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Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

There was Il social dance and good
time at the Flick hostelry-the Union
House-Saturday night. There was =
large attendance and large time.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

The New Rockford ball club want
Pitcher McDaniels to pitch in game
for them at New Rockford to- morrow.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

Being about to wind up my business
must request the payment of all ac-
counts due me- &. L. WHIpDEN.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ C. Lockton, of F,r
go, are visiting Mrs. Lockton's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Is. Langford, of this
place.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

A number of the boys are figuring as
to how much kerosene oil it will take
to capture all the fish in Sp:ritwoosl
Lake.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

Rev. w. II. Gimblett, of Darlington.
is visiting friends and relatives in Coop
erst0wn this week.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

Miss Edith Brown came up from
Valley City Saturday evening, on =
visit to her parents and friends.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

Peter johnson has been appointed city
marshal by the town board and wear.
his star with becoming dignity.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

DR.. johnson, the jamestown molar
extractor. has been fixing up our pee
pie on this line this week.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

DR.. Carl Rasmussen, veterinary
surgeon and dentist. Oilico ut
Almkiov's drug store. A graduate of
the State Veterinary College OF
Denmark.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

DR.. Wanner went into Stutsmar
county yesterday to perform an opera
ton.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

This locality has been favored with
some fine rains the past week, that will
help along the late crops in fine shape
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

Come to the picnic on July oSth, in
COOperStown.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

+. A. Haskell has moved into the
Aunt Fanny Haskell residence in the
TwentyThirsl ward.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

The town board have appointed Peter
johnson city marshal. Evil doors will
take note of this fact.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

Sheriff Greenland released the levy
on the Northern Pacific elevator Mon.
day evening.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

Logan, the photograph, arrived with
his car Monday. He is located forminst
the Palace hotel.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

Mrs. M. NJ. Robinson, who has been
visiting friends in and around Coopers-
tswn the past two or three weeks, left
Monday morning for the east to visit
friends. On her return west she will
take up her residence ut New What
com, Wash. with her son and daughter.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

Logan, the photographer Is here and
will remain until the 3lst.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.
And Other Matters of Interest
to the Readers of the
Courier.
lneluding Clippings From Our
Exchanges and Miscellane-
Gus Matters.

A new postohice has been estab-
liahed at Cathay, in Wells county.
Cathay is new town on the 500
lSne.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

Rev. G. c. Mcclure went to Bismarck
this morning.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

DR.. Bergstrom is building residence
in the twenty-third ward.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

DR.. E. M. johnson will arrive Aug. 2,
for q visit of two days.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

See programme for the A. O. U. W.
picnic elsewhere in this issue.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21

Peter E. Nelson has \ new nd. this
week.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21
Stringer Bros. have moved into their
new store building.

Don't forget to attend the A. o. u.
w. picnic on the 2Sth.
Griggs courier., 1893-07-21
LOCAL RESUME
From Where we Broke of Last
Week. Including Items
of Interest
Around Town, Society Notes,
and General County News.
Doings of a Week.

Picnic next Friday.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23

ner. Tears came to his eyes, and when
he dismissed them with a sad gesture and
only a brief word these men realized
that Washington had been shocked and
grieved that it could have entered into
their hearts that he forone moment could
have regarded an empire as possible or
could have fought through those seven
years that he might himself attain the
throne.
In that action Washington not only re-
vealed his moral greatness, but, accord
ing to the opinion Of Mr.. Gladstone and
other great English thinkers who have
studied his life, made it impossible that
a monarchy could ever be established in
the United States.
Carlyle, who had no great opinion of
the American Revolution, believing, if
his private talks with Americans whom
he met have been correctly reported, that
it was little more than a guerrilla war
fare, nevertheless has said that this half
sorrowful, half angry and contemptuous
repulse to those who were bringing to
him a crown was something greater than
the command of the American armies
through seven years to ultimate victory.
It was an act that Europeans could not
understand.
Bonaparte was always inclined to be-
lieve the story purely a%pocryphal, al
though he was a great admirer of
Washington and paid higher tribute to
his military genius than some other
great captains have done. But it was
incomprehensible to Bonaparte that q
man should have conducted a prolonged
warfare to success without any idea Of
personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and, moreover,
Bonaparte himself had no conception
whatever of any other form of republic
an government than that hideous night
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23
illustrating the Solar system.

