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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-03-10
THE FIRST TEAR.

EHE FIRST TE.4R.
The first year of Major McKin-
.leys occupancy of the White House
came to an end at noon last Friday.
For the first time in long career,
he occupies at this moment a posi-
ton in which his personal de-
meanor and, personal decisions
touch the honor of his country and
the course of g. eat forces.
The President is looked upon not
as the representative of a party or
a class, but as the chief of the
greatestsof the earth's free people.
Party leaders who Rad opposed
his teachings and official acts have
suspended criticism,iD the national
congress. Newspapers which hon.
estly believe the theories, of Nc
Kinleyism: to be false; citizens,
without regard to birth, rearing or
surroundlpgs-all Of these have
"stood by the President" in this
hour of his greatest Importance
before the world.
Calm interest asks what course
the president wild pursue in, re-
turn for this respectfulness Of the
whole people. The end of his
first year in office, finds no change
in public OF private conditions
that may be attributed to republic
can legislation or administration.
Improvement in business is, traced
only to the unfolding Of the ma
toms resources under a, natural
pressure that demanded expansion
In every quarter.
Ugly rumors of ,disquietude in
the presidents own panty come
out of New York and Washing
ton. Even Cabinet officer has
been accused of lending his official
Importance to the furtherance of
the private interests of stock
jobbers.
Men who should stand close to
tho executive are said to plot
against the success of any national
movement OF which he would be
theaoficial leader.
QThe deeply interested public
wonders what the president will
do in retaliation.
It wonders whether he will re-
tain unfriendly members in his
official family and continue in half
hearted relations with men in high
places in his own party.
The public that is with Major
Mckinley as president of the Un-
tied States in his leadership for the
common interest against a common
foe is looking for the executive
backbone.
It wants to see whether he pro-
poses to take firm stand against
the lobbying stock jobbers and
the politlcastros of his party, and
consider only the cause of freedom
and his country's honor.
There is no cry for war at the
end Of the presidents first year /;
but if it must come, may it find
the commanders grasp upon the
situation strong one.
There is no American frenzy for
Spanish blood, but if unalterable
conditions bring conflict upon US,
may it be possible for the chief of
the army, the navy and the nation
to act with his full authority for
the whole people, unhampered by
class influence, party pettifogging
or sordid self-interest.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-03-10
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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-03-10

The following punAs were present each day:
Rod McHugh Benjamin. Dorval,
Ella Koehmstedt, Eddie Oke
Albert Voll Hazel ;Elford
Earl McGruer Robert Work
Vance Beer: Leon Perry
Elsie Perry Annie lake
Etlie9 Abbey Abbey.
VEDA.M 0KE, Teacher
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-03-10
FOR SALE.

Elkwood, North Dakota.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-11-24
Delinquent Tax Sale.

Notice hereby given that the taxes for the year
1897 have not been paid on the following described par
GELS of lands and town lots situated in Pebna County,
North Dakota.
The amount of tax due including tax, penalty and
accrued costs. is placed opposite and following each
description of said lands and lots under the column
headed ''Tax"
The following authorizations are rsed in descrip-
tons: ''n for NORTH s for south: 'e for east wv"
for west ne" for northeast INV" or northwest; ''se
for southeast; sw" for southwes hf for onehalf 'qr
for onequarter; pt" for part ' or lt" for lot sec
for section; twp for townships ' or ''rng' for range
blk for block "a" 'ac" for acres; feet; ETC.
The numbers of the section lot and block, of
each parcel of real property placed IN the respec
tive columns headed opposite the respective descrp
tons.
And notice is hereby given, that all of the hereinafter
described real property which the aforesaid taxes
main due will be offered for sale to the highest bidder
according to the statute in such made and provided
at the Office Of the County Auditor at the Court House.
in the city of Pembina, State of North Dakota on
Tuesday,, the 9Th day Of December 1893,
beginning at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon of
that day. and continuing until all said parcels of land and
town lots sold offered for sale, and said sale, if
necessary may be adjourned from day to day for ten
days.
Dated at Pembina, State of North Dakota,
[SEAL.l this 10th day Of November A. d. 1893.
DONALD THOMSON.
COUNTY AUDITOR. PsMsHA COUNTY. N. o.
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CRYSTAL.
Tax Of 1897.
Township 15o, Range IS.
NAME AND DESC.

