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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31
Two Years Old Today.

On Oct. 31st, 1910, we opened our
doors for the first time. We didn't
have a large crowd. The house was not
overcrowded very often that winter,
but in spite of the crop failure, we ran
steadily through the year.
Last year was better. This will be
better yet. Now we are open every night
except Sunday, with new pictures every
night. Only a few of the theatres in
the large cities change programs as
frequently as this.
We use the best equipment. No
theatre in the country can use better,
because we have the latest model of
the best machine
We have the best pictures. Others
show them earlier, but their condition
on reaching Langdon is first class.
We have installed ventilating equip
ment, etc., will add any other features
worth while.
We desire to that we
are installing a steel ceiling, ornamental
wall lights, ETC., and that the entire
building will be elaborated.
On Monday, Nov. 18th, we shall haye
the new addition just built, open for
use. This gives an additional capacity
of IS seats or 275 in all, a total of 300,
with standing room. This will. make
the present seats more desirable being
further from the screen. and make the
heat and ventilation moro even through
out.
We desire to thank our friends and
patrons for their past support, and to
assure all hat we will endeavor to
merit their patronage in the future.
Yours sincerely,
HE ELECTRIC THEATRE.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

The result of a straw vote taken less
than a week ago at Bismarck was both
astounding and enlightening to the
party who spent a day at the task-a
bull moose devotee.1 who had got the
idea in his upper story that everyone at
the state capital was for Roosevelt. He
gathered up a total of 1877 votes of which
70 were for Wilson, IS for Roosevelt and
A for Taft.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

"It is but simple justice to say that
no official connection with my admin.
istration has done more to make it a
success than Warden Hellstrom. He
has proven himself a man of the high
est business ability, possessing rare
executive qualificatlons-capable, pains
taking, honest and courageous-and an
ideal man for governor of the great state
of North Dakota.''-Gov. John Burke.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

The Canadian reciprocity proposal
simply meant free trade with Canada.
The democratic party's free trade pro-
posal simply means-"Canadian reci-
procity" with every country under the
%sun.-Fargo Forum.
And President Taft, head of the re-
publican party and it's candidate for
reelection called a special session of con
gress for the express purpose OF forcing
the reciprocity pact through. He sub
mitted the whole matter to Mr.. Roose-
welt and it met with his entire approval.
Now the Forum is trying to place the
fathering of the child on the democrats.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31
A FRANK STATEMENT

There are four Franks on the demo
cratic ticket this year, and they are a
tandem team to be proud of. They are
Frank Hellstrom, Frank Brandt, Frank
L.sh and Frank Stanley. For all
around ability and sturdy manhood
they will hold their own with any
similar team the world over: Don't
forget the four Franks on election day.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

When you vote on Nov. 9th look up
that amendment increasing the term of
supreme court judges to ten years and
vote against it. The measure has
absolutely no merit and might prove a
menace if enacted into law.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

Cavalier county is being stumped
during the last week of the campaign
by Congressman Hanna and Lieutenant
G Governor U. L. Burdick, two prominent
stars in the political fip.hor arena of
this falls campaign.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

"Had dyspepsia Oh indigestion for
years. No appetite, and what I did eat
distressed terribly. Burdack Blood Bit
tors reached the cause."-J. H. Walker,
Sunbury, Ohio.
Township and legal blanks of all
kinds at the DEMOCRAT office.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

Another straw vote that goes to in
dictate that Wilson and Hellstrom are
going to carry North Dakota was taken
last week at Fargo at one of the local
theatres. Wilson got 102 votes; Roose-
welt IS, Taft II and Debs 6.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

In 1890 the average farm acreage in
the state was 277.4 while in 1910 1T had
increased to 1928. But during that
time land values in North Dakota we're
Ii teralIy soaring. In the period from
1900 to 1911 it advanced 1873 per cent.
The average value of land and buildings
per acre in 1900 was sl2.79 and in 1910,
S28.94.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

The Bismarck State says that the
Taft-Hanna idea of politics and the La
Toilette idea of politics can't walk OF
the same side of the street
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

So long as the people have said they
want a change, make it complete by
voting the entire democratic ticket from
top to bottom. "Turn about is fair play
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

Alex Mckenzie and Jim Hill interests
were behind Hanna in the state legisla-
ture and in congress. Do you think
they have deserted him now?
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31
Subscribe for the DEMOCRAT and have
your neighbors do likewise.

