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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
Learning to Swim at "a.

Science and proper exercise are
conducive to extreme longevity and
healthfulness," said Supt. Payne, of
the Natatorium. "While 1 am a yerv
young man myself, I can remember
not many years ago when IL man was
considered very old at the age of GO
years. Thanks to science and q prop
er regard for healthy exercise, man
is not considered in his prime now I'M
til he has reached the age of 70 or tx
years.
''Take our swimming class. for ex-
ample in here any afternoon and can
show you something that will bolster
up my assertion. We have one pupil
in the afternoon class who is over rs
years old. He started to take swim
ming lessons about two weeks ago.
and picked 1t up as quickly ms n
youngster of 10. There ia not one of
our pupilswho enjoys himself as much
as the old gentleman, who ia ma
hearty and healthy as n youth of "a.
This gentleman told me that he was
inclined to be slckly about four years
ago until he took up proper exercise.
and now he bids fair to live to be over
100.
"But II this old gentleman lives to
rench the century mark. how long will
some OF the youngsters live who come
hereY We have sturdy lot of giants.
who tumble about In the big tank ey.
cry day. who range IN age from 4 to
@ years. They can MI swim IKE lish."
philadelphia Record.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
saturday, sept. Z.

j 4
James Mckay was convicted Of rob.
berry In the first degree Mt Grand
Forks. Gust Olkey was the victim
and the affair occurred a year ago.
A special on the Jamestown North
ern branch killed 200 sheep and Grip
pied eighty-flve others for randall
Ringer. There were 1900 in the band.
Judge Rose Of Jamestiwn has grant
ed divorce to Ida Bentley on the
grounds of cruelty and inhuman treat
nent. The parties are old residents
of Fargo.
At Grand Forks Judge Templeton
sentenced James Mckay to ten years
in the penitentiary for robbery. A.
Hodges was sentenced to three years
for forgery.
The two-year-old daughter Of Henry
Hoffman, foreman of the Great North
ern freight depot at Fargo, was run
over by switch engine to-day and
both feet cut off. The mother saw the
child playing on the track and the
engine coming, and ran to rescue it,
but arrived just in time to see the en-
CINE strike the baby. The child will
probably die.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
PASTORS IN SESSION.
Those Of the Swedish NJ. f. Church,
!

Meet
st. Paul, Sept. 14.-The Swedish Mis-
sion Methodist conference, the same
comprising Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Northern Michigan, began their ses-,
sion at the Swedish Nj. E. church at
the corner of Greenbrier and Cook
streets last night. There were about
IS ministers and lay delegates in at.
tendance, the business being conduct
ed in the English language as far as
possible, in order that Bishop Fowler,
presiding, might understand. The,
mornings will be devoted to the busi-
ness Of the session, while the after
moons will be consumed in routine
committee work. Services will be held
In the evenings. All of the forty-eight
ministers employed in the conference
are on hand, besides the lay delegates.
and the candidates for the ministry.
No business was transacted at the
meeting last night. but the gentlemen
got down to affairs this morning and
soon disposed of considerable amount
under the able direction of BishoD
Fowler.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

the public of this country as the lead
ers and representatives Of the Saliva
ton Army, are now at work in Can
ada. The home of the Booths is In.
New Jersey, off in one corner Of Mont
clair. Their cottage is an architectural
poem on the simple scheme---comfort.
The family is a lovely quartet, consist
ing of papa, mamma, little Ruth and
baby, Freddy. The children, two Of
the most delightful bits of humanity,
each hold offices Of great honor in the
Salvation Army. Their entire home.
speaks of peace and godliness-the
characteristic environments Of the,
Booths themselves. The one time de-
spised Salvation Army has become
great power for good in the large cities
of our land, and to Mr.. and MIRA Ball
ington Booth, who never tire in their
great work, much credit and praise are
due.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
SHOCKED INTO SPEAKING.
Patsy Was Dumb Until Hit by a Dis
charge OF Bird Shot.

