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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-12-21
Pointers For the Girls.

Old 81 perstitions respecting the we'd
ding. gaJ ments run thus:
Married in white.
YOu have chosen all right:
Married III gray.
You will so far away:
Married in black.
IOu will wish yourself bacE:
Married in red,
YOU vii. wish yourself dead:
Married III green
Ashamed to be
Married in blue.
You will always be 'rua:
Married in pearl.
You will live in n whrl:
Married IN yellow.
Asha med of the fellow:
Married in brown,
You will live out of town;
Married in pink,
Iour,spirits will sink.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-12-21

j. McPhail has arranged hi business
affairs for the seasCliand will beat Iris
retreat to the familyNireside in Mime.
apOliS.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-12-21
BORN.

IoYNEs-At Langdon, Dec. 18th 1898,
to Mr.. and Mrs. JAS, S. Loyne IS, a
daughter.
PERI Us-at Mt. Carmel, Dec. IS 1893
to Mr.. and Mrs. n. Perins, q 50 II.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-12-21

Arthur Gardner viii enjoy the hos
pitality Of his brother, who is { popular
and well-known wheat buyer Forest
| River
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-12-21

Pedagogue Sheehan will lay aside
the cares Of the school room ar I'd for
sake the blackboard and prime II, for
the congenial company of old f riends
who live at Detroit, Michigan.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-12-21


Johnny Mahoney and his sister, Miss
Nellie, left this week for Erins vile,
Ont, to enjoy the holidays. Mr..
Mahoney says it is nine long ears
since he saw the dear old spot and ex-
poets to be away two months.
ID. Salter, the good-natllred chin
whiskered photographer, will sp end
the holidays in the midst Of his fan lilly
at the old home in Michigan. 1t is
two years since he saw them last j nd
he has long been looking forward to
the treat.
Deputy Auditor Machon was una bic
to see another season roll by Witht tut
answering present" whenthe roll all
was made at his home near Toro ito
this Xmas. Six years have passed z jer
his noble brow since he last cross led
the threshold of that dear spot Cal led
''hOme.'
Charlie Haugh and family h; I'VE
Joined the vast throng that are wand er,
ing back to the dear old scenes OF
childhood They will cell old sto' ties
at his fathers at Lakelet, Ont. II
is twenty-three years ago, whiL } {
mere boy, that Charlie left the ole
home, and his return will be tn rice
welcome to his aged parents.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-12-21
Yes
We Have it.

If you do not see what you want ask
for it.
We keep everything usually kept in
general stores and our prices are
right.
CALL AND SEE.
z1eOtte1. Bros.
OSNABROCK, N, D.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-12-21
GOSSIP AND NOTES.

After the billiards. over,
After the break Of dawn,
After the SNOW has drif,ed.
After the storm is gone:
Many'S the nose that's frosted,
Lord. how we wish twas warm!
Shrunken and thin is the coal pile
After the storm.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-12-21
TO SPEND KIN AS.

Where Some Of Our Town Folks Will
Spend Thai Eventful Day.
Mike Healy will join the family
circle at the old homestead in southern
Minnesota,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22
Washington Bridge

One of the most beautiful structures
of its kind in the world is the Washing
ton Bridge.
This engineering marvel of bronze,
steel and stone is one Of the sights of
the metropolis.
1t spans the picturesque Harlem
River and the tracks of the New York
Central & Hudson River Railroad at
1Slst Street. New York.
The length OF the bridge is 2,375 feet,
height 1888 feet above the river. 1t has
two steel arches. each with span Of
$40 feet, supported by three stone piers
and two stone abutments. The piers
are 90 feet long and 40 feet thick. of
solid concrete, faced with dressed gran
lite. The abutments are sem-circular
arches of masonry, each having span
Of 60 feet. There are 50-foot driveway
and two footWayS, each 10 feet wide. 1t
cost S2,700,000.
A photogravure etching of the famous
view of Washington Bridge, taken by
Mr.. W. II. Jackson, the noted landscape
photographer of Denver, Colorado, has
just been issued by the Passenger De-
partment of the New York Central. The
journal has received copy. 1t is a
splendid piece of work, the finest eX-
ample OF this style of art produced in
recent years. 1t is the work of the New
York Photogravure Co., which tact
alone is guarantee of its excellence.
A copy OF this beautiful etching, l7X22
inches on fine plate paper, 24X32. can be
obtained from w. i. jerome, Western
Passenger Agent, Room 8, No. 81 Clark
street, Chicago. or will be sent free, post
paid, to any address, on receipt OF 70
cents in stamps or money order, by
George II. Daniels, General Passenger
Agent, Grand Central Station. New York.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22

