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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04

The Red river has been on a
great rampage this spring, flooding
the lower portions Of Fargo and
Moorehead last week and Grand
Forks this week. At Grand Forks
the river rose forty-three feet, at the
rate of about one inch an hour.
There has been an immense snow
fall in the Red River valley last
month, together with considerable
rain, all-of which must go north
through the nearly level valley.
There has been no loss of life re.
ported, but considerable damage has
been doneto property. The work
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04
Clothing Department.

A sale for masses; sale for poor OF
rich; sale that rules this market;
a sale that sets opponents blind and
crazy; sale you must see to appreci-
ate; sale that brings you to us, if
you have an idea of economy Dress
or progress.
New spring styles all kinds and cuts.
100 spring suits from S45O to SIS.
All wool suits from SIS to S25.
Shirts at special low prices from 25 cts
to $3.50. All styles.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04

The bulls Of the Chicago board
of steal have now cornered the pork
market, and can place prices to suit
themselves. As there are only TO-
900 barrels Of pork in Chicago, and
the bull clique controls that, they
are apt to send. the price up consid-
erably over $40 per barrel before
the thing is over with. This posi-
bly, accounts for the raise in the
price of pork in our local markets
Tuesday morning.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04

Don't forget to set out those trees
on Arbor Day-May 6. What a
dreary waste of timber and paint
would North Dakota towns and
cities be but for the saving grace of
the handiwork Of the pioneers of
early days-shade trees and shrub
bery.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04

In spite of the precautions, sever
al new cases of small pox have
broken out in Winnipeg. Main
tain strict quarantine along the
border, and keep the epidemic out
of North Dakota.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04

From present indications there
vial be little demand in the north
west this season for artificial rain
makers, OF any elaborate scheme of
irrigation.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04
Success

Beyond our most San
guine Expectations is
what our new Dry
Goods departm't proves
to be. We are bound
to have it continue so.
New goods of the latest
styles at the prices we
are selling will make it
so. Look at a few of
our specials in our
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04
DRESS GOODS DE-
PARTMENT.

Bedsord cord, in all colors, formerly
sold for $1.25, now S1.10.
Chevron cloth, latest styles, at so cents
per yard.
Golden Cross Fabrics, imported from
France, is the very latest in styles,
selling from SO cts up to 80 cts yd.
Our wool Henrietta, made in Germany
in all colors, from Is cts yard up to
81 a yard.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04

The consolidation of the two
newspapers of Bottineau into one,
with G. S. McCandless as editor and
proprietor has been negotiated.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04

The customes house officers at
Neche are alert. Opium smugglers
should cross at some other point
of the line.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04
White Goods, Skirting;
and Embroid De-
partment.

Muslins, Vic. Lawns, Swiss, Nainsook
in plain, from to 25 cents yard.
Table Linen and Demask away down.
In ladies', children's and mems Under
wear we will save you SO cts to So on
each suit.
100 pair blankets to close out.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04

of seeding in that country has not
begun yet, and if the water does not
soon receed that bonanza wheat
belt will be summer fallowed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04
PRINTS AND GING.
HAMS DEPART
MENT.

We are always headquarters in them
and are selling them from l ct to 3
cts lower than any other store in this
city. Sheetings have advanced in
prices but we are selling them at the
old prices.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04
Sealed Tenders.

Will be received at Langdon N. d.
by the school clerk of Langdon Twp,
for the purchase, for cash or secured
note, of the old twp. school building;
also for the sale of lots l and in blk.
26, city of Langdon, said tenders to be
received up to May 18th at Up. m.
The board reserve the right to reject
any and all tenders received.
87-39 GEO. A. Williams,
School clerk.
Lanrdon p. o.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04
SILK DEPARTMENT.

Printed China silks, black colored silk,
changeable Silks in all colors, selling
from IS cts yard to S1.25
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-05-04
Glove Department.

