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Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
MADE IT EASY FOR H1LDA.
An Obliging Chicago Man Who Had
Things Fixed SO the Hired Girl
Need Not Worry.

4-Rosenthal keeps drug store out Cot
tage Grove avenue way. Like the rest
of mankind he has his troubles, and a
few weeks ago they took the form of the
servant girl dilemma. The light of the
kitchen left in the dark of the moon and
the druggist was fain to fill her place
with another. He has had experience
of the employment .gency and is wise.
He sought the newspaper and clipped
out situation wanted adj, which he
thought would fill the bill, and he went
over to Sedgwick street to see the pros
pective successor to the light of the
kitchen. She was descendant of the
hardy Norsemen and looked as hardy
as anyfof them. She had large bumps
on the backs of her hands where other
people wear knuckles, and when she
hams stood out in her sleeves just above
the elbows. But she knew her bus
mess. She didn't let Mr.. Rosenthal get
The start of her with any questions.
AS soon as she learned he had called in
answer to the ad. she began the cross
examination.
GLOW many children have you?" she
asked in painful way. Her English
was badly broken in spots, as though it
had fallen from a great height. Mr..
Rosenthal was forced to confess that
he was the happy father of six.
This rather put a damper on things
at the start. Hilda's Morse brow cloud
ed and she lost the air of insouciance
which Mr.. Rosenthal was pleased to
note as soon as he entered the room.
"Have you a second girl?" she asked,
shortly.
Mr.. Rosenthal gladly admitted that
the family had such an adjunct.
do you send out the washing?"
asked Hilda, imperiously.
The druggist told about that feature
of his domestic arrangements. But he
could see that Hilda did not approve
of him and he grew reckless.
II suppose you have big Sunday
dinner?" said Hilda.
Eyes, that's one of the best things
we do" said Mr.. Rosenthal. you see,
we order an eight-course dinner from a
caterer every Sunday, and he sends it
up in wagon with the walters to serve
it, and then we always want the lady
who is living with us to sit at the head
of the table on Sunday, so I don't think
the Sunday dinner would bother you
much"
Hilda looked at him in surprise mo-
ment. Then great light seemed to
break in on her.
ooh, you think you're smart, don't
youY" she said.
And then the incident was considered
closed Chicago Chronicle.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28

What will the inventive brain of man
do next? This is question some one
asks almost daily. There is one, though,
who leads all others, who for quarter
of q century has been making fine laun-
dry starch, and to-day is offering the
public the finest starch ever placed on
the market. =,
Ask your grocer for coupon book
which will enable you to get the first
two packages of this new starch, RED
CROSS" Grade mark brandy also two
schildren's Shakespeare pictures, paint
ed in twelve beautiful colors, natural as
life, or the Twentieth Century Girl Cal
endar, all absolutely free. All grocers
are authorized to give ten large pack
ages OF "RED CROSS STARCH with
twenty OF the Shakespeare pictures or
ten of the Twentieth Century Girl CAL
endars to the first five purchasers of the
ENDLESS CHAIN STARCH BOOK.
Thissis one of the greatest offers ever
made to introduce 'RED CROSS" laun-
dry starch, j. C. Hubinger's latest in
vention
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
TRAGEDY ON A STAGE.
The Leading Lady of Company
in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Sept. 23.-Julia
Morrison, leading lady Of the 'Mr. Plas-
ter of Paris" farce comedy, shot and
killed Frank Leiden, stage manager
and leading man of the company, at
the opera house on the stage Just be-
fore the curtain rose for the perform
ance to begin. The woman was arrest;
ed and taken to the city Jail. Itappears
that the two had quarreled over the
woman's alleged bad acting, Leiden ac-
cusing her of being but an amateur.
The woman claims that Leiden repeat
eddy insulted her; that he had made
improper proposals to her, and in self
defense she shot him.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
Fatal Accident.

