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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-11-23
o Sale.
Houses, Lots and Farms.

Wy former Residence on Nsla Street
of lanedon.
Rooms. Good Cellar. ) Closets
and Pantry, Wood house. Coal
house, barn accommodating Ii head
OF stock. Two wells. cistern. Shade
trees. Large detached Lot.
Also the Gott residence in Pad Ward
tanedon.
Contains 8 Rooms. 1 closets. Gel
lar and Well, Large Lot.
Wy 633 Acre farm adjoining City of
Langdon
About 40 acres under cultivation
abundance of good water.
Also NJ quarter 3O.l6O.62. About
i2O Acres
under cultivation. / miles from
Weaver, p. 0. IL miles from Al
sen. A choice farm.
Also Ne quarter 22-l63-64. About
IS Acres
under cultivation. about 3 miles
from Sarles.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-11-23
REPORT OF THE CONDITION or
A BANK

at Wales in the State of North Dakota, a, ,ha
close of business, November 9th, 1906. "
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts. ). IN. ~
Overdrafts secured aud unsecured. yGS ~,
Warrants, stocks, tax certificates, ="
" claims, etc $50. On
Banking house furniture and fixtures y AL -
Due from other banks....... 81 .Gj7 TX ."
Checks and other cash items 1925 co
cash. ...... ...... 6.l!3 y IN ~ "a
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in. sio uo IVA
Undivided profits, less expenses and ~" u"
taxes 2Da q,
Individual deposits, subject 80 -
Time Certificates Of deposit. s s,2l; % %
Cashiers Checks outstanding ~. % II 40, o.,
lotal ,"....... $2I, GIG .i
County Of Cavalier. SIS
/, Geo. H. Johnston, cashier of M, ol
named bank, do solcmnly swear tina, III. abpo '
statement is true to the bes, of nv I,nn alL'Ir
and belief. :" ""'R
q Il H.. JOHNSTON. C..hi..
,Subscribcd and sworn to before me III" Di:,
day OF November, 1905 b''T"' r'''
p lSEaL Cha RI.Es RIGHA RpS0E NOTARY p,hl;.
my Commission Expiros September In inmrHe
Attest: '"'''i)
JoHN SuEEHAH, 49,.
w. j. MOONEY, Directors.
e.. u. JOHNSTON,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-11-23
2 EPORT OF THE CONDITION OF TIL
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.

40. 1862.
at LangdOn. III the State of North Dakota at
the close Of business August 18th. 1905.
RESOURCES
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
ODD LITTLE MYSTERIES.
Queer Happenings Which Seem 20 Be
Without Explanations.

WltnouN EAplAHAVoUss
Life is full of little inexplicable
mysteries, says Parsons Weekly
They occur every day and are passed
by as being merely ordinary. When
ever the conversation turns on telep-
athy or the occult sciences there is
always some one with a story of the
mysterious to tell.
About ten years ago on q large
open tract Of land in the north of
London NOW fortunately covered
with red brick villas) a number Of
boys were playing cricket. Sudden
ly there came loud humming noise,
like the combined droning Of thou
sands of bees, and a great stone
larger than a mans fist whizzed
across the center Of the pitch and
imbedded itself in a bank. Almost
Immediately 1t was followed by an
other and then a third.
Although they waited in hiding
for some time, there was no repeti-
ton of the mysterious missiles. The
question then arose, Where could
they have come fromY The nearest
house was quite 400 yards away, and
a machine to have sent these large
stones whirling at such frightful
pace over this distance would be
rather an extraordinary article Of
furniture for a suburban villa. So
the cause of this remarkable occur
renee yet requires explanation.
In tho Hamo district a few years
back four young men were seated in
room playing whist. Suddenly,
just after midnight, the door, which
had been latched, opened slowly un-
til it had reached its fullest limit.
In surprise the players looked up,
but no one was standing in the door
way. Then, ere one Of them could
move, the door slowly closed itself
again. Immediately one of the
young men jumped up, pulled the
door open and stared up and down
the hall, but there was absolute 81
lence and no one about.
Some years ago gentleman was
seated at a table busily writing. At
the moment he was alone in the
house. Suddenly he heard the pat
ter of feet outside the door and then
the sound of dog barking. Going
outside the room, he saw to his sur
prise that his dog had found its way
From the garden into the house and
for some reason was violently bark
ing.
crash The room behind him was
suddenly in darkness, and q smell
of escaping gas pervaded the air.
Directly he understood what had
happened and hurried to seal up the
broken pipe Of the chandelier. The
latter was lying In thousand pieces
on the floor.
But for the mysterious instinct
that caused the dog to enter the
house and attract this gentleman's
attention he would probably have
been killed by the falling chandelier,
for he had been sitting directly be-
meath 1t.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
PETITION ron DIVORCE
William Batchelder,
Atty. for Petitioner

