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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-09

Rev. NJ. j.. O'Driscoll and Rev. James
Thiel, the latter recently appointed as
assistant priest in Langdon, we're Mt.
Carmel visitors tor a while Sunday.
Work is under good Roadway on the
addition to the church. 1t will be COM
pleted and ready for occupancy on the
10th, when special services will oe held.
Tuesday next week, the 18th inst, is
the date of the annual school meeting,
when the attendance is requested of all
who take all interest in the educational
affairs of Mi. Carmel school district.
John, Adam and Henry Witzel and
John Glrodat, accompanied by their
families, spent the Fourth In an enjoy
able trip in their autos to Walhalla, re-
turning home by the way of Morden,
Man.
On Tuesday many of the people of the
settlement participated in a bee held for
the purpose of helping Jos. SCHUYLER
build the new frame barn which re.
places the one he lost in the electrical
storm of a few weeks ago, when the
building was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground.
Mt. Carmel band boys report an en-.
Joyable time Tuesday of last week when
they attended the wedding near Wales
at the Fetch home upon the occasion OF
the marriage of their daughter, Miss
Mary Fetch, to Edward Breyer. The
hospitality extended warranted the boys
asserting they we're royalty entertained.
Several complaints have been made
to the board of supervisors of Mt. Car
mel township of a number of property
holders placing piles of stone and other
distractions along the side of the road.
AS this is a menace to the safety of the
travelling public, both with teams and
in autos, the nuisance is one the board
has decided to take official notice of,
and will see that stone piles and other
instructions are removed from the road.
side with as little delay as possible.
The people of Mt. Carmel parish are
making big preparations for the picnic
to be held Thursday OF next week, the
10th inst, the anniversary of the patron
saint of the Catholic church at this
place. The days program includes
| music by the Mt Carmel hand. snortS
of all kinds, as well as a ball game be-
tween Wales and Mt. Carmel in the af-
ternoon. Rev. Kern, who has given
considerable time to making the picnic
the big success that it promises to be,
states several priests from over the state
will be here for the occasion. Al invi-
tatlon to the public generally is ex-
tended.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-09
MT. CARMEL.

The birth is announced of a little
baby girl on the 2Sth ult. at the home
of John Kinsman and wife.
Andrew He'll has the foundation laid
out for a fine farm residence which is
to be built on his place this summer.
The Mt. Carmel ball team is practic.
ing regularly for the ball game here at
the picnic Thursday next week, the
18th.
Sebastian Lingerfelter and wife came
up from Milton last week and have been
enjoying a few days visit with old Mt.
Carmel friends.
Road Overseer Peter Zettel announces
road work for the present season will be
wound up within the. next few days,
possibly before the end of the week
The completion of the work this year has
been considerably expedited by the fine
weather of the past few weeks.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-09
ELKWOOD

Some of our fortunate neighbors are
now eating new potatoes, but the rest of
US are glad that we have some old ones
yet.
Joseph Torgerson, Matthew Omlie,
also Nels Torgerson. were Sunday call
ers at Elkwood, presumably on bust
ness.
Elmer Fermo started for Canada on
Sunday, He says homesteads are grow
ing very rapidly, and if a person lands
a good one he should lose no time IN
getting away.
Archie Campbell made a quick trip
with the mail on the 4th, taking in the
sports at N%umedahl in the evening, but
was too late to see Numedahl ball team
trim Elm Point.
County Commissioner Erickson and
family, also P. o. Olson and family. en-
ioyed the sports over at Wales on July
4th. They were much interested in the
ball games and other athletics.
The glorious Fourth is past and gone,
and everybody seems to have enjoyed
themselves, some at one place and some
at another. There we're so many places
to 60 to it was difficult to make a choice.
Since the rains have come the crops
are coming along at an amazing rate.
some wheat heading out and other
grains in the shot blade. The crops
will not be heavy, but will come in
early.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto G. Olson, also Mr.
and Mrs. j. F. Ridley made the trip tt
Walhalla on Thursday of last week anc
we're present at the unwilling of the
Scott monument, and also enjoyed Other
features of the big chautauqua.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-09

accompanied them, is enjoying himself
renewing old acquaintance and visiting
his many relatives
Milton base ball team did not show up
last Sunday to play the return game, as
agreed upon, and as there was a large
crowd gathered to see the game, a team
consisting of some of the best players of
the Mona, Poplar Grove and Walhalla
teams was gotten together and gave our
boys a good, hard game, resulting in the
close score of 4 to 3 in our favor. The
battery for the visitors was Alex NORM,
j. Burnstead and L. Renville; for..Olga,
j. Clover and r. Paitment. Jas. Wake
ford was umpire, and, as was expected,
his decisions gave general satisfaction.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-09
ONLY ONE
Tha Record in Langdon is a Uniqus One.