You can save money at our glove de-
partment. We know no such word as
satisfied and we are honest enough to
admit it, Our determination is to
undersell and po the largest glove bus
ness in the city.
A warranted Shook kid glove in
black, a bargain at S1.75. our price is
S1.50
W have 20 pairs of silk and cotton
gloves at all prices, from 10 cents a
pair up.
We invite you all to
come and look our stock
owe and we will guaran-
tee you the lowest
prices, and the best
goods offered in the
market.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-12
EXPORTS OF SILVER.

Where Is All the Silver That 1t Is Said Free
Coinage VIII Caused to Be Dumped Upon
Us?
During the year ended May 81, 1893,
we exported $40, 1876, 57S of silver and
imported s2s, 764, 542 of the same metal;
excess of exports, 1882, 636. The inn
ports mostly came from Mexico and
the exports mainly went to Europe.
The question arises why Europe
should have taken this large amount OF
silver from us, if, rs some people would
make us believe, all Europe is SO
anxious to dump her vast but imagi-
nary boards of unused silver upon this
country. The truth is, as these figures
prove, that there is no surplus of silver
The vast stores of that
metal form part of the circulation OF
the different nations, and none Of il
can be spared. More is needed right
along, as the figures we have quoted
prove. Nearly every steamer takes out
some of the white metal.
It plainly follows that if silver were
once more raised to fixed legal value
in the same way that the coinage value
of gold is established by law, it would
become stable at that value the world
City Journal
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-12


with subjects to be considered IN the
proposed congress, the names Of persons
especially well qualified to present such
subjects, and any other recommends
tions which may be deemed conducive
to the end in view.
The proportional representation con-
Rress will meet under the auspices OF
the worlds congress auxiliary OF tho
worlds Columbian exposition, in the
city of Chicago, in the week commend
ing on Monday, August Z, 1893. The
programme will be announced in ample
time. Persons who expect to attend
this congress will confer favor upon
the committee by advising it OF the
fact Address all communications to
SrOUGHToN COOLEY, Secretary,
% Fifth ave., Chicago
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-12

versal numerator, representing by Ger.
tain legal stamps and signs the unvary-
ing and ever constant monetary unit,
tho numeral or figure with its multi
pies and fractions. It was in the year
900 B. c., with the coinage of the first
silver coins, that the destroying serpent
metallism first set its poisonous fangs
In the body polite, and human liberty
commenced to wither and die. The
money unit ceased to be looked upon as
the universal conventional denominant
and passed from the abstract and ideal
into the real and material, becoming
certain quantity of a certain commod-
ity. The unit of account" became the
standard of value" The world had
changed it's monetary system from the
''numerary" to the commodity" and
liberty received it's mortal blow.
An enslaved and Shylock oppressed
humanity is weeping at the grave where
lie entombed human liberty and the
numerary system of money, and the
day of resurrection draweth nigh. The
tear-washed throng of mourners are
derisively termed socialists, anarchists
and calamity howlers, and the cry of
the despoilers is: ''Where is the prom
Use of His coming?" But He will come.
The ''stone cut out of the mountain
without hands" is gathering momentum
and force and soon will strike upon it's
feet of iron and miry clay, that image
whose head is of fine gold and whose
breast and arms are of silver, and ut
terly demolish it. Then will the uni
versal brotherhood of man rise from
the ashes of present dynasties and be
free from Shylock's bonds.
Brethren, Awake! Awake!! The
conflict of the ages is upon us. The
mighty and invincible ballot, in the
hands Of an educated people possessing
universal suffrage, will emancipate hui
manity and reseat the risen Goddess
of Liberty upon her throne. Let the
watchwords be: Organize, Educate,
Agitate. GEORGE C. WARD.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-12
Politics In Alabama.

