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The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
THE COST OF HI WAR

THE COST OF THE WAR
I Estimates that the war is
costing Germany %,O0O.OW a
day may be taken to refer only
to running expenses and not to
the direct losses. I'm this basis
there seems no r. ,SOn to doubt
the estimates MADE" when the
war began. that it ". uld in one
way or anot l"r cost Europe
from SAC. 1000. OU) 10 $50, OOO.O 600
a day. 1t has been 'aging now
for 60 days, and at the rate Of
a billion every 20 days the cost
already comes to $4,000. 900
with the first battle not yet
ended. How long Europe can
keep it up is a question still to
be answered. but war has its
own economics which some
times seem to defy computa-
tion-whilc angry men can get
food and cartridges they can
keep on fighting, as the case of
Mexico has shown. But it will
be a terrific bill for posterity to
pay.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09

7. F. Woods had just install
ed a fine new National Cash
Register which cost, laid down
here $542.5O.
Father Turcotte desired to
announce that the tambola of
St. Marks church would occur
on Oct. % and 20.
Deputy Sheriff McCaughna
found a buggy and harness
stolen from V. B. Nobland
brought them to town. They
were hidden in a grove near
Willow Lake.
Frank Collins returned from
Havre, Mont, having accom-
panied his wife that far on her
journey to the coast, where she
went on account of failing
health.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
Twenty-Five Years Ago

Election was held on Oct. LIST,
1889, the county cast GA votes
and voted to go "dry" by a ma
jority of 175 votes.
The little joker made its ap-
pearance on election day as
was predicted by the Pioneer
and Archie Macarthur got there
without a struggle, for county
judge.
The fall term of the Bottin-
eau school will begin, Monday,
Oct. 7 1889, 9 a. H., with VIM.
r. Mcintosh, recently from On
tario as principal. If the cir
cumstanccs favor it during the
winter a primary department
will be established.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
Cornering Righteousness.

The world is full Of suspicion, which
in nearly every case is unfounded. An
%unbounded and universal trust should
take its place. l can give you an in
stance Of what l consider this H.
happy state Of things when l say that
two strangers can seldom speak cas-
ually to each other without a mutual
caution and suspicion. We all trust
ourselves. Our weak point is that we
don't trust our %neighbor. We each
think. as it were. that we've made a
corner in righteousness.-H. M. Edgfn.
ton in "Oh. james,"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
Menarehs and Stock Exchanges.

Menarehs and Stock Exchanges.
Bismarck was of opinion that Louis
Philippe used deliberately to cause
panics on the Stock Exchange % a.
to swell his boards Of money. "'Boh-
len," records Busch in his diary on
Jan. 26. 1871, remarked that Napoleon
III. had saved at least 500 900 francs
during the nineteen years Of his reign.
Others say 100000 francs added
Bismarck. but doubt It. Louis
Philippe spoiled the business. He had
riots arranged and then bought stocks
on the Amsterdam exchange until ut
last business men saw through It.
Hatzfeldt then observed that this ~
s%ourceful monarch used to fall Ill from
time to time with a similar Object
London Spectator.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09

firing of farm life, fw6'young
boys giving their names as
Greedy and Reilly, aged Is and
IA respectively, the sons of
wcll-to-dofarmers living near
Deering, decided to 60 on an
exploring expedition and start
ed out from their homes armed
with two big shotguns and
plenty of ammunition. They
were later captured by their
fathers and returned to their
homes.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
Dos Days"

How did the phrase dog days"
originate! 1t had its origin in igno-
rance and superstition. The ancient
Romans called the six or eight hottest
weeks of summer "caniculares dies"
According to their theory. the dog star,
its heat. and the dog days bore the
combiHed heat of the dog star and the
sun. The time was from July 8 to Ang.
II. Some make the time to extend
from July II to Aug. 20 and others
from July "a to about Sept 1. Sirius.
the dog star. was so called because 1t
was the brightest star in the constel-
lation CAMS major. or the greater dog.
indianapolis News.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09

