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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-03-21

Co. Treasurer McGauvran is still COM
PEELED to make his way around town with
the aid OF cane, as the result of bad
sprain couple Of weeks ago. He hopes
to be able to throw away the stick in a
few days.
Grand Lecturer John Scott Of the A. F.
Il A. NJ, WAS in the city Tuesday return
ing from Hannah where he spent several
days pleasantly while conducting school
of instruction for the ediIication of the
newly established Masonic lodge there.
n. j. Golf. ex-county commissioner of
the Fifth district, has moved into town
with his family from Olga, occupying the
! Jno. R. Powers, cottage Cd the corner of
Oak and Sixth street. Mr. Golf has &C
copied position with the machinery
warehouse of J. McPhail for the season.
Look over the spring announcement of
the Langdon Implement Co. Their
lines Of farm machinery for the season of
1901 are all we'll known makes, thorough
ly adapted to the requirements of this
section. Their McSkerry drill is good
thing-in fact the same may he said of
everything they handle.
BY typographical error the printed list
of the successful candidates al the teach
ers exam in this paper last week credited
Miss Jennie Dickson, Of Hannah, with
having obtained certificate of the
second grade. The party entitled to an
apology on the part of the DEMOCRAT is
Miss Jennie Luxton, of Hannah, and we
take this opportunity to make the
amende honorable.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-03-21

Our stock of wall paper comprises al
the leading styles. but If you cannot be
suited from these, we have samples OF
over $50 different patterns on exhibition
and can furnish you the goods On five
days notice. McGruer.
A. II. Decks is thinking Of moving
with bis family out on their farm south
of town. Mrs. Decks and the children
will likely stay there during the summer
while A. II. will put in as much time
there as his business interests in the city
will permit.
During the week Landlord Kelland
has taken new lease of the Palace
Hotel for another year. The friends OF
the family as we'll az the patrons Of the
hotel will be glad to learn that the
Kellands will continue to remain in
Lsngdon, az it was rumored that Mr..
Kelland contemplated locating ia one of
the new towns that will be built south
west of here this summer.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-03-21

Matt j. Johnston, the patent medicine
cure-all vendor from West Superior,
Wis, arranged for the local sale of his
remedies while here between trains Fri
day.
Ex-Consul John Bidlake is again back
in Cavalier county after an absence OF
several years. Having arrived from
Colombia, South America last week,
where he is engaged IN the rubber trade
as manager for large syndicate of New
York capitalists
T. E. Burke returned Saturday from a
trip over the western portion of the state
talking life insurance for tho North
western Mutual. He stopped over at
Rugby and met the Cramonds, who
open mp a fine three story hotel there
early IN the summer
We note the Moon acknowledges call
from Customs Collector Barcelo, of Elk
wood, while in Hannah the other day,
and says that our ex-townsman lacks the
old-time corpulent rotundity that lent
him ia me while enthroned on the bench
of Langdon city's police court. All. but
those were balcyon days for his honor.
Millions base ball team expects to sign
HQeorge Howe with them for the seasons
playing. Last year he played in fourteen
consecutive games without having q
single error charged up to him. He
caught for the Milton nine oil through
last season and though living in Walsh
county, near Edinburg has been consider
ed as one of Cavalier county's crack ball
players for several years now.
Pat shelp, we'll known as one of the
old timers at MAZDA, has sale of horses
and farm stock hero in Langdon on
Saturday the 3Oth that prospective
buyers will do we'll to wait for. He will
auction off eight head of horses and q
dozen head of mich COWS and tat stock
Pat has she Pacific coast fever bad
enough to want to sell out and asks al
buyers to wait and eco il he hasn't 60,
just what they want.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-03-21
I have private funds for i'm
mediate investment in farm mort
gage securities at veryreassnable
terms. Attorney G. n. Price.

