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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-12-14

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Goslin, of
St Vincent, daughter, Nov. 18th.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-12-14

Quite touch Of below zero weather
Monday and Tuesday.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-12-14

An exchange of mail sacks at this post
Office by the stage drivers last week
made delay in the delivery of the
Pioneer Express to the county post
Offices.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-12-14

Forty Jackets. 40 of. At Shorts.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-12-14

Ifyou are going home to Canada this
winter, postal card to the PIONEER Ex-
PRESS will make it follow you. No
trouble to change addresses. Or we will
send you special copy for three months
for 25 cents and let your regular copy
run to its home address.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-12-14

It's little daughter, only three days
old; couldn't be Shorter or sooner told.
Daddy's name is Gus-two boys, two
girls plus. Buford's the place for deer,
but staying right here, 10, he's bagged a
little doe.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-12-14

Mr.. Norman, Jr. of Wexford, was in the
city yesterday and made arrangements
for pigeon shoot for tomorrow after
noon. It did not take long to complete
preliminaries, and;if the weather is favor
able pleasant time is assured. The
shoot will probably take place on the
grounds in South Pembina.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-12-14

The Sanford Dodge company are ex-
pected here one day next week, probably
Friday night. Mr.. Dodge and his snperb
company are too well and favorably
known here to need any introduction
from us. We bespeak for them a good
house. Watch for the date.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-12-14

Gen. g. w. Bailey, Tank Kee, who
will be remembered Is having been here
several years ago. will be at Pembina
January and, 3rd and 4th, under the aus
piea of the Presbyterian church. He
comes Vii. his Chinese curiosisies to. the
sanount u ~, 90. and i : splendid
Iectnref.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-12-14

Owing to the blizzard last Saturday
the Ladies Aid of the M. E. church will
continue their mark down sale of fancy
goods tomorrow afternoon from 3 o S at
the residence of Mrs. G. w. Ryan.
Some nice things left which will be sold
cheap to close out.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News
 The retired actor is naturally played out. Fortunate is the liar who loses his repu- tation.
 Lapland is truly the land of the infant industry.
 Congressional bills have given way to the mosquito bills.
 The farmer who raises poultry is reason ably sure of good crops.
 Even the temperate buzz-saw has been known to take three fingers.
 The chronic loafer is man who sticks to one thing until he fails.
 Some women are both good and true and some men are no good and untrue.
 It is easier to love a poor girl than Q rich one, because there is less competi- ton.
 The game of billiards was probably in- vented by the author of 'Wearing of the Green"
 Probably the future looks dark because coming events cast their shadows before them.
 A girl may be both pretty and ignorant, but she is never ignorant of the fact that she is pretty.
 It isn't much consolation to a man to know that his neighbours wife is less ex- travagant than his own.
 When one woman out of a hundred has nothing to say the other ninety-nine are asking what is the matter with her.
 Lots of people think they will be entitled to a diamond-studded crown in the other world because they drop a penny on the contribution plate every Sunday.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
Active Contests in Three Districts.

