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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-15

A full line of township blanks always
on hand at the DEMOCRAT office.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-15

Q SALE OK RENT-The feed and livery
barn at the rear of the Schulke store. Terms
and particulars upon application to Mrs. Ann
O'Brien, Langdon, N. D.. Sc
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-15

HOUSE FOR SALE OR RENT-Immediate
possession given. Apply to Attorney joseph
Cleary, Langdon, N. D. 37.tf
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
PLAYMATE OF A KING.

When Miss Yvonne Townsend,
daughter of Lawrence Townsend of
Washington, was a little girl, her ia
ther was minister to Portugal, and
she and the little Manuel often
played together, he never dreaming
at that time of being king. Recently
Miss Townsend went to Windsor to
visit King Edward, and almost the
first person she met was King
Manuel. AS usual, a fantastic story
was concocted of the possibility of
the king giving up his throne to
marry the American girl, but there
is no foundation for it.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
The THRESHOLD OF THE YEAR
Solemn Thoughts That Arise as ons
Faces the Coming Twelve Months
Of Good or ll

| have passed the door which
opens to another year. The latch
Of the door was lifted for me by
hands not my own, | could not stay
in the old year any more, even if |
tried. l loved its suns and SHOWS
and even its storms and darkness
we're good for me. do not mind
now the sting Of the pain dart which
struck me, nor am ! ashamed of the
resultant scar. And then, some
times, there was the touch Of gentle
hands and the kinship of under
standing hearts These we're my
wine in weariness. All that is past
all save the memory of it and the
effect Of it; these abide-a part Of
the fiber Of my latest self. But for
this other year-the strange, new one
-whatG | ought not to ask. A
veil is over its days, mercifully. I
only know that | have essayed IT,:
that it is but little bit Of the whole
span Of life, an annual unit in the
sum Of time; and that in it lie my
further adventure and opportunity.
] shall go on. From their height
the stars will see me, the earth will
prove itself my friend all over again,
and | shall meet my brothers on the
way.-Richard Wightman, in Sue
cess Magazine.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
LOVE OF THE LITTLE ONES
"euffer Them to Come Unto Me" a,
Important Now as When First
II Was Uttered.

Let your love 60 out freely and
habitually TO little children. The
world will soon pass into their hands.
and without them the world would
be a wilderness, probably in less than
a century 1t is more blessed to love
children than to be the object Of
their love.-Sulphur Springs News.
A child is so constructed that it
grieves when it is not loved. And
when it is loved, its heart goes out in
complete abandon to the fortunate
soul who has captured its confidence
by a smile or a kind word. There he
stands, his little face smeared with
dirt, his tiny fists sunk deep into his
eye sockets, his little breast rising
and falling as each heart throb es-
capes his lips because nobody loves
him. But when sister calls to him
"Come Bubby and love me" one
look and a second of indecision and
his soul goes out through his eyes
and his streaked face to his immacu-
late benefactor, and Bubby and dirt
and all are cuddled to her breast.
And little Paul Dombey hungered
and wondered: "What are the wild
waves saying %-Houston Post.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
WOMEN IN BALLOON RACES.

Miss Genevieve Shaffer and Miss
Margaret Miller were two young wo-
men who took part in the Portala
balloon races at San Francisco. Miss
Shaffer went up in the "Queen of
the Pacific" and Miss Miller in the
"City of Oakland" Miss Shaffer
was with Capt. Ivy Baldwin, repre-
senting the San Francisco Aero
club, and Miss Miller from Oakland.
The two balloons started off to-
gether and the sight is said to have
been very inspiring one.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
GRACE BEFORE MEAT.

An innovation in the Kansas peni-
tentiary is the saying of grace,
since November 1, in the woman's
dining room. The matron began
saying the grace and now the women
take turns, sitting at the head of the
table and saying the simple grace.
The woman prisoners have taken
kindly to the practice and there is
no levity or sneering when the words
are said. The official grace is very
simple and seems to have a good in
huence upon the conduct of the wo-
men prisoners.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
THE MAKING or A GOOD PLaY
Plot, skllfully or UnsklllfuIly Drawn.
Is at The Bottom OF suc.
cess or Failure.

