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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1905-03-31
Our CORES espondents

sermon and Mr.. Clarke throughout
showed ,catholicity of spirit that is
in marked contrast to the creed bound
sermons of few short years ago. More
and more the world is coming to see
that truth is all and form and cere-
n ony its outer garments. Mr.. Clarke
goes to Fessenden where he will have
charge of the Congregational church.
We congratulate that church and city
upon getting such good and able
man.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1905-03-31
Hear Him.

The, fourth number of the Lyceum
Lecture course will appear on Satur-
day April 1st. This is one of the
strongest numbers on the program and
should not be missed by any one.
Prof. E. Amherst OFT, president Of the
OFT School of Expression of Chicago
is an orator, actor. teacher and hum
orist, combined and as such will not
fail to interest and attract the most
fastidious audiences. This is one of
those extraordinary lectures that will
last and do one good for life time.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1905-03-31

Prof. L. H. Tanguay, a native of
Quebec, will locate here soon to engage
in his profession of music teacher.
He comes highly recommended as a
teacher of voice and piano and is also
competent to give instructions in all
brass instruments. Anyone desiring
further information kindly call at R.
3. Kilbourn' g drug store.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1905-03-31
81. Souris Snapshots. a
VIM. Fairweather who was very Ill
recently is reported convalescent,

WIN. Ed1TWedCHoI WIZ was very -
recently is reported convalescent,
The Souris ''Band Concert on the
31st is promised to be a ''puffed up
affair.
Emigrants are arriving in Souris on
every train and it looks as though
the country was going to be all settled
this spring.
- An elevator man named T. a.
Brown was here the first part Of the
week, in anticipation of consummatiAg
deal to become the owner Of the
Foster elevator. .
Seeding operations are becoming
general in this section and those Of the
farmers who for some reason or other
are kept from the fields are getting
awful anxious to get at it.
A wild cat was doing Souris On
Sunday night. and we are awaiting
further Developments Our modeaty
forbids us to give facts in the matter,
this is one of the rare cases where ad-
vertising dom pay. n
There was prophet in Souris, On
election day who saw nothing but sun.
shine all the way. But when He
learned his defeat, he lost his conceit.
and lowly and meek, to abide with
the thought, that minority is nought
and worst Of all, is to recall. that the
man from Sweden now stands sr-
preme.
NOTICE-Parties who are having
such "utensils' in their back yard as
dead dogs or ditto cats, please remove
them. they are beginning to bloom,
you know, aud if you have not depos-
tied them there yourself, it is your
duty to dispose of them just the same:
For decency's s sake, clean up, and dom t
wait for the press to take it up with
you every year.
The members of the M. w. A. of
Souris gave an entertainment ON the
29th and large number of frie nds
were invited with the neighbors to
partake. The occasion was in honor
of their esteemed neighbor, Grant Cass-
idy who is going to leave shortly for
N. w. T., Canada. Mr.. Cassidy has
been very prominent among his Souris
neighbors and friends and we are
grieved over his departure.
Here is story which has not had
it's run for some time: A couple in
an eastern state sought a clergyman
for matrimonial union. The young
man not being blessed with earthly
possessions as he might had to stand
the Gospel man off for his fee, promis-
ing to 'cough up'' at an early op-
portunity. The debt ran on longer
than the patience of the clergyman
and the later thereupon concluded to
dun his man for his debt. The young
man after acquainting himself with
the fact that his bill was $40. 90
quietly Replied, 81 will return the
goods. - Yes and we know of goods
less than 100 miles of Souris that
would be better returned.
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CITIZENS
MEETING
Held Tuesday Night for
the Purpose of Consider-
ing Ways of Securing Re-
forms in Our City.

