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Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1888-02-24
A Plucky Powxer Boy.

When Farragut's squadron was before
New Orleans one of the powder boys saw
a shell drop dangerously near the maga-
zine. The fuse was burning furiously,
but the boy picked up the shell arl tossed
it overheard. The boy was Oscar Peck.
He lives in Bridgeport, Conn.,, and he has
Just received, in consideration Of his
bravery, back pension money amounting
K $4,220.-New York Sun. :.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1888-02-24
Church Announcements.
sun DAY

II a. m. Regular service n the Congregational
church. In the evening at 40. Rev. H. Z. James.
,:30 p m. Regular service at the Baptist
church. Rev o. ID. Purinton.
II q. IN. Regular Mc1ho lis, service in the Bap
tisl church. Rev j. IL. McConnehey.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1888-02-24
PROGRESS.
I have learned

have learned
This doctrine from the vanishing Of youth,
The pictured primer, true, is thrown aside;
But its first lesson liveth in my heart,
Ishall go on through all eternity
Thank God, only am an embyro still;
The small beginning of a glorious soul,
An atom that shall fill immensity.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1888-02-24
$50 cows.

Will sell the above
number. of COWS to par
ties living within Is
miles of Cooperstown.
One years time. Butter
makers catch on. Ali
with calf by full blooded
Polled-Angus bull.
r. G.. COOPER.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1888-02-24
FOR Sale.

FOR Sale.
Six yoke of three year old steers. Will
sell on time With good security. Weight
about 1900 pounds each. r. G. COOPER.
5-4t
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1888-02-24

Cash paid for county
school and civil town ship
orders at John G5yversozl
& Co. S.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1888-02-24

We will pay the high
est market price for oats
in cash. John Syverson
G. Co. 5
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began to bear last year. From these
twenty acres ! marketed twelve tons of
raisins for 81, 200, unpacked, or $50 an acre.
My peach orchard did well. / got $50
from one acre, which is the only acre of
peaches have"
VIM. Hardee, Cedar avenue said |
have fourteeA acres of raisin vines Five
acres only are in bearing, and from these
five acres | received last year 5000 That is
the first they have borne, except few
scattering lunches. Ny fruit trees brought
me in $l37 80 an acre. Ny eggs and chick
ems and butter have brought me in, esti-
mated roughly, 81 week. l have six
acres of alfalfa, from which | have fed nv
stock. and sold last year 500 worth of hav.
and had sufficient to keep my stock through
the winter. have raisin vineyard of FIVE
acres, from which l realized last year $3.50
and two acres of wine grapes, which yielded
$50, making 500. My trees are young
and bore last year for the first time. The
three acres brought $780,
Frank Douglass, Cherry avenue, said
Il have SIX acres of bearing raisin vines. /
have marketed nearly all of them, and
have received 81 200. / have an acre OF
fruit trees, which realized me 500. l only
keep one COW for family use''
CONCLUDING INTERVIEWS.
Edward Simmons, Cherry avenue. said
Il have sixty acres here. / have planted
five acres with raisin vines. and last year
| they produced sixteen tons of raisins,
which sold for 500 ton, OF 1888 an acre.
have about thirty-fiye acres of wine
grapes. Some of these are young and not
yet in bearing, but reckon that the thirty
five acres will yield me 1000 gallons OF
wine, which | have not yet marketed, but
| which viii bring 25 cents a gallon, or $3.50
an acre. have erected winery and make
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Tn. Moral 1nf,nenos Of olimat

Since the revival of naturalism, how
ever, the tendencies of educational reform
make II probable that the progress of moral
philosophy will become identified with the
development of new science, thus far
only outlined in Il few incidental treatises
on the interaction of body and mind. The
possibilities Of that science are sueges-
lively indicated by the results of the sta
tlstlcal studies devoted to one of its
branches-the moral influence of climate.
Modern French scientists are nothing if
not methodical, and have repeatedly called
attention to the curious regularity in the
geographical distribution of certain vices
and virtues; sexual alterations south of
the forty-fifth; financial extravaganza in
large seaport towns; thrift in pastoral
highland regions. 1t is, indeed, remark
able circumstance that in the home of the
best wine-grapeS, in Greece and southern
Spain, drunkenness is far less prevalent
than in Scotland, o. in Russian Poland,
where Bacchus can tempt his yotaries only
with nauseOus codka. The idea that low
temperature begets an instructive craving
for alcoholic TONES seems disproyed by the
teetotalism of the Patagonian savages.
who horsewhip every Spanish stimulant-
monger without benefit of clergy. The
Lesghian momtaineers, too, observe the
interdict of the Koran in the Icy summit
regions of the Caucasus; but there is no
doubt that the braciug influence of cold
climate Affords a certain degree of i'm
munity from the facilitating effect of the
alcohol vice, and that a Scandinavian
peasant can for years survive the effects OF
a daily dose of alcohol that would kill an
Egyptian fellah in single month.-Pop-
ttlar Science Monthly for Hay.
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ODDITIES OF GENUS Az WORK
The Eccanzic;sies cf Some of the Fasnou
Men of the World

