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Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-01-04

perished, as he was not clad warm
enough to battle such night. With
the terrible experience of those who
passed that night without shelter, and
with the awful fate of Nels Larson star
ing them in the face will not our people
be more carefully Why venture abroad
in the very face of storm and dark
night? Let this sorrowful admonition
prove q timely reminder to all that the
elements stay not their rigor for man
and that it is extremely dangerous to
face their fury.
Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-01-04
Willy Williams Wall.

Local events being little scarce this
week we find space for a couple repro
ductions from the powerful brain that
guides the destiny of the Hope Pioneer.
With his accustomed brazen Willy Will
lie says:
"The Pioneer does not care to substi-
tute q personal warfare for the wheat
question, by any means; but the Courier
has endeavored to add injury to INSULT,
by making scurrilous remarks OH several
occasions"
Then in another place he shows quite
plainly the thought that he has barked
up the wrong tree:
I'VE have tried to treat the editor of
the Courier as gentleman, but our
efforts were not appreciated by him. and
silent contempt is painted ON our ban
ner. Adieu, wade in pace"
It is not necessary for the Courier to
mention the standard upon which Willy
William gauges his gentlemanly treat
ment. The principle of the whole in
famous lot of Hopes hapless sycophants
is already too well known for the credit
.of North Dakota. In the case above
mentioned Willie in his softest manner
branded 4 Courier statement in regard
to the relative wheat markets of Coop
erstown and Hope as lie. When i'll
disputable evidence was brought to bear
he then continued his ''gentlemanly
treatment" by dropping the wheat ques-
ton aud substituting ''Eddie's brain. :"
When Willie found he had falsely ac-
cused the Courier Of lying why didn't he
own uplike the gentleman lie alleges him
self to be instead of coming the dog in a
manger actY Simply because he
hadn' the requisite manhood, and then 1t
wouldn' t be in accordance with the code Of
ethics adopted bs the Hope mob who oown
Willie and his paper body: soul and
breeches. In his hampered position
Willie is forced to say and do much that
goes against his grain, and in this re-
spect he is deserving of great sympathy.
but Notwithstanding his enthrallment
he cannot be justified in malicious lying.
Be cautious, Willie, as you have above
promised, and all may he well.
Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-01-04

@Wm. Glass loans money for final
proof, and on titled land. soft.
EXmas is past, the New Year is
here. and the mob still continues at
Whidden Bros. where goods are sold
to ALL at the SANE price.
Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-01-04
PRACTICAL POINTERS
As Compiled by the Tyndall Trib-
une Editor.

The breaking season extends from
about May Is to July Is.
Three horses or mules, each weighing
from 1900 upward, constitute good
team for q sulky or walking
plow.
Sowing grain commences as soon as
the frost is out of the ground to the
depth of a few inches. The work is
generally begun on April 1, and COM
pleted in ten or fifteen days. Some
years the grain can be put in as early as
March Is.
Good farm horses can be bought for
500 to $l75, according to size.
Cows are worth from $25 to $35 each,
and working oxen from $50 to $l75 per
yoke.
Standard makes of farm wagons cost
SIS.
Breaking up usually costs So per acre
and backsetting $l.5O to $l.75.
The settler opening new farm can
always find plenty of work among his
neighbors, after lie has done his break
ing and backsetting and cut his hay.
He can raise an abundance of vegeta-
bles from the soil the first year. From
twenty-five to forty bushels of oats per
acre can be raised the first year.
Good common lumber ranges from
Sls to S25 per thousand along the line of
the railroad.
Carload lots. for settlers, are carried
by the railroads at the same rates given
to dealers.
A good house can be built for from
$3.50 to 500.
Liberal provision is made by law for
schools, and in the towns and county
settlements schoolhouses and churches
of the several denominations abound.
The people who come to this country
believe in these institutions.
Good water abounds in Dakota.
There is a combination of soil and eli
mate in this new kingdom which makes
it the most reliable and productive wheat
region in the world.
There is always a market at good
prices, as the spring wheat raised here
is acknowledged to be the best in the
country, and direct, short and cheap
transportation to the great central mar.
kets of the world is afforded.
In no other section of the United
States have there been so many con-
secutive years of such bountiful crops.
1t is as healthy country as there is
in the world.
Thele are openings in this new and
rapidly developing country for carpen-
ters, blacksmiths, shoemakers, harness
makers and workers at other trades.
The opportunities to secure good land
at low prices, near the railroad and vii.
lagos, are unequalled in any other coun.
try OH the continent.
Tie following property is free from ex.
ecution for debt; Homesteads, one acre
il within a town plat, and 100 if not
with house and appurtenances, unlim'
tied in value. Exemption is absolute
except as taxes, mechanics lien fol
work OH the homestead, and debt Gre
ated for the purchase thereof. Personal
property exempt, Sl,5OO, besides wear
ing apparel, books to 500, provision.
for one year. family pictures, etc. Rea
estate or personal property is liable fol
its purchase money; otherwise the ex
emptiOns are as above stated.
Married women retain their own rea
and personal property, and may make
contracts. sue and be sued, as if single
Neither husband or wife has any inter
est in the property of the other. Dover
and courtesy are abolished.
Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-01-04
Proceedings County Commissioners.

