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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-04-06

ELEVEN farmers in Barnes coun-
ty tried cross-seeding last year
with an average increase in yield
of oyer five bushels per acre. This
is certainly worth giving trial.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-04-06

OLD winter is still holding
down his job and the temperature
at nights continues to hang around
the zero point, although at mid
day the sum gets in a little work it
hasn't got old Boreas on the run.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-04-06

WINTER wheat is reported to
have been greatly damaged by the
severe weather.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-04-06
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.

Subscription S.. pei annum or $3.50 if paid in
ADVANCE. Advertising rates on, application.
denominations must be received by TUESDAY
shin to receive prompt attention.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-04-06

In New York the grade of demo-
cracy is established by the price OF
the dinner they eat.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-04-06

puhlished every Thursday morning at Lang
-. Cavalier county, North Dakota.
Rnsefed at the post office at Langdon as man
uutter OF the second class.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-02-25

rious companies into a big one, and to
form a monopoly that would last for
ever.
"You don't suppose for a moment
that the gas companies consolidated for
the purpose Of keeping down the price
Of gas. do you?
"You don't suppose for moment
that the gas companies consolidated
for the purpose of lowering the price
to consumers?
III you do you must be pretty green.
The Gas Trust procured the passage
Of the consolidation and frontage meas
ures so that 1t could make more money
and pay bigger dividends by raising the
price of the commodity per 1000 feet.
The company needs money.
Most of its mains and street pipes
throughout the city are either honey
comrcd 10y clcctrnlysis or are rotten
and worthless. These must he re-.
placed.
~ million must he spent for other
needed improvements.
Had there been no consolidation and
frontage law these improvements
would have been paid for by the stock
holders. because the certainty of com.
petition would have prevented an in
crease In the charge to consumers.
The consolidation and frontage law.
however. gives The Trust free and
open field. 1t will raise the price of
gas to SO per 1000 feet July /. 1890.
mark my words for 1t.
why wait until July 1? Well. any.
one ought to know the reason for that.
BY July I the present Legislature will
have adjourned, and we have no fear
that the skates IN this aggregation of
doughheads will Interfere with the
frontage law. Waiting until they ad-
journ before raising the price of Gas
gives us Il cincl on that proposition.
If the price was raised now there would
he howl. and the tattOoed men might
bother us. hut W, will wait until the
cheap boys get tn "Ough and then we
will raise our limit to 50 per thousand
feet In Chicago"
~k>
The people are c"ying for the repeal
Of the frontage act, Senator Case.
%e~
The Gas Trust apologist and
chief whisperer and go-.,etween, who Is
around the City Hell es late. served five
years In the Oh. SS1itentiary for a
nameless crime.
~6A
The Chicago Gas Trust. which bought
and paid for the passage Of the infam-
Gus consolidation law In the last Leg.
islature. will try to buy another one
this winter. The one they bought does
not suit them entirely.
Below II n list of the membership Of
| tho Gpucrnl ASsem1,1v.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-02-25

"The price Of gas in Chicago will be
advanced TO SO per 1000 feet on July
/. 1859" said man close 10 the Gas
Trust the other day.
what Is the object Of the raise:'
was asked him.
What l. the object: Well, that's
good. The object Of the raise Will he
10 make money, Of course, and make
as much Of II as possible.
THE people will have TO stand II or
20 without gas
"You don't suppose the Gas Trust
spent S250O0D to buy the Legislature
for nothing do You:
The Gas Trust Is not a charitable
organization.
1T paid out $3.50 900 in bribe money
10 induce the last Legislature 10 make
IL present Of the consolidation and
frontage measure.
This measure gave the Gas Trust
legal authority to consolidate the va
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-02-25