Never can tell when you'll mash a.
finger or suffer a cut, bruise, or scald.
Be prepared. Thousands rely on DR..
Thomas Eclectic Oil. Your druggist
sells it. 25c and SOC.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

Has anybody heard Hanna say where
he will deposit the state money it elected
governor?
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31
A STALWART YELL

Louis B
Hanna, We
Won't give up the treasur-ee
It's the key
Don't you see
Why you're now a nominee,
Hell-Hell- Hell-strom, we won't
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

Let Alex do it! (Not Alex. Mckenzie,
but Alex. Morrison.)
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-10-31

Everett Salter arrived from Saskatoon,
Sask., and is making a few days visit
with his brother Horace Salter of the
g. Chisholm store.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-08

of monopoly in interoceanic traffic.
1t will encourage every ship owning,
operating or chartering company or
individual in the world to build, OPP
crate or charter vessels to use the
canal. 1t will keep rates between
the Atlantic and Gulf ports and those
of California, Oregon and Washing
ton. 1t will improve to the largest
degree the possibilities of trade be-
tween the United States and the west
or Pacific coast of twelve Latin
American countries reaching with
vast potential resources for 5000
miles from Mexico to Chile. 1t will
bring to the ports of the United
States and Latin America vessels of
every flag, providing them with album
dant shipping facilities and adding
greatly to their prosperity. 1t will in
augurate a new commerce between
the Atlantic and gulf coasts of the
United States and the ports of Asia
and Australia, which otherwise would
use the Suez canal or not exist at ALL
John Barrett.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-08
ing to the political spoilsmen.

ting to the political spoilsmen.
Shades of the Merrimac; and to
think congressman like Hays and
Fitzgerald would have the temerity to
refer to the methods of Lieutenant
Commander Hobson as ''cowardly;'
but that is just exactly what these
two people have said on the floor OF
the House, and to make it more en-
phatic, they reiterated the statement
the following day. Hobson has been
spending most of his time gathering
in the long green on Chautauqua cir
cults and has been too busy with this
commercial enterprise to get back at
his assailants in a proper manner.
But he has been in his seat in the
House long enough to ask. special
committee of five members to invest
igate his controversy with his fellow
Democrats. People who remember
how Hobson risked his life during
the Spanish-American war ON the
Merrimac, and afterwards defying the
kissing germ on his great trip
through the country, must concede
that while he may be something OF
wag, that to say he Is cowardly is
most unjust accusation.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-08
NO PANAMA TOLLS

A free canal, in addition to in
creasing the commerce of the United
States in ten years to fifty times the
cost of operation, maintenance and
interest, will accomplish. other re-
suits. It will absolutely destroy all
possibility, in any shape or manner
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
FACING A SERIOUS PROBLEM
English Housewives Seem to BE Caller
Upon to Choose Between Cook
and ParIormaid.

Now, the crux of the situation is
this: Which of the maids Is to go?
Must the neat-handed parlor maid
take her departure? If so, the lady OF
the house knows that the early cup
Of tea will not be ready t. start her
day, or II she mus+ have she will have
to do as her sister from the colonies
usually does-make 1t herself. Women
from the colonies, by the way. are apt
to be amused at the comfortable ex
istence ed Ey the home people. Eng
lish gsniiomen who have settled II
Canada are often compelled to get up
Of morning to coal the basement fire
for heating the home. Think of the
gentlemen Of the upper middle classe:
ut home getting up of a morning Z"
kindie the kitchen fire! IT is not to
he thcHght of; the suggestion is ar
:mpoGsih . one. Then a glance round
the drawing room. with its polished
floor, its rugs, It's ornaments. It's cos'
fire. 70, preference. makes the mid
dle-ag"6 hose mistress go quietly out
close tie "CCr of the room. and meG
!tate in soiitude. 1t seems TO her Iha,
cook -: go. However. there rise
before her the ghosts Of the dishes
she rscd to make quite we'll. II is so
long since she touched any kitchen
utensils. Would her old skill return
to her In her extremity? Alas! she
could not reckon upon any such hap
py coincidence; she. perforce. must
continue to rack her brain and pay
her cook. Even suppose she did man.
nge to supplement her own cooking
by outaiie aid what would hapren on
their social evenings ?-London Stand
ard
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
BEAUTY NO LONGER A MARVEL
Time Has Gone BY When Worla
Stopped to Wonder at Lowell
ness of Women.