ball covers the distance in just four
hours. if it has an exceptionally good run
of luck. Trains are run each way three
times week. if one doesn't manage to
get lost and so blockade traffic until
a handcar tracer can be sent out for it.
There are no telegraph or telephone
stations OH the road, and when train
leaves the terminal where the general
offices are located the conductor is mas
ter of the situation until he gets back
again. Sometimes the pneumatic tire
comes off the sulky of the man em-
ployed to ride ahead and drive the
cattle off the track, and the train is a
week making the round trip. l rode
over the road once. then walked back,
because | was in hurry. On the trip
out we picked up drunken farmer
who laid down on the track. The con-
ductor Glanced to know him, and held
the train while the brakeman and bag
gage master carried him to his home a
mile away.
I'm about an hour the brakeman re-
turned with an invitation from tine
farmers wife for crew and passengers
to come over to supper. We went, and
after the repaSt an old cOttOn-tield
African with a cracked fiddle was in
troduced and we had dance. The con-
ductor then wanted to proceed, but the
engineer, who was sitting up to the
hilarious farmers buxom daughter,
SAID the hogs had rooted out several
erosS-ties down below the water tank,
and he was appre hensive of repetition
of the Ashtabula disaster il we at
tempted to run over that part of the road
at night. So we stayed and danced until
daylight. We got off after breakfast next
morning. and the farmers daughter
was passenger. She wore a big sun
bonnet and large tin pail. Three
miles out we stopped, and the crew
helped her pick wild strawberries
enough to ill her pail. Then we backed
up and the engineer carried the bucket
of berries to the house for her. When
he got back he discovered that he was
out of coal and couldn't bndge. The
farmer kindly donated enough fence
rails to pull us out of the difficulty, and
we got through, by great cool luck. i'll
just twenty-eighth hours. Oh! some
of those roads down there are light
ming"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22

the exception of funny fringe OF white
iIi;;;' winch stands out in circle like a
brush. and which he trains into horI
zontal position by continually pulling at
it with his fingers. There was spicy
scene in the senate one day this week
which brought out the Iennessean's
-cauNhc methods in an entertaining way.
He he'd been trying all day to get up
he quarantine bill, Of which he had
charge. 1t was set for O'clock, but a
silverdebate had been precipitated. and
had worn its weary length along until
the pepprry Harris had lost ali patience.
Then Senator Aldrich jumped up with
resolution which he asked to have
read.
Adrich wanted to speak of his rpso-
luton and Harris knew it. He also
knew that If one speech were inter
its wake. and that would mean the
permanent slde-tracking Of hisown bill.
There was sharp colloquy, during
which Aldrich managed To say he
wanted simply to ask the unanimous
consent of the senate for vote on his
resolution on future day. Under cover
or this assurance he was proceeding i'll
gtnuOuSly with his remarks, when the
TenneSseean called out in piercing
tones: PROFOUND your unanimous
consent" That is what | was about
to do" replied the Rhode Island sena-
tor, suavely, "if the senator had not in
terrupted me-" TO which Harris re-
piled IN staccato accents: The senator
from Tennessee does not regret having
Interrupted the senator from Rhode
Island" The byplay went on to the
intense amusement of the senate, until
Mr.. Aldrich had Struggled in all he
really wanted to say.
On another occasion. when Harris had
offered an amendment, Senator Gail, of
Florida, who enjoys the reputation of
being the most persistent talker in the
senate, rose to comment on il. Harris
turned to him coolly with the remark ::
"lf ! had supposed that my am endment
would have been the incentive for
another speech from the senator from
Florida, i assure the senate it never
would have been offered" Nowadays
this sort of pickering is regarded as
rather uncivil. But it was common
enough thirty years ago, and it was by
means OF singing repartee on some
thing the same order that John RAN
dolph built up his reputation i'll the
early half of tile century.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22
Exhausting the Earth's Riches.
Westminster Review.

