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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-12-12
Farmer Probably Fatally Wounded

Charles LaMotte, a farmer living
near Tolna, was accidentally shot in
the abdomen and probably fatally
wounded in a peculiar manner. No
ticipg a rabbit nea the barn he sent
his boy for a gun, and shot the animal,
breaking it's legs. He used the gun
as a club, not knowing there was still
a shell in the barrel. The gun was
discharged and the shot tore a hole
through the left side of his body, some
of it penetrating his intestines.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-12-12
Convicted of Assault.

John Hill was convicted in the dis
trict court at Langdon of an aggravat-
ed assault with a dangerous weapon
with intent to do great bodily harm,
and Jack Hill was convicted of SIM
pie assault. The pair are Finlanders
and were arrested for stabbing Erick
Narveson of Nekoma, some time age.
John Hill will be sentenced to the
penitentiary, while Jack will go to Jail.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-12-12
Leaps Before a Train.

Louis %Southworth, about fifty years
old and an old-time resident of Bis
mark, in a moment of dependency
threw himself before an approaching
freight engine and was literally cut to
pieces. Southworth was a bachelor
and had lately expressed himself sew
eral times as being tired of living. His
death was practically instantaneous.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-12-12
Convict Makes His Escape.

Fred Watson, a convict in the state
peDitentiary at Bismarck, escaped
while working in the timber four miles
south of that city. He is thirty-four
years old and bears several well-de-
fined marks.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-12-12
Hourslasses In a London Church.

Nearly everybody is aware that at
one time it was the custom in many
churches to regulate the length of the
sermon by an hourglass, which stood
on the pulpit Immediately fronting the
preacher. Quite a number of these
curious relics are preserved in various
ecclesiastical ediices throughout the
land, but the British and Foreign Sail
ors' church, situated in what was for
merly Ratclif highway, is the only n
possessing four. They are in perfect
preservation and are fixed all together
in a framework Of solid brass.--Lon-
don Standard.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-12-12
raft Sails for United States.

Cuxhaven, Dec. 1.-THE steamer
President Grant, with Secretary Taft
and the members OF his party on
board, has left here for New York,
via Boulogne and Plymouth.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-12-12

Explained.
"He was arrested for flirting with
his WIFE,"
"The idea! They didn't do anything
to him?
ooh, no. The judge decided it was a
mild form Of insanity"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-12-12
Best Without |

Best Without II.
"Brown would be all right If he
didn't lose his head so easily"
fortunately"
"Why fortunately"
IF I had a head like his, I would
want to lose it."
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06

friends, hoping that change or scene
and surroundings would bring her to
her senses.
But she enlisted in Detroit. as a
drummer, and marched away with her
regiment She kept her secret, ano
endured the hardships of the march
the camp and the fighting, until she
was mortally wounded at the battle
OF Lookout mountain.
Inc kind-hearted surgeon who at
tended her coaxed from her the name
OF her father and wrote to him of hi.
daughters position. The Identification
was complete, but the girl died, almos'
Immediately, in the field hospital
died, as she had lived, alone.
These are few of the tales o.,
strange happenings; tales which floa'
about in the homes of old men who
once wore the blue. Some of them are
recorded in the books which make few
mistakes as to bald fact, but every
one knows that more is left unsafe
than can be said, or known, in any his
tory.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
Summer Duty On
Ulrilh
By MAX MITCHELL,
Ofthe Federated Jewish Charities,

city when for huar of the year house them in scooooms
mpar to them knowledge establish and maintain the discipline of edu
cation and then turn them out for the fourth quarter with educational
supervision apparently thought
their minds and morals for three months out of the year.
The duty Of the state mphatcaly does not end with the closing
the schorom in June Of each year. There other period when
the child mind direction much the
ties then in their active state the warnest vital
ity most abundant.
1t then that under present system the child is suddenly thrown
its mental and its guides and coseo of the pre-
ceng nine months metpocy wash their hands of the matter The
consequence problem with which every interested in the bet
termen Of social conditions the city has been made oowuy am
lar problem that may be called the problem of the city
the
Earnest concerning themselves with this
question The vacation schools doing good but of
such plan be ideal The child must have vacation the
shall provide genuine recreation along with wholesome occupa-
ton the mind shall furnish the necessary element of education
The mind ought not to be permitted for three months
the though it Is well that 1t should re- hz~14>zzx
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
A NARROW ESCAPE.

