Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1896-03-20
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EDITED BY Miss AREsrAD.

Not from his fset, - one designed
Jno snotstool OF the stronger kind:
But fashioned for himself bride,
An equal, taken from his side.
A resolution was passed by the Y's Ia
extend II vote of thanks to the editor OF
the Courier for his kin.ness in donat-
ing Column in the paper
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Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps War1
has written u letter to the president.
telling INN that war is nothing buk
lrgalized murder, and that tho whole Of.
South America is not worth fighting
about.
Not the New Woman.-A little girls
comp"sition ON women. Boys are men
that have not got rs big as their papns,
and girls are women that will be ladies'
by and by. Man was made before wo-
man. When God looked at Adam ho
said to himself: "Well, think 1 can
do better if try again" And he made
Eve. BOYS are a trouble. They wear
out everything bu. soap. II had my
way tho world would be girls, the rest
dolls. My papa is so nice that l think
he must have been u little girl when he
was a little boy. Man was made and
on the seventh day he rested. Woman
I1, H., -
since.
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A while ago awoMan came to me and
asked me to go and see her son who
was in Jail for drunkenness and disor>
der. Her husband and five other sons
we're all dead as dr1nkards. prom
ised to go. Tho Jail was at the rear OF
the courthouse in corner. Straight
in front, across the street, q saloon
smiled back responsively 10 the court.
1t had destroyed that boy and broken
that woman's heart. ,The same judge
who had sentenced that boy, had
granted the saloon keepers license by
the authority of the people OF the state.
Across the side street, opposite the
courtroom windows, with its spire
tapering upward like an IDIOTS fore-
head, stood a church. 1t and its min
lister were open only on Sundays. The
Judge "beionged," and every adult
male member Of it cast his vote for tho
republican party, the hacker and man.
ager of the saloon-every member but
one. He was 81 prohlbitionist and by
unananimOus consent a menace TO the
peace of the church, and a nuisance If
not q fool. My heart blazed us 1
thought of it all, and ii had had the
power I'd have blotted all three, court,
saloon, and church, from the land
scape. l am glad had not the power
for know the court is useful, perhaps
indispensable, aud the church is the
hope of the sorld, hut if could today
I.would order the twittering theologine
to pack and go and the rest of the
Stockings with him, and ! would lock
the door and leave the great, gray, ivy
covered pile to be simple wayside
shrine, unite and honest, until some
God-sent man or woman should take
the pulpit by right divine and preach
the gospel. got admission to the Jail
and spoke through, the grating to the
boy. said: II have come from your
mother" He looked me over inso-
lently and said: "Go to hcll."-John
e. Woolley.
Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson, widow of
Gen. Anderson, of Fort Sumpter fame.
has the flag which her husband planted
over that fortifcation, locked up in q
fire preof vault in her home in WASH
ington. She expects eventually to pre-
sent it to the government.
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II the sale of intoxicating liquors
which often are the cause of murder is
allowed, Why prohibit murder itself:
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''Let US thank Gsd most of all that in
the supreme court of public opinion
the greatest law suit of the century is
set for tr,al. Long squibbled over and
frequently postponed, 1t has at last
come squareiy to to the front; it heads
the docket, and the clear-cnt issue is
stated in these words: The Women of
the Nation versus the Liquor Traffic"
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A man with pure heart ought to be
a man with clean mouth.