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Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
sunaovers In Chicken Yards.

: The large Russian sunflowers can be
made useful as we'll as ornamental by
planting them in chicken yards. There
are many yards where little more
shade would be appreciated by the
hens at the time the plants would be at
their best. If started early in pots or
boxes. and transplanted in the yard in
clumps of three or four, and protected
when small by piece OF wire netting.
The hens will do the fertilizing and cul-
tivating. and do it we'll, too. After the
seeds have ripened in the fall and the
plants are no longer needed for shade.
cut down now and then one and see
how the fowls will enjoy the seeds.
They are one of the best foods for lay
ing hens.-M. L. Bell. in American Car
doninr
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
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Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01

quences falling upon the not unusual
head.
Disappointed and enraged, the whole
Soman family, parents, uncles, broth
ers, and sisters, set to work to abuse
and beat the unfortunate Chumla.
"Unlucky. creature!" they cried.
''You have disgraced us all. You are
bewitched; but we can, at least, beat
the devils out of you.''
Poor Chumfa's appeals for mercy for
tunately did not fall entirely upon I'M
sympathetic ears. Young Motilal, near
by, appeared upon the scene just in
time to receive blow intended for her.
'Why do you beat her thus?" he de-
manded.
Because she is bewitched," replied
one of the uneles. "She was to have
married the great rajah, but now he
will not have her on account of bad
omens. She is disgraced thereby in all
mems eyes, and we shall never be able
to marry her. But we suspect, rascal,
that you know something of this" and
he threateningly flourished the stick
over young Motilal's head.
II do know something boldly re-
torted the other. 81 know it is fact
that her flower husbands live"
''Oh, you dol" came a chorus of re-
joinders. ''Where are they, then?"
THAT I shall not tell you, unless
':Unless?''
''Unless she is promised to me as a
wife. Then will kill all the flowers
and marry her. alone know where
they are. See the proof?" and he held
up sprig of the rajah's plant.
''Take her, by all MEANS" cried
Chumla's father, land may she bring
for you better fortune than she has
brought us, the unlucky daughter of
evil
So Motilal rooted up all of Chumla's
husbands, and exchanged them for the
person of Chumla herself-a bargain
which, so far as anyone knows, he never
repented, for the youthful Hindu maid,
on this occasion at least, gave not only
her hand, but her heart.-Atlanta Con-
stitution.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
pUNcEHT PARAGRAPHS.

Fully Reeovered.-"Has your hos.
band fully recovered from his army ex-
perience?" "Oh, quite. He finds fault
with the victuals every day now."-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
Mrs. Tilford-"It must have taken
Daniel Webster long time to compile
the dictionary, don't you think SOP"
Tilford-"Daniel? You mean Noah,
don't you?" Mrs. Tilford-"Now don't
be silly. Noah built the ark."-Brook-
Ign Life.
Mrs. Motherly-"Why is it, George,
that you have never thought seriously
of getting married?" George-"You
misunderstood me, Mrs. Motherly; ]
have always thought Of it SO seriously
that am still a bachelor"
Journal.
Gentlemen, this is one of the most
dangerous experiments known to sci
ence. The slightest mishap and the ex-
perimenter will be blown to atoms. !
will now step into the closet while my
assistant performs the experiment.
Princeton Tiger.
Mabel-"Are you going to return the
poor fellows ring?" Florence (who has
just broken her engagement II
haven't decided. suppose he'll propose
to you now, and thought I'd just hand
it over to you to save bother. "-Phila-
delphia North American.
''You can't place any dependence on
woman's word,' modify remarked
the young man who had been Tilted.
"Of course you don't believe that?"
'Oh, yes, do" said the married man.
''My wife has been threatening to leave
me for ten years. Boston Transcript.
A Satisfactory Result.-They met at
the crossroads and pulled up their teams
for talk. "Well, JOSH" said the first
farmer, as he took wisp of straw from
between his teeth, 81 hear some eastern
chaps have been diggin' fer gold on
your place. What do you git out of it ?"
81 git" said the second farmer, ga darn
good well.'-Wall Street Topics.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
Patience and Practice.