The solar system is we'll illustrated by
the following statements: Let the sun
be represented by a globe 2 feet in diam
eter. A grain of mustard seed at the
circumference Of a circle 1874 feet in di-
ameter will adequately represent the
size and distance of Mercury. The earth
will be represented by a pea on the cir
conference of a circle 284 feet across,
and Venus by another pea on the out
side of a 430-foot circle. Mars will be
adequately represented by a pinhead at
654 feet, and the asteroids by grains of
sand 1000 to 1900 feet away. An orange
at the distance of half a mile viii stand
for Jupiter, a very small apple at four
ffths of a mile will stand for Saturn
and a cherry on the circumference of a
circle II miles cross will represent
Uranus.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23
REFUSED A CROWN,
The Highest Point of Wash
ington's Splendid
Fame.
GLADsToNE's FINE ESTIMATE.
His Self Sacrifice lncomDrehensible
to Napoleon-Carlyle's
Views.
Copm.iaht 1858.

NNE8 49, -4
Mr.. Gladstone, in n of his chats with
Chauncey M. Depew, said that he was
inclined to the belief that all in all per-
haps the greatest man since Martin
Luther was George Washington, and
the great English statesman went on to
explain what he meant by this charac-
t~erization. He did not regard Washing
ton as Intellectually possessed of such
genius as any one of half a dozen men
whom he could name. His military
genius is ~undisputed, although of course
it is hardly fair to compare it with that
displayed by John Churchill or Napoleon
or Wellington. Judged simply by re-
suits, it was as great as the victories of
any of these men, since it led to the es-
Enlistment of a nation destined to be
pre-eminent in the nations of the world.
Every who has studied the mill
tary movements of the Revolution on
both sides is aware that Washington
was very greatly helped by the distrac-
tons which existed in Great Britain and
which made it impossible to concentrate
dts efforts in the American colonies.
What the result would have been had
Great Britain sent a Wellington COM
manding a great British army in case he
and Washington joined in battle no man
can say.
Yet Mr.. Gladstone thought that in
some respects Washington stood the
greatest tests. His SO called Fabian
policy, which consisted in extraordi-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23
nare which followed the French revolu-

mare which followed the French revolu-
ton.
Washington's greatness was impressed
upon some of the great men o fthe times
in which he lived even before the world
understood his victories, and there are
some anecdotes Evolutionary respecting
his relations with two of the ablest mel
of the Revolutionary period which have
not become threadbare by constant repe-
tition, and which illustrate this impress
sion of greatness which he gave to his
contemporaries.
Two of the ablest men produced by
the Revolutionary era were Jonathan
Trumbun and Benedict Arnold. They
were both natives of eastern Connecti-
cut. Arnold was born only a few miles
from Trumbull's home. Trumbull was
a man of great piety, splendid executive
capacity and possessed in the highest de-
gree the qualities of craftsmanship. Ar
mold was intellectually brilliant, but
even in childhood had revealed deficient
moral quality. He would have made a
great business man, and was in fact en-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23

ISIDOR STRAuS. In business circles
he is none other than "Macy's," as the great
bazaar at Fourteenth street and Sixth av y
nue. is commonly called, as Nh. Macy, tLS
founder, died some years ago, and others
have successfully died or retired.
Mr.. Straus was born in Germany on Feb.
6, 1S45, but when he was z years old his
father and family came to the United
States, locating first at Talbottom, Ga. The
youth was educated first at Collingsworth
institute, then q prominent school of GeOr-
gia, and was preparing for the military
academy at West Point when the wan broke
out. In 1868, though but IS years old, he
went to Europe as assistant to a commercial
agent, and on his return induced his father
to remove from Philadelphia, where he had
taken refuge, to New York. In the latter
city they founded the great stoneware and
p-orcelainahouse of IL. Straus s. Sons, which
is now known all over the world.
In 1883 Isidor and his brother Nathan
took a,large interest in the firm of r. H.
Macy & Co., and Isador has since become
the controlling power there, still retaining
his interest in the old firm. He is also q
director of the Hanover National bank and
the New York County National bank, vice
president of the Manhattan hospital, d.
r0CCOT Oh CQo AOuuellOT6 uULuo, IueulDeT VI
the Manhattan Reform and Free Trade
clubs and very active in all organizations
and movements for improving the condi-
ton of the Jews In New York. AS the
Jews are one-eighth of the total population
Of the city and own a fair proportion of Its
wealth, it will be seen that such a man is q
tremendous local power.
His brother, Oscar Stratus, served Presi-
dent Cleveland well as minister to Turkey,
and as the brothers nave been liberal con-
tributors and hard workers in the Demo-
cratic party 1t was at first taken for grant,
ed that Oscar would receive a prize. If
Isidor Straus enters the cabinet, he wall be
the first Jew to do SO, though it is said that
Judah r. Benjamin was once invited to a
cabinet place. Mr.. Stratus was married in
1871, has a family of six children and re-
sides in a very handsome house on the
Boulevard, near One Hundred and Fifth
street. He also has a delightful country
home at 1nwood and owns some property
at Lakewood, N. j., the country home Of
MI. Cleveland.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23
Profitable Fish Raising.