A good plot is that sure edifce
which slowly rises out of the inter-
play of circumstance on tempera-
ment and temperament on circum-
stances, within the inclosing atmos-
phere of an idea, writes John Gals
worthy, in the Atlantic. A human
being is the best plot there is; it
may be impossible to see why he is
good plot, because the idea within
which he was brought forth cannot
be fully grasped but it is plain that
he is a good plot. He is organic.
And so it must be with a good play.
Reason alone produces no good
plots; they come by original sin, sure
conception, and instructive after
power of selecting what benefits the
germ. A bad plot, on the other
hand, is simply row of stakes, with
a character impaled on each-char-
acters who would have liked to live,
but came to untimely grief; who
started bravely, but fell on these
stakes, placed beforehand in a row,
and we're transfxed one by one, while
their ghosts stride on, squeaking and
gibbering through the play. Whether
these stakes are made of acts, or Of
ideas, according to the nature of the
dramatist who planted them, their
effect on the unfortunate characters
is the same the creatures we're be-
gotten to be staked, and staked they
are
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
HELD NO TERRoRS FOR HIM
Champ Ciark's clpVer Disclaimer Of
tie Wrath Speaker Cannon
Might Manifest.

When hanp Clark inherited the
Troubles of John Sharp Williams az
minority leader in the house Of rep
rcscn'd''yrs. saws Success Magazine,
tc WIS 'old that Speaker Cannon
pod rod in pickle for him. 80
trrlo .Ioc's gwine to discipline me,
Is he no queried. 'Well, I reckon
arcr fcller's been brought up on
thr brand o chastisin' they deal out
down in ole Missouri he won't even
shy at Cannon crackers. It reminds
me uh ole Noah an tn feller t got
left out O tn ark. Ole Noah had
been exhortin' an a-pirootin' round
till tn hull kit an kaboodle was
plumb sick O. him. By and by tn
flood came, right on schedule, an tn
ungainly old ark went a-sailin' down
tn stream on tn topmost crest O. tn
rise. Coin long one day he spies
one uh tn ole onregenerates thet he
kinda he'd it in FIR, who had clim'
high up in tn tallest tree in them
parts.
"Well, We ole hardshell,' Noat
yells to him, what do you think
nowp"
"'Aw,' sputters tn ole codger up
tn tree, this here amt nary a food
Down in tn parts where l come
from tn folks wouldn't think this
here little sprinkle more'n a spring
shower '"-Cleveland Leader.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
CROWS GREETING.

'Well," exclaimed Congressman
Grow Of Missouri, as he extended his
hand to a Washington friend he had
not seen since the last session of con-
gross, 'T'm as glad to see you as if
l had stepped on a rusty tack. You
know, that was the greeting which
always was extended to me by one
of my dearest friends when we
would meet back in Missouri. / as
sure you it is a compliment
Washington Correspondent st. Louis
Star.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
WORKING FOR BETTER CITY.

Boston has a Woman's Municipal
league that is not only working for
the Boston 1915 exposition, but has
been improving the city's milk sup
ply, giving practical instruction to
mothers, free concerts and exhibi-
tions, paying inspectors for the pur-
pose Of bringi4ql about better sani-
tary conditions AID other work of
civic interest.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
BUILT THEIR CITY TO LAST
Ruins Of Ephesus To-day, Centuries
Old, Still Attract the Traveller
and AreheoIoeist.

Albert Bigelow Paine writes Of
the ancient city Of Ephesus in Har-
per's Weekly. "There are inscriptions
everywhere" he writes, "and some Of
them are as cleanly cut out to-day
as they were when the tool left them.
This library was built in honor of
Augustus Caesar and Livia, and it
must have been a veritable marble
vision. st. Paul doubtless came
here to study during the three years
Of his residence, and before him St.
John, for he wrote his gospel in
Ephesus and would be likely to seek
out the place of books. The great
theater where st. Paul battled with
the wild beasts stands just across the
way. 1t seated $4,000 and its stone
benches stretch upward to the sky.
The steep marble flight that carries
you from tier to tier is there to-day
exactly as when troops of fair ladies
and handsome beaux climbed up and
still up to find their places from
which to look down on the play or
the gladiatorial combat or the mas
sacre Of the Christians in the arena
below"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
WOMEN AT THE POLLS.

