the earth can give, like
the sudden surcease of violent and terrible
pain, 1t is like the rest at the gates of
Paradise, but how can it be foundS. It is
the simplest matter in the world. Buy q
bottle of Salvation Oil and rub it in.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16
The Oniv One Ever Print,

An0 onIy On0 Ever Prlnt0Q.
CAN YOU FIND THE WORD? There is a 8
Inch display advertisement in this paper,
this week, which has no two words alike
except one word. The same is true of each
new one appearing each week. from The
DR.. Harter Medicine Co. This house
places a Crescent" on everything they
make and publish. Look for it, send them
the name Of the word and they will return
you BOOK, BEAUTIFUL L1THoaRAPHs or SAM
PLIES FREE.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16
The Soudan Raven.

In soudan the respect for the "bird
of the shade" is unbounded. He is
endearingly known to the Arabs as
their "uncle," and they are more ex-
orbitant in exacting blood-mo11ey for
his chance slaughter by the hand Of
the stranger than if it were really the
relative in question. Shoot their
dove, their ostrich, their varied scav.
engers OF the vulture kind-their once
sacred ibis even-and they grin and
bear it; but once aim bolt at the
44Noah bird" and a hundred lean but
Muscular brown arms will be raised
and the bereaved, white-teethed rela
tives will gesticulate and shout around
you, while they. explain how black
hued was your accidental crime
Apart from this, the raven, with its
lefty plumage, will always be point
OF interest in the Soudan, from the
, strong contrast he presents to the or
dinary ''desert colored birds which
preserve d neutral tint ofgray orfawn
which renders them almost invisible
All The Year Round. $ ..
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16

as St6 S1teTU
womanhood, every young girl needs
the wisest care. Troubles beginning
then may make her whole life mis-.
erable.
But the troubles that are to bo
feared have a positive remedy. DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription builds
up and strengthens the system, and
regulates and promotes every proper
function. It's a generous, support
ing tonic, and quieting, soothing
nervine-a legitimate medicine, NOT
beverage, free from alcohol and
injurious drugs. It corrects and
cures, safely and surely, all those
delicate arrangements, weaknesseA
and diseases peculiar to the sex.
A remedy that does cure is one
that can be guaranteed. That's
what the proprietors of "Favorits
Prescription think. If it doesn't
give satisfaction, in every case for
which it's recommended, they'll rs-
fund the money. No other medicine
for women is sold on such terms.
Decide for yourself whether some.
thing else sold by the dealer, il
likely to be "just - good" for
you to buy.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16

1t is said that Russia is preparing for the
worst Some other power will see that
she gets it.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16

Every honest voter has voice In local
government; and in some places that is
about all he does have.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16
A Throat
and Lung
Speciality.

ly appreciate what a truly wonder
full medicine it is. The delicious
sensations of healing, easing, clear
ing, strength-gathering and recover
ing are unknown joys. For Ger
man Syrup we do not ask easy cases.
Sugar and water may smooth a
throat or stopa tickling-for while.
This is as far as the ordinary cough
medicine goes. Boschee's German
Syrup is discovery, a great Throat
and Lung Specially. Where for
years there have been sensitiveness,
pain, coughing, splitting, hemorr-
hage, voice failure, weakness, slip
ping down hill, where doctors and
medicine and advice have been swal-
lowed and followed to the gulf of
despair, where there is the sickening
conviction that all is over and the
end is inevitable, there we place
German Syrup. It cures. You are
a live man yet if you take it. 9
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16

w. r. Morgan has been appointed
postm aster at Hot Springs, q. d.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16
An Editors Advice.

Pompous Author, to veteran editor:
What would you advise man to do
whose ideas are in advance Of the
times2" i sg 49,. a.. 49,
Veteran Editor, promptly would
advise him to sit down and wait for
the times to catch up.-Drake's
Magazine.
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16
/ Had Him Cold.

Had Him Cold. 3@$f
Y 'I hear you fought duel with Park
.sr.'' ....s,
8 81 did. .zi
.sWeren't you afraid to stand up bs-
fore q loaded pistolf"
Not with Parker holding il. I'm
insured to his company. " 81
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16
German
Syrup"

Those who have not
used Boschee's Ger
man Syrup for some
severe and chronic
trouble of the Throat
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16

