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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
Gun Slips and Shoots Boy.

Henry Hanson, son of a prominent
farmer living near Mapleton, was ac-
cidentally shot and perhaps fatally
wounded while engaged in cleaning
his shotgun The gun was thought to
be empty, and the boy was inserting
the cleaning rod when the butt of the
gun Slipped between the Stats in the
floor of the barn and the weapon was
discharged. The entire load of shot
entered the young mans left side.
tearing away the flesh and making an
ugly wound.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
MORE TEACHERS NEEDED.
Available Supply for Philippines In
sufficient.

Washington. April Cone hundred
and twenty American schoolteachers
will sail for the Philippines before
June J.. Most Of the new sc~hoolteach-
ers are men, as the Philippine COM
mission prefers them to women be-
cause of the hardships which must be
endured at interior towns. All of the
teachers sent to the islands are sub
ject to civil service examinations. The
certified list OF teachers has not been
sufficient to supply the full quota re-
quired this year and another exam
ination will be held soon to fill the
remaining places. There are about
soc American teachers and 5000 Fill
pino teachers employed in the insular
schools. The new school year opens
there on June I.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
CHICAGO Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, April 8.-Cattle-Beeves,
s4.15@6.65; cows. s1.SO@4.90; heifers,
$1.75@5.30; calves. $5.25@7.25: good
to prime steers. $5.35@6.65: poor 20
medium, $4.15@5.3O; stockers and
feeders, s2.SO@5.00. Hogs-Light and
mixed, $6.45@6.65; heavy. $4,000
6.62A; rough, $6.30@6.45; pigs, $3.50
@6.55; good to choice heavy, s6.5OI
6.62k. Sheep. s4.50@6.60; lambs,
$6.5O@8.35.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
NOT UNDER OUR | A
Supreme Court Decides Status of the
Isle of Pines.

Washington, April 9.-That the Isle
Of Pines is not American territory has
been officially and iudicially declared
by the supreme court of the United
States. The decision was rendered in
the famous case of Edward j. Pearcy
VS.. Nevada N. Stranahan. collector of
the port at New York. and the opinion
Of the court was announced by Chief
Justice Fuller, who said that up to the
Paris treaty the Isle of Pines had been
considered as an integral part of Cuba
and thai it could not be held to be
o cred by article 2 of that treaty,
which included only islands in the
vicinity of Porto Rico.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
laps Resort to Chinese Tricks.

Washington, April 8.-The immigra-
ton authorities are preparing to repel
an unlawful invasion of the United
States by Japanese coolies. Having
beer excluded from the United States
by the recently enacted immigration
law the Japanese have made up their
minds to resort to smuggling to get
in. Fully 500 Japanese coolies are
now trying to get in by way of the
Mexican border.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
WILL NOT BE EXECUTED
Mrs. Aggie Myers and Frank Hoffman
Go to Prison for Life.

Jefferson City, Mo, April 9.-The
sentence of death imposed upon Mrs.
Aggie Myers of Kansas City and
Frank Hoffman of Higginsville, Mo.
who were convicted of having muir
dcred the woman's husband, Clarence
Myers. in 1904, has been committed by
Governor Folk to imprisonment for
life. They will at once be brough, to
:the state ~penitentiary here. Mrs.
Myers is confined in the Clay count
jail at Liberty, and Hoffman is con.
fined lis the Kansas City iaii
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
MINE FIRE ExTINGUIsHED.
Steam overcomes Flames in the Home.
stake Shaft.

Lead, S. D., April 8.-There will be
no difficulty with the fire in the
Homestake mine. 1t is now extin-
guished and the workings are rapidly
clearing of gas. A number of men
have gone back to work and within a
few days everything will be running
as usual. The steam which was turned
on the fire was a success and as soon
as the lower levels are free from gas
the men will be put down and the two
idle mills will be started.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11

was i'll his s"ixty-eighth year and had
beer suffering for several months
o e complication of asthma and
pleurisy.
Stanford Newell was born in Provi-
dence, r. L., in 1889 and came to Min
nesota in 1855. Later he graduated
ron Yale and the Harvard law school
and on his return to st. Paul began
the practice of law. He took a prom
lnent hand in the affairs of the state
and from 1880 to 1895 was one of the
prominent figures in Minnesota poll
tics. In 1897 he vas appointed am
hassador to The Hague and served
until 1905.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
Deaf Mute Kills Himself.