Within the last week two well-known.
beautiful, rich society girls, botn
young, both popular, with all doors to
which society has the key flung open
before them, have elected to go into a.,
East End hospital and scrub floors for
pauper invalids. Perhaps they viii,
not stick to it; the important thing l.:
that hey want to try it.
The fact is that we are no longer
sufficiently satisfied with beauty to
think woman has justified herself by
being good to look at. Thirty or forty
years ago people came from every
part of the world to see Georgiana
Lady Dudley, Mrs. Langtry and Mrs.
Cornwallis-West walk in the park. At
an earlier date the beautiful Cummings
caused riots, SO great was the anxiety
to see them. Anne of Austria drew
people from the most inaccessible cor.
ners Of what was then a very inacces.
sible world, who made their way with
year-long journeys to Paris, caught a
glimpse of her entering her carriage
and went home again saying they had
seen loveliness itself. Today we
would not cross the road to see a pret.
ty woman, possibly because there are
80 many of them. Indeed, beautiful
women Of today are more admired by
women than by men. But in any case
beauty as a profession is dead-Lon'
don Truth.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
MUST HAVE SHOCKED MUMMY
French Custom HousS Officer Did
Not Know He Was Dealing With
Defunct Monarch.

M. Maspero, the famous French
Egyptologist, tells in some remjnis.
cences OF an amusing experience
which befell him on one occasion
when bringing an Egyptian mummy
to Europe. 1t was the mummy Of
King. and an important contribution
to archaeology, and M. Maspero fan.
cied that the French custom house Off.
GERS would not insist too rigidly upon
payment Of duty. ...
The first of these functiOnaries
whom he encountered, however, insist
ed upon doing his full duty. He opened
;he box which contained the mummy
and exclaimed:
"Halloa, what have we here?"
"A Pharaoh--a genuine Pharaoh Of
the sixth dynasty" said the scientist.
"A--a Pharaoh" said the puzzled
officer. II don't seem to remember
what the duty on Pharaohs is."
He set to work to look mp "l'ha
raohs" in his tariff schedule, but
found no such article entered in his
list.
This Importation" said the officer,
finally, docs not seem to be provided
FOR under the statutes. We shall have
TO follow our usual rule in such cases,
and class II with the highest.taxed
article OF the kind that Il seems to
belong to. I shall classify your Pba
raob as dried fish"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
WHY "vlcToRY" WAS DUSTY
Aousemaid Feared Further Damage
to statuette Already Subjected
to Hard Usage.

A New York woman engaged a new
housemaid the other day, and was
Immediately delighted at the exhibit
tton Of the new servants efficiency.
Norah waited on the table with per-
feet mastery; she answered the front
doorbell with matchless grace; she
never once grumbled when told that
she must wear cap; her busting was
a marvel of orderliness.
But the mistress of the apartment
was astonished, when the new maid
had been in the house about q week,
to find that her cherished Victory Of
Samothrace" was covered with dust.
The beautiful headless body stood
gray and unlovely on it's pedestal, and
the "Victory's" owner called Norah to
see what the matter might be.
81 can't understand this, Norah," >"
she said. Everything else Is kept
80 spotless. How have you happened
to neglect the little statue. Have you
busted 1t at all?" .
Norah admitted that she had not,
and said no more.
"But why?" the mistress persisted.
"Why?" And then, miserably, the
maid owned up.
I'm bit awkward with me fingers,
num-" she murmured, shyly. "And 7
saw how bad it was broke, mum, and
I was afraid o droppin' it an maxim
1t worse"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
CAMERA HERO SAVED TRAIN
Spoiled Films an III Reward for Act
That Deserved Better Things
of Fortune.

