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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-08-21
'R'9A2 4s2 County.

Hotternell! says the Munich Herald.
A movements is on foot to get schooi
in Gallo.
y Harvest hands are becoming plentiful
about Munich.
Osnabrock has deported its hitching
posts from the main street.
August 3rd son was born to MIR. and
Mrs. Fred Woodrow. living near Sarles.
H, E. Whitmore of Daniels purchased
Jackson car from M. G. Olson last
week.
Walhalla's two banks show deposits
amounting to s24l 1918 in their state
ments of last week.
Last week The Helgeson Realty Co..
of Osnabrock sold about one thousand
acres of Cavalier county soil,
Samuel Thompson, one of Hannah's
prosperous farmers went to Grand Forks
last Friday for an operation for rupture.
Latest reports from Jas. Austin. of
Hannah. we're dated Aberdeen, Scotland
and indicated that he sailed for home
last week.
John Disher of Gallo lost his barn by
fire last week. Some harnesses and feed
we're destroyed. Mr.. Disher intends re-
building Immediately.
Born. On Sunday, to Mr.. and Mrs.
John H. Janzen of Clyde, girl; to Mr..
and Mrs. Matt Lehney. a boy: to Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob Goertz, girl.
Charlie Tattle, who for some years
has been connected with the elevator
business at Hannah has taken the posi-
ton as manager of the Farmers Elevator
in Calvin.
Sarles ball players were over at Crys.
tai City at the fair held August 7th,
playing in the international base ball
game in which North Dakota was de.
feated by Manitoba, score to 7.
Pat Redmond of Munich returned last
week from trip into Montana, where
he visited brother and looked over the
country. He reports crop prospects as
fair in the parts of the state he saw.
One of Fairdae's tennis players, d.
S. Thompson, is hors de combat with a
black eye. Lawn tennis, the gentle
SISSY" game of the past is apparently
in the heavyweight class with football
pugilism, etc.
Charles L. Prince, for many years
butcher at Grafton, died last week. His
son, who was for some time court steno-
grapher, was called from his father.in.
laws funeral in Saskatchewan to attend
the funeral OF his father.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-08-21

Twenty-Five binders have already been
sold in CALVIN this season.
The Norwegian parochial school at
at Fairdale has closed its summer term.
The Gallo townsite company have
donated a fine location for school
grounds.
The Moran livery barn at Calvin has
changed hands and is now owned by J
Mcleod of that place.
Mrs. George Calder returned Tuesday
to her home at Winnipeg after visit of
couple of weeks in the city at the
home Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. e.
Mason.
Osnabrock complains that it is enter
tanning number of undesirable citi-
zens these days large sized camp of
gypses being tented on the outskirts of
the town.
The Helgeson Realty Co., at Osna-
brock reports having closed deals dur
ing the week for farm property in that
vicinity which total up to the amount
of $4,000, 90.
W. E. DeLong. who has been a resi-
dent at Grand Forks the greater part OF
the time since removing from Hannah
is moving with his family to Western
Canada this fall.
Rev. S. NJ. Kelly has resigned the pas
torate of the Presbyterian church at
Hannah and will leave for Pembina
having accepted call rendered him by
the church at that place.
Fairdale is threatened with a general
conhagration almost any day owing tc
the defective way in which the chimneys
on most of the larger buildings in the
town have been constructed.
The new banking house of the Farm
ers & Merchants State Bank of Gallo, is
nearly completed, the first coat of plaster
has been put on and they will start tt
| do business about the first of Septem
| ber.
District Game Warden Peterson made
another arrest on Monday morning last
| this time of John Hulstander, promi
nent farmer residing north of Milton
Hulstander had been shooting chickens
the evening previous and the dlstric
warden got wind of the violation anc
Immediately made a trip out there The
main evidence was the wheel tracks
from the wagon which showed plainly
in the loose road following a ligh
shower OF ram. The trail led to the
Hulslander farm home, where Peterson
went the next morning and made the
arrest, Hulslander pied guilty to thu
charge and was fined $40 and costs, the
penalty being imposed by Justice r. A
Mcdonald Of Milton. Several arrests
are being made throughout this section
OF the state by Warden Peterson, and il
bshooves everybody to observe tho Law
] and keep out OF trouble
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-08-21