If the reader has chad back" or any
kidney ills and is looking for an effective
kidney medicine, better depend on the
remedy endorsed by peoi lie you know.
Doan's Kidney Pills have given great
satisfaction in such cases. Langdon
citizens testify to this. Here is a case
of it:
II suffered for years from dull, grind.
ing pains in the small of my back, di,
rectly over my Kidneys" says w. B. Cor
don, a retired farmer of Langdon. "The
kidney action was irregular and caused
much annoyance. I doctored and tried
several remedies, but was not relieved
until l began taking Doan's Kidney
Pills, procured at e. |. Donovan's drug
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-09

VIM. Kerim, who distinguished him.
self in the La Riviere races, won second
in the mems l00,yard race.
The Dresden State Bank has very
much improved the looks of that insti-
tuition by putting IN a cement sidewalk.
Landlord William Speckmann and
family autoed to Wales on the 4th.
Waterloo township was also we'll repre-
sented, including Carl j.. Olmanson,
Austin Krautz and a host of other wor.
thy citizens from that neighborhood,
A. j. Sunberg of Waterloo left Tues
day to attend the North Dakota Con-
vention Of Scandinavian Baptists, which
conyenes at Kenmare on Thursday and
continues until the following Monday.
A very large attendance is expected,
A new Norwegian-L Lutheran church
is to be built out at Ed. Pe%derson's, in
Moscow township. The foundation is
expected to be ready before harvest and
the building erected in the fall at a cost.
approximately, of $4,000. This, together
with the fine new school being built, re-
fleets great credit on the whole neigh
borhood.
The parade at Wales on the 4th was
very good and the town is to be con-
graduated on the good order and de-
corum which prevailed during the whole
day, especially when WE consider the
the immense crowd that was there. The
speakers of the day we're equal to the
occasion and spoke to an appreclative
audience, which crowded the town hall.
Prominent among the speakers was
Father Kern OF Mt. Carmel, who in
some we'll chosen remarks held forth on
the symbolical meaning of the flag. DR..
Squires, the chairman, addressed the
audience in a manner we'll calculated to
inspire all present with true patriotism.
Miss Cochran of Wales read the Decla-
ration OF Independence in a very clear
and forcible manner, and with an en-
phasis that would have done credit to
the originators of chat notable docu.
ment. Geo. M. Price of Langdon spoke
on the Declaration of Independence-of
what it mean to those who promulgated
it and the lessons to be learned by US
from the great struggle for liberty. Dur
ing the course of his remarks he play
fully stated that he did not know why
the management had selected him to
speak when it is remembered that his
audience we're usually twelve sworn
men who "could not get away from
him" 10 his credit, however, we must
state that he held his hearers in wrapt
attention in a speech of the highest
order, delivered with the ease of one
accustomed to standing before an audi
ence, His Grafton concluded amid ap-
plause. The singing interspersed be-
tween the addresses was very good and
reflected great credit on all who took
| mart
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-09

Geo. Dawson won first in the egg race
and came in third in the 1OO.yard dash.
John a. Terhaar and family and Miss
Eva Baker autoed to Walhalla on the
4th,
Otto Speckmann of Dresden was sec
ond in the lO0-yard race for boys under
10 years.
The Dresden ball team is scheduled
to play at Hannah on Friday at 6:3O in
the evening.
1t is rumored that there will be an
other Sunday-school picnic at the Inlay
& Smeaton grove sometime before har.
vest.
Messrs. Inlay. Smeaton, Kitchen.
Giles and families, aggregating about
thirty, were a happy bunch at the eel
ebration.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-09
CORRESPONDENCE
DRESDEN.