The EccaneEicisies CT Some of tl,s Famous
Men of the World.
Noltaire had in his room sometimes FIVE
desks, ut which he pursued different tasks.
The great romancer, Balzac, after a
frugal dinner at or : o'clock, was called
at midnight, when he took cup of black
coffee, or green rather, and extremely
strong, and worked till noon.
TUrgot never worked but when he had
dined heartily.
Pitt never ate but at his own table.
which was frugal only when he had some
important affair to discuss he took little
port wine with Z spoonful Of Peruvian
bark.
Addison speaks of an advocate who
would never plead 4 case without having
his hand to the end of thread drawn
tightly around one Of his thumbs all the
time his speech lasted. The wags said it
was the thread of his discourse.
DR.. Shapman relates that q celebrated
advocate of London always applied a
blister to his arm whenever he had an
important case to plead.
Girodet never loved to work durin. the
day. At night, when inspiration came to
him, he arose, lighted candles, and, half
mutfled up, painted.
Michael Angelo did nearly the same
but with a single candle.
The historian, Mezeray, would work
only with candle, even at midday and
midsummer. He never failed to wait on
his visitors, even to the street with a can
die in his hand
Gretry, to animate himself when COM
posing, breaklasted ard took coffee, and
then applied himself day and night to his
piano.
Bossuet worked in cold room, with his
head warmly enyeloped.
1t is said that Schiller, before eompos-
ing, put his feet in cold water.
Guido Reno painted with much POM,
He dressed himself magnifceutly, and ad
his pupils attend him IN silence ranged
around him.
Sarti, the musician, compos d only in
darkness.
Michael Angelo, Leonardo de Vinci, IL
tian, Rubens, passed from the chisel to t o
pen or the brush. The change rested them
from the preceding work; and thus. during
long life, they accomplished marvellous
works.
Some persons can think only standing, or
in walking the room in swift strides. Some,
like Montesquieu, compose in postchaise.
One has need of complete isolation, pro-
found calm; another of the open air and
noise of the crowd.
Button wrote in lace rufies; Alexander
Dumas in his shirt sleeves.
Milton composed his 8 Paradise LOST on
large arm chair and his head thrown
| back
When Fox had eaten heartily he would
retire to his study, envelope his head in a
napkin soaked in vinegar and water. and
work sometimes ten hours in succession.
Jeremy Bentham jotted his ideas on
little squares of paper, which he piled
upon each other, and this little pile OF
papers stitched together were the first form
of his manuscripts.
Napoleon had his particular mode Of
meditation and work When he was not
in council he staid in his study, talked to
himself and sung; or, like child, cut the
arms of his chair; then suddenly rousine
up, would give the plan of monument tc
be erected, or of one of the great military
movements which astonished the world
Kansas City Star.
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luxuriantly and give a god ield. Straw
berries can be made to as Il net profit OF
$500 and more per acre annually. but are
regarded hard on lands well as on the
backs OF the pickers.
THE FUTURE PROSPECTS,.
George W. Meade e. c.. wholesale dried
irult dealers, San Franc sea, write: We
consider that the raisin PRODUCERS may ex.
peet to realize through q series of wears
from four to four aud = half cents per
pound IN sweat boxes f iEeir dried rails.
ms This We consider caual 10 about
50 per ton for the grs s green. We do
not consider that there IS any likelihood
Tor an oyerproduction Of california raisins
Tor century to come, ,id we anticipate
that within very few years the importa-
ton OF Spanish raisins W. probably cease
altogether. The price bere has been $50
per ton on the vines"
MARKET FOB ALL FRUIr.
Inat the fruit Industry IS nos likely to be
oVerdone, is evidenced BY the report Of The
Commercial Bulletin, which saws:
The United States imports annually
about 10000 goo PONIES of prunes. 1900. :
600 pounds of figs, &c Go 900 pounds of
ralsins, 100000 pOun of almonds, 49,
O00 carloads of orane and lemons. and
| $50 carloads of Other traits This vast
amount OF imported f-;sit can be replaced
by the state alone, I say nothing of the
enormous quantities 81; other fruits indi-
genous to this country which it can also
| produce. Il is only lev wears ago that
foreign grapes We're Drought to Los Angeles
| for winter use, and ntN. instead Of sending
TO Europe, we raise far better grapes and
can supply the demand of the United
! States and then have a surplus for the
consumers in other lands. Last year We
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to learn of any changing hands at the pres
ent time.
A Scandinavian, possessed with an IN
pronounceable name, went three miles
west into this hog wallow country last year.