In the First, Fourth and Fifth Congress spectiye Democratic nominations are pro- gressing, and the three districts are getting all the politics they need despite the smoothness and calmness- of the State elee- ton. The State at large is watching the three districts in friendly and unpre- tudiced spirit, hoping that in each case the man best fitted to sustain the reputation and honor of the State at Washington will be chosen.
 In all three districts it is well to remem- Der that an unscrupluous House might in- stitute and carry out contests for the pur- pose of seating Republican contestees Es- pecially is this d probability in the Fourth District, where Mr. Aldrich has again con scented, it is stated, to serve as contestee He has had much experience in that ca pacity, having unseated Democratic sitting members in three Congresses. The Demo- crats of the Fourth District have q duty to perform that outruns district lines. They owe it to the rest of the State to select, if possible, nominee who can poll enough white votes to render a contest piece of arbitrary work that would recoil upon the party that promotes it.. They should select a man of skill and resources-a man that Republicans cannot turn down. The dis trict contains capable men, and the best one in it is needed in this In a less degree this applies also to the First and Fifth Districts, from which contests may arise. The contestee, in case the Repubi- cans carry the lower House of Congress, is the real enemy in each case, and in the Fourth District he stands ready and pledged to grab the seat wholly regardless of the returns. Give him in that district a man to fight that will fight to the utter most
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tolerated in British drawing rooms on ac- count of the novelty of it's humor. He Is the most highly finished specimen of snob- dom that this generation has produced and his fall is therefore the more interesting.
 From recent developments in the. recent unpleasant episode in Mir. Astor's London house it appears that Sir Archibald Milne was present at MT. Astor's concert by in- vitation of the latters daughter, to whom he had dared to offer some attention. The story that he was with another lady was given out to shield Miss Astor. This places the man without a country in an even worse light, for it shows the animus that provoked the insult. was the fear that an Astor should marry an English gentleman who did not own the title that could be properly associated with Astor millions.
 The only thing that is left MT. Astor to do, is to emulate the example of another unfortunate New Yorker who spends his time in Europe steam yacht, cruising in search of a happy land where money is considered equivalent to good breeding.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
KENTUCKY POLITICS

From the Chattanooga Times.
 The esteemed Birmingham Age Herald makes d fiippant reference to the more in- l; innate knowledge the Kentucky Democrats have of revolvers and whisky than they have of the English language. Our con- | temporary should remember that there is the educational fund of $lOO000 in Kentucky by way of encouraging study of assassl- nation, and that what the Kentucky Demo- erat hasn't been able to learn about the revolver Tom Campbell has told him. More over, Editors Watterson and Knott, while possessing elementary knowledge of the uses of whisky and revolvers, have not at all confined their studies to these branches so useful in Kentucky politics, but are really past masters in the use of good Anglo-Saxon English, marred however, at times by a frequent display of explosive adiectives
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
Inn. Pnfil s plaz of Mexico.

The world has not ceased to wonder at the ease with which President Dlaz sue ceeds in becoming his own successor. He was first elected in 1877, and he has Just been elected to a sixth term. There are American statesmen who wonder how such things can be on one side of the Rio Grande and cannot be on the other side
 The explanation is very simple. Elec- tions in Latin countries-in Spain, for ex- ample-are not elections at all in the sense that they are in Anglo-SaXon countries. The ministry or administration manipulate them to suit themselves. In Spain min istry can be overthrown, not at the cleo tions which are periodically held for mem bers of the Cortes, but by combinations in 1t after election. In Mexico change of administration can be effected by death or revolution only. President Diaz has rem dered himself so powerful that revolution cannot succeed, and he is, therefore, in office for life.
 Elections of the real sort are rarely, if ever, held in Latin countries, although those of France for members of Corps Legislatif are very nearly up to the Anglo Saxon standard. The elections of Switzer- land, of Germany, of the Scandinavian countries, of Great Britain and of America are as a rule true indications of the state of public sentiment; but outside of these countries elections go as a. rule as the men in power direct. Diaz understands the Latin plan to perfection, and all Mexican politicians understand the situation equally we'll No. man can seriously run against Diaz and remain. in the country He must get ready to expatriate himself. This is what Mexican election means. As Diaz is seventy years old some other dictator will soon have to appear, and Daz will probably name him. Wherein this kind of rule differs from a monarchy or even an autocracy it is difficult to see.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
Mediation is Improbable.