passing the bills for the maker. The
house he entered might be in no way
connected with the cou~nterfeidng. It
might be the place where the bills
were made. 1t behooved Roelf, there.
fore, to be careful in his investigations
lest he either come down on innocent
persons or brighten the counterfeiters
away with all their paraphernalia.
What he did was to observe the
house. He loitered zeal 1t for half a
day to see who came from and went
to it. No one entered it. but a woman
came out.
The usual way for detectives to
watch a suspected house is to hire a
room opposite. Roelf did this and
kept close observation OF the house
the young man had entered. Within
a few days another cast of passing the
bills was reported to him. A young
man-very likely the same person as
before-had bought a hat with n Of
them. The bill had been detected, the
purchaser had been followed and had
entered the house Roelf was watching
This removed all doubt that the gull.
ty person occupied the house in ques-
ton. Roelf made arrangements to
raid it, but concluded to get what ad.
ditional information he was able be
fore doing 50 He kept up bis watch,
but the only person he saw come out
or 60 In was a young girl. 1t seemed
to Roelf that there was something ia.
miliar to him. about her. but be could
not tell what 1t was he never caught
4 fair glimpse Of her face, for when.
she emerged from the house. II
the weather was fair, she put up a
pArasol and II it rained an umbrella.
Roelf now gave orders among the
shops that If any one passed one "f
the spurious bills and It. was detected
before the. pereon pasaieg 1T got away
he was to be detained. IL this was not
possible Roelf was to be telephoned Of
the fact and he would arrest the coun
t~erfeiter II he returned to the house.
One afternoon be received a tele
phone that a young man Of eReminate
appearance had entered a drug store.
bought a pair Of h%airbrushes and
passed a counterfeit bill. Roelf went
out on the street and walked back and
forth for some time. when he saw a
young man who answered the descrip.
ton Of the counterfeiter making for
the suspected house. As he was about
to enter Roelf clapped a hand on his
shoulder with a gruf ~ want you"
He was startled by a shrek such as
might come from a woman
And It did. When the person ar
rested was brought to face accusers
she turned out to be the cashier Of the
ice cream saloon who claimed to have
had n Of the counterfeit bills passed
npon her
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
The
Counterfeiter
By JOHN TURNLEE

John Roelf. detective, was called
upon by the manager Of the Third Ma
tional bank to ferret U the perpe-
traitors OF spurious ten dollar bills ON
their bank. He began by making a
thorough examination Of the bills. 1t
would seem that a good engraver could
make a duplicate of any bank bill that
would be practically perfect. But no
matter how much are he puts on 1t
there will be differences. On these
bills there was a miniature likeness Of
the then secretary Of the treasury.
There was q difference between the
valid and spurious pictures in the right
nostril. the left eyebrow and q line
running between the nose and tho left
cheek.
But this was Of nc moment to the
detective except to enable him to spot
one Of the counterfeits when he saw it.
1t did not help him In running down
tho counterfefter. He knew that Ger
tain persons were going about buying
articles worth various, sums. from 50
cents to 81 or H.. Offering, one Of the
counterfeit ten dollar bills and receiv-
ing the change In good money.
Roelf interviewed several Of the per-
Mons on whom these spurious bills had
been passed-a young woman cashier
In an leo cream saloon. She said that
q Young man had brought In q girl. or.
dering ice cream. cake and other arti-
cles for both Of them; had paid for
what he bought with a ten dollar bill
and received 80. IL change. After the
departure of the couple the bill was
found to be counterfeit
The only person who saw this young
man and woman was tho cashier her.
seif. who waited on them. no ether per.
son connected with the saloon being
present. but her description tailed
with that Of others-that ID. the de-
scriphon Of the young man. for this
was the only time he was reported In
company with a girl.
Roelf gave a telephone number to
the proprietors Of a certain store on
the main shopping street Of the town
and asked them, II any one passed the
spurious bills, to call him up and hold
ON to the person who had offered it.
Then he took a novel, sat down by the
instrument. read and waited.
On the third day of his waiting he
was rung up from a cigar store. A
young man had called. bought a hand.
full Of cigars. offered a counterfeit ten
dollar bill. received s. and some sil.
YER in change. lighted a cigar and gone
out smoking. The proprietor had tele.
phoned Roelf and sent a boy to shad,
ow the young man. Roelf went to
the cigar store. and. when the boy re-
turned he showed the detective a house
which the young man had entered.
Roelf remembered that there were
different possibilities connected with
this young man The bill might have
been. passed ON him. he being entirely
innocent ri The .natter, He, might .h'
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
THE MOST DISASTROUS
PHASE OF THE WAR