STATE OF VERMONT, whereas
WINDSOR County, ss. Law MIA M.
Crane of Sharon, VT, has duly fled her
petition to the County Court, setting forth
her legal marriage to William B. F. Crane.
then OF Exeter in the State of New Hamp.
sshire that she hath resided for four wears
in the State of Vermont and in Windsor
County for more than six months last past:
that she hath kept the marriage covenant,
but that the said William hath Violated
the same, for that he hath wilfully desert
ed the petitioner for more than three years
last past, and for that, being of sufficient
pecunlary and physical ability, he hath
cruelty and wantonly neglected and refused
to provide suitable maintenance for the
petitioner; wherefore the petitioner prays
Tor Dill OF divorce from the said william
81 Il. Crane, and that she may have the
care and custody Of her minor child.
- And whereas it appears that said William
=. r. Crane is without this State, so that
the summons of said Court NAV not be
served upon him;
1T is THEREUPoN ORDERED that the said
William b. F. Crane be notified and re-
CURED to appear in and before said Court
ana make answer, if any he have.
and abide the order and Judgment of
SAID Court in the premises. at the
Term term thereof next to be held at
woodstock in and for the County of Wind
S T IN the State of Vermont, on the first
tuesday, OF December, A. D., 1905, upon the
mrs. nrst day of said term, by publishing the
substance of petition, together with this
ORDER, for three successive weeks, in the
1SPlrit OF the Age, a newspaper published at
woodstock. in said County, the last publ
cation to be at least six weeks prior to
said term of Court, which shall be deemed
sufficient notice to said William B. f.
Crane.
Given under my hand, at Woodstock, in
the County. of Windsor, this 27th day of
September, A. D., 1905.
JAY READ PEMBER, Clerk.
James &. Harvey.
Atty. for Petitioner.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
Sues for $4,000.

Columbus Huling of North Ben
nington, aged 80 years, brought suit
for $4,000 damages against his ne
phews and nieces for false imprison-
ment. The parties named in the suit
are G.. F. Huling, Mr.. and Mrs. G.
H. Mason of Bennington, Edward S.
Huling of Chicago, and Deputy Sher-
if Nash OF Bennington.
The suit COWS out of Rulings
marriage to Miss Bissel of North
Bennington, young lady nearly 60
years his junior. When the aged
sutton declared his intention to wed,
the nephew and nieceswho are named
in the suit, brought about proceed
ings to prevent the marriage, arrest
ed Huling and secured the appoint
ment of guardian over him. The de-
cree appointing the guardian was af-
forwards annulled and the couple
were married August Il of the pres
emit year. Huling is reputed to be
worth $150,0O0.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
Fully ExpIalnsd.

"You say, madam" said lawyer
to woman in the witness box, that
the defendant is sort OF relation
of yours. VIII you please explain
what you mean by that-just how
you are related to the defendantl"
"Well, it's just like this, His first
wife's cousin and my second hus-
bands first wife's aunt married
brothers named Jones, and they
were own cousins to my mothers
own aunt. Then, again, his grand
father on his mothers side and my
grandmother on my mothers side
were second cousins, and his step
mother married my husbands step
father after his father and my moth
er died, and his brother Joe and my
husbands brother Henry married
twin sisters. ! amt never fggered
out Just how close related we are,
but I've always looked on i'm as a
sort Of cousin"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
FREE TO FARMERS