She raised her blond head from his
shoulder for moment
DO you believe that exercise and
lotions and toilet preparations will
improve woman's looks?" she asked.
He pressed her blonde curls back
upon his chest.
They couldn't improve the looks of
some women" he said
Whose" she asked.
We'll, yours and Violet Cochrane's,
for instance" he replied thouehtlessly,
Il don't understand you" she said,
raising her head for the second time
and chilling him with look. 1--WE are
not at all alike"
Il mean," he replied, turning her
head for the second time and think
ing quickly, that your looks couldn't
be improved because they are perfect
as they are, and that hers couldn't be
improved, because no amount of work
could make her pretty"
She sighed great sigh of content.
ment and relief, while he drew a deep
breath.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
ULYSSES s. GRANT.
How He Got His Name-A Good Story
of His Boyhood.

Ulysses S. Grant received his given
name in difference to the wishes of
his maternal grandfather, who had a
high opinion of the Greek soldier Ulys.
ses, who was distinguished for his
wisdom and for his ability to keep 81.
lent about affairs of state Grant made
this warrior his model. Grants moth.
er sometimes joked about his name,
saying, BE careful not to be useless,
but try to be Ulysses"
He attended the district school,
where he was a fair pupil and noted
for his kindly disposition--a trait OF
character which he inherited from his
mother. In after years, one of his
early playmates said of him: 81 never
saw him show any resentment, and
do not believe that he ever felt a
tinge Of It, He was never rude, op
pressive or disagreeable to other chill
dren. Once, when he was a very
young scholar, he was very much trou
bled by one of his lessons A school
mate, noticing his perplexity, said,
You can't master that Ulysses re.
piled: Can't What does that mean?
Why replied the boy, 1T means that
that you can't. There!' Ulysses
went to the dictionary, and tried
unsuccessfully to find the word there.
Then he went to his teacher and asked
him what was the meaning of the
word can't telling him that he had
searched for it In vain in the diction.
airy. The teacher gave a proper ex.
PLANTATION, and added Ulysses, If in
the struggles of life any person should
assert that you can't do a thing you
desire to accomplish, let your answer
be, The word cant" is not in the die
'ionary. "-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
FIRST ENLISTED UNION MAN.
Contest for the Honor Between Two
Doctors.

A contest for the honor of being the
hrst man to enlist in the army Of the
north during the civil war has been
In progress in congress and in the war
department bureaus between William
M. De Hart, of Logansport, Ind, and
Charles Franklin Rand, of Washing.
ton, both doctors. The claims of De
Hart have been in the hands of Sena,
tor Albert j, Beveridge and Congress-
man Frederick Lands. His cham
pions have been fighting to gain for
the Logansport man an honor that
has already been bestowed upon the
Washington man by act of congress
They are fighting, writes A. r. KEGS
ling in Leslie's Weekly, to secure for
Indiana an honor which they claim
has been wrongly appropriated, by
act OF the legislature at Albany, as a
prerogative of the state of New York
Within an hour after the news of
the fall of Fort Sumter had been flash
ed over the wires, De Hart had en-
rolled himself, the first, as he believes,
of an army that, all told, subsequently
consisted of 2,77S,304 men. The rec
ords OF congress and the records of
New York state, however, declare
Rand to have been the first. These
same records also show Rand enlisted
two days after De Hart. Documents
sent to Washington attest the enlist.
ment Of De Hart at nine o'clock, April
IL. 1861. The honors Rand has been
given were. based on official records
showing he enlisted April Is and was
mustered in May 10, 1861. Meanwhile
De Hart, according to his supporters,
was already on his way to the 'front.'
arriving in time to participate in the
first battle Of the civil war--at Philip
pi, June 3.
De Harris documents indicate he en-
listed two days before Lincoln's call
for $4,000 troops. Rand's claim is sim.
ply to have been "the first man to
volunteer after Lincoln's CALL" and
this honor awarded him by congress,
it Is claimed, makes no recognition of
several Indiana men who, seeing the
nations peril, volunteered before the
call was issued. In Albanys state
house Rands picture is hung, with a
record of his history as the first volun.
teer among the 44S,850 men the state
sent to the war. Honors have been
showered upon Rand by England, Rus
STA, Germany, France, Persia, Mexico,
Egypt, India, Norway, and Japan. The
war department has given him large
pension; the senate records devote six
pages to tribute to his services; and
a lot in Arlington Cemetery, Wash
ington, has been presented to him to
shelter his remains when taps"
sounds. De Hart does not seek to dis
parage one triumph of Rand, but de-
mands recognition as the first volun-
teer of the northern army
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
Suluittg mnrlh'a
prarr prnhlrnt
BY DR.. JOHN RHYS,
Head of Jesuit College. and Pro-Vice- Oh anc ello
University Of Oxford. England.