After considering some of the
needed reforms, the ministers Of Bot
tineau called mass meeting at the
Opera House on Monday evening,
March 9TH, when general discussion
of the following questions was en-
tered into. Mr.. Alex. McBain was
elected to the chair by the citizens as
sembled, after which the chairman
made brief and pointed address,
covering the main features of the
meeting which found popular express
sion among the audience. The next
speaker introduced was the Rev.
Coutts, who spoke regarding his posi-
ton and relation to the town and its
moral bearing. He dealt with the
canvass, which was being mad Q on
the drug store permit, and introduced
the following resolution, which was
unanimo ously adopted:
Whereas. it is known that under
our present statutory prohibition law
that permits may be granted druggists
giving them the right to sell alcoholic
liquors for medicinal purposes upon
their obtaining the required number
of petitioners. and that such petition
shall be on file at the Office of the
county Judge for the required thirty
days. and whereas it is understood that
such petitions are being circulated;
Therefore, resolved that this meeting
of citizens assembled, do appoint
such person or persons qualified, to see
that said petitions are lawful and bona
1ide.
Following this the Rev. Chas. White
was introduced by the chair and stated
his position and the reason Of his
being there, which was the moral
features involved. He congratulated
the city upon its moral tone as COM
pared with other towns in the state,
but he saw even yet that some preven-
tion was needed and the following
resolutions were offered for discussion
and were also unanimously adopted:
Whereas under the present existing
condition of the pool rooms and bowl
ing alleys, which are menace to our
town, we therefore request the mu-
nicipal authorities to impose such
license or use such other means as
will efectually suppress the evil;
Whereas, after careful consideration,
be it resolved that we request the mu-
nicipal authorities to enact curfew
ordinance and would suggest that such
ordinance should provide that it be
unlawful for children 10 years of age
and nder to be or remain upon the
sstreets unattended after the hour of
Is O'Clock p. IN. from Nov. 1st to April
1st and the hour of 8 80 p. M. from.
April 1st to Nov. 1st.
The Rev. w. N. Gillis discussed
the great necessity of eliminating
party politics and creeds of any form
from our municipal government and
offered the following resolution which.
after considerable debate and explana
tion, was adopted with but little dis
senting vote;
Desiring the best interests Of the
city, be it therefore Resolved that we.
AS citizens. exercise the power of
franchise to the election of such men
to office as will secure US the future
well being Of the city irrespective of
marty or creed.
Mrs Ed Hanson has accented a mai.
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Presbyterian Services.
Sab. Apr. end, 1905.

a "a 08O' <1P1' 11u, 1O0Os z n
Subjects. Morning. This beginn-
ing Of Months.
Evening. Choice Of seed.
/ G: 2. Topic. The making Of a
christian. his food. Conservation
Meeting,
Miss Lena Thompson, leader.
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Mrs. Ed Hanson has accepted q posi-
1tion with Atty, Bowen, as stenographer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-26