Earl Appelby, a deaf mute travelling
solicitor for an advertising scheme,
shot himself fatally in the head while
In a room in the Antlers hotel at
Grand Forks. He left letters telling
OF his dependency over the fact that
he was addicted to drink. Only 40
cents was found on his person, and it
Is believed he was in some financial
difficulty. He registered from Rice
vile, Ia, March 26.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
Foley Chosen Secretary.

At a meeting of the state board of
railroad commissioners at Bismarck
the resignation of C. C. Hammond as
secretary was accepted, and ]. w.
Foley of Bismarck elected in his place
Mr. Hammond has been secretary Of
the board for several years. but his
rapidly increasing personal interests
demand all of his time, especially as
the secretary is now required to live
at the capital.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
Monday, April 8.

Scurvy is making great strides in
the famine districts of Russia.
The failure of Webster F. Putnam
& Co, bankers and brokers of Boston.
is announced.
Charles w. Strine, manager of the
Metropolitan Opera company of New
York, is dead at the Boothby hospital
in Boston. Mr.. Strine was operated
upon for appendicitis eight days ago.
The receipts of the Barnum &
Bailey circus, according to a circular
issued to the shareholders, show a
falling off in the last few years, while
the expenses have correspondingly in
creased.
The Prince of Monaco's Monte Carlo
Opera company is occupying the Royal
Opera House at Berlin, giving a series
OF operas, the entire proceeds Of
which go to charity. The company
costs the prince personally $11, $50
daily.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, April 8.-Wheat-To arrive
and OH t:ack-No. 1 hard. 82Ac; No.
1 Northern, size; No. 2 Northern,
79Ac; May, SOkc; July. 81Bc; Sept,
Sic. Flax-To arrive and on track,
$1.16B; May. $1.16%; June, SLIT;
July, $1.1S; Oct, $1.16A.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, April 8.-Wheat-May,
TIC; July, 7sAc. Conway, 1914
@46%c; July, 46k @46%c. Oats
May, 42Mc; July, 3s@3SAc. Pork
May, s15.S5; July, s15.92k. Butter
Creameries, 22@29%c; dairies, 200
27c. Eggs-15c. Poultry-Turkeys,
12c: chickens. 13kc; springs, 13Rc.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
Patterson Defeated.

The people of Bismarck smashed
the Patterson machine and the city
election gave many surprises. Patter-
son, for mayor, was defeated by DR..
f. r. Smyth by 50 majority out of a
total vote of Gal. A feature of the
election was the utter rout of the Pat
terson forces where they had hereto
fore been strongest, and the defeat of
Sheriff McGillis in his own ward,
he was beaten for alderman.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
Farm Hand Ends His Life.

Going to a room in the hotel at
Hope, Edward Schult, a farm hand EN-
ployed at the Mcclellan farm near
Hope, disrobed and then, wrapping
himself in the bed clothing, sem a bull
let crashing through his brain. No
motive for the suicide is known.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
TEN MEN ARE KILLED.

Shot by Strikers at Lodz for Attempt
ing TO Resume Work.
LODI, Russian Poland, April 6.-Ten
strikers in the factory district here
because they attempted to resume
work.
The managers of the factories have
begun to re-engage men, but the strik-
of work.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
MINNEAPOLIS Wheat.

Minneapolis, April S.-Wheat-May,
?s@791sc; July, S11sc. On track
No. l hard. S2@S2Ac; No. / North.
ern, S1@S1Ac; No. 2 Northern, 100
79Ac; No. 8 Northern. 76M77c.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
ST. Paul Union Stock Yards.

St. Paul, April s.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers. S5.5O@6.25; fair to good,
s4.00@5.00; good to choice COWS and
heifers, s3.5O@4.75; veals, S4.50@5.25.
Hogs-S6. 35@6.55. Sheep-Wethers,
$5.50@6.4o; good to prime lambs, s5.25
nj IN
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
Robber Shoots Officer.

While attempting to arrest a burglar
who was robbing a harness store at
Grand Forks, Policeman Andy sulli-
van was shot in the leg and seriously
but no dangerously wounded. The
burglar escaped and is still at large
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
WALSH AGAIN INDICTED,
Accused of Various Violations of Bank
ing Laws.

