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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-08-24
NOTICE AND CITATION HEARING PETI-
TlCN FOR APPOINTMENT OF ADMIN
STRATOR.

NJ ohs
'rA COUNTY nr S OF cav pheorA' IS. In County Court
Before Hon. f. w. BLEAKLEy, Judge.
In the Matter of the Estate of Peter Heide
Deceased:
Cornelius P. Heide,
Heide, David P. Hell HE EAR
de, Abraham P; Hei; AppoISTmEyT
the County Treasurer An,rs1srn, -
of Cavalier County,
North Dakota,
Respondents.
The State Of North Dakota to the Above
in the Estate of Peter Heide, Deceased
Yon and each of you are hereby notified that
petition PRAYING that letters of administration
upon the estate of Peter Heide, late of the
township of midway, in the Couaty of Cotton
wood and State of Minnesota, deceased, be
granted to Thomas Devaney, and that said
petition will be heard and duly considered by
this Court ION on Friday, the 29th day Of Septemb.
that day, at the Court Rooms of this Court, in
the County Court House, in the City of Lang
don, County of Cavalier and State of North
Dakota, and YOU, and each of you, are hereby
cited to be and appear before this Court at
said time and place, and answer said petition,
ana sh OF So cause q Use, i any there be; why the
PA r = - Ioiu poCi.lou Sliouiu nOC De granted.
Dated this 22nd day of August, A. D., 1916.
by the Court:
lSEALl +. W. BLEAKLEy,
Judge of the County Court.
Let service of the above Citation be made by
publishing same in the Courier Democrat a
weekly newspaper, printed and published at
less service of said Citation is admitted or
waived.
lSEALl +. w. BLEAKLEY,
Judge of the County Court,
THOMAS DEvANEY,
Attorney for Estate,
Langdon, North Dakota.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-08-24
Advertised Letter List

The following list of uncalled for
letters have been received at the
Langdon post office for the week end
ing Thursday, August "a, 1916.
GENTS LIST
W.. Ulluh Lloyd Stone
Ray Stone Edw. Leruuahau
Casum Mosrrv Charley Mohler
James McKalecilar Mr.. Eversion
Edward Olson Louis Foss
Gusltof Boserd
LADIES LIST
Mrs. Geo. Mcdonald.
Parties calling for any of the above
letters will state that they have been
advertised and be required to pay
a charge of one cent for advertising.
A. l. Koehmstedt, Postmaster.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-08-24

County of Cavalier; jss.lh 1ounty court
Before Hon. f. w. BLEAKLEY, Judge.
In the Matter of the Estate of Peter Heide
nncnn..I.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
A Real Magic Cap.

e ONE time before the outbreak of the
~ war German organist. who went
TO st. Petersburg, as the capital of
Russia was then called, to live, had an
experience with a new cap that for a
time almost made him believe in the
magic of the Teutonic fairy tales.
his first day at the Russian capital.
and wore 1t the next day when he went
out for a walk. On his return to his
lodgings he was amazed to find two
gold purses in his pocket. one of
which contained a sum equivalent to
$50.
The next day, after his usual walk. he
found four purses in his outside pocket,
a find that caused him to doubt his
profitable result, sent him to the chief
of police to tell his story.
The authorities detailed a detective
to go with the German to the tailor
who made the cap. Investigation dis
closed the fact that it had been con-
structed of an odd piece of English
cloth brought in by a stranger. From
cal caps to order. Having a bit left.
he had constructed a sixteenth cap.
which was the one sold to the organist.
The detective then followed the Or
ganist through the streets OF the city,
when the mystery was solved. The cap.
1t appears, was the emblem of a gang
of pickpockets working comparatively.
The one who secured a purse dropped
it into the pocket of the first con-
federate he saw. The cap had identified
the German and he had reaped the re-
ward. With this clue, 1t was an easy
matter for the Russian authorities TO
catch the whole gang.
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WINTER COMFORTS IN
THE FRENCH TRENCHES

1rHE French have made their
u trenches as comfortable as posi-
BILE for the benefit of the troops during
the winter months. Many of the
trenches are paved and the water is
kept out of them by means of power
full pumps. There are drain pits which
have been sunk along the whole length
inside the trenches, and the pumps are
used to force the water from these
pits to the outside.
The walls of the trenches are
strengthened with hurdles to prevent
landslides. The bottoms of the trenches
are carefully beaten down, leveled and
covered with plank or straw. and the
earthen roofs are made stronger by
sheets of zinc. The heating. which is
adequate. is furnished by charcoal bra
Tiers Farther back from the trenches,
along the second line, are erected little
wooden huts, built with double walls
to keep out the cold, with slate roofs.
and in most cases with flowers raised
above the level of the ground. The
beds consist of wire netting stretched
over wooden frames, with a covering
of straw packing and a supply of
warm blankets.
In the huts stoves are furnished
Fuel is very plentiful and easily OBJ
tanned. because the shells of the enemy
have scattered huge branches from the
trees and splintered them ready for
burning. The soldiers are given two
good meals a day, and in the case of
is an extra ration of meat. Hot drinks
are furnished, such as tea and coffee,
with a fixed measure of alcohol when
the temperature requires it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
Lost Heads.

