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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-03-19

When a man begins to pity himself
we may conclude that his case is
really pitiable.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-03-19

hat with a kimono is, says the Adj
vertiser, "the outward and visible sign
of certain intellectual inaptitude.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-03-19

1t is often harder to disprove false
hood than to establish truth.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-03-19
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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-03-19

Stops the Cough and
Works or the Cold
Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price25c.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-03-19

Sometimes it is hard to distinguish
between envy and emulation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13
Logging the Burned Districts.

The necessity for marketing the
timber burned by last Summers great
fire will make the woods resound with
activity this year. The cedar, after
the vitality is destroyed, is very soon
attacked by worms and the fir by rot.
Plans are now being perfected by the
Weyerhauser company and other own
ers of extensive acreage on Lewis
river, to begin at once preparations
for extensive operations when settled
weather justifes the utmost activity.
A railroad spur, seven miles long, is to
be constructed, connecting the timber
district with the railroad running to
Vancouver, the point where the logs
will be doomed for distribution to the
mills.
Mr.. Raberge, the well-known timber
cruiser, who has lately made a thor
ough examination of the district, re-
ports that there are about 500, OO0, 0OO
feet Of logs standing on Lewis river.
all OF which is excellent merchantable
timber. if marketed at once. On the
Washougal river, which can be reached
by few more miles of railroad, there
are from 100000, 600 to 900, GOO, 900 feet
more. He reports the timber injured
very little by the fire, the thick bark
of the fir protecting the wood so
thoroughly that the log is practically
sound as ever. The cedar is in like
condition, being slow to burn from
absence of resinous properties. The
large holders are planning to estab.
fish a mill in the neighborhood Of
Vancouver to facilitate the disposal Of
their large product. 1t is not thought
that this excess of timber will ma.
terially affect the market value OF logs
as the demand has increased so ma.
terially the past two years that it will
justify the enforced conditions.
Mr.. Raberge states that many OF the
farmers on the edge of the timber
tract have turned loggers in q small
way, it being the only recourse after
having lost their farms and appliances
by the fearful disaster.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13
The Oil Trust Gives Orders.

President Roosevelt's determination
to call an extra session OF Congress for
especial consideration of the trust
question, will cause that issue to be
presented much more closely cut than
it could possibly be brought before a
regular session, and no matter how
powerfully money bags weigh in de-
Gliding questions of that kind under
ordinary circumstances, it will be seen
that Congressman have wholesome
fear OF public opinion when it is once
aroused by some powerful incentive.
The bare threat of man OF Roosevelt's
nerve, has in it a stimulus which
arouses the gravest apprehensions OF
the power affected 10y it.
1t is said that Rockefeller tele-
graphed, last Saturday, to six promi-
nent Senators as follows ave are
opposed to antitrust legislation. Our
counsel, Mr.. - will see you. 1t
must be stopped" Whether the orders
were to use effort for inducing the
President to forbear his announced de.
termination for calling Especial ses-
sion, or to direct their whole power for
influencing or modifying action when
the Lawmakers had convened, is not
known, but certain it is that when the
legal gentleman arrived in Washington
he found the political temperature
down below zero. 1t is said, in the
dispatches, that he was politely in
formed that no information was need
ed and his presence not desired. The
bold hand played by the oil king was
too much for even those used to the
crack Of the bosses whip. On one
other previous occasion the temerity of
the oil company had defeated the OBJ
ject sought-to eliminate the public
ity provision-and the bill agreed
upon retained that clause, which
might have been withdrawn had it not
been shown to be so desirable to the
trusts.
This last effort for trust domination
has, it 10 thought, done more to weaken
the Sinbad it bestrides, the Republican
party, by the publicity given its coer-
Give methods than any other clumsy
alternative it has ever adopted, and
the effect will be that Congressman
will have to unload some of the heavy
weight the party carries.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