- !.
VOTERS OF CHICAGO!
Trust General o. Illinois,.
the
competition the Frontage Law will Chicago
Gas Companies
The ohcagos
gallons
81 when sold to the people,
keep them in darkness sees fit
liberties will be sold it!
Will the
1892
the bill repealed Will Legislature stand
suffering people?
purcha a NJ emedy7
bribery
bodx beeces There no flaws in
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-02-25
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When the SangamOn County Grand
Jury investigates Legislative bribery
1t must not forget the Gas Trust agent
who manipulated the deal Of 1897.
That deal will not be Outlawed for over
a year yet.
The Sangamon County Grand Jury
ought 10 summon the attorney for the
Armour interests, referred TO in the
Board Of Trade report.
\SA
We are anxious to see whether the
Gas Trust will buy the Board Of AS.
SCISSORS and Board Of Review this year.
II will try 10,
Can Gas Trust money beat the new
revenue law:
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-02-25

The Chicago Gas Trust, which bought
and paid for the passage Of the infam-
ous consolidation law In the last Leg.
islature. will try to buy another one
this winter. The one they bought does
not suit them entirely.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-02-25

The Gas Trust apologist and
chief whispeer and gobetween, who Is
around the City Hell q late. served five
years In the Oh. SS1itentiary for a
nameless crime.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
Buys Bread For His Horses.

A delivery wagon of one of the big
bread baking factories of Yorkville
stopped in front of an uptown livery
and boarding stable the other morn
ing, and two men at once unloaded
barrels of bread and carried them into
the stable. Tho bread looked good,
and was good. There were all sorts
and sizes of loaves in the barrels
"home made, frye, Vienna, "po.
tato," graham" and cottage"
The curiosity of man who saw the
bread being delivered to the stable
was aroused. and he ventured to ask
the proprietor of the stable what it
meant.
"There's nothing remarkable about
it, said the proprietor, with laugh
81 simply buy it for horse feed. We
grind the bread up and mix it with
other feed, aud it makes frst-class
food for horses. 1t is stale bread, and
costs us forty cents o barrel; and there
are fifty or sixty loayes to the barrel,
80 you see it comes pretty cheap.
Some of the bread is only day old,
and is good enough for any man to
eat; but the bread factories cannot sell
it. What you see here are returned
loaves from the groceries. I'll bet
there is many soldier who would like
to have had al good bread in the war;
New York Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
season, have been made up for winter

season, have been made up for winter
wear, declares Harper's Bazaar. The
light silks are to be used all through
the winter-of course not for street
wear--whils some heavy silks, satins,
crepons, are trimmed with white lace,
and have quite as light and airy an
effect as though they were intended to
wear in July and August. For street
wear, black and brown-a warm shade
of brown-are considered especially
fashionable colors. The most stylish
house gowns are made of French fan
mel. But never before at this time of
year have so many light grays and tan
cloths been made up. Indeed, all the
styles of dress this year are on most
elaborate and expensive scale. and it
requires considerable thought and in
genuity for the woman with a moder-
ate income to dress according to the
latest fashion dictates. Fortunately
there are good many styles in every
sort of gown, whether for street or
house, that are attractive aud quite
inconspicuous, and these are the best
TO choose from where economy has to
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23

York very far forward of the face.
The new style of arranging the
coiffure which brings it high up in the
back means that the hat shall be worn
over full roll in front, not pompa-
dour, but soft arrangement in which
the hair extends very widely at the
sides. The hat itself extends far ovor
the face, that is not down, but up
ward at least from three to four inches
beyond the lines of the face, that is to
say the new pointed, round hats,
toques aud other styles which are
being shown.
The turban must be poised suhi-
ciently high, and though the hair is
being parted aud worn apparently
softer, there is no squat or fiat
tendency permitted. The forward
inclination of the hat gives rakish
and peculiar, but graceful turn to the
entire appearance when not pushed
too far. The entire outlines of dress
have an alternating effect. The idea
is to make the woman appear taller,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
wa,sts Wonderful In Cut.