The slave of the camera wns dozine
in the smoking car when a half dozen
shots rang out in the night air.
The train slackened. There were
more shots.
Train robbersl" shrieked a pallid
passenger as he crawled under the
seat.
The camera man grasped his black
box and tripod, and, running to the
car platform, sprang off into the dark
ness.
The robbers, most of them, were
grouped about the express car. There
was much money in the express safe.
The company said not over SIT, but
1t must have been thousands. Any.
way, the robbers were determined to
get 1t, whatever 1t was. They haG
done lot of wild shooting and sev.
eral persons had been hurt. Now
they had showed stick of dynamite
into the car and were just about to
ignite the fuse.
Suddenly a binding glare filled the
air with dazzling fire.
With wild shrek the robbers fled
TO the woods.
The hashlight of the camera man
had saved the train.
When they found him he was
crouched before a train hands Ian
tern, weeping bitterly.
Something went wrong with the
Own thing" he moaned. "The films
sr'uiled"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
COOKED EGGS ON FLATIRoh
with the Gas Stove Frozen Up, New
Yorker Proved Himself Equal
to the Emergency.


The prolonged cold spell this win
ter sharpened the wits of many per
sons who never before had anv idea
or the uses to which electricity could
be put. When the gas gave out In
cooking stoves owing to the pipes be.
ing frozen-as 1t did in hundreds of
houses-there was a rush for electric
cooking utensils.
But sometimes the emergency arose
when 1t was not possible to buy such
things in time. One such case oc.
Cured at breakfast time and left the
family with nothing on which to cook
eggs. The master of the house knew
they had an electric fatiron. He told
them to invert 1t and cook the eggs
on its polished undersurface. which
vas done without difficulty. Small
pancakes and toast were cooked in
the same way.
Another resourceful man used
hatiron to thaW out frozen radia.
tor, while yet another, In order to make
MS radiator more efficient and stir up
the stagnant air In room, placed an
electric fan on the floor and direct.
ed blast of air against the radiator
The effect OF this was to raise the
temperature of the room 25 degrees
In half an hour.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
cRoW0lNG TO SEE TENNYSoN
Congregation Would Not Leave West
minister Abbey Without Glimpse
of the Great Poet.

Sir James Knowles accompanied AL.
fred Tennyson to the funeral of Dick.
ems at Westminster abbey and he de.
scribes in "Tennyson and His Friends"
the scene wher the crowd identified
the distinguished visitor. There was
an Immense congregation that day in
the abbey and when. the service was
over we stood up waiting long time
tc pass out through the rails. But in
stead of dispensing by the outer door
tn people all turned eastward and
h9csed toward the altar, pressing
c'c3er and closer up to the sacrariun.
TnG chances of getting out became
less and less, and turned to Tenny-
so and said: L don't know what ali
tn means, but we seem so henimed
IN nat It is useless to move yet
hen man standing by me whis
pc: l. I don't think they will go, sir,
so !ong as your friend stands there
OF course I saw at once what was
ha?pening-it had got to be known
that Tennyson was present and the
sold throng was bent on seeing him.
Such popularity had never occurred
to me or to him, and justified his
nervous unwiilingness to be seen In
crowded places.
80 was obliged to tell him what was
going on, upon which he urgently in
sisted on being let out some quiet way
and putting an end to he dilemma
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
About tho Camel,

In a school in tho South or Ireland
a schoolEoy Of tender years Is said to
have produced the following essay on
the camel:
"The cannimal is sheep Of the des.
ert. 1t is called backteria because
It has hump oD It's back. The canni.
NAL is very patient, and will lie down
and die without a groan, but when IL
is angry It gets It's back up. which Is
called taking the hump. The shep.
herds Of cnnnirlals is called Arabs.
When they live in towns they are
called street Arabs. When the cannl.
NAL goes on Journey It drinks as
much as 1t can TO lost for many days,
Such animals are Gated accquiducks
Those that cannot carry enough are
called inebria,es."
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
AVOID THE MAN THAT SMEERS
Whole Existence Spoiled FOR Unfortu.
nate Wife Tied to Such an
Individual.