A clever young physician here, who, like
90 many Of his brethren everywhere, has
had weary time trying to build up prac-
tice, nevertheless meets his hard fortune
with smiling gayety: Like Warren Hast
e eam @stG With Stof e e bsa
sion the other day to go into the Hiber-
MIA bank, where, owing to the throng of
customers, he could not get his business
transacted at once. After considerable de-
lay, his companion, nervous little man,
complained irritably of the inconvenience
to which they were subjected.
Doesn't this put you out of patience,
Doc?" he asked
"My dear SIR" returned the medico, gay
ly, ito be out Of patients is my chronic con-
dition. haven't had one for a week.
San Francisco News Letter.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
CHICKEN LANGUAGE.
The Cries Of the re.thered Folk Are
Said to BE CeMpFehenslble TO
Hunan Beings.


human ears learn readily to compre-
bend. For the most part it is instinc-
tive. A fuzzy toddler six hours out
Of the shell has five distinct calls. The
first and loudest Of them is the lost
note, uttered when it loses sight of
its mother or finds itself out in the
cold. It is loud and very shrill: pee
ee-op! Pee-ee-ee-op! Pee-eee-op!"
The second, the hunger note, is as
shrill, but more plaintive, running
somewhat thus: "Yeap! Yeeap! Yee-
eeap!" As soon as eating begins it
changes to sort of satisfied chitter-
ing: 'sWit-wit! Wit-wit! Wit-wit-
weet!" After eating the chicks grow
sleepy. and cry to be covered. The
note is somewhat like that Of hunger,
with peculiar tremolo, breaking it in
the middle: "Yee-pl-leepl! Yee-pl-lee-
pl!" does not fully represent it, but
comes as near as the limitations OF
vowels and consonants admit. The
fifth note. the chir-r-r Of fright or as
constituent, is the quaintest Of all.
This chir-r develops at last in the graf
ing call Of warning, at sound of which
from their mother even the youngest
scatter and scutter to cover. Any
thing, bird, a kite, even very small
passing cloud, sailing in the sky over
head, will evoke this warning cry. Let
one hen sound it, every other will take
it up. Often the alarm is false one,
but centuries of hawks have impressed
upon each feathered mind that danger
cometh out of the air" and they govern
themselves accordingly.
Everybody knows how hens cluck to
their broods, but it may be news to
many that though hundred hens may
be clucking in the same Enclosure, the
voice Of each will be individual and un-
mistakable to her immediate family.
A chick just out Of the nest may not be
able to discriminate, but let it follow
for day and it is past making mis-
takes. Even more wonderful is the
hens ability to differentiate her brood
from all the rest.
Upon finding food hen calls her
chicks somewhat thus: "Co-cu-co-cu-
cu-cu-ee!" The rooster calls his wives
about him to share in some dainty with
nearly the same notes, but deeper and
more resonant in the beginning and
running at the end into high treble.
There is something clownish in his
cackle. He cackles only to express a
panied astonishment. or else by way
Of chorusing the hens. with whom
cackling is favorite diversion. quite
Independent Of the matter of egg-lay-
ing. A rooster. especially gamecock
or one of Spanish breed, has wonder
full variety of crows. By means Of
them. indeed. he runs the whole gamut
of expression-hope. fear, defiance, tri-
umph. love, hate. rage. vanity and
fine, ineffable Sconceit.
It is the hens without families,
though, that are the true barnyard
gossips. Any fine day, outside molt-
ing time, you may see them standing
in groups, their heads close together,
chuckling and chattering like SO many
blackbirds, or else wallowing in light
earth. pecking lightly as they scratch
and wallow, and evidently finding it
good sport to throw dust well over each
other.-N. Y. Sun.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
Muslin Run. for Ch,c,s..