charge OF Bird Shot.
Buffalo.-Patsy Slattery has long
been known as ''the dummy fisher
man" of the sea wall. AS boy his
hearing was defective and lie never
learned to talk with anything but his
fingers. He was more than usually
intelligent, and his parents were al
ways looking for some way of loos-
ening his tongue, but so long as he
could not hear otl er sounds there was
no chance of his initiating them.
One day Patsy and another fellow
were out in boat duck hunting, when
something happened that furnished
the looked for shaking up of the ner-
vOus faculties of the tongue-tied
youth. After shooting into flock Of
ducks. in his haste to row out after
the game he had shot he climbed over
his companions gun and discharged
1t. The shot went over his head, but
so close that several small pieces Of
lead lodged in his shoulder.
Just what took place in the wound
ed mans mind, or what was the i'm
mediate influS.lce that it had over his
system science would go a long way to
find out, for, when the noise Of the
discharge died away, his companion
was astonished to hear him shout
''Ducks!' in an almost natural tone
of voice. 1t was the first word he had
ever spoken.
The wounds made by the shots were
quite severe, but they did not begin to
create the interest that was felt in his
learning to speak, Little by little,
with painful slowness, he soon began
to use other words, not enough to
make really connected conversation
possible, but it was speech for all that,
and there was promise of anything,
too, so long as he could use any words
at all.
The duckshot that had lodged in
Patsy's shoulder panied him good
deal, and soon began to work up to-
ward the surface. He went to the
Fitch Hospital day or two ago and
had them taken out He made very
favorable impression on the doctors,
who were naturally much interested
in such peculiar case. Patsy did not
try to speak, but used the finger alpha
bet. The bandage did not feel Just
right after the operation was over. and
to call attention to them he did some
thing that fairly frightened his COM
panion. He whistled.
This had been his way OF making
his wants known from childhood. but
as soon as he had begun TO talk lie
had given it up, and had not whistled
for quite long time. The operation
was finished t, his satisfaction, and
he went back to his home on the sea
wall. but he does not speak now st
all.-New York Press.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
Tie Cnsunltx Rec,rn.

Fire did S250,OOO damage to the
Academy of Music at Buffalo.
William H. Pointer died at New
York from injuries received in the Sea
Beach wreck.
The wholesale clothing store of She'll,
Rosenbaum & Steifel was burned at
Rochester, N. Y. Loss, $4,000. RI
John G. RAISER, a railroad engineer.
was killed by falling under street
car at Dubuque, Iowa.
Great damage has been done in the
vicinity of Lisbon, Spain by hurri-
cane and floods.
Willis w. Gates, brother of the pres.
ident of the Omaha National bank.
fell down an elevator shaft and was
fatally injured.
Fire has destroyed the last hope of
recovering any of the valuable cargo
Of the steamer Bawnmore, which went
ashore on tho Oregon coast.
At Vincennes. Ind, Hill Carter, col
ored shot and fatally wounded his ex.
wife. Carter was captured after being
shot several times by officers. He is
mortally wounded.
Durlng the Labor day parade at
Bloomington, ILL.,. the grand stand COL
lapsed. Three young ladies' were IA
tally injured, other persons escaping
with severe cuts and bruises.
The. entire family of n. G. Rate at
Akron, Ohio, was poisoned by eating
cabbage which had been sprinkled
with paris green. Mrs. Rate and her
daughter Alice will die.
An English girl, a Miss Simpson.
who was an intrepid mountain climb
er, was killed by a landslide while
crossing the Matterhorn accompanied
by friend and two guides.
An attempt was made to wreck Le-
high Valley passenger train No. 2.
west-boupd, at Tomkins' Switch. Pa.
on the Susquehanna river. Timbers
were piled or the track, but were dis
covered in time to flag the train.
Henry HetZel man with several
homes, who is said to be the owner of
two furnaces at the Vulcan iron works
in Carondolet, Mo-, shot and fatally
wounded John Quinn at st. Louis.
The men were drunk and quarreled
over q woman.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
Shielded MT Dun.