I. Dawson and family took IN the cell
ebration at Wales in the afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fabel spent the 4th in
Cavalier, going by way OF Walhalla.
The Dresden juniors played at Wales
pn the 4th and won by a score Of 4 to 2.
The Waterloo boys played a good
game at Wales in the morning. A very
creditable game was played in the even
ing, in which both Hannah and Wales
showed that they were ball players of
the first order. The score was 3 to 0 in
favor of Wales.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-09
OLGA

Adelard Brusseau was a Langdon Wis
ltor on business last Tuesday.
i. Fred Beauchamp is very busy with
his many contracts of painting.
Walter and Miss Frances Mcneil of
Montreal are here visiting old friends.
There will be a dance in the hall to-
morrow friday, the 10th inst. Come
and enjoy yourself.
Pat Cleary has invested in a Ford au-
t%omoblle, and will now be able to keep
up with the best of them.
Postmaster Robillard aud S. Cross
took the civil service examination at
Langdon last Thursday, the End inst.
Chairman Philip Brusseau was up 10
Langdon last Tuesday to attend the
meeting of the county board of equal
i%zation.
Joseph Perron returned from Glen
Kelley, Sask., last week and is now busy
doing some repairs and improvements
on the presbytery,
Master Alphonse Beauchamp, who is
attending college at st. Boniface, Man,
is home spending his vacation with his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. B]eauchamp,
Miss Josephine Laderoute returned
from Calmar, Man, last Monday. She
was accompanied by her nephew and
niece, Rosaire and Marguerite Marion,
who will visit here a part of the summer.
! Peter Dunnigan returned last week
from a visit to Gull Lake and other
points in Saskatchewan, Canada. He
reports the many friends whom he met
out there as feeling and doing very we'll
and fine prospects for a good crop.
Sister Amelda, formerly Miss Alma
Plante, who since returning from France
has been at the Oakwood school, where
she is one of the instructors, was here
the beginning of the week visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M. A. Plante.
Joe Beauchamp is busy handling the
throttle pulling out stumps four feet
across, more or less. He expects to fin
ish this week, when they will hitch to
the scrub pillow and break up some more
of the best land to be had for agricul-
tural purposes.
James CregaD has given the contract
for breaking the 40 acres of scrub land
he has just completed clearing and
grubbing to Benoit & Narcotic, the
price being $4,000 When this piece Of
40 acres is broken, Mr.. Cregan will have
one of the best $50 acres of land IN the
county, all under cultivation, which
formerly was nothing but solid oak
scrub.
Mr.. and Mrs. Honore Beaucbamp
J who left two weeks ago to visit ole
friends and relatives, send word tina
, they are now visiting Mrs. Fillion at st
Jerome province, Quebec. Mrs. Filliol
is Mrs. Beauchamp's mother. She il
now 96 years of age and still enjoying
good health. Jules Chapnt, ST., VIII
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-09

H. D ALERT and wife took yesterdays
train for a few days visit to Minneapolis.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-09

Doan's regulets are recommended by
many who say they operate easily, with
out gripping and without bad after
effects. 25c at all drug stores.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-09
THE MIDNIGHT PATROL"

Pretty old film, this. But the morals always new.
It is: watch your step!" Why didn't you buy
that teethine rim. long ago? And that inter, too.
Now how about purchasing your medicines in big
quantities? Cheaper and handler.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-07-09
CORNER DRUG STORE
II. F.. CLOSE g. COMPANY

store. A few doses brought much ben
eft, and before long my kidneys we're
strengthened and every symptom of kid
ney trouble disappeared. Doan's Kid
ney Pills have my highest endorsement"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get Doan's
Kidney Pills-the same that Mr.. Gordon
had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props, Buff
falo. N. Y.
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COSTIIEST EVER MADE

the murder of two Of his compatriots
he was finally acquitted. after a second
trial, in November, 1907 This was an
occasion for much rejoicing.
When the great composition candle
was finished its weight of 3lS POUNDS
and height of Is feet did not deter the
happy man from carrying 1t away from
the place Of the makers on his shoul.
ders, accompanied by the Joyful strains
Of brass band of fifty pieces and hun.
dreds of his followers. Barofootcd. he
trudged with his votive Offering to the
nearest church, ten blocks away 10 give
thanks for his deliverance. Shipped
eventually to Castellamare di StahIa, on
the Bay of Naples, 1t burned without
ceasing In the cathedral exactly four
years and three months; a. designed
that being the length OF time spent by
Cascone in the death house at sing Sing
But Cascone's candle oullvod him
many. many months. This confessed
| murderer of six men was sho, in the
hack and killed soon after his reease
| by boy of II, the brother OF one OF
his victims.
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Royal Mexican Ghost

