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BIIOMS COOMTY RECORD
BY O. R. STREETER.
Linton, A'orth Dakota.
PIONEER PAPER OF THE COUNTY
Tbe Record l« entered el U*» I.lnton Poet
flic* second-clM* matter.
Speaker Hanley publishes in the
democratic Grand Forks Herald a
reply to the Cowan article recently
published in the Record. Lack of
time this week has prevented a dis
section of the article, which touches
very few of the points made in the
statement of the editor of this pa
per. The matter will be taken up
in our next issue.
All through the state there is much
excitement over the question of rec
iprocity. The almost universal
opinion is that the passage of the
reciprocity measure will do great
injury to the farming interests of
the nation, and particularly to those
states which are adjacent to the
Dominion boundary. A big meeting
of those opposed to reciprocity was
recently held at Grand Forks, a
circular being sent out from which
we take the following extracts:
"We feel that the pending reci
procity with Canada will if ratified
cause our farmers and business
men great damage, as farm products
from Canada will be shipped in free
of duty, in competition with what
we raise in our own state. Natural
the price will go down, and our
farmers will get just that much less
for their hard work. The income
from a farm will decreas at least
sixty cents per acre, or a decrease
in the value of farm lands (based
on land prices in the eastern part of
the state) of ten dollars per acre.
Now. we are all dependent on the
farming interests of the state, and
we know that you will do what you
can to protect the farmer, and,
through them, your cwn interests.
We therefore urge you to get all in
your district to sign the inclosed
petitions against reciprocity, and do
what you can to arouse interest in
the struggle against this unjust
measure."
A number of petitions have been
sent to Emmons county and are be
ing circulated for signatures.
The Hazelton Republican of last
week has the following sensible
words regarding the matter of
"ready-prints." For two years the
Record was "all-home-print," and it
will be that way again before many
weeks have passed. Long-winded
serial stories, dealt out in homeo
pathic doses, with misleading Cana
dian-boom ads
and half-page screech
es assisting the fraudulent Post, of
"Postum" fame, to hoodwink the
reading public, are not the thing for
a country newspaper. In these days,
when pretty nearly everybody takes
one of the big city weeklies, and
many, subscribe to a metropolitan
daily, the country newspaper's mis
sion is in the home field-town, coun
try and state. Following is Editor
Thurston's article:
'North Dakota for North Dako
tans" ought to be the slogan in this
state, and not only used by the news
papers, but also by the institutions
that live off from said newspapers.
There are in the state to-day about
four hundred newspapers that are
putting forth every effort to build
up their home community by in
ducing settlement or by encourag
ing the local resident to stay. A
large percentage of these newspa
pers patronize the Western News
paper Union at Fargo, securing the
inner or ready-printed portions of
their papers from that institution.
Immagine the state of mind of a
publisher who truthfully tells in his
home-printed columns of North Da
kota possibilities, such as twenty
bushel-to-the-acre yields of wheat,
or some similar return for labor or
expense, and then, as he turns to the
ready-printed page from the paper
house, he finds a glowing advertise
ment of cheap home? and fabulous
crop-yield income country not be
longing to the United States. The
day of the all-home-printed paper is
not far in the distance.
Among a number of letters from
members of the recent session of the
North Dakota House of Representa
tives, approving the writer's recent
write-up of the Cowan impeachment
matter from the standpoint of one
who was there and knows the facts,
is one from Representative Morritz,
of Cavalier county, who was a mem
ber of the committee that considered
the impeachment charges. Follow
ing is an extract from Mr. Morritz's
letter dated Dresden, March 20th:
"I received a copy of your paper this
evening, and I cannot wait to let
you know what 1 think of your ar
ticle as to the Cowan case and
Governor Burke. You have my idea
of the case exactly, and you stated
everything right to the point. I
have never seen a truth better ex
plained than in your article. I am
a so-called Insurgent Republican my
self but I would net condemn a man
unjustly because it was claimed he
was a
MI
Stalwart. 1 made up
mind entirely on the evident* which
was submitted to the «imniittee of
which I was a member."