Met Dec. 20, 1888, at 8 a. m. in &C.
vordance with previous adjournment.
Present-Roflin G. Cooper.
Adjourned till Dec. q, 1883, at9. q. m.
Met Dec. u, 1883, at 8 a. m.
Present-Rollin G. Cooper.
Adjourned till Dec. -. 1883, at 9 a. m.
Met Dec. D, 1883. at Ia. m.
Present-Rollin g. Cooper.
Adjourned till Dec. q, 1883, at q. m.
Met dec. -, 1883. at 8 a. m.
Present-ROllin Z. Cooper and N. Y.
Rukke.
Rollin e. Cooper in the chair.
FOLLOWING BILLS ALLOWED
St. Pan, Paul Foundry Co.. iron for sheyennes 4e, 60
Fernaid 4 bradford, building sheytnne -
bridge and spproachcs ] 100 -
F. b. Edwards, experimenting building .,. -,
and mnt.rinl Tor shrycnnc BRIDGE: ssl sc
o. j. Skricn, Damages sustained by
highway running through his land in N m
A. 4. Finio. da,nagc, ; .'s,nincd hy hish-
way running through his land in ~ % ~
e:yp sheyenns n bridge ,'..'....j. "'a ela u
Z. d. Stair, printing. ~ ~ ~ ~,
Lenham + 4 l.. Co.. con................ l:s ~ M "S
lumber for sheysnne -
Lenha% @i +: l.. Co., lumber for shsy: -. ~
Steven. : Ensvr, hardware for shsy- ., ..
kn'd smGs rSo%pson Co" grading iarn.
pike to Shcyennc bridge. .............: l6i u
Following bills laid Oh the table for further
consideration
Byron Andrus, coal. l..........::........... Ol
Following bills laid ON table to await tram
ecript from the court records Of Barnes county.
y: Z: Smnri ........ .... - ~ ~
Allan Pinx.r,cn .... 500
John HOusntOn w
Iv.r Jnc0t1sOn On..,,.,... ...,.. II 90
Andrew J0hnson ,,.......... IS CO
Rond nf Allen pinkertOn constable
Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-01-04

Application of school townof Pleasant
View for reduction Of tax levy returned.
Reduction not being authorized by law.
Ordered that the chairman be given
full power and authority to negotiate
the court house and jail bonds with
Preston, Kean g. Co., of Chicago, and to
issue them with the assistance Of the
clerk and treasurer to the amount Of
thirty Thousand dollars under date Of
January It'll, 1884.
Adjourned till January 9TH, 1884. at 8
q. m. NOLLlN u. COOPER,
HERBERT p. SMART, Chairman.
Clerk.
Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-01-04
THE COURIER.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
BY Ed. ID. STAIR.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One ecPy' on one \, yeas;s sIts.
Cash ca + invariably Ia A1v.nce.