EMULATED TRACEY. - Ed. White
escaped from the Oregon penitentiary
about q month ago and sought to
make q Tracey record by enforcing
contributions from farmhouses OF food.
He had been q trusty and escaped in
warden's clothing and we'll armed. A
Sheriff's posse pursued him to Lin.
coin county, where on the 4th inst,
after considerable gun play, he was
killed by shot fred by the posse.
White had been sent up in 1889 foI
robbery and had but short time to
serve.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

A HOUsE.MAID has been discovered
in New York who has been in con-
tinuous service in one family eighty
years. She entered upon the duties
OF maid at the age of fifteen, then be-
came house.keeper in the same fam.
lily, and now at the age of 81, is still
well, active and strong, sews without
glasses and enjoys o good walk. She
is direct descendant of Gov. Went
worth, of New Hampshire, and it is
probably owing to her sturdy ancestry
that she is enabled to make an extra.
ordinary record of steadfast industry
as we'll as longevity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

A SPECIAL correspondent OF the
Chicago Tribune, who has just passed
over the famine area in Sweden states
that there are q hundred thousand
people on the verge OF starvation. Oh
that q Carnegie or a Rockefeller had
the heart and brain to send the cost oil
library or two to these suffering PEG.
ple!
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT obeys the
Monroe injunction to avoid all zen.
tangling alliances" in spirit and truth,
when he declines . second time the
allies request to officiate as arbitrato.
of the Venezuelan difficulties. That
man is the most mystifying medley
OF good and bad characteristics ever
called to such prominent place in
public life.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

A MOST singular end OF q chen.
pecked" husband, at Monticello, New
York, must be true, for it comes as IN
Associated Press dispatch, with an ele.
waited date-line. The account details
an act of this modern Xantippe which
discounts the revolving cruelties OF the
vile OF Socrates. This woman killed
her husband, cut his flesh into small
pieces and fed them to the chickensl
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

1T looks very much a. if Harvey
Scott, of the OreQonian, may be the
dark horse in the Oregon Senatorial
contest. If the Webfoot State wants
a statesman in the House OF Lords, !"
instead of penny politician, it will
avail itself of the opportunity to elect
him.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

The WISE MAN BUILT UPON A
RocK.-It is said that James. ]. Hill
the great railroad man, has q mighty
fear of cyclones, having witnessed on
several occasions evidences of their
terrible power. His handsome reei.
dence, overlooking the Mississippi
river at st. Paul. has been built upon
a foundation of steel firmly anchored
to the great beds OF cement upon
which his palatial home is located.
The building itself is made as firm as
the best of materials can render it
wind.proof, and it stands ready for q
conflict with the most powerful
I" twister."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

The force OF the benefaction of Prov.
idsnce implied in the claim that he
sends His rains upon the just and the
unjust, is somewhat impaired in a
country where it not infrequently rains
q couple of inches in twenty.four
hours.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

The steamer Madiana, which sailed
Saturday with q load OF excursionists
for special trip among the Bermuda
islands, a long and low archipelago in
the north Atlantic ocean, was wrecked
In q storm. The 100 excursionists
were rescued after considerable delay
and difficulty.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

HoUsE.MOvING OUT OF THE Con-.
AoN.-N. ]. Beckner has moved the
Dawson House, formerly eight miles
from Mabton, Yakima county, into
that city, . distance of eight miles.
The house contained seven rooms and
its estimated weight is 10000 pounds.
The building was raised on to four
wagons with jack.screws, and hauled
by fifty horses, the entire distance, in
one and q half hours.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

NAVAL Constructor Hobson has re-.
signed, in q huff over the refusal of
the Department to place him on the
retired list, to draw . salary without
service. 1t is a matter of public con.
graduation that he has disappeared
from the position held in tho public's
eye quite as much from . senseless
sassiety fad as sinking the Merrimac
in Santiago harbor.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

A STRENUOUS effort is to be made to
free Seattle from corrupted public
service. Business men have banded
together to aid the Public Prosecutor
ia his work OF publication.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