The last two sentences of Repre
sentative Morritz's letter have the
right ring. Thank God! that with
niost men in politics or holding office
there is a point where plays for po
litical advantage cease and The
Square Deal begins. As the ijroat
majority of Stalwarts present in
Bismarck during the last session did
not take kindly to the effort to make
a scapegoat of Bickford for doing
just what other state treasurers had
done before him. so the attempt to
ruin Judge Cowan proved that all
of the Insurgents were not of the
Miller-Norton class, but that a great
many of them—like the members of
the House impeachment committee
-would not lend themselves to crush
a man because, as some claimed and
stated in Bismarck, "The tight
against Cowan is an Insurgent is
sue."
The Fargo Forum rints the fol
lowing biographical sketch of Judge
Cowan, the Second-Judicial-District
judge whose political enemies are
now trying —through impeachment
proceedings—to get even at. the ex
pense of the state, with the man
whom they cannot defeat at the
polls:
"John F. Cowan, of Devils Lake,
judge of the Second Judicial dis
trict and former attorney-general of
North Dakota, was born at Moffat,
Dumfriesshire, Scotland, on Dec.
29, 1S5S. His family emigrated to
America in 1S62 and lived in On
tario, Can., until 1S&2. when they
settled in Benson county. North
Dakota. Mr. Cowan, however, re
ceived all his earlier education in
Canada, first graduating from the
Goderich high-school and later from
the Ottawa normal-school. He then
matriculated for the study of medi
cine, but came to the United States
in 1SS0 and accepted a position as
clerk with the Chicago & Grand
Trunk Railroad Cotppanv at Port
Huron, Mich.
"After proving up on a claim near
Grand Harbor, Ramsey county—
during the time of his residence on
which claim he began reading law
he went to Devils Lake and entered
the law office of John McGee, who
was later elected a district judge of
Hennepin county, Minnesota. Mr.
Cowan was admittedjto practice be
fore the territorial district court in
1885, and the same year opened an
office in Devils Lake, which city he
has continued to make his home.
For some time he was associated with
Attorney P. J. McClory. He has
served as city justice of Devils Lake,
two terms as superintendent of
schools of Ramsey county, state's
attorney for the same county, and
in 1894 was elected attorney-genera!
of North Dakota, in which position
he served three terms. He was
elected to the district bench in 1900
to succeed Judge Morgan, who was
promoted to the state supreme
court. That year he defeated the pres
ent governor, John Burke, for judge
of the Second District, by a majori
ty of 1745, carrying Ramsey county
—in which Cowan and Burke both
resided—by a vote of 1087 to 580.
"Judge Cowan is a thirtvsecond
degree Mason, a member of the
Mystic Shrine, and also belongs to
the Elks, the Knights of Pythias and
the United Workmen. He has al
ways supported the republican
party."
Reversed the Order.
A young clergyman who .was of a
shy disposition was rather embar
rassed at his first marriage cere
mony and unwittingly rerersed th#
usual order of the service, thus
making the bridegroom promise to
love and obey his' blushing bride.
The error passed unnoticed at the
time, but shortly afterward it
dawned upon the father of the
bride that a mistake had occurred,
and he said to the clergyman: "I
believe, Mr. Blank, you have made
John promise to love and obey my
daughter. Ah, well/ he added aft
er a pause amd with a sly look at
his better half, "I suppose it won't
matter much it generally eyries to
that in the end anyway."—Ex
change. ..."
Th* Main Point.
"The successful farmer loves his
work," eaid the secretary of agri
culture. "Every d^ail of it inter
ests him. Thus Squire P^owlands
proved himself a poor theologian,
but a grand farm'ty, when he met
one Sunday morning his tenant
Hodge.
'Where have you been, Hedge
said the squire.
Tve been to church, sir,'
Hodge replied.
"'What was the sermon ab«ut,
Hodge
^t was something about Joseph
going down to Egypt to' buy corn,
squire.'
"The squire brightened.
'Did the parson say what corn
is worth down there?' he asked."
Meditation.
Try to secure somo part of each day
meditation. Ajuirt from men we
'*n ourselres Tnqfe honestly la
facp.
lift up our fiearte.»o Ged ja'd
°ur panting Urea a chance.—
Stevenson
THE COWAN TRIAL
Impeachmant Proeeedinga Against the Judg* of
the Second Judicial Diatrict of the State
of North Dakota Before the Senate.
