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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1907-12-06
Willow City.
CROSSING THE BAR.

Willow City. g
CROSSING THE BAR.
Sunset and evening star
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of tn -,
When put out to sea.
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the
boundless deep,
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell.
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When embark.
For tho from out our bourne of Time and
Place,
The flood may bear me far.
hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.
-TENNYsoN.
Frank Schedule left on
Thursday for Adams where he
will remain indemnity.
DR.. Laberge was at Williston
this week.
Geo. Pepin of Kenmare spent
several days here this week
visiting his sisters.
Thomas Lean and wife have
rented the Cudhie residence,
and will occupy it for the
winter.
Mrs. J. N. Peat spent some
time at Bottineau this week
visiting her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Philip LeMay.
Mrs. Thos. Armstrong of
Pleasant Lake is visiting re-
latives and friends in town.
S. B. Mahaney was at Bot
tineau on business Thursday.
Assistant States Attorney
Adams of Bottineau was trans
acting business here on We'd
nesday.
Mrs. Geo. Sunberg. enter
tanned the Ladies Aid of the
Presbyterian Church, Thursday
afternoon.
Nine. Daix Despret of
Mohall spent Sunday here.
Mr.. Zeipen of Kramer spent
several daVS this week in
Willow City the guest of his
brother-in-law, A. w. Miller.
Mr.. Allen Halls has been
suffering severely from an
liberated tooth this week but
is improving fast.
Billy Rose left this week for
the western part of the state
where he will file on land.
Rev. Ludwig, who has occu-
pied the Presbyterian pulpit
here for several weeks, has
accepted a call to Westhope,
and left this week for the city
of gas.
The first meeting of the ORA
matte club for the purpose of
practice was held at the home
of Editor and Mrs. Michael last
Friday night. Everyone evinc-
ed much interest in the parts
assigned them, and the play
will doubtless be, like all the
Others undertaken by our local
talent, a success. The play is
entitled: "O'Hagen's Secret"
and will be put on sometime
the later part of this month at
the Odd Fellows hall, and is
for the benefit of the school
library. ,..
Misses Maud and Jessie Sims
and Miss Alice Dickinson en-
tertained the members of the
Bon Ami" Saturday night at
the home of the Misses Sims in
honor of Miss Armstrong, who
will leave Monday for her home
at Exeter, Ontario. Miss Arm
strong has, for the past two
years, conducted the millinery
department in Bowerman's 8
store and has endeared herself
to many by her obliging man
ner. ss .@.,
Mrs. ]. H. Cook has a beauti-
full display of Christmas goods
at her home, consisting of
drawn work. sofa pillows in all
the newest designs. and en-
IL @ \. lsfs t3-:
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1907-12-06
For Sale.

A new rubber tire buggy,
full leather top. Inquire at this
office.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1907-12-06
COUNTY NEWS
A Bunch of Newsy Items Sent in
By Our Correspondents.
ITEMS OF INTEREST

Willow City, Gardena az SOuris
all Contribute a GenerOu, @ nch
Or News. -
Willow City. q
CROSSING THE BAR. e
Sunset and evening star,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16
A Ben Davis Apple Story,

n much abused Ben Davis apple has a
record here that is not to be sneezed at
as a Keeper" In the fall of 1906 ]. T.
Kimberlin of Middletown buried a lot of
Ben Davis apples and in putting them
away wrapped each apple separately in a
piece of paper. In taking them up in the
spring of 1906 about a bushel vas thrown
over in his garden to rot. The garden was
afterward plowed and the apples turned
under. This was the last heard of them
until last week, when j. S. Smith in
breaking the garden turned up some of
the apples, still wrapped in paper and as
sound as a gold dollar. Thus the "Bens'
kept sound for eighteen months with no
care at all. This Is no fancy sketch, but
an actual fact-got the apples, paper. gar
den and the two men TO prove it.
The above story is another reason
why sensible folks should move to
Missouri from less favored portions
of the United States. It's not to be
classed with fish stories. 1t was writ
ten by Christopher Pearson, editor and
proprietor of Chips, published at Mid
dletown, Montgomery county, Mo-, a
MAJ of approved v~eracity. He has
been my friend for thirty-two years
and partly learned 1.-The art preserva-
tive of all arts" in my print shop when
l was a country editor. What Pearson
says goes with those who know him.
and his apple story proves that al or
chard of Ben Davises in Missouri will
in the long run beat the average mine,
gold, silver or what not, all hollow.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

