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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04
NEW YEAR GIFTS FROM ORLAND

Here in Langdon at New Years
many were remembered by those of
our former townspeop]e, who now
form quite a prominent factor of the
North Dakota colony at Orland, Cali
fornia. The gift of the New Year
from the sunny Pacific coast to the
s%nowbound North Dakotans was an
appreciative offering Of flowers and
fruit, in which oranges grown by the
donor themselves played a prominent
part. The Democrat gratefully thanks
Mr.. and Mrs Hayward for such a
thoughtful remembrance at this season
Of good wishes.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04
ONLY 81 LICENSES TO WED-l916

For the first week of the new year
1t may be said that Dan Cupid was
hand.d a blank so far as the matri-
monial record of the Judge of the
county court goes to show, as since
January lst, up to the hour of our
going to press, his honor, Judge F.
W. Bleakley has not been called upon
to issue a single license to wed. The
record for the year 1916, shows the
issuance of 81 licenses to wed parties 8
residing in Cavalier county.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04
ThaIes Of Miletus.

The first scientific thinker was Thales
Of Miletus, born about G36 B. C. He
was the first to attempt n logical solu-
ton Of material phenomena without
resorting to NEUROLOGICAL representa-
tions. In other Words, Thales was the
first man, SO far as we know, to try to
find out the actual truth concerning
the world we live in, its origin, c0nsti-
tuition and destiny.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04
M. E. CHURCH SERVICES.

Morning worship at HOO. SUBJ
Ject, "Christ's Commission to His
Disciples"
Sunday School at 1900 m.
Epworth League at 6:45 p. m.
Evening services at 1880. Subject,
1.-The Report of the Commission"
Harvey Center-Sunday School at
200 p. M, preaching at 800.
Geo. G. Lee, Pastor.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04

Impure blood runs you down
makes you an easy victim for disease.
For pure blood and sound digestion
Burdock Blood Bitters. At all drug
stores. Price ST.. 90.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04

everyone pronounced ii quite the sue
cess of the season.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04

.OST-Since about October 18th, onelight hay
calk mark on right hind foot, weight about
1900. Party taking mp the above described
stock will please notify A.. A. Barker. Lang
don. N. d.. 17-tf
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04

Messrs. Andy Krien and Robert
Laing. accompanied by Misses Mae
Mcleod and Laura Lindsay, made up
a party of Langdon young people who
attended the New Years dance given
by the firemen of OsnabrocK.
Itching. bleeding, protruding or
blind piles have yielded to Doan's
Ointment. Soc at all stores.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04

GOOD FARM FOR RENT-Located near t..
Laugdcu; about 400 acres under cultivation;
machinery preferred : reference as to utility
and character required. Applya at this Office.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04

STRAYED-From my place south of Langdon,
on or about October LIST, one ,yearling black
heifer. marked with split on left ear: Party
Chaput, Langdon. Nd. loft
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04

SEED WHEAT-Choice ,i,urum Seed Wheat.
Sample can be seen at Democrat. Address g.
+ Jordan. post office. Langdon, N D. 24-tf
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04

MEN WAETED-Severa] Young men to handle
a we'll established and profitable business in
Cavalier county: IL will pay you to write me.
Il l. Roach, jamestown 24-27*
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04

GIRL WAETED-At once. capable girl for gen.
eral housework- Steady position and good
wages offered. Apply toA. q. Void. Lang
don. n. u. , 16.tf
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1917-01-04

GIRL WANTED For general homework ;apply
Immediately small family; good wages steady
position. Apply 10 Mrs. W #. Winter 20tf
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-14
Tanning Island
Force Patched
Severed Cables