The Proaecution Haa Subpoenaed Nearly T%
Hundred Witneaaea, and the Defenae Will
Have About the Same Number.
(From the Bismarck Tribune of l'ut:.sd.y K.ven ntf.l
Sitting as a high court of impeach
ment to try Judge John F. Cowan,
of the Second Judicial District, the
state senate convened at 2 o'clock
this afternoon. The preliminary
work of organization was effected
to-day, requiring all of the after
noon.
The ceremonies incident to the
convening of the court were unusual
and interesting. President Burdick
was first sworn in as the presiding
officer of the court, and he in turn
swore the members of the senate as
members of the court.
If the work of organization can
be completed this afternoon, and
the other preliminary work disposed
of, the opening statement for the
prosecution will be made to-morrow
by Attorney George Bangs. The
statement will be quite lengthy,
covering what the state expects to
prove on each of the eighty charges
against Cowan, under which there
is a total of ninety specifications.
The fact that up to last night a
total of 197 subpoenas had been is
sued by the secretary of the senate,
through instructions from the im
peachment managers, for witnesses,
gives some idea of -the magnitude
of the case. The witnesses include
sheriffs and clerks of court of prac
tically everv county in the Second
Judicial District, as well as a great
many residents of those districts, to
gether with a number of out-of-the
district residents.
The defense will have about the
same number of witnesses present.
All of these witnesses have been
subpoenaed to appear before the
senate to-day. However, inasmuch
as no witnesses can be examined to
day, the number of those arriving
was not very great.
In the event of members of the
senate being excused from duty,
the absence of such members is, in
effect, a vote for Cowan. Under
the impeachment law a vote of two
thirds of the membership of the
senate is necessary to impeach, and
that fact operates to give the im
peached jurist a vote in the event
that any members are absent or ex
cused from doing duty.
Senator Pierce, who has applied
for leave of absence, is at the pres
ent time in the Bermuda Islands be
caue of illness. Under the impeach
ment laws of the state it is provided
POWER OF HYPNOTISM.
Remarkable CHro of PoNlotont Case
•f Hafloctnatlon.
Writing in tha American Maga
zine of the remarkable cares ef
fected by four great medical experts
through tha means «f hypnotism,
G. Addington Brace describes a
case which was successfully treated
by Dr. Pierre Jaaet, the noted Pa
risian specialist:
"The patient suffered from a per
sistent hallucination of seeing a
man in tha room with her. Her
relatives believed that she was in
sane and wished to place her in an
asylum, as she occasionally mani
fested suicidal tendencies. But Dr.
Janet diagnosed her case as one of
hysteria and with tha aid of hypo
tism made thS interesting discovery
that the hallucinatory image which
she thought she saw was the figure
of a lover who had deserted her
several years before. It appeared
that every time she thought of her
faithless sweetheart his image rose
before her.
"To Janet it seemed a perfectly
simple matter to 'suggest* away the
hallucination by impressing npon
her during hypnosis the idea that
when she awoke she would no longer
see the imaginary form. But he
found that for some reason the sug
gestion would not 'take.' Day after
day he patiently hypnotized her, al
ways without success. Finally he
began to suspect that at bottom she
djd not want to be cured and that
tha passionate desire to see her lov
er, if only as a phantasm, constitut
ed too strong a 'self suggestion' to
overcome by direct attack. An
other method would have to be
tried.
'"Very well,' he one day said to
her while she was hypnotized, 'if
you want to continue seeing your
lover, you shall see him. But, re
member, you will always see him
with the head and face of a pig.'
"He then brought her out of the
hypnotic sleep into her natural
state. Five minutes later she ut
tered a cry and covered her eyes
with her hands.
'"What is the matter?" inquired
Dr. Janet calmly.
'"It is terrible! Terrible!' she
exclaimed. 1 see a man standing
in Ihe corner of the room, and his
that the members of the senate shall
receive such compensation as is fixed
bv the cons'itution for service in a
regular legislative ession. which is
the sum of per cay. Such officers
or assistant as ma* be selected by
the court of impeac lment -by which
itle the serate wil, be known while
trying the case—m ly be appointed,
at a salary be determined by the
senate. The defendant has the
right to object in writing to the
articles of impeachment, or he may
make an oral plea not guilty. A
plea of not guilty puts in issue every
material al egatioi of the articles
and the specificat ons thereunder.