w eSlIulLLsicE ItSflCMs
Posterity. in the words of the cynical
humorlst, has ''done nothing for u.s.
but, for all that, one can not help feel
ing sorry for it, SO many warnings are
given nowadays as to It's fate. A
writer laments the fact that, like a
Spendthrift, the human race of today.
Boosting itself the heir of all the ages i'll
intelligence, is consuming. at a rate
nearly 10O-fold beyond what is just, the
supplies which, as heirs OF all the geo.
logical eOnS, it has received i'll trust
partly for future generations.
Each successive scientific discovery
only leads to a more rapid exhaustion or
the earth'S garnered stores. In ten OF
twelve generations the available coal
fields of Great Britain will be exhausted,
and existing woods and forests are be-
ing wantonly destroyed. The death of
the earth and the sun must both come,
and with their death the end of all life
upon this earth; but the human race of
today is taking care that it shall cease
to exist millions of years before this
shall come to pass.
SO rapidly have two kinds Of accu-
Dulated earth storeS-petroleum and
5atural gas-been exhausted i'll America
that within one generation alone stores
which We're millions of years accumu-
lating will have been almost exhausted.
And all this time population SO fast
that, at the rate of growth during the
last twenty years, the inhabitants of
Great Britain in 139 years time Will
number more than 500, 10000 if,indeed,
it were not practically an impossibility
for them TO exist with only six square
feet of earth surface apiece to live Oh.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22
Some Very Striking Figures
in the National Assem-
bly, at Washington.
Picturesque, if Not Gro
tesque, Characters Hail
100 ing From the South.
Walthall, Harris, Daniel. Ber-
ny, Of Arkansas; O'Fer-
rail-, of Virginia.
Though Eccentric, They Are
Strong and Command
Respect.

The pic1uresqueness of congress has
not altogether departed from it. The
flowing locks, the powdered wigs. the
blue swallow-tails with brass buttons
and most of the quaint, old-fashioned
ways have gone never to return, but
the leveiing influence of modern con-
ventionality has not succeeded in oblt-
Grating individuality, and it never will.
Personal paculiarlties less frequently
than in other times ran to eccentrlcity
in dress, but even here there Is still
enough of within and oddity to lend di-
versity and color to the congressional
landscape. The southerners supply
the greatest variety of tints. 1t is usu-
ally easy enough to pick out a states
man who halls from south of Mason and
DiXon's line by the cut of bis garments
or the absence of cut in his hair.
O'Ferrall, of Virginia, with his i'm
perious nose, his flowing iron gray locks
and the long frock coat which matches
them in color, would be q striking
figure anywhere. In any other man
the combination might have touch OF
the ridiculous, but III OFerrall the
makeup harmoniZeS with everything
else about him and adds to the effect
iveness of the whole. Nobody who sat
through the troublous scenes of the
Fifty-first congress will be likely to
forget the vivid picture presented dur
ing the Langston contest by the solid
bank of Republicans on the left side OF
the house-Tom Reed towering like
rock above the speakers desk and the
solitary sentinel i'll gray sitting i'll the
midst of wilderness of vacant chairs
on the Democratic side, watching eager
ly the Republican maneuverS. Keeping
tab Oh the speakers count and rising
occasionally with dramatic air to make
the point Of no quorum or hurl merry
invective at the "czar."
Another picturesque Virginlan is
Daniel, whose impaSsioned eloquence
owes much for its effect upon the senate
to the thick, glossy hair, the long frock
coat and the strongly marked dramatic
face. He is a symphony in black as
O'Ferrall is symphony in gray, and
each is rare and luXurlant tropical
growth in the congressional field.
A striking pair in the senate are
Berry, of Arkansas. and Walthall, of
Mississippi. The two art typical South
ern gentlemen of the class that has come
down to us from the period OF chivalry
and song ''before the war" .Walthall,
straight as an arrow. with bearing
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22

like a knight, all ready to enter the
lists, eyes piercing as an eagles, and a
naughty face starting out from magni-
ficent shock of iron-gray hair. looks as
though he might have wandered absent
mindedly out of the pages OF a
romance, while Berry, stumping about
on his crutcheS, presents curious con-
trast to his alert and sinewy companion.
Walthali's career is as far out Of the Or
binary as his personal appearance. He
is Lamar'S most intimate friend, and
without his knowledge was appointed at
the latter's request, to I'LL the vacancy in
the senate caused by Lamar's entrance
into Cleveand's cabinet. He takes no
part in legislation so far as can be seen,
and his voice is never heard in debate,
but the MlssissippianS are so enamored
of him that, although he positively re
fused to stand for reelection at the end
of single term, they returned him by a
unanimous vote in spite of himself, so
that he presents the strange spectacle
of senator who never lifted finger to
secure his seat, and who is retained in
it against his vii.
He and his colleague, Senator George,
present whimsical contrast to each
other. George looks and talks like 4
rustic. and his habits are rough and I'M
couth, while Walthall has all the points
of a polished man of the world.
In different way. there is no more
interesting figure in the senate than
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22