+o mupn 4 Iowa. Sept. IA man ~
. .eaeu Hotel Julian late last ni sah en-,
registered Tse as Il. e. Hopper Cin mat. ana
liz NE, incurred of the night clerk ;e ~
oddad any mail for him, and . smith, n there
4 = :,, "1f don't get certa ahialingly
ton rs h NJ a Joke. and paid no a tierS
man tool IL m, banded out letter "'1 Ths
good , room me re- letter and asked for n g
; This room, mor,, TO which lie was as sh nor
, un,s NOR morning the body Of r. th SHOWN.
m"S found In the bed Of tho II, Tue Tue man
occupied oan with bullet hole IN room roc, he
hona ana revolver prasnod "'s lore
n nmu. very little was fonn% IN MS
person TO Indicate his indont1.a on his
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
Personal Mention.

xeTSOnN1 MenV1Ons
Congressman Dolliver Of Iowa, is to
marry Miss Louise Pearson d very
wealthy young lady.
S. w. Richey. a rich stock raiser OF
Madison county county, Iowa, died
suddenly at Osceola.
William c. Belcher, one of the most
prominent lawyers in California, died
after lingering illness.
John w. RUSSELL who resided for
the last thirty years on Black river,
Mo-, was shot from ambush and kill
ed.
A. B. Champion organizer of the
famous Red Stocking Baseball club of
Cincinnati quarter of century ago,
died in London.
Capt. Alfred Thompson, we'll known
as an artist. playwright, librettist and
novelist, died of consumption at his
summer home in Barnegat Park, N. j.
Mrs. Hanna G. Gerry, mother of
Elbridge L. Gerry, president Of the
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
to Children. lies very ill at her resi-
dence, 500 Broadway, New York.
On the down trip of the Cleveland
and Buffalo line steamer State of Ohio
young man took out a string of
prayer beads, began to tell them, and
when his devotions were concluded,
plunged over the rail.
Orderly Sergt. James NJ. Brooks, q.
S. A., retired died at Fort Preble. He
was the oldest noncommissioned off,
Ger Of his rank in the army, and had
served for sixty-one years, and for
thirty-seven years was stationed at
Fort Preble.
In Kay county Okla, William Knapp
and U. S. Oller fought over some hay.
Oller cut Knapp badly with an ak and
Knapp broke both Oilers arms and
stuck a pitchfork through his abdo-
men. Oller is dead and Knapp cannot
live.
Mother Amelia Barth. superioress Of
the Dominican order of nuns in Long
Island, is dead, after lingering ILL
ness in the Dominican convent in Ora
ham avenue, Brooklyn. She was forty
three years nun and was born July
3, 1881, in Ratisbon, Germany.
Judge Henry F. Fleudy, who went
to Arizona with the first set of ter
ritorial officers in 1863, died at Pres
colt of nervous disease. Judge Fluedy
served as secretary Of the territory
and also as acting governor during the
early history of Arizona. He was over
80 years old.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
CAMPOs DID NOT TELL THIS
An important Battle ON Cuban Soil
Spanf0rdS Defeated

An Important Battle ON Cuban Soil
spanfnrds Defeated,
Key West, Fla, Sept. 14.--Advices
received from Cuba via tie steamship
Mascotte say that great battle has
been fought near Camaguev hetwaan
insurgents under Maxine Gomez and
the spaniards under Gen. Mallo. The
battle lasted As hours, and the Span-
lards We're repulsed with heavy loss
1t is reported that over 700 Spaniards
were killed and wounded. When tia
news reached Havana it caused great
r.citement at the palace.
Roloff and his band have been busv
curing the past week, having blown
up a.. 5raln near Santiago de Cuba. and
,,,; pf Tug near saguay. Spaniards ad.
mt 1ne train was blown up, but claim,
only five men were killed. Advices a -
celyed, however state thar nearlv IN
soldiers were killed. iy AoV
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
J Warrington.

Controller Bowler has decided
againstetAe payment of sugar bounty.
The treasury department received
Telegram anIouncin$nshe arrival at
Vancouver, B. c., of fifteen Chinese
destined for the Atlanta exposition.
Mr. Wetter. who succeeded Waller
as United States consul at Tamative,
Madagascar, is accused of prosecuting
an American citizen.
The central land Office at Washing
ton has concluded to throw open to
settlement the alleged Una d. Cato
land grant in Colfax county, N. Mex.
This is q tract of 100000 acres.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