Mrs. Stanton Blatch does not
think that women watchers in New
York were treated as well as they
might be on election day. In one
ward she says the men were so drunk
that women had to figure up the bal
lots. She says that in some wards
the presence of the women added
such dignity to the voting places
that the men instinctively took of
their hats.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
UNVEILED THE MONUMENT,

Gertrude Gahrmann was the little
girl Of seven years who pulled the
cord that unveiled the monument to
Ciyanni de Verszzano, the Italian
rival of Hudson in the discovery Of
the Hudson river The little lady is
said 10 have made very pretty little
speech as she gave the sigma for the
cheers by lifting the veil.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
AT THE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY

What You here again? Why
| got you a situation only yester-
dayp
"But don't want to stay there"
"Whyr Have you had a quarrel
with your mistress ?"
go, not a word merely locked
her in the bathroom, and took my
things and leftp
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10

Father-Why have you quarreled
with Harry?
Daughter-Because he proposed
to me last night
Father-Well, there was no harm
in that, was there?
Daughter-But I had accepted
him the night before.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
ONE RAY OF HOPE.

eyes, said the departing actress,
'T regard America as hopeless. l
shall never return toit."
'NeverT said the reporter. "Why,
1 assure you that your very words
inspire hope"
Happily the summons TO go ashore
was heard just then.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
roo MANY woMsNs VOTES.

1t is maintained that more women
than men voted recently at school
election in Bradley Beach, N. j.,
$4,000 in school bonds having been
authorized by their vote. The men
don't like it at all, and win carry
the matter to the courts.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
NONE SUCH.

Wife-Will you take me tonight
to "What Every Woman Knows?"
Husband-My dear, if you could
suggest a play called "What Not a
Woman Knows" | would go in a
minute.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1910-02-10
THE TEST.

81 have always been able to paddle
my own canoe"
"But can you take your automo-
bile to pieces?"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
A GREAT INVENTION.

We had been waiting for Mr..
Edison's storage battery a long
time, and now that it has ar
rived, we are Eore than pleased.
Welcome to our city. AS we under
stand it, manifold benefits will ac-
crue-as benefits will do when they
are standardization it's use.
Chief among these advantages is
the opportunity the storage battery
offers men of modest means of
keeping their W private street
cars. Such cars equipped with the
new batteries should not be very
expensive. and the cost of putting in
private spurs from the residence to
the a tracks and of building a
modest private car barn need not
be prohibitive. Then think of the
wonderful convenience of the ar
rangement!
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
GREATEST HISTORY is IN MAKING.

A Newarker who died Wednesday
had known Poe, Longfellow II
Holmes. He, had been associated
with great events which contributed
the stirring, significant chapters of
the last volume of the worlds his
tory. And yet even he must have
admitted that some OF those C
struggles and developments he lived
to see which we are wont to dis
regard as being too near at hand
we're more wonderful even than the
events of half a century ago.
Notable among these happenings
was the triumph of a pagan yellow
people over the dreaded bear that
walked like a man." the freak war
in which Spain was crushed and
the United States lost but a handful
of men and the wonderful develop
ment of wireless telegraphy, the
wireless telephone and the aero
plane. .
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
GRAmmAR AND ETIQUETTE.

evil you kindly publish in your
paper what is proper to say, to drink
soup or to eat soup?"
This is a very difficult question to
answer offhand. Such expressions
as "He is the best soup eater l ever
listened to- and others of their kind
might indicate that soup should
be thoroughly chewed and masti-
Gated before it is swallowed. And
yet it may be pointed out that the
man who lifts his soup plate with
both hands after he has gone as
far as possible with his spoon
makes a beverage OF the delicacy.
We have seen some of the thicker
vegetable salad soups that would
choke q ~man-eating shark If he at
tempted to drink them, while others
are altogether 100 thin to afford
much resistance to the molars and
grinders with which the human
mouth is equipped. Thus no gen.
eral rule can be laid down. Look
and listen in each individual case
and make up your mind whether the
soup is being eaten or being drunk.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
MAKING FOR
CLEANER SIDEWALKS