London, Aug. 14.-FIow~ the cable
staff at Tanning Island patched up
the cable which was cut by the men
of the German cruiser Nurnberg, Is
told in the Zodiac the organ of the
Eastern and Associated Telegraph
Company, which says:
ssThe resources of coral island in
the Pacific are naturally slight, and
the Germans had sthought to clinch
the matter by towing the several ends
Of the cable far apart. But they
reckoned withou their hosts. Hugh
Craig, member Of the flaming Is
land staff, although entirely lacking
experience in handling of repairing
cables, undertook the temporary re-
pair of the Tanning Gable.
z '.As there was no grapnel, he used
an ordinary pickaxe. BY this means
and also by diving and working under
the sea to secure the cable ends with
ropes he managed to raise them to the
surface. But they were still far apart,
there was no possibility of bringing
them together and no spare cable was
available, to fill the gap.
"He improvised RATS made with
planks and ordinary barrels and with
the cable ends securely fastened to
these made a connection between
them with ordinary covered wire. It
was across these RATS that Tanning
spoke again to Suva transmitting the
urgently awaited information of her
requirements for complete repair"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-14
Light Trucks Add to
Profits of Gardeners

Foresight and. far-sightedness are
both shown by Charles F. Seabrook
Of Bridgetown, N. j., whose truck
farms are the wonder Of the country
and the delight Of all who visit them.
The largest truck garden in the
United States is built up around the
word speed for, on rapadity Of
transportation depends much Of MIR.
Seabrook's profits His experience
shows the place of the light truck such
as a. Smith Form-a.-Truck on the mod
ern farm.
Indicative Of Mr. Seabrook's belief
in the efficiency of trucks is his in
stalaltion of a system which is biased
about motor trucks. These carry his
perishable articles from the farms to
the railway station, a few miles away
AT the other end of the line, in New
York, he has other trucks waiting, to
rush the vegetables to the large dis
time, for few hours mean the diff
ference beeween an exceptionally large
price for Seaibrook products and or
binary profit.
These farms and the genius who
rought them from a common New Jer-
sey place" to the best of their kind.
we've featured in a national weekly,
recently, and especial emphasis was
placed on the fact that reliance was
placed in the trucks to assure speed
and in insure porf1ts.
/ Space is given in one Of the monthly
publications of the Smith Motor Truck
Corporation, manufacturers Of the
Smith Fsorm-a-Truck, to the Seabrook
farms and the result which attended
the motorization OF its equipment
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-14
all RELIGIOUS
DIRECTORS ARE
TO Be DRAFT TED
Must Stand Chance Of Ser
vice., But AS Non
Combatants

Washington, August 14.-Religious
DIRECTORS, members OF any well rec
ognized religious sect or organization,
organized and existing May IS. 1917,
are assigned a definite place in the
national army for the first time in
a ruling made public yesterday by
Provost Marshal General tCrowder.
They will be sent to the mobilization
camps for duties which the president
may designate as non-combatant.
The ruling says they will be draft
ed, forwarded to mobilization camp
and will make up part of the quota
from the state and ursrrrcs whence
they come and Will be, assigned to
duty in a capacity declared by the
president to be non-combatans.-
The duties which may be allotted
to these men have not been made
known There are numerous army
organizations. however, such as the
hospital and quartermaster corps
known as noncombatant troops III
army organizations.
The war department made public
today orders emitting army clerks tc
wear the uniform of the army with
distinguishing marks and white arm
bands to distinguish them as noncom
batants.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-14
der.
Loyalty

A soldiers loyalty governs, first of
all, his feelings and actions toward
his country, his government and his
flag. There can be no such thing as
halfway loyalty. The slightest COM
promise opens the door to treason.
But a soldiers loyalty does not stop
here. It governs also his feelings and
actions toward the army and toward
all the officers under whom he serves.
1t absolutely forbids disobedience
among both officers and enlisted men,
or disrespect toward those in au-
thority.
Going a step farther, loyalty gov
ems also the soldiers feelings and
actions toward his own regiment, his
own company and his. own squad.
Without this form of loyalty there
con be no real comradeship; without
it you will never feel that personal
pride and satisfaction in the service
which should mean SO much in your
army life.
Obedience
TIL second of the soldiers basic
qualities obedience, based on disci-
pline. Without obedience and disci-
plfne an army can not long continue
to exist; it will quickly degenerate
into an armed mob. AS the Infantry
Drill Regulations put it, discipline is
''the distinguishing mark of trained
troops"
Frequently the recruit, with his in
born dislike of being bossed, makes
the mistake during his first few
weeks in the army of resenting the
fact that immediate and unquestioning
obedience is required of him. He
quickly learns, however, that obedi-
ence enforced throughout the army is
in all situations the chief safeguard
of the rights, the comfort and the
safety of every man, from the raw
recruit to the commanding general
| 1t is a guarantee that the small num-
| Der of unruly or Scowardly men to be
found in every group shall be kept in
| check and forced to comply with rules
made for the benefit of all.
Military discipline is always imper-
sonal Obedience is required not
merely of you, but of veery man in
the army. It is required of officers
by their superiors with fully as much
strictness as it is required of you. II
will become your duty, whenever you
are given authority over other men
to demand from them the same full
measure of obedience that others will
requir of you.
Discipline is not only essential in
developing the army, but also in de-
ve1oping your own character as a SOL
der. 1.-THE soldier who is by nature
brave, will by discipline become
braver.''1
! Physical Fitness
| The third basic quality, physical
/ fitness. is SO essential that large
part the time devoted to your
| training will be spent in building ii
4 up. Physical fitness includes not only
muscular development but good
| heaith and endurance as we'll. 1t is 8
quality which every man who passes
the physical examinations can develop
in himself by reasonable care and BY
obedience to instructions. This is 6
subject more fully discussed in a later
lesson.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-14
SIMS ASKS MORE
Sub" FIGHTERS
FROM AMERICA
Navy Department Unable to
Send Additional War
ships Now.