Apvsar1s1Na RArEs.-Displey ade. 81 per inch
s;nchS ~ focnls 10 cents Sor Xrst .nd oens for
each subsequent ineertion. Final proof and con-
test actces, without citations, q eech, spot cash.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-23
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Punctuation is to many people an
insuperable difficulty. Like the civil
lized ancient people they write
straight ahead, with no stops at all,
or they throw commas about in pro-
fusion, as if out of a pepper caster.
For these puzzled persons Mr.. Paul
Allardyce has published a pretty
quaint little book on stops. ''Punctu-
ation," according to Mr.. Allardyce,
'shas two uses; it enables us more
easily to seize the meaning of writ
err and sit prevents ambiguity. :"
Perhaps a logical mind might say
that these two uses are really the
same. English, as Mr.. Allardyce re-
marks, having few infections, needs
more stops than the classical tongues
where the infections show the cases.
But even in English there have been
some proud spirits who rebelled
against stops. A volume of poems
by the author of 'sIonica'' was print
ed with gaps of different widths, in
dicating the length of the pauses,
where ordinary mortals put colons
and commas. Cambridge at one time
kicked against commas, and rebelled
against capital letters. The calm
conservatism of printers soon sup
pressed the revolt except in the case
of a few editions of the classics.
Probably printers will long remain the
autocrats of punctuation. even though
people with private views on the top
ic swear with pen and ink on the
margin of their proof sheets, as Bau-
delaire was wont to do. The famous
service of full stop recorded in his
tory is is that of the period which
saved the Greek fleet from being de-
feated by cavalry. AS rule pune
tuation must be content with minol
duties.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-23

Virgins, are you fond of fish-balls?"
''Fish-balls I never attended one In my
life.''
II drop into poetry occasionally" as the
office-boy remarked when he tumbled
into the waste-basket. 8 ft*
A little girl noticing the glittering gold
filling in he aunt's front teeth, exclaimed,
'sAunt Mary, 1 wish 1 had copper-toed
teeth like yours !"
A child being asked what were the
three great feasts of the Jews, promptly
and not unnaturally replied, Breakfast,
dinner, and supper.
Pennsylvania has an editor 81 years
old. He attributes his long life and ex-
cellent health to the fact that he never
expected to please everybody and never
tried to.
Snow, then, Witness" said the cross
examining counsel, sternly, ''does the
preceding witness enjoy your entire conf
dence?" ''Great Scott, no! Why, that's
my wifel"
A woman said to a boy who had been
impudent to her; ''Little boy, have you a
mother?" ''No; but dad wouldn't marry
you if there wasn't a housekeeper in the
whole blessed land," was the reply.
1t is not pleasant, after you have been
repeating in your best voice several oper-
attic gems, to have your friend look up
with wearied countenance and ask you
''if you hadn't just as lief sing as do that,
you know
No. said young man who was ask
ed to sing, 81 have not attempted to sing
for several years. My voice got away
from me, when was very young; and
when l caught it, it squealed so that it
frightenened me, and I let it 60 again."
Two commercial travellers comparing
notes: 81 have been out three weeks" ;"
said the first, "and have only got four
ORDERS" "That beats me- said the 9TH
| er; 81 have been out four weeks, and
have only got one order, and that's an
order from the firm to come home.''
A little girl was taken by her mother
| TO dentist, who removed q tooth. Of
course the operation caused great deal
OF pain. How deeply the feelings of the
little one were involved appeared when
in repeating the evening prayer, she said,
'Forgiye us our debts as we forgive our
| dentists"
gentleman who ordered shad at ths
hotel waited long enough to destroy pa-
tlence as virtue. Finally, calling Be
the head waiter, he asked: 'eDe
your shad come from the Hudson or she
DelaWare?" 'I'm sure, don't know,
said the head waiter, ''but I'll ask the
steward, if you would like to know.
s'Do," said the gentleman, ssfor I want te
find out where my waiter has gone fish
ing"
A night-clerk was astonished to see
guest come down to the hotel office clat
only in his night-shirt and an ulster
Naturally the clerk asked him what b.
was doing. ''My FRIEND" said the maj
sadly, II am trying to get rested. Al
though | am sea-faring man, and hav,
slept on plank with blanket over i
most of my life, never struck anythin:
like your beds, and am afraid if shoul,
lie on one of them all night I should b.
too tired ever to get up, and became
bed-ridden invalid. So I lie down awhil
to rest from my days work, and then ge
up and come down here to get reste,
from the bed" And, thus speaking, h
climbed up stairs again to give the couc
a new trial.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-23