In this case there are eighty general
charges, w.iich will require more
than 125 roll-calls the senate. In
voting, the yeas and nays are taken
on each individual specification un
der each individual charge. This
course of procedure must be carried
through the entire list of articles of
impeachment. If wo-thirds of the
members elected to the senate con
cur in favoi of impeachment on any
one specicfiation, tlie accused must
be convicted. Otherwise, he must
be acquitted.
If the accused je convicted, the
senate must, at such time as it may
appoint, pronouce judgment in the
form of a resolution entered upon
the journal of the senate. On adop
tion of the judgment resolution of
the two-thirds who voted on the
question of acquittal or conviction,
ii becomes the judgment of the
senate. The judgment may be that
the defendant shall be disqualified
from exercising any of the functions
of the office, or that he be removed
from office and be disqualified to
hold any office of trust or profit in
the state. Payment of counsel for
the prosecution—the impeachment
managers—is fixed by the senate,
power to do so being vested in that
body. The state auditor must draw
warrants on the state treasurer for
such amounts as 'may be signed bv
the presiding officer and the secre
tary of state. Witnesses and officers
serving processes receive the same
fees as are allowed for like service*
in criminal cases.
The defendant also has the right
to ask the senate to appoint counsel
for him, and, should such action be
taken, the state must bear the ex
pense.
lace is like a pig's!'
"How absurd!' said Dr. Janet.
"After this he left her to her
own devices, no longer hypnotizing
her. I-or a few days she complain
ed that everywhere she went she
saw the man with the face of a pig.
Gradually the hallucinatory image
faded and nt length entirely disap
peared, leaving lier restored to per
fect health. As Dr. Janet afterward
explained, the grotesque hallucina.
tion which he had succeeded in im
pressing upon her had brought
about a profound revulsion of feel
ing. Manifestly she could not love
a man with a pig's head. She no
longer wanted to see her sweetheart
or tp think of him, and in propor
tion as she ceased to think of him
the hallucination disappeared."
After He Saw Then-..
Mr. Blank, with his four-year-old
son Booth, on his way to visit
friends who kept a large farm, was
asked by the boy if there were pigs
there. Being told there were, the
delighted tot said he would take
three of them home with him. Soon
after their arrival at the farm noth
ing would satisfy the boy but aa
immediate inspection of the pigpen.
It was his first sight of the unclean
ly species, and he gazed abstracted
ly at the porkers.
"Well," askra his parent, "whicji
1
three do vou want to take home,
Booth?"
"Daddy," the little fellow replied
very earnestly, "one will be enough,
and will you please carry it?"—
Suburbanite.
She Was Busy Enough.
"Don't you know," said the po
liceman to the servant as she was
dumping a pail of garbage in an
I open lot, "that what rou are doing
is against the law?''
"Oh, don't talk to hie about the
law," replied the girl. "It's all.I
ean do to keep the Ten Command
ments."—Ladies' Ilome Jonrnal.
Cutting.
"Miss Kecnjy lias an awfully sharp
tongue, hqsn't she:"
"I should say so: She's eut moat of
her friends off her list with it."
Gootoeas dees not o&re ccMalaly
mafce fteo hafipy than happiness
makes' fhea goOO^-LtfMdr.
mnMMI
COLORFUL OUELS.
Queer- Initiatory Ordeal of Now Art
Student* In Pari*.
The most curious of the many
practical jokes perpetrated by the
art students in the Latin quarter is
a kind of initiatory ordeal which
the two newest comers of a class
are sometimes compelled to under
go by their fellow students of th«
Beaux Arts. It is a painters' duel,
in tfhich neither combatant, no
matter how small his experience
nor how great his nervousness, need
fear jr a fatal termination.
The reluctant dullists are provid
ed with tall stools and seated oppo
site each other at arm's length.
They wear old clothes, and in the
Hand of cach is placed a large point
brush charged with color, the one
dipped in prussian blue, the strong
est and most vivid of azure tints,
and the other in carmine lake,
which is a fine rich crimson. The
word is given, and the two men
begin to daub. Being usually stran
gers to one another and withoat the
least cause of quarrel, they com
monly show at first a great deal of
caution and consideration, not to
say timidity, and do not make much
effort to inflict conspicuous streaks
or to touch each others face.