In conversation with an acquaintance
who is a fish c~ulturist from a love of the
business, and who fortunately combines
the interest with a means of making a
livelihood (happy the man SO situated),
he gave me some interesting notes. He
said: cit is a mistake to suppose that
there is money to be made raising trout
in artificial ponds for the market. The
chances Of raising fish to a good size are
SO small that nothing is in favor of the
undertaking. To a man of means who
can afford to invest the money and pay
largely for a few fish, and have them
whenever he wants them, well and good,
but to the person bound to make the
most of his chances, why, he will quickly
learn that yearlings and fry sold for
stocking are the best payirg means
American Angler.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23

to gain great personal power. There
were others who believed that as a result
of the victory there would be established
in America a constitutional monarchy
modelled after that of Great Britain.
The nation as we now know it was a
government yet to be created. <
So a company of oficers-men having
influence = having talked this matter
over, agreed to go to Washington, ask
him to accept the crown of empire and
to promise him the support of the army
in establishing thus a personal throne.
When they approached him Washington
believed that these officers and friends of
his had come upon some such errand as
led them often to seek him for counsel.
He was in a happy frame of mind that
morning. The war was ended victori-
ously, and he had already been in con-
sultation with Hamilton and some others
respecting the form of civil government
which the now free colonies should I'M
dertake.
They offered him the crown in but a
single sentence. A few years before,
dCIOSo blc I1fC1, WdSu11iS bOh, bOA1iS pCoo
ed at breakfast, had been approached by
an officer, who said to him that Benedict
Arnold had fed after an attempt to be-
tray West Point into the hands of the
British. The news was appalling and to
Washington MUS have been ~extraordi-
narily painful, since for Arnold he had a
personal affection which he bestowed
upon only two or three of his other Off
GERS. Yet SO great was his self command,
so superb his capacity for suppressing
emotion, SO thoroughly had he schooled
himself to face adversely with calmness,
that those about him only saw a look Of
sad sternness come to his countenance as
he uttered the now historic words,
"Whom can we now trustP'
But when these officers proposed to
him the empire and tried to put the
scepter in his hand Washington broke
down. There was sorrow and there was
anger in his countenance and in his a
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23
The Washington Family.

In the presidential campaign of 1875 it
was often remarked as a curious coinci-
dence that Of the men elected president
every third one was childless. The list
ran: Washington, Madison, jackson
Polk, Buchanan and-but there seems to
have been q break in the line, so that the
omen failed on Tilden. Il is also worthy
of remark that these cl6fdless men had
singularly happy home lives, and none
more SO than George Washington.
Martha cambridge was a beauty and
a Virginia belle when at seventeen she
married Daniel Parke Gusts. Of their
four children two preceded their father
to the tomb, and when the Widow Gusts
married George Washington in 1869 she
had but a son and a daughter. History
gives us a few exquisite glimpses of the
home life of Washington for the next
few years. He and his wife were very
nearly of the same age; both born in
1892; both were wealthy, refined and of
the highest standing among their Vir-
ginia contemporaries. Washington loved
the two children as his own. There was
nothing to mar their domestic life.
But in 1773 Martha Parke Gusts died,
and Washington was long affected with
a strange restlessness. Indeed his do
nestle life never again seemed so calm
till after the Revolution. Martha was
sometimes called the "dark lady" or
''dark beauty" because of her brunette
complexion, but she was both beautiful
and amiable. The son, John Parke
Gusts, at the age of nineteen married
one of the famous Calvert family at Bal
timore, but he, too, died young-died of
camp fever at Yorktown soon after the
surrender, leaving four children. Of
these General and Mrs. Washington
adopted two, and these constituted the
Washington family seen in the familiar
pictures.
Eleanor Parke Gusts, the daughter,
was SO young at her fathers death that
she knew no home but Mount Vernon.
In 1899 she became the wife of Major
Lewis, Washington's sisters son. The
son was the well known George Wash
ington Parke Custis, an author of some
note, who acquired the famous Arlington
estate, where he died in 1857. His only
child, a daughter, married Robert E.
Lee, who thus became the owner of
Arlington. a.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23

ington as having been specially furnished
by Providence with those greater quail
ties, not only military, but moral, which
were necessary to establish the Ameri-
can nation. He had almost the feeling
for Washington which Arnold had, al
though in his case there was personal in
timacy and almost an equality of rela-
ton which probably no other man of the
Revolution enjoyed.
Thus the impression and influence
which Washington created and exerted
upon these two men-one of brilliant
ability, but morally bad; the other of in
tellectual and moral integrity and OF
statesmanlike quality-suggest how it
was that to men of all quality the i'm
preston that he gave was that of great
ness, exactly as to the greatest intellects
of this day, like Gladstone's, the same i'm
preston has been given by a study Of
his life. E. JAY EDWARDS.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23