Another old timer OF Cavalier county,
IN tho person OF George Underwood, has
been induced to dispose Of his valuable
farm holdings near Olga and 60 chasing
the phantom shadows that tho North.
west Territory are casting towards North
Dakots's we'll TODD settlers. Mr.. Under.
wood and family go out there this spring
and leave many neiehbors and friends
who have nothing but the best wishes
for their future,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-03-21
Are you a buffalo?

arc you OuuaIO!
Who wants to be alderman of the ward.
St. Patrick's Day preceded Easte
Sunday this year by exactly three weeks
City election occurs on the first day o
April-shouldn't wonder If some one GET
fooled.
Farmers are investing their surplus
wealth in blue stone, formaldehyde anc
other smut destroyers.
The approaching city election as YET
is stirring up little if any interest among
Langdon's werd politicians.
Tuesday of this week was tho date fol
township boards to meet and approve the
bonds Of newly elected officers.
Huron townehip failed to hold an
election last Tuesday. In that locality
the storm shaped itself into small sized
blizzard and nobody turned out.
Several familie> of new settlers from
the southern part OF Minnesota arrived
on Saturdays frelght bringing along
their effects and live stock in chr load
lots.
The tax list of 1901 will contain up.
wards five hundred descriptions of farm
lands, on which proof has been made by
Cavalier county residents during the
past twelve months.
Up at Hannah the citizens hold mass
meeting on Saturday afternoon. The far
mers tributary to the town as we'll as the
leading business men are pushing tie en-
terprise for all it is worth.
YFriday evening the Langdon Board of
Ttade, of which Mayor McPhall is presl-
dent, J. B. Boyd vice president. and E.
A. Farrell, secretary and treasurer, met
to adept constitution and bye-laws.
After June 30th it will not be necessary
to put stamps on kilograms, checks,
money orders, express receipts, leases,
promissory notes, mortgages, insurance
policies and real estate conveyances
where the confederation is under $4,000.
Next year the annual township meet
ings will be held on the third Tuesday in
March and the first meetings of the new
boards of township supervisors on the
Tuesday following. The legislature
amends the present law to that effect,
but as no emergency clause was added to
the new law tho possibility Of mix-up
was avoided this year.
At the present time Storiie post Office
is the nearest point at which mail is
received by parties located in the
Immediate vicinity Of what is generally
conceded to be the terminal townsite of
the Lakota extension Of the Ct Northern
road, to be built during the summer.
There is also quite talk out that way
to the effect that it would be the proper
thing to give the new town the name of
Storlie.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-03-21

Have you seen Kelly's new line of
spring ties.
"Harnsh's Pride" makes sweet whole
some bread.
I'D. Parsons went south % far as tho
Forks on business Tuesday.
c.. Kelly and wife were visitors with
Grand Forks friends over Sunday.
NJ. f. Williams was here Friday
from Fargo talking business and politics.
Mrs. H. j. Mathisen is down from
Dresden visiting the Flumerfelt family
for q few days.
NC. Mcdonald goes to Fargo next
week to attend state meeting OF county
superintendents OF schools.
Cecil Mahon and other Langdon stu
dents at the state ''U'' are expected h me
tomorrow for ten days Easter vacation.
Osnabrock was represented at the
county seat Monday by Druggist Draper,
Merchant Trotter, Landlord Sims, and
the notorious G. A. Smith.
William Wait, who wrote at the
teachers examination on the 9Th inst,
opens seven month term Of school in
the Wakeford district this spring.
The opening chapters Of new serial
story, entitled, I'm the Web of Spider"
will be found on the inside pages of this
issue. It is written by Lillian GlIlln,
one of the most widely known writer's Of
the day.
Tomorrow night the band benefit
production of "a Noble Out cast" is bill
ed to appear before Milton audience.
Though the piece IS home production
we feel constrained to say that it dis
counts any play put on here by travel
ing troop in many moons.
Assistant Manager Gushing Of the
state commission to the Pan-American
exposition announces that the commits
sion will soon offer prize for the most
appropriate button or emblem that shall
be thoroughly and distinctively North
Dakotan, and must be invented by resi-
dent of the state.
Mail Clerk L. H. Patton, we'll known
in Langdon as we'll as at all other
points along the line, having sorted
letters in tho q. S., mail car Of this
branch line several years, is in line for
promotion to the position of the post
Office inspector, with it is said excellent
chances of landing tho job.
The $4,000 damae suit pending at
present between Langdon parties most
takes away the breath of the Cycle man
at Osnabrock, who says all that amount
would repair big damages. Possibly.
but here friend Dagget 1t is different
neither of 'em have had to exc out liv-
ing in a country print shop, where $4,000
locks like-something we never saw.
| The band boys cleared nearly $35
7aollars at their performance of "a Noble
Outeast," given at Hannah last Friday
night. Their reception up the line was
extremely cordial. Upwards forty
tickets were sold by Agent Shaw for
Hannah that day and the Langdon
Melodramatlc Co., with their home
admirer formed quite snowy parade
as they marched up the main street of
Hannah headed by the K. p. band.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-03-21