The mediation project of the administra- tion is strictly on campaign lines It has no meat in it. The Chinese government is not in a position to overcome the Boxers and it cannot therefore meet the terms that Preseident Mckinley and Secretary Hay that proof be furnished that the legationers are alive; that they be put at once in free communication with their respective gov ernments, and that the Chinese government cooperate with the relief expedition. China cannot, even if she were so inclined, accept these terms, because it is in constant dan ger of overthrow at the hands of the Boxers. No one knows this better than President Mckinley and Secretary Hay, and their reply to China's appeal is there tore a campaign document And so for that matter is China's appeal They are playing politics at both Pekin and Wash lngton.
 When the point of settlement is reached there will be another Berlin conference 2nd in that conference lines will be drawn .7ery distinctly between the trading nations and the land-grabbing nations. Germany should line up with the trade nations, but the chances now are that she will not. She holds the balance of power, and the indica- tions are that she will join Russia, which includes also France, an implacable enemy of the Germans. It is believed a secret treaty exists between Russia and Germany, and whatever Russia does or desires France does and desires also. This combine is a strong one.
 Against it will stand America, Great Britain and Japan. What Italy and Aus tria and Little Belgium will do is uncer- tain. The chances are that they will be brought into subjection to the land-greed nations. The mediation plan of President Mckinley will be disregarded, and the real trouble will appear when the powers meet to determine the terms of settlement. Chinese savagery is bad enough, but it is better than Russian greed combined with at least like amount of savagery and in tolerance. The effort of Secretary Hay will not go far when it encounters the Russian combina ton.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
Tea is Goinq Up.

The price of tea Is to be advanced on the ground that the crop will prove to be about 5,o00,000 pounds short of an average crop, and upon the fact that freights are higher, and that the condition of the tea ports may become disturbed.
 Crops in China mature as crops in this country do, the parallel of attitudes being alike. The tea crop, like the cotton crop, is between seasons and is undetermined, and the possibility of a short crop is like the possibility of a short cotton crop. It is really a matter of guessing. But as ships are scarce, and tea freights have been ad- vanced a cent and a half pound, the heavy tea exporters have. pushed up the price of Japanese leaves four cents a pound, and of Chinese leaves two cents pound. What more they will do in this direction remains to be seen.
 There is little reason for advances in the price of tea, for no tea comes to this coun- try from the Pekin or Pei-ho district. It is warm weather plant, and 1t grows south of the disturbed district. But trade
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
TEA BECOMES DEARER

New York, July 23-The trouble in China is already influencing the wholesale tea market of this city. Within the last few days the price of tea has advanced from 1 to cents pound and still further increases seem likely, inasmuch as with the continuance of difficulties in China it will cost more to import. When the out break began it was computed that there were about 2S000,000 pounds of tea in this country. That stock is being rapidly bought up by retailers and should the hos tilities extend to the tea-growing districts a rapid rise in the price of. the commodity will arise. The great tea producing een- ters of China, however; are not threatened with the strife in which the Boxers are engaged. Even should the murderous movement extend to the fields whence come most of the teas which used in this country it would not be affected for many months. Should the Boxers ever get so far south the Yang Tse Kfang Valley, and block the Yang Tse River by means of which at least 50 per cent. of the tea grown in China is sent to the seaports con- sumers of tea will have to pay considerably more for their favorite beverage than they do now.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
BIILD MORE MILLS

From the Columbus, Ga, Ledger
 Some of our esteemed contemporaries are trying to make people believe that the South is overdoing the building. of new cot ton mills. Nothing could be further from the truth than this. The fact is, that the mills of the future must be built in the South. Many of the mills in the East will find it necessary to shut down, for the req son that they cannot compete with the mills of the South, on anything but the finest goods, where the cost of the raw material Is not such an item. The South will never over-do the business of cotton mill building until she reaches a point where her mills untilize all the cotton made in the South. It will be long years before this time comes, but 1t is surely coming.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
EXPORTING PIC IRON

