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Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21

It is star of the first magnitude, the
scientists tell US, and is in . group
among those nearest to this little
earth of ours. from 20 to 80 light years.
Now let us see how far from M it is,
and let Us take it step by step BY the
following comparisons:
Many. many Of the stars will not
begin to see aught Of the happenings
OF this earth until long after you
are dead. For the heavens are stud
ded with suns so far out in space that
it must seem to them as If the
Corona and our own solar system
could lock arms. Here is what Simon
Newcomb. the eminent astronomer,
says: I'VE may conclude with con-
siderable probability that most Of
the stars visible to the naked eye lie
at distances which light would trav-
erse in between so to 300 years. If
we suppose that the smaller tele-
scopic stars have general average
of about the same intrinsic brilliancy,
these are at distance of from so to
$4,000 years."
Now let us conceive Of an infinite
mind possessed of physical : senses.
Or to take the theory of thought
transference, which is now accredited
by many eminent Psychologists
supposing by instantaneous thought
transference our minds could, trans.
fer themselves from star to star.
Then on going to such star as Si-
RUS, the brightest in the heavens,
we could see the things that wers
happening on this earth about IS
years ago. We could see President
Arthur, young Boulanger just ris-
ing into power, Queen Victoria at the
height Of her reign, the iron chan
cellor Of Germany strengthening the
bonds Of his empire. Transferring
ourselves little further, we could
get to a point where the light rays
that portray the American and the
French revolutions are just reach
ing. We could see George Washing.
ton inaugurated, then by q quick
jump to . nearer star we would witt
ness Napoleon devastating the fields
of Europe. Or going further away,
we would see the medieval popes at
Rome, Martin Luther, John Calvin,
Ignatius Loyola.
We might travel on in thought to
the constellation Of the great dip
per, and there, planted on q cool
spot on some planet, we could watch
the developments in that great
period of history following the birth
of Jesus. Every single light ray is
reaching there now, not one of them
lost, not the move of hand. not the
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
ALARMING MORTALITY.
Noticeable Among the
Weak and Ailing.
Spring the Time Death Reaps
It's Largest Harvest.
There is a Way Of Eluding tho
Grim Destroyer.

rv.~v snr;r. f. :. not;ceable how many
neonis ara taten away AM we have been
p aec,.sto,nad to saa IN 9,,r daily life.
St.t;at;cs shou, that at no other season of
+h $500 vsar doe e so many deaths occur.
III Esynac;.iiv 10 roo ;s the mortaiitv among
wsai and s;cEiv neonle.
"S The 1 reason for This r. apparent. The body
4ha -: !. eIanod hv soa ~ disease has much
IN no ~ VIZ dEr;ng the Winter month.
70 convene WIN aur.h sE Tue VIII h.a hem
tnsuc'e ~ s s..oh starc%y and fatty foods
ta assa aoo .a nao" The system has heen
nave Ieen e1ss a. LUZ .,,n Snwn md when
e en " u .h \. hr;nht s"nsh;nv davs.
oPane sonc' Iii he,;n 20 real;ze int their
.tei;4 peG Sas a.one werv low. The sama
t v:a.e? n tss,a II nson,a Who are natnraiIv
s sniIs =. I'D i' ,~eoL p~p
This IS the season OF tne 80 WEI Tsat XII
strong person .ee's 81 nls mol1i T., too manv
restless Ieelng y eApe..en'5a aa ~ tbs rear
lhere heed nov pe az 1919 III, Iii e. II
as usuaily .ake pace. = "'itS IN. !. ,,esE ~
on Inany oplne, a &c t;,,a hv The foreiock
alnhe Ihey sno T .aA ME- 49, No. md
ana take II: ne ,s.t .nsd;c;ne IN hem
nerve IeMeuy. .n. s LII ,nnt;nua to Le The
IN many cases, an ~. VIZ hiae J anasi ~ n.sth
means Dy %alcn t tnen D'a ~. a t5r..hn,d r.
d dis lst the GRIM destroyer Scientific way.
Tor 1t pur1nes tne Daoou sn1 E t"n.s ,,n and
restores to healtny coha!iloI ~ VI tne
great life-giving organs OF the BODY 10y ...r.
DIR. Greenes Nervura Oio3o ana neE "
remedy WI! ena1ie 4 Inose mno daena,o,,.
throw on nttie NE LILLE snhs pv 1st. rasdv
only when they attack syste" a'reaay
wasted ana Weakeh Ie ..,ho h.v. .xn.r;.n.aa
From many people, VINO e nave e, eHPesmGsSa
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21