Muslin may be made to answer many
purposes to poultrymen. It allows the
heat of the sun to enter as readily as
through glass. and does not radiate the
heat away as rapidly as does glass. 1t
is very cheap and may be rendered wa
terproof in many ways. Fresh bullock's
blood and freshly slaked lime make
an excellent waterproof paint for such
purpose. but pure linseed oil will prob
ably answer nearly as we'll. II the
muslin be drawn tightly in position it
will turn the water without prepara-
ton. For covered runs to the chicken
coops. or for shelter during storms. or
as protection against the heat during
the middle of the day. it is the cheapest
material that can be used.-Farm and
Flreside.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
OUR CORN AT PARIS
Hoe Cake, Corn Cake, Corn Dollgers
and Johnny Cake for
the Asking.

A man from Kansas, whose circum-
stances tend to make him optimistic
and enthusiastic about himself, his
state and the world in general at pres
ent, was in New York last week. Corn
was his pet enthusiasm--corn at the
Paris exposition.
1--WE are going to show the world
what corn is and what st can do,'' he
declared. CHOSE Europeans don't
know what grand thing it is. Why,
when they see our exhibit at Paris it'll
not only boom corn, but it'll boom the
whole United States for producin' it.
Commissioner Peck is with us, and we'll
see that the display Of corn in that
wicked French city'll be an eye-opener.
Congress has only appropriately $751;
600 for the display of all Americanagri-
cultural products, but it'll have to do
better'n that at the next session. Still,
we're not depending on congress alone.
The legislatures of Kansas, Nebraska,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri
are all going to make appropriations.
If they appropriate, as they could well
afford to, one-fourth of one per cent.
of the value of their annual crop It
would amount to more than half q mill
lion dollars.
''We're goin' to have palace at Paris
in which there will be everything use
full that can be made from corn-corn
meal, hominy, starch, corn -four, sugar,
candies, sirup, oil, soap, a substitute for
rubber and cellulose from the corn pith.
"There'll be an Indian corn kitchen
and restaurant, where you can get hoe
cake, corn cakes, corn dodgers, johnny
cake, corn pudding, popcorn, mush,
succotash and fritters. Won't the
Americans appreciate that, though,
and won't it make the Europeans hun.
cry for more!
''We're not goin' to be stingy, either.
Samples of cornmeal, -four and hominy
will be given away, with directions
printed in foreign languages telling
how to cook the good things you can
make from corn.
mo, I guess we won't show 'em how
to use if for fuel. Well take along a
plenty, but not enough to burn. Butts
no joke, corn does makea mighty nice
fire. I was in South Dakota just be-
fore came east and the farmers were
using it in their heating and cooking
stoves. It's too cheap to sell and coal
is too dear to buy. There's very little
ashes or dirt about using corn, and it
makes powerful hot fire. That's the
only trouble, it's so hot that it burns
the stoves ont in a little xvh;lo hut $40
a great fuel. great product altogether,
and I'm glad I live where it grows."-
n. Y. Press.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
COVERED NESTS.

nests, making no place for the fowls
to harbor at night. AS they are fed in
the morning the lid is lowered. In the
evening it is simply raised and latehed.
It needs little explanation and is made
of material easily procured on any
farm.-Morgan S. Joslin, in Farm and
Rome
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
a sabbath Breaker.

We find in report on Sabbath OBJ
servance, just presented to the free
presbytery of Lorne by Rev. Mr.. Mac
leod, of Oban, this statement: 1.-THE
queen and royal family, it is deeply to
be deplored, have not shown happy
example to the people in the matter Of
Sabbath observance. Her majesty's re-
cent journey to France, and arrival
there on Sabbath day must have been
grief to every enlightened Christian
subject of her own and pernicious in its
influence over tn. giddy and goddess
French -Westminstex Gazetta.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
Exasperatine.