corporation abuses to such an extent thai
manufacturers like himself, in no way to
blame for the abuses, were mad to suffer.
Finally Porter said that he had express
I'd the belief to Mr.. Roosevelt he should
spend a few weeks in the Rocky noun
tains. But the president combated the
opinion that he was in need of recupera-
ton, maintaining that he was in excellent
health and spirits and ready for any
emergency.
Mr.. Porter is a mild hammered man.
but he seems to possess the courage of
his convictions. The fact that so many
eminent Republicans in office and out
are suggesting 1.-The rest cure'' is GER
tain to have considerable effect ON the
public mind.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16
History as Written.

One of the Washington papers re-
Gently declared that when Roscoe
Conkling and Thomas Collier Plat re-
signed from the United States senate
in a huff Il Lapham was elected to
succeed Plat, and William NJ. Evarts
was elected to succeed the lordly RIOS
coe. OF course the statement does no
great harm. 1t deceives only the sim
pie. Lapham succeeded Platt, and
Warner Miller succeeded Conkling.
Miller is a sort of nebulous statesman,
sometimes looming large and ONE
times shrinking to very small proper
tons. Every New York governor is 4
possible president, and Miller came
fairly close to beating David Bennett
Hill for that high office in 1883, but
fatally for Miller's White House as
elnor. while Cleveland lost it for presi-
dent. IN fact, the result of that cleo
ton was as fatal to HILLS presidential
hopes as to Miller's, for had Cleveland
carried New York that year he would
have been elected and would have been
out of Hilfs way in 1892, when any
Democrat could have beer elected.
Indeed the chances are that had Cleve-
land been elected in 1883 Hill would
have beer elected in 1892 and 1896.
for good judges have always believed
that the Republican party cannot sur
vive the loss of two consecutive pres
idential elections. 1t was to Warner
Miller that President Elect Harrison
sent the telegram extending condo
lences because he had fallen outside
the breastworks." which was the
most famous of all Benjamin's utter
ances and which led many persons to
believe that he would do something
for Miller, which he failed to do.
Warner has had SO much to do with
wood pulp that at one time he was
generally known as "Wood Pulp Mil
ler," but isn't it strange that a Wash
ington paper, published at the seat of
government, should forget him so
soon? Sic transit gloria mundi.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16
The Hiaher Law,

In the tifties William Henry Seward,
then senator from the state of New
York, imbittered American politics and
helped shut himself out Of the presi-
dency by inventing the phrase 1.-THE
higher law" Seward, unfortunately
for himself, was a phrase maker. "The
~irrepressible conflict" was also of his
coming. Those two phrases and the
speeches bottomed on them-great, bril-
liant, far resounding speeches-made
him a White House impossibility. OF
course my readers do not have to be
told that Stewards "higher law ap-
%pertained to slavery. Now, that ques
ton having been settled, his phrase is
resurrected in another connection, this
time with reference to homicide in con-
nection with certain sins, and the ar
guments pro and con are voluminous.
sometimes bitter. This so called high
er law was pleaded successfully at
Culpeper, Va, last winter in the
Strother cases. 1t caused a hung jury
in the Thaw case and had he been
properly defended would have cleared
him. Last week in st. Louis it was
pleaded in defense Of Policeman Nc
Namara, who had killed his wife and
her paramour, and he was sentenced to
fifteen years in the p~enitentiary, but
that sentence was the result Of cast
iron instructions from Judge, Sale
which precluded any verdict except
that of murder in the first or second
degree. It's dollars to doughnuts that
that verdict will not stand in the SUI
preme court and that Mcnamara will
finally go free or receive a light SEN
tence for manslaughter.
Now, what is this higher law? 1t is
simply and boldly this: That If A
wrongs the wife, sister, mother or
daughter of B, and B kills him for SO
doing, B goes free. That's the higher
law, and it is right, founded in wis
dom, justice and human nature. 1t
will never be repealed until God
changes the human heart. According
to the majority opinion, and in this
country the whole fabric Of our gov.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16
Long MINDED Trials.