e ECRETARY DANIELS said at a
~ naval dinner in Washington:
Sailing the seas is a ticklish and
panicky business these days.
"They tell story about one of the
New York to Boston boats. This boat
quivered from stem to stern one morn
ing. and. with a harsh, grating sound.
came to full STOP
"A man in a white nightshirt ran
wildly up on deck
"'Good gracious. captain he said,
have we been torpedoed?'
Calm YOURSELF the captain an
swered.
cap. were sinking! I can feel it!
Shall 1 get into a life-preserver"
You are past the need OF life
preserver now. my poor Fellow, the
captain said.
1.-The boats. then. Oh. cap. amt
you going to lower the boats?
TOO late the captain answered.
solemnly. It's too late for the boats
now
% Too late? Too late%
Yes. said the captain. We've done
all we can for you. and you'll have to
look out for yourself from now on.
You see. we've just tied up to the
DOCK"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
The Two Urchins.
10 REPRESENTATIVE GARDNER. i,

10 REPRESENTATIVE GARDNER, in
Nv an address in Providence on pre-
paredness, said:
Before the looming danger of inva-
sion the pacifist and the preparedness
chap are. respectively. like Willie and
Johnny.
willie and Johnny had been very
naughty and were sent to bed by their
mother. AS they lay side by side foot
steps were heard-it was now evening
and the two culprits realized that
their father was mounting the stairs.
They turned pale.
"Tm goin' to fold my hands as if
I'd been prayin.' said Pacifist Willie,
and then I'll pretend-to be asleep when
he comes in
But Preparedness Johnny was al
ready bustling swiftly about the room
"I'm goin' to put on my pants he
said, and line 'em with a newspaper :"
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to his old house, because he has no
trouble with servants and his daush-
ters, who both go out to work. are de-
lighted with the scheme. There has
been some friction. however, because
of the presence of families with small
children, but in cases where original
members of the community have with
drawn their places have been quickly
filed.
So far the only hope is for the middle
class Englishwoman to become little
more independent of hired help. and
in SO far as the English conditions OF
living make 1t possible she is trying
to do SO. The manager of one of the
big stores told me the other day that
he had sold more labor-saving house
hold appliances In the last year than
he had sold in five years before. There
has been boom in gas water heaters,
known in England as geysers'; In
vacuum cleaners, in gas cookers and
in anthracite heating stoves. which
take the place of old open fires, and
can be kept burning all winter II
necessary,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27

permit the payment of high wages.
which attracted skilled servants, and
the cost Of running the place carefully
figured out and the contribution of
every member of the community fixed.
When the undertaking was going it
simply meant that each member Of the
community contracted with the COM
mittee to pay so much a month. In pro-
portion, of course. to the number Of
his family. and had all trouble about
service taken of his hands Each fam
lily had it's own separate fiat Or range
of apartments and the community
servants looked after it. The mistress
of each individual fiat issued no orders
to the servants. That Is all done: by
the manageress, who is responsible to
the committee. and IL things go wrong
complaint is made to the committee.
which passes it along to the man
ageress, and she in turn Is held strict
ly responsible for the work of her sub
ordinates. So far the plan has worked
fairly well. A member of the COM
munity, a widower with two grown-up
daughters. tells me that he prefers it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27

to unloading, he comes upon the last
stretch of open road to the trenches.
long. winding upgrade is marked
by dozens of flashes that shoot out
along the sides as French guns hurl
their missiles into the German
trenches, sending up deafening. head
splitting crashes. The way is packed
with soldiers on the march up as
though an attack is imminent, and
heavy artillery wagons drawn by six
or eight painting horses and maddened
fresh supplies of shells for the guns.
Keeping to the road and avoiding
collision is now largely a matter of
instinct and luck. The flashes of the
guns play strange tricks with the
vision of the driver and the roar of
the explosions makes him light-headed
1t seems as though all the guns in the
sector were being let off at the same
time, with the deep. crashing reso-
nance of the big guns. the .220 NOR
tars, the low swish of their shells.
taking several seconds to land, their
laundering crash: the innumerable re-
ports of the smaller guns, the sharper
shrieks and the penetrating crashes
of their shells tearing apart the Ger
man trenches and the splitting reports
of the rs guns exploding just along
the edge of the road.
The canvas body of the car Sha
and the drivers hands clutch the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27