descend on his next visit IN a. cloud.
Or Christ might have had his mortal
ity built up on earth out of the dust
of q garden, as was Adam, in full
manhood at the start, without the
Introductory of feebleness Of infancy.
No, no! Childhood was to be honored
by that advent. He must have a
child's light limbs, and a child's
aaxen hair; and babyhood was to be
honored for all time to come, and a
cradle was to mean more than q grave.
Mighty God! May the reflection OF
that one child's face be seen in all In
fantile faces.
Enough have all these fathers and
mother son hand if they have child
in the house. "a throne, a crown, q
sceptre, q kingd dom under charge. Be
careful how you strike him across the
head, jarring the brain. What you
say to him will be centennial and
millennial, and 100 years and /, 600
years will not stop the echo and re-
echo. Do not say, ut is only q
child. z Rather say 1T IS only an i'm.
mortal." !" It ls only masterpiece oi
Jehovah. It is only q being that
shall outlive sun and moon and star,
and ages quadrillennial. God has
infinite resources, and he can give
presents Of great value, but when he
wants to give the richest possible gift
to q household, he looks around all
the worlds and all the universe
AND THEN GIVES A CHILD. ss 81
The greatest present that God ever
gave our world, ho gave about 80l
years ago, and he gave it on q Christ
mas night, and it was Of such value
that heaven adjourned for recess
and came down and broke through
\ the clouds to look at it. Yea, III Oh
ages God has honored childhood. He
makes almost every picture fAilurs
The Bottineau pioneer., 1892-01-16

famous Ql2QG 6COOO aGAluRC Cu0 wall Oh
the Bethlehem khan, it was proph-
ecy Of the time when thresher's fail
and farmers plow and woodman's
axe and ox's yoke and heaf-binder's
rake shall surrender to the God who
made the country, as man made tho
town. J., ta'
Behold, also, that on that Christ-
mas night God honored motherhood.
Two angels on their wings might have
brought an infant Saviour to Bethle-
hem without Mary being there at all.
When the villagers on the morning Of
Dec. 26, awoke, by divine arrange
ment, and in some unexplained way,
the Child Jesus might have been found
in some comfortable cradle Of the vii
lage. But no, mol Motherhood for
all time was to be- consecrated, and
one Of the tenderest relations was to
be the maternal relation, and one Of
the sweetest words, mother In all
ages God #
HAS HoNoKED GOOD MOTHERHOOD.
John Wesley had a good mother; ST.
! Bernard had q good mother; Samuel
Bugett, good mother; Doddridge, q.
good other; Walter Scott, a good
mother: Benjamin West, good mo-
ther. In q great audience, most Of
whom were Christians, i asked that,
all those who had been blessed OF
EChristian mothers arise, and almost.
the entire assembly stood mp. Don't
You SEQ how importart ii - that all
motherhood Pc cQnsecTateN Why,
The morning news., 1892-02-08
The Warm Wave Extending Over
Entire Southern Coast.

The Warm Wave Extending Over the
Entire Southern Coast.
Yesterday was rather a warm day. The
maximum temperature was 41e and the
minimum II, the mean temperature teing
l. above the normal for the day. The total
rainfall for the twelve hours ending at s
o'clock last night was .07 of an inch. A
storm of considerable energy centered
last night in the lower lake region.
The barometric pressure is below
the normal IN all sections, except
along the immediate Middle and South At
lant!c coasts, Florida and in the extreme
west and northwest, where it is about nor
NAL. Unsettled conditions prevail east Of
the Mississippi, except in the Ohio valley
and Western Tennessee, where fair weather
prevails.
Generally clear weather prevails west Of
the Mississippi, except cloudness along the
immediate Western Gulf coast and in the
Missouri valley.
During the twelve hours ending at s
o'clock last night general light rains fell in
the Atlantic, Central and Eastern Gulf
states and in the lower lake region, with
heavy rain in Eastern Tennessee.
Heavy snow is reported along the south
ern border of Lake Superior.
The forecast for Savannah and vicinity is
cloudy weather with rain, stationary tenn
Derature
The morning news., 1892-02-08
BREWERY MAN WANTED.

The Savannah Brewing Company 4 fter
It's Collector, Charles Curtis.
The Savannah Brewing Company would
like to find out what has become of it's COL
lector, Charles Curtis. He disappeared a
day or two ago, carrying with him consid-
cradle money belonging to the brewery.
Just how much is not yet known, but it is
thought to be over $4,000.
Curtis has been connected with the
brewery in clerical capacity since it's es-
tablishment, and not long ago he was ap-
pointed collector. He made his rounds of
the city in little road cart drawn by
mule and was familiar figure in all the
saloons. As collector, Curtis was sue
cess, and the brewery people were satisfied
with his work.
The day OF his disappearance IL Is said
Curtis called upon several of the largest
debtors of the company and collected their
bills without giving receipts. saying things
were little mixed up at the brewery and
he would return later in the day with the
receipts. To others from whom he collected
and who declined to do business on such a
scale, Curtis gave his receipt. One bill
which he collected amounted to over $4OO,
The total amount of the collectors defal-
cation will not be known for a few days,
until all the saloons and other large GUS
toners of the brewery can be seen to find
out whether they made any payments to
Curtis.
Curtis is q German. and came to Savan-
nah from Beaufort, s. G., several years ago
be was known about town as a hale fellow
well met, and had large circle of friends.
The brewery people will, of course. make
efforts to apprehend Curtis, but as he has
had good start the job will not be an easy
one
The morning news., 1892-02-08
ROBBED BY THUGS.
AN UNKNOWN MAN sANDBAGGED
ON TIE BAY.