Two months to try Thaw for killing
White! Twelve weeks to try Binger
Hermann for burning up a lot of old
letter books! If William Shakespeare,
or whoever wrote the Shakespeare
plays, should return to earth, what
texts these two ~stupendous forces
would furnish him for an enlargement
upon the laws delay!" 1t is safe to
say that these two performances are a
disgrace to American jurisprudence.
Good country lawyers before good
country judges would have tried either
of these cases in two weeks, and yet
the great metropolitan newspapers are
always poking fun at country jays and
rubes. They would do well to follow
the Scriptural injunction and remove
the beams from their own eyes before
extracting notes from the optics of
other folks.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16
The Rest Cure.

The Rest Cure.
Last week I referred to the fact that
those eminent Republican physicians,
DIR. Perkins of California and DR.. ORA
per Of Massachusetts, had prescribed
the rest cure" for President Roosevelt.
True, Perkins is q United States sena-
tor and Draper Il lieutenant governor,
but nevertheless they are prescribing
for the president. The following dis
patch shows that my old friend, ex-
Congressman II. Kirk Porter, a stanch
Republican, prescribes the same rene
dy. Here is. the dispatch:
New York, April PA special dispatch
from Pittsburg to the Press says that In
an interview published here today former
Representative in Congress H. Kirk Por-
ter of this city pointedly attacked Presi-
dent Roosevelt, asserting that he thought
the White House should not be made a
political headquarters" that the presi-
dents continued fight against the rail-
roads was injurious to business and that
the country woul be greatly benefited If
MI. Roosevelt took a rest of a month or
six weeks. Porter returned here today
from Washington, where he saw the chief
magistrate. He said he told the president
he was nervous from overwork, but thai
his opinion was resented.
II dislike exceedingly said Mr.. Porter,
to see the White House being la a
political headquarters and the ad1ninistra-
ton appearing before the people Of the
country engaged in an effort to control
the convention Of neXt year" Mr.. Porter
explained he was talking as a legitimate
business man, and, after saying there
were many things he did not like, he con-
tinued:
For another example, 1 dislike the use
of the words mischief makers in connec-
ton with the policies of the president. 1t
is a fact that he is such an agitator that
legitimate business interests are unable to
gauge affairs so as to make it safe to UNI
dertake extensive enterprises. For in
stance, railroad corporations that lave
not been accused of feats Of high finance
must suffer and are suffering from the
~strtngency in the money market created
by declarations at the White House that
the president will ask for further railroad
legislation.
Railroad corporations which before the
agitation was begun were able to get
money at 4 and Az per cent are now issu-
Ing short time notes at 6 and 61a per cent
and even higher rates of interest. Re-
CARELESS of whether the president Is right
or wrong, the act Is that such an In
crease in the rate for money has had a
bad effect upon the Industries of the coun-
try. That there Is a very hopeful feeling
Is true, but alsaady there has been such q
contraction on account of the agitation
that q bad effect upon all business is
bound to follow"
Porter took pains to emphasize his state
ment that he said all these things in the
lsindliest way and even in an apologize
tone. Talking further along this line. he
explained the impression he wished to
convey was that 1t panied him very much
to be compelled to recognize that the
president had carried his campaign against
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16
Denis kearnex.


The public press has devoted much
space in way of obituaries to Denis
Kearney. They all pronounce him a
cheap, coarse demagogue, but they adj
NIT that he more than anybody else
forced the new constitution on Cali
fornia and compelled the Chinese ex-
clusion act, which is far more than
many big bore statesmen have done.
On his tombstone should be chiseled
his slogan, 1.-The Chinese Must Cor In
helping to force Chinese exclusion
Denis rendered the country a vast, pa
triotic service. His methods were
crude, his oratory was crude, but when
all the silver tongued orators and ele-
CANT time servers of his day are for
gotten, the laborers Of the Pacific
coast and of the whole country will
remember with gratitude that Denis
Kearney was largely instrumental in
saving them from the blight of Chinese
competition.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16
SOCIETY DIRECTORY.