tb constant nong Celtic powerfully
both Great and her colonies and America
lead to deeper feeling of unity assisted by education especially in the
higher seats of learning.
Sympathy of and racial influences will far toward making
mpobe The the Rhodes scholarships sending Amer
lean students British universities should be supplemented by sending
British students seats of learning, only fear that many
of our bows would back VISITORS
seen tremendous possibilities for earning large wealth which America
affords.
1t by sympathy of men and mutual understanding educating
one another understanding Of the ideals both the
british and the American nations that the of many questions
will brought about and the question will be solved permanently
in this way more easily and satisfactorily than other
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
WOMEN WHO WENT TO WAR.
Devoted Wives Who Could Not Bear
Separation from Husbands.

The women of America had their
full share of the burdens of war when
they gave their husbands, sons and
brothers to the country which called
upon them in dire need. 1t is con-
ceded that of the two, the woman who
stayed at home and the man who
marched away, the woman had the
harder task
But the records Of the war depart
ment show that women were not, in
all cases, willing to remain at home,
parted from those they loved. Strange
stories, writes Ada C. Sweet, in Chi
cago Journal, are told, some of them
well authenticated. of girls who enlist.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
His Chief Reliance.

Professor Ito graduating class In
college|-Young men. there is one
more question would like to ask, and
that Is, what books have helped you
most in your struggles for an educa.
ton?
Young Scadds promptly speaking
up from the foot of the class)-Dad's
check-book has helped me about as
much as any of 'em 80 far-Judge.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06

ncned to think unena The public single body there
four pubcs that prefer kinds theatrical There
that circle OF theatergos who like rscass there another
pubic that prefers spectacle there another that the and
there is fourth that the specially Of the vaudeville
heaters There has always been this classification of the show
instinct in human nature There people who cared for anything
below the standard of the Irving and Terry productions and there
people who the theae but insist going the
The theater place of We have different forms of
ecaon either violent challenge the most state of
nation like the lurd medrama quiet stroll in shady lanes like the
rural DRAMA conversational clash wit and chatter like the teacup
excellent rehmnt taste of the seamy side of morals Them
OF great many have stirred by grand
spectacle to be excited by the acrobat and the oopeoop The
vaudeville ha provides capsule doses Of flavor known the tired
senses Of man. d ssa T. go Esa.s :$
These the hownsncts and they compelled
Shakespeare have vaudeville show but he had
the ownstnc touching phases of it. in comedy and tragedy
as there The Greeks had the methods of dramatic
pense that we have now. I X ~ s#E 80 y S@3
The toward the vaudeville heater educating people
gto other eaters T attitude Of the vaudeville
vaudeville stage OF the interesting Taaon of the shownsnc
Forty years there the popular in the shows
The vaudeville audience wants its results quick it snack of the
big feasts the show business It wants acrobat knocabout
trained animals thefa then song conuror
then another play restless impatient audience
the most appeaive Of them ALL There they their
to conviction without particular art microbe to Cypress them
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06