lsham G. Harris, of Tennessee. Nobody
knows how OLD he is, but he was mem
Der Of congress away back in lS49, and
he has place in history as the war gov
ernor of Tennessee. He sits in the
front row OH the Democratic side. in the
seat corresponding to that formerly Oc-
cupied by Senator Edmnnds among tine
Republicans, and he holds something of
the same relation 10 his own party that
Edmunds did to his for many years.
He has a rasping voice and an aggravat-
ing aggreSsivenesS of tone, and he
takes keen delight, as Edmunds used
to in lashIng his party associates. When
Edmunds was in the senate the two act
ed as irritants upon each other, and
they developed along paralel lines. The
Vermonter'S touch was infinitely more
delicate and he had a finer power of
sarcasm, but his manner was much the
same as that of Harris, and he had the
same merclesS disregard for the feel
ings of his fellow senators. Harris looks
like weazel. His head is bald with
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22

door and heard the steps again.
then search the hall carefully and
felt the cold chils run up and down
my spine, but | reasoned with myself
that the sound was only curious echo,
and turned to my room and had reached
it, when almost within touch of my
hand | heard some one apparently in
ing back L dropped the lamp in
my amazement and horror, and
looked to see the fame set
fire to the woodwork, but the
lamp expired without doing further
mischief than to leave me in profound
darkness with that sobbing, unknown
thing at my doorway.
Irushed into my room and bolted the
door, but soon felt ashamed OF my ter
ror, took another lighted lamp and
searched again. This time | saw it, but
vaguely. between ME and the hall win
dow. The next instant arms of super
natural strength seized me in a deadly
embrace, which seemed actually to chill
the blood in my veins, while i'll my face
| felt all icy breath, fetid and odorous
of the corruption of the grave. | could
dimly discern CHASTITY, unearthly
countenance close to mine and eyes
lighted with fire not of earth. A sick
ening terror seized me, my head began
to reel and | felt myself sinking into
insenSibility.
When came to myself 1t was broad
daylight and was alone. Sitting up L
looked about me for the thing with
which l had grappled the night before,
but was alone, and in my grasp was
a fragment of cloth. 1t was rotting
rag and detected at once the hOrrid,
iilya ndnY hat had nn
me the night before. When | could get
up | went to my mirror, and there,
about my throat, were the cruel marks
of clawlke murderous fingers.
Still diStruStful Of my own magma
ton. for L was as complete a skeptic by
nature in regard to supernatural mat
tiers as would he found-indeed, L
leaned strongly toward materialism in
those dayS-I resolved to let some of
my companions see the marks on my
throat and judge for themselves,
though l kept the cause Of them a
held them reco! nized them for
what they were, and | stood a good deal
of chatf regarding the fight l was sup
posed to have had, and i'll which L got
the worst of it.
Well, there's the story. If you are
wise enough to find natural eXplana-
ton of it please pass it on to me, for the
thing has been a nightmare to me ever
since, though | never saw the phantom
after ward, as L moved the very next day
from the haunted house.
In roundabout manner that | cou Id
never decide to wholly trust to, | learned
when the place was a residence that the
owner, wealthy merchant, kept a
lunatic brother in the upper story for
some years. This mailman, who ended
his crazed life by hanging himself, mad
been a notorious rascal and heartless
villain, whose excuses alone had ruined
his mind. Perhaps it was his unreSting
spirit saw, but who knows?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22
plays Outrl