LODGEOF PERFECTICN.-Langdon No. 8
holds regular communications on the first and
third Thursdays of each month at the Masonic
Aemple.
, ROBERT WORK, Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

W. o. W.-Excelsior Lodge No. 81, meets on
the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month
in the Woodman Hall.
F. E. B. MERCER, c.. c.
A. E. L1NDsTRoM, Clerk.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

A. F. & A. M.-Lebanon Lodge holds regular
communications at the Masonic Temple on the
second and fourth Fridays of each month.
H. MCDONALD, w. NJ.
ROBERT WORK, Secretary.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

DEGREE OF HONOR.-Meets in the Work
mar hall on the first and third Fridays of each
month.
MRS. BELLE BIRMINGHAM, Recorder.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

M. W. Abingdon Camp. No. 1880 meets il
the Woodman hall the second and fourth
Mondays of each month.
p. P. KoPRIvA, V. C.
A. o. VOID, Clerk,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

YEOMEN.-Meet in the K. of P. hall, on the
FIRST and third Thursdays of each month.
TBos. SHERHAN, Yeoman.
c. C. CRAWFORD, Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

LADY c. O. Est. Mary's Court, meets at
the Forester hall on the second and fourth
Tuesdays of each month.
Mrs. VIM. -FLUMERFELT, G. R.
MES. A. 1. KoEHMsTEDT, Rec. Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

LADY ACCOMPLISHMENTS Hive of the
Lady Maccabees meet in the K. of P. hall,
the first and third Monday of each month.
MRS. BELLE BIRMINGHAM, Commander.
MRS. &c. MCCoMBE Record Keeper.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

C. o. F. No. sos-St. Alphonsus Court. meets
on the first and third Wednesdays of each
month in their hall over the Mooney State
Bank. JOHN SHEEHAN, c. K.
Jos g. ScH1LL, Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

a. o. q. W.-Langdon Lodge meets in the
Workman hall the first and third Mondays of
each month.
~ SoUcH, M. w.
THos. SHEEHAN, Recorder.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

OF S.-Langdon Temple holds regular com.
.nunications on the first and third Tuesdays of
MRS. Mc(iRUER, MRS. R. WORK, w. M.
Sec'y. S. g. KERR, W.. P.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

M. B. A.-Modern Brotherhood of America
meets in the Workman Hall on the first and
third Wednesday of each month.
IDA B. AYoTTE, President.
GEO. E. DUNNIGAE, Secretary.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16
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The Tariff Deal With Germany-Unfa1
to Other Nations Thoughts on the Higher ri
Law-The Popular Election Of Senators. Ts
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eminent rests on the idea that ma
jority opinion is correct, b not only
has the right to kill A under the cir
cumstances, but it is his duty not
only to himself, but to society, so to
do. Some folks think that the higher
law ought to be made a part of our
statute law, and the only reason it is
not done is the fear that it might be
abused.
Of course certain more or less es-
Unable persons will hold up their
hands in holy horror at the foregoing
remarks and declaim about the sancti-
ty of human life. Nobody questions
the sanctity of human life, but the
American home, the unit of our civili-
cation, is also sacred. And how much
is the seducer of wife, sister, mother
or daughter thinking about the sane
tity of human life when he is really
rendering the condition of some wom-
IN worse than death? Before perpe-
trating his crime he should take a
few minutes off and reflect upon the
sanctity of that human life and human
home which he is about to DESTROY.
Then nobody will ever have cause to
crate about the sanctity of human
life above his shot riddled body.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16
@SAY@

4 S an Advertising Medium the COURIER
~ DEMOCRAT is in the lead among the
Weekly Papers of northern North Dakota
and in the Twenty-Five Years it has circulated
among the reading public of Cavalier county and
Business Man better and larger returns for money
invested than any of it's competitors. Judicious
Advertising pays and with an experience of up
to show you the best method to pursue to put a
little Advertising ginger into your business. How
to tell the people who you are; where you are;
what you are and get 'em coming your way. We
can help you do all of these things.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

K. o. T.. M.-Langdon Tent of Maccabees
meet in the Forester hall the first and third
Thursdays of each mouth.
R. B. F%ALcoNER, Commander.
M. MORRISON r. K.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.-Meet on wednes.
day evening of each week at 1.-THE K. of P. hall.
E. H. GORDON, &C.
F. w. BLBAKLEY, Recorder.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