A fatal accident occurred recently
near Edinburg. Early in the morning,
as q threshing rig was being moved
from one part of a farm to another,
the engine overturned while crossing
ditch. Martin Tressing was pinned
under the ponderous machine and in
stantly killed, his head being COM
pletely crushed.
The threshing crew made frantic eff
forts to raise the heavy engine, but it
took some time before this.could be
done sufficiently to remove the unfor-
tunate man. It mattered little, how
ever, as he was undoubtedly dead the
instant the engine struck him. An in
quest was held and verdict of death
by accident returned Immediately. It
is understood deceased was a single
man, but this could not be definitely
learned, as he was transient and had
no intimate friends.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
For Union with Great britain,

Boston, Sent. "a close union Of
American and British power and in
fluence for the promotion of law and
progress in the Philippines, Africa and
other semicivilized countries was pro-
posed by Lyman Abbott, of Brooklyn,
at the Congregational international
council Friday. and the sentiment was
enthusiastically cheered by delegates
from the British Isles, Australia, South
Africa and Hawaii. Predictions were
made during the day by London dele
gates that within 20 years the American
and British flags will float tos ether in.
front of armies sent to open the doors
of dark countries, peaceably if pos
sible, forcibly if necessary.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
To Greet the 1soys.

The arrangements for the barbecue
and harvest home picnic to the Com
pany B boys on their return from the
Philippines is progressing most salts
factorily. On the date of the arrival
of the volunteers at Fargo there will
be a public holiday and everybody will
turn out for the occasion. The chill
dren have entered heartily into the
spirit of the occasion, and will be on
each side, wearing the national colors
and extending warm greeting to the
brave volunteers. On the day after
the arrival of the troops, the big bar
becue will occur. A half-dozen bands.
will be engaged and visitors will be
there from all over the state. Special
trains will be run to accommodate
those who wish to extend a warm well
come to the boys and participate in the
novelty of barbecue.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

The stairway leading to the tower
Of. the Philadelphia city hail contains
ses- steps. and is said to be the tallest
continuous stairway in the world.
An enterprising yoting man with
big trunk stopped Ut y Chicago. hotel.
When he. left the discovery was made
that he lad removed the carpet from
his room and carried it away.
A south. side church in Chicago has
. sleeps On which arc lights are placed.
The lamps. are 22a feetsabove. the leyel
Of the street and, as it might be imag-
lined; produce IN excelleht.effect and
serve to effectpally advertise the
church. :.
Ii" some places trolley,companies are
cuftivatingi strips of lawn between the
tracks, producing most pleasant eff
feet. The Electrical Review remarks
that grass; in the streets is now sign
of progress rather than, of retrogres-
sion. -. a.
There are 1880 central station plants
for generating electricity in the United
States. ( These plants are owned by
companies having. q combined capital
stock Of $279, 704, 61O, and. employing
1,159,7ss horse power in engines or
water wheels.
Fires on autocars; are said to be be-
coming numerous in France with the
increase of automobiles. Many of these
fires are due to inexperience, as, for in
stance, in a recent case, where the at
tendant foolishly tried to fill the reser-
!voir with petroleum without extin-
gushing the burners. ~
To North Carolina must be awarded
the honor of being first to act as col
ony on the idea for independence. On
April -l2, 1776, its provincial congress
instructed its delegates in the general
congress at Philadelphia ITO concur
with the delegates of the other colonies
in declaring independency, and form
ing foreign alliances" This movement
was led by Cornelius Harnet, who was
called the samuel Adams" of North
Carolina.
The invention of spectacles is often,
but enormously, ascribed to Roger Ba-
con, who died in 1925. Further research
has shown that in 1918 SAVING DegG Ar
matt, q Florentine, first worked glass
into the form of lens. To him, there
fore, may be accorded the honor of be-
ing the inventor of spectacles. He died
at Florence in 1917, and was buried in
the church of Santa Maria Maggiore,
where his stone bears an inscription,
which may be thus translated: Here
lies SAVING Degli Armati of Florence.
inventor of spectacles. May God for.
give his sins.'
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
Not m M Wind.