Mrs. Higgsley-Clara, 1 must insist that
you send young Mr.. Granley away earlier.
you closed the front door after him.
Clara-I know it, mamma, and l have
made up my mind dozen different times
to make him leave early, but he has way,
somehow, of always giving the Impression
along after the shank of the evening has
passed that he. is just about to say some
fully exasperating- Chicago Evening News.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
HANDY FEEDING BOX.
Just the Thing Where Large ana
Small Chicks Are Allowed to
Run at Large.

Where large and small chickens run
at large in the same lot the feeding
of them becomes a difficult matter. as
the larger crowd the weaker and take
most of the food.
Get one or more big but low dry
goods or grocery boxes and remove .
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
FEEDING BOX FOR cH1cKENs.

part Of each side, as shown in the cut.
making the opening just high enough
to permit the smaller chicks to enter.
Stretch a wire from side to side at the
top and throw feed inside for the
younger broods. They will quickly
learn to start for their own quarters
when the feed dish appears.-American
Agricultural.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
KEEP THE NESTS CLEAN.
A Handy contriv.nce Made Of Cheap
Material That IL easily Pro.
cured ON Any Farm.

In the accompanying illustration it
is readily seen that the cover for the
nests is SO constructed that the lid is
on an incline and entirely covers the
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
Prosecutea as . Nuis.aoe,

my daughters music" sighed the
mother, ''has been great expense"
"Indeed?" returned the guest, who
had just heard her play. ''Some neigh.
Dor sued you, suppose. "-Chicage
Post.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01

Every time we meet school.teacber. We
find that we have always been pronounc-
ing another word Observation-Disclosures
Globe.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01
Woman,a Lonx suit.

'sMan was made to MOURN" unused the
old man with long white whiskers. ''but
women seem to have taken the job away
funeral!"-Kansas City Independent.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-06-01

Don't think black daubed sections Of
,oney will bring as much as lily white.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-22
No Diamonds For Her.

Here is story from The Bookman,
 told by Rudyard Kipling. His father, John Kipling, went to pay a visit to an Indian rajah who was about to bring home 8 queen. The elder Kipling had been engaged in the decorations of the palace, and it's owner showed him the gifts of stuffs and perfumes he had pro cured for his coming spouse. The rajah also sent for his jewel caskets and asked Mir. Kipling to assist him in selecting the gems to be included in the marriage gifts They were of extraordinary size and value, such gems as are seldom seen except in the east, and to the artist the selection was pleasure. Finally he lifted wonderful diamond. one of the choicest gems in the collection, and said: ''You should send this. No wom- an could resist it. The rajah looked up. caught 1t and held it jealously to his breast, then, slowly replacing it in the casket. answered, 'Nay. such gems be not for women.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-22
nliteracy in Russia.

The only obtainable statistics of the number of persons in the Russian em- pire who can neither read nor write are to be found in the reports of the army and navy recruiting departments. A recruit is always asked if he can read and write, and his answer is registered. The latest reports show that 40 per cent of the youths who are raised by the con- scription are totally illiterate. AS vast number more males than females are able to read i'll Russia, and as 1t is rare to find an aged peasant who can read and write, it may be accepted as fact that probably not 20 per cent of the entire population of the empire has ob- tained the first rudiments of this knOwl- edge. Probably the central provinces are the most backward. There are over ten thousand villages in Russia where no school exists. It Is calculated that, by disbanding 100000 men of his huge army, the CZar would have funds at his disposal for building 10000 schools apd 10000 village schoolmaster's houses, and would have a million pounds ster- ling over for paying the teachers sal aries. And he would still have 9O0,000 soldiers-a number greater than the combined land forces of England. Ger many and the United States.-LeiSure Hour.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-22
PLEASANT PROSPECT.
Astronomers Say the Moon Is Getting
 Ready to Fall.