The above caption is the title to a
pamphlet recently published by J. c.
Manning, of Birmingham, Ala. Mr..
Manning is an earnest, enthusiastic
and aggressive populist and one of the
leaders of the reform forces in Alabama.
He will be remembered as the "boy or
ator" who put Gen. Weaver in nominal
ton at Omaha. Not only is he pow
erful debater and eloquent orator, but
he is a caustic and logical writer. His
pamphlet is an exhaustive and truthful
account of the Kolb-Jones campaign in
Alabama last fall, and faithfully por-
trays the methods by which the bour-
bons of that state defeated the will Of
the people. Not only is this pamphlet
worth reading, per Sc, but the proceeds
of its sale are to be devoted to campaign
purposes in the contest to be decided in
Alabama this all. Send twenty-five
cents to Mr.. Manning and help along
the peoples cause.
GEORGE c.. WARD.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-12
Shame.

Immigrant Inspector Conklin, in a re-
port to the treasury department as to
the violation OF the alien contract law.
says: ''The padrone system is the most
damnable, outrageous and injurious to
American workingmen of any system
that was ever practiced in the United
States, and there is no denying the
fact that it exists in almost every city
of this country where there is an Itai-
ian cOlOny."
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-12
Who Owns the Land?

The railroad companies own 211, O0o..
600 acres, or enough to make six states
as large as Iowa.
The Vanderbilts own over 2,OOO. 600
acres; Mr.. Disston, of Pennsylvania.
owns over 1000, 900, the Standard Oil
Co., 100000, and Murphy, of Califor-
MIA, an area equal to the state of Massa-
chusetts.
The Shonely estate owns land from
which the heirs have received annually
100000. Twenty-one million acres
are owned by foreigners, who owe no
allegiance to our government. and ara
no friends to a republic What will
our children own?-a right to pay rent
Labor World.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-12
What Gladstone Said.

Gladstone lately told deputation Of
rich merchants and bankers that the
Liberal party had arrived at period
when it found that the property class
was in conflict with the national sent;-
ment The question arises, is Glad
stone an anarchist for utterinr snch !.
radical sentiment?
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-12

The bankers are having congress-
convened to help them out Of their
difficulties. The people are not IN IT,
Coming Nation
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-12
Stop and Think.

Try and think when and where and
how you became possessed Of the idea
that money has or should have an in
trinsic value. Then stop and think
over it. Out of your inner thoughts
you will discover the error. If l gave
you an order on grocer who owed me
for dollars worth of sugar, it would
not be necessary to write it on gold or
silver, would it? Any slip of cheap
paper would do, would it not? It is not
the gold or silver You want, but what
it buys Money is simply govern
ment order which all the people agree
to accept for what they have to sell.
Can't you get that through your head?
The monopolists are doing their best to
prevent you from understanding it
Coming Nation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-12
No Change.

>,}hile we do not believe as Gov. Nc
Kinley, of Ohio, does, we have always
given him credit for honesty in his be-
lief, and man of fine ability. But
when he makes the statement, lately
made by him in speech in Ohio,
charging President Cleveland with be-
ing responsible for our present deplor-
able financial condition, he is either
lacking in information or he does not
have much regard for the truth. He
ought to know, if he knows anything,
that Cleveland has not changed the
Harrison policy by as much as the
crossing of ''t'' or the dotting of an
81" He is just going right along in
the same path followed by Harrison,
and we are on the brink of bankruptcy,
from the policy of the republican party,
that is being SO faithfully carried out
by Mr.. Cleveland and his crew, who are
running things now.-Industrial Union.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-07-12

The farmer makes hay while the
sun shines-but the bankers horse con-
sumes it.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-10-05
A Party of Principle.

There was a splendid example given
before the Law and Order League Of
the difference between party of prin-
ciple and party of lucre. The League,
an organization composed Of some OF
the best citizens of the county to sup
press intemperance, vice and crime,
asked the candidates for county attor-
ney and sheriff of all parties certain
questions as to their principles.
Only the Republicans answered.
they made manly, straightforward
replies. They did not beat around the
bush, they did not have to send to
Topeka to and out what lot Of bosses
thought about It. They simply and
squarely stated their Isition so clearly
and satisfactorily that the League was
compelled to publicly thank them for
their manlv stand. The comparison
between Their actions and that of their
opponents should convince any sensi-
BILE man Of the merits Of the parties.
1t should prove to any one that Que
party has principle behind it; tue other
only desire for votes.
So chagrined we're the friends Of the
Populist and Democratic candidates
at their failure to come to time that a
fortnight's extension was granted
them. by that time they may be able
to concoct some kind Of definition of
their position.
In the meanwhile the people will be
reading the rel lies Of Messrs. Smith
and Brown and becoming more and
more convinced that men OF that stamp
are the kind Of men we want for
officers.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-10-05