In Bulletin No. 1I6 recently is.
sued by the Vermont Agricultural
Experiment Station, Formula No. /,
commends the following ingredients
for fall seeding, without manure.
The amounts named are for one
acre.
Raw Ground Bone 900 to 400 lbs.
Acid Phosphate 100 to i5o +"
Wood Ashes 800 to 400 F"
Muriate of Potash so to 10 Z"
To any Farmer writing to G. S.
Page, Hyde Park, VT, saying that
he saw this notice in the Spirit of
the Age, Mr.. Page will send free
sample of the above ingredients, ex-
cepting the ashes, and give the cost
thereof laid down at the Farmers
nearest station.
The Experiment Station Bulletin
well says :-"On every account,
financial, educational, agricultural,
it is better to buy the crude stock
and home mix, if one uses ton or
more"
Any farmer who will send Mr..
Page $3.25 will receive, freights
prepaid, sample 200 pound barrel
Of his Ground Bone. 1t is guaran-
teed to be an absolutely pure, nat
ural Bone Meal. No valuable in
gradients have been taken therefrom
as is the case with much of the Bone
Meal now being offered to the pub
lie.
Nearly all the large fertilizer man
ufacturers make bone glue by boil
ing their bones and extracting the
gluten therefrom. Mr.. Pages Bone
Meal is a by product from the man.
ufacture OF Pages Perfected Poultry
Food, and is the bone flour sifted
out from the graduated bone which
forms one OF the principal ingredi-
ents of this Poultry Food. 1t is this
fact that enables Mr.. Page to fur
nish a pure Bone Meal at so low
price. Save your ashes and mix
with this Bone Meal and you will
find it worth double the cost.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
MEDICINE IN PERSIA.
A Cure That Pleased the Doctor More
Than the Patient.

Than the Patient.
OF the progress of medical science
the Persian people know little. They
divide diseases into two classes, hot
and cold. A cold remedy is applied
% ''hot" disease and a hot remedy
10 "cold" one. In "With the Pill
grims to Mecca" the author tells his
experience with one Of their physi-
clans:
The evening before I left Mecca for
Jiddah / was suffering from rack
ing headache, and my friends advis-
ed me to consult certain Arab ply
sician.
In the east they never break the
ice of silence with remark on the
weather. The customary opening is
to inquire if you are in health. l
told the doctor in answer to his
question that l had a bad headache
and had come to him to be cured.
He asked me on which side the head
ached. l touched the spot, where
upon he fell to rubbing it vigorously
with the palm of his right hand,
calling out the while to the urchin
to fetch the necessary apparatus for
the forthcoming operation. The
boy disappeared. In few minutes
he came back, bearing in both hands
a round, hollow plate of clay in
which were a few Jumps of burning
charcoal.
The next thing he brought in were
a couple of iron rods about twice the
length Of an ordinary pencil, togeth-
er with a cup filled with black
liquid composed, if / mistake not, Of
starch and the SCOT of an oil lamp.
THO l0vtor- tltFusU the rous IN the
glowing charcoal. The fear of be-
ing branded bathed my brow in
sweat. The doctor assured me had
no cause to be afraid.
The tips of the rods by this time
were red hot. Having dipped them
in the cup of ink, he closed his eyes
and then raised his voice IN an IN
cantation that lasted several min
utes. Not a single word could l un-
derstand. When it was over he
opened his eyes and, saying the
word "Bismillah," proceeded to
draw with one of the rods, now cool,
on my right temple five perpendicu-
lar lines crossed by five horizontal
ones, thus forming sixteen tiny
squares. Several magic hieroglyph-
les besides were inscribed in the
same manner behind my ears and on
the nape Of my neck.
After every operation the good
doctor would pause to ask me, "Is
the pain gone now" Four times
did I tell the truth. Then, fearing
further tattooing, I assured the per-
severing little man that l thought
/ was better.
His Joy knew no bounds. He said
the secret was left to him as an in
heritance from his father and that
on no account must l wash off the
signs until the next day or the pain
would return.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
HARD WORKED FARMERS.
The Old Conditions, the New condl-
tlons and tho Net Return.


A number of patriarchs were di-
lating upo& the advantages and dis
advantages of the various ways and
means employed with view to earn
ing a living, and retired clergyman
said:
II was brought up on farm, but
] never envied the farmer. And the
longer I live the less / envy him. |
used to think he had tough time OF
1t when he was a plain, simple farm
er. He had to get out of bed with
the dawn and 60 to bed with the
hens, and what with planting and
sowing and harvesting and tending
the cattle he had precious little lei
sure for self improvement or any
thing else. But in those days he
wasn't disturbed by the agricultural
department at Washington and inn
proved methods. He was familiar
with top dressings and common fer
tilizers, and he put in his seed and
let it come up. Of late years, how
ever, he's had to develop into sci
entiho farmer and learn all about
cultures and nitrogen breathing ba-
cilli and drainage and ensilage. He's
expected to raise four crops where
he used to be contented with one,
and he's buster than ever.
my good old mother insisted up
to the last that the farmer was
blessed above all men. can hear
her now. You may laugh at the
farmer she'd say, with a toss OF
her head, but he has license to
pity the rest Of you. He may not
know when to copper the queen and
when to play 1t to win, like some city
folks, and he may not cut much of a
swath In low necked waistcoat and
pearl studs at a dinner or the opera,
but there are thousand and one
worries he escapes. So long as he
can hold on to his land and has
roof to shelter him he can always
live, come what may. His soil will
support him. The farmer is the
most independent man in the world
"Those weren't her exact words"
continued the retired clergyman,
'but that's the idea. Now, there
may be something In this, but If the
farmers I've seen worked as hard
for something else as they do to be
independent they'd own New York. T"
Providence Journal.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
II Made a Difference.