DEMOCRATS REDEEM STATE FROM
DRBT.-The Rich Hill (Mo.) Review
notes the redemption Of the promise
OF the Democratic party to liquidate
the bonded indebtedness of the State,
BY . celebration to be held tomorrow,
February 14th), at which the last
State bond will be consigned to tho
flames. The ceremonies will, of course,
b under Democratic management, a.
that party, by its wise and economic
policy, has brought about that desir.
able result; although everybody is de.
lighted that the unexpected has hap
pened, and political party has con.
scientiously redeemed its prediction
promise.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

Probably no business in the country
is better able to pay liberal tax for ex-
istence than express companies. Their
rates are generally exorbitant and
their rules imperative and often op.
pressive and unjust. Their rates paid
the railroads for transportation of
their package-matter is less than q
1.-THE of the rate demanded and paid
for carrying the u. S. mails, and all
other expenses are low in comparison
with the volume of business they do.
As an illustration the Oiympian notes
as fact that the express companies of
Thurston county pay taxes amounting
to $3.50 per annum, and in the pop.
ulous county of Pierce. with the big
city OF Tacoma as a patron, the gross
sum paid in taxes is $40.
This manifest injustice to other, and
resident, business men. is in fair way
to be overcome by bill introduced by
Representative Hopp. of this county,
for the institution Of payment of tax
based upon the gross earnings, which
was tried with some success in railroad
assessments in Territorial days. The
bill provides for penalties to enforce
its operation, and seems to be a we'll.
considered act for an seven up" of
costs of government.
It may be that the express lobby
will be as successful in running q State
Legislature - the general government.
We will see. and if its influence be-
comes apparent, this will be potent
aid to the despicable work OF the DOM
inant party in ensuring its defeat At the
next general election.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

The German bark Alsternixie, from
San Francisco, in ballast. went ashore
on Peacock Spit, off the Columbia bar,
Monday night, near the same spot
where the Great Republic was wrecked
quarter OF q century ago. II may be
possible to save the bark. The crew
were safely landed.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

Gov. Mcbride is q stalwart fighter,
whatever may be said. While he &C.
knowledges defeat in his conscientious
endeavor to subserve the interests oil
the people, he rises valiantly to the
occasion with the declaration, "The
fight is only begun" and has strapped
ON his armor for renewed endeayor.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

DEsT1TUTIoN IN LoNDoN.-It is said
that fifty thousand unemployed people
in London are about to make . public
appeal for labor to save their families
from starvation. They claim that
there are 10000 men unemployed in
the United Kingdom, who are neither
tramps nor loafers. Thousands Of
them are begging, an act they never
did before. The London people are
deeply stirred over the situation, and
have called . meeting for an early
date to unite all administrative bodies
in IN effort for relief. A general move
ment of this character has never before
been organized in the whole course OF
the British history.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

A MERCHANT on Broadway, New
York, has sued the owners of the new
" flat-iron" sky.scraper building stand
ing at the intersection of Twenty
third and Broadway, for 5000 dam.
ages to his store plate-glass window
from the effects Of high.winds d.
verified from their natural course BY
the high walls of the new building
and impinging with great force on
the plaintiffs premises. This is q
novel suit and its decision will bt
awaited with much interest, as it will
determine q right never before dis
puted . property holder.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

The latest novelty at the county
fair entertainments is man who
plays tune with an ordinary driving
whip. In abiding to one of these
performers. an Eastern paper says
that while an orchestra of whip-play.
ers might not be able to handle the
score of grand opera, one of them
did perform the Marsailles in . man.
ner to draw tears to the eyes OF a
Frenchman. We infer that it is the
time, rather than the melody that is
given, the imagination of the listener
performing an important part in
supplying the connecting link between
1ythm and harmony.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13
Dowie to Bssiege Gotham.