No Republican can afford for min
ute to contemplate voting against any
part of the ticket and the man who
does 80 Is showing by his actions that
he ia not friend Of Republicanism and
good government,
The gentlemen nominated made
their canvass in an open, manly way
they took their chances along with thu
rest and won. They announced them
selves candidates subject to the de
cision of the Republican county con
vention,' just ~ theiI opponents did
Had they lost, II would have been
unmanly for them to refuse TO be
governed by the decision Of that con
yentlon. But they won. The majority
Of the Republicans Of the county
through their delegates chose
them as the candidates Of the party,
That being the case, II is the duty OF
Republicans to stand by them and
elect them. II we are tn have Re.
publican party we must be governed by
the will of the majority. We have a
good chance to win this fall, aud vic
tory now means victory in future con-
tests. II means that Dickinson
county will be a Republican county
this fall. All we need to
achieve this victory Ia to feel that the
party is greater than the individual,
and to work for the success Of the
nartv
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-10-05
Amusements.

After having years Of experience as
a show manager l find that to please
the American people l must introduce
more specialties 80 have introduced
some very funny specialties and have
done away with old style jubilee shows
and carry first class specially show,
bright aud perfectly clean. If dissat-
isiied after the FIRST act money will be
cheerfully refunded. -[P. T. Wright,
manager of the greatest colored show
on earth.
The Nashville ColoIeds Student re-
ferred to above will be here Friday
evening. Admission only 25 and 80
cents.
HarTison's Select Players have
finally decided to come to Abilene and
will begin a weeks engagement Oct.
10. The company will have large
houses.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-10-05

The rains descended in central Kan.
sas and now farmers have an OPT ortu-
nifty to pillow and plant winter wheat.
Some of the best wheat crops ever har-
vested have been from late seeding.
The REFLECTOR hopes to see all the
farmers of Dickinson plant broadly
this year, as next year the range OF
prices will be higher than la 1898;
farmers, therefore, should look ahead
rather than backward aud the true
policy is to plant extensively. Produc-
tive acres are always better than barren
fields.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-10-05

Charles $. Gleed closes review of
the,People's Party thus: "In brief, there
has been avicious beating of the bushes,
bowling and an uproar, but no good
has been done. Over against thirty
years OF honest, safe and intelligent
work, by the Republican party and the
conservative members of other parties
In building this noble State, we must
set the past thirty months of rank talk,
eliminating in as llagrant an abuse Of
power, az reckless u disregard of laws
and presidents and as brutal a raid on
the States good name as could well
have been contriVed, II the farmers of
Kansas see anything in this for their
benefit, then It is clear that all they
need to make them entirely happy, is,
wOll-sal 1t hsdss,"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-10-05

Hon. NJ. ID. Sampson, of this city, will not
be Obliged to remain at st. Johns, N. h.,
much longer. Yesterday President Clevs-
land appointed John S. Derby, OF Maine, to
that position. MIR. sampson has held the
consul4hip four years and has made a highly
honorable record by his efficient service.
His dismissal Will not surprise anyone. as
Mr. Cleveland Is not reaprointing any Re-
publican consuls this year.-lsAliua Republi-
can.
Neither is he appointing any Kan
sans IL he can help 1t. This State has
already lost three or four good con.
sulates which it gained under Rebuilt
can rule. II was not very good
exchange for Kansas when Cleveland
succeeded Harrison.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-10-05
Western Mortgage Securities