Thugs Club Him and Rife His Pockets
and Escape Before the Eyes OF a
Dozsn People - The Victim of the
Robbery Wanders OF IN q Dazed
Condition and is Lost Track Of-No
Clew TO the Robbers.
One Of the boldest highway robberies that
has ever occurred in Savannah was COM
mitted yesterday afternoon about $3.50
O'Clock. at Bay and Habersham streets
An unknown white man, while walking
along Bay street, was set upon by three
tough-looking men and knocked senseless.
His assailants Immediately rified his pock-
cts and ran down Bay street and under the
bluff at East Broad. The attack and rob
berry didn't occupy more than two minutes
and, although witnessed by several people,
no attempt was made to capture the rob-
bers, who appeared to be tramps
The thing was 50 bold that before the
people who saw it could realize fully what
had occurred the men had made their es-
cape.
The victim Of the assault didn't regain
consciousness for several minutes and when
he finally came around he staggered of In
dazed manner. He was asked his name by
those who went to his assistance, but he
either didn't want to disclose his identity or
he wasn't able. He was advised to report
the occurrence at the police barracks and be
started In that direction, but didn't reach
there
A couple OF hours after ward the robbery
was reported to the police, and although
efforts were made to find the unknown man
and his assailants, no results were obtained.
The man is evidently a stranger in tho city.
The assault gave rise TO a sensational
story that a man had been murdered on the
Bay by robbers, and for awhile there was
considerable excitement.
The crime for boldness equals anything Of
its kind on record. The robbers were evident
ly no amateurs. and had well calculated the
time when no policeman would be around
10 make the assault As the victims head
bore no marks Of violence sandbag was
probably the weapon his assillants used
The morning news., 1892-02-08
INCIDENTS OF TIE CIVIL SERVICE
Some OF the Specimens That the Ex
aminers Came Across.

! Some OF the Specimens That the Ex-
eminers Came Across.
Civil Service Examiner F. NJ. Higgins of
Washington arrived in the city yesterday
and is registered at the De Soto. He will
begin the examination OF large class of
candidates for positions in the civil service
departments In the pOstofice at 9 O'Clock
this morning.
Mr.. Higgins examined a class OF candi-
dates In Savannah about year ago and by
bis pleasant and courteous manner made a
very favorable impression here. Since then
be has examined classes In almost every
state In the union. he is now on south
ern tour from Virginia to Texas, which will
keep him out until about March /.
MIR. Higgins says that the number of COL
ored candidates for civil service positions
has notably decreased of late. On his last
southern tour they composed nearly so per
cent OF the number examined, but on the
present tour the number of colored candi-
dates is less than 20 per cent. The results
OF previous examinations seem TO
have cast damper upon the
aspirations Of the ''cullud pusson" for
office.
The examiner tells good story on a
colored member of the class at Wilmington
the other day. The examination had pro-
- oCAAo bAA-AO Ne1AA40aNO nu4
made such a poor showing that Mr.. Higgins
advised him to retire.
"The next sheet is mathematics, he said
"and it Is hardly worth while for you to try
that.n
20. boss. mathematics is my hobby" ex-
claimed the applicant. IN pick up on
that.n
he was given the sheet Of mathematical
problems, most Of which are comparatively
easy, and wrestled with it for nearly two
hours with evident perplexity. Then he
arose and slowly approached the examiner
'Welip inquired Mr. Higgins.
"Boss, | amt got no hobby no more"
mournfully remarked the candidate.
he had failed on every problem. His
general average figured out just 2s< per
cent.
Mr.. Higgins says that a large number of
those who passed the civil service examina-
tion have received appointments to clerk
ships at Washington and elsewhere
The scope of the civil service has been in
creased OF late, and it is now proposed to
put the small postmasterships, the Indian
agency schools and the consulates under the
control of the civil service.
There are teachers in the Indian schools
who could not pass the Examination, repre-
seutatives Of the government abroad who are
the opposite Of intelligent, and hundreds of
postmasters, as is well known, who are
models OF ignorance. o.
The morning news., 1892-02-08

and said: "Well, never mind about that:
it's not material Evidently be didn't care
20 talk about his newspaper days, although
he was quite willing to tell Of al the other
occupations he has followed.
Ia reply to an inquiry as 20 wheth er be
intended to continue his connection with
Christianity Lindner replied emphatically
In the affirmative. II am now a Christian, /"
said be, ''and expect TO always remain one
] have had enough Of Judaism
Llndner is quite comfortably located at
the barracks, having one Of the upstairs
cells, which Is three times the sizs Of those
on the lower floor. He was lying across
his bed reading New Testament when the
reporter called. and didn't seem 20 worry in
the least about his confinement
An officer from Nashville will arrive to-
night and Lindner will start on bis return
trip tomorrow.