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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
LIVED ON HIS OWN FLESH.

A Fever-Strlcken Maori Goes
Through a Shocking Expert
ence.
A correspondent in the native dis
trict of Walapu draws a frightful pict-
ure of the condition of the Maories.
Fever is prevalen and it is very
s%addening to see how the Maories
neglect to use the most ordinary pre-
cautions for isolation. They will per-
sist in sitting in a sitting atmosphere
in the presence of both dead and dy-
ing.
In many settlements the population
seems to have become fatal
lists, and are resorting to old
superstitions and using lamentations
and a ridiculous travesty of spirit
rapping. These influences are most
depressing, and no comfort or conso-
lation is offered the sick people, who
are sadly neglected, preparations for
the death feast often taking place be-
fore the eyes of the dying persons, says
tho New Zealand Evening Post.
Harewera, an old man i'll with a.
fever, was allowed to wander and fell
into q swamp. He lay there for some
time, and ate earth worms to satisfy
his hunger. He also actually bit a
piece out of his own arm and sucked
his blood. He then crawled into his
own place, fell into the fire, and soon
died.
Nuta, a schoolboy, recovering from
the fever, was allowed to wander into
the swamp, and died in two daysfrom
relapse, and was buried without a
medical certificate.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
Sir Edwin on the Reporter.

Sir Edwin Arnold says that the
average editorial "leader" of an
English newspaper is the product Of
three hours of diligent work by an
accomplished man-such as Andrew
Lang, for instance. He himself once
wrote one or two thousand words
with a lead pencil in an hour a rate
of speed which seems prodigious, and
which a crack American reporter
writing against time could hardly
excel; but a man who has written
5000, leaders, as the author of the
"Light of Asia has done, must neces-
sarlly have become expert at it.
Sir Edwin thinks that tho reporter
should be rated on a level with the
editor, and that personally he would
as soon report a fire as to interview
Lord Salisbury or Mr.. Gladstone on
some great question ofpolitical policy.
Why not? It is not difficult to ask
questions and remember the answers;
but it takes genius to discover the
name OF the occupant OF q third
floor back when the occupant and the
third floor are burning briskly in tho
cellar.-Harper's Weekly.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
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The smaHsst e tie 1ee1

The snaAest t. tie Aess
In pills, other things being equal.
But, with DR.. Pieroe's Pleasant Pei.
lets, nothing else Is equal. They're
the best, not only because they're
the smallest, and the easiest to take
but because they do more good.
They cleanse and regulate the liver,
stomach and bowels in a way tho
huge, old fashioned pill doesn't
dream Of. Think of trying to rsQss.
late the system with the ordinary Pill.
It's only good for upsetting it. I
These are mild and gentle-but
thorough and effective, no pain-no
gripping. One little pellet for = laxs-
tive - three for = oathartio. The
best Liver Pill known. Sick Head
ache, Bilious Headache, Constips-
ton, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks
and all arrangements of the liver,
stomach and bowels are prevented,
relieved and cured. !
Put up in sealed vials-a perfect
vest-pocket remedy, always convsn-
lent, fresh and reliable. ,
They're the chsapest pill you can
buy for they're guaranteed to give
satisfaction, or your money 10 r..
turned. It's a plan peculiar to DR..
Pieroe's medicines. 4
You pay only for the good yen
got. Can you ask more?
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
CURE FOR SLEEPLESSNESS.

Victims Of Insomnia Can Hypnotic
Themselves into Slumber.
I have a way OF putting myself to
sleep that has never failed. But, of
course, you wont pay any attention
to it because it's so simple. However,
here it is:
Iclose my eyes lightly, and then
gently and gradually direct them up
ward, as if l wanted to look into tho
the interior of my own skull. The
movement must be gentle and gradual
or the sudden strain on the nerves
will give you a headache, and some
times there may be some slight dis.
comfort on the first two or three
trials, but it wears off rapidly.
After youhave retained your eyes in
that position for a few moments you
feel yourself losing consciousness of
time and place and slowly slipping,
with delightful smoothness and q
kind OF dreamy softness, out of the
present. I invariably have the one
sensation, that of floating in a boat
on gently rocking pillows that are
moving easily away, says a writer in
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The process is really a kind of self
hypnotism, and while you are per-
forming it your mind is unable to
take up any thread Of thought or
memory or present to itself any pict-
urs other than the one the process
itself supplies. It is a very singular
thing, and 1 find that nearly all my
acquaintances can repeat after me the
self-hypnotic movement.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
RObkA HORSE UPSTAIRS,