Walter D. McWater, representing the
Mcclellan Paper Co., OF Minneapolis,
was in town interviewing the trade
Thursday.
IL Harlan brought in car load OF
farm work horses on Saturdays freight
that had been selected for local buyers
by himself and j. McPhail.
WANTED-At ou:s, a young man 10
represent Veterinary Science Association.
Honest business. good wages. Add~ss
A. j. Nicklps, Manager, Pembina, N. Oak.
N. D. O'Shaughnessy, will make his
residence on the 8. E. Deros,er farm,
having rented same for three years. He
also bought the formers horses and
machinery.
Jas. Door was here from Fargo q day
or two last week in the interest of the
Aetna Life Insurance company, Of which
he has had the state agency for upwards
of fifteen years.
We buy our flour at Mckinley prices
and sell our bread at Bryan prices-c5
loavcs for s1.00. ]. Little. proprietor
Of tho City Bakery. opposite the Court
House, Langdon.
Alma township headed the list with
100 r,too Of Loot 'Tuoc1ay,c o1ootior
There was hot fight for the assessor
ship in which Joseph Paulson had good
clear majority over Ole G. Romfo.
DIR. C. S. CRANE. SPECIALIST.
EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT.
GRAND FORKS, n. OAK.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-03-21
Use "Heuuah's Pride" -four.

All the new up.to-date collars are to be
had at Kelly's.
DR.. Smith is now reported recovering
nicely from his attack of pneumonia.
I. Dawson has succeeded to the farm
machinery business of Lehnen Broe., of
Dresden.
Miss Ida Agar returned Saturday from
a visit with the family of Editor johnson,
of the Devils Lake News.
Jas. De Berg and wife visited the
Re,l!v's and other relatives and friends at
Milton few days this week.
Confectloner Woods WAS down from
tie west tho end of the week taking
orders for bis Woodbridge c"ndy factory.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-03-21
GOSSIP AID NOTES.
THIS IS SPRING,

THIS IS SPRING.
II there comes little thsw,
sStill the air is chill and raw,
Here and there patch Of snow,
Dirtier than the ground below,
Dribbles down marshy food;
Ankle.deep you stick in mud
In the meadows while you sing,
"This is Spring."
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-03-21

MONEY To loan on Real Estate at
"OWIs reasonable rates and Final
Proofs made Call at Bank of Dresden.
New-York tribune., 1901-08-11
NEW YORK PEDLERS.
THEY STAND IN THE FRONT RANK OF
HARD WORKED WORKERS AND
DESERVE BETTER TREAT
MENT THAN THEY GET

The road to success is not, in this city, spread
with roses for any beginner but of all the hard
worked workers the pedler stands nearly, if
not quite, at the head. From five o'clock in the
morning until nearly midnight may be his
hours his income, a few dollars week; the
difficulties under which he must chase the elu-
sive coin, enormous. Just now his woes are
rather prominently before the public and friends
have come forward to assist him in securing
the right to make living in more comfortable
fashion; but the lot of the great majority of
pedlers will always be hard enough. There are
a good many different grades of pedlers, of
course. Some make fair living without harder
work than falls to most poor men, but these
in extremely small minority. They are the
house to house pedlers who have regular
route, and keep from year to year the customers
they have secured The pushcart men, and the
feeble old souls who carry a basket of miscel-
laneous a class quite removed from
the prosperous gentlemen who sell jewelry and
other expensive luXuries on the instalment plan
and make SO $50 week.
Not all pedlers "greenhorns," but most
'greenhOrns'' peders. Sometimes the oc-
cupaton is only temporary. lands in
this country with just enough money to keep
him from being deported. He must work, and
make money Immediately. He lacks the skill
New-York tribune., 1901-08-11