Jupiter and Two Stars Seen through q
Telescope.)
turn of head. It seems Q fanciful
speculation, and yet-with the de-
velopment Of this sixth sense OF
thought transference, combined with
the sharpening of physical instru-
ments, who knows what the future
may reveal of the past?
With the naked eye we can see
from 5000 to 5000 stars on q clear
night, although we cannot easily dis
tinguish, much less count, that num-
Der; with telescope the total is
raised to $4,000. All this is merely
the beginning. All the stars we can
distinguish are but the comparative
ly minute particles of single clus-
ter. Science has not yet definitely
proved the assumption, but it is be-
lieved that all these systems, includ-
ing our own, belong in group Of
which the milky way marks the out
ward edge. That is to say, astrono-
mers reason that all the stars we
know are spread out on big plane.
Some of them may be trillions and
trillions of miles away at perpen-
dicular to our planet, but this di-
mension is trivial compared with the
horizontal dimension just as q
pancake may be thick, but is thin
nevertheless compared with its hori-
zontal dimension.
Sometimes stars have been "discov-
cred" long before they were seen,
simply by noticing some minute de-
Fiction in the path Of q known star.
This, for instance, was the case with
the planet Neptune. The paths OF
the erratc comets are known, and
reference to chart will readily tell
an astronomer at what time this
or that famous comet will return.
The one espied in 1883, for example,
will return after trip of $4,000, o00,-
COG miles in the year A. D. $500. By
these calculations historians, also,
have been aided; for the phenomena
described in ancient times were
traced, and important dates OF bat
ties have been fixed.
By calculations on the star OF Beth.
lehem we know that Jesus of Naz-
areth was born four years before
the date assigned for the. beginning
Of the Christian era-a date that his
torians for centuries were incapable OF
fixing accurately. One of the most
startling results of astro-historical
research has been accomplished in ref
erence to Egyptian anthology. In
this case the astronomers have. fig
ured ON the professions of the 4eaui-
noxes, the poles swinging around in
a small circle once every $4,000 years.
thus changing the aspect Of the
heavens from the earth's point of
view. AS result they profess to
know that some Of the events in tho
valley Of the Nile transpired rs long
az $4,000 years ago, upsetting the
claims Of historians, and forcing geok
ogists to revise their figures.
=. T. GuNDLAcH
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Within the last 20 years freight
rates from and to England have de-
creased from so to Is per cent.
The oldest active official in the
German empire is man named Nuel-
Ter, at Wittlich. At the age Of 1O2 he
is still prison warden.
Life on the plains in stirring times
of the past will be faithfully repro
auced in the Indian congress" at the
Pan-American exposition.
The African traveller, St. Hill Glib
bons. recently killed in the upper
Nile ono Of the white -rhinoceroses
which were supposed to be confined
to the south of the Zambesi, and are
nearly extinct there.
The English walnut IL said to be
the most profitable of all nut-bear-
ing trees. When in full bearing they
will yield about 300 pounds of nuts
to the tree. The nuts sell on an
average at about eight cents per
pound. II only 81 trees are planted
on an acre, the income would be
about 1915 per acre.
The Great Salt lake is said to be in
imminent danger of drying up. the
drain upon it being due to irrigation
requirements. The plan to build q
canal from the headwaters of the
Snake river and thus bring water:
into the Great Basin to replace the
waste by evaporation 10 meeting with
general favor. The agricultural Sec
tions Of Utah are threatened with
disaster unless something is done
soon.
The most extraordinary forest in
the world was discovered by DIR. We'll
witsch, and occupies . table-land
some six miles in width, near the
west coast Of Africa. The popularity
Of the trees is that though their
trunks are as much as four feet in
diameter. they attain the height Of
only q foot. No tree bears more
than two leaves, and these attain a
length of six feet and breadth of
two feet.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
F1cuR1Ne ON LIGHT YEARS.