Truly wonderful are the designs,
both of fabric and cut, of the new
evening waists which made their first
appearance at the Horse Show. Two
of the most notable examples are
shown in the large engraving. AL
though much of the material from
which they are made comes from the
factories of the old world aud some Of
the garments fashioned are upon
French models, yet there are many
exceedingly handsome ones made
here.
As modish as any are those made Of
satin, but not of a heavy variety, and
thus the fulness of waist is allowed
to at gracefully on the figure. This
is tucked, straight, in squares, in
diamonds, or hemstitched and drawn.
One OF the new embroidered styles
is made in white mauve and cream.
The embroidery is open and loose,
and through it is shown a lining of
c.oth Of gold. The style OF this waist
Is really blouse, but is open at the
front and filed in with knots OF NOUS
seline de sole or chiffon. The collars
are bands of crushed silk, and the re-
lnarkable little jeweled buttons which
shine through the tilmy ruches Of
chiffon which edge ''all things" add
not n little to the general effect.
Mauve aud other delicate shades Of
lilac are much used.
Into these waists are inserted yokes
or vests, often collars of plain CON
trasting shade or white, with Persian
colors in fantastic figures. A new
shade OF blue which is light, but not
q baby blue. is another material
which is seen in smart waist.
Not the least fascinating are the er-
quisite blouses OF guipure lace.
These are made entire. without lining,
and made to slip over any COLD lining.
One illustration shows new style
Of silk which comes in one piece--a
skirt-length, II is called. This has an
applique of mousseline do sole which
A. embroidered In neutral shades and
set pattern, The silk differs from
<he material usually employed in
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
waists, inasmuch as it is soft and
thin, almost transparent.
Simple shlrt.waIst Model.

The Czarina shirt-waist, notwith.
standing its title, is simple model
that is suitable for making up almost
any pretty fabric, but particularly
taking one included in the handsome
trousseau OF au autumn bride is made
of amethyst velvet and heliotrope silk.
1t is formed with deep yoke at the
back. There is a wide plait down the
front, where the waist fastens with
pearl and amethyst studs. The back
of the waist is very closely fitted, the
sleeves close coat shapes, with velvet
cuffs, and the fronts droop a little at
the belt.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
The English Not n Cleanly Race.

A correspondent of the Lon don
Times who is studying the plague at
Oporto has something to say on the
comparative cleanliness of different
nations which will probably be little
relished in England. After showing
that the general conditions in the
Portuguese city are favorable to the
spread of the disease because the peo-
pie suffer from lack of nourishmeut
and the health authorities are deficient
in system, he adds that the lower
classes have their advantages, never
theless, over the corresponding classes
of the British isles, since they wear
cleaner clothes and are cleaner and
neater in their housework
AS if this were not enough, he ex-
tends the comparison so as to include
other countries, and puts the Britons
way in the rear. Testifying from au
experience in all the European States
with the exception of those in the Bal
kan region he says: "When we are
clean, no people are so clean, but when
we are dirty we are dirtier than any
body else. That dreadful smell OF hu-
manity, which is caused by the reten-
tion of bodily refuse on the surface of
the skin, is almost peculiar to our
country, and it pervades the persons
and still more the homes of the great
mass of our urban population"
Clean clothes, he thinks, are of
more Importance than clean bodies.
Therefore the Portuguese, who wash
their linen religiously every week,
have better protection against the
plague than the Russians, who bathe
frequently but wear filthy garments.
Both nationalities, however, are su-
perior to a majority of the British,
who wash neither clothes nor skin. -
Chicago Times Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
Cost of a New York Fond.

The speakers at the recent farmers
congress illustrated the working of
the New York law by citing one road
in Oneida County. The total cost was
$14, ,686. OF this the State pays $7343,
the county $5140 and the property
benefited $2202. The fifty per cent.
paid by the State comes out of the
$50, 900 raised by the law and amounts
to one cent on $1,000 of assessed valu-
alton for each taxpayer throughout
the State. On the assessed valuation
of Oneida County each taxpayer paid
G9 cents on each $1,000 to raise the
thirty-five per cent. psid by the coun-
ty. So that each taxpayer in the
county of Oneida paid "a cents on
each $1,000 of assessed valuation for
the road in question, in addition TO
to which the remaining 12202 will be
paid by the owners of the property
tenefited by the improvement. The
class of work contemplated by the
New York law consists of grading the
:oad to established grades, constructing
drains and culverts and laying six
inch macadam surface.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
A Klondilse Crime Cure.