Astronomers Say the Moon Is Getting
 Ready to Fall.
 It is not likely to happen just yet awhile, but many astronomers are pre- pared for the fall of the moon at dis tant date.
 It is probable that eventually the moon will be drawn we'll within the sphere of attraction of the earth. At present she is just far enough off to be kept in tow, so to speak, and to whirl round and round us as well as spin herself.
 But when the inevitable time comes, and she is drawn far into the attrac- ton radius, she is likely to be pulled right down and fall onto the earth, for her attraction is. of course, much weaker than ours. She is in more dan- ger of this at one time than another, and the danger is increasing gradually but surely. It may be 10000 or 15OO0 years yet, but when she does fall there will certainly be a terrific bump, and the whole system of the earth will be badly jolted.
 It is calculated that, taking the most dangerous epoch of the year into con- SideratiOn and her consequent position, she is likely to fall on the northeastern part of Europe, and will entirely wipe Russia and Germany from the map
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-22
LAW AS INTERPRETED,

Marriage on the high seas, where there is no law regulating the matter, entered into by persons who went there with the avowed purpose of evading the laws of their residence, is held, in Norman vs. Norman (Cal.), 42 L. R. A. 343, to be invalid.
 The right to shoot at a person who is merely running away from an officer to escape from arrest for a misdemeanor, is denied in Brown vs. Weaver Aliss.), Az l.. R. A. 423, and, if the officer does shoot wrongfully, 1t is held to be an official act covered by his bond.
 A statute which, although expressed in general terms, enumerates restric- tions which constitute identification, rather than classification, and is applic- able only to single highway improve ment, is held, in re Henneberger (N. Y.), 42 l.. R. A. 132, to be in violation of a constitutional provision against local laws.
 To picket the premises of a person boycotted, in order to intercept his teamsters or to prevent persons going there to trade, is held unlawful in Beck vs. Railway Teamsters' Protective Union (Mich.), 42 l.. R. A. 4O7, on the ground that it is an act of intimidation and an unreasonable interference with the right of free trade.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-22

It is quite likely that we shall have to
 stop talking about -''a brainy man"
 when it is intended to indicate that one
 has unusual intellectual powers, or
 about ga brainless man" when in-
 feriority of mental capacity is to be in-
 dicated. The Medical Record shows
 that men with the largest brains are not necessarily those possessing most
 brain power, talent or intellect, and says that many persons with brains of unusual size have never risen beyond mediocrity, while, on the other hand, some of those men who have risen to great eminence by reason of their pow erful intellectual development have had brains smaller than the average" An other fact announced is that natives of cold climates have larger brains than those of the tropics and investigation shows that in sixty given cases the brains of the Lapps and Swedes had a capacity, in cubic inches, of from 100 to 102, while the Egyptians and Ben galese had capacity of from 1S to 80 cubic inches It is claimed that the Scotch have the largest brains of any people in the world. The Record says about to 10 per cent. of men exam ined in asylums registered a brain weight of more than 8 ounces, while those of Daniel Webster. Lord Byron, Bacon and of many other renowned men were between 53.6 and 90 ounces. The average weight of the brains of sixty famous men was found to be less than the estimated brain weight of all men, and the ten most weighty brains in the list of famous men averaged more than nine ounces less in weight than those of the ten heaviest belong ing to the idiotic, criminal and ordin- ary class. It is evident that the dis mark of genius must be sought elsewhere than in the size and weight of the brain.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-07-22
Silent Brides.

In Korea during the whole of the marriage day the bride must be as mute as a statue. If she says word, or even makes a sign, she becomes an object of ridicule, and her silence must remain unbroken, even in her own room, though her husband should attempt to break it by taunts, jeers or coaxing, for the female servants are all on the watch for such a breach of etiquette as speech, hanging about the doors and chinks to catch mp and repeat even single utter ance, which would cause her to lose caste forever in her circle.
 This custom of silence is observed with the greatest rigidity among the higher classes. It may be week or sev- eral months before the husband knows the sound of his wife's voice. and even after that for a length of time she only opens her mouth for necessary speech. With the father-in-law the custom of silence is still more rigid, and the daughter-in-lawo often passes years with out raising her eyes to his or addressing a word to him. In Bulgaria months silence is imposed on brides unless specially addressed by the husband.