CORNEILLE. nXeQ prices were
sometimes paid. Thus, Racine sold
"Andromaque" for 200 livres, and many
pieces of Moliere and the Comedies
were bought outright long after 1858.
until in 1897 royal ordinance confirmed
the Tristan-Quiyault arrangement, fix
ing upon one-ninth as the proper roy
atty for five-act plays, and one-twelfth
for those in three acts. This arrange
ment was not much liked by actors.
In 1871 the French assembly passed a
law forbidding the representation OF the
plays of living authors without consent
in writing, upon pain of cOnfScatiOn OF
the receipts. BeaumarchaiS, who had a
strong commercial instinct, founded
dramatic agency to protect authors
rights, and gave to his friend Fromery
the management of it. 1t grew to be a
great concern, and attracted the rivalry
OF another like organization, and both
rendered signal service until the foun-
dation by M. Scribe, of the Socete DIES
AuteurS ct SCmp0SiteurS Dramatiqu3s,
in 1929. TO this powerful organization
nearly all the dramatists belong, and it
fills an important need by verifying the
accounts of the agencies and the man.
ayers.
These agencies have grown to be big
affairs, with a numerous personnel and
manifold duties. They verify receipts
and parcel out the authors share after
the fixed proportions per cent at the
Opera, 10 to II at The other theaters and
Is per cent at the Franchise.
They have done much to render pos
sible the big dramatic incomes and
fortunes of which we read. Scribe him
self gained fortune, bought fine es-
tate at Serlcourt, OIL which he lavished
much money, and which was valued at
his death at two or three millions. Upou
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22
SOBERED HIM.
A Railway Conductors Good Story
ola Drunken Man.

A Railway Conductors Good Story
ola Drunken Man.
Washington Evening News.
Wont you have a drink, Mr.. Bal
lev?" the wholesale liquor man said to
the veteran conductor OH one of the
Boston IL Maine divisions, who was
passing that moment through the
smoking car where Boston journal
man and dozen or more commercial
men were sitting.
mo; | never touch it," he said, shak-
ing his head and declining to partake
OF the tempting display OF samples.
"One night, when | was running the
through express, found man lying
on the tloOl of the baggage car dead
drunk. a note was pinned on his coat.
1t was from the chief of police
of Montreal. and read: This man has u
ticket to Boston and $40 in money. See
him through
''He lay in the corner of the car fiat
on his face. Trunks were slapped
against HIM, and the baggagemen
stumbled over him, but to all intents
and purposes he was dead man. L
gave him an emetic and walked him
about the car and bathed his head with
ice water. In an hour he was able to
sit up. | talked to him like a Dutch
uncle, and he promised TO swear off.
He was going to good job in Boston,
and he said that in the future he would
be temperance man.
Five years after, as | was passing
through my train, nicely-drpSsed man
said to me: Mr.. Bailey, do you remem-
Der man you sobered up coming down
from Montreal one night about liv
years agO% 1t was the same man.
You did me a great Kindness at that
time he said, and put his hand into his
valiSe and took out
Mr.. Bailey leaned forward and, look
ing out the car window, followed with
his eye a farmer walking slowly across
rOughly-plowed field thickly strewn
with stumpS.
"Iook out what?" we all inquired.
"a bottle of whisky and asked me to
drink with him." he finished.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22
A Haunt of VOltaire.

Washington evening News.
A historical mansion, to which con-
siderable interest is attached, has just
been sold for half a million dollars.
This is the castle of Grey, where Vol.
taire spent so mush time in the company
of his annie, the Marchioness du Chate-
let, a blue-stocking pur sang, who trans
lated Newton's "Principia" into French.
The bedroom and study used by the
author of the "Henriade," and familiar
from the piquant description left us by
Nine. Graffigny, still exist. In the
library and picture gallery are several
inscriptions in verse, composed by Vol
taire, eXtolling the pleasures of study
and seclusion, The purchaser Is one
of the richest of French manufacturers,
NJ. Viellard- Migeon.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-22
the facade of a chalet on this estate was

the facade of chalet on this estate was
engraven this couplet:
LIE theatre pave Get asile champetre,
Merci, vous qui passez, je vous lie dois peut
etre.
Alexandra Dumas pere left a good
revenue to his son in spite of his waste
full ways. Until Henri Ill" appeared
he was an under clerk OIL 1000 francs a
wear, and not held in very high favor by
his chief. Deviolaine, because he wasted
so much ink and paper and time writing
verses. When Dumas received 6,00O
francs he mounted to his chiefs den and
showed the money to his chief, and told
him what vistas of golden fortune had
opened before him. The poor old bu-
reaucrat seemed surprised. as Dumas
puts it. that the ceiling didn't drop on
his head.
The younger Dumas made money,
too. He had the advantage Of better
and later theatrical conditions. The
first hundred performances of"Camille"
brought him only 10000 francs, but his
later successes yielded considerably
more. For merely the rights of transla-
ton of "Franclllon' he received 10000
francs.
Meyerbeer's operas. which have by
this time been represented more than