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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-10-23
! Leea! Happenings &

Hon. Ole T. Axvig was among the
Milton notables to spend a part of the
week at the county seat.
The DEMOCRAT has refrained so far
this fall from in anymore than the most
casual way, directing the attention of
sour readers to the fact that this is the
season of the year to fix up for the paper
Please respond to this gentle reminder,
Corn contests with the accompanying
local features of an industrial display
along educational and agricultural lines
are being held today at Sarles and to.
morrow at Munich under the direction
of Co. Supt. Sullivan.
Thor. Thorinnson, one of the first
settlers in the neighborhood of Munich,
before that town was on the map, was a
Langdon visitor during the week. A
year ago he removed with his family to
st. Norbert, Man, a suburb of Winni-
peg, but still has farming interests in
the southwestern part of the county
which brings him back here every fall.
Langdon's high school football eleven
goes to Grafton on Saturday to play
its third match game of the season.
The boys have been steadily gaining in
confidence and efficiency in the daily
practice games played under the guild
ance of Coach Halla. This is proven by
the superior showing made at Cavalier
over the game played a week previous at
Park River, We expect to see our Lang
don boys win their game at Grafton on
Saturday afternoon.
/, The first issue Of the Wales Progress,
Vol. l, No. l appeared last week and
looks good. The editor, r. W.. Schoon-
maker says "we" are here, sink or swim.
veal or woe"-and is of the opinion he'll
swim. News items are solicited, but
Observation-Disclosures or SANDER
our articles don't go and personal grew
ances only get space at advertising rates.
Four years of drouth got Editor
Schoonmaker's goat in South Dakota.
He comes here with political ideas, but
will have naught to say for awhile
Wales is on the map and while not ex-
actly discovered by the Progress man
he promises to stay With the town to a
Rip Van Wrinkle fare-ye-well. 1t has
as a starter eleven columns of live ads
and about the same amount Of space
devoted to reading matter.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-10-23

Saturday is the real bargain day for
fall buyers of shoes at Schulke's depart
ment store.
SpeIlman's drug store makes a special
ty of carefully compounded prescriptions
using only strictly pure fresh drugs,
For Sale-The old Catholic church
building, containing an abundance of
good lumber, suitable for homes, barns,-
etc.
Langdon is due for one of the biggest
literary treats ever Sc cured in the his
tory of the city for November 18th, 10th
and Goth, when DR.. G. X. Harris, one of
the best known platform takers of the
present day to Langdon for a
course of three lectures, Time and space
will be given to a more extended men
ton of this attraction next week
Yesterday forenoon a wedding of con-
siderable local interest occurred at st
Alphonsus church when with due cere-
mony Rev Father O'Driscoll conducted
the impressive church service which
united in wedlock, Ralph Lorentz and
Miss Elizabeth Howitz, The young PEG.
pie both have homes southwest of
Langdon in Easily township, the bride
being a daughter of John Howitz and
the groom is a son of Jacob Lorentz, the
event uniting two of the best Know
pioneer families in the Easily settlement
The wedding festivities which followed
at the John Howitz farm home we're at
tended by a large number of their Lang
don friends and an highly enjoyable
time had throughout the day,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-10-23

Hawkins hardware store sells cut
nails at S1.50 per 100 pounds.
ALERT & Winter have plenty of money
to loan on first and second mortgages.
Choice home rendered lard at IL cents
a pound at Hay & Liebeler's meat
market.
A. Schulke spent part of Friday up the
line at Dresden looking after his branch
place of business.
The price of wheat is low, so is the
price of blankets at Schulke's depart
ment store Saturday. See ad.
Your family is provided for if you
carry a policy in the New York Life.
Talk with L. A.. Weed, Hannah, N. d.
Mrs. F. j. Hubbard took TUESDAYS
train to Fargo. where the wedding of a
member of her family is to occur during
the week.
Howard T, Ober and wife took Tues
days train to the Forks, where they are
spending a part of the week attending to
business matters.
The largest stock of suits and over
coats in the county is found at Schefter's
Clothing House. The most attractive
at the same place.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-10-23