to go into a shop, and the idea of bending over
a machine all day may not unnaturally terrify
his peasant soul, accustomed as he very likely
is to a life in some small village. His friends
perhaps lend him little money, if he exhausts
his own slender stock at first, and with s. or
so he starts a pretty fair peddiing business. He
has heard of America as place where money
is to be had almost for the asking, and at the
start he hopes to bring over the rest of the
family in year or two. Every cent that he can
save is sent over to the wife and children. The
postoffice in Grand-st for instance, often shows
a waiting line of these men. struggling with the
lntrlcacleS of the system of registering letters
Many of them cannot write in English script
and any good natured and sophisticated looking
person is apt to be called ON TO make good the
deficiency. The difficulty of spelling with anv-
thing approaching correctness the home towns
of the peddling gentry may be imagined and
the money goes off, not infrequently leaving be-
hlnd 1T an uneasy apprehension of it's probab BILE
miscarriage. But it usually reaches the un-
pronOunceabie little towns all right and in the
course of time the family is reunited, and the
father, very likely. Is ready TO stop peddling.
The children come over piecemeal, very often.
One peder's son, aged twelve years and far
from robust came from Poland alone. Not only
did he make the journey alone but he missed
the steamer from Hamburg and spent two weeks
as best he could. penness. in the strange CITY
When the working group in this country has
been recruited by the ablest bodied members
of the family the wife and smaller children come
too. Most of these pedlers are not citizens of
course. but they took lively interest in the
free silver question and prayed ferventIy for the
defeat OF any one who might make it necessary
New-York tribune., 1901-08-11

never seen in their recently deserted land OF
sunshine and flowers.
Then the crews appear for inspection They
are japanese coolies, who seem to be almost
without minds of their own, but they work we'll
under the direction of others. Greasy oilers In
blue jumpers and coal busted fremen almost
without clothing. scurry like rats out OF the
stokehoes and engine room matches. Then
come stewards and cabin walters, in neat white
uniforms and under cooks, who come out of
the gallies chewing bits of dried fish or hunks
of bread At the very end of the line are three
Chinese chief cooks. for Japan turns to China
for culinary art as we do to France There IS
a host of sailors in blue Jerseys and little round
caps The doctor has no trouble with them. for
they are always clean and generally in good
health.
While in port the japanese sailors have very
little to do They take long tramps about the
streets of Seattle and sometimes go into the
country. A great deal of liberty can be allowed
them as they very seldom desert One never
sees a japanese sailor away from his ship alone.
They always go at least in pairs, and sometimes
half dozen of them will string out by taking
hold Of each others hands. Whether they do
this for fear of getting lost or because OF their
friendly feeling for one another is not exactly
certain.
The sailors eat japanese food which is PIE
pared for them in their own galleys. Rice and
fish the staples which they enjoy three times
a day. Tie little Oriental sailor men are very
particular about celebrating feast and cere-
monial days. If such day comes when they
are in port the ship is decorated with flags
bunting and lanterns and heavily laden tables
are spread on the decks Many of Seattle's
japanese colony invited to partake OF the
crews hospitality. The steamship company
usually pays most of the expense, for Japanese
sailors are but little better at saving money
than those of other nationalities.
The Kaga Maru is about to sail from Seattle
to Japan with one of the largest carSoes ever
taken from Pacific Coast port. She has peen
at the Great Northern Railway docks on Puget
Sound for two weeks, unloading her cargo of
Eastern freight and taking between eight
thousand and ten thousand tons OF cotton,
flour, structural steel, lumber and general Iaer-
chandise
New-York tribune., 1901-08-11
SELF-DRJ GGING.
From The London Lancet.

From The London Lancet.
The perniciOuS habit of self -drugSins has
grown to be source of untold mischief. It is
greatly assisted by the enormous improvements
which have been brought about in recent years
IN pr armaceutical preparations. Thirty forty
years ago medicines We're bulky and had To be
taken in large doses of generally nauSaatinS
HaVor But medicines can be taken in
small doses and with minimum of trouble. The
columns of the daily press given UP 10
haming advertisements, setting forth in more
or less scientific language the various feelings
OF fnstlalSe enSendered by hepatic inSUthCleucy
ana constipation, and the sufferer Is assured
that II he Will take SOME or other preparation
that tired feeling" or any other of the thoU-
SAND and one symptoms attributable 60 dyS-
pepsla or hthemia will vanish like a dream
when one awaketh. The advertisements 70
which we take exception not Quack medi-
clnes. They undoubtedly are useful in the con-
dition described under certain Circums tanGeS
But the dangerous thing about them IS that
they induce the public to drug themselves and,
very possibly, 10 omit to seek treatment for what
may not be simply constipation. gout or dyS-
PepSla, but possibly the outcome of mahSndnI
dlsease- This is why think that such adVer.
tsements are in no way right. They are, TX
not Intentionally deceptive. at all events prael-
cally
New-York tribune., 1901-08-11
BABY DEER IN CENTRAL PARK.
NINE ARRIVE WITHIN TWO WEEKS-HOW
THE MOTHERS CARE FOR THEM.