NAME AND Dr''' s /.
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Mary Montgomery W hf
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do ehf ne Or II 16 II
T J Reilly se Or ne Or II 2 80
J F reilly sw OR ne Or II 2 80
7 J Reilly Q hf Sc Of NV
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Hugh Rafferty, sw or seqr17 5 s5
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Hugh Rafferty, go Or sw Or II 8 26
John Reilly ne Or NV or IS 8 81
Ellen Reilly hf NV or 10 u Sc
Ellen Reilly n hfsw or 18 10 SO
Hugh Rafferty, chr NV qr2O 8 95
Alex Mcleod ne or - 20 02
Mary Conpor Q hf sc Or % II 80
Edward Otto sw or Is 26 So
do sc Or 26 Is II
L H Gryte pit ew or sc qrN So
Ole Selset pit NV or ne Or = 28
e Otto NV Or SO 80 "a
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than a doves plume to record her hap
by life.
No more fitting time or place could
have been chosen for the gathering of
this international congress. So much
history has been made in the past few
months. and so much is likely to BE-
made in the months Immediately ahead,
that the advantage to be derived by
this meeting of the men who write the
histories of all nations Canno well be
overestimated. There is no q that
the views now held by many will be
h]roadened by the contact with other
minds and other points of view. The
American historian, now that peace is
virtually concluded. may shake hands
with the Spanish historian, n "a quiet
half hours talk may serve to eradi-
cate many false or extreme impressions
on the part of both. Good feeling must
he e~nEendered and many benefits result
from the pleasant intercourse.
As to the htness of the Hague as a
place for the assembling of such a con-
gress there can be no question. Its
story cannot be told without telling
something of the history of every coun-
try Of Importance In Europe, and,
through Hollands colonial possessions.
IL has associated itself with the far
East and with the new world. 1t was
here in this quaint old town OF the
Hague that Lawrence Roster FIRST dis
covered the art of printing. which was
afterWard perfected by Gutenberg, If
the world owed the Hague nothing
more. here is a debt that is i~ncalcula-
bic.
To unite the diplomats. historians
and men Of letters Of the different
countries, in order that they may dis
cuss questions of International history
is the object of the congress. And the
nations have responded to the invita-
ton OF Holland by sending as delegates
some Of their most distinguished men.
What a subject a painter might find
I'm the dignifed and solemn assembly
Of the historians Of the world. What
an impressive picture the very thought
Conjures up of grave men with broad
fUrehpads, beneath which keen eyes
search in the past, and. peer. seer-like,
into the blank of the future, their
hands smoothing their white heads As
they speculate on the next motive 10 be
made 10y the nations In the never end
ing game of stateCratt. 1t only needs
the graceful figure OF the young queen
entering the dusky hall TO nah the
picture perfect.
] Dignihed cardinals, scholarly priests,
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experienced statesmen and uav diplo-
mats-all will be there with the men
who have led in battle as well as those
vino have set daWn their deeds. II VIII
be a meeting of those who make his
torN as well as those who write IL, an
imposing gathering II the recorders
Of the world. The meeting of these
men may we'll serve as an incentive and
warning 10 the girl-queen whose core
nation they viii witness FOR sooner or
later the truth is given out by these
students of people, progress and events.
To tho congress Will come representa-
lives of an the great states ut Europe.
America may wei be proud uf the men
who Will represent her at the Hague
First among these is Cardinal Glib
bons. a man whose name II known and
respected as well in Europe as In
America. one of the men whose names
have been mentioned as a possible can
dldate for the Papal throne when Leo
shall have quilted il. In any event. Car
dinal Gibbons will be one of the
men who will select the pope's success
sor.
Cardinal Gibbons has found time. not
only To direct the Catholic church lu
America. hut 10 write a number Of ad-
mirable books. notable among theulosic-
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AGE AT WHI@H GREHT LEADERS WON
NARolEoN 7