"A hisstche~ SKI. .har heane stated In
the rear of the drug store at Wales.
Beginning this week the Calvin Times
will have eight pages instead of four.
The Sarles Advocate is having an
addition built to its print shop this fall.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Fredricks
at Calvin, on Sunday August 3rd. baby
girl.
Nekomas new M. D.. is DR.. Mclean,
for merly a medical practitioner at
Gilby: N. D.
Churches at Walhalla are holding
union open air services in Mayors grove
during the summer and fall warm
weather.
e. Erlendson has sold the Edinburg
Tribune to A. G. Thompson. The
former editor has been in charge for the
past six years.
Peter Delvo returned on Saturday to
Osnabrock from Mt. Clemens: Mich.
where he took mineral baths and re.
ceived much good.
Nekoma school board has decided to
abandon the project of building an
addition to its consolidated school until
next spring, owing to the lateness of the
season.
Merchant H. P Poe of Sarles started
the threashing season in that section oi
the county Wednesday August 9Th or
his farm west OF Sarles on a field of fall
sown rye.
A. U. Peterson and family of Gallo
accom- panied by Thos. Canty of the
Munich ball team started Saturday or
an automobile trip to Winnipeg to take
| in the Stampede.
State Game Warden Peterson mas
deputies appointed at each town in the
county and is keeping close watch fol
those who start shooting chickens anc
ducks before Sunday, Sept. 7th.
The Osnabrock Farmers Elevator
Co., have engaged Henry Gunderson te
manage their elevator. Henry has beer
buyer for the st. Anthony and Dakots
Elev ator Co.. for the past two years.
The Stuart G. Watt d Co., drug store
at Sarles is now owned by the George
Bulloch drug company, with Mr.. Oscar
Sjurseth as manager. Mr.. Watt is now
located at one of the new towns ir
Montana.
Calvin post Office is due for change
of management pretty soon according t.
a Washington dispatch OF the week
which announces the appointment OF W
l.. Thomas as postmaster, vice A. A
O'Neal removed.
Mrs. Quick was passenger: to the
TWIN Cities on Tuesday and during AT
absence of ten days will make selection
of fashionable lines OF fall and winter
millinery for her establishment in the
First National Bank block.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-08-21

the state examiner. In accordance with
this suggestion the local authoritiest will
so arrange the work that certain new
classes may be formed IN November if
there be need to accommodate deserving
pupils entering at that late hour because
of material handicaps.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23

that have no end, continually buffeted
by storms. Yet Christmas is not for
gotten A brace of wild ducks, per
chance, may be secured for the feast,
and the cook will surely provide a lib
eral dish of the much appreciated
plum duff''-a preparation of pastry
shaped like half a watermelon. which,
in order that all the raisins it contains
may not fall into one slice, requires.
under the rules, to be cut fore and
aft"
In that far flung archipelago known
as the Aleutian chain. which, reckoned
geographically as a part of Alaska,
stretches across the northern Pacific.
Russian customs are still retained to g
great extent, though the islands belong
to the United States
But, speaking of Alaska, it is fact
curious enough that Santa Claus in
real life is seen there at Christmastide
as nowhere else in the world. with his
reindeer. The superintendent of the
reindeer stations. established by the
government for the benefit of the
natives, harness the tamest of their
animals and, hitching them to sleigh
filled with bags containing provisions,
tobacco and other desirable things.
drive through the Eskimo villages and
leave at each humble hut one of the
sacks as reminder that the Christ
Child. about whom these poor people
have learned from the missionaries. is
born-Los Angeles Times.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23
Good Old Santa Goes
To Many Odd Places

~ GOD old Santa Claus looks in
II upon pretty nearly everybody
III at Christmas time. and the fes-
tival of which he is patron is
celebrated in some very odd ways and
out of the way places in our country.
At Ellis island, in the harbor of New
York. on Christmas day several hun
dred children, with their parents,
usually await debarkation on the
shores of America There is null
titude of German kinder" of Italian
"bambinos" and of youngsters of
every nationality. as much interested,
all of thea. in Christmas doings as
any Yankee young folks could possibly
be. It is indeed an occasion of great
excitement for them, inasmuch as the
missionary societies have provided for
these humble aliens a wealth of good
cheer. and. with the help of donations
made for the purpose. the day is rem
dered joyful for ALL both young and
old. toys being plentifully distributed
among the little ones.
The loneliest places in the world are
some of the lighthouses which our
government maintains along the coast
for the protection of mariners. Yet
Santa Claus finds his way to them.
and in his honor feast, even though
It be humble one. is held. 1t may
be that the barren rock which the
lighthouse marks affords room enough
for the keeping of a dozen chickens,
the latest of which are suitably sacri-
feed.
But even this is not practicable in
such a spot as Boon island. off the
coast of Maine, dangerous bit OF
terra firma which is continually swept
by the waves Only a few years ago.
so the story goes, a little girl four
years of age, daughter of the keeper
of Boon light, was so distressed be-
cause her father had been prevented
by continual storm from going to the
mainland for the customary Christmas
goose that she stole out of the light
house at night and knelt in a sheltered
spot to pray.
"Dear God" she said, please send
us a goose for our Christmas dinner"
Hardly had she spoken the words
when a great wild goose flew las some
times happens in such places against
the big lantern above and fell dead at
her feet. to be promptly carried in and
presented to the family as bird lit
orally sent from heaven.
Uncle Sam maintains about fifty
lightships along the seacoasts and on
the lakes to mark dangerous shoals.
Lonely indeed are the shippers and
crews of these vessels. which, like the
tabled phantom ship, pursue voyages
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23
What Christmas Day
Brought the Convict