IT HE hot springs Of Las Sicrvas
near Vale de CanizOs, in q remOti
part OF the State of Guerrero
Mexico, have been visited by trN people
from the outside world, hut they are
famous in the legends and history OF
the Indian tribes of that plr' II th'
republic.
According to the natives, the waters
of the springs possess great m"dclnaI
properties. In ancient times On sprlnss
were the favorite bathing rcsu. II b'
noble families of the Tepanr,l. N'1lhu'
and other tribes that lived m 'ait re
gion.
on both sides Of the chief sur'D- therr
are huge rocks with hicro-l} pH.s AM
the figures of women brluN'1'." "lrVed'
Judging from the robes Won by IN,
women. their stately app'u ta"" am
the jewels around their n"Dh- iH" ne
ures must represent princes '' lideS
of very high rank.
The spring Is at the entrance 10
grotto that has never h''1 'Nplore"
From the grotto rumh'in- E'Hnd r.
sembling distant thunder is ~ N" heard
all the time. Accordng to natives, IN
rumble Is caused ny the EU''. 't 49,
Excamina, who ruled over ih' part u
the country three or four r""' RES ~
fore the Spaniards discovrrni \n'n :"
King Excamina, the trId. S'N
was as had as man could lw ti' III"
dered people merely for Tn" H'..-nr' O.
seeing them die and COMM ''e'5
crime. He had his palace .I"c'e'
in another cave, which Co"'l'". "",
! with that OF the spring 'F ODD .'"n''
There Excamina, in COMPANY N. S'"
Of his favorites, had orgies '.'i ''S'
weeks and months. !.
When he died an car'hW".
stroyed his palace. Since IL ''H u.
ghost has been haun'!nS ~ ~,
the spring and none of the 1850.
| ever dared go into the cave
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ny e. u. MACAULEY.