On this peace Sunday it may
be we'll to consider the unique
opinion upon one disastrous
phase of the war which is pre-
sented by that queen among
women, Jane Adams. She
points out that it is not the
slaughter of the young men,
nor the grief of of the depend
cnts which will be the most in
furious result.
Human sensibilities were
more acute when this war be-
gan than ever before. The COM
radeship, the friendliness be-
tween nations had been
brought up ON a basis of mu-
tual understanding further
than ever before. By mechani-
cal means we have been
brought closer together in COM
m%unication and in sympathy.
EITHER we ought not to have
equipped ourselves with these
fine sensibilities or we ought
not to have to face the horrors
now confronting us. 1t is a
too terrible inconsistent v
against which we should pro-
test.
"All organized social welfare
activities are put back for
years." she said 1--WE have to
work up public opinion anew.
1.-The various woman's move
ments are greatly crippled. but
that is only a small part of the
harm done.
when a million men are
suffering in trenches wet and
cold and wounded. what are a
few children suffering under
hard conditions in the factor
les? Take old age pensions.
upon which England. France
and Germany have been work
ing. With widows and father
less children numbered by the
thousands in each of those
countries, what arc a few peo-
pie more or less?, 1t will be
years before those things are
taken up again. The whole So
cial fabric is tortured and
twisted.
Infant mortality is one of
the things which we are just
beginning to deal with. We are
rtying to learn why such num-
bers of little children un-
der two years of age die. In
Germany the nations states
manship was challenged in the
rcichstag because. out of APP
proximately 2,0OO.OOO children
annually born in that country,
some 100000, or one-fourth,
die.
But what are half a million
new born children in COMPARE
son with such a slaughter-the
hideous, wholesale slaughter
of thousands of men a day?"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
Good and Bad.

A noted way met an lrishman in the
street one day and thought he would
be funny ut his expense.
"Hello, Paty' he said. I'll give you
eight dn) pence for a shilling"
Twill ye now" said Pat.
YES" be replied.
The lrishman handed over tho shii-
ling. and his friend put eightpence into
bis palm in return.
Eight in PENCE he explained. mot
bad, Is it,"
NO." answered Pat. but the shil-
ling is!'-LOndOn Tit Bits.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
Lure Of the opora.


The music Of operas always has
been and always will be tho lure
Of its millions Of patrons: the sing
ing. too. is frequently brilliant and
perfect, but the presentment of scenes
from life upon the stage where every.
thing, however commonplace and
banal. IL sung, however beautifully.
will always sadden the soul by the
very impossibility and inappropriate
ness of the spectacle. Fat tenors and
sopranos expire in lights Of high
notes. choruses express various quite
unnecessary sentiments with what '
cal skill they may. and the average
person who likes music and a little
logic, too, is thrown into ~ecstasies Of
w0nderment.-Musical Standard.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
Stuno.

Stuno.
The old gentleman went into the par
Tor the other night at the witching
hour Of 1890 and found the lights out
and his daughter and a dear friend en-
jOying q tete-a -tete in a corner by the
window.
"Evangeline." said the old man stern
ly. this Is scandalous!"
"Yes. papa" she answered sweetly.
1t is candleless because times are
hard. Lights cost 50 much Ferdinand
and l said we would get along with the
starlight"
And papa turned about in speechless
Amusement and tried to walk out Ut
the room through Il panel in the wall
paper.-LOndOn Mail.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
The One Who Was Afraid.

Didn't marry her. eh: ! suppose
you afraid you could not support
her in the style to which she had be-
come accustOmed?"
"Oh. no. l was not at all afraid Of
that"
Then why didn't
1T was she that was afraid l could
not."-HOustOn Post.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
liIIiputian.