%. ~F.-Langdon Court, Independent Order
OF Foresters,. meet in the Workmen hall, the
first and third Tuesda vs. of each month.
w. A.. FERaUsoN. G. r.
J.H. Balm, Rec. sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16
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Especial Washington Letter.]
20 the Republican Solomons who
are running the Washington
y administration are cooking up
ono4hor i,1nnln -;4h nau,ann-
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-05-16

1949 the Missouri Democracy split into
two warning factions, Bentonites and
anti-Bentonites. Their bitter conten-
tons defeated Benton in 1851 and sent
Henry S. Geyer, M%issouri's one Wing
senator, to Washington. He was elect
ed by a coalition of Wings and anti
Benton Democrats. In 1855 the Wings,
the Bentonites and the anti-Bentonites
showed up in about equal numbers in
the legislature. No faction had a ma
jority, no coalition could be formed,
therefore no senator was elected.
Since then many states have failed to
elect. Rhode Island is the last and
smallest in the procession. There is a
sovereign remedy for this disease of
the body polite, which disease is
spreading, and that is to elect United
States senator's by popular vote. Then
ambitious multimillionaires like Wet
more and Colt of Rhode Island cannot
tie up a legislature and prevent an
election.
Let us hope that this performance
will so disgust decent people in little
Rhode Island that a Democratic legis-
lature will be elected which will choose
a Democratic United States senator.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-12-10
29,722 Dishes

If you had been standing around The Prescott Hardware Co.'s store any day last week you would have seen something that is seldom seen in a small town, even though it might be a good deallarger than our own thriving little city. The company referred to were unloading their car of Queensware which they received straight from the Pot tery of Knowles, Taylor X Knowl- es, in East Liverpool, Ohio. In this busy day.one hardly stops to consider what they see, as they see so many wonderful things that if they did stop to take note every time, they would hard ly have time to do anything them selves. But when you remember that thereis not store in Texar- kama, and only one in Little Rock, that buys a solid car of queens ware at a time, you begin to think, perhaps, that it is quite a business triumph for the store, and even for the town to be able to do this. To give you some idea of the bulk of this shipment, it took six men with a two-horse wagon, the entire week to unload and check the car. If you should buy this car of dishes and take them home with you, you would have a sufficient number to set a table large enough to seat every man, woman and child in Nevada county. and then have enough left to bring the food to the table in. Of course the 29,722 dishes will not be sold entirely in this county, as the trade of this com pany reaches into Hempstead, Lafayette, Ouachita, Columbia, Clarke, and Pike.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-12-10
News from frIendshIp

Friendship, Dec. 10.-This weather is not much like winter.
 Mrs. Almand is on the la grippe list hope she may soon recover.
 Mr. Roy White died last Mon day night with congestion of the stomach. We sympathize with the bereaved ones.
 MT. John Mum, of Weaver, at tended church here Sunday.
 Thereis lots of buying and selling, MT. c. H Cook has bought out H. $. Hart, and MT. Hart bought MT. Hicks place, so they will move this week.
 Uncle John Honea, of Weaver, visited the family of Mir. White heads Saturday and Sunday.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-12-10
pr. Bell 10 Move 10 Town.

Dr. J. l.. Bell, of Belton, is in the city today making arrange ments to move his family here the first of the year. The Doc tor has purchased from Judge Denman the quarter of block next to the school house, and now occupied by J. NJ. Haltom.
 Consideration Sl. .250. He expects
 to close out his affairs at Belton as early as possible, and move here where he will practice medi- cine, holding his office in the Moncrief Drug Store. The News gladly welcomes the Doctor and his estimable family to our town.
The Prescott daily news., 1907-12-10
FIRE AT THEO TODAY.
Dr. Shells Barn Burns and Destroys
 Some Stock.

Sheriff Hood received a tele- phone message this morning about four o'clock, from Dr. Shell at Theo, stating that some one a short while before had set fire to his barn, and destroyed his crib of feed, and had burned up dozen or more fattening hogs, and asked the sheriff to telephone to Camden for blood hounds.
 A message to Camden disclos ed the fact that the dogs were in Texarkana, and could not be sent.
 The horses in the barn were saved, but the entire stock of corn, fodder, oats, and other feed was destroyed. We were not ad. vised as to what clue the Doctor has regarding the perpetrator of the crime.