and has since leveled the land, and planted
60 acres of Muscat vines. The result OF
this experiment may help to solve the
question as to whether or not these lands
are of any practical use for horticultural
purposes, or only for turkey pasture, to
which they are now mostly devoted.
Fresno seems to be built Immediately on
the dividing line between the different
classes OF soils mentioned. Land unim-
proved east or south, within two or three
miles of town, is held at from $500 to 81, 600
per acre. West and north, as above stated.
/ Further out in the colonies, desirable lands
are yet to be had q! fr.a-s Hi.Jia r.
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it is less. We have I25 chickens which
generally bring us in SO a week or more.
When came here had $500, and bought
my land on credit, but a man coming here
now will have to purchase his land paying
half cash, and he will require, unless he
works a great deal for his reighbors, at
least 81 500 or $1,000"
We called upon II. Masden, also of Fig
avenue. who, in answer to questions, re-
piled % started here on Fig avenue with
twenty acres. | now have forty acres,
which am gradually getting under cult
walton. | have worked great deal hereto
fore for my neighbors, but the necessity for
this has passed, and during the past year I
have been working entirely on my ranch.
have six acres of bearing raisin vines and
four acres of trees. From the vines | real
lied last year $500. Twenty acres is all
have under cultivation. Next year hope
TO begin TO cultivate my second twenty
which l have recently purchased. This
twenty acres yielded me this year, over and
above all expenses of my family, except
meat, 81 600. The way we do it is this
We take our butter and eggs into the
grocery and get credit for them. We gel
our groceries, flour and clothing as we
want them from the merchant. At the
end of the month balance is struck, and
we receive the surplus in cash. We have
always a good balance TO receive. This
only refers to marketing of butter and
eggs. Fruit is marketed with the Sar
Francisco merchants, who have opened
packing houses in Fresno and in our col
onies"
COMFORTABLE INCOMES.
Samuel Hartley said: II came here
| from Bradford, England, in October. 1886
and purchased this twenty acres, improved
for the sum of $500, and in February
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my own wine. l consider wine grapes are
as profitable as raisin grapes, if properly
handled and made into wine by the grower.
am perfectly satisfied with this country
l think Fresno the easiest place to make
money have ever seen, and recommend
everybody to Gomez
]. T. Doyle, Cherry avenue, said: Il
have thirty acres of bearing fruit. which
bore last year for the first time and which
brought me in $3.50. l have also six
acres of alfalfa, on which | keep one COW
and six horses, and sell considerable
quantity have sold 500 worth of hay
on the land, the purchaser being at the
trouble of hauling, and still have sufficient
to feed my stock through the winter"
William Pool said 81 came here from
Sacramento county and bought this twenty
acre ranch on the LIST day of July, or less
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purchased another twenty on the other side
of the road, SO that now own forty acres.
Ny raisin vines, of nine acres, brought me
in 81. 100 last year, or 1922 an acre. l ex-
pect more this year. Ny orchard, mostly
peaches, brought me in $50 an acre. Nv
experience of year and half in the de-
lightful climate of Fresno quite satisfies
me. A farmer can work here every day in
the year, and can find plenty of work to do
There is no enforced idleness by reason of
snow or rain
Mrs. J. Fischer, of East avenue, said !:
" We came here five years ago from the old
country, and our vines are now in full
bearing. We have seven acres of raisin
vines, which brought us last year 500 an
acre, sold in the sweat-box. When we
came here my husband purchased this
twenty acres on which we reside. We
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ing else. 1t begins to yield return the
same year it is sown. and the second year
is in full bearing condition. The level ma
ture of the soil, and the abundant watei
facilities of Fresno county render alfalfa
production here extremely profitable. Il
produces an aggregate of five to eight tors
per acre, which sells in the winter at about
$40 per ton. Three and four crops are Cut
per year, the cost being about 81 per acre
for each crop harvested Alfalfa ordinarily
Yields an annual net profit of from $40 Il
$50 per acre.
There are several large stock ranches on
from 800 to 800 acres of alfalfa. One sec
ton of land devoted to alfalfa, and with
abundant water for irrigation, is an invest
ment h7o'Gto'v es~ta'r sd viii sUppOri
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FRESNO.
[cosr1suEp rRon gEcorp pAeE.l