Chicago, April 5.-The federal grand
jury has returned another Indictment.
containing ITS counts, against John r
Walsh, the former president of the
Chicago National bank. The counts
charge misapplication of funds and
credits Of the bank ard also ailege that
he made false entries in his reports
to the controller of the currency.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
Girl Settler Drowned.

Tillie Olson, twenty-one wears old
who has been holding down a claim in
Hettlnger county. was drowned in a
slough which she was attempting to
cross on the ice.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
Thursday, April q.

Four hundred transfers went ON
strike in Boston Wednesday to en-.
force a demand for an increase of 81
a week in their pay and a reduction
in their hours of work.
A bill making it unlawful for brew
ers and wholesale liquor men to own
saloons has passed both houses of the
Nebraska legislature and will be
signed by the governor.
The estimates in the official press
of Roumania place the material dam
age due to the agrarian revolt at
100000 but the landowners claim
that the losses incurred are much
greater.
Emperor William does not approve
of the movement for holding a worlds
exposition in Berlin during 1913, the
twenty-ffth year of his reign, there
fore the project will doubtless be
abandoned.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
STANFORD Newell DEAD.
Former Ambassador at The Hague
Expires at ST. Paul.

st. Paul, April S.-Stanford Newell,
residents of st. Paul and for many
years a prominent figure in state and
national politics. is dead. Mr.. Newell
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
President Merr;f;c,d - p.~.;.

'''CIu 10 ncNnaIh.
President Merrifield has agreed to
withdraw his resignation and will re-
main at the head of the North Dakota
university.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
Friday, April S.

Representative and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth expect to spend a month in
Alaska the coming summer.
Robbers partially wrecked the safe
Of the Redield State bank at Redtield,
Kan, but only secured a 1ittle change.
Mrs. John +. Olson OF New Rich
mond, Wis, las instantly killed by
a thunderbolt during a severe cleo
trical storm.
Over 1900 brewery employees in
Western Pennsylvania threaten to
strike unless the brewers sign their
contract for 1907.
Myer l.. Wilson, aged t%wenty-three
years, son of Fl. /. Wilson. a prom
inent business mar OF Kansas City,
committed suicide by shooting.
The division Of dead letters of the
postofice department broke all records
by returning to senders during the
month of March 374.2I9 undelivered
letters and packages.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-04-11
Saturday,, April 6.

Governor Stuart of PENNSYLVANIA
has signed the bill making the maxi
mum rate OF fare on railroads within
that state 2 cents a mile.
Professor Willis l.. Moore, chief of
the weather bureau, has been appoint
ed president of the jamestown expo-
siticn aeronautic congress.
The Mcdonald engineering building
at McGili university, Montreal, was
destroyed by fire Friday. The loss is
estimated at between 100000 and
s750,000.
Edward c. Hauseman, widely known
as a successful racer on the national
bicycle circuit and afterwards a prc-
moter of motor paced races, is dead
at New Haven, Conn.
At the request Of Queen Wilhelmina
the cabinet of The Netherlands has
Withdrawn it's resignation, rendered
Feb. IL, but the wal minister, General
H. P. Stahl, will give UP his portfolio.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-07-18
DON'T DEsPIsE THE FARM.

The little farm among the mountains doesn't make
rich. The older men and women who have been
there all their lives content stay there but the
growing girls and boys, when they read about the rich
old place. not enjoy life here. AS soon as get
chance will go off to the city and make fortune
there and amount to something.
Wait a minute Some people do get rich in the cit
les but did you stop to think how many hundred
poor men it takes to make rich? The
city you would have to help make some one else rich
instead of getting rich yourself. How many man has
left comfortable, happy healthy home on the farm
and gone to the city to live in SMALL dirty rooms with
smoky, bad-smeng air to breathe and unfriendy peo
pie all around and has oied for years hoping get
start and make fortune and has finally died there be-
fore his time longing for the dear old home and friends
on the farm.
But the work is hard and the life is dull and re-
turns slow and poor on the farm. That is true.
How shall we make it better2 First let make the
best of all have Get the best papers and books in
to the home, so it will be the happest place in the
world and read and talk with those who love
Then the dulness of the home will be gone Then let
that the School and Church and Sunday School
in neghborhood are kept up we'll hat will help
to make the whole neghborhood happier and better
Then let us send the bigger children off to college,
When they get back they will know how to farm and do
everything else better and bring life the neghbor-
hood because they have learned lot of new things and
met lot of bright people. Finally learn the ways to
make the farm pay better. We are not getting half
out of our farms that in them. But the United
States Government is working all the time to find out
ways of getting bigger and better paying crops and the
newspapers telling how, and the colleges are giving
special farming and gardening that every
body may learn how to make the farm pay better.
The wise farmer will stick to his farm but will take all
the help offered him make it pay far more than it
does
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-07-18
THINGS TO THINK OF
Wise and Striking Words of the
Worlds Greatest Thinkers, Speak
ers and Writers.

