Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1894-07-13

Ed. Guest has the foundation for his
house completed. He will move the
house thereon from Section 90.
Did it it rain: Well we should re-
mark; and while there are few pieces
of wheat that will not pay expenses,
yet on the whole it will average up as
we'll if not better than last year.
The masons are removing the ruins
of the bridge across the Bald Hill, pre-
paratory to putting up new foundations.
The walls will be put up dry as
before. thus insuring somebody more
work in the near future.
Charley Moseley has been making
more noise than any man in the county.
There has been some talk of putting
him under bonds to keep the peace, but
seeing that the racket has been due to
his blowing the rocks out of his fields
with dynamite, probably nothing more
will be said about It.
There IS joy in the hqujehold OF
Hiram Guest over the afival of
daughter. with SIX admiring brothers at
her beck and cali. We are afraid she,
will be spoiled autocrat. This re-
minds us that we have seen no explain
alton of the enlarged addition of the
smile which hovers over Scot Van De
Bogart's countenance. If you ask him
he will tell you that it was caused by
another eight pound girl putting III an
appearance.
The populist who wishes that Chicago
would be burned up. that the unemploy
ed might have work, should be treated
to desc of his own medicine. Let
somebody destroy all his machinery,
that mechanics may replace them.
Let his buildings be fired. that the lum-
herman, millhand and carpenter may
have something more to do. And lastly
he might relieve suffering humanity by
taking dose of strychnine and giving
the coroner and undertaken job.
A farmer who evidently reads wants
to know how the ''chump of a farmer
referred to in our last letter, got his 1900
bushels of wheat to Liverpool For says
he, statistics show that out of 1000 bush.
els of wheat raised in this country, but
100 bushels ever leaves its shore" And
now brother farmers and you especially
who talk so much about buying and
selling in the markets of the world. !"
What are you going to fight for. a
home market of 80 per cent or foreign
market of 10 per cent: Will you
drop your home market of 80 per
cent, like the dog who dropped
his meat to seize its shadow in
the water, in a wild scramble for 10
per cent market or will you do your
share to SO upbuildlug our own market
that in 4 few years. not a bushel OF
wheat need leave its shores? Realize,
if you can, that the United States is the
greatest consuming. as well as pro-
ducing, nation in the world. That of
the entire product Of the world we
consume one-third. In 1898 we
imported articles to the value Of
S941 1861, ,4s1 90 and of this amount 1885,.
866. 800 600 consisted of articles of food
and live animals. Is not this market
worth the farmers attention:
While we think of 1t, we want to saw
that since our last article, we have
been informed by one of the faithful that
we were off in our statement as regards
the duty on sugar. that it was taxed 80
per cent, etc. Now if we were running
for office our love of truth might make
US careless as to the correctness of our
information. As it is, we concluded
we had better send for a copy of the
Mckinley bill, and with the editors
permission will produce the part per-
tanning to sugars used by us.
SCHEDULE E.-sCGAR.
Sugars above No. 13 and not above No. 16.
Dutch standard. Free.
All sugars above No. 16. Dutch standard
-J-10 cts. pound. Ad Valorem-1343 percent.
All sugars above No. 16, Dutch standard from
countries which impose export duties on sugars
-s-10cts. a pound. Ad Valorem-16S9 percent.
Glucose or grape sugar. cts. pound. Ad
Valorem-1s II percent.
Further comments are unnecessary.
1t is said that a cat may look al a
king. If so, there may be Some excuse
for an every day farmer daring to
criticise the Hon. S. NJ. Owen, who
held forth picnic day. We had heard of
the gentleman, and we thought, now we
will have a chance TO listen to aa edu.
Gated, intelligent man, who will be able
to give us some insight into the ideas,
aims and desires of the Peoples party;
who will be able to let the sunlight
penetrate our benighted intellect. So
we occupied plank with considerable
anticipation, and can truthfully say
that IN the course of two hours, we
received but three ideas. First, that
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