There are nine happy mothers at the deer run
In Central Park. each having added sleek
skinned baby deer to the herd in captivity
That there are only four proud fathers to claim
these youngsters is due to the fact that the
bucks not bound by the law which PROVIDES
for one wife and only one.
The baby deer began to. arrive two weeks
ago. and the stork which looks after such things
for the deer tribe has been busy ever since
The births include three Wapiti elk, two Axis
deer two fallow deer and two of the red species
that would have been born in Asia had not their
mothers been captured and shipped to New
York to amuse and instruct the masses.
Human mothers and children go into raptures
over the baby Axis deer, which are in the middle
pen Their brown coats are beautifully spotted
in white from the day of their birth. They are
more shapely than the other newcomers at
Central Park, and quite pretty their
mothers. The fallow deer yellow, but al
ready their coats are beginning to fade, and Will
be white. The young elk have legs
about two feet long, and a short stubby body,
which seems entirely out of proportion. The
ears are the most prominent thing about all
these babies, and it will be a long time before
their bodies grow up to them.
Keeper Shannon, as kindly and good ma tured
a godfather any deer could wish for, is proud
of his nursery, although he has hardly been able
to get word with the arrivals account
of the jealousy and suspicion of the mothers.
He is kept busy answering questions put to him
~ visitors.
DO the mothers hurt their babes?'
asked one interested woman yesterday
They kind to them as a white woman
ever is to her baby replied the keeper. They
take the best of care of them, and would be too
msulted for words if we offered to feed them
from bottle. The other deer in the pen know
enough to keep their distance until the young
sters able to care for themselves"
The baby deer which arrived first are already
beginning to eat grass. and in another week will
have advanced to the chopped oats stage. None
of the deer born in the park in the last two
summers had any trouble establishing its right
to live, and those born this year are thriving.
New-York tribune., 1901-08-11
WIDELY SCATTERED TRIPLETS.
From London Tit-Bits.

From London Tit Bits
An old soldier who had served his twenty one
years was discharged at Portsmouth. He went
To the station with his wife and children and de-
manded three half fare tickets for his three
youngest.
How old they?" asked the booking clerk
suspiciously.
''EliVin years, all av them. They re thriplets {"
was the answer.
Fine youngsters said the clerk, where were
they born?'
'Pathrick was born in Cairo, Bridget was born
i'm Bombay an Mickey born in Madras"
was the proud reply.
The colored American., 1901-06-15

no began to plan the realization OF that
ambition. knowing that money was
the Drime necessity. and filled with the
usuaI spirit of adventure and indie
nendence of youth. he left home for
Now York. where he worked to secure
the necessary means. Returning South
he entered Atlanta University, but
about this time his father went into
husiness and needed help, which young
Wetmore was prepared to give. lie
therefore entered his fathers business
as bookkeeper and advertising agent.
Rut the Young mans calling was not
i'm keeping books as much is IN using
| them for higher purposes, ana tnere-
| fore in 1889 he began teaching school.
| Dissatisfied with that he determined 10
| more thoroughly prepare hlmSelI
| to meet the requirements OF prOfeS-
| SiOnal life.
To do so he needed Il higher educa-
tion and more money. He therefore be
| GAN to work for the latter, 10 secure
the former. He returned to Jackson
vile. where he became reporter OF
the staff of the daily American q
i. cOIored tournaD. but that enterprise
was quite shOrtlived and his prospects
i. in Journalism were blasted. But as
means to an end he turned his atten
tiOn to politics, and in 1890 becam
! president of the Young Mems Republi