on a throne in place Of another. He
was but "a years old when, at kram-
stadt. he won the battle that dethroned
Augustus III. of Poland. At 20 years Of
age his fortunes turned on the field of
Pultowa, where the Russians annihil-
ated his army, and with his crushing
disaster ended the great battles of the
Swedish monarch.
As a general i'm the field. few COM
manders, of any epoch. a V equaled
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough.
The splendid calm which he was
wont to display when at critical times
on the battlefield he massed his troops
and threw them irresistibly upon the
enemy at the right place and moment,
and the mastery way in which, cam
paign after campaign, he outman-
euvered and outfought the great mar
shals of Louis XIV, has won the ad-
miration of critics ever since. He was
50 years of age when. as general COM
handing the united armies of England
and Holland, he at Blenheim defeated
Marshal Tallard's superior force about
to wade Vienna. He was SO years old
when. at the battle of Families, he
beat Nilleroi and gained Brabant and
Flanders to the allies. The next year
he won the battle of Oudenarde. and he
was SO when, at Malplaquet. he again
defeated the French under Villars.
Napoleon already had distinguished
himself at Toulon, when, at the age of
p years he was made commander of
the army of Italy. In the ensuing year
he crossed the Alps and defeated the
Austrians and Sardinians at Monte
notte, and the Austrians at Lodi and
Roveredo and Arcola. He was 20 years
of age when he beat the Mamelukes at
the battle of the Pyramids and the
Turks at Aboukir. At 81 years he
fought the battle Of Marengo; at 80 he
received the Austrian surrender at
Ulm, and in the same year. at Austen
litz, defeated the combined armies of
Austria and Russia. He was 81 when
he shattered the Prussian army at
Jena, and. three days later. entered
Berlin. At 3S he fought at Eylau the
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al works for their profound thought
az" H-"# dufs> uf mind.
The Hon. George r. Hoar. the Vet
CTaD statesman and orator. whose name
RECALLS 50 many political battles, goes
10 the Hague a. one OF the representa-
uEfS OF the American Historical Assoc
citation. He will be accompanied by the
Rev. Dr. Grihis and William Writ Hen
~.
Judge TruaE. who is now in Europe,
is also "A delegate.
Into this sober and conservative body
several ladies viii hf introduced. Tn
oil recently women have been engaged
rather In the making Of history through
their influence upon men and their times
h in recording 20 with pen and ink
upon immortal pages. Now. however.
all this is changed. and the Cleopatras
.la H.aEE StuaTts of the future-if the
future should again produce such
charming women-wiIl not only have
their lady friends n their lady dem
1sts and their lady doctors. but they
viii have their lady historians az well.
II women had written more Of the
worlds history, IL is interesting To
speculate on the views they might have
held concerning Alexander the Great.
and kemus the sincerity OF Joan Of
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Hannibal Was Nearly the Youngest and Won Motke Much the
Oldest of Ali the Famous Generals When They Fought
Battles Which Crowned Their Success.

palm in all history. Called to the
throne of Macedonia at the age of Is,
he already had figured i'm the wars and
administration Of his father, Philip. At
the age of n, he already, on the field
of C~haerOnia, had carried the day
against Thebes and Athens with the
Macedonian phalanX, had RACED
Thebes to the ground and made him
self master of Greece. \ year later he
crossed the Hellespont to destroy the
Persian monarchy. He Vas % years
old when. after winning some prelimi-
nary battles, he met the Persian king
Darius, at Issus. and cut to pieces his
army Of 600, 900 men. The next year,
after "a seven months siege, he O
the great maritime city. Tyre, and on
the following year, at Arbela, he de-
stroyed the army and empire of Darius.
and at % years old had made himself
master of Persia. From there. invad-
ing India, he, at the age of 80, defeated
Porus, the HindOo king, IN the plains
of the Hydaspes. The battle Of San
gala, i'm the same year, carried the
arms of Alexander to the right bank
Of the Indus river. Other plans OF in
vasions that the conqueror may have
formed. after his return to Persia, We're
ended by his untimely death.
Pyrrhus of Epirus fought the great
battles Of his life at the age Of IS and
of 80 years, when, matched against the
Romans. he won the battle Of Hera-
clea, and the year after. defeated the
Romans again on their own soil at
Asculum and threatened to enCamp
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A Desperate Woman.