II is indeed an ill wind that blows
nobody good. Last spring the farmers
in many parts of the Red River valley
found themselves unable to put their
wheat in the. ground because of the
Hoods. The days of early seed-time
passed and still there was no intermis-
sion In the steadily falling rain. When
the sun did finally. break through the
clouds, and the black, loamy soil began
to appear in little islands above, the
waste Of waters, :. it was too late to
plant the stapdard cereal with any
hope that the grain would be ready by
harvest time. =. ''' =
In this emergency the cultivators Of
that prehistoric lake bottom bethought
themselves of the properties of fax.
They knew that it was possible to
plant fax later than wheat; that it
would Withstand cold and unfavorable
weather, and in the fall would yield
practically the same return, acre for
acre, as the golden grain. So the tree
less level, when the waters receded,
was sown to fax.
Now follows the logical results.
THERE'S being built in Fargo fiber
mill, intended for the transformation
Of the straw into a product which may
he, shipped to the paper mills of the
east. On the, showing of year ago
the mill would presumably have been
constructed just the same; but it
proved itself an additional argument
when its, promoters learned that the
fax acreage this year would be heavier
than ever, and that no matter what
emergency might arise, their supply
of raw material would be practically
inexhaustible.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
The 1nvariable Eject.

sWell, "asked the young man, doesn't
the bicycle make you feel younger, as
said it would?''
'Mebbe it does when am riding"
the elderly gentleman admitted, ''but
if it happens have to walk any little
distance, it now seems twice as far as it
did before I learned to ride" - In
dianapolis journal.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
Food for the Mind Also.

Page Boy want two pounds of pork
sausages, and cook says will you be so
kind as to wrap them up in newspaper
containing good love story ?!Tit-B Bits
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
News in Brief.


llans are being prepared for $751;
600 Catholic church at Tarsatt.
The jamestown city council has sold
$4,000 worth of refunding bonds.
Burglars broke into the vault of the
state bank at Davenport and secured
about $500. The explosion aroused the
people, who frightened the burglars
away.
The county commissioners of Walsh
county appropriated $4,000 for the
erection of monument to the memo
ries of the members Of Company G who
lost their lives in the service of their
country during the war.
George Gackle, Of Kuhn, sold 23s
head of COWS and heifers last week,
which brought the handsome sum of
@, 100, an average of S34 per head.
Tho hardware store of Arncard &
Losthris, at Hillsboro, was robbed by
burglars of IS razors and number Of
revolvers.
New buildings and improvements
this seaaon in Walhalla will figure up
1T the lu'west calculation 100000.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28

In her counsel practical assistance.
Mrs. Pinkham's address is Lynn.
Mass.
Mrs. MABEL COOP. correctionville.
Ia. tells how Mrs. Pinkham saved
her life. She says:
81 cannot thank you enough for
what your medicine has done for me.
can recommend it as one of the best
medicines on earth for all women's
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Standing of the Club. in the National
League In Their Race for
the Champi0nship.

The following table shows the NUM-
Der of games won and lost and the per.
centage of the clubs of the National
league up to date:
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28

II \HE ills Of women overshadow their whole lives
Some women constantly getting medical treat
ment and are never WELL IA woman best understands
womens Ills and the who consult Mrs Pnkham find
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
OZARK AGRICULTURE
! Crops In That Prolific
RcEion.

+. Ozark humor appreciates the story that a
scientist was quite amazed the other day at
observing farmer, after killing a nest of
snakes turned up by the pillow, arrange the
dead snakes in the furrow before he went
back to the pillow.
q. Why did ,yyp you do that, my good
scientist. and, seeing that he was really in
search of information, replied:
II do that SO the pillow will cover the
snakes on the next round"
Seeing that the scientist was still alysti-
Ge1, the farmer continues:
II cover the snakes SO that they will de.
compose. That is what you call it, isn't it!''
"Yes:" said the scientist, with rising ill.,
"Well," continued the farmer, ''the de-
composition of animal matter furnishes
nourishment for plant life, believed"
"Yes?" again said the scientist.
"Thcn, snakes will make corn grow, won't
"Yes?" said the scientist.
And more corn will make more whisky,
won't it?" said the farmer.
"ies," said the scientist.
"And whisky will make more snakes,
won't it? Mister, that is what we call rota-
ton in the agriculture of this region. st.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Look. All Right.
Doesn't the bicycle make you feel
younger?" asked the expert.
"Well, 1 won t exactly say that" replied
the elderly novice, "but it certainly makes
me look younger"
"How is that?"
"Why, to sail through space as occa-
sionally do certainly gives the appearance of
youthful activity, no matter how may feel
about it. "-Buffalo News.
One who has mind to think will soon
have thinking mind.-Ram's Horn.
Halls Catarrh Cure.
Is taken Internally. Price 75c.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
Held Up.