Special Correspondence of The Star.
LONDON, February II, 1916.
m HE evacuation of Gallipoli PENN
sula by the British forces, with
virtually no losses. will ever re-
main in the history of the world as a
military feat of great proportions, just
as all the heroes of the Dardanelles
fasco will take their place with those
of Thermopylae. But how the thing
was done. how the Turks were fooled,
has not been told in detail. From a
wounded officer just back from Suvla
bay. where he was among the last to
leave, the writer has some of the facts
of the gigantic bluff. AT Suvla the Brit
ish staff. in planning the evacuation.
counted on 10000 casualties during the
Decentralization. Not a life was lost.
And this, in part, is the way it was
done:
The decision to abandon the Inflated
Dardanelles expedition was reached
some weeks. before the actual depar-
ture of the British troops. 1t was kept
a secret and few officers at Suvla knew
of it. The Turks, of course. knew moth
ing of it, and the British staff was
confronted with the problem of devils
ing some scheme whereby the troops
could move off during a single night
without the enemy becoming aware of
the movement. AS the official dis
patches have told, it was some hours
after the actual departure of the troops
that the Turks became finally aware
that the trenches opposite them were
empty; that the last living Britisher
had departed. Without knowledge of
the full facts. it seems incredible that
as good soldiers as the Turks could
have had all this happen under their
very noses without seeing that some
thing was up.
But the Turks had become accustomed
to silent British trenches and looked upon
them with as much respect as when they
teemed with life and rifle fire. Days
before the evacuation the word was
passed through the British lines that not
a shot should be fired. The order was
carried out. The Turks could not make
heads or tails of the situation. They
threw a few bombs. but there was no
reply. They opened with rifle and ma
chine guns and artillery-still no re-
Spouse. A venturesome Turk peered over
a parapet. No sharpshooter picked him
off. Then others came up, and finally
a whole band of them came out into the
open and up to the barbed wire entangle-
ments, looking toward the British lines.
When their number was considerable
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room next to the dining room is in
ruins. The men find consolation in be-
lieving the shells were intended for
the soldiers and equipment going along
the road to the trenches that passes by
the house.
Although the dining room faces away
from the trenches, the shutters are
closed, heavy curtains are drawn and
every precaution is taken to lessen the
denger of ray of light passing out
side.
While the men talk the tinkle of the
bell above the door connected with the
telephone in the barricaded office
downstairs suddenly sounds and a
French orderly answers the telephone
and runs upstairs with a call for two
cars. Five seriously wounded. he says,
at certain trench post near the end
Of the sector.
The two men next out have on their
coats already and are on their way 10
: their cars in the yard. 1t Is a bad call
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p.cial Correspondence. of n. Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON. February II, 1916
IN EFORE the war the servant ques-
tx ton was acute in English middle
class households. but since the
war IL 10 hardly an exaggeration to
say that the general servant has be-
come unobtainable. How serious q
matter that Is can hardly be re-
allied by the American woman OF ap-
proximately the same social status as
the English middle-class woman. for
the working Of running house. say. in
London, IL much more laborious and
complex than running a fiat In New
York or Chicago.
To begin with, the English woman is.
as a rule. not nearly so we'll trained
in household economy as her American
cousin. In the old days she has not
taught her that IT was disgraceful for
her to be able to cook and sweep and
wash at a pinch. Her household duties.
il she performed any, were confined to
busting the more valuable ornaments
and arranging the flowers. All the
other work was done in most house
holds by the cook general" or in those
"A little better off by the cook and a
housemaid. The cook general was
paid from 500 to SIPS year, and the
cook and housemaid received about
the same wages.
Today the cook has taken her place
In a restaurant or a club from which
the man cooks have gone to join the
colors or is cooking in the camps for
the soldiers. and the housemaid is
running an elevator. acting as CON
ductress' on street car. taking tickets
al a railway station or making NUM-
fions. A large proportion of the do
nestle servants have also married. be-
fore their young men enlisted, and are
now running homes of their own and
doing very well on the generous sepa l.
ration allowances made by the British
government To the dependents OF it's
soldiers. Even the daily charwoman
has ceased from charring and gone in
for the more remunerative employ
nents now open to women, or is Iiv-
ing on the separation allowance of her
husband or her sons.
How serious this is TO the English
middle class woman may not be appar-
ent at first to the American woman
who lives in a steam heated nat and
has janitor to do most of the heavy
work. II Bridget or Mary leaves sud
denly the laundry can be sent out. and
about all that must be done by the
American woman Is the busting and the
cooking. and in most American towns
the cooking can be got rid of at a
pinch BY patronizing the handy and
reasonably priced restaurant that Is
sure 70 be not Tar away. II there are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
WOOD USED AS A
SUBSTITUTE FOR LARD