A "Bad Man" In Memphis Shows
His Nerve In a Remarkable Way.
The story of a remarkable feat OF
Craftsmanship performed in Mempis
recently has just come out. The rider
vas Henry Douglass, a farmer living
near Lake View, Miss, and he rode
his horse up a steep flight OF stairs to
the second story of M. G. Pearce Zoos
cotton Office on Front street.
The first the clerks in the cotton
room knew of the circus act was when
Douglass cantered into the apartment,
very drunk, and gave them the time
of day. They did not respond, but
got out as quickly as possible, as
Douglasshad a pistol and they knew
him to be bad even when not under
the influence of liquor. Then MI.
Pearce and City Commissioners Martin
Kelly went up and interviewed Doug
lass, who vas riding around in the
cotton room and trying to make his
steed mount the sample tables.
They persuaded him to dismount
for the purpose of descending with them
and taking a drink, and Mr.. Pearce
called his negro and told him to lead
the horse downstairs.
"D-n you," said the owner of the
horse to the negro, "if you touch my
horse I'll kill you. I have already
killed four men and you're a fine
subject for the fifth"
The porter declined to undertake the
contract and finally Mr.. Pearce him
self led the animal down without
mishap, Commissioner Kelly hanging
on to the tail to steady the process
sion. AS soon as Douglass reached
the street he was arrested by a police
man and later was lodged in the jail
for carrying a pistol, says the st. Louis
Republic.
To make the fact more astonishing,
the horse he rode is rather wild than
otherwise. Douglass is as handy with
his gun as he claims to be. Several
years since he killed Oscar Woodbridge
the man who killed Frank Waite, a
prominent coal dealer and Republican,
in this city fifteen years ago.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06

Syrup"

Here is an incident from the South
mississippi, written in April, 1890,
just after the Grippe had visited that
country. II am a farmer, one of
those who have to rise early and
work late. At the beginning oflast
Winter I was on a trip to the City
of Vicksburg, Miss. where I got we'll
drenched in a shower of rain. I
went home and was soon after seized
with a dry, hacking cough. This
grew worse every day, until I had
to seek relief. Iconsu1ted DR.. Dixon
who has since died, and he told me
to get bottle of Boschee's German
Syrup. Meantime my cough grew
worse and worse and then the Grippe
came along and I caught that also
very severely. My condition then
compelled me to do something. I
got two bottleso of German Syrup. I
began using them, and before taking
much of the second bottle, I was
entirely clear of the Cough that had
hung to me so long, the Grippe, and
all its bad effects. Ifelt tip-top and
have felt that way ever since"
PETER J. BR1A1s, Jr., Cayuga, Hines
Co.. Miss. @
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
All That Is Needed.

In our physical needs we want the best
of anything required, and we want all that
is required to be done, to be done promptly
and surely. and those in pain, especially,
will find all that is needed in what is herein
recommended. Mr.. T. J. Murphy, 81
Having been afflicted with sciatic rheu-
matism for some time past and finding no
relief, | tried St. Jacobs Oil, which I found
very eficacious."--Miss Clara Alcott, NAH
wah, N. j., writes: II bruised my limb and
it became greatly swollen and stiff. I used
two bottles of a patent linament which did
not relieve me. A physician was called
who ordered the limb to be poulticed, and
be gave m medicine internally. without
benefit, I then got a bottle of St. Jacobs
on, which cured me. It acted like magic"
Co., Mich, says: Il had chrome rheuma-
tism for years, contracted during the wal.
After sitting or lying down. at times. I
could not get up, from stiffness and pains.
At work my strength would give out then
I would pass through q sickness of
several weeks. I had to walk with
q ant and was at one time
50 i'll I could not lie down without terrible
pains in back and limbs. I tried st. Jacobs
Oil; next morning got up out of bed with:
out assistance: To-day I'm 2 new nan and
bingham, P%erryopolis, Fayetts County,
Pa, writes: "My wife was scrsly afflicted
with lame back for several years. She used
ipnumerable liniments, but experienced
little relief until st. Jacobs Oil wa used. !
can confidently say we owe her cure TO III
wonderful effects and would notksep house
without it."
W. F. Boland of Chippewa Falls has
nnrchaaod The West Snnarinr Dailv
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
Cod-liver oil suggests con-