1t was only an unthinking habit, and reason and common sense
helped law enforcement. 1t should be a matter of no greater diff
Guilty to stop expectoration on the sidewalks and crosswalks, and
The arrests for the ohense already made will go far toward accom-
plshing that end. The public necessity for the ordinance and the
reasonableness of the requirement upon the citizen speak strongly
to every mind. All men have an interest in public health and
public decency, and personal pride also furnishes an incentive.
After there shall be a few more convictions and fines abstention
from splitting in places where people walk or congregate will be.
come a general habit, and the victory will be won.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
Negro ch.uneurs.

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
Sir-In the first place, I want to
say that I am wholly devoid OF
prejudice against the negro, and,
for that matter, any other race. 1t
does seem to me, however, that the
marked increase. in the employment
of negroes as drivers of motor cars
has given many of them too great
an idea of their Importance. 1t
wasn't so very many years ago
when black men were slaves. Now
behold him as he drives through
the streets in the "boss's" lux
urious motor car! He either re-
clines majestically and "toots"
everybody away at a high rate of
speed or bends forward like a star
performer at a bicycle race track
and bids defiance to everybody. All
this, of course, when the "boss"
isn't around. ut is to laugh"
CARLYLE.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
BY NJ. T. W.

ships are expensive, and o nearly
new one might be practically
ruined by a large can of nitro
glycerine dumped from a passing
aeroplane, to say nothing of the
mangled, scatter Drained, panic
stricken condition into which the
crew would be thrown. II the ma
lions must play their war games
let them play fair and observe nice
rules.
We might even suggest other i'm
provements for wars of the future
along the same lines. No soldier
or sailor or attache of the army or
navy should be permitted to shoot
at one of the enemy when the lat
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
THE JERSEY FARM
OFFERS ADVANTAGES

w TNt JcTr, Is mpdT
with the next previous year; the total yield being $59. 357 95.
Higher prices probably account for the difference, for the weather
conditions last year were not ideal and the insects did not cease
from troubling. The greatly improved prospects for the farmer
in New Jersey ought to have the effect to attract population from
the cities to the agricultural sections. Many thousands of the
immigrant population were trained in farming and gardening in
Europe, and are, therefore, specially adapted for farm work in this
country. New Jersey presents many opportunities. Secretary
Dye, OF the State Agricultural Society, in his annual report refers
to the splendid work that is being done by Italians in South Jer.
sey, principally in the cultivation of small fruits. They are con
verting deserts into smiling gardens by their skill and industry,
and they perform all the labor of their small farms. The chief
value of the immigrant is as a tiner of the soil and a small land.
owner. Every immigrant who establishes a farm in New Jersey
becomes an important factor in the States growth. And State
policy should in every possible way encourage and aid the agricul-
tural immigrant in the cities to take up farming in New JERSEY.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
BETTER BATHHOUSE


posed by the board, and probably will meet no objection. The
Board of Works has other important fish to fry, and it's duties are
charging and accommodating. 1t can well spare this minor detail,
which has not received the attention from the board that it de-
serves. The Playground Commission, on the other hand, is not
overloaded with responsibilities, and, moreover, the public bath
house comes legitimately within it's province of duty. The change
of jurisdiction will be beneficial to the interests of public bathing.
The lighthouses will have closer supervision and better care, neces-
sary improvements will receive more attention, and in time the
commission may succeed in establishing a system of public bathing
that shall be in use all the year round.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21