Mrs. White then showed US some of their
mammoth rsisins. Six in a row had a
total of seven inches. CHANGING again at
the scarlet blossoms of the pomegranate.
the pale, delicate buds of the olive trees,
and the gigantic leaves OF the fan-palm, we
babe Mrs. White good-by and proceeded
down the avenue between the magnificent
rows OF elms, which continue beyond here
without break for four miles.
On the road We met c. c. Smith,
of Washington colony, who said
Ny twenty acres of raisin vines
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unds of prudence and reason, and in IL e
wer colonies good property is constantly
eng purchased at reasonable prices.
COST OF \ COLONY HOME.
1t Is often asked what capital is required
for man to start twenty-acre ranch. To
this 1t is answered that many came to
Fresno with sums varying from $500 10
81, 600; but while larger capital is very
desirable, and tends to much more rapid
development of the land, any one posses
sing $1,000 could make very comfortable
home IN Fresno county, ard maintain him
self and family with his chickens, COWS
and alfalfa until such time as his trees and
vines begin to bear. At Fresno they sum-
Marie the following as the amount neces.
sary TO start twenty acre farm:
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planted LOO trees, of which 500 are pear
trees not yet in bearing. The peach trees
are all in bearing, and we sold the peaches
this year for $500. We keep from two to
four cows. AT present we have only two.
am getting now from So go to 81 a week
for my butter. Sometimes my chickens
bring me in s. week. This, of course,
does not continue all the year. During the
months of June and July chickens do not
lay so plentifully. / am satisfied with this
place. We have now purchased forty acres
more, which we hope this year 10 get under
cultivation"
A BRITIsHERs VIEWS.
w. Couian, East avenue: d" | am Brit
Usher, and came here from India. have
seen the world, and I believe there is no
better place on the face of the globe for a
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man who will work to make living under
such favorable conditions as in Fresno. We
have twelve acres of vines in bearing. from
which | made last year sixteen tons of rails
ms, which sold for 500 ton, or $133 an
acre. We have two and one-half acres of
apricots, which sold this year for s571, or
1928 an acre. The only expense You are
put to in marketing fruit is the picking
and hauling it green to the merchant. He
is at all the trouble of drying it. Ny
chickens and cows properly looked after,
keep my entire family in food and clothing,
and my family is not a small one. We
have four children, wife and myself"
SUCCESSFUL PRODUCTIONS.
TT. Chambers. Cedar avenue, said Il
am culhvating eighty acres of land here. of
which twenty acres are in vines which
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than twelve months ago, for $500. am
situated only two miles from town. When
| bought this place it was sadly neglected.
realized about $1,000 off of it The past
year. The apricot and part of the peach
crop had been marketed before l pur-
chased it. had one and one-half acres of
Muscat vines in full bearing. This crop [
picked and marketed myself, and it fetched
$40, or $500 an acre. The raisins l sold in
bulk, and had no expense of packing Had
packed them | could have realized more.
but then | should have had the trouble of
packing"
LANDS WEST AND NORTH.
In these directions the population is
sparse, aud much of the land is yet virgin
soil. The lands are quoted at prices vary
ing from 500 to $40 per acre, INT We fail 4
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ANGosTUBA BrTTERs were prepare ty DR..
]. G. B. Siegert for his private use. Their
eputaiion is such to-day that they have
b come generally known as the best appe-
ling tonic Beware of counterfeits. Ask
your grocer or druggist for the genuine
a 'ticlc, manufactured by Or. J. G. B. Sic
gelt AZ Sons
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Picture frames are now made of paper
and colored ike walnut, and are so perfect
that no one could detect them without
cutting them. Paper pulp glue, linseed
oil and carbonate of lime or whiting are
mixed together and heated into thick
cream, which. on being allowed to cool, is
run into meids and hardened.
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How DJyiinggChild
Was Saved !!