Western Mortgage Securities.
Amid the crash Of loan and invest
ment companies which have found ii
impossible to keep up their large ex-
pense account and their enormous
profits on the diminishing market for
mortgage securities there is nothing
for the eastern investor to feel alarmed
about. There was never better
opportunity than today for investments
In real estate securities In the west and
no one who places his money judicous-
ly will regret II. The Kansae City
journal in a strong article sums up the
case exactly when 1t says:
"The forehanded people of the east
who have money invested In western
farm mortgages have very generally
discovered that they were not ut fault
when they came this way to SECURE
high rates Of interest. They nnd that
the stories set Riloat by the calamity
howlers Of two or three years ago were
wholly without foundation, as the
Journal at that time pronounced them
to be. And there IL no chance for n
discount upon these findings. is not
the farmers Of the west who have
brought trouble to the investment com
panies which have recklessy banded
eastern capital The farmer has paid
his interest with all the regularity that
he has ever done so. lie has had good
crops, ana he has been moreiprudent Ia
his expenditures than has been his gen
eral practice in the past.
1T ia true speculative loans were
sometimes made by INSCRIPTIONS
agents in localities which prudent in
vestors would have avoided, but those
should not be classed among farm loans
II was the money placed in such ven.
lures, together with speculatiOns 10
towns and cities, that went glimmering
As rule those who put their means IN
such places did so with a full knowl
edge that they were dealing In a LOTTERY
They made the ventures in the hope
that they would double the amount Of
their investments in few months
time. For such returns they were will
Ing to take extraordinary chances.
They have nobody but themselves to
blame IL they lost.
But the farm loans, except In rare
cases, were we'll secured. The inter
est coupons are generally paid with
promptness, and there is no better
security now than an extension of these
same notes, where the farmer for any
reason wants to renew them. The
fact Is that the farmer OF the west Ia
now great deal better off than any
other class. That is nm old story and
1t has been told whep much less might
better have been said; but today there
can be no question of its truth"
This Is eminently true so far as
Dickinson county ia concerned. In.
deed today is the best time for invest.
ments In farm and inside city property
seen in years becuse the tendency is
toward economy and debt paying and
not imitation and more borrowing
There Ia no room for mushroom invest
ment companies but reputable institu.
tons and agents who know the terri
tory they cover thoroughly can place
money in Kansas safely and to excellent
advantage for investors Investments
thAl will nnNnr Ia ranrniinh
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-10-05

II the Junction City Union keeps on
talking this way II will say something
disrespectful of the Fifth districts
congressman yet: "John does well
enough to add fuel to the flames within
the ranks of ignorant and discontinued
labor, but as legislator he ia not worth
hell room. In the realm of legitimate
politics he is the most colossal fake on
earth. His proper place is down among
the ignorant revoIutionists of South
America where he will be sent after
the next congressional election"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-10-05
Help Destroy Chinch Bugs.

About q month ago +. ii. Snow,
director OF the experimental station at
Lawrence, sent circulars to all who had
obtained infected chinch bugs from him
during the summer. About five thous-
and of these circulars were sent out.
OF these only one third have been
returned with the desired answers.
Every person 20 whom these circulars
was sent should oil out the blanks and
return to Prof. Snow at once. 1t is
necessary to have the cooperation of
every experimenter. II full report
from all parties ia not sent in, Prof.
Snow has no way of telling the result of
his seasons work and cannot continue
the experiments intelllgently. With
out this information from the field he
would simply be working in the dark.
This Is q matter which interests not
only Prof. Snow but also the whole
State. If the chinch bug infection is a
success II ought to be known; and II 1t
is a failure, the knowledge of that fact
is equally desirable,
OF I4O circulars sent to farmers of
this county none have been returned as
requested. The REFLECTOR hopes the
recipients will give the matter their
attention.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1893-10-05

Secretary Morton was written to
inviting him to attend the Salina irri-
CATION meeting. He replied that he
thought the meeting supernuous and
unnecessary and said he did not believe
In the government experimenting in
irrigation tor the west any more than
In fertilizers for the east. There is
just one kind Of administration that is
big enough to consider the needs of
the whole country and that is Repub.
lican administration.