TT was late In the afternoon Of the
day before Christmas. To the
woman who waited for news and
yet dreaded its coming 1t was the
closing of the longest. wretchedest,
dreariest day that she had ever known.
She had been advised not TO hope, yet
she chung to hope. feeling that If she
gave up entirely she must die. If the
worst came she must live for the sake
of the children. who were too young
to know of the shadow that clouded
their lives.
Often and often the woman went to
the window and looked out at the
dreary street One when a boy came
down the walk with the blue uniform
Of telegraph messenger she clutched
at her throat and stured little moan
of despair
"Wha's matter, mamma?' asked the
little girl that chung to her skirts. The
woman could not reply until after the
messenger had passed her gate. Then
she caught the child in her arms and
covered its face with kisses. Hope
once more revived in her heart.
When she went to the window again
the woman looked out and saw her
husband coming In the wave of JOY
that surged over her she did not no.
tice that he looked old and hopeless
and broken and bent and that there
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23
ST Nicholas Eve,

A stranger visiting the German colo
MES of our great cities would think
that his almanac needed resetting. for
on the evening of Dec. thousands Of
little stockings are hung up with the
same careful clothespinning and heart
of hope as on the authentic Christmas
eve. St Nicholas eve it is that the
"fatherland" exiles are celebrating
Just as early as any children ever get
up those that are paying honor to the
gift saint tumble out of bed and find
their stockings well weighed with fruit
and candies and apfelkuchen.
The naughty child that has been a
trial to its parents in previous weeks
is rather likely to find his stockings
laden with coal. 1t is a hint that a
second gift season is at hand and that
it would be well to fall into line with
the good children And the good chill
dren are encouraged to a renewed and
severer virtue for the days between
their present reward and the fuller
holiday that is coming. Life
In America.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23

ming in sacks. ducking for apples,
jumping at cakes suspended by a
string and trying to catch them be-
tween the teeth. drinking hard cider
mixed with egg and spices. and
score of others-these claimed and still
claim in Devonshire the time of old
and young, the children themselves
being allowed on this one night to sit
up until the midnight bell tolls.
What has been aptly called "a beau
tiful phase in popular superstition
very old belief. was that all the pow
ers of evil lay dormant and harmless
on Christmas day
The cock crowed through the live
long night to drive all evil spirits
away; the bees sang in their winter
hives; the cattle, half human at all
times. became wholly so at midnight
and talked like human beings.
Bread thai was baked the night be-
fore Christmas could not possibly be-
come moldy The streets in many
places were filed with mummers in
fantastic garb.
Indeed, there were mummers in the
days when Saturnalia reigned over
even the Roman emperors, but they
were not necessarily of the Christmas
time The love for masquerade is al
most as olkas the human race itself.
But as to the day itself, it was then,
as it is now, very merry day. with
good fellowship bubbling even from
hearts where theological Ronbelief
dwelt-a day sacred to the family. to
the eating of roast turkey and cram
berry sauce or roast beef and plum
pudding and walnuts and the drinking
of beer, ale and wine.
1t has changed to some extent since
the old day. but 1t is still the happiest
day of all the year-at least where the
shadow of misfortune does not cloud
Che sky.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23

sudden sharp shock and 1t would be
over. Even for her 1t would be better
than the FIVE years of living death
He pressed the cold muzzle to his
forehead His finger was on the trig-
ger. He could hear Grace singing sad
~, With a pathetic attempt to be gay
In tho kitchen.
''Cowardv'
The warning voice came out of the
void, like the voice of the angel who
spoke to Abraham on the mountain
top. Perhaps it was only the cry Of his
own consciousness, made audible by
his imagination. But he heard 1t dis
tinctly. revulsion Of feeling swept
over him.
"Oh. not that. not that, thank God"
he murmured.
He put the weapon back in the draw
er and went out into the kitchen.
where Grace was dressing the Christ
mas turkey. -
"Five years will soon pass" he said
cheerfully. land there will be gen.
erous allowance for good conduct !
will have some sort of bookkeeping to
do. and the life will be bearable. no
doubt. Let US meet the future bravely,
dear heart God win not fail to send
us comfort And you-you dear, brave
little woman-you will get along some
how. We have friends yet. thank
heaven.
1t was the first time he had ventured
to speak of the life im prison. and she
was eomforted to know that he took
so brave view That night they slept
and the next day tLsir Christmas din
ner was an occasion of jnJ to the chill
dren, and the parents. thankful to be
together, simulated cheerfulness that
almost deceived one another.
1t was late in the afternoon that a
large number of their neighbors came
trooping in with words Of love and
sympathy and encouragement. They
promised to look after Grace and the
children, and when John got back
they spoke of 1t as If he were going
only on little journey-they declared
that tire village would be at the train
with band TO receive him.
You will be convict. but not q
criminal. john" said the leading mer-
chant warmly. you can step into the
best job in my store the day after you
get home. Ipromise you that and call
upon these neighbors to witness it"
John Anstruther rose to reply, but
before be could speak the door was
opened and blue coated messenger
boy appeared with a telegram. An
struther tore 1t open with shaking fin
gers.
"The governor has signed your I'M
conditional pardon as Christmas gift
to your wife and babies. He did 1t as
an act of justice and in response to
kilograms from hundreds of men
throughout the state who know you
are an honest man. Congratulations"
The name signed to the telegram
was that of the secretary of state
Chicago Tribune.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23