Cod-liver oil suggests con-
sumption; which is almost un-
fortunate. Its best use is be-
fore you fear consumption
when you begin to get thin.
Consumption is only one of
the dangers of thinness.
SCOTS Emulsion of cod
liver oil makes the thin
plump, and the plump are
almost safe.
Let us send you a book on
CAREFUL L1v1NG-fee.
SccrT / BowNE, Chemist. .,s soueh seh Avsnus.
New York.
Your druggist keeps Scot.'s Emulsion Of eod.liver
oii-aii druggists everywhere do. 81.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
He Was

He wasgoing uptown on d Madison
avenue a He had a bundle on his
knees, and from the way he hitched
around and looked at the men on
either side of him it was evident he
wanted to talk to some one. He A.
nally selected the man on his right,
who was a dapper little fellow with
eyeglasses and a gold headed cane.
"Ever bothered with rheumatics?"
suddenly inquired the man with the
bundle.
The dapper man never moved an
eye winker.
sI'm having it considerable this
fall" said the other. STRIKES me in
the right shoulder, and / can't wasn't
back of my neck more'n half the time.
You look as if you might be subject to
it."
The dapper man looked straight
across tine car, and the only move
ment betraying life was a jerky motion
to one toe.
.Bin a-buyiu' a red flannel Shirt"
persisted the man with the bundle.
'Some advised me to take indicated
flannel, and some said the common
red flannel would do. Which sort do
you think is best?"
The dapper man was now flushing
up, and his eyes turned to the door,
but he gave no other sign.
81 paid a dollar for this" continued
the bundle man as he united the string,
ssand he warranted it not to shrink.
I'd like to ask your opinion of the
goods. Have l paid too much?"
He unwrapped the paper and held
the shirt to full view. It was "a red
flannel shirt, which appeared to be
nine feet long, and at first sight the
dapper little man turned whittier than
-four, got up and fell, over his cane,
got up again, shot outdoors, and
dropped off. Everybody else laughed
heartily, and after looking around in
q surprised way the old man began
doing up his bundle, and observed:
"He needn't have bin a-scart Of me.
Lands save me, I never hurt nobody
in my life."
This Was In Boston
She was a dainty Boston lass, with
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
Too Much Lynch Law.

First Citizen, Golden Guioh-"Wall,
we caught up with the TELLER wot stole
your new o~vercoat, an lynched him."
Second Citizen-"Ha, ha; that's
somthin' like. Teach these coyotes
they've gotter obey the laws O. tho
land. Hung him, eh?"
"No, we shot him full o. holes"
"Gee whitaker! He didn't have my
overcoat on, did he?"
"J~erusalem. partner, come to think,
I'm 'fraid he did"
aye oughter be arrested, every one
of We. This ere lynch law is a disgrace
ter civilization."-New York Weekly.
The Wrong Medicine.
Mother: "Now, my dear Francois,
just drink up this camomile tea nicely,
and you will soon be BETTER"
Little Francois: "Camomile teal !
thought | vas going to have milk
punch!"
Mother: "No, darling; camomile
tea is the best thing you car take"
Francois, jumping out of bed in g.
temper:-"Then, mamma, you can
wait a long while before l have a sore
throat again, | can tell you!"-Le
Figaro.
The Last Train
Baron Franchetti sent his servant
Teodoro to the railway station to
see when the last train started for
Naples. Teodoro came back after an
absence OF two hours.
"Perdinci, Teodoro! Why, it has
taken you an age!!"
"Oh! Signore; | had to wait. I
couldn't trust any of those fellows,
and wanted to see the train start with
my own eyes."-H Motto per Ridere.
"Sit Down.
Scene: A Russian day-school.
Time: The geography lesson.
Teacher, addressing one of the pu-
pills: "Smirnoff, which is the way to
Siberia?"
Pupil: "First, the police-court;
then"
Teacher: "Sit down!"-Sujet, Rus
sian political paper.
LIN r,e..>-L r,~ nj
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
| A HUMOROUS VEIN,
Latest PRODUCTIONS OF HUI
MOROUS PENS.
Lies Funny Side Portrayed
Weaknesses and Foibles Of HUI
mainly Carlcatured--AIl
Sorts OF Fun.
It Wasn't Hogs.