est to this mud-ball of ours. How long
does its light travel until it reaches
us? Three years and several more
weeks.
And that is the star by far our
nearest neighbor. The one next to it,
Cygnus 81, is almost eight light years
distant. The rays that are leaving
it's great mass of luminous matter at
this minute will reach US in 1909, eight
years from date. Those sharp scin-
citations that are penetrating to our
eyes tonight started there back in
1893, the year of the great panic. Do
you remember something you were
doing some night in 1898? Perhaps
you were young and romantic then,
and looked up to the stars and
thought they were watching you. But
they were not. They have not begun
to see what you were doing until just
now.
A new star has suddenly appeared
in the constellation Perseus. Az re-
suit astronomers all over the world
are astir and hundreds Of telescopes
are nightly sighted at the wonderful-
y bright speck called Perseus Nova
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
HAS A QUEER OCCUPATION.
A New York Man who Makes None,
by ChoosinG Hobbies for
Others.

Talking about odd occupations -
said New York man to a Washing
ton Star reporter, "there is a man in
my town with an Office near Union
square who has built up large and
lucrative business connection by pro-
fessionally advising all sorts and con-
ditions of people as to what hobby
to adopt. This man is we'll informed
and an excellent judge of human ma
ture, and his advice is always based
as far as possible on pretty accu-
rate knowledge Of his customers
temperament and occupation. And q
queer fact is that several prominent
city physicians have discovered his
worth and are sending their BRAIN
tagged patients to him for hobby
treatment, just as they advise them
to go to q certain dentist for tooth
ache.
'As almost everyone knows, there
is at present q marked fashion for
hobbies of all sorts, and to the per-
son who is too busy or too lazy to
start out for himself this hobby mer-
chant has become perfect boon.
Suppose, for instance, you wish to
make q collection of old books or
china, or rare coins, stamps or Gu
rios. You simply call at his Office one
day and leave your order with the
strictest confidence, and within few
days or weeks you are supplied with
whatever articles you may have chosen
to collect. To the value Of the col
lection the hobby merchant adds from
10 to rs per cent. for his services, ac-
cording to the time and difficulty he
has had in procuring any desired srti.
Gle or articleA"
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
How,s TAisy

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F: j. Cheney { Co, Props. Toledo, Q. Is
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac-
tions and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To-
Walding. Kinnan L Marvin. Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price Use. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
free.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
Condensed News.

There will be general satisfaction
over the appropriation of 80, 900 fol-
an exhibit at the Pan-American ex.
position.
A hen down at Wheatland brought
out brood of IL chicks on March 8.
The early chicken catches the snow
flake.
Walhalla will'spend about So. 600 for
fire protection. Good move.
VIM. Story's drug store at Buffalo
was robbed. and $3.50 worth Of goods
was taken. The residence of T. A.
Quirk in the same town was burglar
ICED. on the same night, and it ID
thought that the two crimes were
committed By the same men.
Professor Babcock's geological re-
port is being favorably commented on
by the state press. It is splendid
piece of work, and reflects credit on
its author and the state university.
F. o. Brewster has been chosen post
master 1T Harvey, and the fight is
over.
John w. Currie is the new manager
uf the Dickinson opera house.
The Turtle Mountain forest reserve
will be open for fling April Is. Most
Of the land has already been settled
on by squatters.
The government school near Laurie
at, Rolette county, which was closed
on account of smallpox, has been re-
opened, the danger being over.
Andrew Larson, Of Fargo, robbed a
clothes line. stole chickens, and stood
the officers off with coupling pin,
out was finally gathered in
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
Act, ofa Mad Man.