A returned Klondiker says that
Dawson City has adopted a novel and
effective cure for crime. 1t is 4 mou-
ster wood pile. and it is enough to
awe the most hardened offender. A
man convicted of any oifense is com
PEELED to saw wood. He saws ten
hours day steadily, day after day,
until his sentence expires. He must
saw regardless of tho weather. In
the most intense cold, Tho hardest
rain, the Gercest snowstorn, he iy
compelled to continue saving, and il
the day has not ten hours of light,
lanterns are provided TO enable him
to put in full day. When the pilo
Of sawed wood begins to get low the
authorities sentence men 10 saving
for very slight ollenses, and the re-
sult is that everybody behaYes for fear
of getting dose of saving, Omaha
Bee,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
popuLAR SCIENCE.

Contrary to popular bolief, excite
ment causes much less insanity than
monotony.
According to Liebig, tho alkali in
asparagus develops form in the hu-
man brain.
Professor Dewar has succeeded in
solidifying hydrogen into CLASSY,
transparent mass.
Lord Kelvin in o lecture stated tina
as q result Of recent investigation it
was estimated that the earth had
been the abode of life about thirty
million years.
Italian physicians have satisfied
themselves that the mosquitoes which
abound in Venice never convey the
poison of malaria because it is not
found in the marshes OF the vicinity.
An expedition consisting entirely
Of women has been formed in Aus
tralia to explore the Solomon Islands,
the home OF the fercest cannibals
known. Hitherto white men have
been able TO penetrate only q few
miles inland.
Increasing experience, according to
DIR. Hutchinson, confirms the view
that cancer begins as q strictly local
disease, and that complete removal at
an early stage will cure eighty per
cent. of all cases. Thus far all search
for drug has failed.
A series of experiments made by
Benno Erdmaun and Raymond Dodge
show that in normal reading the let
ters are not spelled out separately
and one after the other, but that u
short word of not more than four lot
ters can be read off in less time than q
single letter.
In the summer the Northern Hem
isphere is turned more perpendicu-
larly toward the sun, hence it is
warmer in. summer than in winter,
when that hemisphere is turned more
sideways to the sun. In the summer
the earth is more distant from the sun
than in winter.
| Some incense bushes, now in full
leaf, are unique treasure OF the
| Botanical Garden OF the Vienna Uni
versity. The secret of VIII here these
plants grow is carefully guarded by
the Arabs, but DIR. Oskar Simony
succeeded last winter in getting these
live specimens in Southern Arabia.
A house in Italy that was struck
by lightning last April has yielded
DIR. Folgheralter some interesting
facts. The lightning produced large
number of magnetic points and zones
in the masonry, amply proving that
lightning may Independently yield
marked magnetization, and that mag
netic points may be so formed in tufa
The light which comes to us from
the sun in eight minutes might jour
ney ten thousand billion years and
not reach the borderland of the uni
verse. 1t has no limits. 1t car
have none. Yet the same laws rule
it throughout. And every force, al
power within it, all the laws that gov
ern it, work for harmony and happi
ness.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
An Endless Subject.

One of the leaders of the Gresrarlo
CLautauqua in Maine is DIR. Lewis y.
Jaines, scholar who beneath quiet
exterior wells considerable humor.
At the recent summer session OF that
famous institution there were lecturers
numbcrless from all over the world.
Meeting friend, the Doctor askc |
him how no was enjoying himself
"Finely, up TO yesterday, when L
heard lIofessor X,
Didn't he lecture well?"
"Not at all. He simply told us
what he didn't know"
'Ts he still talking?" quoried the
Doctor as he walked away. --Philadel-
phia Saturday Evening Post.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
! GOOD ROADS NOTES.