1t is said that Dowie contemplates
moving this month from the City of
Zion, near Chicago, upon that Babel
of Iniquity, New York. He announces
that he will be accompanied by 5000
followers; that he will hold 1900
meetings in the largest public build
ings and in open thoroughfares, that
his agents have made arrangements
with Mayor Lowe for police protection,
and at the larger hotels for entertain
ment. The agents of Carnegie Hall
and Madison Square Garden refuse to
confirm his claim that he has secured
both resorts for prolonged campaign.
So many denials compel the belief that
Eliza II. is guilty of that base habit,
lying.
Dowie announced, at q late Sunday
meeting to 1000 OF his disciples in
Chicago, that the officials of q big
Eastern railway company had offered
to give him . tract of land within
sixty miles OF New York if he would
establish q city there. He declared
that while there is no chance for the
removal of Zion City to the East, it 10
possible that the interests OF the Chris.
tian Catholic church may be divided
and portion OF them taken East,
while the parent church will remain
At Zion City. This will all depend on
the success OF the crusade in New York,
he said.
Dowie proposes to use the latest dis
coveries in Science to aid his cause,
and to accommodate the multitudes
which he expects will sit beneath the
drippings of the sanctuary in the East.
he proposes to duplicate his voice over
large audiences by use Of the improved
forms of photograph.
Incidentally, during the announce.
ment of his New York plans, Dowie
gave out plans for the new Shiloh tab.
ernacle. to be erected at Zion City
The tabernacle is to cost SOC, 900 and
will have q seating capacity OF $1,000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13
More Pensions.

Senator Mark Hanna, on the 4th
inst, introduced a bill in Congress
granting bounties and pensions to ex-
slaves, doubles. as an offset to Teddy's
ambition to round up the darkey vote
by state dinners and abolishing post
Offices where the people object to negro
postmistres.es. The bill provides that
persons over so and under GO years
of age male or female, shall receive
500 bounty and IS per month for
life; persons between sixty and seventy
years old, bounty of $500 and a pen
sion OF $l2 per month, and persons
over seventy years old, a bounty of
500 and pension OF SIS per month.
The bill also provides for the payment
OF the bounty and pension to relatives
who may be charged with the care Of
ex-slaves. A codicil" will probably
hereafter be appended to perpetuate
the pension to descendants.
1t has been affirmed by far-seeing
people that the dread OF war is not so
much matter OF loss of life in battle
and the costs of engagements, but the
inevitable pension roll, which increases
for more than a generation and the
living death enforced by the hard times
upon a people staggering under the
weight of debt, public and private, re-.
sulting from such profligate expenses.
Nor is this all; it builds up q class of
dependents who can be depended upon
for all sorts of party work at the pri-
maries and polls by the party it leads
by the nose.
Nobody objects to pensions based on
bodily ills sustained in warfare, the
only object for which they were orig
inally instituted, but when it comes to
pensioning negroes and the mail clerks
and carriers whose steady salaries are
in excess OF what they could earn in
private service, it is time to call a halt,
although it may be the means of d.
recting spleen towards those who are
simply criticising through a sense Of
patriotic duty.
The object of the great Republican
boss. in this late proposition, is so plain
that he who runs may read; still the
rank and file of pap-suckers and ex-
pectants of party favor will doubtless
shout =" Amen" as they did when the
gold-cure was showed down their
throats.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

COLD DOES Nor ExTINGUIsH RE.
LIaIoUs FIRE.-It is probably quite as
much surprise At the favor Of religious
zeal as realization of the intensity oil
the cold weather that attended q re.
cent baptism in the Delaware river. A
hole had to be cut through q foot OF
ice, to find the water for immersion OF
q negro woman said to be 100 years
old. Two preachers were required for
the occasion, and when the three
came from the water they had to
move rapidly towards a fire to keep
from freezing tightly to the ground.
They were living icicles when they
arrived at thawing place. The
temperature was several degrees below
zero. Pennsylvania is responsible for
another of these experiences. Five
eolored people were baptized in q hole
cut through the ice at Bloomsbury.
There was no relay of pastors. One
man did it all, and they had to use
an Ak to "thaw" him out of his icy
covering after the ceremony was over.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