lust few steps OF Forty-fourth
street, through a canyonlike area
y way. is heavy. nail studded door.
against its weather oak panels
hangs n massive iron knocker. From
"A scrolled bracket fixed against the
Intel Of the door swings a battered lam
tern Of ancient design. Turn your back
upon the glare Of the street to the cool,
gray shadows Of the wel-like court; shut
your ears to the bare of automobile
horns, the shrieking wheels Of elevated
trains, the cries OF newsboys and ven
ders and you have been transported In
a dozen steps from the ultra modern to
the medieval You have now come
under the magic Of the Beasco touch.
The beat Of the iron knocker is heard
reverberating through a cavelike space
and the summons Is answered presently
by the silent opening OF the heavy door.
After stepping into the diminutive ele
vator. II you were gifted with a power
~ dvination that permitted you to WIS.,
ualze the apotheosis OF Belascoism
awaiting you above, you would say to
the silent operator, "Fairy.and. please"
Then you would slide noise.essly aloft
behind the pillars of the proscenium
arch Of the stage through the mysterious
shadows Of the domed auditorium until
you stopped, stepped out and were ad-
mitted into the presence Of the man who
assembled the treasures of the dead CEN
turtles upon which you were to feast
your eyes during the interval of your
visit, the wizard of the modern drama
David BelascO.
Not more appropriate adage could
be applied to Beasco than Shakespeare's
immortal truism, IAN the worlds a
stage" David Belasco stages every
thing. He has staged the past. gor-
geously, wonderfully. with sure and
delicate sense OF objects rare and beau
tiful; and this environment is the work
shop in which are evolved the plays
that have delighted so many thousands
Of theatregoers in New York and
throughout the country.
In this workshop the leading man, the
leading woman the ingenue. the come
dian. the heavy villain. the character
Belasco. He assumes and fits each role
with an intimate and sympathetic un-
derstanding born of a wide and COM
prehensive experience of the world.
often" said Mr.. Belasco, Il have
attended weddings just to watch the
happy bride and bridegroom march tim
idly down the aisle between rows Of
beaming, sympathetic faces to the sweet
strains Of Mendclssohn's Wedding
March, Afterward. years afterward
perhaps, | have read in the newspapers
of unhapplness, of marital tragedy. Of
a suit for divorce. I have observed the
same couple in court, bitterly hating
each other, with accusations of infe-
licity. of cruelty. Of brutality and viola
ton OF the sacred pledges they had
made upon their drawn lips.
Sometimes l have read Of a death.
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| have attended the funeral ceremonies.
| have watched and analysed every
kind of revelation of grief and sorrow.
! have seen frail women stand, weep
ing silently, beside the bier. | have
seen strong men, dry eyed, shaken with
inward sobhing. | have seen them
shrieking in "A frenzy Of impotent agony.
! have seen them stand like craven
images, white faced, dry eyed, and
have said to myself oh. God! IL they
could only find an outlet for their grief.
Il have attended functions of state
where sOvereigns have paraded before
their subjects clad in vestments of vel
vet, ermine, lace, gold and priceless
jewels. ] have observed the alteration
of men and women for the tawdry pag-
eantry of wealth and power.
81 have inhaled the sensuous atmos-
phere of the magnificent ballroom.
have breathed the smoke laden, fetid
air of the miserable, sordid, underworld
dance halls. | have studied the evolu-
ton of the dance from its most exalted
to its lowest forms. ! regard the inva-
sion and present popularity Of the
tango as the greatest factor In Great
ing domestic unrest and unhappiness
Some day there will be a terrible trag.
edy, and the world will suddenly
awaken to the evils Of the modern
dance"
Chinatown has revealed its NAKED
squalor and ugliness to David Belasco
Away beneath the street, into the diml!
lighted and dripping damp OF the nor
rible opium den, he has carried his per
s"nal observations Of pitiful human
frailties
1T is with profound sense OF wha
! owe to the world and to myself a
producer Of drama that ] pursue m
Investigations" said Mr.. Belasco.
! cut Of this wealth OF knowledge an
experience of the world, culed throug
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then the problem is much harder. Wax
cannot be cast in forms like composition
for the simple reason that II sticks to
the walls of the mould and cannot be
got out in proper shape. Therefore
the old fashioned way Of our grand
mothers that of dipping, must be re-
sorted to.
Fancy dipping a candle sixteen feet
tall. Next to huge vat stands a der
rick twenty-odd feet high. When the
wax in the caldron Is boiling, the fin
ished wick, previously fastened to the
arm of the derrick and held taut by
a weight tied to its lower end, is dipped
into the molten mass. There 1t rests for
a brief time and Is then hoisted up and
is not again dipped until the wax has
cooled and hardened. Thus by many.
many successive layers the candle is
formed so that when done you can peel
ii just as you would an onion.
This process Is very tedious one
particularly in the warmth of summer,
when an interval of practically two
hours instead of one elapses between
the clippings. The Morgan candle, for
example, which was dipped more than
hundred times, could have been COM
pleted in two weeks instead Of four
under more favorable weather conditions.
This done the rough candle is forced
through q cylindrical tube, the walls of
which are heated to n given tempera-
ture In order that the wax may become
plastic and in that way pressed into the
| desired shape. Next 1t goes into the
hands OF the smoothers and polishers
| and then II is ready for the artists and
decorators. Pictures in oil are painted
| on the surface Of the candle, but orna-
ments and flowers in relief are first cast
in moulds and then attached by heat
The gold leaf, which is very often used
lavishly, is the last thing to be applied
| Before the advent of the Morgan me.
mortal votive candle kindled Easter
morning just two years ago was the
finest in existence. Undimmed for foui
more years its light will shine before
the altar Of st. Biagio in st. Peters
Rome, in thanksgiving for a voice re-
stored
| A great italian singer who could fine
no relief in despair poured out his hear
to the patron saint Of those afflicted will
diseases OF the throat, st. Blaise. TIL,
prayer was answered and to Ajell,
Bros. fell the lot OF making n candle
commemorative OF the cure. More thar
eleven feet high this taper stood, beauti
fully embossed and heavily covered will
gold. But even $3.50. though this ma.
seem to you heavy price to pay 70
candle, was not comparable to tn
possible wealth that lay In the voic
regained.
The tallest taper ever manufacture
by Ajcl!o Bros. was that ordered at
cost OF $500 by friends OF Raffaele Cas-
cone. Sentenced to the death chair 70