From the Philadelphia Record
 While the exportations of American pig iron have not been infrequent, stil; up to the present time no regular and systematic export business in that commodity has been built up. It would appear, however. that the time is not far distant when Amerfea,. pig iron as well as American coal will be regularly shipped to Europe The Germans are already alarmed at the situation. 8. .s shown by report of Consul General Mason at Berlin, printed elsewhere in the Record this morning. That there is good reason for their alarm is well known to those who have given the subject the necessary at tention.
 Cheaper raw material; their accessibility; efficient machinery, which, operated by in- tellgent and highly paid workmen, turns out product at lower labor cost than that produced by the cheap hand labor of Europe-all these factors combined enable the American furnace men to produce iron. steel and the goods of which they are the basic material at prices with which the foreign manufacturer is daily finding it more difficult to compete Aside from the possibility of interfering tariffs, there is but one obstacle in the way of American iron and steel winning supremacy throughout the world, and that is the lack of cheap and efficient means of transportation. With these provided the invasion of Continental markets would come as a matter of course.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
HARRY WELDON FUND
The Benefit Movement Has Been Started
 in Chattanooga

Chattanooga, Tenn, July 25.-The Harry Weldon benefit has found responsive chord in Chattanooga, where MT. Weldon is a universal favorite. movement was begun today to enlist the energy of every body and everything of a. sporting nature for the purpose of contributing materially to the fund. A ball game between the Southern Express team and another club, as yet unsettled, will be played. The pool rooms will follow the example of Johnny Payne and pay liberal percentage on a weldon day. to the fund, while offers of private subscriptions have been numerous and heavy. Other sporting events will be arranged, and other Southern cities have signified an intention of joining the bene- fit movement.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
EPwoRTH LEAGUE CONFERENCE
Sessions Begin in Atlanta-Col W.. J.
 Sanford Spoke

Atlanta, Ga., July 25.-The first annual Southern conference of the Epworth League opened it's five days session in the Auditorium at Exposition Park tonight. The scene presented in the vast building, with it's innunerable electric lights gleam- ing upon the emblematic decorations of white and. yellow on pillar, raft and wall, was beautiful and inspiring. Half of the audience wore the ribbon and monogram badge of the Southern Leaguers Upon the platform appeared many of the ablest and best known men in the Methodist Episco- pal church, South, fanked by Professor Hemphills chorus of singers
 Tonight's meeting was merely the of ficial welcome to Georgia and Atlanta, pre- ceded by brief singing service.
 Governor Candler was prevented from speaking his welcome by a severe attack of neuralgia, and remained at home.
 James L. Mayson, of the City Council, gave the delegates the freedom of Atlanta, and Governor Elect w. J. Sanford of Ala bama, spoke briefly.
 This is the first distinctively Southern general conference of the order, and it is largely attended The meetings will con tinue until next Sunday.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
BEATS paCANs AND PEACHES

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Mir w. D. Woods, a leading agriculturist of South Carolina, has been ma king some interesting experiments with the China berry tree, which he describes in a letter to the Charleston News and Courier He is enthusiastic over its value for railroad ties inside housework, furniture and moth proof chests and closets, because of it's durability, peculiar freedom from the at tacks of insects, and the great beauty of the wood when polished" He declares it next in value to the black walnut and worth from $5 to $75 per 1000 feet; that it will grow on any land that has drainag ge that the whole cost of planting and caring for a crop of them will not exceed the cost of one cotton crop on the same land, and when the trees are removed "the land will be worth two or three times as much for agricultural purposes as before" A hun dred acres, he says, will produce in ten years from 5O,000 to GO, 900 trees "of sufficient value to make snug fortune'' The News and Courier, which says they are safer than peach trees, and pay better on the whole, than pecans, urges the South Car olina growers to try them.
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make any public political speeches the coming autumn. All thoughtful and ap- preciative Alabamians will desire that the Senator rest and make himself comfortable until the closing week of November, when they will hope he shall appear at the old capitol in Montgomery and accept for the fifth time the highest honor they have to offer their most ilustrious fellow-citizen!
 Representative Wilson R. Brown of Col bert is in town. Mr. Brown is a member of the State Democratic Campaign Com mittee, and it is probable that he will give his personal assistance to Chairman Smith during the closing days of the campaign. Chairman Smith and Secretary Pugh have done all the drudgery of the campaign headquarters so far; but the work has now become very burdensome, and the chair man has asked MT. Brown to assist. MT. Brown is always ready to work for the Democratic party, and few know well how to so work.
 Former State Senator Robert Eugene Steiner of Montgomery was in Birming- ham yesterday.
 Harry c. Parker of Providence, R. l., and F. E. Parker of Chicago, H., are at the Morris.
 c. D. Wilson, lexping real estate owner of Russellville. is in Birmingham.
 State Senator William D. Jelks of Bar bour is at the Morris.
 Former Attorney-General William Coch- rane Fitts of Tuscaloosa was in Birming- ham yesterday.
 C. J. O'Farrell of the Atlanta Journal Is at the Florence.
 John Pope of Louisville is at the Morris w. P. Aeker of Anniston and w. A. Young of Vernon are at the Florence.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
fine Knights of Africa