which the system absorbs as sponge
drinks water, almost, apple pulp
scraped with a silver knife, or the
juice from the ripest of strawberries,
given drop by drop, together with
barley water, made in the good old
way, with lemon juice and sugar
candy, and calves foot jelly, blandest
and most blissful of foods. Nervous
and weakly patients who need build
ing up require strong broths withouta
drop of fat in them, ,savory roast chick
en-, game and such essence of meat
as we get by putting FIVE or six
pounds of the neck or shoulder of
beef in stone jar, covering tight
without one drop of water aud baking
in a moderate oven for two hours.
The jar will be found half full of the
richest gravy which is the very thing
to build up nerves and brain. A
cupfull of this gravy, heated scalding
hot, with fresh egg dropped in,
and toasted oatmeal crackers, is a
very hearty meal for an invalid.
But remember, all food for sick
person must be the freshest quality,
for anything stale or injured, which
healthy system might get over, will
hopelessly derange feeble one.
Remember, also, that if half the care
were given to the health of well peo-
pie that we take to cure invalids,
there would be very few sick. HUI
NOR the fancies of your patient all
the doctor will allow. If there is
craving for any one thing in particu-
lar, whether it is roast chicken at mid
summer when chickens are scarce, or
oranges out of season, guavy jelly or
velvet cream Or white grapes, get
that very thing if yor can and say
nothing abont the trouble of getting
it. That will worry all the pleasure
out of a weak patient, when to graft
fy his taste may be the turning point
to health. It is wholesome for peo-
pie in this world to have their own
way about their personal habits any
how, sick or we'll, always provided it
does not interfere too much with the
comfort of others, and to the. sick
everything should give way. Lay
this rule to heart. - Vide drake.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-23
FOOD FOR THE SICK.

AS much depends on the food of
your patients as on medicine. If one
ever learns the right value of food
and drink it is over sick person,
when the process of strength and
growth alter with a few spoonfuls
more OF less of the right kind of nour-
ishment, and you feel the pulse sink
under your finger for want OF the
draught of beef-tea, or sip of wine
and milk, which keeps the fiuttering
strength alive. Many patient in a
fair way of recovery is lost for want
of good food to restore the lost vital
ity. You need to learn much to ca
ter for the sick to give fever patients
lemons, acid jellies-not fruit jellies
made with sugar-but gelatine ia
vored with wine and breath of spice,
little piquant soups, few spoonfuls
of which revive one so much and
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-23
LOVES STRANGE DILEMMA.

Eighteen years ago female baby
a few months old was found one
morning on the steps of New York
residence ON East Twenty-third street.
1t was prettily clothed, and the mark
ing on the garments was 'sDubois."
She was adopted, by singular coin
cidence, by a woman of the same
name, living in Sullivan county. She
was educated and given all the adj
vantages of the average child. She
was, however, on becoming of rea-
sonable age told of the circumstances
of her early life. She and her foster
mother removed to Chicago, and the
young lady became anxious to know
something of her ancestry. She learn.
ed that people of her name lived IN
Brooklyn, and a few months ago Col.
McLeer received a letter from her
signed ''Jennie Dubois giving the
above circumstances, requesting him
to find out what he could, if any
thing, to her advantage, at the same
time sending notice with the request
that he should post it.
The postmaster wrote letters to all
of the individuals of the name given
which he could find in the directory.
Several responses came in, among
them one from young man of the
same name who stated that his early
history was not dissimilar to the ear
ly history of the inquiring young lady.
His first recollections were of being
in founding asylum in Boston where
he was taken care of until able to do
for himself. The postmaster turned
over to him the letter from Jennie
Dubois, and correspondence was
opened between the two.
Finally he visited her and it was a
clear case of love at first sight, each
being equally impressed with the 9TH
er. The first impressions grew strong
er with longer acquaintance, but while
progressing in their sincere attach
ment each detected in the other that
which was almost convincing that
they were of the same flesh and blood.
They loved and would marry, but
there was the narrowing fear that
they might be brother and sister.
Thus the case stands, and they are
making endeavors, futile thus far, to
prove their parantage, hoping, while
each desires to find relatives, that
they are in no way related.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-23

Two WAYS OF LIvING.-The old
proverb says every burden we have
to carry offers two handles-the one
smooth and easy to grasp, the other
rough and hard to hold. One man
goes through life taking things by
the rough handle, and has a hard
time all the way. He draws in tight
harness, and chafes whenever it
touches him. He carries a heavy
load, and finds it not worth keeping
when he gets it home. He spends
more strength upon the feet and
wear of work than the work itself.
He is like disorganized old mill
that makes a great noise over small
grist, because it grinds itself more
than it grinds the gram. Another
man carries the same weight, does
the same work, and finds it easier be-
cause he takes everything by the
smooth handle. And it comes to
pass that one man sighs and weeps,
and another man whistles and sings,
on the same road.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-23