ef1HE uses of wood were SO numer-
u GUS in the normal world before the
breaking out of the great war that
il would have required a brave prophet
to say that the list of uses could be ex-
tended. Wood has been a companion of
man since his advent on earth. and it was
believed by most persons that all the
uses to which it could be put had been
discovered But it is trite saying
that wonders never cease. and in the
matter of wood number Of important
discoveries have been made and a
great number have been reported as
made Some of the discoveries reported
should be subjected to discount. Man
has imagination. and a good many i'm
aKinings dressed up in technical words
or the language of science get into
print.
Germany and Austria wood pulp or
wood fiber has been substituted for
cotton in the making of explosives. This
information came from German sources
before the war was a year old, and
was generally doubted. The use of
the fiber of wood as an absorbent of
nitric acid and the agent for supplying
carbon for combustion of explosives
but with little success. cotton being
found much superior. The fact that
wood fiber is being used in German
ammunition is apparently admitted now
by British and French authorities, and
the propelling and bursting charges
of German shell and shrapnel are re-
ported as effective. No deterioration
in German explosives is observable, say
those men who have a warrant to ex-
press opinions on this subject
Less Is heard now than a few months
ago about the use of wood as a sub
stitute for or as an adulterant of bread.
At the time of the publication of the
wood-bread stories q number of his
toric presidents were cited that in
sieges and periods of famine men had
made substitute for bread out of the
green wood or sap wood of various trees,
such for example the birch. larch.
spruce, fir. maple and the pine.
One of the most remarkable of the
reputed new uses for wood comes in
statement made to the Canadian For
estry Association, that a mill company
has developed a by-product from pulp
wood which is to be placed on the mar
ket as a substitute for lard The claim
is made that the substitute as a cook
ing fat is purer in composition. superior
to and more economical than pure lard
In the news reports from Canada it is
said that government officials are in
terested because they think they see in
Swedens prohibition of the export of
pulp wood to Britain the opening up of
new supply of raw material for Ger
many from which substitute for lard
may be obtained.
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morrow. AS the driver passes this
point his breath comes quicker and he
half expects to hear the familiar,
merciless shrek of shell crashing
into the road.
He takes the road to the right. The
motor of the ambulance makes little
noise and will not be heard tonight
Before he enters upon the road he zig
Gags through narrow openings among
tall screens of burlap material, put
there by the French to cut of the view
of the Germans from their positions on
the hill a quarter of mile away.
The road here il in excellent condition
1t Is because of the absence of all
transports and by the light of the
periodic rockets that the driver is able
to make better time.
Passing through the last town I'D,
expecting collision any instant as he
enters the tumble of seemingly innu-
merable wagons, horses and men
drawn up in all positions preparatory
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
BY WILLIAM T. MARTIN,

E1HE voices of the men as they sit
around the long. clearly spread
table in the we'll appointed room
q become indistinct against the
din outside which shakes the house.
As they talk louder the noise grows in
volume and becomes a confusion of
deep roars. distant crashes. sharper ex-
plosions nearer at hand. and things
that go shrieking by overhead in the
night.
1t is one of the intermittent French
bombardments of the German trenches
of the past few weeks. The men, lis
tening for a moment for the sharp
tearing crashes denoting a reply from
the other side. and hearing nothing.
know that so long as this continues
there will be but few wounded on their
own side. and the dinner goes on.
With the exception of two or three
men now threading their way through
the blackness to the trenches in an
swer to call received some time ago.
the gathering represents. the ambulance
corps for the sector. which includes
seven miles of some of the most holly
contested trench front in France. The
majority of the corps are Americans.
professions others from college or bus
mess back home.
Before the war German family
lived bere--a family of distinction. ap-
parently. and wealth. 1t seems as
though the Germans have spared the
place. for, it now stands almost alone
with heaps of ruins on all sides within
half a mile of the German trenches.
On the third floor the blinds remain
untouched and movement is restricted.
The Germans. from the top of the hill.
can look over and see what is hap
pening.
Several shells have fallen in the gar
den in front, and as a consequence the
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wheel tighter. Were the Germans to
fire at the batteries now the loss of
life would be terrific.
The road now passes along the third
line trenches and is Swallowed fire.
quentIy by woods still standing. The
glare of the rockets over the trees and
the flashes of the pounding guns give
weird effect to the silent hundreds
marching up on the right and the long
lines of stra ming horses drawing the
heavy transports to guns further on.
In that long. silent mass the driver has
many friends. AS he passes he hears
the words, "Americain" and "Vive
rAmerique.'' 1t shows the enthusiasm
of the French for the American
AS he continues. every faculty ex-
erted, prepared by practice not to be
surprised at whatever might happen,
some one shouts Attention." In a
sharp voice. He looks ahead, but can
see nothing. Then above the uproar
he hears the rapid clink. clink, clink of