Soon, however, one or the other
gets a smear which he does not like
and attempts to retailiate upon his
opponent. Then the contest waxes
warm. The spectators hasten to
take sides and urge on their favor
ite with shouts, cheers and encour
aging cries. The tall stools totter
the wet brushes spatter the antag
onists daub more and more fieredfy
and furiously nntil frequently men,
stools and all go down together in
a struggling red imd blue heap upon
the floor. The dualists are then as
sisted to their feet, shake hands,
laugh at each other's appearance
and adjourn to the lavatory, where
they good naturedly help each other
to remove the traces of the conflict.
The knight of the red brush is
found to have smeared his adver
sary until he might pass for a hero
of the goriest field of history, while
the victim of the blue brush, if only
blue blood were a fact instead of a
figure, might pose for a survivor of
an equally desperate fight.
It speaks well for the temper and
good comfadeahip of the students
that so rough a kind of fun ends
where it begins, in the mock duel,
and never, it is said, leads to resent
ment or ill will.—New York Press.
Seeking Aeylum.
A city gentleman was recently in
vited down to the country for "a
day with the birds." Whatever his
powers in matters of finance, his
shooting was not remarkable for its
aeeuracy, to the great disgust oFtlic
man in attendance, Whote tip
BABESIN THE WOODS.
Revenge and Punishment of a Maine
Scoundrel In 1670.
In 1679 James Adams of York
became affronted with one of his
neighbors, Henry Simpson, and de
termined to avenge himself upon
two of Simpson's children, whose
ages were six and nine years. In a
Solitary place four or five miles
from the dwelling houses of the in
habitants he built of logs beside a
ledge of perpendicular rocks a pen
or pound several feet high, with
walls inclined inward from bottom
to top. After he had built this he
decoyed the children into the woods
under a pretense of searching for
birds' nests and caused them to en
ter within the pound, where he left
them confined to perish. The place
has since been called the Devil's
Invention.
The children were soon missed,
and the alarmed inhabitants search
ed for them more than forty-eight
hours. The boys, when aware of
their wretched situation, made va
rious attempts to get out, and at
length, by digging away with their
hands the surface of the earth un
derneath one of the bottom logs,
effected their escape. They wander
ed in the woods three days, being at
last attracted to the seashore by the
npise ef the surf, where they were
found.
The depraved criminal was con
demned to have thirty stripes well
laid on, to pay the father of the
children £5, the treasurer £10, be
sides fees and charges of the prison,
and remain a close prisoner during
the court's pleasure or till further
order. The saino month he recog
nized before two of the jadges,
"conditioned to 6esnd him, within
twentj-one days, out of the juris
diction."
Doing Hie Best.
Mrs. Blueblood—John, who was
that man who just bowed to us?
Blueblood—Er—that is my tailor.
Mrs. Blueblood—Such insolence!
l0ne
my best,
my dear. Tve stood him oil now
for two years.—Boston Transcript.
RISTIi
The Way Matches Are Arranged by
Marriage Brokers.
Orio Tainura, as w« will call our
young gentleman. .3 about twenty
yeaEs old. He is un :p to date Jap
anese and has put o:i' all thoughts
of matrimony until this compara
tively late date—for .Japan—in or
der to finish his university studies.
Now, however, ho has finished his
traiaing and has intimated to his
father, as a dutiful son should, that
he would like to marry. That is all
he is required to do at present. It
is the business of Jiis parents to
take the nest steps.
Onio's father presumably lias
some quiet talks with his wife on
the subject and then betakes him
self to a professional matchmaker
or go-between, a discreet man of the
world, with a good deal of insight
into human nature. For the sake
of his own reputation and future
the go-betwi isuaily does his
best to picase all parties.
Sometimes, in the east as in the
west, love laughs at restraints, and
somebody or other ••viveys a hint
to the marriage broker that a meet
ing between Mr.