Here take these pills-one every fif-
teen minutes, and in an hour your
pain will leave you, and before night
you will be well.'
The man frightened up at once
and took four bread pills at intervals
of ten minutes. In an hour, sure
enough, he was better, and before
night he had left his bed and was
pronounced out of danger. The stu
dents returned to town satisfied with
their experiment and the next week
Bassett was again at the hospital sell
ing them more apples. Then they
told him the joke, and though inclin-
ed to be angry at first, he finally join
ed them in a laugh against himself.
So much for the force of imagina-
fion
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-23
GOOD HEALTH BY INHERIT.
ANCE

My father and mother were both of
a perfect health and strength. They
never knew what it was to be sick, or
to be. unable to do the days work
when the day came, or to eat their
victuals at eight, twelve, four and
eight o'clock-four meals a day.
When we were born, at intervals of
less than two years, my mother al
ways had woman to see to things
about week; but the next week she
did all her own work just as usual.
A deep-chested, light-footed woman,
with a rose-bloom on her cheek-a
clear, gray light in her eyes-a voice
that was music-she possessed the.
greater and finer nature but my faith
er was brown-eyed, sturdy little fell
low as this world ever held.
Then the second thing / think of is
the way my mother managed US
through our childhood. She never
heard lecture OF read book about
health in her life that / know of, but
she had code of traditions and in
stincts to which she held always.
She whitewashed her cottage from
top to bottom with quicklime twice
a year, and once year painted all
the woodwork.
We slept on chaff-beds; but she
always cleared them out in the spring,
and got new chaff always had her
whole little stock of linen white and
pure to wear and sleep in, and once
week while we were small put US
through untold torments with yellow
soap and the most intolerable towels.
''Who hath eyes? Who hath conten-
ton? Who hath strife?' The boys
who have to 60 into tub, with a wo-
man like my mother to work with.
Then she gave US plenty to eat oat-
meal porridge and blue milk in the
morning, oatmeal porridge and blue
nilk at night, very little piece of
meat at noon with plenty of soup and
potatoes, and on rare days dumplings,
oat-cake,-to fill up all the crevices,
and wheaton bread about twice a
week. Butter we were supposed to
have on Sundays, but we all agreed
that she scraped more off than she
put on. We knew what tea and coffee
were, but it never hurt our nerves or
kept us awake nights; and every
spring she made a wonderful specific
of birthstone, molasses, cream of tar
tara kind of internal sweatmeat,
which, with salts and senna,-when
we were supposed to need some,-
and pleasant drink in April made
| out of new nettles, no doubt in her
sure faith preserved our precious
lives. Good shoes, and stockings of
her own knitting two suits of clothes
warm and stout, with a prophecy in
them of the growth we were to attain
before they were worn out, one suit
for Sunday, and the other for week
days, with no distinction between
summer and winter; and Hobson' S
choice of the wholesome fare; that
was the way our wise, strong mother
gathered her brood under her wings.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-23
Roses and the Nightingale.

In my garden it is nighttime,
But still time and bright time,
For the moon rains down her splendor,
And my garden feels the wonder
Of the spell which it lies under
In that light so soft and tender.
While the moon her watch is keeping
All the blossoms here are sleeping,
And the roses sigh for dreaming
Of the bees that love to love them
When the warm sun shines above them
And the butterflies pass cleaning.
Could one follow roses fancies,
When the night the garden frances,
Oh, what fair things we should chance on!
For to lilies and to roses,
As to US, soft sleep discloses
What the waking may not glance on.
But hark! now across the moonlight,
Through the warmness of the June night,
From the tall trees listening branches
Comes the sound, sustained and holy,
Of the passionate melancholy,
Off wound that singing staunches.
Oh, the ecstasy of sorrow
Which the music seems o borrow
From the thought of some past lover
Who loved vainly all his lifetime,
Till death ended peace and strife time,
And the darkness clothed him overi
Oh, the passionate, sweet singing,
Aching, gushing, throbbing. ringing,
Dying in divine, soft closes,
Recommending, waxing stronger,
Sweet notes, ever sweeter, longer,
Till the singing wakes the roses!
Quoth the roses to the singer:
"Oh, thou dearest music -bringer
Now our sleep so sweetly endeth,
Tell US why thy song so sad seems,
When the air is full of glad dreams,
And the bright moon DER us bendeth."
Sang the singer to the roses:
''Love for you my song discloses,
Hence the note of grief it borrows.'
Quoth the roses, "Love means pleasure.
Quoth the singer, cloves best measure
Is its pure attendant sorrows''