Washington, Aug. Is. - Vice-Ad-
miral Sims, commanding the Amer1-
can overseas fleet, has appealed to
the Navy Department for more fast
warships and additional gunners to
fight submarines. Details of the re-
port are being withheld. They are
said to reveal that no effective method
has been found to combat the U-boat
menace.
The Navy Department is also un-
able to send the ships. demanded. The
first of the new destroyer types will
not he ready before January 1.
The submarine chasers, of which
fifty will be completed within a.
month, will be started across the At
lantic as soon as they are ready. The
chasers can be utilized only for in
shore work, and the United States
will stop building them when exist
ing orders have been filled.
A number of engagements between
units of the American destroyer fleet
and enemy vessels are mentioned in
the Sims report, In every case the
submarines were driven off, showing
the modern navy is living up to its
record for bravery and efficiency.
Nearly score Of merchant vessels,
American, British and French, have
been rescued by the destroyers in re-
Spouse to S. o. S. signals. It is
shown the submarine attacks are far
more frequent than has been ad-
mitted. Hardly an American mer-
chantmen that makes a round trip
gets off without one or more en-
counters. Suggestions for captains
of merchantmen are set down Sub
stantial1y as follows.
Follow a different course on each
voyage. On approaching and pass
ing through tn. danger zone keep
your craft at top speed. Follow a
zigzag course whenever there is rea-
son to believe a. submarine is i'm the
vicinity Keep your gun crew in
readiness/t to fire at the first SUSPECT
Gus object. Fire on submerged
pieces of wreckage, floating logs
and anything that resembles peri
cope. Take no chances
The officers of the navy are Unable
to understand why harmless extracts
from the reports made by Admiral
Sims have not been given to the pub
lie. The communications are received
almost daily, but never, get beyond the
desk of Secretary Daniels.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-14
Today's Anniversaries

On Aug. IA, 1911, ,Llowellyn, prince
of Wales, made his submission to
King John of England and delivered
twenty-eight hostages at the foot of
Snowden, for his good faith. The
young noblemen who were the hos
tages were hanged the following year.
The great Cathedrals of Cologne was
commenced on Aug. IA, 1243. For the
following two hundred years building
operations were sporadic; after that
construction lay suspended for almost
four hundred years. In 1912 building
building was again resumed and the
structure was completed several years
later. On this date in 1775 the ce1e-
brated Liberty Tree was consecrated
by exposing on it the efffges of the
men who had rendered themselves
odious by their agency in procuring
the passage of the Stamp Act. 1t
was on Aug. IA, 1912. that the end of
the Indian War in Florida was pro-
claimed. 1776 - Constitution Oh
Maryland adopted; 1840-Steam pac-
ket Brittania arrived at Liverpool
from Halifax, having made the quick
est passage, ten days, accomplished
between the American continent and
England.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-14
PUBLIC OPINION