A big supply nf trunks and suit cases
just received al Schefter's Clothing
House.
Typewriter ribbons for all standard
makes of machines, both wide and mar
row ribbons at the DEMOCRAT.
Bargains in shoes on Saturday at
Schulke's department store. If YOU
want real bargains this Is your chance,
Owing to the SNOW furry of last Satur-
day afternoon the auction sale adver-
tised by Rob't F Dixon, was postponed
to Tuesday afternoon, October 29th and
on which date MIR. Dixon will sell with
out reserve, 90 the reservoir farm, ad-
joining the city of Langdon to the south
west, ten farm horses, six colts, and two
complete outfits Of farm machinery, COWS
hogs and small tools, etc, Usual terms.
Tuesday evening States Attorney G..
Crimson and Deputy Sheriff Cecil Bone
returned from a trip through the eastern
part of the county. where IN Fremont
township, along the Canadian boundary
line they arrested twn uegros, who had
stolen a load of wheat from Charles
Graveline a we'll known Fremont town.
ship resident. They have admitted
their guilt and wills ar.ear for sentence
before Judge knepShAw when he next
visits Langdon, TIE two men had been
ne%,ghtorhuod during the threshing sea-
son and markr',,i he stolen gram across
the line in Manrl""..
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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-10-23

Typewriter ribbons for all standard
makes Of machines, both wide and mar
row ribbons at the DEMOCRAT.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-10-23

A big supply Of trunks and suit cases
just received a, sschefter's Clothing
House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05

cally by prominent men of this city. Those
who gave their opinions were unanimous
in their refutation of the famous Osler
theory that man entered upon his de-
cline at 40.
If man is healthy he should be most
efficient mentally and physically at the
age of 80 and for some years after that,
said Elbert II. Gary
Mr.. Gary should know. for he, as head
OF the executive committee of the United
Stetes Steel corporation, with all its SUBJ
sidary companies, is probably the largest
employer of labor in the world.
In nearly every line," he continued. Il
believe you will find that the greatest
achievements are most often after the
age of so. Whether a man is most use
ful at 40 or at 50. of course. depends en-
trely on the man. But if he takes care
OF himself and Keeps his health he should
be at his prime at 50, and continue in II
much later.
Gladstone did some of his most notable
wcrk at So. Take Edison today and
see all that he is accomplishing The
healthy man is necessarily better mem
tally equipped at the age of 80 than he is
earlier. in life
| Prof. Franklin II. Giddings, the emil
nent sociologist at Columbia university,
strikes a hard blow at Oslersm
| "Unquestionably a man is more fit at 30
than at 4o,' said Professor Giddings. Ills
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05

judgment is better. He.has a much wider
store of knowledge. He doesn't learn as
easily. but he reasons much better, and
his brain improves in the constructive
abilities. a man shows his best qualities
after 50 lie ripens, mentally.
"The greatest achievements have been
after the age of 30. Charles Darwin
wrcte The Origin of the Species, and
Adam Smith, The Wealth Of Nations
after that age. George Eliot didn't begin
to write effectively until she was past 40
Woodrow Wilson Is showing his very
best qualities now. lie is a much bigger
man in every way than he was before
90 In administration Grover Cleveland
did his best work after he was 50. In
English politics we have only to remem-
ber Gladstone and Disraet.
In military and naval affairs the older
men have invariably been the best,
despite the three great names of young
Alexander, Hannibal, and Napoleon. The
Duke of Marlborough was d at Blen-
hem, and 80 at Malpaquet Won Moltkc
was 20 when he planned and executed the
campaign OF 1870. Admiral Dewey was
past 30 when he succeeded in accomplish
ing his great coup at Manila.
Men of poetic ability have frequently
been young, and many have done their
best work At the same time. many Of
the greatest poetical works have been
written by men over the half century
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05