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Thousands of suffering women have been
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the timely influence of Dr.. Pierce's Favorite
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Mrs. Sarah /. Rains, of Dayton, cass Co.. Mo,
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before the gates of the capital city it,
self. Both Pyrrhus and Alexander
seemed possessed of "A purely military
genius. with the ability 10 conquer, but
without the capacity to improve their
conquests i'm the permanent enlarge
ment of their Kingdoms, or the forming
Of a stabl empire beyond their ma
tive OMAN.
1t is i'm Caius Julius Caesar that we
find the military chief, statesman, poll
tician. historian and popular leader,
combined i'm the highest degree that
has been manifest in any one man i'm
the worlds history. The greatest po-
litical and civil organizer i'm all the
Roman era, and as a general second
only to Hannibal, the destiny Of the
world turned on his fortunes. So
mighty was the impression of his per-
sUnality on human affairs hat the
tragedy Of his death shattered the Ro-
man commonwealth, n from the in
ternecine wars that followed emerged a
colossal empire, whose rulers proudly
bore his name as their title of imperial
dignity as long as Rome endured. Con-
spiCuous even as u boy in war and
politics, his great campaigns began in
Gaul, when, at the age of "a. with raw
troops, he defeated and broke the
power of the Helvetii at Bibracte. The
neXt year he conquered the Belgae, and
he was II years old, when, two years
later. he invaded Britain. He was "a
years old when he defeated Pompey at
P~harsalia, a victory which made him
master Of the world.
Among generals of moser times,
GustaVus AdOlphus of Sweden, the
champion of Professionalism" in Eu-
rope in the first half of the seventh CEN
fury. was 81 years old when, at Brett
enfield, near Leipsic, he overwhelmed
the forces Of Tilly. The next year he
was killed in leading his troops to vic
toriOus battle at IutZen.
Charles XII. of Sweden. "The Royal
Madman,' was a commander whose
military genius budded early. He made
war because he liked to fight battles,
to upset Kingdoms, and to put one king
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Arc, the amiable qualities Of Catherine
de Medici, Bloody Mary. her much faith
err, Henry the Eighth, n all the rest.
Mary Stuart owes much to Agnes
Strickland. who introduced the English
public to all that was best in the char
acter of the famous queen of Scotland;
but on the whole il is doubtful if the
ladies would be over generous to their
W sex: a Cinque-Mars or n Murat
might be surer of their good words.
There is no certainty that they would
even concern themselves much with the
doings of their sisters. But we shall
see, for the woman historian has ap-
peared upon the scene.
Miss Ruth Putnam is one of the Ia
dies who will attend the congress. 1t
was this Miss Putnam who wrote the
admirable life of William the Silent.
Therefore there is a particular fitness
i'm sending her to the scenes where
many of the incidents in the eventful
life of her hero We're enacted. The Hol-
landers will receive her with pleasure
for the fine portrait she has drawn OF
the stern figure of the heroic prince Of
Orange.
Miss L. NJ. Salmon of Baltimore will,
with j. c.. Whiteley-the latter the or
ganizer of the American section-repre-
sent the president of the United States
at the meetings of the congress at the
Hague. Besides Miss Putnam and Miss
Salmon, there will be Miss Cora start
of Vassar, to represent our women's
colleges.
Charles Francis Adams is another OF
the distinguished men who will be pres
ent to represent America. Mr.. Adams
IS president of the Massachusetts His
torical society and belongs to a family
that has furnished several great states
men and two presidents to the United
States.
The secretary of the Holland society,
Theodore Nj. Banta, Is another Wen
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AIDED BY MRS. PINKHAM.

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JUyS GESRR

indecisive battle with the Russians and
Prussians, and at Friedland won the
victory that brought the Russians to
terms of peace in the treaty of Tilsit.
Napoleon Ia 40 years old when at
Wagram, he v~anquished the Austrians
under Grand Duke Charles. and was As
when, at the climax of his career, he
beat the Russians at BOrOdino and
marched on into Moscow. lie was "A
when he peat the Russians and Prus-
slams at Lutzen, won the field of Ores
den, and met his fatal defeat by the
allies at Leipsic. In 1915. at the age of
40, his career Of military glory closed
on the field of Waterloo.
Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Well
ington. the great antagonist of Ma
poleon, had made a good record in
fighting Marrattas, i'm India, before he
was 50 years of age. He was 40 when
he won the field of Talavera, against
Marshal Soult. in 1909. Four years
later. commanding the British and
Spanish troops, he beat Marmont and
the French at Vitoria. He was 46 when,
with the allied British and Prussians,
he vanquished Napoleon at Waterloo.
General Ulysses 5. Grant was Al years
old when he captured Fort DonelsOn,
and turned "A rout into victory at
Shiloh; AZ when he captured Nicksburg;
43 when he fought the battle of the
Wilderness; and "A when. after the
long fighting before Petersburg, he re-
ceived the surrender of the confederate
army at A~ppomattoX.
The great Prussian general, He'll
muth Freiherr o Moltke, the most
consummate strategist in the history Of
modern warfare, was 66 years old when.
on the field of Sadowa, the Prussians
defeated the Austrian rmy command
ed by Field Marshal Benedick. -Four
years later, on Sept. l and ?. 1870, he,
at the age of 20 years, fought the bat
tie of Sedan against the French under
Napoleon Ill, n won the victory
which decided the issue Of the Franco
Prussian war, and resulted in the
creatiOn of the German Empire.
CLARENCE PULLEN.