John Paul. residing near Buffalo.
attempted suicide short distance from
his house. His actions attracted the 1T
tention of members of the family
and the hired men. and they started
to see what was the matter. It was
found that he had taken the blade
from a jack plane and was attempting
to cut his throat, but as the blade was
very dull all that he could do was to
cash his throat and cut his head and
face.
When an attempt was made to take
the blade from him he attacked his
rescuers viciously, and it was with
great difficulty that he was disarmed
and overpowered. As 1t was he inflict-
ed several wounds on other members
of the family.
A physician was sent for at once to
dress the wounds Of the crazy man.
but no reports have been received
since the arrival Of the doctor.
Paul is rich farmer and has large
family. He had never before shown
any signs of insanity.
Wheat situation In North Dakota.
The grain situation in North Dakota
along the line Of the Great Northern
railway is summed up as follows, and
is an accurate. statement: Wheat in
store, COS, s45 bushels; approximate in
farmers hands, 1,s9O,036. Up to
March l, 1901. there has only been
shipped 1864, 900; last year there was
shipped covering the same pe:iod, a
little over 100000 this leaving q
shortage of a little over 1900. 600. in
stead OF having COS. s45 in store there
should be 100000. The ground in
this state is in first-class condition, as
the frost has penetrated down deep,
and all signs lead to the expectation
of big crop for the season of 1901
There will be more diversified farm.
ing this year than ever before, and
the acreage Of wheat sown will be
considerable less than heretofore,
notwithstanding the fact of the state
settling up rapidly in the western por.
ti0n.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
Halls Family Pills are the best.

Mr.. Meddergraa-'Hi Slocum, an Bill
Hocorn amt speakin' now" Mrs. Medder-
grass-"Do tell! What's up?" Mr.. Med
dergrass-"Hi claims his til 'mometer aver.
ages ten degrees lower'n Bills in winter an
10 degrees higher in SUMMED" -Baltimore
American 4
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
A ssrs.e MANS secret.

One OF the strone ut men recently STATE
that the secret Of s. wonderful p6wer W
perfect digestion. Hostetter's Stomach
Bitter makes digestion perfect, and cureS
all complaints arising from weak stomach,
:ac S as INDIGESTION, biliousnsf: and all liyei
and nerve tonic it is marvellous. It is recon.
mended BY physicians, and sold by every
druggist in the country. Try it also for ma.
1aria, fever and ague.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
KILL THE DANDRUFF GERM.
Or Your Hair wiz FAN Out TIL Yov
Ia Become Bald.

Modern science has discovered that
dandrutf l: caused BY germ that digs up
the roots Of the hair, where il destroys ths
hairs vitality, causing falling hair, and,
ultimately, badness. After Prot. Unna, Of
Hamburg, Germany, discovered the dand-
ruff germ, all efforts to find Q remedy failed
until the great laboratory discovery was
made which resulted in Newbro's Herpicide.
II alone of al other hair preparations kills
grows luxuri.ntly; Destroy the cause. you
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
a MEMORABLE NIGHT IN 'ss.

"A MEMORABLE NIGHT IN '93.
of the circumference of the earth.
That distance is $4,000 miles, gigan-
tic dimension, almost beyond our
mental grasp.
/ Now let US carry these dimensions
step by step further. Look at an as
Economical map, and you will see that
the earth itself II but dot when the
distance to the moon is shown, and
the moon in turn seems to be fairly
hugging the earth, as compared with
the long, long road to the sun.
This distance from the earth to the
sun is 100000 miles. No human
mind can begin to conceive of such a
dimension, and the only way to Judge
it is by comparison-taking first one
distance and considering what an
enormous jump it is, and then figuring
that this jump is duplicated, again and
figures for space in astronomical
heavens run up into such countless
billions and trillions of miles that no
scientist thinks Of putting them in
these terms. Instead, he measures
space in time of light. That is to say,
taking the distance traversed by a
ray of light in q second, a minute or q
year, he says that such and such a
star is so many light years away from
us.
Light, as we know. travels with
enormous rapidity; and the distance
of minute of light" is therefore pro-
digious. In the case of the sun, for
instance, which, as already stated, is
93,o0o,00o miles away, the light reaches
us in only minutes and 10 seconds.
Now imagine what a light hour" or a
slight year, must mean.
We all know that the star nearest
to the earth is our sun, and that ac-
cording to commonly accepted the
DRY the other stars that seem to us
mere specks are also suns with their
planets and moons like the solar sys-
TEN. Looking up at the heavens on q
clear night we may we'll conceive that
some of these stars are so far away
that it will take the light much longer
than eight minutes-an hour, two,
three or four hours, possibly, to reach
us. Perhaps, we think, there might be
a star at such q prodigious distance
that the light rays shot from it's orb
do not begin to reach until the night
after we first espy it. What stupen-
dous, awe-inspiring dimension that
would be! Over 200 times $4,000, 900
miles away.
Now let the astronomer give us the
real figures. Almost above our heads
to the south is the constellation known
as the Corona, cluster of bright stars
grouped close together. In it is the
star outside the solar system, near
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
Try ar.,n-o, Try cr.,n-o,