A. and
Miss 1?.
might not be unacceptable to both,
in which ease lii.s task is easy. Usu
ally, however, he takes time to look
around him. and lie 'in turn—how
indispensable the ladies are in these
matters—consult? his wife. At last,
after carefully considering the offi
cial and social isitior, of the per
sons arid families interested, he sug
gests that a certain Miss Chrysan
themum would make a most desira
ble bride for the ''learned son of
the honorable house ol' Tamura."
Once more Orio's father consults
his wife and sun-lry other relations
and, having no l'ault to find with
the go-between's suggestion, in
structs the latter to proceed. The
marriage brokcr'p next step is to ap-
fady
iroach the parents of the young
he has in view and arrange a
formal appointment for mutual in
spection—it is known as the 'look
at* each other meeting"—between
the prospective bride and bride
groom at the house of the bride's
father and in the presence of that
gentleman and the go-between him
self.
Thi meeting usually takes the
form of a conventional tea party,
at which the prospective bride does
the honors. It is perhaps unneces
sary to add that she does not wear
her oldest clothes on this occasion
Here for the first time in their lives
the youn lady and Orio set eyes on
one another. Etiquette forbids
them to speak to cach other, but
neverfheless they arc doubtless very
busy "taking stock" of the other's
appcarance and manners.—Wide
World Magazine.
A Disappointing Diseovery.
\raj
generally regulated by the tfize of
the bag.
"Dear me," at last exclaimed the
sportsman, "but the birds seem ex
ceptionally strong on the wing this
year."
"Not all of 'em, sir," came the re
mark "you've shot at the same bird
this last dozen times. 'E's follerin'
you about, sir."
"Following me about!. Nonsense!
Why should a bird'do that
"I dunno, sir, I'm sure," replied
the man, "unless he's 'angin' round
for safety!"—London Ideas.
Two newsboys met on the street
One appeared somewhat glum and
disgruntled, whereupon the other
benevolently essayed cheer him
up.
"Say, Bill, you member dat dime
I t'ought I lost yesterday—de one
I was goin' to treat youse wid
"Sure," assented Bill sullenly
then, with growing-reproachfulaess
of tone, '"'I treated youse twicet al
ready, Jim."
"Well." went' oil Jim animatedly
"wot d'youse t'ink I found jus'
now? 1 wuz feelin' round in di3
pocket, an' I found, right here in
dis pocket, I"— A dramatically
timed pause.
"Youse found de dii exclaim-,
cd Bill, brightening up.
"Say, Bill, youse always in a hur
ry. I wuz try in' to tell youse dat I
found de hole dat dime got
t'rough."—Youth's Companion.
Cakes as Love Letters.
The Hungarian gypsies use cakes
as love letters. A coin is baked into
the sweetmeat, which is then
thrown at the ladv as she passes bv.
If she eats the cake and retains the
coin all is well, but if she should
fling back the silver it would be fa
tal to the lover's hopes. Among
the savages of the Arabian desert
the girl is approached without cere
mony while pasturing her flocks.
She resists strenuously, attacking
iier suitor with t-ticks and stones.
If lie succeeds in driving her into
her father's tent she is his, but if
she should resist him lifelong dis
grace would be his portion,.
Antiquity ef Bells.
r:,V
The art of be" founding is un
doubtedly of great antiquitv. The
Saxons are known to have used
bells in their churches, although
probably but small ones, for tha
Venerable Bede. writing at the end
of the seventh i-enturv. alludes tu
them in terms tvhi. li seem to show
that they were not unfamiliar
things. '1 he towers erf the Saxon
period have belfries of considerable
dimensions in most eases, and at
Crowland abhev, south Lincoln
shire, there was a famous peal of
seven bells manv voars before
the Norman conquest.—IxDndon
Graphic.
A Vicarious Remedy.
A man wv into a dru—st's and
asked for something to cure a head
aqhe. liie drug,ist held a bottle
of hartshorn to his nose, and he was
nearly overpowered bv its punceuev.
As soon as he recovered lie'Win
to rail at the druggist and threat
ened to punc'i l.is'heac.
1
You should make hi® keep his dis
•nnce.
Blneblood—I've
But ilkm ease vour head
ache?" asked the cpotheearv.
Tlase ray it-anafhe gasped the
njsn. "I !iaur.'t any hcadache.
It's
my wife that's co the head
ache."
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