But then the mere sight of a canal to
the English child suggests the delights
of sudden and unexpected bath. put
it to a Dutchman once Did the Dutch
canal2 yes" he replied, eases had
been known Don't you do anything
for it2" I inquired. "Oh, yes" he an
swered, I'VE haul them out again.
But what mean is, explained,
don't you do anything to prevent their
falling into save them from falling
in again ?"-sYes he answered, I'VE
spank EN- There is always a wind
in Holland. 1t comes from over the
sea. There is nothing to stay its prog
ress. 1t leaps the low dykes and
sweeps with a shrek across the sad
soft dunes; and thinks it is going to
have a good time and play havoc IN
the land. But the Dutchman laughs
behind his great pipe as it comes to
him shouting and roaring w elcomes
my hearty; welcome he chuckless
come clustering and Dragging; the
bigger you are the better 1 like you"
And when it is once in the land, behind
the long straight dykes, behind the
waving line of sandy dunes, he seizes
hold of it, and will not let it go till it
has done its tale of work. The wind
is the Dutchnan's servant; before he
lets it loose again it has turned ten
thousand mills, has pumped the water
and sawn the wood, has lighted the
town and worked the loom, and forged
the iron, and driven the great. slow,
silent wherry, and played with the
children in the garden. 1t is a sober
wind when it gets back to sea, worn
and weary leaving the Dutchman
laughing behind his everlasting pipe.
There are canals in Holland down
which you pass as through a field of
WInd-bloWn corn; soft low rustllng
murmur even in your ears. 1t is the
ceaseless Whirl of the great mill sails.
Far out at sea the winds are as foolish
savages, fighting, shrieking, tearing
purpOseless. Here, in the street of
mills, it is a civilized wind grooming
softly while it labors. What charms
one in Holland is the neatness and the
cleanliness Of all about one. Maybe to
the Dutchman there are drawbacks. In
a Dutch household. life must be one
long spring cleaning. No milk pail is
considered fit that cannot just as well
be used for a looking glass. The great
brass pans, hanging under the pent-
house roof outside the cottage door
flash like FURNISHED gold. You can eat
your dinner off the red-tiled floor, but
that the deal table, scrubbed to the
color of cream cheese is more c0nVen-
lent By each threshold stands a row
Of empty sabots, and woe betide the
Dutchman who would dream Of cross
ing it in anything but his st0ckinged
feet. There is a fashion in sabOts.
Every spring they are freshly painted
One district fancies an orange yellow,
another a red. a third white suggest
ing purity and innocence. Members
of the smart set indulge in ornamental
/ ton. q frieze in pink, star upon the
toe. Walking in sabots is not as easy
as it looks. Attempting to run in sa-
bots do not recommend to the be-
ginner. How do you run in sabots p
I asked a Dutchman once, had been
experimenting and had hurt myself.
] we don't rum answered the Dutch
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A writer in the Boston Transcript re-
calls some amusing plumbers foreign
garian Journalist, leading up to an ac-
count of an earthquake, told how mer-
riIy the evening had passed. Just be-
fore the crash came the ladies' had re-
tired to their rooms, whereas 1--WE man
was remaining in the coffee A French
dressmaker advertised her work as
ana svnopafhizing Jap wrote: ct am
rather sorry you have been so ILL.," and
a Partisan lady asked to be recon-
uended as a teacher of French and
added with exquisite naivete, ST am
not Obliged to earn my life, but I want
to have two strings to my arc" An
excited Italian, when he had sent a
manuscript with a page missing, wrote,
ere anything like this happens again
notify me suddenly" These intellect
ties recall also the Mexican diplomat
at Washington, who affably remarked:
your climate in Buffalo is what you
call dee6cooIt-eh2"
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woman builds a dress she builds it to
last; it descends from mother to daugh-
ter, but it is made of sound material in
the beginning. A lady friend of mine
thought the Dutch costume would
serve well for a fancy dress ball, so set
about buying one. But abandoned the
notion on learning what it would cost
her. A Dutch girl in her Sunday
clothes must be worth fifty pounds be-
fore you come to ornaments. In GER
tain provinces she wears a close fitting
helmet, made either of solid silver or
of solid gold. The Dutch gallant, be-
fore making himself known, walks on
HptOe a little while behind the Loved
One and looks at himself in her head
dress just to make sure that his hat is
on straight and his front curl lust
where it ought to be. In most other
European countries national costume
is dying out. The slop shop is year BY
year extending its hideOuS trade. But
the country of RubenS and Rembrandt
of Teniers and Gerard Dow, remains
still true to art. The picture postcard
does not exaggerate. The men in those
WondrOus baggy knickerbockers from
the pockets of which you sometimes
see a couple Of chickens heads pro-
truding; in gaudy-colored shirts, in
worsted hose, and might sabots, smok-
ing their great pipes; the women in
their petticOats of many hues, in gOr-
ge0usly embroidered vest, in chemi-
settle Of dazzling white, crowned with
4Aes4O VI many II AAASs III 6O1u
and silver,-are not the creatures of
an artists fancy. You meet them in
their thousands on holiday afternoons,
walking gravely arm in arm, flirting
with sober Dutch stoidity. On colder
days, the women wear bright-cOlored
capes made of fine spun silk; from IN
derneath the ample folds of which you
sometimes hear a little cry-and some
times a little hooded head peeps out,
regards with preternatural thoughtful
ness, the toylfke world without, then
dives back into shelter. AS for the
children-wOmen in miniature, the
single difference in dress being the gay
pinafOre-yOu can only say of them
that they look like Dutch dolls. But
such plump, contented, cheerful little
dolls! You remember the hollow
eyed, pale-faced dolls you see swarm
ing in the great big and therefore
should-be happy countries, and wish
that more land surface were of less inn
portance to our statesmen and our able
editors, and the happiness and well-be-
ing of the mere human items worth
little more of their thought. The
Dutch peasant lives surrounded by
canals and reaches his cottages across
a drawbridge. I suppose it is in the
blood of the Dutch child not to tumble
into the canal, and the Dutch mother
never appears to anticipate such pos
sibility. One can imagine the average
English mother trying to bring up
family in a house surrounded by can
ais. She would never have a moments
peace until the children were in bed.
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~ JERONTE d. JEROAIE.