ed as men and maintained their dis
guise for longer time than would be
imagined possible
Love of one, man, rather than love
of country, was the ruling passion with
/. most of the war-going women. But
there were exceptions, apparently, one
of which l shall describe.
1t was easy, especially after the first
two years, for a woman to pass the
careless inspection of recruiting off,
GERS who were mainly anxious to fill
their lists regardless of the fitness of
the volunteers as fighters. That they
were food for powder" was thought
to be enough. If the new recruit came
somewhere near five feet in height,
and was not obviously lame, halt or
blind, admission to the ranks was
sure.
Annie Dillybridge, 16-year-old girl,
enlisted at Detroit, so that she might
be near her sweetheart, lieutenant
in the Twenty-first Michigan regiment
To her dismay she was assigned to an
other company than the one in which
her lover was on duty, and though she
made every effort to get into his COM
pany, she never succeeded. She car
ried out her duties as a soldier, how
ever, taking part in number of bat
ties and doing good service.
When, in 1863, she was wounded in
the arm, the surgeon who was called
to dress the wound discovered her sex,
and the young heroine was summarily
dismissed from the service and sent
home.
Frank Miller" was the name taken
by Frances Hook, a 14-year-old girl
who enlisted in Chicago with her
brother, early in the civil war. The
pair were in one of the "home guard"
regiments for three months, and when
the term of service was finished they
again enlisted, it Is said, in the Nine
teenth Illinois regiment.
The brother was killed in battle, but
the sister remained in her regiment
until she was taken prisoner. In at
tempting to escape from the confeder-
ate prison the girl was shot, and her
wound led to the discovery of her Sc
cret. She was held a prisoner for
some weeks, and then exchanged, pre-
sumably for genuine Johnny Reb,"
and so she disappeared from the story.
These warlike feminine creatures
were, 1t will be noted, all very young.
Mary Owens, a young Pennsylvania
girl, but just in her teens, married a
young soldier, much against the will
Of her parents. Fearing to go home
after the wedding, she enlisted in her
husbands company, declaring that she
would never be parted from him. She
took the name John Evans" put on
the blue uniform and endured patient
ly all the hardships of soldier life.
She saw her husband shot dead by
her side, and she was wounded in the
same battle in which her husband was
killed She was sent home, invaded, |
after IS months service, and her sex |
remained undiscovered during the |
whole time of her army experience.
The one girl whose love of war, or of
seems to have led her to en-
list, is an unnamed heroine. / can not
help thinking that love led her into
the army, although 1t is not in the
story as told by the people who knew !
her. She was determined to enlist.
from the first, but her parents, who
lived in New York state, considered
her desire to enlist but crazy notion,
and they sent her west to visit some
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
Doa Saved His Life.

Yes said the young man, pensive-
ly, "a dog | once had saved my life"
Tell me about II" said the young
lady, with eager interest.
Il sold him for five dollars said
the young man, when | was nearly
starving Chicago Journal.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
lnstaIlments All Around.

Patieat (gloomily)--I don't seem to
be gaining very fast, doctor.
Doctor (cheerfully)-You can't ex.
pect to get well at one jump. You
viii have to regain your health grad
ually day by day-sort Of on the in
stallment plan, as 1t were.
Patient Frightening up)-Well, doc
tor, If this thing keeps on much long
er I'm afraid that you will have to
collect your bill in the same way
Judge.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06

Sympathy and mutual
understanding among the
nations of the earth will
solve all their differences.
1t seems to me, at the
same time, that the rec
ignition of certain facts
of primary importance,
and one Of the forgotten
vr neglected elements, is
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
A HarroWinu Result,

This agitation about Sunday shay.
Ing certainly makes one ashamed to
look stranger in the face"
"A good many natives certainly will
change countenance over 1t IL they
have to shave themselves. "-Balti-
more American,
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
How He Catches Them.

How does 1t happen that you are
"etained in so many divorce cases?"
well" replied the lawyer, seeing
that you are not In my line, I'll tell
you. look over the marriage licenses
every morning and send my card
around to the contracting parties. -
Judge.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
Strained Relations.

Edgar-Didn't the cook like US?
Euphemia-Oh, yes-she said that
she liked us all right, but that we
have to economic so that she couldn't
respect us.-Puck.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
Unkjnd.