CICERO, HAMILTON Co., ND, Sept, 10, 1871
The following is a true account of what your
S. S. S. has done for our little daughter, Hazel.
now four years old. When y months old a
lump appeared on her heel, which slowly grew
larger. The family physician thought 1t was
caused by piece of broken glass or needle,
but failed TO bring anything TO light. The
child became feebier all the time, seeming to
lose the use OF her leg, and finally quit walk.
ing entirely. The middle finger and thumb
OF eitherhand became enlarged, the flesh be
coming hard. The hip joints became involv.
ed, SO that when seventeen months old she
could not stand having lost the use of leg.
and arm. Partial curvature Of the spine also
followed The nervous system was wrecked.
muscles contracted, and there was general
wasting of flesh and muscle. At eighteen
months OF age she was placed under the
treatment of a prominent physician OF Bos-
ton, Mass, but at the end of ten months she
had declined to such degree thntshe was In
dying condition. This was In April, 1886
We took the child away not knowing what
to do. IN this dreadful dilemma we were
Rver-persuaded by friends to try one bot
tie" of SwIFT's SPECIFIC, which we did, and
before 1t had all been taken we saw q change
LOT the better IN her symptoms. We keptit
up, and have done so to this day, and win
keep it up, if the Lord wills, for many days
tocome, for 1t has brought our dying Hazel
to life. tovigor, to strength and health again.
The ashen hue Of her cheeks has changed TO
arosy tint. She is able to walk anywhere,
her languor and melancholy have passed
away, and she is now blithe. cheerful, hap
py romping child. Should you wish to In
crease your testimonials of proof of the
virtue of S. s. s., our names aud what we
have said is but portion Of what we owe to
you, should sou wish to use them.
Kindly yours,
BEy. F. SWIFT.
P. O. Box &C.
Treatise on Blood and Ska Diseases mailed
THE Shsyr SPEciFIc CO.. Drawer J. Atlanta, Ga
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yielded me last year fifty tons of raisins,
which sold to Messrs. Meade & Co. at five
cents a pound, unpacked, amounting to
S3,oOo, or $3.50 per acre. l have five acres
OF orchard, the proceeds OF which l also
marketed green, for $500, but my trees
were young, being the first year of bear
ing. l do not work my land myself but
hire all my labor. My one Chinaman
takes care of plows, and cultivates my
forty acres, and does all the work with the
exception of harvesting and pruning.
when have to have several Cinnamon to
help him."
ANOTHER CoLoNIsT
Neil Hansen said: " 1 own forty acres of
land here on Fig avenue. From twelve
acres OF grapes (mostly wine grapes), and
three-foUrths of an acre of trees, / netted
last year 81, 200. l have also four and one
half acres of alfalfa, which supply all the
feed for five head Of horses, a cow, IL o
calves and CHECKERS A large income can
be made by breeding stock On another
twenty-acre ranch | own. l have fifteen
acres OF alfalfa. This alfalfa. if sold in
Fresno, which neCeS-ijates hanling. will
fetch $40 ton, but Sold II On the land
and received 1854 for the years cutting.
The whole Of the shor pui on HAT alfalfa
to realize this sum WGuld be about nine
days during the year, which time was con-
stunned IN cutting and watering
The next fam we stopued al was that of
James Hansen, also on Fig avenue We
found Mr.. Hansen cur. bur Mrs Hansen
readily Communicated all the Information
we desired. she said We owned, when
we first can here. tweu y 3cIes. but have
been gradually adding to it until we now
have sixty acres all aaiacelt 10 bis, our first
farm. On our 6 acre, Of alfalfa we keep 1
cows, and from to 6 horses, and 100
chickens / made in October $50 from the
sale of butter and eggs. and never make
less than $40 in the worst months. the
months of June aud July. We have
% acres Of yines-psFt vine and part
raisin. From these We realized last year
$3.50 an acre"