Another Reply to "E~nglishnisn''
To the Editor of the Evening Star;
In the EVENING STAR of Jaru-
airy IS was a letter signed An
Englishman,'' endeavoring to extoll
the officials OF the Public Service
Corporation (two fiat-wheel cars
have passed while writing h
above).
IT is marvellous to me how this
SO dubbed Public Service can so
consistently carry out the policy OF
"the public be -
At Broad and Market streets q
sufficient and efficient force OF
police keep the citizens in order.
How much Of the salaries of these
men does this company pay?
The professions of four, five or
more cars going through the Or
anges. no cars going the other way
of three or four "Roseville" cars.
of which there are but few. arriv-
ing at the car house "in a bunch
cannot at this season be attributed
to MOSQUITOES on the track"
Two more fiat wheels just passed.
Possibly more run at night. That
car, No. 1926, 'slaps'' the rails
finely. The noise of an Erie freight
train is a lullaby to one of those
cars.
About a year ago on Bank street,
Newark, the a I was on stopped
suddenly. A mar and a little child
got aboard. When he was asked:
What did you mean by putting
that child o the track?' he an
swered, mo cars would stop, but l
made you The child was, of
course, unhurt.
Speaking of "hurt," how many
people are hurt, MANNED and Grip
pied by this road in a year? What
is the amount Of claims for DAM
ages now facing this company?
lib Coiipdiiy, Will lis ChoiiiiouS
capital, also has an enormous num-
Der of patrons, and this number is
growing by leaps and bounds. They
cannot help that. The crowding of
seven or eight carloads of work.
men from the Edison and other
factories not into, but ION and
around, and appertaining thereto"
five cars: the sweeping off of a
dozen or SO at once: the running
down of three vehicles within three
blocks, within q very short time of
each other, two of these victims iy-
ing in hospital neal each other,
neither makes friends nor divi-
bends. 81
In the last paragraph of the letter
referred to. the word "impertinent"
occurred. Unless that letter was
sarcastic, the Englishman was i'm
pertinent. The Owners" of these
cars are no better than most, and
not as good as many of the numer-
ous standees. G. E. d.
Orange, N. J.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
the Eaitor Of the Evening STAR:

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
In a recent issue Of your paper
some one signing himself 'Scien-
tist," probably using that term sar-
c~astically, asks whether a shadow
occupies space. This seems rather a
foolish query. The answer is mo"
and for this reason: If properly
arranged, two bodies may cast shad-
w on the same spot. AS a given
space can contain but one thing at a
time, it would be manifestly impos-
sible for the same space to accom-
modate two shadows. Therefore. =
shadow does not occupy space.
Does this solve scientists" prob
lem? A. NJ. b.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
ON THE SIDE

Copyright. 1910. BY rhs B. T. COD

SO easy to stop them. In the end
he said he was willing to pay his
friends fine. Then he discovered
he had no money. So he borrowed
the money to pay his friend, the
prisoners fine. from his friend, and
they left the courtroom together.
Now if it was that mans deep-laid
plan all along to force a loan and
refuse to repay it, he was sure some
relentless, subtle and vindictive.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
wants privers to walk.

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
Certainly it is a pitiable sight to
watch poor, oyerworked horses
struggling with their heavy loads
of city refuse along suburban, icy
streets. And still more certain is it
an unnecessary cruelty to animals
for stoutly-built men to perch on
top OF the heavy loads, when the
horses a hardly pull their carts
on dangerous spaces. An added
amount of pedestrian exercise these
heavy days would help the horses,
and in no wise injure selfish
drivers.
AN S. P. c. A. MEMBER.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21

TO the Editor OF the Evening Star:
Dear Sir-Congratulating you on
your excellent editorial entitled "A
Proper Weapon Against Extor-,
ton" permit a struggling mechanic
to make a simple statement.
Suppose, for instance, that the
meat trust should send for Justice
Wright and have him issue an in
junction forbidding these six thou
sand people from using any other
kind Of food except meat. Would
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-21
NICE TO BE NICE.

The International peace confer
ence wants to make it unlawful for
aviators, even in war times, TO drop
explosives from their breeze-boa
An urgent appeal has been sent to
the powers from Brussele that a
clause prohibiting such tactics be
included in the international code.
1t is a splendid suggestion. War