OLKS suffering from jingoism
spread eagleism, chauvinism
all such like isms, to what
ever country they belOng--Would
be well advised to take q. tour IN
Holland It is the idea Of the
moment that size spells happiness
The bigger the country. the better one
is for living there. The happ1est
Frenchman cannot possibly be as hap
by as the most wretched Englishman,
for the reason that England possesses
many more thousands of square miles
than France possesses. The Swiss
peasant, compared with the Russian
serf. must. when he looks at the map
Of Europe and Asia. fell himself to be
g miserable creature. The reason that
everybody in America is happy and
good is to be explained by the fact
that America has an area equal to that
Of the entire moon. The American
citizen who has backed the wrong
horse. missed his train, and lost his
bag, remembers this and feels bucked
up again. According to this argument,
fishes should be the happiest Of NOR
tails the sea consisting-at least, SO says
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man. And observation has proved to
me that he was right. The Dutch boy.
when he runs, puts them for prefer
ence on his hands, and uses them to hit
other Dutch boys over the head as he
passes. The road sin Holland, straight
and level. and shaded all the way with
trees, look from the railway carriage
window as If they would be good for
cycling, but this is a delusion. I
crossed in the boat from Hawwich
once with a welI-knoWn black and
white artist and an equally well known
and highly respected humoFist. They
had their bicycles with them, intending
to tour Holland. I met them a fort
night later in Delft, or, rather met
their remains. I was Mortified at first,
I thought it was drink. They could
not stand still, they could not sit still.
they trembled and shook in every limb,
their teeth Chartered when they tried
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A beggar in London recently &C
costed a man and whined, I'm para
lived in both me 'ands, mister, an
can't work, for I can't grasp anything
with EN-. Could you spare me a trif1e,
mister I'm deaf" replied the gem
tIeman. 'fYou'd better write down
what you want to say. Here's a pencil
and a piece of paper" Deaf, is e ?"
thought the beggar. "Then e didn't
ear about the paralysis So he
wrote down: 1--WE got a wife and six
children starvin' at home, an ham in
a drefful state of destertushOn-" He
handed the paper to the man, who
said: 81 thought you said YOU were
paralyzed in both hands and couldn't
grasp anything; and yet you can
writei" Didn't yer say yer was deaf. -
stammered the beggar. Eyes, to find
out if you were an imposter, which
you are. as I supposed" replied the
man well, of all the bloomin'
frauds. yer the biggest!9 exclaimed the
beggar. THE hidea Of yer sayin' yer
was deaf and tryin' to impose on a
poor feIIer!" And he shuff7ed off sniff
ing the air. with righteous indignation.
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, FAR as my own impression
counts for anything, it has led
me to the opinion that for
some time there has been a
tendency to greater luxury,
more INDULGENCE. and 10 less
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ton, submitting to an iron drill which
none who passed through it can ever
forget, is undoubtedly tending to be
modified and relaxed.
This does not imply wave of mater
ialisna-nor does it imply that the
character of the nation and particu-
larry Of the English middle classes is
being changed.
We are passing through a period Of
deep change and transition. Most even
of those who have given earnest
thought to the matter are yet too near
the old, and are too disturbed in their
judgment by the removal Of old land
marks, to have clear vision as to the
real tendencies of the new knowledge
It used to be said that II the system
of religion associates with our civil
fzation were submitted to the same
critical tests applied to other systems
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my atlas, I have not measured it my
self-Of Il hundred and fOrty-fOur mill
ions of square miles But, maybe, the
sea is also divided i'm ways we wot not
Of Possibly the sardine who lives
near the Brittany coast is sad and dis
contentcd because the Norwegian sar-
dine is the proud inhabitaut of larger
sea. Perhaps that is why he has left
tho Brittany coast, Ashamed of being
q Brittany sardine he has emigrated
70 Norway, has become a naturalized
NorW egiau sardine, and is himself
again The happy LOndOner on fOggy
days. can warm himself with the re-
Election that the sun never sets on the
British Empire. He does not often see
the sun, but that is a mere detail He
regards himself as the owner of the
sum the sun begins his little day in
the British empire, ends his little day
In the British empire; for all practical
purposes the sun is part Of the British
empire Foolish people in other cOun-
tries sit beneath it and feel warm, but
that is only their ignorance; they do
NOT know IL is a British possessions if
they did they would feel cold. NV
views on this subject are, I know. he
reucal cannot get il into my unpa-
triotic head that size is the only thing
worthy worrying about In England
when / venture to express my out Of
date opinions, I am called Little Eng
lander 1t fretted me at first was
becoming mere shadow. But by now
nave got used to it. Tt would be the
same, I feel, wherever I went. In New
u ork 4 should be a Little American; in
CoustantnODle a Little Turk. But I
wanted to talk about Holland. A holt
Gay IN Holland serves as a corrective
70 exaggerated imperialistic notions
There are no poor i'm Holland. They
may be an unhappy people, knowing
what a little country it is they live I'M;
but, # SO. they hide the fact To ali
seeming, the Dutch peasant smoking
ms great pipe. is as much man as the
w hltechapel hawker or the moocber
OF the Paris boulevard. I saw a beg
gar once i'm HOlland-on the townIet
Of Enkhuisen. Crowds were hurrving
up from the side streets to have a
look at him; the idea at first seemed
70 be that he was doing it for q bet
lie turned out to be a Portuguese. Thev
oIeTed him work on the docks-l1n-
tli ne could get something better to
Qo-at wages equal in English money
TO about ten shillings a day. in
quired about him on my way back
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The Little Land Of
the Happy Dutch
By JEROME K. JEROME