EXTREMES MET IN THE CLASSROOM
OF HIGHER EDUCATIoN.-It has been
ordered lately in staid old Yale that
education of the feet as we'll as the
head shall hereafter be q part of the
college curriculum. Dancing is to be
taught as q part of the regular class
room drill for members of the fresh
man class. Two evenings a week will
be devoted to it. DR.. Anderson, the
director OF the calisthenics, says, "in.
struction starts with the Irish jigs
which enables the students to acquire
balance on the feet and the shifting
OF weight. After that pupils pass
on to the Irish tilt. The tilt is q
leaping dance and 10 used for its prac.
tice in springing. These two dances
are all which will be given this year.
We plan to put on in another school.
year the clog and the soft shoe dances,
the buck and wing varieties. OF
course, these lead logically to the
acrobatic dance. with the head.springs,
the handspring and the shoulder
rolls, but we have made NO specific
plans for trying them here yet" This
is the first time that dancing has be-
come part of the Yale training.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13

WILL HAVE HIS WAY.-Our Wash.
ington correspondent, writing under
date Of the 9th inst, says that the
Presidents persistent refusal to reopen
the postofice at Indianola, Miss, il
making much trouble for the post.
Office authorities. The white people
OF the town have made an arrange.
ment with . white carrier who brings
them their mail but the negroes have
no such arrangement and as q couse-
queuce their letters and numerous 70.
mittances are accommodating in the
postoffice At Greensbnrg where Indian.
ola mail now goes to the prejudice of
the service and the inconvenience of
the postmaster at that place. The
accumulation 10 also making trouble
for the money-order service 40 many
employers have sent money.orders to
their negro employees for small amounts
and they are not being cashed - the
negroes do not know that they are
there. The authorities have adver.
tised the fact but the negroes do not
read the papers 90 they cannot be
reached in that way.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-02-13
Terrible Loss Of Life.

The steamer Mariposa which arrived
at San Francisco, Sunday, from Ia
hiti, brought the news of fearful loss
OF life in the South Sea islands from
q tidal wave, last month.
This loss is estimated at 1000 lives.
The wave swept over the doomed PEG.
pie accompanied by terrific hurri.
cane, on the 18th of January. The
Society and Tuamotu groups were at.
tackled with fearful force. The storm
continued for several days, reaching
its maximum strength between the
14th and 10th. The inhabitants OF the
isles were principally pearl fishers. On
one island, 100 or more we're washed
out to sea, several islands were depop
ulated and about eighty islands were
visited by the gigantic wave. The sur.
vivors have been left destitute of food
and clothing, all their supplies having
been swept away by the remorseles:
waves. The French government
whose province it is, on receipt of the
news sent two warships with supplies
The altitude of the islands above
the sea is about 20 feet. When the
water submerged the land, the natives
climbed the cocoanut trees which
cover the islands and attain a great
height. When the lower branches
were reached by the rising water, the
hapless victims climbed higher, until
at last, in many instances, the trees
were uprooted and swept out to sea
Some of the survivors swan three OF
four miles, from the tops OF the trees
to the ship Excelsior, which afforded
the means of escape to about 400 ma
tives. The ship was unable to ap'
proach the shore from the violence oil
the storm.
Over 200 tons OF mother -of-pearl
were washed away and thousands oil
tons of copra were lost. The former
is valued at 81 800 per ton.
It seems that old Mother Earth il
passing under an evil star. With 1OO,.
600 people suffering from famine in
Sweden, the appalling destitulion
among the pcasantry of Russia, fifty
thousand men demanding work fol
maintenance of families in London and
the war-cloud hanging over the great
nations OF the world, this appalling
disaster by ocean flood seems to cap
the climax of horrors that is now &c
widespread and tragic in its details.