Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1894-01-05


enough money for people to buy peanuts
with, let alone food, clothing, education,
art, leisure and human happiness
jamestown Alert.
If a bill must be sent IN letter, says
an exchange, the safest and best plan is
to roll it tightly in the shape of lamps
lighter and lay it IN the fold of the sheet
inclosed. Arranged in that fashion the
fact that 1t is money cannot we'll be dis
t1nguished by the "fecl." A thread with
knot at The end will not be so likely to
fetch tell-tale fragment of the fiber pa-
per when drawn by means of needle
through the envelope, and the smell of it
will be less perccptlblc. So peculiar is
the scent belonging to bank or treasury
notes that experts of the bureau of en-
craving and printing at Washington say
that they can by the nose distinguish
them when sealed in envelopes, every
time. A thief once showed the govern
ment detectives who had caught him that
he could, bllndfolded, pick out from
pile of 400 letters every one of seven
that contained paper money, merely by
scent.
A novel bill passed the Michigan senate
in 93. 1t provides that the man who gets
drunk and is arrested for that offense may
either pay the ordinary fine, and be locked
up If he connot pay it, or give satisfactory
bond that he will 50 to some good place
where men are treated for the liquor habit
and be cured of his diEease. If q man says
he wants to be cured, but is too poor to foot
the bill, then the expense may be paid by
the county. In such cases justices of the
peace and police magistrates are empowered
to sentence drnpkards to the same institution.
The Chicago Tribune comments at length
on the mes sure and believes it would be
wholesome law. In several of the states So
cieties are being formed to pay the expense
of taking confirmed inebriates to the Keely
| and other curative resorts. and they nre prov
| ing great boon to humanity.
Some are surprised, says the Dakota
Farmer, at the low price at which sheep
have been sold the past fall. But, taking
into consideration the fuct that fully one
third more sheep have been marketed
the present season than at any same
length of time before, and that it has
been done during time of general de-
preston, when nothing sold for It's full
value on account of tight money, and it
is really surprising that they have brought
as good prices as they have, 1t may in.
tstests h. esllseknens il. knoW that outsof
the large number received at Chicago,
fewer than ever before have returned to
the country for feeding and breeding
purposes. Owing to scarcity of money.
many who formerly bought large ewes to
breed for February aud March lambs
have not done 81. This would seem to
indicate an improved market Tor fed
lambs and yearllngs
The Record Is informed that il Com
missioner McLain had been present at the
recent meeting of the board-as he Ger
talnly should have been If he was able to
get there--the choice for commissioner
might have been different. Ii had been
reported up this way that Mr.. McLaln
had spoken in not unfriendly way of
Isaac Allen for the place. Suppose that
he had been present. Suppose Rowerdink
had been favorable to Hauk, as he said
he was-befere he voted. The first vote
would have stood McLaiu for Allen,
Armstrong for, Hasper, Mdrgach for
Fischer, and Rowesdink for Haak. Then,
as there was not u majority for any can.
'iidale. Lee would have been called in.
Suppose that Lee and Margach, although
favorable to Fischer, but knowing be
could only get two votes, and being also
friendly to Allen. had, after voting for
Fischer, gone over to McL4in aud voted
for Allen. That would have given the
LATTER three votes and elected HIM. Or,
again, supposlng that Rowerdink had
stood out for Haak, and McLain had
Joined with Armstrong for Hasper, and
that Lee and MSrgach, on the theory
that "Of two evils choose the least" had
voted with Rowerdink for Hnak 1t will
! thus be seen that the presence of McLain,
if reports as to his leaning toward Allen
| were correct, might have mixed matters
greatly and made it very difficult for Arm
strong to get Hasper chosen. There was
many longing eye cast in the direction
of the Winchester road, ON that eventful
Tuesday, in hopes of catching glimpse
of the approaching form of the. genial
| commissioner of the First district ''>
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