dollars day. The highest average sala-
ry paid in the United States is 1913 In
California, and the lowest is 5000 in North
California.
According to this study the average
wage of carpenters in the United States
is about SS02, of coal miners $780, of fac
tory workers $3.50. of common laborers
$513, and of teachers s4s5.
S150 Year
Through the southern states thousands
of rural teachers earn less than $3.50 per
year. In one New England state hun
dreds of teachers earn less than six dol
lars per week. In one county in Gem
tral Atlantic state the average for all
teachers is s1e9 per year. One southern
state rents its convicts to contractors at
a little more than $400 per year, while
it pays its public school teachers slight
ly over $500.
In each school system there is series
of leaks through which the children es-
cape before completing the course. For
this reason the membership of the lower
grades is large; that of the upper ones
much smaller: the high school enrolment
smaller yet; and when the college IS
reached, few of the original beginners
remain. In this process of elimination
great differences are found between the
states, with the result that in some parts
of the country a large proportion of the
young people are receiving higher educa-
tion, while in other localities the proper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
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shown by a mass of experience which
demonstrates that efficient medical in
spection betters health conditions among
school children, safeguards them from
disease, and renders them healthier,
happier and more vigorous.
According to this report the system of
providing free text. books for school chill
dren is almost century old in America,
having been inaugurated by Philadel-
phia 95 wears ago. At the present time
12 states have free text books through
out there schools IS have them in cer-
tain districts and in the remaining Il
states the system does not exist. School
books bought by the community cost
the community 20 per cent. less than
they do when they are bought by indi
viduals one unforeseen feature of
text book law was an immediate in
crease of ten per cent. in high school
attendance
Thirty-six out of As states have state
wide compulsory attendance laws.
Compulsory education began in Ger
many and Massachusetts in the seven
teenth century and in France and more
than half of the states of the Union il
the nineteenth century. Ignorance ant
intelligence both perpetuate themselves
the report declares. and that is why
compulsory education Is necessary ant
why after a few decades it becomes un
necessary In general all-round eff
fiency this study rlaces Washington
first among the states of the Union
with Massachusetts a close second anS
New York third. All of the states hav,
weak points which need to be remedied
The object of publishing this study a
the present time Is to bring both stronl
and weak points to the attention of ed
ucators and place in the hands of star,
legislators ap authoritative statement
of present public school conditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
SOUTHERN STATES FARE BADLY IN
INTERSTATE COMPARISON OF SCHOOLS

tion is low. So great are these differ
ences that the proportion of college stu
dents in Massachusetts, California and
Indiana IS greater of the proportion of
those receiving a high school education
in twelve of, the southern and western
states. The report quotes but does not
vouch for an sestimate by the United
States Bureau of Education to the effect
that in the country as whole less than
half of the children finish more than the
first six grades; only about one in four
ever enters high school and less than
five in 100 go to college. The right of the
state to tax the property of the state to
educate the children of the state is now
firmly established. A free common school
education is the common right of every
American child. Nevertheless. there an
pears startling differences In the en-
deavors of the different states to meet
this obligation. In Oklahoma and
Washington expenditures for public
schools each year amount to about rs
cents for each 800 of wealth and this
proportion is nearly four times as
great as that found in such states as
wyoming and New Mexico. one third
of the states have no law regulating the
construction of public school houses, the
report declares. We have three types
of institutions where attendance is
compulsory-iails asylums and schools
houses. Few of us have to stay long or
freuently in jails or asylumns, but all
of us spend many years in school,
houses Nevertheless Ohio alone has
completed legal regulations of school
house construction TO assure the safety
and sanitation of these buildings
A somewhat better situation is found
with respect to medical inspection of
schools which is provided for by the
laws of twenty states. That such laws
are needed in the remaining states is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
Her FonfIness for Dogs