copyright 1895 by Centr News Press Exchanged
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through the town next day, and was
toIo ne mad borrowed a couple of for
ms from the foreman, and had left bv
ne ne evening train. It is not the country
Tor the loafer In Holland work is
easily found: this takes awav the
charm Of looking for it. A farm labor
er IN Holland lives in a brick built
mouse OF six rooms, which generally
belongs to him, with an acre or SO Of
ground and only eats meat once a dav.
me rest Of his time he fills up on EGGS
ana chicken, and cheese and beer. But
you rarely hear him grumble. His
wife and daughter may be seer. on Sun
GAYS wearing gold and silver and lew
elry worth from fifty to a hundred
peundsi and there is generally enough
ola delft and pewter in the house to
-Lart local museum anywhere outside
holland. On high days and holidays.
OF which in Holland there are plenty
the average Dutch vrouw would be
wen worth running away with. The
Dutch peasant girl has no need Of an
Illustrated journal once a week to tell
her what the FASHION is. she has it in
the portrait Of her mother. or OF her
grandmother hanging over the glitter
lag chimney piece. When the Dutch
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look at Chesterfeld's letters to his nat
ural son; read the history of almost
any court you like to mention.
The upper class-the aristocracy-
is, I think, no worse, and, to it's shame.
perhaps, be it said, no better today
than yesterday or the day before. AS
long as man is, man is
Rather, I think, the fault. if fault
there be, lies with the middle classes.
But there is one great fundamentally nat
ural wave which has pursued its slow
unaltefable way unchecked ever since
history has been history. and that wave
is the Wave of Supremacy, which has
been slowly but persistently rolling
from east to west. Why should we
who are now on its crest expect it to
stop its way for us?
An oldish friend of mine was playing
golf the other day, and not satisfac-
toriIy; he consulted his caddy who
thus advised him: MAN, you're no
gettin' younger"
This is not pleasant to contemplate,
but perhaps it is true of the country
also.