In view Of our magnificent Ameri
can scenery and the hundreds of beau
tiful and interesting places which at
home Invite the tourist. 1t seems
pity that American visitors to London
this summer have spent $40. 100000 In
that metropolis alone. This Is as moth.
Ing to the much yaster sums expended
this year by our countrymen and
women In other portions OF Great Brit.
ain and on the continent.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

This year has been notable for disas-
tiers in the Alps, several distinguished
persons having lost their lives in
mountain climbing. This comes from
fool hardy ventures into unknown re-
gions of snow and ice without guides.
Among the victims are Baron Egerz.
of Munich, who attempted to ascend
Parseyer Point alone.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

The New York Post Office is sending
out letters stamped with the name of
the office and the date and hour Of
arrival or departure in perfectly legi-
bic, horizontal lines. Thus passes
away the time-honored circular blotch
upon which untold millions have
sharpened their eyes and ingenuity
and cultivated crick in the neck.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
Criminal Dofans.

Milburn Marker. school teacher at
Jefferson, Iowa, committed suicide.
Michael FlDan, the outgoing treas
urer OF Paulding county, Ohio, has q
shortage of $2S, 1924 to account for.
James Pique was waylaid by rob-
bers near Brazil, Ind, and left on the
railroad track TO die.
Ex Senator Gordon II. Hayes Of
Portland. Or. 10 to be prosecuted ON
charge Of having coerced Mrs. Mel.
cher Into surrendering an insurance
policy.
A carriage containing four men WAS
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

"A learned etymologist is trying to
trace the word "fad" through the
Welsh language back to the Aryan
root, from which the word 'mad" also
originated. 1t is far easier to believe
that SO modern a word is an abbrevia-
ton of fiddle-faddle, and one of those
colloquial inventions that, in spite of
their popularity, are of unknown au
thorship.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
Nii.ccllaneou. Items.

Aldermanic bribery and forgery are
charged in connection with an eleyat-
ed railroad enterprise in Chicago.
The report of the arrest of William
B. Foster, the New York embezzler,
at Zurich, is without foundation.
Luther Latin Mills will assist in the
prosecution of the mob who drove the
negroes out Of Spring Valley.
George G. Eaton, an engineer, drop
ped dead in his cab at White Pigeon,
Mich.
One hundred and fifty families from
Switzerland will settle on 10000 acres
of land in Lewis county, Tenn.
Four hundred New York anarchists,
most of them Germans, held a meet
ing to protest against the celebration
of Sedan day going on in Germany.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Memphis Car and Foundry COM
pany of Memphis, Tenn. Liabilities,
about 100000; assets, SITE, 900.
The Utah supreme court has decided
that women cannot vote at the coming
election in November. This reyerses
the recent decision made by Judge
Smith at Ogden.
At Detroit Mich, A. w. Ross, a drug
gist, and his assistant, John link,
were arrested for turning stream Of
water on the Salvation Army while
holding services in the street.
Mrs. Conklin, the wife of George
Conklin, the elephant tanner, who 10
now in charge Of the animals in Bar
mum e. Bailey's show, now in Chicago,
is missing from her home in New
York.
William C. Ehisch, secretary for the
board of civil service commissioners
at the Erie, Pa, postoffice, and two
charged with frauds in a civil service
examination.
Jay Roddy and Jim Woodlee were
shot and seriously wounded at Tracy
City, Tenn. by Deputy United States
Marshal J. M. Hall while etfecting the
seizure if some contra band whisky.
Woodlee is dying.
r. r. Dunbar of Argentina, suburb
Of Kansas City. Mo-, acting for George
Washington. Il Shawnee Indian, has
brought suit to recover 32S acres Of
choice residence and business property
in the west end of that town, claimed
to have been patented to an ancestor
OF the Indian.
The Cotton States International ex-
position authorities have received adj
vices Of the arrival in America of Kee
Owyang, the concessionaire OF the
Chinese village, with 2O4 boy actors
and 800 cases of merchandise from
Hong Kong.
4. D Hughes, r. II. Davis, r. l..
Mann and Pete Chrismann OF Con-
Zales and II. N. Norman and p. j.
Jennings Of Gilroy, sailed from San
Francisco for n lone island In the Pa
cific ocean about 800 miles west Of
Peru In search Of buried treasures.
The death Mt Little Rock. Ark, Of
John Il. Griffin, son Of a Co1eeville
Miss. minister, brought to light q rad
case Of restitution. Mrs. Grim and
q little daughter are the only survi.
ysfs Of family Of six. three children
having died OF starvation and the q,
shsr OF alcoholism.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