IjlliputiaD has become 4 word a.
most entirely substituted for dwarf.
yet the term was only invented BY
Jonathan Swift in 1927 when be wrote
his famous 'Gulliver's Travels" In
this weird little fable Swift created the
Island Of Llliput, Of which tho inhabit-
Aa1s were no greater n sire than q
1ln's 6ngsr. Swift was q queer char.
Aetef. az IN unhappy nature.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09

ADvERTIsING KATEs-Th0cnarye for dis.
play advertising space in the C0urant Is
based on IL cents per inch. single column
measurement. each Issue: annual rate Is
cents: special position y cents. Legal ad.
vsrtiNng legal rates: locals" 10 cents pek
tine: reading matter 10 cents per line.
Classified ~ advertising s cents per line.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09

CT ANOAAo = =
last week with four full page
auction sale bills.
Elbrike Uhlman, of Willis
ton, while hunting grouse near
that place was accidentally
shot and instantly killed.
A freight train going east
from Valley City was derailed.
Several cars were smashed up:
and one man fatally injured.
Sheriff N. o. Nelson of Walsh
county, prevented a Jail deliv-
cry last week, when he discov-
cred Dan Jones, a prisoner,
busily engaged in filing at one
of the bars.
Ole Edland a farm hand near
Hannaford, became intoxicat-
ed and wandered out of town
and had intended to spend the
night in a barn. In some man.
ner the barn was burned and
Edland's life taken with it.
DR.. Carl Kaufman, for many
years a resident of Wahpeton,
and one of the pioneers of the
county, died at Gascoyne, N. D..
Death was due to sorsis of the
liver. The body was taken to
Bowman for burial.
Joe Frye, of Milton, had a
close escape from serious in
jury last week when he was
driving to Osnabrock. He was
taking a corner at the average
speed when one of the steering
knuckles on the front axle
broke turning the car over.
Miss Veronica Farreal of Car
rington, received the full
charge from a shotgun through
the aeshy part of the hips, at
the back. She had been visit
ing at a neighbor's and the hus-
band was cleaning his shotgun
when the accident occurred.
AL Price, a threshing hand
who has worked near Lang
don, was given a. sentence of
twenty-five days in the county
Jail, for a vicious assault made
without provocation upon Sam
McHugh at the Great Northern
water tank last Sunday.
A party of big boys of Hank
inson, broke into the creamery
and proceeded to help them
selves to ice cream and COM
mitted other depredations. The
boys were surprised by the re-
turn of the owner who pursued
them and identified two in the
bunch.
With blood streaming from a
jagged wound in her thorat,
made by a silver table knife in
a suicide attempt, Mrs. Geo.
Slabeck, of Cayuga, N. d.,
crawled from a strawstack.
near the farm home, to the
side of her sleeping husband,
awakening him that he might
give her aid.
A fatal accident occurred at
Grand Harbor last week, when
John Freich, aged " years, the
pioneer blacksmith of that
place, was killed. Freich was
working at a stationary gaso-
line engine and it is believed
that his head was caught in the
betting. A fracture of the skull
resulted which caused nearly
instant death.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
ContOntmont.

C00S0ntnnone
Contentment il the pearl of great
price. Few persons are satisfied with
their lot. No matter II they have plenty
Of work and good wages. they envy
some n else who is doing better. The
boy with the toy cart enviex the lad
with the bicycle. and the latter LOOKS
with covetous eyes on every motorcar
that passes by. So it goes everywhere.
The poor envy the rich. and the rich.
envy each other. and under such con-
ditions the preacher Of n gospel Of
envy finds it easy to gather a coDgre-
cation. -Leslie's Weekly.
Tall camslIia Tres.
A camellia tree flfty feet high can b
seen In Plenitx. ear Dresden. It was
brought from Japan Ii 1910.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
NOodlOwork.

When engaged on delicate needle
work a good idea is to have a little
-four In a saucer by you and to dir
your fingers In It from time to time
This viii keep the hands dry and the
work beautifully clean.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
Information.

Fr1end-Did you see the place where
The Magma Charta was made? Mrs.
RschQufcke Dust returned from abroad,
Yes. aud II you should ever see how,
It In made you'd never RAJ another
bite ct II. --Town Tni,;cs &
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
LOOKING BACKWARD

Being q summary of the news Of
twenty-five years z and ten years
ago as recorded In the columns OF
this publication
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09

SU1sc1IPrION PRics:-One copy three
months In advance, ~ cents: M copy. SIX
0onths In advancU. Is cents one COPY. n
year In advance. Sl50. II not paid In I'd.
vance,. 200. II sent to canada. one year In
advance. 0yoo.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1914-10-09
HlekEa1Ml FACTS .
AND FANclES

Ryder has organized a farm
ers club with a membership Of
nearly 100.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-26