w. Howard and f. M::Jenlzins, his
son-in-law, of West Superior, were held
up by tramps on a Northern Pacific
train near Casselton during the night.
Howard was pushed off the top of a
box car and laid near the track until
morning in heavy rain. He died the
next evening of his injuries. The two
men had $25 and watch, which were
taken. Howard and Jenkins were on
the road to Montana to work in the
silver mines.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28
PRACTICAL
HELP FOR
SUFFERING
WOMEN

us suffered for two years with female weakness and at
last became bedfas Three Of best did
good concluded to try Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28

IeInale weakness ana at
E best doctors did me no
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
les of your medicine. l was
able to do all my house,
work. I know that your
medicine raised me from
q bed of sickness and
perhaps death. and am
very thankful for what it
has done for me. Ihope
that every suffering
J woman may be per-
ded to try your medicine"
ct Mrs. Pinkham's advice
soon as you begin to be
zled. The sick headaches
dragging sensation come
n a durable cause. Write
help as soon as they ape
lpear.
Mrs. DOLE STANLEY.
Ca mpb e llsburg. Ind.
writes: /" DEAR MRS.
P!NKHAM-1 was troubled
with sick headache and
was so weak and nervous,
II could hardly go. A
friend called upon me one
E. Pinlsham's Vegetable
t it would cure me. Ithcn
ing five bottles of it, I was
nol1uh +"
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1899-09-28

evening and recommended Lydia E. Pinhams Vegetable
Compound saying that she knew that would Itcn
sent for your medicine and after taking five bottles
entirely cured cannot praise it enough"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-03-04
Ridden to a standstln.

Harry Elkes displayed his remark
.ble supremacy in middle distance rae
sng in his twenty-five-mile match with
a A. McDufie, whom he defeated by
thirteen laps in 52:84 on the Madison
Square Garden ten-lap track. McDufie
sought the match, and now he is sad
der hut a wiser man. Before the start
If the race he demanded payment of
4 disputed account of $500 before max
ng his appearance on the track, and as
result the race was delayed for al
most an hour until finally the money
vas paid to him.
Last years middle distance cham
zion took the lead in the first mile and
pained slightly on the Glens Falls
youth, but in the second. mile the latter
rut his time for the mile down to
.55, taking all the pace he could get
md calling for more, while the Boston
an had trouble hanging on to what
VAS given him. After the first mile
Elkes gained steadily on McDuffle and
1t five miles was 81 3-5 seconds in the
cad. At ten miles he, led by 1:O1; at
fifteen by 1:24 9-5; at twenty by 2:1S rs
ind at twenty-five by j4:25 2-5.
After the fifteenth mile the Boston
an loafed around the track in most
abject manner and was so clearly out
lassed that many Of the spectators,
isgusted by the long preliminary wait
Ind owing to the lateness of the hour,
eft the building before the end Of the
ace. Each contestant had seven tan
lem teams, five of McDuffie's being
cams formerly retained by Elkes.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-03-04

degrees. An experIEEenter placed the
telephone to his ear and heard loud
buzzing. DR.. Whipple moved the
pointer toward the figure 20. The mo-
ment 70 was reached the buzzing
stopped. This was because the tenn
perature Of the room surrounding the
coil had been found. Dr. Whipple
then held the bare coil of wire be-
tween both hands. The buzzing in
the telephone began again, because the
warmth of his hands had raised the
temperature OF the coil. The expert
mentor moved the pointer around until
it reached SO degrees. The buzzing
stopped again, showing that the tenn
perature of the hands had been found.
Then DR., Whipple lighted match and
held the fame against the COIL The
buzzing began again. and the pointer
had to be moved forward until the
temperature of the lighted match was
found. The coil was thrust into a
basin of water The buzzing com
menced and did not stop until the
pointer was moved down to 60 degrees,
showing that to be the temperature in
the basin. When the coil was held
against piece of ice the pointer had
to be turned back to 10 degrees above
zero. The instrument is now being
used in cold-storage warehouses to as
certain the temperature of the various
rooms without opening them. In the
old days of cold-storage work it was
necessary to keep the refrigerating
plant operating under high pressure
all the time, because it was not pos
sible to tell the temperature of any
individual room without opening it,
and 1t was not always advisable to do
that. So to make sure of all of the
rooms they were kept as cold as pos
sible. Now, however, each individual
room in the warehouse has in it one
Of these new electric thermometers.
Several times a day an official goes
to a series of push buttons upon the
Office wall and throws into circuit one
after another the thermometers in the
various rooms of the warehouse. By
pIdclnS CAe CSlepnone 10 the ear anu
manipulating the dial he is able ae-
curately to determine the temperature
of every room in the building. The
new thermometer will doubtless be of
much value in factories where furnaces
and ovens are used. It can be made
to ring an alarm, and hence would be
useful in the powder magazine of a
warship. In fact, it will be invaluable
in any situation where increases of
heat or cold must be known at once.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-03-04
HEARING THE HEAT.
INGENIOUS ELECTRICAL I'M
sTRUMENT INVENTED.
New thermometer WIN Doubtless Bo Of
Much Value In Cold Storage Ware
houses and on WarshIps--Dr. whIpplo
the Inventor.