Ask your grocer to-day to show you pack.
takes the place Of coffee. The children may
drink it without injury as well as the adult.
All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that
rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is
made from pure grains, and the most delicate
stomach receives it without distress. the
price of coffee. l5c. and 25cts. per package.
Sold by all grocers.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21

Couldn't Give Less.-"Oh, Miss Stone!s
the undesirable sutton pleaded. IF you
would only give me the least encourage.
ment." That's what am doing, Mr.. Do
Trow," replied the naughty beauty. Good
day. 2Philadelphia Press.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21

A Tramp's Workable, Walker.
What Y up to now-days! "Hello, Lazy.
come off! You don't expect me 20 beiievs
that" Cert. ''It's de truth. I'm iookins
Ter chance T. work some soft my fer the
price Of . drink. PhiladelphS Evening
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
HOW LIGHT TRAVELS
One Of the Utterly Incomprehensi-
BILE Wonders Of Infinity.
asmberless Worlds Are Around u,
All Famed by the Same Divine
Artist and Conducted By
His Unerring Hand.
Especial correspondence.l

Especial Correspondence.1 is
1T is a long journey from Chicago to
New York. An express train trav-
cling at its highest rate is on the
road almost "a hours from city to city.
Yet, in that day, the train has trav-
eled over less than one-twenty-fifth
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
1850 s---.->
In One District.
Searching for Money.

shot himself last January near Leeds,
is looking for the money which the
deceased is known to have had. Be
tween $1,000 and 81, 500 are supposed to
be hid away in some place. The mon
ey is the proceeds of the crops raised
by Halland, who was q bachelor and q
sort of miser. He was afraid of banks
and instead Of putting his money on
deposit, hid it away. Many think it is
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
satisfactory Results.

H. A. Mayo, of Walhalla, has been
investigating the clays found in the
Pembina mountains near Walhalla,
and has had them analysed by compe-
tent authorities. The results are very
satisfactory, and it is announced that
there are clays there suitable for the
manufacture of common, pressed, and
fire brick, tile, stoneware, cement, and
various other commodities the demand
for which is practically unlimited.
Mr.. Mayo expects to organize COM
pany To develop industries along this
line
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21
Many Protests Eutered,

The trial Of the drainage cases ha.
been in progress at Fargo for nearly
two weeks and for the purpose of f.
ciliating matters the attorneys have
stipulated that the remaining cases be
consolidated. The time heretofore
has been devoted to one case, and /,
would take nearly all summer to com
plete the hearing of each one separate
~. The final arguments may not bf
made for some time. There are 2;
different plaintiffs. and all have q pro
test to make on the method of assess
ment. One man testified that he wa.
assessed for two drains ordered in hi.
part Of the county and was benefited
by neither. The plaintiffs feel conf
dent of being able to set the entire as
scssment aside.
In One District.
President Nc Kinley issued an order
establishing new internal revenue
district comprising the states Of North
and South Dakota. This is q great
victory for the delegations from the
Dakotas, as they have been fighting
for q new district for several months
Previous to the departure of the del
egations, they called upon the inter
nal revenue collector and the presi
dent and urged that this new distric,
be established. The internal revenue
collector thought that it would be
best to attach South Dakota to Iowa
and North Dakota to Minnesota and
thus avoid the establishment of the
new district.
Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-21

The Point of view.-weller-"Did Won
ever notice how quickly a woman forsakee
her piano practice after she is married ~
Tuttle-"Oh, yes: there are such things ~
happy marriages. Boston Transcript.
Many man is toasted who needs to b
roasted.-Atchison Globe.