Editor F'arrner:-
81 have married a wife and cannot
CO." 81 have bought a yokessof oxen
and must go and prove them. and I
cannot co." "a. D., 30)
81 have married a wife and cannot
co. ct work in a 1nunftion factory
and cannot go because my employers
have just found out that I have
brains I'm a policeman and can
not. go for out of 1000 there's no one
to take my place. "Tm fireman
and If 1 go who will put out the f1res?'
| Ca D., 1917
| Then who will go?
Though of a different political faith,
how grandly is our governor standing
| by the President? But we find our
lieutenant governor asking that able
bodied men be allowed to stay at
home I wonder If Washington, La
fayette, Lincoln or Mckinley have
turned in their graves? 1t takes lot
sometimes to wake people up. Will
our lieutenant governor wake up or
will he wait till an airship blows UP
a few of our factories (not an inpos-
sibiity by any neans) before he real
ICES that never before in our history
| have we faced the dangers that con-
front - today? What we need is, not
men who will try by every means to
stay at home, but men who will strain
every nerve to do their bit, in the
trenches if necessary This is our war
and the man who fights in the trenches
across the water is fighting for his
wife and family just as much as
though he were defending them
against a murderous burglar and the
sooner we all realize this the better
for all concerned.
I am sending under separate cover
a few words on patriotism which ]
hope you can find space for.
/ Yours for the freedom of the world,
GEORGE I'll. CONGER.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-14
WALTER HINES PAGE

Walter Hines Page, the American
ambassador to the court of st. James,
will pass his sixty-second milestone
today, having been born at Cary, a
suburb of Raleigh, N. c., Aug. Is,
1855. The American Amba ssador
has been a very busy man during the
past three years for, in addition to
the usual duties of the post he acted,
up to the time of the break between
the United States and Germany, as
diplomatic agent of both Austria and
Germany in England. Furthermore
he has had some very vexatious diff
ferences of opinion to settle between
the United States and Great Britain.
This, of course, before we became the
allies of England and France. .Ambas-
sador Page cannot be accused of rep
resenting :" short-sleeve" diplomacy,
for he is a scholar and a gentleman
and by his ability he has made a pro-
found impression upon the officials
of the British government. Ambas-
sador Page is a wealthy man, as he
must be in order to maintain his post
with dignity; seeing that the govern
ment only provides $17,50O a year for
the upkeep of embassies. but in this
respect he is far behind some of his
predecessors, notably the late White
law Reid, whose encumbency of the
post cost him several hundred thous-
and dollars. Mr.. Page was educated
at Randolph Macon College and was
one of the first twenty fellows of
Johns Hopkins University. At the
Baltimore Institution, then just open
ed, he specialized in Greek, history
and politics. After leaving college he
went West and became a newspaper
reporter. Later he Joined the staff Of
the New York World and wrote edi-
toriaIs and book reviews. The World
sent him on a special mission to Utah
where he lived among the Mormons
and wrote a series of articles dealing
with their life and customs He left
the World to start a newspaper in
Raleigh. In 1896 he was made edi-
tor of the Old Atlantic Monthly of
Boston. In 1900 he embarked in the
publishing business with F. N. Dou-
b1eday, constituting the well known
firm of Doubleday, Page & Company.
He founded and edited the World s
Work and gained for that publica-
ton a foremost place among the peri
odicals of America
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-14
Maxim. Good As a Soldier