1t is now possible to hear heat and
cold. DR.. George C. Whipple has in
vented an electrical instrument by
means Of which the various ranges OF
temperature may be heard in an or
binary telephone receiver. Explorer
PeaTy owns one of these instruments,
and he will take it with him to the
north pole to listen to the very. in
tense cold which is supposed to pre-
vail there. The apparatus is very
simple in construction. In external
appearance, according to writer in
the Golden Penny, it is like an ordi-
nary electric battery box, such as is
used in sick rooms, From one side
of the box extends a very long insul-
ated wire, carrying a small coil of
bare wire on the end of it. From the
other side Of the box extend wires
which hold telephone receiver. The
latter is to be held to the ear, so that
the temperature into which the bare
coil is thrust may be heard. 1t may
seem strange that heat and cold may
be heard as well as felt. To be ac-
curate, it is the presence of heat, or
cold acting on the bare coil of wire
which causes an electric current to set
up buzzing in the telephone When
the instrument is used the telephone is
held to the ear, while the listener
looks at a dial on the battery box
mentioned above. This dial, which in
appearance is like the face of an or
binary mechanical thermometer, is
marked with figures representing de-
grees of temperature above and below
zero. Let us suppose, for instance,
that we are to listen to the tempera-
ture Of pail of water. The coil of
bare wire is thrust into the water and
the observer places the telephone to
his ear. There is a band or pointer
pivoted in the middle of the dial face.
The observer proceeds to turn the
pointer from figure to figure on the
dial. When the telephone is placed
first to the ear loud buzzing sound
is heard. This is because the pointer
does not happen to be at the figure
representing the temperature of the
water in which the bare coil is placed.
AS the pointer nears the figure that
indicates the correct temperature, the
buzzing sound in the telephone gets
fainter until, when it comes opposite,
1t stops altogether. AS soon as the
buzzing stops the observer knows that
the temperature of the water has been
found. DR.. Whipple tried the instru-
ment the other day in a room the
temperature OF which was about 20
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-03-04
First Popular Good Roads Vote.

EHsV Popular Good Roads Vote.
complete returns of the Minnesota
Eate election show that the state aid
mendment to the constitution has
zen passed by the people by vote
fO'O43 to 38,O17. This Is the first time
at popular vote has ever been taken
any state upon the good roads ques-
on and the result is a most emphatic
uorsement Of state aid as its solution.
ne constitutional amendment was in
ouuced at the 1897 session of the
lnnesota legislature by A. B. CHI 2
minneapolis, as representative of lie
A. W., and its passage by that body
as the result of his persistent and
plomatic work in behalf of the meas
II This left it to be submitted to
puiar vote for its final passage. A
rong educational campaign for good
ads was carried on by the L. A. w.
roughout Minnesota during the past
miner and fall with the active as
tance of the Bureau of Road Inquiry
washington and the press Of Min
Sota' The Minnesota legislature will
W take the necessary steps to put
system of state aid in operation such
Is now in force in New Jersey and
New York. Farmers especially will
preciate this, as it will enable them
OBTAIN durable highways, without
Ing obliged to bear the entire ex-
nse, as they do at present.