The new man is rapidly developing
that roundabout but insidious method
of getting even which has been the
sole resource of the fair sex for many
years. When life becomes intolerable,
you may sue your mother-in-law for
trespass and, mayhap, get $4,000 for
your invaded precincts and your dam
aged peace Of mind.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

1t costs an American girl who mar
ries an italian prince $4,000 a year
to get rid of him. There have been no
recent transactions to fix the quota
tons on British dukes.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

The wine crop will be short in
France, but California reports boun-
tiful harvest of grapes, especially Of
the fine white varieties. The yield will
be greater than that of last year and
the quality better. No doubt France
will be heavy buyer of the wines for
export later under French labels.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

The latest bicycle is reported to
weigh only seven pounds. Some Yam
kee will appear soon with a combina-
ton of hydrogen gas and magnets
that will eliminate the weight of the
machine altogether. Then when Edi-
son applies his automatic motor the
problem of flying will be solved.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

Pugilist Corbett complains that he is
not understood by the public. If that
is the case it is certainly not Gentle
man" Jim's own fault. He has lost
no opportunity Of making his true
character apparent to everybody
within reach of Geographic news.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

Have the legislators of England seen
a great light? The advocates of wom-
ans suffrage number but 90 out of
60 in the present parliament, while
in the last they were within thirty of
a majority. This may be accident,
but on the other hand it may be the
working of the leaven of righteous
ness.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

In one of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's lat
est effusions she says that there are
only two kinds of people in the world,
those who lift and those who lean.
It often happens that the verse of this
singer contains more truth than poet
~. and this strikes us as a fair in
stance of that popularity.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

If the architect who planned Chi
cago's coliseum to hold 10000 people
had builded little better he would
probably have been the cause of ter
rible calamity. Fortunately, his big
trap tumbled down before it was COM
pleted. and while all the workmen
were absent.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

Sending an internal machine through
the mails in order to reach a pluto
crat is the characteristic act of an
anarchist. The chances are that some
Woodworking clerk or letter carrier
will be killed, but this is of no conse-
Guence to the anarchist.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

There is danger of some of the po-
tato crop rotting in the ground unless
freight rates are lowered so that it
will pay to ship the tubers. More
starch mills are needed to solve the
potato problem. Shipped in the form
of starch, which is light article, the
freight does not cut so much figure.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

NAV As BE- mater stotn, Of useful information .
the ."s ReHa, calls for baking no COOK.
s cs,p. Will be found to WORK rtI ho, Lhe re
s care., and the bread. hisc "et'er and
erxss, dumplings, crust S.'cu u rolls
S',"s or whatever MAJ. pudaings
ISW,ss.er, lighter, tiner.i," vc,. VIII "
'"'n'y' pa'atable and who k"uea more
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
N. OAK.

The Cuban situation grows more ia
vorable every day to the recognition
Of the revolutionists as belligerents
by the government of the United
States.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19

Z dozen times. They went to house
keeping this spring and everything
went along all eight till last week;
when Mrs. NeilsSh skipped, taking az
the furniture, and Is now "keepina
hSase" for q widower neighbor.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
Friday, Sept. IL.

Friday, Sept. IL.
County Auditor Hale offers site to
any person who will erect mill AT
Devils Lake.
Casey Foster VI Found guilty on an
and fined $40.
Twenty-nine pate ~ for land were
received ut the Grand, Forks land or
fee.
The Rremium list of the Hamilton,
Pembfna county, fair, has been re-
ceived. 1t takes place Sept. 26 and II.
William Quinn is in the jug at Jim
town because he pulled a gun and
threatened to kill a man who wouldn't
give him a ride.
The threshing engine Of Gessner
Bros, at Penn, in Ramsey county, ex-
ploded, badly injuring several men, in
Guiding the engineer and fireman. No
one is thought to be fatally hurt.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-09-19
NO ORTIZ D A K OLA NEWS
NTCNNSTlN0r NEWS FROM ALI
FAnTs Or THE STATE

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