invested with all the insignia pertain
ing to the station. Other boys repre-
scented priests, deacons and other suit
able persons for the bishops train.
The boy bishop conducted service in
the church, and in some cases he and
his companions went about from house
to house singing and collecting money.
which they did not ask as gift, but
demanded as a right.
The boy bishop attained his fullness
of dignity at Salisbury cathedral,
though he was known all over Eng
land. There he was chosen from
among the choir boys, the rest forming
his retinue, and he ruled with the high
est pomp and most absolute authority.
He is said to have conducted all the
services of the church except the mass.
In some other places the boy bishop
is said to have celebrated the mass
itself If any prebend fell vacant in
his term of office he filed it, and if he
died before his term expired he was
buried with all the honors due to
genuine bishop. There is record Of a
boy bishop at Salisbury filling vacant
prebend by the appointment of his
schoolmaster, and there is in the ca
thedral there the tomb of one who died
while holding his office. On the top
of it is an effigy of the child in full
episcopal robes
Such incorporating plays as this
were not then deemed offensive or
derogatory to the dignity of the church.
In fact, much coarser and more I'M
couth exhibitions were freely permitted
on some occasions, even to the extent
of burlesques of the services of the
church within its own walls. OF course
the evil and discreditable side was
bound to be seen in time. and the func-
tons of the boy bishop were at last
forbidden by Henry VIII. They were
restored, however, for time by Mary
st Nicholas.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1913-12-23

was no elasticity in his step. She
threw open the door and ran down the
graveled walk to the gate.
John, oh. john" she cried, dinging
her-arm about his neck, you are
free Heaven be praised for his mer-
cies You are free"
The man pressed her to his heart. I'M
able to speak.
II knew that they would not find
you guilty-they could not" she cried.
"My poor Grace" he murmured,
stroking her hair, You must be brave.
l have been found guilty. Five years
in the penitentiary."
"Then how is it that you are hereT
1.-The judge who sentenced me has
given me a reprieve on my own recog-
nizance so that can spend Christmas
with you and the babies. / am in hon.
or bound to surrender myself to the
sheriff on the first of the year. 1t was
technical violation of the law only.
They know ! am honest, but the senti-
ment of the public is set SO strongly
against bankers that l could not get
justice. Even my political friends dare
not support me. 1t is an unexpected
favor that am allowed to be with you
for few days"
John Anstruther spoke bitterly, and
his wife listened with fearless eyes.
She controlled herself with an effort.
"John, the chIdrenl' she whispered.
"They must not know. Let them have
one more happy Christmas. They have
been praying for you to come home.
Let US smile and be happy with them
for few days. Let US forget the
dread future ("
Once during the evening she spoke of
a pardon which might be asked of the
governor
1T is vain hope, dear" her husband
said. 1--WE will not waste ourselves on
it," And he relapsed into thoughtful
silence
But for all the shadow that hung
over the home there was Christmas
tree, and the Anstruther babies were
happy. Their convict father played
the role Of Santa Claus. Their mother
laughed and sang. though now and
then her voice broke and her eyes were
wet with tears A few neighbors call
ed full of sympathy and yet timid
about showing it. All the little town
felt that it was best TO let the stricken
family enjoy their Christmas cheer
without intrusion even on the part of
those who loved and respected them.
When the children. surfeited with
sweets and their arms still filled with
precious toys. were asleep once more
the mother was busy in her kitchen
with her preparations for the grand
Christmas dinner of the morrow-per
haps the last bountiful meal her chill
1ren would have through all the dark
years to come.
John Anstruther went to his room to
look over his papers In the drawer
he suddenly found something that
made his heart leap
1t was revolver. He took the shin
ing, cruel thing In his hands. and a
sort of madness came over him. Here
was his opportunity Here was escape
from the stripes. the dark cell. the ig-
nominy of prison life. Here was pro
vision for Grace and his babes His
10000 life insurance still was in force
and be knew well that II was nonfor
feitable even in case Of suicide A