George, dear, do you care for an,
other biscuit?" asked the bride.
mo. DEAR" replied the husband, qui.
city. Il haven't digested the first one
yet Detroit Free Press.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
Had Sampled II.

Van Antler-Does the new butler
know where to keep the wine?
Mrs. Van A.-Judging from his ap.
pearance, he thinks he ought to carry
it around himself. Life
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06

Assuredly we are not
doing all that we ought
to do, or even all that
we easily could do, for
the children of the city
in the summer. It is a
strange conception that
enables us to feel that
we have done our duty
by the children of the
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
Done by Roosevelt.

Office Boy-There's man down
stairs wants to see you.
Publisher-Show him up
Office Boy-He's already been; hes
a nature realist.-Chicago Journal.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
Her Visit Snoiled,

The Amiable Weman-Did you =.
joy your visit to Standardization?
The Perfect Lady---It was perfectly
horrid, that's just what It was! Why.
Shapespeares tomb was guarded 50
meanly that didn't get an epportun-
ity to chip off single souvenir, or
even to write my name on it .--Life.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06

No woman legislator in Finland
could Guido that French deputy who
tainted at the description of blood
shed and had 70 be carried out of the
chamber.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
In the Current.

Dolly has bathing suit
Very short and very cute
Shows a lot of stocking!
Queer sort of material
Electric silk" she says they call
It-because it's shocking.
Cleveland Leader.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06
Uhr Stuu 1l1hinrss ann
9ts fnlh MI tl1r pfnplr
By PROF. BRANDER MATHEWS,
Columbia University.

We forget that the stage, every sort of stage, is
the show business; it has meyer been anything else lit
erary accusations to the contrary
Probably when l,hespis took to the road people
Of that time said THAT'S the end of the drama; we
shall never again it restored to the high art it once
was" They have been saying that ever since of
them, about every so years. and they will continue to
say it, ~
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06

He-And now, darling, I'll have one
more kiss and then tear myself away.
The Mother Qnterrupting)- Sorry.
Mr.. Denton, but do you attach great
Importance to the order of your pro-
gramme Pick Me-Up
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-09-06

Johnny, doesn't your conscience
tell you that you are doing wrong?"
yes, mother, but father said l
wasn't to believe everything l heard"
Punch.
The Newtown bee., 1907-10-18
THE PRICE OF HEALTH.

1.-The price of health in a malarious district is just 25 cents; the cost of a box of Dr Kings New Life Pills, :" writes Ella Slayton, of Noland, Ark. New Life Pills cleanse gently and i'm part new life and vigor'to the system. 25c. Guaranteed by R. H. Beers & Co.,, Newtown; Taylor, Curtis & Co.,. Sandy Hook; P. J. Garvin, Bethel; L. Gou
 lett, Stevenson; H. w. Osborne, Eas- ton; w. B. Hawley, Sherman; Smith Bros., Cornwall Bridge Connery Bros., Georgetown; J. M. Sullivan, Bedding Ridge; G. F. Baker, Hawleyville G. w. Hurlburt & Co.,, Roxbury; Allen Joyce, Roxbury Station; c. W. Hatch, Bridgewater; w. N. Noble, New Mil- E. H. Beardsley, New Preston; Cogs- well & Wettereau, Washington Depot; l; Harry Brown, Southbury; c. P. Will Hams, South Britain; Perkins Brothers, Warren; w. N. Hurd, Long Hill, Drug gists. soc and S1. Trial bottle free.
The Newtown bee., 1907-10-18
EXCURSION TO THE BERKSHIRE
 HILLS
AND PITTSFIELD.

Judging from the advance sale of tickets for the Berkshire excursion the popularity of the many beautiful scenes among the.Berkshires is far from be- ing on,the decrease. These excursions have long been fixed and favored feat ure ofsthe Seasons outings and each succeeding year finds them more in public favor. The Berkshires have for some time been appreciated as an un- usually good site for the year round residence, and the town of Lenox is steadily gaining in favor and fast be- coming rival with Newport for social honors. For the train time of special train which will carry the excursion ists to the Hills" see our advertise ment columns.