From the Terra Haute star.
The late Elizabeth stuaFf Phelps was
especially fond of dogs. In fact dogs
were her hobby. In her later years,
at least she seldom wrote anything in
which a dog did not figure; a dog WAS
a character in each of her stories and
size wrote urgent protests against yiVi-
section where dogs vera used as sub
iects When she died she left her pet
dog to be cared for by a certain Nvonan
and that woman has now sued the dF-
tate for $500, the cost of looking after
the animal since the owners death
now less than two years. This is rather
high cost of living for dogs lf she
doesn't get the money the earetalSer
does not say what will happen but if
that dog ever goes hungry Mrs. Phelps
will probably come back and haunt
her ir she can find the gates ajar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
Teachers South Receive Less Than $3.50
Salary Annualy-Our Southern States Rents Convicts
for S4Oo Each and Pays School Teachers s300-At-
tendance Period Far Too Short

rNI1EW YORK, january Especial -The results of the
~ latest study by the Russell Sage Foundation
eE8 comparison Of school systems today
made public in Bulletin 124 of the Foundation Division
Education The bulletin is entitled "A Comparative Study
School Systems in the Fortyegh States and
FORTH among other things that Is out of the IS states the
erage annual public school teachers less than dol
lar day. and that state rents its convicts for
than pays its teachers that the United States has the
shortest school the world that American public schools
burn down at the rate of for every school day the
that the per child invested school property
from 81 in Mississippi to $15 in Massachusetts, and that the
providing of free text books state resulted ten
cent increase in high school attendance.
Rhode Island has the longest school year of sate193
daysbut if these 1913 days of schooling divided equally
among the children of school in the state the result would
be 16 days of schooling each The report terms this the ef
ectve school and the AS states that basis
In nearly quarter Of the states the effective school less
than three months As nation the United States has shorter
school day. shorter school week and shorter school than
any other highly civilized country the world American
pendtmes for public education have than doubled in the
past 10 years. according to the bulletin Today the people of
the United States spend nearly half billion dollars
their public schools The expenditure per child of school
all the way from So in South Carolina to nearly ii times
much or $50, in Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05

all the brothers. Aladdin, too. we had.
and, of course, the Slave of the Lamp.
There were Arab chiefs galore and grand
Niziers without end Among the most
beautiful of the women We're the Duchess
of Rexburgh, Lady Paget, Lady War
wick. Lady Clancarty. Mrs. George
Cornwallis-W Mrs Winston Churchill
and Mrs. Bobby" MeCreary. Need
say Mrs. Bobby had got got EN- on.
While much of the music was suaye
and stately, Oriental in color. occasion
ally the measures to which the merry
makers danced had the unmistakable
touch OF modernity. "Alexander's Rag
time was an instance in point. But now
no dance in London can dispense with the
catchy tunes and rapturous figures of the
American school of ball room joys
Miss Mary Garden advocates good tenn
per as cure for wrinkles and Scotch
porridge as the elixir of life Miss Gar
den IS now the owner of a shooting box
In Aberdeenshire and intends spending
much of her time among the heather next
year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05

Comparative Investments
Tire amount that the state has invetsed
in school buildings is an index of its past
interest in education. In Mississippi the
average investment per child in school
buildings and property is 81. while in
Massachusetts it is nearly % times as
much or sl15. A significant fact in con-
neotion with this expenditure is that as
a nation we allow our public schools to
burn down at the rate of more than
one for every school day In the year.
The bulletin sets forth that many
states through lack of compulsory at
tendance laws, or through their non-en-
forcement, waste much of the money
that they expend on their. schools. Some
states have long school years and short
attendance years. The per cent. of at
tendance ranges from 60 in Maryland and
Mississippi to more than 80 in Oregon
and Washington.
In North Carolina. New Mexico, ArlIan-
sas and Alabama, the attendance period
is SO short that the average pupil would
need about % years to complete an ele-
mentary course of eight grades of nine
fun school months each If he We're COM
PEELED to live up to his standard ne might
enter school at the age of five and not
get his eight grade certificate until he
was 27. In is of the 4S states the average
annual wage of public school teachers
amounts to less than one dollar a day.
In only five states is it more than two
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
MAN BEST AT FIFTY
Greatest Achievements In History
Have Been Accomplished Late