The National Army, in which you
are to take your place, truly expresses
the American character, and ideals. 1t
is a great democracy army. 1t in
cludes men of all degrees of wealth
and education, chosen through fair
and open selection by lot. All are
brought together on terms of equal
ity. There has been and there will be
in this great National Army no IA
voritism and no pull" The poor
man will drill side by side with the
man who has been raised in luxury.
Each will learn from the other. The
place each man makes for himself
will be determined by his own work
and ability.
Developing Soldierly qualities
The question as to whether it is bet
ter to join the colors now or with
later contingent is not worth argu-
ing, since the decision has been made
for each man by lot. An ambitious
man, however, will be glad to join
now. 1t gives him a better chance
for promotion. The commissioned
officers of the first contingent are
picked men who have voluntarily gone
through the hardest kind of training.
The officers of later contingents will
be drawn largely firm the men enlist
ed in the first contingents. There is
plenty of opportunity here for every
man to use his brains and his energy
and to earn promotion according to
his worth. This does not mean easy
or quick advancement. 1t means only
that you will have your fair chance
and you wuldo ask fir nothing more
to develop yourself and to climb up
ward step by step.
In order to make good in the Ma
tional Army you must. first Of all,
fit yourself to carry with credit the
simple title of American Citizen
Soldier"-one of the proudest titles in
the world. This; means that you must
develop in yourself the qualities of a
soldier. The more quickly and thor
oughly you cultivate them, the great
er will be you satisfaction and sue
cess.
There is very little real difference
of opinion as to soldierly qualities.
They have been determined by ages
of experience. Weapons change, but
the soldirs who handle the weapons
remain much the same.
Three Basic Qualities
There are three basic qualities,
without which no man can be real
soldier even though he may temper
arily wear a uniform. They are:
Loyalty,
Obedience,
Physical Fitness.
A man without these qualities is
in the way and is a source of weak
ness to an army, both in the camp
and on the field of battle.
The Articles of War of the United
States set forth the military crimes
which are punishable by heavy penal
ties. Among these crimes are deser-
Ition. cowardice, characterization.
drunkenness while on duty, sleeping
while on. duty as a sentinel, disclos-
ing the watchword, and giving aid or
comfort to the enemy. Run over this
| list and you will see that every one
of these military crimes can result
only from the absence of one or more
of the three basic qualities of sol
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-14
AUTOIST
HELD FOR DEATH
OF 2 BICYCLISTS
Latter, on Own Side Of
Street Were Killed In
Accident.

New Haven, August 14.-Bennett
Hubbard of New Britain is held GRIM
inally responsible for causing the
death of two Italians in Branford on
August 5, and the police received or
ders to arrest him on the charge of
manslaughter.
The evidence, according to Deputy
Coroner Wynne in his finding was
to the effect that Hubbard in his au-
tomobile was racing with a large
touring car and he struck both men
who were riding bicycles. Both died
shortly afterward. The mishap took
place in West Main street, Branford.
The evidence shows that the bicyclists
were proceeding on their own side of
the street.
The coroner condemns racing of
automobiles on the public highways
and streets and says the police should
make arrests to stop this practice
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-14
DRAFT LAW TEST
CASE TO Be TRIED.
IN n HIGH COURT.
Ohio Socialists to Challenge
Right to Send Con-
scripts Abroad.

Washington, Aug. 13.-The consti-
tutionality of the draft act and the
legal right Of tie Government to send
conscripted and National Guard men
abroad. will be passed upon by the
United States Supreme Court. 1t is
expected the cases will be heard in
October.
The two questions will go before
the court separately. One set or
cases involve three Ohio Socialists
who were sent to Jail recently for
conspiring to induce persons to evade
the draft act. The Other case, which
is being prepared by Hannis Taylor,
will challenge the constitutional1ty
of the Governments purpose to send
militia or drafted men into foreign
service
The Department of Justice made an
official announcement to-day as fol-
Lows:
A case designed to test the con-
stitutionality of the CONSUMPTION
act will be docketed in the United
States Supreme Court on or before
August "a, and probably will be
called for trial during the Fall term.
~sCharles e. Rutherberg, recently
Socialist candidate for Mayor of
Cleveland; Alfred Wagenknecht,
Ohio State secretary Of the Socialist
party, and CHARLES Baker, Ohio So
cialist party organizer, were con-
victed of having conspired to induce
(. persons subject to the CONSUMPTION
act 70 evade that law in violation of
section 1872 of the Federal Penal
Code They were sentenced July 70
to one year in the Canton, Ohio,
workhouse.
"The defendants sued out a writ
Of error and a citation was served
upon the United States District
Attorney, E. s. Werts. on July 20,
returnable August 4.
"F1fforts have been made in sew
eral sections of the country by per-
sons not in sympathy with, the con-
seription act to raise funds with
which to test the law. This c''st'
ii is believed, will bring the COM
stftutionality of the law before the
court"
Mr.. Taylor said he would make no
attack upon the constitutionality- OF
: the consumption act.
acI insist however added Mr
Taylor, that there Is no power under
the constitutions itnv authorize the
Government to send the militia and
drafted men beyond the borders OF
the United States and will carry to
the Supreme Court cases to test this
principle"