An old colored man had brought
out a pail of water for my horse, and
We were talking about the weather
and the crops, when a young negro
about Ii years old broke out Of the
woods on the other side of the road.
He was bareheaded, barefooted, and
had on a torn shirt and ragged pair of
dungarees. The minute the old man
saw him he called out:
boy! I'd like to know what dis
we're fussing's all 'boutl"
what fussing?" replied the young
man.
ADoan' you ak me what fussing,
sahl I knows yo' boyl You is a Mig
ger who dun works for Majah Gam
ble!" ,
"What if I does?"
"What if yo' does? Why, sab, lie
gwine ter tell ledge Smith dat yo' has
bin chasin' one Of his hogs!"
"Shoo! Nebber did it!'
"Doan' yo' lie to me, boyl Can't I
suuu 600 w lS dill tlEou OuU Us Dr0cl VIII
chasin' dat hog? If de Jedge doan't
have yo' in jail befo' two daysd den I'm
q 'possum!"
"Look a-yere, Uncle Ben,", said the
young nan as he came across the
road, "does yo' member dat time de
Jedge's hogs dun got on de railroad
i track down dar?"
"Of co'se sah-of co'se I does"
can when de train cum along what
did dem hogs do? Didn't dey run
right down de track"
"Of co'se dey did,"
can did dem kivered kyars cotoh
up to 'em? Didn't dey run two miles
an den jump into de swamp"
eyes, sab, dey did"
"Well, den, vas yo' big huff fule to
reckon I'd be fussing wild hogs dat
could run faster n de bullgine? Reck-
on lie got wings to fly wild? Does I
look like a bird?"
He went Off up the road, turning to
look back occasionally, and when he
had passed out of sight around q
bend The old man shook his head in q
solemn way and said to me:
81 reckon I dun made q powerful
mistake wild dat niger. I said hogs,
but Ize dead suah he was artss a
calf"
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06

Two young children of Joseph Kefgan
ct st. Pa1l are nearly killed by an cleo
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
Tho Only One Ever Printed.

The Only One Ever Printed.
CAN YOU FIND THE woRD7 There is q 3
Inch display advertisement in this paper,
this week, which has no two words alike
except one word. The same is true of each
new n appearing each week. from The
DR.. Harter Medicine Co.. This house
places q Crescent" on everything they
make and publish. Look for II, send them
the name of the word and they will return
you BOOK, BEAUTIFUL L~ITHoaRAPHs or Sam
(LUa YREE.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
THE LADIES.

The pleasant effect and perfect safety
liquid laxative Syrup of Figs, under all
conditions, make it their favorite remedy.
To get the true and genuine article, look
for the name of the California Fig Syrup
Co., printed near the bottom of the pack
age.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06

Henning Peterson, a tailor at Fort
Dodge, laughed himself into insensi-
bility.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06

every step n life shall be q triumphal
march, and the humblest footstool ON
which we are called to sit will be q
conqueror's throne.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
CONSUMPTION.

lh1vS poslnVe FSnseoy 1or te E0ovs olSeasss IN
Use thousands Of cases Of the worst kind and II LEM
Standing have been cured. Indeed % strong h NJ faitA
fn ito efficacy, that I will send TWO BoTTLEs y1E1, Nm
VALUABLE on this disease - a21 ~
bsrsr who will send me their Express and T. o. sAlzsaA
Z. 4. Slocums N. O., 163 Pearl It., N. y.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06

". F. Boland Of Chippewa Falls has
purchased The West Superior Daily
Gall.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06

A public hall at Ilfracomb, Eng, COL
lapsed and two men are crushed to
death.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06
tie was n eIpeu TWICE

tie was nelpeo Twice.
Mrs. BLACKWELL you have a piece
of mince pie, John?
Mr.. Black-No, I think not.
II put some brandy in the mince-
meat, It helps to-
"Oh, did you. I'll try q piece
please. Yankee Blade.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06

