Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1896-03-27

Miss e. Retzlaff, Miss f. Haskell.
Secretary, Miss Laura Retzlaft.
Treasurer, Miss Mabel Newberry.
'Ihe Ohio state board OF pardonse
recommends that one of the conditions
for the pardon of the criminals be to-
tai abstinence from the use of intoxi>
eating liquors. This. it is believed.
will reduce the liability to furthaae
crime"
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Willard Hall and Ingersoll has for
some time been, and still is, q subject
of great interest at the hall and among
its friends. DR.. Rusk, pastor of tha
Militant church. has declared that hs
will exercise his right to have Inger-
soil speak in the Hall. The central
union. under whose control the hall is
passed resolution asking DIR. Rusk
to withdraw from Willard Hall and
secure other quarters for the services
of the Militant Church. The matter
has been placed in the hands of an at.
torney to be settled by law if neces->
sary.
President Lincoln, being once asked
after long voyage along the coast
on steamboat, how he was, replied,
II am not feeling very we'll. 1 got
pretty badly shaken up on the bay
coming up, and am not altogetherover
it yet" ''Let mo send for Il bottle of
champagne, Mr.. President y said
a staff officer. ''That is the best rem
edy know of for seasickness." .'No,
no, no, my young friend,' replied tha
president, tive seen many man in
time seasick ashore from drinking that
very article" That was the last time
anyone screwed up sufficient courage
to offer him wine.
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Not long ago the body OF q young
suicide WAS discovered in one of our
large cities. In his pocket was found
paper on which he had.written: 81
have done this myself. Don't tell any
one. 1t was all through drink An
intimation of these facts through the
press drew two hundred and forty-six
letters from two hundred and forty-six
families, each of whom had a prodigal
son who, it was feared might be the
suicide. .--Colportage Library.
**
"Mr. Rochefort's rent advocacy of
temperance has directed attention to
the consumption of absinthe in France,
and some startling statements in con-
nection therewitq are being made.
Men as a rule take the absintha dilut-
ed with water, slipping it slowly. But
the women, to the CONSERVATION of the
doctors, insist as a rule Cn drinking
it s'neat" with most terrible results to
their constitutions. The number of
brilliant men whom France has lost
through the abuse of the opalescant
but poisonous fluid from the great
poet, Alfredo Musset who used to be
picked up drunk and half dead every
night in the streets, down to the cele-
brated artist and caricaturist Andre
Gill is simply appalling. An idea of
the extent of the evil may be gathered
from the recent returns of the Ministry
of Finance. which show that at the
present moment there is a marchand
Ia ryiv, T,a,,oh oho <<
every three houses in the French me-
tropolis. ."-Westminster Gazette.
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A letter to F. Murphy to Union Sig
malt is in my heart to sincerely
thank you for opening Willard Hall
for a series of gospel temperance
meetings for the salvation Of menfrom
the drink habit. For this kindness to
me and the cause plead, you have
been criticised because Ihave been ac-
cused Of advocating license as the
remedy for intemperance, which most
emphatically deny. do not believe
that the good common sense of Ameri-
can people would license one saloon
on this continent were it not for the
money they get out of it. Whatever 1
have been in the past am now with
the prohibition party. 1 hope and
and pray that its influence may con-
tinue to grow until majority of the
people of this Gods country shall do
as much by their votes to destroy this
big, selfish, lawless ''crime of crimes''
as they have done to protect it. I am
with you heart and hand. with malice
toward none, with charity to all, with
firmness in the right as God shall give
us to see the right, until the last saloon
is closed and the last fire in the last
distillery is put out never to be lighted
again. '-Francis Murphy.
A large line of Ladies, Mems,