Nashville, Tenn, July 25.-The tenth biennial meeting of the supreme grand lodge of the Ancient United Knights and Daughters of Africa convened here today. The lodges are located in Tennessee, Ala bama Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, with scattering lodges in Pennsylvania and . New York. The records show a member ship of 10OO0.
 The elevation and betterment of the ne- gro race is the avowed object of the order. It was established in Nashville in 1888.
 The order has one travelling representa- tive in Africa who recently established a lodge a Monrovia, Liberia.
 Addresses of welcome were responded to by A. Gray, grand master of Alabama; Dr. s. A. Collins of St. Louis; Dr. c. Jones, East St. Louis, H.
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and capital are timid and speculative. and no doubt there will be many fiurries in the tea market if the Chinese trouble extends to the tea districts and tea ports and ts of a prolonged nature. Tn this respect the Chinese problem becomes an attack upon the American breakfast table, and is fur ther evidence of the close dependence of one section of the world upon other see- tions of it. China and America should be- come each others best customer.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
EPHRUM EELS

By Holman F. Day. Ephrum Eels he had to scratch darned
 hard to keep ahead, But he always kept three dogs. He couldn't keep a dollar bill to save his
 life, they said But he always kept three dogs He said he might have been some one if
 he'd had half chance, But getting grub from day to day giv'
 Ephrum such a dance, He never got where he could shed the
 patches off his pants; But he always kept three dogs. They 'bated Ephrum's poll-tax cause he
 was too poor to pay, But Ephrum kept his dogs. How he scraped up cash to license 'em It
 ain't in rae to say, But know he kept his dogs. And when a suff' rim neighbor ambuscadeG
 em, Eph swore- Then in a kind of homesick way he hus-
 tied round for more; He struck a lucky bargain and, by thun-
 der, he bought four! Jest kept on a-keepin' dogs.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
A RAIN woRrH sss. boo. .ooo TO KANSAS

From the Kansas City Journal.
 How much money did Kansas make as a result of yesterdays rain. The rainfall was general over the corn belt and was sufficient to break the price over cents bushel on the Chicago market. Specu- lation as to Kansas corn prospects changed materially within a few hours, and there were yesterday plenty of men who said there would be 80 S5 per cent. of a crop of corn in Kansas, while Sunday the man who predicted half d crop was regarded as an enthusiast. This means nearly 100090,- OO0 more bushels, or probably $95, ,000G08 to Kansas.
The age-herald., 1900-07-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 Truth and matrimony are only lowing acquaintances.
 With man love means possessing; with woman it means being possessed
 If woman had her choice about ar ranging heaven, probably she would choose to be the youngest one there.
 Unless man is more or less of a brute all the time. women won't respect him, because they suspect he isn't man.
 Most women can love a lock of hair and a sickly love letter from a man a good deal longer than they can love duty, faith and honor in him.