duu VIC o0IOu WOuiu VA0oh OPoA OA'
der your feet. The air would cease
It's healthful circulation, pestilence
would swoop, and every house would
become .. place of skulls. Streams
would first swim with vermin. and
then dry up, and thirst and hunger,
and anguish and despair would lift
their sceptres. Oh, compare such a
life as that with the life you live this
morning with your families about
you'll Is it not time that, with every
word of our lips and with every &C
tion of our life, we began to acknowl-
edge these everyday mercies?
"Whether We eat or drink or whatso-
ever you do, do all to the glory Of
God"
TAKE THIS PRACTICAL RELIGION
/ have recommended into your every
day life. Make every day a Sabbath,
and every meal a sacrament, and
every room you enter a Holy of
Holes. We all have work to do; let
us be willing to do it. We all have
sorrows to bear; let us cheerfully bear
them. We all have battles to fight;
let us courageously fight them. If you
want to die right you must live right.
Negligence and Incidence will win the
hiss Of everlasting scorn, while faith
fulness will gather it's garlands, and
wave it's sceptre, and sit upon it's
throne, long after this earth has put
on ashes, and eternal ages have begun
their march. You 20 home today
and attend to your little sphere
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-02-06

This Was In BostoE,
She was a dainty Boston lass. with
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-05-14
DEMOCRATIC woKKINGMEN.

OF all the mean and INSCRIPTIONS devices
adopted by desperate politicians to carry out
their selfish ends. the meanest was the effort
made 10 ALLEVIATE the workingmen OF Rich
mond from the standard of pure and honora-
bic Democracy.
The effort 10 make our mechanical classes
believe that they have nothing in common
with Cleveland Democracy and that they
should separate themselves from the so-called
first people Of the State was not only an insult
TO them, but was vicious effort Of dema-
gogu.s TO produce discord where the most trust
ful relations should prevail. If there is one
feature which pTe-eminentiv characterzes
the true Democratic party it is its reliance
upon the masses Of Independent. incorrupti-
bic and fearless voters to sustain the cause Of
night in the administration OF Government.
Nor can this burden be borne by any one
part Of our people all must contribute to
hold up the banner of the peoples rights;
and it would be great injury 70 every class
OF society for an alienation between fellow
Democrats to be permitted. much less en-
couraged and promoted. The Democrats
who have sustained Mr.. Cleveland for Iresi-
dent rely on no class but upon the great
mass Of the people, and, in their view, tie
success OF our party depends upon an IN
dssoluble union OF every element of Democ-
racy to protect the rights of al.
There is every reason why the workingmen
in their own interests should most cordially
support the Cleveland school Of Democracy.
as for them the principle Of equal ara exact
Justice TO all men before the law. without
pArtialty or favors is determinedly executed
while they demand that the money in which
wages is paid shall be not only the best he-e.
but be kept up TO the standard OF value of
the leading nations of the world. Noworking-
man or working woman wants pay 10 cheap
money. Cleveland's Democracy and tho
workingman's interests are one and the same
thing
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-05-14
A MOVE TOWARD FRYE RuIPS.

The recent act Of Congress allowing foreign
built ships TO be admitted to registry on GER
tain conditions Is proving 50 very tempting
to ship owners that they are seeking Ameri-
can registry with ayidiiy. The steamer China.
IA 700 ton vessel Of the Pacific Mail Line.
built in Glasgow. is following the example of
the City of Paris and the City of New York.
and the privilege obtained by the Inter
national Company is eagerly sought for by
its recipients
The concession Of an American register for
foreign built ships requires that they shall
build Ill this country a ship the counterpart
of that registered. This Is IA compromise
between the free ship men and the friends Of
the old iron-clad law forbidding any foreign
built ship to have registry IN this country.
and II is IN reality an Acknowledgements of
the Democratic claim that our Radical navi-
cation laws have ruined the American Mer
chant Marine Those taking advantage of
this compromise will have 10 make some
sacrifices because il will cost them from 20 10
2J per cent. more TO build ships here than
abroad. Still they will make profit on their
venture. 1t is stated, Tor instance, that al
though the owners of the City Of Paris and
City of New York will have to give up an al
nual subsidy from the British Government OF
Sl05. 900 as soon as these vessels are admitted
to register. they can do that. and build new
saipsin America besides, and still make money
from the Il mile government subsidy for
every voyage IN one direction they receive
from the United States The PHILADELPHIA
Record SAYS on this subject that
"as these swift ships make about twelve
voyages year their united postal bounties
will he IN the neishborhood OF 1850 900, or
$4,000 more than the amount now
paid by the British Government. But the
chief advantage anticipated from al Amer
lean registry is that American citizens voy.
aging to Europe will prefer the flag of their
own country to that of any other. 1t is to be-
hopsd that the sxusctations uDop which the