narily skillful avoidance of battle when
defeat would have been almost certain
and when it required strategy of the
highest order to avoid it, was carried
out with the patience and the conviction
of genius. His retreat after the battle
of Long Island was of itself, in Glad
stones opinion, sufficient evidence of
great military ability to justify his ap-
pointment as commander in chief Of the
American armies.
But it was not in respect of military
quality that Nj. Gladstone regarded
Washington as SO prominently great.
It was in the perfect balance of all his
greater moral and intellectual qualities
that this pr~e-eminence lay. His patience,
according to Mr.. Gladstone, was some
thing exceeding that Of any other man
who achieved greatness, for it was pa
thence under extraordinary irritations,
and patience exercised for no personal
ambition, but simply for the cause.
His conception Of what the govern
ment which he was seeking to establish
should be was quite as distinct and com
prehensive as that of Hamilton, Jay,
Madison or Jefferson, although he prob
ably could not have set forth in legal ar
gument as they did the reasons for that
conception. They were admirably set
forth in his messages, and. especially in
his farewell address, althQpght there are
indications that some G the messages
were written by Hamilton, while the
farewell address was unquestionably
written by Livingston, although some
writers believe that Madison wrote it.
But If the ~phraseology wa that of the
secretary the ideas were those of Wash
ington, and he undoubtedly set them
forth to his secretaries, asking them, who
were more familiar with the literary use
of the pen than he, to put them in fitting
language.
MI. Gladstone regards the finest
triumph of noble, unselfsh, patriotic
and majestic impulse to be illustrated
by one brief incident in Washington's
career. When Washington refused the
crown, then tho world had the finest ex-
e~mplifcation of a noble, majestic nature.
The incident is not as familiar as it
should be. American youth know that
Washington captured CORVALLIS, made
a brilliant retreat after the battle of Long
Island and worried and fretted the Brit
ish armies into exhaustion during a seven
years war. They also know that he was
president twice and declined to become
president a third time. There are not
many who know that the only time tears
were seen in his eyes and the manifesto
ton of great personal sorrow was made
to those about him wns upon that oc-
casion at the close of the war wien his
army, encamped upon the banks IF the
Hudson, was about to be disbanded. There
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23

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BLOCK s5a Iots If and %, spruce street
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Block 956. lot i, Germanta avenue
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B BsSsE s 81, lots lots + Il. g g. F FlSya street street
block s57. lots J. 2, 3 4; Nelson ayenre
H sloek s ~. l Ioss ), = N e, I, He aseau ase na'
B BIocs 81 II, Lots lots !, 70 3. Elm lin street street
Block Bg2, lot Z, Nelson avenue
Block 6s2, lot /, Tonnele avenue
Block 69t, parts lots 5, 4, Tonnele avenue
Block col, part lot s, Tonnele avenue
Block 957, lots is. 1G. Elm street
Block 957 lot Ii, Elm street
Block 95. lots is, ~, Elm street
And the said Court has hxed Saturday. THO
ninetythrse. at the Chancsry Chambers, No, Ex.
change place. in the city OF Jersey City, at eleven
S H,slDGn IN any t9e eb bGseao0s' e sSs ses m sWi Be- sn MADE 1ss e e. he
charges and liens fixed and certified
byr Sne w Somm ans 10 bers ali al n Aa}ns s inssres ~ s abars q
may be heard.
Clerk of the Circuit Court Of the County Of Hudson.
Dated Jersey City, N. j.. February 4th, 1888.
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can go to s
ington only at con-
siderable financial
sacrifice. He is o
thorough business
man and scarcely
a politician at all,
though always an
ardent and very
liberal Democrat,
and it was as q
man Of great bust
e s capacity that
he won the favor
of Mr.. Cleveland.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23
MONEY TO LOAN.

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Loans can be carried a. long as desired or may
be paid in full or in part ct any tima, and any
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proportion TO the amouns paid,
Our onices are conven lently located and arc 90
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Remember that you have the use Of both che
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A Tablec4o.A Au.ugrapn.

In Vienna the latest form of the auto
graph craze requires the guests at din
ner to write their names in pencil upon
the tab1ecloth. This is more popular
than the autograph cushion rs we have
1t here IN America. The original writing
isworked over in colored silk and a per-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23
THE JERSEY CITY NEWS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY %. 1898.
SUCCESSFUL In BUSHES.

The Prosperous Career Of Jsador Stratus
a Eei resenta sivc New Yo:A Hsbrew
Mr.. Isidor STRAINS, who has cecn talked OF
as a probable member Of President Cleve-
lands cabinet, has extensive business in
terests in New York and Brooklyn, and
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-23
to Loan on Household Furniture.

PIANOS and personal property without removal
you can nave the use OF both the property and the
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Booream Building, Room No. 1.
A NY RESPECTABLE PERSON pEsIRoUs OF
IA borrowing
LITTLE READY Cash
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