NORFOLK. VA. August 25.-Norfolk
ade II two straight from Richmond
bis afternoon. when HUMPHREYS bested
rimes IN pitchers duel that was not
ecided until the seventh inning. when
|orfolk broke the one 10 one tie by
BORING twice.
Two alien rallies were broken up by
iet double plays, carried through to
orn pletlon By the Norfolk inheld. The
RS, came In the initial inning. when
chweitzer, who had walked 10 start
he game, was the first victim of the
|"o-piy killing on Snyder's grounder
he other came In the ninth inning
hen Berger. who had beaten out a
rive TO Pressly. was caught al second
n Robes rap 10 Cleveland.
Mace batted for Gray In the ninth.
md singled. but died IN the attempt TO
tretch his bingle into double
|hrasher. OF Norfolk. again outbatted
|erger and Gray. getting two hits. be-
Edes stealing Two bases, second and
bird, in the eighth inning. Richmonds
nly run came in the second. on singles
y Gray. Newton and Woer,h. Score:
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-26
WASHINGTON AMATEUR
COMMISSIONER COMING
Invitation of Richmond Communication Is
AcceptcG--Eoubie NJ
!n:crcity Series SATURDAY,.

Saturday will be an Interesting day
in local amateur baseball circles. for
the champion team OF the city OF Wash
ineton viii come TO try conclusions
with the Alcos, champions OF Rich
mond. in the first double header OF the
series TO decide the intercity cham
pionship. The fnal games OF the Sc
ries will be played in Washington on
Saturday. September ,. and special
train will be run from Richmond to
carry the local enthusiasts.
That the Washington PLAYERS and
members of the commission from that
city Will be highly entertained while
hero goes without saying. Arrange
ments have been made to entertain the
Washington baseball comm issioncrs at
the Country Club of Virginia The
Washingtonians have accepted an invi-
tation Of the Richmond Commission to
be their guests from Friday until
Sunday.
1t is probable that the Washington
PLAYERS will arrive here Friday after
noon in time to practice at Broad
Street Park where the two games will
be played on Saturday This viii give
the visitors an opportunity to get the
lay OF the land and acquaint them.
selves with the peculiaritics of the
local field.
Tho championship OF Washington
has not yet been decided, bit The final
games will he played to-day and to-
morrow.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-26
Amateur Baseball
Commission to Meet

The Richmond Amntcur Baseball
Commissiun will meet Tonight At
S;15 O'Clock NJ the National >tnte
and City Bank TO fur t;ier consider
the protest Of the Ashland tenn of
the gnDcs lost 10 Aico* last Sntur-
day, which decided the nmaseur
championship Of this city. Ashland
contends TINT shc pitchers box WAS
raised, and that n bail hit to right
field In the ninth inning OF the sec
ond game was inicrfereI with and
caused their runner to be thrown
out mt the plate, when he ought to
have had II home run, which would
hive given them victory. The
protest WAS partially henrd yester-
day, and will be concluded mt to-
nights session OF the commission.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-26
ATHLETICS WIN TWO
pIIII.ADEI.pHTA pa Avr.

PHILADELPHIA. PA. August 25.-
The Athletics took two more games
from the st. Louis Browns here this
afternoon. winning the first game,
3 to 0. and the second. TO 0. Bressler
did the twlrling for the Athletics in
the frst game, and the ST. Louis team
made only three hits off him He famed
seven men. The Athletics slammed
Leverenz. Of the Browns. out OF the
box In the fourth inning, and Ba;chly
succeeded him. but failed TO hold the
Mackmen. who clinched the victory
while he was in the box.
tie. with the honor favoring James. the
ST. Louis pitcher, who only allowed
three hits. the only run OF the Ath-
lettcs being made on Pennock's triple
and scoring on Murphy's single In the
sixth Inning. Pennock. for the Ath-
lstics. also pitched a good game. but
the superb fielding OF the Mackmen
prevented run getting. Scores:
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-08-26
THREE FOREIGN ENTRANTS
IN NATIONAL GOLF TOURNEY

NEW YORK, August o5.-IncludIng
three foreign entrants, there are lie
names on the list OF entries given out
to-day by the United States Golf Asso-
citation for its twentieth annual ma
tional amateur championship golf tour
nament which will begin next Monday
and continue until Saturday on the
links of the Fkwanok Country Club.
Manchester, VT. The list includes c.
T: Durham, Mecklenburg Country Club,
Charlotte. y. {.