In Berlin a controversy is waging among
the most brilliant minds over the ques-
tion raised by the Tageblatt whether a
man is at his best at the age of 30 or at
the age of 40
BY far the larger number OF eminent
professors. financiers. artists and writer's,
who contributed to the symposium agreed
that a man past SO years of age was as
valuable as man OF 40. and frequently
r-'ch more useful.
This view Is held even more emphau-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05

mark Tennyson gave us some OF his
most immortal lines after that time OF
life. Milton and Browning both we're
most successful in their later years.
You viii find that while the imagina-
ton is most luSuriant in youth. it IS not
nearly so creative. Therefore, it is not
nearly as useful. Bacon. Kant, Descrates.
Spencer. and host Of our most bril-
liant thinkers and writer's were all men
who did their best after the agezof 30.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05
SOCIETY IN LONDON
BY THE LADY MARY MANwARrNe

London, January 4.-(Speeial) Bril-
liant beyond anything previously seen il
London for quite number of seasons
was the recent Arabian Nights ball.
OF infinite variety, both as to design,
hue, and elaborateness, were the cos
tunes. No one color seemed to be in
particular favor. Their only passport to
acceptance evidently was that they
should be bright and glowing. With ex-
treme pleasure the eye accordingly
roamed over emerald greens, bright scar
let's or erimsons, soft blues and pinks,
golds dull and bright. and not little
pure white The Orient, in short, yield
ed us much of its treasure in the way OF
gorgeous raiment
The ladies went one better than the
harem skirt they wore the trousers out
right, and seemed 10 enjoy the freedom
of movement which the costume gave
them. In fact. one might range one:
vision over the whole arena without OBJ
serving a single skirt-that is to say, the
female skirt of western civilization. The
gentlemen masquerading in skirts-of al
sorts-were quite as numerous as were
the ladies so garbed.
Elaborate Costumes
Needless to say. the "Arabian Nights
were freely drawn upon in the quest OF
fitting costumes. There must have been
at least dozen Caliphs of the Haroum
al-Rashid type. How many Scheherazades
there were no man could say. Fatimas
and Morgianas were as thick as black.
berries, so to speak. Ali Baba was there,
with some at least of his thieves so was
sinbad, and so also the Barber, who had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-01-05

Not in spirit of dictation, but
simply as suggestion, the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad company points
out a plan whereby an amicable and sat-
isfactory agreement can be arrived at
concerning the differences now existing
between certain of the people of Ala
bama on the one hand and the l.. & N.
on the other hand.
The question of freight and passen.
ger rates was made an issue in a politi-
cal campaign. A majority of the peO-
pie, without full information on which
to base their decision, declared that
they wantedscertain radical reductions
in rates put into effect. The details of
carrying out their wishes were en-
trusted by the people to group of
state officials.
The reduction in rates was put into
.~ect. The L. & n, knowing that such
re uction would prove detrimental to
: the railroad and to the state, filed OBJ
lection and took the matter into the
courts where it properly belonged. The
l.. & N. contended that the proposed
sweeping reduction in rates would en-
tail serious financial loss to the railroad,
with resultant decrease in its ability to
render satisfactory service to which the
people of Alabama were and are en-
titled.
After thorough investigation con-
Quoted by Special Masters and the Fed
eral Courts, at great expense to both
the people and the L. & N, the position
of the L. & N. was sustained. The
property of the railroad and the service
to the people were protected by judi
cial decision.
There is now indication in certain
quarters that the people will again be
regaled with this question which has
been settled in the courts. There is no
reason to assume thst the people will
reject the findings of the Special Mas
ters and the decision of the courts.
Neither is there any reason to assume
that if the people do reject the findings
and the decision that the Special Mas
ters and the court will change their
position.