How would you like to be tied for
life to a snake whose fangs slowly
poisoned your blood, though 1t is not
avewedly dangerous?
Silly question, say you?
Cleopatra with her asp-which they
say is only myth these days-is no
8urer of extinction than is the whole
some woman who marries a man wLo
sneeTs.
So often this sneer is hidden under
polished exterior. The girl does not
ut first realize the sting. She calls
her lover critical or particular, or per.
haps thinks bis cynicism a sign of
breeding or great intellectually.
She begins by needing that sneer,
first in trifies such as behavior or
1ress; later it gets in its deadly poi.
son on ideals and principles.
1t takes brave woman and an ex.
ceptionally strong-minded one to
stand out against the cynicism of the
man she loves. Unconsciously she is
influenced. Before she realizep the
deadly influence her whole view Of life
is changed. A girl of sweet nature
but not too much brilliancy, ma .ried
to sneerer, becomes nothing more
than a faint record of his warped
vision. She may start out trusting,
unsuspicious, loving, but life with the
sneerer leads her to wonder If there
Is such a thing as honor and truth and
goodness in this bad world Ex.
change
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
ATTENTION STOCKMEN

will be in Elko about October
lst with car of Hereford bulls.
These bulls sired by Polled King,
weighing in flesh 26OO lbs, are good
in every way and crossed on range
COWS will produce rs per cent
hornless calves. Come and see
them at Thompson's barn.
James T. Paul.
9-ll.4.Wks
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
O7n04
Carson City La d Office
September Z, 1912.

september I, 1917.
NOTICE is hereby given that
Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company,
by Charles B. Henderson its
Attorney in Fact of Elko, County
of Elko, State of Nevada, has fled
in this Office his application to
select, under the provisions of the
Act. of June d. 1897 and subsequent
Acts the following described land,
viz:
The East Half of the Northeast
Quarter (E. ! Of N. E.. 1) of
Section Six (6) Township Forty
two t42} North Range Fifty (50)
East, M. D. B. & M. and containing
Eighty (SO) acres.
- Any and all persons claiming
adversely the lands described or
desiring to object because OF the
mineral character of the land, or
for any other reason to the disposal
to applicant, tshould file their
affidavits of protest in this office
on or before the 26th day of
October, 1912.
Louis j. Cohn,
RepiStrr.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
On sanIty's Border Limo.

Experts can hardly define the thin
line that separates the insane from
the sane. There is a twilight of the
mind In which many people buy and
sell, love and divorce, marry and give
in marriage and live and die. At no
time in their lives are they really in
sane more than few moments at a
time and yet they live in a world that
is tangled, out OF tune aud different
from that all around them.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
Look for the IInh.

Learn to look for the light. Posi-.
lively refuse to harbor shadows and
blots. and the deformed. the disfIg.
ured, the discordant. Hold to those
things that give pleasure, that are
helpful and inspiring, and you will
change your whole way of looking at
things, will transform your character
In a very short time.-~oTlson Swett
Marden.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
DISTINCT VALUE OF PICTURES
Care In Selection and Hanging VIII
Be Well Repaid In Increased
Pleasure Afforded.

"A room hung with pictures is q
room hung with beautiful thoughts" !"
How many of us give the right
amount of careful thought in hanging
pictures on our walls? Do we ever
think of the pleasure and effect on
ourselves Of the paintings or prints
that are constantly before our eyes?
THAT chrome makes me Wild" says
one protesting esthetic woman. as she
gazes on a relic of the barbarous age
In art. 1t Is vividly colored print of
very old and very ugly Juliet lean.
Ing over the balcony in the arms of a
Romeo who would not take q prize
for anything except climbing up q
vine. The walnut frame is old and
matches the execrable "whatnot" OF
our mothers time. The whole thing
Is unpleasant badly drawn, badly col.
ored and absolutely out Of place, and
yet 1t hangs on, simply because some
dead aunt saw fit to give it at an an.
niversaryl
Pictures should please. They should
educate and elevate. They should be
Of the good painters. How rich is the
treasure from which we can choose,
How wonderful are the modern re-
productions at ridicuously little costl
Begin now to tear down the mean.
mgless prints that speak nothing to
you. Hang upon your walls restful,
beautiful pictures that will have just
as much effect, psychologically, on
your nerves, your mind, your soul, as
the companions of your bours.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
Ear.ReaohInn Influence.

ut is not possible to know how far
the influence OF any amlaDe, honest
hearted, duty-doing man flows out In
to the world Great Expectations.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-10-01
Not IN tha marka,

did you hear of the resent ,rt in
ironY
moi Is it a fact7'
Yes. A lot OF prisoners sawed
through their cell bars."