BE modest, but have a mind Of your
own. Don't borrow leave to be-"
Some heads are too full of self-con-
ceit to have room for anything else
The world is full of men and women
who think that whatever is is wrong,
and that they were born to set it
right.
Useful labor saves from gloomy
thoughts. The problem of evil press
es hardest upon unoccupied minds.
The world usually gives us what we
expect. The dog that sneaks about
with his tail tucked always gets
kicked.
A man can no more be a Christian
without facing evil and conquering it
than he can be a soldier without go
ing to battle, facing the lannon's
mouth, and encountering the enemy in
the field.-Chapin.
The world is a looking glass, and
gives back to every man the express
sion Of his own face. Frown at it,
and it will in turn look sourly upon
you; laugh at it and with it and it is
jolly, kind companion; and so let
all young persons take their choice
Thackeray.
am only one; but still I am one.
caituot do everything; but stin 1
can do something. And because l can
not do everything, l will not refuse to
do the something that l can DE-
K. Hale.
One cannot always be a hero. but
one can always be a man.-Goethe
The best woman has always some
what Of mans strength; the noblest
man, woman's gentleness.-Craik.
What do we live for if it is not to
make life less difficult for each other.
George Eliot.
And yet when a strong brain is
weighed against a true heart, it seems
to me like balancing q bubble against
wedge of pure gold-Oliver w.
Holmes.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-07-18
THE SCHOOL TEACHERS MISSION
BY Letcher oabbard.

There are many professions from
which one may select his life work,
and in any selection find pleasure and
success II he will give himself and his
best efforts to 1t. But speaking from
my own standpoint, l feel safe in say
ing that there are none which carry
such responsibilities as the profession
of teaching will put it more con-
cisely: I believe the mission of the
teacher is more important than any
other profession save that Of the min
istry, and even the ministry might be
included. The painter may bring forth
his masterpieces Of art, the doctor ma.
boast of the sick he has restored to
health, the lawyer with his eloquence
and statecraft may stand pre-eminent
in administering justice to the people;
but of all these and many other profes
sions that might be named. not one de-
velops. trains and brings to light the
faculties of the human mind as does
the work Of teaching. The teacher
stands '1n loco parentis," and we
might say "in loco Del" That is. he
stands in the place of the parent, and
in a sense. in place of God. The
greatest man that ever lived on earth
was a teacher-Jesus Christ, the
Son of God. Then can you have a
greater or nobler ambition than to be
an efficient teacher?
IL is true that there are great re-
sponsibilities placed upon the teacher.
Nor is this all; when we look at
teaching from the standpoint of the
man whose chief aim is money getting
we see nothing encouraging. But,
teacher ] claim that the greater the
responsibilities and difficulties that go
with the work, the greater are the pos
sibilities in it. 1t may not be the pos
sibility Of getting a surplus of money,
but it will be the possibility Of doing
good. And, teacher, that possibility
will not be all. 1t will animate you
and increase your power to- do your
work, whatever II may be. But when
we see so many going into the pro-
fession biindly. regardless Of the re-
suits to be attained, it makes us
pail and grow sick at heart" But
on the other hand, we become more de
termined to go into our work with re-
newed courage and with will to do
the work for which real teaching
stands. We many times ignore the
fact that much of our greatness as a
nation is due to the teacher We many
times fail to heed the fact that the
destiny and stability of our nation
rests upon that pivot of civilization,
education; the advancement of which
depends mainly upon the teacher.
The world is asking much OF the
teacher. regardless of its returns TO
him. But we should be inspired and
[continued on Eihgth Page.l
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-07-18