~ buiiein Dy Sthte Engineer Bonus
State Engineer Bond, of New York,
is paying great attention to the matter
of construction OF good roads and has
just issued bulletin calling attention
to the necessity Of care after the
roads are constructed. He says:
Roads in the country are continu-
ally subjected to the action of the ele-
ments, the wear of the wheels and
horses feet, and the continual pound
ing it receives from passing loads.
Therefore after q road has been ac-
cepted by the State Engineer as COM
pleted, and turned over to the officers
of the county, it is then that the duties
of the officers really commence, and
it depends on their efforts rs to
what the life of the road will be
whether they spend the money wisely
on maintenance, or will allow the
rond to deteriorate and make expen
sive repairs necessary. AS no pro
vision has been made in the Higbie-
Armstrong bill for such maintenance,
aside from the provisions in section
13: "All persons owning property
abutting on such road so improved,
or residing thereon, shall thereafter
pay all highway taxes assessed against
them in money, in the manner now
provided BY" it may be well to con-
slider the various methods in vogue
by which roads can be kept from de-
teriorating. This subject is so we'll
understood in European countries
that we need look no further for the
cause of the excellence of their roads.
Three systems exist:
a. By contract with private par
ties.
t2.) By the aid of the rural popula-
ton, and
(5.) BY the men employed for that
purpose by the community.
OF these three, only the third pro-
position is the proper one. This is
the system used by France and Ger
many, the objection to No. / being
that it has been tried and found
wanting; to No. 2 the aid given by
the rural population is not applicable
to the maintenance of an improved
road, as such road needs the super
vision of man perfectly familiar
with this class of work, and such r
one can only gain this familiarity by
being constantly and permanently
employed. Men who have been given
charge of piece of road soon become
interested in it, and will strive ener-
getically and intelligently to make
their portion of the road the best 1t
would seem advisable, therefore, that
the third proposition should be
adopted by the supervisors of the
county in which the improved road is
situated. That is, man should be
appointed and employed permanently,
who should have the road or certain
portion of it in his charge, and who,
under the supervision of the officers
of the county, should be responsible
for its maintenance.
The bulletin then gives detailed in.
structions as to the methods which
should be employed to keep roads in
good condition.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
Benefits OF New Jerseys System.

AS most of the wealth of the State
is to be found in the cities, the New
Jersey system successfully brings
about the construction of improved
gravel or stone roads without laying
their entire cost upon the farmers, and
without requiring them to contribute
more than an equitable share of ex-
pense according TO tho wealth of each
individual taxpayer. The State aid
system successfully answers the objec-
tion still made by many; that we can.
not have good roads without over.
loading the farmer with taxes, of
which he is already paying more than
his share.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23
An Artificial Food Product.

Experiments in German hospitals
with an albuminous powder called
'tropon," q substitute for meat, have
been so satisfactory that it is likely to
become an article of commerce. 1t is
claimed that ono pound of tropon is
equal in nutritive value to five pounds
of meat or one hundred eggs, and its
cost is only seventy cents. The hos
pital patients liked the tropon so well
that nearly all OF them preferred it to
meat. 1t is now being used as an in
grcdient of various foods, as, for ex-
ample, in flour, roll containing five
per cent. of the powder equaling in
nutlitive value five eggs or half q
pound of meat. 1t is needless to en-
largo upon the future of tropon, if
there has been no exaggeration in
the accounts of the experiments with
it. The inventor is professor ct
Bonn. The Merchants Review.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23

Among the new expensive novelty
weaves in dress fabrics are those with
rough surface, but firm underweave
which prevents the material from
stretching or breaking at the waist
seams. The surface is broken by la
teral lines of chenille or narrower vel
velvet woven in a raised design. The
crinkled effect is greatly enhanced by
the extreme sickness of the fabric,
which emphasizes the deeper black of
the chenille or velvet stripes.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-23

A novel method of detecting the
sound of steamships propellers has
been invented by an Italian. He has
made an apparatus which is varia-
tion of the telephone. Several trans
mittess are submerged and arranged
on land, or to point in different direc-
tions. all being connected with re.
ceiver on board another ship. Tho
direction in which the sound is loud
est indicates the point of the compass
in which the distant ship is to be
looked for.