A story is being told of young
lady who found a package of love
letters that had been written to her
mother by her father before they
were married. The daughter saw
that she could have little sport and
read one of them to her mother, sub
shutting her own name for that Of
her mother and that of Six Mile
young man for that of her father.
The mother seemed utterly disgust
cd and forbade her daughter to have
anything to do with the young man
who would write such nonsensical
stuff to girl. When the young lady
handed the letter to her mother to
read the house became so still that
one could almost hear the grass
growing in the yard.-Oak Grove
Md.) Banner.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
To Ward OF stlnas.

Hornets and bees are not so apt
to sting a person if he keeps abso-
lutely still, but this is not necessari-
ly due to the fact that they do not
see readily, but simply that they do
not recognize an enemy in a per-
fectly stationary body. The accu-
INFLATED intelligence of generations
has shown them that still objects,
like posts, stones or trees, are not
enemies and that disturbance Of
their nests is always occasioned by
objects having power Of motion. 1t
thus follows that If a hornets nest
be disturbed or II a wild bees nest
be agitated danger Of singing Is
much less If the person keeps per-
fectly still.-St. Nicholas.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
GLEANINes AND GOSSIP.

There are said to be over 10000
millionaires in the world and over
half Of them live in this country.
There seems to be some question
now as to whether or not the consti-
tuition follows Miss Roosevelt.
Word comes from Troy, N, Y,
that the women in that city are earn
ing more money than the men.
There is an estate of 10000 acres
on the Delaware river which is used
solely for the study of bird life.
South Dakota is not so much after
all. A New York judge disposed Of
50 divorce cases in one day last
week.
A proprietor of merry go-round
in Wales has gone into bankruptcy
and says that the revival of religion
drove him to it.
The latest fad for country place
is a Shakespearean garden. Only
flowers mentioned by the poet can
be raised in one.
Charles Kaltenhause of Pittsburg,
lays claim to being the heaviest JUS
tice of the peace in the world. He
weighs sos pounds.
The small island of Poros is be-
coming a faVorite summer resort for
the rich Athenians. 1t is famous for
its fruit, and vast quantities OF oran-
ges and lemons are raised there.
A Spanish journalist declares that
sunstroke is almost unknown in his
country. and that it only ooe~re in
the northern regions where people
do not know how to take care OF
themselves.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14

Chinese paleontology Is not an
uninteresting subject. The Chinese
have for long been interested in
fossils in a practical if not in very
scientific way. Thus slabs of lime
stone with fossil trilobites are q
common article Of commerce. They
are known as "petrifed swallows"
and the tailpiece, or pygidium, Of
one of these trilobites bears strik-
ing resemblance to a swallow with
widely outspread wings. The cele-
brated "pagoda stones" used to
make ornamental panels and screens,
are slabs of stone with sections Of
the fossil shell orthoceras, and these
latter, along with rhynconella and
other fossil shells, are to be found in
the Chinese pharmacopoeia. Pound
ed up and swallowed, they are the
orthodox remedy for various dis
eases.-London Globe.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14

The insurance investigation now
in progress in New York is doing a
large and informing work in showing
where some Of the money goes. tits
making the world a bit wiser, and
may profit the people in the end.
For instance, it is shown that two
million dollars has been paid in
commissions to two members OF the
family of Richard A. McCurdy,
president of the Mutual Life, which
shows that it pays to be in touch
with the topnotch officials in the
business. Along with this interest
ing revelation comes President Nc
Curdy's statement under fire that 81
claim that life insurance is a phil
anthropic enterprise, and that the
estimation in which the life insur-
ance companies have been held in
late years is a wrong one entirely"
"a great bene6cent, missionary in
stitution," President McCurdy calls
the Mutual, which, by the way, pays
him salary of $150,000 year.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
PETITION FOR DIVORCE.