Assistant United States Attorney.
General James c. McReynolds Is inves-
tigating the affairs OF the American
Tobacco Company OF Tobacco Trust
and is stirring up considerable anxi-
ETY. on the part OF the trust officials
McReynolds recently said that criminal
cases would be made OF some Of the
trusts doings Among the men in
volved in the difficulties are John b,
Cobb. president OF the American Cigar
Co. and James b. Duke. president OF
the American Tobacco Co.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-07-18

Judson Harmon. who was Attorney
General Of the United States under
President Cleveland, recently made a
speech at Bowling Green in which he
took a rather gloomy view of the
Federal activity in commercial affairs.
He thinks the national government
should leave more of the work of reg
ulating the railroads and such things
to the states themselves. He declares
we had better have no constitution
than have each new administration in
terpret it as the officials please. The
states rights doctrine, he says. is not
yet entirely dead.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-07-18
THE FOREIGN DEVIL
a True Story Of the Chinese Famaine
Written from Shanghai, China, by
Ida L. Brooks

(Citizen readers who have contrib
uted to the Chinese Famine Relief
Fund viii be very much interested IN
this true story Of the famine, and the
many friends OF Miss Brooks, who
was President Frost's secretary for a
number Of years, who is now in Shang-
hal. China. viii be especially glad to
see something from her pen.-Ed)
Leaving the Celestial Empire in
darkness. the sun, speeding on its way
to the Western world. seemed typical
Of the flight Of hope from the famine
stricken district Of China, where in
deed. despair had fallen. Millions
were starving. thousands had died,
and only a few courageous souls were
battling with the famine-demon.
Loyalty had the followers Of Christ,
OF Buddha, Of Confucius. worked to-
gether in an attempt to mitigate the
horrors Of the situation, but the entire
band was pitifully inadequate to deal
with the swarming multitudes. Per-
haps none had been more faithful than
a few scattered Taoist priests. OF
the nobIest of these was zia STA Bauk,
devout, ascetic, loving his people with
a fierce devotion--and hating all for
eigners with an equally fierce preju-
dice.
OF money and food he had given
freely until nothing remained but a
scant supply OF rice-that dwindled
with alarming rapidity. His household
consisted OF himself and servant. and
the adopted child of dead brother;
a child Of unusual promise. whom he
worshipped TO the point Of idolatry.
From lack OF food. from the excite
ments Of the situation, the child lay
nl,-dying. the native physician had
said; and the Taoist priest sat watch
ing by his bedside. a picture Of alb
ject despair
Foreign devils, alb, foreign devils
A faint voice from the bed startled
him. my father. oh. my father, !
was not sleeping," The boy attempt
ed to sit up. but sank back exhausted.
you frightened me, father, you are
angry! What are they-these, fsese
foreign devils-will they hurt us very
much, father?"
Alarmed that he had excited the
sick child, the father bent over the
wasted form and spoke with quick
gentleness. Little one. child of my
heart, never fear
"Ah," the boy turned his head I'M
easily and battled to keep back the
tears OF weakness-it was for girls
and women TO weep. never for boys or
men; "ah, my father. devils are bad
so bad-do we not strive to drive them
away with many noises? And foreign
devils, are they the worst Of all, faith
err, and are they coming here? The
child shuddered and the hand held
in the fathers strong grasp grew cold.
Drawing the heavy covers more
closely around the boy, and rubbing
the cold little hand that was so dear
TO him, the reply came tenderly from
the aching heart of the priest, Little
lcosaAsued on Sixth Pagsl
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1907-07-18

Col. George b. Harvey who has
been travelling In Europe, says that
undoubtedly Pres. Roosevelt is "the
most popular man in the world" The
reasons are summed up somewhat as
follows: Royalty. led by the German
Kaiser himself. like him because they
feel that in Roosevelt, autocraey has
a strong defender; the middle com
merciai classes admire him for his
vigorcos attacks on the great indus
trial corporations; and the socialists
and anarchists praise him because he
IS the first great ruler to give them
omen and favorable recognition" How
-Sr inconsistent these reasons seen
aen compared with each other i
II we're left TO Europeans. Roosevelt
would be unanimously reelected a.
president Of the United States.