STATE OF VERMONT, | Whereas, Ed
WINDSOR COUNTY. IS. ward j. Macia
of Hartford, Vt, has duly fled his petition
to the County Court setting forth his legal
marriage to Myrtle T. Jesseman, then of
Hartland in the State of Vermont, that he
hath resided for 80 years in the State of
Vermont. that he hath kept the marriage
covenant, but that the said Myrtle T. hath
violated the same, for that she hath wilful-
ly and without just cause deserted the petit
ti4pe lr Tor three consecutive years; Yhers
vorce from the said Myrtle T. Macia;
And whereas it appears that said Myrtle
L. is without this State, so that the sum
mons of said Court may not be served upon
her;
1t is thereupon ordered that the said
Myrtle I. Macia be notified and re-
quired to appear in and before said Court
and make answer, if any she have, and
abide the order and decree of said
next to be held at Woodstock. in and for
the County of Windsor in the State of
Vermont, on the first Tuesday
of December, A. d. 1905, upon the
first day of said term. by publishing the
substance of said petition, together with
this order, for three successive weeks, in
The Spirit of the Age, newspaper pub
lished at Woodstock in said County, the last
publication to be at least six weeks prior
to said term of Court which shall be deemed
sufficient notice to said Myrtle T. Macia.
Given under my hand, at Woodstock, in
the County OF Windsor, this 9th day of
October, A. d. 1905.
JAY READ PEMBER, Clerk.
William Batchelder.
Atty. for Petitioner
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
CHURCH SERVICES.

Christian--Rev. c. A. MacDaniel
pastor. Morning service at 1890,
with sermon. Sunday school at IL
o'clock. Junior Z. E. at s o'clock,
and Y. P S, c. E. at 7 o'clock.
Mid-week service Tuesday evening,
7.3o. Welco me to all.
Universalist-Rcv. II. L. Garfield.
pastor. Morning service at 1890
Sunday School at 1850. Y. P. C.
U. Tuesday evening at 1870 o'clock.
Congregational-Rev. F. Z. Put
nam, pastor. Morning service at
1890, Sunday school at 1850, YES
per service at S. Tuesday evening,
prayer meeting at 7.3o.
Methodist Episcopal-Rev. Joseph
Hamilton, pastor. Morning SER
vice at 80; I1.45 o'clock, Sunday
school; 6.3op. M, Epworth League;
evening service, 7 p. M; Tuesday,
mid-week service 700 p. m.
Catholic Rev. E. C. Drouhin,
pastor. Mass at II M; evening
service at 7.3o.
Services will be held the fourth
Sunday Of each month at Village
hall, Quechee, at 9 o'clock, and at
Barnard, at the town hall, on the
second Sunday of each month at 9
o'clock
st. James-First Sunday OF each
month Holy Communion and SER
mon at 1890. Evening Prayer and
address at 500. All other Sundays.
Holy communion at !. 80 a. M, morn
ing Prayer, Litany and sermon at
10 80, Evening Prayer and address
at {. c. H. Wells, rector.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
DIZZINESS AND weak
nerves Cured.
Nothing Helped Until the Wonderful New
Medicine, CAL Cura Solvent, Was Taken.
DR.. David Kennsdy's Latest Medicine.

''T very much wish, writes Loretta J.
Vail, of Hopewel Junction, N. Y, that I
might be able in few lines, without put
ting myself forward, to let the people un-
derstand how valuable Cal-cura Solvent,
the aeU medicine discovered by DR.. David
Kennedy, is in cases Of indigestion and the
like ailments, which are so common among
us. Isuffered from asevere variety of liver
complaint, with dizziness, numbness, and
an exceedingly weak and excitable state of
the nerves. I employed the best treatment
within my reach, yet nothing really helped
until began to use Cal-oura Solvent, and
that did,"
Remember, Odl-curG SoIoent cures 989S
fall cases Of Kidney, Bladder and LiUer'
disorders. You may have a free sample
bottle of this wonderful medicine. and de-
scriptive booklet, by simply sending your
name and address TO The Cal-cuna Com
pany, Kennedy Row, Rondout, NY. Large
bottles $1.O0 (Only one Sise) all druggists,
or if they do not have it, send to the above
proprietors.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1905-10-14
Resignation Of TWO montpelier Pas-

The Rev. Guy G. Lamson, for the
past four years pastor of the First
Baptist Church in Montpelier, an
nounced to his people and to the
First Baptist Church of Hyde Park,
Mass, Sunday morning, his accept
ance of the call to the pastorate at
Hyde Park. his resignation in Mont
pelier, to take effect December first,
next.
The Rev. A. N. Lewis, for the past
fourteen years rector of Christ Epis-
copal Church in Montpelier, Sunday
morning read to the congregation his
resignation. 1t is probable it will
be accepted. Mr.. Lewis asked to
have his resignation take effect in
November or December next.